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They regressed horribly. 20 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: It's over. They didn't have Magic and Kareem No, it 21 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 1: was tough. Magic was too busy tweeting about his friend 22 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan today. No Worthy, no Wilkes. Yeah, that was 23 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: tough one. It was tough today. Rambis was on the bench. Yep, yep, yep, yep. 24 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: You forgot his goggles so he couldn't play, No Chuck Nevitt. 25 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: I mean he needed some to bring in some big 26 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: minutes off the bench, and it wasn't there either. Ronny 27 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: showed grit though. Oh it was gritty down sixteen and 28 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: the third. I just really wanted to see that thirty 29 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: five foot fade away turn around jump shot fall just 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: had absolute chaos. Luke Luca possession. I'll tell you what 31 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: that that Luca final possession for the Lakers that looked 32 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: big game in the NBA Tonight one thirteen, one ten, 33 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: the Pistons beat the Lakers. Luka Dancic had a chance 34 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: to tie the game in the final nine seconds, couldn't 35 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: really get a good look. Was d'd up pretty good 36 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: and his three did not go. So the Lakers, Hey, 37 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna lose once in a while. Look, they're twenty 38 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: games over five hundred. This streak, the last couple of 39 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: weeks has come out of nowhere. Lucas still in what's 40 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: an off night for him, goes for thirty two, seven rebound, 41 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: six assists, didn't shoot particularly well tonight was bad from three, 42 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: but still, here's a night where the Lakers are tired. 43 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: You're missing two of your rotation guys. Yes, the Pistons 44 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: were missing Kid Cunningham tonight, so it's one of those. Okay, 45 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: whatever this game is, it is. But I'll tell you 46 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: what I saw more about the Lakers in defeat tonight 47 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: than about the Pistons, who I just kind of expect 48 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: to win games like this. Where are you afraid of Frostburg? 49 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: Now that's the question I have to ask, because you're 50 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: being really, really complimentary and loving on the Lakers, and 51 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: it's almost like you're you're afraid he's gonna hit you. 52 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: It's because we've taught Look, Luca should be the MVP. 53 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 1: He probably will be the MVP, and coming into Look, 54 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: he's the only player that we really talk about in 55 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: the NBA over the course of the past few weeks. 56 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 1: Now it's it's okay, Sga is gonna get to the 57 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: games to be m v P. Luca has become the 58 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: Alpha and Omega for all NBA talk. But look, at 59 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: where this week that the rescinded technical foul was everywhere. 60 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: That's insane, by the way, everywhere. But the fact that 61 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: this is what this is the third time I think 62 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: he's had his sixteenth technical that seems and in this 63 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: case it's a he said versus he said. Because nobody 64 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: else understands what they're saying to each other. My whole 65 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: family eyes that I have sex with his fan. What 66 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: the hell are we talking about? Just listen? Can we 67 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: just just get rid of the technical? Okay, that's fine. 68 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: You called the technical, You've got nothing to disprove it. 69 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: What are you gonna say? Doesn't make sense to me. 70 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a great comparison for you. You ever 71 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: see burn After reading und I need to get back Jude, 72 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: I readded when uh when? When? Who was? What character 73 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: was that comes into JK. Simmons office at the end 74 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: and ask him for like a bunch of like and JK. 75 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: Simmons is is you know, in the government, And he's 76 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: just like, okaying stuff the entire movie and and someone 77 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: comes in and says, I want this and it sounds ridiculous, 78 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: and he goes, you know what, we just you know what, 79 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: I don't care. Pay it whatever, he's his blanket and 80 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: pay it. I don't care. I don't care. Like he's 81 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: done right. I think that's where it is. You know what, 82 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: you said, this about someone's family and who's family, and 83 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: now we got pictures of people's family onto you know what, 84 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: Just rescind it. Re fine, Let's just let's move on. 85 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: This is just ridiculous. Let's rescind it, Just risen it, 86 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: move on, but move on. Keep him from being suspended. 87 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: So he plays tonight. Didn't shoot particularly well and they're 88 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: win over the weekend against Orlando, but doesn't matter. They 89 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: get the w tonight. A fun fourth quarter. I mean 90 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 1: we were watching it waiting on the red light to 91 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: come on. And you know, fun, thrilling, tear drop jump 92 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: shots and big possessions down the stretch. And you'll be 93 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: happy to know. Current odds Shake Gilgus Alexander minus fifteen hundred. 94 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: That's down from minus two thousand, Luca up to twelve 95 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 1: to one, twelve to one, Wemby thirty three to one, drifting, drifting, 96 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: waving goodbye, Luca's reeling it is. It doesn't matter how 97 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: great I am, Lucas really all my heroics over here 98 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: and last second shot the other night, nobody gave a 99 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: damn well. Look. And that's the thing is that Wemby 100 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: with the Games has become a thing. Everybody with the 101 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: Games has become a thing, right, so many people. That's 102 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: why sga is Is is the leader because it's well, 103 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: he won last year, they're just as good this year, 104 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: and he's gonna get to sixty five games. Okay, that's 105 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: really the level we're at. But Luca has seized the 106 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: narrative and not only that the Lakers are winning. Look, 107 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: we we've talked about this and sometimes it's about being 108 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: the story and being able to be the story. That 109 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: that is something that is not counted as much when 110 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: when we talk about things and how people sees the 111 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: narratives on things. And I was thinking about this today. 112 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: It was weird, not not to not to be political 113 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: about it, but just two things I remember from the 114 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: election last year, right within twenty four hours of each other, 115 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: Like Kamala Harris had a big, big rally somewhere that 116 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: had like thirty thousand people at it, and it was 117 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: a big deal and they put it on was up 118 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: on social media and it was everywhere it's like, wow, 119 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: there's a big deal. And it was that when Trump 120 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: worked at McDonald's. Right, so you have two really big 121 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: things that happen. Right, here's a big rally because that 122 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: became a whole big thing with the election. Whose crowds 123 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: are bigger and where they are? And Kamala Harris had 124 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: this huge rally in a place where you wouldn't expect. 125 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: Big deal. Trump works at McDonald's, and that story's everywhere 126 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: for like four days. It's like, here's two big stories. 127 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: You could see. Wow, you can see who can grab 128 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: the storyline and grab the attention and grab the narrative. 129 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: And that's a thing. Right, This is just two two 130 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: candidates had two big story different reasons, and all of 131 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: a sudden, the McDonald's thing had legs for days. Now, 132 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: I mean it's McDonald's, but like that had legs for days. 133 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: And now you see the same thing here in the NBA, 134 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: Like SGA is not grabbing a narrative. The only narrative 135 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: SGA has grabbed is that, well, he shoots too many 136 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: free throws. Okay, what about the other stuff he does? Yeah, 137 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: but he's at the free throw kicks peak and he 138 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 1: gets to there throw line, all right, well, and he 139 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: tied the Wilt Chamberlain on court rat yea. And with Wemby, 140 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: it's wow. Wemby's incredible and he's got the it factor, 141 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: but he's in and out of the lineup, and the 142 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: Spurs win with him, they win without him. But but 143 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: Luca just has that it factor and the sexiness. It's 144 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: the Lakers versus Oklahoma City versus San Antonio, so you 145 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: can see where it's coming, and he is he has 146 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: sees that narrative. That's what I mean. Like this weekend, 147 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: no other NBA story was anywhere, but the Luca te 148 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,559 Speaker 1: story was just you seeing play out on social media. 149 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: And I mean pictures of people's families are out there. 150 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: Here's so and So's wife and I'm like, what is 151 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: this is insane? Well, this shows you how Luca he's 152 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: reeling everybody in because you had the backstory of everything 153 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: going on with Luca and his now custody battle and 154 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: divorce and and everything else and trying to get it 155 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: transferred as to what rules of finance and separation of 156 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: assets comes into play. Clearly his ex would like it 157 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: to be in California. Very favorable yea. For her. He's like, nope, 158 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: it's over there cross the seas where I win. But 159 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: all of that say, it gets the family involved, which 160 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: is why you have this little back and forth on 161 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: the court, and it becomes a huge thing, as well 162 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: as everybody pushing back the the photos of anything they 163 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: can make where it looks like he has muscle striation 164 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: in his tricep deltoys right, look it out, great he 165 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: is and now in shape he is and everything else. 166 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: Look him diving on the loose ball today was everywhere 167 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: people in on on Twitter. I've never seen Luca die 168 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: for a loose It's like, well, Lebron did it last week. 169 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: Anything you can do, I can do better. Listen, we 170 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: don't have time to talk about the third best player 171 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: on the Lakers. No, we don't, we don't. He was 172 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 1: scoreless for a long time. They were mocking him on 173 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: the Lakers broad as I was driving it like, you 174 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: know he's scoreless still, but all scoreless at halftime, Lebron, 175 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: I know you have no time for the fourth best 176 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: player on the making the fourth best player. That guys 177 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: just keeps drifting. And then Ruy was in street close, 178 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: so fifth best he plays. But all of that to 179 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: say with Luca, it's it's been a lot of positivity 180 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 1: and the ability to carry the team. I'll tell you 181 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: there's two dates that we circle on the calendar right now, 182 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: four to two and four to seven, head to head 183 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: matchups against OKC one home, one room. Yeah, I mean, 184 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 1: those are the two games that should decide a lot 185 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: of things. And it's not gonna matter in the standings 186 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: because the stands, the Lakers are too far behind, right, 187 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: and the Spurs keep winning. The Lakers want to hold 188 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: on to that third spot. But that's the that's the 189 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: achieving like that the bar is so low for Luca 190 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: because of this. It's like, hey, if you could just 191 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: get the Lakers up in the standings a little bit, 192 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: man Like, we're not saying you got to be number one, 193 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: like like SGA has done with Oklahoma City or Wemby's 194 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: done with with San Antonio. Just get up a little bit. 195 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: And now the Lakers going from six or seventh, six seventh, sixth, Yeah, 196 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: you just wanted to do well. I mean three weeks ago, 197 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: it was are they gonna even say out of the 198 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: plane they're gonna wind up be in? But a month 199 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 1: ago they went on that horrible week and a half 200 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 1: period where everybody back to so like some of the 201 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: chatter now is so disingenuous, Like you all watched the 202 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 1: same thing. They were terrible for a couple of weeks 203 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: straight lost what five of seven, and things seem to 204 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 1: be unraveling, a lot of finger pointing, a lot of 205 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: talking out of turn everything else. And then they go 206 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:23,479 Speaker 1: on this tremendous streak. He's what had thirty straight thirty 207 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: thirty plus nine straight games along with nine wins, which 208 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: had never been done in NBA history, which is insane. 209 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: But you look at the road he's on that, Yeah, 210 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: it becomes a dominant story for SGA consistency. It may 211 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: actually work against him in this regard because we're trying 212 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: to find a big story. We just got past Oscar season, 213 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: so you need something to grab on to for hardware. Yeah, 214 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 1: I mean looks it's where we're all kind of waiting 215 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: for something too, right. Nobody likes the Oh, this guy's 216 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: great and his team is good and easy MVP. Okay, 217 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: that's great, that's good. We like exciting stuff, right, That's 218 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: why this whole year has been instead of the default, 219 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: who gets to sixty five and then then we're gonna 220 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: parse it out. It's we need and he has grabbed 221 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: that with a lot of time to go on the 222 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: perfect time, because look, what do we say about the 223 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: last twenty games in the NBA season? Generally they are irrelevant, right, 224 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: And again this outcome doesn't really matter, doesn't matter for 225 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: the Pistons, does whatever happens doesn't matter for the Spurs 226 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: or the Thunder, the Knicks, the Celtics. Is there a 227 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: difference between finishing second or third or third and fourth. 228 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: So we're in a part where we know this NBA 229 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: schedule with teams that we're tanking before are even more 230 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: tanking now because hey, we're just getting to the end 231 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 1: of the season. Now, we're just trying to get more 232 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: ping pong balls in. Like the tanking is worse now 233 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: the last twenty games. So in a time when we're 234 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: really looking for some sort of narrative because Okay, the 235 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: NFL has gone away, we're still leading up to the 236 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: to the NFL Draft. Major League Baseball starts the end 237 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: of this week. Okay, that's great, but now we want 238 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: to get to the NBA playoffs. We need something, and 239 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: Lucas provided that and He's great play at a perfect 240 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: time for the Lakers to make their run up to 241 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: third in the Western Conference, and that's all they have 242 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: to do. As as we've seen it, the odds just 243 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: in the last five days for MVP right have gone Luca. 244 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 1: When we talked about him on the air, what was 245 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: it Thursday night, and the odds went from thirty five 246 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: to one to twenty to one and we were on 247 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: the air, I mean just in the in the twelve 248 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: minutes we were on the air talking about Luca winning MVP. Yeah, 249 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: we are affecting change here at Fox Sports Radio, moving 250 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: a lot of money. I mean, it went from thirty 251 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: five to one to twenty one. Now he's now he's 252 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: twelve to one, and now the odds have come down 253 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: for he's reeling in SGA. I didn't say. I didn't 254 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: say this was going to be something that happened overnight. 255 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: But now you can see that Luca has really starting 256 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: to reelment like I'm waiting for the for the gift 257 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: of what's the one they used to use for DK 258 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,839 Speaker 1: Metcalf when he ran down Buddha Bakery and Buddha Baker's 259 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: ahead of him the whole time and then DK Metcalf 260 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: tackles him inside the ten. I'm waiting for the SGA 261 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 1: Luca heads on that to come on. I'm waiting for 262 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: that or that one. Because we get Buddha Baker end 263 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: of the show. We don't get to talk about him 264 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: looking back and he's looking back and then eventually he 265 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: catches him. But it's at your page. Always say don't 266 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: look back. Someone might be catching you. That's so I mean, 267 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: don't look back. Keep running, Bud, keep running. I just 268 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: want to look up, look up at the scoreboard like 269 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: everybody else does. On someone in the second level, in 270 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: the end zone, seats that you love and you're gonna 271 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 1: throw the ball to. I don't just accept that the 272 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: Lakers are back. Man before the Lakers being back in 273 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: the playoff, except Lucas the m v P because reeling in. 274 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll tell you this. Though he's got 275 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: a three GA, I was gonna say it's got a 276 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: three game run up now Indiana, because they won today. 277 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: All right, then they've got the Nets and then they've 278 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: got the Wizards. That's gonna be any It's gonna be 279 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: an easy run right there. I had him a game 280 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: against Cleveland here in l A. 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Well joining us now on the 327 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: hotline to break down big wide receiver news, big quarterback dilemmas. 328 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: Longtime NFL insider check them out on Twitter at Jason 329 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: lock and for Also I want to bet with us. 330 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: It is Jason Lock and for a Jay. What's happening? 331 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 5: Man? 332 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: How are you? 333 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 4: I'm doing all right? How are you guys? 334 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I think Jackson Smith and JIGB 335 00:16:58,280 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: is doing better than all of us. But you know, 336 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: if as long as we're okay, is going to be. 337 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 4: Doing even better than him, at least a couple of 338 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 4: dollars better. 339 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, you think he's getting a bigger deal. Yes, 340 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: So the knucklehead effect in any of the uh little 341 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: little things off the field won't. 342 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 4: Won't hurt him, I don't. I don't think so. No, 343 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 4: he's such a perfect fit for what they do, and 344 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 4: he's bigger and stronger and more of the an impact 345 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 4: in the run game than uh Rian Jigbas asked to 346 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,199 Speaker 4: do or could do, I mean, or reasonably could do. 347 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 4: And I'm not talking about pitch plays and end the 348 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 4: rounds for these guys carrying the ball, and they both 349 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 4: do a little bit of that. But what what Kua 350 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 4: is He basically plays five positions for that team. I mean, 351 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 4: he's he's the receiving tight end, he's the blocking tight end, 352 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 4: He's the best slot receiver, he's the best outside receiver. 353 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 4: You can put him in motion. He can run the ball. 354 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 4: Uh and and Stafford's not going to be there forever. 355 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 4: So like I mean, I think he's at his peak 356 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 4: even better than what Cooper Crump told do for them 357 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 4: because he's I think a little more explosive. So yeah, 358 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 4: I think and more to the point people, I mean 359 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 4: I talk to people about it today. I mean, yeah, 360 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 4: Nikol is going to get more and look, there's a 361 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 4: fifth year option of Smith and Jigma, right, so that 362 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 4: that works in the team's favor while you pay him 363 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,360 Speaker 4: more money to be the first round pick and obviously 364 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 4: to find Na Coola where they found him in the 365 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 4: draft is a coup, but you can't, you know, you 366 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 4: Smith and jigg has got to go through a fifty 367 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 4: year option to get to a franchise tag situation where 368 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Nikool is closer to it, 369 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 4: and so good old John Sneyder for getting it done first. 370 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 4: And yeah, I think Nikola will We'll leap frog this 371 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 4: sometime between now and before the start of the regular season. 372 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: Well he has. My though with JSNJ is that, look, 373 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: this is a guy who is still twenty four and 374 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,959 Speaker 1: as much as as Nikua does, as great as he is. 375 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: You know, guys like Nikula and Jefferson and Jamar Chase, 376 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: they all have pretty good guys playing opposite them or 377 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: they got really really good quarterbacks. And JSN has a 378 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: bunch of jags, you know. I mean, he's a guy 379 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: that somehow finds a way to still catch one hundred 380 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: and twenty passes when I mean the next biggest threat 381 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: the team has is a two old Cooper Cupper or 382 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: an underachieving Rashid Shaheed like he he kind of he's 383 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: kind of that entire offense there in Seattle. 384 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, I don't think he's quite as versatile as Nikua. 385 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 4: I think the way Nikou is built, and to be 386 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 4: able to do the things he does down downfield the 387 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 4: way he's built like he is, and to be able 388 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,959 Speaker 4: to beat people up at the line of scrimmage. Now, well, 389 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 4: some of that eventually have a detrimental effect to the 390 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,199 Speaker 4: length of his career, I mean possibly, But I mean 391 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,239 Speaker 4: this guy was what tracking in twenty twenty three. I mean, 392 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 4: he's in his peak, peak, prime prime. I mean, they're 393 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 4: just they're just different. They're different. They're both absolutely at 394 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 4: the pinnacle of offensive playmakers in this league. I think 395 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 4: in that with Sean McVeagh call him plays and and 396 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 4: the things that they do. I think Tokaku would be 397 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 4: a demon even if the quarterback didn't, you know, win 398 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 4: the MVP last year. But look, I think we have 399 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 4: to start talking a little differently about Sam Donald now too. 400 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 4: Like he's not top liver, he's not a guy off 401 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 4: the strap scrap heap. He's he's got a super Bowl title. Now, 402 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 4: he's put together back to back top ten seasons for quarterbacks. 403 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 4: And we'll say, I mean, if they're going to have 404 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 4: to be a little more volume in that Seattle pass 405 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 4: game this year, the defense is just so good, you know, 406 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 4: and I think that helps with and Jigba as well, 407 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 4: because you just you just know that jeab is probably 408 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 4: gonna probably gonna shut you down, and I you know, 409 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 4: I think the Rams is probably a little more pressure 410 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 4: on them. They have to keep going, to go and 411 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 4: keep scoring. There were some games last year where Seattle 412 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 4: could just totally take the air out of the ball 413 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 4: and not have to play the second half. I'm not 414 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 4: sure that that's exactly it for the Rams. But these 415 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 4: two did they deserve to be the two highest paid. 416 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 4: I mean, that's taken nothing away from Juan Chase and 417 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 4: nothing away from Jefferson. And we could sit here and 418 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 4: start ranking at one through five or one to ten, 419 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 4: but you know how it is, timings everything, and the 420 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 4: cap keeps soaring, and these are the you know, arguably 421 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 4: the two best teams in the NFL, and they've got 422 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 4: two receivers who are both just completed their third year, 423 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 4: and they're going to be the two highest paid receivers 424 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 4: in the league. 425 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: Now, I Doug that you added Sam Darneld to it, 426 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: because if not, that was the follow up of how 427 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: my partner here was dismissing the greatness of Sam Donald. 428 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 4: I mean, look, he's not. He's he's he's not an afterthought. 429 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 4: He's a highly compensated, now highly successful quarterback. And that's 430 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 4: in two different places with two different play callers. So 431 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 4: we can't just say it's all a uh, you know, 432 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 4: he's a product of this guy or a product of 433 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:27,479 Speaker 4: that guy. He's he was the biggest thing that changed 434 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 4: in Seattle. I mean, far and away from the year 435 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 4: not making the playoffs in McDonald's first year to being 436 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 4: the last team standing. I mean that the biggest difference 437 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 4: was the quarterback. 438 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 5: All right. 439 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: Moving on as we start to look ahead towards the draft, 440 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: is how big is the gap between Mendoza and Simpson? 441 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 4: Jeez? I mean, I don't even know that Simpsons is 442 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 4: definitely the second best quarterback and draft A lot of 443 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 4: evaluators I taught to think the kids from North Dakota 444 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 4: State has higher upside and does his build and everything 445 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 4: about him some people prefer, I think, what we're really 446 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 4: drilling down on here? I think, what the real he 447 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 4: question is? I really, I mean Simpson, whatever, is Mendoza 448 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 4: a true one? One? I don't think so. I don't 449 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 4: think he is. And I think that's what people are 450 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 4: getting at and does he have the ideal sample size 451 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 4: that you would like, you know what I mean? No, 452 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 4: was he playing his absolute best football against some of 453 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 4: the best defenses in the country. At the end of 454 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 4: the season. He was managing games and he was making 455 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 4: plays with his legs, but he wasn't dominating with his arm. 456 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 4: It's not a great quarterback draft. He's the most proficient, 457 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 4: most successful, most prolific. And there's a lot of quarterback 458 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 4: needs in this league, and some people through darts in 459 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 4: the offseason, but no one thinks they really solved it. 460 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 4: So for all those reasons, and with a quarterback needy 461 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 4: franchise and one that's been quarterback needy just before they 462 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 4: drafted JaMarcus Russell. Yeah, like he is the one one, 463 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 4: and people understand why he's the one one. But does 464 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 4: he have the same pure scouting report that some of 465 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 4: these other young men who've gone in the top five 466 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 4: or top ten the last ten years. No, he doesn't. 467 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 4: He does it now. He's a great kid, and he's 468 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 4: got a winning mentality, and he's all ball, and he'll 469 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 4: give you everything he's got in the classroom. We'll give 470 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 4: you everything he's got on the practice field. I'll give 471 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 4: you everything he's got on Sunday. But I don't think 472 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 4: you could look at him and say that he's he's 473 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 4: oozing with so much natural talent and that he's got 474 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 4: this super duper crazy sky high you know, there is 475 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 4: no limit, Like, No, that's I don't think that's who 476 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 4: we is. Can you win a lot of games with him? 477 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 4: Can you go to playoffs with him? I think plenty 478 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 4: of people think you can if you build around him 479 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 4: the right way. And for the first time in a 480 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 4: million years, there's a lot of smart people in the 481 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 4: league who think the Raiders are actually maybe on to 482 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 4: something here in terms of how they are building around him. 483 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: Well, if it doesn't work there, Brady can play, right, 484 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,120 Speaker 1: We saw him play in the flag football this week 485 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: and he can still slim it. They'll be fine. 486 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean like he's allowed to do whatever 487 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 4: he wants, right, So who's gonna stay Who's going to 488 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 4: say no, he's not supposed to be in production meetings, 489 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 4: but it can be in production meetings. Yeah, I don't 490 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 4: know what'd. 491 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: You make of that? This weekend? All you know that, look, 492 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: the NFL players get in flag football, and the flag 493 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: footballer is wanting up beating him pretty bad, and you know, 494 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they wait a minute, now, are 495 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 1: we gonna send the right people to the Olympics in 496 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: a couple of years? Like it? It was kind of 497 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 1: a shocker to see it go this way. 498 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 4: Well, I didn't pay a ton of attention to it. 499 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,959 Speaker 4: I got to be honest with here. I've seen the fallout, 500 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 4: I've read about it. I mean, people really like, I 501 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 4: don't know, like, are we really like on the edge 502 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 4: of our seat to see if you like? I think whoever, 503 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 4: the US SIN should probably win flag football, Like I 504 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 4: I mean, come on, this is baseball the American pastime now, 505 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 4: I mean it's it's football. They're not playing football in 506 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 4: as many places as they're playing you know, baseball or 507 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,439 Speaker 4: anything else. I don't know, I really don't care who 508 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 4: they said, Like, I'm I'm a fan of an NFL team, 509 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 4: an NFL player. I don't want them going there and 510 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 4: getting hurt in a glorified exhibition. And if there are 511 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 4: clearly are people who are playing this at a super 512 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 4: high level that they're totally doostardized seven on seven grab 513 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 4: a flag version of this, then then yeah, the best 514 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 4: of that group should be good enough without NFL players 515 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 4: getting involved. And clearly this is a different derivation of 516 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 4: the sport, and so let those guys have their moment 517 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 4: in the sun. I mean not the NFL wants to 518 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 4: start doing this because Lord knows they don't have enough content, 519 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 4: right and they don't dominate the sporting calendar enough. Like 520 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 4: I'm old enough to remember NFL's fastest man and Darryl Greeney, 521 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,199 Speaker 4: You're gonna win it again, And like I love the 522 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 4: Superstars as a kid, Like did you guys love the Superstars? 523 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,640 Speaker 4: Love the Superstars? Do you know what I mean? Kyl 524 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,679 Speaker 4: Roake Junior and Wayne Gretzkey Muhammad a league all like 525 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 4: you know, racing each other in like go karts and 526 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 4: running around tracks and adding the batondo each other and 527 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 4: swimming against each other. So like the NFL wants to 528 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 4: do an off season thing with it, you know what 529 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 4: I mean? If there's not enough football the not just 530 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 4: socks out that way but not just socks off that 531 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 4: way out whatever. But I don't know, do we need 532 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 4: to see NFL players playing flag football in the Olympics. 533 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 4: I personally don't, but I'm a dinosaur. 534 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: Just bring back the battle of the network stars while 535 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: we're at it. 536 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 4: I was thinking that too, Gabe Kaplan Huh. I immediately think 537 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 4: of Gabe Caplin when I think of some other things too. 538 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's and some others. Yeah, no question 539 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 1: about it. Jason locking for her guests, all right, last one, 540 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey signs his deal. He's back for another run 541 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: or two or three? Is this one of your deal 542 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 1: in that one? 543 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you had it, you had it the 544 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 4: first time. I guess that's pretty good podcasting money. I 545 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 4: don't know. Does I think he does even better than 546 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 4: that of this podcast? Doesn't it. 547 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: For maximum fife? But is he still making that podcast 548 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 1: money when he's an x NFL player like that whole 549 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: thing like his Is he still listening? 550 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 4: Man? 551 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: He still making this money when he's not playing in 552 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: the NFL anymore? Like that's gonna be a thing. 553 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 4: I mean, if he and Terror Swift did a podcast, 554 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 4: I don't think that would go absolutely whether he's playing 555 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 4: football or not. I don't know I think it would go. 556 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 4: Or does he already do one? And I just don't 557 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 4: know about it. I know he does stuff with his brother. 558 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: Well, she was on the one to announce her uh 559 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: the album. 560 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 4: I mean like if they did it, like if they 561 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 4: did one like every week, I think people would probably 562 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 4: be into that, like from the tour bus or whatever. 563 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 4: Like I don't know that down. 564 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: That's an idea, man, write that down somebody or all the. 565 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 2: Stuff in the wedding. 566 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 4: Honestly, I think they should come up one to be 567 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 4: every Friday and pick Bundesliga and college with crop games 568 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 4: with me. That's what I think. Really, that's what the 569 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 4: world needs. We're doing quite well in those minkets. I 570 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 4: like laying the three with Harvard tomorrow. I'd be you, 571 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 4: but uh yeah, I think that's what they should do. 572 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 4: They better draft the move tight end. I'll just put 573 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 4: it to you that way, like it's pretty good tight 574 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 4: end draft. I don't know that I want to go 575 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 4: in the next year relying on Kelsey to be my 576 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 4: most productive tight end. I think you've got to start 577 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:50,479 Speaker 4: embracing the fact that he's more of a tertiary weapon 578 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 4: at this point in his career. 579 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 1: He's he's on X at Jason lock and for that 580 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: is at Jason Locke and for also check him out. 581 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: I want to bet with us as well. Jay has 582 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: always by thanks man. We'll talk to you next week. 583 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: I have a great one. 584 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 4: Thank you, guys, have a great week. 585 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody there, he goes hit them hard, said it 586 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: from the beginning. Chiefs again. They got their running back, 587 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: gonna get their wide receiver, gotta get their tight end 588 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: in the middle of the revenge tour. A lot of 589 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: tight ends out there for the taking. I do like that. 590 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: The maximum value on this is like fifty seven million dollars. 591 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,719 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, if he sees the end of that contract. 592 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, wait till they give Tony Gonzalez 593 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: five years. Don't let employee turnover slow down business. Express 594 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: Employment Professionals finds the talent you need to keep productivity 595 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: on track from the warehouse to the front office. Express 596 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: staffs all jobs. Visit expresspros dot com today. Let's find 597 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: out what trending right now from someone who's been called 598 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: the Lebron James of Fox Sports Radio because he didn't 599 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: score any points in the first half either. It's Steve 600 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: to say exactly what I was gonna say. Bad mindstick alike. 601 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 5: Well, let's start with the Women's NCLA second round action. Yeah, 602 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 5: more blowouts in this tournament. Number one you on his 603 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 5: thirty six and oh they've won fifty one straight overall. 604 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 5: They were coming off a first round win Saturday, where 605 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 5: they led forty one to eleven and beat UT San 606 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 5: Antonio ninety to fifty two. Tonight against Syracuse early third quarter, 607 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 5: Connecticut led seventy to fourteen ninety eight forty five yukon 608 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 5: the final and at one seed South Carolina, the home 609 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 5: team with USC one oh one sixty one sc. That is, 610 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 5: University of Southern California was the one that had the 611 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 5: overtime win against Clemson in South Carolina first round. Virginia 612 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 5: today was a winner at Iowa in double overtime. Kentucky 613 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 5: edge West Virginia Louisville over Alabama sixty nine sixty eight. 614 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 5: The late game at one seed UCLA has the Bruins 615 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 5: already up thirty three to ten on Oklahoma State mid 616 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 5: second quarter to the NBA. Kevin Durant scored forty points 617 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 5: in forty minutes on the court. The Rockets, though beaten 618 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 5: at Chicago by the Chicago Bulls, won thirty two to 619 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 5: one twenty four at Atlanta one forty six, one oh 620 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 5: seven over Memphis, and the Hawks did not have Jalen Johnson, 621 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 5: he was out again with shoulder inflammation. Indiana ended a 622 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 5: sixteen game losing streak with a victory at Orlando one 623 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 5: twenty eight, one twenty six. Spurs won their sixth straight 624 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 5: winning at Miami one thirty six, one eleven. Oklahoma City 625 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 5: won its twelfth in a row with a victory at 626 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 5: Philadelphia one twenty three, one oh three. Jalen Williams of 627 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 5: okase at eighteen points in his return to start after 628 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 5: a hamstring injury last month. Detroit over the Lakers one thirteen, 629 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 5: one ten that snaps the Lakers nine game winning streak. 630 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 5: Luka Doncic, player of the Week in the West, did 631 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 5: have thirty two points. Right now, Toronto leads seventy nine 632 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 5: sixty at Utah early in the third. Raptors do not 633 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 5: have Brandon Ingram tonight. He is out with a sore heel. 634 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 5: Arizona State's new men's basketball coach Randy Bennett from Saint Mary's. 635 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 5: Creighton's Greg McDermott will retire next month. One NHL game tonight, 636 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 5: Ottawa two to one winner at the range. The Seahawks 637 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 5: gave wide receiver Jackson Smith and Jigba a four year 638 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 5: contract extension. Braves pitcher Spencer Streider will start the season 639 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 5: on the IL strained oblique. The Reds place pitcher Hunter 640 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 5: Green on the sixty day in your list, he'd had 641 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 5: elbow surgery. Cubs alfielder Saya Suzuki will go on the IL, 642 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 5: but metz aufielder Carson Binge made the roster. He was 643 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 5: a first rounder a couple of years ago. Just batted 644 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 5: over three to sixty in spring training. 645 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith 646 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the 647 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:36,360 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio studios. So coming up next, we got 648 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: to play the day. Come on your way and might 649 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: we be in the midst of the single greatest season 650 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: we've ever seen in a sport. That's next, Jason to Mike, 651 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Yes, the Dodgers will three Pete. 652 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 653 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 654 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 2: pm Pacific. 655 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. 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Well 662 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: don't look now, but we might be in the midst 663 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,840 Speaker 1: of an all time run, a team that, potentially, we 664 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: can say this in a couple of weeks, had the 665 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: single greatest season in the history of their sport. What 666 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: is it? We'll get that in the second, but first 667 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 1: it's time for the play of the day. For over 668 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: forty years, Tirerack's been open. Customers find the right tires 669 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 1: for how, what and where they drive. Ship Fast and 670 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,720 Speaker 1: free backed by free Road, has a protection with convenient 671 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,279 Speaker 1: installation options like mobile tire installation. Tiraq dot com is 672 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: the way tire buying should be. Well, when you get 673 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: out to a fifty three to eight lead and you 674 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,280 Speaker 1: lead an NCAA tournament game in the second round sixty 675 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: five to twelve at halftime, you get to be the 676 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: play of the day. Heck a dishes food one more? 677 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 4: What game? 678 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 2: Basy fun? 679 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 1: It's unconscious there it is Yukon on the call ESPN 680 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: and Jason. They would have beat the men's team. Well, 681 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: this is all Jerry McNamara's fault. Clearly, he is not 682 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: nearly having the impact we thought he would. The team 683 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,799 Speaker 1: is hiring his head coach. Now, look, look what happened today. 684 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: Look what happened to women's team today. Wait, you want 685 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 1: to talk about your your coaches whining after it was 686 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,400 Speaker 1: fifty three to eight to start this game. This is 687 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: a second round NCAA tournament game, and it was fifty 688 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: three to eight. It was sixty five twelve at halftime. 689 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: At least Syracuse can say, hey, no Tacos ninety eight 690 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,919 Speaker 1: to forty five was your final. No Tacos no kept 691 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: him from that, Houndo not getting there. But there's two 692 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: big things to take away from this, right. Number one 693 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: is that still the women's tournament when you get out, 694 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,560 Speaker 1: when you get when you get into the one eighth. 695 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: When he teams that are seeded eight and higher, even 696 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: though they've won big games, you know they're decent teams 697 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 1: in their conferences. These are the finals you get sometimes. Right. 698 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: The difference between one eight is still huge. It is 699 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: still a very top heavy tournament. But this is still 700 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,319 Speaker 1: a Syracuse team that won their eight nine game. That 701 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,719 Speaker 1: pretty good year in the ACC beat some pretty good 702 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:23,319 Speaker 1: teams and Yukon absolutely dusted them. I mean this is 703 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,160 Speaker 1: I mean fifty three to eight. This is not Yukon 704 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,960 Speaker 1: goes in and you have a you know, directional state 705 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 1: university coming in to cash a check to play in gamble, 706 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,239 Speaker 1: and you know it's one hundred to eight is the 707 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:38,120 Speaker 1: final score? Like this is? This is a ACC team, 708 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 1: mid pack, mid middle of the pack ACC team. I 709 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: don't know that people are gonna see wee because we've 710 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,240 Speaker 1: seen this a lot. We've seen dominant seasons and women's 711 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,359 Speaker 1: college basketball before. But when it's said and done, we're 712 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: gonna wind up saying this was the single greatest season 713 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,759 Speaker 1: in women's college basketball history because of what Yukon is doing. 714 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 1: They're undefeated all right now. You want to look back 715 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,799 Speaker 1: and say, okay, the one team that they would say, 716 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,960 Speaker 1: maybe you look at the two thousand and one, two 717 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,279 Speaker 1: thousand and two Yukon team that had Diana Tarassi and 718 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,680 Speaker 1: Sue Byrd that has looked right now that that's the 719 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 1: greatest college basketball team of all time. Well, what did 720 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 1: they do that year? They averaged winning their games in 721 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: the nca turned by twenty six points. This Yukon team 722 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 1: is laughing at that right now, Okay, they won by 723 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,319 Speaker 1: by forty Now they won by forty five. Like this 724 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,799 Speaker 1: Yukon team. They beat Michigan, who was number six in 725 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,719 Speaker 1: the country earlier this year, by three points. Every other 726 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,200 Speaker 1: game they have won by at least fourteen. That's every 727 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 1: single game they have played. That one close game right 728 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,439 Speaker 1: early in the year, Michigan was pretty good. They beat 729 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,160 Speaker 1: them by three. Every single other game has been an 730 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,839 Speaker 1: absolute burial fourteen points. A couple of times they played 731 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 1: I think it was Creighton and that they beat by 732 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 1: fourteen near the end of the season, Like, and that's 733 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,360 Speaker 1: the closest game they have had. Everything else is twenty 734 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: twenty five, thirty forty points. Games are one hundred to forty. 735 00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: Like we're gonna look back, and I mean we talking 736 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,800 Speaker 1: about the we're seeing in the NCA tournament the men's side, 737 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,680 Speaker 1: Like I don't know that we're just not having a 738 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,320 Speaker 1: slow march to watching Yukon and Gina Ormsa. Yeah you 739 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,960 Speaker 1: thought we've had dominant teams before. No one was talking 740 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,319 Speaker 1: about this team be so dominant, right, Yeah, I love 741 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 1: guys named Gino now Gino Gina, But like this team 742 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 1: with you know, Azy Fudd nearly set a record for 743 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,719 Speaker 1: most points in a game by Yukon player. Like this 744 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,960 Speaker 1: team is absolutely loaded and they have come in and 745 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,439 Speaker 1: just not just one but one at an unprecedented pace. 746 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,759 Speaker 1: Like other we've seen other undefeated teams and women's college basketball, 747 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,600 Speaker 1: but not winning like this Yukon team is winning it is. 748 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,719 Speaker 1: It is just an absolute demolition every game they played. Well, 749 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: we go back to the first couple of years you 750 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 1: and I were on air and Stewie would join us 751 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,680 Speaker 1: after you know, a big win in the tournament, we'd 752 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,600 Speaker 1: have a stringer on site. So Brianna Stewart popped on 753 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 1: and we had frequently people from yukon On men and 754 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,640 Speaker 1: women seem to have found their way to the show. 755 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 1: But forty and oh thirty eight and one thirty eight, No, 756 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,839 Speaker 1: those three years and then after Brianna's Stewart talked to us, 757 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,080 Speaker 1: they didn't win another title for a while. A lot 758 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: of final fours, a runner up, all of that before 759 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:10,200 Speaker 1: last year's championship squad. And maybe it's a recency buys. 760 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I look back at the Stewart and teams 761 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 1: and what they were doing with some you know admiration 762 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,560 Speaker 1: because that was the before Caitlin Clark. That was the 763 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,279 Speaker 1: squad that captured captivated everybody's a man imagination for a 764 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,160 Speaker 1: minute on the women's side. And now we look at 765 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 1: what this team's doing. They're just bludgeting, folks to the 766 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: point where your coach and I want to make sure 767 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 1: I get this right, Geanjean, Alicia Lagett, Jack bro For 768 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 1: us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year 769 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,359 Speaker 1: after year, to me is a personal attack. I've been 770 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,480 Speaker 1: in this business for thirty seven years and I have 771 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: to come back and be in this bracket every year 772 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,840 Speaker 1: is unacceptable. Can't send me out to play South Carolina. 773 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,160 Speaker 1: I mean, at least it's a different getting our asses kick. 774 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,239 Speaker 1: I've been here a long time. You shouldn't have me 775 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:03,520 Speaker 1: being bludgeoned that that. Really we're playing this seniority start here. 776 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,920 Speaker 1: She looks she's a great head coach. She's brought Syracuse 777 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,520 Speaker 1: basketball back. But I get that. I understand what it's 778 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,920 Speaker 1: like as a coach to have it. Hey, we have 779 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 1: to go play at these guys every year and they 780 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,000 Speaker 1: beat us by fifty. Come on, give us something a 781 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,279 Speaker 1: little different. At least let us go someplace me some 782 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,440 Speaker 1: variety by fifty. Okay, it just fine. I'm coming to 783 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 1: the same restaurants. She in the same At least I'm 784 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,919 Speaker 1: not have every lashbacks to the last box score. Look, 785 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,759 Speaker 1: UCLA is up by thirty over Oklahoma State could have 786 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,719 Speaker 1: sent us out there, could have played Ucla would have 787 00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,960 Speaker 1: been fined, right, I get I get it, But that 788 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,279 Speaker 1: that's you call. Look and that's all so hey, we 789 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,040 Speaker 1: can get TV people to watch yukon Syracuse on TV, 790 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,319 Speaker 1: whereas you know people are gonna watch Oklahoma State in 791 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,439 Speaker 1: ukone know this is where you gotta go. Sell, sell, 792 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 1: sell if you're Syracuse before the blowout really happens. I 793 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,200 Speaker 1: don't know what that means. I don't know who the 794 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,040 Speaker 1: pitch man or woman is. To get those folks on 795 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:58,879 Speaker 1: your side, you can help us overcome this giant donate today. 796 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,439 Speaker 1: But I'm telling you well, because we always are ahead 797 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,799 Speaker 1: of the curve, that talk is going to start soon. 798 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,160 Speaker 1: Because this is this is the most dominant Yukon women's 799 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,279 Speaker 1: team we have seen. Now can do We're middle of 800 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,839 Speaker 1: the pack. Man, You come and you take that back 801 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 1: when Jerry McNamara comes here next year. That's not happening, 802 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,200 Speaker 1: not happening, Geneo. Geneo Coming up next, we get into 803 00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:25,320 Speaker 1: the biggest, most surprising NFL story of the weekend. That's next, 804 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:26,640 Speaker 1: Fox that Geno is actually a