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Speaker 2: we'll head to Memphis, sort out what's going on with
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies as they get ready for the postseason, and
Speaker 2: will they have John Moran for the rest of the
Speaker 2: regular season. It's a Meat Friday, Burgers, buffalo wings, and
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Speaker 2: got basketball coming up tonight. It's the Women's Final four
Speaker 2: Texas and South Carolina, Connecticut and UCLA. Gino Smith got
Speaker 2: locked up with the Raiders. When this happened, I was
Speaker 2: told that, hey boy, they got Gino on the cheap.
Speaker 2: And I was told he's going to renegotiate his contract.
Speaker 2: Well he did and he got paid. And really, this
Speaker 2: to me is I think it's something to remember when
Speaker 2: it comes to these quarters this year because a lot
Speaker 2: of times what happens we get caught up in forty
Speaker 2: yard dash times and mechanics and wonder Lick test scores
Speaker 2: and hand size. Gino Smith was written off after failed
Speaker 2: stints with the Jets and the Giants, reinvented himself in Seattle.
Speaker 2: Now he gets a new deal and he's been a
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl quarterback. Sam Darnol supposed to be the savior
Speaker 2: of the Jets, then discarded in Carolina, buried behind brock
Speaker 2: perty and then he becomes a one hundred million dollar
Speaker 2: man in Seattle after lighting it up with the Vikings.
Speaker 3: So we want instant results, certainly at that position.
Speaker 2: So with cam Ward and Jackson Dart and Shador Sanders,
Speaker 2: keep it in perspective. I know it's hard to do this.
Speaker 2: Not every quarterback's a bust. It just sometimes they take
Speaker 2: a little bit more time. But Pete Carroll's seventy three.
Speaker 2: He wants his quarterback to be ready to go. He's
Speaker 2: familiar with Geno. I think they take Ashton Gent because
Speaker 2: at first I thought that maybe whoever was going to
Speaker 2: be coaching the Raiders, they would take Shaudoor Sanders, and
Speaker 2: it felt like that would be a great place for him,
Speaker 2: and I think Dion even felt that way. Now you
Speaker 2: have Geno Smith, they're probably not taking a quarterback. You
Speaker 2: take your running back. Pete Carroll loves to run the football,
Speaker 2: be a little more conservative with his quarterback and hopefully
Speaker 2: play good defense. That's the blueprint he wants to win
Speaker 2: now he's seventy three years of age.
Speaker 4: Yes, and yeah, it sounds a little weird. I think
Speaker 4: sometimes they hear like, oh, they extended Gino Smith, and
Speaker 4: you're like, well, why, But you're not really paying him
Speaker 4: a ton of money. Even with the extension, he's still
Speaker 4: well out of the top ten in terms of quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: I think he's something like sixteenth in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's coming off of three or four pretty great seasons
Speaker 4: for him. He's one of the most accurate passers in
Speaker 4: the league over that stamp, that time frame. It's a
Speaker 4: pretty great deal.
Speaker 2: But that's why we're going to look for cam Ward
Speaker 2: to be great right away, Jackson Dart right away, Shadoor
Speaker 2: Sanders right away, and they won't be great right away,
Speaker 2: not even cam Ward because he's going to a bad team.
Speaker 2: Should do or Sanders? Maybe if you go to the Saints,
Speaker 2: maybe you're better earlier than cam Ward is, or Jackson
Speaker 2: Dart if he would go to the Steelers at twenty one.
Speaker 2: Just say, but I think we get caught up in
Speaker 2: the immediacy of this and there are so many reclamation
Speaker 2: projects that happen all the time in the NFL, but
Speaker 2: we just don't have the patients, and teams don't have
Speaker 2: the patients, they move on. We spend a lot of time,
Speaker 2: too much time talking about, well, we should have been
Speaker 2: talking about the game winning shot by John Moran against
Speaker 2: the heat, but he had another gun gesture. And this
Speaker 2: is back to back games that he's done this after
Speaker 2: being called onto the carpet by the NBA commissioner and
Speaker 2: then you have this. Now, what's the commissioner do? Do
Speaker 2: you say anything? Do you do anything? Playoffs right around
Speaker 2: the corner, and you got Memphis fighting for survival there
Speaker 2: and you just had your coach fired. Demichael Cole covers
Speaker 2: the Grizzlies for the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Michael, thanks for
Speaker 2: joining us. John Morant sounds like he's a victim here
Speaker 2: that he doesn't care about the criticism. Feels like, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe he's being targeted here. Help us understand the local
Speaker 2: feel of John Morant and what he's done the last
Speaker 2: two games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dan, the number one thing when kind of peeling
Speaker 5: the curtain back.
Speaker 6: Here is this isn't anything new.
Speaker 5: Actually, this is a celebration that Jahn Morant and several
Speaker 5: of his teammates have done over the course of the season.
Speaker 5: So when you talk about John Morant feels, you know,
Speaker 5: John Morant being the victim here. I think that's the
Speaker 5: feeling internally, especially specifically. You know with him, you know,
Speaker 5: this is a celebration. I've seen him. I mean, I
Speaker 5: could at least go back to the beginning of the
Speaker 5: year him doing this celebration, and he does it pretty
Speaker 5: much after every May three pointer. Now, you know Johns
Speaker 5: and Steph Curry. He's not making four or five three
Speaker 5: pointers a game, but you know he's made a decent
Speaker 5: amount of three pointers.
Speaker 6: And we've seen celebration time and time again.
Speaker 5: I think what stood out in this particular situation going
Speaker 5: back to that Golden State game. It's number one, it's
Speaker 5: Grizzlies Golden State. Over the last two to three years,
Speaker 5: that game has always had increased significance. And then number two,
Speaker 5: it happened and it caused a technical foul. So in
Speaker 5: the past we see it and in this game, you know,
Speaker 5: the recent game that was on you know, national TV
Speaker 5: against the Miami Heat. It's harmless, it's coming after you know,
Speaker 5: made three point baskets, and he's doing it towards the
Speaker 5: Grizzlies bench, he's doing it towards the opposed event, he's
Speaker 5: going it towards the players.
Speaker 6: He's just doing it in the general direction.
Speaker 5: And in the case with the Golden State game, it
Speaker 5: was him and Buddy Hill, you know, gesturing towards one another,
Speaker 5: which led to the official stepping end and calling the
Speaker 5: technical foul. So I think that's kind of what's brought
Speaker 5: this increased attention onto it. But locally, I think that's
Speaker 5: the main point here is this is something that he's
Speaker 5: been doing for months.
Speaker 2: What do you think the commissioner does this time around.
Speaker 5: I don't think the commission does anything until it's something
Speaker 5: that leads to you know, a greater you know, type
Speaker 5: of I guess altercation or something, if that makes sense.
Speaker 5: So in this case, let's say, you know, if John
Speaker 5: Morant gestures towards an opposing bench and a guy gets
Speaker 5: up and walks in his direction, then I feel like
Speaker 5: that's when you know they'll have to step in. But
Speaker 5: if you go around the league, this is not just
Speaker 5: a celebration John Morant's doing. This isn't just a celebration.
Speaker 5: That the Grizzlies players is doing. It's one that's leak
Speaker 5: watt sort of in a way. And even Lebron James,
Speaker 5: you know, he did kind of a little bit of
Speaker 5: a different version of it yesterday against the Warriors, but
Speaker 5: he made a shot in the corner, the corner three
Speaker 5: pointer that he made, and he turns towards the crowd
Speaker 5: and does kind of a similar celebration. But again, you know,
Speaker 5: you have to understand, we understand why with John Moran
Speaker 5: there is.
Speaker 6: Increased intention on what he doesn't.
Speaker 5: You know, that has happened because of how the last
Speaker 5: two years have have kind of played out here. But
Speaker 5: in this case, I don't think the commissioner will really
Speaker 5: step in and, you know, do anything of significance unless
Speaker 5: it leads to something greater, because you really, what we're
Speaker 5: saying is there's a May three, he does the celebration
Speaker 5: and they go back to playing defense.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But see what I worry about to Michael, is if
Speaker 2: I'm the commissioner, I want to be proactive. I don't
Speaker 2: want to be reactive. I don't want to go hey
Speaker 2: until there's an altercation. We've already seen job and be
Speaker 2: very immature with an actual gun a couple of times,
Speaker 2: and he's still doing that. I as the commissioner, it's
Speaker 2: just it's a bad look for the league and a
Speaker 2: bad look for him. And now it feels like he's
Speaker 2: embarrassed the commissioner publicly by you're gonna do it again,
Speaker 2: and he already had a If the league doesn't have
Speaker 2: a problem with it, then why did the commissioner talk
Speaker 2: to John Morand.
Speaker 5: I think I think in this case it was more
Speaker 5: so because inquireant minds wanted to look into the situation.
Speaker 5: That's that's what it was in this case, because if
Speaker 5: the league had seen an issue with the celebration, that's
Speaker 5: my point, they would have reached out in January, they
Speaker 5: would reached out in February, they would reached out.
Speaker 6: In previous national televised.
Speaker 5: Games where he's made three pointers and did the same celebration,
Speaker 5: there would have already been an instance where the league said,
Speaker 5: John Rethroom, yes, some other guys may be doing this celebration,
Speaker 5: but you, specifically.
Speaker 6: You probably shouldn't be doing this. But that hasn't been the.
Speaker 5: Case I think in this In this situation, going back
Speaker 5: to this Golden State game a couple of days ago,
Speaker 5: I think what happened was when people saw it, when
Speaker 5: it led to a technical.
Speaker 6: Foul and all of that.
Speaker 5: In Qui Remonts reached out to the league, you know,
Speaker 5: people like you know, reporters reached out to the league, Hey,
Speaker 5: is there anything of significance going to be done about
Speaker 5: this situation?
Speaker 6: The league said, we'll look into it.
Speaker 5: The league looked into it, and I think it was
Speaker 5: a situation where the league pretty much did their due diligence.
Speaker 5: I don't think the warning, so to speak, was a
Speaker 5: big hey, don't you do this again, or we're going
Speaker 5: to do We're going to do something. I think it
Speaker 5: was more of a read the room type of situation,
Speaker 5: if that makes sense. So I do think with the commissioner,
Speaker 5: he needs to be proactive with this and with some
Speaker 5: other situations that have been similar with players around the league.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, he's been sort of reactive
Speaker 5: all throughout this time with John going back to March
Speaker 5: of twenty twenty three, and I think that's kind of
Speaker 5: the case here.
Speaker 2: Most teams don't fire their coach when they're heading into
Speaker 2: the postseason, So why did the Grizzlies fire their head coach?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 6: He wasn't connecting with the players the same way anymore.
Speaker 5: And Taylo Jenkins has been here six years, so his
Speaker 5: voice players, you know, kind.
Speaker 6: Of connected with Taylor Jenkins on a whole other level.
Speaker 5: The big thing we talked about at the beginn of
Speaker 5: the year with Taylor Jenkins, John Morant, Jaron Jackson, Junior
Speaker 5: Desmond Bank, the leaders of the team, was he talked
Speaker 5: about the need to be against brutally honest, you know,
Speaker 5: with those guys critiquing the players, saying telling John Morant, look,
Speaker 5: we need you to be better defensively, Desmond Bank, we
Speaker 5: need you to be better defensively. And they had good,
Speaker 5: honest conversations and those seemed to be received well. Early
Speaker 5: on in the season, the Grizzlies were doing well. But
Speaker 5: what we saw Dan take place was when the Grizzlies
Speaker 5: schedule got tougher. You turned the count to January, you
Speaker 5: go to February, when the schedule got tougher, the Grizzlies
Speaker 5: start to struggle and it was like they're not beating
Speaker 5: the top two teams. To the point when Taylor Jenkins
Speaker 5: was fired, the Grizzlies were eleven and twenty against teams
Speaker 5: with a record above five hundred. So if you look
Speaker 5: at the record, you know on the shell and he saying,
Speaker 5: and that's a good team, that just you know, the
Speaker 5: top five seed the West, six seasons with the team.
Speaker 5: But the bigger picture is it's pretty simple actually to me,
Speaker 5: the Grizzlies want to their core is in place. They
Speaker 5: believe in John Moret, Desmon Band and Jared Jackson Junior.
Speaker 5: They believe that that trio is enough to take them
Speaker 5: to championship contention. So they have their core in place.
Speaker 5: The next thing you have to realize is the financial situation.
Speaker 5: Jobs on his second contract pretty much max deal. The
Speaker 5: Desmond Band is just a few million dollars below a
Speaker 5: Max deal. Jared Jackson Junior is potentially in line to
Speaker 5: receive a significantly a bigger deal this summer if he
Speaker 5: makes all NBA. So when you factor in all of that,
Speaker 5: the financial dollars are about to get tight and they
Speaker 5: need to win really soon. So I think that's a
Speaker 5: part of it. It's the urgency of the situation. And
Speaker 5: then if you factor in the urgency, it's a reality
Speaker 5: that hey, we're not beating top teams. We're eleven and
Speaker 5: twenty against the best teams, especially since the All Star break.
Speaker 5: You haven't beaten a top team in the league all
Speaker 5: of it, and they lost four out of five, you
Speaker 5: know before he was fired. So when you factor in
Speaker 5: all those things, the writing was kind of on the
Speaker 5: wall that hey, this season isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 6: It's time to make a change.
Speaker 2: Demichael, thank you. I'm sure you got a busy day.
Speaker 2: We appreciate your time.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you day. Thank you.
Speaker 2: That was great, great stuff to Michael. Cole covers Grizzlies
Speaker 2: for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and he brings up great points.
Speaker 2: And look, do we cherry pick sometimes when we see
Speaker 2: something and it can be a topic and then we
Speaker 2: can talk about if he's been doing this. The NBA
Speaker 2: didn't have a problem with it. Do they have a
Speaker 2: problem with it because it was on national TV? Do
Speaker 2: they have a problem that maybe it almost led to
Speaker 2: an altercation?
Speaker 3: See that.
Speaker 2: I don't buy that when Demichael says, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: the commissioner is waiting for something to happen. Now, I'd
Speaker 2: rather be proactive preventive, then let me wait till something happens.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Neemyah in California and neamayah welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: Thanks for holding.
Speaker 9: How's it going, Dan DENNITTZ great?
Speaker 3: What do you have?
Speaker 10: I wanted to chime in on the job mor gun gestures. Yeah,
Speaker 10: if we're going to go so far as suspending John
Speaker 10: Morant for doing the gun gestures, is this gonna come
Speaker 10: down to us changing the name.
Speaker 11: Of what we call shooting.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Neanmia. So we won't have a shooting guard. Well,
Speaker 2: John Moran is a shooting guard at guard. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: Well we don't have shooting guards and point guards anymore.
Speaker 2: There's no designation like that the way it used to be.
Speaker 2: Will in Virginia Beach, Hi, Will, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10: Say Anne?
Speaker 12: Hey, I was just kind of well, the guy right
Speaker 12: for me kind of stole my thunder a little bit.
Speaker 12: But I was going to say, these guys are commonly
Speaker 12: referred to as snipers and assassins and shooters and things
Speaker 12: like that, and you know, you see the cutting the
Speaker 12: throat gesture. Sometimes there's a stomping on the body just here.
Speaker 12: But I mean, I don't have a huge problem with it,
Speaker 12: but you could maybe fix it by changing the vernacular,
Speaker 12: maybe calling the basket like a shoot like a lot
Speaker 12: of shoot and then you could spell it C H
Speaker 12: U T E R.
Speaker 11: You all be sure or you.
Speaker 2: Know what, Well, thank you for the funk car. How
Speaker 2: about he just stops doing it. We don't change anything.
Speaker 2: Just don't do it anymore, that's all. It's really simple. Huh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna change, you know, labeling. You can't
Speaker 2: take a He's not a sniper anybody. I mean, just
Speaker 2: stop doing the gesture, that's all.
Speaker 3: Uh boy, Sean and Florida. Hi Sean.
Speaker 2: By the way, John's listed as a point guard, not
Speaker 2: a shooting guard.
Speaker 13: Oh man, that's hilarious. Good morning Dan and Dan AT's
Speaker 13: uh six. It's a beautiful day here in Deston, Florida.
Speaker 13: Some of the best beaches in the world. You guys
Speaker 13: should come visit, especially if you like fishing. I just
Speaker 13: wanted to say, go Gators. Jamesville is one of the
Speaker 13: best college towns.
Speaker 14: That he exists. Also, God man, that was nothing about
Speaker 14: that story about the shooting yards so much.
Speaker 11: Anyway, go gats, guys.
Speaker 5: A good day.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Sean, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Uh to sum up, Sean, Gainesville is a great college
Speaker 2: campus and they have nice beaches in Florida. Who knew
Speaker 2: I had nice beaches in Florida, and Gainesville is a
Speaker 2: great campus.
Speaker 15: Yes, time, I got the impression he wants Florida to
Speaker 15: beat Auburn tomorrow night. I think, so win the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, go Florida, Go Gators. Yes.
Speaker 16: Remember a bunch of years ago we got to go
Speaker 16: down to Auburn in Alabama and the football stadium is
Speaker 16: on the campus, so like people park and tailgate on
Speaker 16: the campus on a Saturday.
Speaker 3: Very cool place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's when Cam had been suspended and came back
Speaker 2: for that game. Lucas in Indiana.
Speaker 3: Hi Lucas, Hey.
Speaker 11: Yaan uh six two two five. I'm got sort of
Speaker 11: a philosophical question about baseball. I wasn't a baseball fan
Speaker 11: until like five or six years ago, and I just
Speaker 11: arbitrarily was choosing between the Dodgers and the Giants, and
Speaker 11: I ended up picking the Dodgers, and I got to
Speaker 11: watch them immediately win two World Series and set themselves
Speaker 11: up for like a decade. And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 11: I'm having a wonderful time, but I almost feel bad
Speaker 11: about it because they usually root for teams that struggle
Speaker 11: and don't win things. What do you think?
Speaker 17: Am I a bandwagoner and should I feel bad about
Speaker 17: this or should I bask any because it's really rules
Speaker 17: and I'm loving watching baseball, but I feel kind of
Speaker 17: like I'm betraying my down home, working class, tortured sand
Speaker 17: mentality because I threw a dart and a map and
Speaker 17: pick the powerhouse.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, it sounds like younger kids now, where it's
Speaker 2: really not an allegiance to your hometown. It's you like
Speaker 2: certain teams for certain reasons. But hey, if it means
Speaker 2: you're following baseball, great, I mean you might have to
Speaker 2: apologize a little bit by when somebody says, hey, you're
Speaker 2: from the Midwest and you're a Dodger fan. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: just picked them and they won two titles.
Speaker 18: Yes, Marvin, it's like in twenty years where everybody's going
Speaker 18: to be a Cheese fan, yeah, or a Golden State
Speaker 18: Warriors fan. Those guys have turned those franchises into national
Speaker 18: powerhouses far as fan bases.
Speaker 2: All right, let me take a break. More phone calls
Speaker 2: coming up. We're back after this Dan Patrick's show.
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Speaker 2: I caught Todd out there with the wings, sneaking in
Speaker 2: a buffalo.
Speaker 20: I had a wing.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I know we're supposed to wait until I know, but
Speaker 2: you've it felt like you were sneaking out there to
Speaker 2: grab buffalo last.
Speaker 15: Permission, and especially since I saw you there hovering over
Speaker 15: it blocking me from getting over there.
Speaker 20: I was like the security guard.
Speaker 3: You grabbed it and you go, okay, if I get
Speaker 3: a wing.
Speaker 20: Actually took a bike first, then okay. Then I finished this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pauline Todd eating a carrot should be the lead
Speaker 3: of this story.
Speaker 20: Dip it in the dress and there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they wanted to dip it in again.
Speaker 2: I go, no, no, double no double dipping. A couple
Speaker 2: of phone calls in here, John and Ohio, Hi John,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11: Hi Dan?
Speaker 9: First time, long time.
Speaker 11: Five eight?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 9: I had a story about Jim Mance. I heard your
Speaker 9: interview yesterday and the guys just a superclass act. I
Speaker 9: was at the ninety two Lexington Regionals and there was
Speaker 9: a little restaurant across the street from Reporina and we
Speaker 9: had left and got in there to get some beers,
Speaker 9: and Jim and Billy Packer walk in and they go
Speaker 9: up to the desk and the hostess obviously didn't recognize them,
Speaker 9: and they said, can we get a table? And I
Speaker 9: didn't hear the conversation, but basically there was a two
Speaker 9: hour wait and they made no accommodations for him. And
Speaker 9: he didn't even say I'm Jim Nance. He didn't say anything.
Speaker 9: Him and Billy Packerd just walked out.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know if it's a great story.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Did Jim go storm out?
Speaker 16: Yes, I thought he's gonna say, Jim Nance didn't big
Speaker 16: time an aspirates seat or a private table, which will
Speaker 16: been on brand.
Speaker 2: There's a restaurant in Dayton, Ohio called the Pine Club.
Speaker 2: I don't care who you are, you do not get
Speaker 2: preferential treatment. Presidents of the United States have been in Dayton.
Speaker 2: They have to wait called the Pine Club.
Speaker 3: That's a little crazy, Hey Todd, why are they more
Speaker 3: special than you.
Speaker 20: The president of the United States? Though you're not gonnake
Speaker 20: to commentists for the president. So Jim nest and they
Speaker 20: didn't stay for two hours waiting for the table. It
Speaker 20: sounds like no, they did not decided to move on.
Speaker 3: It's an incredible story about Jim Nannon's save a child
Speaker 3: from choking. You're not gonna believe this. That's actually worth it.
Speaker 20: And he told the story so fast.
Speaker 3: What are we doing? Come on?
Speaker 2: It took a little while to have him land the plane.
Speaker 2: Andy and Virginia. Hi Andy, what's on your mind?
Speaker 6: Hey Dan?
Speaker 7: Thanks for taking my call. Being a fan for a
Speaker 7: long time. I just wanted to get your opinion on
Speaker 7: the Ja Morant situation and what you think the differences
Speaker 7: between Florida State shooting arrows or the Patriots with their
Speaker 7: muskets or Tampa Bay shooting cannons or is this just
Speaker 7: more of an exaggerated thing with shooter McGavin makes a
Speaker 7: putt Okay.
Speaker 3: But but Andy, and thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: This is about John Morant off the court where he's
Speaker 2: had an actual gun with him and flaunting it. That's
Speaker 2: where you draw the line, Okay, that's the difference here, uh,
Speaker 2: Nick and Irvine? And if I'm John Morant, I don't
Speaker 2: want to remind people of an embarrassing time in my career. Hi, Nick,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 14: Couple things? Number one best fourth week by far, a
Speaker 14: thousand years from now, where are they going to be
Speaker 14: talking about how the Dodgers started their twenty twenty five
Speaker 14: epic Epics season eight to no no one else has
Speaker 14: ever done it as a defending champ. A thousand years
Speaker 14: from now, they're not going to be talking about anything.
Speaker 14: You know, They're going to be looking back, all right.
Speaker 14: So I solved the toush push. Hopefully I can get
Speaker 14: it to be known as the Nick and Irvine rule.
Speaker 14: I think it will. I think Dan, you know, I
Speaker 14: think if we with you on board. So here it
Speaker 14: is the way the Eagles run it. The quarterback his
Speaker 14: shoulders are low in true football position, he's he's he's
Speaker 14: getting low, and the guy from behind is pushing the toush.
Speaker 14: And that's because that's where the leverage is because of
Speaker 14: the position of the quarterback. Now, there are lots of
Speaker 14: rules in the NFL that says you can't block under
Speaker 14: the chin when you're rushing the quarterback. You can't hit
Speaker 14: the quarterback in the head, you can't block in the
Speaker 14: knees of the uh of guys in the offensive line
Speaker 14: when they're in a certain formation. Okay, so what you
Speaker 14: do is you eliminate where you can push, which is
Speaker 14: the tush Uh, and you want to try to push
Speaker 14: them down by below the tush Good, you're gonna be
Speaker 14: trying to tackle him. You're gonna when he's loaded with
Speaker 14: shoulders are load to the ground. You're gonna try to
Speaker 14: push him above the tushy. No, No, you're not gonna
Speaker 14: be able to. So it's gonna sound something like.
Speaker 3: This, Dan, all right, well, thank you, that's Nick. That's Nick.
Speaker 3: It's going to be the Nick and Irvine rule. So
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 2: With the tush push, the commissioner is going to get
Speaker 2: rid of this rule. Somehow, some way, he'll get rid
Speaker 2: of this. The Eagles will still be highly highly successful
Speaker 2: with a quarterback snake?
Speaker 20: Yes, Tom, did Nick and Irvan ever get to his
Speaker 20: actual point?
Speaker 2: I don't know if he was being serious, but uh,
Speaker 2: he was telling us where you could actually push the
Speaker 2: quarterback from behind, but not on the tushy.
Speaker 20: Another quick get to the point story.
Speaker 10: We got here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to land the plane. Okay, come on,
Speaker 2: better than that?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 3: Caden in Missouri? Hi, Caden, what's on your mind?
Speaker 14: Hey?
Speaker 19: Dan?
Speaker 9: First time caller?
Speaker 6: Suck it.
Speaker 21: Fritzier on a Friday, Highburn Tigers who don't really see
Speaker 21: what people think. It would be a bad thing to
Speaker 21: have them in the championship the best freshman in the
Speaker 21: country besides Cooper Flag and they got the best player
Speaker 21: in the country and Joe and I groom pretty much
Speaker 21: all I wanted to say, you guys have a good day,
Speaker 21: all right.
Speaker 3: Good luck?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just talking about you know, as far as
Speaker 2: the TV audience goes, I couldn't care less who plays
Speaker 2: for a title. I'm just looking at it. Are people
Speaker 2: going to watch? Are they going to care if Houston?
Speaker 2: Houston is not esthetically pleasing. But that's a great coach
Speaker 2: and he's done wonders there at Houston. But just looking
Speaker 2: at this as a fan, are you going to tune
Speaker 2: in for that?
Speaker 3: Is that something you're going to go?
Speaker 2: Musty TV? You got to have Duke in there, then
Speaker 2: you'll get a big number. If it's Duke in Florida,
Speaker 2: you'll do a really good number. And Houston's going to
Speaker 2: give Duke a lot of troubles. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of problems.
Speaker 3: I believe that. Let me see.
Speaker 2: Oh I saw this story and then Paulie saw it
Speaker 2: as well, and we thought, you know what, we should
Speaker 2: talk about this You'd never think that Lamar ja Accent
Speaker 2: and Dale Earnhardt Junior would be locked in a battle,
Speaker 2: a perhaps lawsuit battle, a trademark battle over the number eight.
Speaker 2: Dale Earnard Junior, I believe wants to trademark the number eight,
Speaker 2: and then Lamar Jackson or his people lawyers filed something.
Speaker 2: I don't know if an injunction to prevent this, but
Speaker 2: there have been a lot of number eights. I don't
Speaker 2: know how Dale Junior can lay claim to the number
Speaker 2: eight and trademarket.
Speaker 20: Yes, Todd, that sounds kind of ridiculous. It's like, you know,
Speaker 20: I love them, so.
Speaker 3: I take capital if that is okay, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I want to if numerals letters of the alphabet,
Speaker 15: we could take any letter or number and we can
Speaker 15: trademark it anytime.
Speaker 20: Anyone sentenced.
Speaker 3: We know that, we know it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 20: How is that even remotely a thing?
Speaker 3: I know? We know that, Paul. Can you add something
Speaker 3: to this? I'll try.
Speaker 16: Not as good as that Junior used eight on the
Speaker 16: side of his car for eight full seasons of NASCAR. Fritzi,
Speaker 16: you like that, and so he was before Lamar Jackson
Speaker 16: using number eight he's trying to file a bunch of trademarks,
Speaker 16: and Lamar Jackson is trying to block him because he's
Speaker 16: doing some promotional things with the number eight. The other
Speaker 16: hiccup is Troy Aikman has the number eight on a beer,
Speaker 16: which has been trademark already. So they're making the case
Speaker 16: like who was there first a little bit in some
Speaker 16: of these court cases.
Speaker 3: But how can you trademark a number?
Speaker 16: Usage of a number? I guess, like as a brand
Speaker 16: of eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, if Junior wants to trademark eight in Nascar, great,
Speaker 2: but not in other sports? What about Ovechkin, the Grade eight,
Speaker 2: Steve Young, Kobe? I mean, there's been a lot of
Speaker 2: Yogi Bearrow, There's been so many eights, Todd are you
Speaker 2: gonna add something to this?
Speaker 15: John Elway is known as seven, So what we're saying
Speaker 15: is it would have been financially responsible for him to
Speaker 15: make billions of dollars up seven. Anytime anyone refers to
Speaker 15: numeral seven forever, they have to pay John Elway a
Speaker 15: certain amount of money.
Speaker 3: But if that's that's not what the lawsuits.
Speaker 16: It's about different usages and media and promotions, not usages
Speaker 16: like you can't use the word say eight, and you
Speaker 16: get sued for it.
Speaker 3: Not that not that excellent. I shouldn't have brought this up.
Speaker 16: No, it's actually a good topic. Like could you settle
Speaker 16: it this way? Who has more fans with tattoos of
Speaker 16: their number referring to them Dale Junior or Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 4: Well, you can definitely settle it that way if you
Speaker 4: want one side to win over the other. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 4: if you want Dale Junior to win, Yeah, he's gonna win.
Speaker 4: I mean Kobe wore eight. Yeah, he's a pretty good one.
Speaker 4: Caw Ripken Jr.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a pretty good one.
Speaker 2: Dale Junior a Washington Commander's fan, by the way. Okay,
Speaker 2: so who's the most eight eight of all time? If
Speaker 2: you had to give the number and the rights to
Speaker 2: it to any athlete of all time? Who are we picking?
Speaker 3: Ripkin?
Speaker 16: Kobe, Bryant Dale, and our Junior, Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 20: Other?
Speaker 2: Well, Yogi Barrow won more than all of those guys.
Speaker 2: They played for the Yankees. What did Yogi?
Speaker 3: How many titles did he win?
Speaker 16: Fourteen time All Star, ten time World Series Champion, two
Speaker 16: time MVP.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, he's the most decorated. Kobe's the most famous,
Speaker 2: but then he changed his number twenty four.
Speaker 3: But I I'm I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of surprised that Junior or his people go,
Speaker 2: we're going to own the number eight or the usage
Speaker 2: of eight. What would prevent somebody else from using eight?
Speaker 2: In like you got Troy Aikman already using this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, see right, But if Lamar Jackson wanted to start
Speaker 4: selling key chains with the number eight on it, well,
Speaker 4: Dale Earnhard Junior owns that already.
Speaker 3: So you now you can't Well, can we grab a letter?
Speaker 4: How about DP?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Or just D? I mean I'll take that. It's
Speaker 3: all about the D.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, d's let's just start start grabbing letters. Lamar
Speaker 2: Jackson uses, you're gonna be twenty five letters in the
Speaker 2: alphabet with kids. There were Hey, we're not using D anymore?
Speaker 3: What were you saying?
Speaker 16: Paul Lamar Jackson uses E R A eight. I don't
Speaker 16: know why E R A looking at that to sell clothing,
Speaker 16: Duffel bags. Earnhardt uses his trademark stylized number eight to
Speaker 16: sell clothing, toys, and NASCAR goods.
Speaker 3: Well, Lamara might be Era, it might be the company Era,
Speaker 3: not E R A.
Speaker 20: Yes, tod and Aikman's beer spells out it.
Speaker 15: So is there a difference beween using the numeral and
Speaker 15: spelling up the word of a number.
Speaker 20: Where does that go?
Speaker 2: And he should have changed his name to Troy eight men.
Speaker 2: I like that, actually, thank you todded it.
Speaker 3: Thank you? Yeah. Yeah, Oh, you're gonna give me a one.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't give those you you did?
Speaker 2: You did pause, but maybe it's because you had a
Speaker 2: couple of I don't know, rough rough trying to give
Speaker 2: you a little Yeah. Then all sudden I got John
Speaker 2: Elway in this story. I'm like, why is John Elly
Speaker 2: in this story?
Speaker 20: Because he's seven?
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then if Joe Montana number.
Speaker 15: Three, he was just Joe cool, that's not anything, but
Speaker 15: always is seven.
Speaker 20: So he has got a buy seven the word and
Speaker 20: the numeral.
Speaker 3: You get older, but I stay seven.
Speaker 20: That's a good line.
Speaker 22: I like that.
Speaker 4: We should just do the ate and we'll get that
Speaker 4: part of eight too. Oh you guys take the number,
Speaker 4: We'll take the eating Ooh.
Speaker 3: I like that all right. Darryl in Texas, Hi, Daryl, Hi,
Speaker 3: Dann Hi.
Speaker 10: Daryl from Texas six foot Uh good personality.
Speaker 12: Hey, you guys said that crazy bo Jackson stat with Harball.
Speaker 10: Yeah this week, Well, I have a pretty wild one.
Speaker 10: Jerry Rice has the most receiving guards after the age
Speaker 10: of forty was twenty five hundred and nine and Tom
Speaker 10: Brady comes in second with six.
Speaker 2: Yeah out of the day brought to you by Beanedia America.
Speaker 2: That that's that's very niche niche as they like to say. Uh,
Speaker 2: Jared and Georgia. I Jared in Georgia.
Speaker 22: A VP kind of switch switching gears here. Watching the
Speaker 22: Olympics last year when USA, when you had Kadi Lebron
Speaker 22: and Steph All playing great, yep, it made me kind
Speaker 22: of think about how I have a comparison with them
Speaker 22: for TV guys or sports guys, And I would say
Speaker 22: that would be you, jim Nant and Ernie because of
Speaker 22: y'all longevity, how successful y'all have been, and y'all how
Speaker 22: professional y'all are. I kind of compare you three with
Speaker 22: those three.
Speaker 14: What do you think?
Speaker 22: What's your take on that?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: That would be me agreeing that I'm awesome, and that
Speaker 2: would be kind of awkward. Your thoughts, Yes, I'll let
Speaker 2: others decide that. Yes, Marvin and your Steph in that situation, threesome.
Speaker 16: Yes, sEH, yes, yes, yes, Pauline, Well, I think objectively
Speaker 16: you could compare you three in the fact that you're
Speaker 16: measured on air, and you're consistent on air for decades,
Speaker 16: and that your part of your job, you realize, is
Speaker 16: to make the other talent the star in certain situations. Yes,
Speaker 16: and I think all three of you guys do that.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but you know Bob Constace and now my
Speaker 2: I mean there's so many, there's there's too many. But yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you to be included in that group. But yeah,
Speaker 2: if I get to pick who I'm going to be,
Speaker 2: I want to be Steph Curry. Let me take a break.
Speaker 2: If you're watching on Peacock, you're going to get to
Speaker 2: watch Fritzy go out and fill his plate full of
Speaker 2: wings and carrots probably, yeah, and you'll be able to
Speaker 2: hear Todd eat his wing.
Speaker 3: It's a wonderful, wonder full sound.
Speaker 20: And the burger potato sound.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we'll take a break. We're back after this.
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Speaker 2: Last call for phone calls what we learn, what's in
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Speaker 2: Final results of the poll question Seaton.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a couple of them up there. We
Speaker 4: have Ja Morant needs to be helped or suspended right now?
Speaker 4: Sixty eight percent have him as suspended. We also have
Speaker 4: which fan base has no sense of humor about itself?
Speaker 3: Bill's Cowboys are Patriots? Cowboys?
Speaker 4: Running away with that one? Seventy seven percent?
Speaker 3: All right, Cowboys? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are they all in again in the office, Like I'm
Speaker 2: trying to keep track of all the moves the Cowboys
Speaker 2: have made here in the off season. You have the
Speaker 2: Pro Days at Colorado with Shadoor Sanders and Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2: They probably have a couple other players as well. But
Speaker 2: now I think Dion called it something different than a
Speaker 2: pro day. Marvin, did you see was there a different
Speaker 2: label of what the pro day is for Colorado? It
Speaker 2: was like celebration day or performance day or but it
Speaker 2: wasn't pro day, but it was something different for Colorado
Speaker 2: with Shador and Travis Hunter.
Speaker 3: Yes, payday. I'm looking. I don't see what he said. Well,
Speaker 3: Travis Hunter is certainly going to get paid up top I.
Speaker 16: Have it, Okay, DM called it. Coach Prime called it
Speaker 16: a NFL showcase showcase day.
Speaker 3: Okay, he good.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we're going to solve anything today
Speaker 2: with Shador Sanders, but he seems to be the topic
Speaker 2: in this draft. Where's he going? Is he slipping Jackson
Speaker 2: Dark go in front of him? The Saints take him?
Speaker 2: The over under is eight and a half of the
Speaker 2: draft picks and right now, and I'd hate to say over,
Speaker 2: but you start to look at these teams. If the
Speaker 2: Browns don't take him, and the Giants don't take him,
Speaker 2: then who else is going to take him? And the
Speaker 2: Saints it feels like now unless somebody wants to move
Speaker 2: up and get him, and that's obviously a possibility here.
Speaker 2: But then I just wonder, is he trade up worthy?
Speaker 2: If he falls in your lap, you might go, man,
Speaker 2: this is great. We're very lucky here, Like the Raiders
Speaker 2: with Brock Bowers, like he was one of the top
Speaker 2: top guys coming out, but playing tight end. You know,
Speaker 2: are you going to take him in the top three
Speaker 2: or four? That's why it's weird when you go that
Speaker 2: guy is going to be an All Pro? Do you
Speaker 2: want to take him?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 2: I'm telling you he's going to be an All Pro.
Speaker 2: Nobody is surprised that he's an All Pro. But you
Speaker 2: could have taken him and you know it's a sure thing,
Speaker 2: but they still don't do it. Like the best player
Speaker 2: in the draft, you can take him. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe we should take a chance on
Speaker 2: this quarterback here?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Monday headline any sport? Todd, I'm gonna start with you. You've
Speaker 2: had a rough show. Maybe nobody's laughing.
Speaker 3: Tod, I'm the only one laughing.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm going with what's net to like? We're down
Speaker 15: to two flag and broom off the final four games?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, all right? Seating?
Speaker 4: Oh let's is Monday's headline.
Speaker 3: Monday's headline? How about uh? Crock tease?
Speaker 4: Florida gives glimpse of finals showdown.
Speaker 20: That's pretty hot.
Speaker 3: Dang Crock like a gator? Oh yeah, Crock teas crock tease?
Speaker 3: Uh Marvin.
Speaker 23: Page Turner, page backers leads Yukon. Come on, please talk
Speaker 23: about that. On Monday, I went to Yukon and I
Speaker 23: was in a magazine.
Speaker 2: You were just say, but you weren't on the cover
Speaker 2: of the Yukon magazine.
Speaker 18: I thought, we're having fun.
Speaker 3: That's weird.
Speaker 2: When the writer's like, oh, you got to say something
Speaker 2: nice about Marvin, I go.
Speaker 24: Okay, he's he's he's long time, he he's.
Speaker 3: Do you have another question for me? Paulie Monday headline.
Speaker 16: Makes me want a Duke Blue Devils in the final again,
Speaker 16: not even anti.
Speaker 2: Duke olayright, I'll take that. The judges will, we will
Speaker 2: accept that one. We will accept that this day in
Speaker 2: sports history.
Speaker 16: You'll like this one, Dan, one of your guys. Nineteen
Speaker 16: seventy four, Hank Aaron tied Bay Bruce Major League record
Speaker 16: with home run seventy one four. Nineteen eighty six, Wayne
Speaker 16: Gretzky said the NHL record with point number two hundred.
Speaker 3: And thirteen over raided.
Speaker 16: It is funny calling someone not overrated over.
Speaker 3: It on their state.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty three, Jim Nance cried North Carolina State beat
Speaker 2: Houston fifty four to fifty two to win the NCAA Championship.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty eight. I was at this when Danny Manning
Speaker 2: and Kansas win over Oklahoma eighty three seventy nine. Let
Speaker 2: me see anything else. I think that's it. Jason and
Speaker 2: Florida joins us Hi. Jason wents on your mind today?
Speaker 11: Hey, Dan, you mentioned earlier about the ash plane in
Speaker 11: the minor league city MIT Sacramento, and if they made
Speaker 11: the playoffs, they Major League Baseball wouldn't want them to
Speaker 11: play there. They may have an alternate. They may be
Speaker 11: able to play in San Francisco, possibly for playoffs, but
Speaker 11: more legitimately, what if the Tampa Bay Rays makes the playoffs,
Speaker 11: They're playing in a minor league parking that's still alternative
Speaker 11: looking for the Rais to play.
Speaker 2: You're right, I mean this is a mess for Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball. It is two steps forward, one step back.
Speaker 2: And you know the A's are going to be there
Speaker 2: for a few years. Tampa Bay. They keep trying to
Speaker 2: keep them in Tampa and going to get a new stadium,
Speaker 2: and then you're not getting a stadium, and then you
Speaker 2: have the weather damage and.
Speaker 3: But there's some other good.
Speaker 2: Positive things with Major League Baseball. Torpedo bats Todd, what
Speaker 2: did you learn today?
Speaker 20: Trying to trademark a numeral could be challenging in the
Speaker 20: court of law.
Speaker 3: Seatan, what did you learn?
Speaker 4: That's what Madag was not worried about the torpedo bats.
Speaker 3: Marvin, what did you learn?
Speaker 18: We don't know anybody on the seventy six ers.
Speaker 3: We do not Paul, what did you learn? Toddy's carrots? Todd?
Speaker 3: What did I learn?
Speaker 15: Only the Dan Patrick joke and work in Bill Pullman
Speaker 15: in his career during the opening minutes of a national
Speaker 15: sports talk show.
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