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Speaker 2: Todd is here, Paul, he's here, Marvin's here, and a guest, Danett.
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Speaker 2: today and tomorrow. Dylan will handle the poll responsibilities, the
Speaker 2: pole question responsibilities and anything that you would like to
Speaker 2: add from the first hour poll question and what are
Speaker 2: you going to go with an hour two?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan, Well, for our one we had who had
Speaker 4: the best weekend? Gino Smith has zero votes?
Speaker 5: He didn't get one vote from going to the Raiders.
Speaker 4: Huh not one?
Speaker 5: Okay, then vote yues.
Speaker 4: People aren't that high on the Raiders either.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: But for hour two, kind of going off the Miles
Speaker 4: Garrett topic, true or false? Miles Garrett is only interested
Speaker 4: in getting the bag, not a ring. This is a Todd.
Speaker 5: I can't do it where it's one or the other.
Speaker 5: Like is he interested?
Speaker 2: Yes, he's interested in the money. But do I think
Speaker 2: that he wanted to go elsewhere?
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 2: I just don't think that they got offers. Maybe they
Speaker 2: didn't even entertain offers, so he has to save face.
Speaker 2: Now take care of me. I guess i'll they had
Speaker 2: once again, they had to give Deshaun Watson a deal
Speaker 2: that he couldn't refuse. He ruled out the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2: I think he wanted to go to Atlanta, but he
Speaker 2: ruled them out, and then they said, what if we
Speaker 2: give you two hundred and thirty million dollars guaranteed? All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, he wants to go to the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett is going to go from Cleveland to Canton
Speaker 2: to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: Do I think that he wanted to play meaningful games? Yes?
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 2: Now you go back, but this is you weren't a
Speaker 2: good team last year with him. I think that they
Speaker 2: should have still. Now you don't want to give him away,
Speaker 2: but you have to be opened. I just think that
Speaker 2: that's it's being irresponsible as a GM to at least listen.
Speaker 2: Now you might say, no, we told him we weren't
Speaker 2: trading him. That's how much he means to us. Okay,
Speaker 2: you don't mean as much to him as he means
Speaker 2: to you because he wanted to leave.
Speaker 5: But I get that that you're going to be loyal.
Speaker 5: We can't.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be the GM who signed to
Speaker 2: Shan Watson and traded Miles Garrett. I understand that, but
Speaker 2: you'll owe it to your franchise, your fan base to
Speaker 2: at least explore and the teams that are going to
Speaker 2: be interested in trading for him. Could be Philadelphia, could
Speaker 2: have been Washington, could be Detroit. These are all good teams.
Speaker 2: They may give you three first round picks. I think
Speaker 2: they were looking maybe for four where you're gonna get
Speaker 2: a Herschel Walker deal.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. So now what do you do?
Speaker 5: You got Miles Garrett? Great?
Speaker 2: Now, what Nick Chubb's not going to be there? Who's
Speaker 2: your quarterback? Jamis Winston wide receiver?
Speaker 5: Like? What do you have here? I mean, is that
Speaker 5: your tune in factor? Hey? We got Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: Okay, you guys got dominated last year.
Speaker 5: The defense got dominated. Okay, he's going to give you
Speaker 5: fifteen sacks? Great?
Speaker 2: Now, what happens on all the other plays and when
Speaker 2: the offense is on the field, It just you're gonna
Speaker 2: get out from underneath the Sean Watson's contract. Now, you
Speaker 2: just spend forty million dollars on a defensive player you
Speaker 2: need help. I just think it's irresponsible for the Browns
Speaker 2: to put out a statement that says we're not trading
Speaker 2: him and then not field calls. What happens if somebody
Speaker 2: says we'll give you and then you go, oh, Like
Speaker 2: there could be one of those moments there. But you
Speaker 2: could even say to Miles Garrett, hey, we tried. We
Speaker 2: just didn't get an offer that we thought was commensurate
Speaker 2: to your talent.
Speaker 5: You're going to be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: We would hate to give you up, but only if
Speaker 2: it helps our franchise moving, you know, in the next decade,
Speaker 2: like in the right direction. And they didn't get that opportunity.
Speaker 2: A lot of times we overestimate what somebody's going to
Speaker 2: bring in return. Where you go, oh, they traded this
Speaker 2: guy and they got a fifth round draft pick. Wow,
Speaker 2: well they gave up that guy. They got a fourth
Speaker 2: round draft pick in twenty twenty eight, Like you just
Speaker 2: a lot of it is take them, they cost too
Speaker 2: much money and we want something in return. And I
Speaker 2: think that's what happens a lot of times. DeVante Adams
Speaker 2: going to the Rams, I think is a great MOVI
Speaker 2: great move Seattle. I don't know what they're doing, but
Speaker 2: I'll give that front office the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 5: They make good decisions. Do I want Gino Smith?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: But will I take him over the other quarterbacks that
Speaker 5: I have? Yes, he is an.
Speaker 2: Older quarterback, above average quarterback, but he gives us a
Speaker 2: little more stability. Are they still going to draft a quarterback?
Speaker 2: Are they going to draft Ashton Genty? That's what I
Speaker 2: was told over the weekend. And is this a Tom
Speaker 2: Brady call? Like how much did Pete Carroll weigh in
Speaker 2: with Tom? I'm going to guess a lot to say,
Speaker 2: let's bring in Geno. I can bring out the best
Speaker 2: in him. And if you're Tom, you probably are going
Speaker 2: we got to find a franchise quarterback here like this,
Speaker 2: This is basically a two year situation for us and
Speaker 2: also the coaches that have to win now.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll at his age, wants to win now. Now
Speaker 2: he's joining a team that's not very good. I don't
Speaker 2: know if he looks at this and says, let's develop
Speaker 2: a quarterback over the next couple of years. I mean,
Speaker 2: Pete is the oldest coach in the NFL. You also
Speaker 2: have the Giants situation. Do you want to bring in
Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback for a coaching staff that may not
Speaker 2: make it to the second half of the season. Do
Speaker 2: you want to bring in Aaron Rodgers who does make
Speaker 2: you better but only makes you better for a year
Speaker 2: and that doesn't solve anything. I I'd rather grow with
Speaker 2: this and we might not be a competitive team. Maybe
Speaker 2: we have a good draft pick next year, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: can come in and all of a sudden, it's you know,
Speaker 2: like putting ear rings on a pig.
Speaker 5: All right, still pig.
Speaker 2: That's the situation here with the Giants, the Jets, what
Speaker 2: are they doing?
Speaker 5: What's their quarterbacking situation? The Steelers?
Speaker 2: You start to look at these teams and you go, okay,
Speaker 2: there's only so many quarterbacks to go around here, you know.
Speaker 2: Do the Jets go, well, I don't know, let's take
Speaker 2: Justin Fields. Okay, what did the Giants do? You're going
Speaker 2: all in on cam Ward? Okay, good luck.
Speaker 5: What's Pittsburgh doing?
Speaker 2: You don't have a quarterback under contract, but you just
Speaker 2: brought in dk Metcalf Seattle Sam Donald, Like, what's plan
Speaker 2: B if you don't get Sam Darnald?
Speaker 5: What if the Colts.
Speaker 2: Say, you know what, we'd like to go after Sam Donald.
Speaker 2: We admit we made a mistake on Anthony Richardson. You
Speaker 2: got a team that can win and can win ten games.
Speaker 2: Now do I think Sam Donald is great?
Speaker 5: No? Do I think he played great? Yes?
Speaker 2: At times he did. The question would be what's he
Speaker 2: costing me?
Speaker 5: Sam Donald? Sixty million dollars?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Sam Donald forty five million? Okay, I can have a
Speaker 2: conversation here. But he's still under thirty? Is he still
Speaker 2: twenty seven? He's been twenty seven for about four years? Yes, Marvin, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think he turns twenty eight. Oh, twenty nine, it's
Speaker 2: always I think he turns twenty nine in July.
Speaker 5: But well, Sam Darnold, he is twenty seven? Oh? Is he?
Speaker 8: Is?
Speaker 5: He gonna be twenty eight?
Speaker 7: Paul?
Speaker 9: Twenty eight in July. He's been twenty seven for eighteen months?
Speaker 5: How is it? That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you have these moves here and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden it gets official here coming up at
Speaker 2: noon Eastern of who's going where? And then how's that
Speaker 2: set up for the draft? But yesterday was crazy the
Speaker 2: NFL over the weekend. Those are some big time moves.
Speaker 2: You got Josh Allen signing his contract extension. Metcalf goes
Speaker 2: to the Steeler, Davante to the Rams, Miles Garrett staying
Speaker 2: Gino Smith goes to the Rate. That's wild. See you
Speaker 2: got a twenty four hour span where all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: they go, let's see if we dominated the headlines a
Speaker 2: little while. No, we we haven't, commissioner, all right, we
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Speaker 2: So we got our poll question, we'll give you our
Speaker 2: pasting works. So the weekend, Lebron got injured and I'm
Speaker 2: playing against the Celtics and Paulie when we came in today,
Speaker 2: Pauli goes, Lebron's injured groin is a good thing. I said, Okay,
Speaker 2: save it. I said, don't even tell me what you're
Speaker 2: thinking until the show, so I can react in real time.
Speaker 2: Here you go, Paulie, Lebron's groin injury is good for Lebron?
Speaker 5: Question Martin.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, this is the perfect timing for a guy like
Speaker 9: Lebron who's forty, who plays a lot. He plays a
Speaker 9: lot in games, and he plays a lot of games.
Speaker 9: He's not a load management guy like his other guy are.
Speaker 9: He's going to get a nice six game break here
Speaker 9: right before the playoffs. The other guys can get it together.
Speaker 9: No one's going to accuse him of sitting out. It's
Speaker 9: a real groin injury. I think he had like a
Speaker 9: sprain knee or something the year of the Bubble, and
Speaker 9: he missed like six or seven games in April or
Speaker 9: late March. If he can get a week and a
Speaker 9: half off, it's almost you know, I know, a groin
Speaker 9: injury can nag, But I think actually this is a
Speaker 9: benefit for the Lakers. Lebron gets a week off without
Speaker 9: any questions about why he's taking the week off. Luca
Speaker 9: can take over for a little bit. The other backup
Speaker 9: players can get a little more run. You go into
Speaker 9: the playoffs with at worst, probably the fourth seed. It's
Speaker 9: a good injury. Weirdly, you take bad take Okay, you're
Speaker 9: not viying it. I love it, well, I don't want it,
Speaker 9: but I like the byproduct of it.
Speaker 2: I guess the thing that would concern me is the
Speaker 2: type of injury that it is. Those things tend to stay.
Speaker 2: It's like a sprained ankle. They tend to stay they
Speaker 2: linger a little bit. That'd be the only thing that
Speaker 2: if you said, hey, Lebron's going to get some rest here,
Speaker 2: how's this effect you're seating That's really important. But also
Speaker 2: getting on a roll with Luca and I know you
Speaker 2: don't want to peak too soon, And it felt like, boy,
Speaker 2: this team is now championship caliber, which I do think
Speaker 2: they are, but I think they are when they play defense.
Speaker 2: I know it's a caveat an asterisk, but I have
Speaker 2: to put that in there healthy playing defense, and defense
Speaker 2: comes down to do you want to play defense? They
Speaker 2: are all athletes, great athletes. Do you want to play defense?
Speaker 2: Can JJ get them to play defense? And if he
Speaker 2: can with the firepower, then they're going to be a
Speaker 2: tough out. They can compete for a championship. But I
Speaker 2: think getting on that role, getting comfortable with the roles
Speaker 2: that you have, new roles that you have for some
Speaker 2: of these players. You know that to me can be
Speaker 2: that you know, we lost the opportunity when Lebron got hurt,
Speaker 2: that can we improve what's our matchup going to be
Speaker 2: in the playoffs? Who fits us better than some of
Speaker 2: these other teams? You might have a dangerous team at
Speaker 2: seven or eight, you run into that you can avoid, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I disagree completely.
Speaker 11: I think this is terrible for them because if they
Speaker 11: go on a six game scared, they're easily in the
Speaker 11: playing There are only four games out of the playing tournament,
Speaker 11: so if Lebron's not there and they lose five out
Speaker 11: of six, they could be where the Timberwolves are. And
Speaker 11: so now they got to play in the play in
Speaker 11: just to get into the regular playoffs. So hopefully Luca
Speaker 11: and those guys can, you know, try to at least
Speaker 11: stay above above water.
Speaker 5: I like that good take, bad take from the front row.
Speaker 8: Yes, Ton, That's what I was wondering too. Is that
Speaker 8: enough time that would throw up chemistry? I know he
Speaker 8: just got to the team recently, but a week or
Speaker 8: two could that it could become a problem for them,
Speaker 8: and it will take a while for them to get
Speaker 8: back into the group to get a Lebron and.
Speaker 5: Luca, I don't know, they seemed to be doing pretty
Speaker 5: good job.
Speaker 2: You know. It came back to Lebron makes he makes
Speaker 2: this work. Luca is not changing who he is. Lebron
Speaker 2: can change who he is in accordance to what the
Speaker 2: team needs. But you got to play defense. The best
Speaker 2: performance over the weekend was Nikola Jokicic thirty one, twenty one,
Speaker 2: twenty two, and he did it on a Friday night
Speaker 2: and a win against the Suns, and you know, he's
Speaker 2: not bothered by it. Van Pelt interviewed him and basically
Speaker 2: this never happened in the history of the NBA, and
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, well, I'm just glad we won the
Speaker 2: first thirty twenty twenty in NBA history. With ten minutes
Speaker 2: to go in the third quarter, Joker had already recorded
Speaker 2: a triple double. From that point on, he had eighteen,
Speaker 2: eleven and twelve, So he had two triple doubles in
Speaker 2: the same game. He had a triple double in a
Speaker 2: quarter and a half.
Speaker 12: Stall of a day, start of a day, start of
Speaker 12: a day, scant outa day. This is the style of
Speaker 12: the day.
Speaker 5: Is that a double triple double?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Is that the turn?
Speaker 5: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2: But he had two triple doubles in the same game,
Speaker 2: So it's a double triple double. Is that what you
Speaker 2: get at Wendy's? Oh ah, the double triple double? Please
Speaker 2: special meal? Yes, yes, Marvin, And he's still not gonna
Speaker 2: win MV. No, No, he's not, he's not. SGA had forty
Speaker 2: so he's had at least forty and three straight games,
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, I mean he's gonna win it. He's
Speaker 2: not the most valuable player, he's not the best player,
Speaker 2: but it's his time, his turn.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 2: Because you know, jokers having a better year than he
Speaker 2: had in his previous MVP years and probably means more
Speaker 2: to his team than SGA does to Oklahoma City. But
Speaker 2: I've been around long enough to I know that. You know,
Speaker 2: I saw hi when Karl Malone won and when Charles
Speaker 2: Barkley won, and you could not convince me they were
Speaker 2: better than Michael Jordan are more valuable, But it was
Speaker 2: their turn. It was their time, and that's SGA. And
Speaker 2: I do think that there's a ground swell with the
Speaker 2: analyst former players who won SGA to win for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: You know, Oklahoma City's having a great year. Well, has
Speaker 2: anybody brought up Donovan Mitchell as an MVP candidate?
Speaker 5: No? Yeah, why not?
Speaker 11: Because he's probably averaging twenty two a game and SGA
Speaker 11: is averaging thirty thirty one. I think if Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 11: was the far and away leader because they the Cavaliers
Speaker 11: seem like very equal, they seem like very balanced. They're
Speaker 11: a very balanced team. Where's this guy's averaging twenty, this
Speaker 11: guy's averaging twenty one, this guy's averaging seventeen. So there's
Speaker 11: not just one standalone player on the Cavs.
Speaker 5: But we're talking about value.
Speaker 2: I know Donovan Mitchell, it's just because the Cavaliers don't
Speaker 2: get clicks.
Speaker 5: Nobody talks about him. Even now, it's like be grudgingly.
Speaker 5: They've won fourteen in a row. You know what they've done.
Speaker 5: This start is historical.
Speaker 2: How many teams have had this winning percentage this deep
Speaker 2: into the season.
Speaker 11: Yes, Ma, they feel like the Hawks maybe about ten
Speaker 11: or twelve years ago when they won sixty games and
Speaker 11: they have four All Stars. I think I think Lebron
Speaker 11: just swept them out of the playoffs really fast after that.
Speaker 11: But they seem like a team that was very balanced,
Speaker 11: and they had a bunch of guys averaging around sixteen
Speaker 11: to eighteen, but no one took their.
Speaker 10: Series because they'd have a super duper star.
Speaker 5: Yes, Pom.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Donovan Mitchell was probably more famous in Utah when
Speaker 9: he's averaging twenty seven and he's about to be a
Speaker 9: free agent. Everybody wanted him. His career is as a
Speaker 9: team player is going way better. But he's down to
Speaker 9: twenty four points a game for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I haven't heard anybody. It's basically SGA and
Speaker 2: then it'll be Joker, and then it'll be people way
Speaker 2: down the list there.
Speaker 11: Yes, it's this show that's keeping the calves. We're keeping
Speaker 11: them afloat. Yeah, we talk about them. Yes, and we
Speaker 11: talk about Polo benk in the Rockets, who talks more
Speaker 11: of random NBA than this is broadcast.
Speaker 2: That's because I watched the NBA. Well, you're a junkie.
Speaker 2: These other hostess, they don't watch, They don't watch, they don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, you got big time guys on TV, or
Speaker 2: I've got guys on a roster that aren't even haven't
Speaker 2: been on the roster in a couple of years. You
Speaker 2: got to watch, but they you know, I I'm here
Speaker 2: to cover the NBA, you know, instead of just saying,
Speaker 2: let's just cover the Lakers. Love the Lakers situation, but
Speaker 2: you try to be fair to the other stories.
Speaker 5: Take a break.
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Speaker 2: Our two pole question we have fill in the blank
Speaker 2: and Stephen A. Smith gets paid. I have that for
Speaker 2: you coming up. What is the our two pole question, Dylan?
Speaker 4: So the hour two pole is Miles Garrett is only
Speaker 4: interested in getting the bag, not a ring. True or false?
Speaker 4: True is leading right now sixty three percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: Okay, any other pole questions that we're considering. Todd usually
Speaker 2: has a handful.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 4: One moment, Dan, I have to go back into my records.
Speaker 5: Well, how about we just asked Todd who I had?
Speaker 5: True or false?
Speaker 8: The Jokers should win the NBA MVP again, but he
Speaker 8: won't true or false?
Speaker 5: Oh true, he's not going to win.
Speaker 4: I was going to say that to him.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Dylan.
Speaker 8: We also had how ready are you to fill out
Speaker 8: a March Madness bracket next week? Very moderately, slightly, not
Speaker 8: at all yet?
Speaker 5: I would say slightly, yes.
Speaker 9: Paul, I'm not at already because I know nothing about
Speaker 9: any of the tea but I'm very excited to do so,
Speaker 9: which is weird.
Speaker 5: What else time?
Speaker 10: That's what I got?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, we'll play fill in the blank.
Speaker 2: Let me start with Stephen A. Smith got paid. I
Speaker 2: think it's is it a five year, four year, one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollar deal? Not sure the number of years there,
Speaker 2: but it is. He's kind of he's signed a Baker
Speaker 2: Mayfield kind of deal, I think, I mean. And that's
Speaker 2: still great for the mothership there. But what ESPN is doing.
Speaker 2: They have a couple of big names and they are
Speaker 2: going to spread them across all their platforms. You know,
Speaker 2: you're going to get rid of a great show like
Speaker 2: Around the Horn, which is a shame, but it was
Speaker 2: expensive bringing in the journalist and everybody wanted to get paid,
Speaker 2: which you could still do it. You just tell them,
Speaker 2: you know, we're going to pay you in TV time.
Speaker 2: But they'll do something in house.
Speaker 10: Here.
Speaker 2: It feels like the you know, the players that they
Speaker 2: have with Pat McAfee was Stephen A, Mike Greenberg, Scott
Speaker 2: Van Pelt to a lesser degree. But you're going to
Speaker 2: have your four or five people that you're going to
Speaker 2: spend a lot of money on. You're going to ask
Speaker 2: them to host a lot of different shows, contribute to
Speaker 2: a lot of different shows. You know, Van Pelt Monday
Speaker 2: Night Countdown, Greeney doing Sunday Countdown, doing his show on
Speaker 2: Get Up, Steve and A is going to be spread
Speaker 2: all across the network. McAfee does a lot of things,
Speaker 2: not only a show, but also College Game Day. This
Speaker 2: is what their model is now. You know, they finally
Speaker 2: came around to realizing take care of your talent, and
Speaker 2: they never did that before because they kind of fought talent.
Speaker 2: They thought that the four letters were more important. And
Speaker 2: in today's social media age, you don't need to watch
Speaker 2: Sports Center anymore. When I was there, we were fortunate
Speaker 2: you tuned in to watch the highlights. Now it's we
Speaker 2: know what the results are. Now, how are you going
Speaker 2: to tell us or explain or give us you know,
Speaker 2: your opinions on that. Now is when you earn your
Speaker 2: money by being different than anybody else. And there's only
Speaker 2: a couple of people in our business who move the needle,
Speaker 2: you know, Stephen A. McAfee, Charles Barkley. They're polarizing, but
Speaker 2: you tune in to hear what they have to say.
Speaker 2: Greenee is not Greenee is he lands planes extremely well.
Speaker 2: He's very versatile van Pelt, you know, very versatile. You know,
Speaker 2: those guys are great at hosting big events. But you
Speaker 2: only have a couple of those people at the Mothership anymore.
Speaker 2: But this is by design. They'd rather spend this kind
Speaker 2: of money and get rid of some of these ancillary shows.
Speaker 2: You get people who will work there because it's ESPN.
Speaker 2: You're not going to pay them. There's always you run
Speaker 2: the risk of being laid off, which they tend to
Speaker 2: do every couple of years.
Speaker 5: But stephen A, you know.
Speaker 2: There's a guy. I mean, he moved the needle more
Speaker 2: than Tony Romo does. I mean he got into it
Speaker 2: with lebron like you know that you're you're penetrating you know,
Speaker 2: the media.
Speaker 5: He made news.
Speaker 2: Now it's not pretty news, but you know ESPN doesn't
Speaker 2: care and he doesn't care like Lebron is challenging you
Speaker 2: about you know, keep my son's name out of your mouth.
Speaker 2: Don't be talking about Bronny. You just want you want
Speaker 2: people to tune in. You want clicks, that's it. And
Speaker 2: you know when Mike and TONI you're done, then they'll
Speaker 2: get rid of you know, pardon the interruption, but they're
Speaker 2: still that's they do a really good number. They get
Speaker 2: a lot of people tuning in, very loyal audience there.
Speaker 2: But this is where ESPN is going. ESPN is not
Speaker 2: concerned about Fox Sports at all.
Speaker 5: They laugh.
Speaker 2: I've been hearing about Fox Sports competing with ESPN since
Speaker 2: I was there, and you go back to the mid nineties,
Speaker 2: late nineties, We're like, we're not afraid.
Speaker 5: We don't care what you do. You'll never ever supplant
Speaker 5: to ESPN. And they have it.
Speaker 2: They haven't even come close. Now, that doesn't mean they
Speaker 2: can't have good shows, but ESPN is going into a
Speaker 2: new era where this is what their business model is,
Speaker 2: and it's tune in factor for some shows or video
Speaker 2: clips that are going to go social, you know, media
Speaker 2: go viral.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 2: So good for steven A. Now, I don't know what
Speaker 2: his leverage was and where's he going. Oh we could
Speaker 2: lose him to Fox, so what who cares?
Speaker 5: Nobody? You know, they're not yet. Now.
Speaker 2: If you put Skip and steven A back together, then maybe,
Speaker 2: But if he went, you know, stephen A got let
Speaker 2: go by ESPN years ago. He was doing a radio
Speaker 2: show prior to this one. He was gone, and then
Speaker 2: he came back and then he you know, became stephen
Speaker 2: A Smith again, but he was gone, like ESPN was like, uh,
Speaker 2: we don't need you. We'll move on because ESPN at
Speaker 2: the time didn't need him.
Speaker 5: Now they do.
Speaker 2: Now they're desperate and they realize there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of talent out there that will move the needle like
Speaker 2: Troy Aikman, Joe Buck all right, social media wise, But
Speaker 2: I'm still tuning into a football Like, to me, that's
Speaker 2: the wasted money an analyst. I'm still watching the game.
Speaker 2: You may not be a great analyst. I'm still watching
Speaker 2: the game. I got no other choice. But if you're
Speaker 2: going to tune into First Take or you're gonna tune
Speaker 2: into pardon the interruption, I mean you're tuning in because
Speaker 2: the people who were on that show those shows, and
Speaker 2: that's the difference the football game. Chris Collinsworth could be
Speaker 2: doing it, or you know, it could be Charles David.
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter. Now.
Speaker 2: Are there certain analysts who are better name recognition, Yes,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if that translates to ratings. John
Speaker 2: Madden and Howard Cosell probably trans laid into ratings other
Speaker 2: than that. I don't think we get caught up in
Speaker 2: I've gotta watch that or listen to that. Dick Vittel
Speaker 2: was always on the biggest games. Put him on, you know, Wisconsin,
Speaker 2: green Bay against Oakland, and let me see if that
Speaker 2: improves the ratings. You may stay with it longer, but
Speaker 2: I don't know if it matters. Stephen A McAfee, you know,
Speaker 2: you stay with them, you tune in for them. Maybe
Speaker 2: not as much Greeny and Van Pelp, but still they're recognizable,
Speaker 2: really good broadcasters, really good hosts. The other two guys
Speaker 2: are content guys who were going to move the needle.
Speaker 5: They're polarizing.
Speaker 9: Yes, Pin, it appears with this new deal that Stephen A.
Speaker 9: Smith will be added to the football coverage at ESPN.
Speaker 9: Would you hesitate to add him to the booth from
Speaker 9: the football?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he's not going on the booth, not the booth.
Speaker 2: No no, no, I know, I agree with you. No, no,
Speaker 2: no no. Why would you disrupt the booth with Troy
Speaker 2: Aikman and Joe Buck They have a history of doing that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's when they're stupid.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, just wonder no no no, no,
Speaker 2: no no, I would if you want to put him
Speaker 2: on Countdown great. I mean I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5: The NBA.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put him on with Barkley and those guys.
Speaker 2: But they're going to this is what ESPN does. They
Speaker 2: oversaturate and I would have steven A do what steven
Speaker 2: A does really well, not kind of blast him all
Speaker 2: over the network. But that's you know, that's the direction
Speaker 2: they're going in because they're going to say, hey, we're
Speaker 2: paying you this money, we need you, and look he
Speaker 2: shows up at fights, you know, I mean everything. I mean,
Speaker 2: he shouldn't be on all those platforms, but he is.
Speaker 5: Guess Mark, if.
Speaker 11: You're ESPN, how many shows do you put him on
Speaker 11: full time? Do you put them on just first taken,
Speaker 11: maybe an occasional NBA Countdown or like, how do you
Speaker 11: do it?
Speaker 5: You got to you gotta get your money's worth.
Speaker 10: So he's doing a daily car washer.
Speaker 5: They're not going to do less, they're gonna do more.
Speaker 10: Well, I was asking, if you were the boss.
Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't pay him that money.
Speaker 2: But you know that's just because I would say, I
Speaker 2: want you to be great on these these two shows,
Speaker 2: not we're paying you all this money. Now you've got
Speaker 2: to be on all these shows, Like, I want his
Speaker 2: voice to be unique. I want McAfee's voice to be unique.
Speaker 2: Not you know, you're in the car wash and you're
Speaker 2: on fifteen shows. Yes, Neil.
Speaker 4: Do you think part of the reason they were comfortable
Speaker 4: giving him that much money is because he's willing to
Speaker 4: do literally every single show there. They're like, here's a
Speaker 4: big check, but we'll squeeze every last stop.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, he's a worker. He does.
Speaker 5: He wants to be on TV.
Speaker 2: You know, they love this, and he's doing a podcast,
Speaker 2: maybe running for president, I don't know, but but he
Speaker 2: does love that. There's certain people who just like I
Speaker 2: didn't love being on TV.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 2: There's certain people who just eat it up. They want
Speaker 2: camera time, and he certainly loves the camera time. But
Speaker 2: he's good at what he does. Really, he's good at
Speaker 2: what he does. But Lebron confronting him in a Laker game,
Speaker 2: basically this is just about I'm a dad, keep my sons.
Speaker 2: You know, when Steve and A dramatically said Lebron, don't
Speaker 2: do this to your son, don't do this, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, quiet, we don't need this. But look,
Speaker 2: it got a lot of play. I got a lot
Speaker 2: of coverage. And now you get Lebron who confronts him
Speaker 2: and says, you know, keep my son's name out of
Speaker 2: your f and mouth. All right, that got real and
Speaker 2: I you know, stephen A's job is to cover the NBA.
Speaker 2: Now he doesn't have to do it, you know, breathlessly
Speaker 2: about Lebron's son, because now you're part of the covers.
Speaker 5: Now there's no I shouldn't say no.
Speaker 2: There's very little journalism anymore at SPN, most places, I
Speaker 2: should say, not just ESPN, But you can't be part
Speaker 2: of the story.
Speaker 5: You shouldn't be part of the story.
Speaker 2: But Lebron made him part of the story his reaction
Speaker 2: to Bronni being embarrassed instead of being analytical with this.
Speaker 5: Instead of you must protect your son.
Speaker 2: Did he do the same thing for Michael Jordan's son
Speaker 2: who was arrested and driving under the influence? And the
Speaker 2: answer is now he did not. Bronnie is an easy
Speaker 2: target with what Lebron did to get him in the league.
Speaker 2: I get all those things, but it's just a different
Speaker 2: world now.
Speaker 10: It just is.
Speaker 2: But it's about entertainment, journalistic standards maybe, but entertainment's that's
Speaker 2: the direction we're going in, and maybe they build a
Speaker 2: successful want. You know, everybody's cutting the cable cord here.
Speaker 2: I believe you know you're not watching Sports Center. You
Speaker 2: watch highlights, you get a video, you know, it goes viral.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's tough to be a sports center anchor now,
Speaker 2: I think, because what are you doing with the results?
Speaker 2: And Van Pelt does a good job with that to
Speaker 2: spin it forward? Mike Greenberg in the morning, what are
Speaker 2: you doing with the news, spinning it forward, putting your
Speaker 2: stamp on it? Sports Center, We're just doing the highlights, Yeah, Pauline.
Speaker 9: I will say Van Pelt's version of Sports Center as
Speaker 9: more of a hang You hang with him and he
Speaker 9: does the highlights like you did, but he also does
Speaker 9: some fun stuff that makes it a tune in factor.
Speaker 9: When I see it on, I stick with a little longer.
Speaker 9: I do remember when we worked there, when it was
Speaker 9: early Stephen A. Smith and he filled in for you
Speaker 9: once and you were off for a day. He comes
Speaker 9: over and he was super nice. He was very thankful
Speaker 9: for all the prep we gave him. He was whisper
Speaker 9: quiet in the pre show meetings. Oh yeah, and it
Speaker 9: was a whisper quiet and he puts his hand on
Speaker 9: my shoulder right before he got on there. He goes,
Speaker 9: because you know, he hadn't hosted a lot of radio
Speaker 9: shows before by himself, and he goes, just tell me
Speaker 9: when my mic is hot, and tell me when to
Speaker 9: go to break. He goes, I'll take it from there.
Speaker 9: And next thing you know, you gave him the point.
Speaker 9: He goes, the brother's taken it and he just hit
Speaker 9: the gas for three hours. And I couldn't believe how
Speaker 9: he held it up for three hours and kept it
Speaker 9: going for three hours. And then as soon as he
Speaker 9: went to break.
Speaker 5: How was that was that good?
Speaker 9: And he had totally different.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, take a break. We'll get to more
Speaker 5: phone calls, best and worst of the weekend. We will
Speaker 5: play fill in the blank coming up next.
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Speaker 2: Some phone calls coming up. Best and Worst of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Also we'll play Phil in the Blank, which you just
Speaker 2: fill in the blank. We'll have that for you, Charlie
Speaker 2: and Dayton. Hey, Charlie, Best and Worst of the weekend.
Speaker 3: Dan, real quick. As a Bengals fan, I just got
Speaker 3: to do something I didn't think I'd ever do, is
Speaker 3: to send Jimmy Crowns because even though it hasn't he.
Speaker 2: Got a bad connection, Charlie got a bad connection? Otis
Speaker 2: and Idaho, Hey, Otis, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7: Hey Dan? How are you doing this? Conn will be recorded?
Speaker 7: Where were you in Santa Barbara drinking wine? Because I
Speaker 7: was born and raised in Santa Barbara and I grew
Speaker 7: up in the Santienas Valley. Were you there in a
Speaker 7: Satinas Valley drinking wine there?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 5: I was? And why is this a phone call being recorded?
Speaker 5: Otis because my kids.
Speaker 7: Love the show. When I drive him to the school
Speaker 7: in the morning, I just want to know that I'm
Speaker 7: on the show. And we like singing the song Salary
Speaker 7: sounds like celery, but it's Salary. We singing in the
Speaker 7: car when you.
Speaker 2: Why don't you tape your kids singing Salary and then
Speaker 2: we'll play it on the show.
Speaker 7: I will do that all of a sudden, Yes, I
Speaker 7: was up.
Speaker 2: In that area doing wine tasting. So is it Los
Speaker 2: olive Us? And uh, it's small town. And I was
Speaker 2: up there a lot of a lot of farmland, a
Speaker 2: lot of vineyards as well. But I went down to
Speaker 2: Santa Barbara got to see a concert on Saturday night,
Speaker 2: and I went to Montecito and a few other places there,
Speaker 2: just a short trip, and I think I could live there,
Speaker 2: not not in Montecito or Santa Barbara. I mean, I
Speaker 2: want to live out there. There's so many men. Get
Speaker 2: some land out there. Start my vineyard, start my winery.
Speaker 9: One of those hats of sun hats.
Speaker 4: You just want to live on a vineyard?
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, yeah, it's a farmed a table.
Speaker 5: You know. That's kind of what I would be doing
Speaker 5: with the wine.
Speaker 4: Wine to math.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'd be stomping on grapes all righty. Do you
Speaker 2: know how to treat a groin injury? I've had a
Speaker 2: pulled groin, but it was in high school. No, no jokes, Todd.
Speaker 10: I thought you were setting us up for some time.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, you.
Speaker 10: Know how to treat a groin injury?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think there's a few different ways. So I gave
Speaker 2: Paulie an assignment.
Speaker 5: During the commercial break. I said, would you explore how
Speaker 5: to treat a groin injury?
Speaker 9: Dan, I've been waiting for this assignment for years. There
Speaker 9: are three levels of groin injury. One is mild to
Speaker 9: is moderate. Three is severe and could include tearing. Now,
Speaker 9: if it's not level three, rest ice compression elevation, the
Speaker 9: old rice method, rest the muscle immediately, ice pack fifteen
Speaker 9: minutes every hour for the first day. Compression, you should
Speaker 9: wrap it with one of those ace bandages and keep
Speaker 9: it wrapped up to when you're icing it. And then elevation.
Speaker 9: Lift your leg above your lower body and love the
Speaker 9: level of your heart. Support with pillows, blankets or cushion, rice, rest, ice, compression, elevation.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, time to do fill in the blank
Speaker 2: or do you want to do best and worst to
Speaker 2: the weekend?
Speaker 5: It's your call, my call. That is my show. That's
Speaker 5: show todd Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 8: Best of the weekend a pair of college basketball road
Speaker 8: wins at the buzzer and ot on Sally referred to
Speaker 8: one of them earlier. Seventh ranked Alabama wins at number
Speaker 8: one Auburn on a jumper ninety three to ninety one.
Speaker 8: Saint John's number sixth ranked team gets the victory at
Speaker 8: number twenty Marquette eighty six eighty four, both road buzzer
Speaker 8: beaters in overtime. So that was exciting. Worst of the
Speaker 8: weekend if you're a Yankees fan. Garrett Cole needed imaging
Speaker 8: on his right elbow. Concerned about how much time you
Speaker 8: may have to miss, may need Tommy John surgery. Also
Speaker 8: during Carlos Stanton says his elbow injuries are severe. He
Speaker 8: could possibly get season ending surgery on that elbow disaster.
Speaker 6: There, you know they signed you sign these guys long term,
Speaker 6: especially a picture. No, No, Garrett Cole can be a
Speaker 6: great picture, but he's a pitcher.
Speaker 5: Dylan Best and worst?
Speaker 4: All right, Dan Best. Russell Henley winning the Arnold Palmer
Speaker 4: Invitational with the late chip in eagle, comes from behind,
Speaker 4: the beat Morikawa and walks with four million and the
Speaker 4: cool red cardigan and worst of the weekend is I
Speaker 4: did not bet on him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought you were a Russell Henley guy.
Speaker 4: I've dabbled in the Russell Henley field.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a it's a red cardigan, isn't
Speaker 2: it a tartan jacket?
Speaker 4: Is that the technical term, like it's a sweater with
Speaker 4: buttons on it?
Speaker 2: So oh, I thought there was a tartan jacket that
Speaker 2: you got for winning the Arnie.
Speaker 4: The tart that's is that the or the like Wells
Speaker 4: Fargo or one of those they get. They give out
Speaker 4: a bunch of clothing items.
Speaker 2: I thought there was okay, Now, Arnie looked dashing in
Speaker 2: a cardigan, but I I I thought there was a
Speaker 2: Tartan jacket involved in this.
Speaker 5: Marvin bestin Worst of the Weekend.
Speaker 11: All right, Dan Best of the Weekend, Future Hall of
Speaker 11: Famer Al Horford fourteen points, nine rebounds, three steals in
Speaker 11: a block. He had great individual defense. The Lakers tried
Speaker 11: to put him on an island, but he was shutting
Speaker 11: everybody down. So good for the future Hall of Famer
Speaker 11: Al Horford Worst of the Weekend in the same game
Speaker 11: the Lakers.
Speaker 10: Third quarter, He's five for.
Speaker 11: Twenty three from the field, six turnovers, one for ten
Speaker 11: from three point range as the Celtics pulled away in a.
Speaker 9: Third Paul beston Worst to the Weekend, just confirming it
Speaker 9: is a red cardigan for the Arnold Palmer. I'm checking.
Speaker 9: There's another April event where it's a red Blazer type.
Speaker 5: Oh is that Hilton Head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the RBC. Oh, they get the Tartan.
Speaker 9: Which stands for Red Blazer competition.
Speaker 2: Because I would much rather have the cardigan than the
Speaker 2: Tartan jacket. Oh yeah, because I remember Alabama coach Wimp Sanderson.
Speaker 5: Used to have a Tartan jacket like that?
Speaker 9: All right, Paul, Best of the weekend Men's college basketball.
Speaker 9: This weekend, I was watching Furman, Chattanooga, UTSA, Charlotte. It's
Speaker 9: a great month ahead. Can't wait. Worst of the weekend.
Speaker 9: You mentioned earlier. If the Browns did not actually shop
Speaker 9: Miles Garrett, they're irresponsible. It reminds me of five years
Speaker 9: ago the the Los Angeles Angels not shopping Mike Trout
Speaker 9: and just burning the peak years of his career and
Speaker 9: maybe doing something. You're not competing for anything. Why would
Speaker 9: you keep the peak years of miles career, make it
Speaker 9: more expensive and compound the problem.
Speaker 2: I ran into somebody who went to Furman and he
Speaker 2: had a shirt that said FU. And I didn't realize
Speaker 2: that he went to Furman, but it's Furman University. And
Speaker 2: I said, wow, people probably respond to you, and he
Speaker 2: goes why. I said, wait, your shirt says FU. And
Speaker 2: he goes, yeah, I went to Furman University.
Speaker 5: What were you thinking? I'm like, oh, I see what
Speaker 5: you did.
Speaker 10: F you.
Speaker 5: Coming up?
Speaker 2: We'll play Phil in the blank. More phone calls as
Speaker 2: well on this Monday, Best and work still the weekend