The Richmond Weaver Show 2025-5-1

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Exploring the latest headlines and in depth conversations. It's the
Richmond Weavers Show on one oh four nine Fox Sports
up State presented by Ingles Low Prices, Love the savings,
Now for riches take on sports. Here's Richmond Weaver.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Ready to roll this Thursday right here on one oh
four nine Fox Sports Upstate. We do appreciate you joining
us here on this Thursday edition of The Richmond Weaver
Show presented by Ingles Markets.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
May.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
First, we have turned the calendar, Yes, we have into
another month. And you heard that voice mister Trey Falco
behind the board and behind the mic as always as Yes, we.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Have turned the calendar. We're into May.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
So that basically means it's December. That's how fascinating. Yes, yes,
that's how That's what we're going to say. But we
do have a lot to get to this week, I
should say today. In the second segment, it's our Inside
the Ropes driven by the BMW program presented by td
Senex that we have each Wednesday talk a little bit
of golf and some of the headlines that are going

(01:08):
on right now. There's a caddy shake up, and not
caddy shack, but a caddy shake up there on the
PGA Tour, which you don't see this too often, especially yeah,
in the middle of the season for the PGA Tour.
So we'll talk a little bit about that, and can
Scotty Scheffler can.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
He actually get back to his winning ways.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
We haven't talked about Scotty Scheffler winning, Yeah, I mean
a long time.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
We talked about last year and we can obviously saved
this for the golf segment, but last year, man, he
was lighting it up all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
We also have NBA Playoffs to talk about, and we've
got to talk the LA Lakers and it was the
sizzle and now it's the fizzle because that was not
what Laker fans hoped for. That's not what JJ Reddick,
head coach of the LA Lakers in his first year,

(01:58):
that he hoped for and for certain Lakers management did
not expect that.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Lebron James did not expect that.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
But Minnesota Timberwolves, they came out and led by Aunt Edwards.
What we talked about as we had Jason temp host
of Hoops Tonight on the show yesterday in our weekly
NBA segment and Edwards freight train. Oh dominant does not
slow down whatsoever, and he got a lot of help

(02:29):
with Rudy Gobert just being a defensive prowess there against
the Lakers. And it consistently showed that the Lakers their
biggest week point, their biggest void, even with Luca on
the team, it's been that they don't have a dominant center.
They don't have a rim protector right because guess what

(02:49):
they let Ad go. They traded And we talked with
Jason about that yesterday and he mentioned that he did
feel that the Lakers would win last night. I felt
the same way too. I felt the Lakers would be
able to rally the troops, circle the wagons, all the
cliches that you want to utilize there in Game five,

(03:10):
not to have a gentleman's suite, because there's a lot
of pride that goes into it, that they would at
least get a victory there at home, and then you're
probably going to lose then in Game six in Rice.
So based on how the rest of the series has gone,
because I do believe that what has been shown is
that Minnesota overall is a better team because they've been

(03:33):
able to exploit the weaknesses there of the Lakers much
better than the Lakers have been able to do that
against Minnesota. And we did talk about the Warriors and
the Rockets game, and Jason peggeditt he said it, and
that's why, again I'll give him his credit, but also
he's not always right. That's how pundits are. But we

(03:54):
have seen this historically in the NBA in a series,
that when a team their back is against the wall.
And that's why we thought the Lakers would win last night.
And that's what exactly the Rockets were able to do.
And they came out and early on they set the
tone that Okay, we're not going to have a gentleman
sweep here. We're going to make this uh, We're going

(04:16):
to make the Warriors do their best to compete in
a seven game series and try to push it that
way as the Rockets get the victory there. But I
did want to talk about this, okay, And and I
hesitate just a little bit, and you hear you can
hear the thoughts there as I'm trying to I'm hesitating

(04:37):
not because I'm trying to think of what to say,
more so just that I don't want to continue talking
about Shadoor Sanders. Oh okay, yes, okay, so there is
something about that, but there's continuing talk about Shadoor Sanders
and more importantly, the Cleveland Browns. Oh right, And it

(04:57):
just makes me think function in organizations.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Browns could probably sit there right at the top top.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Of my list.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I mean it's almost like, if you're trying to define
dysfunction just by a picture or by a logo, do.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
You put the Browns there? I think you could. Yeah'd
be right there in the little dictionary.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Because when I read the report that Jordan Reed, who
does a great job on ESPN, and John has had
him on Game one several times breaking down the NFL draft.
But Jordan Reid has come out and of course drafts
are already out there the nature of it, we consistently

(05:40):
see this, so this is nothing out of the ordinary.
But he has the Browns, Yes, those Browns, Yes, who
have five quarterbacks on master right now?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah? Four and a half. Okay, Yes, that's a great
way to put that.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Deshaun Watson is really not healthy enough to take the
field at this moment, but they do have five names
oh yeah, quarterback position on their roster. Who knows how
it's going to play out as far as who will
be on the roster next year. But it just caught
my eye that Jordan Reid has the Browns trading up

(06:20):
in the twenty twenty six draft and we don't even
know where the position ight be from two to one exactly,
but they're going to trade up and select Caide Clubnik
in his mock draft. And okay, have we not gotten
to the point with the Browns that if there's one

(06:42):
position and I know Billy even talked about it and
he called in the other day that they have not
gotten right. And I know a lot of teams struggle
at the quarterback position. We've talked about it and how
you can evaluate. I get all of that, but my goodness,
the Browns, and of course we have no idea if

(07:04):
this would ever happen, and Jordan Reid is I don't
think he's doing it for a hot take type of thing.
But it's just interesting that he picked the Browns of
all teams to trade up and get right another quarterback,
knowing just the dysfunction of this organization that they have

(07:25):
struggled in so many different ways, and especially at quarterback
though they just cannot get.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
It right right and I'll give him like there's a
little bit of merit to that. The Browns have already
come out And I guess when they traded for Kenny
Pickett and picked him up, they didn't realize that they
would have to decide on his fifth year option. And
it sounds like they're already gonna decline that it's probably
gonna hit free agency. They did, so you can kind
of count Canny pickt out for next year. Yes, but
I have to imagine you draft these two rookies and

(07:51):
Shador Sanders and Dylan Gabriel, You're you're kind of guessing,
all right, maybe one of these will pan out for
something that maybe we won't have to trade up and
do all this. But to your point, I feel like
the Browns have much more pressing needs than quarterback because
they just can't figure out quarterback.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
They can't.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
And part of it is you have to be able
to protect your quarterback. Oh yeah, give your quarterback some weapons.
And then, as we've talked about, you have to have
a defense to get after the opposing quarterback. But defensively
that's not been their weakest point.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Now you've got Miles Garrett and they just who do
they get.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh, who's they draft in the first round?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Is it Mason Graham? Mason Graham, Yes, that's right.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
So I mean they're trying, but I think there's more
work to do before you really settle on all right,
we need to go get our franchise guy.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
So my question would be, if you're a quarterback, are
you saying there ain't no way I'm going to Cleveland,
not happening, not going to do it.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
I want to say yes, but at the same time,
you know, it's so hard to get in the NFL anyways,
of course, it's kind of this like, look, I'll take
what i can get. If that means I have to
play for the Cleveland Browns, then I'll play for the
Cleveland Browns. And at least I'm believing my dream. But
at the same time, man, it's Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
But if you're a certain type of quarterback, right right,
if you're like Eli Manning at the time when Archie
Manning said no, he's not going to play right right
for the San Diego Chargers. And if you're a talent
like a John Elway, yes, no, not going to play
for the Colts. So you have all of those type

(09:29):
of scenarios. I should say all of those because it's
it's limited. Because I do agree with you that we
hear so many times the dream of getting drafted right
in the NFL, and as we also talked about, though, that's.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Just the beginning. Right now, the real hard work begins.
You gotta go and do it.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
You thought you were working hard to get drafted. Now
you have to work even harder, yes, to land on
a roster and be on a roster and then obviously
have a career in the NFL. Right it is consistent work.
But there is something to be said that, my goodness,
it's like a black hole. You hear that name called

(10:10):
Cleveland brown Select and you're like, ah, yes, would there
be a little bit of disappointment?

Speaker 3 (10:15):
You're excited but disappointed at the same time.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
I would think so unless you just had that. Some
guys are like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna take
your guy and I'm gonna put him in the NFL.
Like Michael Jordan, if let's say he were an NFL player,
if he got drafted, would go to the Cleveland Browns. Oh,
I guarantee his mentality, but I'm gonna change that organization.
Some guys are like that, they have that ego where
it's more of a challenge and they embrace that.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
That's exactly where I was going, because there is something
to be said about proving people wrong.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Right.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
There are people that get motivated by that. And I'm
definitely one of those type of people that if you
tell me I can't do something, then that triggers something
psychologically in my head. And so I think there is
some truth to be that, and I think we saw
that as you mentioned Michael Jordan in the Last Dance,
because the Chicago Bulls they were a train wreck, right,

(11:09):
they were a circus. I mean, if you remember the
director talked about and questioned Michael Jordan about the cocaine
circus right known as the Chicago Bulls. That was an
inside joke because they just didn't care. It was about
drugs and partying and all of that. And Michael Jordan
came in was wanting to change the organization, and there

(11:31):
was something to be said that. When Baker Mayfield went
to the Cleveland Browns, right, I felt that Baker Mayfield
could be a good quarterback in the NFL, but I
didn't know if he had the it factor enough to
overcome the dysfunction of Cleveland, and sure enough, he wasn't

(11:52):
able to do that. And that's that's not a knock
on Baker Mayfield. That's just a testament to the Cleveland Browns,
no question, because look at Baker now. Oh no, I mean,
even as a Dallas Cowboy fan, is there much difference
between Baker Mayfield and Dak Prescott.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
That's a good question.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I mean, yeah, I haven't really thought a whole lot
about it, but that's a that's a topic we can
talk about another time. But the point is is that
could there be somebody that could own that and had
that type of aura right, that could overcome dysfunction of
an organization? And there are some people that have been

(12:32):
able to do that over the years, and I would
have to say that initially I thought Deshaun Watson would
be able to do that. Yeah, And that was before
all of the right right off the field and then
now the injuries and I'm not certain we'll see Deshaun
Watson actually play in the NFL again.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
I think if you look at the Cleveland Browns and
what they are doing as far as building that quarterback
room and what they're bleeding towards to me least, from
the outside looking in, it almost looks like they're saying,
all right to Shun, like you're just kind of the
albatross here. Your your contract is so wank, so heavily
on us. We can't get rid of you like we can't.
We're gonna have to pay you either way, so we'll
keep you on the roster. But it seems like they're

(13:12):
trying to build pieces around it to where they don't
have to play Deshaun Watson. They're oping some young guy
works out. They hope a Dylan Gabriel or a Shoodoor Sanders, yes,
or even a Kittie Pickett, whatever, you know, any guy
on that roster other than Joe Flacco.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
We know that FLA. I love Flack. I love for
handful of the Games.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, of course I love Flacco's story sitting on the couch.
Oh yeah, hell, let's go, let's play, and he can
go out there and ball out the way he does
at his age forty years old, that he's able to
still compete at that type of level. So I love that,
But there's no question he's not the long term now
solution for the Cleveland Browns. But it does seem like

(13:55):
not only from a dysfunction standpoint for the Cleveland Browns,
but are they just a cursed organized ever since the
fumble against Denver and Ernest Byner and Denver goes down
and scores the game winning touchdown and Cleveland just has
never been the same since then, and even there's a
lot of talk about Cleveland as a city and the curse.

(14:19):
Now Lebron James able to come back to Cleveland gets
an NBA championship. You talk about somebody that could overcome
dysfunction or that no doubt, Lebron is that kind of guy.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's exactly where I was going.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
He was that type of guy that could get over
the dysfunction of an organization, especially with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
And the Cavaliers were an organization, especially when I was
growing up, that they competed in the East. They were
a team that they gave the Chicago Bulls a lot
of problems.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
And we saw Michael Jordan.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Hit the game winning shot and the playoffs there over
Craig Elo, and that seemed to be the impetus as
really Michael Jordan's starredom Yes Blew up exploded after that
series and then just continued. Not to say he didn't
have some of those valleys. We saw that in the
Last Dancer he couldn't get over the pistons and was
finally able to do that. But I just wonder what

(15:14):
will it take for Cleveland to get over that proverbial
hump and the dysfunction that they have. And it's almost
like they're sometimes when you get so fixated on one thing,
you almost get compulsive about it. And I'm wondering, are

(15:35):
the Browns so fixated? We got to get the quarterback
position right, We've got it.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
We'll do anything for quarterback.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
We'll give to Sean Watson, any type of content he wants,
he could write it.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
We'll just sign the check. That's right.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
We get so fixated and obsessed over it when maybe
they need to look at other areas, remove the blinders,
and look at it from a big picture, holistic standpoint.
And this is not just the Cleveland Browns. I mean,
I'm pinpointing them, but I think this happens not only
with human beings but also other organizations as well.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh yeah, well, and I think there's something to be
you talk about the fixation and everything, and I feel
like there's so much fixation, and obviously there is because
there's so much pomp and circumstance from around it. But
the first round, Oh, we got to get it right
in the first round. We got to hit it right
in the first round. Doesn't matter what that pick is,
whether it's quarterback, wide, receiver, tackle, whatever. But I think

(16:30):
maybe from a fan perspective, we lose sight of the
fact of how important those mid rounds are. Those mid
round guys. Maybe they're not gonna be game changes. They
can I've seen them, You've seen it happen. But those
are gonna be your steady Eddy kind of guys that
are come in. They're gonna go in day in, day out.
They're gonna give you great play, but you're not really
going to talk about them a whole lot. But without them,

(16:50):
and without drafting correctly in those mid rounds, you get
an organization like the Cleveland Browns, where it's like it
feels like there's so much dysfunction, and that's because they're
not focusing on these other rounds, focusing on I gotta
get the quarterback, I gotta get the first round right.
I gotta get this right. I gotta get my star players,
and they forget about the trenches. They forget about the
guy in the backfield that can go up and maybe
he's not getting a whole bunch of interceptions, but he
can blanket a guy. So you can neutralize a receiver whatever.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
I think about it. As you're building something as a.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Structure, you got your load bearing beams, yes, right, and
that's your quarterback. That's those type of elite type of players.
But when you forget about the support beams, you forget
about the support columns, it all comes crashing down.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
And the support columns, support beams, those are those guys
you get in the third round, in the fourth round,
there the fifth round, just to support if not more
important question than you're load bearing. And even some getting
those type of players through free agency, yes, exactly understanding
your voids, understanding again the bigger picture. And I think

(17:54):
that's a big part of what winning organizations are able
to do right And it's something that I even look
at the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones can't do that right now.
He gets so fixated in almost wanting to be right
right and it's his and not spend money and not
spend money.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh, he's got to be right and he's got to
be cheap. Well, one he's cheap. Two he's hardly right.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
And so that's not working too well for Jerry Jones
and the Dallas Cowboys. But it just made me think
about the Cleveland Browns when I see Jordan Reed talking
about trading up to select a quarterback in the twenty
twenty six draft, which would be insane. So we need
to okay, this we're going to do. We're marking the
state down mark May first. Okay, Okay, the Jordan Reed

(18:40):
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Monck Draft, Cleveland Browns. What will they do?

Speaker 2 (18:45):
So this time next year, it'll be after the NFL Draft.
Wan have to revisit this and see exactly what happened.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Watch them win like thirteen games, be there, then they
actually have to tchut.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yes, that would be so appropriate and ironic and life.
All right, We're going to continue this Thursday edition of
the Richmond Weaver Show presented by Ingles Markets, but you
can join the conversation eight six four two four zero
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Speaker 3 (19:12):
Again that number is eight six four two four zero five.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Four eight zero And our weekly Golf segment Inside the Ropes,
driven by the BMW Charity Program presented by td CNX.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Is next.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Live from the Ingles Studios in downtown Greenville, right here
on North Main Street. This is the Thursday edition of
The Richmond Weaver Show, presented by Ingles Markets. And one
thing that we haven't talked about and we will. I know,
I think you and John have talked about it. We
just haven't really dove into it. But Bill Belichick, Oh,
we're talking about some dysfunction going on right now.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
It's rough like to watch and I mean, I guess,
like save to one about his relationship or whatever, it's
his life, but it is kind of sad to watch
a man that was you know, he went of the
press conferences, he kept everything close to the best.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
He's oh yeah, and now.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
It feels like he's putting everything out there and like
everything revolves around his girlfriend, and like it's just a
different kind of Bill that we're I guess we're not
used to seeing it.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
I'm definitely not. Yeah, definitely not used to seeing it.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
And I know we've seen some behind the scenes type
of content with him and Nick Saban and breaking down film. Yeah,
seeing a different side of Bill Belichick, and you get
to see him on the Pat McAfee show. Yeah, you
get to see him on the NFL Network and other entities,
and so you do get to learn a little bit.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
More about him.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, but there's still an image of Bill Belichick, and
it's winning super Bowls and he was on the pedestal
of NFL head coaches. Yes, and the biggest controversy with
Bill Belichick for the past few years has been, oh,
was it his system or was it Tom Brady?

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Right right?

Speaker 2 (20:59):
You know, And that was the biggest controversy if you
wanted to say controversy, and that might not even be
the right word. But now, and I'm not saying this
is a controversy, but it is a distraction. That's a
good way to put it. There's no question that it's
a distraction not only for Bill Belichick, but for also
the University of North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
That whole organization have that they have to deal with this.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
And as excited as they were to sign Bill Belichick
on board to be their head coach for that football team,
they can't be excited for the pr stuff that's going
on right now and the damage control that they're having
to put up front right now, right, and he better win,

(21:44):
you know, I mean, I get that it's Bill Belichick,
but we've seen time and time again, especially in sports today,
winning cures a lot. Yes, And if he's not, if
he comes out and they're kind of struggling to go
around five hundred or whatever, and you have these distractions
on top of it, it doesn't matter if it's Bill
Belichick or not.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
That's right. Nobody wants that exactly.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
They'll cut you loose, oh yeah, quickly and for sure
in the NFL, we do know that. But college at
this point because they understand the financial implicate implications.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
On this as well, so they will do just the same.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
All Right, It's time to talk a little golf.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
From the fairways to the headlines. It's inside the ropes
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You're all access pass to golf's biggest needs and best moments.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
All right, Yes, So each Thursday, we're going to be
diving into some golf talk. Now, the past few weeks
we've been able to have some guests that have been
able to join us. This week, I wanted to take
the opportunity of just talking through some of the headlines
that we have in golf and things that are happening,
and of course make sure that everybody out out there

(22:58):
knows the BMW Charity Program presented by td Sinex celebrating
their twenty fifth year. Oh wow, this event, yes, coming
up the week of June second through the eighth, and
the format that you're going to see with the corn
Ferry Tour players with amateurs and celebrities at thorn Lay
Club and the Carolina Country Club where they'll be teeing

(23:19):
off on that Thursday, June fifth.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
And going to that Sunday, June eighth.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
And remember these are the rising stars of the PGA Tour,
so a lot of these names you're going to see
later on in the PGA Tour, the top twenty earners
their points wise in the corn Ferry Tour, they earn
their PGA Tour cards. So this is a stop on
that event. All right, So all right, I should say

(23:43):
on that series. So right now, we've got a lot
of things going on as we also look at Scotti Scheffler,
who is chasing his first win of the year. He
has not won in twenty twenty five. Now, I know
they petticid get all of that. So there's those distractions.
I get that, But remember this was Scotty Scheffler, who

(24:04):
won four times last year won the Master.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
He was tearing it up, tearing down.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I mean, it was very common in a tournament. You'd
be hard pressed not to take Scotty Scheffler versus taking
the field.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
And I think it's flipped this year.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
And so now, how will Scotti Scheffler this week heading
into the CG Cup Byron Nelson there in Texas, will
this be an opportunity for him to somewhat flip the
script and get back on the winning ways there what
we've known was Scotty Scheffler. I mean, it's been a
while since we've seen Scotty Scheffler there in the winner's column.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Right well, And I think it also not to take
away from Scheffler, but it makes you appreciate just how
dominant Tiger was, even when Tiger had down years like
which rarely you had a down year for Tiger. But
he's still won and so is It's crazy because we've been.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Talking about at least last year, I feel like we
talked about.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
We were putting Scotty Sheffer Oh, man, like, all right,
we haven't seen this kind of winning maybe since Tiger,
not saying that he is Tiger, but so he is
on this trajectory like Sheffler could be the next dominant
force here PGA.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
And now it's I know, it's kind of sad.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's like, all right, well, and I think there's something
about the PGA Tour, and we'll talk about the live tour,
you know, live golf and the split and how that's
affecting just the competition and maybe not even so much
the competition, but I felt that it was magnified just
how much we miss all of the guys being on

(25:34):
tour together. When you watch a major like the Masters
and you see everybody under one umbrella, yes, going after
a victory, and the competition that you have because however
you want to say it, in sports, you got to
have a good guy and you got to have a
bad guy. And do we have a villain on the

(25:57):
PGA Tour. I don't know if we Yeah. I mean,
I know there's some people that might not like Rory,
but everybody was pulling for Rory.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
I was just consider him a villain, No, not even
close and I'm not saying that like a Bryson d
Chambeau or a John Rahm or a Brooks Koepka or
Dustin Johnson.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
I'm not saying that those are villains. But there are
guys that have a certain persona, you know, that a
little bit of an edge, you know that the PGA
Tour just might not have right now. And as dominant
as Scotti Scheffler has been relative to other golfers on
the PGA Tour, when Tiger was dominant, he had that

(26:44):
edge and people love that because it was different, But
there was an edge to Tiger, and.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
I just don't know if we have that right now
with the PGA Tour now.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
I don't know that anybody like, you know, you think
back to Tiger and there was this ara, this almost
I don't know if I necessarily want to say fear
surrounding Tiger where it's like, oh, man, all right, he's
here and we have to play. Like obviously you think
of golf and it's like it's me versus the course,
but you can't help when Tiger's out there, it's me
versus Tiger.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Yeah, because you know he's just going to be dominant.
Tearing it up.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
I don't know that you necessarily have that kind of
that same reaction when it comes to Schefler. I don't
think anybody thinks, oh, it's me versus Scheffler. I think
it's more back to like, oh, it's me versus the course.
That's right, me versus the course. How low can I
go versus this course?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Rather than looking at the leaderboard exactly, people are looking
at the leaderboard.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Where's Tiger?

Speaker 5 (27:33):
You know?

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Is he larking? Where is he? All right? How about this?
In also the PGA.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Tour, Colin Morikawa caddy shake up here again, not caddy shack,
Caddy's shakeup, and the world number four player right now
has decided that he was going to leave his longtime
caddy JJ jacob Ac and hired Joe Griner, who was
with Max Homa and at the Masters. Right for the Masters,

(28:00):
Joe Grinder decided that he was going to leave Max Homa.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
He's been with him for six years.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, so that was already a little bit of a
surprise there, and so he went with Justin Thomas. And
Justin Thomas just won the RBC Heritage this last week
right after the Masters, So you're thinking Okay, well, maybe
he's found his bag.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
He's going to stick with.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Justin Thomas until just a day ago, then it comes
out that now he's going to be with Colin Marikawa.
Interesting because Colin was done with his caddy, ye longtime caddy.
So that's a big shake up knowing that right now
Marikawa no trophies in twenty twenty three, but he has
had multiple top tens here in twenty twenty five. And

(28:44):
so again, now is he going to try to ride
some of the momentum that can you have some positive influence?
And I think in sports, especially in golf, we know
that people can be superstitious, yes, and you're looking for
any little, any type of thing that can be positive.
So I just wonder how well mor Kyle is going

(29:06):
to play this week with a little bit of a
shake up there and trying to look at something different,
all right. And also Joaquin Neeman earned a US Open
spot with his live golf win in Mexico City last week,
while Bryson DeChambeau fell just a little bit short after
a late double bogie. But the rumors are swirling right now,

(29:29):
is that Tony for now is interested in live golf
really yes, and see again, not that Tony for Now
has you know that Bravado and Gruff. Now he's a
person that you can gravitate towards and people like on
the PGA Tour. And so losing a Tony for Now

(29:50):
to Live Golf, I just again, that would be another
hit against the PGA Tour. So it's going to be
interesting to see how that plays out. And again knowing
that somehow Live Golf and PGA Tour, they've got to
get this worked out.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Right, even from even if it's just for the fan
perspective of it's great to watch greatness under one umbrella.
It's disappointing to have to divide your attention in your
time between two separate leagues. And I don't know, it
was so much better when they were all playing together,
trying to see everybody facing each other.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
It's just a better experience. It's a better experience, better competition,
all of that.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
All right, Speaking of competition, where the action this weekend
we just talked about the PGA Tour. It's the CJ
Cup at Byron Nelson in Texas at the TPC Craig Ranch.
And what is interesting though, is that there's a seventeen
year old that's in the field. Chris Kim from England. Yeah,

(30:50):
that he played in it last year and was lights
out in one of the players to actually make the
cut at such an earth age, one of the youngest.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
But the crazy thing is though, that he's having.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
To get fitted for clubs like every six months because
he's continuing to grow.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
I think about that.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Wow, exactly, So there is something to be said about,
you know, you trying to have the proper equipment as
a seventeen year old when you're still growing. The LPGA
Tour is in Utah at Black Desert Championship. If they
just came off of their first major of the year
and so it's a great new event there at the

(31:33):
Black Desert Resort. The corn Ferry Tour, yes, we just
talked about them. They're at their inaugural event down at
the PGA Riviera Maya as they are stopped in the
first time that they're making a stop in Mexico down there,
and you can watch that on the Golf Channel and
also just remember the Corn Ferry Tour. We're going to

(31:55):
see them here in Greenville the week of June second
through the eighth at the BMW Charity Proram presented by
td CNX.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
So you don't want to miss that.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Just go to BMW Charity golf dot com to get
your tickets and find out more information.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
No live golf event this weekend. They'll be in Singapore
next week. Yeah, so there you go.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Get ready for that as they'll be going across the country,
I mean across the world, I should say, as they.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Get ready for another event. All right.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
That is our Inside the Ropes driven by the BMW
Charity Program presented by TDCINX. And we will have more
golf coverage next Thursday, as we do each and every Thursday.
And we will take this break and I see we've
got a caller on hold. You stay right there and
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Speaker 3 (32:53):
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Speaker 3 (33:22):
Who's this.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Going on? Rich?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Going on?

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Boy nilil? How are you? My friend? Great to hear
from you, sir?

Speaker 5 (33:31):
Jumping over this side of the Carolina's going through Greer
as we speak, and I said, I got to turn
on my buddy Rich and let's see what he has
to say about that draft. Listen, I'm going to tell
you something Rich that I know you guys are going
to disagree with. I know my brother was about even
though he's not a forty nine Er fan. He was
about to come through the phone and choke me the
other day when I told him something. But it's time
to get rid of John Lynch. I'm sorry it is now.

(33:54):
I'm gonna before I get your opinion, Rich, because I
know you're not a forty nine Ers fan. You're just
one of the teams. You just want like you're a
Cowboys guy, and I respect that, but I'm gonna go
over that since he got there twenty seventeen, I'm gonna
go over his draft picks in the top three, in
the top three realms, okay, going back to twenty seventeen,
Solomon Thomas. Oh and by the way, the same Solomon

(34:16):
Thomas that we picked and we didn't take Patrick Mahomes.
Just saying, just throwing it out there now. I'm not
saying everybody knew Patrick's Mahomes is going to be great
like he has been. I'm just saying Solomon Thomas, okay,
Ruben Foster okay, Akilo Witherspoon, he Jave Bethard. That's the
top four in the in the in the top three
rounds right there in twenty seventeen. Let's move to twenty eighteen.

(34:39):
Mike McGlinchey, bust, Fred Warner okay, okay, Fred Warner, Dante Pettis,
Tavarius Moore. We move on to twenty nineteen. Nick Bosa okay,
Nick Bosa, Jalen Hurd, Deebo Okay, we got Deebo on
the board. I can appreciate Debo, of course, like every
other forty nine Ers fan until he got traded. Obviously,

(34:59):
we're pulling against them kind of kind of not twenty
twenty Javon Kinlall. Now I'll give I'll give John Lynch
credit because I actually really really liked Javon Kinlall coming
out of Carolina. Thought he was going to be a
big time player. He turned into who just always injured,
had no idea what his deal was. And then Brandy Ayouk. Okay,
So Brandon Ayuk, even though he's got the injury now,

(35:20):
going through that injury coming back, he's been a stud.
I have to give him credit for that. Twenty twenty
one Trey Lance Trey Lance Richmond okay enough said about that,
Hey another tray Yes, you can have him another Tray
Trey sermon. And then we got Aubrey Thomas, who I

(35:43):
was like, are you serious? I understand the guy's a
great cover corner, but if you're about four foot tall
and the NFL receivers can reach about nine foot before
they even jump, not gonna work. Didn't work. Aaron Banks
twenty twenty two, Tyrian Davis, Prince Drake, and Danny Gray.
And I'm not going to get to the last couple
of years. I just I want to talk about this first. Okay,

(36:06):
So you're talking about the guys that I just read
off who are you gonna throw out there? You're going
to throw out there, Fred Warner, Nick Bosa, Deebo and I.
Out of twenty guys, he hit four of them. And
you're talking first three rounds, Rich, twenty percent. Is that
good or is that bad?

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Well, from a statistical standpoint, yes, you're going to say
that's bad. But how much are you valuing? And I
know it's intertwined. So I do understand this, Neil, that
how you do in the draft can lead to opportunities
of success out on the field record wise, But my goodness, yes,
I know six and eleven last year, but previously it

(36:44):
was twelve and five, thirteen and four, ten and seven,
six and ten, thirteen and three.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
So it's not like there's been a I guess a.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Valley for the forty nine ers in terms of at
least winning on the field. And you just lost in
the Super Bowl two years ago, and I think there's
a lot of teams that would be so excited to
have that type of resume over the past five to
six years.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
Okay, I give you that, and I give you but
going back to John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan days, even his
their first couple of years. The only time that they
really had bad records was when they had a lot
of injuries. However, and this is where you and I
I don't know about Falco. I know Billy and I
disagree with this. I would rather the forty nine ers
go six and eleven every damn year rather than get
to the super Bowl and lose to a team they're

(37:34):
better than. I'm just stating the truth. I'm just coming
out there. I am really truly giving my heart and
soul into this. And this is why I don't even
watch sports like I used to. Rich, I can't lie.
I don't because there's so many people making so many decisions,
and US fans we're not making any of them. So
we're just pulling for guys to hopefully make the right decisions.

(37:56):
The forty nine ers have pulled a couple of things
that is, I mean just you have to scratch your
head with I mean truly when you think about some
of these picks. And I know it's not a perfect science,
but let's be honest, okay. I mean as much as
John Ellis don't know crap about the NFL, obviously, John Ellis,
I'm just kidding with you, you know, the Panther. He's
going seventeen and oh a couple years ago. But that's

(38:17):
not the point. I would hire him as a gym.
At least he's going to say, Okay, who does these
other guys who do this for a living have on
their draft board. Well, let's go take him because John
Lynch and this is the one thing that drives me
the most crazy about him. It's not even the draft
rich it is he understands that the way to win
in the NFL is to get pressure on the quarterback.

(38:37):
He's constantly going out and getting guys to try to
be opposite side of Nick Bosa and it hasn't worked
out yet, but he understands that. So if he understands that,
then he has to understand the way to win in
the NFL is also by protecting your quarterback.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Of course, and he has done him.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
He has done a terrible job of that.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Rich, Well, injuries have not helped. There is part of that.
So you have to factor that in to the equation.
And I, as much as you can look at the
brock Purty situation and how that has played out, I
just wonder if there's something to be said that did
that ultimately hurt the forty nine ers because did it

(39:17):
give him this false sense of Look, we drafted him
the very last pick of the draft, and he worked
out to end is so much better than what the
value was at that draft. And I'm just wondering if
brock Purty still is he the future at quarterback for
the forty nine ers there.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
That's what scares me the most. And if you don't
protect him, you'll never know. First, that's all the second
of all of you do. And he turns out to
be a bus You're wasting fifty sixty million a year.
And let me transition real quick. I know you guys
got to break and I know it's the NBA playoffs.
Two quick things. Glad Lebron is out. I can't stand him.
I became a Lakers fan because of Kobe. I quit
being a Lakers fan because of Lebron and quickly thing

(40:00):
and I'll take it off the air. Joker is becoming
and I know he didn't do much last game. I
know it was all Jamal Murray. He is becoming in
the conversation and I know this sounds nuts, but he
is starting to become in the conversation for the greatest
center of all time. Take that and just think about
it for a second and tell me why he couldn't
be in that argument. I'll take it off the air. Rich.

(40:21):
I appreciate you guys. You guys have a good weekend,
budd thank you greatly.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Appreciate it as always, And do appreciate his ability to
share his opinion. Oh yeah, because he lets it go.
He doesn't care. And I still questioned him though he'd
rather go six and eleven each year than get to
the super Bowl and lose.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
I know it's tough, right losing, but when your team
is getting there, that means your team has a chance
and anything can happen in one of those scenarios.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
And you're telling me there's a chance, yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Oh yes, because you never know how that ball is
going about. And I do believe that there, Nikola Jokic,
he is definitely putting himself in that discussion.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
And we talked with Jason temp on Wednesday, host of
Hoops Tonight, and he breaks down the film like nobody's
business and regardless of the stats, because that's what he cautioned, everybody,
don't just get enamored by the stats because statistically he
didn't have a great game. But if you go watch
the film, as according to Jason, he said, it was

(41:30):
obvious he was by far the best player out on
the court as far as what he was able to
do with everything that was surrounding him. So there is
something to be said about that. All right, let's take
a look at some of the latest headlines.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
It's only one game player.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
And that's to take care of Benn hitting the latest headlines.
It's the daily rundown, all right.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
How about this in college basketball, the twenty twenty five
Shriners Children's Charleston Classic Friday, No Remember the twenty first,
and Sunday November the twenty third Down in Charleston.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Teams have been announced the.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Clemson Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, West Virginia, Xavier, Boston College, Davidson, Tulane,
and Utah State coming to Charleston in November for some
great college basketball. So keep your eyes on that and
mark that on your calendar. And also, we did get
to see yesterday in Colombia.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Forever.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
In Colombia, the statue of Don Staley was unveiled, and
I think it's actually a very appropriate statue.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
She's standing on a ladder and she's holding up a net.
Oh that's awesome winning the championship. So congratulations to down
Staley right there, and also congratulations to three people for
making the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame. Mister new Hopkins
DeAndre Hopkins makes sense, a long time sports information director

(43:00):
and a football communications director who's now technically retired. But
Tim Bray, yes, completely about time. And then also posthumously,
Chester McLaughlin was named to the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame.
One of the best defensive linemen oh and all of

(43:22):
college football and success he had with the Raiders. And
I remember I was there at Clemson at the same
time Chester was there and seeing him in Jervy as
we would get ready for practice and getting taped up
all of that, and I couldn't believe that that's a
real man. I mean, he's a student. Yeah, there's no way.

(43:45):
He was so big. And there were times we'd go
downtown to some of the bars down at Sloane Street.
Some of the football players would come in and Chester
would come in and he would have one of those
big hartis, like thirty two ounce plastic cups.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
He cou'd walk in with it and would walk behind
the bar.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
And start pouring himself a beer and just walk back around.
Didn't pay for it, didn't do Anything's gonna stop him,
nobody's going nobody's gonna stop him. I mean, it was
absolutely wild, but it well deserve for Jester MacLauchlan gone
way too soon. That is the latest headlines, and we
will continue this Thursday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show

(44:28):
presented by Ingles Markets right after this. NBA playoffs continue
tonight seven thirty pm on TNT. The Knicks and the
Pistons Game five. New York is up three to two
in that series. Can they close it out there in Detroit?

Speaker 3 (44:46):
It's gonna be interesting to see.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
I still think that the Pistons, they might be able
to create enough chaos to get another victory, and then
you just never know. In game sets, you just never know. Now,
I know, teams that are down three to one only
four and a half percent chance of being able to
overcome a three to one deficit. So we'll see if
the Pistons will be able to do it, and the
Nuggets and the Clippers, they will look at an opportunity

(45:09):
for the Nuggets to close out this series as they
are up three games to two there as they take
on the Clippers in La at ten pm on TNT.
All right, it is May first. Let's walk back in
a little bit of history.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
What happened on this day. Let's go back in history
to the moments you might have forgotten and the ones
you'll never forget. It's OTD on this day.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Eighteen ninety one. Oh yeah, sometimes we go way back,
So here we go. Eighteen ninety one. Legendary pitcher Cy Young.
Oh yeah, would win his very first game. I go
eight long, I got that.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
That's a long time ago. Yes, it definitely is. How
about this in nineteen eighty four? Again, can you imagine
this a wide receiver being picked number one overall as
the New England Patriots would select Irving Fry as the
number one overall pick Nebraska wide receiver.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
Nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
After scoring fifty points in Game one in the NBA
Eastern Conference playoff series, MJ the Goat scored fifty five
points in the Bulls victory over the Cavaliers in Game two,
and the first player to score fifty or more points
in consecutive playoff games, and in nineteen ninety one, Nolan
Ryan would pitch his seventh No hitter. Man that guy,

(46:26):
he was a work course.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
That is OTD.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
And that is this Thursday edition of The Richmond Weaver Show,
presented by Ingalls Markets. We'll talk to you tomorrow.