November 19, 2025 • 42 mins
We discuss outfield options for the Dodgers this offseason which includes Cody Bellinger, Steven Kwan, Harrison Bader and more. Dylan Hernandez hops on to talk about Lebron's season debut and the Rams potentially being the best team in the NFC
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney Peter three
hour show on a five seventy LA Sports Rodney, How
you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey Freddie, I'm doing good, man, I'm doing good. How
you doing doing well? All good?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
So we have ed Eric Dickerson joining the program coming
up at one o'clock today. That's always a lot of fun.
So let's get through everything we need to get through
because when he.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Gets in here, I think we're talking to the exits
and o's and football at ED today. That's what I
was going to say.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Let's let's get through everything we have to get through
before he gets here, because at that point we don't
know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We don't. We don't always entertaining. Though.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I wonder if you'll tell some funeral stories today. I
love those where people come for a play of food,
they show up late and they get a plate of food.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I love that story. He's so morbid, Fred, you want
to hear the funeral story? I love those? All right,
So let's get to some stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Let's get started with the Dodgers, and as we now
zero in will be through Thanksgiving, winter meeting time, and
sometimes things happen at the winter meetings, some free agents
are signed, others.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Last year, you remember, Blake Snell got signed very quickly,
very un Scott Boris, like, I might add, Blake Snow
wanted to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think Blake Snell told Scott Boris, Hey, as soon
as the Dodgers call, sign, let it be known. I'm
not trying to fool around. I'm not trying to entertain
any other teams. If the numbers or money is close,
let's sign well.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And let me tell you why that proves to be
so important, Because if you have been keeping an eye
on things since the season ended, you realize Blake Snell
is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh, Blake Snell is everywhere. Yeah, he's Dodger ambassador number one. Right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
If there was an opening of an envelope, Blake Snow
would show up. He is everywhere. He is loving this.
I mean it's like he has waited his whole life
for this.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah. Yeah, he really is, and he's embracing it. And
you know the thing about it is that you don't
know until you know. And that happens in a lot
of industries, a lot of places. You know, Fred, you've
worked a long time. You know places that are good
and bad, and then you hear about things, you hear stories,
and then you get there and you go, oh wow,
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it's either this is even better when I thought, or
it's man, this is as bad as it's is worse
than I thought, and it's not really too much in between.
And I think when people come to the Dodgers, like
Blake Snell, after hearing from other players and hearing the
noise and hearing how players are treated and how first
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class it is, and then you get here and you go,
oh wow, this is this is what it's supposed to
be like, this is what it is supposed to be.
Like I felt that way when I went to the
Cowboys in the nineties.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I did.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I thought Detroit was that's the norm, that's how every
NFL team operates, as just the way it is. And
I went to Dallas and saw that everything was first
class and meals and travel and everything done to support
the players, and say, wow, this is this is how
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it's going to be. And I think Blake Snell is
in that, in that mode of this is this is
where I want to be. I don't want to be
anywhere else. And you watch, you watch the season, Blake
Snell has next year. Just watch the season. Now, he's
got a year under his belt being a Dodger, and
he was he was pretty good. Obvious he got hurt,
but uh, you know, other than that that one start
in the World Series, I think he was pretty lights out.
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Watch his season next year. I think he is. If
he's not in the running for Cy Young, I'd be shocked.
The only thing about Blake Snell, there's only one issue, Rodney.
How healthy will he be? That's it. Yeah, he's going
to be healthy when he needs to be.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We know the second half of the season always held
that's not even a problem, and really that's when they
need him. But if he's healthy all year long, you
could be right by the way, correct me. You said
you thought Detroit that was the norm. Then you went
to Dallas. Where was Philadelphia in That wasn't Detroit Philadelphia Dallas.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, it was it was Detroit, Dallas, Philadelphia. You went,
I went up from Yeah, wait a minute, you went
from Detroit. Yeah, then you went as a backup to Dallas.
As a backup to Dallas for a year, and and
I it's ironic because I went there because the two
backups prior to me going there, went on and started
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somewhere else. They played enough games where I think it
was Steve Berline was one of them, and then I
think Bernie Kolar got another job somewhere too. But yeah,
it was like sixteen game season back then. Because quarterbacks
could get hit. You were as a backup. You were
guaranteed to probably start at least two games and playing
a lot, and that was no exception. I ended up
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starting four games for Dallas and and then I got
a larger contract to go to Philadelphia after that.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
See that's what I was thinking. So you went for
a year to be the backup, knowing that going there
would get your starting job, and then you went to
Philadelphia and you played really well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah. Absolutely, I just it was like a stepping stone. Basically,
it was like go here. It was like that, you know,
kind of like the way the Dodgers pitchers. Pitchers come
to the Dodgers. They'll fix me, they'll get me right
and and they'll get the most out of me. And
then I went to Dallas knowing it wasn't it gonna be.
It wasn't gonna be a long term thing. I was young,
I was only I was still in my twenties. It
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was like, I'm not gonna I can't. First of all,
I think I would be killed by all the USC
alums if I would be Troy Aigman's backup for you know,
for seven years. That would that would not sit well
with a lot of USC Trojans. But I went there
as a backup knowing that it was a short term
affair and I was looking to go start somewhere else.
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And they were kind of on the out with Randall
in Philadelphia and new coaching staff with Ray Rhose and
John Gruden, and they were like, come on, come on,
come on in and ended up working well, started four
years in Philadelphia, so it was good. I'm really surprised
to hear the story because I honestly we've worked together
ten years and I had the order mixed up. Yeah,
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And what surprises me is you're a guy that is
starting in the NFL and you say you're in your twenties. Yep,
you know time is up in Detroit now. It seems
to me that at that point in time, a lot
of kids in their twenties would go, I'm going for
a starting job somewhere else. Yeah, I'm not going to
take this.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I'm not a backup, but you say you willingly did
this because you thought it would lead to something else.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And on top of that, I had a chance to
sign with the Rams at that point, and chance to
sign with the Rams. Believe he was Chuck Knox for
a second stint. Came back and Jim Everett had just left.
I think he just left and went to the New
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Orleans I believe, And so they were kind of they
were on the because this was yeah, ninety four somewhere
around there, and so yeah, Jim had left and they
were searching for and you remember who ended up starting
that year. I remember a guy named TJ. Rubley. Oh
my god, I do end up starting for the Rams.
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But I had a chance to come here. I go
to go to the Rams for a little bit more
money too, and I was I was close because I
was like, oh, I get to be back in LA
and play for the Rams. Let's go do that. And
my agent was the one in my air going, you
know what, go to Dallas, be there for a year.
You'll win. You guys, they just won back to back
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super Bowl. There'll be a lot of attentionion on you.
You're gonna play you're gonna play some games. And he
ended up being right, And I signed with Dallas for
a year and then went to phillip Here for four.
So yeah, but yeah, I thought I thought I thought
Detroit was the was the norm though.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, and you've talked about it in the past, but
you're in Detroit. Just talk about that and talk about
the difference in Dallas. Even talk about the planes for
people that haven't heard the story.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, So you know, I come from usc where
you know, you feel like everything is good and gravy
and they treat you well, and to football school and
you get a lot of attention, and you go to Detroit,
who had just come off a four and twelve season
and hadn't done anything really at all in the in
the entire decade of the eighties, and just to losing franchise.
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They had fired the coach a year before. Wayne font
took over mid season, had a really good run, a
good enough run for them to hire him full time
as the head coach. So it was his first full
year as head coach in Detroit in nineteen eighty nine,
and get drafted there and you know, I think people
know the story. I slipped in the draft of the
sixth round, so I was not I was disappointed obviously
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not getting drafted higher. But then on top of that,
you got to go to Detroit. So I was like, oh,
they added insult to injury. But the beauty of it
is I did get a chance to play with Barry
Sanders for five years, so that was that was very
very cool. And but you go there and you walk
in and the facilities right there at the Silver Dome.
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And now the Silver Dome was built in the early
seventies and had a lot of wear and tear on it,
and the offices were there, the practice facilities was right
there at the Silver Dome in the parking lot. It
was as it was almost like run like a high
school program, a good high school program in California. Where
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the equipment room was was okay, and the weight room
was very very tiny. And and then and then just
the way we traveled and the way they put us up,
you know, in training camp, we you know, we had
sometimes there were three people in a dorm room, and
and then we traveled there were big linemen, three hundred
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pounds linemen on a plane that they would sit three
to a row. When we traveled and this was even
traveling across the country. If it went from Detroit to
San Francisco, it was the same plane, and so it
was just a tight trip. And then everybody shared a
room on the road. You know, that's college stuff. You
know in college, there's always a roommate in college and
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that's the norm. And then at SC when you became
a senior, you got your own room. But at Detroit
everybody everybody shared a room as well. And if you
didn't want to share a room, you had to pay
for it out of your own pocket. That's how it worked.
That's work to the NFL. Yeah, a lot of guys say, yeah,
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that's what I thought. Welcome to the NFL. So it's
been five years there and everybody was like, man, this
is terrible. And then throughout that five years there were
different guys come from different or other organizations going, man,
this is so raggedy here with the world. No wonder
why they can't win here, and no wonder why they
can't win. And I was like, yeah, but this is
the NFL. That's the way it is. And I go
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to Dallas, signed with Dallas after five years in Detroit,
and remember I told you Detroit, the facilities, the offices
were right there at the Silverdome, you know, built into
the Silverdome, which is in itself when you think about
it as crazy because most teams haven't have their headquarters
separate from the actual stadium, and Detroit didn't, and practice
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facility was right in the parking lot. And I go
to Dallas and they said they picked me up and
said we're going to take you to Valley Ranch. I said,
what's Valley Ranch. Oh, yeah, that's the headquarters of the Cowboys.
Valley Ranch. Okay. I thought, we're not going to Texas Stadium.
I thought that's where every team had their their headquarters.
We go to Valley Ranch. It's about fifty acres and
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they got a whole big ranch style offices and the
the locker room is three times the size of the
one in Detroit. They got jacuzzi's and steam and everything
you could think of and imagine like it was a
resort at Valley Ranch. And then they had two giant
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practice fields. They had a track around, they had a
basketball court and racquetball courts and everything within this facility.
And I'm like, man, this is where you guys practice
and come every day. Oh yeah, this is it, this
is it. Then we took our first road trip. Say, okay,
you know, you know, how do they do this seating
because it's you know, I know it's gonna be tight
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on the plane. They go, no, no, we were on
a seven forty seven. Pretty much everybody got their own row.
You just pick your row. I'm like okay. And then
I was like, where's the rooming list? Is there a room?
Who we got to pick our roommates? Oh? No, everybody
gets their own room. Everybody gets their own room. And
then training camp training camp is like, uh yeah, okay,
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we gotta pick out who were because I went there
and signed there in March. So I'm thinking, you know,
mini camps are like figuring out who you're gonna room
with in training camp because that's an intimate experience. And
in Detroit everybody had a roommate again, and you're thinking, okay,
I got to figure out the right guy to room
with their in training camp because six weeks and you're
gonna be with that guy twenty four to seven. And
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you're like, no, no, no, everybody gets their own room.
Everybody gets their own room. Not only that Fred, they
had to deal with with with Uh, what's what's the company? God,
I forget, It's like the equipment company. And they make
these uh they make these gators, right, these these things
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that you know, you've seen them, the gator. They they
do like a maintenance. Guys have these little carts right
that they drive around. They put things in the back. Anyway,
everybody had gators to drive around. Everybody had gaters to
drive around to and from practice, to and from meals.
And so you drove these things or they had a
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golf cart to drive around and that was provided for you.
So every guy got one of those. And in Detroit
it was either walking or you had to bring a
bike to ride to and from the meals to practice,
to get back and forth. It was again, it was
night and day, and it was it was special, and
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it was the way you should, you know, run an organization.
Because the main thing. And I'd asked Jerry, like, why
do you guys, why do you lay it out so
so much like this? Because I want the players to
have one thing on their mind, and I want them
to win. I want them to practice and focus on football.
I don't want them to come in here and worry
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about you know what kind of plane we're traveling on,
how uncomfortable I'm going to be on an eight hour
or five hour flight. I don't want them worried about, oh,
is the hotel gon have room service after ten o'clock.
I don't want them to worry about, you know, is
there going to be food at the facility for breakfast
or for lunch or for dinner. I want them to
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focus on football. And he was right, you know, and
they had that run in the nineties, but that's how
he set it up to begin with, and that's the
way it still is over there now. Jerry obviously has
his issues on other levels, but in terms of running
a franchise and making everything first class, he is top notch.
And I think similar with the Dodgers. People criticize the Dodgers, right,
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and they're like, oh, they do all this, and they
pay the players. You know, they take care of the
players too. One other team has two planes. I mean
that ain't cheap. I mean, it's one thing in football
to have to say, you go, you may have two planes. Right,
in football, okay, let's do two. You're only traveling nine
times a year. Baseball you're traveling eighty one times a year.
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And for a team to have two planes, one just
for the players, that's unheard of. That's heard of. But
it speaks to why you know, everybody wants to be
a Dodger. What a great story that was.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, that was a great story and you buttoned it
up with and now look how the Dodgers do it,
and you're right, that is such a big part of
it to that point. All right, now, Rodney, we talked
about it some time ago and it was pooh poohed.
Then maybe that named Cody Bellinger popping up, isn't it.
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It is popping up now. But we brought this up
like three weeks ago to be fair. But now it's
you're starting to see it more. You're starting to hear
it more. Would that be a nice reunion for Cody Bellinger?
And if you look at his numbers, because I've done
a lot a deep dive on Kyle Tucker, I'm a
Kyle Tucker fan.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Because I told you I play Fantasy Baseball, so I
really know guy stats. I'm a Kyle Tucker fan. I'm
not a Kyle Tucker fan of ten years, forty million
a year. I'm not that big of a fan. And
if you really look at the stats, and granted he's
been hurt the last couple of years too talk around
and off, Cody's stats are almost as good year to
year and he's going to be five years and a
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lot less money. Yeah, would you think they take a
run at him?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, Cody might be. I would to say half, but
almost half if the numbers that they've thrown out about
Kyle Tucker true, Yeah, you might be able to get
Cody for half of that less than half Rodney. Yeah. Yeah.
And if that's the case, is Kyle Tucker that much
better than Cody Bellinger? Besily a guy that's a what
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a fan favorite when he was here? A reunion knows,
the system knows, the team knows the players. Yeah. I
don't know if I'd spend double the money or even
more than double the money for Kyle Tucker when I
can get Cody Bellinger. As you mentioned, you know, the
stats are not that far all from each other. Now,
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let's throw this into the mix.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So let's say you decide we're not we're not gonna
we're not gonna dabble in free agency. We want to
make a trade. Well, the Great because you can't get
away from Harrison Vader. His name is out there. Jenn
Duran of Boston. That guy can play. I do not
kid yourself. That guy can play. I like him a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And he's young too, right, he's like twenty four or
twenty five something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I think they have like a year and a half
or two years of team control too.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, yeah, I like I like him just as he
feels you know, he feels like to me, he feels
like remember what they were saying about Tommy Edmonds. He
just felt like a Dodger, Like we had an eye
on him for years and we just wanted him in
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a Dodger uniform because he fits our He fits our,
our philosophy. He looks like a Dodger. He looks like
he would be good in a Dodger uniform. He really does.
I mean, I like his attitude. I like his versatility.
He's athletic, young player. I think he would thrive as
a Dodger, I really do. And talent. He's got talent
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to be, you know, one of the top players on
your team. And he wouldn't have to be though with
the Dodgers. He just could work himself in.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There's one name. Here's another name, Brendan Donovan. We heard
about him at the trade deadline. He had a good
year last year, by the way. And then Stephen Kwan
of Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
A difficult lot, it is. But right, everybody in including
the next door neighbor, knows how difficult it is to
deal with Cleveland. So what do you think because Kwan
is still under control and they would have to trade
or yeah, yeah, no, he's out of control. Yeah, so
dealing with Cleveland. Even our David Basset said that it's
just very difficult to deal with Cleveland. They would ask
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for the world.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, if that group, if you can get Duran, I'd
certainly you might be the cheapest, right he might be.
I'd sign off on that in a heartbeat. But again,
the problem isn't a problem. I'll just say, you know
the problem when they come to the Dodgers, they're going
to ask for an awful lot. Well, the Dodgers have
an awful lot. That's oh, you know, is that a problem?
It depends what an awful lot turns out to be.
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The one name I'm hearing is Amma Shechan. We suggested
that a couple of weeks back but as I hear
that name, I'm reading they are reluctant. They think Emma
Sheen is a real the real deal. He's not some
fly by night guy. They think he can pitch. If
you remember they traded Ryan Pepio to Tampa Bay, remember
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that deal, yep, And there was a question, boy, you're
giving up an awful lot.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Pep came in and lit it up for a real
quick minute as a rookie. Right, he brought him up
and he had some great starts.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And Pepio has been hurt with Tampa Bay, but he
is an effective major league starter. He's not an ACE,
but he's certainly a two or three. My sense is
they believe Shan will be better than Ryan Pepiov, and
that would be the guy that most teams would ask
for if they were going to deal with the Dodgers
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and want a pitcher. So that seems like a pretty
big give. So you got to get something good in return.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, I mean, I like Ian Imachen the way he
stepped in when all the starters went down and what
he did, and then you know, yeah, they moved him
to the bullpen. He had a shaky start or shaky
outing once or twice. But that's not his role. And
you gotta, you gotta, that's a role you got to
fit yourself into. But I like him. I mean, he's
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got a number of pitches he throws in the upper nineties.
I like his attitude. He's got some dog in him
to Fred, I like Hima Sheen. It take a lot
for me to get rid get rid of him or
give him up, don't forget.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Eric Dickerson joins the program at one o'clock only come back.
Dylan her Nanda's at the Times joins us. Oh yeah,
welcome back, full full, full show. Eric Dickinson joins us
in the two o'clock hour, Rodney Pete, Fred.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Rogan on a beautiful clear after the rain hump day.
Let's go Freddy. All right, let's bring out our good
friend Dylan Hernanda's at the Times. Dylan, how are you.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Good?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Glad to hear you're still on that. That little intro
there kind of surprised me a little bit when they
introduced it as the Rodney t Show, Like, wait, where
did fred go?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Hey? That's how you find out here? Dylan. You know
that's about it.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
You don't hear your name and you're out the simple
h Okay, you know what I want to talk about? Well,
because we didn't do it in the first segment, Lebron
he makes us come back last night twelve assists Lakers win.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
How good you think these guys can be this year?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I think, you know, I mean, yesterday was certainly I think,
like a really really popsy side, right, I mean I
think you know when we were kind of I think
a lot of us were obviously wondering what is this
team going to look like when Lebron comes back?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
You know, And a lot of.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
It just kind of had to do with, right, you know,
the fact that like you know, Donsitch and Reeves are
kind of now the clear you know, one two options
offensively and kind of where does Lebron say in all that?
You know how And obviously it wasn't a question of like,
you know, skill set or basketball like we know obviously
Lebron can adjust to kind of everything, But it would
be just like how much would he kind of buy
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into maybe you.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Know, taking a backseat to those guys.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Now, you know, he himself said, you know, cardiovascularly right,
that he's not quite up to you know, his usual standard.
So it could just be that he was kind of
really just kind of playing within himself. You know, it's
kind of managed fatigue. But he certainly didn't seem like
he minded not taking that many shots. I mean, Rie
Hakimura shot the ball more right, and he really, you know,
for large stretches of the game, you know, especially when
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the ball was in Luca's hands, you saw Lebron just
kind of stacking in the corner really just kind of
clearing out space. And he seemed to be okay with that,
right and then you know, kind of at the start
of that fourth you know, end of the third quarter,
started that fourth quarter, you know, there was kind of
an opportunity for him to kind of play the facilitator,
be kind of the full crumb of the offense, you know,
so and he gave him like, you know, three four.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Strong minutes there. But really, I think.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You know, I would be kind of encouraged, I guess
by the fact that, at least for a game, he was,
you know, kind of willing to I guess, maybe not
disrupt the good things that they have going and just
kind of play a part as opposed to you know,
kind of being like the focal point of everything, which
he has been throughout his you know, twenty three year career.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, the focal point. But also I mean with Lebron,
isn't it damn if he does damn if he doesn't.
You know, he got criticized in early part of his
year because he didn't take the last shot. And you know,
basketball people as well, he made the right basketball play. Yeah,
but superstars take the last shot. They go one on two,
one on three and take the last shot. Kobe, Michael Jordan,
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those guys would want the last shot. Lebron passes up
the last shot oftentimes. And then now, you know, how
is he gonna be? Is he going to be a
selfish guy that wants the ball and disrupt all that?
I think he is comfortable in that. And when he
says Luca is now the number one guy and in
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the face, I take him at his word with that
because I think that deep down he's he's more of
a complete basketball player that is willing to give up
a shot to get a better one if it's Luco
or even Austin Reeves. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yeah, I'm with you on that, you know, and I
think a lot of the right. I mean a lot
of the questions with Lebron have kind of been you know,
he's like off the court, right obviously, like he's a
guy he likes attention, you know, he right, he draws
out announcements and stuff, but it seems like he likes it,
you know. And the fact that you know, he's kind
of passive aggressive when he's not happy sometimes, you know,
it does kind of create an environment, or has in
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the past where he's kind of fester, you know. And
I think that that's kind of where the questioning kind
of came from right now.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
That said, you know, tier.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Point Rodney, he does always kind of make the right
basketball play like whatever, you know, kind of like you know,
knucklehead of things he might do or say off the court.
On the court, he usually makes the right decision, you know.
And I think it would actually speak you know, I again, right,
I mean, I'm sure you're going to get a variety
of opinions on this. I think it would speak a
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lot to his character. You know, the fact that he
can kind of recognize very kind of objectively where he
has and in his career, where Luca's in his career,
where Austin Reeves is in his career, and just kind
of like make a you know, kind of very sober
calculationist to Okay, what is it that we need to
do as a team, you know, to to you know,
to win a championship.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
And you're right because I think you know, at the
beginning of.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
The season, we're looking at this Lakers team and you know,
they were going to probably be in that five to
eight range in the in the Western Conference, right, you know,
you're looking at them kind of being with the Warriors,
and you know, you know, I mean, the Clippers have
kind of fallen off, but you know, we thought maybe
the Clippers would be there, maybe san Antonio right, kind
of in that group. But if Lebron is kind of
willing to you know, look, he's not going to average
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eleven points this year, right, He's too good for that.
But you know, if he's maybe you know, kind of
in that sixteen to eighteen range and just kind of
willing to kind of play more of a role, I mean,
that's a great, great role player obviously, right, or a
great peripheral player. What we saw yesterday, I mean really
in that stretch, right, that was really when they kind
of opened up that gap there early in the fourth quarter.
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I mean, he's in the middle of everything, you know,
and if you can give them that, I do think
the Lakers you have to really kind of start paying
attention to them, maybe as you know, a team that
can exceed all of our expectations, then maybe make a
run to the finals.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Here's a I think happens.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think Lebron turns it on what he needs to,
and if he doesn't need to, he'll do exactly what
needs to be done. He'll be a facilitator. He'll stand
off in the corner in case people collapse on Loca,
He'll be there. I think he will do that, you know.
I mean, I'd always like what he does. But I'll
tell you this. He does make the right basketball play
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point ninety nine percent of the time, and that's what
got him in trouble early in his career when he
would pass up that final shot. He does make the
right play. So I think he will do the right
thing here, and I think he'll turn it on if
they're in trouble, if need be, if he needs to
assert himself. But last night they struggled defensively. Now you
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can make the argument that Lebron is back one game.
The rotations are off and it's going to take some
time for them to gel there. That would be my
only concern, Dylan, that would be it.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Yeah, and I agree with that, you know, and I
think we saw, you know, in particular, you know, kind
of the one group of player that was out on
the court at the same time that kind of struggled, right,
was when it was Luca and Reeves and Lebron, Right,
those three guys. Now, I'm not saying that they can't
fix that at some point. Again, those our three right,
smart players, right, obviously very adaptable guys, but you know, yesterday, yeah,
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kind of having those three guys out on the court
together did.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Seem to be those were probably like the shakiest stretches
that the team had.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
And I'm with you, you know, like that said, you know,
when it was just two of those guys out there
at a time, you know, whether it was you know,
Luke and Lebron, Reeves and Lebron Reeves and Donsic, right,
you know, that kind of seemed to go a little
bit better.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
My guess is, you.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Know, the Lakers will kind of adjust to kind of
what they're seeing and if you know, they need a
little bit more de because it been me's playing two
guys at a time instead of maybe three.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
My guess is that that's what they'll do, all.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Right, Dyllan switching gears to the Rams real quick for me.
You wrote that the Rams are legitimate title contenders, man,
and I agree with you. In a game where they
didn't play well, obviously Seattle didn't play well either, and
you know, saym through four picks, they still found a
way to win. And then watching Philadelphia and Detroit the
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other night, it just feels like, I don't know if
there's a better team in the NFC than the Rams
right now.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah, And I think you know what was really cool
about being at that game on Sunday at so Far
was just, you know, when a team right kind of
makes these big runs, you kind of feel it right
during the season, you know, obviously with the Dodgers there
are various points where you kind of feel it.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
What I thought was really cool was actually right.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
When the when the Seahawks kicker missed that sixty one
yard field goal attempt at the end, the stadium actually
shook right. And you don't see that very much at SOFI.
It is kind of a semi regular thing at Dodgers Stadium,
you know, and that tells me kind of about the
level of like engagement of the fans, right, I mean,
you know, whatever it was like last night, you know,
say what the Lakers kind of taking the opposite steam.
(30:55):
I think people are kind of right there. They are
still not sure if this team is going to and
then you kind of feel that energy like in the stands.
The fact that that stadium was kind of shaking tells me,
you know, the fans that are out there every weekend
and week out, they're starting to believe in this. And
you know, I think you know, I kind of described
too in the commat I wrote about this, how you know,
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when we're in the interview room and we based coming
in afterwards, you just kind of hear all you know,
it's not just the music coming from the locker room
next door, but all the hooting and hollering, and I
think you really kind of get this sense now, like
the players are really kind of starting to believe this, right,
And that's when look and look we're elevens, you know,
weeks into the season.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Anything. You know, they got plenty of time to screw
this up.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
But you know, as of right now, you do kind
of get that feeling of like, Okay, this is kind
of coming together, and everybody that's involved, from from the
players all the way to the fans are kind of
starting to believe that something special is happening. And you know,
there's good reason to believe that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I mean, I love that.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Pass Roosh upfront, right, I mean, that's you know, I know,
the attention went to the defensive backs and rightfully so
right the intercepted for of Donald's passes. But a lot
of that I do think kind of came from the
pressure that the Rams are able to put up front,
you know, and that's going to be effective.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Obviously, we got to say who they played well.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I look at it like this. They beat Seattle. That
was great, Seattle didn't play well. And I asked Benny
this question the other day, Dylan, So what was it, Uh,
the Rams beat Seattle or Seattle didn't play well?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Which one is it?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I mean, I think it was too you know, I
mean you could flip it on the other way too, though, right,
is that the Rams didn't play well? Right, And you
know the fact that kind of both teams were kind
of in this in positions where maybe they couldn't do
what they usually do, right, Darnold not able to throw
the ball downfield, you know, and on the other side,
Stafford kind of missing these passes, you know. At that point,
(32:45):
I do think it kind of comes down to, Okay,
who's going to kind of do those like little things
that are going to make the difference in the game.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
To me, the rams on in that game.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
All right, Well, you're a winner in our book. Every
time you come on, Dylan, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Again.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Like I said last time, you know, I didn't hear
that's growing up.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
So I really appreciate all the kind words I guess
here every time.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I'm on, Yeah, kind word which means that we got
to get into it one of these times in the
near future.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
We haven't had one of our our little slugfests in
a while. Man, I'm feeling I'm happy.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
You are doing well, right, are you at this point?
I mean, so you know, hey, look, maybe we talked
to Chargers next time, you know, right, and then we
can get into it there.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I'll say this, Rodney, honest to God, and I'm not exaggerating.
It's taken me eight months to get over the last one.
It has taken a while to get over the last
one you two have. So maybe we're more like than
we are different.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Maybe that's the thing. We're figuring that out over time.
All right, don't take it easy, man.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
No, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
See you guys.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
One o'clock top of the hour. Good friend Eric Dickerson
joins the show. And when we come back, another one.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Of our good friends stops bying. Right, that's try back
on a hump day, Rodney Pete, fred Rogaine. Let's go, Freddy,
Let's get our buddy on. Let's do it. Let's bring
him on, all right, And now.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
From the court to the court room with Jacob em Ronni.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
All right, now are week we checked with our good
friend Jacob em Ronni. Jacob, how are you today?
Speaker 6 (34:31):
I'm doing wonderful. Gentlemen, how are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Can we start with something right off the top?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I want to get to it, okay, because we talked
about it last week, and you know, we talked about
the importance of it, why you did it? But how
is the new number eight hundred three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Going?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
What's been the reaction? How is it going? Are people
finding out about it?
Speaker 6 (34:55):
The reaction has been amazing. You know, I can't tell
you how many any people are excited about not having
to you know, google us or go search our number.
They just know that this is a phone number that
they can remember without even thinking about it. Many of
them tell me that their kids are now singing the
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new jingle that we've made which includes.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Our number in it.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
But really, you know, in a more serious note, the reason,
you know, we came up with a number that is
tremendously easier, which is you know, three, four five, six, seven,
eight nine, eight hundred, you know one eight hundred, three four, five, six,
seven eight nine is because when you're involved in an
accident and the last thing you want to do is
go start searching for numbers of people that you know,
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you trust and people you want to talk to for direction.
So the overall has been amazing, and you know, I'm
just happy that we're making it easier for all of
the amazing people of California to be able.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
To reach us.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, no, it is. I mean it's like the songs
right that had the number What was that song in
the seventies or eighties whatever, it was eight six seven
five three old? Remember that song? I do remember that. Yeah,
I think the time in Morris Day did the seven
ninety anyway anyway, But no, it matters. It matters when
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you can remember that, Jacob and very smart of you
guys to make that happen. Also smart. Right now, it
looks like the Lakers JJ Reddick and Lebron, James Luca
and everybody looks very very smart. Right now, Lebron comes back,
They're eleven and four, they're rolling. What's your take on
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the Lakers right now? I know everybody's kind of going
crazy and everybody wants to leap forward and put them
into the finals already, but realistically, where do you see
the Lakers right now?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
And out the place? First of all, I want to apologize.
You know, thing about having a window looking out into
downtown LA is that you get to see everything, but
then you also get all the noise in the background.
So I want to, you know, apologize for that. Listen,
you know, I think the most exciting thing that I
walked away from last night is that Lebron came into
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the game. He plugged himself in. There was a stat
last night that the amounts of time that he was
holding onto a ball was less than two and a
half seconds, meaning that he basically just came in there
to help facilitate and it looked, it looked seamless. You know,
(37:37):
you would think that based on how Luca and Austin
Reeves have gelled and how they play, you know, off
of each other, that is there going to be enough
balls for Lebron when he comes back. And you can
tell that, you know, years of experience has showed that
he just stepped in, passed the ball a lot, and
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everybody got the ball and it looked, it looked really good.
This team really looks dangerous with Lebron in there. And
who would have thought, I mean, who could even say
that Lebron James is not going to be a major
upgrade for us. We didn't have him for the first
fourteen games and he's fresh. So I loved I loved
that game.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Well.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
I think a lot of Laker fans felt injured that
he wasn't playing, And if they did, they should have
called eight hundred three four five six seven eight nine.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
If you can feel you were injured because.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Someone is not playing, well, you need to call Jacob
a eight hundred three four five six seven eight nine.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Is that right? Jacob.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Yeah, you know. I mean we take calls like that
as well. I don't know if there's much we can
do to help, but you know, I get a lot
of our fellow sports fans who call me just because
they want to discuss sports or they just want to
vent about someone not playing, you know, as well as
they should. So, yes, that number of eight hundred three, four, five, six, seven,
(38:58):
eight nine is used for a lot of purposes in
addition to if you're injured in an accident.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Perfect, we have to establish that, Jacob. But I want
any confusion with the new number. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
I got you, I got you, Fred.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
All right, listen, our listeners love wing. You answer a question,
so let me give it to you. If you're involved
injured in an accident, how does an insurance company evaluate
your injuries and does your property damage have an effect
on how much they'll pay you for your injuries?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah? You know.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
So it's important to sort of get a behind, you know,
behind the closed door view of what occurs when we
represent a client and they're injured, they go and see
their doctors and they get the treatment that they feel
they need. At some point, the treatment stops and we
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send a demand package out to the insurance company, and
it does not fail every single time. The insurance company
tries to do whatever where they can in order to
devalue the client's injuries and not pay them anything. And
one of the very critical things that they try to use,
if it helps them or if it's in their favor,
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is the damages to the vehicle. So I'm sure you
know you have spoken to a friend who's been involved
in an accident and there's not a lot of damage
visible damage to their car, but they got hammered pretty
bad and they feel injured. Well, in those situations, insurance
companies make it very very difficult and don't want to
(40:37):
pay somebody because they say, look at the damages to
the car, there's barely any damage. How could your client
be injured? And those are the times where we have
a major obstacle and we have to go back to
make sure that the property damage of the car has
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been very very specifically analyzed by whatever body shop the
client took it to. We basically take the estimate for
that damage, even if it could be maybe one thousand dollars,
and we clearly go through line by line to find
out what damages were caused. And sometimes you may not
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see superficial damages, but there may be damages to the undercarriage.
There may be damages beyond what you can see, and
in those situations we use those in order to substantiate
our client's injuries. But it is important to know that
insurance companies do use the property damage to the vehicle
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of our clients as a measuring or an opportunity in
order to dispute whether a client's injured. So when you
see a car that's like destroyed, it's very hard for
an insurance company to say that the person inside the
car was not injured. But when you don't have a
lot of property damage, it makes it much more difficult.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Interesting, all right, Well again, if you find yourself in
a tough spot, you've got to remember the new number.
We talk about it every day, and the reason we
bring it up is because Jacob has been helping people
in southern California for over twenty five years and everybody
needs to know the new number. Eight hundred three, four, five, six, seven,
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eight nine.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Jacob. Thank you for hanging out today.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
Man, Thank you guys, always a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Be safe, okay now, our other friend.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Ed a lot of friends today. Well, here's the thing
about Ed.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
He hates when we call him that because he feels
like he has a rectile dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
But he does not.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well I don't know if he does or not. But
he'll be here after the top of the hour to
ask him for Frey.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
All right, I will
All right, here we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney Peter three
hour show on a five seventy LA Sports Rodney, How
you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey Freddie, I'm doing good, man, I'm doing good. How
you doing doing well? All good?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
So we have ed Eric Dickerson joining the program coming
up at one o'clock today. That's always a lot of fun.
So let's get through everything we need to get through
because when he.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Gets in here, I think we're talking to the exits
and o's and football at ED today. That's what I
was going to say.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Let's let's get through everything we have to get through
before he gets here, because at that point we don't
know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We don't. We don't always entertaining. Though.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I wonder if you'll tell some funeral stories today. I
love those where people come for a play of food,
they show up late and they get a plate of food.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I love that story. He's so morbid, Fred, you want
to hear the funeral story? I love those? All right,
So let's get to some stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Let's get started with the Dodgers, and as we now
zero in will be through Thanksgiving, winter meeting time, and
sometimes things happen at the winter meetings, some free agents
are signed, others.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Last year, you remember, Blake Snell got signed very quickly,
very un Scott Boris, like, I might add, Blake Snow
wanted to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think Blake Snell told Scott Boris, Hey, as soon
as the Dodgers call, sign, let it be known. I'm
not trying to fool around. I'm not trying to entertain
any other teams. If the numbers or money is close,
let's sign well.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And let me tell you why that proves to be
so important, Because if you have been keeping an eye
on things since the season ended, you realize Blake Snell
is everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh, Blake Snell is everywhere. Yeah, he's Dodger ambassador number one. Right.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
If there was an opening of an envelope, Blake Snow
would show up. He is everywhere. He is loving this.
I mean it's like he has waited his whole life
for this.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah. Yeah, he really is, and he's embracing it. And
you know the thing about it is that you don't
know until you know. And that happens in a lot
of industries, a lot of places. You know, Fred, you've
worked a long time. You know places that are good
and bad, and then you hear about things, you hear stories,
and then you get there and you go, oh wow,
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it's either this is even better when I thought, or
it's man, this is as bad as it's is worse
than I thought, and it's not really too much in between.
And I think when people come to the Dodgers, like
Blake Snell, after hearing from other players and hearing the
noise and hearing how players are treated and how first
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class it is, and then you get here and you go,
oh wow, this is this is what it's supposed to
be like, this is what it is supposed to be.
Like I felt that way when I went to the
Cowboys in the nineties.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I did.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I thought Detroit was that's the norm, that's how every
NFL team operates, as just the way it is. And
I went to Dallas and saw that everything was first
class and meals and travel and everything done to support
the players, and say, wow, this is this is how
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it's going to be. And I think Blake Snell is
in that, in that mode of this is this is
where I want to be. I don't want to be
anywhere else. And you watch, you watch the season, Blake
Snell has next year. Just watch the season. Now, he's
got a year under his belt being a Dodger, and
he was he was pretty good. Obvious he got hurt,
but uh, you know, other than that that one start
in the World Series, I think he was pretty lights out.
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Watch his season next year. I think he is. If
he's not in the running for Cy Young, I'd be shocked.
The only thing about Blake Snell, there's only one issue, Rodney.
How healthy will he be? That's it. Yeah, he's going
to be healthy when he needs to be.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
We know the second half of the season always held
that's not even a problem, and really that's when they
need him. But if he's healthy all year long, you
could be right by the way, correct me. You said
you thought Detroit that was the norm. Then you went
to Dallas. Where was Philadelphia in That wasn't Detroit Philadelphia Dallas.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, it was it was Detroit, Dallas, Philadelphia. You went,
I went up from Yeah, wait a minute, you went
from Detroit. Yeah, then you went as a backup to Dallas.
As a backup to Dallas for a year, and and
I it's ironic because I went there because the two
backups prior to me going there, went on and started
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somewhere else. They played enough games where I think it
was Steve Berline was one of them, and then I
think Bernie Kolar got another job somewhere too. But yeah,
it was like sixteen game season back then. Because quarterbacks
could get hit. You were as a backup. You were
guaranteed to probably start at least two games and playing
a lot, and that was no exception. I ended up
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starting four games for Dallas and and then I got
a larger contract to go to Philadelphia after that.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
See that's what I was thinking. So you went for
a year to be the backup, knowing that going there
would get your starting job, and then you went to
Philadelphia and you played really well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah. Absolutely, I just it was like a stepping stone. Basically,
it was like go here. It was like that, you know,
kind of like the way the Dodgers pitchers. Pitchers come
to the Dodgers. They'll fix me, they'll get me right
and and they'll get the most out of me. And
then I went to Dallas knowing it wasn't it gonna be.
It wasn't gonna be a long term thing. I was young,
I was only I was still in my twenties. It
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was like, I'm not gonna I can't. First of all,
I think I would be killed by all the USC
alums if I would be Troy Aigman's backup for you know,
for seven years. That would that would not sit well
with a lot of USC Trojans. But I went there
as a backup knowing that it was a short term
affair and I was looking to go start somewhere else.
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And they were kind of on the out with Randall
in Philadelphia and new coaching staff with Ray Rhose and
John Gruden, and they were like, come on, come on,
come on in and ended up working well, started four
years in Philadelphia, so it was good. I'm really surprised
to hear the story because I honestly we've worked together
ten years and I had the order mixed up. Yeah,
(06:20):
And what surprises me is you're a guy that is
starting in the NFL and you say you're in your twenties. Yep,
you know time is up in Detroit now. It seems
to me that at that point in time, a lot
of kids in their twenties would go, I'm going for
a starting job somewhere else. Yeah, I'm not going to
take this.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I'm not a backup, but you say you willingly did
this because you thought it would lead to something else.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And on top of that, I had a chance to
sign with the Rams at that point, and chance to
sign with the Rams. Believe he was Chuck Knox for
a second stint. Came back and Jim Everett had just left.
I think he just left and went to the New
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Orleans I believe, And so they were kind of they
were on the because this was yeah, ninety four somewhere
around there, and so yeah, Jim had left and they
were searching for and you remember who ended up starting
that year. I remember a guy named TJ. Rubley. Oh
my god, I do end up starting for the Rams.
(07:29):
But I had a chance to come here. I go
to go to the Rams for a little bit more
money too, and I was I was close because I
was like, oh, I get to be back in LA
and play for the Rams. Let's go do that. And
my agent was the one in my air going, you
know what, go to Dallas, be there for a year.
You'll win. You guys, they just won back to back
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super Bowl. There'll be a lot of attentionion on you.
You're gonna play you're gonna play some games. And he
ended up being right, And I signed with Dallas for
a year and then went to phillip Here for four.
So yeah, but yeah, I thought I thought I thought
Detroit was the was the norm though.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, and you've talked about it in the past, but
you're in Detroit. Just talk about that and talk about
the difference in Dallas. Even talk about the planes for
people that haven't heard the story.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, So you know, I come from usc where
you know, you feel like everything is good and gravy
and they treat you well, and to football school and
you get a lot of attention, and you go to Detroit,
who had just come off a four and twelve season
and hadn't done anything really at all in the in
the entire decade of the eighties, and just to losing franchise.
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They had fired the coach a year before. Wayne font
took over mid season, had a really good run, a
good enough run for them to hire him full time
as the head coach. So it was his first full
year as head coach in Detroit in nineteen eighty nine,
and get drafted there and you know, I think people
know the story. I slipped in the draft of the
sixth round, so I was not I was disappointed obviously
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not getting drafted higher. But then on top of that,
you got to go to Detroit. So I was like, oh,
they added insult to injury. But the beauty of it
is I did get a chance to play with Barry
Sanders for five years, so that was that was very
very cool. And but you go there and you walk
in and the facilities right there at the Silver Dome.
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And now the Silver Dome was built in the early
seventies and had a lot of wear and tear on it,
and the offices were there, the practice facilities was right
there at the Silver Dome in the parking lot. It
was as it was almost like run like a high
school program, a good high school program in California. Where
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the equipment room was was okay, and the weight room
was very very tiny. And and then and then just
the way we traveled and the way they put us up,
you know, in training camp, we you know, we had
sometimes there were three people in a dorm room, and
and then we traveled there were big linemen, three hundred
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pounds linemen on a plane that they would sit three
to a row. When we traveled and this was even
traveling across the country. If it went from Detroit to
San Francisco, it was the same plane, and so it
was just a tight trip. And then everybody shared a
room on the road. You know, that's college stuff. You
know in college, there's always a roommate in college and
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that's the norm. And then at SC when you became
a senior, you got your own room. But at Detroit
everybody everybody shared a room as well. And if you
didn't want to share a room, you had to pay
for it out of your own pocket. That's how it worked.
That's work to the NFL. Yeah, a lot of guys say, yeah,
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that's what I thought. Welcome to the NFL. So it's
been five years there and everybody was like, man, this
is terrible. And then throughout that five years there were
different guys come from different or other organizations going, man,
this is so raggedy here with the world. No wonder
why they can't win here, and no wonder why they
can't win. And I was like, yeah, but this is
the NFL. That's the way it is. And I go
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to Dallas, signed with Dallas after five years in Detroit,
and remember I told you Detroit, the facilities, the offices
were right there at the Silverdome, you know, built into
the Silverdome, which is in itself when you think about
it as crazy because most teams haven't have their headquarters
separate from the actual stadium, and Detroit didn't, and practice
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facility was right in the parking lot. And I go
to Dallas and they said they picked me up and
said we're going to take you to Valley Ranch. I said,
what's Valley Ranch. Oh, yeah, that's the headquarters of the Cowboys.
Valley Ranch. Okay. I thought, we're not going to Texas Stadium.
I thought that's where every team had their their headquarters.
We go to Valley Ranch. It's about fifty acres and
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they got a whole big ranch style offices and the
the locker room is three times the size of the
one in Detroit. They got jacuzzi's and steam and everything
you could think of and imagine like it was a
resort at Valley Ranch. And then they had two giant
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practice fields. They had a track around, they had a
basketball court and racquetball courts and everything within this facility.
And I'm like, man, this is where you guys practice
and come every day. Oh yeah, this is it, this
is it. Then we took our first road trip. Say, okay,
you know, you know, how do they do this seating
because it's you know, I know it's gonna be tight
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on the plane. They go, no, no, we were on
a seven forty seven. Pretty much everybody got their own row.
You just pick your row. I'm like okay. And then
I was like, where's the rooming list? Is there a room?
Who we got to pick our roommates? Oh? No, everybody
gets their own room. Everybody gets their own room. And
then training camp training camp is like, uh yeah, okay,
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we gotta pick out who were because I went there
and signed there in March. So I'm thinking, you know,
mini camps are like figuring out who you're gonna room
with in training camp because that's an intimate experience. And
in Detroit everybody had a roommate again, and you're thinking, okay,
I got to figure out the right guy to room
with their in training camp because six weeks and you're
gonna be with that guy twenty four to seven. And
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you're like, no, no, no, everybody gets their own room.
Everybody gets their own room. Not only that Fred, they
had to deal with with with Uh, what's what's the company? God,
I forget, It's like the equipment company. And they make
these uh they make these gators, right, these these things
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that you know, you've seen them, the gator. They they
do like a maintenance. Guys have these little carts right
that they drive around. They put things in the back. Anyway,
everybody had gators to drive around. Everybody had gaters to
drive around to and from practice, to and from meals.
And so you drove these things or they had a
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golf cart to drive around and that was provided for you.
So every guy got one of those. And in Detroit
it was either walking or you had to bring a
bike to ride to and from the meals to practice,
to get back and forth. It was again, it was
night and day, and it was it was special, and
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it was the way you should, you know, run an organization.
Because the main thing. And I'd asked Jerry, like, why
do you guys, why do you lay it out so
so much like this? Because I want the players to
have one thing on their mind, and I want them
to win. I want them to practice and focus on football.
I don't want them to come in here and worry
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about you know what kind of plane we're traveling on,
how uncomfortable I'm going to be on an eight hour
or five hour flight. I don't want them worried about, oh,
is the hotel gon have room service after ten o'clock.
I don't want them to worry about, you know, is
there going to be food at the facility for breakfast
or for lunch or for dinner. I want them to
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focus on football. And he was right, you know, and
they had that run in the nineties, but that's how
he set it up to begin with, and that's the
way it still is over there now. Jerry obviously has
his issues on other levels, but in terms of running
a franchise and making everything first class, he is top notch.
And I think similar with the Dodgers. People criticize the Dodgers, right,
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and they're like, oh, they do all this, and they
pay the players. You know, they take care of the
players too. One other team has two planes. I mean
that ain't cheap. I mean, it's one thing in football
to have to say, you go, you may have two planes. Right,
in football, okay, let's do two. You're only traveling nine
times a year. Baseball you're traveling eighty one times a year.
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And for a team to have two planes, one just
for the players, that's unheard of. That's heard of. But
it speaks to why you know, everybody wants to be
a Dodger. What a great story that was.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, that was a great story and you buttoned it
up with and now look how the Dodgers do it,
and you're right, that is such a big part of
it to that point. All right, now, Rodney, we talked
about it some time ago and it was pooh poohed.
Then maybe that named Cody Bellinger popping up, isn't it.
(16:29):
It is popping up now. But we brought this up
like three weeks ago to be fair. But now it's
you're starting to see it more. You're starting to hear
it more. Would that be a nice reunion for Cody Bellinger?
And if you look at his numbers, because I've done
a lot a deep dive on Kyle Tucker, I'm a
Kyle Tucker fan.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Because I told you I play Fantasy Baseball, so I
really know guy stats. I'm a Kyle Tucker fan. I'm
not a Kyle Tucker fan of ten years, forty million
a year. I'm not that big of a fan. And
if you really look at the stats, and granted he's
been hurt the last couple of years too talk around
and off, Cody's stats are almost as good year to
year and he's going to be five years and a
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lot less money. Yeah, would you think they take a
run at him?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, Cody might be. I would to say half, but
almost half if the numbers that they've thrown out about
Kyle Tucker true, Yeah, you might be able to get
Cody for half of that less than half Rodney. Yeah. Yeah.
And if that's the case, is Kyle Tucker that much
better than Cody Bellinger? Besily a guy that's a what
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a fan favorite when he was here? A reunion knows,
the system knows, the team knows the players. Yeah. I
don't know if I'd spend double the money or even
more than double the money for Kyle Tucker when I
can get Cody Bellinger. As you mentioned, you know, the
stats are not that far all from each other. Now,
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let's throw this into the mix.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So let's say you decide we're not we're not gonna
we're not gonna dabble in free agency. We want to
make a trade. Well, the Great because you can't get
away from Harrison Vader. His name is out there. Jenn
Duran of Boston. That guy can play. I do not
kid yourself. That guy can play. I like him a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And he's young too, right, he's like twenty four or
twenty five something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I think they have like a year and a half
or two years of team control too.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, yeah, I like I like him just as he
feels you know, he feels like to me, he feels
like remember what they were saying about Tommy Edmonds. He
just felt like a Dodger, Like we had an eye
on him for years and we just wanted him in
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a Dodger uniform because he fits our He fits our,
our philosophy. He looks like a Dodger. He looks like
he would be good in a Dodger uniform. He really does.
I mean, I like his attitude. I like his versatility.
He's athletic, young player. I think he would thrive as
a Dodger, I really do. And talent. He's got talent
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to be, you know, one of the top players on
your team. And he wouldn't have to be though with
the Dodgers. He just could work himself in.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There's one name. Here's another name, Brendan Donovan. We heard
about him at the trade deadline. He had a good
year last year, by the way. And then Stephen Kwan
of Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
A difficult lot, it is. But right, everybody in including
the next door neighbor, knows how difficult it is to
deal with Cleveland. So what do you think because Kwan
is still under control and they would have to trade
or yeah, yeah, no, he's out of control. Yeah, so
dealing with Cleveland. Even our David Basset said that it's
just very difficult to deal with Cleveland. They would ask
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for the world.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, if that group, if you can get Duran, I'd
certainly you might be the cheapest, right he might be.
I'd sign off on that in a heartbeat. But again,
the problem isn't a problem. I'll just say, you know
the problem when they come to the Dodgers, they're going
to ask for an awful lot. Well, the Dodgers have
an awful lot. That's oh, you know, is that a problem?
It depends what an awful lot turns out to be.
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The one name I'm hearing is Amma Shechan. We suggested
that a couple of weeks back but as I hear
that name, I'm reading they are reluctant. They think Emma
Sheen is a real the real deal. He's not some
fly by night guy. They think he can pitch. If
you remember they traded Ryan Pepio to Tampa Bay, remember
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that deal, yep, And there was a question, boy, you're
giving up an awful lot.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Pep came in and lit it up for a real
quick minute as a rookie. Right, he brought him up
and he had some great starts.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And Pepio has been hurt with Tampa Bay, but he
is an effective major league starter. He's not an ACE,
but he's certainly a two or three. My sense is
they believe Shan will be better than Ryan Pepiov, and
that would be the guy that most teams would ask
for if they were going to deal with the Dodgers
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and want a pitcher. So that seems like a pretty
big give. So you got to get something good in return.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, I mean, I like Ian Imachen the way he
stepped in when all the starters went down and what
he did, and then you know, yeah, they moved him
to the bullpen. He had a shaky start or shaky
outing once or twice. But that's not his role. And
you gotta, you gotta, that's a role you got to
fit yourself into. But I like him. I mean, he's
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got a number of pitches he throws in the upper nineties.
I like his attitude. He's got some dog in him
to Fred, I like Hima Sheen. It take a lot
for me to get rid get rid of him or
give him up, don't forget.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Eric Dickerson joins the program at one o'clock only come back.
Dylan her Nanda's at the Times joins us. Oh yeah,
welcome back, full full, full show. Eric Dickinson joins us
in the two o'clock hour, Rodney Pete, Fred.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Rogan on a beautiful clear after the rain hump day.
Let's go Freddy. All right, let's bring out our good
friend Dylan Hernanda's at the Times. Dylan, how are you.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Good?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Glad to hear you're still on that. That little intro
there kind of surprised me a little bit when they
introduced it as the Rodney t Show, Like, wait, where
did fred go?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Hey? That's how you find out here? Dylan. You know
that's about it.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
You don't hear your name and you're out the simple
h Okay, you know what I want to talk about? Well,
because we didn't do it in the first segment, Lebron
he makes us come back last night twelve assists Lakers win.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
How good you think these guys can be this year?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I think, you know, I mean, yesterday was certainly I think,
like a really really popsy side, right, I mean I
think you know when we were kind of I think
a lot of us were obviously wondering what is this
team going to look like when Lebron comes back?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
You know, And a lot of.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
It just kind of had to do with, right, you know,
the fact that like you know, Donsitch and Reeves are
kind of now the clear you know, one two options
offensively and kind of where does Lebron say in all that?
You know how And obviously it wasn't a question of like,
you know, skill set or basketball like we know obviously
Lebron can adjust to kind of everything, But it would
be just like how much would he kind of buy
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into maybe you.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Know, taking a backseat to those guys.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Now, you know, he himself said, you know, cardiovascularly right,
that he's not quite up to you know, his usual standard.
So it could just be that he was kind of
really just kind of playing within himself. You know, it's
kind of managed fatigue. But he certainly didn't seem like
he minded not taking that many shots. I mean, Rie
Hakimura shot the ball more right, and he really, you know,
for large stretches of the game, you know, especially when
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the ball was in Luca's hands, you saw Lebron just
kind of stacking in the corner really just kind of
clearing out space. And he seemed to be okay with that,
right and then you know, kind of at the start
of that fourth you know, end of the third quarter,
started that fourth quarter, you know, there was kind of
an opportunity for him to kind of play the facilitator,
be kind of the full crumb of the offense, you know,
so and he gave him like, you know, three four.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Strong minutes there. But really, I think.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You know, I would be kind of encouraged, I guess
by the fact that, at least for a game, he was,
you know, kind of willing to I guess, maybe not
disrupt the good things that they have going and just
kind of play a part as opposed to you know,
kind of being like the focal point of everything, which
he has been throughout his you know, twenty three year career.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, the focal point. But also I mean with Lebron,
isn't it damn if he does damn if he doesn't.
You know, he got criticized in early part of his
year because he didn't take the last shot. And you know,
basketball people as well, he made the right basketball play. Yeah,
but superstars take the last shot. They go one on two,
one on three and take the last shot. Kobe, Michael Jordan,
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those guys would want the last shot. Lebron passes up
the last shot oftentimes. And then now, you know, how
is he gonna be? Is he going to be a
selfish guy that wants the ball and disrupt all that?
I think he is comfortable in that. And when he
says Luca is now the number one guy and in
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the face, I take him at his word with that
because I think that deep down he's he's more of
a complete basketball player that is willing to give up
a shot to get a better one if it's Luco
or even Austin Reeves. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yeah, I'm with you on that, you know, and I
think a lot of the right. I mean a lot
of the questions with Lebron have kind of been you know,
he's like off the court, right obviously, like he's a
guy he likes attention, you know, he right, he draws
out announcements and stuff, but it seems like he likes it,
you know. And the fact that you know, he's kind
of passive aggressive when he's not happy sometimes, you know,
it does kind of create an environment, or has in
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the past where he's kind of fester, you know. And
I think that that's kind of where the questioning kind
of came from right now.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
That said, you know, tier.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Point Rodney, he does always kind of make the right
basketball play like whatever, you know, kind of like you know,
knucklehead of things he might do or say off the court.
On the court, he usually makes the right decision, you know.
And I think it would actually speak you know, I again, right,
I mean, I'm sure you're going to get a variety
of opinions on this. I think it would speak a
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lot to his character. You know, the fact that he
can kind of recognize very kind of objectively where he
has and in his career, where Luca's in his career,
where Austin Reeves is in his career, and just kind
of like make a you know, kind of very sober
calculationist to Okay, what is it that we need to
do as a team, you know, to to you know,
to win a championship.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
And you're right because I think you know, at the
beginning of.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
The season, we're looking at this Lakers team and you know,
they were going to probably be in that five to
eight range in the in the Western Conference, right, you know,
you're looking at them kind of being with the Warriors,
and you know, you know, I mean, the Clippers have
kind of fallen off, but you know, we thought maybe
the Clippers would be there, maybe san Antonio right, kind
of in that group. But if Lebron is kind of
willing to you know, look, he's not going to average
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eleven points this year, right, He's too good for that.
But you know, if he's maybe you know, kind of
in that sixteen to eighteen range and just kind of
willing to kind of play more of a role, I mean,
that's a great, great role player obviously, right, or a
great peripheral player. What we saw yesterday, I mean really
in that stretch, right, that was really when they kind
of opened up that gap there early in the fourth quarter.
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I mean, he's in the middle of everything, you know,
and if you can give them that, I do think
the Lakers you have to really kind of start paying
attention to them, maybe as you know, a team that
can exceed all of our expectations, then maybe make a
run to the finals.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Here's a I think happens.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I think Lebron turns it on what he needs to,
and if he doesn't need to, he'll do exactly what
needs to be done. He'll be a facilitator. He'll stand
off in the corner in case people collapse on Loca,
He'll be there. I think he will do that, you know.
I mean, I'd always like what he does. But I'll
tell you this. He does make the right basketball play
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point ninety nine percent of the time, and that's what
got him in trouble early in his career when he
would pass up that final shot. He does make the
right play. So I think he will do the right
thing here, and I think he'll turn it on if
they're in trouble, if need be, if he needs to
assert himself. But last night they struggled defensively. Now you
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can make the argument that Lebron is back one game.
The rotations are off and it's going to take some
time for them to gel there. That would be my
only concern, Dylan, that would be it.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Yeah, and I agree with that, you know, and I
think we saw, you know, in particular, you know, kind
of the one group of player that was out on
the court at the same time that kind of struggled, right,
was when it was Luca and Reeves and Lebron, Right,
those three guys. Now, I'm not saying that they can't
fix that at some point. Again, those our three right,
smart players, right, obviously very adaptable guys, but you know, yesterday, yeah,
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kind of having those three guys out on the court
together did.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Seem to be those were probably like the shakiest stretches
that the team had.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
And I'm with you, you know, like that said, you know,
when it was just two of those guys out there
at a time, you know, whether it was you know,
Luke and Lebron, Reeves and Lebron Reeves and Donsic, right,
you know, that kind of seemed to go a little
bit better.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
My guess is, you.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Know, the Lakers will kind of adjust to kind of
what they're seeing and if you know, they need a
little bit more de because it been me's playing two
guys at a time instead of maybe three.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
My guess is that that's what they'll do, all.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Right, Dyllan switching gears to the Rams real quick for me.
You wrote that the Rams are legitimate title contenders, man,
and I agree with you. In a game where they
didn't play well, obviously Seattle didn't play well either, and
you know, saym through four picks, they still found a
way to win. And then watching Philadelphia and Detroit the
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other night, it just feels like, I don't know if
there's a better team in the NFC than the Rams
right now.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yeah, And I think you know what was really cool
about being at that game on Sunday at so Far
was just, you know, when a team right kind of
makes these big runs, you kind of feel it right
during the season, you know, obviously with the Dodgers there
are various points where you kind of feel it.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
What I thought was really cool was actually right.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
When the when the Seahawks kicker missed that sixty one
yard field goal attempt at the end, the stadium actually
shook right. And you don't see that very much at SOFI.
It is kind of a semi regular thing at Dodgers Stadium,
you know, and that tells me kind of about the
level of like engagement of the fans, right, I mean,
you know, whatever it was like last night, you know,
say what the Lakers kind of taking the opposite steam.
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I think people are kind of right there. They are
still not sure if this team is going to and
then you kind of feel that energy like in the stands.
The fact that that stadium was kind of shaking tells me,
you know, the fans that are out there every weekend
and week out, they're starting to believe in this. And
you know, I think you know, I kind of described
too in the commat I wrote about this, how you know,
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when we're in the interview room and we based coming
in afterwards, you just kind of hear all you know,
it's not just the music coming from the locker room
next door, but all the hooting and hollering, and I
think you really kind of get this sense now, like
the players are really kind of starting to believe this, right,
And that's when look and look we're elevens, you know,
weeks into the season.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Anything. You know, they got plenty of time to screw
this up.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
But you know, as of right now, you do kind
of get that feeling of like, Okay, this is kind
of coming together, and everybody that's involved, from from the
players all the way to the fans are kind of
starting to believe that something special is happening. And you know,
there's good reason to believe that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I mean, I love that.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Pass Roosh upfront, right, I mean, that's you know, I know,
the attention went to the defensive backs and rightfully so
right the intercepted for of Donald's passes. But a lot
of that I do think kind of came from the
pressure that the Rams are able to put up front,
you know, and that's going to be effective.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Obviously, we got to say who they played well.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I look at it like this. They beat Seattle. That
was great, Seattle didn't play well. And I asked Benny
this question the other day, Dylan, So what was it, Uh,
the Rams beat Seattle or Seattle didn't play well?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Which one is it?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I mean, I think it was too you know, I
mean you could flip it on the other way too, though, right,
is that the Rams didn't play well? Right, And you
know the fact that kind of both teams were kind
of in this in positions where maybe they couldn't do
what they usually do, right, Darnold not able to throw
the ball downfield, you know, and on the other side,
Stafford kind of missing these passes, you know. At that point,
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I do think it kind of comes down to, Okay,
who's going to kind of do those like little things
that are going to make the difference in the game.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
To me, the rams on in that game.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
All right, Well, you're a winner in our book. Every
time you come on, Dylan, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Again.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Like I said last time, you know, I didn't hear
that's growing up.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
So I really appreciate all the kind words I guess
here every time.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I'm on, Yeah, kind word which means that we got
to get into it one of these times in the
near future.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
Man.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
We haven't had one of our our little slugfests in
a while. Man, I'm feeling I'm happy.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
You are doing well, right, are you at this point?
I mean, so you know, hey, look, maybe we talked
to Chargers next time, you know, right, and then we
can get into it there.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I'll say this, Rodney, honest to God, and I'm not exaggerating.
It's taken me eight months to get over the last one.
It has taken a while to get over the last
one you two have. So maybe we're more like than
we are different.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Maybe that's the thing. We're figuring that out over time.
All right, don't take it easy, man.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
No, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
See you guys.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
One o'clock top of the hour. Good friend Eric Dickerson
joins the show. And when we come back, another one.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Of our good friends stops bying. Right, that's try back
on a hump day, Rodney Pete, fred Rogaine. Let's go, Freddy,
Let's get our buddy on. Let's do it. Let's bring
him on, all right, And now.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
From the court to the court room with Jacob em Ronni.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
All right, now are week we checked with our good
friend Jacob em Ronni. Jacob, how are you today?
Speaker 6 (34:31):
I'm doing wonderful. Gentlemen, how are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Can we start with something right off the top?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I want to get to it, okay, because we talked
about it last week, and you know, we talked about
the importance of it, why you did it? But how
is the new number eight hundred three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Going?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
What's been the reaction? How is it going? Are people
finding out about it?
Speaker 6 (34:55):
The reaction has been amazing. You know, I can't tell
you how many any people are excited about not having
to you know, google us or go search our number.
They just know that this is a phone number that
they can remember without even thinking about it. Many of
them tell me that their kids are now singing the
(35:18):
new jingle that we've made which includes.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Our number in it.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
But really, you know, in a more serious note, the reason,
you know, we came up with a number that is
tremendously easier, which is you know, three, four five, six, seven,
eight nine, eight hundred, you know one eight hundred, three four, five, six,
seven eight nine is because when you're involved in an
accident and the last thing you want to do is
go start searching for numbers of people that you know,
(35:47):
you trust and people you want to talk to for direction.
So the overall has been amazing, and you know, I'm
just happy that we're making it easier for all of
the amazing people of California to be able.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
To reach us.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, no, it is. I mean it's like the songs
right that had the number What was that song in
the seventies or eighties whatever, it was eight six seven
five three old? Remember that song? I do remember that. Yeah,
I think the time in Morris Day did the seven
ninety anyway anyway, But no, it matters. It matters when
(36:22):
you can remember that, Jacob and very smart of you
guys to make that happen. Also smart. Right now, it
looks like the Lakers JJ Reddick and Lebron, James Luca
and everybody looks very very smart. Right now, Lebron comes back,
They're eleven and four, they're rolling. What's your take on
(36:44):
the Lakers right now? I know everybody's kind of going
crazy and everybody wants to leap forward and put them
into the finals already, but realistically, where do you see
the Lakers right now?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
And out the place? First of all, I want to apologize.
You know, thing about having a window looking out into
downtown LA is that you get to see everything, but
then you also get all the noise in the background.
So I want to, you know, apologize for that. Listen,
you know, I think the most exciting thing that I
walked away from last night is that Lebron came into
(37:17):
the game. He plugged himself in. There was a stat
last night that the amounts of time that he was
holding onto a ball was less than two and a
half seconds, meaning that he basically just came in there
to help facilitate and it looked, it looked seamless. You know,
(37:37):
you would think that based on how Luca and Austin
Reeves have gelled and how they play, you know, off
of each other, that is there going to be enough
balls for Lebron when he comes back. And you can
tell that, you know, years of experience has showed that
he just stepped in, passed the ball a lot, and
(38:01):
everybody got the ball and it looked, it looked really good.
This team really looks dangerous with Lebron in there. And
who would have thought, I mean, who could even say
that Lebron James is not going to be a major
upgrade for us. We didn't have him for the first
fourteen games and he's fresh. So I loved I loved
that game.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Well.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
I think a lot of Laker fans felt injured that
he wasn't playing, And if they did, they should have
called eight hundred three four five six seven eight nine.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
If you can feel you were injured because.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Someone is not playing, well, you need to call Jacob
a eight hundred three four five six seven eight nine.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Is that right? Jacob.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Yeah, you know. I mean we take calls like that
as well. I don't know if there's much we can
do to help, but you know, I get a lot
of our fellow sports fans who call me just because
they want to discuss sports or they just want to
vent about someone not playing, you know, as well as
they should. So, yes, that number of eight hundred three, four, five, six, seven,
(38:58):
eight nine is used for a lot of purposes in
addition to if you're injured in an accident.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Perfect, we have to establish that, Jacob. But I want
any confusion with the new number. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
I got you, I got you, Fred.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
All right, listen, our listeners love wing. You answer a question,
so let me give it to you. If you're involved
injured in an accident, how does an insurance company evaluate
your injuries and does your property damage have an effect
on how much they'll pay you for your injuries?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah? You know.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
So it's important to sort of get a behind, you know,
behind the closed door view of what occurs when we
represent a client and they're injured, they go and see
their doctors and they get the treatment that they feel
they need. At some point, the treatment stops and we
(39:51):
send a demand package out to the insurance company, and
it does not fail every single time. The insurance company
tries to do whatever where they can in order to
devalue the client's injuries and not pay them anything. And
one of the very critical things that they try to use,
if it helps them or if it's in their favor,
(40:14):
is the damages to the vehicle. So I'm sure you
know you have spoken to a friend who's been involved
in an accident and there's not a lot of damage
visible damage to their car, but they got hammered pretty
bad and they feel injured. Well, in those situations, insurance
companies make it very very difficult and don't want to
(40:37):
pay somebody because they say, look at the damages to
the car, there's barely any damage. How could your client
be injured? And those are the times where we have
a major obstacle and we have to go back to
make sure that the property damage of the car has
(40:59):
been very very specifically analyzed by whatever body shop the
client took it to. We basically take the estimate for
that damage, even if it could be maybe one thousand dollars,
and we clearly go through line by line to find
out what damages were caused. And sometimes you may not
(41:21):
see superficial damages, but there may be damages to the undercarriage.
There may be damages beyond what you can see, and
in those situations we use those in order to substantiate
our client's injuries. But it is important to know that
insurance companies do use the property damage to the vehicle
(41:46):
of our clients as a measuring or an opportunity in
order to dispute whether a client's injured. So when you
see a car that's like destroyed, it's very hard for
an insurance company to say that the person inside the
car was not injured. But when you don't have a
lot of property damage, it makes it much more difficult.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Interesting, all right, Well again, if you find yourself in
a tough spot, you've got to remember the new number.
We talk about it every day, and the reason we
bring it up is because Jacob has been helping people
in southern California for over twenty five years and everybody
needs to know the new number. Eight hundred three, four, five, six, seven,
(42:27):
eight nine.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Jacob. Thank you for hanging out today.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
Man, Thank you guys, always a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Be safe, okay now, our other friend.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Ed a lot of friends today. Well, here's the thing
about Ed.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
He hates when we call him that because he feels
like he has a rectile dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
But he does not.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well I don't know if he does or not. But
he'll be here after the top of the hour to
ask him for Frey.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
All right, I will
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