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What today 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.920 Dan and the dan as are all? Don't see another 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.360 radio show maham event and filling in here's Chris Bruce 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:12.240 and Rob Parker. Oh yeah, I know it sounds a 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.040 little different because it is different. It is the Eye Couple. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:21.120 I am Chris Bruce hard alongside my partner Rob Parker, 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.919 and we are coming to you live from the Fox 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.399 Sports Radio studios, filling in for Dan Patrick. Of course. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.520 This is the Dan Patrick Show. What's up man? How 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:38.360 are you? I'm doing great? Happy Thursday, Happy Jackie Robinson 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.960 Day on this April fifteenth, and Chris I don't know. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.880 Is today's still tax day? I don't even because you 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.080 know last year got around. I will be going out 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.240 to file my tax. Oh okay, you haven't done it yet, Hall, 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.640 that means we've done everything. We just gotta you know, man, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.880 heil it out. Yeah, that means you. That means you're 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.720 right in the check if you ain't said it out. Yeah, 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.040 but that's a blessing. But you know, you still hate 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.640 to see it go. I still hate to see it go. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.360 But but definitely well and you know, Robinson day to 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.959 you too, no doubt. And we'll talk about that Chris 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.280 in the second hour, just about his impact and if 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.959 anybody else ever lived up to what Jackie Robinson did 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.880 back in nineteen forty seven and after. So we'll do that. Yes, 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.000 it's gonna be a great show, and we we we 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.600 are asking you to keep it locked right here for 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.600 the next three hours on Fox Sports Radio because we 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.960 don't think you'll be disappointed. We got so much to 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:37.360 get into basketball, football, a little bit of baseball, as 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.440 Rob says, So we're gonna have a lot of fun 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:45.639 and let's start right here. Rob a game that I 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:50.720 was really looking forward to. Some people thought would have 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.320 been the biggest game of the year, or at least 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.280 the rest of the season for both Philadelphia and Brooklyn 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:03.080 because of the seed implications, the tie breaking implications for 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.280 the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. And yet 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.080 it was a dud. It was, I mean, it actually 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.000 turned out to be fairly exciting because the Nets made 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.800 a rally. Yeah, but that was the mop up crew. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.200 And you gotta be careful. I mean, Chris, you're right. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.680 The score looked great, like it was this barn burner, 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:27.080 but they were down. Philadelphia took its foot off the gas, right, 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.519 and then the reserves, who don't get to play that much, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.440 they went out there and they balled out, you know. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.960 So it looked like that was get up off the 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.440 bench and go back out there and make sure they won. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:44.680 But the reason it was a dud was because Kevin 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.600 Durant was out for the Nets. Blake Griffin was out 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.880 for the Nets, James Harden was out for the Nets. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:56.160 LaMarcus all Dridge was out for the Nets. Kyrie played 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:00.480 but he had sat out the game before. And Rob, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.280 I'm gonna say this, and you know you and I 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.400 of course, as do all the other analysts, on TV 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.360 and you make picks, right. We pick who's gonna win 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.760 the Super Bowl, we pick who's gonna win the NBA title, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.240 and this and that, and you want to be right. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.600 You want your picks to be right. It's not so 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.880 much that you're a fan of that team, but you 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.880 want your picks to be right. As an analyst, you 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.640 do obviously, you want to be able to You don't 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.680 want to be on TV or radio every day and 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.159 be wrong all the time. You know, you want to say, like, 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.680 I picked that team and they want and that that 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.159 tells you my expertise and I know what I'm talking about. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.839 So yeah, that's what everybody is wrong. I mean, nobody's 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.680 perfect time and people a lot of people are wrong 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.760 more than they're right, and they're good analysts. But if 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.159 we were all right, Chris, we would be living in 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.159 Las Vegas and we wouldn't be doing this. Okay, let's 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.200 just be honest. And there's a little bragging, right, especially 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.240 with the ACA, but we have fun with each other. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.560 There's a little bragging, right, So you want your pick 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.880 to be right. So I do one, and we both 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.600 actually picked the Brooklyn Nets to win the championship. I 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.359 do want them to win it because I want my 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.320 pick to be right, but I gotta say this, Rob, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:22.320 I'm a bit torn. I'm a bit torn because if 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:27.880 the Brooklyn Nets win this championship, which I'm with that pick, 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.120 I'm sticking with it, I don't think it'll be good 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.480 for the NBA. I don't think it will be good 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:40.359 for the NBA because what they are attempting to do 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:47.040 is wholly unprecedented. I mean, if they win this championship, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.560 and I know they're an aberration because they got so 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.080 much talent that most teams wouldn't be able to do this, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.040 But if they win the championship, I think the view 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.919 of the regular season for the next few years will 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.960 never be the same because they have essentially flouted the 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:14.960 regular season. They're treating the regular season like it's the preseason. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.360 Real talk. Kevin Durant sat out on the second night 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.240 of a back to back. Okay, I kind of get it. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.480 He could have played it mat probably wasn't even his decision, 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.719 so I'm not jumping on him. But he could have played, 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.680 or he could have sat out. If you had to 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.640 sit out, sit out in Minnesota and played the National 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:39.239 TV game against a top team in the league. Kyrie 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.960 Irving sat out the game before, Kyrie taking three subbaticals, 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.760 and maybe he's going through something mental, but and I 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.440 want to be sensitive to that, but everybody got challenges, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:55.680 but you still show up for work. He's done three subbaticals. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:01.120 LaMarcus Aldridge is out for some undisclosed illness COVID related. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.320 You can go to the Clippers last night. Paul George 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.240 sat out for Rest on the second night of a 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.800 back to back. That's why he sat out. But my 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.240 point is robbed if they win. Not to mention, they 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.560 got a first year coach, never coached at any level. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:23.480 That's not unprecedented. But still their big three have played 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:28.920 seven games together and if they win this championship, believe 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.440 you me, it's gonna be more of this next year. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:37.880 Where Kyrie duran hardened just sitting out randomly, maybe not 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:42.240 hardened because he tends to play. He's legitimately hurt with 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.960 the hamstring. But and you know, Rob, it's a copycat league, 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.080 and I think, just like people copy grang Popovitch who 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:56.880 started this all this Rest, this could be copied as well. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.239 And that's why I don't think it'd be the greatest 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:03.160 thing for the NBA. Chris, I got two things to 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:08.440 say to you. First, don't worry about your taxes today. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.480 It was extended. The irs moved into May seventeenth, So 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.640 you're good. But the wife is okay. But I'm just 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.840 telling you you're not gonna be late May seventeenth. It's extended. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.280 Thank you to the people who hit us up on 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.360 Instagram and Twitter. All right, yes, but you are a 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.040 day late, a dollar short. About this wrecking the NBA. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.079 I hate to break it to you. The NBA has 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:37.280 already been ranked Chris Broussard. Lebron James wrecked it when 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.880 he went to Miami and built that super team. Yes, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.240 he wrecked the NBA. From that standpoint. You remember when 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.559 Lebron went to the NBA Finals eight years in a row. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.439 You remember that, Oh yeah, out of the East, okay, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.720 greatness Okay. And then Lebron James, I keep saying, started 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.079 my Space and the Warriors one up them, started Facebook 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.200 when they added Kevin Durant the Warriors in their run 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.319 they went to the NBA Finals five years in a row. 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:12.360 We got an overdose of Warriors basketball. First time since 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.920 the Celtics of the sixties, did a team go to 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.360 the NBA finals five years in a row? So now 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.040 you're saying the nets because they've had some injuries, some 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.719 guys haven't played, Chris, you know this because of the 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.280 But I'm saying it not because of their greatness. No, 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.400 you're talking about because of the right. But I'm saying 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.959 Lebron James, during his time with the Cavaliers, his second stint, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.760 took his foot off the gas, didn't play hard, miss 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:45.120 some games because he realized being the number one sees 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.360 didn't matter. And so Lebron has already done this, and 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.720 the nets are saying, we're not gonna kill ourselves. I'm 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.000 with you as if I'm a fan and Chris, if 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:01.520 I was a fan pre COVID and I bought tickets 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.640 to a game and these guys are sitting out. If 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.760 I was ESPN last night, I want to refund on 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.280 my NBA deal last night. I'm serious. Now that kills you. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.840 That I'm telling you. People tuned in and went, Okay, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.600 what marathon is on? Is there a wire marathon? Or 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.559 you know what I mean? Christa, let me binge watch 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:27.079 something else because I wanted to see the big game 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.360 showed out against Philadelphia and the Nets and it didn't 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:35.559 materialize because only Philadelphia was playing with a loaded gun. Yeah, look, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.960 I'm with you on that, and that's the thing. And 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.480 the players have to realize this. First of all. The 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.520 owners when they have to collective bargaining agreement and talks again, 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.960 the owners are going to bring this up and it's 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.480 going to be a sticking point they're going to There's 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.560 gonna be some type of clause likely put in there 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.280 that players need to start playing. Because, as you said it, Rob, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.520 this isn't so much punishment for the players, although it's 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:10.880 your job. It's your job, right right, But beyond that, Rob, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.959 you hit it on the head, it's the fans. It's 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.079 not fair. First of all, your ticket prices are through 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.959 the roof, as all sports are. And so if I 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.600 if I put down two hundred dollars to take my 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.120 three sons to the game because I want to see 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:33.839 Kawhi Leonard and Paul George the Pacers in person, and 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.040 they're sitting down the bitch in street clothes, not injured. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.520 If they're injured, I get it, But if they're not, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:47.800 they're just sitting there. Come on, So I but where 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.880 I disagree with you? Robbed though, Come on, man, First 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.520 of all, the NBA is far from ruin. I mean, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.400 you can say what you want. It was great for 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.240 the league, only one two out of four, I know, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.480 while they were just app competitive, but it was still competitive. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.280 And let me do this eight seven seven ninety nine 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.200 on Fox Chris. Let's throw out the number in case 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.520 people want to chime in. Eight seven seven nine nine 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.400 six sixty three sixty nine. If you want to talk 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.480 about this, yeah, would it be bad for the league? 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.120 Call in now? Would it be bad for the NBA? 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.439 If Brooklyn wins it, just because of the precedent it's setting, 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:32.160 other teams may follow. The regular season will be diminished 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:36.880 even more. That's my that's my concern, right. I want 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.760 Brooklyn to win it, but that's my concern. I hear 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:45.000 your concerned. But we're already in that era of super teams. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.760 Only a couple of teams have it. Lebron started at 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.920 Chris and now everybody's one uped it. So, like I said, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.640 I've said before, if Lebron was my Space and the 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.079 words were Facebook, I guess the Nets or Instagram Now, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.240 I mean it is it is a out of control 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.920 monster tesla or something. I mean, I mean, it could 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.280 be the best of all of them. It's just the 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.480 point that this is where we are and and it 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.600 is bad. And when I say it's ruined, I mean 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:18.480 what I consider competitive balance. We'll probably never see a 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.040 starless team like the Detroit Pistons in two thousand and four, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.960 be the star started team like the Los Angeles Lakers 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.480 with Kobe and Shaq who had already won three in 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.960 a row Chris and then added two more stars and 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.960 I know they were aged, but Gary Payton and called 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.120 them alone. So I don't think we'll ever see another 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.600 team like that win a championship. And that that's sad 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.440 to me because that was unexpected and that was great 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:50.600 only because it was nobody that columnists in Detroit. It wasn't. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.800 I mean, nobody's sitting there. Oh my gosh, Detroit. It 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.160 was so great. The first of all, they had talent. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.400 You know that ivolved getting in the Hall of Fame. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.160 Rashid Wallace was a top number one pick type talent. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.800 But your point is well taken, but Rob remember that. Look, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.040 they were the second team in like the last forty 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.880 smite years to do that. It was the Seattle Supersigonics 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.400 in nineteen seventy nine and then the Detroit Pistons in 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.720 two thousand and four. Outside of that, it's always been 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.520 star studied teams. And my thing is this, I first 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.000 of all, I actually do think there's competitive balance this 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:37.480 year because I think while Brooklyn is stacked, Philadelphia is 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.000 a legit contender, Milwaukee is a legit contender, and then 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.080 robbing the West. Yes, the two LA teams are great, 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.520 but you can't sleep on Denver, especially before Jamal Murray 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:54.880 went down. That's unfortunate. Phoenix is looking surprisingly good and 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.920 Utah is there now. I think the LA teams are better, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.120 but these aren't scrubs that they're just gonna step out 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.520 there and walk over. So I think competitive balance is there. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.800 Number one and number two. We all love the eighties, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.680 you and I that's when we grew up watching you 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:15.480 start covering the NBA in the eighties. Yes, yeah, and 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:20.440 there were I mean, rob only five teams actually made 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:24.400 the finals forget winning. It made the finals in the 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.880 eighties and it was the Golden era. So I'm fine 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.200 with dominant teams. I don't have I didn't have a 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.520 problem with Golden State going to five straight finals or 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.520 Lebron going to eighth straight finals. My problem is when 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:42.280 the regular season becomes belittle to such a degree that 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.160 I can't even I can't count how many big games 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.400 I've been looking forward to watching, and because guys are 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.560 out for injury or rest or whatever, they're not a 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.080 big game anymore, no doubt. All right, Chris, we got 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.960 a few calls. Let's jump on these. Justin and Mobile Alabama. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.760 You're on the Dan Patrick Show, Fox Sports Radio. Hey, 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.280 what's up, guys? How are you man? All right? Yeah? 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.240 I agree with you too, though, because like how about 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.920 the last Dance would motivate players to to to to 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.440 strive and be stronger? And you know, Geordan really take 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.160 rest stays like Rent stays. What is that? You know? 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.600 Like Jordan last year in the NBA as a forty 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.200 year old, Yes, his last year and and uh and 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.080 you know and uh and uh. And I don't blame 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.640 Lebron for what he did. Now. Kevin Durant was a 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.200 different topic because he went to a team that beat him. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.000 But Lebron, y'all keep Stephen keep saying that he built 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.800 the super team. But I always thought the Stiltons built 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.800 the superteam. The Celtics made trades. The two the two 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.320 players they brought in were trades. They weren't free agents, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.960 thanks for they were. Yeah, but but it wasn't. It 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.680 wasn't built the same way. That's all I'm saying. But 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.360 David Lefraine players that that games up on Lebron. Can 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.720 you name Hall of Fame Claia that Lebron I played 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.000 with before? Yes? No, yes, but you yeah, but Shock 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.359 was old by that point. Like, I'm with you in that. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.280 And I actually wrote a column before Lebron went to 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.200 Miami saying he may have to team up with a 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.359 Hall of Fame teammates to contend with the Celtics. Thanks 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.960 for the call, that sat So I'm with you on 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.880 that one. David in Oklahoma, you're on the I mean 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.440 you're on the Dan Patrick Show Fox Sports Radio. Sorry 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:33.560 about that? No, oh, David? Okay, Matt in Missouri, you're 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.240 on the Dan Patrick's show, Fox Sports Radio. What's up? Matt, Hey, fellas, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.440 how's it going. You're doing great job filling in for Dan. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.359 Thank you because I've never called it to Dan show. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:48.600 Six foot twenty Okay, big dude, all right, yeah, yeah, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.480 uh so I live in Missouri. Like I said, I'm 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.080 a Lakers fan, have been my entire life. Uh. You know, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.920 when the Lakers come to Oklahoma City to play the Thunder, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.320 we try to get tickets. That's the only time I 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.399 can get to a Lakers game. And I don't know 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.879 where you guys are going, but three tickets for two 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.120 hundred dollars would be super cheap. Oh no, Chris, we're 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.400 just making it up, right, we know that that's not 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:17.840 the Yeah, if you don't want to sit up on 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:19.919 the top row R And if I show up to 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.240 a game, I'm shelling out four or five hundred bucks 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.040 and the Lakers best players aren't playing because they're resting. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.520 I mean, that's a that's a killer to me. You know, 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.440 have you done that? Have you gone to a game 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.200 there and and a top player was resting? Yeah? Yeah, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.679 we had back in Uh oh, I'm with when they 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.000 had Howard and Nash. Now, I know they had some injuries, 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.040 but they were players that weren't playing, that were just 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.720 resting that time. And it's it's super disappointing. I feel like, 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.440 if they're going to rest, they should have to rest 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.840 at home game. Yes, not on the road. I agree, Matt, 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:58.159 no doubt. Thanks for the call. Thanks guys. We can 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.520 we squeeze one more? And Chris, Yeah, one more? John 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.639 and Dayton, you're on the you're on the Patrick's showy 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.920 talking to you guys, usually listening in the evening. It's 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.800 fun hearing you in the morning. Thank you, Thank you, mam. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.440 We will be on the night too. We're doing double duty. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:19.240 We don't rest double different couple. Yes, yeah, I kind 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.879 of have a different take on the rest thing. I 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.880 think that, you know, we saw a few years ago 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.560 one of the Warriors blew out a knee in the finals, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.040 and sometimes I wonder if that's not a sign that, 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.640 you know, these guys are overdoing it. Although I really 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.760 like the suggestion from the last caller that if you 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.119 you know, if you're going to rest, maybe rest on 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.320 a home game. But sometimes I think that, you know, 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.000 I don't know. I just think that when I when 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.360 I hear about these players getting injured, I wondered, sometimes 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.680 if it's if it's worth saying no, they got to 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.840 play every night, because you know, there might be a 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:52.960 kid in the stands of his hoping to watch him play. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.439 I think it's in the Age two games schedule. It 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.360 might be part of the part of the game. It's 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.520 just a different take on it. All right, appreciate to call. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.840 All right, good calls, guys, and we got plenty more. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:08.000 We got Matt Miller, the ESPN Draft analysts coming up 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.560 in a few minutes, so definitely keep keep it locked 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.520 right here on The Dan Patrick Show with the Eye 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.560 Couple Chris Bruce Art and Rob Parker. Thanks for listening 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.840 to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:23.360 us live every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern or 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.240 six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.680 local station for The Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.520 Radio dot com, or stream us live every day on 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:36.320 the iHeartRadio app by searching f s R, or stream 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.280 us live on the Peacock Act. All right, welcome back 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.960 to the Dan Patrick Show. We are the Eye Couple, 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.800 Chris Bruce Are and Rob Parker filling in for Dan. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.719 We're coming to you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.800 Great time to have in our next guest. He is 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:57.560 an ESPN Draft analyst and you will be able to 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:03.760 see him across all of the ESPN platforms. Uh as 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:07.080 the as we near the two thousand and twenty one 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.320 NFL Draft, and that'll be Matt Miller as soon as 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.840 uh he joins us here on the Dan Patrick Show. 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:19.000 But uh, Rob, what are you most looking for? Look? 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.800 We know at the top of the draft it's Trevor 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:26.880 Lawrence going number one, and it's looks like it's gonna 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:30.320 be Zach Wilson going number two to the Jets. What 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:33.479 are you most looking for forward two in this draft? 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.400 To be honest, it's just the who's the first pick 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.960 after that? I think, like the first pick after Zach 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.320 Wilson or period. Well, I'd just like to see, like, 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:49.200 who's the first pick in Okay, Well, then there's my excitement. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:54.760 I mean, I mean something, Parker. No, I mean, I'll 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.439 watch the highlights of the draft and I'll you know, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.840 find out. But I'm just follow drafts in the past, Christian. 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:04.400 I've been doing sports talk radio since nineteen ninety four 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.440 and follow drafts and follow people's mock drafts and stuff, 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:13.080 and everybody's different. And most people, don't, you know, are 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.240 like at fifteen or twenty percent clip right, So I 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.280 just I think it's I don't think anybody really knows 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.320 you know what I mean, Like, I think Matt Miller 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:24.920 would beg to different. Well, I want to find out. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.639 We're gonna We're gonna find out. Matt Miller. Welcome in. 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:31.520 How we're talking. I'm doing well, guys, appreciate you have Mils. No, 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:33.240 it's great to have you. Now. Look, we were just 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.040 talking about it. It seems like the draft's gonna begin 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.719 at number three. As Trevor Lawrence number one, Zach Wilson 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.480 number two to the Jets. Who do you think San 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:48.760 Francisco's taking at number three? I think they take mac Jones, n't. 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.439 It's interesting because a few weeks ago it was like 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:55.240 all mac Jones. Then it seemed like lately people talking 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:58.000 about they might take justin fields, and now there's some 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:00.800 trade lance talk, but you're still go with Mac and 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:03.440 tell us why yeah, So here's the deal. You're right. 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.520 Three weeks ago, when the trade happened, everyone said, sounds 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:09.560 like they're trading up for mac Jones. I think what 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.280 we're seeing happen. There's a lot of folks like myself 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:16.600 saying it should be justin fields or it should be 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.199 trade lands. But I think what you're saying, like my 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:24.000 mock draft, Melchiver's mock draft, Todd mcshay's Daniel Jeremiahs. Everybody's 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:26.240 mock draft still has Mac Jones to the San Francisco 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:28.560 parting the nine Ers, because a mock draft is based 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:30.960 on what we think will happen, not what we would do. 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:33.520 I can guarantee you if they fired John Lynch today 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:35.320 and offered being the job, we would not be drafting 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:38.360 Mac Jones the number three overall. But you know, that's 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:41.000 that's kind of the bed that they've made. And I hope, 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:43.359 I really do hope, because I think Justin Fields is 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:47.240 a fantastic quarterback prospect. I hope the affording nine Ers 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:49.560 are just messing with us. You know that. It's just 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.080 like they're having a little fun. But here's the deal. 0:23:52.200 --> 0:23:54.880 They're on the clock. As you guys very correctly pointed out, 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:56.720 we know who the number one pick is, we know 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.800 who the number two pick is. Everybody knows. There's no 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:02.479