October 28, 2024 • 37 mins
Doug breaks down the Hail Mary completion by the Commanders in their win over the Bears on Sunday, and how Tyrique Stevenson messed it up. Doug talks about the World Series and Freddie Freeman's great night. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a game of "Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal?".
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but beautiful Green Bay, Wisconsin. Hope you had a great weekend.
I know that Jason Stewart did. That's because what he
doesn't know was his ears were probably on fire. Here's
how to be on fire. As you guys know, I'm
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Jason is a huge Dodger fan and a big baseball
fan as well. It's not just he doesn't just watch
the Dodgers, although that the Dodgers are his favorite team. Uh,
but we got into kind of a healthy back and
forth with or he got into healthy backboard with Matt Holiday,
seven time All Star, really close friend of mine, and
I was in Stillwater this weekend. It's in Oklahoma where
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Matt lives, and we're watching both Game one and Game
two of the World Series together. And which game was
it that Mookie Bets came through? I think there was
a Game one? It must be I was Game one.
And he turns to me immediately and says, can't wait
to meet Jay stew next week when he comes to
still Water. That's funny. That's that's how much your your
tweets resonate with base with real baseball players. Is that
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because you called out the clutchness of Mookie Bets back
in the NLCS and Matt how to brought Matt kind
of defended him then and had a little defense for
him the other day. But good weekend, which I mean,
you can't if you're a Dodger fan, show hey clear
to play Game three night. Can't last for a better
weekend than that, can you?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You're talking to me, I'm talking to you. I cannot
ask for a better weekend. What an amazing weekend. It
came with the share of controversy, though it wasn't just
two games that just kind of happened. Significant events happened
in each of them. But I do want to say
to Matt Holliday, I'm looking forward to meeting Matt too.
This goes back to Mookie Betts the past time.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Are you are you going to go toe on the Russes?
Not walking through the door.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
No, no, no, no. I just wanted to give the
listeners context here. Over the past three postseasons, Mookie Betts's
has been like one for thirty. So I started to
call him a choker because he started this postseason off wrong,
and I said, you know, I think he's choking. And
then he's obviously proven me wrong since but it doesn't
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make what I said wrong. I think up to that
point he was a choker. So when I see Matt,
we're going to have this nuanced conversation. I'm looking forward
to it and go Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Go Dodgers, loose the Dogars. You know I'm gonna I'm
gonna tell you this. I think this is A. It's
an interesting thing here. I the World Series right now
is two games to none, and it's not without contrary,
not with that discussion. We'll get to that discussion. It
does not feel close to being over, but it those
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have been two really good games, really interesting games. And
even though the Dodger are up for to one and
show hey slid and put his hand down and might
have partially dislocated his shoulder, I've enjoyed the hell out
of the out of the games, the energy in that building,
and I'm sure the energy and Yankee Stadium will be outstanding.
Of course, we do need the Yankees to win tonight
in order to make it a series. It's three games
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to note, and nobody wrote then it's like, all right,
let's just wrap this thing up, boys, right, let's just
wrap this thing up.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I've been telling people six games, and it's not that
I really wanted to go six games. But remember I
was saying last week about this kind of cosmic relationship
with Fernando Vellezuela. His birthday is on Friday. Game six
is on Friday. I just think it is going to
be one on game six, Fernando Answell's birthday and everything
will come full circle.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, that'd be interesting. That's a that's a fascinating way
to look at it, that Fernandofl's will somehow he gets
his day in the sun even after he passes away
at the age of six or three years old. Last
last week, can I start in football? Though there was
some I mean, yeah, the Jameis Winston thing, which only
reiterates what was iterated many times since it happened, which
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is Deshaun Watson's contract was an albatross and the team's
better off with him not throwing, and the fact that
we yearn for Jamis Winston, who has his own kind
of track carkeet. I like Jamis, by the way, and
my like for Jamis is not is in these goofy
interviews or the pregame PEP talks, which sometimes lack the
syntax that I'm that I'm used to. It's that I
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know people in the NFL, and everybody I know in
the NFL says J mimas. Winston's a hell of a dude.
So that's it. That's what I can kind of go by.
I can't. I don't know him personally, so I can't
sit there and tell you what I really think, or
don't think, Chargers one again in a kind of grinder
start down two to nothing. I thought it was a
baseball score, and then you look up. And I continue
to believe that the Chargers having a competent head coach
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is all the change they've ever needed, because they're not
that good yet. They're about five hundred and might even
make the playoffs in a year in which is a
transition year. There's some other stuff to talk about, but
I think how the night ended with the Commander's hail Mary,
with two bright young stars, the number one, number two
pick and last year's NFL draft, and with you know,
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with with Jayden Daniels the Heisman Trophy winter throwing a
hail mary and completing it. That's only part of the story.
The story is really Tyreek Stevenson, who was was the
bear who deflected the pass that went up in the
air and then ultimately caught by a redskin of Cyer Redskins, sorry,
a Commander in the end zone. I just had this
convers my son yesterday. We're driving around and we went
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to a sports bar to watch all the games, and
he's like, what we do is we do this every
Sunday if I'm with him, not with him, I call
him and we just picked the games, and he doesn't
look at the spreads of the lines. It's actually way
harder than you think. Just pick the games. And we've
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done it for probably he's fifteen now. I think we've
probably done it for about ten years, which is, hey, dude,
just pick the games and I'll pick against you, and
we'll see which ones are. And at the end of
the year one of us is usually up five or
six picks. It's pretty close. And again we don't agree
on every game. We rea on a lot of them.
But he turned to me and he's like, I just
can't get behind the Commanders. I was like, you don't
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like Jaden Daniels, Like no, no, it's not Jayden Daniels, it's
I can't. I just the nickname does nothing for me.
He's like, will they ever go back to Redskins? It's like,
probably not. Why not? I was like, are we really
getting to a political discussion on the Sunday morning. He's like, no, no.
He was a call by the way on Big one
hundred Commander's radio network of the Hail Mary for me
with the goal line. They bring three. Daniel's backing up.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
He's just gonna have to let one fly go to
the right side that steps away from the defenders, gets
himself some time now, steps up, fires heads towards the
end zone.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It is well, look, obviously they're excited, Obviously they can
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bleed the pass, but can anybody make out at all?
And a cognitive sentence that was having there. I think
I heard they won on a hail Mary, But between
laughing and hysteria, that was amazing. The Tyree Stephenson fail
is what everybody rightfully is talking about. S Tyreig Stevenson's
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a really talented defensive back for the Chicago Bears. And
as the play had started, because the previous play, I
think Daniels was sacked in the previous the previous play,
he's sitting there, you know, taunting the crowd. Meanwhile the
play starts, players are like ten yards down the field,
running down the field before he turns around and realizes, Now,
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the truth is the truth is that he had plenty
of time to go over and make the play he
was supposed to make. We'll play with Matty Eberflus's head
coach had to say, But the optics are just bad.
Here's Tyreek Stevenson earlier today.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Don't you regret I have fun yesterday? Is just letting
this team down from working hard and coming back and
putting us putting ourselves on a w column, you know,
just for me to be out of place and do
something that's out of character of me and just you know,
cass us a loss.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Here's matt E Reflu's the head coach. He talked about
the loss of the game last night.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Just gout of the locker room. Obviously, the guys are
disappointed when you lose a game like that. You know,
that's a tough one to swallow after coming back, but
also total them in the same you know, same conversation.
That was really excited that you know how they battled back,
you know, and they battled back to win that game,
you know, to be have a chance to win that game.
So you know it's important to look at that too.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
More from Tyreek Stevenson on that that zoom call earlier today.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
The play was opposed a box out eighty five had
to be out of the play wash, you know, cheering
on just cheering with some Bears fans when taughting no fans.
Was just sharing with some Bears fans, and the Washington
fans reacted how they wanted to. My job was to
box out eighty five, and you know when I went
up to hit the balls pretty much to knock it
down interceptions and you know, especially in the close game
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like that, so just try to make it, make a
play for my team. And you know, it either could
have went, oh, Tyreek, you know, good pass knock down,
or we're in the situation we're in right now.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, I just it's one of those. I look, I
liked that he was accountable for it. I do understand
that he was sitting there talking and celebrating with Bears fans.
I mean I saw it the week before. I mean,
there's money, you know. I went to the Packers game
and there was a moment where Joe Mixon tried to
do the lambeau Leap because there was a Texan fan
front row lambeau Field. Other Packer fans blocked him. One
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Packer fan threw a beer on him or whatever. So
it does happen, but happening while the game's still going on.
I mean, it's football, one on one, sports, one on
one until it strikes zeros on the clock. You keep playing,
you don't worry about all that stuff. And maybe there's
something weird about that stadium. Gosh, why Amy forgetting he
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tragically passed away a couple of years ago. Former first
round remember is Dwayne Haskins where he didn't go out.
It was his first win as a starting quarterback and
he was signing autographs in the stands, signing out somebody
in the front row instead of going out to take
the knee. Maybe it's something about that stadium. I don't know.
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There's a bunch of things that struck me there. You know,
I know that Dan Sneyder is a bad guy, but
it is crazy that Washingtonians have been so fed up
with their team for so long. The energy and excitement
with the new owner, a new quarterback, a new team
in that stadium, and that win when it looked like
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it was all for not was incredible and the Bears
are not. I mean, obviously you have I don't know
what that fourth in one call was. Otherwise the game
should have been close. But the optics of a guy
who's a very good player, because if he wasn't any good,
they would have just cut him right there as soon
as you saw the video, they'd cut him right there.
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So the fact that he'll survive this only means l
football player. But gosh, that's a bad look. That's just
a bad, bad look. I just I can't remember that
happening previously though, on a field where the play was
going on and a guy was celebrating the previous play
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with time still going on. I just I don't remember that,
like I okay, so or celebrating the fact that it
was like the game felt like it was over. So
I just it. I remember. I'm trying to think if
there was a game last year it felt like this
is like a Dan Byer moment, because that guy, as
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good as my memory is for the NFL, there's nothing
like Dan Byer was. Oh yeah, it was four years
ago on a Sunday night game when this happened. They
were in this uniforms. Wasn't there a game last year
where time was running down and they were instead of
getting the ball to the official when he got a
first down late in the game with the clock running
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like the player like did the first down point.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Chase Claypool did a couple of years ago against the Vikings,
played for the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What I tell you like, I want him, I want
one of those things in my ear. That's like the
Dan Byer thing where he's like, yeah, this happened. Is
Chase Claypool you dub me? It was two years ago
and it was back what is it the Steelers before
he got traded to the Colts, Like, oh my gosh.
And again it's one of those things where he still
had time to get in position, but he would have
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been a better position. And we can also say like
why don't you go after Jane Daniels. Why do you
let him run around the backfield to throw it that
far down the field. All that said, you know, trying
to hype up Bears fans and maybe talk ish to
Commanders fans while the while the ball is in play,
and then you have cell phone videos which capture it
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just make it look like a cloud.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
Here.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Here's here's what else happened with Tyrek Stevenson. He completely
completely let Matt Eberflus and the Bears off the hook
when this video surfaced Because Doug the play prior wasn't
a Jaden Daniels sack. It was a non contested out
route when the play started, it was six seconds on
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the clock and the Bears are planning for a hail mary. Well,
for as great as Jayden Daniels is, you can't throw
the ball eighty yards. And they allowed them to get
up to the forty eight yard line and get out
of bounds with two seconds left. They were only six
seconds on the clock and the Bears are thinking, oh,
they're gonna throw out for a hail mary. Instead, Washington's like,
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now we'll just take an extra thirteen yards or whatever
it was, got out of bounds and it allowed Jaden
Daniels then to get a little bit closer to chucking
that hail mary that ended up winning the game. So
the video of Tyreek Stevenson leaves the Bears off the
hook for that play. And the Bears also tried to
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run a play similar to what the eighty five Bears
did with Refrigerator Perry and then they fumbled on on
the goal line. And when the Bears did that, I
went and looked it up last night. The Bears did
it in the game against Green Bay in nineteen eighty
five when it was in the second quarter and it
was like fourteen to seven. They were up on the Packers.
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They also did it in two blowout games where they
won forty four to nothing and I think thirty six
to nothing. These Bears are like, we're trailing, so we're
gonna hand the ball off to our offensive or defensive
lineman to try to on a full back dive. And
they never even got the handoff, Like it was a
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complete botched play. But because Tyreek Stevenson is the one
who botches the Hail Mary, we forget all of those
other opportunities that the Bears had that maybe could have
put the game away at a specific time. So it's
the Bears. You know, Maddy Eberflus is not without fault
in all of this. He's just lucky that Tyreek Stevenson
was so egregious because his flip. He was the one
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that flipped the ball as well, Like he wasn't even
supposed to be in the Frankis at that point. He's
supposed to be boxing out Noah Brown. He completely covered
up other problems to play, yeah, with the with the
Bears in that game.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Butcher, Butcher butchered to play and and the other the
part to it, which is and this is where I
do understand and coach, and we played we've had too
a scrimmage in an exhibition game, and obviously our first
real games against Oklahoma State. And is what I have
a genuine appreciation for, despite the fact I haven't yet
coached a real game in college basketball, I've coached plenty
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of them in AU and playing them otherwise is it's
so hard to win. And what you're pointing out, by
the way, is completely accurate, and it's it's why Ibra flues.
As much as he was really well liked with the
with the Colts right before he came over, he's been
really well liked. It's just like, these are the things
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are the difference between winning and losing is these individual decisions,
and it's so hard to win. It's so hard to win, Like,
do people understand how hard it is to actually win
a game. You can do so many things right, but
you do like three things wrong and you lose a game.
You're like, well, we prepared the whole week, we were healthy,
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blah blah blah, we made this call. That call is great,
you still lost the game. And I wish I could
be devastated for the Bears, but I can't. And then
they're in a division where obviously the Packers pull went
out with Malik Willis, and then of course the Detroit
Lions just look like the greatest offense the world has
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ever seen. I know the Vikings have lost too, lost
two in the span of a week, but they're still
a team winning a bunch of games. You look at
the Bears and you want to feel terrible for me, like, man,
they did so many things better and there's so much better,
but then they still lost because of those egregious errors.
And yeah, he does let Ebravlus off the hook, but
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rightfully so, because what do you do doing? What are
you doing? And here's the I've actually used this with
my players this morning when we had practice this morning,
is you go through all of these things and then
margin between winning and losing is so slight. But when
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you win, especially on the road, you don't even need
a plane to fly home. So just complete the task,
do those little things, and then the celebration is twice
what it would have been in those three or four
seconds in which he was celebrating on the field. But gosh,
that was that was clown show stuff man.
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World Series three at Yankee Stadium, Aaron Judge struggling. I
still listen. This is where it's really hard. And I
know that Aaron Boone, I don't believe calls the pitches,
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and I don't know how much of it the decision making.
You know, it's I and Dave Roberts. There's lots of
does did they make the calls? Or does the the
litany of like with the Yankees, they have an analytics department,
and who actually makes the decisions there is always called
into question. You go back to game one, right, you
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had to Game one, and the Yankees did something which
it was like it was twofold, where they brought in
Nestor Cortez who hadn't pitched in a month, in a month,
and okay, so you bring in Nestor Cortes, who's a lefty, lefty,
lefty matchups. But then the first pitch home run and
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gave up to Freddie Freeman, which is the walk off
Grand Slam, the first walk off Grand Slam in the
history of the World Series. World Series been going on
for a minute, a walk off Grand Slam. And by
the way, like I know this is we're always taught
and rightfully so, and we do a great job of
Fox Sports Radio because and what I'm not doing is
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I'm not necessarily contradicting the marching orders of Scott Shapiro
is my boss, because we were raised in the same
same mindset. But one of the things was Friday night
Sports college football when there was an NFL game first week,
like it does get lost on Monday Sports Radio, it
cannot be lost at the first ever walk off Grand
Slam of the World Series, and then Freddy Freeman going
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over to thank his dad, thank his dad, and he's like, yeah,
my dad always thought it still throws ANYVP. I don't know.
I just I didn't lose it, but I was losing
it a little bit of the coolest things I've seen.
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And so, you know, Freddie Freeman, obviously people know some
people remember I was told something which his people vehemently
deny or whatever in regards to why he switched agents.
And you know, I was told something by somebody at
the time I believed and was supported by somebody else
and it is apparently not true. But I have no
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animus towards Freddie Freeman. A matter of fact, Freddie went
to Elmadina High School. He's rebuilt their baseball field. What
you guys don't know is not my brother and sister
go to Elmadina, but I was the ball boy for
football and for basketball during my middle school years. I
mean Elmo is five minute by ride from my mom's house.
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She still lives there to day. But the idea of
hitting a walk off off grand Slam, the first in
Major League history, and then having your dad sitting there
like front row and going, hey, thanks Dad, that's about
as powerful moment as you're going to see in sports.
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But why was nest your Cortes throwing anything other than
a slider? Like the whole idea of a lefty lefty
matchup right is that it's really hard, like a slider
starts at you and then ends up at the plate,
or starts at the plate and ends up off the plate.
It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
And I know it's really easy to.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Be critical of Aaron Boone, and at the end of
the day, it's Aaron Boone's decision. He's the manager. He
does that and points to the lefty and tells him
who to come in. But we don't know what the
analytics department said to who they should go to or whatever.
But that wasn't Those are two mistakes made in one.
One a guy who hadn't pitched in a month, it's
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hard to be sharp. And then two, why is he
throwing anything other than a slider?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah? Boone got a lot of criticism as well for
taking Garrett Cole out, who was just he was just cruising,
mowing him down. Eighty eight pitches in he took him out.
That was another point of criticism. And then you know,
he walked MOOKI to get to Freddy. That was yet
another one. You walk Mookie to get to Freddy to
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bring in a guy who hasn't pitched in five weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I didn't mind the walking Mookie. And remember again all fairness, like,
I'm not forming all my own baseball opinions. I'm not
strong enough in the baseball world to sit there and
go like what to do, what not to do? But
I'm sitting there with a couple of major leaguers, a
couple college baseball coaches, a couple guys are going to
be drafted, and we're all they're all talking baseball and
I'm just absorbing and listening and they're all like and
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walking Mookie. I don't think was that was the death.
Now you bring in a lefty lefty left and match
up whatever the numbers say. But that was I mean,
he threw one, I mean dead center and Freddie Freeman
parked it and then he you know, you can be
anti batflip all you want, and I generally am and
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he didn't flip the bat. But the the just the pose,
that's about his memorable moment. As you're gonna get in baseball.
It's not Kirk Gibson. It's not the Kirk Gibson one.
Do people understand how incredible the Kirk Gibson one was,
Like he looked like he couldn't walk. Kirk Gibson always
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had that look. He always had like the Bruce Willis
look going like. He was never cleanly shaven, he never
looked fully healthy, always had durdlan his uniform like he
looked honestly like Bruce Willis at the end of any
was it moonlight? Moonlighting? Was that what the show is called?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I thought you were gonna say Diehard movies.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
It was Diehard. He looked like the end of the
Diehard movies.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Keep walking on broken glasses.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yes, worn up, Yes, because he was putting his feet
in the carpet to relax after flying cross countr.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
If you remember, just just a couple of weeks ago,
Dan put in the game draft the best walkoff home
runs ever, and I chose Kirk Gibson. Yeah, and you
actually made the comment that Kirk Gibson one shouldn't count
because it's it's one of one. It's that's how obvious
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it is, like that that is the greatest of all time.
So to see people trying to compare the two of
the weekend was kind of laughable to me.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Listen, Uh didn't did did equin the Cy Young that year?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Okay, So for people to understand, Dennis Ecklesly won that role,
AIDS Relief Award, Best Reliever in Baseball, won the Cy
Young Award, Saion Award. So he's the best pitcher in baseball,
best reliever in baseball. And Kirk Gibson, who was a
was a very good player one time, I think nationally
going to be p back with the Detroit Lions, Detroit Tiger.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Excuse me, sorry, he won the MVV that season.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
He did, he did, but yeah, yeah, and and but
he was out for the game with a pull to
hamstring and he was down to his last strike, right,
and it just he looks so feeble up there. Now
here's the twist to that one that I don't know,
and I know Dan knows because Dan remembers literally everything,
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and Jason, I, we haven't that long. Most everything is.
I was sitting with Miles Simon, my my best childhood friend,
of course, MP of the ninety seven Final four. We're
at his mom's house and we're watching the game and
Miles and I were big Mets fans because our dads
were big Mets fans, and we liked the Dodgers. I
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actually had tickets to Game two. And uh, he turns
to me after like two pitches where Kirk Gibson looked
like if he ever, if he hit a little number,
there was no way he could run to first base.
He just looked awful walking up there, and he kind
of had a little bit an awkward swing anyway, and
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he turns to me and he said, he's gonna hit
a home run. And I was like he can't even
swing up, he can't walk, he can't swing a bet
he's getting hit a home run. And then he hits
a home run and we're running around the condo, just
running around the condo like crazy. It's amazing. But yes,
that's a one of one. Plus you had Vin Scully
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on one call. And what people don't remember is Vin
Scully had the TV call and Jack Buck had the
radio call. Whereas normally you think of Vin Scully with
the radio right and Jack Buck maybe with the TV.
But it was first I don't even know why that time,
probably whoever they were calling the game for, and both
had these poetic calls that were incredible. Jack Buck is
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I don't believe what I just saw. I don't believe
what I just saw. And then and then Vin's call,
I mean, he here's Vince.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Call high PLoP in the right field.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
She is gone.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible
has happened, and now the only question was could he
make it around the base pads on his sister?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
How good? I mean, how great is Vince Kelly. I'm
gonna I'm gonna just say this right now, that's the
greatest sports moment of my life. I think Chris Jenkins
hitting the three for Villanova is is second because it
literally ended a national championship on a game winning three
in like it was incredible play. Uh, but that's the
(28:53):
greatest sports mode of my life. Here's Joe Davison the
call Fortena's deliveries pretty right, SNES made es pretty good,
(29:18):
pretty good. Plus the guy I love La just cranked
up in the background. That's pretty good. Buyer. What do
you think best sports moment of your life? What would
it be?
Speaker 7 (29:28):
Probably when Ohio State beat Miami in the two thousand
and two National Championship game.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
What a great what a great football game. I mean, obviously,
I think we talked about it before. My memory my
distinct memory was Willis mcgahee's knee bending in the opposite direction. Yes,
and so many incredible like that was like an NFL
Pro Bowl game in terms of the number of star
players on that field. It's pretty good one, Jay Sto.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, Yeah, that's Kirk Gibson for all the reasons you
have named here, and I have my own personal reasons.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But what's your own personal Well, I mean, I I just.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Went back with the team. I went back along ways
with the team. I understood that going into that game,
the Aes had won like one hundred and six games
in the season. The Dodgers were limping around. Literally, they
shouldn't have even beat the Mets in the eighty six
I'm sorry, eighty eight nlcs like that. The moment shouldn't
have happened, and it did well.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
And then the next game was Bulldog and it was
just lights out. He was so good, so good, Sammy,
my favorite sports moment of all time?
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Yeah, in your lifetime, nineteen ninety eight out back ball.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Let's fast forward.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Wait, wait what what year? Which was? Which?
Speaker 7 (30:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (30:39):
I just wanted to get I would say five end
of the five Capitol One Bowl, Iowa was sharing the
Big Ten title that year, and they beat Nick Saban
on a Hail Mary as time expired. So that's my favorite.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It's not Mookie Wilson through Buckner's wickets.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
No, remember that one. Baseball just gives you stuff that
other sports don't give you. And Freddie Freeman thanking his dad.
That was good man, that's good. That's like one of those.
But I got to tell you that Freddie Freeman, the
Veneers do you think that there's any point where he's like,
I should have done the Veneers.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
I've been keeping tabs now on like all these sports
athletes and celebrities and just anybody who has the big chompers,
and I sort of have a mental list now.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
If he was an outfielder, they should paint the wall
white and put lines in them like they're his teeth, right.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I mean, I'm like everybody says, hell of a dude,
but man, that's a yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
I love that video when he's out trigger treating back
in Atlanta and the kids wearing the Freddie Freeman outfit,
Like I always remember that, and they've gone through a
lot with with his with his son, Like that was
the part that hit me when he hit it, like
the stuff that they had gone through this year, Like,
you know, good, good on him, good for him to
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have that moment.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
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Speaker 2 (32:15):
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You know, we get to the end of the first hour,
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Speaker 8 (32:28):
This is game time. On the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Hey, Dan Byer, what do you got, hey, Doug?
Speaker 8 (32:39):
The game today is big deal, little deal, no deal?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Bit of a weekend recap, big deal, A little deal
or no deal that the Colts Anthony Richardson needed a
breather on a play late in the third quarter and
yesterday's lost to the Texans.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Uh, I think it's a pretty big deal. You know,
like you're not in good enough shape to play through it.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I just.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I don't I understand you're tired, Like I actually get
that if you watch running quarterbacks like you know, you're
like you have no idea the level of exhaustion you
have to play through. But you got to be in
good enough shape. And then the other part too, it
is like a good part of sports is you got
to learn to play through fatigue.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Right, Yes, it was a third and long call anyway
in Shane steike and had said that they were probably
gonna run the ball anyway. But Richardson was just ten
of thirty two yesterday in that loss to the Texans.
A big deal, little deal or no deal.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I don't think he's particularly good. I mean, I've made
that abundantly clear that I just don't think he's an
NFL quarterback that goes that's separate from that that's separate
from that particular play, or not being good enough shape
to continue playing there. It's more just about accuracy reading
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the field asn't developed because I think Stikeen's really good,
and I don't think he makes Stikeen look really good.
I think he limits him.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Sure, sorry, go ahead, No, that's even more on the topic.
There's I felt like the Colts should use Anthony Richardson
in a similar maybe not exact because it's not the
exact same situation as to what Green Bay did with
Jordan Love if that's what they really want to do,
but that's weighing the balance of who is your backup
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right now? And it's Joe Flacco, so that would be
sufficient enough for him to start, but are you throwing
this season away now? They're four and four after the loss, Like,
those are the decisions that they have to make as
an organization on what you want to do, and it's
a tough decision, but they would at least have the
time to do it for the guy who probably needed
or did need the most work coming out of that
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draft class. Big deal, a little deal or no deal, Doug.
That Jordan Love is hurt again for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
That's a big deal. It's a big deal. You know,
he also threw another big pick. You're like, man, I
mean he's got that. Brett Favre lead the league in touchdowns,
lead league interceptions, and you know miliek Will's coming through
yet again is great, but not not the design of
signing the guy to the biggest contract in the nation FOOTBA.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
League, Doug, big deal, little deal or no deal. Of
the Patriots and Jets are now both two and six.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
That's a big deal. As I said, like some losses
way bigger than others. And with all of the drama
around the Jets, Look, if you beat the Patriots after
making the trade, like all right, there's there's a window
there because they have a lighter schedule. But if you
can't beat the Patriots, then who can you beat the Patriots?
They trade away, they they trade away Pass Rusher today. Right,
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they're not playing win this. Joshcha is gone now too,
so you know Judon's gone. Cha's gone. Like they're playing
for the future and you still lost to them, Like
that's embarrassing.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Some college football, Doug big deal, A little dealer, no
deal that Nebraska gave number four Ohio State all they
could handle on Saturday, feels like a big.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Deal and feels like Nebraska's close, not there yet, but
feels like they're close. And I know this is like
Texas likes Texas back. There is something about Ohio State
just finding a way to win. I know that people
freak out about it. But if we look back, like
Jim Trussell's national championship team, how many close games did
they have? Just find a way to win games. I
think it was more about Nebraska and just like they're
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they're close. They're not there, but they're close, all right.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
Finally, Doug, big deal, little dealer, od deal that Michigan
and Michigan State ended with another fight between the two schools.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
No deal happens all the time. I don't know, don't care.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
That is game time.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
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Speaker 2 (36:54):
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It's a long weekend of sport, especially with all the
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I know that Jason Stewart did. That's because what he
doesn't know was his ears were probably on fire. Here's
how to be on fire. As you guys know, I'm
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Jason is a huge Dodger fan and a big baseball
fan as well. It's not just he doesn't just watch
the Dodgers, although that the Dodgers are his favorite team. Uh,
but we got into kind of a healthy back and
forth with or he got into healthy backboard with Matt Holiday,
seven time All Star, really close friend of mine, and
I was in Stillwater this weekend. It's in Oklahoma where
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Matt lives, and we're watching both Game one and Game
two of the World Series together. And which game was
it that Mookie Bets came through? I think there was
a Game one? It must be I was Game one.
And he turns to me immediately and says, can't wait
to meet Jay stew next week when he comes to
still Water. That's funny. That's that's how much your your
tweets resonate with base with real baseball players. Is that
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because you called out the clutchness of Mookie Bets back
in the NLCS and Matt how to brought Matt kind
of defended him then and had a little defense for
him the other day. But good weekend, which I mean,
you can't if you're a Dodger fan, show hey clear
to play Game three night. Can't last for a better
weekend than that, can you?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You're talking to me, I'm talking to you. I cannot
ask for a better weekend. What an amazing weekend. It
came with the share of controversy, though it wasn't just
two games that just kind of happened. Significant events happened
in each of them. But I do want to say
to Matt Holliday, I'm looking forward to meeting Matt too.
This goes back to Mookie Betts the past time.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Are you are you going to go toe on the Russes?
Not walking through the door.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
No, no, no, no. I just wanted to give the
listeners context here. Over the past three postseasons, Mookie Betts's
has been like one for thirty. So I started to
call him a choker because he started this postseason off wrong,
and I said, you know, I think he's choking. And
then he's obviously proven me wrong since but it doesn't
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make what I said wrong. I think up to that
point he was a choker. So when I see Matt,
we're going to have this nuanced conversation. I'm looking forward
to it and go Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Go Dodgers, loose the Dogars. You know I'm gonna I'm
gonna tell you this. I think this is A. It's
an interesting thing here. I the World Series right now
is two games to none, and it's not without contrary,
not with that discussion. We'll get to that discussion. It
does not feel close to being over, but it those
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have been two really good games, really interesting games. And
even though the Dodger are up for to one and
show hey slid and put his hand down and might
have partially dislocated his shoulder, I've enjoyed the hell out
of the out of the games, the energy in that building,
and I'm sure the energy and Yankee Stadium will be outstanding.
Of course, we do need the Yankees to win tonight
in order to make it a series. It's three games
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to note, and nobody wrote then it's like, all right,
let's just wrap this thing up, boys, right, let's just
wrap this thing up.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I've been telling people six games, and it's not that
I really wanted to go six games. But remember I
was saying last week about this kind of cosmic relationship
with Fernando Vellezuela. His birthday is on Friday. Game six
is on Friday. I just think it is going to
be one on game six, Fernando Answell's birthday and everything
will come full circle.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, that'd be interesting. That's a that's a fascinating way
to look at it, that Fernandofl's will somehow he gets
his day in the sun even after he passes away
at the age of six or three years old. Last
last week, can I start in football? Though there was
some I mean, yeah, the Jameis Winston thing, which only
reiterates what was iterated many times since it happened, which
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is Deshaun Watson's contract was an albatross and the team's
better off with him not throwing, and the fact that
we yearn for Jamis Winston, who has his own kind
of track carkeet. I like Jamis, by the way, and
my like for Jamis is not is in these goofy
interviews or the pregame PEP talks, which sometimes lack the
syntax that I'm that I'm used to. It's that I
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know people in the NFL, and everybody I know in
the NFL says J mimas. Winston's a hell of a dude.
So that's it. That's what I can kind of go by.
I can't. I don't know him personally, so I can't
sit there and tell you what I really think, or
don't think, Chargers one again in a kind of grinder
start down two to nothing. I thought it was a
baseball score, and then you look up. And I continue
to believe that the Chargers having a competent head coach
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is all the change they've ever needed, because they're not
that good yet. They're about five hundred and might even
make the playoffs in a year in which is a
transition year. There's some other stuff to talk about, but
I think how the night ended with the Commander's hail Mary,
with two bright young stars, the number one, number two
pick and last year's NFL draft, and with you know,
(05:40):
with with Jayden Daniels the Heisman Trophy winter throwing a
hail mary and completing it. That's only part of the story.
The story is really Tyreek Stevenson, who was was the
bear who deflected the pass that went up in the
air and then ultimately caught by a redskin of Cyer Redskins, sorry,
a Commander in the end zone. I just had this
convers my son yesterday. We're driving around and we went
(06:02):
to a sports bar to watch all the games, and
he's like, what we do is we do this every
Sunday if I'm with him, not with him, I call
him and we just picked the games, and he doesn't
look at the spreads of the lines. It's actually way
harder than you think. Just pick the games. And we've
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done it for probably he's fifteen now. I think we've
probably done it for about ten years, which is, hey, dude,
just pick the games and I'll pick against you, and
we'll see which ones are. And at the end of
the year one of us is usually up five or
six picks. It's pretty close. And again we don't agree
on every game. We rea on a lot of them.
But he turned to me and he's like, I just
can't get behind the Commanders. I was like, you don't
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like Jaden Daniels, Like no, no, it's not Jayden Daniels, it's
I can't. I just the nickname does nothing for me.
He's like, will they ever go back to Redskins? It's like,
probably not. Why not? I was like, are we really
getting to a political discussion on the Sunday morning. He's like, no, no.
He was a call by the way on Big one
hundred Commander's radio network of the Hail Mary for me
with the goal line. They bring three. Daniel's backing up.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
He's just gonna have to let one fly go to
the right side that steps away from the defenders, gets
himself some time now, steps up, fires heads towards the
end zone.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It is well, look, obviously they're excited, Obviously they can
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bleed the pass, but can anybody make out at all?
And a cognitive sentence that was having there. I think
I heard they won on a hail Mary, But between
laughing and hysteria, that was amazing. The Tyree Stephenson fail
is what everybody rightfully is talking about. S Tyreig Stevenson's
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a really talented defensive back for the Chicago Bears. And
as the play had started, because the previous play, I
think Daniels was sacked in the previous the previous play,
he's sitting there, you know, taunting the crowd. Meanwhile the
play starts, players are like ten yards down the field,
running down the field before he turns around and realizes, Now,
(08:24):
the truth is the truth is that he had plenty
of time to go over and make the play he
was supposed to make. We'll play with Matty Eberflus's head
coach had to say, But the optics are just bad.
Here's Tyreek Stevenson earlier today.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Don't you regret I have fun yesterday? Is just letting
this team down from working hard and coming back and
putting us putting ourselves on a w column, you know,
just for me to be out of place and do
something that's out of character of me and just you know,
cass us a loss.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Here's matt E Reflu's the head coach. He talked about
the loss of the game last night.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Just gout of the locker room. Obviously, the guys are
disappointed when you lose a game like that. You know,
that's a tough one to swallow after coming back, but
also total them in the same you know, same conversation.
That was really excited that you know how they battled back,
you know, and they battled back to win that game,
you know, to be have a chance to win that game.
So you know it's important to look at that too.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
More from Tyreek Stevenson on that that zoom call earlier today.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
The play was opposed a box out eighty five had
to be out of the play wash, you know, cheering
on just cheering with some Bears fans when taughting no fans.
Was just sharing with some Bears fans, and the Washington
fans reacted how they wanted to. My job was to
box out eighty five, and you know when I went
up to hit the balls pretty much to knock it
down interceptions and you know, especially in the close game
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like that, so just try to make it, make a
play for my team. And you know, it either could
have went, oh, Tyreek, you know, good pass knock down,
or we're in the situation we're in right now.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, I just it's one of those. I look, I
liked that he was accountable for it. I do understand
that he was sitting there talking and celebrating with Bears fans.
I mean I saw it the week before. I mean,
there's money, you know. I went to the Packers game
and there was a moment where Joe Mixon tried to
do the lambeau Leap because there was a Texan fan
front row lambeau Field. Other Packer fans blocked him. One
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Packer fan threw a beer on him or whatever. So
it does happen, but happening while the game's still going on.
I mean, it's football, one on one, sports, one on
one until it strikes zeros on the clock. You keep playing,
you don't worry about all that stuff. And maybe there's
something weird about that stadium. Gosh, why Amy forgetting he
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tragically passed away a couple of years ago. Former first
round remember is Dwayne Haskins where he didn't go out.
It was his first win as a starting quarterback and
he was signing autographs in the stands, signing out somebody
in the front row instead of going out to take
the knee. Maybe it's something about that stadium. I don't know.
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There's a bunch of things that struck me there. You know,
I know that Dan Sneyder is a bad guy, but
it is crazy that Washingtonians have been so fed up
with their team for so long. The energy and excitement
with the new owner, a new quarterback, a new team
in that stadium, and that win when it looked like
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it was all for not was incredible and the Bears
are not. I mean, obviously you have I don't know
what that fourth in one call was. Otherwise the game
should have been close. But the optics of a guy
who's a very good player, because if he wasn't any good,
they would have just cut him right there as soon
as you saw the video, they'd cut him right there.
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So the fact that he'll survive this only means l
football player. But gosh, that's a bad look. That's just
a bad, bad look. I just I can't remember that
happening previously though, on a field where the play was
going on and a guy was celebrating the previous play
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with time still going on. I just I don't remember that,
like I okay, so or celebrating the fact that it
was like the game felt like it was over. So
I just it. I remember. I'm trying to think if
there was a game last year it felt like this
is like a Dan Byer moment, because that guy, as
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good as my memory is for the NFL, there's nothing
like Dan Byer was. Oh yeah, it was four years
ago on a Sunday night game when this happened. They
were in this uniforms. Wasn't there a game last year
where time was running down and they were instead of
getting the ball to the official when he got a
first down late in the game with the clock running
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like the player like did the first down point.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Chase Claypool did a couple of years ago against the Vikings,
played for the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What I tell you like, I want him, I want
one of those things in my ear. That's like the
Dan Byer thing where he's like, yeah, this happened. Is
Chase Claypool you dub me? It was two years ago
and it was back what is it the Steelers before
he got traded to the Colts, Like, oh my gosh.
And again it's one of those things where he still
had time to get in position, but he would have
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been a better position. And we can also say like
why don't you go after Jane Daniels. Why do you
let him run around the backfield to throw it that
far down the field. All that said, you know, trying
to hype up Bears fans and maybe talk ish to
Commanders fans while the while the ball is in play,
and then you have cell phone videos which capture it
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just make it look like a cloud.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
Here.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Here's here's what else happened with Tyrek Stevenson. He completely
completely let Matt Eberflus and the Bears off the hook
when this video surfaced Because Doug the play prior wasn't
a Jaden Daniels sack. It was a non contested out
route when the play started, it was six seconds on
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the clock and the Bears are planning for a hail mary. Well,
for as great as Jayden Daniels is, you can't throw
the ball eighty yards. And they allowed them to get
up to the forty eight yard line and get out
of bounds with two seconds left. They were only six
seconds on the clock and the Bears are thinking, oh,
they're gonna throw out for a hail mary. Instead, Washington's like,
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now we'll just take an extra thirteen yards or whatever
it was, got out of bounds and it allowed Jaden
Daniels then to get a little bit closer to chucking
that hail mary that ended up winning the game. So
the video of Tyreek Stevenson leaves the Bears off the
hook for that play. And the Bears also tried to
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run a play similar to what the eighty five Bears
did with Refrigerator Perry and then they fumbled on on
the goal line. And when the Bears did that, I
went and looked it up last night. The Bears did
it in the game against Green Bay in nineteen eighty
five when it was in the second quarter and it
was like fourteen to seven. They were up on the Packers.
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They also did it in two blowout games where they
won forty four to nothing and I think thirty six
to nothing. These Bears are like, we're trailing, so we're
gonna hand the ball off to our offensive or defensive
lineman to try to on a full back dive. And
they never even got the handoff, Like it was a
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complete botched play. But because Tyreek Stevenson is the one
who botches the Hail Mary, we forget all of those
other opportunities that the Bears had that maybe could have
put the game away at a specific time. So it's
the Bears. You know, Maddy Eberflus is not without fault
in all of this. He's just lucky that Tyreek Stevenson
was so egregious because his flip. He was the one
(15:58):
that flipped the ball as well, Like he wasn't even
supposed to be in the Frankis at that point. He's
supposed to be boxing out Noah Brown. He completely covered
up other problems to play, yeah, with the with the
Bears in that game.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Butcher, Butcher butchered to play and and the other the
part to it, which is and this is where I
do understand and coach, and we played we've had too
a scrimmage in an exhibition game, and obviously our first
real games against Oklahoma State. And is what I have
a genuine appreciation for, despite the fact I haven't yet
coached a real game in college basketball, I've coached plenty
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of them in AU and playing them otherwise is it's
so hard to win. And what you're pointing out, by
the way, is completely accurate, and it's it's why Ibra flues.
As much as he was really well liked with the
with the Colts right before he came over, he's been
really well liked. It's just like, these are the things
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are the difference between winning and losing is these individual decisions,
and it's so hard to win. It's so hard to win, Like,
do people understand how hard it is to actually win
a game. You can do so many things right, but
you do like three things wrong and you lose a game.
You're like, well, we prepared the whole week, we were healthy,
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blah blah blah, we made this call. That call is great,
you still lost the game. And I wish I could
be devastated for the Bears, but I can't. And then
they're in a division where obviously the Packers pull went
out with Malik Willis, and then of course the Detroit
Lions just look like the greatest offense the world has
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ever seen. I know the Vikings have lost too, lost
two in the span of a week, but they're still
a team winning a bunch of games. You look at
the Bears and you want to feel terrible for me, like, man,
they did so many things better and there's so much better,
but then they still lost because of those egregious errors.
And yeah, he does let Ebravlus off the hook, but
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rightfully so, because what do you do doing? What are
you doing? And here's the I've actually used this with
my players this morning when we had practice this morning,
is you go through all of these things and then
margin between winning and losing is so slight. But when
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you win, especially on the road, you don't even need
a plane to fly home. So just complete the task,
do those little things, and then the celebration is twice
what it would have been in those three or four
seconds in which he was celebrating on the field. But gosh,
that was that was clown show stuff man.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
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Speaker 2 (18:53):
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World Series three at Yankee Stadium, Aaron Judge struggling. I
still listen. This is where it's really hard. And I
know that Aaron Boone, I don't believe calls the pitches,
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and I don't know how much of it the decision making.
You know, it's I and Dave Roberts. There's lots of
does did they make the calls? Or does the the
litany of like with the Yankees, they have an analytics department,
and who actually makes the decisions there is always called
into question. You go back to game one, right, you
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had to Game one, and the Yankees did something which
it was like it was twofold, where they brought in
Nestor Cortez who hadn't pitched in a month, in a month,
and okay, so you bring in Nestor Cortes, who's a lefty, lefty,
lefty matchups. But then the first pitch home run and
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gave up to Freddie Freeman, which is the walk off
Grand Slam, the first walk off Grand Slam in the
history of the World Series. World Series been going on
for a minute, a walk off Grand Slam. And by
the way, like I know this is we're always taught
and rightfully so, and we do a great job of
Fox Sports Radio because and what I'm not doing is
(20:22):
I'm not necessarily contradicting the marching orders of Scott Shapiro
is my boss, because we were raised in the same
same mindset. But one of the things was Friday night
Sports college football when there was an NFL game first week,
like it does get lost on Monday Sports Radio, it
cannot be lost at the first ever walk off Grand
Slam of the World Series, and then Freddy Freeman going
(20:44):
over to thank his dad, thank his dad, and he's like, yeah,
my dad always thought it still throws ANYVP. I don't know.
I just I didn't lose it, but I was losing
it a little bit of the coolest things I've seen.
(21:07):
And so, you know, Freddie Freeman, obviously people know some
people remember I was told something which his people vehemently
deny or whatever in regards to why he switched agents.
And you know, I was told something by somebody at
the time I believed and was supported by somebody else
and it is apparently not true. But I have no
(21:31):
animus towards Freddie Freeman. A matter of fact, Freddie went
to Elmadina High School. He's rebuilt their baseball field. What
you guys don't know is not my brother and sister
go to Elmadina, but I was the ball boy for
football and for basketball during my middle school years. I
mean Elmo is five minute by ride from my mom's house.
(21:55):
She still lives there to day. But the idea of
hitting a walk off off grand Slam, the first in
Major League history, and then having your dad sitting there
like front row and going, hey, thanks Dad, that's about
as powerful moment as you're going to see in sports.
(22:15):
But why was nest your Cortes throwing anything other than
a slider? Like the whole idea of a lefty lefty
matchup right is that it's really hard, like a slider
starts at you and then ends up at the plate,
or starts at the plate and ends up off the plate.
It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
And I know it's really easy to.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Be critical of Aaron Boone, and at the end of
the day, it's Aaron Boone's decision. He's the manager. He
does that and points to the lefty and tells him
who to come in. But we don't know what the
analytics department said to who they should go to or whatever.
But that wasn't Those are two mistakes made in one.
One a guy who hadn't pitched in a month, it's
(22:54):
hard to be sharp. And then two, why is he
throwing anything other than a slider?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah? Boone got a lot of criticism as well for
taking Garrett Cole out, who was just he was just cruising,
mowing him down. Eighty eight pitches in he took him out.
That was another point of criticism. And then you know,
he walked MOOKI to get to Freddy. That was yet
another one. You walk Mookie to get to Freddy to
(23:22):
bring in a guy who hasn't pitched in five weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I didn't mind the walking Mookie. And remember again all fairness, like,
I'm not forming all my own baseball opinions. I'm not
strong enough in the baseball world to sit there and
go like what to do, what not to do? But
I'm sitting there with a couple of major leaguers, a
couple college baseball coaches, a couple guys are going to
be drafted, and we're all they're all talking baseball and
I'm just absorbing and listening and they're all like and
(23:47):
walking Mookie. I don't think was that was the death.
Now you bring in a lefty lefty left and match
up whatever the numbers say. But that was I mean,
he threw one, I mean dead center and Freddie Freeman
parked it and then he you know, you can be
anti batflip all you want, and I generally am and
(24:09):
he didn't flip the bat. But the the just the pose,
that's about his memorable moment. As you're gonna get in baseball.
It's not Kirk Gibson. It's not the Kirk Gibson one.
Do people understand how incredible the Kirk Gibson one was,
Like he looked like he couldn't walk. Kirk Gibson always
(24:31):
had that look. He always had like the Bruce Willis
look going like. He was never cleanly shaven, he never
looked fully healthy, always had durdlan his uniform like he
looked honestly like Bruce Willis at the end of any
was it moonlight? Moonlighting? Was that what the show is called?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I thought you were gonna say Diehard movies.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
It was Diehard. He looked like the end of the
Diehard movies.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Keep walking on broken glasses.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yes, worn up, Yes, because he was putting his feet
in the carpet to relax after flying cross countr.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
If you remember, just just a couple of weeks ago,
Dan put in the game draft the best walkoff home
runs ever, and I chose Kirk Gibson. Yeah, and you
actually made the comment that Kirk Gibson one shouldn't count
because it's it's one of one. It's that's how obvious
(25:26):
it is, like that that is the greatest of all time.
So to see people trying to compare the two of
the weekend was kind of laughable to me.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Listen, Uh didn't did did equin the Cy Young that year?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Okay, So for people to understand, Dennis Ecklesly won that role,
AIDS Relief Award, Best Reliever in Baseball, won the Cy
Young Award, Saion Award. So he's the best pitcher in baseball,
best reliever in baseball. And Kirk Gibson, who was a
was a very good player one time, I think nationally
going to be p back with the Detroit Lions, Detroit Tiger.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Excuse me, sorry, he won the MVV that season.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
He did, he did, but yeah, yeah, and and but
he was out for the game with a pull to
hamstring and he was down to his last strike, right,
and it just he looks so feeble up there. Now
here's the twist to that one that I don't know,
and I know Dan knows because Dan remembers literally everything,
(26:25):
and Jason, I, we haven't that long. Most everything is.
I was sitting with Miles Simon, my my best childhood friend,
of course, MP of the ninety seven Final four. We're
at his mom's house and we're watching the game and
Miles and I were big Mets fans because our dads
were big Mets fans, and we liked the Dodgers. I
(26:48):
actually had tickets to Game two. And uh, he turns
to me after like two pitches where Kirk Gibson looked
like if he ever, if he hit a little number,
there was no way he could run to first base.
He just looked awful walking up there, and he kind
of had a little bit an awkward swing anyway, and
(27:09):
he turns to me and he said, he's gonna hit
a home run. And I was like he can't even
swing up, he can't walk, he can't swing a bet
he's getting hit a home run. And then he hits
a home run and we're running around the condo, just
running around the condo like crazy. It's amazing. But yes,
that's a one of one. Plus you had Vin Scully
(27:31):
on one call. And what people don't remember is Vin
Scully had the TV call and Jack Buck had the
radio call. Whereas normally you think of Vin Scully with
the radio right and Jack Buck maybe with the TV.
But it was first I don't even know why that time,
probably whoever they were calling the game for, and both
had these poetic calls that were incredible. Jack Buck is
(27:54):
I don't believe what I just saw. I don't believe
what I just saw. And then and then Vin's call,
I mean, he here's Vince.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Call high PLoP in the right field.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
She is gone.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible
has happened, and now the only question was could he
make it around the base pads on his sister?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
How good? I mean, how great is Vince Kelly. I'm
gonna I'm gonna just say this right now, that's the
greatest sports moment of my life. I think Chris Jenkins
hitting the three for Villanova is is second because it
literally ended a national championship on a game winning three
in like it was incredible play. Uh, but that's the
(28:53):
greatest sports mode of my life. Here's Joe Davison the
call Fortena's deliveries pretty right, SNES made es pretty good,
(29:18):
pretty good. Plus the guy I love La just cranked
up in the background. That's pretty good. Buyer. What do
you think best sports moment of your life? What would
it be?
Speaker 7 (29:28):
Probably when Ohio State beat Miami in the two thousand
and two National Championship game.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
What a great what a great football game. I mean, obviously,
I think we talked about it before. My memory my
distinct memory was Willis mcgahee's knee bending in the opposite direction. Yes,
and so many incredible like that was like an NFL
Pro Bowl game in terms of the number of star
players on that field. It's pretty good one, Jay Sto.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, Yeah, that's Kirk Gibson for all the reasons you
have named here, and I have my own personal reasons.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But what's your own personal Well, I mean, I I just.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Went back with the team. I went back along ways
with the team. I understood that going into that game,
the Aes had won like one hundred and six games
in the season. The Dodgers were limping around. Literally, they
shouldn't have even beat the Mets in the eighty six
I'm sorry, eighty eight nlcs like that. The moment shouldn't
have happened, and it did well.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
And then the next game was Bulldog and it was
just lights out. He was so good, so good, Sammy,
my favorite sports moment of all time?
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Yeah, in your lifetime, nineteen ninety eight out back ball.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Let's fast forward.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Wait, wait what what year? Which was? Which?
Speaker 7 (30:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (30:39):
I just wanted to get I would say five end
of the five Capitol One Bowl, Iowa was sharing the
Big Ten title that year, and they beat Nick Saban
on a Hail Mary as time expired. So that's my favorite.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It's not Mookie Wilson through Buckner's wickets.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
No, remember that one. Baseball just gives you stuff that
other sports don't give you. And Freddie Freeman thanking his dad.
That was good man, that's good. That's like one of those.
But I got to tell you that Freddie Freeman, the
Veneers do you think that there's any point where he's like,
I should have done the Veneers.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
I've been keeping tabs now on like all these sports
athletes and celebrities and just anybody who has the big chompers,
and I sort of have a mental list now.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
If he was an outfielder, they should paint the wall
white and put lines in them like they're his teeth, right.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I mean, I'm like everybody says, hell of a dude,
but man, that's a yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
I love that video when he's out trigger treating back
in Atlanta and the kids wearing the Freddie Freeman outfit,
Like I always remember that, and they've gone through a
lot with with his with his son, Like that was
the part that hit me when he hit it, like
the stuff that they had gone through this year, Like,
you know, good, good on him, good for him to
(32:05):
have that moment.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
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Speaker 2 (32:15):
It's a Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
You know, we get to the end of the first hour,
we like to turn over to Dan Byer play a
low game.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
This is game time. On the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Hey, Dan Byer, what do you got, hey, Doug?
Speaker 8 (32:39):
The game today is big deal, little deal, no deal?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Bit of a weekend recap, big deal, A little deal
or no deal that the Colts Anthony Richardson needed a
breather on a play late in the third quarter and
yesterday's lost to the Texans.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Uh, I think it's a pretty big deal. You know,
like you're not in good enough shape to play through it.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I just.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I don't I understand you're tired, Like I actually get
that if you watch running quarterbacks like you know, you're
like you have no idea the level of exhaustion you
have to play through. But you got to be in
good enough shape. And then the other part too, it
is like a good part of sports is you got
to learn to play through fatigue.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Right, Yes, it was a third and long call anyway
in Shane steike and had said that they were probably
gonna run the ball anyway. But Richardson was just ten
of thirty two yesterday in that loss to the Texans.
A big deal, little deal or no deal.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I don't think he's particularly good. I mean, I've made
that abundantly clear that I just don't think he's an
NFL quarterback that goes that's separate from that that's separate
from that particular play, or not being good enough shape
to continue playing there. It's more just about accuracy reading
(34:04):
the field asn't developed because I think Stikeen's really good,
and I don't think he makes Stikeen look really good.
I think he limits him.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Sure, sorry, go ahead, No, that's even more on the topic.
There's I felt like the Colts should use Anthony Richardson
in a similar maybe not exact because it's not the
exact same situation as to what Green Bay did with
Jordan Love if that's what they really want to do,
but that's weighing the balance of who is your backup
(34:31):
right now? And it's Joe Flacco, so that would be
sufficient enough for him to start, but are you throwing
this season away now? They're four and four after the loss, Like,
those are the decisions that they have to make as
an organization on what you want to do, and it's
a tough decision, but they would at least have the
time to do it for the guy who probably needed
or did need the most work coming out of that
(34:52):
draft class. Big deal, a little deal or no deal, Doug.
That Jordan Love is hurt again for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
That's a big deal. It's a big deal. You know,
he also threw another big pick. You're like, man, I
mean he's got that. Brett Favre lead the league in touchdowns,
lead league interceptions, and you know miliek Will's coming through
yet again is great, but not not the design of
signing the guy to the biggest contract in the nation FOOTBA.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
League, Doug, big deal, little deal or no deal. Of
the Patriots and Jets are now both two and six.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
That's a big deal. As I said, like some losses
way bigger than others. And with all of the drama
around the Jets, Look, if you beat the Patriots after
making the trade, like all right, there's there's a window
there because they have a lighter schedule. But if you
can't beat the Patriots, then who can you beat the Patriots?
They trade away, they they trade away Pass Rusher today. Right,
(35:45):
they're not playing win this. Joshcha is gone now too,
so you know Judon's gone. Cha's gone. Like they're playing
for the future and you still lost to them, Like
that's embarrassing.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Some college football, Doug big deal, A little dealer, no
deal that Nebraska gave number four Ohio State all they
could handle on Saturday, feels like a big.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Deal and feels like Nebraska's close, not there yet, but
feels like they're close. And I know this is like
Texas likes Texas back. There is something about Ohio State
just finding a way to win. I know that people
freak out about it. But if we look back, like
Jim Trussell's national championship team, how many close games did
they have? Just find a way to win games. I
think it was more about Nebraska and just like they're
(36:30):
they're close. They're not there, but they're close, all right.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
Finally, Doug, big deal, little dealer, od deal that Michigan
and Michigan State ended with another fight between the two schools.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
No deal happens all the time. I don't know, don't care.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
That is game time.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
This is game time on The Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Got a great hour for you up coming next, we
lead off with something we do every Monday. What you
love about the weekend? Would you hate about the weekend.
It's a long weekend of sport, especially with all the
Friday night stuff, the Saturday stuff, the Sunday stuff. We'll
share with you our thoughts next on The Doug Gottlieb Show.
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