January 17, 2025 • 38 mins
Ahead of Divisional weekend, how far are the Seahawks away from being there? Former UW Basketball head coach Lorenzo Romar joins the show to talk college hoops and more. Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports joins the show to handicap the NFL divisional playoffs and the National Championship.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Hey, more good news in college basketball. Of basketball, the
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down Gonzaga in Corvallis yesterday Husky's had a bad day
against Producer, so we'll just skip. That was a quad
one loss. Winders are actually really anytime Gonzaga loses, I'm
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wrong with you because I.
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Much prefer the Beavers. Car team was actually in our
conference for like one hundred years. The Times of hired
Chiefs Assistant GM Mike Bergunzi for their GM posts.
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All right, here we go in a busy Friday. Jackson's out,
Andrews and Andrews that I mentioned the Gonzaga lost last night.
You did, okay? Just want to make sure, okay, you
sure I mentioned it in the update. Gonzaga lost to
Oregon State yesterday. He actually gets to it, has to
get smacked if it was an overtime game. Yes, technically
in game Gonzaga looses, they're getting smagged out to. I
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just want to make sure I did tell you Gonzaga loss, right, Okay, good.
Just want to make sure that you all understand that
we got a big show to get to Lorenzo Romar.
We haven't talked to him in a long time. He'll
join us coming up in about fifteen minutes from now
on the show. He's kind of right down there, him
and his wife Leona, where the fires were hitting in California.
So we want to just check on him and see
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how they're doing, see how their neighborhood's doing, all that,
and then talk about his new yig. He's an assistant
coach for Loyola Marymont. It's a guy who you know,
has made a ton of money, he could have just
retired and says he wants to keep teaching the game
of basketball. So I think anytime there's all this conversation
and change in college athletics. There's a certain number of
people that you want to get their opinion on the matter,
and Lorenzo Romar is certainly one of those guys, so
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we'll visit with him. Coming up next segment, Lee Sterling
or had icapper from South Florida, who was four and
one on the air last week, He'll join us and
give us some picks for the weekend in the NFL
the National Title Game on Monday night, we'll do a
little textimonials. We'll have Huge join us at five, a
little fun with audio, and then Matt Deary from the
Locked On Lyons podcast will join us on the air
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coming up about six o'clock tonight and talk about what
that city is like ahead of maybe the biggest Lions
home game of all time. I mean, they've never hosted
the NFC Championship, and if they win this game against
the Commanders, they will host the NFC Championship for the
first time in franchise history. Tickets to get in when
the market first took off for about seven hundred bucks.
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Now they're in the five hundreds at venue kings dot com.
But we know what that's like, man, we know what
a Friday is like before the NFC Championship and I
miss it, right, I missed going on the air and
getting people all fired up for a game I thought.
I mean, hell, the Hawks haven't won a playoff game
in front of fans in their own stadium in eight years,
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which is incredible. I mean, just think about that, dick
like bang. How much time has gone by since the
Thomas Rawls game against the Lions in twenty sixteen, and
here we are coming up on nine years since they
did it.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Well, I think in the NFL and particularly the NBA,
you kind of have to pay your playoff dues before
you get all the way to the Super Bowl, and
the Lions did that last year.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I mean, the Lions hosted two playoff games last year,
so maybe this is the biggest playoff game at home
since last year when they hosted the same I think.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I think when you have a chance to host the
NFC Championship, it's a little bit different. But you're right,
and I'm I look, I think that there's an order
to this stuff, right. Packers had an order to it
under Mike Holmgrin the Seahawks had an order to it.
Seahawks had to lose to the Rams in Green Bay
before they won the conference championship, and the Seahawks had
to have that heartbreaking loss to Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, and then back in the Carroll era, I mean,
we had to find the playoffs the first year, and
then we had to lose in the playoffs to Atlanta,
and in Carrol's third year until we want an ice.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We probably won it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Maybe a year earlier than we all thought we were
going to. I remember coming off the twenty twelve loss
to Atlanta thinking, oh my god, this is going to
be a great team. But I didn't necessarily think they
were going to be Super Bowl champions the next year.
I didn't think they were going from a second round
loss to Super Bowl champions. I thought, Okay, get us
to the NFC Championship, can take that next step, And
they just blew through the next two steps and won
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the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
One of the worst things that we do here at
this radio station, and we don't do as bad a
job of it now as we used to, is archiving audio.
And it actually pisses me off. I've been here for
a long time, so of you, and I would love
to go back and listen to this radio station the
night the Mariners beat the Yankees in ninety five, or
this radio station the night we did the all night
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broadcast before the Seahawks Carolina game, this radio station the
day of the Sonics beat you taw to go to
the NBA Finals in ninety six. All these interviews right
of guys that we've had on that are no longer
with us man, So it kind of irritates the crap
out of me. And I'll take responsibilities my fault. I mean,
part of the problem is that the recording devices, the
technology has changed so much that you've got CDs, you've
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got DAT tapes, you've got carts what you've got many discs.
And as we used to tape this show in a reel,
your job would be at the beginning of this show. Yeah,
you would take a VCR tape. You even know what
that is. I a VCR tape.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You would stick it in the VCR, hit play and
record at the same time. And that's how we recorded
the radio show.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But we would save stuff, and you know, I'm kind
of bummed out there we don't have a lot of that.
But I remember, and you know me, one of the
things I can't stand is going on there. Well I
said this, I said that, blah blah blah. I do remember,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna break my own rule here
for a second. Coming out of the twenty twelve Seahawks season,
all the guys that they had back the following year.
When you have that many guys back, you go with
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a championship. And I remember referencing the Packers and what
they did before they got their title against the Patriots
in New Orleans in ninety six. And I'm not saying
the Hawks are there right now, but every year, every
year the divisional round the conference title games come around,
I always just ask myself, Okay, how far is my team?
How far are the Seahawks away from being back in
a position, Dick where we can go on the air
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and talk on the A on a Friday night about
a divisional playoff game the next day or the conference
championship the next Sunday. I think I just.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Feel a lot similar to twenty twelve.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
If we had a quarterback, if we had the guy
that we absolutely knew was going to be a foundational
quarterback for the next Deck. We knew we had that
in Russell Wilson after the twenty twelve playoffs.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I like, there was no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
And so while we were super excited about the defense,
then I'm not as excited about this defense. But I'm
pretty excited about this defense. I think this defense is
absolutely capable of being top five next year in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And the reason I say that is because it.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Was top five of the NFL the second half of
this season, right once they figured it out. So I
think they've got it figured out to add pieces to it.
It's just that it's just the Russell Wilson versus Gino
Smith is such a chasm.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, you just can't replace that. Well, let's find out
four nine, four or five to one, how far away
are these guys? Honestly, how far away are they from
being back in a position like the Lions are in
this weekend, or the Ravens or the Buffalo or whoever.
Four nine, four to five one. Hit us with that,
Lorenzo Romar, we haven't said high to him in a
long time. Let's rectify that. Next on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
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Speaker 2 (10:09):
Cober tied seventy five.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Again I say it shot top turt Okay Cook today.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
He's gotta though it himself. Thomas Shay Russo it step
backs up. Yeah, see sick hits it.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I don't want a second.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Day, go dud. You know, I've often wondered how often
guys like Lorenzo Romar go back and listen to the
audio there of Gus Johnson. Maybe they get Bob Rondo.
Bob was actually sick that day and his voice was
all hoarse and still had a great call. But twenty
eleven mans, fourteen years ago, Isaiah Thomas with a buzzer beater,
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and the guy joining us right now on the phone
was there to see it all. It's been a long time.
Welcome back to the radio show, our old friend, Lorenzo Romar, coach,
how are you?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I'm doing great? How you doing? Fellas?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
We are doing? Very good man. Great to hear your voice. Hey,
I got to ask you though, real quick when you
hear that highlight there? Shot clock turned off, game clock
and eight He's gonna do it himself. Isaiah Thomas with
a step back buzzer beating three against Arizona. What do
you think about when you hear that play? And how
often do you hear that call, by the way.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Coach, Well, first of all, whenever I hear it, and
I hear it quite a bit. Whenever I hear it,
whatever I'm doing, I stop immediately to listen to the
whole thing, like I've never.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Heard it before. But I don't play it back. But
so many people.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Remember that moment, especially around March Madness, and people have
played and it just it comes on all the time,
and I never get tired of listening to it.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And yet the most calm, stoic person in the entire
building was you, Why did you not celebrate at all
after he hit that shot?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Well, there's all types of celebrations going on in my
head at that time, and I remember my thoughts were
really I'm not exaggerating. I was thinking, Wow, he really
hit that shot. We we won the championship. Wow, that
was awesome, That's what I was thinking. I was thinking,
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that guy's got the biggest heart ever. You know what,
people don't realize about that shot just give you a
little back.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Can I give you a little background to that?
Speaker 7 (12:46):
You know, we played three games, three nights and the
first but NOOI Overton wasn't playing with us at the
time and he was sitting out and we only had
one point guard that was Isaiah. So the first night
we played, Isaiah did not come out of the game.
We played all forty minutes. Well, the next night we
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play I think I think it was Oregon. But the
next night we play, they realize that. So they picked
him up full court the entire game to wear him down,
and he set out for two minutes, so he played
thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
We win that.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
The next night he plays all forty minutes and the
whole time he doesn't come out. Now he still has
the legs to take that shot at the end of
the game. Three nights plays, sits out all but two
minutes and still was able to hit that shot.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
It was remarkable.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, I know that that run down there in La.
I mean, you get the Cougars, you get them, Oregon
you get them, and then Arizona you get them. So
back to back to back nights of amazing college basketball.
But Lorenzo romar Is with us, and Lorenzo's an assistant
coach now at Loyola, and we want to talk to
you about kind of your situation down there. You're near
the fires all that, and how you and Leona are
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doing in a minute, but I got to ask you
because you've been doing this a long time. You know, Lucky,
you could have walked away and said I'm done. I'm
and retire and just you know, hang out with my
kids and grandkids and enjoy my life. But he decided
to go back and take an assistant coaching job. Why well,
I knew.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
I knew Stan Johnson when he was an assistant, and
I always thought he was going to be a star
in this business. And we when I was at Pepperdine
in the last six years, we competed against his teams
for four of those years, and I thought he did
a really good job with his team.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I respected what he did.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
And the next day I got a call after we
lost our last game when I was at Pepperdine and
got a call from him, and he said he'd love
to have me come take a look and consider joining
his staff. And he invited me to come to the campus.
And when I got to the campus. I had no
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idea the resources that LMU had here. I didn't realize
they chartered flights. I didn't realize that, you know, the
way they eat, the way they treat their athletes, all
of that. I just didn't realize that. I thought it
would be a great opportunity if I wanted to continue
to coach, to be able to come here and help
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out and just be a part of something that was growing.
And I still like mentoring the kids. I still like
being around the kids and being around around the game,
and it was an opportunity to do that.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
We didn't have to move, none of that.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
So it was just kind of a seamless transition, and
I thought I wanted to do it, so we decided
to take them up on it.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Well, coach, the world of college basketball is much different
now than when you were here, There's no question about that.
Can you explain to us maybe the major differences from
a coach's standpoint in the recruiting process now in the
NIL era versus you were here at Washington.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Well, it's so much different obviously now.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
You you know, some compare it to NBA free agency
with the open portal, But it's not like the NBA
free agency because they have a contract, they're there for
a couple of years. Here it's literally semester to semester
potentially and year to year.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
And you know, from a coach's perspective, you used.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
To have someone like a Bobby Jones justin holiday that
they were good as freshmen, but you knew they were
going to grow and they were going to develop and
they were going to become great basketball players in your system,
and one day they were going to lead because they
knew everything to do about your program and you counted
on that and you were able to build your program
that way. Well, that's not the case anymore. You have
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a new team potentially every year, a brand new team,
and it's just a different way of looking at things.
And now you're talking about roster management. You have to
have some GM and you some general manager qualities because
you're not only managing your roster, you're managing it financially. Yeah, well, yeah,
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it's it's different. It's it's completely different than it was
in the past.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
No, and totally agree with you on the NBA comparison.
There is no comparison because the NBA has got structure.
I mean, college basketball's got no structure at all. And look,
I mean, I'm all for that exactly, but I mean
I'm all for the kids getting money. But how Lorenzo, Look,
I said this to Dick before you came on that
when there's issues around college athletics, you're you're one of
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the voices that we want to hear from. So for
if somebody came up to you and said, hey, I
remember your Washington teams where you had guys like Bobby
Jones and John Brockman and Brandon Roy and Isaiah Thomas,
and we'll call they were there for three, four five years,
some of them. We got to know the players, we
got relationships with them. Now we've got kids playing for
four five teams apiece in college basketball. How am I
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supposed to form a relationship with a player as a
fan And how are you as a coach supposed to
do that? If every year you have a brand new team.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
You make a great, great point, I would say, and
I've talked to a couple of guys about this. If
it were, if everything was in place the way it
is right now, the time that we spent at Washington,
the fun times, the successful times, it could have happened,
but it wouldn't have happened in the special way that
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it did, where there were local kids that grew with
the team that you you saw their progress, you saw
them grow together. It just it just wouldn't have happened.
There were there were a couple of guys that were
were homebodies. They just wouldn't have left. But by and
large they would have been. There would have been some
guys that left. There would have been some guys that
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would have gotten paid more money, uh and and would
have left the situation.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
It just it wouldn't have happened the way it happened.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
I felt like with some of those guys, you know,
when you started with Nate will Conroy and Brandon Roy,
and then John Brockman and then Isaiah Thomas, all those
guys that were local, and then you add guys like
Quincy Pon Dexter that were not from there, Bobby Jones,
it made it just for a special, magical time that
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wouldn't be the case anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
When you look at what this program has become since
you left, and we've got optimism that Danny Sprinkle's the
right guy and he'll turn things around, But what are
your emotions to see the struggles that this program that
you built up and made one of the top really
twenty programs in America when you were there, well, you.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Pull for them and you know that times are changing
and involvement with them as well. Fortunately for coach Sprinkle,
he's young enough to where he's I feel he's already
adapting to where the the game is played right now.
And I don't just mean on the basketball floor, but
I mean just how things are done off the court
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for you to put a competitive product out there on
the floor. He's he's gonna be fine. They're gonna do
a fine job that way. It's different, though, it's different.
You have to go by you have to do your
business in an entirely different way. You go out to recruit,
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and there are so many kids out there that don't
have scholarships in the spring that would have had scholarships
in the past. But everybody's looking to go with the
portal and a lot of high school kids are suffering
because of that and are kind of out there in
the cold. And now everyone goes I shouldn't say everyone,
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but so many go into the portal at the end
of the year thinking the grass is green. Are on
the other side, are thinking they're gonna get paid a
lot of money, and here it comes in August and
they have no one. No one's willing to take them
because the market is so big for that portal.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
So it's just it's just different.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
A lot of careers they're getting derailed as a result
of it.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah, I know, you're right.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
There's a lot of kids going into the portal and
a lot of them don't come out with that with
nowhere to go. And that's the case in football as well.
But Lorenzo Romar with us and coach we thought about
you obviously when the fires hit Pacific Palisades, and know
you and Leona are down there. I think you guys
are in Malibu, but maybe just give us an idea
of kind of where you live and what your area
is like and what you've been dealing with down there.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Man, we're in a place called Calabasas, got it, and
we you know, obviously Pepperdine was in Malibu, but we
were were We lived about fifteen minutes through what's called
the Malibu Canyon, so but we were still affected.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
In fact, we had to evacuate twice.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Where we were in the fires were very very close.
One of the times when we were evacuating, we thought
that was it, but we were able to house is
still standing, although it was scary. Fortunately for us, it
didn't affect us, but unfortunately for so many it did
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affect them, and so many have to just start over.
And it's very very sad to see people have to
go through that.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What type of impact has it had on your basketball team,
whether it's their houses or have you had to cancel
practices or move games or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I know the Lakers move their game, but have you
had to do that.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
We had one game canceled. It was actually against Pepperdine
at Pepperdine. That game was postponed. It will play it
again later on in the year. But one of our
players had to evacuate. His parents had to evacuate from
their home, and then our performance coach, strength conditioning coach
his wife's family that she grew up in. Their house
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was burnt down. So it affects us that way, But
in terms of us not being able to practice or
anything like that, it had It hadn't really affected us
here where we are in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, well, I mean it certainly puts things in perspective,
There's no question about that. You know, you don't want
to have to learn a lesson like that, but it
definitely does put things in perspective. And I mean, you've
you've handled this stuff as well as anybody as long
as I've known you, and I'm sure Dick would agree
as long as he's known you. You're just kind of
a roll with the punches kind of guy, right, And
I've never seen you get mad at anybody or use
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profanity or whatever. And I'm sure every now and then
you slipped up, but I wasn't there to see it.
But you are. You are an absolute role model for
a lot of people in college basketball is better off
with you in it, man. But I got to ask you.
I mean, you're here, you are what thirty eight, thirty
nine years old? You still a fairly young guy.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
How much longer you could almost.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I know, and that's true, by the way, how much
longer do you want to do this for? I mean,
do you see retirement on the horizon? Do you see
traveling around the world and just hanging out with the
grandkids on the horizon or is this hard to imagine
a life without basketball for you.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You know, I don't see.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I don't look at my future and say there is
some special thing that I've always wanted to do and
I've got to be able to do.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
This before i leave this earth.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I've never I've never really thought that way. I still
love it again. I love being around the kids. I
love being around in a situation where you're able to
help them get through this time in their life, help
them prepare for their future. For me, that gives me
as much gratification as anything.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
So I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
I couldn't tell you exactly how long we're going to
continue to do it, but I feel really feel really
good today about it.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Well, Kach Softie joked about the profanity thing, but you
had a double digit year street going when we had
y'all every week, and that was about ten years ago.
So are we up to like twenty years in a
row without a slip up?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
I don't know, man, I don't keep track.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
When you would think if it happens once every two.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Decades, you would absolutely I was impresident you, coach. On
a serious note, we lost one of the all time
Sonic greats in the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Did you know Gus Williams at all, Oh.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Did I started back when I was a student athlete
at University of Washington. My good good friend Don vonn
and I used to imitate Gus Williams. We would watch
the Sonics, we would study him, we would try to
learn from him. He was one of the most under appreciated,
exciting players that people would have ever seen. The wizard
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and what never gets mentioned. You know, if he used
to tie his shoes behind, you know, the bowl would
go behind behind his shoes, and he saw him do that,
and they made the shoe strings longer for him so
he could do it easily. But man, he was electrifying
when he would go out there and play. Then, uh,
you know, I was fortunate enough to play in the
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NBA and play against Gus Williams and that was that
was a thrill. And then later after he retired, I retired,
I'd see him around Seattle different times and he was
just man, as you got, just the nicest human being
man out there, extremely humble. But man, you catch him
out there on a fast break, you're in deep, deep trouble.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, not out, no doubt. All right, man, listen, great stuff.
Glad to hear that you and Leona are doing good.
Congratulations and everything you're doing down there in California, and
we'll talk down the road.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Coach, Hey, thanks for having me, miss you guys man. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Likewise, Lorenzo romar With it's always fun to have him
on the radio show. Assistant coach now at Loola Maramont,
sixty six years old, and said to us there that
they had to evacuum wait their home in Calabasas twice
and the second time they left, they weren't sure if
they'd go home to their house. So thank god, good
news that he's doing okay. But we got some breaking news,
by the way, to get here on the radio show
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before Lee Sterling joins us, the dream of Roki Sasaki
in a Mariner uniform has died. According to Roki Sasaki's
Instagram page, he will sign a contract with the Los
Angeles Dodgers, shocking nobody in the baseball world. So on
the same day, the Mariners did it again. By the way,
(27:33):
the same day the Dodgers signed Rokie Sasaki, we get
Shintaro Fujinami, a thirty year old Japanese minor league pitcher
who was waived by the Mets last year. I mean,
the timing, it's unbelievable. Handers, we gotta spend some time
chat about this. Later today, Lee Sterling's gonna join us
our haiticap her next on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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We want to make a little.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Lextra pocket change for this weekend. I do well look
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Than Taramount Sports Leasterly to tell you we're gonna get
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Speaker 6 (28:23):
Here.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
By the way, I'll give us all of the picks
for the weekend that we're gonna look over in the
NFL Playoffs, the Ohio State Notre Dame National Championship. You know,
I'm just gonna say it right now, and I'll probably
eat my words. But the one game I keep coming
back to that I really like is the Commanders plus
the nine and a half in this tomorrow. Well, I
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don't know why, man, maybe I'm just nuts.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Well, they have a punt, they have the puncher's chance
in Jayden Daniels, I mean, I see zero chance that
Houston beats Kansas, like zero, Like right, Everything would have
to line up perfectly for four quarters in a row
for Kansasity to lose that game, and yet the other
game has a bigger point spread. But I only think
that's because it's probably a higher scoring game, right, But
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the Punchers chance and Jayden Daniels, I'm with you. I mean,
I just think that that he can single handily keep
that team close.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, well, I don't think the Texans will win. What's
the spread in that game? By the way, what's the
number is eight and a half? Yeah, I mean I
could see Kansas City being up, you know, fifteen points
and the Texans going to a garbage touchdown to cover something.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I mean, Kansas City hasn't been born many teams out,
so I think it can be close. I'm just talking
about winning winning the game. Houston is not going to
win the football.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I just think that. I think the Lions Commanders game
is going to be They're gonna sweat it out. I
think it's going to be a close game. Well, I
want to see him, so I want to see the
Lions kick their ass because I'm kind of I'm rooting
for the Lions right now, all right here. He is
our friend from Paramount Sports in South Florida. Four and
one last week thirty nine thirty five and one. Overall,
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it's our buddy, Lee Sterling, How are you man?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Good? And I'm gonna give you a different approach to play.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Most of these games this week.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
What if we don't want a different approach, we decide
the approach. We asked the questions and you answer, Okay,
that's how this works. All right, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
All right, we're gonna we're gonna take a different approach
because I think that the best approach this week is
going to be playing some two team seven point teasers.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
So just just some of the lines might be elevated
and and then there might be some lines we want
to want to tease up. So let's get started.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All right, Let's go with Philadelphia first of all, on
the Rams in Philadelphia, Eagles looking for a trip to
the NFC Championship and they're given six and a half
at home. What do you think?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
All right, this is the one game that we are
just gonna play a side. And the Eagles defense I
think got lucky. Last week. They got to face a
Green Bay team with Jordan Love, who was maybe eighty
eighty five percent at most, down three of their top
four receivers by late in the quarter and they played
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him the first time and so com Parkley ran all
over him for two hundred and fifty five yards. But
I think that they'll be able to come up with
a game plan, and playing in the snow makes a
little bit tougher for the score. I think six points
a little bit too high, and I think the Rams
running game is actually a little underrated. Philly wins twenty
three to twenty Rams cover like that.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
All right, I just mentioned I think Houston has a
zero shot to beat Kansas City, but they got a
shot to cover the spread.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
So what do you think about this? Kansas City? Mine
is eight and a half.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Okay, I am going to tease this game. So the
line is sitting at eight and a half. Let's use
this as part of a teaser. Let's move it down
seven points and take Kansas City. Why they're healthy. Finally,
in the twenty seven to nineteen win in Week sixteen,
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Patrick Mahomes had a tender ankle. He's still threw for
two and sixty yards two touchdowns. Houston two and five
this year versus playoff teams, and they like to run
the football. Joe Mixon's had a really good season.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
But how about this.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
They run the ball so much, and they've had such
little success throwing the ball on the early downs they
are right now. They've been left in third night or
longer ninety one times during the regular season, a figure
only exceeded by the Cleveland Browns. Here, they just got
to stay away from Derek Stingley, and with their three
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healthy receivers and Travis Kelce, they'll be able to do that.
I had Kansas City winning the game. I'm not sure
if they're going to cover, but let's put them in.
Like I said, that'll be part of our two teams
seven point.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Teaser, gotcha?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
So what about the other one? Bill's and Buffalo? Excuse me?
The Ravens and Buffalo obviously a big game for both
Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen could finish one, two and
the MVP and who knows in what order, by the way,
but Baltimore is giving a point and a half on
the road at Buffalo. How about that?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
All right? So the first game Week four, Ravens at
home beat the Bills thirty five to ten, and I
wrote down a quote from Josh Allen after that game.
He said, the Bills blowout lost to Baltimore. Not everything
was bad in this game, he said, a lot to
learn from. I'm glad this happened early in the season
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so we can correct things. So went back and watched
the game. Defensive line didn't play that badly. It was
the linebackers. Two backup linebackers. They have their starters. Now,
you know last week the Ravens, they jumped off that
twenty one to nothing lead Pittsburgh. Their offense has been
horrendous the last six weeks. They punted on all four
first half offensive possessions. I think if the Bills can
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get the ball, let's say they win the toss, they
score all of a sudden. Baltimore is going to be
chasing here, just like Tampa Bay blow Washington first game
of the year. It's gonna be reversed here Buffalo in
a shootout thirty five to thirty. But here's what we're
gonna do. Just in case it's a three or five
point game either way, We're gonna tease Buffalo up from
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plus one to plus eight.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Love it, Love it.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
How about Ohio State's national championship game.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
They have the more talented team.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
That doesn't necessarily mean they win or cover minus eight
and a half against Notre Dame.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Yeah, so Notre Dames defense, they use a three to
four defense. It might give Ohio State trouble for a
quarter close to a half. They did a really good
job ceialing the edges against Penn State, but still Penn
State ran for thirty four times for one hundred and
sixty six yards. If they had any explosiveness in their
passing attack, they would have won the game. They did
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not complete a pass to a wide receiver in that game.
I think for Notre Dame to win this game, Riley
Leonard's gonna have to run and throw the ball and
have success here. I don't think they're going to be
able to bracket Smith, the star receiver for Ohio State,
like Texas did.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
So.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
I think Ohio State pulls away here and wins thirty
to thirteen.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, and you got something up your sleeve for
the game of the week. We got the Lions given
nine and a half against the Commanders tomorrow night.
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Speaker 2 (35:34):
I love it, a leyb and you're the man, great stuff,
and we're talking a week buddy, Thanks mans good, Thank
Lee starting with us on the radio. And you know
we're talking about the Lions before Lee came on the year.
I mean, I'll just admit it, I am like openly
rooting for the Lions to win this entire thing, and
if they can't do it, I'd like to see Buffalo
do it. You know why because I'm a big fan
of fan bases that pay their dues, and the Lions
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in Buffalo have more than paid their dues. You know,
my mom's from Detroit, and I'm not sure if you
knew that or not, by the way, I got family
out in mission. But you look at this Lions fan
base and the last time the Lions won anything of
significance was the nineteen fifty seven NFL championship, almost seventy
years ago. I mean, there's like hardly anybody alive that
even remembers what the hell that was like in nineteen
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fifty seven. They've never hosted the NFC Championship. You think
tickets are expensive, now, wait till they beat the Commanders
on Saturday, and they probably will.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I mean, I'm not as going far as you are.
I mean, I could care less if Detroit wins. I
mean to be a cool story if they want. I
don't necessarily think I'm gonna be rooting for Dan Campbell
against either one of the in the NFL in the
Super Bow.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I think you're kind of openly hoping that he fails.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
By the way, well, honestly, the best, the best case
scenario is that he goes forward on fourth down ahead
in the game when he doesn't need to, instead of
punting the ball, and they will lose the game.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That would be to me, that would be the best case.
Why do you want that? Because you want to be
proven right about your opinion on it?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Just my opinion, I mean like it.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
There's there's millions of people out there that just can't
understand some of the things that Dan Campbell does at
the end of games, and I just think it cost
him last year. And I think unless he changes his ways,
it's it's going to cost him at some point.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Again, man, But I don't.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Get why you root for that though, Like why would you?
I mean, you're basically you're rooting for him to fail
so you can be proven right back in your opinion
on it.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
I said, I don't care whether they win or lose.
I'm not rooting for them to win. But if they
were to lose, yeah, you want it to be that.
That's the way I would like them to lose. But
I think, you know, back to Lee, I think he
is spot on. I think these lines are too good
in the playoffs, so I think you do need to
tease these And my best bet was KC down tonight
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minus one, like he said, builds up to plus eight
and then I threw the rams in there. You can
tease them up to plus fourteen and get an extra
team in there to give you better odds.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
In that three team teaser. I just I just ran
the numbers on Kansas City in Buffalo. It's minus one
twenty on that on that two team teaser, by the way,
to get Kansas City down to three on this site
and then Buffalo up to eight by the way. So
different sports books have different numbers and all that stuff.
But that's what Lee wants you to do. He likes
Philadelphia to win, but he likes the Rams to cover.
(38:11):
By the way, you want that pick for the Commander's game,
give him a call, by the way. Tickets for the
divisional game tomorrow in Detroit at Ford Field right now,
we're going for five hundred dollars, you know how much
they are right now for the NFC Championship that hasn't
even been scheduled yet. Fourteen hundred bucks to get in
the door for the NFC Championship if the Lions can
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get this thing done, and that price might go up.
By the way, after the win against the Commanders, we're
going to break a lot more to get to on
a busy Friday, including Hugh Millen joining us at five
from the MX by the way, talking some golf with
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Speaker 2 (01:27):
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team conducting a second interview with Vikings assistant offensive coordinator
Grant Udinsky. This came after the report yesterday that the
Hawks want to talk to Clint Kubiak for a second
round of conversations.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
And some good news in the world of college basketball.
ESPN has set a return date for Dicky v to
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By tal will call the Duke wake Forest game on
January twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Hey, more good news in college basketball. Of basketball, the
Beavers Smack and Zach I got last night. How about
that ninety seven eighty nine overtime win the Beaves take
down Gonzaga in Corvallis yesterday Husky's had a bad day
against Producer, so we'll just skip. That was a quad
one loss. Winders are actually really anytime Gonzaga loses, I'm
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happy and you should be happy too, but there's something
wrong with you because I.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Much prefer the Beavers. Car team was actually in our
conference for like one hundred years. The Times of hired
Chiefs Assistant GM Mike Bergunzi for their GM posts.
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Speaker 2 (03:13):
All right, here we go in a busy Friday. Jackson's out,
Andrews and Andrews that I mentioned the Gonzaga lost last night.
You did, okay? Just want to make sure, okay, you
sure I mentioned it in the update. Gonzaga lost to
Oregon State yesterday. He actually gets to it, has to
get smacked if it was an overtime game. Yes, technically
in game Gonzaga looses, they're getting smagged out to. I
(03:35):
just want to make sure I did tell you Gonzaga loss, right, Okay, good.
Just want to make sure that you all understand that
we got a big show to get to Lorenzo Romar.
We haven't talked to him in a long time. He'll
join us coming up in about fifteen minutes from now
on the show. He's kind of right down there, him
and his wife Leona, where the fires were hitting in California.
So we want to just check on him and see
(03:56):
how they're doing, see how their neighborhood's doing, all that,
and then talk about his new yig. He's an assistant
coach for Loyola Marymont. It's a guy who you know,
has made a ton of money, he could have just
retired and says he wants to keep teaching the game
of basketball. So I think anytime there's all this conversation
and change in college athletics. There's a certain number of
people that you want to get their opinion on the matter,
and Lorenzo Romar is certainly one of those guys, so
(04:19):
we'll visit with him. Coming up next segment, Lee Sterling
or had icapper from South Florida, who was four and
one on the air last week, He'll join us and
give us some picks for the weekend in the NFL
the National Title Game on Monday night, we'll do a
little textimonials. We'll have Huge join us at five, a
little fun with audio, and then Matt Deary from the
Locked On Lyons podcast will join us on the air
(04:42):
coming up about six o'clock tonight and talk about what
that city is like ahead of maybe the biggest Lions
home game of all time. I mean, they've never hosted
the NFC Championship, and if they win this game against
the Commanders, they will host the NFC Championship for the
first time in franchise history. Tickets to get in when
the market first took off for about seven hundred bucks.
(05:04):
Now they're in the five hundreds at venue kings dot com.
But we know what that's like, man, we know what
a Friday is like before the NFC Championship and I
miss it, right, I missed going on the air and
getting people all fired up for a game I thought.
I mean, hell, the Hawks haven't won a playoff game
in front of fans in their own stadium in eight years,
(05:26):
which is incredible. I mean, just think about that, dick
like bang. How much time has gone by since the
Thomas Rawls game against the Lions in twenty sixteen, and
here we are coming up on nine years since they
did it.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Well, I think in the NFL and particularly the NBA,
you kind of have to pay your playoff dues before
you get all the way to the Super Bowl, and
the Lions did that last year.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I mean, the Lions hosted two playoff games last year,
so maybe this is the biggest playoff game at home
since last year when they hosted the same I think.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I think when you have a chance to host the
NFC Championship, it's a little bit different. But you're right,
and I'm I look, I think that there's an order
to this stuff, right. Packers had an order to it
under Mike Holmgrin the Seahawks had an order to it.
Seahawks had to lose to the Rams in Green Bay
before they won the conference championship, and the Seahawks had
to have that heartbreaking loss to Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, and then back in the Carroll era, I mean,
we had to find the playoffs the first year, and
then we had to lose in the playoffs to Atlanta,
and in Carrol's third year until we want an ice.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We probably won it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Maybe a year earlier than we all thought we were
going to. I remember coming off the twenty twelve loss
to Atlanta thinking, oh my god, this is going to
be a great team. But I didn't necessarily think they
were going to be Super Bowl champions the next year.
I didn't think they were going from a second round
loss to Super Bowl champions. I thought, Okay, get us
to the NFC Championship, can take that next step, And
they just blew through the next two steps and won
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the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
One of the worst things that we do here at
this radio station, and we don't do as bad a
job of it now as we used to, is archiving audio.
And it actually pisses me off. I've been here for
a long time, so of you, and I would love
to go back and listen to this radio station the
night the Mariners beat the Yankees in ninety five, or
this radio station the night we did the all night
(07:11):
broadcast before the Seahawks Carolina game, this radio station the
day of the Sonics beat you taw to go to
the NBA Finals in ninety six. All these interviews right
of guys that we've had on that are no longer
with us man, So it kind of irritates the crap
out of me. And I'll take responsibilities my fault. I mean,
part of the problem is that the recording devices, the
technology has changed so much that you've got CDs, you've
(07:35):
got DAT tapes, you've got carts what you've got many discs.
And as we used to tape this show in a reel,
your job would be at the beginning of this show. Yeah,
you would take a VCR tape. You even know what
that is. I a VCR tape.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You would stick it in the VCR, hit play and
record at the same time. And that's how we recorded
the radio show.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But we would save stuff, and you know, I'm kind
of bummed out there we don't have a lot of that.
But I remember, and you know me, one of the
things I can't stand is going on there. Well I
said this, I said that, blah blah blah. I do remember,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna break my own rule here
for a second. Coming out of the twenty twelve Seahawks season,
all the guys that they had back the following year.
When you have that many guys back, you go with
(08:18):
a championship. And I remember referencing the Packers and what
they did before they got their title against the Patriots
in New Orleans in ninety six. And I'm not saying
the Hawks are there right now, but every year, every
year the divisional round the conference title games come around,
I always just ask myself, Okay, how far is my team?
How far are the Seahawks away from being back in
a position, Dick where we can go on the air
(08:40):
and talk on the A on a Friday night about
a divisional playoff game the next day or the conference
championship the next Sunday. I think I just.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Feel a lot similar to twenty twelve.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
If we had a quarterback, if we had the guy
that we absolutely knew was going to be a foundational
quarterback for the next Deck. We knew we had that
in Russell Wilson after the twenty twelve playoffs.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I like, there was no doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
And so while we were super excited about the defense,
then I'm not as excited about this defense. But I'm
pretty excited about this defense. I think this defense is
absolutely capable of being top five next year in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And the reason I say that is because it.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Was top five of the NFL the second half of
this season, right once they figured it out. So I
think they've got it figured out to add pieces to it.
It's just that it's just the Russell Wilson versus Gino
Smith is such a chasm.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, you just can't replace that. Well, let's find out
four nine, four or five to one, how far away
are these guys? Honestly, how far away are they from
being back in a position like the Lions are in
this weekend, or the Ravens or the Buffalo or whoever.
Four nine, four to five one. Hit us with that,
Lorenzo Romar, we haven't said high to him in a
long time. Let's rectify that. Next on ninety three three KJRFM.
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Speaker 2 (10:09):
Cober tied seventy five.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Again I say it shot top turt Okay Cook today.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
He's gotta though it himself. Thomas Shay Russo it step
backs up. Yeah, see sick hits it.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I don't want a second.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Day, go dud. You know, I've often wondered how often
guys like Lorenzo Romar go back and listen to the
audio there of Gus Johnson. Maybe they get Bob Rondo.
Bob was actually sick that day and his voice was
all hoarse and still had a great call. But twenty
eleven mans, fourteen years ago, Isaiah Thomas with a buzzer beater,
(10:57):
and the guy joining us right now on the phone
was there to see it all. It's been a long time.
Welcome back to the radio show, our old friend, Lorenzo Romar, coach,
how are you?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I'm doing great? How you doing? Fellas?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
We are doing? Very good man. Great to hear your voice. Hey,
I got to ask you though, real quick when you
hear that highlight there? Shot clock turned off, game clock
and eight He's gonna do it himself. Isaiah Thomas with
a step back buzzer beating three against Arizona. What do
you think about when you hear that play? And how
often do you hear that call, by the way.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Coach, Well, first of all, whenever I hear it, and
I hear it quite a bit. Whenever I hear it,
whatever I'm doing, I stop immediately to listen to the
whole thing, like I've never.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Heard it before. But I don't play it back. But
so many people.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Remember that moment, especially around March Madness, and people have
played and it just it comes on all the time,
and I never get tired of listening to it.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And yet the most calm, stoic person in the entire
building was you, Why did you not celebrate at all
after he hit that shot?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Well, there's all types of celebrations going on in my
head at that time, and I remember my thoughts were
really I'm not exaggerating. I was thinking, Wow, he really
hit that shot. We we won the championship. Wow, that
was awesome, That's what I was thinking. I was thinking,
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that guy's got the biggest heart ever. You know what,
people don't realize about that shot just give you a
little back.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Can I give you a little background to that?
Speaker 7 (12:46):
You know, we played three games, three nights and the
first but NOOI Overton wasn't playing with us at the
time and he was sitting out and we only had
one point guard that was Isaiah. So the first night
we played, Isaiah did not come out of the game.
We played all forty minutes. Well, the next night we
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play I think I think it was Oregon. But the
next night we play, they realize that. So they picked
him up full court the entire game to wear him down,
and he set out for two minutes, so he played
thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
We win that.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
The next night he plays all forty minutes and the
whole time he doesn't come out. Now he still has
the legs to take that shot at the end of
the game. Three nights plays, sits out all but two
minutes and still was able to hit that shot.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
It was remarkable.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, I know that that run down there in La.
I mean, you get the Cougars, you get them, Oregon
you get them, and then Arizona you get them. So
back to back to back nights of amazing college basketball.
But Lorenzo romar Is with us, and Lorenzo's an assistant
coach now at Loyola, and we want to talk to
you about kind of your situation down there. You're near
the fires all that, and how you and Leona are
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doing in a minute, but I got to ask you
because you've been doing this a long time. You know, Lucky,
you could have walked away and said I'm done. I'm
and retire and just you know, hang out with my
kids and grandkids and enjoy my life. But he decided
to go back and take an assistant coaching job. Why well,
I knew.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
I knew Stan Johnson when he was an assistant, and
I always thought he was going to be a star
in this business. And we when I was at Pepperdine
in the last six years, we competed against his teams
for four of those years, and I thought he did
a really good job with his team.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
I respected what he did.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
And the next day I got a call after we
lost our last game when I was at Pepperdine and
got a call from him, and he said he'd love
to have me come take a look and consider joining
his staff. And he invited me to come to the campus.
And when I got to the campus. I had no
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idea the resources that LMU had here. I didn't realize
they chartered flights. I didn't realize that, you know, the
way they eat, the way they treat their athletes, all
of that. I just didn't realize that. I thought it
would be a great opportunity if I wanted to continue
to coach, to be able to come here and help
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out and just be a part of something that was growing.
And I still like mentoring the kids. I still like
being around the kids and being around around the game,
and it was an opportunity to do that.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
We didn't have to move, none of that.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
So it was just kind of a seamless transition, and
I thought I wanted to do it, so we decided
to take them up on it.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Well, coach, the world of college basketball is much different
now than when you were here, There's no question about that.
Can you explain to us maybe the major differences from
a coach's standpoint in the recruiting process now in the
NIL era versus you were here at Washington.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Well, it's so much different obviously now.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
You you know, some compare it to NBA free agency
with the open portal, But it's not like the NBA
free agency because they have a contract, they're there for
a couple of years. Here it's literally semester to semester
potentially and year to year.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
And you know, from a coach's perspective, you used.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
To have someone like a Bobby Jones justin holiday that
they were good as freshmen, but you knew they were
going to grow and they were going to develop and
they were going to become great basketball players in your system,
and one day they were going to lead because they
knew everything to do about your program and you counted
on that and you were able to build your program
that way. Well, that's not the case anymore. You have
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a new team potentially every year, a brand new team,
and it's just a different way of looking at things.
And now you're talking about roster management. You have to
have some GM and you some general manager qualities because
you're not only managing your roster, you're managing it financially. Yeah, well, yeah,
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it's it's different. It's it's completely different than it was
in the past.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
No, and totally agree with you on the NBA comparison.
There is no comparison because the NBA has got structure.
I mean, college basketball's got no structure at all. And look,
I mean, I'm all for that exactly, but I mean
I'm all for the kids getting money. But how Lorenzo, Look,
I said this to Dick before you came on that
when there's issues around college athletics, you're you're one of
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the voices that we want to hear from. So for
if somebody came up to you and said, hey, I
remember your Washington teams where you had guys like Bobby
Jones and John Brockman and Brandon Roy and Isaiah Thomas,
and we'll call they were there for three, four five years,
some of them. We got to know the players, we
got relationships with them. Now we've got kids playing for
four five teams apiece in college basketball. How am I
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supposed to form a relationship with a player as a
fan And how are you as a coach supposed to
do that? If every year you have a brand new team.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
You make a great, great point, I would say, and
I've talked to a couple of guys about this. If
it were, if everything was in place the way it
is right now, the time that we spent at Washington,
the fun times, the successful times, it could have happened,
but it wouldn't have happened in the special way that
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it did, where there were local kids that grew with
the team that you you saw their progress, you saw
them grow together. It just it just wouldn't have happened.
There were there were a couple of guys that were
were homebodies. They just wouldn't have left. But by and
large they would have been. There would have been some
guys that left. There would have been some guys that
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would have gotten paid more money, uh and and would
have left the situation.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
It just it wouldn't have happened the way it happened.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
I felt like with some of those guys, you know,
when you started with Nate will Conroy and Brandon Roy,
and then John Brockman and then Isaiah Thomas, all those
guys that were local, and then you add guys like
Quincy Pon Dexter that were not from there, Bobby Jones,
it made it just for a special, magical time that
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wouldn't be the case anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
When you look at what this program has become since
you left, and we've got optimism that Danny Sprinkle's the
right guy and he'll turn things around, But what are
your emotions to see the struggles that this program that
you built up and made one of the top really
twenty programs in America when you were there, well, you.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Pull for them and you know that times are changing
and involvement with them as well. Fortunately for coach Sprinkle,
he's young enough to where he's I feel he's already
adapting to where the the game is played right now.
And I don't just mean on the basketball floor, but
I mean just how things are done off the court
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for you to put a competitive product out there on
the floor. He's he's gonna be fine. They're gonna do
a fine job that way. It's different, though, it's different.
You have to go by you have to do your
business in an entirely different way. You go out to recruit,
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and there are so many kids out there that don't
have scholarships in the spring that would have had scholarships
in the past. But everybody's looking to go with the
portal and a lot of high school kids are suffering
because of that and are kind of out there in
the cold. And now everyone goes I shouldn't say everyone,
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but so many go into the portal at the end
of the year thinking the grass is green. Are on
the other side, are thinking they're gonna get paid a
lot of money, and here it comes in August and
they have no one. No one's willing to take them
because the market is so big for that portal.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
So it's just it's just different.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
A lot of careers they're getting derailed as a result
of it.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Yeah, I know, you're right.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
There's a lot of kids going into the portal and
a lot of them don't come out with that with
nowhere to go. And that's the case in football as well.
But Lorenzo Romar with us and coach we thought about
you obviously when the fires hit Pacific Palisades, and know
you and Leona are down there. I think you guys
are in Malibu, but maybe just give us an idea
of kind of where you live and what your area
is like and what you've been dealing with down there.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Man, we're in a place called Calabasas, got it, and
we you know, obviously Pepperdine was in Malibu, but we
were were We lived about fifteen minutes through what's called
the Malibu Canyon, so but we were still affected.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
In fact, we had to evacuate twice.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Where we were in the fires were very very close.
One of the times when we were evacuating, we thought
that was it, but we were able to house is
still standing, although it was scary. Fortunately for us, it
didn't affect us, but unfortunately for so many it did
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affect them, and so many have to just start over.
And it's very very sad to see people have to
go through that.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What type of impact has it had on your basketball team,
whether it's their houses or have you had to cancel
practices or move games or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I know the Lakers move their game, but have you
had to do that.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
We had one game canceled. It was actually against Pepperdine
at Pepperdine. That game was postponed. It will play it
again later on in the year. But one of our
players had to evacuate. His parents had to evacuate from
their home, and then our performance coach, strength conditioning coach
his wife's family that she grew up in. Their house
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was burnt down. So it affects us that way, But
in terms of us not being able to practice or
anything like that, it had It hadn't really affected us
here where we are in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, well, I mean it certainly puts things in perspective,
There's no question about that. You know, you don't want
to have to learn a lesson like that, but it
definitely does put things in perspective. And I mean, you've
you've handled this stuff as well as anybody as long
as I've known you, and I'm sure Dick would agree
as long as he's known you. You're just kind of
a roll with the punches kind of guy, right, And
I've never seen you get mad at anybody or use
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profanity or whatever. And I'm sure every now and then
you slipped up, but I wasn't there to see it.
But you are. You are an absolute role model for
a lot of people in college basketball is better off
with you in it, man. But I got to ask you.
I mean, you're here, you are what thirty eight, thirty
nine years old? You still a fairly young guy.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
How much longer you could almost.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I know, and that's true, by the way, how much
longer do you want to do this for? I mean,
do you see retirement on the horizon? Do you see
traveling around the world and just hanging out with the
grandkids on the horizon or is this hard to imagine
a life without basketball for you.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You know, I don't see.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I don't look at my future and say there is
some special thing that I've always wanted to do and
I've got to be able to do.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
This before i leave this earth.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I've never I've never really thought that way. I still
love it again. I love being around the kids. I
love being around in a situation where you're able to
help them get through this time in their life, help
them prepare for their future. For me, that gives me
as much gratification as anything.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
So I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
I couldn't tell you exactly how long we're going to
continue to do it, but I feel really feel really
good today about it.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Well, Kach Softie joked about the profanity thing, but you
had a double digit year street going when we had
y'all every week, and that was about ten years ago.
So are we up to like twenty years in a
row without a slip up?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
I don't know, man, I don't keep track.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
When you would think if it happens once every two.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Decades, you would absolutely I was impresident you, coach. On
a serious note, we lost one of the all time
Sonic greats in the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Did you know Gus Williams at all, Oh.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Did I started back when I was a student athlete
at University of Washington. My good good friend Don vonn
and I used to imitate Gus Williams. We would watch
the Sonics, we would study him, we would try to
learn from him. He was one of the most under appreciated,
exciting players that people would have ever seen. The wizard
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and what never gets mentioned. You know, if he used
to tie his shoes behind, you know, the bowl would
go behind behind his shoes, and he saw him do that,
and they made the shoe strings longer for him so
he could do it easily. But man, he was electrifying
when he would go out there and play. Then, uh,
you know, I was fortunate enough to play in the
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NBA and play against Gus Williams and that was that
was a thrill. And then later after he retired, I retired,
I'd see him around Seattle different times and he was
just man, as you got, just the nicest human being
man out there, extremely humble. But man, you catch him
out there on a fast break, you're in deep, deep trouble.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, not out, no doubt. All right, man, listen, great stuff.
Glad to hear that you and Leona are doing good.
Congratulations and everything you're doing down there in California, and
we'll talk down the road.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Coach, Hey, thanks for having me, miss you guys man. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Likewise, Lorenzo romar With it's always fun to have him
on the radio show. Assistant coach now at Loola Maramont,
sixty six years old, and said to us there that
they had to evacuum wait their home in Calabasas twice
and the second time they left, they weren't sure if
they'd go home to their house. So thank god, good
news that he's doing okay. But we got some breaking news,
by the way, to get here on the radio show
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before Lee Sterling joins us, the dream of Roki Sasaki
in a Mariner uniform has died. According to Roki Sasaki's
Instagram page, he will sign a contract with the Los
Angeles Dodgers, shocking nobody in the baseball world. So on
the same day, the Mariners did it again. By the way,
(27:33):
the same day the Dodgers signed Rokie Sasaki, we get
Shintaro Fujinami, a thirty year old Japanese minor league pitcher
who was waived by the Mets last year. I mean,
the timing, it's unbelievable. Handers, we gotta spend some time
chat about this. Later today, Lee Sterling's gonna join us
our haiticap her next on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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Speaker 1 (28:05):
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Speaker 6 (28:23):
Here.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
By the way, I'll give us all of the picks
for the weekend that we're gonna look over in the
NFL Playoffs, the Ohio State Notre Dame National Championship. You know,
I'm just gonna say it right now, and I'll probably
eat my words. But the one game I keep coming
back to that I really like is the Commanders plus
the nine and a half in this tomorrow. Well, I
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don't know why, man, maybe I'm just nuts.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Well, they have a punt, they have the puncher's chance
in Jayden Daniels, I mean, I see zero chance that
Houston beats Kansas, like zero, Like right, Everything would have
to line up perfectly for four quarters in a row
for Kansasity to lose that game, and yet the other
game has a bigger point spread. But I only think
that's because it's probably a higher scoring game, right, But
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the Punchers chance and Jayden Daniels, I'm with you. I mean,
I just think that that he can single handily keep
that team close.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, well, I don't think the Texans will win. What's
the spread in that game? By the way, what's the
number is eight and a half? Yeah, I mean I
could see Kansas City being up, you know, fifteen points
and the Texans going to a garbage touchdown to cover something.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I mean, Kansas City hasn't been born many teams out,
so I think it can be close. I'm just talking
about winning winning the game. Houston is not going to
win the football.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I just think that. I think the Lions Commanders game
is going to be They're gonna sweat it out. I
think it's going to be a close game. Well, I
want to see him, so I want to see the
Lions kick their ass because I'm kind of I'm rooting
for the Lions right now, all right here. He is
our friend from Paramount Sports in South Florida. Four and
one last week thirty nine thirty five and one. Overall,
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it's our buddy, Lee Sterling, How are you man?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Good? And I'm gonna give you a different approach to play.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Most of these games this week.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
What if we don't want a different approach, we decide
the approach. We asked the questions and you answer, Okay,
that's how this works. All right, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
All right, we're gonna we're gonna take a different approach
because I think that the best approach this week is
going to be playing some two team seven point teasers.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
So just just some of the lines might be elevated
and and then there might be some lines we want
to want to tease up. So let's get started.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All right, Let's go with Philadelphia first of all, on
the Rams in Philadelphia, Eagles looking for a trip to
the NFC Championship and they're given six and a half
at home. What do you think?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
All right, this is the one game that we are
just gonna play a side. And the Eagles defense I
think got lucky. Last week. They got to face a
Green Bay team with Jordan Love, who was maybe eighty
eighty five percent at most, down three of their top
four receivers by late in the quarter and they played
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him the first time and so com Parkley ran all
over him for two hundred and fifty five yards. But
I think that they'll be able to come up with
a game plan, and playing in the snow makes a
little bit tougher for the score. I think six points
a little bit too high, and I think the Rams
running game is actually a little underrated. Philly wins twenty
three to twenty Rams cover like that.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
All right, I just mentioned I think Houston has a
zero shot to beat Kansas City, but they got a
shot to cover the spread.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
So what do you think about this? Kansas City? Mine
is eight and a half.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Okay, I am going to tease this game. So the
line is sitting at eight and a half. Let's use
this as part of a teaser. Let's move it down
seven points and take Kansas City. Why they're healthy. Finally,
in the twenty seven to nineteen win in Week sixteen,
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Patrick Mahomes had a tender ankle. He's still threw for
two and sixty yards two touchdowns. Houston two and five
this year versus playoff teams, and they like to run
the football. Joe Mixon's had a really good season.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
But how about this.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
They run the ball so much, and they've had such
little success throwing the ball on the early downs they
are right now. They've been left in third night or
longer ninety one times during the regular season, a figure
only exceeded by the Cleveland Browns. Here, they just got
to stay away from Derek Stingley, and with their three
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healthy receivers and Travis Kelce, they'll be able to do that.
I had Kansas City winning the game. I'm not sure
if they're going to cover, but let's put them in.
Like I said, that'll be part of our two teams
seven point.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Teaser, gotcha?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
So what about the other one? Bill's and Buffalo? Excuse me?
The Ravens and Buffalo obviously a big game for both
Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen could finish one, two and
the MVP and who knows in what order, by the way,
but Baltimore is giving a point and a half on
the road at Buffalo. How about that?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
All right? So the first game Week four, Ravens at
home beat the Bills thirty five to ten, and I
wrote down a quote from Josh Allen after that game.
He said, the Bills blowout lost to Baltimore. Not everything
was bad in this game, he said, a lot to
learn from. I'm glad this happened early in the season
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so we can correct things. So went back and watched
the game. Defensive line didn't play that badly. It was
the linebackers. Two backup linebackers. They have their starters. Now,
you know last week the Ravens, they jumped off that
twenty one to nothing lead Pittsburgh. Their offense has been
horrendous the last six weeks. They punted on all four
first half offensive possessions. I think if the Bills can
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get the ball, let's say they win the toss, they
score all of a sudden. Baltimore is going to be
chasing here, just like Tampa Bay blow Washington first game
of the year. It's gonna be reversed here Buffalo in
a shootout thirty five to thirty. But here's what we're
gonna do. Just in case it's a three or five
point game either way, We're gonna tease Buffalo up from
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plus one to plus eight.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Love it, Love it.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
How about Ohio State's national championship game.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
They have the more talented team.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
That doesn't necessarily mean they win or cover minus eight
and a half against Notre Dame.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Yeah, so Notre Dames defense, they use a three to
four defense. It might give Ohio State trouble for a
quarter close to a half. They did a really good
job ceialing the edges against Penn State, but still Penn
State ran for thirty four times for one hundred and
sixty six yards. If they had any explosiveness in their
passing attack, they would have won the game. They did
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not complete a pass to a wide receiver in that game.
I think for Notre Dame to win this game, Riley
Leonard's gonna have to run and throw the ball and
have success here. I don't think they're going to be
able to bracket Smith, the star receiver for Ohio State,
like Texas did.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
So.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
I think Ohio State pulls away here and wins thirty
to thirteen.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, and you got something up your sleeve for
the game of the week. We got the Lions given
nine and a half against the Commanders tomorrow night.
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Speaker 2 (35:34):
I love it, a leyb and you're the man, great stuff,
and we're talking a week buddy, Thanks mans good, Thank
Lee starting with us on the radio. And you know
we're talking about the Lions before Lee came on the year.
I mean, I'll just admit it, I am like openly
rooting for the Lions to win this entire thing, and
if they can't do it, I'd like to see Buffalo
do it. You know why because I'm a big fan
of fan bases that pay their dues, and the Lions
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in Buffalo have more than paid their dues. You know,
my mom's from Detroit, and I'm not sure if you
knew that or not, by the way, I got family
out in mission. But you look at this Lions fan
base and the last time the Lions won anything of
significance was the nineteen fifty seven NFL championship, almost seventy
years ago. I mean, there's like hardly anybody alive that
even remembers what the hell that was like in nineteen
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fifty seven. They've never hosted the NFC Championship. You think
tickets are expensive, now, wait till they beat the Commanders
on Saturday, and they probably will.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I mean, I'm not as going far as you are.
I mean, I could care less if Detroit wins. I
mean to be a cool story if they want. I
don't necessarily think I'm gonna be rooting for Dan Campbell
against either one of the in the NFL in the
Super Bow.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I think you're kind of openly hoping that he fails.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
By the way, well, honestly, the best, the best case
scenario is that he goes forward on fourth down ahead
in the game when he doesn't need to, instead of
punting the ball, and they will lose the game.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That would be to me, that would be the best case.
Why do you want that? Because you want to be
proven right about your opinion on it?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Just my opinion, I mean like it.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
There's there's millions of people out there that just can't
understand some of the things that Dan Campbell does at
the end of games, and I just think it cost
him last year. And I think unless he changes his ways,
it's it's going to cost him at some point.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Again, man, But I don't.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Get why you root for that though, Like why would you?
I mean, you're basically you're rooting for him to fail
so you can be proven right back in your opinion
on it.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
I said, I don't care whether they win or lose.
I'm not rooting for them to win. But if they
were to lose, yeah, you want it to be that.
That's the way I would like them to lose. But
I think, you know, back to Lee, I think he
is spot on. I think these lines are too good
in the playoffs, so I think you do need to
tease these And my best bet was KC down tonight
(37:40):
minus one, like he said, builds up to plus eight
and then I threw the rams in there. You can
tease them up to plus fourteen and get an extra
team in there to give you better odds.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
In that three team teaser. I just I just ran
the numbers on Kansas City in Buffalo. It's minus one
twenty on that on that two team teaser, by the way,
to get Kansas City down to three on this site
and then Buffalo up to eight by the way. So
different sports books have different numbers and all that stuff.
But that's what Lee wants you to do. He likes
Philadelphia to win, but he likes the Rams to cover.
(38:11):
By the way, you want that pick for the Commander's game,
give him a call, by the way. Tickets for the
divisional game tomorrow in Detroit at Ford Field right now,
we're going for five hundred dollars, you know how much
they are right now for the NFC Championship that hasn't
even been scheduled yet. Fourteen hundred bucks to get in
the door for the NFC Championship if the Lions can
(38:34):
get this thing done, and that price might go up.
By the way, after the win against the Commanders, we're
going to break a lot more to get to on
a busy Friday, including Hugh Millen joining us at five
from the MX by the way, talking some golf with
Yuey Little Football too. At ninety three to three KJRM
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