WEBVTT - 03/11/21 DPS Hour 1 Chris Mannix 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.920 Sports Radio. It's a Thursday, Our one Dan and The 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.600 Dan et Stan Patrick Show. Could we limit the number 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:15.280 of three point attempts in an NBA game? Too much 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.279 of a good thing? Chris Mannox will join us on 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.640 loan from Sports Illustrated coming up. I'm looking at the numbers. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:26.480 The NBA is on pace to make twenty seven thousand, 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.680 seven hundred thirty one three pointers this season. That would 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.000 be just two hundred and twenty four shy of the record, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.040 which was set in twenty eighteen. Keep in mind, we're 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.040 gonna have ten games less for each team this season. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.600 Team's averaging almost thirteen made three pointers per game. The 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.960 league is on pace to break that record for a 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.760 ninth consecutive season, also averaging thirty five attempts from three 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.160 point range per game. That'll be a record for the 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.360 tenth consecutive season. But I'll talk to Mannix about it. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.960 Saw an article on ESPN that said, may maybe you 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.760 limit the number three point attempts or made. Let's say 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.399 you have twenty that you can do each half, and 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.760 then after that at three point shot counts is two points. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.920 I think if you brought a little bit more physicality 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.080 to the NBA where you could hand check somebody that 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.880 might help out a little bit. Right now, it's basically 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.000 free flowing where you can just stand on the perimeter 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.440 and everybody can take a shot. Ball movement pretty good 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.080 on the perimeter. Kids love it as well. I mean 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.600 you're able to imitate your best player, your favorite player. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.560 I mean, imagine that you get on the court, you 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:42.200 want to be Steph Curry. How often do you get 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.640 to do that? But I don't know if people are 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.520 bothered by it. Maybe it's just a purist that there's 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.520 too much of a good thing here. This is what 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.840 basketball is. It's about dunking, it's about layups, and it's 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.360 about three point attempts. Okay, So we're going to take 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:03.280 away something that the players have improved upon, because for 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.760 a while, there are a lot of players who weren't 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.799 great shooters. They made themselves great shooters. I think what 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.000 the NBA may look at is, are we creating great 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.760 basketball players? Are they one dimensional? Just stand on the 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.959 perimeter and you can stay in the league for next 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.680 or five years because you can shoot. Or we've seen 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.680 marquee players like Jason Kidd or Vince Carter, they become 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.520 three point specialist. I'm okay with it. I don't want 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.840 to be I don't want to add gimmicks. Hey, how 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.079 many three pointers have we attempted? Nineteen? So you get 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.240 one more this half or in the final six minutes 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.080 it's been proposed. Now this is just you know, I 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.840 think power brokers behind the scenes talking about this in 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.240 the final six minutes. Then the limitations are off. You 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.880 can shoot as many threes as you want to. I 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:59.919 don't need gimmicks. This is basketball. You said this is 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.560 what you need to do, and players have improved their games. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.079 Now I go, oh, wait a minute, you guys got 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.080 too good? Got too good here? Yeah, Paul, you sound 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.040 like a guy who doesn't need a gimmick, but you'd 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.880 kind of like something to cool off the threes. I 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.920 would like. Okay, First of all, you watch games now 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.680 where nobody's called for palming, like you can get your shot, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.280 there's no traveling, and I can't put my hand on you. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.200 These guys are so elite in what they do and 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.400 I can't slow them down. This is when you go 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.800 back and you watch a game that Jordan played in, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.720 or Bird or magic. I can physic, I can be 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:46.960 physical with you. I could put my hand on you now, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:51.600 it was still entertaining. I just I don't know how 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.520 it's so hard to play defense now because I can't 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.200 put my hand on you at all, and there's no 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:04.560 nobody calls carry anymore. John Stockton and Allen Iverson used 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.440 to have a little bit more of a handle and 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.280 then all of a sudden, Why I was watching a 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:14.520 game last night college, I'm going nobody's calling this North 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:19.000 Carolina notre name. And you could see how it's such 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.600 an advantage. I can take that ball and I I mean, 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.040 I can have you off balance in a second, and 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.200 you can't put your hand on anybody. There's the physicality 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:34.160 of just being able to man up is gone from 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.760 the NBA. But you know, maybe it is too much 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.000 of a good thing. But I don't think we're going 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.560 to be doing anything anytime soon. I don't want a 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.679 gimmick in there where we're counting the number of threes. Yes, McLevin. Also, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.040 the fouls on James Harden and Dan check are they're unwatchable, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.400 Like why do they call those little things where Pardon 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.080 just throws his body into you. Yeah, And Trey Young 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.400 has mastered this where he's running down the floor and 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.360 then he's shooting back up into you. And Steve Kerr said, 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.360 you know, you can't do that. You can't allow that. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.279 Reggie Miller, I think invented that, by the way, Yeah, McLeman. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.480 But the NSAY tournament is going to be decided by 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.599 one play and one play only landing in the three 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.320 point That was the only thing that That's why UVA 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.359 won a title. They won like four games off that 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.160 one call. Yeah, I hate that rule. Yeah. Did they 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.120 do that when you were a jumpshooter back in the day, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.080 you did get a space, did you? No, they would 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:30.240 put their foot underneath you that they wanted you When 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.520 you would go up, they put their foot underneath so 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.640 you were thinking about coming down and avoiding their foot. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.920 Believe it or not. But I'll talk to Mannix about this. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.039 I don't know if there's anything that can be done 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:47.640 should be done, but you know, you're seeing the proliferation 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.760 of the three point shot college in high school, even 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.720 grade school as well. Eight seven seven three DP show 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.720 email address DP at dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.480 a dp show I did to find this story amusing 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.120 this morning because it feels like the Boston Celtics are 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.520 in on every possible free agent, all the big names. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.839 Danny Ainge, Oh, we just missed out on Chris Paul, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.880 Kevin Love, Jimmy Butler, Kwi Letter and Anthony Davis, Paul George. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.719 Then a story comes out that they just missed on 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.960 James Harden. Here it feels like Danny Ainge wants everybody 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.800 know that Danny Ainge is doing his job as a GM, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.800 that we're trying. We almost got him, Like they almost 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:35.200 get these great players, you know who they've gotten exactly 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:41.400 none of these players. Hey, we got Kemba Walker, Okay, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.960 that's it. Chris Paul, Kevin Love, Jimmy Butler, KWHI, Leonard, 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.240 Anthony Davis, Poulter. We oh, we almost got him. Hey, 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.400 were you guys sitting on the James Harden sweet Yeah, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.599 we almost got him, almost got him. Yeah, we almost 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:04.599 got Will Chamberlain. Now got we almost got cream Allen. Wait, Danny, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.640 you weren't there, then you almost got Tim Duncan. Oh, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.920 don't bring that if you want the lottery that still 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:16.800 bothers people. I'm fired up today. This program brought to 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.320 you by Mercedes Benz Vans. They go far beyond from 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.320 their customization options, cutting edge tech, five star sales service, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.520 financial support crew. Mercedes Benz Vans built equipped end engineer 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.720 to get ready for anything. So go the extra mile 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.560 taking the all important first step into an authorized dealership today. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.920 And don't get me wrong, I love watching the three. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.560 I think it's exciting. I think it's more exciting than 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.880 the dunk. And the strategies that go into this I 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:50.120 think are really important. But I will say this, James 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:55.080 Harden is getting credit for changing his game. James Harden 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.880 is getting a lot of credit for an MVP candidate. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.360 Why he changed his game and you know why because 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.600 he had to because if you look back on his 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:11.040 game in Houston, it didn't succeed. He needed to change. Now, 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.560 is there a middle ground here? Because I'm looking at 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.320 the Lakers. Lakers aren't a great shooting three pointing team, 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.440 a great three point shooting team. They don't shoot volume. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.400 The seventy six ers, I think at bottom of the 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:29.120 list there Utah Jazzer first and shooting threes. What is 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:35.240 sustainable because there is sustainability in the regular season, and 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:40.520 that doesn't always translate into the postseason. Postseason comes down 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.920 to half court basketball, in my opinion, always has always will. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.079 We're playing the same opponent, there's no tricks. It's not, hey, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:49.880 we got to deal with this guy one night, now 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.439 we move on to another guy. It's every night we're 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.720 going to be facing you, and here's our game plan. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.520 And then you see what teams are really all about, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.520 that philosophy, that game plan, does it work, and it's 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.360 going to be the same this year. You taught jazz 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.880 they fire threes? Okay? Is it sustainable in May or June? 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:17.440 That's what I want to know. The Nets? The Nets 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.240 have mid range jumpers. I got Joe Harris and James Harden, 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:26.280 but Kyrie kd mid range jumpers here? Is that sustainable? 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.640 Do you have to play great, great defense this year? Right? 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.560 You got to play great defense always? I always think 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.440 you have to. Maybe the Nets they break that mold 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.280 this year. You don't have to play great defense. Just 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.760 play or at least give the impression you're playing some defense. Here. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.960 All I gotta do is outscore you. It's rare, but 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.040 that's what the philosophy is right now. But I just 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.120 saw the article and I started thinking about the three pointer. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:10:00.760 And I don't mind watching good three point shoo. It's 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.760 when you watch bad three point shooters that's when it 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.840 drives me crazy. Yes, McLevin. Is that why the Warriors 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.040 had to add Durant for like the slower pace of 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.360 the playoffs like a mid range guy. Well, I mean 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.360 he's one of the great scores of all time. Durant 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.319 can shoot three, can get to the hoop. I mean, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.000 he's he's a walking basket. But that three point style 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.720 worked for them for a while, just nothing but threes. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.000 But then they didn't really I don't know if that 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.080 could have won them four to three titles. Um yeah, 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.640 I mean if Durant doesn't get hurt, I mean you 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.440 can go down, you know, look back on that hit 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.400 the wayback machine. And because they all they did was 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.559 hoist threes and it worked for them to a large extent. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.240 But I have two of the greatest shooters in NBA, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.600 three of the greatest shooters in NBA history. So it's 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.400 not like it's a plucky team like the Utah Jazz 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.600 and you go look at them, they won the title. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.240 I got Steph Clay and Kevin Durant. Those are three 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.880 of the greatest shooters in the history of the game. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.199 And I could put Clay and Staff up there as 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.840 just shooters. Durant's one of the great scores in the 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.920 history of the game. That's a pretty good advantage against 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.400 any team there. Yeah, pulling. I don't know if this 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.320 has been asked, Someone's had to ask us, would you 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.720 rather have in their prime to start your super team Steph, 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:22.080 Clay and Durant, Harden, Kyrie and Durant? Is that an 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.040 easy one? Our hard one? Assume everyone's in their prime. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.200 So the Golden State Warriors three years ago to three 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:32.120 years ago, Durant, Steph Curry, Clay Thompson or the current 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:37.040 NETS three, and I assume everybody's healthy. Yeah, I just 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.240 don't know about Kyrie that I just I'm not honor 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.840 off the court well just Kyrie. Yeah, I'm just not sure. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.199 It feels like Clay and Staff, there's no drama whatsoever. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.000 There was drama with Draymond and Durant because Draymond knew 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.280 that KD was just stopping through to pick up a 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.160 title and then he was leaving, and I think Draymond 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.840 had a real problem with that. But when they were 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.120 on the same page that was beautiful as beautiful basketball 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.520 to watch. So I would take those three because it 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.520 feels like I have two of the greatest deep shooters 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.960 of all time and I have one of the top 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:19.000 five scorers of all time. Add that, you know, put 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.360 that together. If one guy's off two guys, you know, 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.560 what are the odds that two guys would be off 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.000 and one guy would be on. Or you had two 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.120 guys who were who were on and one guy was 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.800 off and you and you got a coach who was 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.280 a shooter, Steve Kerr. That's all he did was shoot. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.280 But I would I would take that group Harden. We've 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.240 seen in the playoffs. It's not good. He doesn't come 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.800 up big in the playoffs. Yes, mc glove permission to 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.520 completely annoy you with a system. Take No, it's too 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:55.640 late now you open the door. Do you really want 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.840 to do that to me, Paul, He says, I shouldn't 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:06.000 do it. Go ahead, our Stephen Clay, Stephen Clay if 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.600 they didn't play in that Warrior system. And my proof 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.360 being Steph was not Steph with Bark Jackson as a coach. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.160 So I don't know if you can judge them independently 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.040 of each other in a way. Well, Steph had the 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:25.040 ankle injury first couple of years. True, all right, Clay 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.520 grew up right before our very eyes. Is a great shooter. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.840 If I put Clay in today's NBA, Clay Thompson could 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.880 be even better if he was out of Golden State. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.840 From the standpoint of he wouldn't share the bat he 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.680 would get. He would he would be averaging, you know, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.800 twenty eight points a game. But what if the Timberwolves 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.200 had listened to you and taken Steph instead of Johnny 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.680 Flint or whatever it was. And it's a chance Steph 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.440 might not have developed the same way. That is fair. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.000 But do I think he would still be great and 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.920 All Star? Yes? I do. I mean a lot of 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.080 down through history, look at the players. You know, Let's 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.000 say Bill Russell didn't end up in Boston. If Bill 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.679 Russell ended up with the Cincinnati Royals, Hey not Bill Russell? 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.960 Or is he that's why when you saw him play? 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.280 Like was he that? But he's known as a winner? 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.440 That he was not? He would he was had eight 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.960 Hall of Famers in the lineup. If the Bears drafted 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:34.040 Tom Brady, like you have a perfect situation for greatness 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.480 down through history. I mean, look at it. Kurt Warner 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.520 doesn't get the chance to play. When Trent Green goes down, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.000 he gets the chance to play. And then we saw 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.080 that there was something. So what if Trent Green doesn't 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.880 get hurt? What if Drew Bledsoe does not get hit? 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:56.680 Like all of these what ifs and careers that hinged 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:02.920 upon that. What if Belichick's days with the Jets? What 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.000 if Belichick and Sabans stay with the Browns? Like it's 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.160 just crazy that, you know, when you start to think 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.000 about it, there is a lot of luck that goes 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.560 into these these great careers, whether it's coaching. What if 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.720 what if Nick Saban stayed with the Dolphins? What if 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:23.280 Alabama wasn't open? Like, it's just it's littered with all 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.880 of this. It's crazy. Yeah, mclovin, I guess my Yeah. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.920 My point is that Hardened, Kyrie and Kevin Durant might 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.240 be more individually talented, but when the three of those 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.800 guys were humming in Golden State, it was like a 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:39.520 greater triumvirate. If it does that make sense? Yeah, But 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.680 imagine like the Lakers won the coin toss with magic Johnson. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.400 What are we talking about if the Celtics had gotten 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.360 Tim Duggett, Yeah, yeah, but Magic was going to go 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.320 to the Bulls. So it's a coin toss like that. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.440 That's how crazy all of this is. But then once 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.640 you got him, what you did with him, then you 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.840 got showtime. What if Portland had taken Jordan? Would that? 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.480 I see? That's that's why it's just history is littered 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.240 with that. That's why when you always say, well, it's 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:15.400 system quarterback, there's a lot that goes into that. And 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.480 Peyton Manning could have gone to the Chargers if the 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.720 Colts took Ryan Leaf, right, and Ryan Leaf no, I 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.200 don't know, Hey, until it would have been successful. Probably 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.440 he would have been successful. But they always say that 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.400 Chargers the organization was a mess. Yes it was, Yes 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.480 it was. But the NBA starts in second half in 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.960 earnest tonight. I don't know what that means. Mclovin in 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.480 earnest I always hear that, No, how about the NBA 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.560 just started second half tonight? Yes, time? And is it 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.760 insulting to like those couple of games that were played 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.440 last night? You know in earnest it means the majority 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.040 of the schedule. But if I'm the Grizzlies of Spurs 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.280 or something like that, hey, we're important too. We just 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.320 happened to be one of two games from West night 0:16:55.400 --> 0:17:00.360 in Earnest. Where is Ernest? By the way that guy 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.960 Ernest goes to Cambra? Is there is there a town 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:08.080 called Ernest? Remember when they changed Montana Joe Montana? That 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.960 that city they named it Joe Montana. Where's is there 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.600 an Earnest? By way? I heard it? Yes, Sorry, some 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.199 NFL free agent was tendered again that I had laughed at, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.960 Like what other sport do we use the word tender? 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.000 He was tendered? I mean it sounds so nice. By 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.520 the way, I gotta play some of Jerry Jones's comments 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.560 from the press conference yesterday. Oh it was priceless. Yes, boy, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.240 there was an Ernest Pennsylvania and Ernest Georgia. That's the 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.040 only ones in America. Imagine if Elway had gone to 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:44.280 the Colts or Elway had gone played for the Yankees. Right, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.280 history is you know, rewritten with all of these moments. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.879 That'd be a good podcast, like imagining all those differences 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.480 in there. I've brought that up before. I wanted somebody 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.280 to do the heavy lifting, so I could just take 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.320 the cliff notes of what they came up with. But 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.440 what if, like you just did a what if podcast 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.280 or column kind of like a sliding door. Has you 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.399 ever seen that movie the rom com with Gwyneth Paltrow? 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.160 Did I just lose our man card for the day? 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.160 Sliding Doors? Like, if she went this way, her life 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.040 went that's way. If she went that way, her life 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.520 went out. It's a great rom com. Well, I did 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.119 wonder that. You know, when you take a job or 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.840 you help somebody get a job. I have broadcasting students 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.160 and you help them get a job someplace, and then 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.920 they might meet somebody in that job that turns out 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.359 to be their wife or their husband. Like what school 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.120 you go to and you meet somebody there and because 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.200 you went there, or you took a job and you 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.280 didn't think you were going to get that job, or 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.400 you missed out on a job like just it's so 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.560 it's weird. I believe in fate, but there's a lot 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.520 of luck that goes into this. Yes, Polly, I was 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.240 bartending in New York, spinning my wheels doing nothing in 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.960 the mid nineties, and I worked late because some other 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.440 guy wanted to leave early bartending, and I met a 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.600 dude who worked at three in the morning for CBS 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.000 Sports and we started talking and he goes, yeah, we 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.520 have an opening for like a researcher on the NFL 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.200 Today shows, like oh, I would love to be part 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.080 of that, and they end up bringing me in. I 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.160 always think to myself, if I didn't work late that night, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:15.640 do I meet that dude? Do I get a job 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.840 at CBS Sports? Yeah, it's wild if I didn't miss 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.440 out on the job in Dayton, Ohio. And then I 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.760 want to feel sorry for myself. And I went to 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.600 see an ext girlfriend in Atlanta and the last day 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.360 I'm there, I took a tape into CNN and then 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.320 got hired that day at CNN. If I don't if 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.560 she says, hey, just they're hiring at CNN. I go 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.160 to Atlanta last day and I have my audition tape 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:42.840 and I'm going I'm not I can't get a job 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.359 at CNN, And I went in got a job. A 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.840 week later, I'm doing headline sports at CNA. Yes, do 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.639 you remember there was another guy who is going to 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.480 do what I did for SI Right before we were starting, 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.200 Mark Bechtel. I'll say the nays, but he got some 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.240 book project with the Daytona five. They're like, all right, well, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.680 parlof you're up. Otherwise this whole thing, for me, we 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:06.520 never would have happened. It was just like a stroke 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:10.720 of luck. Damn, I gotta blame sorry about that. I 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.680 can remember the day we met mcloven at Sports Illustrated. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.960 We were there and mcloven, you were goofy. You were 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.480 kind of like jittery and and talking really fast and 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.480 your arms are flailing in the air when you were talking. 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.719 And Dan didn't remember your name. When you walked out 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.120 of the room, he goes, he know that one guy. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.240 He's he's got something. And that was the entire discussion, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.879 and then it kind of morphed into something that's not 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.480 what happened. That is partially what happened. I was suave 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.760 and cool. No, you were not. You were not. You 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.920 were whacky. Get out of here. You were. You don't 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.320 remember that day up, I'm not making it up. I 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.359 can remember its specifically. It was the same day because 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:45.840 while we're waiting for you to be in the room, 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.800 Rick Riley called in to quit Sports Illustrated and we 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.840 were in the room of the Heads Illustrated while Rick 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:53.920 Riley's calling in the quit. Dan and I are sitting 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:55.760 there in the room listening to the phone call. That 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.960 is true. They put they put Rick Riley's call on speed, 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.800 and I'm listening to Rick Riley saying he's quitting Sports 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:07.280 Illustrator to go to the mothership. And then and then 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.920 I met you right after that talk about sliding doors. 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.320 By way, Rick Riley goes to ESPN and you go 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.240 to Sports Illustrator. Look, everything happened. There wasn't exactly a 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.840 trade because that ESPN didn't do well in that trade, 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:23.000 but it was presented that way. Oh, Riley for Patrick 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.399 and I went, Nah, that ain't true. That was like 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.280 Joe Barry Carroll for Kevin Mcalan Robert Parris. Wow. I 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.680 did help Riley with that trend. You know, he wanted 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.199 to know about ESPN and I did help him with that. 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.760 And that's I did warn him, you know, and I said, 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.280 know what you're going into. And you know Riles wanted 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.240 to be a TV guy and he was tired of 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:48.240 writing column Sports Illustrator. Wow, how did we get here? 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.520 We got we got a little deep there all right, 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.400 we'll take a break. Chris Mannox will join us. We'll 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.240 talk about too much of a good thing with the 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:00.880 three point proliferation, as they like to say, a few 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.119 other things with Mannix coming up. 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