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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two pros and a cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
LaVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with you here. Coming up on
this Thursday edition, we are going to look back at
the first round of the NBA Draft, well kind of.
We're gonna talk about the real story of the NBA
Draft and you can complain all you want, but facts
are facts. Plus, we're gonna have a discussion about the
situation in the NFL when it comes to Caleb Williams
(00:21):
and is welcome to the league moment that he will
be experiencing against Jeffrey Simmons and the Titans coming up
Week one, you'll hear from him there. LaVar Arrington has
some strong thoughts on what happened between Texas A and
M and Texas when it comes to the college baseball scene.
We're also going to have a discussion about Anthony Richardson
in his future in the National Football League. We're going
(00:42):
to hand out an award as well too, and talk
about partying with the Cup. Albert Breer is going to
stop by to try and shed a little bit more
light on the Aaron Rodgers mystery. Plus, we got another
edition of In case you missed it, and we've got
you in and you out. It's all yours coming up
next here two pros and a cup of Joe on
a Thursday, Fox Sports Radio three.
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Speaker 5 (02:00):
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in for the last last word to get in to
really emphasize the sentence or the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, but I will listen. I mean you owed people.
I mean you owed them. There were some people waiting
around yesterday going where's LeVar.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm glad I could get it out. Boy. I thought
I might have started coughing or something. I might start choking. Damn,
my throat is all sored up, man, So I made
it though. I drank some warm some warm tea, some
warm water for I started to do it. So if
y'all start hearing me wheezing or tying, you know, breathing
real loud, you know it's just one of them days.
(02:44):
My respiratory systems acting crazy. My throat is a little
bit scratchy. But I'm here, man.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, we're happy. It is two pros and a cup
of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Jonas
KNOCKX with you. No Brady Quinn.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Again, Brady James, Well, listen down.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Ronnie's not here for different reasons. Brady's not here for
another ped violation. I hate when this happens. But when
you get on the gas and you're pissed hot here
on this show, you got to sit one out. So
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what was Is it just the flu you got going on?
Or is it was like a cold? Is it sweeping
the house?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It feels like the flu. It was a war zone
in here on yesterday. Man, Yeah, what happened yesterday evening? Like, well,
I guess the day before evening? It was just I
mean people, Trish was passed out on the kitchen floor
like it was. It was carnage everywhere. Man, wait what
people throw? Penn is throwing up over here? You know,
(04:01):
it was just I don't know, man, it's crazy, bro.
It was just a lot going on. I'm hurting, like
I felt like, you know, you know how you get
those when you get that that type of illness where
you get extreme hot and cold flashes and you get
you get those sweats and then everything is bothering. Then
(04:23):
your whole body is in pain. Like it just achy.
I'm just just super achy. You know what made me
think about jonas I started thinking to myself, I'm like,
how do you walk around people who give you germs
to make you feel that way but they don't look
like they feel that way? It start it made me
start thinking, like, with all this technology that they have
(04:45):
out here, you know what they need to do. They
need to come up with an app that connects to
some like like some sunglasses, like some cool looking sunglasses,
and as you're walking through places, it's like, stay away,
boom boom, stay away. Like it doesn't need to tell you,
like what their you know, what their affliction is or
(05:06):
whatever their illness is, but just know that if it
can get on you, like if it can handle you
and make you sick, then you need to stay away. Now.
The only problem you have with that is that thing
would probably be going nuts while you're in the air,
you know, on an airplane. Oh yeah, you know what
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I mean. So there'd be no way, there'd be no
way around it. But it's just bro I generally get
sick like when I travel, I mean, but this one
was worse though, Like this this one, I feel pretty bad. Man.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, it feels like there's two different flus going through
the house. Is the stomach and then the whatever they
call that, the the non stomach that you've got. I'll
say this, I would rather have the fever in the
chills and throwing up.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
That's not all.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And but here is the good thing about being sick. Okay,
don't you feel lean afterwards because you can't relieve.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
All that much, can't really ease.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh man, lean, And that's when you take all your
best shots, like you just go head down so nobody
sees that you're sick and just you look like you're
carved at a granite.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I ain't do no smoking, no nothing, man, Just like
just been out of it, just been out of it. Bro.
I stayed in bed literally the entire day yesterday. So damn, yeah,
it's pretty this one is pretty. This one got me
pretty good. Man.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well listen, I hope everybody at the house feels better.
And you know you'd be back by the pool having
a cocktailer too.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
In no time.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Everything's gonna be fine. Now with that being said, I
know there's a lot of people that are like, man,
well he's sick as he banged up. You guys, promised
us something yesterday and hopefully LeVar can deliver. So here
we go, LeVar, the floor is yours. It is time
for LeVar Arrington's NBA Draft grades of the first round. LeVar,
take it away your thoughts on the first round of
(06:54):
the NBA draft, as we got to see a bunch
of guys that nobody's really familiar with.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And that's what I'll start off by saying, while I
think that these these draft picks are you know, I
thought I thought the picks were good. I think the
the one thing I came away with wondering was why
are the top players coming from overseas? Why is why
(07:23):
is France the place where you know your top two
guys are coming from? Like that was my my initial
my initial takeaway. I mean, obviously in ranking and rating
the players, they I mean from from what I can
(07:43):
gather and what I've I've studied on on the guys
that they've taken, it's you know, they're they're good picks
for the teams. It just seems like to me, my
my takeaway was that is America because it's kind of
(08:05):
like that. Isn't it like that in baseball as well?
Isn't it like that kind of in hockey as well.
It's a decentralized sport. You don't get the best players
necessarily from America, even though these are you know, these
are American considered to be American sports. Yeah, they're more
global in their reach. So even though I was looking
(08:28):
at you know, like the kid fall into the Lakers
at seventeen from from Tennessee, and you know the kid
from Purdue, Zach, what's top ten? Yeah, but I mean,
don't you think he might have should have went higher.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think in previous years he would have, he would
have gotten higher.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But I just, you know, I just think that you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Man, just three Frenchmen in the top six, which, like
my thought on it was this like for all the
coverage that the Dream Team got back in ninety two
and how great it was, and for anybody that doesn't remember,
I mean it was the story of the Barcelona Olympics,
like following the Dream Team that you liked seeing all
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those guys playing on the same team. I mean, you
had guys that you know, were Hall of Fame players
that weren't really the biggest story, Like Larry Bird could
hardly play because his back was so banged up and
so injured, but it was all about building that team
and going to take over the Olympics, and it just
everyone knew what the reality was. Guys were going to
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get destroyed. You had players from other countries getting autographs
and getting their pictures taken with these guys. They were
true rock stars. And one of the things that I
think is interesting to come out of it is that's
really where this all started. Like all the international players
in the international influence, guys like Dirk, guys like Luke,
like all it started from that dream team. So it's
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almost like, hey, we want to go take over the world.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
World.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Literally, we realize you influenced it to a point to
where they're they're not taking over the draft Like it's
like they've they've loved what they saw and they loved
the product so much that all of a sudden, everybody
wanted to play ball. Everybody wanted to be the next
NBA star, and it's grown the game to a certain level.
The only issue with that is, yeah, it's great on
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Draft night and or it's great on regular season games
and you see guys like Joker and Luca and Wenby
and Giannis and all these guys playing when they played
during the regular season, but when it comes to events
like Draft night, and we were talking about this yesterday,
you don't you're not as familiar with these guys, but
they're familiar with you because they saw it when it
came over in ninety two for the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It just makes me wonder, you know, I mean, it
just makes me wonder. What does that mean in terms
of the way these kids are being developed? That's my
biggest question. If that's if it's consistently happened happening. Wenby
went number one last year, so now you got two
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years in a row that it happens and this year
it's one and two. That means there's a trend that's
being started. And what is that? What it like? What
are they doing there that would lend to them having
the number one overall draft pick in the NBA? What
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what are they doing that that development in the US
isn't doing. You know, I start to think about like
the institutions like IMG, you know Mount Verde, you know,
the high school, the high schools that are developing these kids.
I'm pretty certain they have clubs like they handle athletics
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differently abroad, like you can actually go to school for sports,
like if it's basketball, if it's so, if it's you know,
certain certain, you know sports, you actually can go to
school for that. Now you're starting to see that become
(12:11):
more of a trend in America now as well, where
they have those like boarder schools where or charter whatever
they're called, where where you're able to go there, you
do your home or you do your your books, you
do your class, and then most of the day is
spent working out and doing development for the sport that
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you play, like specialized training for that sport in particular.
But I find it to be very interesting that that
that is now a trend now. Listen, Houston takes read Shepherd.
Read Shepherd is a young young fella point guard God
handles freshmen out of Kentucky. I thought that was I mean,
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he's he's one of those guys. He's I believe he's
got a pretty good ceiling. But you know, you have
to it all remains to be seen. Right Stephen Castle
from Connecticut, I thought he was. He had a really
good year. He goes to the Spurs, good defender. You know,
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Yukon always puts out some some pretty good talent. You know,
they seem to have good development for players that translate
well into the NBA. The Pistons take Ron Holland, he's
a guard out of the G League. So now it's
it's just interesting because you don't have these types of elements.
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And I always compare things to football, but you don't
have these types of elements, and in football, like it
just seems to be more more cut and dry.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It also, I think showcases how big college football has
been come, because I don't want to say that college
basketball was bigger at a certain point, but damn it
sure felt like back in the day that there was
like it was at least in the same stratosphere because
(14:14):
like you know, those we've talked about it, those Duke teams,
the Florida teams from the early two thousand, like all
of those teams were like you knew every one of
those guys, U and LB, you knew all those guys.
And now when it comes to college football, the TV rights,
the exposure, like every single player that's getting drafted, you've
either see a game of his yeah yeah, And I
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think that's that's really where the disconnect comes from. The
NBA Draft where you don't have that, and it just
showcases the bridge that those guys are walking on to
get to the next level, Like you just don't have
that in basketball anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I believe. You had two guys from Yukon and two
guys from Kentucky that were in the top ten, and
those two teams. I mean, while you you know, Kentucky
kind of came up short and really short with what
they did in the tournament, it still kind of goes
back to the point that Caler Perry made, I do
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get you ready for the NBA. Yeah, for what it's worth, maybe.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's why Brady's not here. He didn't want to have
to answer for John Calipari getting a guy draft in
the top three.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Again, I believe. But again he's gotten two. He got
two in the top ten, and obviously Yukon they took
it home. They have two in the top ten. So
you're familiar with you know those guys because you're seeing
them all year and they're more highlighted during the course
of the NCAA basketball season. But for the most and
(15:44):
then obviously we knew we know who Zach Edie is
because of how tall he is and you know, the
just kind of the storyline.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
What that's really But that's how we should break down.
We should really do a grade on everybody. Just be
like Zach Edy goes nine to Memphis. Uh, you know,
biggest takeaway is he's tall. He's tall, seven fourth tall.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Tall. But you know, but he was good too, you know,
they they went, they went on a deep run obviously,
and and had had the opportunity to to win it,
and and then it was largely a part of what
he brought to the table. I mean, he's he has
a I think he has the potential to be a
(16:31):
really really good pro. I don't know that I see
superstar like super superstar type guy like Max Contract guy
and Zach Edy. But but I think he'll be a
good player in the NBA. I think he'll do some
good things. But for the most part, I mean it's
because he's tall and he's you know his I think
his heritage plays a little bit to do with it too,
(16:52):
Like you know, he's got well, he's got that whole
well anyways, I don't want to mess it up. Yeah,
but anyway, it's a.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Good heat check to see if anybody's listening though, Just
misrepresent the background about it.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's fun. But anyway, all in all, I
thought it was interesting. I don't think that anyone should
have been surprised that Brownie wasn't taken in the first round,
because once you get out of all of the politics,
as Petros has said many of times, the kid wasn't
even on the first team in California coming out of
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high school as as a top player, Like I think
he was like a second team off CIF and then
he goes to college and obviously you know he had
the health scare, so you get that, but nonetheless he
wasn't I don't think anyone that would be breaking down
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basketball and breaking down the prospects would have him as
a top prospect. So while it may come across as
maybe disappointing that that he didn't go in the first
round and somebody said, well, he's clearly the biggest name
prospect on the board now for the next round, he
was the biggest name prospect on the board for the
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first round. Yes, you know, but that doesn't mean that
he's the best prospect. And while I think he will
get an opportunity to play in the NBA, I still
think that It's just one of those things where, if
we're being honest with ourselves, these gms and these teams
have to go with the best prospect that they believe
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makes their team better. And I don't think that you
change that process just because the kid's name is Brownie James.
And I think we found that out in last night's draft.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yep, good point. It is Two Pros and a Cup
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common here at LeVar with a certain somebody in it.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Wouldn't be you. But if you say somebody else, it's possible.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Damn.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
But nonetheless, nonetheless, there's a you know, there's gonna be
a lot of eyes on the one and only Kayla
Williams of the Chicago Bears, the number one pick of
the draft, somebody who is who's going to be.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Obviously covered extensively. People are going to see what's going
on with Caleb Williams, whether or not he is gonna
be the goods for the Chicago Bears or whatnot. And
Caleb Williams and the Bears open up the season with
the Tennessee Titans and they get him at home, and
so Jeffrey Simmons of the Tennessee Titans, he did talk
(21:18):
with Rich Eisen about facing Caleb Williams the first time
out right out of the gates and had this to say.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Weak one of the National Football League season will be
the first human being on the other side of the
line of scrimmage chaining news in a game.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I can't wait to sell that to him.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Caleb Williams, It's gonna be one of them games, especially,
I mean, he probably could talks I mean Smack talked
to is about you know, his teammates right now, but
like it's gonna be especially a game like that my
first game of course, I missed the last end of
the season. It's gonna be the first game of the season.
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They got us come to Chicago. He's gonna all the
hype is gonna be around them, of course, So it's
like that's gonna I think like when especially like not
even prime time games. You know, everybody like the I
wish I would have played in Miami game, but like
everybody count Tennessee, which we all know, in a game
like Chicago, and I'm sure they thinking were about to
(22:22):
get beat after like bad. So that also make me
even talk more Smack and boots me up a little more,
make me get in a different mode as well, So
I'll be in a different mode.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Of that game.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So that is the what is it waiting Caleb Williams
Week one of the NFL season. Jeffrey Simmons on the
other side of the ball, So how bad is this
going to get for Caleb Williams as far as what
he's going to hear from defenders, especially early.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
On, It's going to be bad. Regardless. I mean, there's
so much material and listen, I don't know, I don't
know where the NFL is now and how they talk
trash and how they treat one another. It just seems
(23:11):
like we live in a day and age now where
everybody's friends and they're more friendly with one another. Even
if you were friends, you know back, you know, further
back playing in the league, you weren't friends on the
field during the game. That just wasn't That was a no.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We could be friends before. Hey, how's the family doing
the die? Wife and gid y'all?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Good?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Okay, good, great man? Or you might even have dinner
with them the night before being in their town or
them being in your town. But come kick off. All
bets is off. And the things that people have said,
like I told, I tell the story all the time.
It's one of my favorites. I mean, I've said some
(23:56):
really really ignorant, really horrible things to people on the
floor ball field. Yeah, I've said some some crazy things
to you too, but nothing crazier than what I said
on the field though, Like I remember the one time
I think I've told the story before on this show
where where we were playing Tampa Bay, and I hit
(24:17):
Aaron Stecker and his helmet went rolling off, and I
thought his head was still in the helmet, and I
went running after his helmet and grabbed his helmet to
look in it to see if his head was still
in it. And then I turned back around and saw
him on his knees and his eyeballs were like really
really big, like oh my gosh, like I saw my
life flashed before my eyes type thing, and I told
(24:40):
him to get that f up, mother effort. Don't nobody
give an f about your life? Right, like that type
of stuff, Like when people are telling you they're out
there playing playing for.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Keeps, that's just wholesome stuff. I mean, I don't understand
why anybody would have an issue with that.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I mean, I know, I know, we all know the
Shannon Sharp story, you know, of being on the field
and how that that played out. People will talk about girlfriends, people.
They generally say you shouldn't talk about wives, moms and kids.
But there are some guys out there that just don't
have any type of parameters on on how they say
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things and how they do things. They will be trying.
There will be certain dudes that say stuff to him.
I don't I don't foresee calling him painted nails boy
any type of I don't feel like that's going to
be enough to offend him, you know what I mean,
Like that's not like you gotta assume he's probably already
(25:42):
gotten that in college, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
But what well I did, And also Jeffrey Simmons did
point out in the clip like, oh, he's probably already
heard it from his teammates.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh yeah, Oh they probably jone on him in the
in the locker room, Like, yeah, they probably jone on him.
I mean, he's a rookie. I mean he's their star.
He's their star rookie. But nonetheless he's a rookie. And
really it doesn't matter if he's a rookie or not.
If there's something to jon on or key key about
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on somebody like master key Kears will key key on you,
that's the bottom line. And those things happen all the time.
It happens all the time. So when when he got there,
I mean it probably was right out the gate. There
was probably some vetch jumping on him right out the gate.
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And and that's just a part of it. I mean
I've seen who was it, Fred Smoot and well, all right,
here's what happened. I know what happened. So, so what
happened was with Fred Smooth. It was this whole thing
about how how he he got into this this like
(26:55):
thing with what's his name Plexico burst actually in in
this game. And what happened was he actually this this
guysh darn, I don't know what just happened here. Not
Laren just went off and I can't get it to
go off, damn. But so Fred Smooth gets into a
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he gets into like a heated mix, you know, back
and forth with with Plexico, and Plexico was wearing him
out in the game, and so we was messing with
him about it in the locker room and he didn't
like it, you know what I mean like it and
like got to the point of where, you know, he
was ready to fight over it. Like that's one one,
(27:42):
one one example. I remember when Big Daryl Gardner, big
big DG. DG's like six seven six six.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Isn't he a bodybuilder?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Now? Yeah, dog, he's He's impressive. It's my dude, one
of my favorite teammates.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I heard he's like not the guy who uh yo
with him?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, don't mess with him like he was he was
up and like he used to be in the weight room,
like curling one fifties and stuff like that, dumb bells
and stuff like he's one of them dudes. But he
had a lot of like rolls on the back of
his head, and it looked like he was like, you know,
like he tried to do those hair hair loss treatments
(28:21):
where he could try to get his hair back, so
it was one of those things. But it looked like
like the back of his head looked like they he
used to say, it looked like a bunch of Oscar
Mayer Oscar Mayer wieners on the back of his head.
Don't tal be saying, hey, don't talk be talking about
don't you talking about my head? And he'd be ready
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to fight too. So the point I'm making is the
point I'm making is nobody's off limits. You could be
the biggest, strongest, baddest dude on the field. You could
be the smallest dude. It don't matter. Like everybody gets it.
Everybody gets it. Like I think, like maybe a few
dudes like nobody. I don't think anybody key keyed on
(29:04):
d Green, but maybe Smoothie did smooth key keyed on everybody.
Everybody got it, Like that's locker room culture. Though, that's
locker room culture. So I don't think that there's anything
malicious with that, And honestly, I don't I'm saying that.
I think they're trying to hype their selves, because why
would you think that Chicago's going to beat the brakes
(29:26):
off of Tennessee. I think that's that's a matchup between
two average teams.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And it's also weak one. We have no idea what
you're gonna get. It's week one, like there's like there's
there's results that come out of week one that in
the moment we think are the biggest deal, and then
you look back on it and go, oh Jesus, like,
yeah that was nothing. Like you just like it's like
we have we have no clue how this is going
to go. But it is funny that like the first
(29:52):
the first thing he thinks of what he thinks of
Kaylen Williams all painted nails.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I don't, but I just again, I just don't. I
don't see how that's going to be offensive because that's
what he's always done, you know what I mean. So
he's already well versed on how people feel or how
they come at him approach him on that. Now, what
I will say is the NFL is different. It's definitely
different in the sense that the intensity level of what's
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going to take place for him in that game will
certainly be different, even with the rule changes. I think
I would assume. So he's going to have to deal
with the physicality of being out there and them talking
bad to him. Like it feels different when somebody has
planted you and has gotten a sack on you, or
(30:41):
you've tried to run and they you know, they've throttled
down on you on the sideline, or you know, got
a hold of you, you know, on the field and
they're telling you about your fingernails, or you know. I know,
for me, if it were me and I was playing
against Caleb Williams, I would bring up you know what
I mean, like I'm that type of dude. It be
(31:03):
it'd be horrible, Like you know, I'd be like I said,
you're not supposed to bring up mom's wives or anything,
but in this case, I would bring up a mom
and it wouldn't be like, you know, geared towards her.
It'd be geared towards him being in a fetal position
crying in his mom's orange like I would. I there's
gonna be guys that that pull out all kinds of
(31:26):
anything that's happened, that they've seen happen. They're going to
pull it out, you know. Pause, but they are going
to pull pull those things and use those things in
terms of talking. But talking's never won a game, you
know what I mean. Talking has never won a game.
And Caleb Williams has been a high profile guy, and
(31:47):
he's been a high profile guy that has had to
be able to handle, you know, these types of approaches
towards him. So I don't think that that's going to
be any any problem for him.
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Speaker 10 (33:18):
Good morning, everybody, Good morning, Jonas, Good morning, LeVar, Good
morning guys, Thank you LeVar, guys. In case he missed this, AI, Hey, Brady,
Oh God, oh boy, guys.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
In case you missed this, AI is now part of
our daily lives right well.
Speaker 10 (33:36):
With the Olympics coming up in Paris, NBC announced on
Wednesday that they will offer fans personalized Olympic highlights videos
on Peacock that will be delivered in the voice of
al Michaels himself. Thanks to artificial intelligence, al Michaels is
given his blessing on this. In fact, if you want
to hear a demo of what al Michaels will sound
like via AI, here it is.
Speaker 11 (33:57):
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swimming fan, let's head right to the pool. Team USA
secured a stunning victory in the men's four by one
hundred meter medley relay, smashing the world record. Over at
the diving venue. Christa Palmer showcased resilience and skill overcoming
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Speaker 2 (34:32):
Unbelievable. It's unbelievable. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
Al Michael's seventy nine years old, still with us, gives
his blessing.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Remember the first time I heard Pat Summer all on
Madden and being like, this is groundbreaking, this is unbelieving.
Al Michaels now just generated to do U the Olympics.
Randy Travis is recording music again, even though he can't
sing anymore, just like making albums because of AI. What
(35:10):
the hell man?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I mean, that's his voice, I know, But like if
he can do it, and he can do music because
of AI, he can do it. I think that's kind
of decent.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You know who I blame for this, Supermarkets, because they
had the idea of self checkout. Listen, it's automated. You
don't need anybody's help. Yeah, we'll just say let everybody
else do it, don't worry about it. Just ten items
or less. It might take a little bit longer, but
don't worry. You can figure this out alone. We don't
need to pay these humans this extra money. We'll just
(35:44):
go ahead and let you handle it yourselves. And I'm
guilty of it because I use it all the time
because I'm very efficient. But I think that was the
start of AI, and now that I look back on it,
I regret ever using a self checkout and not paying
my respects to the heart burned and hard working people
that sit behind the counter and have to try and
get over the fact that they're staring a National inquirer
(36:07):
in the eyes while some dead end is buying another
twelve pack that he just got previously fifteen minutes before.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
I never used self check out. You know why?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yeah, because she can't buy alcohol.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
So yeah, that's a language lead doesn't speak. What do
you mean self check I tried.
Speaker 10 (36:26):
Doing it the other day. It was like the first time,
at least I tried to figure it.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Out at least like they had those dab what else
we got?
Speaker 6 (36:36):
Guys.
Speaker 10 (36:37):
Randall Cobb, you know, wide receiver in the NFL, and
his family say they're lucky to be alive.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
After a house fire in Nashville.
Speaker 10 (36:45):
His wife took to social media said thank you all
for the love and positive messages. First and foremost, we're
all safe and healthy. We got out of the house
and I was able to get back and get our
dog Louis with the shoes on our feet, with not
even shoes on our feet, close on our back.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
This was after a test La fire in their garage.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh wow, well that's not a That doesn't seem like.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Somebody's trying to take Tesla down. Man. There's been a
lot of bad reports coming out on Tesla. Man.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I mean, look, the cyber truck looks bad, but I
don't know how it operates.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Uh, they've been getting recalled.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I mean somebody said something about the pedal at one point.
I mean, I don't know, just Tesla. Somebody coming after
your elon. I don't know who it is, but they're
coming for you.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Good god man, You like imagine like you're charging your Tesla,
and like there's probably people out there that maybe have
a Tesla and may have a charging port in their
garage that are like uh oh like like this is
not this doesn't seem like an ideal an ideal review
of a of a Tesla product. But again, keep making
(37:57):
fun of the truck I drive though, Keep mocking it,
keep keep poking fu.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
I mean that doesn't that doesn't kind of get you
out of the way of the saffer Mo. Well, listen,
that doesn't That doesn't get you out of it.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I'd rather walk drive around with yard rakes and lawnmower
equipment in the back of my truck than have to
worry about whether or not my house burns down. Let's
I'll say that right now.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Your house could burn down with that bad boy too,
sports plug something. There could be something that goes wrong
with that one too.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Damn what else we got guys.
Speaker 10 (38:29):
Hooters has closed several dozen locations across the country twelve,
twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
They're done.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
They're done.
Speaker 10 (38:39):
Yeah, them, along with Red Lobster, Boston Market, TGI Fridays,
Elford Pizza Kitchen.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I don't even I don't even know where the nearest
Tutors is, Like, I really don't.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
Let's find it.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Nope,
Two pros and a cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
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We're gonna talk about the real story of the NBA
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Week one, you'll hear from him there. LaVar Arrington has
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M and Texas when it comes to the college baseball scene.
We're also going to have a discussion about Anthony Richardson
in his future in the National Football League. We're going
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Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm telling you Coops really, Coops really mastered the art
of that one rapper on stage who doesn't do anything
in for the last last word to get in to
really emphasize the sentence or the lyrics.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, but I will listen. I mean you owed people.
I mean you owed them. There were some people waiting
around yesterday going where's LeVar.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm glad I could get it out. Boy. I thought
I might have started coughing or something. I might start choking. Damn,
my throat is all sored up, man, So I made
it though. I drank some warm some warm tea, some
warm water for I started to do it. So if
y'all start hearing me wheezing or tying, you know, breathing
real loud, you know it's just one of them days.
(02:44):
My respiratory systems acting crazy. My throat is a little
bit scratchy. But I'm here, man.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, we're happy. It is two pros and a cup
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KNOCKX with you. No Brady Quinn.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Again, Brady James, Well, listen down.
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what was Is it just the flu you got going on?
Or is it was like a cold? Is it sweeping
the house?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It feels like the flu. It was a war zone
in here on yesterday. Man, Yeah, what happened yesterday evening? Like, well,
I guess the day before evening? It was just I
mean people, Trish was passed out on the kitchen floor
like it was. It was carnage everywhere. Man, wait what
people throw? Penn is throwing up over here? You know,
(04:01):
it was just I don't know, man, it's crazy, bro.
It was just a lot going on. I'm hurting, like
I felt like, you know, you know how you get
those when you get that that type of illness where
you get extreme hot and cold flashes and you get
you get those sweats and then everything is bothering. Then
(04:23):
your whole body is in pain. Like it just achy.
I'm just just super achy. You know what made me
think about jonas I started thinking to myself, I'm like,
how do you walk around people who give you germs
to make you feel that way but they don't look
like they feel that way? It start it made me
start thinking, like, with all this technology that they have
(04:45):
out here, you know what they need to do. They
need to come up with an app that connects to
some like like some sunglasses, like some cool looking sunglasses,
and as you're walking through places, it's like, stay away,
boom boom, stay away. Like it doesn't need to tell you,
like what their you know, what their affliction is or
(05:06):
whatever their illness is, but just know that if it
can get on you, like if it can handle you
and make you sick, then you need to stay away. Now.
The only problem you have with that is that thing
would probably be going nuts while you're in the air,
you know, on an airplane. Oh yeah, you know what
(05:26):
I mean. So there'd be no way, there'd be no
way around it. But it's just bro I generally get
sick like when I travel, I mean, but this one
was worse though, Like this this one, I feel pretty bad. Man.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, it feels like there's two different flus going through
the house. Is the stomach and then the whatever they
call that, the the non stomach that you've got. I'll
say this, I would rather have the fever in the
chills and throwing up.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
That's not all.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And but here is the good thing about being sick. Okay,
don't you feel lean afterwards because you can't relieve.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
All that much, can't really ease.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh man, lean, And that's when you take all your
best shots, like you just go head down so nobody
sees that you're sick and just you look like you're
carved at a granite.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I ain't do no smoking, no nothing, man, Just like
just been out of it, just been out of it. Bro.
I stayed in bed literally the entire day yesterday. So damn, yeah,
it's pretty this one is pretty. This one got me
pretty good. Man.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well listen, I hope everybody at the house feels better.
And you know you'd be back by the pool having
a cocktailer too.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
In no time.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Everything's gonna be fine. Now with that being said, I
know there's a lot of people that are like, man,
well he's sick as he banged up. You guys, promised
us something yesterday and hopefully LeVar can deliver. So here
we go, LeVar, the floor is yours. It is time
for LeVar Arrington's NBA Draft grades of the first round. LeVar,
take it away your thoughts on the first round of
(06:54):
the NBA draft, as we got to see a bunch
of guys that nobody's really familiar with.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And that's what I'll start off by saying, while I
think that these these draft picks are you know, I
thought I thought the picks were good. I think the
the one thing I came away with wondering was why
are the top players coming from overseas? Why is why
(07:23):
is France the place where you know your top two
guys are coming from? Like that was my my initial
my initial takeaway. I mean, obviously in ranking and rating
the players, they I mean from from what I can
(07:43):
gather and what I've I've studied on on the guys
that they've taken, it's you know, they're they're good picks
for the teams. It just seems like to me, my
my takeaway was that is America because it's kind of
(08:05):
like that. Isn't it like that in baseball as well?
Isn't it like that kind of in hockey as well.
It's a decentralized sport. You don't get the best players
necessarily from America, even though these are you know, these
are American considered to be American sports. Yeah, they're more
global in their reach. So even though I was looking
(08:28):
at you know, like the kid fall into the Lakers
at seventeen from from Tennessee, and you know the kid
from Purdue, Zach, what's top ten? Yeah, but I mean,
don't you think he might have should have went higher.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think in previous years he would have, he would
have gotten higher.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
But I just, you know, I just think that you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Man, just three Frenchmen in the top six, which, like
my thought on it was this like for all the
coverage that the Dream Team got back in ninety two
and how great it was, and for anybody that doesn't remember,
I mean it was the story of the Barcelona Olympics,
like following the Dream Team that you liked seeing all
(09:15):
those guys playing on the same team. I mean, you
had guys that you know, were Hall of Fame players
that weren't really the biggest story, Like Larry Bird could
hardly play because his back was so banged up and
so injured, but it was all about building that team
and going to take over the Olympics, and it just
everyone knew what the reality was. Guys were going to
(09:35):
get destroyed. You had players from other countries getting autographs
and getting their pictures taken with these guys. They were
true rock stars. And one of the things that I
think is interesting to come out of it is that's
really where this all started. Like all the international players
in the international influence, guys like Dirk, guys like Luke,
like all it started from that dream team. So it's
(09:57):
almost like, hey, we want to go take over the world.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
World.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Literally, we realize you influenced it to a point to
where they're they're not taking over the draft Like it's
like they've they've loved what they saw and they loved
the product so much that all of a sudden, everybody
wanted to play ball. Everybody wanted to be the next
NBA star, and it's grown the game to a certain level.
The only issue with that is, yeah, it's great on
(10:24):
Draft night and or it's great on regular season games
and you see guys like Joker and Luca and Wenby
and Giannis and all these guys playing when they played
during the regular season, but when it comes to events
like Draft night, and we were talking about this yesterday,
you don't you're not as familiar with these guys, but
they're familiar with you because they saw it when it
came over in ninety two for the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It just makes me wonder, you know, I mean, it
just makes me wonder. What does that mean in terms
of the way these kids are being developed? That's my
biggest question. If that's if it's consistently happened happening. Wenby
went number one last year, so now you got two
(11:07):
years in a row that it happens and this year
it's one and two. That means there's a trend that's
being started. And what is that? What it like? What
are they doing there that would lend to them having
the number one overall draft pick in the NBA? What
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what are they doing that that development in the US
isn't doing. You know, I start to think about like
the institutions like IMG, you know Mount Verde, you know,
the high school, the high schools that are developing these kids.
I'm pretty certain they have clubs like they handle athletics
(11:50):
differently abroad, like you can actually go to school for sports,
like if it's basketball, if it's so, if it's you know,
certain certain, you know sports, you actually can go to
school for that. Now you're starting to see that become
(12:11):
more of a trend in America now as well, where
they have those like boarder schools where or charter whatever
they're called, where where you're able to go there, you
do your home or you do your your books, you
do your class, and then most of the day is
spent working out and doing development for the sport that
(12:35):
you play, like specialized training for that sport in particular.
But I find it to be very interesting that that
that is now a trend now. Listen, Houston takes read Shepherd.
Read Shepherd is a young young fella point guard God
handles freshmen out of Kentucky. I thought that was I mean,
(13:01):
he's he's one of those guys. He's I believe he's
got a pretty good ceiling. But you know, you have
to it all remains to be seen. Right Stephen Castle
from Connecticut, I thought he was. He had a really
good year. He goes to the Spurs, good defender. You know,
(13:22):
Yukon always puts out some some pretty good talent. You know,
they seem to have good development for players that translate
well into the NBA. The Pistons take Ron Holland, he's
a guard out of the G League. So now it's
it's just interesting because you don't have these types of elements.
(13:43):
And I always compare things to football, but you don't
have these types of elements, and in football, like it
just seems to be more more cut and dry.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It also, I think showcases how big college football has
been come, because I don't want to say that college
basketball was bigger at a certain point, but damn it
sure felt like back in the day that there was
like it was at least in the same stratosphere because
(14:14):
like you know, those we've talked about it, those Duke teams,
the Florida teams from the early two thousand, like all
of those teams were like you knew every one of
those guys, U and LB, you knew all those guys.
And now when it comes to college football, the TV rights,
the exposure, like every single player that's getting drafted, you've
either see a game of his yeah yeah, And I
(14:37):
think that's that's really where the disconnect comes from. The
NBA Draft where you don't have that, and it just
showcases the bridge that those guys are walking on to
get to the next level, Like you just don't have
that in basketball anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I believe. You had two guys from Yukon and two
guys from Kentucky that were in the top ten, and
those two teams. I mean, while you you know, Kentucky
kind of came up short and really short with what
they did in the tournament, it still kind of goes
back to the point that Caler Perry made, I do
(15:14):
get you ready for the NBA. Yeah, for what it's worth, maybe.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's why Brady's not here. He didn't want to have
to answer for John Calipari getting a guy draft in
the top three.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Again, I believe. But again he's gotten two. He got
two in the top ten, and obviously Yukon they took
it home. They have two in the top ten. So
you're familiar with you know those guys because you're seeing
them all year and they're more highlighted during the course
of the NCAA basketball season. But for the most and
(15:44):
then obviously we knew we know who Zach Edie is
because of how tall he is and you know, the
just kind of the storyline.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
What that's really But that's how we should break down.
We should really do a grade on everybody. Just be
like Zach Edy goes nine to Memphis. Uh, you know,
biggest takeaway is he's tall. He's tall, seven fourth tall.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Tall. But you know, but he was good too, you know,
they they went, they went on a deep run obviously,
and and had had the opportunity to to win it,
and and then it was largely a part of what
he brought to the table. I mean, he's he has
a I think he has the potential to be a
(16:31):
really really good pro. I don't know that I see
superstar like super superstar type guy like Max Contract guy
and Zach Edy. But but I think he'll be a
good player in the NBA. I think he'll do some
good things. But for the most part, I mean it's
because he's tall and he's you know his I think
his heritage plays a little bit to do with it too,
(16:52):
Like you know, he's got well, he's got that whole
well anyways, I don't want to mess it up. Yeah,
but anyway, it's a.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Good heat check to see if anybody's listening though, Just
misrepresent the background about it.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's fun. But anyway, all in all, I
thought it was interesting. I don't think that anyone should
have been surprised that Brownie wasn't taken in the first round,
because once you get out of all of the politics,
as Petros has said many of times, the kid wasn't
even on the first team in California coming out of
(17:29):
high school as as a top player, Like I think
he was like a second team off CIF and then
he goes to college and obviously you know he had
the health scare, so you get that, but nonetheless he
wasn't I don't think anyone that would be breaking down
(17:49):
basketball and breaking down the prospects would have him as
a top prospect. So while it may come across as
maybe disappointing that that he didn't go in the first
round and somebody said, well, he's clearly the biggest name
prospect on the board now for the next round, he
was the biggest name prospect on the board for the
(18:10):
first round. Yes, you know, but that doesn't mean that
he's the best prospect. And while I think he will
get an opportunity to play in the NBA, I still
think that It's just one of those things where, if
we're being honest with ourselves, these gms and these teams
have to go with the best prospect that they believe
(18:31):
makes their team better. And I don't think that you
change that process just because the kid's name is Brownie James.
And I think we found that out in last night's draft.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
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Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Here on Fox
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That'll be yours here again a little over twenty minutes
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(20:31):
common here at LeVar with a certain somebody in it.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Wouldn't be you. But if you say somebody else, it's possible.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Damn.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
But nonetheless, nonetheless, there's a you know, there's gonna be
a lot of eyes on the one and only Kayla
Williams of the Chicago Bears, the number one pick of
the draft, somebody who is who's going to be.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Obviously covered extensively. People are going to see what's going
on with Caleb Williams, whether or not he is gonna
be the goods for the Chicago Bears or whatnot. And
Caleb Williams and the Bears open up the season with
the Tennessee Titans and they get him at home, and
so Jeffrey Simmons of the Tennessee Titans, he did talk
(21:18):
with Rich Eisen about facing Caleb Williams the first time
out right out of the gates and had this to say.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Weak one of the National Football League season will be
the first human being on the other side of the
line of scrimmage chaining news in a game.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I can't wait to sell that to him.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Caleb Williams, It's gonna be one of them games, especially,
I mean, he probably could talks I mean Smack talked
to is about you know, his teammates right now, but
like it's gonna be especially a game like that my
first game of course, I missed the last end of
the season. It's gonna be the first game of the season.
(22:01):
They got us come to Chicago. He's gonna all the
hype is gonna be around them, of course, So it's
like that's gonna I think like when especially like not
even prime time games. You know, everybody like the I
wish I would have played in Miami game, but like
everybody count Tennessee, which we all know, in a game
like Chicago, and I'm sure they thinking were about to
(22:22):
get beat after like bad. So that also make me
even talk more Smack and boots me up a little more,
make me get in a different mode as well, So
I'll be in a different mode.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Of that game.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So that is the what is it waiting Caleb Williams
Week one of the NFL season. Jeffrey Simmons on the
other side of the ball, So how bad is this
going to get for Caleb Williams as far as what
he's going to hear from defenders, especially early.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
On, It's going to be bad. Regardless. I mean, there's
so much material and listen, I don't know, I don't
know where the NFL is now and how they talk
trash and how they treat one another. It just seems
(23:11):
like we live in a day and age now where
everybody's friends and they're more friendly with one another. Even
if you were friends, you know back, you know, further
back playing in the league, you weren't friends on the
field during the game. That just wasn't That was a no.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We could be friends before. Hey, how's the family doing
the die? Wife and gid y'all?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Good?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Okay, good, great man? Or you might even have dinner
with them the night before being in their town or
them being in your town. But come kick off. All
bets is off. And the things that people have said,
like I told, I tell the story all the time.
It's one of my favorites. I mean, I've said some
(23:56):
really really ignorant, really horrible things to people on the
floor ball field. Yeah, I've said some some crazy things
to you too, but nothing crazier than what I said
on the field though, Like I remember the one time
I think I've told the story before on this show
where where we were playing Tampa Bay, and I hit
(24:17):
Aaron Stecker and his helmet went rolling off, and I
thought his head was still in the helmet, and I
went running after his helmet and grabbed his helmet to
look in it to see if his head was still
in it. And then I turned back around and saw
him on his knees and his eyeballs were like really
really big, like oh my gosh, like I saw my
life flashed before my eyes type thing, and I told
(24:40):
him to get that f up, mother effort. Don't nobody
give an f about your life? Right, like that type
of stuff, Like when people are telling you they're out
there playing playing for.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Keeps, that's just wholesome stuff. I mean, I don't understand
why anybody would have an issue with that.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I mean, I know, I know, we all know the
Shannon Sharp story, you know, of being on the field
and how that that played out. People will talk about girlfriends, people.
They generally say you shouldn't talk about wives, moms and kids.
But there are some guys out there that just don't
have any type of parameters on on how they say
(25:20):
things and how they do things. They will be trying.
There will be certain dudes that say stuff to him.
I don't I don't foresee calling him painted nails boy
any type of I don't feel like that's going to
be enough to offend him, you know what I mean,
Like that's not like you gotta assume he's probably already
(25:42):
gotten that in college, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
But what well I did, And also Jeffrey Simmons did
point out in the clip like, oh, he's probably already
heard it from his teammates.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh yeah, Oh they probably jone on him in the
in the locker room, Like, yeah, they probably jone on him.
I mean, he's a rookie. I mean he's their star.
He's their star rookie. But nonetheless he's a rookie. And
really it doesn't matter if he's a rookie or not.
If there's something to jon on or key key about
(26:12):
on somebody like master key Kears will key key on you,
that's the bottom line. And those things happen all the time.
It happens all the time. So when when he got there,
I mean it probably was right out the gate. There
was probably some vetch jumping on him right out the gate.
(26:34):
And and that's just a part of it. I mean
I've seen who was it, Fred Smoot and well, all right,
here's what happened. I know what happened. So, so what
happened was with Fred Smooth. It was this whole thing
about how how he he got into this this like
(26:55):
thing with what's his name Plexico burst actually in in
this game. And what happened was he actually this this
guysh darn, I don't know what just happened here. Not
Laren just went off and I can't get it to
go off, damn. But so Fred Smooth gets into a
(27:17):
he gets into like a heated mix, you know, back
and forth with with Plexico, and Plexico was wearing him
out in the game, and so we was messing with
him about it in the locker room and he didn't
like it, you know what I mean like it and
like got to the point of where, you know, he
was ready to fight over it. Like that's one one,
(27:42):
one one example. I remember when Big Daryl Gardner, big
big DG. DG's like six seven six six.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Isn't he a bodybuilder?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Now? Yeah, dog, he's He's impressive. It's my dude, one
of my favorite teammates.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I heard he's like not the guy who uh yo
with him?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, don't mess with him like he was he was
up and like he used to be in the weight room,
like curling one fifties and stuff like that, dumb bells
and stuff like he's one of them dudes. But he
had a lot of like rolls on the back of
his head, and it looked like he was like, you know,
like he tried to do those hair hair loss treatments
(28:21):
where he could try to get his hair back, so
it was one of those things. But it looked like
like the back of his head looked like they he
used to say, it looked like a bunch of Oscar
Mayer Oscar Mayer wieners on the back of his head.
Don't tal be saying, hey, don't talk be talking about
don't you talking about my head? And he'd be ready
(28:42):
to fight too. So the point I'm making is the
point I'm making is nobody's off limits. You could be
the biggest, strongest, baddest dude on the field. You could
be the smallest dude. It don't matter. Like everybody gets it.
Everybody gets it. Like I think, like maybe a few
dudes like nobody. I don't think anybody key keyed on
(29:04):
d Green, but maybe Smoothie did smooth key keyed on everybody.
Everybody got it, Like that's locker room culture. Though, that's
locker room culture. So I don't think that there's anything
malicious with that, And honestly, I don't I'm saying that.
I think they're trying to hype their selves, because why
would you think that Chicago's going to beat the brakes
(29:26):
off of Tennessee. I think that's that's a matchup between
two average teams.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And it's also weak one. We have no idea what
you're gonna get. It's week one, like there's like there's
there's results that come out of week one that in
the moment we think are the biggest deal, and then
you look back on it and go, oh Jesus, like,
yeah that was nothing. Like you just like it's like
we have we have no clue how this is going
to go. But it is funny that like the first
(29:52):
the first thing he thinks of what he thinks of
Kaylen Williams all painted nails.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I don't, but I just again, I just don't. I
don't see how that's going to be offensive because that's
what he's always done, you know what I mean. So
he's already well versed on how people feel or how
they come at him approach him on that. Now, what
I will say is the NFL is different. It's definitely
different in the sense that the intensity level of what's
(30:19):
going to take place for him in that game will
certainly be different, even with the rule changes. I think
I would assume. So he's going to have to deal
with the physicality of being out there and them talking
bad to him. Like it feels different when somebody has
planted you and has gotten a sack on you, or
(30:41):
you've tried to run and they you know, they've throttled
down on you on the sideline, or you know, got
a hold of you, you know, on the field and
they're telling you about your fingernails, or you know. I know,
for me, if it were me and I was playing
against Caleb Williams, I would bring up you know what
I mean, like I'm that type of dude. It be
(31:03):
it'd be horrible, Like you know, I'd be like I said,
you're not supposed to bring up mom's wives or anything,
but in this case, I would bring up a mom
and it wouldn't be like, you know, geared towards her.
It'd be geared towards him being in a fetal position
crying in his mom's orange like I would. I there's
gonna be guys that that pull out all kinds of
(31:26):
anything that's happened, that they've seen happen. They're going to
pull it out, you know. Pause, but they are going
to pull pull those things and use those things in
terms of talking. But talking's never won a game, you
know what I mean. Talking has never won a game.
And Caleb Williams has been a high profile guy, and
(31:47):
he's been a high profile guy that has had to
be able to handle, you know, these types of approaches
towards him. So I don't think that that's going to
be any any problem for him.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Well, it is Two Pros and a Cup of Joe
here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with
you coming up next here from these tire rack dot
Com studios, a legend in the world of sports like
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Speaker 3 (32:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of Two Pros and
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After that, we turn it over to our executive producer, Lee.
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Lap.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
Good morning, everybody, Good morning, Jonas, Good morning, LeVar, Good
morning guys, Thank you LeVar, guys. In case he missed this, AI, Hey, Brady,
Oh God, oh boy, guys.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
In case you missed this, AI is now part of
our daily lives right well.
Speaker 10 (33:36):
With the Olympics coming up in Paris, NBC announced on
Wednesday that they will offer fans personalized Olympic highlights videos
on Peacock that will be delivered in the voice of
al Michaels himself. Thanks to artificial intelligence, al Michaels is
given his blessing on this. In fact, if you want
to hear a demo of what al Michaels will sound
like via AI, here it is.
Speaker 11 (33:57):
Ty Kelly. Welcome to your daily Olympic reec your personal
rundown of yesterday's most thrilling Olympic moments. Since you're a
swimming fan, let's head right to the pool. Team USA
secured a stunning victory in the men's four by one
hundred meter medley relay, smashing the world record. Over at
the diving venue. Christa Palmer showcased resilience and skill overcoming
(34:19):
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Speaker 2 (34:32):
Unbelievable. It's unbelievable. That is unbelievable.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
Al Michael's seventy nine years old, still with us, gives
his blessing.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Remember the first time I heard Pat Summer all on
Madden and being like, this is groundbreaking, this is unbelieving.
Al Michaels now just generated to do U the Olympics.
Randy Travis is recording music again, even though he can't
sing anymore, just like making albums because of AI. What
(35:10):
the hell man?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I mean, that's his voice, I know, But like if
he can do it, and he can do music because
of AI, he can do it. I think that's kind
of decent.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You know who I blame for this, Supermarkets, because they
had the idea of self checkout. Listen, it's automated. You
don't need anybody's help. Yeah, we'll just say let everybody
else do it, don't worry about it. Just ten items
or less. It might take a little bit longer, but
don't worry. You can figure this out alone. We don't
need to pay these humans this extra money. We'll just
(35:44):
go ahead and let you handle it yourselves. And I'm
guilty of it because I use it all the time
because I'm very efficient. But I think that was the
start of AI, and now that I look back on it,
I regret ever using a self checkout and not paying
my respects to the heart burned and hard working people
that sit behind the counter and have to try and
get over the fact that they're staring a National inquirer
(36:07):
in the eyes while some dead end is buying another
twelve pack that he just got previously fifteen minutes before.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
I never used self check out. You know why?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yeah, because she can't buy alcohol.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
So yeah, that's a language lead doesn't speak. What do
you mean self check I tried.
Speaker 10 (36:26):
Doing it the other day. It was like the first time,
at least I tried to figure it.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Out at least like they had those dab what else
we got?
Speaker 6 (36:36):
Guys.
Speaker 10 (36:37):
Randall Cobb, you know, wide receiver in the NFL, and
his family say they're lucky to be alive.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
After a house fire in Nashville.
Speaker 10 (36:45):
His wife took to social media said thank you all
for the love and positive messages. First and foremost, we're
all safe and healthy. We got out of the house
and I was able to get back and get our
dog Louis with the shoes on our feet, with not
even shoes on our feet, close on our back.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
This was after a test La fire in their garage.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh wow, well that's not a That doesn't seem like.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Somebody's trying to take Tesla down. Man. There's been a
lot of bad reports coming out on Tesla. Man.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I mean, look, the cyber truck looks bad, but I
don't know how it operates.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Uh, they've been getting recalled.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I mean somebody said something about the pedal at one point.
I mean, I don't know, just Tesla. Somebody coming after
your elon. I don't know who it is, but they're
coming for you.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Good god man, You like imagine like you're charging your Tesla,
and like there's probably people out there that maybe have
a Tesla and may have a charging port in their
garage that are like uh oh like like this is
not this doesn't seem like an ideal an ideal review
of a of a Tesla product. But again, keep making
(37:57):
fun of the truck I drive though, Keep mocking it,
keep keep poking fu.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
I mean that doesn't that doesn't kind of get you
out of the way of the saffer Mo. Well, listen,
that doesn't That doesn't get you out of it.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I'd rather walk drive around with yard rakes and lawnmower
equipment in the back of my truck than have to
worry about whether or not my house burns down. Let's
I'll say that right now.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Your house could burn down with that bad boy too,
sports plug something. There could be something that goes wrong
with that one too.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Damn what else we got guys.
Speaker 10 (38:29):
Hooters has closed several dozen locations across the country twelve,
twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
They're done.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
They're done.
Speaker 10 (38:39):
Yeah, them, along with Red Lobster, Boston Market, TGI Fridays,
Elford Pizza Kitchen.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I don't even I don't even know where the nearest
Tutors is, Like, I really don't.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
Let's find it.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Nope,
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