May 30, 2024 • 41 mins
The Old P, Petros Papadakis joins Brady and LaVar to talk about the Lakers coaching search, Lincoln Riley and USC trying to duck LSU and much more! Plus, “You In or Out?”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Radio bnvidinos everybody. My name is Petros Papadakis. I am
a local radio type here in the city of Los Angeles.
I have a fledgling career as a college football analyst,
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Speaker 3 (01:20):
Great Waker of the echoes, Brady Quinn, Hall of Famer,
the Scourge of Happy Valley, LeVar Arrington, We're gonna do
a whole hour here of sports talk radio on a
national level, and uh, we're gonna talk.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We're gonna talk about sports.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
We're gonna do a real sports talk show, not like
when I come on here and it's all just grab
ass on Wednesdays.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Hour of that is that about bossing. It's your guys show.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We can do whatever. We can do whatever you want.
I'm just here to help you across the finish line.
I'm gonna do tomorrow if today goes okay, and I'm
also gonna do Monday, and I'm also gonna do Tuesday.
From what I understand you ownus is celebrating a birthday
and a local Shaky's in Moore Park or where.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Do you like their chicken or their pizza better.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Chicken to Mojo's. We we do.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
We do advertisements for Shaky's on the local AM five
seventy LA Sports here where we're on in LA and
they bring us our Dodger coverage.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Dodgers just swept the Mets in New York for a.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Weekend and uh, I heard the Big Head and Giant
Head Show talking about it in their promo in the
very last segment, they talk a lot of Mets. The
Big Head and Giant Head show. You guys know that show.
I don't know that show, Jason Smith and the Big
Head Guy. It's a Big Head and Giant Head. They
hammer a lot of Mets talk there, but having to
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be the only show that hammers the Mets is that
they love Mets talk. I guess if Jimmy Kimmel had
a radio show, he'd talk a lot of it. Yeah,
he's a big he's a big Mets fan. Isn't it
funny that Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla were like the
duo and they have both like sprinted to the opposite
sides of the whole opposite room. Don't you love an
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election year? But anyway, Shakey's, as I was saying, we
go to shakys dot com right before the Dodger game,
and if you order it right when our show's over,
your chicken and mojos will arrive before first pitch. If
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for Shakey's. Everybody all right.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We answer your question.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
To answer your question, though I don't know that he's
out of Shaky's but he's definitely taking time off, and
I believe he's going to Chicago to go watch his
beloved Cubs play atfield.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I've never been to Wrigleyfield. I've been outside.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
You gotta go.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It's there's something different about that place when you go inside,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It kind of fits into our topic and the next
segment about college football tradition and something really stupid that
Colin Cowherd throughout there yesterday right before he talked to
Bruce Feldman on this very air.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We will talk about it. The only time I've ever.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Been to Chicago was for a Notre Dame trip when
I was in the media USC versus Notre Dame and
I was still working for USC doing radio sideline at
the time. I think their quarterback was was either I
think it was Liner linerd and Mike Williams, Big Mike
Williams the receiver, and I spent my three days in
Chicago and went to Wrigleyville and had a drink and
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all that. But that's the only time I've ever been
to the city. So help Jonas has a good time.
You guys have much more extensive experience in the midway,
I believe even you LeVar, right.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah, I mean we consider Pittsburgh at West, so I.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Mean, yeah, it's been Pittsburgh is Midwest. That's what some
of us consider it. Well, I mean, I will say this.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
When I started doing when West Virginia joined the Big
twelve and I started going there maybe three times a
year literally for years covering the Dana Holgerson teams, I
could not believe that that Pittsburgh was like a seventy
minute drive from Morgantown and that you see Ohio on
your way, like you go by Steubenville, which is the
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home of Dean Martin. That always kind of tripped me
out about that. And I used to do national radio
on Fox Sports Radio, but my brand is so.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Local that they moved us.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Back to LA. So we'll talk in to LA. Topic
or two here, guys. That JJ Reddick stuff continues to develop,
and it just feels like they're waiting for him to
get done with his TV career, And it also kind
of feels like they're pumping up the idea to make
everybody use to the fact that they're going to hire
somebody vary inexperienced. As this thing plays out, it feels
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like a bit of a FATA complete, does it not.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
That's one way of putting it right.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, yeah, I mean is that how you would put it?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Well, yes, I mean Bill Plashki came on our show,
I don't know right after at some point when the
Lakers were eliminated and started talking about how Lebron James
and all this different stuff is just it's gonna happen,
but we all have to go through the motions we
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talked about it. I think yesterday on the show, and
he's coming back to the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They're gonna draft his kid. They're gonna do everything he wants.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Do you think they'll draft them? You don't think he'll
go on draft and then they sign him.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I think that if he's there for their whatever it is,
fifty to fifth pick or whatever. I don't have it there.
I don't have the draft board in front of me.
They'll take him there and everybody's gonna have to swallow it.
And it's upsetting. I guess the media manipulation part of
it really bothers me. The manipulation of one of the
great franchises in the history of sport really bothers me.
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But I can't see myself getting inflamed about this every
day for the next two months while it plays itself
out and they're going to hire JJ Redick. He went
on that Massachusetts show, insufferable show in Massachusetts but very
popular Felger and Maz Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yeah, I've actually had a buddy who lived in Boston.
He still listens to them to this day and even
though he doesn't live there anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Super chowderhead type of show. And JJ Redick was extremely condescending, like.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He always is.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Did you guys hear that talking about the Celtics and
stuff like that?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
If you go from hot take TV, which is not journalism,
it's not really anything, it's podcasting and just talking like
we're doing here, I don't know if you you do
that and then go to coaching one of the great
franchises in the history of sport and having to face
that doesn't he just.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
A puppet though? Petros?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I mean it feels like it's a done deal. Yeah,
you're a puppet. But you have to work in trumptu.
You have to come up with things, you have to
say things, you have to deal with the media. You
got to deal with Lebron. You you've got to deal
with things in the moment, you got to live it.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I guess I'll push back a little in the sense
of I feel like he could be a really good
fit for everything they're looking for.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I do think j J.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Well a GA's something I'll put it simply, someone who
Lebron can control and probably someone who Lebron can work
with at least for the final moments of his career.
And so if that's the case, you've got someone that
clearly he feels comfortable with, someone that I think will
handle the media, criticism.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You know, adversity, whatever comes along with it. He'll be
able to handle it well. I do think he's he
deals with criticism well.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I think he's I think he takes things head on.
You might not agree with his opinion on things, but
I don't. I don't think he shies away from it.
I think he knows how to at least give you
his viewpoint and look, like any coach you're you're not
always going to agree with their opinion on something. But
the reality is, I think he's still gonna be able
to stand up there take the the you know, the
bullets that the comments that come his way. And I
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think the other thing is is I do think he's
an extremely hard worker. Like I don't think there's any
concern over him being able to work his tail off
to make it work. I just I wonder how much
power does he have. Like the hard part about him
signing up for this is it's obviously you can't say no.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Like that's the hard thing about having the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Say no because it's the Lakers, Like you really the
guy that turned down the Lakers, because you never know
too if they're ever going to give you the opportunity
to do it again. Like that's the double edged sword.
I think of any of these amazing franchises where they
throw it, they throw a gout an opportunity to be
the head coach. It's like, yeah, I might go down
in history as one of the worst ever, but I
also could be a successful head coach of one of
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the greatest franchises in history.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
LaVar two, there's two kind of This is a two
prong barbecue fork of life.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
If those of us that get done playing football, like
all of us did, some guys they go right into coaching.
Maybe if they were a great player, maybe if they
were a walk on, maybe anywhere in between.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I know a lot of guys like that. Chris Rashard was.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
A guy played with a corner at sc who went
right into coaching, you know, and then ended up becoming
a decordinator for the Dallas Cowboys for some time.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't know where he is now. But the point.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Is, isn't that what you do when you want to
get into coaching. You don't mess around on ESPN and
coach your kids team and do all that and then
dive into the pool of scorpions that is being the
head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. I mean, if
you want to be a coach, be a coach. I mean,
I don't get it. I think you got to go
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through to your point. I think you have to go
through the process of learning what being a head coach is, right.
I think that that's why you go into it as
an analyst, you know, as you know, kind of a
supportive type of position because you're.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Or even like Steve Kerr who started in the front office.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
So you start in the front office, right because you
have to as the head coach, you have to understand
what everybody's doing. You know, you have to understand what
your scouts are doing. You have to understand hell, you
got to understand what the media of your team and
what they're doing and how they're handling things.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Who's leaking?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Right, Like, if you got leaky faucets, you gotta stop
because you know, leaky faucet, it leads to a larger
bill at the end of the month. It's just there's
so many things that go into coaching outside of the
x's and o's, and I think a lot of times
that is misconstrued and it's not valued enough.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Let me focus on you guys, though, because I feel
like when I got done playing, to me, there's levels
of like the closeness to the thing that you loved.
And I don't know if you guys loved football or not.
I mean I did. It was awful, like having to
transition away from playing the game that I had played
for so many years and grew to love. But there's coaching,
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which is the next closest thing. And I did a
couple of small things that kind of helped me realize that, right,
Like I coached in the East West Shrine Game one
year and so I got an idea of what that
would be like slash how nice it was to be
around players and be you know, be with them every day, kind.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Of coach them and all that.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
And then there's media, which is like probably the next tier,
if you will, to playing, because you're around the sport,
you're watching the sport, you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
The sport, but you're not as in it. And everybody's
a douche pretty much.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
But but at least for guys who like all played
together or played against each other or had played, you
do have.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That common ground.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
So there's like the element of that we don't change
in the locker room together unless your a NFL network,
which I think LaVar was at one point, so they
had a locker room there.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They're all changing it.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Have that one special room a fox right off the
Avocado room where Terry Bradshawe and how.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
We do their Peter Gaze and Peter Games. I'll say this,
I think LaVar has been.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
In there, haven't you of LeVar?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, yeah, he's been in that room.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Little Peter Games, the upper room, you know who used
to go in there and blow it out and not
flush the toilet just to make everybody angry, and Andy Roddick,
of all people, was the one who rooted him out
and discovered him and did the detective work. Chris Myers really,
oh yeah, I'm gonna go in here and y'all drop
a do say yaw.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, he went.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And blew it out, and how he would come in
the next day and be like, I mean that's that
that was anyway, maybe a little bit of insight.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So it would sit there all night till the next Yeah,
unless somebody I'm.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Just brewing, I.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Mean literally like a tea bag. Just yeah, it was
a terrible, terrible deal. Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Now, my my my thought is I felt kind of
the same way Brady uh in that when I got
done playing, and maybe this is what made me so bitter.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
When I got done playing, I.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Immediately went into the local media and immediately started to
cover the team that I played for. Uh, but it
was a different head coach. Pete Carroll took over that
I had gotten Paul Hackett fired like I had gotten
John Robinson.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Fact, so I'm like Lebron, I get coaches just dead.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And so when Pete Carroll took over, I took over
as the USC kind of pre half and post guy,
and then I started doing sideline and until like two
thousand and four, I started doing national games. But it
was interesting, and maybe that's why I'm so bitter. I
like stayed on the same team plane for another four years,
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which was not easy. And then I went into broadcasting,
calling games in the booth, and I was up in
the booth with a guy who was thirty years older
than me who didn't like to go down on the
field and chopping up with the players as much because
he'd been doing games for forty years.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So I did that for like ten years.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And then suddenly there was a big shake up at
Fox and they hired Joel Klatt and they made me
Joel Klattz sideline analysts like Saragusa, and they wanted me
basically just to quit and not do it, but I
said I'll do it, and we ended up making a
success of it, and I hung on. But I I
really did enjoy going back to the game in that way,
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so to speak, right, getting back on the sideline, even
though everybody made fun of me and called me a
sideline girl and all that. I who called you a
sideline Aaron Andrews sure got ugly. You know it is
a lot of.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
That someone actually said that to you someone, But I
will say this, I got back down onto the field
for a few years, and you smell the smells, you know,
you feel what it's like to stand with the guys
on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You hear them talk.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And the most glaring thing to me, and this happened
to me the other year when I did the Mountain
West Championship with Brando and Spencer, is you look through
the face masks and they're kids, you know, I mean,
they are kids, and it's hard to remember that because
they're like robots and fantasy football and video games has
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dehumanized all of the players, but they are young people.
And again, back into it in that way was really cool.
But that didn't give me the delusions of being like, Okay,
now I'm going to install Zone right now, I'm to
install why Stick, and I'm going to do bedcheck and
I'm going to smoke cigarettes with the tight end coach
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on the roof of the dorm. Like do you know
what I'm saying, Brady?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Like, I do it, but I think I would look
at it from a different perspective too. Is it's the
sacrifice that you're going to have to make to coach
because if you are a family man, you want to
have a family, You're not gonna be raising your kids,
You'll be raising someone else's. And that's that was what
kind of was steering me dead in the face when
I started having kids and started pondering, you know, could
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the opportunity of coaching be out there?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Sure? But like, how was that going to work with
my family life?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well, well, LaVar, you got into coaching because of your kid, right,
or were you doing it before?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
No, Antonio Piers got me into coach. I had been
doing mentorship and development for a lot of years.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You were at Polly for a little while.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I was. I was. I ended up coaching and thought
about turning it into it when he went to ASU,
I thought about going there and continuing to grow within
the coaching ranks. But well, yeah, but for me, I
just I you know, I wanted to coach at a time.
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Now that I stopped coaching, I don't know how I
did coach. You know, the amount of time that you
have to commit to it, and again, the politics that
are connected to being a coach and the things you
have to handle, and you got so many different bullets flying.
There's so many different directions back to kind of the
original point of it. With the JJ Reddick aspect of it,
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is he even ready politically to be able to handle it.
It's like being in politics coming to be the head
coach of the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Is he able?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Is he going to the type of personality that he has,
Is he even going to be able to handle you know,
the media and the way people come his way, because
he could turn some people off very quickly with the
way he does have kind of a very very intelligent
but yet condescending approach to how he communicates with people.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Well, it's a little like Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel, Right,
everybody's gonna run to the opposite spectrum and there's not
going to be any middle ground except for reasonable people
like us.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But if you if you.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Are in the clutch world and you're one of these
twelve or fifteen media people that Rich Paul calls, right,
and they all say it like it's so stupid. They
start out their statement, well, I think this this about Browny,
I think this this this about Lebron and I think
this this about JJ Reddick. And I talked to Rich
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Paul earlier today, it's like, well, okay, thanks, great, that's
all propaganda. So I guess you'll feel protected under that
umbrella of those twelve guys, right, Sham Sharania, the fat
guy on ESPN, the maybe uh Chiny or whoever she is,
the lady on the NBA, Ramona. You know, they're all
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gonna they're all gonna sing from the Clutch Sports hymnal
because that's their group. And then there's gonna be the naysayers,
like the people that don't get the clutch sports stuff,
like WOJ and all that, and we're all just gonna
be caught in this black and white media firestorm of BS.
So maybe JJ feels politically protected, I guess would be
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my answer going into it, even though I'm sure Darvin
Ham felt that way until they had him fired, and
he's already felt that way before they had him fired.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
He's already sound like a staff though. At least and
if those names are coming out, as far as you
could potentially be on a staff, would you say to.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Right, he's gonna bring in like he brings in Krzyzewski Witting.
I got a lot of confidence that he can put
together to struct laers like Jerry B.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Dudley's name was on there, which might be one of
the reasons too, outside of his broadcast obligations.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You think Mike Krzyzewski is going to risk his legacy
by be sitting on JJ Reddick's bench and getting destroyed
by the drawn.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Yeah, because he's he's been in the house, because he's thirsty. Yeah,
he's been in the house.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I mean, he's ready to get up out of that house.
I heard it was Sam Cassell, Jared Dudley. The brego
is that you pronounced the other guy who was up
for the job. I mean it sounds like like some
of those guys could end up being the guys that
all the NBA types actually wanted hired because they sit
there and have put in the work and realized the
day to day logistics of it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Well, we solve the world's problems there, Lee to lap.
Your producer is telling me to go to break. So
we're gonna come back and we're gonna lament the state
of college football and sound like more angry old people
talking about the way things aren't today. My name is
Petros Papadakas. With LaVar and Brady coming up, next on
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Speaker 3 (21:39):
Holdo, everybody, what's cracking and welcome back. It's Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe. I'm sitting in for Jonas Knox.
My name is Petros Papanakas. I hate the red Hot
Cheli Peppers with a burning passion of a thousand signs.
LaVar Arrington and the Great Penn State legend himself and
Brady Quinn with us man. That's two pros and a
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cup of Joe.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
What's so bad about Red Hot Chili Fevers a singer okay,
because you don't know what he's saying.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Bug Abo biggie biggie big a bo Look at I.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I had blood, sugar, sex, magic and mother's milk like
every other self respecting Angelino when I was thirteen or
fourteen years old. But the longevity is terrible. Flee's a
great guy. Actually.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Flee came to the station once because he likes to
play the trumpet and he likes to play the national
anthem on the trumpet at Laker games.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
He's a huge Laker fan.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Uh they all are actually, And Flee, one of the
great bass players, was coming to the station once and
tried to feet a squirrel outside the building in Burbank.
It bit his finger and he came into the building
bleeding profusely, and I'm like, you don't you need your fingers?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like what are you doing anyway?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
What's a squirrel?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
We got to get out to the U the update
because this is a national show. And Eddie Garcia, San
Pedro legend himself. My family also San Pedro roots with
the update.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Oh thank thank you, p And I feel compelled when
Jonas does introduce me as a San Pedro legend, which
I appreciate.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I have moved there with my wife.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh okay, she is.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
She and her family hail from there. So what's some
great backyard parties?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And then great when like a thirty year old long
shoreman starts fighting a teenager setting off explosives, you know,
for fun borders Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Yeah, all the time. It's great.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Great where the ghetto meets the seed. Absolutely, so I
just want to clear that up. I do enjoy living there.
It's very nice.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What street do you live on?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
We live off of what's your house number? Ready?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, well just just tell me the general quadrant?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Okay, South Shores area.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh I'm sure. Yeah. But you're tough there.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so you got it.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
He's got a drive. By the time he gets home
from the market, the milk's gone sour.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
But I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
We got NBA actually coming up tonight, Game five Western
Conference Finals, got the Timberwolves hosting the Mavericks Dallas. With
a win onto the finals to face Boston t Wolves.
Get a win, we'll have a Game six back in Dallas.
News from the NBA Clippers and head coach Tyron Lugrew
in a five year deal worth nearly seventy million dollars.
Washington Wizards removed the interim tag from coach Brian Keith
NHL Game four Western Conference Finals. He had the Oilers
(24:33):
over the Stars five to two. Edmonton was down two nothing,
rally back five straight goals, even up the series of
two to two and game final will be Friday in Dallas.
Baseball Dodgers beat the Mets ten to three. They wrap
up a suite of the Mets. With that victory, Will
Smith a couple of homer showy Otani went deep as well.
Mets reliever Hory Lopez ejected for arguing a call. He
then threw his glove into the stands after and said
he had no regrets and the Mets have designated him
(24:56):
for assignment, so he's no longer gonna have any right
run in the world. The Phillies beat the Giant six
to one. Philadelphia Major League best thirty nine and eighteen
Yankees over the Angels two to one. New York starter
Luis Heal eight innings, one run two. It's ninth tracouts.
He's seven and one on the season. The Tigers and
Pirates played a doubleheader Pittsburgh losing the first game eight
to one. Detroit starter Trek Scruble seven shoutout innings. He's
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seven in one of the year. Pirates come back for
a ten to two win in the second game, and
their rookie pitcher Paul Skeens went six innings, struck out
nine in the victory. Brewers over the Cubs ten six,
Guardians losing the Rocky seven four. You had the Blue
Jays over the White Sox three to one. Toronto, the
three games sweep. Chicago's dropped eight in a row. Wnba
Aces beat the Links eighty to sixty six. He had
the Liberty over the Mercury eighty one, seventy eight in
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the Dream down the Mystics seventy three sixty seven in
at golf, charges dropped against Scotti Scheffler stemming from his
arrest at the PGA Championship earlier this month. Now back
to labar Aaronton, Brady Quinn, Petros Papadakas from the Tyraq
dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Tell you right now, Eddie lives off of Anchovy. I
can see that right now in my mind.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I hate the ha chovies, by the way, I like them.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Not a pizza. My wife gets them on pizza. It's
not good. San Pedro, I know she hasked to required
by law.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, she's she's Sampedo is a rough place. Now all right, Look,
we're gonna play too much grabo and we're not going
to get into this topic.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And that's which we need to have a we really
we probably.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Went too long on I mean, I don't care because
this is how.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You you you tease this.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
You said Lincoln Riley and USC are trying to duck
l s U.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They did.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
That's a report that they did, and that didn't make
sense why they would want to.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
And I think Fox got involved according to the report,
and that's just modern day college football.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
The TV we're too and look, I want I like
my job, but we're too adherent to the TV networks
and there's a lot of money to be made and
a lot of things are going out the window because
of the TV networks. And that's all great, but it
needs to be balanced. And Fox probably is not thrilled
(27:03):
that USC's very first game and the first season there
in the Big Ten is on ABC against LSU and
Las Vegas, and everybody's going to be watching because they're
both going to have a new quarterback replacing Caleb Williams,
and then two Heisman Trophy winners really back to back years.
So I understand what happened here, but it is interesting.
(27:26):
I remember we played in the right after LeVar left
Penn State. We played in the Kickoff Classic, one of
these games where you get extra money and you go
play one of these early games, and we played against
Penn State. And it's a very weird thing to play
against a really good, kind of blue blooded team in
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the first game. Notre Dame does it all the time, right,
and doing it this year it's a weird testing stick
because I remember we went out and beat Penn State
and thought, oh my god, we just beat Penn State
Meadowlands and we had to buy the next week, and
I remember getting drunk and sleeping in and I wanted
to get up early because Penn State was playing Toledo,
(28:09):
and I was like, I can't wait to watch Penn
State Toledo's ass and I woke up late and it
was twenty one to nothing Toledo, and I was like,
my god, maybe we're not that good.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It's an interesting gauge to start the season. But I
can understand why SC tried to get out of it.
I mean, Lincoln Raley didn't want to play in the
SEC and left Oklahoma, right, God's sakes. And it's a
different ad at USC, a different head coach at USC
from when they booked the game, and a different circumstance
in college football. But it's a bad look for them.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
And by the way, I mean LeVar from what I
understand too, maybe LSU came snooping around Lincoln rally to
go to LSU in the first place.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Not so what that that has anything to do with it,
but I try to hire him here.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yeah, listen, when you get into these types of scenarios,
I think because of the way the playoff is set
up now, I mean, don't you have to be extra
cautious and how you're choosing your games? Do you want
to go out and play a big time game out
the gate? I think, entertainment wise, I think is really dope.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Well that's what it's for, right, I mean, the whole
thing is for entertainment and if you win, you got
to you know, it's a lot high risk, high reward.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, but I don't know that it's worth as the
school either way, LSU or USC. I don't know that
it's worth worth the risk. I mean, think about it.
USC has to think about you. You brought up Penn State.
You have to think about what this season looks like
for USC. Do you want to get a quick you know,
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put yourself in a situation where you have a quick loss,
knowing what your schedule is. You know, during the course
of that year, it's going to have a very different
it's very different than what you have had in the
Pact twelve.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Well, I don't like saying that because I see all
these teams, especially the mid and lower tier teams, and
to me, it's like, oh my god, the Big Ten,
Oh god, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
There's a little there's a little much there.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
But tell it for you, hey.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
All I know is every time I've watched a Big
ten matchup with the old PAC twelve back in the day,
the Big Ten fared.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Okay, Well, look, I mean look at what USC's thrown
out on the table. They hired an air raid coach,
you know, and they and they had Sarkesian, and they
had all these offensive guys, and they'd fay, iowall put
up sixty on them, for God's sakes.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I mean, absolutely right, You're right.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
But I do think I like the new athletic director
at USC, Jen Cohen from Washington. I know about I
know what she does, and I admire her. I admire
what she's done. And look, usually I'm very negative about SC.
You guys know that, and I try to butter it
up a little bit in the off season because I
realized that my bitterness doesn't really help anybody, and no
(30:57):
one wants to hear me if I'm always negative. Yeah,
But this offseason I'm actually not trying that hard to
butter it up. I feel good about the defensive higher
she made, about what she forced Lincoln Riley to do,
and how they're trying to revamp the identity of the team,
at least trying for the big ten. I think they
thought that they were going to cruise to an NFL job,
(31:19):
that whole staff Caleb Williams last year. It didn't happen,
and now they've got to set their feet and set
their jaw and strap their chin, strap on and see
what happens.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
And I'm I'm I'm anxious to see if they have
the balls.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I mean, they got Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, and
they got to go to Maryland get some yeah, and
then Washington, the Nebraska, then UCLA and then the Irish.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But that's a that's a tough end. It's tough. That's
a tough schedule.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Man.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Here's here's one one person who probably doesn't have any
issue with.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
This game, by the way, to me and my family.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah, going out in the Las Vegas I guess from
Baton Rouge sides any issue commodore Kelly Oh oh, so.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah. I think they're excited about it. I mean they
have a thing.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Look, I mean LSU under ed Ogeron became like a
USC East.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
He brought John Robinson, my old coach, out there to
hang out and did wonderful things for him in his
elderly age, and Bku Kenechi Daisy, guys like that that
were all around USC. They went out there with coach
oh and he did a great and they had one
of the great years in the history of college football together.
(32:41):
So I think LSU's into it, and I think, like Alabama,
LSU wants to eat us like a lamb chop to
start the season off. And it could be a very
rough year in the Big Ten. In anybody's that's just
a rough schedule. You know, there's not a lot of hey,
we're playing.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
The ravel too right, time zone change, all that stuff
that's gonna be a stress.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
So they ever really experienced on a consistent basis.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, the West Coast part, you know. I mean every
other year they go to Notre Dame and that's about
as far as we would go. I mean when I
played in ninety eight, we played at Florida State and
we played out in New York.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I talked to Earls about that.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
You know, the travel to PAC twelve or what was
the PAC twelve. It wasn't like, you know, you're a
bust in places like you know you're do in the midde.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
It's a two and a half hour flight to see
as long you think, right, but you know it's an hour.
It's nothing to Stanford and cal It's nothing to Arizona
or Tucson. Once they added you know, everybody talks about
all the PAC twelve It's like, Okay, Utah and Colorado
were pretty late ads.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Colorado to me is still a big twelve program in
many ways, and Utah, well, they were stepping up and
they did a great job in the conference, but it
wasn't like they were established. And my dad's generation felt
the same way about the Arizonas who were in the
whack and all that and then got added and created
the Packed from eight. You know, everybody has revisionist history
(34:04):
about this stuff. When I played at USC the baseball team,
there was no Oregon Pac twelve team in baseball, there
was no Washington State.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
It was called the six Pack.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
There was only six teams in the Pac twelve to
compete in baseball. So this stuff is always changing, but
it feels like it's changing so rapidly now that scheduling
has not caught up.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Well said, I mean, it's gonna be a lot of
drama that plays out, I'll tell you that. And scheduling.
It's the more competitive it is, I think, the better
it is. It's just more volatile for coaches, it's more
volatile for the responsibilities of these ads. As you you
guys just mentioned, I think the stakes are really, really
(34:48):
high and.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
More money, more problems.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
It's never been a tougher job to college, which has
never been harder.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Let me put it this way.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
By the way, if I was, you know, willing to
place a wager on this, probably laid the six and
half points with LSU.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Just gotta throw that out there.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Hashtag me too. Who's but who's playing quarterback? Miller Moss
is going to play for for USC? I guess or
the kid who transferred from you and l V. I
like him, my Ava.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
We'll see to be good this year. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
It.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I like their defensive HighRes. I like they went and
got Dan and Land and Matt Enz the old head
coach at North Dakota State to be the linebacker coach.
Nobody cares about these little tiny nuances until mid season
and you say, wow, maybe maybe, Yes, he's playing good defense.
But I feel a lot better than USC's direction than
when they had the air Raid staff playing on defense.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
So we'll see and we'll be back. Hey, are we
playing a game next?
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Yes, Lee leads this off.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
We play a little bit of a game. But are
you in or are you out?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
If you want to play, no, I will, We'll play
I look, I'm here to play, you know, I just
don't know. I don't We don't do a lot anyway.
Uh so coming up on Two Pros and a Cup of.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Joe, you don't do a lot of game class? Is
that what you mean?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. We're gonna
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Speaker 11 (36:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and
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Speaker 2 (36:34):
Everybody, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
My name is Petros Papadecas filling in for Jonas on
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. You're two pros
of course, LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn. This is our final segment.
I didn't do the first two hours, but a big
thank you to Albert Breer who joined the show. Don't
forget to podcast everything on the iHeartRadio app. And uh,
I guess there's a game that we play.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Here spot for games Time. Two Pros in a cup
of show what even and know if they're in at
least or if they're out.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
That is right, Petros with this is somewhat of a game.
You can say you're in or out on any of
these things we have.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Of course, that's all I'm required. It's a talk show.
It's monosyllabic in or out.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
That's it. There's a little more of an explanation. All right, okay,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (37:26):
Well, I'm not going to dive into what we all
know we're in on, which is Game five of the
Stanley Cup playoffs in Yeah, who can.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Say Petros isn't a hockey guy.
Speaker 12 (37:34):
Yeah, we got we got a couple of games.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I respect it, but it's hard to understand.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
What I'm going to be watching is quick to the fave,
let him explain.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Put the Petros sorry, put the biscuit in the basket
league like that.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
What I'm going to be watching actually the Scripts National
Spelling B Finals on ion if that's how you pronounce it.
I don't know if it's ion or io ins, but
Script's National Spelling B Finals.
Speaker 12 (37:59):
Are you guys in out out?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
That's usually like a clip thing.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Yeah, I see the highlights, right.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
You watch the highlights, and I'm watching the whole thing
can be quite tedious.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
But you're running to spell Yeah, is there a tie?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Like a couple of years back, Am I getting this wrong?
Speaker 12 (38:15):
Ooh, you're right, there was a tie and they agreed.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
Yeah, they agreed after several ties to uh.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
You come out like like we're not sharing the trophy anymore.
Like once they did that, I think I remember at
that point in my mind, I'm like, I don't even
know if I want to watch highlights of this anymore.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Copy that.
Speaker 8 (38:30):
All right, guys, you out the US Whippen's Open begins today.
This is golf begins in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which if you
didn't know, I'm.
Speaker 12 (38:39):
Sure, I'm sure LeVar knows. This is Amige country.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Amish is Amige contrary.
Speaker 12 (38:45):
Are you guys enter out on the amage? Don't worry
they're not listening or man and or rum Springer.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
If you don't know what rum springer is, what is springer? Well,
I'm sure somebody out there knows rum springer is. When
it's kind of like a rite of passage. Would you
come of age, you're allowed to go out into the
world and oh.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And they had like a TV
show where they like kind of like showed that, you know, reaking,
Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, it was Kingpin.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Yeah yeah, when he was blowing it out in the
urinal Yeah. Did you see the girl ripping a cigarette
signing autographs at.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
The LBG event.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, alone puts me in and us. It was so long.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
H Kelly Norda too has been on absolute terror, So
for that reason, I'm in. I like washing her.
Speaker 12 (39:38):
I like that too, guys, believe it or not. And
I'm sorry to tell you about this.
Speaker 8 (39:42):
There's a national holiday that's kind of new since twenty twenty,
initially celebrated virtually as a result of you know what
we all went through. It's called fakes Giving, and its
existed for the last two years is being celebrated. It's
a halfway between Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Nothing invented in the last two years can be good
amount Christmas and lie out.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
The Roman Empire collapse because it had too many holidays.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Out out out, Dang, I'm out too, Yeah, good job,
good job you guys, hey out.
Speaker 12 (40:09):
I was watching Mad Max Furiosa the other day.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
I don't know if you guys like owls furious, but
I saw the trailer for the new Beverly Hills cop Out.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
Axel F is Judge Reinhold in there, Which.
Speaker 12 (40:22):
One's Judge Reinhold. He's the No, he's the.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Guy from Fast Times at rich Mount High. The white guy,
A white guy. You know.
Speaker 12 (40:30):
No, he is not well. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
He might be Petro doesn't know lead us nobody, white guys.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
But he's got more, that's true. He's got his old
partner in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Judge Reinhold.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Judge Reinhold and Taylor Page from A Zola A good
movie that I always recommended.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
This last one.
Speaker 12 (40:44):
I'm out on Green and Idna Menzel.
Speaker 8 (40:47):
Happy birthday to you, guys.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
Fun fun story.
Speaker 8 (40:51):
Back in twenty fourteen, Hit You and Forget You Too,
I named my fantasy football team Odell Desim after John
Travolta's flub at the I had Odell Beckham and Des
Bryant on my team, Odell Dizzim twenty fourteen, Long Live
and he is, Uh, he
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Is in axel F
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Great Waker of the echoes, Brady Quinn, Hall of Famer,
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a whole hour here of sports talk radio on a
national level, and uh, we're gonna talk.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We're gonna talk about sports.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
We're gonna do a real sports talk show, not like
when I come on here and it's all just grab
ass on Wednesdays.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Hour of that is that about bossing. It's your guys show.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We can do whatever. We can do whatever you want.
I'm just here to help you across the finish line.
I'm gonna do tomorrow if today goes okay, and I'm
also gonna do Monday, and I'm also gonna do Tuesday.
From what I understand you ownus is celebrating a birthday
and a local Shaky's in Moore Park or where.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Do you like their chicken or their pizza better.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Chicken to Mojo's. We we do.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
We do advertisements for Shaky's on the local AM five
seventy LA Sports here where we're on in LA and
they bring us our Dodger coverage.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Dodgers just swept the Mets in New York for a.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Weekend and uh, I heard the Big Head and Giant
Head Show talking about it in their promo in the
very last segment, they talk a lot of Mets. The
Big Head and Giant Head show. You guys know that show.
I don't know that show, Jason Smith and the Big
Head Guy. It's a Big Head and Giant Head. They
hammer a lot of Mets talk there, but having to
(02:49):
be the only show that hammers the Mets is that
they love Mets talk. I guess if Jimmy Kimmel had
a radio show, he'd talk a lot of it. Yeah,
he's a big he's a big Mets fan. Isn't it
funny that Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla were like the
duo and they have both like sprinted to the opposite
sides of the whole opposite room. Don't you love an
(03:11):
election year? But anyway, Shakey's, as I was saying, we
go to shakys dot com right before the Dodger game,
and if you order it right when our show's over,
your chicken and mojos will arrive before first pitch. If
you go to Shakey's dot com, that's a free commercial
for Shakey's. Everybody all right.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We answer your question.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
To answer your question, though I don't know that he's
out of Shaky's but he's definitely taking time off, and
I believe he's going to Chicago to go watch his
beloved Cubs play atfield.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I've never been to Wrigleyfield. I've been outside.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
You gotta go.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It's there's something different about that place when you go inside,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
It kind of fits into our topic and the next
segment about college football tradition and something really stupid that
Colin Cowherd throughout there yesterday right before he talked to
Bruce Feldman on this very air.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We will talk about it. The only time I've ever.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Been to Chicago was for a Notre Dame trip when
I was in the media USC versus Notre Dame and
I was still working for USC doing radio sideline at
the time. I think their quarterback was was either I
think it was Liner linerd and Mike Williams, Big Mike
Williams the receiver, and I spent my three days in
Chicago and went to Wrigleyville and had a drink and
(04:27):
all that. But that's the only time I've ever been
to the city. So help Jonas has a good time.
You guys have much more extensive experience in the midway,
I believe even you LeVar, right.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Yeah, I mean we consider Pittsburgh at West, so I.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Mean, yeah, it's been Pittsburgh is Midwest. That's what some
of us consider it. Well, I mean, I will say this.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
When I started doing when West Virginia joined the Big
twelve and I started going there maybe three times a
year literally for years covering the Dana Holgerson teams, I
could not believe that that Pittsburgh was like a seventy
minute drive from Morgantown and that you see Ohio on
your way, like you go by Steubenville, which is the
(05:13):
home of Dean Martin. That always kind of tripped me
out about that. And I used to do national radio
on Fox Sports Radio, but my brand is so.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Local that they moved us.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Back to LA. So we'll talk in to LA. Topic
or two here, guys. That JJ Reddick stuff continues to develop,
and it just feels like they're waiting for him to
get done with his TV career, And it also kind
of feels like they're pumping up the idea to make
everybody use to the fact that they're going to hire
somebody vary inexperienced. As this thing plays out, it feels
(05:49):
like a bit of a FATA complete, does it not.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
That's one way of putting it right.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, yeah, I mean is that how you would put it?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Well, yes, I mean Bill Plashki came on our show,
I don't know right after at some point when the
Lakers were eliminated and started talking about how Lebron James
and all this different stuff is just it's gonna happen,
but we all have to go through the motions we
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talked about it. I think yesterday on the show, and
he's coming back to the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They're gonna draft his kid. They're gonna do everything he wants.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Do you think they'll draft them? You don't think he'll
go on draft and then they sign him.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I think that if he's there for their whatever it is,
fifty to fifth pick or whatever. I don't have it there.
I don't have the draft board in front of me.
They'll take him there and everybody's gonna have to swallow it.
And it's upsetting. I guess the media manipulation part of
it really bothers me. The manipulation of one of the
great franchises in the history of sport really bothers me.
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But I can't see myself getting inflamed about this every
day for the next two months while it plays itself
out and they're going to hire JJ Redick. He went
on that Massachusetts show, insufferable show in Massachusetts but very
popular Felger and Maz Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yeah, I've actually had a buddy who lived in Boston.
He still listens to them to this day and even
though he doesn't live there anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Super chowderhead type of show. And JJ Redick was extremely condescending, like.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He always is.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Did you guys hear that talking about the Celtics and
stuff like that?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
If you go from hot take TV, which is not journalism,
it's not really anything, it's podcasting and just talking like
we're doing here, I don't know if you you do
that and then go to coaching one of the great
franchises in the history of sport and having to face
that doesn't he just.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
A puppet though? Petros?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I mean it feels like it's a done deal. Yeah,
you're a puppet. But you have to work in trumptu.
You have to come up with things, you have to
say things, you have to deal with the media. You
got to deal with Lebron. You you've got to deal
with things in the moment, you got to live it.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I guess I'll push back a little in the sense
of I feel like he could be a really good
fit for everything they're looking for.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I do think j J.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Well a GA's something I'll put it simply, someone who
Lebron can control and probably someone who Lebron can work
with at least for the final moments of his career.
And so if that's the case, you've got someone that
clearly he feels comfortable with, someone that I think will
handle the media, criticism.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You know, adversity, whatever comes along with it. He'll be
able to handle it well. I do think he's he
deals with criticism well.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I do.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I think he's I think he takes things head on.
You might not agree with his opinion on things, but
I don't. I don't think he shies away from it.
I think he knows how to at least give you
his viewpoint and look, like any coach you're you're not
always going to agree with their opinion on something. But
the reality is, I think he's still gonna be able
to stand up there take the the you know, the
bullets that the comments that come his way. And I
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think the other thing is is I do think he's
an extremely hard worker. Like I don't think there's any
concern over him being able to work his tail off
to make it work. I just I wonder how much
power does he have. Like the hard part about him
signing up for this is it's obviously you can't say no.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Like that's the hard thing about having the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Say no because it's the Lakers, Like you really the
guy that turned down the Lakers, because you never know
too if they're ever going to give you the opportunity
to do it again. Like that's the double edged sword.
I think of any of these amazing franchises where they
throw it, they throw a gout an opportunity to be
the head coach. It's like, yeah, I might go down
in history as one of the worst ever, but I
also could be a successful head coach of one of
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the greatest franchises in history.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
LaVar two, there's two kind of This is a two
prong barbecue fork of life.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
If those of us that get done playing football, like
all of us did, some guys they go right into coaching.
Maybe if they were a great player, maybe if they
were a walk on, maybe anywhere in between.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I know a lot of guys like that. Chris Rashard was.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
A guy played with a corner at sc who went
right into coaching, you know, and then ended up becoming
a decordinator for the Dallas Cowboys for some time.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't know where he is now. But the point.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Is, isn't that what you do when you want to
get into coaching. You don't mess around on ESPN and
coach your kids team and do all that and then
dive into the pool of scorpions that is being the
head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. I mean, if
you want to be a coach, be a coach. I mean,
I don't get it. I think you got to go
(10:34):
through to your point. I think you have to go
through the process of learning what being a head coach is, right.
I think that that's why you go into it as
an analyst, you know, as you know, kind of a
supportive type of position because you're.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Or even like Steve Kerr who started in the front office.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
So you start in the front office, right because you
have to as the head coach, you have to understand
what everybody's doing. You know, you have to understand what
your scouts are doing. You have to understand hell, you
got to understand what the media of your team and
what they're doing and how they're handling things.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Who's leaking?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Right, Like, if you got leaky faucets, you gotta stop
because you know, leaky faucet, it leads to a larger
bill at the end of the month. It's just there's
so many things that go into coaching outside of the
x's and o's, and I think a lot of times
that is misconstrued and it's not valued enough.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Let me focus on you guys, though, because I feel
like when I got done playing, to me, there's levels
of like the closeness to the thing that you loved.
And I don't know if you guys loved football or not.
I mean I did. It was awful, like having to
transition away from playing the game that I had played
for so many years and grew to love. But there's coaching,
(11:49):
which is the next closest thing. And I did a
couple of small things that kind of helped me realize that, right,
Like I coached in the East West Shrine Game one
year and so I got an idea of what that
would be like slash how nice it was to be
around players and be you know, be with them every day, kind.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Of coach them and all that.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
And then there's media, which is like probably the next tier,
if you will, to playing, because you're around the sport,
you're watching the sport, you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
The sport, but you're not as in it. And everybody's
a douche pretty much.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
But but at least for guys who like all played
together or played against each other or had played, you
do have.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That common ground.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
So there's like the element of that we don't change
in the locker room together unless your a NFL network,
which I think LaVar was at one point, so they
had a locker room there.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They're all changing it.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Have that one special room a fox right off the
Avocado room where Terry Bradshawe and how.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
We do their Peter Gaze and Peter Games. I'll say this,
I think LaVar has been.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
In there, haven't you of LeVar?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, yeah, he's been in that room.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Little Peter Games, the upper room, you know who used
to go in there and blow it out and not
flush the toilet just to make everybody angry, and Andy Roddick,
of all people, was the one who rooted him out
and discovered him and did the detective work. Chris Myers really,
oh yeah, I'm gonna go in here and y'all drop
a do say yaw.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, he went.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And blew it out, and how he would come in
the next day and be like, I mean that's that
that was anyway, maybe a little bit of insight.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So it would sit there all night till the next Yeah,
unless somebody I'm.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Just brewing, I.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Mean literally like a tea bag. Just yeah, it was
a terrible, terrible deal. Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Now, my my my thought is I felt kind of
the same way Brady uh in that when I got
done playing, and maybe this is what made me so bitter.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
When I got done playing, I.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Immediately went into the local media and immediately started to
cover the team that I played for. Uh, but it
was a different head coach. Pete Carroll took over that
I had gotten Paul Hackett fired like I had gotten
John Robinson.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Fact, so I'm like Lebron, I get coaches just dead.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
And so when Pete Carroll took over, I took over
as the USC kind of pre half and post guy,
and then I started doing sideline and until like two
thousand and four, I started doing national games. But it
was interesting, and maybe that's why I'm so bitter. I
like stayed on the same team plane for another four years,
(14:23):
which was not easy. And then I went into broadcasting,
calling games in the booth, and I was up in
the booth with a guy who was thirty years older
than me who didn't like to go down on the
field and chopping up with the players as much because
he'd been doing games for forty years.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
So I did that for like ten years.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And then suddenly there was a big shake up at
Fox and they hired Joel Klatt and they made me
Joel Klattz sideline analysts like Saragusa, and they wanted me
basically just to quit and not do it, but I
said I'll do it, and we ended up making a
success of it, and I hung on. But I I
really did enjoy going back to the game in that way,
(15:03):
so to speak, right, getting back on the sideline, even
though everybody made fun of me and called me a
sideline girl and all that. I who called you a
sideline Aaron Andrews sure got ugly. You know it is
a lot of.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
That someone actually said that to you someone, But I
will say this, I got back down onto the field
for a few years, and you smell the smells, you know,
you feel what it's like to stand with the guys
on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You hear them talk.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And the most glaring thing to me, and this happened
to me the other year when I did the Mountain
West Championship with Brando and Spencer, is you look through
the face masks and they're kids, you know, I mean,
they are kids, and it's hard to remember that because
they're like robots and fantasy football and video games has
(15:55):
dehumanized all of the players, but they are young people.
And again, back into it in that way was really cool.
But that didn't give me the delusions of being like, Okay,
now I'm going to install Zone right now, I'm to
install why Stick, and I'm going to do bedcheck and
I'm going to smoke cigarettes with the tight end coach
(16:15):
on the roof of the dorm. Like do you know
what I'm saying, Brady?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Like, I do it, but I think I would look
at it from a different perspective too. Is it's the
sacrifice that you're going to have to make to coach
because if you are a family man, you want to
have a family, You're not gonna be raising your kids,
You'll be raising someone else's. And that's that was what
kind of was steering me dead in the face when
I started having kids and started pondering, you know, could
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the opportunity of coaching be out there?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Sure? But like, how was that going to work with
my family life?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well, well, LaVar, you got into coaching because of your kid, right,
or were you doing it before?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
No, Antonio Piers got me into coach. I had been
doing mentorship and development for a lot of years.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You were at Polly for a little while.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I was. I was. I ended up coaching and thought
about turning it into it when he went to ASU,
I thought about going there and continuing to grow within
the coaching ranks. But well, yeah, but for me, I
just I you know, I wanted to coach at a time.
(17:22):
Now that I stopped coaching, I don't know how I
did coach. You know, the amount of time that you
have to commit to it, and again, the politics that
are connected to being a coach and the things you
have to handle, and you got so many different bullets flying.
There's so many different directions back to kind of the
original point of it. With the JJ Reddick aspect of it,
(17:43):
is he even ready politically to be able to handle it.
It's like being in politics coming to be the head
coach of the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Is he able?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Is he going to the type of personality that he has,
Is he even going to be able to handle you know,
the media and the way people come his way, because
he could turn some people off very quickly with the
way he does have kind of a very very intelligent
but yet condescending approach to how he communicates with people.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Well, it's a little like Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel, Right,
everybody's gonna run to the opposite spectrum and there's not
going to be any middle ground except for reasonable people
like us.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
But if you if you.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Are in the clutch world and you're one of these
twelve or fifteen media people that Rich Paul calls, right,
and they all say it like it's so stupid. They
start out their statement, well, I think this this about Browny,
I think this this this about Lebron and I think
this this about JJ Reddick. And I talked to Rich
(18:44):
Paul earlier today, it's like, well, okay, thanks, great, that's
all propaganda. So I guess you'll feel protected under that
umbrella of those twelve guys, right, Sham Sharania, the fat
guy on ESPN, the maybe uh Chiny or whoever she is,
the lady on the NBA, Ramona. You know, they're all
(19:08):
gonna they're all gonna sing from the Clutch Sports hymnal
because that's their group. And then there's gonna be the naysayers,
like the people that don't get the clutch sports stuff,
like WOJ and all that, and we're all just gonna
be caught in this black and white media firestorm of BS.
So maybe JJ feels politically protected, I guess would be
(19:29):
my answer going into it, even though I'm sure Darvin
Ham felt that way until they had him fired, and
he's already felt that way before they had him fired.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
He's already sound like a staff though. At least and
if those names are coming out, as far as you
could potentially be on a staff, would you say to.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Right, he's gonna bring in like he brings in Krzyzewski Witting.
I got a lot of confidence that he can put
together to struct laers like Jerry B.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Dudley's name was on there, which might be one of
the reasons too, outside of his broadcast obligations.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You think Mike Krzyzewski is going to risk his legacy
by be sitting on JJ Reddick's bench and getting destroyed
by the drawn.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Yeah, because he's he's been in the house, because he's thirsty. Yeah,
he's been in the house.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I mean, he's ready to get up out of that house.
I heard it was Sam Cassell, Jared Dudley. The brego
is that you pronounced the other guy who was up
for the job. I mean it sounds like like some
of those guys could end up being the guys that
all the NBA types actually wanted hired because they sit
there and have put in the work and realized the
day to day logistics of it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Well, we solve the world's problems there, Lee to lap.
Your producer is telling me to go to break. So
we're gonna come back and we're gonna lament the state
of college football and sound like more angry old people
talking about the way things aren't today. My name is
Petros Papadakas. With LaVar and Brady coming up, next on
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe, we will talk
about us he ducking LSU live from the Tirac dot
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Speaker 3 (21:39):
Holdo, everybody, what's cracking and welcome back. It's Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe. I'm sitting in for Jonas Knox.
My name is Petros Papanakas. I hate the red Hot
Cheli Peppers with a burning passion of a thousand signs.
LaVar Arrington and the Great Penn State legend himself and
Brady Quinn with us man. That's two pros and a
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cup of Joe.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
What's so bad about Red Hot Chili Fevers a singer okay,
because you don't know what he's saying.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Bug Abo biggie biggie big a bo Look at I.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I had blood, sugar, sex, magic and mother's milk like
every other self respecting Angelino when I was thirteen or
fourteen years old. But the longevity is terrible. Flee's a
great guy. Actually.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Flee came to the station once because he likes to
play the trumpet and he likes to play the national
anthem on the trumpet at Laker games.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
He's a huge Laker fan.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Uh they all are actually, And Flee, one of the
great bass players, was coming to the station once and
tried to feet a squirrel outside the building in Burbank.
It bit his finger and he came into the building
bleeding profusely, and I'm like, you don't you need your fingers?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Like what are you doing anyway?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
What's a squirrel?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
We got to get out to the U the update
because this is a national show. And Eddie Garcia, San
Pedro legend himself. My family also San Pedro roots with
the update.
Speaker 10 (23:11):
Oh thank thank you, p And I feel compelled when
Jonas does introduce me as a San Pedro legend, which
I appreciate.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I have moved there with my wife.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Oh okay, she is.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
She and her family hail from there. So what's some
great backyard parties?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And then great when like a thirty year old long
shoreman starts fighting a teenager setting off explosives, you know,
for fun borders Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Yeah, all the time. It's great.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Great where the ghetto meets the seed. Absolutely, so I
just want to clear that up. I do enjoy living there.
It's very nice.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What street do you live on?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
We live off of what's your house number? Ready?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, well just just tell me the general quadrant?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Okay, South Shores area.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh I'm sure. Yeah. But you're tough there.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so you got it.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
He's got a drive. By the time he gets home
from the market, the milk's gone sour.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
But I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
We got NBA actually coming up tonight, Game five Western
Conference Finals, got the Timberwolves hosting the Mavericks Dallas. With
a win onto the finals to face Boston t Wolves.
Get a win, we'll have a Game six back in Dallas.
News from the NBA Clippers and head coach Tyron Lugrew
in a five year deal worth nearly seventy million dollars.
Washington Wizards removed the interim tag from coach Brian Keith
NHL Game four Western Conference Finals. He had the Oilers
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over the Stars five to two. Edmonton was down two nothing,
rally back five straight goals, even up the series of
two to two and game final will be Friday in Dallas.
Baseball Dodgers beat the Mets ten to three. They wrap
up a suite of the Mets. With that victory, Will
Smith a couple of homer showy Otani went deep as well.
Mets reliever Hory Lopez ejected for arguing a call. He
then threw his glove into the stands after and said
he had no regrets and the Mets have designated him
(24:56):
for assignment, so he's no longer gonna have any right
run in the world. The Phillies beat the Giant six
to one. Philadelphia Major League best thirty nine and eighteen
Yankees over the Angels two to one. New York starter
Luis Heal eight innings, one run two. It's ninth tracouts.
He's seven and one on the season. The Tigers and
Pirates played a doubleheader Pittsburgh losing the first game eight
to one. Detroit starter Trek Scruble seven shoutout innings. He's
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seven in one of the year. Pirates come back for
a ten to two win in the second game, and
their rookie pitcher Paul Skeens went six innings, struck out
nine in the victory. Brewers over the Cubs ten six,
Guardians losing the Rocky seven four. You had the Blue
Jays over the White Sox three to one. Toronto, the
three games sweep. Chicago's dropped eight in a row. Wnba
Aces beat the Links eighty to sixty six. He had
the Liberty over the Mercury eighty one, seventy eight in
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the Dream down the Mystics seventy three sixty seven in
at golf, charges dropped against Scotti Scheffler stemming from his
arrest at the PGA Championship earlier this month. Now back
to labar Aaronton, Brady Quinn, Petros Papadakas from the Tyraq
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Speaker 2 (25:54):
Tell you right now, Eddie lives off of Anchovy. I
can see that right now in my mind.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I hate the ha chovies, by the way, I like them.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Not a pizza. My wife gets them on pizza. It's
not good. San Pedro, I know she hasked to required
by law.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, she's she's Sampedo is a rough place. Now all right, Look,
we're gonna play too much grabo and we're not going
to get into this topic.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And that's which we need to have a we really
we probably.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Went too long on I mean, I don't care because
this is how.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You you you tease this.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
You said Lincoln Riley and USC are trying to duck
l s U.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They did.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
That's a report that they did, and that didn't make
sense why they would want to.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
And I think Fox got involved according to the report,
and that's just modern day college football.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
The TV we're too and look, I want I like
my job, but we're too adherent to the TV networks
and there's a lot of money to be made and
a lot of things are going out the window because
of the TV networks. And that's all great, but it
needs to be balanced. And Fox probably is not thrilled
(27:03):
that USC's very first game and the first season there
in the Big Ten is on ABC against LSU and
Las Vegas, and everybody's going to be watching because they're
both going to have a new quarterback replacing Caleb Williams,
and then two Heisman Trophy winners really back to back years.
So I understand what happened here, but it is interesting.
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I remember we played in the right after LeVar left
Penn State. We played in the Kickoff Classic, one of
these games where you get extra money and you go
play one of these early games, and we played against
Penn State. And it's a very weird thing to play
against a really good, kind of blue blooded team in
(27:47):
the first game. Notre Dame does it all the time, right,
and doing it this year it's a weird testing stick
because I remember we went out and beat Penn State
and thought, oh my god, we just beat Penn State
Meadowlands and we had to buy the next week, and
I remember getting drunk and sleeping in and I wanted
to get up early because Penn State was playing Toledo,
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and I was like, I can't wait to watch Penn
State Toledo's ass and I woke up late and it
was twenty one to nothing Toledo, and I was like,
my god, maybe we're not that good.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It's an interesting gauge to start the season. But I
can understand why SC tried to get out of it.
I mean, Lincoln Raley didn't want to play in the
SEC and left Oklahoma, right, God's sakes. And it's a
different ad at USC, a different head coach at USC
from when they booked the game, and a different circumstance
in college football. But it's a bad look for them.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
And by the way, I mean LeVar from what I
understand too, maybe LSU came snooping around Lincoln rally to
go to LSU in the first place.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Not so what that that has anything to do with it,
but I try to hire him here.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yeah, listen, when you get into these types of scenarios,
I think because of the way the playoff is set
up now, I mean, don't you have to be extra
cautious and how you're choosing your games? Do you want
to go out and play a big time game out
the gate? I think, entertainment wise, I think is really dope.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Well that's what it's for, right, I mean, the whole
thing is for entertainment and if you win, you got
to you know, it's a lot high risk, high reward.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Yeah, but I don't know that it's worth as the
school either way, LSU or USC. I don't know that
it's worth worth the risk. I mean, think about it.
USC has to think about you. You brought up Penn State.
You have to think about what this season looks like
for USC. Do you want to get a quick you know,
(29:44):
put yourself in a situation where you have a quick loss,
knowing what your schedule is. You know, during the course
of that year, it's going to have a very different
it's very different than what you have had in the
Pact twelve.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Well, I don't like saying that because I see all
these teams, especially the mid and lower tier teams, and
to me, it's like, oh my god, the Big Ten,
Oh god, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
There's a little there's a little much there.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
But tell it for you, hey.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
All I know is every time I've watched a Big
ten matchup with the old PAC twelve back in the day,
the Big Ten fared.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Okay, Well, look, I mean look at what USC's thrown
out on the table. They hired an air raid coach,
you know, and they and they had Sarkesian, and they
had all these offensive guys, and they'd fay, iowall put
up sixty on them, for God's sakes.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I mean, absolutely right, You're right.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
But I do think I like the new athletic director
at USC, Jen Cohen from Washington. I know about I
know what she does, and I admire her. I admire
what she's done. And look, usually I'm very negative about SC.
You guys know that, and I try to butter it
up a little bit in the off season because I
realized that my bitterness doesn't really help anybody, and no
(30:57):
one wants to hear me if I'm always negative. Yeah,
But this offseason I'm actually not trying that hard to
butter it up. I feel good about the defensive higher
she made, about what she forced Lincoln Riley to do,
and how they're trying to revamp the identity of the team,
at least trying for the big ten. I think they
thought that they were going to cruise to an NFL job,
(31:19):
that whole staff Caleb Williams last year. It didn't happen,
and now they've got to set their feet and set
their jaw and strap their chin, strap on and see
what happens.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
And I'm I'm I'm anxious to see if they have
the balls.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I mean, they got Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, and
they got to go to Maryland get some yeah, and
then Washington, the Nebraska, then UCLA and then the Irish.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
But that's a that's a tough end. It's tough. That's
a tough schedule.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Man.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Here's here's one one person who probably doesn't have any
issue with.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
This game, by the way, to me and my family.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah, going out in the Las Vegas I guess from
Baton Rouge sides any issue commodore Kelly Oh oh, so.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah. I think they're excited about it. I mean they
have a thing.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Look, I mean LSU under ed Ogeron became like a
USC East.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
He brought John Robinson, my old coach, out there to
hang out and did wonderful things for him in his
elderly age, and Bku Kenechi Daisy, guys like that that
were all around USC. They went out there with coach
oh and he did a great and they had one
of the great years in the history of college football together.
(32:41):
So I think LSU's into it, and I think, like Alabama,
LSU wants to eat us like a lamb chop to
start the season off. And it could be a very
rough year in the Big Ten. In anybody's that's just
a rough schedule. You know, there's not a lot of hey,
we're playing.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
The ravel too right, time zone change, all that stuff
that's gonna be a stress.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
So they ever really experienced on a consistent basis.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, the West Coast part, you know. I mean every
other year they go to Notre Dame and that's about
as far as we would go. I mean when I
played in ninety eight, we played at Florida State and
we played out in New York.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I talked to Earls about that.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
You know, the travel to PAC twelve or what was
the PAC twelve. It wasn't like, you know, you're a
bust in places like you know you're do in the midde.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
It's a two and a half hour flight to see
as long you think, right, but you know it's an hour.
It's nothing to Stanford and cal It's nothing to Arizona
or Tucson. Once they added you know, everybody talks about
all the PAC twelve It's like, Okay, Utah and Colorado
were pretty late ads.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Colorado to me is still a big twelve program in
many ways, and Utah, well, they were stepping up and
they did a great job in the conference, but it
wasn't like they were established. And my dad's generation felt
the same way about the Arizonas who were in the
whack and all that and then got added and created
the Packed from eight. You know, everybody has revisionist history
(34:04):
about this stuff. When I played at USC the baseball team,
there was no Oregon Pac twelve team in baseball, there
was no Washington State.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
It was called the six Pack.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
There was only six teams in the Pac twelve to
compete in baseball. So this stuff is always changing, but
it feels like it's changing so rapidly now that scheduling
has not caught up.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Well said, I mean, it's gonna be a lot of
drama that plays out, I'll tell you that. And scheduling.
It's the more competitive it is, I think, the better
it is. It's just more volatile for coaches, it's more
volatile for the responsibilities of these ads. As you you
guys just mentioned, I think the stakes are really, really
(34:48):
high and.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
More money, more problems.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
It's never been a tougher job to college, which has
never been harder.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Let me put it this way.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
By the way, if I was, you know, willing to
place a wager on this, probably laid the six and
half points with LSU.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Just gotta throw that out there.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Hashtag me too. Who's but who's playing quarterback? Miller Moss
is going to play for for USC? I guess or
the kid who transferred from you and l V. I
like him, my Ava.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
We'll see to be good this year. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
It.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I like their defensive HighRes. I like they went and
got Dan and Land and Matt Enz the old head
coach at North Dakota State to be the linebacker coach.
Nobody cares about these little tiny nuances until mid season
and you say, wow, maybe maybe, Yes, he's playing good defense.
But I feel a lot better than USC's direction than
when they had the air Raid staff playing on defense.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
So we'll see and we'll be back. Hey, are we
playing a game next?
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Yes, Lee leads this off.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
We play a little bit of a game. But are
you in or are you out?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
If you want to play, no, I will, We'll play
I look, I'm here to play, you know, I just
don't know. I don't We don't do a lot anyway.
Uh so coming up on Two Pros and a Cup of.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Joe, you don't do a lot of game class? Is
that what you mean?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. We're gonna
play a game, We're gonna do a we're gonna have
some games with leave to Lap and it's active colon
now for room time.
Speaker 11 (36:23):
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Speaker 2 (36:34):
Everybody, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
My name is Petros Papadecas filling in for Jonas on
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. You're two pros
of course, LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn. This is our final segment.
I didn't do the first two hours, but a big
thank you to Albert Breer who joined the show. Don't
forget to podcast everything on the iHeartRadio app. And uh,
I guess there's a game that we play.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Here spot for games Time. Two Pros in a cup
of show what even and know if they're in at
least or if they're out.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
That is right, Petros with this is somewhat of a game.
You can say you're in or out on any of
these things we have.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Of course, that's all I'm required. It's a talk show.
It's monosyllabic in or out.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
That's it. There's a little more of an explanation. All right, okay,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (37:26):
Well, I'm not going to dive into what we all
know we're in on, which is Game five of the
Stanley Cup playoffs in Yeah, who can.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Say Petros isn't a hockey guy.
Speaker 12 (37:34):
Yeah, we got we got a couple of games.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I respect it, but it's hard to understand.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
What I'm going to be watching is quick to the fave,
let him explain.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Put the Petros sorry, put the biscuit in the basket
league like that.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
What I'm going to be watching actually the Scripts National
Spelling B Finals on ion if that's how you pronounce it.
I don't know if it's ion or io ins, but
Script's National Spelling B Finals.
Speaker 12 (37:59):
Are you guys in out out?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
That's usually like a clip thing.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Yeah, I see the highlights, right.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
You watch the highlights, and I'm watching the whole thing
can be quite tedious.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
But you're running to spell Yeah, is there a tie?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Like a couple of years back, Am I getting this wrong?
Speaker 12 (38:15):
Ooh, you're right, there was a tie and they agreed.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
Yeah, they agreed after several ties to uh.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
You come out like like we're not sharing the trophy anymore.
Like once they did that, I think I remember at
that point in my mind, I'm like, I don't even
know if I want to watch highlights of this anymore.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Copy that.
Speaker 8 (38:30):
All right, guys, you out the US Whippen's Open begins today.
This is golf begins in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which if you
didn't know, I'm.
Speaker 12 (38:39):
Sure, I'm sure LeVar knows. This is Amige country.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Amish is Amige contrary.
Speaker 12 (38:45):
Are you guys enter out on the amage? Don't worry
they're not listening or man and or rum Springer.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
If you don't know what rum springer is, what is springer? Well,
I'm sure somebody out there knows rum springer is. When
it's kind of like a rite of passage. Would you
come of age, you're allowed to go out into the
world and oh.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And they had like a TV
show where they like kind of like showed that, you know, reaking,
Yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, it was Kingpin.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Yeah yeah, when he was blowing it out in the
urinal Yeah. Did you see the girl ripping a cigarette
signing autographs at.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
The LBG event.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, alone puts me in and us. It was so long.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
H Kelly Norda too has been on absolute terror, So
for that reason, I'm in. I like washing her.
Speaker 12 (39:38):
I like that too, guys, believe it or not. And
I'm sorry to tell you about this.
Speaker 8 (39:42):
There's a national holiday that's kind of new since twenty twenty,
initially celebrated virtually as a result of you know what
we all went through. It's called fakes Giving, and its
existed for the last two years is being celebrated. It's
a halfway between Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Nothing invented in the last two years can be good
amount Christmas and lie out.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
The Roman Empire collapse because it had too many holidays.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Out out out, Dang, I'm out too, Yeah, good job,
good job you guys, hey out.
Speaker 12 (40:09):
I was watching Mad Max Furiosa the other day.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
I don't know if you guys like owls furious, but
I saw the trailer for the new Beverly Hills cop Out.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
Axel F is Judge Reinhold in there, Which.
Speaker 12 (40:22):
One's Judge Reinhold. He's the No, he's the.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Guy from Fast Times at rich Mount High. The white guy,
A white guy. You know.
Speaker 12 (40:30):
No, he is not well. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
He might be Petro doesn't know lead us nobody, white guys.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
But he's got more, that's true. He's got his old
partner in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Judge Reinhold.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Judge Reinhold and Taylor Page from A Zola A good
movie that I always recommended.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
This last one.
Speaker 12 (40:44):
I'm out on Green and Idna Menzel.
Speaker 8 (40:47):
Happy birthday to you, guys.
Speaker 12 (40:50):
Fun fun story.
Speaker 8 (40:51):
Back in twenty fourteen, Hit You and Forget You Too,
I named my fantasy football team Odell Desim after John
Travolta's flub at the I had Odell Beckham and Des
Bryant on my team, Odell Dizzim twenty fourteen, Long Live
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