April 20, 2024 • 40 mins
LaVar Arrington and TJ Houshmandzadeh talk about Washington’s top 30 visits process and what it means for the possibility of Jayden Daniels not wanting to play there, the future of Dak Prescott in Dallas and what he should be paid on his next deal, and thoughts on the Chargers possibilities sitting at the 5th pick in the draft!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (01:38):
Lead me out of it.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Hey, just know how LaVar, I don't know what's going on.
And we talked about this, bro. Why is every weekend overcast?
Like we live in a Pacific northwest?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Every weekend during the week it's clear skies, it's sunny,
it's hot.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Saturday, Sunday goes loomy.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Gloomy is bonfire bonfire time, you know, spit fire. So
I don't I don't know, man, I don't know. It
was cold as hell like u c LA's practice last night, too.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I mean I got a running nose this morning. It's
all good, man. I mean, I'm paying these taxes to
be out here in the sunshine.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's what they say.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It never rains in southern Calilifornia. They tell me, until
you move out this mothersucker. And then the figure out
that it does rain, and it does get dreary, and
it does get a little bit like overcast and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm like, where am I right now?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Why am I paying these taxes? Yeah? Man, we all
we all want to know that. And where you're from here?
Can you help us? Can you be honest? I'm really
like they need to do something about this. Man, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
People like myself, yourself, we pay our taxes. Yeah, and
then you know all these other people, they got all
these homes out here. They don't claim California, man, way, no,
they don't claim California as a resis see. But you know,
you know, you and I we're gonna live out here.
You know we're gonna we're gonna pay our taxes.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I could, I should get you and I should get
a refund on every dreary day, especially on the calendar
where it's supposed to be sit outside drinking nice little cocktails.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
When we in April, we're in that. Come on, man, April, we.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Should not be seeing any of that. But we do
have a great show planned. The draft is next week.
I will be attending the draft and the players moments
that these guys have dreamed of and you can't wait
for it. And then when you get there is it's
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it's business. But there's one guy that every nobody knows.
What the commanders are gonna do at number two, they
gonna go Je Daniels, They're gonna go Drake May, They're
gonna go JJ m Nobody are they gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Trade to pick? But I knew.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I do know one thing. They pissed somebody off and
it was odd. You rarely see a team bring in
four players that are supposed to be you're supposed to consider,
all on the same day at the same time. I
guess it seems to be disrespectful. So put this in context,
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Jade Daniels goes and visits the Washington Commanders, but they
also bring in Drake May. I believe they brought in
bow Nicks, JJ McCarthy and J Daniels and he didn't
like that all at the same time.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And so.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
If you're Jade Daniels, because you went through this process
and you were a high pick and so you can
relate to this, I have to take a back seat
because I can't relate to this because they evaluated me wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's what I like to tell everything. That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I mean, I mean your your body of work proves that,
and so one would that bother you? And if you're
the commanders, if that really bothers Jane Daniels, do you
even care?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think both are great questions, TJ. Should it bother
Jade and Daniels? You're on a job interview, and I
think you just keep things. You keep things in their
their space and the proper perspective because business is business. Now,
granted these are young men coming out of college, they're
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still young. There's still you know, levels of growth that
have to take place. So I can see the ego outweighing,
you know, just kind of the sensibility of what a
situation may present. You have a golden opportunity to possibly
go number two overall in the draft. The furthest thing
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from my mind in that moment is to be offended by,
you know, there being other quarterback prospects there. In fact,
I would I would probably most likely TJ have approached
it from the standpoint of I'm glad they're here. I'm
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glad you brought us all here together, because now I'm
going to shine in front of them.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You don't even have to concern yourself with who the
alpha male is, who who the dog is in this room,
Who who's the one that's gonna make everybody bow down?
You don't have to worry about that. I'm here, they're here, Like,
let's go let's talk about it. You want to get
on the grease board. Let's get on the grease board.
Y'all want to go out throw the ball. Let's go off,
throw the ball. Y'all want to running forty, Let's run
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the forty. Y'all want some ways, Let's lift these weights, like,
let's do it, Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I want this, and I.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Now it is the mentality that you're talking about. Is
that a quarterback mentality? Because you know, we know, we
know LeVar. Oh you bring in another quarterback. Oh, it's
not the competition he's for sure, like quarterbacks are only
position in the world where they don't compete. Really, you
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bring in somebody to challenge him, you have to let
it be known that he is the backup, and so
they're treated different.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We all know this.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And if you don't know, you know now he wants
to play for the Raiders. He doesn't want to play
for anybody else, and we all know yeah, and rightfully
so I would as well. And for years and years
and years. Because you say this, he's they make it like, oh,
he should be just thankful to be in this position.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
This is years in years of hard work and dedication
to put himself in this position. Because last year, at
this time, had he left LSU, he had been a
late round draft pick. So he worked, he worked, and
he worked to be put in this position. And so
now you're telling me, I may be drafted to the
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Washington Commanders who are doing things that I don't like,
I don't appreciate. Why would I want to go play
for an organization that is doing these type of things
that could be his mentality? Because it's no longer Oh yeah, man,
just be thankful to be in this position. Got guys
on have that there, they're more the knowledge and awareness
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that they have, And I want to play here. Why
do I have to go play somewhere that I don't
want to play? I was able to choose my high school,
I was able to choose my college. Yeah, why can't
I choose where I plan? The professional rings?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
But we do know that that's that the Washington commanders
can do that in terms of how they handled the
visits because they do get to choose. So part of
part of what you're talking about is going into the
scenario understanding the circumstances, right like whether you look at
it as as a privilege, whether you look at it
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as I earn did, whatever it is the perspective you're
coming from, your one hundred percent correct in saying that,
regardless of what your your personality traits are, what what
your mentality is as a quarterback or any other position,
but more specifically a quarterback, if you're coming to the
table knowing that this is a job interview, then handle
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it that way. I don't even have to We don't
even have to go as far into getting into all
of the minor details of whether I deserve it, whether
I don't deserve it, whether it's a privilege, whether it's
not a privilege, whether it's my right, whether it's.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Not a right. We don't even have to go that
deep into it, TJ.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You know why, because at the end of the day,
it's a it's a it's a it's a business interview,
it's a job interview. If you don't like the way
this employer treated the situation. Cut conversations off, don't talk
to the Washington commanders, not one more time. I don't
like the way that you guys handled my job interview.
I don't want to I don't want to come there.
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I don't want to work for you. I don't I
don't control whether you draft me or not. But I
felt as though it was disrespectful. I felt as though,
whatever it is, his feelings of it were that ruffled
his feathers and made him feel the way that he felt.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
If he feels as though.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
That employer, that potential employer, did something that made him
feel uncomfortable about wanting to be a part of that
organization and work for them, then tell them right it's
his business. Don't play koy about it. Don't be passive aggressive.
You know Californians, I've been living out here for a
while now, y'all Californians are someone of the most passive
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aggressive people I've ever known in my entire life. Man,
I don't really be knowing left from right when it
comes out, and you know he's from Cali. So y'all
have a really really interesting way sometimes like you like
one of the few like you, one of the few
dudes that I've ever met from Cali that I actually
he meant what he said, and he meant it from
like you like got East Coast wade about how you
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go about things, But Cali cats, it's like y'all passively
aggressively say you know, you hurt my feelings, but but
it's okay that you hurt my feelings. You know, it's
all right. You know, maybe you didn't know any better,
but on the inside you're like, man, f you right right,
like it's real pass like I don't know if you
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hate me or if we okay or if you like me?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Are we friends? Are we are we foes?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What? What are we? I don't know what we are
because that's how California cats be handling stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I don't know, y'all.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, it's a weird thing where I come from.
If I don't like you, I'm gonna tell you I
don't like you, like I can't be passive aggressive. If
he doesn't want to play for Washington. Based upon what
took place during this job interview, say it, say it
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right if I want. If I wouldn't go as far
as to say this is the team I want to
play for. I want to go to the Las Vegas Raiders.
I want to play for coach Antonio Pierce. I want
to play for a team that's from where I grew
up and and and played ball. I mean, you could
say that I'm I'm a fan of it. And we
all know he's a fan of APAP recruited. We all
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know he's you know, if he's from here. A lot
of LA Cats love the Raiders. We know that it's
a tremendous fan base here. But if you don't want
to play for a team that you feel has disrespected
you in any way, has handled business incorrectly or unprofessionally
in your way, then strategically.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And with class and with and with the grace.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Of what a quarterback that's going to be possibly a
franchise guy for organization, handle it as such, because it's
still a job interview. And if you do a job
interview and you fall on your face in the media
with how you handle your discussion points that not only
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dictates what happens with that particular organization, but it's a
ripple effect as well. TJ, like this guy doesn't have
the mental, emotional capacity to be a franchise quarterback at
the National Football League level, and you and I both
know the scrutiny on that position in particular is much
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higher on the emotional IQ, the mental IQ of what
they bring to the table. So any type of mishap
connected to something like this could be the undoing of
that man being a top draft pick in this draft,
after all the hard work he did to prepare himself
to be able to do what he's doing now to be.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
In this position.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's one of those things where for me, if I
don't I don't want to draft a player that doesn't
want to play for me, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I don't care how good he is.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I don't care what I think he can do for
my organization and our team and our I don't care
if you don't want to play with us, with my team,
with my order. I don't want you. I don't care
how good you are, and I don't know. I don't
want you because you are not going to give it
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your a. It's always going to be that thought in
the back of your mind where I don't really want
to play here as soon as you hit adversity. I
didn't want to play here anyway. I didn't want them
to draft me anyway.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You end up saying it out loud too, right after
out loud, Yeah yeah, and so you.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Know he don't want to play, I'm a draft him anyway.
I don't think that's a good idea because then when
you have people and players that start to have an
attitude they told you they didn't want to be there
to begin with, to be like dude, Mike Tomlins says
it the best. I don't want hostages. I want volunteers.
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That's what I want. I want volunteers, not hostages. And
so that's just me and I want you to you're
getting paid randomly, and so for me, let's hope that
situation can be handled the correct way. Because if Jade
down you don't want to be don't draft him, don't
draft him, don't drafting, because if you don't drafting and
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the Patriots don't drafting, he's gonna drop. And so that's
gonna cost him financially a nice chunk of change. But
that that's just me personally. Hopefully they can smooth things
over with this agent, with himself, with his with his team,
who who knows what will take place there's a lot
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of smoke and mirrors at this time. Like I say,
the draft is next week. With all these young kids,
the best of luck, it's time to take a break.
Let's take a break. We'll be right back, Best LeVar Arrington.
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Speaker 1 (16:45):
I'm TJ.
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Houschman's out alongside mister LeVar Errington. Levard you know they
got a star on or helmet they play in Texas
quarterback Dak Prescott, we're gonna get into that.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's the Cowboy.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I don't know if you remember this, levard Let's let's
take it back a little bit some years and years
and years. You remember how we were always on speak
for yourself years and years ago, me yourself for contract?
Uh Whitlock and marcellis and we do the show every day,
and we were just at that time point in time,
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it was are the Cowboys gonna give Dak Prescott a
contract extension? And I was always saying, man pay him
thirty thirty two million a year right now.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Oh that's too much, that's too much. That's too much.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
They end up giving them forty million a year because
they waited, And here we are the same situation, Dak Prescott.
I don't Dak Prescott says, you know, I don't want
or need to be the highest paid quarterback. But the
longer the Cowboys wait, I don't know if they're waiting
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and it's going to be greater later or it's okay,
keep on playing with us, Dak. We know the value
of being a quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys brings.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We'll just let you go.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
But what do you make of Dak Prescott saying he
doesn't want or need to be the highest paid quarterback.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I think it's I think it's smart of Dak to
say it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
And when you look at the emotional and sweat equity
that that Dak has has built in Dallas, he doesn't
need to be overly aggressive and asking for an extension
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the new contract and talking crazy about what the numbers
should look like in all of those different things. He's
very much aware of the fact that he is one
of the most scrutinized, if not the most scrutinized quarterback
and players in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
That's for one.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
For two, he plays on the most recognizable brand in
most all sports with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That's two. But he's a likable dude, and why you
may be hard on them, I'm hard on it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm a critic of Dak Prescott, but when you listen
to him, he comes across as a likable dude TJ.
And so when I look at a scenario where he
puts out there in the public, I don't have to
be the highest paid quarterback in the league. I think
it's a good move because quite frankly, they have underperformed
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in terms of what the expectation and the standard that's
been placed on them, and not so much by the
public and the media, but by Jerry Jones and the
Dallas Cowboys organization. They have placed this team on a
self made pedestal. That self made pedestal has been supported
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fiercely by the Cowboys faithful fan base. And so when
you sell Super Bowls and you sell success to the
level that Jerry Jones and Dallas Cowboys organization sells it at,
you're now putting yourself and your organization and its employees,
most notably the most focal pointed employees like Dak Prescott
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in critical positions of scrutiny when it doesn't go right. Now,
the other side, the flip side of it is, is
if it does go right, You know how that works, TJ.
I mean, look at Troy Aikman in the post career
he's had since football, and EMITTT. Smith the success that
he's having since the end of football, and Mike Irvin
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the success he's had since leaving football. They've brought all
those Super Bowls to Dallas, and they live like kings
in their post career lives. So we know the flip
side of giving Jerry Jones and then giving the Dallas
Cowboys those championships. But for Dak Prescott, he has not
been able to do it. It's been elusive. I'm not
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so sure the window of opportunity for them to have
won a Super Bowl has closed TJ. And so looking
at the scenario that Dak Prescott is facing, he's most
valuable in my estimation in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Why leave that market, Why go start somewhere else?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I mean, I get going somewhere else and being able
to win a Super Bowl, But he's built that equity.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
He's value there.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
And to say I don't necessarily need to be the
highest paid in the league, I mean, there's guys like
Lamar Jackson out there. There's guys like you know, Patrick
Mahomes is coming up. I believe at some point here
there's other guys out there that you could clearly look
at and make an easy argument point against any other quarterback,
not just Dak Prescott, just any other quarterback in the
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National Football League and say there's no way you should
be making more money than them, even if the market
were to say for.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You to be able to keep this quarterback quarterback. It's
the only position, right, LeVar, where's Age my next guy up?
I'm the next guy up. So now I'm the highest paid.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Let me ask you this, if you, LeVar Arrington, were
running the Cowboys, how would you handle this situation?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That's a good one. Well, here's the thing, right.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
First of all, I feel as though the influence on
this team and the coaching staff is it's just too
much of it from Jerry Jones. It's too much from
the Jones family. That influence of how things are done,
you know, what you're going to do, what players you're
going to have. I think the influence is just it's
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just too strong. So the first thing I would do
if I'm if I'm in this situation is empower. Empower
the people who are are handling the day to day
from scouting to the coaching staff on who's playing and
how we're you know, structuring what we're doing. I think
the presence of Jerry Jones actually it actually is a
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drawback to the amount of success that they can have. Listen,
I played for an owner that was too involved and
had too much opinion and too much to say and
he got the same results every year and you're seeing
that take place in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So that'd be the first thing I would do.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Second thing I would do is let's get this team
a real opportunity to have success, and that would be
the first time that they would have the real opportunity
of not having the thumb over top of them, or
having Jerry Jones and the Jones family over top of
them watching every single little thing that they do and
having something to say. I mean, all of the media
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coverage that Jerry Jones has. All those things have to
play a part in how these guys are performing, from
coaches to players.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Now, as it applies to what I would do with
Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
After paying him the amount of money that I paid
him the first time around, I don't think that he's
measured up to the contract that I didn't ROI on
this investment that I placed out there. So this would
be the one time that I would actually wait if
I got to play pay more because he had more success,
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greater success in this upcoming season than great. But if
he doesn't have that type of success, that would call
for me to say I'm going to make a larger
investment TJ. I got to start thinking about bringing in
another guy at that position and seeing what direction we
can go in and how.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We fign Prescott to a contract. What would it be?
What would you give him? What would it be if
you were to sign him to an extension. It's that's
a hard that's a hard one.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
That's a hard one to answer because I would have
to measure out what I'm going to pay Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I got to measure out what I'm going to pay
CD Lamb, And to me right now, it ain't hard.
What would you give him? What would you give Dak Prescott?
The maximum you would give Dak Prescott? I mean, it's
got to be one hundred million dollar contract, and every
contract for a quarterback is one hundred million on a
per year basis, on the year, guaranteeing him. No Joe,
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I believe is a hotest paid quarterback in.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
The National Football League, and Deshaun Watson is the highest
paid quarterback.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Or we're talking on a uh per year. Okay, on
a per year average, what is he getting like fifty
forty five what is it? Six fifty five million a year?
That's what he That's what he makes fifty five million
a year. Yeah, on relation to Joe bro making fifty
five leave Herbert and Lamar just under him?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
What are you all right?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
So?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, think about this?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
How is has has Dak Prescott's performance make revenue go
down for Dallas as a team, as an organizations?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Has the revenue gone down? No? Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
So if I'm not losing revenue and my team still
is competitive and it's still it's still doing you know
things that look as though they're heading towards the super Bowl,
then I'm going to pay him the same amount that
I put that Joe Burrow is getting, you know, for
what it's worth. You could say Joe Burrow. You could
say Joe Burrow. Well, here's here's why. Here's the justification, right,
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because I'm a businessman first. More than anything, I put
business first. I stayd okay, me let me hear your
business perspective. Hold up, Hold up, before you go into
your businessman, uh talk. Let's get our main guy in
here real quick. Isaac long Crown. We got I low
on some up. Let's get Alo in here and then
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we're gonna let you fin.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh oh, I'm here coming into a different type of mutes.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
That's so first second.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Too, dang was coming in today right well.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Speaking of coming in hot, our top story within the
last hour, Fox Sports Radio's LeVar Arrington labeled Californians as
quote passive aggressive.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Unquote passive aggressives.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Passive aggressives. You know, I've lived my entire life in California.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
So then you know what I'm talking about, to be honesty.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Anyway, now with that out of the way, our real
top story is the NBA Playoffs. They're gonna tip off
at the top of the hour. Game one from Cleveland
between the Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic to play in.
Tournament concluded on Friday night, saw in New Orleans defeats
Sacramento one to oh five to ninety eight, spawning the
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leading candidate to date for best SoundBite of twenty twenty
four because after New Orleans victory, Pelicans forward Larry Nance
Junior was asked about the Pelicans' chances against one seed
Oklahoma City in the opening round.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Respectfully, I'm betting on the pills.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I'm not betting, No Johnson, I'm not a betting I'm
not betting on anything. I don't own a betting app.
None of that.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
No, can't be too careful these days. Earlier, yeah, cover you,
So that's right. Earlier Friday night, the Miami Heat knocked
off Chicago one twelve to ninety one to advance in
the playoffs. They'll face one seed Boston in the first
round in the Eastern Conference. Popular sports trivia expert and
former TV personality Howie Schwab has passed away. Schwab was
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best known for the sports trivia show Stump The Schwab's
shared from two thousand and four to two thousand and six. Finally,
in Major League Baseball Friday Night, the New York Mets
to feed the Dodgers in LA nine to four for
a five game winning streak, the Arizona Diamondbacks one in
San Francisco seventeen to one. Back to TJ and then
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Speaker 4 (30:38):
Now Express Pros. It is now give me your give
me your take on Why give him as much as
Joe Burrow? Yeah, that's crazy, we all know. Hold up
before we all know whoever the quarterback of the Dallas
Cowboys is. It's not effecting the bottom line. It's been
that way for years. Right or wrong, they haven't won
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a Super Bowl in almost no thirty years. Their bottom
line isn't affected. It's not affected. It doesn't matter who
the quarterback is. It's about the business of it. He's
a likable brand, he's a competitive brand. He has done
nothing egregious to say you shouldn't keep.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Him as your starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
If anything, the types of criticisms and scrutiny that he
has endured to have the type of results he's had.
You can look at a multitude of other examples as
to why this team is not where it needs to be.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's Super Bowl or bus for Dallas.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But when you think about it, if you're selling tickets,
if the fan base are still hopeful, and they still believe,
and you're selling those seats, and you're selling those beliefs,
then of course you pay him because there's no need,
there's no need to deviate from what's working until you
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get to the point where you say, we have now
hit a space where it's overly saturated in thinking that
we can sell our fans on Dak Prescott being the
key to winning a Super Bowl. Are you sold on
the fact that Dak Prescott can't deliver a super Bowl yet.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
TJ sold absolutely well deliver a super Bowl. He can't
deliver one.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Come on, man, So do you think the vast majority
of Dallas fans look at Dak Prescott and say he
cannot deliver us Dak Prescott, well, do.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
You got to get rid of nine percent of the
Cowboy fans believe that? Well, then you got to get
rid of them ninety nine Well, then you got to
get rid of.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Them because ultimately, think about this, right, let's let's look
at it from this perspective. I know we're up against
it on the break, but think about it from this perspective, TJ.
If you're saying you can't pay him the same as
Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow has the same amount.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Of Super Bowls that that Dak Prescott has less amount
of years. I get it. And he's made it to
the super Bowl. I get it. He's made it to
a super Bowl. I get winning playoff games. I get
it that.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Nonetheless, nonetheless, they had the same amount of Super Bowls
on their shelves, the same as zero.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I need you to just show me, just show me
you can get me there. Just show me you won't
be the reason we lose. Just show me that when
we look at who is a liability, that it isn't you.
When you're the highest paid player on the team, show
me that first. Show me that first. When we play
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the Green Bay Packers and Jordan Love is making his
first start in the playoffs, show me that you're better
than Jordan Love. Show me that you're not gonna throw
these interceptions when we go down seven zero.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Shot into that.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
How did the defense look in that game? Because le
defense at all, they got sliced it in the year
prior the Bay the year prior.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
When your defense plays great against the Niners, show me
that you're not just gonna throw the ball to the
other team.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
M hmm. Show that's that's what I mean by that.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
He's a good quarterback, but he can't get the Cowboys
where they want to go, and that's to a super Bowl.
Because he's had year after year after year of opportunities
to do it. He's shown he can't do it. But
he's a good quarterback.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Well, if that's how you feel, and the saturation of
him being the guy that can take you to the
super Bowl is there, If it's at full capacity, then
you gotta let it rain. You know, when the cloud
gets full of full of the precept and all all
the loister, you gotta let it go, man, you gotta
let it go. So I got it, and we and
we got and we gotta let this topic go. We
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must let this topic go. We will be taking a break.
That's LeVar Arrington. I'm TJ.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
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Let's continue with the draft and with the fifth pick
Chargers GM. Hey, we need a haul, we need we
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need to be blown away. If we're going to trade
the fifth pick, things will get interesting in that situation.
If the Vikings want to move up, they have two
first rounders. Let's see how that plays out. If you're
the Chargers, do you trade that pick? If you don't
trade it, who do you draft?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I think you're in a great position to get out
of that position and still get the player you want. TJ.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So, if I'm the Chargers, I'm with that G. I
think he's playing it the right way because there's enough
quarterbacks in this draft where you using draft capital to
get that pick.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
To get to that pick.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
You mentioned Minnesota, they're in desperate need of taking a quarterback.
So to me, there's there's going to be a buyer
out there for what it is that you're you're putting
out there. If it doesn't play out that way where
I can get a tremendous value for that pick, then
I take the best player available. If I'm the Chargers
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and looking at what they have going on right now,
you can look at it from any any given scenario.
Right you take the best offensive lineman available. You can't
go wrong there. You take the best receiver available at
that point in time, which is probably neighbors. I would
assume you you you take that, You take that pick.
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If it's if it's a tailback. I don't know that
you take that pick. I think you wait on a tailback,
but I think leave there's are running back that will
be going in the first round. Yeah, I wouldn't disagree
with that. I would say it's receiver, offensive line or edge,
Like you take the kid out of Alabama, you you take,
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you take Chop Robinson, whoever it may be.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Can you when you have when you have Bosa and
Matt can you do that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I mean and you have two week from last year
from a USC that had a pretty good rookie season.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Do you do that right? Well?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, yes you can't. Let me tell you something. You
can't have too many good pass rushers in today's NFL.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah you can't because who ain't gonna play and somebody
gonna be pissed off? You work, you can work. You
can get them all on the field. You can get
them all. Who going inside? Who going inside? Say they
say they draft uh, yeah we are, and you would
say they draft Chop Robinson and you got Bosa mac
Chop Robinson and two week from last year, who's going inside?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
You can? You can send any any one of them inside.
And the ones that's going inside don't want to go inside.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
It's more no not these days because I think that
the way they're moving, the way they're moving around and defenses,
it's such a hybrid deal.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
TJ Like, it's not just your defensive tackle.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
You're looking at guys like Aaron Donald, guys like Chris Jones,
guys like Khalil Mack. They've changed the way we look
at how defensive linemen are used. They can almost be
the facto outside linebackers at times.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
They can be rush edges. They could be zero. Yeah,
they can't.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Because when you're talking about moving the pocket and you're
talking about like really really stressing a quarterback, you want
as much speed as you possibly can get, and that
opens up holes in the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
That athleticism and speed you you're on some If I'm
the Chargers, if I can trade back and get eleven
and twenty one, you do it.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You do them. I'm sure I'm for sure doing that.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
And a lot of people love explosiveness, the playmaking ability
of Elik Neighbors. I'm one of those people, and so
that that's tough to If you're the Chargers, and if
he's available and he's there.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
You take the receiver. Man, I think you do. I
think you definitely take the receiver. There's a tackle that
would be available too. There is I forget his name
off the top of my head, but you can go
Joe Halt. There's another one. It could be all that's
how of Notre Dame. Yeah, I don't know, that's the name.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
That's the name. That's the name.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Yeah, And then, so you either take that offensive lineman
or you take neighbors. If those guys are available and
you haven't traded out of the pick, I think that
that's a for sure shot because you're going to give
Jordan Herbert that that next guy you done brought in
Gus the bus at your running backs position.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
They're going to get running back, but they can get
that later in the draft. I mean Dobbin. They got
Dobbins too. Yeah, you know what we got. We got
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Speaker 1 (01:38):
Lead me out of it.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Hey, just know how LaVar, I don't know what's going on.
And we talked about this, bro. Why is every weekend overcast?
Like we live in a Pacific northwest?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Now, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Every weekend during the week it's clear skies, it's sunny,
it's hot.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Saturday, Sunday goes loomy.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Gloomy is bonfire bonfire time, you know, spit fire. So
I don't I don't know, man, I don't know. It
was cold as hell like u c LA's practice last night, too.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I mean I got a running nose this morning. It's
all good, man. I mean, I'm paying these taxes to
be out here in the sunshine.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's what they say.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It never rains in southern Calilifornia. They tell me, until
you move out this mothersucker. And then the figure out
that it does rain, and it does get dreary, and
it does get a little bit like overcast and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm like, where am I right now?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Why am I paying these taxes? Yeah? Man, we all
we all want to know that. And where you're from here?
Can you help us? Can you be honest? I'm really
like they need to do something about this. Man, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
People like myself, yourself, we pay our taxes. Yeah, and
then you know all these other people, they got all
these homes out here. They don't claim California, man, way, no,
they don't claim California as a resis see. But you know,
you know, you and I we're gonna live out here.
You know we're gonna we're gonna pay our taxes.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I could, I should get you and I should get
a refund on every dreary day, especially on the calendar
where it's supposed to be sit outside drinking nice little cocktails.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
When we in April, we're in that. Come on, man, April, we.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Should not be seeing any of that. But we do
have a great show planned. The draft is next week.
I will be attending the draft and the players moments
that these guys have dreamed of and you can't wait
for it. And then when you get there is it's
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it's business. But there's one guy that every nobody knows.
What the commanders are gonna do at number two, they
gonna go Je Daniels, They're gonna go Drake May, They're
gonna go JJ m Nobody are they gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Trade to pick? But I knew.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I do know one thing. They pissed somebody off and
it was odd. You rarely see a team bring in
four players that are supposed to be you're supposed to consider,
all on the same day at the same time. I
guess it seems to be disrespectful. So put this in context,
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Jade Daniels goes and visits the Washington Commanders, but they
also bring in Drake May. I believe they brought in
bow Nicks, JJ McCarthy and J Daniels and he didn't
like that all at the same time.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And so.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
If you're Jade Daniels, because you went through this process
and you were a high pick and so you can
relate to this, I have to take a back seat
because I can't relate to this because they evaluated me wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's what I like to tell everything. That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I mean, I mean your your body of work proves that,
and so one would that bother you? And if you're
the commanders, if that really bothers Jane Daniels, do you
even care?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think both are great questions, TJ. Should it bother
Jade and Daniels? You're on a job interview, and I
think you just keep things. You keep things in their
their space and the proper perspective because business is business. Now,
granted these are young men coming out of college, they're
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still young. There's still you know, levels of growth that
have to take place. So I can see the ego outweighing,
you know, just kind of the sensibility of what a
situation may present. You have a golden opportunity to possibly
go number two overall in the draft. The furthest thing
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from my mind in that moment is to be offended by,
you know, there being other quarterback prospects there. In fact,
I would I would probably most likely TJ have approached
it from the standpoint of I'm glad they're here. I'm
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glad you brought us all here together, because now I'm
going to shine in front of them.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You don't even have to concern yourself with who the
alpha male is, who who the dog is in this room,
Who who's the one that's gonna make everybody bow down?
You don't have to worry about that. I'm here, they're here, Like,
let's go let's talk about it. You want to get
on the grease board. Let's get on the grease board.
Y'all want to go out throw the ball. Let's go off,
throw the ball. Y'all want to running forty, Let's run
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the forty. Y'all want some ways, Let's lift these weights, like,
let's do it, Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I want this, and I.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Now it is the mentality that you're talking about. Is
that a quarterback mentality? Because you know, we know, we
know LeVar. Oh you bring in another quarterback. Oh, it's
not the competition he's for sure, like quarterbacks are only
position in the world where they don't compete. Really, you
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bring in somebody to challenge him, you have to let
it be known that he is the backup, and so
they're treated different.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We all know this.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And if you don't know, you know now he wants
to play for the Raiders. He doesn't want to play
for anybody else, and we all know yeah, and rightfully
so I would as well. And for years and years
and years. Because you say this, he's they make it like, oh,
he should be just thankful to be in this position.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
This is years in years of hard work and dedication
to put himself in this position. Because last year, at
this time, had he left LSU, he had been a
late round draft pick. So he worked, he worked, and
he worked to be put in this position. And so
now you're telling me, I may be drafted to the
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Washington Commanders who are doing things that I don't like,
I don't appreciate. Why would I want to go play
for an organization that is doing these type of things
that could be his mentality? Because it's no longer Oh yeah, man,
just be thankful to be in this position. Got guys
on have that there, they're more the knowledge and awareness
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that they have, And I want to play here. Why
do I have to go play somewhere that I don't
want to play? I was able to choose my high school,
I was able to choose my college. Yeah, why can't
I choose where I plan? The professional rings?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
But we do know that that's that the Washington commanders
can do that in terms of how they handled the
visits because they do get to choose. So part of
part of what you're talking about is going into the
scenario understanding the circumstances, right like whether you look at
it as as a privilege, whether you look at it
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as I earn did, whatever it is the perspective you're
coming from, your one hundred percent correct in saying that,
regardless of what your your personality traits are, what what
your mentality is as a quarterback or any other position,
but more specifically a quarterback, if you're coming to the
table knowing that this is a job interview, then handle
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it that way. I don't even have to We don't
even have to go as far into getting into all
of the minor details of whether I deserve it, whether
I don't deserve it, whether it's a privilege, whether it's
not a privilege, whether it's my right, whether it's.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Not a right. We don't even have to go that
deep into it, TJ.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You know why, because at the end of the day,
it's a it's a it's a it's a business interview,
it's a job interview. If you don't like the way
this employer treated the situation. Cut conversations off, don't talk
to the Washington commanders, not one more time. I don't
like the way that you guys handled my job interview.
I don't want to I don't want to come there.
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I don't want to work for you. I don't I
don't control whether you draft me or not. But I
felt as though it was disrespectful. I felt as though,
whatever it is, his feelings of it were that ruffled
his feathers and made him feel the way that he felt.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
If he feels as though.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
That employer, that potential employer, did something that made him
feel uncomfortable about wanting to be a part of that
organization and work for them, then tell them right it's
his business. Don't play koy about it. Don't be passive aggressive.
You know Californians, I've been living out here for a
while now, y'all Californians are someone of the most passive
(10:34):
aggressive people I've ever known in my entire life. Man,
I don't really be knowing left from right when it
comes out, and you know he's from Cali. So y'all
have a really really interesting way sometimes like you like
one of the few like you, one of the few
dudes that I've ever met from Cali that I actually
he meant what he said, and he meant it from
like you like got East Coast wade about how you
(10:54):
go about things, But Cali cats, it's like y'all passively
aggressively say you know, you hurt my feelings, but but
it's okay that you hurt my feelings. You know, it's
all right. You know, maybe you didn't know any better,
but on the inside you're like, man, f you right right,
like it's real pass like I don't know if you
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hate me or if we okay or if you like me?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Are we friends? Are we are we foes?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What? What are we? I don't know what we are
because that's how California cats be handling stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I don't know, y'all.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, it's a weird thing where I come from.
If I don't like you, I'm gonna tell you I
don't like you, like I can't be passive aggressive. If
he doesn't want to play for Washington. Based upon what
took place during this job interview, say it, say it
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right if I want. If I wouldn't go as far
as to say this is the team I want to
play for. I want to go to the Las Vegas Raiders.
I want to play for coach Antonio Pierce. I want
to play for a team that's from where I grew
up and and and played ball. I mean, you could
say that I'm I'm a fan of it. And we
all know he's a fan of APAP recruited. We all
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know he's you know, if he's from here. A lot
of LA Cats love the Raiders. We know that it's
a tremendous fan base here. But if you don't want
to play for a team that you feel has disrespected
you in any way, has handled business incorrectly or unprofessionally
in your way, then strategically.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
And with class and with and with the grace.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Of what a quarterback that's going to be possibly a
franchise guy for organization, handle it as such, because it's
still a job interview. And if you do a job
interview and you fall on your face in the media
with how you handle your discussion points that not only
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dictates what happens with that particular organization, but it's a
ripple effect as well. TJ, like this guy doesn't have
the mental, emotional capacity to be a franchise quarterback at
the National Football League level, and you and I both
know the scrutiny on that position in particular is much
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higher on the emotional IQ, the mental IQ of what
they bring to the table. So any type of mishap
connected to something like this could be the undoing of
that man being a top draft pick in this draft,
after all the hard work he did to prepare himself
to be able to do what he's doing now to be.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
In this position.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It's one of those things where for me, if I
don't I don't want to draft a player that doesn't
want to play for me, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I don't care how good he is.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I don't care what I think he can do for
my organization and our team and our I don't care
if you don't want to play with us, with my team,
with my order. I don't want you. I don't care
how good you are, and I don't know. I don't
want you because you are not going to give it
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your a. It's always going to be that thought in
the back of your mind where I don't really want
to play here as soon as you hit adversity. I
didn't want to play here anyway. I didn't want them
to draft me anyway.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You end up saying it out loud too, right after
out loud, Yeah yeah, and so you.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Know he don't want to play, I'm a draft him anyway.
I don't think that's a good idea because then when
you have people and players that start to have an
attitude they told you they didn't want to be there
to begin with, to be like dude, Mike Tomlins says
it the best. I don't want hostages. I want volunteers.
(14:55):
That's what I want. I want volunteers, not hostages. And
so that's just me and I want you to you're
getting paid randomly, and so for me, let's hope that
situation can be handled the correct way. Because if Jade
down you don't want to be don't draft him, don't
draft him, don't drafting, because if you don't drafting and
(15:18):
the Patriots don't drafting, he's gonna drop. And so that's
gonna cost him financially a nice chunk of change. But
that that's just me personally. Hopefully they can smooth things
over with this agent, with himself, with his with his team,
who who knows what will take place there's a lot
(15:41):
of smoke and mirrors at this time. Like I say,
the draft is next week. With all these young kids,
the best of luck, it's time to take a break.
Let's take a break. We'll be right back, Best LeVar Arrington.
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Houschman's out alongside mister LeVar Errington. Levard you know they
got a star on or helmet they play in Texas
quarterback Dak Prescott, we're gonna get into that.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's the Cowboy.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I don't know if you remember this, levard Let's let's
take it back a little bit some years and years
and years. You remember how we were always on speak
for yourself years and years ago, me yourself for contract?
Uh Whitlock and marcellis and we do the show every day,
and we were just at that time point in time,
(17:27):
it was are the Cowboys gonna give Dak Prescott a
contract extension? And I was always saying, man pay him
thirty thirty two million a year right now.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Oh that's too much, that's too much. That's too much.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
They end up giving them forty million a year because
they waited, And here we are the same situation, Dak Prescott.
I don't Dak Prescott says, you know, I don't want
or need to be the highest paid quarterback. But the
longer the Cowboys wait, I don't know if they're waiting
(18:02):
and it's going to be greater later or it's okay,
keep on playing with us, Dak. We know the value
of being a quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys brings.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We'll just let you go.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
But what do you make of Dak Prescott saying he
doesn't want or need to be the highest paid quarterback.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I think it's I think it's smart of Dak to
say it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
And when you look at the emotional and sweat equity
that that Dak has has built in Dallas, he doesn't
need to be overly aggressive and asking for an extension
(18:54):
the new contract and talking crazy about what the numbers
should look like in all of those different things. He's
very much aware of the fact that he is one
of the most scrutinized, if not the most scrutinized quarterback
and players in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
That's for one.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
For two, he plays on the most recognizable brand in
most all sports with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That's two. But he's a likable dude, and why you
may be hard on them, I'm hard on it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm a critic of Dak Prescott, but when you listen
to him, he comes across as a likable dude TJ.
And so when I look at a scenario where he
puts out there in the public, I don't have to
be the highest paid quarterback in the league. I think
it's a good move because quite frankly, they have underperformed
(19:48):
in terms of what the expectation and the standard that's
been placed on them, and not so much by the
public and the media, but by Jerry Jones and the
Dallas Cowboys organization. They have placed this team on a
self made pedestal. That self made pedestal has been supported
(20:09):
fiercely by the Cowboys faithful fan base. And so when
you sell Super Bowls and you sell success to the
level that Jerry Jones and Dallas Cowboys organization sells it at,
you're now putting yourself and your organization and its employees,
most notably the most focal pointed employees like Dak Prescott
(20:33):
in critical positions of scrutiny when it doesn't go right. Now,
the other side, the flip side of it is, is
if it does go right, You know how that works, TJ.
I mean, look at Troy Aikman in the post career
he's had since football, and EMITTT. Smith the success that
he's having since the end of football, and Mike Irvin
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the success he's had since leaving football. They've brought all
those Super Bowls to Dallas, and they live like kings
in their post career lives. So we know the flip
side of giving Jerry Jones and then giving the Dallas
Cowboys those championships. But for Dak Prescott, he has not
been able to do it. It's been elusive. I'm not
(21:16):
so sure the window of opportunity for them to have
won a Super Bowl has closed TJ. And so looking
at the scenario that Dak Prescott is facing, he's most
valuable in my estimation in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Why leave that market, Why go start somewhere else?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I mean, I get going somewhere else and being able
to win a Super Bowl, But he's built that equity.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
He's value there.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
And to say I don't necessarily need to be the
highest paid in the league, I mean, there's guys like
Lamar Jackson out there. There's guys like you know, Patrick
Mahomes is coming up. I believe at some point here
there's other guys out there that you could clearly look
at and make an easy argument point against any other quarterback,
not just Dak Prescott, just any other quarterback in the
(22:07):
National Football League and say there's no way you should
be making more money than them, even if the market
were to say for.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You to be able to keep this quarterback quarterback. It's
the only position, right, LeVar, where's Age my next guy up?
I'm the next guy up. So now I'm the highest paid.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Let me ask you this, if you, LeVar Arrington, were
running the Cowboys, how would you handle this situation?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
That's a good one. Well, here's the thing, right.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
First of all, I feel as though the influence on
this team and the coaching staff is it's just too
much of it from Jerry Jones. It's too much from
the Jones family. That influence of how things are done,
you know, what you're going to do, what players you're
going to have. I think the influence is just it's
(23:00):
just too strong. So the first thing I would do
if I'm if I'm in this situation is empower. Empower
the people who are are handling the day to day
from scouting to the coaching staff on who's playing and
how we're you know, structuring what we're doing. I think
the presence of Jerry Jones actually it actually is a
(23:25):
drawback to the amount of success that they can have. Listen,
I played for an owner that was too involved and
had too much opinion and too much to say and
he got the same results every year and you're seeing
that take place in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So that'd be the first thing I would do.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Second thing I would do is let's get this team
a real opportunity to have success, and that would be
the first time that they would have the real opportunity
of not having the thumb over top of them, or
having Jerry Jones and the Jones family over top of
them watching every single little thing that they do and
having something to say. I mean, all of the media
(24:05):
coverage that Jerry Jones has. All those things have to
play a part in how these guys are performing, from
coaches to players.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Now, as it applies to what I would do with
Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
After paying him the amount of money that I paid
him the first time around, I don't think that he's
measured up to the contract that I didn't ROI on
this investment that I placed out there. So this would
be the one time that I would actually wait if
I got to play pay more because he had more success,
(24:39):
greater success in this upcoming season than great. But if
he doesn't have that type of success, that would call
for me to say I'm going to make a larger
investment TJ. I got to start thinking about bringing in
another guy at that position and seeing what direction we
can go in and how.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We fign Prescott to a contract. What would it be?
What would you give him? What would it be if
you were to sign him to an extension. It's that's
a hard that's a hard one.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
That's a hard one to answer because I would have
to measure out what I'm going to pay Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I got to measure out what I'm going to pay
CD Lamb, And to me right now, it ain't hard.
What would you give him? What would you give Dak Prescott?
The maximum you would give Dak Prescott? I mean, it's
got to be one hundred million dollar contract, and every
contract for a quarterback is one hundred million on a
per year basis, on the year, guaranteeing him. No Joe,
(25:33):
I believe is a hotest paid quarterback in.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
The National Football League, and Deshaun Watson is the highest
paid quarterback.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Or we're talking on a uh per year. Okay, on
a per year average, what is he getting like fifty
forty five what is it? Six fifty five million a year?
That's what he That's what he makes fifty five million
a year. Yeah, on relation to Joe bro making fifty
five leave Herbert and Lamar just under him?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
What are you all right?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
So?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, think about this?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
How is has has Dak Prescott's performance make revenue go
down for Dallas as a team, as an organizations?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Has the revenue gone down? No? Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
So if I'm not losing revenue and my team still
is competitive and it's still it's still doing you know
things that look as though they're heading towards the super Bowl,
then I'm going to pay him the same amount that
I put that Joe Burrow is getting, you know, for
what it's worth. You could say Joe Burrow. You could
say Joe Burrow. Well, here's here's why. Here's the justification, right,
(26:41):
because I'm a businessman first. More than anything, I put
business first. I stayd okay, me let me hear your
business perspective. Hold up, Hold up, before you go into
your businessman, uh talk. Let's get our main guy in
here real quick. Isaac long Crown. We got I low
on some up. Let's get Alo in here and then
(27:01):
we're gonna let you fin.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh oh, I'm here coming into a different type of mutes.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
That's so first second.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Too, dang was coming in today right well.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Speaking of coming in hot, our top story within the
last hour, Fox Sports Radio's LeVar Arrington labeled Californians as
quote passive aggressive.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Unquote passive aggressives.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Passive aggressives. You know, I've lived my entire life in California.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
So then you know what I'm talking about, to be honesty.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Anyway, now with that out of the way, our real
top story is the NBA Playoffs. They're gonna tip off
at the top of the hour. Game one from Cleveland
between the Cavaliers and the Orlando Magic to play in.
Tournament concluded on Friday night, saw in New Orleans defeats
Sacramento one to oh five to ninety eight, spawning the
(28:01):
leading candidate to date for best SoundBite of twenty twenty
four because after New Orleans victory, Pelicans forward Larry Nance
Junior was asked about the Pelicans' chances against one seed
Oklahoma City in the opening round.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Respectfully, I'm betting on the pills.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I'm not betting, No Johnson, I'm not a betting I'm
not betting on anything. I don't own a betting app.
None of that.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
No, can't be too careful these days. Earlier, yeah, cover you,
So that's right. Earlier Friday night, the Miami Heat knocked
off Chicago one twelve to ninety one to advance in
the playoffs. They'll face one seed Boston in the first
round in the Eastern Conference. Popular sports trivia expert and
former TV personality Howie Schwab has passed away. Schwab was
(28:57):
best known for the sports trivia show Stump The Schwab's
shared from two thousand and four to two thousand and six. Finally,
in Major League Baseball Friday Night, the New York Mets
to feed the Dodgers in LA nine to four for
a five game winning streak, the Arizona Diamondbacks one in
San Francisco seventeen to one. Back to TJ and then
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never passive aggressive LeVar.
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Speaker 4 (30:38):
Now Express Pros. It is now give me your give
me your take on Why give him as much as
Joe Burrow? Yeah, that's crazy, we all know. Hold up
before we all know whoever the quarterback of the Dallas
Cowboys is. It's not effecting the bottom line. It's been
that way for years. Right or wrong, they haven't won
(31:01):
a Super Bowl in almost no thirty years. Their bottom
line isn't affected. It's not affected. It doesn't matter who
the quarterback is. It's about the business of it. He's
a likable brand, he's a competitive brand. He has done
nothing egregious to say you shouldn't keep.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Him as your starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
If anything, the types of criticisms and scrutiny that he
has endured to have the type of results he's had.
You can look at a multitude of other examples as
to why this team is not where it needs to be.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's Super Bowl or bus for Dallas.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But when you think about it, if you're selling tickets,
if the fan base are still hopeful, and they still believe,
and you're selling those seats, and you're selling those beliefs,
then of course you pay him because there's no need,
there's no need to deviate from what's working until you
(32:05):
get to the point where you say, we have now
hit a space where it's overly saturated in thinking that
we can sell our fans on Dak Prescott being the
key to winning a Super Bowl. Are you sold on
the fact that Dak Prescott can't deliver a super Bowl yet.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
TJ sold absolutely well deliver a super Bowl. He can't
deliver one.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Come on, man, So do you think the vast majority
of Dallas fans look at Dak Prescott and say he
cannot deliver us Dak Prescott, well, do.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
You got to get rid of nine percent of the
Cowboy fans believe that? Well, then you got to get
rid of them ninety nine Well, then you got to
get rid of.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Them because ultimately, think about this, right, let's let's look
at it from this perspective. I know we're up against
it on the break, but think about it from this perspective, TJ.
If you're saying you can't pay him the same as
Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow has the same amount.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Of Super Bowls that that Dak Prescott has less amount
of years. I get it. And he's made it to
the super Bowl. I get it. He's made it to
a super Bowl. I get winning playoff games. I get
it that.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Nonetheless, nonetheless, they had the same amount of Super Bowls
on their shelves, the same as zero.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I need you to just show me, just show me
you can get me there. Just show me you won't
be the reason we lose. Just show me that when
we look at who is a liability, that it isn't you.
When you're the highest paid player on the team, show
me that first. Show me that first. When we play
(33:45):
the Green Bay Packers and Jordan Love is making his
first start in the playoffs, show me that you're better
than Jordan Love. Show me that you're not gonna throw
these interceptions when we go down seven zero.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Shot into that.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
How did the defense look in that game? Because le
defense at all, they got sliced it in the year
prior the Bay the year prior.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
When your defense plays great against the Niners, show me
that you're not just gonna throw the ball to the
other team.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
M hmm. Show that's that's what I mean by that.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
He's a good quarterback, but he can't get the Cowboys
where they want to go, and that's to a super Bowl.
Because he's had year after year after year of opportunities
to do it. He's shown he can't do it. But
he's a good quarterback.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Well, if that's how you feel, and the saturation of
him being the guy that can take you to the
super Bowl is there, If it's at full capacity, then
you gotta let it rain. You know, when the cloud
gets full of full of the precept and all all
the loister, you gotta let it go, man, you gotta
let it go. So I got it, and we and
we got and we gotta let this topic go. We
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must let this topic go. We will be taking a break.
That's LeVar Arrington. I'm TJ.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Mazada up on Game Fox Sports Radio. We'll be right back.
Welcome back in up on game Live from the tiereck
dot Com studio. I'm TJ. Hush Mazada alongside mister LeVar Arrington.
Let's continue with the draft and with the fifth pick
Chargers GM. Hey, we need a haul, we need we
(35:24):
need to be blown away. If we're going to trade
the fifth pick, things will get interesting in that situation.
If the Vikings want to move up, they have two
first rounders. Let's see how that plays out. If you're
the Chargers, do you trade that pick? If you don't
trade it, who do you draft?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I think you're in a great position to get out
of that position and still get the player you want. TJ.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
So, if I'm the Chargers, I'm with that G. I
think he's playing it the right way because there's enough
quarterbacks in this draft where you using draft capital to
get that pick.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
To get to that pick.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
You mentioned Minnesota, they're in desperate need of taking a quarterback.
So to me, there's there's going to be a buyer
out there for what it is that you're you're putting
out there. If it doesn't play out that way where
I can get a tremendous value for that pick, then
I take the best player available. If I'm the Chargers
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and looking at what they have going on right now,
you can look at it from any any given scenario.
Right you take the best offensive lineman available. You can't
go wrong there. You take the best receiver available at
that point in time, which is probably neighbors. I would
assume you you you take that, You take that pick.
(36:45):
If it's if it's a tailback. I don't know that
you take that pick. I think you wait on a tailback,
but I think leave there's are running back that will
be going in the first round. Yeah, I wouldn't disagree
with that. I would say it's receiver, offensive line or edge,
Like you take the kid out of Alabama, you you take,
(37:06):
you take Chop Robinson, whoever it may be.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Can you when you have when you have Bosa and
Matt can you do that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I mean and you have two week from last year
from a USC that had a pretty good rookie season.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Do you do that right? Well?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, yes you can't. Let me tell you something. You
can't have too many good pass rushers in today's NFL.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah you can't because who ain't gonna play and somebody
gonna be pissed off? You work, you can work. You
can get them all on the field. You can get
them all. Who going inside? Who going inside? Say they
say they draft uh, yeah we are, and you would
say they draft Chop Robinson and you got Bosa mac
Chop Robinson and two week from last year, who's going inside?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
You can? You can send any any one of them inside.
And the ones that's going inside don't want to go inside.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
It's more no not these days because I think that
the way they're moving, the way they're moving around and defenses,
it's such a hybrid deal.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
TJ Like, it's not just your defensive tackle.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
You're looking at guys like Aaron Donald, guys like Chris Jones,
guys like Khalil Mack. They've changed the way we look
at how defensive linemen are used. They can almost be
the facto outside linebackers at times.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
They can be rush edges. They could be zero. Yeah,
they can't.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Because when you're talking about moving the pocket and you're
talking about like really really stressing a quarterback, you want
as much speed as you possibly can get, and that
opens up holes in the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
That athleticism and speed you you're on some If I'm
the Chargers, if I can trade back and get eleven
and twenty one, you do it.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You do them. I'm sure I'm for sure doing that.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
And a lot of people love explosiveness, the playmaking ability
of Elik Neighbors. I'm one of those people, and so
that that's tough to If you're the Chargers, and if
he's available and he's there.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
You take the receiver. Man, I think you do. I
think you definitely take the receiver. There's a tackle that
would be available too. There is I forget his name
off the top of my head, but you can go
Joe Halt. There's another one. It could be all that's
how of Notre Dame. Yeah, I don't know, that's the name.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
That's the name. That's the name.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Yeah, And then, so you either take that offensive lineman
or you take neighbors. If those guys are available and
you haven't traded out of the pick, I think that
that's a for sure shot because you're going to give
Jordan Herbert that that next guy you done brought in
Gus the bus at your running backs position.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
They're going to get running back, but they can get
that later in the draft. I mean Dobbin. They got
Dobbins too. Yeah, you know what we got. We got
a podcast shortly after the show.
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