March 12, 2025 • 20 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the Seahawks signing USC’s old quarterback Sam Darnold plus his history and family in California and the war of words between LeBron James and Stephen A. Smith.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analysts
Petros Papa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Nakasnop that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
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Now with Petros, Peer's, Dave's Softy Muller.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Alrighty, boys and girls, here we go the moments, the
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Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hey, we got Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Forty one yards.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
You know where that came from, don't you.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's the first thing I thought of right here.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
First touchdown, good time looking deep downfield into.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The end zone.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Touchdown Jacks, Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Sam Darnold out of San Clemente?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Is that right? San Clemente. He's our guy, He's our guy.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
What do you want to know? First of all, was
that a preseason game or a regular season game?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Call this Sam Donald?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
What time? That was a regular season game? I believe?
Let me hear the whole Hang.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
On, Sam Donald, good time looking deep downfield into.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The end zone.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Touchdown Jacks, Robbie Anderson. And the first TV T Sam
Donald's career goes forty one yards.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Forty one yards, that's the first thing I thought of.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I gotta be honest, Sam Donald, time, what do you
want to talk about him? You know him better than
I do. The Trojan He's in the Trojan family.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
He really is.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
After and Caleb Williams was here and then he kind
of disappeared, right, I mean he he came from Oklahoma,
They talked about him doing his nails, he cried in
his mother's bosom, and then he was in Chicago. He
won a Heisman and certainly made Lincoln Riley look great
for about a year and a half. But Caleb Williams,
(03:03):
I mean, yeah, he was a USC quarterback. Yeah he's
a Heisman winner, right, But it really feels like since
the Pete Carroll era, Sam Donald is really one of.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The last really great USC just players.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know there's other guys Dory Jason, Suic Craven's and all.
That doesn't sound like you put Caleb in the same
category of the Trojan family as you do.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Sam Donald. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I think maybe I should, But they haven't done much
to endear themselves to the the ex players people like me,
or the or the alums, you know, the Lincoln Riley
era that we could talk more about that a little while.
They just hired a GM to kind of fill in
the gaps.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah, I saw that. It's whose son.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Got the job? Somebody's son that we know. Jim Bowden.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, Jim Bowden's son, right, Jim was on the air
with us like two weeks ago. I mean, I get it.
Caleb's a transfer. He wasn't a trojan through and through.
Sam Donald was a trojan, played at USC, never left,
and then became the number three pick in the draft, right, Yeah,
And it was it was also that he just kind
of emerged and the way he emerged and how he emerged,
(04:13):
and just his athletic ability, his strength. The pocket would
close in and he'd literally like jump up and throw
the ball at a jump pass. He did some amazing things.
And you know me, I'm not easily impressed. We watched
college football for a living, and I was at He
was everything I wanted Jake Locker to be.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Wow, if that makes do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
As a college player, he was every like and he
would come back and will the team to victory. And
his biggest victory was in a Rose Bowl against James
Franklin's Penn State team Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, the shootout, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And they ended up winning that game because he made
some unbelievable plays. So there's that part of it. He's
from San Clemente, which is the oldest, one of the
oldest communities in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's a really really local surf.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Community that does not have any luxury hotels in it,
even though it's one of those coastal towns, and that
kind of changes the personality of San Clemente. It's right
on the border at the edge of Orange County, the
last stop before Camp Pendleton and then you get into
San Diego if you know your way, all the way
(05:32):
down the five Freeway. So that's where he's from. They
have a whole moniker there, one town, one team, and
the San Clemente Triton's very proud high school football program
and very much kind of not transfer laden. They're all
pulling the same oars from within the town, which is
(05:54):
really interesting. The fact that he came from that is cool.
And Dick Hammer is his grandfather. Do you know who
Dick Hammer was?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
What's his name again? Dick Hammer?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Richard Bernard Hammer is maybe even more famous than yeah,
a famous. He was the Marlboro Man. He was an
emergency he was a big time volleyball star.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
And that's his grandfather.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's his wow grandfather. Okay, gotcha, and he died a.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Lung cancer around the turn of the century.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, well he endorsed Marlborough. Yeah, well freaking Marlboro man exactly.
I mean, not surprising, but yeah, but he was an
absolute star and his daughter, one of his daughters, well,
Sam's mom was a record holding a volleyball player at
(06:51):
Rhode Island. So I mean, they have a great athletic
pedigree in the family. I love the high school program
that came from and their vibe, and I love him
as a player. I love that his head looks like
a juiced up version of the bad guy and toy story.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
He's got he's got some perfect analogy, by the.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Way, and got he's got my endorsement. And you know,
I know football is so situational in nature, and it
goes to show.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I mean, the Jets.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'm reluctant to say, wow, that's a poorly run NFL franchise,
but you look at what the Jets have put out
there year in and year out, and it just seems
like they're unable to develop their own quarterback talent or
deal with somebody else's Aaron Rodgers. So maybe that and
Carolina was a bad situation. And you just see, he
(07:50):
found a good situation and the circumstance of football finally
shined upon him. And he's got this hundred million dollar contract.
So I wish him all all the luck in the
world in Seattle. I hope he has a good career. Well,
Pete got you know what Pete got, Gino? You saw
that Geno? Right, How do you think Pete will deal
with Gino down there? Well, I mean, I think that
(08:11):
the general consensus was if you wanted a more sure
thing as as a quarterback in the veteran market as
far as free agents go, that was going to be Geno,
right or not free agents or trade or whatever, right
a right, that was going to be Geno Smith because
of his maturity, his ability, his kind of I guess
(08:36):
he's got the miles on the tires where he's been
a few different places, and you're you're going to have
to have I mean, you're competing against Justin Herbert and
Patrick Mahomes and so on, U Bo Nicks, who's really
emerged and so on and so forth in that in
that division. So it's not going to be easy. So
(08:56):
they have to have a trigger man who's able to
do with those guys. And I think Geno's proven that
he's a viable NFL starting quarterback under Pete Carroll, So
why not?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Hey, how much how much have you feel sorry for you?
For us?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
How much have you talked about this Lebron stephen A
Smith's spat.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
On your shop?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Not too much, you know, because then it's like an
ESPN generated content and all that.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
But I mean, you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Don't want to help ESPN out with their huge numbers.
And then look, I met stephen A. Smith, I don't
know what was it twenty twenty years ago on the
sideline of a USC game, right, And I wasn't yelling
at him.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
About anything, right, but.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
He had the two bodyguards standing right there yeast, And.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I was like, why does this guy need a bodyguard?
And how many years ago?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It was like twenty years Yeah, he wouldn't need a bodyguard.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Then that too, on the sideline of the LA Coliseum.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You must have listened to too many rap albums from
l A, you know, back in the day. But yeah,
I was. I was befuddled.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Obviously, he is a very, very prevalent sports personality to
where he makes ten million dollars a year and all that,
so twenty million dollars whatever it is, so far be
it for me to criticize anything he does because.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Obviously he knows what he's doing. I guess, uh.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And the way he immerses himself in the makes himself
part of the story. I mean he shows up at
nick games in a suit like he's playing, like he
does like a tunnel walk in like a cool suit.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Yeah, they record that, put it on social media.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah arrived.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I don't know if it's tongue in cheek or if
he really takes himself seriously. Feels like he takes himself
really seriously.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I think he believes he's a big damn deal.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, somebody gives you twenty million dollars a year to
go out there and say clearly a bunch of times
and yeah, sure, but you know a lot of guys
that make a lot of money that don't have egos
like that or I don't know. I mean, when you
get to that point, I don't know. The answer, I
guess is no, who's the biggest egomaniac you ever worked with?
By the way, off the top of your head or
hung around. And I mean you used to say on
(11:09):
Todd Graham would look in a mirror and say you're
the coach of the year. Only an egomaniac does something
like that. Yeah, I think you run into a lot
of those in broadcasting, people that take their job, that
think their job is like signing the Magna Carta or something.
But you know, in this, in this case, like I
hate it really takes a Lebron James to make Stephen A.
(11:31):
Smith a sympathetic figure in my eyes right in this
in this context, because it's just so stupid. It's like
you shoehorn your kid into the league and then no
one's allowed to say anything about it.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And if you say something about it, you're attacking his son.
It's like, no, Stephen, he said it right, It's very simple. No,
I'm talking about you. I'm talking about what you did
with your power and it's annoying. Look, any of these
and we've talked about it on your air. Any of
these guys that make a bunch of money, Colin Cowherd,
steven A, whatever, they if they say something bad about Lebron,
(12:08):
they get a call from Lebron's people, Lebron has the biggest,
most sensitive rabbit ears in the history of sports. And
for every great thing that Lebron has done on the
court and off the court and his whole career, there's
almost something equally as unsavory to knock him down a peg,
(12:30):
as far as the way he plays, the way he
manipulates rosters, the way they get coaches fired, if his
whole career and all of the things that he's done,
as far as creating super teams, being an a hole
doing that, I mean, it just goes on and on.
If all of that stuff is just a ploy to
(12:52):
be mentioned along with Michael Jordan and be the greatest
of all time and even said that he was because
he made that block against the Warriors in the NBA Finals,
then he is an absol. He's as much of a
failure as Megan Markle is as a royal. If Lebron James,
if all of this was orchestrated, this new March injury
(13:15):
to go allegedly get his HG eight shots in Germany
once a year before the big playoff push, if all
of this has been done to try to put him
up there in the constellations of the stars of the
mythological figures and make him greater than Michael Jordan than
he has failed in the most miserable fashion that you
(13:38):
could ever imagine. Oh God, and every move he makes,
every strategic movie makes beyond just going out and being
a great basketball player, makes it worse and worse, and
just it's just stupid. But he must, he must be
incredibly dumb. I mean, honestly, I love how much you
(14:00):
can't stand Lebron. I just I despise the media manipulation.
If you're if you're the greatest of all time, then
who cares what anybody says about you?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And why do you have to tell people that you are?
And you know the truth is that you're not, and
that we have to sit here and live immersed in
this swamp of Lebron news. I mean, they gave us
his other son as a five star recruit with with
a scholarship to the University of Arizona, and he doesn't
(14:33):
even start on his high school basketball team. He doesn't
even start. He's a five star.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
How could he be a five star and not he's
not a five star?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well, well, he's got and Bronnie James was a McDonald's
All America. And that is not right. That was not right.
He wasn't even the best player in his league. He
wasn't even the best player on his team. He was
like the third option on his own team. And yet
he's seven times better than the other one. And the
other one's a five star recruit. Tired of the live softy,
(15:06):
that's all. Tired of the life.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I love it, Never change, never give up the fight. Ever, ever, ever,
there's one thing we can count on. It's Petros and
his disdain for Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And I love it. Not even that, I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Just embrace it, man, Come, it's not even that. I
just it's the medium manipulent.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I got it. I got it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And how about you know, read a couple pages into
the book before you bring it out on a into
a press conference with you. Nobody wants to see a
straight spined, unopened book about Malcolm Max And then we're
gonna supposed to act like your w E B D boys.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh god, hey, Uh Petro's papadotas with us on the air,
courtesy issweet James dot com.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Uh what the hell is this? Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Rich Rodriguez is banning as players from dancing on TikTok thing.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Why can't he do that? I don't know. He should
be able to do whatever he wants. Well, yeah, West Virginia,
for god sake.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And realize that people dancing on TikTok was a thing
among high school and college kids.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
He didn't like that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
He wants no dancing, no waving your puzza around on
TikTok after the game.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Did you get your daughter a phone yet?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
By the way, speaking of toll.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
No, Ok, she's lucky she's not sent to boarding Schoolstand.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You know, she's nine, and it's like you want to
act all hard and act all grown up and like
put on makeup and do all this weird stuff. Wow,
you know, and then do you want to act like
a baby? You know, when people get mad at you,
it's like, where's the middle ground? You know, how about
acting like a nine year old, not a two year old,
not a thirty year old, a nine year old.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, she is nine, and you know you got to
give her a break. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
God feels like a pain of the ass over there.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Everything's a pain of the ass, softie. What else is
bugging for people like me that are neuro divergent. How
about Fletcher, He's a good kid. Yes, my kids are
wonderful kids, except your kids. But my kids are a.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Lot like me.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
When I was growing up and I was the worst.
I was the worst person that ever lived. I recognize
so many things that I used to do and be
like in my kids that I am constantly reminded and
humiliated by what a terrible person I.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Was growing up. And I try to convey to my children.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Listen, I don't want you to have to scream and
yell on AM radio to make a living, you know,
I want I want you to be a responsible member
of society' not a worthless sack. I get it, Hey, man,
I feel like that every day in this You know,
are you kid me?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
God?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
You do realize how little we offer society in this?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Trust me? The older I get Yeah, I mean I
used to be impressed with myself.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
That in thousand you know I'm on the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Now you go to places like radio in the Super Bowl,
surrounded by vermin, you realize what a bum you really are.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yes, I would rather be the Marlborough Man.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Totally and be Sam Donald's grandfather.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Whni wouldn't you Sam Donald?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Good time?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Looking deep downfield into the end zone? Touchdown Jacks Robbie Anderson.
Then the first TD T Sam Donald's career goes forty
one yards.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
You know what we underrated is so true? The first
TD woo who says throw? Who says throw like you're
throwing your voice around a church through I like the
way she says career, Yeah, career. It reminds me of footloose.
Remember John Lithgow, Oh yeah, he is practicing his sermon. God,
(18:47):
dude's like he's like, whoa, whoa, Hey was it Lori Singer?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You wrapped those skinny legs around anybody? Wouldn't you? My god?
What happened? Man? Was shet?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Holy cow?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I don of like them skinny chicks.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Really like a little pushing for the cushion.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, I guess, but you just said it wrong. But anyway,
how am I supposed to say it? You're pushing for
the pushing? There you go, okay, sorry, And nobody says
that since like nineteen eighty. Well that's because we're fifty
years old. That's why we talk like that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I still don't say that.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Does data know you like fat girls.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I think everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
On that note, we'll get out of here, all right.
Congratulations on Sam Darnold. All right, man, we'll talk in
a week. Actually, no, I'm off next Wednesday. So you
got you got Dick.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Next week, I get Dick Hammer. You got Dick Hammer.
You got Dick vane Hammer next week? All right?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Man, see you bud be trust Papadakas with us. We're
gonna break. We got a lot more to get to
on a busy Wednesday. Uh hey, free agency the new
league year, yay has begun?
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Well, yackt about it? Coming up on ninety three three
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Petros Papa.
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Nakasnop that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
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Now with Petros, Peer's, Dave's Softy Muller.
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Alrighty, boys and girls, here we go the moments, the
opportunity that at least a couple of you, I've been
waiting for a chance every single Wednesday at this time
to talk to one of the premier sports talking heads
this country has to offer one damn fine American husband
(00:54):
of the month, father of the Year, and the Prince
of pig Skin in Southern California, year one half of
the legendary highly compensated Petros and Money show in La
our friend Petros Papadacus, courtesy of the one and only
Sweet James, the dense beard of justice. Everybody knows Sweet
(01:16):
James can come through for you if you've ever been
in a car accident or a motorcycle accident. Whatever's happened,
maybe a dog bit your balls. Sweet James knows what
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Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hey, we got Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Forty one yards.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
You know where that came from, don't you.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's the first thing I thought of right here.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
First touchdown, good time looking deep downfield into.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The end zone.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Touchdown Jacks, Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Sam Darnold out of San Clemente?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Is that right? San Clemente. He's our guy, He's our guy.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
What do you want to know? First of all, was
that a preseason game or a regular season game?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Call this Sam Donald?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
What time? That was a regular season game? I believe?
Let me hear the whole Hang.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
On, Sam Donald, good time looking deep downfield into.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The end zone.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Touchdown Jacks, Robbie Anderson. And the first TV T Sam
Donald's career goes forty one yards.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Forty one yards, that's the first thing I thought of.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I gotta be honest, Sam Donald, time, what do you
want to talk about him? You know him better than
I do. The Trojan He's in the Trojan family.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
He really is.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
After and Caleb Williams was here and then he kind
of disappeared, right, I mean he he came from Oklahoma,
They talked about him doing his nails, he cried in
his mother's bosom, and then he was in Chicago. He
won a Heisman and certainly made Lincoln Riley look great
for about a year and a half. But Caleb Williams,
(03:03):
I mean, yeah, he was a USC quarterback. Yeah he's
a Heisman winner, right, But it really feels like since
the Pete Carroll era, Sam Donald is really one of.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The last really great USC just players.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know there's other guys Dory Jason, Suic Craven's and all.
That doesn't sound like you put Caleb in the same
category of the Trojan family as you do.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Sam Donald. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I think maybe I should, But they haven't done much
to endear themselves to the the ex players people like me,
or the or the alums, you know, the Lincoln Riley
era that we could talk more about that a little while.
They just hired a GM to kind of fill in
the gaps.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah, I saw that. It's whose son.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Got the job? Somebody's son that we know. Jim Bowden.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, Jim Bowden's son, right, Jim was on the air
with us like two weeks ago. I mean, I get it.
Caleb's a transfer. He wasn't a trojan through and through.
Sam Donald was a trojan, played at USC, never left,
and then became the number three pick in the draft, right, Yeah,
And it was it was also that he just kind
of emerged and the way he emerged and how he emerged,
(04:13):
and just his athletic ability, his strength. The pocket would
close in and he'd literally like jump up and throw
the ball at a jump pass. He did some amazing things.
And you know me, I'm not easily impressed. We watched
college football for a living, and I was at He
was everything I wanted Jake Locker to be.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Wow, if that makes do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
As a college player, he was every like and he
would come back and will the team to victory. And
his biggest victory was in a Rose Bowl against James
Franklin's Penn State team Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, the shootout, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And they ended up winning that game because he made
some unbelievable plays. So there's that part of it. He's
from San Clemente, which is the oldest, one of the
oldest communities in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It's a really really local surf.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Community that does not have any luxury hotels in it,
even though it's one of those coastal towns, and that
kind of changes the personality of San Clemente. It's right
on the border at the edge of Orange County, the
last stop before Camp Pendleton and then you get into
San Diego if you know your way, all the way
(05:32):
down the five Freeway. So that's where he's from. They
have a whole moniker there, one town, one team, and
the San Clemente Triton's very proud high school football program
and very much kind of not transfer laden. They're all
pulling the same oars from within the town, which is
(05:54):
really interesting. The fact that he came from that is cool.
And Dick Hammer is his grandfather. Do you know who
Dick Hammer was?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
What's his name again? Dick Hammer?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Richard Bernard Hammer is maybe even more famous than yeah,
a famous. He was the Marlboro Man. He was an
emergency he was a big time volleyball star.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
And that's his grandfather.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's his wow grandfather. Okay, gotcha, and he died a.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Lung cancer around the turn of the century.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, well he endorsed Marlborough. Yeah, well freaking Marlboro man exactly.
I mean, not surprising, but yeah, but he was an
absolute star and his daughter, one of his daughters, well,
Sam's mom was a record holding a volleyball player at
(06:51):
Rhode Island. So I mean, they have a great athletic
pedigree in the family. I love the high school program
that came from and their vibe, and I love him
as a player. I love that his head looks like
a juiced up version of the bad guy and toy story.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
He's got he's got some perfect analogy, by the.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Way, and got he's got my endorsement. And you know,
I know football is so situational in nature, and it
goes to show.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I mean, the Jets.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'm reluctant to say, wow, that's a poorly run NFL franchise,
but you look at what the Jets have put out
there year in and year out, and it just seems
like they're unable to develop their own quarterback talent or
deal with somebody else's Aaron Rodgers. So maybe that and
Carolina was a bad situation. And you just see, he
(07:50):
found a good situation and the circumstance of football finally
shined upon him. And he's got this hundred million dollar contract.
So I wish him all all the luck in the
world in Seattle. I hope he has a good career. Well,
Pete got you know what Pete got, Gino? You saw
that Geno? Right, How do you think Pete will deal
with Gino down there? Well, I mean, I think that
(08:11):
the general consensus was if you wanted a more sure
thing as as a quarterback in the veteran market as
far as free agents go, that was going to be Geno,
right or not free agents or trade or whatever, right
a right, that was going to be Geno Smith because
of his maturity, his ability, his kind of I guess
(08:36):
he's got the miles on the tires where he's been
a few different places, and you're you're going to have
to have I mean, you're competing against Justin Herbert and
Patrick Mahomes and so on, U Bo Nicks, who's really
emerged and so on and so forth in that in
that division. So it's not going to be easy. So
(08:56):
they have to have a trigger man who's able to
do with those guys. And I think Geno's proven that
he's a viable NFL starting quarterback under Pete Carroll, So
why not?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Hey, how much how much have you feel sorry for you?
For us?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
How much have you talked about this Lebron stephen A
Smith's spat.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
On your shop?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Not too much, you know, because then it's like an
ESPN generated content and all that.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
But I mean, you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Don't want to help ESPN out with their huge numbers.
And then look, I met stephen A. Smith, I don't
know what was it twenty twenty years ago on the
sideline of a USC game, right, And I wasn't yelling
at him.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
About anything, right, but.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
He had the two bodyguards standing right there yeast, And.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I was like, why does this guy need a bodyguard?
And how many years ago?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It was like twenty years Yeah, he wouldn't need a bodyguard.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Then that too, on the sideline of the LA Coliseum.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You must have listened to too many rap albums from
l A, you know, back in the day. But yeah,
I was. I was befuddled.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Obviously, he is a very, very prevalent sports personality to
where he makes ten million dollars a year and all that,
so twenty million dollars whatever it is, so far be
it for me to criticize anything he does because.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Obviously he knows what he's doing. I guess, uh.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And the way he immerses himself in the makes himself
part of the story. I mean he shows up at
nick games in a suit like he's playing, like he
does like a tunnel walk in like a cool suit.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Yeah, they record that, put it on social media.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah arrived.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I don't know if it's tongue in cheek or if
he really takes himself seriously. Feels like he takes himself
really seriously.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I think he believes he's a big damn deal.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, somebody gives you twenty million dollars a year to
go out there and say clearly a bunch of times
and yeah, sure, but you know a lot of guys
that make a lot of money that don't have egos
like that or I don't know. I mean, when you
get to that point, I don't know. The answer, I
guess is no, who's the biggest egomaniac you ever worked with?
By the way, off the top of your head or
hung around. And I mean you used to say on
(11:09):
Todd Graham would look in a mirror and say you're
the coach of the year. Only an egomaniac does something
like that. Yeah, I think you run into a lot
of those in broadcasting, people that take their job, that
think their job is like signing the Magna Carta or something.
But you know, in this, in this case, like I
hate it really takes a Lebron James to make Stephen A.
(11:31):
Smith a sympathetic figure in my eyes right in this
in this context, because it's just so stupid. It's like
you shoehorn your kid into the league and then no
one's allowed to say anything about it.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And if you say something about it, you're attacking his son.
It's like, no, Stephen, he said it right, It's very simple. No,
I'm talking about you. I'm talking about what you did
with your power and it's annoying. Look, any of these
and we've talked about it on your air. Any of
these guys that make a bunch of money, Colin Cowherd,
steven A, whatever, they if they say something bad about Lebron,
(12:08):
they get a call from Lebron's people, Lebron has the biggest,
most sensitive rabbit ears in the history of sports. And
for every great thing that Lebron has done on the
court and off the court and his whole career, there's
almost something equally as unsavory to knock him down a peg,
(12:30):
as far as the way he plays, the way he
manipulates rosters, the way they get coaches fired, if his
whole career and all of the things that he's done,
as far as creating super teams, being an a hole
doing that, I mean, it just goes on and on.
If all of that stuff is just a ploy to
(12:52):
be mentioned along with Michael Jordan and be the greatest
of all time and even said that he was because
he made that block against the Warriors in the NBA Finals,
then he is an absol. He's as much of a
failure as Megan Markle is as a royal. If Lebron James,
if all of this was orchestrated, this new March injury
(13:15):
to go allegedly get his HG eight shots in Germany
once a year before the big playoff push, if all
of this has been done to try to put him
up there in the constellations of the stars of the
mythological figures and make him greater than Michael Jordan than
he has failed in the most miserable fashion that you
(13:38):
could ever imagine. Oh God, and every move he makes,
every strategic movie makes beyond just going out and being
a great basketball player, makes it worse and worse, and
just it's just stupid. But he must, he must be
incredibly dumb. I mean, honestly, I love how much you
(14:00):
can't stand Lebron. I just I despise the media manipulation.
If you're if you're the greatest of all time, then
who cares what anybody says about you?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And why do you have to tell people that you are?
And you know the truth is that you're not, and
that we have to sit here and live immersed in
this swamp of Lebron news. I mean, they gave us
his other son as a five star recruit with with
a scholarship to the University of Arizona, and he doesn't
(14:33):
even start on his high school basketball team. He doesn't
even start. He's a five star.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
How could he be a five star and not he's
not a five star?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well, well, he's got and Bronnie James was a McDonald's
All America. And that is not right. That was not right.
He wasn't even the best player in his league. He
wasn't even the best player on his team. He was
like the third option on his own team. And yet
he's seven times better than the other one. And the
other one's a five star recruit. Tired of the live softy,
(15:06):
that's all. Tired of the life.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I love it, Never change, never give up the fight. Ever, ever, ever,
there's one thing we can count on. It's Petros and
his disdain for Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
And I love it. Not even that, I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Just embrace it, man, Come, it's not even that. I
just it's the medium manipulent.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I got it. I got it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And how about you know, read a couple pages into
the book before you bring it out on a into
a press conference with you. Nobody wants to see a
straight spined, unopened book about Malcolm Max And then we're
gonna supposed to act like your w E B D boys.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh god, hey, Uh Petro's papadotas with us on the air,
courtesy issweet James dot com.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Uh what the hell is this? Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Rich Rodriguez is banning as players from dancing on TikTok thing.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Why can't he do that? I don't know. He should
be able to do whatever he wants. Well, yeah, West Virginia,
for god sake.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And realize that people dancing on TikTok was a thing
among high school and college kids.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
He didn't like that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
He wants no dancing, no waving your puzza around on
TikTok after the game.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Did you get your daughter a phone yet?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
By the way, speaking of toll.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
No, Ok, she's lucky she's not sent to boarding Schoolstand.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You know, she's nine, and it's like you want to
act all hard and act all grown up and like
put on makeup and do all this weird stuff. Wow,
you know, and then do you want to act like
a baby? You know, when people get mad at you,
it's like, where's the middle ground? You know, how about
acting like a nine year old, not a two year old,
not a thirty year old, a nine year old.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, she is nine, and you know you got to
give her a break. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
God feels like a pain of the ass over there.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Everything's a pain of the ass, softie. What else is
bugging for people like me that are neuro divergent. How
about Fletcher, He's a good kid. Yes, my kids are
wonderful kids, except your kids. But my kids are a.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Lot like me.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
When I was growing up and I was the worst.
I was the worst person that ever lived. I recognize
so many things that I used to do and be
like in my kids that I am constantly reminded and
humiliated by what a terrible person I.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Was growing up. And I try to convey to my children.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Listen, I don't want you to have to scream and
yell on AM radio to make a living, you know,
I want I want you to be a responsible member
of society' not a worthless sack. I get it, Hey, man,
I feel like that every day in this You know,
are you kid me?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
God?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
You do realize how little we offer society in this?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Trust me? The older I get Yeah, I mean I
used to be impressed with myself.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
That in thousand you know I'm on the radio.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Now you go to places like radio in the Super Bowl,
surrounded by vermin, you realize what a bum you really are.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yes, I would rather be the Marlborough Man.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Totally and be Sam Donald's grandfather.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Whni wouldn't you Sam Donald?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Good time?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Looking deep downfield into the end zone? Touchdown Jacks Robbie Anderson.
Then the first TD T Sam Donald's career goes forty
one yards.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
You know what we underrated is so true? The first
TD woo who says throw? Who says throw like you're
throwing your voice around a church through I like the
way she says career, Yeah, career. It reminds me of footloose.
Remember John Lithgow, Oh yeah, he is practicing his sermon. God,
(18:47):
dude's like he's like, whoa, whoa, Hey was it Lori Singer?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You wrapped those skinny legs around anybody? Wouldn't you? My god?
What happened? Man? Was shet?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Holy cow?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I don of like them skinny chicks.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Really like a little pushing for the cushion.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well, I guess, but you just said it wrong. But anyway,
how am I supposed to say it? You're pushing for
the pushing? There you go, okay, sorry, And nobody says
that since like nineteen eighty. Well that's because we're fifty
years old. That's why we talk like that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I still don't say that.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Does data know you like fat girls.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I think everybody knows.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
On that note, we'll get out of here, all right.
Congratulations on Sam Darnold. All right, man, we'll talk in
a week. Actually, no, I'm off next Wednesday. So you
got you got Dick.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Next week, I get Dick Hammer. You got Dick Hammer.
You got Dick vane Hammer next week? All right?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Man, see you bud be trust Papadakas with us. We're
gonna break. We got a lot more to get to
on a busy Wednesday. Uh hey, free agency the new
league year, yay has begun?
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Well, yackt about it? Coming up on ninety three three
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