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Speaker 1: We're double right. What wait a minute, what are you
Speaker 1: you're working tonight? You know you got the big time contract.
Speaker 1: I'm shocked at you're working. You know yesterday you took
Speaker 1: off from the Odd Couple because you did Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: yesterday morning work. Yes, you know, I did first things first.
Speaker 1: Since you're trying to call me out here, I have
Speaker 1: called you. I did first things first, and then I
Speaker 1: did did Dan Patrick Show, and then yeah, I was
Speaker 1: done for the day. I mean that was a long day.
Speaker 1: And then today I'm doing I did first things first.
Speaker 1: This morning, I'm doing the Dan Patrick Show for three
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Speaker 1: So shut your mouth. You're talking about me not working.
Speaker 1: I'm putting it in in work man. You know, you know
Speaker 1: I'm always working double shifts, triple shifts. You know when
Speaker 1: you're like the low guy and the toldem Paul, and
Speaker 1: you're trying to make your way. I'm still fighting and
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Speaker 1: And Chris, when you watch, first things first, the shot
Speaker 1: that they have in you're in your office. There's a
Speaker 1: big picture of you. You know, is there enough pictures
Speaker 1: of you on the walls in your office? You know
Speaker 1: that we have to see we have to see that,
Speaker 1: and you have to see you on the shot and
Speaker 1: the picture behind you. Those are awards. Now, it's not
Speaker 1: my fault. They gave me awards with my picture on them. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: What could that be? Was that the light skinned Man award?
Speaker 1: What the award was that? I don't want to start bragging,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna talk about doing I didn't. I
Speaker 1: gotta picture of me interviewing Lebron, me with Vince Carter, Lebron,
Speaker 1: with my daughters. I'm gonna put yeah, you know so,
Speaker 1: so it is what it is. You know you, I
Speaker 1: know you gotta shrine in your house too. No, no,
Speaker 1: I can see there's a big picture of you. Correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, because you know it's small, but
Speaker 1: I see it. It's it's not a small picture, but
Speaker 1: I mean in the zoom where I see you. It's
Speaker 1: a small zoom. But you got a huge picture of
Speaker 1: you in Antarctica on your wall and my yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: my best friend Fred had that made for Christmas and
Speaker 1: it is it's prominent, very proud to have gone to
Speaker 1: all seven continents and that was the last one Antarctica. Remember,
Speaker 1: you know what the caption is. You have a caption
Speaker 1: under their right? What is that You don't have a
Speaker 1: cap You need perfect caption. First black man in at
Speaker 1: set foot on Handhartic. I don't know about that, but
Speaker 1: I was close. All right, Rob, let's let's get into this.
Speaker 1: And you know, Patrick mahonmes, I mean, that's the story
Speaker 1: of the week, right. He signs this ten year, five
Speaker 1: hundred and three million dollars contracts and um, you know,
Speaker 1: there's been back and forth about how good of a
Speaker 1: contract it is. Did he leave a little money on
Speaker 1: the table? Not a little bit, because he definitely, there's
Speaker 1: no question, Rob, he left a little bit, right, You
Speaker 1: and I not even being NFL capologists, we don't even
Speaker 1: have to write. You can see that even if it
Speaker 1: averaged fifty million a year in ten years, that's you know,
Speaker 1: you presume quarterbacks are gonna be making more than that,
Speaker 1: especially a guy at his level. So he left definitely
Speaker 1: left some money on the table. The question that some
Speaker 1: have is maybe left a tunnel on the table. And Rob,
Speaker 1: most people too, And I do want quickly your opinion
Speaker 1: on this, because this is not our main point. But
Speaker 1: most people seem to think that this contract will only
Speaker 1: last about six years, like he'll get it's like one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty something million maybe over six years, and
Speaker 1: then they're gonna re up him. Is that do you
Speaker 1: kind of share that sentiment or what? It just depends
Speaker 1: on what's happened, you know what. I know that he's
Speaker 1: healthy and if he's healthy in that winning again, even
Speaker 1: if they don't win Super Bowls, you know he's and
Speaker 1: he's still great, they'll still obviously want to keep him. No,
Speaker 1: I agree with that, but I just I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know where the deal will head from there. It's
Speaker 1: definitely in their ballpark. He doesn't have like any of
Speaker 1: the modern day stuff that other players, and I know
Speaker 1: the NFL is a little different, like outs for him
Speaker 1: to safeguard, you know. Uh, you know, I was reading
Speaker 1: uh Andrew uh bran Brand's up column Monday Morning Quarterback
Speaker 1: and he's the guy who gave Brett fav Chris that
Speaker 1: ten million, uh that ten year, one hundred million dollar contract,
Speaker 1: remember in Green Bay, and he just talked about like
Speaker 1: there's just certain things in this contract that really don't work,
Speaker 1: like like even a sliding scale so that he's always
Speaker 1: in the top three of quarterbacks. You know, they had
Speaker 1: just the money. No, it doesn't have that is doesn't
Speaker 1: have any of those things to at least so that
Speaker 1: you're not this great quarterback and you're the fifteenth highest
Speaker 1: pay in the league, you know what I mean, which
Speaker 1: which could happen down the road. Yeah. One thing I
Speaker 1: was reading about it is that he, like you said,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have an out, but he's his guarantee is
Speaker 1: like for the next year. The guarantee has to kick
Speaker 1: in like a full year in advance, so you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to go through a whole season and
Speaker 1: then wonder, next year is my money guaranteed? So he's
Speaker 1: got he's it's a full year in advance that they
Speaker 1: have to guarantee him, which is good. And then the feelings,
Speaker 1: at least among some of the reports I read was
Speaker 1: that even though the chiefs, you know, they they're the
Speaker 1: only one within out that the likely they feel like
Speaker 1: when you know, he hits his sixth year or something
Speaker 1: like that, that they'll get out, they'll they'll redo the
Speaker 1: contract and they'll pay him approach because like you said,
Speaker 1: he may not be among the highest paid guys in
Speaker 1: five or six years. And the feeling is that they'll
Speaker 1: redo the contract because of that. But you know, we'll see,
Speaker 1: But I mean, you hope so, Chris, But you know
Speaker 1: how teams are and you don't know. Patriots probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: have you know, and you know what, like we talked
Speaker 1: about with Tom Brady, given what tom Brady's given them
Speaker 1: for twenty years and all the Super Bowls and all that,
Speaker 1: Chris would have killed him to just give tom Brady
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, we want you to wear a Patriots uniform.
Speaker 1: We'll bite the bullet we're paying you for past because
Speaker 1: you took less. They could have signed him for the
Speaker 1: two years that the same deal that Tampa Bay gave him.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to do it. They don't know it
Speaker 1: all from a contract because I want to see what
Speaker 1: he does in Tampa. But but you see, my point though,
Speaker 1: is that they could have rewarded him. They could have. Right,
Speaker 1: let's get here. Here's what Mahomes said about the deal.
Speaker 1: There's trust amongst everybody. As much as I trust in them,
Speaker 1: they trusted me, and we were able to go out
Speaker 1: there and get this contract done the right way. That
Speaker 1: not only gives me the security that I've always wanted,
Speaker 1: but also allows opportunity for the team to be great
Speaker 1: around me the entire duration of my career. All Right,
Speaker 1: here's what I want to say about it. Rob, I
Speaker 1: this is the approach to me, This is the Tom
Speaker 1: Brady approach, and that Mahomes is not going for every
Speaker 1: last dollar. He's saying, Look, I'm filthy, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: filthy rich. I've got generational money. My children's children's children
Speaker 1: are going to be set. I'm happy where I'm at,
Speaker 1: and I want to leave a little room for them
Speaker 1: to sign other great players. So I have a better
Speaker 1: chance of winning, I think, And I'm gonna offer you
Speaker 1: some proof that that's the mentality of a lot of
Speaker 1: the greatest winners. First of all, you got Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: we know, didn't get paid every last dime he could
Speaker 1: have made, and he's got six Super Bowl rings. He's
Speaker 1: still I've made more money at quarterback than any anybody
Speaker 1: outside of now my Homes and Drew Brees. You know,
Speaker 1: with this new deal he got from the Buccaneers. Even
Speaker 1: before that, he still was right up there in the
Speaker 1: top five of career. Earnie's over two hundred million. So
Speaker 1: he's fine financially, not because of his wife, because of
Speaker 1: what he made. And so I'd rather be in that
Speaker 1: situation with six rings than have made fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: more and have one ring like a Drew Brees or
Speaker 1: somebody like that. Then you look at Tim Duncan. He
Speaker 1: took short lower contracts than he had to to keep Parker,
Speaker 1: Tony Parker and my new Genobi around him and win
Speaker 1: more rings. He got five now. Michael Jordan never the
Speaker 1: highest player, as hard as it is to believe, never
Speaker 1: the highest paid player in the league until his last
Speaker 1: two years with the Chicago Bulls. He just played out
Speaker 1: his contract. Didn't complaint say hey, I'm the sixteenth highest
Speaker 1: player player in the league, I'm the best player I
Speaker 1: should be making up. He just played it out in
Speaker 1: the last two years, got his money, and you know,
Speaker 1: the rest is history. And even Lebron James when he
Speaker 1: first went to Miami before he had won a championship,
Speaker 1: he was willing to take a little bit less to
Speaker 1: go to the Heat. He didn't have to because it
Speaker 1: ended up being a sign in trade, so the CASKI
Speaker 1: gets something in return, but he was willing to do it.
Speaker 1: And so my point is, I like this again. It'd
Speaker 1: be one thing if he was just taking paltry money,
Speaker 1: but he is still filthy rich, and I like that
Speaker 1: he's putting winning up there because his legacy will be
Speaker 1: based on his wins. I've talked about it round. I
Speaker 1: think he can be the goat, but he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be the goat no matter what his numbers look like
Speaker 1: if he's only got one super Bowl ring. So I'm
Speaker 1: cool with what he's doing, and I like his attitude.
Speaker 1: I totally disagree. I think it's financial suicide to take
Speaker 1: less money. And this whole notion, I mean, you gave
Speaker 1: some examples that really don't fit. Michael Jordan was in
Speaker 1: a different time, in different era. It wasn't. It wasn't
Speaker 1: that he gave up less because Scottie Pippen didn't get paid.
Speaker 1: Nobody got paid on that team. They didn't go out
Speaker 1: and get Michael Jordan better players because he took less money.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that that didn't take less No,
Speaker 1: but but they didn't get it takes no, but that
Speaker 1: didn't help him get anybody who did they bring on
Speaker 1: with the money. No, But that's but it wasn't because
Speaker 1: he took less money. Chris's because he was the greatest player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he had help. No. But but what I'm saying
Speaker 1: the same reason, I don't believe in that, I don't
Speaker 1: believe I don't believe in that from this standpoint that
Speaker 1: when you do that for an organization, first of all,
Speaker 1: you have you hurt the membership. You hurt other players.
Speaker 1: When you're Patrick Mahomes and and and you're the you're
Speaker 1: the cats me out, you're the best player. When you
Speaker 1: take less than you're you're making other people look bad
Speaker 1: and putting them in a position that other owners are
Speaker 1: gonna come and take less. Owners don't take less money.
Speaker 1: Owners don't go, oh my god, Well, we want to
Speaker 1: keep the building filled, So we're gonna charge less for tickets,
Speaker 1: less for popcorn, less for peanuts and whatnot because we
Speaker 1: want to get We want to make sure everybody gets it.
Speaker 1: Llary cap. No. But but my point is, I mean
Speaker 1: you could take less the salary cap row. That's a fact.
Speaker 1: You could take less money, and the GM can make
Speaker 1: bad decisions with the money. The gms can still not
Speaker 1: pay uh people. Uh, Sammy Watkins, we just had it.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is taken less. So why does Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: have to take being called the salary cap Well, but
Speaker 1: I'm asking you didn't. It doesn't work the salary cap now,
Speaker 1: don't it's a salary You're gonna try to ignore the
Speaker 1: salary cap. That's what they have to figure out, and
Speaker 1: they have to make that's not Patrick mahomes is jobs.
Speaker 1: That's for they either it's job have to do what
Speaker 1: he wants to do. He could do whatever he wants.
Speaker 1: That's not the debate. That's not the debate. Obviously he
Speaker 1: could do it. If that's the debate, then we don't
Speaker 1: have a conversation. If it's just about what he wants
Speaker 1: to do. I'm telling you why I think it's a
Speaker 1: bad idea. And if I was on a team, especially
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, they already won, right did they win a
Speaker 1: super Bowl? I'm going to get cash out now. My
Speaker 1: career is good. If I have a super Bowl in
Speaker 1: my I could win somewhere else and get Sammy Watkins quote,
Speaker 1: was this, how much money do I need? He's made
Speaker 1: fifty three million dollars in his career. He's got nine
Speaker 1: million or two up to sixteen. He's saying what he
Speaker 1: said it, I didn't say he said it the same thing.
Speaker 1: And this, this is my point. If it wasn't about money,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady could have taken five dollars to stay with
Speaker 1: and he didn't, and that's why you're saying, that's why
Speaker 1: hold out at all? About money? How many offers did
Speaker 1: tom Brady have the greatest quarterback, he's your goat? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, tom Brady? How much money did he he?
Speaker 1: How many teams offered him a contract? He only got
Speaker 1: offers for two deals? You know, why are you really
Speaker 1: going yes? Because it was about the money. Stop it.
Speaker 1: It was about the money. That's what tom Brady he
Speaker 1: felt he got him. Why do he only take fifty
Speaker 1: million because that's what you get. No, he could not,
Speaker 1: not not at his age desperate. My point is that
Speaker 1: if it wasn't about money, tom Brady, who you just
Speaker 1: talked about, if it's about winning Chris about being in
Speaker 1: that organization, and tom Brady could have said, I don't
Speaker 1: need much. I got money already, I have generation of wealth.
Speaker 1: My wife is is a wealthy model. I'm gonna stay
Speaker 1: in New England. I'll take I'll take less with a
Speaker 1: bunch of reseusers. Major point passes. No, he wants to win,
Speaker 1: that's my point. But they could take that money and
Speaker 1: get somebody else winning. No, take that money and go else.
Speaker 1: We give other play in it. They weren't getting they
Speaker 1: weren't getting You can do that. When our contract negotiations
Speaker 1: come up, you take less. I want you to take less,
Speaker 1: to worry about my contract. I want you to take
Speaker 1: less and that they keep me. I want you to
Speaker 1: keep me. You need you. I'm winning rings without you.
Speaker 1: Oh really? But no, But but I'm talking. We don't
Speaker 1: make the type of money these dudes make. That's my point.
Speaker 1: If I was making I'm quickly because I know we're
Speaker 1: gonna break. This is what I'm saying. Would you rather
Speaker 1: be Tom Brady with two hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing that out in career earnings and six rings,
Speaker 1: or another player with three hundred million dollars in career
Speaker 1: earnings and one ring. I'll take the three hundred and
Speaker 1: the one real and not be known as the goat. Ye.
Speaker 1: I want to get paid because the owners get paid.
Speaker 1: Everybody gets paid. Rather, he's filthy rich, no matter what.
Speaker 1: There's nothing he could do without nothing, and yet he's
Speaker 1: known as the goat. Come on, man, you're lucky. We
Speaker 1: can't get calls in all right? Should we be worried
Speaker 1: about Kawhi Leonard rob that's coming up next. It's the
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Speaker 1: picked the La Clippers to win this NBA Championship, and
Speaker 1: you know, we'll discuss whether this is something to really
Speaker 1: be concerned about. But Kawhi Leonard did not fly down
Speaker 1: to Orlando with the team. It was an excused absence
Speaker 1: where he has to tend to a family matter and
Speaker 1: we'll be down there in a few days. I believe
Speaker 1: that wholeheartedly. I'm not concerned about whether or not he's
Speaker 1: gonna be there. But in the athletic we've had this
Speaker 1: guy on the show, Jovian Buja. I think I'm saying
Speaker 1: his name if I'm saying his name correctly, and he
Speaker 1: says this about Kauai. They now his is just he's
Speaker 1: kind of musing in his article on the athletic in theory,
Speaker 1: Kawai should benefit from the four plus months off. He
Speaker 1: should he put that in italics, be rested in spry.
Speaker 1: But he started this season off relatively slowly, at least
Speaker 1: by his standards, in part because he wasn't able to
Speaker 1: train or practice much last summer. How much has he
Speaker 1: been able to do since then? He was playing his
Speaker 1: best basketball of the season before the break, ascended to
Speaker 1: the MVP Ladder, and it's difficult to project how his
Speaker 1: body should respond to the hiatus. Is he closer to
Speaker 1: one hundred percent now? Did the time off even a difference?
Speaker 1: Will he rest during the team's back to back against
Speaker 1: Portland and Brooklyn? Is he on a minute's limit? Will
Speaker 1: that change in the postseason? We still have countless questions
Speaker 1: regarding Kawhi Leonard's status. So that's from Jovinum. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this? You got any concerns? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I just think that's all speculation and he
Speaker 1: has a right to do that. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: Or try to read into anything. I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: it worked. The Clippers were rolling we're playing well despite
Speaker 1: not having their full team. Paul George, I think time
Speaker 1: off can only help. That's just the way I feel
Speaker 1: like time can only help. And it still comes down
Speaker 1: to if he's able to compete in the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: that that window of whatever it is Chris, two months,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? That that window of two months,
Speaker 1: and can they get it done in that circumstance. And
Speaker 1: if I'm the Clippers, I still feel really good. I'm
Speaker 1: not a doctor. I don't know what he's dealing with. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there was some issues Chris. That's why he left San
Speaker 1: Antonio because he wasn't happy with the way he was
Speaker 1: being treated medically and his concerns or whatever. He went
Speaker 1: to Toronto. They they let him do his thing right,
Speaker 1: they let him take off, they had he had his
Speaker 1: own crew there, and you know what happened. They won
Speaker 1: a championship. And the Clippers have been in the same boat.
Speaker 1: And until it fails Chris, until it doesn't work and
Speaker 1: and he's missing in a big game and he can't play,
Speaker 1: That's when I'll sound the alarm. That's when I'll be worried.
Speaker 1: If I'm a Clippers person, But I just I think
Speaker 1: the Clippers should be even better because when they were
Speaker 1: all together and they played this year, Chris helped me
Speaker 1: with this. Either they were fourteen in one or fifteen
Speaker 1: and one something like that. Do you remember was one
Speaker 1: of those two, right, something like that, And and that
Speaker 1: was when they were fully healthy and they were able
Speaker 1: to beat the Lakers two out of three games without
Speaker 1: having a healthy squad. I just think when you put
Speaker 1: all that time, they beating without Paul George, right, So
Speaker 1: when when you when you look at that, I'm going
Speaker 1: to leave it up to Kauai, who seems to have
Speaker 1: a grasp on what he needs to be able to
Speaker 1: compete at a high level and a help a team
Speaker 1: win a championship. So until further notice, until it's a flop,
Speaker 1: until he's a no show in a big game, Chris,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Kawai. Yeah. Look, I still feel
Speaker 1: good about my pick that the Clippers will win it. Um.
Speaker 1: I think Kawhi will be fine. But I just think
Speaker 1: this is this is probably something that's going to be
Speaker 1: with him his entire career. I do think, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's a big mystery because some people you talk
Speaker 1: to say there is there's kind of something in that
Speaker 1: need that that's a little degenerative, and then others kind
Speaker 1: of deny it. So the bottom lines, he can manage it,
Speaker 1: but that's what he has to do. He has to
Speaker 1: manage it, and that's why he doesn't play back to backs.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's any I think there is something
Speaker 1: there and it's just something that throughout his career they're
Speaker 1: going to have to manage. And I think we saw it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you might remember Rob, I said maybe
Speaker 1: a month or so ago that even when they come back,
Speaker 1: I don't expect Kawhi to play all eight games of
Speaker 1: this remaining regular season. I think he will kind of
Speaker 1: load manage through that. I think he'll sit out that
Speaker 1: back to back. He'll play I don't know, six or
Speaker 1: seven of the eight games, and then they'll try to
Speaker 1: play him every playoff game. And when I say degenerative,
Speaker 1: like if you look back at last year when he
Speaker 1: was in Toronto, he obviously load managed throughout the regular season,
Speaker 1: miss twenty two games, and then in the playoffs he
Speaker 1: played every game. But you were you're playing a lot
Speaker 1: of playoff games every other day. And remember remember his
Speaker 1: knee was bothering him Now, he obviously played through it,
Speaker 1: he overcame it, but clearly you saw that at times
Speaker 1: on the court his knee was bothering him, and I
Speaker 1: think it was because he was playing every other day.
Speaker 1: And that's what I mean kind of by degenerative or
Speaker 1: something so that, you know, I think he'll be able
Speaker 1: to work through it, just like he did last year.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's something there that they've got
Speaker 1: to watch. But you know, they he's got to be
Speaker 1: able to play every night for them and play at
Speaker 1: a high level because as good as they are, and
Speaker 1: obviously they made the playoffs last year, without him, they've
Speaker 1: got no shot, absolutely no shot of winning the West
Speaker 1: without Kawhi Leonard. Now, I don't think they'd win it
Speaker 1: without Paul George, but I think they'd have a shot.
Speaker 1: I think they'd still be a very good team and
Speaker 1: a tough team to beat. But without Kauai, they don't
Speaker 1: have a shot. And and and again I think he'll
Speaker 1: be there. So I think I think you can say
Speaker 1: that about any good team with their best. True, I
Speaker 1: mean you that's not right. I'm not saying that. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it. I mean, I know, but but that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, right, but if if the Lakers don't
Speaker 1: have Lebron James they win in the championship. No, so
Speaker 1: so I do. He is that guy, He's the he's
Speaker 1: the big piece. He's got to be there for the
Speaker 1: for the Clippers have a chance. I just like, if
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the layoff and what happened, I just
Speaker 1: think Paul, George Kawhi, Leonard banged up, UH have a
Speaker 1: better shot because they're younger than Lebron, who has to
Speaker 1: now restart? What if it takes gets back right? Right?
Speaker 1: What if it takes him some time? Chris, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: right a little bit, he's older. To get the car
Speaker 1: warmed up. It was negative thirty two degrees in snow,
Speaker 1: and you got an old car, Orlando, Well, you know
Speaker 1: you got an old car from fan through a new car,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I know that's kind of summer.
Speaker 1: But my point is to get the car warmed up
Speaker 1: to get it going. I don't know where Lebron is.
Speaker 1: Is Lebron more susceptible Chris to getting heart question though?
Speaker 1: It's us? Don't know? I mean, I think certainly because
Speaker 1: I've talked to players who said Look, when I got
Speaker 1: a certain age, it was I needed twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: games to really get to my sweet spot, you know.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, that's a legit question. All right, let's
Speaker 1: uh go to our next guess. He's a former NFL
Speaker 1: quarterback analyst for Pro Football Focus. They do a tremendous job.
Speaker 1: There's Bruce Gradkowski. Bruce, Welcome to the Dan Patrick. What's happening. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Guys? Thanks for having me. Now, great to
Speaker 1: have you. And now we Rob and I were just
Speaker 1: debating about and you were a quarterback, so this is
Speaker 1: a great question for you, you know, Tim, I'm Brady. Obviously,
Speaker 1: over the course of his career left a little money
Speaker 1: on the table. Like in New England, he didn't take
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't wasn't the highest paid quarterback, and
Speaker 1: he did it because he wanted them to add pieces
Speaker 1: and help him win. And obviously they won six championships.
Speaker 1: He's viewed by most as the goat. Thing. I say,
Speaker 1: I would rather have made say, two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars in my career and have six championships and
Speaker 1: be viewed as the goat than to make three hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars and say, may have one Super Bowl ring,
Speaker 1: and I'm not regarded as a goal even though i
Speaker 1: may be a Hall of Famer and all that, but
Speaker 1: I'm not regarded as the goat. Which of those two
Speaker 1: would you take? He gets gave you a loaded question,
Speaker 1: Go ahead? What I mean, Bruce, at the point, My point, Bruce,
Speaker 1: is just this about leaving money on the table for
Speaker 1: other for general managers to spend. Who might misspend it,
Speaker 1: who might not spend it, The team might not spend.
Speaker 1: It's not your job. Let them figure out how to
Speaker 1: deal out the money. I just want my market value.
Speaker 1: I want to get paid what I deserve. That that's
Speaker 1: my stance. That's it, Matt Well, I love it, guys,
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. I just wish I was
Speaker 1: in that position to make that decision, you know, either
Speaker 1: one exactly. And I think that's what makes Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: so special. I mean, what he does on the field
Speaker 1: is so fun to watch and entertaining, and he can
Speaker 1: do it all. I mean, especially being a former quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, I envy him the way he can move
Speaker 1: in the pocket, his arm strength, his athletic ability is vision,
Speaker 1: how smart he is and then he's with Andy Reid
Speaker 1: and he understands where he's at. So he's thinking, look,
Speaker 1: I'm a young player. I so have two years left
Speaker 1: on my rookie deal. Why not sign this long extension.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go anywhere. I'm in a good
Speaker 1: situation with a good team, a good head coach. I
Speaker 1: just I want to be Tom Brady. I want to
Speaker 1: be the next Tom Brady. I want to be better
Speaker 1: than Tom Brady. I'm gonna leave some money on the table.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get mine as well, and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: my family happy and be secure. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work within the club. You know, I'm happy
Speaker 1: for Patrick Mahomes. Could he have gotten more, probably, yes,
Speaker 1: he could have waited and played it, you know, franchise
Speaker 1: tag and all that. But look, I think he knows
Speaker 1: what's important. I think he realizes what's around him, and
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty cool. And that's why I really
Speaker 1: envy and look up to Mahomes that I'm happy for
Speaker 1: him of what happened, because he deserves a big deal
Speaker 1: and it's good for football to see, you know, half
Speaker 1: half a billion dollar deal out there. Words of wisdom
Speaker 1: from Bruce grad Cow. Unfortunately, it's not a half a
Speaker 1: billion dollars deal because it's not all guaranteed. It's more
Speaker 1: like and sixty seven million, and they're already for quarterbacks
Speaker 1: like in the league who will make more money than him,
Speaker 1: even over the next three years with him being the best.
Speaker 1: My only point is I don't understand with helping billion
Speaker 1: dollar owners and bolencing their budgets and all that, there's
Speaker 1: no guarantee you're gonna win even if you take less money.
Speaker 1: Andy Weed's not gonna coach to the next ten or
Speaker 1: twelve years. You don't know what ownership is gonna be like.
Speaker 1: To not give yourself an out in case this thing
Speaker 1: goes sideways, doesn't make any sense to sign a ten
Speaker 1: year extension without an out for the player. There's an
Speaker 1: out for the team. That's why I don't think it's
Speaker 1: that's just that's that's well, that's the best point, and
Speaker 1: that's the biggest point. That was the one thing I
Speaker 1: sat back and I'm thinking, you know what, it's awesome
Speaker 1: for football to hear the big deal, but then you
Speaker 1: look inside the deal, and then when you compare it
Speaker 1: to Ryan Tannehill's deal, you know his his four year deal.
Speaker 1: He's getting sixty two million, and that's a four year deal.
Speaker 1: And now you got my Homes that's getting sixty three million.
Speaker 1: You know fully guaranteed, it's signing for a twelve year commitment.
Speaker 1: So I get it, man. And that's where you kind
Speaker 1: of I think it's tough because when you're a young
Speaker 1: player and you're unsure what the future holds, even when
Speaker 1: you're Patrick Mahomes and you're thinking, look are you telling
Speaker 1: me I could get it what one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: one hundred forty million guaranteed for injury by signing an extension. Heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all the money I need. I don't need more
Speaker 1: than that. And I think it's hard when you're in
Speaker 1: that position because you're show so anxious to get that
Speaker 1: next contract. It's hard to do what Kirk Cousins did
Speaker 1: it just continue to do the franchise tag move. You
Speaker 1: want some some security long term, and I think that's
Speaker 1: where Patrick Mahomes was at well, Bruce, speaking of a
Speaker 1: franchise tag, you got the guy in Dallas, Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll come to a long term agreement
Speaker 1: before the fifteen and Chris guaranteed it. No, no guarantee.
Speaker 1: I do think it will happen, you know, I hope
Speaker 1: it happens for Dak and the Cowboys. You know, now
Speaker 1: that this Mahomes contract is out there, maybe there's some
Speaker 1: new things that you know, Dak's agent could present or
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can think of to get this deal done.
Speaker 1: I just think it helps going into training camp. I
Speaker 1: think in Dax camp you have to think, two guys,
Speaker 1: where's this salary cap gonna go? How much is COVID
Speaker 1: gonna affect this season? And next season? Is there gonna
Speaker 1: be a change. So then you look at Mahomes, and
Speaker 1: Mahomes is like, look, I'm just gonna take it as is.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna worry about the future and how this
Speaker 1: cap changes now. Dak, on the other hand, that's where
Speaker 1: I would be. I'd signed the deal. I try to
Speaker 1: get the deal done now. It's got to make sense
Speaker 1: for myself, you know, if I'm Dak Prescott, but if
Speaker 1: we're talking to you know, we're fighting over a couple
Speaker 1: of million dollars a year here there, I think maybe
Speaker 1: it's worth to get it done now because you're unsure
Speaker 1: where this CAP's gonna head in the future with this
Speaker 1: co open. But this is the pushback I would give you,
Speaker 1: and I would say, if you're talking about fighting over
Speaker 1: a couple million dollars, all the other quarterbacks have gotten
Speaker 1: cashed out, what are the Cowboys fighting over? If he's
Speaker 1: your guy? The hardest thing to get right, Bruce is
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback. If he's your guy, why are you haggling?
Speaker 1: Why are you Why did Jared Golf get paid? Why
Speaker 1: did Carson Wentz to have to go to his contract
Speaker 1: signing an ambulance and he got paid? Everybody got paid,
Speaker 1: And it's over a couple of million dollars in a
Speaker 1: difference between four years and five years. Why are the
Speaker 1: Cowboys just not saying we want to make our quarterback happy,
Speaker 1: We're going to pay him. He's our guy, and we'll
Speaker 1: turn the page rather than this. Why is this happening?
Speaker 1: Is there some doubt with them? I don't get. I
Speaker 1: don't get why this is an issue. Well, you're right,
Speaker 1: because it is hard to find that franchise quarterback. If
Speaker 1: you can. Nittike is back the guy for the future.
Speaker 1: Looks it's gonna be hard to find the next quarterback
Speaker 1: like Dak Prescott. He's had a great career so us far.
Speaker 1: He's a very young quarterback. He's gonna continue to learn
Speaker 1: and grow and get better. Kellen Moore and himself did
Speaker 1: a great job last year with the offense and some
Speaker 1: shifts and movement movements to playoffs and pass game. So
Speaker 1: I think they're just gonna continue to get better as
Speaker 1: a tannem with Kelly Moore calling the place and now
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. You know at the Helm, you know an
Speaker 1: offensive minded head coach. Now, maybe that's where it's at.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know McCarthy wants to see him for a year,
Speaker 1: get to work with him for a year. But I
Speaker 1: think Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys has seen enough
Speaker 1: that you should get a deal done. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is your quarterback, this is the future, this is a franchise.
Speaker 1: I don't think he hesitated this much with Tony Romo,
Speaker 1: So I think it shows a lot if it does
Speaker 1: get done, and it needs to get done. If you're
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, Bruce, what are you expecting from Cam Newton
Speaker 1: in New England? Man? You know this is a couple
Speaker 1: one because I think Cam Newton in twenty fifteen you know,
Speaker 1: unbelievable and what he can bring if he's healthy, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: A guy that I saw him in person when my
Speaker 1: brother was playing for Carolina. Now, my brother was an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. I was a quarterback. My brother got all
Speaker 1: the food grown up, so I had to be the
Speaker 1: skilled player and uh and of course I got all
Speaker 1: the good looks and so on. No, definitely, So my
Speaker 1: brother he's playing in Carolina, and I went to training camp,
Speaker 1: you know this, right when I retired, and I see
Speaker 1: Cam Newton up close, and I'm like, man, if I'm
Speaker 1: playing Madden, I mean, this is your build up player.
Speaker 1: This is your creative player right here. Like, no matter
Speaker 1: what position, this dude, I'm looking at his calves, his thighs,
Speaker 1: his arms. I mean like, this guy is built like
Speaker 1: a brick house. This is you know, that's what I
Speaker 1: want to look like. And so I'm excited for him
Speaker 1: because I I think it works both ways. If Cam
Speaker 1: really wants to resurrect his career and make a comeback,
Speaker 1: it's with the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick and
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels. They can set him up that way, they
Speaker 1: can build an offense around him. But On the other standpoint,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick wants stuff operated correctly. He wants the offense
Speaker 1: ran correctly. He wants guys. No one player is bigger
Speaker 1: than the team. So it's gonna be a matter of
Speaker 1: a matter of ken Cam Newton come in and learn
Speaker 1: the offense. Can he execute the offense? Can he be accurate?
Speaker 1: You know, because he does some have some inefficiencies with
Speaker 1: his inaccuracy, but you know, the athletic ability he brings,
Speaker 1: that's why you keep him on the field. So he's
Speaker 1: got to prove to them that he could hit the
Speaker 1: open passes and that he still has it in his
Speaker 1: legs to make plays on cold quarterback runs, on es,
Speaker 1: capability plays and extending plays outside the pocket, because if not,
Speaker 1: you got Brian Hoyer and Jared Stidham. That are two
Speaker 1: guys that have to execute the offense from the neck
Speaker 1: up because they're not gifted like Cam Newton. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a two way street here. But Cam's got
Speaker 1: to come in prepared and be able to hit those
Speaker 1: open receivers when he have him, because he struggled the
Speaker 1: last few years in Carolina with that. All right, That's
Speaker 1: Bruce Gradkowski, former NFL quarterback and now an analyst for
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Speaker 1: Chris already already read their stuff. See okay, that's why
Speaker 1: I smash you every night in our quarterback debates. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, guys, it's it is believable, the amount
Speaker 1: of guys we have. It's just a it's a big
Speaker 1: coaching tree in a sense of how much film we
Speaker 1: break down every player, every play, every game. It's incredible,
Speaker 1: the amount of info we have. It's blew. It's blew
Speaker 1: my mind away worker for PFF. So I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1: But I'm also Hooper guys. I hear you talking a
Speaker 1: lot about Hoops. I was at Hooper in high school.
Speaker 1: That was my first love, you know. So, so we
Speaker 1: will hit you with this question. Who's the goat? Oh Man?
Speaker 1: You gotta say Jordan Man just watching that documentary. Uhemed
Speaker 1: yourself now, Bruce, thanks for your time, man, We appreciate it. Hey, thanks, guys,
Speaker 1: have a good one. Yep, no fans, no problem. According
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Speaker 1: eighty three from seven to ten pm Pacific for to
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, seven to ten pm Eastern, four to seven Pacific,
Speaker 1: but Rob, baseball is back, or it's on its way back.
Speaker 1: July twenty third, Opening day, and I'm excited, but I'm
Speaker 1: not excited enough to watch three innings of intrasquad baseball
Speaker 1: like you were last night. Man, Chris. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize how much I turned on my TV.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers were playing an inter squad game and it
Speaker 1: was just three innings, and I was salivating. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was so excited after watching no three ay, no fans,
Speaker 1: no crowd, noise, just the announcers and watching the game.
Speaker 1: I still had to have a cigarette afterwards, all over
Speaker 1: and I don't even smoke. That's how good it was
Speaker 1: to me last night. I'm telling you it was. I
Speaker 1: really missed the game, Chris. I really thought to myself,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch them play games. And it
Speaker 1: was fine. You know, you saw some of the scouts
Speaker 1: and some of the people Chris um, um, yeah, Mookie
Speaker 1: Betts played yeah, okay, and um. The thing that was
Speaker 1: different was, I can't remember somebody hit a home run,
Speaker 1: and when he rounded the bases and came and then
Speaker 1: came back to the plate, guys gave him an elbow.
Speaker 1: Guys gave him like a fandom high five. They didn't
Speaker 1: actually touch hands, do you see what I'm saying. Like
Speaker 1: they had made these adjustments, but they wanted to still
Speaker 1: show some support, so it wasn't like I'm not touching
Speaker 1: you at all. I might just touch elbows instead of
Speaker 1: hands or fake khi five or air high five. I
Speaker 1: guess it's the correct word. Air high five. But yeah, Chris,
Speaker 1: it brought me back to like I've been missing this,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like just from watching that
Speaker 1: a little bit, and like I said, it's an an
Speaker 1: inner squad game. It ain't even it seemed weird. But
Speaker 1: here's the other part that I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw this story, Chris. You know the rooftops at Wriggley
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Wriggley Field? Did you ever
Speaker 1: get a chance to go there? Okay, just just a
Speaker 1: great venue, you know that Wriggley Field, and across the
Speaker 1: street of these bars, and they have for a long time,
Speaker 1: you know, sold the rooftops you could you could watch
Speaker 1: the game from the bar to see right into the stadium.
Speaker 1: And for a long time the Cubs never got any
Speaker 1: money from those uh bar owners. And then they threatened
Speaker 1: to block the view or whatever unless they paid them
Speaker 1: a fee. But now are you ready for this. They're
Speaker 1: offering up those seats because there'll be no fans in
Speaker 1: the stands for anywhere between two hundred and fifty and
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty dollars to watch. Is this Who's
Speaker 1: the money go to the bars or the Cubs to
Speaker 1: the bars, and whatever percentage to give the Cubs. But
Speaker 1: I'm just asking you. I mean, I love baseball, you know,
Speaker 1: I would love to be in the ballpark and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But would you pay two hundred and fifty or three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars to sit across the street to
Speaker 1: look into an empty ballpark even though you get to
Speaker 1: watch the game live instead of on televis. That's a
Speaker 1: good question because honestly, like for a big game, say
Speaker 1: a playoff game, or you know, a really meaningful game
Speaker 1: in September in a Pennant race with under normal circumstances,
Speaker 1: you know, with the crowd, and I mean, you could
Speaker 1: just feel the electricity. I would eat certainly do that, right,
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars to sit in a bar and a
Speaker 1: great view of the game, definitely would do because you're
Speaker 1: paying for the atmosphere. Ye all right, that's what just
Speaker 1: And like, I gotta be honest, especially when I can
Speaker 1: watch that game on television and there's not gonna be
Speaker 1: any atmosphere. You know. It's obviously you still see great baseball,
Speaker 1: but you're not going to have the roar of the crowd,
Speaker 1: feel the electricity, even if you're in the bar. Rob,
Speaker 1: you know you can still feel it and and and
Speaker 1: witness it. Um, that's a tough one. I don't know
Speaker 1: that I do that. I mean maybe if I had
Speaker 1: a group of guys and we all were going, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I just probably had to be a playoff game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand it, like they're they're hoping that people are
Speaker 1: so Jones and it chris that. Yeah. And remember, even
Speaker 1: in those circumstances, it's only twenty five percent capacity. It's
Speaker 1: not like it's gonna be a right right, So so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be you know, kind of laid back, not
Speaker 1: like hyped, because it won't be as many people. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I would even invest that money.
Speaker 1: I'd other bypair Jordans or something. I would too. I
Speaker 1: definitely rather get some Jordan. If the game is not
Speaker 1: on TV, then that's a different story. But if I
Speaker 1: can sit back and watch it on television, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: probably doing that. But I'm excited too. Man, We're gonna
Speaker 1: see and should be an excited. Look, the sense of
Speaker 1: urgency is gonna be legit right with sixty baseball games,
Speaker 1: I mean, and then they get to the playoffs, so
Speaker 1: you definitely want to tune in and not miss any
Speaker 1: of the action. All Right, it's the eye couple, Chris
Speaker 1: and Rob feeling in for Dan Patrick. Keep it locked