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Jason Martin? What's going on?

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I'm gonna try to stay awake for the next three hours.

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That's what the new Father is doing.

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No getting a lot of sleep.

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There is sie uh no, everything We

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got everything kind of mapped out. I usually

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do the first feed after midnight. My

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wife gets up around three three thirty

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for the second feed. We're on basically in every

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two and a half hour schedule right now

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with Ivy Beth waking up and needing

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to be fed again. But baby's healthy, toddler's

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healthy. Everything's

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good in the family. So everything is

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fine. Everything's better for

1:02

us than it is for you know, the Lakers,

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the song and stuff people.

1:08

I don't remember doing a first feeding

1:10

or a second feeding or a third

1:12

feeding. I don't remember. I don't remember getting

1:14

up in the middle of the night to do any

1:16

of that stuff. Maybe I'm just bad that

1:19

way.

1:19

I don't know.

1:20

Maybe things have changed in twenty six

1:22

years. I guess, you know, I don't know.

1:24

I mean some some some

1:26

some people do it, some people don't. You

1:28

know, you just sometimes you look at your wife. You can just see

1:31

how exhausted.

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She is, and yes, yes, I

1:34

know that something else.

1:34

Takes over and you just you know, you have to

1:37

do something.

1:38

And the baby's name is at Arnie by

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any chance, I'm just asking.

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No, thankfully it was a

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girl, so we couldn't go with Arnie, with

1:46

Arnett or anything like that. We went to Ivy

1:48

Elizabeth and we're calling Ivy

1:50

Bath.

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Very nice, congratulations busy

1:54

Sunday. Crispike with the night off, coming

1:56

back, and by the way, we want to certainly

1:58

say, I hope everybody's safe out there in Oklahoma.

2:02

Did you see the weather out there? Those tornadoes

2:04

and everything. Of course Chris bike making

2:06

his way back there. He wasn't there, but

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we just hope everybody's safe, his family's

2:10

safe. Those were some scary pictures.

2:13

Jason Maria usually don't start with the weather.

2:15

But my goodness, that's that was very

2:17

scary out there, you know.

2:19

Yeah, sure was.

2:22

Man. Sometimes nature can just really

2:25

and I think the older you get, like when I was a

2:27

kid, I thought tornadoes were kind of cool, like Twister.

2:30

It's like you saw the movie, right, Yeah.

2:32

Yeah, I remember when I first saw one,

2:34

like in a distance. I was doing a cross country

2:36

chip and we were in like Kansas or something, right in

2:38

the middle of Tornado Alley and I saw a tornado

2:41

like way off in the distance. And

2:43

the minute I saw it, I was just like, dude,

2:46

I was wrong, Like I'm horrified.

2:49

Yeah, just looking at this thing and

2:51

like the devastation that it reeks. I think you get

2:53

older, you start to appreciate more

2:56

just how deadly they are. So yeah, prayers

2:58

to everybody out there.

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The first tornado I ever saw was on the Wizard

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of Oz and I just picked up a house and took

3:04

Dorothy away. So but she was

3:06

okay, She was okay afterwards. But no, Well,

3:09

we certainly hope everybody's okay out

3:11

there, and we're certainly thinking

3:13

of you, certainly thinking of Chris Pike making

3:15

his way back to Oklahoma. You want to be

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part of the show. It is a busy night,

3:19

real simple. Twitter is the best way to get in or

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X or whatever you want to call it at J Martin Radio.

3:25

I'm at stinking Genius one. I know we got

3:27

a lot of draft stuff to get to and I'm

3:29

sure we'll get that in throughout the course

3:31

of the night. Gotta start with my New York

3:33

Knicks. Isn't it funny how Plank always

3:35

misses a show and he only misses

3:37

like three four shows in like twelve years we've been

3:40

doing this, But it's always when my team wins.

3:42

What a great victory for my New York Knicks.

3:45

Before I even get into the fans

3:47

and Joel Embiid and the dirty plays

3:49

and stuff like that, Brunson

3:52

was just phenomenal. If you would have told

3:54

me that before the

3:56

game or after the game that

3:59

Heart would have a field goal or have like,

4:01

what was it four points and uh,

4:03

DiVincenzo had eight points, I

4:06

said, Oh, not only did the Nick sluse or

4:08

they lost by twenty or something like that, they

4:10

must have gotten just crushed. I don't

4:12

care how many bruns of that. No

4:15

way you could do that, especially when you have three guys

4:17

getting double digits and

4:19

you know one of them's off the bench. I would have said,

4:21

well, we were in the series even at

4:24

to a piece that we're going back. What a

4:26

gutty victory it was for the Knicks.

4:28

At the same time, though, Joel

4:30

Embiid, what a horrible fourth quarter.

4:33

I think it was like oh for five or oh for six.

4:35

He's something like three for eighteen in the fourth quarters

4:38

in all four games. He's

4:40

obviously wearing down, he's not getting the

4:42

help. But overall, big,

4:44

big victory for my New York Dick Chason.

4:47

Yeah, it was.

4:47

And I mean I going

4:49

into that series, it was I think the one

4:51

I was most interested to see

4:54

because it felt like we're

4:56

gonna see something from one of these teams that

4:58

we're not used to. I will say this, I

5:00

feel bad for Joel Embiid. It's almost like

5:02

I kind of wish he hadn't come back this year, right,

5:05

I kind of wish he had just stayed out. Because he

5:07

came back, he's dealing with you know, the

5:09

bells palsy and all the other stuff that's

5:12

happening.

5:12

But they were on a roll before the season and

5:14

then nine in a row or something to that

5:17

fact.

5:17

They were, but I

5:20

mean I credit him

5:22

because he didn't have to come back, and I don't think anybody

5:24

would have getting any younger,

5:28

I know, but what chance were they? Did they really

5:30

have? Right?

5:32

Yeah?

5:32

And then in terms of the Knicks, I mean Brunson

5:36

has kind of been bordering on this, but I mean he had

5:38

what thirty five the

5:40

last game and then he goes off for the forty

5:42

plus in this Gameah. Yeah,

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They're a solid basketball team and

5:46

this is this is what you want to see from them. And honestly,

5:49

I like seeing.

5:50

A league where the Knicks are good.

5:53

It's kind of weird, like I very rarely

5:56

look to see them lose, Like I don't. I don't

5:58

watch to see them lose. They were or a team

6:00

I hated for a long long time, but

6:03

like watching them now, it's just I kind of like to see them

6:05

be good. And I like Jalen Brunson

6:07

and have since the very beginning of his career

6:09

and even back in college, I liked them.

6:12

So I like to see them

6:14

flourish. And now that it's three one,

6:16

I mean, you don't see them coming back from

6:18

that. So the next advancing you

6:21

look at the Eastern Conference, that's

6:23

gonna be it's just gonna be kind of intriguing

6:25

to see how it plays out. It certainly feels like Boston's

6:28

just better than everybody.

6:29

Well until they lost Game two.

6:33

Yeah, but I mean that was all World three boards shooting,

6:36

right. I mean what they did, what they did yesterday

6:39

is exactly what you would expect

6:41

the Celtics to have done, even on the heats

6:43

on floor without Jimmy Butler playing, but

6:46

the Knicks requitting themselves well, and the Brunson

6:49

deal, what's going down is one of the best moves the Knicks

6:51

have made in a long long time. And

6:53

even if the Mavericks continue to do, you

6:55

know, do pretty well. You look

6:57

at that and you're just like man Brunson. As soon as he got out

7:00

of there, Boy, he wanted to show he was something, and

7:02

he has been extraordinary since

7:04

he got to New York.

7:05

You know, you mean, I should go down to Madison

7:07

Square Garden and go to a

7:09

game number five and but you know what tickets

7:11

are? Get our worthless producer

7:14

on this and find

7:16

out how much tickets are for game

7:18

number five in Madison Square Garden. Maybe

7:21

I'll show out the pace host and go

7:23

down there and check out a game.

7:25

That atmosphere was absolutely incredible.

7:27

Matter of fact, let's talk about that, how

7:30

many New York Dick fans gobbled

7:32

up tickets in Philadelphia to

7:34

go down there. I heard eph from say

7:36

on the show before ut that a couple of times he had forgotten

7:39

that the game was in Philadelphia. I forgotten

7:42

like every five minutes. I'm like, oh, listen to the crowd.

7:44

My wait, wait, wait in Philadelphia it was

7:47

I don't know if I've ever heard a yeah

7:50

you hear cowboy fans going on the road

7:52

and stuff like that. But that was crazy.

7:55

And Joel embiid not happy at all

7:58

to see all those New York Dick fans out there. I was

8:00

great to see out there, unless you're a Philadelphia

8:02

fan. Jason, Yeah, that's right.

8:06

And I'm not surprised that just

8:08

the fans in general, that it's been kind of

8:10

an energetic series. It doesn't those

8:12

those two teams are teams that shouldn't like each

8:14

other. It just feels that way. So I

8:16

kind of liked that there's some animosity there and some

8:19

angst. It's

8:21

just a fun it's a fun series, and I'm glad

8:23

that game kind of did the way that it did.

8:25

Like a lot of these games honestly, already

8:28

throughout this first round and

8:30

especially the last few days, have been not

8:32

that entertaining.

8:33

Oh absolutely not.

8:34

You're straight blowouts.

8:36

That game excellent, a

8:38

really good open to the day. And

8:40

then you got whatever that was with the Clippers

8:43

and the Mavericks, which

8:45

I really want to go into because I think there's a couple

8:47

of questions to ask coming out of that game, but

8:50

we don't have to do it yet. But just in terms

8:53

of the Nicks and the Sixers, just it

8:56

just, I mean, it just didn't look like it. The

8:59

star are not a line for the Joe,

9:01

They're not for the for the bucks.

9:03

Is Joel Embiid a dirty player?

9:06

I mean, you saw what he did with the stepping

9:08

on Brunson. You saw what he did with

9:10

the forearm shiver. I believe

9:12

they called it the Prunson Brunson.

9:15

That was no call. They didn't even look at that. Again,

9:18

he stepped on I can't

9:20

remember who he stepped on a

9:23

the second time and kind of got him

9:25

in the ankle or the the knee.

9:28

I'm not sure who it was. There's

9:30

just a lot, a lot of hits and dirtiness

9:32

going on out there is Philadelphia. Joel

9:35

Embiid dirty or to just

9:37

just playoff basketball and you just get better, get used

9:39

to it, you know.

9:40

I mean, I don't know if he is dirty,

9:42

but I could say that those plays are dirty without

9:44

saying the player is dirty.

9:46

Right, I don't.

9:47

I don't know that Joel Embiid has a history of

9:49

being a dirty player. I think that he is playing

9:51

with an edge, and I

9:53

think he's kind of I think your description

9:55

of it being playoff basketball makes a

9:58

lot of sense like that that land it's

10:01

it is more physical, and Embiid is does

10:04

look like he is willing to kind of take

10:06

that extra step and just see if he can cross

10:08

the line just just a bit. But I wouldn't

10:10

go as far as to call him a dirty

10:12

player necessarily.

10:13

What about what he did to

10:16

Robinson where he pulled them down by

10:18

the legs. I don't know if you saw that in

10:21

game number three, Jason when

10:24

he was up there for a layup by

10:26

himself with Joe Embid was on the ground grabbed

10:28

and he could have really hurt himself. Of course, Robinson

10:31

didn't play today, so I don't know

10:34

the cause of you know, if that was from

10:36

it or not. But what about a play

10:38

like that. They could have easily given him like a flagrant

10:40

two and tossed him out of the game.

10:42

You know, yeah, they could have.

10:46

Yeah, Like I said, I mean, they're all borderline plays.

10:49

I think that. I

10:51

do think that they're playing with some image. I do, And

10:54

I think that if you want to say that Emba's crossing

10:56

the line.

10:56

A little bit, I think that.

10:58

I think you've got to stand on Like, I

11:01

definitely think that there's foundation underneath

11:03

that. At the same time, I

11:05

haven't seen like, like if Draymond

11:07

Green's doing this, I feel differently

11:09

about it. Oh, that doesn't have the same kind of

11:11

reputation. So I just kind of look at it and

11:13

just say, Yeah, he might be pushing the envelope

11:15

a little bit right now.

11:16

His iron might be raised.

11:18

He might be trying to take a little bit of extra advantage

11:20

because he knows they're not in

11:22

a good position to try and win this series.

11:25

It's not the best matchup for them, whatever whatever

11:27

the reason might be. But he's not one

11:29

of those guys that has a reputation for

11:31

being a dirty player, So

11:34

I'll give him more of the benefit of the doubt, and at

11:36

the same time he may full well know that he

11:38

is crossing the line.

11:39

If we were going to talk about dirty players

11:41

and we're doing one through ten rankings, I think most

11:43

of them would come back in what the the eighties.

11:46

We start with Bill Lambier and yeah, start

11:48

working a way down and maybe that's

11:50

all the type of ball you know, oak Lee

11:53

and guys like that, that's what

11:55

they did. They made their living off stuff, and

11:57

Mason and all those guys,

11:59

you.

11:59

Know, Yeah, absolutely, I

12:02

think all of that. I think all that lends. But it's

12:05

not as physical a game now, so I think sometimes

12:07

it stands out when you

12:09

see it compared to them when you talk about like Rick

12:12

Mahorn and some of these guys, even

12:14

like a John Sally type or somebody like

12:16

that that I mean, there were just a lot of guys and even

12:19

the old knicks, I mean, Anthony

12:21

Mason and Charles

12:23

Oakley down low, and it

12:26

was a different game then. So every

12:28

time you see something where you're like, boy, that looks

12:31

like that could have played thirty years ago, it

12:33

stands out more just because it is not

12:35

the kind of thing that you generally see from

12:37

these guys, especially considering a lot of them are

12:39

like such good friends and hang out in the offseason,

12:42

and we grew up in a world where

12:44

that never seemed to happen. These guys

12:47

seem to hate each other's guts

12:49

because of how competitive they were.

12:51

Oh absolutely. Now let me ask you this.

12:53

I mean, suppose the Suns get

12:55

swept. I mean, right now, they're losing sixty

12:57

eight sixty six, they lose four games

12:59

to nothing. You got Kevin Durant.

13:02

What happens the full Lakers end up losing,

13:04

which they probably will, We'll see, we'll get into that

13:06

because Murray's going to be doubtful

13:09

for that game. Might get the Lakers

13:11

a little bit of life there, but Lebron

13:13

could maybe gone, maybe

13:16

be gone, and this could be his last year there.

13:18

And of course what happens at Philadelphia

13:20

loses. What do you do with Joel

13:22

Embiid. I mean, here's a guy that's what thirty

13:25

one, thirty two years old, can't stay

13:27

healthy. He's played in what about fifty or

13:29

fifty two percent of the games in

13:31

the last eight or nine years. It's

13:34

only gonna get worse from here on out based

13:36

on his age. What do you do about

13:38

those three guys. Do you team up, do you just

13:41

let them go away? Do you trade them?

13:43

Do you just

13:45

let other teams get them? What do you do with those

13:47

three guys? Or do you keep them?

13:49

What do you do? I answer that

13:51

question, I'm curious what you would say.

13:53

I'm starting with Lebron.

13:55

I if I'm the Lakers, I don't want him

13:57

to go, so I probably figure

13:59

out a way to get a

14:02

Kevin Durant or a Joel Embiid

14:04

on my team. But then again, doesn't really work with

14:06

Joel Embiid and Anthony

14:09

Davis. You always heard that

14:11

Ad doesn't want to play the center position. I

14:14

don't know if that's a good fit there. Maybe

14:17

more of a Kevin Durant, But I

14:19

do think maybe one or

14:21

two of the three will be gone.

14:23

I do think all three are gonna end up losing

14:26

in the first round, and that's gonna

14:28

pose a lot of questions if they're gonna want to be around.

14:30

I mean, it's not been easy going for Kevin

14:32

Durant since he's left Golden

14:34

State. I mean, I

14:36

look back at it now, I never thought I never

14:39

thought i'd say this. Probably never should have

14:41

left Golden State. Lebron

14:43

He's never gonna win a championship again in

14:46

Los Angeles? So does he bring

14:48

a player there? Does he go somewhere else and

14:50

set it up for his son to join him in like a

14:52

year or two? And if I'm Joel Embiid,

14:55

I know it's tough for Philadelphia to give him up as you have

14:57

really no star power. But

15:00

I mean, really, what are you gonna do? You could probably

15:02

get something good in return for him and

15:04

start rebuilding this whole trust. The process

15:07

went south real quick. What

15:09

else are you gonna do? You know what I mean? There's really

15:12

no other choice. But he's not gonna take you to a championship

15:15

as you can see.

15:16

Yeah, I mean I actually said last

15:18

night to Torres that I'm

15:21

predicting that Durant's gonna request

15:23

a trade within the next couple of months.

15:25

Oh, I could see that happening for sure.

15:27

Because we've seen this movie before

15:30

multiple times, and the

15:33

Suns are for

15:35

all intentsive purposes, they are screwed because

15:39

what they have invested they owe Bradley

15:41

Bual. I think it's one hundred and sixty one million dollars

15:43

over three years. Wow, nobody's

15:45

taken that like in twenty, but

15:48

I think it's in I think it's in twenty six, twenty

15:50

seven. He's owed fifty seven

15:52

point one million dollars, So

15:55

you look down the line at that. I didn't like

15:57

the bull I like Bradley Bual, but I

15:59

didn't like the acquisition for them. But I also don't

16:01

like the Durant acquisition as much as I like Durant

16:03

because what you have, and

16:05

I mean this is easy and obvious for anybody to

16:07

see. You have three guys that do the exact same

16:09

thing. They're just carbon copies that want to know. They

16:11

score the basketball. That's what they do. That's what Booker

16:13

does, That's what Durant does, That's what Beal does. None

16:15

of them play defense. They got rid of eight and

16:18

on the inside, they got rid of bridges

16:20

who played defense for them. They got rid of some of

16:22

their depth, they got rid of some of their youth. And

16:24

you see it exposed now, like are they gonna win

16:27

this game tonight? They might, but.

16:28

They're not gonna win the series.

16:29

This has been a complete failure, and they're

16:31

on the hook for over three hundred

16:34

million dollars cash strap.

16:36

They can't even sign a mid level exception Yeah,

16:39

it's gonna look at that and say we can't win.

16:42

If I'm gonna win, I've got to win right now, he's

16:45

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18:34

Milwaukee Bucks lose one twenty

18:36

six, one thirteen, No

18:39

Yannis, no Lillard,

18:44

no nothing out there. They're falling apart. Where

18:46

does Jannis go? He's gonna ask to get

18:48

out of there. If

18:51

the Bucks can't go ahead and find some pieces

18:54

around him. Things aren't looking good out

18:56

there at Milwaukee. Also, you can have three or

18:58

four big names out there that's are gonna

19:00

want Can you imagine if Lebron's able

19:02

to get Yanni's or somebody like that.

19:05

I mean, obviously that'd be huge.

19:10

The thing about the Bucks, it's odd. I mean,

19:12

you have the thing that's happened with Lillard, but

19:14

without Giannis it was not

19:17

going to happen anyway,

19:19

if you really look at the Milwaukee situation,

19:22

I kind of look at it since since Doc

19:24

Rivers kind of

19:26

way in there, I've

19:28

kind of hoped this was gonna happen,

19:30

not then getting hurt or anything. But just I

19:33

didn't like anything about that. It seemed

19:35

kind of shady to me. I wish Doc had

19:37

just stayed on TV, because I think he's

19:39

pretty.

19:40

Good on TV.

19:41

For him to just jump back in and try

19:44

it, I mean, whether or not this is

19:46

what it was, it felt like, oh man, this roster

19:48

could win a championship. I'm gonna find my way into this

19:50

like that. It just it rubbed me

19:52

the wrong way. But I don't

19:54

necessarily think Giannis is going

19:56

to ask out, But at the very least of the

19:59

last couple of last couple

20:01

off seasons, he's made a few comments where, look,

20:03

this team and its ownership is on

20:05

the clock. Always to make sure that

20:07

they're doing everything possible to

20:10

put a championship roster there. And

20:14

generally I still think they're a really good

20:16

team. But I just don't think they've looked right

20:18

much this year, especially not you

20:21

know, midway through, and

20:24

unfortunately Lillard getting hurt

20:26

is just something that's happened quite a bit.

20:29

They're already paying Reer, They're already paying

20:31

three coaches, right, I think they're paying three

20:33

coaches. If they fired Doc, they'd

20:35

be paying off like four coaches out there.

20:37

He's not going anywhere. It just looks

20:40

absolutely desperate

20:42

times for the people of Milwaukee. By the way, our

20:45

producer, we do have a producer. Producer, Patrick

20:47

says, the cheapest ticket for me to get

20:49

into the Knicks game on Tuesday like

20:52

four hundred and twenty five, four and fifty

20:54

dollars. Of course I can't sit in the

20:56

nosebleed seats. That's gonna be like a

20:58

couple of thousand dollars to be in the lower tier.

21:01

Who has money for something like that for just the

21:04

first round playoff game, Jason, even

21:06

if even if you have a little bit of money,

21:08

do you want to be spending a couple of thousand

21:11

dollars for our first round playoff

21:13

game. That's crazy, you know.

21:15

Yeah, No, I you

21:17

definitely don't these

21:20

times, you know, no U. And

21:24

I just, I mean, I don't think that the experience

21:26

is worth it.

21:28

First off. I mean we've talked about I think this

21:30

is true across sports, but the experience

21:32

watching on television and just everything

21:35

that you can get from that, I just I'm not going to give

21:37

up a bunch of other experiences

21:39

that I could have with family or children or

21:41

something like that. Unless they're just die hard have

21:43

to be there. I'm going to find a way to do

21:46

something else. Most of the time, it's

21:49

just the ticket. The ticket prices

21:52

have now just kind of played out anybody

21:54

normal going on most games,

21:56

And I mean there was stuff during the what was it during

21:58

the final four seats where

22:01

you couldn't see squat We're over one thousand

22:03

dollars and she said, well, what are you doing, like

22:05

just so that you can say you were there. I'm

22:08

sorry, not in this climate.

22:10

And I'm you know what, I'm glad Joelle

22:12

and be called out his fans for selling

22:14

their tickets and letting get go on the secondary

22:16

market. I mean, you know, Philly fans

22:19

for all the you know, compliments

22:21

they get about how great to fans they are. They're so

22:24

overrated. I mean, seriously,

22:26

think about it. That they're good Eagle fans

22:28

and I know they liked their baseball out there,

22:31

but they really don't support the Sixers

22:33

or the Flyers or anything

22:36

like that. They're overrated fans out there.

22:38

They'll turn on you in a heartbeat

22:40

for crying out loud. It's

22:43

all this bolooney. How great they are, you know

22:45

what I mean?

22:45

Jason, Yeah, Well, I mean they have, they

22:47

have a reputation. I don't know about them being great

22:49

as much as like so

22:52

obnoxious that

22:54

like if you have children.

22:55

Don't go.

22:56

Yeah, if

22:59

they have alcoholicy event, don't go like

23:01

stuff like that, Like I don't. I don't know that that's what

23:03

you really want to be known for. And that's what they've been known

23:05

for for quite some time.

23:07

I think I know the answer to this question for you, but

23:09

I'm gonna ask you anyway. Are you more likely

23:12

to spend a lot of money on a ticket

23:14

to a concert or to a sporting

23:16

event?

23:18

That's a good question. I think it depends

23:20

on the event.

23:22

For the super Bowl, you're gonna spend a lot of money,

23:24

there's no doubt.

23:25

But yeah, well, I mean like, yeah, yeah,

23:27

it's not even that. It's just like Sunday

23:30

at Augusta. I'll go to the Masters over

23:33

just about anything, right, right. But I

23:35

think more often than not, I would pick

23:37

a concert if it's like a first

23:40

run or a last chance.

23:41

To see you, like a Taylor Swift a fan or

23:43

something like that. No, no, because those are a lot

23:45

of money.

23:46

Those those concerts, they definitely

23:48

are, and a lot of them aren't worth it. I've

23:50

gotten a lot of joy out of music in my life.

23:52

But I think maybe we're sort of biased

23:55

in what we do because we've

23:57

gone to a lot of sporting events to cover

24:00

those events, to be part of the media. So

24:02

you know, we've been to Super Bowls, even if

24:04

we haven't been to the game itself. We've been to college

24:07

national championship games and all of these things.

24:10

So I think maybe we take for granted that experience

24:14

to some degree. I think again, it would just it would

24:16

depend on the artist versus what

24:18

the sporting event is. But if

24:20

you give me a Sunday ticket to Augusta,

24:23

I'm probably gonna take that over just about anything

24:25

in sports or music.

24:28

That and get a dollar fifty pimento sandwich

24:30

or something like that.

24:31

I don't know if I'm a pimento guy.

24:33

I gotta love those prices though, on job

24:35

on gut greater than that.

24:36

That's true, Yeah.

24:40

But I mean again, you're paying ten

24:42

grand to go.

24:43

Wow, is it that much to get it?

24:45

It can be crazy, all right, But first off, I mean it's

24:47

done via lottery. I had

24:49

an opportunity to go once and passed

24:51

on it, and I'm a fool for doing that. But I

24:53

had a family reason, and I still

24:55

felt like a fool for doing it. But

24:58

yeah, I mean it's it's insane secondary

25:00

market. At that point in time. It just gets

25:02

absolutely outrageous because they just there's only

25:04

so much space on a course, and it's

25:06

such an exclusive place to be. It's

25:09

one of the highest priced anythings you can

25:11

do.

25:11

A real quick story on this, I'll tell you I was supposed

25:13

to go do my showdown there. I was working for another

25:16

place and I didn't go at the last

25:18

minute. A couple of other shows went down. I didn't go

25:20

down, No big deal. I'm really not my thing.

25:23

At the end of the four at the At the end of

25:25

the tournament, the media is invited

25:27

to put their names into a hat and

25:30

if you get your name drawn out, you get to play a round

25:32

of golf there before they

25:34

fixed the course. So what are

25:36

the producers.

25:37

Put my name in?

25:37

And they called my name to

25:40

play, and they were gonna go ahead and substitute

25:42

and play for me, but you weren't

25:44

allowed to do that. So could

25:47

you imagine that they called your name, you would have just screened

25:49

like a little girl, you know what I mean, get

25:51

out there and played. I How great as that? And they

25:54

let the media play one round on

25:56

that Monday before they go

25:58

ahead and fix the chorus. How great

26:00

is that?

26:01

Yeah, just to

26:03

say you've done it right.

26:04

Yeah, it's still it's still be good either way.

26:07

But yeah, in terms of like paying exorbit and money

26:09

to go to NBA playoff games, oh twenty

26:11

twenty four, Nah, we're good.

26:13

Yeah, I'm also set.

26:14

I'm all set at the house.

26:15

Well, maybe I'll get a press pass and pretend I'm covering

26:17

the game like everybody else does out there that

26:19

they say they have to go ahead and do that, so I

26:21

will wait and see. We're gonna come back. We gotta get it into the NFL

26:24

drop. We got a lot to get to first though. We see

26:26

what's trending for the first time tonight,

26:28

and we got a couple of games going on. Yeah,

26:31

we check it with the Sega, who I would not give him

26:33

the night off. I had to give Plank to night off.

26:35

I'm wanting to give the Sega the night off also

26:37

for crying out out what's up to Sega?

26:39

Hey, they're good to hear you almost, And it's

26:41

also it's a it's an opportunity for Jason

26:43

to hear yet again, how little power you actually

26:45

wheel that right exactly here?

26:48

Well, you're here today, so that's all that matters.

26:50

Yeah, it's my choice. Yeah, of course I

26:52

thought Plank was gonna be here too. So you know what

26:54

can you get? It's Arnie as the lead

26:56

for those who are listening every

26:58

Sunday night on this show. Oh that's the

27:01

first voice you heard tonight was one Arnie

27:03

away. Because Chris Plank is out there.

27:05

If I lead and make Plank through the picks,

27:07

maybe we could reverse roles there or something.

27:09

Now we'll see what kind of power

27:12

you doing. Yeah, I have looked up

27:14

the number of seasons that the Minnesota

27:16

Timberwolves have had because they have a chance to get

27:18

out of the first round, if not tonight, then the next

27:20

game, as they're playing the Suns in this first round

27:22

series. They started as an expansion

27:25

team nineteen eighty nine ninety Literally

27:28

only once ever have they gotten out of

27:30

the first round of the player. That was

27:32

Kevin Garnett's MVP year twenty years

27:34

ago, when they made it to the West Finals

27:36

and the Lakers then eliminated them.

27:39

More often than not, they're not even in the playoffs

27:41

at all, but the Minnesota Timberwolves,

27:44

three seed in the West, are leading three games

27:46

to none in this first round series. They're

27:48

tied at Phoenix eighty nine eighty nine

27:50

in the final minute of the third quarter.

27:52

Our boss is a Minnesota fan of

27:55

all the teams. If they win tonight, I'm

27:57

gonna ask them for a race tomorrow. What about that? It'll be the

27:59

boat for everybody exactly.

28:02

Yeah, you know.

28:03

He has often talked about how the

28:05

area of Minneapolis

28:08

in any of the four major sports, has gone

28:10

the longest currently without

28:12

a championship. Now Phoenix, it's gone

28:14

since the the Kurkchilling Randy Johnson

28:16

World Series, A Diamondbacks, which is over

28:18

twenty years. But since the Twins

28:20

won the World Series nineteen ninety one

28:23

with Jack Morrison Company, that's

28:25

the last time there was in the major

28:27

men's sports a title in Minneapolis.

28:30

So they're number one on the list of cities

28:32

with four major sports

28:35

because otherwise we could say Buffalo or

28:37

San Diego. There's no titles going on there.

28:39

For decades now.

28:40

Remember Cleveland famously had not

28:42

had a title until Lebron and the Cavs.

28:45

Anyway, a chance for a four game sweep from

28:47

Minnesota tonight will keep you updated.

28:49

Also in the West, the Clippers are tied two

28:51

games apiece. They blew a thirty one point

28:53

first half lead and still won at Dallas

28:56

one sixteen to one eleven, Kyrie

28:58

irving forty points and seven turnovers

29:00

in the loss. Luka Donsich with the

29:03

soor Andee had a triple double, but with

29:05

one for nine from three point range.

29:07

Indiana's up three games to one after beating

29:10

Milwaukee this evening one twenty six to

29:12

one thirteen. Game five is Tuesday

29:14

at Milwaukee. New York up three

29:16

games to one after winning at Philadelphia

29:18

ninety seven to ninety two. Game five is

29:20

in New York on Tuesday. Oklahoma

29:23

City's Mark Dagnold is the NBA Coach

29:25

of the Year at age thirty nine. In

29:27

the late NHL playoff game in

29:29

Los Angeles, end of one at scoreless

29:32

Kings against the Edmonton Oilers, who were up

29:34

two games to one, the number one New York

29:36

Rangers completed a four game sweep, winning

29:38

at Washington tonight four to two. Van

29:41

Vancouver came back for an overtime

29:43

win at Nashville four to three. Canucks

29:45

lead the series three games to one. Colorado

29:48

up three games to one after whipping Winnipeg

29:50

five to one. Danny Hamlin took

29:52

the NASCAR Race at Dover. The Sunday night

29:54

ballgame at Boston went to the Red Sox

29:56

five to four over the Cubs with a run

29:59

in the bottom of the night. The Hubs had tied it in the

30:01

top of the eighth on a three run homer. Houston

30:03

played this weekend against Colorado in

30:05

Mexico City and beat them again today

30:07

eight to two, winning pitcher from Bervaldez

30:10

five innings, six strikeouts, and the Minnesota

30:12

Twins have won seven in a row. Here

30:15

the Minnesota Timberwolves. It might be their night,

30:18

and the Twins had seventeen hits today

30:20

at Anaheim beat the Angels eleven

30:22

to five, seven straight wins

30:24

for the Twins. The Angels offense

30:26

meanwhile, six for thirty three at

30:28

the plate and fourteen strikeouts. The Angels

30:31

have lost nine of ten.

30:32

Back to you, Geez, thanks a lot to say.

30:34

You will see all those games go a little

30:36

bit later on. Of course, he's Jason Martin and

30:39

for Chris Plank, I'm Martie Spanier. Chris

30:41

Pike would join us an hour three first

30:43

segment to go ahead and recap the draft. As a matter

30:46

of fact, as we start with the draft, I want

30:48

to start with this. I want to give you

30:50

a evaluation on these so called

30:52

you know, these big NFL evaluators.

30:55

They I mean, they spend their whole lives evaluating

30:58

these players. This player

31:00

got a C minus Jason C minus

31:03

and said calling this player or a project

31:06

is a major understatement. He's

31:09

nowhere near ready to play in the

31:12

NFL, and honestly, he

31:14

may never be. Between his inconsistent

31:17

accuracy, due to his poor

31:19

mechanics, his tendency

31:21

to bail from clean pockets,

31:24

and his lack of field vision. He's

31:27

going to leave as many big plays on

31:29

the field as he creates. This

31:32

was a risky pick. Would you like

31:34

to know who they're talking about? Jason Martin?

31:36

I can't wait?

31:38

That is one Patrick Mahomes.

31:44

That is what evaluation is

31:46

c minas for Patrick Malbs.

31:48

I guess my question. First of all, I find that really

31:50

funny. I really do. How could

31:52

you be so off on

31:55

one person that, I mean,

31:57

some people may consider maybe and

32:00

fight it out for the best quarterback in the history of the NFL

32:02

with with todm brady went his careers over

32:04

to saying, yay, never gonna make

32:07

it in the NFL, He's gonna

32:09

be a big bust. He's a C minus. Isn't

32:11

that tough to evaluate

32:14

great talent that you can't even figure

32:16

out? I mean, I'm not saying you have to say

32:18

he was gonna be the best, but could you say, yeah, that's

32:21

a good picking, he's gonna be a good quarterback, not

32:23

that he's just never gonna make it in

32:25

the NFL and he's a SEE minus. That that's

32:27

absolutely crazy, you know.

32:29

Yeah, but that's

32:31

what they get paid to do, is have opinions.

32:34

Right, but the wrong opinion there?

32:36

Yeah, Well, I think it's more just how

32:38

often are they held accountable for when they're wrong, Like,

32:40

yeah, you'll bring up the well you

32:43

thought this guy was a bust.

32:44

Yeah, but there.

32:46

I think if you do it long enough, your track record

32:48

is usually better than worse, Like you're gonna

32:50

have more hits than misses.

32:51

Because a lot of it can be. It

32:53

can be, it can be.

32:54

Kind of scientific in its own way. But in

32:57

terms of the quarterbacks, I gave this stat last night,

33:00

seventy percent of first round

33:02

quarterback draft picks over the last twenty years

33:05

or busts would be deemed busts.

33:09

That is not very good like that, that's that's

33:11

not a very good range. Would you said round

33:14

or yes, seventy over the last

33:16

twenty years, about seventy percent have

33:18

been complete and total busts.

33:20

Well, that's the overreach for quarterbacks to begin

33:22

with, that most of them should have first round picks,

33:24

though.

33:25

Sure, I think that. I think there's

33:27

definitely a lot of truth to that, And

33:29

so if you've got six in the top twelve, then

33:31

you're gonna have a lot of at

33:34

least history would tell you're gonna have a lot of busts coming

33:36

from some high draft picks in

33:38

this draft, and I mean, you look at it,

33:41

all these guys, all of them but one

33:44

at least are into a situation that I at

33:46

least like. Potentially

33:48

there's one and there's one that I don't

33:51

like the situation at all just

33:53

because of what he is walking into. And

33:55

I think he's gonna be called into action sooner

33:58

than he's probably to

34:00

take it, and I think that's gonna harm him.

34:02

But again, like.

34:04

Quarterbacks, by and large,

34:06

I think it was twenty twenty one, I

34:09

think there were five quarterbacks taken

34:11

in the first round, either five or six.

34:14

All but one are now backups on another

34:16

team, and it's only been a couple of seasons

34:18

wow out since that. So that like

34:20

it's if you were going to miss

34:23

and you're a prognosticator and you're trying to do the

34:25

smart thing, you should always

34:27

say the guy's not going to make it, because

34:30

you have a much higher chance of

34:32

being right based on what I just said.

34:34

As a matter of fact, we'll go through the number

34:36

one pick, Caleb Williams, and we'll go through some of the other

34:38

quarterbacks since you bring them up. We'll go

34:40

through all that that's coming up next. Of

34:42

course, Jason Martin and for Chris Blank, I'm

34:45

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35:01

All right, good evening everyone. Of course, Jason

35:03

Martin, Arnie span you're sitting in here on Fox

35:05

Sports Radio. Jason Martin. For Chris

35:08

Plank, we'll talk to Christen, our number

35:10

three. I'm sure I'll have a lot to say about his Raiders

35:13

and a little bit about the NFL draft.

35:15

Matter of fact, let's start there with Caleb Williams,

35:18

obviously the number one pick. Speak up

35:20

now, Jason and forever older piece. I

35:23

don't want to saying, well, I knew this

35:25

guy was going to be the next Tom Brady and the

35:27

Patrick Mahomes. I don't see

35:29

it. I think he's going to be a good

35:31

quarterback, a very good quarterback,

35:34

you know, possibly an

35:36

All Pro and all that, but I

35:39

mean, the next coming of everything,

35:41

and he checks all the boxes

35:43

and if he's really that good. The

35:46

Bears were seven to ten last

35:48

year, and they made a lot of good

35:50

changes, picking up Swift and running back

35:52

and adding wide receivers.

35:54

Did a good job in the draft. They

35:57

should be better. They should make a rudd of winning

35:59

that division and make

36:01

it a playoff push. But what

36:03

do you think of Caleb Williams overall? Is

36:06

he the next best thing? Is he already a

36:08

Hall of Famer like everybody thinks. You tell me

36:10

what you think of him?

36:11

No, I mean I do. I am very high on him,

36:13

But I mean I've been wrong about this before. I

36:16

do. I like a skill set, and I think that if

36:19

you look at what he did not this past season, but the

36:21

season before and then I think

36:23

that USC just kind of cratered with the defense

36:26

and everything that failed, and just

36:28

a little bit of the balloom fell off the Lincoln Riley

36:31

Rose. I don't think it fell off the Caleb Rose.

36:33

And then the stories were let's just

36:35

see how many little things that we can

36:38

poke into Caleb Williams

36:40

on the run to the draft. He's a weird guy.

36:42

He wears nail polosh, he's this and that,

36:44

he's aloof his dad's always involved

36:46

all of these things. But I

36:50

do think that he has the opportunity to be

36:52

really good, and I actually think he's walking into

36:54

a good situation, surprisingly enough, because

36:56

the Bears usually or not. But Dj

36:59

Moore, he can the fact

37:01

that they were able to then get

37:03

Roma Dunza.

37:05

Oh, I thought that was phenomenal.

37:06

Yeah, was tremendous, Like that's awesome.

37:09

So you've got Dj Moore and Roma Dounze.

37:11

They're okay at the tight end position. They

37:13

got better on defense with some of the things

37:15

that they did even before the trade deadline

37:18

last year, like they were already I

37:20

felt like they were. They were winning games that you weren't

37:22

expecting them to win last year because they

37:24

were playing with house money because they knew they couldn't ruin

37:26

their opportunity to have the number one pick

37:28

anyway. So they were able to actually

37:30

take some steps and didn't have to play

37:32

the tank game in any way, shape or form.

37:35

But I mean Caleb Williams.

37:38

The comparisons even now, even

37:40

from some of the people that were critical of various

37:42

things about Caleb Williams, if you look at it from the football

37:45

standpoint and the people to watch a lot of tape, they've

37:47

said for like three years now, the

37:49

comparison is Mahomes. Now that's insane,

37:52

and I don't like it because not because

37:54

he couldn't be that, but because you shouldn't ever put

37:56

that on somebody. Let's like Caleb Williams

37:58

be Caleb Williams, but they should like side

38:00

by sides, and they did it during

38:02

a lot of his games over the last couple of years.

38:05

And if that name is even being invoked

38:07

around you, then far be it

38:09

for me to pooh pooh the possibility

38:13

of what he could do. So yes, I am

38:15

high on Caleb Williams. I don't I mean, I don't

38:17

know if he's gonna set the world on fire or not, but

38:19

I do think that he does have

38:22

he has some unique stuff, some stuff

38:25

that you just don't see, and he could he could

38:27

definitely walk in and be great.

38:28

The stuff that you mentioned are they red flags?

38:31

I mean, let's think about it now, going into the

38:33

crowd and crying with his mother. You

38:35

mentioned the nail polish or whatever. There

38:38

was something else that you mentioned to that

38:41

his father, you know, obviously gets involved

38:43

with a lot of stuff. Any of that red

38:45

flags that should worry a team.

38:48

Oh well, that should worry about the Bears or

38:50

not. Really, just that's something you gotta deal with.

38:53

I mean, I think there's always going

38:55

to be something that you have to deal with. I

38:57

think that what

38:59

are the chances that

39:02

he's going to be able to do just really

39:05

special stuff for your franchise that's not gonna matter.

39:07

I mean Aaron Rodgers was kind of a weird

39:09

dude.

39:09

Yes, that's true.

39:10

Yeah, I mean there's been a lot of especially

39:12

the quarterback position or the wide receiver position.

39:14

I think in particular, you know, you

39:16

can get away with this.

39:17

You're good enough.

39:18

You just can. You can be eccentric like Odell. If

39:20

you can make that play on Sunday Night football, you

39:22

can do some of these things. I mean you're hearing some of

39:24

that stuff about neighbors as well.

39:27

And he's going into a situation in the NFL that's

39:29

not ideal, doesn't have a great quarterback and doesn't

39:31

have a lot around him, and some

39:34

of the knock on him was there's a little bit of a deftendency.

39:36

I'm like, oh, really, he's a wide receiver that's good out

39:38

of LSU. You're telling me he's got a little bit of deva tendency

39:41

in him. But those those things.

39:44

Is he going to be coachable? Is Caleb Williams

39:46

gonna be good in the locker room all of this. You

39:48

know Tom's gonna tell, but I think that you

39:51

have to unless you just have bona

39:53

fide guarantee this guy is gonna

39:56

be poison. I think you have to

39:58

take that risk if you think

40:00

he's the guy, because and I

40:02

think I think it is worth the risk.

40:04

I'm gonna say every year playing, can I do, Who's

40:06

gonna be worse the first? I think like in twenty

40:09

five years, twenty five teams have gone

40:11

from worse to first and one division

40:13

the Vikings and the Bears, both in seven

40:16

and ten, both both

40:19

people both fed base has high o their team

40:21

out there. Any one of those teams go from

40:23

worse the first, especially the Bears. What do you think

40:26

worse the first?

40:27

I don't know.

40:27

I think that. I mean, right now I'm looking at what the what

40:29

the Texans did last year, and I'm trying to find

40:31

the team that could do that that really

40:34

made themselves better. I don't know if it's worse

40:36

the first, but I do think that the Bears are going to

40:38

be a really good football team, and they have the potential to

40:40

be a really good football team in the next couple of years.

40:42

That's the team I'm gonna want to watch, even though

40:44

I'm not a fan of their's our one. We just

40:46

flew on by our one in the books already.

40:49

You want to get in. It's real simple. J

40:52

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40:54

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good about it. Really, we should ask

41:39

for raises, maybe

41:41

cars, trips,

41:44

transportation. While he's in

41:46

a good mood. Usually when his teams lose,

41:48

and that's every year, he's like a bear.

41:50

He's like, so

41:53

he's so mean to us. But now

41:55

that his team is winning for the first time in his life.

41:57

Maybe we can get something. Jason, I

42:00

have no.

42:00

Idea what you're talking about, Absolutely

42:03

no comment on that at all. I just kind of disgusted

42:06

that this is now twice in

42:08

this show that nineteen ninety one has been

42:10

brought up. I don't think we need to go into that Braves

42:12

Twins series at all. Quite frankly, like, if

42:14

we could never mention that again, that

42:16

would be phenomenal.

42:17

It's been such a long time, could you imagine?

42:19

And I think I have it bad. It's been a long time

42:21

since my teams have won. I mean, I'm

42:23

a Knicks fan, I'm a Dolphins

42:25

fan, my Arizona Wildcats.

42:29

I mean, it just it just goes

42:31

on and on. And I'm a Mets fan, so

42:33

I had a little bit of hope a couple of years back.

42:35

But it just takes

42:37

its toll out of you, especially my Dolphins. I'm

42:39

telling you, it's just tiresome.

42:42

I sometimes I just want to give up.

42:44

Man.

42:45

I'm like, I feel like I'm never going to see the Dolphins

42:47

get to a super Bowl again while I'm

42:49

alive. That's how bad it is right now. Jason.

42:51

You know, yeah, Well, I look,

42:54

it's not gonna get any easier this year. I think the Jets

42:56

had a pretty good draft. Yeah, we'll

42:58

see what the Bills do.

43:00

I mean, And they did grab.

43:03

You know, the Florida state wide receiver to open the second

43:05

round to try and replace Davon Diggs and

43:09

Kethon Coleman.

43:10

And that's going to.

43:10

Help you if you're Buffalo.

43:13

But I don't know. I don't know

43:15

what they are going to be this year Miami.

43:18

I just need to see them beat a good team. And

43:20

the fact that Chubb got hurt right at the end of

43:22

the year in a scenario where he shouldn't have been

43:24

in a game, I still think that you may rue

43:26

that if you're a Dolphins guy

43:28

and you got to see whether or not it's still going

43:30

to be able to actually step up and do this. Even

43:33

though he stayed healthy last year, I think

43:35

he was particularly reliable in a lot of situations

43:38

where they needed better. So it

43:41

might not be your year.

43:42

We'll see, And you have no problem

43:45

with a one hundred year old quarterback

43:47

coming back from an injury that kept them out all of last

43:49

year to lead the New York Jets

43:51

to what I mean, He's still scary.

43:54

He doesn't scare me at all. And I'm a Dolphin fan.

43:56

I'll just put the Judson in

43:58

the last place right now. They won't finish

44:00

in the last moves of the Patriots or in that division.

44:03

But the Jets don't scare me at all. I don't think Rogers

44:05

is ever coming back close to the form that

44:07

he used to be. I think he's just gonna be miserable from

44:09

here on out. You know, I

44:13

don't know.

44:13

I think that. I mean, we'll say if

44:16

if they have a good year this year, certainly, if they would

44:18

win it all, he'll retire. I

44:20

just want to see if he's having fun this year. I think he

44:22

is still out there to prove

44:26

that this was not a hymn problem. And

44:28

I think that he's done a lot of the right things

44:30

and said a lot of the right things since he's been with the

44:32

Jets. If he's able to stay on the field and

44:34

they end up, you know, nine to

44:36

eight, that's gonna tell you a lot

44:38

about what's going on, I think. But I

44:41

do think you're gonna get the whatever the best version

44:44

of Aaron Rodgers is that's left.

44:46

I think you're gonna get that. This time.

44:47

Yeah, well, see how fast the fans turn on him

44:50

when they start out, like one in four or something

44:52

to that effect. Remember you just brought up the stat

44:54

how many quarterbacks are busted in the first

44:57

round. How many quarterbacks at that age come

44:59

back from major injuries and still

45:02

have a successful career. You got the stats

45:04

on that one, big boy, Because I'm gonna say it's

45:06

got to be pretty low, to be honest with you.

45:08

You know, listen, you're talking to me like I'm a Jets

45:10

fan, not a Jets fan. I

45:12

do think that I do think they they

45:14

had a good draft. I like the

45:17

fact that Franklin Myers

45:19

is in Denver with my Broncos. Though, like I

45:21

do think that that that move may hurt them

45:23

in terms of what they have up front, but

45:26

they had a lot of pieces last year. They still have a quarterback.

45:29

So if Aaron Rodgers, if

45:31

that was a fluke and he's not gonna get hurt again. I

45:33

mean, I still like my chances if i'm

45:35

them. Now, if you look at the if you look

45:38

at the rest of that division, we already

45:40

talked about Miami, New England, I just think

45:42

is an afterthought and that's the one

45:44

quarterback in Drake May where I just I don't like

45:46

I don't like it for him to be there right

45:48

now because I don't think that they are ready to put

45:51

him out there because they don't have what he needs around

45:53

him, and he needs some time and they don't have time to give

45:55

him. So that's a problem.

45:57

We'll go through some of the other draft stuff in a minute.

45:59

But another easy question for you. I think I know the answer

46:02

for this one. Also, but you're a big football

46:04

fan, more excited about college football

46:06

to start or the NFL to start. And I know

46:08

you're a big NFL fan, but I know

46:10

you got to be saying college football, right.

46:12

You gotta love I love college football.

46:14

Right, and especially with all the changes next year?

46:17

Yeah, yeah, And I do want to see how

46:19

that plays out. But I'm really excited to watch

46:21

a twelve team playoff.

46:23

Even before all the conference changes, and I've

46:25

died to see what USC and uclare gonna

46:27

do in.

46:28

The I'm very excited to see Okahoma

46:30

in Texas, so.

46:31

I can't wait for that. I mean, I

46:34

feel like watching every game. I'm not a fan

46:36

of those teams, but I want to see what they're gonna down

46:38

there. I want to see the new Big twelve. I I

46:40

just want to see how everything's gonna shake out. Twice

46:44

is more excited about college football than

46:46

the NFL right now?

46:47

Yeah, I mean, I agree with you, and I generally

46:49

am. I don't know about Twice, but I think

46:51

I'm college football just to shave more than the NFL,

46:54

even if I admit the NFL game itself is

46:56

a little bit better. I just I enjoy

46:59

the college game and just even

47:01

the unpredictability of it from time to time.

47:03

I am just excited to see what the changes look

47:06

like. I am worried about the future

47:08

of college athletics, especially

47:10

college football, in the next three to five years. Is

47:12

it if they continue to expand this thing, I think

47:14

it's a mistake. If NIL continues

47:16

to be out of control, I think that's a mistake. But

47:20

just as excited as I am for EA

47:22

Sports to bring back against EAA football

47:25

onto my PS five this summer, a

47:27

lot of that is generated by just how excited

47:30

I am for the college football season in general, even

47:32

though I mean, the NFL is the NFL, and we love the NFL.

47:35

But yeah, I'm a little bit more geeked

47:37

for the college season.

47:38

By the way, I don't know how much of the draft you watched.

47:40

I see I have the sound down while I'm

47:42

watching the games because I'm not

47:44

having this, you know, I'm not listening to the

47:47

breakdown. Maybe a little bit of it. But

47:49

did you like it over

47:51

all the show? Did you like the Belichick part

47:54

and stuff like that? You

47:56

know, do you like the whole breakdown of the thing or

47:58

does it really buy you don't care one way or the

48:00

other.

48:01

I didn't get to watch Belichick. I watched Saban, and I thought

48:03

Saban was really good.

48:04

Yeah, a lot of people loved him. Yeah, yeah.

48:06

And I already knew he was gonna be good because I've

48:08

seen him for years. When Alabama's

48:11

not playing a national title game, he'll be with them

48:13

on site for whatever the game is. And

48:16

I just I think he's going to be very good. And Belichick,

48:19

i'd heard he did okay, and I didn't

48:21

get to see it. The problem the only thing

48:23

that I have against the draft is,

48:26

and I have made this known

48:28

in the past, is this second round,

48:30

we're in Detroit, and everybody that comes up to make

48:33

a pick is some player from the past, and

48:35

he comes up and he's like, what's up, Detroit? And he

48:37

does this like minute minute and a half diatribe

48:39

to the fans like it's a rock

48:42

concert of the song.

48:44

It's just too long, Like I

48:46

understand that everybody's on the clock and the clock

48:48

is the same length and all this, but it

48:51

just feels like such a slog and

48:53

it's unnecessary, Like if

48:55

we could just shorten some of that stuff.

48:58

I'm cool when you bring up the kids and you

49:00

bring up some of that stuff, like that's different, but

49:03

I don't need random

49:06

former charger going

49:09

up in Detroit and thank you Big

49:11

d for how you've treated. Like, just get to

49:13

the pick, Like I actually turned it off

49:15

forty five minutes into day two and

49:18

just watch the rest on a draft

49:20

tracker on my phone. And then because I just

49:22

the experience of watching it at that point,

49:25

it outlived its.

49:26

Usefulness for me.

49:27

You know, let me give you my pet peeves, some of those we're

49:29

talking about, Uh, the Super Bowl, I'm gonna

49:31

go, Jason, let me give you my pick. My pick

49:33

is and I'm just gonna have dead air for

49:35

three minutes and then I'm gonna give you my pick. How about

49:37

what it says the pick is in, then

49:39

I don't have to wait like a minute or two before

49:42

you announce who that pick is.

49:43

Well, the worst is the pick is in. We'll

49:45

let you know after this break. Yeah, says pick

49:47

is in and they go to commercial for three.

49:50

Already this

49:52

goodell walking like a mile away

49:54

to go ahead and pick it up and come

49:56

on back and give us the pick. If the

49:58

pick is in, as soon as you put it

50:00

up, the pick is in, give us the name.

50:03

Don't make me wait like a couple of minutes

50:05

after that, you know what I mean? Yeah?

50:07

Absolutely, I mean I'm with you. I do

50:09

not in any in any way,

50:11

shape or form, enjoy that. And if

50:14

the pick is in, then.

50:15

The pick is in.

50:16

We don't need the three to four minute

50:18

deal. I got yelled

50:20

at by Adam Schefter way too much on Thursday.

50:24

On Thursday night, I was flipping between ESPN

50:27

the NFL network.

50:29

Right.

50:29

I like Rich Eison, but Rich Eisen sometimes

50:31

gets a little bit too jokey, and

50:34

he tries to be a little bit too clever with this wordplay,

50:36

right, and it just kind of it ends

50:39

up bothering me. Even though I love Joel Klatten and I

50:41

love Charles Davis, so I was flipping back and

50:43

forth between the two broadcasts. But

50:45

like Adam Schefter yelling at me about

50:48

the Falcons being about to draft Michael

50:50

Pennock Junior, I'm like.

50:51

Dude, man, I'm in the room.

50:52

Like you've got a microphone on, you

50:54

do not need to scream at me. It's like he didn't

50:56

realize the loud room he was in, he

50:58

was still gonna be heard because he had a microphone,

51:01

you know, set up a lab mic that was going to take

51:03

him right into our homes. He screamed

51:06

that at me. I was like, hey, hey, man, like

51:09

I'm just I'm just watching this. Have I've

51:11

been sworn in, Like I'm not actually

51:13

sitting in a witness stand right

51:15

now. Like there is a little bit

51:17

too much showmanship to it. But obviously

51:19

I understand it's a big television show, the

51:22

big time, right.

51:23

Yeah. I mean I mean, look company

51:25

with seven hundred thousand people or something

51:27

like that. Yeah, I mean, it's it's

51:29

amazing how many people. That's not

51:31

a bucket list of yours. I take it to a

51:33

ten, the NFL draft or anything like that.

51:35

I've already done it.

51:36

Oh wow, Yeah, because.

51:39

I covered it's awesome, Like I loved I loved

51:41

them taking it on the road to all these cities, and

51:43

I think that it looks good and it's

51:46

great for the fans to take it from NFL

51:48

City to NFL City. I don't think it will ever be

51:50

better than when it was here. Like, I think it was absolutely

51:52

phenomenal here the way they had Broadway decked out

51:55

and everything was safe and really

51:57

well done. And if they come back, you know it's

51:59

going to be much the same. I

52:02

like the fact that it has become kind

52:04

of lollapalooza for NFL, like

52:06

it's become this this deal. There's

52:08

just some parts about it that just I

52:11

feel like it's dragging it out for a.

52:13

Reason that it's not worth it.

52:15

And I don't mean overall, just

52:17

again, the stuff in the second round and

52:20

some of the things that they do that drag it out's.

52:22

Just a little bit unnecessary.

52:23

And then Goodell is just the most

52:25

awkward human being ever.

52:27

All Right. I do want to get people's thoughts

52:29

on this, so you could also send us a tweet

52:32

at j Martin Radio. I'm its thinking genius.

52:34

One. You mentioned Michael Pennix

52:36

Junior when Atlanta had the

52:38

pick and they took it. I

52:40

did not immediately say, oh, what a lows

52:43

he pick. They got Cousins. They gave him

52:45

a four year contract, he's

52:47

only guaranteed for two. We find out

52:49

now he's guaranteed one hundred

52:51

million dollars. I don't care. That money's not coming

52:53

out of my pocket, so it comes

52:55

out of Arthur Blank. Well, who do you think pays

52:58

for that? This season tickets and blah blah wah,

53:00

stop with the bs. Okay, Eddie elect

53:03

you're a season ticket holder, you

53:05

go to one game a year, maybe things get

53:08

a little bit more expensive. Arthur Blank does a

53:10

great job keeping food prices down,

53:13

all right. That's beside the fact I

53:15

love this pick. I think I'm probably the only

53:17

person on the face of the earth that

53:19

likes this pick. I think he'll be ready

53:21

to play in three years. I think

53:24

he'll get some great learning experience.

53:27

God forbid, Cousins go down. You know, he is

53:29

coming off an injury where he didn't play last

53:31

year, so now you have a legitimate backup.

53:34

I think this guy has a chance to maybe

53:37

be the second best quarterback in this draft.

53:39

Mind Caleb Williams, So

53:42

I'm not all bent out of shape like

53:44

everybody else is calling the Atlanta Falcons

53:47

a bunch of dopes and what are they doing?

53:49

And they had Kirk Cousins signed

53:51

for four years, Well it was only

53:54

guaranteed for two. Yes, he's

53:56

gonna get a hundred million dollars. And

53:58

by the way, there's nothing against

54:00

Cousins maybe going back a third year and

54:03

be in the backup if he

54:05

loses his job the Pennis Juniors. So when

54:08

you first heard about all this, did you think

54:10

it was a stupid pick or what went through your mind?

54:12

I think it was a stupid pick. Not

54:15

because I don't like Michael Pennis what

54:17

he could do.

54:17

In the future, because they have Cousins.

54:19

Yeah, because you did the Cousins thing and

54:21

that was expected to get you a couple of years.

54:24

And instead of taking

54:27

that asset and either getting

54:29

him more protection up front, getting

54:31

him some help defensively, or at least getting

54:33

him some kind of another potential weapons,

54:36

somebody else that you can do something with, instead

54:39

of doing that, you grab you

54:42

grab a quarterback. That The only thing I will

54:44

say is those that say

54:46

you could have gotten him later, you couldn't because I think the Raiders

54:49

were going to take him at thirteen.

54:50

Yeah, I mean that's what that's by all accounts, that's

54:52

what everybody is hearing.

54:53

So if you wanted him, you were gonna

54:55

have to get him, right then. I just don't

54:57

think that the value was there. I don't I don't underst

55:00

stand. I

55:02

don't understand why you felt the need to do

55:04

that. And well, I mean I

55:06

do understand it. Somebody loved the guy. There's

55:09

somebody in the front office. And I heard this from from

55:11

other places that analyze the draft,

55:13

and I think anybody could come up

55:15

with the same conclusion. Somebody in that office

55:18

loved them. So Michael Pennix Junior met

55:21

him, enjoyed his interview, whatever it was, and

55:23

we're willing to do anything that it

55:25

took to go get this guy. But to

55:27

call that a reach, I mean, I think it was the most shocking

55:29

pick maybe in history NFL draft.

55:31

Oh wow? Really? So it was that that crazy?

55:34

That much of a of a crazy pick

55:36

out there?

55:36

Yeah, I mean, if you're going to go do that, you're

55:40

gonna use the number eight pick, which,

55:42

by the way, the Falcons have had in the last three

55:45

drafts they've had the number eight pick,

55:47

and I think they had the number four pick the year before

55:49

that. So and they're saying, you know, we're

55:51

not going to have a pick this this good

55:54

again, all right, So kirk Cousins

55:56

is that good? So instead of helping him be better,

56:00

you're just gonna go grab And you even

56:02

said that. The general manager said after the

56:04

fact, you know, we're set with Kurt,

56:06

but we're really excited long term about Michael.

56:08

And it's just said, well, what are you saying here.

56:10

Like, I don't I don't understand. That's

56:13

not a you don't need to handcuff them. This

56:15

is not fantasy football. If

56:17

Kirk Cousins were to go down with an

56:19

injury. First off, Michael Pennick

56:21

is an injury prone but is he gonna be ready to go? We

56:24

won I would say no or

56:26

no.

56:26

But you want him to play though,

56:29

I mean now you're you're upset to him sitting

56:31

on the bench, but now you want him to play,

56:36

right?

56:37

You really like you?

56:38

I mean you actually wait a second, I mean you actually

56:40

like the pick.

56:41

I like the paint because

56:44

you know what, it doesn't by eight eighteen

56:47

three. It doesn't bother me because

56:50

of it doesn't bother me because they have Cousins

56:53

and you know, who's to say they don't get rid of Cousins because

56:55

somebody else gets injured and they want cousins

56:58

and maybe they pick up a little bit of the salary.

57:00

Who's to say Cousins doesn't go down.

57:03

I have to put in Pedis Junior right away.

57:05

Who's to say after two years they're not

57:07

ready to make a change. You just said Peedicks

57:10

Junior not gonna be able to play and be ready

57:12

to play this year. So this sure he learns,

57:14

maybe he'll be ready in the second year. That's just one

57:17

year earlier. Then you're ready to get rid of

57:19

cousins. I just don't think it's as crazy

57:22

as everybody's making it out to me. It is as

57:24

you said, oh it's the craziest thing I've ever seen

57:26

in the first round. Are you getting your best

57:28

value for it at number eight? Probably not.

57:31

But then again, as you mentioned, all these

57:34

busts in the first round, might as well

57:36

take who you like, and they really liked them, so

57:38

I think it could possibly work out real well for

57:41

them.

57:42

I mean, certainly it could possibly

57:44

work out well.

57:45

They either him or Romaduze.

57:48

So those were the only two picks that were

57:50

Atlanta was gonna take get themselves a

57:52

wide receiver to go with Cousins,

57:54

and I do like a Dunsay, I

57:56

love that guy. I think it was a great pick

57:58

by the Bears, but it would have either been

58:01

him or Pettis Junior

58:03

going to Atlanta.

58:05

Hmmm, yeah, well, I

58:07

mean I agree with you. I mean, I think a dude's a you

58:09

add him to Drake London. You see what you got with Kyle

58:11

Pitts. I mean it does put you in a really good

58:14

position.

58:14

I think.

58:15

Yeah, like

58:18

I said, I hesitate

58:20

to call it just an awful pick.

58:22

It's just a pick.

58:23

That's that that's baffling, Like there's

58:25

not logic behind it. I understand

58:27

the argument that has been made. I

58:29

just don't agree with it. I don't think that it holds

58:31

water. I think that's the one that's kind of

58:34

the most indefensible of

58:37

I mean, everybody else at least needed a quarterback.

58:39

The Falcons did not need a quarterback.

58:42

They have other things that they need in a winnable

58:44

division, and they went ahead and handcuffed

58:47

their quarterback like it was fantasy football,

58:49

as opposed to doing something that could

58:51

help them win now. And that was the thing that Kirk Cousin's

58:53

agent actually said the thing that bothered Kurt was

58:56

just how does this help us win?

58:58

Now?

58:58

Right? It does?

59:00

It doesn't at all.

59:01

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59:38

right, good evening everybody, of course, Jason Martin

59:40

in for Chris playing Kimarni Span You're right here

59:42

on Fox Sports Radio, Minnesota,

59:45

just putting the finishing touches on Phoenix.

59:47

It's one twenty one, one fifteen,

59:49

nineteen point four seconds left and

59:51

the Timberwolves with a six point lead. Let's

59:54

get right to our guest, joining

59:56

Ustal. You can check ab out I Bet the Board podcast

59:59

also joins us every Sunday. It's our

1:00:01

buddy, Todd Ferman Todd, right off the

1:00:03

bat, how about by New York next up?

1:00:05

Three games to one, one more

1:00:07

and we move on to the next round.

1:00:09

My friend, you know, one step closer,

1:00:11

Arnie, to cutting down the nets at Madison Square

1:00:13

Gardener, if you can convince an NBA team to do that.

1:00:16

I know you are counting the days until

1:00:18

they go on a crash course with the Boston Celtics

1:00:20

for Eastern Conference supremacy, no.

1:00:22

Doubt looking forward to it. But I

1:00:24

was thinking about going down Tuesday, but

1:00:27

it was four hundred and fifty dollars a ticket. I can't

1:00:29

you know, I'm not kidding.

1:00:30

I mean, here, Arnie, a man of your clout,

1:00:32

with all of your Fox Sports radio connections

1:00:35

and whatnot, I figured you make a call, They roll

1:00:37

out the red carpet, they send a limbo

1:00:39

for you from your palatial estate in Burlington,

1:00:41

Vermont, and you're riding down there in the lap of luxury

1:00:43

to try and be able to see your nicks. I close things

1:00:45

out of Madison Square Garden Tuesday night.

1:00:47

Just bring a laptop, pretend I'm part of the real

1:00:49

media, that I'm doing something on it. I'll

1:00:52

play solitary. Go leave me alone. I

1:00:54

got a deadline to reach. What are the odds right

1:00:56

now for my knicks to win the NBA Championship.

1:00:59

By the way, you just let me know what price

1:01:01

you're looking for, and I'm happy to tack on a zero for

1:01:03

you.

1:01:03

So that really and all of this.

1:01:05

But you know the fact that you call yourself a member

1:01:07

of the media. I'm sure Jason sitting over there

1:01:09

going to that's the first for everything. And apparently

1:01:12

Arnie considering himself a media member that

1:01:14

actually garners some respect. Will mark

1:01:16

this day down in history. April twenty eight, twenty

1:01:19

twenty four, a first in Arnie Spaniards

1:01:21

illustrious radio career.

1:01:23

Yeah. Well, I mean when you were talking about

1:01:25

his clout earlier, I was like, we talked about

1:01:27

the same Arnie.

1:01:29

That it Jason

1:01:31

when we mentioned clout. I mean, Arnie doesn't carry

1:01:33

any clout in his own home. And even if he goes

1:01:35

on the Lake Champlain, there's a good chance

1:01:37

if he wants to rent a speedboat, they'll give him a paddle

1:01:39

boat and tell him it's.

1:01:40

The power him.

1:01:41

Yeah, so you've made a lot of

1:01:43

bets in your life, Todd Furman, how stunning

1:01:46

was the Michael Pennocks junior to the Falcons

1:01:49

scenario.

1:01:50

One of the bigger surprises that we saw on draft

1:01:53

day when you look at some of the numbers that were out

1:01:55

there. We did see Michael Pennix take a good amount

1:01:57

of respected money under his draft position

1:01:59

total, which was thirty two and a half,

1:02:01

but that doesn't illustrate how improbable

1:02:04

it was for him to go to the Falcons where the Falcons

1:02:06

that draft a quarterback with that eighth pick,

1:02:08

where price tag right around twenty five to

1:02:10

one. But the craziest storyline of

1:02:12

all, and it probably doesn't garner nearly the same

1:02:15

national attention given the fact

1:02:17

that it's not a quarterback going to a situation

1:02:19

where you just shelled out nearly two hundred

1:02:21

million dollars, was brock Bauers getting picked

1:02:23

by the Las Vegas Raiders. So for the second

1:02:25

time in as many years, they use a pick

1:02:27

inside the top thirty five to land a tight end,

1:02:29

and you could have found Bowers to end up as a

1:02:32

member of the Raiders, or i should say the Raiders to draft

1:02:34

the tight end with their first pick at a price tag of

1:02:36

one hundred to one. So I know, Arnie, with your revisionist

1:02:38

history, there's no doubt you have a couple of those tickets

1:02:40

in your portfolio.

1:02:41

Oh no, no doubt about that. Matter of fact, I was going

1:02:43

to ask you how much did the Bears change

1:02:45

after obviously taking Williams, and I

1:02:48

thought they got a good pick of no Dnesday overall.

1:02:50

Did they make any major changes in the.

1:02:52

Odds or No, it doesn't change the

1:02:54

dynamic all that much. And the reason being is

1:02:56

that everyone had Caleb Williams going to the

1:02:59

Bears once these opened up

1:03:01

in terms of looking at where the Bears are in the pecking

1:03:03

order in the NFC nor third behind the Detroit

1:03:05

Lions and the Green Bay Packers, And when you

1:03:07

look at, you know, some of the other odds that are out

1:03:09

there. I don't think it'll shock anybuddy, at

1:03:12

least of all you guys. At Caleb Williams, the overwhelming

1:03:14

favorite to be the offensive rookie of the year

1:03:16

at a price right around two to one. Was

1:03:18

a little bit of speculation in terms of what the Bears

1:03:20

would do at that ninth overall pick. Would they look

1:03:22

to try and bolster their defense? They, of course

1:03:25

land another weapon in rome of Doonza. But you

1:03:27

look at the Bears wide receiver, not a position where

1:03:29

the Bears really needed to upgrade this season.

1:03:31

I've been knowing the Keenan Allens in the twilight of his

1:03:34

career. DJ Moore will need to sign

1:03:36

a longer term deal if he's going to remain in Chicago. Dunesa

1:03:38

starts the year as a three, but there's a good chance that

1:03:40

he becomes a one late in the year and he will

1:03:42

be the piece of the Bears to look to build around, along with Caleb

1:03:45

Williams.

1:03:46

So who do you think better themselves from

1:03:48

a perspective of just where the odds were and

1:03:50

where they have gone now outside of Chicago.

1:03:52

I agree.

1:03:53

I think Chicago had a good draft, but you look at

1:03:55

team like maybe the Jets or the Vikings

1:03:57

certainly who really improved their stock.

1:04:00

You know, Vikings dynamic changes some

1:04:02

they of course trade up to get an edge rusher.

1:04:04

I don't think Dallas Turner really moves the

1:04:06

needle, but it was no doubt a position of

1:04:08

need JJ McCarthy pois to

1:04:10

be the quarterback of the future, but I don't really anticipate

1:04:13

him starting early on, and the problem for the Vikings.

1:04:15

You look at their roster top to bottom, they're just

1:04:17

a clear cut number four team in that division.

1:04:20

Maybe they can surprise some folks, but

1:04:22

I think it's kind of break that team down

1:04:24

to the studs and rebuild them a little bit, figuring

1:04:27

out what their mold will be going forward. From

1:04:29

a draft perspective, you know, no one's odds

1:04:31

changed a ton. The biggest mover this

1:04:33

offseason that we've seen, of course, is the Houston

1:04:35

Texans, who have really bolstered

1:04:37

their roster, adding some weapons for CJ.

1:04:39

Stroud still in that rookie deal, looking

1:04:42

to try and fortify that defense with some short

1:04:44

term deals. And when you look at Houston, they were

1:04:46

right around you know, plus one seventy plus

1:04:48

one seventy five to win the AFC

1:04:50

South. That number has shrunk to ride around even

1:04:52

money. And I think that division arguably

1:04:55

becomes one of the more fascinating ones in the entire

1:04:57

league because we'll see if Houston is able to handle

1:04:59

the weight of X vacations. The Titans

1:05:01

rebuilding, the Indianapolis colt should be healthier,

1:05:03

and I think still a lot of questions that Trevor Lawrence

1:05:06

and the rest of the Jaguars will have to answer knowing

1:05:08

that they aren't going to have that giant target on their back next

1:05:10

year that they had in previous seasons.

1:05:12

Todd, With all the craziness going out for next

1:05:14

year in college football, are you guys

1:05:16

I'm talking about you professional gambers,

1:05:18

just sitting and waiting back for all the numbers

1:05:20

that come out, because there's certain things that

1:05:22

you just want to jump on right away, whether

1:05:25

it's like betting who's going to be the new who's

1:05:27

going to win the Big Ten or the Big twelve of the SEC

1:05:30

or over runners on UCLA or USC

1:05:32

or Oklahoma or Texas or any of the new

1:05:34

teams. Are you sitting back waiting or what?

1:05:37

You know?

1:05:37

So much of it is a waiting game, trying to figure

1:05:39

out which teams can address some of their needs with the

1:05:41

second portal wave inevitably coming. We've seen

1:05:44

a mass exodus out of Colorado for

1:05:46

a Buffalo's team that you know, looked like they

1:05:48

were playing in front of a half empty Folsome field.

1:05:50

So some of that bloom off the Rows with Dion Sanders

1:05:53

coming over there. But as far as

1:05:55

odds to win the national championship, it is still

1:05:57

the perennial powers that are dominating the landscape,

1:05:59

with Georgia not an overwhelming favorite,

1:06:01

but a favorite nonetheless at a price right around three

1:06:03

to one. Then you look at Ohio State, Texas, Oregon,

1:06:06

kind of that next tier before things get more interesting.

1:06:08

But the one thing that I am intrigued by

1:06:11

with college football now and knowing it's expanded

1:06:13

playoffs, Yes, depth will play a role,

1:06:15

will most likely get an upset potentially in the

1:06:17

early rounds. But I think you're starting

1:06:19

to see a more of a dispersal of talent

1:06:21

across the college landscape, so I won't

1:06:24

call it a true water down product. But

1:06:26

to your point, a Arnie, looking at these new conference landscapes,

1:06:28

you do wonder how additional travel can impact

1:06:30

teams in the Big Ten, how programs like Texas

1:06:33

and Oklahoma are adjusting to life in

1:06:35

the Big twelve, or excuse me, the SEC, which

1:06:37

will be much more rigorous than the Big twelve. And

1:06:39

no, Arnie, I'm not ready to annoint your Arizona

1:06:41

Wildcat favorite

1:06:44

in the Big twelve to crash the college football

1:06:46

playoff our new head coach Brennan.

1:06:48

I'm getting rich this year. Bet in

1:06:50

Arizona to win the Big twelve. Bet

1:06:53

my Dolphins to win the Super Bowl. AO

1:06:55

stopping me now, Todd just can't do it, my

1:06:57

friend.

1:06:58

Well, you know, thankfully, you'll be able to parlay all of

1:07:00

your winnings from the next winning the NBA Championship.

1:07:02

Yes, and all of.

1:07:03

Those lucrative fall investments that you already

1:07:05

have outlined, knowing that you've discussed them in

1:07:07

great detail with your financial advisor.

1:07:09

That's Todd Furman, Bet the Board podcast.

1:07:12

Check him on out. He's gonna make your millions

1:07:14

out there. Todd, always a pleasure,

1:07:16

my friend. No Chris Blank because we

1:07:19

know that the Nicks one, so he doesn't show up with

1:07:21

my teams win.

1:07:22

You know that I figured Planks out

1:07:24

celebrating from the Oklahoma spring game, so he's

1:07:26

going through a scouting report making sure

1:07:28

he can deliver bags of cash where they need to

1:07:30

go. And the bred Vennables will be going forward. And

1:07:33

Jason, I don't envy the position you're in it all.

1:07:35

We know it takes a village, and that's being

1:07:37

mildly when it comes to wrangling already in during

1:07:40

these late night radio secs.

1:07:41

God, you're the best, my friend, Todd. Take

1:07:44

care. We'll speak to you next week, my friend.

1:07:45

You got it.

1:07:46

Gentlemen, have a great week.

1:07:47

Take it easy. By the way, Shortly after the show, the

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that we get off the air, we'll get more into

1:08:11

the draft first though, we'll take another look at

1:08:13

what's trending. One more game still going

1:08:15

on out there. Let's check in with the Sega. What's going

1:08:17

on to Sega.

1:08:18

Yeah, it's Edmonton at LA in the late

1:08:20

NHL playoff game. End of two

1:08:23

periods, one nothing, Oilers. We just had

1:08:25

a final in the NBA playoff game at

1:08:27

Phoenix. The Suns are out swept

1:08:29

in four straight first round by

1:08:32

the Minnesota Timberwolves. Tonight's

1:08:34

final one twenty two to one, sixteen,

1:08:36

Minnesota's first playoff series win

1:08:39

in twenty years. Anthony Edwards

1:08:41

with forty points, Carl Anthony Towns

1:08:43

with twenty eight. Devin Booker of the Sun

1:08:46

scored forty nine points in defeat,

1:08:48

and we had a coaching injury for Minnesota.

1:08:50

A guy today, Chris Finch of the Timberwolves.

1:08:53

All right, I saw this chef.

1:08:54

He just finished third place for Coach

1:08:56

of the Year in the NBA for this past season,

1:08:58

and his team was a couple. Then it's away from clinching,

1:09:01

and in a collision on the sidelines,

1:09:04

he suffered a leg injury and had to be helped

1:09:06

off again late in tonight's game on

1:09:08

the road, Clippers won at Dallas

1:09:10

one sixteen, one eleven to tie up

1:09:12

that first round series at two games apiece.

1:09:15

Clippers had blown a thirty one point

1:09:17

first half lead. Nick's got forty

1:09:19

seven points from Jalen Brunson and won at

1:09:21

Philadelphia ninety seven to ninety two.

1:09:23

Next up three games to one, Indiana

1:09:26

leads three games to one after beating Milwaukee

1:09:28

tonight one twenty six, one thirteen,

1:09:30

and that NBA Coach of the Year is Oklahoma

1:09:33

City's Mark Dagnold at age thirty

1:09:35

nine. To the NHL. Not only

1:09:37

that game in progress in LA, where

1:09:39

the Oilers have a chance to go up three games

1:09:41

to one, Vancouver came back for an overtime

1:09:44

win at Nashville to go up three games to

1:09:46

one. Colorado leads three

1:09:48

games to one, beating up Winnipeg today

1:09:50

five to one, and the number one New York

1:09:52

Rangers completed a four game sweep, winning

1:09:54

at Washington four to two. Tonight, Denny

1:09:57

Hamlin took the NASCAR Race at Dover,

1:09:59

his third win of the season. Kyle Larson

1:10:01

finished second, but he leads the standings this

1:10:04

year. Hamlin is forty three years old and

1:10:06

led the most laps today. Next Sunday's

1:10:08

race is also on FS one from Kansas.

1:10:11

Quarterback ta Lea tonga Iloa from

1:10:13

Maryland was invited to the Seahawks rookie

1:10:16

mini camp. He was undrafted and unsigned.

1:10:18

This past weekend, wide receiver

1:10:21

John Ross will try out at Eagles rookie

1:10:23

camp. Philadelphia is reportedly signing

1:10:25

tackle McKai Beckton, former New York

1:10:27

Jet. The Sunday Night ball game was at

1:10:29

Boston and with a run bottom of the ninth, the Red

1:10:32

Sox beat the Cubs five to four. Houston

1:10:34

played two this weekend in Mexico City

1:10:37

and beat Colorado each day, eight to today's

1:10:39

final to win to from er Valdez with five

1:10:41

innings of worknds, six strikeouts. The

1:10:44

Angels have now lost nine of ten. They

1:10:46

lost at home to the Twins eleven to five.

1:10:48

Today, Twins have won seven

1:10:50

straight games Arizona three

1:10:52

two winners at Seattle thanks to an RBI

1:10:55

double in the seventh at an RBI double

1:10:57

in the eighth. Mariners offense finished

1:10:59

five for thirty one with fifteen

1:11:01

strikeouts. San Francisco led Pittsburgh

1:11:04

three nothing in the third, three to two Giants

1:11:06

the final, and Philadelphia sent the

1:11:08

Padres to a four straight loss eight to

1:11:10

six. Bryce and Stott two homers, four RBIs

1:11:13

that Phils have won eleven of thirteen

1:11:15

extra inning wins. For Atlanta and the

1:11:18

Mets, but yes, everything's final in

1:11:20

the NBA playoffs tonight, and the

1:11:22

Minnesota Timberwolves have

1:11:24

advanced.

1:11:25

Bet Timberwolves. There you go,

1:11:27

Thanks.

1:11:27

Lot, thanks the kiss of death, you and be half

1:11:30

of the Boss.

1:11:30

Thanks exactly. Appreciate

1:11:34

that. Live at the tyreck dot Com Studios.

1:11:36

Jason martin In for Chris Plank. Chris is

1:11:38

not going to be able to join us in the last

1:11:40

hour. He's had so much travel

1:11:42

restrictions going on with him and travel

1:11:45

delays. He probably won't even get home

1:11:47

before we get off the air. There By the way, Jason,

1:11:49

do you answer your phone if it's

1:11:51

from caller unknown or private?

1:11:54

Does it have to say that you have to have caller ID

1:11:56

for you to answer your phone.

1:11:57

For the most part, yes, like it. Every once in

1:11:59

a while, I'll know there's somebody that's gonna

1:12:01

call, but I don't know their number because it's a

1:12:04

new deal, like it's

1:12:06

something business oriented or something like that, and

1:12:08

it's a new contact. If that's the

1:12:10

case, or maybe it's a doctor or something.

1:12:12

Like that, then maybe I will.

1:12:14

But at least I have the one that says potential

1:12:16

spam and things.

1:12:18

Like that, so I'm able to avoid it.

1:12:19

But ninety five to ninety

1:12:22

nine percent of the time, yeah, I've got to know who

1:12:24

you are.

1:12:24

That could be a mistake. But you see, Patrick

1:12:27

McMorris got a call from an unknown

1:12:29

number. He was waiting to see if he was gonna get picked

1:12:31

in the NFL Draft. The call comes

1:12:33

in, says unknown number. He does exactly

1:12:36

what you do, and a lot of people do

1:12:38

just hit a hung up. I'm not taking the

1:12:40

call up. Well, it happened to be the Miami

1:12:42

Dolphins calling him to let him know that

1:12:44

they was going to be their six round pick and one

1:12:47

ninety eight overall. Lucky for him,

1:12:49

though, the Dolphins did didn't

1:12:51

call back and said, no, don't

1:12:54

hang up on us, please, we

1:12:56

really want to take you. So there's

1:12:58

always a wacky story like that in the draft.

1:13:01

Remember was it? What was the one that got

1:13:04

punked because somebody

1:13:06

got his number and said

1:13:08

that they were taking them and

1:13:10

it didn't happen, but later on took him.

1:13:13

The same team took him later on in the draft.

1:13:15

I think it was the Cincinnati Bengals or something. I did a

1:13:18

bad job explaining that, But stuff like

1:13:20

this seems to happen a lot, you know what I mean.

1:13:22

Yeah, it's true. I

1:13:24

do think. Look, if I'm a

1:13:26

draftable player and or someone associated

1:13:29

with a draftable player, and it's the night of the draft,

1:13:31

I'm gonna go ahead and take the call. Yeah, I

1:13:35

would take it, even if it turns out it's Ashton

1:13:37

Kutcher or somebody's

1:13:40

calling about bab bab booie or whatever

1:13:42

it might be. Right now, I'm gonna go ahead

1:13:44

and take the risk because I

1:13:46

would much rather answer that call

1:13:49

than the opposite, Right, No.

1:13:50

I'm gonna go with you on that. We

1:13:53

didn't get to go through all the draft picks. I do

1:13:55

love talking about the quarterbacks, Jade

1:13:57

and Daniels. Of course, the second pick, it

1:13:59

was more to be Drake May for the

1:14:02

longest time. And then of course they had this shift,

1:14:06

the you know, the jump

1:14:08

up on Daniels. A what a couple of months

1:14:10

ago, it seemed like two three months ago.

1:14:13

How good is this guy gonna be? Is he get to good turn

1:14:15

around Washington right away?

1:14:16

You know?

1:14:18

Yeah?

1:14:18

I mean he.

1:14:20

The thing that they have that I

1:14:23

think we sometimes forget. I mean, Terry mclaurin's

1:14:25

really good.

1:14:26

Yes he is.

1:14:27

Last year he didn't have a quarterback and for whatever

1:14:29

reason, they just did not use him very

1:14:31

much. But they've got him, and they've got Dotson, and

1:14:35

I think they improved their tight end position as well.

1:14:38

I mean, and jakeon Daniels as a playmaker.

1:14:40

That's that's the thing. Like he's a guy that

1:14:43

can manufacture some things if he has to.

1:14:45

And I mean I've won. I loved that

1:14:48

pick. I think that you know, I've

1:14:50

heard and seen the whole Lamar Jackson two

1:14:52

point zero but more accuracy and a better

1:14:55

D ball and all whatever. I mean, we'll see,

1:14:57

but I like what you're doing

1:14:59

there. The only problem I have with Washington

1:15:02

has nothing to do with anybody on the field. It's

1:15:04

just I don't know how to feel about dan Quinn as your head

1:15:06

coach. I like dan Quinn is your

1:15:08

defensive.

1:15:09

Coordinator, love it.

1:15:10

As a matter of fact, not as

1:15:12

big a fan of dan Quinn the head coach, although

1:15:15

dude did get a team to a super Bowl, like

1:15:17

he did coach a super Bowl. He lost it, but

1:15:20

Kyle Shanahan did too, and Kyle Shanahan

1:15:23

apparently can do no wrong. So that's

1:15:26

the only problem there is. I'm not sure about your leadership

1:15:28

on the sidelines, but I think I

1:15:31

think Daniels is awesome, and if

1:15:33

he's able to bring seventy five percent of

1:15:35

what we saw on the college level last year

1:15:37

to the NFL, he's gonna be scintillating.

1:15:40

He's Jason Martin, I'm Marty Spaniard.

1:15:42

When we get back, Steve the Seger stops by

1:15:44

gets to the stuff that we haven't had a chance to hit on

1:15:47

yet. That's coming up next right here on

1:15:49

Fox Sports Radio All

1:15:52

Right Live at tyreck dot com Studios.

1:15:54

Jason Martin did for Chris Pike and Marty Spanier.

1:15:57

Let's check in with her buddy, Steve the Sega

1:15:59

to see what we missed so far. What's going on to Sega.

1:16:01

Well, here's the update from Phoenix on the coaching

1:16:04

injury for the Minnesota Timberwolves. On Chris

1:16:06

Finch again, he was not on the

1:16:08

sideline for the last couple of minutes of the playoff

1:16:11

win tonight due to a leg injury suffered

1:16:13

in a collision. He is on crutches

1:16:15

now. Sean Sharania at the Athletics

1:16:18

says the Timberwolves coach is feared

1:16:20

to have a torn pateller tendon in it.

1:16:22

Now, it didn't look that bad. I was

1:16:24

looking at it didn't seem that bad. I'm like, it

1:16:26

was like he was running full speed and knocked him

1:16:29

down or something.

1:16:29

I don't remember, but if he couldn't straighten the leg on

1:16:31

the way out and two guys had to help him

1:16:33

off the court. He was with his team

1:16:36

I saw in the locker room after the win,

1:16:38

but seated, and then they had a

1:16:40

picture of him on crutches in the hallway.

1:16:43

So the good news is you just swept

1:16:45

a team four games to none, so you got a.

1:16:47

Few days off. The bad news is.

1:16:48

The coach who just finished third for Coach

1:16:51

of the Year this past season in the NBA

1:16:53

was injured late in tonight's game. Minnesota

1:16:56

gets a playoff series win

1:16:58

for the first time in one years.

1:17:01

Indiana is close to its first first

1:17:04

round victory in ten years.

1:17:06

Over that decade, They've been swept three

1:17:08

times, lost a couple of game sevens,

1:17:11

and the Pacers just flat didn't make the playoffs

1:17:13

the other times. But Indiana's

1:17:15

up three games to one right now after beating

1:17:17

Milwaukee tonight one twenty six one thirteen

1:17:20

game fives in Milwaukee on Tuesday.

1:17:22

Out again for the Bucks tonight was Giannis Antennacumpo

1:17:25

with the strain CAF and Damian Lillard

1:17:27

was out with a strained achilles and Bobby

1:17:29

Portis was kicked out of the game early to

1:17:31

go on that get the double technical d kind

1:17:34

of deserve the olcome Tuesday. After all

1:17:36

that, center Miles Turner of the Pacers,

1:17:38

the center from three point range, was seven

1:17:40

of nine. He had twenty nine points. In fact,

1:17:42

the Pacers as a team from long distance

1:17:44

twenty two for forty three tonight in

1:17:47

the loss for Milwaukee Brook Lopez twenty

1:17:49

seven points, but the Bucks now facing elimination

1:17:52

at home on Tuesday. The Clippers

1:17:55

will be hosting a Game five against

1:17:57

Dallas on Wednesday. Game six

1:17:59

of the series is back in Dallas Friday.

1:18:01

Clippers in a wild game do wind

1:18:04

up victorious in Texas today

1:18:06

and the series is tied at two games apiece.

1:18:09

Clips blew a thirty one point first

1:18:11

insane and.

1:18:12

They yeah they were down by what two points?

1:18:14

Or yes, they did fall behind in

1:18:17

the fourth, but won the game one, sixteen

1:18:19

to one to eleven. After the first quarter today,

1:18:21

Clippers were up thirty nine to sixteen.

1:18:24

Later in the first half, about mid second quarter,

1:18:26

they were up fifty five to twenty four

1:18:29

and blew that league. Kawhi Leonard was out

1:18:31

today with the knee inflammation. We'll see if

1:18:33

he comes back this series. He had missed the opener

1:18:35

of the series as well, and frankly,

1:18:38

there have been times when he actually did play the last

1:18:40

two games which they lost, where he didn't

1:18:42

look like the guy they need to be in the starting

1:18:44

lineup. Paul George thirty three points

1:18:47

today, James Harden with thirty and

1:18:49

how about this Kyrie Irving in defeat,

1:18:51

had forty points but seven

1:18:54

turnovers. Luka Donsich, playing

1:18:56

with the sword knee, had a triple double, but

1:18:59

from three point range was one of nine.

1:19:01

So, according to statsink, the Mavericks

1:19:03

are the first team ever to lose an

1:19:06

NBA playoff game in regulation despite

1:19:08

having one of your players score forty and

1:19:10

the other hava triple double. So

1:19:13

the Dallas MAVs are not leading in this

1:19:15

series. While Dallas started oh

1:19:17

for eleven on three pointers, the

1:19:19

Clippers finished eighteen of twenty

1:19:22

nine from three point range. And then

1:19:24

there's the Knicks, who were up three games

1:19:26

to one, three to one after the win at Philadelphia

1:19:29

in front of quite a bit of home fans

1:19:31

on the road one hundred.

1:19:32

Miles long away. That was great.

1:19:34

This is the equivalent of going

1:19:36

from Anaheim down to San Diego,

1:19:38

about one hundred miles. A lot of people apparently

1:19:40

made the train trip and got

1:19:42

the tickets because New York. It sounded like

1:19:44

a home crowd part of it. Ninety seven ninety

1:19:47

two. Jalen Brunson forty seven

1:19:49

points, ten assists, only one turnover.

1:19:52

And you talked about Josh Hart early in the

1:19:54

show. Yes, he was oh seven shooting

1:19:56

from the floor, but at seventeen rebounds.

1:19:58

It's one of the rare playoff g games

1:20:00

in the last fifty plus years where a guy

1:20:02

makes no baskets and has that many

1:20:04

boards. The record is still Ben Wallace

1:20:07

twenty years ago had a playoff game with no

1:20:09

field goals.

1:20:10

I know, you say Rodman or something.

1:20:12

Yeah, it's that type of thing where a guy is so focused

1:20:14

on the rebounding. Rudy Gobert has been

1:20:16

up there, but Wallace had a nineteen rebound

1:20:19

no field goal game.

1:20:20

Wow. Years ago.

1:20:22

In the late NHL playoff game in

1:20:24

La Edmonton still Up won nothing on

1:20:26

the Kings about ten minutes to go, and

1:20:29

Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR race at

1:20:31

Dover.

1:20:31

All right, thanks sot to Sega. I love that these

1:20:33

late games are on while we're while we're

1:20:35

doing the show. I'm just have it on TV right

1:20:37

now. Edmonton won the Kings

1:20:40

zero Edmondson up two games to one,

1:20:42

eleven to eleven left in this

1:20:44

one. Two hours are in the books. The

1:20:47

Power Hours coming up next will

1:20:49

reset everything gets to our picks coming up next

1:20:51

year on Fox Sports Radio. Ah,

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1:21:19

Martin Titans, University

1:21:23

of Tennessee or Vanderbilt.

1:21:27

What was the first sports jersey

1:21:29

you bought your new daughter or that

1:21:32

you got?

1:21:33

You know what, There hasn't been one yet. No,

1:21:36

well it might be if my wife was buying it.

1:21:39

Not any of those. Are you serious?

1:21:42

No, there haven't been a jersey yet.

1:21:44

There was a predator's onesie for my

1:21:46

first daughter born, even

1:21:49

though technically am a Pittsburgh Penguins fan.

1:21:51

So what are you gonna buy? So what's the first thing you want to

1:21:53

buy your daughter?

1:21:54

Then?

1:21:54

What would be the first jersey?

1:21:56

I'll tell you that.

1:21:57

Well, maybe not surprisingly, but I did

1:22:00

consideration to Kaitlyn Clark.

1:22:02

Oh there you go. I

1:22:04

like that.

1:22:05

I got consideration to that. I mean,

1:22:07

like, if it were just me going straight fandom,

1:22:10

it would be in an old school Orange

1:22:12

Broncos lway jersey.

1:22:14

Really, yeah, it'd be.

1:22:15

A throwback Elway jersey. I'm almost

1:22:17

positive about that. But yeah,

1:22:20

like I did give consideration to Kaitlin

1:22:22

Clark, Like that's the first and

1:22:24

I think you had mentioned you even priced

1:22:27

those.

1:22:27

I priced a T shirt in

1:22:30

the had a fever T shirt. They wanted like thirty five

1:22:32

or forty dollars, and then when

1:22:34

she got drafted, it went up to like fifty hours.

1:22:37

And because I was just you know, browsing like

1:22:39

Facebook and the internet stuff to see how what T shirts

1:22:42

we're going for. It is incredible.

1:22:44

Matter of fact, her jersey or her T

1:22:47

shirt or jersey will be on sale

1:22:50

at all the WNBA

1:22:52

stores, not just the Indiana stores.

1:22:55

So they're really trying to

1:22:58

capitalize on her fame. She is youumongous.

1:23:01

I mean people, look, I'm not gonna watch

1:23:03

the w NBA for anybody other

1:23:05

than her. Really, for the most part,

1:23:08

I want to see what she's gonna do. I want to know

1:23:10

how how great she's gonna be. But she

1:23:13

makes the needle move. I can't wait

1:23:15

to see what she does in the WNBA.

1:23:17

Yeah, I mean, I'm at the very least gonna

1:23:19

keep up with Like I

1:23:22

don't think I'll be watching much WNBA.

1:23:24

I don't know.

1:23:25

I think many people will, but I will be checking

1:23:27

out box scores and things like that, just to

1:23:29

see how she plays, what the update is and things

1:23:31

like that. I'm interested in her career.

1:23:34

I'm not interested in that league and that some

1:23:36

people are gonna hate that and they're gonna,

1:23:38

you know, want to say whatever they want to say. But

1:23:41

I think I represent the vast majority

1:23:43

of the viewing public.

1:23:44

I agree with you too. I mean, look, if there's

1:23:47

doldrums of summer, and I don't think we're gonna have a lot aduldrums

1:23:49

with what the Olympics, and obviously

1:23:52

we're gonna be waiting for the college

1:23:54

football to get going out there, and we still

1:23:56

have baseball going on, and obviously the playoffs

1:23:58

are happening. I don't think think we're gonna be having too

1:24:01

much downtimes as

1:24:03

this summer comes around, you know what I mean. I think

1:24:05

we're gonna be a full pack to action.

1:24:07

You know, yeah, I do. Yeah,

1:24:10

it's definitely. I think this summer is not gonna

1:24:12

be that barren. We'll be ready for football

1:24:14

when it comes back. But I do think we're gonna have some fun

1:24:16

this summer, all.

1:24:17

Right, kind of resetting things. Of course, my New York

1:24:19

Nicks win. They go up now three games

1:24:21

to one. It

1:24:23

certainly looks good. I don't want to jinx things,

1:24:26

but I think the Knicks ended in

1:24:28

the next game in Madison Square Garden. Joel

1:24:31

Embiid, he's doing everything he can,

1:24:33

but he's having bad fourth quarters. He's

1:24:36

just wearing down coming

1:24:38

back from that injury. Maybe perhaps

1:24:41

is team too much for him. They did

1:24:43

win eight games or nine games at the end of the regular

1:24:45

season. Playoff basketball,

1:24:47

that's a whole different beast. It gets

1:24:50

a lot more physical. This series

1:24:52

has been physical. I think Joel

1:24:54

Embiid has gotten away with a few things.

1:24:57

I think he's been dirty a few times. But

1:25:00

I'm still happy my Knicks up three games to one.

1:25:02

This is this series, though, that everybody's

1:25:04

paying attention to this series that you

1:25:07

know, that that people wanted to see before it started.

1:25:09

You know, yeah, I think that's right.

1:25:12

I do think because we haven't gotten to talk about

1:25:14

it at all, and the

1:25:16

the MAVs Clippers because of the way that that played

1:25:18

out. What I wanted

1:25:21

to say about it, and the question.

1:25:22

That I had earlier is.

1:25:26

What if

1:25:28

you are Dallas. You expanded

1:25:31

so much energy to get

1:25:33

back into that game and still lost it. You're

1:25:35

the Clippers and you blew that big lead, but you

1:25:37

didn't really blow it because you still won the game.

1:25:41

Who's who's in worse shape? Like it

1:25:44

feels like Dallas did all of that

1:25:46

work to then still be down or

1:25:50

to still lose that game in

1:25:52

a crucial moment. To me, that

1:25:55

that has to hurt a lot worse for the MAVs

1:25:57

like the Clippers did. That's a game

1:26:00

you should lose a few of the Clippers and you blow thirty

1:26:02

one point lead, you're down with

1:26:04

a couple of minutes left, but you still find

1:26:06

a way to win the game. I think you walk in and you're like, wo

1:26:08

boy, But I feel like you feel

1:26:11

a whole lot better about yourself than Dallas. Like

1:26:13

they can't point to the fact they came back from thirty

1:26:15

one down because they still lost.

1:26:16

Oh if you blow a thirty one point lead,

1:26:18

you go down three games to one, this series is over.

1:26:21

It's done with At that point. I don't

1:26:23

care what you say, And of course you're gonna put your

1:26:25

best foot forward, but emotionally

1:26:28

you're just taxed You're just like, what just

1:26:30

happened. We had a thirty one point lead

1:26:32

and we lost. We're down three games to one.

1:26:34

It's I don't care if you're going home for game

1:26:37

five or what. You could lose any one of

1:26:39

the next three games and you're pretty much done.

1:26:41

This now gives them some momentum. No

1:26:43

Kawhi Leonard, though, when's he gonna

1:26:46

come back? Is he gonna come back for the final games

1:26:48

of the final two games, three games, the

1:26:50

final game? I'm not sure what's

1:26:52

going to happen. Then the last four years

1:26:55

he's been missing for the Clippers out

1:26:57

there, though, I still think the Clippers now

1:27:00

have the little bit of advantage be was

1:27:02

they've tied it up in two games, they have the

1:27:04

home court, right, they'll have two of the next

1:27:06

three if it goes to seven at

1:27:09

home. No Kawhi Leonard,

1:27:11

but I think they're kind of used to play without him. James

1:27:13

Harden, by the way, we haven't talked about this, absolutely

1:27:16

phenomenal. He was like the Harden of old.

1:27:19

He couldn't miss inside. He had the little

1:27:23

floater going on. He

1:27:25

had carried He carried them when

1:27:27

they got down by a point or two

1:27:30

after blowing that thirty one point lead. Harden

1:27:32

came up big yet six rebound, seven

1:27:34

assists, He was phenomenal. Without

1:27:37

him, Clippers don't win that game. So

1:27:39

I think the Clippers that used to play without Kawhi Leonard

1:27:42

and I think they have a little bit

1:27:44

of the advantage. Now, Yeah,

1:27:46

I mean.

1:27:46

I think so too. The fact that you get

1:27:48

thirty from Harden.

1:27:52

He has been better with Clippers that I

1:27:54

thought he was gonna be, right, he has

1:27:57

been.

1:27:57

He really has been.

1:27:59

I really thought he was pretty much

1:28:01

out of whatever was left in

1:28:03

him in Philadelphia,

1:28:05

but he's turned out to work out well for them.

1:28:07

And if you get both those guys, him and George

1:28:09

on, then you get in a situation where

1:28:12

maybe you can navigate this against some teams

1:28:14

like I don't think that you're gonna be able to

1:28:16

sustain that against a Denver, but

1:28:19

you can do that against Dallas, right because

1:28:22

Dallas is such a streaky team. When I looked at Doncic,

1:28:24

I mean, Docci Chad a good game from an assist

1:28:26

standpoint, Arenie, but Kyrie

1:28:29

scored big time. I

1:28:31

need more from Doncag

1:28:34

than being in the high twenties, just because I'm used

1:28:36

to him being in the thirties or in the forties,

1:28:38

and that's the way that.

1:28:39

They're built is for him to take eight hundred shots.

1:28:41

So when I see twenty nine points and then I

1:28:44

find out they lost the game, I'm usually not surprised,

1:28:46

all right.

1:28:46

I want to get to the Lakers and Nuggets. Also,

1:28:49

Lakers down three games to when they finally

1:28:52

finally breakthrough, they get

1:28:54

a win. Now we find out Jamal Murray doubtful

1:28:58

for Game number five? Can

1:29:01

the Lakers take Game five? Get back in

1:29:03

this series down three games to two before

1:29:07

we even discuss that. Don't

1:29:09

like the attitude of Lebron and

1:29:11

Anthony Davis after the loss. I think

1:29:13

it was in Game three where it's

1:29:16

just basketball. It was just basketball, and Anthony

1:29:18

Davis just gave one answer, dropped

1:29:20

the mic and got up and left. I

1:29:23

mean, who are you giving the attitude to? Maybe

1:29:25

you should look at yourself in the mirror. You

1:29:27

didn't do your jobs, That's why you got

1:29:29

down in this hole. I hate when they have

1:29:32

those attitudes. It really does bother me, you know,

1:29:34

Jason.

1:29:34

Well, I mean, I think it even goes back further

1:29:37

to when they blame the official for not calling

1:29:39

something right than Angelo Russell right in

1:29:41

a game where you know they had a big time lead

1:29:43

and still found a way to lose that serious

1:29:45

and yes, look, you lose Murray.

1:29:47

That's a that's a pretty big deal, even though he hasn't had as

1:29:50

good a series as were used to from him in the playoffs.

1:29:52

But right, I think that.

1:29:55

And it seems like it's been baffling to everybody

1:29:57

on television, and maybe this is just the talk

1:30:00

point and they all understand this as well, but they're

1:30:02

just like, how are the Lakers ahead? Like

1:30:04

one hundred and forty seven minutes of this series,

1:30:06

the Nuggets have only been up thirty, but they are up three

1:30:09

games to none. Of course not now because it's

1:30:11

three one, but it's just like,

1:30:13

well, I think it's obvious. I think the Lakers are coming

1:30:15

out with their hair on fire. They're

1:30:17

not the better team. They're expending a

1:30:19

ton of energy, similar to what we just talked about when

1:30:21

the Mavericks coming back from thirty one down. The Lakers

1:30:23

are given everything they have. They're super passionate,

1:30:27

they come out go insane, and

1:30:29

then they run out of gas in the second half because

1:30:31

they don't have a ton of depth and they

1:30:33

are, they don't have enough shooting

1:30:36

on the floor, and as a result,

1:30:38

the Nuggets can then come back and play eighty percent

1:30:41

of themselves in the second half and generally win

1:30:43

the game because they're just a much better, much

1:30:45

deeper, much more synergistic

1:30:47

basketball team than the Lakers

1:30:49

are at this point. But you're right, like you

1:30:52

need more from Lebron James and Anthony

1:30:54

Davis than Sulking, and

1:30:56

that's kind of what you've gotten.

1:30:57

What happens if the Lakers come in the dead

1:31:00

for win Game five, go

1:31:02

back to La down three games to two,

1:31:05

they very well could win Game three and

1:31:07

force the Game seven with

1:31:09

no I mean, how long is Jabal Murray gonna

1:31:11

be out? Because if he's not gonna play

1:31:13

the rest of the series, I think he'll come back.

1:31:16

But if he doesn't, is at the great equalizer

1:31:19

for the Lakers to get back in this series and

1:31:21

maybe even steal it? Or is it's just too

1:31:23

much to overcome being down three nothing?

1:31:25

It feels like it's too much to overcome.

1:31:27

I think it becomes a very interesting It

1:31:30

becomes very interesting for people to do what

1:31:32

we do for a living, right to

1:31:35

talk about. But I just don't

1:31:37

think they've got. I just don't think they're

1:31:39

good enough. I don't think the Lakers are a good enough basketball

1:31:41

team to come back against the Nuggets team.

1:31:44

If Murray weren't to come back, I

1:31:46

still don't think they would win all the way

1:31:48

through to this. And I don't think Lebron James

1:31:51

Anthony Davis. I don't think they think so either,

1:31:53

And based on what we just discussed,

1:31:56

their attitude would indicate the exact same.

1:31:58

So I tend to look at it

1:32:00

and just feel like it's too

1:32:02

much to ask because the Snuggets team

1:32:04

is not some fluky club. It's a team that's won

1:32:07

a championship, that understands what playoff

1:32:09

basketball looks like. And he's not gonna.

1:32:11

Let this slip through their fingers.

1:32:12

If you were a betting guy,

1:32:14

are you betting Lebron goes back to the Lakers

1:32:16

next year and he's going to bring

1:32:19

in, you know, one of the big

1:32:21

names, and we'll go through them in a minute. Are

1:32:23

you betting Lebron goes to another team

1:32:26

and join somebody else next year?

1:32:29

I think he's with the Lakers for the rest of his career. Oh,

1:32:32

I don't think he's going anywhere else.

1:32:33

I just don't.

1:32:34

I don't since that he I

1:32:36

mean, what does he need to do now? I mean, he's going

1:32:38

to go to another team just to win another championship.

1:32:41

I think at that point it actually harms his legacy.

1:32:43

I don't tend to think it helped his legacy ever to go

1:32:45

to LA. I said that from the very beginning. I think to

1:32:49

come up different, right, Golden State, I

1:32:51

think that would have been awful.

1:32:52

I think, yeah, I do.

1:32:54

I just I think from

1:32:56

an optical standpoint at this at this stage,

1:32:59

Lebron's just gonna fit.

1:33:00

It's his career in LA.

1:33:01

I don't know what that means and what they're gonna

1:33:03

do, what moves might get made. I just I

1:33:05

would be shocked if he left.

1:33:07

Well, what about some of the other big names? And is Kevin

1:33:10

Durant gonna say? What about Joel

1:33:12

m Beid, What about Giannis? What

1:33:14

about Lollard? Member he said it was boring up there?

1:33:16

Right?

1:33:16

You can't bring him back if he says If

1:33:19

he says it was boring, what

1:33:21

happens with those guys? Any of them end

1:33:23

up with the Lakers and play with the player with

1:33:26

Lebron.

1:33:26

I mean they could. I mean there's gonna

1:33:28

be some names out there. I mean, it's

1:33:30

possible Booker could ask for a tree.

1:33:32

That bring him up there too.

1:33:34

Yeah, I mean there are definitely some candidates

1:33:37

out there. There's gonna be some names that are gonna pop

1:33:39

out that you're not thinking of that.

1:33:41

Well, those days are why those names aren't big enough,

1:33:43

the ones I just gave.

1:33:44

You or what, No, they absolutely

1:33:46

are. I'm just saying there's even more than that. There's

1:33:48

gonna be some names out there. The question is what

1:33:50

are the Lakers gonna have to do in order to get those

1:33:53

guys? And they're not getting

1:33:55

any younger. Like their their team.

1:33:58

They're two stalwarts and one of them is off injured

1:34:00

and the other one has played about eight trillion

1:34:02

minutes of basketball in his career,

1:34:05

in his twenty one year in NBA

1:34:07

career, And then you look at Minnesota super

1:34:09

young, Oklahoma City super young, Dipper

1:34:12

guys in their prime left and right, you're

1:34:14

seeing the old guard

1:34:16

kind of go out. So what are the Lakers going to do to

1:34:18

get younger? I mean, it's

1:34:21

got to be better than keep DiAngelo Russell

1:34:23

like that. There's got to be more coming, and

1:34:26

I just don't see it right now.

1:34:27

Do people still want to play with Lebron.

1:34:31