March 22, 2023 • 39 mins
Jonas shares a bucket list item, to see a tornado. Timing is off for Austin Ekeler who is seeking a better contract. The weekly visit from The Old P, Petros Papadakis. Plus, another edition of “You In or You Out?”
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you mentioned the weather for part of your Good Bad
Ugly a few minutes ago. Yeah, man, I thought I
was going to get it. I thought I was going
to have it last night for the first time. I
thought I was going to get to experience a tornado
in person. I don't see why you were hoping for that.
I'm a weather nerd. You know that I love the weather.
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I just I'm fascinated by it. If I didn't do
if I didn't do if I didn't do sports, I
would have gotten into weather. I just I've always loved it,
absolutely fascinated by it, can't get enough of it. Have
always been like that. I've never seen a tornado, never
seen a tornado in person, and I want to see one.
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I desperately want to see one. And out here in
southern California, we had a tornado warning, so the phone
started going off and I'm looking at my phone, going
all this could happen and then nope, gone, never didn't
amount to anything. So we get earthquakes out here, you know,
we'll get fires. Apparently we're just going to keep getting rained.
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That won't stop. So just to rain more later on
today here in southern California, enough that everybody's you know,
playing violins for us around the country. But never seen
a tornado. Have you seen a tornado in person? Lea Barrington?
Nor do I want to see one? Man? I get?
The answer is hell, no, I ain't never seen a
tornado in person. The closest I got was driving cross country.
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I was in Alabama, and I would think I was
on the twenty I think, I think it's a It
was the twenty and I was taking my truck across
country because I was going to my radio job. I'd
gotten hired to do radio, first ever radio job in
South Carolina. And I remember coming down the interstate. There
wasn't there was like one other car in the road,
and I look and I see two tornadoes going up
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in the air, and my heart started here but listen,
so my heart started beating really fast, and I was
getting ready to call my old roommate because him and
I had talked about wanting to see a tornado in
person so bad. And then as I'm driving, because I've
been driving for a while so I was really tired,
and you're passing through different time zones and all that.
And then the closer I got to it, I realized
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it was two smoke stacks, wasn't It wasn't two tornadoes. There,
two smoke stacks, giant tees. You know. It's like it
was like two strippers waving it in front of me
and no one, I can't have it. So two smoke
stacks in Alabama waving twisters in front of me, knowing
that I couldn't have it. And still to this day,
I've never seen one in person. I want to go
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on a storm chasing tour in the Midwest. Perplexing for me,
But yeah, that's all right, man. I mean, I guess
I hope, for your sake you get the c one
one day. I guess I'm saying, that's a weird, that's
a weird hope for me to give you, But you know,
I hope it works out for you. I'm just trying
to find some sort of smile through all the rain
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drops here in southern CALIFORNIAA that's all I'm trying to
I mean, seeing a tornado wouldn't to me fix that.
I don't want to get sucked up by one. I
just want to see what But if you can see it,
there's the possibility that you could be impacted by it. Yeah,
but they go on a straight line. I feel like
if I, if I map it out right, I could
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dodge that thing. Okay, So but you know, I think
I hope your wish comes true. I think, but I don't,
you know, I'm not certain you don't think that there
are people in the Midwest who are like, you know,
I'd love to experience an earthquake just to see what
it's all about. Yeah, But we get it out here
and it's just like, yeah, you know, whole home, another earthquake,
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another shaker. I mean, come on, you know, but at
least at least they have a warning when there's a tornado.
We don't. We get zilch. All of a sudden, the
TV falls in your face and you're like, what happened here?
I thought I mounted that correctly, and everything else is
shaken around you just the TV? Trust me? Oh yeah,
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I'm married. Um, all right, so it is, and I
don't know what you're talking about. All right, Welcome to
the show. Every welcome, And by the way, if you
thought this show was already weird, Petros Papadakis is going
to join us in about fifteen minutes from now, so
that'd be a fun conversation to have with the old
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p Also, I did want to make mention of this.
We were talking about the Aaron Rodgers situation with green
Bay still no trade. By the way, if anybody who's wondering,
but Mark Murphy, the president of the Green Bay Packers,
was saying that he has sworn to secrecy. This was,
you know, less than two weeks after he basically said, yeah,
we would like to get rid of Aaron Rodgers immediately,
we don't want him back, etc. Etc. Did you know
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you and Mark Murphy have something in common? I mean,
I saw this in the email. Tell me tell me
what we have in common. Right, just take a guess
what you and Mark Murphy might have in common. I
just asked, just tell me, just take take a guess. Right,
it's an exclusive club you and Mark Murphy. We're talking
about Aaron Rodgers in the public no, you were both
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in the Washington Football Team all time greatest Players deal
that they do like the sixty or ninety greatest players
in Washington football team history. You and Mark Murphy share
a spot in that exclusive club when it comes to
the Washington former team name that I can't say because
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I'll get fired, but football team commanders slash commandos. You
guys are in that exclusive club together. How about that
Mark Murphy who played in Washington was an All Pro
back in back in the eighties when a Super Bowl
with them went to another one, and you guys are
in the same club together. So I feel like that
could be you know, maybe you uh, he comes on
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up on game you know, you kind of talk about
Washington gets Aaron Rodgers dirt not on two pros. Well,
you could, but he's not gonna come hang out with me.
Why would he want to do that. He wants to
talk to somebody else in the club, not me. I mean,
are now on this show. Yeah, but I'll set the
interview out that that's the only way it's good. He's
sworn to secrecy. But you guys have a close bond
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together because you both, you know, played for Washington, had
success there Pro Bowls all that stuff. Are you going
with this? I'm just saying like that. I wanted to
point that out. We were talking about that earlier, just
I didn't know if you were aware that shared what up? Murph? Um,
here's the thank you for being a part of the
club with me. Yeah, it's a good club. There we go. Um.
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Austin Eckler is part of the club of players in
the NFL who feels like he deserves a contract bump.
He deserves a little bit more than he's gotten over
the past a couple of years from the LA Chargers,
And he talked about this, This has been speculated for
a little while that he looked into possibly getting a
trade and wanted to talk with LA about, you know,
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trying to get something done. Obviously they need to get
something done with Justin Herbert and all that, But here
was the Chargers running back talking about his situation in LA.
I think it's actually really important to kind of put
out there that it's not like, oh, I hate the
Chargers and I need to get out of this organization
and I need to leave like that's that's couldn't be
further from the truth. Like I would like to stay
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if if it was under the right circumstances. And obviously
I have one more year in my contract there, so
I'm contract we obligated to play for them for this
upcoming year. I've been out playing my contract and you
know we might have an opportunity to go seek out
other options. It's literally has no idea, nothing to do
with the relationship, like like I've made a great relationship there,
like grown there. That's where I was, That's where I started, right,
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and so I want to be there, but on the
right terms. I mean, he is right, he's getting paid
a little over six million dollars a year in comparison
to some of the other players around him. I mean
the year he had last year, he was phenomenal, and
he's continued to produce. But it does feel like he's
at maybe that age where I don't know if the
Chargers obviously want to lose him, but what's the plant,
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Like if you were Austin Eckler, Yeah, I knew you're
trying to get a deal, but what would make sense
for you if they gave you a little bit of
a pay bump for one year, or if they gave
you with his age where he's at and just what
he's done over the past couple of years. I just
wonder if it's another one of these situations where the
older you get, they devalue the position. But he feels
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like he had some value because he's so productive out
of the backfield. He was phenomenal. He was the most
dependable pass catcher for Justin Herbert this year. Yet he's
got one year left and in comparison to everybody else,
he's vastly underpaid. Okay, because I'm not I'm not a
player hater, you know, I'm I'm kind of I'm more
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or less kind of like a realist and how approached things.
So let me ask you this question, Jonas. Let me
let me lead off with this. Do you feel like
it's possible for you to outperform your contract at Fox
Sports Radio? Is it possible? Yeah, I guess it's possible.
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It's possible right now. Okay, So if you outperformed your
contract and this year you're saying I have done so
well carrying Brady and LaVar that y'all need to give
me a new contract and y'all need to give me
a pay bump. Because the people in these time slots
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which this would not be incorrect or are untrue. The
people in this time slot get paid way more than
what I'm getting paid to do what I do, and
carrying these two y'all call them pros, I'll call them bums,
these two bums asses all this time. Like, I've outperformed
my contract. And you take that to the people who
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do your contract. What do you think they're going to do. Oh,
they're gonna tell me I'm under contract and we'll revisit
this afterwards. Correct. Yeah, Because in my humble estimation, I
think this only really exists in a few industries where
you could actually think that and whether it's true or not, Like, Okay,
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I've outperformed my contract. Like there's ways to prove and
use information that could actually justify what's being said. But nonetheless,
you signed a contract and you are under contract, and
if you feel like you've outperformed your contract, then I
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would say, what one year left on your contract? There's
two things that happen. Hey, they either come back to
you and they give you an offer it so that
they can have you long term and don't have to
come to you next after the end of your contract
and have the conversation then, or be they let you
play out your contract and then, like what you said,
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you visit the value of you as an employee and
you find out how the company is valuing you. That's
how it works, correct. Yeah, So I have a hard time.
I've always had a hard time trying to understand why
someone would go back during the course of their contract
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and say, well, I need a new contract because I've
outperformed my contract. You really, in theory, you cannot outperform
your contract. You can come back when your contract is
done and say I've performed so well during my contract,
or I've hit all of my escalators, I've destroyed my incentives,
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whatever it may be, and you can come back and
you can negotiate, and you can say, you know what,
like I'm deserving of a big contract because look a
look at my body of work. You could even do
that right now. But to demand like I need more
under the right circumstances, or I need to go seek
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you know, payment elsewhere, I just I never understood that.
I'm just being honest, I've just never understood that. So
he's got the one year left on the deal, and
it pays, as we mentioned a little over six million
dollars a year. The franchise tag number is a little
over ten million dollars. If you were Austin Eckler and
you came to the Chargers and said, look after next year,
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if you did decide to franchise me, it would be
around the ten or eleven million dollars. I don't want
to go down that road. You don't want to go
down on that road. Why don't we work and put
together a multi year deal that would pay me annually
about that for the next couple of years. And the
Chargers just said, now, we're not ready for that, and
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so so what do you do? You just you play
out on the six million dollars or you know, like
and I think his approach was, you know, I just
I want to know what my options are. So maybe
he's he's seeing what else he could possibly get from
somebody else around the league. I think his situation is
also unique because he already got his contract. Yes, he's
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played really well, but he does play running back. And
we've talked about the value on the running back position
is just nowhere where it used to be. I mean,
unless you're you know, Christian McCaffrey or you're a Derrick
Henry or somebody like that who struck it big. This
also feels like it's a little bit of bad timing
for Austin Eckler, Like he finds himself in a tough
spot where where his contract lines up. Like Tony Pollard,
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he's making ten million dollars next year because he had
his best season of his career, and it'll also happened
to be in a contract year. Austin Eckler feels like
his timing is a little off. It may be off.
I mean, and he's twenty seven years old. You know,
he'll be twenty eight, and may like that is not
You're not a spring chicken at the at the running
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backs position. And so when you when you think about it,
I mean, you know, it's hard. It's hard to kind
of draw the conclusion that that he actually should be
valued like a Christian McCaffrey. And and and the reason
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why I would say that is well, because I want
to say, and I'm getting there. Hold on, I am
getting there. Uh. Well, he's not much much younger than Eckler,
He's a year younger. But I just don't I don't
I don't think that there is a true market for
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four tailbacks and and Austin Eckler. It's a curious it's
a curious position to be in because he is he
was actually probably the most consistent offensive player or offensive
weapon for Herbert this past season. He's fantastic and and so,
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and looking at what his value was to that team,
he has he has an argument. He does have an argument,
and he does have a well founded one. I just
when you say it's bad timing, it, it's not going
to be good timing next year. That's the That's what
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I'm struggling with, what's saying it's bad time. I also
think that their priority over anything else is let's figure
out a way to get Justin Herbert locked up so
we're not having to, you know, sit around a couple
of years from now going Jesus, we should have handled
this much like what Dallas ended up having happened with
Dak Prescott. They would like to get that deal done
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first and foremost and get that out of the way
and then figure everything out afterwards. And look at it
this way, Tony Pollard isn't even getting an elite running
backs contract. I'll tell you who else won't get another
elite running back contract. Derrick Henry will not get another
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elite running back contract. The reason why Christian McCaffrey is
such an interesting he's an interesting one because he can
do so much. He's not really a running back, but
he's not really a receiver, but he's not really anything.
He's just everything. It's the weirdest thing. It's a he
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is to me, he is the exception to the rule,
to a position that has totally lost its value in
the league. Because it is a past first league. There
there are some teams that want to continue to try
to run the ball, like a Pittsburgh with Naja Dive
important stuff like that. But you won't even see those
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guys get crazy contracts. Naja Harris, Naja Harris. What I say,
dive import I played against whatever, Naja Harris. I just
I think that you have to be realistic in your approach.
It's not going to change for him this year. He's
not going to go find a team that's going to
give him what he wants, I would assume, and it's
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not going to change for next year. So you have
to you have to play out your cards the best
way that you can play play this next season out.
See where you're at. See if you can get a comparable,
good contract. And if that's in LA, then it's in LA.
If it's somewhere else, it's somewhere else. But I just
think it's hard to say I'm demanding this as as
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a running back in today's NFL. That's just that's a
that's going to be a hard one for Eckler to
come out on the proper side of that type of approach.
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe Here Fox Sports Radio,
LaVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with the here coming up next,
we are going to have the Old P a Wednesday
tradition unlike any other. Petros Papadagas and he's yours right
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here on FSR. Be sure to catch live editions of
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe with Brady Quinn,
LaVar Arrington and Jonas Knox weekdays at six am Eastern,
three am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Right now, He's the Old P On Twitter, he is
Petros Papadakis, the co host of the Petros and Money Show,
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which you can hear on the Blowtorch AM five seventy
LA Sports also a Fox college football analyst and a
man who never misses an opportunity to put a shiv
in the side of the La Clippers every time they
struggle on social media. Petros, what's happening? Good morning? Hello everybody?
Hello morning, staying out man? How are you doing? Petros? Sick?
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But I'm here, really, Yes, I missed. Uh well, I
worked yesterday but I didn't go up and I missed
that stupid. Well, I shouldn't call it stupid. I'm sure
it was very important the radio summit that I was
supposed to speak yet. Did you see the big radio Summit? Yes,
I'm planning on going later on today. Oh, I was
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supposed to speak last yesterday but did not. Thought's unfortunate.
Is it because of the weather? Empty chair? Yeah? Is
it the weather? Petro's it's still raining. No, No, everybody
here in the house is sick. We all got you know,
like a fever and a cough and stuff. But uh whatever,
I'm here. I'm yeah. The Clippers it was sad to
see Paul George carried off that you never want to
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see that. And it looked like they were playing pretty well.
I mean, they'd won five of the last six, and Paul,
George and Kawhi had been playing together every night and
suddenly that's all gone. So it's gonna be a great
play season here in town. We got UCLA taking on Gonzaga.
That's something exciting. Yeah, you guy, Cronin, I'm excited. I'm
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here to promote it. We have it on, but it's
not on our station. It's the Clippers, knock them off
our station. Is Mick Cronin your favorite coach in southern California?
Right now? In La? Is he your favorite coach? Is
probably my favorite coach because he comes on the show.
He's honest, he's interesting to talk to, He's always got
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interesting answers, and he obviously cares about the young guys
he coaches and pushes them hard and has brought a
lot of pride back to UCLA basketball with the way
they play. So yes, I am. I'm a big fan
of mc cronin. Why do you never have me on
your show? Pops? I don't know, I'm not like interesting enough.
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Do you want to come on? I would love to
come on your show. It's not easy. Oh, I'm just
trying to think college football analysts. I don't put on
too many because I'm a college football Yeah, so we
used to put analysts, all right, Well, we'll put you
on to talk about something else. We usually, I mean,
we have Brady on every once in a while because
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I don't know, I worked with him for a long time,
and then we had used to have Joe clatt on.
We don't have Joel on that much anymore because he's
so popular. Yeah, and I'm trying to think who else
we used to put on. You know, you should get
on if you want to come on, LaVar, it's the
door is opened to you. I try not to bother people.
I did try to get you to show up at
one hour of our events. I was going to come,
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you know, I am. I just don't have a vehicle anymore. Yeah,
I have too many kids that are driving and a right,
So it's like we did try. So the how come
you never put me on your show is incorrect. You know,
we tried to get you to do a live event,
which is even more than just coming on the telephone.
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And you were right down the street, right, so I
was going to walk. We'll try to do that again, LaVar.
But I appreciate you, well, I'd love to get you
on the show. I'd be very happy to get you
on the show. I'd love to come on Petro's. You know,
you should have on also, you should have on the
guy who designed Sofi Stadium. No, how about the numbnuts
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who didn't realize, you know, we got to have a
World Cup game here in a couple of years, and
now they've just finally figured out, Oh, fields not wide enough.
You might have to remove some seats for that, you know,
the giant sporting event on planet Earth. The hell's going
on with your people over at Sofi. Petro's putting this
whole thing together. You know, I don't know if we've
talked about this before, but when you look at the
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building of stadiums, right, because we do it a lot
these days, if your stadium is like fifteen years old,
it's outdated and it's time to build a new one.
In the eyes of a lot of people, I mean,
people are obsessed with what's new and the whole game experience,
you know, that whole sort of like because it's very
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difficult to get people to show up in a game now, right,
Most people just want to watch on TV because you
can get all the games on TV and the viewing
is a lot better than it used to be. You
get the Super HD, the Giant TV, all that good stuff.
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So the game experience has to be really really special.
But instead, a lot of teams, like especially the Rams,
their in game production is just it's horrible. I mean,
I'm old and I get it, but it's ways it's
far too loud. It's completely and totally tone deaf to
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what Los Angeles is like and should be like in
a sporting event. It's bad. And we've seen a lot
of colleges built stadiums really fast. What's the richest, most powerful,
most elite college that I would deal with? Stanford, right, Yeah,
they built their stadium in six months or something like that.
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Remember that. Yeah, they had the trucks there after Stanford
played Notre Dame. I think San Diego stayed there's in
like an hour and a half. Yeah, and they made
some mistakes too. I think the sunlight in San Diego
State is a big problem. Like people literally got fried
in the very first game. There's like no shade or
anything like that. But that's something you can deal with.
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Like the Stanford stadium, they built it in six months
and it was that Guy Ariaga and we can get
anything done where Stanford and we're the smartest most that
thing is a piece of crap. Like it's cool that
it's smaller, you know, because it's Stanford and they can't
even fill that up. But the site lines are horrible.
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The camera angles where they have the little bays for
the big cameras that we bring are terrible. So if
you ever watch a game at Stanford, it always feels
a little uncomfortable, and that's because the camera's tilted weird
and you're like right on top of the field. The
press box is not air conditioned. So that's great for
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a game like September second and there is there's a
bunch of bars in your way in the booth and
you have to sit on a riser in the booth
to call the game as you're dealing with swamp ass
in September. Well yeah, well, and and it's like, Okay,
I could understand that if we're at Kansas Memorial Stadium
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or something that was built in the thirties, but here
we are. You built this thing in six months and
it has a bunch of pitfalls and all kinds of
problems to get through. That sucks a place like, Baylor
built the perfect stadium for who they are and how
they it and to broadcast to view all that stuff.
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And is Baylor a smarter school than Stanford. Hell no,
it's like the opposite. But they figured out exactly what
to do with their stadium and exactly how to provide
for their fan base. And I was really impressed with that,
the SOFI thing. Look when you sit there and watch
the game, I'm sure it's great. Everybody loves the big screens.
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But the crap they do between plays getting lost there,
I mean, I'm sure there's at least five or six
people that are just dead somewhere in a collector rat,
you know, in the wall, because there's no you know
that you get lost, there's no real congruous way to
get around. Don't get me started about parking. The parking
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situation is untenable. Oh it's brutal. They did a terrible job.
Like there's something there's there's some good things about that stadium,
but think about it like this, the orange section. Okay,
where's that it's in sill Mark, right, you have a
you have some good things about it at so far,
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but the negative outweighs everything. Like the media access at
so far has all been completely showed for luxury suites
that you could put the Jonas brothers and Gavin Newsoman
and they could all masturbate each other. Terry, that's all
they I mean, remember they were all everybody's supposed to
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be wearing a mask, and they're all at the Super
Bowl like it was literally like it was like animal farm.
I couldn't tell which one was a pig or which
one was a mare, all the front right, and instead
you're coming out of a freaking trunk and instead, like
the whole media if you've ever been in the ancillary
media area, even where they make the radio guys call
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the game is way up in the corner of the building,
which is I guess sort of acceptable for an NFL game,
but not the Super Bowl where you have every foreign
media outlet in the world and you're tucking them somewhere
where they can't even see the game. I mean, so far,
they did a bad job. They really did. I don't
know why everybody thinks it's so cooled because we're all stupid.
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I mean, you put an I pad in front of
a kid, it's the same as sitting it. So far
and just stare at the screen like an idiot, and
don't get me starting. I mean I've seen Look, I've
been caught staring at the one in Dallas as a
sideline guy wall a sweep like it runs right up
my ass while I'm on the side and I'm standing
there like, wow, that guy better get out of the way.
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Oh it's me, you know. So, I mean we all,
I mean, look, we're human. We're distracted by the bright lights.
But that stadium sucks. I mean it absolutely sucks. I
mean the Staples Center was supposed to be this great
thing that it was built, but it's never resembled anything
but a Marriott. When you stop it, they club Nokia
(29:56):
right across the way, petros Kaba. That's great. Let me
give my flip phone and roll up in there. I
got I got one one question for you, you know,
And and it's it's about arch arch Manning. He's he's
taking shirt, he's taken third string reps pops. But I
look at it like this, I mean, you can't just
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put them match starter. There's there's a former five star,
five star starter in yours that's coming back experience, right,
and he's got experience. And then you got, uh what
the kid Malik Murphy I believe his name is. He
was taking second string um snaps and spring ball. But
I mean, let's be clear, it's a Manning, he's arch Manning.
(30:43):
It's a Manning. Is this is this something that like
he could be in a red shirt situation or or
I don't know. I mean I remember in two thousand
and nine, twenty ten when Nick Montana, who went to
Oaks Christian and was supposed to be good Hannah's brother, right, yes, yes,
all right, I know, yes Nick Montana, Joe's son was
(31:08):
h was and he played at Oaks Christian, so he
was playing with a lot of really talented player. He
beat up Gretzky's kid or was that the other one
that he Yeah, he got sucked, one of them got socked.
But Nick Montana, uh was not that good like football.
(31:28):
People in high school would kind of crook an eyebrow
the same as they do with Arch Manning when somebody
started talking effusively about how good he was, and I
mean it was almost the same kind of reaction you
get from people, right, and which coach was at Washington
that took Nick Montana Steve Sarksian oh wow. And I
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remember sitting with Steve Sarkesian being like and we were
in like we were having like a candid coaches meeting.
I think we were in Tempe or something because they
were gonna players on the state the next day. And
I said, Nick Montana, and he said, well, Petro's he
works really well for our system. And it's like if
somebody says that about a quarterback that they work really
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well for our system, that means he's a limited player.
I mean, that's a way to tell me he's limited.
And everybody knew that. And he came and he could
not compete there. He was limited. Ended up at Tulane
and you know whatever went to Mount Sack. I mean,
he was all over the place, but he did start
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at Tulane. And I did one of his games when
he was starting at Tulane. But the point is I
see this as a similar situation. But I know that
they already have a starter that they have to ride
with and we'll see if the kid gets on the field.
There's nothing wrong with being a good player that red
(32:55):
shirts and needs to be developed. There's something wrong with
the hype that goes into it. Yeah, and the last
name makes it harder on the kid. I mean, we
obviously see the whole Browny James thing here, and it's
almost like Lebron James is setting up his kid to fail.
That one feels even weirder this one. It's like we
all watch a highlight tape and then we watch the
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and then you kind of learn about where he plays
in the area, and you look at names of players
that have come out of the area in recent in
that league in recent memory, and I'd be shocked if
he came in and was a world beater in the
college level right away. He's a player that needs to
be developed if he's gonna play, just like most guys
(33:36):
that end up playing college football. So I think we've
done the guy great disservice, and I hope Sark handles
a situation well better than he did Nick Montana. At
least get him on Twitter at the old pe Petro's
papadache is Petros always appreciate it. Let's do it again
next week. There is feel better by the way. Yeah,
I'm okay, we'll be calling you LeVar, Yeah yeah, yeah.
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got all this other fun stuff going on. John Morant's
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donated a bunch of blood in the ring, that's for sure. Yeah.
What yeah, you know fighting fighting, Yeah, that's when I
donate my blood, you know. On the football field, I'm
a gridiron, That's when I do it. I'm a I'm
a organ donor as well. So are you really? That's yeah,
I actually yeah, I don't know how I feel about that. Hey, man,
(37:31):
if I can save somebody's life and I don't have
mine anymore, you know, have at it. Yeah, I don't know.
I just I just want to be be sure that
they're going to the right places, you know, I just
want to be I want to be sure. Well, I'm
I'm pretty sure people that care about you will make
sure your your organs are ye, which at that point,
who why do you care about where you're well? Because
(37:53):
I mean, I would like my heart to go to
somebody who's in need and not somebody's Rottweiler because they
can't let it go the things twelve years old Jonas Jonas,
I'm certain you could care less about where your heart
goes when somebody can use your heart. A bit of
a horder, I'm a bit of a horder at times. No,
what do you want my liver? Or why wouldn't they
(38:14):
want your liver? Berno do you want alcohol? Talking about
it's like, come on, it's like I have a little
bit what they call it, it wasn't sclerosis or whatever
it is. Rosis yeah, okay, rosis yeah, whatever, Yeah, you
(38:38):
got that liverlub Berno. I don't know if this is
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Shakespeare or William Shatner. I know Jonas's answer on this one.
Screw with him sat Yeah, Shakespeare. I'm going with William
Shatner one hundred percent. I think he just sounds like
(39:02):
he's still talking like guy he's on Starspace or whatever
that shocked star Yeah, whatever, set the coordinates. I'm not
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you mentioned the weather for part of your Good Bad
Ugly a few minutes ago. Yeah, man, I thought I
was going to get it. I thought I was going
to have it last night for the first time. I
thought I was going to get to experience a tornado
in person. I don't see why you were hoping for that.
I'm a weather nerd. You know that I love the weather.
(01:47):
I just I'm fascinated by it. If I didn't do
if I didn't do if I didn't do sports, I
would have gotten into weather. I just I've always loved it,
absolutely fascinated by it, can't get enough of it. Have
always been like that. I've never seen a tornado, never
seen a tornado in person, and I want to see one.
(02:08):
I desperately want to see one. And out here in
southern California, we had a tornado warning, so the phone
started going off and I'm looking at my phone, going
all this could happen and then nope, gone, never didn't
amount to anything. So we get earthquakes out here, you know,
we'll get fires. Apparently we're just going to keep getting rained.
(02:28):
That won't stop. So just to rain more later on
today here in southern California, enough that everybody's you know,
playing violins for us around the country. But never seen
a tornado. Have you seen a tornado in person? Lea Barrington?
Nor do I want to see one? Man? I get?
The answer is hell, no, I ain't never seen a
tornado in person. The closest I got was driving cross country.
(02:49):
I was in Alabama, and I would think I was
on the twenty I think, I think it's a It
was the twenty and I was taking my truck across
country because I was going to my radio job. I'd
gotten hired to do radio, first ever radio job in
South Carolina. And I remember coming down the interstate. There
wasn't there was like one other car in the road,
and I look and I see two tornadoes going up
(03:13):
in the air, and my heart started here but listen,
so my heart started beating really fast, and I was
getting ready to call my old roommate because him and
I had talked about wanting to see a tornado in
person so bad. And then as I'm driving, because I've
been driving for a while so I was really tired,
and you're passing through different time zones and all that.
And then the closer I got to it, I realized
(03:34):
it was two smoke stacks, wasn't It wasn't two tornadoes. There,
two smoke stacks, giant tees. You know. It's like it
was like two strippers waving it in front of me
and no one, I can't have it. So two smoke
stacks in Alabama waving twisters in front of me, knowing
that I couldn't have it. And still to this day,
I've never seen one in person. I want to go
(03:55):
on a storm chasing tour in the Midwest. Perplexing for me,
But yeah, that's all right, man. I mean, I guess
I hope, for your sake you get the c one
one day. I guess I'm saying, that's a weird, that's
a weird hope for me to give you, But you know,
I hope it works out for you. I'm just trying
to find some sort of smile through all the rain
(04:18):
drops here in southern CALIFORNIAA that's all I'm trying to
I mean, seeing a tornado wouldn't to me fix that.
I don't want to get sucked up by one. I
just want to see what But if you can see it,
there's the possibility that you could be impacted by it. Yeah,
but they go on a straight line. I feel like
if I, if I map it out right, I could
(04:38):
dodge that thing. Okay, So but you know, I think
I hope your wish comes true. I think, but I don't,
you know, I'm not certain you don't think that there
are people in the Midwest who are like, you know,
I'd love to experience an earthquake just to see what
it's all about. Yeah, But we get it out here
and it's just like, yeah, you know, whole home, another earthquake,
(04:58):
another shaker. I mean, come on, you know, but at
least at least they have a warning when there's a tornado.
We don't. We get zilch. All of a sudden, the
TV falls in your face and you're like, what happened here?
I thought I mounted that correctly, and everything else is
shaken around you just the TV? Trust me? Oh yeah,
(05:19):
I'm married. Um, all right, so it is, and I
don't know what you're talking about. All right, Welcome to
the show. Every welcome, And by the way, if you
thought this show was already weird, Petros Papadakis is going
to join us in about fifteen minutes from now, so
that'd be a fun conversation to have with the old
(05:40):
p Also, I did want to make mention of this.
We were talking about the Aaron Rodgers situation with green
Bay still no trade. By the way, if anybody who's wondering,
but Mark Murphy, the president of the Green Bay Packers,
was saying that he has sworn to secrecy. This was,
you know, less than two weeks after he basically said, yeah,
we would like to get rid of Aaron Rodgers immediately,
we don't want him back, etc. Etc. Did you know
(06:03):
you and Mark Murphy have something in common? I mean,
I saw this in the email. Tell me tell me
what we have in common. Right, just take a guess
what you and Mark Murphy might have in common. I
just asked, just tell me, just take take a guess. Right,
it's an exclusive club you and Mark Murphy. We're talking
about Aaron Rodgers in the public no, you were both
(06:28):
in the Washington Football Team all time greatest Players deal
that they do like the sixty or ninety greatest players
in Washington football team history. You and Mark Murphy share
a spot in that exclusive club when it comes to
the Washington former team name that I can't say because
(06:49):
I'll get fired, but football team commanders slash commandos. You
guys are in that exclusive club together. How about that
Mark Murphy who played in Washington was an All Pro
back in back in the eighties when a Super Bowl
with them went to another one, and you guys are
in the same club together. So I feel like that
could be you know, maybe you uh, he comes on
(07:11):
up on game you know, you kind of talk about
Washington gets Aaron Rodgers dirt not on two pros. Well,
you could, but he's not gonna come hang out with me.
Why would he want to do that. He wants to
talk to somebody else in the club, not me. I mean,
are now on this show. Yeah, but I'll set the
interview out that that's the only way it's good. He's
sworn to secrecy. But you guys have a close bond
(07:34):
together because you both, you know, played for Washington, had
success there Pro Bowls all that stuff. Are you going
with this? I'm just saying like that. I wanted to
point that out. We were talking about that earlier, just
I didn't know if you were aware that shared what up? Murph? Um,
here's the thank you for being a part of the
club with me. Yeah, it's a good club. There we go. Um.
(07:57):
Austin Eckler is part of the club of players in
the NFL who feels like he deserves a contract bump.
He deserves a little bit more than he's gotten over
the past a couple of years from the LA Chargers,
And he talked about this, This has been speculated for
a little while that he looked into possibly getting a
trade and wanted to talk with LA about, you know,
(08:17):
trying to get something done. Obviously they need to get
something done with Justin Herbert and all that, But here
was the Chargers running back talking about his situation in LA.
I think it's actually really important to kind of put
out there that it's not like, oh, I hate the
Chargers and I need to get out of this organization
and I need to leave like that's that's couldn't be
further from the truth. Like I would like to stay
(08:37):
if if it was under the right circumstances. And obviously
I have one more year in my contract there, so
I'm contract we obligated to play for them for this
upcoming year. I've been out playing my contract and you
know we might have an opportunity to go seek out
other options. It's literally has no idea, nothing to do
with the relationship, like like I've made a great relationship there,
like grown there. That's where I was, That's where I started, right,
(09:00):
and so I want to be there, but on the
right terms. I mean, he is right, he's getting paid
a little over six million dollars a year in comparison
to some of the other players around him. I mean
the year he had last year, he was phenomenal, and
he's continued to produce. But it does feel like he's
at maybe that age where I don't know if the
Chargers obviously want to lose him, but what's the plant,
(09:22):
Like if you were Austin Eckler, Yeah, I knew you're
trying to get a deal, but what would make sense
for you if they gave you a little bit of
a pay bump for one year, or if they gave
you with his age where he's at and just what
he's done over the past couple of years. I just
wonder if it's another one of these situations where the
older you get, they devalue the position. But he feels
(09:44):
like he had some value because he's so productive out
of the backfield. He was phenomenal. He was the most
dependable pass catcher for Justin Herbert this year. Yet he's
got one year left and in comparison to everybody else,
he's vastly underpaid. Okay, because I'm not I'm not a
player hater, you know, I'm I'm kind of I'm more
(10:05):
or less kind of like a realist and how approached things.
So let me ask you this question, Jonas. Let me
let me lead off with this. Do you feel like
it's possible for you to outperform your contract at Fox
Sports Radio? Is it possible? Yeah, I guess it's possible.
(10:27):
It's possible right now. Okay, So if you outperformed your
contract and this year you're saying I have done so
well carrying Brady and LaVar that y'all need to give
me a new contract and y'all need to give me
a pay bump. Because the people in these time slots
(10:49):
which this would not be incorrect or are untrue. The
people in this time slot get paid way more than
what I'm getting paid to do what I do, and
carrying these two y'all call them pros, I'll call them bums,
these two bums asses all this time. Like, I've outperformed
my contract. And you take that to the people who
(11:13):
do your contract. What do you think they're going to do. Oh,
they're gonna tell me I'm under contract and we'll revisit
this afterwards. Correct. Yeah, Because in my humble estimation, I
think this only really exists in a few industries where
you could actually think that and whether it's true or not, Like, Okay,
(11:38):
I've outperformed my contract. Like there's ways to prove and
use information that could actually justify what's being said. But nonetheless,
you signed a contract and you are under contract, and
if you feel like you've outperformed your contract, then I
(12:00):
would say, what one year left on your contract? There's
two things that happen. Hey, they either come back to
you and they give you an offer it so that
they can have you long term and don't have to
come to you next after the end of your contract
and have the conversation then, or be they let you
play out your contract and then, like what you said,
(12:22):
you visit the value of you as an employee and
you find out how the company is valuing you. That's
how it works, correct. Yeah, So I have a hard time.
I've always had a hard time trying to understand why
someone would go back during the course of their contract
(12:44):
and say, well, I need a new contract because I've
outperformed my contract. You really, in theory, you cannot outperform
your contract. You can come back when your contract is
done and say I've performed so well during my contract,
or I've hit all of my escalators, I've destroyed my incentives,
(13:08):
whatever it may be, and you can come back and
you can negotiate, and you can say, you know what,
like I'm deserving of a big contract because look a
look at my body of work. You could even do
that right now. But to demand like I need more
under the right circumstances, or I need to go seek
(13:31):
you know, payment elsewhere, I just I never understood that.
I'm just being honest, I've just never understood that. So
he's got the one year left on the deal, and
it pays, as we mentioned a little over six million
dollars a year. The franchise tag number is a little
over ten million dollars. If you were Austin Eckler and
you came to the Chargers and said, look after next year,
(13:53):
if you did decide to franchise me, it would be
around the ten or eleven million dollars. I don't want
to go down that road. You don't want to go
down on that road. Why don't we work and put
together a multi year deal that would pay me annually
about that for the next couple of years. And the
Chargers just said, now, we're not ready for that, and
(14:14):
so so what do you do? You just you play
out on the six million dollars or you know, like
and I think his approach was, you know, I just
I want to know what my options are. So maybe
he's he's seeing what else he could possibly get from
somebody else around the league. I think his situation is
also unique because he already got his contract. Yes, he's
(14:35):
played really well, but he does play running back. And
we've talked about the value on the running back position
is just nowhere where it used to be. I mean,
unless you're you know, Christian McCaffrey or you're a Derrick
Henry or somebody like that who struck it big. This
also feels like it's a little bit of bad timing
for Austin Eckler, Like he finds himself in a tough
spot where where his contract lines up. Like Tony Pollard,
(14:59):
he's making ten million dollars next year because he had
his best season of his career, and it'll also happened
to be in a contract year. Austin Eckler feels like
his timing is a little off. It may be off.
I mean, and he's twenty seven years old. You know,
he'll be twenty eight, and may like that is not
You're not a spring chicken at the at the running
(15:20):
backs position. And so when you when you think about it,
I mean, you know, it's hard. It's hard to kind
of draw the conclusion that that he actually should be
valued like a Christian McCaffrey. And and and the reason
(15:41):
why I would say that is well, because I want
to say, and I'm getting there. Hold on, I am
getting there. Uh. Well, he's not much much younger than Eckler,
He's a year younger. But I just don't I don't
I don't think that there is a true market for
(16:04):
four tailbacks and and Austin Eckler. It's a curious it's
a curious position to be in because he is he
was actually probably the most consistent offensive player or offensive
weapon for Herbert this past season. He's fantastic and and so,
(16:24):
and looking at what his value was to that team,
he has he has an argument. He does have an argument,
and he does have a well founded one. I just
when you say it's bad timing, it, it's not going
to be good timing next year. That's the That's what
(16:44):
I'm struggling with, what's saying it's bad time. I also
think that their priority over anything else is let's figure
out a way to get Justin Herbert locked up so
we're not having to, you know, sit around a couple
of years from now going Jesus, we should have handled
this much like what Dallas ended up having happened with
Dak Prescott. They would like to get that deal done
(17:05):
first and foremost and get that out of the way
and then figure everything out afterwards. And look at it
this way, Tony Pollard isn't even getting an elite running
backs contract. I'll tell you who else won't get another
elite running back contract. Derrick Henry will not get another
(17:26):
elite running back contract. The reason why Christian McCaffrey is
such an interesting he's an interesting one because he can
do so much. He's not really a running back, but
he's not really a receiver, but he's not really anything.
He's just everything. It's the weirdest thing. It's a he
(17:48):
is to me, he is the exception to the rule,
to a position that has totally lost its value in
the league. Because it is a past first league. There
there are some teams that want to continue to try
to run the ball, like a Pittsburgh with Naja Dive
important stuff like that. But you won't even see those
(18:08):
guys get crazy contracts. Naja Harris, Naja Harris. What I say,
dive import I played against whatever, Naja Harris. I just
I think that you have to be realistic in your approach.
It's not going to change for him this year. He's
not going to go find a team that's going to
give him what he wants, I would assume, and it's
(18:30):
not going to change for next year. So you have
to you have to play out your cards the best
way that you can play play this next season out.
See where you're at. See if you can get a comparable,
good contract. And if that's in LA, then it's in LA.
If it's somewhere else, it's somewhere else. But I just
think it's hard to say I'm demanding this as as
(18:54):
a running back in today's NFL. That's just that's a
that's going to be a hard one for Eckler to
come out on the proper side of that type of approach.
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Petros Papadakis, the co host of the Petros and Money Show,
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which you can hear on the Blowtorch AM five seventy
LA Sports also a Fox college football analyst and a
man who never misses an opportunity to put a shiv
in the side of the La Clippers every time they
struggle on social media. Petros, what's happening? Good morning? Hello everybody?
Hello morning, staying out man? How are you doing? Petros? Sick?
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But I'm here, really, Yes, I missed. Uh well, I
worked yesterday but I didn't go up and I missed
that stupid. Well, I shouldn't call it stupid. I'm sure
it was very important the radio summit that I was
supposed to speak yet. Did you see the big radio Summit? Yes,
I'm planning on going later on today. Oh, I was
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supposed to speak last yesterday but did not. Thought's unfortunate.
Is it because of the weather? Empty chair? Yeah? Is
it the weather? Petro's it's still raining. No, No, everybody
here in the house is sick. We all got you know,
like a fever and a cough and stuff. But uh whatever,
I'm here. I'm yeah. The Clippers it was sad to
see Paul George carried off that you never want to
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see that. And it looked like they were playing pretty well.
I mean, they'd won five of the last six, and Paul,
George and Kawhi had been playing together every night and
suddenly that's all gone. So it's gonna be a great
play season here in town. We got UCLA taking on Gonzaga.
That's something exciting. Yeah, you guy, Cronin, I'm excited. I'm
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here to promote it. We have it on, but it's
not on our station. It's the Clippers, knock them off
our station. Is Mick Cronin your favorite coach in southern California?
Right now? In La? Is he your favorite coach? Is
probably my favorite coach because he comes on the show.
He's honest, he's interesting to talk to, He's always got
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interesting answers, and he obviously cares about the young guys
he coaches and pushes them hard and has brought a
lot of pride back to UCLA basketball with the way
they play. So yes, I am. I'm a big fan
of mc cronin. Why do you never have me on
your show? Pops? I don't know, I'm not like interesting enough.
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Do you want to come on? I would love to
come on your show. It's not easy. Oh, I'm just
trying to think college football analysts. I don't put on
too many because I'm a college football Yeah, so we
used to put analysts, all right, Well, we'll put you
on to talk about something else. We usually, I mean,
we have Brady on every once in a while because
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I don't know, I worked with him for a long time,
and then we had used to have Joe clatt on.
We don't have Joel on that much anymore because he's
so popular. Yeah, and I'm trying to think who else
we used to put on. You know, you should get
on if you want to come on, LaVar, it's the
door is opened to you. I try not to bother people.
I did try to get you to show up at
one hour of our events. I was going to come,
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you know, I am. I just don't have a vehicle anymore. Yeah,
I have too many kids that are driving and a right,
So it's like we did try. So the how come
you never put me on your show is incorrect. You know,
we tried to get you to do a live event,
which is even more than just coming on the telephone.
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And you were right down the street, right, so I
was going to walk. We'll try to do that again, LaVar.
But I appreciate you, well, I'd love to get you
on the show. I'd be very happy to get you
on the show. I'd love to come on Petro's. You know,
you should have on also, you should have on the
guy who designed Sofi Stadium. No, how about the numbnuts
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who didn't realize, you know, we got to have a
World Cup game here in a couple of years, and
now they've just finally figured out, Oh, fields not wide enough.
You might have to remove some seats for that, you know,
the giant sporting event on planet Earth. The hell's going
on with your people over at Sofi. Petro's putting this
whole thing together. You know, I don't know if we've
talked about this before, but when you look at the
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building of stadiums, right, because we do it a lot
these days, if your stadium is like fifteen years old,
it's outdated and it's time to build a new one.
In the eyes of a lot of people, I mean,
people are obsessed with what's new and the whole game experience,
you know, that whole sort of like because it's very
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difficult to get people to show up in a game now, right,
Most people just want to watch on TV because you
can get all the games on TV and the viewing
is a lot better than it used to be. You
get the Super HD, the Giant TV, all that good stuff.
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So the game experience has to be really really special.
But instead, a lot of teams, like especially the Rams,
their in game production is just it's horrible. I mean,
I'm old and I get it, but it's ways it's
far too loud. It's completely and totally tone deaf to
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what Los Angeles is like and should be like in
a sporting event. It's bad. And we've seen a lot
of colleges built stadiums really fast. What's the richest, most powerful,
most elite college that I would deal with? Stanford, right, Yeah,
they built their stadium in six months or something like that.
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Remember that. Yeah, they had the trucks there after Stanford
played Notre Dame. I think San Diego stayed there's in
like an hour and a half. Yeah, and they made
some mistakes too. I think the sunlight in San Diego
State is a big problem. Like people literally got fried
in the very first game. There's like no shade or
anything like that. But that's something you can deal with.
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Like the Stanford stadium, they built it in six months
and it was that Guy Ariaga and we can get
anything done where Stanford and we're the smartest most that
thing is a piece of crap. Like it's cool that
it's smaller, you know, because it's Stanford and they can't
even fill that up. But the site lines are horrible.
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The camera angles where they have the little bays for
the big cameras that we bring are terrible. So if
you ever watch a game at Stanford, it always feels
a little uncomfortable, and that's because the camera's tilted weird
and you're like right on top of the field. The
press box is not air conditioned. So that's great for
(26:18):
a game like September second and there is there's a
bunch of bars in your way in the booth and
you have to sit on a riser in the booth
to call the game as you're dealing with swamp ass
in September. Well yeah, well, and and it's like, Okay,
I could understand that if we're at Kansas Memorial Stadium
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or something that was built in the thirties, but here
we are. You built this thing in six months and
it has a bunch of pitfalls and all kinds of
problems to get through. That sucks a place like, Baylor
built the perfect stadium for who they are and how
they it and to broadcast to view all that stuff.
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And is Baylor a smarter school than Stanford. Hell no,
it's like the opposite. But they figured out exactly what
to do with their stadium and exactly how to provide
for their fan base. And I was really impressed with that,
the SOFI thing. Look when you sit there and watch
the game, I'm sure it's great. Everybody loves the big screens.
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But the crap they do between plays getting lost there,
I mean, I'm sure there's at least five or six
people that are just dead somewhere in a collector rat,
you know, in the wall, because there's no you know
that you get lost, there's no real congruous way to
get around. Don't get me started about parking. The parking
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situation is untenable. Oh it's brutal. They did a terrible job.
Like there's something there's there's some good things about that stadium,
but think about it like this, the orange section. Okay,
where's that it's in sill Mark, right, you have a
you have some good things about it at so far,
(28:10):
but the negative outweighs everything. Like the media access at
so far has all been completely showed for luxury suites
that you could put the Jonas brothers and Gavin Newsoman
and they could all masturbate each other. Terry, that's all
they I mean, remember they were all everybody's supposed to
(28:31):
be wearing a mask, and they're all at the Super
Bowl like it was literally like it was like animal farm.
I couldn't tell which one was a pig or which
one was a mare, all the front right, and instead
you're coming out of a freaking trunk and instead, like
the whole media if you've ever been in the ancillary
media area, even where they make the radio guys call
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the game is way up in the corner of the building,
which is I guess sort of acceptable for an NFL game,
but not the Super Bowl where you have every foreign
media outlet in the world and you're tucking them somewhere
where they can't even see the game. I mean, so far,
they did a bad job. They really did. I don't
know why everybody thinks it's so cooled because we're all stupid.
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I mean, you put an I pad in front of
a kid, it's the same as sitting it. So far
and just stare at the screen like an idiot, and
don't get me starting. I mean I've seen Look, I've
been caught staring at the one in Dallas as a
sideline guy wall a sweep like it runs right up
my ass while I'm on the side and I'm standing
there like, wow, that guy better get out of the way.
(29:36):
Oh it's me, you know. So, I mean we all,
I mean, look, we're human. We're distracted by the bright lights.
But that stadium sucks. I mean it absolutely sucks. I
mean the Staples Center was supposed to be this great
thing that it was built, but it's never resembled anything
but a Marriott. When you stop it, they club Nokia
(29:56):
right across the way, petros Kaba. That's great. Let me
give my flip phone and roll up in there. I
got I got one one question for you, you know,
And and it's it's about arch arch Manning. He's he's
taking shirt, he's taken third string reps pops. But I
look at it like this, I mean, you can't just
(30:20):
put them match starter. There's there's a former five star,
five star starter in yours that's coming back experience, right,
and he's got experience. And then you got, uh what
the kid Malik Murphy I believe his name is. He
was taking second string um snaps and spring ball. But
I mean, let's be clear, it's a Manning, he's arch Manning.
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It's a Manning. Is this is this something that like
he could be in a red shirt situation or or
I don't know. I mean I remember in two thousand
and nine, twenty ten when Nick Montana, who went to
Oaks Christian and was supposed to be good Hannah's brother, right, yes, yes,
all right, I know, yes Nick Montana, Joe's son was
(31:08):
h was and he played at Oaks Christian, so he
was playing with a lot of really talented player. He
beat up Gretzky's kid or was that the other one
that he Yeah, he got sucked, one of them got socked.
But Nick Montana, uh was not that good like football.
(31:28):
People in high school would kind of crook an eyebrow
the same as they do with Arch Manning when somebody
started talking effusively about how good he was, and I
mean it was almost the same kind of reaction you
get from people, right, and which coach was at Washington
that took Nick Montana Steve Sarksian oh wow. And I
(31:50):
remember sitting with Steve Sarkesian being like and we were
in like we were having like a candid coaches meeting.
I think we were in Tempe or something because they
were gonna players on the state the next day. And
I said, Nick Montana, and he said, well, Petro's he
works really well for our system. And it's like if
somebody says that about a quarterback that they work really
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well for our system, that means he's a limited player.
I mean, that's a way to tell me he's limited.
And everybody knew that. And he came and he could
not compete there. He was limited. Ended up at Tulane
and you know whatever went to Mount Sack. I mean,
he was all over the place, but he did start
(32:34):
at Tulane. And I did one of his games when
he was starting at Tulane. But the point is I
see this as a similar situation. But I know that
they already have a starter that they have to ride
with and we'll see if the kid gets on the field.
There's nothing wrong with being a good player that red
(32:55):
shirts and needs to be developed. There's something wrong with
the hype that goes into it. Yeah, and the last
name makes it harder on the kid. I mean, we
obviously see the whole Browny James thing here, and it's
almost like Lebron James is setting up his kid to fail.
That one feels even weirder this one. It's like we
all watch a highlight tape and then we watch the
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and then you kind of learn about where he plays
in the area, and you look at names of players
that have come out of the area in recent in
that league in recent memory, and I'd be shocked if
he came in and was a world beater in the
college level right away. He's a player that needs to
be developed if he's gonna play, just like most guys
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that end up playing college football. So I think we've
done the guy great disservice, and I hope Sark handles
a situation well better than he did Nick Montana. At
least get him on Twitter at the old pe Petro's
papadache is Petros always appreciate it. Let's do it again
next week. There is feel better by the way. Yeah,
I'm okay, we'll be calling you LeVar, Yeah yeah, yeah.
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I'm out out, guys. It is American Red Cross Giving Day.
I'm gonna be donated platelets later today. Are you in
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donated a bunch of blood in the ring, that's for sure. Yeah.
What yeah, you know fighting fighting, Yeah, that's when I
donate my blood, you know. On the football field, I'm
a gridiron, That's when I do it. I'm a I'm
a organ donor as well. So are you really? That's yeah,
I actually yeah, I don't know how I feel about that. Hey, man,
(37:31):
if I can save somebody's life and I don't have
mine anymore, you know, have at it. Yeah, I don't know.
I just I just want to be be sure that
they're going to the right places, you know, I just
want to be I want to be sure. Well, I'm
I'm pretty sure people that care about you will make
sure your your organs are ye, which at that point,
who why do you care about where you're well? Because
(37:53):
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somebody who's in need and not somebody's Rottweiler because they
can't let it go the things twelve years old Jonas Jonas,
I'm certain you could care less about where your heart
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a horder, I'm a bit of a horder at times. No,
what do you want my liver? Or why wouldn't they
(38:14):
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