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Speaker 1: We spend a lot of time, too much time talking
Speaker 1: about Dak Prescott. There's some other players, Aj green Yannick
Speaker 1: and Gockway, Chris Jones Kill, Barrett Justin Simmons, and you
Speaker 1: have Dak Prescott in there as well. And we haven't
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Speaker 1: as well. But we'll talk to Florio about that. With
Speaker 1: one month to play with before these franchise players have
Speaker 1: to be can be signed to these long term deals
Speaker 1: one month from today. A couple other things. You had
Speaker 1: golf over the weekend and it was live. It was
Speaker 1: interesting and I know you may not know Daniel Berger
Speaker 1: or Colin Morikawa, but the Charles Schwab Challenge was fun.
Speaker 1: Extra playoff hole there. PGA towards CBS pulled off the broadcast,
Speaker 1: fight the limitations there. Jim Nance did Yeoman's work there
Speaker 1: basically doing the entire broadcast and I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this is going to hold up our interest,
Speaker 1: but right now there was live sports and being able
Speaker 1: to watch it. It was a win for the PGA
Speaker 1: Tour and certainly for Daniel Berger. And as long as
Speaker 1: everyone emerges healthy. It's going to be a victory for
Speaker 1: everybody who hoping for sports to come back. It's kind
Speaker 1: of tricky now because you have certain states saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we're open for business or we're going to have fans.
Speaker 1: The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, says he expects Texas
Speaker 1: college football games to have at least fifty percent attendance.
Speaker 1: Texas reopened amid the COVID nineteen pandemic, and the governor
Speaker 1: says that sports stadiums would be allowed to operate at
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of capacity. He revised that to fifty
Speaker 1: percent just a week later, giving rise to hopes that
Speaker 1: Texas would be given the green light to pull ten
Speaker 1: eventually filled stadiums to capacity this fall. The governor's message
Speaker 1: to the athletic directors was clear. According to a person
Speaker 1: with knowledge of the call, it would take either a
Speaker 1: vaccine or drastic drop in cases for capacity to increase
Speaker 1: beyond fifty percent, and that schools should not count on
Speaker 1: either development by the time the football season starts. There
Speaker 1: was a headline that was attached to Ohio State because
Speaker 1: Ohio State's going to make its football players sign a
Speaker 1: waiver when they come back. I talked to a source
Speaker 1: last night and said that it's not just Ohio State.
Speaker 1: They're going to be other schools that will follow suit
Speaker 1: with this. I don't know how binding it is, legally
Speaker 1: binding it is, but I think this might be just,
Speaker 1: you know, the team's saying, you need to be responsible
Speaker 1: for yourself so you can be responsible to your teammates.
Speaker 1: But I saw where Ohio State had the headline attached
Speaker 1: to it, and then on a little further investigation, I
Speaker 1: was told last night other schools are going to follow
Speaker 1: as well. Talked a little bit about the McGuire Sosa documentary,
Speaker 1: and I think if this was last year at this time,
Speaker 1: we'd probably go, oh, that was pretty good. Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Oh now I realize how big that story was. But
Speaker 1: right now, after the Jordan documentary, even the Lance Armstrong documentary,
Speaker 1: it sort of fell flat because you're going, okay, kind
Speaker 1: of lacked a little meat. There wasn't any video that
Speaker 1: we hadn't seen before. Even sitting down with McGuire and Sosa,
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't forthcoming with anything other than what
Speaker 1: was happening in the moment with the home run chase.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's what they were told maybe that's what
Speaker 1: they said they would agree to. Hey, I'll do it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to make this a steroid fest.
Speaker 1: And Sammy has never acknowledged anything. McGuire at least had
Speaker 1: to sit down with Bob Costas, and you know, he
Speaker 1: came forward and said, you know that he had done steroids.
Speaker 1: I would love to know, and we'll never get this,
Speaker 1: at least probably not in my life time where you
Speaker 1: would have an athlete. I would love for Lance Armstrong
Speaker 1: to say I did this on this day, this amount,
Speaker 1: this is what I did, this is how it helped.
Speaker 1: I injected, somebody injected me. I would just want to
Speaker 1: know what is the difference before and afternoon. I did
Speaker 1: talk to somebody who use steroids playing baseball, and I said,
Speaker 1: what is the feeling like of when you cycle on
Speaker 1: and cycle off? And he's no longer in the game,
Speaker 1: but he talked about how you just get this recovery,
Speaker 1: feel like you can just continue to work out, you
Speaker 1: can continue to play, You're not fatigued, and you obviously
Speaker 1: see that there is more power there, there's more size there.
Speaker 1: But I wondered, what's that like when you inject or
Speaker 1: however you use it, you know, as an immediate and
Speaker 1: he said, no, it's not immediate, but you have this
Speaker 1: ability to be able to play or lift weights, and
Speaker 1: then you know the recuperative powers. He said that that's
Speaker 1: the amazing part of it. And he said, you guys
Speaker 1: would get caught up in you know, the hitters using steroids.
Speaker 1: Pitchers would use steroids so they were able to recover
Speaker 1: and be able to pitch the next day if they
Speaker 1: were a long reliever starters, you know, the recovery part
Speaker 1: of this. But yeah, I was just curious about that.
Speaker 1: But we weren't going to hear that last night with
Speaker 1: McGuire and Sosa. I didn't expect it. I just saw
Speaker 1: sort of the social media backlash, like, went a minute,
Speaker 1: you spend five minutes on steroids here. Well, I think
Speaker 1: basically what that thirty for thirty was is let's just
Speaker 1: open up the scrap book and take a stroll down
Speaker 1: memory lane, because there was nothing salacious in there. But
Speaker 1: this is where America was at the time in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight, and you juxtapose that to Jordan in his
Speaker 1: last year nineteen ninety eight. In fact, yesterday was the
Speaker 1: twenty second anniversary of that shot that last game in
Speaker 1: Salt Lake that was going on. You had all of
Speaker 1: this unrest with the Bulls. They were falling apart. They
Speaker 1: win the title, they're they're going to disband. And you
Speaker 1: had Sosa and McGuire who were on national news when
Speaker 1: they homered. It was national news. When they got to
Speaker 1: sixty home runs, it was a big, big deal. And Jordan,
Speaker 1: I mean it was a wonderful time. You had Cal
Speaker 1: Ripken with his consecutive game streak, which is not exciting,
Speaker 1: but it was impressive and celebrated like it was. It
Speaker 1: was only like he showed up for work, like you
Speaker 1: can't go, hey, honey, come up. Ripkins shown up for work.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I'll be there in a second. Now, he's
Speaker 1: got to get to five five innings and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the only interesting part of that was when he passed
Speaker 1: Luke Aric then it became interesting. But you know, shown
Speaker 1: up for work and going, you know, one for four.
Speaker 1: But the Jordan, you know, documentary and then McGuire and
Speaker 1: I just thought it was sort of flat. It was
Speaker 1: good for people who hadn't seen that because the Jordan
Speaker 1: documentary gave an entire generation, well even more so than
Speaker 1: us and we were right there, you know, front and center,
Speaker 1: and I learned some things from that that I did
Speaker 1: not know or saw things that I did not see,
Speaker 1: certainly the Pippin part of that, you know, the Jerry
Speaker 1: Krause role, and you know, you sort of I remember
Speaker 1: at the time and I was talking to doctor Jack Ramsey,
Speaker 1: God rest his soul, the Hall of Fame coach, and
Speaker 1: we were talking off camera because he was the analyst
Speaker 1: for Sports Center, and I said, Jack, the Bulls will
Speaker 1: not disband, and he was with me. I'd like at
Speaker 1: the time, I knew that there was acrimony, but you
Speaker 1: just kept thinking, well, you can't let this happen. You
Speaker 1: got Phil and Jordan, and then you realize Phil didn't
Speaker 1: want to continue to do it, and Michael wasn't going
Speaker 1: to do it if Phil didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: And then you know, Scottie wanted to be paid, and
Speaker 1: could you trust Rodman to you know, stay on course here,
Speaker 1: and you got Ron Harper a little long in the tooth.
Speaker 1: You did have cou Cook like you started to think
Speaker 1: about these things. In the moment, I was wide eyed
Speaker 1: and naive, I'm going they have to keep this together.
Speaker 1: I was the same. I had the same approach to
Speaker 1: McGuire and Sosa, wide eyed, naive, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: believe what I was seeing, or I didn't want to
Speaker 1: believe what I wasn't seeing, if that makes sense. And
Speaker 1: you know when people bring up, oh, why do you
Speaker 1: focus on steroids? I missed. I missed. It was right
Speaker 1: in front of me. I missed it. And I always
Speaker 1: felt that it was I was doing a disservice to
Speaker 1: the audience if I didn't know or didn't explore. I
Speaker 1: was afraid to explore. And I was around McGuire a
Speaker 1: lot that year, and even at the award shows at
Speaker 1: the SPS, I was around McGuire a lot, and even socially.
Speaker 1: But I said this last hour, and I truly believe.
Speaker 1: I think he got into something and then he didn't
Speaker 1: know how to get out of it. Because you know,
Speaker 1: baseball players have cheated, guys have used steroids, but nobody,
Speaker 1: you know, the national spotlight like the CBS Evening News
Speaker 1: or ABC or Good Morning America. These shows were focused
Speaker 1: on this, and I think McGuire all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: this became so big. Now everybody's looking at you, and
Speaker 1: once they start, they build you up, they tear you down. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the things that they did show last night,
Speaker 1: and again it's just a quick thing when they're talking
Speaker 1: about steroids and andro and stuff like that, and they
Speaker 1: had they showed some interviews with fans, you know, just
Speaker 1: quick snippets, and people would say, I don't care. They're
Speaker 1: not testing for it, so it's not illegal. You know that.
Speaker 1: That is one thing that I think, in hindsight, it's
Speaker 1: tough to recapture that sort of mindset and understanding how
Speaker 1: people felt that, Well, they're not testing for it, so
Speaker 1: it's not illegal, So what's the problem. Yep. And I
Speaker 1: got that whenever I'd bring up Bonds or he never
Speaker 1: tested positive, or Roger Clemmons he never tested positive. Well,
Speaker 1: they weren't testing in two thousand and three. But look,
Speaker 1: I know, we go down this road and it's it's
Speaker 1: if Baseball, the Hall of Fame wants to put these
Speaker 1: guys in, put him in, all right, it's a museum,
Speaker 1: Yeah that tell the story of baseball. Put him in,
Speaker 1: Pete Rose, tell the story of baseball. Put him in.
Speaker 1: He has benefited far more by not being in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. If Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Bonds and Clemmons will care for a little while,
Speaker 1: and then this might be something that you know is
Speaker 1: brought up occasionally. Oh with the Veterans Committee. Put him in.
Speaker 1: You want to put him in, Put him in. You know,
Speaker 1: Sammy Sosa hit over sixty home runs four times. He's
Speaker 1: not getting in the Hall of Fame. McGuire hit just
Speaker 1: under six hundred home runs, right, he's not getting in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. You want to put him in.
Speaker 1: It's a music put him in. But Baseball Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame works with Major League Baseball. They're separate, and the
Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame could put Pete Rose on the
Speaker 1: ballot they wanted to. But I would rather just tell
Speaker 1: the history and back then with McGuire and Sosa, even
Speaker 1: though Sammy's never come clean on anything with this, McGuire has.
Speaker 1: But you want to put him in the whole fame,
Speaker 1: go ahead, tell the story of baseball. Put him in. Yeah, point,
Speaker 1: I've always thought that, and it showed a little bit
Speaker 1: last night the documentary Ken Griffey Junior is one of
Speaker 1: the biggest beneficiaries of the steroid era because he didn't
Speaker 1: hit sixty home runs in two thousand and two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, that's when he kind of cooled off with injuries.
Speaker 1: His best year is Ken Griffey Jr. Ninety seven, fifty six,
Speaker 1: ninety eight, fifty eight or fifty sixty eight, and then
Speaker 1: the injuries and he kind of, and this may sound naive,
Speaker 1: gets left off. The people who we think may have
Speaker 1: done steroids list and we blame his injuries on whatever
Speaker 1: his injuries were. But he's never talked about he's never
Speaker 1: lumped in and because there's never been any proof or
Speaker 1: an alliga, but because he got hurt, he didn't hit
Speaker 1: fifty home runs for the next five seasons. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: problem is if Bonds doesn't hit seventy three, if he
Speaker 1: hit sixty three, we're not as suspicious, Believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get so big, so good, and then you
Speaker 1: don't realize how you look. And you know, whenever you
Speaker 1: cheat on a test. If I was going to look
Speaker 1: at Greg Sliger's paper in chemistry, I had to make
Speaker 1: sure I didn't get a better grade than Greg Sliger.
Speaker 1: I needed an eighty two while he got a ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Nobody was suspicious. But when you go, hey, I got
Speaker 1: a ninety seven two and I sat right next to
Speaker 1: the smartest guy in the room. That's not smart. So
Speaker 1: Bonds was too good at this. And I think McGuire
Speaker 1: got too good at this. Sammy got too good at this.
Speaker 1: It's like, if Brady Anderson doesn't hit fifty home runs,
Speaker 1: nobody's suspicious. If Brady Anderson hits forty two home runs,
Speaker 1: we go okay, all right, man, he had a pretty
Speaker 1: good year. You hit fifty. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: people go, wait what because he didn't come close to
Speaker 1: that after that. You can't get too good at this.
Speaker 1: Yeah it Bonds His seventy three home run season was
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. Now that as impressive as it is.
Speaker 1: Three years later, Bonds hit three sixty two is bad.
Speaker 1: Airmerates three sixty two. He hit forty five home runs,
Speaker 1: which sounds like it's not that much. But he was
Speaker 1: intentionally walked two hundred and thirty two times, most by
Speaker 1: far in baseball hit and that's intentionally walked, not walked right,
Speaker 1: intentionally walked. Yeah, And so that means he removed two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two chances based on his odds per
Speaker 1: home run. He's looking at eighty five home runs if
Speaker 1: he was intentionally walked at a normal rate, Yeah, McClellan.
Speaker 1: Did they intentionally walk him with the bases loaded, yeah,
Speaker 1: Buck Buck Showalter did it. And Showalter won the game,
Speaker 1: and we had him on and he stood by it.
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I'll do it again. You just don't
Speaker 1: realize how good Bonds was. His eye, his ability to
Speaker 1: the I mean, he had such a great eye and
Speaker 1: his ability to hit that ball deep. You know, when
Speaker 1: when it came into the strike zone, he could wait
Speaker 1: for a very last second. I don't know if we've
Speaker 1: ever had anybody who had that. I know people talk
Speaker 1: about Ted Williams very bonds to me with his eye.
Speaker 1: And then you added the power to that, and he
Speaker 1: had that really compact swing and it looked like that
Speaker 1: bat was of thirty three inch or something. He would
Speaker 1: choke up on it a little bit. Man. That was
Speaker 1: that was powerful, powerful great. During the Bulls playoff run
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight, the last eight times in which
Speaker 1: Sosa played a game on the same day as the
Speaker 1: Bulls played a playoff game, Sammy hit a total of
Speaker 1: seven home runs the conference finals. In the finals, it
Speaker 1: was a you're talking about a great time to be
Speaker 1: in a city. You had Jordan ending with the Bulls
Speaker 1: and then you had the Cup. Now the Cubs weren't good,
Speaker 1: but Sammy was Musty TV. He really was pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: Most home runs in a season in baseball history. Players
Speaker 1: not connected with Peeds. This is a John Clark from NBC.
Speaker 1: He's a Philly guy, by the way, Just so to
Speaker 1: give you a hint of where this list came from. Okay,
Speaker 1: Roger Marris, Babe Ruth, Babe, Ruth, Jim Carlos, Stanton, Ryan Howard,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fox, and Hank Greenberg. Right, how do we know
Speaker 1: anybody after Jimmy Fox didn't? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Griffey had fifty six twice. I don't know if Stanton,
Speaker 1: like I'm if he is, I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: he's not. Well, good for you, Ryan Howard, I don't know,
Speaker 1: nobody does us. But you're like, yeah, that guy's gotta
Speaker 1: be on when you see some of that guy's gotta
Speaker 1: be on steroids. I've seen guys. I know a former
Speaker 1: player on steroids and he was thinner than me. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if he weighed two hundred pounds and
Speaker 1: he had a couple of big seasons. Yeah. See. Someone
Speaker 1: on Twitter just asked if nineteen ninety eight is the
Speaker 1: best year in sports ever? Um, what else would be
Speaker 1: in what happened football wise in nineteen ninety eight Broncos Broncos, Falkins.
Speaker 1: Which year do you count the Super Bowl year or
Speaker 1: the season? Um? Well, I don't know. Which was Randy
Speaker 1: Moss's rookie year? That was awesome? I've seen recalled? Is
Speaker 1: that when they went fifteen and one? I think so?
Speaker 1: In the Gary Anderson Missus Chick, we have to check that. Yeah, yes, boy.
Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, you had Villanova winning the title with
Speaker 1: a last second shot with a Jenkins right, Yeah, comes
Speaker 1: down three one to win the World Series. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: had the Cleveland Cavaliers down beat Golden State to win
Speaker 1: the NBA titled lebron It's pretty good. There's a few
Speaker 1: more there. Yeah, we'd have to do some research there.
Speaker 1: The best year in sports at least modern era. Let
Speaker 1: me take a break. Mike Florio was set to join
Speaker 1: us and a few things. Talk to him about this
Speaker 1: initiative to have the NFL re examine the Washington Redskins
Speaker 1: nickname Also, these players have a month signing that franchise tag,
Speaker 1: including Dak Prescott. So we'll talk a little football with
Speaker 1: Mike Hill. Join is coming up next. It's twenty after
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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick should get signed? Is Colin Kaepernick represented by
Speaker 1: Drew Rosenhouse. His football rides. Mike no No Jeff Nally
Speaker 1: represents Colin Kaepernick and has for several years now, but Rosenhouse,
Speaker 1: a prominent agent, spoke to NBC News and shared that opinion.
Speaker 1: And I feel like this time around, more people are
Speaker 1: speaking openly about what the NFL needs to do as
Speaker 1: it relates to Colin Kaepernick, and I think we're just
Speaker 1: waiting to see if one of the the thirty two
Speaker 1: teams will do something, bring him in for a workout,
Speaker 1: negotiate with him on a contract, and maybe add him
Speaker 1: to the roster. Now that the mood seems to be
Speaker 1: a lot different than it was when the blackballing began
Speaker 1: three and a half years ago, do we know if
Speaker 1: Kaepernick wants to play, if he is going to be
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. Definitely wants to play, Definitely willing to
Speaker 1: be a backup. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 1: challenge to work out the right contract because from one perspective,
Speaker 1: you could say, Dan he should just take whatever he
Speaker 1: can get, even if it's the minimum salary. From the
Speaker 1: other perspective, and I think this is part of the
Speaker 1: notion that the pendulum is swinging the other way. You
Speaker 1: put Kaepernick's name and number on an NFL jersey of
Speaker 1: one of the thirty two teams. That jersey probably becomes
Speaker 1: the highest selling jersey immediately coast to coast. That team
Speaker 1: develops a national following. Immediately. You know, teams do the
Speaker 1: hard Knock Show because they want to have a national
Speaker 1: following and it never happens. This is a way if
Speaker 1: you're looking for a national platform, this is the way
Speaker 1: to do it. So there is value in having him
Speaker 1: on the team from a business standpoint, whereas four years
Speaker 1: ago people were afraid to have him on the team
Speaker 1: from a business standpoint. And also, he's going to help
Speaker 1: your team get better. We've looked a lot of the
Speaker 1: depth charts and I start with the Houston Texas. Who
Speaker 1: fits better as the backup to Deshaun Watson given his
Speaker 1: skill set? AJ McCarron or Colin Kaepernick. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: It's a no brainer. It's Kaepernick, not McCarron. I thought
Speaker 1: Kansas City would be a soft landing spot with Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: You know, you got the most secure player in football
Speaker 1: in Patrick Mahomes, and I thought, you know, they just
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. You could bring in Colin Kaepernick,
Speaker 1: and Mahomes would welcome that because some of these quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Russell Wilson welcomed Colin Kaepernick. I just
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of that Pete Carroll story, Mike,
Speaker 1: because why would a coach call Pete Carroll or somebody
Speaker 1: in the front off Pete Carroll didn't spend much time
Speaker 1: with Colin Kaepernick. I'd be calling Jim Harbaugh or Rag
Speaker 1: Roman before I'd be calling Pete Carroll. Explain that to me. Well,
Speaker 1: and Jim Harbaught has said publicly on the record, who's
Speaker 1: on PFT Live and said this a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick will help you win championships with an s,
Speaker 1: not one, but multiple. But he is a guy that
Speaker 1: people should be talking to. And the whole Seahawks thing
Speaker 1: is weird to me. They didn't sign him because they
Speaker 1: regard him as a starter. Well, why did you bring
Speaker 1: him in for a visit then if you were looking
Speaker 1: for a backup when you regard him as a starter.
Speaker 1: He never had to work out with the Seahawks. They
Speaker 1: view him as a starter. I having back in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: they had deeper issues on that team. They had guys
Speaker 1: in that locker room that resented Russell Wilson that maybe
Speaker 1: would have lined up behind Colin Kaepernick if he was
Speaker 1: on the team, and created a problem as to whether
Speaker 1: or not maybe Russell Wilson should be benched for Colin Kaepernick.
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons they steered clear.
Speaker 1: But I even bring him in if that's the case.
Speaker 1: That's what's odd about it. But according to Carroll, somebody's
Speaker 1: doing their due to eligience. Somebody's interested. And I really
Speaker 1: do think that the atmosphere is much different now than
Speaker 1: it was three years ago, and I'd like to thank
Speaker 1: somebody's going to take a step back and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to There may be a segment of the
Speaker 1: fan base it isn't happy about this. Well to hell
Speaker 1: with them. If they want to huff and puff, go ahead.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot more people now who will embrace
Speaker 1: us for giving Colin Kaepernick the chance he's been denied
Speaker 1: for the last three years. I've seen people speculate on
Speaker 1: where Colin Kaepernick could end up. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you caught my interview with Doug Williams, who works
Speaker 1: with the Redskins, and I did say, hey, have you
Speaker 1: guys thought about Colin Kaepernick, and he goes no, because
Speaker 1: of President Trump, the military that's in Washington, DC. And
Speaker 1: you know, now I get to your initiative. Where now
Speaker 1: we're looking at that nickname for you know, Washington's team.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Daniel Snyder would entertain that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it would. Hey, all I can bring
Speaker 1: in Kaepernick, just let me keep my nickname. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how any of this works, but I don't
Speaker 1: put it to any of these owners. What do you
Speaker 1: make of Washington, d C? First of all, with what
Speaker 1: Doug Williams said, Well, I mean if your stunt Colin Kaepernick,
Speaker 1: there's a chance. The first thing he says it is
Speaker 1: introductor press offerences. All right, let's change. I've been waiting
Speaker 1: for somebody in that organization just stand up in this moment. Dan,
Speaker 1: If we are taking a stand against racism in all forms,
Speaker 1: if they are taking down the Christopher Columbus Statue in Richmond, Virginia,
Speaker 1: where the team has its training camp. The conversation has
Speaker 1: expanded beyond racism against Black Americans, Native Americans who were
Speaker 1: shoved out of the way when the Europeans came over
Speaker 1: five hundred plus years ago. Those Native Americans have a
Speaker 1: seat at this table too, And it's astounding to me.
Speaker 1: And we've been pushing this for a week and a
Speaker 1: half now, and I've been hoping and praying that somebody
Speaker 1: will catch onto it and run with it, and somebody
Speaker 1: from within the team. I mean, this is a time
Speaker 1: where it isn't courageous anymore to stand up and say
Speaker 1: the right thing and do the right thing. And I
Speaker 1: just keep waiting for whether it's the co whether it's
Speaker 1: one of the players, whether it's somebody to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're taking a stand against racism. This
Speaker 1: name is a dictionary defined slur. Now's the time to change.
Speaker 1: And I keep waiting and hoping that to make this
Speaker 1: moment complete and to get the NFL a true way
Speaker 1: to impact. You know, it's one thing to issue statements
Speaker 1: and videos and throw money at the problem, and that's fine,
Speaker 1: that's needed, But if you really want to prove that
Speaker 1: things are different, NASCAR gets rid of the Confederate flag,
Speaker 1: the NFL changes the Washington nickname and repairs Colin Kaepernick,
Speaker 1: gets him to where he would be right now if
Speaker 1: he hadn't wrongfully been denied a job the last three
Speaker 1: and a half years. Talking to Mike Florio from Pro
Speaker 1: Football Talk, Baker Mayfield, JJ Watt, Bill O'Brien talking about
Speaker 1: taking a knee here. You know that's why I go
Speaker 1: back to you know you can you kind of snuck
Speaker 1: that in with the Texans might be a great spot here,
Speaker 1: and knowing your relationship with Bill O'Brien, I wonder if
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, a coach, is going to take in you
Speaker 1: got a secure quarterback into Shaun Watson, and you could
Speaker 1: bring in Colin Kaepernick. Man that might be able to
Speaker 1: put a nice little bow on this. Hey Dan, it's
Speaker 1: a no brainer. And I thought of it last week
Speaker 1: when I combined the heartfelt message that Bill O'Brien had
Speaker 1: almost two weeks ago when he first addressed the George
Speaker 1: Floyd murder and his feelings on where things currently standing
Speaker 1: in the country. Bill O'Brien, who's both the coach and
Speaker 1: the GM of the Houston Texas, so he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to say, well, the GM didn't let me sign this guy.
Speaker 1: He has that authority. He attended the George Floyd funeral
Speaker 1: last week in Houston. Cal McNair, the owner of the
Speaker 1: team was there, and that was the moment when Al
Speaker 1: Sharpton said, this isn't about putting Colin Kaepernick back to work,
Speaker 1: is about repairing him. It's very you know, well, the
Speaker 1: best argument now for not signing Colin Kaepernick is, well,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played in three years. Hasn't playing three years
Speaker 1: because you frozen him out for three years. It's not
Speaker 1: his fault. And you mentioned the Chiefs. I mean, if
Speaker 1: Andy Reid is the guy who gave Mike Vick a
Speaker 1: second chance after two years out of football for something
Speaker 1: he did, why not give Colin Kaepernick. I hate to
Speaker 1: even use the word second chance. Second chance implies there's
Speaker 1: a need for a second chance. Why not be the
Speaker 1: one to bring him back after three years and give
Speaker 1: him an opportunity to get to where he otherwise would
Speaker 1: have been after being wrongfully denied employment the last three years.
Speaker 1: And speaking to African American who's still in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and he said last year, until the White Stars get
Speaker 1: behind this, it will not have it won't have the movement,
Speaker 1: the momentum that we need. And now you're talking about
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and J. J. Watt and you know, a
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL who's willing to do this. I
Speaker 1: get the feeling that you might be in the minority.
Speaker 1: If you're not kneeling on game day, what do you
Speaker 1: think is going to happen? And I know we got
Speaker 1: a lot of time before we get to September, but
Speaker 1: what do you think the sidelines are going to look like? Well,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny. Justin Jackson the Chargers last week
Speaker 1: made the comment that there's a chance by the time
Speaker 1: we get to September there will be no need to
Speaker 1: kneel because the change will be happening to the point
Speaker 1: where there isn't the importance to bring attention to the problem.
Speaker 1: But I think, as of right now, based upon where
Speaker 1: we are, based upon where we likely will be in September,
Speaker 1: there will be a lot of people kneeling. And I
Speaker 1: love Baker Mayfield's message because it's the message the NFL
Speaker 1: should have had from day one. I'm doing the right
Speaker 1: thing here, and if I lose fans over it, I
Speaker 1: don't care. The NFL's problem in twenty seventeen is they
Speaker 1: feared that there would be a segment of the fan
Speaker 1: base that would turn away from them and it would
Speaker 1: affect them in the pocketbook, it would affect them in
Speaker 1: the TV ratings, and to a certain extent, the anthem
Speaker 1: controversy did affect the NFL that year. The world is
Speaker 1: different though this time around, and I think the NFL
Speaker 1: needs to go back and throw away the playbook from
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and recognize that. You know what, First of all,
Speaker 1: anybody who does refuse to watch football, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people will say they refuse to watch and still watch,
Speaker 1: But if they are going to turn away from us,
Speaker 1: that's their problem. We don't want their business if that's
Speaker 1: how they think, if they refuse to understand that kneeling
Speaker 1: during the anthem isn't disrespected the flag, the military in
Speaker 1: the country. And secondly, maybe there is a net gain here.
Speaker 1: As I said earlier, we sell jerseys, we sell tickets,
Speaker 1: We develop a national following because we're the ones who
Speaker 1: stood up and did the right thing. NBA season openers
Speaker 1: still on time, but where do we stand with fans
Speaker 1: in the stands? Well, look, Dan, I'm concerned about the
Speaker 1: things that I'm hearing, and I know that the media
Speaker 1: has moved on to a large extent from the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: But when you see the spikes in some of these states,
Speaker 1: and when you see states reopening and nightclubs packed with
Speaker 1: people and no masks in sight. I'm just concerned that
Speaker 1: when we get to September, it's going to be impossible
Speaker 1: to have fans at these games. I just hope that
Speaker 1: they can come up with procedures and protocols that the union,
Speaker 1: the league, the coaches, everybody are on the same page about.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a protocol out there. The Union hasn't
Speaker 1: agreed to it. John Harball was complaining about it last week.
Speaker 1: They got a lot of work to do to come
Speaker 1: up with a system that gets everyone on the same
Speaker 1: page and it keeps the virus off of the playing field,
Speaker 1: out of the locker room and off of the playing field.
Speaker 1: That locker room is usually a petri dish and the
Speaker 1: playing field is worse. And they better have a good plan.
Speaker 1: Are they going to get this thing started? And it's
Speaker 1: going to fall apart by the end of September. NFL
Speaker 1: owners on the clock here for that franchise tag and
Speaker 1: can you see I know that it's been Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: and I know there are other players there in Goquay
Speaker 1: and aj Green here, but it is there, like, the
Speaker 1: worst case scenario for the Cowboys with Dak Prescott is what, Well,
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario is they don't get a deal
Speaker 1: done with him before July fifteen, so they can't do
Speaker 1: a multi year deal for twenty twenty. Then he holds
Speaker 1: out of training camp in the preseason and shows up
Speaker 1: a week before the opener like Levion Bell did three
Speaker 1: years ago, and the Cowboys have to decide we go
Speaker 1: with Andy Dalton who's ready to go, or do we
Speaker 1: go with a guy who's just walked through the door.
Speaker 1: And they don't do that long term deal by July fifteen,
Speaker 1: you've got Dak Prescott on the Kirk Cousins plan, where
Speaker 1: it's thirty one point four million this year, thirty seven
Speaker 1: point eight million next year. Twenty twenty two, it's either
Speaker 1: forty five million if they use the transition tag fifty
Speaker 1: four million if they use the franchise tag. At third
Speaker 1: talk four he walks away into free agency. And see
Speaker 1: that's what this comes down to, Dan. It's a very
Speaker 1: simple analysis. What will the Cowboys offer Dak Prescott to
Speaker 1: give up sixty nine million dollars over the next two
Speaker 1: years plus a shot at free agency like Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: got what will it take to get him to trade
Speaker 1: trade that in? That's the challenge, and that's what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have to answer, and they have to come up
Speaker 1: with enough to get him to trade in what he
Speaker 1: currently has in his hand. Good to talk to you, Mike.
Speaker 1: I hope you're well. We appreciate your time as always.
Speaker 1: All right, Dan snybody, that's Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk Live,
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Speaker 1: We'll give you hours. Let's go around the room. Let's
Speaker 1: take a spin around the room. Back left Todd Best
Speaker 1: and Worst of the weekend by best. The MLB Players
Speaker 1: Association rejecting the league's latest proposal, wanting to know by today,
Speaker 1: supposedly what the game plan will be for season. It'd
Speaker 1: be great to set the schedule and move on already
Speaker 1: from all this my worst. They wait, wait, that's your best,
Speaker 1: that's my best, because now they're forced to move something
Speaker 1: along and stead that day after day after day. If
Speaker 1: they're going to hold to this Monday deadline today, maybe
Speaker 1: we're gonna finally get the commission to say it as
Speaker 1: a season, deal with it, and he have to schedule,
Speaker 1: and then we have to keep talking about if they're
Speaker 1: gonna play, when they're gonna play, how many games? You know,
Speaker 1: this whole thing about baseball and when they're coming back
Speaker 1: and how many games, and maybe it's going to be
Speaker 1: make it the regular season have a little tension, because
Speaker 1: baseball's regular season doesn't have much tension. Usually with individual honors,
Speaker 1: you might have that, but there's just so many games.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna have forty eight or fifty games, then
Speaker 1: you know these games are gonna they're all gonna meet.
Speaker 1: Like you could go into a weekend series and lose
Speaker 1: that and all of a sudden you could be in
Speaker 1: you know, real jeopardy here in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: or you know, when they start the regular season. But
Speaker 1: you know, now you're going to force the players to
Speaker 1: come back. I can't imagine that next negotiating session that
Speaker 1: they have after next season, because it's not going to
Speaker 1: go well at all. The players will not forget this, Yes, Fritzie.
Speaker 1: My worst of the week in the athletics, Sham's Urania
Speaker 1: reporting the NBA Plays Association of the belief no fans
Speaker 1: will be permitted to attend games during the entire twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one season. The thought that they could even have
Speaker 1: this kind of conversation now that we wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to go to any NBA games all next year, it's
Speaker 1: a little disheartened. Yeah. See, I hate when we get
Speaker 1: so far down the road with this because we've done
Speaker 1: that with all of our sports, where we say this
Speaker 1: date and then it's no, it's going to be this date.
Speaker 1: Now we're saying no fans in the stands coming up
Speaker 1: next season college football is bringing fans back in Texas.
Speaker 1: I don't know where we're going to be in three months,
Speaker 1: six months, three weeks. Yes, speak love in BESTU wors
Speaker 1: Best obviously my favorite golf golfer of all time. Daniel
Speaker 1: Berger coming away to win Florida State grad from oh
Speaker 1: don't even try it. Don't try it. I had heard
Speaker 1: of him though, because it don't. Okay. My other sort
Speaker 1: of best worse I watching the NASCAR news guests who
Speaker 1: came in? Our guy Deady Hammond won, Chase Elliott came in, Sorry,
Speaker 1: probably Chase Elliott came in second. What is the deal
Speaker 1: with Chase Elliott? Is his car made with rocket fuel?
Speaker 1: That dude his second, first or third, and he's like
Speaker 1: in the lead late every race. I'd never even heard
Speaker 1: of him till this series, in every race. That's all
Speaker 1: set O'Connor bests. My best of the weekend was Italian
Speaker 1: soccer being back actually vent displayed on Friday, which is
Speaker 1: just one more steps you keep checking off all of
Speaker 1: these leagues coming back, and it feels like there's actually progress,
Speaker 1: whereas here when you're watching the NBA, it feels like
Speaker 1: there's been zero progress in MLB despite the storylines keep
Speaker 1: changing every day, it doesn't actually feel like on Monday
Speaker 1: where any closer to games being played. Premiership comes back Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Is that at twenty first, I think I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: it's this weekend, this all, this weekend, this Wednesday, the
Speaker 1: supposed to start it up. I thought I saw a promo.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, that could be right with Rebecca
Speaker 1: Lowe talking about it coming back all right, chaps. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my best of the weekend, but sort of
Speaker 1: my best worst dish mixed together, because despite on Friday
Speaker 1: it felt like there it's probably gonna be more news
Speaker 1: here on Monday, I don't feel like we're actually any
Speaker 1: closer to games. Paul Yester best the weekend Denny Hamling
Speaker 1: and his fourtieth career win at Homestead, not Homestead fourtieth,
Speaker 1: but his career win and he got at Homestead. Lots
Speaker 1: of weather delays with a NASCAR race. I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: with my daughter as they're showing another delay. My daughter goes,
Speaker 1: I go, she was, why are there so many weather delays.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you know Miami and there's lots of weather,
Speaker 1: And she goes, why don't they race it inside in
Speaker 1: a dome? And I was like, well, I think the
Speaker 1: exhaust would be bad for the fans in the stands.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing there's no physical way. I think there's like
Speaker 1: some race out in Oklahoma, a chili bawl the race indoors,
Speaker 1: but I guess is forty three cars in a dome
Speaker 1: would be bad for the people. Understand probably so probably,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that for a hundred fans maybe,
Speaker 1: like meaning like actual circular fans, not carbon monoxide poisoning
Speaker 1: NASCAR and a dome, if it ever happens. My daughter
Speaker 1: came up with the idea. Will in Chicago joins us
Speaker 1: Hi Will, Hey, Dan, first time, long time? I have
Speaker 1: a best of the weekend. How are you? I graduated
Speaker 1: from law school on Sunday, and my wife put together
Speaker 1: an awesome weekend of socially distant virtual celebrations with some
Speaker 1: of our family and friends. I just wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you the Danets and all the guys in the back
Speaker 1: for everything you guys do to put together the show
Speaker 1: five days a week. I listened on an almost daily
Speaker 1: basis during law school, and you guys certainly kept me sane,
Speaker 1: especially during that first year. Keep up the good work,
Speaker 1: guys in Dan. I hope you never retire, man, Hey Will,
Speaker 1: What what kind of law are you going to practice?
Speaker 1: I'll be in litigation at a firm here in Chicago.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, if if you pass the bar, no
Speaker 1: when you passed the bar, and if you would like
Speaker 1: to be our house legal counsel. Uh you know, pro
Speaker 1: bono of course. Uh, you know, we could have used
Speaker 1: you to go after Tom Brady with the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: shirts there. But just saying, will, if you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to put it on the resume that you
Speaker 1: were a house counsel for the Dan Patrick Show. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll leave that. You talk to your wife,
Speaker 1: tell you, tell your wife you got a John absolutely
Speaker 1: absolutely done. You got it all right? Well, good, thank you, Will.
Speaker 1: I'm as easy. Yeah. Yeah, mclovian was a paralegal. That's
Speaker 1: that's about as close as we've gotten. Yeah. You guys
Speaker 1: asked me some legal questions way above my bay, right,
Speaker 1: Like we kind of like we're bio clerks. And my
Speaker 1: daughter just graduated environmental law. But it feels like when
Speaker 1: somebody graduates law school, you can ask them any question
Speaker 1: that has to do with the law, and my daughter
Speaker 1: will go, that's not my field of expertise. I'm doing
Speaker 1: environmental law. Hey, Grace, I was gonna ask you about
Speaker 1: and then she'll go, I didn't, I don't know about that. Yeah, Polly,
Speaker 1: what is the worst job to have to be bothered
Speaker 1: by neighbors for free? Advice, law degree, doctor, dentist, car mechanic,
Speaker 1: car mechanic, electricians. I think electricians are asked all the
Speaker 1: time like hey, yeah, I got to switch in that.
Speaker 1: That's not even asked for advice, it's can you do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh really just free help, just like straight up free help.
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah. TJ in Texas, Hey TJ, what do
Speaker 1: you have for me? Hey Dan, thanks for taking my
Speaker 1: call again. I just have a worse of the weekend
Speaker 1: and it was that NASCAR Coffinity race on Saturday. Who
Speaker 1: is it? Noah Gregson had like a ten second lead
Speaker 1: with a few lefts to go, there's a spin out
Speaker 1: and then he loses on the restart. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: seem fair. And I just want to give a quick
Speaker 1: shout out to my dad, Antonio and Phoenix. This is
Speaker 1: a way for me and him to bond and UH
Speaker 1: keep in communication. Appreciate it. Thank you to Asshome. Awesome,
Speaker 1: I said, I Assome. I don't know where I came
Speaker 1: up with that accent. No word that's awesome? Is it Friday?
Speaker 1: I don't where did I come up with assome? Girl
Speaker 1: open instead of awesome, smell a shirt. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that awesome. I sent a T shirt. Yeah, they say,
Speaker 1: who does gig him? Uh? Yeah, as nice Assome Brad
Speaker 1: and North Carolina. Hi Brad, what do you have for
Speaker 1: me today? Hey? Hey bro? So uh best of the weekend. Um,
Speaker 1: we just finished up here in North Carolina the Bigger
Speaker 1: Blue Marlind Tournament, one of the most uh prestigious, all
Speaker 1: of his biggest marlin tournaments in the world. And a
Speaker 1: boat pulled into port to fish the tournament called the
Speaker 1: Catch twenty three out of Jupiter, Florida, and they fished
Speaker 1: the tournament, caught a fish, brought it to scales and
Speaker 1: off the boat step. The owner of the boat won,
Speaker 1: Michael James Jordan. So really cool to see him participating
Speaker 1: our sport Worst of the weekend. His four hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three talent fish unfortunately wasn't good enough to crack
Speaker 1: the top three, which pays out. I think the first
Speaker 1: was three point three million. To give you an idea
Speaker 1: of the second place boat one one point one million,
Speaker 1: so high roller that you can imagine with MJ's competitiveness,
Speaker 1: he probably wasn't too thrilled about that. Yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: that picture and so George, I didn't know Jordan's a fisherman,
Speaker 1: and then I mean, that's that's a really serious fisherman.
Speaker 1: Now he had some help there, but pretty cool boat
Speaker 1: had his that tar heel blew on it and it
Speaker 1: said catch twenty three on it. Yeah, blo. Do you
Speaker 1: think Jordan's going on the water yell down at the fish,
Speaker 1: which one of you guys are gonna get in my
Speaker 1: hook today, blowing smoke, talking smack to the fish, raiding them,
Speaker 1: raiding his fellow guys with the in his boat. Just
Speaker 1: what are you guys doing. I'm doing all the work.
Speaker 1: I got into a discussion and I didn't even want to,
Speaker 1: but I you know, he's a musician and he's well known,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna give him credit because he ruined
Speaker 1: my day yesterday. And it's not Darius Rucker, but this guy,
Speaker 1: he said, he's like started talking to Jordan. He goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm listening. You're talking about Jordan all the time and
Speaker 1: blah blah. And you say it's based off you know,
Speaker 1: based on a true story, And I said, I didn't
Speaker 1: say that. Sam Smith said it, you know, the thing
Speaker 1: about Isaiah and the Dream Team, And now you're saying
Speaker 1: he had air sickness, and I go, I'm just and now,
Speaker 1: and then I started probably an hour. I'm into this
Speaker 1: conversation and I'm not gonna let you play guest that music.
Speaker 1: Who knew Vanilla Ice was that? Whoa? How did you guess?
Speaker 1: Brad Paisley, Brad Paisley, Nope, Oh yeah, weekends, I'm off.
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