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Speaker 2: and our radio affiliates around the country. Gene Hackman passed
Speaker 2: away at the age of ninety five. He was living
Speaker 2: in New Mexico. I believe Santa Fe And when you
Speaker 2: think of Gene Hackman, at least when I think of
Speaker 2: Gene Hackman, I think of Normandale in the great sports movie. Hoosiers.
Speaker 2: Actually it's a great movie. It's it's not just limited
Speaker 2: to a great sports movie. That's a and a lot
Speaker 2: of times when we think of a sportsman like Rudy
Speaker 2: is not a sports movie. Rudy is about the underdog
Speaker 2: who gets a chance. Hoosiers isn't a ketball movie, but
Speaker 2: it has basketball in it. It's about life in a
Speaker 2: small town. And I think sometimes we make the mistake
Speaker 2: of saying, oh, what a great sports movie. Bull Durham
Speaker 2: is not a baseball movie. It's really about a guy
Speaker 2: who's been sent to the miners.
Speaker 3: He's going to help.
Speaker 2: It's about relationships, and you know, but we use, you know,
Speaker 2: the focal point, the the centerpiece is sports. I think
Speaker 2: a lot a lot of times with these movies or
Speaker 2: we think of that, but it's really more than that.
Speaker 2: And Hoosiers was that. It was about relationships. And Gene
Speaker 2: Hackman was wonderful. And I spoke with, you know, the
Speaker 2: actor who played Jimmy Chitwood, Maris Volanus, and he had
Speaker 2: no acting experience, he wasn't even really a basketball player,
Speaker 2: but he played that role so well. And we'll bring
Speaker 2: back a portion of the interview I did with him
Speaker 2: a few years ago where he talked about all the actors,
Speaker 2: well want to the actors, people who weren't even actors,
Speaker 2: who just went and auditioned and they got a chance
Speaker 2: to meet Gene Hackman, and the role that Hackman played
Speaker 2: for them getting ready to be actors in the movie Hoosiers.
Speaker 2: But he passed his way at the age of ninety five.
Speaker 2: Now there's other movies. I go back when he was
Speaker 2: Popeye Doyle the French Connection, and he had his little
Speaker 2: hat that he wore and he was going to catch
Speaker 2: he was going to catch that drug dealer from France
Speaker 2: and never did.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 7: Seaton a little more recent but one that I always
Speaker 7: forget about. But man was he great in The Royal Tenenbaumbs.
Speaker 3: Yes he was.
Speaker 7: That was a phenomenal role that was. That's a great movie.
Speaker 7: But man was he He was so good in that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were so many of those movies that I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's quite a We talked to Kevin Costner years
Speaker 2: ago in New York and he talked about working with
Speaker 2: him on No Way Out movie and just talked about
Speaker 2: Costner saying, I knew I had to up my game
Speaker 2: because I was going to be acting alongside Gene Hackman.
Speaker 2: But I still go back to the replacements with Keanu
Speaker 2: Reeves the quarterback, and I don't know, Like, look, Paul
Speaker 2: Newman was in slap Shot, and that's what made Slap
Speaker 2: Shot even more brilliant because Paul Newman, legendary actor, was
Speaker 2: willing to play this down and out minor league hockey
Speaker 2: coach and Gene Hackman in the replacements, Like I kept
Speaker 2: whenever I would see the movie, I go, how do
Speaker 2: they get Gene Hackman to me in the replacements?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's not a legendary, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, have you seen the replacements great sports
Speaker 2: movies of all time? That's not going to be in
Speaker 2: the category Alex on Jeopardy. But and Keanu Reeves, I
Speaker 2: think had done Speed. He had done the movie Speed
Speaker 2: and Matrix, so he had a little bit, you know,
Speaker 2: little bit of a resume. But Gene Hackman and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden he's the coach and replacements and I go, okay,
Speaker 2: all right. Although Gene Hackman did think that his career
Speaker 2: could be over. In Hoosiers, he acted alongside Dennis Hopper
Speaker 2: and they did talk about it, you know, off screen,
Speaker 2: like this could be the end of our careers because
Speaker 2: of that. But Dennis Hopper, legendary actor as well, plays
Speaker 2: the alcoholic father of one of the players in Hoosiers.
Speaker 2: But Gene Hackman aged ninety five and feels like everybody
Speaker 2: has their favorite. He was what Lex Luthor and Superman? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I never saw it, never saw the movie, didn't see
Speaker 2: the first one. I still haven't seen the first Star Wars,
Speaker 2: so I'll get around to it one of these days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pauline, there's a story.
Speaker 8: I looked it up after you brought it up that
Speaker 8: Keanu Reeves was in the replacements. He was set to
Speaker 8: be in the replacements and they got interest from Gene
Speaker 8: Hackman and they were shocked. But he is pricey, So
Speaker 8: Keanu Reeves said, you can cut my salary if it
Speaker 8: gets Gene happened in the movie. I don't know if
Speaker 8: that's a true one.
Speaker 4: That's a legendary Hollywood story.
Speaker 3: Todd reach out to Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 7: We're on it.
Speaker 9: Did you see any of the Superman movies, by the way,
Speaker 9: with General Zod And there was one with Richard Pryor,
Speaker 9: And there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 3: No, none of the Superman.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: That was the note that I said earlier that I
Speaker 3: hadn't seen. I didn't see the first one.
Speaker 4: Thought maybe you checked out one of the sequels.
Speaker 2: It would be odd to see two and three without
Speaker 2: seeing the first one, kind of standalone. And I'm not
Speaker 2: going to watch the original Rocky, but I'm going to
Speaker 2: watch three and four.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Eton isn't it crazy?
Speaker 7: Speaking of the Superman movies that the first one, the
Speaker 7: first Superman was George Reeve, and then the next one
Speaker 7: was Christopher Reeves.
Speaker 2: Hm was that he was the that was the TV
Speaker 2: series George Reeves, George Reeve. I think Christopher Reeves, I
Speaker 2: think so?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, I.
Speaker 7: Say George Reeve was in the TV Showeorge Reeves has
Speaker 7: an S and then Christopher Reeve. Yes, oh that's what
Speaker 7: is I have it backwards, Yeah, but yeah he was.
Speaker 7: He was in the TV show.
Speaker 8: And we also just referenced Keanu Reeves. Oh, in the
Speaker 8: same segment dan Reeves was a consultant.
Speaker 9: What Dan Reeves was a consultant on the stupier member.
Speaker 3: You had to get that line out of here. I
Speaker 3: thank you. We didn't hear it the first time.
Speaker 8: But you know, yes, Paul, it is interesting that some
Speaker 8: movies give you a level of immortality. There might be
Speaker 8: better movies, bigger movies that Gene Hacken was in, but
Speaker 8: with sports movies, so those will be talked about on
Speaker 8: sports radio and TV forever. And Hoosiers is it really
Speaker 8: is the one seed and then it goes down from
Speaker 8: there If you look at all those lists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it depends. You know, people love Bull Durham,
Speaker 2: they love Rudy, those are usually the top ones. But
Speaker 2: uh I loved I loved Hoosiers because it's just small town.
Speaker 2: It's in Indiana. Uh I could relate to a little
Speaker 2: bit of it. The scenery is so underrated, you know
Speaker 2: when they do those bus trips, we're going to their
Speaker 2: games and just the landscape that you had now. Granted
Speaker 2: it's not exciting because it's a lot of cornfields and barns,
Speaker 2: but I could relate to it. So Geene Hackman passing
Speaker 2: away at the age of ninety five. Michael in Chicago, Hi, Mike,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5: Good morning Dan, Good morning Dan Utts. Is what you
Speaker 5: guys missed on the pre show introduction you've missed a
Speaker 5: couple of great movies that he did. One of the
Speaker 5: best to ever think he did was The Unforgiven with
Speaker 5: Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 5: He was unbelievable in that is the mean sheriff in
Speaker 5: the town of Big Whiskey, if you remember. And he
Speaker 5: was good in the firm he played.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, we couldn't do all of them, Michael, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean the compliment is we couldn't get to all
Speaker 2: of that. But we are a sports show. That's why
Speaker 2: we brought up Hoosiers. But you're right, the Firm with
Speaker 2: Tom Cruise, he was very good in that. But uh,
Speaker 2: we we've taken a trip down memory lane.
Speaker 3: We just sent margin Mississippi burning an apology.
Speaker 5: Go God.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to apologize to all the Hackman fans
Speaker 2: and of course mister Hackman rest in peace that if
Speaker 2: we didn't get all the movies mentioned where, we can't
Speaker 2: do the entire show on Gene Hackman. Let's see NFL
Speaker 2: considering overtime tweaks. We'll talk to Albert Breer about this,
Speaker 2: and maybe they're going to get rid of the chain Gang.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a digital spotting of the football.
Speaker 2: So these are some of the things they're discussing at
Speaker 2: the combine. I've been saying all along about the digital
Speaker 2: spotting of the football. It is so random when you
Speaker 2: see the official grab the ball and put it down
Speaker 2: after somebody's made a catch or a run, and you're going,
Speaker 2: really there and it's just random, And I thought, can't
Speaker 2: we come up and we accept it. You're like like
Speaker 2: the Bills against the Chiefs and the playoffs. You're like, uh,
Speaker 2: I think he got it, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you go, he didn't get it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I do like the chain gang when they bring it
Speaker 2: out and then they stretch out the chain. I think
Speaker 2: we all like that. I don't know if we're going
Speaker 2: to have that. Maybe you do a kind of a
Speaker 2: video component of that. If you're watching on TV, like.
Speaker 3: Loop loop blop, bloop bloop.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden you see it's a
Speaker 2: first town and you get a you know whatever sound
Speaker 2: effect there are you saying, just.
Speaker 8: Recreate the digital marker and and have the same anticipation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, perfect, just go gas price is right ish?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, that's what is that? Uh? That game
Speaker 3: of a mountain clown law dude, dude, it on.
Speaker 4: The mountain climber guy and then he falls off the cliff.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought it was this one. You spin the
Speaker 3: big thing you spin. Yeah, yeah, it could be that too.
Speaker 3: Okay for the.
Speaker 9: Showcase Showdown, ye try to get on that. You got
Speaker 9: to get close to it. You got two spins to
Speaker 9: get close to.
Speaker 3: A dollar cliffhanger?
Speaker 2: Is that the name of the hell of a segment?
Speaker 2: We're gonna submit this for the Sports Emmy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: this is this is how we lose it instead of
Speaker 2: this how we do it?
Speaker 3: Todd, This how we lose it. That's what Jordan and
Speaker 3: Patrick doesn'tect.
Speaker 2: My Pistons won. The Pistons won again. They beat the
Speaker 2: celt You got to take them seriously. They're in the
Speaker 2: playoffs right now. I think they have the sixth best
Speaker 2: record in the East. They won eight in a row.
Speaker 2: It's a young team, fun team. Those are always the
Speaker 2: ones that make me nervous. You know, when you get
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, you got to play against the team
Speaker 2: may not know what the hell they're doing come playoff time.
Speaker 3: But sometimes they don't have pressure on them.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady, Ski Buddies, question Mark question mark.
Speaker 2: We'll have that story for you coming up. Another betting
Speaker 2: investigation the University of New Orleans basketball team. There's probably
Speaker 2: five or six open investigations into college basketball game fixing.
Speaker 2: They got to do away with prop bets said that
Speaker 2: last year. Got to do away with that because if
Speaker 2: you're a kid at the University of New Orleans, you're
Speaker 2: not getting an IO. Your team is terrible, and I'm
Speaker 2: just going to give you a hey, this might be
Speaker 2: something that played out. You're not going to the NBA.
Speaker 2: Who's going to notice we're New Orleans. We're not any good.
Speaker 2: We've won four games, so what you know, I missed
Speaker 2: a shot, you know the over under. We're playing University
Speaker 2: of Texas at Rio Grand. Nobody's going to know. Well,
Speaker 2: Vegas has to know. This is what Vegas does. They're
Speaker 2: the watchdogs because this is their business. And a lot
Speaker 2: of times you'll see these aren't big time programs because
Speaker 2: the big time programs they're getting taken care of. It's
Speaker 2: when you play at these smaller schools that maybe you
Speaker 2: have the temptation to go, you know what, be nice
Speaker 2: to get a couple of one hundred bucks, a thousand
Speaker 2: bucks here, whatever it is there's a lot of investigations
Speaker 2: going on, open investigations in this I think there's been
Speaker 2: an open investigation into Temple basketball for a couple of
Speaker 2: years now, and there's going to be more. But get
Speaker 2: rid of prop bets for college athletes. Certainly that I
Speaker 2: don't think they'll do it with the pros, but at
Speaker 2: least the college athletes, because they can be they can
Speaker 2: be lured, they can be tempted because they don't have
Speaker 2: that money. You make it to the NBA. You're making
Speaker 2: money college basketball not the case. All right, phone calls,
Speaker 2: we'll get to those. We'll settle on a poll question.
Speaker 2: We'll head out to the combine. Albert Breer, the Monday
Speaker 2: morning quarterback, will join us on a Thursday morning. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to him about the NFL considering a tweak to
Speaker 2: overtime and the digital spotting of the football and the
Speaker 2: other things going on, the ancillary things with the draft
Speaker 2: and possible trades, and Tom Brady Matthew Stafford seen in
Speaker 2: Montana skiing together. So we got a few things talk
Speaker 2: about today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ski gate.
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Speaker 2: Very busy man. He's the Monday morning quarterback, but he
Speaker 2: works other days as well. Don't want you to think
Speaker 2: that he only works on Monday. He's Albert Breer joining
Speaker 2: us from them in Indianapolis. Thanks for joining us. Let
Speaker 2: me start with tweaking overtime. What the NFL is proposing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so they want to formalize or at least look
Speaker 11: at formalizing the rules so it's the same from the
Speaker 11: regular season to to the postseason. And as you know,
Speaker 11: you know, Dan, what they did to amend the rule
Speaker 11: in the postseason after you know, Super Bowl a few
Speaker 11: years back was to ensure that both teams would have
Speaker 11: a chance to have the ball in overtime. And you know,
Speaker 11: whether or not they go to that or tweak it further,
Speaker 11: I know, you know, Troy and Vincent had talked about
Speaker 11: reimagining the whole thing all together.
Speaker 4: I don't think we'll go to, like, you know, a
Speaker 4: college version of overtime. I do think they.
Speaker 11: Want to maintain some of the elements of a normal
Speaker 11: game flow that you have in the way that overtime
Speaker 11: has been played in the NFL forever.
Speaker 4: But you know, I I I think the general idea is.
Speaker 11: To come up with a solution that would work for
Speaker 11: both the season and the postseason.
Speaker 2: The Brady Matthew Stafford's story of skiing together in Montana, like,
Speaker 2: do you have the real story of this, because there
Speaker 2: seems to be conflicting stories of this was something that
Speaker 2: was planned, and then there's another story that says that
Speaker 2: it was random that they ran into each other in Montana.
Speaker 11: I mean, I can say that that is and you
Speaker 11: may be familiar with the place, but that's a pretty
Speaker 11: high end club in Montana that people on that level,
Speaker 11: that level of celebrity are at and spend time at,
Speaker 11: and so the idea that they would unintentionally run into
Speaker 11: each other is not far fetched.
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly how that happened. I don't think that.
Speaker 4: I'm not you know, I don't know for sure.
Speaker 11: I haven't dunk into it quite as much yet, but
Speaker 11: I don't think I I I don't know that Brady
Speaker 11: invited Matthew Stafford there.
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford, I know had been.
Speaker 11: There in the past, and so again not that unusual
Speaker 11: that it would happen, But I do think it shows
Speaker 11: how Brady is really a part of what the Raiders
Speaker 11: are doing now, and Brady, you know, is an integral
Speaker 11: part of their of their interview process of convincing head
Speaker 11: coaching and general manager candidates that it was a better
Speaker 11: job than it has been in recent years and that
Speaker 11: and then ultimately, you know, they wind up hiring two
Speaker 11: guys that Brady's got a relationship with, Pete Carroll of course,
Speaker 11: who he competed against for me all those years, and
Speaker 11: and John Spotech, who he became pretty close with over
Speaker 11: the three years they spent together in Tampa. So I
Speaker 11: think the Raiders are serious, a serious suitor for for
Speaker 11: Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2: But this wasn't tampering that if Brady permission okay, okay.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean Stafford at permission out and Stafford's had
Speaker 11: permission Dan for over three weeks now, like Stafford got
Speaker 11: permission to speak with other teams starting during Super Bowl week.
Speaker 11: So I believe it's either right at three weeks or
Speaker 11: just over three weeks that he's had permission to go
Speaker 11: out and speak to other teams.
Speaker 3: What is the market for Matthew Stafford more than.
Speaker 11: The Rams want to pay right now, I think is
Speaker 11: the best way to describe that.
Speaker 4: For those who don't know.
Speaker 11: He's on the books for twenty seven million dollars in
Speaker 11: cash in twenty twenty five, and that number was lowered
Speaker 11: by four million dollars because they borrowed that four million
Speaker 11: and another million from twenty twenty six to give him
Speaker 11: a five million dollar raise in twenty twenty four, which
Speaker 11: isn't a raise at all if you're just borrowing from
Speaker 11: one year and giving it to the and putting it
Speaker 11: in another, which is why I think everybody knew when
Speaker 11: they made that contract adjustment after a really tough six
Speaker 11: months ago, that they.
Speaker 4: Were going to be back at the table again.
Speaker 11: And the way Stafford's looking at it is the quarterback
Speaker 11: market has materially changed. There are nine quarterbacks making over
Speaker 11: fifty million dollars a year, and his deal at forty
Speaker 11: million per is fifty percent below the top of the market,
Speaker 11: which is Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4: At sixty million.
Speaker 11: So the Rams basically said to Matthew, all right, like, well,
Speaker 11: if you go out and see what the market is,
Speaker 11: and go out and see what you can get, and
Speaker 11: I don't think they use the word trade specifically with him.
Speaker 4: But once you kind of.
Speaker 11: Let him out of the building and let him go
Speaker 11: do that to go and see his worth, there's some
Speaker 11: risk involved, and the risk is that the way he
Speaker 11: sees his his worth is going to be matched with
Speaker 11: the way other teams see.
Speaker 4: His worth, even at thirty seven years old. And that's
Speaker 4: what happened.
Speaker 11: Matthew found teams plural that we're willing to go to
Speaker 11: a number that was commensurate with where the.
Speaker 4: Market is at the position. So how do you put
Speaker 4: that tooth paste back in the tube?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 11: If you're the Rams, who I mean McVay still really
Speaker 11: likes Matthew at It's a good relationship. Matthew really likes
Speaker 11: living in southern California. But the reality is they told
Speaker 11: him he was worth, They felt like he was worth,
Speaker 11: acts he felt like he was worth. Why then he
Speaker 11: goes to the market proves he's Worthwhy? So, now, how
Speaker 11: do you reel that all back in? If you're the team,
Speaker 11: it's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 2: The Rams, wouldn't they learn from what happened with Saquon
Speaker 2: Barkley with the Giants, where you say go out there
Speaker 2: see if anybody wants to pay you that kind of money.
Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, wait, you're leaving. Granted, you know
Speaker 2: Stafford is thirty six, thirty seven years of age, but
Speaker 2: it feels but I'm always interested when I are curious
Speaker 2: when I hear an analyst go, you know, he wants
Speaker 2: to go to a place where he can win. Well,
Speaker 2: the Rams that that's a team that can win now,
Speaker 2: and they did win now and they almost went to
Speaker 2: the NFC title game. You got pook, You've got a
Speaker 2: great young defense, you got Pukinakua, you got Williams is
Speaker 2: your running back. I don't know, just feels like, pay
Speaker 2: him the money if you want to try to make
Speaker 2: another run at the Super Bowl, giving two years one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars.
Speaker 11: I agree, But I think part of this is timelines too, right,
Speaker 11: Like does the RAMS timeline match up with Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 11: which Matthew Stafford's timeline is to win right now and
Speaker 11: to go all in right now, to win right now, And.
Speaker 3: You don't think the Rams timeline is to win right now.
Speaker 11: But yeah, but here, okay, So like let's say you're
Speaker 11: the Rams and Matthew Stafford is going year to year now,
Speaker 11: and you've dealt with this, You've got a really difficult negotiation.
Speaker 4: Now you want to see You're you're.
Speaker 11: In this spot where you're being asked to set another
Speaker 11: contractual precedent that maybe could be a problem for you
Speaker 11: down the line, and you're looking out at the market
Speaker 11: and you're saying, well, can we get Aaron Rodgers for
Speaker 11: a lot less than that and bring back the assets
Speaker 11: that would come to Matthew Stafford deal.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know McVay really likes Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 11: That's gonna sound crazy to some people, but I think
Speaker 11: he believes he can win with Jimmy Garoppolos. So I
Speaker 11: think for the Rams part of this is our timeline
Speaker 11: may not match up completely with Matthew's timeline. We've got
Speaker 11: a team here that we think can win for the
Speaker 11: next five or six years. We're gonna have a lot
Speaker 11: of big contracts coming down the pike, and you know,
Speaker 11: if we're in a year to year situation with Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 11: that's a pretty tough place to be based on what
Speaker 11: we would what we what we might need to spend
Speaker 11: to keep him. And so that's when you start to
Speaker 11: look at some of the alternatives, Like, again, what id
Speaker 11: be Aaron Rodgers on a cheaper deal. Now you got
Speaker 11: more cash to spend this offseason to surround Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 11: and then you get the assets, whether it's a first
Speaker 11: round pick, second round pick, whatever it is, get the
Speaker 11: assets coming back to us too. So it's interesting from
Speaker 11: that perspective. And I mean, shoot, it's I mean think
Speaker 11: about like if the Giants were to get him. Now
Speaker 11: you have Andrew Thomas coming back at left tackle, you
Speaker 11: have Milite Neighbors as your number one receiver, you have
Speaker 11: Tracy coming back as a young back. Maybe Cooper Cup
Speaker 11: winds up there, maybe Travis Hunter winds up there. Like
Speaker 11: that team I think could become a contender pretty fast.
Speaker 2: He's Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterback senior NFL reporter.
Speaker 2: The digital spotting of the football.
Speaker 3: I like it. I don't know if it's a done deal.
Speaker 2: I'm always curious when I watch a game, how random
Speaker 2: it sometimes seems when the official spots the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: do you think we're how far down the line do
Speaker 2: you think we are with the digital part of spotting
Speaker 2: a football?
Speaker 4: I think we're getting closer, you know.
Speaker 11: I this is something that they're not going to just
Speaker 11: you know, do all in one fell swoop. You know,
Speaker 11: I think there's going to be some experimentation, and I
Speaker 11: don't think they want to be completely reliant on technology
Speaker 11: that maybe they haven't been able to do wholesale checks
Speaker 11: and all that different stuff with. But I think it's coming,
Speaker 11: you know, and I think it makes sense. You know,
Speaker 11: it's I always sort of think of like the tennis matches,
Speaker 11: right where how long have they had they hadech that
Speaker 11: technology at Wimbledon, the US Open wherever.
Speaker 4: You know, where they got the ball and you can
Speaker 4: see where the ball hit. You know, like how long
Speaker 4: have they they had that?
Speaker 2: Dan a decade maybe longer, right, They've had it for
Speaker 2: so but you don't have a lot of tennis players
Speaker 2: in the way of seeing where the ball hits or
Speaker 2: where it goes out where the NFL there's a lot
Speaker 2: of confusion going on with tennis. It's a player, is
Speaker 2: the ball in or out? You know, you don't have
Speaker 2: a lot of bodies blocking that.
Speaker 11: And I agree that like the technology is more it's
Speaker 11: more complicated in football.
Speaker 4: Because, like you said, the amount of bodies out there.
Speaker 11: But I mean, if it's been over a decade that
Speaker 11: they've had that in tennis, then wouldn't it stand to
Speaker 11: reason that they've made enough advances to make it on.
Speaker 2: A well baseball. Baseball's going to implement this. The question
Speaker 2: is not if, but when. I just maybe you keep
Speaker 2: the chain gang as a backup in case the technology
Speaker 2: goes down during the game.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm all for it just because I've seen how random
Speaker 2: the spotting of the football is.
Speaker 11: It does feel that way, doesn't it, Like when you
Speaker 11: see a guy under a pile.
Speaker 4: I mean, there are definitely times for me where I'm wondering,
Speaker 4: how the hell does he know where to spot that?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Like, there aren't those and
Speaker 4: so it would I think to some degree solve that.
Speaker 3: Help me understand.
Speaker 2: The NFL Players Association gives team grades, so the players
Speaker 2: vote on things from is your team friendly? To the
Speaker 2: families of the football players, the food, nutrition, weight room?
Speaker 2: Does does anything happen? I saw the Jacksonville Jaguars. Their
Speaker 2: grade for treating families of football players was an F like.
Speaker 3: An F.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know what the treatment is, but how
Speaker 2: do you does anything change with this? I think the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs got like.
Speaker 4: It like they're ground like they're grounding some of these
Speaker 4: kids or something.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know, given timeouts or bad seats
Speaker 2: or whatever, not preferential parking. But does anything change when
Speaker 2: the players vote and it's an anonymous vote on your team.
Speaker 11: Yeah they I mean it actually has worked, and you know,
Speaker 11: I think we all like gravitate to the low hanging fruit.
Speaker 11: I don't know if you remember, but there was like
Speaker 11: a I can't remember what team it was, but there's
Speaker 11: a rat problem with one of the teams.
Speaker 2: I think, not somebody who was ratting things out, it
Speaker 2: was I think.
Speaker 11: The Chiefs have like folding chairs and there locker room
Speaker 11: instead of real shairs.
Speaker 2: But that's when you're supposed to win. Then you take
Speaker 2: care of your players. That's proof that you win. And
Speaker 2: all you do is keep the money. You didn't upgrade
Speaker 2: your Was it.
Speaker 11: The Cardinals that were like if you were staying late
Speaker 11: at the facility as a player, they were charging you
Speaker 11: for dinner like I don't know, Like, but here's the
Speaker 11: thing is, like some of this stuff is ridiculous, and
Speaker 11: I do think like making a public has shamed some
Speaker 11: owners into making changes.
Speaker 4: You know, what I mean like, and maybe that's the.
Speaker 11: Wrong word, but I think part of it has been.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, here's the deal.
Speaker 11: So these guys come from major college programs, most of
Speaker 11: them do, where they're in these facilities that are palaces,
Speaker 11: and everything is done to make them feel like the
Speaker 11: most important people on campus. And it has to be
Speaker 11: that way because in college, you're recruiting kids and you
Speaker 11: need to entice them to pick your school over and one.
Speaker 11: And now in the era of the transfer portal, you know,
Speaker 11: you have to convince the guy that he should stay
Speaker 11: when he can up and leave whenever he wants.
Speaker 4: The NFL has never had to do that, you know.
Speaker 11: So I got a lot of cases like these guys
Speaker 11: go from big time college programs, They'll walk into the
Speaker 11: NFL and their NFL facility will be way worse than
Speaker 11: what they were than their workplace in college. And there's
Speaker 11: really with the amount of money the NFL makes, there's
Speaker 11: no reason for it to be that way.
Speaker 4: I mean, these are supposed to be finely tuned athletes.
Speaker 11: That are, you know, measuring everything that goes into their
Speaker 11: body and spending every waking moment trying to put themselves
Speaker 11: in position to play at the highest level on Sunday,
Speaker 11: and so like, I think there was this feeling among
Speaker 11: NFL players in general, based on what a lot of
Speaker 11: those guys had as college players, that NFL teams.
Speaker 4: Were falling way, way, way short of where they should be.
Speaker 11: And I think there had complaints in the past, and
Speaker 11: they've fallen on deaf here, so you know, they go public.
Speaker 11: And I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot
Speaker 11: of these things improved. I mean, the Patriots who've gotten
Speaker 11: killed the last couple of years in this are opening
Speaker 11: a new facility, I think in part because of the
Speaker 11: bad pr they've taken. You know, the Chiefs replace those chairs.
Speaker 11: The Cardinals don't charge for dinner anymore, which I you know,
Speaker 11: I don't think anybody.
Speaker 4: Charges for dinner anymore, which is like a good thing.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 11: It's funny that somebody did in the first place, but
Speaker 11: it took care of the problem in the back end,
Speaker 11: you know.
Speaker 4: So I think that's the idea here, and I do
Speaker 4: think to some degree it's working. Maybe not with.
Speaker 11: Everybody, but I'd say the great majority of owners who've
Speaker 11: been publicly embarrassed by these report cards over the last
Speaker 11: three years have have done something about it.
Speaker 2: On the back end, mel Kiper in his latest mock
Speaker 2: draft has Abdul Carter Penn stay goal number one now
Speaker 2: comes word that could need surgery. I know he had
Speaker 2: a bad older. Now they're talking about foot surgery here.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So, like I, I think he's gonna be okay now,
Speaker 11: and I don't think it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna affect his draft stock. Like I, I still think
Speaker 4: he's likely. He's probably the leader in the clubhouse to
Speaker 4: be the number one overall pick. I think a lot
Speaker 4: of people would tell you he's the best player in
Speaker 4: the draft.
Speaker 11: The easiest translation in the draft, I would say Travis
Speaker 11: hunder might be the best player. But this is the
Speaker 11: guy who you look at him and you know exactly
Speaker 11: what he's gonna be in the pros. But you know,
Speaker 11: it's a foot and those can be problematic, like what
Speaker 11: I think his foot, back and hamstring, right are the
Speaker 11: ones that, like.
Speaker 4: You just you have to be yeah, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 4: have to you know.
Speaker 11: Do your diligence on it, have your doctors look at it,
Speaker 11: and then if you draft him, something something you have
Speaker 11: to keep an eye on.
Speaker 4: So I don't think.
Speaker 11: It'll affect his draft stock. But I don't want to
Speaker 11: tell you that you know, a foot injury. You know,
Speaker 11: at a young age for an athlete like this is nothing.
Speaker 11: It's not nothing.
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2: I know you got a busy schedule, so we appreciate
Speaker 2: you carving out some time.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Albert.
Speaker 2: That's Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterback senior NFL reporter.
Speaker 2: Will take a break. We will give you our poll
Speaker 2: question for the first hour, but up next Play the Day.
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Speaker 5: Shut this out.
Speaker 3: I go let us speak for three.
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Speaker 3: That's your play of the day.
Speaker 2: That's a coincidence, isn't it, Todd that's a major Is
Speaker 2: it ironic?
Speaker 5: It's tricky.
Speaker 3: I think it's more of a coincident.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. What's ironic anymore? After Alanis Morris
Speaker 2: set isn't it ironic? And then it wasn't ironic? So
Speaker 2: is it ironic that it wasn't ironic?
Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe she was like like four D chess kind
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Speaker 7: not irony, and that was ironic.
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Speaker 2: What's the poll question for the first hour of the program, Well.
Speaker 7: We have one pole question and then we're kind of
Speaker 7: doing things a little differently too. Okay, we have a
Speaker 7: poll question up there right now, that is, how would
Speaker 7: you want calls in sports being made by people? Are
Speaker 7: all digital MM.
Speaker 3: Electronic?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: You can only pick one. You can only pick one?
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Todd reminded me that I was probably not I was
Speaker 2: not accurate in what I was saying about digitally spotting
Speaker 2: the football. It's for the first down markers correct, So
Speaker 2: it's not they're going to have somebody something that will
Speaker 2: digitally say, oh, that's where the ball should be spotted.
Speaker 9: As of this moment, the human element is still involved
Speaker 9: with spotting it out. Okay, they're going to still discuss that,
Speaker 9: but basically they're going to use the technology to determine
Speaker 9: whether something was a first.
Speaker 3: Down or Okay.
Speaker 2: Dean Blandino, the former head of officials, will join us
Speaker 2: coming up next hour.
Speaker 7: Yes, funny because then that implies that the problem was
Speaker 7: really the chains, which I'm.
Speaker 3: Quite sure it's not.
Speaker 7: It's really where the ball is spotted is probably the
Speaker 7: most important thing.
Speaker 3: Three inches this way, three inches that way. That's really
Speaker 3: the whole Yeah, the whole game.
Speaker 2: See, I thought they're going to have something digitally to
Speaker 2: help us spot the ball.
Speaker 3: These chains are never accurate. I know, those poor.
Speaker 2: Guys over there getting you know, seven to fifty an
Speaker 2: hour and they get to hold a chain and then
Speaker 2: they could get blasted by a football player going out
Speaker 2: of bounds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 8: According to this article I'm reading, the first step is
Speaker 8: the digital chains, and then the next step down the
Speaker 8: road is the spot and the ball of some way
Speaker 8: being digitally spotted, so one has to happen first and
Speaker 8: then the other one happened.
Speaker 2: We were wondering about the Hawkeye Albert Bert the tennis
Speaker 2: you know, the digital spotting of the tennis ball. It
Speaker 2: first appeared in two thousand and five in a tournament
Speaker 2: in London, and that's first time we had that in tennis.
Speaker 2: But in tennis, you know, there's not bodies all over
Speaker 2: the place. It's either in or out.
Speaker 3: In or out.
Speaker 2: They got that from us. They did something to play
Speaker 2: in or out. All right, So we have our poll
Speaker 2: question today. We get some phone calls here as well,
Speaker 2: Zach and Knoxville leads us off. Good morning, Zach, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 12: ADP, thanks for taking my call. One just want to say,
Speaker 12: if if those are the stats of the day that
Speaker 12: made it on air, then I feel bad for Tyler
Speaker 12: for having to listen to the ones that aren't going
Speaker 12: to make it. But anyways, yesterday when you had Ryan
Speaker 12: Leaf on for that brief moment, y'all got into whether
Speaker 12: Dion would have any poll and where s your door
Speaker 12: would end up? And I thought it was kind of
Speaker 12: interesting his comment of he's not they're not the Mannings
Speaker 12: or he's not Archie, And I just wonder.
Speaker 5: Does the rest of the league feel that way?
Speaker 12: And how do you think that we'll play out with
Speaker 12: Dion's influence on where Sor ends up.
Speaker 2: Well, he did tell me that at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: He said he's already reached down to teams, so he's
Speaker 2: probably going to try to influence teams steer his you know,
Speaker 2: his son to a certain team or away from a
Speaker 2: certain team.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just I was kind of surprised that Dion admitted
Speaker 2: that that he's already reached out to a couple of
Speaker 2: teams at the top of the draft. Now, what kind
Speaker 2: of influence If Dion's calling me and he says, hey,
Speaker 2: don't draft him, he's not coming here, Well, where's he going?
Speaker 2: He's not going to Europe? Oh he you know whatever, whatever,
Speaker 2: it's going to be all he'll be a problem or
Speaker 2: we'll make it a problem. I don't know if Dion
Speaker 2: is going to get to that level, But it feels
Speaker 2: like there's certain teams or a certain team he wants
Speaker 2: his son to play for. Does he want his son
Speaker 2: to go to the Cleveland Browns? Does he not want
Speaker 2: his son to go to the Cleveland Browns. Does he
Speaker 2: want him to go to the Giants? Does he want
Speaker 2: him to go to the Raiders. I think we're gonna
Speaker 2: we'll eventually find out first of all where he's going
Speaker 2: or who wants him and if teams will, you know,
Speaker 2: be truthful and say, look, Dion said he doesn't want
Speaker 2: to play for you. It's hard to keep a secret,
Speaker 2: certainly with the NFL because there's so many reporters insiders.
Speaker 2: But if there is something there sort of nefarious, then
Speaker 2: maybe ab'll surface. Let's see. And by the way, I
Speaker 2: purposely didn't ask Albert Brier about the tush push. I
Speaker 2: had to take one hour off from the tush. I
Speaker 2: am tushed out totally. I am so tushed out. And
Speaker 2: as my wife will say, you have no tush.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know? Can we push you to know again?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Next hour all ask Dean Blandino, head of the Officials,
Speaker 2: former head of the Officials. We'll talk about the Bush
Speaker 2: Andrew and Washington High Andrew.
Speaker 14: Good morning, Dan, and that's I just had a real
Speaker 14: quick thing on Genie been.
Speaker 5: In the NFL and maybe a satura the day.
Speaker 14: But I just remember it most for Agent Rupert Anderson
Speaker 14: in Mississippi burning. I just remember that movie putting into
Speaker 14: light the actual situations of small town southern cities throughout
Speaker 14: the throughout that time, and so it really brought it
Speaker 14: to life for me.
Speaker 3: But I remember in that.
Speaker 5: Role most NFL.
Speaker 14: I don't know why they just won't go to electronic
Speaker 14: you know, marking without the chain gangs. I don't know
Speaker 14: if they think it's fun, like you said, just kind
Speaker 14: of marching out there and doing that. Why are they
Speaker 14: only using it for first downs if they have the
Speaker 14: full technology to do it for every down? And my
Speaker 14: stat of the day, I'll take your advice. It won't
Speaker 14: be hard today. Doke hast eight conference wins by twenty
Speaker 14: five points or more and that is an all time
Speaker 14: record for an ACC season. That's your stat of the days.
Speaker 4: It's just a day. It's just as Saturn of the day.
Speaker 3: It's just a it's just assassins of day, no video.
Speaker 2: Clip, just a click trip down them.
Speaker 3: They just yes.
Speaker 8: Does it sound like something Usher may put together?
Speaker 3: No, it does not.
Speaker 7: That doesn't sound anything like anything Elsher wouldever even be associated.
Speaker 3: A little intro. We'd like to apologize, Yes, mister Usher,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Paul's comments do not speak for the group retracted. Retracted. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just it's.
Speaker 2: Just's hour two on the way, Miss Thursday. Get more
Speaker 2: of your phone calls. We'll talk to Dean Blandino, former
Speaker 2: head of NFL officials. Oh, we're back after this