September 12, 2018 • 35 mins
Doug tells you why Le'Veon Bell is great, but replaceable. He explains how the Cowboys can win long term with Dak Prescott as their quarterback. Hall of Famer and NFL on FOX analyst Terry Bradshaw joins the show to discuss the Le'Veon situation and the differences between Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady.
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long running statement that Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback
in football. Tom Brady guy having a tough day with
some of the quotes that have come out over the
past forty eight hours or so. After that incredible performance
on Sunday Night Football, we'll get to that based ball
is in fact he now I've got day baseball. I
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still don't understand how this exists in two thousand eighteen.
How they make any money on day baseball. That just
boggles by. There's like fifteen people in some of these games,
and they are just cash and huge checks. Don't really
get it, but cool. We got a little bit of
baseball discussed, little college football. We also have a little tennis.
Sloan Stevens, who is the two thousand seventeen US Open
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Women's champion, will join us. We'll ask her about the
Serena Williams controversy. A very different tone to last year's
US Open as opposed to this year's. Well, let's let's
get to the story of the day. The story of
the day continues to be the Pittsburgh Steelers, who I'm
not sure if you're aware, really good game tomorrow night.
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In the first um, it's not a Fox Thursday Night
Football game, but it's a Fox Thursday Night Football game.
The first thurs n Football game is NBC, the second
one is NFL Network. But Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
will be on the call to be the Fox's number
one team for the for the first game. This part
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of the new Fox Thursday Night Football package. And that's
a big game. The the Ravens and the Bengals. I
think both benefited schedule wise from getting terrible opponents, especially
the Ravens. The Ravens got the Bills at home. We
know how that ended. The Bills today announced that Josh
Allen will start Week two against the l A Chargers.
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Good news for the Bills, bad news for the Chargers,
as Nate Peterman had five interceptions in the first half
last year and his only start that was actually against
the l A Chargers. So um it is at least
it is fascinating to me. Fascinating that that we sometimes
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don't pay attention to schedule. Right, all of these a
f C North teams. There's one a f C North
matchup Steelers and Browns, but all of the three would
you call quasi favorites Bengals, Ravens, and of course the
Steelers all got games against likely non playoff teams that
should give you a boost. And here's how big the
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Steelers not winning was. Stealers have a pretty good opponent
this weekend, do they not go ahead? I'll give you
a chance to look at the schedule. Pittsburgh Steelers go
from tying remember they tied this past weekend against the
Cleveland Browns on the road in Cleveland, to this week Oh,
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it gets real as the Steelers welcome in the Kansas
City Chiefs for their home opener. The Chiefs kind of
same thing like, Look, the Chiefs started their schedule out
at l A against the charges of the team that
people think should compete for that division, could win that division.
And then they go to Pittsburgh knowing at you have
two road games to start. If you go one and two,
you're in good shape. But if they go too and oh,
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really good shape for Kansas City. Let's just say Pittsburgh
can't figure it out or Big Bend can't go. As
he had an m R I earlier. Today, the Steelers
will be a game and a half behind either the
Bengals or the Ravens. Because the Bengals and the Ravens
play each other this weekend, they both one and out.
The story continues to be Levy on Bell, who yesterday
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was removed from the depth chart. He's officially become the
valdimort of the Pittsburgh Sailors. If you're not. People are
familiar with Harry Potter series, right, they know if I
say Baltimore, it's he who should not be mentioned. Right.
You can't actually say his name. It's kind of like
beetle juice. You can only say beetle juice twice. You
can't say it three times Otherwise, than he appears. So
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if you want to go nineteen eighties and early nineties,
who go Beetles juice reference Otherwise you say Baltimore. Right,
So he's become the Baltimore of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and
there's lots of people trying to wonder, well, wait, is
he gonna wait and show up for week eleven? Signed
that franchise tender tag? What do the Steelers do in
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the meantime? But he's run into a Trev Albert's type
of situation. Do you guys remember Trev alberts I said
the name to Ryan Music and Rhyan Music had no
idea who he was none. And that's not a bad
thing on Ryan, It's just it shows his age. Ramos.
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You remember Trev alberts I believe he was a linebacker Alabama,
Let's try Nebraska. And then he was on TV. He
was on he was He and Mark May were the
studio guys to college Game Day that was on the
road with Kirk curb Street, Chris Fowler and um would
be end up becoming like Desmond Howard wasn't always on
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that show anyway. It was Coach Corso and Kirk curb
Street and Trev Alberts was always he's upset at his
role at ESPN. And and one of the things when
you worked there, the college game day guys for football
like that. Those guys are rock stars. Rock stars they
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go on the road. They got their tour bus. You know,
they have their own makeup people, people serve them food,
whatever they want. They make a lot, They make a
lot more money. They don't work as many hours. You know,
they got like an hour they back then they had
an hour show. They don't have to stay all day
and do studio. They jet set around and then they
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do a ship. They would do a little bit of
a show at night before the big game. That's all
they did. And so Trev, not liking his role, actually
walked off and said I ain't coming back on a Saturday.
Was supposed to be back on a Sunday. By midweek
he had relented and changed his mind and wanted to
come back, and ESPN said, now we're good. They moved on,
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and the and the point to who won and who
lost was I asked Ryan Music that he ever heard
of Trev Alberts, who's now the athletic director at the
University of Nebraska, Omaha, and his answer is no. Again.
That doesn't mean that Trev wasn't good on TV. He
was exceptional on TV. He was an exceptional football player.
He was an exceptional analyst. He had strong opinions and
he backed them up with a ton of football knowledge.
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He was great, but he overvalued his value to their
team and they ended up replacing him well. And look,
lu Hots. He may speak with a lisp, but lu
Hots was very good on TV and was good enough
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to wear. The ratings didn't go down, they actually went up.
Be very careful when you walk out that door, when
you draw, when you dig your feet in, when you
give a hard line stance, because there may be a guy.
This This is the j leto one on one. Why
did j Letto never take nights off the Tonight Show?
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Because he was always afraid to getting Wally pipped? Just
was Why would I give somebody else an opportunity for
a show that I worked my entire professional life to get.
Johnny finally bequeathed it to me. I ain't given enough
to anybody else. They might be better than me, They
probably are better than me. Take a look at the
pittsburghs Deelers last week. I'm not gonna sit here and
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tell you that James Conner is better than Levan Bell,
But leading rushers in the NFL don't win you super Bowls.
Don't believe me. I have the last ten leading rushers
in the National Football League from Adrian Peterson who lost
in the first round to Chris Johnson. Remember he had
the two thousand yards season c J two K. They
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didn't make the playoffs, right and eight Adrian Foster uh um,
Adrian Foster six by why does the Adrian Ariyan Foster
Aryan Foster? They were six and ten m J D
led the league in rushing in two thousand eleven. There
five and eleven a D and two thousand twelve lost
to the Packers. Not all his fault. And you could
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point out that the last six leading rushers in the
Nashal Football League all made the playoffs. It's actually that's
actually a lot stronger than the last six leading wide
receivers in terms of yardage. But there isn't necessarily a correlation,
or at least in the last decade, of correlation between
having the best running back in the NFL and winning
a Super Bowl or even getting to a Super Bowl
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no leading Russia in the nash Football League has actually
gotten to a conference championship game in the last decade.
And then you walk out the door and James Conner
replaces you and does a great job. He wally pips you.
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So look, if I'm if I'm Levian Bell, whatever point
you tried to make, it was in fact made. And
while you may say, hey, I want less carries, I
don't want for guess what, James Connor is good enough.
You're not gonna get four hundred carries. But it's going
to be fascinating to see how this Pittsburgh story has
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actually overshadowed Ben Roethlisberger being crummy, or the fact that
they may end up they're gonna end up possibly a
game and a half behind the Bengals or the Ravens
two weeks into the season because of their inability to
win a game on the road against the lowly Cleveland Browns.
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Fascinating to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers, a team that has
always gone, you know, gone hardball against most of their
star players, and with the league evolving, the league changing,
they're sitting there going like, look, you may think we're
low balling you, but they offered him a long term deal,
and if not accepting of the long term deal, he
has the franchise tagg to which he'd be a free
agent at the end of the season, and he's making
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you would be making really really good money. Guaranteed. The
train has left the station without him. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Doug Dot Leaps Show week
days in noon eastern three pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app. I'm fascinated by
the Dallas Cowboys. Fascinated by the Cowboys, and the more
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I the more I watched them, the more I wonder
what they ultimately do. Because I've been telling you for
three years now, Tony Romo was the better quarterback that
even though they had immediate success with Dak Prescott the
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tune of thirteen wins, I just I felt like there
wasn't any question that Romo would give them a better
chance to win in the playoffs, and that ultimately played
out as they lost to one of the all time
greats and Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs. Last year, they
had injuries, last year, they had dysfunction. I thought des
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Bryant got exposed some as being not only over the hill,
a little bit over the hill, but also having and
look yeah Hunt three three balls blown his way, throwing
his way um and Jason Witten was slightly over the
hill and he's in the broadcast booth for Monday Night Football.
Zeke Elliott gets suspended, Tyrant Smith gets hurt. Their offenses
is a shell of what it used to be. They
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try to change some things. They got rid of Daz
witting in the booth. Now it's about Zeke. Now it's
about Doc and they're not that good. I still think
they'll be fine if and this is a big if,
if they come to the financial realization that they've come
to in terms of the football realization about who Dak
Prescott is. It's a challenge. Every quarterback seems to get
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paid or does get paid more than the previous quarterback.
That's the presumption. And even if it's a front load
of deal, you can't negotiat renegotiate his contract till the
end of the season. But look, the Cowboys, if they
want to, they can on on giving him a new
deal at with new money at the end of the season.
They go another year, then they can franchise Tag. Now
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that's not what I'm suggesting they do, but they do
a team friendly deal, because what becomes painfully obvious is
this is like the Giants when they fired Tom Coughlin.
First they get rid of the offensive coordinators, Then they
get rid of the defensive coordinat Then you know what,
maybe it's the head coach. He had reputations being disciplinarian,
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but they led the league in penalties. Maybe it's the
head coach in Dallas. What have they done. They've gotten
rid of the wide receiver, They've lost the tight end,
They've changed most of their roster over. They've handed the
reins to DAC and said, hey, you're gonna have eight
guys in the box because you got Zeke. We know
you can go out and do it. What happens when
they don't At some point you do have to blame Doc.
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I don't think they get rid of him because finding
even a capable starting quarterback is the hardest thing to
do in football. With that, let's bringing from the big
founder of the Big Lead. You can hear him Saturday
mornings you're on Fox Sports Radio. He just got done
taking taking pictures or you're going to take pictures. Stop stop,
don't let's not talk about a photo shoot. You're gonna
be doing one shortly. No, I've done the photo shoot
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last year. We already have. They're not re upping you
this year. You don't mean more photos sitting here, Doug
is flexings are just bursting out there, amazing photos. Uh,
they're amazing photos. We can't we can't possibly I'm not
getting younger looking. Um, are the Cowboys as bad as
they looked on Sunday? The Cowboys were awful. I mean,
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Dak Prescott looked like a guy who just has no
clue what's going on now. I don't know if it
was the you know, the center being out Travis Frederick,
but he was like happy feet in the pocket. Doug,
this is a guy who he wasn't accurate. You know,
in his last eleven games, he's only going over two
hundred yards passing three times. This is a guy who
like they can't even I said this yesterday, like people go, oh, well, listen,
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he was. He was awesome a couple of years ago.
Like was he he went over he went over three
yards passing twice, which is a baseline, and he has
a crewed a lot of yards because he doesn't get Look,
he's solid, he's fine, he's the middle of the road.
He's better than it was a Quincy what was hard
Georgia bulldog? Right, Like, he's better than Quincy Carter, better
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than Drew Bledso at the end of his run, probably Doug.
How about this what Giants Cowboys Sunday? Is an elimination game.
I'm not even kidding. I know it's only week two,
but if you start owing two, you've got about a
ten chance to make the playoffs. The Cowboys will be
behind with two teams Panthers now in Giants if they
lose this in the NFC hunt right for if you're
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looking at wild card is an elimination gamey, No, it's not.
They haven't even faced the Eagles yet. They gotta face
once twice because once we'll be back. Okay, this is
the most important. I think Jason Garrett's on notice here.
He better deliver. Okay, and Dak Prescott he's supple to
be in line for a big contract Doug this offseason
because he don't want to be a lame duck next year.
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There's so much riding on this game. I'm telling you, man,
this is a I think it's an important I think
it's a really important game. And obviously you get into division,
you play the Giants at home, and traditionally the Cowboys
have been worse at home since Jerry's world have been
on the road. They did sweep him last year, but
O'Dell didn't play in either game. Giants were awful last year.
Giants biggest dumpster fire in the league. Well there, they
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were bad last year and they had and they had
massive injuries. Giants, they go this, they go on the
road to the Seahawks. Um, that's that's in a week,
and Shawks will be in two because they're losing in
Chicago Monday night. So you already you already chucked that
one up. They're losing. Pencil it in, go ahead right
in marker, you know, Permanent inc. Chicago's beating Seattle Monday.
I love the Bears' I'm driving the Bears. Watch the
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second half, cares man. This is a team who was
not very good last year. They take a twenty to
nothing lead. Mac barely could play in the second half
because he was so ghasted because he's not in shape yet.
Quant Smith not quite there. I love what I saw
from the Bears so much to build on. Okay, but
when they went off script their Offenseibinsky does not appear
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to be a dude. Let's remember whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What do you mean he hit on his first ten passes.
He looked sharp when he went off script. His receivers
once the sheet ran out, his receivers are It's like
when you have the answers to a test, right, you
got the answer you get and you only got the
answers to the first section of the test, and then
all of a sudden you're like, wait, there's a part two,
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part two. That's why. How is Mitch Drabinsky in the
second half? Well, I mean, hold on, Naggy, Now, remember
the head coach. His second half of the playoff game.
He collapsed with the Chiefs he was calling place, collapsed.
And now the second half of Week one, absolute abomination.
I will say this, this is what young coaches go through.
You know this incremental games in life. You slowly work
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up your niggie still finding his way. They're gonna be fine.
This could be a playoff team. What you're not buying
the Bears, No, dude, that defense, you know they were
top ten defense last year by many metrics. They add
ro Quon, they add Khalil Mack. I think they're both terrific.
But they have the most of the best quarterback in
NFL history right on one leg. And and and it's
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not like Green Bay has this juggernaut defense and they
had very little offense, played supernously conservative because they know
Trubisky doesn't have it. You don't think Trubisky's is any good.
I mean, I don't think he's great. I think the
potential is there. Jared Goff remember this, We talked about
this on on FS one. Goff starts out Owen seven's
first year under Jeff Fisher look bad. He's a bust.
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Oh my gosh. Second year gets an offensive coach he
put up. I believe twenty t D seven picks. They're
in the playoffs. I think Trubisky will have that kind
of learning curve in year two. I don't know about
twenty eight and seven, but I think you'll throw TV
s this year. The receivers are not bad, Trey Burton
or you just you just said that they need name tags.
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They don't couple. They don't even know last names, they
don't know tendencies that stuff. Jason McIntyre kind of what
do you rub rushing me out of your dog? No,
it's called a reset. That's called a reset. I don't
like to lose debate. You gotta you gotta breathe. This
is not a debate. Joining you my show I was.
It's called resetting. You do this, you tap in your head.
It's just like the NBA reset. Jason McIntyre join is
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founder of The Big Lead uh A a hot take
artiste artist I want to be sure it's artist on
Fox Sports One. He also hosts the Your show is
called a Big Lead on sports radio. When are we
gonna play basketball a U c l A? You know
Durance up there right now, right now? Kevin Durant, is
you show up at u c l A. It's not
like you're gonna hop in a pickup game with Kevin Durant.
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May probably not, but I got you behind me. You
played some college basketball. I believe you were a top
ten assist ski in college. I played college basketball. I
don't know what played some college basketball like I was like,
I took a college basketball course my freshman sophomore year.
Selling you, Doug come on. So Russell Westbrook has his
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niece Yeah, this after we have like a summer of
Russell Westbrook workout videos. Oh gosh, he's don't get on everybody. Yes,
So what's your reaction to Russell Westbrook getting his nie
cleaned up? So? What happens when a guy who lives
in the air, Right, that's what he does. He careens
through the lane. He's an above the rim guy. What
happens when he turns thirty and he's got to have
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knee surgery? And he shot twenty nine percent on threes
last year, Doug, I know a lot of people like
the Thunder this year. Right, they had a pretty good
off season. They lose mellow, which is additioned by subtraction.
I like Jeremy Grant Dennis Shrewder. Will see how that
works out, but he's not bad coming off the bench.
I think we'll see a problem child ego. We'll see
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how that works out. But they could be a sleeper
to win fifty games to be a top three four seed. Right.
I want to see how west I think on paper
to the second best team, who's the better team? Well,
the Lakers are going to be better with Lebron than
the Thunder, and I think a couple of Rockets. Fans
are gonna be calling into the show, said, did you
forget about CP three? I didn't forget about him. You
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said addition by subtraction, and who added? And okay, So
I think again, on on paper, Lakers on the Lakers
aren't better. The Lakers are better than did you see
Alonzo Ball's new shooting for He's out there on i
G doing the new shooting drills. It looks exactly the
same as the old. It's going in a little bit
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Kusmas dunking on people in the summer. I like the
supporting cast. Okay, but love the supporting But but here's
easy on the love. Okay, but here's the here's the
big thing. When the Lakers go on the road, there
everybody's biggest game. The games the Lakers won at the
end of the season. Many of the teams they played
were trying to lose. The Lakers were not. Lakers were
not trying to look wont five games. So they won
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thirty five games. I think to think they win forty
eight games, maybe even fifty, I think is obviously a
massive improvement. I think it's possible. But but the look
the thunder. The thunder a good Russell Westbrook's elite player.
Paul George may not be an elite player who's really
really good. I like Paul George better than Russell Westbrook.
Let's keep going. No, you don't. Westbrook is so overrated. Dog.
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Come on, man, you you're going to start a team tomorrow.
I'm not starting with Russell Westbrook. No, you're gonna take
Paul George before you take Russell west I would Paul
George went to the Eastern Conference finals twice versus Lebron
and his prime with the Pacers. Next question, Okay, wait,
Russell Westbrook winto the NBA Finals to Randon Hardened in
the Western convert. Okay, but again, hold on, So you're
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taking Paul George ahead of Russell west I am. I
know that I'm in the minority on that, and you're
not the minority. You're on a deserted island all by yourself.
You're like Tom Hanks yelling at a volleyball saying well sir.
So you think this is the beginning of the slowing
down of Westbrook. And because he everything he does is
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on athleticism, the lack of skill gets expected, and the
lack of shooting ability, I mean, it's that's that's where
I say skill. Okay, Yeah, I would give him any
jump shot he wants. I mean, and he's gonna take
you three shots in a game in Game six against
the Jazz, three dog. I don't want that on my team.
So you're super concerned because he had his knee cleaned up,
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I would go with super concerned. Yes, Doug awesome, give
me a winner for NFL this week. Who you got
a winner for? Just pick because you are you going
on the game Rams? No, I'm not. I'm not. But
give me a give me a winner outside of the
double digit favorite Rams, outside of the double digit favorite Rams,
just straight up winner. Be careful with the Chargers and
the Chargers of the Bills. Be careful with the charge.
I'm not careful with the charges of the Chargers are
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gonna Josh Allen is Josh Allen no bo said appears
this week again, but I'll say so the little one
last week if they could kick opened at nine this week.
It's down from professional money coming in early in the
week to seven and a half. So just be careful.
Remember the one o'clock start for Chargers. Never miss pros,
never missed something occasionally. Miss. I mean, it's looked there's
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no weather problems there, It's that you're not playing in
the middle of December. It's it's a Chargers team that
should have had six hundred yards of offense and no there.
Their their defense wasn't great. They couldn't stop Tyreek Hill,
who should have been player with Tyreek Hills amazing? Who
was player of a week? Uh? Mahomes was at Mahomes
and Fitzpatrick work, not Rogers. Who the hell's voting for that? Well, listen,
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you're the one who said the Bears are awesome now
because they played well in the first half. You want
to you want to make a wager here? We should?
We should make it interesting. I think the Bears win
more games than the giving a team Cowboys, Chargers. You're
down on the Chargers. No, No, I like the Charges.
I'm down on them this week, Bears or Cowboys? Who
wins more games? Here we go. I'll go with yeah.
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I see laughter in the control. I don't I don't love.
I don't love either. I'll think about it. We'll bring
you back and I gotta think of I'm not a
huge cowboy guy either, But the Cowboys win more games.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug dot
Leap Show weekdays at noon Eastern three pm Pacific. I
can't remember the last Sunday I turned on TV and
I didn't have a smile on my face when I
saw Terry brad suh getting us ready to or reacting
(25:21):
to football. It's an absolute delight to be joined by
the four time Super Bowl champion Terry Bradshaw from uh
the NFL on Fox. He joins us here on The
Doug Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Terry, I already
know you're good. You got the greatest gig in the world.
You have a ton of fun doing it. But I'll
ask you anyway, how are you? I'm good, I'm I'm well. Um,
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all right, what's another year? Another big Ben kind of
mysterious injury and obviously he had a disappointing game. He
got the levy On deal, which I don't think helps things.
You got a head coach where there have been many Steelers,
not just you, but you point out like, not my
kind of guy. What's going on in Pittsburgh? You know,
(26:06):
I think the Levion belt thing is really stirred it
up and really brought so much attention to the team.
Um that it's it's obviously the players will say, you
know it isn't but it is a distraction and uh,
your focus you try not to be You're trying not
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to have it, have it be, but it is, and
and it just accentuates everything else. Uh. They scored forty
two points in the playoff game with Jacksonville, they lose,
they fire the offensive coordinator. It just goes on and
and they're good. I mean they are there good. And
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I look at the Cleveland game and go, you know,
mark them off. So many people are all day long today. Uh,
as I've been communicating around the country, so many people
are riding them off. It's one game. Are you gonna
write the Saints off, the Cowboys off sto and go forth?
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I don't think you can. It's just wait, it's just crazy.
You just don't do that. They're too good. The Levian
built things. You know, it's worked. It's look, they're parting ways.
That's the way it seems. It's unfortunate because I think
they I think they deserve one another. He wants his
money and and I said they should have signed him.
(27:36):
They should have signed him but they didn't. This is
an offensive league. Now you need all the weapons you
can get, and he's an awesome weapon. He's an awesome player.
But there's two things he's run into. One it's Pittsburgh
and I know they paid Antonio Brown, but no one
knows this better than you. Pittsburgh forever has been Hey, listen,
this is the bottom line business and bottom line. We're
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not going to overspend like other teams do. And he
also ran into an era to which we kind of
diminished the value of a running back and it had
to be diminished when his backup has a great game
at Cleveland. I know it's Cleveland, but I mean like
when a guy who's behind you making a fraction of
the money that you would make, performs almost as well
as you would and gives you no headache at all,
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it doesn't exactly help your stands. Well, you're right on all.
Everything you said is right. It's your your spot on. Uh.
I applaud Pittsburgh. I think the sailor management because that
the way they've always done business. And listen, they're not
the cowboys, they're not works five point three billions, they're
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not conky, and these guys that have got billions from building.
The sticklers don't have that kind of money that I
know of, at least I didn't when I was playing there.
So today and I think I applaud them for being
smart business people. On the other hand, um running backs
to have been diminished. You're exactly right, but this is
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no ordinary running. There's no one like Levian Bill but
there's he fits what they're doing. He needs to stay there.
Uh And they looked at righting him to check for
fourteen million. He lost eight hundred and fifty three thousand
last week, a million this week, fourteen million dollars. I
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had a ton of money, and I don't know where
he's going to get that money. He's twenty seven going on,
and you know, obviously I think they're wanting to part ways.
But here's the deal, and you're not gonna take it.
And the guys are saying, look, let's finish the season.
We're gone. Yeah, I mean, does it doesn't work out
to where maybe he doesn't wait ten games, but he
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waits half the season to rest his body and then
he shows up. He could If you're gonna wait half
the season, why not just go into ten games? I
mean it's uh, it doesn't really matter one way or
the other. If he if he's willing to pour up
about eight million dollars, you know, I can't understand that.
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I don't think a lot of our listeners understand that
either that that is a lot of money just to say,
and you're not going to get it back. You're not
gonna make that money up no matter what. That's That's
a it's a great point you make, Terry, is you
make it up. You may get you may get a
new contract, but you're never going to make back that
money that you've not earned this season. Sitting no. And
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so I just think it's sad because I think that's
where he needs to be. He'll go into the Hall
of Fame as a Steeler from right there if he
stays there. And your point I was going to emphasize
earlier the spot on with running backs, they're just not
that many running backs that You've got two kids down
in Elliott and Dallas and Hurley and in Los Angeles, um,
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and then you have Levian Bell that is in an effect,
and there's more. I'm sure I just right now, are
you been at somebody's somebody in your way? Hold on,
let me just get out of Terry pratt Shaw's way.
Would you get Terry pratt Shaw? He with four Super Bowls?
He's what a heavy wod you get the hell out
of his way. He's trying to do a radio interview. Well,
I don't think that's gonna work in New York. I've
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been shot at six times already. All right, well fit,
fair enough, Terry, Terry, that's the funny. But but my
friends in the backseatter going on, we don't worry. Don't
worry Terry, we dropped that. Don't don't worry about. Don't
worry about. Know he listens to this show anyway. Let's
up what I hear? So? Uh? We got we we
(31:35):
got peat Aaron Rodgers in the second half, right, he
does it, Willis he does it, Willis read and comes
comes back from the dead and and and kills the bears.
And then we got Tom Brady O hum doing it again.
I give you one that you can pick. You can't
compare the accomplishments of Rogers to Brady. And the other hand,
Rogers does some things that Brady cannot. You can only
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take one. Who do you take? You cannot? First of all,
if you're asking me which one I take. The better
athlete is Rogers? By far, Brady could not have done
what Rogers did in the second half against the Bears.
He's not that kind of athlete. Um, so Rogers is
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is special. But are you still there? Oh? I thought
you hung up. No, I'm listening. I just I want
to listen to you. I know that Brady has got
five super Bowls, and but when you go put him
side by side and you take away all that another
stuff Rogers. Have you seen a quicker release from that guy?
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He snapped it off. Man, He's amazing. But Brady's got
it all. He's I mean, he's got everything you want
in the court as a quarterback. But if I set
him side by side, and I'm based on just as
a pottle of lawn, I take Rogers big game on
Thursday night football, which I know that's what you're that's
when you're in New York four. You got the Ravens
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and Flacco has looked great. Now No, no, I'm not here. No, No,
I'm not doing that game. I'm two weeks away from
starting my Thursday Night so't no. Yeah, I thought I was.
I was gonna ask I was gonna ask you about Flacco.
Was is was Flacco that good? At the Bills that bad?
But the buildings are that bad? But so I think
Jackson has kind of spurred black alown. I mean, he
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played really good the other night. Uh, and the Ravens
played really well defensively, but Buffalo Throll for all counting purposes,
are just a bad football games, really bad. Tell me
about all about all about your your boom. It's part
of your campaign that you're up with with Fiser. Well
you know what. Yeah, Fiser wanted to get a message
(33:48):
out to the baby boomer support um nimocop pneumonia. And
so they asked me what I come on and do
this campaign? And and then campaign is called all about
your Boom, and the boom is baby boomers six and older.
Since I'm seventy, they said, who perfect more better, more better?
Who's better than you to go out and get that
(34:09):
message out? And so I said, Hey, I'm your guy.
And so, uh we've been talking about new mccoxy the moon.
You're telling all the boomers out there sixty five and older,
it goes to your doctor and uh, be sure to
get your vaccine check and make sure you need if
you need the vaccine, and get your new mccochin amon
the vaccine. Uh, don't let your you know, your life
(34:29):
slip away because all of us are getting close to
retirement and we don't want to ask something like new
mccoflin ammon, you knock us down. And so that's my message.
And then I went and did a I did a
film for them, and where I have I'm on my
resort and if you'll go to all about your boom
dot com, you will see probably the best acting that
I've ever done and which I take you through my
(34:51):
resort about these crazy amenities. Um that you'll see you
just go watch it. You'll see what I'm talking about.
That that's that's the program, that's who I'm serving. And
it's been fun. We've been doing this all day, all
day tomorrow around the country. Good time. I'm enjoying it. Terry.
Can't wait to see when you come back out to
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l A for the weekend. Thanks so much, Thanks so
much for Thank you all right, Terry Bradshaw joining us
A four time Super Bowl champion, Hall of Famer
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long running statement that Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback
in football. Tom Brady guy having a tough day with
some of the quotes that have come out over the
past forty eight hours or so. After that incredible performance
on Sunday Night Football, we'll get to that based ball
is in fact he now I've got day baseball. I
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still don't understand how this exists in two thousand eighteen.
How they make any money on day baseball. That just
boggles by. There's like fifteen people in some of these games,
and they are just cash and huge checks. Don't really
get it, but cool. We got a little bit of
baseball discussed, little college football. We also have a little tennis.
Sloan Stevens, who is the two thousand seventeen US Open
(01:24):
Women's champion, will join us. We'll ask her about the
Serena Williams controversy. A very different tone to last year's
US Open as opposed to this year's. Well, let's let's
get to the story of the day. The story of
the day continues to be the Pittsburgh Steelers, who I'm
not sure if you're aware, really good game tomorrow night.
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In the first um, it's not a Fox Thursday Night
Football game, but it's a Fox Thursday Night Football game.
The first thurs n Football game is NBC, the second
one is NFL Network. But Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
will be on the call to be the Fox's number
one team for the for the first game. This part
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of the new Fox Thursday Night Football package. And that's
a big game. The the Ravens and the Bengals. I
think both benefited schedule wise from getting terrible opponents, especially
the Ravens. The Ravens got the Bills at home. We
know how that ended. The Bills today announced that Josh
Allen will start Week two against the l A Chargers.
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Good news for the Bills, bad news for the Chargers,
as Nate Peterman had five interceptions in the first half
last year and his only start that was actually against
the l A Chargers. So um it is at least
it is fascinating to me. Fascinating that that we sometimes
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don't pay attention to schedule. Right, all of these a
f C North teams. There's one a f C North
matchup Steelers and Browns, but all of the three would
you call quasi favorites Bengals, Ravens, and of course the
Steelers all got games against likely non playoff teams that
should give you a boost. And here's how big the
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Steelers not winning was. Stealers have a pretty good opponent
this weekend, do they not go ahead? I'll give you
a chance to look at the schedule. Pittsburgh Steelers go
from tying remember they tied this past weekend against the
Cleveland Browns on the road in Cleveland, to this week Oh,
(03:43):
it gets real as the Steelers welcome in the Kansas
City Chiefs for their home opener. The Chiefs kind of
same thing like, Look, the Chiefs started their schedule out
at l A against the charges of the team that
people think should compete for that division, could win that division.
And then they go to Pittsburgh knowing at you have
two road games to start. If you go one and two,
you're in good shape. But if they go too and oh,
(04:04):
really good shape for Kansas City. Let's just say Pittsburgh
can't figure it out or Big Bend can't go. As
he had an m R I earlier. Today, the Steelers
will be a game and a half behind either the
Bengals or the Ravens. Because the Bengals and the Ravens
play each other this weekend, they both one and out.
The story continues to be Levy on Bell, who yesterday
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was removed from the depth chart. He's officially become the
valdimort of the Pittsburgh Sailors. If you're not. People are
familiar with Harry Potter series, right, they know if I
say Baltimore, it's he who should not be mentioned. Right.
You can't actually say his name. It's kind of like
beetle juice. You can only say beetle juice twice. You
can't say it three times Otherwise, than he appears. So
(04:47):
if you want to go nineteen eighties and early nineties,
who go Beetles juice reference Otherwise you say Baltimore. Right,
So he's become the Baltimore of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and
there's lots of people trying to wonder, well, wait, is
he gonna wait and show up for week eleven? Signed
that franchise tender tag? What do the Steelers do in
(05:08):
the meantime? But he's run into a Trev Albert's type
of situation. Do you guys remember Trev alberts I said
the name to Ryan Music and Rhyan Music had no
idea who he was none. And that's not a bad
thing on Ryan, It's just it shows his age. Ramos.
(05:28):
You remember Trev alberts I believe he was a linebacker Alabama,
Let's try Nebraska. And then he was on TV. He
was on he was He and Mark May were the
studio guys to college Game Day that was on the
road with Kirk curb Street, Chris Fowler and um would
be end up becoming like Desmond Howard wasn't always on
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that show anyway. It was Coach Corso and Kirk curb
Street and Trev Alberts was always he's upset at his
role at ESPN. And and one of the things when
you worked there, the college game day guys for football
like that. Those guys are rock stars. Rock stars they
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go on the road. They got their tour bus. You know,
they have their own makeup people, people serve them food,
whatever they want. They make a lot, They make a
lot more money. They don't work as many hours. You know,
they got like an hour they back then they had
an hour show. They don't have to stay all day
and do studio. They jet set around and then they
(06:33):
do a ship. They would do a little bit of
a show at night before the big game. That's all
they did. And so Trev, not liking his role, actually
walked off and said I ain't coming back on a Saturday.
Was supposed to be back on a Sunday. By midweek
he had relented and changed his mind and wanted to
come back, and ESPN said, now we're good. They moved on,
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and the and the point to who won and who
lost was I asked Ryan Music that he ever heard
of Trev Alberts, who's now the athletic director at the
University of Nebraska, Omaha, and his answer is no. Again.
That doesn't mean that Trev wasn't good on TV. He
was exceptional on TV. He was an exceptional football player.
He was an exceptional analyst. He had strong opinions and
he backed them up with a ton of football knowledge.
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He was great, but he overvalued his value to their
team and they ended up replacing him well. And look,
lu Hots. He may speak with a lisp, but lu
Hots was very good on TV and was good enough
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to wear. The ratings didn't go down, they actually went up.
Be very careful when you walk out that door, when
you draw, when you dig your feet in, when you
give a hard line stance, because there may be a guy.
This This is the j leto one on one. Why
did j Letto never take nights off the Tonight Show?
(07:58):
Because he was always afraid to getting Wally pipped? Just
was Why would I give somebody else an opportunity for
a show that I worked my entire professional life to get.
Johnny finally bequeathed it to me. I ain't given enough
to anybody else. They might be better than me, They
probably are better than me. Take a look at the
pittsburghs Deelers last week. I'm not gonna sit here and
(08:20):
tell you that James Conner is better than Levan Bell,
But leading rushers in the NFL don't win you super Bowls.
Don't believe me. I have the last ten leading rushers
in the National Football League from Adrian Peterson who lost
in the first round to Chris Johnson. Remember he had
the two thousand yards season c J two K. They
(08:42):
didn't make the playoffs, right and eight Adrian Foster uh um,
Adrian Foster six by why does the Adrian Ariyan Foster
Aryan Foster? They were six and ten m J D
led the league in rushing in two thousand eleven. There
five and eleven a D and two thousand twelve lost
to the Packers. Not all his fault. And you could
(09:05):
point out that the last six leading rushers in the
Nashal Football League all made the playoffs. It's actually that's
actually a lot stronger than the last six leading wide
receivers in terms of yardage. But there isn't necessarily a correlation,
or at least in the last decade, of correlation between
having the best running back in the NFL and winning
a Super Bowl or even getting to a Super Bowl
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no leading Russia in the nash Football League has actually
gotten to a conference championship game in the last decade.
And then you walk out the door and James Conner
replaces you and does a great job. He wally pips you.
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So look, if I'm if I'm Levian Bell, whatever point
you tried to make, it was in fact made. And
while you may say, hey, I want less carries, I
don't want for guess what, James Connor is good enough.
You're not gonna get four hundred carries. But it's going
to be fascinating to see how this Pittsburgh story has
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actually overshadowed Ben Roethlisberger being crummy, or the fact that
they may end up they're gonna end up possibly a
game and a half behind the Bengals or the Ravens
two weeks into the season because of their inability to
win a game on the road against the lowly Cleveland Browns.
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Fascinating to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers, a team that has
always gone, you know, gone hardball against most of their
star players, and with the league evolving, the league changing,
they're sitting there going like, look, you may think we're
low balling you, but they offered him a long term deal,
and if not accepting of the long term deal, he
has the franchise tagg to which he'd be a free
agent at the end of the season, and he's making
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you would be making really really good money. Guaranteed. The
train has left the station without him. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Doug Dot Leaps Show week
days in noon eastern three pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the I Heart Radio app. I'm fascinated by
the Dallas Cowboys. Fascinated by the Cowboys, and the more
(11:18):
I the more I watched them, the more I wonder
what they ultimately do. Because I've been telling you for
three years now, Tony Romo was the better quarterback that
even though they had immediate success with Dak Prescott the
(11:39):
tune of thirteen wins, I just I felt like there
wasn't any question that Romo would give them a better
chance to win in the playoffs, and that ultimately played
out as they lost to one of the all time
greats and Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs. Last year, they
had injuries, last year, they had dysfunction. I thought des
(12:01):
Bryant got exposed some as being not only over the hill,
a little bit over the hill, but also having and
look yeah Hunt three three balls blown his way, throwing
his way um and Jason Witten was slightly over the
hill and he's in the broadcast booth for Monday Night Football.
Zeke Elliott gets suspended, Tyrant Smith gets hurt. Their offenses
is a shell of what it used to be. They
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try to change some things. They got rid of Daz
witting in the booth. Now it's about Zeke. Now it's
about Doc and they're not that good. I still think
they'll be fine if and this is a big if,
if they come to the financial realization that they've come
to in terms of the football realization about who Dak
Prescott is. It's a challenge. Every quarterback seems to get
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paid or does get paid more than the previous quarterback.
That's the presumption. And even if it's a front load
of deal, you can't negotiat renegotiate his contract till the
end of the season. But look, the Cowboys, if they
want to, they can on on giving him a new
deal at with new money at the end of the season.
They go another year, then they can franchise Tag. Now
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that's not what I'm suggesting they do, but they do
a team friendly deal, because what becomes painfully obvious is
this is like the Giants when they fired Tom Coughlin.
First they get rid of the offensive coordinators, Then they
get rid of the defensive coordinat Then you know what,
maybe it's the head coach. He had reputations being disciplinarian,
(13:29):
but they led the league in penalties. Maybe it's the
head coach in Dallas. What have they done. They've gotten
rid of the wide receiver, They've lost the tight end,
They've changed most of their roster over. They've handed the
reins to DAC and said, hey, you're gonna have eight
guys in the box because you got Zeke. We know
you can go out and do it. What happens when
they don't At some point you do have to blame Doc.
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I don't think they get rid of him because finding
even a capable starting quarterback is the hardest thing to
do in football. With that, let's bringing from the big
founder of the Big Lead. You can hear him Saturday
mornings you're on Fox Sports Radio. He just got done
taking taking pictures or you're going to take pictures. Stop stop,
don't let's not talk about a photo shoot. You're gonna
be doing one shortly. No, I've done the photo shoot
(14:13):
last year. We already have. They're not re upping you
this year. You don't mean more photos sitting here, Doug
is flexings are just bursting out there, amazing photos. Uh,
they're amazing photos. We can't we can't possibly I'm not
getting younger looking. Um, are the Cowboys as bad as
they looked on Sunday? The Cowboys were awful. I mean,
(14:35):
Dak Prescott looked like a guy who just has no
clue what's going on now. I don't know if it
was the you know, the center being out Travis Frederick,
but he was like happy feet in the pocket. Doug,
this is a guy who he wasn't accurate. You know,
in his last eleven games, he's only going over two
hundred yards passing three times. This is a guy who
like they can't even I said this yesterday, like people go, oh, well, listen,
(15:00):
he was. He was awesome a couple of years ago.
Like was he he went over he went over three
yards passing twice, which is a baseline, and he has
a crewed a lot of yards because he doesn't get Look,
he's solid, he's fine, he's the middle of the road.
He's better than it was a Quincy what was hard
Georgia bulldog? Right, Like, he's better than Quincy Carter, better
(15:22):
than Drew Bledso at the end of his run, probably Doug.
How about this what Giants Cowboys Sunday? Is an elimination game.
I'm not even kidding. I know it's only week two,
but if you start owing two, you've got about a
ten chance to make the playoffs. The Cowboys will be
behind with two teams Panthers now in Giants if they
lose this in the NFC hunt right for if you're
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looking at wild card is an elimination gamey, No, it's not.
They haven't even faced the Eagles yet. They gotta face
once twice because once we'll be back. Okay, this is
the most important. I think Jason Garrett's on notice here.
He better deliver. Okay, and Dak Prescott he's supple to
be in line for a big contract Doug this offseason
because he don't want to be a lame duck next year.
(16:05):
There's so much riding on this game. I'm telling you, man,
this is a I think it's an important I think
it's a really important game. And obviously you get into division,
you play the Giants at home, and traditionally the Cowboys
have been worse at home since Jerry's world have been
on the road. They did sweep him last year, but
O'Dell didn't play in either game. Giants were awful last year.
Giants biggest dumpster fire in the league. Well there, they
(16:26):
were bad last year and they had and they had
massive injuries. Giants, they go this, they go on the
road to the Seahawks. Um, that's that's in a week,
and Shawks will be in two because they're losing in
Chicago Monday night. So you already you already chucked that
one up. They're losing. Pencil it in, go ahead right
in marker, you know, Permanent inc. Chicago's beating Seattle Monday.
I love the Bears' I'm driving the Bears. Watch the
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second half, cares man. This is a team who was
not very good last year. They take a twenty to
nothing lead. Mac barely could play in the second half
because he was so ghasted because he's not in shape yet.
Quant Smith not quite there. I love what I saw
from the Bears so much to build on. Okay, but
when they went off script their Offenseibinsky does not appear
(17:10):
to be a dude. Let's remember whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What do you mean he hit on his first ten passes.
He looked sharp when he went off script. His receivers
once the sheet ran out, his receivers are It's like
when you have the answers to a test, right, you
got the answer you get and you only got the
answers to the first section of the test, and then
all of a sudden you're like, wait, there's a part two,
(17:32):
part two. That's why. How is Mitch Drabinsky in the
second half? Well, I mean, hold on, Naggy, Now, remember
the head coach. His second half of the playoff game.
He collapsed with the Chiefs he was calling place, collapsed.
And now the second half of Week one, absolute abomination.
I will say this, this is what young coaches go through.
You know this incremental games in life. You slowly work
(17:56):
up your niggie still finding his way. They're gonna be fine.
This could be a playoff team. What you're not buying
the Bears, No, dude, that defense, you know they were
top ten defense last year by many metrics. They add
ro Quon, they add Khalil Mack. I think they're both terrific.
But they have the most of the best quarterback in
NFL history right on one leg. And and and it's
(18:18):
not like Green Bay has this juggernaut defense and they
had very little offense, played supernously conservative because they know
Trubisky doesn't have it. You don't think Trubisky's is any good.
I mean, I don't think he's great. I think the
potential is there. Jared Goff remember this, We talked about
this on on FS one. Goff starts out Owen seven's
first year under Jeff Fisher look bad. He's a bust.
(18:41):
Oh my gosh. Second year gets an offensive coach he
put up. I believe twenty t D seven picks. They're
in the playoffs. I think Trubisky will have that kind
of learning curve in year two. I don't know about
twenty eight and seven, but I think you'll throw TV
s this year. The receivers are not bad, Trey Burton
or you just you just said that they need name tags.
(19:03):
They don't couple. They don't even know last names, they
don't know tendencies that stuff. Jason McIntyre kind of what
do you rub rushing me out of your dog? No,
it's called a reset. That's called a reset. I don't
like to lose debate. You gotta you gotta breathe. This
is not a debate. Joining you my show I was.
It's called resetting. You do this, you tap in your head.
It's just like the NBA reset. Jason McIntyre join is
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founder of The Big Lead uh A a hot take
artiste artist I want to be sure it's artist on
Fox Sports One. He also hosts the Your show is
called a Big Lead on sports radio. When are we
gonna play basketball a U c l A? You know
Durance up there right now, right now? Kevin Durant, is
you show up at u c l A. It's not
like you're gonna hop in a pickup game with Kevin Durant.
(19:45):
May probably not, but I got you behind me. You
played some college basketball. I believe you were a top
ten assist ski in college. I played college basketball. I
don't know what played some college basketball like I was like,
I took a college basketball course my freshman sophomore year.
Selling you, Doug come on. So Russell Westbrook has his
(20:06):
niece Yeah, this after we have like a summer of
Russell Westbrook workout videos. Oh gosh, he's don't get on everybody. Yes,
So what's your reaction to Russell Westbrook getting his nie
cleaned up? So? What happens when a guy who lives
in the air, Right, that's what he does. He careens
through the lane. He's an above the rim guy. What
happens when he turns thirty and he's got to have
(20:27):
knee surgery? And he shot twenty nine percent on threes
last year, Doug, I know a lot of people like
the Thunder this year. Right, they had a pretty good
off season. They lose mellow, which is additioned by subtraction.
I like Jeremy Grant Dennis Shrewder. Will see how that
works out, but he's not bad coming off the bench.
I think we'll see a problem child ego. We'll see
(20:49):
how that works out. But they could be a sleeper
to win fifty games to be a top three four seed. Right.
I want to see how west I think on paper
to the second best team, who's the better team? Well,
the Lakers are going to be better with Lebron than
the Thunder, and I think a couple of Rockets. Fans
are gonna be calling into the show, said, did you
forget about CP three? I didn't forget about him. You
(21:11):
said addition by subtraction, and who added? And okay, So
I think again, on on paper, Lakers on the Lakers
aren't better. The Lakers are better than did you see
Alonzo Ball's new shooting for He's out there on i
G doing the new shooting drills. It looks exactly the
same as the old. It's going in a little bit
(21:33):
Kusmas dunking on people in the summer. I like the
supporting cast. Okay, but love the supporting But but here's
easy on the love. Okay, but here's the here's the
big thing. When the Lakers go on the road, there
everybody's biggest game. The games the Lakers won at the
end of the season. Many of the teams they played
were trying to lose. The Lakers were not. Lakers were
not trying to look wont five games. So they won
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thirty five games. I think to think they win forty
eight games, maybe even fifty, I think is obviously a
massive improvement. I think it's possible. But but the look
the thunder. The thunder a good Russell Westbrook's elite player.
Paul George may not be an elite player who's really
really good. I like Paul George better than Russell Westbrook.
Let's keep going. No, you don't. Westbrook is so overrated. Dog.
(22:18):
Come on, man, you you're going to start a team tomorrow.
I'm not starting with Russell Westbrook. No, you're gonna take
Paul George before you take Russell west I would Paul
George went to the Eastern Conference finals twice versus Lebron
and his prime with the Pacers. Next question, Okay, wait,
Russell Westbrook winto the NBA Finals to Randon Hardened in
the Western convert. Okay, but again, hold on, So you're
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taking Paul George ahead of Russell west I am. I
know that I'm in the minority on that, and you're
not the minority. You're on a deserted island all by yourself.
You're like Tom Hanks yelling at a volleyball saying well sir.
So you think this is the beginning of the slowing
down of Westbrook. And because he everything he does is
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on athleticism, the lack of skill gets expected, and the
lack of shooting ability, I mean, it's that's that's where
I say skill. Okay, Yeah, I would give him any
jump shot he wants. I mean, and he's gonna take
you three shots in a game in Game six against
the Jazz, three dog. I don't want that on my team.
So you're super concerned because he had his knee cleaned up,
(23:29):
I would go with super concerned. Yes, Doug awesome, give
me a winner for NFL this week. Who you got
a winner for? Just pick because you are you going
on the game Rams? No, I'm not. I'm not. But
give me a give me a winner outside of the
double digit favorite Rams, outside of the double digit favorite Rams,
just straight up winner. Be careful with the Chargers and
the Chargers of the Bills. Be careful with the charge.
I'm not careful with the charges of the Chargers are
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gonna Josh Allen is Josh Allen no bo said appears
this week again, but I'll say so the little one
last week if they could kick opened at nine this week.
It's down from professional money coming in early in the
week to seven and a half. So just be careful.
Remember the one o'clock start for Chargers. Never miss pros,
never missed something occasionally. Miss. I mean, it's looked there's
(24:13):
no weather problems there, It's that you're not playing in
the middle of December. It's it's a Chargers team that
should have had six hundred yards of offense and no there.
Their their defense wasn't great. They couldn't stop Tyreek Hill,
who should have been player with Tyreek Hills amazing? Who
was player of a week? Uh? Mahomes was at Mahomes
and Fitzpatrick work, not Rogers. Who the hell's voting for that? Well, listen,
(24:35):
you're the one who said the Bears are awesome now
because they played well in the first half. You want
to you want to make a wager here? We should?
We should make it interesting. I think the Bears win
more games than the giving a team Cowboys, Chargers. You're
down on the Chargers. No, No, I like the Charges.
I'm down on them this week, Bears or Cowboys? Who
wins more games? Here we go. I'll go with yeah.
(24:59):
I see laughter in the control. I don't I don't love.
I don't love either. I'll think about it. We'll bring
you back and I gotta think of I'm not a
huge cowboy guy either, But the Cowboys win more games.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Doug dot
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I didn't have a smile on my face when I
saw Terry brad suh getting us ready to or reacting
(25:21):
to football. It's an absolute delight to be joined by
the four time Super Bowl champion Terry Bradshaw from uh
the NFL on Fox. He joins us here on The
Doug Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Terry, I already
know you're good. You got the greatest gig in the world.
You have a ton of fun doing it. But I'll
ask you anyway, how are you? I'm good, I'm I'm well. Um,
(25:44):
all right, what's another year? Another big Ben kind of
mysterious injury and obviously he had a disappointing game. He
got the levy On deal, which I don't think helps things.
You got a head coach where there have been many Steelers,
not just you, but you point out like, not my
kind of guy. What's going on in Pittsburgh? You know,
(26:06):
I think the Levion belt thing is really stirred it
up and really brought so much attention to the team.
Um that it's it's obviously the players will say, you
know it isn't but it is a distraction and uh,
your focus you try not to be You're trying not
(26:28):
to have it, have it be, but it is, and
and it just accentuates everything else. Uh. They scored forty
two points in the playoff game with Jacksonville, they lose,
they fire the offensive coordinator. It just goes on and
and they're good. I mean they are there good. And
(26:51):
I look at the Cleveland game and go, you know,
mark them off. So many people are all day long today. Uh,
as I've been communicating around the country, so many people
are riding them off. It's one game. Are you gonna
write the Saints off, the Cowboys off sto and go forth?
(27:14):
I don't think you can. It's just wait, it's just crazy.
You just don't do that. They're too good. The Levian
built things. You know, it's worked. It's look, they're parting ways.
That's the way it seems. It's unfortunate because I think
they I think they deserve one another. He wants his
money and and I said they should have signed him.
(27:36):
They should have signed him but they didn't. This is
an offensive league. Now you need all the weapons you
can get, and he's an awesome weapon. He's an awesome player.
But there's two things he's run into. One it's Pittsburgh
and I know they paid Antonio Brown, but no one
knows this better than you. Pittsburgh forever has been Hey, listen,
this is the bottom line business and bottom line. We're
(27:56):
not going to overspend like other teams do. And he
also ran into an era to which we kind of
diminished the value of a running back and it had
to be diminished when his backup has a great game
at Cleveland. I know it's Cleveland, but I mean like
when a guy who's behind you making a fraction of
the money that you would make, performs almost as well
as you would and gives you no headache at all,
(28:17):
it doesn't exactly help your stands. Well, you're right on all.
Everything you said is right. It's your your spot on. Uh.
I applaud Pittsburgh. I think the sailor management because that
the way they've always done business. And listen, they're not
the cowboys, they're not works five point three billions, they're
(28:38):
not conky, and these guys that have got billions from building.
The sticklers don't have that kind of money that I
know of, at least I didn't when I was playing there.
So today and I think I applaud them for being
smart business people. On the other hand, um running backs
to have been diminished. You're exactly right, but this is
(28:59):
no ordinary running. There's no one like Levian Bill but
there's he fits what they're doing. He needs to stay there.
Uh And they looked at righting him to check for
fourteen million. He lost eight hundred and fifty three thousand
last week, a million this week, fourteen million dollars. I
(29:22):
had a ton of money, and I don't know where
he's going to get that money. He's twenty seven going on,
and you know, obviously I think they're wanting to part ways.
But here's the deal, and you're not gonna take it.
And the guys are saying, look, let's finish the season.
We're gone. Yeah, I mean, does it doesn't work out
to where maybe he doesn't wait ten games, but he
(29:43):
waits half the season to rest his body and then
he shows up. He could If you're gonna wait half
the season, why not just go into ten games? I
mean it's uh, it doesn't really matter one way or
the other. If he if he's willing to pour up
about eight million dollars, you know, I can't understand that.
(30:05):
I don't think a lot of our listeners understand that
either that that is a lot of money just to say,
and you're not going to get it back. You're not
gonna make that money up no matter what. That's That's
a it's a great point you make, Terry, is you
make it up. You may get you may get a
new contract, but you're never going to make back that
money that you've not earned this season. Sitting no. And
(30:27):
so I just think it's sad because I think that's
where he needs to be. He'll go into the Hall
of Fame as a Steeler from right there if he
stays there. And your point I was going to emphasize
earlier the spot on with running backs, they're just not
that many running backs that You've got two kids down
in Elliott and Dallas and Hurley and in Los Angeles, um,
(30:52):
and then you have Levian Bell that is in an effect,
and there's more. I'm sure I just right now, are
you been at somebody's somebody in your way? Hold on,
let me just get out of Terry pratt Shaw's way.
Would you get Terry pratt Shaw? He with four Super Bowls?
He's what a heavy wod you get the hell out
of his way. He's trying to do a radio interview. Well,
I don't think that's gonna work in New York. I've
(31:13):
been shot at six times already. All right, well fit,
fair enough, Terry, Terry, that's the funny. But but my
friends in the backseatter going on, we don't worry. Don't
worry Terry, we dropped that. Don't don't worry about. Don't
worry about. Know he listens to this show anyway. Let's
up what I hear? So? Uh? We got we we
(31:35):
got peat Aaron Rodgers in the second half, right, he
does it, Willis he does it, Willis read and comes
comes back from the dead and and and kills the bears.
And then we got Tom Brady O hum doing it again.
I give you one that you can pick. You can't
compare the accomplishments of Rogers to Brady. And the other hand,
Rogers does some things that Brady cannot. You can only
(31:56):
take one. Who do you take? You cannot? First of all,
if you're asking me which one I take. The better
athlete is Rogers? By far, Brady could not have done
what Rogers did in the second half against the Bears.
He's not that kind of athlete. Um, so Rogers is
(32:21):
is special. But are you still there? Oh? I thought
you hung up. No, I'm listening. I just I want
to listen to you. I know that Brady has got
five super Bowls, and but when you go put him
side by side and you take away all that another
stuff Rogers. Have you seen a quicker release from that guy?
(32:43):
He snapped it off. Man, He's amazing. But Brady's got
it all. He's I mean, he's got everything you want
in the court as a quarterback. But if I set
him side by side, and I'm based on just as
a pottle of lawn, I take Rogers big game on
Thursday night football, which I know that's what you're that's
when you're in New York four. You got the Ravens
(33:04):
and Flacco has looked great. Now No, no, I'm not here. No, No,
I'm not doing that game. I'm two weeks away from
starting my Thursday Night so't no. Yeah, I thought I was.
I was gonna ask I was gonna ask you about Flacco.
Was is was Flacco that good? At the Bills that bad?
But the buildings are that bad? But so I think
Jackson has kind of spurred black alown. I mean, he
(33:27):
played really good the other night. Uh, and the Ravens
played really well defensively, but Buffalo Throll for all counting purposes,
are just a bad football games, really bad. Tell me
about all about all about your your boom. It's part
of your campaign that you're up with with Fiser. Well
you know what. Yeah, Fiser wanted to get a message
(33:48):
out to the baby boomer support um nimocop pneumonia. And
so they asked me what I come on and do
this campaign? And and then campaign is called all about
your Boom, and the boom is baby boomers six and older.
Since I'm seventy, they said, who perfect more better, more better?
Who's better than you to go out and get that
(34:09):
message out? And so I said, Hey, I'm your guy.
And so, uh we've been talking about new mccoxy the moon.
You're telling all the boomers out there sixty five and older,
it goes to your doctor and uh, be sure to
get your vaccine check and make sure you need if
you need the vaccine, and get your new mccochin amon
the vaccine. Uh, don't let your you know, your life
(34:29):
slip away because all of us are getting close to
retirement and we don't want to ask something like new
mccoflin ammon, you knock us down. And so that's my message.
And then I went and did a I did a
film for them, and where I have I'm on my
resort and if you'll go to all about your boom
dot com, you will see probably the best acting that
I've ever done and which I take you through my
(34:51):
resort about these crazy amenities. Um that you'll see you
just go watch it. You'll see what I'm talking about.
That that's that's the program, that's who I'm serving. And
it's been fun. We've been doing this all day, all
day tomorrow around the country. Good time. I'm enjoying it. Terry.
Can't wait to see when you come back out to
(35:12):
l A for the weekend. Thanks so much, Thanks so
much for Thank you all right, Terry Bradshaw joining us
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