May 1, 2017 • 30 mins
Doug argues that people who are saying the Clippers need to blow up their roster are wrong and explains why. He responds to Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid and his reasoning for drafting quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Also, Super Bowl Champion and NFL Network Analyst Brian Billick stops by to talk about the Bills firing their general manager and recap the NFL draft.
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get you updated from our guys in different locations, try
and figure out what in the hell are the Chicago
Bears doing. We'll get to the Clippers in a second.
I want to leave you with this. I want to
start you with this story where Mike Glennon was invited
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to be part of the draft day celebration with the
Chicago Bears right and I'm not sure if you're aware
by now. But the Chicago Bears, with their first pick,
moved up and drafted a quarterback who will, at some point,
whether in the near or long term future, supplant Mike
Glennan as the quarterback. And he's mad and he has
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every right to be. And uh, it's a really really
bad look. Now. Look, the reality of it is the
reality of it is this. I don't think anybody thought
Mike Glennon was the long term answer. Mike Glennon was
going to have a great opportunity this year to show
that he can be a long term starter. Uh. And
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I Mitch Robinski's probably not ready, so he'll get his year.
He will be some sort of lame duck. But you
know what, if you're good enough, It's like Dak Prescott,
who wasn't supposed to be the guy in Dallas. He
was just Let's hope Dak keeps it together until Tony
Romo returns one year later. Tony Romo's broadcasting games, and
Dak Prescott is your starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.
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So you get that opportunity, you do with it as
you as you will. And I also believe that Ryan
Pason is in his desire to keep it. He's the
general manager to keep it secret from everybody, including his
head coach. Another bad look. This wasn't his decision, right, Like,
that's not he's getting ready for the draft. The pr
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staff is like, hey, well let's get Mike Glenn and
he's our quarterback. He'll be there rah rah rah rah.
But just can you imagine you're there? They like, well
the first with the second pick, there's a trade and
like it's builds the excitement, Like Mitch Robinsky, don't I mean,
what do you say? What do you do? Buffalo Bills. Also,
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they got rid of their general manager of the day
after the NFL Draft. So you're saying what I did
the last three days wasn't good? Is that what you're
saying you didn't like it? Obviously that was a long
time in the works. I will rip into the Buffalo
Bills spelled with four els, not just for these four
consecutive Super Bowl losses, but they're the Bills right the law,
the the franchise with the longest consecutive run of not
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making the playoffs in not so shocking fashion, once again
found a way to show themselves to be a Dystopian Empire.
I just I want to bet with a buddy finding
a way to use dystopian correctly in a sentence, and
I did so in the opening four minutes of the show.
I feel really good about myself. Hopefully you had a
great weekend. Uh Ryan Music, produce of this show, said
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he spent the spent the weekend laying out in the
sun at the beach. You're a layout guy? What are
you that? I just I didn't know there was a
male who was straight who you're probably with your girlfriend
and that's why she's sit with me, read a book
with me. You're like, okay, don't you Actually, it couldn't
be more wrong. You're you're you've always been a layout guy.
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Uh No, I mean I don't really do the layout thing,
more just playing beach volleyball. But let let's the bros
with the bros. With the bros. Ramos is back as well. Ramos,
good weekend, wonderful weekend. Right you're not You're not a
Clipper fan, then, right? I am not. There's no here's
let me just let you in on something. There's no
such thing. Actually it's a Clipper fan. There's no there's
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no real say, like Billy Crystal may say he's a
Billy Crystal grew up in New York, Like he's really
a New York sports fan, and um, look, I'm sure
at the time he came to Los Angeles, Laker prices
were obscene. Everybody like the Lakers. He's like, you know what,
I like the little engine that could. I know, I
moved to Los Angeles and eighty one, I too, was
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kind of the not a Laker fan, Like I respected
the Lakers, but I like the Celtics because everybody liked
the Lakers. But nobody grew up a Clipper fan. It
just didn't like the Clippers. Anything. You think of the Bills. Now,
there was a time when the Bills were great. There
was never a moment to where the Clippers were great.
It just wasn't This is actually the golden era of
Clippers basketball. He's like, no way, Yeah, they won fifty
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games four consecutive years, haven't escaped the second round the playoffs,
and this is the best that it gets. So you
have to have that perspective when you think of yesterday's
Game seven Laws at home and you're like, oh, it
doesn't get any worse. It's such a Clipper thing to
do win games six on the road. Hey, by the way,
you taught very very Utah thing to do lose game
six at home. Go back look historically Jordan push off,
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Brian Russell jump shot bucket, game series six title, retire,
he came back. I don't pay attention. But the point
is this, The immediate viscero reaction is blow it up.
And part of it is that's who we are as Americans, right,
I'll just blow it up, and that's who we are
as guys too. I mean, it's one of the reasons
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that Fourth July is such a great holiday. I mean,
does it mark our independence a s? And how do
we mark our independence by blowing stuff up? And I,
for one, am a big proponent of it. Obviously, I'm
very happy that to this point I have all my digits,
but I totally understand just the sheer power of an M.
A D stuffed into something and blowing it to smithereens.
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Many people have gleefully lost fingers because we as guys,
as Americans, like to blow stuff up. And so because
there's no real ties to the Clippers, there is no
golden era to yearn four because they're just kind of
making it up as they go because they have the
ultimate geek as their as their owner. How about him
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get out of game six? That was uncomfortable? This fast
is often that was uncomfortable. It's like, come on, man,
I know you're a billionaire. I get it. You could
buy me fifty times over. But you got it like that.
You're a meme as long as memes exist. But we
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have this thought in our head that the Clippers lost,
and we're supposed to be surprised. They didn't lose because
they're the Clippers. They lost because they got like three
and a half good players and one of them was heard.
And the Jazz are pretty good. And the thing that
the Clippers don't have is a shooting guard who can
really guard somebody in a small forward And guess what.
The Jazz have two guys shooting cards for you can
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really really score bad matchups. But we freak out about
it and our immediate reactions you blow it up. But
I always look at problems and I think of what's
the alternative? You fired doctors today you can't. There's a
lot of people think he goes back to Orlando where
it ended poorly. That's where he lives there in rebuild mode.
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Doc's got a great way about him. Especially with younger guys,
you can get them into being a playoff team. I
don't know. I have no idea what they've been doing
in Orlando, but none of it has been particularly good.
I have a new general manager, new head coach. Maybe
he'll be president there or whatever. He fired Doctor Revers.
Who do you hire? What is the alternative? There's well,
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Chris Paul can opt out of his contract. He can.
He's he's a free agent, and he can get two
hundred million dollars if he stays. What is the alternative?
Everybody thinks that there's no You have to resign Chris Paul. Okay,
remember now you resigned Chris Paul. It's a five year deal,
two d million dollars. He's thirty two. Now, I don't
know how good your math is mine is you're paying
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him at the back end of that deal when he's
thirty six and thirty seven years old. How many good
six ft six ft one point guards are there that
are thirty six thirty seven years old? Oh wait, oh wait,
oh wait, that's right, There aren't any. Right, Whatever you
think of the running back position and sort of the
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thirty years old and occasionally you'll have a plus thirty
running back being productive, like a Frank Gore was productive.
That's basically the same thing with a thirty five year
old point guard. More likely to get hurt, less likely
be able to guard, and you can't get by anybody.
And so I'm always intrigued with this idea that you
have to resign guys, you have to pay them the
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most possible money, and nobody actually is fiscally responsible enough
to go like, hey, do you actually really want to
win games? This is the thing about athletes. Is we all,
and I consider myself still an athlete, we all say
we really really really want to win. I want to win,
But most of us don't really want to win. We
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don't we're not willing to sacrifice time with our family.
Are you willing to sacrifice money? Are you willing to
sacrifice moving? Are you That's the question that Chris Paul
has to ask himself. And they might be able to
rework it on the fly and trade Blake Griffin and
maybe they get something from Oklahoma City backer return or
maybe they take on Carmelo Anthony. I don't think that
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makes them more likely to win. I think it maybe
makes them interesting and different but still in the same position.
But outside of that, like, what are Chris Paul's options?
And like, oh, anybody would want Chris Paul? They probably would,
He's great. Would anybody want Chris Paul for five years? Now?
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I understand he can only sign that deal with the
with the Clippers? Would anybody want for four years? And
the places he can go are they assured of being
a championship caliber team more so than what he has
with the Clippers? Well, you go to the Lakers? Does
are they a championship team? Have you watched Laker basketball?
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He can't go to the Warriors, they don't want him.
You're not gonna go to the Cavaliers. They already have
their point guard. They're kind of already set. So like,
where are you going to go? Chris Paul doesn't like
doesn't like Doc Rivers. He's tired of DC Rivers playing
too much golf. Like, that's fine, What are your other options?
Where can Chris Paul possibly go? That he wields so
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much power that he can determine who his head coach
is gonna be when he doesn't really have other options.
And so this isn't me saying I'm okay with the
man sticking it to Chris Paul and making him take
less money. I'm just reacting to the world of sports.
This is actually the best era for the Clippers have
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ever had, crazy as it may see, and they're not
that far off. Will they ever win a championship? Probably
not the likely it is they probably won't, But the
best possible scenario is probably to keep as many pieces
as you can. I would I would frankly consider Jett
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singing JJ Reddick and seeing if you get something better there.
And like the real reason they haven't won is they
have an just such an incomplete roster. They never had
a good small forward. And then when you lose your
power forward, now the a sudden you don't have to
help ever off JJ Reddick. He can't get a shot
on his own. He's not great at covering at the
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other end, and it's Chris Paul and hoping they can
throw the ball the rim for DeAndre Jordans. Otherwise it's
just hit or miss. Based upon other guys chucking and
ducking than Paul. Pierce was literally on his last legs.
Luke Luke and Bob Moute wouldn't have started for anybody
else in the playoffs. Austin Rivers was actually decent the
last couple of games, but because he's Austin Rivers coach's son,
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he's never gonna find a way to get out of
the fans doghouse. Outside of that, Mrs Lincoln, how is
the show? But they're actually not that far off. And
if you say, well, you have to give all these
guys all that money to get to stay, like for
Chris Paul, why either you really want to win and
you're willing to sacrifice a little bit of money, or
you're not. You're not. So this is what happens in
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the NBA, instead of focusing on the Spurs and the Rockets,
which I think is going to be the best series
of these this round of series, and frankly, Wizards and
Celtics will be right there and they should be because
they're the most closely aligned in terms of wins or losses.
But instead of paying attention to the winning team, we
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spend a moment to catch our breath and think about
the losing team. The reality of it is, the Clippers
had a better than expected season with Chris Paul and
Blake Griffin missing a substantial time because of injury. They
lost to a really good club that went for it
and Gordon Haywards. Last year they added some veteran players
and they beat him in a game seven at home
after losing to him in a game six at home.
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And this is actually the best the Clippers have ever
consistently been and breaking apart that consistency, it's it's just
our mentality load up. But if you've ever blown stuff
up on Fourth or July afterwards, you like that was
kind of dumb. I could have lost a finger, I
could have fired off one of those rockets into somebody's hair,
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and there's not really that much personal award for doing it,
much like they would be with the with the Clippers.
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Brian Billick, of course, was a mastermind as an offensive
coordinator and won a Super Bowl as a head coach.
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You can see him now on the NFL Network and
of course, uh he's working with x Tech shoulder pads.
Will talk more about that, as he joins us a
couple of days after the NFL Draft has concluded. Coach Billick,
how are you good afternoon? Um, let's let's start with
the number to pick. What was your reaction to what
Chicago decided to do? Well? Obviously a bold move anytime,
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and that's always about the quarterbacks, I guess, But any
time you take a quarterback in the first round, particularly
the first half of the first round, you know, it's
pretty simple. You're saying, this is a franchise quarterback, regardless
of when you plan on starting him, and what that
process is to move up and give up what they
got I had to give up to go up and
get Mitchell Drabinsky. Clearly to me, they think this is
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a franchise quarterback. And um, you know again, why did
they pay Mike Glenn and the money they did to
come in and then go get Trabisky. Did they not
have that sized up? Did they not think they could
get him? Hard to imagine, but there they sit with it,
and it can't imagine that Mitchell Trobinsky is not gonna
be the start a very very quickly. Yeah, it reminds
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me in some levels of what happened with Philadelphia last
year right where they signed Bradford and then they found
themselves able to go and get Carson Wentz. The difference, obviously,
is they were sitting there at three. It wasn't that
big a move. They had to have some sense that
they would have a shot at him, but I guess
coach Bill. The more troubling part is that they didn't
loop in their head coach like John Fox apparently didn't
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know of this scenario until shortly before it happened. And again,
i'm football outsider, your football insider, but when GM isn't
talking to head coach about the most important position on
the field, that doesn't seem to bode well for their relationship.
What's your reaction when you hear that that they made
this move and they weren't looping their head coach into
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the process. Well, indeed that's the case. This is uh?
Did that actually makes sense? Because I don't think this
is a good move for John Fox uh to go
into year three. He just finished the three and thirteen season. Uh,
And you know, you go three years losing in the
National Football League, you're not going to be there long.
And lets the organization collectively says no we're gonna take
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our quarterback of the future. We know what that means
for a coach when you take a rookie quarterback, particularly
when you haven't had a winning season. Don't worry about it.
We're okay, we're gonna stick with you. Of course, that's
exactly what they told Jack del Rio just before he
took Blaine Gabbert and didn't turn out real well the
next year. Uh if I'm uh John Fox, and indeed
it went down that way. I think the handwritings on
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the wall, I would I tend to agree with you.
Brian Billick from the NFL Network joins just Doug Otlip
show Fox Sports Radio. Bill's wait till after the draft,
and then Terry Pagoula says, Okay, we're firing everybody in
our scouting department and our general manager. Um, I guess
I wonder like when the new general manager want to
have his own draft, want to pick his own free agents.
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I like I And there's just well, we don't want
to let him out on the on the market, so
they can tell tell everybody what we're doing. If you
didn't like what you're doing, why do you care what
Doug Whaley is telling people what you're doing. What do
you think about what Buffalo did yesterday? Well, the sequencing
and it's very typical that this happens after the draft.
I mean, if you do it at the end of
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the season, you can't fire the entire scouting staff because
there's just not enough time. Now, you may change a
general manager. He'll come in and live with the existing
scouting staff and then he'll make his changes after the draft. Um,
it's like fire and coach just before the end of
the season. I don't know that it does any good.
And when you fire the coach, you don't fire all
the assistants as well, because you've got to have some
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coaches to finish out the season. So the sequencing doesn't
throw me off too much. Again, it's hard for me
to imagine that where he didn't know this was coming,
that they had already had conversations with him. Look gooyad
and finish out the draft, unless it is he was
a part of picking uh the head coach and then
the head coach and he just aren't getting along an
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ownership hath to the side, wayman, we just hired this coach.
If these two aren't going to get along, then Sean
McDermott needs to have more power. Let him pick the
gm uh and we're gonna make a change. This appears
to be planned C for the Houston Texans, getting DeShawn
Watson in the first round training up to get him
a plan he was probably Romo, Plan B might have
been Garoppolo, and Plan C is Deshaun Watson. They have
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an outstanding defense last yearn without J. J. Watt. You
got Lamar Miller. Um, you got foreman from Texas. You
gotta back up a young backup to to Lamar Miller.
You got a good running game, got some very talented
wide receivers. They got to rebuild their offensive line a
little bit. But what's your assessment of the likelihood of
success for Deshaun Watson and Houston. Well, all the core
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wrecks were taken. I think he has the best chance
for just what you outlined. Um. It reminds me a
little bit of when the Baltimore Ravens back in two
thousand and eight took Joe Flacco. Um. He was not
intended to start, injuries put him in the starting lineup
from week one. He had rookie like numbers, approach, completions,
only through the ball four plus times four or twenty
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some hot times, fourteen touchdowns, twelve interceptions. With that defense,
Deshaun wats to go in, be serviceable, grow as he
as he progresses through the season, maybe makes some place
for you on third down. Uh, there are good enough
team and in that division that that that seems workable
to me. Whether he was the third option or not.
You know, I've always said need is a terrible evaluator.
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And if indeed they struck out on the first two
and said, Okay, what the heck, We'll trade up and
get the twelve pick overall a quarterback, that could be
a little problematic as well. Brian Billick joining us Doug
Galic Show, Fox Sports Radio. Running Back has been a
position that, while important, has been diminished in terms of
its value, especially in the NFL draft with a couple
of options Girly going back to two years ago, Zek
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Gilliatt last year, UM, of the running backs taken in
the first round, Um, who do you think is the
best fit in terms of immediately having an impact with
their team? Well, you know, we I found the running
back position one of the most interesting going into the
draft because I think it was going to tell us
a little bit about where we were at as a
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as a league. Um, in terms of you know, we
we we've gone past the point where we recognize, UM,
you know you're not gonna have two three plus carry guys.
There was only one last year in Ezekiel Elliott. Um,
it's become a position where you can get it by committee. Uh,
you're expecting more out of the backfield, and so a
letter for Net versus Christian McCaffrey, which are very different choices.
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Leonard for Net could be a three hundred plus carrey
guy in illegal as was Zekiel Elliott. Christian McCaffrey is
not going to carry it three hundred times, but they'll
have better than three hundred touches between the carey and
the receptions. Dalvin Cook is kind of somewhere in between.
Of course, Joe Mixon is well documented what his issues were.
Clearly as good or maybe the best overall back in
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the draft. So Cincinnati's certainly got a value in that regard.
But I think it tells us that, yeah, the league
is still heading towards the fact that you're not going
to have that one bell cow runner. If you expect
more out of the backfield. Um, and and uh, you
know that that that it's something that the league for
the most part, people are gonna wait maybe to the
second and third round thinking you can get more value there. Um,
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Tech pad. You know. One of the things they've done
for players safety is that they've limited the practice time,
which to save bodies, but it's made especially offensive lines.
Have you know the coaches that take like, hey, you
know the blocking schemes they have in college and the
ability to block at the professional level just so different. Um.
I know it's boring to talk about, and this was
a bad offensive line draft, but was there a team
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that made a move on their lines that really that
impress you to which we'll see a change early on
in the sea because really last year was a lot
of it was about protecting the quarterback. And look at
the Raiders in their line, look at the Cowboys in
their line, the Patriots fixing their line from the year
before when they were destroyed by by the by the
Denver Broncos in the playoffs. Was there anybody who's made
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some moves that jumps out to you, especially because there's
such a limited practice time to fix those lines. Well,
I think the top picks in the offensive line boils
went to Denver, the big offensive tackle from Utah, the
ram check from Wisconsin Women's last time in Wisconsin offensive
lineman not good. Cam Robinson, who many people thought was
the best offensive lineman in the draft in Alabama went
to Jacksonville, and Forest Lamp from Western Kentucky went to
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the Charger so uh, and you could even throw in
posting from from the center from L s U who
went to Seattle. We all know those are five four teams,
five teams that definitely need helping the offensive line. It's
a tough transition to start in the NFL. The fact
that they got these values in the late first round,
early second Uh, it was unique to this draft because
usually lineman will go higher. But I think these guys
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so much for spending some time with us. We really
appreciate it. All right, that's Brian Billick. Be sure to
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Say and Now Say So? Earlier today on Colin Calhard Show.
He had Andy Reid, head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs,
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on with him, and he asked Andy Reid about trading
up to draft Pat Mahomes and whether or not they
had communicated with Alex Smith, their current quarterback. That's a
relationship I have with Alex. I told him I didn't
know where we were going to take a quarterback, but
I told him nobody surprised if we You know, we
take a quarterback in this draft, and I can't tell
you exactly how high it's gonna be, but don't be shocked.
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But he knows because we've taken one every year. We
know you're not really that good. We keep trying to
prove to people you're not that good, and you keep
proven to us. We can't draft all that well. The
thing about Mahomes is he is the polar opposite of
Alex Smith, right, um not? Remember? Remember Alex Smith was
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really young when he came out. He was only twenty
years old. Out of you, out of Utah. They were
undefeated or Meyer, but he hadn't played in the pro system.
And though he threw the ball, was a lot of
dink and dunks, which is what he's kind of been
accused of doing rightfully. So with the Kansas City Chiefs
Pat Mahomes, that dude's got a cannon. He's uh, he's
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got a hose. But he's also very unrefined in terms
of his pocket discipline. And so he's the heir apparent.
But that time is not near. At time is in
the likely long term future. Um. I just liked the
idea that he communicated with his quarterback. It's the opposite
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the juxtaposition of that with what happened in Chicago where
Mike Glennon was told, Hey, come to draft day ceremonies.
You'll sign some autographs, to take some pictures. You represent
the team. We got the number three pick in the
in the upcoming draft of Chicago Bears team that needs
just about everything. It's like, we need to what do
you guys need? We need just about everything. What's the
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one thing you've gone and spent a bunch of money
on in free agency? Quarterback? So what did they do?
They trade it up again. They need more athletes, they
need more talent. They trade it up, eliminating the possibility
of adding more talent, and they double down on what
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And you're like, wait, what are you talking about. Okay,
to buy a season ticket, you had to pay PSL,
a personal seat license, So you have to pay money
for the right to pay money. Does that make any sense?
It makes no sense to me. Then you have to
not just pay for the eight games, you had to
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pay for ten games, two preseason games. To buy tickets
to a stadium and you have to pay for parking
two games, half of which you don't want to go to.
I have no idea why you people do what you
do like you are You're like, oh, you're just not
a true fan. No, I'm not a true idiot. You're
I'm sorry. I'm smarter than you because I can watch
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every game you can watch, but exception to the fact
that I'm not stuck stuck having to go to do
I go like it's an all day event because then,
you know how it is. Once you overpay for something,
you want to get some value out of it. It's
like when you go to a fancy restaurant and somebody
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leaves something on their plate and you like just feel
compelled to finish that. You're gonna finish that. Why I
paid fifty bucks for that steak? Honey, when are you
not gonna eat that steak? I paid for it? So
the Cincinnati Bengals next year, Like that means you have
to go to the Cleveland game or you're gonna give
away the takes, Like, no, it's for business. I get
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it for business. Oh okay, sure, so then you're just giving.
Why don't you just give your better off giving somebody
two fifty bucks. Then you are giving them tickets to
the Bengals Browns game because they're gonna get annoyed. Not
only do you have to pay for the personal seat license,
that's paying money for the right to pay money to
buy season tickets to priesting games nobody wants for the
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games you don't really want to go to. Then yet
to pay for parking. Then you're in total sausage fest.
Bunch of guys, several of them want to fight. Then
you have to pay ten bucks for a beer, five
bucks for a hot dog, and you can't watch all
the other games, so you can't get up to your
your fantasy. With the exception of a phone, and if
you've ever had a phone in a stadium, you know
they don't work in stadiums. So it's a great suggestion
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to tell people, hey, save money on tickets donated for
uh to anybody who to to prevent violence akinst women.
But because they drafted Joe Mixon, Why because he hit
a woman three years ago, Like he paid his penance.
It's over the piling on a kid who strikes a
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woman when he's already been piled on about like what
are you doing and while it's grow teste to see
a boy hit a girl or a man hit a woman,
it's grotesque. Shouldn't we do the same thing for guys
that get involved in drunk driving? You got some of
the Cincinnati Bengals. You get behind a wheel drunk, you've
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got a chance to kill people with your car. So
among the things I despise about my brethren within the
media telling half the story, like pointing out Hey letter Fett,
Christ McCaffrey didn't play and not pointing out plenty of
guys did play in Bowl games and actually made themselves money.
It's also you shouldn't pay money for tickets and donate money.
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There are plenty of other good causes.
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get you updated from our guys in different locations, try
and figure out what in the hell are the Chicago
Bears doing. We'll get to the Clippers in a second.
I want to leave you with this. I want to
start you with this story where Mike Glennon was invited
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to be part of the draft day celebration with the
Chicago Bears right and I'm not sure if you're aware
by now. But the Chicago Bears, with their first pick,
moved up and drafted a quarterback who will, at some point,
whether in the near or long term future, supplant Mike
Glennan as the quarterback. And he's mad and he has
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every right to be. And uh, it's a really really
bad look. Now. Look, the reality of it is the
reality of it is this. I don't think anybody thought
Mike Glennon was the long term answer. Mike Glennon was
going to have a great opportunity this year to show
that he can be a long term starter. Uh. And
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I Mitch Robinski's probably not ready, so he'll get his year.
He will be some sort of lame duck. But you
know what, if you're good enough, It's like Dak Prescott,
who wasn't supposed to be the guy in Dallas. He
was just Let's hope Dak keeps it together until Tony
Romo returns one year later. Tony Romo's broadcasting games, and
Dak Prescott is your starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.
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So you get that opportunity, you do with it as
you as you will. And I also believe that Ryan
Pason is in his desire to keep it. He's the
general manager to keep it secret from everybody, including his
head coach. Another bad look. This wasn't his decision, right, Like,
that's not he's getting ready for the draft. The pr
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staff is like, hey, well let's get Mike Glenn and
he's our quarterback. He'll be there rah rah rah rah.
But just can you imagine you're there? They like, well
the first with the second pick, there's a trade and
like it's builds the excitement, Like Mitch Robinsky, don't I mean,
what do you say? What do you do? Buffalo Bills. Also,
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they got rid of their general manager of the day
after the NFL Draft. So you're saying what I did
the last three days wasn't good? Is that what you're
saying you didn't like it? Obviously that was a long
time in the works. I will rip into the Buffalo
Bills spelled with four els, not just for these four
consecutive Super Bowl losses, but they're the Bills right the law,
the the franchise with the longest consecutive run of not
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making the playoffs in not so shocking fashion, once again
found a way to show themselves to be a Dystopian Empire.
I just I want to bet with a buddy finding
a way to use dystopian correctly in a sentence, and
I did so in the opening four minutes of the show.
I feel really good about myself. Hopefully you had a
great weekend. Uh Ryan Music, produce of this show, said
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he spent the spent the weekend laying out in the
sun at the beach. You're a layout guy? What are
you that? I just I didn't know there was a
male who was straight who you're probably with your girlfriend
and that's why she's sit with me, read a book
with me. You're like, okay, don't you Actually, it couldn't
be more wrong. You're you're you've always been a layout guy.
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Uh No, I mean I don't really do the layout thing,
more just playing beach volleyball. But let let's the bros
with the bros. With the bros. Ramos is back as well. Ramos,
good weekend, wonderful weekend. Right you're not You're not a
Clipper fan, then, right? I am not. There's no here's
let me just let you in on something. There's no
such thing. Actually it's a Clipper fan. There's no there's
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no real say, like Billy Crystal may say he's a
Billy Crystal grew up in New York, Like he's really
a New York sports fan, and um, look, I'm sure
at the time he came to Los Angeles, Laker prices
were obscene. Everybody like the Lakers. He's like, you know what,
I like the little engine that could. I know, I
moved to Los Angeles and eighty one, I too, was
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kind of the not a Laker fan, Like I respected
the Lakers, but I like the Celtics because everybody liked
the Lakers. But nobody grew up a Clipper fan. It
just didn't like the Clippers. Anything. You think of the Bills. Now,
there was a time when the Bills were great. There
was never a moment to where the Clippers were great.
It just wasn't This is actually the golden era of
Clippers basketball. He's like, no way, Yeah, they won fifty
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games four consecutive years, haven't escaped the second round the playoffs,
and this is the best that it gets. So you
have to have that perspective when you think of yesterday's
Game seven Laws at home and you're like, oh, it
doesn't get any worse. It's such a Clipper thing to
do win games six on the road. Hey, by the way,
you taught very very Utah thing to do lose game
six at home. Go back look historically Jordan push off,
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Brian Russell jump shot bucket, game series six title, retire,
he came back. I don't pay attention. But the point
is this, The immediate viscero reaction is blow it up.
And part of it is that's who we are as Americans, right,
I'll just blow it up, and that's who we are
as guys too. I mean, it's one of the reasons
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that Fourth July is such a great holiday. I mean,
does it mark our independence a s? And how do
we mark our independence by blowing stuff up? And I,
for one, am a big proponent of it. Obviously, I'm
very happy that to this point I have all my digits,
but I totally understand just the sheer power of an M.
A D stuffed into something and blowing it to smithereens.
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Many people have gleefully lost fingers because we as guys,
as Americans, like to blow stuff up. And so because
there's no real ties to the Clippers, there is no
golden era to yearn four because they're just kind of
making it up as they go because they have the
ultimate geek as their as their owner. How about him
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get out of game six? That was uncomfortable? This fast
is often that was uncomfortable. It's like, come on, man,
I know you're a billionaire. I get it. You could
buy me fifty times over. But you got it like that.
You're a meme as long as memes exist. But we
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have this thought in our head that the Clippers lost,
and we're supposed to be surprised. They didn't lose because
they're the Clippers. They lost because they got like three
and a half good players and one of them was heard.
And the Jazz are pretty good. And the thing that
the Clippers don't have is a shooting guard who can
really guard somebody in a small forward And guess what.
The Jazz have two guys shooting cards for you can
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really really score bad matchups. But we freak out about
it and our immediate reactions you blow it up. But
I always look at problems and I think of what's
the alternative? You fired doctors today you can't. There's a
lot of people think he goes back to Orlando where
it ended poorly. That's where he lives there in rebuild mode.
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Doc's got a great way about him. Especially with younger guys,
you can get them into being a playoff team. I
don't know. I have no idea what they've been doing
in Orlando, but none of it has been particularly good.
I have a new general manager, new head coach. Maybe
he'll be president there or whatever. He fired Doctor Revers.
Who do you hire? What is the alternative? There's well,
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Chris Paul can opt out of his contract. He can.
He's he's a free agent, and he can get two
hundred million dollars if he stays. What is the alternative?
Everybody thinks that there's no You have to resign Chris Paul. Okay,
remember now you resigned Chris Paul. It's a five year deal,
two d million dollars. He's thirty two. Now, I don't
know how good your math is mine is you're paying
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him at the back end of that deal when he's
thirty six and thirty seven years old. How many good
six ft six ft one point guards are there that
are thirty six thirty seven years old? Oh wait, oh wait,
oh wait, that's right, There aren't any. Right, Whatever you
think of the running back position and sort of the
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thirty years old and occasionally you'll have a plus thirty
running back being productive, like a Frank Gore was productive.
That's basically the same thing with a thirty five year
old point guard. More likely to get hurt, less likely
be able to guard, and you can't get by anybody.
And so I'm always intrigued with this idea that you
have to resign guys, you have to pay them the
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most possible money, and nobody actually is fiscally responsible enough
to go like, hey, do you actually really want to
win games? This is the thing about athletes. Is we all,
and I consider myself still an athlete, we all say
we really really really want to win. I want to win,
But most of us don't really want to win. We
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don't we're not willing to sacrifice time with our family.
Are you willing to sacrifice money? Are you willing to
sacrifice moving? Are you That's the question that Chris Paul
has to ask himself. And they might be able to
rework it on the fly and trade Blake Griffin and
maybe they get something from Oklahoma City backer return or
maybe they take on Carmelo Anthony. I don't think that
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makes them more likely to win. I think it maybe
makes them interesting and different but still in the same position.
But outside of that, like, what are Chris Paul's options?
And like, oh, anybody would want Chris Paul? They probably would,
He's great. Would anybody want Chris Paul for five years? Now?
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I understand he can only sign that deal with the
with the Clippers? Would anybody want for four years? And
the places he can go are they assured of being
a championship caliber team more so than what he has
with the Clippers? Well, you go to the Lakers? Does
are they a championship team? Have you watched Laker basketball?
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He can't go to the Warriors, they don't want him.
You're not gonna go to the Cavaliers. They already have
their point guard. They're kind of already set. So like,
where are you going to go? Chris Paul doesn't like
doesn't like Doc Rivers. He's tired of DC Rivers playing
too much golf. Like, that's fine, What are your other options?
Where can Chris Paul possibly go? That he wields so
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much power that he can determine who his head coach
is gonna be when he doesn't really have other options.
And so this isn't me saying I'm okay with the
man sticking it to Chris Paul and making him take
less money. I'm just reacting to the world of sports.
This is actually the best era for the Clippers have
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ever had, crazy as it may see, and they're not
that far off. Will they ever win a championship? Probably
not the likely it is they probably won't, But the
best possible scenario is probably to keep as many pieces
as you can. I would I would frankly consider Jett
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singing JJ Reddick and seeing if you get something better there.
And like the real reason they haven't won is they
have an just such an incomplete roster. They never had
a good small forward. And then when you lose your
power forward, now the a sudden you don't have to
help ever off JJ Reddick. He can't get a shot
on his own. He's not great at covering at the
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other end, and it's Chris Paul and hoping they can
throw the ball the rim for DeAndre Jordans. Otherwise it's
just hit or miss. Based upon other guys chucking and
ducking than Paul. Pierce was literally on his last legs.
Luke Luke and Bob Moute wouldn't have started for anybody
else in the playoffs. Austin Rivers was actually decent the
last couple of games, but because he's Austin Rivers coach's son,
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he's never gonna find a way to get out of
the fans doghouse. Outside of that, Mrs Lincoln, how is
the show? But they're actually not that far off. And
if you say, well, you have to give all these
guys all that money to get to stay, like for
Chris Paul, why either you really want to win and
you're willing to sacrifice a little bit of money, or
you're not. You're not. So this is what happens in
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the NBA, instead of focusing on the Spurs and the Rockets,
which I think is going to be the best series
of these this round of series, and frankly, Wizards and
Celtics will be right there and they should be because
they're the most closely aligned in terms of wins or losses.
But instead of paying attention to the winning team, we
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spend a moment to catch our breath and think about
the losing team. The reality of it is, the Clippers
had a better than expected season with Chris Paul and
Blake Griffin missing a substantial time because of injury. They
lost to a really good club that went for it
and Gordon Haywards. Last year they added some veteran players
and they beat him in a game seven at home
after losing to him in a game six at home.
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And this is actually the best the Clippers have ever
consistently been and breaking apart that consistency, it's it's just
our mentality load up. But if you've ever blown stuff
up on Fourth or July afterwards, you like that was
kind of dumb. I could have lost a finger, I
could have fired off one of those rockets into somebody's hair,
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and there's not really that much personal award for doing it,
much like they would be with the with the Clippers.
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Brian Billick, of course, was a mastermind as an offensive
coordinator and won a Super Bowl as a head coach.
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You can see him now on the NFL Network and
of course, uh he's working with x Tech shoulder pads.
Will talk more about that, as he joins us a
couple of days after the NFL Draft has concluded. Coach Billick,
how are you good afternoon? Um, let's let's start with
the number to pick. What was your reaction to what
Chicago decided to do? Well? Obviously a bold move anytime,
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and that's always about the quarterbacks, I guess, But any
time you take a quarterback in the first round, particularly
the first half of the first round, you know, it's
pretty simple. You're saying, this is a franchise quarterback, regardless
of when you plan on starting him, and what that
process is to move up and give up what they
got I had to give up to go up and
get Mitchell Drabinsky. Clearly to me, they think this is
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a franchise quarterback. And um, you know again, why did
they pay Mike Glenn and the money they did to
come in and then go get Trabisky. Did they not
have that sized up? Did they not think they could
get him? Hard to imagine, but there they sit with it,
and it can't imagine that Mitchell Trobinsky is not gonna
be the start a very very quickly. Yeah, it reminds
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me in some levels of what happened with Philadelphia last
year right where they signed Bradford and then they found
themselves able to go and get Carson Wentz. The difference, obviously,
is they were sitting there at three. It wasn't that
big a move. They had to have some sense that
they would have a shot at him, but I guess
coach Bill. The more troubling part is that they didn't
loop in their head coach like John Fox apparently didn't
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know of this scenario until shortly before it happened. And again,
i'm football outsider, your football insider, but when GM isn't
talking to head coach about the most important position on
the field, that doesn't seem to bode well for their relationship.
What's your reaction when you hear that that they made
this move and they weren't looping their head coach into
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the process. Well, indeed that's the case. This is uh?
Did that actually makes sense? Because I don't think this
is a good move for John Fox uh to go
into year three. He just finished the three and thirteen season. Uh,
And you know, you go three years losing in the
National Football League, you're not going to be there long.
And lets the organization collectively says no we're gonna take
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our quarterback of the future. We know what that means
for a coach when you take a rookie quarterback, particularly
when you haven't had a winning season. Don't worry about it.
We're okay, we're gonna stick with you. Of course, that's
exactly what they told Jack del Rio just before he
took Blaine Gabbert and didn't turn out real well the
next year. Uh if I'm uh John Fox, and indeed
it went down that way. I think the handwritings on
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the wall, I would I tend to agree with you.
Brian Billick from the NFL Network joins just Doug Otlip
show Fox Sports Radio. Bill's wait till after the draft,
and then Terry Pagoula says, Okay, we're firing everybody in
our scouting department and our general manager. Um, I guess
I wonder like when the new general manager want to
have his own draft, want to pick his own free agents.
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I like I And there's just well, we don't want
to let him out on the on the market, so
they can tell tell everybody what we're doing. If you
didn't like what you're doing, why do you care what
Doug Whaley is telling people what you're doing. What do
you think about what Buffalo did yesterday? Well, the sequencing
and it's very typical that this happens after the draft.
I mean, if you do it at the end of
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the season, you can't fire the entire scouting staff because
there's just not enough time. Now, you may change a
general manager. He'll come in and live with the existing
scouting staff and then he'll make his changes after the draft. Um,
it's like fire and coach just before the end of
the season. I don't know that it does any good.
And when you fire the coach, you don't fire all
the assistants as well, because you've got to have some
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coaches to finish out the season. So the sequencing doesn't
throw me off too much. Again, it's hard for me
to imagine that where he didn't know this was coming,
that they had already had conversations with him. Look gooyad
and finish out the draft, unless it is he was
a part of picking uh the head coach and then
the head coach and he just aren't getting along an
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ownership hath to the side, wayman, we just hired this coach.
If these two aren't going to get along, then Sean
McDermott needs to have more power. Let him pick the
gm uh and we're gonna make a change. This appears
to be planned C for the Houston Texans, getting DeShawn
Watson in the first round training up to get him
a plan he was probably Romo, Plan B might have
been Garoppolo, and Plan C is Deshaun Watson. They have
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an outstanding defense last yearn without J. J. Watt. You
got Lamar Miller. Um, you got foreman from Texas. You
gotta back up a young backup to to Lamar Miller.
You got a good running game, got some very talented
wide receivers. They got to rebuild their offensive line a
little bit. But what's your assessment of the likelihood of
success for Deshaun Watson and Houston. Well, all the core
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wrecks were taken. I think he has the best chance
for just what you outlined. Um. It reminds me a
little bit of when the Baltimore Ravens back in two
thousand and eight took Joe Flacco. Um. He was not
intended to start, injuries put him in the starting lineup
from week one. He had rookie like numbers, approach, completions,
only through the ball four plus times four or twenty
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some hot times, fourteen touchdowns, twelve interceptions. With that defense,
Deshaun wats to go in, be serviceable, grow as he
as he progresses through the season, maybe makes some place
for you on third down. Uh, there are good enough
team and in that division that that that seems workable
to me. Whether he was the third option or not.
You know, I've always said need is a terrible evaluator.
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And if indeed they struck out on the first two
and said, Okay, what the heck, We'll trade up and
get the twelve pick overall a quarterback, that could be
a little problematic as well. Brian Billick joining us Doug
Galic Show, Fox Sports Radio. Running Back has been a
position that, while important, has been diminished in terms of
its value, especially in the NFL draft with a couple
of options Girly going back to two years ago, Zek
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Gilliatt last year, UM, of the running backs taken in
the first round, Um, who do you think is the
best fit in terms of immediately having an impact with
their team? Well, you know, we I found the running
back position one of the most interesting going into the
draft because I think it was going to tell us
a little bit about where we were at as a
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as a league. Um, in terms of you know, we
we we've gone past the point where we recognize, UM,
you know you're not gonna have two three plus carry guys.
There was only one last year in Ezekiel Elliott. Um,
it's become a position where you can get it by committee. Uh,
you're expecting more out of the backfield, and so a
letter for Net versus Christian McCaffrey, which are very different choices.
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Leonard for Net could be a three hundred plus carrey
guy in illegal as was Zekiel Elliott. Christian McCaffrey is
not going to carry it three hundred times, but they'll
have better than three hundred touches between the carey and
the receptions. Dalvin Cook is kind of somewhere in between.
Of course, Joe Mixon is well documented what his issues were.
Clearly as good or maybe the best overall back in
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the draft. So Cincinnati's certainly got a value in that regard.
But I think it tells us that, yeah, the league
is still heading towards the fact that you're not going
to have that one bell cow runner. If you expect
more out of the backfield. Um, and and uh, you
know that that that it's something that the league for
the most part, people are gonna wait maybe to the
second and third round thinking you can get more value there. Um,
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you're you're working with x Tech shoulder pads, coach. Why
are ex Tech shoulder pads different and better than others? Well,
the league's working very hard to get the head out
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The top three draft choices, top three round draft choices
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Tech pad. You know. One of the things they've done
for players safety is that they've limited the practice time,
which to save bodies, but it's made especially offensive lines.
Have you know the coaches that take like, hey, you
know the blocking schemes they have in college and the
ability to block at the professional level just so different. Um.
I know it's boring to talk about, and this was
a bad offensive line draft, but was there a team
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that made a move on their lines that really that
impress you to which we'll see a change early on
in the sea because really last year was a lot
of it was about protecting the quarterback. And look at
the Raiders in their line, look at the Cowboys in
their line, the Patriots fixing their line from the year
before when they were destroyed by by the by the
Denver Broncos in the playoffs. Was there anybody who's made
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some moves that jumps out to you, especially because there's
such a limited practice time to fix those lines. Well,
I think the top picks in the offensive line boils
went to Denver, the big offensive tackle from Utah, the
ram check from Wisconsin Women's last time in Wisconsin offensive
lineman not good. Cam Robinson, who many people thought was
the best offensive lineman in the draft in Alabama went
to Jacksonville, and Forest Lamp from Western Kentucky went to
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the Charger so uh, and you could even throw in
posting from from the center from L s U who
went to Seattle. We all know those are five four teams,
five teams that definitely need helping the offensive line. It's
a tough transition to start in the NFL. The fact
that they got these values in the late first round,
early second Uh, it was unique to this draft because
usually lineman will go higher. But I think these guys
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so much for spending some time with us. We really
appreciate it. All right, that's Brian Billick. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Doug gott Leaves Show weekdays
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Say and Now Say So? Earlier today on Colin Calhard Show.
He had Andy Reid, head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs,
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on with him, and he asked Andy Reid about trading
up to draft Pat Mahomes and whether or not they
had communicated with Alex Smith, their current quarterback. That's a
relationship I have with Alex. I told him I didn't
know where we were going to take a quarterback, but
I told him nobody surprised if we You know, we
take a quarterback in this draft, and I can't tell
you exactly how high it's gonna be, but don't be shocked.
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But he knows because we've taken one every year. We
know you're not really that good. We keep trying to
prove to people you're not that good, and you keep
proven to us. We can't draft all that well. The
thing about Mahomes is he is the polar opposite of
Alex Smith, right, um not? Remember? Remember Alex Smith was
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really young when he came out. He was only twenty
years old. Out of you, out of Utah. They were
undefeated or Meyer, but he hadn't played in the pro system.
And though he threw the ball, was a lot of
dink and dunks, which is what he's kind of been
accused of doing rightfully. So with the Kansas City Chiefs
Pat Mahomes, that dude's got a cannon. He's uh, he's
(25:34):
got a hose. But he's also very unrefined in terms
of his pocket discipline. And so he's the heir apparent.
But that time is not near. At time is in
the likely long term future. Um. I just liked the
idea that he communicated with his quarterback. It's the opposite
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the juxtaposition of that with what happened in Chicago where
Mike Glennon was told, Hey, come to draft day ceremonies.
You'll sign some autographs, to take some pictures. You represent
the team. We got the number three pick in the
in the upcoming draft of Chicago Bears team that needs
just about everything. It's like, we need to what do
you guys need? We need just about everything. What's the
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one thing you've gone and spent a bunch of money
on in free agency? Quarterback? So what did they do?
They trade it up again. They need more athletes, they
need more talent. They trade it up, eliminating the possibility
of adding more talent, and they double down on what
they already had. Fox Sports radio has the best sports
(26:39):
talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows
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Heart Radio app. So a since a TV station ABC
affiliate w CPO suggest people not pay money for tickets
instead use that money to donate for a cause that
helps prevent violence against women. That's because the since Anati
Bengals have acted Joe Mixon Doug Gotlip show Fox Sports Radio. Um,
(27:06):
there is nothing at all wrong with don't any money
to help women who have to help battered women. That
is a great suggestion that should be made every day
on this ABC affiliate. And by the way, I've often
thought any of you that pay for season tickets are
in fact idiots. To buy season tickets to an NFL game,
(27:33):
you have to be one of the dumbest people on earth,
And you're like, wait, what are you talking about. Okay,
to buy a season ticket, you had to pay PSL,
a personal seat license, So you have to pay money
for the right to pay money. Does that make any sense?
It makes no sense to me. Then you have to
not just pay for the eight games, you had to
(27:54):
pay for ten games, two preseason games. To buy tickets
to a stadium and you have to pay for parking
two games, half of which you don't want to go to.
I have no idea why you people do what you
do like you are You're like, oh, you're just not
a true fan. No, I'm not a true idiot. You're
I'm sorry. I'm smarter than you because I can watch
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every game you can watch, but exception to the fact
that I'm not stuck stuck having to go to do
I go like it's an all day event because then,
you know how it is. Once you overpay for something,
you want to get some value out of it. It's
like when you go to a fancy restaurant and somebody
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leaves something on their plate and you like just feel
compelled to finish that. You're gonna finish that. Why I
paid fifty bucks for that steak? Honey, when are you
not gonna eat that steak? I paid for it? So
the Cincinnati Bengals next year, Like that means you have
to go to the Cleveland game or you're gonna give
away the takes, Like, no, it's for business. I get
(28:59):
it for business. Oh okay, sure, so then you're just giving.
Why don't you just give your better off giving somebody
two fifty bucks. Then you are giving them tickets to
the Bengals Browns game because they're gonna get annoyed. Not
only do you have to pay for the personal seat license,
that's paying money for the right to pay money to
buy season tickets to priesting games nobody wants for the
(29:22):
games you don't really want to go to. Then yet
to pay for parking. Then you're in total sausage fest.
Bunch of guys, several of them want to fight. Then
you have to pay ten bucks for a beer, five
bucks for a hot dog, and you can't watch all
the other games, so you can't get up to your
your fantasy. With the exception of a phone, and if
you've ever had a phone in a stadium, you know
they don't work in stadiums. So it's a great suggestion
(29:47):
to tell people, hey, save money on tickets donated for
uh to anybody who to to prevent violence akinst women.
But because they drafted Joe Mixon, Why because he hit
a woman three years ago, Like he paid his penance.
It's over the piling on a kid who strikes a
(30:10):
woman when he's already been piled on about like what
are you doing and while it's grow teste to see
a boy hit a girl or a man hit a woman,
it's grotesque. Shouldn't we do the same thing for guys
that get involved in drunk driving? You got some of
the Cincinnati Bengals. You get behind a wheel drunk, you've
(30:32):
got a chance to kill people with your car. So
among the things I despise about my brethren within the
media telling half the story, like pointing out Hey letter Fett,
Christ McCaffrey didn't play and not pointing out plenty of
guys did play in Bowl games and actually made themselves money.
It's also you shouldn't pay money for tickets and donate money.
(30:56):
There are plenty of other good causes.
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