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Speaker 1: All right, Well, it's sort of a lull before the
Speaker 1: storm the week prior to Super Bowl week, and so
Speaker 1: I tend not to break down the games or worry
Speaker 1: about that stuff until we get to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Speaker 1: of next week. This week we had Tom Brady on,
Speaker 1: and it's interesting. One of the questions I get asked
Speaker 1: a lot, how do you think Tom Brady will do
Speaker 1: it Fox as a broadcaster. And I've always had this
Speaker 1: kind of opinion about people. Whatever job you do, you
Speaker 1: become your personality. So let's just take quarterbacks. So Tony
Speaker 1: Romo was a playmaking quarterback who was really fun to watch.
Speaker 1: He was a little loose, wasn't always efficient, but a
Speaker 1: big playmaker, and I thought he was always underrated. He
Speaker 1: didn't have Troy Aikman's career, he doesn't have Brady's career,
Speaker 1: but Romo's personality if you'd met him, it's fun, it's loose,
Speaker 1: it's easy going, and I thought that's how he played
Speaker 1: he only had a two to one touchdown to interception ratio.
Speaker 1: Tony made some mistakes and threw a lot of picks,
Speaker 1: but he was also a playmaker and was good off script,
Speaker 1: and as a broadcaster at CBS, he came out flashy
Speaker 1: like he was as a player, with a bang, predicting
Speaker 1: plays a lot of attention, and I guess the criticism
Speaker 1: of him could be he's a little loose sometimes not
Speaker 1: quite buttoned up, don't always feel like he's completely prepared,
Speaker 1: fair or not. That's the criticism from critics, media people
Speaker 1: who monitor this stuff. But his personality became a style
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, and his style as a broadcaster. Brady
Speaker 1: is very very much the opposite a three to one
Speaker 1: touchdown to interception career, more efficient, more about preparation, always
Speaker 1: feels completely buttoned up, but not flashy at all. And
Speaker 1: I think that's his personality. I think that was his
Speaker 1: football career and I think that's what he'll be like
Speaker 1: as a broadcaster. He won't be predicting plays early and
Speaker 1: get him a lot of attention for that that that
Speaker 1: won't be that. That's not his personality, that's not his style.
Speaker 1: He will get better over the course of time, and
Speaker 1: he'll be highly conscientious, super prepared, and I think over
Speaker 1: the course of time you will appreciate him like New
Speaker 1: England did, like Michigan football did over the course of time.
Speaker 1: Tom doesn't blow you away with playmaking and flash, but
Speaker 1: it's attention to detail, his leadership, his kind of self awareness,
Speaker 1: understanding what is what he isn't and leaning into it.
Speaker 1: And I think all broadcasters sort of their careers become
Speaker 1: their personalities, and I think that's what Brady will be
Speaker 1: as a broadcaster. I think, by and large, most people
Speaker 1: doing this do a good job. I was I don't
Speaker 1: talk much about broadcasters. People get very sensitive. I'm a broadcaster,
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't want to talk about it
Speaker 1: a lot. Last year I offered kind of a marginal
Speaker 1: criticism of Romo that he had a reputation, he loved
Speaker 1: his golf like sometimes I felt, and blowout games. He
Speaker 1: was nos dialed in It's no big deal. That got
Speaker 1: a lot of pushback, and to validate my opinion, Sean
Speaker 1: McManus acknowledged publicly that he went out and went down
Speaker 1: and talked to told me Romeo about things he thought
Speaker 1: he was good at and things he needed to get
Speaker 1: better at so I never felt I was off base.
Speaker 1: But back to Brady, I think I kind of have
Speaker 1: a sense of what Tom will be as a broadcast
Speaker 1: because I watched his career and I know his personality
Speaker 1: from enough people around Tom a lot of detail, a
Speaker 1: lot of preparation, slow growth, slow build, and you'll look
Speaker 1: up in two or three years and think he's a
Speaker 1: heck of a broadcaster. Broadcasting, you know, I've always had
Speaker 1: great respect for the people that do broadcasting on site,
Speaker 1: the play by play people, the sideline people, and the analysts.
Speaker 1: So what I do is a studio show, and I
Speaker 1: have to add lib for three hours, and I don't
Speaker 1: think it's easy. But these game broadcasts you have to
Speaker 1: deal with the environment and the crowd and directors and
Speaker 1: read commercials and throw to the studio, throw to the sidelines.
Speaker 1: I think it's very, very difficult. But play by play
Speaker 1: guys Turco and Kevin Burkhardt and you know all the
Speaker 1: great people at Fox, ESPN, NBC, Jim Nantz, they're terrific,
Speaker 1: Al Michaels, you do get into a rhythm of a
Speaker 1: game and calling a game. Not that it's easy, it's
Speaker 1: much harder than what I for a living, but I
Speaker 1: think one of the hardest things to do is football
Speaker 1: analyst work. I think it's damn hard. So basically, you
Speaker 1: have to talk in eight second intervals two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty times a game, and if you make one mistake,
Speaker 1: it is all viral. You're trending one mistake out of
Speaker 1: two fifty. That's why I think the criticism of analysts
Speaker 1: is mostly embarrassing, ridiculous. I do think Romo can be
Speaker 1: a little loose sometimes, but it's it's not to me
Speaker 1: that noteworthy. I don't turn the game off. I think
Speaker 1: Nance and Romo are entertaining, They're fine. I think Tariko
Speaker 1: Zola's got great energy. Burke Hart Olsen I think have
Speaker 1: been just magical together in a short time. You know,
Speaker 1: Michael's is good with everybody. So I just I think
Speaker 1: sometimes when I read the media critics, I don't care
Speaker 1: if to take shots at me, I really don't see
Speaker 1: all of it. Don't care. But I think to be
Speaker 1: a football analyst you have to be patient with these broadcasters,
Speaker 1: these players. This is not what they do. It's very,
Speaker 1: very difficult. I don't know how the college guys do it,
Speaker 1: like in the NFL, You've got a limited roster to
Speaker 1: be a college football analyst, and you got eighty five
Speaker 1: scholarship players walk ons, and you get into a blowout
Speaker 1: game and the third quarter and you have to have
Speaker 1: an opinion on a player that you've maybe probably never
Speaker 1: seen play. I mean, you're looking on your sheet. Well,
Speaker 1: you need to be prepared. Nobody's that prepared. You haven't
Speaker 1: memorized the life story and the career of every backup
Speaker 1: for Toledo football. So I'm going to be patient with Brady.
Speaker 1: I thought people got a little too hot hyperbolic on
Speaker 1: Romo early calling plays. I thought it was fun, but
Speaker 1: that can't define you. I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Hit fifty percent? You know that's tough. I do think
Speaker 1: Tony brings in a pretty good energy. He's fun, and
Speaker 1: I think, again, that was his career. I love watching
Speaker 1: Romo play. I defended Romo as a player for years.
Speaker 1: I thought he was terrific. He was just sometimes loose,
Speaker 1: you know, Tony throw an interception at the wrong time,
Speaker 1: but he is one of the most underappreciated Dallas Cowboy
Speaker 1: players of all time. Career didn't last very long, but
Speaker 1: at its height, it was wildly dynamic. Go look at
Speaker 1: his numbers, google his stats. He had some big years,
Speaker 1: a lot of big years, and he could move. That's
Speaker 1: why when I said I thought Joe Burrow was like
Speaker 1: going to be a better version of Tony Romo. I
Speaker 1: always thought Tony Romo was an eight to A and
Speaker 1: minus quarterback. He didn't play very long, but I thought
Speaker 1: in Tony's best years he was like a you know,
Speaker 1: FARV was a plus, Aikman was a A plus. Brady obviously Manning,
Speaker 1: but I thought Tony was lower end ARB plus plus
Speaker 1: plus plus. And I think as a broadcaster he can
Speaker 1: be fine, But his playing and his broadcasting feel the
Speaker 1: same to me, and that's what I think you'll get
Speaker 1: with Brady. So this week I talked and defended sort
Speaker 1: of Taylor Swift against the p people that have been
Speaker 1: bothered or pestered, irritated by her appearances briefly on broadcasts,
Speaker 1: and whenever I kind of crossed that rubicon and talked,
Speaker 1: you know, nonsports, it always gets more feedbacked off and
Speaker 1: than when I talk sports. I don't do it that
Speaker 1: often because I understand that, I mean, most of you
Speaker 1: just want to hear my sports opinions. But you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of a just a happenstance. Years ago. I
Speaker 1: was seeing kind of a life coach. This was like
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, and he had these seminars, and so
Speaker 1: in the seminars was a guy and named me. He
Speaker 1: was a Southern guy, played footballt Kentucky. Thad and we
Speaker 1: were talking one time and he was right down the
Speaker 1: hallway in his financial firm in Nashville from Taylor Swift's dad,
Speaker 1: and Taylor Swift was just becoming a name. So I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, my daughter like mentioned her like six
Speaker 1: months ago. She loved Taylor Swift. This was fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: And so he goes, oh, that's cool, and lo and behold,
Speaker 1: I didn't even expect this. Thad went out gave me
Speaker 1: an autograph frame picture of Taylor Swift with a pick.
Speaker 1: It's still up in my dhutters somewhere in her room.
Speaker 1: And so I've been aware of Taylor Swift for a
Speaker 1: long time. And then, without getting too much into my
Speaker 1: private life, my wife and I vacation in an area
Speaker 1: on the East coast that we find this just a
Speaker 1: charming little town where you just ride bikes and walk
Speaker 1: and Northeast Beach is my favorite part of America in
Speaker 1: the summer. Is not where I grew up on the
Speaker 1: West Coast. It's actually in the northeast. Nantucket's hard to
Speaker 1: get to. Hampton's is a little bougie. I like some
Speaker 1: Rhode Island beaches, so I go there a lot. And
Speaker 1: this little town, Taylor Swift moved into it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure she has thirty homes. She's like the celebrity
Speaker 1: in the area. So yes, every time when I go
Speaker 1: on my walk the fifteen days a year, I'm in
Speaker 1: that area. Every time I go on a walk, it ends.
Speaker 1: I do a It's about two mile beach. I walk up,
Speaker 1: see her house, turn around at her house, and walk
Speaker 1: back the beach inns. So a lot of you don't
Speaker 1: know this, but I have a kinship with Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: I wear her bracelets everywhere I go. This one says
Speaker 1: it's me Hi. I always like to wear that one.
Speaker 1: This one is Taylor Swift, So I wear these all
Speaker 1: the time wherever I go. My favorite is Midnights because
Speaker 1: that's your most recent album and I hello already have it.
Speaker 1: I'll wear that one through the night. Oh shit, I
Speaker 1: broke it. I just broke it. It didn't last to midnight.
Speaker 1: So I just think I should reveal that stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know, I want to be authentic to you.
Speaker 1: And I thought because of this week I defended her
Speaker 1: and we do have sort of a kinship. I was
Speaker 1: going to send her a swifty bracelet, and so I thought,
Speaker 1: this is the one I would send to her. Can
Speaker 1: you see that, BFF because I do consider consider us
Speaker 1: to be kind of I don't know BFFs. Anyway, that's
Speaker 1: a little behind the scenes with me. I don't like
Speaker 1: to give away my private life, but I feel in
Speaker 1: this instance, I have to reveal some truth between Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift and my family. So there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: talk recently. The NBA trading deadline is coming up, and
Speaker 1: people have discussed what about the Lakers moving off Lebron
Speaker 1: James and I don't think this is going to happen,
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of reasons here. So Lebron's good
Speaker 1: for business. The Lakers haven't. They won the bubble year,
Speaker 1: but you know, they've been a really inconsistent and at
Speaker 1: times dysfunctional team over the last four to five years
Speaker 1: and for the last I mean the last five years
Speaker 1: before Lebron became a Laker, they were a mess. They
Speaker 1: were like record wise worst or second worst in the
Speaker 1: league over half a decade. So they had the bubble year,
Speaker 1: but they've mostly been a really inconsistent franchise. And Lebron
Speaker 1: sells out games and he's one of the great Lakers
Speaker 1: of all time, even though the Laker fans got him
Speaker 1: post prime, right. But I think you have to consider
Speaker 1: if you trade Lebron James, and he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be traded because he has such a dynamic business portfolio
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, you're going to piss off Lebron, and
Speaker 1: that means you're going to piss off Clutch Sports. And
Speaker 1: Clutch Sports got a d to LA And in the
Speaker 1: NBA there's a handful of very influential agents that you
Speaker 1: don't want to be on the wrong side of. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way in football, but it does in basketball.
Speaker 1: It can be very provincial. I mean, I can remember
Speaker 1: years and years ago, Michael Jordan's agent was highly powerful,
Speaker 1: very connected to David Stern, and that was the reality.
Speaker 1: Michael was just really really important for the league. So
Speaker 1: I don't think there'll be a trade because I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think Lebron committed to you as a franchise and
Speaker 1: has sold so much merchandise and so many tickets, and
Speaker 1: he won you a championship that I do feel the
Speaker 1: Bus family and they historically have been very loyal to
Speaker 1: people that have rewarded them. I think Lebron's really kept
Speaker 1: you afloat for the last five years. He's kept you viable.
Speaker 1: He's made you tens and hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: and added to your value, and I just don't think
Speaker 1: you'd trade a player like that. That doesn't mean I'm
Speaker 1: going to rebuild my roster solely based on what Lebron wants.
Speaker 1: But the Lakers are a small ownership group. The Bus
Speaker 1: family is not nearly as financially secure or dynamic as
Speaker 1: the Clippers owner Steve Balmer. He's the richest owner in
Speaker 1: the NBA by far. So I just think when Lebron
Speaker 1: came here, he to a large degree, kind of saved
Speaker 1: the franchise. You know, they weren't good in Kobe's last years.
Speaker 1: They weren't competitive. The Warriors were running the league. They
Speaker 1: were an afterthought. They had run through coaches, and I
Speaker 1: think Lebron did them a solid by coming here. Now
Speaker 1: Los Angeles has also helped his business career. His net
Speaker 1: worth is robust, probably over a billion dollars now. But
Speaker 1: it's it's been a relationship where Lebron has helped the Lakers.
Speaker 1: The Lakers have helped Lebron. And it's not that the
Speaker 1: Lakers couldn't get other players if they traded Lebron. I
Speaker 1: never buy into that nonsense. The bottom line is players
Speaker 1: take care of themselves. But I think just on a
Speaker 1: personal level, Lebron doesn't call out coaches publicly. Lebron is
Speaker 1: good for business. Lebron does interviews after every game. Lebron's
Speaker 1: been an upstanding citizen in the community. I don't think
Speaker 1: you treat him that way. And I you know me,
Speaker 1: I'm not super loyal guy. When it comes to, you know,
Speaker 1: sports history. Move a guy and you could say, well, Colin,
Speaker 1: you trade Klay Thompson. One of the talks has been
Speaker 1: trading Lebron to the Warriors and getting some pieces back.
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson is different. He didn't save the Warriors. Steph
Speaker 1: Curry's been the face dramon the two, Clay the three,
Speaker 1: and he's been a great part of that franchise. But
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson's not selling to tickets. Steph is and Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson also as a point in his career that you'd
Speaker 1: only be able to overpay him to keep him. And
Speaker 1: he's not as good a player as Lebron is. Lebron
Speaker 1: is still on any given night, the best player on
Speaker 1: the floor in an NBA game. He's not as good
Speaker 1: as Jokic over the course of a season, or Jannie
Speaker 1: or mb but on any given night, Lebron's the best
Speaker 1: player on the floor in the biggest games of the year.
Speaker 1: So I just think there are certain times Lebron's been
Speaker 1: good for the Lakers. The Lakers have been good and
Speaker 1: Los Angeles for Lebron. I don't think you trade him.
Speaker 1: I think you sit down with him and say, hey,
Speaker 1: this thing's getting to a close, let's make it as
Speaker 1: elegant as we can, as thoughtful, conscientious as we can,
Speaker 1: and then you go from there. But I just Lebron's
Speaker 1: been very valuable the Lakers. He's on on a lot
Speaker 1: of nights. He's the only reason you go. On most nights,
Speaker 1: he's the only reason you go. He's made a lot
Speaker 1: of people in that organization a lot of money and
Speaker 1: there's value in that right, they're there. Yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: trade Lebron the volume. Thanks so much for listening. If
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