April 25, 2017 • 33 mins
Doug explains what Dale Earnhardt Jr retiring from racing means for other professional athletes and their careers. He also argues the Warriors and Stephen Curry have become under appreciated. Plus, former Cal quarterback and NFL prospect Davis Webb joins the show to talk about his college career and preparing for the draft.
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Right now, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Is announcing his retirement at
the end of this season. Dale or Art Jr. Is
the perfect NASCAR driver. He is. Did you know that? Like,
what's the most NASCAR name ever? Would it be Dale
or would it be Ralph? What if I told you
his actual name is Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. You're like, like, Wow,
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that checks a lot of boxes, doesn't it? Right? Ralph
and Dale? Because everybody either everyone who goes to a race,
his name is Ralpher Dale or they know a buddy
named Ralpher Dale. This is a certain humanizing like, hey
named Ralph named Dale? Just like my brother Jimmy, whose
name is Ralph Dale. We call him Jimmy, right. So um,
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it's like being a play by play man named Dave.
Every play by play gat man's name is Dave. Even
ones that names aren't Dave, you can still call them
Dave and they'll think that their name is Dave. And
then he's of course from NASCAR Royalty. It's the Earnhardt
name is the Manning name. Although his dad was more
successful in his chosen field than Archie was, still Archie.
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Historic name. First family of Nascar, first family of football,
but Dylard Art Jr. Was a modestly successful driver. Let's
just be honest. Did he win Daytona Yes, And of
course he conquered the demons of where his dad. His
dad died. And I'm sure that because he had the
long running concussion and post concussion syndrome last year. He's
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got a family, he's got a life, he's ready to
move on for the next thing. Like all that makes sense,
But here's where the parallel is to the rest of sports.
Sports has changed that it's changed. The money now is
f you money? And as they say on Billions money, right,
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what is the point of having F you money if
every once in a while you're not willing to say
F you? And just like Calvin Johnson at the end
of this last NFL season, Larry Fitzgerald thought about it,
probably should have retired, right, Like Larry Fitzgerald has more
money than he can ever spend, and he's got his health.
This is the reason it's hard to get a a
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former major leaguer in the booth, right, Like the fact
that we have Pedro working for Turner TBS in the playoffs,
the fact that Alex Rodriguez works for Fox Sports, like
that's the exception. The rule is those guys make so
much money and there's a hundred six two games in baseball,
they don't have to work the rest of their lives.
Like John Smaltz is from a different era. He was
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only making a couple of mill per year. You can
burn through that. You can't burn through the money that
players are making now. Like when our Pools retires from baseball,
you will never see him again. You know why. He's
got a few money And Darren Hurt Jr. Is just
it's just like Calvin Johnson's like, look, why would I
keep putting myself out in harm's way When I can retire,
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I can own a team, I could be on TV,
I could remain popular. And yet it's it's not at
all dangerous. It's the going out on his own terms.
And I know you're thinking Floyd Mayweather do the same.
The old adage, though, is in boxing, no boxer ever
ever walks out of the ring of final time. They
all get carried out. But Floyd Mayweather could be the
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guy who changes that narrative. He he doesn't do the sugarade.
Leonard came back. I don't remember how many times, like
six seven comebacks from retirement. Why because they all need money?
Like Mike Tyson kept getting in the ring because he
needed money, Larry Holmes because he needed money. Mohammad Ali
frankly fought too long. Why because he needed money. It
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was big money for the time, but it was an
f you not just I retire. My kids never worked,
their grandkids never work. That's the type of money we're
talking now. The other hard juniors reportedly worth over three
hundred million dollars MM a lot of your Like, dude,
I'm in the wrong business. I just had a good
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year and I pulled down forty five k. My question
is not wise he retiring, it's why did it take
you so long? But last couple of years he's had
a better year until the concussion. Now he gets a
chance to have a victory parade and hopefully he's healthy.
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He retires, he owns a team, the money keeps pile
it up, and he's safe. This is the future of sports.
It's like NBA players. They may not understand that one
of the reasons they make so much money is the
eighty two games, not the postseason games. But the fact
is they're getting to the point of few money to
where they can in fact play when they want to play,
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retire when they want to retire, and walk out on
their own terms. Calvin Johnson did it to this point,
Floud Mayweather has done it, and Dale and Hard Jr.
In a work to which there's not really You're not
really gonna be too old, right you can't too old
to drive a nat to drive a sprint Cup car.
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Like that's kind of like being too drunk to fish.
It could happen, but yeah, yeah, I mean, think about
how drunk you have to be to be too drunk
to fish. I think what we're seeing now is a
little snapshot of the possible future. Right Like running backs
retired because they're not any good. I mean, that's why
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running backs retiring there. Early tennis players often retire because
there they once they hit thirty, they're not as competitive.
Federal obviously trying to change some of that and elongate
his career. Although he has few money. Tennis guys make
a ton of sidecash, a ton of sidecash. Serena, of course,
has played far along past her normal prime, but one
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of the reasons she can get pregnant and walk away
is she has a few money. I just I think
it's interesting that we are getting to a play in
specific sports with specific athletes to which they reach a
point to which you're like, I'm good, I'm good. Darren
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hard Ja was voted the most popular driver for fourteen
consecutive years, years in which he really really didn't win much.
I mean, from O eight to two thousand, fourteen fourteen
he won the Daytona five, but that was really it.
There was a long streak to which he didn't win
a race. He was modestly competitive, and yet his name
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remained incredibly popular because of his last name and because
of his two first names, Ralph Dale. Yes, sir, is
that like? Is that like Kobe getting into the All
Star Game at the end of his career when people
knew he was nowhere near an actual All Star In
the NBA? That's different. That's the coward conjunior late in
the All Star Game. All Star games are different, like
the All Star racest. They have an All Star Race
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in Charlotte. Like, look, I'm not even gonna pretend to
you that I pay any attention in NASCAR. I think
this is devastating news for the sport, right Like you're
losing Tony Stewart. You're losing Darrenhardt Jr. You're losing Jeff Gordon.
And can you name another driver like Jimmy Johnson. I
can name He's still doing it, I believe. Otherwise, you know,
like outside of that, like there's very few guys you
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can name. And the sport over expanded. It did the
same thing as the National Hockey League. It went to
places in order to continue to build its brand, and
it worked for a short term and now it feels
like it might need to retract. You look at what
happened yesterday. Where did you know that they had a
NASCAR race yesterday? Like, raise your hand if anybody on
earth knew that they actually finished up at Bristol, Britosti
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Motor Speedway. Uh is Like it's one of those quirky
and like I only like I don't remember because as
a kid, you're like, wow, that's the track where they
have the high embankment, right, And then in college football
fans like, hey, that's where Virginia Tech played this year.
Remember Virginia Tech played, Um what they play? Somebody really good?
Tennessee Like Tennessee Front two million people they all pop
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piled in there, so like that's anyway. Apparently they had
a rain out, so they raced on a Monday, which
just seems like an awful idea. Turns out it was
an awful idea. No one I know, no one I
know knew anyone they knew that watched that race. The
only reason I knew it is I had my headphones
on during an update and Dan Buyer told me that
a NASCAR race was completed. I was like, no way, really,
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so unlike unlike sports that can be played under domes,
they can't. They've dragged out the season far too long.
They created a championship to which nobody really cares about.
And oh yeah, by the way, they're losing another historically
significant name in relative in their prime. Essentially like he's forty,
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but you know forty and NASCAR is and any other sport.
But this ain't the old days. Here's the learned hard
Junior moments ago, talking about his dad to my father,
Dad learned heart. I would have not been a race
car driver if it not for him. He believed in me.
It might have taken a little encouragement from Tony ry
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Sor Senior, but he eventually Dad came around. I appreciate
my father everything he put into my career. That was weird.
I haven't heard the entire cut. Why not just say like, hey, look,
the reason I'm hanging up is my dad died on
the race course, and I don't really want to die.
And like Tom Brendon is a good friend of mine,
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is a coach of Vermont when they beat Syracuse the
n c A tournament. He he always told me, I
want to be sick when I die, right, I want
to be sick. I want to have lived what I die.
I don't think anybody would fall at you if you
go like, hey, look my dad died a day tuna,
he was in his prime. Like I got three hundred
billion dollars, I got a young family, I can own
a team, and I can never put myself in harm's way.
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Can you blame me? And you blame me? But in
all honesty, I believe this is a bit of a trend.
It's the reason you can't get Peyton Manning in an
NFL broadcast booth. Right, Like Peyton Manning is worth hundreds
of millions of dollars, he doesn't want to concern himself
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with who the backup linebacker is for the New York Giants.
He didn't care makes too much money, too much work pay.
Many would gladly be involved in football, but being involved
in football will be He'd like to own a football team.
Derek Jeter doesn't want to be a broadcaster. Derrick Teter
wants to own a baseball team. In the fact, they're
one step closer to him owning a baseball team. We
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have created a generation of business men because they're making
generation change, generational, generation, life changing, life altering money. They are.
They are not rich. They are wealthy and dale and hard. Jr.
Embodies that on a multitude of levels, and he is
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smartly getting out of a wildly dangerous sport at just
the right time. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show. I
could be on an island on this one. I'm not
running from the Joe Mixon thing. To me, Joe Mixon.
The thing that that draws me to Joe Mixon is
not just the productivity, but the fact that he didn't
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run away from what he did. Now you can talk
all around, well, they didn't red shirt him, and they
didn't he didn't play football for a year. I went
round the football team for a year rightfully so for
striking a young woman. And the video is bad, but
it's what I've always said and what I always believe.
This is what domestic violence looks like. You may take
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that as well. Gotlieb is not very sensitive. Maybe, or
maybe it's just I had a feeling that's what domestic
violence look like. I saw it with ray Rice, and
I was appalled, but I wasn't like shocked. I wasn't surprised,
maybe because I think a man hitting a woman is
incredibly cruel. There's a level of evil to it to
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go along with whatever anger can bring it to that
point to which everybody I know seems to have a
governor which keeps you from ever getting to that point.
Right that said, Dude, you're in your first couple of
weeks on campus in the summer. You go out and
you strike a woman, and everybody wants to get rid
of you, and you hang around for a couple of
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you hang around for three years. And having gone to
school in that part of the country, having carried my
own scarlet letter, I can tell you that everybody knew
about Joe Mixon. Everybody knew about him as a recruit.
Everybody knew him as somebody who hit a woman, and
so you gotta walk around the campus in Norman and
in Oklahoma City has Oh, I'm like, introduce yourself as
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Joe Mixon. There's not a Joe Mixon. Where do I
know that name? You're Joe Mixing, the guy who hit
a chick? Right, So to me, Doug Gottliebink like, that
doesn't he's seen the bottom. He's seen the bottom and
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the climb out of the bottom of the gutter to
the top of college football. I have always been a
don't tell me about the guy who either knocked himself down,
shot himself in the foot, or got knocked down? What
did you do to dust yourself off and get back up?
That doesn't make me run from Joe Mixon, just doesn't.
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It doesn't make me want to have him date my daughter.
By the way, Joe Mixon doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, long
term girlfriend. I don't know what that does for you.
But the fact is that if you're going to freak
out over him freaking out over a parking ticket, if
that's if that's the smoking gun you have, and that
Joe Mixon is a bad guy, that he got a
parking ticket and freaked out about it three years after
the incident, boy that we're not employing choir boys here
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and even and I can bet, I can bet there
are plenty of choir boys who have also freaked out
over getting a parking ticket on a college campus. This
is the Douglas Your Dream Got Leave Show? Which team
finished with the most wins in the NBA this year?
Top of your head? I believe it was the Warriors.
There was the Golden State Warriors. I mean that's kind
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of the point, right, Like the Golden State wars actually
one more games than everybody else. Do you know who
their leading score was? That would be Steph Curry, who
led them in assist Granted the assists were down, the
rebounds were down, the shooting percentage was slightly down, but
it was in fact Steph Curry. And the fact is,
no one's given Steph Curry any sort of m v
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P love. And last year, wasn't he a unanimous m
v P, Right, Like every person that could vote for
the m v P voted him the m v P.
And he had a better teammate who scored as many
points as him per game. Points a game he averaged
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five points a game less. His shooting percentage was down
three percentage points. Is three point percentage was down four
percentage points. But the end of the year before Durant
came back and they started not caring, they wont row
Without Durant, he averaged twenty five points, six assists. The
turnovers were up slightly but still a two to one
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assistant turnover ratio. And I kind of feel like everybody
took him for granted. Don't get me wrong. The three
point percentage was the lowest of his career, But is
bad three point shooting? Signed me up for bad three
point shooting. If five points a game and six assists
a game and winning uh sixties seven games is a
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bad season, signed me up for a bad season. So
I watched him last night and he scored an effortless
thirty seven points. Thirty seven points on twenty shots. He
was seven of eleven from three point range. He had
seven rebounds, eight assists. He did have four turnovers. They
get a little loose with the basketball. He's always been
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a high turnover guy. Now look, I would never tell
you that Steph is the best player in the NBA.
He's not. He had the best season last year deserve
the m v P and didn't deserve the m v
P this year. But I think because of the narrative
of Steph Curry, because of our fascination with will the
Cleveland Cavaliers be able to clap on? Clap off the clapper?
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Will they be able to turn it on at the
right moment, because we're intrigued by, Hey, is it possible
that the Warriors are better without Kevin Durant. They're not.
We have on some level taken for granted. Steph Curry
is crazy good, crazy, crazy, freaky freaky good. Like even
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in this series which just concluded, um in the series, like,
did he have a great series? Do you think he
had a great series? Ryan Ramos, Like, off the top
of your head, I would okay. He had twenty nine,
thirty four and thirty seven. Not great shooting percent. Struggled
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in Game two shooting the basketball only shot in Game three.
In Game four, uh shot close to for the series.
In his last two games, both on the road in Portland,
he puts up a combined seventy one points. That's a
thirty five and a half point average. That's my numbers good,
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So the average is thirty five and a half points
and eight assists in his final two games. And I
kind of feel like we need a Valentine's Day or
a Mother's Day, like just a card, like, hey, dude,
didn't forget about you, still love you, You're still awesome?
Is that fair? We we get caught up in narratives
and storylines and we're like, oh, hey, you know what,
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He's still awesome, still amazing. I mean really really, And
I look, there's a certain amount of boredom that sets
in when they get up twenty like they did at
the end of the first quarter. They scored forty two
points and their bench isn't as good as last year.
Part of it is right now they're playing without Sean Livingston.
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Part of it is that they had to change their bench.
But that was one of those games to which I
just kind of looked around and go like, hey, we
kind of all forgot about the Warriors and how much
better they are than everybody else when they want to
be better than everybody else. Oh yeah, Steph Curry is awesome.
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Never said he was the best player, never said that
he's this year's m v P. I just do believe
that at some point we get so caught up in
what we see as the topic of the year or
the topic of the season, the topic of the day
that we went from Steph Curry is struggling to Steph
Curry is back to being dominant and everybody just kind
of takes him for granted. Hey, this is the Doug
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Oddly Show. I agree with Clay Travis, although Clay actually
has uh he's taken ownership over something that I said
originally on his show on Dan Patrick Show and on
Collin Cowherd Show, You Factor Enrich Eysen Show, also part
of the Fox Sports Radio family, and this is death
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row Right. This is the best national radio lineup that
has ever been creative. I believe that a right like
you got the you got the poop starter in Clay Travis,
willing to say and do anything possible. You got Dan
who is I look you in this business when you
get in when I got in at my age. You see,
you take from the best people in the business. And
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Dan's the best interviewer. There isn't anybody close. Um. Some
of my radio beliefs obviously come from Cowherd. I'm willing
to go to places other people won't go, like like
Clay and uh, I think you combine all of our
strength together. Right, we're like Fox Furce five Fox pulp
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fiction reference. But look, there will be crazy things, interesting things,
timely things said on other shows, and we'll react to them.
That's when we play. And now say so, here's what
you heard earlier today on Colin Cowherd show. It was
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it was Joe Clatt right talking about Jabrill Peppers. Excuse me,
it's on Undisputed. That's you can also he Undisputed on
Serious XM Radio Channel three, our Serious XM home. At
least the first two hours of the show. Joel Clad
had this to say about Jabrill Peppers, who didn't test
positive for marijuana for PDS, he tested positive for having
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a diluted sample. Take a listen of Brill Peppers struggled
with cramps mighty. It was a huge issue for him
all the way back to his high school days. A
promise Catholic in New Jersey. He was a tweener prospect,
meaning that he was gonna work out at two different
positions at the NFL scouting combine, which is almost unheard of.
So he's forcing liquids and now all of a sudden
he's got this dilute test because he drank too much water,
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and the NFL says that's a failed drug test. Now
you've got to enter our drug policy when you enter
the NFL. I think that this whole standard is an
NFL problem, not a Jabral Peppers problem. I don't disagree
that the standard in terms of th HC or dilution,
that that may be an NFL problem. But let's be
honest that if Jarebill Peppers is not a weed guy,
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it doesn't matter if he enters into the NFL's drug
rehab program. The first positive test does nothing. It's a
don't you ever do that again? That's basically what it is.
It's embarrassing and there may be needless embarrassment over it
if you didn't actually smoke weed or take p ds
whatever the reason is for your UH sample being deluded.
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So if you're worried about his future, like look, if
you don't smoke weed and you didn't smoke weed, tip
it caused a fall is positive? Who cares? And all
these NFL teams to know if he's wead guy. The
only confirmation in the confirmation bias will be they heard
he was a wead guy and he tested positive with
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a deluded sample. That's when it becomes a problem. And
you can track that these teams know because they ask people.
They send us somebody to campus and they go like
Daille Prepper's weak guy, beer guy, or is the milk
and cookies guy? And they'll find out. Colin cow Heard
had something interesting to say earlier on his show, As
We Play, What did the Fox say? It was in
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regards to which quarterback in this draft he most believes in.
There's one college guy winning games, Deshaun Watson in a
very very good conference, which I would argue last year
was the best conference in college football. Deshaun Watson wins games.
You go look at all these guys in the NFL.
Russell Wilson did not have great teammates at NC State,
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and I'm sorry, I'm looking at all these quarterbacks. One
of them, one of them was a dominant winner. Deshaun Watson. Yeah,
I wish his wonder was seven, not twenty, but there
at cars wasn't real high either. Looks like a leader,
plays like a leader, ends up with a W and
the scoreboards done. An Alabama game came down to one
play he was perfect on it. If we're going based
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upon winning in college and looks like a leader, shouldn't
Tim Tebow have been a great pro quarterback and Peyton
Manning couldn't beat Florida, couldn't win an SEC championship, and
they didn't win a national championship until t Martin took
over for Peyton Manning. So I love the argument. The
problem is in in the context of former college stars
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who become pro quarterbacks, there isn't much of a correlation
between how successful your team is and how good a
pro quarterback you in fact are. All right, So every
day we'll try and find some stuff from Clay Show,
from Dan Patrick Show, from Undisputed Uh, from Colin Show,
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and we'll bring it back to you and if you
hear it, you can tweet us at Gottlieb Show. Did
you hear? And you know, playing on what did what
did the Fox set? And now saying good you like it? Good?
It stays mm hmm, excuse you find sir? This is
the Doug Gottlieb Show. Davis Web is a system guy.
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First it was a Texas Tech system and then it
was a cow system and he lit the pack twelve
on fire this year. Now he's getting ready to be
a system quarterback for whatever system drafts him in the
National Football League? Are you in fact a system guy, Davis?
I don't know. I think that's pretty funny to open
that up. I think that's a lot of fun to
play in the air raid type system. You got to
the ball two times a game. Um, the balls in
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your hands every single play. We have the same concepts
that all other teams around the NFL collegiate it was
basically a spread system that's in the shotgun, and now
we took the ball a lot. So I think it's
tougher for quarterbacks honestly than most and there's a lot
of things on the quarterback and the text technic cow
we changed the plays, Jenna protections. We just sit in
game play and means with the opposite cordinators, oh line
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coaches every single day. So, um, it's a fun. It's
a fun system to play in. And without the air
raid system, I wouldn't be here today. So there's nothing
but positive things for me to say about it. Does
golf struggles does that? Do you think that hurts you
in people's eyes? Yeah? Again, Jared and I had different
office coordinators, so Tony Franklin was his office coordinator. UM
different system, different concepts. So I don't really know too
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much about what Jared's college stuff was. But when I
had Jake Spavitto and Cliff Kingsbury, we ran a lot
of similar things that we're not the pere progression of
reads and you know, be like an NFL quarback, we're
playing the shotguns. So I think Jared's a really good quarterback.
I think you know his potentials through the roof, and
he's only going to get better. So I think Jared's
is a great young person. I mean, he was a
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great teammate at Cal. Had got to like good things
about him, known him for a very long time, works hard,
So I know he'll have a great sophomore season in
the NFL, and just looking forward to see him compete
for the l A Rams. You mentioned Spavitel, you mentioned
of or you know, being at at at Texas Tech.
You guys had this unbelievable like Triumbrant right like, and
you look at it. Um, obviously Pat has a chance
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to be Pat Mahomes has a chance to be a
first round draft pick. You got a chance to go
very early in this draft. And then you know a
guy who was first the starter and then you know,
worked as it was a walk on the starter, then
worked his way to third string, and now is it Oklahoma?
Um is all is at some point going to be
in the conversation next year to be in the NFL draft?
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What was that like when you guys were all on
campus together. We were never all on campus together, that
was that's kind of the misinformation. Um, so my freshman
hears me Michael Brewer who was a two year starter
of Virginia Tech after he transferred from Texas Tech, Baker Mayfield,
who transferred Oklahoma, who was in top five in the
highs and Trophy this year, and then Baker and Michael
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Brewer transferred out. Because I was a holidayball MVP much
of my freshman year and in the kind's Pastrick Mahomes
and him and I are in the same broster together
after that. So yeah, I've been around some really good
quarterbacks in the same room, and uh, I kind of
taught myself to compete each and every day because you know,
if you didn't practice good on Monday and Tuesday, um,
you didn't know if you're going to be able to
play on Saturday because the other guy behind you was
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just as good. So, um, yeah, I'll tell you how
to compete and deal with a didversity and persevere through it,
because I mean, every day, you know, you're competing with somebody.
And I think that's how we all have been successful
because we've seen, you know, some of the best quarterbacks
in that country in the same room each and every
day in the same string commissioning program. So that's a
credit the Cliff Kingsbury. Um he's the one of the
best developers in football. And um he has a great
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Corbreck mand He's he's a better head coach. So all
the credit and the world goes to him because he
got all of us ready to play. You know, it's
it's interesting and like and maybe you maybe you actually
agree with it, and you like this and and and
you're being honest with me, but like, I just for
a basketball player, and me like, did you keep recruiting
over me? I don't. I'm not good with that in basketball.
And look, it's changed something now because so many basketball
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players transferred. But generally was you have a junior, you
have a freshman, you have a space in between and
you know you promised not to recruit a guy over me. Um,
these there are no hard feelings over and he had
to obviously bring in guys as you mentioned, because uh,
you know, because both of them left. But it isn't
there any sense of like, hey, if I was the
guy and I beat everybody out and I mean Holiday
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Bowl m v P, shouldn't you bringing other guys to
be my backup? Now? We had we had four guys
transfer out after my freshman year, so I was literally
the only quarterback on the roster. So that's a lot
to stay with it by me at the same time,
and the midst coach, King's bearers job on the line,
it's mind job on the line. That's the athletic directors,
the trainers, the strength conditioning coaches. I mean this is
a two way street and everyone's working together. Um, you know,
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we're all pushing together to win a big twelve championship
or one as many games we can, so we can
stick around there and be rederators or cal golden bears.
I mean, this is this is important, This is our lives,
this is our jobs. So um yeah, yeah, bringing guys
every year and you want to bring the best guys
in because some one goes down like I did. I
got her my sophomore year playing against Oklahoma State. Patrick
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came in and played really well. So yeah, you got
to bring in good recruits because well is a funny game,
and you know, the first situations happens here, and make
sure you're ready to go at all at all costs.
What can you what do you do that you don't
believe any of these other quarterbacks can do. I don't know,
you know, hopefully an NFL team knows that because for me,
I don't know all these other guys. You know, I'm
very close with Patrick Mahomes, obviously we're very good friends. Um.
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You know, I know Deshaun Watson him about a year
or two ago, a great guy. Deshan Kaiser going to
be the same about him. Um, there's are really the
only four dudes that um I've known for multiple years.
Everybody else. But I've got to note that this draft process,
and there's so many good quarterbacks out there, so um,
again it's up to the NFL teams. It's not to me. Um,
I think can build up all really well, but so
can all the other quarterbacks. So um, it really comes
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down to who interviewed really well, and um where they
project all of us on five and ten years. So
we'll see what happens this weekend and hopefully my name
gets called pretty early. Davis Webb thirty seven touchdown passes
grad transfer from Texas Tech to Cal and the Cal
Golden Bears this year getting ready for the NFL Draft,
which gets in a way Thursday. What are your expect taate, like,
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what are your legitimate expectations as to Thursday Friday? What
are you thinking? Again, I know it's just a Tuesday afternoon.
What are your thoughts as of now? Yeah, you know,
I feel really good about it. I had great visits,
you know, I had great private workouts, and you know,
I have a you know a lot of teams that
I think believe in me, and um, you know, I
think there's you know, multiple teams. I think they can
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get selected reasonably high. So we'll see what happens. You know, again,
it's out of my control, so I don't think that way.
One of my sayings is to commit to the control
goles and trust the process, because um, that's all you
can really control is just you know, going out there
and working hard. And I've done that for four years
in college. I did at the Senior Bowl, I did
it at the Combine, I did a Pro Day and
all these workouts. So I feel good for myself in
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a position of the successful, and hopefully some team falls
in love with that, and uh, I'll be ready to
be a great teammate. UH well prepared quarterback in the
NFL Forever team setching Davis Webb getting ready for the
NFL Draft, joining us gotlip show Fox Sports Radio. I
wonder if look, as you said, you've been through it
all right. You've been through beating out you know, four
other dudes. You've been through having the job, getting hurt,
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getting beat out by Pat and eventually transferring out and
then winning the job at Cow and light in the world.
So you've been through the ups and downs. You've been
through the competitive process. But having not been in the
NFL and knowing that reasonably it's going to be an adjustment,
are you better off going somewhere where you're a second
or a third round guy and you can learn and
by the time you get an opportunity, you're more refined,
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you're more ready, because sometimes they play these first round
guys too early and it can kind of ruin them.
What's your honest perspective on what's best for you personally
in terms of fit where, how how quickly you play
fit in terms of style of play. Yeah, that's not
my decision. You know. My decision is to make it
tough on the coaches that make them feel like they
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have to play me. Um. So that's why I want
to make every courch feel like that. You know that
they call my goodness we have to put on the field.
He's that good. Once I get to that level, then
I'm sure I'll be ready to go. Um. So, again,
it's out of my control. I'm just gonna trying to
do the best I can and prepare like an NFL
starting quarterback each and every day. If I'm gonna starter
or not, well, my time comments be ready because like
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you said, I mean, you get a limited amount of
reps and opportunities in the NFL. And you know, I
know I haven't been in the NFL before, but I
do know that is that you have a limited amount
of opportunity. So when you get your opportunity, to make
the most of it. And uh, you know, all I
gotta do is, you know, whatever cards I get dealt with.
That's being the backup, the third string guy as a starter. Um,
play your cards the best of your ability, and we'll
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see what happens you. I'm a hard worker. I'm I'm
no risk kind of guy. You know I'm gonna leave
it all on the line and go all in on
whatever team draft me. All right, well, listen, look rooting
for you this week, this weekend, wherever you go, we
look forward to catching up with you in the meantime.
I get ready so it should because because you should
be a fun and rewarding weekend. Appreciate you being our
guest in Fox Sports Radio. I appreciate get up, be
on base.
Right now, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Is announcing his retirement at
the end of this season. Dale or Art Jr. Is
the perfect NASCAR driver. He is. Did you know that? Like,
what's the most NASCAR name ever? Would it be Dale
or would it be Ralph? What if I told you
his actual name is Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. You're like, like, Wow,
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that checks a lot of boxes, doesn't it? Right? Ralph
and Dale? Because everybody either everyone who goes to a race,
his name is Ralpher Dale or they know a buddy
named Ralpher Dale. This is a certain humanizing like, hey
named Ralph named Dale? Just like my brother Jimmy, whose
name is Ralph Dale. We call him Jimmy, right. So um,
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it's like being a play by play man named Dave.
Every play by play gat man's name is Dave. Even
ones that names aren't Dave, you can still call them
Dave and they'll think that their name is Dave. And
then he's of course from NASCAR Royalty. It's the Earnhardt
name is the Manning name. Although his dad was more
successful in his chosen field than Archie was, still Archie.
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Historic name. First family of Nascar, first family of football,
but Dylard Art Jr. Was a modestly successful driver. Let's
just be honest. Did he win Daytona Yes, And of
course he conquered the demons of where his dad. His
dad died. And I'm sure that because he had the
long running concussion and post concussion syndrome last year. He's
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got a family, he's got a life, he's ready to
move on for the next thing. Like all that makes sense,
But here's where the parallel is to the rest of sports.
Sports has changed that it's changed. The money now is
f you money? And as they say on Billions money, right,
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what is the point of having F you money if
every once in a while you're not willing to say
F you? And just like Calvin Johnson at the end
of this last NFL season, Larry Fitzgerald thought about it,
probably should have retired, right, Like Larry Fitzgerald has more
money than he can ever spend, and he's got his health.
This is the reason it's hard to get a a
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former major leaguer in the booth, right, Like the fact
that we have Pedro working for Turner TBS in the playoffs,
the fact that Alex Rodriguez works for Fox Sports, like
that's the exception. The rule is those guys make so
much money and there's a hundred six two games in baseball,
they don't have to work the rest of their lives.
Like John Smaltz is from a different era. He was
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only making a couple of mill per year. You can
burn through that. You can't burn through the money that
players are making now. Like when our Pools retires from baseball,
you will never see him again. You know why. He's
got a few money And Darren Hurt Jr. Is just
it's just like Calvin Johnson's like, look, why would I
keep putting myself out in harm's way When I can retire,
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I can own a team, I could be on TV,
I could remain popular. And yet it's it's not at
all dangerous. It's the going out on his own terms.
And I know you're thinking Floyd Mayweather do the same.
The old adage, though, is in boxing, no boxer ever
ever walks out of the ring of final time. They
all get carried out. But Floyd Mayweather could be the
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guy who changes that narrative. He he doesn't do the sugarade.
Leonard came back. I don't remember how many times, like
six seven comebacks from retirement. Why because they all need money?
Like Mike Tyson kept getting in the ring because he
needed money, Larry Holmes because he needed money. Mohammad Ali
frankly fought too long. Why because he needed money. It
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was big money for the time, but it was an
f you not just I retire. My kids never worked,
their grandkids never work. That's the type of money we're
talking now. The other hard juniors reportedly worth over three
hundred million dollars MM a lot of your Like, dude,
I'm in the wrong business. I just had a good
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year and I pulled down forty five k. My question
is not wise he retiring, it's why did it take
you so long? But last couple of years he's had
a better year until the concussion. Now he gets a
chance to have a victory parade and hopefully he's healthy.
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He retires, he owns a team, the money keeps pile
it up, and he's safe. This is the future of sports.
It's like NBA players. They may not understand that one
of the reasons they make so much money is the
eighty two games, not the postseason games. But the fact
is they're getting to the point of few money to
where they can in fact play when they want to play,
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retire when they want to retire, and walk out on
their own terms. Calvin Johnson did it to this point,
Floud Mayweather has done it, and Dale and Hard Jr.
In a work to which there's not really You're not
really gonna be too old, right you can't too old
to drive a nat to drive a sprint Cup car.
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Like that's kind of like being too drunk to fish.
It could happen, but yeah, yeah, I mean, think about
how drunk you have to be to be too drunk
to fish. I think what we're seeing now is a
little snapshot of the possible future. Right Like running backs
retired because they're not any good. I mean, that's why
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running backs retiring there. Early tennis players often retire because
there they once they hit thirty, they're not as competitive.
Federal obviously trying to change some of that and elongate
his career. Although he has few money. Tennis guys make
a ton of sidecash, a ton of sidecash. Serena, of course,
has played far along past her normal prime, but one
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of the reasons she can get pregnant and walk away
is she has a few money. I just I think
it's interesting that we are getting to a play in
specific sports with specific athletes to which they reach a
point to which you're like, I'm good, I'm good. Darren
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hard Ja was voted the most popular driver for fourteen
consecutive years, years in which he really really didn't win much.
I mean, from O eight to two thousand, fourteen fourteen
he won the Daytona five, but that was really it.
There was a long streak to which he didn't win
a race. He was modestly competitive, and yet his name
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remained incredibly popular because of his last name and because
of his two first names, Ralph Dale. Yes, sir, is
that like? Is that like Kobe getting into the All
Star Game at the end of his career when people
knew he was nowhere near an actual All Star In
the NBA? That's different. That's the coward conjunior late in
the All Star Game. All Star games are different, like
the All Star racest. They have an All Star Race
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in Charlotte. Like, look, I'm not even gonna pretend to
you that I pay any attention in NASCAR. I think
this is devastating news for the sport, right Like you're
losing Tony Stewart. You're losing Darrenhardt Jr. You're losing Jeff Gordon.
And can you name another driver like Jimmy Johnson. I
can name He's still doing it, I believe. Otherwise, you know,
like outside of that, like there's very few guys you
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can name. And the sport over expanded. It did the
same thing as the National Hockey League. It went to
places in order to continue to build its brand, and
it worked for a short term and now it feels
like it might need to retract. You look at what
happened yesterday. Where did you know that they had a
NASCAR race yesterday? Like, raise your hand if anybody on
earth knew that they actually finished up at Bristol, Britosti
(07:38):
Motor Speedway. Uh is Like it's one of those quirky
and like I only like I don't remember because as
a kid, you're like, wow, that's the track where they
have the high embankment, right, And then in college football
fans like, hey, that's where Virginia Tech played this year.
Remember Virginia Tech played, Um what they play? Somebody really good?
Tennessee Like Tennessee Front two million people they all pop
(08:03):
piled in there, so like that's anyway. Apparently they had
a rain out, so they raced on a Monday, which
just seems like an awful idea. Turns out it was
an awful idea. No one I know, no one I
know knew anyone they knew that watched that race. The
only reason I knew it is I had my headphones
on during an update and Dan Buyer told me that
a NASCAR race was completed. I was like, no way, really,
(08:27):
so unlike unlike sports that can be played under domes,
they can't. They've dragged out the season far too long.
They created a championship to which nobody really cares about.
And oh yeah, by the way, they're losing another historically
significant name in relative in their prime. Essentially like he's forty,
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but you know forty and NASCAR is and any other sport.
But this ain't the old days. Here's the learned hard
Junior moments ago, talking about his dad to my father,
Dad learned heart. I would have not been a race
car driver if it not for him. He believed in me.
It might have taken a little encouragement from Tony ry
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Sor Senior, but he eventually Dad came around. I appreciate
my father everything he put into my career. That was weird.
I haven't heard the entire cut. Why not just say like, hey, look,
the reason I'm hanging up is my dad died on
the race course, and I don't really want to die.
And like Tom Brendon is a good friend of mine,
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is a coach of Vermont when they beat Syracuse the
n c A tournament. He he always told me, I
want to be sick when I die, right, I want
to be sick. I want to have lived what I die.
I don't think anybody would fall at you if you
go like, hey, look my dad died a day tuna,
he was in his prime. Like I got three hundred
billion dollars, I got a young family, I can own
a team, and I can never put myself in harm's way.
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Can you blame me? And you blame me? But in
all honesty, I believe this is a bit of a trend.
It's the reason you can't get Peyton Manning in an
NFL broadcast booth. Right, Like Peyton Manning is worth hundreds
of millions of dollars, he doesn't want to concern himself
(10:15):
with who the backup linebacker is for the New York Giants.
He didn't care makes too much money, too much work pay.
Many would gladly be involved in football, but being involved
in football will be He'd like to own a football team.
Derek Jeter doesn't want to be a broadcaster. Derrick Teter
wants to own a baseball team. In the fact, they're
one step closer to him owning a baseball team. We
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have created a generation of business men because they're making
generation change, generational, generation, life changing, life altering money. They are.
They are not rich. They are wealthy and dale and hard. Jr.
Embodies that on a multitude of levels, and he is
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smartly getting out of a wildly dangerous sport at just
the right time. This is the Doug Gottlieb Show. I
could be on an island on this one. I'm not
running from the Joe Mixon thing. To me, Joe Mixon.
The thing that that draws me to Joe Mixon is
not just the productivity, but the fact that he didn't
(11:20):
run away from what he did. Now you can talk
all around, well, they didn't red shirt him, and they
didn't he didn't play football for a year. I went
round the football team for a year rightfully so for
striking a young woman. And the video is bad, but
it's what I've always said and what I always believe.
This is what domestic violence looks like. You may take
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that as well. Gotlieb is not very sensitive. Maybe, or
maybe it's just I had a feeling that's what domestic
violence look like. I saw it with ray Rice, and
I was appalled, but I wasn't like shocked. I wasn't surprised,
maybe because I think a man hitting a woman is
incredibly cruel. There's a level of evil to it to
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go along with whatever anger can bring it to that
point to which everybody I know seems to have a
governor which keeps you from ever getting to that point.
Right that said, Dude, you're in your first couple of
weeks on campus in the summer. You go out and
you strike a woman, and everybody wants to get rid
of you, and you hang around for a couple of
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you hang around for three years. And having gone to
school in that part of the country, having carried my
own scarlet letter, I can tell you that everybody knew
about Joe Mixon. Everybody knew about him as a recruit.
Everybody knew him as somebody who hit a woman, and
so you gotta walk around the campus in Norman and
in Oklahoma City has Oh, I'm like, introduce yourself as
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Joe Mixon. There's not a Joe Mixon. Where do I
know that name? You're Joe Mixing, the guy who hit
a chick? Right, So to me, Doug Gottliebink like, that
doesn't he's seen the bottom. He's seen the bottom and
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the climb out of the bottom of the gutter to
the top of college football. I have always been a
don't tell me about the guy who either knocked himself down,
shot himself in the foot, or got knocked down? What
did you do to dust yourself off and get back up?
That doesn't make me run from Joe Mixon, just doesn't.
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It doesn't make me want to have him date my daughter.
By the way, Joe Mixon doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, long
term girlfriend. I don't know what that does for you.
But the fact is that if you're going to freak
out over him freaking out over a parking ticket, if
that's if that's the smoking gun you have, and that
Joe Mixon is a bad guy, that he got a
parking ticket and freaked out about it three years after
the incident, boy that we're not employing choir boys here
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and even and I can bet, I can bet there
are plenty of choir boys who have also freaked out
over getting a parking ticket on a college campus. This
is the Douglas Your Dream Got Leave Show? Which team
finished with the most wins in the NBA this year?
Top of your head? I believe it was the Warriors.
There was the Golden State Warriors. I mean that's kind
(14:17):
of the point, right, Like the Golden State wars actually
one more games than everybody else. Do you know who
their leading score was? That would be Steph Curry, who
led them in assist Granted the assists were down, the
rebounds were down, the shooting percentage was slightly down, but
it was in fact Steph Curry. And the fact is,
no one's given Steph Curry any sort of m v
(14:40):
P love. And last year, wasn't he a unanimous m
v P, Right, Like every person that could vote for
the m v P voted him the m v P.
And he had a better teammate who scored as many
points as him per game. Points a game he averaged
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five points a game less. His shooting percentage was down
three percentage points. Is three point percentage was down four
percentage points. But the end of the year before Durant
came back and they started not caring, they wont row
Without Durant, he averaged twenty five points, six assists. The
turnovers were up slightly but still a two to one
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assistant turnover ratio. And I kind of feel like everybody
took him for granted. Don't get me wrong. The three
point percentage was the lowest of his career, But is
bad three point shooting? Signed me up for bad three
point shooting. If five points a game and six assists
a game and winning uh sixties seven games is a
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bad season, signed me up for a bad season. So
I watched him last night and he scored an effortless
thirty seven points. Thirty seven points on twenty shots. He
was seven of eleven from three point range. He had
seven rebounds, eight assists. He did have four turnovers. They
get a little loose with the basketball. He's always been
(16:03):
a high turnover guy. Now look, I would never tell
you that Steph is the best player in the NBA.
He's not. He had the best season last year deserve
the m v P and didn't deserve the m v
P this year. But I think because of the narrative
of Steph Curry, because of our fascination with will the
Cleveland Cavaliers be able to clap on? Clap off the clapper?
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Will they be able to turn it on at the
right moment, because we're intrigued by, Hey, is it possible
that the Warriors are better without Kevin Durant. They're not.
We have on some level taken for granted. Steph Curry
is crazy good, crazy, crazy, freaky freaky good. Like even
(16:47):
in this series which just concluded, um in the series, like,
did he have a great series? Do you think he
had a great series? Ryan Ramos, Like, off the top
of your head, I would okay. He had twenty nine,
thirty four and thirty seven. Not great shooting percent. Struggled
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in Game two shooting the basketball only shot in Game three.
In Game four, uh shot close to for the series.
In his last two games, both on the road in Portland,
he puts up a combined seventy one points. That's a
thirty five and a half point average. That's my numbers good,
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So the average is thirty five and a half points
and eight assists in his final two games. And I
kind of feel like we need a Valentine's Day or
a Mother's Day, like just a card, like, hey, dude,
didn't forget about you, still love you, You're still awesome?
Is that fair? We we get caught up in narratives
and storylines and we're like, oh, hey, you know what,
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He's still awesome, still amazing. I mean really really, And
I look, there's a certain amount of boredom that sets
in when they get up twenty like they did at
the end of the first quarter. They scored forty two
points and their bench isn't as good as last year.
Part of it is right now they're playing without Sean Livingston.
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Part of it is that they had to change their bench.
But that was one of those games to which I
just kind of looked around and go like, hey, we
kind of all forgot about the Warriors and how much
better they are than everybody else when they want to
be better than everybody else. Oh yeah, Steph Curry is awesome.
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Never said he was the best player, never said that
he's this year's m v P. I just do believe
that at some point we get so caught up in
what we see as the topic of the year or
the topic of the season, the topic of the day
that we went from Steph Curry is struggling to Steph
Curry is back to being dominant and everybody just kind
of takes him for granted. Hey, this is the Doug
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Oddly Show. I agree with Clay Travis, although Clay actually
has uh he's taken ownership over something that I said
originally on his show on Dan Patrick Show and on
Collin Cowherd Show, You Factor Enrich Eysen Show, also part
of the Fox Sports Radio family, and this is death
(19:20):
row Right. This is the best national radio lineup that
has ever been creative. I believe that a right like
you got the you got the poop starter in Clay Travis,
willing to say and do anything possible. You got Dan
who is I look you in this business when you
get in when I got in at my age. You see,
you take from the best people in the business. And
(19:41):
Dan's the best interviewer. There isn't anybody close. Um. Some
of my radio beliefs obviously come from Cowherd. I'm willing
to go to places other people won't go, like like
Clay and uh, I think you combine all of our
strength together. Right, we're like Fox Furce five Fox pulp
(20:01):
fiction reference. But look, there will be crazy things, interesting things,
timely things said on other shows, and we'll react to them.
That's when we play. And now say so, here's what
you heard earlier today on Colin Cowherd show. It was
(20:24):
it was Joe Clatt right talking about Jabrill Peppers. Excuse me,
it's on Undisputed. That's you can also he Undisputed on
Serious XM Radio Channel three, our Serious XM home. At
least the first two hours of the show. Joel Clad
had this to say about Jabrill Peppers, who didn't test
positive for marijuana for PDS, he tested positive for having
(20:47):
a diluted sample. Take a listen of Brill Peppers struggled
with cramps mighty. It was a huge issue for him
all the way back to his high school days. A
promise Catholic in New Jersey. He was a tweener prospect,
meaning that he was gonna work out at two different
positions at the NFL scouting combine, which is almost unheard of.
So he's forcing liquids and now all of a sudden
he's got this dilute test because he drank too much water,
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and the NFL says that's a failed drug test. Now
you've got to enter our drug policy when you enter
the NFL. I think that this whole standard is an
NFL problem, not a Jabral Peppers problem. I don't disagree
that the standard in terms of th HC or dilution,
that that may be an NFL problem. But let's be
honest that if Jarebill Peppers is not a weed guy,
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it doesn't matter if he enters into the NFL's drug
rehab program. The first positive test does nothing. It's a
don't you ever do that again? That's basically what it is.
It's embarrassing and there may be needless embarrassment over it
if you didn't actually smoke weed or take p ds
whatever the reason is for your UH sample being deluded.
(21:54):
So if you're worried about his future, like look, if
you don't smoke weed and you didn't smoke weed, tip
it caused a fall is positive? Who cares? And all
these NFL teams to know if he's wead guy. The
only confirmation in the confirmation bias will be they heard
he was a wead guy and he tested positive with
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a deluded sample. That's when it becomes a problem. And
you can track that these teams know because they ask people.
They send us somebody to campus and they go like
Daille Prepper's weak guy, beer guy, or is the milk
and cookies guy? And they'll find out. Colin cow Heard
had something interesting to say earlier on his show, As
We Play, What did the Fox say? It was in
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regards to which quarterback in this draft he most believes in.
There's one college guy winning games, Deshaun Watson in a
very very good conference, which I would argue last year
was the best conference in college football. Deshaun Watson wins games.
You go look at all these guys in the NFL.
Russell Wilson did not have great teammates at NC State,
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and I'm sorry, I'm looking at all these quarterbacks. One
of them, one of them was a dominant winner. Deshaun Watson. Yeah,
I wish his wonder was seven, not twenty, but there
at cars wasn't real high either. Looks like a leader,
plays like a leader, ends up with a W and
the scoreboards done. An Alabama game came down to one
play he was perfect on it. If we're going based
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upon winning in college and looks like a leader, shouldn't
Tim Tebow have been a great pro quarterback and Peyton
Manning couldn't beat Florida, couldn't win an SEC championship, and
they didn't win a national championship until t Martin took
over for Peyton Manning. So I love the argument. The
problem is in in the context of former college stars
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who become pro quarterbacks, there isn't much of a correlation
between how successful your team is and how good a
pro quarterback you in fact are. All right, So every
day we'll try and find some stuff from Clay Show,
from Dan Patrick Show, from Undisputed Uh, from Colin Show,
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and we'll bring it back to you and if you
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did the Fox set? And now saying good you like it? Good?
It stays mm hmm, excuse you find sir? This is
the Doug Gottlieb Show. Davis Web is a system guy.
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First it was a Texas Tech system and then it
was a cow system and he lit the pack twelve
on fire this year. Now he's getting ready to be
a system quarterback for whatever system drafts him in the
National Football League? Are you in fact a system guy, Davis?
I don't know. I think that's pretty funny to open
that up. I think that's a lot of fun to
play in the air raid type system. You got to
the ball two times a game. Um, the balls in
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your hands every single play. We have the same concepts
that all other teams around the NFL collegiate it was
basically a spread system that's in the shotgun, and now
we took the ball a lot. So I think it's
tougher for quarterbacks honestly than most and there's a lot
of things on the quarterback and the text technic cow
we changed the plays, Jenna protections. We just sit in
game play and means with the opposite cordinators, oh line
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coaches every single day. So, um, it's a fun. It's
a fun system to play in. And without the air
raid system, I wouldn't be here today. So there's nothing
but positive things for me to say about it. Does
golf struggles does that? Do you think that hurts you
in people's eyes? Yeah? Again, Jared and I had different
office coordinators, so Tony Franklin was his office coordinator. UM
different system, different concepts. So I don't really know too
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much about what Jared's college stuff was. But when I
had Jake Spavitto and Cliff Kingsbury, we ran a lot
of similar things that we're not the pere progression of
reads and you know, be like an NFL quarback, we're
playing the shotguns. So I think Jared's a really good quarterback.
I think you know his potentials through the roof, and
he's only going to get better. So I think Jared's
is a great young person. I mean, he was a
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great teammate at Cal. Had got to like good things
about him, known him for a very long time, works hard,
So I know he'll have a great sophomore season in
the NFL, and just looking forward to see him compete
for the l A Rams. You mentioned Spavitel, you mentioned
of or you know, being at at at Texas Tech.
You guys had this unbelievable like Triumbrant right like, and
you look at it. Um, obviously Pat has a chance
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to be Pat Mahomes has a chance to be a
first round draft pick. You got a chance to go
very early in this draft. And then you know a
guy who was first the starter and then you know,
worked as it was a walk on the starter, then
worked his way to third string, and now is it Oklahoma?
Um is all is at some point going to be
in the conversation next year to be in the NFL draft?
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What was that like when you guys were all on
campus together. We were never all on campus together, that
was that's kind of the misinformation. Um, so my freshman
hears me Michael Brewer who was a two year starter
of Virginia Tech after he transferred from Texas Tech, Baker Mayfield,
who transferred Oklahoma, who was in top five in the
highs and Trophy this year, and then Baker and Michael
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Brewer transferred out. Because I was a holidayball MVP much
of my freshman year and in the kind's Pastrick Mahomes
and him and I are in the same broster together
after that. So yeah, I've been around some really good
quarterbacks in the same room, and uh, I kind of
taught myself to compete each and every day because you know,
if you didn't practice good on Monday and Tuesday, um,
you didn't know if you're going to be able to
play on Saturday because the other guy behind you was
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just as good. So, um, yeah, I'll tell you how
to compete and deal with a didversity and persevere through it,
because I mean, every day, you know, you're competing with somebody.
And I think that's how we all have been successful
because we've seen, you know, some of the best quarterbacks
in that country in the same room each and every
day in the same string commissioning program. So that's a
credit the Cliff Kingsbury. Um he's the one of the
best developers in football. And um he has a great
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Corbreck mand He's he's a better head coach. So all
the credit and the world goes to him because he
got all of us ready to play. You know, it's
it's interesting and like and maybe you maybe you actually
agree with it, and you like this and and and
you're being honest with me, but like, I just for
a basketball player, and me like, did you keep recruiting
over me? I don't. I'm not good with that in basketball.
And look, it's changed something now because so many basketball
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players transferred. But generally was you have a junior, you
have a freshman, you have a space in between and
you know you promised not to recruit a guy over me. Um,
these there are no hard feelings over and he had
to obviously bring in guys as you mentioned, because uh,
you know, because both of them left. But it isn't
there any sense of like, hey, if I was the
guy and I beat everybody out and I mean Holiday
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Bowl m v P, shouldn't you bringing other guys to
be my backup? Now? We had we had four guys
transfer out after my freshman year, so I was literally
the only quarterback on the roster. So that's a lot
to stay with it by me at the same time,
and the midst coach, King's bearers job on the line,
it's mind job on the line. That's the athletic directors,
the trainers, the strength conditioning coaches. I mean this is
a two way street and everyone's working together. Um, you know,
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we're all pushing together to win a big twelve championship
or one as many games we can, so we can
stick around there and be rederators or cal golden bears.
I mean, this is this is important, This is our lives,
this is our jobs. So um yeah, yeah, bringing guys
every year and you want to bring the best guys
in because some one goes down like I did. I
got her my sophomore year playing against Oklahoma State. Patrick
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came in and played really well. So yeah, you got
to bring in good recruits because well is a funny game,
and you know, the first situations happens here, and make
sure you're ready to go at all at all costs.
What can you what do you do that you don't
believe any of these other quarterbacks can do. I don't know,
you know, hopefully an NFL team knows that because for me,
I don't know all these other guys. You know, I'm
very close with Patrick Mahomes, obviously we're very good friends. Um.
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You know, I know Deshaun Watson him about a year
or two ago, a great guy. Deshan Kaiser going to
be the same about him. Um, there's are really the
only four dudes that um I've known for multiple years.
Everybody else. But I've got to note that this draft process,
and there's so many good quarterbacks out there, so um,
again it's up to the NFL teams. It's not to me. Um,
I think can build up all really well, but so
can all the other quarterbacks. So um, it really comes
(29:46):
down to who interviewed really well, and um where they
project all of us on five and ten years. So
we'll see what happens this weekend and hopefully my name
gets called pretty early. Davis Webb thirty seven touchdown passes
grad transfer from Texas Tech to Cal and the Cal
Golden Bears this year getting ready for the NFL Draft,
which gets in a way Thursday. What are your expect taate, like,
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what are your legitimate expectations as to Thursday Friday? What
are you thinking? Again, I know it's just a Tuesday afternoon.
What are your thoughts as of now? Yeah, you know,
I feel really good about it. I had great visits,
you know, I had great private workouts, and you know,
I have a you know a lot of teams that
I think believe in me, and um, you know, I
think there's you know, multiple teams. I think they can
(30:28):
get selected reasonably high. So we'll see what happens. You know, again,
it's out of my control, so I don't think that way.
One of my sayings is to commit to the control
goles and trust the process, because um, that's all you
can really control is just you know, going out there
and working hard. And I've done that for four years
in college. I did at the Senior Bowl, I did
it at the Combine, I did a Pro Day and
all these workouts. So I feel good for myself in
(30:51):
a position of the successful, and hopefully some team falls
in love with that, and uh, I'll be ready to
be a great teammate. UH well prepared quarterback in the
NFL Forever team setching Davis Webb getting ready for the
NFL Draft, joining us gotlip show Fox Sports Radio. I
wonder if look, as you said, you've been through it
all right. You've been through beating out you know, four
other dudes. You've been through having the job, getting hurt,
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getting beat out by Pat and eventually transferring out and
then winning the job at Cow and light in the world.
So you've been through the ups and downs. You've been
through the competitive process. But having not been in the
NFL and knowing that reasonably it's going to be an adjustment,
are you better off going somewhere where you're a second
or a third round guy and you can learn and
by the time you get an opportunity, you're more refined,
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you're more ready, because sometimes they play these first round
guys too early and it can kind of ruin them.
What's your honest perspective on what's best for you personally
in terms of fit where, how how quickly you play
fit in terms of style of play. Yeah, that's not
my decision. You know. My decision is to make it
tough on the coaches that make them feel like they
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have to play me. Um. So that's why I want
to make every courch feel like that. You know that
they call my goodness we have to put on the field.
He's that good. Once I get to that level, then
I'm sure I'll be ready to go. Um. So, again,
it's out of my control. I'm just gonna trying to
do the best I can and prepare like an NFL
starting quarterback each and every day. If I'm gonna starter
or not, well, my time comments be ready because like
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you said, I mean, you get a limited amount of
reps and opportunities in the NFL. And you know, I
know I haven't been in the NFL before, but I
do know that is that you have a limited amount
of opportunity. So when you get your opportunity, to make
the most of it. And uh, you know, all I
gotta do is, you know, whatever cards I get dealt with.
That's being the backup, the third string guy as a starter. Um,
play your cards the best of your ability, and we'll
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see what happens you. I'm a hard worker. I'm I'm
no risk kind of guy. You know I'm gonna leave
it all on the line and go all in on
whatever team draft me. All right, well, listen, look rooting
for you this week, this weekend, wherever you go, we
look forward to catching up with you in the meantime.
I get ready so it should because because you should
be a fun and rewarding weekend. Appreciate you being our
guest in Fox Sports Radio. I appreciate get up, be
on base.
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