August 5, 2024 • 36 mins
Doug reacts to a report about the Colorado Football program where an anonymous former player says Coach Prime runs a program filled with guns, fights and money. Doug weighs in on something Steelers OC Arthur Smith said about quarterback Justin Fields. Doug welcomes former NFL Executive Andrew Brandt onto the show to talk about the lawsuit verdict against the NFL by Sunday Ticket subscribers that was ultimately reversed. Plus, Monse Bolanos takes Doug through a game of "Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal?".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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A lot to get a lot to get to. Jason
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Stewart is really really into talking about this pole vaulter
and the uh the one i'd say, big thing that
kept him from winning a medal. Yeah, that's that's really
what it is, right, There's so many different puns we
can have for the pole vaulter that everyone has I
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think on some level discussed his performance and his performance inhibitor.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
If you will. Yeah, that's good stuff. We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
During the show. We have Rick Buker who said to
join us. We'll talk some Team USA hoop or hoops,
depending upon how you like to discuss it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
We got a.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Whole lot of football talk as well.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
A whole lot of football talk as well.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
By the way, we got to welcome in a new
fill that we have in Raleigh, North Carolina. And I
was asked yesterday, that's somebody yesterday, like who was He said.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Your favorite city in the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I wouldn't say Raleigh's my favorite city, but Raleigh is
a city where you live there, you're like, you go
there and a visit and or you go to work
there and you're like, man, I get it. I know
why so many people like it. But Michael Berger is
our market manager and Trevor Marini is the program director
that's on one oh six one FM HD two in Raleigh,
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North Carolina. Thanks so much for having us as part
of your lineup, and we sure love it, and I
think you'll love it as well. Okay, so there's a
new story out. There's a new story out about about
Colorado football. Okay, Colorado football. And in this report about
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Colorado football, it says that Dion Sanders, and again you're
quoting former players who said runs a program that includes fights,
guns and money. And I know there's a lot of
us that read that and go, hey, welcome to big
time college football, right, fights, guns and money. And there's
also lots of talk, lots of talk about bullying, bullying,
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and some of it even being blamed on his son, Shiloh,
who's course of a defensive back with other players. It's
not a pretty picture, but what happens is and look,
I'm learning a lot of this as I go as
new head coach as well. When you get America's attention
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and we can agree or disagree on the state of
Colorado's program or what their season was like last year
or whatever, they got a lot of attention, and attention
does have a substantial value, I would say, up until
we really really got to where we were concerned with
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who was going to win a championship, who was going
to play in the SEC championship, or the fact that
the SEC might only have one team in the playoff
or the Pac twelve and who those Pac twelve teams
would be, and Washington's emergence, Oregans emergens, UCLA's falling, USC
falling apart last year, Michigan, the Connor Stallion story, which
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by the way, got reinvigorated over the weekend and into today.
Like until we got to that place, all we talked
about in college football last year was Colorado, so we
talked about them a ton. But with that attention can
come negativity and this is part of it. Now, disgruntled
former players, they're not always going to say everything and
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always tell bad tales. But if we're reasonable, we know, hey,
if you run dudes off and you're constantly having a
cycle of guys there for a minute, guys not there
for a minute, they may tell the exact same story
as somebody else, but you can paint it in a
more negative light. So I'm giving Dionne sort of the
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benefit of the doubt. But the problem is, and look,
I live in this world. I know what's available out there.
I know what's available out there, and I'll give you
an example of a decision that I made in my
own program. Right, well, I got a job. I got
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the job late, right, I got a job in May.
Most jobs are mid to late Mark to early April.
So while there were still players out there. For example,
right now, I have one scholarship available. My school starts
September fourth, later than others, so we can hold on
to that scholarship, and there may be somebody who gets
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out of theirs, becomes available whatever, just to make sure
I have one scholarship. But with that one scholarship, I
know that the most talented players that are in the
portal currently, several of them. I'll get a note, Hey,
he does there is there? There is some baggage there.
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What's the baggage? And there was a point guard who
at one point in time I was recruiting, and he
had a phony and that felony was for vehicular manslaughter
several years ago. He got behind a wheel He had
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at some point in time. It wasn't drinking, it wasn't
illicit drugs. I believe it was marijuana. He had marijuana
system and he got in a car accident and killed
a woman. And he was going nineteen to thirty five.
And everything about the rest of his record, everything about
the rest of his record.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Was completely clean.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We talked to his high school coach, his high school
academic advisor. I talked to his AAU coach. I talked
to people who were on his AAU team. I talked
to the coaches who originally signed him in college, and
I talked to both of the junior colleges that he
went to. I talked to players who talked to coaches.
I talked to the player himself several times over and
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I had very very little doubt that this young man
was a good dude who just made a terrible mistake,
terrible mistake, and I'm so who got a second chance
for nonviolent crime, but still not proud of it in
any way. So I love being a guy who you
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get to know people, you get to meet people, and
you want to give them a second chance. But man,
I just I wasn't ready to be that guy with
this particular player, with this particular crime. And thankfully for him,
he ended up finding a really good place and I
hope he does well. The point of it is that
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when you're I don't want to say, fly him by
the seat of your pants, and you're out in the
portal and you're just looking at tape and you're just
going to get players, you will miss some key elements
to it, which is character does matter. And believe me,
for example, the player I recruited, I actually think he
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has good character.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I do.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
One of my issues with taking him wasn't just that
wasn't just the felony and having to explain that to people,
but it was also that I would go through all
the hoops of the felony and explain to people and
get him. And he's the kind of player, He's higher
than our level, does he even want to be here?
And once he is here and he's brought into here,
he's gone. I'd much rather have a guy has no
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baggage committed to staying here multiple years, because I have
some guys that are going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Here for a year.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So I'm not excusing the stories in any way out
of Colorado and what happens with guys like that. This
explains why they went south last year. Why when things
got tough and they face some adversity, why they lost
so many close games and it got worse and worse
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and worse and worse. Because the guys that have the baggage,
the guys that are the pains in the asses, the
guys that want to fight, the guys that want to smoke,
the guys that lack the personal self discipline. Those players,
when things go bad, they continue to bring you down.
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They are not people that fight through that adversity.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They're just not.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I'm not telling you anything that every coach doesn't know.
And when you look in that portal, and I think
Dion came in with the mindset of, Hey, I'm going
to be somebody who I don't have to spend money
because people want to come play for me, because if
you come play for me, I know everybody in the NFL,
and everybody in the NFL is going to take my
word for it, and we'll make you in an NFL star.
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That sounds great, but at the end of the day,
they became somebody who you live too much in the portal.
You're getting somebody else's problem, and you're getting a player
who only comes there for the attention and for the money,
and you're not taking a guy of high character.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And this is what happens.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
All of these things to those of us who live
a life of a college coach completely understand. And all
of it is based upon who you recruit, how you recruit,
and what you value in recruiting. In basketball, they say
you can have two three is a gang. You know that,
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And that comes down to everything. Guys that academically don't
cut it. You can have one. You can have two
threes a gang. Guys that don't get along, you know
with everybody at the university. One two three is a gag.
And I and look when you when you call your
shot the way Dion called his shot, he knows you
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need dudes. You got to take some chances you take
too many chances of what's happened. And then one of
the main culprits of it is one of his sons,
his lesser talented of his two player sons in Shiloh,
who looks like he could be a really good player,
but probably doesn't purport himself for a handle himself that well.
And when you give when you give a guy who's
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a coach's son that much power, that much leadership, if
he's not really really good at it and really doesn't
know how to wield it, it becomes a mess. None
of it matters by the way of Colorado wins. And
what I think is an inferior league to last year's
Pack twelve. They should have more talent, they should have
a better chance to win, but they're scheduling the non
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conference is way more difficult because now it's Nebraska year
two on the road Colorado State, you know, which was
a great game last year on the road, and so
they may be better, but they may lose both those
games this year coming into a league, and the Big
twelve last year was okay, wasn't as good as the
Pac twelve, and they got mollywomped in the Pac twelve.
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But when you lose a couple of games in the
non conference and you have those guys bringing you down,
you're bound to turn the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm not the least bit surprised by any of these stories,
not the least bit surprised. Because when you give money
and you sprink in talent and personalities to a place
that hasn't had it and just wants to.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Do whatever it takes.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I've told you before, Colorado will lose deon Sanaders the
second they say no.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Dion does not want to hear the word no.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
He thinks he has the cure for cancer with the
way he wants to do things, because it worked at
Jackson State, but they never faced real adversity. Now you
face real adversity at Colorado where you start out all
you know, sett in the world on fire three and zero,
everyone's talking, and then you completely and totally discombobulate, and
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now you've got a story about about hey, you're not
managing your program off the football field in the locker
room at all, and you have a far more difficult
start to your schedule, even if you have more talent
on your team.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Recipe for disaster.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
The most watched or maybe most disgusted in the non
conference last year was Colorado. This year it'll be the same.
And what you find in sports is that character matters,
especially when you're losing, when those moments of supreme adversity
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hits you. Last year it was a mess.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This story only doubles down on that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It doesn't mean that that's what it is this year,
but it does paint quite a cloudy.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Picture for what's going on. And see you.
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Speaker 1 (13:37):
I got a lot to get today. Man.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
This is one of those weekends where though there wasn't
a big NFL game, or wasn't any NFL games, though
there's not huge NFL stories, there's lots of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
How about this.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's like real life Grand Theft Auto video game. There's
so many distractions with fights, guns and money floating around.
The environment is unlike any I've come around in the
locker room for an unnamed player told Athlon the publication
withheld his name for fear of retaliation. Apparently, Dion Sanders
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isn't hard to find for guys in the portal seems
to be hard to find when he's actually at CU.
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It's gottlib Show here in Fox Sports Radio. I saw
that Arthur Smith, who's the offensive coordinator, former head coach
of the Atlanta Falcons, former OC of the Tennessee Titans,
voye head coach the Falcons. He said, justin fields quote,
he's a dangerous football player with the ball in his hands.
Smith told Jerry Douloc of the Pittsburgh Post Cassette. It
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allows you to be very creative, but maybe change up
a little bit of a defensive game plan. Clearly he
adds a different element. Hmm, what does that mean? Anybody
want to guess what that means? What that means is
(15:59):
I don't know. It's all based upon interpretation, and you're like, Doug,
that's the most bland thing ever.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It could mean, hey, Russell Wilson's not that good and
this is our reason for trying to work him in.
It could mean, hey, he never said he was a
really good quarterback. This is his way of saying, maybe
we'll use.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Him in creative ways.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It could be his way of saying, look, he's really
dynamic with the ball in his hands. But I didn't
say throwing a football. He'll never be a true quarterback ever. Again,
My guess is just to guess this is his way
of saying, we're going to use justin fields like.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Slash Cordell Stewart.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Cordell Stewart not a quarterback, but we can play and
not slash when he became a full time quarterback, slash
when he was slash. I love that idea. I just
want to see it's execution. There was a big story.
There's some other big stories that I don't think have
gotten enough attention. And we're gonna bring Andrew Branton. Remember
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he's the host of the business of Sports podcasts in
the DraftKings Network. He's also the author of the Sunday
seven newsletter, which you can sign up for in a
social media page. And it's great. Andrew, thanks so much
for joining us.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Let me let me ask you about about this the lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Last time you're on, the appeal was taking place and
you kind of presented the Hey, the NFL thinks that
they can overturn this thing all the way it got
completely overturned.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So the NFL does.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Not own what four billion dollars or something in a
in a settlement. Is this case over when it gets overturned? Like,
what what happens next in this lawsuit?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, Doug, we talked on Thursday, I believe, or Wednesday,
and the NFL was sort of throwing what many thought
and I didn't, but many thought was a hail Mary, like,
we know we're going to appeal this to the Ninth Circuit,
but let's just take a chans with the judge that
actually oversaw the trial. And that judge said, you know what,
that case by the PLANEFFS was so bad, we're throwing
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it out. And the reason the judge thought it was
so bad is these experts came up with an economic
test for how much the jet damages should be compared
to how much the damages were, and the judge thought
it was fiction. They just thought the way the economic
experts came up with the figure was a quote but
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four world and there was no reality behind it. So
here's the deal. If you cannot prove the economic harm,
there are no economic damages. Even though he probably thinks
the NFL did something wrong here, it's an incredible decision
for the NFL. There's no case right now. The fourteen billion,
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not four billion, fourteen billion. Because anti trust damages are troubled.
As per Sherman Act, anti trust law vanishes to dust.
Like dust it's over.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
The plaintiffs, who were scolded heartily by this judge Gutierrez,
can appeal, just like the NFL could appeal to the
Ninth Circus. But you know how the courts move, this
would be if not months, years, years before we hear
this again. Now, let me just say this. If they
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ruled that the judgment stood but the NFL is appealing
and it could be years, there was a chance the
NFL would have to post a judgment bond, so they
couldn't just say, well, we're appealing. Doesn't cost us a dime.
The judge could have set the bond at the four billion,
It could have set the bond at four hundred million,
whatever it was. So that's why this is such a
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massive win for the NFL. And you know my saying
there will be lawyers, the lawyers for the plaintiff's side
really screwed this up, really screwed this up. We don't
even get through whether big bad NFL did something wrong
or not. We don't need to discuss. That just screwed
up the case. So the judge was pissed during the
trial and he telegraphed that with the result.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Okay, so is it dead. Is there a new trial?
What happens now?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
The judge has set aside the verdict, In other words,
said the jury verdict is thrown out. Where we're holding
for the NFL a complete reversal to what the jury found.
Forget about the money the jury found for the Plainiffs.
The judge found for the NFL. So now we have
had no word whether the plaintiffs are appealing. And again,
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the plaintiffs are these nondescript businesses, bars and restaurants and
a class of consumers who bought the Sunday ticket over
eleven year period. So it's up to the plaineiffs. And
I haven't seen anything about an appeal. But as it
stands right now, there's no change in the structure of
the NFL offering the Sunday Ticket, and there's no monetary
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damages against the NFL.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
How would you describe this from a legal perspective? The
complete one eighty that's been done.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
He telegraphed some during the trial. The Plainiffs just screwed
this up. They had series about how to calculate what
each consumer of Sunday ticket lost in damages and multiplied
that by thousands. The judge said, that's bunk. The way
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you came up with that makes no sense whatsoever. I
don't want to get too much in the weeds. But
one expert with likening it to college football, which basically
he said, you get any game with your cable package,
any game you want, you don't have to pay extra.
The other expert was talking about an alternative streaming model,
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even though most of the time period of this damage
period was not when before yeah, we had no Peacock,
with had no Amazon covering the NFL. So the judge
judges are people, and he's like, I don't get this,
I don't understand it, I don't like it. The surprise
from legal experts beyond me that cover a lot of
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litigation is he let the testimony go and then ruled
against it. I mean, I don't know litigation as some
people do. My understanding is the judge would just stop
the expert and kick him out in the middle of
the testimony and say to the plaintiffs, get another expert,
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or we're not hearing this. But he let it all
go and then he canceled.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
It, if you will.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I mean, it's stunning to me. I've never heard of
such a thing. But you know, me. I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I didn't understand how there is such a case anyway.
And but but but a stunning complete one eighty like right,
like knocking down the damage is to some normal number,
some reasonable number would be one thing. But the completely
reverse course and set it aside is again I'm no
legal expert. That one sounded, uh, sounded like a stunner
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to meet Stug Gottlieb show here on Fox. Yeah, Fox
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Speaker 4 (23:29):
Let me just say, to finish the point, the big
picture here is, you know here we are came in.
You're talking about Justin Fields in the middle of summer,
backup quarterback on the Steelers. The NFL has has won again.
It's it's like, remember when the Colin Kaepernick stuff was
going to bring down the NFL. Remember when the concussion stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Was concussion, No, the concussion stuff. You tell me, if
you tell me if I'm wrong, Okay, I was told
pretty good source. I was told that one of the
reasons that the NFL moved two teams in L two
teams LA was to cover they their guest was two
billion dollars for the concussion lawsuit, and they got it in.
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It's really in this seven hundred million kind of category whatever,
still move. The two teams got the new stadium all
up and running, and it was all paid for with
those moving things, and the owners still had more money
to swim around in. And now they've gotten the new
TV deals which they're swimming in.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Like.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It really is amazing how TEFLA on this league is.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
It's amazing. I mean, you're so right about that. With concussion,
I remember being at ESPN outside the lines and recovering
all these players with issues, and these lawsuits are piling up,
and I'm going to the cover the court case and silly,
it was settled, as you said, and I think there's
no cap, so that's a good thing for the plaintiffs.
But it's going to end up around a billion dollars.
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And it's interesting about the LA I hadn't heard that.
But again, the relocation fee for the Chargers and Rams
with five fifty million, that's one point one billion. Yeah,
that covers the UH covers the concussion case.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Crazy crazy, Andrew, you're the best man. How can people
get the Sunday seven newsletter.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
My Sunday seven dot com, My Sunday seven dot com.
And then I do the reels on Instagram. Andrew Brandt
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Speaker 2 (25:22):
All right, man, thanks for joining us, have a great day,
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much for joining us, Andrew Got It Dog Doug Gottlieb
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Did did you guys?
This is this is a kind of a hard conversation
to have. Uh did you guys watch any or see
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the videos of Steve McMichael being inducted into the Pro Football.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Hall of Fame?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
I did?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So Steve McMichael was an amazing player
and frankly personality, right, frankly personality.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
He's a third round pick who.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Went on to become a first team All Pro, two
time first team All Pro, three time second team All Pro.
This is a dominant defensive player, ninety five sacks in
his career, and this weekend he was formally inducted into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But he's suffering from als.
He also went on to become a professional wrestler. You know,
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I mean he lived a hell of a life, man,
a hell of a life, and he has als and
they showed him in his what's like a hospital bed,
surrounded by his friends, and god, that was hard to see. Now,
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my good friend boog Shambie does an amazing job of
raising money for als research. It is a terrible, terrible
disease where you're brain is still completely functional and active,
just your body solely but surely deteriorates.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Your just body dies around your brain.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
You're a prisoner in your own brain pretty much.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, prisoner your own body, prison your own body. Yeah,
your brain is. And it's famously called lou Garrick's disease,
and Luke Garrerick suffort from it. But we have seen
a rash of it come from former NFL players and
I just.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I don't know. It was hard for me to watch.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It was one of those things where the speech was
read by was that his sister who read the speech?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't think that was his wife who read the speech,
but he read it. And I don't know, man, It's
like one of those.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It was just it was I guess we have to
see it to understand it, But that one was tough.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
That's one of those like was it worth it?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And maybe his answer is yes, because he was a
gigantic part of what many people consider the greatest defense
of all time.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
But you know, he's.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
In his sixties and he's incapacitated and it's just a
body around a brain that's still functioning well. And if
that doesn't show you all of the all of the
parts of football, I don't know what does. Jasey, what'd
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you think when you when you saw those videos, saw
the pictures.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
I just think it's ridiculously sad. And I don't I
don't know, I don't I honestly, when I see that stuff,
it's a reminder of just how awful that disease is.
And I don't know, Yeah, I think it's I think
what you're getting at is, you know, as you're going
through your Twitter timeline and you're seeing all this ridiculousness
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and that comes comes through, it's like, oh man, I
wish I'd didn't have to see that, but it's somebody's reality.
And then it's you know, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I mean, it's terrible, and it's one of those things
like you know, you waited this long to put him
in the Hall of Fame, and now you put him
in the Hall of Fame, and he's just you know,
a shell of the human being he was previously.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
He's only had he's only been diagnosed with the disease
for like three years, right, I read is what it happens.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
It happens really fair.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Now everybody's different, right, and some find out earlier, and
they're getting medicated earlier, and and there's ways to keep you,
you know, to keep fighting a little bit longer.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
But god, it was just so hard to look at.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
From where he was four years ago to now is huge,
huge decline.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yes, really sad stuff, really sad stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
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Speaker 2 (29:56):
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Speaker 1 (30:05):
What I gotta ask, what is this?
Speaker 6 (30:09):
LCD sound system? LCD sounds?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (30:12):
LCD sound system? A little different?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Does this get? Do you think this this again? I
just give me your thinking in hitting this one as
a bumper.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
I just I was looking for another song. I just
kind of had to go with this one was in
front of me. Okay, I will redeem myself later in
the show. But it's Elsie and they're good. They're good.
Check them out.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I have no doubt they're good in whatever sort of
eighties ish techno e they're more recent in Prague, I know,
I understand they're probably progressive rock?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Is that what they are?
Speaker 6 (30:52):
They electronic electronic dance music.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
You have to be on Mallie to listen to it.
You have to be on Mollie and Sam chose to
do a bump in a sports talk show about yeah again.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, so here's my and if your listen to us
in the podcast form, you didn't miss anything in terms
of the bumper music. It was again, give the name
of the bands, will give them credit for something we're
not paying for.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
What is it? Sam?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
What did you say? What was the name of the
band again?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
L C D sound System.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Very SD sounds sounds, l c D, yes CD.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I thought it was LSD l C I got it.
I got it.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Generally, how I always thought, is something you know, got
a little something to it, or something that relates in
some way to the previous discussion or something no I know,
I know memorable.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
I played The Lawyer's Guns and Money by Warren zevon
coming back from Last Break, perfect song.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It was great because.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
You're because we because we had a lawyer and we
just talked about guns and money with Colorado.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Right exactly, And Dad, get me out of this, says
Shiloh Sanders. You know, like we'll talk about that later.
But yeah, I thought it was a different LCD song.
It wasn't the best one to come back with. But
you want to punish me some more on the earth
or should get to a game?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You're good, You're good. Let's get to a game.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show, a right.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Bo to Belogias. What's the game today?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Well, it is Monday, so let's start.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Our week with big Deal, little deal, no deal.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Exactly.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
I'm gonna throw something at you that you're probably not expecting.
But this just in in the NFL breaking news, So
big deal, little deal, no deal that the Chiefs and
kicker Harrison Bucker have agreed on a four year, twenty
five point six million dollar contract extension, making him the
highest paid kicker in the NFL. In case you're justin,
(32:59):
Tucker signed a for your twenty four million back in
twenty twenty two, right, I.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Mean, like, listen, Butker two years ago had a tough year.
Last year was very good, you know. I mean, like again,
I think part of his the reason he's known is
because he gave his whole alpha male speech right which
some women, many women, took to mean something negative towards
(33:25):
women's right to work. It's like a political hot button issue.
I don't think it plays any sort of factor in this.
I think it's just arison. Butcker is an awesome kicker. Yeah,
and that's what they're paying for. Yeah, So I don't
in that terms. It's a no deal because it's such
a big kind of political story.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's a little deal.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
It's a little deal, but it's kind of a no
deal football wise, he's really really good, way.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Right, No surprise here exactly. All right, Well, the Olympics
are going on. Is it a big deal, little deal
or no deal? That the ratings are way up? So
just to give you an example, according to Front Office
Sports Sunday, the opening day of competition averaged about forty
one point five million viewers across NBC platforms. You know,
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the highest watched NFL game during the regular season last year,
which was the Cowboys and Commanders during Thanksgiving weekend, got
forty two million, So on this Sunday, first day of competition,
first day of competition across platforms forty one point five million.
Through Thursday, NBC's primetime coverage was averaging thirty four million viewers,
up seventy nine percent from Tokyo.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I think it's it's a big deal, but I think
a good portion of it is time zone related. Yes,
time zone related. I also think that it does in
many ways like we'd like watching sports on TV. We're
also pretty good at Olympic sports. But I think I
(35:00):
think you look across the board, sports on TV in
our country is up. You know, everybody's freaking out about
the WNBA being up. They are up, but all sports
for the most part, are up. NBA has kind of
been the more stable one, although within reason, there's been
some increases there as well.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I think it's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I'm not sure it's going to be as big a
deal as it'll be made out to be, simply because
the time zones truly.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Matter, sure, truly.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Matter, and Paris has done a really good job of
having the right sports on at the right time.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Yeah, for sure. All right, quick one here, big deal,
little deal, no deal that Patrick Mahomes was ranked as
the fourth best NFL player by his peers.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I mean that's a big deal.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
It is.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Look, I think Tyreek Hills the most talented wide receiver
and maybe overall athlete, but considering how much time he
touched the ball, how successful they've been, the roster that
was surrounding him, it feels like there's got to be
some Pat Mahomes app pathy.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
That can be the only explanation totally, And that's game time.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
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Stewart is really really into talking about this pole vaulter
and the uh the one i'd say, big thing that
kept him from winning a medal. Yeah, that's that's really
what it is, right, There's so many different puns we
can have for the pole vaulter that everyone has I
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think on some level discussed his performance and his performance inhibitor.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
If you will. Yeah, that's good stuff. We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
During the show. We have Rick Buker who said to
join us. We'll talk some Team USA hoop or hoops,
depending upon how you like to discuss it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
We got a.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Whole lot of football talk as well.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
A whole lot of football talk as well.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
By the way, we got to welcome in a new
fill that we have in Raleigh, North Carolina. And I
was asked yesterday, that's somebody yesterday, like who was He said.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Your favorite city in the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I wouldn't say Raleigh's my favorite city, but Raleigh is
a city where you live there, you're like, you go
there and a visit and or you go to work
there and you're like, man, I get it. I know
why so many people like it. But Michael Berger is
our market manager and Trevor Marini is the program director
that's on one oh six one FM HD two in Raleigh,
(01:56):
North Carolina. Thanks so much for having us as part
of your lineup, and we sure love it, and I
think you'll love it as well. Okay, so there's a
new story out. There's a new story out about about
Colorado football. Okay, Colorado football. And in this report about
(02:20):
Colorado football, it says that Dion Sanders, and again you're
quoting former players who said runs a program that includes fights,
guns and money. And I know there's a lot of
us that read that and go, hey, welcome to big
time college football, right, fights, guns and money. And there's
also lots of talk, lots of talk about bullying, bullying,
(02:47):
and some of it even being blamed on his son, Shiloh,
who's course of a defensive back with other players. It's
not a pretty picture, but what happens is and look,
I'm learning a lot of this as I go as
new head coach as well. When you get America's attention
(03:07):
and we can agree or disagree on the state of
Colorado's program or what their season was like last year
or whatever, they got a lot of attention, and attention
does have a substantial value, I would say, up until
we really really got to where we were concerned with
(03:27):
who was going to win a championship, who was going
to play in the SEC championship, or the fact that
the SEC might only have one team in the playoff
or the Pac twelve and who those Pac twelve teams
would be, and Washington's emergence, Oregans emergens, UCLA's falling, USC
falling apart last year, Michigan, the Connor Stallion story, which
(03:47):
by the way, got reinvigorated over the weekend and into today.
Like until we got to that place, all we talked
about in college football last year was Colorado, so we
talked about them a ton. But with that attention can
come negativity and this is part of it. Now, disgruntled
former players, they're not always going to say everything and
(04:11):
always tell bad tales. But if we're reasonable, we know, hey,
if you run dudes off and you're constantly having a
cycle of guys there for a minute, guys not there
for a minute, they may tell the exact same story
as somebody else, but you can paint it in a
more negative light. So I'm giving Dionne sort of the
(04:32):
benefit of the doubt. But the problem is, and look,
I live in this world. I know what's available out there.
I know what's available out there, and I'll give you
an example of a decision that I made in my
own program. Right, well, I got a job. I got
(04:54):
the job late, right, I got a job in May.
Most jobs are mid to late Mark to early April.
So while there were still players out there. For example,
right now, I have one scholarship available. My school starts
September fourth, later than others, so we can hold on
to that scholarship, and there may be somebody who gets
(05:16):
out of theirs, becomes available whatever, just to make sure
I have one scholarship. But with that one scholarship, I
know that the most talented players that are in the
portal currently, several of them. I'll get a note, Hey,
he does there is there? There is some baggage there.
(05:37):
What's the baggage? And there was a point guard who
at one point in time I was recruiting, and he
had a phony and that felony was for vehicular manslaughter
several years ago. He got behind a wheel He had
(06:00):
at some point in time. It wasn't drinking, it wasn't
illicit drugs. I believe it was marijuana. He had marijuana
system and he got in a car accident and killed
a woman. And he was going nineteen to thirty five.
And everything about the rest of his record, everything about
the rest of his record.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Was completely clean.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
We talked to his high school coach, his high school
academic advisor. I talked to his AAU coach. I talked
to people who were on his AAU team. I talked
to the coaches who originally signed him in college, and
I talked to both of the junior colleges that he
went to. I talked to players who talked to coaches.
I talked to the player himself several times over and
(06:45):
I had very very little doubt that this young man
was a good dude who just made a terrible mistake,
terrible mistake, and I'm so who got a second chance
for nonviolent crime, but still not proud of it in
any way. So I love being a guy who you
(07:09):
get to know people, you get to meet people, and
you want to give them a second chance. But man,
I just I wasn't ready to be that guy with
this particular player, with this particular crime. And thankfully for him,
he ended up finding a really good place and I
hope he does well. The point of it is that
(07:32):
when you're I don't want to say, fly him by
the seat of your pants, and you're out in the
portal and you're just looking at tape and you're just
going to get players, you will miss some key elements
to it, which is character does matter. And believe me,
for example, the player I recruited, I actually think he
(07:55):
has good character.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I do.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
One of my issues with taking him wasn't just that
wasn't just the felony and having to explain that to people,
but it was also that I would go through all
the hoops of the felony and explain to people and
get him. And he's the kind of player, He's higher
than our level, does he even want to be here?
And once he is here and he's brought into here,
he's gone. I'd much rather have a guy has no
(08:22):
baggage committed to staying here multiple years, because I have
some guys that are going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Here for a year.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So I'm not excusing the stories in any way out
of Colorado and what happens with guys like that. This
explains why they went south last year. Why when things
got tough and they face some adversity, why they lost
so many close games and it got worse and worse
(08:49):
and worse and worse. Because the guys that have the baggage,
the guys that are the pains in the asses, the
guys that want to fight, the guys that want to smoke,
the guys that lack the personal self discipline. Those players,
when things go bad, they continue to bring you down.
(09:11):
They are not people that fight through that adversity.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They're just not.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I'm not telling you anything that every coach doesn't know.
And when you look in that portal, and I think
Dion came in with the mindset of, Hey, I'm going
to be somebody who I don't have to spend money
because people want to come play for me, because if
you come play for me, I know everybody in the NFL,
and everybody in the NFL is going to take my
word for it, and we'll make you in an NFL star.
(09:38):
That sounds great, but at the end of the day,
they became somebody who you live too much in the portal.
You're getting somebody else's problem, and you're getting a player
who only comes there for the attention and for the money,
and you're not taking a guy of high character.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
And this is what happens.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
All of these things to those of us who live
a life of a college coach completely understand. And all
of it is based upon who you recruit, how you recruit,
and what you value in recruiting. In basketball, they say
you can have two three is a gang. You know that,
(10:16):
And that comes down to everything. Guys that academically don't
cut it. You can have one. You can have two
threes a gang. Guys that don't get along, you know
with everybody at the university. One two three is a gag.
And I and look when you when you call your
shot the way Dion called his shot, he knows you
(10:38):
need dudes. You got to take some chances you take
too many chances of what's happened. And then one of
the main culprits of it is one of his sons,
his lesser talented of his two player sons in Shiloh,
who looks like he could be a really good player,
but probably doesn't purport himself for a handle himself that well.
And when you give when you give a guy who's
(10:58):
a coach's son that much power, that much leadership, if
he's not really really good at it and really doesn't
know how to wield it, it becomes a mess. None
of it matters by the way of Colorado wins. And
what I think is an inferior league to last year's
Pack twelve. They should have more talent, they should have
a better chance to win, but they're scheduling the non
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conference is way more difficult because now it's Nebraska year
two on the road Colorado State, you know, which was
a great game last year on the road, and so
they may be better, but they may lose both those
games this year coming into a league, and the Big
twelve last year was okay, wasn't as good as the
Pac twelve, and they got mollywomped in the Pac twelve.
(11:41):
But when you lose a couple of games in the
non conference and you have those guys bringing you down,
you're bound to turn the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'm not the least bit surprised by any of these stories,
not the least bit surprised. Because when you give money
and you sprink in talent and personalities to a place
that hasn't had it and just wants to.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Do whatever it takes.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I've told you before, Colorado will lose deon Sanaders the
second they say no.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Dion does not want to hear the word no.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
He thinks he has the cure for cancer with the
way he wants to do things, because it worked at
Jackson State, but they never faced real adversity. Now you
face real adversity at Colorado where you start out all
you know, sett in the world on fire three and zero,
everyone's talking, and then you completely and totally discombobulate, and
(12:36):
now you've got a story about about hey, you're not
managing your program off the football field in the locker
room at all, and you have a far more difficult
start to your schedule, even if you have more talent
on your team.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Recipe for disaster.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
The most watched or maybe most disgusted in the non
conference last year was Colorado. This year it'll be the same.
And what you find in sports is that character matters,
especially when you're losing, when those moments of supreme adversity
(13:15):
hits you. Last year it was a mess.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This story only doubles down on that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It doesn't mean that that's what it is this year,
but it does paint quite a cloudy.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Picture for what's going on. And see you.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
All right, give me your thoughts at Gottlieb Show on
social media at Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I got a lot to get today. Man.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
This is one of those weekends where though there wasn't
a big NFL game, or wasn't any NFL games, though
there's not huge NFL stories, there's lots of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
How about this.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's like real life Grand Theft Auto video game. There's
so many distractions with fights, guns and money floating around.
The environment is unlike any I've come around in the
locker room for an unnamed player told Athlon the publication
withheld his name for fear of retaliation. Apparently, Dion Sanders
(14:11):
isn't hard to find for guys in the portal seems
to be hard to find when he's actually at CU.
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It's gottlib Show here in Fox Sports Radio. I saw
that Arthur Smith, who's the offensive coordinator, former head coach
of the Atlanta Falcons, former OC of the Tennessee Titans,
voye head coach the Falcons. He said, justin fields quote,
he's a dangerous football player with the ball in his hands.
Smith told Jerry Douloc of the Pittsburgh Post Cassette. It
(15:36):
allows you to be very creative, but maybe change up
a little bit of a defensive game plan. Clearly he
adds a different element. Hmm, what does that mean? Anybody
want to guess what that means? What that means is
(15:59):
I don't know. It's all based upon interpretation, and you're like, Doug,
that's the most bland thing ever.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It could mean, hey, Russell Wilson's not that good and
this is our reason for trying to work him in.
It could mean, hey, he never said he was a
really good quarterback. This is his way of saying, maybe
we'll use.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Him in creative ways.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It could be his way of saying, look, he's really
dynamic with the ball in his hands. But I didn't
say throwing a football. He'll never be a true quarterback ever. Again,
My guess is just to guess this is his way
of saying, we're going to use justin fields like.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Slash Cordell Stewart.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Cordell Stewart not a quarterback, but we can play and
not slash when he became a full time quarterback, slash
when he was slash. I love that idea. I just
want to see it's execution. There was a big story.
There's some other big stories that I don't think have
gotten enough attention. And we're gonna bring Andrew Branton. Remember
(17:04):
he's the host of the business of Sports podcasts in
the DraftKings Network. He's also the author of the Sunday
seven newsletter, which you can sign up for in a
social media page. And it's great. Andrew, thanks so much
for joining us.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Let me let me ask you about about this the lawsuit.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Last time you're on, the appeal was taking place and
you kind of presented the Hey, the NFL thinks that
they can overturn this thing all the way it got
completely overturned.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So the NFL does.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Not own what four billion dollars or something in a
in a settlement. Is this case over when it gets overturned? Like,
what what happens next in this lawsuit?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, Doug, we talked on Thursday, I believe, or Wednesday,
and the NFL was sort of throwing what many thought
and I didn't, but many thought was a hail Mary, like,
we know we're going to appeal this to the Ninth Circuit,
but let's just take a chans with the judge that
actually oversaw the trial. And that judge said, you know what,
that case by the PLANEFFS was so bad, we're throwing
(18:08):
it out. And the reason the judge thought it was
so bad is these experts came up with an economic
test for how much the jet damages should be compared
to how much the damages were, and the judge thought
it was fiction. They just thought the way the economic
experts came up with the figure was a quote but
(18:32):
four world and there was no reality behind it. So
here's the deal. If you cannot prove the economic harm,
there are no economic damages. Even though he probably thinks
the NFL did something wrong here, it's an incredible decision
for the NFL. There's no case right now. The fourteen billion,
(18:56):
not four billion, fourteen billion. Because anti trust damages are troubled.
As per Sherman Act, anti trust law vanishes to dust.
Like dust it's over.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
The plaintiffs, who were scolded heartily by this judge Gutierrez,
can appeal, just like the NFL could appeal to the
Ninth Circus. But you know how the courts move, this
would be if not months, years, years before we hear
this again. Now, let me just say this. If they
(19:30):
ruled that the judgment stood but the NFL is appealing
and it could be years, there was a chance the
NFL would have to post a judgment bond, so they
couldn't just say, well, we're appealing. Doesn't cost us a dime.
The judge could have set the bond at the four billion,
It could have set the bond at four hundred million,
whatever it was. So that's why this is such a
(19:51):
massive win for the NFL. And you know my saying
there will be lawyers, the lawyers for the plaintiff's side
really screwed this up, really screwed this up. We don't
even get through whether big bad NFL did something wrong
or not. We don't need to discuss. That just screwed
up the case. So the judge was pissed during the
trial and he telegraphed that with the result.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Okay, so is it dead. Is there a new trial?
What happens now?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
The judge has set aside the verdict, In other words,
said the jury verdict is thrown out. Where we're holding
for the NFL a complete reversal to what the jury found.
Forget about the money the jury found for the Plainiffs.
The judge found for the NFL. So now we have
had no word whether the plaintiffs are appealing. And again,
(20:48):
the plaintiffs are these nondescript businesses, bars and restaurants and
a class of consumers who bought the Sunday ticket over
eleven year period. So it's up to the plaineiffs. And
I haven't seen anything about an appeal. But as it
stands right now, there's no change in the structure of
the NFL offering the Sunday Ticket, and there's no monetary
(21:11):
damages against the NFL.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
How would you describe this from a legal perspective? The
complete one eighty that's been done.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
He telegraphed some during the trial. The Plainiffs just screwed
this up. They had series about how to calculate what
each consumer of Sunday ticket lost in damages and multiplied
that by thousands. The judge said, that's bunk. The way
(21:43):
you came up with that makes no sense whatsoever. I
don't want to get too much in the weeds. But
one expert with likening it to college football, which basically
he said, you get any game with your cable package,
any game you want, you don't have to pay extra.
The other expert was talking about an alternative streaming model,
(22:04):
even though most of the time period of this damage
period was not when before yeah, we had no Peacock,
with had no Amazon covering the NFL. So the judge
judges are people, and he's like, I don't get this,
I don't understand it, I don't like it. The surprise
from legal experts beyond me that cover a lot of
(22:26):
litigation is he let the testimony go and then ruled
against it. I mean, I don't know litigation as some
people do. My understanding is the judge would just stop
the expert and kick him out in the middle of
the testimony and say to the plaintiffs, get another expert,
(22:46):
or we're not hearing this. But he let it all
go and then he canceled.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
It, if you will.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I mean, it's stunning to me. I've never heard of
such a thing. But you know, me. I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I didn't understand how there is such a case anyway.
And but but but a stunning complete one eighty like right,
like knocking down the damage is to some normal number,
some reasonable number would be one thing. But the completely
reverse course and set it aside is again I'm no
legal expert. That one sounded, uh, sounded like a stunner
(23:23):
to meet Stug Gottlieb show here on Fox. Yeah, Fox
Morten Radio coming to you.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Let me just say, to finish the point, the big
picture here is, you know here we are came in.
You're talking about Justin Fields in the middle of summer,
backup quarterback on the Steelers. The NFL has has won again.
It's it's like, remember when the Colin Kaepernick stuff was
going to bring down the NFL. Remember when the concussion stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Was concussion, No, the concussion stuff. You tell me, if
you tell me if I'm wrong, Okay, I was told
pretty good source. I was told that one of the
reasons that the NFL moved two teams in L two
teams LA was to cover they their guest was two
billion dollars for the concussion lawsuit, and they got it in.
(24:11):
It's really in this seven hundred million kind of category whatever,
still move. The two teams got the new stadium all
up and running, and it was all paid for with
those moving things, and the owners still had more money
to swim around in. And now they've gotten the new
TV deals which they're swimming in.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Like.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
It really is amazing how TEFLA on this league is.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
It's amazing. I mean, you're so right about that. With concussion,
I remember being at ESPN outside the lines and recovering
all these players with issues, and these lawsuits are piling up,
and I'm going to the cover the court case and silly,
it was settled, as you said, and I think there's
no cap, so that's a good thing for the plaintiffs.
But it's going to end up around a billion dollars.
(24:51):
And it's interesting about the LA I hadn't heard that.
But again, the relocation fee for the Chargers and Rams
with five fifty million, that's one point one billion. Yeah,
that covers the UH covers the concussion case.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Crazy crazy, Andrew, you're the best man. How can people
get the Sunday seven newsletter.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
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And then I do the reels on Instagram. Andrew Brandt
too if people want to check it out.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
All right, man, thanks for joining us, have a great day,
and again follow him on social media. Check out the
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much for joining us, Andrew Got It Dog Doug Gottlieb
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Did did you guys?
This is this is a kind of a hard conversation
to have. Uh did you guys watch any or see
(25:45):
the videos of Steve McMichael being inducted into the Pro Football.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Hall of Fame?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
I did?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So Steve McMichael was an amazing player
and frankly personality, right, frankly personality.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
He's a third round pick who.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Went on to become a first team All Pro, two
time first team All Pro, three time second team All Pro.
This is a dominant defensive player, ninety five sacks in
his career, and this weekend he was formally inducted into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But he's suffering from als.
He also went on to become a professional wrestler. You know,
(26:29):
I mean he lived a hell of a life, man,
a hell of a life, and he has als and
they showed him in his what's like a hospital bed,
surrounded by his friends, and god, that was hard to see. Now,
(26:50):
my good friend boog Shambie does an amazing job of
raising money for als research. It is a terrible, terrible
disease where you're brain is still completely functional and active,
just your body solely but surely deteriorates.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Your just body dies around your brain.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
You're a prisoner in your own brain pretty much.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, prisoner your own body, prison your own body. Yeah,
your brain is. And it's famously called lou Garrick's disease,
and Luke Garrerick suffort from it. But we have seen
a rash of it come from former NFL players and
I just.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I don't know. It was hard for me to watch.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It was one of those things where the speech was
read by was that his sister who read the speech?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't think that was his wife who read the speech,
but he read it. And I don't know, man, It's
like one of those.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It was just it was I guess we have to
see it to understand it, But that one was tough.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
That's one of those like was it worth it?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And maybe his answer is yes, because he was a
gigantic part of what many people consider the greatest defense
of all time.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
But you know, he's.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
In his sixties and he's incapacitated and it's just a
body around a brain that's still functioning well. And if
that doesn't show you all of the all of the
parts of football, I don't know what does. Jasey, what'd
(28:32):
you think when you when you saw those videos, saw
the pictures.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
I just think it's ridiculously sad. And I don't I
don't know, I don't I honestly, when I see that stuff,
it's a reminder of just how awful that disease is.
And I don't know, Yeah, I think it's I think
what you're getting at is, you know, as you're going
through your Twitter timeline and you're seeing all this ridiculousness
(28:56):
and that comes comes through, it's like, oh man, I
wish I'd didn't have to see that, but it's somebody's reality.
And then it's you know, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I mean, it's terrible, and it's one of those things
like you know, you waited this long to put him
in the Hall of Fame, and now you put him
in the Hall of Fame, and he's just you know,
a shell of the human being he was previously.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
He's only had he's only been diagnosed with the disease
for like three years, right, I read is what it happens.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
It happens really fair.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Now everybody's different, right, and some find out earlier, and
they're getting medicated earlier, and and there's ways to keep you,
you know, to keep fighting a little bit longer.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
But god, it was just so hard to look at.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
From where he was four years ago to now is huge,
huge decline.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yes, really sad stuff, really sad stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
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Speaker 2 (29:56):
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Speaker 1 (30:05):
What I gotta ask, what is this?
Speaker 6 (30:09):
LCD sound system? LCD sounds?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (30:12):
LCD sound system? A little different?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Does this get? Do you think this this again? I
just give me your thinking in hitting this one as
a bumper.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
I just I was looking for another song. I just
kind of had to go with this one was in
front of me. Okay, I will redeem myself later in
the show. But it's Elsie and they're good. They're good.
Check them out.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I have no doubt they're good in whatever sort of
eighties ish techno e they're more recent in Prague, I know,
I understand they're probably progressive rock?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Is that what they are?
Speaker 6 (30:52):
They electronic electronic dance music.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
You have to be on Mallie to listen to it.
You have to be on Mollie and Sam chose to
do a bump in a sports talk show about yeah again.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, so here's my and if your listen to us
in the podcast form, you didn't miss anything in terms
of the bumper music. It was again, give the name
of the bands, will give them credit for something we're
not paying for.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
What is it? Sam?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
What did you say? What was the name of the
band again?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
L C D sound System.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Very SD sounds sounds, l c D, yes CD.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I thought it was LSD l C I got it.
I got it.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Generally, how I always thought, is something you know, got
a little something to it, or something that relates in
some way to the previous discussion or something no I know,
I know memorable.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
I played The Lawyer's Guns and Money by Warren zevon
coming back from Last Break, perfect song.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It was great because.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
You're because we because we had a lawyer and we
just talked about guns and money with Colorado.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Right exactly, And Dad, get me out of this, says
Shiloh Sanders. You know, like we'll talk about that later.
But yeah, I thought it was a different LCD song.
It wasn't the best one to come back with. But
you want to punish me some more on the earth
or should get to a game?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You're good, You're good. Let's get to a game.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show, a right.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Bo to Belogias. What's the game today?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Well, it is Monday, so let's start.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Our week with big Deal, little deal, no deal.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Exactly.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
I'm gonna throw something at you that you're probably not expecting.
But this just in in the NFL breaking news, So
big deal, little deal, no deal that the Chiefs and
kicker Harrison Bucker have agreed on a four year, twenty
five point six million dollar contract extension, making him the
highest paid kicker in the NFL. In case you're justin,
(32:59):
Tucker signed a for your twenty four million back in
twenty twenty two, right, I.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Mean, like, listen, Butker two years ago had a tough year.
Last year was very good, you know. I mean, like again,
I think part of his the reason he's known is
because he gave his whole alpha male speech right which
some women, many women, took to mean something negative towards
(33:25):
women's right to work. It's like a political hot button issue.
I don't think it plays any sort of factor in this.
I think it's just arison. Butcker is an awesome kicker. Yeah,
and that's what they're paying for. Yeah, So I don't
in that terms. It's a no deal because it's such
a big kind of political story.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's a little deal.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
It's a little deal, but it's kind of a no
deal football wise, he's really really good, way.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Right, No surprise here exactly. All right, Well, the Olympics
are going on. Is it a big deal, little deal
or no deal? That the ratings are way up? So
just to give you an example, according to Front Office
Sports Sunday, the opening day of competition averaged about forty
one point five million viewers across NBC platforms. You know,
(34:13):
the highest watched NFL game during the regular season last year,
which was the Cowboys and Commanders during Thanksgiving weekend, got
forty two million, So on this Sunday, first day of competition,
first day of competition across platforms forty one point five million.
Through Thursday, NBC's primetime coverage was averaging thirty four million viewers,
up seventy nine percent from Tokyo.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I think it's it's a big deal, but I think
a good portion of it is time zone related. Yes,
time zone related. I also think that it does in
many ways like we'd like watching sports on TV. We're
also pretty good at Olympic sports. But I think I
(35:00):
think you look across the board, sports on TV in
our country is up. You know, everybody's freaking out about
the WNBA being up. They are up, but all sports
for the most part, are up. NBA has kind of
been the more stable one, although within reason, there's been
some increases there as well.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I think it's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I'm not sure it's going to be as big a
deal as it'll be made out to be, simply because
the time zones truly.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Matter, sure, truly.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Matter, and Paris has done a really good job of
having the right sports on at the right time.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Yeah, for sure. All right, quick one here, big deal,
little deal, no deal that Patrick Mahomes was ranked as
the fourth best NFL player by his peers.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I mean that's a big deal.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
It is.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Look, I think Tyreek Hills the most talented wide receiver
and maybe overall athlete, but considering how much time he
touched the ball, how successful they've been, the roster that
was surrounding him, it feels like there's got to be
some Pat Mahomes app pathy.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
That can be the only explanation totally, And that's game time.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
What'd you love from the weekend? What'd you hate from
the weekend. We'll share our thoughts take some of yours. Next,
this is the Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio.
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