LeBron James Is Creating Problems For The NBA

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I just took my first sip and it is brutal. Yeah,
so so we will go ahead and figure out what

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the hell happened there over the weekend. But so, if
you were having success with something at work and you
were doing it really well, would you change your routine?
I mean, if it was working for you and you
were delivering every single time out, there's no point in
changing the routine. There's no point in going against what

(01:26):
got you to the point that you are. Whatever your
job is, you stay with what brought you. If you're
if you're at a company and you're putting up consistently
the top numbers every single day, your boss isn't gonna
pull you aside and said, hey, listen, what you're doing
is really really working, and it's really successful, and in fact,

(01:47):
you're the best that you've ever been. But we're gonna
need you to change things up. It would never happen.
You're successful, you're in a good spot, So why would
you change anything? And I bring that up because Lebron
James looks fantastic. He actually looks better now than he's
ever looked before. I mean, he's in the league fourteen years.

(02:09):
He's playing at a higher level now than ever before.
As the calves another sweep enter onto the Eastern Conference Finals.
Eight no in the playoffs, and he looks awesome. Thirty
four points a game. He's averaging in the playoffs nine boards,
seven assists, shooting over fifty percent from the field, shooting

(02:33):
near fifty from three. And oh, by the way, he's
playing forty two minutes a game. He's resting for six
minutes in a basketball game in the playoffs. That's you know,
Russell Westbrook always got tot man, He's all that Oklooma
City has got. Throughout the year, Russell Westbrook played under
forty minutes a game. And that's fine. During the regular season,

(02:54):
that's fine. Everybody needs arrest at some point. But Lebron
James is playing at a high level and he's playing
a lot, and it's really really working for him. It's
really really successful for the Cleveland Cavaliers. It's really really
done a number on both teams that he's competed against
this playoff, in these this year's playoffs, he's fantastic. So

(03:17):
it's great for him and it's great for everybody around him,
but it's bad for the NBA. It's awful for the NBA.
Think about it. This way. Remember the conversations we were
having during the regular season. What was the biggest issue
we were having during the regular season. Now the stars

(03:37):
are resting. Fans were upset. They've paid all these you know,
all this money for tickets. Stars aren't playing when they
show up. These guys are taking time off. What the
hell's the matter with these guys. Get out there and play.
It's not like you're doing construction or you're digging ditches
or you have a real job. You're an NBA player.
Get out there, suit up and play for a little bit.
But at least be out there every night. You heard
all the old time NBA players, guys that are well respected,

(04:00):
talking about no man, I wanted to play if if,
if you know, we're playing basketball. I grew up. I
want to make sure that I'm on the court. Good
luck telling Lebron James that resting during the regular season
is a bad idea moving forward. Have fun with that conversation.

(04:20):
Hey Lebron, we're gonna need you to play more, but
you know enough with this resting. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
we we think it's better for us. Okay, um, I
rested last season and I'm undefeated through two rounds in
the playoffs, I'm playing more than everybody else, and I'm
playing better than everybody else. So while you try and
monitor and put in stipulations to make sure that I

(04:40):
play a regular season game in Utah, I'm gonna go
ahead and continue to sit those out, and I'm gonna
continue to chase championships and play the best I've ever
played this late in my career. Good luck telling that
guy that his strategy doesn't work. It's it's It was
the biggest topic, the biggest issue that people had with

(05:01):
the NBA this regular season. You can make all the
complaints you want. You can talk about how you know
certain teams weren't good enough, and we all knew it
was a two team race, and that's fine. Have those
conversations all you want. The biggest issue that people had
with NBA players and the way that the league was
handled throughout the regular season was these guys resting and
for various reasons. One of them was because of the

(05:24):
amount of money that these networks paid out to have
their stars play, and Lebron James leading the charge, basically
said effort, double middle fingers. I'll play when I want
to play. I'm chasing championships. I'm not worried about whether
or not you guys get a decent number on a
Saturday night because college football season just ended. It's not
my problem. I'm chasing titles. You're you're doing what you

(05:47):
gotta do, and you need to, you know, to make
some money for this league. That's fine, But I'm here
to chase championships. I'm not really concerned about your ratings.
I mean, it was the biggest topic of concern. It
was the biggest issue that people had with NBA players
throughout the regular season and the guy leading the charge. Okay,
just so we have everybody's on the same page here.

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Biggest issue this past regular season was the rest topic.
The biggest star in the game is Lebron James, and
the biggest believer in that rest strategy was Lebron James.
And it's paying huge dividends right now because Cleveland and
Lebron James look unbeatable. That's set of Golden State, and
you can talk about who they've got and who they've
played in the Eastern Conference so far, Lebron James looks fantastic,

(06:34):
he looks rested, he looks efficient, he looks patient. It's
the best you've ever seen him. So why would you
ever go back on what got you to that point? Nobody,
nobody would ever do that. Think about your best day
at work, best day you've ever had, or best best

(06:54):
week of work you've ever had in your life. You
want to get to that point, and if you did
something specifically that you thought helped you get to that
point throughout the week, that's exactly what you do. So
the idea that the NBA thinks, well, you know, and
Adam Silver is gonna come out after the regular season
and say, yeah, we're definitely gonna address this issue next year.

(07:16):
How are you gonna do it? What are you gonna do? Fine,
Lebron James, what what's the plan of attack here? It's
not good for the NBA because Lebron James is outsmarted
the league and he's figured out how he can maximize
his ability this late in his career. And while it's
good that you've got the best player on his on

(07:37):
a march to another NBA finals and you need that
Markie matchup in the biggest games of the year, at
the end, there's eighty two games throughout the course of
the regular season that Lebron James majority of the time,
doesn't give a rip about, doesn't care, picks and chooses
his spots, picks when he wants to work and how
he wants to work, and then you see it paying

(08:01):
off down in the end. I remember my boss once,
I always had this, uh an old job in sales.
My boss, you know, was having a conversation. There was
a guy in the office that everybody knew was a junkie.
All right, everybody knew the guy was a junkie. He
was a disaster, but he was the number one sales
guy on the team. And my boss, in an honest moment, said, oh, listen,

(08:26):
I know that guy's a junkie. He's so I understand
what that guy does away from the office. Here, guys,
guy's a loser. I've seen him. I've seen him out.
That's fine. What do you mean that's fine. If anybody
else did that, then then you'd have an issue with it. No,
no, no no, it's fine because look at the numbers he's
putting up. If he was struggling at his job, or
if he was struggling at work because of the way

(08:48):
he handled himself throughout the week and on the weekends,
then we'd have a different conversation. But if you're gonna
be the top guy, and you're and you're efficient doing
it the way that you're doing it, he's not gonna
say anything. Now. Whatever. That guy likes to party, he
drinks four nights a week during during the week, and
he goes and tears it up, and he's got a
mini vacation planned every single weekend. Why am I going
to stop that guy if he's already efficient enough when

(09:10):
I need him to be number one guy on the
team every single month, leading the charge, making me a
ton of money. So if you're Lebron James and you
strategized a regular season and you listen to all the
garbage and all the people complaining and people bitching and
moaning about Lebron James and he doesn't care about the fans,

(09:30):
and Lebron James doesn't care about these regular season games,
and what kind of message does that send to the
rest of the league. I'll tell you what kind of
message it sends. My way works and it works better
than yours. So how the hell does Adam Silver and
the NBA plan and regulating that next season? Lebron James

(09:51):
one of one of the more under talked about aspects
of Lebron James game is the way he handles himself
and the way he takes care of himself. I mean,
it's it. You don't talk about it enough. He's a premier,
world class athlete, one of the best athletes of all
time in American sports, not even close a specimen, and

(10:12):
he's figured out the way to conserve his energy throughout
the course of a regular season that he admittedly does
not care as much about as the postseason. And why
should he if he's having this much success and now
we're we're coming up on a guy who's been in
the league thirteen fourteen years and he's better than he's
ever been. His way works, It works better than yours.

(10:34):
Why would he stopped doing it? Because I wouldn't. Jonas
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to be in the room and Adam Silver tries to
have that conversation with Lebron James. I want to hear
Adam Silver try and reason with Lebron James like, hey, man,
you're the face of the league, you're the league's best player.

(12:03):
We really would appreciate it if you played a more
regular season games. Oh you would? Oh cool? Um, yeah,
I'm not doing that. My way works. I'm good if
I sit out some of these regular season games, I'm
a better player down the stretch. I mean, anybody find
it coincidental that the guys playing forty two minutes a

(12:25):
game now all of a sudden. I mean, he's he's
it's it's Lebron's league in a way, so he can
sort of set the tone on how things are done
in the league. And he's done that with the c
b A and other things that have gone on with it.
But if his way is working to the point to
where you look at him and he's a better player now,
then maybe he's ever been throughout his entire career. Why

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would you change it? Why would why would you change
that strategy that you had getting your body prepared for
this point in the playoffs. If you know that what
you're doing right now works, I mean, the way that
you're doing it works, it's effective, You've had success with it.
Why change And I'd love to hear Adam Silver have

(13:08):
that conversation with him, because that that'll be a one
way conversation. It'll be Lebron telling him to look at
his playoff numbers and then saying, all right, So I'm
gonna get back to Uh. You know, I got to
ride around on a boat with a couple of my
buddies in Cancne. So whenever you're done, I've been to
the finals nineteen straight years. I'm good. Karen Butler is

(13:28):
an NBA champion, a two time All Star, and he
joins us now here on Fox Sports Radio. Koran makes
so much for the time. Man, We appreciate it. Good man,
good Um. I wanted to get your thoughts on this.
So the big conversation throughout the course of the regular
season was these guys need to play. Stop resting. Lebron
James is leading the charge. Yet here's Lebron come playoff time.

(13:50):
He's playing forty two minutes a game. He looks fantastic.
Is this just proof that his way and his strategy
worked this season? Uh? I will have the second that
you know you're seeing, Uh, you know, the disposition night
in and night out, and the effort and energy that
he's playing with you know, he's, uh, he's just dominating
the Eastern Conference right now. And you know, as I
touched on earlier, you know, let's become the Lebron James Invitational,

(14:14):
you know in the Eastern Conference where he's just you know,
just playing at a high level and you can put
him out there with any line up on that Cleveland
Cavaliers team and he's just dominating and you know, making
those guys better. You know, one night is Kyle Kover,
one night is Kyrie. You know, sometimes it's not Kyrie
or Love out there, the Big three that's playing in
the fourth quarters, and he's still winning games. So it's

(14:35):
just special to see and it looks like and one
of the things I don't think people talk about enough
is how he takes care of himself to where he
understands his body and what it takes to get ready
for games better than anybody. And he seems like he's
ahead of his of his time in that regard. You
being a guy who played in the league for as
long as you did, what could you have done if
you want to extend your career, how could you have

(14:56):
managed your minutes better throughout the course of your career?
Early on. H mean, you know, preparation is key, you know,
and I think he's done a great job of you know,
preparing and stand ready and you know, being precautious. And
you know, you look at you know so many things
you know from hyperbaric chambers too, you know, the colde
thanks to you know, cry oh. You know, there's different

(15:16):
things that you can use in different formats for you
know rehab and you know pre rehab so you don't
have to worry about those injuries and things like that.
But you know, we did a breakdown and we look
at that draft class, you know, from you know, the
two thousand and three whether it was in Lebron and Carmelo,
Anthony and Dwayne Way and all those guys, and you
look at the injuries that transpired over those years. You know,

(15:39):
he's had zero, He's had no major surgeries or anything
like that. And you know, um, you know, surgeries take
away you know, take away from you know, your your
ability and how durable you possibly are. And he's he's
been nothing short but amazing in that department. He is
a Karan Butler NBA champion, two time All Star. Joining
us here on Fox Sports Radio, Jonas not in Ford, Gottlieb.

(16:01):
Why have these second round matchups been such blowouts? I
mean we've had one game in single digits. What what
do you what do you put that too? Is it
just teams understanding that's a seven game series and we're
down by a bunch, Why expend energy to get back
into this one. I mean it's a combination of a
lot of things. You look at. You know, certain teams
played great at home, and you know, um, a lot

(16:23):
of the guys are in the priminent career and and
some young guys are getting quality minutes. So that mean
when others perform, you know, they usually play extremely well,
you know, in front of the home crowd, and you
know on the road, you know, it takes a different
type of animal and beast to go out there and
winning games on the road, and you have to be
seasoned and poison enough to do that. I have great leadership.
You see that with Cleveland, you see that with Golden State,

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and you know it takes that type of poison leadership.
And you saw that with San Antonio going in and
Houston and the quality win and regaining and regaining home court.
So you know, some teams capable of doing it some teams.
You know, it's a process and you know you have
to go through it, and um, you know, hopefully Washington
do that in Boston, but you definitely see that throughout

(17:05):
the playoff series. Are you more worn out after a
playoff game just because of the emotions involved? Does your
body feel more drained after a playoff game? Well? Absolutely,
because it's an emotional end, you know, physical experience, and
you're going to the extreme, and you know you're leaving
all your efforts and everything out there on the court.
You know, you don't want to have nothing in the
tank after a playoff game where you you know, you

(17:27):
return to the locker room and you know it takes
you an hour or you know an hour and a
half sometime just to get yourself all the way together,
you know, before you're able to address media or want
to address media, or you know, see anybody you want
to address anybody. You know, you left all your efforts
and energies on the court, and you know, let the
chips fall what he may. He is a caron Butler

(17:47):
NBA Champion two time, I'll start joining us here on
Fox Sports Radio, Draymond Green had some comments on Kelly
Olynnok of the Celtics. He called him a dirty player,
said he didn't need to play that way when he
set the pick on Kelly Huber the other night. Um
a little bit of ironic coming from Draymond Green, who
basically plunted guys in the groin all throughout the postseason
last year, and it's had his own issues. Who was

(18:09):
the dirtiest player you ever played against? Uh? You know,
I played against a lot of physical players. You know,
I wouldn't call them dirty. You know, the game was
a little different because it was you know, more hand
checking than things involved, you know, so I you know,
I wouldn't have to say that I played against any
you know, dirty players, But I played against a lot
of physical players that had the physical presence. You know.
My my rookie season, I played against Carl Malone. You know,

(18:32):
that introduced me to a screen you know, you know,
I mean, you know I saw things like that, you know, like,
hey man, this is this is a this this is
what it feels like when you run against a treat
you know what I mean, just treat on move and
it got strong roots. So you know, I learned that
from trial and there, you know, so you know, I
did see some plays that you know, a lot of
moving screens, you know, from that Boston series though, you know,

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specifically from Ollenic where I was like, Wow, that was
you know, mind blowing, you know, with the extent of
the leg and things like that with John Wall and
other guys. So you know, I could see where he's
coming from with that. But at the same time, you know,
I think he was trying to, you know, get hard
picks out there and play physical and add his physicality
to the game. The physicality in the playoffs, And Kevin

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Durant was talking about it after the game to where
he said, this is why people think our league is soft,
because you know, he was going at it with Rudy Gobert.
They pushed each other a little bit and both got
technicals and then Kelly Ubre got suspended for a game.
The physicality I think makes the playoffs more exciting. I
think that adds an element to it. And were you
disappointed in the NBA suspending Kelly Ubre And don't you

(19:38):
think it would have been better for them to let
him play, to just kind of let these guys work
it out on the court, not to where they're throwing punches,
but it adds to a little excitement to the playoffs. Well,
it's amazing because I was courtside when that that happened,
you know, in Washington. I saw the play and I
saw what laid up to that play, and I was like, Okay,
it's getting a little chippy with that group right there.
And then he came and created another file and I

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was just like wow. But you know, that's the that's
the excitement and the competition and the sense of urgency
that you want from both teams, you know, and emotions
and things like that gonna fly around. So they answer
your question. I would have loved to see, you know,
those guys, you know, let that be a big fine
or something, you know, and continue on so you know

(20:20):
that you can continue continue to see the theater you know,
play out, you know, but unfortunately they didn't allow that.
Who's a better matchup for Cleveland, Boston or Washington. I
think I think Washington just because of the backcourt. I
think the backcourt is amazing. I think you look at
Bradley Bill and you look at John Wall you know,
they's extremely dynamic. When they get the going, you know,
they could pose a lot of threats and you look

(20:42):
at a guy like all the Porter, you know, they
got the third option to him. He's extremely consistent. And
then you know the team in general, they just got
a certain edge about theirself where you know, they feel
like they can really compete against you know, um, you
know Cleveland and that's what you want, but Boston posing
other threats as well, you know what I t and
all those guys. I think collectively they're really really good team.

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But I just think the size and things like that,
you know, they don't have that at certain positions, and
you know, um, I think they dominate, you know, Boston
in that field. If Golden State wins the title and
they do it without Steve Kerr, and again we don't
know he had another procedure over the weekend. We don't
know what his status is going to be. Is in
an indictment on curve? Does that? Is that a bad
look for him that his team went out and went

(21:25):
on title without him? Well, you know, I think I
think that you know, they set him. He set that
team in play to be successful, and his DNA and
you know, the fabric of you know, what he instilled
in that team is all It's all over. You know,
his fingerprints and everything, the way he moted that team.
And you know, you put guys like Mike Brown in

(21:46):
position just in case things happen. That's an insurance policy
if something happened to our head coach. You need someone
that's season enough and that's capable enough to demand the
respect of the locker room, that can lead this ball club.
Who else With Mike Brown, he's been in that position.
He coached the you know, the greatest player on the
planet right now and Lebron James and now he got

(22:06):
personalities what you got to manage. But at the same time,
he got the respect of that locker room where he
can lead them to where they need to go. And
you know, you saw that with Steve Kerr when he
took over from Mark Jackson. That team was already assembled
and ready to take off, and you know it just changed.
He got a different face, you know, so the same thing. Now,
you know, Luke Walton had a lot of success with
that ball club. They knew what to do, they knew

(22:27):
their matchups, they knew their roles. And now you know,
Mike Brown is going to have a chance to you know,
lead them somewhere to you know where they all destined
to go. He is that Karen Butler, NBA champion, two
time All Star here on Fox Sports Radio. Karen, thanks
so much for human at your time. Man. We appreciate it.
Problem thanks for Jonas knocks him for du gotlie If
you can get Karen on Twitter. By the way, at
Real Tough Jews, um they believe so. John, if you

(22:50):
were going to take that Twitter handle, too bad, that
one's gone. I am now erasing it from my page. Yeah,
so that that is out the window. John, You're gonna
have to come up with a better idea than that.
Jonas Knock again in for Doug Gottlieb here Fox Sports Radio.
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Jonas Knox up next. There's a storyline in the NFL.

(23:13):
It's a complete disaster. It's a mess. It's something not
a lot of people are talking about. And I just
it occurred to me this morning. What what an out
and out disaster this is for one NFL franchise. I'll
tell you what that is coming up in just sixty
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a story in the NFL. It's a complete mess. I'm
gonna get to that here in just a minute. But

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you can sort of tell that someone is day drinking. Right,
it's a Monday, the weekends over, but somebody is currently
day drinking, all right, they are bending the elbow. There
at least six or seven drinks in now how many shots?
I don't know if it's they've had a dakiri. I
don't know where they live exactly, so I don't know
what the weather is like, if it's if it's warm

(24:16):
enough to enjoy a cocktail in the sun, or if
they just went white Russian in the morning. I'm not
quite sure. It could have been a bloody Mary. You
could have been a screwdriver Mimosa. I'm not quite sure,
but I know that somebody is day drinking. That's somebody
is a guy on Twitter who sends this Lebron is
gonna wish he had home court when he gets knocked
out by the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. Wan

(24:43):
tweet Jesus the Celtics, but like the Wizards went on
like a thirty to nothing run in that game yesterday.
Do you know how bad that's gonna be in the
Eastern Conference Finals. That is going to be a pistol
whipping in the Eastern Conference Finals, no matter who gets there.

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It's okay to acknowledge that it's a wrap, folks. The
Eastern Conference is a rap. He's got no shot. Man.
I wish I was as hammered as that guy. God, hey, man,
when you get the Celtics in a in a seven
game series, good luck beating them four games out of seven.

(25:29):
Another picture, Sir oh Man Jonas knocks in for Doug
Gottlieb here a Fox Sports radio. Um so the uh,
this is all right? I just I saw this and
it was kind of just in passing this morning, all right,
And I wasn't I wasn't really thinking about, you know,

(25:51):
getting into this discussion until I saw this and I said, wait,
who it is? And you just it occurs to you
as you start putting things together, you go, oh, that
makes no sense whatsoever? What are they doing? Like it's
like you hear a commercial in the background. You hear
this song over and over again, and then finally, after
like thirty times, you lift your head up to actually
look at the commercial and you have no idea that

(26:12):
they're talking about a phone, like it's a phone commercial,
but just you hear it in the background and you
you don't really acknowledge it. And that's what I did
with an NFL team earlier. So if you had just
put it this way, if you had a dream of
opening a restaurant, all right, if you're if your goal
in life was I want to open up a restaurant
that you know, you work all your life, you save
your money, you put some cash aside, you get a loan,

(26:35):
you talk to investors, whatever, and you decide, my goal
is I want to open up a restaurant. When would
you decide on the menu, When would you decide which
food you want to serve at your restaurant? Like the
conversation wouldn't go like this what it? Hey, man, So

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what do you want to do? Well? I really want
to open a restaurant. That's been my dream, you know,
my whole life. I want to open up a restaurant. Nice,
what kind of food? Oh? I don't know. I was
just gonna figure it out after it was built. What
It doesn't make any sense, like you should you should
know what's on the menu, like you don't. You don't

(27:18):
just walk into a place and go yeah, you know,
I think i'd like, uh, yeah, this looks good. Yeah,
right there. I want that store there. This is where
I'm going to open up my restaurant. Awesome, you can
have a bar, but I don't know what are you
gonna serve? Yeah? Uh, we'll just build it and figure
it out. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. No, at

(27:39):
no point does it make any sense. And I say
that because the Buffalo Bills have now interviewed three men.
After today, we'll have interviewed three guys for their open
general manager spot. They fired Doug Whiley last week. Uh,

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they've now as of after today, starting tomorrow morning, they
will have interviewed three different men to take over as
general manager of the Buffalo Bills. So just so you
have have this understanding. Correct, the drafts over free agencies done.
The roster is pretty much set, and welcome to Buffalo.

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You have no saying any of it, right, You have
no saying the menu, you have no saying and what's
what's going to be put inside the restaurant? But it
is your restaurant. Congratulations, But I don't you know, I
didn't want that guy too bad. That's what you're inheriting.
So congratulations you're our new general manager. Yeah, but but

(28:43):
if I was general manager, I wouldn't take that guy
like he would. That wouldn't have been my move. You know.
I probably would have just kept that pick and not
traded it away to uh, you know, to Kansas City
to jump up and take Mahomes, I would have you know, Yeah,
but never mind. That's here. Welcome to Buffalo, where you
take over his gener like you Why would anybody want
that gig? I understand there's only thirty two of them,

(29:03):
and it's prestigious, and you can say I was a
general manager in the NFL, But if guys are hired
and fired so fast in the league, why would you
want to take over something that you had no saying?
Why would you want to open a restaurant and the
last thing you figured out was what's on the menu.
You'd never do that. You'd have an idea going in
what you're looking for and what you'd like to get
out of it, and then you'd have some say and

(29:24):
and have some ability in trying to create what it
is that you visualize. For all these years, these guys
have probably wanted to be high ranking officials in the NFL,
executives in the NFL general managers. Their entire career been
working for this moment. Here's the moment, and you get
no saying any of it. It's it makes no sense,

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and it just it shines a light on how bizarre
the firing was. Now you get rid of something like
Indianapolis did the same thing. The Colts got rid of
their entire scouting department, got rid of their whole scouting
department after the draft, and the Colts reasoning behind that
was the scouting season is over, which you know makes sense.
I mean, you wait till you get to the draft,

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you do all the work, you do all of that stuff,
but you know, you just sort of move on. The
Redskins getting rid of mccluan after they had that back
and forth and they said, oh, he was drinking on
the job, and finally he wasn't there and he wasn't
showing up to the combine and all that stuff. At
least the Redskins made that decision well ahead of time
so they could go in and they could have their

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draft set up their roster. Like they made that decision
way ahead of time. The Bills waited until the day
after the draft and then fired this guy. So who
the hell would want to take over that job? Like, like,
nobody wants to inherit a bad property. Nobody wants to
take over a property that they you know, you can
move right in. Man, it's it's moving ready. The house

(30:48):
is yours. Awesome. Yeah, but their sewage all over the floor.
Were you going to clean that up before you left?
Or do I have some say no, no, you just
gotta live in it. Yeah, just pull your pants up
just in fact, I recommend sweatpants and the crunchy stuff
at the bottom, so just slides up over your calf.
That way, it's easier to pull up and you can
just walk around in raw sewage. And that's what it's
like here in Buffalo, Like that's what this guy is

(31:10):
taking over. Has no saying any of it, has no
saying the roster, no saying the coaching staff, no saying
any of the development on this team. Oh and by
the way, you still get the Patriots twice a year.
That's a complete disaster and another indication that that team
has no shot, like literally no shot. Unreal and hopefully

(31:35):
the last time we talked about the Bills on National Radio,
Jonas knocks in for Doug Gottlieb here Fox Sports Radio again.
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is going to tell you why he has a major

(31:57):
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you next. Jonas Knox in for Doug Gottlievi here Fox
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(32:19):
it's a bit graphic. Uh, the segment is a bit graphic,
it's a bit a bit revealing. But since Doug is
not here, I'm feeling it for Doug and he was
filling in for column. They had to change the name
of this next segment, and uh, well it's called this
Let's reach into. Jonas is sackets right, You guys are

(32:42):
sick in the head, man. I didn't, I know John
probably thought of that idea. That was probably John Romins's idea. Pervert.
All right, so Ryan Music, executive producer, superstar. What do
we got? What do we got in my you know what,
It's great to be here with you, Jonas. Let me
hold on, let me reach her out. Let's see what
we got a little bit more of the left stand up? Okay,

(33:03):
all right, I think we're gonna go with this big deal,
little deal, no deal. All right, Jonas, here we go,
big deal, little deal, no deal. We start in the
NBA with your favorite team. In fact, the Celtics lose
to the Washington Wizards in Game four last night. Series
now is tied to a piece. Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas

(33:23):
was a little upset. Here's what he had to say
after the loss. He got to be called differently. I'm
not not saying that's the reason why we lost. They
went over Ryan and we can't have that on the road.
But I can't allow to be hailed and grabbed every
pin down every screen and I don't even shoot one
free throw. I'll play the same way each and every night.

(33:46):
So I think I mean that has to change. So
big deal, little deal or no deal that Isaiah Thomas
calling out the refs last night, Um, little deal, I'll say.
I'll say a little deal is he's trying to get
calls for the next game. It would be funny if
the NBA responded and said, you know what, Isaiah, you're right.
We went back and looked, and we do owe you

(34:08):
some free throws. So we're gonna spot you guys ten points.
You still lost by nine. Oh he's so he's still
lost by nine even though we spotted you ten points. Man,
what a bummer. You know who did win that game? Though?
A little friend of ours live bet Jesus Little Seas
plus nineteen and a half and yeah got it on
the action because he had to because he lost every

(34:30):
other bet. You gotta gotta hedge those bets, Jonas, anyway
you can. I will keep it in the n b A,
but we'll move to the Western Conference. It was announced
today by the Houston Rockets that their backup center to
A will miss the remainder of the playoffs due to
a torn left adductor. Now, he did actually improve in

(34:51):
the playoffs over the regular season, averaging ten points over
four and a half rebounds in almost eighteen minutes a game.
Big deal, little deal or no deal. Houston Rockets backup
center and then will be out for the remainder of
the playoffs. Well, it's a big deal because that's probably
the end of his career because he he was considering retiring,
like he was done and and and ready to walk away,

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and then he came back for Houston and he was
finally going to make a run in the playoffs and yeah,
we all know how this probably would have gone up
against Golden State. So it's a big deal for him
because his career is probably over. Um, I'd rather have
now the injury as is a torn abductor? Is that
what it's called? Abductor? Okay, well, I'd rather have that
than the coffee here at Fox Sports Range. I can
tell you that do you have a torn trachea from

(35:34):
that coffee. No, but it's I'll get fired for saying that.
I wait until the break. All right, let's get a
little golf here. I know we don't have any Dan Buyer,
but we'll go a little bit of golf. Big deal,
little deal, no deal, Jonas, I know you're a big fan.

(35:55):
John Daily won his first pj A event since two
thousand four at the age of fifty one. Big deal,
little dealer, No deal that John Daly and his American
flag pants is still out there winning tournaments at the
age of one. That's a big deal because it just
goes to show that nothing can stop you from being successful,

(36:18):
not even like a huge alcohol problem to the point
to where you're having a nervous breakdown on the course.
Several years ago. I forgot about that one. I forgot
about that one where they were It was like they
did a thirty for thirty or some documentary on Daily.
I didn't know that his booze was so bad that

(36:39):
he was having a nervous breakdown on the course at
an event years and years ago, like shaking drinking a
diet coke because he was either hungover or he just
can couldn't get ahold of his addiction, which is what
made yesterday's so so brilliantly done by a lot of
his other players on the on the tour that were
competing against him as they showered him in champagne. That's
a that's a thing to do with a guy who's

(37:01):
had uh issues with drinking. Poor booze on him. Well, Jonas,
We'll go to the NFL here. A report from Monday
Morning Quarterbacks Peter King says that some forty Niners staffers
believe that former forty Niners quarterback Colin Kaepernick may prefer
act as activism over football. So is it a big deal,

(37:25):
little deal, or no deal that some former forty Niners
employees think that Colin Kaepernick would rather be an activist
than pursue a career in the NFL. It's a big deal.
It's a big deal for everybody that reach uh and
and started talking about how well, you know, if Kaepernick
were if he didn't make those those political comments, he'd

(37:47):
have a job, you know if he didn't. So that's
a big deal for them because it's gonna put a
hole in their theory that maybe Kaepernick just doesn't want
to play as much and maybe he said, Look, it's
like Cutler. If if you were a Cutler, why would
you want to You are used to making a certain
amount and you were playing on a bad team, So
why would you want to take less and still play
on a bad team? Like why would Kaepernick He played

(38:08):
on one of the worst teams in the league last year.
Why would he take a significant pay cut and go
play on another bad team? Because anybody to be interested
in him is a bad football team. Yeah. I just
find it interesting that no one considers the idea that
maybe Colin Kaepernick isn't as interested in joining the NFL.
And it's always like, oh, it's just teams aren't letting

(38:29):
him play, And it's like not the fact that maybe
he's moved on from football. It's just a very one
sided story. People have options here, like like majority of
us don't have options. But if you've got money and
you've made money and you've had success with it, you
ever noticed like it's always it's your friends that are
the most financially set, that are the ones that are like,
now I think I'm gonna try something out for a
little while. Well, yeah, you can do that because you

(38:51):
have a ton of money. It's like your you're your
friends who grow up and their parents are wealthy, they're
always able to be a little more flexible things because
they always have that backing. So these guys are like that.
They save their money, they can do what they want.
Good for him, That was Jonass was, We've got more
rumored trades in sports. That's next. You know, sometimes you'll

(39:14):
make moves and you'll make you'll you'll have a strategy
in place, you'll have an idea of what you want
to accomplish and how you're gonna get there, and then, uh,
sometimes it works and then some other times it blows
up in your face. That happened to somebody in sports.
What a major, major disaster for an organization who may
never be the same again. We'll have that for you
here coming up in just a minute here on Fox

(39:35):
Sports Radio. It is Jonas Knox in for Doug Gottlieb
here Fox Sports Radio, also on the I Heart Radio app,
and you can listen to the show on Sirius XM
channel eighty three as well. And we've been talking about
the NBA playoffs. The Cleveland Cavaliers are onto the conference finals.
Really really struggled. They really struggled trying to get past

(39:58):
um the first two rounds of the playoffs. Really, Man, Indiana,
f Who've got If they would have just hit that
one shot in Game one, Man, that would have been
a completely different series. They could have just hit that
if Paul George would have gotten that shot in Game
one against the Calves. Man, Lebron and I'm sure are
in trouble, and the Calves will have probably about another

(40:19):
week or week and a half off until Washington in
Boston figures out who wants to take turns blown out
the other team and who wants to go on to
nothing run, and then they'll be the sacrificial lambs in
the Eastern Conference Finals as Lebron and the Calves are
on their way to another NBA Finals. It's a rap.
Don't let anybody tell you any different. And so if
we acknowledge that, and we understand that Lebron James and

(40:43):
the Cleveland Cavaliers are the best team in the conference,
we also understand that Golden State in the Western Conference
is better than anybody else out west. So as Golden
State puts on the finishing touches of the Utah Jazz
and they move on to the Western Conference Finals, awaiting
a Houston team that has now ended up with an
an a out, a San Antonio team which is banged

(41:03):
up without Tony Parker. We're all just sort of going
to meet in the same spot again. It's like the
NBA playoffs are that we're witnessing a rerun. You know,
you need the stuff in the middle to be good enough.
We're talking about this last week. You need the stuff
in the middle to be good enough to want to
sit through the movie again, Shawshank Redemption. The ending is great.
You know, he gets out of prison, he meets up

(41:24):
with Red later on down the road. They hug on
the beach, and what what a triumphant return for Andy
and Red do Frayin and Red just hugging on the beach.
But it's the stuff during the movie that's so good
that keeps you wanting to come back for more. We
all know how it ends, But anything that you watch
over and over again, if you know how the ending goes,
it's got to be good enough in the middle. You

(41:44):
want to be enticed to stick around for it. That's
all you're hoping for. Between Boston and Washington and Houston
and San Antonio, We're gonna see the same ending no
matter what. Let's just keep it enticing in the middle.
And so if we all acknowledge that, and we can
see clearly there are two teams in the NBA that
are far better than anybody else. It goes back to

(42:04):
certain strategies. You know what, what's your strategies? You know?
How are you going to close the gap? As they say?
You remember when at the trade deadline, all we heard
was gotta give Toronto a lot of credit. They're going
for it. Man, those Raptors, they're going for it. Good

(42:30):
for them, Good for the Toronto Raptors. Hm. Okay, So
Toronto traded Terence Ross, Jared Solinger, a first round pick,
and two second round picks, and they got back Serge Ibaka,

(42:52):
p J Tucker and four wins in the playoffs. That's
how that trade worked out at the end. That's the
hall that Toronto took back. And boy was it worth it.
Oh and by the way, Ibaka and Tucker are both
free agents this offseason. So if you're Toronto, you may

(43:14):
have technically lost seven players for four playoff wins. You
did nothing is like you talk about a move, a
strategic move that completely blew up in somebody's face. You
had no shot, and you knew you had no shot.
The players on that team knew they had no shot.

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Kyle Lowry has already opted out. He's gonna be testing
the free agent market. Who knows if he stays in Toronto,
who knows if he wants to to to go to
l A. You're not sure how this whole thing is
gonna work out or figure itself out. Here was DeMar
Derozen after the game on Sunday talking about playing the Calves.
We had Lebron on our team till we would have
went on. You know we we could say that, we

(43:56):
could say that all daytime everything, but you know we
and you know what happened. You know, we got swept,
and you know it's gonna be a one of them summers.
Think about that. That guy just got swept in the playoffs.
His organization went out and mortgaged part of the future.
To try and quote when now and his response after

(44:20):
the season has been over for about an hour, is
if we would have had Lebron James, we would have
won two. Not a give credit to our organization. You
know they took some risks and we really thought we
could do it, basically acknowledging yeah, we the Toronto Raptors
wasted our time. At the deadline, everybody out there started

(44:40):
handing out draft grades. I look back at a couple
of them. I think Sports Illustrated gave the Raptors a B.
They gave the Raptors a B for their willingness to
go out and trade for big pieces, crucial elements to
a basketball team seeking an NBA title. Serge Ibaka and
p J. Tucker. That was the missing piece. That's exactly

(45:03):
what that team needed because they were going to compete
with Cleveland this year. You literally have lost seven players
and it got you four playoff wins. It's it's like
the Oakland A's the A so billy bean and always
had this, Well, you know, he's gonna do it his way.

(45:24):
He's gonna he's gonna find guys. You know, it's moneyball,
and he's gonna get these guys that nobody else wants.
They can just get on base, and you know it's
it's a numbers game and we're gonna we're not gonna
go out and we're not gonna chase World Series. They're
gonna come to us, and we're gonna do it on
the cheap. So Billy Bean goes out and he makes
all these you know, all these moves and just these

(45:45):
stealth moves and revitalize his careers, and he's got a
good pitching staff. And then all of a sudden, a
couple of years ago, Billy Bean said, you know what,
I'm gonna go against everything that I've stood for as
a guy who runs an organization. I'm gonna go out
and I'm gonna trade for guys. He went out and
he got John Lester. Man Lester is going to be

(46:05):
a key member of this team. He went out and
he got Jeff Somarja. He went out and he got
Jason Hamill. I mean they went for it. He got
pitching depth, he got frontline starters. He got guys that
have been in the World Series. John Lester had won
a couple of World Series, he was tested in the playoffs.
And not only did Billy Bean do all that, but

(46:28):
he even traded away the top prospect in his organization.
Addison Russell was the number one prospect in their organization.
And Billy Bean said, no, I'm going for it now.
I think there's an opening, We're gonna go chase this thing.
Now got to the Wild Card, we're holding onto a
lead against Kansas City and completely fell apart. And what

(46:49):
happened that offseason, Not only did you lose your best
prospect in your organization, John Lester, Jason Hamill, and Somarja
all went back to Chicago. Lester signed with the Cubs,
Jason Hamill returned to the Cubs, and some margin went
to the White Sox. Oh and by the way, Addison Russell,
he would go on to win a World Series a
couple of years later with the Cubs. That was Billy

(47:12):
Bean going outside of the box and saying, you know what,
this is the year we're gonna go chase it. It's
exactly what Toronto did and guess what completely blew up
in their face. Absolutely outclassed, absolutely humiliated. But I do
want to give a round of applause to the Toronto Raptors.
Can we get a round of applause to our studio audience,

(47:32):
a round of applause Toronto move made by the Toronto
Raptors as the Raptors. Yeah, the Toronto Raptors only lost
by seven yesterday. Yeah, standing, that's what I see, and
I knew that if they would have gone out and
traded away all those players in those draft picks and

(47:54):
they brought back Serge Ibaka and p J. Tucker. That's why,
because they were sick of losing by double dig you.
It's so in a closeout game, they only lost by seven.
So congratulations again to the Toronto Raptors. An outstanding job
done at the trade deadline. You gotta be kidding me, man,
what a waste of time, What an absolute waste of

(48:14):
time the trade deadline was for the Toronto Raptors. It's
like people were talking, uh and Ember. We were doing
the show Dan Byron myself. By the way, Dan Buyer
got married over the weekend, um and then he had
no showed on a Monday. So he is spitting your
face as a listener. Apparently his wedding and his wedding
weekend is more important than you, the listener. I just

(48:34):
want you to understand, he is spit in your face.
But we were talking about it when Boston didn't make
a move with the deadline, and everybody was criticizing Boston saying,
what are you doing? You got you got all these
move all these assets out there Why aren't you making
some trades? Why don't you go out and try and
trade for somebody? First of all, who says they didn't.

(48:54):
Who says that that some of the responses they got
back were astronomical. The trade request that they back from
teams were astronomical, from the Chicago Bulls or the Indiana
Pacers who didn't want to trade their best player in
conference to the Celtics without who knows they were asking
for just unreasonable trade demands and requests. Who was to
say that wasn't the case. Secondly, look at this Cleveland

(49:18):
Cavalier team. Now, is there anybody Boston could have gotten
without sacrificing their depth and future traff picks that would
lead you to believe they could compete with Cleveland in
the Eastern Conference Finals. Not a chance. So Danny Ainge
sat tight as an organization. They made no moves at
the deadline, and you know what part of that was

(49:39):
them conceding Cleveland. Still the best no move we can
make out there is going to close the gap between
us and the Cavaliers. So why are we wasting our time?
And everybody wants to criticize them, That's just despicable. You've
got it. You've got an opportunity to compete for an
NBA championship, and you're holding onto it for draft picks.

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At least Toronto had the guts to go out and
trade away draft picks in their future to try and
win now, and it got them four wins, and they
were annihilated by Cleveland, absolutely annihilated one of the best
players on your team, saying, yeah, well would have Lebron James,

(50:24):
I mean, and we would have won too. Three four, Hey,
Mike Francesa, one more time, how many playoff wins did
all the trade deadline activity get the Toronto Raptors this season? One, two, three, four?
Well worth it? Losing seven players for four wins. Outstanding job.

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And then with gross spec the owner of the Boston
Celtics before the playoffs started, said we're not as good
of a team as the Cleveland Cavaliers. How could how
could you have that loser mentality? You mean, how could
you have that honest mentality? What would you rather have? Well,
at least we tried. At least at least we went
for it. And guess what going for got you? Minus

(51:11):
seven players, four wins, and your best player has just
opted out of his contract and he's going to test
the free agency market. Like this whole idea that anybody
thought this was gonna go any other way? You were crazy?
How did we get into this? I'm just trying to
fill time, Gene, Okay, what do you want me to do?
I'm filling in for Doug. Do you think they're gonna

(51:35):
play any of this back on TSN in Canada? Will
we get any love from ts N? Jonas Knox in
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(51:57):
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(52:40):
channel AD three as well. Um, we were talking a
little bit earlier. Now we're gonna get to a draft decision,
an NFL draft decision that doesn't get enough It doesn't
get enough attention for how poor this decision was. We'll
get to that here coming up in just a minute.
But we were talking about how some people out there,

(53:00):
we can tell just by the number of tweets that
come in whether or not and the quality of the
tweets whether or not you have been day drinking. All right,
we have that ability here. It's almost like a breathalyzer
on Twitter. So we're able to see how much you
have drank based on the tweets that you send in. Now,
I don't want to out anybody because who knows, maybe
your boss is listening, and I don't want to give

(53:22):
your Twitter handle out, And all of a sudden, now
your boss knows that you're out boozing. When you said
you weren't feeling well, you know, when reality is you
couldn't come to work because you're at a cantina and
you don't know where your car is and you're on
a four day bender. So I don't want to out
anybody in that regard. I I really I don't want
to out anybody in that regard. But I will say

(53:43):
this because the following tweet was sent in the Celtics
will overcome the Washington Wizards and eliminate the Calves in
the Eastern Conference Finals hashtag Celtics Pride. All I know

(54:04):
is this. That's a man who is walking around his
apartment and has an ivy of Jack Daniels strapped to him.
Because what the hell have you been watching that you
think Boston has any shot whatsoever against Cleveland, Like there
is no chance it's over. It's okay to acknowledge that

(54:26):
you know how the movie is going to end before
it ends. It's okay because it is My name is
not even Johnny. But do you think party it up?
Man and take the day off, get after it a
little bit, bend the elbow, be responsible, get uber or
left to take you home. Don't get behind the wheel
of the car. Just play it safe. And um, next

(54:49):
time you actually do watch the NBA, open your eyes.
Just do it with your eyes open, because that way
you can clearly see that nobody is going to compete
with Cleveland in the East. Nobody has a shot book.
It mark it down. And the best part is, if
I'm wrong, it's not my show anyway, so I won't
be back. So I don't have to be held accountable
for what happens. I could just make bold predictions and

(55:11):
be reckless, and that's just gonna be that. It's like
when John the other day, uh, you know, last week
we were talking on the show and John Ramos said
that Mervin's has closed all their stores. And then and
then we realized, you know, if somebody works in the
Mervyn's and is listening to this, we'd like to let
you know that we're not positive on that. So you
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the Dallas Cowboys get a lot of credit for their
draft class last year. They get a lot of credit,
and um, a lot of it was luck, Let's be honest,

(56:39):
A lot of it would They were fortunate to be
in the place that they were to get have some
of the picks fall the way that they fell. If
Carson Wentz is sitting there at four, Dallas takes him
over Ezekiel Elliott. That's a fact that's been acknowledged. Dallas
really wanted Carson Wentz, but instead they pick a Zekiel Elliott.
He has a good season, a fantastic season, an outstanding layer,

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but he was running behind an outstanding offensive line. So
you can make the case, if you wanted to, that
you could have taken a running back later on and
had the same results, or at least close to the
same results. Then they get credit for Dak Prescott. Never
Mind the fact that they passed on Carson Wentz, never
Mind the fact that they tried to move up to
get Paxton Lynch, never mind the fact that they tried

(57:21):
to move up to take Connor Cook. Dak Prescott was
sitting there. He was their fourth option of the draft,
a quarterback, and they selected him. Oh and by the way,
he was third on their depth chart. He doesn't play
unless Romo gets hurt and unless Kellen Moore gets hurt.
So that's very fortunate they fell into those moves, But
give him credit, same draft class. That's how the story

(57:42):
is gonna be written. That's how the story is gonna
be told forever and ever. In that same draft class,
the Dallas Cowboys made a selection which is one of
the worst moves in recent NFL history. Dallas in the
second round took Jalen Smith right a high pick in
the second round of the draft. They took Jalen Smith.

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That Jalen Smith was out of Notre Dame. He Mike Mayock,
who's the draft guru at NFL Network, said Jalen Smith
was his top rated player in the NFL draft. And
you would think getting a the top rated player in
the NFL Draft in the second round, that's a steel.
Here's the problem. His leg almost fell off in a
bowl game Fiesta Bowl. Gets his knee completely destroyed, terrible break,

(58:32):
an awful injury, and it's was reported he may never
play football again. Who knows how this is going to
turn out, and so they took him high in the
second round. Now, Jason Garrett was updating people on Sunday
night and talking with members of the media Sunday night,
and he said that for the upcoming minicamp, because Jalen

(58:52):
Smith didn't play a snap last year, he was out
the entire year. As he's trying to recover from this
knee injury that Jalen Smith is going to go through
meetings and walk throughs only, so they're going to dial
it back on his recovery and they're not going to
let him participate all the way through. Here's how bad
that injury was. He just recently because of the damage

(59:16):
to the nerve, he just recently is able to lift
his foot up again. And you took that guy in
the second round, like what, he's got one leg and

(59:36):
that was a second round draft pick, and everybody was like, man,
that's and this is no knock on Jalen Smith, not
knocking the guy at all. It's terrible what happened to him.
He was a fantastic football player. If he's available at
the top of the draft, that draft is completely different.
That changes the course of that draft because if I'm
Cleveland or I'm Tennessee, not a shot I'm trading out

(59:59):
of that spot. If can land Jalen Smith, because he
immediately makes a difference on both those teams, then you
had the trade between the Rams. Then you had you know,
the trade where the Eagles moved up in the draft
as well too. If Jalen Smith is there at the
top of the draft, and healthy changes the course of
that draft, and who knows how it changes the courts
of of guys like Jared Goff and Carson Wentz his career.

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Ezekiel Elliott, he's probably not in Dallas. So it changed
the course of the draft at the top last season.
But the idea that you took a guy early in
the second round who not only didn't suit up and
play a down for you last season, you took a
guy high in the second round who just recently was

(01:00:43):
able to lift his foot up again. And everybody's talking
about what a great draft classes is. It's one of
the more the luckiest draft class because if it doesn't
go the way that it went with Dak Prescott and
with Ezekiel Elliott last year, you know what one of
the first conversation would have been had it was Yeah,
And then there you are, picking high in the second

(01:01:03):
round and you took a guy that that's not even
gonna suit up for you. It's terrible. I feel bad
for Jalen Smith. He's never going to be the player
he was. Who knows if he ever plays again, But
that is insane to me that you would spend a
high high draft pick in the second round on a
guy who's got one leg. Jonas knocks in for Doug
Gottlie here Fox Sports Radio. You can always listen to

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the show on the I Heart Radio app as well
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a former pro bowler, one of the more talked about
athletes over the last several days, is going to tell
you how he came to the biggest decision of his life.
We'll have that for you in sixty seconds. First, though,

(01:01:47):
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So Doug does a little something on this show to

(01:02:07):
highlight some of the great shows we have here at
Fox Sports Radio, and it's something that we call and
now What. Doug was filling in for Colin Cowherd earlier
today and had a chance to catch up with the
newest member of the NFL on Fox Family, Jay Cutler.
Here was Doug's conversation from earlier today, heard on many

(01:02:28):
of these Fox Sports radio affiliates with Jay Cutler. Jay Cutler,
Fox NFL Analyst joining us. All right, let's get to
the stuff everybody wants to talk about when that was posted?
Did you know it was going to be posted? When
the photo of the instagram of you nude looking out
of the water, she christ and asked me, so, I
mean we were on were in Salum actually um the beach.
We were honest in this private beach and it was

(01:02:49):
kind of I mean, it was nude friendly thing. I
was just walking out of the balcony and she she
just snapped that picture because the bed was right there.
Then she did ask me later if she had posted,
and I was at that point I didn't really care.
Jay Cutler join us, Box, NFL Analyst. Look, you've been
through a lot with Chicago Bears, right um, and through

(01:03:12):
the the good, through the bad, Several different coaches, a
bunch of different offensive coordinators, a bunch of different teammates.
When they you found out that they were going to
release you, how did you feel you know? Was next emotion? I,
like you said, I I had a good feeling that, um,
it was coming, you know, in my extra interviews with
Ryan Pace. I mean, he's a positive guy and I

(01:03:32):
wished them all the best. But you know, I could
just I had I mean I had a gut feeling
that they were going to go a different production. You know.
I think that both sides kind of just felt it
was it was time, um, you know, for the good
or bad or whatever whatever it is him. I think
everyone just felt that it was time to go in
a different prounction. Um for everybody. There was talk that
you guys had called Houston and they didn't return your call.

(01:03:55):
How how accurate is that report? That's not my agent.
Bus had a few different conversations with them, and they
were they were very honest and open about, um, you
know what they were doing, and you know where they
felt felt on me, and you know it just wasn't
really in their plans obviously. So, um, you know them
not calling us him back. Isn't that that never happened?

(01:04:17):
Had you decided to retire before you did the Fox
Uh interview in audition, I was definitely leaning that way.
I Mean I was pretty set that if it went
well with Fox that uh you know, ultimately this was
that that would would be the route that I would go.
Here's the weirdest thing though, uh, Jay Cutler joining us
Fox NFL analyst. I've done college basketball for uh fifteen

(01:04:41):
years of my sixteenth year, and I can I can
tell you beyond a reasonable doubt. Like the hardest thing
about doing it is you have no idea if you
did a good job, right like you have, you have
zero ideas. So how did you prep first for um,
for the audition? That's a great question. You know, I've
watched sports my whole life. To me like here, uh,
analysts and the play by play guys, and you know,

(01:05:04):
you know that that's part of the game. But I've
never like sat down and thought about, like, all right,
what if I was actually doing that job, Like what
all is that entail? Like what goes into that? What
do you say? And so I had to go back
and like watch games and be like, all right, what's
the what's the analysts sam? When does he talk? When
does he not talk? And kind of just see that
what that what that dance is like between the play

(01:05:26):
by play and the analysts, and um, I mean it
was interesting. And you you know, I've watched enough football
and I've been around footall enough to you know, they
kind of filling the gaps and you know, add some
some different perspectives and stuff to it. But um, I
think there's definitely an kind of an art form to
uh to doing that job, which which was completely foreign
to Bank. At some point though that you you got

(01:05:47):
the offer. You know, you felt like you wanted to
do it, you felt like you were close from time,
but at some point you have to make the actual decision.
What was the when did you say we're doing it?
You know, the offer came in, Um, you know, and
we're to all the details and you know, it's just
waiting on me to kind of green light it and
move forward. And Krystal was here, the boys were here.
I talked to bus Um that morning and I was like, now,

(01:06:10):
if we can get worked out, I'm probably gonna go
this route. But then actually, you know, and I had
to take you know, thirty minutes to an hour um,
and I talked to Christen about it and I was like, yo,
if I make this call like it's it's over, you know,
it's done and done. And um, you know, after I
made the call and uh, you know, told him I
let's do this. There was it was. It was different

(01:06:30):
because now you know that you know that football is
it's over and you're not gonna play again. I mean
there's no I mean, I'm not going back. It's done
and over with. And you know that that portion of
your life that you spent so much time, um investing
in and and and being a part of it is
now done and over And you know, I don't think
it's set in yet. I mean, once August hits and

(01:06:52):
you know, the training camp and you know I'm at home,
and I think that's when it's definitely gonna, um, you know,
come to life a little bit more in my mind.
So um, like you know, Andrew Luck goes down, Um don't.
I don't know, Aaron Rodgers goes down. Like you kind
of go around, you go, you grow around the league,
and you a playoff team loses their quarterback and they're like,

(01:07:14):
all right, who can do this, who's a pro who
can do it and knows the league? Who can come
in and spin it for us? And and they call
it Green Bay Packers call you like Brett Huntley. They've
talked about moving on. I know they get drafted rookie,
but and they say, Jay, we want you to come
in and fill in. Uh, what's the likelihood that you
would come back if the right team called? Um? You know,
everyone loves hypothetic clothes, and I think the new world

(01:07:36):
that I'm getting into, um. You know, I've always tried
to stay away from as much as possible and playing
you know, in the in the media world, though, that's uh,
you know, that's kind of what you have to do it. Uh,
you know, honestly, Green Bay Packers called um. I mean,
I'm probably not gonna do it. I don't think they
would ever call me um, but I probably have to
pass on that. What about the Bears, I've heard you

(01:07:58):
say that, Look, they shouldn't play true ski. They just
no matter how far downhill it goes, you should let
him sit, You should let him learn. You got Mike Glennan,
You'll be You'll be, You'll be fine. Um. Can can
they create their type of environment where he can ultimately succeed? Yeah?
I mean I think they can. I mean I think
that they've got the people there that know know what

(01:08:20):
it takes to have a good quarterback. I mean, you
lived across the league, and you know they have a
good quarterback play. You've gotta have some good players around
the quarterback. I mean, that's just kind of how it goes.
I mean, there's no one out there, uh, you know,
winning games and and them for huge numbers unless they
got some dudes around them. Maybe the one exception of
that role is in because he makes so many plays

(01:08:41):
outside the pocket and on the run and um improvised
us a lot. But other than that, I mean, there's
guys have really good players around them. I think the
Bears know that. UM And I mean you look at
the roster now, and I'm sure there's gonna be some
guys that that flash and are a little bit unexpected. UM.
And and maybe maybe the kid comes in and he's
unbelievable and lights of training camp and he's he's a

(01:09:04):
lot more reader ready than anybody thinks. And that's definitely
a possibility. You mentioned that you gotta have guys around you.
Who's the guy if you're no longer in the NFL,
who's the guy who you had the most respect for.
Yet those of us in the media, we can't see
it because we're so caught up in wins. And losses
and we don't realize he just doesn't have a good
enough team around it. Um. I think Matt Stafford is
starting to get a lot more a lot more pubs,

(01:09:27):
and you know, people are starting to see how how
talented he is. I mean, he's got a lot better
um as he's gone to a league like anybody else.
But you know, he didn't win a lot of games
early on. And uh, I mean he's super super talented
guy and he just didn't have a lot of them.
I didn't have a lot of weapons. I mean, he
always had Calvin. But you know, you can only you
don't you can only pump it up the Calvin so

(01:09:48):
many times a game. You know, you gotta have a
good defense, special teams, and you've gotta have a brill
good offensive line. And they're starting to, you know, everyone's
starting to realize how good of a player he really is.
Quarter from from from the quarterbacks perspective, for you, who's
the guy who you feel like is the best at
the craft? Ever? I mean, I think it's hard to
say Tom Brady isn't. I think it's really hard. Um,

(01:10:09):
He's been in a really good situation. I mean I
think He's probably one of the first to admit that
with with Belichick there and UM early in his career
or defense was was really good and caused a lot
of problems with other teams, and you know, they were
able to, you know, let him grow in the offense.
And he's had he's been in the same offense for
you know, seventeen eighteen years. They've obviously changed it and

(01:10:32):
added to it and deleted some stuff over the years.
But you know, to win five UM Super Bowls in
this league in a career is his his mind boggling.
I don't know, it's obscene. It's obscene he did without Grunk,
I think, and I think they do an unbelievable job
of getting the type of players that UM, that Tom
feels comfortable with and wants to use. You know, he

(01:10:52):
he doesn't need a huge number one receiver. He wants
guys that can get open underneath. They use the tight
ends really well. They change up a nations and personality.
I mean they I mean they do a really good job. Yeah,
they do. Hey, man, I can't wait to uh can't
wait to hear you call. You know, your your first game,
by the way, is a Bears preseason game like like you.
They whenever, whenever I finally finalized the deal and stuff,

(01:11:16):
they asked me how I saw SUDD do embarrass games Like,
I'm perfectly silent that I mean that. I think it'd
be easy for me because I'm uh so, I was
so involved there and I know that team so well. Yeah,
teach us something we didn't know. That's how. That's how
we ask if you know more about than all the
rest of us combined. We really appreciate you join us.
Congrats on an outstanding career. Jay, Thanks so much, Thank you,
I appreciate it. That was Doug Gottlieb earlier today, filling

(01:11:39):
in for Calling Cowhard here on many of these Fox
Sports Radio affiliates on the Herd talking with the newest
member of the NFL on Fox Family, j Cutler. Jonas
Knox in for Doug Gottlieb here Fox Sports Radio always
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You can also get me on Twitter. By the way,
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(01:12:01):
in sports who cost themselves millions of dollars, but they
made the right decision. I'll tell you who it is
next here on FSR Jonas Knox and for Doug Gottliepire
Fox Sports Radio. You can listen to the show as
well on the I Heart Radio app band on Sirius
x M channel eighty three. We do have to give

(01:12:24):
a little bit of credit to us somebody in football.
They cost themselves millions of dollars and would they do
it all over again had things gone a little bit
differently before they made the decision. So we'll have that
for you here. Coming up into just a couple of minutes, Um,
do you want to bring in though quickly? Are Major
League Baseball insider? He is a well known man. He

(01:12:47):
has none other then John Ramos, a tech producer here
Sports Radio. John, A couple of a quick hitting MLB
questions for you here, Hey, Jonas, Hey John? Up? First
and foremost, why was Matt Harvey suspended three games? What
are you hearing? John Ramos? You know what? This is

(01:13:08):
some issues that we can't really get into right now
on the air, So we're just gonna have to wait
and see more. But from what I understand, he will
be pitching soon. That is definitely in depth knowledge there
from our insider John Ramos, he seems to really have
have answered that question completely. Also, Johnny quick follow up, Um,
have you ever been to a New York Mets locker

(01:13:29):
room before? I have never been in the locker room
of the New York Mets. Okay, I just wondered if
that was your sex toy that was in the locker
that was caught on camera. I don't know if anybody
happened to see that. Uh, do you know anything about
that as well? John? Anything on me having not been
in the locker room at any time whatsoever in the
many years of my life, I cannot confirm nor deny

(01:13:51):
any of that. I listen, there's burning Major League Baseball questions,
not about the eighteen inning game that went on way
too long and Wrigley on Sunday night, but I think
people want to know why was Matt Harvey suspended, what
did he do to get suspended? And whose sex toy
was that in a locker at the that the Mets
accidentally and and it actually accidentally went around on social

(01:14:12):
media where you could clearly see that object in the
locker the Mets locker Jonas, there is some rumors that
he was spending due to being a bad picture. Wow. Um.
John Hayman, who covers baseball for fan rag Sports a

(01:14:34):
long time Major League baseball insider. Um. He says that
Matt Harvey showed up Um and was in his pj's,
like showed up to UH sometimes in his pj's, Like
he was wearing pajamas. Like it's just a bizarre Like
nobody wants to say, what's happening there in New York?
Like something clearly happened for him to get suspended. He

(01:14:57):
was the golden boy. Everybody thought he was going to
be the next Era Parents superstar in New York. And
he's doing well off the field. He's doing outstanding off
the field. I mean, he is put together a resume
already that puts him in the Hall of Fame. But
there's something strange that's going on there. Either he didn't
show up to the clubhouse, or he showed up and
he was in pj's. And then some people are linking

(01:15:17):
him to the object that was shown in the Mets
locker room, the sex toy that was in the locker
that was caught on camera as some guy was taking
a picture. Very bizarre. What's happening there in New York.
So if we have, if we have are able to
find out who that belongs to, what happened with Matt Harvey,
no doubt you'll get it here from our Major League
Baseball insider John Ramos looking forward to Jonas, I'm hoping

(01:15:40):
you're gonna play that music again. For no reason, Jonas
knocks him for Doug Gottlieb here Fox Sports Radio. I
do want to give a little bit of credit to somebody,
but would they have done it differently? If you've got
an opportunity to come out in the draft, and you've
got an opportunity to make billions and millions of dollars,

(01:16:02):
the thinking is, yeah, you know I'm gonna come out.
This is my chance. If you're going to be taken
as a high pick, why would you risk going back
when you can make that money now? And that happened
with car Cardal Jones of Ohio State. If you remember
card L. Jones when he took over as the starting

(01:16:23):
quarter he was the third stringer. There were injuries at
quarterback for Ohio State, and card L. Jones is three
games that people saw tape on him. He won a
big ten Championship, He won a semifinal game against Alabama,
and then he won the national title. Those were his
three games on tape as a college quarterback. There were

(01:16:46):
scouts that saw him throw the ball, and there were
people that were telling him, you could be a late
first round draft pick if you come out of the draft,
and everyone assumed that was gonna be what he did.
He would come out of the draft. And why would
you go back and risk exposing any of your flaws
when you can make a ton of money right now
based on the limited amount of film that that scouts

(01:17:08):
and NFL teams and executives have on you. Cardel Jones
made the decision to go back to school, and what happened.
The more he played, the more he was exposed, and
they ended up falling to the fifth round and was
drafted by the Buffalo Bills. Who knows how that's going
to turn out, whether or not he's going to have
a career in the NFL, But you got to give
the guy credit for this, and this is part of
the reason why people thought that he was going to

(01:17:31):
come out. After those three games, when he performed at
a high level in big moments for Ohio State, he
sent a tweet out a couple of years ago, and
actually in two thousand twelve or a few years ago,
he sent a tweet out that said, why should we
have to go to class if we came here to
play football. We ain't come here to play school. Classes

(01:17:51):
are pointless. Everyone assumed you send something like that first
chance you get your coming out. He didn't. He went back.
And not only did he go back, he actually graduated
from Ohio State this past weekend and on on his
cap he had the quote, we ain't come here to
play school. So you got to give the guy credit

(01:18:13):
for this for going back to school and graduating. Not
a lot of guys do that. But if you had
to do it all over again, do you think he
might have come out after those three games? Probably? Jonas
knocks in for Doug Gottlieb here Fox Sports Radio. Up next,
there is uh there's a major problem in sports. We're
going to try and solve it and it might change
the course of history. We'll have that for you next

(01:18:35):
here on Fox Sports Radio. Someone in sports has gone
completely against the grain. They've done it differently, and they've
done it in a way that is going to cause
problems for a lot of people. I'll explain who that
is coming up here in just a minute. Jonas knocks
in for Doug Gottlieb here Fox Sports Radio. You can

(01:18:55):
always listen to the show on the I Heart Radio
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Wherever you are listening to the program right now, Happy Monday.
We appreciate you taking part in the program here on
Fox Sports Radio. So we were discussing this a little
bit about Lebron James and if you work, no matter
what it is you do for work, your your career

(01:19:17):
or your job, if you're if you're trying to figure
out a long term plan and you're working someplace part time,
if you do something really, really well and you have
a lot of success in it, you go back to
the routine or the habits that got you successful. You
go back to what made you great. You know, you
never hear in boxing, you hear about fighters changing trainers.

(01:19:37):
It's never after a win. It's always after a loss
because they've got to, you know, you know, sort of
relearn the sport through the eyes of somebody else, Work
with somebody differently, see if they can get out something
inside of them that they never thought was there before.
And so that's how boxers approach things. After a loss,
You'll see a lot of them will go out and

(01:19:58):
they'll get a new trainer or start working with somebody differently.
It's never after they win. If you have success, and
if it's brought you, you know, glory in that sport
or that profession, why would you go back on that.
And one of the things that Lebron James did throughout
the course of the regular season is he looked at
at the NBA season, not just in the eight two games,

(01:20:19):
but all the games he was going to play in
the postseason. And Lebron James just basically, at this point
of his career, said, I'm not playing these games during
the regular season. I don't care that it pisces you off.
It doesn't bother me, and I'm not going to let
it bother me whatever your criticism is of me sitting
out of these games, because the payoff for me is

(01:20:39):
greater in the long run, because I'm gonna be much
more efficient in the playoffs and I'll be a better player.
And you look at his numbers, he's been fantastic. It's
the best Lebron James, I think we've ever seen. He's
averaging thirty four points a game, he's averaging nine boards,
he's averaging seven assists a game. He's shooting over from
the field from three and by the way, he's playing

(01:21:03):
forty two minutes a game. There eight No whatever he
did to get to this point, why would you change it?
And that's a problem for the NBA because the NBA
has got a lot of money invested, and you've got advertisers,
you've got networks, You've got billions of dollars tied up

(01:21:25):
in this NBA. And if your guys are picking and
choosing when they want to play during the regular season,
you need to somehow figure out a way to make
it worth their while to not do that. Don't pick
and choose when you want to play. Play in these games.
It helps us, and in the end, it's going to

(01:21:45):
help you. If Lebron James just steam rolls through the
Eastern Conference like he's doing, you think he's going to
do anything different next year to prepare for a season.
Good luck having that conversation. Good luck telling your best
player and the face to the league that what he's
doing is hurting the sport. Really because not hurting me.

(01:22:07):
I'm the best I've ever been and it's your thirteen
or fourteen in my career, and look at me go,
and I'm only sitting down six minutes a game. So
that whole conversation that they're going to try and have
with Lebron James at Adam Silver's promise that they need
to do something and they need to you can't have
that conversation now because it's clear that Lebron James method

(01:22:29):
works and it works better than yours. It's clear that
the way he strategized and the way that he prepared
himself for the postseason worked, So why would he do
anything different makes no sense whatsoever. Karen Butler joined the
show earlier, NBA champion, two time All Star, and he
talked about Lebron James's approach and how it's paying off

(01:22:51):
in this postseason. Are you seeing this position night in
and night out, in the effort, the energy that he's
playing with. He's just dominating the Eastern Conference right now,
and you know, speacome to Lebron James Invitational. I think
he's done a great job of you know, preparing and
stand ready and you know from hyperbaric chambers too, you know,
the colde thanks to you know, cry Oh. He's had

(01:23:13):
no major surgeries or anything like that, and he's been
nothing short but amazing in that department. I mean, you
can't deny it. You can't deny that whatever he did
to get to this point is working. I mean when
guys on the Toronto Raptors, guys like DeMar Derozen after
the game, we're talking about, well, if we would have
had Lebron James, we would have won. You don't hear

(01:23:36):
guys say that. You say that when you acknowledge there's
nothing we could have possibly done to even compete, or
be competitive or even be somewhat close to Cleveland. In
this series, every game was a wipeout. Game four was
the closest that got in Toronto, still lost by three possessions.
I mean, like it's it's a complete mismatch. He's fresh,

(01:23:59):
he's haired, he's ready, there's no fatigue. And this is
a guy who's gone to the NBA Finals six years
in a row. I forget the exact number, but his
Lebron's playoff time in his career, like the amount of
games he's played in the playoffs, is more than two

(01:24:20):
regular seasons or something like that. It's it's a crazy
statistic where Lebron James, if you count how much time
he spent in the postseason, it's like two It's like
the equivalent of two years. And look at how fresh
he is. He's got to be strategic throughout the season.

(01:24:41):
He's got to take care of himself in a certain way.
He's got to look at the end goal and say, listen,
your end goal, maybe let's satisfy everybody every single night
during the regular season on these big primetime games. My
end goal is May and June. And if getting to
May and June in a better spot me sacrificing those big,

(01:25:01):
big time games you're talking about, then tough balls. I
gotta make the call over two hundred and seven career
playoff games. They think about that, and look at how
fresh he is, And you want to have an honest
conversation with Lebron James after the season and say, hey, Lebron,
we're gonna need you to play some more of these

(01:25:21):
games in the regular season. Hello, Hello. I would hang
up on Adam Silver in a heartbeat. I'm not hearing that.
My way works, and it works better than yours. If
you sold advertisers and if you sold the networks, the
bill of goods that you can't make up for, that's
your problem, not mine. I'm winning titles. I'm chasing championships.

(01:25:43):
The Eastern Conference is a rap. I mean Boston and Washington.
That's a race for second place. That's all that is.
It's a race for second place. Best case scenario, it
goes seven games, so at least we can have something
interesting and spread it out a little bit longer. But
neither one of those teams has a shot in hell.
Look at Toronto. Toronto mortgaged everything, mortgaged everything to try

(01:26:10):
and win this year because they thought, oh these calves,
they look vulnerable. This is our year to strike. So
Toronto went out, traded away a first round pick in
Terrence Ross, traded away Jared Solinger, traded away a couple
of second round picks, got back Serge Ibaka and p J. Tucker,
who are both free agents this offseason, and it got

(01:26:30):
him four wins. Lebron's way works, yours doesn't. Why would
he change the other thing I was looking at in
the end, and listen, I say this all right, and
I'm gonna be honest with you. I say this knowing
it's never gonna happen. All right, I'm admitting defeat before

(01:26:53):
before it even takes consider me the Toronto Raptors. It's over.
It's a I understand this will never get done, but yeah,
can we please just acknowledge how bad this playoff round
has been for the NBA. It's terrible, absolutely terrible. There

(01:27:18):
has been one game in this round of the playoffs.
There has been one game that's been decided by fewer
than double digits. Every game is a wipeout. Every single
game is a wipeout. The only game that was decided

(01:27:39):
by less than double digits was the close out game
between Cleveland and Toronto. It's been a complete, I mean wipeout,
wipe out, wipe out. And I don't know if it's
something towards the mentality of an NBA player or maybe
a coach, but we saw this in the NBA Finals
last season, where every single game was determined by double

(01:28:00):
digits or more. At some point, it's like these players
and these coaches just sort of acknowledge, why are we
going to gas ourselves out trying to get back into
this game? Like, what's the point. You know, we have
some control in this series. What what? What's the point here?
Let's just live to find another day. But it doesn't

(01:28:21):
look good. It's it's not a good look for the NBA.
And I know that the league is top heavy, and
I say this again acknowledging that it's never gonna get done.
But maybe we've got to have a conversation about changing
the playoff format. Seriously, I've been trying to get people
to understand that going back to a five game opening

(01:28:44):
round in the playoff five game series, it creates a
sense of urgency because you lose one of those first
two games at home, and all of a sudden you
may never play another home game again because you've got
to go to on the road. They've got to create
some sense of excitement here. I don't know if if
you want to follow the the NFL's format to where

(01:29:06):
you let fewer teams in, if you follow the NFL's
format where you let six teams in and the top
two seeds uh get to sit out the first round,
I don't know what the answer is. Maybe give them
a little bit of incentive to want to play during
the regular season all those games, to want to get
the first or the second seed, so you could have
a bye week or you know, or something like that.

(01:29:28):
But they've got to create some sense of urgency in
these playoffs because when you've got sixteen, I think it's already.
We've had fifteen games played in this round. Fourteen out
of fifteen were blowouts. They've got to do something. There's
got to be an answer to this. And I don't
know if it involves stealing from Baseball and having you know,

(01:29:51):
the nine and the eight seed battled out in a
one game playoff to determine who gets the eight spot,
or if you have the six and the seven to
determine who gets a six spot. But something's got to
be done because these games are awful. They are awful.
I mean the Wizards went on a twenty six to
nothing run yesterday, Like, how does that happen? How do

(01:30:12):
how does that happen in a professional setting on one
of the biggest stages that we have in sports and
one team gets outscored zero. So again I acknowledge it's
not gonna happen because of the TV money, they're gonna
want as many games as possible, but we we've got
to have a legitimate, honest conversation about how this format

(01:30:33):
is done, because there there there is a better way
to do this, because the way right now is just
not enjoyable. This round of the playoffs has stunk period.
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(01:31:20):
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(01:31:41):
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on FS are this Matt Harvey thing. Can I just
be I'm gonna be completely selfish year all right? I
do a yeah, we get so. I work here at

(01:32:01):
Fox Sports Radio. I'm on weekend overnights, all right, and
it's fun because if something breaks late on a Friday,
we get first crack at it. I'll be completely transparent
with you, and this is purely for selfish reasons. And
I apologize to everybody that's on the airwaves here at
Fox Sports Radio, because everybody's fantastic. Everybody from Ben Maller

(01:32:22):
to Jason Smith to JT the Brick, Steve Gorman, Sports,
Colin Cowherd, Dan Patrick, Doug Gottlieb, Clay Travis, everybody does
a great job. I hope we find out what Matt
Harvey got suspended for Friday at about nine Pacific time
at night, because I want first crack at it. I

(01:32:44):
am fascinated by this, Like, nobody can figure it out.
All manybody knows is that something bizarre happened with Matt
Harvey and nobody's willing to talk about it. So please
please be a Friday news dump so I can get
my hands on it first. Nobody can. Nobody's able to
figure this whole thing out. They just know something something wrong,

(01:33:04):
is something's happening there. Let's quickly bringing our major League
Baseball insider John Ramos here. John Ramos, who has been
covering major League baseball for Fox Sports Radio for about
an hour, John, do we have an update on Matt
Harvey and why he was suspended? No, we do not
have an update. Your guess is as good as mine.
I do have a feeling though it might be some
sort of violation there. It is, Major League Baseball insider

(01:33:28):
John Ramos. Oh man um, And then also we've got you.
You've gotta be careful sometimes, like there are certain fan
bases who they don't really like criticism, all right, they're

(01:33:48):
very bothered by it. And a couple of those fan bases.
When you when you have honest criticism, constructive criticism, some
people would call it. Some of those fan bases aren't
thrilled about it, and they will let you know because
they are what some people in the business referred to
as ball washers. Uh. They it's just what they are,

(01:34:09):
their fanboys. They're always going to side with their organization.
And um, a guy on Twitter says, I wish you
hadn't filled in for Doug Gottlieb Dallas was lucky and
drafting dec and Zeke and Jilan has one leg. Wow,
now I know why you don't have your own show
hashtag clueless. You can catch my show Fridays and Saturdays

(01:34:35):
at eleven pm Pacific time, and also on Sunday with
Brady Quinn at five Pacific times. You know, some people
call it overnight radio on the weekends twelve to four
pm Saturdays and Sundays in Bangladesh. It's not funny, Mike.
It's not funny and it's not a joke either. You

(01:34:56):
can hear the show in Bangladesh on the IHR Radio.
App regardless of the laughter that the very rude my
pot just chimed in with pipe down. It's how how
can you look at the cowboys and just just be
honest here if you were to say, I tried for
something three times and failed, so I had to settle

(01:35:18):
for the fourth, and then that fourth ended up being great.
Would you would you call yourself a sleuth, like a
draft sleuth, Like, oh, I I hit a home run here,
I really nailed it out of the park. Here. If
you failed on something three times and the fourth fell
into your lap, and oh, by the way, the fourth

(01:35:39):
only was successful because the two, you know, the other
two in front of him, they both failed, how does
that considered a home run draft? Dallas got lucky with
Dak Prescott. Listen, the Patriots got lucky with Tom Brady.
It's okay to have those conversations. There's nothing wrong with it.
Everyone praises New England man. Good for New England. They

(01:36:01):
saw something in the NFL that nobody else saw in
Tom Brady. No, they saw something after nobody else saw
what they saw in Tom Brady. Also after they passed
on it five times. Dallas passed on Dak Prescott multiple times.
He was option four of what was remaining in the draft,

(01:36:22):
Ezekiel Elliott taking him that high in the draft when
you had Darren McFadden rushed for a thousand yards the
year before, Like you could make the argument the Dallas
is selection of of Ezekiel Elliott that high in the
draft at running back wasn't maybe the brightest move in
the world. It worked out for him, but it doesn't
mean it was intended to work as efficiently as it did.

(01:36:45):
You could have probably gotten somebody later in the draft
that would have been at you know, effective running behind
that offensive line. So the idea that Dallas took Jalen Smith,
who just as of you know, a month ago, just
recently was able to lift up his left foot because
of the amount of damage in that knee, It is

(01:37:06):
a bizarre pick that I in the draft. Jonah stocks
in Ford got Leevia Fox Sports Radio. I want to
welcome in Wade of Phillips, Rams defensive coordinator, a Super
Bowl champion, joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. Wait,
thanks so much for the time. We appreciate it. Yeah. So, um,
I want to get your thoughts on it. When you're
looking at college film, and I know that the college

(01:37:27):
game and the formations and the systems have changed a
little bit, But when you're looking at college film, what
is the most important element for you as a coach
that you see and go I want that guy on
my team. Oh wow, the most important, you know, I
think it's football instinct first. I mean, you know, especially defensively.

(01:37:47):
I think how instincted the player is as knowing where
you know, kind of where the ball is going and
in the field for the game itself. Now, you obviously
have to be able to run fast enough and be
big enough and strong enough to play your position, and
there's certain limits limits, their limitations, I guess. But um,
but I think a guy that you know can find

(01:38:10):
the football, can get to take the right angle to
the football, I can you know, break and intercept the ball,
those kind of things or what I what I look
for was there give me a guy that you were
right about, somebody that maybe you you were one of
the only people that believed in. And then somebody that
you were wrong about that you thought would translate over
to the next level and it didn't work out. So

(01:38:33):
we uh, let's see right about Let's see, uh, I
mean over the years, I mean, you know, you you
pick a lot of guys. I'm not sure there were
there were a couple of us. They were real strong

(01:38:54):
on J. J. Watt, you know, and all right, we
were we were right about him think yeah, you know,
but uh but you know, like uh oh Sean Phillips
that it was you know, like a fourth round pick
at San Diego when I was there. Um, you know,

(01:39:17):
there were some guys like that that came out to
be good players that that we liked and uh and
they went on to be uh, you know, better than
better than expected or better better better players. So um,
but I mean, you know, there's whole bunch of them
over the years wrong about probably you know, probably a

(01:39:37):
bunch of them. You know, it's a it's a you know,
it's a hard process. It's hard. It's hard to tell obviously,
you know that you look at it and you know,
even what the first round picks don't always make it
or don't pay out to be good enough. I guess,
so we made the wrong picks, you know before. Uh,

(01:40:01):
and there's some guys I like, some guys I liked.
It didn't turn out very good. Then we didn't get
you know, you know, a boy I really like that again,
and then he went somewhere else and he didn't like
it so or didn't didn't play well. So uh, you know,
I don't know which specific ones probably you could name
any of them that you know, anything I've been with

(01:40:21):
you've made mistakes, certainly, and who you like and how
were they turned out. He is a Rams defensive coordinator.
Wade Phillips joining us here on Fox Sports Radio, Jonas
knocks in for Doug Gottlieb. What advice would you give
to a young coach? I know, obviously you're gonna be
coaching with Sean McVeigh. But you've been in the business
so long, your dad was a legendary coach. You yourself
have had a ton of success in the NFL, But

(01:40:43):
in today's in today's game, it seems like unless I mean,
you're not really given a long leash, you know, it's
it's a couple of years. You've got to have results,
and if you aren't, they'll just move right along and
coaches get fired every year. What advice would you have
for a young coach wanting to get into the head
coach profession in the NFL? Uh? Well, there's uh. Like

(01:41:06):
we've always said, there's two kinds of coaches, you know,
ones that have been fired and the ones that they're
going to be fired. So you have to be ready
for that. And it's true. I mean you don't you
don't look at I mean, there aren't many Bill Belichicks
or guys were the same team for a long long time. So, um,
you've got to be adjustable as far as that's concerned.

(01:41:28):
But advice I give you know, you just do the
best you can. Um, you know, try to try to
help your players be as good as they can be.
And and and coach. Coaching is teaching, and then you know,
teach teach, you know, have a teaching progression. I guess
like we've had over the years that you can teach
you to them fast so they can learn it so

(01:41:50):
they can do well quickly, is the main thing. He
is Wade Phillips, the Rams defensive coordinator, with us here
on Fox Sports Radio. So you have your new memoir out.
It's called Son of Bum Lessons My dad taught me
about football and life. What was the number one thing
your dad taught you football wise that you still carry
with you to this day. Oh wow, Well that most

(01:42:11):
of the book. You know. He's my high school coach
and then my college coach, and then he coached with
it for ten years and he was certainly my hero.
So you know, I cared a whole a whole lot
of things. They're all in the book, but um, I
think overall it was just how to work with people.
You know how he worked with people, and and you

(01:42:36):
know that that part of it was a key thing.
I think. Well, if it's anything like your Twitter account,
which is a must follow, especially if you want to
go back and look at some pictures that you were snapping.
If you guys are visiting the White House, just really
well done. I mean people actually visited the White House.
Just going through your your Twitter account and following at

(01:42:58):
Son of Bum on Twitter. If it's anything like that,
I'm sure we'll get a fantastic reed. Thanks so much
for a few minutes of your time. We appreciate all right,
thank you, Jonas. That's Wade Phillips, Rams defensive coordinator here
on Fox Sports Radio again. Now the memoirs Son of
Bum Lessons my dad taught me about football in life.
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gottlie P here Fox Sports Radio. As always, you can

(01:43:40):
listen to the show on the I Heart Radio app.
So I am in for Doug because he was in
for Colin, so you filled in for Colin Cowhard. Earlier
today on The Herd and in studio was LaVar Ball,
the father of Lonzo Ball. Very controversial. Uh, LaVar Ball

(01:44:00):
is rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Some
people are very have very strong opinions about him, as
he has very strong opinions about many things. And here
was Doug Gottlieb's conversation with LaVar Ball earlier today on
Fox Sports Radio. How did you come upon the price
of That's what I feel the shoe is worth. And
like I said, a lot of these players, I bet

(01:44:20):
you they was never in the room when the price
point was adjusted see Nike, and everybody just throws the
shoe out. My son is the one who had the
creativity on the on the shoe. So what's good about
that is that's how much we feel the shoe was worth.
So when you say creativity, like he pencil on paper
or was it like the Nike I D stuff. He
was always creating pencil and paper. If you got it

(01:44:41):
in your mind, that's how you created in your mind.
But eventually you have to some somebody has to put
pen to paper, right, somebody has to get somebody has
to put the pen to paper. But only on the
ideas of my son, who's only let a nineteen year
old go ahead and develop his own shoe. Nobody is
so when he saw the that's a prototype right the chest.
When he saw the prototype was like he was to

(01:45:01):
his specifications. Zoe created that whole shoe. He has to wear,
he has to perform in it. He knows what he likes.
So I had no creativity in that shoe whatsoever. And
all I care about is making sure my son likes
to shoot that he likes and not something that somebody
just thrown to him and say, hey, endorse this. You're
doing all the running and jumping and you're sitting back

(01:45:22):
collecting the money. Has he has he warned them to
playing yet yes, and has always done some things that them,
But we have some other things we gotta take care of,
you know, because you can't go on the first run
and just be like, Okay, there's gonna be some problems
somewhere where he like like I might I need some
more cushion right here, or I need this tighter right
here right LaVar Ball joining us here in the her

(01:45:42):
Doug Gottlie feeling in for calling. So you guys, there
was a public appearance what this weekend right where it
was you and Mellow and Zoe. But when he made
the public appearance like you're not wearing life and it
was raining, I'm not wearing my good shoes in the rain,
wearing bracket the Adidas. No, he you wear you wear
the slide. That's why you have the slides, right slides.

(01:46:03):
When I'm being comfortable, I don't know if I was
too comfortable in ball, okay. But then when we like,
all of a sudden, you you make a huge announcement.
Everybody's talking about it, right, and then you make an
appearance and your sons are both wearing Jordan's and you
carry We've got a lot of shoes. I know, but
don't you have to sell your brand. We're gonna sell
our brand. Don't worry about it. We're doing good. How
are the sales tracking? The sales are tracking very good?

(01:46:24):
Can't you tell? Like? What? Give me this? Here are
some numbers to it? Yeah, some numbers, good numbers, like
like how many how many as of good numbers? Four
sales on four? Either one you want to choose? Is good?
On the barball jos In in the herd um? How
did how did Zoe feel about the reaction that because

(01:46:47):
there's a kind of dis reaction when when the when
the price was announced. Well, here's everything everybody's talking about
the price. Let's throw the price out the window. Here's
what it is. It's a symbolic shoe and that comes
with the price. You don't just go to the store
and say, hey, let me get a kybree Irvan, let
me get lebron James, let me get a k D
You know, by the way throwing on Alonzo balls e

(01:47:07):
O two. How much involvement did you have on the
coaching change of China Hells None, that's something to staff made.
But if you wanted, if you didn't want a coaching
change to be made. You could have said, he you
know you you're not making a coaching change, couldn't you? Well, yeah,
I could have did that. Yeah, So are you you

(01:47:29):
pleased with the move? Are you? I'm pleased with the
move because it was a little divided with the other
coach that why what was I don't even want to
get into that part, as far as he was trying
to say one thing and I was trying to say
one thing. So you kind of got the kids going
both ways. We already did it a certain way to
go thirty five and all. So when you start Zoe
there before in your thirty okay, but we had won

(01:47:51):
sixty games in a row without though LaVar ball joining us. Okay.
So the question becomes like, look, you've been an involved parent,
you coach, you coach your it's um in a U ball.
You know, you had them play all together. They played
all together in high school, and you've been involved in
high school games and to a certain level. It's harder
at the college games. I think people's biggest question is
what's your level of involvement going to be when Lonzo

(01:48:14):
is in the NBA. The same involvement I have right now.
That's my son. That's it. They can't say. One time
I was up at a practice at U c l A.
Just sitting there after a game, I'm talking the coaches saying,
what you guys doing after the loss? It's not about that.
It's just the kids growing up in the beginning. They
need some direction and that's why I give them after
they get out of high school and do what they do.

(01:48:36):
They don't autopilot. They gotta play for the coaches they're
playing for. But there's there's the reaction to your comments about,
hey man, can't you know, can't win it with with
three white dudes playing playing defense? Just an opinion? No,
I listen, I understand it's opinion. The question becomes if
things don't go well in the NBA, like if and
it's somebody else's fault, you know how it is, like

(01:48:56):
you're gonna attract one person every time they lose. Who's that? Always?
My son? Always he's the point guard. So people start
throwing this stuff out there, LaVar blame this and it
never heard me say I blame the guys for losing,
only playing one guy for losing. That's my side. But
you did say you can't win a championship with three
white dudes defensively, right, I said, yes, Okay, So the

(01:49:18):
question that's that's not only no. I'm just saying that's
not only your son, but I blame my son. This
is something that I say, LaVar Ball joining us here
in the herd. Doug gottlieb in for Colin, let me
play you, Mike Brown, actually you know, let's let me
play you. Adrian Wardsnowsky Cadrean Wardsnowski is he works for
Yahoo Sports currently. It's what's I called the vertical Um.

(01:49:39):
He's the foremost respected NBA reporter. I think that'd be
an accurate way. Here's what he said about what people
in the NBA think of your involvement, your company tied
with your son. It's more a source of amusement. I
think right now now, once Lineso gets into the NBA,
he's gotta then exists in the locker room and he's

(01:49:59):
got it us on the court where guys are going
to love to go after him, especially if his father
is still talking. This can't go on, Doug. I would say,
Phoenix gets the second pick and they draft them like that,
that can't start going after Eric what's Look, if he
goes to Phoenix, you can't go after Eric Bloodsoll. If
he goes to the Celtics, you can't go after Isaiah Thomas.
That that's really the fear. What do they mean by

(01:50:21):
go after him? You can't stay down and choke him
out after No, you can't be critical critical as far
as as far as they're playing. I can be critical
on anybody, anybody in the world. If I want to
say it, I'm gonna say it. I understand. But don't
you think that puts your son in a tough place
in an NBA lock. That doesn't put my son in
a tough place. Here's what I don't want. I don't
want my son to go to the NBA and people

(01:50:42):
put his hand on the shoulder and say, you know what, Zough,
We're not gonna come at you because you're a great guy,
so we're not gonna go that hard on you in
the first few years. I want everybody to come at him.
It's the competitiveness. No, no, no, I don't think any
of That's what I'm saying. Everybody's gonna come at yourself.
You'ren't worried about what I'm saying. On the outside instead
of playing my son on the court. You got the
wrong fan going. I don't think it's worth about people
coming out. I've told people like, look, Alonzo Ball is

(01:51:02):
big enough name that guys are gonna come at him anyway.
Young I'm talking about your teammates though, Why would teammates
come after his zwn? I'm saying the idea that what
I say, if you're critical of teammates, that makes it
more double, don't. It's just like the guys that you
see l A. Do you think they're worried about what
I'm saying. They're still gonna be those Alonzo's friends, and
those are all good guys. But if I have opinion

(01:51:23):
or something I want to state that can't nobody stop
me from doing it. If you don't like it, fine,
If you like it, fine, If you take it personal,
stop wearing your feelings on your sleeve. What happens if
he doesn't go to l A. What happens if he
doesn't go to l A. Zoe's goal was to go
to the NBA, and that's it. I prefer him to
play for the Lakers. If everything goes right, I'm gonna

(01:51:43):
speaking into existence. I would prefer him to play for
the Lakers. We all make comparisons and players. I've said,
Jason Kidd, you've seen him more, you know him. Tell
me who you reminds you of. He reminds me of
Alonzo Ball. But you can give me, you can give
me a he's the breed. You ain't seen nothing like
him yet. That's what I'm saying, y'all trying to compare him.

(01:52:06):
Everybody you said, Jason kids, j kid six bore, my
boy six seven. My boy can jump. He can jump
a little bit. Jason coul jump a little bit. He
could jump a little bit. He can't jump like a
big powerful Yes, yes, he probably a longer blockbore shots.
So it's different. You know, people trying to say he's
like this guy, he's a little bit of every little
player he's not around yet. You ain't seen that guy.

(01:52:28):
He's a better shooter, he's he's a better stance to shore.
There's the question about whether or not you can shoot.
Trying to be talking about Zoe shooting like that. As
long as that ball going in, we don't care if
you're wrap it around your back two times to kick
it up with your foot. I actually think tray Trey
Young did that to wrap around the back is the
Trey Young shot. It was fun to have you in studio.
We really appreciate you doing it. Can't wait to see

(01:52:48):
the sales numbers on the Big ball Er frand Ties.
But of course he's he's promoting already. That was Doug
Gottlieb's conversation with LaVar Ball earlier today on Fox Sports Radio.
Will be back in this chair tomorrow here on the show.
Jonas knocks in for Doug here on Fox Sports Radio,
also on the I Her Radio app, and yes you
can get me on Twitter at the Jonas knocks up next,

(01:53:10):
though Draymond Green has already started the war of words
with Lebron James. You'll hear from Draymond Green, and you
hear from him next Jonas knocks in for Doug Gottlip
here on Fox Sports Radio. We do want to get
to the war of words that Draymond Green has already
started up with Lebron James. Will have that for you

(01:53:30):
here in just a minute. I do want to remind
you that coming up in about ten minutes from now
on many of these Fox Sports Radio affiliates always on
the I Heart radio app It will be Steve Gorman
Sports a fantastic listen, a couple of really good dude
Steve Gorman Jeffrey Gorman will be here at the top
of the hour, which is a radio term for ten
minutes from now here on Fox Sports Radio. Right now, though,

(01:53:52):
we turn things over to the always fantastic Deb Carson
for a little something that we call this the Press.
Deb Carson, welcome in. Thank you. Jonas knocks well, you know,
Warriors for Draymond Green words today after shoot around, then

(01:54:15):
might come back to bid him. Green says he is
disappointed in the lack of the level of competition the
Cavaliers have faced from either the Pacers or the Raptors.
Green said, quote, I thought teams would compete a little harder.
I just watched San Antonio Houston. I like to watch
good basketball. When you watch Cleveland play, you're only watching
one side of the good basketball. That's kind of weak

(01:54:38):
end quote. Draymond is that kind of weak? Ming in Well,
I mean, so he's basically just acknowledging what the rest
of us have been saying for about six months exactly
pretty much. Yeah, and speaking of some of that competition, Raptors,
three time All Star point guard Kyle Lowry testing free agent. Uh,

(01:55:00):
free agency. He's going to opt out of the final
year of his contract. He has twelve million dollars remaining
on that last of a four year deal and he's
leaving because he wants a ring. Wow. So he uh
so that whole move with the trade deadline and let's
go chase the calves. This is the year and now
you may not have Kyle Lowry as well too. I
wonder if DeMar de Rosen would have still resigned in

(01:55:22):
Toronto had he realized that Kyle Lowry was going to
leave me. No, do you think this will get as
much of a bad reaction that Kevin Durant got when
he left Oklahoma City? No, of course, No, he's not
the superstar Kevin Durant was now speaking of superstars. The
Matt Harvey versus the Mets story continues to become more strange.
This courtesy of John Hayman. So here's a little recap.

(01:55:45):
Were led to believe Matt Harvey went golfing Saturday morning,
drove his foursome back to the city, woke up with
the worst headache he'd ever had, texted or maybe they
texted him, we still don't know, sometime between three to
four to let his coaches, a pigeon coach know that
he wasn't going to be at the park that night.
Uh And at about ten pm, Jonas people showed up,

(01:56:07):
met security people showed up to check on him. He
answers the door in his pj's. We still don't know
the whole story. This is so bizarre, Like I don't.
Doesn't it feel like there's something more here that's not
being told? There's another layer to this, because why would
you suspend the guy three three days and then why
would you show up to check up on him unless

(01:56:28):
he's four? I mean, at least he was there, you know,
at least he was at home. So I mean that's
a good thing, that's right. And you know there's a
New Jersey mayor facing corruption charges. Well, he has found
a way that is quite creative to pay his legal bills.
This is according to North Jersey dot Com. Paterson Mayor
Joey Torres hosted a Hudson River Harbor cruise last Thursday night,

(01:56:50):
charge folks about a hundred and fifty to two fifty
per person to attend about three hundred people showed up.
He didn't say how much was raised. Evidently though not
enough because the mayor plans to hold another legal defense
fundraiser in July. And oh, by the way, he plans
to run for reelection next year. Also, Oh nice, But
there it is. That's that's how you get it done,
exactly all you need to make a little money, that's

(01:57:10):
the move. I guess. Yes, he's charged with conspiring to
have city employees work overtime at a warehouse, least by
his family. Good, that's just what we need. And more
more corruption. Yeah, and you can also check out, by
the way, an eBay auction going on by former Redskins
GM Scott McCloughan. He and his family auctioning off things,

(01:57:31):
including a tan jacket that he says was bought for
him by Mike Nolan when he didn't have a jacket
And they are auctioning off all of this stuff, he
and his wife and donating the money to charity. Oh. Man,
if there was somebody and and Deb Carson, thank you
very much that was there and pressed that the press
sorry to interrupt. Yeah, well done by Dep. Carson. There.

(01:57:53):
If there was a former coach that that you could
buy anything off of I would probably please say it's
got to be Rex Ryan. Would he autograph the cannibals
odor eaters or would he just have somebody else do
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