December 17, 2024 • 34 mins
Dan thinks the NBA needs to make some changes if they don’t want to fall off America’s sports landscape. And Atlanta HC Raheem Morris is answering questions about Michael Penix Jr. after QB Kirk Cousins struggled again.
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that was a homework assignment. The Vikings over the Bears.
The Vikings now twelve and two. The Bears dropped to
four and ten. The Falcons won, but if you're a
Falcon fan, I don't think that felt like a victory.
You're now seven and seven. They're very comfortable. It feels
like with seven wins, haven't they had seven wins the
previous three seasons. The Raiders now two and twelve, and
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thankfully they didn't screw it up and win a game.
But two and twelve, still in line to get the
number one overall pick. But fifteen to nine the ending score,
Falcons over the Raiders. Other news, the Lions lost their
workhorse running back David Montgomery looks like he's done for
the year. A couple of colleges looking at Michael Vick
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that came out of nowhere, Norfolk State and Sacramento State
looking at Michael Vick. We have more on that coming up,
but tonight, it's the Cup. That's all Fritzy's been talking about.
It's the Cup.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The Bucks and the thunder for the Cup comes down
to this, Yes, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
There's a lot of money at stake as well.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Ratings are down with the NBA, and I don't know
if you can pinpoint a reason. I always go back
to if they don't care, I don't care. I think
load management has turned people away.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
If we're glued to a TV set going, I can't
wait to watch that game, and even if you do,
you don't even know who's playing. But ratings have declined,
and I know they try to spice it up with
the Cup in season tournament. You're not enticing me if
you say, hey, we're gonna have put some money at
stake here.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They don't really try hard, but now they're really going
to try hard. Therefore now I should watch much. That
doesn't work with me. I love the NBA, grown up
with the NBA, but there are times when I go,
I don't care. You don't care, and that's the feeling
I've gotten. Actually it's you don't care the players. I
don't care either, but I'll watch. No, I would watch anyway.
(03:18):
It's a good game, but just because it's for the Cup,
and I know Rob Manfred has gotten roughed up a
little bit in the media. A lot of people say,
what are you talking about with this goldennet bat? Where
you can use that anytime you want. Maybe I've Aaron Judge,
you know, he gets the bat twice in an inning
and people will go, what, oh, you know, the purity
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of the game, what are you doing? Okay, we're past that.
This is about getting eyeballs. And this is what Adam
Silver is going to have to do. At some point,
he's going to have to take a swing. He's going
to have to have a golden net bat. He's going
to have to have something that is interesting, intriguing, different,
a tune in factor. Now they've tried to do this
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with the basketball courts, and I'm fine with it. You know,
you're looking for a younger audience.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But maybe we add something to those colorful courts, you know,
maybe there's a blinking three point line, maybe there's something inside.
Like I was told during the pandemic, and I was
told by a great source that the NBA was looking
at creating courts that would resemble pinball machines so it
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would be a little bit more live. Now, I know
it sounds gimmicky, but I think you've got to get
to the point where can we keep up? Can we
keep our place in the sports landscape here? Because we've
seen sports that just fall off horse racing, boxing, they
fall off baseball, that was America's pastime, fell off the NBA.
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They're kind of trying to hold on for dear life.
The NFL is just bulldozing everybody. I get that. But
you can still maintain your place at least you hope
to on the sports ladder. But you know, the NFL
is up all the way at the top, and then
you got people down the totem pole here. What are
you going to do? What are you going to do
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when Lebron leaves? What are you going to do Lebron
steph k d leave? Are you going to trust the
game with the joker? Luca Jannis? Great players, Hall of
Fame players? But then you got guys like John Morant.
You can't trust him, wonderful talent, can't trust him. Zion
Williamson reportedly you know available if you want to trade
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for him. So you're looking at what is the future?
You know, Cooper Flag coming in like there's always going
to be you know, fresh blood in there. The question
is who is a tune in factor person. The WNBA
struck gold they got Caitlin Clark. The NBA needs somebody
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somebody like that. And I think this is where Adam
Silver is going to have to, you know, have a
golden it back type thing of swinging for some things
and trying some new things. Remember with baseball, the pitch clock.
Oh god, the base is going to be a little
bit larger. Uh, nobody complains about him. Now we actually
(06:19):
had guys who stole bases. Games were quicker, like there
seem to be more movement in the game. He's trying,
and I think that's what you want. You know, football,
it doesn't matter what they do. This commissioner can't screw
it up. Hey, we're going to do this to the kickoff. Now,
imagine if we were doing this years ago, where we said, hey,
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this is what we're doing. Even you can't touch a quarterback.
Imagine if we did that years ago. Oh, what's the
game devolved in? Oh, I don't want to watch this.
Put a skirt on him. Now we're like, no, you
got to protect them. You got to protect my homes.
Nn TUA. The kickoff, Like esthetically, when you watch it,
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it's still weird to see you're just standing there, you know,
like you know, you're guarding the queen and just standing
there until and gout and then you scra you know,
it's really silly looking.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
But the NFL can do no wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Hey, we're going to outsoort, We're sending games out of
the country they do. Hey, we're going to have you
play three games in eleven days. Okay, can't do any wrong,
doubleheaders on Monday.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know, We're like, yeah, okay. But I think with
the NBA, I.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Think we're going to have to start looking and going, Okay,
where are we going? What is the future of the NBA?
And you got to ask these hard questions. We see
what's happening in college football like it happened quick and
it's still evolving, and that's what you have to be
able to get ahead of, you know, these kind of
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decisions or these seismic shifts that you have in sports. Crazy.
But I think that's what the NBA. They're going to
have to have one of those what ifs. Hey, there's
no bad ideas here, Let's just put stuff out there
and see what can we do.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The first thing I would say is I want to
know who's playing. That's it. Are you playing? But don't
tell me, Hey, they're playing for money. Now if you
said the Bucks in Thunder had to put in their
own money. Today in the middle of the court, commissioner
brings a wheelbarrow out and says, they're playing for this money,
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and the Bucks and the Thunder put up the money. Okay,
that's interesting, not going to happen. But just because they're
playing for money doesn't mean anything to me. I want
you to play hard, not hey, we're playing hard because
we can get some money than do anything for me
other than I guess they're really trying.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's like Baseball tried back with the All Star Game
and Fox goes, nobody's watching the All Star Game? How
about home field advantage for the World Series? Silly idea,
But they were trying. I'd rather have that commissioner who's
trying to do something now. I don't want change for
the sake of change, but I do want ideas. And
(09:26):
I think we're not beholding to records anymore. It's not
like you go, oh my god, you've got the bases larger.
Well that's not the same with Ricky Henderson. We got
all that. I get that, but I think you got
to try. You got to be experimental or willing to
be flexible there. Because our attention span is getting shorter
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and shorter, you're going to flip through.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It used to be you would just watch.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, now you really have to give me a reason
why I'm watching this game. I'd like that the Bucks,
Giannis and Dame are playing well, and Doc Rivers seems
like he's going to keep his job. Okay, the Thunder
when they get Chaed Holmgren back. You know, SGA is
a really talented play Not enough for me to tune
in for that, and I love basketball, so I do
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think the NBA will have to look at something. I
wouldn't be surprised if you start to hear, hey, they're
considering this, or they'll float it out, they'll leak it
in the media and say, hey, we're thinking about this.
What and then all of a sudden we discuss it.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, Marvin, Yeah, I would have lost some money because
if we had made a bet at the end of
last year's playoffs, I would have said, Anthony Edwards is
the guy you have to hit your wagon to, just
because they had such a great run in the playoffs,
and he's such a great personality, and I don't know
what happened.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't I mean, once again, I don't go all
the Timberwolves are playing. I'm going to tune in, but
if I do tune in, I know that he'll stand out.
They're above five hundred with the Lakers. The Lakers, you
know that roster is not a winning roster. You know
they're an eight seed team. It feels like but Lebron's
going to be done in a year, Steph in maybe
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two years, KD a couple then what I mean? These
are all first ballot Hall of Famers, top fifteen players
of all time, trying to get guys nowadays who are
going to play, want to play, win championships.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The fact that Zion is available right now. I mean the.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Pelicans they almost had it, they almost did, and now
they don't have anything.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
They're terrible, They're in last place. Zion couldn't miss.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
He's going to be a star. I don't even know
if he wants to play. I don't know how much
it matters to him. John Moran's got everything until he
doesn't have anything. Anthony Edwards can be wonderful, but what
did it come down to in the Olympics, those same
three old guys. Joker's great, but he's just great to watch.
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So I don't know. I think the NBA has got
a challenge here ahead of them because the last ten
years the ratings have been going down steadily, a steady decline,
and this year not good either. And who has the
philosophy of a sport where you go, Hey, our season
starts in October, but wait till Christmas and then we're
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going to have some really good games. I'm going to
take a couple of months off. It's not a great
game plan for me if you're the commissioner. Hey, the
season starts Christmas Day. I think we all feel that way.
That's what he was trying to do this with the
NBA Cup. It's about the Cup, Todd.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's the Cup tonight. Fucks thunder for it all, for
some of it, not all of it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The Cup, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
And the NBA is in even more trouble because the
NFL's like, no, no, no, we got Christmas. Yes, they roughed
them up too, like that was their primetime. Hey, guys,
the seasons here are big matchups. We got five great
games with ten great teams and NFL is like, I guess.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You know, you know what the NFL said, Hey, we're
gonna have our guys play on like two days rest.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You guys have for it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Sure you want to play football and Christmas me away
from the family.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Sure, yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
I think after listening to everything you just said, what
really stands out to me is the NFL is always
pushing it and feeling more intense and playing more games,
and their players are playing Nobody sits out as a
healthy scratch. What bothers me about the NBA, and for
listening to talk about this for the past few minutes,
the games lack intensity, no matter they have star power.
They have lots of star power, a lot of recognizable names.
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When I tune into a game, I watch guys running
up and down, jacking threes and running back down and
jacking threes. And that's what it happens for about two hours.
There's very little intensity. I don't need fighting or punching,
but intensity of the game they feel. The games feel casual,
especially the first half of the season.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I watched the Knicks and the Hawks the other night,
and I watched most of the game and really enjoyed it.
There was a feel to it, but that's because of
Trey Young in the Garden against the Knicks, and that
is this standalone game. I'm not saying you're going to
get that all the time, but I'd like a little
bit more of that where it feels like it really
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means something to the players.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And it just feels like, hey, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
We're going to work, got to go out there, I
got to play, you know, about thirty four minutes, and
then ron to the next game. I shoot a couple
threes and then that's it. It doesn't feel and maybe
there's too many games we've talked about that, but once again,
I'm not beholden to the records the way I once was.
(15:04):
I don't know if the American public is either, But
I do think you're going to need a commissioner, and
this commercial commissioner is a very bright man to maybe
start to look at things. And I think the courts
that kind of had a shock value to it. You're like, whoa,
what's this?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Do you want to do that all season long? Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Like what the All Star Game is not worth tuning into?
Now we're tuning into what the three point shooting contest.
But we're bringing in the WNBA with the NBA and okay,
you're trying. They can't do anything with the All Star
Game unless it's the United States against you know, everybody
else in the world. Maybe that would be interesting. I
just don't know if you'd have the depth. You probably
(15:53):
have five or six really really good players from around
the around the world, and then it would be a
drastic fall off there. All right, we'll get started here.
Got a poll question, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
We may have to play an impromptu good idea, bad
idea later today where we say what we would give
an idea to Commissioner Silver. Hmm, Like let's say, like
you said, there's no bad ideas, all hands on deck.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Well he has, you know, to his credit, he has
enacted some of the things I proposed to him, and
that is, you must play a certain number of games
to qualify for postseason awards. And I think that that
does help. Like you know, you almost have to dangle
a carrot and say come on, you gotta play, gotta play.
And we took away from the positions on first, second,
(16:37):
third team.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He did that as well.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Those are two things I asked him to do basketball's positionless?
Take him off, you know, first, second, third team, and
let's have a requirement of to be eligible for postseason honors,
you got to play in a certain number of games.
Shouldn't be that way, but that's what it is, all right.
We got phone calls, settle on our poll question. We're
back after this, Dan Patrick shape.
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Speaker 3 (18:09):
We'll settle on a pole question at least for the
first hour. Get to your phone calls as well. No
stupid idea, No stupid idea Tuesday. When it comes to
the NBA, PAULI give an example to the audience of
there's no bad ideas.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
We're trying to improve the game the NBA. You may
change your mind after this one. Okay, contested dunks are
worth three points. So you take it to the lane
and dunk on someone or amongst someone, not an uncontested dunk.
It's now worth three points. Think of how that changes
the game on the floor.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
But then I won't contest it back to you. Once again,
there's smart stuff. There's no bad ideas except for we're open.
We're opening, so for contested dunks. Okay, Kirk d cousins.
In primetime. All he does is win. He has now
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thrown one touchdown nine interceptions over the last five weeks.
That's not good. It was a win and in that division,
you still have a chance at seven and seven. Raheem
Morris is the Falcons head coach. Here is the question
and his answer about his quarterback play.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Can you assess Kirk's play tonight and where you're at?
I know you guys got the dub, but in terms
of him as the starting quarterback move forward.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
He's got to play better. And you know, obviously you
got to go back. You gotta be a look at everything.
But you know, he wants to play better. He's got
to play better. We got to find a way to
get him to play better. And obviously we'll get to
work tomorrow. And that's the part of our process, right.
You go, you look at the tape, you review with
the people that needs to be reviewed with. You know,
we get all the coordinators of the room. We'll talk
with everybody, and we got to play better at the
quarterback position.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Okay, that's a word salad that meant absolutely no. So
the reporter asked the follow up question. We're just going
to play the question and then we're going to play
what would you say or how would you answer this?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So here's the question to Raheem Morris.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Are you prepared to replace them with Michael Pennix?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Okay, prepared to Todd, I'll let you be Raheem Morris,
what would you say?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Now?
Speaker 11 (20:27):
Look, guys, I think I already answered that we're rolling
with Kirk Cousins. He's our quarterback, all right, But everyone's
got to be evaluated. Everyone's got to step up. There's
a playoff spot on the line. We're going with Kirk Cousins,
but no one, no one is under the guise of
being able to just do whatever they want and just
go out there and do it.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
We're going to take it one game.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Okay, hold on, hold on, Are you evaluating everybody which
means Michael Pennix Junior gets to play, or are you
staying with Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
We're staying with Kirk Cousins, but I will say that
every position is up for grabs. There's a playoff spot
on the line. We are going to evaluate everyone, and
I mean everyone.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So b Jeon Robinson is up for grabs. After he
went over one thousand yards, he starts.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Fumbling the football or gets negative yards, there's someone right
there ready to get in there.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right, Marvin, your turn to play Raheem Morris.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Kirk Cousins is our starter right now, but anything could
change at any moment.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Okay, Paul, We're looking at all options to win football games.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I would and that's probably the best answer.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
The less you say, the better, But it's we believe
in Kirk, but we have to have all options on
the table.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Here.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
We're trying to win a division. We're not trying to
make friends. My job is to win. Here is the
question and the answer for Raheem Morris.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Are you prepared to replace them with Michael Pennox?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
You know, we got everybody in our roster for a reason, right,
We got so much to get better at and like,
those things will always be discussed.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
That's just the nature of the Beast and football.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
It's just so heavily talked about it at the quarterback
position because there's only one guy out there, you know,
so like for us man our mentality is the final
way to win the next that's just a Mentell we
ever going to have uh coach?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You didn't answer the question in any way. No, he
did a good job in avoiding it. But that's where
you say, what would it take for you to go
to Michael Pennix Junior.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yes, DoD, I've.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Already answered that we need to win football games. Okay,
we need to win football games. That's my answer.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Now. He didn't say no or that he wouldn't consider
Michael Pennix Junior. This is what I was told yesterday
as I'm watching the game and I'm kind of going
back and forth with a source, and I said, what
do you think Michael Pennix Junior's development is if they're
not even really considering him right now? And he said,
(22:42):
this is what people they make the mistake of quinn
Ewers at Texas and arch Manning. Steve Sarkesian sees quinn
Ewers every day in practice in arch Manning and knows
quinn Ewers gives him a better chance to win than
arch Manning right now. He said, the coach is there
every day. They see this every day. O see there's
something there or not there with Michael Pennix junior right now,
(23:04):
maybe and he listens to the show, so he goes
maybe they sprinkle him in. If a game is out
of reach, either they're up by a lot or they're
down by a lot, then maybe you give him a
little bit of a run. But you're in a tight
divisional race here with Tampa Bay, and you can't afford
any more slip ups if you're going to try to
(23:26):
win this division. I mean, this is incredible that the
Vikings may not win their division and they'll be on
the road for a playoff game where Atlanta or Tampa
will win that division and they'll host a playoff game,
or Green Bay is going to have a better record.
You know, this has happened before, where you have teams
that you know don't even get to ten wins, or
(23:47):
maybe they get to ten wins. You're going to have
a couple of teams that may have thirteen wins and
they're not hosting playoff games.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Yeampoland iwa was look at the Cousins situation. He's completely
under contract for a lot of money next year. Any
chance of Falcons look at what Denver did and say,
we may have to eat one year, but we already
have Michael Pennix the Dolph. The Broncos made a gutsy move.
They got ripped for that financial move, but it's working
out for the Broncos now.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
The difference is Kirk Cousins is extremely likable. Sean Payton
didn't like Russell Wilson. He didn't want him in the building.
He didn't want Russ to have his own office, you know,
all of this stuff, like he wanted him gone, he
wanted this. I'm coaching, I've got players, I don't have
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an assistant coach, and it's Russell Wilson down the hallway.
Kirk Cousins is well liked now, probably losing some respect
as far as being able to step up and play,
and he played well earlier in the season. But five games,
one touchdown, nine interceptions. That's inexcusable. But that might tell
you where Michael Pennix is in his development. Falcons next
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three games, their final three.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Games, Giants, Commanders, Panthers.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You got to win all three. You got to win
all three, and you should, or at least you got
a really good shot there. Commanders. With Kirk playing his
former team, maybe that's a big deal. But what's Tampa
final three games.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Tampa's last three games at the Cowboys hosts the Panthers
host the Saints.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, so easier schedule. Can't afford can't afford another slip
up here.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Can you put Michael Pennix Junior in now three games
to go? If they lost last night? I would. I
would put him in. If they lost fifteen to nine,
then I would if he's ready. Once again, I don't
know his development. I don't have somebody with the Falcons
(25:56):
who's saying, hey, you know, I had somebody with the
Chargers who said, hey, uh, Justin Herbert's the real deal.
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Should you put the Titans on the pole? Question of teams?
How did you phrase the pole?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Question?
Speaker 11 (27:19):
Todd Rich NFL franchise feels like it is in the
worst shape. We had the Bears, Giants, Panthers, Raiders. Now
we're thinking Browns, Jaguars, Titans should all be in the
mix for that.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, here's my question for the dan Ets, and I
ask them, do you know who the head coach of
the Titans is?
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yes, Marvin Jeff Fisher. Yes, that's the last time I
paid attention to Mike Vrabel.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yes, did they whiff on will Levis?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Todd?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Do you know the head coach of the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Mitchell Rhodes, it's not. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Mitchell Road sounds like an accountant coach Roads.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
We gotta win one here, one for coach Road.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Ray Rhoads. Paul, who's the Titans head coach?
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Not Dave Canalis. I want to show that I know
at least yes, your.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Name McGillicutty, Tommy McGillicutty.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
No, No, it's I could have told me. I got
it right, Yes, Marv.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
It's not McDonald. It's not Michael McDonald.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
He's in Seattle Jack So they got bad uniforms. Nobody
knows their head coach. They may have whiffed on Will Levis.
I put the Titans on there. Yeah, Paul, I have
(28:47):
the name.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Do you want it?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Brian Callahan there you go. That's close to McGillicutty or whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It wasn't Brian Callahan wasn't uh? Was it was it
Callahan break pads Callahan motors?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, I mean he was Tommy Callahan. I don't know
if his dad was, you know, Ryan Callahan. That's yes, yes, Tom.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Is that a relation to Bill Callahan? Can we safely
say that? Or no?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I don't know if that's I don't know if that's
his son, Bill Callahan, who was with the Raiders went
to Nebraska. Yeah, so yeah, I would put the Titans
on there, kind of like.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I don't know, nondescript.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Yes, Paul and boll Callahan was the quarterback in draft
day that they didn't want to draft.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, we had bad rap with his teammates. Yes, all right,
no bad ideas when it comes to fixing the NBA.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
No bad ideas today. Uh, let's see, is it Jaren
in Indiana?
Speaker 12 (29:56):
How's it going? DP?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Hey?
Speaker 13 (29:57):
But I got a couple of ideas for the NBA.
I know this one's kind of been mentioned already, but
I think they need to reduce the games they played
in the season. They're just too watered down and it's
hard for the fans to care if the players don't care.
And I think they should work it in with their
(30:20):
contracts as well, not only the postseason awards, but the
amount of money they make if they if they set games,
then they should lose out on money.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, well they I don't know if you can take
the money away from them, but these are all ideas
that they've already enacted. You've got to play a certain
number of games to qualify for all NBA awards.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Let's see what else do we have? Colin in New
York a Colin.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
Hey, Dan, do you ever play backball with a girl
like competitively?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (30:53):
I mean like I did when I was in the
Boys and Girls Club in fifth grade. My point guard
was a girl. She was about dribblerund on the team.
You know, it was awesome. And there's all these w
NBA stars. I mean, how like tomorrow's headlines today Sabrien
I s who outshines Lebron with triple doubble and win.
You want to watch that game?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
You know? Is it?
Speaker 12 (31:12):
Is it on YouTube? Either they got the highlights or
the full game, you know, Like, I mean, why don't
we combine these two? I mean I think after a while,
not even after a while, I think immediately I think, wait.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Wait, you want to combine the NBA and the w NBA.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (31:26):
I just think it's it's just more, it's it's great,
it's great playing, you know, like with women, you could
have like a rule, like maybe you have to have
three guys and two women on the court, you know,
on your team on the court.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Okay, once again, I did state there's no bad ideas today.
But I can't see that happening Colin. But thank you,
no bad ideas that probably wouldn't work out. Well, it's crazy,
and once again there's no bad ideas.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
Yes, hun, what if we had little white lights around
the perimeter of the basketball court, and when the lights
are either on or blinking, feel free to chuck up
as many threes as you want.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
When those lights are off, it's only twos.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Well, I said that last week of you have the
three point line lights up? I like that when it
lights up, then you get to shoot. Okay, let's putting
a lot of hours. Are you listening to me?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I guess I thought mine was a little different. My
lights were around the perimeter.
Speaker 11 (32:27):
Of the court and blinking lights when the lights are
on enough, But who has the power to decide when
you can take threes and not some guy up in
the rafters that are plugging in pressing.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
A button totally random, just on some kind of automated Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, it's you know, it's like a slot machine where
you're never sure, then all of a sudden it starts
to light up.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
What if you're in the process of taking the flight
and all of a sudden, the light goes out.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
It's like, oh, I got I released it before we
got to look at the replay.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
What do you think happens?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Lots of replay in the game next five hours.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
No, it's not a bad idea because I came up
with it last week. It's a bad idea because you
thought you came up with it this week.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Okay, fair enough. I knew I heard it somewhere. I
must have been back of my mind somewhere.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
You should listen to the show occasionally.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
It's pretty well. Listen to me that.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
What did Chris.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Myers say when we had him on many many many
years ago, Uh, I listened to your show here, it's
pretty good. Now he said, it's surprisingly good.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Thank you Chris.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
That's not a compliment.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
No, no, not that I'm waiting for a compliment from
Chris Myers. And I'm going to go, hey, you know what,
it's a decent show we got here, Thank you, Chris.
Do we have our poll? So we have our poll
question on maybe we need to keep this for the
next hour. Maurice Jones Drew is going to join us. Oh,
ask him which team feels hopeless right now?
Speaker 11 (34:02):
Bears Browns, Giants, Jags, Panthers, Raiders, Titans.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
More phone calls coming up next hour as well. It's
the Cup, todd Costs, It's the Cup.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Bucks.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Thunder tonight on ABC, all the marbles, It's for the Cup,
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that was a homework assignment. The Vikings over the Bears.
The Vikings now twelve and two. The Bears dropped to
four and ten. The Falcons won, but if you're a
Falcon fan, I don't think that felt like a victory.
You're now seven and seven. They're very comfortable. It feels
like with seven wins, haven't they had seven wins the
previous three seasons. The Raiders now two and twelve, and
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thankfully they didn't screw it up and win a game.
But two and twelve, still in line to get the
number one overall pick. But fifteen to nine the ending score,
Falcons over the Raiders. Other news, the Lions lost their
workhorse running back David Montgomery looks like he's done for
the year. A couple of colleges looking at Michael Vick
(01:57):
that came out of nowhere, Norfolk State and Sacramento State
looking at Michael Vick. We have more on that coming up,
but tonight, it's the Cup. That's all Fritzy's been talking about.
It's the Cup.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The Bucks and the thunder for the Cup comes down
to this, Yes, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
There's a lot of money at stake as well.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Ratings are down with the NBA, and I don't know
if you can pinpoint a reason. I always go back
to if they don't care, I don't care. I think
load management has turned people away.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
If we're glued to a TV set going, I can't
wait to watch that game, and even if you do,
you don't even know who's playing. But ratings have declined,
and I know they try to spice it up with
the Cup in season tournament. You're not enticing me if
you say, hey, we're gonna have put some money at
stake here.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They don't really try hard, but now they're really going
to try hard. Therefore now I should watch much. That
doesn't work with me. I love the NBA, grown up
with the NBA, but there are times when I go,
I don't care. You don't care, and that's the feeling
I've gotten. Actually it's you don't care the players. I
don't care either, but I'll watch. No, I would watch anyway.
(03:18):
It's a good game, but just because it's for the Cup,
and I know Rob Manfred has gotten roughed up a
little bit in the media. A lot of people say,
what are you talking about with this goldennet bat? Where
you can use that anytime you want. Maybe I've Aaron Judge,
you know, he gets the bat twice in an inning
and people will go, what, oh, you know, the purity
(03:38):
of the game, what are you doing? Okay, we're past that.
This is about getting eyeballs. And this is what Adam
Silver is going to have to do. At some point,
he's going to have to take a swing. He's going
to have to have a golden net bat. He's going
to have to have something that is interesting, intriguing, different,
a tune in factor. Now they've tried to do this
(03:59):
with the basketball courts, and I'm fine with it. You know,
you're looking for a younger audience.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But maybe we add something to those colorful courts, you know,
maybe there's a blinking three point line, maybe there's something inside.
Like I was told during the pandemic, and I was
told by a great source that the NBA was looking
at creating courts that would resemble pinball machines so it
(04:27):
would be a little bit more live. Now, I know
it sounds gimmicky, but I think you've got to get
to the point where can we keep up? Can we
keep our place in the sports landscape here? Because we've
seen sports that just fall off horse racing, boxing, they
fall off baseball, that was America's pastime, fell off the NBA.
(04:51):
They're kind of trying to hold on for dear life.
The NFL is just bulldozing everybody. I get that. But
you can still maintain your place at least you hope
to on the sports ladder. But you know, the NFL
is up all the way at the top, and then
you got people down the totem pole here. What are
you going to do? What are you going to do
(05:12):
when Lebron leaves? What are you going to do Lebron
steph k d leave? Are you going to trust the
game with the joker? Luca Jannis? Great players, Hall of
Fame players? But then you got guys like John Morant.
You can't trust him, wonderful talent, can't trust him. Zion
Williamson reportedly you know available if you want to trade
(05:36):
for him. So you're looking at what is the future?
You know, Cooper Flag coming in like there's always going
to be you know, fresh blood in there. The question
is who is a tune in factor person. The WNBA
struck gold they got Caitlin Clark. The NBA needs somebody
(05:57):
somebody like that. And I think this is where Adam
Silver is going to have to, you know, have a
golden it back type thing of swinging for some things
and trying some new things. Remember with baseball, the pitch clock.
Oh god, the base is going to be a little
bit larger. Uh, nobody complains about him. Now we actually
(06:19):
had guys who stole bases. Games were quicker, like there
seem to be more movement in the game. He's trying,
and I think that's what you want. You know, football,
it doesn't matter what they do. This commissioner can't screw
it up. Hey, we're going to do this to the kickoff. Now,
imagine if we were doing this years ago, where we said, hey,
(06:40):
this is what we're doing. Even you can't touch a quarterback.
Imagine if we did that years ago. Oh, what's the
game devolved in? Oh, I don't want to watch this.
Put a skirt on him. Now we're like, no, you
got to protect them. You got to protect my homes.
Nn TUA. The kickoff, Like esthetically, when you watch it,
(07:02):
it's still weird to see you're just standing there, you know,
like you know, you're guarding the queen and just standing
there until and gout and then you scra you know,
it's really silly looking.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
But the NFL can do no wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Hey, we're going to outsoort, We're sending games out of
the country they do. Hey, we're going to have you
play three games in eleven days. Okay, can't do any wrong,
doubleheaders on Monday.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know, We're like, yeah, okay. But I think with
the NBA, I.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Think we're going to have to start looking and going, Okay,
where are we going? What is the future of the NBA?
And you got to ask these hard questions. We see
what's happening in college football like it happened quick and
it's still evolving, and that's what you have to be
able to get ahead of, you know, these kind of
(08:01):
decisions or these seismic shifts that you have in sports. Crazy.
But I think that's what the NBA. They're going to
have to have one of those what ifs. Hey, there's
no bad ideas here, Let's just put stuff out there
and see what can we do.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
The first thing I would say is I want to
know who's playing. That's it. Are you playing? But don't
tell me, Hey, they're playing for money. Now if you
said the Bucks in Thunder had to put in their
own money. Today in the middle of the court, commissioner
brings a wheelbarrow out and says, they're playing for this money,
(08:43):
and the Bucks and the Thunder put up the money. Okay,
that's interesting, not going to happen. But just because they're
playing for money doesn't mean anything to me. I want
you to play hard, not hey, we're playing hard because
we can get some money than do anything for me
other than I guess they're really trying.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It's like Baseball tried back with the All Star Game
and Fox goes, nobody's watching the All Star Game? How
about home field advantage for the World Series? Silly idea,
But they were trying. I'd rather have that commissioner who's
trying to do something now. I don't want change for
the sake of change, but I do want ideas. And
(09:26):
I think we're not beholding to records anymore. It's not
like you go, oh my god, you've got the bases larger.
Well that's not the same with Ricky Henderson. We got
all that. I get that, but I think you got
to try. You got to be experimental or willing to
be flexible there. Because our attention span is getting shorter
(09:47):
and shorter, you're going to flip through.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It used to be you would just watch.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well, now you really have to give me a reason
why I'm watching this game. I'd like that the Bucks,
Giannis and Dame are playing well, and Doc Rivers seems
like he's going to keep his job. Okay, the Thunder
when they get Chaed Holmgren back. You know, SGA is
a really talented play Not enough for me to tune
in for that, and I love basketball, so I do
(10:16):
think the NBA will have to look at something. I
wouldn't be surprised if you start to hear, hey, they're
considering this, or they'll float it out, they'll leak it
in the media and say, hey, we're thinking about this.
What and then all of a sudden we discuss it.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, Marvin, Yeah, I would have lost some money because
if we had made a bet at the end of
last year's playoffs, I would have said, Anthony Edwards is
the guy you have to hit your wagon to, just
because they had such a great run in the playoffs,
and he's such a great personality, and I don't know
what happened.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't I mean, once again, I don't go all
the Timberwolves are playing. I'm going to tune in, but
if I do tune in, I know that he'll stand out.
They're above five hundred with the Lakers. The Lakers, you
know that roster is not a winning roster. You know
they're an eight seed team. It feels like but Lebron's
going to be done in a year, Steph in maybe
(11:12):
two years, KD a couple then what I mean? These
are all first ballot Hall of Famers, top fifteen players
of all time, trying to get guys nowadays who are
going to play, want to play, win championships.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The fact that Zion is available right now. I mean the.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Pelicans they almost had it, they almost did, and now
they don't have anything.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
They're terrible, They're in last place. Zion couldn't miss.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
He's going to be a star. I don't even know
if he wants to play. I don't know how much
it matters to him. John Moran's got everything until he
doesn't have anything. Anthony Edwards can be wonderful, but what
did it come down to in the Olympics, those same
three old guys. Joker's great, but he's just great to watch.
(12:14):
So I don't know. I think the NBA has got
a challenge here ahead of them because the last ten
years the ratings have been going down steadily, a steady decline,
and this year not good either. And who has the
philosophy of a sport where you go, Hey, our season
starts in October, but wait till Christmas and then we're
(12:37):
going to have some really good games. I'm going to
take a couple of months off. It's not a great
game plan for me if you're the commissioner. Hey, the
season starts Christmas Day. I think we all feel that way.
That's what he was trying to do this with the
NBA Cup. It's about the Cup, Todd.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's the Cup tonight. Fucks thunder for it all, for
some of it, not all of it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
The Cup, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
And the NBA is in even more trouble because the
NFL's like, no, no, no, we got Christmas. Yes, they roughed
them up too, like that was their primetime. Hey, guys,
the seasons here are big matchups. We got five great
games with ten great teams and NFL is like, I guess.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You know, you know what the NFL said, Hey, we're
gonna have our guys play on like two days rest.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You guys have for it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Sure you want to play football and Christmas me away
from the family.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Sure, yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
I think after listening to everything you just said, what
really stands out to me is the NFL is always
pushing it and feeling more intense and playing more games,
and their players are playing Nobody sits out as a
healthy scratch. What bothers me about the NBA, and for
listening to talk about this for the past few minutes,
the games lack intensity, no matter they have star power.
They have lots of star power, a lot of recognizable names.
(13:57):
When I tune into a game, I watch guys running
up and down, jacking threes and running back down and
jacking threes. And that's what it happens for about two hours.
There's very little intensity. I don't need fighting or punching,
but intensity of the game they feel. The games feel casual,
especially the first half of the season.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I watched the Knicks and the Hawks the other night,
and I watched most of the game and really enjoyed it.
There was a feel to it, but that's because of
Trey Young in the Garden against the Knicks, and that
is this standalone game. I'm not saying you're going to
get that all the time, but I'd like a little
bit more of that where it feels like it really
(14:36):
means something to the players.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And it just feels like, hey, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
We're going to work, got to go out there, I
got to play, you know, about thirty four minutes, and
then ron to the next game. I shoot a couple
threes and then that's it. It doesn't feel and maybe
there's too many games we've talked about that, but once again,
I'm not beholden to the records the way I once was.
(15:04):
I don't know if the American public is either, But
I do think you're going to need a commissioner, and
this commercial commissioner is a very bright man to maybe
start to look at things. And I think the courts
that kind of had a shock value to it. You're like, whoa,
what's this?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Do you want to do that all season long? Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Like what the All Star Game is not worth tuning into?
Now we're tuning into what the three point shooting contest.
But we're bringing in the WNBA with the NBA and okay,
you're trying. They can't do anything with the All Star
Game unless it's the United States against you know, everybody
else in the world. Maybe that would be interesting. I
just don't know if you'd have the depth. You probably
(15:53):
have five or six really really good players from around
the around the world, and then it would be a
drastic fall off there. All right, we'll get started here.
Got a poll question, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
We may have to play an impromptu good idea, bad
idea later today where we say what we would give
an idea to Commissioner Silver. Hmm, Like let's say, like
you said, there's no bad ideas, all hands on deck.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Well he has, you know, to his credit, he has
enacted some of the things I proposed to him, and
that is, you must play a certain number of games
to qualify for postseason awards. And I think that that
does help. Like you know, you almost have to dangle
a carrot and say come on, you gotta play, gotta play.
And we took away from the positions on first, second,
(16:37):
third team.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He did that as well.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Those are two things I asked him to do basketball's positionless?
Take him off, you know, first, second, third team, and
let's have a requirement of to be eligible for postseason honors,
you got to play in a certain number of games.
Shouldn't be that way, but that's what it is, all right.
We got phone calls, settle on our poll question. We're
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chop it up. As they say, i'd say, the most
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Speaker 3 (18:09):
We'll settle on a pole question at least for the
first hour. Get to your phone calls as well. No
stupid idea, No stupid idea Tuesday. When it comes to
the NBA, PAULI give an example to the audience of
there's no bad ideas.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
We're trying to improve the game the NBA. You may
change your mind after this one. Okay, contested dunks are
worth three points. So you take it to the lane
and dunk on someone or amongst someone, not an uncontested dunk.
It's now worth three points. Think of how that changes
the game on the floor.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
But then I won't contest it back to you. Once again,
there's smart stuff. There's no bad ideas except for we're open.
We're opening, so for contested dunks. Okay, Kirk d cousins.
In primetime. All he does is win. He has now
(19:08):
thrown one touchdown nine interceptions over the last five weeks.
That's not good. It was a win and in that division,
you still have a chance at seven and seven. Raheem
Morris is the Falcons head coach. Here is the question
and his answer about his quarterback play.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Can you assess Kirk's play tonight and where you're at?
I know you guys got the dub, but in terms
of him as the starting quarterback move forward.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
He's got to play better. And you know, obviously you
got to go back. You gotta be a look at everything.
But you know, he wants to play better. He's got
to play better. We got to find a way to
get him to play better. And obviously we'll get to
work tomorrow. And that's the part of our process, right.
You go, you look at the tape, you review with
the people that needs to be reviewed with. You know,
we get all the coordinators of the room. We'll talk
with everybody, and we got to play better at the
quarterback position.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Okay, that's a word salad that meant absolutely no. So
the reporter asked the follow up question. We're just going
to play the question and then we're going to play
what would you say or how would you answer this?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So here's the question to Raheem Morris.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Are you prepared to replace them with Michael Pennix?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Okay, prepared to Todd, I'll let you be Raheem Morris,
what would you say?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Now?
Speaker 11 (20:27):
Look, guys, I think I already answered that we're rolling
with Kirk Cousins. He's our quarterback, all right, But everyone's
got to be evaluated. Everyone's got to step up. There's
a playoff spot on the line. We're going with Kirk Cousins,
but no one, no one is under the guise of
being able to just do whatever they want and just
go out there and do it.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
We're going to take it one game.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Okay, hold on, hold on, Are you evaluating everybody which
means Michael Pennix Junior gets to play, or are you
staying with Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
We're staying with Kirk Cousins, but I will say that
every position is up for grabs. There's a playoff spot
on the line. We are going to evaluate everyone, and
I mean everyone.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So b Jeon Robinson is up for grabs. After he
went over one thousand yards, he starts.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Fumbling the football or gets negative yards, there's someone right
there ready to get in there.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right, Marvin, your turn to play Raheem Morris.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Kirk Cousins is our starter right now, but anything could
change at any moment.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Okay, Paul, We're looking at all options to win football games.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I would and that's probably the best answer.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
The less you say, the better, But it's we believe
in Kirk, but we have to have all options on
the table.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Here.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
We're trying to win a division. We're not trying to
make friends. My job is to win. Here is the
question and the answer for Raheem Morris.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Are you prepared to replace them with Michael Pennox?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
You know, we got everybody in our roster for a reason, right,
We got so much to get better at and like,
those things will always be discussed.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
That's just the nature of the Beast and football.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
It's just so heavily talked about it at the quarterback
position because there's only one guy out there, you know,
so like for us man our mentality is the final
way to win the next that's just a Mentell we
ever going to have uh coach?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You didn't answer the question in any way. No, he
did a good job in avoiding it. But that's where
you say, what would it take for you to go
to Michael Pennix Junior.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yes, DoD, I've.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Already answered that we need to win football games. Okay,
we need to win football games. That's my answer.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Now. He didn't say no or that he wouldn't consider
Michael Pennix Junior. This is what I was told yesterday
as I'm watching the game and I'm kind of going
back and forth with a source, and I said, what
do you think Michael Pennix Junior's development is if they're
not even really considering him right now? And he said,
(22:42):
this is what people they make the mistake of quinn
Ewers at Texas and arch Manning. Steve Sarkesian sees quinn
Ewers every day in practice in arch Manning and knows
quinn Ewers gives him a better chance to win than
arch Manning right now. He said, the coach is there
every day. They see this every day. O see there's
something there or not there with Michael Pennix junior right now,
(23:04):
maybe and he listens to the show, so he goes
maybe they sprinkle him in. If a game is out
of reach, either they're up by a lot or they're
down by a lot, then maybe you give him a
little bit of a run. But you're in a tight
divisional race here with Tampa Bay, and you can't afford
any more slip ups if you're going to try to
(23:26):
win this division. I mean, this is incredible that the
Vikings may not win their division and they'll be on
the road for a playoff game where Atlanta or Tampa
will win that division and they'll host a playoff game,
or Green Bay is going to have a better record.
You know, this has happened before, where you have teams
that you know don't even get to ten wins, or
(23:47):
maybe they get to ten wins. You're going to have
a couple of teams that may have thirteen wins and
they're not hosting playoff games.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Yeampoland iwa was look at the Cousins situation. He's completely
under contract for a lot of money next year. Any
chance of Falcons look at what Denver did and say,
we may have to eat one year, but we already
have Michael Pennix the Dolph. The Broncos made a gutsy move.
They got ripped for that financial move, but it's working
out for the Broncos now.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
The difference is Kirk Cousins is extremely likable. Sean Payton
didn't like Russell Wilson. He didn't want him in the building.
He didn't want Russ to have his own office, you know,
all of this stuff, like he wanted him gone, he
wanted this. I'm coaching, I've got players, I don't have
(24:36):
an assistant coach, and it's Russell Wilson down the hallway.
Kirk Cousins is well liked now, probably losing some respect
as far as being able to step up and play,
and he played well earlier in the season. But five games,
one touchdown, nine interceptions. That's inexcusable. But that might tell
you where Michael Pennix is in his development. Falcons next
(25:01):
three games, their final three.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Games, Giants, Commanders, Panthers.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You got to win all three. You got to win
all three, and you should, or at least you got
a really good shot there. Commanders. With Kirk playing his
former team, maybe that's a big deal. But what's Tampa
final three games.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Tampa's last three games at the Cowboys hosts the Panthers
host the Saints.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, so easier schedule. Can't afford can't afford another slip
up here.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Can you put Michael Pennix Junior in now three games
to go? If they lost last night? I would. I
would put him in. If they lost fifteen to nine,
then I would if he's ready. Once again, I don't
know his development. I don't have somebody with the Falcons
(25:56):
who's saying, hey, you know, I had somebody with the
Chargers who said, hey, uh, Justin Herbert's the real deal.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
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Speaker 3 (27:14):
Should you put the Titans on the pole? Question of teams?
How did you phrase the pole?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Question?
Speaker 11 (27:19):
Todd Rich NFL franchise feels like it is in the
worst shape. We had the Bears, Giants, Panthers, Raiders. Now
we're thinking Browns, Jaguars, Titans should all be in the
mix for that.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, here's my question for the dan Ets, and I
ask them, do you know who the head coach of
the Titans is?
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yes, Marvin Jeff Fisher. Yes, that's the last time I
paid attention to Mike Vrabel.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yes, did they whiff on will Levis?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Todd?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Do you know the head coach of the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Mitchell Rhodes, it's not. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Mitchell Road sounds like an accountant coach Roads.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
We gotta win one here, one for coach Road.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Ray Rhoads. Paul, who's the Titans head coach?
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Not Dave Canalis. I want to show that I know
at least yes, your.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Name McGillicutty, Tommy McGillicutty.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
No, No, it's I could have told me. I got
it right, Yes, Marv.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
It's not McDonald. It's not Michael McDonald.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
He's in Seattle Jack So they got bad uniforms. Nobody
knows their head coach. They may have whiffed on Will Levis.
I put the Titans on there. Yeah, Paul, I have
(28:47):
the name.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Do you want it?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Brian Callahan there you go. That's close to McGillicutty or whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It wasn't Brian Callahan wasn't uh? Was it was it
Callahan break pads Callahan motors?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, I mean he was Tommy Callahan. I don't know
if his dad was, you know, Ryan Callahan. That's yes, yes, Tom.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Is that a relation to Bill Callahan? Can we safely
say that? Or no?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I don't know if that's I don't know if that's
his son, Bill Callahan, who was with the Raiders went
to Nebraska. Yeah, so yeah, I would put the Titans
on there, kind of like.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I don't know, nondescript.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Yes, Paul and boll Callahan was the quarterback in draft
day that they didn't want to draft.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, we had bad rap with his teammates. Yes, all right,
no bad ideas when it comes to fixing the NBA.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
No bad ideas today. Uh, let's see, is it Jaren
in Indiana?
Speaker 12 (29:56):
How's it going? DP?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Hey?
Speaker 13 (29:57):
But I got a couple of ideas for the NBA.
I know this one's kind of been mentioned already, but
I think they need to reduce the games they played
in the season. They're just too watered down and it's
hard for the fans to care if the players don't care.
And I think they should work it in with their
(30:20):
contracts as well, not only the postseason awards, but the
amount of money they make if they if they set games,
then they should lose out on money.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, well they I don't know if you can take
the money away from them, but these are all ideas
that they've already enacted. You've got to play a certain
number of games to qualify for all NBA awards.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Let's see what else do we have? Colin in New
York a Colin.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
Hey, Dan, do you ever play backball with a girl
like competitively?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (30:53):
I mean like I did when I was in the
Boys and Girls Club in fifth grade. My point guard
was a girl. She was about dribblerund on the team.
You know, it was awesome. And there's all these w
NBA stars. I mean, how like tomorrow's headlines today Sabrien
I s who outshines Lebron with triple doubble and win.
You want to watch that game?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
You know? Is it?
Speaker 12 (31:12):
Is it on YouTube? Either they got the highlights or
the full game, you know, Like, I mean, why don't
we combine these two? I mean I think after a while,
not even after a while, I think immediately I think, wait.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Wait, you want to combine the NBA and the w NBA.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (31:26):
I just think it's it's just more, it's it's great,
it's great playing, you know, like with women, you could
have like a rule, like maybe you have to have
three guys and two women on the court, you know,
on your team on the court.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Okay, once again, I did state there's no bad ideas today.
But I can't see that happening Colin. But thank you,
no bad ideas that probably wouldn't work out. Well, it's crazy,
and once again there's no bad ideas.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
Yes, hun, what if we had little white lights around
the perimeter of the basketball court, and when the lights
are either on or blinking, feel free to chuck up
as many threes as you want.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
When those lights are off, it's only twos.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Well, I said that last week of you have the
three point line lights up? I like that when it
lights up, then you get to shoot. Okay, let's putting
a lot of hours. Are you listening to me?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I guess I thought mine was a little different. My
lights were around the perimeter.
Speaker 11 (32:27):
Of the court and blinking lights when the lights are
on enough, But who has the power to decide when
you can take threes and not some guy up in
the rafters that are plugging in pressing.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
A button totally random, just on some kind of automated Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, it's you know, it's like a slot machine where
you're never sure, then all of a sudden it starts
to light up.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
What if you're in the process of taking the flight
and all of a sudden, the light goes out.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
It's like, oh, I got I released it before we
got to look at the replay.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
What do you think happens?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Lots of replay in the game next five hours.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
No, it's not a bad idea because I came up
with it last week. It's a bad idea because you
thought you came up with it this week.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Okay, fair enough. I knew I heard it somewhere. I
must have been back of my mind somewhere.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
You should listen to the show occasionally.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
It's pretty well. Listen to me that.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
What did Chris.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Myers say when we had him on many many many
years ago, Uh, I listened to your show here, it's
pretty good. Now he said, it's surprisingly good.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Thank you Chris.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
That's not a compliment.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
No, no, not that I'm waiting for a compliment from
Chris Myers. And I'm going to go, hey, you know what,
it's a decent show we got here, Thank you, Chris.
Do we have our poll? So we have our poll
question on maybe we need to keep this for the
next hour. Maurice Jones Drew is going to join us. Oh,
ask him which team feels hopeless right now?
Speaker 11 (34:02):
Bears Browns, Giants, Jags, Panthers, Raiders, Titans.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
More phone calls coming up next hour as well. It's
the Cup, todd Costs, It's the Cup.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Bucks.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Thunder tonight on ABC, all the marbles, It's for the Cup,
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