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Speaker 1: reaction to an unexpectedly, wildly entertaining New York Giants win
Speaker 1: over the Green Bay Packers twenty four to twenty two.
Speaker 1: Let's all have a bowl of pasta fazzoule for Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 1: That was crazy. First of all, if you're a Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packer fan, you're bummed out. But that game had
Speaker 1: trouble written all over it. I had sat on FS
Speaker 1: one today. I thought the Packers would win close, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be choppy. So you
Speaker 1: just beat the Super Bowl champs at Lambeau. You got
Speaker 1: the youngest team in the league. Your deep threat Christian
Speaker 1: Watson's not there. You're feeling yourself. You beat the Lines
Speaker 1: and the Chargers and the Chiefs. You're feeling yourself. You
Speaker 1: go in now as a favorite on Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: with a really young team Tommy DeVito's playing pretty well,
Speaker 1: bit of a gamer, and the Giants defense can make plays.
Speaker 1: They made some really nice plays in the secondary. So
Speaker 1: that game had trouble written all over it. I thought
Speaker 1: that the Packers, I mean, how many near touchdowns did
Speaker 1: they have before they finally got that one to take
Speaker 1: the lead with a couple of minutes left. So it happens.
Speaker 1: It's really hard on the NFL with a young team,
Speaker 1: especially to play great four straight weeks. That's really hard.
Speaker 1: If you would have asked Matt Lafleur privately, I think
Speaker 1: he would have told you this game scares the heck
Speaker 1: out of him. So you know, it's just one of
Speaker 1: those You go in as a big favorite with a
Speaker 1: young team, you played great three weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: You know, it just happens. And this game listen in
Speaker 1: a weird way. The Giants should have won it because
Speaker 1: if Saquon Barkley on that odd fumble, you don't see
Speaker 1: that very often. If he didn't fumble, there I kick
Speaker 1: a field goal or get a touchdown. And the Giants
Speaker 1: were moving the ball in the second half on Green
Speaker 1: Bay repeatedly. They were moving the football. There was a
Speaker 1: good chance they score a touchdown with the mobility of
Speaker 1: Tommy DeVito. They had to put that game away there.
Speaker 1: So they had to come back from behind make some plays.
Speaker 1: But so don't lose a lot of sleep if you're
Speaker 1: a Packer fan. It's a good team. It's a young team,
Speaker 1: it's an athletic team. They're going to score some points.
Speaker 1: Defense did not play great in the second half, but
Speaker 1: Green Bay's okay, I think they're gonna be a playoff team.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk about Tommy DeVito. So you know,
Speaker 1: great high school player from the area, little college star. Right,
Speaker 1: Tommy DeVito does not succeed if he has a defensive coach. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: Seahawks with a backup quarterback, Steelers with a backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: New England with a backup quarterback, and until this weekend,
Speaker 1: the Jets with backup quarterbacks. A complete s show defensive coaches.
Speaker 1: Yet Atlanta with a backup, Indianapolis with a backup, Cleveland
Speaker 1: with Joe Flacco, the Giants with Tommy DeVito, all offensive
Speaker 1: coaches remain viable. There is no question defensive coaches can
Speaker 1: win football games if they've got a good quarterback. But
Speaker 1: when you urgently have to make it up in the
Speaker 1: middle of a season, you get a backup quarterback. I
Speaker 1: do not think defensive coaches are equipped to handle it.
Speaker 1: It is not a coincidence that eleven of the fourteen
Speaker 1: current playoff teams have offensive coaches. That is not a coincidence.
Speaker 1: It is also not a coincidence that the three most
Speaker 1: improved offenses in the National Football League in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season are the Rams, the Broncos, and
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, all offensive coaches. Come on, it's
Speaker 1: not a coincidence. Tommy DeVito, you give him Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the Steelers. They have Mitch Trubisky
Speaker 1: as a backup. Mitch Trubisky made the playoffs twice in Chicago,
Speaker 1: not a well run organization with offensive coach Matt Naggy
Speaker 1: who got fired. Okay, made the playoffs twice. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: was in his prime in that division and Mitch Trubisky.
Speaker 1: They had a good defense, but Kirk Cousins was in
Speaker 1: his prime, Aaron Rodgers in his prime, Matt Stafford was
Speaker 1: in that division at the time close to his prime,
Speaker 1: and Mitchell Frickin' Trubisky made the playoffs twice. He goes
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh disaster, unwatchable, can't get first downs. It's not luck,
Speaker 1: it's not What Brian Dabole is doing is on the
Speaker 1: fly coaching up a young, talented kid that's got some mobility.
Speaker 1: DeVito's not real big, doesn't have a big arm, but
Speaker 1: he can move. And I think this is just you
Speaker 1: have to think long and hard. If you're the Patriots
Speaker 1: and you hire a new coach, or you're the Raiders,
Speaker 1: We'll see what they do there with Antonio Pierce. Chicago,
Speaker 1: if they hire a new coach Tampa, if they hire
Speaker 1: a new coach, man, you really got to think twice
Speaker 1: about hiring a defensive guy. This is Tommy DeVito is
Speaker 1: not talented enough to move that offense up and down
Speaker 1: the field off a pretty talented Green Bay defense with
Speaker 1: a defensive coach. I know I've been banging on this forever,
Speaker 1: but I'm a huge Day Bowl fan. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at Buffalo. They have no offense. It's regressed terribly. I mean,
Speaker 1: what happened to Von Diggs, what happened to Gabe Davis.
Speaker 1: They don't throw the ball down the field anymore. With
Speaker 1: the strongest arm in the league, Josh Allen Sean McDermott,
Speaker 1: defensive coach. All right, enough, nice win for the Giants.
Speaker 1: I thought that game. You know, sometimes sports gives you gifts.
Speaker 1: I mean like when you watched you know, Buffalo Kansas City,
Speaker 1: you would expect that would be a good game. You know,
Speaker 1: we occasionally get games we know they're going to be good,
Speaker 1: and they're good. But when you go into this game
Speaker 1: tonight and I'm thinking, oh, I want to watch Miami
Speaker 1: ug and I'm thinking, just just Jordan Love, Tommy de Vido,
Speaker 1: give me something here, give me, give me something. I
Speaker 1: was entertained for three and a half hours. How about
Speaker 1: that way to go pasta fazoul for everybody? All right,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the show. Hey, o Tani
Speaker 1: deal for the Dodgers. You know, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: that gets once you're a syndicated radio host or a
Speaker 1: TV host. It's hard. Whether you're on First Take, Undisputed
Speaker 1: my show, it's hard to talk baseball. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: twice as long as the NBA regular season, which is
Speaker 1: too long. And so when you're doing a national show,
Speaker 1: right when you're doing a local show, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're Mike Felger, in Boston. You can talk about baseball
Speaker 1: you want. If you're Michael Kay in New York, talk
Speaker 1: baseball you want, if you're in Saint Louis, Detroit, even
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I listen to shows they talk baseball, but
Speaker 1: on a syndicated level, it's very hard. It's a very
Speaker 1: regional sport. There's very few stars, and there's no urgency show.
Speaker 1: Hey Otani is the exception. We've probably talked about him
Speaker 1: on the heard about six or seven times this year.
Speaker 1: But you know, I saw a lot of pushback because
Speaker 1: of the deferred payments the Dodgers creatively have used for
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts. I think Freddie Freeman and now show Heyo Tani,
Speaker 1: which allows them to be viable now and competitive now
Speaker 1: and defer those payments down the road and those players
Speaker 1: when they move out of California, show hey Otani doesn't
Speaker 1: have to pay that thirteen point three percent of California
Speaker 1: tax if he moves somewhere else in America post baseball career.
Speaker 1: But don't blame the Dodgers for being creative. And I've
Speaker 1: said this so I lived out East for ten years.
Speaker 1: I have a place on the beach in Rhode Island,
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. I loved so much. I love
Speaker 1: the people, I love the tradition, the boarding schools, just
Speaker 1: nan Tucket, the churches, the principal nature of the East Coast.
Speaker 1: There are so many cool traditions back there, and as
Speaker 1: a West Coast kid, I found it absolutely fascinating. But
Speaker 1: the West Coast is less parochial, more entrepreneurial, and many
Speaker 1: of the great innovations of our modern time are West Coast.
Speaker 1: I used to always joke on the East Coast, once
Speaker 1: you get rich, you buy a nicer tie. On the
Speaker 1: West Coast, once you get rich, you'll never wear a
Speaker 1: tie again. It's just a different mindset. Neither one is
Speaker 1: necessarily better, although I do think innovations happen more often
Speaker 1: out West Silicon Valley, out West. That iPhone you've got
Speaker 1: in your hand, Apple, that search engine you use Google,
Speaker 1: Silicon Valley, the Zoom Revolution, Netflix and Chill West West
Speaker 1: West West. And when you talk about sports, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: were just very creative. The three ball revolutions, small ball
Speaker 1: out west, chip Kelly to play every thirteen seconds out West,
Speaker 1: the West Coast offense, the Shanahan offense. You know, you
Speaker 1: know the most innovative sports company of my life, arguably
Speaker 1: Nike beavert and Oregon. I just think the West sees
Speaker 1: the world differently, not necessarily better. It's not, however, steeped
Speaker 1: in tradition, and I think the Dodgers have always been
Speaker 1: a step in ahead of a lot of East Coast
Speaker 1: teams on research and development and innovation with contracts, and
Speaker 1: it's clever, you know. I they were on this Otani
Speaker 1: deal for two years and I said it repeatedly on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and FS one is that Dodgers were
Speaker 1: front runners on this. I never thought there was a
Speaker 1: second team, but they didn't want to look like bullies.
Speaker 1: As neighbors to the Angels. The Dodgers draw ten thousand
Speaker 1: more people per game than the second best attendance team
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. They are a revenue monster. Moved
Speaker 1: off Bellinger, they moved off Turner, they gave Kershaw one
Speaker 1: year deal. They've been loading up for Shoheo Tani for
Speaker 1: over a year, and they have been looking and discussing this.
Speaker 1: I've been told for two years. And so the deferred
Speaker 1: payment is a smart way to bring him in. It's
Speaker 1: not going to end major League Baseball. Jesus, Why was
Speaker 1: it okay for the Yankees? You know, fifteen twenty years
Speaker 1: ago in the Hot Stove League, the Yankees and the
Speaker 1: Red Sox to buy all the players. I didn't hear
Speaker 1: anybody out he's complaining then, So why is it bad
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers to defer payment as a revenue machine?
Speaker 1: Now it's not. There's just a percentage of sports fans
Speaker 1: who don't like change. I mean, oh, transfer portal, it's
Speaker 1: the end of college football. Really. Just see the three
Speaker 1: Heisman finalists, all transfer portal players. Did you see the
Speaker 1: ratings in college football? Was the most watched college football
Speaker 1: season ever. Remember when Pac twelve dissolved. Going to the
Speaker 1: Big Ten. It's going to ruin the sport. Next year
Speaker 1: we'll set television records. I've just learned over time. In
Speaker 1: the East Coast, it's more provincial. It's more about tradition.
Speaker 1: That tradition is awesome, from the churches to the boarding schools,
Speaker 1: to the law firms to Wall Street. You know, a
Speaker 1: little tinge of jealousy. When I went out East for
Speaker 1: a decade, I loved it. I would go on these
Speaker 1: long drives through Connecticut and New York and we'd go
Speaker 1: to these, you know, almost like castles, and these these
Speaker 1: prep schools, and our kids didn't go to any of them.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was amazing, and it's just something
Speaker 1: that is so unique to the Northeast part of the country.
Speaker 1: I love it. Still go there every summer. Love it.
Speaker 1: But I think sometimes it can hold you back in
Speaker 1: life if you're looking in the rearview mirror. And the
Speaker 1: Dodgers deserve credit. And I think sports is better when
Speaker 1: we're innovating. I don't care if it's Bill Walsh's West
Speaker 1: Coast offense or Shanahan's offense or Chip Kelly no huddle football,
Speaker 1: Eric Coriel with Dan Fouts. I'm all for new stuff.
Speaker 1: It helps us grow. And the Dodgers deserve credit. Nobody
Speaker 1: out East was complaining when the Yes Network was a
Speaker 1: decade ahead of every other cable sports regional entity and
Speaker 1: they were just buying the best players. Everybody just embraced it.
Speaker 1: In New York. The Dodgers have more money, they're more aggressive,
Speaker 1: they're a step ahead of other teams, and they're R
Speaker 1: and D and good for them. Otani is a remarkable player.
Speaker 1: He is I think the only player in baseball that
Speaker 1: is a regular topic for me. I'm the ultimate baseball casual.
Speaker 1: But you could see this thing coming from a mile away.
Speaker 1: You know. You can criticize the Angels for not getting
Speaker 1: anything for Otani, and I certainly think they were never
Speaker 1: a viable contender. They just don't have the stadium revenue
Speaker 1: or the TV revenue to be able to pay that
Speaker 1: kind of money. And everybody knew a year ago it
Speaker 1: was going to be a five, six hundred or more
Speaker 1: million dollar deal. But you know, Otani gave the Angels
Speaker 1: hope and optimism and they haven't had a lot of
Speaker 1: that in the last decade. So so be it. Angels lost,
Speaker 1: Dodgers win. I don't think it's the end of baseball.
Speaker 1: I think the Braves and the Astros will remain viable.
Speaker 1: The Yankees had an off year, They'll be fine. The
Speaker 1: well run teams will be competitive as always. Very hard
Speaker 1: to buy a World Series. Ask the Mets and asked
Speaker 1: the Padres. The volume