October 1, 2024 • 37 mins
As the world says goodbye to the great Pete Rose, Doug explains why he wasn't allowed into the Hall of Fame before his death and why he doesn't deserve to go in after his death. Doug weighs in on the Davante Adams situation with the Raiders. Doug welcomes Tennessee Titans' quarterback Mason Rudolph onto the show to talk about his performance on Monday night as he relieved Will Levis and led the Titans a win over the Dolphins. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a game of "Rank 'Em".
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(00:41):
welcome in guys. Not a lot going on, right or
maybe there is, you know, like the Tennessee Titans get
their first win of the year. Mason Rudolph, who came
in and saved the day for the Titans, will join
us in the show. By the way, I have a
question for you, Dan, you and Jay Stu. You guys
are both very active on social media. I was Sam
(01:03):
as well, right, like, that's that's fair, that's not everybody
good with that? Okay? Did you see the post of
a young woman and her guy and they're at the
Dolphins game and she shows him that that Mason Rudolph
slid into her DMS. Yes I did, and he's and
(01:24):
the guy is like, guys, like Mason Rudolph slides into
my girls DMS. Now he's on the field and he's
beating the Dolphins. But like, I can't. This is the
worst ever. I want to go home right now. It's it, right, Okay?
Should I ask Mason about it?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, I mean it's off the field. It doesn't have
to do totally. I mean I'd like to, and we
are friends, but like, is this going to kill our friendship?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
If I asked, well, I wouldn't worry about the friendship.
I'd worried about the listener and what the listener wants
to to know, and I'd want to know that information.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, jay Stu, are you okay with that? I mean,
I'll go with it, but I just want to make
sure that we're all on board for the possibility of it.
I mean, Jayce dou of course, used to be with
with with Rome's posse, and right Rome made a name
for himself by calling Jim Everett Chris Everett several times
and then getting a desk turned over on him. I
don't think Mason would have that kind of negative energy.
And I got to find like a nice neutral way
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of asking him. But I got to ask him about it, right,
Jace du Can, I I can't give him a pack.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think we got to and could you guys clarify
something for me, because I saw the tweet many times.
I just didn't I didn't actually spend any time looking
at it.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Did it?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Did she divulge what he wrote to her?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
No? Oh no, no, there was no there was nothing there.
It looked like it was unopened by the way.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
There was. There was some there was some drama on
whether it was a screenshot, whether it was an actual
the actual app being shown. The question or the message
was are you still in Miami? That's what was allegedly
sent to the message, Whether it's real or not.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You're still in Miami? All right, We'll we'll find out,
We'll ask. I will ask Mason Rudolf, he'll join us,
he'll join us upcoming, man. I mean, she blew up
his spot on Twitter when he's playing in the game.
That's called blowing up your spot. By the way, I
don't know if you guys are familiar with that. Mason's
joining us in twenty five minutes. It is the Doug
(03:24):
Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Quick Welcome into
KA n e W. That's k New, our new affiliate
in San Francisco. It's nine to sixty AM. iHeart sports
talk and more. Don Parker, thanks for making the ill
fated decision of having us on, but West Coast guys,
regardless of where we are doing a national show, we
appreciate you. We appreciate you. Can I get to the
(03:47):
Pete Rose thing. So Pete Rose passed away last night,
and again I haven't polled my staff. I haven't asked
Jay Steube, although I fall him on social media, so
I do know. I didn't see Dan tweet about it.
So again, Dan, if this goes counter to your opinion,
we can we can talk about it. But what actually
(04:08):
has changed between yesterday and today? Right? I mean, p
Rose isn't of this earth anymore? But had any of
you spent any time thinking about Pete Rose before?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Now?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Like?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So this newfound push and this always happens, right and
frankly like this is there's I don't think Reggie Bush's
is to this point. But like, Reggie Bush was taking money,
got caught taking money, and now because you can take money,
they gave him back his Heisman trophy and we acted
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like none of it ever happened. And Reggie Bush acts
like he's a victim when he's he's not right. The
one thing is, yes, did it steer players or keep
players at schools because you paid them? Sure, but the
actual game itself there wasn't the same. It didn't strike
you the core of what the game with the sports
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is about. And suddenly now Pete Rose becomes some sort
of sympathetic figure because he passes away, and like, how
could the whole time hit king, the all time game
player king, How could Pete Rose seventeen time All Star?
How could he not be and recognized in the Hall
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of Fame. Well, first thing is he actually is recognized.
His accomplishments are recognized in the Hall of Fame. His
bats there, gloves, their shoes there came. And I'm not
even factoring in some of the creepy off the field
stuff like don't care. I'm not using that to talk
about whether or not Pete Rose should be in or
shouldn't be in. But I started in this national sports
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radio game with a man named Chuck Wilson. Chuck normally
would join us. We get him for an hour, and
he is a Pete Rose fan who is the foremost
authority on the Doubt report and on all Pete Rose did.
He can join us because his father in law is very,
very sick and he's holding his wife's hand and he
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was It's just that's it's not something he wants to
disrupt in terms of his family. But what I did
learn from him, going back again, I've been doing this
for twenty two years. Of the twenty two years, nationally,
anytime Pete Rose comes up, there'll be something to go, well,
they just put him in. What's the point of having punishments?
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What's the point of punishments? And oh yeah, by the way,
the way in which you get a punishment lessoned in
the court of law is what admit fault, admit guilt.
He just admitted and will cut it down. And you know,
Pete Rose never did. He never admitted it. Not only
he never admitted, but he wouldn't even admit to when
he began betting on baseball Hipete's thing was like, I
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only bet on games we're going to for us to win. Okay, Pete,
you do understand that if you call a bookie twice
a week and say and bet on your team to win,
and then you don't call your bookie, doesn't that mean
you think you're gonna lose? Right? And oh yeah, By
the way, he started betting on baseball, not just as
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a manager, a player manager, so he could directly affect
all of those games, and even the ones he didn't
bet on, he could directly affect the other part too.
It is you can load up your quality pitchers for
those games that you bet on and essentially throw the
other ones without throwing them. Piro is a great player,
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all time great and the way in which he played
the sport is the way in which you want anybody
to play the sport. But when you violate the core
tenants of what sports is about, specifically baseball, where a
rule that was posted on every clubhouse wall, and then
you deny, deny, deny, make yourself out to be the victim. Okay,
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then you do all kinds of things like I'm gonna
sell autographs right across the street from Hall of fame
like Pete. He's not a great dude. He just wasn't.
Let's not make him into some sympathetic figure. He was
a great ballplayer that committed a crime against the sport
of baseball. The punishment that they chose that everybody agreed
with was a lifetime ban. That band could have been
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lifted several times over had he at any at any point,
at any point acknowledged what he had done, admitted it,
talked about it, and tried to tell others not to
fall into the trappings of betting on professional sports, especially
the one in which you play. He chose not to
do so. So the payment is just like when you're like, hey,
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I'm going to fight this ticket. If you fight that ticket.
Have you ever been in a traffic court but you
go in and they call your name and like hey,
look a hundred bucks. It goes away like, well, you
fight the ticket, and what happens. I don't know if anybody
had been in a traffic court recently. I have. There's
cameras everywhere like I did not run that red light,
and like mister godlieb, this is your car. You ran
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the red light. Any know what happens because of their
time because of what they had to do. They're going
to punish you to the complete extent of the law.
Like okay, now it's a three hundred and fifty dollars
ticket like that. You know you could have go, you
could have walked away with a hundred, but you chose
not to do. So let's not make that Pete out
to be anything more than an incredible player who played
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for a long time, who played baseball the right way,
except for the one thing he gambled on baseball, and
then he lied about it. He claimed to never know
when his first bet was because if he did, he
would say, which is in the doubt report, that he
started betting on baseball when he was a player manager.
In other words, he was still playing. So let's not
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act like he didn't have his hands on a baseball
to make a play that could help or hurt his team.
Just not that way. I feel zero sympathy for him,
not individual personally being recognized in the in the Baseball
Hall of Fame. None, and you shouldn't either. And don't
believe these people that haven't done their homework. That's simply
all they want to do is grandstand and get people
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on social media or media to act like there's some
hero championing the week. That's not who Peter Rose was.
P Rose did come from nothing and built him built
himself into an absolute legendary baseball player. But he's kind
of a slam ball. Let's just be totally candidate, honest,
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and if that, if that bothers you, fine, go and
just track his history all the things he's done, and
you're like, yeah, maybe not the best guy they want.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Again, that doesn't keep you out of the Pro Baseball
Hall of Fame. There's plenty of Hall of famers that
aren't good dudes. But he bet on baseball repeatedly as
the player manager, What do you want to do with that?
And then never came clean, never admitted when he did it.
You know, has had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to
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acquiesce to what Baseball has asked him to do in
order to in order to get reinstated. He made the
calculated guess, hey, that public pressure would be on his side,
and it probably was, but also that he would be
more popular, probably make more money as the anti Hall
of Fame Hall of Famer than he would by saying
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I admitted I did be.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Mason Ruff up coming
in my clock here five minutes, five minutes, Amazon, Yeah, Yeah,
five minutes, and we'll get the quarterback, maybe the starting
quarterback for the Titans, although last night's head coach came
out and said we're gonna We're gonna stick as is.
You know, they got the week off anyway, so we
(12:03):
Will Levis got hurt, hurt his shoulder ac joint. We
don't know how bad it is, but Callahan said yes
last night after the game that if Will Lovis is healthy,
he's still the starter. We'll see Devon Day. Adams was
on the Ky Adams Show, No Relation, and he had.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
This to say, but a lot of people think you're
you may never play another down as a raider.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
What would you say to that?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
All I can control is this this talk we're having
right here, and then after we're done with this, all
I can control is the next thing that I'm unting.
So I'm gonna get up in a minute and nice
workout in and that's all I can control.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Look, they don't have the quarterback, they're not there yet,
they're not close to being there, and you're wasting Devonte Aams.
You're paying them a ton of money. And even though
you wanted to be a raider, he wanted to be
a raider with Derek Carr. It was like a different
regime ago. It didn't work, and we move on. The
question becomes is he still the same Devanta he was
(13:07):
in Green Bay? And the question and the answer is probably, uh,
maybe not. You know, you got two years removed. Can
the Chiefs get him? And if so, can Tom to
Leusco kind of hold them upside down? The problem with
the Chiefs is they're often undefeed to start, so a
first round pick is not really nearly as valuable as
bad teams first round picks.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Is he available?
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What's the asking price? That part's going to be interesting,
really interesting, really interesting. It's Doug atlib Schell, You're on
Fox Sports Radio and uh, light work from a boy
makes the Rudolph right comes in off the bench, another dub,
just like last year with the Steelers helping lead them
to the playoffs. He joins us now on Fox Sports Radio. Mason,
(13:53):
how are you doing great, Doug?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm good, man, I'm good. What was that like last night?
Here you're on the sideline, you see will go down?
What what is that like? As the backup quarterback? A
role that you've you've played before, obviously been the start,
you've been the backup. What's it like when you're one
concern for a guy that you share the quarterback room with,
but you also got to get ready to go.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Yeah, it's it's uh, it'll spike the adrenaline levels pretty quickly.
I uh yeah, obviously, like you said, we'll tweak you
shoulder some sort of an ac uh irritation, and so
he's sort of moving around and you, you know, you
don't know if it's something he's gonna be able to
kind of play with or work for. Like you said,
(14:39):
you're you're going to get out there and play. So
he ended up not being able to go and you
kind of getting that zone talk about you know, play
play options or the next of the following drive upcoming
drive and uh, get you a couple of get you
a couple of throws to get warm and jump in there,
So that's kind of how it goes.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
But what what is what is that like? Right, it's
your first time I'm wearing a different uniform in a
real NFL game, fresh off of playing and starting for
the Steelers in the playoffs, going to last year. What's
that feeling like, trotting out, trotting out in the field
for the first time as the Titans quarterback during the
regular season.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Yeah, it felt great. I mean, I I felt prepared.
I've felt like as part of the best staff I've
been a part of as far as just you know, offensively,
just the offensive minded head coach, the attended of detail
in the installation each week, the situational like we drill
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situations and two minutes and a half too in the game.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
It's just like to death.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
And so, uh felt prepared, even though you know you're
obviously not getting the reps during the week, but I
try to stay sharp. And they were that call sheet,
so I sure, you know, mentally up to speed.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
How do you not you know, the calls and the
the the verbiage you know is obviously different. It's a
different football family. It's you know, Holtz wasn't he was
last year in Jacksonville and with the Raiders before, so
it's not like he was in Pittsburgh. So it reminds me.
It's got to remind me of I remember when I
was in Russia. I learned to speak Russian, but occasionally
(16:09):
I would be speaking Russian and a Spanish word would
pop in and like, no, no, wait, it's not Spanish.
It's right, there are different languages. Do you catch yourself
with the verbiage change kind of when you're called, when
you're audibilizing or thinking thinking of what you're looking for.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Yes, so actually Callahan, Brian Callahan, the head coach. He
calls the plays. Uh he even though coordinator Nicole that
you references coordinator on paper. But so yeah, quite quite
a lot of you know, new verbiage, longer play calls.
You know that I was used to in pitt But
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you know, I've had I've had training camp reps and
and pre season game reps, and so I felt pretty
dar uncomfortable. And but yeah, there's there are times where
you know, uh, you have sort of you know, uh
moments where you're, hey, just this is what we call this, right,
And he's kind of getting in there and double checking,
double checking things, especially with the center that you know,
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I hadn't worked with a whole lot through training camp,
you know under center sort of chemistry and and and
and verbal cadence and so, but we figured that out
pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What what is the kind of Callahan seeker?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Because obviously his dad's like, I mean, he was head
coach of the Raiders who went to the Super Bowl. But
he's an offensive line guru and savant and of course
his sons like Chip off the Old Block, Like you
mentioned attention to detail. Like, what is it specifically that's
allowed that family to be so well respected on the
offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah, I think I think I was talking to you know,
his nickname is wild Bill Calhoun, you know, the senior
uh Bill, And and he is just I mean he's
sixty eight years old and he is as sharp as attack.
And when he when he when he installed the run
plan each week, it's uh, I mean, it's just it's
it's sort of a it's like a Pets and l bit.
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So it's enjoyable. He's he's humorous, he's sarcastic, and the
guys are locked in and listening to him. And but
we had a heck of a lot of personnel groups.
I mean, it's it's a complex plan a lot. You know,
there's a lot of times in the huddle what you're calling,
you know, one one run play, can you know, you know,
alert to another run play in case, you know, basically
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the look we get. So he's detailed in there, and
that's why the studying during the week is so vital.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's interesting though, right because like I'm sitting at home
and I'm like, you know, they're running power you know,
like man let me. Of course, I'm like, let my
man throw the ball. But the second, the second part
is you're sitting there going like, okay, this to the
layman appears very very simple, just running the football, but
the reality is it's super super complex.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
It is it is, And yeah, I knew that was
going to be the game sort of the game plan
going in, Like, you know, they got a quarterback who's
freaking been a part of their program for ten days,
so it's reasonable to expect. And you know, anyone, I
don't care if you're you know, I don't know, make
manning to going there, if you're not going to be
as effective as you're just so new and so when
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we got there, you know the early lead, we knew
the control of the ball, you know, run running it well,
shot on the clock. It was going to be important.
But you're right, it's uh. I mean most of the
time you're breaking hot with two plays and you got emotion,
a shift and then another speed motion most likely, and
and there's just a lot of moving parts and the
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average fan, like said, would wouldn't realize that.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Did you see what happened on social media with the
guy and his girlfriend?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, I did know. I did. I had that sent
to me a few times. That was plain no, this
is this was a I was responding actually to a
whoever the girl was. It's had sent sent a few
messages my way. I believe she was a Steelers fan,
and so I was responding back. But you know, water
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under the bridge, it's it's all uh, it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Come on, dude, it's hilarious. Right, Like she's saying like
he slid into my DMS, which is not an accurate way,
and he's like, and we're losing and we suck. I
just want to go home now, and you know, and
then of course, yeah, like it to add insult to injury.
It wasn't just that the Titans were beating his beloved Dolphins,
but that you checked in the game and then you're
responsible for beating the Dolphins like that was that was
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a kind of amazing thing to sit here as a
bread and watch.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, no, but it was.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It wasn't an unsolicited slide into her DMS. We want
to make sure that's clear.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Again.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It was not an unsolicited slide in her deal.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
It was it was a it was a it was
a response, and it was about eight months ago. It
was definitely not in between the second down going to
third down. Put a good frame job, a good frame
job for a little fifteen seconds of same. I guess
you know it's all Yeah, that's what these kids are
going for.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, so you got the week off, right, and then
Colt's at home. What's your mentality in regards to Will
and whether or not you'll starter come off the bench?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah? I uh, Kelly said last night that you know,
Will bearing he's shelfy, that he'll he'll still be kind
of a slated in guy. So I'm going to continue
to prepare and you know, support him if that's if
that's the direction we're going to go and help them
get ready and and and try to help the Titans
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win whatever way I can. Got to buy week obviously,
so you I'm not going to speculate that I don't.
I don't fully know. I think that's what he said
last night. That's the direction we're going to go and
and but I'll be ready as always. And you know,
whether it's.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What's what's this life? I mean, what's his life life?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
For you?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Mason? Mason Rudolf join us Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Trader.
You're a pride toal guy. Okay, you were the starter
in Pittsburgh. They brought another you know, they go and
draft another guy a thentally you end up beating them out,
you go to the playoffs, and yet then they go
and bring in two new quarterbacks, obviously new offense. Now
you go here, you check in, you win the game.
Like so you're sitting there going like, I can win
football games this league. I did it last year. And
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yet you know, even even last night Callahan and obviously
Will's younger was drafted by the team. Granted, different regime,
but what is that what is that existence like of
maintaining your level of self confidence while also being willing
to have other guys playing. You know, your job as
a backup is to get the other guy ready.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, it's definitely your You're living in limbo quite a
bit and I've gotten used to it, but you never
totally get fully. You know, you didn't want to be
complacent with being a backup, and I don't. I mean,
like you said, I felt dark and confident in the
way I played last year at the even the season
to get us in the playoffs and winning games and
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playing good football. And last night, you know, I didn't
like this world ward up, but I felt I felt
good on you know, not having much work with the
first team offense. So I think in the end, Doug, like,
it's it's just a good it's a good lesson for
life and like you know, always staying ready. And I
think it will make me make me a better man,
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you know, make me a better father and a husband
one day, just just just the old you know, they
hardening that the NFL has made me, you know, may
molded me into of it's it's just cutthroat and they're
always trying to replace you. And uh, you know, if
you don't have confidence in yourself, and you know, there's
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not a lot of people will I think. I think
I've had a lot of confidence in myself and the
way I played, and my teammates have confidence in me
and when I step on the field, and that's all
I try to worry about.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Last thing. I really appreciate your time, Mase. You know
onrect you.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Doug with you know the new gig up there in
Green Bay. We you know, we talked some text couple
of times. But that's awesome had before you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yes, I really appreciate it. And I do expect you
to be in attendance at at one of the games
at some point in time. Those are my there's my expectations.
We play, we play oh State the day after you
play the Patriots. Just so you know, in case you
want to fly in case you want to fly in
from nash Vegas, you know you can. You can sit
on my bench. You can sit on my bench if
you want. Crabtree can be my my, my my bodyguard,
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and you can you can you can call a couple,
you can call it cold plays. Uh yeah, sure, what not?
What what about this team? Like anybody looks at a
one and three record and You're like, but if you
watch the games and I did you know a couple
will turnovers? Right, I mean trying to make plays. Is
the difference between beating the Bears beating the Jets being
three and one on being three and one on the season.
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Where do you think this team is in terms of expectations? Obviously,
you know Callahan year one, there's a lot of changes
going on. Now you come up to the meat of
you still got coltson ad Bills at Lions, at Chargers. Uh,
what are your thoughts on where this team is in
its growth phase?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, I mean I think a lot of a lot
of close games. Obviously the last four weeks.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
We've got the guys to do it, and we've got
you know, a heck of a group of receivers, Ridley
hop Tyler Boyd, Taylon Burks, and then you know the
two headed Welser Tony Pollard and Hodgie Spears who carried.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Us, you know, carried us last night. And then and
then a great defense that darn Wilson who came down
from from Baltimore, who's got that you know, attack mentality
and then heat you up in different looks and they
played great last night as well. And so I think, yeah,
anytime you have a you know, rookie head coach is
going to be sort of some you know, uh I
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guess skeptics. But I think we've got the we've got
the horsepower man to win games. And you know, like
you said, you're on paper, you look at those opponents
and you're like, wow, that's kind of uh daunting task.
But like the NFL is anyone can win each and
every week. You see that every week, and I think
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you get into the week and you start prepping for him,
and by by Saturday Saturday night, you're feeling as confident
as ever and like you can go beat the eighty
five Bears. So I think, I think, I think we
got a good, good group that stayed together. The head
coaches knows what he's doing. He's he's a smart guy.
He's a great play caller, and we're going to hit
the second half of the season, you know, with some
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fire makes.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You're the best man. I really appreciate you joining us.
Congrats on the dub can't wait to see you back
out in the turf in the Titans uniform really really soon.
Thanks for our guest.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Thanks Doug. I appreciate it had to be with.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well my pleasure Mason Rudolf joining us on the Doug
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like you get just get done. You win a game,
you know, your NFL, your backup quarterback, you get in
money and football, you win a game, and then you know,
you get back to that, you get to your phone
and your girlfriend's like, who dat what? I don't? And
then you see that, Uh yeah, that was nine months ago.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I didn't know his relationship status at all, so I
wasn't sure if there was. It was more scandalous because
of the situation that he would have been in, but
I felt that that he addressed it pretty well to
be like, yeah, no, I did send her a message.
She responded back to me. And this was also months
ago that this happened. But I think that that's all
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pretty fair.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, I think he was single right to mingle in
this in the early off season. I think I don't know. Again,
I haven't pressed him like friends, but I'm not going
to act like we're like best friends whatever. I haven't
pressed him on like what is current? I don't know
how long this girlfriend has been around. Would be my
my thing. But that was fun. That was fun. It's
also really good, like he's a really good, thoughtful guy,
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like something happens in your life. He sends you a
text like, good dude to see him do well last night.
And obviously he didn't have to throw the ball a
ton man. That Tony Pollard cut, you want to talk
about some speed? Holy cow, that was impressive.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
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Speaker 2 (28:29):
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from the tyrack dot Com Studios. Welcome in. It's a Tuesday.
It's also the time of day when we play a
game with Dan Byer.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Danny B.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
What you got, Doug. The game today is rank them
all right, Doug Rank your top three MVP candidates in
the NFL four weeks into the season.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Top three MVP candidates, I can.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Tell you what some odds are if you'd like.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'm odd Okay, I don't know if I need the
odds as I can have a question, yes, okay, do
you want to based upon their performance or likelihood of
like just just strictly performance to date or or how
it will really work, right, because like, if you just
(29:35):
did performance to date, Jade Daniels should be on the
list of top three. But I mean, like he's not
gonna be a top three candidate for MVP, right.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
If you had to hand out the award today. Okay,
not over the next fourteen weeks, but if you had
to hand to hand it out today, who's in your
top three?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Okay, that's fair. I'm gonna go Anniels at three, Sam
Donald at two, and Pat Mahomes at one.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Okay. I think that the Donald hype is starting to
get a little out of control.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
But the oduction listen, no question, he didn't really play
well in the second half. They kind of they were
up to twenty nothing and they kind of did the
turtle shell thing, and he didn't play great. In the
second half. So but look it's been we're like almost
quarter pole whatever and so far, so good. This is
where it fell apart when they had some injuries when
he was in Carolina. Let let's see what happens from
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this point.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
For really curious to see on what happens with Rock
Purdy with the forty nine ers and Christian McCaffrey status.
A lot going on in San Francisco, but he has
been the steadying force for the forty nine ers so
far to at least to at least start this year.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I do hold it against some of the times it
was like pastformances when he has not all his guys.
But sure he's been good this year.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
All right, Doug rak your top three teams in the
NFL right now, right now?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Records would tell you that the Vikings and Chiefs would
be considered considering they're unbeaten. But are they really the
three best teams?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I mean that I don't It doesn't matter who the
Chiefs play like every game kind of looks the same,
although now without Rasid Rice you'd have to potentially take
them down a little bit. But if you don't like them,
who do you like? Right that they're in lies kind
of the question, right if you don't like the Chiefs
who won Super Bowl kind of in a similar fashion,
and you're also laying out belief that they will get
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somebody to be a top level wide receiver. I'll go
with Vikings at three, okay, I will go with uh
Lions at two and the Chiefs at one.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Interesting, all right, those are the three teams that I
had in mine as well. I had the Vikings on.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Top, though, you know the team I can't figure out,
who's going to figure out the Tampa Buccaneers can't can't
figure them out, Like, how do you lose to the
Broncos at home?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Sure, it's one of those games that they had in
Week three where.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
I just.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
You have a dip in your production. I don't think
their running game is great right now, but yeah, those
those think.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Of their wins like commanders are one of the one
of the best stories in the NFL right now. They
dominated the game the Lions. They nowly beat the Lions.
They beat the Lions in Detroit, granted early in the year,
but they beat them in Detroit, okay, And and they
held that offense back to you know, sixteen points, and
then they stomped the Eagles. Just stomp them this week.
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Now the Eagles don't have healthy wide receivers, I get it,
but still thirty three points. But then you lose to
the Broncos. I won't I don't get.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
You know the phrase, Doug ball don't lie, and they
probably should have lost to the Lions. Lines made a
lot of mistakes in that game, but kudos to the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers for winning it. Maybe their payback was
then that next week losing to the Denver Broncos. Fair enough, Doug,
rank your top three teams in college football after that
dandy between Alabama and Georgia it was past weekend.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
That was a great game. I'll go Alabama one. I
guess I'll go Ohio State two and Georgia three.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Buck Guys and Hawkeyes. This Saturday should be a good one.
I think the real first defensive test that Ohio State
is going to have to face. See if that running
game is up to the challenge and if Will Howard
can make the plays that he needs to. All Right,
this is this is I would kind of like Jason
in on this as well, because I know it's baseball history,
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but Doug, rank your three most memorable baseball teams.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Ooh, I love that one. I know what the number
one is going to be. I think most people our
age probably will say the same. Number one. I'm gonna go,
oh to Angels. Just that's my team. They won the
World six eighty eight Dodgers or Hersheiser had a fifty
something game, fifty something inning scoreless streak that was amazing.
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And of course Kirk Gibson hit the home run. And
then eighty six Mets are my number one.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Eighty six Mets.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Jason, do you have I agree with two of those picks.
And then I'm gonna throw in the ninety eight Yankees.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Who do you drop the Angels?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Yeah, I'll drop the Angels and include the ninety eight Yankees.
Google it one of the most impressive teams they'll ever
take a field.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Google it, Google me, Google me?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
All right, Final one. It is October first, So you
know every hard rock music station is now entered October thirty.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
One days Sunday Monday Sunday.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Has begun today. Yes, rank your top three bands. When
I say the phrase October, who enters your mind?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Okay, I'm cheesy this way right, Super super Yes. I know,
because like I have the mixture of my daughter who's
a metal bassist and she actually knows music to me
that I like, I'm gonna go sorry this bon Jovi Okay,
I know Bonjob is not like a hard rock that's okay,
Motley Crue and VH all right, our VH.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I don't I I'll tell you what. I don't have
a problem with some of those. My first band that
popped up was a c DC. Like it's such a
October sort of thing, just feel.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
My only thing about ac DC is, oh so sure,
they're all like kick ass songs all.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
But that to me is what I think of when
I think of rocktober. I also think that when you
listen to those stations, you're also going to get some Aerosmith.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
And maybe nothing else.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
The mid nineties softened Aerosmith, but some of their other
stuff the late one that popped into my head.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Favorite Aerosmith song, Oh.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I I like living on the Edge. Jane's Got a
Gun Takes. That's a good song.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I like what it takes. Yeah, it's good one.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
That's game time.
Speaker 8 (36:56):
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welcome in guys. Not a lot going on, right or
maybe there is, you know, like the Tennessee Titans get
their first win of the year. Mason Rudolph, who came
in and saved the day for the Titans, will join
us in the show. By the way, I have a
question for you, Dan, you and Jay Stu. You guys
are both very active on social media. I was Sam
(01:03):
as well, right, like, that's that's fair, that's not everybody
good with that? Okay? Did you see the post of
a young woman and her guy and they're at the
Dolphins game and she shows him that that Mason Rudolph
slid into her DMS. Yes I did, and he's and
(01:24):
the guy is like, guys, like Mason Rudolph slides into
my girls DMS. Now he's on the field and he's
beating the Dolphins. But like, I can't. This is the
worst ever. I want to go home right now. It's it, right, Okay?
Should I ask Mason about it?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, I think you have to.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, I mean it's off the field. It doesn't have
to do totally. I mean I'd like to, and we
are friends, but like, is this going to kill our friendship?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
If I asked, well, I wouldn't worry about the friendship.
I'd worried about the listener and what the listener wants
to to know, and I'd want to know that information.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Okay, jay Stu, are you okay with that? I mean,
I'll go with it, but I just want to make
sure that we're all on board for the possibility of it.
I mean, Jayce dou of course, used to be with
with with Rome's posse, and right Rome made a name
for himself by calling Jim Everett Chris Everett several times
and then getting a desk turned over on him. I
don't think Mason would have that kind of negative energy.
And I got to find like a nice neutral way
(02:20):
of asking him. But I got to ask him about it, right,
Jace du Can, I I can't give him a pack.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think we got to and could you guys clarify
something for me, because I saw the tweet many times.
I just didn't I didn't actually spend any time looking
at it.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Did it?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Did she divulge what he wrote to her?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
No? Oh no, no, there was no there was nothing there.
It looked like it was unopened by the way.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
There was. There was some there was some drama on
whether it was a screenshot, whether it was an actual
the actual app being shown. The question or the message
was are you still in Miami? That's what was allegedly
sent to the message, Whether it's real or not.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You're still in Miami? All right, We'll we'll find out,
We'll ask. I will ask Mason Rudolf, he'll join us,
he'll join us upcoming, man. I mean, she blew up
his spot on Twitter when he's playing in the game.
That's called blowing up your spot. By the way, I
don't know if you guys are familiar with that. Mason's
joining us in twenty five minutes. It is the Doug
(03:24):
Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Quick Welcome into
KA n e W. That's k New, our new affiliate
in San Francisco. It's nine to sixty AM. iHeart sports
talk and more. Don Parker, thanks for making the ill
fated decision of having us on, but West Coast guys,
regardless of where we are doing a national show, we
appreciate you. We appreciate you. Can I get to the
(03:47):
Pete Rose thing. So Pete Rose passed away last night,
and again I haven't polled my staff. I haven't asked
Jay Steube, although I fall him on social media, so
I do know. I didn't see Dan tweet about it.
So again, Dan, if this goes counter to your opinion,
we can we can talk about it. But what actually
(04:08):
has changed between yesterday and today? Right? I mean, p
Rose isn't of this earth anymore? But had any of
you spent any time thinking about Pete Rose before?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Now?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Like?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So this newfound push and this always happens, right and
frankly like this is there's I don't think Reggie Bush's
is to this point. But like, Reggie Bush was taking money,
got caught taking money, and now because you can take money,
they gave him back his Heisman trophy and we acted
(04:42):
like none of it ever happened. And Reggie Bush acts
like he's a victim when he's he's not right. The
one thing is, yes, did it steer players or keep
players at schools because you paid them? Sure, but the
actual game itself there wasn't the same. It didn't strike
you the core of what the game with the sports
(05:03):
is about. And suddenly now Pete Rose becomes some sort
of sympathetic figure because he passes away, and like, how
could the whole time hit king, the all time game
player king, How could Pete Rose seventeen time All Star?
How could he not be and recognized in the Hall
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of Fame. Well, first thing is he actually is recognized.
His accomplishments are recognized in the Hall of Fame. His
bats there, gloves, their shoes there came. And I'm not
even factoring in some of the creepy off the field
stuff like don't care. I'm not using that to talk
about whether or not Pete Rose should be in or
shouldn't be in. But I started in this national sports
(05:45):
radio game with a man named Chuck Wilson. Chuck normally
would join us. We get him for an hour, and
he is a Pete Rose fan who is the foremost
authority on the Doubt report and on all Pete Rose did.
He can join us because his father in law is very,
very sick and he's holding his wife's hand and he
(06:06):
was It's just that's it's not something he wants to
disrupt in terms of his family. But what I did
learn from him, going back again, I've been doing this
for twenty two years. Of the twenty two years, nationally,
anytime Pete Rose comes up, there'll be something to go, well,
they just put him in. What's the point of having punishments?
(06:27):
What's the point of punishments? And oh yeah, by the way,
the way in which you get a punishment lessoned in
the court of law is what admit fault, admit guilt.
He just admitted and will cut it down. And you know,
Pete Rose never did. He never admitted it. Not only
he never admitted, but he wouldn't even admit to when
he began betting on baseball Hipete's thing was like, I
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only bet on games we're going to for us to win. Okay, Pete,
you do understand that if you call a bookie twice
a week and say and bet on your team to win,
and then you don't call your bookie, doesn't that mean
you think you're gonna lose? Right? And oh yeah, By
the way, he started betting on baseball, not just as
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a manager, a player manager, so he could directly affect
all of those games, and even the ones he didn't
bet on, he could directly affect the other part too.
It is you can load up your quality pitchers for
those games that you bet on and essentially throw the
other ones without throwing them. Piro is a great player,
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all time great and the way in which he played
the sport is the way in which you want anybody
to play the sport. But when you violate the core
tenants of what sports is about, specifically baseball, where a
rule that was posted on every clubhouse wall, and then
you deny, deny, deny, make yourself out to be the victim. Okay,
(07:55):
then you do all kinds of things like I'm gonna
sell autographs right across the street from Hall of fame
like Pete. He's not a great dude. He just wasn't.
Let's not make him into some sympathetic figure. He was
a great ballplayer that committed a crime against the sport
of baseball. The punishment that they chose that everybody agreed
with was a lifetime ban. That band could have been
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lifted several times over had he at any at any point,
at any point acknowledged what he had done, admitted it,
talked about it, and tried to tell others not to
fall into the trappings of betting on professional sports, especially
the one in which you play. He chose not to
do so. So the payment is just like when you're like, hey,
(08:40):
I'm going to fight this ticket. If you fight that ticket.
Have you ever been in a traffic court but you
go in and they call your name and like hey,
look a hundred bucks. It goes away like, well, you
fight the ticket, and what happens. I don't know if anybody
had been in a traffic court recently. I have. There's
cameras everywhere like I did not run that red light,
and like mister godlieb, this is your car. You ran
(09:05):
the red light. Any know what happens because of their
time because of what they had to do. They're going
to punish you to the complete extent of the law.
Like okay, now it's a three hundred and fifty dollars
ticket like that. You know you could have go, you
could have walked away with a hundred, but you chose
not to do. So let's not make that Pete out
to be anything more than an incredible player who played
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for a long time, who played baseball the right way,
except for the one thing he gambled on baseball, and
then he lied about it. He claimed to never know
when his first bet was because if he did, he
would say, which is in the doubt report, that he
started betting on baseball when he was a player manager.
In other words, he was still playing. So let's not
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act like he didn't have his hands on a baseball
to make a play that could help or hurt his team.
Just not that way. I feel zero sympathy for him,
not individual personally being recognized in the in the Baseball
Hall of Fame. None, and you shouldn't either. And don't
believe these people that haven't done their homework. That's simply
all they want to do is grandstand and get people
(10:12):
on social media or media to act like there's some
hero championing the week. That's not who Peter Rose was.
P Rose did come from nothing and built him built
himself into an absolute legendary baseball player. But he's kind
of a slam ball. Let's just be totally candidate, honest,
(10:33):
and if that, if that bothers you, fine, go and
just track his history all the things he's done, and
you're like, yeah, maybe not the best guy they want.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Again, that doesn't keep you out of the Pro Baseball
Hall of Fame. There's plenty of Hall of famers that
aren't good dudes. But he bet on baseball repeatedly as
the player manager, What do you want to do with that?
And then never came clean, never admitted when he did it.
You know, has had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to
(11:08):
acquiesce to what Baseball has asked him to do in
order to in order to get reinstated. He made the
calculated guess, hey, that public pressure would be on his side,
and it probably was, but also that he would be
more popular, probably make more money as the anti Hall
of Fame Hall of Famer than he would by saying
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I admitted I did be.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
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Speaker 2 (11:41):
Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Mason Ruff up coming
in my clock here five minutes, five minutes, Amazon, Yeah, Yeah,
five minutes, and we'll get the quarterback, maybe the starting
quarterback for the Titans, although last night's head coach came
out and said we're gonna We're gonna stick as is.
You know, they got the week off anyway, so we
(12:03):
Will Levis got hurt, hurt his shoulder ac joint. We
don't know how bad it is, but Callahan said yes
last night after the game that if Will Lovis is healthy,
he's still the starter. We'll see Devon Day. Adams was
on the Ky Adams Show, No Relation, and he had.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
This to say, but a lot of people think you're
you may never play another down as a raider.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
What would you say to that?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
All I can control is this this talk we're having
right here, and then after we're done with this, all
I can control is the next thing that I'm unting.
So I'm gonna get up in a minute and nice
workout in and that's all I can control.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Look, they don't have the quarterback, they're not there yet,
they're not close to being there, and you're wasting Devonte Aams.
You're paying them a ton of money. And even though
you wanted to be a raider, he wanted to be
a raider with Derek Carr. It was like a different
regime ago. It didn't work, and we move on. The
question becomes is he still the same Devanta he was
(13:07):
in Green Bay? And the question and the answer is probably, uh,
maybe not. You know, you got two years removed. Can
the Chiefs get him? And if so, can Tom to
Leusco kind of hold them upside down? The problem with
the Chiefs is they're often undefeed to start, so a
first round pick is not really nearly as valuable as
bad teams first round picks.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Is he available?
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What's the asking price? That part's going to be interesting,
really interesting, really interesting. It's Doug atlib Schell, You're on
Fox Sports Radio and uh, light work from a boy
makes the Rudolph right comes in off the bench, another dub,
just like last year with the Steelers helping lead them
to the playoffs. He joins us now on Fox Sports Radio. Mason,
(13:53):
how are you doing great, Doug?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I'm good, man, I'm good. What was that like last night?
Here you're on the sideline, you see will go down?
What what is that like? As the backup quarterback? A
role that you've you've played before, obviously been the start,
you've been the backup. What's it like when you're one
concern for a guy that you share the quarterback room with,
but you also got to get ready to go.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Yeah, it's it's uh, it'll spike the adrenaline levels pretty quickly.
I uh yeah, obviously, like you said, we'll tweak you
shoulder some sort of an ac uh irritation, and so
he's sort of moving around and you, you know, you
don't know if it's something he's gonna be able to
kind of play with or work for. Like you said,
(14:39):
you're you're going to get out there and play. So
he ended up not being able to go and you
kind of getting that zone talk about you know, play
play options or the next of the following drive upcoming
drive and uh, get you a couple of get you
a couple of throws to get warm and jump in there,
So that's kind of how it goes.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
But what what is what is that like? Right, it's
your first time I'm wearing a different uniform in a
real NFL game, fresh off of playing and starting for
the Steelers in the playoffs, going to last year. What's
that feeling like, trotting out, trotting out in the field
for the first time as the Titans quarterback during the
regular season.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Yeah, it felt great. I mean, I I felt prepared.
I've felt like as part of the best staff I've
been a part of as far as just you know, offensively,
just the offensive minded head coach, the attended of detail
in the installation each week, the situational like we drill
(15:31):
situations and two minutes and a half too in the game.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
It's just like to death.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
And so, uh felt prepared, even though you know you're
obviously not getting the reps during the week, but I
try to stay sharp. And they were that call sheet,
so I sure, you know, mentally up to speed.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
How do you not you know, the calls and the
the the verbiage you know is obviously different. It's a
different football family. It's you know, Holtz wasn't he was
last year in Jacksonville and with the Raiders before, so
it's not like he was in Pittsburgh. So it reminds me.
It's got to remind me of I remember when I
was in Russia. I learned to speak Russian, but occasionally
(16:09):
I would be speaking Russian and a Spanish word would
pop in and like, no, no, wait, it's not Spanish.
It's right, there are different languages. Do you catch yourself
with the verbiage change kind of when you're called, when
you're audibilizing or thinking thinking of what you're looking for.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Yes, so actually Callahan, Brian Callahan, the head coach. He
calls the plays. Uh he even though coordinator Nicole that
you references coordinator on paper. But so yeah, quite quite
a lot of you know, new verbiage, longer play calls.
You know that I was used to in pitt But
(16:46):
you know, I've had I've had training camp reps and
and pre season game reps, and so I felt pretty
dar uncomfortable. And but yeah, there's there are times where
you know, uh, you have sort of you know, uh
moments where you're, hey, just this is what we call this, right,
And he's kind of getting in there and double checking,
double checking things, especially with the center that you know,
(17:06):
I hadn't worked with a whole lot through training camp,
you know under center sort of chemistry and and and
and verbal cadence and so, but we figured that out
pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What what is the kind of Callahan seeker?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Because obviously his dad's like, I mean, he was head
coach of the Raiders who went to the Super Bowl. But
he's an offensive line guru and savant and of course
his sons like Chip off the Old Block, Like you
mentioned attention to detail. Like, what is it specifically that's
allowed that family to be so well respected on the
offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah, I think I think I was talking to you know,
his nickname is wild Bill Calhoun, you know, the senior
uh Bill, And and he is just I mean he's
sixty eight years old and he is as sharp as attack.
And when he when he when he installed the run
plan each week, it's uh, I mean, it's just it's
it's sort of a it's like a Pets and l bit.
(17:59):
So it's enjoyable. He's he's humorous, he's sarcastic, and the
guys are locked in and listening to him. And but
we had a heck of a lot of personnel groups.
I mean, it's it's a complex plan a lot. You know,
there's a lot of times in the huddle what you're calling,
you know, one one run play, can you know, you know,
alert to another run play in case, you know, basically
(18:19):
the look we get. So he's detailed in there, and
that's why the studying during the week is so vital.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's interesting though, right because like I'm sitting at home
and I'm like, you know, they're running power you know,
like man let me. Of course, I'm like, let my
man throw the ball. But the second, the second part
is you're sitting there going like, okay, this to the
layman appears very very simple, just running the football, but
the reality is it's super super complex.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
It is it is, And yeah, I knew that was
going to be the game sort of the game plan
going in, Like, you know, they got a quarterback who's
freaking been a part of their program for ten days,
so it's reasonable to expect. And you know, anyone, I
don't care if you're you know, I don't know, make
manning to going there, if you're not going to be
as effective as you're just so new and so when
(19:07):
we got there, you know the early lead, we knew
the control of the ball, you know, run running it well,
shot on the clock. It was going to be important.
But you're right, it's uh. I mean most of the
time you're breaking hot with two plays and you got emotion,
a shift and then another speed motion most likely, and
and there's just a lot of moving parts and the
(19:30):
average fan, like said, would wouldn't realize that.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Did you see what happened on social media with the
guy and his girlfriend?
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, I did know. I did. I had that sent
to me a few times. That was plain no, this
is this was a I was responding actually to a
whoever the girl was. It's had sent sent a few
messages my way. I believe she was a Steelers fan,
and so I was responding back. But you know, water
(20:00):
under the bridge, it's it's all uh, it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Come on, dude, it's hilarious. Right, Like she's saying like
he slid into my DMS, which is not an accurate way,
and he's like, and we're losing and we suck. I
just want to go home now, and you know, and
then of course, yeah, like it to add insult to injury.
It wasn't just that the Titans were beating his beloved Dolphins,
but that you checked in the game and then you're
responsible for beating the Dolphins like that was that was
(20:25):
a kind of amazing thing to sit here as a
bread and watch.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Yeah, no, but it was.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It wasn't an unsolicited slide into her DMS. We want
to make sure that's clear.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Again.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It was not an unsolicited slide in her deal.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
It was it was a it was a it was
a response, and it was about eight months ago. It
was definitely not in between the second down going to
third down. Put a good frame job, a good frame
job for a little fifteen seconds of same. I guess
you know it's all Yeah, that's what these kids are
going for.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, so you got the week off, right, and then
Colt's at home. What's your mentality in regards to Will
and whether or not you'll starter come off the bench?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah? I uh, Kelly said last night that you know,
Will bearing he's shelfy, that he'll he'll still be kind
of a slated in guy. So I'm going to continue
to prepare and you know, support him if that's if
that's the direction we're going to go and help them
get ready and and and try to help the Titans
(21:31):
win whatever way I can. Got to buy week obviously,
so you I'm not going to speculate that I don't.
I don't fully know. I think that's what he said
last night. That's the direction we're going to go and
and but I'll be ready as always. And you know,
whether it's.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What's what's this life? I mean, what's his life life?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
For you?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Mason? Mason Rudolf join us Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Trader.
You're a pride toal guy. Okay, you were the starter
in Pittsburgh. They brought another you know, they go and
draft another guy a thentally you end up beating them out,
you go to the playoffs, and yet then they go
and bring in two new quarterbacks, obviously new offense. Now
you go here, you check in, you win the game.
Like so you're sitting there going like, I can win
football games this league. I did it last year. And
(22:14):
yet you know, even even last night Callahan and obviously
Will's younger was drafted by the team. Granted, different regime,
but what is that what is that existence like of
maintaining your level of self confidence while also being willing
to have other guys playing. You know, your job as
a backup is to get the other guy ready.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, it's definitely your You're living in limbo quite a
bit and I've gotten used to it, but you never
totally get fully. You know, you didn't want to be
complacent with being a backup, and I don't. I mean,
like you said, I felt dark and confident in the
way I played last year at the even the season
to get us in the playoffs and winning games and
(22:56):
playing good football. And last night, you know, I didn't
like this world ward up, but I felt I felt
good on you know, not having much work with the
first team offense. So I think in the end, Doug, like,
it's it's just a good it's a good lesson for
life and like you know, always staying ready. And I
think it will make me make me a better man,
(23:18):
you know, make me a better father and a husband
one day, just just just the old you know, they
hardening that the NFL has made me, you know, may
molded me into of it's it's just cutthroat and they're
always trying to replace you. And uh, you know, if
you don't have confidence in yourself, and you know, there's
(23:40):
not a lot of people will I think. I think
I've had a lot of confidence in myself and the
way I played, and my teammates have confidence in me
and when I step on the field, and that's all
I try to worry about.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Last thing. I really appreciate your time, Mase. You know
onrect you.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Doug with you know the new gig up there in
Green Bay. We you know, we talked some text couple
of times. But that's awesome had before you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yes, I really appreciate it. And I do expect you
to be in attendance at at one of the games
at some point in time. Those are my there's my expectations.
We play, we play oh State the day after you
play the Patriots. Just so you know, in case you
want to fly in case you want to fly in
from nash Vegas, you know you can. You can sit
on my bench. You can sit on my bench if
you want. Crabtree can be my my, my my bodyguard,
(24:28):
and you can you can you can call a couple,
you can call it cold plays. Uh yeah, sure, what not?
What what about this team? Like anybody looks at a
one and three record and You're like, but if you
watch the games and I did you know a couple
will turnovers? Right, I mean trying to make plays. Is
the difference between beating the Bears beating the Jets being
three and one on being three and one on the season.
(24:53):
Where do you think this team is in terms of expectations? Obviously,
you know Callahan year one, there's a lot of changes
going on. Now you come up to the meat of
you still got coltson ad Bills at Lions, at Chargers. Uh,
what are your thoughts on where this team is in
its growth phase?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, I mean I think a lot of a lot
of close games. Obviously the last four weeks.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
We've got the guys to do it, and we've got
you know, a heck of a group of receivers, Ridley
hop Tyler Boyd, Taylon Burks, and then you know the
two headed Welser Tony Pollard and Hodgie Spears who carried.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Us, you know, carried us last night. And then and
then a great defense that darn Wilson who came down
from from Baltimore, who's got that you know, attack mentality
and then heat you up in different looks and they
played great last night as well. And so I think, yeah,
anytime you have a you know, rookie head coach is
going to be sort of some you know, uh I
(25:48):
guess skeptics. But I think we've got the we've got
the horsepower man to win games. And you know, like
you said, you're on paper, you look at those opponents
and you're like, wow, that's kind of uh daunting task.
But like the NFL is anyone can win each and
every week. You see that every week, and I think
(26:09):
you get into the week and you start prepping for him,
and by by Saturday Saturday night, you're feeling as confident
as ever and like you can go beat the eighty
five Bears. So I think, I think, I think we
got a good, good group that stayed together. The head
coaches knows what he's doing. He's he's a smart guy.
He's a great play caller, and we're going to hit
the second half of the season, you know, with some
(26:29):
fire makes.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You're the best man. I really appreciate you joining us.
Congrats on the dub can't wait to see you back
out in the turf in the Titans uniform really really soon.
Thanks for our guest.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Thanks Doug. I appreciate it had to be with.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well my pleasure Mason Rudolf joining us on the Doug
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(27:01):
like you get just get done. You win a game,
you know, your NFL, your backup quarterback, you get in
money and football, you win a game, and then you know,
you get back to that, you get to your phone
and your girlfriend's like, who dat what? I don't? And
then you see that, Uh yeah, that was nine months ago.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
I didn't know his relationship status at all, so I
wasn't sure if there was. It was more scandalous because
of the situation that he would have been in, but
I felt that that he addressed it pretty well to
be like, yeah, no, I did send her a message.
She responded back to me. And this was also months
ago that this happened. But I think that that's all
(27:46):
pretty fair.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, I think he was single right to mingle in
this in the early off season. I think I don't know. Again,
I haven't pressed him like friends, but I'm not going
to act like we're like best friends whatever. I haven't
pressed him on like what is current? I don't know
how long this girlfriend has been around. Would be my
my thing. But that was fun. That was fun. It's
also really good, like he's a really good, thoughtful guy,
(28:09):
like something happens in your life. He sends you a
text like, good dude to see him do well last night.
And obviously he didn't have to throw the ball a
ton man. That Tony Pollard cut, you want to talk
about some speed? Holy cow, that was impressive.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
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Speaker 2 (28:29):
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from the tyrack dot Com Studios. Welcome in. It's a Tuesday.
It's also the time of day when we play a
game with Dan Byer.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Danny B.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
What you got, Doug. The game today is rank them
all right, Doug Rank your top three MVP candidates in
the NFL four weeks into the season.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Top three MVP candidates, I can.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Tell you what some odds are if you'd like.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'm odd Okay, I don't know if I need the
odds as I can have a question, yes, okay, do
you want to based upon their performance or likelihood of
like just just strictly performance to date or or how
it will really work, right, because like, if you just
(29:35):
did performance to date, Jade Daniels should be on the
list of top three. But I mean, like he's not
gonna be a top three candidate for MVP, right.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
If you had to hand out the award today. Okay,
not over the next fourteen weeks, but if you had
to hand to hand it out today, who's in your
top three?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Okay, that's fair. I'm gonna go Anniels at three, Sam
Donald at two, and Pat Mahomes at one.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Okay. I think that the Donald hype is starting to
get a little out of control.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
But the oduction listen, no question, he didn't really play
well in the second half. They kind of they were
up to twenty nothing and they kind of did the
turtle shell thing, and he didn't play great. In the
second half. So but look it's been we're like almost
quarter pole whatever and so far, so good. This is
where it fell apart when they had some injuries when
he was in Carolina. Let let's see what happens from
(30:37):
this point.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
For really curious to see on what happens with Rock
Purdy with the forty nine ers and Christian McCaffrey status.
A lot going on in San Francisco, but he has
been the steadying force for the forty nine ers so
far to at least to at least start this year.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I do hold it against some of the times it
was like pastformances when he has not all his guys.
But sure he's been good this year.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
All right, Doug rak your top three teams in the
NFL right now, right now?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Records would tell you that the Vikings and Chiefs would
be considered considering they're unbeaten. But are they really the
three best teams?
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I mean that I don't It doesn't matter who the
Chiefs play like every game kind of looks the same,
although now without Rasid Rice you'd have to potentially take
them down a little bit. But if you don't like them,
who do you like? Right that they're in lies kind
of the question, right if you don't like the Chiefs
who won Super Bowl kind of in a similar fashion,
and you're also laying out belief that they will get
(31:46):
somebody to be a top level wide receiver. I'll go
with Vikings at three, okay, I will go with uh
Lions at two and the Chiefs at one.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Interesting, all right, those are the three teams that I
had in mine as well. I had the Vikings on.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Top, though, you know the team I can't figure out,
who's going to figure out the Tampa Buccaneers can't can't
figure them out, Like, how do you lose to the
Broncos at home?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Sure, it's one of those games that they had in
Week three where.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
I just.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
You have a dip in your production. I don't think
their running game is great right now, but yeah, those
those think.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Of their wins like commanders are one of the one
of the best stories in the NFL right now. They
dominated the game the Lions. They nowly beat the Lions.
They beat the Lions in Detroit, granted early in the year,
but they beat them in Detroit, okay, And and they
held that offense back to you know, sixteen points, and
then they stomped the Eagles. Just stomp them this week.
(33:04):
Now the Eagles don't have healthy wide receivers, I get it,
but still thirty three points. But then you lose to
the Broncos. I won't I don't get.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
You know the phrase, Doug ball don't lie, and they
probably should have lost to the Lions. Lines made a
lot of mistakes in that game, but kudos to the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers for winning it. Maybe their payback was
then that next week losing to the Denver Broncos. Fair enough, Doug,
rank your top three teams in college football after that
dandy between Alabama and Georgia it was past weekend.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
That was a great game. I'll go Alabama one. I
guess I'll go Ohio State two and Georgia three.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Buck Guys and Hawkeyes. This Saturday should be a good one.
I think the real first defensive test that Ohio State
is going to have to face. See if that running
game is up to the challenge and if Will Howard
can make the plays that he needs to. All Right,
this is this is I would kind of like Jason
in on this as well, because I know it's baseball history,
(34:08):
but Doug, rank your three most memorable baseball teams.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Ooh, I love that one. I know what the number
one is going to be. I think most people our
age probably will say the same. Number one. I'm gonna go,
oh to Angels. Just that's my team. They won the
World six eighty eight Dodgers or Hersheiser had a fifty
something game, fifty something inning scoreless streak that was amazing.
(34:35):
And of course Kirk Gibson hit the home run. And
then eighty six Mets are my number one.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Eighty six Mets.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Jason, do you have I agree with two of those picks.
And then I'm gonna throw in the ninety eight Yankees.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Who do you drop the Angels?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Yeah, I'll drop the Angels and include the ninety eight Yankees.
Google it one of the most impressive teams they'll ever
take a field.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Google it, Google me, Google me?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
All right, Final one. It is October first, So you
know every hard rock music station is now entered October thirty.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
One days Sunday Monday Sunday.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Has begun today. Yes, rank your top three bands. When
I say the phrase October, who enters your mind?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Okay, I'm cheesy this way right, Super super Yes. I know,
because like I have the mixture of my daughter who's
a metal bassist and she actually knows music to me
that I like, I'm gonna go sorry this bon Jovi Okay,
I know Bonjob is not like a hard rock that's okay,
Motley Crue and VH all right, our VH.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I don't I I'll tell you what. I don't have
a problem with some of those. My first band that
popped up was a c DC. Like it's such a
October sort of thing, just feel.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
My only thing about ac DC is, oh so sure,
they're all like kick ass songs all.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
But that to me is what I think of when
I think of rocktober. I also think that when you
listen to those stations, you're also going to get some Aerosmith.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
And maybe nothing else.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
The mid nineties softened Aerosmith, but some of their other
stuff the late one that popped into my head.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Favorite Aerosmith song, Oh.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I I like living on the Edge. Jane's Got a
Gun Takes. That's a good song.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I like what it takes. Yeah, it's good one.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
That's game time.
Speaker 8 (36:56):
This is game time. On the Dug Gottlief Show, I watched.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
The Lions last night. We got to get buyer's opinion,
not right now, top of the hour. On the uniforms, right,
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