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1:54

I'm feeling good. Ready to uh yeah,

1:57

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1:59

in, loaded, locked and loaded, locked

2:02

and loaded. All right, Well let's

2:04

let's uh let's get to I mean,

2:06

well, first of all, before we get to it, uh

2:09

you always say, you know clear skys,

2:12

you know clear, you

2:14

know I want you. We are at the

2:18

Pacific West Coast, but

2:21

we might as well put the Pacific Northwest

2:23

coast. You get. Are you getting concerned?

2:26

It's like this every day now, every

2:29

day, and then it clears up like in

2:31

the middle of the day. Yeah

2:33

he uh yeah, man, I don't know what's

2:35

going on, but it's been like this, like this

2:38

is probably the worst share. And I've been here my entire

2:40

life pretty much. He

2:43

has been like the worst share as far as rain the

2:45

overcasts of the weather. Who knows

2:47

what's going on? Man? Well, speaking

2:50

of overcasts and bad weather

2:52

and rain, Darvin

2:55

Ham is walking under a

2:57

rain cloud in La the

3:00

rain falls.

3:06

Hey, hey, so it's

3:09

falling on him. What was

3:12

your initial

3:14

reaction. I know we'll have cuffs

3:16

on and we'll get his reaction. I know Cuff

3:18

said he's the worst coach in the NBA.

3:21

Uh so we'll hear from him an hour

3:23

two. But what is your initial reaction

3:26

to the firing? So

3:30

listen, when

3:33

we got eliminated. Okay,

3:36

let's go back. Let's go back a gamer. Let's go back

3:38

a couple of games when

3:40

we lost. Someone to say it was do

3:44

you remember the game when Ad said, we

3:47

don't know what we're doing. We're just out there running

3:49

around. That

3:52

to me was domino

3:54

the domino, the first domino to fault. Because

3:57

just a few weeks ago, Jennie Buss she

4:00

comes out. She says, Darvin Ham

4:03

will be our coach next year. That's

4:05

what she said. So

4:07

then Ad makes that comment, Okay,

4:11

game two up by twenty points. We

4:14

should have won that game. There's

4:17

no way you should lose a game. Those

4:19

type of players, we don't we lose. Okay,

4:22

it's the playoffs. Now they've beaten us, what

4:24

was it eight nine times in a row. Game

4:27

three, we lose, Game

4:30

four, we win, Game

4:32

five, we lose

4:35

again on the last play of the

4:37

game, last second shot, so to speak. And

4:41

when you look at that, to outplay them the

4:44

entire series, minus the last

4:46

five minutes in the fourth quarter, and

4:50

then the last domino that fell

4:52

for me when I said, you

4:54

know what the Lakers

4:57

gonna get rid of Darbenhom was that

4:59

the wh the season was over. Lebron

5:02

does this press

5:04

conference at the end of Game five and

5:06

he was asked, are

5:08

you gonna be a Laker next year? And

5:10

he said, I'm not gonna

5:13

answer that question. I'm not gonna answer that question.

5:16

That let the Lakers brass know.

5:19

I don't want Darvin Ham. If Darbenham

5:21

is a coach, I'm out. If

5:24

Darvinham's a coach, I'm out. Now. If Darbenham

5:26

isn't the coach, we

5:29

might got a ball game here.

5:30

Now we can talk, all right, let me ask you so that

5:33

it took you took those little words from Lebron

5:36

James and y'all basically put

5:38

it in that category.

5:39

And yeah, you no, no, no, no, the Lakers took those

5:41

words from Lebron James. They took those

5:43

words. They knew what that meant, because

5:46

just two weeks ago, plex Gendy Buss

5:48

said, Darvin Ham will be our coach

5:51

like matter of fact, So what changes

5:53

in those two weeks? Like, let's just be honest,

5:56

we should have beat the Denver Nuggets, but

5:59

it's management and ownership like

6:02

so disappointed that we didn't beat the

6:04

Nuggets that you fired Darvingham. So they

6:07

really think, like, so basically, what's trying

6:09

to say.

6:09

If Lebronwood he came out of support and supported

6:11

Darvingham, he would still be the head coach.

6:15

But this this isn't the like the

6:17

NBA is a superstar league.

6:21

It's a superstar league. If they don't like

6:23

what the coach is doing, he

6:26

gotta go. That's

6:28

just what it is, Is it right to Darvin Ham?

6:30

No, it isn't. But then Darvin

6:33

Haam, did you see what he said? It is hard to

6:35

win when one of your starter bleats

6:37

the bed for ten straight games. He

6:40

said that. So now you Darvin

6:43

Ham, like, you know what, I don't want to be here either. What

6:47

head coach? You know comes out says that what

6:49

head coach you know, comes out and says, if

6:52

one of your starters bleats the bed for

6:55

ten straight games, what you're gonna do? And

6:58

so that starter was DM Jelo Russell and

7:01

DeAngelo Russell And he's right, Yeah,

7:03

but Dan, but what coach says

7:06

that? Who does that? You don't say

7:08

that as a head coach publicly? It's

7:11

so Darby. He

7:13

should have called out the rest of him too. No,

7:16

no, Noah, he should have called out you starting

7:19

Cam Reddish twenty plus games

7:22

at the start of the season, when the number showed you when

7:24

he was in the lineup, y'all couldn't do anything

7:27

like you. You you should call out

7:30

you got Austin Reeves and Lebron

7:32

James on the bench at the same time, when

7:34

who's gonna be your main playmaker? When neither

7:36

one of them are in the game, that's what you should call

7:38

out. So you agree that he should have been fired.

7:41

Yeah, I think it was inevitable.

7:44

I really don't.

7:46

I don't care if they made it to the Western

7:49

Conference Finals or whatever the case may

7:51

be. I think Darvnhem here was on a chopping

7:53

block a long time ago. The

7:56

only thing that could have saved this job is doing the

7:58

World Championship, I really believe done.

8:01

And it doesn't matter who gets who gets the Lakers

8:03

coaching job, it's gonna be tough for anybody.

8:06

So the expectations of the

8:09

Lebron and AD and this team and

8:11

this organization moving forward, no matter who.

8:13

The coach is, it's still gonna be the

8:15

same thing.

8:16

Next year, we're still gonna be talking about

8:18

the same exact thing. D'Angelo

8:22

Russell, AAR fifteen, Lebron

8:25

and a D. Can they get done?

8:27

Their window in the Western Conference

8:30

is closed.

8:31

It's closed. It's done. These young

8:34

teams are too good.

8:35

They're so good at at

8:37

their age that they will

8:40

not be able to compete with

8:42

the with the Minnesota's and Denver

8:45

and and and these other young

8:47

team in the Western Conference. They just have to,

8:50

you know, look themselves in the mirror and be honest

8:53

with themselves. We have to get younger,

8:55

and we have to get better, and we have

8:57

to do it quickly because

8:59

they still okay in Denver,

9:03

in Minnesota, they're not going nowhere

9:05

for a while. So you're gonna have to

9:07

deal with OKC in Minnesota

9:10

and the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference

9:12

for at least another five or

9:14

six seven.

9:15

I want to play Denver again in the playoffs. I

9:17

want to play them again. Well you didn't. You don't get

9:20

to do it. I

9:23

can't even watch it, like I be so angry

9:25

watching these games. Man, I'm like, oh, Man,

9:27

you gotta take your emotions out of it, TJ. I

9:30

can't emotion,

9:32

Man, you gotta take your emotions out of

9:35

brother, come like

9:37

that, you cross some time. I

9:39

can't help myself, Man, can

9:42

I help? Can I ask this real quick? I know we're

9:44

up against the break, but and

9:46

and looking at it being because of

9:49

a D and Lebron? Was it because

9:51

of a D and Lebron? They brought in Darwnham?

9:54

I believe they did. And you know

9:56

how it goes, Man, does

9:58

that work? And I'll be I'm gonna be honest.

10:00

Now it's been somewhat unfair

10:03

to Darwin Ham. But this is the cost of doing

10:05

business when you coach the Los Angeles

10:07

Lakers, And this is what

10:10

it is. And so no

10:12

player is ever gonna make all the right

10:14

decisions, and no coaches either.

10:17

But when you coach these type of players,

10:20

this is what it is. If they don't

10:23

believe in what you're doing. You think the rest of the team

10:25

gonna believe in it, I'm gonna take it a step further.

10:28

I don't matter.

10:29

It don't matter who the coach was at the Los Angeles

10:31

Lakers this year, they go out in the first

10:33

round of the playoffs, they was getting

10:35

fired. It doesn't matter if it's dorm

10:38

to Ha anybody else. The expectations

10:40

for the Lakers are championships or

10:42

at least to get to the Western Conference

10:45

Finals. It doesn't matter if it was Darvin

10:47

Ham or Larry Brown. If

10:49

they got sent home in the

10:51

first round of the playoffs, they

10:54

were fired.

10:55

Dang, that's crazy

10:57

to think. I know there was some real I was

10:59

listening into Mike wilbond and and

11:02

uh steven A talk about it. Steven

11:05

A seemed to be very very upset

11:08

about it. Mike, Mike

11:10

wilbam was was taking straight

11:13

shots. He was super upset. Said, blame

11:15

the players. Why do all these these

11:18

twenty million dollar players get

11:20

to just blame it on the

11:23

coach. Why does the organization just

11:25

get to blame it on the coach? Blame it on the players.

11:27

I tend to agree with that. I think the players are

11:30

are much to blame twenty twenty

11:32

point lead. I'm sorry. If you were good

11:35

enough to coach them to get to a twenty point lead,

11:37

then what happens with the twenty point lead? And

11:40

when when when you lose it? Uh? See

11:43

Darvin Ham guard one, Dude, I ain't

11:45

seen garden Ham dunk one ball. I

11:47

ain't seem shooting out one?

11:48

Do they leva a twenty

11:51

point game and a twenty five point game

11:53

and.

11:53

They did it consistently? Right now?

11:55

Explain that. But that's just me,

11:58

you know what I mean, That's just me, and this is us

12:00

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12:02

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12:04

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12:06

played in Pittsburgh City of Steel. There

12:09

was some conversation about Justin Fields

12:12

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12:14

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12:17

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13:10

It's right, we're gonna jump into

13:13

this, uh, this conversation

13:15

about Justin fields he could return

13:18

kicks for the Steelers. Now, don't take it

13:20

from me, and I don't know that this is real

13:22

news, could be fake news. But there

13:25

was a player in particular from the

13:27

Pittsburgh Steelers. Uh, what's

13:30

his name, Jaylen Warren, that's

13:33

that's Uh. He had

13:35

some interesting comments fellas about

13:38

what he heard and what he was,

13:41

you know, I guess

13:43

thinking about uh one, Justin Fields

13:46

returning kicks. Here we go, let's take

13:48

a listen, all right, specialties coordinator was talking about

13:50

Justin Fields being back there. Hold

13:52

on, hold on, breaking news

13:54

already. We looked at him like, Justin

13:57

Field beat that back there, and

13:59

you know it's I don't know, I think it's I

14:01

think it's cool. Now,

14:04

you played for you

14:07

played for the Steelers. You

14:10

were there when uh you

14:12

were there when Slash was there, right, absolutely

14:14

quarterback? Yeah, yeah, until I knocked his ass

14:17

out.

14:17

And then everybody he's talking about Cordell

14:19

Steward. I know, some of you younger generational,

14:22

you know, people that are listening he's talking about

14:24

he's referring to Cordiell Steward.

14:26

That was his nickname, Slash. They had

14:28

to put Tommy Maddox

14:30

in after I got ahold of him in the

14:32

game. Yeah, I was there. I was there.

14:35

Unfortunately I was I had a front road

14:37

front road sheet on the sideline.

14:39

Yeah.

14:40

I caught up to him, A teacher caught for

14:42

y'all. He tried, he

14:45

tried, you have to leave, Oh

14:48

you're here. The misspend the five games he.

14:51

Did try to. Uh, that's

14:53

the I digress. Slash was

14:55

called Slash because he could do everything.

14:58

I mean, he could do any He

15:00

returned punts, he was a quarterback,

15:03

he was a wide receiver in

15:05

some sets. There's nothing that he

15:07

didn't do offensively,

15:10

accept a block on the

15:12

offensive line, because he was a receiver, punt

15:15

returner, quarterback.

15:16

He did it all.

15:17

Put him in the backfield. There's nothing that

15:19

he couldn't do. He was a quarter was a

15:21

phenomenal athlete.

15:23

Do y'all feel like justin Fields is

15:26

which I think he's a dope athlete. I don't know if

15:28

he's as as well as Slash, but I mean

15:30

he's a dope athlete, and he's

15:33

he's seemingly going to be a backup. I

15:35

mean, are you guys opposed to that? Well,

15:38

I think it's a terrible idea. I

15:40

really do.

15:41

If I'm justin Fields and

15:44

I understand the Pittsburgh wait, like,

15:46

the standard is a standard, and when you come through

15:48

that door, it's by

15:50

any means necessary. They will plug you in

15:53

anywhere, and your job is to go out

15:55

there to do your job, and to do it well and

15:57

be effective at it. But if you're a quarterback

16:01

and you're coming off your first four or five

16:03

season in Chicago, the way that you know

16:06

played over those over your tenure.

16:09

He is trying to build his value and his

16:11

credibility as being a quarterback.

16:14

I don't think that you go to Pittsburgh and

16:17

you will start. You start returning punts and

16:20

kicks, kickoff for turns,

16:23

and now your value is

16:25

no longer you being a quarterback.

16:28

You are now a specialist,

16:32

so to speak. And it

16:34

goes back to when Lamar

16:36

Jackson was drafted. He said, I'm

16:38

going to play quarterback. I'm

16:40

not going into the NFL to play

16:42

wide receiver. And he made

16:45

people respect him as

16:48

being a quarterback and now look at him,

16:50

he's a two time NFL MVP.

16:53

If I am Justin.

16:55

Fields and his agent or whoever is

16:58

representing him, I

17:01

wouldn't put myself in a position to go to Pittsburgh

17:05

to play special teams in the return kickoffs

17:08

because it does nothing for him. Obviously,

17:11

it's going to help the team. They

17:14

feel that he is a better kick returnity

17:16

than whoever they have on the roster already.

17:18

But if you are Justin Fields and you're looking

17:21

at your career moving forward, outside of Pittsburgh

17:23

and you on the side a one year deal. You're

17:25

not going to return kickoffs and

17:27

punts. You're going there to play

17:30

quarterback. Stick to

17:32

playing quarterback. It's

17:37

I don't get it. The heat made

17:40

return kicks, Like.

17:42

Justin Fields is a good open field runner

17:44

with the ball as a quarterback, when you have the

17:48

defensive line rushing and

17:50

lanes open up, what

17:53

makes you believe he can

17:55

return. He's probably never returned

17:57

to kick or a punt in his life. Being

18:00

a quarterback. It's just a

18:02

different ball game. And I

18:04

believe the coach probably said that jokingly.

18:07

Jalen Warren said it publicly knowing that

18:11

the joke said it with a little sarcasm.

18:14

But if there's no way, no

18:17

possible way, the Steelers

18:20

are serious about this, No way. You

18:22

got other guys on your roster that

18:24

can do a job. I beg this and

18:27

do this job better, because

18:30

if Russell Wilson goes down, then

18:33

what you got a quarterback that's been returning

18:35

kicks and he may not even be healthy.

18:39

But the Russell Wilson had

18:41

he played good football last year

18:43

with the Broncos. Even though he got

18:45

benched. He wasn't playing bad. But

18:49

who's to say Russell Wilson is gonna beat

18:51

Justin Fields down. You're talking about Justin Fields

18:54

returning kicks. Let

18:56

me put this in your ear. You're justin

18:59

fields and

19:02

leave you. Mike Tomlin.

19:04

You come to Justine Fields and you ask

19:06

him, you say, we

19:09

need you to return kickoffs.

19:13

Your justice fields?

19:14

What's going? What's your answer? How do you reply?

19:17

Because if you if you say you're

19:19

not gonna do it, then you're not a good team player.

19:21

You're not a team guy.

19:23

Right now, justin

19:29

fields and ask you we

19:31

need you to return kickoffs. What's gonna be your response?

19:34

He doesn't say that. His agent is gonna

19:36

call up there and say, my guy in returning

19:38

kicks. He don't have to say it. His

19:41

agent is gonna do that. He

19:44

don't he like what

19:46

you think?

19:47

This is, bro. They they're not experiment with

19:49

me. They did not like year.

19:51

This is my career, this

19:54

is my career. Let me give you all

19:56

you really think you about the experiment with

19:58

my career? Return quarter

20:01

beer hold on. Now, they did

20:03

not extend him. That's fine. He's

20:06

going to be a free agent and if

20:08

he doesn't play, what is

20:11

his value coming out of this

20:13

season. What is his value?

20:17

I don't know, and we can, like,

20:19

let's be brutally honest about this. He

20:22

was he was traded to Pittsburgh for

20:25

a now laders, you know, a

20:29

pack of now laders, some nerds

20:32

and back of hipps

20:35

and a bag of chips. I mean, and

20:38

listen, it's a rookie deal. But they got

20:40

him on a rookie deal. They

20:42

don't need to pay him pay him yet.

20:45

So with that being said, it's

20:47

only up for the Steelers. But

20:50

for Justin Fields, this

20:52

is a very curious position for him

20:54

to be in because he has no leverage

20:57

monetarily speaking, contract wise,

21:00

he has no leverage. And theory, he could

21:02

become a free agent after

21:04

this season and it wouldn't even

21:07

matter. And theory, because of how

21:09

small his contract is, they could

21:11

cut him, They could get rid

21:13

of him. They could, They can do

21:15

a lot of things, and they can try to make him

21:17

return kicks, and they can. They

21:19

can do what they deem is

21:21

best for their team. The Pittsburgh

21:24

Steelers are well run

21:26

organization. There's

21:29

no way they

21:32

are legitimately thinking about Justin

21:34

Field's returning kicks. There's no way.

21:37

Let me tell you about no

21:40

way. My rookie year.

21:43

Two thousands, we

21:46

had some guys to go down and

21:49

special teams, like four or five guys, and

21:53

we didn't have enough players to run

21:55

down on kickboff team. They put

21:57

you on kickoff on the first round

21:59

pick them number eight pick in the draft. Coach

22:02

Kyle would come to me and said, Plex, let

22:05

me talk to you, So, what's going on couch? He

22:09

said, we need you to run down

22:11

on kickoff team this week and to

22:13

get some reps. I said what he

22:16

said, Yeah, I know, you know you

22:19

did it in college, blah blah

22:21

blah. And he was like, you know,

22:23

it's for the team. We just need to get a look.

22:25

Would you know, would you mind just running down

22:28

on kickoff team for the next two

22:30

or three days guys get healthy in

22:32

practice?

22:33

In practice? I was like, I could

22:35

do that, but what if

22:37

hear the bade you do it in the game? Plex, I

22:40

didn't. I didn't come here for that. That's

22:43

not on my contracts. Then why you do it in practice?

22:46

To give him a long yeah, yeah, I was giving

22:48

them a look.

22:49

I mean, I wasn't necessarily happy about it,

22:52

but it was the fact that you know, you know, the kickoff

22:55

you know, you run down and you gotta jog back.

22:58

I'm already a rival.

22:59

See, I'm already running for a living, and

23:01

now you want to get me more conditioning.

23:04

I wasn't necessarily happy about it, but I

23:06

went out there. I ran that on kick off team. And this

23:09

this is what comes with Pittsburgh

23:11

because this organization,

23:14

this team, in this locker room, they

23:17

are so selfless. If

23:20

you are not willing to

23:23

get out of yourself and sacrifice

23:25

everything for the team, I can almost

23:28

guarantee you the rest of this team

23:30

gonna be looking at you crazy. And

23:33

it's not like that everywhere else. It's

23:36

a different kind of environment in this

23:38

locker room. If you are not

23:40

willing to lay down for your brothers

23:43

in that, Pittsburgh still a locker room, or

23:45

you're gonna have some issues.

23:48

That's the culture that's in there.

23:50

And anybody that that's played there, they'll

23:52

tell you the same exact thing. Hey man, we

23:54

need to get back there and catch a punch dog, all

23:58

right.

23:58

Man. I guys put this in context, though, plex

24:01

When you came in in two thousand and

24:04

like you said, you weren't playing those special teams.

24:07

I come in the year after you running

24:09

down on kicks is put this in context for the people

24:11

that are listening. The Special

24:13

Teams coach would

24:15

get up in that meeting, y'all and say, because

24:18

you know, back then it was a wedge

24:21

and they were putting an offense and defensive

24:24

linemen on the wedge,

24:27

this is what I was in those meetings,

24:30

y'all weren't. Yes, I was.

24:32

Let me got tracked. When you're a rookie

24:34

in Pittsburgh. Ask any rookie that goes there.

24:37

I don't care if you the first pick of the draft or

24:39

the midst irrelevant. If you're

24:41

a rookie attend all

24:43

special and that Special Teams

24:45

coach will say you not,

24:49

LeVar, You do not split the wedge.

24:52

You attack it head on.

24:55

If you go in there and try to split them,

24:58

if you try to split the weg, you

25:00

are getting cursed out.

25:03

They wanted the

25:06

wedge though, Okay, so you know you

25:08

lock ORMs. You will say me, you and plex

25:10

all locked ORMs and we running. They

25:13

don't want anybody to

25:15

go in between them. You full

25:18

body take them on, knock them out. Yeah.

25:20

Yeah, attack it head

25:23

on. Means whoever

25:25

your guy is, you better put him

25:27

on his ass. If you try to split

25:29

the wedge, they say, you're opening up a gap.

25:33

And so we literally

25:36

would be in games bro and

25:38

in meetings, and he would rewind certain game

25:41

clips of other guys in the league trying

25:43

to split the wedge giving up a big return.

25:45

Guys that attacking head on, hurting

25:48

themselves and hurting the other guy. Man.

25:50

So like head

25:54

On, man, I used to go into that web

25:56

in college. You crazy five, I

25:59

was the five. I was. You wanted

26:01

to wear you crazy him?

26:02

I was, remember I remember we played

26:04

the Atlanta Falcons in the first preseason

26:07

game. This had to have been two thousand and two. It

26:09

was Kendrel Bell's rookies. Oh my god,

26:11

they had him at one. He

26:14

runs straight down the field and to this

26:17

and to this wedge you're talking about, and

26:19

they flat line Kendrel Bell

26:22

to really flat

26:24

lined the man when he got

26:26

up and ran to the sideline

26:28

and says, no, this is no joke. I thought he

26:30

was going down a set of a set of stairs because

26:34

he was running to the sideline and

26:36

every step he took he looked like he was going down

26:38

to some steps.

26:40

He never made it to the sideline and fell out

26:42

boo and We was like, you can't

26:44

just run down there willing to that wedge like that, even

26:47

back then they had offensive linemen back then,

26:50

Drell Bell is going down. Believe

26:53

you mean that means a flat going

26:55

down.

26:55

And it goes back to that and talking about this wedge

26:58

and those are the players that which and

27:01

when that boy got hurt in Buffalo.

27:02

I'm serious, man, when Kenchwell

27:04

Bell ran it to the you know he was a four

27:06

to three guy at fifty.

27:09

That was a grown ass f Bro Georgia.

27:13

He hit so hard, bro made

27:16

hard. I couldn't believe it.

27:18

He said they flat line. If

27:21

they flat lined. We

27:25

was like, dog, you can't run down there

27:27

too that web like that. I guess he

27:29

could. He never played

27:32

the kick off team again. Dang all

27:34

right. That came from Cam Hayward's podcast.

27:37

By the way, uh I doubt

27:39

this is a real story, But knowing who Danny

27:41

Smith is and how he is a

27:43

joke, I wouldn't put it past him.

27:47

I wouldn't put past through the tray. But he

27:51

probably did say it jokingly, So we'll

27:53

leave it at that. Let's get an update

27:56

from Isaac long Cron. We're gonna talk some Chicago

27:58

Bears, uh team after that. So what

28:00

you got at low LaVar.

28:02

What we got is a big trade in Major League

28:04

Baseball that became official today as the

28:06

San Diego Padres acquired two time

28:08

batting champion and two time All Star Luis

28:11

Arise from the Miami Marlins. New York

28:13

Yankees ace Garrett Cole threw off a mound

28:15

today for the first time since being shut down in

28:17

spring training because of an elbow injury. The

28:20

NBA a short time ago find Los

28:23

Angeles Lakers guard D'Angelo Russell

28:25

twenty five thousand dollars for verbally

28:28

abusing a game official immediately

28:31

after the Lakers season ending loss to Denver

28:33

this past Wednesday. Round two of the

28:35

playoffs tips off tonight. It's seven pm

28:37

Eastern from Minnesota as the Timberwolves

28:39

host Denver tonight at eight pm Eastern

28:42

in the Stanley Cup Playoffs from Boston.

28:44

Game seven of the opening round series between

28:47

the Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs.

28:49

Also today, the one hundred and fiftieth

28:51

running of the Kentucky Derby post

28:54

time at six forty seven Eastern.

28:56

Fierceness is the morning line favorite

28:58

at five to.

28:59

Two seventeen fierceness

29:02

is number seventeen to seventeen horse.

29:04

I'm just saying.

29:05

I'm just saying, I wonder who you're picking

29:07

back to you, guys.

29:09

Thanks, I love seventeen

29:12

horse. Huh. I don't

29:14

know.

29:14

I think fierceness is he's three to

29:16

one and he is

29:19

a seventeen horse. Stop

29:23

playing with man. Come on, man,

29:26

I'm gonna be watching, you know, be a little

29:28

sloppy today.

29:29

The track is wet.

29:30

It's always a little sloppy today. And

29:33

it rained all day yesterday for the Kentucky Oaks.

29:36

But the day the derby, it's gonna be wet,

29:38

so it ain't no telling who gonna win it, all

29:41

right.

29:41

Well, speaking of Justin

29:43

Fields, the team that he

29:46

was the starter for that got rid of him to

29:49

bring in Caleb Williams is the Chicago Bears,

29:52

And there's been a lot

29:54

of conversation about the

29:56

Bears after the NFL

29:59

Draft. I'm asking

30:01

you, guys, with what they have on

30:04

their offensive side of the ball today,

30:08

what do you believe is

30:11

the ceiling for this

30:13

Chicago Bears offense. Wow,

30:18

I'll be honest. I like

30:22

what they have on paper, and

30:24

I like it a lot. They

30:27

the Bears, I believe were seven, seven

30:30

and ten last year, obviously

30:32

had the number one pick via

30:34

the trade with the Carolina Panthers. When

30:38

you can acquire

30:40

Kenan Island in the trade, you already

30:42

have Dj Moore, You're able

30:45

to draft Caleb Williams and Roma donze

30:48

that right there. If

30:50

Caleb Williams is what we all

30:53

expect him and believe him to be offensively,

30:58

you give him about two to three weeks to kind

31:00

of get their feet wet, get

31:02

an understanding, and it's really more so Caleb

31:05

than anybody else. Once

31:07

that happens, this

31:09

offense can be scary because

31:14

you have a proven receiver that's done

31:16

it year after year after year after year in

31:19

Keenan Allen. You

31:22

have a guy that can get down the field, take a quick

31:24

screen to the crib in Dj

31:26

Moore, and you have a guy who

31:28

I believe can do all of those things

31:31

in Rome. And Caleb,

31:35

in Minnie's eyes, is

31:37

a generational quarterback, is one of the

31:39

best quarterbacks that come into the league in sometime,

31:42

and so if he can

31:44

play near that potential

31:47

as a rookie, I expect

31:49

the Bears a content for a wildcard spot because

31:51

this offense will be much better. I

31:55

mean, the North is up for the

31:57

is up for grabs, though, right, I mean Detroit

32:00

pretty good.

32:01

Detroit should be the

32:03

team that will win the NFC News. I wouldn't

32:05

say it's up for grabs, okay, I

32:07

mean, if you're looking at the whole

32:09

division, I would say, right

32:12

off the bat, it looks like the

32:14

Chicago Bears will be competing with

32:16

the Detroit Lines to win the division. I don't

32:18

believe Minnesota is there and

32:22

and I just don't think that you know, Minnesota's

32:24

gonna be able to compete with you

32:27

know, these two teams being the fact that you

32:30

know, you just got rid of of Kirk Cousins. Justin

32:33

Jefferson is there now and there's

32:36

no telling how much longer he's going to be there, not

32:39

knowing what this quarterback situation is

32:41

going to look like moving forward.

32:43

So y'all, like Jack J.

32:44

McCarthy, I

32:46

think he's thing's going to be good, But you can't expect

32:48

these rookie quarterbacks it's coming in to make a splash.

32:50

I don't think he's going to be better than current. I mean that's what

32:52

we're basing that off of them being

32:54

a wild card team for the Bears, right,

32:57

But I would say that if you put

32:59

these two guys side by

33:01

side based off of what they have done in college,

33:03

I was everybody would agree that Kylen

33:06

Williams is the better quarterback. Correct, Yeah,

33:09

Okay, so I would I

33:11

would say for the for the Chicago

33:13

Bears, offensively, I think that

33:15

the biggest addition, you know, outside of

33:17

of Kylen Williams was going to be Keenan

33:20

Allen. I think, you

33:22

know, from a mentorship standpoint

33:24

and in the wide receiver tootel is

33:26

that that Roma was going to need like he

33:28

has two guys that he can lean on. And

33:31

that was one thing out that was that that was you

33:33

know, uh, you know, precious for me because I came

33:36

in and Courtney Hawkins

33:39

was was a twelve year veteran at the time

33:42

and and he was a starter.

33:45

And I came in day one and you

33:47

know because job and took his position and

33:49

the man was humble enough

33:52

to be professional. And this man coached

33:55

me and taught me like I was

33:57

his son, and it blew me away.

34:00

So I don't know that

34:03

is rare in today's sports.

34:05

But I would say for Rome that

34:08

you know, Keenan and DJ Moore

34:11

that obviously, you know, the rookies

34:14

room and Caleb, they're going to make some mistakes and you

34:16

know, but I think this office is going

34:18

to be a lot better than it was last year. But

34:21

it's going to be all about how soon

34:24

and how quickly can Caleb

34:26

and these receivers h you know,

34:30

come together.

34:31

That's Plexico Burst, that's t

34:33

J. Hitchman's Ouda. I'm LeVar Arrington.

34:36

Listen, we're gonna talk some Davante

34:39

Adams on the other side of the break. But

34:41

until then, just kind of, you know, let it soak

34:44

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it right after we get off the

35:24

air. Davante Adams

35:26

fellas he came out, he

35:28

has some interesting comments.

35:31

I'm curious to hear what you guys think about

35:33

it. He said he has no regrets

35:35

with the Green Bay trade. But Jay

35:39

Love is balling right now. I

35:41

mean, from y'all's perspective,

35:44

when you say something like this to

35:47

me, the first thing I'd be thinking is I

35:51

wish I had him. And if

35:53

that means I wish I had him, then

35:55

what is the real conclusion

35:58

of him saying? You know, okay, when

36:00

you say when you say you know, no, no,

36:03

no disrespect, you know before

36:05

you say what you're gonna say, we all

36:07

know you're about to say something disrespectful.

36:10

You know what I mean, Like this is nothing

36:12

against you. But you know when

36:15

you when you have certain things you say

36:17

before you make a point, you know

36:19

that it means something different. Right

36:22

now, I don't know that that's the case here. What y'all

36:24

think Devontae

36:27

Adams is looking at how

36:29

well Jordan Love played, He's

36:32

looking at his quarterback situation

36:35

last year, and then it's

36:37

pretty much the same thing this shit, and

36:39

he's like, Damn,

36:43

I made the wrong decision one

36:46

hundred percent, that's what he's thinking. And

36:49

so, I mean, he's kind of stuck in the decision

36:51

he's made. He has

36:54

to make the best of it. But

36:56

when you look at what Jordan Love did

36:59

is his first year as a starter, and

37:02

that Vita Adam looks like and

37:04

I had Jimmy g then

37:07

a and O'Connell and this year I'm gonna

37:09

possibly have a

37:13

O'Connell and Gardner Minshew as

37:16

my quarterback. Damn,

37:18

I a messed up. That's

37:20

all it is. And it's nothing you can do about

37:22

it. Nothing you can do about it.

37:25

I don't believe he was really throwing

37:27

any shade or disrespecting anybody. I think

37:29

he was just really showing respect

37:32

for Jordan Love and how

37:34

he played last year. I don't I don't

37:36

think like you said, he don't have any regrets. But

37:39

if you look at Green Bay and where they

37:41

are now, are

37:44

they are they one of the contenders,

37:46

you know in that division, maybe maybe

37:48

the third best team, depending

37:50

on depending on how the Chicago Bears look

37:52

this year.

37:53

I said, they're easily the second best team in that.

37:55

I don't think Green Bay is looking like

37:59

a champion and ship contending

38:01

football team right now. In the

38:03

state of the Green Bay Packers, I just don't

38:05

see that, you know, moving forward anytime

38:08

soon. But I think for the Raiders, I

38:11

think that they have enough tools. I

38:13

think defensively they're going to be a

38:16

lot better this year. So they

38:18

lost what like five games

38:21

within six points last year,

38:24

so you can't really say that, you know, they had a bad

38:26

season, but they didn't make the playoffs there the first five

38:28

or six games they lost by less than

38:31

five or six points, which is crazy. So

38:34

I think they'd be better offensively. I

38:36

think defensively is where they're going to make their mark.

38:38

Everybody know that they're in the AFC Western. You

38:40

gotta go cut the head off

38:42

the stake in Kansas City. With

38:45

Patrick Mahomes, I don't think that's going to be being

38:47

easier, especially with him getting

38:49

the additional worthy which is only

38:51

going to make the office more explosive.

38:53

But I think that the

38:56

Las Vegas Raiders are.

38:57

In a better state football

39:00

team than where Jordan Love and

39:02

the Green Bay Packers all right now, what I

39:08

mean outside of Kansas City in

39:11

the AFC West, who

39:14

is going to be the second

39:16

best team in the division, have

39:19

a chance to make the playoffs.

39:20

The Los Angeles Charged they

39:23

might be a problem this year. I'm

39:25

saying they might be a problem.

39:27

I believe that the Raiders who make the playoffs

39:29

this year as a wild card in

39:31

the AFC West, and it will not be the Chargers.

39:35

I think they needed a quarterback. I

39:37

think they need a quarterback. The Raiders

39:39

have all the pieces except for

39:41

a big piece that's under

39:44

center. That that's the problem. That's it. That

39:46

that that is the biggest problem. Like the Raiders

39:49

have a solid team top to bottom

39:51

offensively, defensively, but they

39:53

got every

39:55

play they have the

39:57

worst quarterback in the division in his

40:00

three has shown if your

40:02

quarterback is the worst one in the division,

40:04

you going a minute, you

40:07

walking with who's the quarterback in the

40:09

Broncos. It don't matter who it is, it's

40:11

best than what. Then

40:14

it's either gonna be Jared Stillham or bone Nicks.

40:18

Stidham or bone Nicks. And they're both better

40:20

than what the Raiders have, which I'll both agree with that.

40:22

I don't agree with that. You don't even

40:24

don't even be you

40:27

don't think Jared Sidheam or bone Nicks is better than

40:29

what the Raiders have. Just answer the question, man,

40:31

oh my god, Plaical. Well,

40:35

I'll tell you what. We're gonna keep these conversations

40:37

rolling. We're gonna get to hour two and

40:40

just a matter of moments, so you guys make

40:42

sure that you stay locked in. Uh.

40:45

Obviously we'll talk some more Darvin Haown.

40:47

We got cuffs to Legend coming up as well, So

40:49

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