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Speaker 1: First of all, once they announced that Seattle was missing
Speaker 1: all four of its top defensive Lineman game was over,
Speaker 1: you knew that Jared Goff was going to have time
Speaker 1: to throw. Golf. With time to throw is a much
Speaker 1: better version to me of Matt Ryan, and he goes
Speaker 1: eighteen for eighteen on the night. So I thought, really, Seattle,
Speaker 1: the fact that they almost, you know, forty two to
Speaker 1: twenty nine, and Seattle, I didn't think they got a
Speaker 1: great whistle tonight. I'm not somebody that spends a lot
Speaker 1: of time worrying about officiating. I think it goes both ways.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a couple of things on that
Speaker 1: two point conversion. I thought Seattle got kind of a
Speaker 1: less than average whistle tonight. They wouldn't have won the
Speaker 1: game anyway, because they couldn't make any stops. And you
Speaker 1: could tell very early in the game. Is that you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, Seattle's got a really good defensive coach, Whetherspoon
Speaker 1: in the backfield. They have linebackers that moved pretty well,
Speaker 1: but one of their linebackers got banged up. They just
Speaker 1: didn't have the personnel against the team with a really,
Speaker 1: really good offensive line, and so the game I didn't
Speaker 1: feel like, even when Seattle was threatening in the second half,
Speaker 1: you just knew that Detroit could pick up first downs
Speaker 1: if they had to, and they did. But I got
Speaker 1: to tell you something about Seattle. Five hundred and sixteen yards.
Speaker 1: If I'm Detroit coming out of that game, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you'd have taken out the four best offensive linemen
Speaker 1: for the Lions and they hung and still went and
Speaker 1: made it a competitive game in Seattle, you'd feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about it. I mean, I'm Seattle. I'm coming out
Speaker 1: of that game thinking we got five hundred and sixteen yards.
Speaker 1: Detroit's got some defensive issues. They haven't been good in
Speaker 1: the back end forever, Carlton Davis. They've made acquisitions through
Speaker 1: the years, they've drafted it. They're just not very good
Speaker 1: on the back end. And Gino Smith was under duress.
Speaker 1: But I mean DK Metcalf and their backs. I got
Speaker 1: to be Jackson Smith in JIGBA. I mean, they got
Speaker 1: guys got free against that secondary. And Gino Smith he
Speaker 1: was firing tonight. I Mean we all kind of see
Speaker 1: him as a B quarterback, but even rushed and flushed
Speaker 1: out of the pocket lot of success tonight. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't feel great about it. If I'm Detroit, I'm at home.
Speaker 1: It's Monday night, you know those home standalone games, the
Speaker 1: crowd is lubricated, ready to go. It feels like that's
Speaker 1: a two or three point swing. Seattle's missing their best
Speaker 1: four defensive linemen and kept it reasonably close. I was
Speaker 1: kind of blown away by Seattle's effort. I think Detroit
Speaker 1: and Seattle all even is a go either way football game,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it should be. I think Mike
Speaker 1: McDonald's an excellent coach for the Seahawks. They won't be
Speaker 1: missing their four top defensive lineman for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. And I thought it was a very, very
Speaker 1: spirited effort. And I've said this before about Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: When you give Jared Goff, there's qualifiers with Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: If you give him time to throw, like tonight, and
Speaker 1: you give him a reasonable running game, he can spin it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he throws a beautiful football. He's accurate, smart
Speaker 1: kid at the line of scrimmage, gets it out, throws
Speaker 1: it to the right spot. And you know, tonight was
Speaker 1: just it was a seven on seven drill for him.
Speaker 1: You know, his dad a major league baseball player. He's
Speaker 1: you know, he can sling it, he can spin it,
Speaker 1: and Jared always has I will. You know again, I
Speaker 1: think he's a better Matt Ryan, same mobility, but a bigger,
Speaker 1: stronger arm. And so tonight the healthier team wins. And
Speaker 1: that's my first take. My second take on the Titans
Speaker 1: and Miami really a bad product tonight. As you're dealing
Speaker 1: with Will Levis, despite the fact that somebody and his
Speaker 1: family went to the Ivy League Yale, I believe his
Speaker 1: judgment was impaired in the SEC and he makes really
Speaker 1: bad throws in the NFL. He was banged up tonight.
Speaker 1: So the quality of the product was awful. And if
Speaker 1: you ever wonder why the NFL is trying to protect
Speaker 1: their quarterbacks, that game is a great example of it.
Speaker 1: It was a win for Tua. And you know, listen,
Speaker 1: I've said it. I can like Dak not love him.
Speaker 1: I can like Geno Smith not love him. I can
Speaker 1: like Tua not love him. Look at Miami's offense with
Speaker 1: those weapons and that coach without Tua unwatchable, just Drack completely,
Speaker 1: absolutely unwatchable. And so you know, my feeling on that
Speaker 1: is it buys Tua so much credibility in that locker
Speaker 1: room and in that community, is that he's got limitations
Speaker 1: on size, his injuries, the concussions. You know, he doesn't
Speaker 1: throw a terribly forceful deep ball. You worry about him
Speaker 1: playing up north in bad weather. But in that offense,
Speaker 1: he's a left handed Drew Brees. He's accurate, he gets
Speaker 1: rid of it quickly, he's on assignment, he's coachable, he's
Speaker 1: a grown up. And without Tua with some weapons and
Speaker 1: brain power on that offense, they're unwatchable, completely unwatchable. So
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins in the last three years are one
Speaker 1: and five without Tua, and they average thirteen points a game,
Speaker 1: and that's with those receivers in that coach, So they
Speaker 1: lose by eleven points without Tua. So you don't have
Speaker 1: to be Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: If you're an accurate distributor of the football and you
Speaker 1: have an offensive coach with a detailed schematic system, you
Speaker 1: are very valuable. You know, do I want to get
Speaker 1: a better price on Tua? Do I need to support him?
Speaker 1: And he's done it, by the way, without great offensive
Speaker 1: line play in Miami, they've spent a lot of money
Speaker 1: on receivers and because of that, there's some limitations with
Speaker 1: salary on the offensive line. And you know, so I
Speaker 1: thought it was a credible night for Tua buying a
Speaker 1: lot of favor going forward in that locker room. So
Speaker 1: Pete Rose passed away the hit king. You can't talk
Speaker 1: about Pete Rose when I first got into this business,
Speaker 1: and it was a slow day in June or July
Speaker 1: or August, if you wanted to get phone calls, I
Speaker 1: mean it was, and maybe this was fifteen twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: but if you wanted to get phone calls, Pete Rose
Speaker 1: hall of fame, yeay or nay. Pete wasn't an honest man.
Speaker 1: He was also a fairly complicated guy. You know. I
Speaker 1: just ended up watching a documentary on Pete Rose to
Speaker 1: get the streaming service it was on. So when I
Speaker 1: grew up, my favorite team in the nineteen seventies was
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Red. So I'm sure if you've listened to
Speaker 1: me for years, you know that, you know, let off
Speaker 1: with Pete Rose and Ken Grissy Griffy batted second and
Speaker 1: it was Joe Morgan and a Johnny Bench, George Foster,
Speaker 1: Tony Perez, Dan Dreesen. I mean, I could go to
Speaker 1: the backup catcher, Bill Plummer, Saesar Geronimo, Dave Concepsio. National
Speaker 1: League pitchers hit Jack Billings, Fred Norman couldn't hit. Jack
Speaker 1: Billingham couldn't hit. None of the Reds pitchers could hit.
Speaker 1: But it didn't really matter because they had the big
Speaker 1: Red machine. They had this incredibly powerful offense, and Pete
Speaker 1: Rose was the engineer of all of it. He wasn't
Speaker 1: didn't have power, I didn't run particularly well, but he
Speaker 1: was Charlie Hustle. And so you know, when I was
Speaker 1: a kid growing up, two of my favorite baseball players
Speaker 1: were Pete Rose and George Brett of the Kansas City
Speaker 1: Royals because of how they played. Now, Brett I thought
Speaker 1: was the better athlete and hit with more power and
Speaker 1: was a very very elite third baseman. So George Brett
Speaker 1: to me, always looked like the better athlete hit with power.
Speaker 1: But Pete and George Brett played with the same kind
Speaker 1: of intensity and passion that it just when I was
Speaker 1: a kid in the seventies, it just jumped through the
Speaker 1: TV set so you couldn't watch baseball, which was a
Speaker 1: much bigger deal and had much greater social currency in
Speaker 1: the seventies than it does now. NFL is King, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing, you know, even close, but baseball in the seventies,
Speaker 1: you know, the NBC Saturday Game of the Week, Phillies
Speaker 1: and the Pirates and the Reds and the Dodgers were
Speaker 1: just star studded teams and it was just can't miss stuff.
Speaker 1: I was a National League kid over an American League kid,
Speaker 1: and my first job at a college was broadcasting Triple
Speaker 1: A Baseball one inning of the Las Vegas Stars. So
Speaker 1: I was really a baseball guy because you know, at
Speaker 1: that time, you know, I was playing little league baseball,
Speaker 1: maybe it was, and baseball marketed and had big stars.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to name ten baseball players. Obviously
Speaker 1: there's Aaron Judge and Milki Betts and Otanian and you know,
Speaker 1: there's a handful of stars. But it just felt different
Speaker 1: in the seventies than it does now. And I love
Speaker 1: Pete Rose and then Pete Rose goes to the Phillies
Speaker 1: and you know he's a character. But baseball in the
Speaker 1: seventies had characters, you know, Mark Fiedrich and Mickey Rivers
Speaker 1: and Pete Rose. I mean the owner Charlie Finley of
Speaker 1: the A's was a character. And for some reason, baseball
Speaker 1: started sort of getting into this in the nineties and
Speaker 1: beyond sort of there's a way to play the game.
Speaker 1: The stewards of baseball, and it felt like it was
Speaker 1: just sucking the fun out of baseball. And in the
Speaker 1: seventies Al Raboski, the mad Hungarian for the Cardinals, number
Speaker 1: thirty nine, the reliever. There was just all this big, crazy,
Speaker 1: wild personality in baseball and you just don't feel like
Speaker 1: you get it today. You get it more in other sports.
Speaker 1: But you know, in terms of pete and gambling, I
Speaker 1: think I've probably changed my opinion. I think I was
Speaker 1: more dogmatic about it early, but over the course of time,
Speaker 1: he's the hit king. And I mean, we've got a
Speaker 1: sport which was laden with all sorts of steroid use
Speaker 1: and abuse, and nobody really knows. Remember when they did
Speaker 1: the Mitchell Report and what a circus that was. So
Speaker 1: it was the Mitchell Report, and they've got a significant
Speaker 1: amount of their information from like three clubhouses on the
Speaker 1: East Coast. Well, if you'd have done the Angels, the A's,
Speaker 1: the Podreys and the Mariner clubhouses, you'd have had different stories.
Speaker 1: And so you know, baseball, major League baseball was so
Speaker 1: late on steroids. It may have started with Ken Kamanitti,
Speaker 1: the former San Diego Padre power hitting third baseman. Did
Speaker 1: it start with Conseco? I don't really know the genesis
Speaker 1: of it, but I mean so much of baseball as
Speaker 1: an asterisk, and you know, I kind of look at
Speaker 1: Pete Rose and I think he didn't really change the
Speaker 1: outcome of his hits, and so as a baseball player,
Speaker 1: Pete was. He was intense. He wasn't always up front
Speaker 1: from his personals to his professional life. But I can't
Speaker 1: take away what he did as a player. I just
Speaker 1: have so many fond memories of his style, of his effort,
Speaker 1: of his passion, the Ray Fosse collision at home plate.
Speaker 1: Everything about Pete was intensity, and I appreciated it as
Speaker 1: a kid, and I think as I've gotten older as
Speaker 1: a sportscaster, I still I think have a lot of
Speaker 1: passion for the business. But I'm not as dogmatic on issues.
Speaker 1: You know, I've had kids, people make mistakes, I make mistakes,
Speaker 1: So I posthumously I would vote him into the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. There's a lot of characters in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. You know, years and years ago, I worked
Speaker 1: for a news director named Mike Cutler, and you know,
Speaker 1: he had one of the days we were talking about
Speaker 1: some issue in sports. For all I know it was
Speaker 1: Pete Rose. And if I recall, Mike was more of
Speaker 1: a Midwest guy, and it may have been we were
Speaker 1: talking about Pete Rose and he said, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't know what you don't know about people when everybody
Speaker 1: was judging Tiger Woods for his affair or affairs in
Speaker 1: his marriage, and I thought, oh, give me a break. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty legendary. Some of the great golfers
Speaker 1: of all time and some of the most beloved figures
Speaker 1: in golf were hounds. I mean, so you know what
Speaker 1: we have in society today, and I see this all
Speaker 1: the time. People with no real insighter sourcing have the
Speaker 1: strongest opinions. And I've gotten over time kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit more forgiving on it because the more I've
Speaker 1: learned through the years, and the more sources I've had
Speaker 1: on different stories, the less I realize. I know, when
Speaker 1: I was in my twenties and thirties, I didn't have
Speaker 1: that many sources and thought I knew everything. And now
Speaker 1: as I get older and I'm in my fifties and
Speaker 1: now I'm sixty, I have more sources and more contacts
Speaker 1: and more knowledge than I've ever had, And to me,
Speaker 1: it just kind of illustrates how little I know is.
Speaker 1: There's so many things going on. I'm watching this Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon documentary right now, and I have friends connected to
Speaker 1: the WWE, and you'll hear a lot if you watch
Speaker 1: this documentary on Netflix about Vince McMahon. It's not the
Speaker 1: half of it. It is not the half of it.
Speaker 1: So we live in a world with social media now
Speaker 1: wur people have strong opinions and don't really have a
Speaker 1: ton of insight or sourcing on stuff. So I look
Speaker 1: at Pete Rose and I think he was a great player,
Speaker 1: he was a hit king. I let him in. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I have the strongest affection for his character
Speaker 1: or his personality and the things he did. Life's complex.
Speaker 1: People are complex. I can admire your achievements and not
Speaker 1: think much of you your character. I mean, we live
Speaker 1: in a country right now with Donald Trump. I'm vacation
Speaker 1: with conservatives. I've got conservative friends, Bill Volt Republican. They
Speaker 1: don't like Trump. Things are more complex. We tend to
Speaker 1: want things gift wrapped and in tiny boxes, and that's
Speaker 1: just not as I got older, it's just not how
Speaker 1: life is. You have to sacrifice, you have to be forgiving.
Speaker 1: And I know it's the Baseball Hall of Fame, but
Speaker 1: the truth is, all this stuff is subjective, and i'd
Speaker 1: vote Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame. I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of unscrupulous people in Hall of Fames.
Speaker 1: There could be some bad people voting on Hall of Fames.
Speaker 1: I'd let him in. But he left an indelible mark
Speaker 1: on me just as a baseball player. The way he
Speaker 1: played the game. George Brett Pete Rose. One National League,
Speaker 1: one American League. They just played at a different level
Speaker 1: with intensity, and it's in my head today. I can
Speaker 1: close my eyes and think of images of Pete Rose
Speaker 1: barreling over catchers and sliding in the third. I don't
Speaker 1: remember I didn't see it live, the Buddy Harrelson's story
Speaker 1: with the Mets, the fight broke out, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: I've just seen YouTube clips and pictures of it. But
Speaker 1: that sort of defined sort of Pete Rose. And as
Speaker 1: I watched you know, the Netflix special on him, he
Speaker 1: was a Cincinnati kid through and through, and I'd been
Speaker 1: in his presence four or five times. Was in his
Speaker 1: presence four or five times. He was hard not to like.
Speaker 1: He was funny, he'd let it rip. He was sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, borderline inappropriate with the things he would say.
Speaker 1: But he had a great love for the sport of baseball.
Speaker 1: And it's a sport which hasn't felt the same to
Speaker 1: me since the seventies and eighties. It just doesn't have
Speaker 1: the social currency it used to have. I mean, I
Speaker 1: saw a story this week where, and I forget who
Speaker 1: reported on it, it may have been Andrew Marshan at
Speaker 1: The New York Post that ESPN is considering moving Jeff
Speaker 1: Passon their story breaker in Baseball to the NBA. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what they're struggling as a sport to get networks to
Speaker 1: latch onto another big contract. The Apple TV Baseball deal
Speaker 1: didn't work. The Roku deal was kind of embarrassing. Baseball
Speaker 1: got thirty million dollars for a TV contract. ESPN and
Speaker 1: Fox don't feel like they want to go all in
Speaker 1: on baseball. And to me, in my life, Pete takes
Speaker 1: me back to a time when I was a young
Speaker 1: kid and it was my favorite sport. The seventies and
Speaker 1: the eighties and I can name infields and pitching staffs
Speaker 1: back then, and Pete was a part of that. The
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