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Speaker 1: do we have? So? I asked, who's coming out of
Speaker 1: the West. The Lakers are still number one, but the
Speaker 1: Clippers are sticking a number two over the MAVs, Rockets,
Speaker 1: and Jazz. I have an NFL option for you when
Speaker 1: you're ready. Okay, I'm ready right now. You can only
Speaker 1: watch one of these quarterbacks this season, all right, Cam
Speaker 1: Newton assuming he starts by Week one for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: or Tom Brady for the Buccaneers. I'm gonna go Brady. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a Kim makes the Patriots interesting. The Buccaneers are
Speaker 1: still interesting to me even if Brady didn't go there.
Speaker 1: But I would say Tom Brady. I'm also looking at this.
Speaker 1: You know, Vegas has some odds on quarterbacks winning the MVP,
Speaker 1: and we've seen this with the second year quarterback winning
Speaker 1: the MVP. Kyler Murray's name is up there pretty high.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of people who are buying into the
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray hype that maybe he could win the MVP
Speaker 1: this year. Murray has twenty to one odds to win
Speaker 1: the award. Mahomes and Jackson are currently the favorites. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's at eighteen to one. He's generated the most action,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott fifteen to one. He was twenty five to one.
Speaker 1: He's attracted the second most action. But that makes sense
Speaker 1: with the Cowboy fans Cam Newton. Cam Newton went from
Speaker 1: one hundred to one to thirty to one to win
Speaker 1: the MVP. One Better wagered five hundred dollars on Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: If he becomes the MVP, the ticket will be worth
Speaker 1: just over fifty thousand dollars. I'd put down that kind
Speaker 1: of money on cam and call someone if you want. No,
Speaker 1: I don't want to gamble Drew Locke. By the way,
Speaker 1: the Broncos, there's some people looking at Drew Locke has
Speaker 1: maybe taking that next step, but he's at one hundred
Speaker 1: to one right now. He's got some weapons there in Denver.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I definitely want to see what Brady does
Speaker 1: with Tampa Bay because we don't know how much longer
Speaker 1: he's going to play. Final Hour eight seven seven three
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Speaker 1: Spend a lot of time first hour talking about Luca
Speaker 1: don check the shot. You realize that the Clippers wanted
Speaker 1: to make that switch. Reggie Jackson guarding Luca don Chick
Speaker 1: with the game on the line. I'm waiting for this
Speaker 1: question to come up. Did Luca make the right decision?
Speaker 1: Now we know the end result? He went for the win?
Speaker 1: This wasn't you go for the win on the road.
Speaker 1: You go for the tie when you're at home. Now
Speaker 1: you're on a neutral site here, and what if he
Speaker 1: misses that shot? Are we critical of Luca don Chick
Speaker 1: because he took a three to win it, a contested
Speaker 1: three from thirty five feet instead of trying to get
Speaker 1: it too. Yes, I think they were only down one. Actually,
Speaker 1: oh they were. Yeah, the final score was one thirty
Speaker 1: five one. Then never mind. But it's a crazy shot.
Speaker 1: Why why did you try and get fouled. Let's start
Speaker 1: the hour over it. Yeah, well that out, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll hit that out in the rear. But I
Speaker 1: even the shot that he took. I was curious about that,
Speaker 1: that it was a contested shot, a deep shot there
Speaker 1: and what he had been criticized if you know he
Speaker 1: doesn't make that shot. And the answer is yes, he
Speaker 1: would have been criticized. Yes. I heard a couple of
Speaker 1: analysts on NBA TV. We're breaking down that shot, and
Speaker 1: we're talking about his awareness on the court, where he
Speaker 1: is the time left that he did an extra crossover
Speaker 1: dribble that he knew he had time for and his
Speaker 1: defender was reacting to. There's like three crossovers. You know.
Speaker 1: His defender was sticking with the second one and thought, well,
Speaker 1: that's all the time he has, and he committed and
Speaker 1: that's why he was tumbled over his feet on a
Speaker 1: third crossover. Here is Don Chick after the game winning shot.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to make it. You know, I
Speaker 1: can't explain the emotions I had, you know, not only
Speaker 1: winning winning the ball goes in when I see the
Speaker 1: whole team like twenty totals me. That was something special,
Speaker 1: one of the best feelings I ever had as a player.
Speaker 1: And it's just something special, man, This tim is something special.
Speaker 1: And Rick Carlyle, who played with Larry Bird in Boston,
Speaker 1: had a comparison to Luca and I keep this in
Speaker 1: mind that Mark Cuban, the owner of the mav says
Speaker 1: let's stop making comparisons to Luca don Chick. But that
Speaker 1: didn't stop Rick Carlyle from making this comparison. I mentioned
Speaker 1: Kid and Bird. I mean, I think both those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, just from the same fabric competitive and in
Speaker 1: terms of their will to win and their resourcefulness to
Speaker 1: find ways to impact the game in unique forms. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not just about putting the ball to basket. It's
Speaker 1: about giving teammates confidence. And keep in mind what Jeff
Speaker 1: Van Gundy said last week, comparisons are the thief of joy.
Speaker 1: It's a great expression because we get caught up and
Speaker 1: then eventually you're going to denigrate one player as you
Speaker 1: elevate another player. And I'm not, and I don't mean
Speaker 1: to do that. Those comparisons I think are app what
Speaker 1: Jason Kidd did, how he did it. He became a
Speaker 1: very good three point shooter, but he could dominate without scoring.
Speaker 1: And we know, of course Larry Bird, but you know
Speaker 1: the Luca comparison. I mean, that's what's fun about what
Speaker 1: we do, where you're trying to find that comp What
Speaker 1: happens with every draft, who's he remind you of? Right
Speaker 1: when somebody says, oh, you got to see this guy,
Speaker 1: who's he remind you of? And then you have your comparison.
Speaker 1: Whether it's true or not, you have your comparison. I
Speaker 1: love it. It's fun, dangerous at times, but it's fun. Yeah, Paul. Oh.
Speaker 1: What frustrates us, and I know this frustrates you in
Speaker 1: the group here is that people use comparisons of physical
Speaker 1: similarities like height, weight, complexion, etc. Etc. And they don't
Speaker 1: compare games. We try to compare what their game on
Speaker 1: the court is like if it's like another player, because
Speaker 1: it doesn't always match. Just because you're Tom Googliata doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you played like Larry Bird well, but you have
Speaker 1: to be compared. You're always compared a white guys always
Speaker 1: compared to a white guy unless people start thinking it
Speaker 1: through and say, what's the actual game, Like, yeah, someth globe,
Speaker 1: but there is. In fact, I had stats pulled Luca
Speaker 1: Dante's dunks like three times all season, like there is
Speaker 1: a lack of verticality to his game that people bend
Speaker 1: over backwards not to recognize he plays well below the rim.
Speaker 1: He never died. Do you remember him ever dunking the ball? No?
Speaker 1: But I'm not a guy who got caught up in boy.
Speaker 1: I love to watch these guys dunk rab's hey, like
Speaker 1: you know who? That reminds me of Larry Bird played
Speaker 1: the same style. Yeah, yeah, Paul, I had this old book.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It's from like nineteen eighty two and it's
Speaker 1: the top Dunkers in the NBA. It's that's old base
Speaker 1: basketball reference book, remember that one. It was like a
Speaker 1: big brick and it lists of ten best dunkers in
Speaker 1: the NBA and Larry Bird was ten. And I still
Speaker 1: have the book. Wait, best Dunkers, Best dunkers in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And even says like, I know you're surprise at Larry
Speaker 1: Birds on the list, but he goes down the baseline
Speaker 1: he'll dunk on people. This is again twenty three year
Speaker 1: old Larry Bird we're talking about. I'll grab the book
Speaker 1: and check. Yes, Mclub, that's inaccurate. It's in a book.
Speaker 1: Say that book is wrong. Because I was as a
Speaker 1: Sixers fan, I watched Larry Bird posts up guys from
Speaker 1: sixteen feet out. He never dunked on us. I'd I
Speaker 1: say us. No. Larry would usually dunk in transition on
Speaker 1: a fast break, but not too many times where it's
Speaker 1: a half court set and he's gonna, you know, go
Speaker 1: in and dunk on your left handed. Yeah, it's Mclub.
Speaker 1: I talked to our buddy Land Zeroline, who writes up
Speaker 1: the draft capsules for NFL dot com. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: says he's wary of comparing white receivers to either white
Speaker 1: receivers because of you. He says he thinks of the
Speaker 1: Day Patrick show because he does, will make fun of
Speaker 1: him if he uh So, it's a tough game to
Speaker 1: do the player comp especially with football, because you do
Speaker 1: you always do size Russell Wilson, Baker Mayfield. You know
Speaker 1: you gotta do the five eleven quarterback to the other
Speaker 1: five eleven. But I don't know who we compared John
Speaker 1: Stockton too, M Like, who did we compare Steve Nash too?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know if there's a comp I mean,
Speaker 1: we gotta historically. Let's pull up that draft and see
Speaker 1: what they said. Yeah, I'd be curious that who who
Speaker 1: they're compared to, because they're their own like they're the original,
Speaker 1: they're the o G. When it comes to what Steve
Speaker 1: Nash did and how he did it, John Stockton the
Speaker 1: way he did it as well. Here's something for you
Speaker 1: that Ethan Ethan does the stats around here. Mcloven used
Speaker 1: to do him, but Ethan Ethan is a Harvard grab
Speaker 1: and he just sent me this stat total points through
Speaker 1: the series first four games Clippers four hundred ninety five points,
Speaker 1: the MAVs four hundred and ninety four. Thank you so
Speaker 1: very much, Ethan, Thank you. Paulie just sent me a
Speaker 1: YouTube video on Larry Bird. Is this Larry Bird dunking?
Speaker 1: It's Larry Bud Larry Bird dunks mix the best of
Speaker 1: It's at all of two minutes and twenty seconds long,
Speaker 1: but he's putting down on some fellas. Um, wait a minute, here,
Speaker 1: it's early bird. The hair is flowing and these are
Speaker 1: hardly what I would call highlight duns. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of crisp one handers in there, and I don't think
Speaker 1: so they took three steps there, four steps there. He
Speaker 1: just torched John Sunbold. Yeah, this is sad. I'm watching this.
Speaker 1: This is a I mean, he's barely getting that ball
Speaker 1: over the room. Yeah, I wouldn't say Larry. You know,
Speaker 1: when I think of great dunkers in the eighties, Larry's
Speaker 1: name doesn't come to mind. In fact, his name would
Speaker 1: never come to mind. But as a Celtic it makes
Speaker 1: you look more athletic when you dunk. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's one of the great Celtic dunkers. Here we go
Speaker 1: of all time workshop, Yes, mclick. I don't remember many
Speaker 1: magic dunks either. He didn't like he was very close
Speaker 1: to the floor. Luca had you know Ethan who does
Speaker 1: our stats on the show. He just sent me this note.
Speaker 1: Luca had fourteen dunks this year, tied for one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty fourth in the NBA. So thank you Ethan.
Speaker 1: Once again. Kids, it doesn't matter if you can dunk,
Speaker 1: but if you can shoot a three, you got a
Speaker 1: chance to play. Just letting you know, God, I thought
Speaker 1: once I dunked, man, like you will, you think that
Speaker 1: there are people that are going to come out of
Speaker 1: you know, doors, and you know they're gonna come out
Speaker 1: of the woods. They're gonna day welcome to the club.
Speaker 1: And then you realize it doesn't matter, doesn't matter at all.
Speaker 1: I mean it does for yourself where you're like, man, okay,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter all matters, I could shoot all right,
Speaker 1: let me get a couple of phone calls. Best and
Speaker 1: worse of the weekend. Al Michaels will join us. I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk to him about this. NFL put some
Speaker 1: teams on hold while looking into the COVID nineteen test
Speaker 1: from a New Jersey lab. All these false positives here.
Speaker 1: If this had happened a month from now, this would
Speaker 1: be a huge story because you would have teams that
Speaker 1: might not be able to play. They'd be quarantine like
Speaker 1: this is just false positive, seventy seven of them. They
Speaker 1: wouldn't have enough time for turnaround here. It's a big deal. Now.
Speaker 1: This is sort of a dress rehearsal here for the NFL,
Speaker 1: and they got to get this figured out soon. But
Speaker 1: we'll talk to the great Almichaels. He'll join us. Barry
Speaker 1: in New York joins US Barry, thanks for holding what
Speaker 1: do you have for me? Hello? Boys five nine one,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Best of the weekend, and my New York
Speaker 1: Islanders eliminating the Washington Capitals and embarrassing them so badly
Speaker 1: the Caps fired their coach. Yeah, and I also still
Speaker 1: hold a gudge against this guy for his dirty hit
Speaker 1: in the ninety three playoffs against Pierre tour John. So
Speaker 1: a special f you to Dale Hunter and worst of
Speaker 1: the weekend Mets Yanks canceled because of COVID. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had and thanks for the phone called Barry. I have
Speaker 1: a neighbor and he came over to my house because
Speaker 1: whenever there's something sports wise then he wants to come over.
Speaker 1: He had his Yankee hat on, his Yankee shirt on,
Speaker 1: and he goes, can you tell me how I can
Speaker 1: find the Yankee game? I go, well, they canceled the series.
Speaker 1: No one told me. I said why. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're gonna call you ed but Edward or no.
Speaker 1: I said, no, COVID, you know. So he's all dressed
Speaker 1: up and it's like seven thirty and he he stays
Speaker 1: outside of my driveway. He wants to know and uh,
Speaker 1: he said, nobody told him that the Yankees series against
Speaker 1: the Mets was canceled this weekend. David in New York
Speaker 1: joins us Hi, David, what do you have for him? Hey? Man? Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would there with messy. I wouldn't give a shot out,
Speaker 1: but they shot out to Kobe Bryant eight twenty four.
Speaker 1: List in peace, Kobe, Um start off with the worst.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Barry the previous caller, you know, stow
Speaker 1: my thunder with Mets Yankees. Uh, because you know, Mets
Speaker 1: avoiding the sweep. You know they could have had it.
Speaker 1: Yankees would have three once there, you know, win total
Speaker 1: and U The best was the last ten minutes of
Speaker 1: the match Clippers game. Um. I didn't watch most of
Speaker 1: the game because I was caught up with you know,
Speaker 1: the the Champions League. Oh man, man, what a game man,
Speaker 1: and Luca's just cold blooded man. Yeah, it was good,
Speaker 1: it was fun, but he made the shot. I just
Speaker 1: wonder if he didn't make the shot and didn't try
Speaker 1: to get a two point shot, or maybe where he
Speaker 1: got found. I'm still just surprised at the defensive philosophy
Speaker 1: there with the Clippers. Reggie Jackson's what sixty three, you know,
Speaker 1: Lucas sixty eighth. Yeah, this is where I have Paul George.
Speaker 1: If Paul George can't score, can he still play defense?
Speaker 1: He's supposed to be one of the great They have
Speaker 1: the two best two way players in the NBA, don't
Speaker 1: they on the same team, Paul George and uh Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1: As far as being great wing defenders and offensive players
Speaker 1: and two way players, they're they're on the short list.
Speaker 1: We know Kawhi is, you know Klay Thompson is, But
Speaker 1: why is it one of those guys is not guarding
Speaker 1: Luca don Chick. Yeah, the club. Yeah, they have Paul
Speaker 1: George on. That guy who can't hit a shot, Maxie Cleibers,
Speaker 1: he's keeping them the Clippers of the series. You made
Speaker 1: that name up. No, it's Maxi cleiber Anyway, I have
Speaker 1: the draft comp for Steve Nash. They're pulling in him back.
Speaker 1: You're gonna laugh pretty hard. It's not Bob Kuzy No, no, no, okay,
Speaker 1: but I'll save it. It's like John Crotty, Yes, everybody, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: Jeff and Detroit. Then we'll take a break and make
Speaker 1: way for al Michaels. On the program. Oh I just
Speaker 1: saw where the Dolphins announced limited number of fans with
Speaker 1: mask for home opener. The Dolphins will allow thirteen thousand
Speaker 1: fans for their home opener and you must wear a mask. Hey, Jeff,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? What up? No?
Speaker 1: One time for chat row, one time for the people
Speaker 1: at peacocks for normal what good talent is? And get
Speaker 1: you on board? Look at you? Thank you, Jeff, listen
Speaker 1: and all honesty. Though they run on my weekend, which
Speaker 1: is the best and worse. I was supposed to go
Speaker 1: to a wedding ninety degrees standing outside, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to go or not. I
Speaker 1: get on a peacock look your stuff up, saying what
Speaker 1: you know what Monday is gonna be like? Man, I
Speaker 1: went into a wormhole. Dude. All those movies and all
Speaker 1: that content, Bill Murray movies, Best Little Worehouse in Texas,
Speaker 1: all the law orders for free ninety nine. Anything that's
Speaker 1: free is all right with me. Now, I've got one
Speaker 1: question for you. D okay coming up Luka DONI seems
Speaker 1: like he's on his way. My question is which one
Speaker 1: happens first? Luca gets m VP of the league or
Speaker 1: Lebron James retires from the leekue. Thank you, Jeff, good
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Thanks for doing some pr for
Speaker 1: Peacock there as well. I'm thinking that Lebron has three
Speaker 1: more years left. I thought that he would try to
Speaker 1: play until his son, you know, Bronnie Junior, came in.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I don't know if he
Speaker 1: gets to the point where he can't be Lebron where
Speaker 1: he is just sort of that secondary player. Now he
Speaker 1: wants in Anthony Davis to be the best player on
Speaker 1: the floor. In the last two games, Anthony Davis has
Speaker 1: been great, and if he is great, then I think
Speaker 1: the Lakers will still win the title. You know. But
Speaker 1: my issue is I don't know which Anthony Davis shows up,
Speaker 1: and I can't have two personalities like Lebron and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis where they kind of defer. You know, they're not
Speaker 1: as attack mode as I would love for them to be.
Speaker 1: But Lebron is trying to bring out the best in
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis and put him in positions to succeed. In
Speaker 1: the last two games. Now, I'm really curious about tonight
Speaker 1: because everybody's gonna go, Yeah, they solved all their problems.
Speaker 1: They're shooting over thirty five percent from three point range. No,
Speaker 1: it's game. It's gonna be game by game for them
Speaker 1: with their shooting. It'll be game by game. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break. The Great Al Michaels will join us next.
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Speaker 1: searching f s R. Mclovin looked for the comp when
Speaker 1: Steve Nash was being drafted and I just thought, well,
Speaker 1: it has to be John Stockton. Is that who he
Speaker 1: was compared to? Yeah, we pulled this out. It was
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's ready, but it was. Rick
Speaker 1: Madaris called him a poor man's John Stockton. Okay, but
Speaker 1: who was John Stockton compared to? What was the comp
Speaker 1: on John Stockton? Trying to find footage of the like
Speaker 1: eighty four draft and I haven't found it yet. Let's
Speaker 1: bring it al Michael, whoa look at al Albino outside
Speaker 1: there got flowers there, looks good, the whole thing. Yeah, Dan,
Speaker 1: we also have occasionally some hawks and crows that come by,
Speaker 1: so I've had to hire because I don't want anybody
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Speaker 1: And you know what, So we're good. We're good to go.
Speaker 1: You know what we call those? How there you go,
Speaker 1: very very good, Thank you, very very good. The comedy
Speaker 1: stylings of Dan you have. You haven't lost an inch
Speaker 1: from man um. What was the fun by the way, welcome,
Speaker 1: welcome to Peacock. Well, thank you, thank you. Cool. What
Speaker 1: was the first NBA game that you called? Do you
Speaker 1: remember the first NBA game? When I did it for
Speaker 1: two years back in the oh three or four season,
Speaker 1: Christmas Day three Houston at the Lakers. It was Yeo
Speaker 1: Ming as a rookie. It was the Kobe Shack, Gary Peyton,
Speaker 1: Carl Malone here with the Lakers, Phil Jackson threatening to retire,
Speaker 1: which he subseluently did and then came back. So that
Speaker 1: was the first game I did. I did it with
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. I was looking for a partner. They wanted
Speaker 1: me to do the NBA. The funny thing is I
Speaker 1: wanted to get some practice games in that year, and
Speaker 1: so Mark Jackson had retired and was living in Santa Monica,
Speaker 1: and we went down to Staples and we did the game,
Speaker 1: and Mark was good. I remember Mike Curl was the
Speaker 1: executive producer of the NBA, and Mike said, what'd you think?
Speaker 1: And I said, you know, Mark's going to be really
Speaker 1: good someday. But he's green. He hadn't done it before.
Speaker 1: I hadn't done basketball in my twenty five years, so
Speaker 1: I really needed somebody who had some experience. And then
Speaker 1: my good fortune was that Doc Rivers got fired by
Speaker 1: Orlando that year. I think they started one and ten,
Speaker 1: and then he and I danced the Dance that year,
Speaker 1: and then he went to Boston and I did one
Speaker 1: more year of the NBA with Ubi Brown, the great
Speaker 1: Ubi Brown, who's still going strong. That was number one.
Speaker 1: When you're calling a game in person without the audience.
Speaker 1: But I think, how, I don't know if you've done that,
Speaker 1: but like a small crowd, like, how much does it
Speaker 1: help in you doing your job well? I do have
Speaker 1: some experience when I do the San Francisco Giants in
Speaker 1: the mid seventies, seventy four or five and six, terrible team,
Speaker 1: horrible ballpark, cold on an August night. I remember in
Speaker 1: maybe seventy five playing San Diego. Each team is twenty
Speaker 1: two games out of first place. Nobody's there, it's cold,
Speaker 1: it's terrible, bitter. And they handed me a sheet with
Speaker 1: the attendance figure and I looked at it and I said,
Speaker 1: here's the night's attendance. Let me just tell you mister
Speaker 1: and missus. Jim McAlpine have come in from Mill Valley,
Speaker 1: Harby Polukian has driven up from Mill Petis. The Bernstein
Speaker 1: family came up on the station wagon with the dog.
Speaker 1: But they left the windows open in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: And that's what you do, and it was it's so
Speaker 1: much more fun, obviously when you're doing it with a
Speaker 1: big crowd in great crowd noise. So this is going
Speaker 1: to be interesting. And we're going to start, you know,
Speaker 1: in Kansas City that's supposed to have maybe a quarter
Speaker 1: of the stadium. So that's two weeks from Thursday. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that's going to sound like. Everybody's
Speaker 1: supposed to wear a mask. And then three weeks from
Speaker 1: last night, we're right back here. We open up this
Speaker 1: five billion dollars stadium in Inglewood, which is tremendous. It's
Speaker 1: unbelievable with no fans, Cowboys rams on Sunday night football.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of trial and aradan and we'll
Speaker 1: see how it works out. Is there plan B if
Speaker 1: you can't go and you and Chris have to call
Speaker 1: it by remote. I've not heard of that. I think
Speaker 1: that would be extremely difficult and I would not like
Speaker 1: that at all. I think basketball is in a relatively
Speaker 1: confined area, so I think you can you can call
Speaker 1: basketball more easily than you can the other sports baseballly
Speaker 1: similar in that regard. Mike Emrick, of course, is the greatest.
Speaker 1: I mean Mike doing hockey, whether he's in the arena
Speaker 1: or sitting in his home in Detroit, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: watching him the other night thinking he's not missing very much.
Speaker 1: He's missing maybe two percent, and that two percent is
Speaker 1: because he's not he's not there, and you've got Pierre
Speaker 1: McGuire who's there, so that's working out well. I think
Speaker 1: football is very tough because you have to see the field,
Speaker 1: you have to see how they aligned. It's all spread
Speaker 1: out and on a forty yard pass down field, that's
Speaker 1: going to be a very difficult thing to call. And
Speaker 1: plus you just don't you can't feel it. There's a
Speaker 1: rhythm to the game, even though there's no crowd. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you'll put in some crowd noise, which I think
Speaker 1: is working fairly well with these other sports. So I
Speaker 1: would much, much much prefer to be there, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we don't have a plan B and we don't have
Speaker 1: to do a game off a monitor. Do broadcasters need
Speaker 1: the preseason, you know, the players do to a certain degree.
Speaker 1: I don't don't think so, except in this particular circumstance.
Speaker 1: This is to a paraphrase our great buddy Jim Nance.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a tradition like none other, This
Speaker 1: is a season like none others. So we have to
Speaker 1: go through a lot of the protocols that the players
Speaker 1: do that are the people who are going to be
Speaker 1: into the stadium. So there are a lot of things
Speaker 1: to think about before we get on the air. And
Speaker 1: that's the only thing I'm concerned about, because for the
Speaker 1: most part, normally our first game that we would do
Speaker 1: would be the Hall of Fame game in cand Ohio,
Speaker 1: And almost every year that I've done the NFL, that's
Speaker 1: how we start, and you get into a rhythm fairly quickly,
Speaker 1: so you don't need preseason in that regard. But in
Speaker 1: this particular case, I think it would have been helpful
Speaker 1: to just see, Hey, how do we get into the stadium,
Speaker 1: what do we do, how do we travel, what happens
Speaker 1: around the game itself. I think once we get on
Speaker 1: the air, it'll be fine. Talking to Al Michael's of course,
Speaker 1: the play by play voice NBC Sunday Night Football. I
Speaker 1: can't believe that we're a couple of weeks away from
Speaker 1: the start of this NFL season and then you had
Speaker 1: this false positive outbreak with the NFL with the testing Alice,
Speaker 1: this is two weeks from now. I mean this could
Speaker 1: shut down a game, I'm guessing, or don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what kind of damage it would do to the game. Well,
Speaker 1: I see that the lab said there was some contamination.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is not likely to be necessarily a
Speaker 1: one off. We've already had false positives. We know what
Speaker 1: happened with Matthew Stafford. So this is a day to
Speaker 1: day thing. I mean, right now, the league is on
Speaker 1: schedule to start two weeks from Thursday. A lot can
Speaker 1: happen between now and then. A lot can happen on
Speaker 1: that Thursday morning. Who knows, you know what if Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes test comes in positive but it was a false positive.
Speaker 1: We don't know. I don't know what's going to happen here.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're there's so much, as you know,
Speaker 1: over the last six months contradictory information. Don't forget when
Speaker 1: this thing started. Oh it's a winter thing, and everybody's
Speaker 1: sick right now, and we'll get the summer. Everybody to
Speaker 1: be fine. It only affects old people, not young people.
Speaker 1: That turned out to be one hundred percent fours. So
Speaker 1: we don't know. And everybody says believe the science. Well
Speaker 1: that land in New Jersey is part of the science, right,
Speaker 1: So at this point this is an ongoing saga. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it has a smooth road to travel and we get
Speaker 1: to the end of the season. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: right now, I think the season looks like it's going
Speaker 1: to start on time. We're ready to go. Everything seems
Speaker 1: to be fine, but it's a long way between all.
Speaker 1: In February, we see these second year quarterbacks make a jump.
Speaker 1: We've seen this in recent history where and then they
Speaker 1: become legitimate MVP candidates. You know, Mahomes is the latest
Speaker 1: in Lamar Jackson to be able to do this. But
Speaker 1: when you see these quarterbacks, like, what is the one
Speaker 1: thing that would stand out that you saw the jump
Speaker 1: if you want to, you know, Lamar Jackson from one
Speaker 1: year to the next, Patrick Mahomes, maybe Tyler Murray this year.
Speaker 1: You know, optically, what is it that you see where
Speaker 1: you go that's different than the year before, and then
Speaker 1: go all the way back to Russell Wilson. They can
Speaker 1: run and they can throw. I mean they can do
Speaker 1: both things. So is the day of the drop back
Speaker 1: in the pocket quarterback Tom Brady over No, I mean
Speaker 1: Tom's still pretty good. And of course that's going to
Speaker 1: be one of the great stories this year to follow.
Speaker 1: What happens with him, but it's it's I don't want
Speaker 1: to say the new breed because I was reading the
Speaker 1: other day about, you know, Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: have changed the game. Go back to Randall Cunning him,
Speaker 1: He changed the game too, and I think Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: had a story on the cover in nineteen eighty eight
Speaker 1: and called him the ultimate weapon. So you go back
Speaker 1: to a guy like Cunning him who did a lot
Speaker 1: of these same things. So we've had these quarterbacks through
Speaker 1: the years who came in and were able to do
Speaker 1: both things. And now you've got I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: with Mahomes and Jackson, I mean, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say taking it to a new level, but these guys
Speaker 1: are I mean, they're not only great, but they're also exciting,
Speaker 1: and I think this makes the game better. People want
Speaker 1: to see them. Not only are those guys good, but
Speaker 1: they're exciting. You don't know what's going to happen, and
Speaker 1: that's what you look for, but you need special talent
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. But we're embracing that
Speaker 1: style now, al whereas before it felt like these coaches
Speaker 1: and GM's fought that style. For sure, Dan and why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you. I mean, look at the problems that present
Speaker 1: for the defense. I mean, if you're defending Mahomes or
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson or somebody like that, you're looking at it
Speaker 1: from a defensive coordinator standpoint a lot differently than going
Speaker 1: up against Tom Brady, for sure, because Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: not going to do the things those other guys do.
Speaker 1: But so it gives you, I don't want to say,
Speaker 1: more of a headache as a defensive coordinator. Beast, they've
Speaker 1: figured out ways to do it. But there's something else
Speaker 1: to think about it with Mahomes and we've proved it
Speaker 1: last year. The play is never over. The play is
Speaker 1: never over. And but you know, then again, you've got
Speaker 1: other pocket quarterbacks, like you know, Ben Roethlisberger. We're gonna
Speaker 1: coming off an injury. But you know Ben, a few
Speaker 1: years ago, I once likened him to try and to
Speaker 1: tackle an apartment building. He may have gone into the
Speaker 1: pocket and everybody's around him and there at his feet
Speaker 1: and you know, trying to knock him down and somehow
Speaker 1: he escapes. So you know, these guys come in different styles,
Speaker 1: different models, and it makes the game even more fun
Speaker 1: to me. You sneak in a gambling reference occasionally, right, Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: have you bet on games? I have not, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. No. No, you know, I love to
Speaker 1: go to Las Vegas. I mean, I love to play craps.
Speaker 1: That's the greatest game ever invented. But I don't bet
Speaker 1: on sports. And Dan, you've been around it so long,
Speaker 1: it's so funny. We know so much. I mean Chris
Speaker 1: and I and Fred Gadilly and Drew Essakoff and Michelle
Speaker 1: Defoya and our core group. You know, we meet with
Speaker 1: the players and the coaches, and we know the owners
Speaker 1: and the general managers and the personnel people. And you know,
Speaker 1: nobody studies more tape than Chris. We don't know who's
Speaker 1: going to win the game. We'll drive back to the
Speaker 1: game and go, what do you think you know? And
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the time we're wrong. So the great
Speaker 1: thing to me about sports, the most the wonderful thing
Speaker 1: is everybody thinks they know, but they don't know. You
Speaker 1: don't know, And that's why I love sports, and that's
Speaker 1: why I don't bet on sports. I bet when I
Speaker 1: was younger, and I thought I knew it all, and
Speaker 1: I realized I didn't enjoy gambling. I didn't watch the game.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I just it was driving me crazy. And
Speaker 1: then even if I won, I still didn't enjoy it.
Speaker 1: And then I went cold turkey. I lost the Orange Bowl.
Speaker 1: I lost thirty three hundred dollars on an orange bowl,
Speaker 1: A lot of money in those years, Yes it was.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of money. And I was up
Speaker 1: six grand and I lost three grand, and then the
Speaker 1: vig and then I quit. I walked away, bought my
Speaker 1: mom a dishwasher, and paid off some school loans. But
Speaker 1: that I have never And you know, people always say, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to put down a dime on this
Speaker 1: or And I'll go, nick, no, no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to do that at all. But people always come up
Speaker 1: and they'll say the following, who do you like? And
Speaker 1: I go, no, no, I had Pete Rose asked me
Speaker 1: and Bob Costas and the nineteen eighty six playoffs between
Speaker 1: the Mets and the Astros, Pete comes up to us
Speaker 1: on the field he goes, who do you like? And
Speaker 1: I said, and I don't know that Pete's gambling. I'm going, well, hey,
Speaker 1: you know you got Mike Scott and the Mets can't
Speaker 1: handle Mike Scott and he walks away, and Bob goes,
Speaker 1: why did you tell him that? I go, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He goes, He's gonna gamble, You're gonna bet on that.
Speaker 1: I'm going, Oh my god, nobody. Nobody knows. They you know,
Speaker 1: I mean to me, there are so many examples of
Speaker 1: you think you know. Look, there are so many six
Speaker 1: and analyzes out there right now, and somebody will say
Speaker 1: to me, well, you know, what about the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, on any given Thursday, this time I'm going
Speaker 1: to stop and and And it's so true because especially
Speaker 1: in the early years, I did the Triple Crown, and
Speaker 1: I think I did fifteen Derbys in a row between
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six and two thousand with a great Jim
Speaker 1: McKay and others like Hank Olberg. And people would come
Speaker 1: up to me at Churchill Down's walking through the grandstand,
Speaker 1: who do you like? And I would go Sea Biscuit
Speaker 1: or I would go Man of War and they would
Speaker 1: look down at the program, well where is he? What
Speaker 1: race is way? And nobody knows. But this is this
Speaker 1: is why sports are so great. When's the last time
Speaker 1: you went to a game doing a game and you
Speaker 1: were absolutely wrong in what you thought was going to
Speaker 1: play out whoo, or the other way that you were
Speaker 1: absolutely positively corrected this was going to happen. No never,
Speaker 1: I mean, there are a guy I'd have to think back,
Speaker 1: you know to like last year. You know, there are
Speaker 1: Sunday night games that just to turn out to be
Speaker 1: the exact opposite of the way you think they will
Speaker 1: will play out. I mean we've had a few of them.
Speaker 1: Uh last year, I mean one game we didn't do
Speaker 1: the game, but we did the game. The following week
Speaker 1: when Minnesota played the forty nine ers in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and Minnesota shocked New Orleans, you know, you think the
Speaker 1: Vikings don't have any chance to go into the Dome
Speaker 1: and beat the Saints in that particular game. And then
Speaker 1: the next week you kind of, you know, as we're
Speaker 1: doing Minnesota at San Francisco, now you're thinking about what
Speaker 1: they beat New Orleans and now do they have a
Speaker 1: chance to beat San Francisco. And analyzing that game, we
Speaker 1: just felt that they'd they'd used all of their energy
Speaker 1: and whatever it was that enable them to beat New Orleans,
Speaker 1: and of course San Francisco knock them more relatively handily.
Speaker 1: But it's you know, look, the other thing too, is
Speaker 1: I'm watching you guys were talking about before. I'm watching
Speaker 1: that game yesterday and somebody said to me, well, you know,
Speaker 1: what do you think of the way that they're doing
Speaker 1: the NBA and the NHL. And I said, it was
Speaker 1: pretty good. I'm getting used to it. But that game yesterday,
Speaker 1: that Clipper Dallas game, was so compelling in so many ways.
Speaker 1: And of course the dramatic and fantastic ending to that game.
Speaker 1: I thought you forgot about all of the rest of it.
Speaker 1: You forgot to sending Jim, you forgot to send the
Speaker 1: fake fans. It's the dog, the animated dog and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. You forgot about all of that, and it
Speaker 1: just became a great basketball game. And that was a
Speaker 1: terrific You know, Doc Rivers is a great alumim and
Speaker 1: you know I like to do to tech Stock after
Speaker 1: the game and normally congratulate them. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to say. You know, this is like it's you know,
Speaker 1: not quite a death of a relative, but I mean,
Speaker 1: that was that was a bad one. And I just
Speaker 1: wrote to him last night. I said, look, in my mind,
Speaker 1: now the Mavericks are out of miracles. That's it. You'll
Speaker 1: get You'll get them on Tuesday, and you're the king
Speaker 1: amra Well I know about one anyway. Yeah, well, hopefully
Speaker 1: we pull off another one. We have an NFL season
Speaker 1: here in a couple of weeks, and uh, it's great
Speaker 1: to talk to you. Hope, everything's good. I know you
Speaker 1: got a busy day. Probably what are you doing today?
Speaker 1: I'm taking these guys off for a walk now. Today
Speaker 1: we've got a couple of zoom calls. We're geting ready
Speaker 1: for the season, talking about what we're gonna do. And
Speaker 1: you know, we got two games that first week. We've
Speaker 1: got the usual at the Kansas City, come back here
Speaker 1: for Dallas at the RAM. So I'm immersed it at
Speaker 1: my man studying for the final exam. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. Welcome again. This is great. I have
Speaker 1: a great long run with you and the and the Dantes.
Speaker 1: Thank you doing okay? Yeah, yeah, everybody. Everybody's being smart
Speaker 1: for the most part. I think, yeah, we're trying to
Speaker 1: be non essential. Al stay that way, thank you. We're
Speaker 1: good at that. Good the great Al michaels I play
Speaker 1: voice Sunday Night Football. We're two weeks away from Football Crazy.
Speaker 1: We'll close up shop what we learned, what's in store tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: Padre fans want to know why I haven't mentioned the
Speaker 1: slam Diego Padres. I've been a fan for years. I
Speaker 1: go back to Mike ivy days back in the seventies. Yes, Pa,
Speaker 1: checking my notes, I think around two fourteen you said
Speaker 1: next year is the year of the Padre. You like
Speaker 1: the team they're putting together. Yeah, so you're way earlier. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wasn't big on the signing of Manny Machado. I
Speaker 1: didn't think they needed Manny Machado. But you know, maybe
Speaker 1: they're going to get their three hundred million dollars worth
Speaker 1: out of Manning Machado. But they got a lot of
Speaker 1: young arms there. They're fun. I when's the last time
Speaker 1: we talked about the Padres in a positive way. They
Speaker 1: had five Grand slams in the week Grand slams in
Speaker 1: the weeks. In the week Tim Kirkchin to show hi Llas,
Speaker 1: may we all be as positive as Tim Kirchin. He
Speaker 1: could always find something positive to say. Yes time that
Speaker 1: hasn't happened since eighteen sixty seven. Rubart Baker, three fingers Brown,
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, Will Jonas on the program Let me get
Speaker 1: to Dan and Nebraska. Dan has been holding for quite
Speaker 1: some time. Dan, Best and worst of the weekend? What
Speaker 1: do you have for me today? Yeah? Best of the
Speaker 1: weekend is Dustin Johnson going thirty under at the Northern
Speaker 1: Trust made the course look a little too easy. Worst
Speaker 1: of the weekend. I know you guys have talked about
Speaker 1: it quite a while now as that coronavirus and miss
Speaker 1: half with the NFL. They got to get that figured out.
Speaker 1: And one I wanted to note, I know you love
Speaker 1: a good shooter in basketball, and there's a rookie on
Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors by the name of Matt Thomas who's
Speaker 1: out of Iowa State. Doesn't get a lot of run yet,
Speaker 1: but he has one of the better looking shots I've seen,
Speaker 1: so I think you should definitely check him out. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Dan, and he's right. I always like a
Speaker 1: good shooter. Austin in Virginia. Austin, how are you. I'm
Speaker 1: doing great day, Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a best a bestor for you. But first I
Speaker 1: gotta say how happy I am to have you back
Speaker 1: on a network that I worked for, except for the
Speaker 1: fact that I can out only call in on my
Speaker 1: days off because the chances of my bosses are listening
Speaker 1: are much greater now. But thank you. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: you guys back on Peacock. My best would be Luca
Speaker 1: suck at mclovin and my bester would be the alone
Speaker 1: finale that Seaton turned me and my son onto. We've
Speaker 1: gotten hooked on it and we watched the finally this weekend.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Roland as a beast seton. Loved to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on it. Thank thank you, Austin. So
Speaker 1: I'm still a little behind, but I also just I'm
Speaker 1: rewatching other seasons now. It's just the great show and
Speaker 1: what's the show alone? Basically, they'd take a bunch of
Speaker 1: contestants and drop them off like this last one was
Speaker 1: in the Arctic and they're alone. They're all by themselves,
Speaker 1: and they have to film everything, and it's like a
Speaker 1: survival show. And this last season you have to the
Speaker 1: winner has to survive one hundred days in the Arctic
Speaker 1: by themselves and it's gnarly. Does anybody die? No? I
Speaker 1: saw this over the weekend. There is an outside advisory
Speaker 1: committee who would advise the NFL commissioner on COVID nineteen issues. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, you probably got doctors, you know, professors, scientists,
Speaker 1: Charlie Casserlys, Tom Coughlin. They could have gotten doctor j
Speaker 1: and I would have been fine with that, at least
Speaker 1: as a doctorate in you know, basketball, Marvin Lewis, Troy Palomalo,
Speaker 1: Bill Polian, Isaac Bruce, and Champ Bailey. This is the
Speaker 1: outside advisory committee who would advise the commissioner on COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen issues. What what issues could they be advising the
Speaker 1: commissioner of with COVID nineteen issues club, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just keep thinking about Bill Polly and saying guys
Speaker 1: shouldn't play quarterback. Yeah, that's stuck in my mind. But no,
Speaker 1: they said have doctors. Right, there's no doctors. I mean
Speaker 1: they didn't even get that the chiefs lineman who's taken
Speaker 1: a year off, or even Jolie's Irving doctor, doctor Myron Roll,
Speaker 1: doctor Jerry Punch, Doc Emeric, how about Nick nurse Fritzie.
Speaker 1: Here we go physiology class in high school. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if that count. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: was worth interrupting. Yeah, we were on the nickname bit.
Speaker 1: That's right in your wheelhouse, doc metics. Remember the picture
Speaker 1: once again, he's referenced by you. Do you follow sports
Speaker 1: like now? Final results of the poll question? Okay, switched
Speaker 1: it up to if you can watch one QB this year?
Speaker 1: Brady or Cam s Brady? Yeah, yeah, more of a
Speaker 1: short thing. Although have you seen all the headlines about
Speaker 1: Cam at camp? Yeah, he's looking good. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that means. Yeah, Cam is Uh, he's separating himself
Speaker 1: from Jared Stidham. You know, if you don't look good
Speaker 1: in practice, you're in trouble. Let's see, Todd, what did
Speaker 1: you learn on today's program? You cannot understand how Luca
Speaker 1: wasn't double or even triple team on that final shot.
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson single coverage, Yes, I gotta have him give
Speaker 1: up the ball, Nick Lovin. Al Michaels is very excited
Speaker 1: about its plastic owls. No, no, I thought the owl
Speaker 1: Michaels was pretty good, very good, and I got like
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