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Speaker 2: loan from the Athletic. Seems to be conflicting reports about
Speaker 2: what the Vikings think or thought about Aaron Rodgers. We'll
Speaker 2: try to sort that out. He seems to be in
Speaker 2: the on deck circle for the Vikings and perhaps in
Speaker 2: the on deck circle for retirement. Dan Dokich, he played
Speaker 2: and he coached. He is a part of Outkicks coverage
Speaker 2: college hoops and let's still join us a little bit
Speaker 2: later on congratulations to Xavier. They were down by thirteen,
Speaker 2: came back to beat Texas and Mount Saint Mary's beats American.
Speaker 2: Among those playing today Houston, Auburn, Tennessee and Saint John's.
Speaker 2: If you would have told me five years ago, Rick
Speaker 2: Bettino is going to be coaching Saint John's. They're going
Speaker 2: to open up the tournament in PROBA evidence where Rick
Speaker 2: started his career for the most part and took a
Speaker 2: Billy Donovan led team whether they go to the Elite
Speaker 2: eight that year. I'm not even sure how far they went.
Speaker 2: I just know they were really entertaining that year. But
Speaker 2: Rick Bettina, it feels like Patino's an underdog, is a
Speaker 2: number two seat for some reason. It's like, man, look
Speaker 2: what he's doing with Saint John's. Saint John's used to
Speaker 2: be really good before Marvin was born. But Saint John's
Speaker 2: has been a pleasant surprise, and they've recaptured New York City.
Speaker 2: But they will be in Providence to open up Houston Auburn,
Speaker 2: Tennessee as well. All right, eight seven seven three DP
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Speaker 2: What's poll question? For the first hour of this program, Paul.
Speaker 3: Sent this one in.
Speaker 4: Would you rather your favorite team or school win the
Speaker 4: NCAA tournament or would you rather win your bracket contest?
Speaker 2: Okay, Marvin, let me ask you, since your team is
Speaker 2: the two time defending champs, would you rather Ukon won
Speaker 2: again this year or you won the bracket challenge?
Speaker 5: YU can't won again?
Speaker 2: Okay, Paul. If you're Alma Mater Southern Illinois won the
Speaker 2: national title, or you won the bracket Challenge.
Speaker 3: I almost had to.
Speaker 6: Take that out because it's so wild to even think
Speaker 6: of them making the tournament. If I didn't have a
Speaker 6: dog in the fight, like this year, if a team
Speaker 6: I like, now you got to take your team if
Speaker 6: they'd never won it.
Speaker 2: Before, Todd you went to NYU, So there's no chance
Speaker 2: that that would happen.
Speaker 5: No chance of that happening.
Speaker 7: I'll take winning the bracket challenge even if somehow the
Speaker 7: Violets got into the tournament then won it all.
Speaker 2: All right, Seaton West virgin Oh, sorry, you're alma mater.
Speaker 2: If they got into the tournament or you won the
Speaker 2: bracket challenge, how about Seaton Hall.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty good if Seaton Hall, yeah, I would take
Speaker 4: my team or school any day, because there really isn't.
Speaker 4: Winning the bracket Challenge is just as much luck as
Speaker 4: it is anything else. Two years ago, we had the
Speaker 4: most unlikely Final Four of all time, and my wife
Speaker 4: called it yeah, And I can assure you she does
Speaker 4: not watch any any college basketball whatsoever, and she had
Speaker 4: it nailed. She was in like the point five percent
Speaker 4: of the world that had it nailed.
Speaker 2: It's hard to luck into a national championship. It's a
Speaker 2: little easier to luck into doing well with the bracket challenge.
Speaker 2: In fact, I always think they the less you know,
Speaker 2: the better you will perform in the bracket Challenge. But
Speaker 2: our brackets are in. We're still waiting for a couple
Speaker 2: of celebrities to get their brackets in as well. But Fritzy,
Speaker 2: once again is the gatekeeper. Another poll question, what else
Speaker 2: do you have?
Speaker 4: Well, we got a couple of rule changes that are
Speaker 4: making well proposed rule changes perhaps that are making some news.
Speaker 2: Let me hold off on that until the next segment,
Speaker 2: so I have the full fifteen minutes or so to
Speaker 2: be able to go over everything. And there's some proposals there,
Speaker 2: they're just proposals. The Lions had one. They're still trying
Speaker 2: to get rid of the brotherly shove, which I still
Speaker 2: I'm okay with it. I just say take the guy
Speaker 2: behind the quarterback out of the play. That's all. So
Speaker 2: if you want to have a push, the push comes
Speaker 2: from your quarterback and your offensive line, not some guy
Speaker 2: who weighs three hundred pounds behind. Jalen Hurts and every
Speaker 2: other team can do this. It's the ultimate football play
Speaker 2: from the standpoint of me versus You may not like it.
Speaker 2: It's predictable, but it is force against force, the immovable
Speaker 2: object against the irresistible force. I'm okay with it. It
Speaker 2: may not be esthetically pleasing, and we may not like
Speaker 2: that the Eagles have mastered it. Every other team can
Speaker 2: do the same thing. Yes, see, I feel exactly the
Speaker 2: same way. To me.
Speaker 4: It's like the exact, almost very definition of a football play. However,
Speaker 4: we've had at least a coach or two on I
Speaker 4: forget exactly who it was who was like, does not
Speaker 4: football is rugby? We don't play rugby, We play football.
Speaker 4: I hate that play. It's not a football play. Maybe
Speaker 4: it's Bill Coward it might have been, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: So then that made me rethink everything that I thought, like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's not a football play.
Speaker 2: What well, there are probably football plays that aren't football
Speaker 2: plays if you're looking at a true definition here. But
Speaker 2: it's I got the ball. I'm telling you what I'm
Speaker 2: doing and you can't stop me. I love that, And yes,
Speaker 2: the Eagles have mastered it. If the Bills have mastered it,
Speaker 2: they might have gone to the super Bowl. Nobody else
Speaker 2: has mastered it. But I'm okay with that, but they're
Speaker 2: still trying to get rid of it. Magic Johnson was
Speaker 2: on a podcast. He's on Byron Scott's podcast, and it's
Speaker 2: that time of the year where people are making their
Speaker 2: decisions or giving their opinions on who should be winning
Speaker 2: awards in the NBA. And the hot topic appears to be,
Speaker 2: even though I think the race is over, is Joker
Speaker 2: versus shake Guilties Alexander. Here's Magic Johnson on Byron Scott's podcast.
Speaker 8: Best Player in Basketball Right Now, and he reads situations
Speaker 8: and defense as well. His basketball IQ is off the charge. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and then he beats you because he's off rhythm. He's
Speaker 8: not one of the best yet, but he is up there.
Speaker 8: And the only thing he can't do like Kareem could
Speaker 8: do is dominate on both hims. Right, That's what was
Speaker 8: missing for him because he's not a big shot blocker.
Speaker 8: He's a little bit yeah to a certain extent. Yeah,
Speaker 8: he's the best player in the league.
Speaker 2: So that's Magic on Byron Scott's fast Break podcast, and
Speaker 2: he puts it into context because he's comparing him to
Speaker 2: one of the greatest centers, one of the greatest players
Speaker 2: of all time. In Kareem and no, Jokic is not
Speaker 2: a shot blocker. But here's a stat that is rarely
Speaker 2: brought up. And to be honest, when you talk about players,
Speaker 2: how many MVP were great defenders? Good defenders. When's the
Speaker 2: last time somebody said, man, that's Shay gilg is Alexander,
Speaker 2: he can lock you up. I haven't heard it. And
Speaker 2: but I don't think that should factor in. If you're
Speaker 2: really good, your unbelievable score. I do believe he's unstoppable.
Speaker 2: Your team is playing great, he's going to win the MVP.
Speaker 2: There was a real push for him last year. But
Speaker 2: here's the thing that is not brought up. A defensive rebound.
Speaker 2: It's called a defensive rebound. And who is third in
Speaker 2: the NBA. It's Jokic. So he's third in rebounding and
Speaker 2: third in defensive rebounding. That's a defensive stat that's rarely
Speaker 2: brought up. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson they quote unquote
Speaker 2: they played the passing lianes. That didn't mean they played defense,
Speaker 2: because you can't play the passing lanes unless you kind
Speaker 2: of slough off your player. I don't know if Sga
Speaker 2: is a great defender. Maybe he is, But it feels
Speaker 2: like we're picking and choosing, and this came up with Joker,
Speaker 2: with Joel Embiid. Yeah, but Joker doesn't play good defense.
Speaker 2: Defensive rebounds is still a stat and it's rarely brought up.
Speaker 2: Larry Bird didn't play defense. I don't know too many
Speaker 2: people back then who go, yeah, but Larry can't play defense. Okay,
Speaker 2: Magic couldn't play defense. Kobe played defense because Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: played defense. I mean, how many MVPs were like Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: They could beat you at both ends of the floor.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Carl Malone was a great defender.
Speaker 2: I think he was on the first or second team
Speaker 2: All Defensive Team. But we do get caught up, you know,
Speaker 2: and we'll say this about MVPs in baseball. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: he's not a real good fielder. Okay, so we kind
Speaker 2: of pick and choose. You can use it against somebody,
Speaker 2: you can use it for somebody. But and Magic putting
Speaker 2: it in context there that he's not Kareem and how
Speaker 2: many players are Kareem Jokich is gonna be one of
Speaker 2: the great He should probably have four MVPs and could
Speaker 2: be on the cusp of a fifth one. I mean,
Speaker 2: just let that sink in. That doesn't happen. But he
Speaker 2: is clearly the best player. That doesn't mean he's the
Speaker 2: most valuable player, and that's why it will go to
Speaker 2: Shay Gilgis Alexander Junior. The third.
Speaker 6: Yes, Paul jokicch currently is the only center in the
Speaker 6: NBA averaging more than one and a half steals per game.
Speaker 6: And the thing about him not blocking shots blocking shots?
Speaker 6: These days, people don't take it to the lane like
Speaker 6: they used to. There's not challenges to the basket like
Speaker 6: he used to. There's I would bet there's so many
Speaker 6: fewer chances to block shots in this NBA because everyone's
Speaker 6: jack and threes that rim protectors might be the least
Speaker 6: important thing in the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you have you know, the stifled tower. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, that's what he does. He plays, you know,
Speaker 2: as a rim protector, but his role is overrated because
Speaker 2: how much of the game is being a rim protector.
Speaker 2: Wembn Yama is the best defensive player in the game,
Speaker 2: and it's not even close. He can guard you inside outside,
Speaker 2: he can stand inside and guards you outside. He's that great.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to who's the best defensive player
Speaker 2: who's won the MVP. I mean, if you run down
Speaker 2: the list of great defensive players, keem Elijah Wan was
Speaker 2: a spectacular defensive player. I think he's the all time
Speaker 2: steals leader maybe is that sound right? Or he's up
Speaker 2: there in that category. Block shots as well, yes, Marvin, Yes,
Speaker 2: block shots? Yeah, what about steals for a keem?
Speaker 5: I know John Stockton's first, but I'll take a look.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes, Stockton put up numbers that are crazy, like
Speaker 2: the assist total, that's almost like EMITTT Smith his rushing total.
Speaker 2: It's just going to be there.
Speaker 6: Yes, Boulie ha keem Elijauan is tenth all time and
Speaker 6: steals in NBA history and he's the only person over
Speaker 6: six ten in the top twenty.
Speaker 2: It's amazing he's under Oh the stat of.
Speaker 5: The day here comes that?
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Speaker 2: time Defensive Player of the Year for a kim Olajuan. Yes,
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If you look at Victor Wimbanyama, he had uh, let's
Speaker 4: see in twenty twenty three, twenty four, he had two
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty four block shots in the season. You
Speaker 4: really you gotta go back in twenty fifteen with Hassan Whiteside,
Speaker 4: he had two sixty nine.
Speaker 3: You gotta go back to Marcus Camby after that.
Speaker 4: Uh, But then there is a massive The numbers all
Speaker 4: stay kind of about the same until you go all
Speaker 4: the way back to the.
Speaker 3: Nineties and to Kenbe Matumbo.
Speaker 4: He was putting up like three thirty two, three forty two,
Speaker 4: three thirty six, three twenty one year after year after year. Matumbo,
Speaker 4: Uh was just killing him. And right before that was
Speaker 4: a LaJuan.
Speaker 2: Nothing in my house, bud Di Kembe was one dimensional,
Speaker 2: like he would rebound in block shots. You're asking Joker
Speaker 2: to play the other end when Benyama to play the
Speaker 2: other end. And I think, now, look, I love watching
Speaker 2: Joker and I think he's the best player in the
Speaker 2: game by far. But I do understand this meritocracy where
Speaker 2: the voters will go we kind of run out of
Speaker 2: things to say about Joker. How about SGA great and
Speaker 2: it's a great story, and Oklahoma City has proved to
Speaker 2: be legitimate, and I hope they do. I don't want
Speaker 2: this to happen. They don't get to the Western Conference
Speaker 2: finals because then you'll have people saying, nah, I never
Speaker 2: should have give him the MVP. Yeah, it's the regular
Speaker 2: season awards. Like Lamar Jackson, I want him to do
Speaker 2: well in the postseason, so we don't say, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: we want it in the regular season, just not a
Speaker 2: postseason performer. Peyton Manning went through this as well. Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers is oh Man fourteen minutes in and I mentioned
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers like, oh, dang it, dang it, I'm bad,
Speaker 2: Sorry about that. No. I mentioned it earlier when I
Speaker 2: said we were having Diana Rossini on to talk about
Speaker 2: the Vikings and their opinion of Aaron Rodgers. All right,
Speaker 2: so we'll settle on a pull question. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: some of these NFL rule proposals. The Lions have one
Speaker 2: that is interesting and I'm kind of on the fence,
Speaker 2: and I reached out to Mike Florio and I said,
Speaker 2: should I like this rule or not? And Florio sent
Speaker 2: me a response back where he didn't mince words. Have
Speaker 2: that for you coming up, and hope you get involved
Speaker 2: in the bracket challenge. We'll talk some football coming up
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Speaker 2: We'll get to your phone calls coming up aged seven
Speaker 2: to seven three DP show. It's that time of the
Speaker 2: year when teams can make proposals for the league's competition
Speaker 2: Committee to talk about, and there was one that caught
Speaker 2: our eye earlier this morning, and it has to do
Speaker 2: with well, here's the proposal. This was submitted by the
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions. The division winner with the conference's best record
Speaker 2: would receive the number one overall seed, but after that
Speaker 2: teams would be stacked by records, regardless of whether they
Speaker 2: won their division or received a wild card berth. So,
Speaker 2: if you apply that to last year, the Lions went
Speaker 2: fifteen and two, the Vikings fourteen and three, Packers eleven
Speaker 2: and six. The Lions got the number one seed, but
Speaker 2: the Vikings were the fifth seed the Packers were the
Speaker 2: seventh seed. So based purely on records, the Vikings would
Speaker 2: be up to three. With the new proposal, the Packers
Speaker 2: would be six up to five. Here I reached out
Speaker 2: to Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk and he said
Speaker 2: that he thinks it undermines the division championship, and if
Speaker 2: they're going to be seeding based on total record, they
Speaker 2: need to re format this schedule so there'd be more
Speaker 2: games against other teams from the conference. And he says,
Speaker 2: almost like the Big Ten when there were actually ten teams,
Speaker 2: everybody plays everybody else, and the team with the best
Speaker 2: record wins the Big Ten. Florio goes on to say
Speaker 2: there's no point in having divisions if the division winner
Speaker 2: only gets in the playoffs. He also says one point
Speaker 2: that they were making on Pro Football Talk earlier this morning,
Speaker 2: maybe have a minimum number of wins required for a
Speaker 2: divisional winner to have an automatic home game. That interest me.
Speaker 2: Let's say you have to have at least ten wins
Speaker 2: to host a playoff game. I'm okay with that. You
Speaker 2: want to recede after the first round, Like, I'm open
Speaker 2: to all of these conversations, because I think you always
Speaker 2: have to be open. What can make the game better?
Speaker 2: Do we punish the Vikings they had the second best record,
Speaker 2: but then we're going to make them the fifth seed
Speaker 2: in the NFC. And the Lions are proposing this because
Speaker 2: probably the NFC North is so stacked, and the Bears
Speaker 2: are going to get better as well, and you might
Speaker 2: have this log jam again. But that's the proposal by
Speaker 2: the Lions. And then Florio's response is, how about we
Speaker 2: just make a minimum requirement to host a playoff game?
Speaker 2: And you know, you always think back to Seattle when
Speaker 2: Seattle was what seven and nine, and then they host
Speaker 2: a playoff game against the Saints and everybody was up
Speaker 2: in arms, but they won their division.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, this is a tough one because reading through
Speaker 6: the rule last year, the Rams at ten and seven
Speaker 6: would now drop in the seatings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers at
Speaker 6: ten and seven would drop in the seatings. And Flora's
Speaker 6: point about de emphasizing winning your division really sticks out
Speaker 6: because at first I was like, of course, you should
Speaker 6: reward the team with more wins. Where if it came
Speaker 6: to a vote, I'm not sure what the NFL would
Speaker 6: do on this one.
Speaker 2: Well, they probably wouldn't change anything, but they'd like discussing.
Speaker 2: They like, you know, almost giving you that hey, full transparency,
Speaker 2: just letting you know some the things that we're thinking about.
Speaker 2: And therefore it feels like you're in it with the
Speaker 2: NFL instead of them coming out and saying, guess what
Speaker 2: we've changed a rule here. You kind of want to
Speaker 2: have that discussion or opportunity to discuss and then maybe
Speaker 2: they vote on it at some point. It's like, you know,
Speaker 2: the brotherly shove, it just keeps coming up. It feels
Speaker 2: like it's not leaving. The Packers brought this up again
Speaker 2: that they would like to get rid of the rule.
Speaker 2: Let me play for you. Bill Cower, the Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame coach who joined us to talk about the brotherly shove, right,
Speaker 2: I can tell by the grimacing of your face that
Speaker 2: you're not big on the brotherly shove here. I'm not.
Speaker 11: It's not a football play. It's rugby. They called a scrub.
Speaker 11: I mean that's what it is. Dan, It's called the
Speaker 11: way it is. It's a scrub. I mean you're pushing
Speaker 11: people and pushing them over. I mean, listen, it's just
Speaker 11: a quarterback snake. I get it. But it becomes like
Speaker 11: a pushing in the back and it's a scrum and
Speaker 11: I don't know, it's not a strategical play.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, I understand it. And that's from a
Speaker 2: coaching perspective. Stop it. I mean that would that'd be
Speaker 2: my advice to all of these teams. You can run
Speaker 2: it yourself, but figure out a way to stop it.
Speaker 2: Although JJ Watt joined us a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: and he said, you can't stop it. This is a
Speaker 2: three time defensive Player of the Year. Because I said,
Speaker 2: what would you say to the commissioner about that play?
Speaker 2: And he said, I would tell him you can't stop it.
Speaker 2: I understand it, but it is I think the Eagles
Speaker 2: would be just as successful with a quarterback sneak. You
Speaker 2: don't have to have somebody behind Jalen Hurts in my
Speaker 2: opinion on that team, that line and the fact that
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is probably as strong as any quarterback in
Speaker 2: the NFL legwise, So you get that guy. I mean
Speaker 2: he can squat what six hundred pounds something crazy, So
Speaker 2: you have that low to the ground, that offensive line,
Speaker 2: They're still going to be successful. And I would love
Speaker 2: to see that just so people would say, well, we
Speaker 2: need to out while the quarterback sneak. It's the Eagles
Speaker 2: have mastered something. I'm fine with that. It's like you
Speaker 2: could have had the same defense that the Steelers played
Speaker 2: the Steel Curtain. You could have had the same defense
Speaker 2: that the New York Giants with lt play. You can
Speaker 2: do all of those things. That's the beauty of football.
Speaker 2: The question is do you have the personnel. Do you
Speaker 2: have the personnel to have a great offensive line to
Speaker 2: be able to have that initial push and then you
Speaker 2: bring Jalen Hurts in behind? You're not going to stop that.
Speaker 2: I have a problem with the person who's blocking pushing
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts from behind. All right, a couple of phone
Speaker 2: calls in here, and let's see Andrew in Washington. Hi, Andrew,
Speaker 2: welcome back. What do you have for me?
Speaker 12: Good morning, Dan Dennett, Thanks for taking my call. We've
Speaker 12: talked about Aaron Rodgers pretty much all week long, but
Speaker 12: I don't really even.
Speaker 13: Think he'll be in camp.
Speaker 12: Before OTA's last year, he had an excuse absence from
Speaker 12: the Jets, so I think that that might already be determined.
Speaker 12: Why would he sign with the team then have all
Speaker 12: the pressure to actually go to all their events before
Speaker 12: the season starts. So that was my thought on that.
Speaker 12: I do have a really quick stat of the day.
Speaker 12: Cade Cunningham joined only two other NBA players in NBA history,
Speaker 12: Oscar Roberson and Luka Doncik, that through their first two
Speaker 12: hundred games, have forty three hundred points one thousand rebounds
Speaker 12: and fourteen hundred desists. That's your stat of the day.
Speaker 4: Woooo, stall of a day, Stall of a day, Statuta day, style.
Speaker 2: Of a day.
Speaker 3: This is the style of the.
Speaker 2: Day watch you by Panini America. Green Bay is seeking
Speaker 2: to amend Rule twelve, Section one of the rule book,
Speaker 2: which pertains to blocking and the use of hands and arms.
Speaker 2: The Packers proposal to prohibit an offensive player from pushing
Speaker 2: a teammate who was lined up directly behind the snap
Speaker 2: and receives the snap immediately at this snap. Yeah, take
Speaker 2: that out. I don't have any problem with that, But
Speaker 2: while it's in, you got to deal with it with
Speaker 2: the Eagles, and they mastered it. Go back to the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills against the Chiefs. Would they have to get
Speaker 2: a yard? If they get the yard, they probably are
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl? Yes, Bohm.
Speaker 6: Do you think the Packers proposal is too targeted at
Speaker 6: the Eagles? What I mean is if they just proposed
Speaker 6: no more pushing any ball carrier anywhere on the field
Speaker 6: back like it was before two thousand and five, it
Speaker 6: would be as pointed at the Eagle success.
Speaker 2: Well, there are times when you'll see a running back
Speaker 2: and he is in a big pile. You know, the
Speaker 2: pile is moving, and then offensive linemen come from behind
Speaker 2: and then start to push him and you might get
Speaker 2: five more yards out of that. I don't know how technical,
Speaker 2: how detailed that the NFL wants to get with this,
Speaker 2: but I would take it out. They don't have injury
Speaker 2: data that backs this up to take it out of
Speaker 2: the game. If they did, then it would be easy.
Speaker 2: They'd just say, hey, you know, it's not a safe play.
Speaker 2: And I you know, when I saw Chris Jones lining
Speaker 2: up trying to stop the Eagles and he's lined up
Speaker 2: to the side and then he hurts his neck, Well,
Speaker 2: doesn't take a genius to realize why he got hurt.
Speaker 2: They just basically used his neck as a turnstile here
Speaker 2: and he got hurt. But it's not one of those
Speaker 2: where they go look at all the data. Man, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of guys getting hurt here. I think
Speaker 2: their feelings are getting hurt. I don't know if that
Speaker 2: shows up on the injury list. Let me go back
Speaker 2: to Joker here. Just got some more stats just because
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson said, you know, he doesn't play defense. He's
Speaker 2: not like Kareem, which he's not. But here's his stat
Speaker 2: for you. Players with six hundred defensive rebounds at least
Speaker 2: one hundred steals in a season since twenty nineteen, those
Speaker 2: would be defensive stats defensive rebounds and steels. Number one
Speaker 2: This year is Joker. Last year was Joker, the year
Speaker 2: before that was Joker. So can we dispel this notion
Speaker 2: that he doesn't play now? Does he play on ball defense?
Speaker 2: Ben Wallace is one of the great defensive players of
Speaker 2: all time. Players would tell you he's not stopping you
Speaker 2: on ball. He was an unbelievable helper. But as far
Speaker 2: as on ball defender, how many great on ball defenders
Speaker 2: are also among the league leaders in scoring. Did anybody
Speaker 2: ever say, you know, but Iverson doesn't play defense. It's silly,
Speaker 2: but this is where we are when it comes to
Speaker 2: arguing these situations. Yes, Marvin, I think the nitpicking. That's
Speaker 2: when you start going to this guy didn't play defense.
Speaker 2: This guy didn't play defense like Iverson. He played the
Speaker 2: passing lianes better than anybody just because he was so quick.
Speaker 5: But he got.
Speaker 14: Burned a ton or people didn't care because he needed
Speaker 14: to score thirty five points a game for the Sixers
Speaker 14: to win, I have.
Speaker 2: A joker needs to score. He needs to have eleven
Speaker 2: assist a game. He needs to have fifteen rebounds a game.
Speaker 2: You have to fill up the categories that your team
Speaker 2: needs you to fill up. Iverson went out there every
Speaker 2: single night, and I have so much respect for you know,
Speaker 2: Kobe and Mike every single night. You got to stop
Speaker 2: me every single night. You're geared to stop me, but
Speaker 2: you're not going to stop me. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think maybe Alan Iverson a little underrated as
Speaker 4: far as defense.
Speaker 3: He is in the Big East.
Speaker 4: He was defensive player of the Year twice as a
Speaker 4: freshman and a sophomore. And then you know, I think steals.
Speaker 4: He led the league in steals a bunch of years too,
Speaker 4: you know, but you just don't think about that part
Speaker 4: of his game. You think about his handles and crossing
Speaker 4: people up.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like Patrick Ewing when he was in college
Speaker 2: was probably only rivaled by Bill Russell. We didn't even
Speaker 2: know if he could hit the fifteen foot jumper because
Speaker 2: John Thompson didn't let him take the fifteenth footter. He
Speaker 2: goes into the NBA, nobody talked about his defense. I
Speaker 2: don't know if he was ever Defensive Player of the
Speaker 2: Year or First Team All Defense, but he was one
Speaker 2: of the greatest defensive players, most intimidating defensive players of
Speaker 2: all time. It's fun but once again, just like sort
Speaker 2: through the clutter. SGA will win the MVP this year
Speaker 2: and good for him. Uh Patrick in Rochester, Good morning Patrick.
Speaker 13: Hi Dan, first time caller, relatively listener as of last year,
Speaker 13: five nine one sixty, big big Syracuse basketball fan. But
Speaker 13: honor the tournament today or with the tournament today. Obviously
Speaker 13: my orange are not in it, but I'm still excited
Speaker 13: to watch. But that takes me to my stat of
Speaker 13: the day, which I would like to request.
Speaker 2: The new cool.
Speaker 13: In the gang likes thatat of the Day song. That's
Speaker 13: really I like that one, So I'd like to request
Speaker 13: that if possible. And my sat of the day is
Speaker 13: that the class the graduating class of twenty twenty five
Speaker 13: at Syracuse will be the first graduating class to never
Speaker 13: see the men's team make the NCAA tournament and they're
Speaker 13: four years there. In nineteen seventy two, you.
Speaker 2: Got a stat of the day, Marvin Day.
Speaker 12: Start of the day, stat of the day.
Speaker 2: Wait, aren't you taking request here?
Speaker 14: No, I couldn't find it. Oh, it wasn't find It
Speaker 14: wasn't on the tip of my well.
Speaker 2: It should be there, it should be loaded, ready to go.
Speaker 2: It's a great.
Speaker 5: So you want to keep that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay O give me Pandora, give me, give me,
Speaker 2: give me a let's set the mood here today.
Speaker 3: See he's stat of the day.
Speaker 2: Stata, j stat of the Jay.
Speaker 3: We love you.
Speaker 2: Stata, the day stand of the j Stanta, the j.
Speaker 4: Oh damn give us stand of the day Stanta, the ja.
Speaker 2: Oh. I find myself singing that occasionally sounds like a
Speaker 2: car breaking down.
Speaker 4: No, I mean no offense to Pandora, of course, no
Speaker 4: offense to Pandora.
Speaker 3: We just it's not it for me.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Sorry, Yes, boy.
Speaker 3: By the way, that's stat that guy gave.
Speaker 6: It's kind of nuts. Half the people who attend Syracuse
Speaker 6: go there for the basketball tickets. I would assume it's
Speaker 6: like if you go to Alabama, you're like, oh, we're
Speaker 6: going to the playoffs. At least every other year. Syracuse
Speaker 6: hasn't made the tourney in four years. That's nuts.
Speaker 2: Are they a football school question? No? No, Jake and
Speaker 2: Mill whoa Jake and Milwaukee. Hi, Jake, Hey.
Speaker 9: Dan, thanks for taking my calls. Probably not the Jake
Speaker 9: and Milwaukee. You're thinking a lot.
Speaker 2: Different. But I have a.
Speaker 9: Question and then also a request, and hopefully Marvin can
Speaker 9: deliver on this one. But so also I am a
Speaker 9: gym teacher, by the way, and kindergarten through eighth grade
Speaker 9: and all my classes. I'll have the projector up. We'll
Speaker 9: be watching the tournament. But my question is, I don't
Speaker 9: know if you saw the Spurs that I'm not even
Speaker 9: gonna try to pronounce his name, the guy who had
Speaker 9: thirty five points in nineteen minutes last night. My question
Speaker 9: is a is that even impressive anymore in today's NBA?
Speaker 9: And then my request is can you go around the
Speaker 9: room and maybe have the Dan at so you can
Speaker 9: pronounce his name the best? But thank you and happy tournament.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank you? I asked Seaton, I said,
Speaker 2: do you know how to pronounce this guy from the
Speaker 2: Spurs name? He went to Seaton Hall, which is your
Speaker 2: favorite college basketball team? Uh? His name? And Seaton goes, yeah, Sandro,
Speaker 2: I said, that's his first name.
Speaker 3: It's actually Sandro Sondra.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Alex Sandro. He had thirty four points in
Speaker 2: under twenty minutes. So I said to Marvin, where have
Speaker 2: I heard the name before? He said, he was the
Speaker 2: Big East player of the year a couple of years
Speaker 2: ago at Seaton Hall. Do you know how to pronounce
Speaker 2: his last name? Marvin, I'll start with you. By the way,
Speaker 2: the spelling is m A m u k e l
Speaker 2: A s h v I l I about.
Speaker 5: I don't even want to disrespect this man right after
Speaker 5: a big night like that.
Speaker 14: My move.
Speaker 5: I'm not even gonna attempt you.
Speaker 2: You're so far. You started out great, Yeah, you'd okay,
Speaker 2: you got the mo Ma ma yep, that's what mark
Speaker 2: mood abdul Rahu.
Speaker 5: That's where I'm gonna stop at.
Speaker 4: The names like that A lot of times, if you
Speaker 4: just follow the way it's set, it's said exactly the
Speaker 4: way it looks.
Speaker 3: I think, Mamu kelishvili.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, hm mamush mamu kelish villi, mamu kelsh villi.
Speaker 2: It's exactly how it looks. You just have to kind
Speaker 2: of like break it down. I think, slow it down, Yeah, Ma, MoU,
Speaker 2: we get down kel Ashvilli. Thirty four points and under
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. Of play is the Spurs beat the Knicks.
Speaker 2: He's the first player in NBA history to score thirty
Speaker 2: four points in under twenty minutes of play. Wow. The
Speaker 2: previous mark was Jalen Brown at thirty three in under
Speaker 2: twenty minutes against the Kavali. Are you trying to tell
Speaker 2: me Wilt Chamberlain never had more than thirty four points
Speaker 2: in twenty minutes of play. Let's get some of our
Speaker 2: best people on that. All right, let me take a break.
Speaker 2: Play of the day up next.
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Speaker 2: Dayt God, this is the play of the day.
Speaker 15: Check this out, you pleas the leabout or Xavier Hick
Speaker 15: guy on the rock left the rights, pulls off the
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Speaker 15: the little U six eleven drafts gutting off the bench,
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Speaker 15: a play to give Xavier at first lead SI ticks.
Speaker 2: Ten to nine. That's courtesy of Westwood One. The Xavier
Speaker 2: bench six for eleven from three point range to help
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Speaker 4: Yeah we got up there. The Brotherly Show Football play
Speaker 4: Rugby play right now? Sixty two percent of the audience
Speaker 4: say it's a rugby play.
Speaker 13: M hmm.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's here for a little while, but
Speaker 2: it still feels like they're I think they're just trying
Speaker 2: to canvass the room to go do I got I
Speaker 2: have a second here? Can somebody help?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: When you're voting and you're at a town hall meeting,
Speaker 2: can I get a second third? You just want to
Speaker 2: build up a little bit of momentum there. John in Rochester, Hi,
Speaker 2: John WIT's on your mind today, Dan.
Speaker 16: What's going on? First time long time sixty one two
Speaker 16: fifty solid solid. I got a comment for you about
Speaker 16: this push push situation.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's happen. Is that your gun?
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, No, listen, you can't outlaw that. You can't
Speaker 16: outlaw this play. The only thing you can do is,
Speaker 16: like you said before, is put a rule in you
Speaker 16: can't aid the runner at any time.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 16: It's a football play. I don't care who you are,
Speaker 16: rugby play, whatever you think it is, stop it. The
Speaker 16: only thing you can do is make a rule you
Speaker 16: cannot physically aid the runner.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 2: But you would be outlawing the rule if you do
Speaker 2: that the play, I mean, you're you're you're essentially taking
Speaker 2: away what is the push tush or tush push?
Speaker 6: Yes, the NFL does this every couple of years. A
Speaker 6: guy jumps over the center. They outlaw that a guy
Speaker 6: hits the long snapper to get in the backfield. They
Speaker 6: outlaw that a guy hits a quarterback at the knees,
Speaker 6: the outlaw of that. The NFL is almost likely to
Speaker 6: do it this.
Speaker 2: But you just mentioned a couple of key things there.
Speaker 2: All defensive players, defensive plays. Ooh, we want to get
Speaker 2: those out of the game. This is an offensive play.
Speaker 15: I like it.
Speaker 2: I mean, once again, it's really simple. Take away the
Speaker 2: blocker from the back and that's it. The meetings for
Speaker 2: the NFL will be March thirtieth through April second at
Speaker 2: Palm Beach, Florida. By the way, let's see what do
Speaker 2: we have here. Oh, I was watching the Dodgers game yesterday.
Speaker 2: Rodney Pete, former USC quarterback, Detroit Lions quarterback, he's at
Speaker 2: the game and he brought his glove with him to Japan,
Speaker 2: and I think he got involved in a foul balls
Speaker 2: like a Bartman situation. Now, I don't know if you know.
Speaker 2: The Japanese media jumped all over this and he has
Speaker 2: to go into hiding. But yes, Todd, it was in
Speaker 2: the sixth.
Speaker 7: Inning and down the third baseline call, Munsey's trying to
Speaker 7: make a catch and there's Rodney Pete in a Dodger's hoodie,
Speaker 7: and according to Munsey, I guess Pete got in the way,
Speaker 7: but we all looked like Munsey didn't catch the ball,
Speaker 7: that he was catchable, and then Pete's glove was like
Speaker 7: under Munsey's glove and kind of bailed Munsey out in
Speaker 7: the way he didn't like keep Munchy from catching the ball.
Speaker 7: And the reason he's there is his son's a clubhouse assistant,
Speaker 7: Rodney Pea's son.
Speaker 5: That's why he's out there in Japan.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes, his son has been with the Dodgers as
Speaker 2: a klubby for quite some time. Great story, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 6: A lot of people were asking that did Roddy Pete
Speaker 6: on a twenty hour flight bring his glove in his
Speaker 6: carry on bag? So Holly Robinson Pete, the actress, she
Speaker 6: said he did not bring the glove. In this section
Speaker 6: on the baselines, there were gloves and helmets for people
Speaker 6: to keep and take like souvenirs. So you got a
Speaker 6: glove at your seat when you entered your seat in
Speaker 6: this section.
Speaker 2: And a helmet. Yes, a lot of people will get
Speaker 2: a protective helmet. Yes.
Speaker 6: In Japan at people up and down the third and
Speaker 6: first baseline wear helmets to protect themselves, even above the
Speaker 6: netting are especially above the netting.
Speaker 2: Us. Okay, all right, so he did not b yog. Okay,
Speaker 2: well the sun probably got him one. Yes, I'm good
Speaker 2: a guess. Let me see Larry and Michigan. Hi, Larry,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 17: Hey, Dan, first time caller, longtime listener sixty one. I
Speaker 17: got a stat about Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans.
Speaker 17: Everybody's feeling great about them this year. Did you know
Speaker 17: that they were the first team to win their conference
Speaker 17: by three or more games without a first or second
Speaker 17: team All Conference performer.
Speaker 2: I did know that, but then I don't have a life.
Speaker 2: But thank you Larry for letting the audience know. Michigan
Speaker 2: State now Michigan State. How many? How many top ten
Speaker 2: draft picks has Michigan State had? Let's take magic out
Speaker 2: of this. There was Greg Kelser. Jay Vincent played there.
Speaker 2: I don't I think he was maybe a top fifteen
Speaker 2: pick by Dallas, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 5: I think Jaron Jackson Junior was the top five pick.
Speaker 2: Third pick overall.
Speaker 6: Maybe, yes, PAULI, Yeah, there is about Sean Respert. He
Speaker 6: was a eighth pick in nineteen ninety five. Johnny Green
Speaker 6: in nineteen fifty nine was a sixth pick.
Speaker 2: Jason Richardson jumping Johnny Green. Johnny Green for the Cincinnati Royals.
Speaker 6: Jason Richards in two thousand and one, fifth pick with
Speaker 6: Golden State. Steve Smith nineteen ninety one was a fifth
Speaker 6: overall pick and like you guys said magic, Greg Kelser,
Speaker 6: Jaron Jackson Jr.
Speaker 2: Okay, all righty Duke in Boise, Hi, Duke, what's on
Speaker 2: your mind? Hey?
Speaker 18: I have a potential poll question for you guys. You know,
Speaker 18: first day of the actual tournament. Jalen Rose. I don't
Speaker 18: know if anyone see him on TNT, but he's got
Speaker 18: the part in his hair that's shaved in. The question
Speaker 18: is did Capital One sponsor that? Did he lose a
Speaker 18: bet like their version of pie to the face or
Speaker 18: is it just an accident? That's all I got.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed wow wow, No, because they did talk to
Speaker 2: him about that little line in his head. I don't
Speaker 2: know her hair. I don't know what it's called, but
Speaker 2: he had some name for it, even shouted out the
Speaker 2: barber I think in Atlanta. I don't think it was
Speaker 2: an accident. I think he's pretty proud of that. Phil
Speaker 2: and Iowa Hi, Phil.
Speaker 16: I guess five was calling in with Sandro's last name pronunciation.
Speaker 12: I believe it's Ma Mukata Javili and also had a
Speaker 12: request for Seaton.
Speaker 2: Can we get to Jamie jossa stat of the day
Speaker 2: Kate Reed dropped every once in a while. Man, we
Speaker 2: haven't heard that one forever. All right, Phil, I'll tell Marvin.
Speaker 2: Let's get on that for next hour. Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't do that anymore, so Marvin will take care
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marvin's at the controls. Blame Marvin. Get an update
Speaker 2: on Aaron Rodgers coming up next hour. More of your
Speaker 2: phone calls as well. One hour in the Books on
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