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Speaker 1: breaking news here. Diana Rassini from the Mothership tweets out
Speaker 1: the Titans are in a difficult position for many reasons.
Speaker 1: The Bills playing next Thursday against the Chiefs. Moving the
Speaker 1: Bills Titans game to Monday seems impossible with his schedule.
Speaker 1: Canceling or forfeiting maybe the only options. That's because another
Speaker 1: unnamed Titans player has tested positive, Albert Breer. He tweets
Speaker 1: purse source Stefan Gilmore. The Patriots came up as one
Speaker 1: of the QB cam Newton's close contacts over the weekend
Speaker 1: to test positive. Patriots flew Newton's close contacts to Kansas
Speaker 1: City separate from the rest of the traveling party. Tom
Speaker 1: Pellisero the NFL network. The only other team league wide
Speaker 1: with a new positive case from Tuesday's round of testing,
Speaker 1: the Raiders, who placed defensive lineman Maurice Hurst on the
Speaker 1: reserve COVID nineteen list on Tuesday. Tom Pellisero also tweets
Speaker 1: the Chiefs who played stuff on Gilmore and the Patriots
Speaker 1: Monday night returned no positive tests from Tuesday's round of testing.
Speaker 1: They're allowed to practice today under the supplemental intensive protocols,
Speaker 1: including mandatory use of PPE by player in practice. Adam
Speaker 1: Schefter tweets out due to the concerning increase of COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen cases and hospitalizations in the Green Bay area and
Speaker 1: across Wisconsin, the Packers have put an indefinite hold hosting
Speaker 1: fans for games this season at Lambeau. Oh. By the way,
Speaker 1: there's a hurricane that is headed into New Orleans. The
Speaker 1: Saints are considering evacuating to Indianapolis on Thursday because of
Speaker 1: Hurricane Delta coming their way. A contingency plan with the
Speaker 1: NFL to play their Monday night game against the Chargers
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Other than that, how's everybody's fantasy team doing? So,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of movement here on what's going on.
Speaker 1: But the big news is a player on the Titans
Speaker 1: has tested positive. This puts Sunday's game between the Bills
Speaker 1: and Titans in jeopardy. Titans were expected to return to
Speaker 1: their facility today, but that can't happen. Now. You had
Speaker 1: the Titans Steelers game that was two undefeated postponed, the
Speaker 1: Titans Bills two undefeated teams that might be postponed. But
Speaker 1: the NFL might be inching a little closer to forfeits here.
Speaker 1: And the response that I use get when people, you know,
Speaker 1: find out a game has been postponed or they're looking
Speaker 1: for alternative plans, is well, why don't they move the
Speaker 1: super Bowl back? They can move the super Bowl back
Speaker 1: if all the other teams in the league are going
Speaker 1: to have an extra week to play a game or
Speaker 1: need an extra week. That's that's the last resort here,
Speaker 1: Because let's say the Titans are going to miss two games,
Speaker 1: three games. I mean, we're only going into Week five.
Speaker 1: Right now, there's going to be more of these. The
Speaker 1: question is your contingency plans. Will it be winning percentage?
Speaker 1: Will everybody play sixteen games? Let's say the Titans, let's
Speaker 1: say the Patriots, they have to move games back or
Speaker 1: they're going to allow them to play. You know, their
Speaker 1: week's fifteen and sixteen. Well, you can't put you can't
Speaker 1: punish the other teams that will play sixteen games. Let's
Speaker 1: say the Kansas City Chiefs have the best record in football,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna wait, and you know there's going to
Speaker 1: be a bye week because they have the best record,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have two extra weeks for the
Speaker 1: Titans to play their games. And let's say the Patriots.
Speaker 1: So now Kansas City is going to wait a month
Speaker 1: to play its first playoff game. This is the information
Speaker 1: I got last night. That's why it's really inconceivable to
Speaker 1: try to move the season back a little bit. If
Speaker 1: there's only a couple of teams, they're going to have
Speaker 1: to make up these games. You run out of weeks,
Speaker 1: and then you might be looking at a forfeit here
Speaker 1: for a team you don't want to get there, but
Speaker 1: you have to have contingency plans with everything that's going on,
Speaker 1: and here we are not knowing when the Titans are
Speaker 1: going to play again. I mean I would find that
Speaker 1: game doubtful on Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. Here we
Speaker 1: are on Wednesday. They already had one game canceled. The
Speaker 1: Patriots had Stephon Gilmore test positive. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: going to be the only person who test positive. If
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's contacts, those he came in contact were on
Speaker 1: one plane, and Stephon Gilmore is on that plane, what
Speaker 1: are the odds he's the only one to emerge as
Speaker 1: a positive here we have phone calls out. We'll see
Speaker 1: if we can move this forward, give you all the
Speaker 1: information possible on this. But some great reporting going on,
Speaker 1: Tom Pelo Sero, Albert Breer, Diana Russini. But we'll come
Speaker 1: up with a poll question here once again. The big
Speaker 1: news though, is you've got a couple of games, at
Speaker 1: least one game that's in jeopardy, and that's Buffalo against
Speaker 1: the Titans. Last night Lakers picked up the victory up
Speaker 1: three games to one. We'll dive into that with Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley coming up. Four baseball games today, Braves Astro's raise
Speaker 1: and Dodgers last night with wins. Has Jim Carlos Stanton's
Speaker 1: home run landed? Yet that is so effortless now, to me,
Speaker 1: the greatest home run hitter of all time is Hank Aaron,
Speaker 1: and Hank Aaron was not a big guy. He didn't
Speaker 1: weigh two hundred pounds. Gian Carlos Stanton looks like he
Speaker 1: could be a tight end in the NFL. He hit
Speaker 1: a home run last night that probably won over five
Speaker 1: hundred feet and he did it with the flick of
Speaker 1: his wrist. This is what Hank Aaron and Mike Schmidt,
Speaker 1: how they used to hit home runs. It was all
Speaker 1: in their wrist. Now these guys now it's different, you know,
Speaker 1: with you know, science, diet, whatever else is thrown in there. Science,
Speaker 1: I know, trying to be nice science, I know that's
Speaker 1: a gentleman's rim, trying to be nice here, science science, science. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Gian Carlos Stanton turned on a pitch and it looked
Speaker 1: like it was just his risk that that flicked it
Speaker 1: and went five hundred feet at least last night. But
Speaker 1: the Yankees ended up losing that game. The Astros looks
Speaker 1: like they're in for maybe a collision course with the
Speaker 1: Yankees the way they're playing so far. The Dodgers picked
Speaker 1: up a victory shutting down the Padres last night. Padres
Speaker 1: had just three hits on the night. Yes, Pauli and
Speaker 1: science for the home run hitters. The Astros had assistance
Speaker 1: back in seventeen anything, well, they might have been using
Speaker 1: science or technology. The technology is what the Astros were using.
Speaker 1: We often throw out the expression defense wins championships. You
Speaker 1: know where I stand on this. I say this in
Speaker 1: every sport. At some point, I don't care how good
Speaker 1: your offense is, It'll come down to a defensive stop.
Speaker 1: We've seen that with the Lakers. The Lakers have a
Speaker 1: very good defense. They've had a good defense all season long.
Speaker 1: Crunch time in the playoffs, half court offense, and you've
Speaker 1: got to play defense. And last night you saw that
Speaker 1: the Lakers show their defense is what makes them a
Speaker 1: special team. Anthony Davis switched on too Jimmy Butler to
Speaker 1: make sure he didn't repeat his Game three triple double performance.
Speaker 1: Ad runner up for the Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: to the Greek Freak was great. You slow down Butler enough.
Speaker 1: The Lakers hold off the heat in a very very
Speaker 1: close quarter. So Butler and the Heat give them credit
Speaker 1: in Game three, but I'm going to give credit to
Speaker 1: La for absorbing that punch and not backing down. They're
Speaker 1: up three game games to one in the series and
Speaker 1: on the brink of a hard fought NBA championship. You know,
Speaker 1: the talk will now be who's going to be the
Speaker 1: MVP if the Lakers win? The Lakers win, will it
Speaker 1: be Anthony Davis, Will it be Lebron James. I would
Speaker 1: still say Lebron James. I've said all along, if Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis is the best player on the floor, the Lakers
Speaker 1: are going to win. And you saw Anthony Davis play
Speaker 1: great defense last night. But this is a Lebron led
Speaker 1: team triple double last night. He built this team, and
Speaker 1: I think he's deferred to Anthony Davis just for a
Speaker 1: confidence level to make it feel like he is the
Speaker 1: best player on the floor. But and I didn't understand
Speaker 1: the lack of urgency with Lebron in the first half,
Speaker 1: And maybe he's pacing himself. I know I said this
Speaker 1: earlier in the bubble and I said, this is the
Speaker 1: first time I can recall Lebron pacing himself, and then
Speaker 1: he went out the next game and had a monster
Speaker 1: triple double. It still feels like he's pacing himself because
Speaker 1: Miami didn't go away last night. Jimmy Butler didn't have
Speaker 1: a great game, but he had a very good game.
Speaker 1: You had some role players who played well last night,
Speaker 1: and here you are on the verge of another NBA Championship.
Speaker 1: But if they're going to give an MVP, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's going to be based off this next game.
Speaker 1: If Anthony Davis does something superhuman, does he win it?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to me. I know it matters to
Speaker 1: a lot of people that Lebron if he wins another MVP,
Speaker 1: that's an MVP on three different teams going to the finals,
Speaker 1: something that's never happened, and I think would be his
Speaker 1: fourth NBA Finals MVP. So historically it's going to mean
Speaker 1: something to somebody, or somebody's going to somehow hold it
Speaker 1: against Lebron if he wins this, and they'll say, yeah,
Speaker 1: but Anthony Davis deserve that, But Lebron Anthony Davis. It'll
Speaker 1: I think Lebron is the favorite in Las Vegas to
Speaker 1: win it. But let's see what happens in that final game,
Speaker 1: and Lebron was great in the fourth quarter when they
Speaker 1: need him, called well, Pope was very good. Roger on Rondo,
Speaker 1: you know, just moments. That's what you want in a
Speaker 1: big you know, you have these spurts there, and Lebron
Speaker 1: played well when he needed to. But he text his
Speaker 1: teammates earlier in the day saying, this is the biggest
Speaker 1: game of his career, which I found interesting because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess he's probably had bigger games in his career,
Speaker 1: like when Cleveland won the NBA Championship. That seems like
Speaker 1: a little bigger game. Maybe that block shot on Andrea
Speaker 1: Gudala Game six against Golden States seemed a little bigger
Speaker 1: than last night. But hey, he's the one taken inventory.
Speaker 1: It's his rolodex of great games of all time. So
Speaker 1: who am I to argue. This program, by the way,
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Speaker 1: question do we have today? Well, I like that question,
Speaker 1: do you think the NFL will play the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: on February seventh as scheduled or move it back? I
Speaker 1: actually threw that up on Dan Patrick to see what
Speaker 1: people would say, Dan Patrick. So if I had to
Speaker 1: bet today, I'm going to say that they still go
Speaker 1: as scheduled on Sunday, February seventh. Everything else has been
Speaker 1: on schedule. The season started on schedule, the draft was
Speaker 1: on schedule. I'm gonna say they'll somehow plow through this.
Speaker 1: Unless it's widespread where you have X number of teams
Speaker 1: that can't play a game, then you'll probably need one
Speaker 1: or two extra weeks to make up all these games.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I got a call into a
Speaker 1: source who's trying to find this out, like this is
Speaker 1: happening right now in real time where they do have
Speaker 1: contingency plans. Now you may have to implement those contingency plans.
Speaker 1: And we haven't even gone into the fifth week of
Speaker 1: the season, so it's crazy. Also, the Washington football team
Speaker 1: will make a quarterback change. According to Ian Rappaport, Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen gets the start versus the Rams, Dwayne Haskins goes
Speaker 1: to the bench. Yes, by that means they're drafting the
Speaker 1: quarterback in the top five picks. I think they were
Speaker 1: drafting a quarterback in you know, Ron Rivera comes in
Speaker 1: and Daniel Snyder wanted them to draft Dwayne Askins, and
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera is probably saying, when I get healthier, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a healthier outlook on my quarterbacking situation. There,
Speaker 1: All right, mcleven, When else do you have? I hesitate
Speaker 1: to bring this up, but you will, okay? Sadly, Eddie
Speaker 1: van Halen passed yesterday? Is there even a poll question?
Speaker 1: Who did you like better, Sammy Hagar or David Lee Roth?
Speaker 1: PAULI shot me, Daddy. He's like, if you ask that,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving the room. Basically, wait, really well, by asking it,
Speaker 1: McClellan puts himself in the position where he's saying that
Speaker 1: van Halen with Sammy Hagar could be considered just as
Speaker 1: good as van Halen David Lee Roth, which is factually wrong.
Speaker 1: It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Yes, see, no offense.
Speaker 1: I like Sammy Hagar personally. Can't we just honor the
Speaker 1: man if it feels a little too soon to do
Speaker 1: David Roth? Sammy Hagar yeah, but they didn't die. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, it's like we're skipping over Eddie and how
Speaker 1: awesome he was by going with these two jokers. But
Speaker 1: I will say the common thread was Eddie van Halen
Speaker 1: with those two and they were different lead singers. David
Speaker 1: Lee Roth. If you didn't have MTV then, I mean
Speaker 1: MTV helped make Van Halen so much larger because you
Speaker 1: saw these videos. I mean, David Lee Roth on MTV
Speaker 1: at the time seemed pretty cool. You watch those videos
Speaker 1: now and you go, Okay, maybe not. And Sammy Hagar,
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard for a new singer to come in.
Speaker 1: Phil Collins did this with Genesis with Peter Gabriel. Maybe
Speaker 1: not to the extent of this, but Phil Collins made
Speaker 1: them far bigger and had a lot of hits. There.
Speaker 1: You had ac DC that, you had the death of
Speaker 1: what Bond Scott and then they had a new lead
Speaker 1: singer came in and they didn't miss a beat there,
Speaker 1: and then you have you know, Van Halen. Yeah. Point,
Speaker 1: they made a lot of money with Sammy Hagar. They
Speaker 1: did not dip that much. I think album sales were
Speaker 1: more with David Lee Roth. According to a few different
Speaker 1: websites I've seen, but they didn't drop off when they
Speaker 1: brought in Sammy Hagar. They had a lot more hits.
Speaker 1: Are we being insensitive? Maybe that's the poor question. Well,
Speaker 1: you can't say who was the greatest rock guitarist of
Speaker 1: all time because it's universally considered Eddie van Halen. Again,
Speaker 1: fact that opinion. I don't know if he's the greatest
Speaker 1: rock guitars. Well, oh see, I knew you're gonna go there,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, Jimmy Page might be like, hold up, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd say that's pretty good. I'd say they're a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of other people. There's there's like four
Speaker 1: ahead or in the same in the they would be
Speaker 1: ahead of Eddie Triumprin. I think Eddie was brilliant, you
Speaker 1: know the fact that he couldn't read music. He built guitars.
Speaker 1: I mean you listened to Van Halen for his guitar,
Speaker 1: and then you would listen for the vocals. How many
Speaker 1: bands do you do that with? You know, AC DC,
Speaker 1: I might listen for Angus Young, but you know Zeppelin.
Speaker 1: You were listening to Jimmy Page with his guitar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could say slash Guns n' roses. I mean, Axel
Speaker 1: is a huge frontman, but you were waiting for the solo. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean is it Jimmie Hendricks and Eric Clapton, right,
Speaker 1: are like that? Yes? And they all worshiped Hendricks, that
Speaker 1: Clapton and Page worshiped him. So I think the fact
Speaker 1: that Hendricks played in London and you had Pete Townsend,
Speaker 1: you had Eric Clapton, I might have Jeff Beck. So
Speaker 1: some of the great guitar players they showed up to
Speaker 1: see Hendricks. That says it all. What about longevity, It's
Speaker 1: like the Frank Gore versus Gale Sayer's argument ary. Well,
Speaker 1: you're right, Hendricks died at twenty seven. But now Eddie
Speaker 1: van Halen is you know, he's one of those geniuses
Speaker 1: and he was an innovator as well. But back to
Speaker 1: the lead singer here with Sammy Hagar and David Lee Ron,
Speaker 1: today's about honoring and supporting Sammy Hagar. Yeah and qual Co.
Speaker 1: All right, let me take a break here, We'll see
Speaker 1: if we can settle on a pole question and we
Speaker 1: will talk to Charles Barkley. Fritzie, can you check you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about reaching out to the NFL. I'm
Speaker 1: trying through my source to find out some of this information.
Speaker 1: Maybe let's hold off because I don't know what the
Speaker 1: exact question is that i'd asked the NFL. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: the NFL is quite busy this morning, quite busy with
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Tennessee Titans, maybe the Patriots. Yes, Ton,
Speaker 1: if we asked the NFL to weigh in an a
Speaker 1: pole question in some way insensitive, I am curious they were,
Speaker 1: Yeah about just say, look, we're always peppering you with
Speaker 1: serious questions. Just you know, let me throw this out.
Speaker 1: Who do you like more, David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar.
Speaker 1: I think it's a reasonable quesh. We'll hang up and listen,
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Speaker 1: Live on the Peacock app How many bands do you
Speaker 1: listen to and listen for the guitar before you do
Speaker 1: the vocals. I always did that with van Halen because
Speaker 1: it got me right away. Like Rush with Neil part
Speaker 1: on drums, you just listen to a certain aspect of
Speaker 1: the band, and Joe Perry with Aerosmith you would just
Speaker 1: hear those riffs in there. But Eddie van Halen was
Speaker 1: one of those musicians where I listened for the guitar
Speaker 1: like that told me everything about this song and then
Speaker 1: if it was Sammy Hagar, David Lee Roth jump it in.
Speaker 1: Tom Pelisero has updated an Ian Rappaport report. The Washington
Speaker 1: football team is going to have Kyle Allen as the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback versus the Rams, so Dwayne Haskin goes to
Speaker 1: the bench. Tom Pellisero then follows that up. Not only
Speaker 1: is Dwayne Haskins not starting, he's not even number two
Speaker 1: on the depth chart. Alex Smith is going to back
Speaker 1: up Kyle Allen against the Rams. I mean, that's an
Speaker 1: unbelievable story that Alex Smith is going to be the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback given everything that he went through with all
Speaker 1: of his surgeries. There McLevin what's the pole question we
Speaker 1: have that we're going to go with today. Okay, I
Speaker 1: actually put up will the Super Bowl go on February
Speaker 1: seventh as scheduled? Right now? Fifty seven percent say no?
Speaker 1: So it's close, all right? Last night with the Lakers winning,
Speaker 1: here is Lebron James talking about going into the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter last night. Oh, we can't do that right now.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll wait until after Charles. I will let
Speaker 1: you hear from Charles or from Lebron James after last
Speaker 1: night's win. Can we bring in Charles? Is he there? Hey? Truck?
Speaker 1: How are you? What's your brother? Is the series over? Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: it's over. It's a rap. Uh. You know what. Listen,
Speaker 1: Miami just underman. You know when Jimmy Butler went crazy
Speaker 1: the other night that extended it one game. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was amazing in Game three. But listen, they're under
Speaker 1: man and it's over. If you could have picked a
Speaker 1: team to face the Lakers, any team in the finals,
Speaker 1: who would you pick to make it a more interesting matchup? Well,
Speaker 1: there was two teams that would have been interesting match up,
Speaker 1: the Clippers and the Milwaukee Bucks. You know, Dan is
Speaker 1: about matchups, you know, listen, Miami supposter out coach Boston
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee. That was all about coaching, But the Clippers
Speaker 1: and the Milwaukee Bucks would have been much tougher matchup.
Speaker 1: When you hear teams that have chemistry problems, like the
Speaker 1: Clippers suddenly had chemistry problems. Did they have chemistry problems
Speaker 1: before they got to the bubble or was it just
Speaker 1: in the bubble that they had chemistry issues? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I hate when I hear that because when they won
Speaker 1: the first round and they were up three one, nobody
Speaker 1: talked about chemistry. I mean, think about that. And they
Speaker 1: won a playoff series and they were three one, double
Speaker 1: digits in games five and six, nobody to talk about chemistry.
Speaker 1: They just didn't play good. You know. Paul George was awful,
Speaker 1: Lou Williams was awful, Montrez Harrow was awful. So they
Speaker 1: just did not play well. So no, they had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with chemistry. That's just bogus. Who's your MVP
Speaker 1: for the NBA Finals? Wow? Well, I think Lebron is
Speaker 1: going to win it. But Ad has been amazing even
Speaker 1: last night watching the game. His defensive like, he made
Speaker 1: some plays in the first half. If people not gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the play on Tyler Hero where he missed
Speaker 1: the leap and then he blocked Kelly o'lanik. He blocked
Speaker 1: him on that play. So listen, Lebron is probably going
Speaker 1: to win it. But listen, let's be realistic. The reason
Speaker 1: they're gonna win the finals because of a D. But Dan,
Speaker 1: we said that six months ago. We said, if a
Speaker 1: D plays like he's capable, the Lakers are gonna win
Speaker 1: the championship. And I'm never gonna say anything bad about Lebrons.
Speaker 1: I got respect and admiration for him. He's an amazing
Speaker 1: player and he's even probably a better man. But they're
Speaker 1: gonna win because of a D. It's Lebron picking his spots.
Speaker 1: It just feels like this is the first time I've
Speaker 1: ever seen him pace himself a little more. Am I
Speaker 1: reading into something too much here? Or are you seeing
Speaker 1: this that maybe Lebron is, you know, at times mortal
Speaker 1: in the NBA? You know, No, I don't know in
Speaker 1: order to write word, but he listen when you have
Speaker 1: after he had listen. They have Jimmy Igu Dollar j
Speaker 1: Crowder who are terrific defenders. But a D has an
Speaker 1: advantage every single night. He reminds me of Dirt Davisky,
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. You know those guys, who do you put
Speaker 1: on a d You can't put a big guy on him,
Speaker 1: you can't put a little guy on him. That's the
Speaker 1: same way I felt about Dirt Davisky and Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: Who do you put on Kevin Durant? You put a
Speaker 1: little guy on him, he's too big. You put a
Speaker 1: big gul on him. He's they're too slow. And that's
Speaker 1: what you get when you get Athterday Davis, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know who you can put on Afterday Davis. There's
Speaker 1: nobody you can put on him where he doesn't have
Speaker 1: an advantage. So Lebron has deferred to him quite a
Speaker 1: bit rightfully so, and that's why they're gonna win the
Speaker 1: championship and you don't have home court. You know, when
Speaker 1: people say, well is this really a championship? In an
Speaker 1: ast I think it's been tougher to win a championship
Speaker 1: this year than it would be if this was just
Speaker 1: a regular season. You know, I don't know about that,
Speaker 1: but I will say I thought that could be an
Speaker 1: asteris that we had, like if if if all the
Speaker 1: great players got the COVID and we had to Sacramento
Speaker 1: Kings against the New York Nickpship. I thought that, I thought,
Speaker 1: I'll give you an asterisk, then I'll give you an
Speaker 1: asterisk there. But you know what, listen, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: so glad you asked me that question, Dan, because man,
Speaker 1: I gotta take my hat off to Adam Silver and
Speaker 1: h first and foremost, but also the medical staff and
Speaker 1: the players. Listen. I was very cynical with this thing.
Speaker 1: First started them like, there's no way they can go
Speaker 1: three months. Yeah, there's no way they can go three
Speaker 1: months and not have an outbreak. They did it, Dan,
Speaker 1: safe thing. They shout out to my boy, John Cooper,
Speaker 1: head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning. He's been my
Speaker 1: boy for a long time. They wanted the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1: I thought it was no way possible for these teams
Speaker 1: to go three months basically without the COVID. So Gary
Speaker 1: Bettman and Hockey and Adam Silver. But I can say
Speaker 1: I get a players a lot of credit too, because
Speaker 1: for us to go, then for us to go. I
Speaker 1: saw one night, we had a guy on the show
Speaker 1: last night, you've been one hundred days in the bubble
Speaker 1: to go three months without any positive test. It's one
Speaker 1: of the most amazing things that I've ever seen. Could
Speaker 1: you have pulled that off if you were a player?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it depends on how good Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think all the players had to, but
Speaker 1: I think it depends on how good the team is.
Speaker 1: Like the good team, you notice anything that really happened.
Speaker 1: The only people were complaining with guys on bad teams
Speaker 1: who were going to be away for a couple of months.
Speaker 1: But man, these players and Adam Silver, the doctors, all
Speaker 1: the people working at the hotels down there, the same thing.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the Seattle Storm of the w NBA.
Speaker 1: I mean, to go three months with I mean, think
Speaker 1: about it. The President of the United States has COVID
Speaker 1: and like he's probably you know, like he probably in
Speaker 1: the safest place he not. But for these players and
Speaker 1: women in the w NBA and the NHA to go
Speaker 1: three months without an outbreak, it's one of the most
Speaker 1: amazing things ever playing and simple. Did you have a
Speaker 1: false positive? No? I was negative. Yeah, yeah, I was negative.
Speaker 1: But you know, hey, man, I want to give my
Speaker 1: thoughts and thoughts out there to everybody who had the
Speaker 1: disease and listen. And also I want to bless them
Speaker 1: if you lost somebody to bless them. But the man,
Speaker 1: I just want to think about all the people out
Speaker 1: there who lost their job doing this pandemic. Then you know,
Speaker 1: this has been like the craziest thing in our lifetime,
Speaker 1: and there's so many people who lost their job and
Speaker 1: never gonna get it back. So I feel bad for
Speaker 1: those people because like, we're in a crazy time right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, and we don't even know. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: been talking to TNT. We don't even know when the
Speaker 1: NBA gonna start again. It's crazy right now our world
Speaker 1: we're living in. Yeah, we're probably looking at the end
Speaker 1: of January February, but you know, training camp would be
Speaker 1: starting now in a normal year. We're talking to Charles Barkley,
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer, Doc Rivers to Philly. What do
Speaker 1: you think, Well, it's gonna pan on. Joel and Ben.
Speaker 1: Those guys got to get this crap together. I like
Speaker 1: both of them as people, but it's time for them
Speaker 1: to grow up and be a Listen, right now, they're
Speaker 1: all stars. It's time for them to be superstars. You know,
Speaker 1: Ben's listen, we gotta make sure Joel's got to get
Speaker 1: in shape. You know, Dan, we give you one hundred
Speaker 1: and six or seven million dollars, we shouldn't be worried
Speaker 1: about your conditioning. Would you trade one of those two?
Speaker 1: I would not right now, but we still shouldn't be one.
Speaker 1: If a guy can shoot, or guy's gonna get in shape,
Speaker 1: if I just gave him one hundred and seventy million
Speaker 1: dollars the last two years, there's time for them to
Speaker 1: grow up and be better than all Stars because they
Speaker 1: got so much talent and they really nice kids, both
Speaker 1: of but it's time for them to grow up. They
Speaker 1: just got their coach fired. Now they got another coach,
Speaker 1: you know. And listen, if I was those two guys,
Speaker 1: you know, Dan, I got one coach fired, and I
Speaker 1: was embarrassed. I mean, we had a bad team, but
Speaker 1: as a great player, I was embarrassed because I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I just gotta got fired. I got the assistance fired.
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed, and I hope those two guys like,
Speaker 1: you know, man, I just gotta got fired. That's embarrassing,
Speaker 1: And I hope they grow up and it's time for them.
Speaker 1: They're in the prime of their career. It's time for
Speaker 1: them to grow up and be dominant. Does another title
Speaker 1: change where Lebron is all time? Well, moving closer to Kobe. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna say anything bad about Lebron. I think
Speaker 1: one another time to move him closer to Kobe. But
Speaker 1: he's amazing, nothing but respect. But I think I got
Speaker 1: him six on my lift excuse me, seventh, right behind Kobe.
Speaker 1: So I think if he wins, I think he wins
Speaker 1: two mobile, I would move him ahead of Kobe, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, but just moved him a lot
Speaker 1: closer to Kobe and my just on my list in
Speaker 1: my personal opinion. So not even in the top five
Speaker 1: all time. He's seven, Dan, Yeah, I know, I just
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I wanted to ask the question because
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised that he's not even in your top
Speaker 1: five all time. I got a number seven behind Kobe
Speaker 1: Brown when he wins. When he wins this year, you
Speaker 1: know I had to move him a lot closer. I mean, Dan,
Speaker 1: he is playing with Anthony Davis. Yeah, most great players
Speaker 1: played with great players. Yes, you are correct, but the
Speaker 1: difference is I've always believed that Lebron manufactor when he
Speaker 1: went to Miami and got Dwayne and Chris, and then
Speaker 1: when he went to the Lake, he you know, once
Speaker 1: ethnic David signed with Clutch Boors, you knew it was
Speaker 1: just a matter of time before he came to the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So let me say, I'm never gonna say something bad
Speaker 1: about Lebron, but you do have to factor in he
Speaker 1: does manufactor his teams where they become really good quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we've seen that with great players like who, like
Speaker 1: who that have manufactured their teams like who, Well, Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant died, that's why he was He got on my list.
Speaker 1: But Steph Curry got credit for a title and Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant came there, so nobody said, boy, you can't give
Speaker 1: Steph that one title. It was Steph one one before
Speaker 1: before KD came. That's true, but that doesn't mean we're
Speaker 1: not gonna take away that title. And also manufactured, that's
Speaker 1: a manufactured line up. But but but I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: move him up on the list because those two with
Speaker 1: KD are manufactured. That I'm gonna tell you something. As
Speaker 1: much as I like KD, I haven't moved him up
Speaker 1: because he is was manufactured. Also, But you look at
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics with Bill Russell. None of those guys
Speaker 1: left the team. Like nobody had free agency. You couldn't leave.
Speaker 1: So you had a lineup of what do they have?
Speaker 1: Eight Hall of Famers and a Hall of Fame coach
Speaker 1: and Bill Russell. You're not factoring that in. These guys
Speaker 1: couldn't leave. Yeah, but none of those other guys on
Speaker 1: my list on the Bill Russell's on my list. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but these are all Hall of famers. Bill Russell played
Speaker 1: with eight or seven Hall of Famers in Atlanta. And No,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, but I don't count those other guys.
Speaker 1: They're bus riders, Dan, They're not buzz drivers. The only
Speaker 1: person on that team, the only person on that team
Speaker 1: that I'm putting on my list, is Bill Russell. Those
Speaker 1: other guys are they're they're buzz riders. They're not bus drivers.
Speaker 1: Listen when I'm talking about my rust Mount, my Mount,
Speaker 1: Russmore and Lebron's on that you have to be a
Speaker 1: bus driver, you can't be a buzz rider. Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: is still a buzz rider until he wins one in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, I have no idea
Speaker 1: what the hell going on? I was gonna bring that
Speaker 1: up to you when Kyrie says, we don't really have
Speaker 1: a head coach. Some nice it'll be me, sometimes it'll
Speaker 1: be KD and sometimes it'll be Steve Nash. Boy, Hey damn.
Speaker 1: First of all, he did not say Steve Nash. He
Speaker 1: said sometimes he went to be a sistant assistant. You
Speaker 1: know that that was one of the craziest things I've
Speaker 1: ever heard on NBA players say I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I mean that that was fled out crazy. And you
Speaker 1: know what, I think it's gonna be fascinating watching those guys,
Speaker 1: especially in New York. And I don't say a good
Speaker 1: fascinating or a bad fascinating, though I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a bad fascination. I don't think either one of
Speaker 1: those guys. They're lucky they don't play for the Knicks,
Speaker 1: but I think because they're so high profile and all
Speaker 1: the stuff that Kyrie has said the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get to sit the same media
Speaker 1: attention that the Knicks get. And I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fascinating. And I can't wait to watch how you
Speaker 1: doing on the NFL games. You know, it's been very
Speaker 1: difficult to bet, to be honest with you, Dan, because
Speaker 1: they've taken away to home field. I tell people home
Speaker 1: field first of all, home home court. Home field always
Speaker 1: means something in sports, but I think it means a
Speaker 1: lot more in college football and pro football. So I
Speaker 1: have had a tough time trying to figure out, especially
Speaker 1: with no preseason games. So I think we're still in
Speaker 1: the preseason. But I'm having a difficult time betting on
Speaker 1: games because there's no home field advantage anymore. Out one
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, Army versus the Citadel take Army first
Speaker 1: half cover? Are you crazy? Yes, listen, I'm not betting
Speaker 1: on Army against Citadel. Please stop. Wait, do you want
Speaker 1: to make money or like, why do you bet? I
Speaker 1: bet to make money? Okay, and you haven't made money? Well,
Speaker 1: because well, actually I am. I didn't bet. I did
Speaker 1: not bet the first two weeks because I wanted to
Speaker 1: see some games. Right now, I think I'm six and
Speaker 1: two for the season. I did not bet until the
Speaker 1: week three, so I'm six and two, so I'm up
Speaker 1: four games. Yeah. Every Super Bowl I always say, just
Speaker 1: give me your money and then I'll hold on to
Speaker 1: it and then you won't lose it. Well, what was
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl last year? The Kansas City Chiefs. I
Speaker 1: won last year. The only time i've in the last
Speaker 1: three or four years was those Atlanta Falcons, the Alatta Falcons.
Speaker 1: What they've done in the Super Bowl and what they
Speaker 1: did against the Cowboys or two of the biggest choke
Speaker 1: jobs in the history of civilization. What would you have
Speaker 1: won if the Falcons won the Super Bowl? One hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I bet one hundred thousand dollars on them,
Speaker 1: and they listen, let me tell you something. I was
Speaker 1: drunk at halftime shots. Hey, I was up twenty eight
Speaker 1: to three. I was feeling it. And then one of
Speaker 1: my friends, Roy Greene, says, you know, man, the game
Speaker 1: down over here, as do We're up twenty eight. And
Speaker 1: then he says, no, man, the Falcons are playing not
Speaker 1: to lose. They're trying to walk the ball up and
Speaker 1: down the court to let the shot clock go down.
Speaker 1: And he was a hundred percent correct. And as soon
Speaker 1: as Brady got the ball for the last time, you
Speaker 1: knew it was over. You knew it was over. Damn
Speaker 1: and and and and when they when they had the
Speaker 1: ball and on the first play, they got sacked and
Speaker 1: New Yeland called the timer. All they have to do
Speaker 1: is run the ball three times. Mcdowe, England, use up there,
Speaker 1: three time out, kick a field, go the game is over.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan, that was that was so heartbreaking. That
Speaker 1: was heartbreaking. Well at least you did you sober up
Speaker 1: in the second half. Well, no, I just got drunk.
Speaker 1: That's one thing about about gambling. You drink when you're
Speaker 1: gonna win lose. Uh. Good to talk to you. Glad
Speaker 1: you're safe. Tell the boys T and T. We said
Speaker 1: hello and thanks for joining us. All right, man, hey,
Speaker 1: keep up the great work. I am officially on vacation now,
Speaker 1: so I'm head to the desert to play golf for
Speaker 1: the next Uh, whenever they start again, come on out
Speaker 1: and getting me do the show from my house. I
Speaker 1: told you we we won too. We'd have to have
Speaker 1: some some safety protocols to get to the compound, but
Speaker 1: you know we'd love to do that, all right, I
Speaker 1: mean it. Thank you, buddy. That's Charles Barkley, Hall of Famer.
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Speaker 1: hear from Lebron James. This is what he had to
Speaker 1: say about the Lakers going into the fourth quarter last night.
Speaker 1: I think the fourth quarter obviously is winning time. You
Speaker 1: got twelve minutes to buckle down defensively with the lead,
Speaker 1: try to hold that lead, and then you have to
Speaker 1: execute offensively. You know, obviously didn't know the statu you know,
Speaker 1: coming into tonight, But for us, that's that's just a mindset.
Speaker 1: You know, we got twelve minutes and if we have
Speaker 1: the lead, it's our job to outscore an opponent or
Speaker 1: hold them till less points as us. All Right, So
Speaker 1: now you have Friday night as they try to close
Speaker 1: out the Miami Heat, and I expect the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: to play well. I don't think this is going to
Speaker 1: be one of those Hey, we know we're not going
Speaker 1: to win this championship and we're gonnall it in. It's
Speaker 1: just not who that team is. And Jimmy Butter won't
Speaker 1: allow that to happen. Tie in New York joints as
Speaker 1: Ty woulds on your mind today, Dan Patrick thinks a
Speaker 1: lot so so I think lebron sent that text simply
Speaker 1: to set the table right now. They Lakers want to
Speaker 1: apply the knockout blow to the Heat, and Lebronos also
Speaker 1: understands that, you know, Kobe passed away this past year
Speaker 1: and the Lakers were in the toilet at one point,
Speaker 1: I say the last five years for five years, last
Speaker 1: thing hypothetical highway from mc mclovin, Uh, Chris Paul for
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. Chris Paul for Ben Simmons. If I'm Philadelphia now, yeah, McLevin,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul. Money is so huge that it's weird. It's
Speaker 1: forty some million dollars and the age, and you're hearing
Speaker 1: that the New York Knicks could be interested in Chris Paul.
Speaker 1: That's not the direction you want to go in. You
Speaker 1: add Chris Paul when that's the final piece, like Milwaukee
Speaker 1: adding Chris Paul. Then that's a difference maker. The Knicks
Speaker 1: aren't ready to win now, well, they may not be
Speaker 1: ready to win anytime soon. They're also talking about Victor
Speaker 1: Oladipo with the Knicks. That wouldn't be a wise decision either,
Speaker 1: because he's been injury prone. As much as I like him,
Speaker 1: but go on to the Knicks. It always feels like
Speaker 1: when the Knicks are interested in you, it's the wrong
Speaker 1: time for them to be interested in you. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 1: These are classic Nick acquisitions. An older, very very expensive
Speaker 1: player or a young star whose best years maybe behind
Speaker 1: them because of injuries. That's Nicks. Lebron is one of
Speaker 1: four players to have won Finals MVP three times. Magic
Speaker 1: did it, Check did it. Tim Duncan did it. Of course,
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan did it six times. You start to look
Speaker 1: at the stats here during the NBA Finals through four games,
Speaker 1: Lebron's averaging more points, He's averaging more rebounds, he's averaging
Speaker 1: more assists. Anthony Davis shooting better from the floor, better
Speaker 1: from three point range, better from the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Steals are about the same, and he's got seven blocks
Speaker 1: to Lebron's three. I'm gonna guess Lebron is going to
Speaker 1: win this because I think that there was some sensitivity
Speaker 1: of how much I guess, how much love the Greek
Speaker 1: Freak got during the regular season for MVP, and Lebron
Speaker 1: was sort of an afterthought, and I thought he deserved
Speaker 1: more consideration. Greek Freak, you can give it to him.
Speaker 1: He had an unbelievable year, got better, His team was
Speaker 1: great as well. Lebron was a unique story. Now you
Speaker 1: take that and then you put him in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: he plays well, they win again, and I think that
Speaker 1: the voters are probably going to look at Lebron differently
Speaker 1: because if you said, who's the MVP of the NBA
Speaker 1: this year, let's take away the regular season and just
Speaker 1: make it all inclusive, is going to be your mvpick.
Speaker 1: And I think that he deserves the MVP in the finals.
Speaker 1: And unless he comes out and he doesn't do much
Speaker 1: and they clinch it and Ad has a wonderful game,
Speaker 1: then maybe he can steal it from Lebron. But I
Speaker 1: think Lebron, because of what happened during the regular season
Speaker 1: or what didn't happen, is going to win the finals mvpick.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to Lane Kiffin, the Mississippi head
Speaker 1: football coach. He's got Alabama coming up this weekend, and
Speaker 1: we're keeping an eye on everything going on with the NFL.
Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, another Titans player has tested positive,
Speaker 1: so you have that Bill's Titans game in serious jeopardy.
Speaker 1: Titans were expected to return to their facility today. That
Speaker 1: can't happen now. I don't know when they can come back,
Speaker 1: but they're on the clock. You know, the game against
Speaker 1: the Steelers was postpone. Can you postpone another game as well?
Speaker 1: Stephan Gilmour tested positive on Tuesday. Not sure if any
Speaker 1: other Patriot players have or will Patriots have the Broncos
Speaker 1: on Sunday one Hour of the Books. Two more to
Speaker 1: go here on The Dan Patrick Show.