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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Time for two more.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Ya welcome back nine to Noon into the final hour
on the baston ever expanding nine to Noon Audio network.
And here's one of my favorites. His name is Mike Trudell, Minnesota.
Mike Trudell. He's an or Ando High School graduate who
for many years has been the sideline reporter for the
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LA Lakers on TV along with a host and an analyst.
And he has multiple Twitter spots, but at Lakers Reporter
is a place to go to learn more about this.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And here comes Mike. What's going on? My brother?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Nine oh eight out in the Southland. If you're there,
I know you were at the Knicks over the weekend?
Are you Are you back in southern California?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Back in Los Angeles, PA? And it is always great to
hear your voice. Do I get to just ask you
vikings questions for twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Or is at a different time?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, when we when we trade Justin Jefferson to a
to a team in the NFL to a team in
the NFC, and Kevin O'Connell, the head coach, is not
told and the player that you're getting back significantly older
than the player that we're giving up. Yeah, maybe We
can talk about that sometime, but that's not the case
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as of now.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So, and you know what, outside of the Covenant for
a second, the obvious talker, I've never asked you. This
soccer star at Orino High School, played soccer at Northwestern yep,
that one the big ten at the one. Billy Graham
started in Saint Paul, and you became an accomplished sideline
reporter in the glitziast market in the NBA for years.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
How did all that happen?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, first of all, I learned a lot from you
when I was in Minnesota working for the Timberwolves, and
learned a lot from a lot.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Of people in Minnesota. With the timber Wolves, they gave.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Me, They gave me shots pa to just go out
and do a million podcasts in video interviews. I had
KG my first year there, in the two thousand and
six or seventh season. Then they traded him for Al
Jefferson and a bunch of guys.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Not the best trade, but that's fine. We won't go
back over that now.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So learned about there and then and basically just transitioned
all that out to Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So I'm basically giving you credit.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I think that's where I really saw the light as
to what I could be in the professional industry.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You're overly kind and I love you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
However, soccer star at Orno, soccer at Northwestern NBA for
a living. I mean, what happened to the MLS or
the Premier Premier League or La Liga or something like that.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Two good soccer talk from you there.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, I mean, so I also played basketball and baseball
right in high school, and so I fell in love
PA probably like a lot of people my age, with
Bob Costas, with Marv Albert, with the NBA on NBC
and the packages that they would do heading ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Of the finals.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And since we didn't have a team when I was
a little kid, right I was born in any One,
the Wolves didn't start until eighty nine. I got hooked
on Michael Jordan and w g N came into my house.
We didn't even have cable, but I could watch all
of the Bulls games. So that was kind of my
first passion that I wanted to follow and become a
sports broadcaster. So I always had that idea of getting
to the NBA and covering it. But I do love
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me some soccer, and you know, Manchester United is my squat,
so that again, well JJ McCarthy Vikings, that's one Manchester
United will put that to the side. But I'm sure
that you do want to hear a little bit about
Luka Doncic in the whole trade thing. I do want
to get you two distracted.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, we're good, but but ogs, I mean, it's the fires,
all right, And and you know what, I trivialize things
to start did so let me start with a region's
a topic even if you got five seconds to talk
about it in five minutes, did those fires impact your
covenant at all? And and as all of the Southland
officially in bounce back mode after those fires, yeah, so we.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So we just got out of or got back in
Town Ta. The Lakers went on a five game road
trip that actually technically concludes tomorrow with a road game
against the Clippers.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
But so we were gone for the last week and change.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And from the time that we left to the time
that we got back, it rained a bunch. The fires
were one hundred percent contained. So things seem to be
pretty good right now. The place that we live, you know,
as you know Pa spending some time out here, La
is a massive city. If you include Orange County, there
are like seventeen million people just in the in the
close ish vicinity. So we're pretty decently far south of
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where the fires actually happened. We're kind of down in
the South Bay area like Dando Beach, Manhattan Beach.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Just south of the Lax Airport.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
If you go in the other direction, the same distance
though just four or five miles. That's that's kind of
Santa Monica Malady. That's where everything was happening, and then
extending east into Pasadena and Altadena. So like while we weren't,
you know, the fires weren't really we weren't really worried
that they were going to actually get all the way
down to this point. But there's ash all over the
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street right in our house. Like the air was not
good for a long time. Kids had to wear masks
and couldn't go outside of recess. And I think that,
you know, the hardest part is that we have some
friends out there, several of whom lost their homes, and
so that that's kind of been the focus, I think
for those of us that aren't directly affected in terms
of losing what we have for our property. But you
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know what can we drive up to our friends. What
can we do for the kids that had their school
burned down? What can we figure out like getting my
boys to get a bunch of their baseball cars together,
for a couple of my wife's friends who lost their homes,
that kind of stuff. So it's just it's been a
rally around the flag effort and a community effort. And
I know that coming from a place like Minneapolis where
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it's such a great, close knit community, that part has
been cool to see that everybody coming together and trying
to figure out a way to help each other through
some tough times.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
There you go, Michael Amen, very very well stated, thank
you for that. Mike Trudell, sideline reporter, much more for
the LA Lakers, And now Mike and others get to
cover Luka Doncic. You get to cover Luka Doncic. How
much did all of that catch you off guard? Including
Anthony Davis heading to Dallas.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Off guard?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So, Pa, I was on the bus back from Madison
Square Garden. We're driving through the streets of Manhattan and
all of a sudden the alert came through and this
was so quiet that even the people on the bus
and these are the coaches, These are some of the
you know, the people that work around the team. Was
just total shock, and I think at that point it
was trying to figure out a way to process it.
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You know, Max Christie was actually on that bus that
I got off of, and then Max Christie was an
emerging young twenty one.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Year old two way wing is a part of this trade.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
And Anthony Davis actually wasn't with the team because he
got hurt in Philadelphia and went home excuse. He went
home to start rehabilitating the injury, so he wasn't there.
But it was a total shock wave, one hundred percent.
There was nobody that was expecting this, and you know,
I think that as as you probably got the alert
too and started texting all of your friends. My phone
basically it on fire at that point and I almost
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had to find a sewer to distinguish the flames as
I was getting off the bus.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
But it was a.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Crazy, crazy night, and I think I went to sleep
at about six am. We had we woke up it
to get on a bus at nine to fly back
to Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
So crazy time for sure, But you know, I.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Totally get it, certainly from the Lakers perspective as to
why they had to do it as great as Anthony
Davis was, as strong as a player as Max Tristity
may turn out to be. But you know it's this
is this is Luka.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Doncic And and Mike. I must concede.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yesterday morning when this started popping up in my phone,
it's either people texting me or I saw I had
Lino social media. Luca, I'm not kidding you. I thought
it was Luca Garza. I mean I was like, so
so they so the wolf?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
What what? Whopped?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Man?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I know he's playing a little bit of late, but
what ye get a.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Little bit, get a little burne.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
He's got a three point stroke of evolving a little band, right,
he's got you got you can he can pump and
drive a little you know, like me, Luca Garza?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I mean what do we get Alex Caruso and
A and A and five seconds to be named later
or something.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Me.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It was just it was I thought it was nondescript, uh,
but obviously it was don Jitch Christy, the like you said,
the two way kid with three and D. But but
what just just I think I know the answer to this,
But you're in a lead basketball mind, you're right next
to the team man. And by the way, they looked
really good against the Lakers, Lebron with that TWI triple double.
Uh what why would you guess the Lakers made this move?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Well, so pa the way that it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Was described, and the Lakers actually haven't gotten to do
the press conference yet. We'll see when that happens. I'm
not sure if you know, if it'll be tomorrow or whatever. Yeah,
but Dallas already spoke about it, and so we got
to hear sort of the the perspective.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
From the Mavericks and like, why how it you know,
how it developed?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
And it sounded like it was just basically Nico, their
their top executive, talking to Rob Pelinka, and over the
course of a couple of weeks they kept talking and
it got a little closer. And we'll see if we'll
see if Polinka shares that same way that it involved.
And I just think from a Lakers standpoint, you know,
so I got here in two thousand and eight and
Kobe Bryant the first year that I came here, they
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won the title. Then they won the title again the
next year, and a lot of that happened because they
traded for pag Gasol to join alongside Kobe Bryant, and
then after Kobe wins those two titles, eventually he has
the sixty point game, he retires, in comes Lebron James.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And this has been.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
The way Paul Allen of the Lakers. There's always been
that next star. It's just it almost seems like a
birth right out here. And I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
As somebody that came from Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
In my entire time living there, we had one star
then with Kevin Garnett, and he.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Will always be in in my Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
My personal one of guys that I got to cover
and guys that I got to see, and now this
thing I'm excited about for Minnesota, though he got another
one in Ants and so like that's great. But the
Lakers always seem to get one of those guys, not
just a guy, but a top five guy in the league.
Luka Dancic five straight All NBA first teams from the
ages of nineteen to twenty four, unprecedented.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So it's to me that that is the answer.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And as amazing as Anthony Davis was, he's about to
turn thirty two, Lucas twenty five. You sort of see
it from that context, so you say, thank you very
much to Anthony Davis. But when it's Luka Doncic that
can come in and potentially not just give the team
a chance to win, Now, Paul, but you'll be that franchise,
that next anchor, that next guy that you're envisioning his
kurzy up in the raptors one day next to Lebron
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and Anthony Davis's That's that's where it makes the most sense.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh, oh, I get it.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
But now now you you've triggered me to ask you
this with Mike Crudell or Ando High School, go Crazy
sideline reporter La Lakers on TV Minnesota, Mike's the bomb.
So your your personal covering amount Rushmore. You said, Kevin Garnett,
you're right next to Lebron James, I'm gonna put him
on it, and you covered Kobe Bryant. So I got
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those three right. There is number four. Former Minnesota Thunder
striker Amos McGee, love me.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Amos McGee. How did you know?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I played on the Minnesota Thunder kind of developmental team
for one summer when I was coming back, when I
was gotting back from college, and so yeah, Amos McGee
definitely a legend, you know. I it's between him and
Anthony Davis and Pagasol and then you know, I think
Luke will be fighting for it, but there will never,
never will be removed Kobe Bryant, Kevic Garnett and Lebron James.
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It's just you know, it's not possible, not really for
me in my lifetime, but that that four spot.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Is between Amos and you know, Tony.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Sane and Manuel Lagos, Ye and Grard Lagos those are
all in contention for that.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Spot and Buzz Lagos coaching that whole team. Oh wow,
memory Lane we got you know.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And also and also justin Guardy you know, I mean,
that's the guy that's that's a fellow that I'm very
fond of. So you know, he's in attention to.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No doubt runs through the forehand two time state champion
of tennis that he dined up. Yeah, you're you're you're
hearkening right now, and I love it so obviously, you know,
not speaking for the Mavericks, but you're in a lead
basketball mind. So like what about Dallas, I mean, like,
why do you think Dallas would want to make this move.
I actually think Dallas has as good a chance of
winning the championship this year as it did previously in
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the current state of Luca.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But I may be wrong, you know, PA.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
One of my missions these last several years in being
up and close and personal to the league in this way,
and certainly from a Lakers standpoint, I just think that
Anthony Davis is a lot better than the collectives might think.
He is a monster on both ends of the court,
and we can get into a hole Rudy Gobert or
defensive Player of the Year thing. I think that AD
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is a superior defender. They have similar numbers at the rim,
and AD can switch out onto any point guard or
wing that you want. He can do any pick and
roll coverage you want. There's never a time that you
want to take him.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Off the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And then on the other end of the floor, he
averages over twenty five points on fifty five percent from
the field, which only basically Yokichin Embiid can do from
an offensive perspective as.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
A big man.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So he to me, PA is much closer to the
fifth or sixth best player in the NBA than what
he is probably considered to be, which is I don't know,
people might think somewhere between ten and fifteen, you know,
he's But to me, so that that right there, I
think is the first part of the narrative where you know,
I'm not saying that he's in that that top like
the Luca Jokich, Lebron Jannis Shay. I get that as
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the primary creator, which does have the most value, But
ad is so good at everything in basketball, so that
that's the first place that you start, and I think
that other than that, you know, and this is just
really to speculating. There's been some reporting on this about
what Dallas was thinking, but perhaps PA maybe they thought
that Luca was going to leave at some point, and
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that's I don't know that they're going to say that explicitly,
but that to me would be the reason that you
even consider right calling any team right about a guy
that's twenty five and has made five OLIBA first team
you just you.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Do not see that. So that's that was the only thing.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That I could think that they ultimately thought that maybe
he was gonna bounce.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
All right, hardcore basketball was a time for a couple
more your bigs. The Lakers bigs unless I'm missing something, Hachimurra,
Jackson Hayes, Vanderbilt. I mean, obviously they feel cool with
all that, right, you know, I p I so I do.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I do think that that is the most logical thing
that could happen next is for the Lakers to find
a way to add to the front court, to add
a center in the meantime. Can you get by with
Jackson Hayes catching lobs from either Lebron or Luca. Sure,
but you know that that defensive presence isn't quite the same.
And their backups to Jackson Hayes in the front court
are right now two way players on a two way
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contract with the South Bay Lakers. You know, trade Jamison
Jemison the third and I don't need to get to
it at that, but Christian KloCo, like these are names
that I'm guessing that you know, Audiy Dina and orn
No maybe aren't really on the radar, so that that
could be a spot in the roster that the Lakers
try to address as they get up to the trade deadline.
But you know, as you know from watching him play
some in Minnesota, Vanderbilt has helped a lot defensively on
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the perimeter, which therefore has helped the rim some.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So you get you trade for Dorian.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Finney Smith, you get these big athletic wings. I would
liken that to an extent to Jaden McDaniels, right, Like
having a couple of players like McDaniels really goes a
long way for your defense. So that But but there's
no doubt pas you of being a great basketball mind.
Just anticipated I wouldn't be surprised if they were, if
they were looking around to see if there was a
big available.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And lastly, Madison Square Garden Saturday caught some of it.
How about Lebron, I mean, thirty three on fourteen of
twenty six ended with a triple double. He's nowhere near
the end, is he.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, it's really hard to contemplate because you know, when
Lebron came here years ago, it's like seven years ago.
I was already totaling up his combined regular season in
playoff minutes and it was like third all time at
that point. He's played four thousand more playoff minutes than
number two, which is Michael Jordan. Wow, I think it's
like ten thousand to six thousand or seven something like that.
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So the sheer volume that he's been on the court
is my boggling. And to have him still be this impactful,
it really is unprecedented. But I guess pa I would
say like he is, so he's the best athlete his
whole life, right, he kind of just body chiseled from
the gods best athlete. Then he's one of the smartest,
and then he works the hardest, and then he takes
care of his body. So if anybody was going to
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do it, it would be Lebron James. That would be
the one that I guess, Okay, I guess that's the
one that I'm least surprised that would do it. But
it's still pretty remarkable to see him play at this level.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And I think that the last.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
One I would make about him having Luca come now
to be able to take some of that offensive load
and save a little bit more for Lebron to make
low man rotations in the fourth quarter and to have
a little bit more on defense, That to me is
a way that the Lakers could be pretty dangerous in
a playoff series, really, where Luca is doing enough now
that Lebron's got a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
For everything else.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Really really like that. Take haven't thought of that?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Bar?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I mean, how if and or Wyn Dallas and your
Lakers meet in the postseason?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
If that, I mean, how unbelievable is that going to be?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You know, and look, this is the thing about the
West though, and I think about this from a Wolf standpoint,
There isn't a series that you could point to that
isn't going to be great right now in the Western Conference,
Like all of the teams in the top ten are
have exciting stars or exciting young players.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Like there, it's going to be a gauntlet.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And I think from the Lakers question is how do
you you know, Lebron, you're twenty two? Can you sustain
through to get to all the way to the finals?
You know this is not Anthony Edwards who right now.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Could well you know, I was gonna say he could
just keep ready forever.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I know this sometimes against the will tire of the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
But we're working on that.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's gonna keep getting better, love ants. So that's the
part of it, like can you can you keep up
with the Anthony Edwards is of the world in the
Tatum did Browns right, who are in their late twenties
and make that run, and I just wonder how much
you know Luca's Luca being here, and we saw what
happened with Colbert in that series in the Conference finals
last year. We wonder how much that can re energize
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Lebron to an extent.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
While acknowledging, PA, you're really.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Going to be missing Anthony David to me, the best
defensive player in the league, with apologies to Webby coming fast.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Unfair for Anthony Edwards to catch austray in that whole equation.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Unfair, mister true.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
No, I love you, though I love him, I just
I'm like, how is he How can he be tired?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
He's like one of the greatest athletes of the world.
I just want them. I want the most from him.
I want all NBA first team and he, by the.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Way, he has been grinding these last couple of weeks
and taking his game up PA a whole other level,
and I'm loving it.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I'm loving watching it. He's amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I'm loving whenever I get a chance to see you
on television with a league pass, and I appreciate the
contribution on a very busy day for you, mister Trudell.
God bless you and your family and have a great day.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Let's stay in touch, all right.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Always a pleasure and hello to the greatest state in
the land, Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Will will be my home forever.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
A man, Thank you, Michael, By bye, Mike Trudell or
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Angeles Lakers on the TV talking about Luke, A D,
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Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's like wo.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Right with the right to change it?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, and he knows who he likes and why does
Let's see he's looking at it the way I love
Adam Man.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
We've been friends for nearly nearly every day I've been
on this radio station. He's based in Philly.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
But there with this reporter with with this NFL insider
thing or insider thing of anything.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, it's just kind of a level.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Of self importance there that you know, you think, like
if I tell them who I like to win the
Super Bowl and why, well, what's our next move? Tweet
machine breaking? You know, and and it's like gonna it's
gonna change his Thursday plan. Well A, we never do that,
period for anybody, including ourselves. B That wouldn't happen. And see,
(23:15):
even if it did, it probably wouldn't get to Pro
Football Talk dot Com so let's not worry about that.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
But what is it. It's like a gender reveal, Like
it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It's like a big game. We could be right, we
could be wrong this gender reveal. One balloon is green,
the other balloon is red, and boom, that's.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So super special.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I don't know if I don't know, if Eagles, it
would it be a forest green? It is it a
Kelly Green Hunter green? That's that's the route I'm going
right now.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I'm going.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I'm going with the team that has six and a
half yards of carry over the last three playoff games.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
They're so explosive on the ground.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
We've seen the long touchdowns and you know there's multiple
aspects of this because we talk about trace myth and
you know, speaking going back to Kaplan again.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's called Midnight Green with which like you know with
with the chickens, Well they made up a color, yeah,
they did, Like they're green. Is some action something that's
it's not It's not in the Crayola box.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's an eye sore, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Okay, I mean I opened the Crayola box for Billy,
Johnny Christie, Susie Antwine or Tamika can't find Midnight Green.
Now they're all crying because they love Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Did you uncover it?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Because with big Art, like Big Art and the NFL
combining so that they can expand the number of crayons
in a box by making up colors for NFL teams.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
And and by the way, close circuit to Crayola Big Art.
I mean this is Crayola's Kids diversion Immortality.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh yeah. Ain't nobody ever using.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
The bronze crayon or the copper We're never using burnt orange.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Maybe occasionally we ain't using copper or bronze, well burnt
it all ends up kind of looking brown. Yeah, that's
a fair point. You know how many shades? How many shades?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Like you know gray, Like I've never used like a
white crayon.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
We not using a white crayon for it? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And and when you when you teach us to mix
obscure colors, mix obscure things well lit, did you know
that could be the first step to becoming like the
real life lead character and breaking bad?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I always love that one.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Mixing concoctions, Who are you miss, brad Berry?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Well?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Mixing concoctions is what the Eagles moving company does because
no matter what they do, they're moving forward PA because
we're you know, kaplan hit us with that number on
Trey Smith twenty million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well, Cap also said Jurgons and like their their hurt
offensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, doing quite well.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Doing quite well into the big games. So they're preferred
lineup with Jurgons and they get it.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
We do.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
And Dickerson on the left side. Dickerson just got a
pretty penny to be that left guard situation. Uh, you know,
Tray Smith might be the free agent treasure chest, but
all teams, including ours, we need to be looking at
what the Philly has done over the course of time
with that group. I mean they're poised to limit Chris Jones,
they have to limit Carl Loftis. That's going to be
kind of the interesting mix on Sunday in terms of
(26:13):
how creative Spags gets with Chanal, Bolton and Tranquill. He
has blitzed all of them at various times throughout the season.
Mm hmm, sending an extra guy. But if you limit them,
Jalen's now got DeVante, He's got aj Brown, he has daughter.
This is that's where there's some basics to this very
(26:33):
surface level rubidity involved. The Eagles have, and I have
to say, from top to bottom save for the quarterback,
if you just look at these two teams, the Eagles
have by far the most talented roster in the NFL,
and that includes this particular matchup against this particular team. Now,
the two advantages the Chiefs have, they're pretty big points
(26:54):
the quarterback and the head coach. So that's kind of
the balance of how you look at things into the weekend.
The flow of this game, though, that the key for
the Chiefs if they want a three peat, and what
they've done throughout the years is unbelievable, no doubt, but
the domination of time of possession with the Eagles time
of possession in twelve of their seventeen regular season games
(27:15):
they won top and all three of their playoff games
scoring early, forcing people to chase all of those things.
What I'm curious about is ken Patrick Mahomes and this
Chiefs offense. And when I say can they well, they
probably do anything with Mahomes, But the Eagles can run
a seventeen play drive on you without breaking a sweat.
Can the Chiefs if they're trailing, score explosively and quickly,
(27:37):
because it feels like, I mean, they can control the ball,
put points up obviously, but if they need to run
a six play seventy five yard drive on you, can
they can they? Outside of Xavier Worthy, Ken Travis Kelce,
who's kind of been muted in this postseason run, can
he show up and give you that ten for a
buck twenty? Can Juju Smith Schuster? Can he find his
(28:00):
way to that massive play that massive you know? So
now we're starting to talk about the Noah Grays, We're
starting to look at the Justin Watsons and and it's
it's why DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Excuse me, latter stages of his career.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Can they get explosive with those guys and the on
the outside of this, I kind of say no at
this stage. So it's Worthy and how they can mix
him in with that speed and that burst. And so
if they're trailing early, that the chasing and holding onto
the ball and if they have to score quickly, can
they And if the Chiefs can't run, I don't think
they can win. The Bills game was a shootout. They
(28:34):
got loose on the ground, but it was Mahomes with
forty plus rushing yards in that game that really won
them the game. Yep uh, the p checko bit ain't
working and Kareem Hunt can be smooth and productive at
five and six yards a clip, but he's not getting
he's not getting those massive long yard it's chunks and
so on paper again, most talented roster in the NFL,
save for the QB specifically.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
In this matchup.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
I love the Eagles and their ability to not only
frustrate Mahomes defensively early, but if they have any sort
of a lead, that run game is just it's too lethal.
And so I like I like the Eagles in this game,
not quite as confidently. I mean you were running it
up the flag pole a bit. Yeah, you were running
it up there with the three and a half.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I'll go seven and a half as the max, and
see that's that set might be too greedy.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
That hook for me is a lot when you look
at at how this game flow might work out, I
don't look at it. I mean I could get I
could get myself to six and a half or seven,
but that's where I'm kind of sitting with this game. Yeah,
I think ultimately Mahomes is going to be in that
spot to potentially have that touchdown drive for a for
a three peat.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
But I just I like the Eagles.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
The talent is despite any dysfunction that took place during
the season.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I just I like the Birds too much in this one.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
My my for Kansas City and the way Kansas City
is constructed. Yeah, Philadelphia trucks the champs early.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And I'm not even talking turnovers. I'm not you know,
I'm not even playing in that game. I mean, if
anybody has not seen of late Saquon Barkley being like
a human turnover, equalizer, quick strike, whatever. Yeah, I mean
it's this thing can be a two score game in
three and a half minutes if Kansas City is not careful.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
And Kansas City is not a punch you in the
face right away team. And that's the other side of it.
It's the third, fourth possession, it's second and third quarters
where they get those wheels turning and they win a
lot of games that way. This is an entirely different
animal with Philly and Saquon.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
So that as an underdog and me believing if somebody
is going to get smacked early, it's more apt to
be casey than Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Now Vandy Reid with that extra week, I mean, if
he comes out, you know here we got mCOL Hartman
over here, Juju Smith, Schuster, Kelsey on plays you haven't seen,
hunt on wheel routes they forgot about. If they're gonna
go lickety split racehorse hockey up and down the field,
they will break the ten to and the protocol of
(31:02):
what has played into them getting there. Where If the
Eagles throw deep, run short, here's gain well on the
third play of the game, what's happening, Oh, play action
off him, quick hitter to Goddard, who just got you seven?
Back income Saquon. But they spread four wide and now
you've got to pay attention to them, and he gets
the seam and he's gone. So you're five plays into it,
(31:25):
you're down seven zero. Then you go six and out. Well,
then you get it back in Elliott hits from forty
and you got nine to twenty eight to go in
the first quarter and you're down ten zero. That can
happen more likely in my opinion, than Kansas City doing
the same thing to the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
YEP.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I just want to.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
See what Kansas City is like if it comes to
fruition playing from two scores down in the second half
of a game and not being a quick strike lickety
split three seventy forty five type offense, that maybe it
won't happen all right. Final thoughts around the corner camp
deep deep, deep, deep, deep, deep deep stretch of the
(32:08):
nine to noon radio show You're Good Times Leader. That's
coming up around the corner into the program with Dan
call the common Man and sports, I mean the sports
one and one a. You know, now now it's kind
of one bee. I mean this Monday, that this Monday,
I mean, it's a Monday, and it just it just
kind of bowld us over nine to noon wise, I
(32:31):
mean Saturday, we know Ant's not playing, we know Julius
isn't playing, and we just saw Nas leave the game.
But the Whiz sixteen consecutive. Man, But the Whiz they
got two dogs. You've got two dogs, Kuzma and Balanchunas. No,
Jordan Poll's not a dog. He's not a dog. He's talented,
(32:53):
but he ain't a dog. What about Corey Kisbert not
ain't a dog either, nobody knows who is or cares
about him. But have they got two guys? Man, we
couldn't stop them. Yeah, so we took an out, snapped
up the snapped a losing streak to a team that
I think has had two sixteen game losing streaks in
the same season. And then Luca to la Ad, Anthony
(33:14):
Davis to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Well, that's a massive, massive story.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Super Bowls the a topic nine to noon and then
you're just you know, trying to get through your day,
watching TV, listening to KFA, and looking at social media.
And Miles Garrett writes a goodbye letter to the Cleveland Browns,
saying I want to be traded. Holy cow, the calm
(33:38):
Kevin Stefanski.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
I wonder how they hand. I mean, there's no coming
back from that, right, I mean that would be once
you put the post out, because you know, Andrew Berry
there Chefter even kind of said that they've been on
the grind and communications are ongoing. Yeah, I don't know
how you come back from a Goodbye Cleveland post.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Though, I don't really care unless he comes here. But
the Bears, I'd have to adjust the scheme though, Pa Well,
I mean I'm looking the Chicago Bears have three of
the top forty one picks in the draft.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
And I'm being serious when I say this.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
The Chicago Bears have three of the top forty one
picks in the draft. Yea, the Browns are strapped with
everything and the Bears have three of the top forty
one picks in the draft.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Okay, Andy Reid, by the way, twenty eight and three
off a by? When when when the other team is not?
Now the Eagles are off a bye. So I'm trying
to figure this thing out points, bread and against, just
straight up and everything. But bottom line, nine to noon,
cannot forget how good Andy Reid is off a bye, fair,
(34:45):
how different he is there. We have more, we have
more thinking to do. That's what we're known for, right
right in the brains collar, in the brain surgery covenant.
Paul Allen, Bye bye, good.
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