1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: Love, casts out, fear and gratitude can conquer pride, Conny. 2 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 2: Utes, Petros and money. AM five seventy LA Sports. We're 3 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 2: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We are your home 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: of the World Series champion back to back Dodgers, and 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: we are your home of the NFL all divisional games. 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: Will three of the divisional games this weekend will be 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 2: played right here, as will Super Bowl sixty on Sunday, 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: February sixth. 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 1: That are other play by play? Is Clippers basketball? 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: Once an absolute, unmitigated failure and embarrassment, it is now 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 2: hot as any freaking basketball team in the NBA. Clippers 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 2: won both over the weekend against the Nets and the Pistons. 13 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 2: They will take on the Hornets tonight. Pregame at six thirty, 14 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 2: tip off at seven thirty, right here on your home 15 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: of the fifteen and twenty three Clippers, AM five to 16 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports. 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: Very exciting. Oh we got some breaking news from uh 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: what do we got? Tim Kats? I don't know if 19 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna like it, Matt, what we got Corey. 20 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 3: To Adam Schefter, h jesse mentor the defensive coordinator for 21 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 3: the LA Chargers. It's gonna interview with the Las Vegas 22 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 3: Raiders this week. 23 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable. 24 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 2: Believable, shame for shame, for shame, for share the Raiders 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 2: four times. Man breaked out when he had the starting roster. 26 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 2: He beat the Broncos all three times, and he just 27 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: swept the Chiefs this year. So would not be a 28 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 2: surprise if they wanted to hire jesse Minner to uh, 29 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 2: to get Max Crosby back on board for everything they're 30 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 2: doing in Las Vegas, and that would be incredibly depressing. 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: Man. Wow, Man breaked out for shame, for shame, incredible 32 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: for shame, pressing for shame. Who will the Chargers hire 33 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: Rex Ryan? Rex Rex Ryan is out there at USC 34 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: coach and linebackers poorly. 35 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: That would be exciting. Uh, maybe they can get the 36 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 2: the both of the party. 37 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: Sorry Rob Ryan, Rob Bryan. Yeah, Rex and his teeth 38 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: throw over at Espen. Maybe those Peter at Espen. Maybe 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: those guys can save the Chargers Dodgers. 40 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: I would assume not the first of many interviews coming 41 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 2: for jesse min Or. Now that the Chargers have been 42 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: summarily dispatched from the NFL's postseason. 43 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: I want to make sure. I credit Ian Rapperport for that, 44 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: not to Schefters. So they're in a fight with each other. 45 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: They're in a big urination contest. Cheap my name off 46 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: your lips. Rapaports fighting with Schefter over whether or not 47 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: John Harbaugh lost the locker room in Baltimore. According to Rappaport, 48 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: a lot of them tweeted it out and the other 49 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: lot of them that's not what I heard. There was 50 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: tears and hugs. That's a big thing. Man. 51 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 2: I remember Brady Quinn and dan Orlofsky getting into it 52 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 2: over Blair Underwood. That was one of the better ones 53 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: on Twitter from this last year. 54 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: Blair Underwood from La Law. Yes, a great incredible with that. 55 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 3: Who are the two guys that got in a fight 56 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 3: at the NFL combine And it was video. 57 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 2: That was that was that was Rapaport and Schultz. Ah, 58 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 2: that was a star of Howard Schultz, guy worth fifty 59 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 2: billion dollars whose son is in the world of insider 60 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 2: NFL information. 61 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: And that little bald gallum looking guy. Garoppolo was there 62 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 1: as a witness. Yes, Mike, you know, I mean you 63 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: know that's yes. He was there to witness the whole 64 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: thing and told us about it. We appreciate that his words. 65 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: The word of the day, today's word of the day 66 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: is this is for you, Matt and for me, it 67 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: is still coming. Yeah, I you know, I think I 68 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: dropped the ball during the holiday season. I mean we 69 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: got Vietnam Chris in, we got the hate List, and 70 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: we got the Thanksgiving stuff in. We missed the recipe, 71 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: but we got a lot of that stuff in. But 72 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: I didn't do enough about the holiday Buffalo Bill's Touchdown movie, 73 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: although we did did address it. I mean, it wasn't 74 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: dressed that it was coming, but we did not play 75 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: any sound. We played some sound. We did. We played 76 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: some sound. Yeah, we well, we played the the We 77 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: played the trailer, just like we played for the Chiefs one. 78 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: You know, we played the one where they acted like 79 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: they were in The Godfather. You know, how could you 80 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: come and see me the night before the end of 81 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: the stadium? You dont remember that? Yes? All right, so 82 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: we did do that. Yeah, we did do that, but 83 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: not enough, you know what I mean, like, not not 84 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: as much as I'd like to. But there is news 85 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: out of the Buffalo Bills. As you know, they just 86 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: got a big playoff win and all that they're moving 87 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: into a new state of the art stadium next season. 88 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: They were leaving what it's called now Hi Stadium, which 89 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: has been their home for fifty three years. With the 90 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: move to the new stadium, the Bills are auctioning off 91 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: one of Matt's favorite things in the world, a lot 92 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: of memorabilia. They're auctioning off. More than twelve thousand items 93 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: have already been posted, with prices starting at five hundred 94 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: and forty nine bucks for a seat of chunks of 95 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: turf and go post cost one hundred bucks. But the 96 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: more rare and unique items will be put up for 97 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,239 Speaker 1: auction in the coming weeks. And one of the items 98 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 1: that will be put up, oh here, turn this up 99 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: the Bills will make you want to shout why hasn't 100 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: anybody else thought of doing this song in football? You know, 101 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: like organ or let's go treat. One of the items 102 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: that will be put up for sale, Matt, and it's 103 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: expected to get the most attention is the trough urinals. 104 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Now, nobody loves a urinal trough or talks 105 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: more about troughing it up than Matt Muney Smith being 106 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: alb his fellow sports fans, right peeing in a. 107 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 2: Trough like a horse. Excuse me, guys, can I squeeze 108 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 2: in here? I really gotta go. 109 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: Of course, we had, like Matt is, you know, longtime 110 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: lamentations here on the Pets and Money Show about how 111 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,799 Speaker 1: we didn't have the troughs anymore at Dodger Stadium, the Colisseum, 112 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: the La Coliseum is a big trough place, and the 113 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: big trough urinals that were in Orchard Park are being 114 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: auctioned off. So you can buy one of these urinals, 115 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: and I guess that all of Buffalo and all kinds 116 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 1: of people a peeding. I'll wash it down. I'm sure 117 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: it'll be very sanitary by the time it gets to you. 118 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: And set up the trough in your house, I guess, well, 119 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: or we get set up the trough in our well. 120 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: We're not getting this trough, Matt. I mean there's a 121 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: lot if we get a Del Taco, we can get 122 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: the trough. Well. I mean, this stuff's going on auction 123 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: in the coming weeks, and I don't see us closing 124 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: a deal on our Del Taco soon. Why don't you 125 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: guys buy a trough for the Del Taco. We're gonna 126 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: open in a little while I think the trough will 127 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: be collecting dust like Kobe Bryant's special card. Oh where's 128 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: that car? Well, I only got half of this. Half 129 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: flew out in the back of a pickup. 130 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 3: Now, if you owned a sports bar and Buffalo, you 131 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: have to buy this right so you can put it 132 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 3: into the bathroom and say this is why you got 133 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 3: to come to. 134 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: My bar because a smart guy. Huh, that's exactly right, Kate. 135 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: Somebody's buying exactly right. We can't we can't figure that 136 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: out for ourselves. We don't even have a Deltaco to 137 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: put the trough in. 138 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 2: What if we open a Deltaco in Buffalo, buy the trough, 139 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 2: put it in the Del Taco, and next thing you know, 140 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 2: Del Talk Taco makes a massive comeback, beginning with its 141 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 2: first establishment in western New York. 142 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: What do you think of that? Oh, son of a bitch, 143 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: where were you? 144 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 3: Here's my number? 145 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: Number of the day. Number of the day is I'll 146 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: say approximately four. 147 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 2: I don't want to embellish or exaggerate, so I'll go 148 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 2: with four. At the game yesterday, the press box, you know, 149 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 2: each press box is different. Some got the the aquafena, 150 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 2: some got the poll. In spring Oh, at the Raiders 151 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 2: press box, they have Raiders water. They got Raiders water exactly. 152 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: Out of the bladder of various pirates throughout the Caribbeane. 153 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Yesterday publicly available was the Essentia water 154 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 2: the have you seen it? It looks like the Swiss 155 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 2: flag with the red and white cross, and it is 156 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 2: like electrolyte charged or ion positive, ion chart charged water 157 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 2: that people believe in that it's good for your your 158 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 2: inerts and stuff. And I would say of the twenty 159 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 2: people I was around, I heard at least four comment 160 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 2: on they have a central water here. That is impressive. 161 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 2: Wow that I and each of them walked away with 162 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 2: no less than three bottles. 163 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: Did your feel great? 164 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 3: Matt? 165 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,959 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it tasted like water. It was 166 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 2: refreshing because it was so cold. I was able to 167 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 2: put it outside of our booth and just it acted 168 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 2: like an incredibly cold refrigerator. It stayed nice and cold 169 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 2: during the whole broad James. 170 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: Hats has got a big bottle of it right now 171 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: and his innards are feeling great. 172 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 2: Is that right, Kates? You're an Assentia guy. Yeah, I 173 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 2: do it for the alkaline that's what it is, the alkalinity. 174 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: So what the hell does that do? And why were 175 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 2: all these people freaking out? And why was I so 176 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: taken aback by their their their being? 177 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: You were taking it back because you can't mind your 178 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: own business. There is that I do, like the east 179 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: drop into every conversation. That's why are you eating palm? 180 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: Why do you like this water? Why do you like 181 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: essential water? Case? What is the Yeah, what's the deal? 182 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 3: It's the number one ionized alkaline water in the country. 183 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: All right, well what does that do? What does that do? 184 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: Do you? Keep it lit? 185 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 3: Keep it lit? It removes that bitter tasting acidic uh 186 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 3: flavored of water sometimes. Yeah, it's clean, it's smooth, it 187 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:32,439 Speaker 3: tastes good. 188 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: You know who you sound like. 189 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 3: Have you ever heard a nylon palmer? 190 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: Uh? So it just tastes different. 191 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got more alkaline in it nine point five. 192 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: What does that mean? 193 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 3: I don't know what it means. 194 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: But you pay a premium for it. 195 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 3: No, at seven to eleven, they were two for four dollars. 196 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: I got them today, Okay, but. 197 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 3: Yes, if it's a alkaline of water, they do go 198 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 3: for more. 199 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: And you heard you heard various people like whoa, whoa, 200 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: Which you know we said Champagne's not cooks. 201 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 2: At the sofa. We get the aquafina. And I have 202 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 2: heard people complain like, I hate aquaffina. It's such barf. 203 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 2: It's just water, Guys. They gonna have pictures of tap 204 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 2: water on the tables, and I'm probably gonna be fine 205 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 2: with it. 206 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: When it comes to water, maybe too much. 207 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 3: Maybe you know, there's a whole thing. If a water's 208 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 3: got a black top to it, a cap or blue 209 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 3: or green, it means different things. What Yeah, black caps 210 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 3: It feels like you might know that much, but you 211 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 3: don't know what it means. Blue caps on a water 212 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 3: bottle indicate spring water. Black caps signify alkaline water. Green 213 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 3: caps on your water bottle signal flavored water. White caps 214 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 3: means processed water. 215 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: What's the process? 216 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 3: Probably like reclaimed water. 217 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: It's not the original. That's not well. 218 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 2: I've got a I've got a free bottle of glass 219 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 2: smart water on my hand from my flight back, and 220 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 2: that has a clear top. 221 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: So what the hell does that mean? Process water? That 222 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: doesn't sound too smart. 223 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 3: Oh, you're drinking it. 224 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 2: Vapor distilled water and electrolytes for taste, purely balanced pH 225 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 2: freaking water. 226 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 1: Nah, dude, you guys don't know it's water is a 227 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: big business. This is the song of the day. 228 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 5: An Australian female duo from Melbourne called super Wild Horses 229 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 5: supplies our song of the day called mess Around because 230 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 5: it is an I'm a Horse Monday, and the Petros 231 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 5: and Money Show was launched out of the starting gate, 232 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 5: riding the super Wild Horses into the vast open country 233 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 5: where Great Sports Talk is not messing around with the 234 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 5: delivery of three and a half hours of radio salvation 235 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,959 Speaker 5: via one segment at a time. As we approach Clippers 236 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 5: basketball back it into a dome having won the last 237 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 5: two in a row and now looking for a third 238 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 5: against the Charlotte Hornets, with our friend Adam Oslin setting 239 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 5: you up with that countdown show that's coming up at 240 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:19,200 Speaker 5: six thirty. 241 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: Thanks Ronnie. Apparently, Matt, the alkaline water helps with people 242 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: that have acid reflux, and that would that cats would 243 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: qualify for that. Indeed, he's got no gelboe goblin, no gallbla. 244 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 3: I also has got two techs slots saying as disgusting. 245 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, aquafina seems to be the dregs. People regularly lament 246 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 2: that that is the water of choice at so far 247 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 2: in the pressure room. 248 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: Insurance on the alkaline water talk anybody love it? Insurance? 249 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 2: I should have hoarded a bunch of it and brought 250 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 2: it home and you know, flipped it to you. Kate, 251 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,439 Speaker 2: Why help with your assid rebots? Your backpack so heavy, 252 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 2: I'd take it off the Aessentia. 253 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: We'll be back with Ben Bulch with the latest. There's 254 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: a bunch of things to talk about with him, and 255 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: it's Rider's Day. Brettyston Ellis will join us later. 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After twenty six years, leaving the Los 266 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: Angeles Times for the California Posts on stereo, the one 267 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: and only Ben Boltch. What will that entail? He is 268 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: the finest beat rider that's at the LA Times right 269 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: in that brillin beat covering UCLA hoops. There's a few 270 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: things to discuss, but first the big move to the 271 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: California Post from Ben Boltch of the La Times. There's 272 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: been a guest on the Petrosen Money Show over the 273 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: years that we appreciate. Congrats on the move, Ben, and 274 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: tell us about it. What's going on? 275 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, First of all, what an intro. Thank you so 276 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 4: much for that. And Petros, I wanted before I get 277 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 4: into that. You probably don't remember this, but when you 278 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 4: played for USC this must have been like training Campyar 279 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 4: circa two thousand. You were down and you see her 280 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 4: by I think you were coming back from a yeah, 281 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 4: and you scored on like a goal line play and 282 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 4: I wrote about you afterward. And I'm sure you probably 283 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 4: don't remember this and had no clue who I was, 284 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 4: but it was one of my first big time assignments 285 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 4: and I got to talk to Petros Papadakas and I 286 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 4: was over the moon. 287 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 3: That's off the moon. 288 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: That is fantastic. God bless you, Ben Boltch. That's a 289 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: great that's the camp I got staples put in the 290 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: back of my head. Who can forget uh, but it 291 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: didn't keep me out. Ben, that's a wonderful story. Tell 292 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: us what's your beat going to be at the at 293 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: the California Post and uh, and what do you what 294 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: can we expect? I mean, if you're not going to 295 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: write Bruins stuff, I mean I might not even pay 296 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: attention to the Bruins. 297 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 4: Well how about this, how about I write some Trojans 298 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 4: and Bruins petro oh. 299 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: Up at Irvine Days go give it to Lincoln Riley 300 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: a little Ben. So this is pretty cool. I mean, 301 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: this is going to be a heck of a paper. 302 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean our plan, uh, just so you know, 303 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 4: is that I'm going to be kind of bouncing back 304 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 4: and forth between both schools for the first six months 305 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 4: or so. Then we're going to staff up some more 306 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 4: add some beat writers, and I'm going to transition into 307 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 4: a college's columnist role. So you know, I will be 308 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 4: the you know, guy out there dropping the hammer when. 309 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: Things go wrong, like our hero, like our late hero, 310 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: the greatest Chris Dufrain like that. 311 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 4: Absolutely, I hope I have some rankings and some lots 312 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 4: of one liners coming your way, Petros. 313 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 2: Nice Scott, Well, wonderful if there's commentary involved, ben as 314 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 2: opposed to just covering the beat, that means opinions can 315 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 2: be injected. So if we were to make our way 316 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 2: over to the poly market, uh and bet some futures, 317 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 2: which which head coach do you have more faith in 318 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,199 Speaker 2: over the next half decade, for UCLA or USC Lincoln 319 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 2: Riley or Bob Chesney. 320 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 4: Oh, I gotta go Chesney, I gotta go Chesney. I 321 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 4: think he's he's the guy that I wanted. I think 322 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 4: he's off to a great start. He's portalain like nobody 323 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 4: else right now, bringing in lots of people, lots of 324 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,959 Speaker 4: his top players from James Madison, got the winning formula 325 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 4: he's bringing to Westwood. I really like the trajectory there. 326 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 4: And obviously he hasn't won a game yet. I gotta, 327 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 4: you know, hedge a little bit and throw some caveats in, 328 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 4: but I think this guy was the perfect hire for 329 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 4: the situation and the man they need over there. 330 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: It's interesting because that's what all the reports say. And 331 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: I remember when Deshaun Foster was hired, there was some 332 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: you know, tepid kind of reaction and there were some 333 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: people trying to be positive about it, but what is 334 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: this guy doing to blow everybody away so much? Because 335 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: everything has been so positive and people are starting to 336 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: feel like UCLA can really do something with this guy. 337 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's you know, I think the thing 338 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 4: I keep going back to is, you know, he wins 339 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 4: at every level. You know, you think that he's going 340 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 4: to get to a point where it's going to be 341 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 4: too much from him, and he has not reached that 342 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 4: ceiling yet. So you know a lot of people are 343 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 4: throwing out the Kurt Signetti comparisons. I think that's that's low. 344 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 4: That's hold off a little bit on that, right. I mean, 345 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 4: we have we haven't done anything toward toward that at 346 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 4: the you know, at the big ten level. But man, 347 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 4: I think there's just so much to Like I thought, 348 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 4: he knocked it out of the park his intro press conference. 349 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 4: He's been working his tailoffs. As I already mentioned in 350 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 4: the portal, I'm hoping to sit down with him here 351 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 4: shortly as soon as the portal closes. I've been promised 352 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 4: an interview with him, and I'm actually trying to meet 353 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 4: with his family this week in Sixral, Pennsylvania because the 354 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 4: Bruin basketball team is playing at Penn State, so I'm 355 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 4: trying to pick each on the trip to Copemont, Pennsylvania, 356 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 4: which is about ninety nine miles away from state college. 357 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 4: I hope to have the privilege of meeting with them 358 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 4: and hanging out and coach Chesney's hometown to get a 359 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 4: better sense of who he is and where he came from. 360 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 2: Obviously, the Kurt Signetti comparisons are going to be there 361 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: because of the school and the transfers and how he's 362 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 2: building it. But are there comparisons beyond that? And Ben, 363 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 2: obviously you're watching the playoff? Is there another Kurt Signetti 364 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 2: out there? Is that guy a unicorn? A straight one 365 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 2: of one? 366 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 4: I mean, it certainly looks that way, right. I Mean, 367 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 4: if I'm this, if I'm the owner of some fortune 368 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 4: five hundred company, I want to pay this guy for 369 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 4: offer him fifty million to come set a championship culture 370 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 4: at my organization. Right about We've never seen anything like 371 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 4: this and in two years to get this team to 372 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 4: where it is, it's just I mean, he to me, 373 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 4: he's the best coach in football right now, bar none. 374 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 4: So it is a unicorn situation in my view. 375 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: All right, Ben Boltch, here's our guest. He's going to 376 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: the California Post at the end of the month. Been 377 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: a great beat rider and a great rider for the 378 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 1: La Times for a long time. It's been covering UCLA 379 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: like a champ for some years now. As we talk 380 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: more about UCLA moving to SOFI, and I know that 381 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 1: there's details involved in this, and what's happening is probably 382 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: not what's best, but what's best is probably not feasible 383 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: as far as building a stadium on campus. But it 384 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: turns out, and you reported on this, that this has 385 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: been in the works for years. These corporate types have 386 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 1: been rubbed elbows talking about this for quite some time. 387 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: What are the details there? 388 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, there were some court filings that were you know, 389 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 4: came through the system late last week that I was 390 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 4: able to get a hold of and just showed that, 391 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 4: you know, this conversation is not did not start recently, 392 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 4: you know, it went back as far as August twenty 393 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 4: four and appears to be really driven by the new 394 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 4: relatively new CFO of UCLA, Steven Augustini, who came in 395 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 4: and apparently looked at numbers and said we got to 396 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 4: make some big changes. Because his name's all over this thing. 397 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 4: You know, they set up some zoom meetings with Kevin 398 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 4: demof of the RAMS, other people from so far and 399 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 4: you know, I wrote all about the discussions and the 400 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 4: projections that they were looking at. Don't have any of 401 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 4: the specific numbers, but we know that they were multiple 402 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 4: meetings and back and forth and you know, some some 403 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 4: buzz and excitement between those two entities. But the next 404 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 4: step here in court is I believe it's twenty second 405 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 4: of this month, they're going to rule on whether this 406 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 4: case goes to arbitration, which would keep it out of 407 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 4: the public eye, or continues in the public court, which 408 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 4: is what Pasadena and the Rose Bowl want because they 409 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 4: want to get the court of public opinion on their side. 410 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 4: So that's that's where we stand. I think we're nowhere 411 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 4: near the finish line on this. But you know, Megans 412 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 4: of Progress, I know you. 413 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 2: Know you'd like to have a stadium on campus. It's 414 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 2: been talked about here with Petro's repeatedly. You've written about 415 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 2: why it's just not feasible in terms of the neighborhood 416 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 2: and the infrastructure. Do you think so FI is an 417 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 2: upgrade and if so, how much of an upgrade over 418 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 2: the Rose Bowl. If it would cost them something to 419 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 2: the tune of tens or maybe hundreds of millions of 420 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 2: dollars to make that move. 421 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just not convincing numbers are going to work. 422 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 4: I mean, you guys have read what I've written. I'm 423 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 4: mister rose Pall. I think that it's a huge part 424 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 4: of UCLA's identity, and I think they'd be forced to 425 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:27,479 Speaker 4: give it up. 426 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: Certainly. 427 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 4: Where so Fi comes with the modern bells and whistles 428 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 4: of an NFL stadium, it's a completely different vibe. But 429 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 4: to me, it's not a college vibe. And I think 430 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 4: that there's a scenario here where UCLA gets levied with 431 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 4: so much damages as a result of court case that 432 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 4: I don't care how much more money you're gonna get 433 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 4: it so Fi, it's gonna be a wash. So if 434 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 4: I were them, I would just kind of say, Okay, 435 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 4: we're gonna we're gonna back off this a little bit 436 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,239 Speaker 4: and take a longer view of it, because I think 437 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 4: there is a scenario where this, even if they get 438 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 4: to go to Sofi, it's a net loss for them. 439 00:23:58,560 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 4: Are pretty close to it. 440 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty eight so far. We'll have usc playing 441 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: there because the coliseum will be hosting Olympics and Paralympics. 442 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: They'll have UCLA there, They'll have the Chargers of course, 443 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: and the Rams. I'm not asking for too much opinion, Ben, 444 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: but I am. How stupid is it that we have 445 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,719 Speaker 1: four gigantic football entities in town in southern California, all 446 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: playing indoors? 447 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 4: My god, Yes, the best climate in the world, and 448 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 4: we're not going to take advantage of it. Right, It's crazy. 449 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like a great idea, but it feels 450 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: like we're victims of this kind of corporate elbow rubbing 451 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: that's been happening for some years now. 452 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all about the money, as you know, guys, 453 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 4: it's all about the money. And then this is what 454 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 4: they're looking at. But as I've alluded to, you know, 455 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 4: there's some wild cards in play here that could make 456 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 4: this not work out the way they want it to. 457 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 2: You mentioned, you're going to be out of Penn State. 458 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 2: UCLA coming off a victory over Maryland on and they 459 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 2: will travel to Penn State. Maryland was back here, lost 460 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 2: in Wisconsin at Wisconsin, lost Iowa at Iowa. What kind 461 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 2: of UCLA basketball team. Are we looking at here as 462 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 2: the Big Ten schedule has started. 463 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. They're in a tough spot, 464 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 4: you know, so much, so many high expectations with Donovan 465 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 4: Dent coming in. Obviously the loss of a Dye Marrow 466 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 4: was a big one, but you know, there was a 467 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 4: lot of optimism that they could minimize that because you 468 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 4: got the top point guard in the transfer portal and 469 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 4: kind he kind of makes everybody better, right if he's 470 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 4: at the top of his game. But as we've seen, 471 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 4: Donovan Dent has really struggled, hasn't been the same player 472 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 4: we saw in New Mexico. His percentages have dropped off, 473 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 4: his confidence levels kind of plummet. Now, I will say 474 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 4: we saw some some glimpses against Iowa in that second 475 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 4: half where they made it a four point game after 476 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 4: they were down twenty four, and I'm thinking, Okay, maybe 477 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 4: he's going to take off. But you know, the last 478 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 4: couple of games has been kind of back to the 479 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 4: status quo of where he'd been early in the season. 480 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 4: So something really has changed there. And you know, as 481 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 4: we're seeing, they bought in a couple of new big 482 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 4: guys to take over for a die and they haven't 483 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 4: really you know, kept up at that same level. So 484 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 4: right now, the ceiling for this team, man, it's not 485 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 4: looking pretty. I mean they're basically a bubble team right 486 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 4: now for the NCAA tournament. So unless they can really 487 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 4: find something and put this together, this season is not 488 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 4: headed toward a happy finish here. 489 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: Wow, not a happy finish to the interview either, Ben 490 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: Bolt headed to the California Post. Ben, congratulations on all 491 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: your success and we hope that that's a great endeavor 492 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: for all the writers that are going over there. If 493 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: there's one thing we need, it's more newspapers, more outlets 494 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: to get information out there. And you've done a great 495 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: job covering UCLA for years as the guy asking the 496 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: questions that everybody wants asks. Thank you, Ben, and have 497 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 1: a great night. 498 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 4: Thanks gentlemen. Always Georgia to talk to you guys. 499 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 1: All right, California Post. Why don't we go over to 500 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: the Post man, we can sensationalize anything. 501 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 2: I could see that happening, you know, like we're not 502 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 2: gonna do sports though, right, you're gonna go to the 503 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 2: Post and. 504 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm writing entertainment, right, you're writing entertainment. I 505 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: don't know what the hell I'm writing. I Men's fashion. 506 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 2: There you go, Men's fashion, Tech, I'll cover tech. Hey, 507 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 2: check out this robot that serves pepsi tos Son, It's awesome. 508 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: Did you just describe Rocky for Yes, I did the 509 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: first real introduction to tech when we were kids. Holy crap. 510 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 1: Can you imagine that alkaline water counteracts with the acid 511 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:56,160 Speaker 1: in your stomach? 512 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 2: So that's everyone was freaking out. There are a bunch 513 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 2: of acid freaks out there in the Northeast and they're like, yeah, 514 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 2: I mean I've gotten more water text. 515 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like super picky about their waters. 516 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: And then people are like, I drink out of the 517 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 2: hose exactly. If you're our age, that's what you did. 518 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 2: You drink out of whatever faucet was available. 519 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: That's why we have high immunity. Mm hmmm. 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We are your 537 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 2: home of the NFL, and we will have three divisional 538 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 2: games this weekend as we make our way toward being 539 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 2: the home of Super Bowl sixty Sunday, February sixth, the 540 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 2: Super Bowl that will not include one team that at 541 00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 2: least one of us was wildly invested in Super Bowl sixty, including. 542 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: Well, the rest of us were very much invested too. 543 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: Man I was at the edge of my seat certainly 544 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: joining us right now on your southern California Toyota Dealer 545 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: Celebrity Hotline. It is Daniel Popper and he just got 546 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: done popping off with the players when they just got 547 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 1: done cleaning out their lockers and leaving the building. Tears, disappointment, frustration. 548 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: Here to discuss it all from the Athletic is the 549 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: best beat rider they've gone. Daniel Popper joining us on 550 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: the Petrosen Money Show for a little charge of prospective 551 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: be on the Voice of the Bolts. With all due respect, 552 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,680 Speaker 1: we got Daniel Popper on us. Say I'm biased? No, 553 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that. What's cracking, Daniel? How are you? Oh? 554 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 7: You know, just running on about thirty minutes of sleep 555 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 7: from Boston. 556 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: You know you can't sleep on the back. 557 00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, I tried, but I was trying to watch the 558 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 7: sale home and kept dozing off, trying to keep my 559 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 7: eyes open as best as again. I got changed into 560 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 7: my sweatpants and the Gillette Stadium parking lot and my 561 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 7: rented Kia Soul at three thirty am Eastern times. 562 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: So that's the wife of a beat writer for you. 563 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: Nothing like those sweats, getting those sweats on and the 564 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: cold feel good about to the airport. Yeah, same airport 565 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: from die Hard too. You know, you could have ended 566 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: up what Popper. It's interesting to kind of balance these 567 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: things out, because on one hand, you say, wow, the 568 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,479 Speaker 1: Chargers accomplished a lot even though they had a lot 569 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: of injuries, had to overcome this and that Herbert got 570 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: massacred all year long. Or you can say this playoff 571 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: disappointment continues throughout the Jim Harbaugh era and it was 572 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: probably something they thought was going to be over when 573 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: they hired Jim Harbaugh. How do you balance those two out? 574 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 7: Pop, I think both things can be true, right. I 575 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 7: think you can look at the season that they had 576 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 7: and all the injuries in the offensive line and losing 577 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 7: with Shaan Slater and using Joe Alton, having twenty five 578 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 7: different five man offensive line combinations, and the fact that 579 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 7: the team stuck together and believed and made the playoffs 580 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 7: and that's great and a feather in Jim Harbaugh's cap. 581 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 7: And then you look at the performance yesterday, particularly offensively, 582 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 7: and you can also look at that and say it's 583 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 7: unacceptable and to me, like those two things can be 584 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,440 Speaker 7: true at the same time, and losing again in the playoffs, 585 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 7: in the game that they had a shot In, I 586 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 7: think brings up some pretty hard questions that you have 587 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 7: to ask, you know, is Greg Rouman the right person 588 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 7: to be calling plays? Why can't Justin Herbert play better 589 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 7: in some of these playoff games? Are they going to 590 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 7: still have the same level of defensive success when their 591 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 7: defensive coordinator Jesse Minter inevitably leaves for a head coaching 592 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 7: job this offseason. So I think both things are true, 593 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 7: But the loss was unacceptable. Three points in a playoff 594 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 7: game is unacceptable, and it's going to lead to some 595 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 7: pretty tough questions around here at the Bolton Milsogondo. 596 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 2: You mentioned you were watching the film on the way 597 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 2: back a lot of people and I obviously wasn't watching 598 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 2: the broadcast. We were doing it pop, But it sounded 599 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 2: like toward the end of that game that Chris collins 600 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 2: Worth was, you know, kind of leaning in on Herbert 601 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 2: a little bit for the plays that he left out there. 602 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 2: Just kind of your assessment of the way Herbert played, 603 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 2: And do you maybe see it the same as as 604 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 2: some others that maybe there was some scar tissue there 605 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 2: from a season of getting you know, drilled in the 606 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 2: backfield repeatedly and just kind of finally caught up to him. 607 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 7: That's the hard thing for me to wrap my mind 608 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 7: around money, because how many hits he took this season, 609 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 7: one hundred and twenty nine hits over the regular season. 610 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 7: The one thing that never wavered was his performance. He 611 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 7: was able to maintain it despite all of the hits 612 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 7: that he took, and that was the most impressive part 613 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 7: of the season. Is so for it all to come 614 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 7: crashing down in one game in the playoffs was so 615 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 7: very surprising, and so to me, I kind of look 616 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 7: at it and say, well, if one hundred and twenty 617 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 7: nine hits are in the regular season didn't affect him, 618 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 7: there has to be something else I'd play here. And 619 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 7: to me, he just looked a little hesitant. He looked 620 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 7: skittish in the pocket. He wasn't, you know, accurate in 621 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 7: the way that he's typically accurate to all three levels 622 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 7: of the field. It so like when he did have 623 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 7: protection early in the game, he was escaping too early 624 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 7: in those downs. But you know, at the end of 625 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 7: the day, right when you have an offensive performance like 626 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 7: that and you only score three points, everyone is to blame. 627 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 7: The quarterback didn't play well enough, The play calling wasn't 628 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 7: good enough, the receivers didn't run good enough routes. The 629 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,239 Speaker 7: offensive lineman didn't protect well enough, They didn't block well 630 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 7: enough in the running game, the running backs didn't run 631 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 7: well enough. Everyone is at fault. But to me, at 632 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 7: some point in time, the fifty two and a half 633 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 7: million dollar a year quarterback, it's gonna have to show 634 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 7: up in a big game like this, and we haven't 635 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 7: seen him play that type of game in the playoffs 636 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 7: in his three appearances, and at some point it's gonna 637 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,320 Speaker 7: have to come together for him if he wants to 638 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 7: get over the hump. 639 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 1: The pop Daddy Daniel Popper from the Athletic joining us 640 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: right now in the Petterson Money Show, lamenting the chargers 641 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 1: abysmal offensive performance in Jillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. He 642 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 1: got his sweats on deep deep in the night in 643 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: the North East in New England, and he's back here 644 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,760 Speaker 1: in southern California to watch the Chargers processional sad march 645 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:11,280 Speaker 1: out of the facility. Popper, overall, what is the biggest 646 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 1: need after that performance? What do you think they'll focus 647 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,320 Speaker 1: on in the off season. 648 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,839 Speaker 7: Well, I think you kind of have to talk about 649 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 7: the interior of the offensive line, And I feel like 650 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 7: a broken record because all I did for about four 651 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 7: or five months after last season ended was talk about 652 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,479 Speaker 7: building up the interior of the offensive line. They signed 653 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 7: Mackai Beckton and that was an abject failure as a signing. 654 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 7: They ran it back at the other two positions with 655 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,200 Speaker 7: Bradley Boseman, Zion Johnson. I thought Zon Johnson took a 656 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 7: big step forward this season, But you feel good about 657 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 7: the tackles coming back. Obviously, there's a little bit of 658 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 7: uncertainty as far as iber Schaan Slater returns from a 659 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 7: really significant knee injury torn to Teler tend and we 660 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 7: just talked to Joe allt sounds like he's going to 661 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 7: be back and in proper shape for OTAs or around 662 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 7: that time in the spring. But how do you get 663 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 7: this interior to a place where Justin Herbert isn't getting 664 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,360 Speaker 7: hit like this? And so I think you've got to 665 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,319 Speaker 7: start with center. There has to be an upgrade at 666 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,280 Speaker 7: that position, whether it's in free agency or the draft, 667 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 7: and they have to look at Zion Johnson and make 668 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,440 Speaker 7: a decision there about whether they can bring him back, 669 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 7: and then they have to get a real solution at 670 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,319 Speaker 7: right guard. There were other options in free agency, there 671 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 7: were options in the draft. They decided I'm a Kai Becton, 672 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 7: and he really wasn't able to stay on the field. 673 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 7: When he was on the field, he wasn't very good. 674 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,839 Speaker 7: So that has to be the absolute priority here. Okay, 675 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,359 Speaker 7: Justin Herbert was hit one hundred and twenty nine times 676 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 7: this season and he managed to lead this team to 677 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 7: the playoffs. But you have to protect him. You have 678 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 7: to put him in a position to be successful. And 679 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 7: that starts with creating the protection for him to be 680 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 7: back there and not take the type of hits that 681 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 7: he's taking, because let's be real, he's twenty seven years old. 682 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,279 Speaker 7: But this is very Andrew Luckish in terms of how 683 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 7: this is going, the number of hits that he's taking. 684 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 7: A guy that loves football and loves to be out there, 685 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 7: but the stuff that he's playing through is not sustainable 686 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 7: over the long term. So they got to focus on 687 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 7: this offensive line and they have to build a group 688 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 7: that can protect their most valuable asset. 689 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 1: Full stop Pop some we'll call full stop pop. 690 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,840 Speaker 2: Well, some call him full stop pop, some call it 691 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,320 Speaker 2: some say he is an antagonist, say he's just asking 692 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 2: the questions that people want. The answers to you are 693 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 2: you are not afraid in the pressers And it felt 694 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,520 Speaker 2: like for the first time you got a little bit 695 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 2: of an answer from coach Harbaugh about the future of 696 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,320 Speaker 2: Greg Roman. You mentioned the play caller. You know, you 697 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 2: can dig into Greg Roman's past with either Lamar Jackson 698 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 2: or Justin Herbert or his quarterback in the playoffs, and 699 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,880 Speaker 2: his offenses have never scored more than twenty points, and 700 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,719 Speaker 2: they've averaged twelve points in those five games he's had 701 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,520 Speaker 2: with those two exceptional quarterbacks. Just kind of your thoughts 702 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,320 Speaker 2: on the answer you got from Harbaugh and whether or 703 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,719 Speaker 2: not you think they'll have the same play caller next year. 704 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean the answer told me that they're considering changes, 705 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 7: and I think you have to assessing to me, like, 706 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,279 Speaker 7: you bring in Greg Roman for a specific reason, right. 707 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,799 Speaker 7: He's built great run games wherever he's been and Jim 708 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,880 Speaker 7: Harbaugh wants to play a physical brand of football, and 709 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,360 Speaker 7: so they bring in Greg Roman to establish that. On 710 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 7: the offensive line. That's the messaging for the last two 711 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 7: years to these offensive linemen is we're gonna lean on you. 712 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 7: This is gonna be an O line centric building. That's 713 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 7: what run game coordinator Andy Bischoff said, right, And so 714 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 7: if that's going to be the ideology in the philosophy, 715 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 7: then you better lean into that in the biggest moments 716 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,360 Speaker 7: of the season. And so the Chargers get a turnover 717 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,960 Speaker 7: in the first half, they set the offense up at 718 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,319 Speaker 7: the ten yard line. How many runs did they run 719 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 7: in four plays? 720 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:36,480 Speaker 1: Zero? 721 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,239 Speaker 7: Zero handoffs to the running backs. They've turned the ball 722 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,320 Speaker 7: over on downs and then get zero points off of that. 723 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,879 Speaker 7: So that to me, that sequence there, to me early 724 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 7: in the game showed me that this ideology and philosophy 725 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,000 Speaker 7: that they've been preaching under Greg Roman is not being 726 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 7: enacted on the field in the biggest game of the season. 727 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,360 Speaker 7: And that tells me that this identity is completely lost. 728 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 7: And then you get into the fact that Justin Herbert 729 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,480 Speaker 7: was dropping back when he'd have protection. No one's open. 730 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,279 Speaker 7: You know, part of that is on the receivers, but 731 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,920 Speaker 7: part of it is you look across the league at 732 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 7: some of these great offensive coordinators, to Ben Johnson's to 733 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,800 Speaker 7: Sean mcvays, and they're scheming people open. How often is 734 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 7: that happening with the Chargers. So at the end of 735 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,879 Speaker 7: the day, there were some bright moments for Greg Roman 736 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 7: this season in terms of stringing this thing together, patching 737 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 7: it together with the offensive line. But you got to 738 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,120 Speaker 7: show up in the playoffs. And if you scored three 739 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,800 Speaker 7: points in the playoff when you have Justin Herbert playing quarterback, 740 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:26,800 Speaker 7: you got to question everything. 741 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,239 Speaker 1: All right, that's good stuff from Daniel Popper and the athletic. 742 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:36,319 Speaker 1: Always nice getting some perspective from outside the booth. Uh, 743 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 1: thank you, Daniel, and we appreciate you. Have a wonderful 744 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 1: night and get some rest there. Brother. 745 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:43,840 Speaker 7: All right, thanks guys, appreciate having us. 746 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 1: Right to the liquor store. Get one of those buzzballs. 747 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 2: Yes, you can follow hops with Pop his sub stack 748 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,120 Speaker 2: where he drinks like some others drink when they like 749 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,520 Speaker 2: to talk about the Chargers because it leads you to drink. 750 00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, get then one of those buzzball bees. 751 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:05,000 Speaker 2: Oh, big buzzball. This is the super sweet sour caramel 752 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:09,719 Speaker 2: apple buzzball. We'll be bacious with more petros and money. 753 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:13,160 Speaker 2: On m five seventy l a sports rider's hour is over. 754 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the rider's block is back. 755 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:17,760 Speaker 1: Consider yourself blocked.