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August 28, 2024 38 mins

In this week's version of "The Midway" Doug and the crew discuss the best storylines heading into the college football season. Doug welcomes NFL Analyst Daniel Jeremiah onto the show to talk Steelers, Cowboys and all of the major headlines around the NFL. Plus, Isaac Lowenkron takes Doug through a Wednesday edition of "The Press".

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it's not getting.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's time for.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
The midway. Okay, there, what do we have for our midway?
Jase stew this is your idea of lid correct.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, no, I'd say ninety eight percent of it. The
midway is my idea going back if we did the stats.
Every once in a while, Dan Bira will have something
or you'll have something. But today I want to do
college football storylines. Okay, as you noted at the top
of this show and the last show and Monday show,

(02:07):
there's a countdown on the way right now for the
kickoff of the college football season, and I want to
know what is the most intriguing storyline to you going
into the season, like what do you what storyline are
you looking forward to following the most? And a lot
of times in talk radio, the storylines we want to

(02:28):
follow most are like based on your kind of predictions,
Like if you think one program is gonna stink or
be good, you follow that. Mostly we'll see if you
your predictions can be confirmed. So here's one from me.
I'm gonna go around the room, and the first to
get this right wins. Okay, I'm gonna list off of

(02:49):
let's see one. Two. I'm gonna list off three people.
You tell me what each of these have in common. Ready,
Mike Shula, Dennis Francioni, and Mike Boasts.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
They're all Alabama's head coach before they got to Nick
Saban And.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I'll go I'll take you a step further, Doug, I
will say failed Alabama head coaches, no question failed, miserable.
Geen Stallings had led them to a national championship. Jean
Stallings brought them back to the promised man. Well, I
think Kaylin de Bor is the modern day Mike Dubos,

(03:25):
Dennis Francioni, and Mike Shula. I think he's going to
fail miserably following the legend. He'll be one of maybe
three or four coaches and over the next ten years
that'll be average and they'll be looking for the next
Nick Saban for many, many years. So that's what I'm
looking forward to following the most to see just how
Kaylen Debor screws this up.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
How could anybody, though, fill those shoes? I don't think
Nick Saban could fill those shoes.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I thought you were going to go with how can
anyone fail at Alabama? And I'm going to bring up
three names. Mike Debos, No, it's possible to fail. Definitely.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, there's a couple of things. It was a very
different job there. Then I do think it's crazy difficult
to try and replace him. But you know, Mike Shula,
I mean, this is a weird thing. He almost got
Tim Tebow. If Tim Tebow had gone to Alabama, he
probably still would have been the coach. And I remember
when they hired Nick Saban, he was not their first choice,

(04:21):
Rich Rodriguez one. And you also left out a head
coach they have Alabama. That provided us with one of
the funniest stories ever. Roll Todd right, it's rory for
he Ever, remember when Mike Price was the coach.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, he was there for look less than a day.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
What was a well, no, no, an off season. It
was an off season. And then he went to a
golf tournament and he had a side chick staying in
his room, and who ran up a bill of.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
The My understanding was it was not in a it
was at a and establishment.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, but they were at they were at a hotel
for like the SEC media days.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
All right, even better apparently, Yeah, it's the price you
pay rolled.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's rolling, baby, it's rolling. That was before he ever
coached a game. But yes, he did go to a
topless bar. Who hasn't, so who among us hasn't, but
apparently probably spend hundreds of dollars at the topless bar.
And then the next morning a woman ordered about a
thousand dollars of room service and charged it to the bill.

(05:37):
Janics never coached a game before anyway, Okay, what's yours, Samuel,
what's your college football storyline?

Speaker 4 (05:46):
My storyline is the Florida Gators. Last year they went
five and seven. Billy Napier is in year number three.
Their schedule this year is brutal. I think I count one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight, ranked opponents. I know that won't always pan out,

(06:06):
but right now, preseason eight ranked opponents, opening at home
against the Miami Hurricanes, who brought in Washington State quarterback
cam Ward who was sensational for them last year.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
So the Hurricanes are ready to go.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
The Florida Gators have Graham mertzback who played at Wisconsin
a long time ago, and he was actually pretty good
for them last year. I mean that the record didn't
reflect that, but I don't know. Billy Napier, the heat
on him is going to get turned up to eleven
because this season if he doesn't get to I don't
know what it's expected of when you have a schedule
with eight ranked opponents, like seven to five, is that

(06:45):
going to keep the Natives at Bay Florida is very
intriguing opening with Miami at home, and they got to
go to they got to play at number four Texas,
they played Georgia. I mean, the schedule is brutal and
it's just an interesting storyline because they're in ranks and
if they can survive this and get a winning record,
they'll probably win himself another season, but just just a

(07:09):
tough record for the Florida Gators. And uh yeah, million Napier.
I think he's a good coach. I think he came
from what Appalachian state?

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Is that correct? And he's just trying to get his legs.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Under from Lucy A. Lapia.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
I can't remember, quick check, but Florida Gators are my
storyline just because that schedule is so rough.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
It is a brutal, brutal schedule. All right, what about you?

Speaker 5 (07:30):
I love This just shows how much of a horrible
human being I am. But I actually went kind of
outside the box with this. My horrible morbid self is
most looking forward to what I would describe as unforeseen
conference realignment related logistical nightmares. And what I mean by

(07:56):
that is it's just still so unnatural for me to see,
you know, the Stanford and Cows in the ACC, the
UCLA and USC's and the Big ten. I just still
haven't adjusted to stuff like that. So I just have
a feeling there's going to be some what I would

(08:18):
describe as logistical nightmares that no one could have, possibly unforeseen,
and they're going to erupt and be talked about on
social media. And maybe it's something like you know, fans
traveling across country from you know, Oregon to like Rutgers.
I don't know if that's even scheduled this year, but

(08:40):
something like that, and saying, wait a minute, we went
all the way across the country.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
We're having this issue just getting to the game. This
realignment is horrible.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
You know, a West Coast game kicking off at ten
pm Eastern time, a West Coast game kicking off at
ten or eleven AM time, just something that's going to happen,
but that nobody could have possibly anticipated. That has to
do with conference realignment the midway.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
You're rooting for chaos.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
You're rooting for chaos.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I always route for chaos. I'm on the board with that.
I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I am too. I just don't think we're going to
get nearly as much chaos this year. But I'm with you.
I'd like to. I'd like to see some of the
stuff clowned, but I don't think this is the year
that it happens. College football storyline, I'm most intrigued, But
I think you guys presented several good ones. You know,
Alabama replacing a legend, that's I mean, how'd you like
to be the guy that follows escapeing? Like what you know?

(09:40):
Not easy? A conference. Re alignment is something absolutely to
pay attention to. And what was your semi mine for?

Speaker 4 (09:48):
And Department of Corrections chiming in here, Billy Naper, Yes,
was at Ragon CAGs Yes.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Florida is Latte, Yes, the Raging Cagn's Eric Yes.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
And by the way, listen to everybody in Louisiana Lafayette.
We'll just stop it. We're not gonna call your school
University of Louisiana. Okay, what do we do with Monroe?
You know, what do we do with the other ones?
I think, don't.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
I think they're still Louisian Monroe, but Louisiana Raging Cajuns
are just Louisiana, aren't they.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I know that's what they wanted to rebrand. But if
you said, I know it's the rebrand, but you said, like, hey,
I went to University of Louisiana and be like, where's that?

Speaker 6 (10:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
You know, raising raising KJon. It's pretty good. It's a
great nickname. I just don't think it Louisiana or Raging Casians.
It falls off the tongue. But you're you're you're Lafayette.
But whatever, I digress. I think Oklahoma and USC those
are the two programs, you know, forever linked at the

(10:45):
HIT because of Lincoln Riley and you had, you know,
Lincoln's first year. He has success at s C, whereas
Oklahoma is a mess. Last year Oklahoma better, USC worse.
Now we're in year three and they're both in very
difficult leagues. Although SC was in what was the toughest
league in the country last year in the Pact twelve,

(11:07):
very tough Big twelve, Big Ten this year. And then
for Oklahoma, you were one of the big dogs in
the Big twelve. Now you're just a team I think
in the SEC. Could he be a surprise or not?
I think those two And then we talked about this
Clemson not having anybody from the portal and them playing

(11:27):
Georgia this week, and Clemson was, you know, chalk them
up for ten to eleven wins every year in college football,
and it did appear like the bottom fell out the
past couple of years. Let's see what happens this year.
Those are the three. Those are the three.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
What's the swimming thing in that? So he's not accepting
transfers or allowing transfers, or you could leave, he just
doesn't go on to the portal to get transfers. Is
that it.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Doesn't he refill the roster with high school kids, right,
some if a certain amount of guys leave, college guys
leave in the offseason, he over recruits for the incoming classes.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
If that, If I'm not if I'm not mistaken there,
I believe we talked about this and he's doing nil
bills right, He's not completely abstaining from these.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Only do an nil deals with guys that are at Clemson,
stay at Clemson, recruit to Clemson. It's a nice you're
not playing the portable.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
If he can win ten eleven games doing it the
old fashioned way like he did before, then he can
show that it works.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
I don't think it's much of an experiment. It's a
experiment in the high major college football because in basketball
we've seen guys that have a high recipitous rate do really,
really well, really well. I think the other one that
is a storyline is who of these non power conferences
is going to get in the playoff and will they
be able to compete at all now because in years
past we've had the Hawaii and the Sugar Bowl that

(12:52):
didn't work. You know, Cincinnati, you name, you kind of
go through the Central Florida. You know, the national champions
to themselves. I was only back before when they were
the American before they were in the Big twelve. One
of those schools breaks through, gets to the college for
a playoff, and you know they're representing everybody else, everybody else.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
And Doug for all the times those mid majors who
had like the undefeated season where they failed. Like the
one time I can think of where you had like
finally had a breakthrough was maybe like Boise State over Oklahoma.
That was an Oklahoma team that won their conference that year,
but they weren't you know, like a nah, I don't
think they were at the level of national championship competition.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
But you still think of that.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
You know, the the old hook and ladder statue liberty
team from Boise State. You want them, a team like
that to come into the playoff and they're going to
just their schemes and their plays are going to be
so wild that they can they can make up for
the disparity and talent and somehow pulling off upset.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Are you talking about the two thousand and seven Fiesta Bow.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, it was the it was like forty three, forty
two Boise State over Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
They're they're going to be twelve teams in the playoff.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
The shirt yees yep.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I can't wait for a talk radio and the debate
shows to do that fitch session, that bitch and complaint session. Yeah,
right after thirteenth team. Then they got screwed. The thirteenth
team screwed out of the playoffs. We have to draw
a line somewhere.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
I mean, listen, you're having a good season if you're
twelve thirteenth, but you just can't you know what's going
to expand in a few years, and you just can't
lose that third game.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
You can't lose that second game.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
By the way, that Oklahoma, that Oklahoma team had lost
to Oregon by one. I think that was the year
organ played for national championship. We lost to Oregon, they
lost to Texas. Those are only two losses. They won
the Big Twelve and won the Big Twelve Championship.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Game, Seriah Conference champion.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
But they weren't among the most elite Oklahoma teams we've
ever seen.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
No, they were. I mean, that's why they were in
the Fiesta Bowl, not in the BCS. Championship game. So
any other storylines, I mean obviously, like you know, there's
the year lead Notre Dame. There's Michigan the year after
Harball's gone. There's Michigan State. Where they ever get back
to where they were, you know, they were back among
the big ten elites. Now they're not you know, Washington,

(15:11):
what they look like where they're head coach leaves for
Alabama Oregon.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
They're gonna have a spotlight on them all ye.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, and it's they're gonna be like the They're going
to be the the Golden Boys of the former Pac
twelve with the spotlight on them because they're they're gonna
be everybody's biggest target. It's gonna be amazing. And they
get the buck Eyes at home. That's gonna be wonderful.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, except for the Buckeyes, who like the best team
money can buy. Well, absolutely, although I'm not I'm not.
I'm not super convinced that Will Howard is the dude
quarterback wise, but that's when they've been really good. That's
what they've had, just solid quarterback and then everybody else's spectacular.
Let's see if that that's kind of the mo for
Ohio State when they had CJ. Stroud, they didn't win

(15:52):
the national championship, and he was you know, he's an elite,
elite quarterback. So and that's the Midway, the Midway Doug
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Speaker 2 (16:28):
It's Doug gottlib Show, Fox Sports Radio. There is kind
of an awkwardness there with the Lakers, with the Lebron
and Browny thing, right, And I always ask this some
people who coach their kids, like, what do you call
your dad? If you call them coach, you call him dad.
In this particular case, they're both players, So what do
you call your dad? What deal with Lebron? James said

(16:51):
about what Bronnie would or she'll should call him upcoming
in the meantime, Let's get you back to the NFL
with our guy, Daniel Jeremiah. Of course, he used to
work in the NFL front offices. Used to work in
scatting as well Eagles and Ravens. He's been the media
business for over a decade now, has a great award
winning podcast called Move the Sticks. See him on the
NFL Network. You hear him calling Charger games for living,

(17:14):
as well as appearing right here on the Doug Gottlieb Show. DJ.
Let's let's get to the Russell Wilson thing today. Name starter,
but the fact that it was even close. What's your
level of buy in that Russell Wilson is the starter
throughout the season with Pittsburgh.

Speaker 6 (17:31):
Well, first of all, I you know, and we've been
talking all throughout the summer. I would have been shocked
if he wasn't the starter. I think that that was
always the plan, and I thought that that Fields would
have had to really run away with it in order
to take that job, which didn't happen. I think if
Russ doesn't get hurt and missed that early chunk of camp,

(17:51):
that maybe there wasn't even the need to have this
announcement that it would have just been understood. And I know, look,
he's going to get nitpicked, you know, taking sacks this
side or the other. Their offensive line was in pretty
bad shape in uh in the preseason, so you know, look,
I think he'd have to fall flat on his face

(18:13):
to give up this starting job. You know, I think
Russ is the starter throughout the whole season, provided he
stays healthy.

Speaker 8 (18:20):
I do.

Speaker 6 (18:20):
I just I know other people that that don't care
for him and don't see it, think he's completely washed up.
I just don't know that Fields, if there's enough there
that that you would that you would decide to go
in that direction. So that's that's my take. I'll stick
with that one.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
I I agree with you in principle. Yeah, like why
would Justin Fields be even close? But maybe that tells
you about where where they are with Russell. The one
thing I have with Russell is what you named it,
taking sacks, holding on the football, and then you hear
out of Pittsburgh. Well, you know Russell at his age,
he just gets rid of it quick. He'll be fine.
Like he doesn't get rid of it quick. I don't
think he fits how they want to play well.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
The difference is that what would you rather have neither
one of them get rid of the ball quick? Would
you rather have the guy who maintains the ball after
he gets hit or would you rather have the guy
who puts the ball on the ground after he gets hit?

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Great question. I'd say maintains the ball and forgets hit.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Yep, I'm a fan of that.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, I mean you mean you and me both. Dane
Jeremiah is our guest here on the Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, Ceee Lambs contract. Does it
make sense to you?

Speaker 6 (19:26):
Yeah? What doesn't make sense to me is why they
didn't get to this point a long time ago. It's
happened so many times where you're like, we know this
is going to happen, we know where it's going to
end up. There was never any doubt. I mean, did
anybody really think this wasn't going to get done? I
just don't know why that. I mean, I guess it
just shows you what teams view the value of training
camp these days. Because there's no reason that the Cowboys

(19:48):
couldn't have got this deal done weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, so why would they wait so long?

Speaker 6 (19:53):
I don't know. Man. It's like it's like we know
you're going to cave, like that. Everybody knows you're going
to cave, So why are we going to this song
and dance. I don't. I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
He always does. He literally always does. He just always
caves in.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
I just it's bizarre. It is pretty bizarre, man, because
it's like, you know, I almost think like it's just
for peace of mind, Like, hey, I drug it out
to the very end, and maybe maybe the Cowboys got
some teeny tiny small concession at the very end to
make them feel like that was all worth it. This
seems kind of silly.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Garner Minshew got the Colts, had the Colts moving last year.
What does he do for the Raiders this year?

Speaker 6 (20:34):
Well, I mean, I think fortunately for him, I think
the Raiders have a chance to have one of the
top five defenses in the league. So you know, I
don't think they're gonna be a high flying offense. I
think he's probably And you saw a little bit more
of that last year where he kind of dialed down
the freewheeling, fun loving gunslinger Menshew that we saw in Jacksonville.

(20:54):
I think you're probably looking again They're looking for him
to be just kind of restrained, just protect the ball,
let's run it. You know, when Bowers is healthy hopefully
is healthy to start the season and always been nicked up,
but I think he'll be a big, a big focal
point of that offense. But it doesn't I mean, this
is very much the definition of a bridge quarterback. Unfortunately,
they don't have the bridge to the next guy. They

(21:17):
don't know who the next guy is yet, so he's
a bridge to the unknown. But he's definitely a bridge.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, you just don't want to be the bridge to nowhere.
What are the Jets look like with Aaron Rodgers back
this year.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
I'm curious, man, I'm curious. I know, you know, with Aaron,
you know, look they have again, they have a great defense,
They've got some nice pieces around him. Offensively, I think
the I'm always a little bit skeptical when the numbers
get thrown around, and I'm sure you've seen a lot
of them. It's like, oh, you know, if Aaron starts

(21:49):
and the defense, you know, holds teams to this number
over his career, you know, his record is this that
or the other. And I'm like, well, you know what,
twenty four year old Aaron doesn't isn't really relevant, or
twenty eight year old here, and like this is this
is this is a new Aaron Rodgers, and we haven't
really seen him in this environment for an extended period
of time. So I'm curious as much as anybody else.

(22:11):
I think if you're going to say, like there's people
who think the Jets are going to go to the
Super Bowl, ors thinking teams that they are, people who
think the Jets are gonna win four or five games,
I don't think any of us know. I think, well,
I'm curious to see what it looks like.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
I am too. I'm curious see what the Eagles look like.
Last year they started out ten to know, but it
didn't feel right, and then of course the bottom fell out.
Looked like there's some infighting. Now they go and they
get Saquon Barkley and obviously so many other weapons back.
What do the Eagles look like this year?

Speaker 6 (22:40):
I think you're going to be pretty good. I think
that Sirianni's maybe the you know, maybe the maybe the
most scrutinized successful coach in the league. I mean, we
can talk about the roster has been very talented, But
the guy's gone to the super Bowl. The guy's gone
to the playoffs three years in a row. I think
he's actually a pretty good coach. I think last year

(23:01):
it just, you know, kind of the communication the fit
with with Jalen got a little bit off, and I
think that's where Kellen Moore comes in. But you still
look at their roster even without Kelsey, they've got a
really good offensive line. They've got two stud receivers, and
now you throw dots and in there as a you
know who's going to be a nice number three with
with Goddard you have to say Klon Barkley to come

(23:23):
in there. I'm in They're stacked, and I think all
the work they had to do on the defensive side
of the ball was primarily in the secondary. The defensive
line is outstanding, and I think what they did in
the draft. I think Quiny and Mitchell is going to
be a star. And I think, you know, Cooper de
Gene will find his way into the lineup before too long,
and Vic, you know, Vic Fangio comes over there. So

(23:43):
I think they're head and shoulders above everyone else in
the East. I still would put them, you know, behind
the top two teams, which were the teams in the
NFC Championship game last year. To me, I think the Lions,
in my opinion, are the team to beat in the NFC,
followed by the Niners and then the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
So so the Lions, okay, and look, I'm I struggle
with them, only from this perspective. It wasn't surprised to
me they were good. I did think that some of
their decision making against the Niners I would take back.
I thought it was aggressive for no apparently apparent reason
in terms of going for two and all that other stuff.
But the maybe the hardest part in the league is

(24:23):
not actually becoming good for a year a year and
a half. It's sustaining it. What leads you to believe
that they can sustain it.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
I think this is this reminds me of something that
takes place a lot in sports. It's just kind of
like the right of passage. You know, I think of
the old you know how great the NBA used to be,
and you know the Bulls had to get through the Pistons.
The Pistons had to get through the Celtics, like you
kind of have that team you got to get through.
But at the end of the day, when you have
a young, really really talented, ascending group, you just kind

(24:53):
of you know that day's coming. And I'm banking on
that being this team this year. Know for where they are,
they just all their best players, Doug are They're twenty three,
twenty five year old players, like they're all in the climb.
They just kind of remember when the Cowboys were starting
with Jimmy Johnson, and I think they went to that
the playoffs and lost to the Lions ironically, and then

(25:16):
it was like, okay, well maybe they're another year or
two away. Then all of a sudden boom, they just
took off and won three of the four next Super Bowls.
Like they were the rock. The roster was just stacked
and all those guys were ascending. It's not like it.
You know, a lot of teams have tiers they got Okay,
we've got these young guys who we've got a stable
of you know, mid tier vet and we've got the
old heads that are kind of hanging on. Like I
think you can make a case the Niners have some

(25:38):
of that, with you know, Trent Williams being kind of
the older head and Fred Warner has been around a
little while. When you look at all the key players
on the Lions, all of them, they're all ascending. So
that's why I think this is this is their year
to take the NFC.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Wow, to take the whole NFC. Imagine if the Lions
take the NFC. I just okay, what about the Bills
this year? You're better, worse than than previous years the Bills.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
I picked them to lose the first game, which the
Bills Mouffa is not happy about. I actually had Arizona
upset in them week one. So I think they're going
to take I think they're going to be a playoff team.
I think they're still likely to hold on and win
that division there, you know, I think it's going to
be very competitive division. But I would still pick them
to win it. But I do think there's an adjustment

(26:25):
period just with some new pieces, you know. I think
that you see them as a different team, you know,
in the middle back half of the season than maybe
they are early. When you lose kind of those those
two safeties specifically who'd been kind of a nerve center,
you know, for your defense, and then Milano you add
that to the mix at the linebacker position. There's kind

(26:47):
of a you know, the spine of the team defensively
has had a lot of impact to it. So that's
why I think you get a little bit of a
maybe a little bit of a slower start, but the
quarterback's two dang good and they'll figure it out. There'll
be a playoff team more than like we win the division.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
What do you make of the kind of turnstile going
on with the Kancity Chiefs wide receivers.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
I mean, I don't know. I probably would be dating
myself with this reference. But I mean, as long as
they've got Gladys Knight, I really don't care.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
I mean, I know he did it last year and
you're just like who and they led the world in
drops and you know Kelsey, but like at some point
you think it might catch up to them, but it
just hasn't.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
No, Nope, I mean I don't know. I mean, what's
the can we maybe uh maybe we can get somebody
in there to give us a little more current reference
than that. I don't know. I don't even know if
people have backup singers anymore, so I guess that's probably
I'm probably not much help there.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Most important thing, Most important thing Okay, how are you
feeling about your padres? Hey? Hello, did do we lose? Dj?
I asked Hi about the padres and he goes away,
That's a new one to me. Huh did jay Stu?
Was that you? Did you do that? I asked him

(28:09):
about the padres? Then you click him off.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
We had a pleasant off air exchange about the padres.
I was talking about rookie Jackson Merrill, Oh, he's good.
Daniel Jeremiah says that he's gonna win Rookie of the
Year even though Paul Skeens is in the National League.
Kind of a hot take.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
It is, that's that's a little hot tikey. It's a
little hot tikey s Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Yeah. So there was this clip that I
thought you guys would find interesting. Lebron James was asked
about what his son should or we'll call him during
this upcoming season, and he had this to say.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Have you thought through not relationship? Because you always be
his dad, always be a subb.

Speaker 7 (28:53):
What's your working relationship?

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Is he going to call you dad at practice? In
the locker room?

Speaker 8 (28:57):
We already laid that. No, we already laid No, he
can't laid that down. I cannot call me Dad in
the workplace, all right, once we once we leave out
of the private facility and the gates closed, I could
be Dad again in the car, if we ride together
at home, I could be Dad. No, he gotta call
me like two three.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Or Bron okay, or you know, goat if you want to.
That's up to him. I mean, it's up to him.
But it's easy for me.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
It's easy because it's easy for me because I've been
calling Brownie for so long. It's not like I've been
called a son a son like, So it's easy for me.
It's gonna be the adjustment for him. But he cannot.
We cannot be running down the court and he'd been like, Dad, No,
you cannot do that.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Well, what's supposed to call you? Broun? That's so weird,
so impersonal. Well, you call me goat and I know
it's a little bit tongue planted firmly in cheek. But
leron gimes, Lebron James leron gimes, Are they get a
real gonna, Well, I mean it's gonna happen so seldom,
but it will happen probably two or three of the

(30:04):
games this year, they'll be on the same court. But
I don't know what have you just called them Lebron's
it just it does It is weird to call your
dad Lebron, but whatever that's you decide on. Definitely don't
call him the goat. Let's let's express them playing professionals.
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(30:49):
don't think he calls his dad goat or Bobby.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
He calls him dad, Bobby.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Imagine him calling your dad go You call me the goat?
What if he's like Now, I think Jordan's the goat dead.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
I think Brownie's response should be like, is Michael Jordan
on this team?

Speaker 2 (31:12):
That would be funny, That would be funny, That would
be funny.

Speaker 7 (31:18):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
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Speaker 2 (31:29):
If you standing today's show, be sure to check out
the podcast. It's available top of the hour. I gave
you a little bit of my thoughts on the Connor
Stallion doc, which is like, I've never made a big
deal of it. It's about what I thought the doc is.
And and let's get into this in the pod if we, Jace,
can you mark us off with things we need to
get in the pod? Have you ever noticed how people

(31:52):
we're all so lazy? Right when was the last time
you read a book as opposed to listen to a
book on taper? Just like I'll just watch the movie
right where the book tells you like all the details,
We're just like, ah, I don't know anyway. My point
of our laziness is this, like we won't even investigate
on our own. We see it in a documentary. It
becomes law. It becomes law. Keep in mind, documentaries are

(32:14):
created by people, and filmmakers are brilliant, and they can
make you think that everything in a documentary is in
fact real when it does not pass even the scientific
burden of truth. What about Michael Moore and some of
some of the things being fuzzy. There's been lots of
different here.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, you think about some stuff. Oh no, I'm just political.
Back in the day, I might have been like, oh,
he just called.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Fahrenheit nine to eleven propaganda to make sure George Bush
did not get reelected though that's basically what he was
in sinulation.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
That film, That doc went into theaters. I remember seeing
that in theaters and then like, you know, years later,
it's probably a lot of questionable stuff in it.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure there were. I wasn't
a lot of questions, so I'm sure you know, some
of this stuff is you know, perception based, and you
can create a lot of different things of it. I
was thinking more sports, right like, whereas if you ask
somebody now about the bulls and their run, every perceived
fact that they have is from that documentary, not from

(33:20):
actually what happened, And You're like, yeah, but you weren't alive.
You don't remember that. No, no, no, but I saw I
saw the last dance. Okay, well that was filmmakers hired
by Michael Jordan, and they had to tell a really
long story and really short form, and they may have
left some of the deats out, you know, So I

(33:44):
don't know. Let's get to the press. The press. Leave
it to sand to make everything political. That's what I do,
Isaac long Crown, what's in the press, Doug.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Tonight it'll be show Hey, Tony Bobblehead Night at Dodger
Stadium when they host the Baltimore Orioles. And the reason
I'm telling you this is because the bobbleheads will only
be given out to the first forty thousand fans in attendance.
And because of that, hundreds of fans have started lining
up to get into Dodger Stadium beginning at eleven am

(34:20):
Pacific time this morning of Full Crazy, eight hours before
game time. The fans mindset apparently captured on social media
by at Alex zero five, who posted and I quote,
going to fight for my life at Dodger Stadium for
a damn bobblehead unquote.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Who would fight what is people's fascination with Bubblehead?

Speaker 3 (34:46):
I do not understand it at all.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Get out of my way.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
Gotta be somebody around here who understands why people care
so much about bobbleheas.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
We should have asked, We should have Scott Shapiro. You
know Scotty used to produce Mike and Mike. They used
to have that incredible collection of bobbleheads on the set.
But I don't know if it's important to him. Maybe
he can tell us why it's important.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
Now here's the thing. As I was driving in today,
he was driving out. Perhaps he's part of that line.
I have too much regard for him to think that
he's part of that line though.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Is it the resale value? They could turn it around
on the Japanese market for like a billion dollars or
the overall market.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
I don't know. I get anime more than I get
the bibbleheads, and I don't get anime all that much.
By the way, my thanks to Rapid Radios. I just
got my rapid radio for all of us at Fox
Sports Radio, So now you guys can communicate with walkie.
I have a walkie talkie. The ten year old Doug
is so excited about what forty plus year old Doug

(35:46):
he gets to do here, and he got a free
walkie talkie. The only problem with walkie talkie now is
it's with Jason Stewart and Sam and I Loo and
Dan Byer. So that means, like, if I make a
fort at my house tonight, will you guys talk to
me on the walkie talkie.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
I'm going to send you ear piercing sounds at like
two in the morning.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
The sad part is when Jason contacts you on the
walkie talkie, Doug, you say, how did you get this number?

Speaker 3 (36:09):
I'll out Tim.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Mccarverly lose this number.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Loser at Online vacation rental company has unveiled a new
commercial starring former Alabama head coach Nick Sabans. So the
premise is it's so restrictive to book a rental at
Saban's house that it's much better to utilize their company instead.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Here's a sample checking time. It's three, it's two fifty five.

Speaker 7 (36:36):
I know, have a seat.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
As your host.

Speaker 7 (36:40):
I have some rules.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
First, no showers longer than five minutes. This isn't a spot.

Speaker 8 (36:46):
Any games for the kids.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
No games, no fun two flush maximum for a bathroom
and business Scotch.

Speaker 7 (36:53):
You guys got about ten minutes because this is daddy
town and the tug.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
My guess is it wasn't too much of a stretch
or Saban to record that scene.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah, it's so funny. That was really good. We're gonna
we're just just so you know, like we're gonna get
carpetbombed with Nick Saban commercials over the next couple of years. Plus.
I like him on College Game. I think he's I
think he's gonna be really good. I think that show
picked up for the better. Adding I think McAfee's energy
needed some sort of balance, and you know, Coach Corso,

(37:28):
God bless him me just his time has passed. So
adding Saban is huge, huge for them.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Go ahead, Sammy, Oh sorry, I was just gonna say,
didn't you guys see that Lee Corso and Dion Sanders
are tied for the same amount of interceptions at Florida
State with fourteen and Lee Corso Corso's in like nineteen
fifty three to fifty six fourteen interceptions, Dion Sanders fourteen interceptions.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Late addies, he literally must have studied a lot of film.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
It's a cool fact.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
I did not know that. Yeah, of course it was
a great running back at Florida State that one.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I was a defensive back to.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, so it was. But Reynolds was the running back
at Florida State as well.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
That's correct.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
There you go, and that is the press.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
They get out there and pressed. That was the press.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Okay, I believe Connor stallions. I'm think he acted alone,
but I don't think it was harbad directing him to
do this nefarious things that he did. And if you
want to hear more about it, download the podcast. It's
failable now. Where we download podcast, type in Doug Gottlieb.
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