July 16, 2022 • 40 mins
LaVar Arrington, TJ Houshmandzadeh, and Plaxico Burress preview the upcoming season for the Dallas Cowboys and explain how Mike McCarthy can keep his job past this season, despite Sean Payton waiting in the wings. The guys assess Dak Prescott's position in the league, and TJ gives a surprising name that can pass up Dak in ability this year. The guys react to Warren Sapp saying JJ Watt is overrated in this edition of Legendary Moment. Plus, the guys give their thoughts on LeBron James ripping players who lack a "win-or-bust" mentality.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's you want NFL experience, then this is the show
for you. This is it's up on game with Lavarrei, ten,
t J. Hush Manzana and Plaxico Burres. Did you hear that?
LaVar Arrington, t J. Houdgsmanzana, Plexico. It's a show with
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three of the best to ever do it on and
off the field. And now here's Pro Bowlers LaVar Aryton,
t J. Hushmnzana and Super Bowl champion Plaxico Burress. Welcome
back to the second hour. We do uh have LaVar.
I can't get over that word of bar at that's
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in my head and LaVar LaVar LaVar is still would
have you know he's uh Like I said earlier, he's
a renaissance man the most. I don't Lavarma sleep on
the airplane, sleep when his car services driving him around
town on the window, var sleep seeing us down with
the move with them told around the prison. Don't be
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sad taking what he's doing. So we're gonna make We're
gonna we're gonna roll along. Now. We we talked about
we we he was our legendary moment last week. But
he was so good. We liked him so much we
brought him back again for another week because Warren Sapp
is just going in and so let's listen to him.
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Let's just listen to Mr Warren Sapp on what he
has to say today on legendary moments, game presents conversations
with a legtion and now this is your legendary moment
in the game of football. Kaepernick isn't even really important
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enough for Warren Sapp to even have to like even
comment on him, like, I'm I'll throw with the black
on black prime. That was the thing that really got
I'm like, really, my my blackness is being in question
now a child? Yeah, that's truck you defending brute. I
know this man person. I sat in the office every
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morning just because you call somebody with thick lip, bick
lips that ain't racist, all the truth. If he got
big lips, If it ain't, that's a lie. Now, he said.
I walked to the docker room and it looked like
I had a bunch of the Morris Smith's looking at me. Now,
that's a racial troupe, right, come on, trash talk No, no,
said way worse. If you had a piping hot racist
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in John group. Don't you think some of the other
emails would have had the end with it. Come on,
if you all the way in, come on, you get
well all the way. We we know who they are.
Come on, we know who they are. Ain't hide in
the locker room. No, sup, No shup, you can't hide.
You can't ask coaches, administrators. We know who they are.
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If you're in there, you know who they are. You can't.
It comes out. Yeah, it comes out too. It's who
you are. That's who you are. You are and they
and and thank god for Donald Trunk and boy don't
brought something out that I was like, damn, you will
have good over there. What about defensive players and greatness.
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There's a lot of greatness being thrown around. Some of
it is one some others wanted, and some of it
is not. Like when they were in the J. J.
Watt was the greatest thing on earth from like you
know what, I don't wanna play book. If they ever
ran the ball underneath them thirty times like they're supposed
to it and make him stick his nose in there,
then let's see what kind of game we plan. But
if we're just gonna get Jacksonville and bowls, bowls or
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the quarterback the go creak right to him in the middle.
Come on, man, stop that, stop that from come on,
let's run the ball a let's see if he wants
to play that run and now you know you and
then broke down a little bit sad, keep it keeping
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the buck. So I mean, I wouldn't say he said that,
uh J J. Watt was overrated. He just doesn't believe J. J.
Watt is Well I guess yeah, he guess he said
he's over ready. He doesn't believe J. J. Watt is
as good as advertiser as people say. Is he's not
the sum of all his parts whatever, whatever you want
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to say, Uh, what you think about that? And then
touch on the John Grew think I've met John Grew. No,
I don't personally know him. Um, I can't say somebody's
racist if you don't know what what what you think?
Plex And in response to what he was saying, inst
in reference to J. J. Watt, which we have spoken about,
you know on this show time and time again, is
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that like the game has changed and were you you
were talking about earlier how the Baltimore Ravens they run
the football and play defense. Um, and that remains to me,
true if you recall Jamal Lewis ran for two thousand
yards back and I believe it was oh one oh two,
and those you know stats aren't happening anytime soon. As
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far as the NFL running back you know is concerned
two thousand yard rushing in the season for running back,
I think those days are long gone. But in reference
to what he was saying is that it's a passing league.
So now the defensive tackles and you look at the
defensive ends, Uh, you like Michael, Mike, Michael, uh, Piersons, Parsons,
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all these guys running four three or four four forties
that their stand up defensive ends and linebackers. Because now
you have to be able to get to a Lamar Jackson,
who was not a top ten player. You have to
be able to get to a Patrick Mahomes because the
game has evolved to the point to where like these
skilled position players are so elite that the game has changed.
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You have to be bigger, you have to be fast
and stronger to go out and play. But uh, listen,
I think it's absolutely right. You can't say that somebody
the greatest of all time when the game has changed
so much, no fall of us. I'm not sure. Uh
the great now he's by, I mean he's nowhere near
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the greatest defensive player of all time. He's nowhere near
the greatest defensive linemen of all time. But overrated, nah.
J J. Watt isn't overrated. I mean everything that people
say about him, he's earned that. And oh, no doubt
he came. He came in his rieky year. He's like, okay,
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just just understanding the NFL game. He had five and
a half sacks. Five and a half sacks were okay,
not great, but it's not bad. Five and a half
second season, I know the game. I'm ready to go,
I'm gonna hit. They ask for twenty and a half sacks.
That was like whoa second year? And so the fensive
player of the year his second year in the league,
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and so he was defensive player of the year three times.
What has happened with J. J. Watt is he's been
injured so much as of late that people tend to
forget his early greatness because he's been injured so much
that what he did early on gets lost because of
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the injuries as of late. But when he was when
he was healthy early in his career, he was one
of the best players we had seen rushing the past. Yeah,
it's not J. J. Watt's fault that they don't run
the ball at him. That's not it. That's not his fault.
His job is to due what the defense asked him
to do. If they passed the ball, go get to
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the quarterback. If they run the ball, let's stop the run.
If they run at him and he doesn't stop it,
they probably would keep running at him. It's what you think.
So obviously I'm sure they've run the ball at him
and he did a good job putting his nose in there,
like said, and stop to run. And so I'm just
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going with what I see, what I've seen um early
on Monster. He's just been hurt the last four or
five years and the last four year, four or five
years because you know this, and Levart knows with longevity
like the body tend the body's gonna break down. That
is just the nature of aust I mean, he plays
a tough position. If you play ten, you're going into
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your tip eleven view, you're gonna have some injuries that
that's just the nature of the body. You're not going
to be able to maintain uh your health, especially playing
defensive tack. Believe this upcoming year would be his twelfth
year if I'm not mistaken, right, I mean, the body's
going to break down at some point. Man, as it's
it's called all the time. All I'm gonna say is this.
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If his accolades says overrated, then everybody's overrated. Yes, right,
I mean we just came out of a segment talking
about Lamar Jackson. You can't say that Lamar Jackson isn't
Lamar Jackson because he's got an m v P on
his resume. Sorry, you just can't. If you understand how
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difficult it is to play be a really really good
formidable player in the National Football League and and what
level you have to be on to actually be an
m v P of any type defensive twenty sacks twice.
If it was that easy, everybody would do. I'll say this.
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I'll say this, there is more of an opportunity to
play and and you mentioned that you touched on a TJ.
There is more of an opportunity because of the evolving
of the game. It is a past first league. It's
never been considered a pass first league. And for what
it's worth to be able to play defensive end and
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defensive tackle, nose guards, zero three techniques, all those different
things and be able to still, you know, do some
of the things that that J. J. Watt has been
able to do. I mean, that's that's phenomenon in itself.
And I don't think that that SAP was saying. I
don't I didn't interpret him saying that J. J. Watt
was overrated. I think he was saying, which what most
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guys that played in a different era would probably say,
run all of him. He wouldn't do this when we
was playing. I'm just saying that's what most old heads say, right,
I don't know why. I guess we we old heads too.
I know you ain't playing no more. I pray to
God that I never become that because let let's let's
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be honest. Man, Let's let's be let let let's be honest.
Let's just be honest. Dudes are better than we. They
the guys coming into the league right now, they're they're better.
They're better than when we came into the league. That's
better prepared that they're they're better players. Man like Mike.
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Let's compare Mike part since you, LaVar, He's not a
better player than me. Man, It's more I was getting
ready to say I lost that. Listen, I'm not going
to listen. These dudes are yet yet. And see this,
y'all the old heads, these dudes, when they're better prepared,
When you come in better prepared, that means you, as in,
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what are you speaking of when you say they come
in better pet better tech? There's better technology, there's better
coaching technology that what's running? What's what's your run at
the combine? LaVar? I ran a four four five Okay,
so automatically you were far you you were far off.
Michael Parsons ran a four three seven three eight. Right.
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That's a huge difference. But I've run that before. But
I know I'm not. I'm not thinking nothing you can do.
I'm not. We're big, you were fast, you can run taller.
I'm taller. Michael is a six six, right, I'm six four.
I'm six four two fifty. Naca Parsons is six three
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to fifty. Yeah, like now, plexus different plexus. Different plex
was an anomaly back then, and he still is. You
don't see too many guys plex size that can move
like you do. So plex gets ex out of this
conversation what we're talking about. But receiver receiver wise, these
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dudes may not be as tough as we were, they
may not be as smart as we were or we are,
but they're coming into the league better rout runners, understanding
how to set guys up because of the technology, and
they're getting better coaching at an early age. These dudes
can play in any area because you adapt. When we played,
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you get your head knocked off. They don't get their
hands knocked off now, so they're not used to it.
But if they had to, they would adjust and adapt
to that. If J. J. Watt had to play uh
in warrant SAP's error, he would have adjusted and he
would have been perfectly fine. Agree, I don't. Yeah, I
don't have my problem. But I can't agree because I
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don't know that had a problem with it. Yeah, I
can't agree with that because like, um, you know, my
son's fifteen. He plays wide receive them and I go
basically too is high school to watch them practice every
day and I say to myself, I said, what did
you learn how to do that? But I haven't taught
him that. But this generation, they have so much access
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to you guys talking about technology and for him to
be able to put up route running uh, to watch
the Stefon Diggs, to watch uh DeVante Adams, to watch
them Mark Cooper and watching them guys run routes and
be able to set them up and get separation at
the top of the route. Because those are the things
that we didn't have access to all we were coming
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out twenty years ago. So when I go to watch
my son that be some it may be some things
that I missed and then I see him doing I say, wow, Uh,
where did you learn that from? And it's basically because
it's called a cell phone in the computer. We didn't
have that kind of access. So when you say they're
coming in better, I agree with you, uh to to
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that degree from a you know, technology and information standpoint,
because listen, if we had those kind of resources we
were coming out, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
You know what the most interesting aspect of this entire
segment would be is that we used the whole entire
segment to talk about if J. J. Watt was the
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best player, and we didn't touch on we didn't touch
on John Grid and the more fis flips and as
a racist. We we really didn't even touch on it,
but I thought I found it to be interesting. I mean,
we love football. I will say this as it applied
to that. I don't know John Grout neither. I don't
know him well, um so I differ on that say,
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but I will say there is some truth and what
he said. If a dude came walking and you you
read something he was like, yeah, I walked into the
locker room, I saw I saw thirty thirty Demorris Smith's
walking towards me, and and I didn't know what to do,
you know, and their their their lips that they're like like,
I like we all. I think we can all acknowledge
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the coaches, or the trainers, or the front office people,
whoever it was that you had constant engagement with an
interaction with. You knew if there was something there one
way or the other. You knew if they were uh,
an admirer of you, You knew if they were a
hater of you. You knew if they were a hater
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of the entirety of everything. You well go ahead tell me, man,
people walking around and she's closing every day. Man, some
people do some people do. So just sitting there and
tell me that because this is because you have, uh,
you know, engagement with a certain person on a certain level,
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this many times that you believe everything about this person. No,
I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I did
say that. I did Listen to what I'm saying. You
have engagement with somebody that capacity every single day, you're
gonna learn about who they are. Like Now, it's up
to you if listen. It's up to you. How you
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internalize what they are and how you see what they are,
that's up to you. But for me, there's an unmasking
process that takes place once you're around people for long enough.
Adversity hits, there's there's all kinds of different things. They're stressed,
there's bad days, there's good days. There are all kinds
of things that can expose what people's character and what
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their true feelings are. It's just a matter if you're
paying attention or not. I mean, I'm sure you know.
I mean, you people going through things where people have
have shown you their true colors. So I mean I
I think those people and who they are. I could
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about this in the first sire. Let's just get right
to it. Dallas Cowboys. Mike McCarthy, what does he have
to do to keep his job? Is is it Seanpagne
taking his job? Is this guy taking his job? What
do the Cowboys have to do for Mike McCarthy to
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be the coach next year when pretty simple rights, Hey,
Sean Paton is not gonna take his job. He's gonna
he's gonna give it to him because the Dallas Cowboys
have the some football games and Mike McCarthy wants to
be the head coach of this team. Listen, Dallas Cowboys,
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I think, and this this offseason, they had the worst
off season of every NFL team. You lose Lion Collins,
you lose Randy, you lose Randy Gregor. You offer him
the same contract that the Denver Broncos offered him. He
opted out of that and told to go to Denver,
and you're losing Mark Cooper. Listen. We have talked not
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so good about the Mark Cooper on this show and
and listen, I raised my hand to that he was
making twenty million dollars a year and they expected for
him to come to come and do great things and
being number one receiver, which he was not. But I
think without having him on his roster, I think the
Dallas Cowboys are gonna struggle, uh throwing the football and
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being having a guy that they can rely on at times.
Of Mark Cooper, you know, he was like where is
he at? Is he playing today? Or is he not
playing today? He would have one week he'd be five
catches a hundred and seven yards to touchdowns. In the
next week he had two catches for ten yards. He
just had that up and down consistency of being a
wide receiver. I didn't think that he created a lot
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of separation, uh, in his one on one matchups to
be a dominant number one wide receiver. But I think
that you know, without him being there, they're gonna struggle.
Now you're putting ceedee lambing at was this for him
to be that number one wide receiver. But I just
think with everything that they lost or those three guys
going into you know, uh, this twenty two season, Listen,
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you just don't find a Collins walking around walking around
on the street. Um All Pro Pro Bowl right tackle?
Those those are things that I think you gonna Dallas Cowboys.
And for Mike McCarthy, I mean, he won in Green
Bay when he had and Rogers. We all know that
Dak Prescott is not and Rogers. But I will say this,
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I don't think the Dallas Cowboys and make the playoffs
this year. I don't think they have the team to
do it. And with that being said, Sean Payton will
be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Wow.
I mean to answer the question, LaVar, I mean, that's
as simple as it gets, right, win, But at what
level do they need to win that they can win
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and go to the playoffs. If he loses the first
playoff game, he's out of there. Michael karthy needs to
win a playoff game. If he wins a playoff game,
I believe he's a head coach again next year. If
he does not, they can make the playoffs, they lose
first round. Mike McCarthy's out of there. If they the
Dallas Cowboys can go thirteen and four and fourteen and
three and they lose that first playoff game, Mike McCarthy gone.
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And so he needs to win a playoff game. He
needs to make better decisions as far as okay, we're
gonna do this quarterback sneak. Maybe it was a good call.
It didn't work, so it wasn't a good call to
if it would have worked, it had been a great call.
And when when it doesn't work, you open yourself up
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to criticism, and so it comes with the territory. Had
that call worked, and oh what a great call by
the Dallas Cowboys and Mike McCarthy. It didn't work. So
you'd be need to be a better decision maker. You
can't be the reason the team is losing games because
everybody you look at the division, the Dollars Cowboys, they
should win the division clearly. The Eagles right there, the
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Eagles is coming to Eagles are improving. Why many think
the Cowboys didn't improve, And so he needs to win
the playoff game. In my estimation, he does not do that.
Whether it's Sean Payton or whomever else. Mike McCarthy, this
will be the last we see of him as a
head coach in the National Football League. Wow. Uh, listen,
I agree with with both of you guys are saying
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he definitely has to win and and in fact he
has to win and and show that this team is
going in the right direction. You know, I don't know
necessarily what where that that cut off point is. I
do know that that was an ugly way of departing
the playoffs last year. Um pretty much an embarrassment. But
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but also to think that again you did not I agree,
you did not improve your team definitively this offseason. In fact,
you could you could assume that they didn't get better. Now,
I think their defense, which their defense has been there
Achilles Hill for some time. Now, I think their defense
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is actually going to be there's the strength of their
team this year. I think they'll take steps forward. Even
losing Randy Gregory, I still think they'll take steps forward
on defense. They they did sign Dante Fowler, which Dan
Quinn was his defensive He was a defensive coach at Florida,
so they hope that they could with the Falcons. They'll
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be good. They'll be good on defense. They'll be good
on defense, but are they good enough? See? I still
have this whole thing, and I know I come under
some serious criticisms for saying it, but I am not
a true believer in Dak Prescott. I'm not, and I
hate to say it because I feel like I need
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to be or I want to be. But then again,
why should I be. I don't know why I mean that.
I just know I don't I have. It's America's team
you talking about, so every so of course people are
going to there's actually a different reason why I felt
that way. But I'm just I'm just I'm just a player,
friendly guy. I don't. I don't really like going in
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on players. Yo, is Dak Prescott the top ten quarterback?
Top ten? Uh No, but he's in the top ten, isn't.
Don't they have him at ten? I don't know. I
would say Dak Prescott is about eleven to one percent
top fifteen, so he's done an elite quarterback. I mean,
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when you sit there, Na Football League and we we
were really getting in a different subject. But let's just
go ahead and do this. Can you can't no order,
no particular order, because we'll mess this up. Top ten
quarterbacks in the National Football League? Dope it okay, I'll
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go first in Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allon, Patrick Mahomes,
justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Matt Stafford. I don't,
I don't. I forgot that. I've always thought. I've always
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thought Matthew Stafford was really, really good. I've always said it,
and I've always thought that. So I'm sticking to my
good It's never heard just say that before he got
to the Rams. No, no, no, no, no. I felt
the situate. I picked the Rams and win the Super
Bowl before the season last year because of Matthew Stafford.
That's not true. I don't recall that at all. This
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is this is documented. Yeah, that's the sound, please, Derek Carr.
So that's nine. It's one more. Who am I missing?
Who am I missing? Who am I missing? P Russell,
Wilson Russell? And so to me, Kyler Murray and Dak
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Prescott they're fighting for like a number eleven. So Russell
Wilson rounds out the top ten. That's ten right there.
And so Dak Prescott for me, is just outside of that.
And I don't think you can make an argument to
put him in front of the guys that I named.
You cannot. So I don't know that. I hate to
say this, but maybe I don't. I would just say it, man,
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I'm a quite I hate to say it. I don't.
I don't. I don't take Dak Prescott over over Kyler Murray.
To Daddy, I don't take him over Kyler Murray. You
take him over Kyler Murray because I know of his
his leadership, his intangible things. We can't see that. That's
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that's why I agree with that. That's why you take
That's why you take him Kylin Murray. Take him over
Kyler Murray calor Muri is a baby. He's growing up.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't matter if he's a baby.
When Dak Prescott was a baby, he wouldn't take his
team off social media because they hadn't given him a
contract yet. You negotiate behind he's not going different and
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he would not and he would not go back in
the game because the right Dak Prescott isn't gonna do
those things. So to me, when things are tight, I'm
taking the guy who's a natural leader. Who guys are
gonna take the team further. You do not have to
do I know Dak Prescott has taken his Dak President
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has taken a lot of people get this narrative misconstrued.
Uh in media and in the public and being fans.
You do not have to be a great player to
be a great leader. And the media players, but the
media a great leader to be a great player. The
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media always wants the best players to be the leader.
That's not always the case. That's I agree, but you're
making my point. It doesn't have to Cayler Murray doesn't
have to be the greatest leader. No, he doesn't have
to be the best player that he does not. But
what we're saying is, when it's close, you're taking the
guy who's going to lead. What if we've seen that
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I have played on an offense at any level, high school,
college and professional, that the quarterback was not if highly
respected and he was not a leader of the team,
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whether he was vocal. Hey, real quick, I'm cutting you
all plexis just hit me. Hey, you know who's gonna
be in that top ten this year? Hate me if
you want to, Trevor Lawrence year after this, after this season,
after Hey, hey, when I was in the Bahamas, though
I was in the Bahamas right just out there chilling,
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I'm on the field with a leadership. Nobody said a
word about it. Didn't even make the public. Trevor Lawrence
sent all the players the offense of God's and Jackson.
I'm on the field, working one. Trevor Lawrence, gonna be
in the top ten, wiz and we we here we
in the Bahamas. Didn't work? Lawrence, what's happening? What kind
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of like to continue to hear this conversation about the Bahamas.
To be honest with you, we was on the field,
Thomas Robins. No ways that Thomas Robinson Field. That's the
field in the Bahamas, in the state. I'm just saying
I have a special affinity for the Bahamas. Spent a
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week there once. I came back nine pounds heavier folks,
great food in the Bahamas. So we've got a lot
of international flavor to this report, and we start with
Major League Baseball. The Athletic reporting Washington Nationals twenty three
year old All star outfielder Juan Soto has said thanks
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but no thanks to a fifteen year, four hundred forty
million dollar contracts offer, and that the Nationals now planned
to yeph entertained trade offers for Soto ahead of the
August second trade deadline. The four hundred forty million dollar
offer would have been the largest total contract in baseball history.
(31:22):
I guess when you look at it, it's less than
thirty million a years, exactly, like I want more than
million a year exactly. Average annual value was twenty nine
million dollars. So that's the thing. From him and his agent,
Scott Boors. The total number of the contract would have
eclipsed the four hundred twenty six million dollar contracts exactly precisely.
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The mic, Yeah, the Mike Trout signed with the Angels
three years ago. Major League Baseball also today adding Los
Angeles Dodgers picture Tyler Anderson, Atlanta Braves third Basement, Austin
Riley and Toronto Blue Jay second Asman Santiago Espinal Espinal
to the rosters of the All Star Game. Golf. Round
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three of the British Open. A dramatic start to the
third round because Rory McElroy putting on an incredible performance
as we speak, and he has caught Victor Hoblin for
the lead at fifteen under par overall. And you know,
fellas what I think, LaVar Arrington, Flaxico Burrus and t
J houshman Zada. You know, I think to myself, here
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three guys, here, three guys who would love nothing more
than to listen to some golf play by play by
some random British dude. Am I right? Here we go?
This is an incredible shot by Rory McElroy holding his
shot out of the bunker on the tenth pole. And
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here's the call from BBC Radio five Live. Noise at
the tense for Rory McElroy who has a bunk shot.
His t shot landed up in a pot Punker short
of the green and he's only gone and hold it
for a two to take the lead at fifteen underpar.
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That is extraordinary from this young golfing superstar. There you go,
my favorite friend, and he's only gone and held it. Hey,
he's speaking of baseball. I was a Yankees rests last night. Man.
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You know you know I love my New York versus
Boston Ribberry. So we went down five for in the
in the top of the eleven. So it's good. That's
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All I needed was a stronger connection. Get him drinking
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goes so hard you listen to that in the Bahamas
new album Yeah the Last One, Uh Last with Trevor
Lawrence right next to you on the football field. A
matter of fact, matter of fact, we were somebody had
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the ox scoring. Yeah, that was out there working man him. Hey,
I saw him out They was like, hey, will be
at the field tomorrow morning. What time? I said, say last,
I'll be there. I went up on the field work
with him a couple of hours. They had been there
a couple of days. Yeah, man, it was. It was
good work, Bro Trevor Lawrence. That's leadership, man, lord, and
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look at you man, I'm so proud of you. Man,
just trying to help the guys. Man went out there
and just trying to help him. Good for You're always
helping the children. Was a plex that generational talent will crack,
will crack the top ten next year. Maybe that generational talent.
Remember that I predic you're right. If you I mean,
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you make a lot of bold predictions and you get
about i'd be right, probably be about right out like
fifty one. No, hey, t J. Lion knows man TJ.
And had a couple of more hitos out there. So
I know you don't drink, but maybe he had a
little margarite or something. No, no, no, you know what's crazy.
I had I did. I had two drinks. I was there.
(35:47):
I've been here now leaving, leaving the night as soon
as the show over would actually I'm leaving. Um, I
had two drinks. I did, Yeah, I had. I knew,
I knew something was off. I had two drinks. And
I'm gonna tell you, man, I do not understand how
people Alcohol is so nasty. Oh my god, it's so nasty.
But I don't drink my my my wife drinks. I'm
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gonna go drink me some nasty alcohol as soon as
this show wraps up. You know, try some tequila, you know,
some grapefruit mixed with it, a little bit a well,
getsburgh wings and enjoy yourself. I'm gonna get some wings
from the Let let's get to this Lebron. Let's finish
this off with Come on, let's let's get to the
(36:31):
sound with Lebron. Come on. I'm obsessed with it with
winter Bus and what what What What makes me have
sleepless nights is when you don't have everyone that feels
the same way and you're on your club like it's
times where I wish I was like a tennis player
or golfer where it was literally like look in the
(36:52):
mirror you versus you mm hmmm, first time. I mean,
just say who they are? This first time I heard
like you, you said you want to go wrestle. Come on,
let's see you get on that wrestling mat. Like you said, tennis, tennis, tennis.
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But this is the third organization that is paid for.
If coach is a big part of what you believe in,
then you stay where you are. You make it work
that that culture is not created overnight. So don't I
feel like he's throwing these guys under the bus. Says
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that leadership win or a bus, and everybody is not
on the same page. I don't know too many guys
that I've played with, and obviously I played with, I
played with some phenomenal men of great talent and aspirations.
You're welcome time that we have stepped on the football field.
(37:54):
Everybody's wants to win. Who wants to lose? That's what
I don't understand. Listen, Hey, when you're uh considered to
be the greatest player of all time, uh, you know,
everybody's not going to have the same drive as you,
and that that is just nature. Because he's one of
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one that we would never having the possibility of seeing again.
But everybody, everybody is going to have a different drive
based on what their athletic ability is. People just trying
to make the team, you know. Some people are just
trying to score five or six points to maintain the contract.
(38:35):
He's the greatest player of all time, arguably, so his
job is going to be different from the guys that
he plays with. Yeah, his definition of winning may or
playing winning basketball may differ. Um. He he may view
this as Okay, if we do X, Y and Z,
this is winning basketball. The next guy may view it
(38:56):
if we do ABC is winning basketball. And I guess
he perceives his way to be the right way. Put
a name on it so everybody can know who it
is and there's no speculation. UH is getting yeasty in
l A. It's gonna be very interesting. Yeasty yeasty Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what you gotta do when you get yeasty,
(39:18):
you gotta you know, you gotta clean it up. You know,
you gotta get it right, you know what I mean,
you gotta do some thanks to it. Hey, listen, man,
I don't know. It sounds like he threw through some
people under the bus, like y'all said, and It'll be
interesting to see how it all plays out, because I
don't know that the Lakers are going to be able
to do anything this offseason to improve from what they
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were this past season. So right, that's what it is.
Great job, guys, I mean, I had no connection y'all.
Y'all did the next connection is perfectly fine right now though,
Sound good baby, Okay, we'll be back next week. Fox
Sports Radiolexico t j I. You bless me in it
Let's you want NFL experience, then this is the show
for you. This is it's up on game with Lavarrei, ten,
t J. Hush Manzana and Plaxico Burres. Did you hear that?
LaVar Arrington, t J. Houdgsmanzana, Plexico. It's a show with
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three of the best to ever do it on and
off the field. And now here's Pro Bowlers LaVar Aryton,
t J. Hushmnzana and Super Bowl champion Plaxico Burress. Welcome
back to the second hour. We do uh have LaVar.
I can't get over that word of bar at that's
(00:46):
in my head and LaVar LaVar LaVar is still would
have you know he's uh Like I said earlier, he's
a renaissance man the most. I don't Lavarma sleep on
the airplane, sleep when his car services driving him around
town on the window, var sleep seeing us down with
the move with them told around the prison. Don't be
(01:09):
sad taking what he's doing. So we're gonna make We're
gonna we're gonna roll along. Now. We we talked about
we we he was our legendary moment last week. But
he was so good. We liked him so much we
brought him back again for another week because Warren Sapp
is just going in and so let's listen to him.
(01:33):
Let's just listen to Mr Warren Sapp on what he
has to say today on legendary moments, game presents conversations
with a legtion and now this is your legendary moment
in the game of football. Kaepernick isn't even really important
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enough for Warren Sapp to even have to like even
comment on him, like, I'm I'll throw with the black
on black prime. That was the thing that really got
I'm like, really, my my blackness is being in question
now a child? Yeah, that's truck you defending brute. I
know this man person. I sat in the office every
(02:16):
morning just because you call somebody with thick lip, bick
lips that ain't racist, all the truth. If he got
big lips, If it ain't, that's a lie. Now, he said.
I walked to the docker room and it looked like
I had a bunch of the Morris Smith's looking at me. Now,
that's a racial troupe, right, come on, trash talk No, no,
said way worse. If you had a piping hot racist
(02:39):
in John group. Don't you think some of the other
emails would have had the end with it. Come on,
if you all the way in, come on, you get
well all the way. We we know who they are.
Come on, we know who they are. Ain't hide in
the locker room. No, sup, No shup, you can't hide.
You can't ask coaches, administrators. We know who they are.
(03:00):
If you're in there, you know who they are. You can't.
It comes out. Yeah, it comes out too. It's who
you are. That's who you are. You are and they
and and thank god for Donald Trunk and boy don't
brought something out that I was like, damn, you will
have good over there. What about defensive players and greatness.
(03:23):
There's a lot of greatness being thrown around. Some of
it is one some others wanted, and some of it
is not. Like when they were in the J. J.
Watt was the greatest thing on earth from like you
know what, I don't wanna play book. If they ever
ran the ball underneath them thirty times like they're supposed
to it and make him stick his nose in there,
then let's see what kind of game we plan. But
if we're just gonna get Jacksonville and bowls, bowls or
(03:45):
the quarterback the go creak right to him in the middle.
Come on, man, stop that, stop that from come on,
let's run the ball a let's see if he wants
to play that run and now you know you and
then broke down a little bit sad, keep it keeping
(04:05):
the buck. So I mean, I wouldn't say he said that,
uh J J. Watt was overrated. He just doesn't believe J. J.
Watt is Well I guess yeah, he guess he said
he's over ready. He doesn't believe J. J. Watt is
as good as advertiser as people say. Is he's not
the sum of all his parts whatever, whatever you want
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to say, Uh, what you think about that? And then
touch on the John Grew think I've met John Grew. No,
I don't personally know him. Um, I can't say somebody's
racist if you don't know what what what you think?
Plex And in response to what he was saying, inst
in reference to J. J. Watt, which we have spoken about,
you know on this show time and time again, is
(04:49):
that like the game has changed and were you you
were talking about earlier how the Baltimore Ravens they run
the football and play defense. Um, and that remains to me,
true if you recall Jamal Lewis ran for two thousand
yards back and I believe it was oh one oh two,
and those you know stats aren't happening anytime soon. As
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far as the NFL running back you know is concerned
two thousand yard rushing in the season for running back,
I think those days are long gone. But in reference
to what he was saying is that it's a passing league.
So now the defensive tackles and you look at the
defensive ends, Uh, you like Michael, Mike, Michael, uh, Piersons, Parsons,
(05:37):
all these guys running four three or four four forties
that their stand up defensive ends and linebackers. Because now
you have to be able to get to a Lamar Jackson,
who was not a top ten player. You have to
be able to get to a Patrick Mahomes because the
game has evolved to the point to where like these
skilled position players are so elite that the game has changed.
(06:00):
You have to be bigger, you have to be fast
and stronger to go out and play. But uh, listen,
I think it's absolutely right. You can't say that somebody
the greatest of all time when the game has changed
so much, no fall of us. I'm not sure. Uh
the great now he's by, I mean he's nowhere near
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the greatest defensive player of all time. He's nowhere near
the greatest defensive linemen of all time. But overrated, nah.
J J. Watt isn't overrated. I mean everything that people
say about him, he's earned that. And oh, no doubt
he came. He came in his rieky year. He's like, okay,
(06:43):
just just understanding the NFL game. He had five and
a half sacks. Five and a half sacks were okay,
not great, but it's not bad. Five and a half
second season, I know the game. I'm ready to go,
I'm gonna hit. They ask for twenty and a half sacks.
That was like whoa second year? And so the fensive
player of the year his second year in the league,
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and so he was defensive player of the year three times.
What has happened with J. J. Watt is he's been
injured so much as of late that people tend to
forget his early greatness because he's been injured so much
that what he did early on gets lost because of
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the injuries as of late. But when he was when
he was healthy early in his career, he was one
of the best players we had seen rushing the past. Yeah,
it's not J. J. Watt's fault that they don't run
the ball at him. That's not it. That's not his fault.
His job is to due what the defense asked him
to do. If they passed the ball, go get to
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the quarterback. If they run the ball, let's stop the run.
If they run at him and he doesn't stop it,
they probably would keep running at him. It's what you think.
So obviously I'm sure they've run the ball at him
and he did a good job putting his nose in there,
like said, and stop to run. And so I'm just
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going with what I see, what I've seen um early
on Monster. He's just been hurt the last four or
five years and the last four year, four or five
years because you know this, and Levart knows with longevity
like the body tend the body's gonna break down. That
is just the nature of aust I mean, he plays
a tough position. If you play ten, you're going into
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your tip eleven view, you're gonna have some injuries that
that's just the nature of the body. You're not going
to be able to maintain uh your health, especially playing
defensive tack. Believe this upcoming year would be his twelfth
year if I'm not mistaken, right, I mean, the body's
going to break down at some point. Man, as it's
it's called all the time. All I'm gonna say is this.
(08:51):
If his accolades says overrated, then everybody's overrated. Yes, right,
I mean we just came out of a segment talking
about Lamar Jackson. You can't say that Lamar Jackson isn't
Lamar Jackson because he's got an m v P on
his resume. Sorry, you just can't. If you understand how
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difficult it is to play be a really really good
formidable player in the National Football League and and what
level you have to be on to actually be an
m v P of any type defensive twenty sacks twice.
If it was that easy, everybody would do. I'll say this.
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I'll say this, there is more of an opportunity to
play and and you mentioned that you touched on a TJ.
There is more of an opportunity because of the evolving
of the game. It is a past first league. It's
never been considered a pass first league. And for what
it's worth to be able to play defensive end and
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defensive tackle, nose guards, zero three techniques, all those different
things and be able to still, you know, do some
of the things that that J. J. Watt has been
able to do. I mean, that's that's phenomenon in itself.
And I don't think that that SAP was saying. I
don't I didn't interpret him saying that J. J. Watt
was overrated. I think he was saying, which what most
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guys that played in a different era would probably say,
run all of him. He wouldn't do this when we
was playing. I'm just saying that's what most old heads say, right,
I don't know why. I guess we we old heads too.
I know you ain't playing no more. I pray to
God that I never become that because let let's let's
(10:36):
be honest. Man, Let's let's be let let let's be honest.
Let's just be honest. Dudes are better than we. They
the guys coming into the league right now, they're they're better.
They're better than when we came into the league. That's
better prepared that they're they're better players. Man like Mike.
(10:59):
Let's compare Mike part since you, LaVar, He's not a
better player than me. Man, It's more I was getting
ready to say I lost that. Listen, I'm not going
to listen. These dudes are yet yet. And see this,
y'all the old heads, these dudes, when they're better prepared,
When you come in better prepared, that means you, as in,
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what are you speaking of when you say they come
in better pet better tech? There's better technology, there's better
coaching technology that what's running? What's what's your run at
the combine? LaVar? I ran a four four five Okay,
so automatically you were far you you were far off.
Michael Parsons ran a four three seven three eight. Right.
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That's a huge difference. But I've run that before. But
I know I'm not. I'm not thinking nothing you can do.
I'm not. We're big, you were fast, you can run taller.
I'm taller. Michael is a six six, right, I'm six four.
I'm six four two fifty. Naca Parsons is six three
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to fifty. Yeah, like now, plexus different plexus. Different plex
was an anomaly back then, and he still is. You
don't see too many guys plex size that can move
like you do. So plex gets ex out of this
conversation what we're talking about. But receiver receiver wise, these
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dudes may not be as tough as we were, they
may not be as smart as we were or we are,
but they're coming into the league better rout runners, understanding
how to set guys up because of the technology, and
they're getting better coaching at an early age. These dudes
can play in any area because you adapt. When we played,
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you get your head knocked off. They don't get their
hands knocked off now, so they're not used to it.
But if they had to, they would adjust and adapt
to that. If J. J. Watt had to play uh
in warrant SAP's error, he would have adjusted and he
would have been perfectly fine. Agree, I don't. Yeah, I
don't have my problem. But I can't agree because I
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don't know that had a problem with it. Yeah, I
can't agree with that because like, um, you know, my
son's fifteen. He plays wide receive them and I go
basically too is high school to watch them practice every
day and I say to myself, I said, what did
you learn how to do that? But I haven't taught
him that. But this generation, they have so much access
(13:26):
to you guys talking about technology and for him to
be able to put up route running uh, to watch
the Stefon Diggs, to watch uh DeVante Adams, to watch
them Mark Cooper and watching them guys run routes and
be able to set them up and get separation at
the top of the route. Because those are the things
that we didn't have access to all we were coming
(13:49):
out twenty years ago. So when I go to watch
my son that be some it may be some things
that I missed and then I see him doing I say, wow, Uh,
where did you learn that from? And it's basically because
it's called a cell phone in the computer. We didn't
have that kind of access. So when you say they're
coming in better, I agree with you, uh to to
(14:11):
that degree from a you know, technology and information standpoint,
because listen, if we had those kind of resources we
were coming out, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
You know what the most interesting aspect of this entire
segment would be is that we used the whole entire
segment to talk about if J. J. Watt was the
(14:33):
best player, and we didn't touch on we didn't touch
on John Grid and the more fis flips and as
a racist. We we really didn't even touch on it,
but I thought I found it to be interesting. I mean,
we love football. I will say this as it applied
to that. I don't know John Grout neither. I don't
know him well, um so I differ on that say,
(14:57):
but I will say there is some truth and what
he said. If a dude came walking and you you
read something he was like, yeah, I walked into the
locker room, I saw I saw thirty thirty Demorris Smith's
walking towards me, and and I didn't know what to do,
you know, and their their their lips that they're like like,
I like we all. I think we can all acknowledge
(15:19):
the coaches, or the trainers, or the front office people,
whoever it was that you had constant engagement with an
interaction with. You knew if there was something there one
way or the other. You knew if they were uh,
an admirer of you, You knew if they were a
hater of you. You knew if they were a hater
(15:39):
of the entirety of everything. You well go ahead tell me, man,
people walking around and she's closing every day. Man, some
people do some people do. So just sitting there and
tell me that because this is because you have, uh,
you know, engagement with a certain person on a certain level,
(16:01):
this many times that you believe everything about this person. No,
I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I did
say that. I did Listen to what I'm saying. You
have engagement with somebody that capacity every single day, you're
gonna learn about who they are. Like Now, it's up
to you if listen. It's up to you. How you
(16:23):
internalize what they are and how you see what they are,
that's up to you. But for me, there's an unmasking
process that takes place once you're around people for long enough.
Adversity hits, there's there's all kinds of different things. They're stressed,
there's bad days, there's good days. There are all kinds
of things that can expose what people's character and what
(16:44):
their true feelings are. It's just a matter if you're
paying attention or not. I mean, I'm sure you know.
I mean, you people going through things where people have
have shown you their true colors. So I mean I
I think those people and who they are. I could
sit all, I could run off about five six people
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to it. Dallas Cowboys. Mike McCarthy, what does he have
to do to keep his job? Is is it Seanpagne
taking his job? Is this guy taking his job? What
do the Cowboys have to do for Mike McCarthy to
(19:20):
be the coach next year when pretty simple rights, Hey,
Sean Paton is not gonna take his job. He's gonna
he's gonna give it to him because the Dallas Cowboys
have the some football games and Mike McCarthy wants to
be the head coach of this team. Listen, Dallas Cowboys,
(19:40):
I think, and this this offseason, they had the worst
off season of every NFL team. You lose Lion Collins,
you lose Randy, you lose Randy Gregor. You offer him
the same contract that the Denver Broncos offered him. He
opted out of that and told to go to Denver,
and you're losing Mark Cooper. Listen. We have talked not
(20:05):
so good about the Mark Cooper on this show and
and listen, I raised my hand to that he was
making twenty million dollars a year and they expected for
him to come to come and do great things and
being number one receiver, which he was not. But I
think without having him on his roster, I think the
Dallas Cowboys are gonna struggle, uh throwing the football and
(20:27):
being having a guy that they can rely on at times.
Of Mark Cooper, you know, he was like where is
he at? Is he playing today? Or is he not
playing today? He would have one week he'd be five
catches a hundred and seven yards to touchdowns. In the
next week he had two catches for ten yards. He
just had that up and down consistency of being a
wide receiver. I didn't think that he created a lot
(20:48):
of separation, uh, in his one on one matchups to
be a dominant number one wide receiver. But I think
that you know, without him being there, they're gonna struggle.
Now you're putting ceedee lambing at was this for him
to be that number one wide receiver. But I just
think with everything that they lost or those three guys
going into you know, uh, this twenty two season, Listen,
(21:10):
you just don't find a Collins walking around walking around
on the street. Um All Pro Pro Bowl right tackle?
Those those are things that I think you gonna Dallas Cowboys.
And for Mike McCarthy, I mean, he won in Green
Bay when he had and Rogers. We all know that
Dak Prescott is not and Rogers. But I will say this,
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I don't think the Dallas Cowboys and make the playoffs
this year. I don't think they have the team to
do it. And with that being said, Sean Payton will
be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Wow.
I mean to answer the question, LaVar, I mean, that's
as simple as it gets, right, win, But at what
level do they need to win that they can win
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and go to the playoffs. If he loses the first
playoff game, he's out of there. Michael karthy needs to
win a playoff game. If he wins a playoff game,
I believe he's a head coach again next year. If
he does not, they can make the playoffs, they lose
first round. Mike McCarthy's out of there. If they the
Dallas Cowboys can go thirteen and four and fourteen and
three and they lose that first playoff game, Mike McCarthy gone.
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And so he needs to win a playoff game. He
needs to make better decisions as far as okay, we're
gonna do this quarterback sneak. Maybe it was a good call.
It didn't work, so it wasn't a good call to
if it would have worked, it had been a great call.
And when when it doesn't work, you open yourself up
(22:42):
to criticism, and so it comes with the territory. Had
that call worked, and oh what a great call by
the Dallas Cowboys and Mike McCarthy. It didn't work. So
you'd be need to be a better decision maker. You
can't be the reason the team is losing games because
everybody you look at the division, the Dollars Cowboys, they
should win the division clearly. The Eagles right there, the
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Eagles is coming to Eagles are improving. Why many think
the Cowboys didn't improve, And so he needs to win
the playoff game. In my estimation, he does not do that.
Whether it's Sean Payton or whomever else. Mike McCarthy, this
will be the last we see of him as a
head coach in the National Football League. Wow. Uh, listen,
I agree with with both of you guys are saying
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he definitely has to win and and in fact he
has to win and and show that this team is
going in the right direction. You know, I don't know
necessarily what where that that cut off point is. I
do know that that was an ugly way of departing
the playoffs last year. Um pretty much an embarrassment. But
(23:50):
but also to think that again you did not I agree,
you did not improve your team definitively this offseason. In fact,
you could you could assume that they didn't get better. Now,
I think their defense, which their defense has been there
Achilles Hill for some time. Now, I think their defense
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is actually going to be there's the strength of their
team this year. I think they'll take steps forward. Even
losing Randy Gregory, I still think they'll take steps forward
on defense. They they did sign Dante Fowler, which Dan
Quinn was his defensive He was a defensive coach at Florida,
so they hope that they could with the Falcons. They'll
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be good. They'll be good on defense. They'll be good
on defense, but are they good enough? See? I still
have this whole thing, and I know I come under
some serious criticisms for saying it, but I am not
a true believer in Dak Prescott. I'm not, and I
hate to say it because I feel like I need
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to be or I want to be. But then again,
why should I be. I don't know why I mean that.
I just know I don't I have. It's America's team
you talking about, so every so of course people are
going to there's actually a different reason why I felt
that way. But I'm just I'm just I'm just a player,
friendly guy. I don't. I don't really like going in
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on players. Yo, is Dak Prescott the top ten quarterback?
Top ten? Uh No, but he's in the top ten, isn't.
Don't they have him at ten? I don't know. I
would say Dak Prescott is about eleven to one percent
top fifteen, so he's done an elite quarterback. I mean,
(25:40):
when you sit there, Na Football League and we we
were really getting in a different subject. But let's just
go ahead and do this. Can you can't no order,
no particular order, because we'll mess this up. Top ten
quarterbacks in the National Football League? Dope it okay, I'll
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go first in Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allon, Patrick Mahomes,
justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Matt Stafford. I don't,
I don't. I forgot that. I've always thought. I've always
(26:22):
thought Matthew Stafford was really, really good. I've always said it,
and I've always thought that. So I'm sticking to my
good It's never heard just say that before he got
to the Rams. No, no, no, no, no. I felt
the situate. I picked the Rams and win the Super
Bowl before the season last year because of Matthew Stafford.
That's not true. I don't recall that at all. This
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is this is documented. Yeah, that's the sound, please, Derek Carr.
So that's nine. It's one more. Who am I missing?
Who am I missing? Who am I missing? P Russell,
Wilson Russell? And so to me, Kyler Murray and Dak
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Prescott they're fighting for like a number eleven. So Russell
Wilson rounds out the top ten. That's ten right there.
And so Dak Prescott for me, is just outside of that.
And I don't think you can make an argument to
put him in front of the guys that I named.
You cannot. So I don't know that. I hate to
say this, but maybe I don't. I would just say it, man,
(27:25):
I'm a quite I hate to say it. I don't.
I don't. I don't take Dak Prescott over over Kyler Murray.
To Daddy, I don't take him over Kyler Murray. You
take him over Kyler Murray because I know of his
his leadership, his intangible things. We can't see that. That's
(27:46):
that's why I agree with that. That's why you take
That's why you take him Kylin Murray. Take him over
Kyler Murray calor Muri is a baby. He's growing up.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't matter if he's a baby.
When Dak Prescott was a baby, he wouldn't take his
team off social media because they hadn't given him a
contract yet. You negotiate behind he's not going different and
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he would not and he would not go back in
the game because the right Dak Prescott isn't gonna do
those things. So to me, when things are tight, I'm
taking the guy who's a natural leader. Who guys are
gonna take the team further. You do not have to
do I know Dak Prescott has taken his Dak President
(28:29):
has taken a lot of people get this narrative misconstrued.
Uh in media and in the public and being fans.
You do not have to be a great player to
be a great leader. And the media players, but the
media a great leader to be a great player. The
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media always wants the best players to be the leader.
That's not always the case. That's I agree, but you're
making my point. It doesn't have to Cayler Murray doesn't
have to be the greatest leader. No, he doesn't have
to be the best player that he does not. But
what we're saying is, when it's close, you're taking the
guy who's going to lead. What if we've seen that
(29:16):
I have played on an offense at any level, high school,
college and professional, that the quarterback was not if highly
respected and he was not a leader of the team,
(29:36):
whether he was vocal. Hey, real quick, I'm cutting you
all plexis just hit me. Hey, you know who's gonna
be in that top ten this year? Hate me if
you want to, Trevor Lawrence year after this, after this season,
after Hey, hey, when I was in the Bahamas, though
I was in the Bahamas right just out there chilling,
(29:58):
I'm on the field with a leadership. Nobody said a
word about it. Didn't even make the public. Trevor Lawrence
sent all the players the offense of God's and Jackson.
I'm on the field, working one. Trevor Lawrence, gonna be
in the top ten, wiz and we we here we
in the Bahamas. Didn't work? Lawrence, what's happening? What kind
(30:20):
of like to continue to hear this conversation about the Bahamas.
To be honest with you, we was on the field,
Thomas Robins. No ways that Thomas Robinson Field. That's the
field in the Bahamas, in the state. I'm just saying
I have a special affinity for the Bahamas. Spent a
(30:40):
week there once. I came back nine pounds heavier folks,
great food in the Bahamas. So we've got a lot
of international flavor to this report, and we start with
Major League Baseball. The Athletic reporting Washington Nationals twenty three
year old All star outfielder Juan Soto has said thanks
(31:01):
but no thanks to a fifteen year, four hundred forty
million dollar contracts offer, and that the Nationals now planned
to yeph entertained trade offers for Soto ahead of the
August second trade deadline. The four hundred forty million dollar
offer would have been the largest total contract in baseball history.
(31:22):
I guess when you look at it, it's less than
thirty million a years, exactly, like I want more than
million a year exactly. Average annual value was twenty nine
million dollars. So that's the thing. From him and his agent,
Scott Boors. The total number of the contract would have
eclipsed the four hundred twenty six million dollar contracts exactly precisely.
(31:45):
The mic, Yeah, the Mike Trout signed with the Angels
three years ago. Major League Baseball also today adding Los
Angeles Dodgers picture Tyler Anderson, Atlanta Braves third Basement, Austin
Riley and Toronto Blue Jay second Asman Santiago Espinal Espinal
to the rosters of the All Star Game. Golf. Round
(32:06):
three of the British Open. A dramatic start to the
third round because Rory McElroy putting on an incredible performance
as we speak, and he has caught Victor Hoblin for
the lead at fifteen under par overall. And you know,
fellas what I think, LaVar Arrington, Flaxico Burrus and t
J houshman Zada. You know, I think to myself, here
(32:28):
three guys, here, three guys who would love nothing more
than to listen to some golf play by play by
some random British dude. Am I right? Here we go?
This is an incredible shot by Rory McElroy holding his
shot out of the bunker on the tenth pole. And
(32:49):
here's the call from BBC Radio five Live. Noise at
the tense for Rory McElroy who has a bunk shot.
His t shot landed up in a pot Punker short
of the green and he's only gone and hold it
for a two to take the lead at fifteen underpar.
(33:11):
That is extraordinary from this young golfing superstar. There you go,
my favorite friend, and he's only gone and held it. Hey,
he's speaking of baseball. I was a Yankees rests last night. Man.
(33:31):
You know you know I love my New York versus
Boston Ribberry. So we went down five for in the
in the top of the eleven. So it's good. That's
what it is. Hey, it's me Rob Parker. Check out
my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the Parker for twenty two
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All I needed was a stronger connection. Get him drinking
(34:18):
goes so hard you listen to that in the Bahamas
new album Yeah the Last One, Uh Last with Trevor
Lawrence right next to you on the football field. A
matter of fact, matter of fact, we were somebody had
(34:39):
the ox scoring. Yeah, that was out there working man him. Hey,
I saw him out They was like, hey, will be
at the field tomorrow morning. What time? I said, say last,
I'll be there. I went up on the field work
with him a couple of hours. They had been there
a couple of days. Yeah, man, it was. It was
good work, Bro Trevor Lawrence. That's leadership, man, lord, and
(35:01):
look at you man, I'm so proud of you. Man,
just trying to help the guys. Man went out there
and just trying to help him. Good for You're always
helping the children. Was a plex that generational talent will crack,
will crack the top ten next year. Maybe that generational talent.
Remember that I predic you're right. If you I mean,
(35:25):
you make a lot of bold predictions and you get
about i'd be right, probably be about right out like
fifty one. No, hey, t J. Lion knows man TJ.
And had a couple of more hitos out there. So
I know you don't drink, but maybe he had a
little margarite or something. No, no, no, you know what's crazy.
I had I did. I had two drinks. I was there.
(35:47):
I've been here now leaving, leaving the night as soon
as the show over would actually I'm leaving. Um, I
had two drinks. I did, Yeah, I had. I knew,
I knew something was off. I had two drinks. And
I'm gonna tell you, man, I do not understand how
people Alcohol is so nasty. Oh my god, it's so nasty.
But I don't drink my my my wife drinks. I'm
(36:09):
gonna go drink me some nasty alcohol as soon as
this show wraps up. You know, try some tequila, you know,
some grapefruit mixed with it, a little bit a well,
getsburgh wings and enjoy yourself. I'm gonna get some wings
from the Let let's get to this Lebron. Let's finish
this off with Come on, let's let's get to the
(36:31):
sound with Lebron. Come on. I'm obsessed with it with
winter Bus and what what What What makes me have
sleepless nights is when you don't have everyone that feels
the same way and you're on your club like it's
times where I wish I was like a tennis player
or golfer where it was literally like look in the
(36:52):
mirror you versus you mm hmmm, first time. I mean,
just say who they are? This first time I heard
like you, you said you want to go wrestle. Come on,
let's see you get on that wrestling mat. Like you said, tennis, tennis, tennis.
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But this is the third organization that is paid for.
If coach is a big part of what you believe in,
then you stay where you are. You make it work
that that culture is not created overnight. So don't I
feel like he's throwing these guys under the bus. Says
(37:34):
that leadership win or a bus, and everybody is not
on the same page. I don't know too many guys
that I've played with, and obviously I played with, I
played with some phenomenal men of great talent and aspirations.
You're welcome time that we have stepped on the football field.
(37:54):
Everybody's wants to win. Who wants to lose? That's what
I don't understand. Listen, Hey, when you're uh considered to
be the greatest player of all time, uh, you know,
everybody's not going to have the same drive as you,
and that that is just nature. Because he's one of
(38:14):
one that we would never having the possibility of seeing again.
But everybody, everybody is going to have a different drive
based on what their athletic ability is. People just trying
to make the team, you know. Some people are just
trying to score five or six points to maintain the contract.
(38:35):
He's the greatest player of all time, arguably, so his
job is going to be different from the guys that
he plays with. Yeah, his definition of winning may or
playing winning basketball may differ. Um. He he may view
this as Okay, if we do X, Y and Z,
this is winning basketball. The next guy may view it
(38:56):
if we do ABC is winning basketball. And I guess
he perceives his way to be the right way. Put
a name on it so everybody can know who it
is and there's no speculation. UH is getting yeasty in
l A. It's gonna be very interesting. Yeasty yeasty Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what you gotta do when you get yeasty,
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you gotta you know, you gotta clean it up. You know,
you gotta get it right, you know what I mean,
you gotta do some thanks to it. Hey, listen, man,
I don't know. It sounds like he threw through some
people under the bus, like y'all said, and It'll be
interesting to see how it all plays out, because I
don't know that the Lakers are going to be able
to do anything this offseason to improve from what they
(39:40):
were this past season. So right, that's what it is.
Great job, guys, I mean, I had no connection y'all.
Y'all did the next connection is perfectly fine right now though,
Sound good baby, Okay, we'll be back next week. Fox
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