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Speaker 2: The NFL taking front and center stage from everybody else again.
Speaker 2: The NFL's Christmas decision shoves the NBA aside on its
Speaker 2: showcase day. Keep this in mind, two NFL games on
Speaker 2: Christmas this year. Last Christmas, NFL games got six times
Speaker 2: the viewership of NBA games. So you're going to go
Speaker 2: head to head with the NFL again in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: which is really bad news for the NBA as they
Speaker 2: start negotiations on a new TV deal. That's their signature day,
Speaker 2: that's when the NBA season really starts, Christmas Day, And
Speaker 2: now you're going to kick them to the curb because
Speaker 2: you're going to have the NBA competing with the NFL.
Speaker 2: If you want to say that so kind of difficult. Well,
Speaker 2: when you think about that, I'm not sure if the
Speaker 2: NBA can grab a hold of another holiday. Now they're
Speaker 2: gonna lose Christmas, like Easter. Can you grab a hold
Speaker 2: of Easter and say yeah, we owned Easter? There? Good
Speaker 2: luck with that. Welcome to the program. As you can
Speaker 2: tell already in progress, we'll get phone calls coming up.
Speaker 2: Mike Tannenbaum created some news yesterday. He had his mock draft,
Speaker 2: former front office executive working for the Mothership, and he
Speaker 2: says that we're going to have the first four picks
Speaker 2: be quarterbacks. Now, I'm really curious what Jim Harbaugh is
Speaker 2: going to do because it feels there's so much talent
Speaker 2: out there, and you got Justin Herbert, You've already lost
Speaker 2: your receivers. You got all of those receivers are going
Speaker 2: to be available. They have their pick of any receiver
Speaker 2: right now. If you look at the mock draft and
Speaker 2: it's going to go one, two, three, four quarterback Chargers,
Speaker 2: then on the clock, I get the feeling the Chargers
Speaker 2: are going to go offensive line. And the reason being
Speaker 2: is Jim Harbaugh is going to build this team just
Speaker 2: like he built all of his other teams. He's going
Speaker 2: to build it from the inside out. He's going to
Speaker 2: build it with the offensive line and defensive line. That's
Speaker 2: what he did at Michigan, when he was with the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers, when he was with Stanford, physical teams.
Speaker 2: And I would not be surprised if he zeroes in
Speaker 2: on the tackle from Notre Dame alt who I think
Speaker 2: is six ' nine, like three hundred and twenty five pounds.
Speaker 2: You want to make sure that you are building a
Speaker 2: dominating offensive line, But he can have any of these
Speaker 2: wide receivers. Imagine going in to talk to Justin Herbert say, Justin,
Speaker 2: got good news, man, maybe not such good news. Okay,
Speaker 2: give me the not such good news. We're not going
Speaker 2: to take a wide receiver at number five. What's the
Speaker 2: good news. We're going to give you maybe the best
Speaker 2: offensive lineman in this draft. If I'm a quarterback, I'd
Speaker 2: like to make sure that I have time to throw.
Speaker 2: I might not be throwing to great receivers, but you
Speaker 2: can have great receivers and not have time to throw
Speaker 2: to them. So which one would you rather have?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul, Yeah, if you have a good line, you
Speaker 3: can make an average receiver into a very good receiver.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work the other way around. Harbaugh did like
Speaker 3: ten minutes yesterday during the owner's meetings on the offensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he said it's the only spot on the football
Speaker 3: team that's not dependent on anybody else, and everyone else
Speaker 3: is dependent on it.
Speaker 2: And I thought that that was a take that I
Speaker 2: had not heard before, where he's saying, an offensive lineman
Speaker 2: doesn't need to rely on the quarterback or running back
Speaker 2: or wide receivers. The offensive lineman's job is to block.
Speaker 2: You're not waiting for somebody else. The offensive line is
Speaker 2: a group. They're leaning on each other, but they don't
Speaker 2: require you know, quarterback needs the offensive line to protect you,
Speaker 2: and you've got to have somebody who I can throw
Speaker 2: the ball to. Uh, same thing with any other position
Speaker 2: there you need help from others. Where Hardball is saying,
Speaker 2: just build the offensive line, and I think that's what
Speaker 2: they're probably going to do. I know that they had
Speaker 2: been linked to Brock Bauers, the tight end from Georgia.
Speaker 2: Now I'm seeing him drop down maybe out of the
Speaker 2: top fifteen. You've got probably four or five receivers who
Speaker 2: were first round talents. You're going to have probably six quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Although I got the over under this. According to DraftKings,
Speaker 2: how many quarterbacks will be taken in the first round
Speaker 2: right now, the over is the favorite at plus four
Speaker 2: and a half. Stat of the day stat of the day.
Speaker 2: Stead of the day stat of the.
Speaker 4: Day, here comes that what stat of the day.
Speaker 2: It feels like the obvious is the over if the
Speaker 2: first four picks are going to be quarterback? Are they
Speaker 2: saying then that they're not going to be two other
Speaker 2: quarterbacks taken? So then bow Knicks and Michael Pennix they
Speaker 2: won't so one of those won't be drafted. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I keep waiting to see what Sean Payton does, because
Speaker 2: Sean Payton, if you want to jump up there, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's JJ McCarthy or he'd settle
Speaker 2: for bow Nicks. But Denver, right now, at twelve, they
Speaker 2: got to move up and they know that unless they go, well,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll take Pennix or bow Nicks. Knowing Sean Payton,
Speaker 2: he doesn't. He doesn't draft that way. He doesn't go, well,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll take one or the other. He'll have
Speaker 2: his sights set on one guy. Now the question is
Speaker 2: can you go get him? What's it going to cost?
Speaker 2: The Vikings they need a quarterback as well. But according
Speaker 2: to Mike Tannenbaum his mock draft, he's got the Cardinals
Speaker 2: drafting JJ McCarthy and then trading Kyler Murray to Minnesota,
Speaker 2: which is spicy. Yeah, Paul, what do you think of.
Speaker 5: The Minnesota angle of that? Like as a strategy for
Speaker 5: their franchise.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want Kyler Murray. I just you know,
Speaker 2: he can be talented. I don't know if I think
Speaker 2: he's been so good at football of his life that
Speaker 2: he never put the time in. I don't know if
Speaker 2: now's the time that he starts to do it. Maybe
Speaker 2: he's grown up. But if you said I could have
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy or Drake May on a rookie deal, or
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray, then I would take JJ McCarthy or Drake
Speaker 2: May on a rookie deal. I would take my chances
Speaker 2: with that. I mean, Kyler doesn't stay healthy either. I
Speaker 2: just I think there's a few red flags there. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe Arizona stays at four and then they draft a receiver.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can have anybody you want, which would
Speaker 2: be interesting, but the Chargers at five, Jim Harbo is
Speaker 2: going to have all that talent, skilled position players and
Speaker 2: probably take an offensive lineman. Yeaeston.
Speaker 6: But if you're a player like say Justin Jefferson, Yeah,
Speaker 6: and you're sitting watching, Okay, let's see what we do.
Speaker 6: Are you excited about the possibility of a rookie quarterback
Speaker 6: coming in. I'm definitely not. I already just sat through
Speaker 6: with this dude. Didn't happen. Now, I gotta wait for
Speaker 6: this kid to get up to speed. Why don't you
Speaker 6: get a couple more draft picks?
Speaker 2: But I'm gone I would. I don't think Justin Jefferson
Speaker 2: is going to be there. I think that they'll probably
Speaker 2: because he's gonna be expensive. He's gonna want thirty million dollars.
Speaker 2: Now you can say, well, we're not paying our quarterbacks
Speaker 2: who we can afford to pay him. I get feeling
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson will play, you know, someplace, even just taking
Speaker 2: money out of it. Just from the competitive standpoint. I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to waste another two or three years of
Speaker 2: my life while this dude my career, while this guy's
Speaker 2: getting up to speed.
Speaker 7: Nah.
Speaker 2: I got some other DraftKings prop bets here? What team
Speaker 2: will select JJ McCarthy The Vikings, Vikings are the favorites,
Speaker 2: Bennett's the Giants come out and Patriots? Who's drafting bow Nicks?
Speaker 2: According to DraftKings Tod do you want to guess, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say, bo Nicks? You weren't listening, were you?
Speaker 8: If bo Nicks was.
Speaker 2: Off the board, you weren't listening.
Speaker 8: I was reading a show on.
Speaker 9: Peyton article to see if I could find out more
Speaker 9: about what they're No.
Speaker 2: It was just a you weren't listening. Okay, which team
Speaker 2: will draft bow Knicks? I'm gonna say Denver, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: you can't be in it now because you weren't listening.
Speaker 2: Michael Pennix, Yeah, eleven. Uh it's the Broncos, Vikings Raiders
Speaker 2: and then the Patriots. Uh. The player who will be
Speaker 2: selected number two overall according to DraftKings, Paulie Jayden Daniels, Yes,
Speaker 2: he is the favorite. Then it's Drake May, then it's J. J. McCarthy.
Speaker 5: You know Daniel's pro day is today, not prote a bump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope he rolls left, throws right, sixty yards hot. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know his footwork was a little.
Speaker 6: That's the least things always gone. Wasn't impressed with his
Speaker 6: footwork at least a lot to be desired.
Speaker 2: Well, I heard this yesterday. A friend of mine says, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know you mentioned bo Nix a lot on the show,
Speaker 2: and I go, well, you had a great year. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: question his arm strength and I go, oh, okay, goes
Speaker 2: yeah at a couple balls that fluttered during a Senior
Speaker 2: Bowl practice or something, I went, Okay, how about this
Speaker 2: over underwind totals. This is going to surprise you. I
Speaker 2: got some for you. If I said over under Steelers
Speaker 2: this year, I knew you were going to start there.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to start with you.
Speaker 7: I'm going to say nine and a half. Right, Paulie
Speaker 7: nailed it? Oh Man ten Marvin eight and a half,
Speaker 7: blue bloom. Could this be the first losing season? They're
Speaker 7: just daring, Yes they are. If they want you to
Speaker 7: take that, God, they're just ruthless.
Speaker 2: All right, here's one for you. Here is one for you.
Speaker 2: Over under Falcons. O Nicks call back eleven Paulie over
Speaker 2: under Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 10: According to DraftKings, uh seven and a.
Speaker 2: Half, Marvin six and a half, Todd nine and a half,
Speaker 2: Seating eight and a half, ten and a half.
Speaker 5: Ross is back the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not Russ I had cousins.
Speaker 8: Yeah they're not going eleven and six.
Speaker 2: Uh. I take over under Jets, Paulie.
Speaker 8: Uh uh.
Speaker 2: Eight Marvin nine and a half. Whoo whoo nine and
Speaker 2: a half for the Jets. And of course we are
Speaker 2: required to ask about the Cowboys over under let's not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we have to work them into the show. Twenty seven
Speaker 2: and mandaty Todd over under for the Cowboys this season
Speaker 2: and even ten?
Speaker 10: Right, Paulie uh eleven and a half, Marvin twelve and
Speaker 10: a half, seat ten and one half, Blue Bloop ten
Speaker 10: and a half.
Speaker 2: I would have said eleven and a half. I know,
Speaker 2: I know. How about the Texans? Do they take the
Speaker 2: next big step? Todd? The Texans over underwin total according
Speaker 2: to DraftKings ten and a half, Paulie uh eleven even
Speaker 2: Marvin eleven and a half seat O'Connor.
Speaker 6: Did you want to say ten and a half, nine
Speaker 6: and a half, eight and a half, seven and a half,
Speaker 6: six and a half.
Speaker 2: It's nine and a half. Nailed it, So maybe not
Speaker 2: that big jump that everybody's thinking. Nine and a half.
Speaker 2: How about the Packers over underwind totals? Todd will start
Speaker 2: with you nine and a half alright, Paulie.
Speaker 5: Ten and a half.
Speaker 2: Bloop bloop bloop, Packers with ten and a half. So
Speaker 2: recapping the Falcons, Cowboys and Packers all have over underwind
Speaker 2: totals of ten and a half, the Jets at nine
Speaker 2: and a half, Texans nine and a half and the
Speaker 2: Steelers at eight and a half according to DraftKings. According
Speaker 2: to DraftKings.
Speaker 5: We need these little little noises that we make over here.
Speaker 2: Sounded like a squirrel at a tree. Kurtin Michigan, Good morning, Kurt.
Speaker 2: What's on your mind today?
Speaker 9: Hey? Shout out to Marvin there for getting those stats.
Speaker 11: I think he subscribed to something and is oft time?
Speaker 8: Anyway?
Speaker 9: You mentioned that Belichick might not get another job, and
Speaker 9: I had mentioned to you back when he was letting
Speaker 9: go go for that might be a possibility. I'm just
Speaker 9: curious what may have changed your mind and why.
Speaker 11: He might not get a job again. I'll hang up
Speaker 11: and listen.
Speaker 2: Well, everything got filled up? And do I want to
Speaker 2: turn my team over to somebody that I don't know
Speaker 2: how long he's going to want to coach? Feels like,
Speaker 2: you know, some of his ways are antiquated, and I
Speaker 2: think that you have to factor that in. Plus, is
Speaker 2: he going to get rid of my GM? Is he
Speaker 2: getting I mean how much of a role is he
Speaker 2: going to take? I mean it's it's big to turn
Speaker 2: it over to him. Now. Would I have given him
Speaker 2: the Falcons job? Yes, I would have because you're the
Speaker 2: Falcons and you probably need to have things shaken up
Speaker 2: a little bit there. But you know, Washington, they weren't interested.
Speaker 2: You know, all these other teams they had vacancies. Here's
Speaker 2: the greatest coach of all time, but nobody wanted him.
Speaker 2: There's a reason why. But I don't know if Bill.
Speaker 2: I guess what changed is when Atlanta said no, because
Speaker 2: it felt like, oh that made sense and he could
Speaker 2: go there Arthur Blank, you know, dying to get a
Speaker 2: super Bowl. Now you bring in the guy that gave
Speaker 2: you that heartache. Now you re energize the program. Didn't
Speaker 2: turn out that way obviously, So I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Would I turn it over to Bill depends
Speaker 2: on what kind of team I have, like the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Would I have had Bill come in? I probably would
Speaker 2: because they're missing something and can he give you whatever
Speaker 2: that missing ingredient is that Mike McCarthy's not giving you.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what's the downside. It's another year
Speaker 2: or two that you don't win the Super Bowl. You've
Speaker 2: done that the last thirty years. Here it's just and
Speaker 2: you've got a quarterback in a state of flux here
Speaker 2: with Dak Prescott. Jerry Jones doesn't do well playing poker
Speaker 2: against Dak Prescott's representatives. Dak has done pretty well, so
Speaker 2: now you're going to let him play this out. I
Speaker 2: think that's DAK usually does well here, and maybe they
Speaker 2: win twelve games again and they balance the playoffs early again.
Speaker 2: Paul in Orange County, Hi, Paul, what's on your mind?
Speaker 11: Adpe?
Speaker 12: But thanks you taking my call, your legend, love you,
Speaker 12: Thank you, Paul. So we were we're talking about is
Speaker 12: too much NFL? Yeah, well, we're talking about too much
Speaker 12: NFL right now? Like we got baseball coming up. We
Speaker 12: got a great NBA last night and we and we're yeah, but.
Speaker 2: There was a big development in the NFL the owner's meetings.
Speaker 2: They changed the kickoff Paul.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, but how's that going to really?
Speaker 2: Like when baseball changed the pitch clock, we talked about
Speaker 2: it the entire show. When you couldn't do a shift,
Speaker 2: we talked about that as well. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 2: going out of my way to talk about the NFL,
Speaker 2: but the NFL is making news. I mean, what are
Speaker 2: we talking about with the NBA. Who's going to make
Speaker 2: the play in games, the playing tournament? I mean, okay,
Speaker 2: that's not exciting to me. Uh Demanis Sabonis had another
Speaker 2: double double for fifty five consecutive games. Like Okay, Lakers
Speaker 2: came back from nineteen to beat the Bucks and Lebron
Speaker 2: didn't play. Okay, but you know, Otani has been a
Speaker 2: big story, and you know the NFL with everything that
Speaker 2: they talked about yesterday. Now they're talking about reviewing roughing
Speaker 2: the passer. They're talking about maybe an I in the sky,
Speaker 2: another set of eyes to help the officials. You have
Speaker 2: a sky judge. You have the kickoff that was changed.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have games on Christmas Day. Now it's two games.
Speaker 2: Now you're gonna have Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Okay,
Speaker 2: So that's happened the last two days. I talk a
Speaker 2: lot of NFL. Absolutely, this to me today is warranted.
Speaker 2: Now there's no tournament games going on. Yes Baseball reopens tomorrow. Okay.
Speaker 2: The story is going to be the weather tomorrow. Because
Speaker 2: here it is late March and we're playing baseball. Okay,
Speaker 2: how does Otani look? You know, how does this affect
Speaker 2: him his season? Okay? But you know, I try to
Speaker 2: be fair in what we talk about here. I don't
Speaker 2: go out of my way and go. Got to talk
Speaker 2: Lakers and Cowboys every day. Yes, Mark Zion played again
Speaker 2: last night. Yeah, against Oklahoma City. He's doing he's doing great,
Speaker 2: nine and ten. We're very happy for him.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's not the craziest call though to say, I mean,
Speaker 6: we do have the poll question today.
Speaker 2: Can there be too much NFL?
Speaker 6: And there have been lots of people who pointed out
Speaker 6: that tomorrow's opening day of baseball and the lead topic
Speaker 6: today is an NFL rule change. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 6: mean it does kind of speak to the point of
Speaker 6: maybe there there can be maybe an overwhelming amount of
Speaker 6: NFL coverage.
Speaker 2: Well, we're talking about NFL games. That's the glut that
Speaker 2: you know, Christmas Day two games. Now they're gonna go
Speaker 2: probably to eighteen games. I don't think it was NFL
Speaker 2: coverage as much. It was the NFL games that people
Speaker 2: were talking about. But yeah, is there too much coverage
Speaker 2: with the NFL? Yeah, but I think it warrants it today.
Speaker 2: What's the storyline baseball tomorrow?
Speaker 3: If you just say the phrase opening day, that's a
Speaker 3: vague phrase. There's nothing to talk about. Yeah, we coul
Speaker 3: discuss which teams are good or bad, but there's one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixties three games to do that.
Speaker 2: Anybody got a storyline for tomorrow?
Speaker 6: Seaton, Well, I think if the Mariners bullpen is going
Speaker 6: to hold up early in the season.
Speaker 5: Is tell me something probably where I was going.
Speaker 13: Okay, if the Orioles can do it again like they
Speaker 13: did last season?
Speaker 11: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Okay, Ton, you got a storyline Texas Rangers?
Speaker 8: Are they for real?
Speaker 9: Was that a one hit wonder last year?
Speaker 2: Okay? Wow?
Speaker 6: I mean really Unfortunately, there's still the lead topic for
Speaker 6: baseball is show, Hey, what's going on there? That's by
Speaker 6: far the biggest thing happening. Yeah, by far, or whatever's
Speaker 6: going on with the Union and there big upheaval there,
Speaker 6: but that's not really going to get a lot of.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll take a break. Mike tanneb Let's talk some
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Speaker 2: new kickoff in the NFL and we bring in Mike
Speaker 2: Tannenbaumb the ESPN NFL front Off is Insider. He also
Speaker 2: has a mock draft that just came out yesterday. Let
Speaker 2: me start with a kickoff and as a former executive,
Speaker 2: how does this change your draft philosophy if anything? This year?
Speaker 14: Great question, Dan. You know what's interesting is I think
Speaker 14: we saw the answer yesterday. We saw Corel Patterson be
Speaker 14: reunited with Arthur Smith and Pittsburgh. So I think that's
Speaker 14: a tip of the iceberg. I think we get into
Speaker 14: the third and fourth round and I think we're gonna
Speaker 14: see players that have returnability get the benef of the doubt,
Speaker 14: because make no mistake about the kickoff is back.
Speaker 2: Is it easier or tougher to return a kick for
Speaker 2: a touchdown? Now?
Speaker 14: I think this would be harder. Actually, I think we're
Speaker 14: going to be looking at Dan as really more of
Speaker 14: like a running play where it's gonna be a much
Speaker 14: more compressed area and the blocking. You know it's starting
Speaker 14: at five yards, but that will quickly compress. So you're
Speaker 14: gonna be looking for guys that have quick change of direction,
Speaker 14: ability to break and tackle. I think what we'll see
Speaker 14: is like good kickoff returns. I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 14: see dynamic game changing plays. You only have up to
Speaker 14: two returns back there, so but I think it's a
Speaker 14: material improvement over where we were.
Speaker 2: All Right, run us through your mock draft, so you know.
Speaker 14: The highlights are this. You know I have Caleb Williams,
Speaker 14: I want to Chicago. I have Drake May slightly over
Speaker 14: Jaden Daniels two and three. The interesting thing that drove
Speaker 14: a lot of engagement yesterday is, and to me to
Speaker 14: be candid Dan, this is an easy decision. I'm taking
Speaker 14: JJ McCarthy for the Arizona Cardinals, twenty one years old,
Speaker 14: twenty seven to one as a starter six two two nineteen.
Speaker 14: He's thrown for almost fifty touchdown run for another thousand.
Speaker 14: He has incredible leadership. I've probably been to a dozen
Speaker 14: of their practices over the last few years, countless games.
Speaker 14: He has it all and more importantly, if you and
Speaker 14: I were running a team and I told you we
Speaker 14: could have a twenty one year old JJ McCarthy compared
Speaker 14: to a twenty seven year old Kyle Murray, one guy
Speaker 14: is going to be making twenty seven million dollars more
Speaker 14: than the other. And last year Kyler Murray missed nine
Speaker 14: games hasn't played in a full season since twenty twenty,
Speaker 14: So basically, McCarthy's younger, twenty seven million dollars per year,
Speaker 14: cheaper dan, and more adorable. Why wouldn't we do that?
Speaker 2: Why would Minnesota want to take Kyler Murray?
Speaker 14: Because he's better than Sam Darnold. And when you look
Speaker 14: at Kyler Murray, he's nine years younger than Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 14: And the contract they would be inheriting, including the guaranteed
Speaker 14: money for two years, it's roughly seventy so they're paying
Speaker 14: him thirty five a year. Kirk Cousins is getting forty five.
Speaker 14: So now if I'm the GM of the Vikings, I
Speaker 14: could look at the will family and say, hey, we
Speaker 14: just got nine years younger than Kirk Cousins and ten
Speaker 14: million dollars a year cheaper.
Speaker 2: Give me the quarterback that makes you know us in
Speaker 2: this draft?
Speaker 14: Well, Pennix for one reason. You know he's really talented,
Speaker 14: but you know, missed multiple year season any injuries, a
Speaker 14: couple of acls, a shoulder injury, but in fairness, he's
Speaker 14: played without any injuries the last couple of years at Washington.
Speaker 14: The other one is Jaden Daniels. You know, I see
Speaker 14: herm Edwards all the time at your old place ESPN.
Speaker 14: And Jaden Daniels was one hundred and eighty pound freshman
Speaker 14: at Arizona State, and you know, Dan, the rigors of
Speaker 14: seventeen game season. That would concern me.
Speaker 2: How tough is it for somebody to put on weight
Speaker 2: once they get to the NFL at that position.
Speaker 14: Well, I was to say at the front office, it was.
Speaker 11: Really easy to me.
Speaker 14: I probably led the league and.
Speaker 8: Get weight gain.
Speaker 14: In fact, here's a great story when Bill Belichicks, the
Speaker 14: defensive cooriator of the Jets, and at Scott Pioli, Manginie
Speaker 14: Todd Haley, Charlie Weiss, and we're in his office and
Speaker 14: he's like, hey, we all need to lose weight. I'm
Speaker 14: in debt at the time. I'm paying off my law
Speaker 14: school loan. So I'm like, coach, these thirty pounds fifty
Speaker 14: dollars a week. He's like, that's not enough. And I
Speaker 14: turned to Mangin and I'm like, I'll kind of freaking
Speaker 14: appendage on. I can't afford for more than fifty dollars.
Speaker 14: And this whole legend of us being in the sauna.
Speaker 14: So besides, you know, carb loving, you know, compulsive eating
Speaker 14: front office people. You can actually add good weight at
Speaker 14: the quarterback position in the NFL. You know, you look
Speaker 14: at a guy like Jalen Hurts like he's an NFL body.
Speaker 14: You know, it's the old coach of ourselves. Look from
Speaker 14: the waist down, look at their ass, look at their hips,
Speaker 14: look at their quads. That's how you have sustainability. You know,
Speaker 14: Justin Herbert has it. Certainly again, Jalen Hurts has it.
Speaker 14: But you could ask Cincinnati, you could ask Minnesota, you
Speaker 14: could ask a whole bunch of teams what it's like
Speaker 14: not to have your quarterback. And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 14: Like I think Jaden Daniels is dynamic. He played great
Speaker 14: last year. But Dan, his build does worry me.
Speaker 2: Let me go back to Belichick. Since you know him,
Speaker 2: how do you think he would do as a color
Speaker 2: analyst during a game or say in a studio, you know,
Speaker 2: pre and postgame analyst?
Speaker 14: Shockingly good because it's amazing what he sees that we don't.
Speaker 14: And he has a tremendous sense of humor. I'm just
Speaker 14: telling you, Like you know, he always defined the job
Speaker 14: Dan as like coaching his team, and he felt like
Speaker 14: his approach to the media was like, they're not gonna
Speaker 14: if we win on a stay. If we lose, I'm
Speaker 14: not gonna be here. So the media is irrelevant, and
Speaker 14: he just never thought it was worth the time for
Speaker 14: him to show his personality. I think he would be
Speaker 14: outstanding given his insight, and I'm telling you what, he's
Speaker 14: a lot funnier than you realize.
Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting that it depends on your job title
Speaker 2: how funny you are. If you're a comedian and you
Speaker 2: say something, people automatically laugh. If you're the greatest football
Speaker 2: coach of all time and you say something and everybody laughs.
Speaker 2: Because people might not laugh at Bill Belichick now because
Speaker 2: he doesn't have a job, but when he's a coach
Speaker 2: of the Patriots and you're winning Super Bowls, it's like
Speaker 2: everything he says is, oh my god, it's a side splitting.
Speaker 2: And the number of people who told me, man, he's
Speaker 2: got a great sense of humor, all right, I've never
Speaker 2: seen it, never heard it. But you're saying he would
Speaker 2: be able to unleash that if he was going to
Speaker 2: be in TV.
Speaker 14: Yeah, i'd say it a different way. You can't coach
Speaker 14: at the level he's coached at for forty eight years,
Speaker 14: not to be relatable to a whole disparate group of people,
Speaker 14: from owners, to undirect the free agents to you know,
Speaker 14: equipment people to start. You know, this guy's coached everybody
Speaker 14: under the sun. And I'm not just saying that's a
Speaker 14: sense of humor, but relatability to be able to get
Speaker 14: your message across for almost fifty years, Dan, you really
Speaker 14: need to have people skills that again, most people have
Speaker 14: never seen.
Speaker 2: Mike Tannenbaum is Mac Droham debatable at ESPN dot com
Speaker 2: NFL Front office insider, all right, I have this scenario. Now,
Speaker 2: have a friend who's his scout, and he said he
Speaker 2: thinks Harball is going offensive line because Jim wants to
Speaker 2: once again build his team the way it's Michigan team,
Speaker 2: his Stanford team, his forty nine er team. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: you got the number five pick. You got all of
Speaker 2: this justin Herbert lost all of his receivers. Now you
Speaker 2: can go out and get Marvin Harrison if you want him.
Speaker 2: You can have any receiver. Rock Bowers and my source
Speaker 2: said he sees him taking alt from Notre Dame. What
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 14: One thousand percent agree That's exactly who I have them taking.
Speaker 14: And here's why. The most important sign so far this
Speaker 14: offseason is Saquon Barkley, but not for the reasons people think.
Speaker 14: Jalen Hurts ran the ball four hundred and ninety one
Speaker 14: times Dan over the last few years, most of any quarterback.
Speaker 14: He was hurt last year. Saquon Barkley is going to
Speaker 14: make Jalen Hurts healthy. Jim Harbaugh is going to make
Speaker 14: Justin Herbert healthy. They're going to run the ball. Justin
Speaker 14: Herbert's going to be healthy at the end of the season.
Speaker 14: They're going to be balanced. And Jim has the mindset
Speaker 14: that I with Rex, Like there were points in the
Speaker 14: game where Rex is like, hey, Brian Schoenheimer, I'm telling
Speaker 14: the other team we're going to run the ball, and
Speaker 14: we're still they're not going to stop us. So this
Speaker 14: first pick to be is way more about is it
Speaker 14: a receiver is an offense line? This is who we
Speaker 14: stand for. We're the new Chargers. We're the toughest team
Speaker 14: in the NFL and it starts up front. And ironically,
Speaker 14: I have Joe all going there for the same reasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, would you rather have an all Pro tackle and
Speaker 2: all pro wide receiver.
Speaker 14: Oh the tackle. You know, receivers are just easier to find.
Speaker 14: It's just supplying demand the way seven on seven is
Speaker 14: played at the youth sports level. Now, receivers are coming out,
Speaker 14: and that's why they're going to get, you know, pushed down,
Speaker 14: and they're gonna lose the benefit of doubt. And we're
Speaker 14: going to see you know, quarterbacks and offensive linemen and
Speaker 14: you know, some of these defensive players go probably a
Speaker 14: little bit sooner than they should.
Speaker 2: Why haven't the Bears announced that they're taking Caleb Williams.
Speaker 8: That's a good question.
Speaker 14: I would I would have not left LA without saying, hey,
Speaker 14: here's the playbook, be ready to go, here's the first
Speaker 14: mini camp, and then you know, here's a place to live.
Speaker 14: You know, you got three different places, and let's go.
Speaker 14: I don't know what they're waiting for. They're clearly going
Speaker 14: to take him, and I don't know what the downside
Speaker 14: is to like, let's go, let's let's get this train
Speaker 14: on it.
Speaker 2: I wonder, though, would the NFL suggest encourage the Bears
Speaker 2: to not spoil the draft, like we still have a
Speaker 2: big runway here until that night. Let's leave open the
Speaker 2: possibility you know, because this has been talk show fodder
Speaker 2: of are the Bears going to take Caleb Williams? And
Speaker 2: the longer they wait to not announce they're taking him,
Speaker 2: the more this ramps up again. So maybe the NFL
Speaker 2: says that do have they done that before?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 14: I think there has been like embargoes on when you know,
Speaker 14: different people get information when they can announce it. There's
Speaker 14: obviously massive value that the league sits on. I don't
Speaker 14: know if that really applies to this situation. And even
Speaker 14: if you don't announce it publicly, you know, my expectations
Speaker 14: for him is like from day one as one mini
Speaker 14: camp one like your QB one, and we expect you
Speaker 14: to have a mastery level understand the offense, So start
Speaker 14: studying it right now.
Speaker 2: Good stuff. Did you hear from the Cardinals or Vikings
Speaker 2: after your mock draft?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 14: I heard from a number of friends of the league,
Speaker 14: and you know, some agreed and shocking again not everybody,
Speaker 14: so you know, more work to be done.
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you. Thank you, Mike, all right,
Speaker 2: thanks for having me. That's Mike T Mike Tannenbaum, ESPN,
Speaker 2: NFL front office insider. As mock draft came out, and
Speaker 2: some people probably mocked it. But you know, if you're
Speaker 2: the Cardinals, I mean, if I could get JJ McCarthy
Speaker 2: and put him on a rookie deal, absolutely and move
Speaker 2: on from Kyler Murray. Absolutely, But if I'm the Vikings.
Speaker 2: If I'm the Vikings, I want JJ McCarthy, I don't
Speaker 2: want Kyler Murray. And you have a couple of first
Speaker 2: round picks? Can you go up and get him? But
Speaker 2: then you might be trading with the Cardinals to get
Speaker 2: that opportunity, And I don't know what the Paigeates are
Speaker 2: going to do. Now it's Drake May your quarterback, Jayden
Speaker 2: Daniels or do you need help? Do you trade down?
Speaker 2: Do you get a couple of first round picks? And
Speaker 2: what I'm hearing is two first round picks this year
Speaker 2: and a first round pick next year, and then Minnesota
Speaker 2: might be able to move up to three, so you
Speaker 2: get three first round picks for that third pick overall,
Speaker 2: but you're not even guaranteed Drake May he might go two.
Speaker 2: Do you want Jayden Daniels? Do you want JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 2: And it feels like if the Patriots are taken a quarterback,
Speaker 2: they seem to be split on JJ McCarthy and Drake
Speaker 2: May once again speculation, rumor, innuendo, smoke screens. We've got
Speaker 2: a lot of time before the draft, but it feels
Speaker 2: like the Bears are taking Caleb Williams. Then it gets interesting.
Speaker 2: All right, Well take a break. We'll get to do
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Speaker 2: TMZ is reporting Caitlin Clark has been offered five million
Speaker 2: dollars from ice Cube's Big Three league. Ice Cube said
Speaker 2: we intended the offer to stay private while Caitlin Clark
Speaker 2: plays for the championship, but I won't deny that that's
Speaker 2: now already out there. Big Three made a historic offer
Speaker 2: to Kitlin Clark. Why wouldn't Why wouldn't we? Caitlin is
Speaker 2: a generational athlete who can achieve tremendous success in the
Speaker 2: Big Three? Okay? Can she still play in the WNBA
Speaker 2: to the seasons of the Big Three? In WNBA conflict Pauli.
Speaker 3: The WNBA season begins preseason games May third. She gets
Speaker 3: almost no break Clark and all the draftees. The WNBA
Speaker 3: draft is April fifteenth, training camp for April twenty eighth.
Speaker 3: The playoffs for the WNBA begin on September twenty second
Speaker 3: and end October twentieth, so they pretty much are going
Speaker 3: from the first week of May, possibly till mid September
Speaker 3: early October. The Big Three schedule for this year has
Speaker 3: not been released, but last year their season was from Sunday,
Speaker 3: June twenty fifth, basically five weeks until the end of August,
Speaker 3: so it would conflict a lot.
Speaker 2: Now, five million dollars for one year, it says blockbuster deal, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Five million dollars would be checking. This would be for
Speaker 3: about ten total games of work, including the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Okay, a five million dollar offer, I don't know if
Speaker 2: that could if she would consider it, I mean, I
Speaker 2: would have a reason to watch the Big Three because
Speaker 2: as it is, I mean, I'm still amazed that people
Speaker 2: watch that because they have players playing that I didn't
Speaker 2: want to watch when they were in the NBA. Why
Speaker 2: would I want to watch them in the Big Three.
Speaker 2: But Ice has been a great marketer, and if you
Speaker 2: could get Caitlin Clark and she'd be interested in that
Speaker 2: and still play in the WNBA. They're at least making
Speaker 2: news now because we're talking about the Big Three, and
Speaker 2: that's probably what their goal was. Hey, let's just make
Speaker 2: an offer you worst worst that she could do is
Speaker 2: say no. But we still get people. Oh, the Big
Speaker 2: three old wins it start now? Is Jason Richardson still
Speaker 2: playing or Rashad McCants or some of those guys Marvin looking, Yeah,
Speaker 2: who's the big name in the Big Three?
Speaker 13: When it started, it was guys like Alan Irison in
Speaker 13: a white chocolate Jason Williams yeah, and like Kenyon Martin.
Speaker 13: So guys that really were a big deal in the NBA.
Speaker 13: But now I think it's just guys that they're trying
Speaker 13: to just get one more shot to play competitive basket.
Speaker 2: It feels like Jordan Poole is really close to being
Speaker 2: in the Big Three.
Speaker 1: That is damn.
Speaker 11: That is me.
Speaker 2: That is mean, that is me. Yes, paul I.
Speaker 3: Got a team here last year in the Big Three,
Speaker 3: the three headed monsters. Among the luminaries, Rishard Lewis long
Speaker 3: NBA career, Reggie Evans power forward, he played a long time.
Speaker 3: A lot of the coaches are like Charles Oakley and
Speaker 3: Ice Gervin.
Speaker 2: Well, I'd rather see the coaches play than I would
Speaker 2: the players play. But hey, if you get Caitlin Clark, Okay,
Speaker 2: that sounds great.
Speaker 5: They have a team called the Ballhogs.
Speaker 2: Dam Yeah, that'd be a team I would like un captain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Rick Berry is the coach, is he?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I did?
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know that. Getting a little more awesomer,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mentioned Jim Harbaugh is going to build this
Speaker 2: Charger team like he did as other teams that he's coached,
Speaker 2: and that means the offensive line. He had this to
Speaker 2: say at the NFL Owners Meeting.
Speaker 4: The offensive line to me, is is is important?
Speaker 8: I mean, if I asked you the question of, like,
Speaker 8: what position.
Speaker 4: Group depends on no other position group to be good?
Speaker 4: But every other position group depends on them to be good?
Speaker 4: You know what position group is that offensive line? They're
Speaker 4: ever lying on any other position group to be good.
Speaker 4: They go out there, but yet every other position group
Speaker 4: relies on the offensive line to be good. And then
Speaker 4: the D line they'll like, they'll be the ones that
Speaker 4: argue back. Yeah, we don't, you know, we don't need
Speaker 4: the offensive line to be good.
Speaker 8: Two year do you like, do you like when when the.
Speaker 4: Offense has a twelve play drive and you know that
Speaker 4: the field position.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, okay, you're right.
Speaker 4: You know it's like so, yeah, that's building that, you know,
Speaker 4: building that uh you know, kind of offensive line.
Speaker 8: That's exciting.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 8: I can't wait to can't wait to do that. April. Second,
Speaker 8: let's get a start, let's go, you know, so if
Speaker 8: you feel great at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's been living in an r V
Speaker 2: since he left Michigan.
Speaker 8: That really think.
Speaker 2: I think. I don't know. I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: Joe Madden, but but he's been in an RV. Yeah. See,
Speaker 2: the modern RV is kind of awesome.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 2: It's not roughing it.
Speaker 6: No, No, it's like they cost a gajillion dollars and
Speaker 6: it's like, yeah, look I got these funny lights hung up.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's like a tour bus, a Madden cruiser.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I can see him now. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he is building up JJ McCarthy, so somebody will
Speaker 2: go up. Therefore, four quarterbacks are drafted. Now Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 2: can take whoever he wants to at five. I guess
Speaker 2: if he wants to trade down, but you're he's promoting
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy. What if you did this, which might sound outlandish,
Speaker 2: What if you said to uh Harball, Hey, we'll trade
Speaker 2: you the fourth pick overall. Or let's say you're the
Speaker 2: commanders and the commanders go, Jim, you really love JJ McCarthy, Yes,
Speaker 2: I do. How about we trade you the second pick
Speaker 2: of the draft. You can take JJ, but we would
Speaker 2: like to have Justin Herbert. Just love him. But that
Speaker 2: would be fun if you said to him. If a
Speaker 2: reporter gets that chance and says, hey, Jim, what if
Speaker 2: the commanders give you the second pick overall and they'd
Speaker 2: like Justin Herbert. You get JJ on his rookie deal
Speaker 2: and you can build that team the way you did
Speaker 2: at Michigan. We'll take Justin Herbert that big contract to
Speaker 2: his and then we can give you some draft picks
Speaker 2: down the road. What do you think, Jim? I'd love
Speaker 2: for somebody to ask him, just to hear what he
Speaker 2: would say. Jimmy in Arizona, Hi, Jimmy, what's on your mind?
Speaker 8: Morning?
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