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May 16, 2025 • 37 mins

Doug explains why the pressure Oklahoma City will feel in game seven will not be any greater than the pressure they felt in their game six loss to the Nuggets. Doug shares the most annoying social media post trend right now. Doug welcomes former Bucs GM Mark Dominik onto the show to talk about Caleb Williams, the Steelers and all of the NFL headlines this week. Plus, Isaac Lowenkron takes Doug through a game of "I GOT DIBBS!".

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:24):
a huge weekend to game game six tonight, a game
seven on Sunday, maybe a second game seven on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Man, don't you just don't you just love love love
talking about following sports? Jay Stew's around my man profet
on the ones and twos. We got our guy, Dan
Byer should be really good. Oh excuse it's a glowing crime.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Mark Thomas is gonna join a little bit later on
the hour. I was watching last night, and here's how
into the game I was last night. Jase, Dude, there
was a tornado warning not watch tornado warning near my house,
and I'm watching. I'm watching the Nuggets and I'm watching

(01:22):
Jalen Williams really struggle, and the game's going on, and
I'm into it thunder Lightning Wind Thunderstorm was like, man,
this is great. You know, I just love this watch
this game. Thunderstorm Outside was like something out of a movie.

(01:47):
Game gets over. Buddy of mine calls is like, hey, man,
that was crazy. I was like, yeah, I you know,
lou Dort made all those shots in game five, did
make any in game six? Can't believe that Jaela Williams
and I don't know which Jayla Williams is j Dubb
and which one is Jay Will, Like, somebody's got to
we need to wear name tags because I don't live
in Oklahoma, but I do know that one's j Dub

(02:09):
and one's Jay Will or whatever, but whichever one. And
then you know, Russell Westbrook was so bad in the
first half. He like single handedly put Oklahoma City back
in the game. I'm just going on and on about
the game. He's like, no, no, no, you do know that
there was like a tornado warning right near your house.
I was like, I had no idea, no idea, That's

(02:32):
how end of the game I was. And apparently no
tornado sirens right near my house either. Yeah. Jalen Williams
was a yikes, uh, you have to be a hardcore
college basketball fan to know who Julian Strather is. Julian
Strather Profet, You're you're a bigger college basketball fan than

(02:52):
Jay stew Is. Did you know who Jalen Strather was
Julian Strather was before last night?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I did not know.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, play Gonzaga for three years. He comes in and
he had like seventeen points in all the playoffs and
then has like thirteen and like it seemed like two
minutes and the Nuggets forced a Game seven with Oklahoma City.
Now here's the It's a statement, but it's also a question,

(03:18):
and I want your guys opinion. Okay, what if I
was to say that this is the biggest home game
for the Thunder since Oklahoma City was up three games
to two against the Golden State Warriors the year the

(03:39):
Warriors came back from down three to one, Right, And
I don't think there'd be much argument from it. Right.
There were some big games last year against Dallas Mavericks
that they lost, but none with the type of pressure
that you have having a three games to two series
lead going into Denver losing the game. Now you're at
home after having a great regular season, and if you

(04:03):
fall in this round of the playoffs for the second
consecutive year, then that like then what then what? And
oh yeah, by the way, Jalen I mean excuse me,
yeah yeah, Jaalen Williams, the one we're talking about. What
was the yikes last night? He was like three of
seventeen or eighteen, like, you know, that was what the

(04:25):
Dallas was. What I remember about the Dallas series is
some struggles there. But here's the other part to it
is I understand that the Western Conference Finals in the
NBA Finals are bigger stages and maybe this is just
me my perspective as a foreign player, as a current coach,
I don't think there's going to be any more pressure

(04:48):
to win than there is on Sunday. Let me let
me restate that again. So if, for example, the Oklahoma
City thunder win go to the Western Conference Finals match
up with the Minnesota Timberwolves, I think the common or
the civilian perception is these are the most pressure pack

(05:12):
games they've ever played in, and if they get past
that series, they play in the NBA Finals. And right
now we don't I mean, only the Pacers have advanceda
we'll Steve, it's the Knicks or the Celtics, one of
those three teams they'll play against. The common perception would
be that those are the most pressure pack games they've
always already played in. But you can't get any more

(05:34):
pressure than what they're facing Sunday. And if you can
win Sunday, if you can overcome, you might play a
better team. But Nikola Jokic is arguably, or maybe in
arguably the best player in the world. You have a
team full of guys you know that have all won
an NBA championship, right and as much as they had

(05:58):
to little rest going back to last weekend, now they
have ample rest heading into Oklahoma City for Game seven.
I've thought this for so long, and maybe the super
Bowl is the only asterisk to this discussion. But like,

(06:21):
if you can win a playoff game on the road
in a crazy environment, you can win another playoff game
or a super Bowl in a crazy environment. Super Bowl's
not even it's not even about environmental It's just about
the magnitude of the game. Jason Am I'm making sense.
You know. It's like we only call people clutch if
they win a World Series, win a Super Bowl, win

(06:43):
an NBA championship. But I remember I want to say,
was was it Adam Waynwright against the Phillies. It was
one of those one of those Saint Louis Cardinals pitchers,
and they beat the Phillies and the Phillies throughout like
Roy Halliday. It was like a one nothing game and

(07:04):
they tore off his uniform like on the mound when
they were celebrating. And I remember thinking to myself, like,
if you can pitch well in that game, in an
elimination game early in the playoffs, what's serious in that?
In the World Series there's nothing. There's still an incredible
amount of pressure. I think some people don't see it

(07:25):
that way. I do. Jase Stu Prefet, how do you
see it? Okay?

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Yeah, what's the question?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
The question is, Okay, like, if you can win a
game like I think even the Knicks game seven, I
think there's more pressure on the Knicks than this game
game game six at home, then there is games well
game seven even in Boston because you're up three games
to one, or if you're Oklahoma City, like the questions

(07:52):
for Oklahoma City are can you win in the Conference finals?
Can you win the NBA Finals? And people will say, hey,
they've never played under that much pressure before. But the
reality is that there's no more pressure than having at
three games of two series lead, coming back home, playing
against a team that fired their head coach, fired their
general manager. Does never particularly deep. Bench right feels a

(08:13):
little bit longer in the tooth stuff. I mean, you know,
you know one of their starters is dealing with a
really bad shoulder. You know. It's like, I don't believe
in levels of pressure increasing when you staved off elimination,
when you've seen your season's end come before your eyes.
Does that make sense?

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah, Doug, I would agree, and I would even term
it the over the hump theory, and not to be
confused with the hump theory, which is for a different
kind of program. I think it depends on the overall
team's situation, their recent playoff background, the experience of their
players and their personnel. So for some teams, in some situations,

(08:58):
it might be getting over the hump out of the
second round of the NBA playoffs, or a conference championship
game in the NFL, or even one playoff game in
the NFL. And when you're talking about that, what I
recalled was the Kobe Shaq Lakers, the over the hump.
Standard for them at that point was getting out of

(09:19):
the conference finals because their first year under Phil Jackson,
they're the number one seed. They lead the Blazers three
games to one of the conference finals, Portland wins the
next two, forces a game seven, and then they they
go up by fifteen in the fourth quarter of Game seven,
and the Lakers had to get over the hump to
win that, and that was arguably more dramatic. Although games

(09:41):
four and six, it was arguably more dramatic and more
meaningful of victory than what happened during the NBA Finals
that year.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
That's you made my point perfectly using example that, by
the way, was the Kobe de shack Allu right to
seal the deal absolutely to win the game, Jay Stufet,
That makes sense. Now. It's the idea of because we
operate in this world, the sports world believes that you've
only shown yourself to be clutch and overcome pressure if

(10:10):
you've done so in a championship game. And I would
push back on that and say, can you tell me
there'll be any more pressure in a championship game there
is on the Knicks to win game six in you
know where they haven't closed out a series at a
home in New York since nineteen ninety nine, or for
Oklahoma City, you know who, who's taken on a kind
of depleted Denver team that people think, you know, when

(10:31):
they're young and they're fresh, and the longer the series goes,
they're supposed to be better, and all of a sudden
they can't make a shot, right, they're not getting the
calls they used to get, Like there's no more pressure
than that.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, I mean, because what are we saying otherwise, We're
basically saying that pressure doesn't exist until you've been somewhere
where you've not been since the nine US or whenever
it's been since since the Knicks. We're in the NBA Finals, Like, yeah,
this is not this is not good for them, and
like this this is one of the things like you gave,
you gave the Celtics a bit of life. You had

(11:02):
big games from White and Brown, and all of a sudden,
like you're on you're suddenly on the back foot. Like
I I think a lot of people looking at tonight
at tonight is like, I mean, I know, for I
know for certain, like if this does not start off
right for the Knicks. I'm already penciling into Game seven,
and at that point it's it's gonna get sweaty really
really quick.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, now, listen, I I I think part of the
deal is that, Uh, part of the deal is that
the Knicks like for in the Knicks perspective, I don't
think they're better than the Celtics without Jason Tatum. Like
the Knicks, the Celtics are really good. Now. Part of
it is we don't know the health of Christops. Presingis right,

(11:45):
So if you're down your best your best scorer, and
you're down your best big guy, no matter how much
deeper and better a team you are, at some point
that catches up to you the longer the series goes.
But uh, the point was more about pressure and this
assumption that the bigger the game, the bigger the stage,
the bigger the pressure. And I don't view that to

(12:06):
be true. Not that I'm saying pressure doesn't exist, and
not that I'm saying that pressure doesn't sometimes show us
who's the choker and who can come through. They do,
but there's there's just as much, if not more pressure
on Oklahoma City to win Sunday, on the Knicks to
win tonight than there is if they get to the
conference or NBA finals, that's it.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
That's more right, there's different there's different milestones for everyone
when it comes to pressure to get over this hump,
to not fall back down, Like I mean even we
just saw this, I mean different sport, but over in
the Stanley Cup playoffs are going on right now, Like
it was a lot of pressure for the Toronto Maple
Leafs to finally win a playoff series. They did and
then end up collapsing afterwards. But you know, it's different monkeys.

(12:48):
Everyone's got to get off their back and not I
think you're right that we put too much premium on that.
It can only happen in championship.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
There's only pressure in championship games. Like, yeah, that's not
exactly how it works.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
And so remember when I think Lebron when he was
the Heat playing the Thun and weren't they down in
that series two before?

Speaker 7 (13:03):
They like but they not the Thunder.

Speaker 6 (13:06):
It was against the Boston Celtics, their first on their
way to the first NBA title with the Heat. I think, like,
I can't remember the record in that series, but I
remember all the pressure on them because this was the
Big Three and they hadn't even like, you know, I
think there was more pressure on that series than when
they played the Thunder in the final that year.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
That's because James Harden was going out and wouldn't stopped
going out.

Speaker 8 (13:26):
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Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio, iHeartRadio App. Welcome in. Yeah,
So I wanted to somehow talk about disturbing trends right
in social media. There's a disturbing trend in social media
and no, okay, let's just do this real quick. I

(13:58):
want to go around the room, okay, and it can
be sports or nonsports, one disturbing trend in social media.
Let me start with you, Jase.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Two.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
You always get a chance to complain, and I don't
want to short change you of that.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yours, the ones that you have is mine. I've been
complaining for a while on this, but to maybe as
a one A, I will say the the aggregation, the
aggregators out there that tell you how you're supposed to
feel before you watch the video, so they'll post capital
letters wholesome and then they'll be like this coach and

(14:38):
his son are on the sidelines, or they'll say capitalized
holy bleep, Like, don't tell me how to feel about
the video. I'll watch the video and then I'll tell
you if it's wholesome or not. I'll tell you if
it was a waste of my time, But don't put
in all caps how I'm supposed to feel about it.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Fair enough, uh, pro Chris Phfett. Something a disturbing trend
in social media.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
People looking at a link and then immediately trying to
ask an AI if it's real. Like, I don't know
how many people have posted like news articles with links
to everything that's going on, and people you'll just see
it underneath it all the time on Twitter. AXX is
like Grock is this real? Yeah, you can see it's
real right here. It's literally being provided all the context
of being provided for you. You have zero critical thinking

(15:28):
skills whatsoever.

Speaker 7 (15:29):
And I hate everyone uses AI.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay, I just want to point out that, I mean,
I assumed Grock was like an AI series sort of detector,
but I honestly, up until this moment, I still really
didn't know. I've never used it.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
Yeah, it's it's it's like chat GPT, except it's embedded
in Twitter or whatever. It's it, but it's I mean,
in general, I am very skeptical of all AI. I
think it destroys all critical you know, thinking skills and
also a lot of your ability to do work. But
at the same time, like I see people like underneath
social media posts immediately just asking AI like for context

(16:06):
about it. It's like, you can do this research yourself.
It's very easy. It probably improves you as a human being.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
I low something that something a disturbing trend.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
Oh sorry, I was just doing an IG live.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
That was a joke.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
By the way, oversharing in general and people trying to
make themselves way more important than they are.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay, here's mine and I love that. Jay Stewart loves this.
I cannot stand some of these social media posts. Now
there's lots that are just people just make stuff up,
but those are bad. But the videos of quarterbacks throwing
to wide receivers with shirts and skins limited or no defense.

(17:02):
This guy's upset to have a huge year, and it's
like part of it is I would say ninety nine
point nine percent of people have never been to an
NFL practice, right, They've never been to an NBA practice.
It's one of the things that like, every once in
a while, I take a breath wherever I am and

(17:24):
realize that, realize that you haven't been to these workouts.
But NFL quarterbacks when they're throwing to NFL wide receivers,
the ball shouldn't ever hit the dirt, not the bad
not the great ones, the bad ones. It's like NBA players.
You ever go with an NBA player and you go

(17:45):
to the gym, you do a workout, You're like, wow,
you're a way better shoot they are in the NBA, Like, no, no,
I'm in the NBA. You don't. NBA players don't miss
when they're empty in an empty gym. It's just different
when there's a six foot nine guy with a seven
foot four wingspan running at you and there's a bunch
of you know, and you got money on the line,
and crowds yelling at you and all the other stuff.
The slow motion almost early part of hard knock sort

(18:10):
of treatment to to eleven on you know, or seven
on seven football or two guys on nobody football is
just obnoxious. It's a terrible trend. It doesn't mean you're
going to have a great year. It doesn't mean anything
because there's no context behind it. Let's get to Mark

(18:31):
Dominic who joins this. He's a former gentle manager of
the Nation Foall League joint just throughout throughout the entire
year here on the Doug Gotlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio.
The Caleb Williams story, We've now had like a day
to digest it. What's your reaction to that story of
him and his dad leading up to last year's NFL draft.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Just it continues to have me push pause on what
Caleb william Is going to be in the National Football
League and whether that's his dad creating more of the
problem or Caleb. It's it's again what we talked about
a year ago when I was hesitant and I said
I'd take Jayden Daniels over Caleb before the draft, because
there's certain parts about it that they're just thinking they

(19:16):
can dictate what's going to happen without realizing you've got
to go do the work first. You've got to go
have the success first. Like to even say, is Chicago
a town we could work with? Are you crazy of course,
it is like they're definitely trying to find that quarterback
of the first really find that quarterback of the franchise
in decades. So it's I did not like the article.

(19:38):
I love Seth the writer of it, but I think
it just paints this whole thing in the same Go
prove it, you know, show me that you can do
it before I have to hear about you know, all
the things that you could have done or thought about,
you know, thinking about how to get out of the
draft and be able to choose your own location. It
has to smell a little bit of what happened with
shad Or Sanderson's dad.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, yeah, only you know, slightly more talents, you know,
more talent, and and that's why he was able to
Still how hard is it to clean that up?

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
I mean, I mean, like it's one thing to say
a man, I always want to be like a commander
because I grew up in d C. But to say
I always want to be a Viking when the Vikings
are I mean, look, he's not wrong, the coaches, great offense,
good skills, like, but the point is like that's one
of your rivals and it's not like people. It's it's

(20:33):
kind of a random pick to say I want to
be a Viking. Like, how hard is that to clean up?

Speaker 7 (20:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Ben tried to right, coach has already tried to clean
it up a little bit. The kid, it is a
mess and it's a bad mess. And it's what he's
not realizing by agreeing to do, you know, the sit down,
to agree to try to show that, look how smart
I am, and all the different things I tried to
do to manipulate this. You just, you know, you might
have alienated yourself a little bit further. You think that

(20:59):
the least is going to be shorter in Chicago now
I do you know, will the fans turn on them quicker?

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (21:04):
They will, you know. So all those kind of things
are just you know, what's just happening here. And as
the GM or as the head coach, all you can
do is try to put everything into that Hey we're
fine here, everything's fine here. Nothing to see the look
somewhere else, right, that kind of mindset, And it's too
bad because this should be anop season, Like you and
I have talked about where I said by based on
what they've done on the offensive line, based on what

(21:26):
they've done overall tight end position wide receive will know
what Caleb Blame is at the end of this year,
but I don't know what he is right now. Still
we can say he's the number one pick, but I
can't say he's a franchise quarterback still based off what
he's done so far. So you know, all those things
should be you know, ideally you try to go into
that mindset of I'm going to prove everybody right and

(21:49):
be a good guy while I do it, instead of
I'm going to prove everybody right and still be a diva.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Mark domis our guests here on the Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, so Mark, help me out
with this. I look at the George Pickens trade, and
I think the Cowboys got more talented. But I don't
know if they got better. Did they get better?

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So I think they did both. I think they did
get Yes, they're more talented. I mean, anybody who gets
George Pickens is more talented. It's whether you can hone
him in and get him to buy into what's going
on and for him to see because it's if I
was GM there or if I certainly would be talking
aboud coach about it as well that in this situation, George,
you realized, just being candid with you, you're a player

(22:40):
two away from this single in the wrong direction. And
so if I'm Coach Schottenheimer or I'm Will McLay right
or Stephen Jones, I want to bring George in and
just be like, George, we got your back, We traded
for you, we gave up as much as anybody would.
But you have got to just kind of like do
everything you can to be the best you you can
be and not worry about off the field, not worry
about you know, Ego, understand that CD's going to catch

(23:02):
balls and there's three times you're not. Are you good
with all that? Because we can structure this thing the
right way and.

Speaker 8 (23:07):
Get through it.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Because he is. He's going to help this off tremendously
because without him, you know, Jonathan Mingo, the Jalen Brooks
or the Jalen Tolberts or whatever. You know, they're all
good players, but no one's going to give the respects
to he who's going to get doubled up the entire time.
Now you have to make a decisions defensive coordinator, and
so that's going to make them better. It's just they've
got to make sure mentality wise, George can handle being

(23:29):
the numbers two receiver again and still enjoy the role.
Kind of all of Alvin Harper esque, like that kind
of a mindset that you're going to have to have
that kind of a brain towards of Michael Irvin.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Do you think he knows Alvin Harper is not a chance?
Not a chance, not a chance. And if you say
nobody wants to be Robin, if somebody is in fact,
somebody's in fact Batman. When is the point of no
return for Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers? Uh?

Speaker 3 (23:59):
I think it's really it's probably when they depart, when
veteran mini camp is concluded. I would say that's kind
of my point of no return. So once you've gotten
to that date, to bring Aaron Rodgers in would be
number one awful for the coaching staff because that's the
one chance to get to breathe is that little bit

(24:20):
of a month before you head the camp. You got
two three weeks there, sometimes a little bit more, sometimes
little less. That's usually when coaches like they're on vacation
with their family, with their wife, and if you take
that away because well I decided to jump in, and
so I want to learn about this stuff, you know,
on my time when no one's around. That's a bad
that's just selfish and it just picks another scab off

(24:41):
the wound in my opinion. So I think he's got
to make a decision prior ideal it is prior to
the Veteran Mini Camp, and then he would come into
veteran Mini camp, get the stuff, study down. It's going
to be ready for a training camp. I think he
can be. But I think that vetermental camps that drop dead.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know, sports radio kind of loses their mind when
the schedule comes out, and uh, you know, you know
we don't We kind of like being Debbie Downers inside
a front office when you're in Tampa. How much attention
is paid to the schedule and the schedule drops in
terms of your immediate day to.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Day Oh quite frankly everything. I mean as soon as
I get the call, because we would get the call
from the league office prior to the schedule drop right,
So somewhere around two or three o'clock Eastern, we would
get the call from somebody at the League office and
they'd say, okay, here's your schedule, they'd say it to us,
we'd write it down, and then the first thing I'd

(25:33):
do is I go to the owner's office knock on
the door. Well, the first thing I do is I
look at it and say what do I dislike about it?
And why? And then I go to the owners and
sit there and say, we've got the schedule here. It
is because they're going to inevitably ask me, Doug, what
do you like about it? Was you don't like about it?
Those kind of things. But you look at it really hard.
You look at when is my bib? This is the
first thing I look, Well, when was the bye week?

(25:53):
I look for how many road games do you have
in a row? What's my longest road trip? Okay, certainly
one of the things you're certainly looking for is what
games do I have that are you know, standalone or
you know, what's my you know, my Thursday night, Sunday night,
Monday night game schedule? Possibly look like so all those
things tying to it. And then if you're from me
when I was in Tampa, you're looking at you know,

(26:13):
late November, early December or through December, what are my
cold games?

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Right?

Speaker 3 (26:17):
I mean, look at the Bucks this year and they
don't have one on their schedule. What's what their coldest
game might be at Buffalo week eleven, that's in mid November.
Other than that, you having being the person that still
looks at the Bucks schedule, they play at LA that
would be nice, Arizona at home, New Orleans at home,
Atlanta at home, at Carolina could be called Miami at home.

(26:38):
Like how good is that? That's as good as schedules.
You could ask them a weather perspective. So you're looking
at all those different things.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
So, yeah, very little of it is who we actually
play though, right, But that's interest part. You know, it's
so much that it's about the setup of it, not
about who who's actually who's actually playing.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah, no, that's very fair because you don't know who's
going to be on the field that week. We don't
worry about it as much, exactly.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Right, Whereas in media we do the opposite, like we
acted like there's these matchups, You're like, dude, you got
no idea who's healthy. It's way more all of the
all the other stuff. I'll use it. Like in college basketball, right,
we're trying to set our schedule. What is the least
that we can travel so that we have the where
our best version of ourselves, Like that's spacing out games.

(27:24):
You know, we're not We're beholden to the league for
our conference schedule, but a non conference schedule, there's very
few things we're beholden to. You got to fit in
the windows. So I completely get that one exactly. Is
there a world where Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders are
both on the roster for the Browns this year?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yes, it's kind of the Brock Party rule, right. Broock
Party was mister Irrelevant, but his rookie year, he made
the fifty three man roster and played just a little
bit of preseason. But they fall every day and practice
what they liked because most of the time that guy
would always go and go keep your active too and
put one on the practice squad. But Brock pretty played
well enough internally, and they thought we got to be careful.

(28:06):
I think, you know, Deshaun Watson, I don't think is
going to They're going to figure out something there, ir
or whatever. But I think there's a world where all
three quarterbacks can be on the fifty three because you
were that encouraged by you know, what should do or
did that. Maybe some of the other people didn't get
to see specifically the day to day stuff, not the game.
I mean, that's obviously important, but it's individuals. What's he

(28:26):
like in the meetings, what's he like in terms of practice, tempo, habits, leadership.
All those things we're looking for could get him as
a spot on the fifty three as well. And there's
no reason why he can't be number two. He couldn't
be that Don Gabriel in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Mark, great stuff as always, Man, have a great weekend.
Thanks so much for joining us. We'll talk to you
next week.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Wow, good Doug joined it. Thanks you all right.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
That's Mike our guy, Mark Dominic joining us in the
Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I got them show Fox Sports right now. My favorite
game of the week is on Fridays. Get to that.
In a moment, Mark Dominic alluded to something Ben Johnson
had to do. But it's really interesting on how some
people can say, well, you know, Caleb Williams article is

(29:23):
just an article and it's a year ago in the past,
and it's whatever. You can always judge how big an
issue something is based on the reaction to set issue.
I'll prove that to you. At the top of next
hour plus, we're getting ready for Game six of the
NBA Playoffs in the Eastern Conference Night Celtics going to

(29:44):
Madison Square Garden take on the Knicks. Mark Medina will
join us in the next hour in the show. If
we get to that, let's get to a game with
Isaac Lohancron.

Speaker 8 (29:54):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Hey there, I love what I got, Bud.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Hey, they're Doug, and we call your game something like this.
I got DIBs which is your favorite? And we'll start
with something real simple. The team that will win the
NBA Championship. Who do you all have DIBs on?

Speaker 7 (30:18):
With that one?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
M I got DIBs on the Oklahoma City Thunder, O
Glom City Thunder. It's it's there's a world where they
lose on Sunday. Sure, I still think they're probably the
most the best all around. And I think you know,
injuries have have hurt, have hurt the Celtics. The Calves.

(30:47):
I think the Knicks are a hard team to beat,
and they're a great story and they have they have
unbelievable winners. But I think Olaoboma City is better. And
like Rudy Gobert has been great in the playoffs. Now
he plays against two guys who I think were specifically
brought in to beat Yo Kitchen Rudy Gobert. So I'm
I'm fascinated. I'm gonna go with Oaklham City.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
I've worked at a couple of shops in my career,
and at a couple of those shops, the host made
it clear, never disagree with the host, never make the
host look bad. Well, I got DIBs on the Nuggets.
Nuggets are the Well, it's a champion of two seasons ago.
They still have the same characters, and they have the
best player in the world. I know that pisses a

(31:30):
lot of people off, especially current NBA players, but Jokic
is the best player in the world.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
Deal with it, and I think the Nuggets are gonna
win again. I Uh, this is tough. I want to
give the East. I'm gonna take DIBs on the Timberwolves.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
I think they're the Wolves. The Timberwolves.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
I've noticed I don't say it with the al so
it's it's Timberwolves. And Anthony Edwards is just on a tear.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
By the way.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Before every show, I tell Jason, don't disagree with anything
I say, and don't make me look bad.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Right, my man, Just do the updates over there, no
more common dereb.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
Yeah, yes, sir, I'll move it right along, sir.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
All right, sporting event you are most looking forward to
watching this weekend?

Speaker 7 (32:20):
What you guys got DIBs on there?

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Well, I'm going to Game seven for Oklahoma City Denver.
So that's that's my number one humble brag. It is
it is a not so humble brag.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Wow, I got DIBs on the PGA Championship. This course,
I don't know if you've been watching the first couple
of rounds. This course is a nightmare for some of
these guys. There's been like eighteen balls in the water.
The clubhouse leader just doubled bogie. A bunch of people
have been double bogieing on Holy eighteen. A lot of
the big names like Rory McElroy, like I think he's
gonna make the cut line, but it's it's getting dicey

(32:54):
for some of these guys having to lead from the
back of the pack. So I think we're set up
for a pretty interesting show down at Quail Mallow.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
And I got dibbs on Game six of the Stanley
Cup Playoffs on Saturday, with the Dallas Stars hosting the
Winnipeg Jets.

Speaker 7 (33:08):
The Stars lead the series three games to two.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
Both teams have had so many crazy games already in
the playoffs, including the Jets tying Game seven in the
first round with one point six seconds left in the
third period, and Winnipeg had the best record in the
league during the regular season. The only thing that could
usurp that would be a potential Game seven between the
Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs, and I don't think

(33:31):
it's going to go to that.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
I'm going to continue this string that we have of
niche sports. Compliments to Chris Purfett for taking up Dan
Buyer's role as a golf guy in this segment. Yeah,
and then hockey, I didn't know that they still had that.
Chicago Sky plays Indiana Fever tomorrow and I can't wait.

(33:53):
I just can't wait for the new season of Caitlin
Clark I think the marching orders for the players have
been off the complaining, and we'll see if they could
last one game.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Lean in, lean in?

Speaker 7 (34:07):
All right?

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Next on the list, I think this is a slam dunk.
I don't think there'll be any dissent here, but I'll
throw it out there. The most creative NFL schedule release
buy a team? Who do you got DIBs on? I
can't imagine there's anything else but one answer here, But
go ahead, the most what schedule release, the most Chargers.

(34:29):
There you go, the most creative NFL schedule release by
a team.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
It.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
It'd be fun to see what the Colts had, but
unfortunately they had to take it down and it are
now just cow towing to Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
You got the Colts, okay?

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Any anything that could portray Tyreek Hill as the guy
that gets stopped by the police a lot.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
But it's not even like even the Colts are just
copying the homework of the Charges of the same Minecraft video.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, yes, the Chargers are Charges are the best.

Speaker 7 (35:02):
I mean, it's a it's at least a three peat
by the Chargers.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
I will say this though, in in the Colts defense,
I don't think the Colts could have possibly known that
the Chargers were also going to go the Minecraft route.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Isn't there like a group email? Okay, this is what
we're going with.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yeah, they apologize to t it's a group text. But
here's the problem. I think the Colts are they're on Android, Like, ah,
didn't get the group text?

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Oh man, So the Colts are like seventy percent of
the world, they would be on Android.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
This is spoken like a guy who's un Android.

Speaker 7 (35:37):
By the way, I'm on Android as well.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Seventy percent of us are.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
I mean, it's like for twenty twenty six, they're gonna
have to get on the group text and say, okay, Chargers,
just let us know on the DL what you're doing
so we don't double up because there's no way we're
going to be.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
Able to compete with you. All right, next to you
got DIBs on this?

Speaker 6 (35:55):
Is?

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (35:56):
I'm interested to see what the gang takes, what direction
the game takes with this. Your favorite part of the
second half of the month of May?

Speaker 7 (36:05):
What do you got DIBs on?

Speaker 5 (36:06):
I guess it doesn't necessarily have to be sports.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
My favorite part in the second half of the month
of May Memorial Day weekend?

Speaker 7 (36:16):
What are your what are your early plans? Tickets to
a game seven?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Then no, I'm actually gonna go to Kenny Chesney at speed.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
I do. I walked right into another humble brag.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
See, you can buy tickets too I didn't say I
bought mine, but you can buy tickets too much.

Speaker 7 (36:33):
I would involve spending money, though, Doug.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
It's the listen, it's the it's the it's the opening
weekend is summer, you know, the unofficial opening weekend of summer.
I from all day weekends.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
The answered I can't go see a live concert by
getting Jason Stewart's password.

Speaker 7 (36:47):
Anyway.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
That is another all star, wide ranging edition of I
got DIBs on the Doug Gottlieb Show.

Speaker 7 (36:55):
Game.

Speaker 8 (36:57):
This is game time on the Duck Show.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
That's the Doug Outlib Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
as I said previously, okay, you can judge the problem
oftentimes based upon the reaction to said problems. What do
the Bears do? We'll discuss next to the Doug otlebhow
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