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Speaker 1: morning long as we're here for you. Man. We actually
Speaker 1: we had a really good show. Very excited. Andrew Thomas
Speaker 1: is gonna join US offensive tackle George Bulldogs, seen as
Speaker 1: a top fifteen pick in a loaded draft for offense.
Speaker 1: How are you good? First? I did this Monday with
Speaker 1: Jason Smith. Is there something you're doing around the house
Speaker 1: now that you just either hadn't had time or the
Speaker 1: desire to do previously. Yes, I've been cleaning up my attic,
Speaker 1: going through all I got, you know, newspapers, magazines, all
Speaker 1: types of junk boxes, just everywhere. It's actually been good
Speaker 1: to halftime to clean this up, and I'm feeling good
Speaker 1: about it. You know how it is the in our
Speaker 1: profession or any job where you it's a lot of
Speaker 1: mental work for you. Your job, mindless work can be relaxing.
Speaker 1: I used to love cutting the grass in the summer
Speaker 1: in the off season, you know, just because you could
Speaker 1: do it without thinking. And this is that's kind of
Speaker 1: some stuff I'm doing right now. So it's actually been
Speaker 1: a little bit refreshing once I'm done with all that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do. We do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the weather's like there in southern California.
Speaker 1: It turned to be nice, like last week it was
Speaker 1: we had a lot of rain. Lay I'm not gonna complain,
Speaker 1: like we had real weather. But now that it's nice
Speaker 1: every day, the walks you take with your kids and
Speaker 1: with your wife whatever, like it's a it's a different deal.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, you know you actually have time. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: aren't you seeing more people out in your neighborhood than
Speaker 1: ever before? Yes? And now my neighborhood is generally one
Speaker 1: in which people old people walk and people walk their
Speaker 1: dogs and their their kids. But now you're like everybody's
Speaker 1: out bike rides with with with kids and families or whatever.
Speaker 1: And it does feel like there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: settling into what this new normal was. I will tell
Speaker 1: you we got, we got. We've been getting these emails. Now,
Speaker 1: you have two in college, right, Yes, so they're not
Speaker 1: actually in college, but whatever. Um, but when you have
Speaker 1: when they're in school, it depends on the school. But
Speaker 1: the public schools. We've gotten like a call every night.
Speaker 1: It's like check your email, So you check your email,
Speaker 1: and every day it's pushed back as to when they
Speaker 1: expect to be back on campus. Last night, we got
Speaker 1: the call June first, and they got a school in
Speaker 1: our neighborhood like the end of June. So basically we
Speaker 1: were told they're not going back to school. You guys
Speaker 1: figured it out. I mean, we still have the distance
Speaker 1: learning thing, but it is it. I'm surprised that so
Speaker 1: so school returning to school was an option, still can
Speaker 1: still cons it at an option, still considered option, yes,
Speaker 1: but it in one day. It went from May first
Speaker 1: or May fifth or something like that too. Then you
Speaker 1: get a call last night and it's June one, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure tonight it'll be you know what is don't
Speaker 1: come around. We're good, we're good here. But still this
Speaker 1: is the the new normal. No sports on TV. There
Speaker 1: was a doc HBO documentary on this FBI scandal following
Speaker 1: around Christian Dawkins. We'll get to that. The NFL Draft
Speaker 1: is gonna continue, is gonna go virtual draft. Some including
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter of our old place, have voiced their concerns
Speaker 1: as if there's people just dying in the streets obviously,
Speaker 1: like the outlook is potentially grim, but let's not overdo it.
Speaker 1: A virtual draft. I don't think we'll we'll change it.
Speaker 1: Was make the Earth spin off its access in any way. Um,
Speaker 1: and then you have the NFL, and I'm interested in
Speaker 1: this from you. The NFL voted and you and I
Speaker 1: discussed this when we did first things first, like a
Speaker 1: month ago, that they can expand the playoffs. One additional
Speaker 1: was it it's an additional team in each in each
Speaker 1: which gives a seven, which is fourteen of the thirty
Speaker 1: two will qualify for the playoffs. First in terms of
Speaker 1: expansion four or against. You know, when they first announced it,
Speaker 1: I felt like, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm fine. I mean, I think the NFL
Speaker 1: playoffs system is perfect the way it was, and I
Speaker 1: had no problems at all. There was no part of
Speaker 1: me thinking, man, wouldn't it be great if they had
Speaker 1: more teams in the playoffs or anything like that. However,
Speaker 1: now that they've changed it again, I didn't see the need.
Speaker 1: But I'm fine with it because you still, as you said,
Speaker 1: it's fourteen of the thirty two teams. That's still a
Speaker 1: small much smaller percentage than the NBA where they're sixteen
Speaker 1: of thirty and the NHL, where they're sixteen to thirty one.
Speaker 1: Now baseball's ten of thirty, so that's the toughest to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. But I'm fine with it. I do
Speaker 1: think it puts it takes away. It gives a bigger
Speaker 1: advantage to the number one seed because, as we know, Doug,
Speaker 1: the last seven years, all of the teams that have
Speaker 1: made the Super Bowl had the first round by sue.
Speaker 1: New England never won the Super Bowl without the bye.
Speaker 1: So now only that number one seed in each conference
Speaker 1: is going to get to buy. So I think that
Speaker 1: is a greater advantage than I'd like to see the
Speaker 1: number one seed have. But on the other hand, I
Speaker 1: can argue maybe that makes the regular season mean even
Speaker 1: more that you know everybody's vuying for that number one seed.
Speaker 1: So I'm fine with it. As long as it doesn't
Speaker 1: get two lopsided where you've got too many teams making
Speaker 1: the playoffs, I think it'll be good. Christ Brush got
Speaker 1: Laby in for Dan and the Dans here in the
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show Fox Sports Radio. I just I feel like,
Speaker 1: is the NFL watering down the playoffs? Yes, yes, of
Speaker 1: course they are. You know, another team in It's like,
Speaker 1: did we really need and and Major League Baseball, you know,
Speaker 1: which which had the fewest number of teams, As you
Speaker 1: point out, they kind of expanded and they did this
Speaker 1: kind of fake playoff thing where they had the play
Speaker 1: in game, which that's crazy, one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 1: games comes down to one. Yeah, it's not I do
Speaker 1: those things that sounded Huh? Don't you think now maybe
Speaker 1: they if they increased that to a three game series
Speaker 1: or something to be better. But don't you think the
Speaker 1: baseball playoffs have improved since they've added the extra teams? Uh,
Speaker 1: there was nothing in it. There's never anything wrong with
Speaker 1: the baseball playoffs to begin with. Um, they were, They
Speaker 1: were good then and they're good now. I don't think
Speaker 1: that the extra wildcard game, the play in game, I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think that's served any real purpose
Speaker 1: other than making more people more teams think they got
Speaker 1: a shot at getting in late in the season, Like
Speaker 1: the actual playoffs themselves, which have changed. It is and
Speaker 1: it is right because you still do have that, you know,
Speaker 1: you still have that we'll wait one game and then
Speaker 1: and then there are you know, wild cards. If if
Speaker 1: your Red Sox Yankees or you know you you know,
Speaker 1: pick the whoever the second best team in the best
Speaker 1: division in baseball is. Now you're going to lose your
Speaker 1: ace for your first series because you got to be
Speaker 1: the team that just got in by the skin of
Speaker 1: their chinny chinchin. So, I I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's helped it. I'll say this about the
Speaker 1: NFL um the NFL is is basically it's another genius
Speaker 1: way in which Roger Goodell is going to his career
Speaker 1: is not gonna it'll be a footnote the stuff with
Speaker 1: the Ray Rice and some of the other issues that
Speaker 1: they've had with player conduct, which in truth you don't
Speaker 1: know if the commissioner should have to deal with, but
Speaker 1: he did. And but the real, the real inside baseball
Speaker 1: in this case, inside football thing on Goodella's he's been
Speaker 1: brilliant at creating revenue where you felt like they were
Speaker 1: previously tapped out, right, Like remember he brought back Thursday
Speaker 1: night Football and then and while doing it, made them
Speaker 1: carry it on the NFL network. It didn't go particularly well.
Speaker 1: Then he made them split it CBS at NBC. It
Speaker 1: still didn't go that well. Then Fox actually paid more money.
Speaker 1: They gave him a better schedule, and you know it
Speaker 1: now it works. Thursday night football is here, here to stay.
Speaker 1: It's not coming out of the new next ten years
Speaker 1: the collected Bart agreement. Right. So then he's got the
Speaker 1: games in Mexico when they've gone off, they've got more
Speaker 1: games in London. Again. These just more revenue that's created.
Speaker 1: And when you start to get tapped out, the only
Speaker 1: way to get more TV revenue when you're getting ready
Speaker 1: to negotiate with all these big companies is to give
Speaker 1: them more product. And that's what they've done. Now. Did
Speaker 1: you see that one of the wild card game will
Speaker 1: be simulca I believe on Nickelodeon. Do you see that? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't. Yes, yes, yes. In an effort to to
Speaker 1: expand their audience to a younger generation, they're gonna play
Speaker 1: one of these games on Nickelodeon with like a kid's
Speaker 1: style broadcast team, a kid's style. Why they don't know
Speaker 1: SpongeBob will be involved. As you said that, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: why why does that help being on Nickelodeon. But with
Speaker 1: a kid's style broadcast team, and you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: everything will be geared toward kids the entire broadcast. That
Speaker 1: makes sense, And that's pretty good. And I think, Doug,
Speaker 1: this is in somewhat of an answer. I think to
Speaker 1: um the fact that you know, not as many kids
Speaker 1: are playing football correct now as obviously kids still wildly
Speaker 1: into football, but as far as playing it, not as
Speaker 1: many are doing it. Yeah, it's a good idea. It's
Speaker 1: a it's an interesting it feels like an adult idea
Speaker 1: telling you what kids are into. Where it's like kids like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know football exists, like we're really well well aware
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, I've never had a problem. But it's
Speaker 1: it's you know it. Uh they still people are still
Speaker 1: gonna play. I also, I also don't think that's really
Speaker 1: the demo of kids that are going to that that
Speaker 1: are going to be into it. Man. So maybe that's
Speaker 1: what they're thinking is we'll expand to that. But you know,
Speaker 1: kids that are sports kids aren't watching Nickelodeon. They're just
Speaker 1: not watch They watch YouTube, okay, and they watch sports,
Speaker 1: and kids that watch Nickelodeon watch Nickelodeon. But you know
Speaker 1: what makes it I agree with you because that was
Speaker 1: my first thought as well. I'm sure they're just watching
Speaker 1: it on you know, Fox and and the other networks
Speaker 1: that that air of football. However, if the broadcast is
Speaker 1: totally geared toward kids, yes, that makes it a little
Speaker 1: bit intriguing. It'll be a smaller part of the audience.
Speaker 1: But I think that's that's not a bad idea. And
Speaker 1: even if it's not getting the kids that may play
Speaker 1: the game, it's still getting kids that may want to
Speaker 1: be broadcasters, may want to be sports writers, you know,
Speaker 1: are just into it for fantasy. So I think in
Speaker 1: that regard, he could it's a good idea. No, it's look,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. Obviously, it does open up totally
Speaker 1: different sponsors. Couldn't you watch Nick? You know there's there's
Speaker 1: different sponsors. It'll be it'll be interesting though with you know,
Speaker 1: are you gonna do you know kids are by then
Speaker 1: are they going to be doing vine and not vines? Uh?
Speaker 1: To TikTok's right, you'll be doing TikTok span whatever. The
Speaker 1: next thing is, I just you know, you you I
Speaker 1: have twin thirteen year olds and a ten year old.
Speaker 1: If you're watch sports and life through their eyes, it's
Speaker 1: a completely different lens. Just it just is um not
Speaker 1: just their attention span. They're not you know when once
Speaker 1: they get into Netflix and watching streaming stuff, they're not
Speaker 1: used to commercials, right, you know, there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of things that they're not so and then of course
Speaker 1: it'll be programmed by probably fifty and sixty year olds
Speaker 1: who are going to try and determine based upon their
Speaker 1: kids and grandkids what kids want to see or what
Speaker 1: they should see. That that, to me is is super interesting.
Speaker 1: And then in terms of the seating part, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I understand the status you're giving in that. You know,
Speaker 1: last seven years, to win a Super Bowl you got
Speaker 1: to have a buy. Of course, now there's only one buy.
Speaker 1: So what does that do to the number two seats?
Speaker 1: And think of how different this year's NFL would have been.
Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about the back end of it, right that
Speaker 1: the what the Steelers and the Rams would have made
Speaker 1: the playoffs? What about the front end of it? Remember
Speaker 1: the Ravens were the one seed they lost at home.
Speaker 1: But think of the think of the NFC in that
Speaker 1: the Niners were really a play away from a Seattle
Speaker 1: had Seattle not completely botched a late game situation at
Speaker 1: home against the Niners. The Niners have to go on
Speaker 1: the road for their playoff playoff run as opposed to
Speaker 1: they get the one seed, and now the one seed
Speaker 1: will become even bigger. I do wonder if it's if
Speaker 1: it's too much skewing, too much favoring in the favor
Speaker 1: of the team that ends up with the one seed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the one thing I don't like about it, Doug.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, more playoff football, I think is great.
Speaker 1: I think part of this is that the NFL and
Speaker 1: not that they have to take cues from the NBA, obviously,
Speaker 1: but you know, Doug, the NBA playoffs is so long.
Speaker 1: It's two and a half months. Yes, it's like a
Speaker 1: whole separate season, and it is the best part of
Speaker 1: the year, and they dominate, you know, especially you know,
Speaker 1: the first round, which usually isn't that big of a deal,
Speaker 1: is great because it's the big forty games and forty nights,
Speaker 1: you know, that's how it's advertised and all that. And
Speaker 1: I think the NFL can look at that and say, hey,
Speaker 1: people love football. They can't get enough. The more the merrier,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. You don't want to water down
Speaker 1: the playoffs too much. But again, fourteen of thirty two
Speaker 1: I don't really have a problem with. My biggest problem
Speaker 1: is exactly what we've just been talking about is the seeding.
Speaker 1: I think it's too much of an advantage for the
Speaker 1: number one seed. Now, as you said, Baltimore just got
Speaker 1: beat as the number one seed, so it's not going
Speaker 1: to make it automatic that they get to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But I think when you got seven teams in the
Speaker 1: field in each conference, and to give thee one seed
Speaker 1: that big of an advantage, I think is a little
Speaker 1: a little too much. I was fine with the top
Speaker 1: two teams getting that, but just one it's a big advantage.
Speaker 1: But hey, it is what it is, and you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: I think last year the NFC was so close. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously San Francisco was just a nightmarish matchup for Green Bay,
Speaker 1: but otherwise it was very close, and I think something
Speaker 1: like San Francisco getting the first see you probably would
Speaker 1: have had a different team in the in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: All right, come up next, Christ Perustar Doug gotli Evan
Speaker 1: for Dan the Dnets here on the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins need a quarterback want a quarterback. The
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals seem to be in line to draft said quarterback.
Speaker 1: Should should Cincinnati trade that number one overall pick. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that next. So chrispers start. I'm Dug Gotli.
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Speaker 1: Radio in the iHeart Radio WAPP. Chris, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw the story of Armando Sagaro from the
Speaker 1: Miami Herald said that the Dolphins want to trade up
Speaker 1: to get Joe Burrow. Now, look, I I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think if there's a Bengals in the NBA or a
Speaker 1: Bengals elsewhere in sports. And when I say Bengals, automatically
Speaker 1: there's gonna be people who have this negative connotation about
Speaker 1: how bad they've been the past two years. And they've
Speaker 1: been bad, but people forget they did go to the
Speaker 1: playoffs five consecutive years. But they're just an organization that
Speaker 1: has seen, as you know, frugal to the point of
Speaker 1: being cheap. They build only from within. They're not a
Speaker 1: big free agency team, and they'll take because they're going
Speaker 1: through the draft, they'll dumpster dive a little bit and
Speaker 1: take a guy who might have a knock against him
Speaker 1: if they can get him, you know, in the second, third,
Speaker 1: fourth round, when they're really a first or second round talent. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: they're used. The Clippers used to be that team under
Speaker 1: Donald Sterling. I think they used to be that team.
Speaker 1: But they all rugality and all that. Now, now, the
Speaker 1: Bengals did win a Super Bowl, right, get to a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Right? Um, And like you said they did.
Speaker 1: They were a perennial playoff team at one point recently
Speaker 1: under Marvin Lewis. But yeah, the Clippers, I mean, they
Speaker 1: didn't care about winning. They just want to make money.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, remember they signed they had the big
Speaker 1: Baron Davis and Elton brand signing right there. There were
Speaker 1: times in which they decided to spend money. They try,
Speaker 1: Yeah they did, but they had a terrible reputation in
Speaker 1: the sport, not yeah, being being cheap. Obviously, they didn't
Speaker 1: have their own build. The building they had was was terrible.
Speaker 1: There's a debt looted. Okay, So if we say Clippers
Speaker 1: under Sterling is Bengals, Okay, I'm okay with that. So
Speaker 1: here the Bengals are, and look, it's the perfect storm
Speaker 1: for them. They need a quarterback. There's a quarterback available.
Speaker 1: He's an Ohio kid, just won the National Championship, won
Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy. He had the best season maybe the
Speaker 1: history of the sport at the position. And oh yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, they they the number one pick. Now
Speaker 1: you're under club control. He's gonna make a reasonable sum
Speaker 1: of money. Like, the whole thing just lines up right.
Speaker 1: Last year's first round picks and offensive tackle sat out,
Speaker 1: they missed. The year he's back. They got some offensive
Speaker 1: line help on the way. AJ greenback Joe Mixon, like
Speaker 1: all that stuff works. But if the Dolphins have three
Speaker 1: first round picks, it would be a colossal trade for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins to move up. But and I don't think
Speaker 1: they will do it. If you're the Bengals, don't you
Speaker 1: consider doing it. Here's my look. If I'm the Bengals,
Speaker 1: you gotta listen to everything, because, as you said, if
Speaker 1: you can get that type of hall from Miami, then
Speaker 1: you gotta consider it. However, you mentioned the offensive line
Speaker 1: should improve. They've got some great players really. AJ Green obviously,
Speaker 1: assuming he comes back the way it was Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: is obviously good. You got some really good players at
Speaker 1: the skills spots. What you need is a quarterback, and
Speaker 1: you've got a guy right there now. If I was
Speaker 1: confident that I could get Ta if I fail to five,
Speaker 1: then I would do it in a heartbeat a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: But I don't think they can be that confident that
Speaker 1: they get him, because you know, some people still have
Speaker 1: Washington taking to a at number two. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they will. And does a team move up and
Speaker 1: try to trade with Detroit? I mean, does Detroit take him?
Speaker 1: But if Detroit doesn't take him, do they trade down
Speaker 1: and somebody else moves up to get him? You don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about the Giants at four. But that's
Speaker 1: my concern again. I like Burrow, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know if I like him better than Tuah. I think
Speaker 1: they're very close. I would be totally fine with getting
Speaker 1: too if I'm Cincinnati, but I don't think I can
Speaker 1: get him at five. So for that reason, if I'm
Speaker 1: the Bengals, even though I look at the offer from Miami,
Speaker 1: I go ahead and I draft Joe Burrow. I'm with
Speaker 1: you on a point you made, which is a really
Speaker 1: good one, which is like, look, if you can get
Speaker 1: Tah and I've seen other few. Point, if there's a
Speaker 1: way in which you can say, all right, Miami, you
Speaker 1: want to climb up this ladder, come on and climb
Speaker 1: up this ladder. But you know, you gotta make sure
Speaker 1: that you hand us the three picks so that we
Speaker 1: can figure out a way that we know what Detroit
Speaker 1: wants that we work together. Look, the problem with all
Speaker 1: of this is one the Bengals aren't gonna do it,
Speaker 1: and to his injury makes it even more problematic because
Speaker 1: in order to make a trade that big and to
Speaker 1: go after a player of the importance of Tuah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna want to have your own people fine
Speaker 1: toothcomb him and you know, check out his health. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's possible between now and the draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I doubt it is. And that's a great point. Um,
Speaker 1: Are you worried generally about ta Because I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: And I kind of feel like I learned my lesson.
Speaker 1: Even though every guy is different, and obviously this guy
Speaker 1: proved to be some type of physical specimen Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 1: I thought he was banged up a lot in college,
Speaker 1: and I thought, if he was banged up in college,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna he's not gonna be able to survive
Speaker 1: that long in the NFL. Obviously that wasn't the case.
Speaker 1: He was fine. Um, but generally if a guys has
Speaker 1: been beat up in college, you tend to think he's
Speaker 1: going to have some problems in the pros. But I
Speaker 1: feel better about Tuah now and and I kind of feel,
Speaker 1: you know, safe about him, you know, being a guy
Speaker 1: that you don't have to worry about getting hurt all
Speaker 1: the time in the NFL. Yeah. Um, you know, Look,
Speaker 1: there's one side of it that says, you know, Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz hurt in college, gets hurt in the pros, Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson towards a cl and college towards the ACL and
Speaker 1: the pros. You know, he's added the collapse lung whatever
Speaker 1: I would be. I am concerned about two. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. It's not just the injuries with a
Speaker 1: litany of them. It's he's not big. He is. He's
Speaker 1: basically six feet tall. He's left handed, and as much
Speaker 1: as you'd say, like what's the big deal, there aren't
Speaker 1: any other left handed quarterbacks in the NFL, they just aren't.
Speaker 1: You know, Dez Bryant's the last left handed touchdown thrower.
Speaker 1: That's it, you know. So uh and and then you
Speaker 1: throw in the he's been injured. Now, he's a spectacular talent,
Speaker 1: but all if you consider both ankle injuries and the
Speaker 1: hip injury, all of those injuries have been when college
Speaker 1: defensive lineman track him down. And at the college defensive
Speaker 1: lineman track you down and hurt you. What do you
Speaker 1: think the pros are gonna do? So, yes, I would
Speaker 1: be really really concerned. But in trying to evaluate him
Speaker 1: versus other prospects, some of these guys are so sold
Speaker 1: on TUA that they're willing to overlook all of those
Speaker 1: warning signs, right like that this is one of those.
Speaker 1: It's like a car where you're like, all right, ankle injuries, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's when you pop a tire like that happens. It's
Speaker 1: not your fault that there was something in the roadway.
Speaker 1: It happened twice, all right, You're just super unlucky. Now
Speaker 1: you hurt your hip, You're like, wow, that's wow, that's
Speaker 1: we gotta really go under the hood here. And you're
Speaker 1: kind of young to be going under the hood and
Speaker 1: it's a hip and even though he's cleared for activities,
Speaker 1: there's still one more hurdle that a doctor will have
Speaker 1: to see in terms of making sure there's not what
Speaker 1: bow Jackson had slight chance. But still we don't know.
Speaker 1: I do feel like we're we're glossing over like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's fine now, Like yeah, but he's been hurt a
Speaker 1: bunch and in a very short period of time. It
Speaker 1: makes you wonder if he and again, is this something
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's thinking about? Could he drop? I mean drop like
Speaker 1: to ten eleven? You know, because of that, because teams
Speaker 1: aren't able to look at his medicals and have their
Speaker 1: own guy, or not not look at his medicals, but
Speaker 1: have their own guy examine them. Uh, that could be
Speaker 1: an issue, because you're right, I mean, we've seen it
Speaker 1: in the past in various sports where one team will
Speaker 1: pass a guy for a physical and another team won't.
Speaker 1: Another team will fail him, and so that's something too.
Speaker 1: So every team I imagine is going to certainly would
Speaker 1: like to have their own doctors look at him, but
Speaker 1: they won't. They're not gonna get a chance. I don't
Speaker 1: only feel confident that they won't get a chance. To
Speaker 1: look at him. I'm I'm pretty certain teams won't get
Speaker 1: a chance to examine him. Well what they maybe not
Speaker 1: their guy, but they'll be they'll send somebody over. There
Speaker 1: are loopholes in this thing, you know. It's like all
Speaker 1: these facilities are shut down with the exception of rehab.
Speaker 1: So anybody who's had any sort of work done already
Speaker 1: can get in their facilities and train. I'm guessing that
Speaker 1: you can probably get a doctor. You know, you won't
Speaker 1: get a doctor to perform surgery, but you can get
Speaker 1: a doctor to either get on a flight or a
Speaker 1: neutral doctor at least to go and see and send
Speaker 1: you some films and check it out if you're gonna
Speaker 1: make an investment of this. Like, that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that these gms are working through. They're doing all
Speaker 1: of it, you know, online, and they're meeting and they're
Speaker 1: doing face to faces with with these players. And the
Speaker 1: question becomes how much can they do in terms of
Speaker 1: of the doctors of checking these guys out, and how
Speaker 1: they work through kind of all of the red tape
Speaker 1: that keeps them from doing what they normally normally do.
Speaker 1: I had virtual coffee with a GM over the weekend
Speaker 1: and he was like, look, that's like twenty five percent
Speaker 1: of our work still won't won't get finished compared to
Speaker 1: how we normally do it. Right, we don't have those
Speaker 1: extended we don't have those pro days. We're going going
Speaker 1: really eyeball somebody. So your scouts do become really valuable
Speaker 1: in that they've seen him. On the other hand, you know,
Speaker 1: you want to everybody wants to see a guy with
Speaker 1: your own eyes, and you want to see your own
Speaker 1: numbers and see what a guy runs, because no matter
Speaker 1: how he looks on film and how good an interview
Speaker 1: he is, you know, take a cornerback for a second.
Speaker 1: You know, a cornerback may look faster on tape, but
Speaker 1: then you see him on four, six, five, and there's
Speaker 1: like a two percent chance he makes in the league
Speaker 1: if he's running those kind of numbers. That's that's just
Speaker 1: based upon the history of the league. No, there's no
Speaker 1: question about that. And I think all of that is
Speaker 1: definitely legitimate. But I think the biggest minus of this
Speaker 1: whole situation for draft you know, gems and scouts is
Speaker 1: that is the medical situation. Yeah, not being able, That's
Speaker 1: that's the biggest I think, you know, It's interesting. We've
Speaker 1: heard guys you know, from the old school, talk about, hey,
Speaker 1: this is how we used to do it. You know,
Speaker 1: we didn't get all this information. And even today with
Speaker 1: all of the information, all of the you know, in
Speaker 1: person interviews and ever, you know how they just scoured
Speaker 1: these guys background and they know so much about them,
Speaker 1: you still have mistakes made. So while I get that
Speaker 1: I'd rather sit down with a guy, look him in
Speaker 1: the eye, get to study his body language, you know,
Speaker 1: things like that. I still think you can get a
Speaker 1: decent enough feel for a guy. Obviously with the tape.
Speaker 1: I can watch a ton of tape, and you're right,
Speaker 1: it's not the same as having him run you know,
Speaker 1: the forty. However, you know this, Doug, there are some
Speaker 1: guys that have football speed, and there are some guys
Speaker 1: that are that are faster in the forty. So there
Speaker 1: are guys that might not run a great forty time Ali,
Speaker 1: Jerry Rice, but on the field they run faster. You know.
Speaker 1: So I think if you watching the film is good,
Speaker 1: it's fine. I think the skype or zoom or however
Speaker 1: they're gonna do these video interviews with the prospects, I
Speaker 1: think that is adequate. So I don't think it's as
Speaker 1: like I get that. You know, this is not what
Speaker 1: we're used to now, the gems. They're used to seeing
Speaker 1: these kids and really being able to, you know, cover
Speaker 1: every nook and cranny as far as scouting them. It's
Speaker 1: a little different now. However, I don't think it's that
Speaker 1: bad because every team is under the same situation. It's
Speaker 1: not like a few teams in the AFC having advantage
Speaker 1: or ten teams in the NFC or whatever. Everybody has
Speaker 1: the same rules. You still, with the technology, there's still
Speaker 1: a way to get plenty of information outside of the
Speaker 1: medical stuff. I still think they'll be pretty good. The
Speaker 1: the the under tape and regular speed thing. I get it,
Speaker 1: it sounds good. I'm just I'm telling you what the league.
Speaker 1: You know, speed and athleticism is something that you just
Speaker 1: you can't The tape may not lie, but neither does
Speaker 1: the stopwatch, and like that's like a time tested deal.
Speaker 1: They just won't. Guys, just with there there's a there's
Speaker 1: a cutoff. I mean, I know, we love the forty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't be running a four seven, you know,
Speaker 1: be a receiver. However, there is no question that there
Speaker 1: are some guys that have better football speed, right, competitive
Speaker 1: competitive you'd call competitive speed competitive speed as well. Right,
Speaker 1: I've always now you didn't play football. You played a
Speaker 1: little bit of football, yes, okay, when now when you
Speaker 1: ran the forty. When I ran the forty, we always
Speaker 1: ran it with two guys because the feeling was that
Speaker 1: you would run faster in a race. And it's always amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing me how these guys can run
Speaker 1: a four two four three by themselves, yes, with no rabbit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now you I imagine you did the same thing. You
Speaker 1: ran it with another with a partner, right, Actually, that
Speaker 1: was the I think that was the hardest part of
Speaker 1: When I got to college, we ran forties, and I
Speaker 1: remember running it, like the first first one I ran,
Speaker 1: I ran you know, like four six or four seven
Speaker 1: or something, and I felt it was for a point guard.
Speaker 1: That was a fairly slow time, and I was like,
Speaker 1: it's so hard with us though. That's but forty yards
Speaker 1: is quick is is quickness. But I mean eventually I
Speaker 1: got got lower when I got used to it. Um,
Speaker 1: But I remember the first time I ran it, that
Speaker 1: was the that was the big thing in your mind,
Speaker 1: which is like because when you're doing court sprints, there's
Speaker 1: almost always a guy to beat, right, Like, I would
Speaker 1: always mean another teammate would always try and win every course,
Speaker 1: so it felt like you could go faster. Um, yes,
Speaker 1: when there's on the other hand, this is how it's done, right.
Speaker 1: It's just that you can line up, they say go
Speaker 1: it goes on your mark, and you just kind of
Speaker 1: do it. I mean, it's less than five seconds of
Speaker 1: running as fast as you can. There's not a whole
Speaker 1: hell of a lot, a whole lot to it, all right,
Speaker 1: here's what to do coming up next. Um, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of ideas for how to bring back the
Speaker 1: NBA right, lots of ideas, and we are told, we
Speaker 1: are told in brainstorming sessions there's no bad ideas and
Speaker 1: no bad ideas, we'll just put them all the wall.
Speaker 1: I think that statement has been challenged. We'll get to
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Speaker 1: Search f SR to listen live. He's been a starter
Speaker 1: on that offensive line, and now he's projected to be
Speaker 1: a first round draft pick in the upcoming NFL draft. Andrew,
Speaker 1: how are you? Hey? How are you doing? I'm good,
Speaker 1: glad to be on the show. Where where are you
Speaker 1: right now? I'm then active currently? What is this? What
Speaker 1: is this like in terms of your ability to continue
Speaker 1: to train, to be to talk to teams, like what
Speaker 1: is your daily daily business life? Yeah, so I have
Speaker 1: a personal trainer that has a connected the gym that's
Speaker 1: closed down, but the owner lets me go in there,
Speaker 1: you know, making sure we're practice and social distance so
Speaker 1: you can have more than ten people in there. But
Speaker 1: going in there, you know, trying to stay in shape.
Speaker 1: And then as far as talking to the teams, I've
Speaker 1: been doing the zoom calls and FaceTime just to stay
Speaker 1: in contact. What's your background in the zoom calls? That's
Speaker 1: that's what we really want to know. When youre the
Speaker 1: zoom you can pick your bone background. What's your background?
Speaker 1: This is my first time doing it, actually, um, I
Speaker 1: know for a lot of students and they're using that,
Speaker 1: Like a lot of my teammates are in Georgia. They
Speaker 1: said they're using that for collects and stuff, but this
Speaker 1: is my first time using it. Andrew, how disappointed are you?
Speaker 1: Or let me put it this way, how different do
Speaker 1: you feel it'll be for you to have the draft
Speaker 1: be done kind of virtually, and I guess you'll be
Speaker 1: at home with some of your family. How much family
Speaker 1: will you have with you and does it really put
Speaker 1: a damper on it? Are you still like, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: about to get drafted in the first round of the NFL? Uh,
Speaker 1: this is still going to be a great day, all right?
Speaker 1: At first, UM, thinking about it, UM, you know, it
Speaker 1: was a little disappointing because you know, we've been training
Speaker 1: for this, this moment your whole life. Um, looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. But UM, at the same time, I realized that,
Speaker 1: you know, I gonna control it. I can control UM
Speaker 1: still have opportunities to get to, you know, follow my
Speaker 1: dream play for NFL team and I'll get to experience
Speaker 1: that with my family barress. So UM, what more could
Speaker 1: you asked for? How much family will you have around? Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, are you guys kind of trying to limit
Speaker 1: the number or what's it gonna be? Like? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be a limit, a limit mostly immediate family
Speaker 1: in there. Maybe you know a couple of family friends.
Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas joining us. Uh. If you remember the left
Speaker 1: tackle a Georgia dominated the Utter Dame their last meeting,
Speaker 1: all that team like a seventy one. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I don't like that guy. If you're a Notre Dame fan, Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so what what? What is? What was the combine life
Speaker 1: for you in terms of your preparation and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean like, look, you work your entire You're a
Speaker 1: guy who literally has worked your entire for your career.
Speaker 1: You got all this tape and yet some of it
Speaker 1: comes down to your measurements, how you run, how you lift,
Speaker 1: how the combine go. Yeah, so trainer for the combine
Speaker 1: was a great experience. Um, been around guys you know,
Speaker 1: trying to get to the same like what was you?
Speaker 1: You know, they helped push you and it was a
Speaker 1: great opportunity for me. The actual combine experience was a
Speaker 1: dream come true. It was nothing like I, you know,
Speaker 1: envisioned it to be. But nevertheless I took advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Um that got tested well, Um, I feel I could
Speaker 1: have done a little better. But you know, pretty satisfied
Speaker 1: with it. We don't have pro day now, so I'm
Speaker 1: kind of you know, stuck with those numbers. But like
Speaker 1: I said, it was a great opportunity I had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy no pro day, right, no chance to
Speaker 1: to define. Okay, So what did you think the combine
Speaker 1: would be like? And then how is it different from
Speaker 1: how you thought? Yeah, so I knew there would be
Speaker 1: you know, meetings and things of that nature. Obviously them testing,
Speaker 1: but um, I really didn't understand that the medical part
Speaker 1: would be that extremuous. Um it's literally like you know,
Speaker 1: seven or eight rooms full of team doctors coming in,
Speaker 1: poking and parting on you, just trying to you know,
Speaker 1: see what's wrong with you. M M, eyes, extrangs, all
Speaker 1: that thing is just trying to make sure you know
Speaker 1: you're healthy. And then I don't realize that, you know,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't get as much sleep, like you have meetings
Speaker 1: till eleven to twelve at night and then you know,
Speaker 1: up the next morning with something else to do. So
Speaker 1: it was very busy, but like I said, I enjoyed
Speaker 1: the process. Okay, so you wanted to get better numbers?
Speaker 1: Is it forty because was it forty time that you
Speaker 1: want to do better? Yeah, I'll probably probably did the
Speaker 1: forty time a little better. Um, I tested a little
Speaker 1: better when I was done the train. Um, and I didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, performance as well as I thought I would.
Speaker 1: But at this point, you know, I'm stuck with it
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, especially for our position of focus
Speaker 1: you know, on FAM and I felt like I put
Speaker 1: up a lot of good film on take. So I
Speaker 1: should be fine. And I've seen my drafts with you
Speaker 1: going fourteenth to Tampa Bay. Obviously they just got a
Speaker 1: new quarterback. You mentioned that one of your answers previously
Speaker 1: a dream come true. Would it be a dream come
Speaker 1: true being able to block for Tim Brady? Definitely? Uman,
Speaker 1: He's the greatest of all time. And I can learn
Speaker 1: so much from you know, being on the team with
Speaker 1: what a leader like that. I got us. You know,
Speaker 1: been around the system about as long as I've been alive, So, um,
Speaker 1: you know that would definitely be a you know, a
Speaker 1: great opportunity to play with them. Are you hoping to
Speaker 1: go there? Like would that be a number one choice? Um?
Speaker 1: Not really, I'm just I'm just over to you know,
Speaker 1: anybody that wants to take me. I'm not really you know,
Speaker 1: specifically to any team or whatever team takes a chance
Speaker 1: for me, that's gonna be the team you know I'm
Speaker 1: moving for. Yeah, I understand. But you've only been in
Speaker 1: the state of Georgia, right, grew up in Georgia, played
Speaker 1: at Georgia. I mean, what's what's the longest you've ever
Speaker 1: been really away from home? The longest I've been away
Speaker 1: from home probably probably training for their own prone that
Speaker 1: was playing along this time. What was it like for you? Um?
Speaker 1: It was different. I was down there in Florida, um,
Speaker 1: trying away from my family. But you know, coming back,
Speaker 1: it wasn't too bad of adjustment on my family and
Speaker 1: still you know, I had work to do, and it
Speaker 1: was the same one for me. Um. I went back
Speaker 1: a couple of times while I was training and come
Speaker 1: see the families. I wasn't too bad. Okay, you mentioned
Speaker 1: that there's a gym that shut down. We don't want
Speaker 1: to mention it because we don't want to get We
Speaker 1: don't have the defense going in there. Is there is
Speaker 1: there a secret knock, because that's what they have. They
Speaker 1: have these like almost like speakeasies from the twenties they
Speaker 1: have these gyms where you gotta is there a secret
Speaker 1: knocked or do you have to go in the back door?
Speaker 1: Do you have to because you're kind of a it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to be inconspicuous when you're six five three
Speaker 1: fifteen three twenty. All right, you gotta you gotta fleeak
Speaker 1: in through the bat and make sure nobody see you
Speaker 1: get in there. Let's see, are there Are there a
Speaker 1: lot of guys doing you know a lot of pro
Speaker 1: athletes are about to be pro athletes doing this. I
Speaker 1: talked to some of our um some of my guys,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them are still training. It's just
Speaker 1: like you. They're doing or their own or they're doing
Speaker 1: a facility where you know, it's a limited because as
Speaker 1: long as you know you have less than ten people
Speaker 1: than you know, you're you're okay. Depending on where you're at.
Speaker 1: You picked up Broussard's cleaning his attic. What are you
Speaker 1: doing with all this downtime? Like, you know you can't
Speaker 1: go out and hang out? What what? What you picked
Speaker 1: up any any new hobbies? So yeah, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: starting to get on the game and seeing I've been
Speaker 1: playing Call of Dude stuff out down my friends. Um.
Speaker 1: And then another big hobby for me is playing the piano.
Speaker 1: You're good, really, I'm okay at it? Yeah? Do you
Speaker 1: have you did? That's something you did growing up? So
Speaker 1: I grew up in a musical musical family. I played
Speaker 1: drums like all my life. I was in the band everything,
Speaker 1: and so what I would appologe I knew and I
Speaker 1: couldn't do bandings more obviously, and so I decided to
Speaker 1: transition over to the piano because the percussion notes like
Speaker 1: the was dollophone and marima stuff like that. It's the
Speaker 1: same notes more piano. So I decided to try to
Speaker 1: teach myself a little bit. What was the band and
Speaker 1: called that you that your your last band? You're in?
Speaker 1: What was it called? Uh? Not like a not like
Speaker 1: a bad like singing. It's like a like in the
Speaker 1: band in my school. Okay, okay, yeah, all right, Oh
Speaker 1: so you were able to be in the band, and
Speaker 1: I guess during after football season you did it? So
Speaker 1: I did. I did a band like the concerts and stuff,
Speaker 1: um all through our the end at pep rallys, I'll
Speaker 1: be you know, with the band with my jersey or
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Um, obviously during the games, I'll be
Speaker 1: with the football team. But yeah, I did all the
Speaker 1: concerts and stuff like that with the band. If you
Speaker 1: were going to start a band, what kind of music
Speaker 1: would you play in the band? What kind of music?
Speaker 1: I would probably say probably jazz or R and B. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, but I mean, can you imagine can you imagine?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Andrew playing the piano then hopping up
Speaker 1: and having a drum solo, just rocking out in a
Speaker 1: drum solo, and you're like that, Now, that's that's what
Speaker 1: you need to do when they call you on zoom.
Speaker 1: You have like your headphones on jamming out in a
Speaker 1: drum sello like a like or do your a little piano?
Speaker 1: But who's like, you play some piano and all those
Speaker 1: nflgms are in there, Like, I love this dude. He
Speaker 1: plays the piano. If nothing else, he'll be the best
Speaker 1: piano playing left tackle in the NFL. Definitely, all combos,
Speaker 1: all the tunes you wanted to hear about, you know,
Speaker 1: my family and music and all that stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty bad. That's good. What what do you
Speaker 1: do you listen to music? Like before the game or
Speaker 1: we headphones or anything like that. Yeah, I do what
Speaker 1: So what is it? What kind of music? So done
Speaker 1: the game? I'm getting pumped up. So it's like more um,
Speaker 1: you know, rob tip hop type of deals like they
Speaker 1: getting pumped up. But when I'm on the field, I
Speaker 1: listened to I listened to the gospel r and the
Speaker 1: um a little like soul like I'm listening to you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of older artists and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: I can just imagine, like in your headphones, having a
Speaker 1: bluetooth in your ear, listening to gospel music and just
Speaker 1: dominating some some defensive end smack smacking him, smacking him,
Speaker 1: smacking him around. You're good for toilet paper. You're good
Speaker 1: for toilet paper, the most important thing. I'm good. My
Speaker 1: mama got me straight, all right, good, good, good enough?
Speaker 1: That don't taking beyond it? Are you taking some from
Speaker 1: the from the gym? Bringing something home with everybody? It
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to that yet, but if it leads too,
Speaker 1: I might have to buyot bring your own, bring your
Speaker 1: own to bring, bring your own toilet paper. Andrew, best
Speaker 1: of luck in the upcoming draft. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining us. All right, that's Andrew Thomas University of George
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Speaker 1: you're good for toilet paper. I just want to make
Speaker 1: sure I'm good. My wife stocked up like I mean,
Speaker 1: we stay stocked. Yes, we stay stocked so we didn't
Speaker 1: have to go out and being shop or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Because yeah, I mean you really can't now, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we're good. But you know, who knows how long this
Speaker 1: thing might go? Uh, Yeah, we're we're good. We did
Speaker 1: the calculations. We're still we're still good for toilet paper.
Speaker 1: But we could probably use another run here sometime sometime
Speaker 1: this week. All right, coming up next? Are there there
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