May 7, 2025 • 17 mins
Petros Papadakis from Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about Florida, his favorite books, favorite drinks, the Lakers losing in the playoffs, UW’s 2025 Spring Game, Demond Williams, Jedd Fisch, and coaches calling their own plays.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Knock that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty. If
you're hurting an accident, called Sweet James right away at
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that will bully you. I don't know bo Now with Petros,
(00:31):
here's Dave's softy Muller.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Alrighty, boys and girls, there we go more with Hume
Meln coming up at a matter of minutes. Right now,
we turn our attention, let's face it, to one of
the most sought after sports talk radio guests the industry
has to offer. A man who's simply put very choosy
about what radio shows he joins across the country as
(00:55):
a guest. But we are honored hashtag blessed to have
this man. What half of the legendary highly rated Petros
and Money show in Southern California ex usc football star,
one damn fine Greek American Father of the Month, Husband
of the day, and my friend Petros Papadoccus brought to
(01:17):
you bye.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
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Speaker 2 (01:42):
Hugh Mellen is on the show today. Dick is on vacation.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yes, it's true. This man has no Dick. Oh where'd
he go?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
H He's coming home from Florida with his family.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I believe they went to a wedding and they just
thought they'd make a vacation out of it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, that's cool. Yeah, right, I'm doing Okay. I've read
a few books about Florida over the years, a lot
of books about Florida. As a matter of fact, have
you not been to Florida. Well, I've been to Miami.
That's not really Florida though, right, Yeah, I haven't really. Well,
I played a game in ninety eight at Florida State
(02:18):
when they were really good. Okay, yeah, you're Warwick and
Chris Wanky. So that was kind of really my first experience.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I believe it's pronounced winky by the way, not wanky
like wanker.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Right. Well, I've been to I've been to Florida a
few times. But the books I read. I started reading
a detective series many years ago that started like in
the sixties, late sixties, maybe seventies, and it went on
for a long time. A guy named John McDonald wrote
a detective series with the detective named Travis McGee, not
(02:53):
really a detective, more of like a marine salvage guy.
You know. Well, it works like this. Let's say somebody
stole a bunch something from you and you cannot legally
get it back. You would hire Travis McGee to get
it and then he keeps.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Half kind of like if you have a problem, no
one else can help, and if you can find him,
you can hire Travis McGee.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
But a guy that lives on a houseboat gun in
Fort Lauderdale at bahe Amar. So that's that was the
one series I started reading, and then I finished. I
read all of those books. Yeah, and I was calling
a football game with Chris Myers, right, and you know
I yeah, yeah, yeah, you know that guy and Chris Myers. Uh,
(03:38):
the guys that are his spotter and stat guy are
famously called the Sunshine Boys, ah, because they're from West Florida.
And I mentioned one of the Sunshine Boys the Travis
McGee series. I like, yeah. And then he got me
onto the Randy Wayne White book series of the dock
(03:59):
Ford series, which is a West West Florida Sannabel Island
book series.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And that's Doc Ford, who's more like a clandestine government
agent slash marine biologist. And those are very good books.
There's there's a lot of them. Actually, he's still writing
that series. And I've been enjoying that and learning all
about places like Santabel Island and Captiva Island and Fort Myers, Florida.
(04:28):
They all seem very interesting in the book and then
of course in the books. And then Tarpin Springs, Florida
is the largest Greek population outside of Greece, you don't
say in the United Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Interesting sponge divers, real goat efforts. I really do wish
I had the patience to read more books. Man, I
just I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, because you're you just want to sit there and
scream and yell and tweet about the Mariners and drink
girl drinks. What do you mean girl drink? You know,
like vodka soda or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What's wrong with vodka soda? Little Tito soda? Only chicks
drink Tito's soda. What should I be drinking beer?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
And Bob Stop drinks cranberry?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So should I be drinking beer?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Whiskey, scout, you should do whatever you want. Well, I
like a lot of other drinks, but my go to
do you know why? My go to is Tito's Soda
with a splash of cranberry, although now it's a sidecar
of cranberry because the bartender is always messing up, by
the way, and put way too much cranberry juice. If
I wanted cranberry, I just say cranberry vodka. No, I
want a Tito Soda with a splash of cranberry. You
(05:36):
know why I do that? By the way, Why do
you think I do that?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I don't know, because you're which is fine?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh my god, It's because I want to eat and
drink a little healthier, cut out the sugar, and don't
ever want to go back to the ass that I
was when I first met you.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You were a hefty man.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Okay, Well, Hugh Millan, you know I cared a little
extra weights.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Hugh Mellon once told me that my body looks like
a container for other bodies. Wow, And that was the
day I said I've had enough.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The old Ray Ratto look, the beam bag body and
the bulling ball ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Because that really cut me deep when he said that. Man, hey,
have we have we spoken? By the way, since Lebron
and the Lakers got eliminated from the playoffs, I don't
think so. Oh boy, that had to be a fun
night at your house.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well it's kind of interesting because all the stuff that
everybody said that was negative came true. Right. JJ Reddick
was inexperienced and did get exposed. It took a while,
and you have to give him credit. They captured the
three seeds three seed and that was pretty good. And
(06:54):
they had a nice run after, like a Linsanity esque
run after the Luca trade when he got healthy again
and started playing. That was pretty exciting in LA. But
when it was all said and done, JJ Reddick look inexperience,
Lebron looked old, and Luca looked fat. Yeah, right, all
(07:14):
three of those things, and then the other thing. They
didn't have a big guy, and that was very glaringly
obvious with the way Rudy Gobert, a screaming Frenchman, was
treating him. I haven't seen so much French screaming since
I saw Lema's Rob So well, they had one.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
His name was Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, they had him, and then they tried to trade
for that other guy, Williams. Yeah, and they backed out
of that trade physical. Somebody said something on ESPN I
thought was interesting. They said, even if he got that
guy from Charlotte, who knows if he even would have
played him. I mean, JJ Reddick kind of looked like
an air raid coach in the playoffs, playing people a whole,
doing stuff that no one's ever done before, playing a
(07:56):
forty year old and a fat guy the entire second half,
and then wondering why they ran out of gas and
being like, well we took the lead, we were closed.
That's that's such an air raid thing, you know. It's like, hey,
you guys lost by one. Yeah, but see, we just
missed that deep pass. I mean, was just that we
were closed.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It's like, what excuse me, Oh, the greatest quarterback maybe
in the history of the NFL did come from an
air raid system, but there's.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
No doubt about it. But he don't run one now, No,
and no one really saw his true brilliance as a
quarterback because of the system he came from, including me,
And who's more brilliant than me?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Nobody?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Uh true, I'm still making my point. I'm sorry. All
of it was true. Lebron meglomaniac, old, washed up, Luca
fat but the future JJ Reddick, insufferable and inexperience, Bronnie
James not an NBA player. Right, All of those things
(09:04):
came out in the wash when it was all said
and done, and those were all things that the critical
people were saying as we as we marched toward the
inevitable Laker elimination.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So Lebron's done, right, He's finished.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I don't know. I mean, he's got another year, they
got it, he's got a player option and they're gonna
have to pay him another fifty million.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well, Bronny's got to be done though, right Why?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I don't know, you know, I mean, he's still in
complete control of the franchise. I guess, I mean Luca
maybe not. Maybe that's not exactly true because Luka Doncic
is there, and maybe he doesn't want to be the
number two to Luka Doncic, which he kind of is
just just by nature of the ages of the two players.
(09:47):
Maybe he doesn't want to do that, So maybe he
does force a trade or wave whatever it is, or
or retire. I have no idea, but whatever he does,
he'll do it soon, and he'll do it to bring
attention to himself.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Hey, two things I do. I do want to talk
to you about.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I love living on the Lebron calendar. It's getting nailed
by the king right. Well, I'm just rewaxing and waning. Moon.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I know that you were, you were slightly aroused after
they got eliminated in the first round, So I'm I'm
I'm happy for you. I know that you were very,
very afraid of them making a run.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I don't root for anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, but you're root against a lot of things though,
You're right, You're really.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Do at the same time, you know, At the same time,
there is like a feeling of the of the abyss. Yeah,
you know, because the Clippers were out in a moment,
the Lakers were out before that, the Kings were out
in a moment and now I mean not that I'm
going to talk about all those things incessantly, but it's
a pretty big chasm between all that stuff and the
(10:46):
start of the football season. But we have the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, yeah, they're doing well, doing.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Well, They're doing okay, what.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Do you mean they're doing okay?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
They're like twenty five and twelve. They're beat up, they're there. Yes,
they have a good.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Record, don't they have the record in baseball?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I think they do.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
The Mets are pretty good too, They're very good. But yeah,
the Dodgers are interesting to watch. I mean, they a
lot of injuries. Ti Oscar Hernandez went out with a
pulled hammy. That's a big problem, and not a lot
of starting pitching. Snell Seattle guy is on the IL,
and Tyler Glass now who is never healthy, is on
(11:23):
the the IL, and Kershaw isn't back yet even though
he's like a thousand years old, And so it goes.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, best record in baseball, pal twenty four and twelve.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
All right, don't call me pal, you I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Before today's game bub.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
All right, I'm just saying, yeah, and if they're really
really good, I mean there's not that much to talk about.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Hey, did you happen to flip on the Big Ten
network on Friday and see your boy Yogi roth yapping
about the Huskies and the spring game on Friday? You know,
Jed Fish really got behind it, the entire spring game
thing and there, thank you. It's kind of paid off
a little bit. They had like twenty thousand people there,
which for you, Dub is good. It's on a Friday night.
(12:06):
They had corgy races.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
It was fun. That's something to do. Yeah. No, how
did that quarterback who's probably going to disappoint you look Demond?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, why would he? Why would he? Why would he?
Probably that's French for the Mond by the way, Why
would he disappoint? Because the expectations are stupidations are quite high.
What are my expectations?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I don't know. I think they're expectations. They're like uh,
Aiden Child's ask.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, I mean I'm not the one saying he's going
to go to that. We're talking about New York and
the Heisman. You know who's been saying that. Jed Fish
has been saying that. Yeah, that's not why he said it.
A year ago when he was backing up Will Rogers, Okay,
when he was at number two?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
All right? Jee insane? Yeah, never heard that such a
thing from a coach. Just juggle Jaden DeLaura and Fafeita.
Yeah right. I don't know. I mean, I don't I
hope he has a great I hope that Washington football
has a year comparable to the de Boor years. But
I just don't know. I mean, obviously, there's a lot
(13:09):
of depletion in a huge seismic sea change when your
coach left for Alabama and you hired somebody else and
ever since then. I don't know if it's a search
for identity or just kind of a shrug of the shoulders,
but I'll be surprised if Washington is dominated again under
Jedfish Wow. Like ever, I don't know, Okay, Well, maybe
(13:35):
I mean the guy, Look, the guy rebuilt Arizona. Right.
Does that mean he can drive the Seattle ship into
the harbor which has a lot of expectation? Well?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Why can he? I mean, there's more teams in the
playoff now than there was before. If he took a
one win team to eleven wins, why can't he do
the same thing at Washington with better resources?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And better talent. Yeah, I mean, what is your problem
with Jedi? I don't have a problem.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
No, it's just a I always am reticent about head
coaches that call their own offensive play. Oh okay, it's
always to me, it's I mean, Sark has had a
lot of success at Texas, and he's made a lot
of money at Texas, and he's they have a lot
of money at Texas. But still when it comes down
(14:23):
to it in the championship game, there's something about Sark
calling his own plays. There's there's that moment there and
I know you recognize it because you covered the guy
so closely, Like, am I wrong? Am I making this up?
There's just something about Kiffen does it, Lincoln Riley does it,
And to me, it's a it's an overall philosophy of football.
(14:48):
If your head coach is calling offensive plays, there is
a little there's a little chirping bird in the back
of his head telling him to do something stupid, telling
him it's just it's just what it is. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
But hang on a second, though, because you're telling me
and maybe it's all relative. And I get that that.
Steve Sarkejian got to the final four two years in
a row. Yeah, and then because of his own play
calling getting in the way of his brain working properly.
There's always chim Fish makes the damn final.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Very yeah, we'll be thrilled. Well, that's fine, But Sark
didn't make any final anything when he was at Washington.
Oh those were the resources that he had then. And
then he goes to Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's different.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, okay, totally different. It was.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It was coming off an ozer twelve seasons.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Well whatever, it is the same guy on the same program. Buddy, Hey, look,
am I not When was the last coach that called
his own plays that won a championship? Uh? But where when? Yeah?
I don't know. Smart, No Jim Harbon, no Urban Meyer,
No who called their own play Steve Spurrier, that would
baby be? The only one I can.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Think of was Harbaugh not calling plays from Michigan two
years ago?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Oh of course he wasn't. He can call his own plays.
He never had. Okay, well that's that's my point. The
guy who called the head coach who calls his own
offensive plays, that doesn't. I mean, look at the difference
between Lincoln Riley under Lincoln Riley and Lincoln Riley under
Bob Stoops. You know, somebody looks over and says, no,
you're not going to do that. The head coach to
(16:26):
these offensive coordinator types who calls their own plays that
have won a championship. I don't know if Pete Carroll nandled
into play calling in the Super Bowl, messing with the
offensive rhythm. What happened to the city of Seattle. Well,
I think it was worse than the five that created
the underground. That's what it was. There's obviously Warrener streets.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
There's obviously a difference between coming close to winning a
title and actually pushing it over the edge. I understand that.
But if Jed Fish can find a way to get
close to winning a title, make the playoff, finish in
the top three or four in a big tech and
after what they inherited when Klan took off for Alabama,
I think that'll be looked at as a job well done.
(17:06):
Now I want to I want to get.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Made a better overall point that you're in.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh no, yeah, okay, that's fair. Overall, Yes you're talking.
We're talking two different topics here.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Well you asked me, well, why I don't have faith
in the program's ability to rise up and you know,
to to where the fans expected.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
To get back to where they were underneath.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yes, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Okay, well we'll ask Hugh Millen what he thinks of
your your theory.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Okay, that's pure nonsense.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Next, all right, we'll get to that. You can hang
up and listen.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
You ask you what I say. I will hang up.
I'm going to playing in Miami.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I'm gonna ask him. I'm gonna ask him next on
ninety three three kJ R FM, like who's called their
own play
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Knock that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty. If
you're hurting an accident, called Sweet James right away at
eight hundred, five hundred and fifty two hundred. Sweet James
will be sweet to you, but tough on insurance companies
that will bully you. I don't know bo Now with Petros,
(00:31):
here's Dave's softy Muller.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Alrighty, boys and girls, there we go more with Hume
Meln coming up at a matter of minutes. Right now,
we turn our attention, let's face it, to one of
the most sought after sports talk radio guests the industry
has to offer. A man who's simply put very choosy
about what radio shows he joins across the country as
(00:55):
a guest. But we are honored hashtag blessed to have
this man. What half of the legendary highly rated Petros
and Money show in Southern California ex usc football star,
one damn fine Greek American Father of the Month, Husband
of the day, and my friend Petros Papadoccus brought to
(01:17):
you bye.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That would be Sweet James, the dense beard of justice.
Nobody comes through like Sweet James in the world of
personal injury. If you've ever been in a car accident
or a motorcycle accident, perhaps you've been bitten by a dog,
Sweet James can come through for you. At eight hundred
nine million, eight hundred nine zero zero zero zero zero zero,
(01:40):
or Sweet James down.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Hugh Mellen is on the show today. Dick is on vacation.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yes, it's true. This man has no Dick. Oh where'd
he go?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
H He's coming home from Florida with his family.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I believe they went to a wedding and they just
thought they'd make a vacation out of it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, that's cool. Yeah, right, I'm doing Okay. I've read
a few books about Florida over the years, a lot
of books about Florida. As a matter of fact, have
you not been to Florida. Well, I've been to Miami.
That's not really Florida though, right, Yeah, I haven't really. Well,
I played a game in ninety eight at Florida State
(02:18):
when they were really good. Okay, yeah, you're Warwick and
Chris Wanky. So that was kind of really my first experience.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I believe it's pronounced winky by the way, not wanky
like wanker.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Right. Well, I've been to I've been to Florida a
few times. But the books I read. I started reading
a detective series many years ago that started like in
the sixties, late sixties, maybe seventies, and it went on
for a long time. A guy named John McDonald wrote
a detective series with the detective named Travis McGee, not
(02:53):
really a detective, more of like a marine salvage guy.
You know. Well, it works like this. Let's say somebody
stole a bunch something from you and you cannot legally
get it back. You would hire Travis McGee to get
it and then he keeps.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Half kind of like if you have a problem, no
one else can help, and if you can find him,
you can hire Travis McGee.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
But a guy that lives on a houseboat gun in
Fort Lauderdale at bahe Amar. So that's that was the
one series I started reading, and then I finished. I
read all of those books. Yeah, and I was calling
a football game with Chris Myers, right, and you know
I yeah, yeah, yeah, you know that guy and Chris Myers. Uh,
(03:38):
the guys that are his spotter and stat guy are
famously called the Sunshine Boys, ah, because they're from West Florida.
And I mentioned one of the Sunshine Boys the Travis
McGee series. I like, yeah. And then he got me
onto the Randy Wayne White book series of the dock
(03:59):
Ford series, which is a West West Florida Sannabel Island
book series.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And that's Doc Ford, who's more like a clandestine government
agent slash marine biologist. And those are very good books.
There's there's a lot of them. Actually, he's still writing
that series. And I've been enjoying that and learning all
about places like Santabel Island and Captiva Island and Fort Myers, Florida.
(04:28):
They all seem very interesting in the book and then
of course in the books. And then Tarpin Springs, Florida
is the largest Greek population outside of Greece, you don't
say in the United Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Interesting sponge divers, real goat efforts. I really do wish
I had the patience to read more books. Man, I
just I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, because you're you just want to sit there and
scream and yell and tweet about the Mariners and drink
girl drinks. What do you mean girl drink? You know,
like vodka soda or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What's wrong with vodka soda? Little Tito soda? Only chicks
drink Tito's soda. What should I be drinking beer?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
And Bob Stop drinks cranberry?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So should I be drinking beer?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Whiskey, scout, you should do whatever you want. Well, I
like a lot of other drinks, but my go to
do you know why? My go to is Tito's Soda
with a splash of cranberry, although now it's a sidecar
of cranberry because the bartender is always messing up, by
the way, and put way too much cranberry juice. If
I wanted cranberry, I just say cranberry vodka. No, I
want a Tito Soda with a splash of cranberry. You
(05:36):
know why I do that? By the way, Why do
you think I do that?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I don't know, because you're which is fine?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh my god, It's because I want to eat and
drink a little healthier, cut out the sugar, and don't
ever want to go back to the ass that I
was when I first met you.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
You were a hefty man.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Okay, Well, Hugh Millan, you know I cared a little
extra weights.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Hugh Mellon once told me that my body looks like
a container for other bodies. Wow, And that was the
day I said I've had enough.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
The old Ray Ratto look, the beam bag body and
the bulling ball ahead.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Because that really cut me deep when he said that. Man, hey,
have we have we spoken? By the way, since Lebron
and the Lakers got eliminated from the playoffs, I don't
think so. Oh boy, that had to be a fun
night at your house.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well it's kind of interesting because all the stuff that
everybody said that was negative came true. Right. JJ Reddick
was inexperienced and did get exposed. It took a while,
and you have to give him credit. They captured the
three seeds three seed and that was pretty good. And
(06:54):
they had a nice run after, like a Linsanity esque
run after the Luca trade when he got healthy again
and started playing. That was pretty exciting in LA. But
when it was all said and done, JJ Reddick look inexperience,
Lebron looked old, and Luca looked fat. Yeah, right, all
(07:14):
three of those things, and then the other thing. They
didn't have a big guy, and that was very glaringly
obvious with the way Rudy Gobert, a screaming Frenchman, was
treating him. I haven't seen so much French screaming since
I saw Lema's Rob So well, they had one.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
His name was Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah, they had him, and then they tried to trade
for that other guy, Williams. Yeah, and they backed out
of that trade physical. Somebody said something on ESPN I
thought was interesting. They said, even if he got that
guy from Charlotte, who knows if he even would have
played him. I mean, JJ Reddick kind of looked like
an air raid coach in the playoffs, playing people a whole,
doing stuff that no one's ever done before, playing a
(07:56):
forty year old and a fat guy the entire second half,
and then wondering why they ran out of gas and
being like, well we took the lead, we were closed.
That's that's such an air raid thing, you know. It's like, hey,
you guys lost by one. Yeah, but see, we just
missed that deep pass. I mean, was just that we
were closed.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It's like, what excuse me, Oh, the greatest quarterback maybe
in the history of the NFL did come from an
air raid system, but there's.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
No doubt about it. But he don't run one now, No,
and no one really saw his true brilliance as a
quarterback because of the system he came from, including me,
And who's more brilliant than me?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Nobody?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Uh true, I'm still making my point. I'm sorry. All
of it was true. Lebron meglomaniac, old, washed up, Luca
fat but the future JJ Reddick, insufferable and inexperience, Bronnie
James not an NBA player. Right, All of those things
(09:04):
came out in the wash when it was all said
and done, and those were all things that the critical
people were saying as we as we marched toward the
inevitable Laker elimination.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So Lebron's done, right, He's finished.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I don't know. I mean, he's got another year, they
got it, he's got a player option and they're gonna
have to pay him another fifty million.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well, Bronny's got to be done though, right Why?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I don't know, you know, I mean, he's still in
complete control of the franchise. I guess, I mean Luca
maybe not. Maybe that's not exactly true because Luka Doncic
is there, and maybe he doesn't want to be the
number two to Luka Doncic, which he kind of is
just just by nature of the ages of the two players.
(09:47):
Maybe he doesn't want to do that, So maybe he
does force a trade or wave whatever it is, or
or retire. I have no idea, but whatever he does,
he'll do it soon, and he'll do it to bring
attention to himself.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Hey, two things I do. I do want to talk
to you about.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I love living on the Lebron calendar. It's getting nailed
by the king right. Well, I'm just rewaxing and waning. Moon.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I know that you were, you were slightly aroused after
they got eliminated in the first round, So I'm I'm
I'm happy for you. I know that you were very,
very afraid of them making a run.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I don't root for anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, but you're root against a lot of things though,
You're right, You're really.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Do at the same time, you know, At the same time,
there is like a feeling of the of the abyss. Yeah,
you know, because the Clippers were out in a moment,
the Lakers were out before that, the Kings were out
in a moment and now I mean not that I'm
going to talk about all those things incessantly, but it's
a pretty big chasm between all that stuff and the
(10:46):
start of the football season. But we have the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, yeah, they're doing well, doing.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Well, They're doing okay, what.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Do you mean they're doing okay?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
They're like twenty five and twelve. They're beat up, they're there. Yes,
they have a good.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Record, don't they have the record in baseball?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I think they do.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
The Mets are pretty good too, They're very good. But yeah,
the Dodgers are interesting to watch. I mean, they a
lot of injuries. Ti Oscar Hernandez went out with a
pulled hammy. That's a big problem, and not a lot
of starting pitching. Snell Seattle guy is on the IL,
and Tyler Glass now who is never healthy, is on
(11:23):
the the IL, and Kershaw isn't back yet even though
he's like a thousand years old, And so it goes.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, best record in baseball, pal twenty four and twelve.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
All right, don't call me pal, you I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Before today's game bub.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
All right, I'm just saying, yeah, and if they're really
really good, I mean there's not that much to talk about.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Hey, did you happen to flip on the Big Ten
network on Friday and see your boy Yogi roth yapping
about the Huskies and the spring game on Friday? You know,
Jed Fish really got behind it, the entire spring game
thing and there, thank you. It's kind of paid off
a little bit. They had like twenty thousand people there,
which for you, Dub is good. It's on a Friday night.
(12:06):
They had corgy races.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
It was fun. That's something to do. Yeah. No, how
did that quarterback who's probably going to disappoint you look Demond?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, why would he? Why would he? Why would he?
Probably that's French for the Mond by the way, Why
would he disappoint? Because the expectations are stupidations are quite high.
What are my expectations?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I don't know. I think they're expectations. They're like uh,
Aiden Child's ask.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, I mean I'm not the one saying he's going
to go to that. We're talking about New York and
the Heisman. You know who's been saying that. Jed Fish
has been saying that. Yeah, that's not why he said it.
A year ago when he was backing up Will Rogers, Okay,
when he was at number two?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
All right? Jee insane? Yeah, never heard that such a
thing from a coach. Just juggle Jaden DeLaura and Fafeita.
Yeah right. I don't know. I mean, I don't I
hope he has a great I hope that Washington football
has a year comparable to the de Boor years. But
I just don't know. I mean, obviously, there's a lot
(13:09):
of depletion in a huge seismic sea change when your
coach left for Alabama and you hired somebody else and
ever since then. I don't know if it's a search
for identity or just kind of a shrug of the shoulders,
but I'll be surprised if Washington is dominated again under
Jedfish Wow. Like ever, I don't know, Okay, Well, maybe
(13:35):
I mean the guy, Look, the guy rebuilt Arizona. Right.
Does that mean he can drive the Seattle ship into
the harbor which has a lot of expectation? Well?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Why can he? I mean, there's more teams in the
playoff now than there was before. If he took a
one win team to eleven wins, why can't he do
the same thing at Washington with better resources?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And better talent. Yeah, I mean, what is your problem
with Jedi? I don't have a problem.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
No, it's just a I always am reticent about head
coaches that call their own offensive play. Oh okay, it's
always to me, it's I mean, Sark has had a
lot of success at Texas, and he's made a lot
of money at Texas, and he's they have a lot
of money at Texas. But still when it comes down
(14:23):
to it in the championship game, there's something about Sark
calling his own plays. There's there's that moment there and
I know you recognize it because you covered the guy
so closely, Like, am I wrong? Am I making this up?
There's just something about Kiffen does it, Lincoln Riley does it,
And to me, it's a it's an overall philosophy of football.
(14:48):
If your head coach is calling offensive plays, there is
a little there's a little chirping bird in the back
of his head telling him to do something stupid, telling
him it's just it's just what it is. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
But hang on a second, though, because you're telling me
and maybe it's all relative. And I get that that.
Steve Sarkejian got to the final four two years in
a row. Yeah, and then because of his own play
calling getting in the way of his brain working properly.
There's always chim Fish makes the damn final.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Very yeah, we'll be thrilled. Well, that's fine, But Sark
didn't make any final anything when he was at Washington.
Oh those were the resources that he had then. And
then he goes to Texas.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's different.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, okay, totally different. It was.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
It was coming off an ozer twelve seasons.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Well whatever, it is the same guy on the same program. Buddy, Hey, look,
am I not When was the last coach that called
his own plays that won a championship? Uh? But where when? Yeah?
I don't know. Smart, No Jim Harbon, no Urban Meyer,
No who called their own play Steve Spurrier, that would
baby be? The only one I can.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Think of was Harbaugh not calling plays from Michigan two
years ago?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Oh of course he wasn't. He can call his own plays.
He never had. Okay, well that's that's my point. The
guy who called the head coach who calls his own
offensive plays, that doesn't. I mean, look at the difference
between Lincoln Riley under Lincoln Riley and Lincoln Riley under
Bob Stoops. You know, somebody looks over and says, no,
you're not going to do that. The head coach to
(16:26):
these offensive coordinator types who calls their own plays that
have won a championship. I don't know if Pete Carroll nandled
into play calling in the Super Bowl, messing with the
offensive rhythm. What happened to the city of Seattle. Well,
I think it was worse than the five that created
the underground. That's what it was. There's obviously Warrener streets.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
There's obviously a difference between coming close to winning a
title and actually pushing it over the edge. I understand that.
But if Jed Fish can find a way to get
close to winning a title, make the playoff, finish in
the top three or four in a big tech and
after what they inherited when Klan took off for Alabama,
I think that'll be looked at as a job well done.
(17:06):
Now I want to I want to get.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Made a better overall point that you're in.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh no, yeah, okay, that's fair. Overall, Yes you're talking.
We're talking two different topics here.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Well you asked me, well, why I don't have faith
in the program's ability to rise up and you know,
to to where the fans expected.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
To get back to where they were underneath.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yes, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Okay, well we'll ask Hugh Millen what he thinks of
your your theory.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Okay, that's pure nonsense.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Next, all right, we'll get to that. You can hang
up and listen.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
You ask you what I say. I will hang up.
I'm going to playing in Miami.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I'm gonna ask him. I'm gonna ask him next on
ninety three three kJ R FM, like who's called their
own play
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