Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Milwaukee Bucks boycott and that, of course in
Speaker 1: the protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and we don't know if we're going to have an
Speaker 1: NBA season. Let me put that up front right now,
Speaker 1: and if you've been listening to the show the first hour,
Speaker 1: I'm going to repeat myself just so I can give
Speaker 1: people the information that I had from last night from
Speaker 1: a prominent agent who represents some players in the bubble,
Speaker 1: and that is that there is a real possibility. In fact,
Speaker 1: he thought last night that they were going to shut
Speaker 1: down the season because without the Lakers and Clippers, you
Speaker 1: can't have a season in the bubble, you can't have
Speaker 1: a postseason. And the Lakers and Clippers voted or agreed,
Speaker 1: I should say, agreed to not continue to play. So
Speaker 1: they were willing to walk out of the bubble as
Speaker 1: a show of protest, and the games, according to the players,
Speaker 1: they wanted to be labeled they're boycotting. They weren't postponed,
Speaker 1: but they are postponed because they have to make these
Speaker 1: games up. They're supposed to be basketball today. And from
Speaker 1: what I'm told there won't be basketball today because I
Speaker 1: think what is being asked of all of the teams
Speaker 1: in the bubble. Everybody is going to boycott a game.
Speaker 1: All of the teams are going to including the Celtics
Speaker 1: and the Raptors. They start Round two. But you got
Speaker 1: basketball coming up this afternoon, supposed to be at four o'clock.
Speaker 1: So six hours from now we're supposed to have basketball,
Speaker 1: but I don't think so you'd be having a shoot around.
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring back some of the sound that
Speaker 1: we play. Doc Rivers, the Clippers head coach on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: was so powerful and he was speaking as a person.
Speaker 1: He's speaking as a father. Then of course you know
Speaker 1: that he's speaking as a head coach of the LA Clippers.
Speaker 1: But this is what Doctor had to say about where
Speaker 1: we are right now, as is society. All you do
Speaker 1: is keep hearing about fear. It's it's amazing why we
Speaker 1: keep loving this country and this country doesn't love his back.
Speaker 1: It's just it's really so sad, like I should just
Speaker 1: be a coach, and it's so often reminded of my color.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just really sad. We got to do better.
Speaker 1: So that's Doc Rivers. That's prior to a game on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: And I think getting the players in the mindset of
Speaker 1: being able to play a basketball game is going to
Speaker 1: take some time. And I wonder if we have basketball
Speaker 1: maybe this weekend. And I know basketball shouldn't be the
Speaker 1: end game here, the goal because I can't tell these
Speaker 1: players in the bubble what to think or feel or
Speaker 1: what they should do or not do. But it's a business,
Speaker 1: and they were informed last night by the head of
Speaker 1: their union, Michelle Roberts, this is a business. Their financial
Speaker 1: ramifications and the owners have options here, but this is
Speaker 1: a player driven league and Adam Silver has got a
Speaker 1: lot on his plate today. But I would be really
Speaker 1: surprised if we had basketball this afternoon or tonight eight
Speaker 1: seven seven three d P show email address DP Atdwanpatrick
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Speaker 1: a poll question today because I just didn't think, given
Speaker 1: the sensitivity going on, is there something that we could
Speaker 1: offer you. And look, when sports, when something like this collides,
Speaker 1: then we cover it. And two days ago we talked
Speaker 1: about what happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out I didn't want to be numb to it.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to avoid it, but I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go out and get it and try to put
Speaker 1: it into our show. And I said, if this impacts
Speaker 1: what happens in the world and what players do, don't do,
Speaker 1: teams do, leagues do, don't do, then we'll cover it.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened yesterday. So that's why we're
Speaker 1: covering it today. I didn't want to go out and
Speaker 1: get it and bring it in. I wanted to have
Speaker 1: it be part of what is going on in sports
Speaker 1: right now. And when games started getting canceled, then this
Speaker 1: is a story. This is these story. These are playoff games.
Speaker 1: This isn't a November game. This is now. This is
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and that's why we're covering it today. But
Speaker 1: no poll question. And this didn't just affect the basketball players.
Speaker 1: You had football players. Practices are canceled today and some
Speaker 1: of these cities, with some of these teams baseball games,
Speaker 1: some players sat out. I thought it was interesting that
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers pitcher, had this to say about
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts and supporting black players. You know what, some
Speaker 1: of our black teammates, some of the black players around
Speaker 1: the league. Some of the things that they've been through
Speaker 1: I'll never understand, and it's just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to support them the best way possible. And I
Speaker 1: don't have the right answer, but for tonight, I feel
Speaker 1: like the right answer for us, for myself as a
Speaker 1: white man, was to sit out with them, and I
Speaker 1: think that's ultimately what we're going to have to do,
Speaker 1: is just continue to listen to them and then try
Speaker 1: to figure out the best way to love people well
Speaker 1: with It's Clayton Kershaw last night, and you had some leagues,
Speaker 1: some teams, some played, some didn't. I heard from somebody
Speaker 1: last night, a source who said that it puts some
Speaker 1: people in a real difficult position. There's a disconnect with
Speaker 1: the world as sports because you can't look at this
Speaker 1: and say, well, that's just NBA players or African American
Speaker 1: players playing in the NBA. We shouldn't separate that these
Speaker 1: are people and these athletes in other sports should be
Speaker 1: looking at them and say, this isn't a black thing,
Speaker 1: this is an US, this is our society. And I
Speaker 1: think that's where some of these teams, some of these
Speaker 1: players were put in a real delicate position of do
Speaker 1: I sit down, Is anybody else sitting down with me?
Speaker 1: What if I disagree and I want to play? Because
Speaker 1: it wasn't universal that everybody didn't want to play last night.
Speaker 1: Just letting you know that. So we'll talk to Chris
Speaker 1: Mannoxhill join us from the bubble. Coming up. We're also
Speaker 1: following this story with the Washington football team. The Washington
Speaker 1: football team, they're not practicing today, but they're confronting new
Speaker 1: claims of harassment and a video, a lewd video made
Speaker 1: for Daniel Snyder. So this is Washington Post. The second
Speaker 1: set of sexual harassment allegations against the Washington football team
Speaker 1: was reported Wednesday by the Post. Twenty five more women
Speaker 1: came forward with claims, this time, bringing the total number
Speaker 1: of accusers to forty two. Daniel Snyder directly implicated in
Speaker 1: two instances. He has direct ties to behavior that supposedly
Speaker 1: was going on throughout his team the last two decades. Now.
Speaker 1: Apparently there was a video that was made. According to
Speaker 1: The Washington Post, Daniel Snyder asked the video team in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight to compile outtakes of cheerleaders private
Speaker 1: parts for the shoot for the team swimsuit calendar. Two
Speaker 1: of these members of the video team have resigned. A
Speaker 1: second staffer, a former staffer, a broadcast producer who asked
Speaker 1: to remain anonymous, told the Post that a similar request
Speaker 1: was done in twenty ten when the calendar was shot
Speaker 1: in the Dominican Republic. The footage was to be burned
Speaker 1: into a DVD titled for Executive Meeting. Team canceled practice.
Speaker 1: On Thursday, Mike Floria will join us on this topic.
Speaker 1: And at what point commissioner has no problem singling out players,
Speaker 1: He has no problem punishing players. He has no problem
Speaker 1: putting them on the Commissioner's example list. But if you're
Speaker 1: a commissioner and you're given credit for being a great businessman,
Speaker 1: why would you have Daniel How is he good for business?
Speaker 1: Because it's a great franchise, great fan base. Put it
Speaker 1: up on the open markets, see what it goes for.
Speaker 1: But it's time to kick Daniel Snyder to the curb
Speaker 1: like it just keeps building. This has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the nickname. I mean, that's over. Eventually he'll get
Speaker 1: around to changing it. But as I said, given Daniel
Speaker 1: Snyder being a good businessman, he'll understand how to make
Speaker 1: even more money with changing the nickname all new merchandise.
Speaker 1: But at some point the commissioner's gotta go, You gotta go.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the tipping point is. I
Speaker 1: don't know what else you need. But if this was
Speaker 1: a player, they don't get this many chances. Yeah, Poe
Speaker 1: and doesn't feel like Daniel Snyders spent the past month
Speaker 1: trying to keep this story at bay. He hires an
Speaker 1: African American president for his team. He hires a female
Speaker 1: to be the run the broadcasting division after the guy
Speaker 1: who ran it before got in a big trouble and
Speaker 1: had to air quote retire if he has, like Daniel Snyder,
Speaker 1: has tried to do every move he can to delay
Speaker 1: having to give it up this team for another year.
Speaker 1: And I'm happy that these people got put in these places.
Speaker 1: I just don't know why they got put in these places.
Speaker 1: But I have a pretty good idea because we heard
Speaker 1: from Washington. Hey do you want to talk to our
Speaker 1: new president? He's an African American. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to your owner. I talked to Ron Rivera. It took
Speaker 1: me a day to get Ron Rivera, who I hope
Speaker 1: is feeling better. And I felt bad for Ron Rivera.
Speaker 1: He'd been there six months, know everybody's name in the building,
Speaker 1: and he's out there doing interviews talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: Washington's football team. Here. I don't want your new president
Speaker 1: or a head of your broadcasting. I want your owner.
Speaker 1: That's your what I want, because the other stuff it
Speaker 1: feels like, hey, nothing to see here. Look at us.
Speaker 1: We're so sensitive. We're racially sensitive, gender sensitive. We're the
Speaker 1: Washington football team. Yeah, McLevin. Do you think other owners
Speaker 1: are worried about precedent? You know, remember they fired Jerry
Speaker 1: Richardson in Carolina? Well? I know, Oh, I believe me.
Speaker 1: I heard when this story first came out with the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, and I talked to somebody, a source who
Speaker 1: said there are a couple owners who are really nervous
Speaker 1: with what's going on with Daniel Snyder. I said, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: there is. I think there's people who were nervous about
Speaker 1: precedent setting that all of a sudden, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: get you for personal conduct. Am I going to be
Speaker 1: looking at other owners here? Oh? Yes, I think that
Speaker 1: is a viable possibility in this situation. So Flora will
Speaker 1: join us coming up. It was a crazy day yesterday
Speaker 1: and it was a little bit. I think it was
Speaker 1: right at four o'clock, and I text the Danas and
Speaker 1: I go, hey, I'm hearing something with the Bucks and
Speaker 1: the Magic. I wasn't able to watch, so I was
Speaker 1: in my car and I got in a phone call
Speaker 1: and all it was was a heads up that said, hey, Bucks, Magic,
Speaker 1: it's going to get interesting here. And so I text
Speaker 1: the Danas because I thought maybe you guys were able
Speaker 1: to watch the beginning of that. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they turn on NBA TV and they go
Speaker 1: Bucks just left the floor. The Magic as still out
Speaker 1: there shooting, and then I thought, okay, is there Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a technical delay, maybe there's something that happened with
Speaker 1: this scoreboard, Like I had no idea, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I get home and I watch NBA TV.
Speaker 1: Jim Jackson did a wonderful job. Chris Webber was really
Speaker 1: good yesterday day as well. But this is happening right
Speaker 1: in front of you, and you're you're prepared for a game,
Speaker 1: and now you got all this fill time, and I
Speaker 1: thought that they did a wonderful job. Here's a portion
Speaker 1: of what Chris Webber had to say. Be a former
Speaker 1: NBA player, TNT NBA analyst. We know vote. We keep
Speaker 1: here and vote. Everybody vote. But I'm here to speak
Speaker 1: for those that are always marginalized, those that live in
Speaker 1: these neighborhoods where we preach and tell him to vote
Speaker 1: and walk away. Charles Barkley came to my high school.
Speaker 1: Just seeing him in the locker room, seeing his hands
Speaker 1: and his body. That inspired me. You can't see something,
Speaker 1: you can't be something until you see it. And when
Speaker 1: I tell you the little kids that have called me upset.
Speaker 1: I have a god son that has autism and I
Speaker 1: just had to explain to him why we aren't playing.
Speaker 1: I have young nephews I've had to talk to about
Speaker 1: death before they've even seen it in a movie. If
Speaker 1: not now win, if not doing a pandemic and countless
Speaker 1: lives being lost, if not now win, getting hear in
Speaker 1: his voice, it's powerful stuff. That's Chris Webber Yesterday. Yesterday's
Speaker 1: NBA games the first postseason games postponed in the league
Speaker 1: for any reason since the Lakers and Clippers had to
Speaker 1: postpone games in the nineteen ninety two playoffs due to
Speaker 1: the rioting in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict.
Speaker 1: Your phone calls are welcome. I pride myself in this audience,
Speaker 1: and if you have something that you think is smart
Speaker 1: or that we need to hear or you'd like to convey,
Speaker 1: then we have phone lines that are open. Just be respectful.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm asking, same thing I ask every single
Speaker 1: day when you call in. I give you the opportunity,
Speaker 1: and I hope you view it as it's an opportunity
Speaker 1: to be able to say what you want to say.
Speaker 1: We don't have a pole question today. If you want
Speaker 1: an email, you want to tweet, you can also do
Speaker 1: that as well. But we don't know what's going to
Speaker 1: happen today. I don't know what's going to happen in
Speaker 1: forty five minutes from now or an hour from now,
Speaker 1: by the time we're done with the show. But my
Speaker 1: guess is I don't think we're playing basketball today and tonight.
Speaker 1: I don't know when we play basketball again. But I
Speaker 1: do know from a source last night there was a
Speaker 1: really strong sense the season was going to be shut
Speaker 1: down last night, a really strong sense. You know, there's anger, frustration, confusion,
Speaker 1: you're in the bubble. While that does help in getting
Speaker 1: together with your teammates to discuss these things. I do think,
Speaker 1: as Paul George pointed out, you know, you get depressed,
Speaker 1: you're in a bad place there, you're in a bubble.
Speaker 1: You play basketball, you go back to your room. That's
Speaker 1: all you do. And I think the tensions are starting
Speaker 1: to boil over. And you go back to what was
Speaker 1: said by Kyrie Irving a couple of weeks ago, we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be going into the bubble and playing basketball. And
Speaker 1: people piled on Kyrie at the time. Are they watering
Speaker 1: down the message? Is it still being heard? If you
Speaker 1: don't play, what's it mean? If you do play, what's
Speaker 1: it mean? These are real heavy questions that have to
Speaker 1: be answered by the players, by the owners. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break, we'll come back. We'll talk to Mike Florio.
Speaker 1: Your phone calls are welcome. Eight seven seven, three d
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Speaker 1: by searching f s R. We'll step away from the
Speaker 1: Orlando bubble here for a little bit and once again
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Chris Mannox coming up next hour and
Speaker 1: just find out exactly what's at stake today and tonight,
Speaker 1: because I think the season could be not in jeopardy,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly in the discussion of they may shut
Speaker 1: this down. From what I was told last night, it
Speaker 1: was a serious conversation and the discussion and I even
Speaker 1: when I said, well, what was the discussion like, and
Speaker 1: my source said there went a lot of discussion. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of anger in that room. And then
Speaker 1: the Clippers and Lakers reportedly were leading the charge to
Speaker 1: shut down the season. So we'll have Chris Mannox joining
Speaker 1: us coming up in a little bit. Mike Floya has
Speaker 1: been all over this Washington story. When will the lawsuits
Speaker 1: be filed in the Washington football investigation? The NFL won't
Speaker 1: hire an independent investigator review the Washington allegations. Things appear
Speaker 1: to be getting worse. Mike Florio on loan from Pro
Speaker 1: Football Talk Live on Peacock. Mike, good morning, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. How would you sum this up of where
Speaker 1: we are with Washington and Daniel Snyder. Well, it's extremely troubling, Dan,
Speaker 1: And the commissioner's statement that was issued last night had
Speaker 1: an initial paragraph that was extremely appropriate and reflected the
Speaker 1: concern that the League should have over what is now
Speaker 1: forty former female employees and counting who have alleged sexual
Speaker 1: harassment against the franchise via reporting by the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: But the second paragraph of the commissioner's statement made it
Speaker 1: clear Dan that the League is going to continue to
Speaker 1: defer to the investigation that was arranged, bought, and paid
Speaker 1: for by Daniel Snyder. And it's one thing for that
Speaker 1: investigation to be conducted before Snyder is directly accused of wrongdoing.
Speaker 1: But now the guy who's signing the paychecks to the lawyer, right,
Speaker 1: the lawyer has a duty to the client. Snyder is
Speaker 1: the client. He's in the crosshairs. I'm a astounded that
Speaker 1: the NFL is not taking this thing over. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at it this way. You've got forty former employees
Speaker 1: who are going to be contacted by the lawyer who
Speaker 1: was working for the team. Are they going to talk
Speaker 1: to her? I sure wouldn't. But if it's a lawyer
Speaker 1: who is hired by the NFL and explains, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of this on behalf of
Speaker 1: the NFL, not on behalf of Washington, then I'm more
Speaker 1: likely to talk. So that's just a practical impediment to
Speaker 1: what makes no sense. There's just one of the practical
Speaker 1: impediments to what makes no sense to have the league
Speaker 1: not do this investigation on its own. A league that
Speaker 1: is predicated on being great businessmen. How can this possibly
Speaker 1: help business by having Daniel Snyder? Why are they still
Speaker 1: protecting him? Unless these other owners would be worried about
Speaker 1: precedent that hey, you're going to start looking at his
Speaker 1: personal life or how he handles things or people. You know,
Speaker 1: you're going to shine the spotlight on me as well. Well,
Speaker 1: remember when Jerry Richardson had to sell the Panthers Dan,
Speaker 1: the league hired an independent council to investigate. Now, with Richardson,
Speaker 1: there was already a sense that the ship was sailing
Speaker 1: and he was going to be selling the team. There
Speaker 1: were multiple settlement agreements with nondisclosure clauses where there were
Speaker 1: individuals who had accused Richardson of wrongdoing and they had
Speaker 1: settled those claims which even though every one of those
Speaker 1: settlement agreement says the defendant admits no wrongdoing, the fact
Speaker 1: that you're writing the check at some level creates the
Speaker 1: impression you did something you shouldn't have done. So Richardson's
Speaker 1: already out, but I do think there's still this lingering
Speaker 1: concern among owners that if and when that spotlight ever
Speaker 1: gets turned toward us, and all it takes is a
Speaker 1: motivated enemy who starts stirring up trouble. And every major
Speaker 1: billion dollar organization has had disgruntled employees at some time
Speaker 1: or another, it very well could be that there's a
Speaker 1: level of concern here. There's a layer of buffer that
Speaker 1: the owners are looking for to insulate them against ever
Speaker 1: being on the wrong side of what Daniel Snyder would
Speaker 1: be on the wrong side of if there was a
Speaker 1: truly independent investigation. So what has to happen for Daniel
Speaker 1: Snyder to relinquish control of this team. Well, the investigation
Speaker 1: needs to find some evidence that is persuasive that would
Speaker 1: cause the NFL to say, sorry, but this isn't acceptable.
Speaker 1: You've got to go now. Look, I see two separate
Speaker 1: issues here. I see specific allegations against Snyder that may
Speaker 1: or may not be true, and he's denied them in
Speaker 1: a statement that he issued yesterday. And then I see
Speaker 1: the broader issue with the culture of the organization, an
Speaker 1: organization he's presided over for twenty one years. At what
Speaker 1: point is the mountain of misconducts so great that you say,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. This is your team. You're ultimately in charge.
Speaker 1: You set the tone here, You determine whether or not
Speaker 1: there's going to be a sufficiently robust human resources department
Speaker 1: to process reports, to encourage reporting. This is your team,
Speaker 1: this is your shop, and it's been dysfunctional as it
Speaker 1: relates to how women are treated for two decades. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you can't continue. I mean, that's another way this can go.
Speaker 1: But again, it's not likely to happen if the person
Speaker 1: doing the investigation is processing all the facts through that
Speaker 1: lens of And it's justifiable, it's understandable. I'm being paid
Speaker 1: by Daniel Snyder to do this. My duty to Daniel
Speaker 1: Snyder's to not throw him under the bus. Yeah, your
Speaker 1: job is not to get him to lose control of
Speaker 1: his team. I'm gassing. That's what I don't understand with
Speaker 1: the NFL. If you're going to investigate, then investigate, but
Speaker 1: you can't say this is an independent investigator when she's
Speaker 1: hired by Daniel Snyder. You have NFL teams not practicing,
Speaker 1: some not practicing today, we're two weeks away from the
Speaker 1: season opener. With what is going on, certainly with the NBA.
Speaker 1: Is there a spill over with the NFL as we
Speaker 1: get closer once the season starts. Dan, I'm gonna quote
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, the Seahawks coach, from yesterday when he was
Speaker 1: asked about the possibility of players refusing to take the
Speaker 1: field for games. He said, anything's possible. It's a season
Speaker 1: of protest and anything is possible. And it feels like
Speaker 1: we're always one news cycle away from the next video
Speaker 1: that makes us say, what in the hell are we
Speaker 1: looking at here? And how is progress not being made?
Speaker 1: George Floyd's murder supposedly made us all wide awake, and
Speaker 1: now here we are at the end of the summer,
Speaker 1: close to Labor Day. Floyd happened Memorial Day, and we
Speaker 1: have another incident. And I feel like every time one
Speaker 1: of these incidents happen, it raises the stakes now that
Speaker 1: players are going to react by basically saying, hey, look,
Speaker 1: the time for talking is over. We've tried to talk.
Speaker 1: I think that's what the NBA is saying. We've tried
Speaker 1: to talk, We've tried to explain, we've tried to make
Speaker 1: you aware of what we're concerned about, and you're not
Speaker 1: listening to us. So we are literally taking our ball
Speaker 1: and going home. We're talking to Mike Florio, co host
Speaker 1: Pro Football Live on Peacock, the show that precedes ours.
Speaker 1: I'm also wondering about this as we go into the
Speaker 1: season and these false positives here, How is the NFL
Speaker 1: What did they learn from these seventy plus false positives?
Speaker 1: Because if this happened two weeks from today, it would
Speaker 1: shut down the football See you for the weekend, I'm
Speaker 1: going to guess or for two weeks. Yeah, and Dan,
Speaker 1: what the NFL currently is doing through the Competition Committee
Speaker 1: brainstorming every possible scenario that could emerge once we get
Speaker 1: into the season. But you know how it goes. It's
Speaker 1: the things you worry about that never happened. It's those
Speaker 1: things you didn't actually plan for that get dropped onto
Speaker 1: your lap at the worst possible time. But they can't
Speaker 1: say if false positives happened in a cluster during the season. Gee,
Speaker 1: we didn't see that coming. Because now we've seen it.
Speaker 1: I hope that Bioreference Laboratories knows what happened, how it happened,
Speaker 1: why it happened, so they can prevent it from happening again.
Speaker 1: Because when they issued their statement the other day, I
Speaker 1: read it. It's ninety three words and it says nothing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say anything about what exactly happened. It creates
Speaker 1: the impression that could happen again. So they need to
Speaker 1: be ready for it, and they need to be ready
Speaker 1: to mobilize to determine which positives are false positives, which
Speaker 1: ones are real positives. And then you need to worry
Speaker 1: about the possibility of false negatives. I mean, as problematic
Speaker 1: as false positives, are false negatives even worse because that
Speaker 1: puts a guy who's got the virus out onto the
Speaker 1: field during a game, shedding virus onto anyone he comes
Speaker 1: close to, and potentially sets the stage for the outbreak
Speaker 1: that we've kind of been bracing for for the last
Speaker 1: month but hasn't happened yet. Why has hard Knocks been flat?
Speaker 1: The lack of interest or juice with the Chargers and
Speaker 1: the Rams, Well, I think a couple of reasons, because
Speaker 1: at first I thought, hey, you know what, this is
Speaker 1: the year that Hard Knocks may actually be interesting because
Speaker 1: we're not otherwise getting a glimpse inside what's happening in
Speaker 1: these training camps in this era of COVID nineteen. So
Speaker 1: this is access that the media isn't getting. But I
Speaker 1: just don't think there's a national following for either team.
Speaker 1: There's definitely not a local following in LA yet for
Speaker 1: either team, and I think people have other things to
Speaker 1: worry about. I saw an article the other day that
Speaker 1: there's les interest this year in fantasy football than ever before.
Speaker 1: I just think with everything's currently going on in our country,
Speaker 1: in our lives, in our own individual worlds, things that
Speaker 1: otherwise would be higher on the stack of stuff we
Speaker 1: give a crap about those things are falling down. Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks is falling down, Fantasy football is falling down, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what spot pro football occupies two weeks from today,
Speaker 1: when the games start. Do you make your Super Bowl pick? Soon?
Speaker 1: I wait as long as I possibly can, typically after
Speaker 1: the championship game. Yeah, here's the thing. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Even if you get it right, like nobody cares if
Speaker 1: you get it right. But if you get it wrong,
Speaker 1: if you get it really wrong, you can never get
Speaker 1: away from it. You can never live it down. But
Speaker 1: we'll do that right before the season starts. But Dan,
Speaker 1: you look at where we are, You look at how
Speaker 1: important continuity is going to be, coaching staff, players, I mean,
Speaker 1: how do we even though the Chiefs had to come
Speaker 1: from twenty four down against the Texans, ten points twice
Speaker 1: against the Titans, and the half ten points with seven
Speaker 1: minutes left against the forty nine ers, how do you
Speaker 1: not look at the Chiefs and say, when you consider
Speaker 1: what they did last year, if they can keep that
Speaker 1: nucleus healthy, especially Patrick Mahomes, how do they not emerge
Speaker 1: even though it hasn't happened in twenty years? How do
Speaker 1: they not emerge as the champion back to back? Give
Speaker 1: me a good team that you don't think is going
Speaker 1: to be in the super Bowl or maybe not even
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. That a good team that won't make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You know, I could see it fall apart
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers depending upon how Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: interacts with the coaching staff and how all of that
Speaker 1: plays out. All of the indications are it's going to
Speaker 1: be an Aaron Rodgers revenge tour after what happened with
Speaker 1: Jordan Love. I think on the other side of the
Speaker 1: Ledger in the AFC, look, you know, the Texans are
Speaker 1: a team that's won the division a couple of years
Speaker 1: in a row. How are they going to be this year?
Speaker 1: I don't see the Ravens falling off at all. I
Speaker 1: think the question for them is can they win in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think the bigger challenge is finding that
Speaker 1: team that's off the radar that is going to be
Speaker 1: pretty good. And you know, the Falcons finished the year
Speaker 1: six and two and everybody's talking about the Saints and
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers in the NFC South, I think the Falcons
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to surprise some people. They've still got
Speaker 1: a good nucleus and Matt Ryan is one of the
Speaker 1: best in the NFL who doesn't get the credit for it.
Speaker 1: The Falcons are one of those teams I'm keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on. They could make some noise this year and
Speaker 1: dan that's seventh playoff spot in each conference makes a
Speaker 1: huge difference. Teams are going to be alive a lot longer,
Speaker 1: and that one last team that gets in if they
Speaker 1: draw a division rival in the first round, a two
Speaker 1: seven game. That way, man, all bets are off as
Speaker 1: to who's gonna win that game. If I said you
Speaker 1: could have the Falcons of the Buccaneers this year, I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna take the Buccaneers. Yeah, yeah, because you know,
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady factor is undeniable. And if they handle
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski properly and keep him healthy, and I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons why they kept Oj Howard
Speaker 1: and didn't trade him, I think they're going to just
Speaker 1: like the Patriots did in twenty eighteen, not really used
Speaker 1: Gronk to his full capacity until we get closer to
Speaker 1: the postseason. And I think the Bucks are gonna make it.
Speaker 1: With seven teams in the NFC, there were seven and
Speaker 1: seven with Jamis wins and last year. Going into the
Speaker 1: final two games this season, and you know, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: bringing that Patriot mentality and it's going to be infectious.
Speaker 1: And the weapons he's got are just incredible if he
Speaker 1: can get rid of the ball quickly enough because the
Speaker 1: offensive wine's going to be dominant, but he's gonna but
Speaker 1: if he can do it, Dan, you know, all the
Speaker 1: hype I think is going to come to fruition for
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Good to talk to you, Mike. Do you
Speaker 1: have any wine in your wine cellar? I do. I
Speaker 1: you know, I've got a lot more spots for wine
Speaker 1: than I have actual wine bottles because we drink a
Speaker 1: lot of it. But there's some back, there's something. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: until to night, until I drink it all. It looks
Speaker 1: like you got Boone's farm back there. Mad Dog, Mad
Speaker 1: Dog twenty twenty. Thank you, Mike. All right. See then
Speaker 1: that's Mike Florio, co host of Pro Football Live on Peacock.
Speaker 1: A couple of phone calls here, Wayne and Nebraska joins us. Wayne,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey Dan? Yeah, lifelong Redskin fan,
Speaker 1: born on the reservation. I've only been embarrassed to be
Speaker 1: a redskin fan for about seventeen years. Taking over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're a dumpster fire. Yeah, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's going to change anytime soon. I just don't know
Speaker 1: if the commissioner. If the Commissioner is not going to
Speaker 1: investigate Daniel Snyder, then I don't know if anything is
Speaker 1: going to change here. The only thing it might change
Speaker 1: is all these lawsuits and all of these women who
Speaker 1: are going to file these lawsuits and thanks for the
Speaker 1: phone call. Wayne. Good luck, but I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think anything's changing anytime soon. Chris and Virginia. Hi Chris,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey? Dan? First, it's a
Speaker 1: quick comment. Is one of four Chargers fans in the countries.
Speaker 1: We've watched every Hard Knocks episode and they're great. What
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask is from a broadcaster's perspective, can
Speaker 1: you talk a little bit about what happened last night
Speaker 1: with the NBA sothing you to come on the air
Speaker 1: and you think you're going to cover this game and
Speaker 1: then you've got to switch topics and switch topics in
Speaker 1: a major ways. I'm just curious from your perspective, like
Speaker 1: how you move the audience along, what you do behind
Speaker 1: the scenes to move the conversation, you know, what you're
Speaker 1: asking your producers for that kind of stuff. Well, I
Speaker 1: was fortunate and thanks for the phone call, Chris, that
Speaker 1: when I worked at the ESPN that we were you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of adapt on the fly, but you're also
Speaker 1: you've been in that situation before, and then it'll be okay,
Speaker 1: what reporter do we get? You know, how do we
Speaker 1: advance the story? The Oakland A's and the San Francisco
Speaker 1: Giants the earthquake game. That was some of the best
Speaker 1: live TV reporting, not just sports, the best live TV
Speaker 1: reporting that I've ever seen, because I had Bob Lee
Speaker 1: who was there, and Bob is as good as any reporter,
Speaker 1: not sports reporter, any reporter you'll find in America. And
Speaker 1: Al Michaels was doing the play by play, and Al
Speaker 1: from the Bay Area understood the Bay Area, and he
Speaker 1: is in the building and he's got all the landscapes,
Speaker 1: You've got the bridges. He knows everything that's going on there.
Speaker 1: And then Bob was doing interviews. Joe Torrey was with
Speaker 1: us the you know, obviously the former manager, he was
Speaker 1: the analyst there. Chris Berman was also helping. Chris a
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants fan. So understanding it in the moment
Speaker 1: and taking advantage of the resources that you have. When
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson had his press conference, I was given a
Speaker 1: heads up right before the press conference the Great Dick Shap,
Speaker 1: the late Great Dick Shapp said Magic has HIV. So
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, we're scrambling that we have
Speaker 1: to go. Okay, who can help us with this topic
Speaker 1: and who's on site to help us with this topic,
Speaker 1: and then can you put a piece together that gives
Speaker 1: people an idea of what is HIV. And this is
Speaker 1: a long time ago when we didn't know, and I
Speaker 1: didn't know as I'm throwing it to Magic Johnson, I
Speaker 1: didn't know how long Magic it was going to speak.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if others were going to speak after
Speaker 1: Magic made his announcement. So there are a lot of
Speaker 1: moments where you have to tap dance is what we
Speaker 1: call it in this business. But the ability to have
Speaker 1: great people behind the scenes is never more prominent, more
Speaker 1: important than then because they're calm, the people who are
Speaker 1: in your ear telling you we got this coming up,
Speaker 1: or you got a vamp a little bit, hey, ad
Speaker 1: lib for about thirty seconds here, then we'll get that
Speaker 1: piece of sound from this person. That's those people make
Speaker 1: you great. And I was surrounded by that at the
Speaker 1: Mothership for eighteen years. Yeah. One that stands out to
Speaker 1: me is the OJ Bronco Chase as the i think
Speaker 1: Game six of the NBA Finals with the Houston Rockets
Speaker 1: and the Knicks, and it's Bob Cosas and Marv Albert
Speaker 1: and those guys and they're trying to cover a really
Speaker 1: important basketball game, a serious basketball game to a market
Speaker 1: of New York Knicks fans and Houston fans while the
Speaker 1: OJ Chase is going on in a split screen and
Speaker 1: I think they brought Tom Brokaw in at one point
Speaker 1: in mid game. Yeah, it's just having those people who
Speaker 1: have been before, as we like to say, in the business,
Speaker 1: live bullets when they're being fired. That's when you really
Speaker 1: earn your paycheck, that you're able to do it. You know,
Speaker 1: we did live every single night that I did Sports Center.
Speaker 1: It was live. And that ability to be able to go, Okay,
Speaker 1: somebody's going to go the highlights not there. You got
Speaker 1: to add lib for thirty seconds, Okay, I got to
Speaker 1: add lib on the Indians and you know, the Milwaukee
Speaker 1: Brewers facing one another. Not easy. But that's some of that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the fun part of it. I love
Speaker 1: that there's no net there. But anybody in the business
Speaker 1: or wants to get into the business, understand that those
Speaker 1: people behind the scenes are so valuable and don't take
Speaker 1: him for granted, because when you do have those issues,
Speaker 1: I mean, case in points Steve Bartman. Steve Bartman, we
Speaker 1: thought was calling into Sports Center one night and I
Speaker 1: was hosting Sports Center. Now it would have been the
Speaker 1: biggest get of the year. And my producer coordinated producer
Speaker 1: at the time, complete trust in him, and look, this
Speaker 1: one slipped by the goalie and we realized that we
Speaker 1: got punked on the air by somebody from Howard Stern Show.
Speaker 1: But I trusted him and still would trust him to
Speaker 1: this day, because you're in battle with them, and they're
Speaker 1: there and they've got you and they help you. And
Speaker 1: you know, I was lucky that none of the Danettes
Speaker 1: were there, because that worth yes, But having those people
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, a producer talking to you in your ear.
Speaker 1: You know, when I would do the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: I'd be down on the field and you're on an island.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's chaos, it's noise, it's chaos. And I
Speaker 1: would have my producer from Football Night in Americas, Sam Flood,
Speaker 1: in my ear, and all he does is just guide you.
Speaker 1: And when I did the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, when
Speaker 1: I'm hosting the Super Bowl and that's seven hours on
Speaker 1: the air, and you just need somebody who guide you
Speaker 1: from point A to point B, back to point A,
Speaker 1: over to point C, over to point Q, back to
Speaker 1: point A, and those people are so valuable. But when
Speaker 1: you're down there on the podium and you're you feel
Speaker 1: like you're alone. Even though there's one hundred million people
Speaker 1: watching and eighty thousand in the stands, you feel like
Speaker 1: you're alone, and all you can do is screw up there.
Speaker 1: If you do well, nobody cares screw up. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: asked Gronk about, Hey, did you forget that? One of
Speaker 1: my moments where I asked Gronk, did you forget what
Speaker 1: this felt like? And he goes, well, this is my
Speaker 1: first super Bowl that I've won. But I shook it
Speaker 1: off fast. It's like you get hit and you go,
Speaker 1: I gotta shake that off. Yeah. See, I was worried
Speaker 1: about you in the moment there. I remember watching at
Speaker 1: the bar. He said that, and I was immediately went
Speaker 1: from like Tomorrow's the best day ever to oh, dear,
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's not going to be good. Yeah, yep, yep, yes,
Speaker 1: week Love, Well, you're never a loaned up there because
Speaker 1: you had Kevin Hart right well, Kevin Hart. So I'm
Speaker 1: handing out the trophy to the Eagles, and I can see,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me take a break here, I'll
Speaker 1: come back. The whole Kevin Hard situation was bonkers, absolutely bonkers.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do my job, so we'll come back.
Speaker 1: Chris Mannox will join us from the Bubba. I got
Speaker 1: an update on what happened late last night with the
Speaker 1: NBA players, in particular the Lakers. I'll have that for
Speaker 1: you coming up when we come back. Thanks for listening
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Speaker 1: with that. ESPN sources say several key members of the
Speaker 1: Lakers and some peers around the league, according to Woje,
Speaker 1: stayed up until the early morning hours talking through issues
Speaker 1: in the bubble. Among key players in the league heading
Speaker 1: into the eleven AM meeting today, there is optimism about
Speaker 1: a majority of players wanting to continue the playoffs. That
Speaker 1: wasn't the case last night. And as I mentioned, my source,
Speaker 1: an agent to some of the players in the bubble said,
Speaker 1: hot burner, front burner, this is bleep and hot right
Speaker 1: now that that's how important it was that he thought
Speaker 1: last night that the Lakers and Clippers were not going
Speaker 1: to play and therefore they were gonna have to shut down,
Speaker 1: that the season was going to be canceled. But eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock coming up in about ten minutes, the players will
Speaker 1: get together. The owners are going to get together in
Speaker 1: a separate meeting. I don't think the commissioners in the bubble.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything. I guess you can zoom in,
Speaker 1: but it would certainly add a little bit more sense
Speaker 1: of urgency if he was in the bubble with these players.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's there. But we'll talk to
Speaker 1: Chris Mannox coming up. I mentioned Super Bowl when the
Speaker 1: Eagles beat the Patriots and you're up on the podium
Speaker 1: and it's, you know, chaos there because the Eagles have
Speaker 1: finally won a Super Bowl and it's a really magical
Speaker 1: moment there, great story with Nick Foles and Doug Peter
Speaker 1: soon as the head coach, mister Lorry the owner. Like
Speaker 1: it's it's an emotional moment. So I'm I just hear
Speaker 1: this noise behind me and I'm going like, Who's who's
Speaker 1: that angry? Like who's upset? And I look over and
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, and you know, a long time Eagles fan,
Speaker 1: He's trying to get on the podium and He's had
Speaker 1: a couple of beverages. And I'm going like, what is
Speaker 1: going on with Kevin Hart? And security is holding back
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart. Now, I know Kevin's really famous, but you know,
Speaker 1: we had some business to do up there on the podium,
Speaker 1: but he just wanted to get up there and have
Speaker 1: confetti rained down on him and get to hold the trophy,
Speaker 1: and which I'm gonna guess he got that opportunity, but man,
Speaker 1: was he upset. Do we have any of the audio
Speaker 1: from when he was on with us? Now? The last
Speaker 1: time we saw each other, I was handing out this
Speaker 1: Super Bowl trophy. I was trying to get there. You
Speaker 1: were trying to get home, trying to get I was
Speaker 1: trying to get where you were. You were trying to
Speaker 1: blow up my spot. I was trying to blow up
Speaker 1: your spot. You know that was a that was definitely
Speaker 1: a you know, one of my one of my best
Speaker 1: worst moments. That's what I call it, because I would
Speaker 1: have invited you up had I know when you were there. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't you know, I was. I was.
Speaker 1: I was a little intoxicated. You know. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: alcohol stuff works. You know if you if you drink
Speaker 1: enough of it, it's gonna it's gonna get up on yet. Okay,
Speaker 1: but ye take us through watching the game now, watching
Speaker 1: the game, all right. So uh, for those people listening,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, I am a die hard Philadelphia fan.
Speaker 1: I'm everything Philadelphia. I'm from Philly. I bleed Philly. So
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl was a big deal. I got a suite.
Speaker 1: I took my whole team to the super Bowl. We
Speaker 1: watched the game. After winning the super Bowl, I said, no,
Speaker 1: we got to go down on the field. They can't.
Speaker 1: It can't end like this. I got to go and expire.
Speaker 1: It's this with my team. So I have no passes,
Speaker 1: no laminates, nothing. I get down to the field off
Speaker 1: of pure fame and wit everybody I went to. As
Speaker 1: I'm going down, They're like, sir, do you have passes?
Speaker 1: And I'm like no, I'm Kevin Hart. And they just
Speaker 1: kept letting me buy and I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: guess it's working. And they was like who are you with?
Speaker 1: And I was like all these people right here, all
Speaker 1: the black people behind me and with me. We get
Speaker 1: down to the field. We're on the field. I have
Speaker 1: no idea how we got there. We're on the field,
Speaker 1: confetti's coming down. I'm with the team. I mean like
Speaker 1: a huddle. We're like doing dances and one of the
Speaker 1: guys go, oh yo yo the trophy. They bring it out,
Speaker 1: the trophy, and I was like, I wanted. I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a part of that. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the stage. I told everybody watch my wife.
Speaker 1: I'll be back. Y'all stay with my wife. And I
Speaker 1: was like, keV, where are you going? I said, to
Speaker 1: the stage, I'm going up there so I could be
Speaker 1: with the trophy. The city. The city wants to see
Speaker 1: me do this. Yeah. It was bizarre though, because I
Speaker 1: could just I could see that he was demonstrably upset
Speaker 1: and lots of security there, but he wanted to get
Speaker 1: up there on the podium. And I remember coming down
Speaker 1: off the podium after handing out the trophy and he's
Speaker 1: still yelling at people. I'm Kevin Hart, kept saying that
Speaker 1: over I'm Kevin Hart. Good luck with that, keV. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to Chris mannox is there gonna be basketball? Today
Speaker 1: or tonight. It seems like there's some positive news coming
Speaker 1: out of the bubble. We'll talk to Mannox, he'll Jone
Speaker 1: is coming up next