August 17, 2021 • 38 mins
Jonas and LaVar dive back into the comments from Matt Nagy about keeping his Andy Dalton plan in place, even with Justin Fields shining. LaVar shares a great Steve Spurrier practice story. There's breaking news on Joel Embiid and Petros of AM 570 LA Sports is in the house to talk high school ball, some fun college football stories, Dodgers, Rams and more. Plus, Danny G.serves up The Scraps, featuring Celtics green cash and Raider fan vaccinations.
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only LaVar Arringtown back in though little did you like
when you were on TV and Brady and I were
harassing you while you were on the air. We wish
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I could have some way, somehow been on TV while
doing the radio show with you. Guys. Imagine that. Yeah
they call that a simulcast. Man, how about that? Um,
but you know, I don't know maybe yeah, well listen,
I mean, who knows, maybe Telemundos I didn't the man.
You know, it's fun, a little more, a little more relaxed,
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a little more grabass on the on the radio side
of things. You know you can get does such an
amazing job of of just busting on you. Bro, it's
so good and he and he's so random and but
just so well placed with how he gets you. It's
it's really good. Well listen, it's it's it's we've been
working together a long time, so we know exactly how
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to piss each other off. But when I'm on this show,
he does it in question form to me to be
able to do it the third party, he's got busting.
He's gonna play to play to the audience like he's
can't creative. Man, you gotta get somebody props when they
can actually be creative enough to do it that way.
That's why, that's why I just make accusations on the
air that are false and make him respond on the
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air without telling him, Like I'll just open up the
show and say, hey, so, when's the last time he
took P E. D S? Wait? What you know? It's
just like you just got to attack him, just like
right there, just to kind of catch him off guard.
That's the that's the movie you make here on Fox
Sports Rade, at least it's the move I make. But
that being said, we have got ourselves, um some storylines
in the NFL developing. We've got a week one of
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the preseason in the books. We're looking ahead to a
week two in the preseason, and we were talking about
this earlier that you know, Matt naggy uh In talking
about the quarterback situation in Chicago, the head coach of
the Bears, says, you know, the plan still is that
Andy Dalton is going to be the starting quarterback. That
Andy Dalton is going to be the starter moving forward.
Justin Field is going to get some more reps with
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the ones and and get some more looks against the
number one defense, but still Andy Dalton is the planet
quarterback for the Bears. Now, I think there was a
lot of hype. Some of the odds have changed as
far as whether or not Justin Fields is the starter
week one, But I think there was a lot of
hype because it was a standalone game. A lot of
people got to watch this game, the Bears and the
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Dolphins over the weekend, and so therefore got a lot
of coverage. Well, Matt Naggi is sticking to his guns
and he says the plan is to do what's best
for the team moving forward. And he had six plays
and it's hard to say much good or bad about
that with the sixth place, So we're going to get
him some more snaps this coming preseason game. And then
with Justin we want to be able to see live plays,
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live situations. We got that and he did a great job.
So the only thing he can do is to continue
doing that. And then we got to make sure that
that plan allows us to evaluate how well he does
knowing those circumstances, and ultimately, in the end, whatever is
best for the Chicago Bears is in the end what
we're gonna do. So it's very short least yeah, I
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mean almost like holding his Dalton's collar. It might not
even be at least holding a collar. Yeah, he has.
It's look, Matt Naggi has shown in his history as
time as Bears head coach that he will make quick decisions.
They had, you know, the really strong year, I think
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they were twelve and four his first year there. They
went to the playoffs, um, and then it was the
you know the next year they were eight and eight,
and he went out and fired like three assistant coaches,
like retool the coaching staff, and everyone thought, well, that's
kind of abrupt, you know, like it wasn't even like
an awful season. It wasn't the season you were expecting,
but you know, eight and Nate coming off a twelve
and four year and not the worst thing in the world.
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Then they go out and they bring in Nick Foles.
Trabinsky throws one pick, they're undefeated, throws one pick early
last season, and he goes straight to Nick Foles, and
it was like, it seems kind of like a quick
but he may not make that same he may not
use that same thought process in this scenario because this
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is a much more interesting set up. Like Mitch Robinsky,
it was just kind of like, do we know who
he is at this point in time? Right? And then
with Nick Olds, it's like, we know that if we
bring him in and relief duty, he's always seems to
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be at his best as as a relief duty guy.
He's not in that situation here as it as it stands,
the presented situation is you've got a mega star that
fell to you in the draft. Like, let's be clear
on that. That's you got a megastar, and he is
a megastar in the making. He's not one today. Even
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though he is one today, y'all just don't know it yet.
And and the idea of this is to make sure
that he gets the proper amount of time to develop
the way that he needs to develop. Now, some some
teams look at it like, all right, when you got
a can't miss prospect, the can't miss guy, you put
him right in um and we're seeing that in Jacksonville. Uh.
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But but here's the thing. Gardner Minshew is is really
one of those type of guys where you know it's
it's it's interesting his numbers are comparable to Baker Mayfield,
and we're debating whether Baker Mayfield is a franchise quarterback
and when he's going to get his next big contract.
I think there's more to that situation in Jacksonville than
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there is in Chicago. We know who Andy Dalton is,
and so if Andy Dalton has already been predetermined to
be your starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, it is
purely based upon you buying time until Justin Fields is
ready to play. That is your plan, make no mistake
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about it, Agreed. And I also think there's an element
of this when you see two guys who play it differently,
one just jumps off the screen at you. In Justin Fields.
There's gonna be a push for that guy. Like he
Justin Fields does things that Andy Dalton can't do. It
doesn't mean that he's a better quarterback. It just means
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that you see them on the field and you go
that stands out like that like this, Yeah, like his mistakes. Yeah,
and I just wonder and I've talked to Brady about
this and he said, Look, there are times where you
get to like Brady said on the air that there
was a time when, you know, first time he saw
Cam Newton up close and personal. Um, he was out
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there for pregame warm ups, and he just sees Cam
Newton and he goes, oh, I can't do any of that.
Like it's just like like there are certain guys that
you look at and you go, oh, well, that's just
like god given freakish likability. Justin Fields has got a
little bit of that. Like there's something different you guys.
He can run the ball. He's almost equally effective, not
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not quite a Lamar Jackson, but he can run. He
can he can move. A lot of the reasons why
he has success and you've seen it, uh in You've
seen it in college is that he can make really
really great decisions. While he's on the move, and he
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can deliver a really nice ball while he's on the move.
So to me, he does jump off. He does jump
off of off of the camera, jumps off of the film.
Because when you think about what Justin Fields is bringing
to the table, it's an extra added dimension that a
team that is not fully plugged in with a ton
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of talent could actually use. And I think that that's
the discussion point that a lot of people are are making,
is that that extra added ability to be able to
be mobile, mobile enough to make teams pay is going
to be a large reason why Justin Fields is going
to get that not and not look much earlier than
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what maybe you know people may be anticipating. I mean,
if you're the NFL, I mean, well, I'll just more specifically,
if you're NBC and I want to see Justin Fields,
if Andy Dalton is planned, I'm watching because it's my job,
right right, And that's yeah, And and I I don't
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know the numbers, I don't know the splits on it,
but I would venture to guess that when Justin Fields
came in, I know I stopped what I was doing
to watch when he came in. The game against Miami,
and and that was knowing, look these are you're not playing.
This isn't you know a normal deal? Like like how
complicated we're talking about this yesterday? Like how complicated is
the defense in a preseason game? I mean, are they
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throwing everything at you know? They don't, they don't game plan.
Third game is the only game that that a team
will do address rehearsal and game plan the team. So
you go into the week as if it is a
game week in week three and in in game three.
So that's the idea of it. That would be the
only time you see a scheming of of sorts because
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nobody wants to show what they have. I remember the
year coach s Burrier came in. Coach was throwing his
playbook a ound in preseas. We were undefeated. Then we
couldn't win a game. We want ten games that year,
I think, and five of them were three of them
we want wait, wait, wait eight games. We want eight
games that year and three of them were four of
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them was in preseason. I love Steve Okay, so you
like playing for him? Yeah, we just didn't win. Hilarious, man,
he I covered him in when I was in South Carolina,
and it was he was so much fun man. And look,
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I'm not saying that this is a fact, but um,
the feeling there was. You know, there was a couple
of times he had his Coaches show on TV. Might
have hit happy Hour before he went because he ain't
tripping off of nobody, no one thing about coach Spurrier.
Coach Hey god, come on, pull pull it on in everybody,
Come on, come on in, tighten up, come on, let's
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tighten on up. Hey listen, we we we got our
asks kicked. Good night. But you know, no bys fault,
no boy's fault. We just would just say that we're
gonna watch the film. No bis fault. Uh, we're all
pros here, We're all we're all pros. Uh, we'll watch
it's on the film. If you, if you, if it
is you, you won't be here. And he always dropped
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there was always a line at the end here. Yeah,
there was always a line at the end. That was
the thing about Spurrier. We would we would listen to
his press conferences because you knew there would be a
dig coming. Like I remember, Eric Wolford was an offensive
line coach and he he left there to take a
job I think at Youngstown State, if I'm not mistaken,
and he'd like literally just gotten there. And so Coach
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Spurrier was talking at practice one time and he was
just saying, you know, and we were waiting for him
when when he was going to take his dig, because
he always had a dig at the end. It was
always followed by a dig, and so they'd be this
big build up me, like, you know, I'm always happy
when assistant coach gets an opportunity to go, oh, we
know how this business works, and it's wonderful to see
any of your own guys go ahead and uh and
move on in their career and uh, and you know,
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get an opportunity like Eric is and we're really happy
for him. But sure didn't think he was gonna be
here more than one year. And like literally just can't
desplide that day. I gotta get in. Like when he
talked about Georgia, there was one year where South Carolina
and Georgia, who always played earlier in the season for
some reason, one year they adjusted they played later in
the year, and they asked Spurrier about the rivalry with Georgia.
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South Carolina Georgia is and under the radar underdiscussed rivalry
in college football, so they're not that far from each
other and um, and Spurrier said, uh, well, you know,
I always did like playing Georgia earlier in the year
because you could always count on like two or three
of their best players being suspended at that point, Like
it was just he had to get his dig in
like that. So I I love Spurrier. I thought he
was so much fun because he was awesome. Dude. I
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didn't think we had enough professionals on the team, and
I think that that us as players, we let them down. Yeah, yeah,
and that's unfortunate because I was telling dudes, I was like, listen,
I said, you'll taken advantage of the fact that that
coach like coach Spurrier will be the type of dude.
We go out side would be cold rain because we
didn't have an indoor facility back then, so it'd be
cold rain, and you'd see him out there and he'd
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be squirming around and like then he starts bouncing around
and be like, all right, bringing on up. We'd be
like ten minutes in the practice, as cold as hell
out here, like let's get let's get a little white room,
get film study, we bring it on up, we get
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a break done. Practice over. I told dudes, I said,
you get a coach like that, you have to win.
And dudes was looking at me like far you being serious.
I'm like, hell yeah, I'm being serious. A dude that's
going to cancel practice and ice cold rain, it's my
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type of guy. What are you doing? Like, like, be responsible, bro,
like one practice, Yes, practices and moments make or break
what you're gonna do. But if your professionals make the
best of that time, don't don't mess that up because
then you get another dude. Then you get another dude
that comes in and he's the total opposite. He's a heart.
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Now he's one of you know, he's one of them dudes.
And it's like, oh man, you're sitting there and you're like,
come on, man like, and then you'll be looking at
your teammates like you. I hope you get cut up
because you're the reason why he's here. You are, you
are one of the reasons why he's here. So uh
it is. I'll kick the coverage here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Jonas Kock Slavar Arrington with you here on FS are
uh and before we we are going to catch up
with Petros Papadakis here on Fox Sports Radio. But we
do have some a little bit of breaking news out
of the NBA from Eddie Garcia. Breaking news from Fox Sports. Yeah,
out of the NBA reports that Philadelphia seventies six star
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center Joel and Bead finalizing a four year, hundred and
nineties six million dollars supermax contract extension. A couple of claims.
Four time All Star was a runner up for the
m v P this past season. Obviously big star for
the Philadelphia So four years, hundred ninety six million super
max for Joel Embid getting paid a couple of dollars.
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Good for him getting paid, you, I mean, in any
word on Ben Simmons or is he still not talking
to the team So he's definitely not talking now, Yeah,
I mean so so they've they've they've pretty much identified
that's a guy we're gonna build around moving forward with
or without Ben Simmons. Who the hell knows at this
point in Philadelphia, but all right, he is at Lavarrington.
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Coming up next, Petro's Papa Dvegus, one of our favorite tier.
He is going to fire away many storylines in the
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This is out kicked the coverage right now. The Great
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Petro's Papadakis joins us here on fs R. He's with
us every single Tuesday Am five seventy l a sports
Fox College football analysts Petros and Jonas and LaVar. What's happening?
What's popping with y'all? Not much here, just getting ready
for football season. There's a high school game this week
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that I was supposed to call, but I can't because
I'm at the Dodgers and I didn't communicate with the
high school people. Bad. Uh. Make sure you come to
a Charter Oak game. Oh, I know Charter Oak. I
know about lou Ferrar. I played with a Yeah, God
rest his soul. I played with one of the great
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Charter Oak Chargers who was a receiver named Steve Stevenson
who had one of the great nicknames in Uh, in
my at least in my career, which was jingle Leg.
Jingle must like a lot of people missing. Yeah, there
go jingle Leg. Yeah, I miss I miss Jangle. Charter
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oak Chargers and they're big, they're big rival Uh. This
is inland, not too far inland stand Gabriel Valley area.
Most Altos of Seawan Cody fame would be their big rivalry.
You know it's turned into Glendora. Now, oh yeah, well
that's a Jonathan Smith, the head coach at at Oregon State,
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is a Glendora guy. The Glendora Tartans the Tartans, not
to be confused with the Tartars, which is Torrance, which
the tartar is join us. You gotta go get that
off your teeth when you go see the dentist. No,
no tartar is. It's a reincarnated Honestly, it is a
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reincarnated Mongol warrior. A generation or so after after Genghis Khan,
a guy named tamber Lane led a bunch of Mongol
warriors who were called old Tartars, having like a food
man who they have a little mustache. I mean, that's
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kind of an elaborate, cool name just to be because
it is like a skirt, right, a Tartan, I think
it maybe I think it's a skirt. Uh, it's a
Scottish skirt. Ki. Yeah, what is a Tartan Yeah, Tartan
is a skirt. Do you have a Casey Jacobson, Yeah,
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you're right, look at that about it. Uh, I was
right about Tartar to look at you, LaVar Man, there's
no stone on tarn with you. Jacobson was a Tartan member,
Casey with his hair and works at FS one and
Fox and Uh. Tracy Murray, the great NBA playstayer, also
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a Tartan. Some of the greatest Tartans of all time.
Top are you? Are you excited about the Dodgers again
since the trades have been You know, I like watching
Max Schurz or pitch. You don't really get a look
at anybody like that if they're on the other side
of the country. Unless it's the playoffs, you don't really watch, like, oh, hey,
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Scherzer's pitching to night against the Pirates. Let me check
this out. You know, he's with the Nationals. But when
he's a Dodger, you watch. If you're out here, we're
on the Dodger station and it's just really fun to
watch him compete. But they have a lot of guys
hurt too. You know, Mookie Bets is down with like
a bone spur and Clayton Kershaw is on the i L.
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They signed Cole Hamile's to get his arm right and
be ready to go, and they gave him a million dollars.
So he came to Dodger Stadium started, you know, warming up,
getting to the level where you are pitching in a
major league game, taking live reps or whatever, and he
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hurt his arm and left. So they gave a million
dollars to come out. Yeah, that's like pros versus Joe's.
We paid Tom Chambers to come out and missed two
three pointers and leave. That's great, nice work if you
can get it. No kids, Petro's faadegus join to us
here on Fox Sports Radio. LaVar Arrington Jonas Knox with
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the here on FS are um. So we're having some
fun talking about the great Steve Spurrier, and I thought
you're going, oh, no, were we? So we had a
chance to cover Spurrier and I was doing radio in
the South. Coach or both? Yeah, I heard I heard both.
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But LaVar was talking about how he was his coach
in Washington and that. But Spurrier was so much fun
to play for because he was so lenient that you know,
pro so was there a coach Petros. Was there a
coach that you loved playing for but ultimately didn't just
didn't have enough success in order to stay around for
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long term. Well, I think that goes for almost every
coach ever, if you lock them, if every coach that
you like, ever, they're all eventually gonna get fired. Yes,
kind of the crux of college football. They're all waiting
to get fired. You either get a better job or
you get fired. Very few people go out on their
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own terms. And even the urban Myers of the world
and all those weird departures you've seen, that's not those
aren't on their own terms, you know. So most of
these guys all get fired. I mean, I like plan
for John Robinson, who was perceived to have lost the
discipline of the team. And that was probably true in
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the in the late nineties at USC, Like a guy
would get in trouble and he'd say in front of
the team, well, I'm not gonna make you run because
you could just run forever and it doesn't matter. It's
like no, that, no, that guy can't run forever. That
guy's high right now, like make him right. I want
to watch him bar But But as far as Steve
Spurrier goes in in the Redskins Days of of LaVar,
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I can't help but remember my favorite quote where he
was being questioned some preseason about the amount of time
that he spends at the facility. It was a time.
It was a time where everybody was was touting. Now,
we all know most football coaches, like in real life,
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football coaches are smart people and they're good at their jobs.
But they are football coaches. And we have a tendency
to pump this position up because they make a lot
of money in a modern day, because the sport makes
a lot of money. But we pump up had football
coaches as if they're leaders of society. And when we
do that so often, we're disappointed. Most of the time,
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their pe majors with or or not even graduates at all,
are probably no underwear on, drinking light beer and a
fan at the high school level like that. I don't
want to hang out with their wives, right, that's who
we are trying. They're trying to escape being at home
with their wife and kids, and they don't sleep under
their desk and they can't let go hang out with secrets. Yeah,
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being on the field, there's a lot of that that
goes on. So we've seen these things glorified over the
years and you're kind of like, okay, whatever. Like, but
there was a time where it was like John Gruden
gets to work at four am and he sleeps at
the office, and it's like it's all bs, it's all
media fodder, and those guys are gonna get fired too,
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you know. But my favorite was somebody who was asking
Spurrier about his lack of time that he spent around
and he said, well, the guy, the guy Jimmy Hasslet,
Jim Jim Jim Hasslet was the coach at the Saint
time and Spurrier saying, oh, Jimmy Haslett gets there three
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thirty in the morning and Jimmy Haslett and they're six
or six, ain't made last year? What you are? It's like,
oh my god. If we would like, you know, that's
all we would talk about. We'd be out in the
stretch lines at USC and we'd be like, oh, Jimmy
hast Jimmy, what did that say? That was a valid point. Yeah, no,
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I love him and it was a valid point. And
we'd always talk about the old Jimmy Hayslet I was
telling I was telling to this. One time we came
out for practice on everything, and I think we had
a game this week. You we come out, it was
like it was a cold cold like it had to
be maybe December something. It was super cold and it
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was ice rain coming down, and we were in warmups.
We're warmups and we're looking at our coach. We're looking
at coach Spurrier and he's like wiggling and like he's
kind of like, you know, he's shaking it, and we
was looking at it. He was like, hey, man, coaches cold, coach,
it is cold. You know, you see coaching kind of
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trying to walk it off. He tries to walk it
at day goes in there, y'all bring it up, bring
it out, bring it up. Hey, hey, listen, it's way
too cold out here. Out cold out here. Uh, let's
get in. Let's get in the weight room. Let's get
some weights, and let's let's get lunch, and let's get
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some some meetings in the meeting room, let's get some film.
Are y'all okay with this? We was looking at him
like yeah, yeah, cold going out here when as cold
as you are. We broke it down and went. We
didn't have enough, We did not have enough pros that
respected what what coach Spurrier represented, and they messed it up.
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Because then we messed around and we got Greg Williams
that came in after Jesus and it went a whole
another direction. That's all I'm gonna tell you. Yeah, I
love when a new coach comes and then no one,
no one ever knew how to play football before that
guy shows up. I'm gonna show you how to really
do it. I know the ancient secrets to unlock up fill.
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And hey, man, Greg had us doing two hundred yard
up downs on every yard line when he came into defense.
You know what I mean. Well, I'm looking at I'm
looking at my teammates, like, man, I hope you get cut.
I hope you get out. I hope you get cut
because all y'all dudes is the reason why coach Burgers
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took him for granted. And now we do updowns before practice.
He wanted us to be tired going into the practice,
so we would do two hundred yards up down. I'm like,
see what you're hadn't done changing? You know that part
of football has changed the whole We're just gonna do
this to do it kind of thing. The let's do
Oklahoma before, in the middle and after practice just to
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see what it's like. Yeah, just to see if everybody
can get all hyped and keep that level of anger
for you know, two hours. Or let's have a thirty
play run drill, you know, on Tuesday, just to do it. Uh,
that kind of stuff. I feel like it's kind of
gone by the wayside. But people like you and I
who played football before they changed all the rules, we
have horror stories, you know. And then like guys like
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my dad who played for John McKay at USC in
the late sixties and seventies, they wouldn't give you water.
They thought if you if you drink water during practice,
it was a sign of well they still have if
you think about it. They still had bears. It was
at the end, but when I came in my rookie year,
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they still had bears in the cooler with with the
gatorades in the water. They took Speaking of John Robinson,
they took me into the locker room of the Rams
game when I was a kid at halftime and Jack
young Blood was sitting there in full pat smoking cigarette
and I was like, yeah, we still had touches that
were smoking cigarettes like in the building. Well, there there
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was a there was a picture that came out of
Jim McMahon were parting the camp. It was like last
week one of his early training camps with the Bears,
and he had two cases of bud light walking into
training camp. Like this is not happening now, but back
then it was just it was just just it's different.
But you know, generation you can get some beers going
and you know, play some dominoes at night your senior year.
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This generation of guys their workout freaks though. It's the
weirdest thing to me, Like they are literally like what
we're gonna do, Let's go work out. We just finished practice.
Yeah no, let's go. Let's go get like some reps
in let's get some everybody feel bad about themselves Like wait,
well yeah, really, Like I'll be looking at these young
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guys like they really do work out after they work
out for the workout like that, Carson Palmer, that's crazy
to me. That's a little that was a little foreign
to me. I guess that was why I underachieved so
so Grossy and the league, you know, petras I gotta
ask you before we let you go. You called Rams
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Chargers the other night. Now, I'm not gonna ask you
about the brawl. You know, I've never been to a
pro football game, and I was going to ask you. So,
so that was the first game that you had a
chance to call. Obviously you've called high school, so it
was what jumped out to you first before anything else
in the NFL. Yes, uh, well, you know I watched
NFL games, but it was like, really the first time
(29:24):
I was down and dirty with a board and trying
to do it on air and I didn't have the
opportunity before and I turned it down, and I shouldn't
have with Fox because you know, I didn't play in
the NFL. So I feel kind of but there's a
lot of announcers now who didn't you know, they played
as many towns as I did in the league, which
is zero. So I don't feel as bad just filling
(29:46):
in on the radio if somebody's out. But I found
it to be well, it was a preseason game. No
one called anything. But even in the preseason, like guy,
I'll catch a swing pass and you'd be like, oh,
he's got to see you, don't he's dead. You know,
that's there's just no you know, it's just always shocks
me watching it on TV or live and SOFI is
(30:08):
a pretty great place. But and I obviously they're parking
and exited entrances a nightmare and a civic failure. But uh,
I just I was. I was surprised at just how
quickly you get got out there. There's just nowhere to go.
They're the hash marks make it so you really have
(30:30):
to go through people to get yards or win a
one on one matchup. And the level of football remains excellent,
even with preseason guys out there. I'm still really impressed
by it. Get him on Twitter at the old p
he is the great. Petro's property is always fun stuff
catching looking at tartars and tartans on Wikipedia, and the
(30:52):
tartars all have mustache about it, and the tartans are
all nice plaid. Oh man, Petro. So let's do it
again next week. Man, always a good time. Bless you guys.
We are Penn State. Baby that I was gonna say,
we are Fox Sports too, alright, So we are that too, alright,
all right, it is law on that one. We are
(31:16):
Fox Sports. Did you feel good? We are Ye. Now
you gotta do it three times. It's familiar. We are no, no, no, no,
just do it again. We are Fox Sports. We are
Fox Sports. We are Fox Sports. And then you're supposed
to say thank you. I'm supposed to say You're supposed
to say thank you. I'm supposed to say welcome. I
got confused. Well, we'll try to get well at some
(31:37):
point we will. We'll have the second tip polite. We're
polite fans, you know what I mean. So when you
get to the third we are and you say Fox Sports,
you say thank you, and everybody says you're welcome. You know,
I say thank you, you say you're welcome. There. Well,
that's something to work on. We gotta work We totally
screwed that up. I'm sorry. Penn State. Coming up next, though,
(31:59):
thing is in the world of sports, we've not had
a chance to get to will fire away on those
That's next here on FS are be sure to catch
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got bigger priorities apparently unbelievable. All right, but we will.
We'll be back here tomorrow morning, same time, same place.
Right now, though, it is time for something we do
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on the show called this How could you not get to?
These stories are the scraps And for that we turn
it over to our executive producer, Danny g to find
out what that we've missed so far in the show.
D all right, yesterday we led the scraps with a
story about your Clippers not wanting to spend money Jonas.
(33:47):
This morning, your Celtics are throwing around some money. Marcus
Smart gets a four year, seventy seven million dollar contract extension.
It begins with the three season It's the maximum allowable
off smarts fourteen point three million salary for the deal
does not include a player option. Smart, of course, has
(34:08):
developed into one of the franchise's most important players. So
I'm sure you like this as you rock your green
over there. Listen, there's no green on on on me.
I don't know where this is coming from. I'll just
say this, It is funny. It is funny that there
was there was this conversation about they were gonna trade
Marcus Smart, and well, you know, is he on the
trade block? Is he on the trade block? And Brad
(34:30):
Stevens is like, uh no, in fact, here's four more years.
We're gonna go ahead and make sure we keep him around.
He's been the heart and soul of that team, like
he's been the one guy you could consistently count on,
maybe not production offensively but consistently count on effort from him. Yeah,
and you just you don't walk away from guys are
gonna give you effort every single night, right, Like if
(34:50):
you have if you have a kid on your high
school team, LaVar and you know this kid, maybe he's
not the greatest player, but you know you're gonna get
a hundred percent every single time you got him out there. Like,
why would you want anything except that guy to be
on the field, as much as there might be a
guy better than I very guess it is it is
you dream killer? Sorry all right? My Raiders announced their
(35:13):
new policy as if it wasn't already an issue getting
into Allegian Stadium because of those high priced tickets. A
new policy, the team will require all fans to show
proof of vaccination via the Clear Health Pass and mobile app,
which it says will allow fans to attend games without
wearing a mask if you can show proof of that.
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Unvaccinated fans will also be offered vaccinations on site before
the game, and then you'll have to put a mask
on during the game. The Raiders attribute this change to
Nevada's new emergency directive for large events, the rules differ
from what the Saints announced last week because at the Superdome,
fans will be allowed to enter if they have proof
of vaccination or a negative PCR test from the past
(35:58):
seventy two hours. So but but the Raiders, you need
to show proof of vaccination in order to go. Yeah,
it doesn't matter. You can't say I took a test.
Here's the proof of the no no testing. Uh, you
either have proof of vaccination for Allegian Stadium or you
get vaccinated right there on site. Yeah. What about what
about SummerSlam this weekend? Is that the same for SummerSlam
(36:19):
this weekend or is that a different, uh, you know,
different large gathering of people. It's a good question. I
was just wondering how we uh, what do you guys
think about stadiums doing this. This is now the second
stadium and I don't want to get their money messed up. Yeah,
you come in and you bring the COVID. You know.
I am surprised that the Raiders are doing it, just
(36:41):
because they were one of the teams that really got
hit bad last year. Everybody got hit bad last year.
But Albert Brier said on the air that the issue
for the teams like the Raiders and Chargers and Rams.
They had new stadiums. They were expecting that they were
going to have fans in these stadiums, so they were
going to make back some of the money they put
into building these stadiums, only to have none of them.
(37:02):
I'm surprised they took this approach because I would assume
they'd want as many people as possible trying to come
to games, which is why the prices have been so high.
Stop all the preseason fights, see that for the regular season. Man,
that junk was funny. Though, Hey, that junk was funny.
Y'all need to stop fighting. But I laughed at ch'all. Yeah,
the ones who did it. What's funny coming from Roberto
(37:25):
stopped fighting in the stands. Yeah, yeah, Roberto. That's when
you know things are getting bad. And if you've seen
the viral video of the fight at the new Sofi Stadium,
that ursula looking lady really set it off by throwing
the big cup of coke at the guy that was
being held back. He he almost was gonna let it
go and walk away, and then she throws this big
(37:46):
gulp at him, and that set it off. I will
say this, the big dude thought he was tough. Yeah,
but you know what the Yeah, but if you're gonna
do a Rick Flair chop, there's nothing better than doing
it to like four or five people at the same time,
Like he tried to Rick Flair chop four or five
people all at the same time. So I began to
give may for effort when it comes out to take
(38:07):
the whole mob on. Good for him, man, you know
what a good way to stand your ground. And that
that Aaron Donald Jersey. That's good. And I believe I
believe there were fans of the same team to That's
that's what makes it worse. I'm a fan of you, Jonah,
I'm a bigger fan of you. We are later
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when you were on TV and Brady and I were
harassing you while you were on the air. We wish
(00:48):
I could have some way, somehow been on TV while
doing the radio show with you. Guys. Imagine that. Yeah
they call that a simulcast. Man, how about that? Um,
but you know, I don't know maybe yeah, well listen,
I mean, who knows, maybe Telemundos I didn't the man.
You know, it's fun, a little more, a little more relaxed,
(01:10):
a little more grabass on the on the radio side
of things. You know you can get does such an
amazing job of of just busting on you. Bro, it's
so good and he and he's so random and but
just so well placed with how he gets you. It's
it's really good. Well listen, it's it's it's we've been
working together a long time, so we know exactly how
(01:31):
to piss each other off. But when I'm on this show,
he does it in question form to me to be
able to do it the third party, he's got busting.
He's gonna play to play to the audience like he's
can't creative. Man, you gotta get somebody props when they
can actually be creative enough to do it that way.
That's why, that's why I just make accusations on the
air that are false and make him respond on the
(01:51):
air without telling him, Like I'll just open up the
show and say, hey, so, when's the last time he
took P E. D S? Wait? What you know? It's
just like you just got to attack him, just like
right there, just to kind of catch him off guard.
That's the that's the movie you make here on Fox
Sports Rade, at least it's the move I make. But
that being said, we have got ourselves, um some storylines
in the NFL developing. We've got a week one of
(02:12):
the preseason in the books. We're looking ahead to a
week two in the preseason, and we were talking about
this earlier that you know, Matt naggy uh In talking
about the quarterback situation in Chicago, the head coach of
the Bears, says, you know, the plan still is that
Andy Dalton is going to be the starting quarterback. That
Andy Dalton is going to be the starter moving forward.
Justin Field is going to get some more reps with
(02:34):
the ones and and get some more looks against the
number one defense, but still Andy Dalton is the planet
quarterback for the Bears. Now, I think there was a
lot of hype. Some of the odds have changed as
far as whether or not Justin Fields is the starter
week one, But I think there was a lot of
hype because it was a standalone game. A lot of
people got to watch this game, the Bears and the
(02:56):
Dolphins over the weekend, and so therefore got a lot
of coverage. Well, Matt Naggi is sticking to his guns
and he says the plan is to do what's best
for the team moving forward. And he had six plays
and it's hard to say much good or bad about
that with the sixth place, So we're going to get
him some more snaps this coming preseason game. And then
with Justin we want to be able to see live plays,
(03:18):
live situations. We got that and he did a great job.
So the only thing he can do is to continue
doing that. And then we got to make sure that
that plan allows us to evaluate how well he does
knowing those circumstances, and ultimately, in the end, whatever is
best for the Chicago Bears is in the end what
we're gonna do. So it's very short least yeah, I
(03:40):
mean almost like holding his Dalton's collar. It might not
even be at least holding a collar. Yeah, he has.
It's look, Matt Naggi has shown in his history as
time as Bears head coach that he will make quick decisions.
They had, you know, the really strong year, I think
(04:01):
they were twelve and four his first year there. They
went to the playoffs, um, and then it was the
you know the next year they were eight and eight,
and he went out and fired like three assistant coaches,
like retool the coaching staff, and everyone thought, well, that's
kind of abrupt, you know, like it wasn't even like
an awful season. It wasn't the season you were expecting,
but you know, eight and Nate coming off a twelve
and four year and not the worst thing in the world.
(04:23):
Then they go out and they bring in Nick Foles.
Trabinsky throws one pick, they're undefeated, throws one pick early
last season, and he goes straight to Nick Foles, and
it was like, it seems kind of like a quick
but he may not make that same he may not
use that same thought process in this scenario because this
(04:45):
is a much more interesting set up. Like Mitch Robinsky,
it was just kind of like, do we know who
he is at this point in time? Right? And then
with Nick Olds, it's like, we know that if we
bring him in and relief duty, he's always seems to
(05:07):
be at his best as as a relief duty guy.
He's not in that situation here as it as it stands,
the presented situation is you've got a mega star that
fell to you in the draft. Like, let's be clear
on that. That's you got a megastar, and he is
a megastar in the making. He's not one today. Even
(05:29):
though he is one today, y'all just don't know it yet.
And and the idea of this is to make sure
that he gets the proper amount of time to develop
the way that he needs to develop. Now, some some
teams look at it like, all right, when you got
a can't miss prospect, the can't miss guy, you put
him right in um and we're seeing that in Jacksonville. Uh.
(05:53):
But but here's the thing. Gardner Minshew is is really
one of those type of guys where you know it's
it's it's interesting his numbers are comparable to Baker Mayfield,
and we're debating whether Baker Mayfield is a franchise quarterback
and when he's going to get his next big contract.
I think there's more to that situation in Jacksonville than
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there is in Chicago. We know who Andy Dalton is,
and so if Andy Dalton has already been predetermined to
be your starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, it is
purely based upon you buying time until Justin Fields is
ready to play. That is your plan, make no mistake
(06:37):
about it, Agreed. And I also think there's an element
of this when you see two guys who play it differently,
one just jumps off the screen at you. In Justin Fields.
There's gonna be a push for that guy. Like he
Justin Fields does things that Andy Dalton can't do. It
doesn't mean that he's a better quarterback. It just means
(07:00):
that you see them on the field and you go
that stands out like that like this, Yeah, like his mistakes. Yeah,
and I just wonder and I've talked to Brady about
this and he said, Look, there are times where you
get to like Brady said on the air that there
was a time when, you know, first time he saw
Cam Newton up close and personal. Um, he was out
(07:21):
there for pregame warm ups, and he just sees Cam
Newton and he goes, oh, I can't do any of that.
Like it's just like like there are certain guys that
you look at and you go, oh, well, that's just
like god given freakish likability. Justin Fields has got a
little bit of that. Like there's something different you guys.
He can run the ball. He's almost equally effective, not
(07:41):
not quite a Lamar Jackson, but he can run. He
can he can move. A lot of the reasons why
he has success and you've seen it, uh in You've
seen it in college is that he can make really
really great decisions. While he's on the move, and he
(08:02):
can deliver a really nice ball while he's on the move.
So to me, he does jump off. He does jump
off of off of the camera, jumps off of the film.
Because when you think about what Justin Fields is bringing
to the table, it's an extra added dimension that a
team that is not fully plugged in with a ton
(08:25):
of talent could actually use. And I think that that's
the discussion point that a lot of people are are making,
is that that extra added ability to be able to
be mobile, mobile enough to make teams pay is going
to be a large reason why Justin Fields is going
to get that not and not look much earlier than
(08:45):
what maybe you know people may be anticipating. I mean,
if you're the NFL, I mean, well, I'll just more specifically,
if you're NBC and I want to see Justin Fields,
if Andy Dalton is planned, I'm watching because it's my job,
right right, And that's yeah, And and I I don't
(09:08):
know the numbers, I don't know the splits on it,
but I would venture to guess that when Justin Fields
came in, I know I stopped what I was doing
to watch when he came in. The game against Miami,
and and that was knowing, look these are you're not playing.
This isn't you know a normal deal? Like like how
complicated we're talking about this yesterday? Like how complicated is
the defense in a preseason game? I mean, are they
(09:30):
throwing everything at you know? They don't, they don't game plan.
Third game is the only game that that a team
will do address rehearsal and game plan the team. So
you go into the week as if it is a
game week in week three and in in game three.
So that's the idea of it. That would be the
only time you see a scheming of of sorts because
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nobody wants to show what they have. I remember the
year coach s Burrier came in. Coach was throwing his
playbook a ound in preseas. We were undefeated. Then we
couldn't win a game. We want ten games that year,
I think, and five of them were three of them
we want wait, wait, wait eight games. We want eight
games that year and three of them were four of
(10:15):
them was in preseason. I love Steve Okay, so you
like playing for him? Yeah, we just didn't win. Hilarious, man,
he I covered him in when I was in South Carolina,
and it was he was so much fun man. And look,
(10:35):
I'm not saying that this is a fact, but um,
the feeling there was. You know, there was a couple
of times he had his Coaches show on TV. Might
have hit happy Hour before he went because he ain't
tripping off of nobody, no one thing about coach Spurrier.
Coach Hey god, come on, pull pull it on in everybody,
Come on, come on in, tighten up, come on, let's
(10:56):
tighten on up. Hey listen, we we we got our
asks kicked. Good night. But you know, no bys fault,
no boy's fault. We just would just say that we're
gonna watch the film. No bis fault. Uh, we're all
pros here, We're all we're all pros. Uh, we'll watch
it's on the film. If you, if you, if it
is you, you won't be here. And he always dropped
(11:17):
there was always a line at the end here. Yeah,
there was always a line at the end. That was
the thing about Spurrier. We would we would listen to
his press conferences because you knew there would be a
dig coming. Like I remember, Eric Wolford was an offensive
line coach and he he left there to take a
job I think at Youngstown State, if I'm not mistaken,
and he'd like literally just gotten there. And so Coach
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Spurrier was talking at practice one time and he was
just saying, you know, and we were waiting for him
when when he was going to take his dig, because
he always had a dig at the end. It was
always followed by a dig, and so they'd be this
big build up me, like, you know, I'm always happy
when assistant coach gets an opportunity to go, oh, we
know how this business works, and it's wonderful to see
any of your own guys go ahead and uh and
move on in their career and uh, and you know,
(11:59):
get an opportunity like Eric is and we're really happy
for him. But sure didn't think he was gonna be
here more than one year. And like literally just can't
desplide that day. I gotta get in. Like when he
talked about Georgia, there was one year where South Carolina
and Georgia, who always played earlier in the season for
some reason, one year they adjusted they played later in
the year, and they asked Spurrier about the rivalry with Georgia.
(12:22):
South Carolina Georgia is and under the radar underdiscussed rivalry
in college football, so they're not that far from each
other and um, and Spurrier said, uh, well, you know,
I always did like playing Georgia earlier in the year
because you could always count on like two or three
of their best players being suspended at that point, Like
it was just he had to get his dig in
like that. So I I love Spurrier. I thought he
was so much fun because he was awesome. Dude. I
(12:44):
didn't think we had enough professionals on the team, and
I think that that us as players, we let them down. Yeah, yeah,
and that's unfortunate because I was telling dudes, I was like, listen,
I said, you'll taken advantage of the fact that that
coach like coach Spurrier will be the type of dude.
We go out side would be cold rain because we
didn't have an indoor facility back then, so it'd be
cold rain, and you'd see him out there and he'd
(13:06):
be squirming around and like then he starts bouncing around
and be like, all right, bringing on up. We'd be
like ten minutes in the practice, as cold as hell
out here, like let's get let's get a little white room,
get film study, we bring it on up, we get
(13:29):
a break done. Practice over. I told dudes, I said,
you get a coach like that, you have to win.
And dudes was looking at me like far you being serious.
I'm like, hell yeah, I'm being serious. A dude that's
going to cancel practice and ice cold rain, it's my
(13:50):
type of guy. What are you doing? Like, like, be responsible, bro,
like one practice, Yes, practices and moments make or break
what you're gonna do. But if your professionals make the
best of that time, don't don't mess that up because
then you get another dude. Then you get another dude
that comes in and he's the total opposite. He's a heart.
(14:13):
Now he's one of you know, he's one of them dudes.
And it's like, oh man, you're sitting there and you're like,
come on, man like, and then you'll be looking at
your teammates like you. I hope you get cut up
because you're the reason why he's here. You are, you
are one of the reasons why he's here. So uh
it is. I'll kick the coverage here on Fox Sports Radio.
(14:34):
Jonas Kock Slavar Arrington with you here on FS are
uh and before we we are going to catch up
with Petros Papadakis here on Fox Sports Radio. But we
do have some a little bit of breaking news out
of the NBA from Eddie Garcia. Breaking news from Fox Sports. Yeah,
out of the NBA reports that Philadelphia seventies six star
(14:55):
center Joel and Bead finalizing a four year, hundred and
nineties six million dollars supermax contract extension. A couple of claims.
Four time All Star was a runner up for the
m v P this past season. Obviously big star for
the Philadelphia So four years, hundred ninety six million super
max for Joel Embid getting paid a couple of dollars.
(15:16):
Good for him getting paid, you, I mean, in any
word on Ben Simmons or is he still not talking
to the team So he's definitely not talking now, Yeah,
I mean so so they've they've they've pretty much identified
that's a guy we're gonna build around moving forward with
or without Ben Simmons. Who the hell knows at this
point in Philadelphia, but all right, he is at Lavarrington.
(15:36):
I'm Jonah Sacks. Get the coverage here on Fox Sport Trading.
Coming up next, Petro's Papa Dvegus, one of our favorite tier.
He is going to fire away many storylines in the
NFL college football and then yours right here on fs ARE.
This is out kicked the coverage right now. The Great
(16:00):
Petro's Papadakis joins us here on fs R. He's with
us every single Tuesday Am five seventy l a sports
Fox College football analysts Petros and Jonas and LaVar. What's happening?
What's popping with y'all? Not much here, just getting ready
for football season. There's a high school game this week
(16:22):
that I was supposed to call, but I can't because
I'm at the Dodgers and I didn't communicate with the
high school people. Bad. Uh. Make sure you come to
a Charter Oak game. Oh, I know Charter Oak. I
know about lou Ferrar. I played with a Yeah, God
rest his soul. I played with one of the great
(16:42):
Charter Oak Chargers who was a receiver named Steve Stevenson
who had one of the great nicknames in Uh, in
my at least in my career, which was jingle Leg.
Jingle must like a lot of people missing. Yeah, there
go jingle Leg. Yeah, I miss I miss Jangle. Charter
(17:05):
oak Chargers and they're big, they're big rival Uh. This
is inland, not too far inland stand Gabriel Valley area.
Most Altos of Seawan Cody fame would be their big rivalry.
You know it's turned into Glendora. Now, oh yeah, well
that's a Jonathan Smith, the head coach at at Oregon State,
(17:27):
is a Glendora guy. The Glendora Tartans the Tartans, not
to be confused with the Tartars, which is Torrance, which
the tartar is join us. You gotta go get that
off your teeth when you go see the dentist. No,
no tartar is. It's a reincarnated Honestly, it is a
(17:47):
reincarnated Mongol warrior. A generation or so after after Genghis Khan,
a guy named tamber Lane led a bunch of Mongol
warriors who were called old Tartars, having like a food
man who they have a little mustache. I mean, that's
(18:08):
kind of an elaborate, cool name just to be because
it is like a skirt, right, a Tartan, I think
it maybe I think it's a skirt. Uh, it's a
Scottish skirt. Ki. Yeah, what is a Tartan Yeah, Tartan
is a skirt. Do you have a Casey Jacobson, Yeah,
(18:30):
you're right, look at that about it. Uh, I was
right about Tartar to look at you, LaVar Man, there's
no stone on tarn with you. Jacobson was a Tartan member,
Casey with his hair and works at FS one and
Fox and Uh. Tracy Murray, the great NBA playstayer, also
(18:53):
a Tartan. Some of the greatest Tartans of all time.
Top are you? Are you excited about the Dodgers again
since the trades have been You know, I like watching
Max Schurz or pitch. You don't really get a look
at anybody like that if they're on the other side
of the country. Unless it's the playoffs, you don't really watch, like, oh, hey,
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Scherzer's pitching to night against the Pirates. Let me check
this out. You know, he's with the Nationals. But when
he's a Dodger, you watch. If you're out here, we're
on the Dodger station and it's just really fun to
watch him compete. But they have a lot of guys
hurt too. You know, Mookie Bets is down with like
a bone spur and Clayton Kershaw is on the i L.
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They signed Cole Hamile's to get his arm right and
be ready to go, and they gave him a million dollars.
So he came to Dodger Stadium started, you know, warming up,
getting to the level where you are pitching in a
major league game, taking live reps or whatever, and he
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hurt his arm and left. So they gave a million
dollars to come out. Yeah, that's like pros versus Joe's.
We paid Tom Chambers to come out and missed two
three pointers and leave. That's great, nice work if you
can get it. No kids, Petro's faadegus join to us
here on Fox Sports Radio. LaVar Arrington Jonas Knox with
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the here on FS are um. So we're having some
fun talking about the great Steve Spurrier, and I thought
you're going, oh, no, were we? So we had a
chance to cover Spurrier and I was doing radio in
the South. Coach or both? Yeah, I heard I heard both.
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But LaVar was talking about how he was his coach
in Washington and that. But Spurrier was so much fun
to play for because he was so lenient that you know,
pro so was there a coach Petros. Was there a
coach that you loved playing for but ultimately didn't just
didn't have enough success in order to stay around for
(21:02):
long term. Well, I think that goes for almost every
coach ever, if you lock them, if every coach that
you like, ever, they're all eventually gonna get fired. Yes,
kind of the crux of college football. They're all waiting
to get fired. You either get a better job or
you get fired. Very few people go out on their
(21:23):
own terms. And even the urban Myers of the world
and all those weird departures you've seen, that's not those
aren't on their own terms, you know. So most of
these guys all get fired. I mean, I like plan
for John Robinson, who was perceived to have lost the
discipline of the team. And that was probably true in
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the in the late nineties at USC, Like a guy
would get in trouble and he'd say in front of
the team, well, I'm not gonna make you run because
you could just run forever and it doesn't matter. It's
like no, that, no, that guy can't run forever. That
guy's high right now, like make him right. I want
to watch him bar But But as far as Steve
Spurrier goes in in the Redskins Days of of LaVar,
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I can't help but remember my favorite quote where he
was being questioned some preseason about the amount of time
that he spends at the facility. It was a time.
It was a time where everybody was was touting. Now,
we all know most football coaches, like in real life,
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football coaches are smart people and they're good at their jobs.
But they are football coaches. And we have a tendency
to pump this position up because they make a lot
of money in a modern day, because the sport makes
a lot of money. But we pump up had football
coaches as if they're leaders of society. And when we
do that so often, we're disappointed. Most of the time,
(22:51):
their pe majors with or or not even graduates at all,
are probably no underwear on, drinking light beer and a
fan at the high school level like that. I don't
want to hang out with their wives, right, that's who
we are trying. They're trying to escape being at home
with their wife and kids, and they don't sleep under
their desk and they can't let go hang out with secrets. Yeah,
(23:13):
being on the field, there's a lot of that that
goes on. So we've seen these things glorified over the
years and you're kind of like, okay, whatever. Like, but
there was a time where it was like John Gruden
gets to work at four am and he sleeps at
the office, and it's like it's all bs, it's all
media fodder, and those guys are gonna get fired too,
(23:36):
you know. But my favorite was somebody who was asking
Spurrier about his lack of time that he spent around
and he said, well, the guy, the guy Jimmy Hasslet,
Jim Jim Jim Hasslet was the coach at the Saint
time and Spurrier saying, oh, Jimmy Haslett gets there three
(23:57):
thirty in the morning and Jimmy Haslett and they're six
or six, ain't made last year? What you are? It's like,
oh my god. If we would like, you know, that's
all we would talk about. We'd be out in the
stretch lines at USC and we'd be like, oh, Jimmy
hast Jimmy, what did that say? That was a valid point. Yeah, no,
(24:19):
I love him and it was a valid point. And
we'd always talk about the old Jimmy Hayslet I was
telling I was telling to this. One time we came
out for practice on everything, and I think we had
a game this week. You we come out, it was
like it was a cold cold like it had to
be maybe December something. It was super cold and it
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was ice rain coming down, and we were in warmups.
We're warmups and we're looking at our coach. We're looking
at coach Spurrier and he's like wiggling and like he's
kind of like, you know, he's shaking it, and we
was looking at it. He was like, hey, man, coaches cold, coach,
it is cold. You know, you see coaching kind of
(25:00):
trying to walk it off. He tries to walk it
at day goes in there, y'all bring it up, bring
it out, bring it up. Hey, hey, listen, it's way
too cold out here. Out cold out here. Uh, let's
get in. Let's get in the weight room. Let's get
some weights, and let's let's get lunch, and let's get
(25:22):
some some meetings in the meeting room, let's get some film.
Are y'all okay with this? We was looking at him
like yeah, yeah, cold going out here when as cold
as you are. We broke it down and went. We
didn't have enough, We did not have enough pros that
respected what what coach Spurrier represented, and they messed it up.
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Because then we messed around and we got Greg Williams
that came in after Jesus and it went a whole
another direction. That's all I'm gonna tell you. Yeah, I
love when a new coach comes and then no one,
no one ever knew how to play football before that
guy shows up. I'm gonna show you how to really
do it. I know the ancient secrets to unlock up fill.
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And hey, man, Greg had us doing two hundred yard
up downs on every yard line when he came into defense.
You know what I mean. Well, I'm looking at I'm
looking at my teammates, like, man, I hope you get cut.
I hope you get out. I hope you get cut
because all y'all dudes is the reason why coach Burgers
(26:27):
took him for granted. And now we do updowns before practice.
He wanted us to be tired going into the practice,
so we would do two hundred yards up down. I'm like,
see what you're hadn't done changing? You know that part
of football has changed the whole We're just gonna do
this to do it kind of thing. The let's do
Oklahoma before, in the middle and after practice just to
(26:50):
see what it's like. Yeah, just to see if everybody
can get all hyped and keep that level of anger
for you know, two hours. Or let's have a thirty
play run drill, you know, on Tuesday, just to do it. Uh,
that kind of stuff. I feel like it's kind of
gone by the wayside. But people like you and I
who played football before they changed all the rules, we
have horror stories, you know. And then like guys like
(27:12):
my dad who played for John McKay at USC in
the late sixties and seventies, they wouldn't give you water.
They thought if you if you drink water during practice,
it was a sign of well they still have if
you think about it. They still had bears. It was
at the end, but when I came in my rookie year,
(27:34):
they still had bears in the cooler with with the
gatorades in the water. They took Speaking of John Robinson,
they took me into the locker room of the Rams
game when I was a kid at halftime and Jack
young Blood was sitting there in full pat smoking cigarette
and I was like, yeah, we still had touches that
were smoking cigarettes like in the building. Well, there there
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was a there was a picture that came out of
Jim McMahon were parting the camp. It was like last
week one of his early training camps with the Bears,
and he had two cases of bud light walking into
training camp. Like this is not happening now, but back
then it was just it was just just it's different.
But you know, generation you can get some beers going
and you know, play some dominoes at night your senior year.
(28:19):
This generation of guys their workout freaks though. It's the
weirdest thing to me, Like they are literally like what
we're gonna do, Let's go work out. We just finished practice.
Yeah no, let's go. Let's go get like some reps
in let's get some everybody feel bad about themselves Like wait,
well yeah, really, Like I'll be looking at these young
(28:41):
guys like they really do work out after they work
out for the workout like that, Carson Palmer, that's crazy
to me. That's a little that was a little foreign
to me. I guess that was why I underachieved so
so Grossy and the league, you know, petras I gotta
ask you before we let you go. You called Rams
(29:04):
Chargers the other night. Now, I'm not gonna ask you
about the brawl. You know, I've never been to a
pro football game, and I was going to ask you. So,
so that was the first game that you had a
chance to call. Obviously you've called high school, so it
was what jumped out to you first before anything else
in the NFL. Yes, uh, well, you know I watched
NFL games, but it was like, really the first time
(29:24):
I was down and dirty with a board and trying
to do it on air and I didn't have the
opportunity before and I turned it down, and I shouldn't
have with Fox because you know, I didn't play in
the NFL. So I feel kind of but there's a
lot of announcers now who didn't you know, they played
as many towns as I did in the league, which
is zero. So I don't feel as bad just filling
(29:46):
in on the radio if somebody's out. But I found
it to be well, it was a preseason game. No
one called anything. But even in the preseason, like guy,
I'll catch a swing pass and you'd be like, oh,
he's got to see you, don't he's dead. You know,
that's there's just no you know, it's just always shocks
me watching it on TV or live and SOFI is
(30:08):
a pretty great place. But and I obviously they're parking
and exited entrances a nightmare and a civic failure. But uh,
I just I was. I was surprised at just how
quickly you get got out there. There's just nowhere to go.
They're the hash marks make it so you really have
(30:30):
to go through people to get yards or win a
one on one matchup. And the level of football remains excellent,
even with preseason guys out there. I'm still really impressed
by it. Get him on Twitter at the old p
he is the great. Petro's property is always fun stuff
catching looking at tartars and tartans on Wikipedia, and the
(30:52):
tartars all have mustache about it, and the tartans are
all nice plaid. Oh man, Petro. So let's do it
again next week. Man, always a good time. Bless you guys.
We are Penn State. Baby that I was gonna say,
we are Fox Sports too, alright, So we are that too, alright,
all right, it is law on that one. We are
(31:16):
Fox Sports. Did you feel good? We are Ye. Now
you gotta do it three times. It's familiar. We are no, no, no, no,
just do it again. We are Fox Sports. We are
Fox Sports. We are Fox Sports. And then you're supposed
to say thank you. I'm supposed to say You're supposed
to say thank you. I'm supposed to say welcome. I
got confused. Well, we'll try to get well at some
(31:37):
point we will. We'll have the second tip polite. We're
polite fans, you know what I mean. So when you
get to the third we are and you say Fox Sports,
you say thank you, and everybody says you're welcome. You know,
I say thank you, you say you're welcome. There. Well,
that's something to work on. We gotta work We totally
screwed that up. I'm sorry. Penn State. Coming up next, though,
(31:59):
thing is in the world of sports, we've not had
a chance to get to will fire away on those
That's next here on FS are be sure to catch
live editions of Out Kicked the coverage weekdays at six
am Eastern three am Pacific. Hey, what's up, everybody, It's
me three time Pro Bowl La Barrington and I couldn't
be more excited to announce a new podcast called Up
on Game. What is up on Game? You asked, along
(32:22):
with my fellow pro bowler t J. Hudgman's Otta and
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Up on Game We're going to be sharing our real
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Game with Me, LaVar Arrington, t J hudgmans Otta, and
(32:43):
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I'll kicked the coverage here on Fox Sports Radio, Mark Didn't,
Jonas knocks here on FS are we Are. I will
(33:05):
be back here with Brady Quinn coming up tomorrow on
the show. LaVar is too good for us against I
just gotta hold down DP. So got you know you
got bigger priorities apparently unbelievable. All right, but we will.
We'll be back here tomorrow morning, same time, same place.
Right now, though, it is time for something we do
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on the show called this How could you not get to?
These stories are the scraps And for that we turn
it over to our executive producer, Danny g to find
out what that we've missed so far in the show.
D all right, yesterday we led the scraps with a
story about your Clippers not wanting to spend money Jonas.
(33:47):
This morning, your Celtics are throwing around some money. Marcus
Smart gets a four year, seventy seven million dollar contract extension.
It begins with the three season It's the maximum allowable
off smarts fourteen point three million salary for the deal
does not include a player option. Smart, of course, has
(34:08):
developed into one of the franchise's most important players. So
I'm sure you like this as you rock your green
over there. Listen, there's no green on on on me.
I don't know where this is coming from. I'll just
say this, It is funny. It is funny that there
was there was this conversation about they were gonna trade
Marcus Smart, and well, you know, is he on the
trade block? Is he on the trade block? And Brad
(34:30):
Stevens is like, uh no, in fact, here's four more years.
We're gonna go ahead and make sure we keep him around.
He's been the heart and soul of that team, like
he's been the one guy you could consistently count on,
maybe not production offensively but consistently count on effort from him. Yeah,
and you just you don't walk away from guys are
gonna give you effort every single night, right, Like if
(34:50):
you have if you have a kid on your high
school team, LaVar and you know this kid, maybe he's
not the greatest player, but you know you're gonna get
a hundred percent every single time you got him out there. Like,
why would you want anything except that guy to be
on the field, as much as there might be a
guy better than I very guess it is it is
you dream killer? Sorry all right? My Raiders announced their
(35:13):
new policy as if it wasn't already an issue getting
into Allegian Stadium because of those high priced tickets. A
new policy, the team will require all fans to show
proof of vaccination via the Clear Health Pass and mobile app,
which it says will allow fans to attend games without
wearing a mask if you can show proof of that.
(35:35):
Unvaccinated fans will also be offered vaccinations on site before
the game, and then you'll have to put a mask
on during the game. The Raiders attribute this change to
Nevada's new emergency directive for large events, the rules differ
from what the Saints announced last week because at the Superdome,
fans will be allowed to enter if they have proof
of vaccination or a negative PCR test from the past
(35:58):
seventy two hours. So but but the Raiders, you need
to show proof of vaccination in order to go. Yeah,
it doesn't matter. You can't say I took a test.
Here's the proof of the no no testing. Uh, you
either have proof of vaccination for Allegian Stadium or you
get vaccinated right there on site. Yeah. What about what
about SummerSlam this weekend? Is that the same for SummerSlam
(36:19):
this weekend or is that a different, uh, you know,
different large gathering of people. It's a good question. I
was just wondering how we uh, what do you guys
think about stadiums doing this. This is now the second
stadium and I don't want to get their money messed up. Yeah,
you come in and you bring the COVID. You know.
I am surprised that the Raiders are doing it, just
(36:41):
because they were one of the teams that really got
hit bad last year. Everybody got hit bad last year.
But Albert Brier said on the air that the issue
for the teams like the Raiders and Chargers and Rams.
They had new stadiums. They were expecting that they were
going to have fans in these stadiums, so they were
going to make back some of the money they put
into building these stadiums, only to have none of them.
(37:02):
I'm surprised they took this approach because I would assume
they'd want as many people as possible trying to come
to games, which is why the prices have been so high.
Stop all the preseason fights, see that for the regular season. Man,
that junk was funny. Though, Hey, that junk was funny.
Y'all need to stop fighting. But I laughed at ch'all. Yeah,
the ones who did it. What's funny coming from Roberto
(37:25):
stopped fighting in the stands. Yeah, yeah, Roberto. That's when
you know things are getting bad. And if you've seen
the viral video of the fight at the new Sofi Stadium,
that ursula looking lady really set it off by throwing
the big cup of coke at the guy that was
being held back. He he almost was gonna let it
go and walk away, and then she throws this big
(37:46):
gulp at him, and that set it off. I will
say this, the big dude thought he was tough. Yeah,
but you know what the Yeah, but if you're gonna
do a Rick Flair chop, there's nothing better than doing
it to like four or five people at the same time,
Like he tried to Rick Flair chop four or five
people all at the same time. So I began to
give may for effort when it comes out to take
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the whole mob on. Good for him, man, you know
what a good way to stand your ground. And that
that Aaron Donald Jersey. That's good. And I believe I
believe there were fans of the same team to That's
that's what makes it worse. I'm a fan of you, Jonah,
I'm a bigger fan of you. We are later
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