August 19, 2020 • 40 mins
Doug Gottlieb talks about Giannis reverting back to his postseason struggles and questions if Bill Belichick is sincerely considering a platoon for his quarterbacks. He speaks with NFL Network Analyst Daniel Jeremiah about Alex Smith’s remarkable return to the NFL. Plus, Doug explains why Russell Westbrook is not as valuable as many think!
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You know, I heard a comparison and I thought it
was really good from from Cowhard and uh. He compared
you know, Lamar Jackson, uh and his inability to play
from behind in the playoffs and that of of Janice,
And I thought it was I thought it was excellent.
I thought it was a very very smart way, smart
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way of you know, of looking at the two players.
But but then the kind of the more I dug
into it, I was like, you know, there's more to
it than that. It's not just that they you know,
there's one thing you have to be able to do.
You've got to be able to do, you know, is
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to to win, to win big, you know, to win big,
what you gotta be able to do is you have
to be able to Um. You gotta be able to
shoot the basketball in the NBA and the NFL. You
gotta be able to complete passes, you know, on third down,
third and long or whatever. You've gotta be able to
do those two things. If you can do those things,
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then there's there's no limit to what you can accomplish.
I had this argument a long time ago, and this
is back before Mike Vick ever even got arrested with
the dog dog stuff whatever. And my thought then is
my thought now, which is um, which is quite frankly um,
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that Carson Palmer had a greater likelihood for a longer
and better career than Mike Vick. Because the thing that
Mike Vick did well, he wouldn't be able to do
well forever, Whereas the thing that Carson Palmer, who was
a really good athlete, did well, he'd be encouraged to
do more so as his career went on. That makes sense.
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So I look at that, and I sit and sit
here and say to myself, man, you know that that
nails what Lamar is lacking. That nails what Janice is lacking.
It doesn't mean that you can't play in the NBA
and be effective in the NBA without a jump shot,
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but you ain't winning a championship. You're not getting the
most out of yourself and everybody like Ben Simmons, there's
there's difference in Ben Simmons and Jannie, but there's similarities there.
Or Zion Williamson. You know, if you want to reach
that superstar status, you have to be able to shoot
the basketball. It is a It is a primary skill
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that you absolutely must have, must must have, and if
you don't have it, well, and you don't have it,
there's nothing really we can do about it, you know.
So I think this is that's who Janni's is and
what you're able to get away with in the regular season,
you're not able to get away within the postseason. What's
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true for teams is true for players. You know, officiating
is different, so it's more physical. It gives you a
less ability to just bulldog over guys, just run over dude,
just euro step over the top of guys. And then
you factor in that, hey, we're in the bubble, so
you know, guys like Damian Lillard, they're on lying They're like,
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look I watched I'm watching basketball. That happens, nothing else
to do. So if there's nothing else do, you're gonna
watch who you're gonna play and just study and prepare
and try and you know, and so all of the
spin moves that sometimes work when you you know it's coming.
But whatever, it's the regular season, done work in the postseason. Um.
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But I thought, I thought Janice who, I thought that
that's the the honest lamar thing is interesting, But it's not.
They're they're not the same guy because they're not similarly built.
They're the same guy because the one primary skill that
they're lacking is the skill that is most likely to
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help them win a championship or will cause them to
not be able to get all the rest of their
talent out. It's in broadcasting. If you have a bad voice.
There's a there's a college basketball analyst I know who
I think does a really good job. There's some quirkiness
to him. He wasn't a he was a really good player.
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He's not an all time great. You know some things
he does which you know, don't separate him. But when
he when he comes to breaking down the sport, down
the game, what he sees, why he sees it, how
he sees it. I think he's outstanding. But there are
people in my industry like, yeah, I just I can't
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take his voice. I just I can't do it. The
voice thing. It doesn't matter how good everything comes out.
When the voices as this, it's just piercing to me.
I can't do it. You know, guys have this, You
have this with women and don't act like I'm not vain.
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I don't care. She's a beautiful spirit. They could be
beautiful woman, but sometimes they'll have, you know, like a
or a guy. Women have that with a guy like
I have a big nose. I'm sure there are women
that are like you know, I would have found him
really attractive, but I just can't get past his nose
or his voice, or his hair or whatever. There's women
that can't get past if a guy is bald, Like, yeah,
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I just I can't do the bald man guy thing.
There are guys who like I. She's great. I just
I can't stop staring in her nose. And I don't
want her to get a nose job. But I can't.
I can't do it. I don't know. I just I'm
gonna have breakfast across from this person for the next
forty years, fifty years. It's really hard when there's constantly
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some coffee on it because she hits her nose on it, right, Like,
that's just we all have that thing we can't get over, Right,
there's a thing you can't get over with some people. No,
I would buy that car, but I just had a
bad experience with the ones. Here here's Joannice talking about
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what went wrong Game one. Energy that was good. We
came and he became to play guys when the bench
was cheating us on the court, but we just wasn't
nothing nice. It just wasn't enough to play better than us,
and you know they got the win. Yeah, that's not
really the type of in depth analysis we were looking for,
you know what I'm saying. It just wasn't. That was
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kind of him, like the the energy your teammates cheering, Like,
none of that matters, dude, I mean it may matter.
It's great your teammates are into it if you had good,
good energy. He made a couple of threes early and
it was the kiss of death. It was the the
old fools gold offense. You know, you make a couple
early you think you're a three point shooter and you're
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not gonna that. That's the last thing. He took a
couple of bad ones. Like, so, you know, I just
think that he has he and Lamar they have those
skills that are great. But the real, the true reality
to it is true reality is um that as great
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as they are, as talented as they are, as freaky
athletic as both of them are, right now, they're lacking
the one thing which you have to have to win big,
you know, Like Lebron is not a great pure shooter,
and I heard Colin talking about this earlier to day
to where his confidence will sometimes go in his jump shot,
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and he's done a good job of getting over that.
With Janice, it's an inflated kind of confidence. With Lamar,
he just he just inaccurate throwing outside the numbers, and
you know that's just not who he is. Yet there's
no reason, at either their age they can't improve on both.
But that's what what's holding both of them back. So uh,
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Doug Alip Show here on Fox Sports Radio coming up next.
Could Bill Belichick could Belichick platoon his quarterbacks. We'll discuss next.
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Easter noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app Doug
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Gotliep Show, Fox Sports Radio. I saw the story. I
want to share it with you. It's the idea of
Bill Belichick potentially platooning quarterbacks. Um, get to that a second.
You think it's okay to drive stone. The truth is
your reaction time slows way down when you're high. You
know they put yourself in danger, but everyone else around you.
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Stop kidding yourself. If you're using marijuana in any form,
do not get behind the wheel. If you feel different,
you drive different, drive high. Get a d U. I
that's paid for it by Nitza. So he here's the
story out of New England, which is really not a story.
I mean it is and it is, and it is
because it's the Patriots. It is because it's Cam Newton.
It is because we don't know what Cam new looks
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like and how he'll be able to handle the new
offense hey, or if he'll be able to beat out
Jared Stidham. But they open up September against their former
assistant Brian Flores and the Miami Dolphins. This from an
ESPN article The Lingering Thought. Watched the first two days
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of practice, Cam Newton, Jaredson, and Brian Hoyer. It's clear
Newton is running third in terms of comfort level with
the system. When the thought of platooning was relayed to
former Patriots linebacker Roosevelt Colvin, who had called Newton signing
long before it happened, he laughed, No, don't start a controversy.
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But but let's like think about it for a second.
You know, if a guy is not ready to help
you in terms of knowing the entire playbook, why can't
you integrate him into the system by giving him, you know,
a small assortment of plays to run. Plus, it does,
in fact challenge the defense to not know what's coming
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or what your strength actually is. You know, I saw
this So far, so good. Newton's returned from foot and
shoulder injuries. He passed the physical to sign his contract,
past the conditioning test to be on the field for
the first practice, and hasn't looked limited at all. But
even Newton seemed to acknowledge in his loan media availability
with local reporters that good health in mid August isn't
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the same as good health when hits start adding up
in the season. So maybe they start to preserve him. Yeah,
maybe you have him longer. Um. And by the way,
Belichick said earlier today that Newton was still trying to
catch up in terms of the specifics of the Patriots system.
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I know he's been with the team only seven weeks,
but it takes a while when you've had one. I
told you this about Tom Brady, Like Tom Brady's forty three.
He's learning new verbiage. It's just a very disconcerting feeling.
I what I was at CBS Radio, they would call guest.
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When you have a guest on, that was a spot,
or you'd be a guest on somebody's show as a spot.
When I was at ESPN Radio, a spot was something
you recorded for an advertiser. I gotta do some spots
after the show, no problem, So people said, I would
get text nice spot. Which one was it the Mazda spot?
Was it the butcher Box spot? No? No No, No, you
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were on with you know Boomer and Carton. You're on
Mike francessa Like I didn't read a spot. No, no, no,
you were the guest, that's the spot. Oh oh, you
can call the same thing something different, and it becomes
really confusing. Imagine that now you're on the fly. You
know you read, it goes from two safeties to suddenly
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they're gonna play you know, they're gonna play three safe,
three guys deep, three deep coverage, and you're trying to
make an adjustment, you know, the hot reads, you know
the calls. You're gonna go back to your native language,
not to the one you just learned. It's not any
different than when you start to learn Spanish or Russian
or Italian or whatever. You still think in your native language.
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He's gonna still think in his day of language. You
have to make that translation, and that takes the time.
And these guys, with their amount of recall, all of
them are uber, uber intelligent. They just are. And so
even when you say, hey, he's not that smart a quarterback,
he not that smart for a quarterback, that doesn't mean
he's not smart human being. It just takes a special
level of intelligence, specifically football intelligence, to be a smart quarterback.
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Let's get you Dan Buyer and find out what else
is going on the World sportsb What he got, Doug.
It went down to the wire in the first game
of the day of the NBA Bubble. It was a
game two in the East between the Raptors and the Nets,
guarded by Lowry the Temple. He loses it, Paul picks
it up. Norm's gonna tamp it down with five seconds
to go. Stifling defense by the Raptors leads to a
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turnover and Toronto is gonna win this ballgame. Doug, you're
giving some behind the scenes stuff for from radio and spots.
That sounded like a coupler where your line goes out
and then you have to do it over the phone
Raptors radio network. Yeah, the Nets were down three, blew
the opportunity in. The Raptors leave with a one oh
four win over Brooklyn. Toronto now up to oh and
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the best of seven series. Jazz and Nuggets are underway.
Utah out to an early ten six lead with four
minutes gone by MAVs forward Chris stops porzingis probable for
tonight's Game two against the Clippers despite a sword knee.
Stanley Cup playoffs Bruins and Hurricanes just underway in their
Game five. Boston up three one in that series, while
the Lightning eliminated Columbus with a five four overtime winning
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Game five, as the Lightning win that series up four
games to one. Two former female students at ls YOU
told USA Today they were raped by former Washington running
back Darius Guiss while they all attended school in Baton Rouge.
The alleged incidents happened in twenty six and while neither
woman reported the allegations to law enforcement, the women did
tell USA Today they told an athletics administrator, a nurse,
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and two coaches. The NFL is reportedly considering a postseason
bubble following a recommendation from Saints head coach Sean Payton.
NFL Network says the Vikings and Dalvin Cook have broken
off contract talks, while Eagles running back Miles Sanders this
week to week with the lower body injury, and in
baseball double header at Wrigly today, Cardinal steve the Cubs
six to one. In the fifth, Jay's topped the Orioles
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five to two, and in the seventh it's the Red
Sox four. Phillis three. Doug Back to You, Doug Otlip Show,
Fox Sports Radio, UH Big three for the Utah Jazz.
What's his name? What's the lefty from Australia, Joe Ingles.
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I just it's a big three. It's fifteen to eight.
Now as Ingles gets the rebound off of Jamal Murray
miss with six minutes forty seconds to go, Angles dribbles down,
just dribbles into a three. I mean it. I found
I found Collins comparison really really interesting, very enlightening in
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comparing Lamar Jackson and your Honest, And I just think
it's that primary skill you have to have as your
kids steps out makes the three, everybody you make it
three and you make it three. Um, that primary skill
you have to have to win a championship in the NBA,
you gotta be able to shoot the basketball and in
uh in the NFL canyon can you third and California
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third and eight or more? You know? Can you move
the football? Can you throw the ball outside the numbers?
And that's what Lamar's missing much the way the Honest
is missing a consistent jump SHOT's bringing Daniel Jeremiah, who
joins us here in the Doug Gotlip Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Do you do you like that comparison? Cowherd
made His comparison was more, Hey, these guys are great,
but they can't come from behind yet, so they're not
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really at that highest level. I would agree with it,
and I would say it's because of that primary skill,
which you tend to need in order to achieve complete greatness. Yeah,
and I think there's I think there's just it's just
a different It's a different sport when you get in
the postseason. We talked about all the time with football, Doug,
just how you know you can play you can play
the quarterback position a certain way in the regular season
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on the postseason, you know. We we talked about it
with Withdrew Brees and maybe some of the arm strength
stuff that it shows up more in the postseason because
the windows shrinking. UM and basketball, I think you're hit
the nail on the head. They're a lot more qualified
to talk on that than I am. But man, if
you can't shoot, good luck. No you can't. By the way,
do you watch the Laker game last night? I did not.
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I watched the padres uh and uh and tattooques just
so I could see what he would do after all
that nonsense. So and of course he steals third base
up six runs. That's that's all. I loved it. I
loved it. That was great. If he was on your team,
would you love it? I would because I just think
I just think baseball is so late to the party
year of just man, let's you gotta have some more
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fun in the sport. Man like energy and fun is
something that has not been synonymous with that sport for
a long time. Don't discourage it. Yeah, Look, I'm struggling
with that with my son. He's a really good baseball player.
He's like that baseball is just kind of boarding. I quit.
I quit my I played baseball all growing up, all
the way through eighth grade. I got in ninth grade,
went to the football season, I played varsity basketball, got
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to the spring and I was like, you know, my
buddies are going to play based I'm like, I don't
think I want to play anymore. I think I'm good. Yeah,
he that's basically what he's told me. I'm likely you're
left handed, you're little, so baseball it doesn't matter as much.
And you're little right you've played it longer. He's like,
I just I don't know. I'm just not not into it,
you know, not into it. Did you play Did you
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play baseball high school? But I did the exact same
thing you did. And then our high school basketball team
was good enough we went, I think to the semi finals,
so and the baseball was very good. Then it tuch
in high school and uh um. I remember coming out
and it was like late February, almost the march, and
they've been practicing for like two months, so you were
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just fighting for scraps and the freshman you know, you
playing like virusity basketball and you can play freshman team
baseball and be a backup catcher and backup second baseman,
and you're you know, you're not really getting in. You're like, yeah,
I'm good. So the baseball dream died. But it wasn't
the best thing I did, where it's probably the best
thing he does. I do like to tease. I think,
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is there an element that you need fun? Yes, it's
the it's the element of showing somebody else up. That's
where you kind of got. Yeah. But but what wouldn't
you say. Wouldn't you say to me if he stole
second base up, you know, eight runs in the eighth
inning or whatever, like Okay, that's that's that's not necessary
with third basis, okay, and in the fourth inning in
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a in a in a place where you you know,
you should be able to put up a bunch of runs.
I mean, you put up four teen runs in that
same building yesterday. You're up, you're up in the fourth inning.
That that can disappear real quick. With the part I
didn't I didn't know that you were supposed to not
swing away at a three oh pitch. I thought you
were supposed to not swing away because percentage wise, like
you're gonna you know, what are he's supposed to walk?
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I don't understand. I just again, to me the dumbest thing.
So if he hits it out of the park on
two oh, it's fine. Um, if he takes three oh
and then hit the three one pitch out, it's fine.
Like I mean, you can't just sit up there with
the bat on your shoulders, man, like you know, come
on talking about here frustrates the hell anyone guys said
they were the bat of their shoulders. I get the
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you shouldn't throw out somebody's head. I get that, you know,
I get the I get the not stealing when you're
up a certain number of runs, especially late in the game.
I do get that. That's like pressing when you like
you have like twenty five, like you know, what are
you pressing for? What are you doing here? And even
like you know, there's the whole thing on the you know,
if you're if you're I saw it with Ben Davis
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with the padres, you know, bunning to break up a
no hit or late in the game when it was
you know, that's kind of was frowned on that boy time,
especially if you're down big and you're not gonna you're
not gonna win the ballgame. There's little things like that,
but this is not I mean, come on, man, I
thought I'm with you. Uh could Belichick really platoon Cam
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Newton early on? I don't think so. I don't see
that if there's one guy who could do it as him,
right yeah, I mean I don't know from both standpoints.
I mean, I just think if any other coach tried
to do that Cam Newton, that's it. I mean that
your kid may there would be a mutiny. But Belichick
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has the success to be able to have that conversation
with him and see where it goes. But I still
I still think, uh, you know, I still think he'll
it'll be Cam Newton, and if he struggles at all,
I think they'll just turn around and goes to him.
So that's that's how I anticipated will happen. Um, Doug
ot Leaves show here on Fox Sports Radio. Melvin Ingram,
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they got that deal done before training camp like three
years ago, kind of quietly, right, I got it done early.
That's how Telesco likes to roll. He's still got to
work out Hunter Henry in a long term deal. Uh,
what's your what's your take on what ultimately happens with
Melvin Ingram who wanted to deal from the Chargers. Yeah,
I mean this is from no inside information. I just
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don't I don't see that happening. I think there's a
line of people, um that need new deals there and
I think, you know, with the investment they just made
in the position, with what they just did with with Joey,
I just I don't see that happening right now. So
I don't know that he really has any any leverage
in the situation. I guess they're calling it kind of
a hold in right now to be there and not practice.
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But haven't been around that team for two years. I
know about how much Melvin Ingram loves football and I
think they do as well. I can't see him missing
significant time. He just he loves the game too much.
So I don't anticipate you'll see a deal get done
UM anytime soon. And I anticipate you hopefully see him
on the field here pretty quick. What do they think
about their team? Well, I mean, nobody knows anything about
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their team. That's what's so it about this is because
normally you feel great about your team, then you go
practice against another team or you have a preseason game
and you go, wait a thing, we're either much we're
much better or much worse than we think. Um. So
that's all my talking to all my conversations with people
around the league, they're saying the same thing, like, we
think we're good, uh, but we have no idea. We're
not gonna know. Just roll out there to start the
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regular season. There's nobody to go up against to figure
that out. But I think the Charges feel very very
good about their defense. The Yeah, the big question is offense, right,
and I think the plan would be to to use
Tyrod Taylor to run him to be a little bit
more conservative terms of their passing to you know, UM
and if you can kind of shorten the game. Which
is crazy though, because they do have a lot of
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weaponry offensively, it'll be interesting to see how they use it. Yeah,
I think you know, ball security and and uh it's
been a big point of emphasis throughout the whole offseason
and being able to move the pocket a little bit
with your quarterback. Uh. You know, Anthony Lynn comes, you know,
from that whole Denver system, the Shanahan system, and you
look around the league and the teams that are that
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are dynamic and explosive offensively. You look at uh, you
know what the what the Niners do. You know, the
Chiefs are kind of their own thing. But when you
look at all the Shanahan influential teams with the Rams,
what they've done recently, the Niners with Shanahan. You look
at the Vikings last year was Stefanski and kubiak Um.
And now you see the Philadelphia Eagles higher Standardillo from
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from Denver to come and incorporate some of that. Now
you're gonna see Anthony Lynn use some of his background
incorporate more of that with the Chargers. Um. So it's
everywhere outside zone, man, that's uh, that's what every team
in the league's trying to trying to run right now.
You mentioned Kevin Stefanski goes over to Cleveland. Baker says
he's lost weight, he's you know, he's not full of
himself anymore. Does the Cleveland thing work? I think they
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have a really talented group, and I feel better about
this match in terms of the coaching staff and the
personnel I do. I think they've got a chance to
be pretty good. The challenge is there in the wrong division. Um,
I think they can be a playoff caliber team. I
don't think they're gonna make the playoff because I think
that the other two teams in division are and I
think Pittsburgh is gonna have the best defense in the NFL.
I think Baltimore is gonna have the best offense from
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the NFL. And uh and they're just in the wrong
place at the wrong time in Cleveland. Yeah, it's interesting. Okay,
So what about Pittsburgh offensively? Do we know if Ben
Roethlisberger's arm is gonna be Okay, it looked good to
me just watching little clips the other day. And he
doesn't have to be you know, the old version of
Big Ben. If he could be of Big Ben is
much better than anything they trotted out on the field
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last year. Uh with with no offense to your your
quarterbacks can't be that was That was the thing with
the with the Miles Garrett deal, was it covered up
the fact that Mason Rudolph can't play like I I
don't think he's a racist and yelled with only Myles
Garrett seemingly heard. But I also I do. I also
don't believe he's an NFL caliber starting quarterback and that
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kind of played. So Duck Hodges was they beat the Chargers,
but he was terrib not good enough. That's what I'm saying.
This team was almost a playoff team last year with
that quarterback combination. So even if they get version of
Ben Roethlisberger, they're gonna win eleven games. Um So now
I think they're gonna be really good. I think they're
a super Bowl caliber team. I really do. Does Brant
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I don't Why would the Ravens even offer up that
opportunity because they have always liked that type of a
receiver in their offense. And this goes back you know
a long uh you know, long time you look at
a kwam Bold they think he's right block does he block?
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You know, I have to go back and look at
him in that in that regard, but he's so big
and so strong. I mean I would I would think
you got a You've got somebody that can help you
in there. And the best thing does does is run
slants and catch back shoulder balls and that's kind of
the Ravens offense. So he kind of fits them. I
don't know he fits many other teams in the NFL
right now, you know, with his skill set. But I
actually think he does fit there. And they've always kind
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of welcomed that, you know, kind of alpha male personality
we saw with Marcus Peters. Alpha males thrive in that organization.
It's always been that way. Um, does Alex Smith win
the job in d C now? And and before people
you go like, well, like I'm not sold on Dwayne Haskins.
I don't think a lot of people are sold on
Dayne Haskins. And if the if the thought is well,
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Alex Smith is basically immobile because of his leg Like
have you seen Dwayne Haskins run? He does not run
particularly well. He's a thrower and Alex Smith was a
very good athlete with years more experience, more accurate, more
bought in um. But he has a ridiculously severely damaged leg.
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You tell me, I, I just don't see how Alex
Smith would be physically prepared to be in contact situations.
Like it's one thing to be clear to go out
there and go through individual and throw some seven on
seven and and and we're a different colored jersey. I
just and I it's incredible what he's been able to
do to get back to this point. But that's still
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a little bit of a leap of faith for me
that he would be ready in time to start this season.
I just, man, that seems like a stretch to me.
So I think it'll be Haskins, but I think Alex
Smith will have a big impact on him behind the scenes,
teaching him how to prepare, uh. Something he did for
my home, something he did for Kaefernack Um and he's
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he's done a really good job working with younger quarterbacks,
and I think that'll that will benefit Haskins. But I
do think it'll be Haskins. I think they'll give him
the opportunity. Danna Jeremiah joining us in the Doug Gottlieb
Show on Fox Sports Radio give me a team. You know,
the teams we generally talk about, right there's a lot
of Packers discussion, a Cowboys discussion. Um, obviously Niners in chiefs.
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Give me a team that we need to wrap our
heads around talking about now because when the season starts,
you believe we'll be talking about them more. Well, last
year we had this discussion and I went all in
on the Niners and uh, And I've talked about the
fact that I always try and push my chips into
the middle of the table in the NFL on teams
that have great quarterback play and teams that can rush
the passer Um. That's kind of the championship formula right now.
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And we saw the Niners. I mean, they didn't quite
finish the job, but that was a dominant of football
team as we had last year and came up just
a little bit short. And this year the team that
I'm just big on and uh, I think it's gonna
be a playoff team and I think it's got a
chance to to to actually make a push in the postseason.
And people think I'm crazy as the Arizona Cardinals, Um,
I do. I think when you look at them defensively,
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talk about a pass rush. They've got one of the
premier rushers in the NFL and Chandler Jones. Um. You
look at the speed that they have defensively with Patrick
Peterson when he's healthy, Buda Baker can really play Byron
Murphy is a good young player. Uh. Now you go
out in the draft and you get Isaiah Simmons who
can match up with the George Kittles of the world.
You can run all day long and linebacker. And then
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you flip forward to the other side, and I think
you know when you give DeAndre Hopkins uh to Kyler
Murray out. Kyler Murray with outstanding last year, and I
think you're gonna see a huge leap from him. It'll
be a little bit better on the offensive line than
they were. Um, and they've got some they've got some
weapons for that kid, and he's I think he's going
to be special. Man. I am. I am very very
excited about that team. What did they change midyear because
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he was on a on a on a rate to
be sacked more than than anybody in the history of
the sport, And did you just start getting rid of
it quicker? Did they change some of the blocking schemes
from the from the wide splits, like what what changed
they wanted? They want to play with more empty right,
they want to play in and more you know, ten
personnel or or just go completely empty. And uh at
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four or five wide. They couldn't do that last year,
and they took him a while to figure that out.
They just didn't have the five up front they could protect,
so they couldn't run, you know, that whole version of
the air raid that Kingsbury wanted to run. So they
start playing with more tight ends, keeping guys in you know,
six and seven man protection. So now they're hopeful with
drafting Josh Jones, who they are very high on, who
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they uh, you know, d J. Humphrey is kind of
emerging and coming on. They feel like they've got a
chance to be better upfront and that's going to allow
them to expand that offense and the more of what
they've traditionally done. But I thought Kingsbury showed some awareness
that hey, this is what I want to do, but
we just physically can't do that right now. And uh,
and they made the adjustment. Daniel Jeremiah joining us, we
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got some padres out of him, We got some NBA
out of him, we got the Arizona Cardinals. Is all right?
Let me ask you the opposite question. Give me a
team who you're like, Okay, you need quarterback playing pass rush?
They have neither. Oh that's a good question. Um. The
team that I'm maybe down on a little bit, well,
I think everybody's kind of gifted the a f C
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East to the Buffalo Bills, and I'm just I'm not
quite ready to do that just yet. Um, we've talked
about the Patriots a little bit earlier. I think that
the Dolphins and the Jets have no expectations on them,
and I think this whole divisions is gonna be a
muddy mess. I think it's gonna be a eight and
eight or not and seven team that wins it. And
I do not think it's a foregone conclusion that it's Buffalo.
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I don't either. Um, I don't either. I Look, I think,
you know, the Jets are a weird team. The Dolphins
should be better, but I don't know if they're any good.
And of course is the wild cards is the Patriots
who just find a way to win games and win
the division. Right, It's a It's gonna be interesting DJ
great stuff, dude, still waiting for the invite. Thanks for
joining us. Drive back by the way you drive back
(32:28):
from Dallas. I drove out there, I flew home and
it was the easiest flight ever after having done that drive.
It was I really really appreciated that flight. I can
tell you. Yeah, well that's that's that's a good move.
And everybody's she's she's good at Dallas Baptist. She's happy,
doing great. Yeah, doing great. She's running, she's she's in
the cross country. They're already working out and uh so
(32:48):
she's sitting right in the The Texas humidy and heat
is still a work in progress. No, I know. My
my son was trying to tell me yesterday in Californias, like, man,
this is hotter than Oklahoma's what are you? What are you?
What you he was out there if he thinks he's
Efficientado now because it wasn't that hot when he's out there.
Any way, Thanks so much for joining us. Be sure
to catch the live edition of the Doug Gottlieb Show
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Fox Sports Radio every day. This time, we like to
get you caught up on something you may have missed
earlier in our show or in one of the other shows,
TV radio, whatever we call it. And now this was
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Colin Cowherd talking about one of his favorite players, Russell Westbrook.
Last night Houston played their best game in the bubble
Westbrook was gone. They shot threes effectively. Why because Westbrook
didn't take any Their defense was great. I always thought
his m VP was nonsense. The most valuable player in
the league easily for ten years in a row, was
Lebron It's not even arguable. What is Westbrook? Is he exciting? Oh?
(33:56):
Hell yeah? Is he athletic? He may be the league's
most athletic guy. Is he interesting, It's kind of fascinating.
Is he productive? Yes, very productive. Is he respected? Yes?
Absolutely a players love him? But is he valuable? Oklahoma
City got better when he left, Kevin Durant got more
efficient and one more when he left. Victor Oladipo became
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an All Star when he left. SA Bonus became an
All Star when they left him. So the value with
Westbrook he checks a zillion boxes. He didn't check the
valuable box. When Lebron James leaves a team, they fall
off the cliff into the sea like that is valuable. Um. Yeah,
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I mean he's making several different comparisons into one. I
would say that, you know, when Lebron left Miami, had
Chris Bosh not gotten blood clots, I don't think they
fall off nearly the way they fell off when he
left Cleveland the first time. Yeah, well, they they tore
down the entire team. They won sixty one games. The
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second time, they had already gotten rid of Kyrie. And
you lose Kyrie and Lebron and the way in which
Lebron almost demands you play, which is through him, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't argue that Lebron is a more valuable player
than Russell Westbrook. But I also think that when we
take one game as the law, you know, yes, Houston
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played well yesterday against Oklahoma City. Part of that is
oklahoma City looking good in the bubble was more a
factor of them looking good in the bubble than being
all that good. That's the one thing that we had
to adjust in terms of how things how things looked. Um,
I don't know. Like, look, I think it's fairly complex
in trying to explain Russell Westbrook. I do think he
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has value. I do think he's a tremendous player. I
do think the ball sticks with him, and I think
they found a way to make him super effective and
not screw up who they are. But I also think
that none of the credits seemed to ever go to
Mike D'Antoni. He made adjustments, he put he he actually
put Jeff Green with the ball and had James Harden
screened for him. Like they tried some quirky stuff they
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had not tried previously and it worked. Now, when you're
in a playoff series, the other team is gonna adjust
from game one to game two and we'll see if
that stuff still works or how long he misses. But
I I don't believe that they are better long term
without Russell Westbrook, and I think most people would agree
with me, even if Westbrook can be frustrating considering the
volume of shots he takes, and he's not not only
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not a great shooter, he's not a very good finisher either,
and so there's a lot more mrs. But there's a
lot of productivity. Um, he will, you know, in the playoffs,
compete and play hard and be tough, and he's not
scared of taking and making the big shot. But there's yeah,
there there's some limitations there. He's never figured out the
shooting and it's gotten worse at times instead of better.
(36:52):
Doug Otlib Show here on Fox Sports Radio. I wasn't aware.
I wasn't aware at all of the you can't swing
on three and oh bases loaded by are were you
aware of that unwritten rule of baseball? Didn't? I was
aware of that. Yeah, there's some that maybe if you know,
I've I've missed. But I was aware of that one.
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Why is that such? I don't I don't know anither
like yeah, because you're already up and it to me,
it doesn't make a lot of sense. Um have the
picture throw a strike on one of the first three
pitches and then you're not in that situation. But uh,
it's yeah, it's it's sort of the I guess because
the game's out of hand, a fastball is likely coming,
(37:38):
that's they get it over fastball. But again, to your
point of it just defeats the purpose and all of it.
So but I was aware aware of that one. Yeah,
I don't like So it's he's better off he walks that.
That's what doesn't make sense, like who wants a three
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and one? Count it all? Because three and three and
O is you're you're not you're supposed to not swing
on three and O because you know, the percentages tell
you're better off walking, better off getting on base than
you are trying to swing and hit a baseball. Like,
but if somebody's willing to swing three and O, fine,
(38:19):
I actually think, yeah, maybe maybe it's just because it
would you know, more likely be just get it over fastball,
so you kind of know what's coming, and you know
that would be the that would be the reason because
you know it's it's understood. But when when is the
point where you're what is the actual score? How many?
How many runs different? At what point time does it?
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Because like in basketball, it's usually like you get up,
like all right, let's call it the press, you know,
and well will we will if it gets back to
like fifteen, we'll bring it back. But twenty five, it's like,
what is the what is the point here? You know,
trying to get better? So I don't understand I don't
understand the that deal at all. And I would say
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is six too few? Yeah? I mean, you know, six
run lead late in the game, is probably safe. But
I mean, if it's only a five run lead, and
I say, only you know that? To me, isn't that
the game isn't out of the realm of possibility? No,
not at all. Maybe eight. I just don't know. It's like,
(39:24):
is it universal clay, because like, if you're the Angels
and you have a horrific bullpen, keep scoring as many
runs you can because they are fully capable of blowing
up with a ten run lead. Yea, yeah, I've seen it,
you know, yeah, if you have, you watched them. Um,
all right, hey, coming up next, the Big Ten might
(39:45):
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What if I told you Ohio State still could end
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You know, I heard a comparison and I thought it
was really good from from Cowhard and uh. He compared
you know, Lamar Jackson, uh and his inability to play
from behind in the playoffs and that of of Janice,
And I thought it was I thought it was excellent.
I thought it was a very very smart way, smart
(01:06):
way of you know, of looking at the two players.
But but then the kind of the more I dug
into it, I was like, you know, there's more to
it than that. It's not just that they you know,
there's one thing you have to be able to do.
You've got to be able to do, you know, is
(01:27):
to to win, to win big, you know, to win big,
what you gotta be able to do is you have
to be able to Um. You gotta be able to
shoot the basketball in the NBA and the NFL. You
gotta be able to complete passes, you know, on third down,
third and long or whatever. You've gotta be able to
do those two things. If you can do those things,
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then there's there's no limit to what you can accomplish.
I had this argument a long time ago, and this
is back before Mike Vick ever even got arrested with
the dog dog stuff whatever. And my thought then is
my thought now, which is um, which is quite frankly um,
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that Carson Palmer had a greater likelihood for a longer
and better career than Mike Vick. Because the thing that
Mike Vick did well, he wouldn't be able to do
well forever, Whereas the thing that Carson Palmer, who was
a really good athlete, did well, he'd be encouraged to
do more so as his career went on. That makes sense.
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So I look at that, and I sit and sit
here and say to myself, man, you know that that
nails what Lamar is lacking. That nails what Janice is lacking.
It doesn't mean that you can't play in the NBA
and be effective in the NBA without a jump shot,
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but you ain't winning a championship. You're not getting the
most out of yourself and everybody like Ben Simmons, there's
there's difference in Ben Simmons and Jannie, but there's similarities there.
Or Zion Williamson. You know, if you want to reach
that superstar status, you have to be able to shoot
the basketball. It is a It is a primary skill
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that you absolutely must have, must must have, and if
you don't have it, well, and you don't have it,
there's nothing really we can do about it, you know.
So I think this is that's who Janni's is and
what you're able to get away with in the regular season,
you're not able to get away within the postseason. What's
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true for teams is true for players. You know, officiating
is different, so it's more physical. It gives you a
less ability to just bulldog over guys, just run over dude,
just euro step over the top of guys. And then
you factor in that, hey, we're in the bubble, so
you know, guys like Damian Lillard, they're on lying They're like,
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look I watched I'm watching basketball. That happens, nothing else
to do. So if there's nothing else do, you're gonna
watch who you're gonna play and just study and prepare
and try and you know, and so all of the
spin moves that sometimes work when you you know it's coming.
But whatever, it's the regular season, done work in the postseason. Um.
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But I thought, I thought Janice who, I thought that
that's the the honest lamar thing is interesting, But it's not.
They're they're not the same guy because they're not similarly built.
They're the same guy because the one primary skill that
they're lacking is the skill that is most likely to
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help them win a championship or will cause them to
not be able to get all the rest of their
talent out. It's in broadcasting. If you have a bad voice.
There's a there's a college basketball analyst I know who
I think does a really good job. There's some quirkiness
to him. He wasn't a he was a really good player.
(05:11):
He's not an all time great. You know some things
he does which you know, don't separate him. But when
he when he comes to breaking down the sport, down
the game, what he sees, why he sees it, how
he sees it. I think he's outstanding. But there are
people in my industry like, yeah, I just I can't
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take his voice. I just I can't do it. The
voice thing. It doesn't matter how good everything comes out.
When the voices as this, it's just piercing to me.
I can't do it. You know, guys have this, You
have this with women and don't act like I'm not vain.
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I don't care. She's a beautiful spirit. They could be
beautiful woman, but sometimes they'll have, you know, like a
or a guy. Women have that with a guy like
I have a big nose. I'm sure there are women
that are like you know, I would have found him
really attractive, but I just can't get past his nose
or his voice, or his hair or whatever. There's women
that can't get past if a guy is bald, Like, yeah,
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I just I can't do the bald man guy thing.
There are guys who like I. She's great. I just
I can't stop staring in her nose. And I don't
want her to get a nose job. But I can't.
I can't do it. I don't know. I just I'm
gonna have breakfast across from this person for the next
forty years, fifty years. It's really hard when there's constantly
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some coffee on it because she hits her nose on it, right, Like,
that's just we all have that thing we can't get over, Right,
there's a thing you can't get over with some people. No,
I would buy that car, but I just had a
bad experience with the ones. Here here's Joannice talking about
(06:58):
what went wrong Game one. Energy that was good. We
came and he became to play guys when the bench
was cheating us on the court, but we just wasn't
nothing nice. It just wasn't enough to play better than us,
and you know they got the win. Yeah, that's not
really the type of in depth analysis we were looking for,
you know what I'm saying. It just wasn't. That was
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kind of him, like the the energy your teammates cheering, Like,
none of that matters, dude, I mean it may matter.
It's great your teammates are into it if you had good,
good energy. He made a couple of threes early and
it was the kiss of death. It was the the
old fools gold offense. You know, you make a couple
early you think you're a three point shooter and you're
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not gonna that. That's the last thing. He took a
couple of bad ones. Like, so, you know, I just
think that he has he and Lamar they have those
skills that are great. But the real, the true reality
to it is true reality is um that as great
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as they are, as talented as they are, as freaky
athletic as both of them are, right now, they're lacking
the one thing which you have to have to win big,
you know, Like Lebron is not a great pure shooter,
and I heard Colin talking about this earlier to day
to where his confidence will sometimes go in his jump shot,
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and he's done a good job of getting over that.
With Janice, it's an inflated kind of confidence. With Lamar,
he just he just inaccurate throwing outside the numbers, and
you know that's just not who he is. Yet there's
no reason, at either their age they can't improve on both.
But that's what what's holding both of them back. So uh,
(08:53):
Doug Alip Show here on Fox Sports Radio coming up next.
Could Bill Belichick could Belichick platoon his quarterbacks. We'll discuss next.
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Easter noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app Doug
(09:15):
Gotliep Show, Fox Sports Radio. I saw the story. I
want to share it with you. It's the idea of
Bill Belichick potentially platooning quarterbacks. Um, get to that a second.
You think it's okay to drive stone. The truth is
your reaction time slows way down when you're high. You
know they put yourself in danger, but everyone else around you.
(09:37):
Stop kidding yourself. If you're using marijuana in any form,
do not get behind the wheel. If you feel different,
you drive different, drive high. Get a d U. I
that's paid for it by Nitza. So he here's the
story out of New England, which is really not a story.
I mean it is and it is, and it is
because it's the Patriots. It is because it's Cam Newton.
It is because we don't know what Cam new looks
(10:00):
like and how he'll be able to handle the new
offense hey, or if he'll be able to beat out
Jared Stidham. But they open up September against their former
assistant Brian Flores and the Miami Dolphins. This from an
ESPN article The Lingering Thought. Watched the first two days
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of practice, Cam Newton, Jaredson, and Brian Hoyer. It's clear
Newton is running third in terms of comfort level with
the system. When the thought of platooning was relayed to
former Patriots linebacker Roosevelt Colvin, who had called Newton signing
long before it happened, he laughed, No, don't start a controversy.
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But but let's like think about it for a second.
You know, if a guy is not ready to help
you in terms of knowing the entire playbook, why can't
you integrate him into the system by giving him, you know,
a small assortment of plays to run. Plus, it does,
in fact challenge the defense to not know what's coming
(11:07):
or what your strength actually is. You know, I saw
this So far, so good. Newton's returned from foot and
shoulder injuries. He passed the physical to sign his contract,
past the conditioning test to be on the field for
the first practice, and hasn't looked limited at all. But
even Newton seemed to acknowledge in his loan media availability
with local reporters that good health in mid August isn't
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the same as good health when hits start adding up
in the season. So maybe they start to preserve him. Yeah,
maybe you have him longer. Um. And by the way,
Belichick said earlier today that Newton was still trying to
catch up in terms of the specifics of the Patriots system.
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I know he's been with the team only seven weeks,
but it takes a while when you've had one. I
told you this about Tom Brady, Like Tom Brady's forty three.
He's learning new verbiage. It's just a very disconcerting feeling.
I what I was at CBS Radio, they would call guest.
(12:10):
When you have a guest on, that was a spot,
or you'd be a guest on somebody's show as a spot.
When I was at ESPN Radio, a spot was something
you recorded for an advertiser. I gotta do some spots
after the show, no problem, So people said, I would
get text nice spot. Which one was it the Mazda spot?
Was it the butcher Box spot? No? No No, No, you
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were on with you know Boomer and Carton. You're on
Mike francessa Like I didn't read a spot. No, no, no,
you were the guest, that's the spot. Oh oh, you
can call the same thing something different, and it becomes
really confusing. Imagine that now you're on the fly. You
know you read, it goes from two safeties to suddenly
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they're gonna play you know, they're gonna play three safe,
three guys deep, three deep coverage, and you're trying to
make an adjustment, you know, the hot reads, you know
the calls. You're gonna go back to your native language,
not to the one you just learned. It's not any
different than when you start to learn Spanish or Russian
or Italian or whatever. You still think in your native language.
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He's gonna still think in his day of language. You
have to make that translation, and that takes the time.
And these guys, with their amount of recall, all of
them are uber, uber intelligent. They just are. And so
even when you say, hey, he's not that smart a quarterback,
he not that smart for a quarterback, that doesn't mean
he's not smart human being. It just takes a special
level of intelligence, specifically football intelligence, to be a smart quarterback.
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Let's get you Dan Buyer and find out what else
is going on the World sportsb What he got, Doug.
It went down to the wire in the first game
of the day of the NBA Bubble. It was a
game two in the East between the Raptors and the Nets,
guarded by Lowry the Temple. He loses it, Paul picks
it up. Norm's gonna tamp it down with five seconds
to go. Stifling defense by the Raptors leads to a
(14:03):
turnover and Toronto is gonna win this ballgame. Doug, you're
giving some behind the scenes stuff for from radio and spots.
That sounded like a coupler where your line goes out
and then you have to do it over the phone
Raptors radio network. Yeah, the Nets were down three, blew
the opportunity in. The Raptors leave with a one oh
four win over Brooklyn. Toronto now up to oh and
(14:26):
the best of seven series. Jazz and Nuggets are underway.
Utah out to an early ten six lead with four
minutes gone by MAVs forward Chris stops porzingis probable for
tonight's Game two against the Clippers despite a sword knee.
Stanley Cup playoffs Bruins and Hurricanes just underway in their
Game five. Boston up three one in that series, while
the Lightning eliminated Columbus with a five four overtime winning
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Game five, as the Lightning win that series up four
games to one. Two former female students at ls YOU
told USA Today they were raped by former Washington running
back Darius Guiss while they all attended school in Baton Rouge.
The alleged incidents happened in twenty six and while neither
woman reported the allegations to law enforcement, the women did
tell USA Today they told an athletics administrator, a nurse,
(15:11):
and two coaches. The NFL is reportedly considering a postseason
bubble following a recommendation from Saints head coach Sean Payton.
NFL Network says the Vikings and Dalvin Cook have broken
off contract talks, while Eagles running back Miles Sanders this
week to week with the lower body injury, and in
baseball double header at Wrigly today, Cardinal steve the Cubs
six to one. In the fifth, Jay's topped the Orioles
(15:31):
five to two, and in the seventh it's the Red
Sox four. Phillis three. Doug Back to You, Doug Otlip Show,
Fox Sports Radio, UH Big three for the Utah Jazz.
What's his name? What's the lefty from Australia, Joe Ingles.
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I just it's a big three. It's fifteen to eight.
Now as Ingles gets the rebound off of Jamal Murray
miss with six minutes forty seconds to go, Angles dribbles down,
just dribbles into a three. I mean it. I found
I found Collins comparison really really interesting, very enlightening in
(16:13):
comparing Lamar Jackson and your Honest, And I just think
it's that primary skill you have to have as your
kids steps out makes the three, everybody you make it
three and you make it three. Um, that primary skill
you have to have to win a championship in the NBA,
you gotta be able to shoot the basketball and in
uh in the NFL canyon can you third and California
(16:38):
third and eight or more? You know? Can you move
the football? Can you throw the ball outside the numbers?
And that's what Lamar's missing much the way the Honest
is missing a consistent jump SHOT's bringing Daniel Jeremiah, who
joins us here in the Doug Gotlip Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Do you do you like that comparison? Cowherd
made His comparison was more, Hey, these guys are great,
but they can't come from behind yet, so they're not
(17:00):
really at that highest level. I would agree with it,
and I would say it's because of that primary skill,
which you tend to need in order to achieve complete greatness. Yeah,
and I think there's I think there's just it's just
a different It's a different sport when you get in
the postseason. We talked about all the time with football, Doug,
just how you know you can play you can play
the quarterback position a certain way in the regular season
(17:20):
on the postseason, you know. We we talked about it
with Withdrew Brees and maybe some of the arm strength
stuff that it shows up more in the postseason because
the windows shrinking. UM and basketball, I think you're hit
the nail on the head. They're a lot more qualified
to talk on that than I am. But man, if
you can't shoot, good luck. No you can't. By the way,
do you watch the Laker game last night? I did not.
(17:41):
I watched the padres uh and uh and tattooques just
so I could see what he would do after all
that nonsense. So and of course he steals third base
up six runs. That's that's all. I loved it. I
loved it. That was great. If he was on your team,
would you love it? I would because I just think
I just think baseball is so late to the party
year of just man, let's you gotta have some more
(18:02):
fun in the sport. Man like energy and fun is
something that has not been synonymous with that sport for
a long time. Don't discourage it. Yeah, Look, I'm struggling
with that with my son. He's a really good baseball player.
He's like that baseball is just kind of boarding. I quit.
I quit my I played baseball all growing up, all
the way through eighth grade. I got in ninth grade,
went to the football season, I played varsity basketball, got
(18:24):
to the spring and I was like, you know, my
buddies are going to play based I'm like, I don't
think I want to play anymore. I think I'm good. Yeah,
he that's basically what he's told me. I'm likely you're
left handed, you're little, so baseball it doesn't matter as much.
And you're little right you've played it longer. He's like,
I just I don't know. I'm just not not into it,
you know, not into it. Did you play Did you
(18:44):
play baseball high school? But I did the exact same
thing you did. And then our high school basketball team
was good enough we went, I think to the semi finals,
so and the baseball was very good. Then it tuch
in high school and uh um. I remember coming out
and it was like late February, almost the march, and
they've been practicing for like two months, so you were
(19:08):
just fighting for scraps and the freshman you know, you
playing like virusity basketball and you can play freshman team
baseball and be a backup catcher and backup second baseman,
and you're you know, you're not really getting in. You're like, yeah,
I'm good. So the baseball dream died. But it wasn't
the best thing I did, where it's probably the best
thing he does. I do like to tease. I think,
(19:32):
is there an element that you need fun? Yes, it's
the it's the element of showing somebody else up. That's
where you kind of got. Yeah. But but what wouldn't
you say. Wouldn't you say to me if he stole
second base up, you know, eight runs in the eighth
inning or whatever, like Okay, that's that's that's not necessary
with third basis, okay, and in the fourth inning in
(19:52):
a in a in a place where you you know,
you should be able to put up a bunch of runs.
I mean, you put up four teen runs in that
same building yesterday. You're up, you're up in the fourth inning.
That that can disappear real quick. With the part I
didn't I didn't know that you were supposed to not
swing away at a three oh pitch. I thought you
were supposed to not swing away because percentage wise, like
you're gonna you know, what are he's supposed to walk?
(20:13):
I don't understand. I just again, to me the dumbest thing.
So if he hits it out of the park on
two oh, it's fine. Um, if he takes three oh
and then hit the three one pitch out, it's fine.
Like I mean, you can't just sit up there with
the bat on your shoulders, man, like you know, come
on talking about here frustrates the hell anyone guys said
they were the bat of their shoulders. I get the
(20:33):
you shouldn't throw out somebody's head. I get that, you know,
I get the I get the not stealing when you're
up a certain number of runs, especially late in the game.
I do get that. That's like pressing when you like
you have like twenty five, like you know, what are
you pressing for? What are you doing here? And even
like you know, there's the whole thing on the you know,
if you're if you're I saw it with Ben Davis
(20:54):
with the padres, you know, bunning to break up a
no hit or late in the game when it was
you know, that's kind of was frowned on that boy time,
especially if you're down big and you're not gonna you're
not gonna win the ballgame. There's little things like that,
but this is not I mean, come on, man, I
thought I'm with you. Uh could Belichick really platoon Cam
(21:14):
Newton early on? I don't think so. I don't see
that if there's one guy who could do it as him,
right yeah, I mean I don't know from both standpoints.
I mean, I just think if any other coach tried
to do that Cam Newton, that's it. I mean that
your kid may there would be a mutiny. But Belichick
(21:34):
has the success to be able to have that conversation
with him and see where it goes. But I still
I still think, uh, you know, I still think he'll
it'll be Cam Newton, and if he struggles at all,
I think they'll just turn around and goes to him.
So that's that's how I anticipated will happen. Um, Doug
ot Leaves show here on Fox Sports Radio. Melvin Ingram,
(21:56):
they got that deal done before training camp like three
years ago, kind of quietly, right, I got it done early.
That's how Telesco likes to roll. He's still got to
work out Hunter Henry in a long term deal. Uh,
what's your what's your take on what ultimately happens with
Melvin Ingram who wanted to deal from the Chargers. Yeah,
I mean this is from no inside information. I just
(22:16):
don't I don't see that happening. I think there's a
line of people, um that need new deals there and
I think, you know, with the investment they just made
in the position, with what they just did with with Joey,
I just I don't see that happening right now. So
I don't know that he really has any any leverage
in the situation. I guess they're calling it kind of
a hold in right now to be there and not practice.
(22:36):
But haven't been around that team for two years. I
know about how much Melvin Ingram loves football and I
think they do as well. I can't see him missing
significant time. He just he loves the game too much.
So I don't anticipate you'll see a deal get done
UM anytime soon. And I anticipate you hopefully see him
on the field here pretty quick. What do they think
about their team? Well, I mean, nobody knows anything about
(22:58):
their team. That's what's so it about this is because
normally you feel great about your team, then you go
practice against another team or you have a preseason game
and you go, wait a thing, we're either much we're
much better or much worse than we think. Um. So
that's all my talking to all my conversations with people
around the league, they're saying the same thing, like, we
think we're good, uh, but we have no idea. We're
not gonna know. Just roll out there to start the
(23:20):
regular season. There's nobody to go up against to figure
that out. But I think the Charges feel very very
good about their defense. The Yeah, the big question is offense, right,
and I think the plan would be to to use
Tyrod Taylor to run him to be a little bit
more conservative terms of their passing to you know, UM
and if you can kind of shorten the game. Which
is crazy though, because they do have a lot of
(23:41):
weaponry offensively, it'll be interesting to see how they use it. Yeah,
I think you know, ball security and and uh it's
been a big point of emphasis throughout the whole offseason
and being able to move the pocket a little bit
with your quarterback. Uh. You know, Anthony Lynn comes, you know,
from that whole Denver system, the Shanahan system, and you
look around the league and the teams that are that
(24:02):
are dynamic and explosive offensively. You look at uh, you
know what the what the Niners do. You know, the
Chiefs are kind of their own thing. But when you
look at all the Shanahan influential teams with the Rams,
what they've done recently, the Niners with Shanahan. You look
at the Vikings last year was Stefanski and kubiak Um.
And now you see the Philadelphia Eagles higher Standardillo from
(24:23):
from Denver to come and incorporate some of that. Now
you're gonna see Anthony Lynn use some of his background
incorporate more of that with the Chargers. Um. So it's
everywhere outside zone, man, that's uh, that's what every team
in the league's trying to trying to run right now.
You mentioned Kevin Stefanski goes over to Cleveland. Baker says
he's lost weight, he's you know, he's not full of
himself anymore. Does the Cleveland thing work? I think they
(24:45):
have a really talented group, and I feel better about
this match in terms of the coaching staff and the
personnel I do. I think they've got a chance to
be pretty good. The challenge is there in the wrong division. Um,
I think they can be a playoff caliber team. I
don't think they're gonna make the playoff because I think
that the other two teams in division are and I
think Pittsburgh is gonna have the best defense in the NFL.
I think Baltimore is gonna have the best offense from
(25:07):
the NFL. And uh and they're just in the wrong
place at the wrong time in Cleveland. Yeah, it's interesting. Okay,
So what about Pittsburgh offensively? Do we know if Ben
Roethlisberger's arm is gonna be Okay, it looked good to
me just watching little clips the other day. And he
doesn't have to be you know, the old version of
Big Ben. If he could be of Big Ben is
much better than anything they trotted out on the field
(25:29):
last year. Uh with with no offense to your your
quarterbacks can't be that was That was the thing with
the with the Miles Garrett deal, was it covered up
the fact that Mason Rudolph can't play like I I
don't think he's a racist and yelled with only Myles
Garrett seemingly heard. But I also I do. I also
don't believe he's an NFL caliber starting quarterback and that
(25:51):
kind of played. So Duck Hodges was they beat the Chargers,
but he was terrib not good enough. That's what I'm saying.
This team was almost a playoff team last year with
that quarterback combination. So even if they get version of
Ben Roethlisberger, they're gonna win eleven games. Um So now
I think they're gonna be really good. I think they're
a super Bowl caliber team. I really do. Does Brant
(26:13):
I don't Why would the Ravens even offer up that
opportunity because they have always liked that type of a
receiver in their offense. And this goes back you know
a long uh you know, long time you look at
a kwam Bold they think he's right block does he block?
(26:38):
You know, I have to go back and look at
him in that in that regard, but he's so big
and so strong. I mean I would I would think
you got a You've got somebody that can help you
in there. And the best thing does does is run
slants and catch back shoulder balls and that's kind of
the Ravens offense. So he kind of fits them. I
don't know he fits many other teams in the NFL
right now, you know, with his skill set. But I
actually think he does fit there. And they've always kind
(27:00):
of welcomed that, you know, kind of alpha male personality
we saw with Marcus Peters. Alpha males thrive in that organization.
It's always been that way. Um, does Alex Smith win
the job in d C now? And and before people
you go like, well, like I'm not sold on Dwayne Haskins.
I don't think a lot of people are sold on
Dayne Haskins. And if the if the thought is well,
(27:23):
Alex Smith is basically immobile because of his leg Like
have you seen Dwayne Haskins run? He does not run
particularly well. He's a thrower and Alex Smith was a
very good athlete with years more experience, more accurate, more
bought in um. But he has a ridiculously severely damaged leg.
(27:43):
You tell me, I, I just don't see how Alex
Smith would be physically prepared to be in contact situations.
Like it's one thing to be clear to go out
there and go through individual and throw some seven on
seven and and and we're a different colored jersey. I
just and I it's incredible what he's been able to
do to get back to this point. But that's still
(28:05):
a little bit of a leap of faith for me
that he would be ready in time to start this season.
I just, man, that seems like a stretch to me.
So I think it'll be Haskins, but I think Alex
Smith will have a big impact on him behind the scenes,
teaching him how to prepare, uh. Something he did for
my home, something he did for Kaefernack Um and he's
(28:25):
he's done a really good job working with younger quarterbacks,
and I think that'll that will benefit Haskins. But I
do think it'll be Haskins. I think they'll give him
the opportunity. Danna Jeremiah joining us in the Doug Gottlieb
Show on Fox Sports Radio give me a team. You know,
the teams we generally talk about, right there's a lot
of Packers discussion, a Cowboys discussion. Um, obviously Niners in chiefs.
(28:48):
Give me a team that we need to wrap our
heads around talking about now because when the season starts,
you believe we'll be talking about them more. Well, last
year we had this discussion and I went all in
on the Niners and uh, And I've talked about the
fact that I always try and push my chips into
the middle of the table in the NFL on teams
that have great quarterback play and teams that can rush
the passer Um. That's kind of the championship formula right now.
(29:11):
And we saw the Niners. I mean, they didn't quite
finish the job, but that was a dominant of football
team as we had last year and came up just
a little bit short. And this year the team that
I'm just big on and uh, I think it's gonna
be a playoff team and I think it's got a
chance to to to actually make a push in the postseason.
And people think I'm crazy as the Arizona Cardinals, Um,
I do. I think when you look at them defensively,
(29:33):
talk about a pass rush. They've got one of the
premier rushers in the NFL and Chandler Jones. Um. You
look at the speed that they have defensively with Patrick
Peterson when he's healthy, Buda Baker can really play Byron
Murphy is a good young player. Uh. Now you go
out in the draft and you get Isaiah Simmons who
can match up with the George Kittles of the world.
You can run all day long and linebacker. And then
(29:54):
you flip forward to the other side, and I think
you know when you give DeAndre Hopkins uh to Kyler
Murray out. Kyler Murray with outstanding last year, and I
think you're gonna see a huge leap from him. It'll
be a little bit better on the offensive line than
they were. Um, and they've got some they've got some
weapons for that kid, and he's I think he's going
to be special. Man. I am. I am very very
excited about that team. What did they change midyear because
(30:16):
he was on a on a on a rate to
be sacked more than than anybody in the history of
the sport, And did you just start getting rid of
it quicker? Did they change some of the blocking schemes
from the from the wide splits, like what what changed
they wanted? They want to play with more empty right,
they want to play in and more you know, ten
personnel or or just go completely empty. And uh at
(30:38):
four or five wide. They couldn't do that last year,
and they took him a while to figure that out.
They just didn't have the five up front they could protect,
so they couldn't run, you know, that whole version of
the air raid that Kingsbury wanted to run. So they
start playing with more tight ends, keeping guys in you know,
six and seven man protection. So now they're hopeful with
drafting Josh Jones, who they are very high on, who
(30:59):
they uh, you know, d J. Humphrey is kind of
emerging and coming on. They feel like they've got a
chance to be better upfront and that's going to allow
them to expand that offense and the more of what
they've traditionally done. But I thought Kingsbury showed some awareness
that hey, this is what I want to do, but
we just physically can't do that right now. And uh,
and they made the adjustment. Daniel Jeremiah joining us, we
(31:20):
got some padres out of him, We got some NBA
out of him, we got the Arizona Cardinals. Is all right?
Let me ask you the opposite question. Give me a
team who you're like, Okay, you need quarterback playing pass rush?
They have neither. Oh that's a good question. Um. The
team that I'm maybe down on a little bit, well,
I think everybody's kind of gifted the a f C
(31:43):
East to the Buffalo Bills, and I'm just I'm not
quite ready to do that just yet. Um, we've talked
about the Patriots a little bit earlier. I think that
the Dolphins and the Jets have no expectations on them,
and I think this whole divisions is gonna be a
muddy mess. I think it's gonna be a eight and
eight or not and seven team that wins it. And
I do not think it's a foregone conclusion that it's Buffalo.
(32:05):
I don't either. Um, I don't either. I Look, I think,
you know, the Jets are a weird team. The Dolphins
should be better, but I don't know if they're any good.
And of course is the wild cards is the Patriots
who just find a way to win games and win
the division. Right, It's a It's gonna be interesting DJ
great stuff, dude, still waiting for the invite. Thanks for
joining us. Drive back by the way you drive back
(32:28):
from Dallas. I drove out there, I flew home and
it was the easiest flight ever after having done that drive.
It was I really really appreciated that flight. I can
tell you. Yeah, well that's that's that's a good move.
And everybody's she's she's good at Dallas Baptist. She's happy,
doing great. Yeah, doing great. She's running, she's she's in
the cross country. They're already working out and uh so
(32:48):
she's sitting right in the The Texas humidy and heat
is still a work in progress. No, I know. My
my son was trying to tell me yesterday in Californias, like, man,
this is hotter than Oklahoma's what are you? What are you?
What you he was out there if he thinks he's
Efficientado now because it wasn't that hot when he's out there.
Any way, Thanks so much for joining us. Be sure
to catch the live edition of the Doug Gottlieb Show
(33:10):
weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific. Doug Gottlieb Show,
Fox Sports Radio every day. This time, we like to
get you caught up on something you may have missed
earlier in our show or in one of the other shows,
TV radio, whatever we call it. And now this was
(33:33):
Colin Cowherd talking about one of his favorite players, Russell Westbrook.
Last night Houston played their best game in the bubble
Westbrook was gone. They shot threes effectively. Why because Westbrook
didn't take any Their defense was great. I always thought
his m VP was nonsense. The most valuable player in
the league easily for ten years in a row, was
Lebron It's not even arguable. What is Westbrook? Is he exciting? Oh?
(33:56):
Hell yeah? Is he athletic? He may be the league's
most athletic guy. Is he interesting, It's kind of fascinating.
Is he productive? Yes, very productive. Is he respected? Yes?
Absolutely a players love him? But is he valuable? Oklahoma
City got better when he left, Kevin Durant got more
efficient and one more when he left. Victor Oladipo became
(34:20):
an All Star when he left. SA Bonus became an
All Star when they left him. So the value with
Westbrook he checks a zillion boxes. He didn't check the
valuable box. When Lebron James leaves a team, they fall
off the cliff into the sea like that is valuable. Um. Yeah,
(34:41):
I mean he's making several different comparisons into one. I
would say that, you know, when Lebron left Miami, had
Chris Bosh not gotten blood clots, I don't think they
fall off nearly the way they fell off when he
left Cleveland the first time. Yeah, well, they they tore
down the entire team. They won sixty one games. The
(35:01):
second time, they had already gotten rid of Kyrie. And
you lose Kyrie and Lebron and the way in which
Lebron almost demands you play, which is through him, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't argue that Lebron is a more valuable player
than Russell Westbrook. But I also think that when we
take one game as the law, you know, yes, Houston
(35:23):
played well yesterday against Oklahoma City. Part of that is
oklahoma City looking good in the bubble was more a
factor of them looking good in the bubble than being
all that good. That's the one thing that we had
to adjust in terms of how things how things looked. Um,
I don't know. Like, look, I think it's fairly complex
in trying to explain Russell Westbrook. I do think he
(35:45):
has value. I do think he's a tremendous player. I
do think the ball sticks with him, and I think
they found a way to make him super effective and
not screw up who they are. But I also think
that none of the credits seemed to ever go to
Mike D'Antoni. He made adjustments, he put he he actually
put Jeff Green with the ball and had James Harden
screened for him. Like they tried some quirky stuff they
(36:07):
had not tried previously and it worked. Now, when you're
in a playoff series, the other team is gonna adjust
from game one to game two and we'll see if
that stuff still works or how long he misses. But
I I don't believe that they are better long term
without Russell Westbrook, and I think most people would agree
with me, even if Westbrook can be frustrating considering the
volume of shots he takes, and he's not not only
(36:28):
not a great shooter, he's not a very good finisher either,
and so there's a lot more mrs. But there's a
lot of productivity. Um, he will, you know, in the playoffs,
compete and play hard and be tough, and he's not
scared of taking and making the big shot. But there's yeah,
there there's some limitations there. He's never figured out the
shooting and it's gotten worse at times instead of better.
(36:52):
Doug Otlib Show here on Fox Sports Radio. I wasn't aware.
I wasn't aware at all of the you can't swing
on three and oh bases loaded by are were you
aware of that unwritten rule of baseball? Didn't? I was
aware of that. Yeah, there's some that maybe if you know,
I've I've missed. But I was aware of that one.
(37:15):
Why is that such? I don't I don't know anither
like yeah, because you're already up and it to me,
it doesn't make a lot of sense. Um have the
picture throw a strike on one of the first three
pitches and then you're not in that situation. But uh,
it's yeah, it's it's sort of the I guess because
the game's out of hand, a fastball is likely coming,
(37:38):
that's they get it over fastball. But again, to your
point of it just defeats the purpose and all of it.
So but I was aware aware of that one. Yeah,
I don't like So it's he's better off he walks that.
That's what doesn't make sense, like who wants a three
(37:58):
and one? Count it all? Because three and three and
O is you're you're not you're supposed to not swing
on three and O because you know, the percentages tell
you're better off walking, better off getting on base than
you are trying to swing and hit a baseball. Like,
but if somebody's willing to swing three and O, fine,
(38:19):
I actually think, yeah, maybe maybe it's just because it
would you know, more likely be just get it over fastball,
so you kind of know what's coming, and you know
that would be the that would be the reason because
you know it's it's understood. But when when is the
point where you're what is the actual score? How many?
How many runs different? At what point time does it?
(38:40):
Because like in basketball, it's usually like you get up,
like all right, let's call it the press, you know,
and well will we will if it gets back to
like fifteen, we'll bring it back. But twenty five, it's like,
what is the what is the point here? You know,
trying to get better? So I don't understand I don't
understand the that deal at all. And I would say
(39:02):
is six too few? Yeah? I mean, you know, six
run lead late in the game, is probably safe. But
I mean, if it's only a five run lead, and
I say, only you know that? To me, isn't that
the game isn't out of the realm of possibility? No,
not at all. Maybe eight. I just don't know. It's like,
(39:24):
is it universal clay, because like, if you're the Angels
and you have a horrific bullpen, keep scoring as many
runs you can because they are fully capable of blowing
up with a ten run lead. Yea, yeah, I've seen it,
you know, yeah, if you have, you watched them. Um,
all right, hey, coming up next, the Big Ten might
(39:45):
have canceled their season. But this is a weird story.
What if I told you Ohio State still could end
up playing games this fall. We'll pitch you on the
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