Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Yes, indeed, I'm Chris. He's Jason. We call
Speaker 1: him Jay Mack, and we are filling in for Dan
Speaker 1: right here on the Dan Patrick Show and Jay mc
Speaker 1: let's move on to the NBA. We're all obviously excited
Speaker 1: about the restart. I think it's gonna be tremendous. Obviously
Speaker 1: we're hoping and praying that they can get through this
Speaker 1: thing because they faced some real obstacles. They silver, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been shy, and I respect Adam for that.
Speaker 1: The commissioner, he hasn't been shy and addressing him now, Chris, Chris,
Speaker 1: can I jump in with something real? You just said
Speaker 1: a phrase that I haven't heard a lot of, Like
Speaker 1: we all need the NBA, Chris, Like when you disconnect
Speaker 1: from social media and you go out in public and
Speaker 1: talk to other dads, other young guys, the number one
Speaker 1: thing I hear, man, we need sports back. I mean, Chris,
Speaker 1: it's getting really bleak. Listen. I get it's been four
Speaker 1: months in the quarantine, but Chris, I mean, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's not good for everybody's mental
Speaker 1: health if all they do is watch the news and
Speaker 1: listen to that idiot leader we've got and then go
Speaker 1: on social media. Chris, we need basketball badly. I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for this bubble, maybe maybe more than any team I've
Speaker 1: ever rooted for before in sports history. I'm not kidding,
Speaker 1: and that includes my Jets in a couple of AFC
Speaker 1: title games with Mark Sanchez. But I digressed. I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for the bubble because I want dudes to be healthy.
Speaker 1: I'm not desperate. I think this is actually a good time.
Speaker 1: Look if we if for some reason, I want sports, obviously,
Speaker 1: that's what I do for a living. I love sports.
Speaker 1: Sports has been a huge part of my entire life,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm excited about the NBA, the Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: and of course the NFL startups. Okay, so I'm hyped,
Speaker 1: and I hope that these guys get through it and
Speaker 1: we have a great restart, all right, in a great season.
Speaker 1: But I'm not desperate. If they don't have sports, this
Speaker 1: is the time for people to look within and find
Speaker 1: other hobbies, do other things, you know, look at yourself,
Speaker 1: look in the mirror. There's other stuff to do. I
Speaker 1: agree with that, but you know, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, we grew up watching sports. We grew up.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you played sports all
Speaker 1: day outside with your buddies, you know, you hung out
Speaker 1: with your parents, you had dinner, and then maybe you
Speaker 1: flip on a game for a little bit before going
Speaker 1: to bed. I don't know about you. I'm not watching
Speaker 1: any TV lately. I mean maybe, like you know, what
Speaker 1: was it, Britta, not Braveheart? But um, Gladiator was on
Speaker 1: and I started showing my little kids Gladiator and my
Speaker 1: wife's like, are we sure we should do this? You know,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, well, there's no sports. I
Speaker 1: can't turn it on and say, let's watch Lebron dominate,
Speaker 1: you know, against some over overmatched opponent, like sports is
Speaker 1: a unifiers. Like Chris, we could just get together and
Speaker 1: watch a game, and it's just it's depressing at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. I listen, I like you, I'm
Speaker 1: getting religious, uh, read books, you know, talk with my family.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of stuff you could do. But
Speaker 1: Chris has been four months. Can I get a basketball
Speaker 1: game from just like you? Yeah? I want it back
Speaker 1: just like you. And speaking of that, Lebron James just posted,
Speaker 1: uh recently a post on Instagram and it's it's it
Speaker 1: is interesting to see these guys working out with mask on.
Speaker 1: You know, have you run with a masket or done
Speaker 1: any workout with a mask? Not? Not with a mask.
Speaker 1: I've you know, I've I've worked out and stuff, but
Speaker 1: it's not it's not that bad. Really, Yeah, I've run it.
Speaker 1: It feels like it would be very uncomfortable, but I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know why. You know, the breathing obviously
Speaker 1: can be a little labored, but I run, like I
Speaker 1: try to run almost four miles like every other day,
Speaker 1: and uh, I've done it with a mask A couple
Speaker 1: of times. I've done it with a mask, and it's
Speaker 1: not noticeably different on your time at least necessary. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not the other thing. Right Again, I wouldn't say,
Speaker 1: like when I'm out, I'm gonna keep it real. I
Speaker 1: have my mask. Whenever I leave the house, I bring
Speaker 1: a mask, And when I go into stores or whatever,
Speaker 1: I have mask. Yes, But when I'm outside, if my
Speaker 1: family and I or myself is just going for a
Speaker 1: walk or I'm sitting out, you know, at an outdoor
Speaker 1: restaurant with a couple of people, I'm not wearing a Marry.
Speaker 1: That's understandable and I'm with you on that. Um, the
Speaker 1: CDC has really screwed up this whole mask narrative. You know.
Speaker 1: Remember at the beginning they were like, oh, people don't
Speaker 1: need masks, and they're like, everybody wear a mask, Like
Speaker 1: they really bungled this. But you're right, when you're outside
Speaker 1: running you probably don't need one. I will just say,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're running, you're breathing heavier and the
Speaker 1: droplets come out of your mouth maybe a little further
Speaker 1: because of the heavy breathing running, And if you run
Speaker 1: by an old person, you don't want to infect them.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, and I don't think
Speaker 1: this is on the table, but do you think they
Speaker 1: should play with masks? I've been invited to play pick
Speaker 1: up basketball and my first question was are you guys
Speaker 1: wearing masks? And they're like, nah, I were good, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't play well. My wife. My wife
Speaker 1: basically put the kibosh. It's just like, hold up, hold up,
Speaker 1: you're not playing basketball with a bunch of guys who
Speaker 1: haven't been and tested. Are they doing temperature checks? And
Speaker 1: like myself, yeah, I got tested, Yeah, I got tested.
Speaker 1: And I was I didn't have it, thankfully. Was it
Speaker 1: the nosed one? No, it was a blood test, okay,
Speaker 1: pricked me and got it the next day, and uh
Speaker 1: it was all good. So all right, but let let's uh.
Speaker 1: Lebron posted a picture of him at the Lakers facility
Speaker 1: working out. He's just kind of standing there, looks like
Speaker 1: near mid court. Um, but he's got a mask on
Speaker 1: and he's ready. And the caption that he tweeted out
Speaker 1: or put out on Instagram is war ready. And here's
Speaker 1: what I want to get to. The hashtag revenge season
Speaker 1: continues soon. Now let me start this and then I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna weigh in. I as you know, I
Speaker 1: think you know. I like Lebron a lot um big
Speaker 1: fan of his game. Obviously what he does off the court.
Speaker 1: It'd be great if he won a fourth ring. I
Speaker 1: have picked the Clippers because I do it objectively. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I go with what I believe over my
Speaker 1: I go with my head, over my heart. I think
Speaker 1: the Clippers are the better team. We can get into
Speaker 1: that later. But this one thing I don't agree. I
Speaker 1: don't think Lebron needed to put out this hashtag revenge
Speaker 1: season continues soon. And here's why, because when Lebron has
Speaker 1: done that in the past, it's backfired on right. I
Speaker 1: could name two times off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Last year when he came back from the groin injury
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, playoff mode, activating, right, and
Speaker 1: then they lose to Memphis. The way he was good,
Speaker 1: he was good, he was fine, but well. But but
Speaker 1: they couldn't even beat these weak sisters. No, it wasn't
Speaker 1: on here, But I'm just saying, like, still, usually by himself,
Speaker 1: he can beat teams like Atlanta and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: so that backfired on him. They didn't even make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And then of course when he first went to Miami
Speaker 1: one not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
Speaker 1: not seven, and of course they get two in four years,
Speaker 1: so that backfire doing him. So I just think Lebron
Speaker 1: needs to just go out there and play and do
Speaker 1: it on the court without all the hashtags and the
Speaker 1: braggadose ship. How about that. I don't mind that. Chris,
Speaker 1: I kind of like it. You know, he's he's firing
Speaker 1: back at the whole Washed King narrative. This is his
Speaker 1: way of talking to the media without talking to the media. Right,
Speaker 1: this is him saying, oh, y'all said I was washed
Speaker 1: last year when I was thirty four, we missed the
Speaker 1: playoffs after I had gone to eighth straight finals. You
Speaker 1: thought I was washed, huh, because remember he was doing
Speaker 1: washed king that kid from Akron or whatever whatever the
Speaker 1: hashtags were. And now he's on revenge. Morold Chris, I
Speaker 1: love this. Even when he lost on Opening Night to
Speaker 1: the Clippers, and then on Christmas Day to the Clippers,
Speaker 1: a lot of people say, oh, Lebron kidt takedown kawhie,
Speaker 1: it's over. He's not getting named rings. And then that
Speaker 1: huge win in March, Chris, oh, that that was one
Speaker 1: of the best games of the NBA season where I
Speaker 1: will forget season. But does it override the two losses?
Speaker 1: I mean I think it does. Yeah. I think what
Speaker 1: happened late matters more than what happened when, especially when
Speaker 1: one of the guys that helped you win, who had
Speaker 1: six threes and scored twenty four points, Avery Bradley won't
Speaker 1: even be there, Like speaking of who too, I'm just worrying.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you, is Lou Williams going to the bubble.
Speaker 1: There is still chatter since you you mentioned it. I
Speaker 1: think like two weeks ago, Um, I have been digging
Speaker 1: around in La and Lou Williams is not a lot
Speaker 1: to go to the bubble from what I've heard. Well, look,
Speaker 1: we like you said, we don't know, and Lou would
Speaker 1: be a loss. There's no doubt about it. He is
Speaker 1: big for them in the clutch. He's efficient for them
Speaker 1: in the clutch. Here's the thing with Lou though. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Lakers hunted as Lebron, they hunted for Lou and
Speaker 1: we were wondering, why, what is Doc River get him out?
Speaker 1: You got enough talent? Okay, as good as Lou is,
Speaker 1: they have enough talent where he doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: in there at the end of the game. True. But Chris,
Speaker 1: and this is where I wonder about chemistry. That's the
Speaker 1: big word for the Clippers. Okay, Lou Williams has been
Speaker 1: a model citizen on that team. He was there several
Speaker 1: years now. Last year when they took the Warriors and
Speaker 1: pushed them and won a couple of games. He's a veteran.
Speaker 1: Are you telling me you're gonna push him aside in
Speaker 1: crunch time and play I don't know, Marcus Morris or whatever,
Speaker 1: Morris Twin they have or Reggie Jackson over the guy
Speaker 1: who's been there. Lou Williams is really the veteran voice
Speaker 1: in that locker room. Nobody listening to Paul George. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want to playoff game around in six years. Kauwhi
Speaker 1: has been there for five minutes. Lou Williams, He's like,
Speaker 1: what are their leaders in the locker room. I'm not
Speaker 1: automatically taking him out in crunch time, but if it
Speaker 1: becomes a problem and they're hunting him and he's not
Speaker 1: he's getting abused, yeah, I'm taking him out. Saying about winning, baby,
Speaker 1: and I would think Lou wants to win as much
Speaker 1: as anybody else because I still got Kawhi Leonard, who
Speaker 1: is good in the clutch. I still got Paul George,
Speaker 1: who was pretty good in the clutch. I got Pat Beverley,
Speaker 1: who we know is the defender. I got Montress. They
Speaker 1: got enough guys Landry Shammon who can hit threes. No,
Speaker 1: I mean all please, they got more depth than the Lakers.
Speaker 1: None of those I can't Chris, I can't wait. Why's
Speaker 1: not guarding Lebron in the clutch? They're gonna do the
Speaker 1: same thing. They did last time match up hunt the weakness,
Speaker 1: whether it's Shammont, whether it's lou They're gonna be attacking
Speaker 1: one of them. No, But but my point is they're
Speaker 1: going to look. I think it's gonna be a wonderful series.
Speaker 1: And I definitely think it's gonna be Clippers and Lakers.
Speaker 1: I think the Lakers have a shot, have a shot.
Speaker 1: They have a shot. They're not the favorite. Most people
Speaker 1: are picking wait wait time out. According to Vegas, the
Speaker 1: guys who set the line, the Lakers are the favorites
Speaker 1: over the Clippers some shots. You're not worried about Vegas. No, Vegas, Vegas, Vegas, Vegas.
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, Like, come on, I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Vegas. I'm worried about what my
Speaker 1: eyes see, all right, and my eyes see that the
Speaker 1: Clippers are better. And here's the thing, Jay Mack, you
Speaker 1: gotta answer me this. There's two reasons I picked the
Speaker 1: Clippers over the Lakers. And there's two. D's depth and dog.
Speaker 1: Oh the dog thing is more depth, especially with Avery
Speaker 1: Bradley leading leaving. And they have more dog, especially with
Speaker 1: Avery Bradley leaving. He was one of the Lakers dogs.
Speaker 1: I need that dog and the key factor for the
Speaker 1: Lakers that Jared Dudley. Dudley alluded to it. He said, look,
Speaker 1: obviously he didn't say this, but clearly Lebron's their best
Speaker 1: player and their most important player. But we know Lebron's
Speaker 1: gonna deliver, right, we know what he's gonna give us.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis in fourth quarters, Jay Mack, Anthony Davis is
Speaker 1: will be critical against the Clippers. The Clippers have guys
Speaker 1: that can match up against Lebron Kawhi, Leonard Paul George,
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris, not shut him down, but keep it so
Speaker 1: he won't just dominate and abuse him and totally take
Speaker 1: over the game the series. But they don't have a
Speaker 1: guy that will match up with Anthony Davis. And so
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarters, Lebron will play well, but he's
Speaker 1: not gonna just own it. Anthony Davis is the guy
Speaker 1: that has to take over. And here's the problem, Jay Mack.
Speaker 1: While he's average twenty six points against the Clippers this season,
Speaker 1: three games, he scored eight points total in the three
Speaker 1: fourth quarters twenty one total minutes in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: eight points. I need more from a d and you
Speaker 1: do too. If you think the Lakers are gonna win it,
Speaker 1: you're feeling me on that just to yes, I'll get
Speaker 1: to that in a sect, but whole narrative that like
Speaker 1: Lebron and the Clippers. Lebron has dominated the Clippers this year, okay,
Speaker 1: in three matches. Here's his lines. Twenty eight points, nine assists,
Speaker 1: eight rebounds on Christmas Day twenty three ten and nine okay,
Speaker 1: and on Opening night and nine are not great numbers
Speaker 1: for a thirty five year old on near triple double.
Speaker 1: Come on, that was on even his league averages? What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? On opening night? Did struggle a
Speaker 1: bit shooting first game with basically a new team eighteen
Speaker 1: ten eight. Lebron has been He's been dominated. He didn't
Speaker 1: even hit his scoring average. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to hit his scoring average because he
Speaker 1: wants to get whether it's Kuzma, whether it's Avery Bradley,
Speaker 1: whether it's Anthony Davis. He needs to get everybody. Lebron's
Speaker 1: thirty five. Christie can't do what he did in Cleveland
Speaker 1: or Miami. He just can't physically at thirty five do
Speaker 1: that anymore. He has become the leader the one game
Speaker 1: they beat the Clippers. He topped his scoring average two
Speaker 1: games where he didn't where you said he didn't need
Speaker 1: to hit the score in average. They lost. It's not
Speaker 1: all about score, I mean, Chris, twenty eight, twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's about how many points you got on the board
Speaker 1: or how many points you can create for your team
Speaker 1: to assist this. No, well you can if you're assisting
Speaker 1: Avery Bradley on six threes, you certainly can. Chris, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be in the bubble. But when you mentioned
Speaker 1: dogs and the Clippers got these dogs? What j R? Smith?
Speaker 1: They know dog Dion Waiters, we know he got dog
Speaker 1: in him and a lot of other stuff too. Those
Speaker 1: But Alex Carusoe's got some dog in him. Listen, man,
Speaker 1: you keep talking about dogs. You go watch as much
Speaker 1: dog as the Clippers. Okay, I will answer that. Go
Speaker 1: back and watch that March game on YouTube. Blakers Clippers.
Speaker 1: Show me who had more dog in him other than
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley. I don't see a lot of dog in
Speaker 1: Kawai and Paul George and maybe you can say, hey,
Speaker 1: it's just a regular I don't see the dog in Kawai.
Speaker 1: What kind of dog you got? Mont His Harold, he's
Speaker 1: not a montress. Harold's got dog, He's a dog. And
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley also, But Patrick Beverly is so much more
Speaker 1: bark than his bite, and he's trying to get people
Speaker 1: injured out here. I'm out on Pat. He's got plenty
Speaker 1: of dudes hurt. I still take the Lakers speaking to bite.
Speaker 1: J mac cam Newton is biting. He's barking. Actually he's barking.
Speaker 1: The question is will he be able to bite because
Speaker 1: he's done with something? Done with what? That's the question.
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Speaker 1: let's go back to the NFL, and we talked about
Speaker 1: Lebron's braggadosha. Right, Revenge season continues soon, and Lebron's got
Speaker 1: three rings and four MVPs to back up that braggadoshi.
Speaker 1: Even though I really didn't want him going there. I say,
Speaker 1: just do it on the court because he's backfired on
Speaker 1: even before. But at least he does have the hardware
Speaker 1: to back it up. Cam Newton not so much, all right,
Speaker 1: but Cam put out in Instagram a couple instagrams, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it to you, J Mack, and I
Speaker 1: want your viewpoint, all right, here's what Cam said. He
Speaker 1: was working out at the time too. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: all this humble explative because when you're humble, they start
Speaker 1: taking advantage of you. When you don't say nothing, they
Speaker 1: start taking advantage of you. The hyena can do, can
Speaker 1: be doing all that he can do. The elephant can
Speaker 1: be doing all did he do. The giraffe, the antelope,
Speaker 1: the chimpanzee, the gorilla can be doing all that they do.
Speaker 1: But there's one expletive lion in the jungle and when
Speaker 1: he roar, everything stops. And I'm about to expletive roar.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Jay Mack. I mean, let's be realistic.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's feelings were hurt when the franchise he played
Speaker 1: for his entire career basically kicked him to the curb
Speaker 1: and then nobody wanted him. I mean, teams are jumping
Speaker 1: and grab Jamis and Andy Dalton and nobody touched camp.
Speaker 1: And this is where you know. I took a lot
Speaker 1: of heat when I won on Cowherd Show and I
Speaker 1: mentioned Baker Mayfield so obsessed with his phone in social media,
Speaker 1: and now I've been proven right two years later when
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield said, hey man, I'm dialing back my phone
Speaker 1: usage in social media. Okay, Cam Newton needs to take
Speaker 1: that lesson and apply it. He's listening too much to
Speaker 1: social media. He's reading his Instagram comments, he's reading Twitter,
Speaker 1: and he's watching the YouTube all these takes, and it
Speaker 1: just you could tell that this is impacting him. It's
Speaker 1: getting to him. That's why he's putting out this nonsense. Cam.
Speaker 1: This is about one thing. You're throwing shoulder. You had
Speaker 1: surgery in twenty seventeen. You had surgery in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and you haven't been the same. That's it. If you
Speaker 1: can get the shoulder right, you will be fine. Whether
Speaker 1: that means releasing the ball half a second quicker, not
Speaker 1: taking as many hits, changing your style. Forget about the
Speaker 1: social media nonsense. Cam, this is about playing quarterback. I
Speaker 1: still think Kim can have a resurgence. We know the
Speaker 1: talent is there. You don't win MVP, you don't go
Speaker 1: number one overall. Do what he did at Auburn, immensely talented.
Speaker 1: Forget about the social media nonsense. Chris, that's his z.
Speaker 1: I think that's step one, step two, focus on your
Speaker 1: shoulder and your game, and he's back. I see I do.
Speaker 1: I was saying, jamac months ago when everybody, when all
Speaker 1: the reporters were saying, Nah, they're not they're not interested,
Speaker 1: they're not going there. And I didn't. I wasn't predicting
Speaker 1: it was gonna happen. I was just saying I would
Speaker 1: like to see it happen. I was saying it should happen.
Speaker 1: I was saying, why not, why not Cam Newton and
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick in New England together. So I'm glad this happened.
Speaker 1: And I do think that if Cam is healthy, he
Speaker 1: will have a resurgent year. He will lead them to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. If he's healthy, I firmly believe that. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's about oh, can he play like time?
Speaker 1: Are you sure he's gonna be the starting quarterback in
Speaker 1: Week one? Yes? Why healthy, he's healthy, he will be
Speaker 1: Okay this See, here's what people are forgetting. And you
Speaker 1: you kind of mentioned this a little to yourself, Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: people are forgetting. You glossed over it. I should say, yourself,
Speaker 1: people are forgetting in twenty eighteen. You remember this as
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Cam Newton in the first half of the
Speaker 1: season was a monster candidate. Yes, fifteen TVs four picks,
Speaker 1: sixty seven percent completion with North Turner and they were
Speaker 1: six and two of the Panthers and then he got injured. Now,
Speaker 1: he played through it, which is a credit to him,
Speaker 1: but he obviously wasn't able to be very effective. And
Speaker 1: then he got hurt after in the second game last
Speaker 1: year and the rest is history. So it's not like
Speaker 1: you have to go back to twenty fifteen to say
Speaker 1: the last time Cam Newton was good. No, you're one
Speaker 1: hundred percent right, Chris. Let me add that when they
Speaker 1: were six and two, there was a Thursday night game
Speaker 1: Carolina at Pittsburgh and I'll never forget it because I
Speaker 1: bet it. I'm like, you know, doing all this gambling
Speaker 1: stuff for Fox, and I was like, listen, Steelers, you
Speaker 1: gotta take them here. There's a no brainer. And they murdered, destroyed,
Speaker 1: absolutely eviscerated Cam and the Panthers. And there was a
Speaker 1: hit by t. J. Watt and you can see it
Speaker 1: on YouTube. He puts his helmet right into Cam's shoulder.
Speaker 1: Cam was never the same. There's a crazy picture of
Speaker 1: it and you're like, oh my gosh, just helmet right
Speaker 1: to the shoulder. Cam never recovered. He hasn't won a
Speaker 1: game since that one. Since that defeat on Pittsburgh, he
Speaker 1: hasn't won one NFL football game, right, And like you said,
Speaker 1: the key is him being healthy. But here's what I say.
Speaker 1: Like I I like the fact that Cam has not
Speaker 1: let the haters or even the fact that teams didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, weren't lining up to sign him. I'm glad
Speaker 1: that he hasn't let that take away as confidence. I
Speaker 1: like that. So you need confidence. We know that you
Speaker 1: need an ego. We know that. But as in the
Speaker 1: words of a guy that we've both talked with, I
Speaker 1: don't know that we're talking with him now, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: in the immortal words of Kevin Durant. Too soon, bro,
Speaker 1: it's too soon, bro. Like you didn't sign for twenty
Speaker 1: five million, you didn't sign for thirty million. You just
Speaker 1: signed a Vets minimum deal. You are you're not even
Speaker 1: been you haven't been given the starter's job yet. Just
Speaker 1: go out there and let your play do the talking.
Speaker 1: If you do, like I said, lead the Patriots to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, if you do have a resurgent year, then
Speaker 1: talk about Rory. But now it's too soon, bro. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you since we don't know about his health.
Speaker 1: And Chris because twenty eight we'll say twenty eight teams.
Speaker 1: Basically we're like, ah, we don't know about his health.
Speaker 1: We're not interested. What makes you confident he's going to
Speaker 1: be the starter of a week one look? And I
Speaker 1: never like to just, you know, fly off the handle
Speaker 1: off of Instagram videos. When when Ben Simmons is hitting
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty three footers against guys at the y m
Speaker 1: c A and putting it on Instagram, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that's gonna translate. So let me let me put that
Speaker 1: out there first. However, we know the shoulder, as you said,
Speaker 1: and the foot, those are the problems, right the Liz
Speaker 1: Frank fracture in his foot. When you look at the
Speaker 1: workouts he was doing, J Mack, you see, I mean
Speaker 1: he's balancing on a ball on his foot, he's lifting
Speaker 1: with his should like the things he's doing, and I
Speaker 1: know it's just a small sample size, and he puts
Speaker 1: out what he wants, right, He's putting out what makes
Speaker 1: him look good. But what he's put out does make
Speaker 1: it look like he's healthy in those two places that
Speaker 1: we were concerned about. Now he's taking a lot of
Speaker 1: hits and if maybe I'm not worried though about the
Speaker 1: wear and tear on his body, just because I don't
Speaker 1: expect him to run as much. He doesn't need to
Speaker 1: run as much. But I think he can still be
Speaker 1: a good quarterback, especially in that syst Because here's the thing.
Speaker 1: People are like, well, can he be Brady? Can he
Speaker 1: do what that offense does? What does that offense do?
Speaker 1: They adjust that. Bill Belichick and Josh McDaniels adjust. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they're twelve personnel with two tight ends. Sometimes they're spread
Speaker 1: off and sometimes they're run first. They adjust sometimes week
Speaker 1: to week, sometimes season the season, era, the era, but
Speaker 1: they adjust. They will come up with the offense for
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. Here's my only thing. Stid him. Jared stid him.
Speaker 1: The kid from Auburn has been was with them last year.
Speaker 1: He knows the playbooks. They believe Jay Mack and jared'stid
Speaker 1: him like that. Then they would have never signed Kim
Speaker 1: new Seriously, if you thought Jared was gonna be the
Speaker 1: next Tom Brady or Tom Brady light even then you
Speaker 1: wouldn't go out. You could be signing all of a
Speaker 1: sudden because he's a bargain basement deal. When you get
Speaker 1: a former MVP who you like you said, was good
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen for the first half, why not take him? Well?
Speaker 1: Speaking of quarterbacks, let's get to our man in Dallas,
Speaker 1: Clarence Hill, who we know is all on top of
Speaker 1: the Dak Prescott story, on top of everything Cowboys related.
Speaker 1: He's the Cowboys reported for the fort worst Star Telegram
Speaker 1: does a great job. What's up? Brother? Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. Hey, what's up guys? How are you doing? Man?
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys having me this morning. Great to have
Speaker 1: you on. Man, you're the man with the answer. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna get right to it. Okay, I'm gonna hit
Speaker 1: you with this first, because the reports I've seen are
Speaker 1: that essentially the Cowboys and Dak have kind of agreed
Speaker 1: on money, something around thirty five million per year. The
Speaker 1: hold up is just that the Cowboys want five years,
Speaker 1: DAK wants four. Is that correct? You know? The biggest
Speaker 1: sticking point again, let's say this, before Patrick million got
Speaker 1: a half of Billy, a half of Billy before he
Speaker 1: got a half of Billy. Yes, the biggest sticking point
Speaker 1: was years, not necessarily money. The biggest sticking point was years.
Speaker 1: They had offered Dak a little more than thirty four million,
Speaker 1: right under thirty five million, but they could have easily
Speaker 1: got thirty five million. But the sticking point was years.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys wanted to do a five year deal to
Speaker 1: help out in Stary cow Dak wanted to do a
Speaker 1: four year deal. Once a four year deal because that's
Speaker 1: what was all the new money deals. Look at all
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and the deals they've gotten the last couple
Speaker 1: years have been four year deals, so he wanted to
Speaker 1: be in aligned with everybody else. There were four year
Speaker 1: deals before year extensions. Again, that was before Patrick ma
Speaker 1: Holmes signed for ten years and a half of Billy Well,
Speaker 1: it's that that. I mean, look, I like that. I
Speaker 1: think he's a franchise quarterback. But he is not in
Speaker 1: the same sentence or zip code as Patrick Mahomes. But
Speaker 1: is he gonna make this, you know, take him up
Speaker 1: to the closer to forty million or I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's no one's ever expected him to get more than
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. Even if he would have got thirty five
Speaker 1: million and became my highest paid quarterback, we all knew
Speaker 1: that Patrick Homes is gonna surpass him. Okay, we already
Speaker 1: knew that as soon as he signed a contract, he's
Speaker 1: gonna surpass him. Probably to Shaun Watson too. That's just
Speaker 1: how it goes. The next guy gets the most money,
Speaker 1: you know. And so now that Patrick ma Holmes has
Speaker 1: already surpassed him in just a month of negotiations, no
Speaker 1: one expects him to get past Mahome of money. I'm
Speaker 1: deck's not expected to get Patricahome with money. But what
Speaker 1: it does is it does raise the floor. I mean,
Speaker 1: you go from an ideal that you know, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: was the top paid quarterback at thirty five million a year.
Speaker 1: Now you got uh, Patrick Mahomes, you know average new
Speaker 1: money four per quarterball. That that has raised the floor.
Speaker 1: So no one but but now with him getting a
Speaker 1: thirty four point one million dollars this year or the
Speaker 1: franchise tag and next year the franchise tag being thirty
Speaker 1: seven million for him, if they don't get a deal done,
Speaker 1: h why would I set up for thirty five right now? Well,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, Clarence, every quarterback who you've
Speaker 1: mentioned here and has been mentioned in that thirty five
Speaker 1: to forty rains, whether it's Russ. Uh, you know, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, all these guys, they've been to a super
Speaker 1: Bowl or been in the MVP discussion. Dak is in
Speaker 1: neither Clarence shutting deal. I like how you I like
Speaker 1: how you raised you change that too, been in the
Speaker 1: MVP discussion to fit Carson Winson, I like, I mean
Speaker 1: and Wentz. But yeah, first it was a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Then you had a I mean, they traded up for
Speaker 1: the guy. They're not gonna bail on him. So so really,
Speaker 1: so really, what you're saying that they were all first
Speaker 1: round picks eteth Russell, but they're all first round picks. Uh.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is this, if you look, you need to,
Speaker 1: like you put Dak under against Carson Winston, Jared Golf
Speaker 1: outside of that quote, Unhold, he's been to the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: even though Golf looked awful of that has not if
Speaker 1: you just look at his numbers and what he's done,
Speaker 1: he's been, you know, and then Carson Wentz. Certainly, how
Speaker 1: many playoff games with Carson Wentz one zero? Okay, I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure we were own that same page.
Speaker 1: But but but but then the difference is is that
Speaker 1: you know, there's the problem I was talking about the
Speaker 1: radio show last night. You know, when you come in
Speaker 1: as a fourth round pick, you always have to prove yourself.
Speaker 1: You know, in the first round picked, he will always
Speaker 1: give you the benefit of that way. He was picking
Speaker 1: numb one overall, and so he continues to have to
Speaker 1: prove himself. Are there their doubters about you know, what
Speaker 1: he can do with his ceiling because he wasn't the
Speaker 1: first round pick up, because he wasn't UH and because
Speaker 1: he came in at the fourth round pick up. You
Speaker 1: look at the numbers, you watched the game. He's certainly
Speaker 1: Ferris come very well to those quarterbacks like Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: and and UH, Jared Golf and and and you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny to me because if you go back to
Speaker 1: UH a few years ago, the San Francisco quarterback there
Speaker 1: five starts became the high paid player in the league,
Speaker 1: you know, and no one questioned that. They just we're
Speaker 1: believing our guy, and we gave him this money, and
Speaker 1: we made the highest pay player in the league. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's been to the Super Bowl, but he had done
Speaker 1: nothing much time he got the contract. Okay, and so
Speaker 1: let's not change how this team works. If you believe
Speaker 1: in your guy and these are what it is for
Speaker 1: the quarterback position and what you have to pay for
Speaker 1: a quarterback, then you commit to your guy. Well it's
Speaker 1: pretty clar it's pretty clear the forty nine ers were desperate.
Speaker 1: They had to overpay. They were a dumpster fire. But
Speaker 1: is Dallas desperate? Your saying, we're just I'm just dealing
Speaker 1: with the facts. So you're getting you're you're dealing with
Speaker 1: all this other stuff. I'm just dealing with the fact
Speaker 1: of how these things that have worked. And really what
Speaker 1: has happened over the last few years is the next
Speaker 1: guy gets paid. The next quarterback up gets paid. He
Speaker 1: get paid quarterback money. You know, all these guys was
Speaker 1: as Kirk Cousins, Jared golf Carson went to the table,
Speaker 1: ever get paid. They get paid to the current market
Speaker 1: value of quarterback. Well, it's now with next term and
Speaker 1: it's not his fault that you know, going back to
Speaker 1: if we went from twenty nine to thirty five, you know,
Speaker 1: he's the next quarterback up, I would say, he's our
Speaker 1: freschise quarterbacks and so they're gonna pay him. That in
Speaker 1: that vein in the bottom line is the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: the ones that have identified him with their fratijise quarterback.
Speaker 1: They're the ones who have offered him Russell Wilson like
Speaker 1: money already. So that's not a question about what money
Speaker 1: should getting workships. They've already offered him that type of money.
Speaker 1: Now it's about can we agree on that number? And
Speaker 1: again that number, because this is how the market works.
Speaker 1: Has now risen just a little bit because of what
Speaker 1: Patrick Holmes signed for and if the Cowboys fall, they
Speaker 1: didn't get that done before his rookie deal was up.
Speaker 1: The thing that the Chiefs were able to do, and
Speaker 1: Jared and the Rams were able to do, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles were able to do, but they were that is,
Speaker 1: able to sign their quarterback to an extension with two
Speaker 1: years left on his deal, and so they can manipate
Speaker 1: the tap and do things like that. The Cowboys should
Speaker 1: have gotten this done two years ago. You know that,
Speaker 1: You know Jerry's history better than anyone. He's tended to
Speaker 1: buckle on these contracts, you know, right before a deadline approaches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you think that will be the case. I felt like
Speaker 1: all along that they were gonna go ahead and say,
Speaker 1: all right, Dak, we'll just give you the four years.
Speaker 1: Do you think that is what is going to happen
Speaker 1: before the deadline. Do you think DA plays on the
Speaker 1: franchise tag. Well, I think two things that work. I
Speaker 1: think that number one that Patrick Mahomes has shown Dak
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys that you can sign a longer deal.
Speaker 1: Part of the four year reason was that's what everybody
Speaker 1: else is signing for. Now. You want to sign for
Speaker 1: four years and you get back out there because the
Speaker 1: new money is coming, the new contracts coming, I mean
Speaker 1: with the TV network contracts are coming, and there's a
Speaker 1: possible chance that they're gonna legalize gambling, which um this
Speaker 1: salary camp and all the other stuff. Because you don't
Speaker 1: want to miss all those opportunities. Well, they've shown you
Speaker 1: if Patrick's hone has shown you that if you money
Speaker 1: with me, I'll take a longer deal. You know, do
Speaker 1: you give me happy, I'll take a longer deal. You know.
Speaker 1: So I think some premaitive them has been said. You know,
Speaker 1: if you want me to take a longer deal, then
Speaker 1: you need to make it worth. My wife didn't do that.
Speaker 1: But I do think a deal will get done. Let
Speaker 1: me just say that I do think the deal with
Speaker 1: Big dumb I did report yesterday. They have not talked.
Speaker 1: They have not renewed talk. There have been no talks
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys the US just March. If not talked
Speaker 1: to March, okay, but then lines get deals done, so
Speaker 1: it won't take long for them to get it dug
Speaker 1: if they get in the same room. But they have
Speaker 1: not talked to March. Why did they sign Andy Dalton?
Speaker 1: Clarence if they're if they're gonna make it, if they're
Speaker 1: gonna back it up and give them the breaks, why
Speaker 1: go out and sign Andy Dalton because they want a
Speaker 1: minute left. They wanted to back up. He wanted to
Speaker 1: come home. You know, he's from Texas. He want to
Speaker 1: teaching you. He wanted to find a situation. His family
Speaker 1: lives in Off Stevens because of COVID. He really couldn't
Speaker 1: get out there on the phrasing market in search for
Speaker 1: a starting gig like he wants to. So it was
Speaker 1: just the best situation for both parties. Andy Doll is
Speaker 1: no threat to Dak Prescott. There. It is Clarence Hill,
Speaker 1: Cowboys reporter for the four Worst Star Telegram, and Clarence,
Speaker 1: I love the way you shot down Jay Max Little
Speaker 1: Clarens is my favorite Cowboys guy. That's good. I love
Speaker 1: him as a queue, but I still eat everybody makes
Speaker 1: a mistake here there. I still nineteen level love. But
Speaker 1: you know it's all about the room. That's our very
Speaker 1: Clarence Hill from four Worst Star Telegram, great job, brother,
Speaker 1: Thanks all right, man, all right, which NBA team has
Speaker 1: the best chance to win it all this year? A
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Speaker 1: uh we brought this up. I ribbed you about this
Speaker 1: about Kenney Smith going gap band because he dropped the
Speaker 1: bomb on myself and Rod Parker on the I Couple
Speaker 1: on Monday. Here's what he had to say about the
Speaker 1: NBA restart. For some reason, I just feel like young
Speaker 1: teams are gonna play better at I don't know why.
Speaker 1: The fact that they're they're gonna be signally focused, you know,
Speaker 1: every day, the fact that they're young, the fact that
Speaker 1: they work out a different way than you know, older veterans. Dude,
Speaker 1: I just think that they're gonna be They're gonna flourish.
Speaker 1: The denver Is, the Bostons, the Milwaukee's, and I even
Speaker 1: think the dallas Is of the world. He said also
Speaker 1: in our interview with him, when I asked him who
Speaker 1: he think's gonna win, he said one of the d's,
Speaker 1: Denver or Dallas. And to quote him earlier in his
Speaker 1: his spield that we we just played. I don't know
Speaker 1: why because I don't agree. I mean, this is Chris
Speaker 1: come listen. I don't know Kenny Smith personally. Is this
Speaker 1: him trying to get attention. I'm just curious, is this
Speaker 1: him trying to cut this is nonsense? Dallas or Denver.
Speaker 1: First of all, Yokich, have you seen the reports he
Speaker 1: he lost forty five pounds or whatever it is. Can't
Speaker 1: even get into can't even get into the country right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he's gonna play, but we don't know
Speaker 1: if he's been playing basketball do By the way, Denver
Speaker 1: looked terrible in the second half of the season, since,
Speaker 1: like January one, their analytics are bad. They're like a
Speaker 1: below average team. Denver has no chance in the bubble none, Uh, Dallas,
Speaker 1: I I you know, I like Luka don Chich. I'm
Speaker 1: glad Porzingis will be healthy. I don't know about the
Speaker 1: rest of their supporting cast. Do you trust uh, anyone
Speaker 1: other than Luca on that team? I mean, assuming Porzingis
Speaker 1: is healthy, nobody else is proven, and obviously Luca is young.
Speaker 1: I look, I agree with you. I think it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I would be shell shocked. I would be floored. I
Speaker 1: would be flabbergasted. I would be I don't I'm looking
Speaker 1: for another word. But if Denver or Dallas wins it,
Speaker 1: if they even get to the finals, if they win
Speaker 1: the West, one of those teams, I think it would
Speaker 1: be I think if anybody completely shocked, I can see
Speaker 1: Dallas pulling an upset of the Clippers, say um, but
Speaker 1: I can't see them taking down the Lakers. I can't
Speaker 1: see Denver taking down either team. Let me go here,
Speaker 1: because because I think clearly we both agreed it. There's
Speaker 1: only three teams, right, There's only three teams that are
Speaker 1: gonna win the title. We agree with that, right, Bucks, Lakers, Clippers,
Speaker 1: I think yeah, the most part. I mean I do think, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: win the title. Yes, I would say that. I think
Speaker 1: of Boston. I wouldn't be shocked if somebody up upset
Speaker 1: Milwaukee in there, I have Boston upsetting Milwaukee. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna like, I think Milwaukee will win these but
Speaker 1: I think there wouldn't be shocked if Boston Toronto, I
Speaker 1: don't know if, but they're tough. I mean, Toronto plays
Speaker 1: as hard as anybody in the league. They're well coached,
Speaker 1: they've got something to prove. They got a better record
Speaker 1: this year without Kawhi. Yeah year, if you noticed, Toronto
Speaker 1: got down to Florida early and they've been together, but
Speaker 1: they had to though yeah the whole time. You wonder
Speaker 1: if maybe that'll give them a slight edge, A slight edge.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much, um, but they I was
Speaker 1: way wrong about the Raptors this year. They've been they're legit.
Speaker 1: So I look, I could see somebody upset him and
Speaker 1: walk in the East, but I wouldn't see that team
Speaker 1: beating the Lakers or the Clippers. So I think it's
Speaker 1: one of those three teams I agree with you. Here's
Speaker 1: who I want to throw at you though, based off
Speaker 1: what Kenny Smith said, if let's just let's go along
Speaker 1: with his game, let's go along with his folly, all right?
Speaker 1: As as the great walk, Clyde Fraser would say, uh,
Speaker 1: and say Dallas does win it? What would that do
Speaker 1: for Luca donches We already know he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: future MVP candidate, probably an MVP winner at some point. Uh,
Speaker 1: he he has a I I would say Lebron is
Speaker 1: the best what twenty year old twenty year old we've
Speaker 1: ever seen in the league. But Luca's accomplished more than
Speaker 1: Lebron at this young age. What would it do for
Speaker 1: Luca's legacy or just Luca's stature if somehow they were
Speaker 1: to win it? J Matt, I mean that would you
Speaker 1: know if they pulled it off this year? Like I
Speaker 1: already liked Luca a lot, and right you know the
Speaker 1: listen it was the Larry Bird stuff followed around drk
Speaker 1: Navitski for a while, right yeah, and the white if
Speaker 1: he was black, I gott admit I wouldn't compare with
Speaker 1: Larry Bird, but he's not, so I do thank you
Speaker 1: for keeping it real by the way. Yeah, and like, listen,
Speaker 1: the Larry Bird stuff is gonna follow Luca. I just
Speaker 1: want to say to the to the young guys out there, Uh,
Speaker 1: Larry Bird won three straight MVP awards. He was the
Speaker 1: best player in the league, eighty five, eighty six, three
Speaker 1: straight MVPs. We've never seen that done since then. Now
Speaker 1: Lebron had two, and then Derrick crow stold one and
Speaker 1: then Lebron got two more. But I'm telling you, uh,
Speaker 1: Luka donte just coming. He has the chance, I would say,
Speaker 1: to be a top twenty player all time. I would
Speaker 1: say that's a ceiling for Luka done. Yeah, look, the
Speaker 1: dude is fantastic. And like I said, I think Lebron
Speaker 1: was a better twenty year old and Lebron. You know,
Speaker 1: people would say, well Lebron was a better defender, no doubt,
Speaker 1: but not at twenty. I mean he still was probably
Speaker 1: better than Luca as a defender when he got by
Speaker 1: as an athlete. Yeah, he wasn't a great defender early
Speaker 1: in his career and he became that. Luca will never
Speaker 1: be a great defender. But if he were somehow to
Speaker 1: win this championship, And again I'm just playing along with
Speaker 1: Kenny Smith what you'd have to I mean the thing
Speaker 1: about Luke, it would be incredible because he didn't have
Speaker 1: a great supporting cast either. So he came to Staples
Speaker 1: for Lakers MAVs and I was there early on the
Speaker 1: court watching Luca. He makes everything looks so easy. He's
Speaker 1: not super fast, he's just quick, efficient and just it's like, dang,
Speaker 1: how does this guy get every shot off? He's really
Speaker 1: fun to watch. I'm a huge fan of Luca Dunn.
Speaker 1: He's sneaky's strong, sneaky, athletic, He's got a little bit
Speaker 1: of quickness. Obviously doesn't leap, but he knows how to
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