October 19, 2017 • 44 mins
Doug reacts to the Cubs win over the Dodgers and argues why Major League Baseball needs to go all in on replays. He talks about the Celtics starting the season 0-2 and why they will be just fine in the long run. Heisman Trophy winner and Super Bowl Champion Reggie Bush joins the show to talk about Notre Dame-USC and if Penn State running back Saquon Barkley is the real deal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Boom, What Up America, Doug Gottlieb Show,
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direct from the City of Angels where we're waiting. We're
waiting for a Lonzo Ball makes his NBA debut tonight.
We have Thursday Night Football, which kind of seems like
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it's getting lost in the wash, right, can say? Chiefs,
after getting stomped at home, take on the Oakland Eighties tonight.
And of course, in addition to more NBA action, we
have Major League Baseball. Dodgers Cubs get another shot at
the Dodgers, and instead of the Cubs going quietly tonight,
they'll get a chance to get closer and make the
series three games to Clayton Kershaw on the bump for
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the Dodgers. Let's let's start there, uh. Quick programming note,
Hunter Henry tight End, who did book Kiss first game
of the season against the Broncos book Kiss last weekend
huge in their win over these same Oakland Raiders. They
play the Broncos at a home this week. We'll get
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Hunter Henry's thoughts on just how they've have they eliminated
or have they rectified the issues of the past where
they lost close games, seeing as they've now won two
close games in a row. Hunter Henry ten minutes Away
or so here on the Doug Olip Show on Fox
Sports Radio. My sister has three children. I have three children.
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My brother has three children. That's nine, right, And I
never forget when my sister had her daughter fifteen years
ago or so, and um, I think at some point
I asked her. I said like, did you have natural
childbirth or what? I think that was the question. And
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at that point in time, I think even my own
term of natural childbirth was a little bit different than
what natural childbirth. I think how many people would term it.
She's like, well, what do you can her natural childbirth?
And I was like, well, I don't know. Did you
have a C section? She's like, well, no, that's not
what NET that is. Ah, that is a sorry for
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the word vaginal delivery, but that's not what they call
natural Childernathal rave Worth is no no drugs, And I
was like, well, did you have drugs? She said, Well,
let me just ask you this. You have a tooth
taken out. Do you have no vocaine? Said Yeah, she's like,
I had a baby taken out of me. What do
you think I bring that up? Because we baseball operated
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for years as if it could live without replay and
and the three ring circus and clown show. That is
major League Baseball. Um, that is major League Baseball proved
beyond a reasonable doubt, something that we know in a
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court of law, we know in a court of law
to be true, which is ralmos. Do you know what
the worst form of evidence is, the least reliable form
of evidence is during a trial. I would think this
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is kind of shocking to say, but I wouldn't think
the person who actually saw what happened. Yes, eyewitness testimony
is seen to be the least reliable form of testimony.
I mean, like, listen, we're all kind of screwed up
because we didn't understand the numbers during the o J trial,
like one million. So you're saying there's a chance like
no one in twenty million is a scientific fact actually right,
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Whereas eye witness testimony is the least reliable and baseball
Baseball is all screwed up like for years. Look, it's
screwed up in that the initial call as to whether
or not you swing, You offered it a pitch, right,
you who makes the original call? It's the plate umpire. No,
I don't know about you, but listen, I'm not a geck.
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Maybe these guys are gecko. Maybe their eyes can go
in opposite directions. But the idea that you can see
the pitch whether or not it's a strike and if
the batter offered at the pitch at the exact same time,
is uh, remarkable physics or it's just an impossibility. So
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what baseball has done for years, and we talked a
little bit about this yesterday, is you got the appeal
right because now in fairness first and third base. Though
it's eyewitness testimony, and though there's other things they're looking for,
they do have a great shot at it and a
split second decision. They can take a look at it.
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It's an opinion. So baseball in many ways has understood
that the individual umpire is in fact flawed. An appeal
is nothing more than a review, is nothing more than
a replay. The only problem with it is it uses
eyewitness testimony. The other part of the appeal is what
what we talked about yesterday. It's the dumbest thing in sports.
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It's like another umpire has a secret. I got a secret,
but you can't. You have to ask me, you have
to point to me. Otherwise I'm gonna keep that secret
to myself. That's what happened the night before. Aaron Judge
round second base. They caught is a caught flyball. They
throw him out at first base. He is that we
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think he's pegged at first. They go to the replay
and turns out he was safe. Meanwhile, he missed second base,
and there's an umpire standing right there. And the whole
time they go to New York, they got the replay,
they're discussing all this stuff, the second place umpire newly
entire time that Aaron Judge had missed second base, but
he's not allowed to say anything until you step on
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the base and point to him and go like, yeah,
I had the answer the whole time, but yesterday. It's
beyond ridiculousness. In addition to the fact that baseball waited
past any other professional and collegiance sport to to allow
replay into their most important games, remember Baseball's hold out, Like, nah,
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that's just part of baseball. You mean completely butchering safe
and out completely butchering a home run. It's like the
guy who's like, look, I know my plane could have
radar and it could be much safer, but I prefer
to wing it. That was baseball for a long time.
You know there's thunderstorms and lightning and planes crash. But
you know what, I got my spidy senses on. I
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can just land the plane. Last night, Curtis Granderson is
up at the play Curtis Granderson as its funny as
as UH explain to my son has watched the games,
like Churtis Granderson is one of those guys that used
to be really good, is super likable, eventually be on TV.
Not particularly good now. A matter of fact, you can
correlate directly when the Dodgers traded for Curtis Granderson, when
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they went into the tank. It's crazy, but Curtis Granderson
is up there, uh, with one out runner at first base.
He's facing Wade Davis and on a curveball, he swings
and misses, and strike three is dropped. Here's what ensued.
Oh my goodness, did he just call it a foul ball?
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He did? He just called it a foul ball. That's ridiculous.
Can't change it. That is shocking. Eric Cooper has come
in apparently and overruled Jim Wolf, and Joe Madden is
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beside himself. Uh that is uh Turner Sports with the
call I'm a man. Uh. Brian Anderson of course Ron
Darling as as the analyst, and Eric Cooper is like, oh,
I know he swung and he hit the ball. Now
here's what's crazy about it. You can't use replay to
review this. So you you have replay, but you don't
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have replay in baseball. Made even worse is there's a
brand new, I mean brand new, beautiful, state of the
art JumboTron to which anybody in the world can look
out at center field and Joe Maddenson there going. Would
you just look at the video now? I saw it
with my own twice, right because I witness testimony is
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so good. I saw it with my heard it with
my ear. I saw it, I heard it. Did you
hear it? I heard it. I totally ordered you already.
I heard it. I heard it alright, he sw and
Joe Man is like, this is crazy. This is nuts. Guys.
Gys listen. I know you're not supposed to use replay,
but it's right there. They're like, nap, can't look up
at it, can't use it. I understand when a woman
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is giving birth, there's a uh, there's a uh. What's what?
What's the point that the point of note is a
point of no return to which you can no longer
get the epidural right? You get past dilated past I
don't know what, and like, sorry, lady, can't give you drugs.
You're on your own. Enjoy. You're like one of those
settler women out in the out in the woods. But
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but this wasn't one of those cases. This just just
pick up, just just peak, just look up and go like, yeah,
I might have thought I saw up, but you know,
I'm looking at the replay there. You can land a
plane without radar, but it doesn't make it a good idea.
What is it that Chris Rock you say you can
drive a car with your feet doesn't make it a
good idea? Baseball so screwed up. Between the appeal process
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and the idea that some plays you can bring in
some other mooks who they didn't see it either. Meanwhile,
you have all the technology in the world telling you
the answer right away. I get it. We all grew
up doing math and a calculator was lazy. But you
know what, calculator was right. The calculator never forgets to
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carry the three. It just doesn't ah decimal, damn it.
Calculat didn't forget that. Human error. Human error. Congratulations baseball
in the most baseball way ever. You screwed up through
Joe Madden out of the game didn't seem to matter,
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because after giving up a monster home run to Justin Turner,
Wade Davis ends up getting a two inning save and
the Cubs lived to play another day. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Doug gott Leaps Show weekdays
at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Hunter Henry tight
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End for the l A Chargers joins us, am, I
I'm not over selling right. That was a that was
a big win Sunday correct. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it was.
It was huge. So we definitely needed it. Um division
win a team that's goin on, like you said, like
all those things, he said, I mean it was huge
for us. Um Okay. So when it's close, though, I mean,
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I don't know how you I don't know if you
get if you take a step back. But like I'm
sitting there watching at home, like every charter game seems
to be the same, right, everyone comes down to a
last second drive where Philip is trying to get you
down the field, maybe to get you touchdown, maybe get
you in field goal range. Um, in the moment, are
you feeling that or you simply kind of locked in
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on the fact that, by the way, you were getting
open all the time? How locked in on the moment
are you? How much do you realize how similar this
is to so many other games? Oh? Yeah, they're pretty
much all similar. Um. I think we kind of realized that.
I mean, every game in this league, with us especially,
it's um right there on the brink of you know,
a play or two can make a big difference. So
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you know, we were able to make the plays when
they counted, UM, and that was huge for us. I
think that's use for the whole team, just a confidence
builder and continue to build on that. Yeah, I gotta
I gotta be honest though. Okay, Um, I'm sitting there
and I'm I'm I'm I'm watching you, and you had
two explosive plays on that last drive, and I'm thinking,
you know, maybe maybe you should punch it in the
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end zone. Here. Was there any discussion in the huddle
because the last play that Philip took he took a
snap and then laid down in the middle of the
field to set up the field goal. Was there any thought,
you know, we shouldn't leave this a chance. Let's just
got score touchdown. We've we've been bitten before by field
goal mistakes. Um, there was talk of it. Just we
were rolling at the offensive group of running the football
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too at the end there, so we felt like maybe
we should do a few more runs, maybe the bus one.
But it was the right choice. I mean, it was
the smart decision to do. Um. They didn't have you know,
they we made amuse all their time out and so um,
you know, we we we brought in a great kicker
and Nick, so we were very confident. We've seen him kick, um,
I mean, he's kicked here for a long time so
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and he's kicked in this league for a long time,
and he's been in the situations. So we did we
had a lot of faith in him, um, and it
was good to have kind of him step up and
and and be able to kick a big field goal.
All right, So you take on the Brown because this
Sunday at home last time he took on the Broncos,
you didn't have a catch? What were they doing to
keep you out of to make you so unproductive in
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comparison to for example, this past Sunday. Um, I didn't.
I didn't run as many routes as I have been either. Um.
I mean we checked out of a lot of stuff.
They were kind of given some different looks that we
had to check out of. Um two runs and different
things like that. But uh, we also didn't get in
the flow as an offense as a whole pretty much
till the ends. Um. So I think I got the whole.
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We just gotta stay in rhythm, um and uh be
better and early down so that we can kind of
get our offense rolling and get everybody kind of involved.
Hunter Henry joining us in the Doug Gotlip Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. Uh did you see this player's
only poll? Have you? Have you seen the results to this? Okay,
So they have the best trash talkers in the NFL.
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Cam Newton One Philip Rivers too. Now, I've seen Philip
Rivers talk to other teams, but that the trash talk
would you agree with that that he's one of you
didn't have to say he's the second best. But is
he among the elite trash talkers in the NFL? Oh yeah,
he's a slightly pretty good trash talker. I'm not gonna lie.
He's uh, he's very slow with this, but he's pretty good. Um,
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he's he's pretty smooth to what he says. It's pretty
funny sometimes. Okay, then he's also what is the third
on the list of who is one quarterback you would
not want as a teammate? Why would he be third?
Jake Cutler's one Cam Newtons. It should be pointed out
he received only six percent of the vote, right, so
it's not like it's not like he had vote six
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percent the vote. Why do you think there's a presumption
around the league that he wouldn't be a great teammate
as your quarterback? Um, he's so intense. I feel like
sometimes people don't understand who he is as a person though, Like, um,
I think they just seet him on TV. They don't
see him behind closed doors and see him like when
he's just himself. I mean, obviously he's a ultra competitor. Um.
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And sometimes he's very emotional too, and shows that emotion
at all times in the game. And I feel like
sometimes people resent that, UM, And you know, I think,
I don't know if I guess guys just like don't
like him for that, and I guess that would be
my opinion on it. But I mean, if you knew
the kind of guy was um and what he was about,
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I mean, he's just an ultra competitor and I love
that about him. Um. He just wants the best out
of everybody and wants the best out of himself. So it's, uh,
it's fun to be around a guy like that, UM,
I can see, but I can see the reverse side
of things where people can take it in the wrong
way and and not want a guy like that on
their team. Hunter Henry joining us in the Doug Gottlieb
Show felt like something changed with Melvin. Melvin Gordon, you're
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running back in New York. You mentioned that, well, you
guys are running the ball late against the Raiders, You
ran the ball exceptionally well late against the Giants or
was it something schematically, something in his confidence? Something click? Uh?
What do you think has changed with Melvin Gordon? Now
in the second month of the season, I think it
was a lot on us up front too. I mean
just clicking as a whole, um, as a whole unit,
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and us executing kind of the game plan and the
blocks and really strain him. Because this guy, once you can,
when you can put him in one on one situation
is pretty special and so um, just to be able
to you know, I think we had a lot of
new guys in the office line two that were you know,
coming together and trying to jail So, um, it's not
always I'll know, UM, it's usually you know, it can
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be on all of us up front. I mean tight
end room and office line room. And we we we
knew we had to be better. Um, and that was
an emphasis for us that we can. We were able
to do it, and that contact gave us confidence, gave us,
gave Melvine confidence. So um, you know we've got to
continue to do that. Last time you guys played at home,
there's a ton of Eagles fans, um, and you know,
a lot of people have pointed out that the percentage
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of fans that are opposing teams fans as opposed to
your fans. I know, last year in San Diego is
really hard. Right, team was leaving and people weren't taking
it great. Had to be hard to go out dinner. Sometimes.
San Diego loved their Chargers. You guys like San Diego,
which is a stadium thing and ownership thing, Like I
get all of that. But for a guy like look,
you played at ARC saw unbelievable fan base. We play
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a play in Little Rock Hell. Even when you play
in Dallas. Uh, just you know, your fans are your fans.
What's it like to play in front of a place
which is supposed to be your home stadium and yet
a lot of times it's half filled with with the
other teams fans. It's different, It's definitely different. But we realized,
I mean, this is a beautiful place, one of the
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most beautiful places in the world. A lot of people,
UM want to come see their team play out here, UM,
which is can be tough. Sometimes they want to see
their you know, they want to come to do a
vacation and maybe see their team play at the same time. UM.
So we know that. UM not always I think that
that will be there. But at the same time, I mean,
it can be tough. But um, as you can see,
I mean, the last two weeks were on the road, um,
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and we were fined, So none of that kind of
stuff affects us. I think we're really getting close and
closer at the team. UM, so that I think we
just kind of rallied together and come together and really
it doesn't matter who's in the stands and when we
have each other and we're you know, we we just
tending to push you can then you go powder blues
this Sunday? Do you? I mean you have to dig
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the powder blues more than the Royal blues, right, I
mean the Navy blues. Correct, Oh yeah, powder blues. Yeah,
So I don't Why don't they use that? Why is
that the alternate uniform? Why isn't that the go to
the standard uniform? Don't ask me, man, don't ask me.
I don't. I have no idea that I love the
powder blues. I think they're sweet, but um, I mean,
I guess it makes it a little extra special when
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we throw them on. Um. Maybe that's the case. Maybe
maybe probably help help some maybe sell a little bit better.
Um all these now, these groups celebrations are legal. Do
you guys spend any time during the week preparing for
what celebration you're gonna do when you score a touchdown. No,
we don't really practice, so we're not really Uh, we
feel like if you work on them too much, you know,
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you work on your celebration too much, and once you
want to do when you get in the end zone,
you probably you're you're not worried about, you know, actually
getting into the end zone, So you work on your
your post game and post after the celebration you probably
won't get and so just focus on getting them first. Yeah,
you don't want to jinx it either, right, Like if
you if you think about scoring a touchdown, you won't
score a touchdown. So you don't think about it and
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then you just react. And then sometimes you kind of
you kind of you know, you kind of you kind
of choke you kind of guys kind of I gotta
be honest, kind of have a boring team. I'm not
gonna lie to you, like in a in a good
way boring, but kind of boring. Like, right, you guys,
you kind of have workmen like dudes. That's what it's about. Man,
That's just I mean, that's my motto at least. I mean,
we have some guys that like the kind of are
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a little showy, but I mean that's to me, I
like that more than any thing. I like just I mean,
if you can go out there and get wins and
and be like that, I think it's kind of cool.
Raiders Chiefs tonight. Do you have a pick? Oh? Man,
I don't really know. Come on, you play book, you
play both of those teams. It's in Oakland. Who wins? Man,
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I don't. I don't know. The Chiefs are really good.
They're kind of rolling, and they just came off a loss. Um,
But I mean, I know the Raider is gonna be
fired up and cars I've continuing to go. Um. I
don't know. It's in the black holes, so I might.
I don't know, man, I might have to say the
Chiefs and I I think I might pull it out
just coming off the loss. All right, Well, listen best
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to Lucky in Thebroncos at StubHub on Sunday in the
Powder Blues. Hopefully they get you the ball this time. Yeah,
we don't need you blocking, right, All his fantasy guys
were like, dude, we don't need a Hunter blocking. Tell Wiz,
we don't need you blocking. We need you out in
the pattern like you were on that last drive. Especially
that I saw you run a corner round. That was
the thing of beauty. Um, thanks so much for joining
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U Hunter Best elect this weekend. Fox Sports Radio has
the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all
of our shows at Fox sports radio dot com and
within the I Heart Radio app. I've heard people go
crazy about this. The Celtics row into now. They lost
at home to Milwaukee Bucks, the Greek freak at thirties
seven points, I believe on their home floor. Remember the
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Bucks are playing without Jabari Park and of course, uh,
he's gonna return at some point this season from another
a second tour n A c L And look there
it was an emotional game Gordon Hayward with the video
to the fans. Gett even played in front of regular
season NBA Boston Celtic fans and yet still emotional video.
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His he had surgery. Apparently yesterday his agent said he
probably not gonna play this year. There is a slight
chance he can play at the end of the year.
Like all that's interesting. I offered up yesterday that I
do think that this helps Jayson Tatum, helps Jalen Brown,
because there'll be a bigger part, bigger focal point of
the offense and they'll have to develop sooner. But um,
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it's interesting you like you're having I was listening very
early this morning to Nick right on First Things First,
and he was critical of Kyrie going I so going
one on one. Even the Celtics broadcast, Tommy Heinsen talked
a little bit about his go you know, doing too
much going one on one, and Colin Cowards said earlier
today right there all now he misses Lebron. That is
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the biggest mistake ye here made Again, I look at
it completely the opposite. Coaches love it when you do
what you think you should do and it fails. Then
you go to them You're like, all right, this ain't working.
What do we do? Hey, how about you try it
my way? Now? It's the old Mike March. Mike March's
sole philosophy reber. Mike March is the former offensive coordinator
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head coach of the Greatest Show on Turf, The l
A Rams. Do you know what his soul philosophy was?
Ramost You should know this. You're a Rams fan. You
talked about it earlier. Right, Get running back some kind
of on a linebacker. Get a linebacker to cover a
running back. He always felt he had he had the
best running back in the league in Marshall Falk, and
he felt like if he could create whatever with the
movement wherever you get have a linebacker on him, that's
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where they're going right. Everything else is just a disguise
that in basketball, if you can get a five on
your one or a one on your five, either one
of those, that to mismatch. If there's a reason that
in the NBA now the Celtics have changed their roster
to try and match the Golden State Warriors because all
these wings are interchangeable to three. Four don't matter, even
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one doesn't really matter. Five rim protect your big guy
or in the Calves case, Kevin Love, that's who you
want to guard your point guard because they're the least
likely be able to guard out in the perimeter. So
does Kyrie overhandle the ball? Sure? Does he break off
and do his own thing. Absolutely, But if you're Brad Stevens,
it makes the conversation so much easier. Hey, um, remember
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all that stuff you talked about, how you want to
come here and buy in and I'm a great coach,
and well we've done it your way and it doesn't work.
As well, or why don't we just try to do
it my way? Make the one or two extra pass
that comes back to you, I will get a big
guy on you and all those same moves wind up
in a wide open shot. But I mean, like, look,
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you can't freak out about new teams. The Celtics had
eleven new guys in their roster, eleven. I haven't heard
anybody mentioned the fact that the Minnesota Timberwolves like got
Jimmy butl right, well, now playoff team. They went into
San Antonio got beat. Did you notice that San Antonio
Tony Parker is still not playing and Kawhile Leonard didn't
play and they still got beat. Like I don't think
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I don't think the um Sons are any good, but
they were down fifty eight at one point in time
last night to the Portland trail Blazers. Like it's the
first game of the year. It's an eight two game schedule.
Last year, the first game of the year, the Golden
State Warriors got beat by twenty on their home floor.
This year they lost to the Houston Rockets. So you're
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not wrong to think that Kyrie overhandles the ball goes
one on one too much, breaks off of their stuff.
You're not wrong, but old habits die hard. And even
if you might have been the guy that passed the
ball and waits to the mismatch in the preseason, you're
get in the regular season, your ego takes over. And
this is the best possible scenario for Brad Stevens. What
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would be worse is if he was going one on one,
dominating the league, breaking off of their offense, scoring forty
points and they keep winning games. That just continues to
build on bad habits, Whereas now they can go back
and go like, all right, we tried that didn't work,
Let's try it my wife. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Doug gott Leaps Show weekdays at three
p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
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the I Heart Radio app. The advantage in baseball is
getting a hit last. The advantage is not actually in
playing in your home field. But I think Yankee Stadium
is different one. All of these cats are playing now.
They all grew up like we grew up watching the
Yankees play. You have to remember, okay, that that if
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you grew up in the eighties like I did, the
Yankees weren't anything special. There was literally nothing special about
the Yankees. They were a dumpster fire. They were one
of these teams. They're kind of like the Lakers have
been the past couple of years, throw money at problems
and totally unable to get it together. And obviously Jeter
and Sada and Andy Pettitt and David Cone, Roger Clemens
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and now later Alex Rodriguez, like all of those guys
had this incredible run. No, most notably Jeter, and I
forgot Mario Rivera, John Wetland, but Jeter and Rivera too
iconic first ballot Hall of Famer's changed all of that.
But see, that's my generation. I'm forty one years old.
If you're in your thirties or in your twenties, like
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you grew up and the Yankees were it, and Yankee
Stadium was it. It was the pinnacle, absolute pinnacle. Additionally,
keep in mind that baseball players don't play in front
of vicious crowds like this. First. The crowd, I think
is a little bit more edgy now than it was
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previously because they're not the arrogant wine and cheese we
win every year crowd. They haven't won in a while
it's been a while since they've won a World Series.
This is a more likable team, but a less likable crowd.
Like they are into it because they actually understand it's hard.
Once you've been to the like now the like uh
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Fenway used to be a really tough, nasty place to play,
and sometimes can be. But they've had so much success
you kind of take it for grant a little bit.
There's not the edge. All the Boston teams win the
Celtics of one, now, the Patriots keep winning, the Red
Sox of won a couple of World Series. You don't
have the same edge Yankee stating they haven't won there
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a bunch, I mean, one World Series title in the
last decade. Like that's not that's not a lot for
those fans. So there's not the entitled fans. All these
guys grew up watching it. And even though it's a
new stadium, it's still Yankee Stadium. There's still the Yankee lore.
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And the last thing is these guys they're not used
to playing in front of these types of ironments. One,
because regular season baseball is that Chicko baar be a man,
Yeah a bit, that's Chicko back like even hear that
while the guy is pitching, you can hear anything because
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people with the exception where there's two strikes and everybody
stands up, you can hear it, you can see it.
But literal league baseball is not unless you played in
Williams Sport. You're not playing for a big crowds. High
school baseball number. Who have you ever been to a
high school baseball game? Have you? I don't know. I
haven't since I played high school base boy minute college
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baseball SEC A little bit big twelve, little bit college
World Series. Oh yeah, but outside of that, like, you're
not playing for the big crowds. Don't believe me. Here's Dallas, KIKEL,
New York is no joke. Yankee Stadium is a tough
place to play, man, And it was rocking these three games.
It's gonna be rocking Friday for us. He's right, Euston
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will be rocking. And remember the Rockets tanked before or
you know, during the tanking of the Philadelphia seventies like
they have. This is the team that bottomed out that
that tanked and and successful and it was successful doing it.
My fresh Station point is I didn't pick the guys up.
They were looking at me to saddle up and get
things going. Seems like they made the necessary Jasmin's put
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the ball in the right spots. When you play at home,
things are gonna happen. So it's hard to win on
the road in the playoffs. That's also one of the
joys of doing your job correctly. As visiting player, visiting
team against the Yankees, people alway gonna have a choice
of words for you. So I fully expect that Fox
Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
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Catch all of our shows at Fox sports radio dot
com and within the I Heart Radio app. Chris Simms
is a friend of mine. He was on the Dan
Patrick Show earlier today. He's a Bleacher Report college football analyst.
He had this to say about who he thinks is
the best quarterback in college football. Best quarterback in college
football today is who the one? Alright, so not pro
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I'm gonna just best quarterback Baker Mayfield. If you have
to win a game right now, the quarterback you want
to I'm going with Baker Mayfield. I am. I think
just his uh you know, his moxie, the way he
just he seems to thrive under the lights. He's a
very good athlete, and he has a legit NFL arm.
I mean, I've I've made some comparisons. I think he's
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very Russell Wilson ish in his play and the way
he does it. Yeah, I really do. I think he's
a guy that's gonna be when draft time comes around.
I think people are gonna go, oh, this kid's a
little bit more talented and better than you you expect.
And so when you what you see him on film,
you go, man, those are legit throws. Um. The problem
with the Baker Mayfield thing is I do think that
we're taking that Ohio State film and we're taking something.
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He was not good this weekend against Texas. Now, I
know Chris watched it, Chris being a former Texas quarterback,
he watched it. But by my own eyes and by
other people's accounts, they all said the same thing. I
also think that we're going to have to We're gonna
have to rethink this about Baker Mayfield. Uh. This is
a little bit like the Josh Hart argument. Josh Hart
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is uh placed for the Lakers, the first round pick
of the Lakers. I don't think he should have been
a first round pick. I'm not sure if he hadn't
been a first round pick, if he would be even
be a pro. He has all the intangibles you could
ever want. He plays really hard, but you know what,
he's not not ever going to be an NBA starter
on a good team. He's not. But what happened was
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not only was he a tremendous college player, but he
totally knew the system offensively, defensively, where to be, all
the different tricks to it, which is what you got
with Baker Mayfield. Like he's playing with a good a
rebuilt offensive line and sure new wide receiving corps, but
he has complete command and control of that offense, great
relationship with his head coach. He knows everything they're doing.
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And because he has all this age experience, he's been
in college for five years, quarterback for three years at Oklahoma,
four years in the Big Twelve, Like none of this
stuff is new to him. And so to compare that
with Sam Donald who's only now started one complete year,
Josh Rosen, who missed most of last year with an injury,
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I mean, imagine what they would look like after three
years of starting at the same school, four years of
starting overall so I like Baker may feel a lot,
but I do think we may be taking the place
he's making in college a little bit too seriously as
him being a pro be. Sure to catch live editions
of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at three pm
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Eastern noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. Twelve years ago up to the like
to the week since the Bush push. Of course that
was Reggie Bush is one of one of the great moments,
and Reggie Bush's star studded career at USC has kind
of have to spend some time with this year. On
The Doug Show on Fox Sports Radio, Reggie, what do
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you remember about about that game? Oh? Man, um, do
you guys hear me? Yeah? Okay, um, And I remember
you know, that was such a great game. Sorry, I'm
on my I'm on my phone and I've just been
having a lot of problems since this Apple update. So
me too, Reggie, Like, I woke up. This is the
worst thing. Like I woke up and um, and I
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you know, like I normally I have like the things
I do on my phone every day, and the Apple
update is cool, but things are like not running properly.
So I'm not the only one. This is not just
a me problem. This is a this is an Apple problem. Yeah,
my phone is going crazy. Man. It's like sometimes I
have to restart my phone just to call somebody. So anyways,
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back to the game though, Um, it was such an
amazing opportunity and experience to be able to play in
that game. Obviously, Notre Dame Stadium is you know, it's
a historical place to play, and that robbery you know,
goes back for many years. So I just remember that
game being a dog fight, it was a slug fest. Um.
You know, everything leading up to the game, uh, you
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know it was amazing, and then in the game lives
up to the hype. Um. You know. So I just
remember obviously the final seconds of that game, the fourth
and nine player, that Matt you know, throwing the ball
to Duane Er and I actually thought he was a touchdown. Um.
And then and then fast forwarding to the gold line,
(34:29):
you know, the push into the end zone and coming
out with the win and that victory was you know,
it was amazing. I just remember at the end of
the game that was one of the most I've never
been more exhausted after football game than that game? What
was that? That had to be the only game you
trailed at the half. I remember Matt threw an interception,
had a big drive before halftime, Matt through an interception,
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and so you went you were down at the half. UM,
do you like you remember the locker room? Do you
remember like the little like we all remember the bush push,
We all remember the big play, But what about the
locker room? What was that? Like? I remember after the game,
everybody in the locker room was just hugging. Everybody was
it was. You could see in everybody's face was just
emotionally drained, physically drained, and everybody was just kind of
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in awe that we were able to come back and
win that game. I remember, guys just still couldn't believe it.
I remember at the end of the in the locker room,
guys are like, I think I just was a part
of one of the greatest games ever. Um. You know,
some guys were in tears. Um. You know, it was
an extremely emotional game. You know. I remember before the game, UM,
when we pulled up to the stadium, because we always
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went to Notre Dame two days before, we pulled up
right in the middle of the pep rally of Notre Dame.
You know, so they were in the pep rally. Uh
and as soon as there are buses, put up the
whole fan to see if all their fans see if
Green just rushed our bus and started shaking our bus.
So you know, from that point on, we knew it
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was in it, and we knew that we had to
lean on each other more than ever to come out
with the win. Reggie Bush showing us on the Doug
Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio, what's your sense of
this Trojan team? Right? Like, they as much as they
only have one loss on the year, there's been a
lot of close calls which Sam Donald has had to
bail him out and and he's look, he's done. So
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I mean, look, with the exception of the Wazoo fumble,
which you know probably technically isn't his fault, although he
did fumble the football, like he's been able to bail
them out. Like, are they really that good or does
he just have that special something that makes them better
than they actually are? Well, I like what Sam Donald
brings um to the team obviously, is that letic ability
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alone makes them special. And I think, you know, we
have a good team. I love our running backs. Our
running game is strong. I think we've got to use
them a little bit more. But that's gonna be you know,
on the coaches too, I think too, you know, because
Sam Donald is still young. He's a great quarterback, he's
very athletic, but you can tell he's still learning. You know,
he's there's some pass that he's tried to force in there,
(37:05):
to force the issue when he hasn't had to. But
I think, you know, the coaching staff can do a
better job. I just maybe taking some of the pressure
off of him to throw the ball as much run
the ball. It's pound to run obviously. You know, I'm
a little bias because I'm a running back, but we
have two great running back every great office the line.
So take some of that fresh office Sam Donald with
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his arm, you know, maybe give him some easy stuff
to get the ball out of his hands quick, some
boot legs, some naked uh some screens, some quick throws,
and then as the game progrants to allow him to
stretch the ball down the field, which I've seen him
make some throws that I've played with quarterbacks that I
know couldn't make. Some of those throws down the field. So, um,
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you know, it'll be interesting to see what happens this
week is gonna be a tough game for Do you
want to name those quarterbacks that that that I can't
make those throws down the field. No, but you can
just look at the teams I played on you can
probably figure it out. Dude, were you going with a
sweater yesterday on TV? Like you're in l A? Like
it is the studio that cold that you had to
go sweater? So you know it's um, I kind of
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was just going for the look. Um you know it
was actually hot as hell outside. I know, I left
right for I left right where you got there. And
I was like, wait, Reggie's in a sweater, Like wow,
is he like maybe he just swoll up and he's
just you know, like he didn't want to look. Well
I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. And it
was like it was like a really wintery sweater. It's
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ninety degrees in l A, do you know? And I
couldn't used it this past weekend and uh, I was
at the Minnesota Green Bay game doing some postgame analysis
for that and it was in the forties. I couldn't
believe it. There's already in the forty degree forties in Minnesota. Yeah,
and and then I landed back in l A. And
it's like in the nineties, eighties and nineties. But that's
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a great point about California. Yeah, you played in Buffalo
for for San Diego. Dude, to play in Buffalo, that's
gotta be You're like, you gotta be like, this is
one I'm playing for the Bills and to eat is cold,
cold as balls out of here. This is this is
as bad as it gets. Right, I'm okay with playing
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in the cold, with the practicing part of the cold.
That's like, we gotta end up facility for a reason.
I actually I got, I got, I got a good
one I'll share with you. So my freshman year, I
went to Notre Dame, Okay, and I was like, I'd
always played on good basketball teams and I'd never struggled
in school, and our basketball team sucked, and I was
like the school there was hard. And I remember it
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was I was walking home from practice one night and
I had all this stuff on, right, like, yeah, your
backpack and you get your hoop bag and you get
like a beanie on your gloves and you're still cold,
and the winds blowing, and I slipped on the ice
and I fell and I was like that. I'm like
laying there and I was like, you know what if
I died right here, no one would even know because
it's so cold. I can't even I can't even yell.
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I'm too cold even. Yeah, And it was at that
moment it was like, I can't do this. I just
can't do this anymore. Um, I want to still, I
want to get a couple of thoughts on Green Bay.
You've seen Hundley a lot from his time at U
c l A. You saw him this past weekend, like, look,
I understand he wasn't expecting to play, but please tell
me he can be better than you was Sunday. Well,
(40:20):
I hope that he can be better than Sunday. Sorry,
can you guys still hear me? Okay, Um, yeah, I
hope that he can may be better than Sunday. And
then also, yeah, you know, listen the way he got
thrown into the game. Um, you know, Abcviously, I'm sure
he wasn't expecting that. You know, Aaron Rodgers is great,
and you know he's usually pretty healthy throughout the season,
He's had some bumps and bruises here and there. But um,
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you know, listen, he got thrown into a game which
in that game had a lot of meeting to it,
right Like it's a divisional opponent. Um, you know, the
Packers are four and one, looking to go five and
want to stay at the top of the vision. And
then obviously with you know, coach Zimmerman and the defense
that he runs, you know, they do a great job
at confusing you. They you know, they run a lot
(41:02):
of different packages. As you saw, they had a lot
of sacks in that game because just Hunty wasn't ready
for that. You know, you can see it on his eyes.
You know. I remember even looking across the football field
from the sideline and there's at one point where he
had his hand his arms were folded and they had
just uh, he had just thrown interception and they had
just scored a touchdown. His arms were folded, And I
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was saying to myself and to other people, like, he
needs to be firing up his team right now more
than ever because they are leaning on him and looking
to him to help them to win his football game,
you know. And and those are the things that. Obviously
he'll learn as he grows and matures, you know, within
this game. But he's definitely got his work cut out
for him because now they're in a tough spot where
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you know, listen, this this thing can go either their
way for Green Bay, you know, and and it's gonna
be more important now than ever for them for him
to really start to pick up his game, because he's
got to play a lot better for them to be
able to have any shot of winning the division. Last thing,
have you seen say Kuon Berkley? Yes? I have that.
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Boy is a beast. Will his game translate in the NFL?
A hundred percent? Will um? He's strong too, He's extremely
strong too. I love the way he runs the football.
He's a beast. I was just talking to some other kids.
I just finished speaking at the high school to some
kids and and then they brought up say Pon Brockery
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to me and they said, what you're thinking about him?
I said, He's an absolute beast. I mean a kid.
He can do everything right. He's returning kicks, he's catching
him on the backfield, and he runs hard between tackles.
I think he is prime to uh have a great
long career in the NFL. Uh you when when you what?
When high school? Do you speak at? Um? I apologize,
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on't even know what you're like? Thank you Cleveland, You're
not in Cleveland. I was just gonna ask for and
I did it more free, and I was just gonna
ask you because last time we talked, we do you
let them introduce you as highsman Trophy winner because you did,
in fact win the Heisman Trophy. Yeah, I mean everybody
introducing me is that? You know? And I'm not gonna
I must say no, don't don't say that. Yeah, everybody
(43:13):
always introducing me? Is that? So? Um? You know, I'll
just roll with whatever you know. Um, I don't. It
doesn't bother me either way. Alright. I still consider you
the rightful Heisman Trophy winner. So does everybody else. Uh
we we we appreciate you. Join us. By the way,
the Reggie Bush Weekend that's June through UM next year
in San Diego. Do you have your own foundation? What
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is your foundation? With the money you raise? What do
you do with it? Uh? So we supported last year.
We same year we supported Saint Jude Chudan's Hospital, and
then we also support another organization called the Birthday Party Project.
And what they do is they go around homeless organizations
all around the US and they throw birthday wait, throw
(43:57):
birthday parties for who. I'm sorry, you said we throw
birthday parties for and then I'll send you cut out.
Oh sorry. So the Birthday Party Project is a foundation, nonprofit.
They go around the homeless shelters all around the US
and they throw birthday parties for homeless kids. That's awesome.
That's awesome. You get Reggie Bush Weekend dot com to
(44:17):
find out more about it. That'll be down in June.
Of course, all you have do is say San Diego
and Reggie Bush, and most people come running. We know
we will. Reggie, thanks so much for joining us. Welcome
back to southern California. Take off that damn sweater. Okay,
all right, that's Reggie Bush joining us.
This is the best of the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Boom, What Up America, Doug Gottlieb Show,
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We have Thursday Night Football, which kind of seems like
(00:22):
it's getting lost in the wash, right, can say? Chiefs,
after getting stomped at home, take on the Oakland Eighties tonight.
And of course, in addition to more NBA action, we
have Major League Baseball. Dodgers Cubs get another shot at
the Dodgers, and instead of the Cubs going quietly tonight,
they'll get a chance to get closer and make the
series three games to Clayton Kershaw on the bump for
(00:44):
the Dodgers. Let's let's start there, uh. Quick programming note,
Hunter Henry tight End, who did book Kiss first game
of the season against the Broncos book Kiss last weekend
huge in their win over these same Oakland Raiders. They
play the Broncos at a home this week. We'll get
(01:04):
Hunter Henry's thoughts on just how they've have they eliminated
or have they rectified the issues of the past where
they lost close games, seeing as they've now won two
close games in a row. Hunter Henry ten minutes Away
or so here on the Doug Olip Show on Fox
Sports Radio. My sister has three children. I have three children.
(01:26):
My brother has three children. That's nine, right, And I
never forget when my sister had her daughter fifteen years
ago or so, and um, I think at some point
I asked her. I said like, did you have natural
childbirth or what? I think that was the question. And
(01:48):
at that point in time, I think even my own
term of natural childbirth was a little bit different than
what natural childbirth. I think how many people would term it.
She's like, well, what do you can her natural childbirth?
And I was like, well, I don't know. Did you
have a C section? She's like, well, no, that's not
what NET that is. Ah, that is a sorry for
(02:09):
the word vaginal delivery, but that's not what they call
natural Childernathal rave Worth is no no drugs, And I
was like, well, did you have drugs? She said, Well,
let me just ask you this. You have a tooth
taken out. Do you have no vocaine? Said Yeah, she's like,
I had a baby taken out of me. What do
you think I bring that up? Because we baseball operated
(02:32):
for years as if it could live without replay and
and the three ring circus and clown show. That is
major League Baseball. Um, that is major League Baseball proved
beyond a reasonable doubt, something that we know in a
(02:52):
court of law, we know in a court of law
to be true, which is ralmos. Do you know what
the worst form of evidence is, the least reliable form
of evidence is during a trial. I would think this
(03:13):
is kind of shocking to say, but I wouldn't think
the person who actually saw what happened. Yes, eyewitness testimony
is seen to be the least reliable form of testimony.
I mean, like, listen, we're all kind of screwed up
because we didn't understand the numbers during the o J trial,
like one million. So you're saying there's a chance like
no one in twenty million is a scientific fact actually right,
(03:36):
Whereas eye witness testimony is the least reliable and baseball
Baseball is all screwed up like for years. Look, it's
screwed up in that the initial call as to whether
or not you swing, You offered it a pitch, right,
you who makes the original call? It's the plate umpire. No,
I don't know about you, but listen, I'm not a geck.
(03:58):
Maybe these guys are gecko. Maybe their eyes can go
in opposite directions. But the idea that you can see
the pitch whether or not it's a strike and if
the batter offered at the pitch at the exact same time,
is uh, remarkable physics or it's just an impossibility. So
(04:22):
what baseball has done for years, and we talked a
little bit about this yesterday, is you got the appeal
right because now in fairness first and third base. Though
it's eyewitness testimony, and though there's other things they're looking for,
they do have a great shot at it and a
split second decision. They can take a look at it.
(04:42):
It's an opinion. So baseball in many ways has understood
that the individual umpire is in fact flawed. An appeal
is nothing more than a review, is nothing more than
a replay. The only problem with it is it uses
eyewitness testimony. The other part of the appeal is what
what we talked about yesterday. It's the dumbest thing in sports.
(05:07):
It's like another umpire has a secret. I got a secret,
but you can't. You have to ask me, you have
to point to me. Otherwise I'm gonna keep that secret
to myself. That's what happened the night before. Aaron Judge
round second base. They caught is a caught flyball. They
throw him out at first base. He is that we
(05:28):
think he's pegged at first. They go to the replay
and turns out he was safe. Meanwhile, he missed second base,
and there's an umpire standing right there. And the whole
time they go to New York, they got the replay,
they're discussing all this stuff, the second place umpire newly
entire time that Aaron Judge had missed second base, but
he's not allowed to say anything until you step on
(05:48):
the base and point to him and go like, yeah,
I had the answer the whole time, but yesterday. It's
beyond ridiculousness. In addition to the fact that baseball waited
past any other professional and collegiance sport to to allow
replay into their most important games, remember Baseball's hold out, Like, nah,
(06:09):
that's just part of baseball. You mean completely butchering safe
and out completely butchering a home run. It's like the
guy who's like, look, I know my plane could have
radar and it could be much safer, but I prefer
to wing it. That was baseball for a long time.
You know there's thunderstorms and lightning and planes crash. But
you know what, I got my spidy senses on. I
(06:29):
can just land the plane. Last night, Curtis Granderson is
up at the play Curtis Granderson as its funny as
as UH explain to my son has watched the games,
like Churtis Granderson is one of those guys that used
to be really good, is super likable, eventually be on TV.
Not particularly good now. A matter of fact, you can
correlate directly when the Dodgers traded for Curtis Granderson, when
(06:50):
they went into the tank. It's crazy, but Curtis Granderson
is up there, uh, with one out runner at first base.
He's facing Wade Davis and on a curveball, he swings
and misses, and strike three is dropped. Here's what ensued.
Oh my goodness, did he just call it a foul ball?
(07:11):
He did? He just called it a foul ball. That's ridiculous.
Can't change it. That is shocking. Eric Cooper has come
in apparently and overruled Jim Wolf, and Joe Madden is
(07:33):
beside himself. Uh that is uh Turner Sports with the
call I'm a man. Uh. Brian Anderson of course Ron
Darling as as the analyst, and Eric Cooper is like, oh,
I know he swung and he hit the ball. Now
here's what's crazy about it. You can't use replay to
review this. So you you have replay, but you don't
(07:54):
have replay in baseball. Made even worse is there's a
brand new, I mean brand new, beautiful, state of the
art JumboTron to which anybody in the world can look
out at center field and Joe Maddenson there going. Would
you just look at the video now? I saw it
with my own twice, right because I witness testimony is
(08:19):
so good. I saw it with my heard it with
my ear. I saw it, I heard it. Did you
hear it? I heard it. I totally ordered you already.
I heard it. I heard it alright, he sw and
Joe Man is like, this is crazy. This is nuts. Guys.
Gys listen. I know you're not supposed to use replay,
but it's right there. They're like, nap, can't look up
at it, can't use it. I understand when a woman
(08:42):
is giving birth, there's a uh, there's a uh. What's what?
What's the point that the point of note is a
point of no return to which you can no longer
get the epidural right? You get past dilated past I
don't know what, and like, sorry, lady, can't give you drugs.
You're on your own. Enjoy. You're like one of those
settler women out in the out in the woods. But
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but this wasn't one of those cases. This just just
pick up, just just peak, just look up and go like, yeah,
I might have thought I saw up, but you know,
I'm looking at the replay there. You can land a
plane without radar, but it doesn't make it a good idea.
What is it that Chris Rock you say you can
drive a car with your feet doesn't make it a
good idea? Baseball so screwed up. Between the appeal process
(09:30):
and the idea that some plays you can bring in
some other mooks who they didn't see it either. Meanwhile,
you have all the technology in the world telling you
the answer right away. I get it. We all grew
up doing math and a calculator was lazy. But you
know what, calculator was right. The calculator never forgets to
(09:54):
carry the three. It just doesn't ah decimal, damn it.
Calculat didn't forget that. Human error. Human error. Congratulations baseball
in the most baseball way ever. You screwed up through
Joe Madden out of the game didn't seem to matter,
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because after giving up a monster home run to Justin Turner,
Wade Davis ends up getting a two inning save and
the Cubs lived to play another day. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Doug gott Leaps Show weekdays
at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Hunter Henry tight
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End for the l A Chargers joins us, am, I
I'm not over selling right. That was a that was
a big win Sunday correct. Oh yeah, oh yeah, it was.
It was huge. So we definitely needed it. Um division
win a team that's goin on, like you said, like
all those things, he said, I mean it was huge
for us. Um Okay. So when it's close, though, I mean,
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I don't know how you I don't know if you
get if you take a step back. But like I'm
sitting there watching at home, like every charter game seems
to be the same, right, everyone comes down to a
last second drive where Philip is trying to get you
down the field, maybe to get you touchdown, maybe get
you in field goal range. Um, in the moment, are
you feeling that or you simply kind of locked in
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on the fact that, by the way, you were getting
open all the time? How locked in on the moment
are you? How much do you realize how similar this
is to so many other games? Oh? Yeah, they're pretty
much all similar. Um. I think we kind of realized that.
I mean, every game in this league, with us especially,
it's um right there on the brink of you know,
a play or two can make a big difference. So
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you know, we were able to make the plays when
they counted, UM, and that was huge for us. I
think that's use for the whole team, just a confidence
builder and continue to build on that. Yeah, I gotta
I gotta be honest though. Okay, Um, I'm sitting there
and I'm I'm I'm I'm watching you, and you had
two explosive plays on that last drive, and I'm thinking,
you know, maybe maybe you should punch it in the
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end zone. Here. Was there any discussion in the huddle
because the last play that Philip took he took a
snap and then laid down in the middle of the
field to set up the field goal. Was there any thought,
you know, we shouldn't leave this a chance. Let's just
got score touchdown. We've we've been bitten before by field
goal mistakes. Um, there was talk of it. Just we
were rolling at the offensive group of running the football
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too at the end there, so we felt like maybe
we should do a few more runs, maybe the bus one.
But it was the right choice. I mean, it was
the smart decision to do. Um. They didn't have you know,
they we made amuse all their time out and so um,
you know, we we we brought in a great kicker
and Nick, so we were very confident. We've seen him kick, um,
I mean, he's kicked here for a long time so
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and he's kicked in this league for a long time,
and he's been in the situations. So we did we
had a lot of faith in him, um, and it
was good to have kind of him step up and
and and be able to kick a big field goal.
All right, So you take on the Brown because this
Sunday at home last time he took on the Broncos,
you didn't have a catch? What were they doing to
keep you out of to make you so unproductive in
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comparison to for example, this past Sunday. Um, I didn't.
I didn't run as many routes as I have been either. Um.
I mean we checked out of a lot of stuff.
They were kind of given some different looks that we
had to check out of. Um two runs and different
things like that. But uh, we also didn't get in
the flow as an offense as a whole pretty much
till the ends. Um. So I think I got the whole.
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We just gotta stay in rhythm, um and uh be
better and early down so that we can kind of
get our offense rolling and get everybody kind of involved.
Hunter Henry joining us in the Doug Gotlip Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. Uh did you see this player's
only poll? Have you? Have you seen the results to this? Okay,
So they have the best trash talkers in the NFL.
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Cam Newton One Philip Rivers too. Now, I've seen Philip
Rivers talk to other teams, but that the trash talk
would you agree with that that he's one of you
didn't have to say he's the second best. But is
he among the elite trash talkers in the NFL? Oh yeah,
he's a slightly pretty good trash talker. I'm not gonna lie.
He's uh, he's very slow with this, but he's pretty good. Um,
(14:15):
he's he's pretty smooth to what he says. It's pretty
funny sometimes. Okay, then he's also what is the third
on the list of who is one quarterback you would
not want as a teammate? Why would he be third?
Jake Cutler's one Cam Newtons. It should be pointed out
he received only six percent of the vote, right, so
it's not like it's not like he had vote six
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percent the vote. Why do you think there's a presumption
around the league that he wouldn't be a great teammate
as your quarterback? Um, he's so intense. I feel like
sometimes people don't understand who he is as a person though, Like, um,
I think they just seet him on TV. They don't
see him behind closed doors and see him like when
he's just himself. I mean, obviously he's a ultra competitor. Um.
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And sometimes he's very emotional too, and shows that emotion
at all times in the game. And I feel like
sometimes people resent that, UM, And you know, I think,
I don't know if I guess guys just like don't
like him for that, and I guess that would be
my opinion on it. But I mean, if you knew
the kind of guy was um and what he was about,
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I mean, he's just an ultra competitor and I love
that about him. Um. He just wants the best out
of everybody and wants the best out of himself. So it's, uh,
it's fun to be around a guy like that, UM,
I can see, but I can see the reverse side
of things where people can take it in the wrong
way and and not want a guy like that on
their team. Hunter Henry joining us in the Doug Gottlieb
Show felt like something changed with Melvin. Melvin Gordon, you're
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running back in New York. You mentioned that, well, you
guys are running the ball late against the Raiders, You
ran the ball exceptionally well late against the Giants or
was it something schematically, something in his confidence? Something click? Uh?
What do you think has changed with Melvin Gordon? Now
in the second month of the season, I think it
was a lot on us up front too. I mean
just clicking as a whole, um, as a whole unit,
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and us executing kind of the game plan and the
blocks and really strain him. Because this guy, once you can,
when you can put him in one on one situation
is pretty special and so um, just to be able
to you know, I think we had a lot of
new guys in the office line two that were you know,
coming together and trying to jail So, um, it's not
always I'll know, UM, it's usually you know, it can
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be on all of us up front. I mean tight
end room and office line room. And we we we
knew we had to be better. Um, and that was
an emphasis for us that we can. We were able
to do it, and that contact gave us confidence, gave us,
gave Melvine confidence. So um, you know we've got to
continue to do that. Last time you guys played at home,
there's a ton of Eagles fans, um, and you know,
a lot of people have pointed out that the percentage
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of fans that are opposing teams fans as opposed to
your fans. I know, last year in San Diego is
really hard. Right, team was leaving and people weren't taking
it great. Had to be hard to go out dinner. Sometimes.
San Diego loved their Chargers. You guys like San Diego,
which is a stadium thing and ownership thing, Like I
get all of that. But for a guy like look,
you played at ARC saw unbelievable fan base. We play
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a play in Little Rock Hell. Even when you play
in Dallas. Uh, just you know, your fans are your fans.
What's it like to play in front of a place
which is supposed to be your home stadium and yet
a lot of times it's half filled with with the
other teams fans. It's different, It's definitely different. But we realized,
I mean, this is a beautiful place, one of the
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most beautiful places in the world. A lot of people,
UM want to come see their team play out here, UM,
which is can be tough. Sometimes they want to see
their you know, they want to come to do a
vacation and maybe see their team play at the same time. UM.
So we know that. UM not always I think that
that will be there. But at the same time, I mean,
it can be tough. But um, as you can see,
I mean, the last two weeks were on the road, um,
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and we were fined, So none of that kind of
stuff affects us. I think we're really getting close and
closer at the team. UM, so that I think we
just kind of rallied together and come together and really
it doesn't matter who's in the stands and when we
have each other and we're you know, we we just
tending to push you can then you go powder blues
this Sunday? Do you? I mean you have to dig
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the powder blues more than the Royal blues, right, I
mean the Navy blues. Correct, Oh yeah, powder blues. Yeah,
So I don't Why don't they use that? Why is
that the alternate uniform? Why isn't that the go to
the standard uniform? Don't ask me, man, don't ask me.
I don't. I have no idea that I love the
powder blues. I think they're sweet, but um, I mean,
I guess it makes it a little extra special when
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we throw them on. Um. Maybe that's the case. Maybe
maybe probably help help some maybe sell a little bit better.
Um all these now, these groups celebrations are legal. Do
you guys spend any time during the week preparing for
what celebration you're gonna do when you score a touchdown. No,
we don't really practice, so we're not really Uh, we
feel like if you work on them too much, you know,
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you work on your celebration too much, and once you
want to do when you get in the end zone,
you probably you're you're not worried about, you know, actually
getting into the end zone, So you work on your
your post game and post after the celebration you probably
won't get and so just focus on getting them first. Yeah,
you don't want to jinx it either, right, Like if
you if you think about scoring a touchdown, you won't
score a touchdown. So you don't think about it and
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then you just react. And then sometimes you kind of
you kind of you know, you kind of you kind
of choke you kind of guys kind of I gotta
be honest, kind of have a boring team. I'm not
gonna lie to you, like in a in a good
way boring, but kind of boring. Like, right, you guys,
you kind of have workmen like dudes. That's what it's about. Man,
That's just I mean, that's my motto at least. I mean,
we have some guys that like the kind of are
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a little showy, but I mean that's to me, I
like that more than any thing. I like just I mean,
if you can go out there and get wins and
and be like that, I think it's kind of cool.
Raiders Chiefs tonight. Do you have a pick? Oh? Man,
I don't really know. Come on, you play book, you
play both of those teams. It's in Oakland. Who wins? Man,
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I don't. I don't know. The Chiefs are really good.
They're kind of rolling, and they just came off a loss. Um,
But I mean, I know the Raider is gonna be
fired up and cars I've continuing to go. Um. I
don't know. It's in the black holes, so I might.
I don't know, man, I might have to say the
Chiefs and I I think I might pull it out
just coming off the loss. All right, Well, listen best
(20:10):
to Lucky in Thebroncos at StubHub on Sunday in the
Powder Blues. Hopefully they get you the ball this time. Yeah,
we don't need you blocking, right, All his fantasy guys
were like, dude, we don't need a Hunter blocking. Tell Wiz,
we don't need you blocking. We need you out in
the pattern like you were on that last drive. Especially
that I saw you run a corner round. That was
the thing of beauty. Um, thanks so much for joining
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U Hunter Best elect this weekend. Fox Sports Radio has
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within the I Heart Radio app. I've heard people go
crazy about this. The Celtics row into now. They lost
at home to Milwaukee Bucks, the Greek freak at thirties
seven points, I believe on their home floor. Remember the
(20:51):
Bucks are playing without Jabari Park and of course, uh,
he's gonna return at some point this season from another
a second tour n A c L And look there
it was an emotional game Gordon Hayward with the video
to the fans. Gett even played in front of regular
season NBA Boston Celtic fans and yet still emotional video.
(21:13):
His he had surgery. Apparently yesterday his agent said he
probably not gonna play this year. There is a slight
chance he can play at the end of the year.
Like all that's interesting. I offered up yesterday that I
do think that this helps Jayson Tatum, helps Jalen Brown,
because there'll be a bigger part, bigger focal point of
the offense and they'll have to develop sooner. But um,
(21:35):
it's interesting you like you're having I was listening very
early this morning to Nick right on First Things First,
and he was critical of Kyrie going I so going
one on one. Even the Celtics broadcast, Tommy Heinsen talked
a little bit about his go you know, doing too
much going one on one, and Colin Cowards said earlier
today right there all now he misses Lebron. That is
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the biggest mistake ye here made Again, I look at
it completely the opposite. Coaches love it when you do
what you think you should do and it fails. Then
you go to them You're like, all right, this ain't working.
What do we do? Hey, how about you try it
my way? Now? It's the old Mike March. Mike March's
sole philosophy reber. Mike March is the former offensive coordinator
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head coach of the Greatest Show on Turf, The l
A Rams. Do you know what his soul philosophy was?
Ramost You should know this. You're a Rams fan. You
talked about it earlier. Right, Get running back some kind
of on a linebacker. Get a linebacker to cover a
running back. He always felt he had he had the
best running back in the league in Marshall Falk, and
he felt like if he could create whatever with the
movement wherever you get have a linebacker on him, that's
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where they're going right. Everything else is just a disguise
that in basketball, if you can get a five on
your one or a one on your five, either one
of those, that to mismatch. If there's a reason that
in the NBA now the Celtics have changed their roster
to try and match the Golden State Warriors because all
these wings are interchangeable to three. Four don't matter, even
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one doesn't really matter. Five rim protect your big guy
or in the Calves case, Kevin Love, that's who you
want to guard your point guard because they're the least
likely be able to guard out in the perimeter. So
does Kyrie overhandle the ball? Sure? Does he break off
and do his own thing. Absolutely, But if you're Brad Stevens,
it makes the conversation so much easier. Hey, um, remember
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all that stuff you talked about, how you want to
come here and buy in and I'm a great coach,
and well we've done it your way and it doesn't work.
As well, or why don't we just try to do
it my way? Make the one or two extra pass
that comes back to you, I will get a big
guy on you and all those same moves wind up
in a wide open shot. But I mean, like, look,
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you can't freak out about new teams. The Celtics had
eleven new guys in their roster, eleven. I haven't heard
anybody mentioned the fact that the Minnesota Timberwolves like got
Jimmy butl right, well, now playoff team. They went into
San Antonio got beat. Did you notice that San Antonio
Tony Parker is still not playing and Kawhile Leonard didn't
play and they still got beat. Like I don't think
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I don't think the um Sons are any good, but
they were down fifty eight at one point in time
last night to the Portland trail Blazers. Like it's the
first game of the year. It's an eight two game schedule.
Last year, the first game of the year, the Golden
State Warriors got beat by twenty on their home floor.
This year they lost to the Houston Rockets. So you're
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not wrong to think that Kyrie overhandles the ball goes
one on one too much, breaks off of their stuff.
You're not wrong, but old habits die hard. And even
if you might have been the guy that passed the
ball and waits to the mismatch in the preseason, you're
get in the regular season, your ego takes over. And
this is the best possible scenario for Brad Stevens. What
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would be worse is if he was going one on one,
dominating the league, breaking off of their offense, scoring forty
points and they keep winning games. That just continues to
build on bad habits, Whereas now they can go back
and go like, all right, we tried that didn't work,
Let's try it my wife. Be sure to catch live
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the I Heart Radio app. The advantage in baseball is
getting a hit last. The advantage is not actually in
playing in your home field. But I think Yankee Stadium
is different one. All of these cats are playing now.
They all grew up like we grew up watching the
Yankees play. You have to remember, okay, that that if
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you grew up in the eighties like I did, the
Yankees weren't anything special. There was literally nothing special about
the Yankees. They were a dumpster fire. They were one
of these teams. They're kind of like the Lakers have
been the past couple of years, throw money at problems
and totally unable to get it together. And obviously Jeter
and Sada and Andy Pettitt and David Cone, Roger Clemens
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and now later Alex Rodriguez, like all of those guys
had this incredible run. No, most notably Jeter, and I
forgot Mario Rivera, John Wetland, but Jeter and Rivera too
iconic first ballot Hall of Famer's changed all of that.
But see, that's my generation. I'm forty one years old.
If you're in your thirties or in your twenties, like
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you grew up and the Yankees were it, and Yankee
Stadium was it. It was the pinnacle, absolute pinnacle. Additionally,
keep in mind that baseball players don't play in front
of vicious crowds like this. First. The crowd, I think
is a little bit more edgy now than it was
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previously because they're not the arrogant wine and cheese we
win every year crowd. They haven't won in a while
it's been a while since they've won a World Series.
This is a more likable team, but a less likable crowd.
Like they are into it because they actually understand it's hard.
Once you've been to the like now the like uh
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Fenway used to be a really tough, nasty place to play,
and sometimes can be. But they've had so much success
you kind of take it for grant a little bit.
There's not the edge. All the Boston teams win the
Celtics of one, now, the Patriots keep winning, the Red
Sox of won a couple of World Series. You don't
have the same edge Yankee stating they haven't won there
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a bunch, I mean, one World Series title in the
last decade. Like that's not that's not a lot for
those fans. So there's not the entitled fans. All these
guys grew up watching it. And even though it's a
new stadium, it's still Yankee Stadium. There's still the Yankee lore.
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And the last thing is these guys they're not used
to playing in front of these types of ironments. One,
because regular season baseball is that Chicko baar be a man,
Yeah a bit, that's Chicko back like even hear that
while the guy is pitching, you can hear anything because
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people with the exception where there's two strikes and everybody
stands up, you can hear it, you can see it.
But literal league baseball is not unless you played in
Williams Sport. You're not playing for a big crowds. High
school baseball number. Who have you ever been to a
high school baseball game? Have you? I don't know. I
haven't since I played high school base boy minute college
(28:40):
baseball SEC A little bit big twelve, little bit college
World Series. Oh yeah, but outside of that, like, you're
not playing for the big crowds. Don't believe me. Here's Dallas, KIKEL,
New York is no joke. Yankee Stadium is a tough
place to play, man, And it was rocking these three games.
It's gonna be rocking Friday for us. He's right, Euston
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will be rocking. And remember the Rockets tanked before or
you know, during the tanking of the Philadelphia seventies like
they have. This is the team that bottomed out that
that tanked and and successful and it was successful doing it.
My fresh Station point is I didn't pick the guys up.
They were looking at me to saddle up and get
things going. Seems like they made the necessary Jasmin's put
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the ball in the right spots. When you play at home,
things are gonna happen. So it's hard to win on
the road in the playoffs. That's also one of the
joys of doing your job correctly. As visiting player, visiting
team against the Yankees, people alway gonna have a choice
of words for you. So I fully expect that Fox
Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
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Catch all of our shows at Fox sports radio dot
com and within the I Heart Radio app. Chris Simms
is a friend of mine. He was on the Dan
Patrick Show earlier today. He's a Bleacher Report college football analyst.
He had this to say about who he thinks is
the best quarterback in college football. Best quarterback in college
football today is who the one? Alright, so not pro
(30:05):
I'm gonna just best quarterback Baker Mayfield. If you have
to win a game right now, the quarterback you want
to I'm going with Baker Mayfield. I am. I think
just his uh you know, his moxie, the way he
just he seems to thrive under the lights. He's a
very good athlete, and he has a legit NFL arm.
I mean, I've I've made some comparisons. I think he's
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very Russell Wilson ish in his play and the way
he does it. Yeah, I really do. I think he's
a guy that's gonna be when draft time comes around.
I think people are gonna go, oh, this kid's a
little bit more talented and better than you you expect.
And so when you what you see him on film,
you go, man, those are legit throws. Um. The problem
with the Baker Mayfield thing is I do think that
we're taking that Ohio State film and we're taking something.
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He was not good this weekend against Texas. Now, I
know Chris watched it, Chris being a former Texas quarterback,
he watched it. But by my own eyes and by
other people's accounts, they all said the same thing. I
also think that we're going to have to We're gonna
have to rethink this about Baker Mayfield. Uh. This is
a little bit like the Josh Hart argument. Josh Hart
(31:11):
is uh placed for the Lakers, the first round pick
of the Lakers. I don't think he should have been
a first round pick. I'm not sure if he hadn't
been a first round pick, if he would be even
be a pro. He has all the intangibles you could
ever want. He plays really hard, but you know what,
he's not not ever going to be an NBA starter
on a good team. He's not. But what happened was
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not only was he a tremendous college player, but he
totally knew the system offensively, defensively, where to be, all
the different tricks to it, which is what you got
with Baker Mayfield. Like he's playing with a good a
rebuilt offensive line and sure new wide receiving corps, but
he has complete command and control of that offense, great
relationship with his head coach. He knows everything they're doing.
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And because he has all this age experience, he's been
in college for five years, quarterback for three years at Oklahoma,
four years in the Big Twelve, Like none of this
stuff is new to him. And so to compare that
with Sam Donald who's only now started one complete year,
Josh Rosen, who missed most of last year with an injury,
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I mean, imagine what they would look like after three
years of starting at the same school, four years of
starting overall so I like Baker may feel a lot,
but I do think we may be taking the place
he's making in college a little bit too seriously as
him being a pro be. Sure to catch live editions
of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at three pm
(32:40):
Eastern noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. Twelve years ago up to the like
to the week since the Bush push. Of course that
was Reggie Bush is one of one of the great moments,
and Reggie Bush's star studded career at USC has kind
of have to spend some time with this year. On
The Doug Show on Fox Sports Radio, Reggie, what do
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you remember about about that game? Oh? Man, um, do
you guys hear me? Yeah? Okay, um, And I remember
you know, that was such a great game. Sorry, I'm
on my I'm on my phone and I've just been
having a lot of problems since this Apple update. So
me too, Reggie, Like, I woke up. This is the
worst thing. Like I woke up and um, and I
(33:25):
you know, like I normally I have like the things
I do on my phone every day, and the Apple
update is cool, but things are like not running properly.
So I'm not the only one. This is not just
a me problem. This is a this is an Apple problem. Yeah,
my phone is going crazy. Man. It's like sometimes I
have to restart my phone just to call somebody. So anyways,
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back to the game though, Um, it was such an
amazing opportunity and experience to be able to play in
that game. Obviously, Notre Dame Stadium is you know, it's
a historical place to play, and that robbery you know,
goes back for many years. So I just remember that
game being a dog fight, it was a slug fest. Um.
You know, everything leading up to the game, uh, you
(34:09):
know it was amazing, and then in the game lives
up to the hype. Um. You know. So I just
remember obviously the final seconds of that game, the fourth
and nine player, that Matt you know, throwing the ball
to Duane Er and I actually thought he was a touchdown. Um.
And then and then fast forwarding to the gold line,
(34:29):
you know, the push into the end zone and coming
out with the win and that victory was you know,
it was amazing. I just remember at the end of
the game that was one of the most I've never
been more exhausted after football game than that game? What
was that? That had to be the only game you
trailed at the half. I remember Matt threw an interception,
had a big drive before halftime, Matt through an interception,
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and so you went you were down at the half. UM,
do you like you remember the locker room? Do you
remember like the little like we all remember the bush push,
We all remember the big play, But what about the
locker room? What was that? Like? I remember after the game,
everybody in the locker room was just hugging. Everybody was
it was. You could see in everybody's face was just
emotionally drained, physically drained, and everybody was just kind of
(35:18):
in awe that we were able to come back and
win that game. I remember, guys just still couldn't believe it.
I remember at the end of the in the locker room,
guys are like, I think I just was a part
of one of the greatest games ever. Um. You know,
some guys were in tears. Um. You know, it was
an extremely emotional game. You know. I remember before the game, UM,
when we pulled up to the stadium, because we always
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went to Notre Dame two days before, we pulled up
right in the middle of the pep rally of Notre Dame.
You know, so they were in the pep rally. Uh
and as soon as there are buses, put up the
whole fan to see if all their fans see if
Green just rushed our bus and started shaking our bus.
So you know, from that point on, we knew it
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was in it, and we knew that we had to
lean on each other more than ever to come out
with the win. Reggie Bush showing us on the Doug
Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio, what's your sense of
this Trojan team? Right? Like, they as much as they
only have one loss on the year, there's been a
lot of close calls which Sam Donald has had to
bail him out and and he's look, he's done. So
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I mean, look, with the exception of the Wazoo fumble,
which you know probably technically isn't his fault, although he
did fumble the football, like he's been able to bail
them out. Like, are they really that good or does
he just have that special something that makes them better
than they actually are? Well, I like what Sam Donald
brings um to the team obviously, is that letic ability
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alone makes them special. And I think, you know, we
have a good team. I love our running backs. Our
running game is strong. I think we've got to use
them a little bit more. But that's gonna be you know,
on the coaches too, I think too, you know, because
Sam Donald is still young. He's a great quarterback, he's
very athletic, but you can tell he's still learning. You know,
he's there's some pass that he's tried to force in there,
(37:05):
to force the issue when he hasn't had to. But
I think, you know, the coaching staff can do a
better job. I just maybe taking some of the pressure
off of him to throw the ball as much run
the ball. It's pound to run obviously. You know, I'm
a little bias because I'm a running back, but we
have two great running back every great office the line.
So take some of that fresh office Sam Donald with
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his arm, you know, maybe give him some easy stuff
to get the ball out of his hands quick, some
boot legs, some naked uh some screens, some quick throws,
and then as the game progrants to allow him to
stretch the ball down the field, which I've seen him
make some throws that I've played with quarterbacks that I
know couldn't make. Some of those throws down the field. So, um,
(37:46):
you know, it'll be interesting to see what happens this
week is gonna be a tough game for Do you
want to name those quarterbacks that that that I can't
make those throws down the field. No, but you can
just look at the teams I played on you can
probably figure it out. Dude, were you going with a
sweater yesterday on TV? Like you're in l A? Like
it is the studio that cold that you had to
go sweater? So you know it's um, I kind of
(38:08):
was just going for the look. Um you know it
was actually hot as hell outside. I know, I left
right for I left right where you got there. And
I was like, wait, Reggie's in a sweater, Like wow,
is he like maybe he just swoll up and he's
just you know, like he didn't want to look. Well
I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. And it
was like it was like a really wintery sweater. It's
(38:29):
ninety degrees in l A, do you know? And I
couldn't used it this past weekend and uh, I was
at the Minnesota Green Bay game doing some postgame analysis
for that and it was in the forties. I couldn't
believe it. There's already in the forty degree forties in Minnesota. Yeah,
and and then I landed back in l A. And
it's like in the nineties, eighties and nineties. But that's
(38:52):
a great point about California. Yeah, you played in Buffalo
for for San Diego. Dude, to play in Buffalo, that's
gotta be You're like, you gotta be like, this is
one I'm playing for the Bills and to eat is cold,
cold as balls out of here. This is this is
as bad as it gets. Right, I'm okay with playing
(39:15):
in the cold, with the practicing part of the cold.
That's like, we gotta end up facility for a reason.
I actually I got, I got, I got a good
one I'll share with you. So my freshman year, I
went to Notre Dame, Okay, and I was like, I'd
always played on good basketball teams and I'd never struggled
in school, and our basketball team sucked, and I was
like the school there was hard. And I remember it
(39:37):
was I was walking home from practice one night and
I had all this stuff on, right, like, yeah, your
backpack and you get your hoop bag and you get
like a beanie on your gloves and you're still cold,
and the winds blowing, and I slipped on the ice
and I fell and I was like that. I'm like
laying there and I was like, you know what if
I died right here, no one would even know because
it's so cold. I can't even I can't even yell.
(39:59):
I'm too cold even. Yeah, And it was at that
moment it was like, I can't do this. I just
can't do this anymore. Um, I want to still, I
want to get a couple of thoughts on Green Bay.
You've seen Hundley a lot from his time at U
c l A. You saw him this past weekend, like, look,
I understand he wasn't expecting to play, but please tell
me he can be better than you was Sunday. Well,
(40:20):
I hope that he can be better than Sunday. Sorry,
can you guys still hear me? Okay, Um, yeah, I
hope that he can may be better than Sunday. And
then also, yeah, you know, listen the way he got
thrown into the game. Um, you know, Abcviously, I'm sure
he wasn't expecting that. You know, Aaron Rodgers is great,
and you know he's usually pretty healthy throughout the season,
He's had some bumps and bruises here and there. But um,
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you know, listen, he got thrown into a game which
in that game had a lot of meeting to it,
right Like it's a divisional opponent. Um, you know, the
Packers are four and one, looking to go five and
want to stay at the top of the vision. And
then obviously with you know, coach Zimmerman and the defense
that he runs, you know, they do a great job
at confusing you. They you know, they run a lot
(41:02):
of different packages. As you saw, they had a lot
of sacks in that game because just Hunty wasn't ready
for that. You know, you can see it on his eyes.
You know. I remember even looking across the football field
from the sideline and there's at one point where he
had his hand his arms were folded and they had
just uh, he had just thrown interception and they had
just scored a touchdown. His arms were folded, And I
(41:23):
was saying to myself and to other people, like, he
needs to be firing up his team right now more
than ever because they are leaning on him and looking
to him to help them to win his football game,
you know. And and those are the things that. Obviously
he'll learn as he grows and matures, you know, within
this game. But he's definitely got his work cut out
for him because now they're in a tough spot where
(41:44):
you know, listen, this this thing can go either their
way for Green Bay, you know, and and it's gonna
be more important now than ever for them for him
to really start to pick up his game, because he's
got to play a lot better for them to be
able to have any shot of winning the division. Last thing,
have you seen say Kuon Berkley? Yes? I have that.
(42:06):
Boy is a beast. Will his game translate in the NFL?
A hundred percent? Will um? He's strong too, He's extremely
strong too. I love the way he runs the football.
He's a beast. I was just talking to some other kids.
I just finished speaking at the high school to some
kids and and then they brought up say Pon Brockery
(42:27):
to me and they said, what you're thinking about him?
I said, He's an absolute beast. I mean a kid.
He can do everything right. He's returning kicks, he's catching
him on the backfield, and he runs hard between tackles.
I think he is prime to uh have a great
long career in the NFL. Uh you when when you what?
When high school? Do you speak at? Um? I apologize,
(42:51):
on't even know what you're like? Thank you Cleveland, You're
not in Cleveland. I was just gonna ask for and
I did it more free, and I was just gonna
ask you because last time we talked, we do you
let them introduce you as highsman Trophy winner because you did,
in fact win the Heisman Trophy. Yeah, I mean everybody
introducing me is that? You know? And I'm not gonna
I must say no, don't don't say that. Yeah, everybody
(43:13):
always introducing me? Is that? So? Um? You know, I'll
just roll with whatever you know. Um, I don't. It
doesn't bother me either way. Alright. I still consider you
the rightful Heisman Trophy winner. So does everybody else. Uh
we we we appreciate you. Join us. By the way,
the Reggie Bush Weekend that's June through UM next year
in San Diego. Do you have your own foundation? What
(43:36):
is your foundation? With the money you raise? What do
you do with it? Uh? So we supported last year.
We same year we supported Saint Jude Chudan's Hospital, and
then we also support another organization called the Birthday Party Project.
And what they do is they go around homeless organizations
all around the US and they throw birthday wait, throw
(43:57):
birthday parties for who. I'm sorry, you said we throw
birthday parties for and then I'll send you cut out.
Oh sorry. So the Birthday Party Project is a foundation, nonprofit.
They go around the homeless shelters all around the US
and they throw birthday parties for homeless kids. That's awesome.
That's awesome. You get Reggie Bush Weekend dot com to
(44:17):
find out more about it. That'll be down in June.
Of course, all you have do is say San Diego
and Reggie Bush, and most people come running. We know
we will. Reggie, thanks so much for joining us. Welcome
back to southern California. Take off that damn sweater. Okay,
all right, that's Reggie Bush joining us.
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Doug Gottlieb
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