August 25, 2023 • 38 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Brady & Jonas come to you LIVE from Dublin, Ireland and are joined by former Fighting Irish & NBA Champion Pat Connaughton as they get ready for Notre Dave vs. Navy in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. Also, Eli Apple has a target on his back and Kenny Picket has a perfect QB Rating on “ICYMI.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hey, we got any Notre dame fans in the house
or one the hell are we working with here? It
is Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here Fox
Sports Radio. He's Brady Quinn, I'm Jonas Knox. We are
live from Buskers Bar in Dublin, Ireland, back for day
two and listen. We're gonna address a couple of things
here shortly, but we are fortunate they're all here for
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day two.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
We'll just put it that way.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
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Speaker 3 (01:18):
So obviously, thank you to Buskers bar here for having us.
Thank you for everybody being a part of this live
program here. You gotta understand when we're doing this show
back in La We're in La Grady's in Florida. It's
three am back home, so I just assume, oh, well,
we might get a couple of people that you know,
wander out of a hot topic past hours and they're
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a little bit gothic, or you get some weirdos roaming
the street who are listening. We've got live in action
on the scene, Notre Dame football fans who have inundated Dublin,
Ireland to be a part of this whole thing. And
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today possible live here from Busker's Bar in Dublin. We
are stoked to be here back for round two and
some of us did survive round one.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
What do you mean when you said that, Jonas, what
happened to you last night? Was there another issue with
the cars being too quiet in Dublin? Well?
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Did they just sort of jump out and get you?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, like I'm walking and all of a sudden
the car just whoa like, no horn, no nothing, no,
just right. It's like you're you're on a safari and
you're just sort of hanging out and all it just
you know, a bowl elephant roam's mind just kind of
smells your ass and you're like, wait, is.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
What's happening here?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And apparently cars just they're not to horns. It's just
not their thing. So they just they'll just look at
this little kiss on the way by. So you gotta
be careful.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
My only piece of advice is look right, all right,
A lot of people forget the cars are gonna be
coming from your right that could hit you soon. So
that's what you have to look right.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, you gotta gotta have that head on a swivel.
That's important.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Also, would like to say, I was wondering, is there
gonna be any reminders from back home?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Saw some guy drinking a forty ounce of Oldie?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh yeah, I mean I gotta tell you he got
kicked out too.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeah, he did get kicked that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He almost got his ass beat too by a couple
of security guards. But man guy roam in the streets
with a forty ounce of Oldie, And I asked the
bar tender. I'm like, is it like open carry here?
You gotta just oh no, no, So he's just swinging
away right in front of a cop.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Just a ride here we are.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I did speak with the Lord Mayor yesterday said it's yes,
it's just not really public intoxication unless you make an
ass of yourself.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Yeah that is true. Yeah, that's so that's the move.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Now. I would like to say, I don't buy a
bar if you think about it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
If if this show has the impact sometimes that I
believe that it does, all right, Like I have very
low expectations for what we do, and so when people
like you've said it before, it's a great way to
live one. Well, I'm just saying, like Brady said this
before he goes, I can't tell you how many times
I have to apologize for our show.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You know, sometimes we get a little bit loose here,
But I would like to say this, I feel like we've.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Had an impact on this Notre Dame Navy game.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Because on what impact would that be?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
The betting line has now skyrocketed from twenty and a
half in favor of Notre Dame to twenty one. Okay, okay,
so we're moving this thing a half point at a time,
and the over under the point total, which was what
fifty and a half fifte and a half, is down
to forty nine and a half. So the feeling is
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not only will Notre Dame cover, but that defense is going.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
To put on a show.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
The defense is going to put on a show. Although
we went the offense to put a lot of points too,
don't we.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Well yeah, there's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I mean, may be nice to see a fifty burger,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I don't ask for too.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Much, A little fifty to nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, you know you've experienced quarterback.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, it's not the nicest thing to say as far
as previewing a game for Navy, but yeah, a little
fifteen to enough.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And I said this yesterday. Okay, with the utmost respect
for the for the gentlemen that we're playing, Okay, these
young men will one day defend our country. We have
the utmost respect. That doesn't mean you can't kick their ass. Okay,
I said this back we used to play. We have
the utmost respect for the young men that you're playing against,
but you can still go out and absolutely kick their
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ass on the field. And that's hopefully when Notre Dame's
gonna do tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Now, are we worried at all about weather being an impact?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I don't think so. You're worried about weather?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Can I be honest with you, because I did come
over in the NFL and play. We played a game
in London. The turf is different. It could be slick.
It gives out a little easier, you know. You know, look,
it's it's a soccer field that we're accustomed to that
you see a lot of times out there, you know,
sometimes rugby here in Ireland but you guys an't as
big as the big you know, or offensive lineman defensive lineman.
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That turf tends to get give out a little bit.
So the footing is going to be the biggest concern.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Now, how many people here are going to the game? Okay, okay,
so then I mean we got to figure this whole
thing out.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
So so look for anybody that was in town yesterday,
you probably licked the little little bit all day. Maybe
you're feeling a little under the weather, and then you
come out here on a Friday and you're like, you
know what, why don't we just start the day at
Buskers Bar and watch two pros and a cup of
Joe starring Brady Quinn. By the way, any Brady Quinn
fans in the house, Yeah you know I hate this
(06:41):
right Hey, listen, pal, this is a home game from
If we were a Chuck E Cheese, I'd get the
same response.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Really, yeah, tell you right now?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You were the rap though? How did they recognize you
with the helmet off or on my stride?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Okay, it's just eight. It's the wiggle, listen. I knew
how to work. Don't worry about me. But it is
so when we're thinking about this game. Do you have
any tips? Because the game kicks off what seven thirty
local time here?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, it's a night.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
So when do you start throwing back beers?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean, if you're asking me, it's right when you
wake up tomorrow. Okay, you have We're here in Dublin, Ireland. Okay,
we talked about this yesterday. There's not many places you
can go and you can grab a drink and not
be judged at any point in time the day. Yeah,
here in Dublin, Ireland is one of them. That in
probably an airport. I think an airport. It's a safe space. Yah,
to have a drink before you get on flight. You
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can start as soon as you wake up tomorrow. Don't
be shy, grab me maybe a hair of the dog,
depending on how today goes for you, whatever the case
may be, get started drinking early. Make sure you're rowdy
by the time you get to the game. Makeing a
little noise.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Okay, right, see that now that's words of wisdom.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean it could be a long day for you,
but you should have a great time. Yeah, don't miss
your flight on Sunday. If you're flying out Sunday.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
You know, mix in a few waters, try and stay hydrated.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Do you do your thing, and then get back home
to wherever you live, and everything's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I mean, we were given a flask yesterday. I'm just
saying that we were supposedly not supposed to bring into
the stadium.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, that is I mean strict instruction.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And by the way, was that the Lord mayor who
told us the Lord fair Yeah, the stadium.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, listen, strict instructions on what you can and can't do.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I know, Lee, uh, you know, took full advantage of
the flask.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Oh yeah, you guys left me with the whole bottle
of tealing whiskey.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
We've left you with that, well, yes you did. That
might be the line of the trip. By the way,
we're coming on the escalator. Look back, hey, Lee, what
did you get into last night? Well, when I got back,
I still had that bottle of whiskey.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I got into that bottle of whiskey like you had no,
you had no choice in the matter.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah, there's the bottle of whiskey. Said your head.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Sir, whatever you said, take anything, take it all. So yeah,
this is uh, this is just obviously been a blast.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Thus far.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now, for those of you that are regulars listening to
the show, you know that we do a little bit
of something special here on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Here in Ireland. Different things going on, and.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So you've got obviously you know, is it is it
flask Fridays?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Is it? What is it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's right, It's a damn football Friday. It is a
football Friday.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
And I'm telling you we're not gonna let college football.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
And the rest of you negative nancies out there try
and rain on the parade by calling it week zero.
College football starts this weekend and it kicks off here
in Dublin, Ireland, and it kicks off with Navy.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So the fact that you guys again can be a
part of this with us and hang out with us
here on a football Friday. Can't thank everybody enough. Just
tremendous job and support from all you guys. And we're
gonna have fun. We're just getting great.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I'll say, dude, do we have any like I don't know,
former NBA champion coming on in time soon?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You know, I was thinking about this, like who would
be the appropriate guess?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, I always think of like what's a great Irish name,
like Patrick or pat or Patty. You right, like, that's
a great first Irish name, right you think.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Of like content?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Content sounds IRUs as it gets right, I.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Get yeah, I mean that would make some sense I've
got if we only we had the stroke on this
show to try and pull Pac contan NBA champion.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Oh that's right, he's joining us next. Oh that's right.
So if this wasn't.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
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Speaker 5 (10:44):
Forward slash Match.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
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Speaker 7 (10:57):
I don't think it's a person, no, not in person
in his spirit. Sorry, hey, blame shown all right? Sorry,
come on, figure a speech?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
What do you want? All right?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I probably should have waited a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There, and hey, and again again No, Brian Kelly, I
just want to make that clear.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Healing off the say that's how you went him back.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, that's how you.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Went him back. So it is all yours here.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's a three hour extravaganza on Fox Sports Radio. But
again coming up next, we've got an NBA champion in
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gonna stop by and as here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
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Speaker 3 (11:49):
It is Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here
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Speaker 5 (11:54):
Bar in Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
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Speaker 5 (12:16):
But I mean, I don't know if you heard the
roar of applause.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh yeah, but it got even more Notre Dame in
here because we got a.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Champion in the house. Make some noise for.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Pat Conaton, NBA champion, Notre Dame alum and a guy
who already has he sat down for about sixty three seconds,
and two people from this show have already tried to
get you to drink.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
So welcome to Dublin.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Absolutely, the peer pressure started high.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, with a name like Pat, I'm sure ee just
calls you Patty and then yeah, let me tell you
a beer lad yea yah?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
So I gotta ask you this. Did you even so
your name's Pat Connaton, Massachusetts?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Did you even have a choice, like like if you
went like if you went to somebody and said, hey,
you know Duke Kentucky, La, Yeah, like it?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Did you? I mean?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Was there ever really a serious option other than Notre
Dame for you?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No?
Speaker 8 (13:15):
So I always tell the story I got recruited late,
I got recruited for baseball quite a bit, but basketball
I got recruited late, and as the offers were rolling in,
like I did look, Ucla was my second choice, Vanderbilt Florida,
A bunch of different schools.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
And my best friend who's actually out here with me,
I told him I got an offer of Notre Dame
and he was like, oh, great, so it's over. And
I was like, what do you mean it's over? Like
I still got like two more games, have more schools
to comedy.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He goes, yeah, but you got Notre Dame.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Like you should just end it now, like, don't go
out there and get hurt or anything.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Just signed the paper. I was like, oh yeah, I
guess there are a.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Lot of people in my family and from back home
that would probably enjoy seeing me playing that green and gold.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
When you come to Dublin, Ireland and you see all
the people you see, I guess just the of Notre Dame.
Do you kind of look back on that decision and
go I couldn't have went wrong, Like that was the
perfect decision for me. Do you ever look back and
just think about your experience there and imagine how it's
brought you to this point.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
You know, for me, when I looked at it, I
was fortunate I had a great group of people around me.
But when I was trying to vet it, I always said, look,
I could enjoy any college, but what place was going
to help me no matter where I ended up in life?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And I think that's the power of Notre Dame. Right.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
I wasn't a guy that came out a lot of
people talk I should play baseball. I was a guy
that came out and was like, hey, he's going to
be a surefire pro athlete.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
So I remember.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Actually talking and I don't know if I've ever told
this story, Brady, but my recruiting was.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
It's a Carl Ackerman.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
And Carl Ackerman was telling me about how, hey, you know,
when it comes down to it, we want to help
you think through things.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Hopefully you have a decision to play.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
Two pro sports, but if you don't, you have a
decision to go into business world and you have the
ability to you know, connect a network with other people.
And he actually told me the story about how he
talked to you when you were going through your draft
process and how he helped you think about it. And
so when it came down to it. For me, I
thought through the basketball and baseball decision. Carl was actually
instrumental in helping me think about the nature of the
two sports, which one I should try first, which one
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I wanted to try first, of financial ramifications and the
whole nine, and just to.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Touch on that.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So, Professor Carl Ackerman is one of the best the
faculty of Notre Dame. Professor Ackerman, I'm telling you, he's
the nicest human being possible. During that process we were
talking about I was training to get ready for the
NFL Draft, and he put together essentially a course on
personal finance that was like curated like to me and
what I was gonna need. He kind of walked me
through a lot of the challenges that I was gonna
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be facing once you became a pro athlete. And it's
so unique to Notre Dame having faculty it's willing to
do it, being able to put something together like that.
So it was incredibly helpful and on my journey and
helping the shape not just football, but thoughts outside of
it in the business forward, et cetera. So shout out to
Carl Ackerman. He's the most generous man ever. As far
as faculty, their a notre name.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
One of the things I think is great.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
By the way, Pat connatan with us here on Fox
Sports Radio Live from Plascars. Yeah, make some noise for
Pat Connaton, NBA champion.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
I'm gonna make you my friends now, anytime my name
gets said, they just start chanting because yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Where's the ring?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Do you ever? You didn't bring it? My mother has it?
Okay in the hotel? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Yeah, yeah, I know you guys are gonna tray give
me a hard time about that. Say my mom has
You can't really can't really give me too much about.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You can't say anything. MoMA's got it. That's it's see.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I think we've gotten to the point though, to where rings,
championship rings get bigger and bigger every year, seemingly that
they're more awkward.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
At some point, it's going to be a bracelet.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Start making a watch.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Make a watch because I don't know how like some
especially the guys who've got several rings walk around with
it's like just feels uncomfortable.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
You heard about our ring, right, it comes apart and
it becomes a medallion that you can hang from a necklace.
Oh yeah, So like you think about the size of
change that some guys wear, Like get him with the
Lord Mayor.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, he had that big chain he's going to wear
around you imagine that's that's like the next NBA Championship
is gonna be like literally like that Lord Mayor thing
he's got to wear on the wall.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
That's a good time.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You know what I like about Notre Dame because I
like anybody who can piss off a room when you
just mention what they.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Are, you don't have to do any You be nicest
person in the way. Everybody here has been so kind.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But if you tell somebody he was your favorite team,
or where did you go to college?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Notre Dame?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Here we go, you just you.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Kind of get this, uh boy, oh okay, and.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
You want to sit up in your own so you
went to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Like what's interesting about this is you asked me like
the first time we met, and that was your reaction.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Well, yeah, I mean because it's like, you know, of
course it's Notre Dame. Of course, Like what is it
like though?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
To represent something that you know, all you got to
do is say the two words and you piss off
a lot of people like, there's an effect that Notre
Dame has on people, and I think it's jealousy because
there's a prestige to it. I mean, we see the
way people have traveled at forty thousand people from the
States out here in Dublin, Like, what's that like?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Do your teammates ever bust your balls and go.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh, Notre Dame?
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Guy on Notre Dame this.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Well, look, Jonathan, are very great things about you.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
I'm gonna harp on the fact that you're being a
little negative at this moment in time, because there is
also a lot of people that when you say you
went to Notre Dame, absolutely love it. Of course, yes,
it's kind of an it's too pronged.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
You gotta understand, though I grew up around well they
or not up at this time back then a.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Lot of USC douchebags, So a lot of USC blowhards
you grew up around.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
I was on the Dan Patrick Show yesterday trying to
have my man Brady's back with Will Ferrell about giving
them a hard time off the field. They said he
wore his pants too high, They said it hurt his
grass stock.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
They didn't honestly, and to the dam, like I look
in the roor I'm like my pants? Do you hi today?
Do I need to like saging that you look?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You look great? Doesn't right? Yeah? Don't let well do that.
But he was telling me.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You Brady look Okay, I see some Brady jerseys in
the crowd.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yeah, listen, there is.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It is awesome though, just to see what you guys
have and and the name brand obviously it's a national brand.
And so were your was your family Did you grow
up Notre Dame football fans? Did you grow up all
like in the house, And so when you were able
to tell your family going to Notre Dame, that must
have been really special for them, just to see where
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you came from and now you're carrying the tradition.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
To South Bend. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
I mean when coach Bray came and recruited me in
my home, it was my last name's Connaton. There's a
county of Connacht over here in Ireland. And he was like,
you're an Irish Cathol kid from Boston and you're not
gonna come to Notre Dame And he kind of put
it put me to the screws right away.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
But my family was pumped.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
I think, you know, my parents did a great job
and my extended family did a great job of trying
not to like show me that they were pushing me
one direction, right, but you could tell that they were
all on pins and needles waiting for me to come
to the decision on my own.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
And when I.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Finally did, uh, and I said it to everybody, they
were all jacked. And I'm pretty sure they were like, oh, great,
because we already had plane tickets out there for the
gam no saying the matter.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, Uh, Pat, I gonna ask you. You're a man
of many traits, so PATOFSI, you're you're you're busy trying
to win NBA championships. You also got some side ventures
in the business world, a foundation we'll get to in
a minute. How much of you kind of kept track though,
notre name men's basketball obviously transition from coach Bray Micah Shrewsbury.
Have you had a chance to talk with coach and
kind of get an idea of maybe how he's going
to direct the basket, what's he moving forward?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah? So I talked still close with.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
You know, Jack Swarbrick ra a d and when they
were going through the process of Coach Bray kind of
stepping down and actually transitioning to an assistant coach with
the Atlanta Hawks, and.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Now I got to compete against him.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Yeah, and he knows all my strengths and weaknesses, which
is gonna be a little difficult for me, but and
telling me about Micah and obviously how great he is,
how was an Indiana guy at heart, And I knew
a lot of people from the Boston area who when
he was an assistant coach there, spoke very highly of him.
So I've had a chance to connect with him, and
I love the direction that he's trying to go with
the program and how invested he is and the recruiting
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side of things, and how he's really kind of taking
the bull by the horns from the transfer portal standpoint. Yeah,
really started to although he isn't necessarily a guy that
went to Notre Dame, really taking the brand and in
the representation of Notre Dame and started to sell it
to a bunch of a group of kids. So I'm gonna
try to get back there this fall and talk to
the guys that are on the team and interface with
him a little more because I think they got a
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great chance to do some big things in the ACC.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
NBA cham Pat Honiton with us here on Fox Sports
Radio Live from Buskers Bar in Dublin, Ireland. So I
gotta ask, We've talked about this before on the show.
It feels like the NBA really sells the drama and
not so much on the floor but sort of the
personal back and forth and so and so said this
on Instagram and this Twitter feud happened here, and it
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just feels like they sell us, oh drama.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
How does that land with you?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Are you like, come on, man, can we just play
like why do we focus on this craft?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
So it's funny. A lot of we talked about this
in the locker room. A lot of guys in the
locker room.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
I always say that, you know, they think sometimes it
looks too much like a MTV show.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah, I mean, like like a drama.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
But at the end of the day, you know, the
thing that the NBA has done a really good job
of is you can argue that the offseason when you
talk about guys and them announcing contracts and woes and
chums and all these different you know, media outlets that
are able to cover the offseason some fans take more
interest in that than they do the actual regular season
game in January, and it's it's become something that they've.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Just they're in the limelight all the time. It's wild crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
We've proposed this for a while, Yeah, because one of
the things that we look at with the NBA calendar
is like, I like watching the NBA. I like watching basketball.
The hard thing is is like it's directly in conflict
with the football season, and it seems like the Christmas
Day matchups are such a big deal. You guys had
your schedule release what a week ago or something like that,
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why not just push the season back and so you
kind of almost make that the start of the season.
I'm sure there's some players who are, Dude, I want
my free time the summer. I don't have to be
playing into like July or August. But does the NBA
or do the players ever talk about potentially like ways
of trying to like do some been different with the
league to help, you know, draw better ratings or whatever
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else to kind of help improve it.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Yeah, So that was a big topic of conversation during
coming off of COVID because we didn't start until right
around Christmas, just before Christmas, and then we the year
we won it. We won it July nineteenth, twenty to twenty.
First we're like the last two games, and so I
think it was a real topic.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
They wanted to see how the ratings did.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Obviously there was more people at home, less people in
the stands, stuff like that, but it became a real
conversation piece. And then I think where the NBA ended
up pivoting was just having more time on air and
the summers and summer league, and they didn't necessarily know
how to logistically do it. So they've tried to Their
first iteration of it is that nd season tournament, and
so they haven't changed obviously the start of it, but
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now they've made the NCAS and tournament right around that December,
you know, beginning of the year type.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, So help me understand though, if like load management
is an issue right like you and I are playing,
I'm like, dude, I haven't got it tonight, I GEA,
and how is an end season tournament going to change that?
It's like, oh, you want to bring more intensity to
games that I don't want to play right now because
it's not gonna be a part of an NBA championship, correct,
I mean, like, how's your team? How are guys talking
about that?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
So the one thing that they do is they try
to incentivise you monetarily, right, and then they try to
and then they make.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Sure this gets so much money, like it's got to
be more than what I've seen.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Yeah, I mean it's it's not, unfortunately for us, but
they're hoping so.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
And I think the other thing that they're really trying.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
To do is it's part of the regular season, so
it's not added games.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You're gonna play those games anyway.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
The only game that's an added game is if you
make it to the championship. And then if you're in
the championship, obviously you're getting commentated one way or the other.
It's either if you win or if you lose. It's
the obviously amounts different. But I think they're trying to
do some interesting things. The big thing that we always
talk about in the players Union is just they struggle
to disconnect the amounts of games with the revenue per game.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Right.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
So obviously in the NFL they just added a game
a year or two ago to make some money.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Conversation, it's way stronger.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, but fair.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
But what the players have all always tried to do
is say it's not that each game is worth X,
because what teams are doing is they don't want to
lose any home games because they're getting forty one games
that they can bank on a million, two million, five
million pending in your city, dollars are coming in and
if you're taking a game of that away, they haven't
necessarily been able to sell that. That means supply is lowering,
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so demand will be hiring. And that's like the real
topic of conversation. I think that'll happen. We already we
just signed a CBA.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But for the next one, all right, one more important
question I got to ask Jordan or Lebron. I'll throw
that out there, which come on, So why why is
that such a divisive question nowadays?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So no, or Larry Bird if you want to, like, yeah,
you know, I who want to represent Larry legend?
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I go with Jordan. Jordan's who I pick how. I
think Jordan's the best basketball player ever play.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I think Lebron is the greatest athletes to ever play
the game of basketball. I think I don't understand why
it's such a divisive question. In my opinion, it's like
you're comparing who's the best player to play the game.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's one or two, right.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Like people behind a gated community don't argue who's got
the nicer front yard.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
We're both behind the gates, both in a nice community.
In fact, you want to come over and share in
my yard. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
So I think what you have to respect though about Lebron,
which a lot of people you can love or hate him,
is the things that he's done off the floor have
been pretty incredible. The things that he's done in the
business world was a great movie. I didn't watch that one.
I only watched the first one. I didn't watch the
second one. But I just think, you know, he stayed
out of scandals. He's done a great job of representing
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the game. He's utilized his platform to do a lot
of things outside of the game of basketball.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
But I think Mike's the best basketball player to ever played.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Now, Pat Conninson, I got to ask you before we
let you go, do you ever envision any scenario where
Jannis is not a Milwaukee Buck. Because there's some stuff
out there where he talked about the potential of maybe
he doesn't want to sign a contract extension next year.
Maybe he wants to wait another year and see where
he's at. He just sort of does he strike you
as some buddy who wants to entertain going elsewhere or
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is he a Milwaukee Buck.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
For life in your eyes?
Speaker 8 (27:05):
So, no, one Giannis and knowing who he is as
a person, He's all about family.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
He's all about winning at the end of the day.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
I think the most incredible part about him is, Look,
I'm not gonna say that I've been the reason he's
had all the success, but he had no m v
p s before I got there five.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Years and now and now he's got to.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
So but he's he's one of the best individuals right
Like it's not just to him as a player, it's
him as a person.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
He's one of the best guys that I know.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
He works hard, he hasn't changed throughout that meteoric rise
to fame and and what he's he's at personal accolades
and things of that nature. And so I think as
long as the Milwaukee Bucks have the ability to win
and put him in a position to win, which he
will in turn put the Milwaukee Bucks in a position
to win every single night, I.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Don't know that that he'll ever leave.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
He loves family, he loves not being like in the limelight,
in the limelight like, I don't know that a big
market necessarily is something that attracts him. But I think
he's done a tremendous job with what he's come from,
and he's put us in a position to win on
a nightly basis, And he takes care of his family,
he takes care of his teammates, and he cares about
winning more than anything. So I think as long as
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the Bucks are in a position to win, he'll be there.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Hey, tell us a little bit about your foundation before
we let you go. Yeah, you said you had a
clinic coming up later on today.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Yeah, clinic later on today. So why don't you guys
enjoy a few drinks for me. I'll be over there,
you know, trying to teach a few Irish kids how
to dribble with their left hand and make a three.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Point jump shot.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
But my foundation, really, the whole goal of it is
to try to, you know, create access to athletics for
the next generation student athlete.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Obviously, you know, Brady, you've seen it.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
Sports have done a lot for me in my life
and It hasn't just been about the sport, right. We
try to instill the translatable life skills, the hard work,
the teamwork, the leadership, accountability, discipline, the stuff that you
know will take you whether you become a college athlete,
professional athlete, or just play in high school. Those habits
will kind of roll with you for the rest of
your life and help you do some things that you
want to do. And we've done you know, courts, clinics
(29:02):
and now we're gonna watch scholarships here in the next
you know, during sixty five days and we've done i
think all the way up to twelve courts are under
construction or completed, and we've done i think impacted over
eighteen thousand kids so far. So it's been a lot
of fun for me and just use my platform to
try to give back and do more in things that
are organic to me.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yes, Pat Connaton NBA Champion, Milwaukee Buck, but most importantly
a Notre Dame alum. Yeah, thanks Pat for stopping by.
It is two Pros and a cup of Joe here
on Fox Sports Radio live from Buskers Bar in Dublin, Ireland.
So we are going to have another edition of in
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Speaker 2 (29:55):
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Speaker 5 (31:00):
But he's got a problem in the world of football.
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Speaker 1 (31:41):
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Speaker 5 (31:42):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
Good morning, Jonas Morton, Brady Morton, Busker's Bar.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Eh, we know we guys.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
In case you missed this, we got some baby Mama drama.
Eli Apple, who now plays Hey Lee, Hey Brady eliph
now pleas for the Dolphins. Well, his baby mama, took
to social media yesterday saying, if you play against my
baby daddy this season, please go for the knees, maybe
a hammy.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
I'll gladly zell you back. Any fines from the NFL,
how about that?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I mean, and that ranges what ten to fifteen thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
It could be more. I just I'm in my head.
I'm thinking so many things right now. I mean, for starters,
it's in essence, really, Eli Apple, I assume it's the
funds he's probably paying her that are eventually going to
pay the fine. Right It's Uh, Look, there's one like
unwritten rule in the NFL, like you can't go after
(32:37):
a guy's knees. Like like that's one thing that if
there's a fight on the field, it's because someone did
something they felt like was going to impact their career long.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Chem does that start in the NFL or does that start it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Starts in college? I'll put it this way. Off I'm
running back in high school you start fights or stuff
like that, And so, I mean that's always been the
thing like, don't go after my knees. The fact she's
saying this, I mean, what does Eli Apple do well?
I mean, he's like one of the most hated guys,
and it doesn't seem like he's a bad guy.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Maybe we had to guess, why do you think she's
so pissed off?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
We're just guessing here, what do you think he was doing?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I'm stating out of this.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
You know, may have I mean, listen, maybe the lighting
was bad and he thought it was her. I'm just saying,
but I'm trying to find it out here for Eli Apple,
because this guy might get kneecapped from somebody in the
league who's just trying to maybe make some friends, uh
with with his ex or I'm assuming current baby mama
or whatever's going on there.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
What do they say, all's fair between love and war.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, you just you don't piss off. Look, everybody's seen
Good Fellas. He wakes up and there's a hand cannon
in his face. You know, Leonta wakes up and he's
got a gunpoint it is it. You'd like, you gotta
learn you don't piss off the wrong people.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
And Eli Apple apparently has not learned that.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
He pisses off everyone though, everyone. I mean he gets
traded to the Dolphins and an. Now it's the thing
with Tyreek Hill because of their past and their history
and all play against each other.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
So yeah, he gets uh he not a lot of
fans see.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Apple does it seem like a bad guy. I don't
get what it is. He just seems the people wrong way.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yeah, so now he's got to look out for it.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Literally, head on a swivel.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Literally, well too literally, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
What else we got late fellas, in case you missed it,
The Steelers molly wopped the Falcons last night twenty four
all we blocked?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well, yeah, is that irish?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
We'll say it is for now for this, oh molly wopped.
Speaker 9 (34:29):
Well.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Kenny Pickett finishes the preseason with a perfect quarterback rating.
Five drives, five touchdowns, two of those passing touchdowns. So
he finishes with that coveted one fifty eight point three
quarterback ratings.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
It's great, it's it's great. I mean, look, they thought
he would have the improvement from year one to year two.
That's what the Steelers fans were looking for, and he's
got that sort of ability in them. George Pickens could
be special. It's the preseason. Let's pump the brakes here. Hey,
I'm still saying once we get into the season, we'll
see what they do. Matt kenned is still calling the plays.
(35:02):
There was a lot of heat on him last year.
Sometimes these coaches want to show out a little bit
in preseason. You started running the same crap in the
regular season you run in the preseason, you get exposed.
So let's just pump the brakes. Do we get to
the real games.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
They've been kind of which is odd to say, But
the Pittsburgh Steelers, who are one of the most talked
about franchises in NFL history, in that division, you don't
hear anything about it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
They're flying under the radar. I mean, Mike Thomlins never
had a losing season and even this year, like some
people think they're still gonna be Competitive's still gona be
right in it. But I mean, who someone's gonna lose
games in that division. The Browns should be better. Baltimore
is gonna be Baltimore, especially with a new OC. All
these wide receivers they gave Lamar at Cincinnati with Joe Burrow,
like they're gonna be a contender.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
It's just under the rate.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Like if Baltimore's got Lamar back on a big time contract.
Your guys, Jay Flowers, who you you love you some
Zave Flowers.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Telling you right now, man, people need to look out
for that kid. He's gonna be absolute stuff.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Obviously, the Bengals and Joe Burrow. And then you've got Massage.
I mean Deshaun Watson, who is quarterback in the Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
The only things standing in his way is a sweets
massage bab. Otherwise the brown should be that is true.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Yes, that is true.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Stealers as a playoff team.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Old Pigs Bold Pick by the way, we we did
should mention a little shout out here because we were
told about different establishments. What's around Frank Dolan, Yes to
buskers here, Yeah, I mean that is Ireland to me.
That guy will drop an F bomb every other.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Words there's another word they use. Yes, kind of spread
it around here, which I will not say.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You cannot back in the States that I'll get a
slapped up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I'll see you next Tuesday. But the but that word
is thrown around a decent amount. Yes, my goodness, definitely
is I love phrases, we have them? Are you from Dublin?
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Originally said born and born and dragged up yes.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
And and his he's good.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I was like, yeah, you know, as far as like restaurants,
what you recommend and just total smart After Ireland, he goes, well,
if you don't like any of that, there's always McDonald's. Okay, Baard,
I get it, I get it, you know, point take
and what.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Else we got with guys.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Julian Edelman is joining the Fox NFL kickoff pregame show, all.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Right, how bad?
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Yeah, welcome in three time Super Bowl champion Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, he's an entertainer. He's a funny guy, great career.
He does a great Bill Belichick impression. Have you heard me?
Oh yeah, you never You never heard him do a
Bill Belichick impression? Well yeah, I mean you know, Bill
b what are you doing here? It is mumbles? He
isn't mumble, but like I'll say this much so having
Charlie Weiss, Romeo Crenell, Eric Mangini, Josh McDaniels like they
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all like they all try to mimic a little bit
of Bill Belichick. And when you get those team meetings
and you did something bad, you get roasted and they'll
they don't do it. Everyone's a little different. But the
way Bill always did it was with this dry sense
of humor. Yeah, you know, well, I.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Mean listen, I'm a big Bill Belichick guy, big Julian
Edelman guy is in a great career now he's part
of the Fox family.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
So you need to see him, do us impression? You
look that up.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
See what I'm okay, I'm sees something to you like.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
All right, listen here, Jonas. This isn't you know, Sisters
of the Blind? Horror playing out there?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Now?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Is it better?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I used to be back in Notre Dame? But this
isn't who you're This is the NFL.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Now is it better than Brian Kelly's Southern accent? Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
What does that sound like?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
My family? This is my family?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (38:37):
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today possible live here from Busker's Bar in Dublin. We
are stoked to be here back for round two and
some of us did survive round one.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
What do you mean when you said that, Jonas, what
happened to you last night? Was there another issue with
the cars being too quiet in Dublin? Well?
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Did they just sort of jump out and get you?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, like I'm walking and all of a sudden
the car just whoa like, no horn, no nothing, no,
just right. It's like you're you're on a safari and
you're just sort of hanging out and all it just
you know, a bowl elephant roam's mind just kind of
smells your ass and you're like, wait, is.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
What's happening here?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And apparently cars just they're not to horns. It's just
not their thing. So they just they'll just look at
this little kiss on the way by. So you gotta
be careful.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
My only piece of advice is look right, all right,
A lot of people forget the cars are gonna be
coming from your right that could hit you soon. So
that's what you have to look right.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Yeah, you gotta gotta have that head on a swivel.
That's important.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Also, would like to say, I was wondering, is there
gonna be any reminders from back home?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Saw some guy drinking a forty ounce of Oldie?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh yeah, I mean I gotta tell you he got
kicked out too.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeah, he did get kicked that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
He almost got his ass beat too by a couple
of security guards. But man guy roam in the streets
with a forty ounce of Oldie, And I asked the
bar tender. I'm like, is it like open carry here?
You gotta just oh no, no, So he's just swinging
away right in front of a cop.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Just a ride here we are.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I did speak with the Lord Mayor yesterday said it's yes,
it's just not really public intoxication unless you make an
ass of yourself.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Yeah that is true. Yeah, that's so that's the move.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Now. I would like to say, I don't buy a
bar if you think about it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
If if this show has the impact sometimes that I
believe that it does, all right, Like I have very
low expectations for what we do, and so when people
like you've said it before, it's a great way to
live one. Well, I'm just saying, like Brady said this
before he goes, I can't tell you how many times
I have to apologize for our show.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You know, sometimes we get a little bit loose here,
But I would like to say this, I feel like we've.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Had an impact on this Notre Dame Navy game.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Because on what impact would that be?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
The betting line has now skyrocketed from twenty and a
half in favor of Notre Dame to twenty one. Okay, okay,
so we're moving this thing a half point at a time,
and the over under the point total, which was what
fifty and a half fifte and a half, is down
to forty nine and a half. So the feeling is
(04:51):
not only will Notre Dame cover, but that defense is going.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
To put on a show.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
The defense is going to put on a show. Although
we went the offense to put a lot of points too,
don't we.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Well yeah, there's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I mean, may be nice to see a fifty burger,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I don't ask for too.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Much, A little fifty to nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, you know you've experienced quarterback.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, it's not the nicest thing to say as far
as previewing a game for Navy, but yeah, a little
fifteen to enough.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And I said this yesterday. Okay, with the utmost respect
for the for the gentlemen that we're playing, Okay, these
young men will one day defend our country. We have
the utmost respect. That doesn't mean you can't kick their ass. Okay,
I said this back we used to play. We have
the utmost respect for the young men that you're playing against,
but you can still go out and absolutely kick their
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ass on the field. And that's hopefully when Notre Dame's
gonna do tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Now, are we worried at all about weather being an impact?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I don't think so. You're worried about weather?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Can I be honest with you, because I did come
over in the NFL and play. We played a game
in London. The turf is different. It could be slick.
It gives out a little easier, you know. You know, look,
it's it's a soccer field that we're accustomed to that
you see a lot of times out there, you know,
sometimes rugby here in Ireland but you guys an't as
big as the big you know, or offensive lineman defensive lineman.
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That turf tends to get give out a little bit.
So the footing is going to be the biggest concern.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Now, how many people here are going to the game? Okay, okay,
so then I mean we got to figure this whole
thing out.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
So so look for anybody that was in town yesterday,
you probably licked the little little bit all day. Maybe
you're feeling a little under the weather, and then you
come out here on a Friday and you're like, you
know what, why don't we just start the day at
Buskers Bar and watch two pros and a cup of
Joe starring Brady Quinn. By the way, any Brady Quinn
fans in the house, Yeah you know I hate this
(06:41):
right Hey, listen, pal, this is a home game from
If we were a Chuck E Cheese, I'd get the
same response.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Really, yeah, tell you right now?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You were the rap though? How did they recognize you
with the helmet off or on my stride?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Okay, it's just eight. It's the wiggle, listen. I knew
how to work. Don't worry about me. But it is
so when we're thinking about this game. Do you have
any tips? Because the game kicks off what seven thirty
local time here?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, it's a night.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
So when do you start throwing back beers?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean, if you're asking me, it's right when you
wake up tomorrow. Okay, you have We're here in Dublin, Ireland. Okay,
we talked about this yesterday. There's not many places you
can go and you can grab a drink and not
be judged at any point in time the day. Yeah,
here in Dublin, Ireland is one of them. That in
probably an airport. I think an airport. It's a safe space. Yah,
to have a drink before you get on flight. You
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can start as soon as you wake up tomorrow. Don't
be shy, grab me maybe a hair of the dog,
depending on how today goes for you, whatever the case
may be, get started drinking early. Make sure you're rowdy
by the time you get to the game. Makeing a
little noise.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Okay, right, see that now that's words of wisdom.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean it could be a long day for you,
but you should have a great time. Yeah, don't miss
your flight on Sunday. If you're flying out Sunday.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
You know, mix in a few waters, try and stay hydrated.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Do you do your thing, and then get back home
to wherever you live, and everything's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I mean, we were given a flask yesterday. I'm just
saying that we were supposedly not supposed to bring into
the stadium.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, that is I mean strict instruction.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
And by the way, was that the Lord mayor who
told us the Lord fair Yeah, the stadium.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, listen, strict instructions on what you can and can't do.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I know, Lee, uh, you know, took full advantage of
the flask.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Oh yeah, you guys left me with the whole bottle
of tealing whiskey.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
We've left you with that, well, yes you did. That
might be the line of the trip. By the way,
we're coming on the escalator. Look back, hey, Lee, what
did you get into last night? Well, when I got back,
I still had that bottle of whiskey.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I got into that bottle of whiskey like you had no,
you had no choice in the matter.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah, there's the bottle of whiskey. Said your head.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Sir, whatever you said, take anything, take it all. So yeah,
this is uh, this is just obviously been a blast.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Thus far.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now, for those of you that are regulars listening to
the show, you know that we do a little bit
of something special here on a Friday.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Here in Ireland. Different things going on, and.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So you've got obviously you know, is it is it
flask Fridays?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Is it? What is it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's right, It's a damn football Friday. It is a
football Friday.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
And I'm telling you we're not gonna let college football.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
And the rest of you negative nancies out there try
and rain on the parade by calling it week zero.
College football starts this weekend and it kicks off here
in Dublin, Ireland, and it kicks off with Navy.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So the fact that you guys again can be a
part of this with us and hang out with us
here on a football Friday. Can't thank everybody enough. Just
tremendous job and support from all you guys. And we're
gonna have fun. We're just getting great.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I'll say, dude, do we have any like I don't know,
former NBA champion coming on in time soon?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You know, I was thinking about this, like who would
be the appropriate guess?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, I always think of like what's a great Irish name,
like Patrick or pat or Patty. You right, like, that's
a great first Irish name, right you think.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Of like content?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Content sounds IRUs as it gets right, I.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Get yeah, I mean that would make some sense I've
got if we only we had the stroke on this
show to try and pull Pac contan NBA champion.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Oh that's right, he's joining us next. Oh that's right.
So if this wasn't.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
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Speaker 5 (10:44):
Forward slash Match.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So we are gonna have the usuals coming up later
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as well too. We're gonna talk with Joe Montana coming up.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I don't think it's a person, no, not in person
in his spirit. Sorry, hey, blame shown all right? Sorry,
come on, figure a speech?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
What do you want? All right?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I probably should have waited a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There, and hey, and again again No, Brian Kelly, I
just want to make that clear.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Healing off the say that's how you went him back.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, that's how you.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Went him back. So it is all yours here.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's a three hour extravaganza on Fox Sports Radio. But
again coming up next, we've got an NBA champion in
the house, somebody you were all familiar with, Pat Connington't
gonna stop by and as here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and
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Speaker 3 (11:49):
It is Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here
on Fox Sports Radio, live from Buskers.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Bar in Dublin, Ireland.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
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Speaker 5 (12:16):
But I mean, I don't know if you heard the
roar of applause.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Oh yeah, but it got even more Notre Dame in
here because we got a.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Champion in the house. Make some noise for.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Pat Conaton, NBA champion, Notre Dame alum and a guy
who already has he sat down for about sixty three seconds,
and two people from this show have already tried to
get you to drink.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
So welcome to Dublin.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Absolutely, the peer pressure started high.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, with a name like Pat, I'm sure ee just
calls you Patty and then yeah, let me tell you
a beer lad yea yah?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
So I gotta ask you this. Did you even so
your name's Pat Connaton, Massachusetts?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Did you even have a choice, like like if you
went like if you went to somebody and said, hey,
you know Duke Kentucky, La, Yeah, like it?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Did you? I mean?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Was there ever really a serious option other than Notre
Dame for you?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No?
Speaker 8 (13:15):
So I always tell the story I got recruited late,
I got recruited for baseball quite a bit, but basketball
I got recruited late, and as the offers were rolling in,
like I did look, Ucla was my second choice, Vanderbilt Florida,
A bunch of different schools.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
And my best friend who's actually out here with me,
I told him I got an offer of Notre Dame
and he was like, oh, great, so it's over. And
I was like, what do you mean it's over? Like
I still got like two more games, have more schools
to comedy.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He goes, yeah, but you got Notre Dame.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Like you should just end it now, like, don't go
out there and get hurt or anything.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Just signed the paper. I was like, oh yeah, I
guess there are a.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Lot of people in my family and from back home
that would probably enjoy seeing me playing that green and gold.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
When you come to Dublin, Ireland and you see all
the people you see, I guess just the of Notre Dame.
Do you kind of look back on that decision and
go I couldn't have went wrong, Like that was the
perfect decision for me. Do you ever look back and
just think about your experience there and imagine how it's
brought you to this point.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
You know, for me, when I looked at it, I
was fortunate I had a great group of people around me.
But when I was trying to vet it, I always said, look,
I could enjoy any college, but what place was going
to help me no matter where I ended up in life?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And I think that's the power of Notre Dame. Right.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
I wasn't a guy that came out a lot of
people talk I should play baseball. I was a guy
that came out and was like, hey, he's going to
be a surefire pro athlete.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
So I remember.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Actually talking and I don't know if I've ever told
this story, Brady, but my recruiting was.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
It's a Carl Ackerman.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
And Carl Ackerman was telling me about how, hey, you know,
when it comes down to it, we want to help
you think through things.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Hopefully you have a decision to play.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
Two pro sports, but if you don't, you have a
decision to go into business world and you have the
ability to you know, connect a network with other people.
And he actually told me the story about how he
talked to you when you were going through your draft
process and how he helped you think about it. And
so when it came down to it. For me, I
thought through the basketball and baseball decision. Carl was actually
instrumental in helping me think about the nature of the
two sports, which one I should try first, which one
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I wanted to try first, of financial ramifications and the
whole nine, and just to.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Touch on that.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So, Professor Carl Ackerman is one of the best the
faculty of Notre Dame. Professor Ackerman, I'm telling you, he's
the nicest human being possible. During that process we were
talking about I was training to get ready for the
NFL Draft, and he put together essentially a course on
personal finance that was like curated like to me and
what I was gonna need. He kind of walked me
through a lot of the challenges that I was gonna
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be facing once you became a pro athlete. And it's
so unique to Notre Dame having faculty it's willing to
do it, being able to put something together like that.
So it was incredibly helpful and on my journey and
helping the shape not just football, but thoughts outside of
it in the business forward, et cetera. So shout out to
Carl Ackerman. He's the most generous man ever. As far
as faculty, their a notre name.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
One of the things I think is great.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
By the way, Pat connatan with us here on Fox
Sports Radio Live from Plascars. Yeah, make some noise for
Pat Connaton, NBA champion.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
I'm gonna make you my friends now, anytime my name
gets said, they just start chanting because yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Where's the ring?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Do you ever? You didn't bring it? My mother has it?
Okay in the hotel? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Yeah, yeah, I know you guys are gonna tray give
me a hard time about that. Say my mom has
You can't really can't really give me too much about.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You can't say anything. MoMA's got it. That's it's see.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I think we've gotten to the point though, to where rings,
championship rings get bigger and bigger every year, seemingly that
they're more awkward.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
At some point, it's going to be a bracelet.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Start making a watch.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Make a watch because I don't know how like some
especially the guys who've got several rings walk around with
it's like just feels uncomfortable.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
You heard about our ring, right, it comes apart and
it becomes a medallion that you can hang from a necklace.
Oh yeah, So like you think about the size of
change that some guys wear, Like get him with the
Lord Mayor.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, he had that big chain he's going to wear
around you imagine that's that's like the next NBA Championship
is gonna be like literally like that Lord Mayor thing
he's got to wear on the wall.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
That's a good time.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You know what I like about Notre Dame because I
like anybody who can piss off a room when you
just mention what they.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Are, you don't have to do any You be nicest
person in the way. Everybody here has been so kind.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But if you tell somebody he was your favorite team,
or where did you go to college?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Notre Dame?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Here we go, you just you.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Kind of get this, uh boy, oh okay, and.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
You want to sit up in your own so you
went to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Like what's interesting about this is you asked me like
the first time we met, and that was your reaction.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Well, yeah, I mean because it's like, you know, of
course it's Notre Dame. Of course, Like what is it
like though?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
To represent something that you know, all you got to
do is say the two words and you piss off
a lot of people like, there's an effect that Notre
Dame has on people, and I think it's jealousy because
there's a prestige to it. I mean, we see the
way people have traveled at forty thousand people from the
States out here in Dublin, Like, what's that like?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Do your teammates ever bust your balls and go.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh, Notre Dame?
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Guy on Notre Dame this.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Well, look, Jonathan, are very great things about you.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
I'm gonna harp on the fact that you're being a
little negative at this moment in time, because there is
also a lot of people that when you say you
went to Notre Dame, absolutely love it. Of course, yes,
it's kind of an it's too pronged.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
You gotta understand, though I grew up around well they
or not up at this time back then a.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Lot of USC douchebags, So a lot of USC blowhards
you grew up around.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
I was on the Dan Patrick Show yesterday trying to
have my man Brady's back with Will Ferrell about giving
them a hard time off the field. They said he
wore his pants too high, They said it hurt his
grass stock.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
They didn't honestly, and to the dam, like I look
in the roor I'm like my pants? Do you hi today?
Do I need to like saging that you look?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You look great? Doesn't right? Yeah? Don't let well do that.
But he was telling me.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You Brady look Okay, I see some Brady jerseys in
the crowd.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yeah, listen, there is.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It is awesome though, just to see what you guys
have and and the name brand obviously it's a national brand.
And so were your was your family Did you grow
up Notre Dame football fans? Did you grow up all
like in the house, And so when you were able
to tell your family going to Notre Dame, that must
have been really special for them, just to see where
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you came from and now you're carrying the tradition.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
To South Bend. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
I mean when coach Bray came and recruited me in
my home, it was my last name's Connaton. There's a
county of Connacht over here in Ireland. And he was like,
you're an Irish Cathol kid from Boston and you're not
gonna come to Notre Dame And he kind of put
it put me to the screws right away.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
But my family was pumped.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
I think, you know, my parents did a great job
and my extended family did a great job of trying
not to like show me that they were pushing me
one direction, right, but you could tell that they were
all on pins and needles waiting for me to come
to the decision on my own.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
And when I.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Finally did, uh, and I said it to everybody, they
were all jacked. And I'm pretty sure they were like, oh, great,
because we already had plane tickets out there for the
gam no saying the matter.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, Uh, Pat, I gonna ask you. You're a man
of many traits, so PATOFSI, you're you're you're busy trying
to win NBA championships. You also got some side ventures
in the business world, a foundation we'll get to in
a minute. How much of you kind of kept track though,
notre name men's basketball obviously transition from coach Bray Micah Shrewsbury.
Have you had a chance to talk with coach and
kind of get an idea of maybe how he's going
to direct the basket, what's he moving forward?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah? So I talked still close with.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
You know, Jack Swarbrick ra a d and when they
were going through the process of Coach Bray kind of
stepping down and actually transitioning to an assistant coach with
the Atlanta Hawks, and.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Now I got to compete against him.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Yeah, and he knows all my strengths and weaknesses, which
is gonna be a little difficult for me, but and
telling me about Micah and obviously how great he is,
how was an Indiana guy at heart, And I knew
a lot of people from the Boston area who when
he was an assistant coach there, spoke very highly of him.
So I've had a chance to connect with him, and
I love the direction that he's trying to go with
the program and how invested he is and the recruiting
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side of things, and how he's really kind of taking
the bull by the horns from the transfer portal standpoint. Yeah,
really started to although he isn't necessarily a guy that
went to Notre Dame, really taking the brand and in
the representation of Notre Dame and started to sell it
to a bunch of a group of kids. So I'm gonna
try to get back there this fall and talk to
the guys that are on the team and interface with
him a little more because I think they got a
(21:09):
great chance to do some big things in the ACC.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
NBA cham Pat Honiton with us here on Fox Sports
Radio Live from Buskers Bar in Dublin, Ireland. So I
gotta ask, We've talked about this before on the show.
It feels like the NBA really sells the drama and
not so much on the floor but sort of the
personal back and forth and so and so said this
on Instagram and this Twitter feud happened here, and it
(21:36):
just feels like they sell us, oh drama.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
How does that land with you?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Are you like, come on, man, can we just play
like why do we focus on this craft?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
So it's funny. A lot of we talked about this
in the locker room. A lot of guys in the
locker room.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
I always say that, you know, they think sometimes it
looks too much like a MTV show.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah, I mean, like like a drama.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
But at the end of the day, you know, the
thing that the NBA has done a really good job
of is you can argue that the offseason when you
talk about guys and them announcing contracts and woes and
chums and all these different you know, media outlets that
are able to cover the offseason some fans take more
interest in that than they do the actual regular season
game in January, and it's it's become something that they've.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Just they're in the limelight all the time. It's wild crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
We've proposed this for a while, Yeah, because one of
the things that we look at with the NBA calendar
is like, I like watching the NBA. I like watching basketball.
The hard thing is is like it's directly in conflict
with the football season, and it seems like the Christmas
Day matchups are such a big deal. You guys had
your schedule release what a week ago or something like that,
(22:42):
why not just push the season back and so you
kind of almost make that the start of the season.
I'm sure there's some players who are, Dude, I want
my free time the summer. I don't have to be
playing into like July or August. But does the NBA
or do the players ever talk about potentially like ways
of trying to like do some been different with the
league to help, you know, draw better ratings or whatever
(23:03):
else to kind of help improve it.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Yeah, So that was a big topic of conversation during
coming off of COVID because we didn't start until right
around Christmas, just before Christmas, and then we the year
we won it. We won it July nineteenth, twenty to twenty.
First we're like the last two games, and so I
think it was a real topic.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
They wanted to see how the ratings did.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Obviously there was more people at home, less people in
the stands, stuff like that, but it became a real
conversation piece. And then I think where the NBA ended
up pivoting was just having more time on air and
the summers and summer league, and they didn't necessarily know
how to logistically do it. So they've tried to Their
first iteration of it is that nd season tournament, and
so they haven't changed obviously the start of it, but
(23:42):
now they've made the NCAS and tournament right around that December,
you know, beginning of the year type.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, So help me understand though, if like load management
is an issue right like you and I are playing,
I'm like, dude, I haven't got it tonight, I GEA,
and how is an end season tournament going to change that?
It's like, oh, you want to bring more intensity to
games that I don't want to play right now because
it's not gonna be a part of an NBA championship, correct,
I mean, like, how's your team? How are guys talking
about that?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
So the one thing that they do is they try
to incentivise you monetarily, right, and then they try to
and then they make.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Sure this gets so much money, like it's got to
be more than what I've seen.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Yeah, I mean it's it's not, unfortunately for us, but
they're hoping so.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
And I think the other thing that they're really trying.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
To do is it's part of the regular season, so
it's not added games.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You're gonna play those games anyway.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
The only game that's an added game is if you
make it to the championship. And then if you're in
the championship, obviously you're getting commentated one way or the other.
It's either if you win or if you lose. It's
the obviously amounts different. But I think they're trying to
do some interesting things. The big thing that we always
talk about in the players Union is just they struggle
to disconnect the amounts of games with the revenue per game.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Right.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
So obviously in the NFL they just added a game
a year or two ago to make some money.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Conversation, it's way stronger.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, but fair.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
But what the players have all always tried to do
is say it's not that each game is worth X,
because what teams are doing is they don't want to
lose any home games because they're getting forty one games
that they can bank on a million, two million, five
million pending in your city, dollars are coming in and
if you're taking a game of that away, they haven't
necessarily been able to sell that. That means supply is lowering,
(25:18):
so demand will be hiring. And that's like the real
topic of conversation. I think that'll happen. We already we
just signed a CBA.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But for the next one, all right, one more important
question I got to ask Jordan or Lebron. I'll throw
that out there, which come on, So why why is
that such a divisive question nowadays?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So no, or Larry Bird if you want to, like, yeah,
you know, I who want to represent Larry legend?
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I go with Jordan. Jordan's who I pick how. I
think Jordan's the best basketball player ever play.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I think Lebron is the greatest athletes to ever play
the game of basketball. I think I don't understand why
it's such a divisive question. In my opinion, it's like
you're comparing who's the best player to play the game.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's one or two, right.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Like people behind a gated community don't argue who's got
the nicer front yard.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
We're both behind the gates, both in a nice community.
In fact, you want to come over and share in
my yard. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
So I think what you have to respect though about Lebron,
which a lot of people you can love or hate him,
is the things that he's done off the floor have
been pretty incredible. The things that he's done in the
business world was a great movie. I didn't watch that one.
I only watched the first one. I didn't watch the
second one. But I just think, you know, he stayed
out of scandals. He's done a great job of representing
(26:32):
the game. He's utilized his platform to do a lot
of things outside of the game of basketball.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
But I think Mike's the best basketball player to ever played.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Now, Pat Conninson, I got to ask you before we
let you go, do you ever envision any scenario where
Jannis is not a Milwaukee Buck. Because there's some stuff
out there where he talked about the potential of maybe
he doesn't want to sign a contract extension next year.
Maybe he wants to wait another year and see where
he's at. He just sort of does he strike you
as some buddy who wants to entertain going elsewhere or
(27:02):
is he a Milwaukee Buck.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
For life in your eyes?
Speaker 8 (27:05):
So, no, one Giannis and knowing who he is as
a person, He's all about family.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
He's all about winning at the end of the day.
Speaker 8 (27:12):
I think the most incredible part about him is, Look,
I'm not gonna say that I've been the reason he's
had all the success, but he had no m v
p s before I got there five.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Years and now and now he's got to.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
So but he's he's one of the best individuals right
Like it's not just to him as a player, it's
him as a person.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
He's one of the best guys that I know.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
He works hard, he hasn't changed throughout that meteoric rise
to fame and and what he's he's at personal accolades
and things of that nature. And so I think as
long as the Milwaukee Bucks have the ability to win
and put him in a position to win, which he
will in turn put the Milwaukee Bucks in a position
to win every single night, I.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Don't know that that he'll ever leave.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
He loves family, he loves not being like in the limelight,
in the limelight like, I don't know that a big
market necessarily is something that attracts him. But I think
he's done a tremendous job with what he's come from,
and he's put us in a position to win on
a nightly basis, And he takes care of his family,
he takes care of his teammates, and he cares about
winning more than anything. So I think as long as
(28:15):
the Bucks are in a position to win, he'll be there.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Hey, tell us a little bit about your foundation before
we let you go. Yeah, you said you had a
clinic coming up later on today.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Yeah, clinic later on today. So why don't you guys
enjoy a few drinks for me. I'll be over there,
you know, trying to teach a few Irish kids how
to dribble with their left hand and make a three.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Point jump shot.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
But my foundation, really, the whole goal of it is
to try to, you know, create access to athletics for
the next generation student athlete.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Obviously, you know, Brady, you've seen it.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
Sports have done a lot for me in my life
and It hasn't just been about the sport, right. We
try to instill the translatable life skills, the hard work,
the teamwork, the leadership, accountability, discipline, the stuff that you
know will take you whether you become a college athlete,
professional athlete, or just play in high school. Those habits
will kind of roll with you for the rest of
your life and help you do some things that you
want to do. And we've done you know, courts, clinics
(29:02):
and now we're gonna watch scholarships here in the next
you know, during sixty five days and we've done i
think all the way up to twelve courts are under
construction or completed, and we've done i think impacted over
eighteen thousand kids so far. So it's been a lot
of fun for me and just use my platform to
try to give back and do more in things that
are organic to me.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yes, Pat Connaton NBA Champion, Milwaukee Buck, but most importantly
a Notre Dame alum. Yeah, thanks Pat for stopping by.
It is two Pros and a cup of Joe here
on Fox Sports Radio live from Buskers Bar in Dublin, Ireland.
So we are going to have another edition of in
(29:44):
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Speaker 2 (29:55):
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Speaker 5 (31:00):
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Speaker 4 (31:30):
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Speaker 5 (31:36):
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Speaker 1 (31:41):
Lap.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
Good morning, Jonas Morton, Brady Morton, Busker's Bar.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Eh, we know we guys.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
In case you missed this, we got some baby Mama drama.
Eli Apple, who now plays Hey Lee, Hey Brady eliph
now pleas for the Dolphins. Well, his baby mama, took
to social media yesterday saying, if you play against my
baby daddy this season, please go for the knees, maybe
a hammy.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
I'll gladly zell you back. Any fines from the NFL,
how about that?
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I mean, and that ranges what ten to fifteen thousand dollars?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
It could be more. I just I'm in my head.
I'm thinking so many things right now. I mean, for starters,
it's in essence, really, Eli Apple, I assume it's the
funds he's probably paying her that are eventually going to
pay the fine. Right It's Uh, Look, there's one like
unwritten rule in the NFL, like you can't go after
(32:37):
a guy's knees. Like like that's one thing that if
there's a fight on the field, it's because someone did
something they felt like was going to impact their career long.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Chem does that start in the NFL or does that start it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Starts in college? I'll put it this way. Off I'm
running back in high school you start fights or stuff
like that, And so, I mean that's always been the
thing like, don't go after my knees. The fact she's
saying this, I mean, what does Eli Apple do well?
I mean, he's like one of the most hated guys,
and it doesn't seem like he's a bad guy.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Maybe we had to guess, why do you think she's
so pissed off?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
We're just guessing here, what do you think he was doing?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I'm stating out of this.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
You know, may have I mean, listen, maybe the lighting
was bad and he thought it was her. I'm just saying,
but I'm trying to find it out here for Eli Apple,
because this guy might get kneecapped from somebody in the
league who's just trying to maybe make some friends, uh
with with his ex or I'm assuming current baby mama
or whatever's going on there.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
What do they say, all's fair between love and war.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, you just you don't piss off. Look, everybody's seen
Good Fellas. He wakes up and there's a hand cannon
in his face. You know, Leonta wakes up and he's
got a gunpoint it is it. You'd like, you gotta
learn you don't piss off the wrong people.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
And Eli Apple apparently has not learned that.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
He pisses off everyone though, everyone. I mean he gets
traded to the Dolphins and an. Now it's the thing
with Tyreek Hill because of their past and their history
and all play against each other.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
So yeah, he gets uh he not a lot of
fans see.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Apple does it seem like a bad guy. I don't
get what it is. He just seems the people wrong way.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yeah, so now he's got to look out for it.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Literally, head on a swivel.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Literally, well too literally, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
What else we got late fellas, in case you missed it,
The Steelers molly wopped the Falcons last night twenty four
all we blocked?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well, yeah, is that irish?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
We'll say it is for now for this, oh molly wopped.
Speaker 9 (34:29):
Well.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Kenny Pickett finishes the preseason with a perfect quarterback rating.
Five drives, five touchdowns, two of those passing touchdowns. So
he finishes with that coveted one fifty eight point three
quarterback ratings.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
It's great, it's it's great. I mean, look, they thought
he would have the improvement from year one to year two.
That's what the Steelers fans were looking for, and he's
got that sort of ability in them. George Pickens could
be special. It's the preseason. Let's pump the brakes here. Hey,
I'm still saying once we get into the season, we'll
see what they do. Matt kenned is still calling the plays.
(35:02):
There was a lot of heat on him last year.
Sometimes these coaches want to show out a little bit
in preseason. You started running the same crap in the
regular season you run in the preseason, you get exposed.
So let's just pump the brakes. Do we get to
the real games.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
They've been kind of which is odd to say, But
the Pittsburgh Steelers, who are one of the most talked
about franchises in NFL history, in that division, you don't
hear anything about it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
They're flying under the radar. I mean, Mike Thomlins never
had a losing season and even this year, like some
people think they're still gonna be Competitive's still gona be
right in it. But I mean, who someone's gonna lose
games in that division. The Browns should be better. Baltimore
is gonna be Baltimore, especially with a new OC. All
these wide receivers they gave Lamar at Cincinnati with Joe Burrow,
like they're gonna be a contender.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
It's just under the rate.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Like if Baltimore's got Lamar back on a big time contract.
Your guys, Jay Flowers, who you you love you some
Zave Flowers.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Telling you right now, man, people need to look out
for that kid. He's gonna be absolute stuff.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Obviously, the Bengals and Joe Burrow. And then you've got Massage.
I mean Deshaun Watson, who is quarterback in the Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
The only things standing in his way is a sweets
massage bab. Otherwise the brown should be that is true.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Yes, that is true.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Stealers as a playoff team.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Old Pigs Bold Pick by the way, we we did
should mention a little shout out here because we were
told about different establishments. What's around Frank Dolan, Yes to
buskers here, Yeah, I mean that is Ireland to me.
That guy will drop an F bomb every other.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Words there's another word they use. Yes, kind of spread
it around here, which I will not say.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You cannot back in the States that I'll get a
slapped up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I'll see you next Tuesday. But the but that word
is thrown around a decent amount. Yes, my goodness, definitely
is I love phrases, we have them? Are you from Dublin?
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Originally said born and born and dragged up yes.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
And and his he's good.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I was like, yeah, you know, as far as like restaurants,
what you recommend and just total smart After Ireland, he goes, well,
if you don't like any of that, there's always McDonald's. Okay, Baard,
I get it, I get it, you know, point take
and what.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Else we got with guys.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Julian Edelman is joining the Fox NFL kickoff pregame show, all.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Right, how bad?
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Yeah, welcome in three time Super Bowl champion Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, he's an entertainer. He's a funny guy, great career.
He does a great Bill Belichick impression. Have you heard me?
Oh yeah, you never You never heard him do a
Bill Belichick impression? Well yeah, I mean you know, Bill
b what are you doing here? It is mumbles? He
isn't mumble, but like I'll say this much so having
Charlie Weiss, Romeo Crenell, Eric Mangini, Josh McDaniels like they
(37:44):
all like they all try to mimic a little bit
of Bill Belichick. And when you get those team meetings
and you did something bad, you get roasted and they'll
they don't do it. Everyone's a little different. But the
way Bill always did it was with this dry sense
of humor. Yeah, you know, well, I.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Mean listen, I'm a big Bill Belichick guy, big Julian
Edelman guy is in a great career now he's part
of the Fox family.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
So you need to see him, do us impression? You
look that up.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
See what I'm okay, I'm sees something to you like.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
All right, listen here, Jonas. This isn't you know, Sisters
of the Blind? Horror playing out there?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Now?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Is it better?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I used to be back in Notre Dame? But this
isn't who you're This is the NFL.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Now is it better than Brian Kelly's Southern accent? Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
What does that sound like?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
My family? This is my family?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (38:37):
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