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Speaker 1: We'll look at the scenario here with the Lakers practicing,
Speaker 1: are they violating NBA rules? Will the commissioners say something here?
Speaker 1: Bigger issue is the number of positive tests in the
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Speaker 1: I said morale is high. I was lying sports morale
Speaker 1: is not high. And pre show meeting had to do
Speaker 1: with the coronavirus and what's happening with golf, what's happening
Speaker 1: with the NBA baseball rules? Football with the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame game is canceled, and here we are. I keep
Speaker 1: thinking we've made progress, and then every time you get ready.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's two steps forward, two steps back.
Speaker 1: But here we are getting closer to these dates, these
Speaker 1: mandated dates, and then we're waiting to see these games
Speaker 1: to actually happen, and these players showing up at training
Speaker 1: camp working out, and we're getting closer and closer and closer.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you were surprised about the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game being canceled. I was not. I've
Speaker 1: been saying the last two weeks. I just don't see
Speaker 1: them playing that game. But what happens a week later
Speaker 1: when you have ten preseason games? Are they going to
Speaker 1: be canceled? What's happening with baseball, college football, the NFL, NBA,
Speaker 1: It's all still fluid. In a state of flux. Eight
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Speaker 1: We have been reminded a couple of times this week
Speaker 1: about the return of sports and how it will not
Speaker 1: be easy. And yesterday the PGA Tour got hit. Five
Speaker 1: golfers dropped out of the Travelers Championship because they tested
Speaker 1: positive for the virus or somebody close to them did,
Speaker 1: including Brooks Keepka, who's caddie tested positive. And you might say,
Speaker 1: if an outdoor sport like golf with built in social
Speaker 1: distancing can't stay safe, what sport can. But once again,
Speaker 1: it's not time to get ahead of ourselves, either in
Speaker 1: a positive direction or a negative one. This is not
Speaker 1: about what happens when you get on a football field
Speaker 1: or a baseball field or a golf course. It feels
Speaker 1: like what happens when you're off the field, off the court,
Speaker 1: off the course, testing and isolating. PGA's doing the right thing,
Speaker 1: they're going to get even stricter. But no sport is
Speaker 1: immune to this. And it really feels like it's day
Speaker 1: to day and it seems like today what we have
Speaker 1: is true will be false tomorrow or vice versa. And
Speaker 1: as a golf fan, I've enjoyed the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks and I recognize we can't be too sure what's
Speaker 1: going to happen the rest of the season. All we
Speaker 1: can do is hope that what we see in front
Speaker 1: of us is going to continue, that they're able to
Speaker 1: play and keeping safety at a top priority. And this
Speaker 1: takes me back to baseball. Once you get to the
Speaker 1: baseball stadium, then I think you'll be okay. It's everything
Speaker 1: that happens prior to that. You know, are you going
Speaker 1: out social distancing. All it takes is one person, and
Speaker 1: that's what we're seeing with some of these sports, the
Speaker 1: number of players who are testing positive already with the NBA,
Speaker 1: Baseball came out with some new guidelines. By the way,
Speaker 1: I saw this with Bob Nightingale of USA today, when
Speaker 1: the game starts, now everyone can sit in the dugout.
Speaker 1: Players are going to be in the stands. You're seeing
Speaker 1: this in soccer where some of the players you can't
Speaker 1: social distance. There's not room to social distance, so they
Speaker 1: actually sit in the stands. When players walk onto the field,
Speaker 1: you have to stay six feet apart from everyone. That
Speaker 1: means your teammates and coaches and the opposition. You can't
Speaker 1: socialize with the opposition. When the game starts. Not everyone
Speaker 1: can sit in the dugout. No more spitting. Tobacco's forbidden.
Speaker 1: You can chew, but no sunflower seeds. Gum is permitted,
Speaker 1: but you can't spit it out. Hitters don't look for
Speaker 1: a bat boy or back girl to pick up your bat.
Speaker 1: You're on your own. No, I gotta pick up my bat.
Speaker 1: That's too far. I know. Can't start a brawl here either,
Speaker 1: you see, you can't, can't, so I brawl happens? What happens?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think they're all kicked out of
Speaker 1: the spoort forever. I don't know. I'm reading Bob Nightingale.
Speaker 1: He says, if you don't like the Houston Astros still
Speaker 1: carry a grudge against the Red Sox, don't even think
Speaker 1: about starting a brawl a brawl unless you want to
Speaker 1: sit out nearly one third of the season. If you
Speaker 1: hit a home run, you win a game with a
Speaker 1: walk off, or even pitch a no hitter, you've got
Speaker 1: to act like you did nothing more than successfully washing
Speaker 1: your hands. The days of mobbing players at home plate,
Speaker 1: dumping coolers of gatorade, and shoving pies in their face
Speaker 1: are over. Are you allowed to have a collision at
Speaker 1: home plate? How's it you have a polite collision at
Speaker 1: home plate? Did they actually ban that a few years ago? Anyway,
Speaker 1: I seem to recall if I slide into home and
Speaker 1: you're there, and I'm gonna have to tag you. We're
Speaker 1: coming in contact with each other. Remember we had a
Speaker 1: whole month after Buster Posey got hurt where they try
Speaker 1: to outlaw that. Well, no, this isn't a collision as
Speaker 1: much as a bang bang play right, like a home
Speaker 1: you know, at home plate where you have a you know,
Speaker 1: guy sliding in or something. I had a suggestion to
Speaker 1: band stealing bases. That way you don't have guys could
Speaker 1: just stay six feet off the base so they don't
Speaker 1: have to stand next to the first basement and you
Speaker 1: can ignore that part. There's no stolen bases. What do
Speaker 1: you think of that? I don't know anymore. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at that old school footage of the earl
Speaker 1: weavers and just just so, what are you name them
Speaker 1: getting in the face of umpires. It's such a big
Speaker 1: part of baseball, and like will that ever come back?
Speaker 1: A manager losing their mind and getting right and umpires, Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen that much anymore because these grown men
Speaker 1: finally realize they look really stupid out there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: turn my hat backwards, I'm gonna kick dirt on you,
Speaker 1: and then whatever happens after that. Oh, are you firing
Speaker 1: your team up, like Earl Weaver. You'd see him go
Speaker 1: out there and you don't do it. You know when
Speaker 1: Lou Pinella did that, Lou threw a base. We had
Speaker 1: him on the next day and I go, you know
Speaker 1: what goes through your mind? He goes, how embarrassed my
Speaker 1: kids must have been that I was out there. You
Speaker 1: are a grown You're like a fifty or sixty year
Speaker 1: old man, and you're acting like you're you know nine.
Speaker 1: We don't accept it in t ball or literally, and
Speaker 1: we got grown men out there. That's the least of
Speaker 1: our worries. I just worry about these guys not being
Speaker 1: able to spit, Like, oh my gosh, do you think
Speaker 1: that there's rehab right now, Like guys are going into
Speaker 1: spitting rehab where oh I want to spit and no
Speaker 1: you can't. So you can take a dip. You can
Speaker 1: have gum, but you can't spit. You could have sunflower seeds,
Speaker 1: you just have to keep them in said mouth. I
Speaker 1: think I don't think so. Wait, I don't think you
Speaker 1: could have dip. I can't, I was. I always get confused.
Speaker 1: Dip is chewing to I don't think I can take it.
Speaker 1: I can have a little dip. I don't think so
Speaker 1: okay with then I'm not going to play. Yeah, seed,
Speaker 1: I like that the idea that not being able to
Speaker 1: have sunflower seeds while you play baseball is somehow an issue.
Speaker 1: Come on, no sunflower. I can't spit sunflower seeds all
Speaker 1: over the place. Come on, okay, So tobacco is forbidden,
Speaker 1: according to Bob Nightingale, no more spitting. You can chew? Okay?
Speaker 1: What can I chew? What you mean? Chew is like
Speaker 1: chew that's tobacco that you also call it chewoo. You
Speaker 1: have to spit into a cup or onto the ground.
Speaker 1: You don't swallow it. Some people do it. That's if
Speaker 1: you're a hardcore. Unless he means chew gum, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know. These are some of the guidelines that baseball
Speaker 1: players will have to adhere to come up with the
Speaker 1: poll question, play of the day, stat of the day.
Speaker 1: That's why I said morale is not really that high today.
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Speaker 1: what kind of poll question do you have for me today?
Speaker 1: If you'll give me permission, I'll just ignore all this.
Speaker 1: And can I actually ask you about favorites if they
Speaker 1: do play? Because I have a question for our LA audience.
Speaker 1: I saw odds came out for the World Series and
Speaker 1: the NBA, the Lakers and the Dodgers are both the
Speaker 1: favorites in their respective leagues. Right, who are you more
Speaker 1: confident we'll win a title this year? The Lakers are
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I mean, maybe it's obvious, but I think
Speaker 1: baseball is really up for grabs now. Avery Bradley not
Speaker 1: playing for the Lakers. It's a loss. I don't know
Speaker 1: how big a loss, but it's a loss. It's an
Speaker 1: important and I'll talk to Rachel Nichols about that. Avery
Speaker 1: Bradley is not a marquee name, but he's one of
Speaker 1: those guys that seems to what do you want me
Speaker 1: to do this game? And it changes from game to
Speaker 1: game and it gives you twenty five and it's He's
Speaker 1: a quality veteran. I think it's going to be harder
Speaker 1: for a team to win the World Series. If this
Speaker 1: was one hundred and sixty two games, then I would
Speaker 1: look at the Dodgers and Yankees and say, over the
Speaker 1: course of six months, the best team will win. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the best team is going to win
Speaker 1: this year in baseball, because everybody is going to go
Speaker 1: into this season and here where we are in late July,
Speaker 1: and everybody is going to be tied for first to start.
Speaker 1: And you might get some teams that all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they strike gold with a couple of players, new players,
Speaker 1: they get on a hot streak, and that can be
Speaker 1: the difference here. But I think it's harder to win
Speaker 1: a title this year than it will be in any
Speaker 1: other year because I don't know, if you know, the
Speaker 1: course of two months, will the Yankees and Dodgers, or
Speaker 1: the Nationals or whoever else you want to throw in there,
Speaker 1: will they be able to prove that they're that much
Speaker 1: better than everybody else? And I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 1: I think this will be about conditioning, It'll be about
Speaker 1: pitching to start, and the depth of your pitching staff
Speaker 1: could be the difference. That's why you have a lot
Speaker 1: of these sharp guys who think the Tampa Bay Rays
Speaker 1: are the team to be because they have a very
Speaker 1: deep pitching staff. I mean, that's a good team. But
Speaker 1: you know you're playing in the East, and the East
Speaker 1: you know that's going to be difficult as well. So
Speaker 1: trying to handicap that will be I think a lot
Speaker 1: tougher than you think, you know, because it takes a
Speaker 1: little while before those great teams prove that they're great.
Speaker 1: And that's usually with the depth the leadership, ownership going
Speaker 1: out and getting a bat or an arm if they
Speaker 1: need to. You got fifty games and it's a sprint.
Speaker 1: That's why when somebody said to me, hey, what if
Speaker 1: the Indians win the World Series, that's a great Well
Speaker 1: do they celebrate like they won the World Series? Sure? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's not a true World Series. I go, We'll
Speaker 1: ask Indians fans, well, you if I'm a Cleveland Indians
Speaker 1: fan and we win the World Series, I would say,
Speaker 1: let's celebrate. Why not? But you know, this is the
Speaker 1: longest drought I think in baseball of all of the
Speaker 1: teams to win a championship, will you celebrate it? And
Speaker 1: I said, I would, like, you know, the whole year
Speaker 1: has an asterisk by it, So okay, Hey, they won
Speaker 1: the the Corona shortened season with fifteen games. All I
Speaker 1: know is everybody it's an even playing field. It's like
Speaker 1: the Lakers and Bucks. Nobody has a home court advantage.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a championship. It might not be what
Speaker 1: we want, but that's what we get and we we'd
Speaker 1: love to pick and choose. Oh, they want it in
Speaker 1: a strike shortened season. Oh they cheated to win it. Okay,
Speaker 1: put an ass to risk by it. But if I'm
Speaker 1: an Indians fan and you win the title, oh yes,
Speaker 1: I'm celebrating. We started like everybody else did and we
Speaker 1: won the championship. And if you're the Indians, you can't
Speaker 1: be picky. Yes, McLevin. I don't think it's fair to
Speaker 1: when you have the asterisk conversation to compare MLB and
Speaker 1: NBA and NHL because NBA's gonna at seventy three out
Speaker 1: of eighty two games. Oh, I don't want to. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I kept saying I'm railing against those people want to
Speaker 1: put an asterisk by this, but I want to put
Speaker 1: it by MLB though I think they're two completely different things.
Speaker 1: If you want yeah baseball, Yeah, if you want to
Speaker 1: do that, where we'll just say, yeah, we know, but basketball, no,
Speaker 1: I mean, whoever wins the title wins the title. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, will say, well, they didn't have home court advantage.
Speaker 1: Everybody got there, everybody was playing on the same floor, level,
Speaker 1: playing field. You won. You know, it'll be tougher to
Speaker 1: do it. I mean, I think we look at this
Speaker 1: and say, oh, well, it's not really a season. The
Speaker 1: Lakers win or the Bucks win. You've earned it. You
Speaker 1: had this shutdown. You got to get back, you got
Speaker 1: to go all through all the testing and then go
Speaker 1: out there and win a championship. Instead of we get
Speaker 1: to play all of these games at home. We get
Speaker 1: to be at home, We got our fans. That's the
Speaker 1: true advantage. This is a disadvantage for all of these teams.
Speaker 1: Now you can look at an advantage for some of
Speaker 1: these teams that may be in a short window, like
Speaker 1: the Rockets could be really dangerous here. There could be
Speaker 1: a couple of teams like that. But if the Clippers win,
Speaker 1: good for them. That's a championship. Bucks win championship, Sixers
Speaker 1: win championship. Baseball's different. But if I had a team
Speaker 1: that won the World Series this year, I was listening
Speaker 1: to New York Sports radio yesterday, I told you they
Speaker 1: don't have a life, and they were talking about the Yankees.
Speaker 1: If would you really celebrate another Yankee World Series? All right?
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have won more than anybody, and
Speaker 1: I guess I would celebrate because it's better than not.
Speaker 1: You imagine if you say, if we win, I don't
Speaker 1: think we're going to celebrate, Well, what happens when you lose?
Speaker 1: Still gonna hurt? Right, Well, you're not celebrating with champagne
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. That's for sure not allowed to
Speaker 1: you're not dumping it all over. Well, you can do
Speaker 1: it yourself. Well, actually, now the way they do it,
Speaker 1: they're wearing so much gear that you might as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Yankees winning it's like remember when Notre Dame wouldn't
Speaker 1: go to a bowl game because there Notre Dame and
Speaker 1: we're not going to a crappy ball game. This is
Speaker 1: the crappy bowl game of Yankees World Series titles because
Speaker 1: they have such history. This is like, hey, they haven't
Speaker 1: won a long time. Mclovin saying, they take a taking
Speaker 1: a Belk Bowl right now. I would Belk a bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would if I'm a Yankee fan. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know what they how they think, because they might say, well,
Speaker 1: we're a Yankee fan, is we win a true championship?
Speaker 1: We're true champions I would take it. Yeah, absolutely, the
Speaker 1: World Series. We went through all of this just like
Speaker 1: everybody else did. Hell, yes, we're celebrating socially responsible. Yes, Polly,
Speaker 1: the Yankees have have been in one World Series in
Speaker 1: the past sixteen years. They've appeared in one out of
Speaker 1: the past sixteen that that's horrible for them. That's a
Speaker 1: horrible run. They've won one World Series and they've appeared
Speaker 1: in a total of one in the past sixteen years. Yes,
Speaker 1: they one dap ride was on steroids billies. Wait, that's
Speaker 1: that's a whoa? Come on, whoa? Yes, Pa, I was
Speaker 1: watching a basketball show yesterday. They were talking about is
Speaker 1: this an advantage for Lebron James at his age to
Speaker 1: get a whole bunch of rest and get the reset
Speaker 1: and get himself totally ready for this shorter run. But
Speaker 1: I was thinking, if you're a guy like Lebron James,
Speaker 1: and you could pick I take that rest I just
Speaker 1: got and that reset and conditioning, or have home court
Speaker 1: advantage because he did lose home court advantage and the
Speaker 1: Lakers lost home court advantage, which is huge in the NBA. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you could have, if you were Lebron, would you
Speaker 1: rather have what you have now? Neutral site, complete rest,
Speaker 1: which everybody got, No, he'd rather be at home? Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because now this is so foreign to everybody and what
Speaker 1: you have to do when you go to Orlando and
Speaker 1: what happens if one of you So he's already lost
Speaker 1: Avery Bradley, what if another player test positive and asked
Speaker 1: to sit down for two weeks? So there's so much
Speaker 1: more chance, luck, risk involved in this. If they were
Speaker 1: able to play at home, you know, have the home
Speaker 1: court advantage, then I think it would be a huge
Speaker 1: advantage for Lebron James. It's just who's coming back in
Speaker 1: shape and who's coming back healthy and by that I
Speaker 1: mean healthy in a variety of ways. It just there's
Speaker 1: a there's a lot going on, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of chance, a lot of risk involved in this.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break. Chris Simms from NBC Sports, I've
Speaker 1: been keeping an eye on his quarterback rankings. He's had
Speaker 1: this countdown. I think he's down to de Shaun Watson
Speaker 1: at number four. Does that sound about right? McLevin. I
Speaker 1: think he did number three. You guys can correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, And he definitely had the Shawn at four.
Speaker 1: But I think three is just came out or is
Speaker 1: coming out and causing some controversy. Oh, so we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that. Also, the Hall of Fame game has been canceled.
Speaker 1: Now I'll get his thoughts on does he think they're
Speaker 1: going to be able to pull this off on time?
Speaker 1: I want to be optimistic, but I've been pessimistic about
Speaker 1: the NFL starting on time. I've been pessimistic about go
Speaker 1: back to the NBA. I didn't think they were going
Speaker 1: to have a season, and hopefully they will. I've been
Speaker 1: pessimistic about college football starting on time. But I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to be realistic with everything they're going to have
Speaker 1: to go through, and it's so much to go through
Speaker 1: to try to expect them to do this on time,
Speaker 1: because the remember the NFL had time on their hands. Oh,
Speaker 1: they got plenty of time. They don't have time on
Speaker 1: their hands. You just had the Hall of Fame game cancel.
Speaker 1: I got what six weeks here, six weeks you know
Speaker 1: before we get ready for the preseasons. Not a long time.
Speaker 1: We'll get phone calls. We'll settle on a poll question
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Speaker 1: will get to phone calls coming up. Settle on a
Speaker 1: poll question. We make way for the popular Chris Sims,
Speaker 1: co host Pro Football Talk Live, former NFL quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: got his quarterback list counting down to number three and
Speaker 1: we've got controversy at number three. Chris, how dare you
Speaker 1: you picked Aaron Rodgers as the third best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I know it hurt my heart, as you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I am the leader of the vandwagon fans
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers, and you know I I unleashed my
Speaker 1: one and two two today on Pro Football Talk just
Speaker 1: so you know that Patrick Mahomes one, Russell Wilson two,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers three. But Mike, I mean again, just on that. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm getting confused with my host here, but just on
Speaker 1: that with Aaron Rodgers still awesome. We know that this
Speaker 1: is the first time that I would say since about
Speaker 1: midway through two ten, at least in my book, where
Speaker 1: I go, oh, he's not the best quarterback in the
Speaker 1: NFL anymore. Still really special. We know he's got a
Speaker 1: great arm, good decision maker. But I think with where
Speaker 1: we're at in his career, and then Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, yes, I think they've surpassed Aaron Rodgers here
Speaker 1: in the past year. For me at least, well, I
Speaker 1: thought the controversy is that you had Rogers that high.
Speaker 1: Feels like, hey, slipping here, and you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people are bailing on Aaron Rodgers here. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason people like to bail on Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. You know, they expect
Speaker 1: him to just make the Super Bowl every year and
Speaker 1: carry the team. And you know, to me, hey, the
Speaker 1: support system has not been there for Aaron Rodgers. For me,
Speaker 1: there is no doubt he's a top five quarterback in football.
Speaker 1: I have a hard time like really taking anybody seriously
Speaker 1: that would think like, okay, maybe if you wanted to
Speaker 1: put him at six, all right, but if you're trying
Speaker 1: to tell me he's ten or eleven or something like that,
Speaker 1: I would just go, I'm sorry, you need to come
Speaker 1: watch film with me and when you need to reevaluate things.
Speaker 1: But no, I mean we're still talking. Maybe other than
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, the greatest arm in the sport. Okay, still
Speaker 1: unbelievably quick release. You know, understands how to take care
Speaker 1: of the football. That was a ten and six football
Speaker 1: team last year, that they were at thirteen and three
Speaker 1: because of Aaron Rodgers. You know, I don't think I
Speaker 1: talked to you during the season. I don't think either
Speaker 1: one of us were blown away by Green Bay the
Speaker 1: team during the regular season. We just knew they were
Speaker 1: a good team with a really special quarterback and we thought,
Speaker 1: oh maybe that could be something. So yeah, don't sleep
Speaker 1: on Aaron Rodgers, all right, but give me the criteria
Speaker 1: of how you were ranking these quarterbacks. Sure. I went
Speaker 1: from I'm like a coach on the hot seat, right
Speaker 1: and here's my pecking order for my top forty quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Who I trust and think the best is right on
Speaker 1: down the list here. So yeah, it's not easy to do,
Speaker 1: but that was my criteria. It's about twenty twenty has
Speaker 1: nothing to do about twenty ten, twenty fifteen career accomplishments.
Speaker 1: It's a what have you done for me lately? League?
Speaker 1: And I'm evaluating what I think the quarterbacks are going
Speaker 1: to be for this twenty twenty season. All right, I
Speaker 1: got the dan Eds who were yelling at each other's
Speaker 1: what's the problem here, you guys? We all have issues
Speaker 1: with Chris's lists in different areas. Okay, Thick a guy
Speaker 1: who mccleve and go first. When Drew Brees rose forty
Speaker 1: touchdowns and five picks next year, he's still the sixteenth
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the NFL if you're doing twenty twenty, well, okay, hey,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, Nick Lovin, Okay, first off, don't
Speaker 1: get into me with all the stats craft all the time.
Speaker 1: Whoever played quarterback for the Saints is gonna have great stats.
Speaker 1: They went five and oh with Eddie Bridgewater last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right. So, and then the other thing I would
Speaker 1: tell do you too, is you know, again, Drew Brees
Speaker 1: really good? Great? Yeah, okay, let's go through it. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers in football, one of the
Speaker 1: better tight ends in football. Maybe the best offensive mind
Speaker 1: in the sport. Oh, definitely one of the five best
Speaker 1: offensive lines in the sport. And Nick Lovin, if he
Speaker 1: was still a top five or top ten quarterback, they
Speaker 1: wouldn't be pushing him out the door after this year.
Speaker 1: They'd be going to, let's get a deal done and
Speaker 1: stay here longer. So not that they're pushing him out
Speaker 1: the door, but the writings on the wall, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say, They're going to the Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill era. So Drew Brees still really awesome, certainly capable
Speaker 1: of winning a Super Bowl. Um, But no, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's the type of talent like we've seen in
Speaker 1: the playoffs the last few years that when the offense
Speaker 1: isn't executing, he can't make a lot happen by himself.
Speaker 1: And that is big to me in the value. Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he can never throw for seventy one yards in a
Speaker 1: game like Ryan Tannehill in the playoffs. He'd never be
Speaker 1: able to accomplish that. Feed what he couldn't accomplish the
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes he threw in the game to put
Speaker 1: them up fourteen to three. So how about that with like, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think Drew Brees. He can't throw the ball
Speaker 1: fit last forty yards, guys. So the first touchdown pass
Speaker 1: he can't even attempt to throw. The second throw was
Speaker 1: a power throw in the back left corner with people
Speaker 1: around him. So guess Drew Brees is really good. But
Speaker 1: all I'm just saying mclovin, don't you're you're taking the
Speaker 1: Saints offense in Sean Payton. I'm just talking about quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see how great those wide receivers in line are
Speaker 1: when Taysom Hills the quarterback, that great offensive line. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, who's next up? Paulie all right, Chris Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson number two set, all right, let's go to m
Speaker 1: who gives you a better chance to win next year.
Speaker 1: Number nine on your list, Matt Stafford or number fifteen
Speaker 1: on your list, Tom Brady. Well, I mean okay, So
Speaker 1: all right, so this is where this is a goodt Dicey, Listen,
Speaker 1: I understand you're we're used to Tom Brady. Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: tom Brady, He's awesome. I mean yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to argue with you. I can think he's
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterback of all time. You put tom Brady
Speaker 1: in Detroit. Okay, it ain't gonna look like Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you he can't do some of the
Speaker 1: things that Matthew Stafford can do. You put Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: in New England last year. They're a better football team.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Drew. Tom Brady still really good. Obviously, can
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, no doubt about it, you know.
Speaker 1: But they didn't win one game because of tom Brady
Speaker 1: last year, not one. They played through their defense and
Speaker 1: then he just didn't screw games up. So yes, I
Speaker 1: think right now there's no doubt in my mind that
Speaker 1: Matthew Staffords a better player, can do more with less
Speaker 1: and can do more with more. I can like you
Speaker 1: guys too, I'm not coming Okay, guys, who's next? Chairs?
Speaker 1: You know? I thought that at four and five is
Speaker 1: interesting with DeShawn Watson and Lamar Jackson. What pushed Watson
Speaker 1: over the a little higher than Lamar Jackson. I think
Speaker 1: the big thing is the polished passer department that to
Speaker 1: me is still where Lamar Jackson has certainly room to grow.
Speaker 1: We saw him get a lot better from year one
Speaker 1: to year two. But I think, you know, in a
Speaker 1: broad statement, Lamar Jackson needs a certain type of offense
Speaker 1: of system around him right now. Deshaun Watson I think
Speaker 1: can play in any system. It is a more polished
Speaker 1: passer than a Lamar Jackson at this point in his career.
Speaker 1: You know, to where we've seen again, you know, the
Speaker 1: last two years in the playoffs, when the Ravens couldn't
Speaker 1: physically dominate a team up front and on the on
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, they had to rely on the past game
Speaker 1: and they're just Lamar's not there yet to be like, oh, okay, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: the game, he's not the run, game's not working. Jump
Speaker 1: on my back, I'll throw at forty times and we'll
Speaker 1: win the game. I don't think he's at that level yet,
Speaker 1: as special as he is, but he's certainly got better
Speaker 1: and he could be a guy that could be number one, two, three,
Speaker 1: or four next year. Yes, Tom, I wouldn't kill you
Speaker 1: over it. But why six and seven? Why Wentz over
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and not Ryan ahead of Wentz? And how
Speaker 1: does someone that doesn't even have a team yet make
Speaker 1: the top ten in cam Newton yet? Well, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was probably the hard first off of Cam Newton was
Speaker 1: one of the hardest ones. Now. Listen, they kind of
Speaker 1: got screwed over by his old team as far as
Speaker 1: when they let him go and all the chairs were
Speaker 1: filled for starting quarterback. So that's where he's been screwed over.
Speaker 1: And Cam Newton's the kind of guy that nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: bring it as a backup quarterback because he's gonna make
Speaker 1: your starter look not very good unless your name like Watson,
Speaker 1: My Holmes, Aaron Rodgers are those guys. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you bring him into a certain team teas, you know,
Speaker 1: the players going to go in the locker room after
Speaker 1: the day's over and practice some time to be like,
Speaker 1: did you see our backup? Did you see Cam Newton?
Speaker 1: He was throwing lasers everywhere and it's going to cause
Speaker 1: a division within the team. So he's stuck in a
Speaker 1: tough spot, not because of where he's at, but because
Speaker 1: of the way Carolina handled the situation. Now to six
Speaker 1: and seven. Hey, I'm a big Matt Ryan fan. I
Speaker 1: don't think he gets enough credit, as you can tell, though,
Speaker 1: I'm a big Carson Wentz fan. Really, Carson Wentz. One
Speaker 1: of the only things I look at is a weakness
Speaker 1: to him is maybe protecting his body a little bit,
Speaker 1: and of course you know, hey, yeah, it sounds like
Speaker 1: he could be a better leader and teammate in the
Speaker 1: locker room. But man, Fritzie, who was his running back
Speaker 1: at the end of the year last year? Who was
Speaker 1: his top receiver? Come on, Fritzie, who are who are they?
Speaker 1: Who are they? Fritzie? He only knows the Bronco roster,
Speaker 1: but exactly so, I'm just saying, most people can't even
Speaker 1: name the people that are on the offensive. Carson wentz
Speaker 1: lash year, and yet they went to the playoffs because
Speaker 1: he was maybe arguably one of the greatest one man band,
Speaker 1: one man shows in football last year. So that's why
Speaker 1: I give him the advantage there. Yes, John was Wilbert
Speaker 1: Montgomery and Harold Carmichael at Keith Crepe tight Edit he's
Speaker 1: Chris Sims, co host of Pro Football Talk. Where would
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick be on this list? Ooh, that's a good question. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll say this, when he was getting blackballed by the
Speaker 1: NFL and all that, you know, he certainly was right
Speaker 1: around the top half of football as a starting quarterback
Speaker 1: in the NFL in my opinion, you know, right, like
Speaker 1: the talent of Colin Kaepernick is superstar, top five, top
Speaker 1: ten talent right now. I couldn't find it in my
Speaker 1: heart to put him in the top forty just from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of he hasn't played football in three years,
Speaker 1: and as you guys know, and his data athletes, as
Speaker 1: all the dan ats are not Dan, You're a great
Speaker 1: appam absolutely, but as you know, when you take a
Speaker 1: long time off from any sport, it's not easy to
Speaker 1: come back and be good at it, even if you're
Speaker 1: playing picked up basketball, let alone quarterback where you can't
Speaker 1: practice it, you can't emulate any of the things that
Speaker 1: go on. So would you put him all over case Keenum,
Speaker 1: I said no, not the second Mitchell Trubisky. Um No.
Speaker 1: I think he has a higher end than like a
Speaker 1: higher ceiling certainly, but I can't say that I can
Speaker 1: feel that with confidence with a guy that hasn't had offense,
Speaker 1: defensive lignment and how to make decisions and play the
Speaker 1: game in so long. So like he should be on
Speaker 1: a team, Dan, I'll say that for sure. And with
Speaker 1: the new practice rules, practice practice team rules and all
Speaker 1: those things, you know, I think a team is stupid
Speaker 1: to not bring him on there and just go, hey,
Speaker 1: let's let him have a year here developed. See, but
Speaker 1: he's got he's got big time talent. Maybe he's are
Speaker 1: awesome backed up next year. That's what you should do
Speaker 1: with Colin Kaepernick. The Hall of Fame game canceled. We
Speaker 1: keep saying, we have been saying, the NFL has time,
Speaker 1: they can look at all these other leagues. The NFL
Speaker 1: doesn't have time. Chris, what kind of preseason adjustments do
Speaker 1: you think we're looking at here? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to expect, you know, because yeah, we're in
Speaker 1: a tough spot. You know, you look at where we
Speaker 1: are as a country right now and where COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: is going, and you know it's scary in some states still.
Speaker 1: So you know, I was more optimistic about us playing
Speaker 1: games and having a full season I feel like a
Speaker 1: month ago than I feel right now. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you feel about it, but you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to say. Do you think it starts on
Speaker 1: time right now? In my heart of hearts, no, because
Speaker 1: I think that we're going to get into like the
Speaker 1: second week of training camp, and you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: few teams that have like multiple players on their team,
Speaker 1: just like we're seeing in college that COVID nineteen is
Speaker 1: starting to spread through the team, and then what are
Speaker 1: they going to do? So that's to me where it's concerning.
Speaker 1: I don't see how you can possibly say or think
Speaker 1: you don't think there'll be an outbreak of some sort
Speaker 1: on these teams throughout August. So yeah, right now, I
Speaker 1: don't don't. I don't feel good about that. If you're
Speaker 1: the commissioner, do you punish the Buccaneers and Seahawks because
Speaker 1: they've been holding workouts? No, I don't. I don't. First off,
Speaker 1: I don't think many NFL players really care about COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: I think they resected like and they don't want any
Speaker 1: of their family members or people to get sick like that.
Speaker 1: But I can just tell you if you take me
Speaker 1: back into twenty eight year old Chris Simms when I
Speaker 1: was playing football, I'd be like, screw COVID nineteen. I'm okay,
Speaker 1: I want to play football this year. And I think
Speaker 1: most players are like that. Let alone, like listen, Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. They care about people. I know that these
Speaker 1: are good people, but they're also going, hey here, Zoch
Speaker 1: far as I know, right, now I'm going to be
Speaker 1: expected to perform and be the man here in a
Speaker 1: few weeks. So I need to practice and I need
Speaker 1: to get better. And they're kind of, you know, weighing
Speaker 1: that out. And I get why Brady's doing it, because Brady,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how much pressure that the
Speaker 1: outside is putting on him, but he's putting it on himself.
Speaker 1: He's got to come in and hit the ground running
Speaker 1: with this team. It's not like he's still in New England.
Speaker 1: He's got a whole new team, offense, head coach, offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: all of that. I get why he's doing it. I
Speaker 1: just didn't know if the NFL is going to look
Speaker 1: at this and say, you know, I can't have you
Speaker 1: guys getting together like this. Well, yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's nice for them to say, but you know, again,
Speaker 1: it's where we are in this country right now. How
Speaker 1: can you tell certain people that when the rules in
Speaker 1: some states don't apply the same or whatever it way be.
Speaker 1: You know, if I'm in a quarterback who's like sitting
Speaker 1: there trying to listen to the NFL and the nfl
Speaker 1: PA and listen to the rules of my state, and
Speaker 1: then I see a guy like Tom Brady or Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson throwing footballs and getting better. I'm sitting at home going, okay,
Speaker 1: screw it. I need to get out there and start
Speaker 1: getting better. Hey, you know wide receivers, running backs, let's go.
Speaker 1: We gotta practice. And you know most quarterbacks are such
Speaker 1: type A OCB personalities. They're stressing about training camp right now.
Speaker 1: I need to throw more. I need to get better
Speaker 1: at this. I need to do that. And it's hard
Speaker 1: to just sit home and think like, oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have a pass in my backyard and I'm gonna get better.
Speaker 1: It's good to talk to you, Chris. Are you happy
Speaker 1: you did your quarterback rankings? I mean, I'm I love
Speaker 1: doing it. I'm happy it's over. Okay, I'm sick of
Speaker 1: defending myself. Point of executioners here. I don't like you guys. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a tough guy. I don't like you guys. Thank you, Chris.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. Good talking to you too.
Speaker 1: Be good to see you, guys, Chris. Chris Simms, co
Speaker 1: host of Pro Football. Any of you guys, Hey, he's
Speaker 1: We'll take a break. It's a guy who played without
Speaker 1: a spleen my choice, I can play without a spleen?
Speaker 1: Who needs a spleen? All right, Play of the Day's
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Speaker 1: we do not have an official poll. Okay, how about
Speaker 1: a non official one? Okay? So I have two questions
Speaker 1: for you. If I had made you better week's pay
Speaker 1: it's always a week's pay, right that either the Yankeester
Speaker 1: Dodgers are going to make the World Series or neither?
Speaker 1: Would you better week's pay on that one? And then
Speaker 1: I have a follow up for another sport with the
Speaker 1: same template that neither will. I'll play the odds and
Speaker 1: take I'll take the Dodgers and Yankees that at least
Speaker 1: one will be in the World Series. Okay, same question
Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Lakers in the Milwaukee Bucks, the
Speaker 1: one and two seeds according to Vegas in the NBA,
Speaker 1: And what's the question, would you better week's pay that
Speaker 1: one of those two teams, the Lakers in the box,
Speaker 1: will be in the finals or neither will. I'll take
Speaker 1: the odds and say yes. So I'd take which feels safe,
Speaker 1: or the NBA beat or the Major League Baseball bet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if either one is safe, because I
Speaker 1: don't know what is going to happen in Orlando and
Speaker 1: not having home court advantage and the fact that you're
Speaker 1: playing in a sterile environment. And then with baseball, it's
Speaker 1: a sixty game sprint, and like we're not even factoring
Speaker 1: in if a star player is down for two weeks
Speaker 1: and what that could mean for both of these seasons,
Speaker 1: the postseason and baseball. Imagine fourteen days, you're you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna miss twelve games out of sixty. Let's say you're
Speaker 1: a great starting pitcher. Let's say Walker Bueller goes down
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers and you're talking about sixty games and
Speaker 1: that that's what's hard to handicap with all of this?
Speaker 1: All right, some phone calls here. Rachel Nichols, host of
Speaker 1: ESPN's The Jump, will join us coming up and Webb
Speaker 1: Simpson's caddie, Paul Tsorry. Webb pulled out of the Greater
Speaker 1: Hartford Open. I believe he just won the previous week
Speaker 1: at hilton Head. But I'm just curious, what is protocol
Speaker 1: for the caddies, you know, for these players and can
Speaker 1: they can golf continue? Because we thought of all the
Speaker 1: sports built in social distancing, you should be able to
Speaker 1: go out and play golf. And you had some positive
Speaker 1: tests yesterday. Danstun No one of Webb's family members that
Speaker 1: tested positive, even though he himself is negative. Out of
Speaker 1: an abundance of caution, is what he was calling it
Speaker 1: as why Webb stepped away after winning last week. Yes eton,
Speaker 1: it's just you with the news too that you know,
Speaker 1: the United States we set a new record for positive
Speaker 1: cases yesterday. That seems like if you're if if we're
Speaker 1: still going up and forget about like deaths and all
Speaker 1: of that stuff, because really what matters to sports, it's
Speaker 1: positive tests, right, That's what's damaging the possibility of certain leagues.
Speaker 1: If we're still going upward with all of these positive tests,
Speaker 1: it just seems so unlikely that it's not going to
Speaker 1: impact future sporting event. Yesterday, Florida set a new record
Speaker 1: more than five thousand new cases that blew past the
Speaker 1: previous mark of four thousand new cases, which was the
Speaker 1: previous week. The state also has well passed one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand total cases of the coronavirus. Orlando is experiencing its
Speaker 1: own spike in COVID nineteen. In Orange County, this is
Speaker 1: where Orlando is located. There were fifteen just under sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred cases on May seventeenth. They now have forty five hundred,
Speaker 1: and for nationwide, yesterday they hit it was like thirty
Speaker 1: eight or thirty nine thousand cases, and the previous record
Speaker 1: was thirty six cases in a day, thirty six thousand. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so we got our poll. Question. Is that
Speaker 1: what we're gonna go with? Andy? I have another question too, Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know when you want to get into it.
Speaker 1: But Todd said around the story about Philip Fulmer the
Speaker 1: Valls Tennessee Volunteers ad, saying that he expects a full stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've asked it before. But would you go to a
Speaker 1: college football game in September, which is not that far away,
Speaker 1: if it's not a socially distant stadium, would you go
Speaker 1: to a full college football stadium? No? No, but but
Speaker 1: that I know we that that feels like a long
Speaker 1: way away and it's not. But a lot can happen
Speaker 1: before then. I just don't know if we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a vaccine. And doctor Fauci said by the end of
Speaker 1: the year maybe, And no, I would not. And you're
Speaker 1: gonna get these ads who were gonna try to push
Speaker 1: this up a little bit. You know, Ohio State went
Speaker 1: from twenty thousand, maybe maybe we could get forty thousand.
Speaker 1: Our college kids going to be able to go. Rachel
Speaker 1: Nichols will join us on loan from the jump. Talk
Speaker 1: about Orlando. Are the Lakers in trouble with the NBA
Speaker 1: for holding private workouts? Doctor Rachel about that? Coming up?
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