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Speaker 2: hour from now. Speaking of Kevin Durant going over thirty
Speaker 2: thousand points, I think it's a slight when we just
Speaker 2: say he's one of the greatest scores of all time.
Speaker 2: He's one of the greatest players of all time. Here
Speaker 2: is Kevin Durant after the game last night on the
Speaker 2: players that inspired him.
Speaker 3: I stole so much from Derek and Keen.
Speaker 4: That is criminal, you know.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it might have been a little bit more
Speaker 3: athletic on my one legger than Derk, but he is,
Speaker 3: He's the king, He's the god it as so. I've
Speaker 3: just always been inspired by a rates, always wanted to
Speaker 3: reach their level. It's an exciting time to be NBA players,
Speaker 3: especially the time that I came up, it was so
Speaker 3: many game changing players that kind of defied the norms
Speaker 3: as players, and those two were some of the guys
Speaker 3: that did that. So I've always been inspired by those
Speaker 3: guys and to be in that company, man, it's just surreal.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. Dirk was probably KD before KD that
Speaker 2: you couldn't stop him. He had great range. Now he
Speaker 2: didn't have the handle that KD and wasn't a better
Speaker 2: all around player or that kind of player. He was
Speaker 2: just a score. Dirk was going to score on you.
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Speaker 5: To find the right way to word this, uh to
Speaker 5: make it most interesting. But is calling Kevin Durant a
Speaker 5: great scorer insulting?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say insulting as much as it's it's it's
Speaker 2: not a true compliment. And maybe we're maybe it's a
Speaker 2: slight maybe maybe it's semantics here. It just doesn't feel
Speaker 2: like we're taking in the totality of his game, which
Speaker 2: is unfortunate because but I think we've always focused on
Speaker 2: Kevin Durantis's score. I don't think you ever go maybe
Speaker 2: he's a pretty good passer or he can play some defense.
Speaker 5: Well, when we talk about him, it's like you can't
Speaker 5: really stop his shot, right, I mean, the only way
Speaker 5: that you're going to stop it is if he just misses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, although he's had his shot blocked a couple of
Speaker 2: times and I was surprised, but that kind of you know,
Speaker 2: arm length over seven feet, and I thought, has his
Speaker 2: shot his jumper ever been blocked? And I think there's
Speaker 2: a kid with the Portland Trailblazers who might have gotten
Speaker 2: him maybe last last year. There is a stat of
Speaker 2: guys who have blocked Durance jumper, which I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: that many and that might be five or six in
Speaker 2: NBA history, But still that shot like Joker. Has Jokers
Speaker 2: jumper ever gotten blocked? Unless it's from behind that you're
Speaker 2: gonna block it. Vincent Goodwill has all the answers. Yahoo
Speaker 2: Sports senior NBA writer and host of The Good Word podcast.
Speaker 2: Is it a slight to say Kevin Durantz one of
Speaker 2: the greatest scorers of all time, it's about a slight Dan.
Speaker 6: It's just limiting, you know what I mean. Like when
Speaker 6: you say someone's a great score, you're saying that's.
Speaker 4: The only thing that they're great at.
Speaker 6: Like when I say Carmelo Anthony is a great score,
Speaker 6: that's like the first thing that you think of. And
Speaker 6: this if you take a while before you go to
Speaker 6: maybe the other things of this game. And I'm not
Speaker 6: insulting Carmelo in any way, but you think of Carmelo
Speaker 6: as the first, as a great scorer first and foremost,
Speaker 6: you think of kd Or you should think of kat
Speaker 6: as one of the greatest all around players this league
Speaker 6: has ever seen. Unfortunately, in the era of Lebron James
Speaker 6: and Stephen Curry, you tend to limit him or discuss
Speaker 6: him in other ways a lot of times that have
Speaker 6: nothing to do with basketball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think with Steph Curry, he's the greatest
Speaker 2: shooter of all time. I don't think we talk about
Speaker 2: anything else with him. Now, granted that's a great compliment,
Speaker 2: but if I said Steph Curry one of the greatest
Speaker 2: scorers of all time, that would be accurate because he's
Speaker 2: not known for anything else other than being the greatest
Speaker 2: shooter in the history of the game.
Speaker 6: I agree, and it's weird. You know what's funny is
Speaker 6: because we don't think about shooters being great players in
Speaker 6: that way when you think maybe aside from Larry Bird,
Speaker 6: but when you thought of great shooters, you think of
Speaker 6: guys that have like a specialized skill, like a Dale
Speaker 6: Ellis or someone like that that's just a three point
Speaker 6: shooter only I almost like a field goal kick in a
Speaker 6: way in football. But Steph has sort of revolutionized it
Speaker 6: in a way that he is a great scorer, and
Speaker 6: he is a great shooter, the great shooter we've ever seen,
Speaker 6: but there's so many other different parts and different fascets
Speaker 6: to his game. I think with someone like Kad the
Speaker 6: conversation is so convoluted and a lot of times unfair
Speaker 6: when it comes to Kevin Durant that we're always looking
Speaker 6: for the slight when someone calls him a great score,
Speaker 6: we're saying, wait a minute, what about the other parts
Speaker 6: of this game?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: Like for me, Dan, I thought Kevin Durant became the
Speaker 6: league's best player in twenty fourteen when he became the
Speaker 6: best defensive player between himself and Lebron James, except we
Speaker 6: never thought about Kevin Durant in that way. We short
Speaker 6: ourselves and we shot him in a way that we
Speaker 6: discuss him. And now that he's on the back end
Speaker 6: of his career, now we're starting to hopefully acknowledge and
Speaker 6: see all the great parts of his game.
Speaker 2: Okay, how about we look at this down the road
Speaker 2: when their careers are over with. Who will be recognized
Speaker 2: as a better player, Steph Curry or Kevin Durant.
Speaker 6: That's an excellent, excellent question, man. I think Steph Curry
Speaker 6: won that championship in twenty twenty two put him over
Speaker 6: the top of Kevin Durant. I think, unfortunately this Rings culture.
Speaker 6: I don't subscribe to Rings culture in that sort of
Speaker 6: direct way, but I do think that stepsibility to lead
Speaker 6: a franchise, to stay with a franchise, to stick it
Speaker 6: out with a franchise, compared to KD, who's been a
Speaker 6: little bit more mercenary, that's going to be something that
Speaker 6: people look at as a demerit. I think it's a
Speaker 6: basketball player Kevin Durant because of what he does defensively,
Speaker 6: he's a better all around player and stuff.
Speaker 2: Let's look at the post trade deadline, Jimmy Butler's contribution
Speaker 2: impact at Golden State and Lucas with the Lakers. Which
Speaker 2: team do you think goes further due to these two editions.
Speaker 6: I think Jimmy Butler makes a bigger impact with the
Speaker 6: Golden State Warriors, but that's because the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 6: have such a long way to go relative to the Lakers.
Speaker 6: Like the Lakers were on a roll up until this trade,
Speaker 6: and part of that has been the schedule lighting up
Speaker 6: and Lebron coming off of his sabbatical, if that's what we're.
Speaker 4: Going to call it.
Speaker 6: He's coming back from that with both fresh sheet of
Speaker 6: legs and everything else. I think Luca is a little
Speaker 6: bit more duplication. He just does it at a higher level,
Speaker 6: and he probably has the stamina to do it for
Speaker 6: longer stretches of time than Lebron does at this stage
Speaker 6: of his career. But I don't see the Lakers having
Speaker 6: enough actual functional size and defense on the back line
Speaker 6: to make a real impact in the playoffs. I know
Speaker 6: that they've won a lot of games, and I think they're,
Speaker 6: you know, a game and a half and the lost
Speaker 6: column of being like third in the West or second
Speaker 6: in the West or whatever it is. But I still
Speaker 6: think that size gets it done when you're talking about
Speaker 6: playing a full seven game series. Now, when I look
Speaker 6: at Golden State, they're used to playing small and you
Speaker 6: have someone in Draymond Green on the back line. Steph
Speaker 6: Curry has not played with a guy who can create
Speaker 6: his own shots at an elite level. Spencey's played with
Speaker 6: Kevin Durant and that was in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Was the last year those guys played together.
Speaker 6: I'm very curious to see how those two guys mesh,
Speaker 6: you know, Katie and Katy, Jimmy going to the bucket
Speaker 6: and being able to be passed first, and Steph being
Speaker 6: able to roam around on the perimeter having someone create
Speaker 6: shots for him.
Speaker 2: That could be scary. Dan Patrick, Vincent Goodwill y'allhoo's sports
Speaker 2: senior NBA writer, host of The Good Word podcast. You
Speaker 2: know a story that's kind of gone under the radar.
Speaker 2: You know, Utah's tanking, Washington's tanking. Are the Pelicans tanking?
Speaker 2: Are they just bad?
Speaker 6: They're confident, they're not trying to be bad. Dan, Some look,
Speaker 6: when you're in the luxury tax, you ain't in a
Speaker 6: luxury tax because you're trying to tank. This is not
Speaker 6: a stealth tank job on the Pelicans part, Like, yeah,
Speaker 6: they traded Brandon Ingram, but they were expecting Zion whims
Speaker 6: And to be good this year. They acquired the John
Speaker 6: Tate Murray because they wanted to make a run, like
Speaker 6: on December one of last season, not December first of
Speaker 6: this season. They were the best team in the Western
Speaker 6: Conference and they were looking at it saying, if we
Speaker 6: get healthy, if we stay healthy, we're going to be
Speaker 6: able to make some real noise because of the youth
Speaker 6: and the defense in some of the athleticism that we have.
Speaker 6: It just hasn't worked and they're bad. And unfortunately for
Speaker 6: New Orleans, I feel like they're going to have to
Speaker 6: part ways with Zion Williams and after the season. And
Speaker 6: it's not to say that Zion can't turn it around.
Speaker 6: It's just that it feels like that relationship is going
Speaker 6: sour and those sides cannot go on. So I don't
Speaker 6: think this is by design. They were not intending to
Speaker 6: be bad. David Griffin thought he was going to put
Speaker 6: together eighteen that was going to compete in the Western
Speaker 6: Conference this year.
Speaker 2: So the coach didn't talk After the last game, the
Speaker 2: fans booed the new team governor, the former owner told
Speaker 2: fans to shut the bleep up. Fans got tossed for
Speaker 2: signs saying fire Nico, and the team lost to Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Other than that, it's seems like is Tim Kashaws tweeted out,
Speaker 2: everything's going well in Dallas.
Speaker 6: Everything's going swimmingly there. Look, then we can all adjudicate
Speaker 6: the Luka Donci's trade, right, And I'm not one of
Speaker 6: those people that cause it the worst trade of all time,
Speaker 6: like when they say they traded for ad I think
Speaker 6: there are people are trying to say that they traded
Speaker 6: for Antonio Davis in nineteen ninety four or something like that,
Speaker 6: like Anthony Davis is one of the top ten players
Speaker 6: in basketball. But I think that it's been a stroke
Speaker 6: of bad luck for a franchise that is so connected
Speaker 6: to Luke. They're more connected to Luka Doncic than they
Speaker 6: were to the actual Dallas Mavericks. And that's something that
Speaker 6: you generally dan incorporate with losers. Like I'm gonna tell
Speaker 6: you a quick story. I was a fan of the
Speaker 6: Detroit Lions and then July twenty seventh, nineteen ninety nine happened,
Speaker 6: and I was no longer a fan of the Detroit
Speaker 6: Lions and I have not gone back since. Why because
Speaker 6: they were losers and then when they made Barry Sanders
Speaker 6: quick I quit them. Dallas has won a championship and
Speaker 6: they went to the finals. Those fans should not be bailing,
Speaker 6: even though I understand their anger and frustration, but this
Speaker 6: is a bit shocking the reaction from everyone that's he
Speaker 6: That's a bit wild to me.
Speaker 2: If you gave Nico a do over a mulligan right
Speaker 2: now today.
Speaker 6: I think given the fact that we don't know the
Speaker 6: extent of Anthony Davis's injury, this core muscle injury that
Speaker 6: he has, you might give him a mulligan based off
Speaker 6: of that, not necessarily based off of the reaction. Usually
Speaker 6: you can ride off the reaction, and I think he
Speaker 6: was confident enough to say, we've got some bigs here
Speaker 6: that can really make some things happen in the Western
Speaker 6: Conference if we get them all healthy and upright. I
Speaker 6: don't think you. I don't think people as strong minded
Speaker 6: as Nico Harrison are going to be swayed that quickly
Speaker 6: because of the reaction. He could be swayed because of
Speaker 6: Anthony Davis's health, not because everybody is so heartbroken and
Speaker 6: betrayed over lukadotics.
Speaker 2: Always great to talk to you, Vincent. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 6: Next time I'll be on video, Dan.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's what our audience wants. The ladies love that.
Speaker 2: The ladies want that.
Speaker 6: Don't get me in trouble, Maren.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, because I was going to say, Vincent, Goodwill hunting,
Speaker 2: but you're not. You're in love, right, I'm the love doctor,
Speaker 2: no more.
Speaker 6: Just just gonna say that, I'm the love doctor, no more.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Vincent, Vincent Goodwill, yahoos sports senior NBA writer,
Speaker 2: host of The Good Word podcast, Chris and Maryland. Hi, Chris,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 6: Dan?
Speaker 2: What's going on? Hey?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 8: I called to collect on my football.
Speaker 4: Bet if that's okay.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: So before the season, you may recall I bet you
Speaker 8: that the Chargers were going to finish is the five
Speaker 8: seeds in the playoffs, and they did, and despite their flameout,
Speaker 8: the deal was that if they finished this the five
Speaker 8: you all would send me a color photocopy of the
Speaker 8: Simpsons poster signed. So if that's still good, I want
Speaker 8: to collect on the beat. But because you all are
Speaker 8: such an important part of our morning here at our house,
Speaker 8: I still would like to send you some meat, which
Speaker 8: is what I was going to do if I lost.
Speaker 2: Sure. I'll see what I can do with the Simpsons.
Speaker 2: I don't know how we get that done, though, I'll
Speaker 2: work on that, Chris. I never thought I was going
Speaker 2: to have to make good on that, but Tyler will
Speaker 2: take your information. I'll let you know if we can
Speaker 2: pull that off, because we have the Simpsons art you know,
Speaker 2: the artwork there, a poster and with all of us there,
Speaker 2: so if we can make I don't know if I
Speaker 2: can make a copy of that. That's just the only
Speaker 2: thing with the Simpsons. I don't know how that works there.
Speaker 2: I'll get some of my best people on it. But
Speaker 2: thank you, Chris. All right, we'll take a break. He's
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Speaker 2: I don't know what he does for his twenty third birthday,
Speaker 2: but his twenty second birthday was pretty cool. Cooper de Jean,
Speaker 2: the Eagles defensive back, had to pick six as the
Speaker 2: Eagles win the Super Bowl. They got the parade coming
Speaker 2: up on Friday. How much sleep since Sunday, Coop?
Speaker 4: Not a whole lot, Not a whole lot.
Speaker 11: I've been trying to catch up a little bit, but
Speaker 11: I've gotten I've gotten very little sleep these past few days.
Speaker 2: How was the after party?
Speaker 4: It was awesome. It was awesome. It's a lot better
Speaker 4: when you win.
Speaker 2: Who is who is the MVP of the after party?
Speaker 4: That's a good question.
Speaker 11: There was a there's quite a few guys that were
Speaker 11: having to having good time at the after party.
Speaker 2: Well, you're just old enough to drink now now that
Speaker 2: you're twenty two, So did you Did you celebrate as
Speaker 2: well with these guys?
Speaker 4: Of course, of course I celebrate.
Speaker 11: I had to had to celebrate winning a world championship
Speaker 11: and on my birthday, so I had to celebrate.
Speaker 2: The defensive game plan of not blitching. Was that discussed
Speaker 2: prior to the game, that that was going to be
Speaker 2: the game plan? That nobody is going after mahomes other
Speaker 2: than your front four.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I think that's that's the way we
Speaker 11: practiced all week. It's just to play our coverage like
Speaker 11: we like we've done all year. Obviously we've blitz a
Speaker 11: little bit this year, but I think, you know, we
Speaker 11: we work really well together in the back end the
Speaker 11: way we plays on coverage and the way we match routes,
Speaker 11: and you know, it's it makes it easy on on
Speaker 11: the back end when you know you got a D
Speaker 11: line up front, that's that gets pressure without without having
Speaker 11: to you know, plits the quarterback.
Speaker 2: What was your job? What was your role in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl?
Speaker 11: I mean, just to disrupt timing and you know, packing
Speaker 11: zones and make create tight windows for the quarterback, you know,
Speaker 11: disrupt timing from the receiivers getting off the getting off
Speaker 11: the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: You know, try to give our D line as much time.
Speaker 11: To get to the quarterback, you know, and then and
Speaker 11: then packing those zones, you know, and switch up the
Speaker 11: picture on the quarterback and you know, make him have
Speaker 11: to make him have to play quarterback.
Speaker 2: What did you show my homes or that maybe he
Speaker 2: didn't see on your pick six?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we were We were playing uh zone
Speaker 4: coverage and you know.
Speaker 11: The way we played it, it was I was kind
Speaker 11: of playing off Zach in front of me, and he
Speaker 11: actually actually ran to the flat, which was my responsibility,
Speaker 11: and it allowed me to fall back inside. But I think,
Speaker 11: I think that's just how it's been all year, just
Speaker 11: us playing off of each other. And I saw him
Speaker 11: go out there to the flat, and I was able
Speaker 11: to fall back inside and got to be a free
Speaker 11: player and just read the quarterback and able to pick
Speaker 11: the ball off.
Speaker 2: When did you start thinking end zone?
Speaker 11: Right when I caught the ball. Every time I touched
Speaker 11: the ball, I want to score. You know, It's it's
Speaker 11: been that way since as long as I remember playing football.
Speaker 11: So but luckily I got some got some blocks out
Speaker 11: there from the big guys up up front.
Speaker 4: Threw me some blocks and found my way in to
Speaker 4: the end zone.
Speaker 2: Did you keep the ball?
Speaker 4: Of course? Of course.
Speaker 2: I Sometimes you get too excited and you might, you know,
Speaker 2: be spiking it or something and then teammate has to
Speaker 2: grab it or something. But look, this isn't normal like
Speaker 2: your age Super Bowl going against Mahomes six. I mean,
Speaker 2: how do you how do you process that of where
Speaker 2: you were, where you were drafted and uh, here you are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I mean, I don't think I processed it yet.
Speaker 11: Yeah, three and a half years ago, I was in
Speaker 11: high school and I'm playing on on the biggest stage
Speaker 11: in football in the super Bowl, and I think it's
Speaker 11: just a lot of credit to the people who've helped
Speaker 11: me along along the way.
Speaker 2: You didn't have a Mahomes poster on your wall growing up,
Speaker 2: did you?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 11: I did watch him. You haven't haven't played quarterback? You know,
Speaker 11: I did watch him quite a bit growing up.
Speaker 2: But did you talk to him at all? Have you
Speaker 2: talked to Mahomes after the game?
Speaker 12: I haven't.
Speaker 4: No, I haven't.
Speaker 6: I have it.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. Yeah, I haven't talked to him.
Speaker 2: And I wouldn't ask him to sign the football. I'd
Speaker 2: wait a little while before you do something like that.
Speaker 2: Take me into halftime. What was it like, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean a lot of a lot of focus.
Speaker 11: I think, you know, I think everybody understood that the
Speaker 11: game wasn't over because you know, we understood who you
Speaker 11: know who, who they were on.
Speaker 4: On that side.
Speaker 11: You know their their offense and what they're capable of,
Speaker 11: their quarterback, their offense. How explosive it is and you know,
Speaker 11: so we knew, we knew it wasn't finished, you know,
Speaker 11: at halftime, and you know we had to you know,
Speaker 11: we had to go out there and you know put
Speaker 11: it away in that second half.
Speaker 2: When did you know the game was over?
Speaker 11: That's I mean, I don't know if I really crossed
Speaker 11: my mind until it was later in that in that
Speaker 11: fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Like thirty four to nothing, I think you feel pretty safe,
Speaker 2: don't you.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 11: Then I think we gave up We give up a touchdown,
Speaker 11: So I mean I was I was still a little
Speaker 11: a little nervous. I didn't want to, you know, say
Speaker 11: it was over yet, but there's there was definitely a
Speaker 11: lot of a lot of confidence when we got when
Speaker 11: we went up thirty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that you guys should put the score
Speaker 2: forty to six on your ring because those last two
Speaker 2: touchdowns they really don't count. I mean, it was an
Speaker 2: incredible defensive performance, but you gave up a couple of
Speaker 2: garbage touchdowns. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think the way our defensive played, we just
Speaker 11: we just continue to get better over the year, and
Speaker 11: you know, the performers that we put out there, you know,
Speaker 11: in the super Bowl on the biggest stage I don't
Speaker 11: think it's a surprise to any of us, you know,
Speaker 11: the work we put it in, you know, throughout the
Speaker 11: whole year, throughout practice, and then just going out there
Speaker 11: and do our doing, doing our thing, what we've done
Speaker 11: all year.
Speaker 2: The number of people lived in your hometown is what
Speaker 2: A thousand?
Speaker 4: This? Hundred thousand?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, yep. Do you get a statue in your hometown?
Speaker 2: Is there any talk of a Cooper to Gene statue?
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't think there's any talk of that,
Speaker 4: uh not that I've earned, at least that I've heard.
Speaker 2: Well, we should start that. Where is anybody more famous
Speaker 2: in your hometown?
Speaker 4: I mean not, not that I know of.
Speaker 11: I don't know if there's I don't know if there's
Speaker 11: any any professional athletes from from my hometown.
Speaker 2: A thousand people. You got a traffic light in your hometown? No?
Speaker 2: Why don't you? Why don't you have one installed? Like
Speaker 2: you could have the Cooper to g And you gotta
Speaker 2: have something in there the Cooper to g Maybe a
Speaker 2: park bench, maybe a traffic light, uh stop something yeah,
Speaker 2: your defense, I mean stop. I think that would be
Speaker 2: a By the way, if I get a slam dunk
Speaker 2: contest for NFL players. How do you think you do?
Speaker 4: You know, I got a couple of couple of tricks
Speaker 4: in my bag that I could do. I don't.
Speaker 11: I haven't played basketball in a while, so I probably
Speaker 11: need a little bit of practice, But I think I could.
Speaker 4: I could compete a little bit.
Speaker 2: What's your go to.
Speaker 4: Go to? Man? Probably just a windmill.
Speaker 11: Maybe something off the side of the backboard, could be
Speaker 11: something off the glass.
Speaker 4: Three sixty, three sixty. That's some ideas.
Speaker 2: I think we should get this together and maybe I
Speaker 2: could work on this. I got to work on a
Speaker 2: statue for you in a slam done contest with NFL players. Congrats,
Speaker 2: a great moment for you, certainly for your family and
Speaker 2: your hometown as well, and thanks for joining us. Be
Speaker 2: careful with the parade on Friday, Cooper.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, be careful.
Speaker 2: Be careful. Cooper to Jean the Eagles defensive bank. Not
Speaker 2: a bad birthday. So Saquan's birthday same day and he
Speaker 2: gets the pick six there. Yeah, I would steer clear
Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania on Friday. The parade going on there in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 14: Is that the one seed of Super Bowl parades that
Speaker 14: could get squarely for lack of a better.
Speaker 2: Well, well, it feels like anytime hockey has a parade
Speaker 2: that that would be the number one seed. I was
Speaker 2: in Vancouver many, many, many years ago when Vancouver lost
Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup Final, and I felt lucky to get
Speaker 2: out of the arena, out of the city and go
Speaker 2: to the airport that was That was a little bit scary. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you never factored that in. Yeah, And I understand when
Speaker 2: you lose you might be upset. It's when you win
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden you're turning over cars
Speaker 2: and you're tearing down light pole like I never understood
Speaker 2: that you won. You won, Yes, Dodd.
Speaker 15: Did you ever do anything or near somebody that all
Speaker 15: of a sudden their behavior changed dramatically because of that
Speaker 15: mob mentality? Some someone that would normally not behave that
Speaker 15: way gets caught up in the moment starts doing things
Speaker 15: you would never expect you. I have had some friends that,
Speaker 15: like I never thought would just kind of get rowdy,
Speaker 15: you know, like at a party, or they just kind
Speaker 15: of trying to be like everyone else and doing you know,
Speaker 15: this questionable behavior.
Speaker 2: What did you do?
Speaker 13: We're at a party and.
Speaker 15: Like people of friends of mind that I didn't realize
Speaker 15: drink or maybe I hadn't before had one too many,
Speaker 15: and they're just kind of jumping around and kind of
Speaker 15: in someone's house and borderline breaking stuff. And like when someone's.
Speaker 5: Happen borderline breaking stuff.
Speaker 15: Banging into like you know, furniture and what looks like
Speaker 15: expensive objects in this kid's parents house. To me, that's
Speaker 15: a wild time.
Speaker 14: How does that come to a parade with thousands and
Speaker 14: thousands of people?
Speaker 15: I'm talking about mob mentality in journal like that?
Speaker 2: Why is it I don't throwing a car windows.
Speaker 5: Billy just banged into something that looks very expensive.
Speaker 13: That's crazy. That coffee table is almost broken.
Speaker 2: Just knock three books up to this show. We're going
Speaker 2: to borderline break some stuff here.
Speaker 13: Put a coaster down, you could leave a ring.
Speaker 2: Who's with me?
Speaker 13: How to put the sink?
Speaker 15: You could just leave it on the floor.
Speaker 2: So I was gonna step on Wow, Yeah, I see.
Speaker 5: I did do a run in Morgantown, West Virginia, which
Speaker 5: might as well at some point been an epicenter of
Speaker 5: mob mentality. And it is crazy how you could think
Speaker 5: that things like you know, keg bowling or burning couches
Speaker 5: is just kind of what you do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like, no, it's normal.
Speaker 4: This is what.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's get all of these empty kegs. Let's put
Speaker 5: them at the bottom of this gigantic hill and then
Speaker 5: we'll get another empty keg and roll it down from
Speaker 5: the top of High Street all the way down to see.
Speaker 5: Let's see if we could hit any of them. And
Speaker 5: it turns into just a projectile. It seemed like a
Speaker 5: good idea at the time.
Speaker 2: Every time Dayton would beat Notre Dame in basketball, they
Speaker 2: would burn couches, which I don't know why because then
Speaker 2: you need a new couch. But you would go into
Speaker 2: this part of the campus and there would just be
Speaker 2: couches burning and they were celebrating, and I just thought, God,
Speaker 2: that's dumb. Now you don't have a couch, so it'd
Speaker 2: be out there on fire after you beat Notre Dame. Marvin,
Speaker 2: did you ever do anything crazy after the Yukon Huskies
Speaker 2: won national championships.
Speaker 16: No, it was a lot of people watching though, and
Speaker 16: like you said, a lot of people burning couches. Obviously
Speaker 16: everywhere outside of stores Connecticut. The Yukon campus itself, it's
Speaker 16: pretty tame. It's on a farm. Yeah, But when Yukon
Speaker 16: was in the final four. All bets were off.
Speaker 2: PAULI, did you do anything suspicious.
Speaker 14: Around a parade or a celebration? I was around in
Speaker 14: Chicago door manning when the Bulls won. There's a lot
Speaker 14: of people who left their cars on Rush Street, and
Speaker 14: they should know because they're going to get ripped up
Speaker 14: turned over. I didn't participate, but I saw it. It was
Speaker 14: there's some rough stuff with the cars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's certain Well, I just saw the celebration in
Speaker 2: Philadelphia after they won the Super Bowl. I think they
Speaker 2: stole two garbage trucks and they were bringing down light poles.
Speaker 2: I believe maybe police car got turned over. Hopefully, hopefully
Speaker 2: tomorrow or Friday will be respectable.
Speaker 14: Maybe it's a Friday though I know, easy day off work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably best that it's on a Friday. That
Speaker 2: gives you Saturday and Sunday to recuperate. Yes, Tom, has
Speaker 2: it become a.
Speaker 15: I still can't understand. I'm no psychiatrist. Psychologists a free
Speaker 15: for all of lawlessness, Like you now have a certain
Speaker 15: period of time where you can just do nearly anything
Speaker 15: because your team won a championship. Like what would go
Speaker 15: in someone's mind to think that now it's okay. Somebody
Speaker 15: that's against the law is okay for the next few hours.
Speaker 2: I don't know what goes into their mind. I know
Speaker 2: what goes into their body. It's called alcohol. That you
Speaker 2: see is what is the great enhancer?
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 2: Dale and Iowa, Iowa. That's Dale in Iowa Ideal.
Speaker 17: Hey, Dan, I just caught your interview with Cooper Degen.
Speaker 17: And by the way, his hometown is Old the Bolt,
Speaker 17: which is up up in that area of the state.
Speaker 17: And yeah, I think they got grain elevators in a
Speaker 17: railroad crossing.
Speaker 6: But that's it.
Speaker 17: But the one thing that hit me was during that
Speaker 17: whole thing, Cooper Degene was the one last year against
Speaker 17: Minnesota that took that pump return late in the fourth
Speaker 17: quarter for a touchdown that was ruled in valid.
Speaker 2: Fair catch yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When he would make an interception a turnover, he was
Speaker 2: planning on taking it back for a touchdown. Zach and Knoxville, Hi, Zach,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 12: A DP, Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 12: As far as the Cooper Dejene stuff, maybe we can.
Speaker 7: Put in a four way intersection there in his hometown,
Speaker 7: and if he wins another Super Bowl, we put in
Speaker 7: a stoplight, okay, but.
Speaker 12: And Christian Tennessee. He said that you can't.
Speaker 7: Compare other eras and other teams and things like that.
Speaker 7: So I hate that your show is supposed to go
Speaker 7: for another three and a half years. But I thought
Speaker 7: that was the whole premise of sports talk radio. I'll
Speaker 7: hang up and listen right.
Speaker 2: It's not three and a half years. It's less than
Speaker 2: three years. But I enjoy the conversation. And what I
Speaker 2: love is I'm able to bring back names that maybe
Speaker 2: you don't factor in, or that maybe you didn't get
Speaker 2: a chance to see, having seen Doctor J in the Aba,
Speaker 2: or my first you know, Bill Walton game was his
Speaker 2: first game he ever played against leu Al Sindor or
Speaker 2: Kareem Abdul Jabbaram. I got to see Wilt play, I
Speaker 2: got to see Jerry West play. I got to see
Speaker 2: Oscar play. Bill Russell's the only modern day Hall of
Speaker 2: Famer that I don't think I got to see play.
Speaker 2: And although I did get to see the Celtics, I started.
Speaker 2: I saw the Celtics in seventies. So Dave Cowens came
Speaker 2: there in nineteen seventy and he was co Rookie of
Speaker 2: the Year with Jeff Petrie. But to see John Habilcheck play,
Speaker 2: to see games in the garden, you know, so I
Speaker 2: was very fortunate. But I like when people like Elgin Baylor,
Speaker 2: to me, is maybe the most underrated player in the
Speaker 2: history of the NBA, because nobody saw him. If you
Speaker 2: look at his numbers, you know, it's video game stuff
Speaker 2: where you're going, yeah, and he was different, like he
Speaker 2: played an athletic game and back then you did not
Speaker 2: have that. And then you couple him with Jerry West,
Speaker 2: you had two guys who are really changing the game
Speaker 2: with their athleticism. But Elgin Baylor six ' four, great
Speaker 2: great jumpers, score, rebounder, And I like that some of
Speaker 2: these players that maybe you didn't know about, maybe you
Speaker 2: just see their name in a book and maybe you know,
Speaker 2: to bring their story to life.
Speaker 14: Yeampoin, I really wish I could have seen Pete Marivitch
Speaker 14: night to night play college basketball like we saw Jimmer
Speaker 14: for a debt of a decade ago. He was averaging
Speaker 14: twenty eight, which is really impressive and it was cool.
Speaker 14: But I can't imagine a guy averaging forty four with
Speaker 14: no three point line. It's hard to even process and
Speaker 14: to be able to see at night, and that must
Speaker 14: have been amazing.
Speaker 2: Well, you knew he was getting the ball and his
Speaker 2: dad was the coach, and he was going to shoot.
Speaker 2: But we've had a couple of you know this day
Speaker 2: in sports history, Like he scored forty seven in the
Speaker 2: second half of two games I think in the same
Speaker 2: year he ended up with sixty nine points. And once again,
Speaker 2: if you had a three point shot, and I had
Speaker 2: the great LSU coach Dale Brown, I asked him if
Speaker 2: he could go back and look at the shooting charts
Speaker 2: of Pete Maravich when he played. So he did. He
Speaker 2: went back and looked at the games and the shooting charts. Now,
Speaker 2: once again they didn't have a three point shot. So
Speaker 2: he superimposed a three point line and said Pete would
Speaker 2: have averaged fifty five a game. And he's playing in
Speaker 2: the SEC and now there wasn't the integration that obviously
Speaker 2: you have now. But still Pete was playing against some
Speaker 2: pretty good teams. Kentucky was always good. But Dale said
Speaker 2: that I think Pete's final year at LSU he would
Speaker 2: average fifty five a game, factoring in the three point shot.
Speaker 2: But that's Pete was shooting. There was no three point shot.
Speaker 2: Imagine if you know, there's a three point shot. But
Speaker 2: his handle was as good as anybody who's ever played
Speaker 2: the game. Now, you can say Kyrie and you certainly
Speaker 2: have an argument, but having watched both of them, Pete
Speaker 2: did things with the basketball that you know, maybe the
Speaker 2: Globe Trotters were doing, and that's against the Washington generals.
Speaker 16: Yes, Marv, Yeah, when it comes to ball handling, he
Speaker 16: feels like that evolution chart. He feels like the first
Speaker 16: guy walking erect like because everybody else was. Yeah, look
Speaker 16: at him and he's like, nah, we gonna we're gonna shoot,
Speaker 16: We're gonna dribble like this.
Speaker 2: Well, we give Bob Coosey a lot of credit, but
Speaker 2: he was you know, in the era, he was kind
Speaker 2: of a magician with the basketball, but he was right
Speaker 2: hand dominant, but he was a creator. I mean, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of great things about Bob Cousy. Now, granted,
Speaker 2: could he play now, No, he couldn't play now. I
Speaker 2: get it. Uh, he would adapt to today, I'm guessing,
Speaker 2: but back then, the way he played, he was different
Speaker 2: than anybody else in the court, and Pete was that
Speaker 2: way too. Not everybody wanted to play with Pete because
Speaker 2: you know, he was a gunner. I think he got
Speaker 2: to the point where he was such a good score
Speaker 2: he got bored and then he started making, you know,
Speaker 2: great passes, but really a wonderful ball handler. He was
Speaker 2: just never a winner, and I think that that was
Speaker 2: something that always bothered him. He went to the Celtics
Speaker 2: late in his career because Larry Bird wanted him to
Speaker 2: go there to play with him. All right, let me
Speaker 2: take a break. More phone calls coming up, Nick Wright
Speaker 2: coming up top of the hour.
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Speaker 2: Seat and update the poll result. I'm not even sure
Speaker 2: what the poll question is for hour two of this program.
Speaker 5: We had a couple of like sort of poll questions
Speaker 5: floating around here, but we haven't really addressed the hour
Speaker 5: one pole question much biggest threat to the Eagles in
Speaker 5: the NFC. Your options are Lions, forty nine ers, commanders,
Speaker 5: let's see Buccaneers, Vikings, rams, other right now running away
Speaker 5: with that one. Fifty eight percent is the Lions, followed
Speaker 5: by the commanders. Then other has five percent.
Speaker 4: Of the vote.
Speaker 2: Who do you think the other is.
Speaker 5: That people are voting for.
Speaker 1: Dallas.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's got to be just Dallas fans though,
Speaker 5: because nobody takes that seriously.
Speaker 2: No, no, But you know, we talked about this, it's
Speaker 2: probably mid season, maybe a little earlier, when we said
Speaker 2: the Cowboys have a real problem coming up. It's kind
Speaker 2: of a good problem. Now they have to pay Dak
Speaker 2: Prescott and they were gonna have to pay CD Lamb
Speaker 2: and then they I said, they have to pay Micah Parsons.
Speaker 2: So you have three guys who are going to be
Speaker 2: top end at their position, so you better be really
Speaker 2: good in surrounding them, and that didn't go well. Michaeh.
Speaker 2: Parsons is going to get forty million dollars. He will
Speaker 2: be the highest paid non quarterback. I'm guessing when it's
Speaker 2: all set and up, Cede Lamb got top end money
Speaker 2: and Dak got top end money, they're not in a
Speaker 2: good position, even though you have one you know, looks
Speaker 2: like surefire Hall of Famer and Michael Parsons, Cede Lamb
Speaker 2: could be, and Dak has been a good quarterback in
Speaker 2: his career. But other than that, I mean, you've got
Speaker 2: to make sure that you do not miss when it
Speaker 2: comes to draft, and don't tell me you're all in
Speaker 2: when you're not all in, when you don't do anything,
Speaker 2: and you hire your coach on a Friday night.
Speaker 14: Yes, Pauline, it does seem like teams like even Tampa
Speaker 14: Bay is probably more threatening Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 13: They're solid.
Speaker 2: They made the playoffs, so sure Green.
Speaker 13: Bay eleven wins last year.
Speaker 14: Green Bay outscored their opponents by one hundred and twenty
Speaker 14: two points. The Cowboys were outscored by one hundred and
Speaker 14: twenty points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Seton.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know, watching the Super Bowl this year, for some reason,
Speaker 5: by the end of it, I was like, you know what, man,
Speaker 5: we need to save ceed Lamb. We need to get
Speaker 5: him off that team and get him into some that's
Speaker 5: going to contend because he's way too good of a
Speaker 5: player to just be languishing there.
Speaker 16: Yes, Marvin, is he next year, Sakuon Barkley that he
Speaker 16: goes to another team, Like, you know, we just got
Speaker 16: to get a great player out of a bad situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can't spend all this money on Dak
Speaker 2: and then take away his number one weapon semantics. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I think you can though.
Speaker 5: I think people do that, But then what do you
Speaker 5: going to the Chiefs let tyreek Hill go. I mean,
Speaker 5: I granted you still had Kelsey, but well they have
Speaker 5: a better quarterback. And that was a prett shocking move though. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but it was a running back the wide receiver. Everybody's
Speaker 5: looking for those guys running back. You know, we were
Speaker 5: devaluing them.
Speaker 2: And I'm curious to see what happens in the draft
Speaker 2: if all of a sudden teams go you know, on
Speaker 2: second thought, we might go a little higher for a
Speaker 2: running back. Diane or Russini, she works for the Athletics.
Speaker 2: She's an NFL reporter and the Scoop City podcast with
Speaker 2: Chase Daniel, and she had this to say about Aaron Rodgers'
Speaker 2: situation with the Jets When they.
Speaker 18: Had conversations with Aaron Rodgers about what the future would
Speaker 18: look like. If you're going to be part of this team,
Speaker 18: you're going to attend all the trading camp, You're not
Speaker 18: going to do Pat McAfee interviews anymore.
Speaker 13: Wait, they said that.
Speaker 18: Yeah, if you were to stay here, here's how we
Speaker 18: would want.
Speaker 5: It to be.
Speaker 18: So this to me is Aaron Glenn getting control back.
Speaker 14: So do you think that if he would have agreed
Speaker 14: to not do that stuff, that he would have been
Speaker 14: their quarterback.
Speaker 18: I think that no matter what the Jets were going
Speaker 18: to say, Aaron Rodgers wanted to move on.
Speaker 2: Well, he did come back to talk to them, so
Speaker 2: I don't know if he clearly wanted to move on,
Speaker 2: because if that's the case, are you really going to
Speaker 2: go out of your way and fly back to talk
Speaker 2: to the Jets. I think Aaron Glenn did the right decision,
Speaker 2: you know, made the right decision. Move on from him,
Speaker 2: but giving the audience out of respect. But you're going
Speaker 2: to tell him not to be on McAfee. He's got
Speaker 2: to be here for all the you know, off season workouts.
Speaker 2: I mean, okay, you know the McAfee thing. I don't
Speaker 2: know how much you know, how many fires they were
Speaker 2: putting out because of that, But McAfee's paying in whatever,
Speaker 2: a million dollars. You're not going to walk away from that.
Speaker 2: It's not like Aaron was doing it just out of
Speaker 2: the goodness of his heart. He was being paid to
Speaker 2: do that. But I mean, good for McAfee came up
Speaker 2: with the business model to pay Saban and Belichick. Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers and you make headlines. But if you're the Jets,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Did he kind of take away from
Speaker 2: all the bad play that you guys had or how
Speaker 2: bad you are? Maybe we focused on it. Maybe Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers took one for the team. He's like, Hey, you
Speaker 2: know what, put all this attention on me, not on
Speaker 2: my team being bad, but I would not be Yeah,
Speaker 2: And you know, I keep hearing Steelers for some it's
Speaker 2: like Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers and I go, I
Speaker 2: don't get it. Or the Raiders I kind of get it.
Speaker 2: But if I'm the Raiders and I'm starting out, if
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Brady, I want to get my own quarterback
Speaker 2: in there. And do I want Aaron Rodgers for a year?
Speaker 2: Like who would ever have thought Aaron Rodgers would be
Speaker 2: a band aid quarterback? Like come on in for a year,
Speaker 2: you know, like Tyrod Taylor or something. Here, Jacoby Brissette.
Speaker 2: Ten minutes from now, Nick Wright will join us. Get
Speaker 2: his thoughts on his Chiefs going down in Fames