May 21, 2025 • 17 mins
Petros Papadakis from Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dick Fain to talk about the Dodgers and their fanbase after getting swept by the Angels, the Mariners’ success, the tush-push staying in the NFL for another year and flag football in the L.A. Olympics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Dakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
That I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros, Here's Dave Softie Muller Losers four.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
O'clock hour here on ninety three point three k JRFM
Softy in Dick without the soft one, which means I
get a very rare opportunity to talk to the man
from the Southland. His name is Petros Papa Dakas, and
he's brought to you by the one and.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Only Sweet James, the dense, dared of Justicas. He is
the greatest lawyer personal injury wise in the history of
the world. He can come through for you if you've
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been bitten by a dog. Gmacoll eight hundred and nine million,
or Sweet games dot Com. Nice to hear from you, Dick.
(01:15):
I hope everything's going well. I'm here at Dodgers Stadium,
get ready for a Dodgers Diamondbacks game. We have a
show we're putting together here. We do about and I
don't know, maybe eight or nine a year, and that's
what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Are you ready for the Big Dodgers against the Los
Maraneros World Series in October? You're ready for that?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was not aware that it would go right on
the schedule, but I am happy that the Mariners are
in first place here in May and gives everybody something
to talk about and something to enjoy. The Dodgers over
the years that they've been owned by this Guggenheim group,
(01:58):
and we've had him on the station, and it's pretty crazy.
They have been so competitive that it's almost kind of
more fun when they lose. Like last weekend they got
swept by the Angels, right, which is you know, like
having your little brother come and kick your ass. It's
like Eastern Washington beating the Huskies.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Right something, which is almost.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Or Portland State, you know, coming and beating Gonzaga and
basketball or something. And that that happened over the weekend
and then the chef's kiss was Otani struck out to
lose the last game on Sunday night. And I mean, honestly,
that kind of stuff to get the fans a little
bit angry and get people riled up is sort of
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what we need, to be honest, because they win so
much and they have such a great record all the time.
I mean, there's still a top the division despite getting
swept over the weekend that it gets a little boring.
So we did a little We needed tahem spice for
Armichelada down here because the team's too good. How do
you like that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And that's you know, they're not going to get to
the one sixteen Mariners, I don't think, but they but
they may get close, there's no question about it. But
you know, I think a lot of people just see
La because because the NBA, you see the NBA playoffs
and Lebron the finals and everything, and they think La
is a Laker town. But yeah, it's a Laker town,
But would you say it's a Dodgertown first, Lakertown second
(03:26):
and USC football third? Is that kind of the hierarchy
and then fourth place is like a mile behind them.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I hate to say this, but USC football is dead.
College football in town has has kind of died. Now.
If USC football wins eleven games and has a great season,
which they're not going to, then everybody kind of opens up,
you know, because the judges, the lawyers, the politicians, the actors,
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the producers, all the rich people are USC people, but
they only care if USC is having success. So that
is kind of an interesting thing. USC the season looks
like six and six is kind of a sleeping giant,
so to speak, So that is kind of interesting. But
this is a Dodger town. First. I think it kind
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of always has been, despite Kobe and Shaq and Showtime
was a whole thing. But the NBA has kind of
priced out your average everyday fan here in the city
of Los Angeles. Which is not to say that a
beer is in twenty bucks near a Dodger stadium and
an Otani jersey is in three hundred and fifty. But
(04:38):
you have to give the Dodgers credit. They are the
most visited sport on Earth, and it's been that way
for a long time because the stadium is so big,
and because they have so many games, and because of
the greatness the just absolute, unparallel greatness of the Latino
fan base LA, which makes it pretty special. So all
(05:03):
that being said, yeah, they're number one, and then the
Lakers they're number two, and then beyond that, I'd say, gosh,
I'd have to bite my tongue to say it, but
probably the Rams, you know, uh, and then maybe the Clippers,
and then maybe the Chargers and then SC and UCLA football.
I mean, if USC football and not far wow, well,
(05:26):
I mean, think about it, Dick, For God's sake, The
buzz about USC football in this coming season this is
I'm serious. Like, the buzz for the Dogs right now
is what they got a good young quarterback and they're
excited about that, and this guy's gonna call plays and
maybe they win eight games whatever, but at least that's something.
(05:50):
The buzz about USC football right now is that they
hired a new GM and he is securing great verbal
comitments for a freshman class in twenty twenty six. Reber,
this is USC football we're talking about. I mean, what
the hell is that? Right? You know, a GM that's
(06:13):
getting commitments for a year from a season from now
with a bunch of guys who probably won't even be
there that are going to be freshmen anyway if they are,
and they're not going to be some group that's nurtured
and grown organically like Harmon did with the Michigan team
or anything like that. So yeah, USC football, I mean,
(06:36):
what the offseason talk is a GM for twenty twenty
six and Lincoln Riley in a cowardly way trying to
politically wriggle out of the Notre Dame game, which I'm
sorry is not going to happen right.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Right, Well, Petros I just about the Mariners and the
Dodgers in the World Series. But let me just share
this anecdote with you. Here is how delusional Softie and
I were at about this time last year, maybe eight later.
I remember vividly being in richmore Purple sheet Rischmore's office
with Softy, the three of us, and we were looking
(07:07):
at the schedule and we were like, oh my god,
do you realize that the Huskies play USC on the
day that there will be a World Series game in
LA against the Mariners. And we were like planning our
schedule around going to the day USC Washington game and
then driving from the Coliseum to Dodger Stadium to watch
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the Mariners because at the time, the Mariners were ten
games up in the Al West and not only did
they not make the World Series Petros, they didn't even
make the playoffs. So, you know, I just about Los
Marineros making the World Series because who knows, twenty twenty
five could be exactly like last year and we could
be sitting at home in October.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, you guys were two thirds of the way right.
You know, there was an SC game that night, and
there was a World Series game.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Just got the raw American League team.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah it was the Yankees, which is a you know,
a whole other thing, but it is it is kind
of interesting to sort of ride this wave every year
with this baseball team and to see how they do it.
I mean, the team was all built up like a big,
beautiful taj Mahal the Dodgers were when the season started,
(08:21):
and now they're not even recognizable. They've had so many injuries.
But they have their three guys, you know, Tani Freendy
Freeman and Mookie Betts right now healthy at the top
of the lineup. But it is it is interesting because
they always seem to make the playoffs and get there,
whether it works out or not. At the end of
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the year, they're always around ninety or one hundred wins,
and I think people around here are starting to take
that for granted. Dick, I got to be on it.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, it happened, happens in every sport. We saw that.
We saw that vividly with the Seahawks in the middle
of the last decade, no question about it. Sweet James
brings you the Petros Popadeka Show and we basis on
Wednesdays at four o'clock. So are you ready for another
season of having your tush pushed? Petros? What do you
think about the ruling today in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You know, I thought it was really interesting that they
ever thought of getting rid of it. You know, I
remember that there was a very loose I mean, it
was a rule on the books for football in general
when I was younger that you know. That's why the
bush push was supposed to be outlawed, right or supposed
to be flagged in the moment, way back in two
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thousand and five, which is where we get the name
from the bush push, the tush push. I mean, really,
it's just an old wing tee football play and it
kind of reminds you that in a lot of football
most there are very few things and we point to
them and we laun them and we talk about them,
like the run and shoot or the air raid, or
(09:56):
when somebody invented, you know, the flanker. You know that.
But but a lot of stuff that happens in football is
just the old becoming new again. You know. For instance,
we all remember when Jim Harbaugh brought the power back.
The power not just like the word power, but the
actual play power with the pulling guard and to kick
(10:17):
out and the fullback leading through, and it became a
viable play again through Stanford football and Jim Harbaugh. It's
not like no one knew how to run power. Everybody
knew how to do it, but he brought it back
and made it a weapon again. The wildcat, you know,
that's nothing but a single wing offense with an extra
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you know, with a running quarterback and an extra blocker.
That's that's all that was. It took a quick second
for the NFL defensive coordinators to catch up to it,
but you know, that wasn't new, but it was something
to talk about. And I think it's the same with
the with the tush push. It's it's just really well
executed by that team. But I I don't know if
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he delivered his point while talking about wet dreams, but
that Eagle owner Guy Lourie, he made a good He
made a good point. I mean, to be so good
at executing a legal play that they want to outlaw
it is says a lot about what the Eagles have
accomplished here. I don't think being able to run that
play makes you invincible. If it was the case, Air
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Force would be undefeated every year because good luck stopping
them on fourth and one. I don't care who you are. Uh,
that's just what they're going to do. And they can
do it, and they drill it, you know, from February.
It's like Concord Daala Sal when they won eight hundred
games the high school team way back in advance. I
think they they lost. Their undefeated streak was broken in Bellevue, Yes, Bellevue.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I was at the game, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, I was. I called my very first national game
on Fox for Next Day Washington Fresno State, which was interesting.
But I remember that, yes, But overall, yeah, I don't have.
I mean, I haven't really talked about it much on
the air other than just you know, passing through the
(12:12):
headlines and chef. But I like the fact that they're
leaving the play intact and I think everybody should learn
how to run it, and everybody should learn how to
stop it, and we can go from there. A big
part of being great in football is being able to
have short yardage and success in short yardage, and that
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gets forgotten by a lot of people, especially in the
worlds of the Lane Kiffins and Steve Sarkisians and Lincoln
Riley's and master play callers, that we lawd and grease
up all the time, and maybe we shouldn't as much
if they can't go get one yard on third and
one like the Eagles have proven to do. I mean,
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Hurts is not He is not a comparable passer to
a lot of really, uh just normal quarterbacks from the NFL.
So what is it about him? And how have they
been able to master this? Uh? You got to give
him credit. And I love also the fact that the
Eagles have brought back the Bell cow running back, you know,
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into the pantheon of the NFL. I mean, when I
was a kid in the eighties, if you were, we
cared more about who the starting running back was whether
it was Walter Payton or Christian Okoye or Roger Craig
or you know any of these guys. O J Anderson.
I mean we cared about that. Yeah, that those guys
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were as big of a deal as the quarterback and
Barry Sanders. I mean, they were just as exciting. So
so I am fully in with the tush push. I
don't like the name.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You don't like the name, all right, well we can uh,
you know, we can call it whatever they call in Philadelphia.
It's not the Philly Special, It's it's it's something else.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But he told me that the tush push has had
a big effect on Hurtz though. It's like physically his
tush now has a big crack in it. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I love that. That's very good.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, are you going to start the other big story
in the in the NFL? Are you gonna dust off
your old flag football flags and practice some flag poland
so you can turn out for Team USA?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So I could pull both Hammies and my blue my Achilles. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know. I mean, if the
NFLPA says it's okay, that's one thing. But to get
individual permission from your team is another one. I mean,
I doubt people are going to be very comfortable with
guys out there firing their legs against a flag football
(14:46):
team from Senegal or something. But for me, I like,
I've never been a fan of flag football or seven
on seven or anything like that as it relates to
real football, right, Like, there's real football, like we were
just talking about, and then there's seven on seven leagues
and flag football and all the stuff we do in
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the offseason for quarterbacks and wide receivers to be able
to stretch together. And that's fine, and that's all necessary.
It's part of the football calendar. But it's not real football.
And there's a whole like subset of people, like the
same type of weirdos that are into frisbee golf and
stuff like that. There's a whole, there's a whole. There's
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a whole group of people that are dedicated to flag football,
right and they do it and it's their little niche
sport like snooker or something, and you know, let them play.
You know, I don't want to watch Tyreek Hill out
there running routes. I really don't, you know, I mean,
it's stupid. To have flag football? Is this a sport
that's globally practiced?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You know, not that I know who's going to play
against Team US.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Ever since I watched the Chick from Australia Breakdance, I'm
you know, like, can we just throw the javelin? You know?
Can we just do what they used to do in
ancient Greece Take all your clothes off, grease up, put
the fig leaf over your crotch, and get out there
and perform wrestle with another man and compete. Run run
the race, you know, to add all these weird I mean,
(16:17):
what are we going to do? Add the hack stats?
To go down to bet Beach? Sure, see how many
times a guy can SMI mack it on his knee
and do the freaking paws on the back of his neck.
I mean, that's more relevant in California than flag football,
for God's sake. But uh, I mean, I guess I'd
be interested just to see what it looks like. But
I mean, there's real football and then there's flag football,
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and I don't think that line should be crossed by professionals.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Petros always a pleasure, love your opinions. We will talk
to you next week. As our buddies still in Greece
next week.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
So yeah, he asked me about the tipping culture in
Greece and I told him, you know, it's not expect did,
but they appreciate it. And he wrote back, I want
to sit in.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, I want to fit in.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Okay, let's where does he Where does he ever fit in?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Let's be honest, Well, you know people are going to
think he's got a swarthy look with a giant nose,
so people are going to think he's Greek.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Gotcha, He'll fit right in with the locals. Love you, man.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
We'll talk to you next, Talk to you next week.
Love you, Dick. I have a great one, all right, mat.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Petros pop and Dakis Back to Hubreed Love Millan. We
have textimonials at four nine, four five one coming up
at four forty five. Where are you on the Mariners
on the optimistic side, the pestimistic side. I think people
are just riding the fence right now. We'll talk about
that more next on ninety three point three KJFN
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Dakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
That I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros, Here's Dave Softie Muller Losers four.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
O'clock hour here on ninety three point three k JRFM
Softy in Dick without the soft one, which means I
get a very rare opportunity to talk to the man
from the Southland. His name is Petros Papa Dakas, and
he's brought to you by the one and.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Only Sweet James, the dense, dared of Justicas. He is
the greatest lawyer personal injury wise in the history of
the world. He can come through for you if you've
ever been in a car accident, motorcycle accident, if you've
been bitten by a dog. Gmacoll eight hundred and nine million,
or Sweet games dot Com. Nice to hear from you, Dick.
(01:15):
I hope everything's going well. I'm here at Dodgers Stadium,
get ready for a Dodgers Diamondbacks game. We have a
show we're putting together here. We do about and I
don't know, maybe eight or nine a year, and that's
what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Are you ready for the Big Dodgers against the Los
Maraneros World Series in October? You're ready for that?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was not aware that it would go right on
the schedule, but I am happy that the Mariners are
in first place here in May and gives everybody something
to talk about and something to enjoy. The Dodgers over
the years that they've been owned by this Guggenheim group,
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and we've had him on the station, and it's pretty crazy.
They have been so competitive that it's almost kind of
more fun when they lose. Like last weekend they got
swept by the Angels, right, which is you know, like
having your little brother come and kick your ass. It's
like Eastern Washington beating the Huskies.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Right something, which is almost.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Or Portland State, you know, coming and beating Gonzaga and
basketball or something. And that that happened over the weekend
and then the chef's kiss was Otani struck out to
lose the last game on Sunday night. And I mean, honestly,
that kind of stuff to get the fans a little
bit angry and get people riled up is sort of
(02:45):
what we need, to be honest, because they win so
much and they have such a great record all the time.
I mean, there's still a top the division despite getting
swept over the weekend that it gets a little boring.
So we did a little We needed tahem spice for
Armichelada down here because the team's too good. How do
you like that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
And that's you know, they're not going to get to
the one sixteen Mariners, I don't think, but they but
they may get close, there's no question about it. But
you know, I think a lot of people just see
La because because the NBA, you see the NBA playoffs
and Lebron the finals and everything, and they think La
is a Laker town. But yeah, it's a Laker town,
But would you say it's a Dodgertown first, Lakertown second
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and USC football third? Is that kind of the hierarchy
and then fourth place is like a mile behind them.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I hate to say this, but USC football is dead.
College football in town has has kind of died. Now.
If USC football wins eleven games and has a great season,
which they're not going to, then everybody kind of opens up,
you know, because the judges, the lawyers, the politicians, the actors,
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the producers, all the rich people are USC people, but
they only care if USC is having success. So that
is kind of an interesting thing. USC the season looks
like six and six is kind of a sleeping giant,
so to speak, So that is kind of interesting. But
this is a Dodger town. First. I think it kind
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of always has been, despite Kobe and Shaq and Showtime
was a whole thing. But the NBA has kind of
priced out your average everyday fan here in the city
of Los Angeles. Which is not to say that a
beer is in twenty bucks near a Dodger stadium and
an Otani jersey is in three hundred and fifty. But
(04:38):
you have to give the Dodgers credit. They are the
most visited sport on Earth, and it's been that way
for a long time because the stadium is so big,
and because they have so many games, and because of
the greatness the just absolute, unparallel greatness of the Latino
fan base LA, which makes it pretty special. So all
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that being said, yeah, they're number one, and then the
Lakers they're number two, and then beyond that, I'd say, gosh,
I'd have to bite my tongue to say it, but
probably the Rams, you know, uh, and then maybe the Clippers,
and then maybe the Chargers and then SC and UCLA football.
I mean, if USC football and not far wow, well,
(05:26):
I mean, think about it, Dick, For God's sake, The
buzz about USC football in this coming season this is
I'm serious. Like, the buzz for the Dogs right now
is what they got a good young quarterback and they're
excited about that, and this guy's gonna call plays and
maybe they win eight games whatever, but at least that's something.
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The buzz about USC football right now is that they
hired a new GM and he is securing great verbal
comitments for a freshman class in twenty twenty six. Reber,
this is USC football we're talking about. I mean, what
the hell is that? Right? You know, a GM that's
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getting commitments for a year from a season from now
with a bunch of guys who probably won't even be
there that are going to be freshmen anyway if they are,
and they're not going to be some group that's nurtured
and grown organically like Harmon did with the Michigan team
or anything like that. So yeah, USC football, I mean,
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what the offseason talk is a GM for twenty twenty
six and Lincoln Riley in a cowardly way trying to
politically wriggle out of the Notre Dame game, which I'm
sorry is not going to happen right.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Right, Well, Petros I just about the Mariners and the
Dodgers in the World Series. But let me just share
this anecdote with you. Here is how delusional Softie and
I were at about this time last year, maybe eight later.
I remember vividly being in richmore Purple sheet Rischmore's office
with Softy, the three of us, and we were looking
(07:07):
at the schedule and we were like, oh my god,
do you realize that the Huskies play USC on the
day that there will be a World Series game in
LA against the Mariners. And we were like planning our
schedule around going to the day USC Washington game and
then driving from the Coliseum to Dodger Stadium to watch
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the Mariners because at the time, the Mariners were ten
games up in the Al West and not only did
they not make the World Series Petros, they didn't even
make the playoffs. So, you know, I just about Los
Marineros making the World Series because who knows, twenty twenty
five could be exactly like last year and we could
be sitting at home in October.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, you guys were two thirds of the way right.
You know, there was an SC game that night, and
there was a World Series game.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Just got the raw American League team.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah it was the Yankees, which is a you know,
a whole other thing, but it is it is kind
of interesting to sort of ride this wave every year
with this baseball team and to see how they do it.
I mean, the team was all built up like a big,
beautiful taj Mahal the Dodgers were when the season started,
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and now they're not even recognizable. They've had so many injuries.
But they have their three guys, you know, Tani Freendy
Freeman and Mookie Betts right now healthy at the top
of the lineup. But it is it is interesting because
they always seem to make the playoffs and get there,
whether it works out or not. At the end of
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the year, they're always around ninety or one hundred wins,
and I think people around here are starting to take
that for granted. Dick, I got to be on it.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, it happened, happens in every sport. We saw that.
We saw that vividly with the Seahawks in the middle
of the last decade, no question about it. Sweet James
brings you the Petros Popadeka Show and we basis on
Wednesdays at four o'clock. So are you ready for another
season of having your tush pushed? Petros? What do you
think about the ruling today in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You know, I thought it was really interesting that they
ever thought of getting rid of it. You know, I
remember that there was a very loose I mean, it
was a rule on the books for football in general
when I was younger that you know. That's why the
bush push was supposed to be outlawed, right or supposed
to be flagged in the moment, way back in two
(09:32):
thousand and five, which is where we get the name
from the bush push, the tush push. I mean, really,
it's just an old wing tee football play and it
kind of reminds you that in a lot of football
most there are very few things and we point to
them and we laun them and we talk about them,
like the run and shoot or the air raid, or
(09:56):
when somebody invented, you know, the flanker. You know that.
But but a lot of stuff that happens in football is
just the old becoming new again. You know. For instance,
we all remember when Jim Harbaugh brought the power back.
The power not just like the word power, but the
actual play power with the pulling guard and to kick
(10:17):
out and the fullback leading through, and it became a
viable play again through Stanford football and Jim Harbaugh. It's
not like no one knew how to run power. Everybody
knew how to do it, but he brought it back
and made it a weapon again. The wildcat, you know,
that's nothing but a single wing offense with an extra
(10:39):
you know, with a running quarterback and an extra blocker.
That's that's all that was. It took a quick second
for the NFL defensive coordinators to catch up to it,
but you know, that wasn't new, but it was something
to talk about. And I think it's the same with
the with the tush push. It's it's just really well
executed by that team. But I I don't know if
(11:02):
he delivered his point while talking about wet dreams, but
that Eagle owner Guy Lourie, he made a good He
made a good point. I mean, to be so good
at executing a legal play that they want to outlaw
it is says a lot about what the Eagles have
accomplished here. I don't think being able to run that
play makes you invincible. If it was the case, Air
(11:26):
Force would be undefeated every year because good luck stopping
them on fourth and one. I don't care who you are. Uh,
that's just what they're going to do. And they can
do it, and they drill it, you know, from February.
It's like Concord Daala Sal when they won eight hundred
games the high school team way back in advance. I
think they they lost. Their undefeated streak was broken in Bellevue, Yes, Bellevue.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I was at the game, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, I was. I called my very first national game
on Fox for Next Day Washington Fresno State, which was interesting.
But I remember that, yes, But overall, yeah, I don't have.
I mean, I haven't really talked about it much on
the air other than just you know, passing through the
(12:12):
headlines and chef. But I like the fact that they're
leaving the play intact and I think everybody should learn
how to run it, and everybody should learn how to
stop it, and we can go from there. A big
part of being great in football is being able to
have short yardage and success in short yardage, and that
(12:37):
gets forgotten by a lot of people, especially in the
worlds of the Lane Kiffins and Steve Sarkisians and Lincoln
Riley's and master play callers, that we lawd and grease
up all the time, and maybe we shouldn't as much
if they can't go get one yard on third and
one like the Eagles have proven to do. I mean,
(12:59):
Hurts is not He is not a comparable passer to
a lot of really, uh just normal quarterbacks from the NFL.
So what is it about him? And how have they
been able to master this? Uh? You got to give
him credit. And I love also the fact that the
Eagles have brought back the Bell cow running back, you know,
(13:19):
into the pantheon of the NFL. I mean, when I
was a kid in the eighties, if you were, we
cared more about who the starting running back was whether
it was Walter Payton or Christian Okoye or Roger Craig
or you know any of these guys. O J Anderson.
I mean we cared about that. Yeah, that those guys
(13:39):
were as big of a deal as the quarterback and
Barry Sanders. I mean, they were just as exciting. So
so I am fully in with the tush push. I
don't like the name.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You don't like the name, all right, well we can uh,
you know, we can call it whatever they call in Philadelphia.
It's not the Philly Special, It's it's it's something else.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But he told me that the tush push has had
a big effect on Hurtz though. It's like physically his
tush now has a big crack in it. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I love that. That's very good.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, are you going to start the other big story
in the in the NFL? Are you gonna dust off
your old flag football flags and practice some flag poland
so you can turn out for Team USA?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So I could pull both Hammies and my blue my Achilles. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know. I mean, if the
NFLPA says it's okay, that's one thing. But to get
individual permission from your team is another one. I mean,
I doubt people are going to be very comfortable with
guys out there firing their legs against a flag football
(14:46):
team from Senegal or something. But for me, I like,
I've never been a fan of flag football or seven
on seven or anything like that as it relates to
real football, right, Like, there's real football, like we were
just talking about, and then there's seven on seven leagues
and flag football and all the stuff we do in
(15:08):
the offseason for quarterbacks and wide receivers to be able
to stretch together. And that's fine, and that's all necessary.
It's part of the football calendar. But it's not real football.
And there's a whole like subset of people, like the
same type of weirdos that are into frisbee golf and
stuff like that. There's a whole, there's a whole. There's
(15:30):
a whole group of people that are dedicated to flag football,
right and they do it and it's their little niche
sport like snooker or something, and you know, let them play.
You know, I don't want to watch Tyreek Hill out
there running routes. I really don't, you know, I mean,
it's stupid. To have flag football? Is this a sport
that's globally practiced?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
You know, not that I know who's going to play
against Team US.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Ever since I watched the Chick from Australia Breakdance, I'm
you know, like, can we just throw the javelin? You know?
Can we just do what they used to do in
ancient Greece Take all your clothes off, grease up, put
the fig leaf over your crotch, and get out there
and perform wrestle with another man and compete. Run run
the race, you know, to add all these weird I mean,
(16:17):
what are we going to do? Add the hack stats?
To go down to bet Beach? Sure, see how many
times a guy can SMI mack it on his knee
and do the freaking paws on the back of his neck.
I mean, that's more relevant in California than flag football,
for God's sake. But uh, I mean, I guess I'd
be interested just to see what it looks like. But
I mean, there's real football and then there's flag football,
(16:40):
and I don't think that line should be crossed by professionals.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Petros always a pleasure, love your opinions. We will talk
to you next week. As our buddies still in Greece
next week.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
So yeah, he asked me about the tipping culture in
Greece and I told him, you know, it's not expect did,
but they appreciate it. And he wrote back, I want
to sit in.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah, I want to fit in.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Okay, let's where does he Where does he ever fit in?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Let's be honest, Well, you know people are going to
think he's got a swarthy look with a giant nose,
so people are going to think he's Greek.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Gotcha, He'll fit right in with the locals. Love you, man.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
We'll talk to you next, Talk to you next week.
Love you, Dick. I have a great one, all right, mat.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Petros pop and Dakis Back to Hubreed Love Millan. We
have textimonials at four nine, four five one coming up
at four forty five. Where are you on the Mariners
on the optimistic side, the pestimistic side. I think people
are just riding the fence right now. We'll talk about
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