Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 1: Meet Friday, we got a headline with the downloads Cowboys
Speaker 1: from Adam Schefter. The Cowboys likely in parentheses to release
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper by the start of the new league year.
Speaker 1: Per league sources, Cooper is due twenty million dollars in
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed money on the fifth day of the new
Speaker 1: league year, March twentieth. Boy, we didn't see that one coming,
Speaker 1: did we, When we went they're going to pay Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper that kind of money. I wonder what Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: thinks about this right now, But then Dak may say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess this is what happens when you get paid
Speaker 1: forty million dollars. Maybe cut a running back. Marie Cooper
Speaker 1: the value to Dak Prescott. What kind of stats did
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper have last year? Paulling Dan in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: he played all sixteen I played in fifteen games, almost
Speaker 1: all sixteen games. He had ninety two catches, eleven hundred yards,
Speaker 1: five touchhows real nice numbers last year, and fourteen starts,
Speaker 1: sixty eight catches, eight hundred and sixty five yards eight touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He was down a bit. Yeah that's not worth twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars, but so likely to release Amari Cooper. The
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Speaker 1: program as well and poll question Seaton going into the
Speaker 1: final hour is what we changed it up on you, Dan,
Speaker 1: we have would you rather have tickets to the final
Speaker 1: four or Coach K's last game? Well, I would say
Speaker 1: Coach K, but then you might have Duke in the
Speaker 1: final four. Then you could get Coach K's final final
Speaker 1: other last game. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll roll the
Speaker 1: dice and take the Final four with the possibility that
Speaker 1: Coach K could be coaching in his final final game.
Speaker 1: Like it all right, yes, Tod, but it's going to
Speaker 1: still be his final game in Cameron Indoor, and that's
Speaker 1: pretty special and awesome. I realized. I'm just making sure
Speaker 1: you understand the last game is not going to be
Speaker 1: played at Duke four sight. Thank you, Thank you, Todd
Speaker 1: h It is a meat Friday. Todd tries to put
Speaker 1: a damper on that. But in case you're wondering, barbecue
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Speaker 1: The back room guys get to dish on everything that
Speaker 1: happened this week. And I'm sure what just transpired in
Speaker 1: the last ten minutes is going to be top rick
Speaker 1: topic Numero uno, and that was hand size. We of
Speaker 1: course wanted to uh see where we matched up stacked
Speaker 1: up against Kenny pickt the Kenny Pickett Memorial Handshake Challenge
Speaker 1: or Hand Sized Challenge here on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1: It's the first annual Kenny Pickett Hand Sized Challenge Kenny
Speaker 1: Pickett hand size eight and a half. Pauli has the
Speaker 1: results for this, you know, this program with myself and
Speaker 1: the dinner. Yeah, Dan, you won Fritzie. And second, a
Speaker 1: lot of people had that as the order right off
Speaker 1: the bat. And then if you had a trifecta box.
Speaker 1: You would have lost because I finished third. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then Seaton the upset of the century, finishing fourth, and
Speaker 1: Marvin Dan didn't that finish he was under eight inches.
Speaker 1: That's like a non qualification. Yeah. You know Rob our
Speaker 1: Knicks fan back there in the back, and he's dominuted.
Speaker 1: He's small, he's got bigger hands than Marvin Days. Yeah, Marv,
Speaker 1: I know that. I was. I have little hands and
Speaker 1: little feet. Everybody else I have, you know, size ten shoe,
Speaker 1: small hands. Yeah, you know, take my strong hand, like
Speaker 1: I don't have any strong hands, yeah, big hands. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you didn't throw the contest, did you? No, it was
Speaker 1: not that steak. Okay, Well your reputation. So from now on,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna know when they tune in, they go, oh, Marv,
Speaker 1: he's got small hands. What rep pm yawn? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: this dude just tweeted at us. He said, I just
Speaker 1: hit rock bottom. I chose to be late to a
Speaker 1: meeting so I could hear who had smaller hands. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Marvin, like, you have to get to eight just
Speaker 1: to qualify, and you didn't even get to eight. Yeah. Sorry.
Speaker 1: There's already memes flying around about of Marvin's tiny hands.
Speaker 1: I like that I get to make the joke out
Speaker 1: like Marvin's tiny hands. I know for years Seaton would
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, how small his feet were and
Speaker 1: his hands were. He said, I got the hands of
Speaker 1: a twelve year old girl. That's yeah, man, You're gonna
Speaker 1: go home and feel a whole lot better. You're gonna say, hey, hon, home,
Speaker 1: I'm home. Yeah, yeah, what happened to your voice? What
Speaker 1: do you mean? All right? So the NFL combine is
Speaker 1: rolling along? Lakers lost again. We'll check in with the Lakers.
Speaker 1: They got blown out by the Clippers. Kevin Durant's back
Speaker 1: and the Nets lose again and uh Mike Schevski's last
Speaker 1: home game at Duke coming up on Saturday. Draymond Greene
Speaker 1: had this to say about Laker fans booing Lebron jameson company.
Speaker 1: To get booed by your own fans, like, it's very
Speaker 1: distasteful and disgraceful, and I was shocked to see that. Like,
Speaker 1: I thought that was pathetic. I thought it was extremely pathetic.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I thought it was very distasteful
Speaker 1: from a fan base of an organization that has the
Speaker 1: most championships in the NBA, like, like, let's not be
Speaker 1: so like spoiled brats. Like it's okay to be spoiled. Yeah,
Speaker 1: be spoiled. We all get spoiled by things at times,
Speaker 1: at one point in our life or another. But let's
Speaker 1: not be Bratt's. And that was about as braddy as
Speaker 1: something that I've seen, considering that this team just won
Speaker 1: the championship, not even a four or two years ago,
Speaker 1: and now you're boy like, I thought that was utterly ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, the Laker fans have been patient.
Speaker 1: We're into March now, and I think they realize this
Speaker 1: isn't a good team. But I never understood the booing
Speaker 1: of your own team. And you're how could you possibly
Speaker 1: be booing Lebron James a team with Lebron James? You might,
Speaker 1: you might boom Russell Westbrook. You can't take Lebron out
Speaker 1: of this. It's Lebron's team. And if you think that
Speaker 1: Russ is going to change was going to change, I
Speaker 1: mean that's on you, and that includes the Lakers. This
Speaker 1: is who Russ is. I don't know how you go. Nah,
Speaker 1: you know, Russ, if we get him some open jumpers
Speaker 1: there and we tap into his three point shooting acumen. Hey,
Speaker 1: and when he handles the ball, he doesn't turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, Like, come on, this is who he is.
Speaker 1: It was all about taking the ball out of Lebron's
Speaker 1: hands so Lebron could then co stir in the regular
Speaker 1: season pace himself. Well, it's not the way it's going
Speaker 1: to happen. Anthony Davis goes down. You don't have a
Speaker 1: great bench, supporting cast considering what you once had to
Speaker 1: what you have now. And the Clippers beat him again
Speaker 1: second straight year. They swept the seasonal series from the Lakers. Yeah, poem,
Speaker 1: all right, But do you think that the average Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers fan not booze Lebron but blames Lebron for
Speaker 1: the lineup. I think the average fan, maybe even the
Speaker 1: national fan who doesn't know the Lakers as well as
Speaker 1: anybody else, thinks the management puts the people on the court,
Speaker 1: that Lebron wants, that he is stirring the drink completely,
Speaker 1: and that Rob Plank and the other guys are just
Speaker 1: at his beck and call. I think that's what people think,
Speaker 1: whether it's true or not. Well, I don't think anything
Speaker 1: happens there without Lebron's consent. And if Lebron thinks you
Speaker 1: know that that we don't think that, then he's incorrect. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's it's Lebron is running that team. Todd has a limerick.
Speaker 1: He keeps reminding me that he has a limerick, and
Speaker 1: it's about the Lakers. Yes, but the Lakers woes. Yea,
Speaker 1: So Todd, thank you for sending me. You have to
Speaker 1: fill up everybody's reminder. Yeah. Yeah, So here we go.
Speaker 1: Here is uh, here's here's Todd once again. The Laker
Speaker 1: fans wept hard to accept their team is inept, coaching,
Speaker 1: player frustration, with no motivation. Against the Clippers, they got
Speaker 1: themselves swept. All right, all right, thank you Todd. Jesse
Speaker 1: in La, Hi, Jess, what's on your mind today? Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call of ep yep um happy
Speaker 1: meat cause Davy Friday nine and one four inches over
Speaker 1: here in La. I'll let you us what's going on
Speaker 1: over there. But but I'm calling on two things here.
Speaker 1: Did you realize that with the King's loss to the
Speaker 1: Pelicans on Wednesday that they're guaranteed themselves another losing season,
Speaker 1: the sixteenth year in a row, continuing a trend in
Speaker 1: my adult life yet to see them with a better
Speaker 1: than five hundred record. The real reason I'm calling them
Speaker 1: is because I wanted to throw down a bet to
Speaker 1: Tiny Hands for his first DP show of tiny hands.
Speaker 1: That's Marvin's Marvin's new name, tiny Hands. Okay, so, Jess,
Speaker 1: what is the pie to the face bet with Tiny Hands? Marvin? Right?
Speaker 1: And this will supersede that lame one he made yesterday
Speaker 1: with the football team. This is emboy march madness. So
Speaker 1: Marv your Yukon Huskies, my UCLA Bruins. I think they're
Speaker 1: both going to be seated better than six, both third
Speaker 1: in their respective conferences. Whoever's team goes further in the
Speaker 1: tournament loser, pie to the face. Don't be scared, dude.
Speaker 1: First of all, it's tea hands. Oh z on the end,
Speaker 1: tiny hands hands. Okay, all right, fair enough, you know
Speaker 1: what hey you're on because we've won a national championship
Speaker 1: in this century, so we'll go all right, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jess. All right, So tea hands. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a T shirt with little with little baby hands
Speaker 1: hands hands, tea hands. Yeah, I mean for all, Yes
Speaker 1: you are, You're the poster child for it, for all
Speaker 1: those guys out there with tiny hands. Marvin is there
Speaker 1: for you, tea hands. I I'm Marvin Prince for tiny
Speaker 1: hands across America. Hey, everybody, you know me, it's me
Speaker 1: Marvin Prince. You know me tea hands. I just want
Speaker 1: to let you know it's all good. I'm here for you.
Speaker 1: But what solution do you have here? Support system for
Speaker 1: the handless? Yeah? Oh no, I don't have any solution.
Speaker 1: I just want you to know I'm here for you.
Speaker 1: You guys feel disrespected, Well, I have nothing to say.
Speaker 1: There's now to get a free little set of gloves,
Speaker 1: mitten mittens, a little mittens. Yes, me and my son
Speaker 1: sheer mittens. Also, uh, Kenny Pickets your favorite quarterback now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Of all time? Yeah, you've heard of te Higgins. How
Speaker 1: about tea hands? That's me, I'm tea hands. More phone
Speaker 1: calls coming up. That was some gold there. I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't know we were gonna have that result. Just
Speaker 1: to see Seaton's face when he realized he didn't have
Speaker 1: the smallest hands in the room. Right now, people are
Speaker 1: calling it like a sixteen over a one scene right there,
Speaker 1: like let march maddness truly begin. It's handness, march hands miss, oh,
Speaker 1: anything else? Oh. Charles Barkley had this to say. You know,
Speaker 1: Charles Dunn mince words, but he's tired of showing Laker highlights. Man,
Speaker 1: we'rem I showing these guys an the more we have
Speaker 1: to return, I'm making that decision around here. But we're
Speaker 1: not showing them bomb from Southern California anymore. We stop it. Nope,
Speaker 1: that they were ball. We gotta stop showing that thing now. See.
Speaker 1: I disagree with Charles because we still want to see
Speaker 1: the process, the struggle. You know a lot of times
Speaker 1: you'll see teams when they're playing really well, and everybody
Speaker 1: wants to show those highlights. But success can be boring. Like,
Speaker 1: I want to see the struggle here. I'm going to
Speaker 1: see them work through this now. Sometimes watching that that
Speaker 1: can be great great TV. I was gonna say great theater,
Speaker 1: but Todd always says that. I say great theater. I
Speaker 1: like when you say that, Yeah, but make fun of it,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of cool. What's great TV is what
Speaker 1: it is. But yeah, I want to see the whole
Speaker 1: process here working through that. I think that's interesting. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break, check in with the Lakers and
Speaker 1: more phone calls coming up as well. Eight seven seven
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Speaker 1: on the Peacock app. Uh. We spent a little time
Speaker 1: talking about the Lakers. Now, Look, I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: an alarmist, and I did say, let's wait until the
Speaker 1: end of December and then we'll get a better sense
Speaker 1: maybe of this team. Here we are in March. I
Speaker 1: guess the sense I have is they're not a good team,
Speaker 1: but there's no other options here. I don't know why
Speaker 1: people think, oh my gosh, they're they're terrible, or Russell Westburn, like,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? I think in the offseason
Speaker 1: they'll do some things. They took a chance, didn't work out,
Speaker 1: and they've lost eight of their last ten. The Lakers
Speaker 1: host Golden State on Saturday night. Dan Woiki covers the
Speaker 1: NBA covers the Lakers for the LA Times. All Right,
Speaker 1: where do you want to start here? Dan? With what
Speaker 1: happened last night? It's been great theater. Dan, I just
Speaker 1: want to say thank you. You know, you say you
Speaker 1: want to watch the struggle Like that's the crazy thing
Speaker 1: is like they have seven more games on national TV
Speaker 1: as the season plays out, right, like, so we are
Speaker 1: all going to see this like it is very public.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, I mean, Russ's is good a
Speaker 1: place to start at any because that decision impacted everything,
Speaker 1: not just in terms of what he's able to do
Speaker 1: on the court, sort of the math problems it caused
Speaker 1: for them when you trade three players for one when
Speaker 1: that player makes forty three million dollars and that's money
Speaker 1: you can't spend elsewhere. You know, I was watching in
Speaker 1: that third quarter and you watched that, you know, the
Speaker 1: Clippers going I think it was like a twenty three
Speaker 1: to run at one point, and you look around it's like,
Speaker 1: why can't this team stop anybody? And you realize, oh, well,
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzman, Contavious called Poper on a different team, Alex
Speaker 1: Caruso's I'm a different team, Like, these are the guys
Speaker 1: that were parts of the pillars of the identity that
Speaker 1: the Lakers won a title with, which was built on defense,
Speaker 1: and that has all been traded out. That has all
Speaker 1: been gone in an effort to be more dynamic on offense.
Speaker 1: And they stink on offense and they're slightly below average
Speaker 1: on defense, and that's why they are in the position there.
Speaker 1: Jim Leagler was on yesterday and he said that he's
Speaker 1: watching the body language and he said during timeouts, they're
Speaker 1: not talking to each other, like there's no spirit there.
Speaker 1: There's nobody who's sort of yeah, you know, getting in
Speaker 1: somebody's face here. And they've they've had those players in
Speaker 1: previous years. They just don't have that now. But I wonder,
Speaker 1: what do you do in the off season a lot, right,
Speaker 1: And I think I think Legs is right. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think what we're seeing, right, dan As, you're seeing
Speaker 1: a team that had championship expectations being confronted with the
Speaker 1: reality and they might not even be the teph best
Speaker 1: team in the West, you know, And that's it's jarring.
Speaker 1: And it has been you know, let's wait, like you said,
Speaker 1: we'll wait to dand in summer. This has been their
Speaker 1: approach on a lot of things, at least publicly, is like, well,
Speaker 1: let's wait and see where we're at once we're healthy.
Speaker 1: Let's wait and see where're at once to get some continuity.
Speaker 1: You know, here we are with twenty games left in
Speaker 1: the season, and it doesn't seem it seems impossible to
Speaker 1: imagine that the get either of those things. Um, as
Speaker 1: far as the off season goes, you know, dealing with
Speaker 1: the Russell Westbrook issue, um, seems like it'll be at
Speaker 1: the very top of the list. Right, Um, best for
Speaker 1: both parties. I think probably to figure out a solution
Speaker 1: now that that's gonna it's gonna like the Lakers are
Speaker 1: going to have to pay for that. It's not a
Speaker 1: simple like let's find a team that wants Russ Like
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to sweeten that deal. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to use draft picks to kind of start to dig
Speaker 1: out of the hole that they're in. But they've probably
Speaker 1: got to dig out of the hole. And then I
Speaker 1: think secondarily, um, you know, a coaching change seems likely.
Speaker 1: The Lakers have kind of said that, um you know,
Speaker 1: with with with a half hearted extension, um with kind
Speaker 1: of letting Frank Vogel dangle a little bit here during
Speaker 1: during this season. I mean, they've sort of made their
Speaker 1: their feelings known there. And I think, um, again, another
Speaker 1: situation probably for best for both parties. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: like there's gonna be big There'll be big changes. This
Speaker 1: team has to look differently in the next year to here.
Speaker 1: The crazy thing, I'm not convinced to look that much better. Well,
Speaker 1: I wonder if Lebron knows the clock is ticking, he
Speaker 1: wants to win at least one more championship. And he's
Speaker 1: got to look around and going, can I win a
Speaker 1: champ Do you think Lebron can win a championship in
Speaker 1: the next couple of years there in Los Angeles? I
Speaker 1: mean now without a certain level of luck that hasn't
Speaker 1: been there, right, Like, I mean, you're gonna need He's
Speaker 1: gonna have to continue to defy age on the court,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna have to stay on before right. You know,
Speaker 1: Lebron has missed a lot of time this year. His
Speaker 1: running mate is Anthony Davis, and so you need Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis on the court. Like, these are big ifs when
Speaker 1: you talk about the Lakers. If Anthony Davis is healthy,
Speaker 1: if Lebron James keeps playing at this level. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, next season, Lebron will be thirty eight. You know,
Speaker 1: the York to that will be thirty nine, And eventually
Speaker 1: you would think like that, I mean, maybe we're already
Speaker 1: starting to see some of those things slow down. You know,
Speaker 1: the swollen knee, you know, the ankle injuries seemed kind
Speaker 1: of freakish, but you know, he's had other things, a
Speaker 1: groin injury that he's dealt with, like these soft tissue
Speaker 1: injuries that tend to kind of suggest older age, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think that is obviously those are hugest.
Speaker 1: Can it happen? I mean they have a punch of chance.
Speaker 1: I mean they are I was talking to a scout
Speaker 1: last night and it's like they are as born on
Speaker 1: third base of a team as anybody, right, because they
Speaker 1: have Lebron James and Anthony Davis and the sort of
Speaker 1: why despite all of this stuff, you talk to teams
Speaker 1: around the league, nobody still wants to play him. They
Speaker 1: don't want to see them in the play and they
Speaker 1: don't want to see them in the first round of
Speaker 1: the playoffs because they have these two guys, and these
Speaker 1: two guys are unquestionably great players. Is this a great team? No,
Speaker 1: not close handicapped the rest of the West here best
Speaker 1: team is who I think, at full health, I think
Speaker 1: it's the Phoenix Suns, but the Chris faul thumb injury
Speaker 1: is an interesting one. It is that team to me
Speaker 1: when I see them, they make the most sense. Um
Speaker 1: Like you just see them. They've got athletic wings now
Speaker 1: they have they have experienced, they have perimeter scoring, they
Speaker 1: have an interior presence, They've got tremendous depth, They've been
Speaker 1: there before. It's a team I really like. Um. I
Speaker 1: still sort of think the Utah Jazz are lurking, and
Speaker 1: they've they've disappointed the playoffs so many times. But but
Speaker 1: you know, it's a terrific offense, and you know, a
Speaker 1: team that's played much better basketball. Seemingly, the only team
Speaker 1: the Lakers can be weirdly enough, is the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 1: But but you know, Utah and everybody that doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like a problem. They'll have to conquerence the playoffs, you know.
Speaker 1: And then obviously the Warriors are the Warriors. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Steph Curry's in a little bit of a
Speaker 1: funk right now. M Clay Thompson's still playing his way
Speaker 1: back and reintegrating pieces like that is not easy, dam
Speaker 1: it like it, especially especially when it's been so long.
Speaker 1: It's hard to readjust your identity like that. But again,
Speaker 1: that's just another team that I think you know is
Speaker 1: in the mix. It just to me, Phoenix just feels
Speaker 1: like they have the least amount of questions. A thumb
Speaker 1: injury isn't the end of the world. Chris Paul will
Speaker 1: be back on the court at some point. He'll be
Speaker 1: able to stay in shape. It's not like you can't
Speaker 1: jog if you have a broken bumm. It's not like
Speaker 1: he can't work out a little bit and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it'll be hard for him to
Speaker 1: kind of to get back running at full speed. Make
Speaker 1: a case for John Moran to win MVP. The Memphis
Speaker 1: Grizzlies aren't on anybody's radar if he's not like shopping
Speaker 1: above the backboard every game, you know, like in terms
Speaker 1: of value, if they're a game out of the two
Speaker 1: seed right now, day yeah, yeah, yeah, Dan, he is
Speaker 1: the value case right um. And you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: mention Memphis, and I probably should because it's easy to
Speaker 1: kind of see the path for them, right like it
Speaker 1: is kind of a weird year again in the West.
Speaker 1: You know, who knows what doors will be open. They're
Speaker 1: tremendously athletic, another team with tremendous death. They had never
Speaker 1: been there before, which is always it's tough to go
Speaker 1: through the first time. And we'll see what. You know,
Speaker 1: how how a team defends John Moran over seven game
Speaker 1: series is totally different from how you deal with him
Speaker 1: on a night to night basis. And how good are
Speaker 1: they had adjusting, but there's probably not a more exciting
Speaker 1: player in the league right now. Um, it does feel
Speaker 1: like he can do anything. I was in the building
Speaker 1: when you know, he blocked that shot against the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and it looked like, you know, he had a you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of Tesla rockets, and the Sneakers like it's
Speaker 1: he he is like sort of one of those guys
Speaker 1: when you when you open your phone or you turn
Speaker 1: on League Pass or whatever, it's anything is certainly possible.
Speaker 1: And on a team like that at this stage, I mean,
Speaker 1: what who could be more valuable in that sense? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like most outstanding as far as
Speaker 1: best highlights, sure, or because Jannis has won a couple,
Speaker 1: it feels like it's embiads turn. Even though the Jokers
Speaker 1: played well with a Denver team that's you know, been
Speaker 1: missing some players there. I always I'm always curious about
Speaker 1: this meteoric rise, Like Luca had a meteoric rise, but
Speaker 1: he didn't win the MVP because the team wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1: John Moran is having that meteoric rise and they're playing
Speaker 1: like there's validation in his value to them, whereas Luke
Speaker 1: I said, he's not going to be an MVP anytime
Speaker 1: soon until they get better. Yeah, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: I'm glad at the only times like we don't vote
Speaker 1: on awards, which is like luckily it's something I'm glad
Speaker 1: I don't do it. To be totally honest, like it is,
Speaker 1: it is a tricky. It is a tricky thing to
Speaker 1: kind of figure this out because another name we even
Speaker 1: mentioned is Demarta rosen you know, who has been again
Speaker 1: you talked about a team on a quick meteoric rise,
Speaker 1: and he's the type of person that I think voters
Speaker 1: want to reward because it's such a good story. It's
Speaker 1: such a good like kind of out of nowhere, seemingly season.
Speaker 1: But it's hard to vote an MVP with a hot
Speaker 1: You can't say, oh, remember that time in that game
Speaker 1: against you know, the Joker had sort of a season
Speaker 1: like that last year, but he had some unbelievable passes,
Speaker 1: uh dmarda Rosensky. Yeah. But but look, then they've got
Speaker 1: to beat you know, and this is an issue. They
Speaker 1: have been beaten good teams. That's what I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say. They've got to beating really good teams and
Speaker 1: they just haven't done it so, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: to me, like right now, if I was feeling a ballot,
Speaker 1: I would look at and Beat, I would look at
Speaker 1: yo Kinch, and I would look at Morant probably closest,
Speaker 1: and then Jannis is like right on the edge of that,
Speaker 1: And then you just start to it. At a certain point,
Speaker 1: it becomes a level of taste, like those guys have
Speaker 1: all been so good, Um and Beat has been has
Speaker 1: been great on both sides of all. What Yokis is
Speaker 1: doing is still like kind of rewriting possibilities and offense.
Speaker 1: Jannis Um, you know, is maybe the most dominant player
Speaker 1: in the NBA. And then you've got this guy John Morant, who,
Speaker 1: like I said, I mean like seems like sort of
Speaker 1: a mix of like Alan Iverson and Derreck Rose a
Speaker 1: little bit like pre injury is kind of who I
Speaker 1: always see and it's just sort of, you know it
Speaker 1: really does. I feel like he is He's on the
Speaker 1: precipice of something really really special. And that's the crazy
Speaker 1: thing with him. Dan is like are we even seeing
Speaker 1: the best of him right now? Like, like how much
Speaker 1: more is there to go? Bill Orum of the Athletic
Speaker 1: got yelled at by Lebron have you been yelled at
Speaker 1: by Lebron um snarled at certainly, not to that extent.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I have yelled at Bill or
Speaker 1: definitely happen. Everybody yells at Bill. Wait than Lebron snarled
Speaker 1: at you. Absolutely, yeah, snarl worthy. I think you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there was a point at the
Speaker 1: time during the season where he basically looked over and
Speaker 1: was like, you keep asking the same questions, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you keep asking us and we don't know. And if
Speaker 1: we did know, we would maybe answer, but you should
Speaker 1: have said, hey, you guys keep playing the same way.
Speaker 1: That's why I told him. I told him, this is frustrating,
Speaker 1: Like we're trying, We're trying, Jennifer, I put the CJ.
Speaker 1: McCollum card, you know. I mean, I think that you know,
Speaker 1: certainly the Um you know, the the Bill Lebron situation.
Speaker 1: Obviously like a little jet in there too and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's just everybody's frustrated, Dan, like honestly, like it is
Speaker 1: a it is a very tiring team to be around.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is that it's just
Speaker 1: like I said, like, this is a team that I
Speaker 1: think you know, you heard them talk about championships, you know,
Speaker 1: with the straight face through December. We heard Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: talk about a championship last night, you know, saying like,
Speaker 1: the season's not over, our goals are still in front
Speaker 1: of us, and it's you know, you're eight games under
Speaker 1: five hundred and Um, you know, why are you even
Speaker 1: talking about anything beyond you know, winning a single game
Speaker 1: playing better than one quarter? Um? Like this team hasn't
Speaker 1: figured that out yet, And it's it is a little
Speaker 1: bit exhausting constantly trying to dissect these huge, big picture issues, right,
Speaker 1: Like these aren't little tiny problems. These are big problems
Speaker 1: that they're trying to tackle, but like at the same time,
Speaker 1: like they're not even getting like the day to day results.
Speaker 1: That painting a tribute to Ferris Bueller's day off, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's you know, I'm a Chicago and my son is
Speaker 1: named Cameron. Um. You know it is a it is
Speaker 1: high art in my room. Dan, So you didn't want
Speaker 1: to go with Ferris as a name for your son, Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to. I didn't want to like people thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, like say Ferris and stuff like that, Cameron
Speaker 1: underrated character. I don't know why he's a Red Wings
Speaker 1: fan and never made total sense to me. And maybe
Speaker 1: if they're in a prequel or siquel that would ever
Speaker 1: get addressed. But yeah, you know, I mean that everything
Speaker 1: about Cameron. He was an outsider, Yeah, and and he
Speaker 1: worked his way into like the popular social circle, a
Speaker 1: real hero in my opinion, and unlike me, a father
Speaker 1: with a great car. Dan, great to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the season, and thank you.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the struggle, Yes, Dan Wicky, he covers the Lakers
Speaker 1: in NBA for the l a times. I know that
Speaker 1: probably came off strangely when I said, you know, I
Speaker 1: I like watching the Struggle, but I do because there's
Speaker 1: good TV sometimes in bad basketball. You know, the Sons
Speaker 1: are good basketball, not much drama there, the Bucks good
Speaker 1: basketball team, not much drama. Seventy sixers, you get a
Speaker 1: little combo platter there. With everything that's happened this year.
Speaker 1: I do think it's Joe lmbiad's MVP to lose. I
Speaker 1: don't think the joke will go back to back and
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll give it to John Morant just yet.
Speaker 1: But you could make a case, make a case for
Speaker 1: John Morant as far as value because this is what
Speaker 1: hurt Luca. Luca was putting up these incredible numbers, and
Speaker 1: I said, if you're not going to get into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: or you know, you get into the playoffs, are you
Speaker 1: going to advance? I mean, that's when we start to
Speaker 1: look at the value that you have. And lucas a
Speaker 1: wonderful player, we all know that, but I just want
Speaker 1: to see that team be an elite team. I think
Speaker 1: that would help his MVP case. John Moran has done
Speaker 1: that with Memphis, and now you can say, well, it's
Speaker 1: a down year in the West because the Clippers and
Speaker 1: the Lakers in Portland and okay, and John might be
Speaker 1: the favorite going into next year, but it feels like
Speaker 1: you have to introduce yourself to the voters and then
Speaker 1: they reward you, like we want to see if this
Speaker 1: is real. You know, one year, Oh okay, he's doing
Speaker 1: it again. This year. Oh okay, that team is up
Speaker 1: there in the top four, yeah, Polly. John Moran feels
Speaker 1: like where Joe Burrow was three or four months ago.
Speaker 1: The numbers are great, the winds are great, and then
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow took it to the next level in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: where like, oh he's there's nowhere nothing to criticize anymore,
Speaker 1: and it's a little early. Who do you think will
Speaker 1: be the leading candidate for MVP in the NFL start
Speaker 1: this season. I'm guessing it would be Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen or Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. I'm curious
Speaker 1: where Joe Burrow is right now. I would I would
Speaker 1: imagine top five, but I don't know. I don't know how,
Speaker 1: and I never voted on any other awards except for
Speaker 1: the NBA. Yeah, Paul, I got there's a few different places,
Speaker 1: but this is the MVP for the next season twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: and then it goes to Justin Herbert and then it
Speaker 1: starts going off of it. Matthew Stafford's up there, Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott is in that next tier. Okay, Ted? And Tampa's back? Hi, Ted,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey Dan? Good hearing you
Speaker 1: talk about Dicky v here in Tampa. I live about
Speaker 1: eighteen miles from his house. Just wanted to ask you.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you would know back when he was doing
Speaker 1: about like the first ten years of his announcing why
Speaker 1: was there so much friction between him and Alan McGuire.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Thank you, Ted, us that was there
Speaker 1: were a lot It felt like there was the network
Speaker 1: side of things, and then there was ESPN, and ESPN
Speaker 1: was an outlier, and then I think some of these
Speaker 1: network guys realized how much freedom you had, how much
Speaker 1: time you had when you were an analyst or a
Speaker 1: broadcaster on the mothership. And I don't know if it
Speaker 1: felt like Billy Packer had more of a problem with
Speaker 1: Dick Vitau as I remember, not Al McGuire, but but
Speaker 1: I mean, you could be right, Ted, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: It just felt like people were talking about who's the
Speaker 1: best basketball analyst, and Billy Packer was doing you know,
Speaker 1: he was doing those Final Fours, he was doing March
Speaker 1: Madness all those years with hymns, whereas Dicky v didn't
Speaker 1: get that opportunity, and he probably heard from a lot
Speaker 1: of people over and over about Dick Vitau and maybe
Speaker 1: you had a problem with that. Lincoln in Maine joins us, Hey, Lincoln,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? He dp how good? Good sir, um.
Speaker 1: I gotta give a shout out to Tyler. He's doing
Speaker 1: a great job if he's cooking all that food, and
Speaker 1: then he took the time to explain it to be
Speaker 1: about Luda Meyer or whatever his name is in Ukraineba. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I was glad to hear that he's doing. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I remember the Tiny Hands club myself, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking, if you had to go to make the
Speaker 1: T shirt, you should put the actual side, like Marvin's hands,
Speaker 1: actual side on the shirt so people can walk around
Speaker 1: and just compare their hands. Okay, Marvin tea hands is
Speaker 1: here for you, t hands, I'm here. Look at my
Speaker 1: favorite basketball player, Tyler hands Borrow. Yeah. Oh I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be tiny Archibald Tyler little Hands Borrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and your favorite song is tiny d answer from Elton
Speaker 1: John Okay, favorite singer is tiny tim anything else? It
Speaker 1: would be great that just put you know, your handprints
Speaker 1: up there on a T shirt and then just say,
Speaker 1: you know, we have to how do we include how
Speaker 1: how are we more inclusive with the people who have
Speaker 1: small hands? The small handed they like to be called
Speaker 1: the small handed. Yes, that's the term now, okay, not
Speaker 1: tiny hands. No, it changes everyday. Okay, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: You got to be sensitive to those like if your
Speaker 1: hands are under eight inches, then you're in the tiny
Speaker 1: hands club. In fact, Marvin, why don't you just start
Speaker 1: that and then you know you could correspond with a
Speaker 1: lot of other people who are maligned t DP. I
Speaker 1: have a meeting this weekend. Oh you do? Yeah? Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Marvin and I have tiny hands. Hi Marvin. Yes,
Speaker 1: I got an email from an agency saying, palm challenged.
Speaker 1: Please palm challenged for the tiny hands. You don't like
Speaker 1: that one? Isn't Palm Sunday coming up here soon? I
Speaker 1: think it might be as a face palm. Yes, point
Speaker 1: Marvin MC. A charity event tiny hands across America. And yeah,
Speaker 1: the more people, a lot less hands, more people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you's got to fill the line. Thank you. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break. If you're watching on Peacock. We
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Speaker 1: podcast Closing up shop. Send this out to former Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear Steve McMichael. Going through a pretty tough time there.
Speaker 1: Good Man, good Man, Here's arcade fire Steve McMichael. He
Speaker 1: was there with the eighty five Bears. It's easy to
Speaker 1: get overshadowed on that defense. And I think this stat
Speaker 1: might be true. I don't think there's another defensive tackle
Speaker 1: in NFL history with ninety or more sacks who's not
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. Steve McMichael has I think
Speaker 1: ninety sacks are just over ninety sacks and he's not
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. Yepple, Yeah, Dan, Steve McMichael,
Speaker 1: three time pro bowler, ninety five career sacks, the only
Speaker 1: defensive tackle people who played their the meat of their
Speaker 1: career defensive tackle John Randall, he played a little defensive
Speaker 1: end as well. He was well over hunting. Yeah. Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald is as ninety four. Warren Sapp has ninety three
Speaker 1: sacks and is in the Hall of Fame. Steve McMichael
Speaker 1: not in the Hall of Fame, but he has ninety
Speaker 1: five sacks a defensive tackle. Yeah. Sean in Indianapolis. Hey Sean,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hey Dan? Real quick to send
Speaker 1: you off over the weekend. Would you rather have really
Speaker 1: small hands for really short arms? Um Bill Laine Beer
Speaker 1: it felt like had short arms. Like he was a
Speaker 1: six to eleven player and a really good player, but
Speaker 1: it felt like he had alligator arms. Would I rather
Speaker 1: have short arms? I can hide my hands, can't hide
Speaker 1: your arms? What if he had huge hands and short
Speaker 1: arms like fenn Uh Marvin Yuka. It feels like he
Speaker 1: got blindsided today with the hand measurement thing. Now it's
Speaker 1: all good because I have long arms, small hands, so
Speaker 1: I take the long arms what's it gonna be like
Speaker 1: when you go home today, you see your wife, they're
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, you're gonna say, oh, Marvin, how's the show? Oh?
Speaker 1: It was great. Anything could happen, not just a regular show.
Speaker 1: They didn't even come to me today. It's crazy. And
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna make a T shirt of Marvin's
Speaker 1: small hands. And the suggestion right now is to just
Speaker 1: get an outline of Marvin's hands, and therefore you can
Speaker 1: measure your hands against Marvin to know if you're in
Speaker 1: the tiny hands for Trinity T hands with a Z
Speaker 1: with Marvin. Yes, well, I just googled us celebrities with
Speaker 1: small hands, and I got nobody. Marvin might be the
Speaker 1: most famous person in America. You could be that. I'm looking.
Speaker 1: I don't find anyone there. But I don't know. It
Speaker 1: sound like you walk around and you go, hey, how
Speaker 1: big your hands? In Hollywood, they don't have a combine.
Speaker 1: It's not like Elton John They're gonna go, well, Elton,
Speaker 1: let me see if your hands are big. But you
Speaker 1: would think that there would be somebody that you know,
Speaker 1: they would go, oh, that guy's got small hands. Point
Speaker 1: I did stubble upon an Instagram feed where they photoshop
Speaker 1: small hands on celebrities. It's like Leonardo DiCaprio is getting
Speaker 1: his Academy award. He's got these little baby hands. It's transfixing.
Speaker 1: People got a lot of time on their hands. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: Marvin has a little time on his hands. Not too
Speaker 1: final results of the pull question seton UH would you
Speaker 1: rather have tickets to the Final four or Coach K's
Speaker 1: last game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. It's about seventy percent
Speaker 1: Final Four. Yeah, maybe I luck into Coach K's final game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good strategy. On good strategy. This day in
Speaker 1: sports history, poet ESPN formed the v Foundation with Jim
Speaker 1: Valvano and UH. The New York Yankees in nineteen thirteen
Speaker 1: traveled to Bermuda for spring training. They were the first
Speaker 1: team lead the USA to train. It was also on
Speaker 1: this day, this night, Hank Gathers collapsed on the court
Speaker 1: during a conference tournament game, taken to the hospital where
Speaker 1: physicians unable to revive him. And if you don't know
Speaker 1: the Hank Gathers story, you should that that team that
Speaker 1: he played on Loyal the Merry Mount And you know
Speaker 1: you had bo Kimball was with him, and you know
Speaker 1: you watched, you watched Hank die because the video freelance
Speaker 1: photographer that ESPN was using that night. And I was
Speaker 1: doing Sports Center that night with Chris Berman, and I
Speaker 1: remember Chris Myers was the Los Angeles reporter and he
Speaker 1: did a great job as soon as he found out
Speaker 1: about it, went to the hospital filing reports on what
Speaker 1: happened to Hank. And you know, we had talked to
Speaker 1: Bo Kimball a few times on this show. I mean
Speaker 1: what Hank meant to him and to that team loyal
Speaker 1: a merry mount. They were. They were doing things, you
Speaker 1: know with Paul Westhead that you're seeing teams do. Now
Speaker 1: we'll give you two. We're going to take a three.
Speaker 1: And that was the team that was and back then
Speaker 1: it was radical what they were doing. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: go around the room. What we learned on the program,
Speaker 1: trying to think of Oh, Brett Farve retired on this
Speaker 1: day for the first time. That was two thousand and eight, Todd,
Speaker 1: what did you learn on today's award nominated program Lakers
Speaker 1: Beat Right for the La Times, Dan Waike said Lebron
Speaker 1: James has snarled at him from time to time after games.
Speaker 1: All right, seat an o'counor. IM not sure what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do with these massive hands. I suddenly acquired Marvin.
Speaker 1: What did you learn today? March Mandus started early seeing
Speaker 1: sixteen seed beat the one seed. Yeah, yeah, March hands Ness, Paulie,
Speaker 1: what did you learn today? My neighbors now goes by
Speaker 1: tea hands, not Marvin anymore. Yeah, tiny hands, Todd? What
Speaker 1: did I learn on today's program? NFL Neworks, Danie, Jeremyfields.
Speaker 1: The Colts should be looking to trade one, Carson Wentz.
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