1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Doug Gottlieb Show podcast. Be 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: sure to catch us live every weekday three to five, 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: twelve two Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: station for The Doug Gottlieb Show at Foxsports Radio dot com, 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: by searching APPSPR. I'm going up America, Doug Gottlieb Show, 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. I hope you're having a great day. 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: The Doug Gottlieb Show broadcast live every single day from 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: two places, sunny southern California and sunny beautiful, absolutely stunning, 10 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: Green Bay, Wisconsin. Eh, welcome in. So. Uh, there's a 11 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: lot of I don't want to if say, little stories, 12 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: but interesting stories. You know, we run into this on 13 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: many Wednesdays here right where you know, Monday is like 14 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: kind of story overload. Right, we had week two Tuesdays. 15 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: Generally we get to college football some on Tuesdays. Uh, 16 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: but because there was two Monday night football games, because 17 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: the Tom Brady story, it felt like Tuesdays were more 18 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: kind of NFL focused. Wednesdays kind of the lull day. Right, 19 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: you got Thursday night football, you get baseball. I did 20 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: find myself watching some w NBA playoffs a little bit 21 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: as I got stuck on on watching Indiana. Part of 22 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: it is stylistically offensively, they kind of play the way 23 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get my team to play. So there 24 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: there's some interesting stuff there, right. I know that Dan 25 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: I mean assumed me that Jay Stu has his feelings 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: about his Dodgers and as Dodgers' bullpen for the second 27 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: night in a row. But I thought the topic of 28 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was an interesting one and I'd love Dan 29 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: and Jay your your input a little bit. I'll give 30 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: you my thoughts and the the the question is always 31 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:05,279 Speaker 1: with the Bengals' so focused on building for Joe Burrow 32 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 1: with skill position players that they didn't build well enough 33 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: with the offensive line, They not do enough with scheme 34 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: and with personnel to protect him. Dan Pitcher is their 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator with the Bengals. He said, quote, we have 36 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 1: special skill players. This is what he said to the 37 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Enquirer. We want to accentuate those skilled players. We 38 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: want to try and do things. How do we accentuate 39 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: their skill set? How do we do it in a 40 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: way in which we're limiting the amount of the times that 41 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: Joe's potentially gonna get hit. There's no one decision that 42 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: solves it. Everything costs something. So we constantly think about 43 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: these things, and again, I hate that we're in the 44 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: spot that we're in. You always evaluate and reevaluate and 45 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: do it over and over again, but we can only 46 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: make the decisions in the moment that give us a 47 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: chance to win. So, you know, this is the old Hey, 48 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: skill position players, we'd like to get you paid, but 49 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: if we pay all of you, we don't have the 50 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,679 Speaker 1: money left over. We don't have the money left over 51 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: to build a top level offensive line. Now, if you 52 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: look back three years or so ago, right that year 53 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: or how many was it four years ago that they 54 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl, that was a year in 55 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: which that this coaching staff, front office called in the 56 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: question and they rebuilt the offensive line. And I kind 57 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: of told people they did, but it wasn't a good 58 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: enough answer for people. And then you know, they started 59 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: slow and end up closing hot and getting to a 60 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: super Bowl. They went back and got to an AFC 61 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: Championship game. And only now it's like a reoccurring theme 62 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: that Joe Burrow is getting hit so much, he's the 63 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: new Andrew Luck. I would tell you this that I 64 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: don't know enough about what they did financially, what they 65 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: did with their offensive line. I know that we have 66 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: a tendency to over react some because it's a turf 67 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: toe injury. And there was also the video against the 68 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals where he just got obliterated as he released 69 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: the football, and that one's a hard, a jarring one, 70 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: hard one to get out of your brain when you're 71 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: thinking about Joe Burrow and then you think about the 72 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: injuries and now they've stacked up over the years and 73 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: how many injuries he's had, and you're like, man, this 74 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: guy's always hurt. But I think there's there's three different factors. One, 75 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: there's the ownership of Joe Burrow holds the ball a 76 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: long time, that's his style. He's he's got some Ben 77 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: Roethlisberger to him where he has brass brass cajones and 78 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 1: he'll stand in there and take a hit because he 79 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: wants to deliver the football. So some of that is 80 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: your quarterback holds the ball a little bit longer. Some 81 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: of it is probably in their scheme. How is it 82 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: that he's getting hit that much? And you're talking about 83 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: accentuating the positives, right, You're putting guys out into routes 84 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: and not leaving enough guys in to have max protect. 85 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: And maybe that's also the bravado of Joe Burrow, like 86 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: I don't care, just get get guys open. I'll find 87 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: it open. I don't care if I get hit now 88 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: and again, even though those hits seem to be crushing 89 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: in terms of the ferocity of blows. But the last 90 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: part is probably the most important thing, which is how 91 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: you're building a team. You're gonna have to sacrifice something something, 92 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: especially when you have either a salary cap or limitations 93 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: on funds. And I can draw the direct parallel to 94 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: my team to college football teams to college basketball teams 95 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: because they're dealing with Hey, at some point, we just 96 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: don't have any money, so you gotta be judicious with it. 97 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: I said this about Alabama football, right, Alabama football, Like 98 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: they're starting quarterback. He's played well since you know, playing 99 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: okay against Florida State. He was under a lot of 100 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: pressure against floor STATEE. But my guess is they didn't 101 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: go out and pay a couple million dollars. You had 102 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: a guy in house it's his third year. He's super 103 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: happy to be the quarterback at Alabama. I don't think 104 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: he's making a million dollars now, he's probably making I 105 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: don't know, five hundred seven fifty or whatever. And then 106 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: they'll keep as if he's good enough, they'll keep in 107 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: to stay. And he wants to be there, wants to 108 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: be the quarterback of the Tide, unless you know he 109 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: wants to go elsewhere in cash in. Who knows if 110 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: he can cash in. But you do that because you know, 111 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: if you have let's say conservatively Alabama has twenty million dollars, 112 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: if you spend five million dollars in a quarterback, well 113 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 1: there's going to be a shortfall somewhere. Our scale is different, 114 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: but there's going to be a short fall somewhere. Talk 115 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: about this in the NBA. How the NBA has gone 116 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: from three stars to two stars, because if you have 117 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 1: three stars, you can't really have a team around him. 118 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: If you have two stars, you can do pretty well. 119 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: If you have one start, you can have an ensemble cast, 120 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: which is really, really, really good. But you got to 121 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: manage those salaries. NFL's no different. You have a salary cap. 122 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: There's a limit to what you can spend, and if 123 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 1: you spend more money than anybody on a wide receiver, 124 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: you spend a ton of money on a quarterback, you 125 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: spend a lot of money on a secondary wide receiver. 126 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: You spend a ton of money even for a one 127 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: year deal on on your best pass rusher. Something's got 128 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: to give, and there's things that you can go cheap on. 129 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: You could even use the home building analogy. Right, you're 130 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: on a budget. You know you're going to go over 131 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: that budget, but how much you're gonna go over that budget? 132 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: You know? With flooring, Like there's a floor that I 133 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,679 Speaker 1: put into a couple of different houses and it's man made, 134 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,559 Speaker 1: like man made wood, Like how's it man made? Would 135 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how it works, but 136 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: I know that generally you go back fifteen years ago 137 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: and I never would have either bought a house or 138 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: in a house put in anything other than traditional hardwood floors. 139 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: But one kind of like the field too, like how 140 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: it how much it costs, and I like how it looks. 141 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: But when am I giving up? I'm giving up saying 142 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: these are hard real hardwood floors. Something's got to give. 143 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: You get a budget on you're redoing your kitchen, you know, 144 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: do you use courts for countertops? Do you use marble 145 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: for contrabs? Marble is great, it's really expensive and make 146 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: that much difference in the courts because if you do, 147 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: then all right, what is something's got to give? Right? 148 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: How big is the hood on the on the at 149 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: the stove and what level of appliance you use? You 150 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: only have a set budget, and that's where the Bengals are. 151 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,439 Speaker 1: Bengals forever been told that they're cheap, and maybe they 152 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: have been on some ancillary things, but they've paid their players, 153 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,839 Speaker 1: especially their star players, to stay. They like to keep 154 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: their own But in terms of building an offensive line 155 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: and building a system that protects their most prized asset, 156 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,599 Speaker 1: it seems like they failed. But there's also some accountability 157 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: there for Joe Burrow. And my guess is that the 158 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: reason that there's a shortfall there is because they spent 159 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: money not just on elite wide receiver, but the secondary 160 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: wide receiver and something's got to give. Dan, what do 161 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: you think? 162 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 2: Gosh, it's such an interesting situation because I think a 163 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 2: lot of what you said is true, and I think 164 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 2: that there's some faults that you laid out correctly on 165 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 2: Joe Burrow of maybe holding the football a little too long. 166 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 2: I think Doug that everything that we would say about 167 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 2: Joe Burrow is what we would say about the Bengals 168 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: front office. It's what we say about Zach Taylor. The 169 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 2: team has tried to address their offensive line, used a 170 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 2: first round pick on a tackle in twenty twenty four. 171 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, they signed to Orlando Brown. 172 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 2: He was one of the top free agents at that point, 173 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 2: Brown manning the left tackle spot, so it's not like 174 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 2: they were completely negligent about it. However, for some reason, 175 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 2: the players aren't developing. They're in here. Your line continues 176 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 2: to be weak. Zach Taylor continues to be criticized. No 177 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 2: matter how good the offense is, it's still about protecting Burrow, 178 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 2: doing things that could maybe make the defense react in 179 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 2: a certain way that could allow him time. There's blame 180 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 2: to go all around, but I think at the surface, 181 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 2: when you just invest the amount of money, specifically with 182 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 2: t Higgins because he had thought to be on the 183 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: move for so long, there's just no way to get 184 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 2: out from under it. And it's also why your team 185 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 2: has to score thirty eight points a game because you 186 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: don't even have the resources to build a solid defense, 187 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 2: let alone an offensive line to protect Joe Burrow. So 188 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 2: it is. It is a the Bengals made the move 189 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 2: that we all thought, I think were the easiest move, 190 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 2: and sometimes those easiest moves aren't the right moves. 191 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: That's totally fair. And then you get to the whole 192 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: discussion about how how the NFL protects quarterbacks. You know, 193 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: we will do this every year, and I'm sure it'll 194 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: happen this year. I don't recall it happening yet where 195 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: there's a really really soft personal foul call for roughing 196 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: the passer and you know everyone that's not football. He 197 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: not even hurt. Okay, but I don't think in the moment, 198 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 1: we're considering how big a drop off it is, how 199 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: big a buzz kill it is when you lose these 200 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks. It's like, do you want guys to be 201 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 1: called for these little penalties? And you know it's real 202 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: when they slide, you gotta let up and you can't 203 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: hit him in the head with your hand, even when 204 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: you're trying to deflect the football and your hand naturally 205 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: comes down. I get it, But the flip side to 206 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: it is flip side to it is when those guys 207 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: do get hit in the head and get concussed, it 208 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: becomes a house of cards. Very few teams can afford 209 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. The backup quarterback generally hurts the quality 210 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: of play, the watchability of a game. And yeah, we're 211 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: all kind of beholden to these starting quarterbacks. Teams are 212 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: as well, and that's why the game is probably overficiated 213 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: as such. 214 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 2: You know, Doug in their Super Bowl run. We look 215 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 2: at Joe Burrow and the contract that that he was on, 216 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: and Jamar Chase Ye in the rookie deal that he 217 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 2: was on, and the same thing with t Higgins. You 218 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 2: also had a secondary there was thought to be one 219 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 2: of the best, if not the best, in the NFL 220 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 2: at that time, and nobody's left. Everybody is gone for 221 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 2: one reason or another. Like you know, Jesse Bates left 222 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 2: the Goat to Atlanta, got paid there. But this is 223 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 2: the that's the trickle down effect of these contracts as well. 224 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 2: It's the same thing as a Seahawks fan that you 225 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 2: had to make a decision on and I thought John 226 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 2: Schneider did a great job in getting guys on lesser 227 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 2: deals than others, but there are decisions that you have 228 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 2: to make and sometimes it just kind of starts to 229 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 2: trickle down. And I think that's what we're seeing here 230 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: with the Bengals. Like their secondary in that Super Bowl 231 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 2: year was magnificent. They had a lot of pieces on defense. 232 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 2: Now most of those pieces are gone, let alone the 233 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 2: problems with the offensive line protecting Joe Burrow, which has 234 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 2: been an issue throughout his career. 235 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 3: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug 236 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 3: Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on 237 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 238 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: I want to talk about this quote and have a 239 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: true discussion about it. Tua and the Dolphins obviously struggling, 240 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: they take on the Buffalo Bills. Now again, they've played 241 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: Buffalo at various times of the year. If there's a 242 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: time of year where he can be successful in Orchard Park, 243 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: this is the time. By the way, He's going to 244 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: have the pressure of playing in front of Dan Byer 245 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: and Jason Stewart, Right, that's a lot of pressure for 246 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: a young. 247 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 2: Que big time pressure. Yes, a lot of. 248 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: Pressure are thanks by the way to the Buffalo Bills. 249 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 1: They listened to the show. They came through with the 250 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: tickets for the guys. I believe that Jason Stewart has 251 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: committed to jumping off of a chair or a platform 252 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: onto one of those tables for Bill's Mafia. Jason, can 253 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: you confirm or deny? 254 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 2: I can neither confirm nor deny. Okay, depends on the 255 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 2: how much beer I drink? 256 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: Is beer is excessive amounts of beer, copious amounts of 257 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: beer in the pregame, in the pregame itinerary Dan bar 258 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: because I know Dan Bier is a big itinerary guy. 259 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 2: Well, here's the good thing. I can drive, and since 260 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 2: I don't drink, Jason has carte blanche to do what 261 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: he needs to do so we can get there. We 262 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 2: land tomorrow at like eleven am local time, so maybe 263 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 2: we'll get a good nap in quick before the game. 264 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: You guys doing Red Eye? Yes, red Eye to where Chicago? 265 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, Chicago to then Buffalo, so we will. We will 266 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 2: get a little pregame nap. Game doesn't kick off till 267 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 2: eight fifteen Eastern, so that gives us a little time. 268 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 2: So we'll have plenty of time. But I can be 269 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 2: the d D designated driver if Jason wants to go 270 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 2: all out on Thursday night. 271 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: You know the thing you've and I've only been to 272 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: Buffalo once in my life is during the NCAA tournament. 273 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: Probably we won both NCAA Tournament games there, and so 274 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: we proceeded to drink Canadian beer. And you know what's interesting, 275 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: there's a reason that nobody goes like when you go 276 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: to I get a beer, like, hey, do you have 277 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: anything Canadian? They just don't. Canadian whiskey, baby, Canadian beer, 278 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: not so much Mexican beer. Yes, Canadian beer, yeah no, 279 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: yeah no. 280 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 2: And I'm only doing carry on, So I don't know 281 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 2: how much I could bring back on Buffalo or Canadian things. 282 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's up. Let's do this. Let me bring 283 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: in Daniel Jeremiah NFL analysts. Of course, he's the color 284 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: voice color analyst for the LA Chargers radio network. To 285 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: see him on the NFL network as well. DJ, I'm 286 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: gonna play something for you. This is too a tongue 287 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: of Bayelo. I believe it was earlier today and he 288 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: said this about comparing himself to Josh Allen. 289 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 4: Dude, he's he's top tier, you know, if it's not 290 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 4: with his arm it's with his legs. You know, that 291 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 4: dude can do nearly anything he wants, So definitely different 292 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 4: skill set for me. I can't do half of what 293 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 4: he does when it comes to running the ball and 294 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 4: any of that. And then with how he can just 295 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 4: chuck a ball down the field, you know, with how 296 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 4: far and the arm strength that he has, you know, 297 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 4: he's supreme when it comes to that. 298 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: Okay, so these are all compliments to Josh Allen. But 299 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: what what you will have is people saying, oh, you 300 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: can't run like him, you can't throw like him. How 301 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: can we possibly consider you a you know, an elite 302 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: level or even top level reasonable quarterback if you can't 303 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: do half of the things that he can do. What 304 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: did you hear when you when you heard that from Tua. 305 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 5: No, Look, there's the stuff about to it that you 306 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,439 Speaker 5: can criticize in terms of, you know, some of the decisions, 307 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 5: or you talk about cold weather, or you can talk 308 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 5: about some of the physical limitations. But like I think 309 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 5: we would all agree too, has always been a first 310 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 5: class kid and now a man. I think he's just 311 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 5: saying nice things about a guy in his division and 312 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 5: acknowledging how gifted and how talented he is, but I 313 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 5: don't think that's you know, he's also humble where he's 314 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 5: not gonna say what his strength is and his his 315 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 5: style of play and his strength is all in processing 316 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 5: and and you know, accuracy and quick decision making when 317 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 5: he's when he's going well, which he hasn't been. When 318 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 5: he's he when he is going really well, that's his strength. 319 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 5: And we've seen numerous times, you know, over the years 320 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 5: where guys who had that strength you go back to, 321 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 5: you know, like Joe Montana's that was his strength, Drew Brees, 322 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 5: that was his strength, and New of those guys were 323 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 5: the most athletic of their era or the biggest or 324 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 5: the strongest of their era, but their you know, their 325 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 5: brand of football could work. So now two is a 326 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 5: much much lower version of that. But I wouldn't read 327 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 5: too much into that. I think he's just a classy 328 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 5: dude who's trying to say some really nice things about 329 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 5: Josh Allen Well. 330 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: Stut Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, now 331 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 1: we have two weeks of tape. How fixable are the 332 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: Dolphins problems? 333 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I don't know. To me, it's it's 334 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 5: not even just you know, what is it in terms 335 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,640 Speaker 5: of player you know, the personnel that you're rolling out 336 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 5: there and those things. It's almost just watching it from 337 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 5: an energy standpoint and a body language standpoint and all 338 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 5: those things, it just isn't. It isn't a great vibe 339 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 5: watching that group right now. So I don't know how 340 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 5: that gets turned around or how that changes. And I 341 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 5: think that's probably where you see some criticism, you know, 342 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 5: coming towards the head coach from that. From that standpoint, 343 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 5: but their offensive line from a physical standpoint is not good. 344 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 5: I don't really think they can run the football like 345 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 5: you need to run the ball to be balanced. I 346 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 5: think in the passing game they still do some good things, 347 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 5: but my biggest takeaways are just the energy, the body language, 348 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 5: the lack of physicality, the struggling offensive line like those 349 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 5: are those are definitely worrisome. 350 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it does not feel like a well, 351 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: it feels like the ship is taking on a lot 352 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: of water and it's at some point we're going to 353 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: declare it's sunk. Right, it just does. 354 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, it's not the team you want to be 355 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 5: playing when you're zero and two, and it's not where 356 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:46,880 Speaker 5: you want to be playing them either. 357 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: Nope, nope, let's get to the Chargers one a Monday night. 358 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: Khalil Mack looks like a dislocated elbow. I don't know 359 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: what the other damage is. First, when you see this 360 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: Charger to win both of those games, both away from home, 361 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: you know you've seen them for years. Why is this 362 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: team different? 363 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 5: Well, I think they're building off what they were last year, 364 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 5: and you know, let's start first of all, I mean, 365 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 5: the news that just came out on Khalil was, you know, 366 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 5: he's going to go on the short term. I r 367 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 5: so four weeks, but thankfully the season's not over. It's 368 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 5: you know, dislocated elbow. He can brace it up and play. 369 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 5: So you know that was big news, not losing him 370 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 5: for the season because it did not look good live 371 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 5: when it happened. But you know, why is this team different? 372 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 5: I think when you're you know, the foundation was last year, 373 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 5: which was a really good foundation. And let's start defensively. 374 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 5: This team was the number one defense in the NFL 375 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 5: and yards allowed last year, So you come back, they've 376 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 5: gotten some some more personnel to throw into that mix, 377 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 5: with some the defensive line depth with a lot of 378 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 5: size now you can build off of the uh, you know, 379 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 5: off the the baseline that you had last year with 380 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 5: some really really smart players in the back end like 381 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 5: Derwin James and tar Heeb still Lowie Gilman's really really 382 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 5: you know, Elijah Moulden's out right now, but he's another 383 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 5: incredibly intelligent guy. So you've got a stud defensive coordinator. 384 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 5: Enjoy him while you got him, because I can't imagine 385 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 5: Jesse Minner isn't a head coach this time next year. 386 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 5: But you've got that foundation now you're building on that. 387 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 5: You've got incredibly smart team. They're not going to beat themselves. 388 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 5: They're going to make you methodically drive the ball. And 389 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 5: you know, you've seen it already with two good quarterbacks 390 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 5: who get frustrated trying to play that way against them. 391 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 5: And you know, so defensively they're in a great spot 392 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 5: with a lot more depth than they had last year. 393 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 5: And then offensively, you know, you get more weapons for 394 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 5: Justin with Keenan Allen coming in there, Conklin's and upgrade 395 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 5: at the tight end position. You've got two backs who 396 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 5: I would argue were better than what they had last year, 397 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 5: and and bring a physicality to it. Joe Waltz just 398 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 5: taken the left tackle and it's hard for me to 399 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 5: see a better left tackle in the NFL right now 400 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 5: than the way he's playing. So yeah, there's a lot 401 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 5: of things going right. But I think it's a very 402 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 5: smart discipline team. And the smart thing is what I'd 403 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 5: love to get your thoughts on, because I was talking 404 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 5: to one of the coaches before the game and I said, yeah, 405 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,719 Speaker 5: I take a chance to visit with all these players, 406 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 5: and I've done this for eight years with this team. 407 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 5: I said, this is the smartest collection of players. That's 408 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 5: going to mean something. 409 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: I think it absolutely does mean something, you know, I 410 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: you know, we have some guys that are a little 411 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: bit slower learners or whatever. And you know, smart does win. 412 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: It's easier to coach, it's easier to retain, you know. 413 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: It's just all things are easier. And sometimes they're too smart, 414 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: too smart for their own good. But and they're questioning 415 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: everything you do. But yeah, I smart, smart definitely wins 416 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: in sports, Chiefs Chiefs now they don't have their top 417 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: two wide receivers, right, but Kelsey dropping that ball around 418 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: the end zone, it it felt like kind of looked 419 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: old on that play. It just did. But when they 420 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: get Rice back, when they get Worthy back, how good 421 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: is this team? 422 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 5: What does the team look like that I think they're 423 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 5: dangerous once they get those guys back. And one of 424 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 5: the reasons I'll say that is I do think the 425 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 5: left side of their offensive line with Josh Simmons, I 426 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 5: already think he's a really good player in his rookie year, 427 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 5: and I think he's only going to get better as 428 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,919 Speaker 5: he plays more and gets more comfortable. Sue Mattia playing 429 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 5: next to him is you know, he's bad at tackle, 430 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 5: but he's been better inside at guard, and I think 431 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 5: you'll see that left side get better as the year 432 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 5: goes along. I think eventually they're going to come to 433 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 5: the realization that, you know, Joan Taylor is not good 434 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 5: enough at right tackle and they're going to have to 435 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 5: get him out of there. But adding those receivers to 436 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 5: the mix will make a big, big difference. You know. 437 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 5: I think this division is very vulnerable and and could 438 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 5: slip out of their drafts for the first time in forever. 439 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 5: But it could be one of those things where this 440 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 5: is a team that you know, they just need to 441 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 5: get into the tournament and have all their guys available. 442 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 5: If they do that, if they make the move that 443 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 5: I think is necessary at right tackle. I think the 444 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 5: defense is very well coached. They've got good pieces there. 445 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 5: It's just going to be as dangerous a team as 446 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 5: anybody if they get into the tournament. I know it 447 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,439 Speaker 5: sounds it's a seventeen game season. We're only two games in, 448 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 5: and I'm talking like they don't they aren't going to 449 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 5: win the division, but I think when you've been where 450 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 5: they've been, they're just worried about trying to get at 451 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 5: Lombardi and they need to get into the tournament. And 452 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 5: if they're healthy and get into the tournament, that's still 453 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 5: a very very dangerous team. 454 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: No question about it. Okay, you've seen the Raiders up 455 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: close calling the game this week. I just end of 456 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 1: the day. I think sometimes we fall in love with 457 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: the Geno story, right because he was so maligned, especially 458 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: the early years in New York. He's had this resurgence, 459 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: but just he's not in the league quarterback. He's never 460 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 1: been in the league quarterback, and yet we act like 461 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: because he's been doing it so long, he should be 462 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,199 Speaker 1: better than he is. I thought the turnovers were just 463 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: a sign of that's you know, Smith's just okay. 464 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's you know, I think there's a 465 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 5: book that's out there now and you just you know, 466 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 5: not everybody reads it, I guess, but the you know, 467 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 5: if you want to blitz Gino, Gino is incredibly smart, 468 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 5: and Gino is a very gifted thrower. So what happens 469 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 5: when you send extra guys to go get him is 470 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 5: you clear up the picture on the back end, and 471 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 5: he's going to find your vulnerability and he's going to 472 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 5: be able to process it quickly and he's going to 473 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 5: be able to cut you up. And that's what he 474 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 5: did against the Patriots the week before. The Patriots tried 475 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 5: to blitz him, and he destroyed him on the blitz. 476 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 5: The Chargers didn't do that. The Chargers were creative with 477 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 5: some of their four man pressures where they have some 478 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 5: sim pressure where they're dropping guys out and maybe bring 479 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 5: Derwin from depth or maybe bring someone off the nickel. 480 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 5: But they made him have to throw the ball through 481 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 5: the forest, you know, with a lot of bodies back there. 482 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 5: He nicked quite a few branches. There were fifteen path 483 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 5: breakups in that game. So to me, that's kind of 484 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 5: the book on him and how you play him. But 485 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 5: you know, inevitably some coaches, Hey, we're an aggressive team. 486 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 5: We're at blitzing team. This is what we do. Well, 487 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 5: good luck, that's not the it's not the formula against Gino. 488 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: The Bengals, well, we talked about this to start the show. 489 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: They have. It's not for lack of trying, right, They've 490 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: they've invested resources like draft picks in lineman. But now 491 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: in this offseason they put so much of their resources 492 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: into their skill positions. How much of this is Joe 493 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: Burrow holding the ball too long? How much of this 494 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: is the scheme that leaves him unprotected, and how much 495 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: of it is hey, they didn't do enough in terms 496 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: of giving the offense the resources to protect him. 497 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,679 Speaker 5: Yeah. I would probably start first of all with just 498 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 5: the ye. I mean we could say they've they've they've 499 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 5: put resources there, they've taken some guys high in the draft, 500 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 5: and some of them haven't necessarily panned out. I think 501 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 5: you just have to keep doubling down and going back 502 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 5: until you get that right, and that needs to be 503 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 5: your focus. So I think that's a that's a big 504 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 5: part of the problem. You know, Joe holding the ball. 505 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 5: You know, I see some of that, But me, I 506 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 5: would put it more on the personnel that's in front 507 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,719 Speaker 5: of him and just how they chose to invest their dollars. 508 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 5: I get what they were doing in the offseason because 509 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,239 Speaker 5: the defense was historically bad last year. You lose all 510 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 5: these games where you're scoring over thirty points, it stands 511 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 5: to reason that, hey, we need to we need to 512 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 5: take some guys on the defensive side of the ball. 513 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 5: But man, it's to me, I'd just much rather err 514 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 5: on the side of having way too many offensive lineman, 515 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 5: way too many good offensive lineman and trying to plug 516 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 5: some holes on the other side than to put him 517 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 5: in jeopardy. And he's proven that he's he's not super durable, 518 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,719 Speaker 5: so even all the more reason to double down and 519 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 5: invest even more on that issue. 520 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: Stut Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, let's now, 521 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: what do we do with Russell Wilson where he plays 522 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: unbelievably well but did have a leg turn up. 523 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I didn't know that was still in him, 524 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 5: to be honest, And I don't know what that says 525 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 5: about Russ or what that says about the Cowboys. Guys 526 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 5: we'll find out as we go through a few more weeks, 527 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 5: but I think that's you know, for whatever his limitations 528 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 5: have been over the last few years, that's still a 529 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 5: guy who's had a lot of success in this league, 530 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 5: who has a lot of pride, and I think you 531 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 5: absolutely saw his best. So I'm not as optimistic that 532 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 5: that's who he is now and you're going to see 533 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 5: a lot more of that going forward. But at least 534 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 5: he bought himself a little more time here with Jackson 535 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 5: Dart kind of inpenditive his heels. So I'm hopeful for 536 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 5: him and for their team that there's more of that. 537 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 5: I'm just you know, I wouldn't say that I'm confident 538 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 5: we're going to see that. And if you carry that 539 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 5: over to Pittsburgh. You know, we saw Aaron Aaron have 540 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 5: a great week one and it was like he's you know, oh, 541 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 5: it's all there. It's just gonna expect that each and 542 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 5: every week, and then you fast forward a week and 543 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 5: it doesn't quite look the same. So we'll see what 544 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 5: happens with some of these older quarterbacks. 545 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: Update me on Kayla Williams, what's going wrong there? 546 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 5: Well, actually, you know, and I know a lot of 547 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 5: people have said this this week, but I went back 548 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,959 Speaker 5: and went through it again today, just as I wanted to, 549 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 5: you know, just watch it one more time and see 550 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 5: what I'm seeing. I thought for the first first half, 551 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 5: it wasn't just that first drive. The first half of 552 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 5: that game, there was a lot of really good there 553 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 5: where he was playing within the pocket, he was connecting 554 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 5: his feet and his eyes, he was throwing the ball accurately. 555 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 5: There was a lot of good for a decent sample 556 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 5: size there. And then, uh, in the second half, it 557 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 5: just kind of started to get away from him a 558 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 5: little bit, you know where you know, he saw some 559 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 5: kit balls where he couldn't find a throwing lane. You know, 560 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 5: that was that was concerning. He had a couple other 561 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 5: times where there's guys around his feet now keeping them 562 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 5: and they're they're tackle stinkd ug. I mean that's their 563 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 5: offensive tackles are terrible. So he got hit and then 564 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 5: once he got hit, had a lot of bodies around 565 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 5: his feet. Then you started seeing the disconnect between his 566 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 5: eyes and his feet, and the accuracy took took off 567 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 5: on him. But I do get some optimism from that, knowing, 568 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 5: you know, what he looked like for half of that 569 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 5: game and maybe a little bit into that third quarter, 570 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 5: and he didn't his first impulse wasn't just to take off. 571 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 5: He didn't just drop his eyes and look to get 572 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 5: the heck out of there, which he did numerous times 573 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 5: the first week. So yeah, I will say progress, progress made. 574 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 5: You know, still overall not not where it needs to be, 575 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 5: but you know, we'll see if it continues trending in 576 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 5: the right direction. 577 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: He's Daniel Jeremiah. You can catch DJ on the Move 578 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: the Sticks podcast. That's the best. Of course, you hear 579 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: him called Chargers Games and you see him on the 580 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 1: NFL Network. DJ thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate 581 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: you being our guest. 582 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 5: Thanks Doug. 583 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 3: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug 584 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 3: Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific. 585 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: It's the Doug Gottlieb Show. 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Let's get to a game with Dan Buyer. 594 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 3: This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show. 595 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 2: All right, Doug, the game today. 596 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 3: Is for better or worse? 597 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: For better or worse? 598 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 2: For better or worse? Backup quarterback Tarrod Taylor or Marcus Mariota. 599 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 2: We're gonna see Taylor this week, and there seems to 600 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 2: be a pretty good chance we're gonna see Mariota as well. 601 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 2: For better or worse? Backup quarterback to Rod Taylor or 602 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 2: Marcus Mariota. 603 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: Okay, I know this is gonna annoy Jason Stewart. Okay, 604 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: Jason's probably gonna put me on Tomorrow's You're annoying on 605 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: the in the Bonus Podcast, But I'm gonna say Tarrod Taylor. 606 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: But I'm a context wi it. Okay, Okay, if I 607 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 1: have a whole season, i'd probably hear rather have Mariota. 608 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: But in a short hey, I'm just filling in Toarrod Taylor. 609 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: Remember Torod Taylor was the one who's the starting quarterback 610 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 1: of the Bills when they broke their I think it 611 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: was thirteen season street playoff drought streak. And yes, he 612 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: was the quarterback who got what the injection in his 613 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: lung or something. Yes, that kept him out of the 614 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: opening game, and suddenly Justin Herbert took his spot, which 615 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: was inevitability. But he is the consummate backup, unbelievable guy. 616 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: He's mobile, he's tough, he can win. What happens is 617 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: after a couple of weeks, everybody's got the book on him. 618 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: He kind of tops out. But in a short one game, 619 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: two games starting, I'd take Torod Taylor over at Marcus Mariota. 620 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 2: I will also say this that against the Buccaneers on 621 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 2: a short week, things are advantageous for the Jets in 622 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 2: this scenario. I don't think that it's necessarily an awful 623 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 2: thing that Trod Taylor gets this start and this one off. 624 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: I agree. 625 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 2: We shall see for better or worse, Doug Monday night 626 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 2: football double header schedule. We're gonna get a staggered start 627 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 2: in Week four. Jets Dolphins will play at seven to 628 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 2: fifteen Eastern. Then it's the Bengals and Broncos from Denver 629 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 2: an hour later, at eight to fifteen. That's the staggered 630 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 2: start or the true Monday night doubleheader that we had 631 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 2: this past weekend with one game right after the other. 632 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 2: What's better or worse? 633 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: Umm? I think that the two games are better. The 634 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: two games are better. The only thing about this one 635 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: is that do I really want to watch the whole 636 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: Jets Dolphins game? Like that? Does not feel now? Back 637 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: when we were kids, right, for whatever reason, Jets Dolphins 638 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: was always a shootout? Do you guys remember what was it? 639 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: Ken O'Brien was that who the quarterback was? 640 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 2: I remember Richard Todd? Yes, Jets quarterbacks? Yes, right? 641 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, like my my brain always remembers 642 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: those games being shootouts between the two teams. I could 643 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: be wrong, that's my That's what my memory is. 644 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 2: The fake game for Dan Marine, I was against those Jets, yes. 645 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: But the two games back to back is great. It was. 646 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: It was good and and part of why it was 647 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: really good was the Houston Buccaneers game was not a 648 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: particularly entertaining game until the fourth quarter, right where all 649 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 1: of a sudden, Houston seemed to have in the bag 650 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 1: and then no excuse me, the Buccaneers seemed to have 651 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 1: the bag. Then Houston takes the lead and then Baker 652 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,800 Speaker 1: Mayfield leads him down the it leads him down the 653 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 1: field and they score and they win. You know, and 654 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 1: there was six seconds left. So I didn't really understand 655 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 1: the going for two thing. But whatever point being uh, 656 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 1: if that those games were staggered, you would have lost 657 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 1: a good portion of the audience who would have flipped 658 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: over to the next game, whereas the two games it worked. 659 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: And really what's important is that fourth quarter of the 660 00:34:58,520 --> 00:34:59,240 Speaker 1: first game. 661 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 2: All right, for better or worse, we're talking about the 662 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,959 Speaker 2: Alabama Crimson tie. I don't know how Keith Joshell would 663 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 2: say it, but that's how I say pre Saban versus 664 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,600 Speaker 2: post Saban, pre Saban versus post a Saban. 665 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,360 Speaker 1: Post seven Okay, post Saban. I visited Alabama. Dave Hopps 666 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: was the coach, and I think Mike Shula was that 667 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 1: was the coach then. But they tried everything right. Dennis 668 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: Franconi was there, I mean, he had won everything until 669 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 1: he got to Alabama. He left Alabama for a and 670 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: m Either worked. But post Saban, like again, I don't 671 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,799 Speaker 1: think they're great in terms of like not one of 672 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,280 Speaker 1: the top two teams I think they'll be in the playoff. 673 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: I think they're still really good. 674 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,320 Speaker 2: All right. For better or worse? Eighty degree day April 675 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 2: versus September. 676 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: April April better, April better, And I'll tell you why, 677 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: because you've been just beaten up by winter. Now we're 678 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,800 Speaker 1: talking about in the Midwest, right, Yeah, about Los Angeles. Yeah, 679 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think people understand what that's like. 680 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 1: When it's cold into April and you're just like, is 681 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,720 Speaker 1: spring ever gonna get here? And then you get eighty 682 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're like, hey, you know, 683 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 1: summer is not that far away. Whereas when it's hot 684 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 1: like it is today in September, you're still like the 685 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,759 Speaker 1: second it's cold, you're like, oh boy, I know it's coming. 686 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 2: Final one, Doug for better or worse? Body of water 687 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,000 Speaker 2: lake versus ocean? 688 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: You know lake. 689 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:28,359 Speaker 2: Lake? 690 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,759 Speaker 1: This, Yes, I live on a lake, but also like 691 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: an ocean looks better. And unless you're a surfer, what 692 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:42,080 Speaker 1: else is there? What else is there? Oh? Lake gives 693 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: you fro We'll talk about this. That's the game time. 694 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 3: This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show. 695 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 1: Stug Gottleeb Show. Here on Fox Sports Radio. We'll get 696 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 1: the midway talk. Some dabbos swingey in the midway next 697 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,840 Speaker 1: to Doug Gotlieb Show, Fox Sports It Now, whoa Nelly