November 14, 2025 • 38 mins
Doug and Dan Beyer discuss the weekend of college football and potential scheduling fixes for the sport. Doug welcomes NBA Insider Marc Stein onto the show to break down the Nico Harrison story out of Dallas. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through "The Press".
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It's not Gotleip show here on Fox Sports Radio. It
is a Friday, a football Friday, and we're getting into November.
It's weird though. We have some big games, but Dan,
you and I talked about this, like November fifteenth usually
(02:40):
huge games in college football, a ton of them, and
it feels like there's three or four Is that fair?
Three or four really big ones?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, yeah, there's I think there's there's a couple of
things at play number one. It used to be, especially
for the Big Ten, the Big Ten would wrap up
the week before Thanksgiving. Then when you go to a
game schedule when you have conference expansion, they've been wrapping
up this Saturday after Thanksgiving. But this would have been,
you know, leading up to a big week. I also
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think that there are a few more marquee games that
we would have gotten that we wouldn't have gotten because
of college expansion, specifically this Texas Georgia game that's coming
up on Tomorrow night in Athens. So while there are
expectations that we would have these monstrous showdowns, I do
think that some changes in college football at least have
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allowed some of these to still remain at this point.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yes, I'll also point out, and again I'm that guy
that's gonna say, one of the things that has hurt
the a lot of these games is you've had a
coaching change, and you know, because of the coaching change,
and I know they've tried to change the rule, but
guys were allowed to get in the portal. You've lost
a couple of those players. They've kind of ruded, you know,
they become kind of rudderless ships. So like Florida ole
(03:57):
Miss obviously act if the records were the same, even
if they hadn't fired Florida hadn't fired their coach. But
now when you fired your coach, you lose a sense
of purpose. Like Florida ain't beatn ole Miss.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
No, Florida ole Miss is only intriguing because of the
Layton Kiffin angle and the rumors, sure whether they're real.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Or not, he Kentucky laid waste to Florida last week.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, and Kentucky, you know, like he's fighting for his
job or the perception of him fighting for his job.
So there's not a ton of them, but There are
a lot of games where it feels like if they
hadn't been ade a coaching change, how much more competitive
would this game be? You know, and I think the
world the word is a lot, a lot more competitive.
(04:44):
Like you know, Oklahoma State Kansas State, it was been
a good rivalry. Kansas State obviously disappointing. You're Oklham State
really disappointing here. But had Mike Gundy not been fired,
what would their record be? Would hass Hani their quarterback?
Would he be coming back trying to play?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I don't know, So to branch this out, this is
if you'll just give me a few seconds here. Remember
earlier in the season when kirkirb Street was complaining about
the college football schedule in a way and I think
he was saying, and please correct me if I'm wrong,
but it was too bad that all these great games
are happening at the same time, that maybe one marquee
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game is playing on one network and then another marquee
games playing on another network, specifically at night.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Do you guys remember that conversation?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I have the sound here, Okay, let's give it a listen.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
It's another example of why we need eventually a commissioner's office,
Like the NFL has a commissioner's office, right, and there
are a lot of different layers to what that office
could do. Obviously in this NIL and portal era and
the realignment era, I think the biggest thing that I
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think sometimes as a guy who eats and breathes college football,
there are some weeks in college football where it's just
there might be one good game, and there are other
weeks like this week.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
You could argue this is the greatest weekend of the
entire year. Starting Friday night there's good games, yeah, and
then from game day and then after game day noon
eastern all the way. If you're crazy like me, you'll
watch BYU in Colorado at ten fifteen they start, and
that'll go to whatever one in the morning, and you're thinking, man,
(06:25):
why wouldn't we have somebody instead of the Big ten
in their own silo, the SEC and their silo, the
Big twelve and the ACC. Wouldn't it be great if
we had a commissioner's office to just kind of like,
let's spread some of these games out.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And so, Doug, is that kind of the point that
you're looking at this week? And yeah, we got Texas
Georgia as the game, but maybe there's not as much
would you be along with what Herb Street said in that, I.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Know, because I don't think there's a way to pre
plan for it, right, I agree?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know LSU and Arkansas is supposed to be a
rivalry game, right Arkansas is that a disappointing year, fired
their head coach Bob Petrino, hasn't been able to fix
it and so and LSU fired their head coach, right,
So there. I don't know what LSU's record would have
been had they not fired Brian Kelly, but I think
I think it would have been a completely different game
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had they not, you know, they.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And I think it would be.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I think it would just be really difficult to lay
that out, especially with conferences and their own needs. However,
and this is my point, especially with the talk of
the Big Ten and private equity and a grant of
rights that goes another twenty years, and is it good
for is it good for an Ohio state to do this?
Are USC and Michigan right and not wanting to sign
(07:44):
on to this sort of agreement? If we had college
football like we all actually feared we would get that
week in the college football that we fear is basically
a forty school college football world, right, So we would
in that world, we actually would get what Kirk kurb
Street is talking about. But I don't know if we
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necessarily want that because there would be good games.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
How come I know that because they see what the
NFL does with thirty two teams. There's a great game
every single week in the National Football League. Some weeks
there's three or four of them. We have one hundred
and thirty schools. We really have eighty schools that are
relevant maybe if you want to say in the power
for and how it's laid out, but seventy to eighty schools,
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and that's just really tough to do with all of
those schools. So my point being is, from what you're
saying of what is maybe kind of a downer week
in college football, the only way that we can cure
something like that and do something that Kirk kurb Street
wants would be something that nobody wants in college football,
And that's like a forty to fifty school.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
League, right, which is kind of what we already have, right,
We have it without having.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It well, and you may feel that way, but I
feel that there's still independence with the SEC and the
Big Ten. And honestly, when you look at the schedule,
like the SEC is carrying a lot of the weight
of the good matchup, especially Oklahoma Alabama another one on
the slate there. But if you had the top six
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schools from the Big Ten, if you had the top
ten schools from the SEC, and you ended up expanding
that way, that's the type of college football that Kirk
kurb Street would want that I think people would want
if they wanted great college football games every week.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Otherwise, this is kind of what we're going to get.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, I again, I truly believe though, if you look
at it and you were to take away the records,
take away the records, right, Virginia Tech Florida State historically
that should be a great game. Now Britain Tech has
been very good in five years or so. Florida State
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it's been two years since they were undefeated. But yeah,
then they have mishmash ones where because of the new
Big Ten, Ucla, Ohio State, Perdue, Washington right where Washington
in November should be playing Oregon or Oregon State some
you know, some sort of obviously you know with some
sort of proximity rival and that's what the new that's
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what you're talking about with the new league and so
many teams and it can be hard to manage.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, I actually think that the expansion has helped the
schedule a little bit. I do think because we wouldn't
get Oklahoma Alabama, we wouldn't get Texas Georgia. Like the
addition of Oklahoma and Texas. But those two teams and
already a jam packed SEC. And well, you and I
may differ on like what happens with the top of
the conference. I understand that the SEC is deeper in
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terms of competition than the Big Ten is. The Big
Ten's bottom just does not have the gravitas, if you will,
that the other that the SEC does, at least with
their bad teams. Like we still kind of give a
crap about some of their bad teams. Sure we do,
we do.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
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(11:21):
So the gambler is based like this. Everybody has one pick.
Cortiation Stewart has to have two. It's one that you
feel so confident in You're willing to tell all your friends, Hey,
you may screw up the rest of the weekend. This
is your pick. Let's start with Jason Stewart for the
Jason and Arlay.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I'll take it from here, Doug, I'll take it from here.
My Jay's two team parlay starts. You got a race
to the betting window. These are the two games this
evening closest to the time right now, Oregon hosts Minnesota.
They're giving twenty five and a half currently, and I'm
going to take Oregon, and I need to pair it
with one other team to make the Jay's two team parlay. Now.
(11:58):
I don't know if you guys been watching the wine
in the Louisville game, but money has been pouring in
on the Cardinals. I'm gonna take the Cardinals, who are.
It looks like they are giving two points at home
as opposed to getting six points. They're giving two points
at home to Clemson. Just a quick membo to Clemson,
Kevin Mack is not walking through that door tonight Louisville
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to Oregon and thank me on mondaying.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You got to learn right, okay, dann Byer Doug.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Last week the National Football League taught me a lesson.
When Las Vegas is trying to tell you something, just
go with it. I don't have a lot of confidence
in JJ McCarthy as the Vikings quarterback. They just lost
to the Ravens at home. Jjcarthy's played about two quarters
of good football this season. One of those quarters actually
happened in Week one in Chicago, where the Bears dominated
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the Vikings for three quarters, yet Minnesota rallied for a win. Well,
those two teams playing where you are right now in
Minneapolis on Sunday, Doug, and Minnesota is a two and
a half point favorite against these red hot, come from
behind good Mojoe Bears. They're trying to tell me something.
I'm taking the Vikings minus two and a half. I
(13:15):
have no reason why. I think there'd be every reason
to go with Chicago, but they're saying Minnesota minus two
and a half. Give me the Vikings minus two and
a half at home against the Bears.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I'm gonna go NFL as well. The Denver Broncos have
become like maligned because their offense has struggled. Right, you
got Bo Nicks in his second year as the starter,
has just been okay, struggling turning the football over.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Probably not gonna have JK Dobbins this weekend.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, not gonna have JK Dobbins stop me yours before JK.
Dobbins is hurt. But he does get hurt. But they're
a three and a half point dog at home against
Kansas City Chiefs. Now again. I don't know what the
met elixer is with Andy Reid off of bye week,
but the and you read off a bye week thing
is a real thing.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
It's a real thing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Now. Back to back road games were hard, but they
had a week off. I'm taking the Chiefs come hell
or high water. Andy Reid off off a bye game.
I think he's as a one game ever in the
history of his life off of bye game as a
head coach. So gonna take the Chiefs and gonna lay
the points. You're welcome, Sammy.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Let's look at Wisconsin at number two Indiana beajors a
noon Eastern time on Big ten Network. Now you look
at the mindset of each of these teams. Wisconsin broke
a six game losing streak, finally getting a win, get
taking some heat off of Luke Fickle. They beat the
ranked of Washington Huskies last week thirteen to ten. Maybe
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they're feeling a little loose. They come into Bloomington as
twenty eight and a half point underdogs. And then you
look at Indiana coming off that last second victory on
the road at Penn State twenty eight and a half
four touchdown favorite are the Hoosiers? I like the Uh,
I'm gonna take the Wisconsin Badgers with the points. I
think it'll be a blowout. They'll lose decisively, but not
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by more than not by twenty and a half or more.
So give me the Badgers with the points.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Wow, you're taking the Badgers at Indiana. I taking their
first big win, the biggest win of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
If you told me the over under was forty three
and a half, I would have thought that's total yards
for Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
That like truly.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I just think, man, I just twenty Are you telling
me that the Boosiers are gonna win by four touchdowns
or more?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
I think we need to qualify this by saying, hey,
Google e Moogli, I don't know if Sam's gotten again.
We're picked right this now, So I think you got
to qualify that by saying I'm typically wrong here.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I am.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I've been prefacing most of my picks with don't listen
to me. I'm like the crazy guy to the bridge.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
One, two, three, four five. They won five of their
ten games by more than four touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I know, I know, so.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Again, and I know you're coming to Bend State and
you're maybe forty eight twenty four will be.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
A thing you make.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You may be right, you may be right. And Wisconsin
did switch quarterbacks last week.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Got them a whole thirteen points, right right, they score
thirteen points. I might be crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
This is This is what they scored during their losing
streak previous to that game. Fourteen ten ten zero zero
zero seven zero thirteen.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, I know, I know. I just for twenty eight.
All right, Well we'll see, Well we said we'll see.
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When to run?
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ass band. That's what they That's what they do. We
need some we need some background on this stuff, right,
don't we need some background on Like Dallas, the owners
approved the trade of Luca and then they fire Nico Harrison.
But they fire him like a week and a half
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two weeks into an NBA season, kind of weird. Let's
welcome in. It's the it's the author of the Steinline.
You can check out his work in a substack and
his name is Mark Stein. He joins us on a
Doug on the Doug Outlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. So, Mark,
what really happened in Dallas with the ouster of Nico Harrison.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Well, look, obviously, I think you guys are pretty well
aware of what happened every day after February second to
the end of last season. But then the Mavericks won
the draft lottery in May miraculously with less than a
two percent shot at winning. And I think after that,
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Patrick Dumont, the Mavericks operating owner, I think he wanted
he hoped that with Flag's arrival, with Anthony Davis starting
the season, and with Kyrie Irving coming back at some
point after the calendar flips, he was hoping that he
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could at least give Nico Harrison this season to try
to get this team backed on a track towards championship contention.
And instead what we saw was a Mavericks team that
got drilled by thirty three on opening night against San
Antonio two nights later and even worse loss to Washington,
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the only game that the Wizards have won this season.
And so with that zero to two start and a
team that immediately was just if you really examine the
Mavericks start, I mean, in the early stages of it,
they were trending towards a historically bad offense, Like it
just brought back all the negativity, the negativity that has
just smothered disfranchised since the trade. It was back to
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last Springs levels almost instantly, and it just kept kept
getting worse, and I think they just realized that it
couldn't continue, like you can't operate this way as much
as he was hoping that they could lift themselves out
of it, and they made the I mean, look, you're
not wrong. I mean we don't see gms lose their
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job eleven games into the season very often. But it
just got untenable again very quickly. I mean you could argue,
you could argue very strongly and correctly that it was
untenable from February till the till the lottery, but it
got to that level very quickly.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Again.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Okay, so what now when you when you change out GMS,
one who had had a vision for what this thing
ultimately would look like. Often the visions change. Mark Cuban
now sort of back at the table. Of course, one
of the reasons like, look, Mark, you covered the whole NBA,
and by the way, check out his substack which is published.
(21:10):
It's called the Steinlein, but you cover the whole league.
But you're exceptionally insightful into the folks at Dallas talking
about Mark Cuban, his influence and what the future or
the near term future of the mass looks like.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Well, the reason you don't see GM typically fired eleven
games into the season is because that's a less than
ideal time to commence a GM search. And so what
the Mavericks have had to do is a name an
interim front office. So matt Riccardi and Michael Finley, who
were the two assistant GMS under Nico Harrison, they are
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in a co interim charge. Mark Cuban has regained a
level of voice, you know, but I would just say
he's more in a consulting level of you know. Basically,
obviously he has a lot of experience. He has a
long standing relationship with Patrick Dumont, the owner.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So you know he is.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
He is now giving them some level of input. I
think Jason Kidd, the coach who Patrick Dumont has given
two contract extensions in each of the past two summers,
he obviously has a strong level of input here. But
they're doing this now as a collective while they have
to start a GM search, and the way that search
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was described to me was prudent and thorough is what
they want to be. They want to take their time
and make sure they hire the right person. But again,
starting this as Thanksgiving approaches is not the ideal time
to be doing it. So we don't even have real
clarity yet on what kind of what is the GM
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profile that the Mavericks will be looking for to succeed
Nico Harrison. But then the other thing that they have,
I mean, they have a lot to do in the
immediate future because they are off to the three and
nine start. And if you study NBA history, when you
start three and nine or worse, you've given yourself you're
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approaching a ninety percent chance that you don't make the playoffs.
Based on NBA history, so the playoffs might already be
out of reach. History says that the playoffs are already
out of reach. So if that's the case, the Mavericks
have the way do we start trading players for future
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assets and make sure that the Cooper Flag timeline is
the priority around here because the other thing here, well
one of the men. I mean, there's so many layers
of this, so many different things happening at once. But
the twenty twenty sixth draft is not only a highly
rated draft, it is the only draft between now and
twenty thirty one that the MAVs have control of their
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first round pick. So the truth is they need to
make sure they're in the lottery. They need to give
themselves another chance to get lucky because the players at
the top of this twenty twenty six draft, even if
you get the third pick or the fourth pick, you
are getting another very good player. And again twenty twenty seven,
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twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine, twenty thirty the Mavericks
do not have control of their first It is either
going to a team in a trade. Twenty twenty seven,
it's going to Charlotte unless it's a top two pick.
Twenty twenty nine it is fully unprotected. That went to
Brooklyn and the Kyrie Irving trade it has since been
traded to Houston and then twenty twenty eight, Okac holds
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the swap right, So when the Thunders pick is worse
than Dallas's, Okac will swap. And in twenty thirty it's
with the Spurs. Another swap, and so when the Spurs
pick is worse off than the Mavericks pick in twenty thirty,
they will also swap. So that's why this lottery coming
up in June takes on mas of importance for the Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Stet Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Trader. That was
lot Okay, Lebron James and the Lakers, what's the status
of that relationship.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
Look, he's making his way, He's on the comeback trail.
He's practiced a couple times this week with the South
Bay Lakers, So I think we will see him back
on the floor at some point. Look, the reality is
he's on an expiring contract and this season will play out.
What the future holds, I mean, I can't tell you
(25:35):
at this point what the future holds. I don't think
Lebron knows exactly what the future holds. Does he want
to play beyond this season? That's the first decision he
has to make. But if Lebron's contract drops off the payroll,
the Lakers suddenly have flexibility to really round out their team,
I think, And they also have to re sign Austin Reeves.
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But I think Luca and Austin that's the back part
of the future. But they need to round out the
team around them.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And so.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Is there a scenario where Lebron could keep playing for
the Lakers if that's what he wants. I mean, it's
gonna have to work financially for the other for the
other aims that the Lakers hold. So look long term
beyond this season, there's there's still a lot of uncertainty.
But in the short term, I think we're going to
see Lebron back on the floor at some point before
(26:27):
November ends, and they need him. You know, they this roster,
they didn't have much flexibility in the summer. They improved
the roster as much as they could. They need Lebron
James to join Luca and Austin Reeves because I mean,
the way the roster is set up now, playing without
him hurts them severely.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Agreed. It's Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Dan Byer's pointed this out to me, is that you know,
there's so many questions about Giannis, and you know, offered
up the Hey, I'd like to be in New York,
but he's kind of been in kill mode, been in
MVP mode. Has the league noticed, I.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Mean no questions. I mean I said coming into the
season that because the East is so much weaker than
the West right now, and obviously injuries have played a
factor in there. The last two teams that have represented
the East in the finals, I mean no Jason Tatum
and no Tyree Tliverton is obviously going to affect those
teams severely, but also the bottom. I mean, look at
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the bottom of the East, the Nets, the Pacers, and
the Wizards, I think are combined three and thirty two.
If my Matt, maybe Dan can back me up and
double check, I think my math is right there. Like
it is. It is so bad, you know, it's there
for the taking. And Giannis is still the best player
(27:56):
in the East. And so I give the Bucks a
punch's chance to do something. And you know the definition
of something is obviously an eye of the beholder kind
of thing. But if you have the best player in
the East, and the supporting cast around him is playing
pretty well. You know, janis himself. Janis himself said, Do
(28:18):
I contemplate other destinations in the off season, Yes, But
once the season starts, I'm locked in. I really don't
think he wants to entertain any thinking about anywhere else
in season. I think he wants to play the season
wire to wire as a Buck, and then we'll see
where they are in the spring after the playoffs. And
(28:38):
the reality is they've lost in the first round three
straight years. But right now in this East, can the
Buck still be a factor because Jannis is an absolute monster?
I think the answer is yes, all right, Doug.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Let's check Mark Stein's math.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Brooklyn Nets are one in ten, The Indiana Pacers are
one and eleven. The Washington Wizards are one and eleven,
three thirty two. Mark Stein right on the money.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
That cal stake, Fords and education.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Nothing like the Titans. Stunny, you are the best man.
Check out his stick. Out the steinline. It's a substack.
It's great, so is Mark. He joined us in the
Doug Gotlip Show. Thanks so much, Mark, talk soon, guys,
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Speaker 9 (30:11):
The press.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
All right, Doug, a bit a post mortem from last
night's Patriots victory over the Jets. Jets head coach Aaron
Glenn told reporters today when I asked if he would
make a change at quarterback, that he was evaluating quote
everything end quote. When I asked if they were going
to make a change with Justin Fields. Remember at one
point they were going to make the switch and Torod
(30:36):
Taylor got dinged up and then there was a up
in the air this past week Justin Fields getting the
start against New England on the short week. But now
another possible change for the Jets at quarterback.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, and again there's no hatred in my voice. Is
just again, this is third team three years. We know
who Justin Fields is, and I honestly think accumulating all
those picks, it's just more signaling of they're going to
have a new quarterback next year.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
All right, So Sam has notified to me we've got
some Aaron Glenn sounds all right, let's hear it.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Oh with this mini buye, might you consider it a
quarterback change?
Speaker 11 (31:16):
You know what, I'm evaluating everything, RIF, to be honest
with you, and that's I'm evaluating myself, the players, schematics, coaches,
I'm evaluating everything. So I don't want to just place
everything on that one situation. You know, I'm just looking
at everything because as a head coach. That's my job
right to make sure that I put this team in
(31:36):
the best position to go win games.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Again. I just I'm having some point guard issues myself.
I know what it's like and it those moments are hard,
and you do get to a point where you're like, Okay,
well I can develop this guy and maybe win at
the end of the season with him, But that process
of getting there is really hard. Or do I want
somebody you can help me win more? Now?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Hard? Goal? Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Lamar Jackson is back healthy, started last week against Minnesota.
He will start against the Browns on Sunday. It's an
interesting week in the NFL, a lot of division matchups,
including one that we saw last night. There's another division
matchup in the AFC North. It's the Bengals and Steelers.
Bengals without both defensive end Jamar Stewart and Trey Hendrickson
won't play in the game obviously. Joe Burrow still out
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trying to recover from that total injury. Still a couple
of weeks away. But that's who Aaron Rodgers and the
Steelers will be going up against, or who they won't
be going up against. Bengals down both defensive ends on
Sunday in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Well, the good news is the rest of their defenses
never mind, right.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
And another good one Buccaneers and Bills. That's not a
division showdown, But Bucky Irving and Chris Godwin got on
the practice field this week. They're not going to play
on Sunday though, And the Bills will be without Titan.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Dalton Kincaid because of a hamstring strain.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
If there's anybody that you would know I don't want
to miss from the Dolphin or from the excuse me,
from the Bills receiving Gore, I think it would be
Dalton Kincaid. Yeah, So we'll see how the Bills deal
with that. And again, the Andy Reid record that Doug
mentioned earlier, off of a bye, he had just one
loss during his time in Philadelphia. He's nine to three
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with Kansas City. That's an overall record of twenty two
to four. But if they're going to get a win
against the Broncos on Sunday, they're gonna likely they're gonna
do it without running back Asia Pacheco, who's still not
back from that knee injury that he suffered prior to
the team spy.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, but you know again, I'm going with the record,
and the Bronco has been playing with fire past couple weeks,
and I think this is a team he can't play
with fire against. Defense, is outstanding offensively, has a lot
to be desired.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Some news from New Orleans as Saints owner Gale Benson
spoke with the New Orleans Times pecun giving a vote
of confidence to GM Mickey Loomis, saying that he's done
a great job with the team. Benson was responding to
fan criticism, saying the notion of letting Loomis go was
quote ridiculous. Now, the Saints haven't been to the playoffs
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since twenty twenty. They've missed out in the last three
seasons or four seasons. Excuse me, in just a couple
of wins this year, I.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Would echo that. I mean, Mickey Lemis did do a
good job for a long time. And what's the difference now, Right,
you lose Sean Payton as a coach, and you've been
unable to figure out the quarterback position more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, and I feel that this year was kind of
a throwaway here, like you're not gonna hold this one
against Kellen Moore. So if Mickey Loomis was gonna be
your GM, it shouldn't be anything that was judged on
what's happened so far this year. They obviously made the
trade of Rashid Shaheed to Seattle, picking up a draft
pick in that process.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
All right.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Some news from college basketball. BYU guard Connard Davis Junior
arrested on suspicion of duy Thursday morning as he suffered
minor injuries in a two car crash in Provo. Twenty
year old Davis transferred to BYU after playing at Southern
Illinois last season. The driver of the other vehicle involved
in the wreck did not suffer any injuries.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Is there an honor code stuff with that, Doug.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yes, yes, yeah, I mean he'll have violated the honor
code as well as laws in Utah. It's a it's
a tough one again, I don't know. I mean, the
honor code violation is it might be enough to get
him kicked out of school, whereas you know normally it
would it would be the arrest. All of the arrest
is also a violation of the honor code. But you know,
(35:30):
you're you were paying young men and we shouldn't be
surprised when some of them make bad decisions.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
It was just a few years ago that the Sacramento
Kings were taking the Golden State Warriors to seven games
in a first round playoff series. The Aaron Fox is
now in San Antonio, Mike Brown's no longer the head coach,
and Demontes Sibonis could be on the move, Sam Amock
of the Athletics, as multiple teams have reached out to
the Kings about the big man's possibility to be traded.
(35:58):
We just had Mark Stein talking about how bad the
bottom of the Eastern Conference is, and it is bad
the Kings. They're a part of the bottom half of
the Western Conference three and nine, tied with the Mavericks
for the second worst record in the West. Only the
Pelicans are work or worse at two and nine. But
Demntes Sibonis could be on the trading block the month
is some sad news to pass along in the world
(36:21):
of college sports.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I did not watch the show Last Chance You, Sam.
I'm not sure if you did. I did you did well?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Laney College ad and former head football coach John Beam,
who appeared on that show, died today, a day after
he was shot by a gunman on campus. Coming to
his injuries. Beam was sixty six years old.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I mean, obviously his his fame due to the show
is why we're talking about it. But I mean, we
live in a world where somebody gets shot on a campus.
What it just and it doesn't seem it doesn't FaZe us.
And I know each situation is different, but it's not
really like this is an incredible tragedy. And obviously, uh,
(37:05):
the attention it brings to him because people know who
he is, should create a discussion about it.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
There's CJ. Anderson was one of the players that was
that Beam coached. He reached out saying he's been hearing
from a lot of people that he needed he needed space.
But there have been other players as well that have
have gone on to play in the National Football League.
But some really sad news from the from the world
of sports. A story that, as you said, really became
(37:33):
in the spotlight because of his role in the TV show.
But yeah, John Beam was sixty six years old. Doug,
that's the press.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
That get out there and pressed.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
That was the press, Dan, the game you're most excited
about seeing this weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Doug, I don't want to be selfish, but it's my
Seahawks against the Rams, big one. It is a great,
great contest for supremacy. Chiefs and Broncos were thought to
be the top game in that win though. I think
it's the one that's gonna be at so far.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
And you know me, I'm a huge Sam Donold fan.
I hope he plays well against that Rams defense. And
then of course, you know, Matt Stafford has had I mean,
he's looked unbelievable this year. I can't believe he's not
leading everything in MVP. And we'll see, obviously, if you
play well against Seattle, considering the twenty five and two interceptions,
that could go a long way. Enjoy your weekend. We
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It's not Gotleip show here on Fox Sports Radio. It
is a Friday, a football Friday, and we're getting into November.
It's weird though. We have some big games, but Dan,
you and I talked about this, like November fifteenth usually
(02:40):
huge games in college football, a ton of them, and
it feels like there's three or four Is that fair?
Three or four really big ones?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, yeah, there's I think there's there's a couple of
things at play number one. It used to be, especially
for the Big Ten, the Big Ten would wrap up
the week before Thanksgiving. Then when you go to a
game schedule when you have conference expansion, they've been wrapping
up this Saturday after Thanksgiving. But this would have been,
you know, leading up to a big week. I also
(03:10):
think that there are a few more marquee games that
we would have gotten that we wouldn't have gotten because
of college expansion, specifically this Texas Georgia game that's coming
up on Tomorrow night in Athens. So while there are
expectations that we would have these monstrous showdowns, I do
think that some changes in college football at least have
(03:32):
allowed some of these to still remain at this point.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yes, I'll also point out, and again I'm that guy
that's gonna say, one of the things that has hurt
the a lot of these games is you've had a
coaching change, and you know, because of the coaching change,
and I know they've tried to change the rule, but
guys were allowed to get in the portal. You've lost
a couple of those players. They've kind of ruded, you know,
they become kind of rudderless ships. So like Florida ole
(03:57):
Miss obviously act if the records were the same, even
if they hadn't fired Florida hadn't fired their coach. But
now when you fired your coach, you lose a sense
of purpose. Like Florida ain't beatn ole Miss.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
No, Florida ole Miss is only intriguing because of the
Layton Kiffin angle and the rumors, sure whether they're real.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Or not, he Kentucky laid waste to Florida last week.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, and Kentucky, you know, like he's fighting for his
job or the perception of him fighting for his job.
So there's not a ton of them, but There are
a lot of games where it feels like if they
hadn't been ade a coaching change, how much more competitive
would this game be? You know, and I think the
world the word is a lot, a lot more competitive.
(04:44):
Like you know, Oklahoma State Kansas State, it was been
a good rivalry. Kansas State obviously disappointing. You're Oklham State
really disappointing here. But had Mike Gundy not been fired,
what would their record be? Would hass Hani their quarterback?
Would he be coming back trying to play?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I don't know, So to branch this out, this is
if you'll just give me a few seconds here. Remember
earlier in the season when kirkirb Street was complaining about
the college football schedule in a way and I think
he was saying, and please correct me if I'm wrong,
but it was too bad that all these great games
are happening at the same time, that maybe one marquee
(05:21):
game is playing on one network and then another marquee
games playing on another network, specifically at night.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Do you guys remember that conversation?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I have the sound here, Okay, let's give it a listen.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
It's another example of why we need eventually a commissioner's office,
Like the NFL has a commissioner's office, right, and there
are a lot of different layers to what that office
could do. Obviously in this NIL and portal era and
the realignment era, I think the biggest thing that I
(05:53):
think sometimes as a guy who eats and breathes college football,
there are some weeks in college football where it's just
there might be one good game, and there are other
weeks like this week.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
You could argue this is the greatest weekend of the
entire year. Starting Friday night there's good games, yeah, and
then from game day and then after game day noon
eastern all the way. If you're crazy like me, you'll
watch BYU in Colorado at ten fifteen they start, and
that'll go to whatever one in the morning, and you're thinking, man,
(06:25):
why wouldn't we have somebody instead of the Big ten
in their own silo, the SEC and their silo, the
Big twelve and the ACC. Wouldn't it be great if
we had a commissioner's office to just kind of like,
let's spread some of these games out.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And so, Doug, is that kind of the point that
you're looking at this week? And yeah, we got Texas
Georgia as the game, but maybe there's not as much
would you be along with what Herb Street said in that, I.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Know, because I don't think there's a way to pre
plan for it, right, I agree?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know LSU and Arkansas is supposed to be a
rivalry game, right Arkansas is that a disappointing year, fired
their head coach Bob Petrino, hasn't been able to fix
it and so and LSU fired their head coach, right,
So there. I don't know what LSU's record would have
been had they not fired Brian Kelly, but I think
I think it would have been a completely different game
(07:18):
had they not, you know, they.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And I think it would be.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I think it would just be really difficult to lay
that out, especially with conferences and their own needs. However,
and this is my point, especially with the talk of
the Big Ten and private equity and a grant of
rights that goes another twenty years, and is it good
for is it good for an Ohio state to do this?
Are USC and Michigan right and not wanting to sign
(07:44):
on to this sort of agreement? If we had college
football like we all actually feared we would get that
week in the college football that we fear is basically
a forty school college football world, right, So we would
in that world, we actually would get what Kirk kurb
Street is talking about. But I don't know if we
(08:06):
necessarily want that because there would be good games.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
How come I know that because they see what the
NFL does with thirty two teams. There's a great game
every single week in the National Football League. Some weeks
there's three or four of them. We have one hundred
and thirty schools. We really have eighty schools that are
relevant maybe if you want to say in the power
for and how it's laid out, but seventy to eighty schools,
(08:31):
and that's just really tough to do with all of
those schools. So my point being is, from what you're
saying of what is maybe kind of a downer week
in college football, the only way that we can cure
something like that and do something that Kirk kurb Street
wants would be something that nobody wants in college football,
And that's like a forty to fifty school.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
League, right, which is kind of what we already have, right,
We have it without having.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It well, and you may feel that way, but I
feel that there's still independence with the SEC and the
Big Ten. And honestly, when you look at the schedule,
like the SEC is carrying a lot of the weight
of the good matchup, especially Oklahoma Alabama another one on
the slate there. But if you had the top six
(09:17):
schools from the Big Ten, if you had the top
ten schools from the SEC, and you ended up expanding
that way, that's the type of college football that Kirk
kurb Street would want that I think people would want
if they wanted great college football games every week.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Otherwise, this is kind of what we're going to get.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, I again, I truly believe though, if you look
at it and you were to take away the records,
take away the records, right, Virginia Tech Florida State historically
that should be a great game. Now Britain Tech has
been very good in five years or so. Florida State
(09:53):
it's been two years since they were undefeated. But yeah,
then they have mishmash ones where because of the new
Big Ten, Ucla, Ohio State, Perdue, Washington right where Washington
in November should be playing Oregon or Oregon State some
you know, some sort of obviously you know with some
sort of proximity rival and that's what the new that's
(10:14):
what you're talking about with the new league and so
many teams and it can be hard to manage.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, I actually think that the expansion has helped the
schedule a little bit. I do think because we wouldn't
get Oklahoma Alabama, we wouldn't get Texas Georgia. Like the
addition of Oklahoma and Texas. But those two teams and
already a jam packed SEC. And well, you and I
may differ on like what happens with the top of
the conference. I understand that the SEC is deeper in
(10:40):
terms of competition than the Big Ten is. The Big
Ten's bottom just does not have the gravitas, if you will,
that the other that the SEC does, at least with
their bad teams. Like we still kind of give a
crap about some of their bad teams. Sure we do,
we do.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
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our picks in something we call the Gambler to the music.
(11:21):
So the gambler is based like this. Everybody has one pick.
Cortiation Stewart has to have two. It's one that you
feel so confident in You're willing to tell all your friends, Hey,
you may screw up the rest of the weekend. This
is your pick. Let's start with Jason Stewart for the
Jason and Arlay.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I'll take it from here, Doug, I'll take it from here.
My Jay's two team parlay starts. You got a race
to the betting window. These are the two games this
evening closest to the time right now, Oregon hosts Minnesota.
They're giving twenty five and a half currently, and I'm
going to take Oregon, and I need to pair it
with one other team to make the Jay's two team parlay. Now.
(11:58):
I don't know if you guys been watching the wine
in the Louisville game, but money has been pouring in
on the Cardinals. I'm gonna take the Cardinals, who are.
It looks like they are giving two points at home
as opposed to getting six points. They're giving two points
at home to Clemson. Just a quick membo to Clemson,
Kevin Mack is not walking through that door tonight Louisville
(12:20):
to Oregon and thank me on mondaying.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
You got to learn right, okay, dann Byer Doug.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Last week the National Football League taught me a lesson.
When Las Vegas is trying to tell you something, just
go with it. I don't have a lot of confidence
in JJ McCarthy as the Vikings quarterback. They just lost
to the Ravens at home. Jjcarthy's played about two quarters
of good football this season. One of those quarters actually
happened in Week one in Chicago, where the Bears dominated
(12:53):
the Vikings for three quarters, yet Minnesota rallied for a win. Well,
those two teams playing where you are right now in
Minneapolis on Sunday, Doug, and Minnesota is a two and
a half point favorite against these red hot, come from
behind good Mojoe Bears. They're trying to tell me something.
I'm taking the Vikings minus two and a half. I
(13:15):
have no reason why. I think there'd be every reason
to go with Chicago, but they're saying Minnesota minus two
and a half. Give me the Vikings minus two and
a half at home against the Bears.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I'm gonna go NFL as well. The Denver Broncos have
become like maligned because their offense has struggled. Right, you
got Bo Nicks in his second year as the starter,
has just been okay, struggling turning the football over.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Probably not gonna have JK Dobbins this weekend.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, not gonna have JK Dobbins stop me yours before JK.
Dobbins is hurt. But he does get hurt. But they're
a three and a half point dog at home against
Kansas City Chiefs. Now again. I don't know what the
met elixer is with Andy Reid off of bye week,
but the and you read off a bye week thing
is a real thing.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
It's a real thing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Now. Back to back road games were hard, but they
had a week off. I'm taking the Chiefs come hell
or high water. Andy Reid off off a bye game.
I think he's as a one game ever in the
history of his life off of bye game as a
head coach. So gonna take the Chiefs and gonna lay
the points. You're welcome, Sammy.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Let's look at Wisconsin at number two Indiana beajors a
noon Eastern time on Big ten Network. Now you look
at the mindset of each of these teams. Wisconsin broke
a six game losing streak, finally getting a win, get
taking some heat off of Luke Fickle. They beat the
ranked of Washington Huskies last week thirteen to ten. Maybe
(14:50):
they're feeling a little loose. They come into Bloomington as
twenty eight and a half point underdogs. And then you
look at Indiana coming off that last second victory on
the road at Penn State twenty eight and a half
four touchdown favorite are the Hoosiers? I like the Uh,
I'm gonna take the Wisconsin Badgers with the points. I
think it'll be a blowout. They'll lose decisively, but not
(15:11):
by more than not by twenty and a half or more.
So give me the Badgers with the points.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Wow, you're taking the Badgers at Indiana. I taking their
first big win, the biggest win of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
If you told me the over under was forty three
and a half, I would have thought that's total yards
for Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
That like truly.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I just think, man, I just twenty Are you telling
me that the Boosiers are gonna win by four touchdowns
or more?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
I think we need to qualify this by saying, hey,
Google e Moogli, I don't know if Sam's gotten again.
We're picked right this now, So I think you got
to qualify that by saying I'm typically wrong here.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I am.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I've been prefacing most of my picks with don't listen
to me. I'm like the crazy guy to the bridge.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
One, two, three, four five. They won five of their
ten games by more than four touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I know, I know, so.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Again, and I know you're coming to Bend State and
you're maybe forty eight twenty four will be.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
A thing you make.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You may be right, you may be right. And Wisconsin
did switch quarterbacks last week.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Got them a whole thirteen points, right right, they score
thirteen points. I might be crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
This is This is what they scored during their losing
streak previous to that game. Fourteen ten ten zero zero
zero seven zero thirteen.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, I know, I know. I just for twenty eight.
All right, Well we'll see, Well we said we'll see.
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I don't think it's extason nos. I think it's Jimmy's
and jail Well that is single. So let's sing.
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No, will wow No, when hold ssconsin, will fight No?
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When to walk wait, go back?
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When to run?
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No, I mean again, I like, I mean it's it's
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Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That's that's what they do. They are hard rocking kick
ass band. That's what they That's what they do. We
need some we need some background on this stuff, right,
don't we need some background on Like Dallas, the owners
approved the trade of Luca and then they fire Nico Harrison.
But they fire him like a week and a half
(18:11):
two weeks into an NBA season, kind of weird. Let's
welcome in. It's the it's the author of the Steinline.
You can check out his work in a substack and
his name is Mark Stein. He joins us on a
Doug on the Doug Outlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. So, Mark,
what really happened in Dallas with the ouster of Nico Harrison.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
Well, look, obviously, I think you guys are pretty well
aware of what happened every day after February second to
the end of last season. But then the Mavericks won
the draft lottery in May miraculously with less than a
two percent shot at winning. And I think after that,
(18:58):
Patrick Dumont, the Mavericks operating owner, I think he wanted
he hoped that with Flag's arrival, with Anthony Davis starting
the season, and with Kyrie Irving coming back at some
point after the calendar flips, he was hoping that he
(19:20):
could at least give Nico Harrison this season to try
to get this team backed on a track towards championship contention.
And instead what we saw was a Mavericks team that
got drilled by thirty three on opening night against San
Antonio two nights later and even worse loss to Washington,
(19:42):
the only game that the Wizards have won this season.
And so with that zero to two start and a
team that immediately was just if you really examine the
Mavericks start, I mean, in the early stages of it,
they were trending towards a historically bad offense, Like it
just brought back all the negativity, the negativity that has
just smothered disfranchised since the trade. It was back to
(20:07):
last Springs levels almost instantly, and it just kept kept
getting worse, and I think they just realized that it
couldn't continue, like you can't operate this way as much
as he was hoping that they could lift themselves out
of it, and they made the I mean, look, you're
not wrong. I mean we don't see gms lose their
(20:29):
job eleven games into the season very often. But it
just got untenable again very quickly. I mean you could argue,
you could argue very strongly and correctly that it was
untenable from February till the till the lottery, but it
got to that level very quickly.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Again.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Okay, so what now when you when you change out GMS,
one who had had a vision for what this thing
ultimately would look like. Often the visions change. Mark Cuban
now sort of back at the table. Of course, one
of the reasons like, look, Mark, you covered the whole NBA,
and by the way, check out his substack which is published.
(21:10):
It's called the Steinlein, but you cover the whole league.
But you're exceptionally insightful into the folks at Dallas talking
about Mark Cuban, his influence and what the future or
the near term future of the mass looks like.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Well, the reason you don't see GM typically fired eleven
games into the season is because that's a less than
ideal time to commence a GM search. And so what
the Mavericks have had to do is a name an
interim front office. So matt Riccardi and Michael Finley, who
were the two assistant GMS under Nico Harrison, they are
(21:46):
in a co interim charge. Mark Cuban has regained a
level of voice, you know, but I would just say
he's more in a consulting level of you know. Basically,
obviously he has a lot of experience. He has a
long standing relationship with Patrick Dumont, the owner.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So you know he is.
Speaker 10 (22:09):
He is now giving them some level of input. I
think Jason Kidd, the coach who Patrick Dumont has given
two contract extensions in each of the past two summers,
he obviously has a strong level of input here. But
they're doing this now as a collective while they have
to start a GM search, and the way that search
(22:32):
was described to me was prudent and thorough is what
they want to be. They want to take their time
and make sure they hire the right person. But again,
starting this as Thanksgiving approaches is not the ideal time
to be doing it. So we don't even have real
clarity yet on what kind of what is the GM
(22:53):
profile that the Mavericks will be looking for to succeed
Nico Harrison. But then the other thing that they have,
I mean, they have a lot to do in the
immediate future because they are off to the three and
nine start. And if you study NBA history, when you
start three and nine or worse, you've given yourself you're
(23:15):
approaching a ninety percent chance that you don't make the playoffs.
Based on NBA history, so the playoffs might already be
out of reach. History says that the playoffs are already
out of reach. So if that's the case, the Mavericks
have the way do we start trading players for future
(23:36):
assets and make sure that the Cooper Flag timeline is
the priority around here because the other thing here, well
one of the men. I mean, there's so many layers
of this, so many different things happening at once. But
the twenty twenty sixth draft is not only a highly
rated draft, it is the only draft between now and
twenty thirty one that the MAVs have control of their
(23:57):
first round pick. So the truth is they need to
make sure they're in the lottery. They need to give
themselves another chance to get lucky because the players at
the top of this twenty twenty six draft, even if
you get the third pick or the fourth pick, you
are getting another very good player. And again twenty twenty seven,
(24:17):
twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine, twenty thirty the Mavericks
do not have control of their first It is either
going to a team in a trade. Twenty twenty seven,
it's going to Charlotte unless it's a top two pick.
Twenty twenty nine it is fully unprotected. That went to
Brooklyn and the Kyrie Irving trade it has since been
traded to Houston and then twenty twenty eight, Okac holds
(24:41):
the swap right, So when the Thunders pick is worse
than Dallas's, Okac will swap. And in twenty thirty it's
with the Spurs. Another swap, and so when the Spurs
pick is worse off than the Mavericks pick in twenty thirty,
they will also swap. So that's why this lottery coming
up in June takes on mas of importance for the Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Stet Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Trader. That was
lot Okay, Lebron James and the Lakers, what's the status
of that relationship.
Speaker 10 (25:12):
Look, he's making his way, He's on the comeback trail.
He's practiced a couple times this week with the South
Bay Lakers, So I think we will see him back
on the floor at some point. Look, the reality is
he's on an expiring contract and this season will play out.
What the future holds, I mean, I can't tell you
(25:35):
at this point what the future holds. I don't think
Lebron knows exactly what the future holds. Does he want
to play beyond this season? That's the first decision he
has to make. But if Lebron's contract drops off the payroll,
the Lakers suddenly have flexibility to really round out their team,
I think, And they also have to re sign Austin Reeves.
(25:58):
But I think Luca and Austin that's the back part
of the future. But they need to round out the
team around them.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And so.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Is there a scenario where Lebron could keep playing for
the Lakers if that's what he wants. I mean, it's
gonna have to work financially for the other for the
other aims that the Lakers hold. So look long term
beyond this season, there's there's still a lot of uncertainty.
But in the short term, I think we're going to
see Lebron back on the floor at some point before
(26:27):
November ends, and they need him. You know, they this roster,
they didn't have much flexibility in the summer. They improved
the roster as much as they could. They need Lebron
James to join Luca and Austin Reeves because I mean,
the way the roster is set up now, playing without
him hurts them severely.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Agreed. It's Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Dan Byer's pointed this out to me, is that you know,
there's so many questions about Giannis, and you know, offered
up the Hey, I'd like to be in New York,
but he's kind of been in kill mode, been in
MVP mode. Has the league noticed, I.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Mean no questions. I mean I said coming into the
season that because the East is so much weaker than
the West right now, and obviously injuries have played a
factor in there. The last two teams that have represented
the East in the finals, I mean no Jason Tatum
and no Tyree Tliverton is obviously going to affect those
teams severely, but also the bottom. I mean, look at
(27:34):
the bottom of the East, the Nets, the Pacers, and
the Wizards, I think are combined three and thirty two.
If my Matt, maybe Dan can back me up and
double check, I think my math is right there. Like
it is. It is so bad, you know, it's there
for the taking. And Giannis is still the best player
(27:56):
in the East. And so I give the Bucks a
punch's chance to do something. And you know the definition
of something is obviously an eye of the beholder kind
of thing. But if you have the best player in
the East, and the supporting cast around him is playing
pretty well. You know, janis himself. Janis himself said, Do
(28:18):
I contemplate other destinations in the off season, Yes, But
once the season starts, I'm locked in. I really don't
think he wants to entertain any thinking about anywhere else
in season. I think he wants to play the season
wire to wire as a Buck, and then we'll see
where they are in the spring after the playoffs. And
(28:38):
the reality is they've lost in the first round three
straight years. But right now in this East, can the
Buck still be a factor because Jannis is an absolute monster?
I think the answer is yes, all right, Doug.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Let's check Mark Stein's math.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Brooklyn Nets are one in ten, The Indiana Pacers are
one and eleven. The Washington Wizards are one and eleven,
three thirty two. Mark Stein right on the money.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
That cal stake, Fords and education.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Nothing like the Titans. Stunny, you are the best man.
Check out his stick. Out the steinline. It's a substack.
It's great, so is Mark. He joined us in the
Doug Gotlip Show. Thanks so much, Mark, talk soon, guys,
good how much good information was there? You're like, Wow,
that was so good. All right. Coming up on The
Doug Gottlieb Show, the latest injury updates for fantasy owners
(29:28):
heading into this NFL weekend. That's next.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
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Speaker 1 (29:41):
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I hope you're having a great Friday. I'll you enjoyed
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Let's get to the press with Dan Byer.
Speaker 9 (30:11):
The press.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
All right, Doug, a bit a post mortem from last
night's Patriots victory over the Jets. Jets head coach Aaron
Glenn told reporters today when I asked if he would
make a change at quarterback, that he was evaluating quote
everything end quote. When I asked if they were going
to make a change with Justin Fields. Remember at one
point they were going to make the switch and Torod
(30:36):
Taylor got dinged up and then there was a up
in the air this past week Justin Fields getting the
start against New England on the short week. But now
another possible change for the Jets at quarterback.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, and again there's no hatred in my voice. Is
just again, this is third team three years. We know
who Justin Fields is, and I honestly think accumulating all
those picks, it's just more signaling of they're going to
have a new quarterback next year.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
All right, So Sam has notified to me we've got
some Aaron Glenn sounds all right, let's hear it.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Oh with this mini buye, might you consider it a
quarterback change?
Speaker 11 (31:16):
You know what, I'm evaluating everything, RIF, to be honest
with you, and that's I'm evaluating myself, the players, schematics, coaches,
I'm evaluating everything. So I don't want to just place
everything on that one situation. You know, I'm just looking
at everything because as a head coach. That's my job
right to make sure that I put this team in
(31:36):
the best position to go win games.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Again. I just I'm having some point guard issues myself.
I know what it's like and it those moments are hard,
and you do get to a point where you're like, Okay,
well I can develop this guy and maybe win at
the end of the season with him, But that process
of getting there is really hard. Or do I want
somebody you can help me win more? Now?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Hard? Goal? Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Lamar Jackson is back healthy, started last week against Minnesota.
He will start against the Browns on Sunday. It's an
interesting week in the NFL, a lot of division matchups,
including one that we saw last night. There's another division
matchup in the AFC North. It's the Bengals and Steelers.
Bengals without both defensive end Jamar Stewart and Trey Hendrickson
won't play in the game obviously. Joe Burrow still out
(32:25):
trying to recover from that total injury. Still a couple
of weeks away. But that's who Aaron Rodgers and the
Steelers will be going up against, or who they won't
be going up against. Bengals down both defensive ends on
Sunday in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Well, the good news is the rest of their defenses
never mind, right.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
And another good one Buccaneers and Bills. That's not a
division showdown, But Bucky Irving and Chris Godwin got on
the practice field this week. They're not going to play
on Sunday though, And the Bills will be without Titan.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Dalton Kincaid because of a hamstring strain.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
If there's anybody that you would know I don't want
to miss from the Dolphin or from the excuse me,
from the Bills receiving Gore, I think it would be
Dalton Kincaid. Yeah, So we'll see how the Bills deal
with that. And again, the Andy Reid record that Doug
mentioned earlier, off of a bye, he had just one
loss during his time in Philadelphia. He's nine to three
(33:17):
with Kansas City. That's an overall record of twenty two
to four. But if they're going to get a win
against the Broncos on Sunday, they're gonna likely they're gonna
do it without running back Asia Pacheco, who's still not
back from that knee injury that he suffered prior to
the team spy.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, but you know again, I'm going with the record,
and the Bronco has been playing with fire past couple weeks,
and I think this is a team he can't play
with fire against. Defense, is outstanding offensively, has a lot
to be desired.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Some news from New Orleans as Saints owner Gale Benson
spoke with the New Orleans Times pecun giving a vote
of confidence to GM Mickey Loomis, saying that he's done
a great job with the team. Benson was responding to
fan criticism, saying the notion of letting Loomis go was
quote ridiculous. Now, the Saints haven't been to the playoffs
(34:07):
since twenty twenty. They've missed out in the last three
seasons or four seasons. Excuse me, in just a couple
of wins this year, I.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Would echo that. I mean, Mickey Lemis did do a
good job for a long time. And what's the difference now, Right,
you lose Sean Payton as a coach, and you've been
unable to figure out the quarterback position more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, and I feel that this year was kind of
a throwaway here, like you're not gonna hold this one
against Kellen Moore. So if Mickey Loomis was gonna be
your GM, it shouldn't be anything that was judged on
what's happened so far this year. They obviously made the
trade of Rashid Shaheed to Seattle, picking up a draft
pick in that process.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
All right.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Some news from college basketball. BYU guard Connard Davis Junior
arrested on suspicion of duy Thursday morning as he suffered
minor injuries in a two car crash in Provo. Twenty
year old Davis transferred to BYU after playing at Southern
Illinois last season. The driver of the other vehicle involved
in the wreck did not suffer any injuries.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Is there an honor code stuff with that, Doug.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yes, yes, yeah, I mean he'll have violated the honor
code as well as laws in Utah. It's a it's
a tough one again, I don't know. I mean, the
honor code violation is it might be enough to get
him kicked out of school, whereas you know normally it
would it would be the arrest. All of the arrest
is also a violation of the honor code. But you know,
(35:30):
you're you were paying young men and we shouldn't be
surprised when some of them make bad decisions.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
It was just a few years ago that the Sacramento
Kings were taking the Golden State Warriors to seven games
in a first round playoff series. The Aaron Fox is
now in San Antonio, Mike Brown's no longer the head coach,
and Demontes Sibonis could be on the move, Sam Amock
of the Athletics, as multiple teams have reached out to
the Kings about the big man's possibility to be traded.
(35:58):
We just had Mark Stein talking about how bad the
bottom of the Eastern Conference is, and it is bad
the Kings. They're a part of the bottom half of
the Western Conference three and nine, tied with the Mavericks
for the second worst record in the West. Only the
Pelicans are work or worse at two and nine. But
Demntes Sibonis could be on the trading block the month
is some sad news to pass along in the world
(36:21):
of college sports.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I did not watch the show Last Chance You, Sam.
I'm not sure if you did. I did you did well?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Laney College ad and former head football coach John Beam,
who appeared on that show, died today, a day after
he was shot by a gunman on campus. Coming to
his injuries. Beam was sixty six years old.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I mean, obviously his his fame due to the show
is why we're talking about it. But I mean, we
live in a world where somebody gets shot on a campus.
What it just and it doesn't seem it doesn't FaZe us.
And I know each situation is different, but it's not
really like this is an incredible tragedy. And obviously, uh,
(37:05):
the attention it brings to him because people know who
he is, should create a discussion about it.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
There's CJ. Anderson was one of the players that was
that Beam coached. He reached out saying he's been hearing
from a lot of people that he needed he needed space.
But there have been other players as well that have
have gone on to play in the National Football League.
But some really sad news from the from the world
of sports. A story that, as you said, really became
(37:33):
in the spotlight because of his role in the TV show.
But yeah, John Beam was sixty six years old. Doug,
that's the press.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
That get out there and pressed.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
That was the press, Dan, the game you're most excited
about seeing this weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Doug, I don't want to be selfish, but it's my
Seahawks against the Rams, big one. It is a great,
great contest for supremacy. Chiefs and Broncos were thought to
be the top game in that win though. I think
it's the one that's gonna be at so far.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
And you know me, I'm a huge Sam Donold fan.
I hope he plays well against that Rams defense. And
then of course, you know, Matt Stafford has had I mean,
he's looked unbelievable this year. I can't believe he's not
leading everything in MVP. And we'll see, obviously, if you
play well against Seattle, considering the twenty five and two interceptions,
that could go a long way. Enjoy your weekend. We
(38:24):
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