WEBVTT - Hour 2 – Bruce Gradkowski (07-09-20) 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:08.160 Sports Radio. That's right. It's Chris Brussar and Rod Parker 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:12.719 and we are the Odd Couple, and we are on 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.840 Fox Sports Radio Monday through Friday seven to ten pm 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.000 Eastern time, four to seven Pacific. But we're filling in 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.279 for Dan Patrick this morning, so we're doing double duty. Rob, 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.800 We're double right. What wait a minute, what are you 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.040 you're working tonight? You know you got the big time contract. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.720 I'm shocked at you're working. You know yesterday you took 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.360 off from the Odd Couple because you did Dan Patrick 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.479 yesterday morning work. Yes, you know, I did first things first. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.600 Since you're trying to call me out here, I have 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.279 called you. I did first things first, and then I 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.960 did did Dan Patrick Show, and then yeah, I was 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.560 done for the day. I mean that was a long day. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.080 And then today I'm doing I did first things first. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.800 This morning, I'm doing the Dan Patrick Show for three 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.840 hours and then I'm doing three hours of the Eye Couple. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.400 So shut your mouth. You're talking about me not working. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.160 I'm putting it in in work man. You know, you know 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.399 I'm always working double shifts, triple shifts. You know when 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.800 you're like the low guy and the toldem Paul, and 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.400 you're trying to make your way. I'm still fighting and 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.200 scratching and surviving. You know, I'm trying to have some 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:25.880 good times. You know. That's right. It is a TV 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.440 theme show Thursday tonight or that's right on the eye couple. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.240 So if you haven't checked our show out, yeah, check 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:36.040 it out. It's fun and informative, no doubt about. You 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.440 can text us or tweet us, I should say some 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.720 requests for TV theme shows. If you want to hear 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.520 a theme show from one of your favorite sitcoms, text 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.960 it or tweeted to us. Robb Is at Rod Parker 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.280 FS one on Twitter. I'm at Chris Underscore Bruce hard 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.840 on Twitter, and uh, you know, we'll get it on 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.600 the show and then it'll get a lot of fun. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.200 And Chris, when you watch, first things first, the shot 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.160 that they have in you're in your office. There's a 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.200 big picture of you. You know, is there enough pictures 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.880 of you on the walls in your office? You know 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.000 that we have to see we have to see that, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.160 and you have to see you on the shot and 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.799 the picture behind you. Those are awards. Now, it's not 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.200 my fault. They gave me awards with my picture on them. Unbelievable. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.400 What could that be? Was that the light skinned Man award? 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.440 What the award was that? I don't want to start bragging, 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.120 so I'm not gonna talk about doing I didn't. I 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.359 gotta picture of me interviewing Lebron, me with Vince Carter, Lebron, 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.320 with my daughters. I'm gonna put yeah, you know so, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.040 so it is what it is. You know you, I 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.760 know you gotta shrine in your house too. No, no, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.760 I can see there's a big picture of you. Correct 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.359 me if I'm wrong, because you know it's small, but 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.040 I see it. It's it's not a small picture, but 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.600 I mean in the zoom where I see you. It's 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.679 a small zoom. But you got a huge picture of 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:00.280 you in Antarctica on your wall and my yeah, yes, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.120 my best friend Fred had that made for Christmas and 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.679 it is it's prominent, very proud to have gone to 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.760 all seven continents and that was the last one Antarctica. Remember, 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.120 you know what the caption is. You have a caption 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:16.959 under their right? What is that You don't have a 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.120 cap You need perfect caption. First black man in at 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.600 set foot on Handhartic. I don't know about that, but 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:32.760 I was close. All right, Rob, let's let's get into this. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.120 And you know, Patrick mahonmes, I mean, that's the story 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.520 of the week, right. He signs this ten year, five 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:45.000 hundred and three million dollars contracts and um, you know, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.560 there's been back and forth about how good of a 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.800 contract it is. Did he leave a little money on 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.200 the table? Not a little bit, because he definitely, there's 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.560 no question, Rob, he left a little bit, right, You 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.280 and I not even being NFL capologists, we don't even 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.440 have to write. You can see that even if it 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:05.520 averaged fifty million a year in ten years, that's you know, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.280 you presume quarterbacks are gonna be making more than that, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.480 especially a guy at his level. So he left definitely 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.840 left some money on the table. The question that some 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.159 have is maybe left a tunnel on the table. And Rob, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.120 most people too, And I do want quickly your opinion 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.560 on this, because this is not our main point. But 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.559 most people seem to think that this contract will only 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.240 last about six years, like he'll get it's like one 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.080 hundred and eighty something million maybe over six years, and 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.800 then they're gonna re up him. Is that do you 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.960 kind of share that sentiment or what? It just depends 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.120 on what's happened, you know what. I know that he's 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.320 healthy and if he's healthy in that winning again, even 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.520 if they don't win Super Bowls, you know he's and 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.520 he's still great, they'll still obviously want to keep him. No, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.160 I agree with that, but I just I don't. I 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.560 don't know where the deal will head from there. It's 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.040 definitely in their ballpark. He doesn't have like any of 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.240 the modern day stuff that other players, and I know 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.800 the NFL is a little different, like outs for him 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.000 to safeguard, you know. Uh, you know, I was reading 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:17.760 uh Andrew uh bran Brand's up column Monday Morning Quarterback 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.720 and he's the guy who gave Brett fav Chris that 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.960 ten million, uh that ten year, one hundred million dollar contract, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.200 remember in Green Bay, and he just talked about like 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.480 there's just certain things in this contract that really don't work, 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.520 like like even a sliding scale so that he's always 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.440 in the top three of quarterbacks. You know, they had 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.159 just the money. No, it doesn't have that is doesn't 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.480 have any of those things to at least so that 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.960 you're not this great quarterback and you're the fifteenth highest 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.480 pay in the league, you know what I mean, which 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.760 which could happen down the road. Yeah. One thing I 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.560 was reading about it is that he, like you said, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.920 he doesn't have an out, but he's his guarantee is 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.120 like for the next year. The guarantee has to kick 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.920 in like a full year in advance, so you know, 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.520 he doesn't have to go through a whole season and 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.480 then wonder, next year is my money guaranteed? So he's 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.600 got he's it's a full year in advance that they 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.920 have to guarantee him, which is good. And then the feelings, 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.960 at least among some of the reports I read was 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.680 that even though the chiefs, you know, they they're the 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.360 only one within out that the likely they feel like 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.960 when you know, he hits his sixth year or something 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.040 like that, that they'll get out, they'll they'll redo the 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.520 contract and they'll pay him approach because like you said, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.320 he may not be among the highest paid guys in 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.799 five or six years. And the feeling is that they'll 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.920 redo the contract because of that. But you know, we'll see, 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.440 But I mean, you hope so, Chris, But you know 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.120 how teams are and you don't know. Patriots probably wouldn't 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.440 have you know, and you know what, like we talked 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.520 about with Tom Brady, given what tom Brady's given them 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.840 for twenty years and all the Super Bowls and all that, 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.279 Chris would have killed him to just give tom Brady 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.480 and say, yeah, we want you to wear a Patriots uniform. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.360 We'll bite the bullet we're paying you for past because 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.480 you took less. They could have signed him for the 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.520 two years that the same deal that Tampa Bay gave him. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:19.960 They didn't want to do it. They don't know it 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.000 all from a contract because I want to see what 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.400 he does in Tampa. But but you see, my point though, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.840 is that they could have rewarded him. They could have. Right, 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.320 let's get here. Here's what Mahomes said about the deal. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.720 There's trust amongst everybody. As much as I trust in them, 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.440 they trusted me, and we were able to go out 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.320 there and get this contract done the right way. That 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.559 not only gives me the security that I've always wanted, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.320 but also allows opportunity for the team to be great 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.120 around me the entire duration of my career. All Right, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.000 here's what I want to say about it. Rob, I 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.640 this is the approach to me, This is the Tom 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:58.640 Brady approach, and that Mahomes is not going for every 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.440 last dollar. He's saying, Look, I'm filthy, I'm gonna be 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:07.520 filthy rich. I've got generational money. My children's children's children 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.160 are going to be set. I'm happy where I'm at, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.840 and I want to leave a little room for them 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.080 to sign other great players. So I have a better 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.560 chance of winning, I think, And I'm gonna offer you 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.240 some proof that that's the mentality of a lot of 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.760 the greatest winners. First of all, you got Tom Brady, 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.720 we know, didn't get paid every last dime he could 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.000 have made, and he's got six Super Bowl rings. He's 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:40.000 still I've made more money at quarterback than any anybody 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:44.280 outside of now my Homes and Drew Brees. You know, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.000 with this new deal he got from the Buccaneers. Even 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.360 before that, he still was right up there in the 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.719 top five of career. Earnie's over two hundred million. So 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.079 he's fine financially, not because of his wife, because of 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:01.040 what he made. And so I'd rather be in that 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.440 situation with six rings than have made fifty million dollars 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.000 more and have one ring like a Drew Brees or 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.839 somebody like that. Then you look at Tim Duncan. He 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.360 took short lower contracts than he had to to keep Parker, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.439 Tony Parker and my new Genobi around him and win 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.160 more rings. He got five now. Michael Jordan never the 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.079 highest player, as hard as it is to believe, never 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.640 the highest paid player in the league until his last 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.600 two years with the Chicago Bulls. He just played out 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.920 his contract. Didn't complaint say hey, I'm the sixteenth highest 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.079 player player in the league, I'm the best player I 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.160 should be making up. He just played it out in 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.599 the last two years, got his money, and you know, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.880 the rest is history. And even Lebron James when he 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.079 first went to Miami before he had won a championship, 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.240 he was willing to take a little bit less to 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.000 go to the Heat. He didn't have to because it 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.120 ended up being a sign in trade, so the CASKI 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.079 gets something in return, but he was willing to do it. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.520 And so my point is, I like this again. It'd 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.040 be one thing if he was just taking paltry money, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.400 but he is still filthy rich, and I like that 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.760 he's putting winning up there because his legacy will be 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.240 based on his wins. I've talked about it round. I 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.800 think he can be the goat, but he's not gonna 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.839 be the goat no matter what his numbers look like 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.920 if he's only got one super Bowl ring. So I'm 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.320 cool with what he's doing, and I like his attitude. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:35.560 I totally disagree. I think it's financial suicide to take 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.559 less money. And this whole notion, I mean, you gave 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.920 some examples that really don't fit. Michael Jordan was in 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.400 a different time, in different era. It wasn't. It wasn't 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:50.000 that he gave up less because Scottie Pippen didn't get paid. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.120 Nobody got paid on that team. They didn't go out 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.559 and get Michael Jordan better players because he took less money. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.640 So I don't think that that didn't take less No, 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.439 but but they didn't get it takes no, but that 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.240 didn't help him get anybody who did they bring on 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.720 with the money. No, But that's but it wasn't because 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.520 he took less money. Chris's because he was the greatest player. Yeah, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.240 but he had help. No. But but what I'm saying 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.200 the same reason, I don't believe in that, I don't 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.959 believe I don't believe in that from this standpoint that 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.000 when you do that for an organization, first of all, 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.440 you have you hurt the membership. You hurt other players. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.360 When you're Patrick Mahomes and and and you're the you're 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.520 the cats me out, you're the best player. When you 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.960 take less than you're you're making other people look bad 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.080 and putting them in a position that other owners are 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.800 gonna come and take less. Owners don't take less money. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.079 Owners don't go, oh my god, Well, we want to 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.240 keep the building filled, So we're gonna charge less for tickets, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.400 less for popcorn, less for peanuts and whatnot because we 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.880 want to get We want to make sure everybody gets it. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.400 Llary cap. No. But but my point is, I mean 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.199 you could take less the salary cap row. That's a fact. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.200 You could take less money, and the GM can make 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.599 bad decisions with the money. The gms can still not 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.959 pay uh people. Uh, Sammy Watkins, we just had it. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.079 Patrick Mahomes is taken less. So why does Sammy Watkins 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.280 have to take being called the salary cap Well, but 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.360 I'm asking you didn't. It doesn't work the salary cap now, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.920 don't it's a salary You're gonna try to ignore the 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.400 salary cap. That's what they have to figure out, and 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.319 they have to make that's not Patrick mahomes is jobs. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.480 That's for they either it's job have to do what 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.840 he wants to do. He could do whatever he wants. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.959 That's not the debate. That's not the debate. Obviously he 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.240 could do it. If that's the debate, then we don't 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.640 have a conversation. If it's just about what he wants 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.839 to do. I'm telling you why I think it's a 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.920 bad idea. And if I was on a team, especially 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.719 Sammy Watkins, they already won, right did they win a 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.439 super Bowl? I'm going to get cash out now. My 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.800 career is good. If I have a super Bowl in 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:08.040 my I could win somewhere else and get Sammy Watkins quote, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.840 was this, how much money do I need? He's made 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.160 fifty three million dollars in his career. He's got nine 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:19.360 million or two up to sixteen. He's saying what he 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.600 said it, I didn't say he said it the same thing. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.080 And this, this is my point. If it wasn't about money, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.719 Tom Brady could have taken five dollars to stay with 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:35.160 and he didn't, and that's why you're saying, that's why 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.240 hold out at all? About money? How many offers did 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.520 tom Brady have the greatest quarterback, he's your goat? Oh 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.079 my god, tom Brady? How much money did he he? 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.040 How many teams offered him a contract? He only got 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.880 offers for two deals? You know, why are you really 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:55.199 going yes? Because it was about the money. Stop it. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.920 It was about the money. That's what tom Brady he 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.720 felt he got him. Why do he only take fifty 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.240 million because that's what you get. No, he could not, 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.480 not not at his age desperate. My point is that 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.599 if it wasn't about money, tom Brady, who you just 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.280 talked about, if it's about winning Chris about being in 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.080 that organization, and tom Brady could have said, I don't 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.040 need much. I got money already, I have generation of wealth. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.640 My wife is is a wealthy model. I'm gonna stay 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:32.040 in New England. I'll take I'll take less with a 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.480 bunch of reseusers. Major point passes. No, he wants to win, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.080 that's my point. But they could take that money and 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.960 get somebody else winning. No, take that money and go else. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.240 We give other play in it. They weren't getting they 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.400 weren't getting You can do that. When our contract negotiations 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.760 come up, you take less. I want you to take less, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.000 to worry about my contract. I want you to take 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.360 less and that they keep me. I want you to 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:03.360 keep me. You need you. I'm winning rings without you. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.680 Oh really? But no, But but I'm talking. We don't 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.760 make the type of money these dudes make. That's my point. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.880 If I was making I'm quickly because I know we're 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.720 gonna break. This is what I'm saying. Would you rather 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.240 be Tom Brady with two hundred and fifty million dollars 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.440 I'm just throwing that out in career earnings and six rings, 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.720 or another player with three hundred million dollars in career 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.200 earnings and one ring. I'll take the three hundred and 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.800 the one real and not be known as the goat. Ye. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.120 I want to get paid because the owners get paid. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.920 Everybody gets paid. Rather, he's filthy rich, no matter what. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:50.080 There's nothing he could do without nothing, and yet he's 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.400 known as the goat. Come on, man, you're lucky. We 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.600 can't get calls in all right? Should we be worried 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:02.080 about Kawhi Leonard rob that's coming up next. It's the 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.080 eye couple on The Dan Patrick Show. Be sure to 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.080 catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.640 at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox Sports 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.760 Radio and the iHeart Radio app. What do you get 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.440 when you cross the Mercedes Sedan coop or SUV with 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.880 a race car? 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I think I'm saying 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.119 his name if I'm saying his name correctly, and he 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:24.000 says this about Kauai. They now his is just he's 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.320 kind of musing in his article on the athletic in theory, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.359 Kawai should benefit from the four plus months off. He 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.000 should he put that in italics, be rested in spry. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.520 But he started this season off relatively slowly, at least 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.200 by his standards, in part because he wasn't able to 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.399 train or practice much last summer. How much has he 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.080 been able to do since then? He was playing his 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.200 best basketball of the season before the break, ascended to 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.480 the MVP Ladder, and it's difficult to project how his 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.760 body should respond to the hiatus. Is he closer to 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.720 one hundred percent now? Did the time off even a difference? 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.560 Will he rest during the team's back to back against 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.760 Portland and Brooklyn? Is he on a minute's limit? Will 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:11.280 that change in the postseason? We still have countless questions 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.800 regarding Kawhi Leonard's status. So that's from Jovinum. What are 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.639 your thoughts on this? You got any concerns? Uh? No, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:23.480 I don't. I just think that's all speculation and he 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.600 has a right to do that. That's what he does. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.119 Or try to read into anything. I'm just gonna go 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.680 it worked. The Clippers were rolling we're playing well despite 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.399 not having their full team. Paul George, I think time 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.920 off can only help. That's just the way I feel 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.320 like time can only help. And it still comes down 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:48.320 to if he's able to compete in the playoffs, and 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.240 that that window of whatever it is Chris, two months, 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.080 you know what I mean? That that window of two months, 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.840 and can they get it done in that circumstance. And 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.520 if I'm the Clippers, I still feel really good. I'm 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.000 not a doctor. I don't know what he's dealing with. Obviously, 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.840 there was some issues Chris. That's why he left San 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.080 Antonio because he wasn't happy with the way he was 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:15.360 being treated medically and his concerns or whatever. He went 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.920 to Toronto. They they let him do his thing right, 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.639 they let him take off, they had he had his 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.679 own crew there, and you know what happened. They won 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:29.000 a championship. And the Clippers have been in the same boat. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.960 And until it fails Chris, until it doesn't work and 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.600 and he's missing in a big game and he can't play, 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.240 That's when I'll sound the alarm. That's when I'll be worried. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:45.120 If I'm a Clippers person, But I just I think 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.280 the Clippers should be even better because when they were 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.680 all together and they played this year, Chris helped me 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.960 with this. Either they were fourteen in one or fifteen 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:59.120 and one something like that. Do you remember was one 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.480 of those two, right, something like that, And and that 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.520 was when they were fully healthy and they were able 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.840 to beat the Lakers two out of three games without 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.960 having a healthy squad. I just think when you put 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.359 all that time, they beating without Paul George, right, So 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.360 when when you when you look at that, I'm going 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:21.520 to leave it up to Kauai, who seems to have 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.840 a grasp on what he needs to be able to 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.560 compete at a high level and a help a team 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:32.080 win a championship. So until further notice, until it's a flop, 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:34.640 until he's a no show in a big game, Chris, 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:38.520 I'm gonna go with Kawai. Yeah. Look, I still feel 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.440 good about my pick that the Clippers will win it. Um. 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.280 I think Kawhi will be fine. But I just think 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.080 this is this is probably something that's going to be 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.240 with him his entire career. I do think, you know, 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.400 and it's a big mystery because some people you talk 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.879 to say there is there's kind of something in that 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:01.480 need that that's a little degenerative, and then others kind 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.680 of deny it. So the bottom lines, he can manage it, 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:06.639 but that's what he has to do. He has to 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.960 manage it, and that's why he doesn't play back to backs. 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.719 I don't think it's any I think there is something 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.800 there and it's just something that throughout his career they're 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.879 going to have to manage. And I think we saw it. 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.720 Like I said, you might remember Rob, I said maybe 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.760 a month or so ago that even when they come back, 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.440 I don't expect Kawhi to play all eight games of 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.440 this remaining regular season. I think he will kind of 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.600 load manage through that. I think he'll sit out that 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.159 back to back. He'll play I don't know, six or 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.560 seven of the eight games, and then they'll try to 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.360 play him every playoff game. And when I say degenerative, 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.240 like if you look back at last year when he 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:50.720 was in Toronto, he obviously load managed throughout the regular season, 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.960 miss twenty two games, and then in the playoffs he 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.800 played every game. But you were you're playing a lot 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.359 of playoff games every other day. And remember remember his 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.960 knee was bothering him Now, he obviously played through it, 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:07.760 he overcame it, but clearly you saw that at times 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:11.639 on the court his knee was bothering him, and I 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:15.520 think it was because he was playing every other day. 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:18.760 And that's what I mean kind of by degenerative or 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.320 something so that, you know, I think he'll be able 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:24.280 to work through it, just like he did last year. 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.159 But I do think it's something there that they've got 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:31.879 to watch. But you know, they he's got to be 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:33.919 able to play every night for them and play at 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:36.440