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Speaker 1: strange to say that, but Philip will join us. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll check in with Chris Haynes. He covers the NBA
Speaker 1: for Jana who Sports will join us from the bubble,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of interesting game for Paul George last night.
Speaker 1: He puts up thirty five and kind of had a
Speaker 1: coming out party here and he talked about after the
Speaker 1: game where he was kind of in a dark spot
Speaker 1: here now I know. And Charles Barkley was with us
Speaker 1: last hour and Charles goes, I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: from these athletes. You get to play basketball, go play golf,
Speaker 1: you know, you get may paid millions of dollars there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Charles has taken sort of a large overhead view of
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't want to diminish, you know,
Speaker 1: or try to kind of lessen the impact of what
Speaker 1: was happening in the bubble. You know, Charles was about
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about you complaining about the
Speaker 1: food and I said this before, like j R. Smith
Speaker 1: was complaining about the food. I said, shut up, You're
Speaker 1: lucky to be in the bubble. Enjoy the food. And
Speaker 1: you know, Paul George had this to say after the
Speaker 1: big win by the Clippers last night. The bubble got
Speaker 1: the best of me. I was just in a dark place.
Speaker 1: I really wasn't here. I checked out so these past
Speaker 1: couple of games. It was just it was just difficult.
Speaker 1: But shout out to people that stood behind me, that
Speaker 1: was in my corner, the positivity, my teammates, my family, friends, everybody.
Speaker 1: Thank everybody that reached out to me. I was just
Speaker 1: in a bad place and I found my way. I'm
Speaker 1: back and I look forward to the rest of his run.
Speaker 1: All right. You know, depression hits you. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who you are, where you are, it can hit you,
Speaker 1: tap you on the shoulder. And if that happened to
Speaker 1: Paul George and he was something was up with Paul George,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know if it was physically mentally, and
Speaker 1: we found out that maybe it was a little bit
Speaker 1: of both. But I applaud him for saying something like this.
Speaker 1: I don't think that there are enough people who are
Speaker 1: willing to say this. I go back to what Kevin
Speaker 1: Love said. You know, when Kevin Love came out and said, look,
Speaker 1: I have anxiety attacks. You know, I battled depression, and
Speaker 1: people immediately have the reaction. You got all this money,
Speaker 1: you're young, you're successful, you're good. Look, and I go
Speaker 1: that doesn't like depression. Doesn't go let me pick on
Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't have anything, or doesn't look good or
Speaker 1: is older. It's not the way it works. So Paul
Speaker 1: George was in a dark place. You're in the bubble,
Speaker 1: and you know, I understand that. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: a cordoned off from your family, the walls start to
Speaker 1: close in. There's not much going on there aside from
Speaker 1: playing basketball, and you go back to your room. So
Speaker 1: Paul George, maybe he came out of this and it
Speaker 1: was going to be a different player. The Clippers certainly
Speaker 1: need him. But last night the story was a the
Speaker 1: Clippers in a dominating performance, but also with what happened
Speaker 1: to Luca don Chick in the third quarter. Marcus Morris
Speaker 1: stepped on Luca's ankle. Charles Barkley said, look, I don't
Speaker 1: want to call out somebody for doing something like that.
Speaker 1: But it did certainly look like he was targeting his ankle.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the video, and I agree,
Speaker 1: I think Morris they were. They're targeting Luca let There's
Speaker 1: no secret here, right, We've seen that the last couple
Speaker 1: of games, and these are role players. These aren't Paul
Speaker 1: George isn't doing this. Kawhi' is not doing this. You know,
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley, if he was playing, would be doing this.
Speaker 1: You know, you're a pest, you're a nuisance. But if
Speaker 1: you're doing it in the context of you know, basketball,
Speaker 1: you know, Rodman never got credit for being brilliant mentally,
Speaker 1: Like his mind games were great against Carl Malone. He
Speaker 1: just wanted to kind of tangle up with Malone. He
Speaker 1: didn't try to hurt him. He just wanted to be
Speaker 1: in his head, in his space. But the Clippers, this
Speaker 1: isn't about being in Luca's head. They're in his face.
Speaker 1: They want to try to hurt him, they want to
Speaker 1: be physical with him. And that's where I can't give
Speaker 1: Morris the benefit of the down. Montres Harold, with what
Speaker 1: he said and how he said and how he acted,
Speaker 1: you don't get the benefit of the down. You went
Speaker 1: after Luca's ankle, in my opinion, and you, first of all,
Speaker 1: you go towards Luca after a made basket. There's no
Speaker 1: reason to go towards Luca. His back is you know,
Speaker 1: you're he's got his back to you, and then you
Speaker 1: step on his ankle. It's so easy to avoid a
Speaker 1: situation like that. But here's Luca after what happened. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk to him. You know, he's just
Speaker 1: saying a lot of best stuff to me all the game,
Speaker 1: you know, and just I don't want to talk to him.
Speaker 1: I just got to move on, you know, like I say,
Speaker 1: But he's going to have their own opinion, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just hope he wasn't intentional. And that's if that
Speaker 1: was intentional, that's w Yeah, it wasn't necessary. Like if
Speaker 1: the Clippers play the way they're supposed to play, they'll win.
Speaker 1: But they haven't played great and Luca was embarrassing them.
Speaker 1: And this is why you have the role players doing
Speaker 1: what they're probably paid to do. Be tough, be an intimidator, physical,
Speaker 1: say something, do something, you know, nudge him, knock him around,
Speaker 1: grab him. That's what they want to do. They want
Speaker 1: to test him he's twenty one years of age. They're
Speaker 1: testing him. But the Clippers played great last night. Paul
Speaker 1: George did, Kawhi also played great, and Luca did not
Speaker 1: look good at all. Kristaps Porzingis wasn't able to play.
Speaker 1: And now you have a close out game for the
Speaker 1: Clippers coming up. Games coming up tonight. You got the
Speaker 1: Lakers trying to close out the Blazers, Thunder and the
Speaker 1: Rockets and Magic in the Bucks and e me I
Speaker 1: thought Reggie Miller yesterday on the show said that the
Speaker 1: Lakers are going to want to play the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 1: I was under the impression that that was the next round.
Speaker 1: So we just had Berkeley on and say no, they
Speaker 1: would face the winner of the Rockets and the Thunder.
Speaker 1: So that was em there. Yeah, PAULI, I was watching
Speaker 1: before our Clippers Mavericks. There's about twenty promos that showed
Speaker 1: Lucas shot from the other night and said tune in
Speaker 1: tonight Luca and all the stuff. There's probably a dozen promos.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't his fault. He's still banged up
Speaker 1: and they swarmed him, but a lot of people were
Speaker 1: tuning in to see him. Maybe I never saw him before.
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris on Twitter said, I play this game with
Speaker 1: a level of respect for myself and other players. To
Speaker 1: think I would try to injure somebody as crazy to me.
Speaker 1: Ten years going against the best, I stand on morals
Speaker 1: and hard work. I compete and leave it out there
Speaker 1: every game. Basketball has never been that serious to try
Speaker 1: to hurt somebody. I'm not apologizing for bleep because I
Speaker 1: know what I put into this game day in and
Speaker 1: day out. It was a mistake, deal with it. Competing
Speaker 1: is why I play well. This is the only thing
Speaker 1: I'd want to know if Marcus Morris joined US is
Speaker 1: why were you approaching Luca after the made basket because
Speaker 1: you're not making a basketball move. Oh you're now picking
Speaker 1: up Luca full court? Is that what you were doing
Speaker 1: in the third quarter? Like it didn't. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense in the context of a game. You
Speaker 1: get guys who sprain their ankles all the time. Now,
Speaker 1: Gordon Hayward, that was a basketball play where he come
Speaker 1: down on somebody's foot, But you cannot tell me that
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris didn't go towards Luca don Chick with some
Speaker 1: kind of intent there maybe just a nudge him or
Speaker 1: give him an elbow or something. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: of course Morris is going to say this on Twitter,
Speaker 1: like you know, ten years and I stand on my
Speaker 1: morals and the way I play the game, And yeah, see,
Speaker 1: didn't Marcus Morris the same dude who got ejected from
Speaker 1: a preseason game for trying to elbow somebody in the face.
Speaker 1: He just plays preseason, regular season, postseason. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1: I think it was against the Wizards maybe, And there's like,
Speaker 1: yeahs that at the top of the key and he
Speaker 1: hits the ball off the dude's face. Then he swings
Speaker 1: his elbow at him and swings but makes it look
Speaker 1: like it's just a normal basketball and move. It's the
Speaker 1: same dude. He gets no benefit of the dount montres
Speaker 1: Harrow gets no benefit of the doubt. You know, when
Speaker 1: you have people like Kawhi or Paul George, I'll give
Speaker 1: you the benefit of the doubt. But we've seen the
Speaker 1: Clippers go out of their way to be physical with Luca.
Speaker 1: If they stepped on Seth Curry's ankle, then I can say,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, we can have a discussion about this.
Speaker 1: This is Luca and so you step on the bat ankle,
Speaker 1: and you're going right towards Luca and we're supposed to
Speaker 1: go that's just a coincidence. You guys have been saying
Speaker 1: all kinds of things, all kinds of things to Luca
Speaker 1: and being physical with him, bordering on something fineable or
Speaker 1: that you know, ejectable. Right, Let's happened the entire series.
Speaker 1: This has happened through you know, the history of the NBA.
Speaker 1: They're going to be physical with the best player. Pistons
Speaker 1: did that to Michael Jordan. You just go out of
Speaker 1: your way. They tested Dirk Navitsky, Kobe young Kobe, they
Speaker 1: tried to rough him up. These players come in and
Speaker 1: these veteran players want to put you in your place,
Speaker 1: and usually that's on the seat of your pants. But hey,
Speaker 1: if the NBA wants to continue down this road with
Speaker 1: the Clippers, with the way they're playing, it's not a
Speaker 1: good look. And not that you should be overly protective
Speaker 1: of your star players, but this is a star driven
Speaker 1: league and this is not a good look for the
Speaker 1: NBA with what they've allowed the Clippers to do. It's
Speaker 1: not a good look, not at all. You can be physical,
Speaker 1: there can be playoff basketball. Nothing with what the Clippers
Speaker 1: are doing is playoff basketball. What they said, how they've acted,
Speaker 1: and even how they've reacted here. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: apologize for bleep. Hey. If you if you really are
Speaker 1: going to stand on your morals and the way you
Speaker 1: play the game, you might say, Man, I'm sorry, and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I stepped on the back of his foot
Speaker 1: and that, you know, I know it sounds like I
Speaker 1: want you to know that it's just a coincidence. I
Speaker 1: didn't mean any harm with him, and I feel really bad.
Speaker 1: Like Montrese Harrold came over to Luca prior to the
Speaker 1: previous game to hug Luca because Doc Rivers said, go
Speaker 1: do it. Montrese Harold didn't have some epiphany and go.
Speaker 1: You know, on second thought, I kind of called him
Speaker 1: a lot of things that I probably shouldn't have done.
Speaker 1: Doc goes, hey, you should go over there and hug him.
Speaker 1: You know what that does. The NBA goes up, all good,
Speaker 1: nothing to see there, move on, like, let's play basketball.
Speaker 1: Not a good look, yeample, what have you great at?
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris went the oppos and go, yeah, I did
Speaker 1: it on purpose. We're trying to win. He's the best player.
Speaker 1: I'm averaging ten and four. It's worthy trade off. How
Speaker 1: do you think I stayed in the leg I have
Speaker 1: more respect for if you say that, Like, hey man,
Speaker 1: anything to win? Yeah, you know? All right? Uh new
Speaker 1: poll question, right mcclemman. Okay, so here's the question. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let PAULI stated special. Oh, I want to
Speaker 1: make it clear. Okay, yeah, this isn't gonna go well.
Speaker 1: I would get a little frustrated about the three point line.
Speaker 1: The crossover, crossover, crossover, step back three as basically the
Speaker 1: only offense in the NBA except for a few teams.
Speaker 1: If you could change one thing or leave it as
Speaker 1: it is, get rid of the three point line, get
Speaker 1: rid of it makes the three point worth two and
Speaker 1: a half points, which I think is actually my choice
Speaker 1: because it de values the shot. Or leave things as is.
Speaker 1: If you made the three pointer worth two and a
Speaker 1: half points, it would change basketball, so you could be
Speaker 1: winning like one twenty and a half to one nine.
Speaker 1: How do you did that? Gambling? Oh, if you push city,
Speaker 1: there's no more. Yeah. All. Speaking of gambling, the Danettes
Speaker 1: gambled and launched that Luca don Chick was going to
Speaker 1: go over twenty nine points yesterday after the show, and
Speaker 1: we had made this bet that I was going to
Speaker 1: take a pie to the face if Lucas scored over
Speaker 1: twenty nine points. So I thought the Clippers would, you know,
Speaker 1: put the clamps on. Paulie comes out, he goes, Chris
Speaker 1: stops porzingis not playing like that meant Lucas got to
Speaker 1: put up like forty shots, And I went, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it actually means the Clippers could just focus more on Luca.
Speaker 1: And I'm dumb. Yes, McLevin. He took seventeen shots and
Speaker 1: fourteen free throws. You can't get to twenty eight with
Speaker 1: that many shots. Clippers did a really good job on him. Well.
Speaker 1: He also he's very consistent from three I know, I'm
Speaker 1: Luca Bashard, but he still like thirty two percent. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: they just double teamed him the whole night. They did
Speaker 1: what I said they should have done at the end
Speaker 1: of the previous game, just double team him. Why does
Speaker 1: it he hit free throws? Is I do not know.
Speaker 1: I do not know. I don't know if that's something mentally,
Speaker 1: but as much he has he should be an eighty
Speaker 1: percent eighty percent plus free throw shooter should be and
Speaker 1: that's something you got to work on. Like the Greek freak.
Speaker 1: When you have the ball that often and you go
Speaker 1: to the line that many times, you're just giving away
Speaker 1: points and you know the strategy is, I can put
Speaker 1: him on the line. I just don't want him to
Speaker 1: beat me with the jumper from three point range. But
Speaker 1: Clippers picked up the victory. Tonight you got Blazers Lakers.
Speaker 1: As Lakers try to close things out, Thunder and Rockets
Speaker 1: is must see TV for me, and I think the Blaze. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a chance the Blazers can win tonight. There's always
Speaker 1: a chance. And I don't want people to go, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no chance they'll win. Okay, No, Damian Lillard. If
Speaker 1: they win tonight, what are we talking about tomorrow? Oh,
Speaker 1: they can't close you know, whatever it might be, they'll
Speaker 1: be the narrative of something negative about the Lakers. But
Speaker 1: you can't say no chance, can't but the Blazers Lakers tonight.
Speaker 1: Thunder Rockets I am fascinated with, and Magic in the
Speaker 1: Buck says the magic try to hold on for dear life.
Speaker 1: Jannis wins the Defensive Player of the Year, he'll win
Speaker 1: the MVP. Did we find out where's Ethan. I threw
Speaker 1: this out there, and Ethan is always I don't even
Speaker 1: finish my sentences and he'll send me back his stat
Speaker 1: last time. Or how many times have we had MVP
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year, because I'm guessing Jordan did it. Yes,
Speaker 1: MC club, I know that they're five players who've ever
Speaker 1: won both awards before. Ethan knows that. Wow. Wow. Mclovin
Speaker 1: tried to restake his claim as the stats guy. Mike,
Speaker 1: I don't know which five players, by the way, but
Speaker 1: oh you don't know, do you know? I know, Michael. No.
Speaker 1: I saw that headline like, there's only five guys historically
Speaker 1: we've ever done this, Michael Jordan being one of them. Okay, yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Hakim was one of them. After that, you
Speaker 1: can finish out. Okay, so Kim and Mike, um, Kareem.
Speaker 1: I think Kareem's on there too. Was that back in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee or maybe not? No? I'm sorry, uh yeah, because
Speaker 1: I don't think they had that award back in Kareem's day,
Speaker 1: did they? Do you remember growing up with a defensive
Speaker 1: player year? No? Because why would I care about defense? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't think they had it because there's no old
Speaker 1: timey guys on here. Yeah, it's uh, Kevin Garnett, Akim,
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, and David Robinson. So did Michael do it twice?
Speaker 1: Well it doesn't. I Ethan might know that, but this
Speaker 1: is just guys who won MVPs and Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Years in their careers, not at the same time. Okay,
Speaker 1: so David Robinson, No, no no, Kevin Garnett, Akim, Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: and David Robinson. Oh right, yeah, David Robins. I wonder
Speaker 1: what year this started, because wouldn't a Kareem have done it?
Speaker 1: Maybe was he? I would have thought back in the
Speaker 1: in the seventies, But I don't know if I like
Speaker 1: back then they didn't have all these awards. It's just
Speaker 1: we got to give out fifty awards and then we
Speaker 1: can have an award show. I can only hand out
Speaker 1: three of them. Then it was like the award show
Speaker 1: ends after fifteen minutes. Nineteen eighty two, first Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year was handed out. Yes, we can you
Speaker 1: guess who won Defensive Player of the Year back to
Speaker 1: back eighty two eighty three seasons. He's a Bobby Jones,
Speaker 1: like a combo guard. More almost like a small forward. Yes,
Speaker 1: if not Bobby Jones of Michael Cooper, Oh, good, guess
Speaker 1: he won it in eighty six for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: Sydney Moncriffs, Right, Bobby Jones used to always be like
Speaker 1: defensive Player of the Year. It felt like they didn't
Speaker 1: have the award under that name. NBA Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year awards started eighty two eighty three with Moncrieff,
Speaker 1: then Eaton, Alvin Robinson, Robertson, Michael Cooper, Michael Jordan, Mark Eaton.
Speaker 1: But these guys won the award. They won both awards
Speaker 1: in the same season. Jordan won same season, Elijah One
Speaker 1: won it the same season. I don't know if these
Speaker 1: other guys won the MVP and Defensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year in the same year. Yes, Ethan is working on it.
Speaker 1: I hope is yadis related a defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to ask, Like I don't think
Speaker 1: of him as like I don't. Yeah, Like it's funny,
Speaker 1: like it's not obvious, like Rudy Gobert. I just see
Speaker 1: him black, you know, blocking every shot that I would surprise.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit by this, like a landslide too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but the stifled towers one or a couple
Speaker 1: of times, right, Yeah, so I don't know. Once again,
Speaker 1: understand that writers and voters won a good story. If
Speaker 1: you've already given it to Rudy Gobert a couple of times,
Speaker 1: you give it to the Greek freak. Hey, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have him the MVP and defensive Player in the
Speaker 1: same year. Not that he's not deserving, it's just that's
Speaker 1: why when Charles Barkley won the MVP and Karl Malone
Speaker 1: won the MVP, and I caught grief in both of
Speaker 1: those cities those years because I said, I voted for
Speaker 1: Michael George because I looked at value when I went
Speaker 1: Jordan is gonna win the m He's gonna win a championship, Yes, Paul,
Speaker 1: He's gonna say. Nobody stopped more shouts of Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: this year. Technically wow, Wow, he's a shock. It's too
Speaker 1: soon for pandemic. Hum. Yeah. If he changes his name,
Speaker 1: what if he what if he put his name as
Speaker 1: COVID and his number was nineteen. Oh, dear me, dang,
Speaker 1: just thinking out loud, that's all. Philip Rivers said to
Speaker 1: join us. I'd love I'm gonna listen in as Todd
Speaker 1: tries to act like he likes Philip Rivers. I do
Speaker 1: like him a lot more than East Well, you hated
Speaker 1: him before. I love the interviews, but when he comes
Speaker 1: on the show, he's great with you and I like him,
Speaker 1: And now that he's out of the AFC West, I'm
Speaker 1: more comfortable rooting for him. All right, all right, Ryan
Speaker 1: and Illinois? Hey Ryan, what do you have for me?
Speaker 1: Adp Hey? Ryan? Second time, long time six four two sixty.
Speaker 1: In defense to Coach Coal and the amount of talent
Speaker 1: he's had come through Kentucky, you gotta taken a consideration.
Speaker 1: A lot of those players you named weren't on the
Speaker 1: same squads, and he's still trying to get eighteen year
Speaker 1: olds to break the AAU mentality and buy into the
Speaker 1: team concept. I think Coach Cole's biggest myths as far
Speaker 1: as talented rosters was the year he had Boogie cousins
Speaker 1: John Wall and Eric Bloodsoe and Drop dropped a bad
Speaker 1: one to West Virginia. I think, I mean, come on, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you you can accidentally win a title with that much talent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true, but you're still trying to get eighteen year
Speaker 1: olds to you know, he knows that they're there for
Speaker 1: one year and about I'm just being a Kentucky apologist.
Speaker 1: All right, that's fine, Ryan, you should have led with
Speaker 1: I'm a Kentucky apologist there. I went down the roster
Speaker 1: because you know, you just start to think sometimes and
Speaker 1: you go Jamal Jamal Murray, Like we're talking about Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: and I go, Jamal Murray is dominating. Yeah, mclub. I'm
Speaker 1: like he had a roster from twenty fifteen. They had
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, Carley ath Any Towns, Willie Cally signed, Trey Lyles, Tyler,
Speaker 1: u Liss, Marcus Lee, Trey, I mean, Andrew, the Harrison Twins.
Speaker 1: But how did Devin book I'd call Anthony Towns not
Speaker 1: I know that. I mean, that's that's an incredible amount
Speaker 1: of talent that's gone through. Does Duke have the same
Speaker 1: kind of talent that's gone through there? Is it comparable
Speaker 1: to Kentucky now with Zion RJ. Barrett? I mean, You've
Speaker 1: had some guys, but it's Kentucky has guys who don't
Speaker 1: even get to start, who get drafted and that's when
Speaker 1: you got a lot of talent there. All right, let
Speaker 1: me take a break. Philip Rivers is set to Jonas,
Speaker 1: a Colts quarterback. And also we'll check in with our
Speaker 1: good buddy Chris Haynes from the Bubble, because there was
Speaker 1: talk yesterday by some of the play on the Celtics
Speaker 1: and the Raptors of maybe sitting out a game in
Speaker 1: protest to what happened to Jacob Blake who was shot
Speaker 1: seven times in the back in Wisconsin. So we'll take
Speaker 1: a break, we'll talk some football with Philip Rivers. Your
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Speaker 1: I'm going to hit the dance with Creampot because they
Speaker 1: lost the Luca dun Chick bet. And then Tyler the
Speaker 1: moderator said, you know, last time we did this, you
Speaker 1: got pie all over your Mercedes. So I had Tyler
Speaker 1: go out and move my car. So yes, Paulie, how
Speaker 1: about if one of the Dannets would like to double
Speaker 1: or nothing to bet. If they would like to bet
Speaker 1: on the Blazers to win tonight and the Blazers win,
Speaker 1: you're out. You're in the clear, okay. Or you get
Speaker 1: two pies if the Blazers lose to the Lakes. All right,
Speaker 1: let me ask that before we get to Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: and does anybody want to take up that bet? You
Speaker 1: get a pie to the face, or you can take
Speaker 1: the Blazers tonight to win. Todd, I'll start with you.
Speaker 1: I can't see the Blazers without Dame when Lakers close
Speaker 1: it out, Okay. Mclovin, I don't even want the Blazers
Speaker 1: with thirteen. I think that's too seton. You don't get
Speaker 1: any points. It's straight up Seaton O'Connor. It's so far
Speaker 1: everybody else is opted to take the pie today. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll go tomorrow. I'll say the Blazers win
Speaker 1: two pies. Yeah, once you have two, once you have one,
Speaker 1: what's the difference. You're still covered in pie. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's not two pies at once. Carries over. It's a
Speaker 1: carry over. Yeah, there's fine print here. That's unfortunate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so then you'll get another pie, but we don't know
Speaker 1: when that will happen. Can you make it a surprise surpise?
Speaker 1: Can you do it that way? That was the best? Oh,
Speaker 1: I love it. Like when you know it's coming, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: just hit me in the face. But when you don't
Speaker 1: know what's coming, he just turned the corner and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden smashed. That was the best. Yes, so
Speaker 1: we'll do two pies, but you don't know when you're
Speaker 1: getting the two pies. Surpies, surpies. Yeah, I'll do surpises. Paully,
Speaker 1: you filled in all the wiggle room that was going
Speaker 1: to try to get out of it. There, so no,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking the place. Okay, all right? So Seaton
Speaker 1: has the Blazers tonight straight up. The other Danettes get
Speaker 1: pies to the face. He's uh, Philip Rivers. He's now
Speaker 1: with the Colts, which sounds strange to say it. How
Speaker 1: did it feel when you put on that Colts unif
Speaker 1: form for the first time? Um? It felt good, you
Speaker 1: know it. It's certainly uh uh different when you put
Speaker 1: on the same uniform for sixteen years, but uh it
Speaker 1: felt it felt good. It's nice. It's nice that there's
Speaker 1: some blue in it. So kind of in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, uh, a lot of ways felt right at home.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like you were cheating on somebody. Nah. Nah,
Speaker 1: it's uh maybe had been you know, early March and
Speaker 1: felt but shoot, it's we kicked this thing off here
Speaker 1: in two and a half week, so it feels good.
Speaker 1: What about all your chargers gear? Where's that? I have
Speaker 1: it all? I kept it all. You know. That was
Speaker 1: that was an interesting part of the whole move. Um,
Speaker 1: I said, I don't think there's any reason to bring
Speaker 1: it to Indiana, but we'll certainly certainly save it and
Speaker 1: bring it back out one day. How about a groange sale.
Speaker 1: I think we'll hang we'll hang on to it. It
Speaker 1: drives my wife crazy that I'll keep every sweatshirt and
Speaker 1: a pair of sweatpants that I've gotten over the years.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, we got them all all saved up.
Speaker 1: You're a hoarder. I mean, I I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just have a heart. Yeah, not too bad, not too bad.
Speaker 1: But there'll be an old, you know, Chargers seventeen shirt
Speaker 1: from two thousand and eight, and she'll go, why are
Speaker 1: you keeping that? But you can't help. Do you have
Speaker 1: NC State gear at home? I do have some NC
Speaker 1: State Yeah, I gind of bring that out, you know,
Speaker 1: during the season. I'm sure it's the same everywhere. It
Speaker 1: gets the Friday Saturday and you start to represent your
Speaker 1: school around the locker room. So NC State stuff usually
Speaker 1: comes out in the fall. It's tough enough to play
Speaker 1: the position at a high level. Now you're changing, you know,
Speaker 1: going from the West Coast to the Midwest, a new
Speaker 1: team here late in your career. How difficult is this
Speaker 1: now trying to get everybody to get her on the
Speaker 1: same page as the team leader. Well, you know, it's
Speaker 1: definitely a challenge. But I do think being in a
Speaker 1: similar scheme and system has been helpful. And also being
Speaker 1: with Frank and Nick again, so we communicate. We know
Speaker 1: we're on the same page from that standpoint, and we're
Speaker 1: trying to get done. So that has been very helpful.
Speaker 1: You know, people are asking me, how is it going
Speaker 1: to take with getting to go getting used to receivers
Speaker 1: and all that. That's been really good. You know. That's
Speaker 1: another thing with Nick being the receiver coach in San
Speaker 1: Diego for all those years, the things have been taught here.
Speaker 1: The little nuances of the routes and the conversions and
Speaker 1: all those things are exactly the same. So it's what
Speaker 1: I'm used to. So that certainly has helped, and we
Speaker 1: got a good group. We got a good group. So
Speaker 1: it's a challenge every day because there's little things that
Speaker 1: come up that you think, uh, you know, you're used
Speaker 1: to things happening in a certain way and it's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't had that come up in a practice with
Speaker 1: this particular player or this adjustment. And so they're good.
Speaker 1: Every day we learned something and get better and it's
Speaker 1: just kind of happened in an accelerated curve because of
Speaker 1: how close we are now to kick off. What do
Speaker 1: you miss about California? Well, I think I guess the weather.
Speaker 1: The weather is the only thing that's that's different here
Speaker 1: so far. I mean from a standpoint of when you
Speaker 1: get in training camp mode, Uh, you certainly you missed
Speaker 1: some of your your buddies and people you've been around
Speaker 1: that you're used to seeing around the facility. Uh. But
Speaker 1: other than that, when you get in training camp mode, shoot,
Speaker 1: you're all about You're all about the team, your own
Speaker 1: and and and getting better every day. So I've really
Speaker 1: been uh thankful and uh enjoyed getting to know this
Speaker 1: locker room, this group of guys, this support staff, this
Speaker 1: coaching staff. Has really been a lot of fun to
Speaker 1: come into work every day. How much thought did you
Speaker 1: give to not playing this year opting out? Uh? None? Uh? None, really,
Speaker 1: I mean I never even got guy even to where
Speaker 1: it was a real uh discussion with your wife. Yeah
Speaker 1: it was we were shooting. Uh unless there have been
Speaker 1: some crazy I can't even think of the uh you know,
Speaker 1: kind of the what could have happened. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what the parameters could have been to make it
Speaker 1: become a discussion. But as everything kind of got situated,
Speaker 1: U felt good about it. You look at you, and
Speaker 1: you look at Brady and Ben, and you look at
Speaker 1: Drew Brees and what is it about that position that
Speaker 1: you can be in your late thirties early forties and
Speaker 1: still play at a high level. Well, I think we've
Speaker 1: obviously seen the quarterback position is evolving a little bit
Speaker 1: in a sense of now that you're better off if
Speaker 1: you can throw it and run it. Could you ever
Speaker 1: run it? Yeah? I don't. I don't. That's last option.
Speaker 1: That's last option for me. And if I'm out there
Speaker 1: and it looks like I may run, I'll always tell
Speaker 1: the line I'll keep your eyes on me, because I'd
Speaker 1: much rather flick it to you the last Couldn't you
Speaker 1: out run Brady right now? Uh? It be a heck
Speaker 1: of a race, But I like my chances like you
Speaker 1: could get Roethlisberger, couldn't you? I don't know now, Ben,
Speaker 1: I don't know Ben. Ben. Ben's definitely uh got a
Speaker 1: little more agile this agileness is that a word? A
Speaker 1: little more agility to him than I do when it
Speaker 1: comes to moving around. Um. But yeah, I think really
Speaker 1: with our position, and I think that's why you can
Speaker 1: still do it at this level is ultimately there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a third and seven. You gotta make play from
Speaker 1: a piet and and and at the end of the
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think that's what
Speaker 1: carries it. You certainly you can get out of things
Speaker 1: when you can run it and do all those things.
Speaker 1: But I think that's what has have allowed you know,
Speaker 1: us traditional pastors to play. Uh, you know at the
Speaker 1: age we are um and I think too, it's it's
Speaker 1: about how quickly you can process and see it and
Speaker 1: get the ball out of your hand, get the ball
Speaker 1: to the playmakers. So um. You know, every every system
Speaker 1: and every every team has a little different philosophy. But
Speaker 1: I think with what we do system wise and the
Speaker 1: skill players we have that uh, at thirty eight or
Speaker 1: in Brady's case, at forty two forty three, you can
Speaker 1: still still get it done. He's Philip Rivers, the Colts quarterback.
Speaker 1: Still sounds strange to say that are your kids all
Speaker 1: in on you? You know the Colts and nobody is
Speaker 1: sort of still a Charger fan. Now. It's amazing what
Speaker 1: that the that family loyalty runs deep. It's it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like snap your fingers and it's it's all colts,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden t wiser receiver and this and
Speaker 1: that they're going, you know, the whole deal so great. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they still will because of how long I
Speaker 1: was there, and really some of them had that. As
Speaker 1: they've gotten older, you know, um, you know the Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen's and the Hunter Henry's and those guys, they'll still
Speaker 1: they'll still pull for those guys as well. I but
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, they quickly adjust. They had more coltskier
Speaker 1: than I had right off the bat. I mean, Dad,
Speaker 1: can I can I click this? Can I order this?
Speaker 1: Can I order this? So there was a Colts giar
Speaker 1: early early in the spring, once the thing got ironed out.
Speaker 1: We talked to Bosa a couple of weeks ago. He
Speaker 1: still can't name all your kids? Yeah, that's I can.
Speaker 1: I can understand that. I can understand that. You know,
Speaker 1: Joey would being a younger player when he got there.
Speaker 1: And then the last three years in LA we were
Speaker 1: a little bit removed from the whole uh scene family
Speaker 1: wise because we were still down in San Diego, so
Speaker 1: U Joey didn't quite get as much interaction with the
Speaker 1: families as some of the older veterans. So every all
Speaker 1: the kids who are there with you in Indie, we're
Speaker 1: all here. Yeah, we're all here. Did you drive or
Speaker 1: did they fly to get out there? No, you know,
Speaker 1: we flew. So we were down in Florida for you know,
Speaker 1: about six months before we came. We camp app here
Speaker 1: at first of June to try to get settled in
Speaker 1: before training camp, and we did. So it's good. You know,
Speaker 1: I think being from North Alabama and I know there's
Speaker 1: like all this competition, you know, the demographic wise, like
Speaker 1: our location wise where you are, you know, the South,
Speaker 1: the Midwest, everybody's a little biased and territorial, but it
Speaker 1: does feel a little like the South to us. It
Speaker 1: feels a lot like North Alabama from a standpoint of,
Speaker 1: you know, both the weather and the neighborhoods, the people
Speaker 1: that everything. So it's been a it's been a good transition.
Speaker 1: We've we've we've enjoyed it. Did Alabama recruit you Nah,
Speaker 1: not really. I can't say they did. Auburn did we
Speaker 1: know that story? But Alabama? Alabama had Tyler Watch. You
Speaker 1: remember these guys in Andrew zal You remember those two names.
Speaker 1: They were both red shirt sophomores when I was coming out,
Speaker 1: and then Brodie Crow is kind of already in the
Speaker 1: in the works that was a year or two behind me. So, uh,
Speaker 1: they didn't take a quarterback that year, at least that's
Speaker 1: what I told everybody. They weren't. They weren't recruiting a quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's why I wasn't on their radar. Is it because
Speaker 1: you couldn't grow those Bama Bangs? Remember remember there was
Speaker 1: a run there where John Parker Wilson didn't he have
Speaker 1: the Bama Bangs there. Yeah, you had to be able
Speaker 1: to do the sloop, you know, you had to. You
Speaker 1: had to build it over. Yeah, so I already didn't
Speaker 1: qualify the expectations. You're going to a team that is
Speaker 1: a playoff team. How important was that that you if
Speaker 1: you were going to play, you were going to a
Speaker 1: team that had chance to win a Super Bowl? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was definitely important. I mean, I still you always
Speaker 1: believe wherever you are you can win, but it was
Speaker 1: definitely important. And this this franchise, this organization and uh
Speaker 1: head coach, the whole whole deal. You just know it's
Speaker 1: it's it's moving in the right direction. Played them last
Speaker 1: year and then just seeing what they've done over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. You knew it was. It was
Speaker 1: a franchise of the team that was hungry and ready
Speaker 1: to to uh to make a run. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're one day at a time. I know it's
Speaker 1: the I know it's the boring old answer, but one
Speaker 1: day at a time, just keep getting better and keep
Speaker 1: your head down and work. But our guys have really
Speaker 1: uh shown that and we do that so U. But
Speaker 1: it's a heck of a group. It's one that's you know,
Speaker 1: I just feel like top to bottom, we got we got.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of good players in there.
Speaker 1: Uh and um a good a good team and led
Speaker 1: by a great head coach and and we're excited to
Speaker 1: see what we can do. I've never had this conversation
Speaker 1: with you, but I put your name up for the
Speaker 1: next TV job. I think you'd be great in TV.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've discussed that with your wife.
Speaker 1: Was there a possibility that maybe you would have done
Speaker 1: or will do TV instead of playing football? You know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know that instead of playing football,
Speaker 1: But I don't. That's something I definitely don't want to say,
Speaker 1: rule out for sure, Uh, certainly, Um, you know, she
Speaker 1: hum humbling to even being being the conversation with those possibilities.
Speaker 1: But I you know, I do want to coach football. Uh,
Speaker 1: And you know that's been that's been public that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to coach high school football and South Alabama
Speaker 1: when when the dust settles, I want to coach my
Speaker 1: boys and do that. So I don't want to rule
Speaker 1: out the TV side of it, but I just I
Speaker 1: feel like I belong on the sideline in a locker
Speaker 1: room with those fifteen to eighteen year old boys. I
Speaker 1: just I feel like that's uh kind of gonna be
Speaker 1: my second stop, uh when the dust settles here with
Speaker 1: my playing career. Do you have a child who's similar
Speaker 1: in age to somebody who's a teammate, Like, what's what's
Speaker 1: the how old's your oldest? Yeah? All this is eighteen,
Speaker 1: So I'm sure there's some twenty one. Sure, probably twenty
Speaker 1: one year olds in there, but I know there's twenty two.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I want to say. I want to
Speaker 1: say Jonathan Tayler was born in ninety eight or ninety nine,
Speaker 1: the senior playing my fall season senior year in high school.
Speaker 1: So now now I'm handing all you know, Michael Pittman junior.
Speaker 1: I played with his dad, I played against his dad,
Speaker 1: played against his dad in Denver, and so I guess
Speaker 1: at that time, yeah, I heard some stories of Brady
Speaker 1: too as well with playing with a played with played
Speaker 1: with anyway, So yeah, it's uh, it's it's gotten to
Speaker 1: that point. Good to catch up with you and have
Speaker 1: fun this year. Thanks, enjoyed it. At Philip Rivers, he
Speaker 1: talked about the Auburn story. Just to give you a
Speaker 1: little bit more information on that. Auburn recruited Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: Tommy Tuberville was the head coach and they wanted him
Speaker 1: to play tight end and he wanted to play quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: so he and they had Jason Campbell at Auburn at
Speaker 1: the time. And you're gonna make a case. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jason Campbell played in the NFL as well. Philip went
Speaker 1: to NC State, but Tommy Tuberville didn't want Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench, and uh, I think that's why
Speaker 1: when he got the offer of FRENCY State, then Tommy
Speaker 1: Tubberville at Auburn said you want to go play quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's the place where you need to go. So that
Speaker 1: is the Auburn story there with Philip Rivers. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: didn't Bo Jackson tell you about his recruitment with Alabama
Speaker 1: and Auburn. He went to Alabama and wanted to know
Speaker 1: if he was going to start his freshman year, and
Speaker 1: so he was told who was the head coach at
Speaker 1: Alabama back then eighty four? That stalling was the Stallings
Speaker 1: right after the Bear Yum, I don't know who and
Speaker 1: who were Alabama's running backs back then? If if you
Speaker 1: bring in Bo Jackson and Bogos, am I going to play?
Speaker 1: Am I going to start? And then you know whoever
Speaker 1: the coach was like, uh, probably not right away? He
Speaker 1: goes to Auburn and then Pat and I I believe
Speaker 1: is his head coach, and all Bear Bryant was still there,
Speaker 1: so of course Bear's not going to guarantee him a
Speaker 1: starting role here. Who were the running backs there? Johnny
Speaker 1: muse now not Johnny Muso? How about Humphries, Bobby Humphries
Speaker 1: maybe checking. Okay, we'll take a break here, welcome back.
Speaker 1: We'll get phone calls here and we'll head inside the
Speaker 1: bubble with Chris Haines from Yahoo Sports He'll be joining
Speaker 1: us a little bit later on as well. Back after
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Speaker 1: Patrick Show. I just mentioned that Philip Rivers was recruited
Speaker 1: to play tight end at Auburn, Ben Roethlisberger recruited to
Speaker 1: play tight end at Ohio State, Johnny Manzel defensive back
Speaker 1: at Texas RG three defensive back at Texas. I was
Speaker 1: also looking at this the number one overall picks of
Speaker 1: all the schools in NBA history. So the NBA draft
Speaker 1: the inception was nineteen forty seven. You have about fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred players have been drafted in the first round. About
Speaker 1: ninety percent of those players came from a Division one school.
Speaker 1: The top twenty schools, and how they stack up now
Speaker 1: Duke has had Who's had the most number one overall picks?
Speaker 1: Mclovin Duke according to this list. Okay, so well, no,
Speaker 1: this is first round picks underneath that is number one
Speaker 1: overalls too. Oh okay, so there's four players from Duke
Speaker 1: Whof gone number one overall. So Kyrie Zion, Danny Ferry
Speaker 1: go number one overall. Now he went too to the Clippers? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: am I missing an obvious one? Here? Did you say
Speaker 1: Alton brand I did not, oh, Elton brand So I
Speaker 1: got that one and the other one? Am I going
Speaker 1: to get the other one? The other ones? An old
Speaker 1: timey guy, the old time Well, so am I no? No, no,
Speaker 1: like like, I don't even know if you you probably
Speaker 1: never saw this guy play with Jay Billis, Mark Allery,
Speaker 1: no Art Hayman, who I saw was out of the
Speaker 1: NBA by nineteen sixty five. By the way, Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: averages two point seven yards rushing per game in his career.
Speaker 1: That that's not attempts. He averages almost three yards rushing
Speaker 1: per game. By the way, the last time Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: scored a rushing touchdown twenty eleven. Meanwhile, Brady would always
Speaker 1: get those touchdowns, those quarterbacks sneaks, You'd always get those.
Speaker 1: By the way, can we stop pretending that Cam Newton's
Speaker 1: not gonna be the starting quarterback in New England? All
Speaker 1: right like where it's like this big mystery. I don't
Speaker 1: know Stidham's injured. I don't think Horrier is going to
Speaker 1: be starting quarterback. If he is, then that's not good
Speaker 1: news for the Patriots. It's an open competition. Thank you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course it is, thank you, Coach Belichick. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna name him a starterer night under Paul. He's got
Speaker 1: his Belichick shirt on here. We're we're on the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. But I can't imagine Cam not being started quarterback, Like,
Speaker 1: why you bring him in if you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: him as your starting quarterback? Yes week, love, I saw
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman put out an Instagram post with him as
Speaker 1: Batman and Cams Superman. Yeah, what about poor Jaredson? What
Speaker 1: happened to that Jared Stidham storyline we got on Twitter
Speaker 1: that today Cam signed. All the reporters said, uh, this
Speaker 1: is Stidham's job to lose. You've been all over it.
Speaker 1: I just like I said, Luca Dodgers wasn't good. I've
Speaker 1: been duped. It's not my fault. I blame Tom Kernan.
Speaker 1: By the way, the comparisons Jason Campbell at Auburn forty
Speaker 1: five touchdown passes in four years. Philip Rivers had ninety
Speaker 1: five touchdowns at NC State in the l Jason Campbell
Speaker 1: nine years in the NFL eighty seven touchdown passes. Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers sixteen season three ninety seven touchdown passes. So the
Speaker 1: most first round picks Kentucky is number one, fifty two
Speaker 1: North Carolina is second, then Duke, Ucla, Kansas, Michigan, Indiana, Louisville, Syracuse,
Speaker 1: and Ohio State since the NBA Draft started in nineteen
Speaker 1: forty seven. But thank you for getting that information for me.
Speaker 1: McLevin Kyle in California. Kyle, what's on your mind? Warning boys?
Speaker 1: On that Marcus Morris play last night? I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was intentional. It didn't look unintentional, I'll say that.
Speaker 1: But besides that DP, I was wondering if you could
Speaker 1: find Greg Logan and his Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: vote voted for Andre Jumman first, Hassan Whiteside second, and
Speaker 1: Yanis third. No a D. I would love to, all right,
Speaker 1: maybe he's just looking. Guys are pure defenders. By the way,
Speaker 1: do you guys know there's college football coming up this weekend?
Speaker 1: National TV on ESPN. Any idea who's playing final hour
Speaker 1: coming up, have that for you. We'll go inside the
Speaker 1: bubble after this