Tiger at The Masters, Kyrie Irving is DONE, & Rams WR Brandin Cooks

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Boom, What Up America. Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio,
coming to you from them someone overcast, City of Angels.
Welcome in. Hopefully you're having an absolutely fantastic Thursday. We
are keeping an eye on the Master's a tradition unlike
any other. We'll talk some football with Chris Sims from

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NBC Sports and Bleacher Report. He'll join us. Hunter Mayhannah,
who's on the PGA Tour, will join us, not playing
at the Masters, So he gives us his sense of
what has gone right and what appears to be going
wrong with Like, there's there's fourteen clubs in your bag,
Tigger's got a problem with one of them. Uh, that
one club is is the driver, and uh, the big

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dog is not exactly eating what the big dog should
be eating. Anyway, we got a bunch to get to.
There's obviously news from and Rick Spielman, who's the general,
the gentlemanager of the Minnesota Vikings. Of course they landed
their guy, Kirk Cousins. I want to ask take us
through that process. What was their sale like? As they
were not the highest bidder Rick Spielman of the Vikings

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joins us in the third and final hour of the show.
Kyrie Irving is out for the remainder of the season
and the postseason. That's the breaking news in the NBA.
Will break that down for you what that changes with
the Eastern Conference and um Bob McNair, who is the
owner of the Houston Texans. Basically, he went demilovado today,

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didn't he He said sorry, not sorry. The only thing
he's sorry for is saying he was sorry when he's
not sorry. We'll get to that upcoming, but let's start
with Tiger Woods because it feels it feels like we're
all just hoping. We got our rosary beads, We're wearing
our we're wearing our our lucky underwear, right whatever. You

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But there's there's a a massive disc and I don't
know if disconnect is the There is a lot there
are There are a lot of you that can't remember
when Tiger Woods was really awesome. Like you're told Tiger
Woods is awesome, but you don't really understand the Tiger
Woods thing. This is. It's it's a lot like trying

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to explain people to Mike Tyson thing because I think
if you ask a lot of people in their twenties
Mike Tyson, what do you remember. They're like, well, he
bit off some dude's ear, right, and he used to
be like the greatest heavyweight champion ever, when it's not
technically yeah, he's been off somebody. He been off part

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of vander holla Field's ear. He was never the greatest
heavyweight champion. But you had to have kind of lived
through it to understand it. Tiger is much the same,
and and Tiger trying to go Tiger two or three
or whatever point. Oh that this is there's a lot
of people who haven't don't remember the last time Tiger
Woods won the Masters. Last time Tiger Woods one of

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the Masters was two thousand and five. I was gonna
do that. A's kind of a trivia question. I did
that too. Ryan Music, the producer of this show, and
he was like two thousand nine, Like, no, two thousand
five five Music, you're twenty, you were thirteen years old.
What middle school were you? Richardson middle school? Richardson middle school?

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Do you have any recollection at all of Tiger Woods
in two thousand five? Yeah, I mean I just remember
watching it with my dad, but nothing vividly sticks out.
Dan Buyer, who's our resident golf Nick. You can hear
him on Sunday mornings on Fox Sports Radio. Dan probably
remembers shot for shot two thousand five. Uh, two thousand

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five Tiger Woods, right, I mean you remember every single shot,
every single lie, every single part. Uh, not so much,
but it was it was a good year for Tiger. Okay,
where were you in two thousand five? It was I
was actually at home because, um, on the Saturday, I
went to my buddy's place to watch the round, and

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then on Sunday I was home, and I meant more,
where did you work? What I thought the chip in?
Where Where was I for that? But yeah, I was
in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin working radio there. I mean it's
a long it's right, it's a long time ago. Like
thirteen years ago was a long time ago. And he's
always been good at Augusta, but he hadn't one since

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two thousand five. Like that's a long ass time. That's long.
And so it's it's trying to explain to people and
then having them watch Now you're like you kind of
get it, but you don't totally get Like I I explained,
you know, look, you tried to explain to a kid
like what we used to do call collected? Like what
do you call collect? Well, it used to be payphones,

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Like what's the pay phone? Like where you actually used
to put You know, first it was it was ten cents.
I was a little kid that it was twenty cents.
People freaked out when we went from ten to twenty.
Then it was a quarter, which seemed about right, and
then it became multiple whars. Then you're like, the hell
with it. I'll just call collect and then they'll call
me back. You'd say the number and then they would
call your parents would call you back. There's the famous
one hundred one hundred, uh you know, call a t

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T which is like their own version of collect, and
the we had a baby. It's a boy, right, remember that. Um.
Sometimes you have to tell stories and give them proper context,
like the Mike Tyson story, Like Mike Tyson was a
from nothing to something, but it was it was more
about the fact that he was the scariest human being

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ever to be in a boxing boxing ring, right, Like
you went from an incredibly flamboyant champion in Muhammad Ali
who was polarizing because of his political and religious beliefs
to Larry Holmes, who was uh seemingly uh not terribly

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likable through very little fault of his own. And then
all of a sudden you had Mike Tyson, who was
a small you know, his compact, power packed and scary,
and the fights were more about the fact that he
would come in with like a towel that had a
cut off space for his head, and shorts and no
socks and you know, black black boxing shoes, and the

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things seemed to be over as soon as the bell
rang like that was that that was the Tyson thing.
And when you by the time we get to win,
Tyson bit off Vander Holyfield's ear, he got exposed as
not being a well developed fighter. We lost the three
best years of his career, much like Muhammad Ali lost
the three best years of his career through note fault
of his own. Although Tyson's because he got he was

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convicted of rape and so you try and paint the
accurate picture there. Tiger Woods was was the most incredibly
dynamic and dominant golfer we have ever seen. In addition
to it wasn't just that he brought golf to the mainstream.
There was no time there was no Nike golf and

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people often point out like, well, you know what happened
was he used Nike clubs and that's the beginning of
the end with his career until now, Like, okay, you
might be true, but remember like all those swooshes you
see on a golf course, how many of you have
Nike golf shoes, how many you have Nike golf balls?
You buy the chief Mojo's, you buy the expensive ones,
a Nike belt, Nike short Snike had, Nike used everything,
swoosh whatever I wear him like, he was so big

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that Nike hadn't even dipped their toe into the golf ring,
and they became the biggest apparel. Uh, there was more
Nike apparel than anything you've ever seen. So in trying
to kind of contextualize what Tiger Woods did to golf
to somebody who was like rhyme music at Masse thirteen

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at the time, I don't remember last time he won,
Like it was bigger than big, but that I guess
it becomes two points of the downside. The downside becomes
if he spits up all over himself, continues to struggle
with the driver as he's part all these uh par five's,
that's what he used to. That's what he used to dominate, right,

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he used to score on the par fives. He'd be
he'd be okay on the part three's, occasional birdie on
the par four's, but it's the par fives and when
he's if he's parring the par five, that's not good
for him to make the weekend. I can actually have
the opposite of the intended effect. People who are brought
to a TV screen to watch golf. They sit there

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and the tune the like, why am I watching this?
He's not even gonna make the cut and plan a Sunday.
And the other part is if you need one guy
to bring eyeballs back to a sport, well then the
sport is never going to be one to which eyeball
stick on. It's simply about that one guy. That makes

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the season, and um, Bob McNair says, sorry, not sorry,

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Um I love the I love some of these other
comments being made as we get ready. These kind of
there's some set up comments like Lebron was fully supportive
of of NBA coaches as he was talking about Becky Hammond,
like those just such set up questions like what is
he supposed to say? Do you think Lebron James did
it for one second? Is gonna go? Nah? All right?

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Do you do? You want it to be your coach?
And we'll get to that upcoming in the show. Um,
I want to talk quarterbacks with our next guest because
I find that there's a there's a group of guys
that break down the position for the NFL Draft, and
though I don't agree with every one of them, it's
their level of investment is amazing to me. Amazing to me,

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and the depth of knowledge provided and getting ready for
the NFL Draft to spectacular. Christims one of those guys
where tre NBC works from Bleach Report. Of course, he's
a four starting quarterback in the NFL with the Tampaiy Buccaneers.
I'm gonna get his thoughts on this class of quarterbacks,
his thoughts on our expectations for the l A Rams
as well. A lot of pieces, but pieces that weren't

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beloved elsewhere, even if their talent was remarkable. So we'll
check in with Chris Simms from Bleacher Report and NBC Sports.
Upcoming next on The Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio.
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like fifteen and twenty people and now Ashiel to check
out the Titans new uniforms. Was Clay Travis one of them.
That had to be some sort of other event going on, right, Ah,
that's right. There was a Florida Georgia line. We're performing
for free. So the Titans they ditched the white helmets.
They went to the all Navy. Uh. I don't know,

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they're not bad. They're basically the same uniforms. They just
went with all Navy and uh, they still have a
little bit of baby blue. They got rid of the
all white helmets, which is great, and they got the blue.
The blue helmets go with the white uniforms as well,
and the white have the white uh, what do you
call white bridges white bridges as well, So yeah, they're cool.

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I like the uniforms. Look the difference in new uniforms.
And I've said this with the Origan football and you know,
Ohio State has done some has tried to do some
alternative uniforms their Ohio State, right like USC and Ohio
State and Michigan. Like, you guys don't have to do
those uniforms. You just you don't do those uniforms because

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you are the traditional power. The Steelers don't have to
do alternative and don't have to tinker with their uniforms
because they're the Steelers. The Packers don't because they're the Packers.
I know they do the throwbacks, those hideous ones, and
that's to sell jerseys. But whatever. The Titans Titans aren't
really mean. There's nothing historic about the Titans. They were
the Oilers and then they were the and then they

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were the Tennessee Oilers and then they were the Tennessee Titans.
So them switching uniforms is like whatever. I like. I
do like the Navy helmets better than the white helmets.
I don't like their numbers that they have this huge numbers.
It almost look like their handwritten I'm gonna pass there,
all right. I want to have Chris Sims on one
because I want to catch out. But two, he does

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as good a job as anyone I've ever seen, and
breaking down not just the NFL job, but specifically the
quarterback position. It's different when you grew up in a
quarterback family, you played in the league, you've been a
right you coached in the league, and now you cover
the league as well. It works with Bleach Report, NBC spot,
which is Chris Sims. He joins us on the Doug
Gottlieb Show. Um, Chris, is this quarterback class as well

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regarded because there's that much talent? Or is it because hey,
the league needs quarterbacks and the wide receiver talent for example.
The rest of the draft might be a little bit down.
How much of it is just the pure upside of
the guys versus the actual draft class not being as strong. Yeah,
I think that's a good question. Really, the draft class
is not strong. There is not a ton of elite players. Now,

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there are some quality, depth type of players throughout the draft.
I think what makes it interesting is not necessarily that,
like let's say the Big Five quarterbacks. Right, we're talking
about Rosan Donald, Allen Baker, Mayfield, and Lamar Jackson. Um.
I think as a class, I was expecting more when
the season NFL season ended and I dove into college

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film and started studying these guys. It's a little bit
of an overrated class from what I heard all college
football season. Like, I don't think any of these guys
for me with Gray as high as a Carson Wentz
or any of the guys drafted in the first round
last year in Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, Orchard Whisky. But I
think the thing that makes this discussion so great is
there's just no slam dunk right answer. I know I

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feel strong about my answers, but I can see everybody's
side to the story, and every one of these guys,
even though they all have some great strengths, they all
have some big time flaws as well that concern you,
and I think that's what makes it awesome, along with
the fact that we have quarterbacks or teams that need quarterbacks,
and all that together is adding to a lot of

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fun conversation. Chris Sim's joining us on the doug Otlip Show.
All right, Um, I do think that fit matters? Okay,
I do. Um, I mean anyone who if you've played sports,
you understand you've got to have somebody who gets you,
puts you in a situation where you can succeed. That's
that that said. Um, there's a lot of talk about well, listen,

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Josh Rosen, it's about fit. He's even said it was
about fit. You know. Maura said, you know, look, I
think he might fit better outside not not being in Cleveland. Um,
how does that How does that resonate in an NFL
front office when people are talking about fit with Rosen
some of the other coding that's been talked about with Rosen. Yeah, listen,

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I mean, you know, let's keep it real. I don't
really necessary like I like Jim Morra Junior. Don't get
me wrong, but those were you know, below the belt
punches to Josh Rosen. You know, Oh yeah, let me
tout the guy that's on the cross rival team as
the better quarterback than my guy and say he's a
better fit. You know, I'll go to Josh Rosen's tweet.
What did he tweet out a why with like a

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shrugging shoulder emoji, Like why why even say that? I
don't get it. It's only gonna help out Jim More junior. Uh,
the fact that he can put on his resume that
he had the number one pick in the draft and
he developed a young quarterback, and people will go, oh, look,
he can recruit quarterbacks. Let's give him another job in
college football, the NFL, whatever it may be. So he's
hurting his own case there um. But I think those
concerns about Rosen are very real. It's not necess necessarily

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anything on the field other than he does lack athleticism
for a quarterback in the two thousand eighteen NFL world.
But as a whole, I think what you hear, and
you know, Doug, I know a lot of people in
the NFL. I grew up in it. I've been around it. Yeah,
it's very mixed about liking Josh Rosen or not. Yeah,
I have some friends to go. I'm not really sure
how much he loves football. You know, he's a different kid.

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You hear split split things about people from U c
l A, like half the team didn't like him, the
other half loved them. Uh, same for the equipment guys.
So I think those concerns are real. People are of
course doing their homework. Everybody's gonna feel different about the guy.
But I can tell you this much. He's my second
rated quarterback. He checks a whole lot of boxes and
if he has a system, and of course protection and

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some receivers to throw too. I mean, he's gonna be
surgical within the pocket. But don't expect him to carry
a team physically with his physical gifts. That's not the
type of guy he is. All Right, So who's your
top rated quarterback? I go with Josh Allen. Uh. Josh
Allen's to me again. Uh is the most physically gifted
guy in this draft. You could say maybe either him
or Lamar Jackson have the highest ceiling. But alan other

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than Lamar Jackson's the best athlete of the group. He's
the biggest of the group. He has a very special arm.
You know. I hear all the talk, Oh, you know,
always completion percentage. Well, you know, hey, that sounds great.
It's it's always good to look at the bottom line
and then just go, oh, well that must be a problem. No,
watch the tape that's gonna show you. He gets no
easy throws. His team stunk around him, worst pass protection,

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worst receivers out of all the quarterbacks in this every
throw is fifteen twenty fifty yards down the field. He
You know, you can watch Baker Mayfield and Sam Donald
and they'll go twelve or twelve in the first half
of the game with passes behind the line of scrimmage.
You're gonna tell me that's gonna make you feel more
comfortable that he's an accurate passer just because he gets
those easy completions. So, uh, is their flaws? Yes, certainly

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the film is a little raw. He sprays the ball
a little at times. But I think the combine and
then his prow day showed me a little bit of
an adjustment of his technique. And you saw nothing but
missiles and perfect spirals throwing there. And I think he
just has a tremendous amount of talent. You mentioned Lamar Jackson.
I was told on the white board Josh Allen was
a bit behind and Lamar Jackson's way way behind. But

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people will come people will come out and say, well, look,
his completion percentage is the same as Josh Allen. Why
aren't people freaking about out about Josh Allen and they
are about Lamar Jackson. Is it the throws or is
it how badly he misses. Why why are people making
some people making a bigger deal about the completion percentage
of Lamar Jackson. Yeah, well, I mean it's certainly something

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to look at, and it's a little bit of a
red flag, just like Josh Allen. I mean, I'm not
gonna sit here and lie and go, oh, yeah it's
perfect and this is all bs and what are people
talking about? No, No, Lamar Jackson's a natural thrower of
the football. His really problem is that he has no mechanics.
He just goes out and gets it done with great ability.
Uh So, again, he does not get a ton of
easy throws in that Louisville offense. Yes, can he miss

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some completions that you go, oh, I'd like to see
a first round quarterback hit those a little more consistently
and accurately. Certainly. But I think when you don't have
the twenty hour rule like college football, and you're around
NFL coaches all day, three sixty five, seven days a week,
they're gonna stay on top of his mechanics. So I
understand those concerns. I mean, really, to me, Lamar Jackson,

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the biggest issue he has his postseason. I mean, since
the season's ended. It's been horrible representation. Right, we have
nothing positive to talk about. No forty time, not a
great pro day, not a great combine. His mom's his agent,
No teams can get in contact with him, Michael Vick
can't get in contact with him. Those things I think
are scaring people more than anything. But I know this,

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and I've heard this from some people that I trust.
I know that the Sandy and the Los Angeles Chargers,
they gave him a playbook and kind of gave him
a study study session, a quick quiz session the next
day after, and they were very comfortable with what he retained.
Bobby Patrinos offense, I would say, out of all these quarterbacks,
is the most complicated offense out of all these guys.
So he's obviously capable of learning these things. He's just raw.

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But I'll say this, Doug, at the end of the day,
you watch college football, I know you're a sportsman. I
mean every game I ever watched Lamar Jackson play and
he was the best player on the field. I mean
that what goes against Clemson with Deshaun Watson on at
Florida State, it doesn't matter. I've seen him turn the
corner on Bradley Chubb. I've seen him run away from
Derwin James, and I've seen him make some really big time,

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jaw dropping type type throws. So I really do like
Lamar Jackson. I think he has big time talent. Well,
we we hadn't even talked about um about Sam Donald.
Why are you not as high on Sam Donald as
so many others are? Yeah, okay, so we'll get into that.
Sam Donald to me is in that four or five
range I would probably, So I'll started with this. Sam

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Donald's definitely a top twenty pick. I look at all
these guys as being top twenty caliber quarterbacks. I really do.
The one thing I don't get in this year's draft
is the theme of Sam him Donald's definitely the number
one or number two quarterback in this draft. I just
don't see it that way. Like you started off this conversation.
I've been around this my whole life. I saw Sam

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Donald in person. I did pregame in halftime stuff at
Notre Dame. I saw us he come to town. I
watched him very closely. I've watched this film. Uh, you know,
I just don't see it. To me, I'll just lay
out the facts. Again, he's very talented kid. Don't get
me wrong. I'm not here just to totally crap all
over this kid. But the things that concern me or this,
as far as the number one or number two pick,

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there's nothing that I can sit here. And his skill
set as a quarterback and go oh, Sam Donald's the
best at this out of all these guys. Uh, he's
really He's up there with Lamar Jackson as the most inconsistent,
worst pocket passer. He's the worst in the pocket in general.
As far as feeling the rush. He moved sometimes and
there's people wide open, and we go, oh, look at

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that play he made and he threw a ball five
yards in the flat and I'm gonna go, no, that
was horrible. There was a twenty yard incut wide open
and for some rea and he left the pocket and
didn't need to. So the inconsistent throws. He doesn't have
the strongest arm. He's a good athlete, not great athlete.
All those great you know, ad lib plays that we
see have not come against the Ohio States and the
Notre Dames of the world. They came against Arizona and

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Arizona State, which I don't know if there's an NFL
piyer on those defenses. The pat club wasn't good and
not to mention he led college football and turnovers and
it's very careless with the football. So that to me
just does not scream number one or number two pick. Again,
I wasn't trying to just totally kill this kid, because
there are a lot of things to like. But that's

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just one of the most confusing things to me in
this draft right now. What if I told you there's
a little bit of of Deshaun Watson's final season at
Clemson in those those interception numbers, when he had a
completely new wide receiving class and he tried to and
and he I didn't love No one seems to love
their offense, you know, running Western Kentucky's offense instead of
running a pro style offense. How much of it is, hey,

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he was trying to It got for the fact that
his team wasn't very good and he had to carry them.
Whereas when he was surrounded by better talent the year before,
they were the hottest team in football and and beat
Penn State and Rose Bowl. Yeah, yeah, listen, those are
things you certainly take into account and definitely. Yes, I
mean I I I do look at that and go,
I know, this was not the most talented USC team
we've ever seen around a big time quarterback, I get that, Um.

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And did he press and try to make a few
too many plays? Yes? He did, And I get that,
and I try not to dock him too many points
when I watched film like that, I get, I get,
you know, the microscope and the pressure that a guy
like him can be under, and the fact that he
wants to win and he's a competitor. But it's the
other stuff. At the end of the day, I don't
look at the stats too much and go, oh, that's
really an issue to me. You know. There was just

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plenty of decisions that I didn't like the quality of
a football when I saw in person and in film,
I wasn't like wow, and really out of the big
quarterbacks there like Rosen Alan Mayfield, Donald, uh, you know,
I thought Donald had the worst Pro day too. So
I just like I said, again, he's the top twenty pick.
I get that all the way. But this just this

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theme of one and two in the draft definite. I
don't see it that way. Um, okay, so help me
out with the se Kwon Barkley thing. Um. He seems
to be a three down back, which, um, which is
kind of the gold standard for guys that could be
drafted higher than running backs should be drafted. On the
other hand, it's a position to which, hey, the leading

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rushi in the NFL last year was a rookie not
making a ton of money, a third round draft pick. Right,
So how do you how do you evaluate? Do you
go with, you know, the glamour position quarterback where you
can make more value on it if it hits as
opposed to a se Kwon Barkley that feels like a
plug and play player. I know, it's it's a it's
a it's a great, great discussion. I mean it really is, because,

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I mean the points you make are exactly spot on, right.
I mean Kareem Hunt, I mean, one of the other
best running backs we saw it was a fourth round
pick in Alvin Kamara. You know the year before that,
Jordan Howard was a fifth round pick and he was
second in the NFL and rushing. So, uh, you're right.
It does scare you a little bit, or not that
this scares you, but running backs do grow on trees

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this day and age. That's why the position has been
devalued a little bit. But this guy is as special
as I've seen. I mean, he really is. He's better
than Leonard four Nett and Ezekiel Elliott coming out in
the NFL draft, and I think, really like, let's slay
the Giants at number two. They have kind of like
the golden ticket right now. They just gotta make a decision.
Do you want to go quarterback and set your organization

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up for the next ten to twelve years, or do
you want to go you know what, We're going all
in with Eli for the last year or two and
we're gonna give him, say Kwon Barkley, and we're gonna
have Odell Beckham Jr. And we're gonna try to win
the Super Bowl one more time before he goes out
the door. It's a very interesting, interesting, interesting discussion. I
would probably go to quarterback, but I can understand if
they went the other way. And Doug, I mean, when

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you watch the se Kwon Barkley, it's unreal what he does.
I really think he's gonna be better in the NFL
because the NFL teams will know how to utilize him more.
In the past game, like we saw an Alvin Kamara
with the Saints and then the running is just out
of this world. Penn State ran two run plays and
they basically just said, hey, k you're amazing trying to
make it happen. And if he had to see him,
he was gone. It was to the house. And if

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he didn't have anything, you held your breath anyways because
it might still be to the house. Um, it's it's
a really really hard one. You said you'd go with
the you'd go with the quarterback. One of the things
that that doesn't go discussed enough though, was, um, the
mentor mentoring process doesn't usually go all that well for

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guys that are like Hall of famers, Right, so this
is idea, Well, Elile welcome him and Elile teach him, Like, well, yeah,
berettarb didn't teach Aaron Rodgers anything. And when we kind
of look around, Joe Montana and Steve Young hated each
other at the end of that thing, Like it doesn't
how hard is that to get that quarterback room to
work together when you have a young guy who wants
to play right away the fans want to see him,

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and you have an old guys like yo I still
got it. Yeah, it's extremely it's a weird situation. Mean,
even Brett Farb and Aaron Rodgers, you just you heard
rumors back then that you know, it was a little
uncomfortable for them at the start of their career. I mean,
it's not the job of the starting quarterback to coach anybody.
He's worried about himself. And yeah, he's probably a little
bit like a guy like Eli. If they drafted a

(27:10):
Sam Donald or Josh Allen or whoever it may be,
he's kind of gonna be like, I'm sure a hair
bitter and go, well, damn, you could have gave me
like Quentin Nelson or you know, say Kwon Barkley and
we could have maybe done something special. So again, it's
all about the starter. Just he has to worry about
himself playing whoever the young kid is behind him, the
draft pick, whatever it. Maybe that's on the quarterback in

(27:31):
the offensive coordinator to teach him and develop him behind
the scenes when they're not worried about the starter in
practice and training camp. But whatever else it may be.
And really, as a young guy that's gonna be a
first round quarterback like that, you just gotta have thick skin.
You can't expect, you know, that starting quarterback that's been
in the NFL for thirteen fourteen years to come in
and you know, be all cuddly and it's fun with
you and be like, oh yeah, let's you know, let's

(27:53):
go out and have some beers and hang out, you know,
before you take my job in a year or two.
Great stuff. Chris. Uh can read his stuff and each
report check them out at NBC Sports. Chris Simms does
an incredible job breaking stuff down. Chris, thanks so much
for joining us on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks Doug, you
the man. I'll talk to your pleasure his mind. Chris
sims Palm on Twitter at s simms QB. He does

(28:13):
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I believe Romeo is still giving Sergio Reguez a ball.
Let's go check in with what's going on to Masters.
Here's Dan Buyer. Uh the uh. This site on the
fiftie holl featuring Sergio Garcia was interesting to say the

(28:36):
least defending champion hit not one, not two, not three,
not four, but five balls into the water on the
par five Sergio Garcia recorded a thirteen on the whole.
That's tied for the highest score ever recorded on any
hole at Augusta National, the highest all time for the

(28:57):
part and of course he goes to sixteen and birdies
to Part three. That's what type of day it's been
for the defending champion. The top of the leaderboard at
Augusta National has Hendrik Stenson and Charlie Hoffman, both at
four under par. They're late in their first rounds. Jordan's
speed is one under part through six holes. Rory McElroy

(29:17):
even through seven Tiger Woods. About to wrap up his
first round. He has plus one through seventeen holes, playing
the eighteenth told, five shots back of the lead. Phil
Nicholson is plus one through seven and one other name
to tell you about Tony Final dislocating his ankle yesterday
in the Part three contest. He has one shot off
the lead at three under par through nine holes. So

(29:38):
Tony Final, yes, in contention at Augusta National. What else
can I tell you? Doug Celtics God Kyrie Irving done
for the season. He'll leaved surgery and miss four to
five months. J Bruce a grand Slam for the Mets.
They're all over the Nationals eight to two in the
bottom of the eighth inning in the game where you
want assist, but as also has a home run raised
in Red Sox scoreless right now in this six stanning

(30:00):
back to you. M m hmm. Five in the drink.
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what's the highest score you've ever scored on on a
on a hole of golf? Dan, Honestly, I pick up

(30:21):
after ten. Yeah, yeah, And then you say put me
down for an eight. No, I'll say put me down
for a ten usually double par so like if you
get a actually I take that back because I wouldn't
do that on a part three. I'll take an eight
on a part three. Most time you give give me
the snowman and let's just move on. But yeah, I
just I just don't want to be the guy that
everybody's standing in the green waiting for you. Know, yeah,

(30:44):
there's no point. There's there is zero point to wait
to tap in for that twelve. It's the it's the
right thing to do, to be honest. Um, Okay, So
that the other news that you heard from from Dan
Buyer is that Kyrie Irving is is out for the
remainder of the regular and postseason. And so look, he's

(31:06):
he needs a second knee surgery. This all goes back
to the two thousand fifteen surgery. Remember Game one NBA Finals,
I think it was in regulation. He hurts his knee
and he uh, he actually had his patela, had to
have two screws put into it, and there's the team

(31:30):
said that it was a bit bacterial infection was discovered
at the sight of the screws when Irvin had his
most recent surgery on March uh to remove a tention
wire in that knee, and that Saturday's procedure would ensure
no infection would remain in the knee. The wire had
been placed in his knee during the same surgery when

(31:50):
the screws were inserted in two thousand fifteen. The Celtics
said Urban's patela completely healed, remains structurally sound. Urban of
course as a expected to make a full recovery in
four to five months. That's my that's my favorite part
about sports. No one has ever had a surgery like
we have no idea if he'll be back from this one.

(32:10):
His leg could very well fall off in four to
five months, but he's expected to make a full recovery.
No one couldn't. I couldn't expect a bacterial infection at
the sight of some screws. Nor did I know that
at tension wire was even did you know attention wire
was in his knee? To anybody know, like he's got
a tension wire in there? Yeah, it's I mean literally,
his knee was held together by a wire and took
a couple of the screws, and he was to start

(32:34):
the season argue with the most dominant guard in the NBA, Like,
that's crazy. I don't know what's crazier, the fact that
his knee was held together by attention wire and a
couple of screws or the fact that he was the
best guard in the NBA when his knee was held
together by attention wire and a couple of screws. But look,
it stinks. It stinks for the Celtics, not that they

(32:55):
had true hope of getting to the NBA Finals, but
they had a little bit of faint hope. Irvin posted
this on his Instagram page. The hardest thing to do
sometimes except the uncontrollable things life throws that you can
try to consistently learn, grow, prepare every day to equip
your mind, body, spirit the tools. Uh have the tools

(33:16):
to deal with some of those things. But I feel
that when these moments arise, they give you a sense
of unfulfillment simply because it puts some of your professional
journey and goals on on a brief hold. It's simply
a test of your perseverance and will, perseverance and will
to be present even in the wake of what's going on.

(33:39):
So look, Uh, here's a guy who he's twenty six
years old. He was averaging twenty four and a half points, game,
five assists, four rebounds. But I'm not sure it really
changed all that much. Vegas. Things to change a lot.
The Celtics odds in Westgate went from twenty to one
to eighty to one to win an NBA from nine

(34:00):
to two to twenty to one to in the Eastern
Conference Finals, and it's It's also one of those deals
to which you're like, you know, Lebron James had a
lot of bad luck this year, a trade that happened
because of a bad relationship with Kyrie Irving, a trade
that didn't go well, a second trade, you know, some
injuries around him. Kevin Love of course, got hurt before

(34:22):
he came back. And then you know Tyron Loeu. His
health isn't good. He's had a lot of bet But
you know what, tell me who else you're gonna pick
in the East? Tell me who else you're gonna pick
in the East. And I don't think that. I think
this is the CALVS. There's a copy of a copy
of a copy in in terms of a team being good. Alright,
I guess who got another big payday in college sports.

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Stephen A. Smith said something which people are gonna think
is offensive. It's not accurate, but it's also not offensive.

(35:31):
Get to what it is. Top of the hour. But
h and Brandon Cooks is gonna join us. I believe
new newest l A Ram wide receiver, Brandon Cook's gonna
join us on his third team in really in two years.
We'll ask Brandon Cooks about the move, where he was
when he found out, what his reaction is, and what
are he remembers of the Super Bowl where he was
I had just a really really violent hit ended his

(35:52):
Super Bowl early. But first though, well, let's play game.
Is game time on the Doug gott Leave Show. It's
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We have guests who, All right, I was gonna say,
guess who scored a thirteen today at the Master's but
we already covered that. It's defending champion Sergio Garcia. So

(36:35):
let's go another route. Guests who, Doug has a warrant
out for his arrest. I know what's kind of broad,
but guess who has a warrant out for his arrest?
Can you give me a hint? Um? How about these
three letters? You f c oh caught him, Agregor. It
was a warrn out for Connor McGregor's arrest, and they're

(36:58):
looking for him right now. Is playing cannot take off,
he cannot leave the state of New York with this warrant,
they'll be grounded and uh, I'm assuming eventually if they
don't catch him, they'll turn himself in. That was UFC
president Dana White after McGregor and his entourage, I guess
attacked a bus in preparation for this week it's UFC fight,

(37:18):
throwing things at it and almost through a bike rack
at the bus, but that was actually put down. Yeah,
Connor McGregor has a warrant out for his arrest. Okay,
so um, I don't don't understand there's like a legit warrants. Well,
Connor wasn't happy that his belt was stripped from him

(37:41):
by Dana White yesterday after not fighting at all in
so now his belt is going to be up this
weekend because he was stripped of it. Dana White also
had this to say, you can imagine he's gonna be
sued beyond belief and uh, this was a real bad
career move for him. So that was Dana White after

(38:02):
Connor and his boys tried to attack a bus with
UFC fighters. I don't I think this is all this
like UFC is. It's it's the Connor McGregor thing is
working the way of w w E. That's where I'll
end up. Yeah, I kind of got that. He's he's
great in the octagons, he's great for the sport, but like,
this is too far over the top for me to take.
This is legitimate guests who could return to action tonight

(38:24):
for a potential playoff team in the n B A
h uh, John Wall No, No, actually, t Wolves guard
Jimmy Butler. Butler a game time decision Wolves right now,
just a game up on the Nuggets in the West standings.
Those two teams will play in Denver tonight, but this

(38:46):
could be the first game that Jimmy Butler play since
his knee injury in February. All right, so what's the
story with John Wong. That's the one I want to
know about. Yeah, didn't John welcome back? He did? He
did play. He played when they got blown out by
the Rockets. He played, and he had uh I think
he had eight turnovers in that game. You're right, yeah,
well that uh well kind of transition. As a hint.
Guests who was returning to his team tonight after missing

(39:07):
nine games. Man, Oh no, not Steph Curry, Kevin Ken.
It may not be a player. Oh, Tyron Lou. That's right,
Tyron Lou. Yeah, he's gonna be back on the bench
tonight as the Cavaliers take on the Wizards after missing
those nine games because of health reasons. Well, look, let's

(39:30):
see how they play. Lebron James acted like he was
very concerned, but he played better when Tyron lewis out.
Let's see what you know. They had a little bit
of a verbal kerfuffle before he left the team for
those nine games. Let's see guess who Doug got a
contract extension today in college football that will have him
earned seven point six million dollars in Urban Meyer h yeah,

(39:51):
the Ohio State coach. Now we'll have the third highest
salary of any college football coach behind Nick Saban and
Dabbo swe Any. Urban's new contract runs through the two season. Remember,
Jim harbaugh is actually is valued at nine million, but
four million of that is in a life insurance policy.
It's a really interesting way where you're technically making more money,

(40:14):
but it's it's investment vehicle and the school doesn't have
to pay you nearly as much. A lot of coaches
have that, so it's a clever way of doing I
don't I kind of don't under I understand the ego
and wanted to be the highest paid guy when you're
that successful, But like, couldn't you cabinet like three or
four million and say I'm good. I just you know
that that one don't understand. That's the press game time

(40:38):
on the Duck Gottlieb Show, and Brandon Cooks joins the
show up coming next of course, Remember he was with
New Orleans Saints and then they moved him to the
Newland Patriots playing Super Bowl, got Concustoms Circle, didn't finish
the game and now is in L A Ram. We'll
take us through that journey. What he thinks he's gonna
do with the Rams next? M hmmm boom, what up America?

(41:05):
Doug Gottlib Show, Fox Sports Radio, M M. Brandon Cook's
gonna join us in five minutes. That is the newest
L A Ram edition. Like seriously, the Rams, Like hmmm,
I'll take that. I'll take that. I'll take that. I'll
take that. You know, the Ram ramsman, you have my

(41:27):
dream when I was a kid, Toys r us Is
are going, I think, going out of business anyway, do
you guys did you guys watch Nickelodeon as a kid. Now.
Part of this is there is a generation of people
who did not have cable as children. I didn't think
they existed in my lifetime. My wife grew up in
the country, um in a town called drum Right, Oklahoma,

(41:49):
and she's like, I didn't. We didn't have cable. They
got satellite when I was in college. That's it. They
never had cable. So I was like, well, you watched
like you can't do that on television. Fraggle Rock you know,
no nothing Anoh. One of the things Nickelodeon always had
was they had those um you could win like it

(42:10):
was like five minutes or tenants. You get to run
through run through Toys r us and just pile in
all the toys. You guys remember those little toy runs
like that was my dream. I didn't even have toy
I don't I don't remember having toys as kids. Did
you guys have toys. I didn't have army men. I
didn't have any these plastic toys and having none of that.
Some board games. Sure, when video games came out, I

(42:31):
had the Atari. I don't think I had Clico Vision
or in television. We definitely had the first Nintendo I
had to say, I say a Genesis uh sixty four
as well, and so on and so forth. But I
don't know a little toys. But for run of the reason,
I love the idea of running through a toys r us,
having five ten minutes on the clock and just taking
whatever toys you wanted, right, And that was one of

(42:53):
the prizes that gave it out. I think, on you
can't do that on television or something. Right. You call
him with a secret word, h that's kind of how
the Rams have gone shopping like oh and Dominican su Yeah,
yea yea yeah yeah, keep deleape sure. Marcus Peters, Okay,
what what is the Brandon Cooks? They got a Brandon Cooks.
Give me that? So on paper it looks great, will

(43:19):
it work? Um? In the locker room of Alpha's especially
guys in last years of their deal. Although the Rams
it was a report yesterday they're working on a long
term deal with Brandon Cooks. There's been a lot of
talk about that's why the Patriots were willing to move on.
They didn't want to pay him number one wide receiver money.
We'll see. Remember the Rams still have Tavon Austin. Having
able to move off that contract, there's a Stephen A.

(43:41):
Smith said that the Jewish community as a factor in
Josh Rosen's preference of New York over Cleveland. He said,
quote now in defense of Jim Mora, he may have
been doing it to dissuade the Cleveland Browns from pick
him because Josh Rosen, according to my sources, would prefer

(44:03):
to be in New York because he's Jewish. There's a
stronger Jewish community. Now I will tell you this, that
that people's parents will like Jewish. He has too Jewish parents.
He considers himself more of an atheist than being Jewish.
I'm Jewish. I can speak on this. I'm a former
antheletext like my my parents would always like, well, you know,
there's a nice Jewish community there. Um. Do I think

(44:29):
it's a possibility that that here's a kid from Manhattan Beach, California,
would be more comfortable in New York City. Yeah, I
think that's reasonable. Do I think it's because of the
Jewish community. It sounds like something you got from his parents.
That does not sound like a millennial discussion, especially for

(44:52):
a cat who thinks of himself as an atheist. Now,
if you want to say it's a small factor in
kind of the bigger you know, you list pros and cons,
you put pros and cons on a paper, and you're like,
Cleveland weather sucks Cleveland traditionally, the franchise last twenty five
years stinks Cleveland. You gotta backup Tyrod Taylor was. At

(45:15):
least you're in New York. You're backing up Eli. It's
you're gonna run the same offense as Eli was. You're
gonna run very different offense than you're run with Tyrod Taylor.
You have Odell Beckham Jr. In New York, so you're
gonna have a big time threat, you know. Or maybe
it's with the Jets. With the Jets, you're like, I'd
rather be in New York because of the spotlight, of
the attention, of the endorsement stuff. And yeah, does it

(45:37):
help that there's more people like me? Both parents Ivy
League educated, he went to u C. L A. He's bright. Yeah,
he's from a Jewish family. I don't actually think that's
a crazy statement. The problem is that we we say
the word Jewish, people like freak out, whoa, whoa, whoa,
that's racist, that's anti medic Like, no, no, it's not.

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We have I have this discussion with people all the time.
It's it's the same discussion. You can say somebody is Jewish,
as long as you don't put like a negative connotation
towards it. Fine, he is in fact from a Jewish family.
He is period, I'm Jewish. It's not that's not a
not a slight And by the way, if saying somebody

(46:25):
is Jewish makes you think something that some sort of stereotype.
Like again, that's something inside of you that's not something
in the statement of like to say he preferred being
New York because of a bigger Jewish community, Like, okay,
only that's crazy. I think it's probably unless you know,
I don't know if you want to say it. I
do think it's something more that a parent would say
than a kid would say, especially Josh Rosen, who again

(46:48):
considers himself atheist. He considers himself well rounded. Millennial millennials
are are more and this is where I kind of
side that they're more spiritual than religious. Right organized religion.
Do I believe in God? You're doing right? I do right.
But I don't actually think that's crazy. I don't think

(47:09):
it's racist or anti Semitic or anything. I think that
is actually something that can be discussed among families. I mean, look,
there are there's always been discussion about Boston and and
how welcoming it is towards the black athlete. Like you
don't think that black families have discussions about I know
you want to go there. The same thing happens with

(47:31):
the Jewish families, no question. So I don't think it's
all that college virtual. But I'm not sure it's because
Cleveland actually does have a pretty strong uh based in that. Well,
this got our attention when it happened because well, one,
the Rams continue to add assets too, because he was
traded to and had especially late in your very good

(47:53):
season with the Patriots. And three because it took the
Rams out of the Odell Beckham Jr. Chase or at
least that's that's what we thought. He's Brandon Cooks, He's
of the l A. Rams. He joined us in the
Doug Gatlin Show on Fox Sports Radio. Brandon, how are you.
I'm doing well. Thank you for having me. All right,
So tell me exactly where you are, because I was
driving home and all of a sudden my phone buzzed
and did you see this? Um it was a couple

(48:15):
of days ago. Where exactly were you when you found
out you were traded to the Rams? I was at home,
uh in Portland, Organ was hanging out. Um. So yeah,
and and how did you find out? I found out,
you know, a coach uh and then UH coach in
Nicole right after So I found out, you know, before

(48:38):
the social media buzz which you know, I have a
ton of respect for Bill doing that. Um, you know,
he didn't have to do that, but at the end
of the day he did, so, Um, you know, all great,
all great thing. Okay, So Bill Belichick pick up the phone,
called you and said they're doing this. Did did you
say did you ask him? Why? No? Absolutely not. You
know you want you go a question and uh, you know,

(49:01):
any do things in a certain way, you don't do this.
They feel like with this key And at the end
of they had such a great time. They're planning for
coach Belichick and uh, in the organization, there was no
need to uh, you know, you such the process in
my faith, you know. Okay, So now, how last time

(49:21):
around when you were traded from the Saints to the Patriots,
there was a lot of rumors about it, right, There
was talk, well is it a are they going to
trade him for Malcolm Butler? Was discussed. There was other pieces.
So it wasn't I don't. I don't feel like last
year was a surprise. What about this year? Did you
see this coming at all? Oh? No, no, Um, you know,
I really, I I guess I wasn't thinking about it.

(49:43):
If that makes sense, what do you what do you mean?
I get it's it's not a surprise. Because anything is possible.
But yeah, and Indians possible. You know, you until you
get back, you know, you just kind of go with
the flow and when something happened, you know, you don't
get called. What was your experience like because you did

(50:07):
there there was It wasn't perfect right away, It wasn't hey,
he takes the top off the defense, but they did
seem to find a way to make you fit within
their offense. What was your experience like playing with Tom
Brady's offense? I had a great experience, uh plan for
you know, coaching with Gunn and Tom. You know, no
complaint there. You know, they helped me become with a player. UHM.

(50:29):
I felt like I went to and help him as
a team or um. You know, at the end of
the day, we at this time the new opportunity because
that hand and you know, I'm just gonna take advantage
of them. Do the best want to come home to
help this team. What do you remember about the Super
Bowl everything? How could I forget that? I mean we lost, um,

(50:51):
so you know that that was teamed for a while.
But at the end of the day, you take the
positive from it, um and I Lendon tell it from
being in a game like that, Um, and hopefully you know,
kind of carriat over for the rest of your career
and remember some of those moments and things that you
felt like you could have done better. Brandon Cooks showing
us in doug Otlip Show. Well, I asked only because
that hit was so gruesome, so graphic. Yeah that I

(51:14):
think I think some of us think, well, he must
not have remembered anything because you you know, you woke up,
you woke up. So what was Take me through it?
What do you remember about that? Let's start with the play.
What do you remember about the play? I mean talk
about you know, it happened, and it started the game,
and um, you know onto the next you know, that's

(51:35):
something that's not something I like to think about. Author
I felt like, in a moment like that, I let
my team down. So yeah, I'll leave that one, okay,
But you didn't let your team Like getting getting hit
and a helmet to helmet hit is not letting your
team down. That's that's getting you know what I mean. Like,
it's not like you dropped the dropped the ball like
wide opening the end zone right, or you forgot it

(51:57):
route like you just got it was just just a
football play, and you got got it, Like, that's not
really letting your team down. You do understand that, right well,
yea from being it's a little bit better than maybe
it will happen. So I guess you can kind of
think of anyway fair enough, Brandon Cook's joining us. Um. Okay,
So the bad news is that you gotta leave the

(52:19):
Patriots and a Hall of Fame quarterback, your second Hall
of Fame quarterback in a row. The good news is, like, dude,
you like, there are a lot worse places. You go
from Sean Payton arguably best play caller in football to uh,
Josh McDaniels and Tom Brady historically great offense to an
offense that set the world on fire. You mentioned Coach

(52:39):
McVeigh and Jared Golf Like, you're this is a pretty
blessed life here to go from offense to offense to offense. Absolutely,
you know That's what I'm saying. I'm blessed with the
opportunity and uh, extremely excited about it. There's a lot
of a lot of discussion. I know you haven't in
the locker room yet, but this is different when you
bring in this many big name guys a key to

(53:02):
lead Marcus Peters and Dominican Sue, a guy like you. Like,
they're bringing in a lot of big name dudes. Um,
how difficult do you think that's gonna be to to
get it to be a team not just a collection
of big name individuals. Oh, I think, uh, you know,
from a distance, thing I have to talking about coach, Um,
it's probably theirselfs from making it's a family atmosphere. So

(53:24):
I don't think guys are gonna come in here and
try to be their own thing. You know. Coach does
a great job on bringing guys together and making sure
it's not about me, but it's about what's best for
the team and doing everything the team win. And I
think we all uh kind of get on board with that.
At the end of the day, we want to win
and that's what this game is all about. So all

(53:45):
other self esteem, Uh, you know, all right, you mentioned
Sean McVeigh called you. What what did he tell you
in regards to how they want to use you? Oh,
you know, we really haven't talked about that. You know,
it's been so quick, you know, having so quick you know,
over the next couple of weeks and you know what
kind of figure that out. That's more so a question

(54:05):
for co mcbray. Well, he said, he said, uh that
you fit characteristics of his ex receiver. This is a
quote from him being able to take the top shelf
off the coverage but also being able to win some
underneath ISOs when you're getting bump coverage. She's put that
on tape. Really over the last four years? Does that
sound like something? I mean, everyone knows you want to
take the top off of defense because you have such
great speed, But the underneath crossing stuff is that cool

(54:27):
with you? Never absolutely found me? Alright, So have you
picked out a place on the beach? Are you live
in by the Kardashians? What do you do? Not you know?
Over the next couple of weeks I find that out
before now? Uh? No, alright, last thing there was yesterday
there was a report that their talks about a long

(54:50):
term contract extension with the rams um. Give me a percentage,
how how close do you think you are getting something done?
Before you ever put on helm and pats you know, honestly,
I'll leave that and less to get that done. I
My focus is gonna come in here, uh, making a

(55:11):
positive impact and doing the best I can't um, you know,
to fit into the atmosphere. And I let all the
stuff take care of us. So all right, well listen,
fantasy people want to know how many touchdown receptions. You know,
there are guys, there are guys. They're gonna try and
divide you and Cooper Cup. They're like, yo, I had
Cooper Cup of my fantasy keeper team. I got Brandon
Cooks my fantasy team. Don't be taking balls away from

(55:32):
Todd Gurley. He's on my fantasy team. Got a mouse
defeed there on that offense together, Brandon, thanks so much
for joining us. We look forward to seeing Parson. All right,
Brandon Cooks joining us from the L A. L. A.
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(55:54):
We are only a football player would say they let
their team down, like I made a mistake when he
got he just got hit, Like, dude, that's actually not
your fault. When you get hit in the Super Bowl
and concuss like that's not really your fault, not your fault,
like if you're on a motorcycle the week of the
Super Bowl without a helmet and you crash and you

(56:16):
bang your head and you get a concussion, Like, that's
your fault catching a ball and getting hit and hit
hard in the super Bowl, not your fault. Hunter Mayhan's
on the p G A tour. We'll get his thoughts.
Tiger shoots one over for the day. Should we sell
our Tiger Masters two thousand eighteen stock already? Plus what's

(56:37):
his highest score on a whole ever? Sergio shout a
thirteen on fifteen Today, my man Hunter Mayhan joins it
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Doug otlieve Show, Fox Sports Radio. Mm hmmmmmm. He just
got done playing Houston Houston Open Hunter Mahan shot eight
under that did not win him the tournament. Um it's
one of those things. Um I love. There are there
are just you know, there's like a handful of golfers
that not just because he went to Oaklhoma State. But
good dude on Twitter, good dude on radio, good dude

(58:32):
on his website Hunter mayhand dot com that I love
to follow. He's played in the Masters. He'll give us
some Masters breakdown here. Hunter Mahan joins us on the
Doug Gottlieb Show. Um, having been out there, what's it
like to is it? How much different is it watching
the Masters? Having played in the Masters? Well, yeah, thanks
for having me on on Doug. It's it's really interesting

(58:56):
watching it because you know so much about the course.
You know so much out the elevation that you don't
see from TV. Um, you know all the emotions that
the players are feeling, and the excitement and adronta unles
you feel on the first tea and playing twelve and thirteen. En.
I mean, it's really interesting from a different perspective. But um,
it's a lot of fun too. You know, you get

(59:18):
to see so much golf and so many different angles,
but you don't see while you're playing. Um. Yeah, everybody says,
you know, like when you're not when you're you can't
understand on TV. Just you know, the the elevations, the
undulations of the green, all of all of that, all
of that considered, Um, it's it's the most prestigious, right
There's there's four Majors and the others obviously changed sites.

(59:40):
But the Masters is that's the most prestigious golf tournament
in America. Fair, No, yeah, no question, no question. I
think you can ask all the players on tour, and
I think august of wind lead pretty heavily. Um in
most players eyes. You know you've got but you do
have the Open Championship for a lot of players. But uh,
for I would think Americans, North Americans, Augusta's you know,

(01:00:04):
the one that want to win. What were your thoughts
coming into today on what we should expect from Tiger Woods? Um,
kind of what I think we saw. Um excited, nervous, Um,
probably can't wait to get the number one. You know,
pe off Field those feelings again, Um, he knows this

(01:00:26):
place so well. Um. Clearly he feels great about his game,
and clearly he has showed us that he is capable
of winning tournaments again. And and I think he's I
think he clearly from what he said at the president'scope
when he said, I'm not sure what my future and
golf holds to where he is right now, he's got

(01:00:46):
to be superciated and as a golf fan and as
players on tour were really excited to see him play
so well, and it's gonna help golf a lot to
have him back. Got the Masters. I think I think
he's gonna play a lot better. But from what I
saw the last couple holes he piped in on seventeen,
he piped on eighteen, he had a couple of thirty opportunities. Um,
he could have finished even or one under really easily.

(01:01:08):
But to be in the clubhouse at one over, um,
I think he actually feels pretty good about it. Yeah,
because he couldn't he couldn't hear his driver for the first,
you know, three quarters of the day. And and look,
this is a course that's a lot more forgiving than
US opens, uh, than British opens. You know it you
know doesn't doesn't doesn't And pgs of course have been
cranked up over the last couple of years. Um. But

(01:01:29):
you know, like if he sprays it like this at Shinnikock,
he's got no chance. Whereas at Augusta, you can still
make some saves and and and stay and stay close.
That said, like, look, he had he had thirteen good
clubs for most of the day and he added that
fourteenth club late. Is that a fair fair assessment? Yeah,
he didn't. You know, he didn't put himself. You don't
have to drive it great and a gust, but you

(01:01:50):
have to drive it well enough to put your put
yourself in position to attack the pin. And you look
at the pins today, they were really tough. I mean,
it's really hard to see a lot of guys stick
it close today. So if you're not driving alone, um,
you can't attack these things and you can't make birdies.
And you know, you kind of saw that early in
his round. He was just kind of hanging in there
and hanging in there and hanging in there and what

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it guess it does though, it does give you a
lot of bertie opportunities on the back nine, and he
was able to make a couple of birdies and really
good ones and to finish it one over right now
with four under leading, he's in a good spot. And
he did it without scoring on the par fives, right, yeah, yeah,
exactly exactly. I mean the part fives are. I mean
the course this looks the conditions look perfect out here

(01:02:33):
when I'm seeing it, but scoring is really really difficult.
And we saw Sergio to have a disaster on fifteen.
I mean, I know the part fives are they're doing
not They're not just normal part of fives. I mean
they have a lot of risk reward in them. So
you know you can go in there thinking Bertie, but
you can leave in there with a double really easily.
Well that's the voice of Hunter. Mayhanni joins us in

(01:02:55):
the Doug Gottlip Show getting breaking down kind of the Masters.
All right, So if you didn't see it, Sergio, who's
defending champ. He finally won a major defending Champ. He
shot a thirteen on the fifteen toll put it in
the drink five times. Your worst hole as a pro
was what my worst hole as a pro? Um boy?

(01:03:17):
There's um worst hole as a pro? I guess I
would you know, I can say you like the most
embarrassing moment as a pro. I remember going into the
fridge stone and uh part five sixteen, got a downhill line,
got a wed shot. It's kind of like a front

(01:03:38):
tuckstand It's kind of where you you feel like you've
got to down, you've got to kind of lift it
up in the air, and I just hit it so
fat it like one hopped into the water, which is
about fifty yards in front of me. And I don't
know if that was my worst hole, but as sure
the most embarrassing hole of my life. Did you ever
shoot a third? Did you ever shoot anything double dig?
You know, double digit? I'm sure I have. I just

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can't recall a moment like that where I'm hitting it
over and over and over again, the same shot into
the water like that is I was that was Tin Cup?
I mean, I haven't that and the famous scene US
open Tin Cup where you know, give me the ball
Romeo and he just keeps kind of giving them giving
the ball. It's this Tin Cup. No. I thought I
was watching it happened live, and I thought I was

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on replay. I thought they were replaying the shot a
couple of times because I kind of wanted to. When
I came back, and then they showed the score and
where he was doing, and you're just like you feel
you as a pro, you feel that you know that feeling,
and you know what he's feeling and you're just like,
cut away, let's just go to somebody else. We know
this is a disaster. We don't need to watch this anymore.
Oh my gosh, it was amazing. It was really really

(01:04:44):
amazing to see it was shot over and get it along,
spun it back, get along, win it back into just like,
oh my gosh, please stop. Yeah, a lot like Tin Cup.
He was was maybe more interesting. He actually buried the
next hole, but the pressure was kind of off after
that because you know your tournament's over. Yeah, that's a
good point. Hunter Mahan joining us in the Doug Gotlip Show.

(01:05:06):
All right. So if not Tiger, I think I think
what golf needs is they need we need Tiger to
make the cut and to be around on the weekend.
And because I think what you're getting at why p
G A players are so excited was it's going to
bring attention to everybody else. There's this group of young
guys that have otherworldly talent right speed, Rory, Ricky, etcetera.

(01:05:29):
If not Tiger, I've I've heard a lot of people
say Rory striking the ball just better than everybody else.
Is that the guy? I think he's the favorite right now.
From what I've seen on TV, he just hit made
a beautiful swing on ten. He's got a great chance
for Bertie. He's definitely looks like swinging the best. He's
making it look the easiest right now. Um, Justin Thomas

(01:05:50):
was playing great. I didn't get to see too much
of his round. Um, But Jordan's he's got such a
great instinct and he probably has the best instinct and
love of the Master of anyone there. And he has
a great feel for a guess you watched him with
some of the puts, the shots you get. It seems
like he's played there twenty times. He just has that
understanding of how to play the golf course. So he's

(01:06:12):
you can never count him out at Anagusta. Um. But
Hendrick Spenser right now the leader. He is one of
the best ball strikers on the planet. Um So I
really like him leading this tournament right now because he
hits it unlike really anybody else. And he hits a
three let all day and hit three with the past
third one drivers. Um, okay, you finished? Was it? Was
it eighth in two thousand ten at the Masters, that

(01:06:34):
that was your best finished? I think I had a
six to one of us. I mean it says it
says eight on on an internet when I looked it
up this morning, So unless it changed, it's gone wrong.
But the internet kid can be wrong. But my my
question was, um I had when I was when I
was in summer league with the Lakers. Okay, I remember

(01:06:56):
every day I walk in and you walk in, you
say hi, the secretaries whenever you walk Patch walked down
this hallway and there's like a picture of Cream, this
picture of Magic and his picture of Worthy's a picture
of George, Mike In and Wilt and Jerry West whenever.
And for a long time, you just you felt like
somebody who's just visiting a place. And then as he
kind of got closer to closer to when they were
going to cut or keep guys for VET Camp, he

(01:07:17):
started thinking like, well, maybe I maybe I could wear
that jersey ones. Um, do you remember what that Saturday
was like getting ready for your Sunday at the Masters? Oh?
For sure, for sure. I remember I got I got
paired with fred couples Um going into Sunday and I
saw that parenting. I was so excited because Freddie is

(01:07:37):
just the best guy to play with and he's the
best guy to play with because he's why he's a
huge fan favorite. At a guest then, um, and he's
just the most relaxed guy in the world. Like whether
it's a Tuesday at a guest Tuesday in Houston or uh,
you know, Sunday of a guests that he's just the
same all the time. And so there's just relaxed, mature

(01:07:57):
just talking to him on the first total the second third, well,
you know, going into eleven if you feel a lot
and just gonna look at Fred and say, hey, Fred,
you know how the Lakers playing? You know, what do
you think about this? And then he's gonna talking to
have this school conversation and you're gonna have this little moment,
this brevity of of relaxation and getting yourself out of
that moment as the fact that you're trying to win

(01:08:17):
the Masters and you can just relax and take a
couple of deep breaths. So he was so great to
play with, and um, it's hard to do at Augusta,
but it's great to take a few moments and look
around and realize where you are and realize what you're
playing for, and you realize you're in a really special place,
because it's easy to forget that. I remember standing on

(01:08:38):
top of fifteen, looking down on the green and looking
at the spectator of the patrons on the left and
the right. Uh, the huge stamp sixteen. I just remember,
like this is just an incredible moment. I feel so
lucky to be here, and on Sunday afternoon, there's no
place you'd rather be. I'm not sure that Sergio has
the same feelings about fifteen that you do, but I
do appreciate you. H you joined us. Uh, Let's let's

(01:09:02):
talk next week. Maybe we can talk some of your
lakers next week as well. Appreciate you joining us, man,
We'll talk soon. All right, that's Hunter Mahan joining us
on the Doug Gottlip Show here on Fox Sports rad
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Uh thirteen third thirteen wow, thirteen on on a par fifteen.

(01:09:26):
That's really the two stories they are. Tiger didn't play
well and still grinding out one over and Sergio shout
at thirteen on fifteen. Let's bring in Dan buy or
Dan's or are there any other stories of the day
you think? Um? Yes, Yesterday Tony Finel a head a
dislocated ankle. Today he has a share of the lead
four under par for finale. He is currently tied with

(01:09:46):
Charlie Hoffman and Adam Hadwin. In fact, take Hadwood off
that list just Vogue et eighteen. So now Tony Fine
shares the lead with Charlie Hoffman, who's wrapping up his
first round as well. They are at four under par.
You mentioned Tiger, Yeah, plus one seventy three puts them
five shots back of the lead. Jordan's speed, that's just
two back at two under he is through nine holes,

(01:10:07):
Rory McElroy at minus one through ten, film Michelson even
part through ten and four shots at back of the lead.
And as you mentioned, defending champions Sergio Garcia finished at
plus nine today after carding an eight over par thirteen
on the par five fift which included five balls going
into the water. Celtics car Garry Irving's gonna miss the
rest of the season following knee surgery. He'll have that

(01:10:29):
surgery coming up on Saturday, as he'll have two screws
removed from his knee. They were first inserted after he
severed the knee injury and Game one of the NBA Finals.
Cavs coach to Ron lu Gonna return to night against
the Wizards after missing nine games. Jimmy Butler a game
time decision for the Wolves against the Nuggets. He's been
out since February with the knee injury. Lacers guard Damian
Lillard doubtful to go against the Rockets tonight with an

(01:10:51):
ankle injury. And Doug In baseball, j Bruce a grand
slam he met stop the Nationals today eight to two,
while the Rays are up on the Red Sox to nothing.
In the night that Fenway, Matt Duffy a two run
home run, Phil's Lee the Marlins three nothing, Marquette King
signing a deal with the Broncos is the punter gets
a three year contract. Dan, are you a Do you

(01:11:12):
like alternative music? Um? Not? I mean in college I
listened to some of it, But I mean, you know
that today is the anniversary of Kirk Cobain's death. Okay,
I was never a huge Nirvana guy, but no, but
they had I mean they had yeah, you know they
had a you mean you're you're a huge nirvana the

(01:11:33):
band guy, right, because nirvana is a transcendent state in
which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self.
It's it's kind of I'm a big right Like, it's
just a it's just an in the present moment, which,
by the way, for a long time, I will I
will readily admit I had no idea that nirvana was
actually a word of term or a state of being.

(01:11:54):
I didn't when I was in high school and smells
like teen Spirit came out my sophomore year in high school. Um,
I had no idea. I honestly did not know that's
what nirvana was. I had only probably fifteen years ago
I heard it used in a sentence. You know, he
was just in a state of nirvana. I was like, wait,

(01:12:15):
what does that have to do with the band. I'm
just like one of these I try and do on
the show, is I try to be completely honest. For
a long time, I had no idea nirvana was a
term you thought it was when you were or around
two other people. Then you're in a state of nirvana.
That would be maybe what you thought at the time. No,
I just thought Nirvana was a name band. I thought,

(01:12:36):
I just thought was a made up name for a band,
right like smash Mouth and uh, I don't know, uh
uh Mother love Bone. I mean, I had no idea
that Nirvana anyway. So um yeah. Today is the anniversary
of Kurt Cobain's death four I was. I was a

(01:12:58):
senior in high school. Senior in high school, twenty four anniversary.
It's the twenty fifth anniversary of Chris Webber's time out,
which which Michigan didn't have. God, I feel old because
I remember both of those things. Not like there yesterday.
They do feel like like people like man. I remember
when Kirk Cobain found dead from a gunshot wound. You know,

(01:13:19):
it's self inflated gunshot wound. You know, I remember like
it wasn't yesterday. Yesterday was yesterday. And there are things
that a couple of years ago that my kids were
a little felt like yesterday. But I do remember when
it happened, and it doesn't feel like twenty four, twenty
five years ago. It's baseball season and teams are spending
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(01:14:27):
Is this is this? This is Nirvana? Is that what
we're doing? I'm I'm asking guys, hold on, listen. I
love you, I really really do. If you're gonna play
one Nirvana song on the day that Kurt Cobain, on
the anniversary of Kurt Cobain killing himself, wouldn't you pick
the one that everybody remembers. I'm not the only one

(01:14:52):
who thinks that buyer help me out with this, right,
I'm not the only one who thinks this. I think
you are. I think that most Ravana fans probably hate
smells eighteen Spirit. I think they want a little something different.
So I'm with Sam on this one. But I'm not
with Sam on this one. I mean, you hate Spirit
one song you're known for, they're known for a bunch

(01:15:13):
no no, no no, but there like that one probably
win double platinum back when they used to have albums.
I mean, come on, it's yeah. I mean, like in
the in the grand Scheme of that was the song
that really put that whole genre, if you will, on
the seventy five million albums worldwide. Seventy five million albums worldwide,

(01:15:38):
you know, And so like, look, I'm not saying there
aren't other Kirk Cobain songs that aren't great. There are
other ones that are great. But if you're gonna play one,
hell no, like like it's an iconic song, come on,
fellas play you're saying you're not in Nirvana hearing that
song right now, like I'm not in I'm not in

(01:15:59):
a state of hell, which I admitted I did not
know was an actual state of being until fifteen years ago.
So there there have your fun. Yuck it up. Kirk
Obain little fella too, he was He was a five
five nine list, which really means more of a five
eight um, but part of that Seattle music scene. Again,

(01:16:21):
this is one of those things that like music music
doesn't know. He would have fit in quite well during
the alternative alternative run of the mid nineties, right because
he has a beard, right facial hair. He didn't have
long hair, but long hair, facial hair was kind of in,
but so too was like flannel shirts. He loves flannel.
Anytime it's below sixty in l A. He wears flannel.

(01:16:43):
He's fitting great. What's old is new, Doug. What's old
his new? No question? We still we. We seem to
skip the acid wash jeans. Those didn't come back in
everything else. Eventually, zoobaz pants, parachute pants too will come
back in. But I think acid washed jeans and pegging
your jeans those those will not hold on. Parachute pants
will come back in. Yes, I don't think you've looked

(01:17:05):
hard enough, Dog, they're in. You're not. High waist pants
are in for women, which was a bad look the
first time. It's bad the second time, but go ahead. Yes.
What I find is interesting, Doug, is what you just
mentioned is that there are like different stages of things
coming back, like short shorts in college basketball now very popular,
but when flannels were popular, it was the baggy shorts.

(01:17:26):
So what like, like one thing is like eight years
ahead of another, but they're both coming back at the
same time. It's kind of weird how different eras mesh
like that. You know, it's something from the eighties and
something from the nineties coming back. Now. My dad was big,
big on He didn't change styles. And his thing was like,
you know, all these designers, all they do they want

(01:17:46):
to sell more stuff, so they change. There's nothing wrong.
And this is a guy who wore like butterfly collar
polo shirts and sands bell pants, you know, and you
know what, at some point he would be right that
that style would come back in, but it never happened
during my lifetime with him. Let's play what did the
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(01:18:29):
a Super Bowl, So I've been chasing a lot of teams,
chasing Jerry Rice, chasing the Cowboys, chasing Green Bay in Philadelphia,
was chasing the Giants they won, chasing Washington Redskins with
Joe Gibbs may one. So I feel like I have
a great perspective on analyzing where a team is and
actually where my team was. And man, I always made

(01:18:51):
a mistake, man, Chris, I always thought we was a
lot closer to them than we really were. It was
kind of like the like that little sign in your
mirror said, objects in the mirror, they got closer than
the here like, they are not that close to Philadelphia.
They want no more close than we were. The Dallas
Cowboys are the San Francisco forty niners. Only time we
went got close to them is when we went out

(01:19:12):
and got Moss. That's when we got closer. And that's
what I knew, Man, we wasn't. It wasn't a difference
between how far we behind them. It's man, right now
we can play with anyone, and they did that a
couple of years ago with their draft. That's how they
got their quarterback, and that's how they got z. What
have they done since then? The offensive line in the
last two years, they haven't gotten better. We could say

(01:19:33):
that last season as that as that unit, that was
the worst season that they've had. They couldn't add anyone
in free agency this offseason. Jerry, I've been doing this
a while. Jerry, You're a lot further away from them
than it actually really appears, and you need to be
more concerned about some of them other teams in the
NFC two just beside the Eagles. I actually tend to

(01:19:55):
agree with Jerry Jones in terms of how far away
the Cowboys are. Um, you know, again, assuming that Zeke
is as good as we all think Zeke is. And remember,
not only does Zeke have to be as good as
we all think Zeke is, but they didn't have Tyren Smith,
who by all accounts is the best left tackle in football.
You take away your tube. He didn't play at times

(01:20:15):
because of injury. You take away your two most dynamic
offensive players in their positions, and you take away Sean
Lee was injured, and I don't think they're that far away.
I just don't. Look, I'm not a big believer in
in Doc in terms of being a great quarterback, but
can be good. Sure he ain't Carson Wentz good, but
he's good. He's fine. It's fine. Um. I don't love
some of their offensive talents. I wish they had somebody

(01:20:37):
who was what Dez was two or three, four or
five years ago. But I think it's good enough. And
I'm fascinating about to see how they can move around
some money and and now some draft picks and see
what they can do. But I I don't think they're
that There's just not that much difference between teams in
the National Football League. So remember that the Eagles still

(01:20:57):
as much as it seems like it's gonna work out right,
they were great this year as the underdog, they were
great this year. Think about who they beat in the playoffs.
They went out and beat the Rams, well the Rams
or down a cornerback, and the Rams were the record
wasn't was a little bit deceiving considering they weren't expected
to make the playoffs. They won that playoff game, and

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excuse me, the the Eagles played only at home there's
the Falcons won that playoff game, so they didn't have
to play the Rams. They could have very easily lost
to the Falcons at home, could have very easily lost
the Falcons. And yes they dominated the Minnesota Vikings, but
I would actually contend that the Vikings, because they had
case Keenum, weren't the second best team at that time.
It probably would have been the Saints. If I could

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have been the Saints and would do you would The
Saints have beaten the Eagles in Philadelphia with Nick Foles
at quarterback. So there's so many different variables that I
don't think it's crazy to say we're not that far away.
I kind of tend to agree with Jerry Jones, even
if it sounds like Jerry Jones making crazy Jerry Jones statements.

(01:22:08):
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got a lot of football to get you next hour.
I got a little Tiger recap for your day, one
Tiger at the Master's plus some of the big boys
still out in the course, we'll get to that. Um
a little MBA for you. Sixers look really really good,

(01:22:30):
and now there's more talk of hey, maybe the wrong
goes to the Sixers. Maybe the wrong goes to Sixers.
Coming up next, uh, friend of the program, Vikings general
manager Rick Spielman is going to join the show. I'm
gonna ask him about the process it took in landing
Kirk Cousins and how are they gonna handle the fact

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that there's gonna be a ton of pressure on Kirk Cousins.
That's up coming next on the Doug Otlip Show, Fox
Sports Radio. Boom, What Up America Got? Doug Godlib Show,
Fox Sports Radio. Sun has broken through here in beautiful
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(01:23:14):
getting you ready for a great spring Friday, which means weekend.
Master's weekend is upon us. Yeah, pretty sweet, right, no
question Master's weekend being upon us. Tiger Woods on the
course one over. I think the story of the day
is Sergio shoots a thirteen on fifteen. He shout at

(01:23:36):
what I said, thirteen on fifteen? How do you do that?
Like you could throw a ball and get it in
in third in twelve shots. I missed to put on twelve, mr, Mr,
Mr putt to get Mega twelve right. That's how he
got a thirteen. He hit five balls in the drink consecutively.
It was a tin cup. Give me a ball, another ball,

(01:23:57):
another ball, moment. That's a while, that's a that's a huge, huge,
Well anyway, welcome in Doug Gottlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. UM.
You know we have we do some really cool stuff
and we can kind of take some chances on Fox
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(01:24:19):
or weekend lineup is fantastic. I've got a chance to
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Chris Mannix and Karen Butler host the weekend show. It's great.
Jim Jackson as a as a show he's on the
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(01:24:43):
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pm Eastern Time on third is Day April. That's pretty cool.
And Rick Spielman is the brother of Chris Spielman. So

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do they that they Rick Spielman joins us in the
Doug Gottlieb Show. Does that mean that that we get
all the great Vikings information before anybody else gets the
great Vikings information? Yeah? I heard you, Like, my brother
is going to do some draft stuff for you guys. Yeah,
we do a whole draft show live from from Dallas. Uh. Well,
he usually gets some pretty good leads on things, so

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I paid attention to what he has to say. Take me,
take me through the process here. Because it's one thing
to acquire Kirk Cousins, who was the object of everybody's
affection in terms of a free agent quarterback, But then
you also had the uniqueness of having three quarterbacks. Right.
You had Sam who you had traded for trade a
first round pick four and had played great, but his

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knee just wouldn't hold up earlier in the year. By
the time he came back healthy, you had Case going
and then he had Teddy, who everybody went crazy for
because everybody, like some of you draft him as a
first round pick and he had that catastrophic knee injury
after leading you guys to the playoffs, Like there was
a there was a lot there before you could ever
even get to thinking about going and making an offer

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for Kirk Cousins. How did your process begin when the
season ends in Philadelphia? How about what we wanted? Yeah,
what we wanted to do first was make sure we
had the got the offensive coordinator hired, and we hired
John d. Filippo after the Super Bowl. Then we sat
down tried to understand schematically how similar was it to

(01:26:35):
what we were doing, any new changes he had, and
then we had him, myself, coach Zamor, George Peyton, Kevin Stefanski,
Uh and Ryan Muttons, our director of pro scouting, sit
down and we started going through everything on Teddy and
everything on Sam and everything on Case. And then we
started evaluating the potential options outside and Kirk so uh

(01:27:00):
until we had the offensive coordinator signed uh them Then
We knew what direction after we did our quarterback study,
and that took a whole weekend to get through everything
the direction we wanted to go, all right, So how
did It's it's really interesting point. We wanted to get
an offensive coordinate first, How did de Filippo how did
that change in terms or maybe how did that evolve

(01:27:22):
your offense into what specifically you needed? I think just uh,
you know, he's going to be coaches ever, wanted to
keep the continuity we had going because we drastically improved
on offense last year from where year a year ago,
and he's going to have you know, some of his
tweaks to it and then just evaluate waiting each of

(01:27:44):
the quarterback strengths and weaknesses. And we felt after we
went through everything, I mean, we we would have been
just as happy to have any of our own guys
back if Kirk didn't work out, but we felt that
the Kirk was such a unique opportunity out there and
a skill set that he has, uh should fit in
nice with what coach d Filippo wants to do. Rix Pielman,

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gentle manager of the Minnesota Vikings, joined us in the
Doug Gotlip Show Fox sports radio. It's been it's been
reported been reported that the Jets were offering somewhere in
the neighbor of the fifty to sixty million guaranteed that
you were not, in fact the highest bidder. Um, So,
so what's the pitch If we're not offering you more

(01:28:26):
money than the New York Jets, what's the pitch? I
think where we're at as a football club right now,
I think, uh, we have a pretty solid roster. I know,
our defense is played at a high level. I think,
you know, we have some intriguing weapons on the offensive
side of the ball with our receivers, with Kyle Rudolph

(01:28:47):
at tight end, with Dlvin Cook coming back off a
knee injury, who, by the way, he's doing excellent and
very excited to see him go next year. And uh,
you know, the revamped offensive line. Will continue to look
at things as we go through the draft. But I
think that I think the culture that Ko Zimmer has
established here in that locker room. And then I think,

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you know, our ownership providing us all the recess resources
necessary the U. S. Bank Stadium, Uh, we've just moved
into a brand new uh Tco Performance Center for our
training site in our new building here. We've been in
it less than a month and when someone walks in
this building, it just blows you away. So I think,

(01:29:31):
you know, and the ownership giving us the resources to
go out and sign a Kirk Cousins and go out
and sign a Sheldon Richardson. So and uh, some of
the big contracts we've already done and will continue to
try to do, extending some of our young guys as well.
So it starts with the ownership and what they provide,
and then I think it goes with the coaching, and
then I think it goes with the uh, the type

(01:29:53):
of team we have right now. Rick Spielman, a gentlemanager
of the Vikings, joining us in the Doug Allip Show.
I've seen videos of the facility. Obviously, every he seeing
your facility that you play in, it's unbelievable. Uh. And
and that you know, you kind of everybody, you know,
the wils have doubled down with with the new training center. Um.
There were reports that when he was visiting with you
now the Jets were you know, offering crazy crazy? Did

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you take his phone away? Do he asked him to
turn off his phone? Like I thought Yeah, his agent,
Mike McCartney did an unbelievable job navigating such a high
profile unrestricted free agent. Uh and in a quarterback that
rarely gets out in the open market. And I'm you know,

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I think the most important thing was h Kirk wanted
to get into situation where he felt he had a
chance to win, where it felt comfortable and the community
was going to live in um and you know, it
felt comfortable with them, with the coaching staff and like
I said, the facilities speak for itself. And you know,
he may have been offered more money. I don't know that. Uh.

(01:31:00):
I know we paid him in a significant amount. So
I don't think he's going to be starving during the winner.
He should be fine. UM. But I think the most
important thing to him what was the opportunity to go
out and win. And that tells you what he's about, no,
no question that There's also though something different now because
he at the time signed the biggest contract in the
history of the sport. Right that that even though he

(01:31:23):
was still a fourth round pick and he had to
eventually beat out r G three like in d C.
And I think this is one of the things that
seems like it went wrong there was. They always viewed
him as a guy that should feel great that he
was a fourth round pick and that they you know,
he became a starting quarterback and they gave him i
don't know, close to fifty million dollars the last two
years as a franchise tag, whereas he's like, look, I'm
a starting quarterback. I want to be treated as such.

(01:31:45):
I want to be paid as such. Now he is.
There's a level of expectation when you make that kind
of money, when case Keenum leads you to the NFC
championship game, have you guys discussed how you handle raised expectations,
not just because of what the heam accomplished, because the
amount of money that he's making next year. Well, I
think that's what makes him so unique. Uh, you know,

(01:32:07):
I don't think you know, like I said, his new
contract solidifies him as one of the top quarterbacks uh
in the league. But also he knows, um, this is
going to be his home and hopefully his home for
the rest of his career, so he's vested here and uh,
but I don't that the thing that impressed us the
most of most about him was that that's not the

(01:32:30):
most important thing to him, the most important thing to
him is this team winning and whatever way he does that,
especially at his position, um that he's he's going to
do that. And it was incredible just the demeanor he
had in this building. And uh as he walked around
and met everybody. I mean, he remembered our assistant equipment

(01:32:51):
guy because we coached him in a senior Bowl. When
he was coming out of the Senior Bowl, he went
up to Blake Bell, who picked up that was a
tight end. The Bell does, yeah, yeah, you spill a
quarterback And he went up to him in the locker room,
never met him before and said, hey, weren't you a
quarterback at Oklahoma? I had to go back and look
at my nose to make sure that was true. Do

(01:33:15):
you remember the Bell does, yeah, yeah, I remember. Remember
that when he remembered the equipment guy. Stop it with that.
That one's that's made up. He had. Don't pull up
the video of him walking through our building and watch
how he approaches everybody and how much time that he
took to learn about our organization, and you know, you

(01:33:36):
had to study that. And if I knew and he
was studying us before fore agency started, would have been
it would have been as uh as tight uh waiting
for the opportunity to talk to him. Um, I need
as honest answer as you can. Did you have a
plan B? We had a plan B, C and D

(01:33:57):
always do so. UM. But I knew once the negotiation
period started and we were going to be the first visit,
I knew that we usually, Um, if he's going to
choose us to come and visit first, that it's our
job to go ahead and make sure that deal was
sealed and make sure he doesn't get on the plane, right,
I mean, that's that's a big thing, like, you know,

(01:34:17):
make sure he doesn't get on the plane without a commitment.
Oh no, I was actually down there and flew back
with him, So I was making sure he was going
to get on a plane with his wife and and Cooper,
his son. Yeah. You don't want to get McDaniels in
the situation, right, that's that's actually now that you don't
want to get McDaniels in the We had a dog,
we had a deal, we thought, and then he went
home and then you you didn't you didn't have a deal.

(01:34:39):
Um okay, so uh what do you now? What do
you get the guy that's It's like the old adage
for for a birthday. You know, what do you get
the man or woman who has everything? What do you
get the team that has everything? You guys had a
ton of talent, plus you had Dalvin and other injuries
that are coming back to you. Now you get Sheldon
Richardson and you get you get the quarterback you want.
Why even partic say in the NFL draft we still

(01:35:02):
have uh, you know, I want to still improve our
roster and I think it'll be a pretty strong draft. Um,
we'll be able to get some very good football players.
You know, even when we're picking in the draft, I'd
love to accumulate some more picks so that can give
us the ability to move up and down and manipulate
the draft board. You know, last year we moved up

(01:35:25):
to get Cook in the second round, which I thought
was the first round pick. So because we didn't have
a first rounder, then we moved up and to get
elf Line and then I only had two picks on
Saturday and ended up with I think ten or eleventh
total picks last year. So our coaches do a great
job developing this young talent, and we had seven college

(01:35:47):
free agents make this roster last year and you know,
one of them ended up being Adam Seeland, who made
it a couple of years ago. So I know, if
we get guys that fit our culture, that have the
physical traits of playing the schemes that we run, that
this coaching staff uh is going to develop these guys.
How would you how would you describe that there's a

(01:36:07):
team I won't name the team's name, but there's a
team that has been been taking some big name talent
from elsewhere and just kind of loading up and got
a lot of guys in the last year of a deal.
I know the league talks. How would you describe that
sort of plan in comparison to your plan? Well, I
I will never talk about anyone's else's building. And they're

(01:36:30):
all very capable. I think, uh, they all do a
lot of research to make the decisions they make. You know,
everybody's philosophy is different on how you're going to win
in this league. I know we are pretty very follow
our philosophy to a core. You know, we're always going
to try to build through the draft, and we're going
to try to extend these guys as we've developed them,

(01:36:50):
and we you know, to uh to make sure we
keep our own. But there's a lot of different ways
of people have won in this league, and uh so
they'll they'll they'll be exciting two thousand eighteen season for sure.
Well listen, congrats on getting the object of your affection.
And more than anything that's at that sign of you
could be a great college coach as well, because once

(01:37:11):
you get the kids on campus, you got to get
him to sign the line that was dotted. Then you
baby sat him as he went back home and pick
up his wife and kids. So I really appreciate you
joining us, Rick, and we know we'll be getting all
of that first information. Hint hint, wing wing through through
Chris on draft day. Don't listen to them. I'm going
to feed him a bunch of bs. So throws people off. Yeah,
that's that's what all you guys do, Like, oh, they're
thinking about drafting. Who thanks, don't be surprised if we

(01:37:34):
take a quarterback in the first round, no question, that's
on everybody's my draft. Thanks Rick, all right, thanks duck.
Rick Spielman joining us on the on the Doug Gottlip
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Member Chris Spielman j
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(01:38:48):
So I think this story is going to man like. Look,
if you're a woke, it's gonna wake you. I no
doubt clack Clay Travis is gonna Did he do his
whole show on this today. I wasn't up early enough.
I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you. I'm
not up early enough. I don't think it was. It

(01:39:08):
was out yet. Um, if you're woke, this is gonna
wake you. Houston Texans owner Bob McNair told the Wall
Street Journal that he regrets apologizing for saying we can't
have inmates run the prison, in reference to the player
demonstration the protester in the national anthem. Wait what Yes,
that's what he said. He didn't say he apologized for

(01:39:29):
saying we can't have inmates run the prison. He also
didn't say he had apologized for mrs for changing the phrase, which,
by the way, I think he actually changed the phrase
for the better. The phrases can't have in rates run
the asylum, he instaid, he changed it to prison. He
said he he feels bad. He's he regrets apologizing. He's

(01:39:50):
doing the demilovado. Baby. I'm sorry, not sorry, I'm really
not sorry. The main thing I regret this is Bob McNair,
owner of the Texans. I didn't really have anything to
apologize for. We were talking about a number of things.
We were also washing some of our dirty linen, which
you do internally, you can't do that publicly. That's what

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I was addressing the relationship of the owners and the
league office. UH. The Sunday after McNair's comments were reported,
the majority of the Texans players took a need during
the national anthem and the four their road game against
the Seahawks, and of course they were led. Uh. They

(01:40:32):
were led by their left tackle Dwayne Brown, and Brown
raised a fist before a two thousand sixteen game, was
outspoken about McNair's comments, calling them disrespectful. He said, quote
at the time, this is Dwayne Brown. Remember he was
traded shortly after to the Seattle Seahawks. I think it
was ignorant. I think it was embarrassing. I think it
angered a lot of players, including myself. We put bodies

(01:40:52):
and minds on the line every time we step in
the field. Use the analogy of inmates in prison. That's disrespectful.
That's how I feel about it. Brown, of us was
trade of the day after the game. McNair told the paper,
The Wall Street Journal that he met with the Texans
later that week to try and tell them the truth
and that Brown was being a troublemaker in the locker room.

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Mcmary told the journal that there's no truth to the
Houston Chronicle report that Texans would not sign a player
who participated in the protests, saying Houston would sign any
player that helped their team. He also said the Texans
coaching staff looked at Colin Kaepernick in two thousands and seventeen,
but you didn't like the way through the ball. Look,

(01:41:35):
I didn't. I wasn't bothered by the inmates running the
asylum of the prison because you can't. And whether it's
the owners not being able they can't run the league
that that was in reference to Jerry Jones, or whether
it's the players not being able to run a team.
They don't run the team, they don't make decisions the team,
or who was it earlier today who said it was

(01:41:55):
a was it Chris Simms when he joined us earlier today?
Who said? And who wasn't a joint Earli Day who said?
Who said? If Jerry Sloan said, if you if you
allow the fans to make decisions, then soon you'll become one.
That's the all. That's all the same expression. It's like baby,

(01:42:18):
I'm sorry, I'm not sorry. It's pretty obvious that the
NFL owners have been able to get whatever data they
felt like they needed, whatever data they felt like they needed,
and they've assessed it, they've analyzed it, and they determined.
You know what, people didn't like that our players protested.

(01:42:40):
They just don't. And you can correlate it to here's
Bob McNair, old white guy donates the Trump Trump's inauguration.
You know, look, I can tell you Donald Trump said
something is an outright lie. Earlier today is in West
Virginian outright lie said something about millions of people in
California voted multiple times like there's no he was outright lie.

(01:43:04):
But you know what I can't do. I can't do
a radio show on that. Do you know why? Because
that's not what you turn into Fox Sports Radio for.
Just not it's not And I think, honestly that's what
That's what McNair, that's what some of the owners are
in fact saying, like, you may think that your feelings

(01:43:27):
matter and that your feeling should matter in the decisions
that this team makes, but the reality of it is
they don't. They don't. I'm not going to outwardly agree
with everything that Fox Sports Radio does or Fox Sports
Television does. But you know, I'm not gonna do I
Am not gonna make a statement about it on air,
because that's one a good way to get yourself fired.

(01:43:50):
In two, this is bad business. This is bad business.
And when you couple it in how divisive that politics
can be. Look. Michael Jordan's people have often criticized Michael
Jordan's for his statements, Hey republican or was his mom

(01:44:11):
asked him why he doesn't take a stance and He's like, hey,
republicans buy shoes too, alluding to the thought that he's
a Democrat. And so people think like Michael Jordan's saw
Michael Jordan's like, no, I don't know. Maybe he's just
a busy he understands that there are certain things I'm
sure that are worthy of taking a stand on. Hey,

(01:44:33):
but there is a certain realm to which you like,
you're an entertainer, and you know it's it's sometimes it's
hard for fans to differentiate between the entertainer and the
human being. I don't think Bob McNair had anything to
apologize for saying the inmates run the asylum is account

(01:44:55):
or in inmates run the prison. That's a commonly used
expression he changed the expression, but I completely understand it.
Whatever he's referring to, whether it's a black man or
white man, doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. You may
be offended, and I kind of think that's what happened
there was he was like, well, you're offended, I find
an apologize for it. Sorry, just an expression, and then

(01:45:17):
you get done. You're like, why did I apologize for
something I had? No ill will like, I'll give you.
I'll give you an example. Um, Jalen Brunson is going
to win the National Player the other Wooden Award. I
think tomorrow is the awards given. I vote on the
Wooden Award. He's gonna win. He's gonna win the nat
Nay Smith and the Wooden Award National Player of the Year.
So during the National Championship game, I tweeted out that, hey,

(01:45:38):
how crazy is it that had his dad not been
arrested and he was he was acquitted of charges, does
dad ive been arrested? Like he might end up at
Temple His dad went to Temple. Temple wanted to hire
his dad. The thought was it was a package deal.
Hired dad get the SUN. I believe that even the
first championship, to which he was arian Archie Dacino was

(01:45:58):
the starting point guard East with him. I don't I'm
not surely win either of them with another player who
replaces him. That's how important he was then, obviously how
important he is now. And they've been Villanova foreign players
like you're okay, you're you're casting shout out shadow on
his shine like no, I'm not, and say anything about
Jalen And by the way, Rick is coaching in the NBA.

(01:46:22):
But that's the actual story of what happened, the story
what happened, and it's a story of it's no different
than had un l V not blown up ed Oben
and wouldn't have ended up at u c l A.
And then when he went to u c l A
towards a CLIs first year, otherwise he wouldn't have played
ninety five, w would have graduated ninety four, had had

(01:46:42):
ummteen Cleave has not been in a car accident during
his visit to Michigan, to which they found out that
Michigan's players had cars that were purchased by a businessman
in Detroit who was funneling them money. Michigan's program went
to blown up Michigan State might not ever happened. So
I was using kind of the just the true interesting

(01:47:03):
story that I don't know that enough of people in
mainstream America knew. Fascinating to me, what would happen with
Villanova who's now they won two championships in three years.
That's dominance in this era, and they might well win
one next year or in two years. That's how good
that program is. Like, had that not happened, I don't

(01:47:23):
know what. I don't know if they're nearly as good.
I think they're probably not. He's the perfect college player perfect,
he's great, but he might not be athletic enough to
ever be an NBA like a long time, like an
NBA starter. So he stayed for three years, got his degree,
and helped be part of two championship teams. So I

(01:47:44):
just I sent j a note, Hey, man, if if this,
if any may, if you didn't feel like it takes
shine off his star in any way of sorry, sorry
people take it that way, but I understand, Like Bob McNair,
sometimes people want to freak out, they want to overreact,
they want to be offended by something that's not offensive.

(01:48:04):
It's just odd. It's not offensive to say the inmates
can't run the asylum or the prison. It's an expression.
Everybody's used it. It's it's no different than the than
Laron James being morally offended by the idea that Nick
Saban's gonna take his platform which he created, right, I'll

(01:48:27):
be damned, that's what he said. I'll be damned to
somebody's gonna take my platform that I created for people,
Like nobody's taking your platform. You still have it. You
took a name about that that basically used barbershop talk,
which is the oldest time, which, by the way, is
all we try and create on TV barbershop talk and

(01:48:50):
has been created on TV before and been made into
a movie. So I'm not on team McNair in terms
of how he votes, but I'm on team McNair and
that you can absolutely in a private setting, heck, and
a public setting say it makes don't run the asylum here,
can't run and whatever he's applying it to with these

(01:49:11):
applying to owners can't run the NFL that Roger Goodell,
they have to have a commissioner. I mean, that's so
different than we talked about this yesterday, didn't we music
in terms of boxing, Why is boxing so dysfunctional because
there is no leadership. You have the inmates running the asylum.
That's what you have, right, Floyd Mayweather ran boxing into

(01:49:35):
the ground, and you don't have to like Dana White,
but you know what, Dana White helped make UFC into
a four billion dollar valuation business, got tired, Connor McGregor
took his belts away, so you know, I mean, like, look,

(01:49:55):
it's not a real sport, but w W Vince McMahon
like they leadership there. And sometimes leadership makes decisions that
that everybody else doesn't like. And if you don't like
it in a business, you can work for another business.
It's and life isn't always fair. You don't always work
for people that you love or you agree with politically,

(01:50:16):
and oh yeah, by the way, you can't always most places,
you can't speak out politically, no matter what your beliefs are.
So I I understand, I understand how it's perceived. You've
got an old white guy from Texas who donated to
Trump saying inmates run the prison, and you know, everybody

(01:50:38):
but what he's saying is accurate. It is a commonly
used expression. And by apologizing for it. It made it
seem like it's made it seem a lot more offensive
than it actually was actually was. Um It's baseball season

(01:51:00):
with teams spending big money to get the tools you
need to win. Luckily you don't have to. Auto Zone
offers over a hundred loan of tools for free with
three services from ato Zone, you can't lose getting his
own auto Zones check in with Dan Buyer. Dan, give
me an update on what's going on in augustin Yeah,
I can tell you this much. Tony fen Now is
going to have the lead all to himself in about
a minute or so. He's at four under par playing

(01:51:21):
the seventeen poll. Tong Lee of China is also at
four under, but just wrapping up his first round. He
has a bogey putt coming up on eighteen. A lot
of names at three under par that includes Hendrick Stenson
and Jordan's Speed. Stanton is done for the day in
the club house after a sixty nine, as is Patrick Read,
while Speed there's through thirteen holes and one shot back

(01:51:41):
of the lead. Rory mcloy has two shots back. Phil
Mickelson even par right now through fourteen and four back
of the lead, and at plus one after a round
of seventy three sits. Tiger Woods hit the ball better
than than my score indicates. That's howdays played. The par
five is a little bit better, and it's a MSCO
solid start. But as I right now, I'm only five
back and this is a very bunch leaderboard, and I

(01:52:02):
think that by the end of the week it's going
to be pretty crowded. And that was Tiger speaking with
ESPN after his round today and defending champions Sergio Garcia
at nine over par after shooting a in eight over
par thirteen on the par five hole where he put
five balls into the water, Sergio Garcia scoring the highest

(01:52:23):
score ever on the par five with that thirteen. Today
you mentioned baseball, Doug J. Bruce and Grant slam Met
stop the Nationals eight to two. Red Sox rally for
two in the ninth the fourth extras against the Rays,
they're still tied up at two playing in the eleventh.
Kyrie Irving done for the year for the Celtics. He'll
neednee surgery. He'll have it on Saturday. Tailu back for

(01:52:43):
the Calfs tonight against the Washington Wizards after the head
coach missed the last nine games back to you. M hmmm,
Doug Gottling show, Fox Sports Radio. Kai re Irving is
out for the rest of the season, right, he's out, um,

(01:53:05):
And it's it's interesting because I think a lot of
us are like, yeah, I can't really buy into the Celtics.
Vegas thinks this is a massive, massive difference. One before
not one to win the championship. That's big. They were
nine two to get to the UH finals. Now they're

(01:53:27):
one to get to the the Eastern Conference Finals. I mean,
it's a massive massive change for Vegas. But like, look,
I think what it ends up happening is who the
Celtics match up against. Right the Celtics are the ones
that benefited from this last year. Last year they had

(01:53:49):
the number one seed. They're down two games done to
the Boston Celtics. Gen Rondo gets hurt and they come
from behind and beat the Celtics. This year, I think
somebody's gonna benefit from playing the Celtic. Celtics as of
right now are running as the two seeds. Now. Brad
Stevens has been able. I don't know how he's done
it magically. Last night they're beaten badly by the Raptors.

(01:54:10):
As of now they play the Wizards, but they can
play the Wizards, the Bucks or the Heat that are
all kind of clumped together. We know who the playoff
teams are in the East. We just don't know the
order of the playoff teams in the East, as they
will all now Jockey two. I mean, but Dario Sarge said,
It's true, right, I don't want to play I do
want to play the uh Lebron James. It's kind of

(01:54:32):
French sounding, actually, like the West is not as clear.
Clippers are two games out of it, the Nuggets are
one game out of it, the Pels, the Timberwolves, who
get Jimmy Butler back. Oklahoma City looks fairly save, fairly save.
They have forty five wins, They've lost four of their

(01:54:52):
last five, they last five of the last seven. They
gotta go to Houston and take on the Rockets in
two days. They look fairly say. Remember the Rockets are
trying to get their stuff together because they hadn't been
playing well before last night. If you're Oklahoma City, you're
feeling pretty good. But you gotta go to Houston. You
gotta go to Miami, and then you have what feels

(01:55:14):
like a sure fire win. Worst case scenario, they go
one and two, they're probably in and I can't see
them winning less than forty six games. And forty six games,
we'll put them ahead of the clip Clippers can't catch them,
so they're probably in. Spurs are probably in Jazz, are
probably in Minnesota, and the Pelicans. Remember the Pelicans have

(01:55:36):
to go to Phoenix, right, that's a dub Phoenix like
Memphis trying to lose games. Um, then they also then
they finish up the season at Golden State, But we
don't know who's gonna be playing for Golden State at
the at the Clippers still trying to win games, and
the Spurs at home. We used to assume the Spurs
resting players late in the season. I don't know. The

(01:55:59):
big thing to me is has nothing to do with
the Celtics. I didn't see them winning the title. But
I do think that whoever gets them in the first round,
it could propel a team Like if I'm the Wizards,
I just try and figure out a way in which
I can play. I can get the seventh seed and
play the Boston Celtics. That's my dream, that's my absolute dream.
A superstar quarterback in the NFL is not happy. I'll

(01:56:23):
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(01:56:49):
Doug gottlif Show, Fox Sports Radio. June I cub is
gonna join us tomorrow. Fired about that second season the
Big Three on Fox Sports one this summer. Congratulations to
Justin Hudson, former assistant at Sandy who stage just got
the head coaching job at Fresno State. That's awesome, awesome,

(01:57:13):
lots of things to get to. Let's do so in
the press, the press. Matt varn is gonna join us
as well tomorrow. M Let's get through it as many Uh,
Let's get to as many stories as possible. Here's Dan

(01:57:34):
Buyer Dan when he got a quick update from Augusta
National at the Masters Tiger Woods plus one seventy three.
He's five back of the lead. Tony fen now has
the lead. Yes, Tony fen now, the guy who yesterday
dislocated his Ankle has the lead at four under parties
playing his final hole of the day. Phenee right now
is a one shot lead over a group that includes
Jordan's Spieth and Hendrik Stanson, with Rory McElroy two back.

(01:57:57):
So all in all, Doug I get saw the storylines
we had wanted to follow going into the Masters, some
living up to expectation with Spiith and McElroy in contention,
Tiger Woods a whole home seventy three today, and then
of course you have Sergio Garcia in his thirteen on
the par five that put Sergio at plus nine after
day one. Look, I mean the surgery, Sergio is basically

(01:58:21):
out of the tournament, but it's more the way in
which he's out of the tournament. Uh and Tigers around
didn't play great, didn't play terrible because the field is
so big. If he can simply survive tomorrow will be
around the weekend. He's got to make a move on
those par five's if he wants to be in contention
for a top ten or to try and win this thing.
Lots of news from the NBA today. Celtics card Kyrie Irving,

(01:58:43):
the biggest of them all, done for the season, you'll
have knee surgery on Saturday. He will have to screw
screws removed from his knee and need four to five
months to recover. Mm hmm um. Look, people forget how
many injuries Kyrie Irving has suffered. You know, before that
two thousand and fifteen injury, there was the toe in college,

(01:59:04):
there was a risk, there was a shoulder, there was
a finger, There's been a bunch of everything. Uh there
this was, you know, and they said, well, look, he'll
make a full recovery. I didn't think the Celtics will
win the title this year without Gordon Hayward, but hopefully
they'll be stitched together and be back in better than
ever next year. We'll see. This year has given us
thoughts that Jason Tatum can be a superstar and probably

(01:59:27):
if I'm the Wizards, that's who I want to play
most in the playoffs. By the way, Tyler gonna be
back for the cash tonight. Jimmy Butler, a game time
decision could return for the Timberwolves as they faced Denver.
Jim Totter of the NFL Network reported that reps of
Russell Wilson contacted the Seahawks wondering why general manager John
Schneider went to the pro day of Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen.

(01:59:49):
They were who went to who went to the John
Schneider the Seahawks GM. And so when the reps of
Russell Wilson and Russell Wilson found out about that, they
contacted the Seahawks and said, why is uh, why is
the general manager? Why are you going to a pro
day of a quarterback that's going to be in the
top five or six of the NFL draft? Why not?
All right? Well, they were just wondering if it had

(02:00:11):
any effect on Russell Wilson. What I think we have
seen is teams going to pro days for if Josh
Allen is a bust, at least the Seahawks have information
on him that they could sign him maybe four or
five years down the line. Maybe he'll go to a rival.
Those are other reasons why teams would go to a
pro day. But the seaha or the Russell Wilson people

(02:00:32):
thought it was just a little odd that John Schneider
was there. I look, I think it's a little different,
But I also think it's one of those things. You know,
Bill Belichick has gone to many of these pro days,
and be like why you got but like, look, you
you want to you want to be able to see
him in case, who knows, case a couple of years
he's a bust one. In case he's on the trade market,
you also want to see, all right, if that's the
best quarterback prospect, what else? Remember they're in the market

(02:00:55):
for a backup quarterback Trayvon Boykin. Uh just they just
cut him last year. They were in the market for
a backup quarterback. You're doing your due diligence. That's your job.
They also were high on Patrick Mahomes last year, really
high on him, but of course he went to the
Chiefs and the Seahawks were picking late. Hey, the Denver
Broncos have signed free agent punter Marquette King to a

(02:01:16):
three year contract. Denver have a spot for punters, right right,
it's like the greatest spot ever for punters. But if
you screw this thing up, you gotta go directional punty
because you know you can go great distance. A matter
of fact, I think he tweeted out as much like
years ago, like man, Denver is the greatest spot is
the greatest experience. There By the way Jordan's speak just

(02:01:36):
tied for the lead of the Master's a birdie on
the fourteenth. He is at four underpar with Tony Finou.
He's missed more cuts in his career than Tiger has
in his career. Yes, it's crazy. Former Louisville men's basketball
coach Rick Patino continued his claim of innocence involving the
FBI and n c double A investigations that clouded his
former program, as he spoke today on the Dan Patrick Show.

(02:01:58):
I think in two years is everything will come out
and they'll say, man, that guy was really railroaded out
of his business, and it will come out that I'm innocent.
That was Patino today. I think Rick Petino is the
best modern day basketball coach, college basketball coach you've ever had.
Great next to the knows, ahead of the curve of tanking,
head of the curve of the use of three point shot,

(02:02:20):
was shrinking the shot clock defensevely by implementing different kinds
of presses. Um. But if you want to believe that,
if you can. The problem with it is God, he's
been around. He's got a lot of bad luck, right
like man, I mean, he just he's just really bad
luck that he just happens to sign a kid who

(02:02:40):
was was going around trying to shake down, had somebody
shaking people down for money, that he just happened to
have a program that had prostitutes in the dorm. I
want to believe him. I do. He's got have had
the worst luck ever. Finally, UFC President Daniel White said,
this warrant out for Connor McGregor's arrest and they're looking

(02:03:02):
for him right now. His plane cannot take off, he
cannot leave the state of New York with this warrant.
They'll be grounded and uh, I'm assuming eventually if they
don't catch him, he'll turn himself in. This after Connor
McGregor and his crew attacked the UFC bus with fighters
in it. TMZ reports one of the fighters who actually
injured and part of that melee. I feel I feel

(02:03:24):
like this is w W. I feel like this is
just a daw attention to it. I honestly think that's
what it is. UFC two twenty three coming up this weekend.
Is he in UFC two doing things? No, that's the
deal is his belt is now up for grabs because
they stripped him of it yesterday. Yeah, I mean, this
is like, this is a script of Vincinct Man is like, nah,
not believable. Now get out there and pressed. That was

(02:03:46):
the press man. I've had a great time watching the Masters,
talking about today back with ice Cube, who will join
us tomorrow on The Doug Gottlieb Show. Download the podcast
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