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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with
you here.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Coming up on this Football Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Of course, we're going to talk football because we've got
the very latest on Aaron Rodgers and when we can
expect an answer as to if or when he will
show up in Pittsburgh. And we'll discuss Aiden Hutchinson's recovery
from his injury. We've got the college football Playoff changing
and the usual conversations around the world of football and
our topic roundup. Plus we're going to look back on
(00:27):
Game two of the Western Conference Finals, a dominating performance
by the Thunder, but is it over. We've also got
another edition of In Case you missed it. We've got
the Wheel of Indy five hundred winners, and we've got
Lee's Leftovers.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
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Speaker 1 (01:12):
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of Joe.
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up until nine am Eastern time, six o'clock Pacific. And uh,
(01:40):
how's everybody feeling here on this football Friday?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
That's a wrap? Call it call it for Just go
ahead and call it down.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Man, I'm not ready to do it yet. What really,
but it's bleak and I ain't talking about Memphis bleak,
Minnesota bleak.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well they always say that, you know, a series doesn't
start until a road team.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Wins a game.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And yeah, yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We'll see, uh see if Minnesota can respond.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm just not a fan.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm not a big fan of, you know, the throwing
yourself on the ground, the hooking, getting.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Every doing that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I mean, it's the truth, though, trolling, It's true. No,
it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
You're still you're trolling.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Though he hooked his way through himself on the ground
to what thirty eight points last night.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'm not listen.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He's a great player, but if you watch him play,
and you watch SGA. You can't tell me that he
doesn't get the benefit of the doubt when it comes
to a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Benefit of comparing him to the film Mannequin is that
what basic you're saying?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You love Mannequin, that's one of your sneaky top five
movies of all time.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Definitely not I would say that, But I feel like
you're comparing it to Mannequin right now.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
As soon as you look away and you look back,
it's just just stiff as hail. Huh, Yeah, I'm talking
about Wait, wait, I'm talking about the Mannequin.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, all right, we'll beat at beach whatever you know,
whatever video was sent over yesterday, which.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
All right, I'll go ahead and do it. I'll go
ahead and do it. Series is over, Yeah, play that, you.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Go ahead, And.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We haven't gotten that fixed.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
That sounds so brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's also racist because he's got because he's got Italian.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
So Weenie, it's so weany. I just I feel like
they're so deep. He's playing out of his mind. It's
no one's gonna beat the thunder.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No, they're playing poorly on Minnesota side. I mean, you
need it. Contributions from from Randall he's struggling, you know,
to shoot. The d defense has been smothering for Okay,
see Chad Hogren is showing his value as a player.
The wind puppet is winding the Minnesota Timberwolves. So you know,
(04:16):
all in all, it still could turn into a good series.
I wonder in my mind, did he holds you know,
did the coach hold Randall and go bearing them guys
out to rest them and say, hey, let's let's go
back and defend our home court. You know, one game
you're one game away from being right back in the series.
Your one game away from really being out of it too,
(04:40):
but you're one game away from being back in it.
So you know, Randall, if you get some type of
of of relief or or contribution that is of significance
from from Randall, it's a different game. And obviously that's
been you know to me in yesterday's game that that
(05:04):
was the difference. And again we looked at the game
that they were able to have success in the last series,
and Rudy Gobert looked like he was the MVP of
the National Basketball Association SGA. Well, I've told you all,
he's not gonna have another game like that. I mean,
I don't you know he's he's been respected as a
defender even like gets rebounds, but nobody's ever looked at
(05:27):
him as being like a rebounder score and and threat
that way. And you know that's snuck up on their
their last opponent in the last series. But that's obviously
been been addressed by okay See. Okayc's defense is is
so much of a problem for Minnesota because they can't
(05:51):
they can't find the way there. Their shooting isn't loosening
up the tightness of their defense on the peri and
they're not getting behind the oka See defense effectively enough
to be able to win it getting into the paint.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Somebody was saying last night, and I gotta forget who
it was, but they were making the point that, well,
if you're Minnesota, you just you go back and you
try and find some optimism and you say, listen, our
shots aren't falling, all right, that's that's gonna eventually come around.
You know, it's you know, make miss League and you
go through the and I'm hearing it going, are you
sure about that? Because okay See closes out everything like
(06:34):
if a guy's got a ball they're on him.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
They're on him and in front of him too. That's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And people have made the point that it's one of
the best defensive basketball teams you've seen in years, and
it really is. And I just wonder if this is really,
to Brady's point, how this series is gonna look because
you cannot overcome whatever they do defensively, you just can't.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, it's discouraging, I'll tell you that. So good if
because the shooting woes may very well be because of
the defense. It's not because you're having an off shooting night,
like they're forcing the off shooting nights. So I don't know,
a good turn.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Last serious, m h, go back and look at the
last series. I mean, Scott, Scott Shapiro, I'm sorry. I'm
with you and all those folks in Minnesota right now.
All right, Once once Cleveland got knocked out, I was like,
all right, I'm a t Wolves fan. I want to
see him do it. I want to see Anthony Edwards
do it. I want to see him take that next step.
No disrespect SGA. It's just they're so good, they're deep,
(07:38):
they're great at like everything. There's not really many and
I think what makes it difficult is their depth allows
them to play a bunch of different styles. I don't
know that Minnesota can really play the way they'll come
City Thunder can, especially especially if Minnesota has a bad
shooting night, which or if you want to put it
(07:59):
that way, or great defense brocusy either way, I don't
know that the series will go past five.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I was I was assuming that that Minnesota their length,
like with Rudy Gobert, like with you know, nas Reed
and and and with Randall, that they would be able
to find a rhythm, you know, and and get comfortable
with beating them, beating them up down low, you know,
(08:26):
creating mid range shots, mid mid range game, you know,
at the the rim game, you know, finishing at the rim.
They haven't done it. They haven't been able to do it.
And it's interesting because you mentioned the last series, Q
think about the the freaking brilliance of Jokiice being able
(08:48):
to average the amount of points that he was averaging
making it a series against the OKC Thunder. I think
it really like exposes all or maybe even shows how
great a player, you know, Jokic is, because he almost
won the series on his shoulders, on his back and
(09:09):
this is clearly a dominant, a dominant defensive unit, and
they still were only able to kind of, I don't
even want to say minimize Jokic in that series, but
they were able to find a way to defense them
well enough in order to be able to win the games.
And now you're seeing it against you know, inferior players
(09:31):
to what Jokic is, And I think I may mention
of the fact that, like this is like a series
where you're like you're taking off the ankle weights and
you're taking off the weight that vest to play against
the team because you don't have to play against the
Jokic in this series. It's probably such a deep breath
of relief to just say we can just play and
(09:52):
we know that there's a world beater in Anthony Edwards,
and we're gonna let we're gonna we're gonna do what
we can against him. But knowing that if we really
really make it hard for him, which they have, there's
no easy easy outs down the court for him. And
if we really really press the rest of these guys,
(10:12):
press Randall, you know, minimize go Bear, you know, minimize
nas read those guys, if we really really play it
that way, they're going to struggle to be able to
maintain the pace of what we play at and and
it's paying off. It's paying dividends for for for OKAC.
So they're showing that they're clearly the better team. It'll
(10:35):
be interesting to see going back to Minnesota. Can they
make a series of it again. They're one game away
from making it more interesting, but they could be one
game away from showing that they're still not where they
need to be as a team. And maybe Anthony Edwards
isn't all the way there yet as well.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I've got an idea, all right, I've got an idea.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I did some of some theme music though, or something
that kind of helped helped bring the idea to life,
if it's possible. I'm not sure if we've got in
thing back there in the studio to a studio band
or anything out there, anything at this hour, any music
at any point in time.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Ever, as soon as I see lorraina shift from looking at.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
The I'm putting in marching.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, oh, I get it. As soon as I see
you shift, then you're you're looking. I know that's at
least going to be thirty to forty seconds. No, shade.
That's no shade, that's just I know it's going to
take this leak there it is right there, right over
to the shoulder doing.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
So, look this is MINNESOT'I go one shot at this
thing to go back home.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, this doesn't make any sense to go back home
and win a.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Game, Okay. And I think they can just look a
little bit south, all right. They could look down from
Minneapolis and say, hey, Cleveland, can we borrow that snow machine?
All right, snowine, We're gonna take the Cavolanche. We'll call
it the t wolve.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Lanch or call it.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
But you get that snow machine, okay, and when you
go on a flurry of baskets, you let that thing rip.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And that's the only chance the.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Minnesota Timberwolves have is borrowing the cavalanche machine from the
Cleveland Cavaliers. They got to use once this year to
help bring them back in this series.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Hope.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I think you're also going to have to get violent,
like this is gonna have to get really really physical.
And look, it's gonna cost maybe some guys a couple
of paychecks, maybe somebody who gets suspended. But I feel
like we're on the brink of Minnesota acting out. We
saw Anthony Edwards throw a ball at SGA in the
first game last night. Jade McDaniels just pushed SGA to
(12:41):
the ground late in the game because he was just
so frustrated with some of the officiating what was happening.
He was also asked about this afterwards. Uh here was
McDaniels lesa.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Was they're just a little frustration blowing over how kind
of happened.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I just just wanted to found him for I wasn't
even manages half thousand year.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
So they're at the point now they're going to start
acting out, and that's what we need.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You want to make this a series, you got to.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Turn things extremely physical and whatever that takes, whoever it's
gonna cause, you have to because you can't match up
anywhere other than the physicality potentially. And if you're fed
up with the foul calls and you're fed up with
all that, then you just need to go ahead. And
if you're going to get a foul, at least make
it a double tech and get kicked out of the game.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Just go all the way with it. That's the only
way this is going to become a series. I just
need to see how they play at home. If they
play much better if they're shooting, because you would assume
that they're shooting, will be much improved shooting at home.
I mean, if they're able to generate more offense and
be more formidable on the offensive side of the court,
(13:54):
then it could, in theory, get interesting. I don't I don't.
I think this is a dangerous position for OKC to
be in because they're in such a strategically sound position
right now, and you don't want to lose that momentum,
(14:15):
and you certainly don't want to give the Timberwolves any
type of real hope that they can climb back into
this series. So we're gonna find out. You know, the
questions coming into this year's playoffs is is this OKC
team ready to take the next step to show the
maturity level of where they're at. SGA ends up getting
(14:36):
the league MVP award. You know, they're able to prove out.
In the first round, they knock off one of the
champs and the Nuggets and one of the best players
and he was going basically head to head with to
get that MVP award. They send them home. So that
was a major hurdle that they cleared. Now you're in
(14:58):
a series against up and coming superstar that people want
to compare to Michael Jordan. Want to make this team
like the next ones up. You show Lebron James talking
to Edwards saying take that next step, and here they
are hitting a brick wall against Okac. I think this
is a great opportunity for them to put their their
(15:19):
neck on the or their foot on the proverbial neck
of the Timberwolves and show how dominant they are. But
this could be one of those dangerous moments for them
where maybe that experience does show, or should I say
the lack of experience could show in the rest of
this series. So I'm interested to see which way does
(15:41):
that go. Are they able to finish it out or
does it become a little bit, as you guys said,
a messy. The game's made a little dirty, a little
messier and plays into the advantage of the Timberwolves at
home versus Okay see having a more cleaner type of
game and approach to you know, how they they you know,
(16:01):
are able to finish out the games From.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
The thunder side of it.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I do think it would be remiss if we didn't
give a little bit of a shout out here to
three crucial key components to the OKC thunder Chad Holmgren,
Isaiah Hartenstein, Alex Caruso off top Brady.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's what I'm talking about right there.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Up, they've been very valuable man talking about it did
not show in the last series. It did not show maybe,
but the way they again, the way they come on
if you don't have Hartenstein, this this this okay t yep. Yeah,
(16:41):
Well I don't think y'all ever win anywhere. I just
think that y'all just don't have as many of y'all.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, we were the cb A, that's where we were.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
We're not hide anymore like the Hills have eyes. Right,
we're out.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
We're in the G league.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I mean, you know, Haliburton is light skin too, so
y'all could debate it.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
You know, well, you know, we don't get into those.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
We got ya, even though he's what we know.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
We stick with what we know.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Y'all don't want any borderline type stuff.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Huh No, not doing it standing stick with sports, can't
take sports. No one likes that stupid conversation.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's that's happened every can't can't take any chances.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I mean, well with Donald Trump's tan can't. We tried it.
We try to debate it a little bit at times,
some of us. Sometimes, yeah, some people take the opposite
side of what they they be about Trump.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
By the way, it is important to point out here
on this.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Show that Pete Prisco did Yeah so yeah, is Pete
Prisco the same tent as the Knick's logo?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, I mean the Donald Trump Pete.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Pete Prisco looks like a tan couch.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
He looks his skin looks like that couch, that leather
couch that you've got, You've had for about four or
five years now. It's been beaten up by the sun.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Priscal sits your living.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Room right from the window.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It looks like a home depot cart.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
The mosquitoes land on p be Like, what the ha f?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
What is this?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Damn?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Where's the blood?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I'm not a smelled something, but this this, this, this
texture doesn't fit with a smelled You know, we don't
drink coconut oil. Hey, buddy, should we try to tap
into this? No? Take off? Okay, it is.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It is important to point out here though, that is
a it's a football Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's a damn Friday here on the show.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Right, come on, come on, come on, what are we
talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
What are we talking about?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
What are we talking about? What are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
What's going on? If football?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Okay for Eddie, Let's do it for Eddie.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Come Onday night, ride, lock them, suck up, score it,
spig it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You can feel it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It is a football Friday here on Two Pros and
a Cup of Joe. By the way, we're gonna have
the usuals coming up later on, We've got another edition
of In case you missed it. We've also got our
topic round up. We are going to spin the wheel
yet again. Find out what for? Coming up our two
of the program, and we're gonna close up shop with
another edition of Lee's Leftovers here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But somebody is back. But let's see how it looks
moving forward in the NFL. That's yours right here, n FSR.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
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Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's not a toy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Rady Var strapped then he brought his burda.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I keep it with me everywhere these down. Yeah, it's
dangerous out here, man, who's getting it. It's more dangerous
to have to deal with me physically than it would
be to deal with this less lethal round that I
got ready for you. So I just keep it with me,
you know, especially like when I'm getting gas. I got
gas tonight. You know, sketchy areas, bro. I just don't
(20:47):
want to touch nobody.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Especially at night.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I mean around here. I'm being dead serious too, I know. Yeah,
it's dangerous out here.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
You could get that work?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah, she really could, She really could. I mean that's
a random, but I'll tell you what random responds to
my my statement. She could wait, could get that work.
I would take Dolly Parton out to eat on God,
(21:16):
I bet you she likes corn bread. I guess is
pork chops or fried chicken. I know she she jump
on some greens. I just know for certain Dolly Parton
would jump on a side of greens and maybe Mack
(21:38):
and chee and I just did that blue Choo read.
So don't think for two seconds. Blue Choo wouldn't be
involved in that scenario. Man shouts out to Dolly Parton, Man,
you keep going, keep going, girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Sports Radio LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox or you
usaid coming up here a little over fifteen minutes from now,
somebody asks some wisdom to pass along to some of
his fellow competitors in the world of sports.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
We will get into that for you here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So, if we all recall back week six last year
in the NFL, Aiden Hutchinson was on his way to
what a lot of people thought was going to be
a Defensive Player of the Year award. He was favored
at the time, and then all of a sudden there
at the Jerry Dome suffered the gruesome leg injury knocked
him out for the rest of the year. There was
some speculation that, well, maybe he could come back for
(22:32):
the Super Bowl if they got there, and then all
of a sudden, Dan quinnin jayde and Daniels went into
Detroit and flat lined the Lions, and next thing you know,
they've got to look towards the future.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
But all as well.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Now Aiden Hutchinson has been cleared for football activities and
he spoke about it yesterday.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
I got cleared a while back, and now I'm just
I'm wrong with the boys now and it feels like
it feels like I'm back to being myself again. And yeah,
I'm really looking forward to the season. I'm looking forward
to I mean, I think this is the most excited
I've been for OTAs in my life. This is the
biggest hiatus I've had without playing ball, So I am
(23:11):
I'm pumped.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
How do you not have any cause for concern or
any caution that something freak is gonna happen like that? Again,
if you're ating Hudginson, wouldn't that be the hardest thing
to overcome? The mental side of it, as opposed to
whether or not your legs snaps and the lake.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I always tell people, you know, one of the Jesus Christ.
One of the biggest aspects onesting old school TV, like
late night, like this hour, like three thirty one am.
You turn on the TV and your hair static in
the feedback. They do physical, physical rehab, they do procedures
(23:57):
surgically to injuries, right, but you never hear about the
emotional rehab of an athlete because it's just overlooked So
many times I've always made this statement, it's interesting, you
need just as much mental emotional rehab for a serious
(24:20):
injury as you do the physical part of it. And
it's just something that to me is just grossly undervalued
and underadministered. Right. And so when you have a guy
that's recovering from a season ending injury, a serious injury
where you have to undergo the surgery and see how
(24:42):
your body changes from what it was when that injury
took place in terms of your you know, the strength
of your lag or your arm or whatever it is
that you've injured, there's a tremendous process. There's a long road,
and there's different plateaus, and there's different peaks and different
(25:04):
valleys that you experience in the rehab process physically, but
there's also mental and emotional plateaus and peaks and valleys
that you experience as well. Aden Hutchinson strikes me as
the type of guy his mental emotional makeup, it seems
very very strong, very pronounced. I was watching they were
(25:28):
showing him running, you know, in the indoor facility and
him just you know, moving around and feeling good. I
think he's, like he said, he's so excited about getting
back onto the field that the idea of him re
injuring it, or if you're the coaching staff, are you
nervous about him re injuring it, different things like that.
(25:51):
Of course, you want to be very very aware and
mindful of what he's doing and how he's doing it
until you know that, without a doubt he's fully back physically.
But I would say I would venture to say that
a guy like Aiden Hutchinson, you know, seeing what his
work ethic looks like, appears to be I don't think
(26:12):
that that's really you don't lead and live in that
as a concern with him. It's just more or less
getting him back into the mix, into the groove, acclimating
him to the workload that's connected to being fully healthy,
and they've probably had plenty of time to do that
with him. So I don't see it being a major
concern moving forward for Dan Campbell and Detroit.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And this is not on the same level because he's
you know, professional and a really really great player. But
the one injury I suffered that I would consider older
is when I dislocated my kneecap toward meniscus. All, you know,
whatever comes along with that whole fun experience, and like
it was a long time before I even trust did
(27:00):
like jumping off, jumping off like a small ledge like
you know, jumping off you know, like like a wall
and coming down because I just assumed the way that
I suffered the injury, that I landed on it and
it just popped because my IT band was so tight
that I didn't even know the it band was a thing.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And then you find out, yeah, I know, you.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Go work that out, and when they work it out,
you realize you're alive.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
When you when you tore your achilles, like how long
was it before you're like, oh, I'm good to push
off now, because I would just that would mess me
up more than even the surgery and the physical part
of it, because I'd be thinking, Man, is this gonna
happen again?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I left the game after that, you know, I didn't.
I didn't want to play anymore after I tore my achilles.
So the answer to question, I didn't even finish rehab.
I went to Coach Kavlin's office and I was like,
Coach man, I really appreciate all that you've done bringing
me here. I'd hate to let you down. I'm going
to rehab my ass off to be able to help
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the team moving forward. But I gotta be honest with you.
I'm in pain, and they let me go, like they
released me and allowed for me to, you know, just
go and if it make the decision like do I
want to try to continue to rehab and make a
comeback or be be finished? And I appreciated Coach Coughlin
(28:25):
and the New York Giants giving me that opportunity to
do so, and I chose not to come back. I
chose not to finish. So to your point, it took
me like because I wasn't going to a facility every
single day to do the regular regiment of rehab. And really, really,
you realize how fast paced recovery is and rehab is
(28:48):
in professional sports when you become a civilian, right, So
I went from being an active player to a player
that was not on a team and on a roster,
and that rehab is very, very different because you you
can choose. Like I woke up, it was like, oh,
I'm scheduled to go do rehab today, this is the
(29:09):
time to do it. I don't feel like going. I'm
a i'm aa, I'm gonna enjoy this breakfast. I'm gonna
lay down, I'm gonna watch some TV. You know, I'm
a hangout. I'm gonna play with my baby girl like
she's she's walking around now she's big enough to walk.
I started focusing in on so many different things. It
(29:31):
took me like three years to fully recover and rehab
my ruptured achilles tendon. And I was okay with it
because you were the Giants clock. Yeah, I wasn't on
nobody's clock. So it's just it's it's different, it's it's
a whole, it's a it's a real thing.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
They say six to eight months, you're like that like two.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Years, two to three years. It's crazy. I limped for
like two and a half years.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I want to breakfast.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Go figure. You don't, hey, bro, let me tell you something.
You don't realize how regimented your life really is. I would,
I would. I would be curious what percentage of especially
in football, because we're way more regimented than pretty much
any other sport. Like it's way more relaxed in basketball, baseball, soccer,
(30:20):
like it's it's super relaxed. I don't know about hockey
and how their regiment is, but football is very much regulated,
regimented by time frames, and those time frames are very
it's very small. Your amounts of time that you're away
from it are very small. So you don't really sleep.
I tell my son all the time. You know you don't.
(30:42):
You don't sleep once you realize how good you are
and and you're going somewhere with playing the sport of football,
you don't sleep because there's the the workouts, there's the
educational components of it. There's so many different things that
you have to get done within this small amount of
time that you know, it's just you don't do it.
(31:06):
So I just you know, for me, I'm looking at
where Aiden Hutchinson is. I'll say I'll get back to
the original point of it all Jonas is that it's
good that he's gotten a clean bill of health. He
looks like he's happy. It looks as though he's going
(31:28):
to be poised to come back and have that type
of a year. So you encourage it that way as coaches,
you encourage it that way as teammates, and you embrace
it that way as the player, and eventually you get
out there and you do enough where you remove yourself
far away enough from those feelings and those emotions that
you remembered and recalled when the injury took place, and
(31:51):
eventually it fades away to nothing, and then nobody's thinking
about the injury. It's only like a blip on your
Wikipedia page or wherever it is profile that, oh, this
happened in year this. But you've moved on and you
feel normal and your mind is normal and you don't
move around like that. But if you are that one
(32:13):
guy where you do move around thinking about it and
remembering it, then that's that's definitely not a good sign
for you as a player, because it will show in
the way that you play. If you're one of those
type of guys that are now wondering and concerned about
if you're going to get the injury again, if you're
(32:34):
going to get hurt at all, if you become like
really really gunshot and scared of getting hurt, it will
impact the way you play and it will impact your career.
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In case you missed this, Scotti Scheffler, who of course
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Say, and I don't know what did he say.
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So on behalf of the golf fans everywhere, do you
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potentially emerging so you guys might get a chance to
play together more often.
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I mean, I don't really know. You know, that's for
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Speaker 4 (35:53):
You know, I'm still here playing the PGA Tour.
Speaker 13 (35:55):
We had a tour where we all play together, and
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Speaker 2 (36:03):
Ask them, why would he care? He's the best golfer
in the world. Why would he bother himself to worry
about whether or not live golfers can repair or mend
an defenses that they might have burned down with the
PGA Tour Like this would be like Michael Jordan in
his prime being worried about you know what, the what
(36:25):
the tenth guy on the bench in Minnesota's thinking about, or.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
You know like it just like why would he care?
Why would he bother himself with this stuff?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Like he's dominating golf and if they didn't want to
be a part of it because they took a paycheck,
right or wrong, however you feel about it, is what
it is.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
They took a paycheck.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I mean a nice, very very nice sized, healthycheck. Not no,
not in light not not no. It wasn't paycheck. It
was nice and healthy, nice and juicy dolls.
Speaker 11 (36:57):
So yeah, we share some of that cash. Did we
talk about a little merchant.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Oh there you go, there you go.
Speaker 12 (37:02):
What else we gotly, guys, another negotiation we've been talking
about recently, USC and Notre Dame talking about, you know,
possibly putting an end to that historic rivalry. Well, USC
boosters have now started going towards the Board of Trustees
saying they might be withholding some of their money that
they would be putting in the will towards USC.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Why is that because they're pissed about them threatening to
get rid of the Notre Dame USC rivalry.
Speaker 11 (37:28):
Yes, notably some of the older boosters are.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
That's important, it's important piece of information.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Good is a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Figure out a way to make this go, like, like,
these are the traditions that we've all grown up on,
that we've seen for years and years. And just because
it's a new landscape doesn't mean you just have to
get rid of everything and make everything new, right, Like
I like like the old rivalries we grew up on, Miami,
Florida State, you know, Nebraska, Colorado, like all those all
(38:03):
those great rivalries that you've seen, USC, Notre Dames, one
of them. Like, figure out a way to make this
continue on. And it just feels like us is the
culprit wanting to try and kill the whole thing and
just focus on what's going to get them into a
college football playoff.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
It's very odd.
Speaker 12 (38:22):
What else, speaking of losing money in California, we all
know about brock Perdy's recent deal which was worth five years,
two hundred and sixty five million, one hundred and eighty
one million guaranteed. That comes out to about fifty three
million a year average.
Speaker 11 (38:34):
Well, if you look at the taxes here.
Speaker 12 (38:36):
In the great state of California, that amounts to about
twenty eight point three million in taxes, meaning he'll come
he'll take home.
Speaker 11 (38:42):
Twenty four a little underd and fifty percent there.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 11 (38:46):
It's a little what it hurts.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
So I'm thinking about moving, man.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
It's wild.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
How bad. I just don't understand how like, imagine we're
getting the shaft at here far for I mean for
the taxes and where that money is going. Imagine how
many people you're working for outside of yourself and your
your household, because that money is going somewhere to aid
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and fund something, whether it's a stop sign and for
your school district, maybe it's a book for somebody else.
And I have no problem paying for a book. I
just don't want to pay that much of a percentage
of my paycheck in order for your kid to be
able to read. You pay for your kid book, You
you pay for that. I don't want to pay that
(39:35):
much money. That's that's outrageous, how much you got to
pay in taxes, bro, it's outrageous.
Speaker 12 (39:41):
He's paying the full salary of some other quarterbacks in
the league.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
I mean, it's just as crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Half my check goes to Lewis who's hanging out behind
a seven eleven in a sleeping bag, bumming Wi Fi
off the seven eleven over there. Like that's that like
the amount of money we lose out on in this state?
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Crazy man. Weather's nice, though, has been nice. It was
a very nice morning yesterday. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
By the way, Dondo's looking nice now these days.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Huh, she is nice. But I might have to get
up out of here, man, Them taxes is crazy.
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Speaker 4 (01:44):
That's a wrap? Call it call it for Just go
ahead and call it down.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Man, I'm not ready to do it yet. What really,
but it's bleak and I ain't talking about Memphis bleak,
Minnesota bleak.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well they always say that, you know, a series doesn't
start until a road team.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Wins a game.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And yeah, yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We'll see, uh see if Minnesota can respond.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm just not a fan.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'm not a big fan of, you know, the throwing
yourself on the ground, the hooking, getting.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Every doing that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I mean, it's the truth, though, trolling, It's true. No,
it's the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
You're still you're trolling.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Though he hooked his way through himself on the ground
to what thirty eight points last night.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'm not listen.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He's a great player, but if you watch him play,
and you watch SGA. You can't tell me that he
doesn't get the benefit of the doubt when it comes
to a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Benefit of comparing him to the film Mannequin is that
what basic you're saying?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You love Mannequin, that's one of your sneaky top five
movies of all time.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Definitely not I would say that, But I feel like
you're comparing it to Mannequin right now.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
As soon as you look away and you look back,
it's just just stiff as hail. Huh, Yeah, I'm talking
about Wait, wait, I'm talking about the Mannequin.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, all right, we'll beat at beach whatever you know,
whatever video was sent over yesterday, which.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
All right, I'll go ahead and do it. I'll go
ahead and do it. Series is over, Yeah, play that, you.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Go ahead, And.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We haven't gotten that fixed.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
That sounds so brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's also racist because he's got because he's got Italian.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
So Weenie, it's so weany. I just I feel like
they're so deep. He's playing out of his mind. It's
no one's gonna beat the thunder.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No, they're playing poorly on Minnesota side. I mean, you
need it. Contributions from from Randall he's struggling, you know,
to shoot. The d defense has been smothering for Okay,
see Chad Hogren is showing his value as a player.
The wind puppet is winding the Minnesota Timberwolves. So you know,
(04:16):
all in all, it still could turn into a good series.
I wonder in my mind, did he holds you know,
did the coach hold Randall and go bearing them guys
out to rest them and say, hey, let's let's go
back and defend our home court. You know, one game
you're one game away from being right back in the series.
Your one game away from really being out of it too,
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but you're one game away from being back in it.
So you know, Randall, if you get some type of
of of relief or or contribution that is of significance
from from Randall, it's a different game. And obviously that's
been you know to me in yesterday's game that that
(05:04):
was the difference. And again we looked at the game
that they were able to have success in the last series,
and Rudy Gobert looked like he was the MVP of
the National Basketball Association SGA. Well, I've told you all,
he's not gonna have another game like that. I mean,
I don't you know he's he's been respected as a
defender even like gets rebounds, but nobody's ever looked at
(05:27):
him as being like a rebounder score and and threat
that way. And you know that's snuck up on their
their last opponent in the last series. But that's obviously
been been addressed by okay See. Okayc's defense is is
so much of a problem for Minnesota because they can't
(05:51):
they can't find the way there. Their shooting isn't loosening
up the tightness of their defense on the peri and
they're not getting behind the oka See defense effectively enough
to be able to win it getting into the paint.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Somebody was saying last night, and I gotta forget who
it was, but they were making the point that, well,
if you're Minnesota, you just you go back and you
try and find some optimism and you say, listen, our
shots aren't falling, all right, that's that's gonna eventually come around.
You know, it's you know, make miss League and you
go through the and I'm hearing it going, are you
sure about that? Because okay See closes out everything like
(06:34):
if a guy's got a ball they're on him.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
They're on him and in front of him too. That's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And people have made the point that it's one of
the best defensive basketball teams you've seen in years, and
it really is. And I just wonder if this is really,
to Brady's point, how this series is gonna look because
you cannot overcome whatever they do defensively, you just can't.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, it's discouraging, I'll tell you that. So good if
because the shooting woes may very well be because of
the defense. It's not because you're having an off shooting night,
like they're forcing the off shooting nights. So I don't know,
a good turn.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Last serious, m h, go back and look at the
last series. I mean, Scott, Scott Shapiro, I'm sorry. I'm
with you and all those folks in Minnesota right now.
All right, Once once Cleveland got knocked out, I was like,
all right, I'm a t Wolves fan. I want to
see him do it. I want to see Anthony Edwards
do it. I want to see him take that next step.
No disrespect SGA. It's just they're so good, they're deep,
(07:38):
they're great at like everything. There's not really many and
I think what makes it difficult is their depth allows
them to play a bunch of different styles. I don't
know that Minnesota can really play the way they'll come
City Thunder can, especially especially if Minnesota has a bad
shooting night, which or if you want to put it
(07:59):
that way, or great defense brocusy either way, I don't
know that the series will go past five.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
I was I was assuming that that Minnesota their length,
like with Rudy Gobert, like with you know, nas Reed
and and and with Randall, that they would be able
to find a rhythm, you know, and and get comfortable
with beating them, beating them up down low, you know,
(08:26):
creating mid range shots, mid mid range game, you know,
at the the rim game, you know, finishing at the rim.
They haven't done it. They haven't been able to do it.
And it's interesting because you mentioned the last series, Q
think about the the freaking brilliance of Jokiice being able
(08:48):
to average the amount of points that he was averaging
making it a series against the OKC Thunder. I think
it really like exposes all or maybe even shows how
great a player, you know, Jokic is, because he almost
won the series on his shoulders, on his back and
(09:09):
this is clearly a dominant, a dominant defensive unit, and
they still were only able to kind of, I don't
even want to say minimize Jokic in that series, but
they were able to find a way to defense them
well enough in order to be able to win the games.
And now you're seeing it against you know, inferior players
(09:31):
to what Jokic is, And I think I may mention
of the fact that, like this is like a series
where you're like you're taking off the ankle weights and
you're taking off the weight that vest to play against
the team because you don't have to play against the
Jokic in this series. It's probably such a deep breath
of relief to just say we can just play and
(09:52):
we know that there's a world beater in Anthony Edwards,
and we're gonna let we're gonna we're gonna do what
we can against him. But knowing that if we really
really make it hard for him, which they have, there's
no easy easy outs down the court for him. And
if we really really press the rest of these guys,
(10:12):
press Randall, you know, minimize go Bear, you know, minimize
nas read those guys, if we really really play it
that way, they're going to struggle to be able to
maintain the pace of what we play at and and
it's paying off. It's paying dividends for for for OKAC.
So they're showing that they're clearly the better team. It'll
(10:35):
be interesting to see going back to Minnesota. Can they
make a series of it again. They're one game away
from making it more interesting, but they could be one
game away from showing that they're still not where they
need to be as a team. And maybe Anthony Edwards
isn't all the way there yet as well.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I've got an idea, all right, I've got an idea.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I did some of some theme music though, or something
that kind of helped helped bring the idea to life,
if it's possible. I'm not sure if we've got in
thing back there in the studio to a studio band
or anything out there, anything at this hour, any music
at any point in time.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Ever, as soon as I see lorraina shift from looking at.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
The I'm putting in marching.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, oh, I get it. As soon as I see
you shift, then you're you're looking. I know that's at
least going to be thirty to forty seconds. No, shade.
That's no shade, that's just I know it's going to
take this leak there it is right there, right over
to the shoulder doing.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
So, look this is MINNESOT'I go one shot at this
thing to go back home.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, this doesn't make any sense to go back home
and win a.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
Game, Okay. And I think they can just look a
little bit south, all right. They could look down from
Minneapolis and say, hey, Cleveland, can we borrow that snow machine?
All right, snowine, We're gonna take the Cavolanche. We'll call
it the t wolve.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Lanch or call it.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
But you get that snow machine, okay, and when you
go on a flurry of baskets, you let that thing rip.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
And that's the only chance the.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Minnesota Timberwolves have is borrowing the cavalanche machine from the
Cleveland Cavaliers. They got to use once this year to
help bring them back in this series.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Hope.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I think you're also going to have to get violent,
like this is gonna have to get really really physical.
And look, it's gonna cost maybe some guys a couple
of paychecks, maybe somebody who gets suspended. But I feel
like we're on the brink of Minnesota acting out. We
saw Anthony Edwards throw a ball at SGA in the
first game last night. Jade McDaniels just pushed SGA to
(12:41):
the ground late in the game because he was just
so frustrated with some of the officiating what was happening.
He was also asked about this afterwards. Uh here was
McDaniels lesa.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Was they're just a little frustration blowing over how kind
of happened.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I just just wanted to found him for I wasn't
even manages half thousand year.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
So they're at the point now they're going to start
acting out, and that's what we need.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You want to make this a series, you got to.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Turn things extremely physical and whatever that takes, whoever it's
gonna cause, you have to because you can't match up
anywhere other than the physicality potentially. And if you're fed
up with the foul calls and you're fed up with
all that, then you just need to go ahead. And
if you're going to get a foul, at least make
it a double tech and get kicked out of the game.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Just go all the way with it. That's the only
way this is going to become a series. I just
need to see how they play at home. If they
play much better if they're shooting, because you would assume
that they're shooting, will be much improved shooting at home.
I mean, if they're able to generate more offense and
be more formidable on the offensive side of the court,
(13:54):
then it could, in theory, get interesting. I don't I don't.
I think this is a dangerous position for OKC to
be in because they're in such a strategically sound position
right now, and you don't want to lose that momentum,
(14:15):
and you certainly don't want to give the Timberwolves any
type of real hope that they can climb back into
this series. So we're gonna find out. You know, the
questions coming into this year's playoffs is is this OKC
team ready to take the next step to show the
maturity level of where they're at. SGA ends up getting
(14:36):
the league MVP award. You know, they're able to prove out.
In the first round, they knock off one of the
champs and the Nuggets and one of the best players
and he was going basically head to head with to
get that MVP award. They send them home. So that
was a major hurdle that they cleared. Now you're in
(14:58):
a series against up and coming superstar that people want
to compare to Michael Jordan. Want to make this team
like the next ones up. You show Lebron James talking
to Edwards saying take that next step, and here they
are hitting a brick wall against Okac. I think this
is a great opportunity for them to put their their
(15:19):
neck on the or their foot on the proverbial neck
of the Timberwolves and show how dominant they are. But
this could be one of those dangerous moments for them
where maybe that experience does show, or should I say
the lack of experience could show in the rest of
this series. So I'm interested to see which way does
(15:41):
that go. Are they able to finish it out or
does it become a little bit, as you guys said,
a messy. The game's made a little dirty, a little
messier and plays into the advantage of the Timberwolves at
home versus Okay see having a more cleaner type of
game and approach to you know, how they they you know,
(16:01):
are able to finish out the games From.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
The thunder side of it.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I do think it would be remiss if we didn't
give a little bit of a shout out here to
three crucial key components to the OKC thunder Chad Holmgren,
Isaiah Hartenstein, Alex Caruso off top Brady.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's what I'm talking about right there.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Up, they've been very valuable man talking about it did
not show in the last series. It did not show maybe,
but the way they again, the way they come on
if you don't have Hartenstein, this this this okay t yep. Yeah,
(16:41):
Well I don't think y'all ever win anywhere. I just
think that y'all just don't have as many of y'all.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, we were the cb A, that's where we were.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
We're not hide anymore like the Hills have eyes. Right,
we're out.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
We're in the G league.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
I mean, you know, Haliburton is light skin too, so
y'all could debate it.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
You know, well, you know, we don't get into those.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
We got ya, even though he's what we know.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
We stick with what we know.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Y'all don't want any borderline type stuff.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Huh No, not doing it standing stick with sports, can't
take sports. No one likes that stupid conversation.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's that's happened every can't can't take any chances.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I mean, well with Donald Trump's tan can't. We tried it.
We try to debate it a little bit at times,
some of us. Sometimes, yeah, some people take the opposite
side of what they they be about Trump.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
By the way, it is important to point out here
on this.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Show that Pete Prisco did Yeah so yeah, is Pete
Prisco the same tent as the Knick's logo?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yeah, I mean the Donald Trump Pete.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Pete Prisco looks like a tan couch.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
He looks his skin looks like that couch, that leather
couch that you've got, You've had for about four or
five years now. It's been beaten up by the sun.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Priscal sits your living.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Room right from the window.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
It looks like a home depot cart.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
The mosquitoes land on p be Like, what the ha f?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
What is this?
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Damn?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Where's the blood?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I'm not a smelled something, but this this, this, this
texture doesn't fit with a smelled You know, we don't
drink coconut oil. Hey, buddy, should we try to tap
into this? No? Take off? Okay, it is.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It is important to point out here though, that is
a it's a football Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's a damn Friday here on the show.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Right, come on, come on, come on, what are we
talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
What are we talking about?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
What are we talking about? What are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
What's going on? If football?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Okay for Eddie, Let's do it for Eddie.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Come Onday night, ride, lock them, suck up, score it,
spig it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You can feel it.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It is a football Friday here on Two Pros and
a Cup of Joe. By the way, we're gonna have
the usuals coming up later on, We've got another edition
of In case you missed it. We've also got our
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yet again. Find out what for? Coming up our two
of the program, and we're gonna close up shop with
another edition of Lee's Leftovers here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But somebody is back. But let's see how it looks
moving forward in the NFL. That's yours right here, n FSR.
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Speaker 5 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's not a toy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Rady Var strapped then he brought his burda.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I keep it with me everywhere these down. Yeah, it's
dangerous out here, man, who's getting it. It's more dangerous
to have to deal with me physically than it would
be to deal with this less lethal round that I
got ready for you. So I just keep it with me,
you know, especially like when I'm getting gas. I got
gas tonight. You know, sketchy areas, bro. I just don't
(20:47):
want to touch nobody.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Especially at night.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
I mean around here. I'm being dead serious too, I know. Yeah,
it's dangerous out here.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
You could get that work?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Yeah, she really could, She really could. I mean that's
a random, but I'll tell you what random responds to
my my statement. She could wait, could get that work.
I would take Dolly Parton out to eat on God,
(21:16):
I bet you she likes corn bread. I guess is
pork chops or fried chicken. I know she she jump
on some greens. I just know for certain Dolly Parton
would jump on a side of greens and maybe Mack
(21:38):
and chee and I just did that blue Choo read.
So don't think for two seconds. Blue Choo wouldn't be
involved in that scenario. Man shouts out to Dolly Parton, Man,
you keep going, keep going, girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Sports Radio LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox or you
usaid coming up here a little over fifteen minutes from now,
somebody asks some wisdom to pass along to some of
his fellow competitors in the world of sports.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
We will get into that for you here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So, if we all recall back week six last year
in the NFL, Aiden Hutchinson was on his way to
what a lot of people thought was going to be
a Defensive Player of the Year award. He was favored
at the time, and then all of a sudden there
at the Jerry Dome suffered the gruesome leg injury knocked
him out for the rest of the year. There was
some speculation that, well, maybe he could come back for
(22:32):
the Super Bowl if they got there, and then all
of a sudden, Dan quinnin jayde and Daniels went into
Detroit and flat lined the Lions, and next thing you know,
they've got to look towards the future.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
But all as well.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Now Aiden Hutchinson has been cleared for football activities and
he spoke about it yesterday.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
I got cleared a while back, and now I'm just
I'm wrong with the boys now and it feels like
it feels like I'm back to being myself again. And yeah,
I'm really looking forward to the season. I'm looking forward
to I mean, I think this is the most excited
I've been for OTAs in my life. This is the
biggest hiatus I've had without playing ball, So I am
(23:11):
I'm pumped.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
How do you not have any cause for concern or
any caution that something freak is gonna happen like that? Again,
if you're ating Hudginson, wouldn't that be the hardest thing
to overcome? The mental side of it, as opposed to
whether or not your legs snaps and the lake.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I always tell people, you know, one of the Jesus Christ.
One of the biggest aspects onesting old school TV, like
late night, like this hour, like three thirty one am.
You turn on the TV and your hair static in
the feedback. They do physical, physical rehab, they do procedures
(23:57):
surgically to injuries, right, but you never hear about the
emotional rehab of an athlete because it's just overlooked So
many times I've always made this statement, it's interesting, you
need just as much mental emotional rehab for a serious
(24:20):
injury as you do the physical part of it. And
it's just something that to me is just grossly undervalued
and underadministered. Right. And so when you have a guy
that's recovering from a season ending injury, a serious injury
where you have to undergo the surgery and see how
(24:42):
your body changes from what it was when that injury
took place in terms of your you know, the strength
of your lag or your arm or whatever it is
that you've injured, there's a tremendous process. There's a long road,
and there's different plateaus, and there's different peaks and different
(25:04):
valleys that you experience in the rehab process physically, but
there's also mental and emotional plateaus and peaks and valleys
that you experience as well. Aden Hutchinson strikes me as
the type of guy his mental emotional makeup, it seems
very very strong, very pronounced. I was watching they were
(25:28):
showing him running, you know, in the indoor facility and
him just you know, moving around and feeling good. I
think he's, like he said, he's so excited about getting
back onto the field that the idea of him re
injuring it, or if you're the coaching staff, are you
nervous about him re injuring it, different things like that.
(25:51):
Of course, you want to be very very aware and
mindful of what he's doing and how he's doing it
until you know that, without a doubt he's fully back physically.
But I would say I would venture to say that
a guy like Aiden Hutchinson, you know, seeing what his
work ethic looks like, appears to be I don't think
(26:12):
that that's really you don't lead and live in that
as a concern with him. It's just more or less
getting him back into the mix, into the groove, acclimating
him to the workload that's connected to being fully healthy,
and they've probably had plenty of time to do that
with him. So I don't see it being a major
concern moving forward for Dan Campbell and Detroit.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And this is not on the same level because he's
you know, professional and a really really great player. But
the one injury I suffered that I would consider older
is when I dislocated my kneecap toward meniscus. All, you know,
whatever comes along with that whole fun experience, and like
it was a long time before I even trust did
(27:00):
like jumping off, jumping off like a small ledge like
you know, jumping off you know, like like a wall
and coming down because I just assumed the way that
I suffered the injury, that I landed on it and
it just popped because my IT band was so tight
that I didn't even know the it band was a thing.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And then you find out, yeah, I know, you.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Go work that out, and when they work it out,
you realize you're alive.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
When you when you tore your achilles, like how long
was it before you're like, oh, I'm good to push
off now, because I would just that would mess me
up more than even the surgery and the physical part
of it, because I'd be thinking, Man, is this gonna
happen again?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I left the game after that, you know, I didn't.
I didn't want to play anymore after I tore my achilles.
So the answer to question, I didn't even finish rehab.
I went to Coach Kavlin's office and I was like,
Coach man, I really appreciate all that you've done bringing
me here. I'd hate to let you down. I'm going
to rehab my ass off to be able to help
(28:01):
the team moving forward. But I gotta be honest with you.
I'm in pain, and they let me go, like they
released me and allowed for me to, you know, just
go and if it make the decision like do I
want to try to continue to rehab and make a
comeback or be be finished? And I appreciated Coach Coughlin
(28:25):
and the New York Giants giving me that opportunity to
do so, and I chose not to come back. I
chose not to finish. So to your point, it took
me like because I wasn't going to a facility every
single day to do the regular regiment of rehab. And really, really,
you realize how fast paced recovery is and rehab is
(28:48):
in professional sports when you become a civilian, right, So
I went from being an active player to a player
that was not on a team and on a roster,
and that rehab is very, very different because you you
can choose. Like I woke up, it was like, oh,
I'm scheduled to go do rehab today, this is the
(29:09):
time to do it. I don't feel like going. I'm
a i'm aa, I'm gonna enjoy this breakfast. I'm gonna
lay down, I'm gonna watch some TV. You know, I'm
a hangout. I'm gonna play with my baby girl like
she's she's walking around now she's big enough to walk.
I started focusing in on so many different things. It
(29:31):
took me like three years to fully recover and rehab
my ruptured achilles tendon. And I was okay with it
because you were the Giants clock. Yeah, I wasn't on
nobody's clock. So it's just it's it's different, it's it's
a whole, it's a it's a real thing.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
They say six to eight months, you're like that like two.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Years, two to three years. It's crazy. I limped for
like two and a half years.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I want to breakfast.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Go figure. You don't, hey, bro, let me tell you something.
You don't realize how regimented your life really is. I would,
I would. I would be curious what percentage of especially
in football, because we're way more regimented than pretty much
any other sport. Like it's way more relaxed in basketball, baseball, soccer,
(30:20):
like it's it's super relaxed. I don't know about hockey
and how their regiment is, but football is very much regulated,
regimented by time frames, and those time frames are very
it's very small. Your amounts of time that you're away
from it are very small. So you don't really sleep.
I tell my son all the time. You know you don't.
(30:42):
You don't sleep once you realize how good you are
and and you're going somewhere with playing the sport of football,
you don't sleep because there's the the workouts, there's the
educational components of it. There's so many different things that
you have to get done within this small amount of
time that you know, it's just you don't do it.
(31:06):
So I just you know, for me, I'm looking at
where Aiden Hutchinson is. I'll say I'll get back to
the original point of it all Jonas is that it's
good that he's gotten a clean bill of health. He
looks like he's happy. It looks as though he's going
(31:28):
to be poised to come back and have that type
of a year. So you encourage it that way as coaches,
you encourage it that way as teammates, and you embrace
it that way as the player, and eventually you get
out there and you do enough where you remove yourself
far away enough from those feelings and those emotions that
you remembered and recalled when the injury took place, and
(31:51):
eventually it fades away to nothing, and then nobody's thinking
about the injury. It's only like a blip on your
Wikipedia page or wherever it is profile that, oh, this
happened in year this. But you've moved on and you
feel normal and your mind is normal and you don't
move around like that. But if you are that one
(32:13):
guy where you do move around thinking about it and
remembering it, then that's that's definitely not a good sign
for you as a player, because it will show in
the way that you play. If you're one of those
type of guys that are now wondering and concerned about
if you're going to get the injury again, if you're
(32:34):
going to get hurt at all, if you become like
really really gunshot and scared of getting hurt, it will
impact the way you play and it will impact your career.
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Speaker 10 (35:06):
Lap Good Friday morning, everybody, Good morning, Good morning Jonas, guys.
In case you missed this, Scotti Scheffler, who of course
is the number one golfer in the world just win
the PGA Championship, has no love loss for live golfers
who are currently at a stand still trying to get
an ability to compete in the best tournaments due to
(35:26):
the standstill between live golf and the PGA Tour.
Speaker 11 (35:29):
He was asked about this, and this is what he
had to.
Speaker 12 (35:31):
Say, and I don't know what did he say.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
So on behalf of the golf fans everywhere, do you
have any idea where the tours are in terms of
potentially emerging so you guys might get a chance to
play together more often.
Speaker 13 (35:44):
I mean, I don't really know. You know, that's for
the higher episode to side. And you know, I've said
it a few times this year. If you want to
figure out what's gonna happen in the game of golf,
go to the other tour and ask those guys.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
You know, I'm still here playing the PGA Tour.
Speaker 13 (35:55):
We had a tour where we all play together, and
the guys that laugh, it's their responsibility, I think to
bring the tours back together and you know, go see
where they're playing this week and.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Ask them, why would he care? He's the best golfer
in the world. Why would he bother himself to worry
about whether or not live golfers can repair or mend
an defenses that they might have burned down with the
PGA Tour Like this would be like Michael Jordan in
his prime being worried about you know what, the what
(36:25):
the tenth guy on the bench in Minnesota's thinking about, or.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
You know like it just like why would he care?
Why would he bother himself with this stuff?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Like he's dominating golf and if they didn't want to
be a part of it because they took a paycheck,
right or wrong, however you feel about it, is what
it is.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
They took a paycheck.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
I mean a nice, very very nice sized, healthycheck. Not no,
not in light not not no. It wasn't paycheck. It
was nice and healthy, nice and juicy dolls.
Speaker 11 (36:57):
So yeah, we share some of that cash. Did we
talk about a little merchant.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Oh there you go, there you go.
Speaker 12 (37:02):
What else we gotly, guys, another negotiation we've been talking
about recently, USC and Notre Dame talking about, you know,
possibly putting an end to that historic rivalry. Well, USC
boosters have now started going towards the Board of Trustees
saying they might be withholding some of their money that
they would be putting in the will towards USC.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Why is that because they're pissed about them threatening to
get rid of the Notre Dame USC rivalry.
Speaker 11 (37:28):
Yes, notably some of the older boosters are.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
That's important, it's important piece of information.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Good is a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Figure out a way to make this go, like, like,
these are the traditions that we've all grown up on,
that we've seen for years and years. And just because
it's a new landscape doesn't mean you just have to
get rid of everything and make everything new, right, Like
I like like the old rivalries we grew up on, Miami,
Florida State, you know, Nebraska, Colorado, like all those all
(38:03):
those great rivalries that you've seen, USC, Notre Dames, one
of them. Like, figure out a way to make this
continue on. And it just feels like us is the
culprit wanting to try and kill the whole thing and
just focus on what's going to get them into a
college football playoff.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
It's very odd.
Speaker 12 (38:22):
What else, speaking of losing money in California, we all
know about brock Perdy's recent deal which was worth five years,
two hundred and sixty five million, one hundred and eighty
one million guaranteed. That comes out to about fifty three
million a year average.
Speaker 11 (38:34):
Well, if you look at the taxes here.
Speaker 12 (38:36):
In the great state of California, that amounts to about
twenty eight point three million in taxes, meaning he'll come
he'll take home.
Speaker 11 (38:42):
Twenty four a little underd and fifty percent there.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 11 (38:46):
It's a little what it hurts.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
So I'm thinking about moving, man.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
It's wild.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
How bad. I just don't understand how like, imagine we're
getting the shaft at here far for I mean for
the taxes and where that money is going. Imagine how
many people you're working for outside of yourself and your
your household, because that money is going somewhere to aid
(39:12):
and fund something, whether it's a stop sign and for
your school district, maybe it's a book for somebody else.
And I have no problem paying for a book. I
just don't want to pay that much of a percentage
of my paycheck in order for your kid to be
able to read. You pay for your kid book, You
you pay for that. I don't want to pay that
(39:35):
much money. That's that's outrageous, how much you got to
pay in taxes, bro, it's outrageous.
Speaker 12 (39:41):
He's paying the full salary of some other quarterbacks in
the league.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
I mean, it's just as crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Half my check goes to Lewis who's hanging out behind
a seven eleven in a sleeping bag, bumming Wi Fi
off the seven eleven over there. Like that's that like
the amount of money we lose out on in this state?
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Crazy man. Weather's nice, though, has been nice. It was
a very nice morning yesterday. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
By the way, Dondo's looking nice now these days.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Huh, she is nice. But I might have to get
up out of here, man, Them taxes is crazy.
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Introducing… Aubrey O’Day Diddy’s former protege, television personality, platinum selling music artist, Danity Kane alum Aubrey O’Day joins veteran journalists Amy Robach and TJ Holmes to provide a unique perspective on the trial that has captivated the attention of the nation. Join them throughout the trial as they discuss, debate, and dissect every detail, every aspect of the proceedings. Aubrey will offer her opinions and expertise, as only she is qualified to do given her first-hand knowledge. From her days on Making the Band, as she emerged as the breakout star, the truth of the situation would be the opposite of the glitz and glamour. Listen throughout every minute of the trial, for this exclusive coverage. Amy Robach and TJ Holmes present Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Betrayal: Season 4
Karoline Borega married a man of honor – a respected Colorado Springs Police officer. She knew there would be sacrifices to accommodate her husband’s career. But she had no idea that he was using his badge to fool everyone. This season, we expose a man who swore two sacred oaths—one to his badge, one to his bride—and broke them both. We follow Karoline as she questions everything she thought she knew about her partner of over 20 years. And make sure to check out Seasons 1-3 of Betrayal, along with Betrayal Weekly Season 1.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.