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Speaker 2: considerable amount of time talking about the Falcons decision to
Speaker 2: bench Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3: I agree with it. I didn't think they would do it.
Speaker 2: I thought they should have done it prior to last
Speaker 2: week when they beat the Raiders fifteen to nine. So
Speaker 2: even after a win, they bench him their game out
Speaker 2: of first place with three games to go, and I
Speaker 2: like that. Michael Pennix gets a home start for his
Speaker 2: first start as they face the Giants. Poll question seating
Speaker 2: from hour one and what are we going to go
Speaker 2: with an hour two?
Speaker 4: Let's see, right now, we got most awkward quarterback situation Falcons, Browns, Vikings,
Speaker 4: forty nine ers. Our audience has it in it exactly
Speaker 4: that order. I don't really feel like the Falcon situation
Speaker 4: is all that awkward necessarily, certainly not compared to the Browns.
Speaker 4: Vikings have a real decision to make, and the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers they got another massive decision to make.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're gonna spend that money.
Speaker 3: The Vikings is a good awkward? Is the Niners a
Speaker 3: good awkward?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Do you pay your quarterback? Do you want to pay
Speaker 3: your quarterback? Do you have another option? With your quarterback.
Speaker 3: You probably don't.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard anything from Rock Perty's representatives that there's
Speaker 2: going to be a team friendly deal. It'd be the
Speaker 2: same thing with Sam Darnold. If you said I get
Speaker 2: to play with those receivers in Minnesota or I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try to go to the Raiders. Let's say, well, I
Speaker 2: would take less to stay in Minnesota to be successful,
Speaker 2: to play in meaningful games. You've already played, you know,
Speaker 2: when you played with the Jets and you saw how
Speaker 2: that went. You're not a we can put the game
Speaker 2: plan on your back kind of quarterback. But can he
Speaker 2: run an offense? He's done extremely well. But I have
Speaker 2: those two receivers and they're locked up. I like my
Speaker 2: chances going. And I got that coach who's going to
Speaker 2: be the coach.
Speaker 3: Of the year. I like that situation a lot.
Speaker 5: Yes, Marv, if you're the forty nine ers, do you
Speaker 5: think do you think to yourself, Hey, if we did
Speaker 5: this with Rock Party, we can do it again.
Speaker 6: We can get another guy.
Speaker 5: For the past five or six years, this is the
Speaker 5: only team that's been a contender without a like legit
Speaker 5: franchise quarterback where they're legit have all the faith in
Speaker 5: they had Jimmy g then they draft Trey Lance after
Speaker 5: they get to the Super Bowl, then they get Brock Party.
Speaker 5: That falls in their lat.
Speaker 2: Well, can you bring Sam Donald back to San Francisco,
Speaker 2: Let's say half priced Sam Darnald full price Rock Party.
Speaker 2: If I'm really on Kyle Shanahan to develop these quarterbacks
Speaker 2: and you've already had him in the system, would you
Speaker 2: bring Sam Donald in for half the price of Rock Purty.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing, Sam Donald is two years older
Speaker 2: than Rock Purty.
Speaker 6: I believe.
Speaker 2: Maybe three. You're not even in his prime yet. And
Speaker 2: I'd strongly consider that. It's just it's a lot of money.
Speaker 2: If everything goes right. Rock Purty is a wonderful quarterback
Speaker 2: for you. But everything didn't go right this year and
Speaker 2: you're not going to make the playoffs. What are you
Speaker 2: going to do with Deebo? I mean, you've got all
Speaker 2: these big contracts here, somebody's paying the price, and then
Speaker 2: Rock Purty would pay the price on offense if you're
Speaker 2: not able to keep everybody, how long does George Kittle
Speaker 2: have Deebo gets banged up? I know they overspent for
Speaker 2: Brandon Ayuk, Christian McCaffrey. I mean, this might be with
Speaker 2: him the rest of his career.
Speaker 3: This injury.
Speaker 2: Now they've shown that they've got running backs who can
Speaker 2: come in by committee. But man, I'd have to strongly
Speaker 2: consider if I can get Sam Darnold for four years
Speaker 2: at four years at one p fifty Rock Purty four years,
Speaker 2: five years, two hundred and fifty million dollars. I mean
Speaker 2: that's the going rate, and fifty is a bargain. It
Speaker 2: feels like, you know, does he want Dak Prescott money? Man,
Speaker 2: this is where sometimes you can get into a situation
Speaker 2: where it's more money, but it's not the right move
Speaker 2: for you. I had an opportunity to leave ESPN at
Speaker 2: one point, and it was for more money, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't the right situation, and I really I debated it,
Speaker 2: but then I kept coming back to those four letters
Speaker 2: are so powerful, and it's still the place to go.
Speaker 3: If you're you know, doing Sports center.
Speaker 2: But the other place I would make more money and
Speaker 2: work less, and I had to move, and I decided
Speaker 2: it just doesn't it didn't make sense.
Speaker 3: Yes, Pauline, the.
Speaker 7: Going rate for the second contract for a quarterback who
Speaker 7: is destined to be a star is the Joe Burrow
Speaker 7: contract five years two seventy five. Yeah, I just heard
Speaker 7: the phrase from behind me. I don't know who said it.
Speaker 7: You guys are crazy, and that's sure.
Speaker 4: The topic, well, sounds like a classic toddline if I
Speaker 4: could be seating and his affection for brock Purty.
Speaker 3: Maybe possibly.
Speaker 4: However, if you remove brock Purdy from it and you
Speaker 4: just keep it on the Sam Donald thing, I'm very
Speaker 4: happy that Sam's having a good year. You already had
Speaker 4: Sam Donald in that building with the exact same players
Speaker 4: on a much cheaper salary, and you chose to not
Speaker 4: play him. You chose to let him go, You chose
Speaker 4: to You chose brock Purty over him. Why why in
Speaker 4: the world would you be like, ah, yeah, let's get
Speaker 4: him back again and pay him way more than we
Speaker 4: even want to try.
Speaker 2: If I thought rock Purty was already there and playing
Speaker 2: for you, and then you brought Sam Donald in right
Speaker 2: as a backup, right, well, you weren't going to play
Speaker 2: Sam like you were already playing brock Purty, and he'd
Speaker 2: played at a high level, so you're not. You're not
Speaker 2: bringing him in to compete for the job. You brought
Speaker 2: him in to be a backup.
Speaker 4: Right, However, you had you had the exact same scenario
Speaker 4: that you're laying out. You had Sam Donald in the
Speaker 4: building and you were watching him play every single day
Speaker 4: in your system with your players.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not saying you still chose brock Purty over him.
Speaker 2: Is he better than brock Purty or is it more
Speaker 2: cost efficient? So there'd be a difference in I'm gonna
Speaker 2: maybe I save one hundred million dollars with Sam Donald.
Speaker 2: Is that a better business decision than to give brock
Speaker 2: Purty that money? So that's what you know. Do I
Speaker 2: think Brock Purty is better than Sam Darnold?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Do I think he's a hundred million dollars better?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: I do not.
Speaker 2: And we've seen these rosters. They get decimated unless you
Speaker 2: have brilliant people like the Kansas City Chiefs have and
Speaker 2: they can plug and play, and they've already paid their quarterback,
Speaker 2: and he's a bargain.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I just think it's a whole lot of money for
Speaker 2: somebody that I don't know if I can tell Brock
Speaker 2: Purdy to go out there and win a game for me,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can say that. And granted
Speaker 2: there's only a couple of quarterbacks that you can say
Speaker 2: that about. If I say Joe Burrows stand alone, I
Speaker 2: think everybody's going to go, hell yeah, Josh Allen stand alone,
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, Mahomes stand alone.
Speaker 3: Heck ya, Justin Herbert maybe maybe Dak maybe.
Speaker 2: So there's only a couple of those guys that you,
Speaker 2: you know, Jalen Hurts, maybe maybe you got five guys
Speaker 2: that you go stand alone starting my team. That guy
Speaker 2: he'll somehow, you know, make us better. A lot of
Speaker 2: the other guys are just complimentary. Lamar Jackson, Yes, I
Speaker 2: can count on him. I'm sure I'm leaving somebody else out.
Speaker 7: Yes, Pony Sam Darnold last year was the backup for
Speaker 7: the forty nine ers. He made four point five million.
Speaker 7: They tried to keep him, according to reports out there,
Speaker 7: and they offered him upwards of seven and a half
Speaker 7: million for a one year backup deal, and I sort
Speaker 7: of offered him ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an interesting decision what San Francisco is going
Speaker 2: to do. But it sounds like I think I.
Speaker 3: And Rappaport had a report and Ian Apple report, and it.
Speaker 2: Was they were going to give him the full vote.
Speaker 2: I think that's what they're going to do in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Maybe saw this in Seattle and then they were never
Speaker 2: the same. What else is on the poll.
Speaker 3: Their seaton other than those two?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's what we're going with. Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: trying to work up one about getting benched after a win,
Speaker 4: which is just.
Speaker 3: But it didn't feel like a win, that's the problem.
Speaker 3: But it was it technically is a victory, Like the
Speaker 3: Chiefs have had an entire season. Now that didn't feel
Speaker 3: like a win, but it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they've had other wins that were wins in
Speaker 2: there were super Bowls.
Speaker 3: There some phone calls.
Speaker 4: You plug to say, you can win in the NFL
Speaker 4: and still lose.
Speaker 3: Yes, Well, Trent Dilford called back the verse. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: let me see Aiden in Utah. Hi, Aidan, what's on
Speaker 3: your mind today?
Speaker 8: Up?
Speaker 9: I actually haven't watched a single game, but they've got
Speaker 9: a winning record, so we'll count that.
Speaker 1: Fritzy.
Speaker 10: We are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 11: But if you want to keep referring to us as them, you.
Speaker 10: Can stay behind.
Speaker 3: Okay, I want you to have some damn fad, Fritzy.
Speaker 8: I am very curious to see how Tomorrow night plays out. Wow,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna say the Broncos will beat the Chargers and
Speaker 8: we will get that tenth win and we will be
Speaker 8: in the playoffs. But we do in the playoffs, we'll see.
Speaker 8: But I am fully on board on bow Knicks and
Speaker 8: the Broncos being in the postseason.
Speaker 3: Go Broncos, No, Kah, there you go.
Speaker 6: D huge game too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounded really really comfortable. Confident James in Virginia.
Speaker 2: Hi James, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10: Oh, thank you for taking my call. Brother, Happy Wednesday,
Speaker 10: DP dannit to loot the Commanders, Man, I'll give you
Speaker 10: a team that Kirk Cousins will be on next year,
Speaker 10: the Stampon Cisco forty nine Ers reuniting with Kyle Sanahan. Man,
Speaker 10: I love that. And speaking of the Atlanta Falcons, how
Speaker 10: big was that tinke with Michael Pennants Junior. If he
Speaker 10: was coming out this year, he would be the number
Speaker 10: one tick over Shador Sanders.
Speaker 6: Definite.
Speaker 10: We believe that. So I'm really excited to see what
Speaker 10: he does. And I'm the older you monarch through and through,
Speaker 10: but I can't help but to be happy for Noffolk
Speaker 10: State University. Man, behold the Green and Gold Man. Michael
Speaker 10: Vig this is a hot bet of talent. In the
Speaker 10: seven five to seven, three state champions came from the
Speaker 10: seven five to seven. This year, Oster Smith, Moore and
Speaker 10: Phoebus Phoeves went four in a row. So I'm a
Speaker 10: little nervous man because though you might lose out on
Speaker 10: some players. But man, I'm so happy for him. And yes,
Speaker 10: it's not Norfolk, it's Nonfolk.
Speaker 2: I hope you Nofolk, it's not. It's like Louisville. It's
Speaker 2: not Louisville. It's Louisville and it's New Orleans. Yes, Marvin James,
Speaker 2: if you're still there, I got a question. Did you
Speaker 2: go to an HBCU or at least a HBC HBC.
Speaker 3: So he went to Old Dominion. He didn't go to
Speaker 3: a historically college. Here.
Speaker 5: You no HBCU homecoming I didn't finish. Oh, oh no,
Speaker 5: you don't know. I know HBC your homecomings way more
Speaker 5: important to going to HBCU.
Speaker 3: Okay, James, I've never.
Speaker 10: I've never been to the homecoming. But I will say
Speaker 10: one thing. Novel State has one of the best bands
Speaker 10: in the country, man, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, James Nofolk.
Speaker 5: The football games are that is fascinating halftime is game.
Speaker 2: Time, Tom and Charlotte. Then we'll take a break. Hey Tom,
Speaker 2: Hey Dan.
Speaker 9: Just figuring out that one of the best ways to
Speaker 9: listen to the show is on the on the weight line.
Speaker 9: Quite frankly, you feel like you're part of it. But
Speaker 9: I wanted to just jump real quick back to your
Speaker 9: NBA comments, and I feel like baseball has the same problem.
Speaker 9: And I called back in June about this. You know,
Speaker 9: Father's Day, you couldn't find a baseball game on TV. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I feel like the NBA has the same problem. You
Speaker 9: can't find it when you're watching TV. On Tuesday, you're
Speaker 9: watching FBI on CBS, you see a commercial about what
Speaker 9: game's coming on for the NFL this weekend. You don't
Speaker 9: watch TMT except for maybe this time of year because
Speaker 9: they got Christmas vacation marathons. You're not seeing the NBA
Speaker 9: promote their games. You don't know who's coming to town.
Speaker 9: You don't know what game is the big game this week.
Speaker 9: And the same thing happens to baseball. And to your point,
Speaker 9: yesterday you were saying, oh, they're fighting the behemoth NFL,
Speaker 9: They're fighting the college football behemoth. Two and between the
Speaker 9: two of them. They have sucked all the money from
Speaker 9: all the networks.
Speaker 2: Dry Well, Amazons spent a lot of money. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of TV partners who spent a lot of money,
Speaker 2: So NBC, Amazon, They've spent a lot of money. Charles
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Speaker 3: How you feeling?
Speaker 6: I'm great, brother, happy, Hanukah, Merry Christmas, all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: Did you make any money in Vegas?
Speaker 6: I want a little bit. I had a great trip.
Speaker 6: I didn't lose money, but I want a little bit,
Speaker 6: so it was good.
Speaker 3: What is your game?
Speaker 6: I played blackjack?
Speaker 3: How much per hand?
Speaker 6: Twenty five thousand? Okay?
Speaker 3: And how many hands do you have in front of you?
Speaker 6: I play one hand unless I want to break up
Speaker 6: the deck, and I play two. Okay.
Speaker 3: You don't get like, could you just do one hundred
Speaker 3: dollars and be happy?
Speaker 10: Hell?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Hell? No, No, I could not be happy. I'd be unhappy.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we've been talking about the NBA. The commissioners
Speaker 2: talk about the NBA. Seems like he's okay, ratings are
Speaker 2: declining a little bit. You got the NBA Cup. I
Speaker 2: don't know what that did for the interest of the game.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We start to look at this and I'm wondering, does
Speaker 2: the NBA have to do something like Major League Baseball's
Speaker 2: doing things where they got the bases bigger where I
Speaker 2: mean that commissioner is trying to do different things.
Speaker 3: Should Adam Silver be looking at that same model.
Speaker 6: I think we have to do something. You know, Dan,
Speaker 6: last time I was on your show, you asked me
Speaker 6: a great course, and you said, is it load management
Speaker 6: or just two many threes? And I said, it's really
Speaker 6: a combination of both. And you know, anytime old guys
Speaker 6: like I said something, we're hating on the young guys.
Speaker 6: But I watched the Warriors. I was in the sportsbook
Speaker 6: all day Sunday. I get me and the guys got
Speaker 6: up and watched football all day. In one of the games,
Speaker 6: I watched the Warriors play the worst played the Mavericks.
Speaker 6: It's one of the worst games I've seen. They just
Speaker 6: I think it was one forty one thirty. They just
Speaker 6: went up and down the court and shot threes like
Speaker 6: and I was like, man, this is awful to watch
Speaker 6: if you're just gonna have a three point shooting contest
Speaker 6: every night. So I think we got to figure out
Speaker 6: something because the most important thing of the game is
Speaker 6: the fans. Yeah, and if they're not watching, you can't
Speaker 6: keep your head in the sand. You got to say,
Speaker 6: what are we doing wrong? And like I say, it's
Speaker 6: frustrated for me because all it is now the three
Speaker 6: point shooting contests and a free throw contest, and I
Speaker 6: don't like it. And you know, like I say, they
Speaker 6: can get mad, but I don't want to go see
Speaker 6: a three point shooting contest every night. That ain't no fun.
Speaker 2: What if we capped the number of threes that you
Speaker 2: can take? Each team gets twenty five attempts, you know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm open for any suggestion. I mean, but
Speaker 6: like I say, we don't have to do something. I mean,
Speaker 6: ratings are down, down, down, And that's like I said
Speaker 6: that fans are the most important aspects of the game.
Speaker 6: We need the fans to be successful. You know, it's
Speaker 6: like it's like the All Star Game with throwing just
Speaker 6: stuff at the wall. We got a new model this.
Speaker 3: Year, and what do you think of that model?
Speaker 6: Well, I want to do anything to help the game, Dan.
Speaker 6: I saw Kevin Durant rip the new format. Dan, I
Speaker 6: don't know what you do, because what we've done in
Speaker 6: the last X amount of years is not working. It's
Speaker 6: not fun. So I've always suggested we do the United
Speaker 6: States against the World. I think that would be fantastic.
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 6: I think it'd be fantastic. I don't know how this
Speaker 6: thing gonna turn out this year. But listen, let's be
Speaker 6: honest with what we're doing. What we've done the last
Speaker 6: few years is not working. Playing and simple.
Speaker 2: And it used to be that we kind of christened
Speaker 2: the NBA season at Christmas, that's when the season started.
Speaker 2: Just the fact that that seemed to be the logic
Speaker 2: is flawed. Like you don't really get excited about a
Speaker 2: game in October November, it's like, wait till Christmas Day. Well, now,
Speaker 2: the NFL just came in and said, hey, we're going
Speaker 2: to take over Christmas from you, NBA, and that's difficult.
Speaker 3: That's tough for them. Because it felt like they owned
Speaker 3: that day.
Speaker 6: I've you know, the best ratings we've ever had. What
Speaker 6: a year we got. It went on strike Dan and
Speaker 6: started on Christmas. I think we need to consider seriously
Speaker 6: consider of starting at Christmas because you get caught, Chaussen,
Speaker 6: you're wasting your time going up against the NFL and
Speaker 6: college They own the weekends now. But if I think
Speaker 6: if we started at Christmas, we'd have all the calendar.
Speaker 6: There's no other sports I mean that we'd have to
Speaker 6: compete with. If we started at Christmas, college football would
Speaker 6: be over, pro football is winding down. We'd have the
Speaker 6: entire calendar late December, January, February, March, April, May, June.
Speaker 6: To ourself, I think it's something we need to really
Speaker 6: consider playing and simple because listen, NFL's King Kong and
Speaker 6: you know in their greedy pigs. You know, first of all,
Speaker 6: I think what they're doing now is going to come
Speaker 6: back to bottom in ass because to make the kandisdate,
Speaker 6: the Chief Chiefs played three games in like ten days.
Speaker 6: That's just stupid. I mean, you got Patrick and Travis
Speaker 6: and Chris Jones, you got those guys. Like to make
Speaker 6: those guys play three games in ten days, just because
Speaker 6: it's popular and you sold it to different networks. That's,
Speaker 6: first of all, is not safe. It's kind of the
Speaker 6: same way. In my opinion, I'm really excited about this
Speaker 6: college football playoff, but I think it's very dangerous. You
Speaker 6: can't play as eighteen year old nineteen year old kids
Speaker 6: to play twelve thirteen regular season games then play four
Speaker 6: more games in the playoffs. I mean, because ninety nine
Speaker 6: percent of those kids gonna have CTE or gonna hurt
Speaker 6: their bodies and they're never going to the NFL. They've
Speaker 6: got to shorten this season because, like I said, the
Speaker 6: teams that win this playoffs gonna play four more games
Speaker 6: than it used to be two if you won a championship.
Speaker 6: But now if you're gonna play four extra games the goal,
Speaker 6: especially if you're in a comference like the Big Ten
Speaker 6: or the SEC where you play so many tough games.
Speaker 6: I'm really concerned about those kids' bodies and brains.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know if college football really cares.
Speaker 2: They're now kind of paid.
Speaker 6: No then d D nobody cares.
Speaker 3: They're making so much they're adding an eighteenth game in
Speaker 3: the NFL. Everybody signs the money.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's what these players are gonna get in college.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be revenue sharing. They'll get more money with this,
Speaker 2: and they'll sign up for this. And you said, hey,
Speaker 2: the NBA should start on Christmas Day, Well, you have
Speaker 2: these playoff games. Now this weekend college football starts their playoffs.
Speaker 2: They're gonna what they would wipe away the NBA on
Speaker 2: Christmas Day because these games now matter, and you're gonna
Speaker 2: have your bowl season going into January. Then the NFL
Speaker 2: has playoffs. The NBA will get left behind if.
Speaker 6: But it'll be a short, little lead behind. And first
Speaker 6: of all, listen, let's let's kill these other balls. Let's
Speaker 6: stop these come on, man, like, if you're gonna have
Speaker 6: the playoffs, you don't need other.
Speaker 2: Bowls now, Yes, Charles, this is because ESPN needs programming.
Speaker 3: That's all this is.
Speaker 6: I understand that. Why don't they show NBA games on
Speaker 6: those days? Listen, man, and listen. I'm against I'm fundamentally
Speaker 6: against guys bowing out of bowl games. But if your
Speaker 6: bowl game means absolutely nothing, there's no reason for you
Speaker 6: to play in a meaningless bowl game. If you don't
Speaker 6: make the playoffs, why would you play in a bowl game.
Speaker 6: Doesn't makes zero sense to me. Whatsoever?
Speaker 3: Are you betting on the bowl games this weekend?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Probably, of course.
Speaker 3: Who do you like any upsets here?
Speaker 6: What name a game?
Speaker 2: Tennessee, Ohio State, oh I love Ohio State, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Speaker 6: Hey, but them idiots? I had them plus nineteen and
Speaker 6: a half. Man, I was I was throwing stuff at
Speaker 6: my TV. I was like, because you knew what was
Speaker 6: really scary about that game. You knew in the first
Speaker 6: half they're not gonna win by three touchdowns. And I
Speaker 6: was so pissed. So I'm a better on State one
Speaker 6: more time? Who else?
Speaker 3: Notre Dame Indiana.
Speaker 6: I love Notre Dame. I know coach Sinnetti has had
Speaker 6: a great season, but I want to meet Marcus Freeman.
Speaker 6: I've never met him, and Notre Dame's on my bucket list.
Speaker 6: Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Michigan. There are three stadiums
Speaker 6: that on my bucket list. But I want to meet
Speaker 6: Marcus Freeman. But I know the Dame's gonna win that game.
Speaker 3: SMU, Penn State.
Speaker 6: They're not gonna win. A Happy Valley Dan, please stop
Speaker 6: they coach. Lastly, I got a chance to meet him
Speaker 6: one time. I'm a big fan of him. In the
Speaker 6: year he's had, him and coach Dillingham have been fantastic
Speaker 6: at ASU. They've done a fantastic job this year. But
Speaker 6: SMU is not gonna win a Happy Valley.
Speaker 3: Clemson Texas, now that is a really good game.
Speaker 6: I'm probably gonna go with Texas because they're playing at home.
Speaker 6: But listen, whether you hate it or not, they got
Speaker 6: some They got some good playoff games. So the committee,
Speaker 6: you know, I don't think anybody had a gripe. I
Speaker 6: don't think anybody had a real gripe this year. I
Speaker 6: know Alabama think they had a gripe. Uh they did not. Uh.
Speaker 6: South Carolina probably had a better grape. They're probably the
Speaker 6: hottest team in the country right now. Uh. But no,
Speaker 6: I mean these you know, they got some serious big schools.
Speaker 6: I mean when you get Notre Dame, Tennessee, Ohio State, Texas,
Speaker 6: when you get all these big schools, I mean obviously Georgia, Oregon,
Speaker 6: it's fantastic. So if you like college football, which I
Speaker 6: love football in general, you got great powerhouses.
Speaker 2: Talking to Charles Barky, Hall of Famer Turner Sports Inside
Speaker 2: the NBA analyst. Is your contract pushed over to ESPN's
Speaker 2: from Turner?
Speaker 3: Is that official?
Speaker 6: I haven't decided yet.
Speaker 3: How about we decide now.
Speaker 6: I'm listening to NBC and Amazon. I want to know
Speaker 6: everything that's on the table for me before I sign in.
Speaker 6: I mean, I love those guys at the ESPN, and
Speaker 6: if we end up there, you know, I'm gonna do
Speaker 6: the best I possibly can. But I want to know
Speaker 6: first of all, they haven't even given us any type
Speaker 6: of schedule whatsoever. But I be doing myself for disservice,
Speaker 6: not to meet with NBC, which I have, and meet
Speaker 6: with Amazon, which I have, And the number one thing
Speaker 6: I've told everybody, can y'all please give me a damn schedule?
Speaker 6: I mean, because nobody knows anything. Dan, I mean, like
Speaker 6: at least the TNT, I always knew day this is
Speaker 6: our schedule, neither not one of the three networks. And
Speaker 6: like I say, I love ESPN, I got nothing to get.
Speaker 6: But I wouldn't know how much I'm gonna be working,
Speaker 6: or you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna be working a lot more than you think you're
Speaker 2: gonna be working. I think, well, no, you think I
Speaker 2: used to work there. I used to work there. I
Speaker 2: know what they do well, and.
Speaker 6: I know what y'all's do. Y'alls is not gonna be.
Speaker 6: They're not gonna work talls like no, damn dog no
Speaker 6: so so so seriously. Uh, like I said, I got
Speaker 6: a number of love and respect for ESPN. Uh Well,
Speaker 6: like I said, but I'm taking my time with NBC
Speaker 6: and Amazon. I I wanted in writing, Yes, how much
Speaker 6: do y'all think I'm going to work? Because TNT is
Speaker 6: a perfect place to work?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna work two nights a week?
Speaker 6: We don't even know anything?
Speaker 3: No, but what do you? You can tell them what you
Speaker 3: want to do well.
Speaker 6: I want to know what they're expecting. Are we gonna
Speaker 6: have the same schedule? Are we gonna have to do
Speaker 6: a BC, ESPN and tn T because tn T I
Speaker 6: think they have they originally wanted to keep doing something.
Speaker 6: So I'm not gonna be doing both and then add
Speaker 6: and I'm not gonna be doing ABC, ESPN and tn T.
Speaker 6: That's not gonna happen. I'm just like I say, if
Speaker 6: we go to ESPN, I got a number of love
Speaker 6: and respect for those guys, but I'm not gonna do ABC,
Speaker 6: ESPN and t N T. So I took my time
Speaker 6: meeting with the other two networks. Amen, And I don't
Speaker 6: want to hear y'all talk to me. I want to know.
Speaker 6: I want it in writing. I wanted in writing. How
Speaker 6: much were it going to work?
Speaker 2: What was this silly free throw shooting contest that Kenny
Speaker 2: shoots left handed and steven A Smith gets to shoot right?
Speaker 6: What do you do well, Kenny, who wrote a check
Speaker 6: his ass couldn't cash and he tried to cover it
Speaker 6: by in case stephen A beat him shooting left handed
Speaker 6: and he lost. And that's it. But you know stephen
Speaker 6: A does. He does a good job up at the Mothership.
Speaker 6: And uh, we got Like I said, Man, I wish
Speaker 6: somebody would give me some clarity.
Speaker 3: Dan, Wait, go back to the free throw shooting.
Speaker 2: If Kenny shot straight up against steven A, Kenny was
Speaker 2: an eighty three percent free throw shooter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 3: You don't think Ken, You never come on. I can
Speaker 3: go out make eight out of ten right now?
Speaker 6: You can?
Speaker 1: Hell?
Speaker 3: Yes, bet what do you charity?
Speaker 6: Charity?
Speaker 3: What do you want to bet?
Speaker 6: I bet your charity? You set it up. I'll come somewhere.
Speaker 6: I'll donate twenty five thousand dollars to your favorite charity.
Speaker 3: You don't think I can make that eight out of
Speaker 3: ten free throws?
Speaker 6: No? I don't. Oh my god, I just said twenty
Speaker 6: five thousand dollars to your favorite charity. Right You'll be
Speaker 6: gagging out there. You'll be like talking like a dog.
Speaker 2: I know I'm a better free throw shooter than you are. Dan,
Speaker 2: you shot seventy three percent for your career. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you act like you're thirty five years old. You old.
Speaker 3: It's fifteen feet.
Speaker 6: Dan, you're old.
Speaker 3: I know sixty eight.
Speaker 6: You're seventy years old.
Speaker 2: Do you know Bird Bird could still make nine out
Speaker 2: of ten free throws right now?
Speaker 3: And Bird is old.
Speaker 6: I'll bet him he can't make it again, lad Bird?
Speaker 6: I love lad Bird. He can't make nine out of
Speaker 6: ten right now? This ain't this ain't to eight.
Speaker 2: Is a nighte Oh my god. It's just riding a bike.
Speaker 2: That's all it is. That's riding a bike. Okay, go
Speaker 2: back to the TV thing. Were you going to say
Speaker 2: something like getting some headlines here I scheduled. Did I
Speaker 2: interrupt you?
Speaker 6: No? Okay? Then then I want to.
Speaker 2: Wag the dog. You wag the dog. You got to
Speaker 2: two nights that you'll work.
Speaker 3: That's him.
Speaker 2: You have the dog. I mean load management. You you
Speaker 2: can be the Kawhi Leonard of TV analyst and you
Speaker 2: do load management.
Speaker 6: What I'm gonna do what was best for the I've
Speaker 6: always did what's the best for the network. And if
Speaker 6: you go back and look at my history, when TNT
Speaker 6: you you are, thank you for the camera. But think
Speaker 6: about this, Dan. I anything TNT has asked me to do,
Speaker 6: They're like, hey, what you do college basketball? I'm like,
Speaker 6: what a hept team. I'm like, sure, I'll do it.
Speaker 6: Didn't get any money for it. They said, hey, Chuck,
Speaker 6: what you had earned to do a podcast? I'm like,
Speaker 6: what a Hepta team, Let's do a podcast. I ain't
Speaker 6: a fan of money. They said, hey, what you start
Speaker 6: doing these matches. I'm like, what a hefty team. Sure,
Speaker 6: let's do it. I've never asked them for an extra
Speaker 6: dime for doing extra stuff, but if they traded, well
Speaker 6: we got traded to another networ work. I want to
Speaker 6: know exactly what's going on, because, like I say, I'm
Speaker 6: not gonna be doing five shows. I'm not gonna be
Speaker 6: working four days a week on in a network, either
Speaker 6: at NBC or Amazon. That's not gonna happen. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: sit in my fat black ass at home if it
Speaker 6: comes down, if they start telling, if they like I say, Dan,
Speaker 6: we work one day a week. I love our job,
Speaker 6: I love the people I work for. I'm not gonna
Speaker 6: go working one day a week to four days a week.
Speaker 6: That's not gonna happen. Now when I go to two,
Speaker 6: I probably could go to two. But if people think
Speaker 6: that I'm gonna work three or four days a week,
Speaker 6: they're freaking nuts.
Speaker 2: Why you're gonna have to do college game Day? There'll
Speaker 2: be a basketball show, there's gonna be a radio show.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to be on Greenies Radio.
Speaker 3: Like hey Dad, first take, First Take, You'll have to
Speaker 3: be on first take.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you something. When you FaceTime me, then
Speaker 6: it'll be from Arizona. It won't be from anywhere else.
Speaker 6: If people think I'm gonna work on all this stuff,
Speaker 6: that's not gonna happen. Dan, you have my word on that,
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be working all the time. Every time
Speaker 6: we do this a going forward, every time you face
Speaker 6: tied me, I'm gonna be at my backyard in Arizona,
Speaker 6: on my on my pud and green at the tennis court.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be working all the time, Dan, That's
Speaker 6: not gonna happen. Man to man, Dad, you know, I
Speaker 6: got a lot of love and respect for you. The
Speaker 6: notion that I'm gonna work all the time, that's not
Speaker 6: just it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Oh no, No, I'm just telling you, and I'm telling you. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you.
Speaker 6: You can tell me and I first of all, you
Speaker 6: are correct, and I'm telling you that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I hope that it doesn't happen. So
Speaker 3: you have Hey listen, why are you yelling at me?
Speaker 6: Obama? Hey, hey listen, Barack Obama. We don't have to
Speaker 6: keep hope alive. I am not gonna be working all
Speaker 6: the time.
Speaker 3: Dan, Okay, all right, on why you're yelling. I'm on
Speaker 3: your side.
Speaker 6: But because you think that they gonna just hey, we're
Speaker 6: gonna work you all time. No you're not. No, you're not.
Speaker 6: That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Okay.
Speaker 2: I said the same thing to uh Jason Kelcey. I said,
Speaker 2: just protect yourself because there's so many different programs platforms
Speaker 2: that they have to have people on, and that's that's
Speaker 2: the only thing I would say quality alike, Hey.
Speaker 6: Listen, and I you know, first of all, I love
Speaker 6: Jason Kelsey. He is so such a wonderful dude. And uh,
Speaker 6: I got to and I got to get back to
Speaker 6: him because he's doing a talk show now.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, you have Friday Night.
Speaker 2: So I think they got like, you know, he's gonna
Speaker 2: be a late night Jimmy Fallon type guy.
Speaker 6: Well, because I I he asked me to be on
Speaker 6: the show, I got to get back to him because
Speaker 6: I'm gonna try to make it work because I got
Speaker 6: a lot of love and respect for him.
Speaker 2: I think you should go out there and you're Philadelphia
Speaker 2: seventy six ers uniform that you had when you play.
Speaker 6: You talk about skin tight back in the that was hot.
Speaker 6: I would look so bad. You talk about skin tight
Speaker 6: in the eighties, it ski skin tight tight.
Speaker 2: Now I could actually see Larry's birds through his uniform.
Speaker 6: They would be so bad right now there.
Speaker 2: John Stockton, how about John Stockton with the short shorts?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, they they'd be really short shorts. If I
Speaker 6: drop to put on shorts of.
Speaker 3: Good to talk to you.
Speaker 6: Thanks again, all right, brother Mary Christies, Merry Christmas and
Speaker 6: happy honkua to everybody. Bless y'all.
Speaker 3: All right, that's Charles Barkley. Take a break back after this.
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Speaker 2: The beauty of Charles Barkley is he doesn't have to care.
Speaker 2: He can say what he wants and and he's wagging
Speaker 2: the dog in this situation. But that would be weird though,
Speaker 2: if Kenny and Shaq went to ESPN and Charles went
Speaker 2: to Amazon or went to NBC. Can you go as
Speaker 2: a package group? I mean, obviously that's what you want.
Speaker 2: I mean, you got to get Shack and Charles together,
Speaker 2: if Ernie's gonna do it as well, and then you
Speaker 2: know you put in Kenny as well. You know, it
Speaker 2: just sort of levels things out with them. You know,
Speaker 2: you got two big personalities. Kenny kind of brings them
Speaker 2: back to reality and Ernie lands the planes. But with Shaq,
Speaker 2: got to have him as well, and you throw Charles
Speaker 2: in there, and I look, my relationship with ESPN has
Speaker 2: been great the last ten twelve years. Prior to that,
Speaker 2: not necessarily the last three years I was there, not necessarily,
Speaker 2: and a lot of that, you know, like it could
Speaker 2: be my own doing as well. But I tell there's
Speaker 2: a lot of former athletes who I've spoken to, and
Speaker 2: by a lot, I would say fifteen, and they want
Speaker 2: to know about working for ESPN. Now, you could have
Speaker 2: Marquee guys. It could be Steve Young, it could be Shack,
Speaker 2: it could be Charles Barkley, it could be you know,
Speaker 2: there's a variety of guys that I've spoken to about
Speaker 2: if you go there, just understand, if you go there now,
Speaker 2: Charles won't be on campus. And if you're on campus,
Speaker 2: that's when you're on the morning show. You're on Get Up,
Speaker 2: you're on First Take, you're doing afternoons, you're you know
Speaker 2: a variety of things around the horn or part of
Speaker 2: the interruption. You'll be a guest if you like that,
Speaker 2: if you like that, if you like the airtime. It's
Speaker 2: a great place and they create stars there. But these
Speaker 2: guys who are already stars, they're not going to want
Speaker 2: to work that much. And Charles saying, look, I work
Speaker 2: one night a week. I'll work two nights, but you
Speaker 2: got to be careful. It's called the car wash for
Speaker 2: a reason. You go in there and they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: can you be here? Can you be here? Can you
Speaker 2: be here? They're trying to fill up programming. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's why you have all these bowl games. It's ESPN.
Speaker 2: It's so important for programming this time of the year.
Speaker 2: I understand it. I mean, you get games every single night.
Speaker 2: You're college football. You want to make sure that you
Speaker 2: have as many bowl games as punk. You don't care
Speaker 2: if somebody doesn't know that game or those teams, or
Speaker 2: care about UNLV and COW.
Speaker 3: They just want you to watch three hours of programming.
Speaker 2: In that programming they can advertise the other things they
Speaker 2: got coming up, the other shows that they have, the
Speaker 2: other football games.
Speaker 3: That's all it is. They just keep feeding the monster.
Speaker 9: There.
Speaker 3: Eric in Virginia, Hi, Eric, what's on your mind? Hey?
Speaker 11: Good morning, Dan, How are you great?
Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
Speaker 11: Actually? I was thinking about the college football playoff. I'm
Speaker 11: a huge Oregon fan, which.
Speaker 6: We kind of got.
Speaker 11: Messed up with Ohio State didn't sy but I will
Speaker 11: pass that. I was actually wondering if you guys were
Speaker 11: doing a like pick them or something like that, where
Speaker 11: you guys were.
Speaker 3: Picking the Oh, we'll do a bracket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll pick you know, a bracket challenge kind
Speaker 2: of like what we did with the mc douaa. But
Speaker 2: thanks for the phone call. By the way. Coming up,
Speaker 2: we'll play in or out. We'll have some topics and
Speaker 2: we'll find out if we're in or out. It's that simple, Todd.
Speaker 2: You're either in or you're out.
Speaker 8: No need to say anything other than in or out.
Speaker 2: Well, you've still managed to say more than just do better. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: would you update the poll results from hour two if
Speaker 2: you could please?
Speaker 8: Heck?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well okay, poll results I got right now. The
Speaker 4: Falcon's decision to bench Kirk Cousins is smart or desperate.
Speaker 4: That's at fifty one percent smart, forty nine percent say
Speaker 4: it's desperate.
Speaker 3: How about that? Okay.
Speaker 4: We also have the most awkward quarterback situation in the NFL.
Speaker 4: In order, it's Falcons Brown's Vikings forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: I don't think i'd agree with that.
Speaker 2: Todd had a poll question, now that it's over, how
Speaker 2: concerned are you about experiencing NBA Cup withdrawal.
Speaker 6: That's a question that needed to be asked.
Speaker 8: People get all shaky and nervous and they need a
Speaker 8: lot of coffee after not having the cup.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you a bloop bloop for that one.
Speaker 3: That's very funny. That's good.