May 29, 2025 • 33 mins
In the first hour, Dick Fain and Hugh Millen react to the Mariners getting rocked by the Nationals yesterday and George Kirby’s outing, discuss what the perfect playoff model would be for college football after the latest change, plus listen to some Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jackson is here, Hugh Breed, love Millan is here. How
you doing, man, I'm doing well. What's happening? Oh? I
got a lot on my mind today. I feel I
have a feeling like today is going to be a
plethor it's going to be a cornicopy of thoughts just
dancing around in my mind. And we might go on tangents.
But I've got like five or six things I want
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to chew on with you. I mean, the first being
I mentioned in the update. I just I went to
the wrong stadium last night. I took a right out
of Henry, out of Jimmy's. I should have taken a
left and gone to Lumanfield to be with Jackson Feltz
and watch the Sounders win and score, where instead I
took a right with my wife into T Mobile Park
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and watched just the most boring baseball game that you
could possibly watch, where your offense does absolutely nothing. Your
starting pitcher just gets mauled, the bullpen comes in, gets
mauled some more, and you just have no prayer after
a toop three or four in that game. But the
(01:01):
good news was number what I said to you yesterday, Hugh,
I only go to baseball games when it's seventy degrees
or more, because at least then if the baseball game
is horrible, then at least I can say, you know,
I'm sitting outside with my wife sipping a beer and
it's seventy degrees, So at least I got that going
for me. If it would have been forty eight degrees
like it was much of April and early May at
those baseball games, there would have been literally no reason
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to go. But I don't know, man, is it. Did
it put any seed of concern in your brain as
can as far as George Kirby is concerned, or it's say,
you know what, it's still spring training for this guy.
I'm not even worried about. Well, I would say for me,
concern is relative.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I figure he's gonna, he's gonna eventually he's gonna start pitching.
Like George Kirby, I just don't know when I think
that was a bad matchup for him last night. I mean,
the National's got to have as many left handed bats
as anybody in baseball. I'm sure there's a way to
look that up, but it just seemed like everybody who
(02:02):
comes to the plate is a lefty and where Logan
Evans uh the game prior he was working Logan Evans
on his You know, obviously a right hander going against
a there might have been eight or nine lefties in
that lineup. I'm not even exactly, but Logan Evans was
working the back door, breaking balls. But he was also
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working in on the hands a lot. So if you
just go the vertical thirds right inside third, middle third,
and outside third, Logan Evans was hitting the inside third
and the outside third most of the time. And when
he did leave it in the middle third, he he
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left it middle middle and it got knocked out, knocked
out the ballpark. So that that was the one west
thing gave up he left. And then there I counted
the damn things the middle up. He had one pitch
that was middle up, and then every other time it
was middle down. Of course he has a sinker and
and what have you. So he was but I think
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that he just worked the perimeter of the of the
strike zone a lot better. I thought Kirby last night
was he was not in on the hands at all
with his slider. Nothing never in on the hands. It
was always it was all always either trying to get
him on the outside, and you had a lot of
left handed hitters that were pushing the ball out to
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left field.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And is telling me all nine were left handed hitters
both nights, all night.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Okay, yeah, I've seen I didn't I didn't know that,
but it just seemed now. But but then, but then
Kirby left the ball in the middle, cut a lot
and and several middle middles. You know which is you know,
Cokai right down Broadway, uh and so so I I
just think, clearly he's not placing the baseball where he
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wanted to. But but look, you'd have to get somebody
who knows more about this stuff than me. But I
just felt like he wasn't aggressive trying to pitch inside
with that, or if he was trying to pitch inside,
he was missing maybe those ones that were left in
the middle. He was trying to get inside on the fist.
But I thought where Evans had done a great job
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of pitching on the fists the night before, Kirby did
seemingly none of that.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, Kirby just thrives on command, and when his command
is spot on, he is always you know, two inches
outside where they're still giving him. The spry striker or
an inch inside. They're still giving him the strike. He
just works that strikes on so well, and he just
obviously doesn't have his command right now. But coming up
tonight at six forty Emerson Hancock tries to win the
series for Seattle. This is just one that you need
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to get. I mean you got You just need to
take two of three against the Nationals. There is no
question about it all all right. Well, moving on from
baseball to Husky football. The schedule is out at least
for a few games. So we got clarification today on
the Apple Cup. It is going to be a thirty
on CBS. That'll be September twentieth. I bought my tickets
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this week. I'm taking the whole fam, Damnley out to Pollman.
That'll be fun. My kids have never been to Pullman.
We'll see if they see if they fall in love
with the places or if they hate the place like
I did when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years of age.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That is four thirty September twentieth on CBS. Now the
first two home games of the year Colorado State August
the thirtieth, UC Davis September the sixth. We now know
they are both eight o'clock start, so I can hear
Husky fans already eight o'clock store to hate the late starts. However,
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is an eight o'clock start bad when it's August the
thirtieth or September? I mean, you can still take your
boat to the game. It's broad daylight all the way
up till you know, eight thirty nine o'clock at night.
You're coming home in the dark. I understand that. But
if you're gonna have late games, you I'll take there.
I'll take the early season eight pm games over something
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at you know, seven thirty and in November. Absolutely, yeah.
If you're gonna have to play at night, just the
earlier the better.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yes, And you know I love playing those kind of
I call them Rose Bowl games at Husky Stadium.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What's a Rose Bowl game Twilight games?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, it's a day game in the first half, and
it's a night game in the second half, or you
know thereabouts. If you have those kind of kickoffs in September,
I think those are cool. I don't think there's anything
cool about an eight o'clock kickoff in November.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, you got here, so you do have a twilight
game that we know for sure, Friday, October tenth. It's hope.
You know, October tenth still could be decent. We've had
many sixty five seventy degree early October days. October tenth,
the Rutgers game. We had it at night at Rutgers
last year. We're gonna have it at six pm versus
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Rutgers this year. So that's that's a pretty good start
time as well. We love Jackson and I love it.
Softy loves it on a Friday because our show's preempted
for Husky football, that's beautiful, so we get to go
tailgate instead of doing the show. So Rutgers at six,
so now we know four games, Colorado State at eight,
UC Davis at eight, first two games of this season,
then we gotta buy. Then you go to Pullman for
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the four to thirty CBS game and then the six
o'clock game against Rutgers. I mean, this is this is
a football team, Hugh, that that should absolutely be in
the top twenty five after those games take place. I mean,
this is a team that should be heading against Ohio
State in the top twenty five, and it should be
one of those big time you know, Fox or you know,
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what have you twelve thirty starts at Husky Stadium. Indeed, I.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Think, you know, look, I've long time been just anguished
by college football and September scheduling. And I think that
our descendants five hundred years from now are gonna mock
us that we like sheep, just herd into these these
huge arenas to watch slaughter, you know, bodybag games. Right,
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So you know, I hope before I pass that I
see a change in that mentality. I think it's just look,
I understand the economics of it, but I still I
think there's other ways.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And I've never liked it, probably never will And so yeah,
the more competitive you can get in September as an entity,
and so you know, on a micro level, I can't
just sit here and be thrilled about the Huskies if
I don't like it on the macro level and I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, what we need to do then is college football
needs to, as it's in its process of adapting and
changing very very rapidly, we need to good get to
a point where college football commissioners, conference commissioners, and the
coaches can all adopt the basketball system. And what I
mean about the basketball system is strength of victory, strength
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of schedule, huge component in determining what seed you are
in the NCAA tournament in basketball, and it needs to
be that way in football. So, for example, Ohio State
is playing Texas. It's one of the very very few
marquee games. Marquee non conference games. We had quite a
few of them last year. Evidently that turned out to
be an aberration. The non conference schedule, the non conference
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Power five schedule this year, Hugh is absolutely horrendous. With
one massive exception, and that is Opening Day Ohio State
against Texas. That the loser of that game should not
be significantly punished for playing that game. That should be you.
If Ohio State loses twenty three to twenty in an
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absolute barn burner, they should not. Now Texas should be.
Texas should be credited for winning, much more so than
Ohio State should be detracted from for losing.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Because where's the game Atlanta or in Jerry Domey we
looked at.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Let me look that up because and.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
By the way, good on Texas while you're looking that up,
because they traveled to ann Arbor last year and played
the defending national champions.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So that them willing to cowboy up, as expression says
down there in Texas.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I tip my hat to them. They're at home. Ohio
State's at home at the Horseshoe. Wow, so good on Texas. Yeah.
And it's a nine am. It's a big noon, a
big noon start east coast. So that that is you know,
that's the game, right and so Ohio State Texas. Even
if Ohio State loses it home, it's it's not one
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that they should get that they should get docked for.
And I'm I'm really looking at what the college football
commissioners are going to do here when it comes to
talking about the new model, the sixteen team playoff and
what model is best for college football, and I want
to I want to chew on that with you for
a little bit, a little bit now and then a
little bit after the break. It looks like there's two
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potent options out there. There's the four four two two,
which four Big ten teams guaranteed, four SEC teams guaranteed,
two ACC two Big twelve, and then I guess you
would have the next best conference get a bid and
then everything else is up for grabs.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Or the five eleven model so that not hal so
that this is still a twelve team model, right, So,
right now we're a twelve team right with four four
to two. No, that's gonna be for sixteen. That's gonna
be for sixteen teams. Yes, so we got six at larges.
Oh no, No, you're saying two each for ACC and
the Big twelve, right, correct?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
So the be four at largest, yes, or the five
eleven model where you only have five guaranteed spots. You
win one of the Power fours, or you win the
next best conference, whatever that is, whether it's the PAC
twelve or what have you, you get a spot and
then there's all. There's just a free for all, all
eleven team you know, fill out the schedule with the
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next eleven teams based upon the rankings. I want to
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Speaker 1 (13:13):
All right, Hew and Jackson, I had a very good
conversation with the best person I could find that could
explain all this to me in dummy terms, and that's
John Wilner.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So I just got off the phone with about an
eight minute conversation during that break with John Wilder to
make sure that all my te's were crossed and my
eyes were dotted as far as the information I'm about
to put out here. All right, So this year we've
got a twelve team playoffs. That's it, twelve team playoffs
for the last time, okay, and we're no longer giving
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preferential treatment to the Arizona States and the Boise States
of the world, giving them the first round bys. That's
not going to happen anymore. So let's just put that aside.
That's a one year thing. Then there has not been
a definitive decision yet whether they're going to fourteen or
sixteen for next year, but he says they're going to sixteen.
That's where they're going. Fourteen will probably be tabled very
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very soon, and they're going to sixteen. So let's look
at the format of what they're going to do when
they go to sixteen. He says, the Big ten is
pushing for the four to four. That's four Big ten,
four ACC, two to two two ACC two Big twelve
one that's the next best conferences champion and three at large.
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That's what the Big ten is pushing for. The SEC
is not really showing their hand yet on whether they
want that or whether they want the other model that's
being pushed out there, which is the five eleven, one
team from each of the top five conferences, and then
it's a free for all for the other eleven spots.
(14:58):
All Right, The Big twelve said, yeah, we'd rather have
the five eleven because the Big Twelve's like, well, we
don't want you to tell us that we're half as important,
even though we kind of know we're only half as
important as you. Guys. We don't want to pigeonhole ourselves
as being half as important and get only two spots.
(15:18):
We'd rather have the opportunity to get three or four
teams in the NC in the College Football playoffs. But
the problem with that is, in order for them to
get more than two, what do they need to have
happen in the non conference? They need the Big Ten
in the SEC to play them in non conference so
they have the opportunity to build up a strength to
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schedule and beat those teams. And there's no right now,
there's no assurances that the Big Ten or the SEC
is gonna say, yeah, I'll play you Arizona State, Yeah,
I'll play your Boise State. Why would they do that
right when they can just play one crossover game between
the Big Ten and the SEC, which is likely to
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happen if the SEC goes to nine conference games. If
we have a level playing field and the SEC decides
to go to nine conference games, like the Big Ten
has nine conference games, then we will have a non
conference game between a Big Ten team and an SEC team,
meaning the Huskies will play an SEC team every single year,
and then they'll play the two cream Puffs and we
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move on. So any questions on that so far or
comments based upon how you see that and what you
think is the is the best way to go for
competitiveness and the best way to go for eyeballs, Right,
we want great games in the non conference. Well, first
of all, I don't like sixteen. It's just one man's opinion.
There's some people that like thirty two. I get it.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Fan how you want a fan for me? When you
I think twelve was okay? I probably prefer eight, but
I'm good at twelve. I think that it's just a
linear relationship in my mind. I think that while sixteen
adds intrigue to the kind of the back end of
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the pool teams, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen nineteen, you know,
and obviously seventeen eighteen nineteen are the.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Last three out.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Right, There is some intrigue there, but it diminishes the
intrigue for the better teams, right, I mean, this is
just inarguable, like if you only had four teams and
you're sitting there, the intrigue is like at three, four,
five and six, where five and six are not going
to make it. Now you're involving better teams in the
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intrigue if you go to if you went to thirty
two teams, Just to illustrate the point, the top ten
or fifteen are yawning their way through the all.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The last November season, right, They're just playing for seating.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Now you're just yeah, I mean like you know you're in,
and so I don't want I don't want to make
that sacrifice. So I would prefer to stay at twelve.
As for the sixteen, I like the five uh five
to eleven model better than that ten model. I just
just the declaration that the SEC and the big ten
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get twice as much as as the others. I don't
I don't know. I mean, I understand that that's probably
the reality of where you are, but but I prefer
the five eleven model.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
And listen, we we'd be probably setting up games, whether
it's an eight to nine game or a seven to
ten game, that looks exactly like a in conference game
that we had seen a few weeks earlier.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I don't need to see that.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
So I mean, like, first off, this needs to be said,
because I mean it's boring, but I completely agree with
every word you just said, Hugh, sixteen sucks. It's just
it's it's a terrible idea, and it's just these money
hungry TV people who say, ooh, we can fit in another,
you know, a couple of games here. But the idea
that we just need to add four more teams for
more games, for more money is ridiculous and it's just
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and it's just again, it's just creating games we've already seen.
So at least with the five eleven model, at least
you maybe can fit in a Central Florida, a Boise State,
you know what. Whoever else fit in a couple cinderellws
and ninety percent of the time they'll get their ass
handed to them. Yeah, and it'll be boring. But that
ten percent of the time, boy, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I've always thought sixteen was my absolute drop dead limit.
I don't think it's necessarily my ideal. I think twelve.
I was even gonna be fine with eight, to be
perfectly honest with you, but being a Husky fan. Hey,
I mean, if I'm I'm gonna make the twelve the
fourteen team playoff frequently, I'm probably not gonna make the
eighteen playoff frequently. So it's good for the Huskies, yeah,
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to expand because the Huskies are, like, the Huskies are
a perfect example of the next tier school that would
go a lot if it's a sixteen team, and would
not go very much at all if it was an
eight team. So like they're you know, if you're Texas,
You're Ohio State, you're Michigan, you don't really have to
worry about it because you're gonna go if it's eight,
you're gonna go if it's sixteen. Most of the time.
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The Huskies are that perfect example of that next tier team,
that team ranked you know, tenth to sixteenth in America
right now, as far as the program goes that that
is gonna be able to go a lot. But the
one thing also we got to take a look at
here when it expanded to sixteen, we are now potentially
going to have a forty five day college football playoffs. Yeah,
that is twice as long as the NCAA Tournament. The
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NCUA tournament seems really nice and packaged, doesn't it. You know,
we get all those games the first four days, we
got the Sweet sixteen and the Elite eight. The next
weekend and we got the Final four. It just seems
nice and tidy and packed. This is gonna be just
gonna take a month and a half, guys. Yeah, and
I'm worried about blowouts. You know. I like the idea
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of the four best getting a buy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
And by the way, Jackson, it's not just the TV
people who are are hungry.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's money hungry. It's it's the eighties and there's a
lot of people who are money hunger. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You know, I've been considering this topic for a long time.
In nineteen eighty six, I get a call from the
producers of ABC Sports and they want to invite me
to be on a panel at halftime of the Alabama
Auburn game. Jim Lampley is going to run the discussion.
I'm going to represent the players both sham Beckler is
going to represent the coaches, and Chancellor Young of UCLA
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is going to represent the presidents. And they're going to
be talking about this is this predates any playoff. This
was just back when they voted, and so I agreed
to do that, went back to New York, as we said,
had the discussion right there on live TV, have halftime
of Alabama Auburn.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Why me?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
They introduced me as he was the quarterback of the
Washington Huskies team closest vote in the history of the
AP lost it eleven and sixty votes to eleven and forty.
So I was deemed to be a guy that would
be bitter about the then current system, and in fact
I was so. And then a similar article in USA
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Today where they asked me my take, and my take was, Hey,
take the winners of the four major bowls and have
a final four of college football, which which is essentially
what you have in an eighteen playoff, and and back
then you'd have five five slotted positions in three at largest.
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So I just think there's something to you. Look, I
think eight and twelve, I'm pretty close. Probably would lean
towards eight, but I'm good with twelve, particularly if you
have the first four seeds having a buy. But man,
where is this gonna go? Like we only saw one
year of this and we're already talking about jumping, you know,
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increasing by thirty three and then is sixteen gonna is
sixteen gonna be where we stop?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I think it will be for a long time. Sure,
so I think it'll be for a long time because
I think we've reached a point of saturation there. But
you know, there's no there's no assertions. The one thing
I can't ascertain though, that I've I've been steadfast on
this all along. You know, Willanor and I have kind
of battled, you know, battle back and forth. What would
have been better for Washington to stay in the Pac
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twelve as far as there are chances of making the playoffs,
to stay in the Pac twelve being the big fish
in the tiny, tiny, little apple TV pond and only
get to the championship if you win your win your conference,
or now get to a situation where you may have
seven big ten teams make a sixteen team tournament. I
steadfast then and now say that the Huskies chances of
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making the turntection real quick as one of seven is
much better. And last year there was four big ten
teams three SEC. So you think of the SEC being
the big titan, It wasn't. It wasn't last year. That's
exactly right. Three thirty nine fun with audio coming up next.
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Speaker 4 (23:56):
Now let's have some fun with Audio's have.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Some fun with audio. Shell. We let's start things off.
Hey you, oh Jackson, come on now, Anders moved it?
I think? Where is it? Where is my droup?
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You did you hear that? Wow? Where is that? You
have to do it? Live here? Now I'll find it?
Now hold on a Second's gracious? All right? I don't
have it?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You did hear that? What's that? Dick? We can't make
you work anymore than he already does. Hall of Fame
quarterback Terry Bradshaw was on one oh three seven The
Buzz in Little Rock, Arkansas yesterday and talking about the
Steelers possibly signing Aaron Rodgers. What do you think about
possibly Aaron Rodgers being the quarterback? As a joke? He
(24:44):
shouldn't they That is just to me is a joke.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
But what are you going to bringing them for one year?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I mean that's the rat?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
No man, that guy needs to stay in California.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And go, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Jewbon't bark and mis the gods out there, these guys
on the show.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Mister Bradshaw know I'm not a fan of his.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
We we've been around each other personally, and he was
not a kind person.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Yeah, he does not. I had to go over and
introduce myself to him. He's not I had to go, Hey, Aaron,
I'm Terry Bradshaw. I know he knows me, but I
just felt like I better tell him who I am
and not. You know, you walk in there and you
get in his presence.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And you feel like it's gonna start snowing. I hadn't
heard the last park before. I mean, it's dump on
Aaron Rodgers time. But you, I mean if if you
bring it on yourself, I I find I find it
hard to feel sorry for you when people start dumping
on you.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, I mean he's did it last year with the
uh the mini camp that he skipped out on with
the Jets, when when the whole franchise was teetering on
the blade of a knife, certainly the head coach was
and and uh and then you know, because he wanted
to be in Egypt somehow doing something, you know, and
missing mandatory like I think he should have been there
(26:03):
for the voluntary because he's coming off his achilles heel.
He's you want to get timing with your receivers, that's
valuable time. And so now he's kind of doing the
same thing. So Terry Bradshaw's comments remind me of the
sharp comments that he had for John Elway back in
that kind of fumbled plan for Elway to just say well,
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because because the reality was real quick on the Lway
thing was that Elway didn't want to play for Frank Cush,
the head coach of the Colts, because Cush had been
like a face mask grabber and just not the style
of Jack Elway, John's dad, that kind of coaching style.
They just didn't want to play for Kush.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But they didn't want to say it publicly.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So Marvin Demoff, who was Elway's agent and also my
agent for my entire career, Marvin Demos will, let's just
say you want to, you know, play in California. And
Marvin later said, uh, that wasn't the best thought out
plan that he ever had, you know. And and so
during this time Bradshaw was, well, Elway, you want to
play play in California in the surf and your golden hair,
(27:11):
you know, it's just then play there or you know,
then go play baseball, you know, and he ripped lway
then he's ripping the Rogers.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Now, well let's rip Rogers some more. Hey, Hugh, did
you hear that?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
His former girlfriend in current Fox NASCAR analyst Danika Patrick
joining the Saved Steel Show and shared details about their breakup.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
The breakup with Aaron Yehy because it was sudden. It
felt like it was my life. So like you know
when you live with somebody and you know, like it's
your whole life. You know, it's your dentist appointment, it's
your hairdoo, it's you, it's like your clothes, it's there,
(27:52):
it's your mailing address, it's like everything.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And uh.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
And because the nature of the relationship was emotional, emotionally abusive,
So that will like warm me down to nothing someone
that you know, people could never imagine that I would
lack and lack complete any confidence or belief in the
simple things about who I am. Like I Yeah, everything
was torn to bits.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Wow, there's wore me down to nothing. Emotionally abusive sounds
like a gem. Well that's her side, her side.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean, my my thought is dan could just keep
that to yourself, like you knew you were going to
get into a celebrity relationship and when when you go
your own separate ways, just keep that in house, you know.
I'm sure Aaron Rodgers could say a lot of the
same thing. That's fair, you know, and and we generally
(28:48):
tend to side with the woman's side. And maybe she's
one hundred percent right, Maybe maybe Aaron Rodgers there's nothing there,
But to me, it's just like, hey, unless you want
to invite, you know, Aaron Rodgers to go on his show,
right and then and then say all the ways that
she may have been emotionally abusive war fill in the blank.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Do they really want to get that going? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Maybe Danna Patrick does. I don't think she should have
said that publicly.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Hey, here, do you want to hear this? What's that?
Dick Tuesday On First Take, NBA analyst Kendrick Perkins said,
in order to be the face of any of the NBA,
a player Anthony Edwards in this case must have a
wife and kids. It's the bigger picture, right.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You gotta take the boxes when you're when you're the
face of the league. Yes, we know you gotta have
your signature. Shoot, you're gonna be a commercials, You're gonna
put You're gonna have the highlights. You gotta have the game.
But you know what else you gotta have. You gotta
be a role model, right and things outside the lies matter.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Now, if you go down.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
The list of all the faces of the league in
the history of the game, you look at Larry Bird,
Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron Steph. What did
they all have be come while they was playing in
the league. They all were family men, They all were
married with kids.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I think being married with kids just simply comes with
something that Anthony Edwards doesn't have right now, and that
is age. People forget he is twenty three years old.
This was his fifth year in the NBA and he
is twenty three years old. Shay Gil just Alexander. I
mean people think, oh aunt Man, Shay Gil just say
(30:35):
Gil just way out played ant Man. Well yeah, he did,
weigh out play ant Man. Guess what, He's three years
older and three years more experienced in the NBA than
Anthony Edwards. So let's compare Shae at twenty three with
Anthony at twenty three. Well, Shae was scoring twenty four,
five and five, aunt Is scoring twenty eight, five and five,
(31:00):
Shays scoring thirty four a game. But he's also in
the absolute sweet spot, prime of his career. Anthony Edwards
is probably gonna have a wife in kids eight years
from now, and he very much then could be the
face of the league. But it's not because he doesn't
have a wife and kids.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, I think you make good. It's a good retort
by you. I agree with it what you said. I
think that for him to make that claim, it's something
probably many of us had not thought of. I'll just
speak for myself. I hadn't thought of that. He did
a pretty good job of laying out the claim because
he he supplied a lot of examples. He didn't just
(31:37):
supply two or three. I mean he went down a
long list. Now, but examples of guys that that were
like twenty nine to thirty five years. That's why I
acknowledge your retort. I would say further, to be the
face of the league. What about what about Kobe who
famously cheated on his wife and had to buy a
what was it termed a house on a finger?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, diamond? Right, try and get himself out.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
What about Larry Bird and others who have had, you know,
multiple kids from from multiple mothers. I think that there's
been you know, some of those guys have been exposed
for for cheating and and and other malfeasans is if
(32:21):
you want, I want to call it and and so
I don't know that that prevents you from being the
face of the league, you know. I mean, it's not
like Kobe all of a sudden stop being the face
of the league when everybody discovered his adultery, right, and
so so I'm a little skeptical on that. I don't
think my conclusion would be if he had the right player,
(32:45):
who had the right game, with the right charisma, I
don't think he has to be married.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I think that's fair. I think that's fair. All right,
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Jackson is here, Hugh Breed, love Millan is here. How
you doing, man, I'm doing well. What's happening? Oh? I
got a lot on my mind today. I feel I
have a feeling like today is going to be a
plethor it's going to be a cornicopy of thoughts just
dancing around in my mind. And we might go on tangents.
But I've got like five or six things I want
(00:20):
to chew on with you. I mean, the first being
I mentioned in the update. I just I went to
the wrong stadium last night. I took a right out
of Henry, out of Jimmy's. I should have taken a
left and gone to Lumanfield to be with Jackson Feltz
and watch the Sounders win and score, where instead I
took a right with my wife into T Mobile Park
(00:40):
and watched just the most boring baseball game that you
could possibly watch, where your offense does absolutely nothing. Your
starting pitcher just gets mauled, the bullpen comes in, gets
mauled some more, and you just have no prayer after
a toop three or four in that game. But the
(01:01):
good news was number what I said to you yesterday, Hugh,
I only go to baseball games when it's seventy degrees
or more, because at least then if the baseball game
is horrible, then at least I can say, you know,
I'm sitting outside with my wife sipping a beer and
it's seventy degrees, So at least I got that going
for me. If it would have been forty eight degrees
like it was much of April and early May at
those baseball games, there would have been literally no reason
(01:23):
to go. But I don't know, man, is it. Did
it put any seed of concern in your brain as
can as far as George Kirby is concerned, or it's say,
you know what, it's still spring training for this guy.
I'm not even worried about. Well, I would say for me,
concern is relative.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I figure he's gonna, he's gonna eventually he's gonna start pitching.
Like George Kirby, I just don't know when I think
that was a bad matchup for him last night. I mean,
the National's got to have as many left handed bats
as anybody in baseball. I'm sure there's a way to
look that up, but it just seemed like everybody who
(02:02):
comes to the plate is a lefty and where Logan
Evans uh the game prior he was working Logan Evans
on his You know, obviously a right hander going against
a there might have been eight or nine lefties in
that lineup. I'm not even exactly, but Logan Evans was
working the back door, breaking balls. But he was also
(02:25):
working in on the hands a lot. So if you
just go the vertical thirds right inside third, middle third,
and outside third, Logan Evans was hitting the inside third
and the outside third most of the time. And when
he did leave it in the middle third, he he
(02:49):
left it middle middle and it got knocked out, knocked
out the ballpark. So that that was the one west
thing gave up he left. And then there I counted
the damn things the middle up. He had one pitch
that was middle up, and then every other time it
was middle down. Of course he has a sinker and
and what have you. So he was but I think
(03:10):
that he just worked the perimeter of the of the
strike zone a lot better. I thought Kirby last night
was he was not in on the hands at all
with his slider. Nothing never in on the hands. It
was always it was all always either trying to get
him on the outside, and you had a lot of
left handed hitters that were pushing the ball out to
(03:31):
left field.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And is telling me all nine were left handed hitters
both nights, all night.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Okay, yeah, I've seen I didn't I didn't know that,
but it just seemed now. But but then, but then
Kirby left the ball in the middle, cut a lot
and and several middle middles. You know which is you know,
Cokai right down Broadway, uh and so so I I
just think, clearly he's not placing the baseball where he
(03:56):
wanted to. But but look, you'd have to get somebody
who knows more about this stuff than me. But I
just felt like he wasn't aggressive trying to pitch inside
with that, or if he was trying to pitch inside,
he was missing maybe those ones that were left in
the middle. He was trying to get inside on the fist.
But I thought where Evans had done a great job
(04:17):
of pitching on the fists the night before, Kirby did
seemingly none of that.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, Kirby just thrives on command, and when his command
is spot on, he is always you know, two inches
outside where they're still giving him. The spry striker or
an inch inside. They're still giving him the strike. He
just works that strikes on so well, and he just
obviously doesn't have his command right now. But coming up
tonight at six forty Emerson Hancock tries to win the
series for Seattle. This is just one that you need
(04:43):
to get. I mean you got You just need to
take two of three against the Nationals. There is no
question about it all all right. Well, moving on from
baseball to Husky football. The schedule is out at least
for a few games. So we got clarification today on
the Apple Cup. It is going to be a thirty
on CBS. That'll be September twentieth. I bought my tickets
(05:03):
this week. I'm taking the whole fam, Damnley out to Pollman.
That'll be fun. My kids have never been to Pullman.
We'll see if they see if they fall in love
with the places or if they hate the place like
I did when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years of age.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That is four thirty September twentieth on CBS. Now the
first two home games of the year Colorado State August
the thirtieth, UC Davis September the sixth. We now know
they are both eight o'clock start, so I can hear
Husky fans already eight o'clock store to hate the late starts. However,
(05:35):
is an eight o'clock start bad when it's August the
thirtieth or September? I mean, you can still take your
boat to the game. It's broad daylight all the way
up till you know, eight thirty nine o'clock at night.
You're coming home in the dark. I understand that. But
if you're gonna have late games, you I'll take there.
I'll take the early season eight pm games over something
(05:56):
at you know, seven thirty and in November. Absolutely, yeah.
If you're gonna have to play at night, just the
earlier the better.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yes, And you know I love playing those kind of
I call them Rose Bowl games at Husky Stadium.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What's a Rose Bowl game Twilight games?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Well, it's a day game in the first half, and
it's a night game in the second half, or you
know thereabouts. If you have those kind of kickoffs in September,
I think those are cool. I don't think there's anything
cool about an eight o'clock kickoff in November.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Well, you got here, so you do have a twilight
game that we know for sure, Friday, October tenth. It's hope.
You know, October tenth still could be decent. We've had
many sixty five seventy degree early October days. October tenth,
the Rutgers game. We had it at night at Rutgers
last year. We're gonna have it at six pm versus
(06:48):
Rutgers this year. So that's that's a pretty good start
time as well. We love Jackson and I love it.
Softy loves it on a Friday because our show's preempted
for Husky football, that's beautiful, so we get to go
tailgate instead of doing the show. So Rutgers at six,
so now we know four games, Colorado State at eight,
UC Davis at eight, first two games of this season,
then we gotta buy. Then you go to Pullman for
(07:09):
the four to thirty CBS game and then the six
o'clock game against Rutgers. I mean, this is this is
a football team, Hugh, that that should absolutely be in
the top twenty five after those games take place. I mean,
this is a team that should be heading against Ohio
State in the top twenty five, and it should be
one of those big time you know, Fox or you know,
(07:32):
what have you twelve thirty starts at Husky Stadium. Indeed, I.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Think, you know, look, I've long time been just anguished
by college football and September scheduling. And I think that
our descendants five hundred years from now are gonna mock
us that we like sheep, just herd into these these
huge arenas to watch slaughter, you know, bodybag games. Right,
(08:00):
So you know, I hope before I pass that I
see a change in that mentality. I think it's just look,
I understand the economics of it, but I still I
think there's other ways.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And I've never liked it, probably never will And so yeah,
the more competitive you can get in September as an entity,
and so you know, on a micro level, I can't
just sit here and be thrilled about the Huskies if
I don't like it on the macro level and I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, what we need to do then is college football
needs to, as it's in its process of adapting and
changing very very rapidly, we need to good get to
a point where college football commissioners, conference commissioners, and the
coaches can all adopt the basketball system. And what I
mean about the basketball system is strength of victory, strength
(08:56):
of schedule, huge component in determining what seed you are
in the NCAA tournament in basketball, and it needs to
be that way in football. So, for example, Ohio State
is playing Texas. It's one of the very very few
marquee games. Marquee non conference games. We had quite a
few of them last year. Evidently that turned out to
be an aberration. The non conference schedule, the non conference
(09:19):
Power five schedule this year, Hugh is absolutely horrendous. With
one massive exception, and that is Opening Day Ohio State
against Texas. That the loser of that game should not
be significantly punished for playing that game. That should be you.
If Ohio State loses twenty three to twenty in an
(09:41):
absolute barn burner, they should not. Now Texas should be.
Texas should be credited for winning, much more so than
Ohio State should be detracted from for losing.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Because where's the game Atlanta or in Jerry Domey we
looked at.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Let me look that up because and.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
By the way, good on Texas while you're looking that up,
because they traveled to ann Arbor last year and played
the defending national champions.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now Texas.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So that them willing to cowboy up, as expression says
down there in Texas.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I tip my hat to them. They're at home. Ohio
State's at home at the Horseshoe. Wow, so good on Texas. Yeah.
And it's a nine am. It's a big noon, a
big noon start east coast. So that that is you know,
that's the game, right and so Ohio State Texas. Even
if Ohio State loses it home, it's it's not one
(10:38):
that they should get that they should get docked for.
And I'm I'm really looking at what the college football
commissioners are going to do here when it comes to
talking about the new model, the sixteen team playoff and
what model is best for college football, and I want
to I want to chew on that with you for
a little bit, a little bit now and then a
little bit after the break. It looks like there's two
(10:59):
potent options out there. There's the four four two two,
which four Big ten teams guaranteed, four SEC teams guaranteed,
two ACC two Big twelve, and then I guess you
would have the next best conference get a bid and
then everything else is up for grabs.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Or the five eleven model so that not hal so
that this is still a twelve team model, right, So,
right now we're a twelve team right with four four
to two. No, that's gonna be for sixteen. That's gonna
be for sixteen teams. Yes, so we got six at larges.
Oh no, No, you're saying two each for ACC and
the Big twelve, right, correct?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
So the be four at largest, yes, or the five
eleven model where you only have five guaranteed spots. You
win one of the Power fours, or you win the
next best conference, whatever that is, whether it's the PAC
twelve or what have you, you get a spot and
then there's all. There's just a free for all, all
eleven team you know, fill out the schedule with the
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Speaker 1 (13:13):
All right, Hew and Jackson, I had a very good
conversation with the best person I could find that could
explain all this to me in dummy terms, and that's
John Wilner.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So I just got off the phone with about an
eight minute conversation during that break with John Wilder to
make sure that all my te's were crossed and my
eyes were dotted as far as the information I'm about
to put out here. All right, So this year we've
got a twelve team playoffs. That's it, twelve team playoffs
for the last time, okay, and we're no longer giving
(13:47):
preferential treatment to the Arizona States and the Boise States
of the world, giving them the first round bys. That's
not going to happen anymore. So let's just put that aside.
That's a one year thing. Then there has not been
a definitive decision yet whether they're going to fourteen or
sixteen for next year, but he says they're going to sixteen.
That's where they're going. Fourteen will probably be tabled very
(14:10):
very soon, and they're going to sixteen. So let's look
at the format of what they're going to do when
they go to sixteen. He says, the Big ten is
pushing for the four to four. That's four Big ten,
four ACC, two to two two ACC two Big twelve
one that's the next best conferences champion and three at large.
(14:35):
That's what the Big ten is pushing for. The SEC
is not really showing their hand yet on whether they
want that or whether they want the other model that's
being pushed out there, which is the five eleven, one
team from each of the top five conferences, and then
it's a free for all for the other eleven spots.
(14:58):
All Right, The Big twelve said, yeah, we'd rather have
the five eleven because the Big Twelve's like, well, we
don't want you to tell us that we're half as important,
even though we kind of know we're only half as
important as you. Guys. We don't want to pigeonhole ourselves
as being half as important and get only two spots.
(15:18):
We'd rather have the opportunity to get three or four
teams in the NC in the College Football playoffs. But
the problem with that is, in order for them to
get more than two, what do they need to have
happen in the non conference? They need the Big Ten
in the SEC to play them in non conference so
they have the opportunity to build up a strength to
(15:40):
schedule and beat those teams. And there's no right now,
there's no assurances that the Big Ten or the SEC
is gonna say, yeah, I'll play you Arizona State, Yeah,
I'll play your Boise State. Why would they do that
right when they can just play one crossover game between
the Big Ten and the SEC, which is likely to
(16:01):
happen if the SEC goes to nine conference games. If
we have a level playing field and the SEC decides
to go to nine conference games, like the Big Ten
has nine conference games, then we will have a non
conference game between a Big Ten team and an SEC team,
meaning the Huskies will play an SEC team every single year,
and then they'll play the two cream Puffs and we
(16:23):
move on. So any questions on that so far or
comments based upon how you see that and what you
think is the is the best way to go for
competitiveness and the best way to go for eyeballs, Right,
we want great games in the non conference. Well, first
of all, I don't like sixteen. It's just one man's opinion.
There's some people that like thirty two. I get it.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Fan how you want a fan for me? When you
I think twelve was okay? I probably prefer eight, but
I'm good at twelve. I think that it's just a
linear relationship in my mind. I think that while sixteen
adds intrigue to the kind of the back end of
(17:04):
the pool teams, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen nineteen, you know,
and obviously seventeen eighteen nineteen are the.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Last three out.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Right, There is some intrigue there, but it diminishes the
intrigue for the better teams, right, I mean, this is
just inarguable, like if you only had four teams and
you're sitting there, the intrigue is like at three, four,
five and six, where five and six are not going
to make it. Now you're involving better teams in the
(17:36):
intrigue if you go to if you went to thirty
two teams, Just to illustrate the point, the top ten
or fifteen are yawning their way through the all.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The last November season, right, They're just playing for seating.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Now you're just yeah, I mean like you know you're in,
and so I don't want I don't want to make
that sacrifice. So I would prefer to stay at twelve.
As for the sixteen, I like the five uh five
to eleven model better than that ten model. I just
just the declaration that the SEC and the big ten
(18:10):
get twice as much as as the others. I don't
I don't know. I mean, I understand that that's probably
the reality of where you are, but but I prefer
the five eleven model.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
And listen, we we'd be probably setting up games, whether
it's an eight to nine game or a seven to
ten game, that looks exactly like a in conference game
that we had seen a few weeks earlier.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I don't need to see that.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
So I mean, like, first off, this needs to be said,
because I mean it's boring, but I completely agree with
every word you just said, Hugh, sixteen sucks. It's just
it's it's a terrible idea, and it's just these money
hungry TV people who say, ooh, we can fit in another,
you know, a couple of games here. But the idea
that we just need to add four more teams for
more games, for more money is ridiculous and it's just
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and it's just again, it's just creating games we've already seen.
So at least with the five eleven model, at least
you maybe can fit in a Central Florida, a Boise State,
you know what. Whoever else fit in a couple cinderellws
and ninety percent of the time they'll get their ass
handed to them. Yeah, and it'll be boring. But that
ten percent of the time, boy, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I've always thought sixteen was my absolute drop dead limit.
I don't think it's necessarily my ideal. I think twelve.
I was even gonna be fine with eight, to be
perfectly honest with you, but being a Husky fan. Hey,
I mean, if I'm I'm gonna make the twelve the
fourteen team playoff frequently, I'm probably not gonna make the
eighteen playoff frequently. So it's good for the Huskies, yeah,
(19:36):
to expand because the Huskies are, like, the Huskies are
a perfect example of the next tier school that would
go a lot if it's a sixteen team, and would
not go very much at all if it was an
eight team. So like they're you know, if you're Texas,
You're Ohio State, you're Michigan, you don't really have to
worry about it because you're gonna go if it's eight,
you're gonna go if it's sixteen. Most of the time.
(19:57):
The Huskies are that perfect example of that next tier team,
that team ranked you know, tenth to sixteenth in America
right now, as far as the program goes that that
is gonna be able to go a lot. But the
one thing also we got to take a look at
here when it expanded to sixteen, we are now potentially
going to have a forty five day college football playoffs. Yeah,
that is twice as long as the NCAA Tournament. The
(20:20):
NCUA tournament seems really nice and packaged, doesn't it. You know,
we get all those games the first four days, we
got the Sweet sixteen and the Elite eight. The next
weekend and we got the Final four. It just seems
nice and tidy and packed. This is gonna be just
gonna take a month and a half, guys. Yeah, and
I'm worried about blowouts. You know. I like the idea
(20:42):
of the four best getting a buy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
And by the way, Jackson, it's not just the TV
people who are are hungry.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's money hungry. It's it's the eighties and there's a
lot of people who are money hunger. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You know, I've been considering this topic for a long time.
In nineteen eighty six, I get a call from the
producers of ABC Sports and they want to invite me
to be on a panel at halftime of the Alabama
Auburn game. Jim Lampley is going to run the discussion.
I'm going to represent the players both sham Beckler is
going to represent the coaches, and Chancellor Young of UCLA
(21:17):
is going to represent the presidents. And they're going to
be talking about this is this predates any playoff. This
was just back when they voted, and so I agreed
to do that, went back to New York, as we said,
had the discussion right there on live TV, have halftime
of Alabama Auburn.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Why me?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
They introduced me as he was the quarterback of the
Washington Huskies team closest vote in the history of the
AP lost it eleven and sixty votes to eleven and forty.
So I was deemed to be a guy that would
be bitter about the then current system, and in fact
I was so. And then a similar article in USA
(21:57):
Today where they asked me my take, and my take was, Hey,
take the winners of the four major bowls and have
a final four of college football, which which is essentially
what you have in an eighteen playoff, and and back
then you'd have five five slotted positions in three at largest.
(22:19):
So I just think there's something to you. Look, I
think eight and twelve, I'm pretty close. Probably would lean
towards eight, but I'm good with twelve, particularly if you
have the first four seeds having a buy. But man,
where is this gonna go? Like we only saw one
year of this and we're already talking about jumping, you know,
(22:41):
increasing by thirty three and then is sixteen gonna is
sixteen gonna be where we stop?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I think it will be for a long time. Sure,
so I think it'll be for a long time because
I think we've reached a point of saturation there. But
you know, there's no there's no assertions. The one thing
I can't ascertain though, that I've I've been steadfast on
this all along. You know, Willanor and I have kind
of battled, you know, battle back and forth. What would
have been better for Washington to stay in the Pac
(23:08):
twelve as far as there are chances of making the playoffs,
to stay in the Pac twelve being the big fish
in the tiny, tiny, little apple TV pond and only
get to the championship if you win your win your conference,
or now get to a situation where you may have
seven big ten teams make a sixteen team tournament. I
steadfast then and now say that the Huskies chances of
(23:33):
making the turntection real quick as one of seven is
much better. And last year there was four big ten
teams three SEC. So you think of the SEC being
the big titan, It wasn't. It wasn't last year. That's
exactly right. Three thirty nine fun with audio coming up next.
It's now time for Softy in Dig's one with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister garoppolo.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Now let's have some fun with Audio's have.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Some fun with audio. Shell. We let's start things off.
Hey you, oh Jackson, come on now, Anders moved it?
I think? Where is it? Where is my droup?
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You did you hear that? Wow? Where is that? You
have to do it? Live here? Now I'll find it?
Now hold on a Second's gracious? All right? I don't
have it?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You did hear that? What's that? Dick? We can't make
you work anymore than he already does. Hall of Fame
quarterback Terry Bradshaw was on one oh three seven The
Buzz in Little Rock, Arkansas yesterday and talking about the
Steelers possibly signing Aaron Rodgers. What do you think about
possibly Aaron Rodgers being the quarterback? As a joke? He
(24:44):
shouldn't they That is just to me is a joke.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
But what are you going to bringing them for one year?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I mean that's the rat?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
No man, that guy needs to stay in California.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And go, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Jewbon't bark and mis the gods out there, these guys
on the show.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Mister Bradshaw know I'm not a fan of his.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
We we've been around each other personally, and he was
not a kind person.
Speaker 9 (25:11):
Yeah, he does not. I had to go over and
introduce myself to him. He's not I had to go, Hey, Aaron,
I'm Terry Bradshaw. I know he knows me, but I
just felt like I better tell him who I am
and not. You know, you walk in there and you
get in his presence.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And you feel like it's gonna start snowing. I hadn't
heard the last park before. I mean, it's dump on
Aaron Rodgers time. But you, I mean if if you
bring it on yourself, I I find I find it
hard to feel sorry for you when people start dumping
on you.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, I mean he's did it last year with the
uh the mini camp that he skipped out on with
the Jets, when when the whole franchise was teetering on
the blade of a knife, certainly the head coach was
and and uh and then you know, because he wanted
to be in Egypt somehow doing something, you know, and
missing mandatory like I think he should have been there
(26:03):
for the voluntary because he's coming off his achilles heel.
He's you want to get timing with your receivers, that's
valuable time. And so now he's kind of doing the
same thing. So Terry Bradshaw's comments remind me of the
sharp comments that he had for John Elway back in
that kind of fumbled plan for Elway to just say well,
(26:29):
because because the reality was real quick on the Lway
thing was that Elway didn't want to play for Frank Cush,
the head coach of the Colts, because Cush had been
like a face mask grabber and just not the style
of Jack Elway, John's dad, that kind of coaching style.
They just didn't want to play for Kush.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But they didn't want to say it publicly.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So Marvin Demoff, who was Elway's agent and also my
agent for my entire career, Marvin Demos will, let's just
say you want to, you know, play in California. And
Marvin later said, uh, that wasn't the best thought out
plan that he ever had, you know. And and so
during this time Bradshaw was, well, Elway, you want to
play play in California in the surf and your golden hair,
(27:11):
you know, it's just then play there or you know,
then go play baseball, you know, and he ripped lway
then he's ripping the Rogers.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Now, well let's rip Rogers some more. Hey, Hugh, did
you hear that?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
His former girlfriend in current Fox NASCAR analyst Danika Patrick
joining the Saved Steel Show and shared details about their breakup.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
The breakup with Aaron Yehy because it was sudden. It
felt like it was my life. So like you know
when you live with somebody and you know, like it's
your whole life. You know, it's your dentist appointment, it's
your hairdoo, it's you, it's like your clothes, it's there,
(27:52):
it's your mailing address, it's like everything.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And uh.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
And because the nature of the relationship was emotional, emotionally abusive,
So that will like warm me down to nothing someone
that you know, people could never imagine that I would
lack and lack complete any confidence or belief in the
simple things about who I am. Like I Yeah, everything
was torn to bits.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Wow, there's wore me down to nothing. Emotionally abusive sounds
like a gem. Well that's her side, her side.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean, my my thought is dan could just keep
that to yourself, like you knew you were going to
get into a celebrity relationship and when when you go
your own separate ways, just keep that in house, you know.
I'm sure Aaron Rodgers could say a lot of the
same thing. That's fair, you know, and and we generally
(28:48):
tend to side with the woman's side. And maybe she's
one hundred percent right, Maybe maybe Aaron Rodgers there's nothing there,
But to me, it's just like, hey, unless you want
to invite, you know, Aaron Rodgers to go on his show,
right and then and then say all the ways that
she may have been emotionally abusive war fill in the blank.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Do they really want to get that going? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Maybe Danna Patrick does. I don't think she should have
said that publicly.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Hey, here, do you want to hear this? What's that?
Dick Tuesday On First Take, NBA analyst Kendrick Perkins said,
in order to be the face of any of the NBA,
a player Anthony Edwards in this case must have a
wife and kids. It's the bigger picture, right.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You gotta take the boxes when you're when you're the
face of the league. Yes, we know you gotta have
your signature. Shoot, you're gonna be a commercials, You're gonna
put You're gonna have the highlights. You gotta have the game.
But you know what else you gotta have. You gotta
be a role model, right and things outside the lies matter.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Now, if you go down.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
The list of all the faces of the league in
the history of the game, you look at Larry Bird,
Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron Steph. What did
they all have be come while they was playing in
the league. They all were family men, They all were
married with kids.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I think being married with kids just simply comes with
something that Anthony Edwards doesn't have right now, and that
is age. People forget he is twenty three years old.
This was his fifth year in the NBA and he
is twenty three years old. Shay Gil just Alexander. I
mean people think, oh aunt Man, Shay Gil just say
(30:35):
Gil just way out played ant Man. Well yeah, he did,
weigh out play ant Man. Guess what, He's three years
older and three years more experienced in the NBA than
Anthony Edwards. So let's compare Shae at twenty three with
Anthony at twenty three. Well, Shae was scoring twenty four,
five and five, aunt Is scoring twenty eight, five and five,
(31:00):
Shays scoring thirty four a game. But he's also in
the absolute sweet spot, prime of his career. Anthony Edwards
is probably gonna have a wife in kids eight years
from now, and he very much then could be the
face of the league. But it's not because he doesn't
have a wife and kids.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, I think you make good. It's a good retort
by you. I agree with it what you said. I
think that for him to make that claim, it's something
probably many of us had not thought of. I'll just
speak for myself. I hadn't thought of that. He did
a pretty good job of laying out the claim because
he he supplied a lot of examples. He didn't just
(31:37):
supply two or three. I mean he went down a
long list. Now, but examples of guys that that were
like twenty nine to thirty five years. That's why I
acknowledge your retort. I would say further, to be the
face of the league. What about what about Kobe who
famously cheated on his wife and had to buy a
what was it termed a house on a finger?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Yeah, diamond? Right, try and get himself out.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
What about Larry Bird and others who have had, you know,
multiple kids from from multiple mothers. I think that there's
been you know, some of those guys have been exposed
for for cheating and and and other malfeasans is if
(32:21):
you want, I want to call it and and so
I don't know that that prevents you from being the
face of the league, you know. I mean, it's not
like Kobe all of a sudden stop being the face
of the league when everybody discovered his adultery, right, and
so so I'm a little skeptical on that. I don't
think my conclusion would be if he had the right player,
(32:45):
who had the right game, with the right charisma, I
don't think he has to be married.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I think that's fair. I think that's fair. All right,
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