June 27, 2024 • 36 mins
Anthony Richardson is a full-go but do we know what that is yet? Texas Baseball Coach Jim Schlossnagle’s apology fall flat. Plus, Gummy Bears, coyotes and much more!
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is it like? What's the atmosphere? Like what do you
got going on? And listen, I'm having a coffee. You know,
it's it's four in the morning out here in Los Angeles.
You know, I'm having a coffee. Nice Lee and Lorena
uh oh, bag of gummy bears. You know, there's just
(01:36):
there's two different worlds that are that are operating here
and uh and they are They're rifling through a bag
of gummy bears. And I believe that Lorena has got
a bag of popcorn as well too. Oh no, baked lays,
so at least they're baked.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And at what point?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I found some really old McDonald's fries just sitting out.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
No, do you eat them?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I tested to.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
See how old they were. They were very old. I
uh did not. I spit it out.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Where were they at just sitting over there in the studio? Well,
of course, a media why wouldn't they be like yeah,
and you had the ch That's why I don't say
people complain that there's cockroaches in the studio, like cockroaches
the size of VW bugs And they can't figure out
why that is, Like, yeah, why is it? Because people
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leave food out here all the time, Like what do
you expect? It's like this there, it's the best place
they can go to.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
That's a heavy populated area. Yeah, there's food across the streets.
You know, it's just there's a lot of foot traffic,
so to speak, as you know what I mean, everybody's
in on it now. I mean there's there's not just roaches,
there's like there's possums, there's coyotes.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
You know, everybody's eating you know.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I see coyotes in the parking garage more often than not.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Know, I mean, they go around, they patrol it.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
By the way, I'd like to give a shout out
now that we're on the subject, to the fine folks
who thought it was a good idea to put money
into building a bridge on the one oh one freeway
out here between a Gore and Calabasas, which is the
route I take to come into work. They thought it
was a good idea to put a bridge out there
to save the wildlife in case there's a fire, so
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they could have a place to walk across to get
away from everything. And I'd also like to give a
shout out to the animal that was ripped into thirds
on the freeway just a few steps away from that crossing,
because apparently he didn't realize that that was going to
be safety z own.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Just cross there and you don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Instead, he decided to play frog or on the one
oh one and got knifed.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Brilliant idea.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
What a moron, natural selection and it's fun.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Tell you there's nothing natural about that thing getting ripped
in thirds by it by a Ford f one fifty
I think a coyote, but at that state I could
have been yeah, that could.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Have been a human being. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It was not an in condition so literally like twenty
feet away from this crossing that they shut the freeway
down and spent millions of dollars to build to save
the animals. And that one's like, now I'm just gonna
go to the to the old fashioned cross, the one
on one myself mode, and next thing you know, you know,
we're having to drive around that side. But riverside as
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the folks would say something like that, But nonetheless, that
is the The update here from the studio Gummy Bears,
baked Lays, and that's pretty much how they're operating here.
It is two pros and a cup of Joe. On
Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with you now.
One of these stori to watch in the NFL this
upcoming season is in the AFC South. Not whether or
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not CJ. Stroud is going to have the same sort
of season that he had his rookie year, or whether
or not you've got the Jacksonville Jaguars and they find
themselves after paying Trevor Lawrence all that money, if they
find themselves back in the postseason again, or whether or
not Jeffrey Simmons actually does make comments about Caleb Williams's
(05:26):
fingernails while he plays in Week one. The other storyline
is what are we gonna get from Anthony Richardson because
apparently he was dealing with fatigue and it was bothering
him towards the end of MIDI camps and OTAs, but
general manager Chris Ballard says shouldn't be an issue. He
was on the GM reshuffle and had this to say.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
You'll be full go.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
He was full go all the way up until the
last day of OTAs and you know, we had a
two heavy throwing sessions to two days before and so
we backed off a little bit the last day, and
of course, which sends up anytime we talk about a
shoulder in this city, there's some scars that everybody has.
So but he'll be good to go come training camp.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Do we know whether or not he's gonna be the
goods because it almost feels like this is his rookie
year because he missed majority of last season. He when
he was out there, all that we've the only information
we've got in Anthony Richardson is I mean, he's a
physical freak and when he did play, he was exciting
to watch. But he only played a handful of games
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and I think he only finished one because he got
injured in the others. And it's almost like that's storyline
has been kind of, you know, cast aside to where
I look at it and go, this feels like a
guy that's basically entering his rookie year because we have
no idea what we're going to expect from him or
what we're going to get from him.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I think that's where you have to leave it at
this moment is that you have no idea what to
expect because there's the health aspect of it. I think,
I think there are other elements that play a part,
and if he's going to have a higher level of success,
that could be how you know the offensive line blocks
for him, how you know how they're running game, how
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that works for him, how the passing game works for him,
how how the plays are being called. There's just a
lot of there's just a lot of moving parts for
a quarterback to to be able to measure engage if
if they're going to have success, and not having a
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body of a body of work established for him, I
think you have to stay in the in the mindset
of what you just said, like you almost have to
approach it as if he's a rookie because you haven't
seen enough to know if that is going to to
be a you know, a win or a loss in
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terms of what he's able to do. I would probably
I would probably lean a little bit more towards he'll
have success. But again, the elements that took him out
of last year that should always give somebody pause when
somebody when somebody isn't playing because and they're not available
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because of their health.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Then you you have to see.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Them overcome making it through games and being healthy before
you know, before you can have trust or or have
you know, kind of the confidence that they're going to
be around. And again just hearing that all, well, he's having,
you know, the issues with what'd you say, getting getting tired.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Shoulder fatigue, you know, because they had too heavy throwing sessions.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
You know, I wouldn't put too much into that, honestly,
I wouldn't. But again anytime, which it makes you wonder,
why would you even mention that to the media. Sometimes
I just wonder why people mention s to the media, man,
Like why would you say it?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And also the the I don't know if it was
a swipe, if that would what you would want to
call it. But what he mentioned, I know, you know,
shoulder issues. When people hear that.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
In this toad, they get sensitive around here he's talking
about Andrew.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Of course, he is like like, I mean, let it go.
It's good to see they've gotten over it.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
You know, Like, I just don't understand why you would
even mention it. There's no reason to. You know, he's
coming off of a you know, an injured injury.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Season.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Why would you Why is that worth mentioning? Like is
there any context of that? Did he have to mention it?
Like what what was the reasoning for him putting that
out there?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Because that's already you're now already.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Wondering about his health, and then now you've just given
more ammunition for people to wonder about his health even more.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
My thought would be that it was known that he
missed a day or two at OTA's for precautionary reasons,
and was probably asked about.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
That, and so precautionary. I mean, he's our franchise quarterback.
We holding them back. No games will be won right now?
Right Yeah, I don't understand why you have to put
sometimes the amount of detail, like to say that detail
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in June.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I just thought it doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, it's a kind of interesting. And also, you know, look,
this would probably be something that Brady would.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Know more about, but.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
He had the surgery in October. I mean, you know,
it seems like it's been a long time and there's
still issues with fatigue and recovering from it. Like, I
don't know, I just I wonder if they're maybe more
concerned than they're letting on cause not to try and
point out that there's a book man in the room
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or in the locker room there.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
But well, but he did mention the Boogeyman got a
hold of Andrew lock And you.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Know, if if there is somebody who who could go
mano imano with the Boogeyman when it comes to a
quarterback having shoulder issues, it's Joe Flacco. And he's now
the backup in Indianapolis. So there is there is that,
you know, defending comeback player of the year old Joey
Flacco is sitting there in Indie, you know, kind of
waiting his turn if something goes wrong here. So I
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don't know, maybe maybe they're feeling like, hey, listen, you
know what, we got our guy.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
We'll talk openly about.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
The injury guy, and we got the guy who's going
to fix everything.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
We got the guy.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It's kind of it is kind.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Of wild that Joe Flacco went from no job to
it comes back. Yeah, like he totally in demand and
and it makes you wonder like, well, why wasn't he
Like it's not like he retired, Like it's not like
he you know, actively was was you know, trying to
sit out like like and now you look at it
again and you and the Jets couldn't use them yet,
(12:02):
Like that was really not even an option or a
possibility last year. So now he's in Indianapolis, he's going
to be backing up Anthony Richardson, and we'll see see
whether or not, because who knows. I mean, Anthony Richardson
could could decide he wants to, you know, be put well,
be put under for another ten hours to get a tattoo.
And then if something goes wrong, then Joe Flacko's got
to step up and step in. So there's that possibility too.
(12:24):
But that is your your early preview of the Indianapolis colts. Well,
you said you would have been put under if you were.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Getting acupuncher right, and then like almost like a form
of acupuncture.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Did they put you They give you some sleepy stuff
when you're getting accupuncture that work.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
No, No, But I'm just said, you got a whole
bunch of needles going in you when you get tattoos.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What's the longest you were put under for a surgery
or anything.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
You know, I tried to kill myself on a motorcycle
one time in my life, so that was.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
I'm sure that was a.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Long time, not literally though, right, No, No, I wasn't
really trying that. I got you know, that story for
another day. Yeah, but yeah, that was a lot of
surgeries that I had to go through, so I.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Made it was a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I've always wondered, like I've never been put under for
a surgery or anything, or like a tooth.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
You feel like any time to you just kind of
out right, yeah, you're out of there.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
You remember anything?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
You know?
Speaker 7 (13:26):
How they say, right, you know what I mean how
they say I saw I saw the light, and I
saw my mom or I saw my dad, or I
saw my ancestors and all that. I ain't see s.
I didn't see anything. I didn't feel like I was
going anywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I didn't. I wasn't going.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
To to the hockey sticks down below, I wasn't going
to the to the sky.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I didn't feel anything. I was just I was, you know,
I wouldn't you know, I woke up and saw lights.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, now you're not telling the truth. Well well, and
I'm not trying.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
To expose you on the air here, but I don't
think you're telling the truth because you did see something.
What you saw was the Mexican Weather Channel.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Is what you saw?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
That was after I woke up. It was it was
in my room from you know, the surgery room. The
first thing I saw when I woke up was lights.
But it wasn't the heavenly lights. It was the lights
from the head lights the surgery. My nurse did have
some head lights.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Dab. She played football too. Tackle.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Well, hey girl, kind of weird. Like we had we
had a we had a very good bond. You know,
she had to watch me, you know what I mean,
if you know what I mean. But that was The
Weather Channel came later. Man, Like I was in my room,
I was high off the the you know, the the
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drugs they were giving me the keep the pain down.
And I saw Albert Einstein in one of the paintings
that was in the room. It was like the painting
of of of leaves. It was weird, but I saw
Albert Einstein's facing it. I started understanding Spanish watching the
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Weather Channel, yeah, cause they don't have cable in hospitals,
well at least in that hospital, they didn't have cable,
so which was interesting because if you don't have cable,
how do I get Telemundo? But I don't know whichever
one it was. I don't even remember which one it was,
but their weather channel, I just know I just kept
it on that channel.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Remember they were trying to keep you there longer. It
would work for me, Like, listen, you know we need
more money, How do we keep them here longer?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Throwing univision bruh, I was, I was on. I was
in that joint for like two and a half weeks.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Brouh. Like that was not fun.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
If anybody's you're thinking about doing something like riding motorcycles
or doing it, don't don't. Don't do anything that's going
to land you in the hospital for I couldn't even
imagine being locked up, Like, nope, don't do it. Yeah, don't.
You're going to be bored.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Hey, Lee, got a scooter in Phoenix or a super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Oh that's a little different. Yeah, that's a tad bit different.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
You can't even go that fast.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah on a scooter.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The only thing you gotta worry about in that neck
of the woods is just kind of having to weave
in and out of heroin needles on the ground.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
That's always an issue. So hey, my line.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Those are generally next to the curve the curve of
the street, so you don't have to necessarily like weave
through them, but you should be aware.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, that was the coolest thing about Phoenixes, man, it
was getting those scooters because they closed off all the streets.
I was just cruising down Main Street.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
That of all the Super Bowls we've been to, that
by far and away was the worst designed sort of
how to get to where you needed to go because
we weren't that far away from radio and it seemed
like a long ass drive every single time.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Did it really?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I get? Well, yeah, I like it. Yeah, I don't know.
It was not because you had to do.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
A swirl around all the blockades like to get around
but if you had, but if you had the scooter,
boom straight line.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
I really liked that smash Burger until he friended us
to get us with the friend and then y'all gonna
keep eating them while I boycotted him. But now I
realize what our friendship is based off of, Like, y'all
just do what I want to do. Man, I'm gonna
do that for the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Good Burger is a good burger.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Sorry, Brady, Riverside.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Sorry, Var because you and Brady went back and got
he got one too, David.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
But be honest, damn good burger.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Though it was a damn good burger. I haven't had
one like it since.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, I know you wanted you wanted another one.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
That's how I did big time. But his homies over everything.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
It is uh about everything.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
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Speaker 3 (19:10):
We are going to hand on an award coming up
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now from the ti raq dot com studio. So I
did want to get your thoughts on this because you
are up to your neck and recruiting and you know,
trying to stress. It's like there's a lot going on,
and so this happened over the past couple of days.
(19:31):
That was kind of interesting. Jim Schlosnagel, which you gotta
be careful when you say that, but he was the
head coach of Texas A and M, the head baseball
coach of Texas A and M. They lose in the
College World Series to Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
The Balls and.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Afterwards there was some rumblings that maybe he was up
for the Texas job. And so we played this yesterday.
But this this was the head coach of Texas A
and M responding to the question about potentially taking the
Texas job right after the game.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I think it's pretty.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Selfish of you to ask me that question, to be
honest with you, but I left my family to be
the coach at Texas A and M. I took the
job at Texas A and M to never take another
job again, and that hasn't changed in my mind. That's
unfair to talk about something like that. That'd be like
you asking Montgomery if he's going to sign in the draft.
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But I understand you got to ask the question. But
I gave up a big part of my life to
come take this job, and I've poured every ounce of
my soul in this job, and I've given this job every.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Single ounce I can possibly give it. To write that.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now, about eighteen hours later, he took the Texas job.
So so that didn't land well.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
He was introduced, he was introduced to the media, and
of course he was asked about that interaction.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
And here's how went. Number one, what changed?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And then number two, what would you say to those
Texas A and M people that supported you.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
That feels like that you intentionally misled them.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Well, I didn't intentionally mislead them, And that's a very
fair question for you to ask, because that is what
I said in that moment. That's exactly how I felt.
I dove in with every single ounce of me to
help A and M have the very best baseball program
it can possibly have, and that investment lasted through the
last pitch of the National Championship game. It never wavered,
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not one second. I don't care what anybody says. All
I can say is I have a career too, I
have a personal life as well that I have goals,
and I just simply felt like no negative at A
and M, just the positives of the alignment and frankly
my relationship with Chris that I knew there wasn't anybody
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at Texas A and M that I couldn't trust. I
just know that I can trust Chris.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
I just know that.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
And as hard as that decision was, I could not
walk away from it. There's a lot of decisions in
life that you don't get to choose the timing. You
don't get to meet with your team as you would like,
and for that, I am sorry. But college athletics right
now is in a this is the problem. Mister del
(22:19):
Conte would probably agree. This is the most uncertain time
of college athletics that it's ever been in and no
one knows what the future is.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
So that was Jim talk about, so asked.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Talking about it now his reasoning for taking the job.
He's got a previous relationship with with Chris del Conti,
who was the athletic director at Texas. He was his
boss at TCU, and so that's why when he mentioned.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
What did Chris take that job at Texas, I.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Don't I'm within the past couple of years.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I believe a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Yeah, I believe.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
But Lee, can we get that while Joe this is talking, please,
but I'd like to know how long he's been there,
going like.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
When he talks about, you know, his reasonings for taking
the job and just his relationship and all of that,
it's like, all right, at twenty seventeen, by the way,
is when when he took the job of Texas, So he.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Was at seven years ago, almost eight.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
So he was at TCU for eight years. That's where
they worked together. He left you know the Schlosnagel went
to Texas A and M and so now this is
an opportunity to reunite. And he was a good friend
of his, and so that's why it made sense. And
that's also why he was asked about it after.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Why was it an opportunity? Why was it an opportunity
right now for them to.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Reconnect because they were looking for head coach Texas.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Okay, yeah, okay, And he said, knowing that this is
what was going on, he attacked that other reporter for
asking the question.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
That he did, yeah, because he felt said.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
It was very selfish.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Yeah, and everything that he did was for his family,
and he's not looking for another.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Job and now he's he's.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
You know, but I mean I have a career too,
and I have to do what works for me now too.
So that that's that was the chain of events, right, Yeah. Yeah,
I just you know, when somebody shows you who they are,
believe them. I mean, he's not he's not an honorable
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person just by just by the sounds of of what
it is and and for what it's worth. Maybe he
could be. Maybe he's a good dude, but it doesn't
sound like he's one. He doesn't sound like an honorable
person to me, And I would say, and in this
(24:43):
business a lot of times those things kind of don't matter.
It's the results that matter. He just played in the
College World Series and almost one you know it, he
made the decision. I just again, I always come back
to if you're if, if you take a moment in time,
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which I think a lot of times we under we
undervalue media training and the understanding of what media represents
in our culture. And while we sit there and we
judge so many athletes for not handling the media properly,
(25:26):
there's actually the idea that coaches, you know, GMS, ads,
you know, presidents, owners, they don't know how to help
to handle the media either. You know, we talk a
lot about Jerry Jones and Steven Jones and them doing
(25:47):
media and this, that and the other. For what it's worth,
they may say a lot of outlandish things, but they
know how to handle the media. They're they're very strategic
and very calculated in how they handle the media. Now
they don't necessarily it doesn't necessarily translate to their culture
and what they do with the team, because they clearly
(26:07):
are undermining what the coaches are doing but they understand
how to handle the media. This is just a classic
situation where he took his foot, he put it in
his mouth, and it's unfortunate because if you know the
scenario and the circumstances that are surrounding what's going on.
(26:28):
So you're saying, oh, I changed my mind because I
can trust this dude. Okay, but you could trust him
before you made that decision as well. And if there
was a small chance, small opportunity that that could actually
play a role or a part in what it is
that your career path could could lead to, then you ultimately,
(26:51):
if you're not going to tell the truth, then just say,
you know, just say, we just got to wait and
see how this is all going to play out. I
got to take some time. You don't sit there and
attack a member of the media and and like kind
of you know, in the manner of which he did.
(27:14):
And then you switch up and it turns out that
it was more than a legitimate question that took place,
and also, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
The the fact that had he handled it like this,
and obviously hindsight is twenty twenty, but he handled it
like this.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Listen, I'm not talking.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
About anything other than being with my players right now and.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Trying we'll cross that bridge.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
H we get there, and that would have been easy.
I think he was.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I think he knew that he was going to burn
some people and there was going to be some people
upset because he was going to take the job. And
the reporter asked the question because everybody knew about his
relationship with the athletic director at Texas and they knew
that it was a fit.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
And the guy's like, he's a good coach.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
He's at a time the success but I think he's
got like nine hundred, like close to one thousand wins
in his career. But like, had he handled it and
just said, look, we'll cross that as you pointed out,
we'll cross that bridge.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
When we get to it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Right now, this is about Texas A and M, and
this is about our players, and maybe there would have
been a follow up and maybe there were any you know,
he could have just kept pushing back and all that.
It's the whole song and dance of I moved my
family out here, I did this, and then afterwards you
just go do what like come on, man.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
It just that's the part, that's the part that he
raised the stakes really high, and he brought in the
family because again, like I mentioned earlier, right on the field,
you could be key keying on people talking crazy to him,
But you generally leave family members out.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
You leave kids out, you leave wives out.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Girlfriends are on their in parameter, but wives, moms, dad's,
you generally leave them out. If you were going to
make a point and you had no intentions of living
up to the standard of what you were creating in
that moment of saying what you were saying, leave your
family out of it. I don't think anybody would have
(29:10):
been too offended by it if he left his family
out of it. But when you use your family, that's
like kind of like you're using your silver bullet, you
know what I mean, Like that really is a silver
bullet where it's like that's not you don't touch that,
like you respect it, Like okay, he mentioned his family,
like I had to leave my family to do this,
(29:32):
and da da da, and I don't plan on going
anywhere else like it just it just says to me,
if if you asked me, if I met the dude
today on the street and I was getting to know him, like,
oh man, you're a really good dude like, Oh, we
should hang out da da da this and that. Oh yeah,
you know, hey, you're the Texas A and M coach.
I just went to Texas. I'd be like, that's you. Yeah,
(29:53):
check please, you know what I mean, Like it's gonna
meeting you, my guy, Like I wouldn't have I wouldn't
have an ounce of belief or trust in anything like
I don't. I don't feel like I could stand in
the trenches with you, you know what I mean. Like
and for some people that's really that's really important, you know,
(30:13):
to know that you can stand on the relationship that
you have, you know, I don't. I don't want to
sit there and be you know, when you're in a
working environment, I don't want to be sitting there thinking
that my colleagues are talking behind my back, or I
can't trust what they say, or they do something to
undermine me, Like that's whack is s. I would never
do that, would never do that. And if I'm not
(30:37):
going to do that, and I'm going to hold myself
to that standard, then I would expect the people that
I let myself, I open myself up to and to trust,
I would expect that they carry that same amount of
accountability that that I do, And how do you go
to Texas and build that accountability with you players?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Well, isn't it Like wouldn't you also think it's like
if you if somebody leaves, like in using a relationship analogy,
if somebody cheats on their current relationship with you and
you end up in a relationship with them, wouldn't in
the back of your mind, wouldn't you think like, well,
I mean they might do the same thing to me,
(31:20):
Like like why would I I mean, like.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
You one hundred percent should be looking at it that way.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So like I can't imagine there's probably players at Texas
are like or maybe even parents at Texas that are like, Okay, well,
I mean he did it once, Like yeah, we're happy
to have you, like you're a great coach, but like,
how do we know that's not gonna happen again?
Speaker 6 (31:40):
That's correct?
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Yeah, And then now when you're you're in the trenches
and something doesn't go exactly the way that it's supposed
to go or whatever it may be, where's the trust?
Because it's the trust that gets you through the hard times.
It's the belief in one another that gets you through
the hard times. That's why I say culture culturally corrupt places.
(32:03):
They cannot overcome it, not with talent, not with anything.
You can't overcome it because you have to be able
to trust one another. There has to be a level
of support. I go as far as to say, if
you can love one another, that's you. You have the
best opportunity of having sustained success because you will go
(32:27):
Like I always tell people when we're going through through
you know, the different different drills that we go through.
I was like, you're protecting your pass rushing. I'll pull
them to the side. I'll tell that offensive linement. If
that was your mother and this dude that's about the
pass rush against you gets by you and he can
body slam your mom to the ground, would you allow
(32:49):
her to do it? Or would you allow him to
do that to your mom? I tell the pass rusher,
you know what I mean, if something were, if something happens,
if you don't get past them, something happens to your family.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
If you don't get past this guy, what do you do? Right?
Speaker 7 (33:10):
It's a level of accountability, and I just don't think
that you can have it with that type of guy.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
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This song got played and played and played back in
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who's uh got? Who's that overrated guitar?
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Sa Tana Sa Tanai?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Yeah, dang, I.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
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got going on? And listen, I'm having a coffee. You know,
it's it's four in the morning out here in Los Angeles.
You know, I'm having a coffee. Nice Lee and Lorena
uh oh, bag of gummy bears. You know, there's just
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there's two different worlds that are that are operating here
and uh and they are They're rifling through a bag
of gummy bears. And I believe that Lorena has got
a bag of popcorn as well too. Oh no, baked lays,
so at least they're baked.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And at what point?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I found some really old McDonald's fries just sitting out.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
No, do you eat them?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I tested to.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
See how old they were. They were very old. I
uh did not. I spit it out.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Where were they at just sitting over there in the studio? Well,
of course, a media why wouldn't they be like yeah,
and you had the ch That's why I don't say
people complain that there's cockroaches in the studio, like cockroaches
the size of VW bugs And they can't figure out
why that is, Like, yeah, why is it? Because people
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leave food out here all the time, Like what do
you expect? It's like this there, it's the best place
they can go to.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
That's a heavy populated area. Yeah, there's food across the streets.
You know, it's just there's a lot of foot traffic,
so to speak, as you know what I mean, everybody's
in on it now. I mean there's there's not just roaches,
there's like there's possums, there's coyotes.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
You know, everybody's eating you know.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I see coyotes in the parking garage more often than not.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Know, I mean, they go around, they patrol it.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
By the way, I'd like to give a shout out
now that we're on the subject, to the fine folks
who thought it was a good idea to put money
into building a bridge on the one oh one freeway
out here between a Gore and Calabasas, which is the
route I take to come into work. They thought it
was a good idea to put a bridge out there
to save the wildlife in case there's a fire, so
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they could have a place to walk across to get
away from everything. And I'd also like to give a
shout out to the animal that was ripped into thirds
on the freeway just a few steps away from that crossing,
because apparently he didn't realize that that was going to
be safety z own.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Just cross there and you don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Instead, he decided to play frog or on the one
oh one and got knifed.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Brilliant idea.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
What a moron, natural selection and it's fun.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Tell you there's nothing natural about that thing getting ripped
in thirds by it by a Ford f one fifty
I think a coyote, but at that state I could
have been yeah, that could.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Have been a human being. I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It was not an in condition so literally like twenty
feet away from this crossing that they shut the freeway
down and spent millions of dollars to build to save
the animals. And that one's like, now I'm just gonna
go to the to the old fashioned cross, the one
on one myself mode, and next thing you know, you know,
we're having to drive around that side. But riverside as
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the folks would say something like that, But nonetheless, that
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One of these stori to watch in the NFL this
upcoming season is in the AFC South. Not whether or
(05:06):
not CJ. Stroud is going to have the same sort
of season that he had his rookie year, or whether
or not you've got the Jacksonville Jaguars and they find
themselves after paying Trevor Lawrence all that money, if they
find themselves back in the postseason again, or whether or
not Jeffrey Simmons actually does make comments about Caleb Williams's
(05:26):
fingernails while he plays in Week one. The other storyline
is what are we gonna get from Anthony Richardson because
apparently he was dealing with fatigue and it was bothering
him towards the end of MIDI camps and OTAs, but
general manager Chris Ballard says shouldn't be an issue. He
was on the GM reshuffle and had this to say.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
You'll be full go.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
He was full go all the way up until the
last day of OTAs and you know, we had a
two heavy throwing sessions to two days before and so
we backed off a little bit the last day, and
of course, which sends up anytime we talk about a
shoulder in this city, there's some scars that everybody has.
So but he'll be good to go come training camp.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Do we know whether or not he's gonna be the
goods because it almost feels like this is his rookie
year because he missed majority of last season. He when
he was out there, all that we've the only information
we've got in Anthony Richardson is I mean, he's a
physical freak and when he did play, he was exciting
to watch. But he only played a handful of games
(06:30):
and I think he only finished one because he got
injured in the others. And it's almost like that's storyline
has been kind of, you know, cast aside to where
I look at it and go, this feels like a
guy that's basically entering his rookie year because we have
no idea what we're going to expect from him or
what we're going to get from him.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I think that's where you have to leave it at
this moment is that you have no idea what to
expect because there's the health aspect of it. I think,
I think there are other elements that play a part,
and if he's going to have a higher level of success,
that could be how you know the offensive line blocks
for him, how you know how they're running game, how
(07:09):
that works for him, how the passing game works for him,
how how the plays are being called. There's just a
lot of there's just a lot of moving parts for
a quarterback to to be able to measure engage if
if they're going to have success, and not having a
(07:30):
body of a body of work established for him, I
think you have to stay in the in the mindset
of what you just said, like you almost have to
approach it as if he's a rookie because you haven't
seen enough to know if that is going to to
be a you know, a win or a loss in
(07:52):
terms of what he's able to do. I would probably
I would probably lean a little bit more towards he'll
have success. But again, the elements that took him out
of last year that should always give somebody pause when
somebody when somebody isn't playing because and they're not available
(08:13):
because of their health.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Then you you have to see.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Them overcome making it through games and being healthy before
you know, before you can have trust or or have
you know, kind of the confidence that they're going to
be around. And again just hearing that all, well, he's having,
you know, the issues with what'd you say, getting getting tired.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Shoulder fatigue, you know, because they had too heavy throwing sessions.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
You know, I wouldn't put too much into that, honestly,
I wouldn't. But again anytime, which it makes you wonder,
why would you even mention that to the media. Sometimes
I just wonder why people mention s to the media, man,
Like why would you say it?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And also the the I don't know if it was
a swipe, if that would what you would want to
call it. But what he mentioned, I know, you know,
shoulder issues. When people hear that.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
In this toad, they get sensitive around here he's talking
about Andrew.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Of course, he is like like, I mean, let it go.
It's good to see they've gotten over it.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
You know, Like, I just don't understand why you would
even mention it. There's no reason to. You know, he's
coming off of a you know, an injured injury.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Season.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Why would you Why is that worth mentioning? Like is
there any context of that? Did he have to mention it?
Like what what was the reasoning for him putting that
out there?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Because that's already you're now already.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Wondering about his health, and then now you've just given
more ammunition for people to wonder about his health even more.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
My thought would be that it was known that he
missed a day or two at OTA's for precautionary reasons,
and was probably asked about.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
That, and so precautionary. I mean, he's our franchise quarterback.
We holding them back. No games will be won right now?
Right Yeah, I don't understand why you have to put
sometimes the amount of detail, like to say that detail
(10:26):
in June.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I just thought it doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, it's a kind of interesting. And also, you know, look,
this would probably be something that Brady would.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Know more about, but.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
He had the surgery in October. I mean, you know,
it seems like it's been a long time and there's
still issues with fatigue and recovering from it. Like, I
don't know, I just I wonder if they're maybe more
concerned than they're letting on cause not to try and
point out that there's a book man in the room
(11:01):
or in the locker room there.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
But well, but he did mention the Boogeyman got a
hold of Andrew lock And you.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Know, if if there is somebody who who could go
mano imano with the Boogeyman when it comes to a
quarterback having shoulder issues, it's Joe Flacco. And he's now
the backup in Indianapolis. So there is there is that,
you know, defending comeback player of the year old Joey
Flacco is sitting there in Indie, you know, kind of
waiting his turn if something goes wrong here. So I
(11:28):
don't know, maybe maybe they're feeling like, hey, listen, you
know what, we got our guy.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
We'll talk openly about.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
The injury guy, and we got the guy who's going
to fix everything.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
We got the guy.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It's kind of it is kind.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Of wild that Joe Flacco went from no job to
it comes back. Yeah, like he totally in demand and
and it makes you wonder like, well, why wasn't he
Like it's not like he retired, Like it's not like
he you know, actively was was you know, trying to
sit out like like and now you look at it
again and you and the Jets couldn't use them yet,
(12:02):
Like that was really not even an option or a
possibility last year. So now he's in Indianapolis, he's going
to be backing up Anthony Richardson, and we'll see see
whether or not, because who knows. I mean, Anthony Richardson
could could decide he wants to, you know, be put well,
be put under for another ten hours to get a tattoo.
And then if something goes wrong, then Joe Flacko's got
to step up and step in. So there's that possibility too.
(12:24):
But that is your your early preview of the Indianapolis colts. Well,
you said you would have been put under if you were.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Getting acupuncher right, and then like almost like a form
of acupuncture.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Did they put you They give you some sleepy stuff
when you're getting accupuncture that work.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
No, No, But I'm just said, you got a whole
bunch of needles going in you when you get tattoos.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What's the longest you were put under for a surgery
or anything.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
You know, I tried to kill myself on a motorcycle
one time in my life, so that was.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
I'm sure that was a.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Long time, not literally though, right, No, No, I wasn't
really trying that. I got you know, that story for
another day. Yeah, but yeah, that was a lot of
surgeries that I had to go through, so I.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Made it was a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I've always wondered, like I've never been put under for
a surgery or anything, or like a tooth.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
You feel like any time to you just kind of
out right, yeah, you're out of there.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
You remember anything?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
You know?
Speaker 7 (13:26):
How they say, right, you know what I mean how
they say I saw I saw the light, and I
saw my mom or I saw my dad, or I
saw my ancestors and all that. I ain't see s.
I didn't see anything. I didn't feel like I was
going anywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I didn't. I wasn't going.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
To to the hockey sticks down below, I wasn't going
to the to the sky.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I didn't feel anything. I was just I was, you know,
I wouldn't you know, I woke up and saw lights.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, now you're not telling the truth. Well well, and
I'm not trying.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
To expose you on the air here, but I don't
think you're telling the truth because you did see something.
What you saw was the Mexican Weather Channel.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Is what you saw?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
That was after I woke up. It was it was
in my room from you know, the surgery room. The
first thing I saw when I woke up was lights.
But it wasn't the heavenly lights. It was the lights
from the head lights the surgery. My nurse did have
some head lights.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Dab. She played football too. Tackle.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Well, hey girl, kind of weird. Like we had we
had a we had a very good bond. You know,
she had to watch me, you know what I mean,
if you know what I mean. But that was The
Weather Channel came later. Man, Like I was in my room,
I was high off the the you know, the the
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drugs they were giving me the keep the pain down.
And I saw Albert Einstein in one of the paintings
that was in the room. It was like the painting
of of of leaves. It was weird, but I saw
Albert Einstein's facing it. I started understanding Spanish watching the
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Weather Channel, yeah, cause they don't have cable in hospitals,
well at least in that hospital, they didn't have cable,
so which was interesting because if you don't have cable,
how do I get Telemundo? But I don't know whichever
one it was. I don't even remember which one it was,
but their weather channel, I just know I just kept
it on that channel.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Remember they were trying to keep you there longer. It
would work for me, Like, listen, you know we need
more money, How do we keep them here longer?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Throwing univision bruh, I was, I was on. I was
in that joint for like two and a half weeks.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Brouh. Like that was not fun.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
If anybody's you're thinking about doing something like riding motorcycles
or doing it, don't don't. Don't do anything that's going
to land you in the hospital for I couldn't even
imagine being locked up, Like, nope, don't do it. Yeah, don't.
You're going to be bored.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Hey, Lee, got a scooter in Phoenix or a super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Oh that's a little different. Yeah, that's a tad bit different.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
You can't even go that fast.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah on a scooter.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The only thing you gotta worry about in that neck
of the woods is just kind of having to weave
in and out of heroin needles on the ground.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
That's always an issue. So hey, my line.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Those are generally next to the curve the curve of
the street, so you don't have to necessarily like weave
through them, but you should be aware.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Well, that was the coolest thing about Phoenixes, man, it
was getting those scooters because they closed off all the streets.
I was just cruising down Main Street.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
That of all the Super Bowls we've been to, that
by far and away was the worst designed sort of
how to get to where you needed to go because
we weren't that far away from radio and it seemed
like a long ass drive every single time.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Did it really?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I get? Well, yeah, I like it. Yeah, I don't know.
It was not because you had to do.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
A swirl around all the blockades like to get around
but if you had, but if you had the scooter,
boom straight line.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
I really liked that smash Burger until he friended us
to get us with the friend and then y'all gonna
keep eating them while I boycotted him. But now I
realize what our friendship is based off of, Like, y'all
just do what I want to do. Man, I'm gonna
do that for the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Good Burger is a good burger.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Sorry, Brady, Riverside.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Sorry, Var because you and Brady went back and got
he got one too, David.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
But be honest, damn good burger.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Though it was a damn good burger. I haven't had
one like it since.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, I know you wanted you wanted another one.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
That's how I did big time. But his homies over everything.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
It is uh about everything.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
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Speaker 3 (19:10):
We are going to hand on an award coming up
here a little over a little over fifteen minutes from
now from the ti raq dot com studio. So I
did want to get your thoughts on this because you
are up to your neck and recruiting and you know,
trying to stress. It's like there's a lot going on,
and so this happened over the past couple of days.
(19:31):
That was kind of interesting. Jim Schlosnagel, which you gotta
be careful when you say that, but he was the
head coach of Texas A and M, the head baseball
coach of Texas A and M. They lose in the
College World Series to Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
The Balls and.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Afterwards there was some rumblings that maybe he was up
for the Texas job. And so we played this yesterday.
But this this was the head coach of Texas A
and M responding to the question about potentially taking the
Texas job right after the game.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I think it's pretty.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Selfish of you to ask me that question, to be
honest with you, but I left my family to be
the coach at Texas A and M. I took the
job at Texas A and M to never take another
job again, and that hasn't changed in my mind. That's
unfair to talk about something like that. That'd be like
you asking Montgomery if he's going to sign in the draft.
(20:31):
But I understand you got to ask the question. But
I gave up a big part of my life to
come take this job, and I've poured every ounce of
my soul in this job, and I've given this job every.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Single ounce I can possibly give it. To write that.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now, about eighteen hours later, he took the Texas job.
So so that didn't land well.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
He was introduced, he was introduced to the media, and
of course he was asked about that interaction.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
And here's how went. Number one, what changed?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And then number two, what would you say to those
Texas A and M people that supported you.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
That feels like that you intentionally misled them.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Well, I didn't intentionally mislead them, And that's a very
fair question for you to ask, because that is what
I said in that moment. That's exactly how I felt.
I dove in with every single ounce of me to
help A and M have the very best baseball program
it can possibly have, and that investment lasted through the
last pitch of the National Championship game. It never wavered,
(21:32):
not one second. I don't care what anybody says. All
I can say is I have a career too, I
have a personal life as well that I have goals,
and I just simply felt like no negative at A
and M, just the positives of the alignment and frankly
my relationship with Chris that I knew there wasn't anybody
(21:53):
at Texas A and M that I couldn't trust. I
just know that I can trust Chris.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
I just know that.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
And as hard as that decision was, I could not
walk away from it. There's a lot of decisions in
life that you don't get to choose the timing. You
don't get to meet with your team as you would like,
and for that, I am sorry. But college athletics right
now is in a this is the problem. Mister del
(22:19):
Conte would probably agree. This is the most uncertain time
of college athletics that it's ever been in and no
one knows what the future is.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
So that was Jim talk about, so asked.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Talking about it now his reasoning for taking the job.
He's got a previous relationship with with Chris del Conti,
who was the athletic director at Texas. He was his
boss at TCU, and so that's why when he mentioned.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
What did Chris take that job at Texas, I.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Don't I'm within the past couple of years.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I believe a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Yeah, I believe.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
But Lee, can we get that while Joe this is talking, please,
but I'd like to know how long he's been there,
going like.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
When he talks about, you know, his reasonings for taking
the job and just his relationship and all of that,
it's like, all right, at twenty seventeen, by the way,
is when when he took the job of Texas, So he.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Was at seven years ago, almost eight.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
So he was at TCU for eight years. That's where
they worked together. He left you know the Schlosnagel went
to Texas A and M and so now this is
an opportunity to reunite. And he was a good friend
of his, and so that's why it made sense. And
that's also why he was asked about it after.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Why was it an opportunity? Why was it an opportunity
right now for them to.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Reconnect because they were looking for head coach Texas.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Okay, yeah, okay, And he said, knowing that this is
what was going on, he attacked that other reporter for
asking the question.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
That he did, yeah, because he felt said.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
It was very selfish.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Yeah, and everything that he did was for his family,
and he's not looking for another.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Job and now he's he's.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
You know, but I mean I have a career too,
and I have to do what works for me now too.
So that that's that was the chain of events, right, Yeah. Yeah,
I just you know, when somebody shows you who they are,
believe them. I mean, he's not he's not an honorable
(24:23):
person just by just by the sounds of of what
it is and and for what it's worth. Maybe he
could be. Maybe he's a good dude, but it doesn't
sound like he's one. He doesn't sound like an honorable
person to me, And I would say, and in this
(24:43):
business a lot of times those things kind of don't matter.
It's the results that matter. He just played in the
College World Series and almost one you know it, he
made the decision. I just again, I always come back
to if you're if, if you take a moment in time,
(25:05):
which I think a lot of times we under we
undervalue media training and the understanding of what media represents
in our culture. And while we sit there and we
judge so many athletes for not handling the media properly,
(25:26):
there's actually the idea that coaches, you know, GMS, ads,
you know, presidents, owners, they don't know how to help
to handle the media either. You know, we talk a
lot about Jerry Jones and Steven Jones and them doing
(25:47):
media and this, that and the other. For what it's worth,
they may say a lot of outlandish things, but they
know how to handle the media. They're they're very strategic
and very calculated in how they handle the media. Now
they don't necessarily it doesn't necessarily translate to their culture
and what they do with the team, because they clearly
(26:07):
are undermining what the coaches are doing but they understand
how to handle the media. This is just a classic
situation where he took his foot, he put it in
his mouth, and it's unfortunate because if you know the
scenario and the circumstances that are surrounding what's going on.
(26:28):
So you're saying, oh, I changed my mind because I
can trust this dude. Okay, but you could trust him
before you made that decision as well. And if there
was a small chance, small opportunity that that could actually
play a role or a part in what it is
that your career path could could lead to, then you ultimately,
(26:51):
if you're not going to tell the truth, then just say,
you know, just say, we just got to wait and
see how this is all going to play out. I
got to take some time. You don't sit there and
attack a member of the media and and like kind
of you know, in the manner of which he did.
(27:14):
And then you switch up and it turns out that
it was more than a legitimate question that took place,
and also, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
The the fact that had he handled it like this,
and obviously hindsight is twenty twenty, but he handled it
like this.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Listen, I'm not talking.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
About anything other than being with my players right now and.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Trying we'll cross that bridge.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
H we get there, and that would have been easy.
I think he was.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I think he knew that he was going to burn
some people and there was going to be some people
upset because he was going to take the job. And
the reporter asked the question because everybody knew about his
relationship with the athletic director at Texas and they knew
that it was a fit.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
And the guy's like, he's a good coach.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
He's at a time the success but I think he's
got like nine hundred, like close to one thousand wins
in his career. But like, had he handled it and
just said, look, we'll cross that as you pointed out,
we'll cross that bridge.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
When we get to it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Right now, this is about Texas A and M, and
this is about our players, and maybe there would have
been a follow up and maybe there were any you know,
he could have just kept pushing back and all that.
It's the whole song and dance of I moved my
family out here, I did this, and then afterwards you
just go do what like come on, man.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
It just that's the part, that's the part that he
raised the stakes really high, and he brought in the
family because again, like I mentioned earlier, right on the field,
you could be key keying on people talking crazy to him,
But you generally leave family members out.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
You leave kids out, you leave wives out.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Girlfriends are on their in parameter, but wives, moms, dad's,
you generally leave them out. If you were going to
make a point and you had no intentions of living
up to the standard of what you were creating in
that moment of saying what you were saying, leave your
family out of it. I don't think anybody would have
(29:10):
been too offended by it if he left his family
out of it. But when you use your family, that's
like kind of like you're using your silver bullet, you
know what I mean, Like that really is a silver
bullet where it's like that's not you don't touch that,
like you respect it, Like okay, he mentioned his family,
like I had to leave my family to do this,
(29:32):
and da da da, and I don't plan on going
anywhere else like it just it just says to me,
if if you asked me, if I met the dude
today on the street and I was getting to know him, like,
oh man, you're a really good dude like, Oh, we
should hang out da da da this and that. Oh yeah,
you know, hey, you're the Texas A and M coach.
I just went to Texas. I'd be like, that's you. Yeah,
(29:53):
check please, you know what I mean, Like it's gonna
meeting you, my guy, Like I wouldn't have I wouldn't
have an ounce of belief or trust in anything like
I don't. I don't feel like I could stand in
the trenches with you, you know what I mean. Like
and for some people that's really that's really important, you know,
(30:13):
to know that you can stand on the relationship that
you have, you know, I don't. I don't want to
sit there and be you know, when you're in a
working environment, I don't want to be sitting there thinking
that my colleagues are talking behind my back, or I
can't trust what they say, or they do something to
undermine me, Like that's whack is s. I would never
do that, would never do that. And if I'm not
(30:37):
going to do that, and I'm going to hold myself
to that standard, then I would expect the people that
I let myself, I open myself up to and to trust,
I would expect that they carry that same amount of
accountability that that I do, And how do you go
to Texas and build that accountability with you players?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Well, isn't it Like wouldn't you also think it's like
if you if somebody leaves, like in using a relationship analogy,
if somebody cheats on their current relationship with you and
you end up in a relationship with them, wouldn't in
the back of your mind, wouldn't you think like, well,
I mean they might do the same thing to me,
(31:20):
Like like why would I I mean, like.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
You one hundred percent should be looking at it that way.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So like I can't imagine there's probably players at Texas
are like or maybe even parents at Texas that are like, Okay, well,
I mean he did it once, Like yeah, we're happy
to have you, like you're a great coach, but like,
how do we know that's not gonna happen again?
Speaker 6 (31:40):
That's correct?
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Yeah, And then now when you're you're in the trenches
and something doesn't go exactly the way that it's supposed
to go or whatever it may be, where's the trust?
Because it's the trust that gets you through the hard times.
It's the belief in one another that gets you through
the hard times. That's why I say culture culturally corrupt places.
(32:03):
They cannot overcome it, not with talent, not with anything.
You can't overcome it because you have to be able
to trust one another. There has to be a level
of support. I go as far as to say, if
you can love one another, that's you. You have the
best opportunity of having sustained success because you will go
(32:27):
Like I always tell people when we're going through through
you know, the different different drills that we go through.
I was like, you're protecting your pass rushing. I'll pull
them to the side. I'll tell that offensive linement. If
that was your mother and this dude that's about the
pass rush against you gets by you and he can
body slam your mom to the ground, would you allow
(32:49):
her to do it? Or would you allow him to
do that to your mom? I tell the pass rusher,
you know what I mean, if something were, if something happens,
if you don't get past them, something happens to your family.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
If you don't get past this guy, what do you do? Right?
Speaker 7 (33:10):
It's a level of accountability, and I just don't think
that you can have it with that type of guy.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Man.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
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Man, this song sucks.
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Ah.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
This song got played and played and played back in
the day. Is this the Matchbox twenty guy? And uh,
who's uh got? Who's that overrated guitar?
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Sa Tana Sa Tanai?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Yeah, dang, I.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
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