Hour 2 – Dolphins Should Clean House, Kevin Harlan

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Speaker 3: MVP?

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Speaker 2: Back to the NBA and the title odds. We have not had a repeat champ in seven years. Okac, you're defending champs. They are the favorites according to the bookmakers. DraftKings, Nuggets or second then Cavs, Nicks, Rockets, And I was saying, who had better odds? Would it be the Rockets, Lakers, Timberwolves or Warriors. It's the Rockets, then the Lakers tied with the Timberwolves, and then the Golden State Warriors. After that, Orlando is in there, The Mavericks are in there, Clippers and the seventy six ers. You know, the Mavericks I thought might be a little bit higher, but you know they're gonna wait. They gotta wait for Kyrie to come back. Anthony Davis. They have a really good team frontline, and if Kyrie is healthy, those odds will improve dramatically, you know. Okay, See, we always see this where you're trying to come back and do it again and just never the same. The Nuggets, I don't know how good the team is, but I think Joker is your MVP. Eleading candidate right now, I have Luca as mine. He's going to be there for three weeks without lebron If I gave you over under points tonight with Luca and Golden State, Luca against Steph Curry over under, Who's going Luca or who's going Steph?

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Speaker 3: And by how many?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Paulie, I would say Luca twenty nine and a half and he had more than.

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Speaker 2: Staph Okay Todd Luca thirty two and a half, all right.

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Speaker 7: Marvin Luca twenty eight and a half.

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Speaker 3: All right, Seaton, Steph thirty one and one a half.

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Speaker 2: It's Luca and Luca at thirty and a half, and I got Steph I think at twenty six.

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Speaker 3: And a half. Disrespect. Oh that's the over under for that matchup there, all right?

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Speaker 2: Eight seven seven three DP show. Do you want to update the poll results? We had a lot of good ones, a lot of spicy ones in the first hour of the program.

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Speaker 3: How about that.

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Speaker 8: Let's see the MF for pole question. AFC Patriots, Steelers, Colts, Broncos. Right now, the Colts at sixty six percent, they are the most for real in the AFC. Same thing more for real NFC forty nine or Seahawks, Rams, Buccaneers Rams running away.

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Speaker 3: With that one. Okay, yeah, okay. We also have whose career would you want?

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Speaker 8: George Springer or Mike Trout George Springer fifty four percent of that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, maybe asked that question after the World Series, how about that? But I'm looking at the all time home run list postseason Manny Ramirez twenty nine, Jose L Tuve twenty seven, and then it's Springer and Kyle Schwarber, Bernie Williams, Eric Gita, Albert Pouholz, Alec Bregman, and Corey Seeger. Then you'll find Reggie Jackson. Mickey Mantle had eighteen but played in fewer postseason games on a yearly basis.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Tom, do you put.

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Speaker 9: A mini trash can instead of Ben? Asked next to an al Tuovay, what do you do with that? Instead of a little star? A little mini trash can?

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Speaker 10: No?

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Speaker 7: I feel on that one.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's your team, you root for cheaters.

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Speaker 7: There there was some question with behavior going on.

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Speaker 3: Would you put a little trash can?

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Speaker 7: I think that would be a music to do that you do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think that would go over with Astros terribly. Okay, all right, the Dolphins situation. Mike McDaniel still a head coach, all right, and he's still gonna play Tua.

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Speaker 3: All right. Here's Mike McDaniel, the Dolphins head coach.

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Speaker 11: As far as talking to mister Ross, talked to him right after the game, and we talk about the game. You know, there's a lot to talk about. Definitely didn't see it playing out that way, so you know, we talked about that, and then we came here off the off the plane.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but here's Tua.

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Speaker 2: Nobody has thrown more I think multi interception games than Tua since twenty twenty two records. You don't want to be on that list. But Mike McDaniel said that he'll be better. Okay, like how could he not be? But then this is where if you're part of the fan base, there is this an indictment on the ownership front office that you don't do something like what are you waiting for? Tyreek Hill's not walking out of the walking into the locker room, and if he is, he's limping. Got you got a good running back and you got a wide receiver, but you don't really have anything. And I wonder about where this team now can you change the coach and all of a sudden salvage this season. I don't think so, because Buffalo and New England are better than you. But maybe, like Mike McDaniel, obviously coaching for his job. I can't imagine that he would hold onto his job. And this is where it gets tricky for an owner. If you start to win, then you got to keep him because right now, if I said to Steven Ross, the owner of the Dolphins, what are you gonna do at the end of the year, if he was going to be honest, he said, I'm probably going to clean house. Okay, So why wait? Is there somebody on the staff you want to give a chance to to be a head coach? Are players going to respond differently? We see how they're responding. Bill Coward, the Hall of Fame coach, set on CBS postgame. The Dolphins look disinterested. That would really alarm me. The things that get the attention of an owner is when people don't show up for games, because that's the bottom line. Are they going to show up? Do you have the Dolphins schedule, PAULI?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they are at the Falcons host, the Ravens host, the Bills host the Commanders host the Saints.

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Speaker 3: Wait, so what for their next five are at home? Yes? Wow? Yeah? Okay?

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Speaker 4: And like you said, what if they they've had three one score losses this year? What if they happen to beat the Falcons and Ravens and somehow weirdly beat the Bills. Now the window to fire him is closed for a while.

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Speaker 2: Well, I just want to know, well, are they going to move on from TUA? If you're not moving on from your head coach? Are you moving on from TUA? Because that would be the other question I would have. I don't know Mike McDaniel, who I enjoy him when he comes on. He seems like an offensive coordinator. As I've said many times, not everybody is meant to be a head coach because what is required of you is different than what you're kind of accustomed to if you're the defensive coordinator, like Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame. And I talked to him when we were done with the interview, and I said, how do the players look at you now as head coach as opposed to when you were the defensive coordinator? And I think I kind of caught him a little bit off guard with it. But when that's our DC, it's different, like it's us.

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Speaker 3: He's one of us. He played linebacker. Now you're the head coach. Now you oversee everything. Now you're a CEO.

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Speaker 2: But he said, no, I think they view me the same, which I don't know how you can. Because when he got named head coach at Notre Dame, that locker room, that locker room erupted. They were so happy for him, and rightfully so. But there has to be that you're my offensive coordinator to like Robert Salah. He's a great defensive coach. I just didn't think he was a head coach. And it's not a knock on him because you got to know your strengths. Everybody wants to be a head coach, or we feel like, oh he deserves a chance to be a head coach. No, not every pitching coach deserves to be a manager. Like Leo Mazzoni with the Braves. I liked him as a pitching coach, not as a manager.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to try, but you have to know.

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Speaker 2: What if I said to Todd, I want you to be the host of this show, could he be the host of this show and then run the business? Could you do all of those things, or does he go, this is what I really do?

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: I think you get guys who get in a position and you go, like Gannon with the Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he's a head coach or not.

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Speaker 2: I understand you want to do it, but you also have to understand your limitations with that.

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Speaker 8: I don't know that goes from like Todd's role to your role though, is the same as going from like an offensive or defensive coordinator to a head coach.

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Speaker 2: He's a personality, speaks a lot, but even then, like that jump from being a DC or offensive coordinator being a head coach. I mean, it's so different because you're not really hands on the way you were. And I think that's where who's the guy who we kept waiting for him to get an opportunity with the Chiefs? Eric b Enemy, Where did that go? That was front Murner all these shows? He deserves it. Maybe he didn't interview well, which is what I heard. You know, you have certain guys. I understand you want to aspire to that, but I'm not a play by play guy. Like if you said, hey, do you want to do Sunday night football or you want to do I don't know the fifth game on Fox, I would say no because that's not what I do well.

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Speaker 8: I fear like a really good quarterbacks coach, and then you know, somebody offers you the offensive coordinator can be like, I don't know, that's really my strength, and then you know, but that's really close to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

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Speaker 2: You're right there in all of those those rooms. I feel like you have to try. If you get the chance to be a head coach, you have to try it. Even if you fail. It's like, all right, that didn't work out, but you have to try. I get that you want to take the job. I get it. But it goes back to if I'm an owner, not everybody deserves to be a head coach. The guy who wants to be a head coach, okay, but I would not be I would not look at this and go, you know, he deserves to be a head There's certain guys who like Buddy Ryan to me, wasn't a good head coach, but he was a great defensive coordinator. They're just certain guys who were built for certain things. Even Belichick now coming up Belichick, we would look at him and go he's not a guy.

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Speaker 3: He's not built to be a head coach. Bill Belichick, No, he's not at North Carolina. Yes, Pum.

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Speaker 4: I think what you're saying is being the face of the program and having to do all the media time because as an assistant coach you can go years without doing it.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to. Yeah, you don't have to do any interviews.

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Speaker 4: They usually turn you down. We asked for assistant coaches in college football were told no, and pro football were told no. You look at Ben Johnson the Bears. He was a little shaky this year at the podium. Aaron Glenn with the Jets a little shaky at the podium. They get too emotional because they're not used to being in front of the podium weekend and week out.

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Speaker 2: And I understand you want to be a head coach, but it goes back to where like Mike McDaniel doesn't seem like a head coach. But I didn't know if Dan Campbell could be a head coach, but I found out he wins press conferences.

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Speaker 3: They do follow him. They got a culture there and they would.

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Speaker 2: Do anything, it seems like for him. So I'm glad that he got that opportunity. But when he first got sworn in, I went.

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Speaker 8: Oh boy, yeah, it's like Pete Carroll might be a little bit of an anomaly. But if you were to ask like the Jets or the Patriots, he wasn't built to be a head coach. But then he went to college and he was a great head coach at college. And then he went to the NFL and he was a great head coach there too. You know, so sometimes it's you know, maybe it takes a minute to figure it out, but.

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Speaker 2: Well, we recycle quarterbacks, we recycle coaches as well. But getting that opportunity. Like Steve Kerr, I thought he had had a great offensive mind, but I didn't know if you know, what.

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Speaker 3: He would be.

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Speaker 2: I knew he was great with the media. He was a broadcaster as well. Those things help you, but I didn't know he'd be this successful. Doug Collins when he coaching the Bulls, he had Michael Jordan. They moved on from him, brought in Phil Jackson. I'm like, Phil didn't say anything. He didn't have to. All he had to say was get it to Michael. Okay, is there a plane?

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Speaker 3: No, just get it to twenty three?

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Speaker 7: Yes, Well, he'd hand out books and give them motivational literature to read in their free time.

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Speaker 2: All right, let me take a break. We'll talk to Kevin Harlan. Todd, get your voice ready, give me a little Kevin Harlan.

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Speaker 9: The Jazz are up twenty three to nine, and the Denver Nuggets look confused.

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Speaker 7: We'll step aside. This is the NBA on Prime video.

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Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 2: I think you sound better than Kevin Harlan. You sound more like Kevin Harlan than Kevin Harlan.

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Speaker 7: I will take that as a lovely cople.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be in Vegas in a couple of weeks going out for Formula one. I was just informed by the Eyes and Ears of the show Mario, who is our director, that Pitbull is going to be there that Friday night when we're there, Mister three h five, I don't know if he'll be in the hotel where we're staying. That might be the only reason why I would go see him.

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Speaker 3: I know you'll won't me. I don't know. Should we have Pitbull on the show.

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Speaker 8: Maybe, Yeah, we're in a stadium named after him, heck y oh yeah, all right, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't have to do my research on pit Bull. Yes, time we're Milford.

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Speaker 9: He's mister Worldwide. How would we possibly blow up Pitbull?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: And maybe we find out if he's going to be there Thursday night. But I don't know if he's going to get up when we get up as we start at six am Vegas time, Marvin.

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Speaker 13: He's performing at Fountain Blue Hotel. I think it's the same place where we saw post Malone.

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Speaker 3: Oh now, I would have had post Malone on you were ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: He had his Troy Aikman jersey on, but every other word was the F bomb, And I'm like, why we.

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Speaker 3: Don't need it?

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Speaker 7: You were so offended.

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Speaker 3: I was just like, I like his voice. I'm worried about the kids.

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Speaker 7: That's all. There were no kids there though.

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Speaker 3: People acting like kids.

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Speaker 2: But it was F bomb after F bomb, and I'm standing next to Marvin, I'm like, come on, you're better than that. He couldn't give you a sentence without two or three F bombs in there. Maybe I just don't understand. And the rap world or whatever world he's in, getting tattoos, that's just how he kicks it. Yeah, well, lost a lot of weight, looked good and his Troy Aikman jersey.

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Speaker 7: The rappers getting to that. Rappers get tattoos, a cursing.

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Speaker 2: On their faces. Get off my lawn, Get off my lawn. Yes, Melbourne.

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Speaker 13: The way I turned around and looked at you like wait, wait, you're worried about.

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Speaker 7: Him saying that bomb there much?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Bully with the post Malone, the lyrics.

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Speaker 4: The F bombs are in the songs right, not just he's not just floating them out there. They're in the actual lyrics.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I think they're in the lyrics.

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Speaker 2: They are, but in between songs, and then he would throw out F bombs like a set up to the song.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, yes, Todd, it's said.

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Speaker 9: When people refer to and try to do cursing to get people's attention. That's a little shot. I took it myself. Oh okay, but I just went blue too because no one was laughing.

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Speaker 2: So it's usually what happens sometimes when comedians get desperate, they throw an F bomb and then people laugh for some reason.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm looking at post Malone, one of his more popular songs. It is white Iverson, and the F word appears in the official lyrics a number of times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm talking about in between songs.

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Speaker 7: I guess.

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Speaker 4: I'm just surprised that it's it's in the written lyrics.

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Speaker 3: Like we already have it in a song.

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Speaker 2: But then he couldn't get from one song to the next one without dropping a trail of F bombs.

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Just once again, I'm here for the kids.

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Speaker 9: Yes, what's worse unnecessary language are facial tattoos.

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Speaker 3: I don't care about the tattoos. I'm fine with it. I like post malone, like he's very talented.

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Speaker 7: I mean, what's worse?

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Speaker 3: What was You're gonna say to Mike Tyson? Man, you have that's face?

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Speaker 7: I say, like, what did you do to your face? When you're like a grandpa and stuff like that?

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Speaker 3: You want to always ahead of the curve, right, because everybody's like, oh my god, do you see what Tyson did? And then all of a sudden, it seems like there were.

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Speaker 8: I mean, a little little Wayne and like all the man it just yeah, he was. He seems like one of the first two that really went like all in too, like the face tattoos.

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Speaker 3: He went heavy early.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how I could sit there and talk to these guys like Lil Wayne without just kind of, you know, looking his whole face and looking at these tattoos, not even make an eye contact.

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Speaker 3: Just like, okay he got a cross there, Okay, you got that?

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Speaker 7: What's that? What's that?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 7: Is there any social or religious significance? Maybe I'm just the one of the old men in the room. As to like, why you would do it on your face?

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Speaker 2: How would I know, Todd, I don't know, Because there's actually cultures, there's actually scripture that talks about facial tattoos.

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Speaker 7: I think it's Corinthians too face making a joke like there's you know, like.

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Speaker 2: Todd I'm complaining about f bombs at a post Malone concert.

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Speaker 9: I want to know how you in the room process when you see someone with like a bunch of facial tattoos. What are what are they saying to the world and what how are we supposed to you know, react to that or what are.

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Speaker 2: They Harlan is set to join us here uh NFL on CBS play by play Monday night Action on Westwood One. He was on the call last night. He was also in the booth at Mile High between the Giants and the Broncos. He's got Dolphins Falcons on CBS next Sunday, then The Commander's Chiefs Westwood Run on radio Monday night, and his first NBA game for NBA Prime will be Timberwolves Lakers coming up on Friday night. Kevin Harlan on the program. Given that schedule, how's the voice.

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Speaker 14: It's a little early. I don't know how you do it every morning, getting up and belting it out, but it'll.

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Speaker 2: Warm up, okay, So you do the game last night, you have the Broncos Giants game, then you're gonna have the Dolphins Falcons, then you got Commander's Chiefs, and then you got your first NBA game Lakers and Tea Wolves on Friday night.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot. That's a lot. How does that?

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Speaker 1: I mean?

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Speaker 2: You got to kind of pace yourself, don't you? For all of this and the energy you bring to a game.

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Speaker 14: Maybe a little bit, you know. And I was at TNT. We had the Sunday CBS, the Monday Westwood One Radio, and then Tuesday NBA. So it was three games, three nights, three different cities, flights in between. That was difficult, and that was one of the problems I think with NBC is that they have Tuesday games on Peacock and so the Amazon thing made sense in a variety of ways, but clearly their schedule fit what I do in football a little bit better. And you know how the business is. You get going and the microphones on, and you seem to we love the business. We answer the bell and we do the best we can.

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Speaker 2: Of all the games you've done. Where does the Giants and Broncos rank.

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Speaker 14: I was talking to someone of the press box last night here in Detroit, and I said, the problem with a game like that, and you've covered a lot and done so much, is that when it's going on in your I've seeing this monumental whatever is occurring, is that you're trying to process it in real time. Unlike most people that we watched that report on it have a chance to digest it. You've got to make sure that as you're going you're keeping track of all the parts that build up to the top of the pyramid and the conclusion. And that's just want to make sure you're buttoned down. But thirty three points in one quarter is a pretty significant number. I've never done a game like that, and this is my forty first year doing the NFL. Stunning and shocking because even when it was twenty six to eight and the Giants were leading in the fourth, you thought, well, this a garbage touchdown here, They're going to just kind of get some momentum going into the Brogers are going to get some momentum going into the next game. And it was hardly that. And I guess you need to realize that these guys, once they catch a spark at this level, they don't let it go.

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Speaker 2: Give me the difference between your job with anticipation and reaction.

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Speaker 14: Well, everything for me is reaction. I don't I think if you let your mind go to what could be and make sure that I'm ready for it, that you lose what's actually going on in front of you. I mean, I think there are different ways to handle it, and you've you've done things like this before. I think the best stuff that comes out is the stuff that is organic and has the true you're you're so lost in the game and clearly you know what's coming up a third down or a fourth down, or where they got to get to the line the game. But I think that that you just it's truly one step at a time, handle that play, and then as that play ends, make sure you're previewing what's ahead, so you've covered what's happened and what's to come and how that play played into what's upcoming. So or I've always I've always leaned on the organic side of it and let my love of sports kind of come out.

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Speaker 2: I guess I kept waiting for Tampa to do something last night. I don't know if you were getting that sense of okay, better get it going, getting late, well.

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Speaker 14: Baker Mayfield. I mean they had won all these games by three points or less, and he had come back and engineered these phenomenal comebacks at home and on the road. And Detroit was depleted in the secondary as people have read and followed the game, missing most of their starters back there, and kids that filled in were great. The pass rush was there that offset the loss in the secondary, and Mayfield didn't seem to have an answer. Now, Listen, he had. Evans was out with a broken collar bonus we learned later on in a shoulder injury and maybe a concussion. Abuka was not one hundred percent. They're missing the number one running back and Bucky Irving. I mean, they had a lot of things that they were dealing with offensively, so Mayfield's arsenal wasn't there and the things that made him so special early in the season. Detroit had an answer last night. It was pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Kevin Harlan NFL and CBS play by play, I feel bad having you on. I can hear it in your voice, like you know, just hanging there for a couple more minutes.

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Speaker 7: No, I'm for you.

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Speaker 14: I'll do anything. When I saw this and go, gosh, I'm not very good in the morning, and there's a lot there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff that's got to be cleared out.

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Speaker 2: But you go from pacing with TV a game on radio, and then you go to NBA pacing, how do you kind of, you know, is there any real adjustment for you when you're doing those different games on different you know, whether TV or radio and different You know, football.

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Speaker 14: Is such a march, and I think that just for me personally, I'm probably better with a cadence and a rhythm and a flow and those kinds of things, and I try to bring more of that to football because to my ear, it's pleasing on basketball when it's like a running conversation. So for all these years I was with Reggie and we really felt like there was a nice rhythm established we had so many years together. And when it's like that in the NBA and the game flows, I mean, you know, I mean, it just flows so well. The one thing about college basketball is that the kids don't shoot as well and the clock is longer, so there's more time for an analyst to get his moment in. Yet you can pick up the play with about eight seconds on the shot clock, and that rhythm establishes itself, and it really is pleasing from a broadcasting standpoint. NBA is like a windshield wipeer, right, it's just back and forth, baseline to baseline, but there's a rhythm that is established there. In the NFL, it's more like a march. And you know there's a segment where the analyst talks and then utah, and you want to get out quickly and be efficient, let him get back to what he's saying, because it's an analyst driven medium. In the NFL on TV basketball, I feel it's a fifty to fifty split, but in football on TV it's analyst driven.

00:28:19
Speaker 3: How hard is it to picture an NBA post Lebron.

00:28:23
Speaker 15: Hard.

00:28:24
Speaker 14: He's going to be out the first three four weeks of this season, and every promo I see by all the networks, it's Lebron making a play. He's not going to be there in November or till November, late November, maybe no October basketball for him. And it reaches even further than that. Curry and KD. You know, this is the twilight of their careers and I don't know that anyone he has stepped up there are many candidates to go in there and fill in that void, but it's coming when they're gone, and so much of the league is built on those three players, and it's it's gonna be hard to see like it was when when Kobe retired and before that. You know, Michael, And have.

00:29:11
Speaker 2: You ever used your voice for preferential treatment, for preferential treatment?

00:29:16
Speaker 14: No?

00:29:17
Speaker 3: No, no, restaurant, no no, no, I.

00:29:22
Speaker 14: I it is recognized from time. I'm not recognized, but when I open my mouth. So my wife says that that should be an indication. Don't talk, just just just just why get home? You talk all the time when you're on the road for your work. When you come home, you're still talking. Let's let's let's let's let's quiet. Let's have quiet time.

00:29:41
Speaker 3: So you don't say, I take the Caesar salahad No, no, how do you sound.

00:29:47
Speaker 14: So good all the time? You're you?

00:29:48
Speaker 15: You're I.

00:29:49
Speaker 14: I I've told you this before. I admire you so much. You know, it's the next part of your show. Are your your questions? And people probably don't, they just think it's just the flow. But when you're doing the show, those questions and they're so efficient. Every kid in broadcasting should listen and copy that stuff. I told you that before, but I really admire it, and I'll write if I'm never doing an interview myself and I don't do any I'll do, I'll put literally swear to God DP on the top of my board to remind myself. Be efficient, get to the point, and think as you go along, as opposed to having fifteen plans questions.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: Great, that's what I teach my students, economical open ended questions. And you're not the important person. The person you're speaking to is now go home. Rest your voice. You don't have to use it until what Friday night?

00:30:49
Speaker 14: Now, I got shows during the week I've got to do. But yeah, but Friday night. Yeah, and Friday. Then fly to Atlanta on Saturday.

00:30:56
Speaker 2: And once again, if the voice goes, you know, I got your I got your dappo ganger here Fritzi is ready to go.

00:31:03
Speaker 3: How about the Lakers Timberwolves?

00:31:05
Speaker 7: Todd, The Timberwolves are on an eleven three run. The Lakers want to talk about it. This is the NBA on Amazon Video.

00:31:13
Speaker 14: Okay, let me just say something about that. This will be my I have never ever ever said. And they want to talk about it. I think I think he's channeling. I think he's channeling a little Marv okay. But but I have never I said, I said, I've heard that before. I've never said that. I've never said they want to talk about it. I said, uh, I mean whatever I've said, You've called the time out, but they.

00:31:40
Speaker 7: Told, well, pay some bills and step aside. This sin is the NBA on Amazon prop video.

00:31:47
Speaker 3: Have you said that before?

00:31:52
Speaker 16: No?

00:31:55
Speaker 3: But it's fun You're and him say it.

00:31:57
Speaker 14: I enjoyed that.

00:31:59
Speaker 3: Great to talk to you. Thanks for getting up with us and safe travels.

00:32:03
Speaker 14: Thanks Dan, always a pleasure and great listening to you.

00:32:06
Speaker 2: Kevin Harlan and Todd Fritz good Sport, thank you. Yes, I do love you doing his impersonation to it.

00:32:14
Speaker 3: I do love it.

00:32:15
Speaker 7: I have never said that in my entire life.

00:32:17
Speaker 2: Rockets are getting six and a half at the Thunder over Under with Shay Gilgis Alexander Junior. The third is thirty two and a half, Kevin Durant twenty three and a half, Warriors minus two and a half at the Lakers, Luka Doncic thirty and a half over Under, Steph Curry twenty six and a half over under take a break, more phone calls, more NBA coming up in about thirty five minutes from now, when Reggie Miller joins us, we're back after this.

00:32:46
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00:32:58
Speaker 2: Had a little shooting on petition during the live looking if you're watching on Peacan, Fritzy with a couple of late jumpers, and next break it'll be Marvin v.

00:33:09
Speaker 3: Seaton as we get ready for the NBA tip off.

00:33:13
Speaker 2: I don't know, Todd's got an interesting side spin on his jumper, and but it went in, what'd you make?

00:33:22
Speaker 3: Four or five?

00:33:23
Speaker 7: Four of the nine, last three and then one earlier on the other side.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: And you had forty five seconds to do so caught fire at the end of there you did. Yeah, middle aged jumpers for middle aged guys. By the way, I called Marvin Melvin, but that's because the back room guys never call anybody by their real name. So Eric, the big german is Derek, Mario is Maria a variety of names for him, and Marvin is Melvin or what are the other names they call you.

00:33:53
Speaker 7: Mark, Marquee, Morton, Marcus.

00:33:58
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's it's as I joke from when we're building the big German's brother Jay would never get my name right.

00:34:04
Speaker 7: And so that's how it started. Yeah, I'm so bad with names. I'm sorry, Melvin.

00:34:09
Speaker 3: What did he call Seaton?

00:34:11
Speaker 7: Sexton?

00:34:12
Speaker 3: Sexton? All right, I get Sexton, I get send Damon.

00:34:19
Speaker 2: For some reason, se nt O n I don't even know what that is, but lots of people. Hey, sent in Brian in Oklahoma. Thanks for holding Brian. What's on your mind?

00:34:28
Speaker 3: Hey, Dan, Harry you great?

00:34:30
Speaker 10: Hey.

00:34:31
Speaker 15: I want to ask this question. All these coaches that are being fired by the universities and are drawing these big paychecks for their contracts, do you see universities in the future. Maybe not given ten year contracts. We give them three or four year contracts and given a stipulation with nil and transfer a portal. You have the opportunity to get a big team or a really good team. If you don't develop in those three years, you're out.

00:34:53
Speaker 2: Well I would just say let's be in this together, and if I give you three years to bring in your players, after that you can reassess and I. You know, these coaches jump around all the time. You know they complain about players doing this. Coaches do this all the time. There's no loyalty none, So you can't I'm asking you to sign up for ten years and then I'm going to have to pay you. I want loyalty in return from you as well. Don't be shopping, you know, for other jobs. But this is what they're going to do.

00:35:26
Speaker 15: It is.

00:35:27
Speaker 3: It's all about the money.

00:35:28
Speaker 2: Everybody is keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, get more money, take another job, take another job.

00:35:34
Speaker 3: There is no stability. But I don't know if they've actually tried.

00:35:39
Speaker 2: To cultivate this. There's no stability in the players. Let's see Brosky in wine Country. Hi Brosky, Hey, Dan, how you doing?

00:35:52
Speaker 16: Go you doing for us good? This is Brosky Passerovos, California.

00:35:57
Speaker 6: Number one wine country in the world.

00:35:58
Speaker 16: Dan okay, Hey, I'm new to the show, first time caller, six foot two, O five and Dan, even though I'm new to the show, I'm not new to the family.

00:36:11
Speaker 17: Buda from San Francisco and I grew up in our twenties and thirties together. Speaking about mid range jumpers for middle aged guys. We used to play knockdown basketball one on one to where we were almost fighting each other, and then we became really really good friends and he moved up to.

00:36:29
Speaker 8: The Bay Area.

00:36:30
Speaker 3: What's on your mind, Brosky?

00:36:34
Speaker 16: Hey, I'm calling. I got a numerology for Fritzy.

00:36:37
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:36:41
Speaker 16: With the dismal play by the Broncos over three quarters, they finally decided to step up and represent the great Ta Marius Thomas, who passed away at the age of thirty three.

00:36:53
Speaker 10: And.

00:36:54
Speaker 16: They scored thirty three points in the fourth quarter. They had two eight point drives, which is a nod to number eighty eight. The defense recorded thirty three solo tackles, and they started the game winning drive with thirty three seconds to go.

00:37:10
Speaker 3: Yeah. I sent this to Fritzy early this morning.

00:37:13
Speaker 10: Yeah.

00:37:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get to the point, are Bronsky. You got to have a tutorial, Chris, and Syracuse needs to give you a tutorial.

00:37:21
Speaker 3: Aiden in Utah Hi Aiden.

00:37:26
Speaker 6: Hey DP the ALTIP short, real quick, worst and worstest worst would be Sean Payton flight calling. For seventy five percent of the game, we went from run run incomplete path to screen stream overthrow, punt, and now The worstest would be my utes losing to BYU for the third straight year, and it looks like it's gonna be a lot longer than that. They've got deep the pockets that are programming where just we look embarrassing.

00:37:58
Speaker 3: Yeah you got a great coach though, but thank you Aiden.

00:38:02
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:38:02
Speaker 2: You you got to have money to spend. It's plain and simple. Gotta have money. Keith and Chico. Hi, Keith, welcome back.

00:38:13
Speaker 15: Hey guys, thanks for having me back.

00:38:14
Speaker 18: I just got a quick quick question about the Chiefs. Being a Lions fan, I would guess last night felt like being a Chief sin as we got all the important calls at the right times. I'm not sure that I like it and will relish in that style of winning is the same way they do in Kansas City. And that brings me to the question, would you rather your football team wins several Super Bowls but clearly get lopsided help from the penalties, or win just one with absolutely no controversy.

00:38:38
Speaker 2: I'll take all the help I can get. I don't care as long as I'm not cheating. I'll take all the help I can get. I don't hang my head in shame if I win a Super Bowl. The Colonel back from Tampa. Hi, Colonel, good.

00:38:55
Speaker 10: Morning, Dan, Good morning guys.

00:38:56
Speaker 7: How are we all doing great?

00:38:58
Speaker 10: He listen, no one knows. No one had it better this weekend than our family and friends at my son's wedding, to end our new daughter's wedding. It was great, lovely, fantastic time, long weekend. So maybe I was tired, Dan, maybe I didn't see what I saw over and over last night on that television watching that game. But I'm positive, Dan. We got the Saints, we got a bye week. It's the NFL. We're going to make adjustments. The best is yet to come.

00:39:31
Speaker 4: Dan.

00:39:31
Speaker 3: All right, colonel, thank you.

00:39:33
Speaker 2: The best was this weekend and your daughter getting thereried congratulations, or your son getting there. Yeah, it's one game. But here's the bigger issue though. It's the injuries. It's like the Niners their two best defenders aren't coming back. The Buccaneers you're not getting Mike Evans back. Those are huge losses. You can have somebody banged up, you can have some people unhappy. You can have wide receivers who want to get the ball more. You know Saquon Barkley. You want to talk from an unbelievable year to a below average year. I think he's averaging like three and a half yards of carry, getting maybe fifty to sixty yards. I think he was averaging a one twenty five last year. I haven't heard him say he's not getting his touches. Those wide receivers can complain all they want. Saquon Barkley not getting as many touches as he did last year.

00:40:30
Speaker 3: Two hours in the

00:40:31
Speaker 2: Books, one more to go and the return of the Hall of Famer Reggie Aloysius Millard Junior, the third Fritzy Seat and Marv Paul Years truly and of course the back room guys Final hour right after this