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Speaker 2: Are we gonna try and pretend like we're professional here
Speaker 2: for the next three hours? Are we gonna you know what, I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to pretend like I'm here because you chose to
Speaker 3: do today. That's what I'm going to act like day.
Speaker 3: I'm going to hurt some people today. Okay, okay, when are.
Speaker 4: We leaving listening? Why is that?
Speaker 3: Why is that the question I'm asking? I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: not saying, like why are we going to hurt anybody?
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, let's go do it.
Speaker 2: And now, for those of you that are not familiar,
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Speaker 2: try and be as professional as possible.
Speaker 3: Maybe I had the day off, you decided to do DP,
Speaker 3: so I'm not gonna let you be by yourself.
Speaker 4: Oh there we are.
Speaker 2: Well I appreciate it. You know, here we are.
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Let's not be off putting to our Dan Patrick fan base.
Speaker 3: Let's just knock it down. We'll talk about some sports.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I mean listen, I you know, it's good
Speaker 2: to have some help, it's good to have each other.
Speaker 2: I mean, Anthony Edwards wouldn't know what that is.
Speaker 4: But I would not know what that is.
Speaker 3: You know, Anthony Edwards is sitting there watching seven footers
Speaker 3: get torched up being defensive.
Speaker 4: MVPs. How the hell did that happen?
Speaker 3: And then you got your other seven footer who thinks
Speaker 3: he's Mike Conley at five to a staggering five ten
Speaker 3: in height and can dribble and shoot. So he doesn't
Speaker 3: he doesn't believe in dirty work down low. He's going
Speaker 3: to stay out on the three point line.
Speaker 2: Look, I said it, and I was half joking before
Speaker 2: we went to the break during the weekend.
Speaker 3: Dude, limit them. You are not allowed to shoot more
Speaker 3: than one three unless you make it.
Speaker 2: I said it, one three and a half for anybody
Speaker 2: over six eleven, that's it. If you are six eleven
Speaker 2: and above, you get one three point attempt to half.
Speaker 2: That's in case there's a buzzer beater needed. If you
Speaker 2: shoot a three and you are over six to eleven,
Speaker 2: three game suspension.
Speaker 5: Or you have to right off the back, or you
Speaker 5: have to be from overseas, right, Yes, you can't be
Speaker 5: American and shooting threes and be over six.
Speaker 4: We need we need, I'm sorry, we need just to
Speaker 4: work yeah.
Speaker 2: You want to you want to ten more than one
Speaker 2: three a half. I need to spit in a tube,
Speaker 2: send it in the mail, and we need those results
Speaker 2: back Asack. If you want to make it initial League
Speaker 2: shooting threes, I'm tired of it, man, I'm sick of it.
Speaker 3: You are not, Joe LMB I just better take guys
Speaker 3: down on the block. You know what's crazy? They in
Speaker 3: theory they could control the pace of the game. They
Speaker 3: could control the game if they just used their length,
Speaker 3: if they just came down half court sets set up,
Speaker 3: because you know what, nobody has been shooting lights out,
Speaker 3: not the Mavericks, not the Timberwolves. They haven't been shooting
Speaker 3: lights out. There have been offensive struggles like Jonas set.
Speaker 3: If you're not gonna take your big ass, which you
Speaker 3: saw it yesterday too. By the way, if y'all not
Speaker 3: gonna take y'all big asses down on this block and
Speaker 3: create all kinds of matchup problems down low with your
Speaker 3: height and your athleticism, then you gotta come sit on
Speaker 3: this bench. You saw there was some critical points in
Speaker 3: the game where Anthony Tisan switched. By the way, I
Speaker 3: was like, I was like, dang, they call him cat cat.
Speaker 3: Everybody's saying cat. You know what I started thinking, right,
Speaker 3: Oh God, what's the word you put before cat?
Speaker 4: Damn? I will get canceled.
Speaker 3: I ain't say it, but god, Lee, you know what,
Speaker 3: you played like a big old pea cat, you know,
Speaker 3: but say we'll leave it there, big old pea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I smell you're cooking Johnson, just smell. You
Speaker 4: don't want to smell that.
Speaker 2: Uh no, fair point.
Speaker 5: And if you do, well, you just better make sure
Speaker 5: it's clean.
Speaker 3: That's ah, make sure you're clean, that's all.
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah it is uh. I mean he's four for
Speaker 2: thirty two in the series. At what point? At what
Speaker 2: point when you're four for thirty two from three to
Speaker 2: you go, you know, maybe this isn't it? You know,
Speaker 2: maybe this is like I I don't know one thing
Speaker 2: in life that I've tried thirty two times, been successful
Speaker 2: for with and been like you know what, I'm going
Speaker 2: back to the well, like literally not one thing in
Speaker 2: my life. I've been four for thirty two with and
Speaker 2: saw thirty third. I didn't see a thirty third attempt
Speaker 2: after that point. Man, Okay, shoot twelve percent. I don't
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 4: I don't get it either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, at least he assassinated at least he
Speaker 3: is said, that's a player.
Speaker 4: I mean he was.
Speaker 3: He eliminated somebody Lively's points, like he wasn't getting points.
Speaker 3: But at least he eliminated somebody who was getting points.
Speaker 2: That's that is a fair point. I mean maybe Karl
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns maybe not a three point shooter, but a
Speaker 2: hell of a muay Thai fighter.
Speaker 3: Because waits the jangles first. That wasn't enough, you know,
Speaker 3: that just wasn't. That was not enough to hurt that
Speaker 3: man that way in his pride. Then you're gonna go
Speaker 3: ahead and and finish him off with the moy Thai
Speaker 3: knee to the head man.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, it is not not an idea. And I'll
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I was completely wrong about this series.
Speaker 2: And and here's the best part is because we're doing
Speaker 2: this show in a different time slot tomorrow, when we're
Speaker 2: back in our normal time slot, I'm gonna come back
Speaker 2: and lie and say I never said any of this stuff.
Speaker 2: But I'll admit it here because you know what, why
Speaker 2: not you will have a have a little bit of honesty. Sure,
Speaker 2: I'll just say this anyway, didn't count.
Speaker 4: It don't matter.
Speaker 2: Say whatever the hell we want, Like it's like our airbnb.
Speaker 2: You know, we have to clean up after ourselves.
Speaker 3: Well, actually we got that security deposit. Mess it up
Speaker 3: because they come collecting, like whoa y'all left is a mess?
Speaker 4: Got to pay out? That is true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want that.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll just say this, So Brady Quinn for super
Speaker 2: Bowl Week, he went over and was with Dan and
Speaker 2: the guys for Super Bowl Week when we were in
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. I believe they were at the Fountain Blue Hotel.
Speaker 2: Where they were at the place is fantastic. And so
Speaker 2: he went over there and you know, very studious and
Speaker 2: professional and all this, we can assure you. A couple
Speaker 2: hours before that, he was not. Okay. It is two
Speaker 2: different worlds, all right. So we understand that there's a
Speaker 2: certain you know, a line we can't cross. But I'll
Speaker 2: just say this, I was completely wrong about this series.
Speaker 2: I thought at least Minnesota would have gotten a game
Speaker 2: by this point if they were down two to one.
Speaker 2: I get it, And I know there was the heartbreaker
Speaker 2: shot in Game two that I believe our Lord and Savior,
Speaker 2: Scott Shapiro was on site for in Minnesota, diehard Timberwolves
Speaker 2: fan and Luca hitting that game. But I just thought
Speaker 2: that there would have been either an adjustment made or
Speaker 2: a and they were. Look, the guys on TNT were
Speaker 2: calling out Chris Finch like, dude, you got to make
Speaker 2: some adjustments, Like it's not working. These lineups aren't working.
Speaker 2: Dallas is eating you alive. Their superstars are playing like superstars.
Speaker 2: And Edwards at a good game last night. That dunk
Speaker 2: was was awesome, but he's not getting any help, dude,
Speaker 2: Like he's just not.
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes sometimes you look at at something and
Speaker 3: you don't give it the necessary credit it's deserving of. Okay,
Speaker 3: the Minnesota Timberwolves aren't playing bad basketball. You mentioned the
Speaker 3: whole idea of strategically being a little differently, trying something new.
Speaker 4: I agree with you there. Here's what's interesting.
Speaker 3: This is what this made me think about the fact
Speaker 3: that they took the defending champions to seven games, got
Speaker 3: out of the series, and we were looking at Anthony
Speaker 3: Edwards as here's baby Jordan. We're looking at this Minnesota
Speaker 3: Timberwolves team as a team that could be contended with,
Speaker 3: like they really could be a dominant force because you
Speaker 3: have such an athlete out front with Edwards, and then
Speaker 3: you have these interior guys that you just they call
Speaker 3: them the Twin Towers, Like there really should be no
Speaker 3: reason why anyone should be able to beat this team
Speaker 3: because you have some good ads guys, you got some
Speaker 3: perimeter guys that can shoot, you got some athletes, and
Speaker 3: it's set up for you to be able to out
Speaker 3: man outsize the team you go up against, like that's
Speaker 3: just what it is. But when you have Karl Anthony
Speaker 3: Town scoring fourteen points and the dude is literally shooting
Speaker 3: you out of the lead, Like, you guys have a
Speaker 3: lead and this guy is just pulling up from way
Speaker 3: out there right, it's to me, it's like this has
Speaker 3: worked for them, and it got them here. They got
Speaker 3: through the national or the defending champs. That's probably why
Speaker 3: they felt like, stay true to the sauce and let's
Speaker 3: push through.
Speaker 4: Let's make it happen. They've been close.
Speaker 3: To winning, they've been up in the games, they've shown
Speaker 3: that they can compete with this Mavericks team. It's just
Speaker 3: not good enough. It's just not good enough. And it's
Speaker 3: not good enough because you have two guys that are
Speaker 3: playing out of their minds. Kyrie Irving is playing like
Speaker 3: Uncle Drew on the movie like this scripted, like you guys,
Speaker 3: stop here, let him go there, stop right there, let
Speaker 3: him shoot it there? Okay, cut that's that's the scene
Speaker 3: right there. He's looking like he's straight out of a movie.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 3: And for some strange reason, they don pissed Luka off.
Speaker 3: And he's been in this series talking mad cash and
Speaker 3: cash and checks and letting them know, I'm taking your
Speaker 3: money from the table and I don't care. So when
Speaker 3: you get two guys as talented as they are that's
Speaker 3: playing at the level they're playing at, you had better
Speaker 3: figure out a way to slow down the pace of
Speaker 3: the game. Play half court sets, use your size, like
Speaker 3: create files, get to the free throw line. You have
Speaker 3: to do things that are more lumbering, not more more
Speaker 3: skilled driven. But because you really only have one guy
Speaker 3: that can match up to the skill level of playing
Speaker 3: at that type of pace, and that's Edwards, and that's
Speaker 3: not play that's not paying dividends. So it's been a
Speaker 3: rough series for this Timberwolves team. Because they did try
Speaker 3: some new things differently yesterday, it just wasn't good enough.
Speaker 4: It didn't work.
Speaker 2: I wanted to apologize to Luca because I think I
Speaker 2: made a statement on Fox Sports Radio over the past
Speaker 2: couple of weeks and I and I wanted to apologize
Speaker 2: because it was kind of reckless and I don't think
Speaker 2: appropriate for what we do when I said that Luca
Speaker 2: looks like somebody who smokes cigarettes, and I want to
Speaker 2: take that back. It's not that it's not well, no,
Speaker 2: not that it's it's it's something I think he smoked cigarettes.
Speaker 2: I think he's one of those guys that that has
Speaker 2: a long dart when he drinks, like like he looks
Speaker 2: like that type of guy, like he's having a couple.
Speaker 4: Of cocktail smoker's death.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the next thing, you know, like three
Speaker 2: four in he's got one behind one ear and one
Speaker 2: behind the other.
Speaker 4: Are they rich? Like?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Like Lee be saying, No, I don't know.
Speaker 4: What type of cigarette would he be smoking?
Speaker 2: I don't know, probably a like a parliament or something
Speaker 2: like a Virginia slim with like the little thing at
Speaker 2: the end, like.
Speaker 4: A beat Would he be smoking a beaty?
Speaker 2: Maybe? But you're right, man, he is talking a lot.
Speaker 2: Man like he knows he's got playing around. Oh, he's
Speaker 2: got them in his back pocket. He can do what
Speaker 2: he wants now. Kyrie Irving, his teammate, did speak after
Speaker 2: the game just about sort of his gift if you will,
Speaker 2: towards being a teammate to others, Let's take a listen
Speaker 2: to Ki.
Speaker 6: Ever since I was young, I've always felt like I'm
Speaker 6: one of the best in the world because I'm able
Speaker 6: to play with other great players. I don't ask for
Speaker 6: the ball I'm demanded. I will play defense, I will
Speaker 6: do all the other things that don't show up in
Speaker 6: the stat sheet. And that's always what I've wanted to
Speaker 6: be remembered as everything else that people have thrown on
Speaker 6: my career has been up to them and what they've seen.
Speaker 6: And I have to take that, you know, I have
Speaker 6: to take that fair criticism. But how I feel as
Speaker 6: a person when I go out there is confidence and
Speaker 6: effort that will play with the best of the world.
Speaker 2: I don't care who's out there. I don't care who's
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 6: It could be Will m J, Steph Brown, you know,
Speaker 6: whatever team, And I feel like, you know, if I
Speaker 6: get a few of my friends from around the way,
Speaker 6: you know, hey, we might not have a chance that day,
Speaker 6: but you know, I think just enjoying the game and
Speaker 6: the competition is what comes with it.
Speaker 2: So that's really what I'm getting at.
Speaker 6: It's just enjoying the competition and enjoying, you know, the
Speaker 6: failures and the success that coming into.
Speaker 2: It's kind of fun to see the about face that
Speaker 2: a lot of people are dealing with Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 4: I mean, he did say the world was flat, the
Speaker 4: Earth was flat.
Speaker 2: You know, let me say it might be look up
Speaker 2: enough videos on YouTube. It's pretty convincing, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: I mean the way some people of let's have that discussion, right.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm in.
Speaker 3: But it is easy and it is simple to change
Speaker 3: your tone. Kyrie Irving isn't a belligerent, right, He's not.
Speaker 3: He's not an irritant in the sense that the things
Speaker 3: that he says are like a Draymond Green type, right,
Speaker 3: he doesn't. He's very comes across it's very soft spoken.
Speaker 3: He comes across as intelligent and intellectual, and sometimes the
Speaker 3: biggest turn off is when you're you're kind of like
Speaker 3: that intellectual type that that can hoop, that can do
Speaker 3: do athletic things. It's like, dude, it's smart. Okay, he
Speaker 3: speaks intelligently. Okay, he's kind of soft smoke spoken, da
Speaker 3: da da, this that and the other. Oh, and he'll
Speaker 3: cross you up, you know. Oh, this is the dude
Speaker 3: that's walking around with like, what what's the what's the
Speaker 3: the stuff that you be you know, burning to get
Speaker 3: rid of bad?
Speaker 4: Yeah? What was it? Franking sense or whatever it is?
Speaker 2: It smells terrible.
Speaker 3: I think it's like it's debatable, it could go either way,
Speaker 3: Like it's like kind of sage. There you go, thanks, Joel.
Speaker 3: It's just one of those things where I think the things.
Speaker 2: Joel, Joel, don't let anybody paint you into a corner.
Speaker 2: He knew the lions. Please, Oh what you mean? I
Speaker 2: think you saying somewhere with that? Oh no, he's going.
Speaker 4: Somewhere with that, Okay.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I just I think that you don't have to
Speaker 3: hate Kyrie Irving like you don't.
Speaker 4: You can choose to have issues with.
Speaker 3: How he does things at times, or what he may
Speaker 3: say or what it may feel. But I just don't
Speaker 3: feel like the dude has ever been outright egregious where
Speaker 3: you should have a real problem with him. And that
Speaker 3: leads to a moment like this where he's playing well
Speaker 3: and Luca balances everything out. You know, you got a
Speaker 3: nice York pian fella. You know, he's more thugged out
Speaker 3: than Kyrie is, and it kind of balances everything out.
Speaker 3: It's like eb Benny and iver Read goes to gather
Speaker 3: and perfect hard.
Speaker 4: That isn't really how it goes, but I'm just saying
Speaker 4: it's work enough.
Speaker 2: You know what I meant the crap Ai puts out,
Speaker 2: so you got that on him. By the way, what
Speaker 2: I'd say about Kyrie is, I think what people question
Speaker 2: is his decision to want to be away from Lebron James,
Speaker 2: Like I want I want to be away from Lebron James.
Speaker 2: I want to go do my own thing.
Speaker 4: I mean that was still a question.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I the problem is the path he took
Speaker 2: to get there. He went to Boston. That was a
Speaker 2: disaster and he lied. I mean, there's that. So he's gonna,
Speaker 2: I mean, when they meet the Celtics in the next round,
Speaker 2: he's going to get his ass booed into oblivion or
Speaker 2: as Mike Tyson would say, bolivion when when he goes
Speaker 2: when he goes to Boston there because they are not
Speaker 2: fans of Kyrie irving with the bill of goods, he
Speaker 2: sold them and then bailed and then you know, he
Speaker 2: got together with you know, Kevin Durant didn't work out.
Speaker 2: But you had in between there all the vaccination status
Speaker 2: stuff and all the flatter stuff that you mentioned and
Speaker 2: all that, and yet here we are, and it's like
Speaker 2: you can kind of push all that crap aside and
Speaker 2: just acknowledge, Oh, he's an incredible basketball player. The guy's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: He's a facilitator, he's a score just nasty man.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And and for what it's wore to sit there and
Speaker 3: say he was trying to get away from lebron. I mean,
Speaker 3: he must have known, he was on the clock that
Speaker 3: Bronni was coming for big eventually, so he didn't wanted
Speaker 3: to be disrupted that way.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: He wanted to play his career out with a little
Speaker 3: bit of you know, you know, stability like lebron has had,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, instead of sitting there waiting
Speaker 3: to see Bronni come take your job.
Speaker 4: So I get why, Yeah, that's it. Away.
Speaker 2: He looked into the future and realized, I gotta get
Speaker 2: away from this. To get away a lot of danger there,
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Speaker 2: Big Mike your father spent time in the military as
Speaker 2: well too, so Memorial Day always important to make sure
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Speaker 2: It's the Dan Patrick Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: He's LeVar Arrington. I'm Jonas Knox with you here. Coming
Speaker 2: up about twenty minutes from now, we're going to tell you,
Speaker 2: and have a damn good time doing it, about some
Speaker 2: stories in the world of sports, one of which it
Speaker 2: just doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, just doesn't really make a
Speaker 2: whole hell of a lot of sense. And you've got
Speaker 2: some people, you know, very surprised by this story and
Speaker 2: this development. But if you've paid attention along the way
Speaker 2: during the course of this player's career, you'll understand why.
Speaker 2: Very odd, very strange. We'll get into that for you again.
Speaker 2: Coming up here about twenty.
Speaker 3: Jonas Kent, Can we take a quick moment, real quick? Yeah,
Speaker 3: Happy Memorial Day to everyone out there and most specifically
Speaker 3: to our families that have a fall in love one
Speaker 3: to do to being in our military. It's definitely a
Speaker 3: super important day for me. I have a few family
Speaker 3: members that are memorialized. My father obviously was military as well,
Speaker 3: and so just want to make sure we didn't get
Speaker 3: too far into the show before we acknowledge our men
Speaker 3: and women of service and what today means. For a
Speaker 3: lot of people, it's a day off, but for some
Speaker 3: people there's the reality of remembering the sacrifice, the ultimate
Speaker 3: sacrifice that is connected to our men and women that
Speaker 3: take care of our freedoms that we are able to enjoy,
Speaker 3: protect our country and at times protect other people in
Speaker 3: their countries and times of needs. So thank you to
Speaker 3: everyone out there that has has served our country in
Speaker 3: that manner and God bless and thank you to all
Speaker 3: of the families that allowed their husbands and wives and
Speaker 3: mothers and daughters and sons and fathers to serve our country.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well said, well said, So there's a you like speculation,
Speaker 2: You like what ifs in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Big fan of what is It's big? It draft the game? Yeah, draft,
Speaker 3: the sport.
Speaker 2: So pro football talk hinted at the potential of something
Speaker 2: on draft night happening, you know, potentially, they kind of
Speaker 2: threw the thought out there. You know what, if you know,
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson got dealt, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: really talented wide receivers, he could be a trade chip
Speaker 2: for them to move up, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Just kind of threw it out there. Obviously it didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson still a member of the Vikings. They drafted
Speaker 2: j McCarthy. But then Charlie Waters of the Saint Paul
Speaker 2: Pioneer Press wrote this on Sunday. He said, quote, there
Speaker 2: was buzz at draft time that the Vikings wanted to
Speaker 2: move from number eleven to number five, not to pick
Speaker 2: a quarterback, but to get LSU wide receiver Malik Neighbors,
Speaker 2: who was picked number six by the Giants. Had that
Speaker 2: trade occurred, Justin Jefferson would have been traded and Neighbors
Speaker 2: would have been the number one wide receiver.
Speaker 4: All right, but then you don't have a quarterback, right.
Speaker 2: So there's a couple of angles on this, and I
Speaker 2: think are interesting. One if that was the case, that
Speaker 2: doesn't seem like, you know, they were as in love
Speaker 2: with JJ McCarthy as everyone was proclaiming them to be.
Speaker 2: Like JJ McCarthy had to go there. I mean, he
Speaker 2: was our guy. You know, we like, this is the
Speaker 2: move we needed to make, and you know, we traded
Speaker 2: up one spot because we couldn't lose him yet. We
Speaker 2: talked to Albert Breer, you and I did you know
Speaker 2: shortly after the draft, and I just kind of threw
Speaker 2: the question at him. I said, Hey, basically, what we're
Speaker 2: saying is that the only team that got the quarterback
Speaker 2: they wanted was the Bears. He goes, yeah, correct, he goes.
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy, I think Breer said, was fourth on the
Speaker 2: Vikings wish list. So when you couple that with the
Speaker 2: fact that they were looking to move up and it
Speaker 2: wasn't for a quarterback. They were going to take a
Speaker 2: wide receiver and then just figure out quarterback after that,
Speaker 2: that tells me that you know, this hole, well, they
Speaker 2: loved McCarthy and they couldn't let him go, and they
Speaker 2: had it's let's slow down a little bit here, like
Speaker 2: let's you know, let let's calm down. If this report
Speaker 2: is true. And again this is two times that this
Speaker 2: has come out, So something tells me there's a little
Speaker 2: bit more here than maybe just a rumor or something
Speaker 2: was thrown out there like that tells me that JJ
Speaker 2: McCarthy love, we should we should dial that back just
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, were you gonna use at QB, Sam Donald?
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean you didn't say that with a
Speaker 3: whole lot of confidence. I mean should we should we
Speaker 3: say that? And are we using Mullein like like Sam Donald,
Speaker 3: Nick Mullen, Yeah, Ruins Mullet, Nick Mullett, you got basketball
Speaker 3: the bread are you thinking, Chris.
Speaker 4: Mullen, Chris Mullin Mullet, I don't. I don't. The only
Speaker 4: way I see how this makes sense.
Speaker 3: Regardless of how they feel about JJ McCarthy. The only
Speaker 3: way I see how this makes sense is you have
Speaker 3: a guy in Justin Jefferson that has made it clear
Speaker 3: that his leverage point right now is the fact that
Speaker 3: he is one of the hottest receivers in the league
Speaker 3: right now now. Outside of dealing with the injury with
Speaker 3: the hamstring last this past season, he's proven to be
Speaker 3: a top two, top three receiver.
Speaker 4: In this league.
Speaker 3: We don't know, like you got through this year without Cousins.
Speaker 3: It wasn't the greatest of getting through years, but nonetheless
Speaker 3: his value is still significant. That is his leverage going
Speaker 3: through a year with Sam Darnald. Don't expect to me.
Speaker 3: I don't anticipate that a traveler, a journeyman like Sam
Speaker 3: Darnald is going to be the catalyst of Justin Jefferson
Speaker 3: having a career year.
Speaker 4: And I don't know that you can.
Speaker 3: Expect that from JJ McCarthy as a rookie Jonas. So
Speaker 3: if I'm just Jefferson, I'm taking my stand on the hill.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna die on this hill and you're gonna pay me,
Speaker 3: and you're gonna pay me now. Otherwise I'm not playing.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have an issue, like we're we got to
Speaker 3: drag this out. And for what it's worth, you allowed
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins to leave knowing that you didn't really have
Speaker 3: a great quarterback in place. Then you go into the
Speaker 3: draft and as you're mentioning, if this guy isn't even
Speaker 3: top three, top four on your draft card, on your
Speaker 3: draft list, then not had better be a super ridiculously
Speaker 3: high grade for the top four or five quarterbacks that
Speaker 3: are in the draft. So it doesn't necessarily mean that
Speaker 3: he isn't the greatest of the grades. It just means
Speaker 3: that the three or three or four whatever that are
Speaker 3: ahead of him are really just that good. Where they
Speaker 3: added JJ McCarthy out. I think JJ McCarthy gets a
Speaker 3: bad rap at times because he played for a team
Speaker 3: where where Harball made it a point to have a
Speaker 3: tough ass the offensive front. They can run the ball,
Speaker 3: they're going to grind the ball, they're gonna they're going
Speaker 3: to do do the like fundamental things of running the football.
Speaker 3: But JJ McCarthy can throw the ball. JJ McCarthy is
Speaker 3: a legitimate guy at the quarterback's position.
Speaker 4: Now is the elite at the pro level? We have
Speaker 4: yet to know that or to see it.
Speaker 3: But with all that being said, there's going to be
Speaker 3: uncertainty about any of these quarterbacks from one through However
Speaker 3: many went went for what six, five or six. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's going to be uncertainty surrounding all of those quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: So there's no there's no uniqueness. And saying that this
Speaker 3: could go one way or the other. The question now
Speaker 3: becomes if this is indeed true that they were willing
Speaker 3: to deal justin Jefferson in some way, somehow that becomes
Speaker 3: common knowledge that is believable within the organization. Then what
Speaker 3: does that mean for the chemistry of the front office
Speaker 3: and the locker room. When you just let Kirk Cousins
Speaker 3: go and now you're talking about you were going to
Speaker 3: let your best player go in a trade if you
Speaker 3: were able to get elite neighbors.
Speaker 4: In the draft.
Speaker 3: That doesn't sound like a healthy culture if you ask me,
Speaker 3: it doesn't sound like a team that's hitting in the
Speaker 3: right direction unless you're selling the fact that Jordan Addison
Speaker 3: could step in and be that type of guy that
Speaker 3: they need it or have and Justin Jefferson, either way,
Speaker 3: I don't think it's I don't think it's good.
Speaker 2: It also tells me that, you know, contract talks aren't
Speaker 2: going too hot with Justin Jefferson. Like if you're thinking,
Speaker 2: like and I know Minnesota's drafted a wide receiver, well,
Speaker 2: like they're one of those teams like the Steelers. The
Speaker 2: Steelers have drafted a wide receiver, Well so them, Then
Speaker 2: letting a wide receiver go makes sense because they trust
Speaker 2: their ability to identify talent, draft him, develop him, and
Speaker 2: turn him into a star. And Minnesota's had a pretty
Speaker 2: good run Stefan Diggs, Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison appears to
Speaker 2: be really good, you know, potentially a really good player,
Speaker 2: had a good rookie year, But like Justin Jefferson feels
Speaker 2: like one of those guys. And look, you do a
Speaker 2: show with TJ. Huschmanzada, with Plexico Burus up on Game
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports Radio every Saturday. You know, for
Speaker 2: those of you out there cruising round on a Saturday, like,
Speaker 2: I wonder like those guys probably look at a guy
Speaker 2: like Justin Jefferson and go, yeah, he's one of like
Speaker 2: the top two elite wide receivers. Like he's he's a
Speaker 2: different wide receiver that's not one that you just part
Speaker 2: ways with because you think, oh, we're going to find
Speaker 2: a comp to him in the draft. The fact that
Speaker 2: they were even considering this and that you know, it
Speaker 2: was floated out there a little bit, and then you
Speaker 2: had the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, you know, put this
Speaker 2: out yesterday and just say listen, man, there was real
Speaker 2: conversation about them. Like that tells me that maybe the
Speaker 2: asking price or the numbers he's thrown at them to
Speaker 2: want to get a contract done are way beyond maybe
Speaker 2: what they're comfortable with and it like so that's that's
Speaker 2: why I look at this and I go, there's a
Speaker 2: couple of side to it. One, if they were, you know,
Speaker 2: interested or considering moving up in the draft to take
Speaker 2: a wide receiver in the draft and dealing Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 2: what does that say about the quarterback you did end
Speaker 2: up drafting? And also what does that say about the
Speaker 2: potential that Justin Jefferson and this contract might not get
Speaker 2: done a.
Speaker 3: Minnesota And does that indicate that there's a possible you know,
Speaker 3: commitment or decision to rebuild. Does that say that you
Speaker 3: don't feel as though your team today is good enough
Speaker 3: to actually be able to contend with you know, the
Speaker 3: Detroit Lions? Like what is look because you're getting hard.
Speaker 3: Number ones are really hard to find. Yes, they are
Speaker 3: hard to come by. An established number one in the
Speaker 3: league is super hard to come by. What does that
Speaker 3: represent if you're willing to let him go, doesn't mean
Speaker 3: you have two number ones? Do you look at Jordan
Speaker 3: Addison as a number one or are you looking at
Speaker 3: the fact that we lost that quarterback? Our receiver is
Speaker 3: going to ask for asking price that may be too
Speaker 3: rich for what we want to pay based upon the
Speaker 3: idea that you know, he puts himself in implausible deniability
Speaker 3: with the fan base by saying, look, I'm trying to stay.
Speaker 3: I want to stay, but if they don't want to
Speaker 3: pay me, then now that turns into a situation where
Speaker 3: I'm not going.
Speaker 4: To play for less.
Speaker 3: Than my value. So I think it's a this is
Speaker 3: a curious position. I think that Minnesota has put themselves in.
Speaker 3: I think Justin Jefferson now has even more leverage to
Speaker 3: be able to try to negotiate a big time contract
Speaker 3: with Minnesota.
Speaker 2: At the moment, I think they're closer to a rebuild
Speaker 2: than they are contending. You might be right because I
Speaker 2: think that when you made the decision to part ways
Speaker 2: with Kirk Cousins, you got worse. Like you say whatever
Speaker 2: you want about Kirk Cousins, like to me, they're in
Speaker 2: contention to win that division with him, and now everything's
Speaker 2: sort of up in the air. You have no idea
Speaker 2: what you're going to get with JJ Karthy, You have
Speaker 2: no clue, And they took they took the chance that
Speaker 2: they were going to be able to find a guy,
Speaker 2: and now is you know, it's it's being reported, you know,
Speaker 2: by the Saint Paul Pioneer Press that you know, maybe
Speaker 2: they were going to move up in the draft and
Speaker 2: not really to find a quarterback, to find a receiver
Speaker 2: so they could trade their star wide receiver Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2: That's why it's again. I mean, look, it didn't happen.
Speaker 2: We're here, They've got McCarthy. Justin Jefferson's there for now.
Speaker 2: I just wonder, you know, if and when this contract
Speaker 2: gets done for Justin Jefferson in the Minnesota Vikings. It
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Speaker 7: Lap Good Monday morning, everybody, Good morning, Jonas, Good morning,
Speaker 7: le Bar, Good morning everybody out there.
Speaker 4: And guess.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Leviar.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate that. Hey Brady, what.
Speaker 7: Hey guys, well Hayley, Hey guys. In case you missed this,
Speaker 7: OTAs are underway, and while veteran players skipping OTAs is
Speaker 7: not uncommon, it wouldn't be uncommon to maybe expect Stefan
Speaker 7: Diggs to show up for OTAs, seeing that he's on
Speaker 7: a new team, that being the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2: But of course he isn't.
Speaker 7: And if you remember back to last year, he was
Speaker 7: dismissed only one day into ot AS from uh Sean McDermot,
Speaker 7: who's coach.
Speaker 2: Then with the bills.
Speaker 7: Uh, he showed up the next day. Everything was uh,
Speaker 7: you know, brushed under the rug. Everything seemed fine. But
Speaker 7: fans are a little uh, they're raising their eyebrows the
Speaker 7: fact that, uh, Stefan Diggs is not at Ots, Well
Speaker 7: it's not.
Speaker 2: It's not like he's ever been disgruntled before with any
Speaker 2: other team, So you know, there's no why would he be.
Speaker 2: Now that's white strange little it's a little odd. I
Speaker 2: mean you would think, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, maybe he's just not an O guy.
Speaker 3: You do know that organized training activities is something that
Speaker 3: is not mandatory.
Speaker 2: It is voluntary, right.
Speaker 3: So to turn it's it's I think it's you're with
Speaker 3: a new team, shouldn't he show up. It's not fair
Speaker 3: to villainize a dude for not showing up to volun
Speaker 3: He's a vet.
Speaker 4: He's a vet.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, sure, it makes sense that he should
Speaker 3: be there because he's a new guy, this, that and
Speaker 3: the other. But you know what, if he has a
Speaker 3: routine that he has and he's been using for all
Speaker 3: these years, then that's not something that should be a
Speaker 3: deal breaker.
Speaker 4: It should make him a villain.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean new team shouldn't he be there
Speaker 2: like it's a brand new team, Like I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just I would show up. But again, you know
Speaker 2: some people are just build different. You know i'd show up.
Speaker 2: I also have no life, so what else happen?
Speaker 3: I mean, that's why we're doing radio? Gay, I thought
Speaker 3: I was going to get to sleep in today, Joel.
Speaker 3: This dude talking about out do DP show.
Speaker 4: All right, here we go.
Speaker 2: I can't say no, we know you'd.
Speaker 3: Be at OTAs front center A coach Jonas Knox here
Speaker 3: reporting for duty.
Speaker 4: Coach?
Speaker 2: Can I stay after a few minutes? Coach? I don't
Speaker 2: know why these guys are going home.
Speaker 3: I mean it seems like they like to go home
Speaker 3: and they love their home and their their families and stuff.
Speaker 3: You know me, I'm going to just stay here and
Speaker 3: be great.
Speaker 2: You guys hang out with your families. That's weird, Lee,
Speaker 2: What else you got? Guys?
Speaker 7: In case you miss this, Colorado defensive back safety Shiloh Sanders,
Speaker 7: son of of course coach Dion Sanders, is reportedly being
Speaker 7: sued for nearly twelve million dollars UH. He has now
Speaker 7: since declared bankruptcy, which is now brought into question what
Speaker 7: he is earning in the nil he has declined to with,
Speaker 7: you know, declare what he is earning, only able to
Speaker 7: claim that he is about three hundred and twenty five
Speaker 7: dollars three hundred and fifty excuse me, three hundred and
Speaker 7: twenty five thousand dollars worth of assets to his name?
Speaker 7: Is this lawsuit is coming from a twenty to fifteen
Speaker 7: metter in which he was alleged to have assaulted a
Speaker 7: high school security guard in Texas?
Speaker 2: Can I ask? Can I ask a question? A historical question? Lebar?
Speaker 2: You would probably know this is Shiloh Sanders, the first
Speaker 2: college football player to ever declare bankruptcy while playing college football.
Speaker 2: Probably can we get a round of applause?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: You know you gotta get some history in this world.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something, little bankruptcy, I got
Speaker 2: your spring game right here, little bankruptcy here to get
Speaker 2: your season going. The hell's going on here?
Speaker 3: Man trying to tap into that nil money that was
Speaker 3: getting I thought it was Shador who did it. But okayyad,
Speaker 3: the article correctly.
Speaker 7: Does this move Shiloh up or down in the rankings
Speaker 7: of Dion Sanders kids, because you know he ranks his kids,
Speaker 7: right Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: Well he's already known that that the kid you know,
Speaker 3: got into a little tussle with the security officer anyway,
Speaker 3: So I don't think it plays any part in his
Speaker 3: ranking at this current moment in time. In fact, in fact,
Speaker 3: I mean the fact that he's showing some business prowess here,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe it ups his ups his rank.
Speaker 2: I mean value, you know, for what it's worth. I mean,
Speaker 2: if my son filed for bankruptcy, I mean I just
Speaker 2: dropped him off in the woods somewhere and drive off
Speaker 2: like you figure it out, buddy. All right, let me
Speaker 2: let me know what. You figure out a way to
Speaker 2: come up with that extra ten million dollars and then
Speaker 2: then we'll have a conversation. But again, first ever do it.
Speaker 2: So that's something, you know, you got to celebrate that
Speaker 2: stuff sometimes.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 7: What else we got lee, guys, In case you missed this,
Speaker 7: If you need a new reason to be up in
Speaker 7: arms about Lebron James, Apparently he was caught on video
Speaker 7: by a fan while he was at an AAU team
Speaker 7: game for his son, watching the MAVs Timberwolves game on
Speaker 7: an illegal streaming site. I will not name the site,
Speaker 7: but this was last Friday. For the last Friday, he
Speaker 7: was trying to watch game two of the MAVs Timberwolves.
Speaker 2: Second, why won't you name the site? Lee, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like I shouldn't. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: we'll explain why you wouldn't want to name the site
Speaker 2: before you name it, Like, what's your reasoning? Mind it
Speaker 2: because you don't want them to take the stream down
Speaker 2: so you can watch something. That might be the case.
Speaker 2: This isn't the site. I excuse me.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I might have to do some research
Speaker 2: and to see what Lebron. What are these streaming sites about?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know he's hurting for cash? What do
Speaker 2: you want? I mean, this stuff gets expensive, man, trying
Speaker 2: to find all these you know, all these places that
Speaker 2: you can, you know, have to watch all these games
Speaker 2: on you know, everybody can can get the money together
Speaker 2: pay for all these Some.
Speaker 4: People think that the NB this site nuts. Come on
Speaker 4: the bar.
Speaker 2: Don't let him dime out his source, he.
Speaker 4: Lee, what's the site?
Speaker 2: The site is www dot Say
Speaker 7: No, no, I'm good, We're good.