January 22, 2025 • 37 mins
In this version of The Midway, Doug and the crew share things they are just over with right now. Doug addresses the grand conspiracy theory that the league wants to help the Chiefs win. Plus, Isaac Lowenkron takes Doug through The Press.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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absolutely should be. Okay, So Green Bay was Conston yesterday.
We were negatives all day. I think it's minus seven
(00:43):
when I got up in the morning, minus four most
of the day. Minus twenty was houtfelt minus twenty one.
Today it's much more reasonable. I think we're in the teens,
and you know when you're in the teens normally or not.
We're twenty twenty two degrees yay, and it feels like
eight degrees, which is not bad but not windy that
(01:06):
wind cuts through you. But I was telling sam My
my favorite thing about freezing cold weather, and this is
a this is an interesting one. Sam. You shared something
that I thought was pretty good, which was.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What one benefit of living in cold climates during the
winter is you have now endless freezer space. Sure, uh,
you can put you know, your your your pot roast
out on the porch. I mean, I think it's too cold,
and if it's like, you know, zero degrees, I think
that'd probably be bad for your food.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But well, not like opening. You can put it in
zipp You.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Can put it in a container and honestly, then you
have you have tons of freezer space. So that is
one small perk of living cold climate.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I have a perk you ready for it?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
As you know and many of people have heard, I
have a dog. His name is Vince Lombardi. He is
a sheep, a doodle pup. He's like, go seven a half
months old. Picking up dog poops is so much easier
when they're like permafrost, literally like the easiest thing ever, right,
And so there's all these like land mines and you
(02:13):
know how dogs are they find like one area. I
got this little hill in my backyard and there's like
fifty of them, and you know, you just wrap your
hand up in a sack and boom boom, boom boo boom,
and yeah, I mean it's a it's a real snap. Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I was gonna say, you're let that thing cool down
a little bit. You're gonna let it sort of just
you know, you know it because when it comes out.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh you know, yeah, you don't get the steam. You
don't get the steamy ones right after that.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No, no, no, these.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Are days old. Yeah, but you get you get a
day old. It is. It is permafrost. It is frozen.
It is solid, you know, because there's nothing worse than
when you go to pick up a dog poop and
it just melts over it, like, oh man, that's just
the worst it gets on if you do a shovel,
if you do your hand with a bag, you know,
if you do it any any sort of poop bag,
that's a disaster. No permafrost. It's actually kind of great.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And you can use the snow surrounding it sort of
buffer it. Same like on a beach, you can kind
of you can kind of dig under all the nastiness
and sort of you know, take a clump of sand
or snow and put it in the bag or shovel
it into the garbage can, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Each you don't really need to because it's literally.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Frozen, yes if I know, but it's still.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
There's no experience. There's no no snow on the ground here.
So just you know, we're really cold. Yeah, cold for
no reason. That's I don't cold for no reason.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
As we have that Siberia going right.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
There's snow in New Orleans. There's no snow in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The news said it was the snowiest day in New
Orleans history and it was coming down yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That is winter storm Endzo.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Winter storm endzo enzoy Enzo. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show.
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Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's time for the Midway.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Just a quick update for those of you wisconsinitess and
people who have grown up listening to Dan Byer made
it home safe. Everybody's safe. But he just sent us
a picture fires uh pretty close, pretty close. So but
he's safe and he feels okay at about their home
right now. So thinking to you, Dan, and to stay
(04:27):
safe for everybody in that area of southern California. Okay,
the Midway, we usually throw out ideas and Jaystu, you're
good with mine, you like mine, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay. So Jason wanted to talk about the Kansas City
Chiefs and how why people are over the Kancity Chiefs.
So I wanted to take it a step further and
instead of just picking apart the Chiefs, what else in
the world sports it? Otherwise? Are we all just over?
We're just over it? And I want to point this out. Okay,
(05:01):
some things were over. It doesn't mean that they're not
really good, even great, okay, but just enough, right enough, Jason,
you're really good with this stuff. Give me something you're.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Just over Tony Romo, Tony Jim God, Jim go Jim. Yeah.
I don't know. If there is a a broadcaster right
now that gets more negativity on Twitter, that's deserving. In
other words, I think on Twitter everyone hates everything, but
(05:35):
I fully concur with the criticism that Tony Romo gets.
I think it's a combination of his paycheck, the fact
that he's getting worse, not better, the fact that nobody
over at CBS seems to have the gumption to go
to him with an intervention and say, let's start over.
(05:58):
This is how you commentated game. We're going to start
with the small stuff, the fundamentals.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Stug.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I'm sure there's times that during the season that you've said,
you know what, let's do some fundamentals today in practice,
Let's start over. This is what you don't do. This
is what you do do. The problem is he's developed
so many bad habits. He's just exacerbating those bad habits
on a weekly basis. It's almost unwatchable at this point.
(06:27):
If you are the lead commentator on a network's coverage
of the largest sport in the country, you should not
be a reason people push mute on your TV. You
don't want that he's so bad at his job that
Chris Collinsworth, by comparison on Sunday was like talking circles
(06:50):
around Tony Romo and Collinsworth is so vanilla and so uninteresting,
but he looked great compared to Roma.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, I just I like Tony. I know, was a guy.
I like him. I like it. Actually a lot of
parts about his broadcast I do. I just I struggle
with how he calls big moments, just crushes big moments,
and I gotta think that nance who preps and preps
and preps for those big moments has got to be
(07:21):
frustrated on someone gotta be frustrated.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Okay, I low some you over before I get to mine.
I just had a thought like the greatest call of
all time in sports history, al Michaels, do you believe
in miracles? Yes? What would have happened if he would
have been partnered with Tony Romo for that moment? Do
you believe? I'll be al Michaels, Jason, you be Tony Romo?
(07:50):
Do you believe in miracles? That's why you That's why
I hear, That's why I heard Brooks MICRONI all right,
all right, so what I'm over.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
With, Well that was a very realistic reenacting there. Thank
you very good.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I don't know what that I don't know what you
would call the farting noises that Jay stew was making,
but I'm gonna call them.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Why do you turn into Daffy Duck there? Because his
voice that's the problem too. His presentation, So what he's
saying isn't very good.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
We got it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
His broken voice sounds like a fart machine.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, okay, I I am over. Hey Jay, how do
you feel about Tunny Romm? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
He just wasn't clear enough. As you know, he has
a real problem getting right to it. I am over
the NBA. I love the NBA, but I'm just not
a fan anymore. I'm so turned off by the drama.
Everyone wants to leave their team and force their way out.
(08:56):
Just the latest is Jimmy Butler. Nobody plays defense anymore.
I can't remember the last time that I was interested
in an actual on court storyline. Certainly it hasn't happened
this season. The NBA has lost me. I love the NBA,
but I'm just not a fan anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Well, I want to talk about that, but not right now,
because I don't want to contradict how you're feeling, how
you're thinking. We'll flesh that out in a bit. Sammy,
what do you.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Got I'm going to be Captain Obvious here and speak
for everybody living in southern California. I'm over these fires.
I am over these fires. It's one thing to be
living in the fire season in southern California, which I
don't even know it must it might as well just
be year round now. But it's one thing to be
like living in southern California in August or September or July,
(09:46):
and there's some fires burning because it's like one hundred
and fifteen degrees. But we are now six six weeks,
two months into our quote unquote wet season, and there's
another set of fires that's broken out today. And obviously
we had all the devastation with Altadena and the Palisades
Fire and thousands and thousands of homes burning down, and
here is another rager breaking out in the mountains north
(10:10):
of Los Angeles, and the rain can't come soon enough.
I am over it. It is one thing to live
in the Midwest and have those prescribed fires to kind
of help your prairies get reborn and the seeds explode
and replant themselves. And the fire is good, it's nurturing
and it's cleansing. This we're just we're burning dirt. We're
burning dirt. It's so dry. So I am over these fires.
(10:33):
The rain is supposed to come Saturday, we're supposed to
get a storm. Can't come soon. I'm over it these fires, man.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah. The only thing is, you know, all those burned
out areas gotta be careful of mudslides. YEPO rain too,
so we'll see it. So how much rain you're supposed
to get.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I don't know the totals yet. So you hope, because
of what you just said about mudslides, you hope it's
like a nice sort of soft rain to start, and
then maybe it picks up a little bit. You don't
want those torrential down pores because then it will become
of the threat of landslides and mudslides. So it's like,
even when the good rain comes, you still have to
worry about something.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yep, yes you do. Doug gottlif Chow Fox Portrayio things.
I'm over man, There's so many. There's so many, I
think again, Jason, I'm sure I'm surprised you didn't say
I'm over all. The idea of being woke, right, that
was a big thing, which I think is being struck down.
I do think the extremism on both sides I've been
(11:28):
over for a long time. The problem with it is
we have a substantial group of extremists on the other
side who are now kind of grasping for power, and
it'll be interesting to see how much they actually can
grab in these next you know, three and a half
years or so, some kind of over extremism on both sides. Right,
(11:48):
the world is in the middle, the world is in
the gray. Let's act real immature for a moment. I
am I'm over losing. We've been losing for a while.
I'm over. I'm done with it. I told our guys
this morning, what does Wednesday start with a dub? How
about we end Wednesday with a dub?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Two?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Right? I don't know if you guys like that one.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I do like that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I'm actually really over social media from the perspective of
how it is weaponized against people who are really good
at what they do and don't do it well in
a given moment and then made to like if you're
Mark Andrews and you look at your phone and you
(12:31):
fall and somebody sends you stuff on social media, you
would think you're the worst human being football player on earth? Like,
how do we get to that point again? And I'm
I'm okay with like, you know, people want to be
a punch of me, to be a punch of may
That's fine, Okay, talk to me when we start winning games.
But I just like the level of it is so
(12:54):
again extreme and over the top. It's gross, it's gross,
and this is kind of what we do. We ruined everything.
I'm also over conspiracy theories, over them, over them. Do
you know how hard it is to keep a secret today?
So the idea that these these grand conspiracies where nobody
can keep a secret, Like, who are we actually kidding?
(13:16):
So I'm over conspiracy theories. I'm over extremism, which is
also part of the conspiracy theories. I'm over losing. And
then last thing that I'm over in sports is I
actually think this is the same thing. I'm over the
over the top nature of what we misremember the past.
(13:41):
Here's what I mean. And this actually goes along the
lines of Isaac Lornkraft. Okay, Ilo' is like, man, they
don't play a defense in the NBA. Okay, what are
you basing that on? What are you basing that on?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Them not playing defense in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, okay, So if you go back, what's your favorite
era of the NBA that they did play defense.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh, I love those seventy eight seventy seven New York
Knicks Atlanta Hawk games in nineteen ninety nine. No, that's
a that's a fascinating question. And part of it is
that it's a branding problem in the sense that my
exposure to basing that judgment has been on looking at scores,
(14:26):
you know, one forty five to one, thirty one, twenty
eight to one, seventeen. And part of that is the
image that the NBA is putting out there that nobody
cares enough to play defense. And I agree with you.
You know, during ninety three, ninety four, maybe one generation later,
(14:46):
there were certainly times when it swung too much in
the extreme. But while there should be a balance, I
think it's too far swung. And you know what, Doug,
I might be completely wrong, but that's not my problem.
If that's an incorrect perception, that's my perception from what
the NBA has been feeding me.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Now, I don't think it's for the NBA has been
feeding you. Okay, here's the deal. We didn't watch regular
season NBA games when we were kids. If you say
you did, you're full of crap. You did now in LA,
we watched the Lakers because you had the Lakers broadcasting network, right,
chick hern and stut Lands. But you didn't watch like
every NBA game, and you certainly didn't break it down
(15:27):
and understand. And if you go back and watch regular
season games from long ago, they didn't play any defense either.
Our perspective is based upon the playoffs. And here's the thing.
When you watch playoff NBA basketball now, it's awesome. It's
awesome because it has some of the physicality the pass
defensively with a lot more of the new skill and
(15:51):
the use of the three point line. It's a great
blended mix. But we're comparing it. We're comparing regular season
NBA basketball, which by my estimation, and what the hell
do I know about basketball, I've only spent my entire
life in it. But again, it's actually fantastic. It's they've
lost the perception war. The perception war is what they've lost.
(16:13):
And I'm gonna be honest with you, they're all right
about inside the NBA. They just are. And that's me
telling you. I think Charles Barkley is the single greatest
sports personality in the history of the median but they
have they have lost the perception battle because the best
sports show on TV does nothing or I don't think
(16:33):
he says nothing, because the truth is, if he did
a split, they're probably fifty percent positive fifty percent negative.
But there what they say is perceived nashally. And then
we watch regular season NBA games like, well, they don't
play very hard, we don't play everybody, and they don't
play any defense like nobody ere remembers, like, go back
and watch regular season NBA games from the eighties, nineties,
two thousands. They were awful. Why same thing? Too many games,
(16:58):
not enough defense. The only difference was they weren't as
efficient offensively, they didn't shoot as many threes, they weren't
as skilled as they are now. So I'm not saying
I grew up on nineties NBA basketball. I loved it.
But I'm also a realist about there's always been too
many games. They've always lacked some sort of effort in
the regular season because the human body can't play eighty
two games hard. It's too difficult. Your body's all beating
(17:19):
up anyway.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Well, the I mean you talk about perception. I mean
I will keyed in on the defense thing that was
obviously triggering for you. But I think what we could
all agree on is by normal metrics, which is TV ratings,
and then just by the eye test. You know, my
job is to sift through sports content every day, and
(17:43):
the NBA rarely rises to the occasion to talk about
things unless it's, as Ili points out, Jimmy Butler drama.
There just isn't anything interesting. A lot of people have
been trying to point the finger at the three point
line and all this stuff. But I think we could
I all agree upon that people just aren't paying attention
to the NBA this year, right in general?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
In general?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yes, correct, And I think it's because we're over Lebron James.
I just do. We're just kind of like, he's great.
He's been great for a long time. It's great, like
just kind of over it. I don't know why. It
feels like I'm trying it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's been in the league for twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, it's like we're good.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Like people's entire lives, he's been playing basketball.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It's like we're good. I get it. He's good like
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
But we see what happens when Caitlin Clark, which is
a once in a generation talent and a once in
a generation of phenomena. We see what happens when there
are interesting people to watch in a sport. The NBA
just doesn't have anyone to gravitate to.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, but again is that perception now? So tell me
some have you ever? Have you watched the thunderplay? Have
any you guys watched the thunderplay?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I have no interest in doing that either, to be
honest with.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
You, but why because they don't have anything that makes
me interested in watching them.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
But n if so, it hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It hasn't been.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Probably there's a message to us.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You're not receptive to the message.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
It seems we seem to be receptive to the NFL.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You're receptive to the NFL because fantasy football and you
can gamble on it, and it's not on TV every night.
The NBA is on TV too much.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I don't care about fantasy football. I don't care about gambling.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It's you know exactly, you know exactly when it's on
and what it's what's on, Whereas the NBA is on
literally feels like all the time. I actually think everybody's
burned out on the hot take shows. And I think
the hot take shows focus way too much on the NBA.
I honestly think that's a good portion of the burnout
(19:46):
and that, and it's just it's just like college basketball.
College basketball, there's so many good stories and players whatever,
but nobody watches because every game is on TV. There's
nothing special about a TV game. Same with the NBA.
I'm telling the Oklahoma City Thunder are awesome. Shay Gills,
Alexander's as good a player as there is any know what.
He doesn't do a ton of He doesn't shoot a
ton threes. Hey, And the great thing about using Caitlin Clark,
(20:08):
it's a great reference. It's her birthday, she's transcended. She's amazing.
But what does she do? She plays like a men's player,
only not as good against inferior competition, at a slower pace,
shoots at a lower percentage with a smaller basketball, easier
skill to do. Now, that's the whole thing. It's perception,
not reality. Reality is the matter way better, not close.
(20:32):
But I think part of it is we're over the drama.
Part of it is. It's it's the way it's positioned
by people on TV and radio is in such a
negative light. It's overly discussed by hot take shows, right,
and it's on TV all the time, so there's nothing
special about it. And you're you're right, guys there, maybe
you have maybe haven't been sold in Neilklem City Thunder
(20:53):
and we are sold too much on drama. But you
guys should proably pay attention because they're awesome to watch.
They actually like each other, they play as a team,
home on court advantage is amazing, and they have arguably
the best player in the NBA. Anyway, here I am.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I think you're I think you're putting in more and
more slabs of the pie chart, getting towards one hundred
percent of why interest is dropped in the NBA. I
think there's still something missing, but you may you make
a lot. You bring in a lot of factors that
are significant.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Anybody else have anything in the midway? Yeah, I think
we're good, all right? Anybody anything else you're over? Anything
else you're over.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I mean I could do ten hours on things that
I'm over.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Good, So give me a couple more.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
You can do ten hours where you've been going no more.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Romo, give me something else. You're over. You're over lots
of things.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I'm over, going way over on the breaks. Come on, man,
That's why I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
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Speaker 1 (22:09):
What Up Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. I love it.
I love that. Jay stew says, I got a bunch more,
but we got to get to break things. You're over,
Go ahead and tweet us at Gottlieb Show. So, the
number one conspiracy theory in the NFL currently is that
people believe the NFL wants the Chiefs to win. That's
(22:31):
why Pat Mahomes gets all those calls, right, Isn't that
that's a that's some sort of conspiracy theory. Well, Pat
Mahomes was asked about some of the controversial calls against
the Texans defense. Here's what he had to say to
his press conference.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
I'm gonna learned that no matter what happens during the game,
that something's going to come out or about if you
win and you continue to win. So I don't really
pay attention to it. I mean, obviously I've been on
both sides of it as far as how I felt
the calls were made. But at the end of the day, man,
those guys are doing doing their best, the best calls
and keep it toward the players and making the plays
in the game, and that's what besides the outcome, And
(23:05):
there was a call here or there that people didn't
agree with, but at the same time, I think there
was a lot of other plays that really decided to
outcome of that football game.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, yeah, it does. It always it feels like they
get calls. Do I think there's some grand conspiracy. I
do not. I don't. Those things are impossible. It would
be impossible to keep secret. There's no possible chance. But
(23:35):
it does feel that way. Here. Here's Mike Pereira, course,
long time NFL official and of course the officiating guru,
on television for Fox, when he was asked about it
earlier this week.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
It doesn't resonate with me at all. The fact that
you're looking out for anyone, any team, any individual is
a myth. It is an absolute myth. You don't have
time to react and say this is golf I'm not
gonna call this because it's golf. This is Mahomes. I'm
got to call this because it's Mahome.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Uh yeah, yeah, I think that's I think that's accurate.
You know, people say, well they went over to Josh Allen. Look,
they're trying to keep all these quarterbacks healthy. They really are.
That is absolutely positively the desire of the league. Hey,
let's keep them all healthy because they sell tickets and
(24:29):
there what drives the ratings, and sometimes with that comes
an extra protection layer of star quarterbacks. All right, s
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Du dup
boot da boom bah h Yeah, go ahead, Uh go ahead. Sam.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Back to the conversation about the referees officials protecting the
perception of protecting Mahomes. He's not really a runner. Like
he can run, he can take off and pick up
a first down. He's quite a clever and crafty runner
when he is a runner. But would you say that
the officials maybe aren't protecting guys more like Josh Allen
who make themselves a runner a lot more like I
(25:19):
saw Alan take like a helmet to helmet in that
last game. That wasn't called like, if you make yourself
known as a runner to the referees, like you're a
running quarterback, you're not going to get that Mahomes treatment.
That's just my perception.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, I think same thing happened to Cam Newton for
a long time. Sure, you know, if you don't slide. Now,
here's my thing with people who are like, oh, well
he's slid, Like we talked about this is Joe Thomas yesterday.
I fully understand the late slide and how that screws
you up, but let's be honest. Okay, those guys going
to tackle them. Okay, if you're going to tackle the
(25:55):
way you're supposed to tackle, and you know right, you're
in a crouch position and you're head is up and
you're looking to even drive that quarterback into the dirt.
The problem with the Texans are, yes, he slid late,
but why are they diving with their helmets at a
sliding player. That's not how you would tackle him if
he was in space anyway. Now, does the flop out
(26:18):
of bounds look bad? Yeah, of course course, But let's
be honest. That's one of those that acting jobs have
been helped out for years with that Pat Mames is
not the first one, but you can say he slid late.
But my pushback would be why are the defenders leading
like jumping and leading with their helmets, because if he
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didn't slide, you wouldn't be tackling that way, you just wouldn't.
So this is me actually supporting the officials because we
all know you're leading with your helmet knowing he's gonna
slide and you're trying to either just miss him. You know,
if you don't buzz the tower, you hit him. This
is what happens. That's what happens. And look, I think
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the chiefs for the get away with calls is holding.
You know, holding never feels like it's never called. And
then remember last year with their right tackle always lining
up you know, you know, a step back in basically
in the backfield that started to get called during the season.
Will they call that this weekend? I don't know. I
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don't know, but it is on like, Look, the Bills
three years ago lost when they had the lead with
thirteen seconds ago and gave up a field goal that
was on the Bills. That wasn't any officiating. You're going
to have to beat them on their home field on
their home field, and they earned home field advantage with
their record the regular season, despite the fact you beat them.
(27:44):
So I can't wait till Sunday because this feels like
I don't want to say, you know, Bulls against Pistons
or you know, whomever has had to overcome somebody who
has been the champion in their division or in their conference.
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But eventually usually it changes. It happens. It's happened for years, right.
The Chiefs forever before they got Pat Mahomes would lose
early in the playoffs. Then they get and even with
Andy Reid, then they get Pat Mahomes and everything changes.
Now it's the Bills who haven't gotten over that threshold
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have a chance, probably have a better football team, more
balanced football team. And I wonder about the officiating from
this standpoint now, even though there's no conspiracy, there's definitely
Hey guys, we got to make sure we're calling all
this stuff right, and usually in big games they don't
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It's a hump day, it's a game day. Let's get
to the press, the press. Isaac long Cron, what's in
the press today?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
All right, Doug. We started with the New York Jets
making an official they are reportedly hiring Detroit Lions defensive
coordinator Aaron Glenn as their new head coach after four
seasons as the Lions defensive coordinator. He is, of course,
a former Jets player. They drafted him twelfth overall in
nineteen ninety four as a defensive back, played the first
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eight seasons of his career with them. Meanwhile, a short
time ago, ESPN reported that it'll be a five year
contract through twenty twenty nine for Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I listen, I'm excited for him, former player who works
his way to a defensive coordinator. And they weren't perfect,
they weren't even good on defense, but they found a way,
you know, with so many injuries to beat up on
the Minnesota Vikings to get that number one seed. But
I think ultimately lack of dudes because of injuries as
(30:51):
are undoing. But like how good in defensive Cordner you
are is not how good a head coach you are.
And I do think that Aaron Glenn can galvanize the
locker room. I'm excited for the Jets. I just am.
You know how many times have they made the splashy higher?
This one feels like the right higher. But we'll see.
Gotta get a good quarterback and got to rebuild this
thing structurally.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Okay, this one's somewhat convoluted, but as we know, Houston
Texans running back Joe Mixon had some controversial remarks after
his team lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the
divisional round. He was fined twenty five thousand dollars for
the NFL for that, but it turned out they find
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him for something he didn't say. Then they changed the
fine for something he actually did say. And the latest
is a tweet by Mixon himself eleven minutes ago at
Joe underscore Maine Mixon quote. So let me get this straight.
NFL finds me twenty five k for something I didn't
even say, call them out for it, and their response
(31:55):
was find me again for something that's not even a
violation without e been rescinding the first one. Where's the accountability?
Just respect the players?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Cold?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
And then there's a globe emoji. I assume that means
cold world that the land is from Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, I mean again, he was echoing his frustrations about
the officiating, which so many had and it feels like
the NFL is chasing it. But I don't know. I
just by the way, but the misrepresentation of what people
say on social media is I can tell you personally,
it really sucks.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
By the way, kudos to Joe Mixon. Three hours ago
he posted what's next, I get fined for Connor McDavid
cross checking an opponent in an NHL game. Good cross
sport reference there, ye by Joe Mixon. Okay, apparently the
Philadelphia Eagles must be strapped for cash, Doug, because I'm
(32:55):
not making this up. The Eagles are selling snow elected
from the end zone at Lincoln Financial Field after their
playoff win over the Los Angeles Rams. The stove well
arrived packaged in containers with dry ice. The cost a
mere fifty dollars a pint.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Oh hey, honey, check on that. Uh that that playoff
win ice from five years ago. Oh, there's nothing in
here because it evaporated.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
No, it comes with it comes with dry ice.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah, well that's gonna run out. That's gonna.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Drink. But you drink. Do you put in your drink
during the Super Bowl, It's like you're gonna make it.
What if you're gonna make like an old fashion and
you make like a big ice cube out of the
snow for your old fashion. You drink it.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
A great idea for a party, right, right.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
We're gonna have a party and we're gonna we're gonna
drink the Rams tears.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, it's like that that magic cold water from the
water Boy at the end, where like you drink that
came from the Eskimos and then he comes back to
life and then you win the super Bowl because it
has like magic powers to it.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
It's snake oil or stelling snake oil. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I still regret the time growing up that I asked
my parents to buy Elvis sweat at the airport and
they declined my advance as well. All right, so we
go from the Eagles victory over the Rams to a
story involving the Rams. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford played the
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final five games of the season, including both of their
playoff games, with cracked ribs. His wife revealed on a
podcast this was not like in the injury report. Stafford
didn't say that he cracked his ribs. His wife revealed
that on a podcast.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Well, I mean that's why I think he's thinking about
does he really want to retire? Because he you know,
he had that back injury. Was that going back to
last year and then this year the cracked ribs. I
mean he's taken a beating. Absolutely, I still think he plays.
And this is one of the things about your wife
having a podcast. She kind of tells all your dirty
little secrets.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Thank goodness, my wife does not have a podcast yet.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Hey, guys, if Stafford and Cooper cup if they leave
the Rams or retire, Stafford retires whatever you think McVeigh retires.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
No, No, he's a hell of a football coach. Well
you mean to do television?
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Yeah? Whatever, he was I guess what was he contemplating
a couple of years on Amazon?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
It was Amazon was one Amazon first started.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Yeah, but it also had to do with the fact
that there was some kind of he was he was
burned out.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yeah, he was really burned out.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
He was burned out. But also he was negotiating a
new contract.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
To well speak, speaking of contracts in the NFL. Uh. Yeah,
Trent Balkey out as the general manager of the Jacksonville
Jaguars after five seasons. And uh it brings to mind
that uncomfortable zoom call a couple of weeks ago when
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con was asked about potentially replacing Balkey if he wasn't
on the same page with a potential new head coach.
Balkey was shown on the Zoom call at the same time.
It was unbelievably awkward and delicious at the same time,
and consang at a statement. Following several discussions with Trent
Balkey this week, we both arrived at the conclusion that
(36:20):
it is in our mutual best interest to respectfully separate
effective immediately.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Right. It's I think the weirdest statement you've ever heard, right,
but it appears. And remember there was Byron Leftwich didn't
take the job last time around because he didn't want
to work with Trent Balkey. My guess is the reason
they couldn't get higher coach yet is they couldn't find
anybody want to work with him. So Balky, who butted
(36:49):
heads with Jim Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh went back to college,
won a national championship and now has turned around the Chargers.
I think Bulky obviously has established himself as a reputation
with a guy as a guy who's tough to work.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
And that is this edition of the press that get
out there and press that was the press.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
so the update is Dan Byer so far safe. Okay,
fire is creeping up on the house, but safe and
taking care of his family. Our report is got a
big game tonight in two hours and uh, you know,
listen if you want to say a little prayer for us,
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We were negatives all day. I think it's minus seven
(00:43):
when I got up in the morning, minus four most
of the day. Minus twenty was houtfelt minus twenty one.
Today it's much more reasonable. I think we're in the teens,
and you know when you're in the teens normally or not.
We're twenty twenty two degrees yay, and it feels like
eight degrees, which is not bad but not windy that
(01:06):
wind cuts through you. But I was telling sam My
my favorite thing about freezing cold weather, and this is
a this is an interesting one. Sam. You shared something
that I thought was pretty good, which was.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What one benefit of living in cold climates during the
winter is you have now endless freezer space. Sure, uh,
you can put you know, your your your pot roast
out on the porch. I mean, I think it's too cold,
and if it's like, you know, zero degrees, I think
that'd probably be bad for your food.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But well, not like opening. You can put it in
zipp You.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Can put it in a container and honestly, then you
have you have tons of freezer space. So that is
one small perk of living cold climate.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I have a perk you ready for it?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
As you know and many of people have heard, I
have a dog. His name is Vince Lombardi. He is
a sheep, a doodle pup. He's like, go seven a half
months old. Picking up dog poops is so much easier
when they're like permafrost, literally like the easiest thing ever, right,
And so there's all these like land mines and you
(02:13):
know how dogs are they find like one area. I
got this little hill in my backyard and there's like
fifty of them, and you know, you just wrap your
hand up in a sack and boom boom, boom boo boom,
and yeah, I mean it's a it's a real snap. Huh.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I was gonna say, you're let that thing cool down
a little bit. You're gonna let it sort of just
you know, you know it because when it comes out.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh you know, yeah, you don't get the steam. You
don't get the steamy ones right after that.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No, no, no, these.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Are days old. Yeah, but you get you get a
day old. It is. It is permafrost. It is frozen.
It is solid, you know, because there's nothing worse than
when you go to pick up a dog poop and
it just melts over it, like, oh man, that's just
the worst it gets on if you do a shovel,
if you do your hand with a bag, you know,
if you do it any any sort of poop bag,
that's a disaster. No permafrost. It's actually kind of great.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And you can use the snow surrounding it sort of
buffer it. Same like on a beach, you can kind
of you can kind of dig under all the nastiness
and sort of you know, take a clump of sand
or snow and put it in the bag or shovel
it into the garbage can, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Each you don't really need to because it's literally.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Frozen, yes if I know, but it's still.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
There's no experience. There's no no snow on the ground here.
So just you know, we're really cold. Yeah, cold for
no reason. That's I don't cold for no reason.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
As we have that Siberia going right.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
There's snow in New Orleans. There's no snow in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The news said it was the snowiest day in New
Orleans history and it was coming down yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That is winter storm Endzo.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Winter storm endzo enzoy Enzo. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show.
It's Fox Sports Radio every Wednesday. It's hump day, middle
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Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's time for the Midway.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Just a quick update for those of you wisconsinitess and
people who have grown up listening to Dan Byer made
it home safe. Everybody's safe. But he just sent us
a picture fires uh pretty close, pretty close. So but
he's safe and he feels okay at about their home
right now. So thinking to you, Dan, and to stay
(04:27):
safe for everybody in that area of southern California. Okay,
the Midway, we usually throw out ideas and Jaystu, you're
good with mine, you like mine, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay. So Jason wanted to talk about the Kansas City
Chiefs and how why people are over the Kancity Chiefs.
So I wanted to take it a step further and
instead of just picking apart the Chiefs, what else in
the world sports it? Otherwise? Are we all just over?
We're just over it? And I want to point this out. Okay,
(05:01):
some things were over. It doesn't mean that they're not
really good, even great, okay, but just enough, right enough, Jason,
you're really good with this stuff. Give me something you're.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Just over Tony Romo, Tony Jim God, Jim go Jim. Yeah.
I don't know. If there is a a broadcaster right
now that gets more negativity on Twitter, that's deserving. In
other words, I think on Twitter everyone hates everything, but
(05:35):
I fully concur with the criticism that Tony Romo gets.
I think it's a combination of his paycheck, the fact
that he's getting worse, not better, the fact that nobody
over at CBS seems to have the gumption to go
to him with an intervention and say, let's start over.
(05:58):
This is how you commentated game. We're going to start
with the small stuff, the fundamentals.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Stug.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I'm sure there's times that during the season that you've said,
you know what, let's do some fundamentals today in practice,
Let's start over. This is what you don't do. This
is what you do do. The problem is he's developed
so many bad habits. He's just exacerbating those bad habits
on a weekly basis. It's almost unwatchable at this point.
(06:27):
If you are the lead commentator on a network's coverage
of the largest sport in the country, you should not
be a reason people push mute on your TV. You
don't want that he's so bad at his job that
Chris Collinsworth, by comparison on Sunday was like talking circles
(06:50):
around Tony Romo and Collinsworth is so vanilla and so uninteresting,
but he looked great compared to Roma.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, I just I like Tony. I know, was a guy.
I like him. I like it. Actually a lot of
parts about his broadcast I do. I just I struggle
with how he calls big moments, just crushes big moments,
and I gotta think that nance who preps and preps
and preps for those big moments has got to be
(07:21):
frustrated on someone gotta be frustrated.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Okay, I low some you over before I get to mine.
I just had a thought like the greatest call of
all time in sports history, al Michaels, do you believe
in miracles? Yes? What would have happened if he would
have been partnered with Tony Romo for that moment? Do
you believe? I'll be al Michaels, Jason, you be Tony Romo?
(07:50):
Do you believe in miracles? That's why you That's why
I hear, That's why I heard Brooks MICRONI all right,
all right, so what I'm over.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
With, Well that was a very realistic reenacting there. Thank
you very good.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I don't know what that I don't know what you
would call the farting noises that Jay stew was making,
but I'm gonna call them.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Why do you turn into Daffy Duck there? Because his
voice that's the problem too. His presentation, So what he's
saying isn't very good.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
We got it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
His broken voice sounds like a fart machine.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, okay, I I am over. Hey Jay, how do
you feel about Tunny Romm? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
He just wasn't clear enough. As you know, he has
a real problem getting right to it. I am over
the NBA. I love the NBA, but I'm just not
a fan anymore. I'm so turned off by the drama.
Everyone wants to leave their team and force their way out.
(08:56):
Just the latest is Jimmy Butler. Nobody plays defense anymore.
I can't remember the last time that I was interested
in an actual on court storyline. Certainly it hasn't happened
this season. The NBA has lost me. I love the NBA,
but I'm just not a fan anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Well, I want to talk about that, but not right now,
because I don't want to contradict how you're feeling, how
you're thinking. We'll flesh that out in a bit. Sammy,
what do you.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Got I'm going to be Captain Obvious here and speak
for everybody living in southern California. I'm over these fires.
I am over these fires. It's one thing to be
living in the fire season in southern California, which I
don't even know it must it might as well just
be year round now. But it's one thing to be
like living in southern California in August or September or July,
(09:46):
and there's some fires burning because it's like one hundred
and fifteen degrees. But we are now six six weeks,
two months into our quote unquote wet season, and there's
another set of fires that's broken out today. And obviously
we had all the devastation with Altadena and the Palisades
Fire and thousands and thousands of homes burning down, and
here is another rager breaking out in the mountains north
(10:10):
of Los Angeles, and the rain can't come soon enough.
I am over it. It is one thing to live
in the Midwest and have those prescribed fires to kind
of help your prairies get reborn and the seeds explode
and replant themselves. And the fire is good, it's nurturing
and it's cleansing. This we're just we're burning dirt. We're
burning dirt. It's so dry. So I am over these fires.
(10:33):
The rain is supposed to come Saturday, we're supposed to
get a storm. Can't come soon. I'm over it these fires, man.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah. The only thing is, you know, all those burned
out areas gotta be careful of mudslides. YEPO rain too,
so we'll see it. So how much rain you're supposed
to get.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I don't know the totals yet. So you hope, because
of what you just said about mudslides, you hope it's
like a nice sort of soft rain to start, and
then maybe it picks up a little bit. You don't
want those torrential down pores because then it will become
of the threat of landslides and mudslides. So it's like,
even when the good rain comes, you still have to
worry about something.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yep, yes you do. Doug gottlif Chow Fox Portrayio things.
I'm over man, There's so many. There's so many, I
think again, Jason, I'm sure I'm surprised you didn't say
I'm over all. The idea of being woke, right, that
was a big thing, which I think is being struck down.
I do think the extremism on both sides I've been
(11:28):
over for a long time. The problem with it is
we have a substantial group of extremists on the other
side who are now kind of grasping for power, and
it'll be interesting to see how much they actually can
grab in these next you know, three and a half
years or so, some kind of over extremism on both sides. Right,
(11:48):
the world is in the middle, the world is in
the gray. Let's act real immature for a moment. I
am I'm over losing. We've been losing for a while.
I'm over. I'm done with it. I told our guys
this morning, what does Wednesday start with a dub? How
about we end Wednesday with a dub?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Two?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Right? I don't know if you guys like that one.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I do like that.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I'm actually really over social media from the perspective of
how it is weaponized against people who are really good
at what they do and don't do it well in
a given moment and then made to like if you're
Mark Andrews and you look at your phone and you
(12:31):
fall and somebody sends you stuff on social media, you
would think you're the worst human being football player on earth? Like,
how do we get to that point again? And I'm
I'm okay with like, you know, people want to be
a punch of me, to be a punch of may
That's fine, Okay, talk to me when we start winning games.
But I just like the level of it is so
(12:54):
again extreme and over the top. It's gross, it's gross,
and this is kind of what we do. We ruined everything.
I'm also over conspiracy theories, over them, over them. Do
you know how hard it is to keep a secret today?
So the idea that these these grand conspiracies where nobody
can keep a secret, Like, who are we actually kidding?
(13:16):
So I'm over conspiracy theories. I'm over extremism, which is
also part of the conspiracy theories. I'm over losing. And
then last thing that I'm over in sports is I
actually think this is the same thing. I'm over the
over the top nature of what we misremember the past.
(13:41):
Here's what I mean. And this actually goes along the
lines of Isaac Lornkraft. Okay, Ilo' is like, man, they
don't play a defense in the NBA. Okay, what are
you basing that on? What are you basing that on?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Them not playing defense in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, okay, So if you go back, what's your favorite
era of the NBA that they did play defense.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh, I love those seventy eight seventy seven New York
Knicks Atlanta Hawk games in nineteen ninety nine. No, that's
a that's a fascinating question. And part of it is
that it's a branding problem in the sense that my
exposure to basing that judgment has been on looking at scores,
(14:26):
you know, one forty five to one, thirty one, twenty
eight to one, seventeen. And part of that is the
image that the NBA is putting out there that nobody
cares enough to play defense. And I agree with you.
You know, during ninety three, ninety four, maybe one generation later,
(14:46):
there were certainly times when it swung too much in
the extreme. But while there should be a balance, I
think it's too far swung. And you know what, Doug,
I might be completely wrong, but that's not my problem.
If that's an incorrect perception, that's my perception from what
the NBA has been feeding me.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Now, I don't think it's for the NBA has been
feeding you. Okay, here's the deal. We didn't watch regular
season NBA games when we were kids. If you say
you did, you're full of crap. You did now in LA,
we watched the Lakers because you had the Lakers broadcasting network, right,
chick hern and stut Lands. But you didn't watch like
every NBA game, and you certainly didn't break it down
(15:27):
and understand. And if you go back and watch regular
season games from long ago, they didn't play any defense either.
Our perspective is based upon the playoffs. And here's the thing.
When you watch playoff NBA basketball now, it's awesome. It's
awesome because it has some of the physicality the pass
defensively with a lot more of the new skill and
(15:51):
the use of the three point line. It's a great
blended mix. But we're comparing it. We're comparing regular season
NBA basketball, which by my estimation, and what the hell
do I know about basketball, I've only spent my entire
life in it. But again, it's actually fantastic. It's they've
lost the perception war. The perception war is what they've lost.
(16:13):
And I'm gonna be honest with you, they're all right
about inside the NBA. They just are. And that's me
telling you. I think Charles Barkley is the single greatest
sports personality in the history of the median but they
have they have lost the perception battle because the best
sports show on TV does nothing or I don't think
(16:33):
he says nothing, because the truth is, if he did
a split, they're probably fifty percent positive fifty percent negative.
But there what they say is perceived nashally. And then
we watch regular season NBA games like, well, they don't
play very hard, we don't play everybody, and they don't
play any defense like nobody ere remembers, like, go back
and watch regular season NBA games from the eighties, nineties,
two thousands. They were awful. Why same thing? Too many games,
(16:58):
not enough defense. The only difference was they weren't as
efficient offensively, they didn't shoot as many threes, they weren't
as skilled as they are now. So I'm not saying
I grew up on nineties NBA basketball. I loved it.
But I'm also a realist about there's always been too
many games. They've always lacked some sort of effort in
the regular season because the human body can't play eighty
two games hard. It's too difficult. Your body's all beating
(17:19):
up anyway.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Well, the I mean you talk about perception. I mean
I will keyed in on the defense thing that was
obviously triggering for you. But I think what we could
all agree on is by normal metrics, which is TV ratings,
and then just by the eye test. You know, my
job is to sift through sports content every day, and
(17:43):
the NBA rarely rises to the occasion to talk about
things unless it's, as Ili points out, Jimmy Butler drama.
There just isn't anything interesting. A lot of people have
been trying to point the finger at the three point
line and all this stuff. But I think we could
I all agree upon that people just aren't paying attention
to the NBA this year, right in general?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
In general?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yes, correct, And I think it's because we're over Lebron James.
I just do. We're just kind of like, he's great.
He's been great for a long time. It's great, like
just kind of over it. I don't know why. It
feels like I'm trying it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's been in the league for twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, it's like we're good.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Like people's entire lives, he's been playing basketball.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
It's like we're good. I get it. He's good like
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
But we see what happens when Caitlin Clark, which is
a once in a generation talent and a once in
a generation of phenomena. We see what happens when there
are interesting people to watch in a sport. The NBA
just doesn't have anyone to gravitate to.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay, but again is that perception now? So tell me
some have you ever? Have you watched the thunderplay? Have
any you guys watched the thunderplay?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I have no interest in doing that either, to be
honest with.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
You, but why because they don't have anything that makes
me interested in watching them.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
But n if so, it hasn't been.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It hasn't been.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Probably there's a message to us.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You're not receptive to the message.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
It seems we seem to be receptive to the NFL.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You're receptive to the NFL because fantasy football and you
can gamble on it, and it's not on TV every night.
The NBA is on TV too much.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I don't care about fantasy football. I don't care about gambling.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It's you know exactly, you know exactly when it's on
and what it's what's on, Whereas the NBA is on
literally feels like all the time. I actually think everybody's
burned out on the hot take shows. And I think
the hot take shows focus way too much on the NBA.
I honestly think that's a good portion of the burnout
(19:46):
and that, and it's just it's just like college basketball.
College basketball, there's so many good stories and players whatever,
but nobody watches because every game is on TV. There's
nothing special about a TV game. Same with the NBA.
I'm telling the Oklahoma City Thunder are awesome. Shay Gills,
Alexander's as good a player as there is any know what.
He doesn't do a ton of He doesn't shoot a
ton threes. Hey, And the great thing about using Caitlin Clark,
(20:08):
it's a great reference. It's her birthday, she's transcended. She's amazing.
But what does she do? She plays like a men's player,
only not as good against inferior competition, at a slower pace,
shoots at a lower percentage with a smaller basketball, easier
skill to do. Now, that's the whole thing. It's perception,
not reality. Reality is the matter way better, not close.
(20:32):
But I think part of it is we're over the drama.
Part of it is. It's it's the way it's positioned
by people on TV and radio is in such a
negative light. It's overly discussed by hot take shows, right,
and it's on TV all the time, so there's nothing
special about it. And you're you're right, guys there, maybe
you have maybe haven't been sold in Neilklem City Thunder
(20:53):
and we are sold too much on drama. But you
guys should proably pay attention because they're awesome to watch.
They actually like each other, they play as a team,
home on court advantage is amazing, and they have arguably
the best player in the NBA. Anyway, here I am.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I think you're I think you're putting in more and
more slabs of the pie chart, getting towards one hundred
percent of why interest is dropped in the NBA. I
think there's still something missing, but you may you make
a lot. You bring in a lot of factors that
are significant.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Anybody else have anything in the midway? Yeah, I think
we're good, all right? Anybody anything else you're over? Anything
else you're over.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I mean I could do ten hours on things that
I'm over.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Good, So give me a couple more.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
You can do ten hours where you've been going no more.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Romo, give me something else. You're over. You're over lots
of things.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I'm over, going way over on the breaks. Come on, man,
That's why I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
All right.
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number one conspiracy theory in the NFL currently is that
people believe the NFL wants the Chiefs to win. That's
(22:31):
why Pat Mahomes gets all those calls, right, Isn't that
that's a that's some sort of conspiracy theory. Well, Pat
Mahomes was asked about some of the controversial calls against
the Texans defense. Here's what he had to say to
his press conference.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
I'm gonna learned that no matter what happens during the game,
that something's going to come out or about if you
win and you continue to win. So I don't really
pay attention to it. I mean, obviously I've been on
both sides of it as far as how I felt
the calls were made. But at the end of the day, man,
those guys are doing doing their best, the best calls
and keep it toward the players and making the plays
in the game, and that's what besides the outcome, And
(23:05):
there was a call here or there that people didn't
agree with, but at the same time, I think there
was a lot of other plays that really decided to
outcome of that football game.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, yeah, it does. It always it feels like they
get calls. Do I think there's some grand conspiracy. I
do not. I don't. Those things are impossible. It would
be impossible to keep secret. There's no possible chance. But
(23:35):
it does feel that way. Here. Here's Mike Pereira, course,
long time NFL official and of course the officiating guru,
on television for Fox, when he was asked about it
earlier this week.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
It doesn't resonate with me at all. The fact that
you're looking out for anyone, any team, any individual is
a myth. It is an absolute myth. You don't have
time to react and say this is golf I'm not
gonna call this because it's golf. This is Mahomes. I'm
got to call this because it's Mahome.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Uh yeah, yeah, I think that's I think that's accurate.
You know, people say, well they went over to Josh Allen. Look,
they're trying to keep all these quarterbacks healthy. They really are.
That is absolutely positively the desire of the league. Hey,
let's keep them all healthy because they sell tickets and
(24:29):
there what drives the ratings, and sometimes with that comes
an extra protection layer of star quarterbacks. All right, s
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Du dup
boot da boom bah h Yeah, go ahead, Uh go ahead. Sam.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Back to the conversation about the referees officials protecting the
perception of protecting Mahomes. He's not really a runner. Like
he can run, he can take off and pick up
a first down. He's quite a clever and crafty runner
when he is a runner. But would you say that
the officials maybe aren't protecting guys more like Josh Allen
who make themselves a runner a lot more like I
(25:19):
saw Alan take like a helmet to helmet in that
last game. That wasn't called like, if you make yourself
known as a runner to the referees, like you're a
running quarterback, you're not going to get that Mahomes treatment.
That's just my perception.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, I think same thing happened to Cam Newton for
a long time. Sure, you know, if you don't slide. Now,
here's my thing with people who are like, oh, well
he's slid, Like we talked about this is Joe Thomas yesterday.
I fully understand the late slide and how that screws
you up, but let's be honest. Okay, those guys going
to tackle them. Okay, if you're going to tackle the
(25:55):
way you're supposed to tackle, and you know right, you're
in a crouch position and you're head is up and
you're looking to even drive that quarterback into the dirt.
The problem with the Texans are, yes, he slid late,
but why are they diving with their helmets at a
sliding player. That's not how you would tackle him if
he was in space anyway. Now, does the flop out
(26:18):
of bounds look bad? Yeah, of course course, But let's
be honest. That's one of those that acting jobs have
been helped out for years with that Pat Mames is
not the first one, but you can say he slid late.
But my pushback would be why are the defenders leading
like jumping and leading with their helmets, because if he
(26:38):
didn't slide, you wouldn't be tackling that way, you just wouldn't.
So this is me actually supporting the officials because we
all know you're leading with your helmet knowing he's gonna
slide and you're trying to either just miss him. You know,
if you don't buzz the tower, you hit him. This
is what happens. That's what happens. And look, I think
(27:01):
the chiefs for the get away with calls is holding.
You know, holding never feels like it's never called. And
then remember last year with their right tackle always lining
up you know, you know, a step back in basically
in the backfield that started to get called during the season.
Will they call that this weekend? I don't know. I
(27:21):
don't know, but it is on like, Look, the Bills
three years ago lost when they had the lead with
thirteen seconds ago and gave up a field goal that
was on the Bills. That wasn't any officiating. You're going
to have to beat them on their home field on
their home field, and they earned home field advantage with
their record the regular season, despite the fact you beat them.
(27:44):
So I can't wait till Sunday because this feels like
I don't want to say, you know, Bulls against Pistons
or you know, whomever has had to overcome somebody who
has been the champion in their division or in their conference.
(28:04):
But eventually usually it changes. It happens. It's happened for years, right.
The Chiefs forever before they got Pat Mahomes would lose
early in the playoffs. Then they get and even with
Andy Reid, then they get Pat Mahomes and everything changes.
Now it's the Bills who haven't gotten over that threshold
(28:27):
have a chance, probably have a better football team, more
balanced football team. And I wonder about the officiating from
this standpoint now, even though there's no conspiracy, there's definitely
Hey guys, we got to make sure we're calling all
this stuff right, and usually in big games they don't
(28:47):
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It's a hump day, it's a game day. Let's get
to the press, the press. Isaac long Cron, what's in
the press today?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
All right, Doug. We started with the New York Jets
making an official they are reportedly hiring Detroit Lions defensive
coordinator Aaron Glenn as their new head coach after four
seasons as the Lions defensive coordinator. He is, of course,
a former Jets player. They drafted him twelfth overall in
nineteen ninety four as a defensive back, played the first
(30:21):
eight seasons of his career with them. Meanwhile, a short
time ago, ESPN reported that it'll be a five year
contract through twenty twenty nine for Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I listen, I'm excited for him, former player who works
his way to a defensive coordinator. And they weren't perfect,
they weren't even good on defense, but they found a way,
you know, with so many injuries to beat up on
the Minnesota Vikings to get that number one seed. But
I think ultimately lack of dudes because of injuries as
(30:51):
are undoing. But like how good in defensive Cordner you
are is not how good a head coach you are.
And I do think that Aaron Glenn can galvanize the
locker room. I'm excited for the Jets. I just am.
You know how many times have they made the splashy higher?
This one feels like the right higher. But we'll see.
Gotta get a good quarterback and got to rebuild this
thing structurally.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Okay, this one's somewhat convoluted, but as we know, Houston
Texans running back Joe Mixon had some controversial remarks after
his team lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the
divisional round. He was fined twenty five thousand dollars for
the NFL for that, but it turned out they find
(31:33):
him for something he didn't say. Then they changed the
fine for something he actually did say. And the latest
is a tweet by Mixon himself eleven minutes ago at
Joe underscore Maine Mixon quote. So let me get this straight.
NFL finds me twenty five k for something I didn't
even say, call them out for it, and their response
(31:55):
was find me again for something that's not even a
violation without e been rescinding the first one. Where's the accountability?
Just respect the players?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Cold?
Speaker 4 (32:06):
And then there's a globe emoji. I assume that means
cold world that the land is from Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, I mean again, he was echoing his frustrations about
the officiating, which so many had and it feels like
the NFL is chasing it. But I don't know. I
just by the way, but the misrepresentation of what people
say on social media is I can tell you personally,
it really sucks.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
By the way, kudos to Joe Mixon. Three hours ago
he posted what's next, I get fined for Connor McDavid
cross checking an opponent in an NHL game. Good cross
sport reference there, ye by Joe Mixon. Okay, apparently the
Philadelphia Eagles must be strapped for cash, Doug, because I'm
(32:55):
not making this up. The Eagles are selling snow elected
from the end zone at Lincoln Financial Field after their
playoff win over the Los Angeles Rams. The stove well
arrived packaged in containers with dry ice. The cost a
mere fifty dollars a pint.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Oh hey, honey, check on that. Uh that that playoff
win ice from five years ago. Oh, there's nothing in
here because it evaporated.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
No, it comes with it comes with dry ice.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah, well that's gonna run out. That's gonna.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Drink. But you drink. Do you put in your drink
during the Super Bowl, It's like you're gonna make it.
What if you're gonna make like an old fashion and
you make like a big ice cube out of the
snow for your old fashion. You drink it.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
A great idea for a party, right, right.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
We're gonna have a party and we're gonna we're gonna
drink the Rams tears.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, it's like that that magic cold water from the
water Boy at the end, where like you drink that
came from the Eskimos and then he comes back to
life and then you win the super Bowl because it
has like magic powers to it.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
It's snake oil or stelling snake oil. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I still regret the time growing up that I asked
my parents to buy Elvis sweat at the airport and
they declined my advance as well. All right, so we
go from the Eagles victory over the Rams to a
story involving the Rams. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford played the
(34:23):
final five games of the season, including both of their
playoff games, with cracked ribs. His wife revealed on a
podcast this was not like in the injury report. Stafford
didn't say that he cracked his ribs. His wife revealed
that on a podcast.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Well, I mean that's why I think he's thinking about
does he really want to retire? Because he you know,
he had that back injury. Was that going back to
last year and then this year the cracked ribs. I
mean he's taken a beating. Absolutely, I still think he plays.
And this is one of the things about your wife
having a podcast. She kind of tells all your dirty
little secrets.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Thank goodness, my wife does not have a podcast yet.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Hey, guys, if Stafford and Cooper cup if they leave
the Rams or retire, Stafford retires whatever you think McVeigh retires.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
No, No, he's a hell of a football coach. Well
you mean to do television?
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Yeah? Whatever, he was I guess what was he contemplating
a couple of years on Amazon?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
It was Amazon was one Amazon first started.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Yeah, but it also had to do with the fact
that there was some kind of he was he was
burned out.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yeah, he was really burned out.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
He was burned out. But also he was negotiating a
new contract.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
To well speak, speaking of contracts in the NFL. Uh. Yeah,
Trent Balkey out as the general manager of the Jacksonville
Jaguars after five seasons. And uh it brings to mind
that uncomfortable zoom call a couple of weeks ago when
(36:00):
con was asked about potentially replacing Balkey if he wasn't
on the same page with a potential new head coach.
Balkey was shown on the Zoom call at the same time.
It was unbelievably awkward and delicious at the same time,
and consang at a statement. Following several discussions with Trent
Balkey this week, we both arrived at the conclusion that
(36:20):
it is in our mutual best interest to respectfully separate
effective immediately.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Right. It's I think the weirdest statement you've ever heard, right,
but it appears. And remember there was Byron Leftwich didn't
take the job last time around because he didn't want
to work with Trent Balkey. My guess is the reason
they couldn't get higher coach yet is they couldn't find
anybody want to work with him. So Balky, who butted
(36:49):
heads with Jim Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh went back to college,
won a national championship and now has turned around the Chargers.
I think Bulky obviously has established himself as a reputation
with a guy as a guy who's tough to work.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
And that is this edition of the press that get
out there and press that was the press.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
so the update is Dan Byer so far safe. Okay,
fire is creeping up on the house, but safe and
taking care of his family. Our report is got a
big game tonight in two hours and uh, you know,
listen if you want to say a little prayer for us,
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