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Speaker 1: if I had sold it for that much, I would
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Speaker 1: on a yacht with a bond villain somewhere in Italy.
Speaker 1: Did you say a Bondville. Yeah, bond villain or a
Speaker 1: bond villain. Yeah, okay, I like that. I want to
Speaker 1: hang out with driving a Bondville, which is like a
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we my parents
Speaker 1: had one of those. Yeah, we'd shoved the kids in
Speaker 1: the way back, remember the way back. Yes, I travel
Speaker 1: across country nineteen eighty one. We moved cross Tree. We
Speaker 1: had the old station wagon and we had the third
Speaker 1: row facing facing the opposite way. We played the license
Speaker 1: plate game, right, two dogs, three kids and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: all our lifely possessions, and we would play the we
Speaker 1: would play the um the license plate. Now you can't.
Speaker 1: We don't move the car until the kids are in
Speaker 1: seat belts because we're you know, freaking were in seat belts.
Speaker 1: Oh really yeow facing the other way, but we're in
Speaker 1: we're in seatbelts. We didn't in the way back. We didn't.
Speaker 1: Me and my brother we did not like to be
Speaker 1: locked into seat belts sitting up and all that. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean like we had the dogs weren't in seat belts.
Speaker 1: Um but but but but we were. We just we
Speaker 1: didn't have any devices, right, remember, I mean that's right
Speaker 1: what travel was like before there was the DV The
Speaker 1: DVD player was a godsend when you had little kids.
Speaker 1: And then of course now we've gotten too devices where
Speaker 1: you like, just give him a device and tell them
Speaker 1: and then you won't even hear him. Then they become
Speaker 1: zombies back there. Yeah that's not good. Um. So anyway,
Speaker 1: he's Jason mcadowna. I'm Doug gotlie. The big news in
Speaker 1: basketball is Joel and Signs is going to sign a
Speaker 1: four year, one hundred ninety six million dollars max extension
Speaker 1: and in football, the biggest news we can come up
Speaker 1: with his Tim Tebow got cut. We were talking about
Speaker 1: Tebow and I and I want to get to fans
Speaker 1: in a second, because it is kind of related. I
Speaker 1: would also say that that one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: people are down on Tebow is because of what we've
Speaker 1: seen from some of these A good number of the
Speaker 1: TV preachers right where they're not what they purport themselves
Speaker 1: to being. The too good to be true is in
Speaker 1: fact too good to be true, and I think I
Speaker 1: think he catches some of that. It's like, there's no
Speaker 1: way that he's a nice guy. There's no way that
Speaker 1: he like. We just we think of it as fake
Speaker 1: because because there have been others that have fooled us.
Speaker 1: But I think the big thing is really it's the
Speaker 1: Tebow fans were so fervent in their belief, in their
Speaker 1: following of him. It's you know, it's like any of
Speaker 1: these fan bases, like you don't dislike the player, you
Speaker 1: dislike the fans because the fans are noxious. Yeah, It's
Speaker 1: like the Red It's like Red Sox fans they hadn't
Speaker 1: won forever, then they finally win a World Series and
Speaker 1: incredible comeback fashion, and they then they just become the
Speaker 1: most obnoxious, arrogant fan base ever. Kentucky Wildcats, Doug have
Speaker 1: the worst. I know that nobody cares about college basketball
Speaker 1: other than you and I, but I would like to
Speaker 1: like Kentucky, but their fans are insufferable clowns and they
Speaker 1: are just all over social media. So I can't like
Speaker 1: Kentucky because of their fans being just clueless. But for Tebow,
Speaker 1: I wonder about this. Doug. So, a lot of people
Speaker 1: and NFL teams agreed he's not first round material quarterback.
Speaker 1: Accuracy not totally his thing. Yeah, is Josh McDaniels drafting
Speaker 1: him in the first round? Like? Is that part of
Speaker 1: the hate? A lot of people thought Tim Tebow's not
Speaker 1: really a starting quarterback, don't But Josh McDaniels saw something
Speaker 1: booted Jake Cutler so he could draft Tim Tebow and like,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's like Tim Tebow, he stinks
Speaker 1: at quarterback? Why is he a first round pick? Does
Speaker 1: some of this hate come from Josh McDaniels making that move? Who,
Speaker 1: by the way, people love to credit Oh Josh McDaniels
Speaker 1: and Brady, Josh McDaniels and this, and he's going to
Speaker 1: be a head coach. And Josh McDaniels is the one
Speaker 1: who moved up to draft Tim Tebow in the first
Speaker 1: round when nobody else thought he was a first round talent.
Speaker 1: Let me say this about Josh McDaniels. Okay, first of all,
Speaker 1: good coordinator hasn't proven to be a good coach and
Speaker 1: might not get that opportunity outside of New England because
Speaker 1: of what happened with the Innanapolis Colts. Okay, but let's
Speaker 1: not let's not defame what he's been able to do
Speaker 1: during his time as a coordinator in New England. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is great, but working with he's been even
Speaker 1: better working with Josh and and and being a head
Speaker 1: coach in usually very very seldom are you getting a
Speaker 1: chance to do what you actually do best. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a very different skill set in many ways, and
Speaker 1: all depends upon how you how you kind of craft
Speaker 1: out your staff. But I'll let me just say this
Speaker 1: about Josh McDaniels, Like, the truth is, he may have
Speaker 1: picked the wrong guy, but he may have known the
Speaker 1: trend that was coming and locked in on something that
Speaker 1: ultimately has proven to work. Right, Like, look what they're
Speaker 1: doing in Baltimore, what they did in San Francisco with Kaepernick,
Speaker 1: That's what Josh McDaniels was doing in Denver with a
Speaker 1: more limited quarterback. So he picked the wrong guy. Tim
Speaker 1: Tebow just isn't good enough as a thrower. He just
Speaker 1: hasn't been. And honestly, like he's one of those guys
Speaker 1: that when you're trying to explain to somebody who doesn't
Speaker 1: really get football, you're like, well, Tim Tebow ran a
Speaker 1: four to six. He was a terrible He had bad
Speaker 1: feet in the pocket, right, He just had terrible feet
Speaker 1: in the pocket. So he wasn't nimble as a thrower.
Speaker 1: He couldn't reset his feet. It's like Russell Wilson's note quicker,
Speaker 1: But Russell Wilson has incredible feet in the pockets so
Speaker 1: that whichever way he rolls left or right, he can
Speaker 1: set them quickly and deliver on time, on target. He
Speaker 1: has a better arm as well. But the point is,
Speaker 1: I would actually tell you that Tim Tebow is kind
Speaker 1: of I mean, Josh McDaniels was kind of ahead of
Speaker 1: the curve in terms of selecting Tim Tebow understanding that
Speaker 1: this is a way you can play with a limited
Speaker 1: quarterback and a limited playbook and still be very competitive
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Right, so sometimes guys understand where leagues
Speaker 1: are going. They just picked the wrong quarterback. How about
Speaker 1: this is this is probably not gonna go over well,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying it anyway. How much of this is jealousy? Doug.
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow is a handsome individual, right, He's very religious,
Speaker 1: He's obviously in shape. He runs with his shirt off
Speaker 1: in New York when he was on the Jets for
Speaker 1: eight minutes, and it's on the cover of every newspaper. Okay,
Speaker 1: it becomes a meme on the internet. Like he's married
Speaker 1: to Miss Universe. Literally, she won Miss Universe. And the
Speaker 1: guy has played a high level of college football. He's
Speaker 1: won everything there, and then he made it to the NFL.
Speaker 1: He went and go played minor league baseball. He came
Speaker 1: back to the NFL for another shot, and now he's
Speaker 1: got the rest of his life ahead of him. He's
Speaker 1: a millionaire multiple times over. Like everything he touches he
Speaker 1: does well at. And yeah, it doesn't matter that he
Speaker 1: didn't make major league baseball. He's still played a high
Speaker 1: level of minor league baseball and he was a quarterback
Speaker 1: on a playoff team. Like, the guy is living the dream,
Speaker 1: like we everybody says, Oh, I'm living the dream, baby,
Speaker 1: it's awesome. Like stop for a second and think Tim
Speaker 1: Tebow is totally kicking assid life. Okay. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there who just have a
Speaker 1: crappy station in life and just want to hate on
Speaker 1: a guy because he's got everything and nothing, by the way,
Speaker 1: was handed to Tim Tebow. Okay, go look up his
Speaker 1: parents that he wasn't born on third base, none of
Speaker 1: that stuff. With Tebow, everything he's gotten, he's worked his
Speaker 1: butt off for it. That is really what America is
Speaker 1: all about. And I think Tim Tebow's living the dream.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna sit here and defend the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's living the dream currently. Like
Speaker 1: the other part too, it is this is the third time,
Speaker 1: I believe, maybe the fourth time he's been released, right,
Speaker 1: the Jets released him, the Patriots released him, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles released him, right, right, But I you know, like
Speaker 1: here's the other part to it. I'm imagine yourself and
Speaker 1: you are there's a statue of you at the University
Speaker 1: of Florida. You won two national championships, one as a
Speaker 1: starter for your head coach, and earlier today, you know,
Speaker 1: they call him in Tim, we love you, just not
Speaker 1: gonna work out or whatever that that feeling when you've
Speaker 1: worked your entire life. And this is not just Tim Tebow.
Speaker 1: It's a I think it's one of the things that
Speaker 1: you watch and you should have great empathy for when
Speaker 1: you watch Hard Knocks when a guy gets released and
Speaker 1: this is it, right this, We're We're good. This is it.
Speaker 1: It's not like a prize fighter. Like prize fighters, Oscar
Speaker 1: de la Joya is going to fight again, right like
Speaker 1: they just I saw that. What the hell is he
Speaker 1: doing any money? Guys? I thought the guy was worth
Speaker 1: tons of mill hundreds of billions of dollars. You know, Sez,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. But they all do it, right, I mean
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali and he fought well past his prime. And
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson, you know, and when these exhibitions like they
Speaker 1: all they all like, but this is it. He will
Speaker 1: never play in the NFL ever again. He will never
Speaker 1: put on an NFL jersey as a player ever again.
Speaker 1: And I'm with you. Like if you have a if
Speaker 1: you sit there and go like and by the way,
Speaker 1: he was like the first ever sports reality star, right
Speaker 1: his high school football team had there's a reality show
Speaker 1: based upon That's when we first learned. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 1: was um hold on, I'll think of the name in
Speaker 1: a second, somebody I end up uh tweeting tweeting us.
Speaker 1: But but and here's how big he would. Like when
Speaker 1: he was coming out as a recruit, he was either
Speaker 1: going to go to Alabama or to Florida, right, and
Speaker 1: Alabama Mike Shula was the coach. If he goes to Alabama,
Speaker 1: the Nick Saban thing never happens. It doesn't happen. It
Speaker 1: doesn't because you know, if he goes there, Shula still
Speaker 1: the coach. They went. I don't know if they win
Speaker 1: national championships, but it's to come. Like every how we
Speaker 1: look at things is completely different. But I just I
Speaker 1: have empathy for a guy who now in his mid thirties. Okay,
Speaker 1: football's over, baseball's over. Now we got to figure out
Speaker 1: the rest of our lives. And you're right, he did win,
Speaker 1: like just make it playing a down in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I've said this all the time, but like, are we
Speaker 1: don't have a healthy enough respect for how good they are. Guys.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Now let me ask you. Hold on, Doug,
Speaker 1: you recently, I don't know how much you talk about it,
Speaker 1: but you posted about it online. So you at surgery recently.
Speaker 1: Right for the ACO. Okay, you played a high level
Speaker 1: of college basketball. You played at highest levels of AU.
Speaker 1: I think you played internationally. I'm not gonna go through
Speaker 1: your resume, but I am curious. Will you be playing
Speaker 1: any more pickup basketball coming off the ACL injury? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I like to hear. Don I do love
Speaker 1: to hear that. Yes, okay, because you know me, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm kind of the opposite. I was a good youth
Speaker 1: athlete and then everybody got huge. I did not get
Speaker 1: huge in high school, and I couldn't make the basketball
Speaker 1: team or like I was like the last guy from
Speaker 1: the tennis team. I just missed the golf team. Like
Speaker 1: it was depressing. Wait wait wait wait, yeah it was
Speaker 1: it cuts on your golf team in tennis team. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean yet I thought that's what the golf team
Speaker 1: and the tennis team were four guys that got cut
Speaker 1: from other sports. You had to have like a certain
Speaker 1: score in golf and I narrowly missed it. It was depressing,
Speaker 1: and I was like a good athlete, but I went
Speaker 1: to a big school, like big graduating class, like a
Speaker 1: lot of good athletes, and so everybody asked me now,
Speaker 1: like Jason, why are you entering a tennis tournament? Now?
Speaker 1: Why are you playing in like soccer tournaments? And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to relive the youth that I kind of
Speaker 1: missed because I was good when I was young, and
Speaker 1: now I'm like, you know, I'm a good athlete. I
Speaker 1: played pick up basketball a lot, I'll play god, play
Speaker 1: beach volleyball. I was in a tennis tournament, like I'm
Speaker 1: living that now, and Doug, it feels awesome, like I
Speaker 1: don't want it to end. I cannot fathom mentally what
Speaker 1: Tebow's going through when he's had people cheering for him
Speaker 1: since he was what probably fourteen years old. Everywhere he went,
Speaker 1: stadium's full cheering four or against him, and now there's
Speaker 1: no cheering and there's no football and there's no base
Speaker 1: Like I cannot understand mentally what he must be going through.
Speaker 1: And the same holds for a lot of these guys,
Speaker 1: and even you know, speaking to a guy like Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: who dating back for what fifteen years, has been like
Speaker 1: the alpha everywhere he's gone and now he's kind of
Speaker 1: dealing with it looking over his shoulder and is this
Speaker 1: the end for him? It's tough on these athletes. Guys
Speaker 1: have some empathy. Well, I mean, I like look and
Speaker 1: interestingly they're they're tied at the hip, right, they're both
Speaker 1: at Florida. That's right, great point let Florida together. And
Speaker 1: Cam was behind Tebow and didn't think it was right
Speaker 1: and obviously got in a little trouble and then went
Speaker 1: to junior college, was the greatest junior college quarterback ever,
Speaker 1: won a national championship at Auburn, and then he was
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. Right, So there's there is
Speaker 1: there a little kind of a little justin fields, how
Speaker 1: you like me now sort of feeling to it um
Speaker 1: after after leaving the University of Florida. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a real human like. Look, the difference
Speaker 1: is here. Here's the biggest difference I think in football
Speaker 1: and any other sport and mad baseball, I guess is
Speaker 1: somewhere you know, like, look, in football, there there's no Europe. Right,
Speaker 1: there's the arena league has mostly gone under, although there
Speaker 1: are some There is an arena sort of league. There
Speaker 1: is Canada. But when you're done, you're done. It's not
Speaker 1: like you can go like, hey, fellas, let's get the
Speaker 1: helmets to get the shoulder pads. So let's meet down
Speaker 1: at thirty eighth Street and let's go let's go play
Speaker 1: football this weekend. Like and and look, most basketball players
Speaker 1: when they're done, they're done anyway. The guys that play
Speaker 1: in the NBA, they're just like, look, I'm good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they can still if they want to, especially guys
Speaker 1: who's who didn't make it to you know, their highest
Speaker 1: level dreams. Whatever they can, you can. I can still
Speaker 1: go and play pick up basketball when I'm healthy. Right.
Speaker 1: So my thing is, it's it's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: that far have struggled to walk away. I think Tim
Speaker 1: Tebow will feel the people cheering for him. He will
Speaker 1: have that same following. He will still have his flock
Speaker 1: as he as he preaches the good word, probably around
Speaker 1: the world and in a good portion of this country.
Speaker 1: But it's it's different. There's nothing like the energy of
Speaker 1: a football like my son had his first tackle football practice. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's it's his second it's his second time playing the
Speaker 1: basketball guy. Yeah, he played tackle football already. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: played when he was ten. Now he's twelve playing. They
Speaker 1: didn't have a season last year obviously, right, right, So
Speaker 1: but he's he's a little behind only because he was
Speaker 1: away at camp and then seeing friends or whatever. And
Speaker 1: but but the point is, like, there's nothing like the
Speaker 1: energy of a football team. Basketball team is great too, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's a little family. We have different levels. But
Speaker 1: the idea of being in front of fifty three dudes,
Speaker 1: fifty two dudes, you know, or eighty four guys and
Speaker 1: what he did against old miss right when they're playing terrible,
Speaker 1: when he gave us in passion speech. Yet time can
Speaker 1: we play that? By the way, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: little hokey, okay, but it's kind of what kind of course,
Speaker 1: it's kind of what sports is about. It's about it's
Speaker 1: about leadership, and I'm in together and like all of
Speaker 1: these again, it does feel hokey. It does feel, you know,
Speaker 1: a little too formulaic. I get it. But it's real though,
Speaker 1: But it's absolutely real. It's absolutely it's absolutely real that
Speaker 1: the leadership component to playing the position is a real
Speaker 1: and tangible thing, and it's it's kind of what you're
Speaker 1: saying about Tom Brady, which I agree with, Like Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is a better quarterback and checking every single box, okay,
Speaker 1: every single box. But the only thing that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: has that you could ever hold against him is like, man,
Speaker 1: when guys are out, they're out right. When guys are out,
Speaker 1: they're out, and not everybody is down with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Whereas Brady, however, he's been able to do it. Dudes
Speaker 1: love him. Yeah, and like, look, there's a different level.
Speaker 1: Like I'm Aaron Rodgers generally well liked by guys he
Speaker 1: plays with and really respected by it. Whereas Jay Cutler,
Speaker 1: they just hated him. Right when he was in Chicago,
Speaker 1: they hated him. They moved his locker to another room
Speaker 1: because he was so despised within the locker room. You
Speaker 1: gotta be beloved by those guys because you get all
Speaker 1: the attention, you get more money, they block for you.
Speaker 1: When you're successful, people only talk about you, not about them, etc.
Speaker 1: Like you have to be you have to have. But
Speaker 1: that leadership component is a real thing, and to me,
Speaker 1: there's nothing like the football leadership that Tebo had in
Speaker 1: high school in college. I remember he's a homeschool kid.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a guy who grew up around the fellas.
Speaker 1: That's really really hard to do. And you know, Sunday,
Speaker 1: all anybody's gonna remember is here. He is missing blocks
Speaker 1: that most tight ends should be able to make in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and it's it's like Jordan's striking out.
Speaker 1: And I know it's the same sport that he's played,
Speaker 1: but it might as well be a different sport when
Speaker 1: you're trying to block and you're trying to run routes
Speaker 1: and you're trying to do all these things which he's
Speaker 1: never really done. And if you want to yourself, why
Speaker 1: guys don't do it, there's your answer. It's just too hard.
Speaker 1: It's too hard to learn on the phone. And it's
Speaker 1: not like Tibo is gonna try to stick around and
Speaker 1: go to Canada and play football. He doesn't need the
Speaker 1: money that bad. At least by all accounts, he doesn't
Speaker 1: need the money. Dan la Hoya, I'm still stunned that
Speaker 1: he's fighting at this age like that has to be risky, right,
Speaker 1: It just can't be smart to go in a ring
Speaker 1: at this age. Um taking all those blows to the
Speaker 1: head and fight like Tibo. I think he's good. He
Speaker 1: retires and probably goes into politics or religion, right or
Speaker 1: both or both. He's Jason McIntyre. I'm Doug Gottlie. This
Speaker 1: is the Dan Patrick Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: so so so here here's I do want to get
Speaker 1: to this. Sam Munson's going to join us lead NFL
Speaker 1: analysts for Pro Football Focus. But I want to the
Speaker 1: behavior in the stands and how it relates to sports gambling.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to pitch it to you, Jason,
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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. So, m did you did you see this?
Speaker 1: Did you see this? In regards to sports betting, which
Speaker 1: I know you are huge on, right that licenses to
Speaker 1: offer online betting sports betting in New York are attracting
Speaker 1: big names and creating partnerships between the largest bookmakers in
Speaker 1: the US. Jay Z, this is a real story, Okay.
Speaker 1: Jay Z and the seventy six Ers owner Michael Rubin
Speaker 1: are part of a group applying for an online sports
Speaker 1: bett license in New York and planned to form Fanatics sportsbook.
Speaker 1: According to documents released by the New York Sports Gaming Association,
Speaker 1: the Fanatics application is one of the six being reviewed. Right,
Speaker 1: like all of these uh, what is it? Fan duel, DraftKings,
Speaker 1: bet MGM, you know, Ballys, bet Rivers, all that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of all everyone's going after kind of
Speaker 1: the same prize, which is betting in the big states, right,
Speaker 1: New York, California, Texas, etc. I'm sure you saw the
Speaker 1: viral video this weekend or the fight in La between
Speaker 1: ramon ram crime. You saw that that video was insane.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's a lot. There's a there's a
Speaker 1: lot too. I mean, that's ton to unpack there. But
Speaker 1: you know, just briefly, Doug, if you have the high
Speaker 1: ground and it's one on four, are you still attacking
Speaker 1: the guys? He had to be very lubricated with alcohol.
Speaker 1: Do you think, well, I mean, like, look, I think
Speaker 1: he was wearing Aaron Donald jersey. And here's a problem, Like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: you're not Aaron Donald. You're not You're not Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: plays down there, you're up here. But here, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We've seen enough bad behavior from fans. And it happened
Speaker 1: before obviously the mouth of the Palace thing, and there
Speaker 1: were there were some similarities there with the lady who
Speaker 1: threw the pepsi cup is the guy who threw the
Speaker 1: blue cup from like feet away down soap? Du I
Speaker 1: mean did the pruder work? The one lady instigated it
Speaker 1: and then basically was out of there, right yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean she was standing there. Yeah. But the bigger point though,
Speaker 1: is like if you think fan behaviors now when you
Speaker 1: just have alcohol and dudes out, and I add in
Speaker 1: sports gambling to it, which has always been there, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of been a little below the surface, right,
Speaker 1: Like I'll never forget when I was When I was
Speaker 1: a freshman, I played Notre Dame. We played three games
Speaker 1: in the garden, and every garden game in the garden
Speaker 1: is the same, like they stay around for I like
Speaker 1: I was like, why are they were blowing out Saint
Speaker 1: John's why are they still here? Like the betting line, dude,
Speaker 1: I was like, I had no idea. I just had
Speaker 1: no idea, And you have people like I can't believe.
Speaker 1: You know, I think Brian Mahoney was the coach. He
Speaker 1: Mahoney minus six, So you kid me. You guys are
Speaker 1: a joke, right, Like the the the energy from people
Speaker 1: who have money on a game when it and when
Speaker 1: it goes a different way now, it'll keep people in
Speaker 1: the stands for longer to wait for the games, and
Speaker 1: I think it'll make people watch games more. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm maybe. I don't know, because truth be told, if
Speaker 1: you were betting on games before, you're betting on games now.
Speaker 1: It's not like they're reaching new people. It's just they're
Speaker 1: creating legal ways to create tax dollars, right. I wonder though,
Speaker 1: dougl I do gamble early and often M gamble responsibly everyone,
Speaker 1: but I am I get more like when I win,
Speaker 1: it's like amazing, you know, you celebrate, but you never
Speaker 1: want to get too high or too low on wins
Speaker 1: or losses. I usually if I lose a big bet
Speaker 1: and it happens. It happens to even the great ones
Speaker 1: like myself and my family is in the vicinity. I'm
Speaker 1: basically like, Okay, I'm gonna need some time here. Guys,
Speaker 1: can you you know, get away? And I will, you know,
Speaker 1: isolate myself. I don't get like angry and want to
Speaker 1: break stuff and fight people. You know that I understand,
Speaker 1: but that's not your personality, right, Like I will bet
Speaker 1: when you drink. When you drink, you're probably the happiest
Speaker 1: guy on earth. Right, I'm always happy, dude, I'm an
Speaker 1: understand You don't understand. But when you when you have
Speaker 1: a couple of drinks and you go on one of
Speaker 1: your numerous vacations that you post on, right, are you are?
Speaker 1: You're happy? Smiling, happy, I'm a happy guy. Yeah, they're okay, okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So imagine if we all know guys that underneath the
Speaker 1: surface there's a lot of inner anger there, right, And
Speaker 1: then you factor in that they're in a in a
Speaker 1: bowl of ten thousand people at a basketball arena and
Speaker 1: they just lost, you know, a thousand bucks that they
Speaker 1: knew they were gonna win. And whether it's the ref
Speaker 1: or a coach or a player, and then you got
Speaker 1: guys around you and they don't give you the Hey man,
Speaker 1: I need a minute that no one gives you a minute.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, Like, if you think fan behaviors
Speaker 1: now bad, now legalized sports, sports betting, and and and
Speaker 1: wait and it will be, It's something you have to
Speaker 1: plan for. Sam Munston joins US lead NFL Eless for
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. You can follow him on Twitter at
Speaker 1: PFF Underscore Sam with Jason McIntyre. I'm dog got leibas
Speaker 1: to Dan Patrick's show here on Fox Sports Radio. Sam, Sam,
Speaker 1: Let's let's start with the Patriots discussion when we started
Speaker 1: that today, which is, hey, what do they do here?
Speaker 1: It does feel like mac Jones is closing in on
Speaker 1: becoming the starter. And as much as everybody likes how
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is handling himself in front of the microphone, like, look,
Speaker 1: he's only making three and a half million, that's backup
Speaker 1: quarterback money, But what do the numbers say? Like, how
Speaker 1: can we statistically believe that Cam Newton can actually throw
Speaker 1: a football and be a good enough quarterback this year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think that preseason debut was really encouraging for mac Jones.
Speaker 1: Um he graded well at PFF but he also when
Speaker 1: you look at how they played that game for him,
Speaker 1: it was almost like an audi. They sort of set
Speaker 1: him up with various situations to see how he would fare,
Speaker 1: and they had him run a drive with the hurry
Speaker 1: up offense coming out of halftime and all those kinds
Speaker 1: of things, and Jones calling card as a prospect was
Speaker 1: just incredibly good mental processing. Just how quickly he's able
Speaker 1: to execute the offense and work through his reads and
Speaker 1: find the right guy and accurately deliver the past. And
Speaker 1: that's something that a lot of rookies struggle with when
Speaker 1: you adjust to the NFL. It's it's a more expansive
Speaker 1: offense generally in the NFL than it is in college.
Speaker 1: There's more to learn, it's a lot to learn in
Speaker 1: a short period of time, and you have to adjust
Speaker 1: to the speed of the game as well. So usually
Speaker 1: that's the area they struggle with and they're kind of
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball. But Jones still look good, and
Speaker 1: still look quick, and still look able to do all
Speaker 1: of that and had a good command of the offense.
Speaker 1: So I still think, you know, Cam Newton is the
Speaker 1: starter right now and probably will be Week one. But
Speaker 1: as you said, Jones is closing, and that game I
Speaker 1: think did a lot for the Patriots to sort of
Speaker 1: assure them that, hey, this is on the horizon sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later if we need to make that switch. Hey, Sam,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you again. I want to ask
Speaker 1: two gambling questions. Number one, on the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: I don't see any way possible that this is a
Speaker 1: nine win team. I don't like anything about this roster
Speaker 1: outside the offensive line. Hey, can you tell me why
Speaker 1: the heck anybody would bet over on the Saints to
Speaker 1: win nine or more games? And be I just need
Speaker 1: you to talk nicely about my guy, Sam, Zach Wilson,
Speaker 1: the Mormon Mahomes. Yeah, over is tough for the Saints.
Speaker 1: I do think the roster has a lot of good
Speaker 1: still there. They go on this roster overhaul and purge
Speaker 1: every offseason because of the way they treat the cap,
Speaker 1: but they always end up with a lot of talent
Speaker 1: still there. And when you look at you know, the
Speaker 1: defense still has a lot of good players. There's definitely
Speaker 1: some question marks, you know. Cornerback number two opposite Marshall
Speaker 1: and Lattimore is very much still in flux and obviously
Speaker 1: wide receiver or absent. Michael Thomas is a major question mark,
Speaker 1: but they still have one of the best offensive lines
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You've got guys like Alvin Kamara who
Speaker 1: can still make plays. Their defensive front is really good,
Speaker 1: so I think there's a lot of talent still there.
Speaker 1: But they don't have a quarterback and they don't have
Speaker 1: any receivers for him to throw to. So over nine
Speaker 1: is a pretty tough sell, even with a great coach
Speaker 1: and some pretty good parts of that roster. I thought
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson had one of the better debuts as well.
Speaker 1: He didn't ask him to do that much and he
Speaker 1: didn't play for that long, so we didn't get a huge,
Speaker 1: extended sort of tryout. But he made it look effortless,
Speaker 1: like that armed talent that we saw in college was
Speaker 1: still there. He was able to flick passes with just
Speaker 1: no concern. There was no delay, He just dropped back
Speaker 1: in rhythm, fired the ball where it needs to go,
Speaker 1: converted a couple of third downs, and looked really good
Speaker 1: doing it. Whoa Sam months ago? He's the level of
Speaker 1: excitement here from Jason's did a while dog. No, it
Speaker 1: hasn't been three since they made the playoffs. Well, it's
Speaker 1: been three years since you had another young quarterback that
Speaker 1: people were excited about. Then it was like three years
Speaker 1: before that where you're excited about where you were. And yeah, Sam,
Speaker 1: I was at Rams camp last last week or two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, whatever. I spent some time around the coaching
Speaker 1: staff and their level of excitement, evening even losing their
Speaker 1: starting running back, their level of excitement is tangible with
Speaker 1: having a guy who can make all the throws that
Speaker 1: offense requires. Right, But look, they did lose their defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and Brandon Staley was now a head coach and
Speaker 1: did do an outstanding job, and they have reworked the
Speaker 1: offensive line. But like right now, Darryl Henderson's going to
Speaker 1: be their running back. And we haven't seen Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: compete at the highest level of the NFL, Right'. It's
Speaker 1: it's a different game when you're you know, when everything
Speaker 1: is magnified because you're playing is a favorite, not as
Speaker 1: an underdog. What are your thoughts on what's reasonable to
Speaker 1: expect from the Rams this year? Yeah, the expectations are
Speaker 1: sky high and they feel maybe a little bit higher
Speaker 1: than they should be. Stafford's definitely an upgrade over Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: but I think there's a very real question about how
Speaker 1: big an upgrade it actually is. I mean, Stafford has
Speaker 1: never had a PFF grade above eighty two for a
Speaker 1: full season, I think, and that's a good bit below
Speaker 1: like the top quarterbacks in the NFL last season. Those
Speaker 1: guys Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, even Josh Allen. Those
Speaker 1: guys are above ninety Russell Wilson, and Stafford has never
Speaker 1: hit that level. And Okay, you can sort of mitigate
Speaker 1: some of it because he was on the Lions, and
Speaker 1: you know, because he never had an offensive genius of
Speaker 1: the head coach connected to him, but that only explains
Speaker 1: so much. I think ultimately, like Stafford has always been
Speaker 1: more potential and can do and the sort of threat
Speaker 1: that he can target any area of the field at
Speaker 1: any given time, then he has been the full realization
Speaker 1: of everything he does on every single play. And I
Speaker 1: think really the Rams are making this bet that, look,
Speaker 1: we have a good thing going here. All we need
Speaker 1: is a quarterback that can do a little bit more
Speaker 1: when things don't go well. Like my Chum McVay is
Speaker 1: sort of looking at this and saying, my system will
Speaker 1: get you most of the way there. And before now
Speaker 1: I had this quarterback that was paint by numbers and
Speaker 1: could fill in the right blocks with the right color.
Speaker 1: But now I need a guy that can create the
Speaker 1: picture when everything breaks down and when a defense actually
Speaker 1: has some answers and there's some merit to that, Like
Speaker 1: there's definitely value in that quality from Matthew Stafford, But
Speaker 1: I don't think we know yet, like how big a
Speaker 1: difference that's going to make, particularly as you said, because
Speaker 1: the defense is probably going to be worse than it
Speaker 1: was a year ago. So Stafford doesn't just need to
Speaker 1: be better than Jared Goff, but he needs to overcome
Speaker 1: the regression that we're probably going to see from the
Speaker 1: defense as well. Fact or fiction always a fun game
Speaker 1: to play. The Cleveland Browns are Super Bowl contenders. Fact.
Speaker 1: If we didn't know that they were the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 1: we would be putting them up there with the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers, with the Kansas City Chiefs. But there's this
Speaker 1: lingering holdover effect from like twenty years of misery and
Speaker 1: sadness and that giant jersey that's got like a hundred
Speaker 1: names attached to it. If you didn't know the Browns
Speaker 1: were the Browns. We would think this is arguably the
Speaker 1: best roster in the NFL. Talk to bottom, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they have what eight new starters on defense? I mean
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a still some struggles on that for
Speaker 1: that unit, right, Yeah. I think that will take some
Speaker 1: time and that might not be as great as it
Speaker 1: looks on paper. But it's defense, right, and that's never
Speaker 1: been less important in today's NFL. If the offense is firing,
Speaker 1: you don't need a defense to be amazing. You just
Speaker 1: needed not to get torched in the postseason. Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean you also need to be able to protect
Speaker 1: your quarterback as well, Like the offensive line is incredibly important,
Speaker 1: which does link back to the defense, and you're not
Speaker 1: winning without defense. Let's let's get to the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: How much concerns should we have over Dak and his
Speaker 1: shoulder right now? Not a huge amount. We can only
Speaker 1: kind of go on here to be hugely concerned. I
Speaker 1: guess the longer and linger is, the more concerned you get,
Speaker 1: because we saw last season exactly what happens when Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott isn't out there. I mean there's still a reasonable
Speaker 1: debate as to exactly how good Dak Prescott is ALAE offense.
Speaker 1: If he isn't there, that system is not functioning. They're
Speaker 1: not able to overcome the question marks on defense, and
Speaker 1: Dallases isn't winning anything. So they need Dank Prescott out
Speaker 1: there and one hundred percent healthy for as much of
Speaker 1: the season as humanly possible. Sam, if I were to
Speaker 1: give you fifty dollars and say, hey, Sam, you could
Speaker 1: do whatever you want with this, but if you bet
Speaker 1: it on the Buccaneers to go undefeated, I'll double your
Speaker 1: money to make it one hundred. Do you think they
Speaker 1: have that would be a good bet? Would you take that?
Speaker 1: Would you spend the fifty dollars that way? Or you
Speaker 1: think there's just give me a break, Jason, Come on,
Speaker 1: even though they're favored in all but one game, this
Speaker 1: is lunacy. It's just so hard to go undefeated in
Speaker 1: the NFL that it's probably not a smart bet. Like
Speaker 1: the pattern of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, says they're going
Speaker 1: to be even better this year than they were a
Speaker 1: year ago, given you everything that happened last year. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady planning all season on a torn neiligament, the lack
Speaker 1: of preseason, the fact that that was the first sort
Speaker 1: of meeting of the minds between Tom Brady, who've been
Speaker 1: in one system for twenty years and Bruce arians who
Speaker 1: has a completely different system. How he performed in year
Speaker 1: one was insane. That it took them sort of seven
Speaker 1: eight games to get everything together and then they started
Speaker 1: to cook down the stretch. None of those problems should
Speaker 1: be there this year, and if they stay healthy, they
Speaker 1: should be better than pretty much every team they face.
Speaker 1: But that's not the way the NFL works. Guys are
Speaker 1: gonna get injury, something's gonna happen. You're gonna have a
Speaker 1: bad game. Everybody does at some point, and the chances
Speaker 1: are you're gonna drop one sooner or later. Okay, the
Speaker 1: team that you believe you already said the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 1: Let's take Cleveland out of it. The team that you
Speaker 1: believe again on paper before injuries, going to have the
Speaker 1: best year that we're not talking enough about is I
Speaker 1: think there's a real chance Tennessee is very good this year.
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to overstate just how big an
Speaker 1: impact Julio Jones can have on at that offense. You know,
Speaker 1: they lost a couple of pieces, but Julio Jones adds
Speaker 1: that back and then some like the threat of a
Speaker 1: j Brown on one side resuscitated the career of Corey Davis,
Speaker 1: which has been going nowhere. Corey Davis is good enough
Speaker 1: that he can win against you know, number two corners
Speaker 1: if nobody's really paying attention to him. Now you've got
Speaker 1: a Julio Jones and an AJ Brown on either side
Speaker 1: of the formation. You've got Derrick Henry in the backfield.
Speaker 1: You've got Tannehill who's proven to be a good enough
Speaker 1: quarterback to get the ball where it needs to go
Speaker 1: and take advantage of those just physical freak superstars. If
Speaker 1: that group stays healthy, that offense is going to be scary. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that divisions terrible, right. I mean that we don't
Speaker 1: know about the Colts, what they're gonna do it, what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do at quarterback. They're talented team, but quarterback
Speaker 1: and without their best offensive linemen, we don't know how
Speaker 1: they start the season. Well, who knows what's going to
Speaker 1: happen with the Texans and Jacksonville's in rebuild. No, you're
Speaker 1: one of a rebuild mode. Sam, great stuff man Awesome.
Speaker 1: Sam Munson, lead NFL analysts for Pro Football Focus at
Speaker 1: PFF Underscore. Sam, appreciate you joining us here on The
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Speaker 1: So overnight you woke up, and if you're an NBA fan,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, Joel Embiid signs a four year, one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety six million dollars max contract. Your immediate reaction, Jason,
Speaker 1: is what that's a little risky, Doug. I'm one of
Speaker 1: the few guys who has been team Ben Simmons in
Speaker 1: the Ben Simmons verse Joel Embiid thing. I've always thought
Speaker 1: I would rather build around wing guard type player. Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: an incredible defender, can literally play the one or the five.
Speaker 1: I know he doesn't love to play the five like
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, and not a This is not a flex
Speaker 1: or a humble brag. Ben Simmons sometimes works out of
Speaker 1: my gym when he's in LA and he's friendly with
Speaker 1: a guy. I'm a good buddies with a trainer, and
Speaker 1: I just know the Ben Simmons work ethic and I
Speaker 1: know he gets knocked for not wanting to shoot. But
Speaker 1: everything I hear out of Ben Simmons is good dude,
Speaker 1: really solid guy, looks out for his people. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: know dating celebrities is a fun thing for him. But
Speaker 1: this past postseason, I had to take I took an
Speaker 1: l I said Okay, Ben Simmons has not shot the ball,
Speaker 1: but I still would take him over. And because Mbid's
Speaker 1: always hurt. I mean, as good as mbiad was last year, Okay, Doug,
Speaker 1: he's still missed twenty games, like he's going to miss
Speaker 1: twenty or more every single year. This is a massive
Speaker 1: investment for the Sixers, and the way MBA took a
Speaker 1: shot at Simmons after that lost Atlanta in Game seven.
Speaker 1: By the way, Joel Embid I think had eight turnovers
Speaker 1: in Game seven, just filing that away for the great
Speaker 1: Joel embiid Um. I personally don't love this deal, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what other options more he had. He's
Speaker 1: basically got to back up the brinks, offer Maxi Simmons,
Speaker 1: whatever else and get Dame Lillard and hope that that happens.
Speaker 1: But I personally don't love this Joel embiid contract. For
Speaker 1: a guy who's always missing a ton of games, and
Speaker 1: as a rich injury history, I think it's fair to
Speaker 1: put to put. I mean, the injuries are the only
Speaker 1: thing to hold you back, though, I mean, the guy's
Speaker 1: probably the best most talented guy in the NBA, not
Speaker 1: most talented big or overall player. I'm a player. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's They just don't make human beings like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: Joel Embiad is seven feet tall, who can run the court,
Speaker 1: defend the rim, guarding the perimeter, hit three, score in
Speaker 1: the post, has incredible feet and doesn't Anthony Davis do
Speaker 1: all of those things. And he's he's not as big,
Speaker 1: he's not and he's not nearly the low post scorer,
Speaker 1: and he's not Anthony Davis is. Look, he's very an
Speaker 1: also very injury prone. There's some similarities there, although Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis you'd probably say, maybe even more injury prone at times, um,
Speaker 1: considering he hasn't had It's it's more like weird stuff
Speaker 1: with Anthony Davis as opposed to feel more like major
Speaker 1: injuries that he's coming back from for for Embeid. But regardless,
Speaker 1: I mean, I I personally think Himbiad's better and younger
Speaker 1: and more talented like Joel Eid. How old do you
Speaker 1: think Joel Embiad is not twenty eight? He's twenty eight
Speaker 1: years old. I'm guessing I didn't google it. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: he's I mean, I think he's missed twenty twenty seven. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean He's like an old twenty seven though, right,
Speaker 1: But you can say that, I mean, couldn't you say
Speaker 1: the same thing about couldn't you just say the same
Speaker 1: thing about about Anthony Davis. I would take a d
Speaker 1: over Joel Embid I mean, plus Joel Embiid is like
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know about Prima Donna, if that's
Speaker 1: the right word. But my gosh, he gets in arguments
Speaker 1: with guys all the time. He talks a lot of
Speaker 1: trash um. Has he ever been like, was he the
Speaker 1: best player on that team when they had Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: and lost in Game seven to Kawhi on the luckbox? Yes? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. They've gone downhill since Butler left, have
Speaker 1: they not? I mean, tell me, the last time you're
Speaker 1: sitting you're crapping on Joel. You're kidding, you're crapping on Joel.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons was awful in the playoff. He was he was,
Speaker 1: he was. He wouldn't look at the basket. I know,
Speaker 1: and look I've I've I've gone through like that's a
Speaker 1: buck in my college career. Like I've gone through it.
Speaker 1: I understand how hard it is to come out of
Speaker 1: I haven't heard those things shot through. I haven't. I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't no idea, I haven't I at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some but very very reluctantly. Yeah, he doesn't shoot Eddie,
Speaker 1: you at least shot, I understand. But he couldn't make
Speaker 1: a free throw. I mean like it's it's it's trending
Speaker 1: the wrong way. I haven't heard that about Ben's I
Speaker 1: haven't heard. He's a bad guy but just doesn't have
Speaker 1: the reputation as a worker and went to work through it.
Speaker 1: Didn't play for the Australian Olympic team. Why because he
Speaker 1: would have He probably would have come out the bench.
Speaker 1: You would have had to be a worker. He would
Speaker 1: have a new girlfriend, that great host to that great
Speaker 1: guess what you're if you WINBA playing in Australia or
Speaker 1: not playing playing for Australa or not playing for Australia
Speaker 1: shouldn't hold you back from having a girlfriend, right, representing
Speaker 1: your country, playing at the highest level. And by the
Speaker 1: way they're probably saying, they're going, like, you know, we
Speaker 1: might have been able to beat Tim say if we
Speaker 1: had Ben Simmons, maybe not, but but it definitely would
Speaker 1: have been worth Look. Joel Embiid is seven feet two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty pounds. He shot the highest percentage from three.
Speaker 1: He shot eighty six in the line. Like, the dude's
Speaker 1: a bucket rand. He can defend the rim. He's really really,
Speaker 1: really good. But at that time, out of time. But
Speaker 1: can you win with a center, Doug in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: a center as your most dominant player? Um? Or do
Speaker 1: you need a wing? Yes, that's what happened with the
Speaker 1: with the Lakers. You need both. It's not one or
Speaker 1: the other. What's more important. You need a wing and
Speaker 1: they don't have it. I mean they got Tobias Harris
Speaker 1: on the wing. Like, come on, okay, so that's that.
Speaker 1: You're going to trade Ben Simmons and you're gonna get
Speaker 1: better players around him, you know, But but Ben Simmons plays,
Speaker 1: I mean, assuming Joe, you're gonna trade Ben Simon and
Speaker 1: Joel and be put guys around him. Um. Now you
Speaker 1: said something we were talking earlier today. We'll get to
Speaker 1: it next hour. You think the Clippers in their trade
Speaker 1: yesterday have sold their soul to Kawhi Leonard. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I don't love it, man. The grit, the grit and grind,
Speaker 1: I know, that's the Memphis Grizzlies deal, but they were.
Speaker 1: They were the hustling Clippers a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: with Pat Bev, lou Will, Montrese, Harold when they pushed
Speaker 1: the Warriors to six the KD Warriors the greatest team
Speaker 1: in NBA history, Yes, the KD Curry Warriors. They were
Speaker 1: the greatest. And that Clippers team's gone. That Clippers team
Speaker 1: is there's no remnants of that really. Okay, it's basically,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty boy, Kawhi and Paul George who don't
Speaker 1: want to pay pretty boy. Yeah, he doesn't. Kawhi takes
Speaker 1: a lot of games off. He doesn't want to practice,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to put in the work in the game.
Speaker 1: He shows up and he's incredible, but come on, man,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. He doesn't want to practice,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to put in the work. Reports reports
Speaker 1: that Kawhi Leonard would show up late to practice, or
Speaker 1: the Clippers would call off practice and do whatever Kawhi
Speaker 1: wanted because he's the franchise. Okay, so there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot to unpack there. Ut. Yeah, I saw I saw
Speaker 1: you take a shot at me last week on social media.
Speaker 1: I saw it with what with watch Party, Kawhi is
Speaker 1: not at number one. Yeah, you're literally the only human
Speaker 1: being unearthed. No way. I will defend that next hour. Okay, okay, wait, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll,
Speaker 1: we'll get to Jason's terrible take about Leonard. He'll defend
Speaker 1: the indefensible next, then the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio.