January 11, 2023 • 50 mins
On today’s Best of 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn and LaVar Arrington are pumped up after hearing Kirby Smart’s profanity-laced pregame speech that went viral after Georgia’s beatdown of TCU in the National Championship. A debate over Lincoln Logs and Legos. The Bears are in a tricky position with Justin Fields and the 1st overall pick. And the Old P, Petros Papadakis talks about the rainy day at SoFi Stadium for the National Championship and his new bearded dragon. Plus, more troubles with
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is the best of two pros and a couple
of Joe with Lamar Areas, Rady Quinn and Jonas Knocks
on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, big time Wednesday fired up
this morning? Then why are you so fired up? What happened?
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I heard a little pregame speech or little pep talk
he did show? Yeah from who Lee a national champion?
That's who? Oh you mean the the audio that's making
its way around the sports radio and television world. You
want to take a listen to Kirby Smart and now
we know why Georgia san blasted TCU. It's so far
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a couple of nights ago. Here was the Georgia head
coach prepared for the day. I think about the locker room,
to think about getting our opportunity. You went through this week,
this game. Now we're you pay the price. You black
there with energy, enthusiasms, hang out, Hey, nobody's rousing. Be cautious, Hey,
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nobody's rucs nervous about go on here and as up.
Don't think about fool board, don't think about you think
about knocking up? Did you hear what Fox said on
one day? Let's be I want you right there, don't
you're not here two years roell me these guys up.
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You don't play the right way. You play the right way.
You knocked their assho you tackle the band on the ball,
daisy looking right? What is your ass office? And kick
your asshole fushion. Thanks, guys who we are? I believe
in you. Let's go now, because football, baby, I mean that.
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That's I mean. Look, the reality is in our society today,
there are gonna be some people who are offended by that.
And he and look, I understand there's some profanity in
it that comes with the sports, that comes to sports
in general. You know, like, did you say some profanity? Well,
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here's what Here's what I'll say, is I played for
enough coaches that use profanity and free game speeches that yeah,
I would categorize that one in my book for coaches
that I've played for as some that's not that from
what So I'll put it this way. There there will
be some people who are offended by that because of
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what he said and how he said and everything else.
And and here's here's what I'll just say to you,
is you'll never understand. You'll never get it. Like there's
a certain switch you have to turn on. In order
to go play the game of football at that level
and as well as they do. And and we can
talk about the merits of a pregame speech whether it
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matters anyway. You know, I've heard some great pregame speeches,
and you come out at the first quarter and get
your ass kicked. But the reality is that it's it's
fun to be a part of that. It's fun to
hear that. It's fun to be on your teammates, all
the sacrifices and the effort you put into the game,
and right before you have a chance to go win
another national championship, have your coach getting you fired up
for it and talking about the physicality of football, which
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is ultimately when you go back and watch that tape,
you know, I don't care if you like the stats
the scoreboard. What a lot of people don't understand is
the physicality that came with that ass whooping that TCU took.
And that's exactly what Georgia did. So, you know, a
kudos to to Kirby Smart. I mean, they deserve it.
They're the King's right now. College football it's called culture.
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You know that that that idea of them being underdogs
and that being what they wrote as their motivation during
the course of this season. It all starts with the belief,
you know, and Kirby Smart had don'tbelieving that nobody thought
that they could repeat being national champions, nobody that they
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would go undefeated. They'd be a five lost team. And
and reality is what perception is. I don't know what
five teams Georgia would have lost to, but he convinced
them that they were going to be a five lost team. Salesman, Well,
what the hell would you have said if you thought, like,
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if you was trying to spew that to you, would
you buy into that? Again, if I'm in the culture
of it from the outside looking in, Hell, no, from
the from the inside looking out. You know how that goes? Cute? Well,
I'm saying, if the coach I got you, Yeah, coach,
I hear you. If you believe in that coach, whether
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you thought that he was accurate or not, you still
feel like I need to defend that, Like, coach really
feel like five teams gonna beat our grass Like dang,
coach really feels that way. So you know what, Like
it takes those leaders on the team and those guys
that buy in to be like, man, we ain't letting
that happen. We're not only not gonna lose five games,
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We're not gonna lose a game. And then now it
starts to kind of take shape, it starts to take hold,
and that's the you know, to me, that's the tone
of what Kirby smarts pregame speech was. You know, that's
something that was. You know, if you're a coach and
and and the guys love you, you're one of those
guys that that's that continues for an entire from the
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time they started from the last last national championship to
their winter workouts to spring ball, to the start of
football season to the first game. To that ending point,
Kirby Smart was feeding them all of them bleeps, explicitives
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and all those all those real, you know words that
that got them to pull together. And and that, to me,
that's what separates the coaches that are able to get
get guys to play out of their minds and beyond
themselves and the ones that just have guys that you know,
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they they're really really great athletes and can play football.
But when when the going gets tough, you know, adversity
tends to maybe swallow him up. You know, it just
didn't seem like the moment was too big for Georgia.
And I think that that's because the culture Kirby Smart
has been able to build is something that harbors the
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true belief in yourself and obviously, by his language, being
who you want to be, you know, because Kirby Smart
was being who he wanted to be in that moment.
I think it's all about those guys being who they
want to be and being good enough to be the
best when they're who they want to be. You know.
I gotta this might be a little controversial, but I'm
looking through and I just I can't see where they
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would have lost five games. I don't know what it
is like. I just I'm looking through and I am
not truly taking that serious. Why are we even why
are we even entertaining that they were dominant? Man, it
was just a phenomenal season. There were two games that
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were within one score. Other than that, everything else was
a convincing win. It was the game against Missouri and
then the game against Ohio Say which which was fantastic,
But other than that, everything else was convincing. And maybe
there were more of these. Here's my question How did
this get out? How did this audio of this pregame
speech get out? Like did? Was somebody recording on their
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phone and decided we're going to send it out? If okay,
If that's the case, wouldn't that piss Kirby Smart off?
Unless he's okay with this getting out because he feels
like this might be a little bit of a recruiting
tool as well. Also because this this makes him peaks
about a day and age. We live in a day
and age where you cannot assume that something won't get out.
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So if I'm Kirby Smart, if I'm any coach at
any major college, if I'm any coach at any college,
you know what, there are cameras around. There were probably
cameras around Jonas, like you know, people document these things.
So his voice was being recorded, you know. And and
whether it got released the way it did, or got
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released through a you know, a game a game day
show you know that highlights the team, whatever it may be,
he knows, he knows what he's got going on. So
I don't I don't think that he would be upset
that that audio got out there. I mean, that's who
he is, That's who he is. I mean, and it
also makes him look good because he looks like he's
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got the command of the team. And they went out
and then and then just stomp TCU out the way
they did, so not a bad US. I mean again,
there's gonna be people or parents are like, oh my gosh,
I can't I can't believe he talked to my son
like that. I can't believe. I can't believe he saying
those things. It's again, and it's hard to relate, and
it's hard to have the perspective unless you've you've played
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football that and and I think the game of football
is one where physicality just isn't something that is really
in our daily life quite as much. You're you're starting
to see more of a division between kind of the
people who look for it, the people who want to
get into M M A or boxing and football and
true collision sports. I think it's Dr Dr Child talks
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about he says it's not a contact where his basketball
contact sport. He's like, football is a collision sport. And
then he's right. But there's people who under who have
played it, who understand it, who want that as people
who don't. And if you don't then you don't understand
that the mental frame of mind you need to be
in to go play that. And it's obviously one thing
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if you're LaVar and you're the hammer, and I'll be
honest with you, as a quarterback, it's it's the same
thing though, but you're usually the nail. Like there's a
there's a mentality you have to have even as the
quarterback and understanding like you're going to get hit, you're
going to get hit. I'll never forget like one of
the first times my my parents were like, you want
to play baseball? And I was young, and you know,
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we had played t ball and coaches pitch and stuff.
And I was like, I don't know, there, he's gonna
be kids pitching. They're like yeah. They're like it wasn't
it hits me? And they're like, well, it could hit you.
And I was like, I don't think I want to play.
And my dad looked at me. He goes, look, let's
go outside. And so he went outside and he took
four baseballs and he goes, grab your bad Okay. So
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I stood there and he hit me with four baseballs
and literally the point was is and and he kind
of threw He kind of threw the first one kind
of easy, and I kind of like got out of
the way and he's like what. I was like, what
are you doing? He goes, I want to show you
what it feels like. I said, I don't think I
want to do this. He goes, just just just listen.
And so the next one he throws this kind of
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soft hits me, and I was like, that's not so bad.
He goes, that's right. He goes, it's not so bad.
And then next going through a little harder. I go, yeah,
that's not bad. And the next one was a little harder,
and he goes. Look, he goes, you're gonna get hit
by a baseball. That's okay, he goes, But at some
point in time too, he goes, you're gonna hit a
home run and it's the greatest feeling you're ever gonna have.
And he was right. So I just I feel like
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there's too many times that like we try to coddle
people for the realities of life and of sport. Now,
that's just not that's just not the kids. I mean,
that was a Kirby Smart. That was a Kirby Smart. Mally,
I love the idea Chopper going high and tight on
his own side. He was the best man. He was
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the best. By the way to your point, queue, a
lot of of high school coaches are getting accused of bullying.
A lot of high school like I've even seen where
there was like basically like a an investigation, like a
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like a school school board investigation and and trial hearing
for what would be considered bullying. And it's amazing to
me how hard coaching and and so apparent now will
will interpret the way you scream at their child as
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you're bullying them. You're screaming at them. You're not screaming
to them, you're not screaming to urge them on, you're
not screaming to encourage them or to educate them. You're
just screaming at them. And that's like the society that
we live in now is that you can't what Kirby
Smart did. You have to be at the college level
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or the pro level to be able to talk to
kids that way anymore. You can't do it any any
other place. Like it's very difficult to be able to
coach hard or to to create hard conversations with kids
at the high school level. You know what I hate that.
I don't want to get on a soapbox here for
a second, but this is why I hate that we're
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trying to protect kids from failing, even if in our
society we're almost trying to protect people from failing. It's
the worst lesson. It's the worst thing you can do.
If you don't let people fail, then whenever things get
tough in the future, guess what, they're gonna quit. They're
not gonna be able to fight through, They're not gonna
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be able to push through. It's the worst lesson you
can give someone. So it's getting tough, Okay, go ahead,
go ahead, take take it with your go go ahead,
going home. Yeah, it's the worst thing you can do.
And I feel like at the youngest ages now, we're
starting to coddle kids and we don't realize that it's
okay to fail. Like, at some point in time you
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have to realize failures are learning experiences, and when you
experience those failures, you gotta it's on you to figure out, Okay,
what can I do to to change it and make
it better or improve so it doesn't happen again. I mean,
people out there right now are listening. They probably run
a small business. What do you think happens when they fail?
There's a chance of going bankrupt. It's their own personal wealth.
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It impacts them and impacts their family, and impacts the
people they've hired and their jobs. I mean, there's a
lot on the line. So I just I think it's
a terrible, terrible lesson and and and there's obviously you
know it. Coaches at a lot of places, by and
large do an amazing job. And in order to get
someone to change their habits and change who they are,
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there has to be a transformation. That transformation is does
not come easy. The change doesn't always come easy. So
I hate hearing that stuff, I really do. I feel
bad for a lot of coaches. You have to deal
with that sort of bs. There's a quote that's out
there that they use in fighting a lot. I think
it might have been Nelson Mandela is the first one
to use it. But he said, you either win or
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you learn. There is no losing. So you either you
you're successful or you're not, but you learn something from it.
So good for Kirby smart Man. Yeah, I think they're
they're players, obviously understand the mind frame they need to be.
Look for TCU. They got their butts kick the worst.
That was the worst beating I think we've ever seen.
Have we've seen one that's worse than that? That was bad.
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And and the reality is is that will stick with
him forever. Max Duggan, who had a phenomenal year Sunny
Dikes in his first year, gets to a national championship
and as great of a season as it was. I mean,
it's kind of weird too to think they don't have
any championships to go with it, didn't win Big Twelve,
and then they get the NAST championship. Then it's kind
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of it's kind of crazy to think the success they
had yet they have no championship and and and so
the reality is as good of a season as it was,
they will never forget this the rest of their life. Yeah, man,
we had a great season back in the day. Sure
you did. No, I'm serious. Now, where's your Big twelve title?
Or's your your that national championship? But hey, they beat Michigan,
so there's that. And who knows, maybe they chased him
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horriback from the college ranks. We'll see. Be sure to
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Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. So apparently, um,
there's been some speculation about one team what one team
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might do. Easy for me to say, at the top
of the draft with their quarterback situation, we got some
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that yesterday. Better well, listen, who knows I go off
speed next hour? You never know, alright, never never know
what you're gonna get. Hey, you want to hear Ryan
pulls the Bears GM talk about what they're going to
do at the top of the draft. Is this the
GM with the legos that he does. He's got a
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LaVar true story. I can't even believe it's a true story.
Ryan pulls the GM for the Bears as legos that
he was handing out yesterday as a sign of building
the organization back up to where it needs to be
with legos. Thoughts on that already, think LaVar, because you're
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in Chicago. So I'm just wondering if you've also gotten No,
I did not receive a lego. Look, let me ask
you this is he given it out to the entire
organization remembers. I think it was members of the media
from my understanding. Maybe not. I mean who knows. But
I mean if it would have been for me, it
would have been Lincoln Logs when I was a little
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Great Point and Great Pole. Yes, remember those Lincoln bad
ash Man and those they had that little plastic roo
if you would put on the top of the green roof. Yeah,
h Lincoln Logs are better than Lincoln Logs. I'll probably
had a plan with more than they will. Ye because legos,
I feel like legos are cutting complicated. Legos are kind
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of nerdy too, like Lincoln Logs. Feels like you're representing
the Heart of Americana. Yeah, but linking logs, you can't
mess that up. You can buy, you can mess up,
you can botch. You know, did did he give different
different Lego pieces or where they all to say? I'm
not sure. I think there were. I thought there were
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different pieces. I mean, I think he gave out one
for every win. So there's only a couple of past round.
You know, what would be a dope this hell. You
know what would be really really dope is if he
had one um custom made and whatever it is that
his message of building is. Once they all put them together,
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it actually was like a you know, it was that, Yeah,
it's a logan or whatever. Yeah, something like that. I guess. Yeah,
they got a tunnel, Lincoln logs or which which hurts
more to step on a lego or Lincoln Lego? Not
even close. What it depends a lego is like handing
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your kid a Ninja Star and turn it on those
Lincoln logs like they it would be like a Shiatsu
massage for your feet. Or it could like absolutely and
your day. Yeah, yeah, you step on a lego and
it like it changes the way you feel about life
and whether you want to go on it just depends
on if it's a thicker lego or not. If it's
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one of those slim ones, you might not even feel it. Yeah,
I mean, like if it was like the you know,
like the standard block lego, you step on that, Like
any parent out there who's you know, like walked in
the dark because you know, maybe the younger child started
crying in the middle of the night. You step on
a lego and all of a sudden, forget what the
younger child is doing. They can figure that out in
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their own You're trying to figure out whether or not
you're going to get your leg amputated because you stepped
on a lego that somebody left out. Here's a question
I have for you, and that's what happened to Lieutenant
Dan by the way, you stepped on a lego. If
you know, if you slip, if you're holding your child
and you step on a lego or a linking log
and you slip and you're falling, do you throw the
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baby up and get yourself from falling or do you
go down with the baby? Do you go down with
the baby? Man? Okay, Jonas, what's your answer? I don't
know where they're going. Answer? I hope I'd protect the baby.
But you know, like until I get to that moment
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where I did this happen to where I'm curious because
I know and and and Jonas is mind right now,
He's sitting there thinking, I really want to tell the
people I would throw the baby and say break my fall,
like that's what I feel like. I'm well because I'm
just picturing, you know, like a bouquet at a wedding,
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you know, like everyone you know, it's like some people
want to catch it, some people don't. Like I think
that i'd want to catch the baby, like that would
be my approach. You wouldn't want to catch the baby.
You wouldn't want to let the baby go, is what
you're saying. You would you would fall and take the
fall to protect the baby. Yeah, Berto, are you are
you holding the baby or are you you breaking your fall?
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Hold the baby? Man? That was just curious. Check, well,
he check, I'm breaking my fall, by the way, break
my fall, by the way. Have you seen how expensive
Lincoln logs are? Now? Just found out my guard like
a hundred bucks for a bear. I was gonna buy
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it for my girls. I was like, oh, I assure that. Yeah,
I'll go chopped down a tree and little some Lincoln logs.
So with that we we get to Rye and polls
from logs and legos. Two poles. Here he was talking
about leaving a lot of our Here he was talking
about the plan at quarterback with the top of the draft,
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with the Bears picking one overall and Justin Fields still
being there. Guy here was the Bears DM. We're gonna
do the same as we've always done. We're gonna evaluate
the draft class. And I would say this, I would
have to be absolute blown away to make that type
of decision, all right, So is he going to be
blown away by either Bryce Young or c J. Stroud
or any of these quarterbacks during his evaluation that they
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would actually entertain the idea of going quarterback and maybe
moving on from Justin Field. I can't see it, man,
I just I can't see it. I know, maybe I'm wrong,
but it's gonna be hard for me to see them
wanting to move on from Justin Fields. Um. Look, maybe
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they'll get someone who who is interested in fields and
what they've seen so far and wants to like reach out.
But you got a guy who started twenty five games
for you up to this point. To me, he's showing
progress despite what's around him. I mean his from his
rookie season where there's questions about his ability to throw
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and passing all that to this past season where I
think he's probably squashed some of those concerns, you know,
improved his complete your percentage, improved touchdown interception ratio, all
that stuff. Um, yet they don't you know what I mean,
He was sacked boring anyone else this season. Um, and look,
he's a legit rusher. Did he He was for over
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a thousand yards? Dude, didn't it easy? He was away
from the all time record for a quarterback and they
sat in the final game. Yeah. I mean, I think
you have to at some point too. You know, I
don't know that people look at him the same way
as you look at like a Lamar Jackson and how
dynamic of a runner he is. But he's very capable,
and so there's there's something special to him as well.
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I just I don't think you're throwing the talent him
now and move on from him just to grab one
of these guys. With where you're at, I think you
you convince people that maybe behind closed doors there's a
guy you really love at one that a lot of
other people love, and if if, if they want to
trade with you out of it, okay, but it's gonna
take a lot. You know, that would be the only
thing I think you'd leak out there publicly if you're
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Ryan Poles to make people think that, man, maybe maybe
we will take a quarterback at one. And if we're
gonna not be at one, you gotta give us an
offer that's so great. We we can't help it because
I think the problem with their position is if it's
the Colts, for example, we obviously want a quarterback at
number one, and there's there. I think they're sitting at four.
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I mean, if you move back to four, you're not
guaranteeing yourself you get a Jalen Carter depending on how
the picks work out in front of you. You know,
there might be some of their teams that want Jalen Carter.
That might be some of their teams that want Will Anderson,
you know, some of the top overall prospects outside of
the quarterback position. So that's a little bit of the
trick guiness too. For the position that the Bears are
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in is is how good is the offer they're made
to get out of that pick if they're not going
to take a quarterback with that spot. If I think
that's a tough one, I think I really do, because
it's not every day you get the number one overall
draft pick. It's it's not every day that it's a
quarterback heavy draft where you can look at, you know,
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two or three that potentially could change the trajectory of
of your franchise. I think it will come down to
not just what they are able to do in their workouts,
but it will come down to who they are as people.
And and sometimes we kind of undervalue the impact that
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prospect can have on the owner of the organization, that
the coaching staff of the organization and their interviews. And
I think that that's I don't know, you know, every
thing I hear about justin fields, he's stand up, dude,
good dude. You know, I don't know that there would
be you know, that element that that would play apart
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in terms of this guy may be a better leader
in our locker room or whatever. All I know is
I don't when the team isn't good, I don't think
anything is off the table. And the Bears aren't good.
They aren't good at all. They have a lot of
fine young talent, but they're not a good team. So
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I would have to say, if I'm them and I
have the number one overall pick, you have to entertain
everything that's out there, everything that's on the table. I
mean entertain it. Entertain it like seriously, not like even casual, like,
oh we have justin field, Like I'm entertaining everything. They've got,
I think, the most salary cap in the NFL coming
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up in the off season after just you know, shedding,
you know, money and contracts and all that stuff and
just getting rid of it. And they've got Houston and
we talked about the US on Monday. They've got Houston
and Indianapolis who are looking for quarterbacks in the same division,
who are sitting at two and four. If I'm the
Bears and you have an opportunity and Houston doesn't want
to lose out on Bryce Young to Indianapolis, well, if
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if that means that you can acquire, you just move
back one spot and then you acquire the other pick
that they've got from Cleveland, the Houston Texans. You'd have
two and twelve. All of a sudden, by trading way
one and probably something else, you know, maybe next year
or the year after. So you'd still end up with
Jalen Carter or Will Anderson or whoever whichever best players
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sitting there at number two and you acquire more picks.
That's the ideal scenario in situation. Whether it happens who then,
who the hell knows. But I feel like Indianapolis and Houston,
that game finishing the way that it did lined everything
up for those teams to not only compete in the
final week of this season, but now they're gonna have
to compete for the franchise quarterback they want because they
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can't lose out to to the other on on trying
to get a guy that's going to set him back
the next ten years if they gotta If they gotta
face that guy moving forward. This is the maker break
moment for Ryan Poles. You know, general managers who'd take
over a franchise, usually you're you're taking over because there's
a transition and things have gone poorly. Seldom do you
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find yourself with the combination of cap space and the
number one overall pick as well, where and you've got
the ability to really turn over this roster relatively fast.
And oh, by the way, you've got a rookie quarterback
who showed promise and honestly on his rookie deal, or
I should say rookie. He's a young quarterback who's still
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on his rookie deal as well, to add to all
of that. So it's just it's a it's a rare
circumstance that this will either be what he's known for
for the next decade or so as their general manager,
or three or four years from now he's maybe on
the streets because this whole thing didn't work out. Be
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get your podcasts. We are going to catch up here
momentarily with the great Petros Papadakis, uh, the co host
of the Petros Some Money Show. It is a Wednesday
tradition here, you know. So he's you know, getting fired
up for this appearance. You know, man, he always does many.
I mean, you know, we do have to take up
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an issue that we got with Petros here because I
feel like, well, I feel like he represents all of
southern California. Yeah, just I mean, this stuff going on,
it's so far, you know, it's it's a little little bit,
a little bit of a disgrace what is happening. So
let's try and get some answers from him right now.
Petros Papadakis. He is the co host of the Petros
and Money Show, which, by the way, where can you
hear the Petros Some Money Show? Brady and five seven
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the l A Sports also an analyst for Fox in
their coverage of college football, and he is a friend
of the program. Every Wednesday you hear from Petro's here
at the old beyond Twitter, Petros, what's happening? How are you?
How come more on time today? Is it because Dawn's
breaking out about the clock? What do you mean now?
How did that? How would that sound if he did?
My man, You've got us stay on the clock. You're
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killing your sales. I'm leaving fifteen minutes of writings out
there every day just doing the wrong breaks my mind.
You've got to up yourself. I want everybody to write
down when the brakes are on a piece of paper
and putting it in front of the hole. So you know,
you gotta get out at sixteen and fifty six, no
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more exceptions, play them off over back of the day.
And if they're not going to do that, just go
to a heart out just in the middle of them talking. Yeah,
right in the middle of Jerry, Right in the middle
of Jerry West telling me his father held a shotgun
to his face, you know, and the break music you
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see me rolling ro alright, Mr West, sorry about the
problems with your dad on that dirt floor in West Virginia,
but good luck with a book. So, Petro's a lot
of complaints about Sofi Stadium, And since you represent all
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of l A and Southern californ I'm mean, you think
it stinks, well, I think that it's a many layered question,
but I think so Phi number one is a pretty
good viewing experience when you're awesome to watch the game,
but everything else absolutely blows. I mean, the hot dogs
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look like a man scrolled them scroll dog dog. You know.
I didn't like Petro Parking is death. Yeah, that's not
good parking. Um. I didn't like how you can't walk
around the entire arena. You have to go up to
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walk over and then back down to get from the
east side to the west side. Two dozen souls, Brady
have been lost and never found again. We don't know
where they are. Two dozen people just lost, like in Everest.
It's like the uh the slopes of Everest littered with bodies.
Yeah when you go up, Yeah, you just it's it
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is a vast place of no return. Parking is terrible.
There's nothing to do in Inglewood other than get your
tire popped because of the stadium that the Clippers are
building into it and that endless construction, which is a
nightmare in Inglewood. And there's also nowhere to go in Inglewood.
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Inglewood doesn't have a centralized area of public meeting. You know,
there's a Sizzler, but other than that, yeah, I mean
it's just not it's just not an event place. So
if you're going to have an event there, I mean
it's it's going to be as they continue to develop it.
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But right now, I mean, it's just this big gas stadium.
And they wouldn't even let people tailgate for one reason
or another. And Inglewood and the n C Double A
and the college football Playoff and so far are all
pointing fingers at each other as to why they wouldn't
allow people to tailgate. But I mean, what's with the
half stepping. I mean, if you're gonna throw a party,
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throw the damn party, or if you're not, give it
to somebody else that knows how to. And it was
an embarrassment to have the college football Playoff there if
they weren't going to actually have the college football playoff there. Now,
the weather event, it's so far. Look, we don't get
a lot of weather here. Uh. And there's a reason
that the news freaks out when it rains here and
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that everybody goes absolutely berserk is because nothing here is
built for the rain. All of our schools are outdoors
and amphitheater style. All of our shopping everything's outside. So
when it rains, no one has anything designed for the rain,
and everybody just drowns and floods and fills with mud
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and cries and screams. I mean, it's a terrible thing.
And the rain was coming into so Fi sideways because
it's a half dome and it was cold and all that.
But I mean, you don't have a party in l
A because you think it's gonna rain. You know, part
of it. Part of the appeal is the weather, so
that part of it. And all the people slipping and
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sliding in the gurney traffic that was everywhere when all
the people going down people can take it on stretches,
the big fat people from the South. I was a
pregame party deal, and I like they're dropping left and right,
like slipping and sliding all kinds of stuff. And it
was actually, uh, it was. It was sad to see,
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but you're kind of going, yeah, this thing wasn't constructed
to have like a bad day, Like it's just it
says it makes sense now that you say that, But well,
they don't know what to do if there's lightning either,
Like there was lightning. What was it? Maybe Raiders Chargers
a couple of years and they stopped the game even
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though it has a cover because like the slide ways,
lightning might come in and then the lightning continued. But
the NFL was like, you know what, let's just play,
because I mean, I was driving by the stadium, literally
driving on the freeway by the stadium, saw lightning all
over the sky and was listening on the radio, and
they're like, all right, we're gonna kick it, and I
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was like, damn okay. So they don't really you know,
there's not a lot of protocol when it comes to
the league in that place and how to get everything
done there. But the league made that multi billionaire cronky
with his bow tie build them a giant shrine to
gladiator NFL football on the West Coast. They made him
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put the Chargers in there for one dollar a year.
They made him build the NFL network Mecca. It's all
right there in Inglewood, and for better or for worse,
it's here and it's an attraction. But don't throw a
college football party unless you're willing to actually have the
damn party. I want to stay in in the college
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ranks and stay out here in southern California. UM. You know,
there's been conversations that. Obviously, when when the season ends,
everybody talks about can they win it again? And who's
going to be up for the Heisman. I actually think
Caleb is the first, the first player in quite a
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while that I think can get it two times in
a row. Now, I've heard there's a rumor out there
that the the n I L deals or the n
I L rules in Ohio are are still a little
a little I guess there, and and that Marvin Harrison Jr.
Could possibly leave and go to USC for an n
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I L deal that's more attractive. I'm hearing that out there.
If if that happens, you gotta believe that. You know,
Caleb Is is going to be up for the Heisman.
Do do you think that he can he can repeat
as the Heisman Trophy winner? It's hard. I mean it's
hard to do because, yeah, injury factor and people being fatigued.
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The USC certainly has the cash to pull it off.
I remember Liner looked like he was gonna maybe repeat,
but then Reggie Bush ended up winning the Heisman, which
is really hard, you know, from the same team, because
a lot of the time those guys will split the vote.
And look, they already attracted Addison to come and use
USC and and pull vaulted into the future, and they
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even let him wear carts and Palmer's number, and the
guy opted out of the freaking Bowl game. But so
so I guess, uh, I guess you know that doors
wide open for the best wide receiver in the country
to come play with the best quarterback in the country.
Stranger things have happened. It would have set a lot
of people in Ohio State who think of their program
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as the absolute peak of football. But as I said,
the slopes of Everest are strewn with bodies. So uh,
I guess, I guess it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
Just whenever there's a repeat Heisman campaign or that kind
of talk, something always happens, Right, the tweak, your ankle,
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miss a couple of weeks, come back. But I think
he's gonna have a great year because he's just so
damn willful. And I really can't argue with the way
the guy plays. And guy plays his absolute ass off
and doesn't make a lot of mistakes out there and
really tried to overcome USC's huge deficiency that got worse
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and worse as the season went on on the defensive
side of the ball. So I think it's very, very
possible that he wins the Heisman. I mean, Lincoln Riley's
always got that guy, it seems that really lights it up.
The one difference about Caleb Williams, I thought until the
very end of the year, the last two games through November,
he was really surging and playing his best football. And
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that's how you win a Heisman Trophy. We we get
all hyped up about Lincoln Riley players usually in September
early October, but when they get it going in November,
that's when they win the Heisman. And we'll see USC
is gonna have Oregon this year coming up, They're gonna
have Washington, They're gonna have a lot of teams on
the schedule that they didn't They're gonna have to go
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to Notre Dame, so there will be, uh, there will
be a lot of tests for him. But I think
that as far as repeating, I don't think anybody I've
ever seen in my lifetime would have a better chance.
Just looking at it on paper, here in January looking
forward to next year? Does he have a better chance?
And by the way, Petros Papadegus joining us here on
(40:33):
Fox Sports Radio, get him on Twitter at the old
pe Does he have a better chance? And he continues
to paint his fingernails or no, you know, I don't know.
I mean, you know, to me, God, I'm worried about
my lizard. My lizards just laying there. I think he's asleep.
I don't know that's what you call it. No, I
have this lizard. Now it's a beard and dragon, beard
(40:54):
and dragon. It's gonna get big. Hold on, hold on.
Is this like in like a case sort of split rarium? Yeah, okay,
I thought maybe it was just like I'm trying to
learn to care for and I I there was. It
was like a gag gift and nobody wanted it. At
this gift exchange, I went and I was like, I'll
take take the dragons a white elephant party. Somebody did, Yeah,
(41:16):
did they really? So I was letting. Everybody got all
bad and I was like, dude, give me the damn lizard.
Is that unwritten rule like you can't bring live animals
to that? Yeah, that's why people were pissed. So who
brought up? A friend of mine who works in a prison,
So I brought it. He's a fat federal prison. So okay,
(41:39):
So you're talking about like white collar cries. You know
the stories he tells me. It doesn't feel that way, Brady,
Can you give me an example of Petros? I just, uh, look,
prison is a bad place you ever seen American me?
It's funny. Everyone seems to make the federal prisons out
to beat like it's eyes guys that jumpsuits playing croquet
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or playing tennis on nicely. It's not the case on
Terminal Island and Long Beach I can take. But anyway,
now I have this lizard and yesterday, you know, I
fed him as real worm and he ate it all fast.
And he's been laying on his freaking thing ever since,
almost dead in the world. He ates you fast. I
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don't know, he just collecting that heat. You got a
hot rock in there, Petro's. I got a light on him,
and then you know, when the sun comes out, I
turned it to the daytime light. You need a hot rock,
you put it on the bottom, and did you think
about releasing it into the wild? A bearded dragon. I
don't know Alibert's Yeah, they're solitary lizards. They like, h
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he wants to be cared for. Okay, I'm just I'm just,
you know, trying to help you out. How big is
this lizard? Because I'm big. It's gonna get but it's
going to get big. I mean they're mean looking. What
are you gonna dose? Actually very nice, but I'm worried
he's dead. What are you going? Happened last week? He's
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not a very tough looking lizard. No, it's a bearded dragon.
I'm trying to figure out who thought that was a
good idea to bring to a white elephant can live
for ten to fifteen years. Yeah, yeah, well you know,
I hope. So who's the a hole that gave that?
As a white elephant? Prison warden dude's scary as hell.
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He's the warden. No, but we call him that. He
comes home from work with his hands all bruised. Said,
I really got into it today we had. He's the
guy that if they're like, you know, if a dude
says he's not coming out of his cell, they don't
just say like okay, you know, they send in like
a whole group of dudes and riot gear an extraction team. Yeah,
(43:58):
extraction exact played LaVar and then they strap him to
a bed for hours so they calmed down. It's like
the h the guy who got beat up after him
and his buddies tried to take advantage of Dufrayne and
Shah Shank. Then he ended up never walking again. I
think his name was Bobs in that movie. Yeah, taxes,
he did his taxes. You know Petros, you know they
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sell like clothing, like pieces of of like clothing for
bearded dragons online. I'm looking at a cowboy hat you
can give for your beard to dragon right now. I'm
into that. Yeah, I'm all that show, but I need
to keep the damn thing alive. Can I ask this
as we transitioned maybe back to sports. No, I'm sorry,
(44:39):
I'm just like, I'm concerned about the lizard. I'm concerned
too for the lizard. But you know, this is what
happened last week. I came down here to do your
show and I was like, why is any movie? M Oh,
maybe he's not alive. They have Dragon Dragon. Can I
ask this, Petros? Are the Lakers playoff hopes alive? No?
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I mean it's early. But I mean, it's just what's
happening with the Lakers right now. Make me talk about
the Lakers. I mean, college football season is over with,
the NFL is almost wrapping up, obviously, the I just
take going through the the whole. I mean, we all
go through the we just do the play for the Lakers.
It's like we all read our lines from our town.
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Lebron built this team. He wanted all these guys, they're
all from his friends or his own agency, and he
wanted Westbrook. And then we have to go through the
motions to listen to him complain about how you know,
I don't play for meaningless games to get stats. No,
that's exactly what you're doing. It's like, it's so weird.
(45:44):
Lebron's getting impatient. Oh. Sam Amick wrote about Lebron's impatience
in the USA today. Oh, everybody better, this will go
through the media cycle. We got to talk about how
mad Lebron is. What are they gonna do? It's like
the Lakers are leveraged up the ass forever, just like
the Rams. Because they wanted this guy and they let
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him take control. They handed him the keys, and you
look at the Twitter and Rob Linka's trending or Genie
Busses trending. It's like the only reason they should be
trending is because they gave the franchise away to Lebron James,
and now we have to go through this charade with him.
He's one of the best players of all time, he's ageless.
(46:25):
Who knows what he's pumped in his body to make
him for years. His head looks like a giant block,
which is great. I mean, was happy for him, but
but the fact that it's happening as uh under the
flag of the Lakers, which is supposed to be one
of the great franchises in the history of sport, It's
(46:46):
just it really does not feel like the Lakers of
my childhood, or even of the Kobe and Shack era
or really anything. It feels like Lebron James and Lebron
James Incorporated and Clutch Sports and the stupid barbershop show
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and all the other crap that we deal with with.
Lebron has taken the Lakers and that is the brand
until he's done with it, and I think it turns
a lot of people in l A off. The Lakers
do not have the cash in this town that they
used to. Even a lot of it is because they
priced out most of their real fans at Staples Center.
(47:28):
And that's a epidemic within the NBA, largely across the league,
but the Lakers. I just don't think people relate to
him the same way they used to because of the
way Lebron has handled himself and handled the franchise. And
you can blame Rob and Jennie because they they did
it to themselves. They gave it to him. I don't
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know who wouldn't in the NBA. It seems like a
lot of people wanted to take that deal. But be
careful what you wish for, because it kind of feels
like the Lakers are in basketball purgatory ever since Lebron
showed up. And I know they won that pandemic thing,
but so did the Dodgers or people are still really
piste off about those results too. He is Petros Papadakis.
(48:12):
He is the coast of the Petros money shown AM
five seventy l A Sports. You can get him on
Twitter at by the way, Petro's I know you've been
asking sort of what's the status of the lizard that
you have there? Your beard, Dragon all right, So I
know you were asking what the said, but we were
able to reach out. We have a reptile expert with
us here on the line. So here is the update
(48:34):
for you on your bearded dragon. Now, I think that's inappropriate.
I apologize. I don't know. I don't know why that
anybody thought that was appropriate here from Morning Drive that
is I'm trying to. I'm trying to. I haven't had
a pet since I was a child, since my weener dog.
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You mean you're so fig scroat dogs, scro dog, Petros.
They built that place for movie stars to sit in
uh suits and watch the game. They didn't build it
for regular people to park and have a good time.
It sucks and hand out chicken wings during the game.
(49:19):
Yeah in some places. Yeah, Petro now on the clock.
We appreciate it, and that we'll do it again next
week's almost gone. Way to go ten thours all the
air for everybody there. He is Petros Papa is always
(49:41):
a good time catching up with Petros here. I didn't
think he was actually being serious that he had a
bearded dragon, but it was. It was absolutely Fox Sports
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this morning? Then why are you so fired up? What happened?
(00:21):
I heard a little pregame speech or little pep talk
he did show? Yeah from who Lee a national champion?
That's who? Oh you mean the the audio that's making
its way around the sports radio and television world. You
want to take a listen to Kirby Smart and now
we know why Georgia san blasted TCU. It's so far
(00:45):
a couple of nights ago. Here was the Georgia head
coach prepared for the day. I think about the locker room,
to think about getting our opportunity. You went through this week,
this game. Now we're you pay the price. You black
there with energy, enthusiasms, hang out, Hey, nobody's rousing. Be cautious, Hey,
(01:05):
nobody's rucs nervous about go on here and as up.
Don't think about fool board, don't think about you think
about knocking up? Did you hear what Fox said on
one day? Let's be I want you right there, don't
you're not here two years roell me these guys up.
(01:26):
You don't play the right way. You play the right way.
You knocked their assho you tackle the band on the ball,
daisy looking right? What is your ass office? And kick
your asshole fushion. Thanks, guys who we are? I believe
in you. Let's go now, because football, baby, I mean that.
(01:51):
That's I mean. Look, the reality is in our society today,
there are gonna be some people who are offended by that.
And he and look, I understand there's some profanity in
it that comes with the sports, that comes to sports
in general. You know, like, did you say some profanity? Well,
(02:11):
here's what Here's what I'll say, is I played for
enough coaches that use profanity and free game speeches that yeah,
I would categorize that one in my book for coaches
that I've played for as some that's not that from
what So I'll put it this way. There there will
be some people who are offended by that because of
(02:34):
what he said and how he said and everything else.
And and here's here's what I'll just say to you,
is you'll never understand. You'll never get it. Like there's
a certain switch you have to turn on. In order
to go play the game of football at that level
and as well as they do. And and we can
talk about the merits of a pregame speech whether it
(02:55):
matters anyway. You know, I've heard some great pregame speeches,
and you come out at the first quarter and get
your ass kicked. But the reality is that it's it's
fun to be a part of that. It's fun to
hear that. It's fun to be on your teammates, all
the sacrifices and the effort you put into the game,
and right before you have a chance to go win
another national championship, have your coach getting you fired up
for it and talking about the physicality of football, which
(03:17):
is ultimately when you go back and watch that tape,
you know, I don't care if you like the stats
the scoreboard. What a lot of people don't understand is
the physicality that came with that ass whooping that TCU took.
And that's exactly what Georgia did. So, you know, a
kudos to to Kirby Smart. I mean, they deserve it.
They're the King's right now. College football it's called culture.
(03:39):
You know that that that idea of them being underdogs
and that being what they wrote as their motivation during
the course of this season. It all starts with the belief,
you know, and Kirby Smart had don'tbelieving that nobody thought
that they could repeat being national champions, nobody that they
(04:00):
would go undefeated. They'd be a five lost team. And
and reality is what perception is. I don't know what
five teams Georgia would have lost to, but he convinced
them that they were going to be a five lost team. Salesman, Well,
what the hell would you have said if you thought, like,
(04:22):
if you was trying to spew that to you, would
you buy into that? Again, if I'm in the culture
of it from the outside looking in, Hell, no, from
the from the inside looking out. You know how that goes? Cute? Well,
I'm saying, if the coach I got you, Yeah, coach,
I hear you. If you believe in that coach, whether
(04:44):
you thought that he was accurate or not, you still
feel like I need to defend that, Like, coach really
feel like five teams gonna beat our grass Like dang,
coach really feels that way. So you know what, Like
it takes those leaders on the team and those guys
that buy in to be like, man, we ain't letting
that happen. We're not only not gonna lose five games,
(05:05):
We're not gonna lose a game. And then now it
starts to kind of take shape, it starts to take hold,
and that's the you know, to me, that's the tone
of what Kirby smarts pregame speech was. You know, that's
something that was. You know, if you're a coach and
and and the guys love you, you're one of those
guys that that's that continues for an entire from the
(05:27):
time they started from the last last national championship to
their winter workouts to spring ball, to the start of
football season to the first game. To that ending point,
Kirby Smart was feeding them all of them bleeps, explicitives
(05:47):
and all those all those real, you know words that
that got them to pull together. And and that, to me,
that's what separates the coaches that are able to get
get guys to play out of their minds and beyond
themselves and the ones that just have guys that you know,
(06:08):
they they're really really great athletes and can play football.
But when when the going gets tough, you know, adversity
tends to maybe swallow him up. You know, it just
didn't seem like the moment was too big for Georgia.
And I think that that's because the culture Kirby Smart
has been able to build is something that harbors the
(06:29):
true belief in yourself and obviously, by his language, being
who you want to be, you know, because Kirby Smart
was being who he wanted to be in that moment.
I think it's all about those guys being who they
want to be and being good enough to be the
best when they're who they want to be. You know.
I gotta this might be a little controversial, but I'm
looking through and I just I can't see where they
(06:53):
would have lost five games. I don't know what it
is like. I just I'm looking through and I am
not truly taking that serious. Why are we even why
are we even entertaining that they were dominant? Man, it
was just a phenomenal season. There were two games that
(07:16):
were within one score. Other than that, everything else was
a convincing win. It was the game against Missouri and
then the game against Ohio Say which which was fantastic,
But other than that, everything else was convincing. And maybe
there were more of these. Here's my question How did
this get out? How did this audio of this pregame
speech get out? Like did? Was somebody recording on their
(07:37):
phone and decided we're going to send it out? If okay,
If that's the case, wouldn't that piss Kirby Smart off?
Unless he's okay with this getting out because he feels
like this might be a little bit of a recruiting
tool as well. Also because this this makes him peaks
about a day and age. We live in a day
and age where you cannot assume that something won't get out.
(08:01):
So if I'm Kirby Smart, if I'm any coach at
any major college, if I'm any coach at any college,
you know what, there are cameras around. There were probably
cameras around Jonas, like you know, people document these things.
So his voice was being recorded, you know. And and
whether it got released the way it did, or got
(08:23):
released through a you know, a game a game day
show you know that highlights the team, whatever it may be,
he knows, he knows what he's got going on. So
I don't I don't think that he would be upset
that that audio got out there. I mean, that's who
he is, That's who he is. I mean, and it
also makes him look good because he looks like he's
(08:45):
got the command of the team. And they went out
and then and then just stomp TCU out the way
they did, so not a bad US. I mean again,
there's gonna be people or parents are like, oh my gosh,
I can't I can't believe he talked to my son
like that. I can't believe. I can't believe he saying
those things. It's again, and it's hard to relate, and
it's hard to have the perspective unless you've you've played
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football that and and I think the game of football
is one where physicality just isn't something that is really
in our daily life quite as much. You're you're starting
to see more of a division between kind of the
people who look for it, the people who want to
get into M M A or boxing and football and
true collision sports. I think it's Dr Dr Child talks
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about he says it's not a contact where his basketball
contact sport. He's like, football is a collision sport. And
then he's right. But there's people who under who have
played it, who understand it, who want that as people
who don't. And if you don't then you don't understand
that the mental frame of mind you need to be
in to go play that. And it's obviously one thing
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if you're LaVar and you're the hammer, and I'll be
honest with you, as a quarterback, it's it's the same
thing though, but you're usually the nail. Like there's a
there's a mentality you have to have even as the
quarterback and understanding like you're going to get hit, you're
going to get hit. I'll never forget like one of
the first times my my parents were like, you want
to play baseball? And I was young, and you know,
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we had played t ball and coaches pitch and stuff.
And I was like, I don't know, there, he's gonna
be kids pitching. They're like yeah. They're like it wasn't
it hits me? And they're like, well, it could hit you.
And I was like, I don't think I want to play.
And my dad looked at me. He goes, look, let's
go outside. And so he went outside and he took
four baseballs and he goes, grab your bad Okay. So
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I stood there and he hit me with four baseballs
and literally the point was is and and he kind
of threw He kind of threw the first one kind
of easy, and I kind of like got out of
the way and he's like what. I was like, what
are you doing? He goes, I want to show you
what it feels like. I said, I don't think I
want to do this. He goes, just just just listen.
And so the next one he throws this kind of
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soft hits me, and I was like, that's not so bad.
He goes, that's right. He goes, it's not so bad.
And then next going through a little harder. I go, yeah,
that's not bad. And the next one was a little harder,
and he goes. Look, he goes, you're gonna get hit
by a baseball. That's okay, he goes, But at some
point in time too, he goes, you're gonna hit a
home run and it's the greatest feeling you're ever gonna have.
And he was right. So I just I feel like
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there's too many times that like we try to coddle
people for the realities of life and of sport. Now,
that's just not that's just not the kids. I mean,
that was a Kirby Smart. That was a Kirby Smart. Mally,
I love the idea Chopper going high and tight on
his own side. He was the best man. He was
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the best. By the way to your point, queue, a
lot of of high school coaches are getting accused of bullying.
A lot of high school like I've even seen where
there was like basically like a an investigation, like a
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like a school school board investigation and and trial hearing
for what would be considered bullying. And it's amazing to
me how hard coaching and and so apparent now will
will interpret the way you scream at their child as
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you're bullying them. You're screaming at them. You're not screaming
to them, you're not screaming to urge them on, you're
not screaming to encourage them or to educate them. You're
just screaming at them. And that's like the society that
we live in now is that you can't what Kirby
Smart did. You have to be at the college level
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or the pro level to be able to talk to
kids that way anymore. You can't do it any any
other place. Like it's very difficult to be able to
coach hard or to to create hard conversations with kids
at the high school level. You know what I hate that.
I don't want to get on a soapbox here for
a second, but this is why I hate that we're
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trying to protect kids from failing, even if in our
society we're almost trying to protect people from failing. It's
the worst lesson. It's the worst thing you can do.
If you don't let people fail, then whenever things get
tough in the future, guess what, they're gonna quit. They're
not gonna be able to fight through, They're not gonna
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be able to push through. It's the worst lesson you
can give someone. So it's getting tough, Okay, go ahead,
go ahead, take take it with your go go ahead,
going home. Yeah, it's the worst thing you can do.
And I feel like at the youngest ages now, we're
starting to coddle kids and we don't realize that it's
okay to fail. Like, at some point in time you
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have to realize failures are learning experiences, and when you
experience those failures, you gotta it's on you to figure out, Okay,
what can I do to to change it and make
it better or improve so it doesn't happen again. I mean,
people out there right now are listening. They probably run
a small business. What do you think happens when they fail?
There's a chance of going bankrupt. It's their own personal wealth.
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It impacts them and impacts their family, and impacts the
people they've hired and their jobs. I mean, there's a
lot on the line. So I just I think it's
a terrible, terrible lesson and and and there's obviously you
know it. Coaches at a lot of places, by and
large do an amazing job. And in order to get
someone to change their habits and change who they are,
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there has to be a transformation. That transformation is does
not come easy. The change doesn't always come easy. So
I hate hearing that stuff, I really do. I feel
bad for a lot of coaches. You have to deal
with that sort of bs. There's a quote that's out
there that they use in fighting a lot. I think
it might have been Nelson Mandela is the first one
to use it. But he said, you either win or
(14:56):
you learn. There is no losing. So you either you
you're successful or you're not, but you learn something from it.
So good for Kirby smart Man. Yeah, I think they're
they're players, obviously understand the mind frame they need to be.
Look for TCU. They got their butts kick the worst.
That was the worst beating I think we've ever seen.
Have we've seen one that's worse than that? That was bad.
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And and the reality is is that will stick with
him forever. Max Duggan, who had a phenomenal year Sunny
Dikes in his first year, gets to a national championship
and as great of a season as it was. I mean,
it's kind of weird too to think they don't have
any championships to go with it, didn't win Big Twelve,
and then they get the NAST championship. Then it's kind
(15:38):
of it's kind of crazy to think the success they
had yet they have no championship and and and so
the reality is as good of a season as it was,
they will never forget this the rest of their life. Yeah, man,
we had a great season back in the day. Sure
you did. No, I'm serious. Now, where's your Big twelve title?
Or's your your that national championship? But hey, they beat Michigan,
so there's that. And who knows, maybe they chased him
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horriback from the college ranks. We'll see. Be sure to
catch live editions of two Pros and a Cup of
Joe with Brady Quinn, LaVar Arrington and Jonas Knocks week
days at six am e sting three am Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. So apparently, um,
there's been some speculation about one team what one team
(16:20):
might do. Easy for me to say, at the top
of the draft with their quarterback situation, we got some
clarity kind of on that yesterday. We'll get into that
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that yesterday. Better well, listen, who knows I go off
speed next hour? You never know, alright, never never know
what you're gonna get. Hey, you want to hear Ryan
pulls the Bears GM talk about what they're going to
do at the top of the draft. Is this the
GM with the legos that he does. He's got a
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LaVar true story. I can't even believe it's a true story.
Ryan pulls the GM for the Bears as legos that
he was handing out yesterday as a sign of building
the organization back up to where it needs to be
with legos. Thoughts on that already, think LaVar, because you're
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in Chicago. So I'm just wondering if you've also gotten No,
I did not receive a lego. Look, let me ask
you this is he given it out to the entire
organization remembers. I think it was members of the media
from my understanding. Maybe not. I mean who knows. But
I mean if it would have been for me, it
would have been Lincoln Logs when I was a little
(17:51):
Great Point and Great Pole. Yes, remember those Lincoln bad
ash Man and those they had that little plastic roo
if you would put on the top of the green roof. Yeah,
h Lincoln Logs are better than Lincoln Logs. I'll probably
had a plan with more than they will. Ye because legos,
I feel like legos are cutting complicated. Legos are kind
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of nerdy too, like Lincoln Logs. Feels like you're representing
the Heart of Americana. Yeah, but linking logs, you can't
mess that up. You can buy, you can mess up,
you can botch. You know, did did he give different
different Lego pieces or where they all to say? I'm
not sure. I think there were. I thought there were
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different pieces. I mean, I think he gave out one
for every win. So there's only a couple of past round.
You know, what would be a dope this hell. You
know what would be really really dope is if he
had one um custom made and whatever it is that
his message of building is. Once they all put them together,
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it actually was like a you know, it was that, Yeah,
it's a logan or whatever. Yeah, something like that. I guess. Yeah,
they got a tunnel, Lincoln logs or which which hurts
more to step on a lego or Lincoln Lego? Not
even close. What it depends a lego is like handing
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your kid a Ninja Star and turn it on those
Lincoln logs like they it would be like a Shiatsu
massage for your feet. Or it could like absolutely and
your day. Yeah, yeah, you step on a lego and
it like it changes the way you feel about life
and whether you want to go on it just depends
on if it's a thicker lego or not. If it's
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one of those slim ones, you might not even feel it. Yeah,
I mean, like if it was like the you know,
like the standard block lego, you step on that, Like
any parent out there who's you know, like walked in
the dark because you know, maybe the younger child started
crying in the middle of the night. You step on
a lego and all of a sudden, forget what the
younger child is doing. They can figure that out in
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their own You're trying to figure out whether or not
you're going to get your leg amputated because you stepped
on a lego that somebody left out. Here's a question
I have for you, and that's what happened to Lieutenant
Dan by the way, you stepped on a lego. If
you know, if you slip, if you're holding your child
and you step on a lego or a linking log
and you slip and you're falling, do you throw the
(20:22):
baby up and get yourself from falling or do you
go down with the baby? Do you go down with
the baby? Man? Okay, Jonas, what's your answer? I don't
know where they're going. Answer? I hope I'd protect the baby.
But you know, like until I get to that moment
(20:43):
where I did this happen to where I'm curious because
I know and and and Jonas is mind right now,
He's sitting there thinking, I really want to tell the
people I would throw the baby and say break my fall,
like that's what I feel like. I'm well because I'm
just picturing, you know, like a bouquet at a wedding,
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you know, like everyone you know, it's like some people
want to catch it, some people don't. Like I think
that i'd want to catch the baby, like that would
be my approach. You wouldn't want to catch the baby.
You wouldn't want to let the baby go, is what
you're saying. You would you would fall and take the
fall to protect the baby. Yeah, Berto, are you are
you holding the baby or are you you breaking your fall?
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Hold the baby? Man? That was just curious. Check, well,
he check, I'm breaking my fall, by the way, break
my fall, by the way. Have you seen how expensive
Lincoln logs are? Now? Just found out my guard like
a hundred bucks for a bear. I was gonna buy
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it for my girls. I was like, oh, I assure that. Yeah,
I'll go chopped down a tree and little some Lincoln logs.
So with that we we get to Rye and polls
from logs and legos. Two poles. Here he was talking
about leaving a lot of our Here he was talking
about the plan at quarterback with the top of the draft,
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with the Bears picking one overall and Justin Fields still
being there. Guy here was the Bears DM. We're gonna
do the same as we've always done. We're gonna evaluate
the draft class. And I would say this, I would
have to be absolute blown away to make that type
of decision, all right, So is he going to be
blown away by either Bryce Young or c J. Stroud
or any of these quarterbacks during his evaluation that they
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would actually entertain the idea of going quarterback and maybe
moving on from Justin Field. I can't see it, man,
I just I can't see it. I know, maybe I'm wrong,
but it's gonna be hard for me to see them
wanting to move on from Justin Fields. Um. Look, maybe
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they'll get someone who who is interested in fields and
what they've seen so far and wants to like reach out.
But you got a guy who started twenty five games
for you up to this point. To me, he's showing
progress despite what's around him. I mean his from his
rookie season where there's questions about his ability to throw
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and passing all that to this past season where I
think he's probably squashed some of those concerns, you know,
improved his complete your percentage, improved touchdown interception ratio, all
that stuff. Um, yet they don't you know what I mean,
He was sacked boring anyone else this season. Um, and look,
he's a legit rusher. Did he He was for over
(23:37):
a thousand yards? Dude, didn't it easy? He was away
from the all time record for a quarterback and they
sat in the final game. Yeah. I mean, I think
you have to at some point too. You know, I
don't know that people look at him the same way
as you look at like a Lamar Jackson and how
dynamic of a runner he is. But he's very capable,
and so there's there's something special to him as well.
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I just I don't think you're throwing the talent him
now and move on from him just to grab one
of these guys. With where you're at, I think you
you convince people that maybe behind closed doors there's a
guy you really love at one that a lot of
other people love, and if if, if they want to
trade with you out of it, okay, but it's gonna
take a lot. You know, that would be the only
thing I think you'd leak out there publicly if you're
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Ryan Poles to make people think that, man, maybe maybe
we will take a quarterback at one. And if we're
gonna not be at one, you gotta give us an
offer that's so great. We we can't help it because
I think the problem with their position is if it's
the Colts, for example, we obviously want a quarterback at
number one, and there's there. I think they're sitting at four.
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I mean, if you move back to four, you're not
guaranteeing yourself you get a Jalen Carter depending on how
the picks work out in front of you. You know,
there might be some of their teams that want Jalen Carter.
That might be some of their teams that want Will Anderson,
you know, some of the top overall prospects outside of
the quarterback position. So that's a little bit of the
trick guiness too. For the position that the Bears are
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in is is how good is the offer they're made
to get out of that pick if they're not going
to take a quarterback with that spot. If I think
that's a tough one, I think I really do, because
it's not every day you get the number one overall
draft pick. It's it's not every day that it's a
quarterback heavy draft where you can look at, you know,
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two or three that potentially could change the trajectory of
of your franchise. I think it will come down to
not just what they are able to do in their workouts,
but it will come down to who they are as people.
And and sometimes we kind of undervalue the impact that
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prospect can have on the owner of the organization, that
the coaching staff of the organization and their interviews. And
I think that that's I don't know, you know, every
thing I hear about justin fields, he's stand up, dude,
good dude. You know, I don't know that there would
be you know, that element that that would play apart
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in terms of this guy may be a better leader
in our locker room or whatever. All I know is
I don't when the team isn't good, I don't think
anything is off the table. And the Bears aren't good.
They aren't good at all. They have a lot of
fine young talent, but they're not a good team. So
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I would have to say, if I'm them and I
have the number one overall pick, you have to entertain
everything that's out there, everything that's on the table. I
mean entertain it. Entertain it like seriously, not like even casual, like,
oh we have justin field, Like I'm entertaining everything. They've got,
I think, the most salary cap in the NFL coming
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up in the off season after just you know, shedding,
you know, money and contracts and all that stuff and
just getting rid of it. And they've got Houston and
we talked about the US on Monday. They've got Houston
and Indianapolis who are looking for quarterbacks in the same division,
who are sitting at two and four. If I'm the
Bears and you have an opportunity and Houston doesn't want
to lose out on Bryce Young to Indianapolis, well, if
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if that means that you can acquire, you just move
back one spot and then you acquire the other pick
that they've got from Cleveland, the Houston Texans. You'd have
two and twelve. All of a sudden, by trading way
one and probably something else, you know, maybe next year
or the year after. So you'd still end up with
Jalen Carter or Will Anderson or whoever whichever best players
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sitting there at number two and you acquire more picks.
That's the ideal scenario in situation. Whether it happens who then,
who the hell knows. But I feel like Indianapolis and Houston,
that game finishing the way that it did lined everything
up for those teams to not only compete in the
final week of this season, but now they're gonna have
to compete for the franchise quarterback they want because they
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can't lose out to to the other on on trying
to get a guy that's going to set him back
the next ten years if they gotta If they gotta
face that guy moving forward. This is the maker break
moment for Ryan Poles. You know, general managers who'd take
over a franchise, usually you're you're taking over because there's
a transition and things have gone poorly. Seldom do you
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find yourself with the combination of cap space and the
number one overall pick as well, where and you've got
the ability to really turn over this roster relatively fast.
And oh, by the way, you've got a rookie quarterback
who showed promise and honestly on his rookie deal, or
I should say rookie. He's a young quarterback who's still
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on his rookie deal as well, to add to all
of that. So it's just it's a it's a rare
circumstance that this will either be what he's known for
for the next decade or so as their general manager,
or three or four years from now he's maybe on
the streets because this whole thing didn't work out. Be
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(29:44):
get your podcasts. We are going to catch up here
momentarily with the great Petros Papadakis, uh, the co host
of the Petros Some Money Show. It is a Wednesday
tradition here, you know. So he's you know, getting fired
up for this appearance. You know, man, he always does many.
I mean, you know, we do have to take up
(30:05):
an issue that we got with Petros here because I
feel like, well, I feel like he represents all of
southern California. Yeah, just I mean, this stuff going on,
it's so far, you know, it's it's a little little bit,
a little bit of a disgrace what is happening. So
let's try and get some answers from him right now.
Petros Papadakis. He is the co host of the Petros
and Money Show, which, by the way, where can you
hear the Petros Some Money Show? Brady and five seven
(30:28):
the l A Sports also an analyst for Fox in
their coverage of college football, and he is a friend
of the program. Every Wednesday you hear from Petro's here
at the old beyond Twitter, Petros, what's happening? How are you?
How come more on time today? Is it because Dawn's
breaking out about the clock? What do you mean now?
How did that? How would that sound if he did?
My man, You've got us stay on the clock. You're
(30:50):
killing your sales. I'm leaving fifteen minutes of writings out
there every day just doing the wrong breaks my mind.
You've got to up yourself. I want everybody to write
down when the brakes are on a piece of paper
and putting it in front of the hole. So you know,
you gotta get out at sixteen and fifty six, no
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more exceptions, play them off over back of the day.
And if they're not going to do that, just go
to a heart out just in the middle of them talking. Yeah,
right in the middle of Jerry, Right in the middle
of Jerry West telling me his father held a shotgun
to his face, you know, and the break music you
(31:36):
see me rolling ro alright, Mr West, sorry about the
problems with your dad on that dirt floor in West Virginia,
but good luck with a book. So, Petro's a lot
of complaints about Sofi Stadium, And since you represent all
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of l A and Southern californ I'm mean, you think
it stinks, well, I think that it's a many layered question,
but I think so Phi number one is a pretty
good viewing experience when you're awesome to watch the game,
but everything else absolutely blows. I mean, the hot dogs
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look like a man scrolled them scroll dog dog. You know.
I didn't like Petro Parking is death. Yeah, that's not
good parking. Um. I didn't like how you can't walk
around the entire arena. You have to go up to
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walk over and then back down to get from the
east side to the west side. Two dozen souls, Brady
have been lost and never found again. We don't know
where they are. Two dozen people just lost, like in Everest.
It's like the uh the slopes of Everest littered with bodies.
Yeah when you go up, Yeah, you just it's it
(32:59):
is a vast place of no return. Parking is terrible.
There's nothing to do in Inglewood other than get your
tire popped because of the stadium that the Clippers are
building into it and that endless construction, which is a
nightmare in Inglewood. And there's also nowhere to go in Inglewood.
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Inglewood doesn't have a centralized area of public meeting. You know,
there's a Sizzler, but other than that, yeah, I mean
it's just not it's just not an event place. So
if you're going to have an event there, I mean
it's it's going to be as they continue to develop it.
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But right now, I mean, it's just this big gas stadium.
And they wouldn't even let people tailgate for one reason
or another. And Inglewood and the n C Double A
and the college football Playoff and so far are all
pointing fingers at each other as to why they wouldn't
allow people to tailgate. But I mean, what's with the
half stepping. I mean, if you're gonna throw a party,
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throw the damn party, or if you're not, give it
to somebody else that knows how to. And it was
an embarrassment to have the college football Playoff there if
they weren't going to actually have the college football playoff there. Now,
the weather event, it's so far. Look, we don't get
a lot of weather here. Uh. And there's a reason
that the news freaks out when it rains here and
(34:27):
that everybody goes absolutely berserk is because nothing here is
built for the rain. All of our schools are outdoors
and amphitheater style. All of our shopping everything's outside. So
when it rains, no one has anything designed for the rain,
and everybody just drowns and floods and fills with mud
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and cries and screams. I mean, it's a terrible thing.
And the rain was coming into so Fi sideways because
it's a half dome and it was cold and all that.
But I mean, you don't have a party in l
A because you think it's gonna rain. You know, part
of it. Part of the appeal is the weather, so
that part of it. And all the people slipping and
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sliding in the gurney traffic that was everywhere when all
the people going down people can take it on stretches,
the big fat people from the South. I was a
pregame party deal, and I like they're dropping left and right,
like slipping and sliding all kinds of stuff. And it
was actually, uh, it was. It was sad to see,
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but you're kind of going, yeah, this thing wasn't constructed
to have like a bad day, Like it's just it
says it makes sense now that you say that, But well,
they don't know what to do if there's lightning either,
Like there was lightning. What was it? Maybe Raiders Chargers
a couple of years and they stopped the game even
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though it has a cover because like the slide ways,
lightning might come in and then the lightning continued. But
the NFL was like, you know what, let's just play,
because I mean, I was driving by the stadium, literally
driving on the freeway by the stadium, saw lightning all
over the sky and was listening on the radio, and
they're like, all right, we're gonna kick it, and I
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was like, damn okay. So they don't really you know,
there's not a lot of protocol when it comes to
the league in that place and how to get everything
done there. But the league made that multi billionaire cronky
with his bow tie build them a giant shrine to
gladiator NFL football on the West Coast. They made him
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put the Chargers in there for one dollar a year.
They made him build the NFL network Mecca. It's all
right there in Inglewood, and for better or for worse,
it's here and it's an attraction. But don't throw a
college football party unless you're willing to actually have the
damn party. I want to stay in in the college
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ranks and stay out here in southern California. UM. You know,
there's been conversations that. Obviously, when when the season ends,
everybody talks about can they win it again? And who's
going to be up for the Heisman. I actually think
Caleb is the first, the first player in quite a
(37:12):
while that I think can get it two times in
a row. Now, I've heard there's a rumor out there
that the the n I L deals or the n
I L rules in Ohio are are still a little
a little I guess there, and and that Marvin Harrison Jr.
Could possibly leave and go to USC for an n
(37:36):
I L deal that's more attractive. I'm hearing that out there.
If if that happens, you gotta believe that. You know,
Caleb Is is going to be up for the Heisman.
Do do you think that he can he can repeat
as the Heisman Trophy winner? It's hard. I mean it's
hard to do because, yeah, injury factor and people being fatigued.
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The USC certainly has the cash to pull it off.
I remember Liner looked like he was gonna maybe repeat,
but then Reggie Bush ended up winning the Heisman, which
is really hard, you know, from the same team, because
a lot of the time those guys will split the vote.
And look, they already attracted Addison to come and use
USC and and pull vaulted into the future, and they
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even let him wear carts and Palmer's number, and the
guy opted out of the freaking Bowl game. But so
so I guess, uh, I guess you know that doors
wide open for the best wide receiver in the country
to come play with the best quarterback in the country.
Stranger things have happened. It would have set a lot
of people in Ohio State who think of their program
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as the absolute peak of football. But as I said,
the slopes of Everest are strewn with bodies. So uh,
I guess, I guess it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
Just whenever there's a repeat Heisman campaign or that kind
of talk, something always happens, Right, the tweak, your ankle,
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miss a couple of weeks, come back. But I think
he's gonna have a great year because he's just so
damn willful. And I really can't argue with the way
the guy plays. And guy plays his absolute ass off
and doesn't make a lot of mistakes out there and
really tried to overcome USC's huge deficiency that got worse
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and worse as the season went on on the defensive
side of the ball. So I think it's very, very
possible that he wins the Heisman. I mean, Lincoln Riley's
always got that guy, it seems that really lights it up.
The one difference about Caleb Williams, I thought until the
very end of the year, the last two games through November,
he was really surging and playing his best football. And
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that's how you win a Heisman Trophy. We we get
all hyped up about Lincoln Riley players usually in September
early October, but when they get it going in November,
that's when they win the Heisman. And we'll see USC
is gonna have Oregon this year coming up, They're gonna
have Washington, They're gonna have a lot of teams on
the schedule that they didn't They're gonna have to go
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to Notre Dame, so there will be, uh, there will
be a lot of tests for him. But I think
that as far as repeating, I don't think anybody I've
ever seen in my lifetime would have a better chance.
Just looking at it on paper, here in January looking
forward to next year? Does he have a better chance?
And by the way, Petros Papadegus joining us here on
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Fox Sports Radio, get him on Twitter at the old
pe Does he have a better chance? And he continues
to paint his fingernails or no, you know, I don't know.
I mean, you know, to me, God, I'm worried about
my lizard. My lizards just laying there. I think he's asleep.
I don't know that's what you call it. No, I
have this lizard. Now it's a beard and dragon, beard
(40:54):
and dragon. It's gonna get big. Hold on, hold on.
Is this like in like a case sort of split rarium? Yeah, okay,
I thought maybe it was just like I'm trying to
learn to care for and I I there was. It
was like a gag gift and nobody wanted it. At
this gift exchange, I went and I was like, I'll
take take the dragons a white elephant party. Somebody did, Yeah,
(41:16):
did they really? So I was letting. Everybody got all
bad and I was like, dude, give me the damn lizard.
Is that unwritten rule like you can't bring live animals
to that? Yeah, that's why people were pissed. So who
brought up? A friend of mine who works in a prison,
So I brought it. He's a fat federal prison. So okay,
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So you're talking about like white collar cries. You know
the stories he tells me. It doesn't feel that way, Brady,
Can you give me an example of Petros? I just, uh, look,
prison is a bad place you ever seen American me?
It's funny. Everyone seems to make the federal prisons out
to beat like it's eyes guys that jumpsuits playing croquet
(42:02):
or playing tennis on nicely. It's not the case on
Terminal Island and Long Beach I can take. But anyway,
now I have this lizard and yesterday, you know, I
fed him as real worm and he ate it all fast.
And he's been laying on his freaking thing ever since,
almost dead in the world. He ates you fast. I
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don't know, he just collecting that heat. You got a
hot rock in there, Petro's. I got a light on him,
and then you know, when the sun comes out, I
turned it to the daytime light. You need a hot rock,
you put it on the bottom, and did you think
about releasing it into the wild? A bearded dragon. I
don't know Alibert's Yeah, they're solitary lizards. They like, h
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he wants to be cared for. Okay, I'm just I'm just,
you know, trying to help you out. How big is
this lizard? Because I'm big. It's gonna get but it's
going to get big. I mean they're mean looking. What
are you gonna dose? Actually very nice, but I'm worried
he's dead. What are you going? Happened last week? He's
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not a very tough looking lizard. No, it's a bearded dragon.
I'm trying to figure out who thought that was a
good idea to bring to a white elephant can live
for ten to fifteen years. Yeah, yeah, well you know,
I hope. So who's the a hole that gave that?
As a white elephant? Prison warden dude's scary as hell.
(43:37):
He's the warden. No, but we call him that. He
comes home from work with his hands all bruised. Said,
I really got into it today we had. He's the
guy that if they're like, you know, if a dude
says he's not coming out of his cell, they don't
just say like okay, you know, they send in like
a whole group of dudes and riot gear an extraction team. Yeah,
(43:58):
extraction exact played LaVar and then they strap him to
a bed for hours so they calmed down. It's like
the h the guy who got beat up after him
and his buddies tried to take advantage of Dufrayne and
Shah Shank. Then he ended up never walking again. I
think his name was Bobs in that movie. Yeah, taxes,
he did his taxes. You know Petros, you know they
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sell like clothing, like pieces of of like clothing for
bearded dragons online. I'm looking at a cowboy hat you
can give for your beard to dragon right now. I'm
into that. Yeah, I'm all that show, but I need
to keep the damn thing alive. Can I ask this
as we transitioned maybe back to sports. No, I'm sorry,
(44:39):
I'm just like, I'm concerned about the lizard. I'm concerned
too for the lizard. But you know, this is what
happened last week. I came down here to do your
show and I was like, why is any movie? M Oh,
maybe he's not alive. They have Dragon Dragon. Can I
ask this, Petros? Are the Lakers playoff hopes alive? No?
(45:00):
I mean it's early. But I mean, it's just what's
happening with the Lakers right now. Make me talk about
the Lakers. I mean, college football season is over with,
the NFL is almost wrapping up, obviously, the I just
take going through the the whole. I mean, we all
go through the we just do the play for the Lakers.
It's like we all read our lines from our town.
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Lebron built this team. He wanted all these guys, they're
all from his friends or his own agency, and he
wanted Westbrook. And then we have to go through the
motions to listen to him complain about how you know,
I don't play for meaningless games to get stats. No,
that's exactly what you're doing. It's like, it's so weird.
(45:44):
Lebron's getting impatient. Oh. Sam Amick wrote about Lebron's impatience
in the USA today. Oh, everybody better, this will go
through the media cycle. We got to talk about how
mad Lebron is. What are they gonna do? It's like
the Lakers are leveraged up the ass forever, just like
the Rams. Because they wanted this guy and they let
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him take control. They handed him the keys, and you
look at the Twitter and Rob Linka's trending or Genie
Busses trending. It's like the only reason they should be
trending is because they gave the franchise away to Lebron James,
and now we have to go through this charade with him.
He's one of the best players of all time, he's ageless.
(46:25):
Who knows what he's pumped in his body to make
him for years. His head looks like a giant block,
which is great. I mean, was happy for him, but
but the fact that it's happening as uh under the
flag of the Lakers, which is supposed to be one
of the great franchises in the history of sport, It's
(46:46):
just it really does not feel like the Lakers of
my childhood, or even of the Kobe and Shack era
or really anything. It feels like Lebron James and Lebron
James Incorporated and Clutch Sports and the stupid barbershop show
(47:06):
and all the other crap that we deal with with.
Lebron has taken the Lakers and that is the brand
until he's done with it, and I think it turns
a lot of people in l A off. The Lakers
do not have the cash in this town that they
used to. Even a lot of it is because they
priced out most of their real fans at Staples Center.
(47:28):
And that's a epidemic within the NBA, largely across the league,
but the Lakers. I just don't think people relate to
him the same way they used to because of the
way Lebron has handled himself and handled the franchise. And
you can blame Rob and Jennie because they they did
it to themselves. They gave it to him. I don't
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know who wouldn't in the NBA. It seems like a
lot of people wanted to take that deal. But be
careful what you wish for, because it kind of feels
like the Lakers are in basketball purgatory ever since Lebron
showed up. And I know they won that pandemic thing,
but so did the Dodgers or people are still really
piste off about those results too. He is Petros Papadakis.
(48:12):
He is the coast of the Petros money shown AM
five seventy l A Sports. You can get him on
Twitter at by the way, Petro's I know you've been
asking sort of what's the status of the lizard that
you have there? Your beard, Dragon all right, So I
know you were asking what the said, but we were
able to reach out. We have a reptile expert with
us here on the line. So here is the update
(48:34):
for you on your bearded dragon. Now, I think that's inappropriate.
I apologize. I don't know. I don't know why that
anybody thought that was appropriate here from Morning Drive that
is I'm trying to. I'm trying to. I haven't had
a pet since I was a child, since my weener dog.
(48:57):
You mean you're so fig scroat dogs, scro dog, Petros.
They built that place for movie stars to sit in
uh suits and watch the game. They didn't build it
for regular people to park and have a good time.
It sucks and hand out chicken wings during the game.
(49:19):
Yeah in some places. Yeah, Petro now on the clock.
We appreciate it, and that we'll do it again next
week's almost gone. Way to go ten thours all the
air for everybody there. He is Petros Papa is always
(49:41):
a good time catching up with Petros here. I didn't
think he was actually being serious that he had a
bearded dragon, but it was. It was absolutely Fox Sports
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