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Speaker 1: Danets today on middle Finger Monday. Hopefully this doesn't mean
Speaker 1: go out and give them to everybody. This is just well,
Speaker 1: considering what Kyrie Irving did yesterday kind of the theme
Speaker 1: of the day, you know, not whether you're giving it
Speaker 1: to behind the head middle fingers. We're not condoning doing that.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, well it's kind of got to
Speaker 1: be middle Finger Monday. Well, I'm not going to dismiss
Speaker 1: it categorically either, I mean, because sometimes you bottle that
Speaker 1: up and it comes out in far more destructive ways.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if if a little you know, in
Speaker 1: traffic nod you know, and swipe across your nose, suddenly
Speaker 1: it works. Fine. If you have the flamboyance of a
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving and you want to go full full throttle,
Speaker 1: just remember there might be repercussions. And in the real world,
Speaker 1: it's not just a pink envelope showing up at your locker.
Speaker 1: It's telling you where to send you're fine money. So
Speaker 1: you know, just remember with all all actions. There are
Speaker 1: reactions and consequences. But for Kyrie Irving, he gave us
Speaker 1: another storyline that we really did not expect so coming
Speaker 1: into these playoffs. So you want to hold in reserve
Speaker 1: the middle finger Monday. I want to. I want to
Speaker 1: save it in case I need it. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's always there for you, right, It's always there. Today
Speaker 1: we celebrated Furly Furly, I'm thinking about Ralph furl Yeah,
Speaker 1: myself a nice collection of ascots later, no, but I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you will celebrate it in its full uh fullness here
Speaker 1: because we have four separate incidences of him, not just
Speaker 1: with the physical flipping of the bird, but also you know,
Speaker 1: being a matter of fact in his postgame press conference
Speaker 1: of what he thought of that collection of fans. But
Speaker 1: you know, also you need to pull back and say,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not all Celtics fans because
Speaker 1: I mean, look, some folks miss him, some folks loved him,
Speaker 1: folks felt sad and betrayed when he left. Those are
Speaker 1: the ones that are now cursing him out and letting
Speaker 1: him hear it at every chance. But what we see
Speaker 1: now is players have decided, you know what, as a
Speaker 1: group we're not taking this anymore. There's there's they're going
Speaker 1: full D Snyder and twisted sister and give it back.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so middle Figure Monday brings us this. It
Speaker 1: also brings us now before we get to look, we'll
Speaker 1: tell you who's gonna win the NBA Championship in a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes you talk, You mentioned storylines we didn't
Speaker 1: think we were gonna get today. How about another day
Speaker 1: where we get an NBA MVP story because you know
Speaker 1: we need, we need a daily NBA MVP story. You tell, sarcastic,
Speaker 1: meaning we really don't. But now we have a officially
Speaker 1: we know who's up for the award, as opposed to
Speaker 1: you know, reading the odds and then throwing in for rumor, conjecture, speculation.
Speaker 1: Well here's the guy that I like, but he's like
Speaker 1: fifteenth in the odds. I don't care. He's my guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, we we need, we need to have a
Speaker 1: daily conversation about the NBA MVP. It's becoming a staple.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about it because players are so needy,
Speaker 1: they're so needy about needing to win the MVP. And
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid everything he does, it's like he wants to
Speaker 1: run back up the floor and go R and I
Speaker 1: the MVP on the MVP. UH. The finalists have been
Speaker 1: announced for NBA MVP and they are Joel Embiid, Jannis
Speaker 1: and Nicola Yokich. All right, so you have last year's
Speaker 1: MVP and Yokich. You got the guy who wants to
Speaker 1: be MVP and MBAT and the guy who's won previously
Speaker 1: in jannas these. I think he wins it, wants to
Speaker 1: be finalists. I think that's what's let's apply it to it.
Speaker 1: Like when he's on the court, you know what, he
Speaker 1: wants it more and that's why they're gonna wait. You know,
Speaker 1: the other team may or may not want to win.
Speaker 1: I think that guy wants it one hundred and ten percent.
Speaker 1: And I think we really can quantify it if Embiad
Speaker 1: is actually outside UH the arena after games, handing out
Speaker 1: flyers to fans with his stats on him going MVP
Speaker 1: MVP and like he's running for something that wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me because that's how badly he wants to win. No,
Speaker 1: he's gonna send that one literal guy all over the
Speaker 1: place to it to the places of employment for all
Speaker 1: of the guys that are and women that are voting
Speaker 1: out the award. Why is this guy in the suit
Speaker 1: just standing here? I know him from the meme. That's
Speaker 1: Joel m meads guy. Instead of guys trying to sell
Speaker 1: you CDs or say hey it's my CD in my
Speaker 1: music or whatever, Hey here you got now he would
Speaker 1: you like tickets to see this shown here? MVP? What
Speaker 1: is this? It's just got my stats on it. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I'll look at it and then you crumpled up and
Speaker 1: throw it away like and you walked down. But that
Speaker 1: that's kind of what it is players. They care so
Speaker 1: much about the MVP. Can you imagine the NFL if
Speaker 1: we had the same run for the MVP from guys
Speaker 1: like Rogers and Brady who wanted to say, I don't
Speaker 1: know why I'm not the MVP. I don't know why
Speaker 1: look at look at what I do. I think they
Speaker 1: just must not like me, why I can't win the MVP.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if one of the NFL quarterbacks said
Speaker 1: that the devoters just they must just not like me.
Speaker 1: I I can't believe I'm not the MVP. The desire
Speaker 1: that the that NBA player have to be to get
Speaker 1: that bit of of of reaction and and hey, I
Speaker 1: gotta be the MVP. It's not president anywhere else. Nobody
Speaker 1: else does nobody. Can you remember Aaron Judge walking around going,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm not the MVP. Voters just
Speaker 1: don't like me. I don't know why I'm not doing
Speaker 1: what I rake every I can't believe I'm not the MVP.
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Oh, he'd be public enemy number one. All
Speaker 1: the guy does is want to win the MVP. All
Speaker 1: the guy does. I mean, I just can't get over
Speaker 1: the fact that the NBA play they care so much
Speaker 1: about the MVP and about winning it. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: you're trying to break it down and pull it back
Speaker 1: a little bit right with the NFL, No matter what
Speaker 1: you do in the regular season, and you use the
Speaker 1: example of Aaron Rodgers, Yeah, you want two MVPs, what
Speaker 1: do you do in the playoffs? Nobody cares, right, MVP awards,
Speaker 1: stack him up all you want. Peyton Manning's got a
Speaker 1: whole handful of trophies that but you know he's got
Speaker 1: two rings, and what do people do. They drag him
Speaker 1: because one of them he beat Rex Grossman and the
Speaker 1: most memorable thing was praying performing purple Rain, and the
Speaker 1: other one was that the defense dragged him to the
Speaker 1: finish line. Right, No, that the MVPs don't matter in
Speaker 1: the in the NFL and Major League Baseball. By time
Speaker 1: they award them, we're smack dab into college football in
Speaker 1: the NFL season, and the NBA is up and running,
Speaker 1: NHL's up and running. Your kids are doing performances and
Speaker 1: playing fall sports. You're not paying a tenth they announced those.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, it's not there for the NBA. There's
Speaker 1: still some juice because remember, for a lot of years
Speaker 1: you weren't winning titles, whether it was the Warriors run,
Speaker 1: whether you had the heatles there for a minute, and
Speaker 1: then go back to the Michael Jordan era or Kobe
Speaker 1: and Shack, a lot of guys were happy to take
Speaker 1: hardware because they knew they weren't winning the ultimate hardware.
Speaker 1: Whereas now it's like, all right, well we might have
Speaker 1: a shot at winning, but the individual title, we we
Speaker 1: can do a lot of branding with it. Right. It's
Speaker 1: also the change of the game in that regard, right,
Speaker 1: talking about nil, I joked in an hour one of
Speaker 1: you know, Central Florida and Isaiah bows Or leading the
Speaker 1: charge former Northwestern running back. There, they had QR codes
Speaker 1: trying to encourage people to go and participate in their
Speaker 1: social media and branding whatever. NBA won't be too far behind.
Speaker 1: And I think it's great. Here's all the people that
Speaker 1: I have on team embad or Yo gets you or
Speaker 1: whatever else, and you go support those brands. That's how
Speaker 1: you make me the real MVP. Load load my wallet.
Speaker 1: But that's part of it, right It's it's salesmanshipping, and
Speaker 1: it's branding because the titles are great and those are
Speaker 1: going to help, but individual accolades also get you to
Speaker 1: the finish line. And I think the and the NBA
Speaker 1: players and maybe AAU comes into some of it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. We talk about it a little bit, but
Speaker 1: everybody wants to win titles, but certainly more vocalization, at
Speaker 1: least from Joel Embiid. I think he just has the complex.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's the Philly fans. They've random hard after
Speaker 1: those first couple of years when he couldn't play, and
Speaker 1: now he's their guy. And then they had you know,
Speaker 1: the the Ben Simmons year and a half that was,
Speaker 1: and all the way through so yeah, he's gonna stump
Speaker 1: for himself if nobody else's well, you know me. You
Speaker 1: know I like to solve problems, right, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I like to solve it one of the many jobs
Speaker 1: you've given yourself over time, fleet with a lot of
Speaker 1: fictitious Uh. Well, it's like a I attended this university,
Speaker 1: what'd you do? I really went for a one day seminar.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you I went to Harvard. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, Look, there's so many jobs I can do
Speaker 1: without any experience. I mean, I guess it would fall
Speaker 1: under the umbrella of of like a like a like
Speaker 1: a superstar consultant. Right, But here's how you can solve
Speaker 1: some MVP issues, Right, players really care so much about
Speaker 1: winning MVP. Well, what's the big thing we have going
Speaker 1: on right now with star players in the NBA. They
Speaker 1: don't play enough games? Right? They sit out way too much.
Speaker 1: They sit out back to backs all the time. They
Speaker 1: sit out for just load maintenance. Here's here's here's what
Speaker 1: you could do. You really want players to play more games,
Speaker 1: make there be a game played threshold you have to
Speaker 1: get to to be considered for a postseason award. Then
Speaker 1: suddenly guys ain't skipping games. Right, make the threshold, say
Speaker 1: seventy games. You gotta play in at least seventy games
Speaker 1: to be the MVP. Right. I'm not saying you gotta
Speaker 1: play seventy five or seventy six. You have games, you
Speaker 1: know there, there's you know, bumps and bruises you get
Speaker 1: over the course of the year. But let's say seventy games,
Speaker 1: seventy out of eighty two, because missing twelve games that's
Speaker 1: a big that's a lot of games. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the the the looseness of hey, ten twelve
Speaker 1: games for whatever reason. Okay, you gotta play in at
Speaker 1: least seventy games. Then suddenly you're gonna see a big
Speaker 1: uptick because guys want to be the MVP. They want
Speaker 1: to keep playing. Because if you look at the top
Speaker 1: twenty five scorers in in the NBA, you know how
Speaker 1: many of them played in seventy games? Five? Okay five
Speaker 1: five guys played in at least seventy games. Include your
Speaker 1: guy DeMar Derozin. Five guys played at least seventy games.
Speaker 1: Everybody else was was in the sixties or fifties. Right,
Speaker 1: We've talked about this. This is a big issue with
Speaker 1: the NBA and guy's not playing enough and stars not
Speaker 1: playing enough. Yeah, you want to be eligible for certain
Speaker 1: postseason awards. God hit a certain gameplay threshold. Sixty nine games, Sorry,
Speaker 1: but I was dominant, doesn't matter. Didn't play seventy, oh
Speaker 1: but I was. Well, that's how it goes. When you
Speaker 1: get hurt, you get taken out of the run for MVP.
Speaker 1: John Morant probably would have been the MVP, but he
Speaker 1: got hurt. Memphis showed they could win without him, at
Speaker 1: least in the regular season, so you can't win the MVP.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how it goes. Give me a game
Speaker 1: played threshold to be the MVP, and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: start seeing guys all playing at least seventy games. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get the guys that seventy game threshold pretty easy.
Speaker 1: Seeing that this is this is where the philosophically, it's
Speaker 1: the threshold, right, I mean, because Lebron didn't win the
Speaker 1: scoring title by you know, missing one more game, right,
Speaker 1: which is why there was so much intrigue that final
Speaker 1: week of is he going to play one or two
Speaker 1: more games? And you know if he did. While this
Speaker 1: column was written, and if he didn't, that column was written, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, the poison pens were out right. If he
Speaker 1: came back and played after missing elimination games and once
Speaker 1: they were mathematically out of the playoffs, if he'd come
Speaker 1: back to win the scoring title, we all recognized that
Speaker 1: was going to happen. I mean, now you have the
Speaker 1: situation whereby you're gonna need that, I mean you still
Speaker 1: have a handful of guys, so that would be, you know, legitimately,
Speaker 1: And this is where we get into the subjectivity of it.
Speaker 1: All of you know, what are the metrics team wins
Speaker 1: your you know, basketball war and all of those things,
Speaker 1: right to decide who the finalists are, because I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of angst over all the finalists that
Speaker 1: got announced, right, because you had players stumping not just
Speaker 1: for MVP, but for teammates for myriad awards all the
Speaker 1: way through. And we mentioned Jordan Pool earlier as not
Speaker 1: even in the conversation for Most Improved Player. It's like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Like I just don't understand or
Speaker 1: do you just say, well, we didn't have a real
Speaker 1: record of him last year because he didn't play heavy minutes.
Speaker 1: So now that he's a star. He just passes that category.
Speaker 1: But if you're just now going to be eliminating guys
Speaker 1: who may be truthfully highly impactful for ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the games they play ninety five percent or whatever you
Speaker 1: want to ascribe it, but just because they miss that threshold,
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine the Union wouldn't be happy about that.
Speaker 1: To be some argument, But it's a postseason award. It is, well,
Speaker 1: it's a postseason award. It's not you're not taking money out,
Speaker 1: and it's a postseason award. If you want to put
Speaker 1: in your contract, you gotta be the MVP, gotta play
Speaker 1: the games well. But also, I mean, like because you
Speaker 1: wrap it all in together, right, go back to the
Speaker 1: All NBA teams and how Jason Tatum got screwed out
Speaker 1: of what thirty million dollars because of the way people voted, right,
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that your max contract is tied
Speaker 1: to those kind of things that people are voting on
Speaker 1: and not some sort of you know, analytical you know,
Speaker 1: some metric that's been described. I mean, you might have
Speaker 1: been had a bad night in one city that you
Speaker 1: you you made one set of reporters angry because you
Speaker 1: were a little short with questions and they decided to
Speaker 1: vote for somebody else. That costs you thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1: Don't put it in your contract, don't put it out.
Speaker 1: No, no no, no. But that's that's a thing that's negotiated
Speaker 1: with the league. That's not Jason Tatum's contract. That's the
Speaker 1: way the league works, which is asinine and something the
Speaker 1: Union needs to fight and be better about. But in
Speaker 1: terms of this, though, I look it's problem solving, Uh,
Speaker 1: it does create that other Pandora's box in terms of
Speaker 1: games played where guys are legitimately missing a couple uh
Speaker 1: and may miss that threshold due to injury versus UH
Speaker 1: sitting on the sideline and drinking a glass of wine
Speaker 1: and just watching the world go by, which is what
Speaker 1: Adam Silver talked about in his press or what was
Speaker 1: that a little over a week ago? Uh, the angst
Speaker 1: over the because they thought they'd killed it right. It
Speaker 1: looked like it had mostly gone away the low management
Speaker 1: or at least teams were being a little better about
Speaker 1: it and players are being better about it. And then
Speaker 1: we got to the final month of the season. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: remember if five years ago when you were really mad, Hey,
Speaker 1: get mad again because here we're back and we're all
Speaker 1: gonna do it. But I think there needs to be
Speaker 1: that dialogue of what is the threshold, you know for
Speaker 1: those awards, because you mentioned job Rand's the best example
Speaker 1: how great he was, and then the team was really
Speaker 1: good without him, and so everybody said, well, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have that much impacting Well, I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: necessarily true, but here you go asked and answered, you
Speaker 1: got all all these games. You know, Steph Curry got
Speaker 1: hurt after they were off to that big run up.
Speaker 1: Should he have gotten more consideration than because their teams
Speaker 1: slumped with him not in the lineup. So it's the
Speaker 1: fun of the arguments that we have with this stuff.
Speaker 1: But at least saying, hey, here's the threshold going forward.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear Dan Wake or some of
Speaker 1: our friends who like to ask the tough questions to
Speaker 1: VEX commissioners and owners and players, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: That would be fun. Think about that. At the end
Speaker 1: of the Lakers season, yeah, going in, Hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: let me take you away from, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: figure out why you guys have been terrible for eighty games.
Speaker 1: Now the awards season. If we said you had to
Speaker 1: play this or you were ineligible, what do you think
Speaker 1: about that? I think you might get some very fascinating answers.
Speaker 1: You might get a middle finger Monday, Twitter and out
Speaker 1: about a Fresca Mike as Swollen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike
Speaker 1: Harmon in for Dan and the dan 's Today. Now,
Speaker 1: with the big action that we saw over the course
Speaker 1: of the weekend, last night's game between the Sons and
Speaker 1: the Pelicans probably was something you tuned into for a
Speaker 1: little bit. Saw the Sun's hat in hand. They were
Speaker 1: a big at halftime. New Orleans made a little bit
Speaker 1: of a run in the second half, but Phoenix was
Speaker 1: never really in trouble and they just blow out the
Speaker 1: Pelicans one, ten ninety nine. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: overthink this because I felt like I did that during
Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament, when you know, you just ignored how
Speaker 1: well Kansas was playing because you know, the Duke's storyline
Speaker 1: was so great in North Carolina is peaking, and all
Speaker 1: Kansas is doing is the only number one seed is
Speaker 1: beating everybody. And yeah they had to come from behind
Speaker 1: to win in the in the title but in the
Speaker 1: title game, but Kansas was clearly the best team. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, Mike, I look at the rest of
Speaker 1: this playoffs. I think the Suns win the title and
Speaker 1: I don't expect them to really be challenged at all.
Speaker 1: Get you on their way to it, right, Picking anybody
Speaker 1: else is overthinking it. Right, They've been the best team
Speaker 1: all year for a reason. They've been as good as
Speaker 1: these other teams were as good as this. The Warriors
Speaker 1: are as good as the Grizzlies are, The Suns have
Speaker 1: been better. Usually, the best team wins the championship, and
Speaker 1: the Suns have been better than everybody all the way through.
Speaker 1: And they can now know they can withstand a non
Speaker 1: elite Chris Paul because they've done it without him. Devin
Speaker 1: Booker's gonna wind up being the best player in this playoff. Right.
Speaker 1: He wasn't quite ready for his moment last year. They're
Speaker 1: ready this year. There's gonna be plenty of five game
Speaker 1: series for them on the way to the championship. They're
Speaker 1: locked in. They're on a mission. This is not a
Speaker 1: team that is going to say, all right, we're still
Speaker 1: playing the NBA Finals a year later, where we're just
Speaker 1: trying to get back to that point. No, they know
Speaker 1: they got a steamroll through their opponents. They've been locked
Speaker 1: in and focused all season long. There was no fat
Speaker 1: cat syndrome. There was no oh, we got to come
Speaker 1: back from the difficult mental aspect of losing in the
Speaker 1: finals to the Bucks. No, they know they're the best.
Speaker 1: Then there's nobody that can beat them. There's nobody, nobody
Speaker 1: in the wet looked Sons and Warriors in the Western
Speaker 1: Conference finals might wind up being something. But you get
Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals, then oh, it's could be a
Speaker 1: rematch of Sons in the Bucks, and the Sons are
Speaker 1: gonna wind up winning in five. I just don't see
Speaker 1: a team being able to give them a series where
Speaker 1: suddenly the Sons are really sweating things out. I think
Speaker 1: it's kind of a boring run for them to go
Speaker 1: win the championship, young, hungry, and they heard every bit
Speaker 1: of the criticism along the ways. As we talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, when when teams have runs, things have to
Speaker 1: also happen for them, Right, you have to stay healthy.
Speaker 1: That's rule number one on your side, right your trainers
Speaker 1: working overtime and players staying out on the court. Rule two. Uh,
Speaker 1: Somewhere along the way, an opponent is going to have
Speaker 1: a subpar game or there's going to be an injury.
Speaker 1: And in their case, they had every series, and everybody
Speaker 1: was quick to point out it's like, you know what
Speaker 1: you have to you still have to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Guys are still putting on their uniforms and playing. So
Speaker 1: it's not like the Lakers. Oh, Anthony Davis got hurt,
Speaker 1: they put up a white flag and quit. They still played.
Speaker 1: So I love what the Suns have done this season.
Speaker 1: I'm still taking the other I think Steve Kerr figures
Speaker 1: out his horrible problem of pool versus Tomas awful, and
Speaker 1: on the other side, the Bucks will be waiting for
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Speaker 1: in his office and then the next his quarterbacks. I
Speaker 1: want to pick off and then Patterson has passing liner
Speaker 1: at the top of the list. That's a different way
Speaker 1: to watch games. I like, oh, I could still get
Speaker 1: that guy. Hey, what'd you make? What'd you? What'd you make?
Speaker 1: In the USFL's return this weekend, I mean a man,
Speaker 1: I think ball is good ball. I think, oh, the
Speaker 1: challenge in terms of the only hit three weeks to
Speaker 1: get ready to play, and so it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: little rough in the edge. But I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: not expecting it to be the National Football League, they've
Speaker 1: manis something to watch. There's something that's on. If you
Speaker 1: didn't want to watch the NBA playoff games, you over
Speaker 1: and watch the UFFL. And I'm certain that in a
Speaker 1: few weeks the play will improve and we'll get a
Speaker 1: chance to see a better product. But I don't think
Speaker 1: it's bad for the first time out. The long road
Speaker 1: begins with the first step, as they say. So there's
Speaker 1: claimed three million eyeballs sets of eyeballs over the course
Speaker 1: of the weekend. So a decent start, Bucky. But in
Speaker 1: ten days we're talking draft and that's your bread and
Speaker 1: butter NFL network. I just linked out the seven mysteries
Speaker 1: that we talked about a little bit on our show
Speaker 1: yesterday and wanted to bring the DP show audience in
Speaker 1: on this one, Bucky. One of them was about Kevon
Speaker 1: Tibodeaux and the idea of love of the game as
Speaker 1: we get ready and trying to analyze that, you know,
Speaker 1: as people try to mess with their their mock drafts. Bucky,
Speaker 1: what what could you give us? The site on him
Speaker 1: and who he is up at the top of the board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he came out Timidoue was a number one recruited high
Speaker 1: school when he came out a Volks christ and he's
Speaker 1: an LA kid, and you know, he was a guy
Speaker 1: who went up to Oregon and had a lot of
Speaker 1: hype and expectations about who he was going to eventually
Speaker 1: be as a player. Didn't really disappoint first year out
Speaker 1: of the box head nine sacks and the solid the
Speaker 1: officially nineteen sex in his career. The thing about came
Speaker 1: on tibozou He kind of leaves you wanting more because
Speaker 1: he has outstanding fort step quickness, tremendous verse, a very
Speaker 1: natural pass rusher, meaning he understands how to sequences moves.
Speaker 1: You want to see him develop a little more consistency
Speaker 1: in his game. But really the bigger problem that I
Speaker 1: think some scouts are having with him is trying to
Speaker 1: determine who he is. Because he's such a marque name,
Speaker 1: because he was a guy that was able to really
Speaker 1: see and capitalize the nil situation, there's some people that
Speaker 1: question whether he really loves the game, and so then
Speaker 1: point those questions the safety he doesn't play already and consistent,
Speaker 1: And what I would saying is he's a very bright guy.
Speaker 1: He's a guy who has a lot of things going on,
Speaker 1: but when you look at his national salent, he is
Speaker 1: a guy that can play at a high level. I
Speaker 1: think for him is about ending up in the right
Speaker 1: environment where he has veterans and a coaching staff that
Speaker 1: can show him what the standard should be for guys
Speaker 1: talented as he is, and then they push him to
Speaker 1: meet that standard each and every day, because if he
Speaker 1: finds the best situation, he can live up to all
Speaker 1: of the hype and adulation and all of the expectations
Speaker 1: that people have placed. And since he was a teenager,
Speaker 1: see if you're talking i'll love the game, I pass
Speaker 1: on that and I go I go draft Tarrell Owens Again.
Speaker 1: The guy's playing in the fifth controlled Football League and
Speaker 1: he scored a touchdown. I know he loves the game.
Speaker 1: I'll just draft t O again. I mean love man
Speaker 1: to still playing. People can't, they can't, they can't stop it.
Speaker 1: Like forty eight years old, you'll want to touch down.
Speaker 1: God bless him. The way my body feels, I have
Speaker 1: no idea whatever even feel like the pads. Another human
Speaker 1: being take off fifteen yard run. That's try. I'm not
Speaker 1: the stuffing out of Meso. He loved it more than
Speaker 1: I do. At this point, I'm letting him have that.
Speaker 1: He can continue to play and play for all the
Speaker 1: old people that are out there. You and I walking
Speaker 1: around the studio. You should see us on Sunday mornings,
Speaker 1: Jason talking to each other and walking like. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's obviously been through the five years of NFL football
Speaker 1: and college ball and everything else. Me I peaked young,
Speaker 1: but the body is still broken and beaten down. So
Speaker 1: we rally as best we can. But Jason gives us
Speaker 1: the good segue there, Bucky, with the wide receivers, many
Speaker 1: guys ready for draft day, certainly, but you've got some
Speaker 1: big names looking to get paid. Debo dk metcalv McLaurin
Speaker 1: and A J. Brown. You got four guys right there
Speaker 1: that are big time contributors. Do you see any of
Speaker 1: them getting moved in the next ten days. No, I
Speaker 1: don't see. I think those situations a different see because
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill and DeVante Adams won, they're older, and this also,
Speaker 1: they were working on their third contract. For these guys,
Speaker 1: they're working on their first contract. So yeah, the money
Speaker 1: has to go up because they're pro bowlers. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it necessarily has to go up to Devonte
Speaker 1: Adams Tyree Hill range, but it certainly has to go up.
Speaker 1: And I think when you are those teams that have
Speaker 1: those guys, you want to keep both guys. So those
Speaker 1: guys are killers of your offense. Particular when we think
Speaker 1: about Deego Tard, Lauren A J. Brown, those guys are
Speaker 1: focal points of your offense. DK Metcast is a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different situation because he plays opposite Tyler
Speaker 1: Lockett and also when you look at his game, he's
Speaker 1: more of a straight line vertical playmaker, and so I
Speaker 1: would say that might be a little easier to replace
Speaker 1: than the other guys. But I think all of these
Speaker 1: guys deserve their money for what they've been able to
Speaker 1: do and how important they are to their respective offenses.
Speaker 1: Bucky brookshaks too. On The Dan Patrick Show, Jason Smith,
Speaker 1: Mike Harman in for Dan and the Dan. That's but
Speaker 1: with that story today of the wide receivers who are
Speaker 1: all gonna skip the on field work because they want
Speaker 1: new money, right Deebo, Samuel A. J. Brown, Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 1: We know they all want they all want to get paid. Um,
Speaker 1: what's to stop a team from oh, you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's good wide receivers in the draft, but hey, forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, here's an F them picks offer for Debo
Speaker 1: and a team that's having some kind of salary cap
Speaker 1: constraints and go, well, you know, we can get a
Speaker 1: good guy in the draft. We don't want to trade them,
Speaker 1: but okay, can you can these guys that be had
Speaker 1: for F them picks offers from other teams? I mean
Speaker 1: I think you. I mean I think you will get
Speaker 1: to a point where you can do that. All The
Speaker 1: tricky thing is it's kind of hit him miss when
Speaker 1: you find those wide receivers, like all those guys that
Speaker 1: you talk about. Interestingly enough, we're drafted outside of the
Speaker 1: first round, and so we have seen in recent years
Speaker 1: that you can go outside of the first round and
Speaker 1: get your playmaker, much like people talk about running back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can buyd wide receivers in the second, the third round.
Speaker 1: Those gaps can and become all stars. The tricky part
Speaker 1: of it from the team is kind of guy right
Speaker 1: off the streets, right out of college, come in and
Speaker 1: give you what Deebo, Samuel and A J Brand and
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, Cha we're giving you last year. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can count on a rookie to be
Speaker 1: able to do that, and so it is a bit
Speaker 1: of a roll of the dice when you do it.
Speaker 1: But I do think you can see it become a
Speaker 1: position where you're always drafted receivers in that sweet spot
Speaker 1: because it's a draft developed and maybe move on position
Speaker 1: as a polls who are drafting development and pay big
Speaker 1: money for the position. All right, Bucky, a guy who's
Speaker 1: projecting to be a backup going forward but taking up
Speaker 1: a lot of oxygen. Can you get Baker Mayfield? Can
Speaker 1: you give he a guy on your list that you
Speaker 1: can pick off too? Baker get mad if I say that,
Speaker 1: but you like I could land the cutter, maybe smite
Speaker 1: one of you know, like because he gets tough for
Speaker 1: him because he can't really ye over to get to
Speaker 1: the field. I maybe it was kind to hang in
Speaker 1: the bushes and get it. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: the Baker Mayfield conversation is what were Mike and I
Speaker 1: talked yesterday about. Sometimes you can overplay your hand. It
Speaker 1: sounds great to better yourself until you better yourself and
Speaker 1: you crap out. And unfortunately for Baker, he bettered himself
Speaker 1: because he wanted to get a big faded because you
Speaker 1: gotta remember last off seasons when the money was flying
Speaker 1: off the table where we saw Patrick Mahomes get his money,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, Josh Allen. So Baker Mayfield rightfully wanted to
Speaker 1: be in the forty million dollars category. But you the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown, you go tennessis you go to the playoffs
Speaker 1: and you're looking at your quarterback who is basically driving
Speaker 1: a luxury car. There was nothing else that you could
Speaker 1: want on the Cleveland Brown's car. And had two running
Speaker 1: backs he had met wilde receivers in obj and Jarvis Landy,
Speaker 1: had tight and had a great offensive line, but when
Speaker 1: it came down to could Baker Mayfield make plays to
Speaker 1: get them over the top. He couldn't do it, so
Speaker 1: he doubled down, saying I'm gonna show him on the field.
Speaker 1: He gets hurt, he doesn't play well, and now where
Speaker 1: he's borning and bringing all of that other stuff you
Speaker 1: know that they don't talk about. They're like, yeah, we're good,
Speaker 1: We'll move on to get another quarterback. And so now
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a starting job out there
Speaker 1: for Baker, despite being number one, despite leading the team
Speaker 1: to a playoff appearance. I don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: team out there that looks at him and said that
Speaker 1: he is an automatic upgrade over what we have. I
Speaker 1: think he is facing their harsh reality, and I think
Speaker 1: it had become a real reality once we get the draft.
Speaker 1: There he's on Twitter at Bucky Brooks, a guy who
Speaker 1: can definitely see over the middle. That's at Bucky Brooks,
Speaker 1: former NFL Stars scout analyst, NFL media, our teammate here
Speaker 1: at Fox and Fox Sports Radio. Bucky has always appreciate
Speaker 1: the time and if you need to put out a
Speaker 1: message on social media so Baker doesn't get mad, we understand.
Speaker 1: I'm okay. I'm smoke. That's my guy. See if Buck
Speaker 1: good one, I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready for the
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield smoke. There's people right now listening going Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield has smoke. Yeah, No, apparently still does. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think Mayfield, but Mayfield's got smoke, man, I mean, look
Speaker 1: for Mayfield. Look, I've said it a long time, right
Speaker 1: and that's why I feel like I can be an
Speaker 1: NBA NFL insider, because you know, I talked about this
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, the spot for Mayfield, and right now,
Speaker 1: I saw Mike Florio report that the Carolina Panthers have
Speaker 1: the inside track to landing Mayfield if he goes to
Speaker 1: someplace like Carolina, where I'm battling it out with Sam
Speaker 1: Donald to be the quarterback. Yeah, you potentially have an
Speaker 1: avenue to start, potentially, but if you don't win that job,
Speaker 1: you're never going to get a chance to start in
Speaker 1: the NFL again. You're done, all right. But Baker, Okay,
Speaker 1: it didn't work in Cleveland, but he could even beat
Speaker 1: out Sam Donald. Man, that is difficult, and he's a
Speaker 1: backup for the rest of his career. The best thing
Speaker 1: for him, and I've said this for a while to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Go to Tampa play behind Tom Brady for
Speaker 1: a year or two. Maybe it's just one year, because
Speaker 1: then Brady will wind up buying the Dolphins and becoming
Speaker 1: their quarterback. Just so it's just like heaven can wait.
Speaker 1: And if you sit for a year and you calm down,
Speaker 1: and there's there's too much Baker Mayfield out there right now,
Speaker 1: and teams are going to be scared off by the
Speaker 1: fact that the guy is still talking like he's great,
Speaker 1: and clearly on the field he's not the guy that
Speaker 1: they thought he was being picked number one overall. So
Speaker 1: go someplace, because he needs to learn what it means
Speaker 1: to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. Because he
Speaker 1: was a guy that was really okay with being a
Speaker 1: star so fast, like he walked into the league going
Speaker 1: I'm a star, and so I'm weighing in on other
Speaker 1: players contract information. There's no battle. I won't fight with
Speaker 1: a radio host or a TV host or he get
Speaker 1: into it with me on Twitter a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He's got to learn what it means to be an
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. There's a reason why people don't come in
Speaker 1: all full of swagger at the quarterback position like him,
Speaker 1: because the quarterback is different. And so if he goes
Speaker 1: and learns and sits behind Brady and goes, okay, now
Speaker 1: I get how to do things. I understand in a
Speaker 1: year when people have not had their fill of Mayfield,
Speaker 1: it's hey, maybe we can bring him in and he
Speaker 1: can and he can be our quarterback and he gets Trubisky.
Speaker 1: Because that's what happened to Mitchell Trubisky. Right. He flames
Speaker 1: out in Chicago. He does some good things, but he
Speaker 1: flames out. He does nothing in Buffalo for two years.
Speaker 1: But well, he backed up Josh Allen. The Bills are
Speaker 1: really good. He learned the Buffalo way, and now he's
Speaker 1: got a chance to win the starting job with the Steelers. Right,
Speaker 1: So that's a huge deal. So if you're in Mayfield,
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I go. Where can I set
Speaker 1: myself up for the most long term success. Now, he's
Speaker 1: because he's hot headed and he wants to go out
Speaker 1: and fight every battle. No, I want to go I
Speaker 1: want to win the battle here. I want to win
Speaker 1: the job here. You go to Carolina or Seattle and
Speaker 1: you don't win, I mean, that's it. You're done. Man,
Speaker 1: go to Tampa Bay. See what it means. Maybe Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay keeps you. Right if Brady leaves after a year,
Speaker 1: maybe Tampa Bay keeps you. You You still slide right in there,
Speaker 1: or you wind up someplace else. After you you sit
Speaker 1: back for a year and teams are ready to take
Speaker 1: a chance on you again. That's the best part for me.
Speaker 1: Where I look at Baker mayfel where he should land,
Speaker 1: Where you should go look at you. I mean, as
Speaker 1: we talked about oftentimes, as soon as it started to
Speaker 1: be proven that case Keenum was every bit the quarterback
Speaker 1: you were, so you were forcing yourself on the field,
Speaker 1: things went sideways. The only time I got mad Adam
Speaker 1: was when he did inject himself into that Duke Johnson
Speaker 1: conversation about contracts. Now you did mention Heaven Can Wait
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight comedy and drama of Warren Beatty, Who's
Speaker 1: the La Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton killed in an auto accident,
Speaker 1: but Buck Henry, his guardian angel, took him from Earth prematurely,
Speaker 1: so he comes back as a greedy, multi millionaire industrialist
Speaker 1: named Leo Farnsworth. He attempts to turn to football and
Speaker 1: falls in love with an environmental activist played by Julie
Speaker 1: Crystal Julie Julie Christie the least at the end of
Speaker 1: June in nineteen seventy eight. There you go, because we
Speaker 1: like to inform you when there's a random pop culture
Speaker 1: reference to make sure we're all in on the joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta tell millennials, you know what Heaven can wait
Speaker 1: is you have to the nineteen seventy eight and the
Speaker 1: La rams were a thing. Yeah, Yeah, and now they
Speaker 1: are again. Yeah. Twitter, And how about a Fresca Mike
Speaker 1: gets Swollen Dome Jason Smith Mike Harman in for Dan
Speaker 1: and the Danettes. Today we got more from the NFL
Speaker 1: coming up next. Two big storylines over the weekend we
Speaker 1: have to break down. That's straight ahead right here. This
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Speaker 1: got more on middle Finger Monday and Kyrie of incoming
Speaker 1: up in about twelve minutes. But two big stories out
Speaker 1: of the NFL are really out of football this we
Speaker 1: can't really say NFL but out of football this weekend.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Bucky Brooks for stopping by a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1: We talked Terrell Owens the USFL return, and you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta say I was pretty emboldened and heartened by
Speaker 1: the debut that the USFL had. Right, the numbers supposedly
Speaker 1: are pretty good, right, you mentioned that, you know, they
Speaker 1: got three million viewers different aspects and streaming and watching,
Speaker 1: and that's a pretty good beginning. And it's it's sort
Speaker 1: of time to understand just what the goalposts are for
Speaker 1: the USFL, because here they are. They're back. And the
Speaker 1: best thing they did was have the teams, you know,
Speaker 1: using the old logos and the old teams from the eighties,
Speaker 1: because that nostalgia. You can't put a price on it. Well,
Speaker 1: there is a lot they will have to because there's lawsuits. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were like from the folks that own some of
Speaker 1: those Oh sure, but you know you're you're trying to
Speaker 1: make it work. You know, well we'll kick that It's
Speaker 1: like Steve Kerr, We'll kick that can down the road.
Speaker 1: Another day. Let's just make sure we got people excited
Speaker 1: right now, and it's kind of it was kind of
Speaker 1: fun and tuning in watching you would like there to
Speaker 1: be more fans in the stands, but watching this, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's that big a deal. They wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had all the game in Birmingham if they thought we
Speaker 1: really need the gate from the games to make this work. Right,
Speaker 1: this is clearly a made for TV event and you're
Speaker 1: hoping that fans are gonna want to come to Birmingham
Speaker 1: and watch football as time goes on. You know, attendance
Speaker 1: was decent on Saturday. Easter Sunday not so great because
Speaker 1: you know it is Easter Sunday. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that's that big a deal. But going forward you have
Speaker 1: to measure that. The biggest thing to understand is that
Speaker 1: success is making it through the season, is not to
Speaker 1: is not having to stop play midway through the season.
Speaker 1: Ago we can't pay anybody. We make it through the
Speaker 1: season and then you can work on it because then
Speaker 1: it becomes a thing. Hey, USFL played the season, went
Speaker 1: it was good. Now we're going again and we got
Speaker 1: another season coming up next year and it worked out great.
Speaker 1: And things we can do. Because now you've become part
Speaker 1: of the sports calendar, more people are going to adopt
Speaker 1: a little bit more. That's the focus. Make it out
Speaker 1: of the first season. Don't think about, oh, we need
Speaker 1: this in long term. No, just make it so after
Speaker 1: the first seven weeks you're not saying, hey, we can't
Speaker 1: make payroll and this is this is really difficult, because
Speaker 1: that's what everybody's expecting, right, whether it's the XFL or
Speaker 1: the USFL. It's well, they'll play for a few weeks,
Speaker 1: they'll be a little bit of excitement, just like it
Speaker 1: is for every other spring league, and then they're gonna
Speaker 1: come into financial difficulty. They won't be able to pay,
Speaker 1: and they'll stop and the season will just be canceled.
Speaker 1: Make it through the season. That should be the model
Speaker 1: for the USFL USFL twenty twenty two. Make it to
Speaker 1: the end and then we can talk about something. Then
Speaker 1: you might have something. Well, I mean, think about the
Speaker 1: the last iteration of fledgling leagues. I mean, we've got
Speaker 1: friends that are still waiting on paychecks right that we're
Speaker 1: broadcasting games. Go ask Rich Hornberger how he feels our
Speaker 1: buddy works down in San Diego, former NFL lineman with
Speaker 1: a sound Fox Sports Radio on the weekends, still waiting
Speaker 1: on those final game checks that never arrived. I was
Speaker 1: part of a fledgling network that didn't make the end
Speaker 1: of a season. Really the Football Network where oh, I
Speaker 1: remember the man. I remember actually ran into a guy
Speaker 1: who worked for the Football Network in the in the
Speaker 1: airport once, and you know, he had stuff like ohde
Speaker 1: orph he was I worked for Football Network, and I go,
Speaker 1: NFL Football Network, I go, oh. I don't really know
Speaker 1: too much about it, because yeah, not many people do well.
Speaker 1: But here here's what happened, right, at least from from
Speaker 1: my my experience, was, Uh, that was when you had
Speaker 1: the first rush on. All right, we need to get
Speaker 1: rights to games and so third rate you know, college
Speaker 1: games and low to your stuff. We're still going out
Speaker 1: of premium. But what happened with these guys is they
Speaker 1: they set this ups down in Baton Rouge. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: helping and being part of a fantasy show. Jerry Glanville
Speaker 1: was on it. Danny shared in the Odds Maker. I
Speaker 1: forget the rest of the the cast as it were,
Speaker 1: but you know, we had thought I was down there.
Speaker 1: A couple of times to shoot pieces and whatever, and
Speaker 1: they'd beat me and from back in Los Angeles. But
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the NFL Network got announced. So
Speaker 1: everything we're negotiating for in terms of NFL films and
Speaker 1: all these other things, the legal hours, suddenly I had
Speaker 1: no money left because NFL Network said, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't have any of that stuff. It's like, but
Speaker 1: we've spent Millionah, no, you're you're done. So by week
Speaker 1: thirteen we didn't even get to the Fantasy playoffs. We're done.
Speaker 1: So the whole goal here, I think is to your point,
Speaker 1: cut costs, keep everything in Birmingham, make it as easy
Speaker 1: to facilitate a season as you can, and hope to
Speaker 1: be able to put up a sequel number in part two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. You can't get to ahead of yourself.
Speaker 1: It's baby steps. We always want to run before we
Speaker 1: can walk, and sometimes you have to just understand that
Speaker 1: you're building something and it takes a little bit of time.
Speaker 1: You want to grab the numbers and grab the people
Speaker 1: right away, and it doesn't always work that way. It
Speaker 1: works all right, let's let's let's work on getting more
Speaker 1: people in the stands, right because that's one thing that
Speaker 1: will play better on television because if you tune into
Speaker 1: a game and you don't see fans, there after a
Speaker 1: while like, ah, people really paying attention? Do I need
Speaker 1: to watch? So while fans isn't the most important thing,
Speaker 1: work on that because that's a that's a thing that
Speaker 1: will help your product, right because if you see full stands, hey,
Speaker 1: things look a little bit better. So just these baby
Speaker 1: steps things that will enhance the product. And the product
Speaker 1: wasn't bad, you know, tuning in and watching a little
Speaker 1: bit of it on Saturday, it wasn't bad. It was
Speaker 1: kind of fun. You saw some names of people, you know,
Speaker 1: So now just kind of okay, what's the best things
Speaker 1: we can do to make sure we get to the
Speaker 1: end of the season, we crown a champion, and then
Speaker 1: then we can worry about next year. More sponsors will
Speaker 1: come on board all of these things, and then the
Speaker 1: XFL is really you know, has their back against it.
Speaker 1: Boy does this work for us? To it just it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit of a slog and sometimes
Speaker 1: that's okay. Find your names, find your excitement, try to
Speaker 1: find a break through star or two that you can
Speaker 1: capitalize on. A storyline and of course promote the hell
Speaker 1: out of the fact that you can bet on it.
Speaker 1: Twitter is another option. I got the Michigan Panthers a point.
Speaker 1: Lynch keeps throwing picks. I can't feel it. We got
Speaker 1: back into the NBA middle finger Monday at different take
Speaker 1: on Kyrie Irving next on Fox.