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Speaker 1: from the Red Zone just tweeted five new NFL head
Speaker 1: coaches Ron Rivera one to oh everyone else, oh and four.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to the coach. He'll join us coming up
Speaker 1: next hour. Also, Steve Levy called the Monday Night game
Speaker 1: in Denver last night. Titans eke it out over the
Speaker 1: Broncos sixteen fourteen and the Steelers beat the Giants twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: The reaction overreaction will be Ben is back and the
Speaker 1: Steelers are going to be formidable. I think the Steelers
Speaker 1: are going to be formidable because of that defense. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to expect from Ben. He had three
Speaker 1: touchdowns last night. They seem to find wide receivers in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: They don't have the skill level that they once had
Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown and Levian Bell and the Giants. It's
Speaker 1: going to be another long season for the Giants unless
Speaker 1: they shore up the offensive line. And I know that's
Speaker 1: that throwaway line. Well, they got to get a better
Speaker 1: offensive line. You just can't find these guys, it's really hard.
Speaker 1: And I'll go back to a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: when an NFL scout said it's really hard to find
Speaker 1: good offensive lineman in college football because how they block,
Speaker 1: what their schemes are completely different than what we ask
Speaker 1: for in the NFL. And I think when we've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of high draft picks and they've been spent
Speaker 1: on offensive lineman and there is no guarantee because the
Speaker 1: Giants used a top five pick on an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: and he looked like he belonged back in college, it
Speaker 1: takes a while. And what happens is, you know, New
Speaker 1: England rarely takes an offensive lineman. You know, with a
Speaker 1: high draft pick. They have a system, they develop it,
Speaker 1: and you know it helps that you got the same
Speaker 1: quarterback and you had the same coach offensive coordinator, and
Speaker 1: you just kind of plug them in and you find
Speaker 1: the right people who understand the system that the Patriots have.
Speaker 1: You know, Dallas has a great offensive line individually, a
Speaker 1: great offensive line. New England always had a really good
Speaker 1: offensive line, but nobody who stood out. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many of their lineman ever made a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: well and All Pro because you can make the All
Speaker 1: Pro just because guys don't want to play in the game.
Speaker 1: But how many times the Patriots had a first team
Speaker 1: All Pro offensive lineman and probably pretty rare. But last night,
Speaker 1: Steelers look good. Giants did not the Titans, you know
Speaker 1: those that's Titan football, not pretty. You don't like your
Speaker 1: kicker to miss four kicks and then connect with the
Speaker 1: game winner, Stephen Guskowski. But if you're Denver and you're
Speaker 1: trying to develop something there, you got Drew Locke, you
Speaker 1: got Jerry Judy, you got some running backs. You don't
Speaker 1: have Von Miller, but you got to win that game.
Speaker 1: And they had every opportunity to win that game. Some
Speaker 1: questionable clock management there. But you know that's the reaction
Speaker 1: overreaction to last night. And now that the week games
Speaker 1: are in the books, you're going to hear a lot
Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson, Kyler, Murray, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers strong statement games in Week one, and it's just
Speaker 1: assumed that the best quarterback is going to be the MVP.
Speaker 1: But in addition to a big offensive plays, we also
Speaker 1: saw some really strong defensive plays. Alden Smith has been
Speaker 1: out of football almost five years. He was awesome for Dallas.
Speaker 1: Shack Barrett stepped up t J Watt of the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald was unbelievable, unblockable. Jamal Adams by the way,
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams all just wind him up and he's gonna
Speaker 1: talk get him out of New York. Now, he says
Speaker 1: he never played on a team with a good quarterback
Speaker 1: or a good head coach. Now he might be right,
Speaker 1: but I'm curious what he's going to say about Seattle
Speaker 1: when he leaves there in three years. Is he playing
Speaker 1: for a good head coach and a good quarterback, because
Speaker 1: I'd say, yes, you are. But Jamal Adams, who was
Speaker 1: great in that game against Atlanta. He was hitting everybody.
Speaker 1: He was hitting his own teammates. He just wanted to
Speaker 1: pop people. But we have not had a defensive player
Speaker 1: win MVP since nineteen eighty six when Lawrence Taylor did it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's going to be a defensive
Speaker 1: player who's ever going to get to the level of
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor and change the game. You know, I guess
Speaker 1: if somebody was going to do it, it it would have
Speaker 1: been Aaron Donald or JJ Watt. But and since you
Speaker 1: give out defensive player of the Year. I you know,
Speaker 1: it feels like you're not going to put them in
Speaker 1: for Offensive Player of the Year, and it feels like
Speaker 1: the MVP is really the offensive MVP, and then you
Speaker 1: give out the defensive MVP. Yeah, McLevin, I don't like
Speaker 1: that there's also an Offensive Player of the Year. That's
Speaker 1: so dumb because that's just a way to spread the vote.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. I don't know actually if they still
Speaker 1: have that. But the Offensive Player of the Year, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know who it was last year. I think
Speaker 1: they do. Lamar Jackson also the offensive player there, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Could it have been Patrick Mahomes. I Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think Russell Wilson was second MVP. Yes, boy,
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas the receiver Offensive Player of the Year. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. He put up record setting numbers. Yes, mcvin.
Speaker 1: By the way he did, you see he got his
Speaker 1: ankles stepped on like that. Without him, that offense is
Speaker 1: not is good. I was kind of like I was
Speaker 1: always secretly he's just a system guy falling. Can you
Speaker 1: check that just to see if mclovin was correct. The
Speaker 1: Saints without Michael Thomas, that offense is not that good.
Speaker 1: I think everyone's gonna agree with that. Okay, Well I
Speaker 1: always thought, like, you take Michael Thomas out there, they'll
Speaker 1: find a Marcus Colston. You just said that's a stupid comment.
Speaker 1: Trust me, By the way, they will figure it out.
Speaker 1: They're the Saints. They syste them up big time. They
Speaker 1: will find someone to step in there and dominate. I
Speaker 1: mean that's a fact. So their system, they have somebody
Speaker 1: who's gonna step in and get one hundred and fifty catches. No,
Speaker 1: but they'll they'll find a way. They always have some
Speaker 1: weird guy who comes out of nowhere. It's oh, Emmanuel Sanders.
Speaker 1: He looked amazing out of nowhere. For them, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: like a Marcus Colston. Yeah, they always have a Colston.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Michael Thomas is better than all those guys,
Speaker 1: but not that much. Yeah, seed right, it's like that
Speaker 1: their offense isn't completely dependent on that one player, Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: Except Sunday it probably was. That's what I date it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would think it would be Alvin Kamara. You know,
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. Yeah, he's really good. Taysom Hill No, no, no,
Speaker 1: But I like how Tampa Bay was trumpeting the fact
Speaker 1: that they shut down Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara, and
Speaker 1: then Twitter said, uh, he scored a couple of touchdowns
Speaker 1: on you wait, way to shut him down? Yeah, Seed,
Speaker 1: there are a few times last weekend there just this
Speaker 1: past weekend watching the Saint said, I was just like, wow,
Speaker 1: look at Drew Brees run. Oh no, that's not him. Yes,
Speaker 1: if you know, I ask you this yet, right too?
Speaker 1: Any thoughts of a Mulligan in the NFC with the
Speaker 1: way the Saints look good, It doesn't. That's not the
Speaker 1: way it works. I made my pick. I stay with
Speaker 1: my pick Seahawks defense. Oh wow, No, it's early. Maybe
Speaker 1: we should start doing instead of overreaction Monday, it's Mulligan Monday.
Speaker 1: Then you want to change alliteration. Yeah, Mulligan Monday. I
Speaker 1: like how the sky is falling in Tampa and Dallas
Speaker 1: no place else in the NFL because shows want to
Speaker 1: talk about Tom Brady and shows want to talk about
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. It's trepidation Tuesday out the cash. Yeah, sky
Speaker 1: is falling, question mark in Tampa. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: if the Browns lose to the Bengals. Baker Mayfield Sky
Speaker 1: who question Mark evaporating right before? It is a very eyes.
Speaker 1: So the Rams lose on the road and Tampa loses
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Sky is falling, question Mark all questioning
Speaker 1: the play calling by Mike McCarthy. Dak Prescott once again
Speaker 1: not a second half quarterback Tom Brady perhaps over the hill,
Speaker 1: question Mark asked mc Yeah, the Niners blew a game,
Speaker 1: it gets a card. Nobody's talking about no, because you
Speaker 1: don't get clicks. Well, we're waiting for throw up Thursday. Oh,
Speaker 1: the start breaking that Downay, he's gonna throw up on
Speaker 1: their shoes. Nobody cares about the forty nine ers nationally,
Speaker 1: Like if you look at the topics and it'll be
Speaker 1: the Browns because of Odell Beckham and Baker Mayfield. Brady
Speaker 1: with the Buccaneers. Rogers in Green Bay always gets a
Speaker 1: clicker too, the Steelers do because of their fan base,
Speaker 1: and then obviously with Dallas. But some of these other
Speaker 1: teams performances, it'll be like, yeah, okay, nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: Yeah mccle Yeah. I feel like the Titans could go
Speaker 1: twelve and four and no one will care during the
Speaker 1: regular season and even last night. I mean that that
Speaker 1: was tough to get through that game. And look, I'm
Speaker 1: hungry for football. I was full, Like I just said, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not in it for the long haul. Here. It
Speaker 1: was tough to watch. I know. I hear from the
Speaker 1: Titan fans every time I say it. Look, you guys
Speaker 1: were wonderful during the playoffs, but you're a boring football team.
Speaker 1: You are. It's it's but Mike Vrabel probably loves it
Speaker 1: this way. It's just not exciting football. Yeah, what about
Speaker 1: the Patriots? Where did they fall? They were a boring
Speaker 1: regular season team for a while with Brady there. They're
Speaker 1: exciting to have Cam there, absolutely, but the actual game
Speaker 1: couldn't have been more boring. They just ran at every player.
Speaker 1: You know, but you're seeing Cam douce things that Cam
Speaker 1: did before, and you know you were hoping that you
Speaker 1: got a chance to see that again. I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy's going to end up with probably eighty rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, all right, I mean,
Speaker 1: depending on how long he's able to way, plus when
Speaker 1: he gets down around inside the five, and if there's
Speaker 1: a chance that he could be pitching it to somebody
Speaker 1: else that ain't happening. Cam knows. I'm putting up some
Speaker 1: numbers here because I'm auditioning for either New England to
Speaker 1: sign me long term or somebody else to sign me
Speaker 1: long term. Yeampolling Week one, Cam Newton out rushed sixteen
Speaker 1: starting NFL running backs half the league Week one, rushing
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara twelve yards, se Quon Barkley six yards. But
Speaker 1: these running backs got paid, they got their contract extensions,
Speaker 1: he asked mclub. Watching the Patriots offense, it was clear
Speaker 1: to everyone on TV to Cam Newton, who was going
Speaker 1: to run all those places that Dolphins looked like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, wait, what's this guy doing? It felt like
Speaker 1: they were watching last year's page. They had seven offensive
Speaker 1: linemen on one play and then I think they had
Speaker 1: a tight end like it couldn't have said run any louder.
Speaker 1: Cam could have gone to the line and go I'm running,
Speaker 1: and Miami couldn't have been surprised. But I don't think sustainable.
Speaker 1: But it is fun to watch. I mean, New England
Speaker 1: is only fun because of Cam Newton. Other than that,
Speaker 1: nobody's nobody's tuning in to see Hoodie. And you know,
Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore is a nice player, but you know you're
Speaker 1: not tuning in to watch a defensive back. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: in the Saints game they put in, they bring in
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill and he runs for like twelve yards on
Speaker 1: his first carry. There's no one around him. Hey, when
Speaker 1: Taysom comes in, there's a pretty good chance it's a
Speaker 1: designed run or he's gonna throw it though. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I asked who's I'm like Cam and Taysomer are the
Speaker 1: same player, except Cam can throw the ball. They really
Speaker 1: like they look very simil I know they don't look similar,
Speaker 1: but gigantic guys running at you that bigger than the linebacker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still don't believe that he is the air apparent
Speaker 1: the Drew brees by Way Patriots at Seattle Sunday night.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's an awesome matchup because I just want
Speaker 1: to see what the game plan is for Cam against
Speaker 1: that Seattle defense and Jamal Adams role, because he'll probably
Speaker 1: be shadowing Am Newton and that will be really entertaining
Speaker 1: to watch. Plus, Russell Wilson played a perfect game against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You had a couple of performances. Kyler Murray was great,
Speaker 1: rushing for almost one hundred yards. You know you had
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson looked good. I know that. We go, oh,
Speaker 1: it looks like he's a better passer this year than
Speaker 1: he was last year. Let's hold off on that just
Speaker 1: a little bit. There. You know, he's playing the Browns
Speaker 1: and the Browns look disinterested, which is kind of amazing
Speaker 1: that you have a new head coach and you have this. Hey,
Speaker 1: we got embarrassed last year. Let's go out there. Let's
Speaker 1: make a statement here. And they did. It's oh, that's
Speaker 1: their statement. And now you have the Bengals playing the
Speaker 1: Browns on Thursday night, and there's part of me rooting
Speaker 1: for the Browns to lose, just to see what happens
Speaker 1: with this story and if Joe Burrow would win the
Speaker 1: game beating Cleveland. National TV. Good storylines there. What is
Speaker 1: the best game coming up this weekend though? Mclovin, Well,
Speaker 1: let's start with that. Patriots. That's good. That's good on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Bengals Browns is entertaining just because you know
Speaker 1: the storyline's attached to it. Okay, you got Giants at
Speaker 1: bars is that that's not good? Rams at Eagles, Falcons,
Speaker 1: Cowboys that's in Dallas. Well, it'll be interesting because every
Speaker 1: talk show host will make it interesting on Monday. No
Speaker 1: matter what happens, either the Cowboys are back, they figured
Speaker 1: it out, or you know, Mike McCarthy was the wrong choice.
Speaker 1: Can't blame this on Jason Garrett. Why are you paying
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott that kind of money? Yeah? Play Ravens, Texans solid,
Speaker 1: that's good. Texans could go into Chiefs Chargers at the Chargers.
Speaker 1: What like it matters? I think I may watch this game.
Speaker 1: Washington football team at the Cardinals shocking. I'm going watch it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that. The defensive line of the Redskins whatever
Speaker 1: you call. Yeah, they're the Washington football team. Point any
Speaker 1: other games on there? Does he get Saints Raiders is
Speaker 1: Monday Night? I like that? That's really good? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that in uh Las Vegas? Oh? I like that
Speaker 1: a lot? But is it the same with no fans
Speaker 1: in the new stadium? Does that? No, it's not the same,
Speaker 1: but it's still I get the Saints out of the
Speaker 1: Superdome and they're beatable. Plus, I want to see, you
Speaker 1: know what what we have with Josh Jacobs if it
Speaker 1: is he going to be one of those put himself
Speaker 1: in that category with you know, some of the elite
Speaker 1: running backs. His advanced stats were like he is the
Speaker 1: number one running back in the end of like they
Speaker 1: were going nuts on his break. Someone compared to Walter Payton.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see yea, it just it was one game.
Speaker 1: Had a great year last year, I know, But it's
Speaker 1: just one game and they're playing against Carolina, So let
Speaker 1: me let me see what happens when they play against
Speaker 1: a team like the Saints and see how they use him.
Speaker 1: But what was the biggest overreaction out of all the games?
Speaker 1: Biggest overreaction Tom Brady, right, and then Dallas and then
Speaker 1: maybe Aaron Rodgers. Feels like it might have been in
Speaker 1: that order. But I don't think people walked away worried
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys because I thought the Rams look really good.
Speaker 1: Did you see a lot of panic in Dallas? Just
Speaker 1: their fans because they've been through this for so many years,
Speaker 1: like a decade where they blamed it on Jason. If
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett made that call that Mike McCarthy did when
Speaker 1: they went for it, they would have been crushing him.
Speaker 1: And plus you know that it was not past interference.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, what happens defensive backs will actually grab
Speaker 1: one of your arms and then hold it pin it down.
Speaker 1: And this happens a lot. You know, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a technique that they have and you try to do
Speaker 1: it and then you're going for with one arm trying
Speaker 1: to catch a pass. I just thought it was hand
Speaker 1: to hand combat between those two Gallop and Ramsey, and
Speaker 1: I just wouldn't have called it. And it wasn't one
Speaker 1: of those because I had somebody call me out yesterday
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, well, if that's in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: I go, no, it's not when it was called. It
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been called. If it's in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: you don't call it. If it's in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it. But I didn't go, boy, in
Speaker 1: the last two minutes, you can't call that. I didn't
Speaker 1: say that yesterday. I just said it was to me
Speaker 1: back and forth between both of those unfort You know,
Speaker 1: Gallup didn't have to push off or extend his arm
Speaker 1: to make that catch. But when you look at it,
Speaker 1: I understand where you can go. He used you extend
Speaker 1: your arm. Jalen Ramsey was a part the blame too,
Speaker 1: culprit as well. Yeah, mclv. Well they're stressing OPI. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got Ingram last night, I got AJ Green. I
Speaker 1: hate when they do this where they pick a rule
Speaker 1: like remember last year, tried to ruin the season with
Speaker 1: holding the first few weeks. Then Tom Brady tweeted at
Speaker 1: half and they all went away, Yeah, somebody's got a
Speaker 1: Brady's got a tweet. Hey, stop with the offensive pass
Speaker 1: interference here, because he did that with holding last year
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the referees weren't calling holding. Yes.
Speaker 1: He It seems like though for the first week that
Speaker 1: the referees let them play, you know, like yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know have any like official stats, but just the
Speaker 1: overall vibe was that, you know, the penalties were down,
Speaker 1: but they didn't let him play with offensive pass interference
Speaker 1: because that would have been letting them play. That was
Speaker 1: a big moment. You know that you're calling offensive. Aj
Speaker 1: Green pushed off absolutely, you know, throw the flag there
Speaker 1: that one that was not offensive pass interference. Well take
Speaker 1: a break. Steve Levy was on the call last night
Speaker 1: the Broncos and the Titans. By the way, Heat Celtics
Speaker 1: Game one tonight, Nuggets Clippers gained seven boy to fallout
Speaker 1: on this if the Clippers don't reach the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: They blew up another three games to one lead. And
Speaker 1: here's the suggestion to somebody with the guard the joker.
Speaker 1: I think he's pretty good. This just in I think
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. It's almost like they feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we're going to play in the Western Conference
Speaker 1: Finals against the Lakers, like it's a foregone conclusion. It's
Speaker 1: like you get the easy pass at Disney World. We're
Speaker 1: not waiting in line to get to the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: We got the easy pass. And they're like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you don't. That might have expired. And then we'll talk
Speaker 1: to Ron Rivera, who is battling cancer while being the
Speaker 1: head coach of the Washington Football Club. Take a break.
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Speaker 1: He along with team doctors and the head athletic trainer,
Speaker 1: agreed that he would get an IV after the first
Speaker 1: half to combat ongoing effects of his battle with sell cancer.
Speaker 1: So he was hooked up to the IV and all
Speaker 1: of a suddenly he hears somebody yelling at the team
Speaker 1: and it's Dwayne Haskins, who was firing him up at
Speaker 1: halftime there. So we'll talk to coach about that whole
Speaker 1: process here. Tough enough to coach now, he's battling cancer
Speaker 1: while he's doing him. Steve leeby mister Monday Night. He
Speaker 1: had the call last night in Denver with the Broncos
Speaker 1: and the Titans. Made his debut as the main play
Speaker 1: by play voice with Brian Greasy and Lewis Riddick. He'll
Speaker 1: be on the call for Drew Brees and the Saints
Speaker 1: at the Las Vegas Raiders next Monday Night. So how
Speaker 1: did it feel, Leaves? That was a classic game. Dan,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be replaying that game for years to come.
Speaker 1: That seven seven Wildfire was Yeah, that was something that
Speaker 1: it was fun. It it's fun in the booths. We
Speaker 1: had a good time. I think I think It was
Speaker 1: a good jumping off point for us. You know, we'll
Speaker 1: be much better next week and hope to be much
Speaker 1: better every every single week. But it felt great to
Speaker 1: finally get it going. You know, there's been so much
Speaker 1: talk about you know, the Monday the football booths, really
Speaker 1: and it was just good to calls some football. Did
Speaker 1: you read Twitter at all? I have not, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't get through text messages. So I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what it does. It does make you feel about pretty
Speaker 1: good about yourself, Dan. It makes you feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'm a decent human being. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how many people and yourself included, I've reached
Speaker 1: out with, you know, with kind tweets, kind texts throughout
Speaker 1: the some tweets, but mostly texts throughout the process, you know,
Speaker 1: leading up to getting the gig and then uh, you know,
Speaker 1: wish you good luck and relax and have a good
Speaker 1: time and all those kind of important reminders. But it's
Speaker 1: really been great for my friends and my family and
Speaker 1: it's really appreciate it. But has it set in? I mean,
Speaker 1: you're calling Monday night football, so that's a great question.
Speaker 1: So not really like you know, last night I did
Speaker 1: last night. What I did one year ago. We had
Speaker 1: that same back end of the doubleheader, the opening that weekend.
Speaker 1: It was the Broncos again, so not really you know,
Speaker 1: there wasn't a massive pregame show and the massive hype,
Speaker 1: and we knew we were on late so we'd lose
Speaker 1: some part of the country and like that. So I
Speaker 1: think it really kicks in this coming Monday night. We'll
Speaker 1: have the stage to ourselves and we'll be on at
Speaker 1: the normal time. We'll get the full free game. It's
Speaker 1: also a fifty the actual fiftieth anniversary of the first
Speaker 1: ever Monday night football game. And then I think, you know, listen,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, we want to ramp up here, Dan, we
Speaker 1: want to be at our best for Week three. We
Speaker 1: know we'll have a few eyeballs on that one, and
Speaker 1: I think you know honestly that that's probably the best
Speaker 1: regular season game on the schedule. It certainly on paper.
Speaker 1: You know, things can change throughout the season. Before the
Speaker 1: season starts, if you can only watch one NFL game,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing a lot of people with pick Kansas City
Speaker 1: at Baltimore, and then we're fortunate to have that on
Speaker 1: the schedule. How nervous, were you Yeah, again, not really, um,
Speaker 1: And I think that's part of being overprepared, you know.
Speaker 1: People talk about that if if you're if you're properly pared,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be nervous. And again, having me experience of
Speaker 1: doing the game a year ago really went a long
Speaker 1: way towards that. I can't tell you and you get this,
Speaker 1: but I hope everybody does. We have so much help, Dan,
Speaker 1: we get We get so much help from so many
Speaker 1: different from people, uh, you know, from the people who
Speaker 1: are working in the booth. They were drilling like it was,
Speaker 1: you know, a home depot store last night, trying to
Speaker 1: make adjustments in the booth. So it's our first time
Speaker 1: with the crew, and you know, and Greasy wants to
Speaker 1: tell the straighter here, and Riddick needs this over there,
Speaker 1: and I need a shelf, you know, and it's too
Speaker 1: cold for for Riddick, it's too hot for me in
Speaker 1: the booth. You know just what I'm saying, Like, there's
Speaker 1: so many people running around and even and that's even
Speaker 1: when it's it's it's part pared down because of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: We're probably traveling half the people and then the influx
Speaker 1: of emails. I've never seen anything like it, the amount
Speaker 1: of information. But again, it's it's just people trying to
Speaker 1: be helpful. And it's not just ESPN information people. It's
Speaker 1: really it's the NFL. It's it's the two clubs, uh,
Speaker 1: their public relations people, everybody just trying to be so helpful,
Speaker 1: give you everything you need to put the best product
Speaker 1: on the air. So it's it's been a lot of fun. Man.
Speaker 1: What about no fans in the stands? So you know,
Speaker 1: I found at one point I said, and listen to
Speaker 1: the crowd. You know that's not here, you know, and
Speaker 1: in the headset, the mix we're getting, I think is
Speaker 1: very different than what is being played in the stadium.
Speaker 1: And if you if you get lost in the moment,
Speaker 1: and I hope this is the case at home, but
Speaker 1: if you get lost in the moment, like I was
Speaker 1: broadcasting the game, you hear the crowd roar, and they
Speaker 1: seem to roar at the right time, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go back and watch the tape and see how
Speaker 1: it sounded on television. But um, you know, I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to crowds, you know, sort of building the hit
Speaker 1: at least as Alice had a funny report. They had
Speaker 1: five hundred people in the stadium last night, and we
Speaker 1: were really told it was kind of a test, a
Speaker 1: test the protocols, sort of a dry run. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have fifty seven hundred in Denver for their next home
Speaker 1: game in a couple of weeks when Brady and the
Speaker 1: Bucks come to town. But uh, you know, so in
Speaker 1: that's if they're testing. You know, they're testing it out,
Speaker 1: and the friends of the family of the players, and
Speaker 1: the h and the and the employees of the team.
Speaker 1: But the concession stands were open and those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Couldn't really hear that crowd. But the crowd, the the
Speaker 1: enhanced audio that was piped in certainly in my headset
Speaker 1: made it sound good and I think you could getting
Speaker 1: lost in the moment, which was nice. He's Steve Levy,
Speaker 1: the He's mister Monday Night. You're no longer a Sports
Speaker 1: Center anchor, right, Yeah, I'm still I'm still not used
Speaker 1: to my Twitter bio is going to stay as the
Speaker 1: unofficial voice of the Bahamas Bowl. But but you don't
Speaker 1: do Sports Center anymore, not during not during the NFL season,
Speaker 1: I would think, so, you know, I'll see I'll see it.
Speaker 1: January seventh, Man missing Me on the eleven o'clock show.
Speaker 1: I'll come back and do a sports center with you.
Speaker 1: Leaves it's laid Dan. I don't know. Sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: we go after Van Pelp and and it's thirty or something.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a Mariners game that goes a little later. Oh.
Speaker 1: That used to drive me crazy when you go, okay,
Speaker 1: just close this out, come on, and you know, let's go,
Speaker 1: and then somebody would give up a three run jack
Speaker 1: and you go, oh god, that goes sixteen innings. I
Speaker 1: remember back in the day, we'd like, let's just put
Speaker 1: our voice down on a track and say that led
Speaker 1: to the final score, you know, and of course not
Speaker 1: thinking for the poor people who have to stay behind
Speaker 1: and put the video to the audio and all I
Speaker 1: remember there was a Sunday night and Mike Keenan. Mike
Speaker 1: Keenan got fired I think in Saint Louis. Does that
Speaker 1: sound right? And you got fired a lot of places,
Speaker 1: it did. But Keith Overman had already gone home, and
Speaker 1: so I was. I was there, and then I was
Speaker 1: getting ready to leave, and all of a sudden it
Speaker 1: came over the wire. Hey, Mike, Keenan just got fired.
Speaker 1: We had to redo like the first block of Sports Center,
Speaker 1: and the Joe was that we sent Judd Burch to
Speaker 1: Oberman's house and that Keiths was in the hot tub,
Speaker 1: which which wasn't true, but we created this story that
Speaker 1: you gotta go get Oberman and bringing back and then
Speaker 1: we had to go and redo the first fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: as Sports Center that night. Uh, the great memories. The
Speaker 1: damn damn shame that we didn't have zoom back then,
Speaker 1: because then you could have had Keith in the hot
Speaker 1: tub in that first time were here are you following me?
Speaker 1: A Stanley Cup final? Here? You know a little bit, uh,
Speaker 1: very very surprised with the Dallas Stars. I mean did
Speaker 1: not see that coming. Uh. Good for them, and you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of feel bad for whoever. You know what
Speaker 1: it looks like Tampa is you know the class I
Speaker 1: think of the team's remaining. But you know what was
Speaker 1: gonna win the Stanley Cup is you know, there's no
Speaker 1: aster risk or anything as far as ask. But I
Speaker 1: feel for the for the players of the organization of
Speaker 1: fans that they won't have that that traditional celebration, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure whenever they are fans allow back in the building.
Speaker 1: You know, they'll reenact it and hunt the guys canapskating
Speaker 1: around the Stanley Cup, but it won't be the same thing. Um.
Speaker 1: But if the NHL has done a great job and
Speaker 1: the television product, like I said, you know in the
Speaker 1: NBA too. By the way, in w gonna be like
Speaker 1: you can get lost in the game if you're sitting
Speaker 1: at home. I find if you're interested in the game,
Speaker 1: you can get lost in it and you don't then realize, hey,
Speaker 1: there are no fans there and the enhanced crowd and
Speaker 1: all that. So I really think all the TV folks
Speaker 1: have done a really good job of bringing that product
Speaker 1: home as best they can under extraordinary circumstances. Really tough
Speaker 1: Tougher doing an NFL game or a hockey game, That's
Speaker 1: a good question. Um, you know, it's funny. I think
Speaker 1: there's so much more that goes into the NFL game.
Speaker 1: There's so many you know, in terms of the cameras,
Speaker 1: the amount of people in the headset, and certainly amount
Speaker 1: of the eyeballs that are watching in the viewers. I thought,
Speaker 1: you're gonna ask me tougher a college or pro and uh,
Speaker 1: I mean there's no there's there's no question to me,
Speaker 1: the NFL is an easier game to broadcast by virtue
Speaker 1: of there's just half the players I mean aren't right there.
Speaker 1: And it's uh, you know, college plays like an extra quarter.
Speaker 1: The game's like an extra forty minutes. That NFL game
Speaker 1: flew pretty quickly at a really fast first half, and
Speaker 1: you do look up and you see, hey, there's a
Speaker 1: minute left in the first quarter. The NFL is so
Speaker 1: his packaged so well for television, you know, to try
Speaker 1: to fit in that three hour window. So I would
Speaker 1: say hockey is a little easier for me. But the
Speaker 1: pressure is kind of off. You know, there's no spot
Speaker 1: or you're not relying on anyone else in hockey because
Speaker 1: there's no time to look down and get help. You're
Speaker 1: sort of on your own that way. And uh, and
Speaker 1: the game just flies, and it seemed to be, you know,
Speaker 1: hockey is a little more under the radar. The whole
Speaker 1: world's not watching. It's really you know, hockey fans, I think,
Speaker 1: and as passionate as they are, they're a good bunch too,
Speaker 1: maybe a little less critical. I almost text you last
Speaker 1: night when you said, Stephen gus Kowski a future Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. All right, let's let's talk about that. You
Speaker 1: think that's off phase or that he was a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer before last night? He's Hall of very good, Oh, Dan,
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, you know, a lot of this
Speaker 1: is statistically based. He's got every number. I think he's
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame kicker. How many kickers do we
Speaker 1: have in the Hall of Fame? By the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still a rude is uh. Ben A. Terry's going in,
Speaker 1: Morten Anderson's in. Yeah, yes, that's right, yep. Ray guy
Speaker 1: is a punter, but there it's really tough to get in.
Speaker 1: It's no, you're right, you're right. But but if anybody
Speaker 1: you know, Guskowski's numbers are off the charts, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he has more points. I think his accuracy level might
Speaker 1: be more than Ben A. Terry. Again, his career percentage
Speaker 1: went way down last night. I know, hard you know
Speaker 1: what gus Kowski's gonna have? You induct him? I think
Speaker 1: if he makes it into the Hall of Fame, yeah,
Speaker 1: I should, you're right again, And and there's the game
Speaker 1: winning kick he wins another y. Yeah, we'll leave about
Speaker 1: the four mitches. So that's that's a rough night, and
Speaker 1: you know we hopped on it a little bit. But
Speaker 1: you know, the Titans kick I think eight field goals
Speaker 1: all of last season, eight field goals the entire season,
Speaker 1: and still made it to the conference championship game. They
Speaker 1: were half away from the super Bowl, you know, so
Speaker 1: they got to figure that out. Mike Rabels should have
Speaker 1: never been in that spot last night. You know, forty
Speaker 1: seven in the NFL in altitude is a chippy and
Speaker 1: that you know, that was his longest kick last night,
Speaker 1: so that that game shouldn't have been close. That was
Speaker 1: that was ten points you know, off the board for Tennessee.
Speaker 1: That should have been there. So I think they were
Speaker 1: fortunate to escape with that postgame beers last night. H
Speaker 1: two two bud lights, that's my thing. Two bud lights.
Speaker 1: Got to be cool by yourself. Some of the fellas
Speaker 1: socially distanced of course, of course drinking through the mask, yes,
Speaker 1: which is not an easy trick. You know. You take
Speaker 1: the loop off your ear, take a ship, put the
Speaker 1: loop back on your ear. Very enjoyable. Bear. Oh you
Speaker 1: don't get cheated, do you. Hey, save travels and we'll
Speaker 1: be watching next week. And I didn't want to. I
Speaker 1: knew it was your first game, and I didn't want
Speaker 1: to text you anything. I just thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: let me. But when you said that, I go I
Speaker 1: was just gonna go Hall of ho F question Mark,
Speaker 1: but I thought, nah, I didn't. I didn't want confusion
Speaker 1: and I would have been unprofessional and doing something like that.
Speaker 1: You can't be a professional. I'll take your text anytime, brother,
Speaker 1: all Everyboddy save travels, thank you, leaves Steve leave. He
Speaker 1: missed her Monday night and he's got the Raiders against
Speaker 1: the Saints coming up. We overanalyze Monday Night football, and
Speaker 1: being at ESPN, they kept trying to come up with
Speaker 1: something because it's Monday Night football. Well, Sunday Night Football
Speaker 1: is the best broadcast team that you have. That's where
Speaker 1: the NFL funnels their best games. And they weren't trying
Speaker 1: to do anything gimmicky. They just took a great play
Speaker 1: by play voice and a great analyst in Chris Collinsworth,
Speaker 1: no bells and whistles, Michelle Tafoya. On the field, you
Speaker 1: have an unbelievable producer and director. But ESPN kept trying
Speaker 1: to recreate Howard Cosell and Don Meredith and Frank Gifford
Speaker 1: and you can't. And even when they had Booger McFarlane
Speaker 1: in there, and you had the Boogermobile and you had
Speaker 1: Jason Witten, they were trying to create something and I
Speaker 1: applaud ESPN with what they're doing. Leaves will give you
Speaker 1: the game. He's not going to color outside the lines,
Speaker 1: be wacky. He's not going to make it about himself.
Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick is a great Exes and O's football guy.
Speaker 1: Brian Greasy has been a partner of Leaves on college
Speaker 1: football for a long time. There's a comfort level there.
Speaker 1: All we wanted. We just want to see the game.
Speaker 1: We don't need anything fancy, and there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: just going let me settle in and not listen to
Speaker 1: somebody try so hard. Fowler and Herb Street did a
Speaker 1: wonderful job last night, but they've been together for twenty
Speaker 1: five years and all you want is comfort level. Maybe
Speaker 1: you recognize the voice, Maybe somebody's not trying to think this,
Speaker 1: overanalyze everything, and that's what ESPN did for decades. They
Speaker 1: add Tony Kornheiser in there. Love Tony. He's not a
Speaker 1: guy that you want in the booth. Dennis Miller, wonderful talent,
Speaker 1: not a guy you need in the booth. You're trying
Speaker 1: too hard with that, And hopefully ESPN got it right
Speaker 1: this time. And then they just let if the games
Speaker 1: are good, it's amazing how good the broadcast team is
Speaker 1: when they're good. When they're not. When the game isn't good,
Speaker 1: then you rely on your broadcast team a little bit more. Yeah. See, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like sometimes broadcasters want to prove how smart
Speaker 1: they are, how much they know with every sentence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's and not get that. I think there's a
Speaker 1: certain amount probably, like I don't know if it's insecurity
Speaker 1: or just the moment is so big that you're just
Speaker 1: trying to prove yourself. Some people will give you a
Speaker 1: chance or something. And I think Joe Tessatur did that
Speaker 1: last year on Monday Night Football. Is he wanted to
Speaker 1: let you know that he knew football because he's trying
Speaker 1: to establish credibility. And what happens is you're overshadowing. You're
Speaker 1: making the game about you more than you need to.
Speaker 1: Al Michaels knows football, but he knows that Chris Collinsworth
Speaker 1: is the guy who should be telling you he should
Speaker 1: be the analyst there. Your job is ands as hard
Speaker 1: as this is if if you want to be a
Speaker 1: radio host or a TV host, I can know the answer,
Speaker 1: but I still have to ask the question. Because that's
Speaker 1: why I have an analyst there. I could ask Tony
Speaker 1: Dungee something. I may know what he's going to say.
Speaker 1: I may even know a little more about that if
Speaker 1: I do research or have a source. But I my
Speaker 1: job is to set up my analyst to make my
Speaker 1: analyst sound great. Jim nance does this with any Romo.
Speaker 1: Jim has no ego, and he could easily have a
Speaker 1: huge ego. His job is to make Tony Romo great,
Speaker 1: and that's what he's done. All Right, we'll take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back, phone calls, and we'll check in with
Speaker 1: the Washington Football Club coming up next hour. Got a
Speaker 1: couple of games tonight, Game seven, Clippers in the Nuggets
Speaker 1: and Heat Celtics Game one. We're back after this in
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Speaker 1: the Peacock app so where Baseball is banning alcohol from
Speaker 1: locker room playoffs celebrations this season. Champagne showers, beer baths.
Speaker 1: That has to wait until next year because when they
Speaker 1: move on to the playoffs, you're not allowed to do this.
Speaker 1: According to Joel Sherman of The New York Post, Baseball
Speaker 1: is sending a memo to teams this week insisting that
Speaker 1: clinching celebrations must be socially distant outdoors and contain no
Speaker 1: alcohol due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. What about non
Speaker 1: alcoholic beer or champagne? And can I still spray the
Speaker 1: champagne if you're six feet apart, if you have goggles
Speaker 1: on and you have a face mask, can I do that? Yes, Poe.
Speaker 1: After almost every NFL game this weekend, the players massless
Speaker 1: went and gave each other hugs and said goodbye. I
Speaker 1: saw last night there's probably ninety players middling in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field and staying by each other. At
Speaker 1: the World Series win, You're going to celebrate with your teammates. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like you could do it with social distancing,
Speaker 1: But I'm not worried about my teammates at that point.
Speaker 1: It would be the other people that maybe aren't part
Speaker 1: of the team who would be involved in it, or
Speaker 1: if reporters came in there. But I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: my teammates at that point. Also, the Rams coach Sean
Speaker 1: McVeagh got a warning of not wearing his mask. He
Speaker 1: says that he is likely responsible for the NFL memo
Speaker 1: that was sent out yesterday to reinforce that coaches must
Speaker 1: wear face coverings at all times on the sidelines during games.
Speaker 1: McVay said last night during a video conference with reporters,
Speaker 1: I figured that memo was directed at me. I've been
Speaker 1: getting blasted all day about it, so I just love it,
Speaker 1: McVay said, in a bit of tongue in cheek, before
Speaker 1: continuing in a more serious tone. I will do better.
Speaker 1: He's uncertain. I feel stick with the face mask or
Speaker 1: potentially wear a neck gator. And when the Rams play
Speaker 1: the Eagles in Philadelphia on Sunday, I don't think he's
Speaker 1: going to do the face shield like Andy Reid. Is
Speaker 1: Andy Reid going to wear that again? That welder's mask?
Speaker 1: Is he going to do that again? And it was
Speaker 1: just he looked like he was in pain. He was
Speaker 1: the boy in the Bubble where that John Travolta movie
Speaker 1: that just his face in there. It was all fogged
Speaker 1: up in everything. He needs windshield wipers on there. I
Speaker 1: think that would, oh get rainex in there. The New
Speaker 1: York Mets have been sold to a really rich guy,
Speaker 1: Steve Cohen. He's got I don't know how many billions
Speaker 1: of dollars, but he bought the Mets. And apparently he
Speaker 1: was competing with Alex Rodriguez and J Loo, which I
Speaker 1: don't know how much competition was there, because he does
Speaker 1: legitimately have billions of dollars and can pay cash for
Speaker 1: the Mets, where A rod and J Loo and some
Speaker 1: other investors were looking I think at three hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars down payment. And if you're baseball, you just don't
Speaker 1: want to get into a situation where you're going to
Speaker 1: have maybe a cash flow shortage here and you want
Speaker 1: somebody who's got money to spend money in a big
Speaker 1: market like that with the New York Mets. And so
Speaker 1: Steve Cohen, real rich guy has bought the New York Mets.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but feels like at
Speaker 1: least they have a solid base there of money to
Speaker 1: go out and make some mistakes, go out and buy,
Speaker 1: spend over spend on free agents. Yes, you know that
Speaker 1: TV show Billions on Showtime. A lot of reporting said
Speaker 1: that the main character, Bobby Axe Rod was loosely based
Speaker 1: a number of hedge fund guys, most notably Steve Cohen
Speaker 1: or different situations he's been in during his career as
Speaker 1: an investors. The way I'd put it wasn't Steve Cohen
Speaker 1: involved in some some illegalities? I'm talking people people under him?
Speaker 1: Did some people go to prison? Yes, some of his
Speaker 1: underlings went to prison and he had to pay a big, big,
Speaker 1: big fine. Yeah, like a year's payroll for the Mets
Speaker 1: type fine. Yes, mcleland. Let's put it this way. A
Speaker 1: Rod was the ethical choice for the purchase. Not getting
Speaker 1: him on, No, well we can get a Rod on
Speaker 1: maybe now. Not Steve Cohen not a steroid user, No, no,
Speaker 1: he did not. Is not a steroid two times steroid user,
Speaker 1: we know. Yeah. The Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, he complained
Speaker 1: that the Padres didn't Clayton Kershaw proper respect after hitting
Speaker 1: a big home run Trent Grisham hit the home run,
Speaker 1: and he hit a home run in the sixth inning
Speaker 1: off Clayton Kershaw to tie the game, and he stared
Speaker 1: it down a little bit, and Dodgers Dave Roberts was
Speaker 1: not pleased. He said, I don't mind guys admiring a homer. Certainly,
Speaker 1: it's a big game, big hit. Roberts said after the game.
Speaker 1: I really like the player. I just felt that to
Speaker 1: over kind of stay at home and plate, certainly against
Speaker 1: a guy like Clayton, who's got the respect of everyone
Speaker 1: in the big leagues and what he's done in this game,
Speaker 1: I just took exception to that because I think there's
Speaker 1: a certain respect that you give a guy like that
Speaker 1: if you homer against him. People, I think then said, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. The Dodgers made remember when they hit
Speaker 1: the home run off Madison Bumgardner, didn't they turn it
Speaker 1: into a T shirt that they kind of sat there
Speaker 1: and admired their home run. Kershaw himself had the right position.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm not going to worry about their team.
Speaker 1: Let him do what he wants. So the Dodgers made
Speaker 1: that famous line about getting a ball out of the
Speaker 1: ocean when Madison Bumgardner beefed with Max Munseye and they
Speaker 1: turned it into a T shirt. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if I mean Madison Gardner has been a great picture
Speaker 1: over his career, but I mean, you hit a home run,
Speaker 1: you admire it. I don't know if it matters, should
Speaker 1: it matter? You're showing disrespect. Everybody gets caught up in
Speaker 1: what is old school and new school and showing respect.
Speaker 1: He has time, Robin Ventura can charge the mound that
Speaker 1: no one ryan throw all respect things out the window.
Speaker 1: Who's on the mound. Thank you, Todd. That'll set Twitter
Speaker 1: ablaze right there. We'll talk to Ron Rivera the Washington
Speaker 1: Football Club. He'll join us coming up in the final
Speaker 1: hour of the program. More phone calls as well back
Speaker 1: after this