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Speaker 1: good morning to our radio and TV partners. There's a
Speaker 1: lot going on in sports right now. The NBA Finals
Speaker 1: just wrapping up. Golf and tennis had majors, Baseball, the
Speaker 1: Olympics opens up on Friday night on NBC, and for
Speaker 1: a certain kind of fan, all of that can be
Speaker 1: put on hold when one topic comes up. Training camp
Speaker 1: quarterback battles now, whether it's a true open battle or not.
Speaker 1: That's a little consequence for people in my business. We're
Speaker 1: gonna make a big deal out of it, even a
Speaker 1: hint of QB drama and we go crazy. Drew Locke
Speaker 1: versus Teddy Bridgewater in Denver, Bring it on? Jameis Winston,
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill in New Orleans, fascinating. Mac Jones. Can he pushed?
Speaker 1: Cam Newton intow England? Who cares if he can't. We'll
Speaker 1: make it a big deal. Trey Lance, Jimmy Garoppolo and
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Justin Fields, Andy Dalton in Chicago? Is there
Speaker 1: a starter in jeopardy of losing his job to a
Speaker 1: tongue of Iolo? In Miami? Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia? What's
Speaker 1: going to happen with Deshaun Watson in Texas? What's going
Speaker 1: to happen with the Green Bay Packers? And Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: training camp is almost here and quarterback battles could take
Speaker 1: center stage before too long. We love it. We love
Speaker 1: to push it a little bit, you know, you push
Speaker 1: the envelope. We are doing our best to pull it,
Speaker 1: push it product whatever it is, because these are topics
Speaker 1: that people love to dive into, whether it's real or
Speaker 1: not like Mac Jones. Cam Newton came out and said
Speaker 1: Patriots made the right call, make them that draft pick
Speaker 1: with Mac Jones. Okay, how's he going to feel if
Speaker 1: mac Jones is the starter? Would Bill Belichick go with
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback? When does Justin Fields take over in Chicago?
Speaker 1: How secure is Jimmy Garoppolo? Like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: drama there that that is real. Some of it is
Speaker 1: manufactured bias. Yes, Paul, I think my biggest one. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get any talk about because the Saints they're coming
Speaker 1: off seasons twelve wins, thirteen wins, thirteen wins. They're a
Speaker 1: very competitive team. They've got two question marks at quarterback,
Speaker 1: not one, They've got two. You know, that's a really
Speaker 1: weird one because both could go poorly it appears, but
Speaker 1: you know, like Taysom Hill was above average last year
Speaker 1: for what I think a lot of people expect it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel like it's his team. It's weird.
Speaker 1: Depends on the day where you feel like, is this
Speaker 1: jamis Winston's team, which I thought all along it should be,
Speaker 1: And then I can use Taysom Hill in a role
Speaker 1: that he's a little more comfortable with as opposed to saying, hey,
Speaker 1: there's no surprise when you come into the game. You're
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback. Nobody's going to be surprised at anything.
Speaker 1: Still feels like there's the element of surprise with Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill when he's in the game. Where do you line
Speaker 1: him up? What do you ask him to do? With Jamis,
Speaker 1: it's one dimensional. He would be just your passing quarterback
Speaker 1: and that's it. Cowboys open up camp yesterday and Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones got in front of the camera. He had some
Speaker 1: interesting things to say, including the expectations for this Dallas
Speaker 1: team this year. I'd do anything known to man to
Speaker 1: get in a Super Bowl. That's a fact. And there's
Speaker 1: nothing in my mind that can have a higher priority.
Speaker 1: And then, and I respect that. I'm if I'm a
Speaker 1: Dallas fan, I want to hear my owners say that.
Speaker 1: And it's easy to poke fun at Jerry with some
Speaker 1: of the things he says and some of the things
Speaker 1: he does, but you could hear it in his voice.
Speaker 1: He is getting up there in age. It's been twenty
Speaker 1: five years since the Cowboys were in a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and you get a taste of this, and then it disappears,
Speaker 1: and then you keep finding a new formula. Hey let's
Speaker 1: try this. Let's try that new coach, new quarterback, new
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Let's take a chance on that guy. Let's
Speaker 1: resign that guy. He keeps trying a lot of times
Speaker 1: he's gotten in his own way, but he has been
Speaker 1: fortunate that sometimes he'll listen to other people. Because Jerry
Speaker 1: the owner, Jerry the GM those are the same people,
Speaker 1: but it's really two different people because one act in
Speaker 1: a spontaneous way. Hey, look, we're gonna we want to
Speaker 1: take Johnny Manzel. No you don't. You don't want to
Speaker 1: take Johnny Manziel, take an offensive lineman who's going to
Speaker 1: be there for a decade and be an all pro.
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't. He wasn't going to take Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: They were going to trade up into the first round.
Speaker 1: Connor Cook was the quarterback they were going to take
Speaker 1: before the Raiders took him, and then they took Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: After that, they were going to take who's our six
Speaker 1: six guy out of Denver, Paston Lynch. They wanted to
Speaker 1: trade up to get Paxton Lynch. We loved him, though,
Speaker 1: we did, but we did say that he was an
Speaker 1: inch too tall, Like you can't be six six and
Speaker 1: be good six to five. You can be a little
Speaker 1: bit better for some reason. But Jerry is spontaneous, falls
Speaker 1: in love quickly, but he wants to win man. He
Speaker 1: was all in on Quincy Carter, Drew Henson gave Ryan
Speaker 1: Leaf another chance, but he missed having Jimmy Johnson because
Speaker 1: Jimmy was really the genius behind all of this. He
Speaker 1: made it all work, He made the personalities all work.
Speaker 1: Jerry gave him all the ingredients, and Jimmy said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna be a Michelin Star restaurant. Here, give
Speaker 1: me a couple of Michelin Stars and put one on
Speaker 1: my helmet too, and then you have the falling out. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not getting enough credit. Like jealousy. Jealousy can do
Speaker 1: as much damage to a potential dynasty or dynasty as
Speaker 1: anything else. Like Lebron and Kyrie could have stayed together,
Speaker 1: could have created something there in Cleveland, Shack and Kobe
Speaker 1: like it just it happens. Even Belichick and Brady, I
Speaker 1: mean they lasted a long time, not that there was jealousy,
Speaker 1: it was just they were they were in the same organization,
Speaker 1: on the same football field, on the same page, but
Speaker 1: really not. There wasn't a wavelength that they were on
Speaker 1: when it came to their personalities, and Bill was business,
Speaker 1: Tom was business. But Tom wanted to have fun with this,
Speaker 1: enjoy this, and that led to that break up in
Speaker 1: New England. But this happens, and what happened in Dallas
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Johnson. The fact that they haven't put Jimmy
Speaker 1: Johnson in their Ring of Honor. Now I don't follow
Speaker 1: these that closely. Where you go, I don't know. Did
Speaker 1: you know that Randy Gratishar is in the Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor for the Broncos? Okay, right? Or this guy is
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson is as instrumental as anybody in the history
Speaker 1: of the franchise with the Dallas Cowboys. When you think
Speaker 1: of the nineties Cowboys, I start with Jimmy Johnson and
Speaker 1: he's going into the Hall of Fame this year. It's
Speaker 1: petty on Jerry's part. You know, you brought in Switzer
Speaker 1: and Barry proved that that's how good this team is
Speaker 1: that even Barry couldn't screw this up. In fact, this
Speaker 1: is something that Jerry Jones had to say. Yesterday, Barry
Speaker 1: came down from Norman, Oklahoma to talk about getting the job.
Speaker 1: And he comes in and he said, where's Jimmy? And
Speaker 1: I said, Jimmy's gone. He said, well, that's not right.
Speaker 1: Get him in here. I said, Barry, Jimmy's gone. We're
Speaker 1: sitting here talking about you being the coach. I said,
Speaker 1: what in the world you so anxious to talk to
Speaker 1: Jimmy about? He said, I just wanted to get both
Speaker 1: you on this couch and asked you both, how could
Speaker 1: you pet this up? That was a Switzer. Never I've
Speaker 1: never been able to know why up. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's honest about it. But you know, Jerry, get ready
Speaker 1: for a lot of Jerry because hard knocks with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Got a camera on, He've got a microphone. He'll be
Speaker 1: ready to go. But you start to look at Dallas
Speaker 1: and I'm not doing this for clicks, not trolling you.
Speaker 1: Talking about the Cowboys because a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: I thought that they could go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Pick them to go to the super Bowl. And you
Speaker 1: know I've done this with the Chargers as well. Where
Speaker 1: you go, God, they got everything, and you know I
Speaker 1: was oversold on a Dallas defense. I like Dak a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big Zeke Elliott fan. I don't want
Speaker 1: to have my running back making that kind of money.
Speaker 1: You got a great offensive line, all right, You got
Speaker 1: to get some wide receivers. Everybody else has that. I
Speaker 1: get all of those things. But this year, if Dak
Speaker 1: is Zeke the offensive line, you got weapons wide receivers.
Speaker 1: The issue is going to be their defense again. But
Speaker 1: you think about the NFC. How many teams do you
Speaker 1: think have legitimate chances of winning the NFC? You start
Speaker 1: with Tampa. We don't know about the Rogers situation. If
Speaker 1: he plays for them, then yes, they have a great chance.
Speaker 1: Who else? Are you sold on the Saints? Right? Seahawks?
Speaker 1: Are you sold on them? What about the Rams? Feels
Speaker 1: like the West, the NFC West is in play here,
Speaker 1: not Arizona. If the Niners get healthy, but that like,
Speaker 1: it's not formidable. And we saw, you know, Tampa last
Speaker 1: year was what seven and five after twelve games, I think,
Speaker 1: and then they caught some magic there and their defense
Speaker 1: was wonderful. But it's conceivable you're in a bad division
Speaker 1: if you win twelve games thirteen games have home field advantage.
Speaker 1: I mean even ten, you can win. With ten wins,
Speaker 1: it feels like, you know, Philly is not going to
Speaker 1: be that good. The Giants, we don't know. Washington I like,
Speaker 1: but Ryan Fitzpatrick giveth and take it away. It's conceivable
Speaker 1: that Dallas is a twelve thirteen win team in my mind,
Speaker 1: just because of the division and with Dak back, you know,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy gets one more go with this, you know,
Speaker 1: you get rid of your defensive coordinator. They have to
Speaker 1: be better on They were one of the historically one
Speaker 1: of the one of the worst defenses in the history
Speaker 1: of the NFL last year, no no way to go
Speaker 1: but up. You give up four hundred and seventy three
Speaker 1: points worst in the NFL. Nowhere to go but up.
Speaker 1: And then you get a little offense in there bad division.
Speaker 1: Maybe you get to host two games in the postseason.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you go on the road and you face
Speaker 1: Tampa or the Rams or Green Bay. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's conceivable, And I'm not ready to make my Super
Speaker 1: Bowl pick yet, just letting you know, not ready because
Speaker 1: I love what Kansas City did. Han City addressed their
Speaker 1: biggest need. You drop some guys, you replace them, You
Speaker 1: bolster the offensive line, because if you have the offensive line,
Speaker 1: that means you have Mahomes with time, and when he
Speaker 1: has time, there's nobody better and that makes them obviously
Speaker 1: very dangerous. Cleveland will be very good. Baltimore should be good.
Speaker 1: You know, could the Chargers emerge, they'll be There'll be
Speaker 1: one or two outliers that you go, wow. They ended
Speaker 1: up with eleven wins this year. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: it happens because of the schedule. But I look at
Speaker 1: Dallas and I'm I'm I'm not afraid of picking Dallas
Speaker 1: to do some damage this year in the postseason. Are
Speaker 1: they a super Bowl caliber team? I'd need to see
Speaker 1: a little bit more with that defense, and they did
Speaker 1: spend most of their draft capital on defensive players. I
Speaker 1: like Michael Parsons. He's extremely athletic. But every single year,
Speaker 1: if you play defense for the Cowboys, somehow you're better
Speaker 1: than what you really are because you're more covered. No,
Speaker 1: it just happens that. As Sean Lee, you know, if
Speaker 1: he stays healthy, Layton vander Ash Okay, if they stay healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if pigs had wings, yes, point you want to hear
Speaker 1: about the script line for the Washington team this year,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick three and one in September gets Player of
Speaker 1: the Month, then is out of a job by November.
Speaker 1: That's the Ryan Fitzpatrick Formula Yeah. Player of the Month
Speaker 1: in September, out of work by November. Olympics start tomorrow
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Speaker 1: Pat Connaughton from the Bucks will join us. Julianne in
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Speaker 1: and Alabama. Hey Jeremy, Hello, damn, oh boy, all right,
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Speaker 1: anchor's gone this week. You shine like a star. You are, buddy,
Speaker 1: You're you're You're doing great. Thank you. Um. I think
Speaker 1: that this Nile has kicked started something that that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: You know, you talked about something's bigger coming for college football.
Speaker 1: I've kind of think that you're going to look at
Speaker 1: there's a chance you'll have three national championships. You'll have
Speaker 1: the North Dakota States, the Jacksonville States, that lower. Then
Speaker 1: you're going to have a mid level when you're like UCS,
Speaker 1: your Boise States, those tip. But I think all these
Speaker 1: money making teams, the big superpowers. I think they'll end
Speaker 1: up getting their own national championship and just forming just
Speaker 1: a whole new division. Oh. I agree with you, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: and thanks for the phone call. Yeah. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna have superpowers and super conferences in college football where
Speaker 1: maybe it's forty schools and they're going to be the
Speaker 1: ones playing for the national championship. Pat Connaughton, the star
Speaker 1: of the Milwaukee Bucks, former Notre Dame fighting irishman, joining
Speaker 1: us on the program. Pat, could you have played a
Speaker 1: basketball game last night? Honestly with all the adrenaline I
Speaker 1: had probably the excitement coming off it. It was. It
Speaker 1: was something. So it was great to be out there
Speaker 1: and obviously have my teammates around and celebrate with them
Speaker 1: last night. But you know, we probably could have pulled
Speaker 1: it off if needed to be. Who was the MVP
Speaker 1: of the celebration? Who? PJ? Tucker and Bobby Portis I
Speaker 1: give a combp awards? You know they were, They were phenomenal.
Speaker 1: They enjoyed it. I was super happy from PJ. I mean,
Speaker 1: Pj's had an incredible career and obviously this was something
Speaker 1: that he was looking for and he did a lot
Speaker 1: of things to help us get it, so he deserved
Speaker 1: to be the MVP of the celebration. Do you just
Speaker 1: wear your uniform out of the arena? Ah, so funny story.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I showered eventually, and then obviously went to
Speaker 1: the after party and after dinner and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But I do recall one of my teammates did show
Speaker 1: up to the after party still wearing the entire uniform,
Speaker 1: shoes tied, shooting sleep on well. I saw Jannis checking
Speaker 1: into a hotel at four in the morning. I got
Speaker 1: a picture from a buddy, and he's got the trophies
Speaker 1: and he's in full uniform. He's at the front desk
Speaker 1: checking into a hotel. At it was like he was
Speaker 1: checking into the game at four in the morning. I mean,
Speaker 1: you saw his Chick fil A order the next morning
Speaker 1: when he said he didn't sleep. So Jannis is. I
Speaker 1: think the one of the coolest part was about this
Speaker 1: whole thing is the world got to see a little
Speaker 1: bit of Jannas's personality. I mean, he's quiet sometimes media
Speaker 1: and obviously he's very focused on accomplishing our goals. But
Speaker 1: when you get him and he's outside and he's in
Speaker 1: the locker room outside of you know, media and business setting.
Speaker 1: The kids funny, and I was happy that the world
Speaker 1: got to see that. Yeah, he came off as a great,
Speaker 1: great kid. I mean I shouldn't say kid. I mean
Speaker 1: he's just he had humility, sense, he humor, timing. There
Speaker 1: was a lot, and I was glad that he was
Speaker 1: able to showcase that because I think we're always going
Speaker 1: to be looking at him going, you can win all
Speaker 1: those MVPs, you got to win championships. Well now he
Speaker 1: got a Hall pass, he's on scholarship for a little while.
Speaker 1: That people aren't gonna go, hey, when are you gonna
Speaker 1: win a championship? When did you realize, though, what he
Speaker 1: was capable of doing. You know, the first day I
Speaker 1: got here three years ago and I signed with the Bucks,
Speaker 1: I was we were having you know, some open gym
Speaker 1: type stuff and we were all working out in the morning,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm a second round guy, a guy
Speaker 1: that was trying to make sure that I had a
Speaker 1: role on this team. So at night, you know, I'd
Speaker 1: come back and I'd work out and I think, you
Speaker 1: know I did it in Portland or something that I
Speaker 1: have to do it, something that you know, I enjoyed doing,
Speaker 1: but you got to put time into your craft. And
Speaker 1: the coolest part that I think people don't know is
Speaker 1: when I came back and continue to come back, Ynest
Speaker 1: was there and you honest looked at me like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing here? And I looked at him like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? I'm the guy that has
Speaker 1: to be here. Why are you here? And so just
Speaker 1: the things that he does behind the scenes and the
Speaker 1: time and effort that he puts in that people don't see,
Speaker 1: I think made me realize that he is a championship
Speaker 1: type guy. And then it was just watching his growth
Speaker 1: as a leader. You know, he had obviously the physical
Speaker 1: work ethic that you would I would see on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, but the vocal leadership that he's grown into,
Speaker 1: that type of role he's grown into to where when
Speaker 1: he got hurt and he was out for those last
Speaker 1: two games in Atlanta, he was still president on the bench.
Speaker 1: He was still being vocal both individually and collectively to
Speaker 1: the team, to teammates and pulling them aside to give
Speaker 1: them the confidence to understand that you know, he was here,
Speaker 1: he had our backs even though he wasn't out there,
Speaker 1: and it was on us to make sure we had
Speaker 1: his I was scary injury, though, Pat, because you had
Speaker 1: guys former players who came on this show and said
Speaker 1: they didn't know if he'd even play again and the
Speaker 1: rest of the postseason. That's why I think we're under
Speaker 1: selling what he accomplished in the finals based off of
Speaker 1: the hyper extended knee. I mean, remarkable. Yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: he's he's a freak. He's got that nickname for a reason.
Speaker 1: In but I think the funny part is exactly what
Speaker 1: you said. You know, he it was questionable if he
Speaker 1: was going to play again in the postseason. He was
Speaker 1: able to make it back for Game one of the Finals,
Speaker 1: and because of the type of obviously a series he had,
Speaker 1: I think people kind of forget, Hey, it was a
Speaker 1: question if he was going to play again, but because
Speaker 1: of the performances he had, people kind of took it
Speaker 1: for granted. And you know, he just wanted to win
Speaker 1: and that was the coolest part about being alongside a superstar.
Speaker 1: All he cared about was the winning. Pat Connaughton the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks card joining us on the program, Why did
Speaker 1: you kind of find your role, your your place in
Speaker 1: this lineup? No, I think over the course of the
Speaker 1: last few years, I've found it in spurts and I've
Speaker 1: been I've had impacts in spurts, and you know, I've
Speaker 1: enjoyed playing alongside you know, my teammates I've been here
Speaker 1: for three years, the new ones that I've just got
Speaker 1: here this year, the coaching staff that's been here for
Speaker 1: three years, and the organization in general, all the way
Speaker 1: from ownership down to to management, etc. But I think
Speaker 1: it was just a confidence that was continued to be
Speaker 1: instilled to me. And you know, when Dante went down,
Speaker 1: who's you know, a tremendous player. It wasn't about trying
Speaker 1: to do more. It was just about trying to continue
Speaker 1: to do what I do, be my own guy, and
Speaker 1: make sure that it was just done on a longer
Speaker 1: period of time. What did you keep from the final game? Uh?
Speaker 1: I kept my uniform, I kept my shoes, I kept hats, shirts. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think the coolest part was the moments, the pictures,
Speaker 1: the things that were just pure celebration. Joy I mean,
Speaker 1: the little uh segment that's been going around to me
Speaker 1: and Bobby Portison in the interview after the games, Like
Speaker 1: all those little moments that I personally know I was not,
Speaker 1: but it was. It was just it was a genuine moment.
Speaker 1: It was something that you know, me and Bobby looked
Speaker 1: at each other and we've obviously, uh you know, been
Speaker 1: part of the quote unquote bench mob throughout this entire season.
Speaker 1: We've had each other's act, we've played together, and we've
Speaker 1: prided ourselves on making sure we made the winning plays.
Speaker 1: And that was a winning interview. When you left the building.
Speaker 1: How many people were still outside? Oh a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that was something that was the most unique
Speaker 1: about this team in the city. And you know, the
Speaker 1: support that we've gotten. I mean, Chris Milson said it
Speaker 1: best in the locker room after of the game. You know,
Speaker 1: he was a part of a fifteen win team not
Speaker 1: too long ago here and so to see that comfortle
Speaker 1: circle and to see the fans continue to support them
Speaker 1: through thick and stand and continue to support us through
Speaker 1: thick and thin. There had to have still been tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of people out there. There were sixty five
Speaker 1: seventy thousand people out there during the game, not including
Speaker 1: the ones that were inside. And you know, it'll be
Speaker 1: pretty cool to be able to go through the streets
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, on a bus boat, whatever the heck we're
Speaker 1: doing it on and shows support with them. Aren't you
Speaker 1: glad you passed up on that baseball career? Now I am,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the coolest part about that is
Speaker 1: seeing a full circles. There are so many people that,
Speaker 1: you know, told me baseball is the path that I
Speaker 1: should take. But to be able to show the next
Speaker 1: generation of kids, you know, you can be a multi
Speaker 1: sport athlete. You don't have to specialize at a young age.
Speaker 1: It can help you become more athletic, it can help
Speaker 1: you become more mentally tough, and you can still accomplish
Speaker 1: the things you want to accomplish. And you know, I
Speaker 1: told Christian Yelich at the game, maybe in you know, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten years, I'll be pitching with him on the Brewers
Speaker 1: and trying to win a World Series here. Oh so
Speaker 1: you haven't given up on that dream? No, not yet.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm focused on the current dream that I'm doing.
Speaker 1: But I take time in the offseason still throw a
Speaker 1: little bit. It's kind of a mental release for me.
Speaker 1: I've always loved me and out there and it's a
Speaker 1: different type of feel when you're on the mound and
Speaker 1: when you're out in a baseball park throwing it around
Speaker 1: in the lights. So it's not something that I've fully
Speaker 1: given up on, but I'm enjoying this ride. I'm enjoying
Speaker 1: this journey, and I'm enjoy you know, being able to
Speaker 1: have some of the successes that not many people thought
Speaker 1: I would have at this level. Well, congrats, it was
Speaker 1: a wonderful season and certainly being part of something special.
Speaker 1: You know how Milwaukee's held onto that team that won
Speaker 1: it back in eighteen seventy one, So you got fifty
Speaker 1: years at least. If you don't win another championship, they're
Speaker 1: gonna you're You're still gonna be held in high regard there.
Speaker 1: So Pat, congratulations, appreciate DP, Thank you, Bat show you.
Speaker 1: That's Pat Conaton, the guard for the world champion Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: He was also in the Slam Dunk Contest The White
Speaker 1: Men Can't Jump. He was Billy Hoyle, Remember Billy Hoyle.
Speaker 1: A great move. He jumped over Christian yellmich He finished
Speaker 1: third in the slam Dunk Contest. I remember watching him
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame and I thought, this guy is as
Speaker 1: athletic as anybody I've seen he was. He was just
Speaker 1: a great athlete, and at times you got to figure
Speaker 1: out how to play the game. Sometimes you have so
Speaker 1: much athleticism you rely on that and you don't learn
Speaker 1: the nuances of the game. Then you go to Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: First he was drafted by the net went to Portland.
Speaker 1: Then you go to Milwaukee and you're still trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what is my role? And maybe he's, you know,
Speaker 1: a career bench guy, but he played an important role
Speaker 1: for this team this year when de Vincenzo went down,
Speaker 1: he was able to He gave him like twenty minutes
Speaker 1: a night. But he was a two sports star at
Speaker 1: Notre Dame basketball and baseball. Drafted by the Oriols I think,
Speaker 1: originally drafted by the Padres out of high school, and
Speaker 1: he was considered one of the top fifty prospects coming
Speaker 1: out of high school. And then he wanted to play
Speaker 1: baseball and basketball at Notre Dame and they gave him
Speaker 1: that opportunity. Yeah, that's pretty surprising. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: a good career going, making a lot of though, he's
Speaker 1: got a nice contract. But you always got to think,
Speaker 1: maybe when I'm thirty three, I could try baseball. There's
Speaker 1: no downside to it that NBA money's gonna be gigantic
Speaker 1: by then for him. Yeah, he's got two more years
Speaker 1: left with the Bucks and then I don't know if
Speaker 1: he still holds out hope that he has an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play in the major leagues. He was in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues low a ball. I think, man, he's a picture,
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe sure, why not? Jeff and Detroit joins us. Jeff,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? What up? Though? One time for
Speaker 1: chat Road just wanted to comment real quick, Dan. First
Speaker 1: of all, NBA really need johnis I mean, the kid
Speaker 1: is great. I mean you think about this. The three
Speaker 1: point shot was broken in the final game and the
Speaker 1: paint opened up. The kid dominated. Second of all, like
Speaker 1: you said, his personality came out. People got to see
Speaker 1: the type of person that he is. And my question
Speaker 1: to you is Jannis is one championship better than Durance too?
Speaker 1: Because you know, of course, people at the barber shops
Speaker 1: everybody are starting to talk about chasing a championship, a
Speaker 1: post to build him one the right way. And my
Speaker 1: final question to you, if you're a free agent, who
Speaker 1: you're going with Brooklyn or Milwaukee, if you're going someplace,
Speaker 1: I guess and thank you, Jeff. It depends on what
Speaker 1: kind of player I am, how old am I am?
Speaker 1: I a high end bench player, what would be my
Speaker 1: role there there? There was some chatter yesterday that maybe
Speaker 1: Chris Paul could be headed to the Lakers or Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook with his sign in trade. I don't get the
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook, even though he played at UCLA, his style
Speaker 1: to me, doesn't mesh with Lebron. Lebron's more of a
Speaker 1: half court guy at this stage in his career, where
Speaker 1: Westbrook is just high energy, and I don't see that
Speaker 1: those two meshing in the backcourt. Wonderful talent. I've said
Speaker 1: before that there was a time when Russell Westbrook was
Speaker 1: one of the few guys that I would pay to see.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if he wins. I think he's fascinating,
Speaker 1: puts up numbers. He's a Hall of Famer Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: he makes sense. It depends on how long I have
Speaker 1: him for. That would be my big concern, because you're
Speaker 1: gonna have Lebron and Chris Paul basically the same age,
Speaker 1: and can Chris Paul continue to play it at a
Speaker 1: high level. You know there's other players. Malcolm Brogden, to me,
Speaker 1: makes more sense than Russell Westbrook. Mike Conley would make
Speaker 1: more sense. I guess. I think you have you have
Speaker 1: to have, you know, a player who fits in with Lebron,
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis compliments them. I thought Dennis Shrewder was
Speaker 1: going to be better than what he was, but I
Speaker 1: think he got in there and got in front of
Speaker 1: the big lights and the big expectations, and he didn't
Speaker 1: live up to expectations. I don't know if Phoenix would
Speaker 1: want him and assign in trade and you get Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: But I know that there have been some names. There
Speaker 1: might be one or two other point guards out there
Speaker 1: that I would go They make more sense than Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook does. But Milwaukee has no drama. If you're going there.
Speaker 1: If you go to the Nets, you got drama. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a few teams where you you walk in the Lakers, Clippers, Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: you got drama there. You go to Milwaukee, it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like there's any drama unless the expectation level is, hey,
Speaker 1: we got to make sure we're still competitive. Well, I
Speaker 1: think you've ensured that with your lineup. As long as
Speaker 1: everybody truly understands what their role is and they don't
Speaker 1: color outside the lines, then you're good. It's just when
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton thinks, you know, I should be get Chris Middleton,
Speaker 1: I believe took more shots in the finals than Yannis.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys can check that. But
Speaker 1: so Chris Middleton did get his opportunities here and was
Speaker 1: a breakout star. I think we were reminded about Drew
Speaker 1: Holliday being a really talented two way player. But Yannis
Speaker 1: is the star. But he doesn't sound like a star.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just sounds like he would be a
Speaker 1: great teammate. I don't know what kind of free agents
Speaker 1: they would be interested in, but to play with Yannis,
Speaker 1: there are worse scenarios. If you said I could play
Speaker 1: with Luca or I could play with Yannis, I would
Speaker 1: play with Yannis because I'm not sure about Luca and
Speaker 1: who compliments him. It feels like Yannis he can compliment
Speaker 1: a lot of players and vice versa, whereas Luca Luca's
Speaker 1: ball dominant. It's almost like James Harden when he was
Speaker 1: in Houston. What kind of players do you surround him
Speaker 1: with yeah. Po. Chris Middleton attempted one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five shots in the finals. Yannis attempted one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty three. Yeah. Okay, so he got his touches. And
Speaker 1: but that's a credit to Yannis. You get Guys will
Speaker 1: talk about this, I gotta get my touches. And it
Speaker 1: would drive me crazy because instead of doing what's best
Speaker 1: for the team, although in your mind you go, oh,
Speaker 1: this is what's best for the team. I get my touches. No,
Speaker 1: it's not always best for the team. But I remember
Speaker 1: there was an All Star player and he was having
Speaker 1: a conversation with another player and I was just there listening,
Speaker 1: and he kept saying, you, eventually, it's got to be
Speaker 1: about me. I gotta get my touches. And the player
Speaker 1: who he was talking to was probably four or five
Speaker 1: years older, and he was trying to set him straight, going,
Speaker 1: it's not about your bleeping touches. It's who is the
Speaker 1: best player getting the touches and does he get enough
Speaker 1: of those touches. Because if you think it's about you,
Speaker 1: then you're not going to have success. If you think
Speaker 1: it's about us, then you'll have success. And you could
Speaker 1: I could just see this younger player like he's looking
Speaker 1: at this older player going, you're crazy, man, it's about
Speaker 1: my touches. And that guy was never the same player
Speaker 1: because he got selfish. And no, we're not going to
Speaker 1: guess who that player was. That's not fair because I
Speaker 1: was privy to a conversation. But it was about touches
Speaker 1: and using that I gotta get my touches, all right,
Speaker 1: got your touches, all right. We'll take a break. Morphone
Speaker 1: calls coming up. We'll check in with the Steelers coming
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Speaker 1: Interesting stat with Major League Baseball there has been at
Speaker 1: least one walk off win every day since play resume
Speaker 1: following the All Star break, and there were no walk
Speaker 1: off home runs last night, ending baseball streak of six
Speaker 1: consecutive days with at least one walk off home run.
Speaker 1: That's tide for the second longest streak in baseball history.
Speaker 1: Stat of your Day, stat of the day, best out
Speaker 1: of the day, stat of the day. Here comes that?
Speaker 1: What stat of the day. A couple of phone calls
Speaker 1: get a pull update as well. We make way for
Speaker 1: Phil in Indiana. Phil, good to have you back. How
Speaker 1: are you today? Hey? Dan, It's always a great pleasure
Speaker 1: to be with you. I wanted to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: on two things. Number One would be you talked about
Speaker 1: if there was like a three Super conferences and then
Speaker 1: maybe forty teams or whatever it is. Yeah, you'd almost
Speaker 1: have to expand that to sixteen teams for a playoff
Speaker 1: if you're gonna end up with three or four teams
Speaker 1: from a conference. And then secondly, Dan, I wanted to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts. It's really hard to fathom that the
Speaker 1: Southwest would not have teams that would be predominantly from
Speaker 1: the Southwest, meaning Texas in that area. It'd be hard
Speaker 1: for me to believe that the Big Twelve would go away,
Speaker 1: but I'd love to get your thoughts on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't know what's going to happen when the
Speaker 1: dust settles. Let's say Texas and Oklahoma do go to
Speaker 1: the SEC. All right, what do you It's all about
Speaker 1: that TV revenue? How attractive are you as a conference?
Speaker 1: Can you replace them? Who do you replace them with?
Speaker 1: You can't replace Oklahoma In Texas, you've already lost A
Speaker 1: and M. And then I wonder what the future would
Speaker 1: be like. The PAC twelve I thought was teetering on,
Speaker 1: you know, being irrelevant, and it nearly was when they
Speaker 1: weren't going to play during the pandemic. But could you
Speaker 1: have the PAC twelve and the Big twelve and could
Speaker 1: you have sixteen teams there? I just think that everything
Speaker 1: it feels like is open to interpretation. It feels like
Speaker 1: there could be a conversation about what Notre Dame does,
Speaker 1: Does Notre Dame stay independent, would Notre Dame joined the
Speaker 1: accol Notre Dame try to join the SEC, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know where this starts, where this stops, but it's
Speaker 1: about the money. You have the playoffs and it does
Speaker 1: prised me though to Oklahoma would say yep, let's go
Speaker 1: to the SEC because you already you're you're basically a
Speaker 1: standalone team in the Big twelve. I mean you have
Speaker 1: teams schools occasionally that'll surprise us. Iowa State comes out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, sometimes Kansas State. But you know who is
Speaker 1: your real Oklahoma state? It's Oklahoma in Oklahoma in a
Speaker 1: twelve team playoff, They're they're going to be in there
Speaker 1: every single year. Clemson guaranteed being in there every single year.
Speaker 1: But you know Florida and Georgia not guaranteed, or A
Speaker 1: and M not guaranteed. Alabama guaranteed. But that's where I
Speaker 1: would I don't know if I would want to join
Speaker 1: the SEC unless that benefited the entire athletic department. And
Speaker 1: what is the long term plan for the SEC? Like
Speaker 1: that's what I want to know, is the SEC's plan
Speaker 1: to basically take over college football? Because if you say, hey,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Clemson, this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 1: These are the schools they're going to be in the SEC. Now,
Speaker 1: how many schools can you get into the SEC? And
Speaker 1: then and then because there's no rules here right now,
Speaker 1: like you don't have a commissioner. You have a commissioner
Speaker 1: in each conference, but you don't have like the NCAA,
Speaker 1: they don't have any power in this. Yeah. I wonder
Speaker 1: with all of the money that Texas and Oklahoma make,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they're cash counts, right Texas definitely. I wonder
Speaker 1: if at some point it's kind of like, why are
Speaker 1: we carrying this conference on our own? And when we
Speaker 1: can go be a part of this juggernaut that's already existing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I would be concerned that Texas would. Texas can't
Speaker 1: win in the Big twelve. They're not gonna win in
Speaker 1: the SEC. So you might be carrying teams in the
Speaker 1: Big twelve. But if I'm Oklahoma, I would want to
Speaker 1: stay there because I'm winning. Maybe you get better recruits, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I mean, Texas has doesn't
Speaker 1: have that stronghold that it used to where anybody great
Speaker 1: in Texas was going to go to Texas. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: you know how sometimes you and a friend are getting
Speaker 1: ready to jump off a cliff or a pool and
Speaker 1: you're like, one, two three, let's go. If I'm Texas,
Speaker 1: that's what I do with Oklahoma, Like, all right, we're
Speaker 1: going to the sec. Let's go to the sea, told hands,
Speaker 1: hold hands, one two three, and then you pull back
Speaker 1: and Texas stays and gets to finally run the big
Speaker 1: twelve again. We're back. Texas will be back because they
Speaker 1: want to play Oklahoma anymore. Ye whoa. Let's see Raymond
Speaker 1: in New York. Hi, Raymond, what's on your mind today? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 1: Hi doing thank you? Yeah? With the alumnus coming up,
Speaker 1: I had a question for you. But may I first
Speaker 1: say something about yesterday's show? Yeah, because it was a
Speaker 1: great show. One of my favorite shows is like after
Speaker 1: a championship or after Super Bowl, just listen to your
Speaker 1: opinion in your recap and Alsa, and you were totally
Speaker 1: right on, like whoever is healthy and whoever made the
Speaker 1: most And you said that two months ago. You're way
Speaker 1: ahead of everybody. I thought that was so awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: listening for three or four minutes. And then as your
Speaker 1: show known to do, it took a left term for
Speaker 1: the next twelve minutes, I'm stuff right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the tribulations and seeds of Leaky von Butterpants. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that's all about, but I was like,
Speaker 1: here we go another episode of life is scary with
Speaker 1: Leaky von butter Pants. You know what I'm referring to, Fritzie? Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I loved I loved your five minute and alsa then
Speaker 1: Fritzie took over the show, which Fritzie's my favorite Dan,
Speaker 1: so I just saw, well, thank you, Raymond, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the compliment. Yesterday's show was really good, Today's, no,
Speaker 1: not so much. And was was he talking about the
Speaker 1: bathroom stuff with Tom? I think I think leaky von
Speaker 1: Butterpants whatever you said, that would probably have something to
Speaker 1: do with your all issues or something. Wait, who calls
Speaker 1: you leaky vun That's the first time I've heard that.
Speaker 1: I think our caller just came up with that nicknames.
Speaker 1: Raymond called you leaky von baw Pans butter butter pans.
Speaker 1: That's what it sounded like, Leaky von Butterpan, which is
Speaker 1: not the best nickname you're gonna want to have if
Speaker 1: you're gonna make a list of names you want to
Speaker 1: I don't think did we come up with that T
Speaker 1: shirt for Todd? Is that in the works? Seaton from yesterday?
Speaker 1: I think it's in the works. Yeah, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if it's officially approved. Can we unveil it? Oh? You
Speaker 1: mean by Todd? I didn't have a problem. Oh I
Speaker 1: saw it yesterday. Oh okay, Yeah, that's that's ultimately were
Speaker 1: we Oh okay? Our tribute to the box. We have
Speaker 1: a T shirt and there's a lot of great T shirts.
Speaker 1: It almost feels like every week, every two weeks new
Speaker 1: T shirts there. Go to Dan Patrick dot com. Coming up,
Speaker 1: Final Hour, more phone calls. Also, we'll check in with
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Speaker 1: That's why they were allowed to show up to camp
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