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OneLegUpAlex Sports - Terminello's Take on Future of Heismandoza- Harbaugh Hiring and MLB News 1-23-26 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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Speaker 1: bigger better news today. Well, on one Leg Up Alex Sports,
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Speaker 1: I see who was in I believe New York City today.
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Speaker 1: Heis Mendoza himself, Fernando Mendoza. Lou, where was my invite
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Speaker 1: to that? I wanted to meet Fernando.
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Speaker 2: I want to meet husband, doz, where's my invite Luzmnello.
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Speaker 3: Alex, I'm shocked. I thought you would have a picture
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Speaker 3: with him by now.
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Speaker 2: Right, he just wanted two days ago and yesterday.
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Speaker 1: But hey, you know me, I'll find them somewhere some ways,
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Speaker 1: so there is.
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Speaker 3: No doubt in my mind that you will send me
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Speaker 3: a picture with Unfortunately, it looks like, oh, Las Vegas
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Speaker 3: ready to quarterback Fernando Mendoza.
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Speaker 1: I do want to start there, because this kid, beyond
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Speaker 1: the athleticism, he's got such an indomitable spirit, Like I
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Speaker 1: think I called him jovial the other day, and I
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Speaker 1: do believe that, and.
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Speaker 2: I don't want the Raiders to ruin that. Like that's
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Speaker 2: I'm worried.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna dampen his spirits because of how crap they've
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Speaker 1: been run.
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Speaker 2: Maybe Tom Brady turns around, though.
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Speaker 3: Well again, they are a franchise with iconic history, so
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Speaker 3: it's not like he's going to the Jacksonville Jaguars or
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Speaker 3: the the Caroline the Panthers. But right now, the Radars
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Speaker 3: are in toll disarray. I mean, looked like Pete Carroll
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Speaker 3: would straighten them out. He didn't, and they got rid
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Speaker 3: of him after one year. So but Mendoz is the
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Speaker 3: real deal. What he did on Monday night, he kind
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Speaker 3: of willed them to victory. You know, he didn't have
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Speaker 3: one of his great, great offensive nights, but that fourth down,
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Speaker 3: fifteen yard run, and Alex I'm sitting here watching the game, saying,
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Speaker 3: you got to keep the field goal, he got to
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Speaker 3: get the three points, go up six. But they roll
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Speaker 3: the dice and it looked like the kid wasn't gonna
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Speaker 3: get into the end zone that those last three yards.
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Speaker 3: But he willed himself in the end zone. And don't
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Speaker 3: don't kid yourself. That kind of effort, especially when it
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Speaker 3: comes from the leader of your team, just resonates throughout
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Speaker 3: the rest of the roster, throughout the rest of the game.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: I think his energy resident throughout the whole game. I mean,
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Speaker 1: especially right down to that interception to seal it for
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Speaker 1: Indiana by Sharp, How cool was that?
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Speaker 2: And by that kids in Miami native as well.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, and actually when back through that ball, I
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Speaker 3: thought he was gonna he was going to hit that completion,
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Speaker 3: and if he did, he probably would have been a
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Speaker 3: touchdown with which put Miami ahead. But I'm so happy
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Speaker 3: for Indiana. I mean, they did a great job. Now again,
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Speaker 3: they took advantage of the new era of college football
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Speaker 3: forty seven on their players are between the ages of
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Speaker 3: twenty two and twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Well did you see, I did not know Fernando was
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Speaker 1: actually from Cal. You know, it came out of the Cals.
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Speaker 1: But apparently the guy who hit him pretty hard in
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Speaker 1: the game when he was at Cal, he ran right
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Speaker 1: past him for the touchdown against Miami.
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Speaker 2: So that's pretty interesting.
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Speaker 3: That is interesting. I actually I didn't know that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, TikTok telling me a lot of different facts about
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Speaker 2: this kid. And I love his energy.
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Speaker 1: I really I love his energy and his spirit and
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Speaker 1: you know one other thing about them him it's very interesting,
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Speaker 1: how connected. And you've heard this on my other podcast.
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Speaker 1: He did something in the college level Brady could not
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Speaker 1: do in the NFL level, which I find really interesting.
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Speaker 1: That the guy's about to draft him a seven time
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Speaker 1: super Bowler, but he's got one up on him.
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Speaker 3: He did an undefeated season.
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Speaker 1: How cool is that?
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Speaker 3: That is cool? That is cool, and it looks like
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Speaker 3: Brady's going to really have a lot of it.
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Speaker 1: But that was the college level. That's why I'm so
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Speaker 1: excited for his NFL potential. That was at the college level.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean sixteen and oh the last team
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Speaker 3: to do it was the eighteen ninety four Yale Bulldogs.
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Speaker 1: It was sixteen and oh, well, I don't know the
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Speaker 1: last time a Heisman winner actually went on and led
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Speaker 1: his team to the to the title.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: That's daddy, though maybe you might know that one.
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Speaker 3: Well, didn't keep Tebow, did he wanted when he wanted.
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Speaker 1: Mister Tibo as Fernando's mister Tebow, which I thought was
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Speaker 1: awesome too.
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Speaker 3: Berow did in twenty nineteen. So only two quarterbacks have
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Speaker 3: won a national championship and won a Super Bowl, and
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Speaker 3: Joe Montana, well Mendoz would be the third. It looked
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Speaker 3: like Joe Burrow was going to do it. Yeah, a
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Speaker 3: couple of years ago. We came within ninety seconds, but uh,
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Speaker 3: the Bengals couldn't hold on.
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Speaker 1: So and they were saying this, But by the way,
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Speaker 1: I gotta give Kirk Kurbstreet a lot of credit for
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Speaker 1: all this exact and he did this whole season. He
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Speaker 1: went from college football today, you know, the college game day,
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Speaker 1: to the doing the game, and then he'd fly out
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Speaker 1: do every Thursday night game and he did the playoff
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Speaker 1: game a couple of weeks ago with al Michaels, guy
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Speaker 1: was everywhere.
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Speaker 2: This year, Louis, he's everywhere.
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Speaker 3: And you know, some people try to nitpick his work
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Speaker 3: on Thursday night football. His work on Thursday night football
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Speaker 3: is perfect. He lets the game breathe, he doesn't talk
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Speaker 3: too much. And even Al Michaels, who people say, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's past his prime. Okay, the guy is eighty one
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Speaker 3: years old. But I'm telling you this is just my opinion.
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Speaker 3: He's still He's still I'm not gonna say at the
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Speaker 3: top of his game. He's still pretty good.
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Speaker 1: And of course we miss League Courso not being there
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Speaker 1: for this year's college game day, but I guess you
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Speaker 1: know and him are very close.
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Speaker 3: Still former head coach at the University of Indiana Courso.
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, So it'll be good. Look, this
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Speaker 1: is not just a revitalization of the football program. This
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Speaker 1: brings back and it's interesting. Happened almost you know, in
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Speaker 1: the same year Gene hackmen past. Because he put Hoosiers
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Speaker 1: on the map with that movie. There's no doubt about.
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Speaker 3: He's no question, you're right.
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Speaker 1: And so I would say this puts him on the map,
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Speaker 1: not just for football, But I think for all sports
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a bigger eye on blooming and which
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Speaker 1: by the way, I looked this up, Louis is not
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Speaker 1: a small town. Eighty thousand people. Is not a small town.
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Speaker 3: Actually it's not. I've been. I was there once, but
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Speaker 3: obviously it was for it was to see the football program.
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Speaker 3: It's obviously a basketball program. That was the I was
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Speaker 3: there just one time. Uh yeah, it's it's you know,
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Speaker 3: it's not you know, it's a college town, but it's
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Speaker 3: not a small college town. Eight thousand people, Like you
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Speaker 3: said a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Now, do you think this kid is gonna get like
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Speaker 2: the media tour?
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Speaker 1: I feel like you get that you said one in
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but it's expanded, you get the you get
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Speaker 1: the media tour, even after winning a national championship like
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Speaker 1: he did.
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Speaker 3: No, he will. Now, he might turn down some things
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Speaker 3: because that's the type of guy he is. He might
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Speaker 3: not take everything he has.
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Speaker 1: One time for a girlfriend, he said the other day,
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Speaker 1: girlfriends are distracted.
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Speaker 2: Girls are distracting. I want to focus on.
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Speaker 3: I Actually I actually read that story this morning, and
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Speaker 3: he's focusing on what's gonna be a big challenge, you know,
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Speaker 3: he's not getting drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs, you know,
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Speaker 3: a Super Bowl contender even though they make the playoffs. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: he's getting He's getting drafted by a team in all likelihood,
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Speaker 3: hopefully they find somebody else that they like. It's not
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Speaker 3: a quarterback and drop Mendoz the number two that would be.
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Speaker 3: That would be like a godsend for the Green and White.
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Speaker 3: But good things don't happen to them. But yeah, you know,
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Speaker 3: he's got he's got to concentrate on learning how to
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Speaker 3: play the NFL game, and I think he'll do a
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Speaker 3: great job. I'm so impressed with the guy.
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Speaker 1: Natural leader, and he actually overcame what not a hit
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Speaker 1: to the face, but his lip was bleeding and all that.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, that wasn't Alex. That was a cheap in
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Speaker 3: my opinion, that was a cheap shot. That was a
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Speaker 3: dirty shot. How how all those striped shirts could miss
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Speaker 3: that is beyond my comprehension. He got hit, laid out
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Speaker 3: of bounds, that there was at least three personal fouls
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Speaker 3: on him. Now I'm not saying that the that the
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Speaker 3: officials were favoring Miami. They just blew him, but that
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Speaker 3: first one, how could you blow that call. Everybody saw it.
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Speaker 3: That was that was unsportsumate like conduct targeting nowadays, you know,
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Speaker 3: we blow on the guy and uh they throw a
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Speaker 3: flag and he got racked, but you got key came
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Speaker 3: through it and uh, you know he was the MVP again,
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Speaker 3: and uh, he's gotta be on cloud nine.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 3: Great, great, he's a great kid. I loved. I would
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Speaker 3: love to see him where number fifteen in green and white,
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Speaker 3: but that's not going to happen.
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Speaker 1: So well, you know what we could, you could see
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Speaker 1: a surprise and the Raiders draft down, but I don't
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Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen either.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think so because there are no quarterbacks
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Speaker 3: in this draft. I shouldn't say or no, that's not right.
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Speaker 3: They are no slam dunk quarterbacks in his draft besides him,
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Speaker 3: and uh, they're not gonna They're not gonna pass him up.
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Speaker 3: I mean, some of these defensive players are are amazing
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Speaker 3: better in the draft, but I just don't think in
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Speaker 3: a league where quarterback play is so tough to find
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Speaker 3: that that the Vegas Raiders are going to not pass
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Speaker 3: them up. I'm not going to take him and pass
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Speaker 3: them up for somebody else. I just can't see it.
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Speaker 1: Now, let's say they do draft him, does that mean
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Speaker 1: he sits behind Gino? I kind of like the formula
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Speaker 1: where these guys are sitting and learning from these guys
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Speaker 1: that are veterans, then taking the place of them.
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Speaker 2: You know, I like that formula two.
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Speaker 3: Well, I actually I actually agree with you. And you know,
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Speaker 3: throwing these guys in day one sometimes really hurts them.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that. You know, you don't make
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Speaker 3: himself the whole year, but make him watch maybe put
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Speaker 3: him in game six if Gino Smith, who they still
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Speaker 3: have for another two years unless they cut him. You
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Speaker 3: know Falters, let's face, he's going to be the Las
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Speaker 3: Vegas Raders quarterback at some point. I just went and
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Speaker 3: saw him on opening day. But again, we don't even
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Speaker 3: know who the coach of the Raders is yet.
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Speaker 1: No, there's a lot of open spaces there, but we'll
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Speaker 1: see them get filled.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned about throwing them in there, and I wanted
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Speaker 1: to start with my dad's bears because it's his birthday
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Speaker 1: week this week, and you know, you saw the value
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Speaker 1: of QB on Sunday night. Caleb made that really I
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Speaker 1: thought one mistake, but it was a great matchup between
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Speaker 1: the two of them, Stafford versus Caleb. He can match
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Speaker 1: up with the good, the great ones. I could say
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Speaker 1: that now I feel like you can.
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Speaker 3: Well. The thing is he just had to get and
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Speaker 3: we've talked about this before. He's got great talent, He's
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Speaker 3: a great athlete. He just needs to become more consistent.
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Speaker 3: He missed a lot of open receivers and then he
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Speaker 3: makes that hillacious throw to Cole to the end.
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Speaker 2: Zone when he h whether they Caleb or something like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, but I think he's in the right situation, Alex.
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Speaker 3: He's with an offensive coach in Ben Johnson. I think
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Speaker 3: now the Bear Now, the Bears had a big jump
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Speaker 3: this year and a lot of things went their way.
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Speaker 3: But I think the Bears if Caleb Williams stays healthy,
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Speaker 3: I think you want to see him improved as a
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Speaker 3: quarterback next year. His accuracy still needs to be better.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he completed fifty eight percent of his passes
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Speaker 3: last year. That has to that has to improve in
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Speaker 3: today's NFL. When I saw watching football, if you complete
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Speaker 3: fifty eight percent of your passes, they would put you
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Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame while you were still playing
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Speaker 3: that's how the game has changed. But you know, the
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Speaker 3: Bears did a Hey did any Bear fans thought they
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Speaker 3: were gonna be twelve and five?
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Speaker 1: And U then win a playoff game but the first
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Speaker 1: time in fifteen years against the Packers, and I thought, well,
13:02
Speaker 1: green Bay always seems to have their number, but not
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Speaker 1: this time in the playoffs. So it was a nice
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Speaker 1: change of pace. Rams and see it. Look, I'll be
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Speaker 1: quite frank except for Drake May, I don't know the
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Speaker 1: appeal of this whole rest of the season, I postseason.
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Speaker 1: I just the Seahawks are Rams. That's an NFC West thing,
13:21
Speaker 1: that's not really a New York thing we deal with.
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Speaker 1: And then the you know, the Broncos down in a
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Speaker 1: bow Nicks. This should be Drake May's super Bowl. To lose, well,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, to get to and then
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Speaker 1: maybe win. I feel like it's his time.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, here's a guy in the second year
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Speaker 3: and he didn't start in his first year until the
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Speaker 3: middle of the season. Obviously, the Patriots, okay, you know,
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Speaker 3: are the favorite on Sunday, even though you're playing in Denver.
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Speaker 3: A lot of things have gone to Patriots way, and
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Speaker 3: I believe I read the other day that since the
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Speaker 3: merger in nineteen seventy, and that's really the beginning of
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Speaker 3: the new era of football. The merger maybe wrong, go
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Speaker 3: back to nineteen sixty, but anything really before that is okay.
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Speaker 3: But the Patriots since the merger, which was nineteen seventy
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Speaker 3: to today, had played the tenth easiest schedule in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: They got a breaking game, you know, in the first
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Speaker 3: game against the Chargers, who played according to analytics, they
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Speaker 3: played a Charger team beat up injury offensive line, the
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Speaker 3: fifth or sixth analytically driven offensive line in the history
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Speaker 3: of NFL playoff teams. So a lot of things have
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Speaker 3: gone their way. I think they gotta be careful on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: I don't think beating Denver, even with Bo Nicks out
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Speaker 3: and Jared Stidham in the game, I'm sure it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be a heavy dose of run and play action passes,
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Speaker 3: a trick play or two at the right time. Uh.
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Speaker 3: The Denver dy, especially at front seven, might be able
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Speaker 3: to of course, all kinds of havoc with the Patriots
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Speaker 3: offensive line, which is a little shaky. But Kenni Kenne
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Speaker 3: Broncos win on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: You know why, because they have a big and I
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Speaker 1: know he had the scandal with New Orleans, but they
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Speaker 1: have a really damn good coach can navigate this thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: And actually, and you know, Rabel's had his struggles as coach,
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Speaker 1: but I mean he's improved with Drake May this year
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Speaker 1: for sure, you know, And I should take it back.
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Speaker 1: I think people will be interested on Sunday in the
15:38
Speaker 1: ram Syhawks. He because I'm a Matt Stafford guy. I've
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Speaker 1: always liked Matt Stafford. I always thought that trade would
15:44
Speaker 1: Detroit benefited both sides, unlike other trades.
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Speaker 3: It did. It was an unusual trade that both sides
15:50
Speaker 3: benefited from.
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Speaker 1: But but the Sam Darnold story is fascinating to the
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Speaker 1: New Yorkers who saw him struggle here. I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: no doubt that we want to see him succeed at
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Speaker 1: least I think I do too, don't you.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean I don't think. I don't. I
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Speaker 3: think the Jets treated him, and I don't mean tried
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Speaker 3: by me treated him. I don't think that they abused
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Speaker 3: him anyway. But I mean, as he should have started
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Speaker 3: his first game, he should have watched for five or
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Speaker 3: six or seven games. Again, Patrick Mahomes didn't play at
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Speaker 3: all his first year until the last game of the
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Speaker 3: season when the Chiefs had everything clinched and they arrested
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Speaker 3: Steve Smith. So it's it's no sin in sitting down
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Speaker 3: for a while. He had he had absolutely no players,
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Speaker 3: He had no receivers and and then the Jets decided
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Speaker 3: to cut loose and drafted Zach, which was a huge
16:46
Speaker 3: mistake drafting Zach Wilson, and then they saw him right away,
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Speaker 3: which was a mistake. So again the difference between success
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Speaker 3: and failure sometimes it's when you get drafted by and as.
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Speaker 1: It would be kind of cool to see this guy
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Speaker 1: who was now match Tom Brady with fourteen plus win
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Speaker 1: seasons say f you to both teams gave up on
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Speaker 1: him and I actually take the Seahawks up Bowl. I
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Speaker 1: kind of liked that revenge story he seems to be
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Speaker 1: going on because look, he should have been all intends
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Speaker 1: and purposes of Viking.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we we.
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Speaker 1: Sayed over and over, but that was his team. He
17:20
Speaker 1: took that team and brought to another level and they
17:23
Speaker 1: let him go. So I hope he gives them an
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Speaker 1: FU two because he no because You're right, Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: suck to see them let him let go, you know,
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Speaker 1: let let go of him like that.
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Speaker 2: But it's been fun to watch him in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: And I said to you, does Kyle Shanahan.
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Speaker 1: Have a job situation here? And You're like no, And
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Speaker 1: I'm like, but they got beat up. I didn't expect
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks to beat them up that much.
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Speaker 3: Well, they had, they had no roster left, Alex. Kyle
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Speaker 3: Shanahan is the best coach probably in an entire National
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Speaker 3: Football league. I mean, I would how would he broke
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Speaker 3: and play for him to be the coach of my
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Speaker 3: New York Jets. He's the best coach in football right now.
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Speaker 3: He's better than Harbor, He's better than Tomlin. He's right
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Speaker 3: there with McVeigh. He'd made chicken salad out of chicken
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Speaker 3: crap even to get that far. That's my analyzation.
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Speaker 1: A look at the way he had. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: remember when he first started, he had Garoppolo and it
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Speaker 1: just I think he had Smith's end of the year
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Speaker 1: area two. But you know, he's really turned it around.
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Speaker 1: With Brock Purty, It's been amazing to watch Brock Party,
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Speaker 1: who we knew. We never knew about it until he
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Speaker 1: had to take over for I think injured Garoppolo and
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Speaker 1: then he became a star. Look at that. So well,
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Speaker 1: we'll have to see what the Niners do. But the
18:41
Speaker 1: Seahawks domination was a surprise. Can we I think we'd
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Speaker 1: safely save that all year long?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I mean, obviously they were a new quarterback.
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Speaker 3: You never know what's gonna happen. Even though we had
18:54
Speaker 3: a big year with the Vikings last year. When Donald
18:55
Speaker 3: came into Seattle, different situation, but he picked up where
18:58
Speaker 3: we uh where we left off. Their defense is awesome
19:04
Speaker 3: and I could be wrong. I will be rooting for Seattle. Well,
19:10
Speaker 3: I should say I will be favoring Seattle. I only
19:12
Speaker 3: rooted for one team, and it's not the Seattle Seahawks,
19:16
Speaker 3: but Alex I have. I mean, if you're gonna make me,
19:19
Speaker 3: and you know I hate to pick games, but if
19:21
Speaker 3: you're gonna make me pick one, I would lean towards
19:24
Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Rams.
19:27
Speaker 1: Well, because the Rams have this energy about him McVeigh.
19:33
Speaker 1: And by the way, how interest is gonna be Cooper
19:35
Speaker 1: Cup versus old team in the NFC title game?
19:37
Speaker 2: So that's very interesting as well. That's very it's very
19:40
Speaker 2: interesting on Sunday.
19:42
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm I'm a New Yorker, so I'm
19:44
Speaker 1: not supposed to say this, and I thought about this today.
19:47
Speaker 1: I'm starting to feel like I'm picking player over team
19:50
Speaker 1: and I want to see Drake May do something his
19:53
Speaker 1: second year. I saw potential him last year. I wouldn't
19:56
Speaker 1: mind seeing him win the Super Bowl. I'm not supposed
19:58
Speaker 1: to say that because I'm in New Yorker, but player aside
20:01
Speaker 1: from the team, he's a great player, and I think
20:03
Speaker 1: i'd like to see him complete that incredible turnaround of
20:06
Speaker 1: the Patriots.
20:06
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, Now I understand and remember Alex, when you know,
20:12
Speaker 3: just because we live here, that doesn't mean we have
20:15
Speaker 3: to We get we and we always give our realistic opinions.
20:20
Speaker 3: And I agree with you about Drake May. It would
20:23
Speaker 3: be cool if he finishes the job.
20:26
Speaker 1: It would almost be like the Mendoza turnaround of Indiana
20:29
Speaker 1: if I'm honest.
20:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, but again, but again, you know, don't feel sorry
20:33
Speaker 3: for the Patriots. I mean, they had two crappy years
20:35
Speaker 3: after you know, twenty great ones, so it's not like
20:39
Speaker 3: the Patriots were in the crapper like Indiana. Was for
20:42
Speaker 3: the last seventy years.
20:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in the peril of the two of them.
20:48
Speaker 1: So well, we'll have to see what happens this this
20:51
Speaker 1: this weekend. All right, Let's get to what happened yesterday,
20:54
Speaker 1: two days ago already. Geez, Thursday, Harbaugh.
20:58
Speaker 2: Rockstar Entrance, Rockstar press conference.
21:02
Speaker 1: And I love that he started off saying, we are
21:04
Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants. I am proud to be
21:07
Speaker 1: head coach of the New York Football Giants. Maybe that
21:10
Speaker 1: that brings a serious tone to the conversation. Now by
21:12
Speaker 1: adding football, I know Steve Summers to.
21:15
Speaker 3: Take the truth considering the baseball Giants left when I
21:18
Speaker 3: was four years old, which is sixty eight years ago.
21:21
Speaker 3: I don't know why they're still being called the New
21:22
Speaker 3: York Football Giants since we since there's no baseball team
21:25
Speaker 3: in New York, but that's their corporate name. And uh uh.
21:31
Speaker 3: I thought Harbor was magnificent in that press conference. I
21:35
Speaker 3: really did, as I told you. I thought that the
21:38
Speaker 3: entire process, which was un giant like, uh, they handled it.
21:46
Speaker 3: They handled it perfectly.
21:47
Speaker 1: Now, Michael Rubin and fanatics, if you're listening out there
21:51
Speaker 1: and you want to go to Eli's Mediterranean. We can
21:53
Speaker 1: make a deal and do a podcast for fanatics. Terminello's
21:56
Speaker 1: take on with fanatics. How cool would that be. Let's
21:58
Speaker 1: get an.
22:00
Speaker 3: I'm only an hour away from fifty five minutes away
22:04
Speaker 3: from that restaurant. I'd be there in a heartbeat, So
22:08
Speaker 3: let's get let's do it. But Harbo was magnificent. But
22:15
Speaker 3: the thing is, this was the This was the first
22:18
Speaker 3: time in my lifetime the New York Giants, excuse me,
22:22
Speaker 3: the New York Football Giants hired an alpha male as coach.
22:28
Speaker 3: When I hired Parcels, he was an unknown. He wasn't
22:31
Speaker 3: an alpha male. He became one when he became coach
22:34
Speaker 3: of the Patriots or the Jets and the Cowboys. And
22:40
Speaker 3: you saw right away, I don't care what the organizational
22:44
Speaker 3: chart says. He is running the.
22:51
Speaker 1: Entire four coaches already were not even into genuine At
22:54
Speaker 1: the end of the week, he just fired four coaches, right,
22:57
Speaker 1: so you know.
22:58
Speaker 3: He's he's running the oh.
23:02
Speaker 1: But that's what And I know people are gonna say dable, mismanaged, dark,
23:06
Speaker 1: but I also know he wasn't the kind of fire anybody.
23:09
Speaker 1: I think that was one of the issues they probably
23:11
Speaker 1: had with him. You could have fired Shane Bowen after
23:13
Speaker 1: that Denver debacle and he didn't like Come on, man,
23:17
Speaker 1: and I like dable the first year. Then it just
23:18
Speaker 1: wore off on me.
23:20
Speaker 3: Well, the thing, the thing is Alex, you know Harbor.
23:26
Speaker 3: I think, yes, they fired some guy who was not
23:30
Speaker 3: some guy and the assistant general manager and I.
23:32
Speaker 1: Can't the senior vpat of operation from yeah, since nineteen
23:36
Speaker 1: ninety nine.
23:37
Speaker 2: I love it.
23:38
Speaker 3: Though.
23:38
Speaker 1: You need change.
23:39
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Kevin Abrams, that's his name, just puffed into
23:42
Speaker 3: my head. Yeah, but you need absolutely, you know you
23:46
Speaker 3: need change. But again it shows you how uh. I
23:54
Speaker 3: don't want to say double standard, but.
23:58
Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, maybe maybe this is a test.
24:00
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll see I Shay, if he doesn't like the
24:02
Speaker 1: way they drafted, maybe he'll get Shane fired after well,
24:06
Speaker 1: d with Alex.
24:07
Speaker 3: Alex, Shane is not Shane is just going to be
24:10
Speaker 3: a complimentary situation with the draft. He's gonna make his
24:14
Speaker 3: voice heard. The guy who's gonna the guy who's gonna
24:16
Speaker 3: pick the player that he wants. It's gonna be John Hobbor.
24:19
Speaker 3: John Hobbor is pointing directly to John Marra. Now I'm
24:23
Speaker 3: gonna say something else. This is where as the pro
24:26
Speaker 3: giant they kissed the giants ass all the time. Media
24:29
Speaker 3: is hypocritical. Now everybody criticizes Whatdy Johnson because the coach
24:35
Speaker 3: reports directly or Rdy Johnson. But now, for the first
24:38
Speaker 3: time ever, the coach is reporting the direct directly. John
24:42
Speaker 3: Marra I gets that's okay. And oh, by the way,
24:46
Speaker 3: when when John Harbower was in Baltimore for those eighteen
24:50
Speaker 3: years and won one hundred and ninety three games an
24:53
Speaker 3: amazing total, he reported directly to the owner, Steve Buscatti.
24:59
Speaker 1: So I then trages him out as he's out the door.
25:02
Speaker 1: I don't really understand that one, but.
25:05
Speaker 3: Well, again he he's the owner. But my point is
25:09
Speaker 3: he replied directly to the owner. But when the coach
25:13
Speaker 3: reports directly to the owner of the Woody Johnson, Woody
25:15
Speaker 3: Johnson's a piece of crap. So that's I just had
25:18
Speaker 3: to I had to throw it out in there.
25:20
Speaker 2: Your daily dose, your weekly dose of jets.
25:23
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just being realistic. That's all.
25:26
Speaker 1: Just being is what I call it.
25:29
Speaker 3: Again. I think I'm as realistic and as non bias
25:35
Speaker 3: on the show as possible. But when I see something,
25:38
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say something. I guess he fired the Giants trainer.
25:41
Speaker 3: I haven't I the long time Giants trainer Ronnie Bonds,
25:45
Speaker 3: or they're gonna shift him into a different position.
25:48
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's like an usher looks away. The
25:50
Speaker 1: usher will be fired before the end of the game.
25:52
Speaker 3: But again, Alex, the only thing that matters if the
25:57
Speaker 3: next year the Giants are ten and seven and a
25:59
Speaker 3: year after that, uh, they were in any NFC championship
26:02
Speaker 3: game or Super Bowl. That's the only thing that matters.
26:06
Speaker 3: It's the end result.
26:07
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this because remember when I
26:09
Speaker 1: saw Patino struggling his first year, and I'm like, uh, oh, Louis,
26:12
Speaker 1: and You're like, give it time. Could we see a
26:15
Speaker 1: struggle situation here in the first year and then all
26:18
Speaker 1: of a sudden that second to whatever many years, Yes
26:21
Speaker 1: you could, I would say, yes, Yes, that's possible.
26:24
Speaker 3: Mm hm.
26:25
Speaker 1: So I mean cause I know a lot of pressures
26:26
Speaker 1: are gonna be a lot of rgused on him already.
26:28
Speaker 1: I mean he came in here almost like Frando is
26:30
Speaker 1: gonna be going into Raider and you know, Las Vegas
26:34
Speaker 1: as like a savior almost. So it's gonna be very
26:38
Speaker 1: interesting to see how the media handles him after the
26:41
Speaker 1: first few weeks.
26:42
Speaker 2: I'm way for the first few weeks of the season
26:44
Speaker 2: to see how they react to it. I'm very curious actually,
26:48
Speaker 2: so we'll happen to see.
26:51
Speaker 1: You know, the Jets did not make any moves as
26:54
Speaker 1: far as firing any coaches, really have they. I haven't
26:57
Speaker 1: seen any moves made around Aaron Glenn yet.
26:59
Speaker 3: No, you know, and I think we might have mentioned
27:01
Speaker 3: this last week, and I'll mention it again. It's gonna
27:04
Speaker 3: be hard for if the Jets want to h bring
27:09
Speaker 3: in some new coaches get rid of some old ones.
27:12
Speaker 3: Let's face it. And I'm telling you when you're gonna
27:14
Speaker 3: be pulling out this and I hope, and believe me, Alex,
27:16
Speaker 3: I hope I'm wrong. I'm hoping. I hope he successful.
27:20
Speaker 3: But come Halloween or before that, you're gonna be going back.
27:24
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna say, Alex, you gotta start the podcast
27:27
Speaker 3: off with the tape of when I said he'll be
27:30
Speaker 3: gone by Halloween and if and believe me, other people
27:34
Speaker 3: in the league know that. So if you're a top
27:37
Speaker 3: notch defensive coordinator, possibility like a Jim Leonard, one of
27:40
Speaker 3: my favorite Jets and I guess he interviewed for the
27:45
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator. Drop would you take that job? Where maybe
27:50
Speaker 3: by November first, by Halloween, Aaron Glenn's gonna be fired,
27:54
Speaker 3: which means you'll be looking for another job next year.
27:57
Speaker 3: Now he'll get one because he's a highly respected defensive coach.
28:00
Speaker 3: But again, that hurts recruitment of of these coaches. Again,
28:08
Speaker 3: Hopefully I'm wrong, Hopefully Aaron Glenn is successful. Alex, I
28:13
Speaker 3: don't see it.
28:16
Speaker 1: I also think he's been I don't think he's been
28:18
Speaker 1: saddled with a good system around him either. But we'll
28:20
Speaker 1: have to see. And it is frustrating when the other
28:25
Speaker 1: side of town, the Giants have this hoopla, and all
28:28
Speaker 1: of a sudden you look at the jets'd its are
28:30
Speaker 1: like cold and and despair and.
28:33
Speaker 3: Right right, But look two years ago Jets had all
28:36
Speaker 3: the hooplat when they got Rogers, and four plays into
28:38
Speaker 3: the season, he blew He blew out his achilles. Now again,
28:42
Speaker 3: as I said to you last week, even if hardball
28:44
Speaker 3: blows out his achilles or tars hiss acl somebody runs
28:47
Speaker 3: into him on the sidelines, he can still coach. That's
28:50
Speaker 3: the big difference. But there's no guarantee of success. And
28:53
Speaker 3: we saw with Pete Carroll, a guy who won a
28:55
Speaker 3: national championship in college football, went to two Super Bowls,
28:59
Speaker 3: won them, won one of them, and uh couldn't get
29:03
Speaker 3: out of his own way this year? What the what
29:05
Speaker 3: the what? The Vegas rops the.
29:08
Speaker 2: Team of coaches. That's a really sad exit for him.
29:10
Speaker 1: But I want to I want to go back to
29:13
Speaker 1: to last two years ago because who was the coach
29:16
Speaker 1: two years ago?
29:18
Speaker 2: Robert Salad for six weeks.
29:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, I don't know what you can bring to
29:24
Speaker 1: the Titans. What do you think they hired him for?
29:27
Speaker 1: Where's the second chance going to lead him?
29:29
Speaker 3: Well, Alex, if I was in my job, if I
29:32
Speaker 3: was when I was working, if I was twenty and
29:34
Speaker 3: thirty six equivalent in my job, I probably would be
29:36
Speaker 3: fired and never been hired again. So he was twenty
29:39
Speaker 3: and thirty six. He's an outstanding defensive coach. He had
29:43
Speaker 3: he is he and uh, you know, the Titans have
29:49
Speaker 3: a lot of work to do. I mean, their roster
29:52
Speaker 3: is full of holes. But he must have impressed them
29:55
Speaker 3: in the interview. I don't know why they hired him,
30:00
Speaker 3: but they they have a quarterback that looks like he
30:03
Speaker 3: might be okay in cam Ward. And uh again, some
30:10
Speaker 3: organizations don't want the alpha male, they don't want Hall.
30:13
Speaker 1: I still think there because Misica was letting Derek Henry
30:16
Speaker 1: go to Baltimore. But that's just me.
30:18
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just uh.
30:20
Speaker 1: They they they fell off after that. And of course
30:23
Speaker 1: Rabel tried his best in Tennessee. It just didn't really
30:26
Speaker 1: work out. But yeah, I mean, now we tried to,
30:29
Speaker 1: you know, work with a young quarterback here and it
30:32
Speaker 1: didn't really work. I guess he's gonna try and redo
30:35
Speaker 1: do something different with cam Ward.
30:36
Speaker 2: We'll have to see.
30:37
Speaker 3: Well. And I also think, let's face it now, we
30:40
Speaker 3: you know, he was in an NFL coach of sixties
30:43
Speaker 3: fifty six games. Robert Salill learned some things during all
30:48
Speaker 3: fifty six games, some of the mistakes he made with
30:50
Speaker 3: the Jets for his sake, hopefully he won't make again.
30:56
Speaker 3: So you know, yeah, there was a learning curve, and
30:58
Speaker 3: I'm sure he learned. He learned, He he learned a lot
31:01
Speaker 3: for his sake. I hope he did. I mean, but
31:05
Speaker 3: we'll see.
31:06
Speaker 1: We'll have to see, all right. The other stuff is baseball,
31:10
Speaker 1: but I'm such we can talk baseball in the second.
31:12
Speaker 1: But I'm such an NFL move just I just okay,
31:15
Speaker 1: it's just a lot going on and a lot of moves.
31:18
Speaker 1: But the thing with and a lot, I always feel
31:23
Speaker 1: like these names always pop up like it's I'm trying
31:27
Speaker 1: to lead somewhere, but it's always like I remember last year,
31:29
Speaker 1: we had like three guys from the New York area
31:31
Speaker 1: that was about being the Super Bowl with the Vikings,
31:33
Speaker 1: and it was like, how did that happen? All these
31:35
Speaker 1: guys pop up everywhere else? Why can't we have guys
31:39
Speaker 1: be successful here before they move onward. That's what I'm
31:41
Speaker 1: trying to figure out year after year.
31:44
Speaker 3: Well, you have different decision makers every year. That's been
31:47
Speaker 3: a problem.
31:48
Speaker 2: Like maybe salad goes on in the AFC Championship. I mean,
31:51
Speaker 2: this is how crazy the thing could happen.
31:54
Speaker 3: Remember Pete Carroll his first year in coaching as a
31:58
Speaker 3: head coach, he was head coach of that JED six
32:00
Speaker 3: and ten and they made them one and done, which
32:03
Speaker 3: was a mistake.
32:06
Speaker 1: But I'm a very big parallel guy. So I think
32:12
Speaker 1: about thirty years ago when the jet when the Yanks
32:15
Speaker 1: brought on, and I know it was a different reception
32:17
Speaker 1: because the media actually hated Tory. But thirty years ago
32:21
Speaker 1: there was another big splash in a managerial change, and
32:25
Speaker 1: he led them to a few World Series. I know
32:27
Speaker 1: football is different, but I couldn't help but think of
32:29
Speaker 1: the thirty year parallel of like, well, maybe horror BA
32:32
Speaker 1: do something to bring New York sports back, because let's
32:34
Speaker 1: face it, when Tory got hired thirty years ago, he
32:37
Speaker 1: changed the landscape of New York sports forever. And I
32:40
Speaker 1: think we're trying to hoping Harbor does the same. Right now.
32:44
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not helping that, but I think you could
32:46
Speaker 3: be right.
32:49
Speaker 1: Because look you look at the other sports. Oh my god,
32:52
Speaker 1: the Knicks or disaster, I don't know. Now they don't
32:55
Speaker 1: want to play for Mike Brown. It's a very talk
32:59
Speaker 1: to there. And then you got the Rangers. We need
33:02
Speaker 1: some kind of hope here, Louis.
33:04
Speaker 3: Well again, I'm got's let's let's uh, let's let's we'll
33:08
Speaker 3: talk about the Nicks real quick. Uh. They probably should
33:11
Speaker 3: not have pulled the trigger on Thibodeau. I was never
33:14
Speaker 3: a big Mike Brown fan, but I am not going
33:17
Speaker 3: to trash him yet. It's the middle of the season. Uh,
33:21
Speaker 3: this team doesn't seem this team, they're behind the Celtics,
33:26
Speaker 3: we don't have their best player. I mean, it's remarkable
33:30
Speaker 3: to me. I thought the Knicks would be a one
33:32
Speaker 3: or at worst the two seed, and they're closer to
33:36
Speaker 3: the playing tournament than they r to the one or
33:39
Speaker 3: two seed. Uh again, somebody said the Knicks aren't aren't
33:46
Speaker 3: athletic enough to win the championship last week, an NBA
33:49
Speaker 3: scout said an anonymous NBA scouts and maybe that's true. Momentum,
33:54
Speaker 3: and I don't know, and I don't think this is
33:55
Speaker 3: gonna happen for the Knicks, But momentum on Jannis and
33:59
Speaker 3: at the Kupo getting ready before the February fifth trade deadline,
34:04
Speaker 3: it seems to be getting stronger and stronger each day.
34:06
Speaker 3: Brian Windhors makes it sound like it's definitely gonna happen.
34:10
Speaker 3: Brian Winners of ESPN, he said, it's it's.
34:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's getting ugly out into Milwaukee. I'm hearing
34:16
Speaker 1: like everybody's sort of against each other out there now.
34:18
Speaker 1: It's pretty bad, actually, what's going on out there.
34:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I could see that happening. I don't know
34:24
Speaker 3: if he's coming to the Knicks. But Alex even if
34:26
Speaker 3: he comes to the Knicks, I don't I don't think
34:28
Speaker 3: that makes him a contender because how many guys are
34:30
Speaker 3: gonna have to get rid of They're probably.
34:32
Speaker 1: What's going on with Lebron by the way, I hear
34:34
Speaker 1: that the Bus family is upset with him or something.
34:36
Speaker 2: I don't exactly know what's going on.
34:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were saying that, you know, Lebron, you know,
34:45
Speaker 3: war out as welcome and kind of turned their back
34:48
Speaker 3: on them and with some of the decisions that they made,
34:50
Speaker 3: and Lebron is one of the reasons why they actually
34:53
Speaker 3: sold their steak in the in the Los Angeles Lakers,
34:57
Speaker 3: which is remarkable to me. But when they sold that,
35:01
Speaker 3: when they sold their share of the Lakers, they walked
35:05
Speaker 3: away with an amazing amount of money. So I don't
35:07
Speaker 3: feel sorry for training of the buses.
35:11
Speaker 1: And saying in basketball, I understand you got to mention
35:14
Speaker 1: by Chris Carreno. Is that correct? I saw something from
35:18
Speaker 1: our friend Dave Germany.
35:20
Speaker 3: Oh uh uh yeah, no, I uh.
35:27
Speaker 4: Our buddy J Horwitz, who has his own podcast, he
35:30
Speaker 4: interviewed nets play by play announced so Westwood One play
35:34
Speaker 4: by play announcer for NFL one of the best in
35:37
Speaker 4: the business, Chris Carrino, and.
35:41
Speaker 3: For his podcast, and he was talking. When he was
35:45
Speaker 3: talking to Chris, somehow it came up that you know
35:48
Speaker 3: cross where I you know, I worked for the NETS
35:50
Speaker 3: And he mentioned some other people like Jimmy Lamparello and
35:53
Speaker 3: Danny Harris and John murch who was their old their
35:57
Speaker 3: former Uh, your director.
36:01
Speaker 2: So I'm talking to a celebrity, is what I'm hearing.
36:03
Speaker 3: No, you're not talking You're not talking to You're not
36:05
Speaker 3: talking to celebrity. You're just talking to another guy, another
36:08
Speaker 3: guy who loves the business of sport and who loves
36:12
Speaker 3: sports on the field, court, ice, grid iron.
36:18
Speaker 1: Well, I just want to clear that up because I
36:20
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. You got to mention by Jay all right,
36:22
Speaker 1: uh and Chris, all right, let's go to the ice
36:25
Speaker 1: for a minute, because I've been saying for weeks now,
36:27
Speaker 1: the garden's been changing it fire Drury at this point, Loui,
36:31
Speaker 1: you have another letter come out and then your venera
36:34
Speaker 1: being told he's not going to be extended. They've thrown
36:38
Speaker 1: the towel, as you've said to me off there. But
36:40
Speaker 1: is firing jury going to change anything? I don't know
36:43
Speaker 1: what it's gonna change if they're already blown up, you.
36:47
Speaker 3: May but one and the thing is, you know they
36:49
Speaker 3: hired Mike Sullivan. Mike Sullivan has been a very successful coach,
36:54
Speaker 3: almost like John Hobbor. When they hired Mike Sullivan, he
36:59
Speaker 3: did not think that after the new year a couple
37:03
Speaker 3: of weeks ago, he was going to be talking to
37:06
Speaker 3: Chris Drewy and their longtime buddies that they were gonna
37:10
Speaker 3: send a lot of season ticket holders saying that we
37:13
Speaker 3: need to retool the team. That's why he left Pittsburgh
37:16
Speaker 3: because it looked like Pittsburgh was going to retool the team.
37:19
Speaker 3: But meanwhile, Pittsburgh since day one has had a very
37:23
Speaker 3: good year. I mean, there was even talk about training
37:25
Speaker 3: Cursby at the trade deadline this year. Well that's not happening.
37:29
Speaker 3: And you know they are in the seventh or eighth
37:32
Speaker 3: spot for the for the playoffs. I don't know if
37:36
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh has the enough to get over the finish line
37:40
Speaker 3: to make the playoffs, but they certainly didn't go into
37:44
Speaker 3: a retool or rebuild situation. I mean, Alex, did you
37:50
Speaker 3: ever think that the New York Islands would be eleven
37:52
Speaker 3: points ahead of the New York Rangers. At this stage
37:54
Speaker 3: and the season, it's almost hard to comprehend.
38:00
Speaker 2: And that the terrible West Coast win.
38:02
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been lost after loss and it's not
38:06
Speaker 1: even it's not even good losses. I mean, we can
38:08
Speaker 1: understand a loss that's close. They they don't even look competitive,
38:13
Speaker 1: and as I'm not really watching that closely, but they
38:15
Speaker 1: don't even look competitive right now.
38:17
Speaker 3: Well, I mean they lost to an animal, a young
38:21
Speaker 3: Anaheim team that's probably more that is more athletic than him,
38:26
Speaker 3: in all likelihood faster than them. They lost. They lost
38:30
Speaker 3: to a King's team. And the Kings are always tough
38:32
Speaker 3: to play, especially you know in LA. But the range
38:37
Speaker 3: that problems. Man, they do, uh and they have.
38:41
Speaker 1: You've said the Molly Walker who continually updates us on
38:44
Speaker 1: what line? I mean, she goes in depth. You get
38:46
Speaker 1: the practice lines, you get the line.
38:48
Speaker 2: I mean, first, she.
38:49
Speaker 3: Worked hard, she is he works hard, always got it.
38:52
Speaker 1: And even the quotes after the game I forward to
38:55
Speaker 1: you and others that may not get them, like, man,
38:58
Speaker 1: this is some interesting content she got even.
39:00
Speaker 2: Through a rough year.
39:02
Speaker 1: Maybe we should just stop celebrating one hundred seasons because
39:05
Speaker 1: it's not worked out for the Giants or the Ring.
39:09
Speaker 3: You're right, No, you're right.
39:11
Speaker 1: And so by twenty sixty two, which is actually twenty
39:14
Speaker 1: six dyslexic, maybe maybe we should not have the Mets
39:19
Speaker 1: one hundred season in twenty sixty.
39:23
Speaker 3: That's that, that is a very good point. But the
39:27
Speaker 3: Rangers aren't free fall, the Rangers of the Arrows pointing
39:30
Speaker 3: down the devil with the devils the average sideways. I
39:35
Speaker 3: don't know if the Islands have enough to make the playoffs.
39:38
Speaker 3: I don't think they do. I don't think I don't
39:39
Speaker 3: think they'll make it. But even if they don't make it,
39:41
Speaker 3: the Arrows definitely pointing out they've done a great job.
39:45
Speaker 3: I mean, Palmery only played twenty five games. I think
39:50
Speaker 3: now it's fourteen games without Horvat and then that you
39:56
Speaker 3: know they need him, and they've still kept their ahead
39:59
Speaker 3: of both ward. You know, Matthew Shaffer we talked about
40:03
Speaker 3: a thousand times, and I'll throw another Matthew Shaeffer positive
40:06
Speaker 3: statistic going going into this week, not counting the games
40:10
Speaker 3: the last three four days, Matthew Shaeffer has drawn the
40:15
Speaker 3: third most penalties in the NFL, I mean the NFL.
40:19
Speaker 3: In the NHL. He has drawn the third most penalty.
40:22
Speaker 1: It's okay, Louis I said the other day, Mendoza gonna
40:25
Speaker 1: be drafted by the Las Vegas Knights, so we're on
40:27
Speaker 1: the scene. Ah No, it's uh, he's physical, and I
40:32
Speaker 1: know that hate that.
40:33
Speaker 2: You hate that because he's such a young kid. But
40:35
Speaker 2: he's physical.
40:36
Speaker 1: He as that he survived a cross check and goes
40:38
Speaker 1: in and scores the game winning goal. I mean, the
40:40
Speaker 1: kids aggressive and they need that, but they all got
40:43
Speaker 1: to pretend preserve his energy for future future seasons, you.
40:47
Speaker 3: Know, absolutely so uh so, I mean, even if the
40:50
Speaker 3: allenders don't make the playoffs, I still I think, uh,
40:53
Speaker 3: the arrow was pointing up cal Ritchie has. You know
40:57
Speaker 3: that was lou Lamarrello's last trade when he trade brought
41:00
Speaker 3: Nelson to Colorado. By the way, Brock, Nelson's on an
41:03
Speaker 3: incredible hot tear lately for you.
41:06
Speaker 1: Oh, that West just looks more dominant in the East
41:08
Speaker 1: right now.
41:09
Speaker 3: It is. It is.
41:11
Speaker 1: And that's not even talking about Connor and McDavid because
41:14
Speaker 1: I don't even know what he you know, he's kind
41:16
Speaker 1: of doing his own thing up in Edmonton right now.
41:18
Speaker 3: Alex. He might score, he might score one hundred and
41:20
Speaker 3: fifty points this year. I mean he might hit one fifty.
41:25
Speaker 2: The likelihood of a three time.
41:28
Speaker 1: You know, matchup between the Panthers and the Oilers is
41:31
Speaker 1: a little likely, but will have to see.
41:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Panthers are on Panthers are running on empty
41:37
Speaker 3: so well, I mean they are out of a playoff
41:39
Speaker 3: spot right now. They've actually been outscored this season. They
41:45
Speaker 3: might be running on empty. But I'll tell you one thing,
41:47
Speaker 3: the Pampa Bay is with all their injuries, with Headman out,
41:52
Speaker 3: with Ryan mcdonno out, with Brendan point out. I mean
41:54
Speaker 3: Headman has been out for a long time, so as McDonough,
41:57
Speaker 3: I mean, they are they are cooking, and I think
42:01
Speaker 3: they I think John Cooper is the best coach in
42:03
Speaker 3: the National Hockey League. I really do. He's remarkable and
42:09
Speaker 3: he's you know, he's gonna be the coach of Team
42:11
Speaker 3: Canada in the Olympics against Mike Sullivan and another they were.
42:17
Speaker 3: They went against each other in four nations last year.
42:20
Speaker 1: So hopefully let's By the way, I gotta lay out
42:24
Speaker 1: the sports calendar for everybody that may not be knowing.
42:27
Speaker 1: We got the AMC NFC Championship. But you look to
42:29
Speaker 1: forward to February. You've got Super Bowl, then you've got
42:33
Speaker 1: the Olympics that takes us through to March. In March,
42:37
Speaker 1: you have the World Baseball Classic, March Madness Spring Training. Uh,
42:42
Speaker 1: and then in April we're back.
42:44
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot.
42:45
Speaker 1: Of funny here the next few months. It's like, finally,
42:47
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be a dull moment after the super
42:49
Speaker 1: Bowl for a while.
42:50
Speaker 3: There will not be a dull moment. And that's that's
42:53
Speaker 3: fine with me.
42:54
Speaker 1: I'll be excited for that, all right. Speaking of owners, though,
42:58
Speaker 1: can we just address what happened yesterday. I mean, you
43:01
Speaker 1: fire McDermott up in Buffalo, and I think that that
43:05
Speaker 1: was a long time coming after Saturday's loss. But then
43:09
Speaker 1: you just make it messy of your pagola by throwing
43:11
Speaker 1: everybody also like it was just shut up already and
43:14
Speaker 1: just enjoy your new stadium, is what I was thinking, Alex.
43:18
Speaker 3: That was one of the most bizarre, embarrassing press conferences
43:26
Speaker 3: that I've that I've seen in a long time. It
43:30
Speaker 3: really was Pagoula. He's the owner, to seem, but what
43:39
Speaker 3: he did yesterday is stepping on the general manager Brandon
43:45
Speaker 3: Bean ridiculous. I'm no fan of Brandon Bean. I think
43:50
Speaker 3: that he probably gave you know, McDermott the old knife
43:55
Speaker 3: in the back. McDermott, you know ninety eight and fifty.
43:59
Speaker 3: Most teams would would walk on broken glass to have
44:03
Speaker 3: a record like that. I don't think Josh Allen had
44:09
Speaker 3: anything to do with the firing.
44:10
Speaker 1: I think it will well, you know what, I applaud
44:12
Speaker 1: him for saying quiet through all the drama, like he
44:14
Speaker 1: just kept it zip. Well. He's no leader. He can't
44:19
Speaker 1: start mouthing off against anybody. And I do believe though
44:23
Speaker 1: he deserves better on that team. There's no doubt about it.
44:26
Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. Alex the only reason they
44:29
Speaker 3: but they got. Yeah, he turned the ball over a
44:31
Speaker 3: couple of times, and he had he never turns the
44:33
Speaker 3: ball over in big spots, but he did. You know,
44:37
Speaker 3: he did on on a Saturday. But he got He
44:40
Speaker 3: gets no help. The only reason that they were able
44:44
Speaker 3: to be in that game, turning the ball over five
44:46
Speaker 3: times was because of him. Usually you do that, you're
44:51
Speaker 3: getting uh, you know, you're getting wiped off the field.
44:53
Speaker 3: But this was not a great Buffalo team we talked
44:58
Speaker 3: about all year. They couldn't stop the run. They had
45:02
Speaker 3: the wide receiver. They have no wide receivers that scare you.
45:06
Speaker 3: Do you do you double? Uh? Do you game plan
45:08
Speaker 3: for any of their wide receivers? The answer is no,
45:11
Speaker 3: I don't care how good Josh Allen is and Uh McDermott.
45:18
Speaker 3: About five or six weeks ago in a meeting with
45:20
Speaker 3: Pagoula and and with Bean, they asked them, as this team,
45:25
Speaker 3: I have a roster strong enough to go to the
45:26
Speaker 3: super Bowl. And McDermott said no, I mean they might
45:31
Speaker 3: have won because of Allen and and Uh.
45:33
Speaker 1: And the you have a super Bowl caliber guy and
45:35
Speaker 1: mkole Harmon up there. I mean, that's really all the
45:38
Speaker 1: weaponry I know.
45:39
Speaker 2: And then but.
45:40
Speaker 3: McCole harmon's over the hill and he and he should
45:42
Speaker 3: have made that catch on Saturday, which he didn't. But
45:49
Speaker 3: they had to bring mcole Hartmon in late in the
45:51
Speaker 3: season because they have nobody else. So what happened yesterday
45:57
Speaker 3: is an embarrassment. And I don't know if they might
46:00
Speaker 3: have to. Uh, you're not gonna see a bit. I
46:04
Speaker 3: would be surprised if you see a major coach end
46:07
Speaker 3: up there, like say a Tomlin or.
46:10
Speaker 1: We're not a Dable Alan reunion that could be in
46:13
Speaker 1: the works. We don't know that, but that.
46:15
Speaker 3: I think that's a possibility. Dable's a safe choice, even
46:18
Speaker 3: though we had a he had a Robert Salah unsuccessful
46:21
Speaker 3: type tenure here, but that's I would not be surprised.
46:27
Speaker 3: He's a safe choice. He's been in Buffalo, he was
46:30
Speaker 3: Allen's offensive coordinator in the past. So Alex, I think
46:34
Speaker 3: you're h you're right on the money with that.
46:37
Speaker 1: Well, let me bookmark that in case it happens, and uh,
46:39
Speaker 1: we'll replay that tape too. All Right, Lou, I've enjoyed
46:43
Speaker 1: our wide ranging conversation, but we gotta end with this. Finally,
46:48
Speaker 1: the Dodgers don't get somebody, and that somebody's Bellinger. He
46:51
Speaker 1: does resign with the Yankees, we all act like, thank
46:54
Speaker 1: god we got you know, the Yanks got him. But Lou,
46:58
Speaker 1: I'm just hopeful let a revitalized infusion with as welldo
47:02
Speaker 1: Cabrera can bring us over the top. I just I
47:06
Speaker 1: know I shouldn't say us, but I'm a Yankee fan first,
47:09
Speaker 1: as you know, so I can let that out a
47:11
Speaker 1: little bit. I don't know Bellinger's being hyped as this
47:16
Speaker 1: big return, But there.
47:18
Speaker 2: Was nothing else the Yankees did this year, Loie.
47:22
Speaker 3: Well nothing, I mean, uh, baseball's baseball is in a
47:26
Speaker 3: little bit of a tough situation because we don't know
47:29
Speaker 3: if a year from now, well they'll be preparing for
47:33
Speaker 3: spring training or there'll be a lockout or strike or whatever.
47:38
Speaker 1: Apparently Trump secured a deal for Greenland before the Dodgers did. Okay,
47:42
Speaker 1: that's where we're at right now.
47:43
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think you nailed that. You're correct.
47:49
Speaker 3: Bellinger is a fine player, and I actually thought the
47:53
Speaker 3: Mets were going to get him. But you know, he
47:57
Speaker 3: signed a five year deal, which is really a two
47:59
Speaker 3: year deal, you know, just like the set he signed
48:02
Speaker 3: a three year deal, it's really a one year deal
48:04
Speaker 3: because they have the opt outs. But the Yankees, the
48:09
Speaker 3: Yankees needed Bellinger, and Bellinger is perfect for the Yankees.
48:13
Speaker 3: Obviously we talked about these home and road splits. Uh,
48:16
Speaker 3: he's perfect to the stadium, as you know, as a
48:19
Speaker 3: left handed hither and he's and he's versatile, but he's
48:23
Speaker 3: more and I agree with you, he's more of a
48:25
Speaker 3: complimentary player.
48:28
Speaker 1: Then he just keeps the line of stable right now,
48:31
Speaker 1: that's the whole point.
48:32
Speaker 3: Yes, that That's a good way of putting.
48:34
Speaker 1: It, because if they lost him, that would have been
48:36
Speaker 1: even more of a disaster. But it is sad that
48:39
Speaker 1: the only thing that the Yanks can really, uh the
48:42
Speaker 1: Yankee fans can really high bum about is the fact that.
48:46
Speaker 2: They got Bellinger back.
48:47
Speaker 1: That's really the only thing that happened. All right, all right,
48:51
Speaker 1: let me let me ask you about this, because we
48:53
Speaker 1: talked about it last year. What was the one thing
48:55
Speaker 1: that we both agreed on? With the Mets, they have
48:58
Speaker 1: the hitting shore, but the pitching was lacking. Now they're
49:02
Speaker 1: rid of a few hitters like Alonzo and Nimo, but
49:04
Speaker 1: at least they just solidify the rotation a bit With Parolta.
49:08
Speaker 2: I'm kind of excited to see what this pitching staff
49:10
Speaker 2: is now.
49:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it was a good move. Again,
49:15
Speaker 3: he is a free agent at the end of this year,
49:18
Speaker 3: and it seems like we are going the deals the
49:21
Speaker 3: last couple of years. Even Alonso last year had three
49:24
Speaker 3: year deal with a one year opt out. These deals
49:29
Speaker 3: are shorter now that the Mets are inheriting a deal
49:33
Speaker 3: from from Milwaukee with Parolta. I like Parolta. I mean,
49:39
Speaker 3: he's solid, he gives I would say he's like a
49:42
Speaker 3: number two. He's not an ace, he's not a number one.
49:45
Speaker 3: He's not a struble or or when Garrett Cole was
49:49
Speaker 3: healthy and Garrett Cole type number one. But is the
49:55
Speaker 3: Mets pitching staff better today than it was yesterday? With
49:58
Speaker 3: I question it is? I always liked Boba Schett always.
50:04
Speaker 3: I mean, he's never played third, but.
50:05
Speaker 2: He's Louis Robert is a good requisition.
50:08
Speaker 1: But you know, it's funny Cohen also touting these moves
50:14
Speaker 1: like they made the best moves. Again, they're they're moves
50:18
Speaker 1: that keep a team stable in there in the season.
50:20
Speaker 1: They're not outstanding, Oh my god, we improve moves.
50:23
Speaker 2: They're kind of like, well.
50:25
Speaker 1: We'll compete.
50:26
Speaker 2: We'll see how far we get those type of moves.
50:28
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know it.
50:29
Speaker 3: Just yeah, I mean, you know, I can't believe, you know,
50:33
Speaker 3: obviously they're not gonna have as many home runs as
50:35
Speaker 3: they did last year. I mean, you had Sot hit
50:38
Speaker 3: forty three and you had Alonzo hit what he hit
50:43
Speaker 3: thirty seven thirty eight last year. I mean, that's a
50:46
Speaker 3: lot of home runs between two guys, even in this
50:48
Speaker 3: day and age of them.
50:48
Speaker 2: And I think, but can produce for you. I really do.
50:51
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan. I mean, the guy led the
50:54
Speaker 3: Markling and hits twice. He was going to lead him
50:56
Speaker 3: again last year, but he you know, he hurt himself
50:59
Speaker 3: on number eighth. Uh. He fought his way back to
51:02
Speaker 3: playing the World Series. He hit that home run off
51:04
Speaker 3: of Otani. He's a gamer. I like him. I think
51:08
Speaker 3: it's a positive thing for the Mets. Are they are
51:11
Speaker 3: the Mets and Yankees done yet? I don't know. I
51:15
Speaker 3: don't know if they are so. So it'll be Alex.
51:21
Speaker 3: He'll be interesting because we don't know after this year
51:24
Speaker 3: when we'll see baseball nets.
51:26
Speaker 1: Right. Well, that's the thing I want to line up
51:28
Speaker 1: that Judge can actually win with because the lockout could
51:31
Speaker 1: be another year wasted of Judge's career.
51:34
Speaker 3: That yeah, that's correct. I mean, I think we talked
51:37
Speaker 3: about it in a different sport. You know. Avechkin is
51:40
Speaker 3: you know now he's got nine hundred and fifteen, nine
51:42
Speaker 3: hundred and sixteen goals, but his rookie year was supposed
51:45
Speaker 3: to be the lockout of the year. That went down
51:46
Speaker 3: to drain the lockout year the two thousand and four
51:48
Speaker 3: two thousand and five season. So say if he's scored
51:51
Speaker 3: forty goals as a rookie, he would be he would
51:53
Speaker 3: be be around nine to fifty five somewhere in there.
51:56
Speaker 3: So again, you're right about Judge that that will affect
51:59
Speaker 3: his his stats, and he's not getting any younger. You know,
52:02
Speaker 3: Judge is thirty three. And you know what's yeld saying
52:06
Speaker 3: Father time is undefeated?
52:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Louis well speaking of nine hundred something.
52:14
Speaker 1: I'm glad he said that because one guy I keep
52:17
Speaker 1: saying good luck to every few months, Rick Patino, is
52:20
Speaker 1: on his way to win nine hundred. And look, I'm
52:23
Speaker 1: kind of glad the Seaton Hall of Saint John's rivalry
52:25
Speaker 1: is competitive again.
52:27
Speaker 2: Saint John's had their number a.
52:28
Speaker 1: Couple of years there, but Jean's got that Seaton Hall
52:32
Speaker 1: team up and running almost full steam ahead. I mean,
52:34
Speaker 1: they look good compared the way of their last couple
52:37
Speaker 1: of years. So I'm glad it was a competitive game.
52:39
Speaker 1: And I guess Saint John's came back from fifteen down.
52:42
Speaker 1: That's impressive considering they've had some struggles. But so Saturday
52:47
Speaker 1: in the Xavier, they could get coach nine hundred wins.
52:53
Speaker 1: That would be quite a feat against his son. But
52:55
Speaker 1: could his son do it? Could he knock off his
52:56
Speaker 1: father in that game?
52:58
Speaker 3: Sure he could, Sure he could it, definitely could. It's
53:01
Speaker 3: really ironic that when number nine hundred is coming against
53:04
Speaker 3: his kid.
53:06
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't, I might actually get tickets to
53:08
Speaker 1: the Garden because I see they're here next Wednesday against Butler,
53:11
Speaker 1: and I try and go to that to see if
53:13
Speaker 1: I get to see one nine hundred there.
53:15
Speaker 2: So we'll see how the cards may fall this weekend.
53:18
Speaker 3: Now you lead me, you lead me to another situation.
53:21
Speaker 3: Now he's going for nine hundred on Saturday, a fantastic achievement,
53:26
Speaker 3: but they took some victories away from him for I
53:31
Speaker 3: don't know if either at louis Yeah, Louisville.
53:34
Speaker 2: Oh, Louisville because of the FBI situation.
53:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, And again I don't know, Alex. The way college
53:41
Speaker 3: sports is nowadays, with guys getting paid, there's really no
53:45
Speaker 3: rules with guys not going to classic words.
53:48
Speaker 1: If Reggie Bush could get his his heisman back, why
53:51
Speaker 1: not give Patino back his wins? After this?
53:54
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Patino Beheim all those guys. I mean, there's probably
53:59
Speaker 3: one hundred guys like.
54:00
Speaker 1: To give give and I know it's a different situation.
54:03
Speaker 1: But give the kids who had nothing to do with
54:04
Speaker 1: the but the Penn State situation. Give those kids the
54:08
Speaker 1: winds back.
54:09
Speaker 3: You know that, without question.
54:11
Speaker 1: That vacating really pissed me off because you were punishing
54:14
Speaker 1: kids that had no idea what Jerry Sandusky was doing.
54:18
Speaker 1: And by the way, today's Jay Paterno's anniversary of his passing,
54:22
Speaker 1: I believe today. So that's interesting we're talking about it.
54:25
Speaker 3: And a great He was a great man.
54:28
Speaker 2: He really was, no matter what they say. And I've
54:30
Speaker 2: had Jay on before and obviously I have a very.
54:34
Speaker 1: Contrary to other people, I have a very respect for
54:37
Speaker 1: the paternal family.
54:37
Speaker 3: You always have me too.
54:39
Speaker 1: I do too, And so you know, give those kids
54:43
Speaker 1: winds back. Who else could I think of that? You know,
54:48
Speaker 1: they've just taken away from because of things and and
54:52
Speaker 1: of course the other thing that I'm thinking of now
54:54
Speaker 1: I talk about them, I l and all that, the
54:56
Speaker 1: gambling thing.
54:58
Speaker 2: Let the kids do whatever they want.
55:00
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but if we're gonna partner with gambling uh
55:03
Speaker 1: rings like fandol and all that, let the let the
55:06
Speaker 1: players do what they want. Stop punishing them if you're
55:08
Speaker 1: allowing it already, Well again.
55:10
Speaker 3: But again, Alex. Alex, That's why I would disagree with you. You
55:13
Speaker 3: can't fix games. You can't throw points, you can't shave points.
55:17
Speaker 3: That's that that that affects the integrity.
55:20
Speaker 1: Let me say.
55:23
Speaker 3: That.
55:23
Speaker 1: In my view though, it's like you're punishing someone where
55:28
Speaker 1: the gateways.
55:29
Speaker 2: There is the point I'm trying to make, Okay, I mean,
55:33
Speaker 2: but uh.
55:34
Speaker 1: I don't think they have to fix the games at all,
55:37
Speaker 1: but I feel like the punishment should then be doled
55:40
Speaker 1: out to the league for partnering with them in the
55:42
Speaker 1: beginning to begin with.
55:43
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, again, the gambling situation is out of
55:50
Speaker 3: control in sports, and we knew that shit like that,
55:55
Speaker 3: crap like this was gonna happen.
55:57
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't even know where this class a
55:58
Speaker 1: situation is gonna go. But it's gonna be serious if
56:01
Speaker 1: he's really uh. I know they suspended him, but it
56:04
Speaker 1: could be worse for him.
56:05
Speaker 3: Alex will never see him again pitching the major leagues.
56:10
Speaker 1: I mean, they could still be jail time at the
56:11
Speaker 1: end of these investigations.
56:13
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, they could all.
56:15
Speaker 2: For throwing a pitch.
56:17
Speaker 1: Did they not learn from nineteen nineteen? You know, It's
56:19
Speaker 1: just it's it's a mess. But for the ones that
56:23
Speaker 1: earn it, that don't fix it, give their wins back,
56:26
Speaker 1: I think is the point you're trying to make.
56:28
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, yes, that's the point. Yeah.
56:31
Speaker 1: H And Patino, you know, I thought he was kind
56:33
Speaker 1: of rod. How about Sean Miller or whatever his name
56:37
Speaker 1: was out in Arizona who was wired to at by
56:40
Speaker 1: the FBI. And I'm thinking to myself, you're wired talking
56:43
Speaker 1: being an NCAA basketball coach while letting real tragedies happen
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Speaker 1: by falling by not falling up on tips. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the psyche of some of these institutions really bothers me sometimes.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, no, I sympathize with those situations, no doubt
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Speaker 3: about it.
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Speaker 2: In the na L we'll see what happens, but.
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Speaker 1: We always saw how badly he got with the gm
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Speaker 1: of of Saint John's.
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Speaker 2: That was kind of crazy, that story.
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Speaker 3: But well Patino says he knew nothing about about it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I believe it. I know Patino would not let
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Speaker 2: that happen.
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Speaker 3: But Alex, like John Harbot, is the New York Giants
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Speaker 3: and he is running the whole show. Rick Patino is
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Speaker 3: running the whole show. I would I would, I'm really
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Speaker 3: I would have to. I'm a little skeptical that he
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Speaker 3: did not know what was going on.
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Speaker 1: The other Jim, how about Jim Harbor and and the
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Speaker 1: Michigan disaster.
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Speaker 2: By the way, the ad could be really in hot
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Speaker 2: water here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see. I mean, these scandals happened, and
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Speaker 1: you realize how widespread, Like it's not just Michigan football.
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Speaker 1: Then they're investigating everything in Michigan. It's just it's amazing
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Speaker 1: what these investigators lead to.
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Speaker 3: You know, Oh, well, out of that opens up a
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Speaker 3: can of worms.
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Speaker 1: And uh and then so there's that what else on
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Speaker 1: the show? Hey thing, you can keep talking about that too, show.
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Speaker 1: Hey did he know about the gambling situation with this interpreter?
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, he has Yeah, you're like, no
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Speaker 1: MLB network, everybody glazed over him. Joe Davis gets to
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Speaker 1: call Dodger World Series games and glaze over him.
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Speaker 2: There it's And I love his football. I love that
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Speaker 2: he's so Bertil and co can do football and baseball.
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Speaker 1: But I wish you woulduld be taking off the Dodger
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Speaker 1: stuff because it gets a little nauseating at times.
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Speaker 3: I hate to say, I guess I disagree with you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, who was the team? Who
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Speaker 1: was the guy announcing you Miami versus Notre Dame? After
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Speaker 1: I had to hear him call the freaking Rangers loose
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Speaker 1: to the Panthers Sean McDonough, I'm like, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: I have to listen to this guy doing the fall anyway,
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Speaker 1: I digress.
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Speaker 3: Uh No, McDonald's a great announcer, Alex.
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Speaker 1: He's fantastic, And just when he calls your team on
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Speaker 1: the other side, it's like, which, what are you trying
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Speaker 1: to do to me? I want to send some win.
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Speaker 2: From the guy. But anyway, we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, Louis, this has been a great Terminalo's take. We
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Speaker 1: went an hour, uh, just to kick off this year,
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Speaker 1: so how about that or second week of the year.
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Speaker 3: Hey, I love talking to you the third.
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Speaker 2: Week of the year.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, we went an hour long because we haven't
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Speaker 2: talked in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So I'm glad we had this catchup and uh and
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Speaker 1: yous want to add on Totermino's take before we're done.
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Speaker 3: Well, I just see here your one of your favorites.
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Speaker 3: Tommy Reese is now the new offensive coordinator for Kevin
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Speaker 3: Stefanski in Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's a guy I really want to meet
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Speaker 1: one day. So maybe that'll happen. Because I grew up
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Speaker 1: watching and listening to Tommy Reese and Don Crickie call
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Speaker 1: his game.
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Speaker 3: So Tommy Reese is getting closer and closer to a
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Speaker 3: head coaching job. I mean he's still a young man.
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Speaker 3: I think he's like thirty three or thirty four. I
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Speaker 3: mean he's still very very well.
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Speaker 1: When Alabama hires you, you're good stuff. I'll tell you that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, now he's got he's got an impressive resume.
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Speaker 1: And I see, I guess he followed Stefanski to Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: So good fan, Good to see that how it all
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Speaker 1: shakes out. And you're right, we still have a lot
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Speaker 1: of coaching vacancy. So that's what we got to keep
1:00:06
Speaker 1: an eye on for the next shop.
1:00:08
Speaker 3: And here's another breaking news. The Washington Nationals are trading
1:00:12
Speaker 3: All star left hander Mackenzie Gore, who was linked to
1:00:15
Speaker 3: the Mets, but apparently they wanted a boat load back
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Speaker 3: to the Texas Rangers for five players. They're not mentioned here.
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Speaker 3: This' just broke.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I saw that as we're talking. All right,
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Speaker 1: Lou always a pleasure, and we'll do this again next week.
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Speaker 3: Alex, you're the best. I appreciate it. Thank you, Pal