June 5, 2025 • 19 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dick Fain to talk about how fans react to the Dodgers when they lose games, people freaking out over bad reports during NFL OTAs, Pete Carroll, and Aaron Rodgers finally signing, and the NBA Finals.
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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):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't know bout.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, how about.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
This do to a scheduling conflict yesterday and a massive
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the third consecutive week to talk to my friend Petros
Papa Dakas.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
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(01:17):
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Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's eight hundred nine million. Or sweet James, doc, how
you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Petrosia is a summer treating you?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, I saw you.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
You're a Dodger. You're at the Dodger game or a
post Dodger game today.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Right, Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Today will be on after Yeah, they're on. Well they're yeah.
Well actually it's over now, but they were on when
we were on. But yes, they played an early game
today against the Mets and.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
They had a walk off yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Is that right? Is a walk off? No?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
No, they they got destroyed yesterday two days ago. They
walked it off to a day before that, the Mets
beat them an extras.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You can't walk it off on the road, and that
was that.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
They have lost three of the last four after starting
to win the first. They started to win on their
home stand against the Yankees the first two, and now
they've lost three of the last four with the Yankees
and Matts here in town. So that's a lot of
mailboxhead New York types in Dodger Stadium having a great
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time enjoying themselves.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Do people panic even though you're a great baseball team,
do people panic similarly to how they panic in Seattle,
because like, if the Mariners go through a three game
losing streak like they they will never win a game again,
according to Mariner fans.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
And because the people have seen it, right, they've seen
the team fall to pieces. Yeah, we like to call
it the Panic Brothers. On the Petres and Money Show,
Matt and I become the Panic Brothers and hit the button.
And I don't know if it's valid or not. And
when it comes to the Dodgers, even though they've had
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some pretty humiliating early exit in the last six or
seven years in the nl DS and Atlanta and the NLCS,
the NLDS was the Nationals, the Padres and the d Backs,
you know, all teams that they dominated during the regular season,
especially the ones in division. So people have seen that
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kind of stuff happen, and we would like to hit
the panic button and say this is terrible. And I mean,
but even you know, they end up winning one hundred
games a year, ninety plus. And when you put on
real baseball analysts like your John Hayman types or Eric
Carros or Brett Boone, you know, guys like that, you
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put those guys on and you say, my god, the
Dodgers have lost three or four. What are we gonna do?
We're all gonna die, And they tell you, you know, relax, guy,
it's all you know. And I know that it's true
as well, Like I know that there's you can't you
can't freak out when there's that many games. In the
world of Major League Baseball, the grind and the long
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form of the season is really what shapes a champion.
I know all those things, but the people that are
standing there telling me to calm down, they don't have
to do a four hour freaking radio show.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's fair.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That's very I mean, you know. I mean I said
something to our new boss the other day. I was like, yeah,
Angels swept the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Here was awesome. He's like, what do you mean.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I was like, dude, we need that, we need something
to happen so we can react to it other than hey,
the team's really good. That actually is like that Twilight
Zone episode where the guy is a gambler and he
goes to the casino and does nothing but win, right,
and it works out for him and he finds out
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that he's in hell. Like you don't want to just
win the whole time.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know, you got to have a.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Little Absolutely, Petrol's joining us here. You know, it's say
it's OTA's for the Seahawks. And it's just another reason
why the Seahawks didn't allow the media in last week,
because this week when the media was let in, they
have to do their due diligence and report that Sam
Darnald had two interceptions in a red zone drill and
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then all.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Hell breaks loose.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Mike McDonald is asked if there's a potential that Sam
Darnald might not be the starter. That reporter is being
called crazy by the head coach, and now it's a
national story.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
My god, is this this is where we've.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Gotten to in the NFL in June, where where two
interceptions in the first week of OTA is the biggest
story in football.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's what they want.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I mean, the NFL wants that, just like the NBA
wants their story regarding you know, whatever's happening and who's
being recruited in the offseason. Kawhi Leonard flying around being courted.
I think about DeAndre Jordan with Mark Cuban driving around
Dallas and Doc Rivers driving around you know story that
(06:00):
hijack the twenty four hour news media when you're not
actually playing is like, that's like beluga caveat. That's right
to these leagues, and the NFL is the rich getting richer. Obviously,
the interest in OTAs is amazing to me. I know that,
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you know, there's people that follow the teams very closely
and they want it reported on. But at the same time,
these people don't understand football practice, and people really don't
understand football practice. And I'm not going to stand here
and act like I have it all figured out, because
I don't. Football practice is literally scripted by the football coaches.
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The offense is against the defense. There's nobody else coming
in unless it's a joint practice with a different team,
and it's all scripted and it's all put out there.
I'm not saying that it's like a WWF battle. I'm
just saying it's really really hard, very difficult for anybody
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in the media to stand on the sideline of a
football practice while they're catching up about their daughter's recital
and you know, making small talk on the sideline and
really understand, Now, if a guy throws a picky throws
a pick, I'm not trying to split hairs here, but
they don't know what they're looking at. And whenever I
go to football practice, unless I really lock in and
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really try to talk to somebody, if somebody gives me
a script of the practice, I don't know what I'm
looking Yes, And you've.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Been in a lot more football practices than most of these.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Reporters have, right, and on the inside of them, that's right,
and all around them and in people's camps and in
people's meetings and all that, and I don't know what's
going on because it's not meant for you to know
what's going on. It really isn't. And a lot of
the time they set guys up that are losing confidence
or lacking confidence.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They set those guys up for success. You know.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
In some situation they set up the offense for success,
and some they set up the defense for success. When
you're going live in practice, usually the defense has the
advantage because they know that offense because they're on their team,
and they know it's right. I mean, you know it's so.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Look, if a guy goes out and throws five picks
a day in practice and he's totally inaccurate, there's a
problem well, and the buzz starts to be created that, hey,
this guy's not performing. It doesn't happen the first day
of OTAs or whatever the hell is going on. So
it's it's a non story. It is more of an
indicator to me what the NFL is off season wise,
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because Sam Darnold throws a pick and OTAs became a
national story and so few people really like how many
people were out there when he threw the pick?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
What was he wearing? You know? Was there a pass rush?
Was he eluding something like?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
What was going? No one even knows, you know? What
was the drill? Red zone drill? Was it seven on seven?
Was it a half field type of deal? What was
it a was it a run drill? And no pads?
Like what are we talking about? And all of those
things kind of just make it more and more comical. Now,
if Sam Will could Sam Donald struggle, sure he could.
(09:17):
He struggled before on an NFL team. I happen to
really like Sam Donald, and I hope he has a
great turnaround or his great turnaround continues.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I should say, but uh yeah, I don't think it's
much of a story.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
But I think overreacting to anything that happens in a
football practice other than a guy getting injured or a
guy getting his jaw broken in a fight is pretty
pretty silly.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well, we certainly have a different vibe at head coach
now than we did, and we just got another example
of that yesterday when evidently this was this was also
reported by the by the crack media here that Mike
McDonald got mad at his team because they were competing
too hard. Could you imagine your guy Pete saying that
(10:01):
he's angry at his team because they're competing too hard
in an Ota?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, no, no, I could not imagine.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I could imagine Pete getting angry if they competing too
hard against him when he's trying to act like he's
the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But I.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Know, and look, people get excited when you play football
and you're not in pads for months and months, and
you have all this bravado and testosterone, and you've been
training and training and training to go out there and
move around like a football player, and they give you
the opportunity, that first opportunity. In high school we call it,
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you know, spring football. In college, we call it spring football.
In the NFL is shorter and a lot less violent,
and it's called OTAs. And from what I understand, they're
only in helmets, right, that's all you Yeah, So when
you're only in a helmet, that's you know, you feel lighter,
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and you feel like you feel like you could jump
over a car, and you get out on the field
and you really do feel electric and you're excited to
be out there. You're excited to be with your teammates,
and it's the Hope Springs, Eternal New Year, all that stuff.
So I understand exactly what he's saying. Pete would never
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use that terminology. Pete would say, look, we got to
tone it down when we're not in full pads and
things of that nature. But I'm pretty sure that's what
coach means. When we're not in full pads, we can't
go at each other like we are, no matter how
excited we are to be back on the football field.
And it really goes to a very interesting chemistry experiment
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in the world of football because when the actual season comes,
or when you're in camp and you're really starting to compete,
compete for positions, compete for playing time and all that
different stuff. You know, you hear coaches say right all
the time if there's a fight in practice or something. Hey,
we want these guys right on the edge, you know,
right on the edge. And that's the truth. They want
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you right on the edge of exploding into anger and violence,
and that is preparing most of your football team for battle.
So I understand exactly what he's saying, but it is
an interesting juxtaposition considering the win forever mentality.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
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Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm listening to Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Did you see did you see the video today from
Pete chopping you chopping on the gum white wide receiver gloves,
Monarchs on the feet Khaki's on and then he runs
up and literally like does the people's elbow on an
unwitting offensive lineman who is stretching on the ground.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Isn't it fun? Isn't it so much fun? Got he
so much?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I was just cracking. You will find that on the
internet and you will get a chuckle out of it.
Petro's joining us, So our.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Long national nightmare is over. Aaron Rodgers is a Pittsburgh Steeler. Petros,
what do you.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Think, Well, I mean, I guess you figured that they
had a wink and a smile and a long standing
understanding throughout the whole summer. And it's the same thing
we talked about, I think last week, which is.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The older guys they really want to do less and
less and less.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
That's right when it comes to the season, and fair enough,
it's excruciating. It's td a toweringly tedious to get ready
for a football season, and I can't imagine doing it
after ten twelve years at the NFL level, and guys
that played tight end in different stuff like that, they
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have the luxury of taking more time off. If a
quarterback tries to get out for a little while, like
Brady did when he was going through his divorce, no
matter how old he is, it's a problem. If you're
the quarterback, you got to be there. So I guess
this is about as far as Rogers could have gone
without disturbing the continuity anymore. He'll get in there for
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proper camp and learn their offense and we'll see what
the Steelers can do with him at quarterback. It should
be very interesting, it could be, and maybe I predict
if his body holds up like the Brett Favre seasons
in Minnesota, which were really really really productive and dizzying
as far as the coverage went from the NFL, and
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they just washed him up every day until his body
finally gave out in the playoffs, if I remember correctly,
So I.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Think they'll be good.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I think that maybe the drama around it that he
had not signed was something that everybody around the situation
new was just going to be temporary and that he
was going to end up there, So good for him.
We'll see what happens. I can't wait to see his
weekly spot.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I'll tell you, Yes, yep, Pat McAfee again for another
for another year, I'm sure. But hey, Petros, before you
let you go, are you excited for our small market
matchup in the NBA Finals?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I mean around here, we just wait for Lebron to
do something to put himself in the media cycle, and
he will, don't worry. But for the most part, I'm
excited to see. Indiana's a great basketball state, a great
basketball culture. Rick Carlisle's proven himself to be a great
basketball coach for all kinds of different people and all
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kinds of different circumstances, so that's impressive. And of course
OKC is really impressive. I know that there's a real
chip on the shoulder of the people of Seattle about
Oklahoma City. But you know, Oklahoma is the twentieth largest
television market and they do a great job supporting their teams.
I got to be honest, I mean, not to divert
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it because I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I mean, I don't really want to be like.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Oh, they're awesome out there with Hart and Starn. I
love Hawley Fussel, you know. I mean one of the
stuff you hear on TV or just you know, kind
of comes to you when you're watching the games.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But I will say, like in regards.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
To Oklahoma, the state of Oklahoma, and I've traveled all around,
and I played college football at a blue blood program,
which we would be considered a blue blood program nationally.
USC To me, Washington's a blue blood program. But I
think you get to have a hard time getting people
on the East Coast to recognize that. But but I've
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been all around. I've never called a game in a horseshoe,
but I've been to the Big House and all these
other places, and I have to say, you know, Texas
and all that, I have to a Notre Dame but
I think the team that celebrates their history the best
and understands how to celebrate their program the best within
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the context of a game, week of a game, of
a production of the game, you know, down to the
statues outside the building.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Is the Oklahoma Sooners.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
I all class, I'd like to go to a game there.
I've been in Nebraska. I've never been to Oklahoma.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Nebraska is great, and Nebraska is similar, but Oklahoma to me,
and I've done a game in Lincoln, too, but Oklahoma
to me is I mean, they just haven't figured out.
I wish my alma mater had twenty percent of what
they have figured out on how to promote their program,
how to celebrate their program, how to make everybody feel
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part of the program. I mean, just down to the
idiot color analyst. I mean in their hotel room. When
you stay there, the athletic director writes a note to
you about how great it is to have you in Norman.
They give you a chocolate that's the shape of the state.
You know, a hat for your kid.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You know.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You know that the ad comes in the booth before
the game starts, and you know gives you three four
minutes of his time.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And smile.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
I mean, they really know what they're doing. That's cool,
and you know, and and still Water they do a
great job too. Gundy is a wild man, but when
you get into his little fiefdom, it's cool too, you know.
So what I guess what I'm saying is Oklahoma is
a great sports place, and it's a great place for
that NBA team despite the terrible things that happened with
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the Sonics. Obviously shouldn't have happened, and the people of
Seattle didn't deserve that. But that doesn't mean the people
of Oklahoma don't do a great job with that franchise,
because because they really, they really do. And I kind
of see it through the prism of my time spending
Norman and still Water and it's just they do a
good job with their sports.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I'm glad I'm here to hear you say that. And
not Softy, because he'd be freaking puking right.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
One time I told him to give me a Starbucks
because I was sleepy, and he almost kicked me in
the face out of his car.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Even know what he was talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I bet he always a pleasure, my friend. Maybe we'll
talk again next week, who knows.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I hope not.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I mean not that I mean I like talking to you, Dick,
but I feel bad for soft time. You know, you
come back on vacation, champing at the bit to get
on the air, and now you sound like you know
you swallowed every cigarette button.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Grease you might have. You never know, never know what
happens over there.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Thanks Petro's thanks Dick, having you bet.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Petros Papadaka is our friend here on ninety three point
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Petros Papa Dakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys, forty one yards.
If you're hurt in 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.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't know bout.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros Peers Dave's softy mallers.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, how about.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
This do to a scheduling conflict yesterday and a massive
frog in the throat of one Dave's softy maller. I
get the honor, I get the privilege once again for
the third consecutive week to talk to my friend Petros
Papa Dakas.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Brought to you by Ah.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
That would be Sweet James, the denck S Beard of
Just if you've ever been in a car accident, injured,
motorcycle accident, whatever it is, slip and fall, He does
it all. Sweet James knows that the insurance company will
try to take advantage of you. That's why you need
Sweet James to take advantage of that insurance company right
(01:17):
back at eight hundred and nine million.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's eight hundred nine million. Or sweet James, doc, how
you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Petrosia is a summer treating you?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, I saw you.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
You're a Dodger. You're at the Dodger game or a
post Dodger game today.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Right, Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Today will be on after Yeah, they're on. Well they're yeah.
Well actually it's over now, but they were on when
we were on. But yes, they played an early game
today against the Mets and.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
They had a walk off yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Is that right? Is a walk off? No?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
No, they they got destroyed yesterday two days ago. They
walked it off to a day before that, the Mets
beat them an extras.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You can't walk it off on the road, and that
was that.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
They have lost three of the last four after starting
to win the first. They started to win on their
home stand against the Yankees the first two, and now
they've lost three of the last four with the Yankees
and Matts here in town. So that's a lot of
mailboxhead New York types in Dodger Stadium having a great
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time enjoying themselves.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Do people panic even though you're a great baseball team,
do people panic similarly to how they panic in Seattle,
because like, if the Mariners go through a three game
losing streak like they they will never win a game again,
according to Mariner fans.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
And because the people have seen it, right, they've seen
the team fall to pieces. Yeah, we like to call
it the Panic Brothers. On the Petres and Money Show,
Matt and I become the Panic Brothers and hit the button.
And I don't know if it's valid or not. And
when it comes to the Dodgers, even though they've had
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some pretty humiliating early exit in the last six or
seven years in the nl DS and Atlanta and the NLCS,
the NLDS was the Nationals, the Padres and the d Backs,
you know, all teams that they dominated during the regular season,
especially the ones in division. So people have seen that
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kind of stuff happen, and we would like to hit
the panic button and say this is terrible. And I mean,
but even you know, they end up winning one hundred
games a year, ninety plus. And when you put on
real baseball analysts like your John Hayman types or Eric
Carros or Brett Boone, you know, guys like that, you
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put those guys on and you say, my god, the
Dodgers have lost three or four. What are we gonna do?
We're all gonna die, And they tell you, you know, relax, guy,
it's all you know. And I know that it's true
as well, Like I know that there's you can't you
can't freak out when there's that many games. In the
world of Major League Baseball, the grind and the long
(04:03):
form of the season is really what shapes a champion.
I know all those things, but the people that are
standing there telling me to calm down, they don't have
to do a four hour freaking radio show.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's fair.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That's very I mean, you know. I mean I said
something to our new boss the other day. I was like, yeah,
Angels swept the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Here was awesome. He's like, what do you mean.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
I was like, dude, we need that, we need something
to happen so we can react to it other than hey,
the team's really good. That actually is like that Twilight
Zone episode where the guy is a gambler and he
goes to the casino and does nothing but win, right,
and it works out for him and he finds out
(04:45):
that he's in hell. Like you don't want to just
win the whole time.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know, you got to have a.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Little Absolutely, Petrol's joining us here. You know, it's say
it's OTA's for the Seahawks. And it's just another reason
why the Seahawks didn't allow the media in last week,
because this week when the media was let in, they
have to do their due diligence and report that Sam
Darnald had two interceptions in a red zone drill and
(05:12):
then all.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Hell breaks loose.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Mike McDonald is asked if there's a potential that Sam
Darnald might not be the starter. That reporter is being
called crazy by the head coach, and now it's a
national story.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
My god, is this this is where we've.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Gotten to in the NFL in June, where where two
interceptions in the first week of OTA is the biggest
story in football.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's what they want.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I mean, the NFL wants that, just like the NBA
wants their story regarding you know, whatever's happening and who's
being recruited in the offseason. Kawhi Leonard flying around being courted.
I think about DeAndre Jordan with Mark Cuban driving around
Dallas and Doc Rivers driving around you know story that
(06:00):
hijack the twenty four hour news media when you're not
actually playing is like, that's like beluga caveat. That's right
to these leagues, and the NFL is the rich getting richer. Obviously,
the interest in OTAs is amazing to me. I know that,
(06:22):
you know, there's people that follow the teams very closely
and they want it reported on. But at the same time,
these people don't understand football practice, and people really don't
understand football practice. And I'm not going to stand here
and act like I have it all figured out, because
I don't. Football practice is literally scripted by the football coaches.
(06:45):
The offense is against the defense. There's nobody else coming
in unless it's a joint practice with a different team,
and it's all scripted and it's all put out there.
I'm not saying that it's like a WWF battle. I'm
just saying it's really really hard, very difficult for anybody
(07:06):
in the media to stand on the sideline of a
football practice while they're catching up about their daughter's recital
and you know, making small talk on the sideline and
really understand, Now, if a guy throws a picky throws
a pick, I'm not trying to split hairs here, but
they don't know what they're looking at. And whenever I
go to football practice, unless I really lock in and
(07:28):
really try to talk to somebody, if somebody gives me
a script of the practice, I don't know what I'm
looking Yes, And you've.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Been in a lot more football practices than most of these.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Reporters have, right, and on the inside of them, that's right,
and all around them and in people's camps and in
people's meetings and all that, and I don't know what's
going on because it's not meant for you to know
what's going on. It really isn't. And a lot of
the time they set guys up that are losing confidence
or lacking confidence.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They set those guys up for success. You know.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
In some situation they set up the offense for success,
and some they set up the defense for success. When
you're going live in practice, usually the defense has the
advantage because they know that offense because they're on their team,
and they know it's right. I mean, you know it's so.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Look, if a guy goes out and throws five picks
a day in practice and he's totally inaccurate, there's a
problem well, and the buzz starts to be created that, hey,
this guy's not performing. It doesn't happen the first day
of OTAs or whatever the hell is going on. So
it's it's a non story. It is more of an
indicator to me what the NFL is off season wise,
(08:39):
because Sam Darnold throws a pick and OTAs became a
national story and so few people really like how many
people were out there when he threw the pick?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
What was he wearing? You know? Was there a pass rush?
Was he eluding something like?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
What was going? No one even knows, you know? What
was the drill? Red zone drill? Was it seven on seven?
Was it a half field type of deal? What was
it a was it a run drill? And no pads?
Like what are we talking about? And all of those
things kind of just make it more and more comical. Now,
if Sam Will could Sam Donald struggle, sure he could.
(09:17):
He struggled before on an NFL team. I happen to
really like Sam Donald, and I hope he has a
great turnaround or his great turnaround continues.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I should say, but uh yeah, I don't think it's
much of a story.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
But I think overreacting to anything that happens in a
football practice other than a guy getting injured or a
guy getting his jaw broken in a fight is pretty
pretty silly.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well, we certainly have a different vibe at head coach
now than we did, and we just got another example
of that yesterday when evidently this was this was also
reported by the by the crack media here that Mike
McDonald got mad at his team because they were competing
too hard. Could you imagine your guy Pete saying that
(10:01):
he's angry at his team because they're competing too hard
in an Ota?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, no, no, I could not imagine.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I could imagine Pete getting angry if they competing too
hard against him when he's trying to act like he's
the quarterback.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But I.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Know, and look, people get excited when you play football
and you're not in pads for months and months, and
you have all this bravado and testosterone, and you've been
training and training and training to go out there and
move around like a football player, and they give you
the opportunity, that first opportunity. In high school we call it,
(10:40):
you know, spring football. In college, we call it spring football.
In the NFL is shorter and a lot less violent,
and it's called OTAs. And from what I understand, they're
only in helmets, right, that's all you Yeah, So when
you're only in a helmet, that's you know, you feel lighter,
(11:01):
and you feel like you feel like you could jump
over a car, and you get out on the field
and you really do feel electric and you're excited to
be out there. You're excited to be with your teammates,
and it's the Hope Springs, Eternal New Year, all that stuff.
So I understand exactly what he's saying. Pete would never
(11:22):
use that terminology. Pete would say, look, we got to
tone it down when we're not in full pads and
things of that nature. But I'm pretty sure that's what
coach means. When we're not in full pads, we can't
go at each other like we are, no matter how
excited we are to be back on the football field.
And it really goes to a very interesting chemistry experiment
(11:44):
in the world of football because when the actual season comes,
or when you're in camp and you're really starting to compete,
compete for positions, compete for playing time and all that
different stuff. You know, you hear coaches say right all
the time if there's a fight in practice or something. Hey,
we want these guys right on the edge, you know,
right on the edge. And that's the truth. They want
(12:05):
you right on the edge of exploding into anger and violence,
and that is preparing most of your football team for battle.
So I understand exactly what he's saying, but it is
an interesting juxtaposition considering the win forever mentality.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yes, that's right, which exists in Vegas. Now do yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm listening to Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Did you see did you see the video today from
Pete chopping you chopping on the gum white wide receiver gloves,
Monarchs on the feet Khaki's on and then he runs
up and literally like does the people's elbow on an
unwitting offensive lineman who is stretching on the ground.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Isn't it fun? Isn't it so much fun? Got he
so much?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I was just cracking. You will find that on the
internet and you will get a chuckle out of it.
Petro's joining us, So our.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Long national nightmare is over. Aaron Rodgers is a Pittsburgh Steeler. Petros,
what do you.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Think, Well, I mean, I guess you figured that they
had a wink and a smile and a long standing
understanding throughout the whole summer. And it's the same thing
we talked about, I think last week, which is.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The older guys they really want to do less and
less and less.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
That's right when it comes to the season, and fair enough,
it's excruciating. It's td a toweringly tedious to get ready
for a football season, and I can't imagine doing it
after ten twelve years at the NFL level, and guys
that played tight end in different stuff like that, they
(13:37):
have the luxury of taking more time off. If a
quarterback tries to get out for a little while, like
Brady did when he was going through his divorce, no
matter how old he is, it's a problem. If you're
the quarterback, you got to be there. So I guess
this is about as far as Rogers could have gone
without disturbing the continuity anymore. He'll get in there for
(14:01):
proper camp and learn their offense and we'll see what
the Steelers can do with him at quarterback. It should
be very interesting, it could be, and maybe I predict
if his body holds up like the Brett Favre seasons
in Minnesota, which were really really really productive and dizzying
as far as the coverage went from the NFL, and
(14:23):
they just washed him up every day until his body
finally gave out in the playoffs, if I remember correctly,
So I.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Think they'll be good.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I think that maybe the drama around it that he
had not signed was something that everybody around the situation
new was just going to be temporary and that he
was going to end up there, So good for him.
We'll see what happens. I can't wait to see his
weekly spot.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I'll tell you, Yes, yep, Pat McAfee again for another
for another year, I'm sure. But hey, Petros, before you
let you go, are you excited for our small market
matchup in the NBA Finals?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I mean around here, we just wait for Lebron to
do something to put himself in the media cycle, and
he will, don't worry. But for the most part, I'm
excited to see. Indiana's a great basketball state, a great
basketball culture. Rick Carlisle's proven himself to be a great
basketball coach for all kinds of different people and all
(15:25):
kinds of different circumstances, so that's impressive. And of course
OKC is really impressive. I know that there's a real
chip on the shoulder of the people of Seattle about
Oklahoma City. But you know, Oklahoma is the twentieth largest
television market and they do a great job supporting their teams.
I got to be honest, I mean, not to divert
(15:46):
it because I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I mean, I don't really want to be like.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Oh, they're awesome out there with Hart and Starn. I
love Hawley Fussel, you know. I mean one of the
stuff you hear on TV or just you know, kind
of comes to you when you're watching the games.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But I will say, like in regards.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
To Oklahoma, the state of Oklahoma, and I've traveled all around,
and I played college football at a blue blood program,
which we would be considered a blue blood program nationally.
USC To me, Washington's a blue blood program. But I
think you get to have a hard time getting people
on the East Coast to recognize that. But but I've
(16:22):
been all around. I've never called a game in a horseshoe,
but I've been to the Big House and all these
other places, and I have to say, you know, Texas
and all that, I have to a Notre Dame but
I think the team that celebrates their history the best
and understands how to celebrate their program the best within
(16:44):
the context of a game, week of a game, of
a production of the game, you know, down to the
statues outside the building.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Is the Oklahoma Sooners.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
I all class, I'd like to go to a game there.
I've been in Nebraska. I've never been to Oklahoma.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Nebraska is great, and Nebraska is similar, but Oklahoma to me,
and I've done a game in Lincoln, too, but Oklahoma
to me is I mean, they just haven't figured out.
I wish my alma mater had twenty percent of what
they have figured out on how to promote their program,
how to celebrate their program, how to make everybody feel
(17:23):
part of the program. I mean, just down to the
idiot color analyst. I mean in their hotel room. When
you stay there, the athletic director writes a note to
you about how great it is to have you in Norman.
They give you a chocolate that's the shape of the state.
You know, a hat for your kid.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You know.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You know that the ad comes in the booth before
the game starts, and you know gives you three four
minutes of his time.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And smile.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
I mean, they really know what they're doing. That's cool,
and you know, and and still Water they do a
great job too. Gundy is a wild man, but when
you get into his little fiefdom, it's cool too, you know.
So what I guess what I'm saying is Oklahoma is
a great sports place, and it's a great place for
that NBA team despite the terrible things that happened with
(18:13):
the Sonics. Obviously shouldn't have happened, and the people of
Seattle didn't deserve that. But that doesn't mean the people
of Oklahoma don't do a great job with that franchise,
because because they really, they really do. And I kind
of see it through the prism of my time spending
Norman and still Water and it's just they do a
good job with their sports.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I'm glad I'm here to hear you say that. And
not Softy, because he'd be freaking puking right.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
One time I told him to give me a Starbucks
because I was sleepy, and he almost kicked me in
the face out of his car.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Even know what he was talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I bet he always a pleasure, my friend. Maybe we'll
talk again next week, who knows.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I hope not.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I mean not that I mean I like talking to you, Dick,
but I feel bad for soft time. You know, you
come back on vacation, champing at the bit to get
on the air, and now you sound like you know
you swallowed every cigarette button.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Grease you might have. You never know, never know what
happens over there.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Thanks Petro's thanks Dick, having you bet.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Petros Papadaka is our friend here on ninety three point
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