August 28, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's a Petros Money Show here on AM five seventy
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and Money Show podcast. Now, I am not sure now,
Matt Muney Smith. Obviously you know the Bolts are going
to be in Brazil. They got a lot to worry
about there getting all that dialed in. I do know
that Petros is pulling double duty for college football this
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weekend because the big expanded weekend of college football takes place.
A lot of people are real dismissive of Week zero
and my Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and all that, all right,
which I would push back on, but they're going to
call this quote unquote week one. Petros has got double duty.
He's going to be calling Western Michigan at Michigan State
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coming up on Friday night on FS one, and then
he's got Georgia Southern at Fresno State Saturday on FS one.
So he's got a lot on his plate. But George,
all that means is at the best time of year
is here. College football's back, The NFL's right around the corner.
The Dodgers are picking up steam, they're growing their lead
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in the NL West as we get ready for the postseason.
But college football takes center stage here from tonight Thursday
all the way through Monday, and it concludes with Bill
Belichick's debut as North Carolina head coach.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm so happy to check this into my veins inject this.
I'm with you, veins, bro, because and the coldest part
about this is about Thanksgiving. I start to get sad.
Oh my gosh, it's it's almost over the college football season.
It's almost. There's only like two more games. I mean
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there's only one more, one more game and then bowl
games and then the National Championship. This is terrible. And
then once the Super Bowl is over it and mind you,
I like baseball, however, it is not the same level
of energy, excitement and intensity that football season brings. So
the so the Super Bowl happens, and then there's some
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mediocre basketball happening right right before the playoffs. Then I'm
into the NBA playoffs honestly until the final start because
the final there's three days in between each game and
that's way too long.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, too long.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And then so I am desperately awaiting college football season.
So then July comes around, camps are opening up, them
starting to get a little bit excited, and it is
like a kid before Christmas. I am like, oh my gosh,
only only twenty five more sleeps until it is all season.
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And now we are here and I can't even tell you.
Boise State is playing South Florida right now, and this
might as well be Texas and Ohio State right now.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, it's the only ranked team on the schedule tonight
is Boise State uh AT playing South Florida right now,
and they are trailing with the first half winding down.
But I mean, and that's why I asked Danny Canel
this because I have wondered, you know, we make a
lot to you know, the NFL preseason, and you know,
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do a really neat because you know, Major League Baseball
they've got spring training, they've got split squads, they've got
all that stuff. The NBA has a short little preseason.
The NFL's got their preseason which, by the way, the
NFL's preseason games had the best ratings in seven years,
So on average, a little over two million people were
watching NFL preseason games a game this offseason, so that
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i't to tell you how starved people were, like George
and myself for football, But I do wonder this no
preseason game and you start and it's full go right away, Man,
you're probably gonna see. Even though there's some great matchups
like Texas Ohio State, which you can hear here on
the blowtorch coming up nine am on Saturday, you're probably
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gonna see some sloppy football, I would imagine, And it's
understandable considering there's been no ramp up. There's been no
no preseason game or exhibition game. And that's why I've
never been judgmental of teams that schedule soft opponents early on,
whether it was Alabama doing it back in the day
or Florida's scheduling a game. Really, I've never had an
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issue with it. There's no preseason.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
See, I don't mind it if it's game one, yeah,
but to me, it's the amount of games if you're
not playing at least ten Power four games. It's gross.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, I agree with you, but to open up the year,
I've got no issue four.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't care. Yeah, I don't care that you. I
don't need Texas to play Ohio State game in game one.
They can. They can play their annual cupcake game, their
FCS game in week one if they want, yeah, well,
or they can play it in week week two if
they choose to. Yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean, Michigan losing the app State, you know, like
that did a lot. Like people can say, well, you know,
app State, you know won the game, biggest win in.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The history of the program.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
There's that, and there's also the fact that they're getting
paid for those games, like those smaller scores are paid,
and so if you can make you know, a couple
hundred grand as a smaller school, you're gonna take it
and then take your beating, most likely in those openers.
I just I can't imagine being a player and then
just being told, all right, these games count, get out
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there and give them hell like Texas, Ohio State tomorrow,
that's man or coming up on Saturday. That games that
this is one of the bigger opening week games in
the history of college football. If you look at you know,
one versus three, all the stuff going into it. I mean,
it's not outside the rum of possibility that, yeah, it's
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a competitive game, but it's an ugly game.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Have we jumped the shark though? On this Arch Manning talk.
It's because people are, oh, he's the first pick in
the draft if he comes up in twenty twenty six.
What he's played. He got two starts, yes, and and
one of them was just I And we're sitting here like, oh,
oh my gosh, dude, that that Manning last name carries
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a lot of weight. Brou It's gonna carry Eli to
the Hall of Fame when it has no business being
in the Hall of fame.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, why can't Danny Manning get the same respect?
You know, if it's the same Adam, Why can't Danny
get the same respect that getting.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The wrong complexity?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yes, you don't like that, blame the HDTVs problem.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Ridiculous. Man, he was too early. He was too early,
Yes he was. He needed to be after Peyton and
after Eli, Yes he did. Yeah. But Arch I was
thinking about this the other day because all of this
Arch Maaning talk. I'm say, how good does he have
to be to live up to this hype? Like if
he does what quinn Ewers did last year, throw for
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four thousand yards that you threw for the most touchdowns
in the SEC, I don't think that'll be good enough. No,
that's isn't that crazy that the expectations. This is why
I've said there is no chance that arch Manning Wednesday
Heisman Trophy. None unless Texas goes completely undefeated cover to cover,
No chance because him living up to all of this hype.
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Because the Heisman is a lot about timing. You have
to have a little bit of preseason buzz, but you
also have to exceed expectations a little bit. And the
expectations for him are insanely high, just like they are
for Jeremiah Smith. He's not gonna be able to win
it either, because what does he have to do to
to like to make you feel like this season was
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better than last?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He is unbelievable though, man like Jeremiah Smith.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But what has to happen, Like what does he have
to do for for Heisman voters to say, oh my gosh,
this is undeniable for a wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Again, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I also look at there's gonna be a guy who
jumps up this weekend and outperforms everybody else that all
of a sudden gets on the Heisman map.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It happened with RG three. RG three wasn't being.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Talked about as a Heisman Trophy candidate, and then all
of a sudden, he had that big game for Baylor
to open up the college football's opening weekend and everyone's like, Wow,
this guy's special. And then it just took off from there.
And I'm with you with the arch Manning stuff, it
is over the top. They're talking about the Saints tanking
for arch Manning so that they can get another Manning
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to take over at quarterback for them because of how
bad their organization has been, and it's like, hold on
a second. They literally haven't drafted a quarterback in the
first round since his granddad. And this guy they're talking about,
as we mentioned, has started two games.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Exactly what are we doing here.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Like, we have no nobody, we have no idea whether
or not he's the goods, and he's been put in,
to your point, an impossible situation to try and live
up to all that hype.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
There's a lot man yes, and and and imagine if
Texas has a good year, goes eleven and one, goes
ten and two in the regular season. If they go
ten and ten and two, I mean, that's a disappointment
from from from what arch man from what all the
hype has been. And and that's why I do believe
that you're gonna have other players Like I believe that
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Dante Moore, the quarterback at Oregon, has a better chance
of winning the Heisman Trophy this year than arch Manning
because of what we talked to Danny Knell about earlier,
which is that he is a really good quarterback or that,
and that he's going to play well and he's on
a team that is going to be a top ten
team this this year. And if he goes two Penn
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State and wins and does puts up really good numbers
like the past two quarterbacks bow Knicks and Dylan Graviel
Gabriel have in front of him and they were both
Heisman finalists, and him being the hero of the team
this year, that's the type of thing that gets you
Heisman trophies. Not coming into the season with such high
expectations that are unattainable.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And by the way, you are you proud of yourself.
I do want to mention the Heisman odds. We've got
arch Manning the favorite, Garrett Nussmeyer from LSU, Kate Klubnick
who's sort of flying under the radar as a as
a real camp.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I don't mind. I'm a kay Clubnick. Yeh bro.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We've got Jeremiah Smith, Leonora Sellers, Carson Beck who's now
at Miami. He's on the list, so you do have
you know, you know it's quarterback heavy, but they did
figure out a way to mix in a wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Are you Are you up? Are you proud of yourself?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
All?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Your Oregon Ducks and Dylan Gabriel like you show up
to Cleveland and because of you, guys should our standards
didn't get a fair opportunity at quarterback there?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Are you proud of yourself?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Are you.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Like that? That was bizarre?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Here's the here's the truth, right and I want to
give this caveat like I am team Dion, I am
team Schadure. Yeah, I am. I root for their success.
I think Dion's a really good human being. I think
he tries his best to be good to the kids
and all those things. Right now, with all of that
out of the way. The idea that Shadre Sanders was
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ever going to quote unquote get a fair shot in Cleveland,
it was never going to happen because that's not how
it works. When do you think that r G three
and Kirk Cousins had the same shot in the same
draft class in Washington. No, No, Because the only reason
why they even drafted Shoudure is because he was so
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far up their their board in terms of evaluation that
they were like, we can't not draft him right now
in the fifth round. So regardless of why you believe,
whether you believe the conspiracy theories or not about why
he got drafted in the fifth round, you're not going
to get a fair shot to start as a fifth
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round quarterback, especially when they draft a quarterback in front
of you. And he did a good job. Now, when
I watch shard door and granted this is the most
talked about fifth round pick that we've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Cam Ward was taking one hundred and forty three picks
earlier and has not been discussed. No.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes, And we're sitting here arguing about whether should should
Dore Sanders should be playing right here or not? Here
is the truth about Shaudor is that should Doure Sanders
For all of people wanting to talk, He's not ready
to start in the NFL game right now, just like
most NFL rookies are not ready to start even if
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they start them. Caleb Williams should not have been starting
at the beginning of the season last last year. There
are other quarterbacks should not have been starting at the
beginning of the season. Bryce Young shouldn't have been starting
at the beginning because their team was so bad and
for and they should have just let the Red the
Red Rifle take Andy Dalton take all of the negative
press and everything that. But handling quarterbacks is different. I
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believe that Shadeor just needs to be in a system
for a little while because there are some bad habits
like to continu and people are like, oh, well, all
his linemen got cut and all this stuff. Yes, that's
what happens when you play with the threes at the
end of the game. But he also did some things
in those mind mind you, he has shown some good
things on film, but he also like the consistent backing
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up and taking of sacks. You can't do that in
the NFL. So he has to clean up some things
on his own in terms of his own play if
he wants to be an NFL starter, but it is
going to be an uphill road because of when and
where you were drafted. So everybody can like stop trying
to be like, oh, he didn't get a fair, fair shot.
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Do you understand that nobody gets a fair shot in
the NFL. Your shot is determined initially by your draft
status and then between injuries and then and what usually
happens if you have a fifth or sixth round pick
or seventh round pick end up starting is because the
starter ended up hurting camp and then somebody else ended
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up banged up and they got an opportunity and then
they killed it. And then the team's like, oh what,
we can't go backwards now because we got a dude.
And that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And I would also say this about and I'm with
you on the Deon Sanders front, and look, whatever you
want to say about how you measure their success at
Colorado if you look at it from the standpoint of
how people look at Lincoln Riley here with USC. When
Dion Sanders took over at Colorado, that was a one
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win team and a year later they were having rap
and rock concerts pregame before their starts. He completely changed
the entire atmosphere, the buzz, the coverage, so much so
that his son, the fifth round pick in an already
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loaded quarterback room with an awful franchise, was the story
not only of the draft, but the entire preseason. A
fifth round pick. And that's a credit to a guy
like Deon Sanders who took over a Colorado program and
figured out a way to make it the place to
be and make it a conversation. Were they as good
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as Oregon? Clearly not. Were they as good as as
a bunch of these other teams that they went up against.
Nebraska ran it up on him big time?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Clearly not.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
But then you look at what's happened since Lincoln Riley's
gotten here, and you go, he just doesn't seem like
he's a into it, Like he doesn't seem like he
doesn't participate in the usc U c l A PEP
prep Rowley they have every year. He's not taking part
in that. He just kind of won't talk to the
media from time to time. And so you say whatever
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you want about Dion, the covered shador has gone. I
think a lot of that is because you had a
guy in Dion Sanders who took on a program and said, no, no, no, no,
we're going to turn this into something. Man. Lincoln Riley
had Caleb Williams and it was and still here. It
just it fell apart. I that's that's the disappointing part
about the Lincoln Riley time.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Lincoln Riley is learning how to build something, because when
he was at Oklahoma he clearly had success, but he
didn't have to build it. He was under Stoops and
Bob Bob Stoops built the program, and he built there
was a culture there. They were in the Big Twelve.
All of those things Lincoln Riley took over. He got
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handed the keys to a Ferrari. He came to USC
and he got handed the keys to like a you know,
to like a Lexus and and but the people that
USC wanted to be a Bugatti. And he didn't know
how to build a Bugatti. He didn't know how to
build from having Alexis and a good good car, good
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situation to having a Bugatti. That and that's what their
fans expect. So he thought that he was gonna be
able to come in throw some offense around, transfer a portal,
some players, and everything was going to work. But the
talent level in the Pac twelve with which he ran into, oh,
it was a little bit different than what the Big
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twelve was, and now in the Big ten it's completely different.
So Lincoln has had to learn how to play defense,
have the desire to play defense. And on top of that,
I believe his biggest crime is trying to avoid playing
Notre Dame, and Notre Dame has done everything to try
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to force that game to keep from happening, and he's
trying to find every way to weasel out of it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It's yeah, it's just such a bad look, I mean,
of a historical matchup, and that's the way they go
through it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It is petrous.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
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Here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. He's George Reister.
I'm Jonas Knox in for the guys here on your
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So this story was making the rounds when the Cowboys
were out here in southern California for training camp in Oxnard.
Someone called Knoxnard. That's a whole nother story, but this
was making the rounds that Michah Parsons was looking for
a new deal and Jerry Jones was kind of dragging
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his feet on the whole thing, and I was like, ah,
here we go. Typical cowboys want to wait till the end.
It's what they always do. They did it with Dak Prescott,
they did it with CD Lamb. They did it what
they do this all the time. Even Emmett Smith, his
holdout lasted two games into the season years ago. And
then you started to hear rumblings that, well, you know,
maybe they would be open to potentially trading Michah Parsons,
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that Jerry Jones had a conversation with Micah Parsons, not
his agent. Jerry Jones went on a media tour kind
of explaining his side of the story. But nobody actually
thought it was to happen, because you just don't trade
away a guy in his prime who's one of the
best players at his position.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And then Jerry Jones just said.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Noah, why not, let's go ahead, and Nah, let's let's
go ahead and do it the first time he's done it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
And it's also not the.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
First time that a team in Dallas has traded away,
you know, a superstar which nobody saw coming, much like he.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Did it literally with herschel Walker.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
It's it's mind boggling that this is actually a real story.
But Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys have traded away
Michaeh Parsons. That news broke shortly before we came on
the air here on a five to seven of the
LA Sports.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
He is now a Green Bay Packer.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
In exchange, they get Kenny Clark, the defensive lineman there
from the Packers, and they also get two first round
picks in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. And
they go ahead and they do agree to terms on
a contract with Michael Parsons, he becomes the highest paid
non quarterback in NFL history. Just a monster, blockbuster trade.
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And I'm just wondering, man, if we're starting to enter
into the Al Davis territory.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
No, Jerry Jones, No, this is honestly one of the
more sane things that Jerry Jones has done. Now, I
am a full fledged believer when somebody says I don't
want to be here, let them leave, get them out
of there. I mean, of course, you don't hurt yourself
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in the process, but this was actually very easy for
them to move in terms of dead cap money and
everything else. So I am one hundred percent on board
with it. Because if you are the Dallas Cowboys who
didn't make the playoffs last year, they they haven't been
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living up to in terms of playoffs what you would
have thought, right, or what Jerry would have expected, their
fans expect or anything else. So let's say, I'm gonna
give you this scenario, Jonas. If you were having trouble
if when you were in college, right, if you are
freshly out of college, if you were having trouble paying
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your paying your rent, paying your mortgage, trying to get
your career going, all of these things. And you went
on the prices right and you won a two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars car. What would you do with
said car? Would you put it in the garage and
be like, yo, I don't know if I'm ever gonna
be able to get this again. Or do you sell
the car, get the money for it, and then start
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your life and use that to get whatever going that
you need to get going.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Oh, I'm selling it exactly, along with every bobblehead I
got exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
But the problem is is that there are so many people,
particularly in sports, saying, oh my god, we have this
great player. We can't trade this guy. Yes you can
if you get a haul back, because Dad is going
to give you the opportunity to reset. And basketball and
football are the two places that people get to hoarding
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what they have more than anything else. Because if you're
an NBA team and you have one great player and
the rest of your team ain't, ain't it sometimes you
need to trade that player to get multiple picks back.
Because building through the draft isn't optimal way to a championship.
We've seen it with the Celtics. We just saw it
this last year with the Oklahoma City Thunder. We saw
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it with the Warriors, we saw with the Bucks. We
like the teams. Now. You can't free agent your way
to winning. And Jerry Jones he did it once with
Hershel Walker and this time he's doing it again. So
he's going to get another bite at the Apple if
they draft well with these picks. But on the Michael
Parsons front, do you believe Jonas that Michael Parsons will
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grow to regret this or and and I'm not talking
about the money because assume that assume that what Jerry
Jones said was true, that the money was pretty much similar.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It was reportedly five years, two hundred and two million,
you know, I mean, look, and who knows what the
final details are and how many guaranteed years it was.
From a brand standpoint, you don't get nearly the same
coverage in Green Bay that you get in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Like Ingo, I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Look look at all the guys calling games in the NFL.
Look how many are former Cowboys? I mean, how many
of those are former Packers? And I'm not saying that's
the end all, be all of everything, but there is
something to the notoriety that comes with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
For sure, there just is.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And like you can go to ox Nard at training
camp and you can see the lines, the pile of
Cowboy fans and I get it. It's been three decades
since they won anything, but it's still a draw. There's
still the most talked about team in the NFL. And
Micah Parsons now finds himself He's got the contract he wants,
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he's got everything. The Green Bay Packers are a legitimate
Super Bowl contender. This helps out even more. I think
part of what also helped out this relationship is the
fact that Jordan loves deal that he got done with
the Packers was done by David Mullageta, who's also Michah
parsons agent, So there's that aspect to it. So there's
a lot to like from the Micah Parsons standpoint. Financially
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in the short term, long term, I don't know, man,
I'm and here's here would be the only thing I
would say about Jerry Jones and the Cowboys making this
deal with the Green Bay Packers. Years ago, when Khalil
Mack was looking for a new deal with the Raiders,
and they traded him to Chicago. The other team that
wanted Khalil Mack was Green Bay. They were trying to
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do the same thing that they just did with Michah Parsons.
John Gruden accepted the deal with the Bears because he
felt like the Bears were going to have higher first
round draft picks because they weren't going to be as
good as the Packers. It ultimately flipped and the Bears
actually had a good year. They you know, won the division,
went out of the postseason, et cetera. I just wonder
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who else had an offer on the table, and was
Jerry Jones looking at these and trying to project, Hey,
what kind of first round pick are we talking about?
Because if Green Bay's picking, you know, twenty eight, twenty
nine to thirty, I mean, can you really justify that
in trading away Michael Parsons or Michael Parsons was just
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such a pain in the ass that Jerry Jones is like,
I can't deal with this guy anymore, which it.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Appeared he has a high tolerance for nonsense. Is he's
even talked about that. But when you think about all
of the so the Cowboys get Kenny Clark and two
first round picks. Yeah, two first round picks is a lot.
This is not the NBA, where like NBA players get
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traded for you know what I mean, like like six
first round picks you get Rudy go Gobaar got five
picks for him. Whereas you know, superstars are basically you
can't get equal value for them. But in football, to
trade away two first round picks and a starter, oh
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that is a that is an epic hall. And yes,
the Packers will be drafting somewhere in the twenties probably,
but that gives you opportunities to take the Cowboys pick
plus the Packers pick and make a trade up if
there's somebody special that you really really want. I mean,
so this can turn into like Hall of Famers potentially
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for the for the Cowboys, like when they drafted Zach Martiner,
they drafted Tyron Smith, like they this may be the
rebuild to their offensive line, might be the rebuild to
the defense. And that's gotta be okay. But Michael Parsons,
I do believe believe that he underestimates the Cowboys brand.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh yeah, he.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Is going to go from a place because you know
he does his podcast and everything else. People care about
the Star more than they probably care about Michael Parts.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
If you've been to Green Bay. I've never been to
Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Can you what is a comp What's a city out
here in southern California that would be considered Green Bay?
And I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but like you know,
we're talking Apple Fresno, Fresno like decent try tip sandwiches
before games.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
From what I hear, friend, Yes, yes, yes, yes, the
Brons are good. They're everything. So I'm saying it's a
notable no, not not even Fresno like Modesto Modesta, but
but they are very much like the people of Modesto.
The people in Modesto love Modesto, you know what I mean.
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But where like there's some good things.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
No offense to the people in Modesta, by the way,
just want to.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
People peop are passionate in Green Bay about the things
that they are passionate about, Like they're passionate about the Backers.
They love the Packers. So as far as being a
Packers player, it is not like being in Modesto. It's
more like Bakersfield. Like people who are from Bakersfield, they
love Bakersfield people like they're like, yeah, there's a sense
(29:21):
of pride about being from Bakersfield where Green Bay if
you are a green Bay Packers fan there, oh, there
is pride about it. So that part about it is
really good. But in terms of how much media attention
and everything else that Micah Parsons is going to get,
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it is going to drop off a cliff from being
in Green Bay, from being in Milwaukee compared to being
in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, And that's I think the difference between this and
there's some people that are posting the pictures of you know,
Luca and Micah both traded by Dallas franchise. Well, there's
a big difference between getting traded to the Lakers and
getting traded to the Packers.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I mean there just is.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And Micha Hah gotten traded to the Rams, oh that
would be or the Chargers, Oh yeah, oh you're in
La baby, or got traded to the Giants. That's a
whole different story.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I just because look, Dak Prescott got his money. Dak
Prescott got his money after he snapped his ankle, which
is like and that was and not only did he
get his money, he got the length of the contract,
He got his terms, he got more annual per year,
more guaranteed that like Dak Prescott changed agents, went with
Todd Franz and got paid.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
And so you see him get paid. You see CD
Lamb eventually get paid.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Your see all these guys that Dallas pays, and you
look at it and you go, so why not Michaeh Parsons.
And you were starting to hear rumblings and there were
some people that reported on this that Micah Parsons maybe
didn't have the greatest relationships with some people back behind
the scenes in Dallas, that maybe there was you know,
he's got this podcast, and you know there were some
(30:57):
players that were critical about his preparation and he was
more focused on the podcast and this and that, and
he pushed back on that and denied all that, and
then you just saw him laying on the training table
this weekend. You saw that whole thing play, and it's like.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh, listen, listen to his statement that he put out,
Oh their way, There are two parts of this statement
that I think are relevant. So he starts out, always
wanted to be a Cowboys fan. I grew up in
Pennsylvania and nobody everybody was Eagles fans except me. I
always wanted to be here. And then he goes on
to say, through it all, I never made any demands.
(31:31):
I never asked for anything more than fairness. I only
asked that the person I trust to negotiate my contract
to be part of the process. This is all over
the agent. This is what all this is over. Is
that what I believe happened, based upon people that I've
talked to, is that Jerry and Mikah had a conversation
(31:52):
about money, how much it was going to be, and
that they made an agreement. And then he went back
to his agent, David mugetto who who was one of
the more powerful agents in in uh the NFL right now,
but some owners don't really like dealing with them. And
then the agent was like no, no, no, no, no no no,
because we I didn't negotiate this. I can do this
(32:14):
better for you, this and that, and Jerry Jones like, nah,
we already agreed. The ain't nothing to talk about me
and Mike. If Michael want to talk to me, cool,
I'm not talking to you though. That's what this turned into.
So so that's what Michaeh said, and then he goes
North Texas will continue to be my home. In the
off season, I'll be here giving back to the community.
(32:37):
Oh so it's like f Green Bay huh oh so,
but but your heart's still in Dallas. So you're like
halfway in with us. Now, we just tell you two
hundred million dollars. Where's your investment in the Green Bay
community family?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, that's yeah, that already We're off to kind of
a rocky start there. And I also think this, and
this is a little bit of a conspiracy theory, but
I've wondered this too. I wonder if part of this
was because if you go to the collusion case in
the NFL, like this stuff about Deshaun Watson's contract, well,
the agent who got to Shaun Watson that contract was
David Mullagatta. Yep. I wonder if part of this was
(33:13):
Jerry Jones looking at David Mullagetta going not gonna get me. Listen,
you got Jimmy hasm in Cleveland, not getting me, not happening,
not f that, not on my watch.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
And mind you, I am a player. Players should get
their's thing right, like, because there have been plenty of
players who deserve big contracts who didn't get them got
heard or something something else, and then so I'm happy
for the guys who get over right. But at the
same time, if you are an and I'm just thinking
(33:46):
about this as a sensible person who owns a business,
sensible person just in general is owners have to push
back a little bit at some point point in time
because when you of players that either aren't out there playing,
playing hard, trying to do this or that to to
force their way out, there is a I believe that
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there is a relationship between fans and yeah, between fans
and the players that you essentially are saying that there's
a contract between the two of us. I agreed to
go out there and play hard and do my best.
You agree to show up, cheer and pay your pay
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your money, and when the players don't do their part,
it becomes a riff with the with the fans.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
By the way, Jerry Jones is having a press conference
right now. If they do decide to fat shame Michaeh
Parsons like the MAVs did with Luca when they traded him,
we will we will break in with that coverage here.
If there's any fat shaming of Michaeh Parsons is the
star of Southern California's training camp tour. Uh here, we
will have that for you on and five seventy l
(34:59):
A Sports. He is tr George Reister. I'm Jonas Knox
in for Petro Some Money here on AM five to
seventy LA Sports. By the way, coming up next, we
are going to tell you about a familiar somebody who
kind of ties into this whole story and ties into
this town here in the world of sports, and that's
yours here on AM five seventy LA Sports. Petro Some
(36:19):
Money show, AM five seventy LA Sports, George Reister, Jonas
Knox in for the guys. By the way, coming up
after we're done seven o'clock Dodger Talk with David Vasse
and Brad Paisley, a couple of celebrities hanging out here
on AM five to seventy LA Sports, and make sure
you stick around for that. Also, in about ten minutes
from now, we're going to tell you about two players
(36:41):
in this town who got a lot to prove a
lot of questions in the air this upcoming season. We'll
get into that for you here on AM five seventy.
So apparently the Dallas Mavericks have had enough of the
Luka Doncic experience, so much so that he's a part
of an advertising camp pain for the video game Overwatch too.
(37:02):
I'm not a gamer, I'm not familiar with Overwatch.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Two.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Billboard started popping up near American Airline Center, where the
Mavericks play, and they reportedly have requested that they be
moved further away. According to the Dallas Morning News Is
Mike Curtis, the Mavericks asked that the advertisements be relocated
from its space on Novitzky Way, just steps from their
home venue. The buildings directly behind an adjacent to the
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Dirknovisky Statue featured multiple digital screens with a picture of
Luca's face and the caption stating Cowboys Never Die. The
Mavericks said that the request did not come from within
the team's ownership group or senior leadership. This sounds like
Ryan Day and the ros Byork, the athletic director for
Ohio State, trying to say we had nothing to do
(37:52):
with Portnoy not being allowed to the stadium, like this
has nothing to do with us. Sure, it's your stadium,
it's your area, but you had nothing to do with
the fact that that Luca's billboard is being moved away.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, got it? Okay, guys, we buy that one.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah. And the reason why they don't want it there
is because they traded him away. Yes, had Luca been
awful last year, awful for the Lakers, nobody would have
said anything. Nobody had been that had have been like
got Luca told yah, good thing we traded him. Had
the Mavericks gone like deep in the playoffs, had gone
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to the finals or something without them, they wouldn't care.
This is sour grapes. This is you know, mean girls
behavior in the world of sports. In sports, you can't
be soft. This is to quote the movie Life, this
is f's oh f capital t soft.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, you got a lot, Like you can't weaponize somebody's words.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
You can't give something power and they're just giving. It's like,
you know, Ryan Day and and Ohio State giving Dave
Portnoy in Michigan power and.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Using your your local influence to make this happen is back.
It's just it just reeks of like take my ball
and go and go home. It's it's like playing a
pickup game and then your team loses and and you
had the actual best basketball and instead of waiting your
(39:21):
turn to get on again, you're like, hey, give me,
give me my ball. I'm going home. You're like, what, Bro,
why are you? Why are you leaving? Brother? Because we
uh well nah nah no, I got uh, I got,
I got something to do with. My wife called me. Bro,
your phone didn't even ring.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Oh if you if you were so happy with the trade,
this wasn't This wouldn't bother you. No, if you were
so comfortable in your own skin, it wouldn't bother you.
Remember when the Eagles traded Donovan McNabb inside the division
in Washington. When they did that, I thought, Oh, they
know something somebody else doesn't like. If they're comfortable trading
them within the division, they're not worried about what the
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future could be. And you've got you know, the Mavericks
getting sensitive to this. You've got Ryan Day in Ohio State. Like,
the most fascinating part about the Ryan Dale Ohio State
thing this upcoming weekend is that they're going to be
celebrating a national championship. That's what the story should be,
(40:20):
and the story instead is them being upset and overly
sensitive to the fact that Dave Portnoy, who doesn't play
for the team, who's never taken a snap for the team,
who is an alum.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yet that's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah, bother you that much.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
He helps, you know, he helps, gives a little cash
here there to get big time recruits. But nonetheless he's
not on the field suiting up. And you went above
and beyond as you should be celebrating your national championship
to pointing out the fact that they're in your head
and you can't get home.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Okay, you know what I'm gonna tell this story. Ohio
State is soft because this is not the only soft
thing that they've done. Last year when they played the
University of Oregon in Eugene, I was up on Nike's
campus the two days two days before the game, I think,
(41:14):
or the day before the game, and and I got
word that there were Ohio State people that had flown
in and they were gonna go to the Nike's campus
because you know, they're big time in the Nike school
and stuff like that as well. They wanted to have
a meeting with the folks in charge about or about
(41:36):
Nike helping Oregon in the n i L process, and
they didn't think it was fair, and that they wanted
to pitch their case that that that they should stop
because it's an unfair advantage for oh and and how
did how well do you think that that went over?
It was like, hey, man, thanks for thanks for coming man,
We appreciate their time. Would you like to stop at
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the company store?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Like, are they not familiar with Nike's relationship with Oregon?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Are they not familiar with No.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
They are, That's why they play like. It's like, Bro,
you have built in advantages. You are the biggest brand
in college football. You've been playing college football ball for
one hundred years at a high level and and Lilo
Oregon comes up and it has been good for twenty years,
and now all of a sudden they're bothering.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
You imagine somebody going to Boulder and being like, we're
not happy with the Blenders relationship gann has. You know,
we feel like it's unfair. You know, we we'd like
our own. Yeah, that's ridiculous, but it's college football.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
People are crazy.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
People are soft man and and soft. It is a
five seventy LA Sports Petro Some Money show. George Reister
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town who got a lot on their plate this season.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Here on the blowtorch
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about there getting all that dialed in. I do know
that Petros is pulling double duty for college football this
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weekend because the big expanded weekend of college football takes place.
A lot of people are real dismissive of Week zero
and my Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and all that, all right,
which I would push back on, but they're going to
call this quote unquote week one. Petros has got double duty.
He's going to be calling Western Michigan at Michigan State
(01:13):
coming up on Friday night on FS one, and then
he's got Georgia Southern at Fresno State Saturday on FS one.
So he's got a lot on his plate. But George,
all that means is at the best time of year
is here. College football's back, The NFL's right around the corner.
The Dodgers are picking up steam, they're growing their lead
(01:34):
in the NL West as we get ready for the postseason.
But college football takes center stage here from tonight Thursday
all the way through Monday, and it concludes with Bill
Belichick's debut as North Carolina head coach.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm so happy to check this into my veins inject this.
I'm with you, veins, bro, because and the coldest part
about this is about Thanksgiving. I start to get sad.
Oh my gosh, it's it's almost over the college football season.
It's almost. There's only like two more games. I mean
(02:08):
there's only one more, one more game and then bowl
games and then the National Championship. This is terrible. And
then once the Super Bowl is over it and mind you,
I like baseball, however, it is not the same level
of energy, excitement and intensity that football season brings. So
the so the Super Bowl happens, and then there's some
(02:31):
mediocre basketball happening right right before the playoffs. Then I'm
into the NBA playoffs honestly until the final start because
the final there's three days in between each game and
that's way too long.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, too long.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And then so I am desperately awaiting college football season.
So then July comes around, camps are opening up, them
starting to get a little bit excited, and it is
like a kid before Christmas. I am like, oh my gosh,
only only twenty five more sleeps until it is all season.
(03:03):
And now we are here and I can't even tell you.
Boise State is playing South Florida right now, and this
might as well be Texas and Ohio State right now.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, it's the only ranked team on the schedule tonight
is Boise State uh AT playing South Florida right now,
and they are trailing with the first half winding down.
But I mean, and that's why I asked Danny Canel
this because I have wondered, you know, we make a
lot to you know, the NFL preseason, and you know,
(03:34):
do a really neat because you know, Major League Baseball
they've got spring training, they've got split squads, they've got
all that stuff. The NBA has a short little preseason.
The NFL's got their preseason which, by the way, the
NFL's preseason games had the best ratings in seven years,
So on average, a little over two million people were
watching NFL preseason games a game this offseason, so that
(03:56):
i't to tell you how starved people were, like George
and myself for football, But I do wonder this no
preseason game and you start and it's full go right away, Man,
you're probably gonna see. Even though there's some great matchups
like Texas Ohio State, which you can hear here on
the blowtorch coming up nine am on Saturday, you're probably
(04:18):
gonna see some sloppy football, I would imagine, And it's
understandable considering there's been no ramp up. There's been no
no preseason game or exhibition game. And that's why I've
never been judgmental of teams that schedule soft opponents early on,
whether it was Alabama doing it back in the day
or Florida's scheduling a game. Really, I've never had an
(04:39):
issue with it. There's no preseason.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
See, I don't mind it if it's game one, yeah,
but to me, it's the amount of games if you're
not playing at least ten Power four games. It's gross.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, I agree with you, but to open up the year,
I've got no issue four.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't care. Yeah, I don't care that you. I
don't need Texas to play Ohio State game in game one.
They can. They can play their annual cupcake game, their
FCS game in week one if they want, yeah, well,
or they can play it in week week two if
they choose to. Yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean, Michigan losing the app State, you know, like
that did a lot. Like people can say, well, you know,
app State, you know won the game, biggest win in.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The history of the program.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
There's that, and there's also the fact that they're getting
paid for those games, like those smaller scores are paid,
and so if you can make you know, a couple
hundred grand as a smaller school, you're gonna take it
and then take your beating, most likely in those openers.
I just I can't imagine being a player and then
just being told, all right, these games count, get out
(05:42):
there and give them hell like Texas, Ohio State tomorrow,
that's man or coming up on Saturday. That games that
this is one of the bigger opening week games in
the history of college football. If you look at you know,
one versus three, all the stuff going into it. I mean,
it's not outside the rum of possibility that, yeah, it's
(06:03):
a competitive game, but it's an ugly game.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Have we jumped the shark though? On this Arch Manning talk.
It's because people are, oh, he's the first pick in
the draft if he comes up in twenty twenty six.
What he's played. He got two starts, yes, and and
one of them was just I And we're sitting here like, oh,
oh my gosh, dude, that that Manning last name carries
(06:27):
a lot of weight. Brou It's gonna carry Eli to
the Hall of Fame when it has no business being
in the Hall of fame.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, why can't Danny Manning get the same respect?
You know, if it's the same Adam, Why can't Danny
get the same respect that getting.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
The wrong complexity?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yes, you don't like that, blame the HDTVs problem.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Ridiculous. Man, he was too early. He was too early,
Yes he was. He needed to be after Peyton and
after Eli, Yes he did. Yeah. But Arch I was
thinking about this the other day because all of this
Arch Maaning talk. I'm say, how good does he have
to be to live up to this hype? Like if
he does what quinn Ewers did last year, throw for
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four thousand yards that you threw for the most touchdowns
in the SEC, I don't think that'll be good enough. No,
that's isn't that crazy that the expectations. This is why
I've said there is no chance that arch Manning Wednesday
Heisman Trophy. None unless Texas goes completely undefeated cover to cover,
No chance because him living up to all of this hype.
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Because the Heisman is a lot about timing. You have
to have a little bit of preseason buzz, but you
also have to exceed expectations a little bit. And the
expectations for him are insanely high, just like they are
for Jeremiah Smith. He's not gonna be able to win
it either, because what does he have to do to
to like to make you feel like this season was
(07:56):
better than last?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He is unbelievable though, man like Jeremiah Smith.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
But what has to happen, Like what does he have
to do for for Heisman voters to say, oh my gosh,
this is undeniable for a wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Again, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I also look at there's gonna be a guy who
jumps up this weekend and outperforms everybody else that all
of a sudden gets on the Heisman map.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It happened with RG three. RG three wasn't being.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Talked about as a Heisman Trophy candidate, and then all
of a sudden, he had that big game for Baylor
to open up the college football's opening weekend and everyone's like, Wow,
this guy's special. And then it just took off from there.
And I'm with you with the arch Manning stuff, it
is over the top. They're talking about the Saints tanking
for arch Manning so that they can get another Manning
(08:49):
to take over at quarterback for them because of how
bad their organization has been, and it's like, hold on
a second. They literally haven't drafted a quarterback in the
first round since his granddad. And this guy they're talking about,
as we mentioned, has started two games.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Exactly what are we doing here.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Like, we have no nobody, we have no idea whether
or not he's the goods, and he's been put in,
to your point, an impossible situation to try and live
up to all that hype.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
There's a lot man yes, and and and imagine if
Texas has a good year, goes eleven and one, goes
ten and two in the regular season. If they go
ten and ten and two, I mean, that's a disappointment
from from from what arch man from what all the
hype has been. And and that's why I do believe
that you're gonna have other players Like I believe that
(09:38):
Dante Moore, the quarterback at Oregon, has a better chance
of winning the Heisman Trophy this year than arch Manning
because of what we talked to Danny Knell about earlier,
which is that he is a really good quarterback or that,
and that he's going to play well and he's on
a team that is going to be a top ten
team this this year. And if he goes two Penn
(10:02):
State and wins and does puts up really good numbers
like the past two quarterbacks bow Knicks and Dylan Graviel
Gabriel have in front of him and they were both
Heisman finalists, and him being the hero of the team
this year, that's the type of thing that gets you
Heisman trophies. Not coming into the season with such high
expectations that are unattainable.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And by the way, you are you proud of yourself.
I do want to mention the Heisman odds. We've got
arch Manning the favorite, Garrett Nussmeyer from LSU, Kate Klubnick
who's sort of flying under the radar as a as
a real camp.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I don't mind. I'm a kay Clubnick. Yeh bro.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We've got Jeremiah Smith, Leonora Sellers, Carson Beck who's now
at Miami. He's on the list, so you do have
you know, you know it's quarterback heavy, but they did
figure out a way to mix in a wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Are you Are you up? Are you proud of yourself?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
All?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Your Oregon Ducks and Dylan Gabriel like you show up
to Cleveland and because of you, guys should our standards
didn't get a fair opportunity at quarterback there?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Are you proud of yourself?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Are you.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Like that? That was bizarre?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Here's the here's the truth, right and I want to
give this caveat like I am team Dion, I am
team Schadure. Yeah, I am. I root for their success.
I think Dion's a really good human being. I think
he tries his best to be good to the kids
and all those things. Right now, with all of that
out of the way. The idea that Shadre Sanders was
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ever going to quote unquote get a fair shot in Cleveland,
it was never going to happen because that's not how
it works. When do you think that r G three
and Kirk Cousins had the same shot in the same
draft class in Washington. No, No, Because the only reason
why they even drafted Shoudure is because he was so
(11:52):
far up their their board in terms of evaluation that
they were like, we can't not draft him right now
in the fifth round. So regardless of why you believe,
whether you believe the conspiracy theories or not about why
he got drafted in the fifth round, you're not going
to get a fair shot to start as a fifth
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round quarterback, especially when they draft a quarterback in front
of you. And he did a good job. Now, when
I watch shard door and granted this is the most
talked about fifth round pick that we've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Cam Ward was taking one hundred and forty three picks
earlier and has not been discussed. No.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yes, And we're sitting here arguing about whether should should
Dore Sanders should be playing right here or not? Here
is the truth about Shaudor is that should Doure Sanders
For all of people wanting to talk, He's not ready
to start in the NFL game right now, just like
most NFL rookies are not ready to start even if
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they start them. Caleb Williams should not have been starting
at the beginning of the season last last year. There
are other quarterbacks should not have been starting at the
beginning of the season. Bryce Young shouldn't have been starting
at the beginning because their team was so bad and
for and they should have just let the Red the
Red Rifle take Andy Dalton take all of the negative
press and everything that. But handling quarterbacks is different. I
(13:18):
believe that Shadeor just needs to be in a system
for a little while because there are some bad habits
like to continu and people are like, oh, well, all
his linemen got cut and all this stuff. Yes, that's
what happens when you play with the threes at the
end of the game. But he also did some things
in those mind mind you, he has shown some good
things on film, but he also like the consistent backing
(13:41):
up and taking of sacks. You can't do that in
the NFL. So he has to clean up some things
on his own in terms of his own play if
he wants to be an NFL starter, but it is
going to be an uphill road because of when and
where you were drafted. So everybody can like stop trying
to be like, oh, he didn't get a fair, fair shot.
(14:04):
Do you understand that nobody gets a fair shot in
the NFL. Your shot is determined initially by your draft
status and then between injuries and then and what usually
happens if you have a fifth or sixth round pick
or seventh round pick end up starting is because the
starter ended up hurting camp and then somebody else ended
(14:25):
up banged up and they got an opportunity and then
they killed it. And then the team's like, oh what,
we can't go backwards now because we got a dude.
And that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And I would also say this about and I'm with
you on the Deon Sanders front, and look, whatever you
want to say about how you measure their success at
Colorado if you look at it from the standpoint of
how people look at Lincoln Riley here with USC. When
Dion Sanders took over at Colorado, that was a one
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win team and a year later they were having rap
and rock concerts pregame before their starts. He completely changed
the entire atmosphere, the buzz, the coverage, so much so
that his son, the fifth round pick in an already
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loaded quarterback room with an awful franchise, was the story
not only of the draft, but the entire preseason. A
fifth round pick. And that's a credit to a guy
like Deon Sanders who took over a Colorado program and
figured out a way to make it the place to
be and make it a conversation. Were they as good
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as Oregon? Clearly not. Were they as good as as
a bunch of these other teams that they went up against.
Nebraska ran it up on him big time?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Clearly not.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
But then you look at what's happened since Lincoln Riley's
gotten here, and you go, he just doesn't seem like
he's a into it, Like he doesn't seem like he
doesn't participate in the usc U c l A PEP
prep Rowley they have every year. He's not taking part
in that. He just kind of won't talk to the
media from time to time. And so you say whatever
(16:06):
you want about Dion, the covered shador has gone. I
think a lot of that is because you had a
guy in Dion Sanders who took on a program and said, no, no, no, no,
we're going to turn this into something. Man. Lincoln Riley
had Caleb Williams and it was and still here. It
just it fell apart. I that's that's the disappointing part
about the Lincoln Riley time.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Lincoln Riley is learning how to build something, because when
he was at Oklahoma he clearly had success, but he
didn't have to build it. He was under Stoops and
Bob Bob Stoops built the program, and he built there
was a culture there. They were in the Big Twelve.
All of those things Lincoln Riley took over. He got
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handed the keys to a Ferrari. He came to USC
and he got handed the keys to like a you know,
to like a Lexus and and but the people that
USC wanted to be a Bugatti. And he didn't know
how to build a Bugatti. He didn't know how to
build from having Alexis and a good good car, good
(17:10):
situation to having a Bugatti. That and that's what their
fans expect. So he thought that he was gonna be
able to come in throw some offense around, transfer a portal,
some players, and everything was going to work. But the
talent level in the Pac twelve with which he ran into, oh,
it was a little bit different than what the Big
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twelve was, and now in the Big ten it's completely different.
So Lincoln has had to learn how to play defense,
have the desire to play defense. And on top of that,
I believe his biggest crime is trying to avoid playing
Notre Dame, and Notre Dame has done everything to try
(17:51):
to force that game to keep from happening, and he's
trying to find every way to weasel out of it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It's yeah, it's just such a bad look, I mean,
of a historical matchup, and that's the way they go
through it.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It is petrous.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
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So this story was making the rounds when the Cowboys
were out here in southern California for training camp in Oxnard.
Someone called Knoxnard. That's a whole nother story, but this
was making the rounds that Michah Parsons was looking for
a new deal and Jerry Jones was kind of dragging
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his feet on the whole thing, and I was like, ah,
here we go. Typical cowboys want to wait till the end.
It's what they always do. They did it with Dak Prescott,
they did it with CD Lamb. They did it what
they do this all the time. Even Emmett Smith, his
holdout lasted two games into the season years ago. And
then you started to hear rumblings that, well, you know,
maybe they would be open to potentially trading Michah Parsons,
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that Jerry Jones had a conversation with Micah Parsons, not
his agent. Jerry Jones went on a media tour kind
of explaining his side of the story. But nobody actually
thought it was to happen, because you just don't trade
away a guy in his prime who's one of the
best players at his position.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And then Jerry Jones just said.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Noah, why not, let's go ahead, and Nah, let's let's
go ahead and do it the first time he's done it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
And it's also not the.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
First time that a team in Dallas has traded away,
you know, a superstar which nobody saw coming, much like he.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Did it literally with herschel Walker.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
It's it's mind boggling that this is actually a real story.
But Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys have traded away
Michaeh Parsons. That news broke shortly before we came on
the air here on a five to seven of the
LA Sports.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
He is now a Green Bay Packer.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
In exchange, they get Kenny Clark, the defensive lineman there
from the Packers, and they also get two first round
picks in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven. And
they go ahead and they do agree to terms on
a contract with Michael Parsons, he becomes the highest paid
non quarterback in NFL history. Just a monster, blockbuster trade.
(21:03):
And I'm just wondering, man, if we're starting to enter
into the Al Davis territory.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
No, Jerry Jones, No, this is honestly one of the
more sane things that Jerry Jones has done. Now, I
am a full fledged believer when somebody says I don't
want to be here, let them leave, get them out
of there. I mean, of course, you don't hurt yourself
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in the process, but this was actually very easy for
them to move in terms of dead cap money and
everything else. So I am one hundred percent on board
with it. Because if you are the Dallas Cowboys who
didn't make the playoffs last year, they they haven't been
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living up to in terms of playoffs what you would
have thought, right, or what Jerry would have expected, their
fans expect or anything else. So let's say, I'm gonna
give you this scenario, Jonas. If you were having trouble
if when you were in college, right, if you are
freshly out of college, if you were having trouble paying
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your paying your rent, paying your mortgage, trying to get
your career going, all of these things. And you went
on the prices right and you won a two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars car. What would you do with
said car? Would you put it in the garage and
be like, yo, I don't know if I'm ever gonna
be able to get this again. Or do you sell
the car, get the money for it, and then start
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your life and use that to get whatever going that
you need to get going.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Oh, I'm selling it exactly, along with every bobblehead I
got exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
But the problem is is that there are so many people,
particularly in sports, saying, oh my god, we have this
great player. We can't trade this guy. Yes you can
if you get a haul back, because Dad is going
to give you the opportunity to reset. And basketball and
football are the two places that people get to hoarding
(23:05):
what they have more than anything else. Because if you're
an NBA team and you have one great player and
the rest of your team ain't, ain't it sometimes you
need to trade that player to get multiple picks back.
Because building through the draft isn't optimal way to a championship.
We've seen it with the Celtics. We just saw it
this last year with the Oklahoma City Thunder. We saw
(23:27):
it with the Warriors, we saw with the Bucks. We
like the teams. Now. You can't free agent your way
to winning. And Jerry Jones he did it once with
Hershel Walker and this time he's doing it again. So
he's going to get another bite at the Apple if
they draft well with these picks. But on the Michael
Parsons front, do you believe Jonas that Michael Parsons will
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grow to regret this or and and I'm not talking
about the money because assume that assume that what Jerry
Jones said was true, that the money was pretty much similar.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It was reportedly five years, two hundred and two million,
you know, I mean, look, and who knows what the
final details are and how many guaranteed years it was.
From a brand standpoint, you don't get nearly the same
coverage in Green Bay that you get in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Like Ingo, I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Look look at all the guys calling games in the NFL.
Look how many are former Cowboys? I mean, how many
of those are former Packers? And I'm not saying that's
the end all, be all of everything, but there is
something to the notoriety that comes with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
For sure, there just is.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And like you can go to ox Nard at training
camp and you can see the lines, the pile of
Cowboy fans and I get it. It's been three decades
since they won anything, but it's still a draw. There's
still the most talked about team in the NFL. And
Micah Parsons now finds himself He's got the contract he wants,
(25:07):
he's got everything. The Green Bay Packers are a legitimate
Super Bowl contender. This helps out even more. I think
part of what also helped out this relationship is the
fact that Jordan loves deal that he got done with
the Packers was done by David Mullageta, who's also Michah
parsons agent, So there's that aspect to it. So there's
a lot to like from the Micah Parsons standpoint. Financially
(25:29):
in the short term, long term, I don't know, man,
I'm and here's here would be the only thing I
would say about Jerry Jones and the Cowboys making this
deal with the Green Bay Packers. Years ago, when Khalil
Mack was looking for a new deal with the Raiders,
and they traded him to Chicago. The other team that
wanted Khalil Mack was Green Bay. They were trying to
(25:52):
do the same thing that they just did with Michah Parsons.
John Gruden accepted the deal with the Bears because he
felt like the Bears were going to have higher first
round draft picks because they weren't going to be as
good as the Packers. It ultimately flipped and the Bears
actually had a good year. They you know, won the division,
went out of the postseason, et cetera. I just wonder
(26:14):
who else had an offer on the table, and was
Jerry Jones looking at these and trying to project, Hey,
what kind of first round pick are we talking about?
Because if Green Bay's picking, you know, twenty eight, twenty
nine to thirty, I mean, can you really justify that
in trading away Michael Parsons or Michael Parsons was just
(26:34):
such a pain in the ass that Jerry Jones is like,
I can't deal with this guy anymore, which it.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Appeared he has a high tolerance for nonsense. Is he's
even talked about that. But when you think about all
of the so the Cowboys get Kenny Clark and two
first round picks. Yeah, two first round picks is a lot.
This is not the NBA, where like NBA players get
(27:00):
traded for you know what I mean, like like six
first round picks you get Rudy go Gobaar got five
picks for him. Whereas you know, superstars are basically you
can't get equal value for them. But in football, to
trade away two first round picks and a starter, oh
(27:20):
that is a that is an epic hall. And yes,
the Packers will be drafting somewhere in the twenties probably,
but that gives you opportunities to take the Cowboys pick
plus the Packers pick and make a trade up if
there's somebody special that you really really want. I mean,
so this can turn into like Hall of Famers potentially
(27:43):
for the for the Cowboys, like when they drafted Zach Martiner,
they drafted Tyron Smith, like they this may be the
rebuild to their offensive line, might be the rebuild to
the defense. And that's gotta be okay. But Michael Parsons,
I do believe believe that he underestimates the Cowboys brand.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh yeah, he.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Is going to go from a place because you know
he does his podcast and everything else. People care about
the Star more than they probably care about Michael Parts.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
If you've been to Green Bay. I've never been to
Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Can you what is a comp What's a city out
here in southern California that would be considered Green Bay?
And I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but like you know,
we're talking Apple Fresno, Fresno like decent try tip sandwiches
before games.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
From what I hear, friend, Yes, yes, yes, yes, the
Brons are good. They're everything. So I'm saying it's a
notable no, not not even Fresno like Modesto Modesta, but
but they are very much like the people of Modesto.
The people in Modesto love Modesto, you know what I mean.
(28:55):
But where like there's some good things.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
No offense to the people in Modesta, by the way,
just want to.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
People peop are passionate in Green Bay about the things
that they are passionate about, Like they're passionate about the Backers.
They love the Packers. So as far as being a
Packers player, it is not like being in Modesto. It's
more like Bakersfield. Like people who are from Bakersfield, they
love Bakersfield people like they're like, yeah, there's a sense
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of pride about being from Bakersfield where Green Bay if
you are a green Bay Packers fan there, oh, there
is pride about it. So that part about it is
really good. But in terms of how much media attention
and everything else that Micah Parsons is going to get,
(29:41):
it is going to drop off a cliff from being
in Green Bay, from being in Milwaukee compared to being
in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, And that's I think the difference between this and
there's some people that are posting the pictures of you know,
Luca and Micah both traded by Dallas franchise. Well, there's
a big difference between getting traded to the Lakers and
getting traded to the Packers.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I mean there just is.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And Micha Hah gotten traded to the Rams, oh that
would be or the Chargers, Oh yeah, oh you're in
La baby, or got traded to the Giants. That's a
whole different story.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I just because look, Dak Prescott got his money. Dak
Prescott got his money after he snapped his ankle, which
is like and that was and not only did he
get his money, he got the length of the contract,
He got his terms, he got more annual per year,
more guaranteed that like Dak Prescott changed agents, went with
Todd Franz and got paid.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
And so you see him get paid. You see CD
Lamb eventually get paid.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Your see all these guys that Dallas pays, and you
look at it and you go, so why not Michaeh Parsons.
And you were starting to hear rumblings and there were
some people that reported on this that Micah Parsons maybe
didn't have the greatest relationships with some people back behind
the scenes in Dallas, that maybe there was you know,
he's got this podcast, and you know there were some
(30:57):
players that were critical about his preparation and he was
more focused on the podcast and this and that, and
he pushed back on that and denied all that, and
then you just saw him laying on the training table
this weekend. You saw that whole thing play, and it's like.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh, listen, listen to his statement that he put out,
Oh their way, There are two parts of this statement
that I think are relevant. So he starts out, always
wanted to be a Cowboys fan. I grew up in
Pennsylvania and nobody everybody was Eagles fans except me. I
always wanted to be here. And then he goes on
to say, through it all, I never made any demands.
(31:31):
I never asked for anything more than fairness. I only
asked that the person I trust to negotiate my contract
to be part of the process. This is all over
the agent. This is what all this is over. Is
that what I believe happened, based upon people that I've
talked to, is that Jerry and Mikah had a conversation
(31:52):
about money, how much it was going to be, and
that they made an agreement. And then he went back
to his agent, David mugetto who who was one of
the more powerful agents in in uh the NFL right now,
but some owners don't really like dealing with them. And
then the agent was like no, no, no, no, no no no,
because we I didn't negotiate this. I can do this
(32:14):
better for you, this and that, and Jerry Jones like, nah,
we already agreed. The ain't nothing to talk about me
and Mike. If Michael want to talk to me, cool,
I'm not talking to you though. That's what this turned into.
So so that's what Michaeh said, and then he goes
North Texas will continue to be my home. In the
off season, I'll be here giving back to the community.
(32:37):
Oh so it's like f Green Bay huh oh so,
but but your heart's still in Dallas. So you're like
halfway in with us. Now, we just tell you two
hundred million dollars. Where's your investment in the Green Bay
community family?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, that's yeah, that already We're off to kind of
a rocky start there. And I also think this, and
this is a little bit of a conspiracy theory, but
I've wondered this too. I wonder if part of this
was because if you go to the collusion case in
the NFL, like this stuff about Deshaun Watson's contract, well,
the agent who got to Shaun Watson that contract was
David Mullagatta. Yep. I wonder if part of this was
(33:13):
Jerry Jones looking at David Mullagetta going not gonna get me. Listen,
you got Jimmy hasm in Cleveland, not getting me, not happening,
not f that, not on my watch.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
And mind you, I am a player. Players should get
their's thing right, like, because there have been plenty of
players who deserve big contracts who didn't get them got
heard or something something else, and then so I'm happy
for the guys who get over right. But at the
same time, if you are an and I'm just thinking
(33:46):
about this as a sensible person who owns a business,
sensible person just in general is owners have to push
back a little bit at some point point in time
because when you of players that either aren't out there playing,
playing hard, trying to do this or that to to
force their way out, there is a I believe that
(34:09):
there is a relationship between fans and yeah, between fans
and the players that you essentially are saying that there's
a contract between the two of us. I agreed to
go out there and play hard and do my best.
You agree to show up, cheer and pay your pay
(34:32):
your money, and when the players don't do their part,
it becomes a riff with the with the fans.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
By the way, Jerry Jones is having a press conference
right now. If they do decide to fat shame Michaeh
Parsons like the MAVs did with Luca when they traded him,
we will we will break in with that coverage here.
If there's any fat shaming of Michaeh Parsons is the
star of Southern California's training camp tour. Uh here, we
will have that for you on and five seventy l
(34:59):
A Sports. He is tr George Reister. I'm Jonas Knox
in for Petro Some Money here on AM five to
seventy LA Sports. By the way, coming up next, we
are going to tell you about a familiar somebody who
kind of ties into this whole story and ties into
this town here in the world of sports, and that's
yours here on AM five seventy LA Sports. Petro Some
(36:19):
Money show, AM five seventy LA Sports, George Reister, Jonas
Knox in for the guys. By the way, coming up
after we're done seven o'clock Dodger Talk with David Vasse
and Brad Paisley, a couple of celebrities hanging out here
on AM five to seventy LA Sports, and make sure
you stick around for that. Also, in about ten minutes
from now, we're going to tell you about two players
(36:41):
in this town who got a lot to prove a
lot of questions in the air this upcoming season. We'll
get into that for you here on AM five seventy.
So apparently the Dallas Mavericks have had enough of the
Luka Doncic experience, so much so that he's a part
of an advertising camp pain for the video game Overwatch too.
(37:02):
I'm not a gamer, I'm not familiar with Overwatch.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Two.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Billboard started popping up near American Airline Center, where the
Mavericks play, and they reportedly have requested that they be
moved further away. According to the Dallas Morning News Is
Mike Curtis, the Mavericks asked that the advertisements be relocated
from its space on Novitzky Way, just steps from their
home venue. The buildings directly behind an adjacent to the
(37:29):
Dirknovisky Statue featured multiple digital screens with a picture of
Luca's face and the caption stating Cowboys Never Die. The
Mavericks said that the request did not come from within
the team's ownership group or senior leadership. This sounds like
Ryan Day and the ros Byork, the athletic director for
Ohio State, trying to say we had nothing to do
(37:52):
with Portnoy not being allowed to the stadium, like this
has nothing to do with us. Sure, it's your stadium,
it's your area, but you had nothing to do with
the fact that that Luca's billboard is being moved away.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, got it? Okay, guys, we buy that one.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah. And the reason why they don't want it there
is because they traded him away. Yes, had Luca been
awful last year, awful for the Lakers, nobody would have
said anything. Nobody had been that had have been like
got Luca told yah, good thing we traded him. Had
the Mavericks gone like deep in the playoffs, had gone
(38:26):
to the finals or something without them, they wouldn't care.
This is sour grapes. This is you know, mean girls
behavior in the world of sports. In sports, you can't
be soft. This is to quote the movie Life, this
is f's oh f capital t soft.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, you got a lot, Like you can't weaponize somebody's words.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
You can't give something power and they're just giving. It's like,
you know, Ryan Day and and Ohio State giving Dave
Portnoy in Michigan power and.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Using your your local influence to make this happen is back.
It's just it just reeks of like take my ball
and go and go home. It's it's like playing a
pickup game and then your team loses and and you
had the actual best basketball and instead of waiting your
(39:21):
turn to get on again, you're like, hey, give me,
give me my ball. I'm going home. You're like, what, Bro,
why are you? Why are you leaving? Brother? Because we
uh well nah nah no, I got uh, I got,
I got something to do with. My wife called me. Bro,
your phone didn't even ring.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Oh if you if you were so happy with the trade,
this wasn't This wouldn't bother you. No, if you were
so comfortable in your own skin, it wouldn't bother you.
Remember when the Eagles traded Donovan McNabb inside the division
in Washington. When they did that, I thought, Oh, they
know something somebody else doesn't like. If they're comfortable trading
them within the division, they're not worried about what the
(40:00):
future could be. And you've got you know, the Mavericks
getting sensitive to this. You've got Ryan Day in Ohio State. Like,
the most fascinating part about the Ryan Dale Ohio State
thing this upcoming weekend is that they're going to be
celebrating a national championship. That's what the story should be,
(40:20):
and the story instead is them being upset and overly
sensitive to the fact that Dave Portnoy, who doesn't play
for the team, who's never taken a snap for the team,
who is an alum.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yet that's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah, bother you that much.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
He helps, you know, he helps, gives a little cash
here there to get big time recruits. But nonetheless he's
not on the field suiting up. And you went above
and beyond as you should be celebrating your national championship
to pointing out the fact that they're in your head
and you can't get home.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Okay, you know what I'm gonna tell this story. Ohio
State is soft because this is not the only soft
thing that they've done. Last year when they played the
University of Oregon in Eugene, I was up on Nike's
campus the two days two days before the game, I think,
(41:14):
or the day before the game, and and I got
word that there were Ohio State people that had flown
in and they were gonna go to the Nike's campus
because you know, they're big time in the Nike school
and stuff like that as well. They wanted to have
a meeting with the folks in charge about or about
(41:36):
Nike helping Oregon in the n i L process, and
they didn't think it was fair, and that they wanted
to pitch their case that that that they should stop
because it's an unfair advantage for oh and and how
did how well do you think that that went over?
It was like, hey, man, thanks for thanks for coming man,
We appreciate their time. Would you like to stop at
(41:59):
the company store?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Like, are they not familiar with Nike's relationship with Oregon?
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Are they not familiar with No.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
They are, That's why they play like. It's like, Bro,
you have built in advantages. You are the biggest brand
in college football. You've been playing college football ball for
one hundred years at a high level and and Lilo
Oregon comes up and it has been good for twenty years,
and now all of a sudden they're bothering.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
You imagine somebody going to Boulder and being like, we're
not happy with the Blenders relationship gann has. You know,
we feel like it's unfair. You know, we we'd like
our own. Yeah, that's ridiculous, but it's college football.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
People are crazy.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
People are soft man and and soft. It is a
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town who got a lot on their plate this season.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!
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