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Set 2: Philly Sports Radio (w/Phil Martelli & Rod Brind'Amour) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Bill Martelli Junior is with us. He's the head coach
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: at VCU. He said if he wasn't coaching, he'd like
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: to be a sports radio host in Philadelphia. So we
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: give him that opportunity every now and again. We have
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: done it once, we'll do it again here. There's a
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: lot going on with Philly sports, and Rob Brindamore is
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: going to join us, who is the head coach of
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers they're taking out now. He's a Flyers,
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: legend flyer. Fans love Brindamore, but he is coaching against
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Martelli's Flyers, and so we'll get to that in just
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: a second of coach.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: Let's start here.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Nothing says March like the field of seventy six.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, we all knew it was coming right, like
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: we knew it was with any of this stuff. If
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: there's one thing we've learned is once they start talking
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: about it, it's going to happen, right, And it was
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: just a matter of where they going to go to
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: seventy two seventy six. But here's what I'll say, Like
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: people are like anything right, they get up in arms
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: right away, Oh my god.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: What are we doing?
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. Well they did that when he went
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: from sixty four to sixty five how many years ago? Yes,
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: and then it went from sixty five to sixty eight
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: and everybody's like, and everybody's good with it now, you know. So, yeah,
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: it'll be weird next year. But the reality is like
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: in a couple of years, those guys that take off,
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: you know, they like to take off Thursday and Friday
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: and spend the whole day watching games. Now they're going
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: to take off Tuesday and Wednesday too, and they'll watch
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: games all day. I can support you know those days
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: coming up.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, I shouldn't be criticizing this. That's
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: a great point by you. Thank you for pointing that out.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Mikey coach.
• 1:52
  Speaker 4: If your rank seventy seventh, you can't complain, right, like
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: that's just waiting.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's going through hat.
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: Yes of course, yeah right, you would again go.
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: Back in time, you would have said that to like, well,
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: if you were sixty ninth, you're you don't have no
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: no gripe? Well what did we have all year? You're
• 2:10
  Speaker 3: talking about this team and that team. Should this team
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: be in? That team be in? I mean, I do
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: I do miss the days of the sixty four you know,
• 2:18
  Speaker 3: the one page you know deal. But yeah, I just
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: think we just adjust to it. We get used to it,
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: and we build it out and I don't know if
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: they can ever go beyond seventy six, you know, in reality.
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: But again we would have said that however many years ago,
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: you know, getting too sixty eight.
• 2:35
  Speaker 5: I think about this the same way I thought about
• 2:37
  Speaker 5: that golf tournament where they play pairs for some reason.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: Who is this for?
• 2:42
  Speaker 5: Because I mean, was anybody clamoring for more? What's the
• 2:45
  Speaker 5: what is it fixing here?
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: Well, it's it's the big conferences.
• 2:50
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: We're sitting Will going like, well, how do we squeeze
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: you know, how do we squeeze some of these lower
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: level teams out a little bit further into bracket? How
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: do we get some more of our teams in? Because
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: that is one of the things, like you know again,
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: I mean for somebody to sit there and say, we
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: weren't going to be in that tournament this year is insane, right,
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: So I guess we would have been the first team out,
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: like like, that's kind of crazy. So it does help us,
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: you know, in a year like this if we don't
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: win the tournament we're in. But yeah, like it's to
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: get that sixteen and fifteen you know, high major team
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: in I don't love that, but I do love that.
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: There's more and there's going to be more more opportunities.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: Phil Please accept my apologies. You're always talking college basketball.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: You're not here to talk college basketball. You're here to
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: talk about Philadelphia's sports. So let's get to Philadelphia sports.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Which sport in Philadelphia?
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering. Let me try it this way.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: If I told Philly fans only one of their teams
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: could win a championship over the next fifty years, what
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: would the fans. Well, I'm just trying to establish what's
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: the biggest sport in Philadelphia. What would the fans choose?
• 3:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I would choose the Phillies. The fans would
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: choose the Eagles. There's no question about it.
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  Speaker 2: Really, not the Flyers about it.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's no question. It's the Eagle. Like the Eagles,
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles, the Eagles. I mean, you know, they all
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: have their backing for sure, but it's one. If you
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: said there's only one team that's going to be able
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: to win it, yeah, it's the Eagles.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: How far back are the seventy six ers. Well, they're
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: tied down with boxed people.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question. I kind of feel like the
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: rest of them. To me, it's the Eagles number one,
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: and then it's a two. It's a three way tie
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: after that, Phillies, Sixers, Uh, Flyers. I feel like there's
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: like everybody loves everybody loves the Eagles, and I feel
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: like a lot of people love the Sixers, and then
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: there's a group that like the Sixers. Right, there's a
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: lot of people that love the Phillies and the group
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: that likes the Phillies. Right, there's a lot of people
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: that love the Flyers, and then group that likes the Flyers.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: Where I feel like everybody in the city loves the Eagles, right,
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: So I think they' next three. I'd put it pretty even.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting with Rob Thompson, who has
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: been a very good manager for the Phillies. They made
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: the postseason I think every season he was the manager,
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: but shortly got fired no longer the Phillies manager. Were
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: you surprised by that or I guess we shouldn't be
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: because it's Philadelphia, right, Yeah.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: I wasn't surprised just because of the way that they
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: were trending. I didn't like it. I mean, it's not
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: his fault that no one's hitting the ball. It's not
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: his fault that no one's fielding the ball like they
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: couldn't get anybody out like it was. That's not his fault,
• 5:33
  Speaker 3: like I thought. You know, I thought he was a
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: great manager. Obviously, I'm going to stick up for the coach, right,
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: so you know, it certainly wasn't his fault. Now I
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: understand this day and age, that's what that's what you
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: sign up for, right, Like someone's got to be the scapegoat.
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: Yes they're not.
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: They're not getting you know, they're not They're not firing
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: Bryce Harper today, right or should they?
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: You know? So somebody has to follow that sword, and
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: unfortunately it was our guy Topper.
• 5:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, which is it a bit of a misery loves
• 6:01
  Speaker 4: company thing though with the Mets being this bad too.
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: Right, it does it has to, right?
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, It's just miserable that the Philly stink because
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: I love the Phillies, like I want to be invested
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: from game game one to one sixty two and beyond,
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: like I want to be invested in every pitch, and
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: it's been really, really hard these last couple of weeks
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: to be invested. But it does make you feel a
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: little bit better that you're, like, all right, the Mets
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: stink like that does make you.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: Feel you're welcome coach.
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: As a coach, you guys are wired to think that
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: you guys always have a chance. Unfortunately, my Tario has
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: found that out the hard way. But how surprised are
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: you still that the Sixers who looked dead have found
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: a way to even up the series and force a
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: Game seven?
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I really I didn't think they had much of
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: a chance. Honestly, I really didn't, you know. But credit
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: to those guys, I mean, they have they got something.
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, Nick Nurse is a hell of a coach,
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: you know, and has made the adjustments that they need
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: to make, you know. And Maxie is a superstar, right,
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: Like obviously getting a beedback healthy is huge, but like,
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: you know, Maxi's a superstar edgecumb They got something there, right,
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: if those guys can continue and stay consistent. But yeah,
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: it's I've been telling my boy, my my sixteen year old,
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: my eight year old are like, I mean, the ten
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: thirty last night, that game ended, and they're hooting and
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: holler and running around, you know, screaming at the eight
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: year old to go to bed. And he's like, you know,
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: my he makes his first community tomorrow. My sixteen year
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: old is in the car this morning dropping him off
• 7:37
  Speaker 3: for school, and he's going like, all right, there's like
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: a six am flight. I could go on. I could
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: get up there, I go one your brother's community. You're
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: not going anywhere too. You have no money for a flight. Three,
• 7:47
  Speaker 3: you have no ticket and no money for a ticket
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: you're talking about. So he's a typical that's who you
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: should have on because he's the prototypical irrational Philadelphia fan.
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, I'll just fly up there and go
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: to the game. You don't have a ticket.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: He was buying you that ticket, young man. I gotta
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: tell you, I love this kid. I do.
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: He's built for this, built for this.
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, what are you talking about?
• 8:11
  Speaker 3: Debate for hours? He's on it.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: Bring him on next time, you come on? Okay, come
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: on together.
• 8:16
  Speaker 5: Well, maybe I should have asked him this question because
• 8:19
  Speaker 5: he seems so invested in the Sixers. But I'm curious, Okay,
• 8:22
  Speaker 5: So part of the reason why you me, anybody didn't
• 8:25
  Speaker 5: really know if they had a chance because we didn't
• 8:27
  Speaker 5: know if you were going to get Embiid, And if
• 8:28
  Speaker 5: we got Embiid, what version of him where we going
• 8:30
  Speaker 5: to get? But where are we here? Let me just
• 8:33
  Speaker 5: ask this, what do you expect from Joel Embiid in
• 8:36
  Speaker 5: a game seven? Because most of the time I close
• 8:39
  Speaker 5: my eyes and picture Joel Embiid in a high pressure
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: playoff game.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: He's mister trying too hard.
• 8:44
  Speaker 5: He is all over the place mentally, and they just
• 8:47
  Speaker 5: kind of collapse around him. I'm hoping it seems like,
• 8:49
  Speaker 5: based on what we've seen from this series that he
• 8:51
  Speaker 5: sort of advanced beyond that.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: The crazy thing with MB coach is he also has
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: the ability to be the best player on a floor
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: that includes Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he is. He's an incredible talent, right.
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: I think we talked maybe might have talked about this
• 9:06
  Speaker 3: the last time, Like it's he's one of those guys.
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: It's just such a unicorn. I personally don't trust it.
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: I you know, the thing was trust the process. I
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: personally don't trust it because it is it's just a tough,
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: like yeah, if he's if he's great, then't forget it.
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: Like they they probably do win Game seven. But I
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: think there's probably a number of Philadelphia fans that are
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: nervous about that, right like that.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: It seems like you're one of them, to be honest
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: faith in this guy.
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm not like a crazy Sixers guy, Like
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: I'm really not, like I'm I'm I'm not. I will
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: profess to that that I'm not a uh you know,
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: but yeah, like I I they need him to be right.
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: If he's not, then forget it, right, like, yes, you
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: know it? Like Game seven. You need your superstars to
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: be superstars, Like if he's supposed to be the megastar,
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: like he's got to be the megastar. Like it's great
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: with Max, he's done with Edgecomb's done with these other
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: guys have done. But like you need your superstars to
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: show up in Game seven.
• 10:06
  Speaker 5: I think we can print those T shirts. By the way,
• 10:08
  Speaker 5: I personally don't trust it, and then.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: Just next year game we want him to come back.
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: No, not for he doesn't have that as his name
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: on it. Just for other Philadelphia fans.
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: I heard a lot of trust the process over the years. Yeah,
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: and I worked for him for a year and he's
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: first year that he played. I worked for the Sixers,
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: and I wasn't sure. And then he came out to
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: training camp and he did some things to h to
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: jelil Okafhor and no one's no weel and I was like,
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: there's a reason you haven't heard from those guys in
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: a long time. Like that first day he walked out there,
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: I was like, holy, you know what. Yeah, but it's
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: just the health thing, Like if you can't stay healthy,
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: the best abilities availability, right, that's right, need to be available.
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: What do you see when you watch Maxi and Edgecomb
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: together because Edgecomb seems to be as a rookie probably
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: should in this situation, holding back on what he can do.
• 10:55
  Speaker 5: He is so crazy explosive and Maxi, you know, he
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: was already an MVP candidate and quarter of the season,
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: So like, if you project that back court through the
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: next several years, what are you looking at?
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: Well? I think, to me, it just depends on how
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: consistent they can make that, right, Like my thing is
• 11:12
  Speaker 3: always that like there's always these guys or these pairs
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: or these trios or whatever that everyone goes like nuts, right, Like, oh,
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: my god, they're the next fill in the black and
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: then it falls off the next year. Now Maxie has
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: proven it, Edgecombe, I think you need another year to
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: see it at that level. Then now you're like, you
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: know what, there's something coming along here. You know, was
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: that a one year you know, a one year rookie
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: year kind of high and then you know you have
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: that that that slump. But if he stays consistent, I
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: think Maxi's to me at this point, he's proven himself.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: As you know, he's an All Star, he's an All
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: NBA guy, he's a future potential MVP candidate. If you
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: get that from Edgecomb in year two, now you're looking
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: at like, all right, you got something right, Like you're
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: building real future, you know. And those are the kinds
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: of guys that win it for you, I think, right
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: like you look at when the Celtics are really good,
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: it's because Tatum and Brown are really good. They get
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: stuff from those other guys, but it's Tatum and Brown, right,
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: it's those perimeter I don't even want to say ball dominant,
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: but just the guys that can make plays, right, they
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: can score, facilitate through all those things. And both of
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: those guys have it. The thing for them is I
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: think I do think just from an outside perspective, there's
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: too many times sometimes where they just fall into a
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: little too iso. Yeah, you know where it's like waiting
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: all right, like Maxi's going and now everybody's standing around watching,
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: and then Escom gets going and everybody's standing around watching.
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: And they used to run into that with embiid right
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: like it was like now everybody's just standing around watching.
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: It still needs a little more cohesion where everybody's just
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: kind of playing off each other.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Is he is loving this. He finally has someone who
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: wants to talk basketball with him. Fill in the Blank
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: is an excellent segment. Listen sports Radio. It is all
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: about benchmarks and creative segments. Fill in the blanks with
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Phil Martelli is fantastic, So filling this. Who would the
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: Knicks rather face next round, Boston or Philly?
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: Fill in the blank?
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: I have to I have to figure Philly it's beating
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: them in the playoffs before I have to imagine they'd
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: rather play the Sixers.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, tell her you want the Sixers.
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: I'm at the point, Coach, I don't care who we played.
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: If O's gonna play like this, Yes, bring on anybody,
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: and I like our chances.
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: That was shocking, and you just won a game by
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: ninety nine points. Yet there's a little bit of like, yeah,
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: we can play anybody. And then and then what happens
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: is you get punched in the mouth game one and
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: you're like, oh, damn, we should have played the other team.
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is still the same team that was down
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: two to one Atlanta, and everybody's scratching their heads. Okay,
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: and I told you Taylor, be careful with og Nanobi. Man,
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: he can look dominant in a game like this, but
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: when the pressure's on it's a two point game and
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: you're looking for offense, you look for Og.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: He's going to be standing in the corner.
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: And I think Stu, Yeah mckelbridges might have found his
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: confidence yesterday.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I do wonder because coach is not a big
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six er fan by his own admission, And
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: if they do play the Knicks, all those guys are
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: from Philly.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: So my McHale Bridges story. I was the first one
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: to offer him a scholarship. I was an assistant at
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Delaware University of Delaware.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Wow, he was playing.
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: At great Valley High School. They haven't produced a player
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: in a million years. A friend of mine played against
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: them and was like, there's this kid. So we are
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: playing Villanova that year, and I'm going to see this
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: kid like the next week. And I see him walking
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: across the baseline with his friend. So I stopped and
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: I said, Michael, I'm coach. Martellius said, I'm coming to
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: see you next week. His eyes were like this big.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: He couldn't even believe it. Right. So he's sitting behind
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: Villanova's bench. Usually your recruits are sitting behind your bench.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: He was there because his friend had season tickets. They
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: had no idea who he was. He was a junior
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: in high school, no clue. I'm recruiting and recruiting and
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: recruiting him. All of a sudden, he starts to blow up.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: People are going crazy about him. By the end of
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: that year, there's a bunch of schools around. They still
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: weren't really.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: In on him.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: To be completely honest, they would probably tell you otherwise.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: They still weren't completely in on him. And Florida offered
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: him a scholarship. If I remember being on the phone
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: with him, and he's like, Florida just offered me a scholarship.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: The next day, Villanova offered him because he was right
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: in their back pocket, you know, right at their backyard.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, what a terrible choice by him.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: And I remember him telling me when he committed to Villanova,
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: he's like, coach, just like I thought I was coming
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: to Delaware, Like I couldn't even believe that you were interested.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: In right, and you're like I found you.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Yes, six months later at Villanova.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Weren't his arm still ridiculously long? I would have been.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I would have been recruiting him just looking at his arm.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: But this is why McVeigh keeps it. You know, he
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't want anyone to know he's taking Ty Simpson because
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: once it gets out that mcveig likes him, everyone likes him.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: And that's what Mortelly did. He showed everyone he likes
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: McHale Bridges.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, a blind squirrel gets gets another every once
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: in a while, right.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Are the blind squirrels not many?
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: What do you make of what Lebron James is doing
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: at this age? Like you're watching basketball differently than the
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: rest of us. Maybe you and Izzy are watching it
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the same way, But you have to marvel at a
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: guy who's that age playing at that level, right.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: It's just and that's what everybody said, like, Wow, the
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: playoffs is different because of the rhythm of the playoffs
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: and you know, the physicality and the minutes and all that.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: It's it's incredible, right, Like, and I've always been the
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Jordan guy. But what I've been saying recently is this, like,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: you know, we have that debate, and we'll have the
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Lebron Jordan debate. But I go back to my childhood
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: in Philadelphia, and it was Wilt or Mike, right, Wilt
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: or MJ, all the all the old Philly guys, Will
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Will Will, Will Will Yeah, And I said, I'm the
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: old Philly guy that's going MJ, MJ, MJ. But in
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: a few years from now, you're gonna look back and
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: go like, yeah, Lebron is the best player of all time.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: I mean it's people are saying if he you know,
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: if he goes, if he loses after leading three, that
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: it's going to hurt his legacy. And all I'm going
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: to say is it just means he's played in so
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: many damn playoffs series that the result was gonna happen
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: at some point. It makes sense that it's Lebron, He's
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: played in fifty seven. I believe fifty six. This is
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: fifty sixth playoff series. Do you know how many playoff
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: series Michael Jordan plays? Are you arguing?
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: He said, Eventually we're going to say it's Lebron.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: I know because I'm preparing for what you're about to say.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I'm never going to say it. I'm never going to
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: agree with Philmore on this you And.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: That's why I'm raising my fifty six playoff series to
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: thirty seven for Michael Jordan. Since since Jordan last one, okay,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Jordan last one his playoff series, he was like thirty
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: five years and one hundred and seventeen days old. Since
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Lebron turned that same age, he's participated in twenty more
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: playoff series.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: It's insane.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: It's insane. I saw him play in the Eastern Conference
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Finals in May of two thousand and nine. We were
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: there because Jamiir was playing for Orlando and De Lante
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: was playing for the Cavs, and my dad was in
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Cleveland for a meeting or something, and we all met
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: there and Megan, my wife, was there with me. She
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: was pregnant with Philip, our sixteen year old son, that was,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: and he hits he had a game winner at a
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: buzzer beater at top of the key buzzer beater, And
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: I think back in that like, so my oldest son's
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: whole lifetime, Lebron's been playing in the NBA Finals, right, Like, yes,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: he's close enough, like it. It's but at that age
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: to do that, like I'm forty four, almost forty five,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Like just to like touch my toes shower, it takes like,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: all right, i gotta get myself ramped up, and I'm
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: not in terrible shape, but like this dude's after getting
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: getting thirty and triple doubles and doing this and doing.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: That, And wait, was that that you said you were
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: at the Orlando game winner? Was the Orlando I think
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: it's the only game they win in that series.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: But still what a game, right.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: And game too And the best part about that about
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: that game had nothing to do with the game. Usher
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: was there because he was like a fake big time
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Cleveland fan for that little period of times. Yeah, and
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: my wife was obsessed with Usher. Yeah, and he walked
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: by us in the tunnel and gave like a head
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: nod and said, like you know, what's up. Y'all. She
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: completely froze and I kill her to this day. She choked,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: He completely froze. He just won't Hey, what's up? And
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: she was like, you're in the headline.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Usher's done that to a lot of women. But that's
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: that's quite a moment right there.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I was like, that was your chance, your chance to
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: leave me and go on with Usher, and you blew it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: The best part about Stu Gotts's defense of Michael Jordan
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: is that if Michael Jordan played today and had the
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: exact same career, if he didn't win his championship until
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: that seventh year, Stu Gotts would have been the loudest
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: person criticizing him.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but listen, he won six, He would have won
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: eight had he not taken the two years off.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying, coach, that's it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: I'm still team MJ. But it's at some point in
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: time we're gonna.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Have You're an enabler here, Phil, when you say that's
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: a fact, everyone knows.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, the only reason Elaijuuan has two is because
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Jordan took those two years off. That's it, right, Yeah, Yeah,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I mean he doesn't want to say.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: That of Jordan. I gotta ask an Anthony Edwards. Really
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it's a Minnesota Timberwolf.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Rob Brenda Moore the fly the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Carolina Hurricanes, that coach could to join us. Take it on,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Phill's Flyers it in just a minute.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Here, go ahead, last thing here, because I cannot figure
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: out this team, Like did they have this really crazy
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: deep roster the whole second half of the season and
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: we just didn't know it?
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Or is it? You know? Guys like is it?
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Terrence Brown Junior and Iu Desumu and obviously McDaniel's like,
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: how does a team have all of this ability and
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: it only shows up when they really need I'm just
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: very confused by it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Well, you forgot about our guy here, Bones.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Highland Bones of course.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, so Bones was here. He came to one
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: of our games late in the year and we were
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: talking about.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: That Terrence Shannon Jenner.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: He said like like he said, like they got some dudes.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: He's like, no, we're pretty good now. Bones is also
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: a very confident guy, and but he said it. Then
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: he's like, we got a squad. He's like, we got
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: a squad? And uh yeah, I mean and again like
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: the playoffs just brings something out of guys, right, you
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: brought it up like there are certain guys that cower
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: from it, right, that get into that and they're like,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: this is too much. The pressure is too much, the intensity,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: the detailed scouting reports and all these things are too much.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: And there's other guys that thrive. And it looks like,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: you know, it looks like those guys in Minnesota thribbing.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Jade McDaniels is turning into a star out of nowhere.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Yea he is, Uh, coach, how is this gonna work
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: for you? With the hockey playoffs here the Flyers have advanced.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: They take on Carolina, Carolina best team in hockey, other
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: coach by a Flyer legend and ro Brenda Moore. Uh,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get booed. He's not going to be treated
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: well when he goes into that building. Right, even though
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you guys love him.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: He won't get booed the way like a real a
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: real enemy would get booed. Right, he's a he's a
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: what they call it, a frind of me? Yeah, yeah, right,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Like he's a he's a he's a frind of me. Like, Uh,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: he's still very much beloved in Philadelphia, and he should be.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's for the next week and a half,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: for however long the series is. You know they will
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: not be uh, but they're the one thing about Philadelphia
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: is they have that anger. They're gonna find somebody, so
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: it might not be towards him. Yes, they'll find a
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: guyn on the Hurricane. He says, like, you know what,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: that's the guy we're going after. Like, you know, Sidney
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Crawlsby's an easy target in Philadelphia. They went after him.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: You know, there's a couple of those other guys. Now
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: they'll go after They'll find a guy on the Carolina
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: you know team, and go after him.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take a quick time out here.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: We'll come back with Rob Brenda Moore, the head coach
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: of the Carolina Panthers. But I want you to Carolina Hurricanes.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: What I want Phil to do during the break here
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: is check his wallet, make sure his son hasn't stolen
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a credit card and booked himself.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: A flight to Boston. We'll be back after this.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: He is the head coach of the best eam in hockey,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Rob Brendamore with US. He's a former flyer coach of
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the Carolina Hurricanes. He's taking on Phil Martelli Junior's Philadelphia Flyers.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Phil is joining us on this on this interview. We're
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: excited about that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Rod. How are you? Thanks for doing this, sir?
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Oh good, Thanks for having me a little hostile territory here.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what we got. I still love that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: How is it for you just being a Philadelphia Flyer
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: legend and now the head coach of the of the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Carolina Hurricanes, Any conflict there or no? Just like, like,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: what are the feelings for you coaching against the team
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you used to play for?
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Well, no, there's no conflict. I mean, I've been to
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: this twenty five years, right, but I I I'm I'm
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: actually happy for the Fires and the fans, and they
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: deserve it, you know they they I think, you know,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Philadelphia first of all, I obviously the best sports town
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: in America. They you know, good or bad, they let
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: you know, and they support their teams. And when I
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: was a Flyer just I love playing there. You know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: if you're an honest player and you work, you know
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: your butt off, they're gonna you're all right, and uh
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: it's not. They're gonna let you know. It keeps you
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: on your tone as an athlete there, so good for
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: them that they made it in obviously, you know I'm
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: on the other side now, but I enjoyed my time
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: there for sure.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Brought some of us. Most of us are down here
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: in South Florida.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: We've seen your guys' team play in the playoffs against
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: the Panthers a few times, and frankly, I can't stand
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: playing you guys. But wondering what sort of creates the identity.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: What are some sort of non negotiables for a Hurricanes
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: style player.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's a cliche ish, but you know, everybody's
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: got the word culture they fly lot around, but you know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: you got good culture, a bad culture. Everyone has it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: And I feel like we've really done a nice job
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: here of getting just honest players, you know, and come
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: in and earn their check every day. And you know,
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: and it starts with your leader. We got a great
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: one in Jordan Stall. I said it the other day.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: I got asked about him, and you know, he's been here,
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know, fourteen years or something, and I've been
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: here every year with him. I've never seen the guy
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: take a day off. And then I mean on the
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: ice practice game, like the you know move and so
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: when you have something like that to kind of be
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: the leader, it makes you know, everyone else got to
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: kind of fall suit. So we we've kind of hung
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: our head on that just do your best, and you know,
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: obviously we got strategy and we got the same stuff
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: everybody else has, but like compete level is kind of
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: the non negotiable for us, and I think it's served
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: us well.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Coach.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I went to school in Chapel Hill, and I love
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: the dynamic there because you and see Duke and NC
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: State fans in the triangle are fighting every day. They
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: can't agree on anything. And then you have the Carolina
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Hurricanes where it kind of brings everybody together and you
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: kind of have that interesting dynamic, no doubt.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: That's been really one of the things that when I
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: first got here, I you know, obviously knew all about
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: what you just said. I didn't realize you had to
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: pick a team, you know, like I couldn't support all three.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: It was like, no, no, that's not how it works.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: So married into the NC State family, so and they've
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: all been great to me. So I kind of put
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: that hat on and then kind of live that life
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: with you know, like you said, you got to pick one,
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: but one more playing. It's nice to see that we're
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: kind of the one pro team here and everyone can
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: kind of jump on board and get together and they
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: certainly support us, that's for sure.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Rod. This is Uh, this is Phil. We actually played
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: down at your spot. We played NC State early this year,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: so we were in that arena. That's a great place
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I can imagine for your games. It's got to be crazy.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: But coach, the coach, I'm asking you, you know, you
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: just played four games in a week and then you
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: have a week off, Like how are you managing that
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: with your group? You know, to keep them, keep them ready,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: keep them sharp, but also kind of give them that
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: time to you know, reset their minds in their bodies.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: That it's uh tricky, especially we didn't really know when
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: we were even going to play. There was like, okay,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Saturday of the earliest, could be Monday, you know, so
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: you're kind of all right, you know, trying to gauge
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: the rest, and you definitely physically need to rest them,
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: but it's a mental grind for our sport that really
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: takes its toll, I find, and so you want to
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: get them away from the rink as much as possible,
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: and so we gave him a few days in this
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: whole stretch to just stay away from the rink and
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: go do something else. There's lots to do here in
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: this time of the year with the weather and because
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: you got to refresh, and when once we start up
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: here again tomorrow night, it's just go, go go. So
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: I don't know, we'll see. You know, we didn't have
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: a ton of practices. We had three pretty good ones,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: which doesn't sound like a lot in that timeframe, but
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: we we aired on kind of give them the more
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: of a rest and hopefully that translate into being able to,
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: you know, get that little edge physically wise.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Coach wondering how you sort of break this down right,
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: the step to take from contender which you've been for
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: several years to champion. Is there something one sort of
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: note or one sort of theme that you guys talk
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: about most of the time or is it just like
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: every year it's always something different, but we know we
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: have it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's you certainly learned from the past.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: I can tell you that. I mean we've we've we've
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: had a group here that the core group that stayed
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: here has been here for eight years now, and you know,
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: we've been through some tough losses, but you know, we've
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: I think we've learned from all. We had a series
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: the other the last series where things didn't go our
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: way in the last game, everything was kind of working
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: against us, and I just felt like guys have been
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: there before, like we've seen this and handle it really well.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: So you're hoping that that experience plays off as you
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: move along. And you know, I know the hunger is
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: there these guys, they know they only get so many
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: shots at this So our goal certainly stays the same
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: every year. I don't know that you know, one year
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: bleeds into the next two months, it's starting fresh. But
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: the experiences that you've had in the past, certainly you
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: rely on those moving forward here at this time of
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: the year.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Rod, when when you're obviously so locked into your series
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: and upcoming series, do you pay attention much to the
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: other series going on in the playoffs? Are you're just
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: so locked into previous series?
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know, I watched mostly it's all
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: hockey with us because the playoffs there's so many games.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: You know, I got I have a little basketball connection.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: I got some good friends in the NBA. Sydney Low
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: who used to coach MPTY State. I became good friends
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: with him, and mostly because my father I was coached
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: and played at NC State, so that's why I'm connected there.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: And I know he's with the Pistons, So I kind
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: of keep my eye on everything going on. But yeah,
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: you're listen, that's my job, right, I got to know
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: what's going on, and you're looking to a f other series.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: It's trends. You know what what's going on, if there's
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: something you can pick up, and obviously down the road,
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: if you end up having to play teams, you're you're
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: kind of getting an idea what what what's working for them?
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: So yeah, it's it's a fun time of the year.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: It's a busy time though, all.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Right, I would be honest, Okay, you're going into your
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: watching the game. It's Mammoth and it's Golden Knights. It's
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: into two overtime. It's a two way. Tell me when
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: when these games go into overtime in the playoffs, you're
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: just like folding it out and just like, hey, I'll
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: just read about it in the morning.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Right, There's no way you stay up and see how
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: long those games go?
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: Listen, listen, I said, there's a couple of games on
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: watching them right, I'm there's a zero chance that I'm
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: watching that over time. It's eleven o'clock.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: It lights out of my house, smart Rod.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: We have been making a joke down here. You're from Ottawa.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, do you think Canada hates South Florida because
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: we stole hockey from them?
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, what do you think?
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know about that Florida credit. I was born
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: in Ottawa. I'm you know, I didn't spend any time there.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: But yeah, there's listen, the US is taken over here
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: on almost everything. So when it comes to the hockey
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: and their sport, which Canada that's what they hang the
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: hat on. It's kind of taking a turn here the
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: last few years. So yeah, it's not just down to
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: South Florida, it's kind of in US in general.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: When you look at this Flyers team, what do you
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: see in terms of their strengths? What are their what
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: are their strengths and what do you have to do
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: in order to beat this Flyer team?
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: Well, they were the I think that the second best
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: record after the Ulslar breaker or the Olympic break and
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: they just got dialed in. And in our sport, it's
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: details are so important. And if you can if you
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: can get on the right page with twenty guys and
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: really play your system really well, you get a chance
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: every night. And then if your goalie is good, that
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: kind of gives you that other edge. And I think
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: all that's kind of falling into place for them. Obviously
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: they have good everybody has good players, but okay, we're
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: all doing it right, we're on the same page. And
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: then your goalies kind of, you know, playing really well.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: That just gives a team a whole bunch of confidence.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: And that's what I see in that team. No Denver
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: than our team, no Diverton teams that are playing right now.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: It's kind of the key factor is the goaltending's got
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: to be sharp and then being on the same page.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I want to play a game with you. Hockey player
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: or not a hockey player?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Okay? Uh?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And really just one question, uh Taylor, our executive producer,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: open bar at a wedding.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: He walked up to the bar.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: The drinks are free, he ordered a Shirley Temple hockey
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: player or not a hockey player?
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, oh, that's obvious, very obvious. I don't know.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: I don't have to answer that. Yeah, layup. You just
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: gave me a layup.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, coach, if you have something for him.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I gotta ask you. You know, now's the Philadelphia and
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: I gotta ask you. What was your favorite when you
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: played in Philly? Besides you know, going to the to
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: the rink and playing in front of the fans, what
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: was your favorite thing to do off ice in Philadelphia?
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Oh? Great question. No I didn't. I didn't engage in that,
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: but I did a lot of I actually took a UH.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: I went to Temple for a summer. Like I loved
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: all the the UH classes. I loved the college sports.
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: Whenever they would put back lad was there. They would
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: played a lot of college games at the Spectrum. I
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: don't remember they had it. What the tournament they had there.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: I forget what it's called.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Now played in that tournament.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there you go. I probably was at one of
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: your games. You know, I I go and you know
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: we can get in obviously, So I loved watching that.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: UH spend my summers there watch all the baseball went
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: to the Philly games, So that you know anything I
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: could do. I was young back then when I was there,
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: single guy, so you can imagine run around. But I, uh,
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: I certainly enjoyed all the sport and the events that
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: you know you can do there. You got a miss spectrum, right, Yeah,
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: well that was just a great building. It's such an
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: advantage for a home team. And you know, you didn't
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: really notice that I played. I started my career in
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: Saint Louis, so I played a couple of years in
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: you know, Philadelphia as a visitor, and then when I
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: got to the uh the Homer there, it was you
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: realize how much an advantage it was. So really uh
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: mit that building. But obviously they got a good one
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: now too.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: Right, I get a lot of a hard time from
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Stu from being a gym junkie, says, I live in
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: the gym. You obviously have a reputation for staying fit
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: even after you're playing. Where do you find the time, coach,
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: which is what asked me all the time?
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta make it for me. It's you know,
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: I've just always kept that lifestyle and get. The first
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: thing I do in the morning when I get up
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: is we come in getting get the workout and It
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: gets my mind right through the day. That's really why
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: I'd like to do it and not you know, it's
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: to feel good. You're in shape as best you can,
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: but it you know, I go through all my day
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: the stuff I gotta cover off while i'm you know,
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: working out. I think it just gets me, gets me
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: going and hopefully you know, I got I gotta pretend
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: at least to hang in with these guys as long
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: as I can, so we do some testing if I
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: can kind of have do with some of the tests
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: that they go on. And there's no reason these guys
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: can't do it. So I know that day's coming to
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: an end soon. But no, that's that's still still in
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: the in the process.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: You could probably do this for another thirty years.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: Right now it's winding down.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, what of those workouts look like. I mean,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: if you don't.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Mind, yeah, I'm I'm an executive workout guy now. I mean,
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: I get a good sweat and then we you know,
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: you get into the gym and get a little lift in.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: But it's nothing like it used to be.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Coach, am I putting you in a bad spot if
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I ask you, and we'll see if Rob if Rod agrees,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: if I ask you for your Mount Rushmore of Philadelphia Flyers.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: That's I love it? Which coach? Okay? No, well, Coach Martelly,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yes, what do I get for? You're both
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: gonna do it? Okay?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: So Rod and Phil Martelly, you are both going to
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: do this together. A former flyer legend who is now
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes and the coach
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: at VCU is a big time Philly fan. All right,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: so we're gonna do this together. So Rod, uh, you
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: go first. You have four names. You can go one
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: name and then coach and Phil goes one name. Let's
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: go one to each, Okay, all right, all right, you
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: go one.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: My my ultimate one and it is Bill Barber is
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: my first one and the reason number one. He's a
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: Hall of Famer, but he he mentored me when I
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: got to Philadelphia. He took me under his wing. He
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: was already retired, but we've become great friends. I named
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: my son after his son because this is the ultimate
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: flyer for me, Bill Barber. So there's number one.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, So let's do it like this. Coach, Phil would
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: would would Barber be on your Mount Rushmore?
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: I think he would be on. If he's not on
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: one hundred percent of Flowers fans Mount Rochmore, he's on
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: ninety nine percent.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: All right, So why don't you give your second name
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: here and let's see if let's see if Rodd.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Agrees I would have.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: You gotta go Bobby Clark. Okay, all right, he's the iconics, right,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: It goes without saying Connor Clarky. I think set the
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: standard for that. You know, the faith of the franchise
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: really probably probably still is after all these years. So
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: you gotta go Clerky.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: All right, h Phil, you want to go again?
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Let's you see if Rod agrees with your Matt Rushmore.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: This is great.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I can't believe. Look at this, dreams come true? Phil,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: you do what I'm Mount Rushmore flyers with Rod Brinda Moore.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: I should call my mom. And my mom is an
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: honestly god, she's a monster. She watches every game she's
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: been since she was looking like a kid. She's a
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: monster flyer. I was. I was joking with her. They're
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: driving down right now, and I told her, I said,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: if you don't bring a homemade Stanley cup with you,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: because That's my favorite thing about playoff hockey is the
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: homemade Stanley Cup. The guys that show up with the
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: game with the tim foil Stanley Cup the best. Uh third,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: I'd go Bernie paranh bigger, larger than life personality, you know,
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: that would be mine Rod you Gray.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was saying the exact same thing. And I
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: say I didn't play with Bernie or anything, but he
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: was our goldie coach when I out there, and just
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: the personality. I mean, you know, you just love being
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: around him. So yeah, you hit that one right on
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: the head.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: All right, So Rock give us your fourth on you
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: guys had the same three. This is amazing, I guess,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: So who's your fourth there?
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Right at? This?
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: Is this our last one?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Because it gets it gets sticky now right now, I'm
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: you know, attached to the older guys, but I have
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: to go with a guy and probably play with and
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: I have to maybe stick in the big e. Yeah,
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: just because he was such a good player, and I
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: hate that he got kind of the concussions kind of
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: slowed him down. But I mean one of the more
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: dominant players ever play the game.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: And so I have to say Eric for my purposes,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: big e. Is Eric Glendross right, Yes, yes.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And I believe Phil was nodding in agreement
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: with you that that would be his fourth right.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: I already agree. If you're sticking to players now, I
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: would say the one little caveat and say, if you're
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: going to go and expand beyond players, Ed Snyder would
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: have to be mentioned in some capacity.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, make that switch.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: We're making the switch.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Out of here.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: But if you're saying players, it's one hundred percent, I
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: think we're right on the money for for four.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I think I think robe a great story.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: With the reason I say you agree with with mister
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Snyder was I mean that, you know, back in the day,
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: there wasn't a lot of owners that that were kind
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: of front and center. And then like he wanted to win. Man.
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: I mean, I met that guy so many times, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: I had an incident one time in a game where
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: the rest threw me out of the game and and
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: I'm like, for it was something stupid, they know no reason.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: He came down after the game and asked me what
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: happened and I'm still in my jersey and I and
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: I just told him, you know, the rep did whatever.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: He didn't even he didn't wait me to finish, and
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: he ran down the hallway where the refs were and
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: kicked the door and I'm like looking around the corner
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: and he started chewing the ref out for you know,
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: treating me not correctly, and he literally said, you don't
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: ever treat a Flyer that way. And I was just like, damn, wow.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: I'm glad I was telling the right story because you know,
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: but like he that's kind of how he felt like
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: you were. It didn't matter you put on that Flyers jersey.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: You were one of his boys and that was special.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Rod.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this. Good luck in
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: the next round. I think I don't know. I mean,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Phil's not witsching you luck. And by the way, if
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: martelly Son needs tickets to one of these Flyers game,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: he's gonna hit you up.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Okay, just so you know, lose my number.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Ron, good luck moving forward here. We appreciate it.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you all right. What is it like for you, Phil?
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a guy that you love and you're
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: doing a mount rushmore of Flyers with Rod Burden of
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Bor who's coaching Carolina.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm telling you when I tell my mom it
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: was just on with Rob Brindamore. She's gonna lose her mind.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: The other funny Flyers story from our family is when
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: they won one of those Stanley Cups, seventy six, seventy seven,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: something like that. My dad has a story, him and
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: his friend. Actually, this might even been before they won
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: the Stanley Cup. It might have been in the early seventies.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: They went down to the airport, found out when they
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: were getting in. They went down to the airport dressed
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: as hockey players. He's in the paper or the news
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: or something. His picture. I've never seen it, but he
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: does tell that story. Now, I've never known him. They did.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: My parents did go to a game three, I think
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: of the last series. I don't know if they'll be
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: in on any of these games. But my mom's she is,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: she's into it. She's always been into it.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: All Right, let's make this a family affair. Next time
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: you come on, let's bring on the sun. And then
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: the following time you come on, let's bring mom on.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, when the Flyers are in, when they're in the finals,
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: and bringing mom.
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: On, Yes, listen, I'm also voting that he can go
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: to game seven and skip the baptism.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the communion mean, excuse me, communion, But secretly you're
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: okay with it if he.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Did, because he's gonna badger her the way that he
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: is going to badger her all day. Yes, and keep
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: saying like, I'm going to Game seven, I'm going. Dad
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: said I could go blah blah blah blah blah. He'll
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: listen to this, he'll say if he said I could go,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: like it's gonna be tell.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: Him I don't even remember my communion. I remember every
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: game seven.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I've been yes, let's let's let's do this to uh,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: to poor missus Martelly. I tell you you're good with
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the kid going? Yes, I vote yes, yeah, Mikey good
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: with the kid going.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Of course that's what he's gonna.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I'm totally fine. I think the kids should go. The
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: memories will will last a lifetime. And this is what
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: kids do when dad says no, they go straight to
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: mom because they know eventually Mom is gonna cave.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: You know that, right, So since you guys all said yes,
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: uh still pay for you, you're gonna put together.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: And I got it, Yes, yeah, I got it.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I'll take care of his flight I'll get him a ticket,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: I'll get him a meal.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Even how about that, you know.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Well, good luck with that. Everything's the door dashes that
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: come to the hause of what, like, what are we
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: doing here?
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Every fifteen minutes? Right, every fifteen minutes? It's crazy.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, get off your ass and go out and
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: pick something up, you know, That's what I'm saying.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. He's he has not gotten his
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: permit or his license yet, and I keep saying, I'm like,
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: you know, like, once you do, you can just go.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: You'll be able to go to Chick fil A, to
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: these places that place to pull it whatever, like all
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: day long and I won't even know, so you won't
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: have to listen to me when I see the bags
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: pull like, what are we doing? Food right there?
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: But who wants to do that when the food is
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: delivered right to your door?
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I mean the.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Best is when he told me it doesn't cost any
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: more than if you go pick it up the thing.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: I go, oh, really, I think those companies are sponsoring
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: the NBA Finals and these things.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Does he not see that line that says taxes and fees.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: You don't care, you know what it is? You know
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: the commercials like the you know, turn It into your parents.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Those are the moments where you realize you're like, oh
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: my god, I'm turning into my father. Food right there,
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Eat that food.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: You're turning into Phil marks Elly Senior. All Right, coach,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: we enjoyed this. I hope you enjoyed your opportunity there
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: with Rob Brendan Moore.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: That was fun.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: And good luck to the Flyers and good luck to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the Sixers tomorrow. And I have the Sixers winning that
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: thing I do Sixers Nicks. That's gonna be fun.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys. It's always a blast coming on.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you,