Hour 3: Cramping Issues & Eagle Returns

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Speaker 1: But the big news, the.

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Speaker 2: Big news is Sidney Crosby will not be on the ice. Oh, Sidney Crosby will not play in the at My Finals. He suffered a lower body injury last game and so no sid the kid for Canada as they get ready to try and advance to the gold medal game, which I know NBC is really really hoping ends up being Canada and the US coming up on Sunday. But it looks like Sidney Crosby not going to be on the ice for the Canadians today, and if they advance, who knows what the status is for Sunday. And now you've got to wonder what does this do to the last portion of the season. When it comes to the Penguins, who were an overachieving team this year, Crosby's already up there in years and the fact that he's injured enough that he wouldn't play in this game feels a little bit troubling for the extent of the injury, especially with how tough hockey players are and the stuff.

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Speaker 1: They go through.

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Speaker 2: That he's not going to be able to give it a go in this game might say a lot about the injury itself.

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Speaker 3: Well said, coming from a lifelong Pittsburgh Penguins fans. Come on, that's a rightway Speeds gettings on the Olympics right now, in case anyone wants to check that out.

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Speaker 1: Uh, you should always want to check out Speeds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well again again, fem key Coke Hyrie, pronounce it, She's number one again. No big no big deal. Although uh Var's favorite Jutta lear damn.

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Speaker 1: Is I pronounced, I don't know anyone's name. Yep, you don't even see their faces.

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Speaker 3: To be honest, the Netherlands seems to always be at the top of the board there for that sport. I also noticed something too, you know, after they get done, sometimes the women will like unzip their thing. Yep, some of them have taken a second guess about that, Like now they're not doing that, I think because it'd be tough to compare to uh some of the other competitors.

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Speaker 2: Wells, I give it away for free, you know, like you know what I'm saying. What you're talking about man Olympics, you know what you that.

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Speaker 1: That's actually a great question. Why would you get away for free?

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Speaker 3: It's probably why Darren uh Peterson, the outstanding freshman at Kansas maybe just asked to sit out of.

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Speaker 1: The game this past week. By the way, I love the I love the approach.

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Speaker 2: So Darren Peterson is projected to be the number one pick in the NBA Draft. Guys A stud out of Kansas, he was a five star recruit, came in.

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Speaker 1: You know, twenty three points in the first half or so almost this great outstanding.

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Speaker 2: The problem is he's got these soft tissue injuries to keep pop it up. Then there was cramping that popped up, and then there was a legitimate ankle role mixed in there. But he hasn't played a whole lot for the Jayhawks, and there's some speculation that maybe he's kind of saving himself for the draft, and so you've got people saying, well, that's a bad look, and you know it's not a you know, this is not if I was an NBA GM, you know I would look at this and have second thoughts about whether or not I would want to take this guy. I'd want him on my team. And I'm kind of torn on this because I can understand, Look, you want the guy to go out there and compete at a high level. You wanted to do all these things. But he's also probably good enough to not need to go to college and go to the NBA and if his heart's not in it and he has focused on the future, I get the concerns about it. But there's some players who are different that maybe don't need to go through the same thing other players do to be able to compete at a higher level, and so he's getting knocked by a lot of people left and right. But I still find it hard to believe that if he's there on the board and you're picking number one in the draft next year, you're going to pass because he pulled himself out of a game due to a cramp issue in some regular season game against whoever Cancer was playing at the time.

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Speaker 1: Find that hard. If you have a cramp issue, why are you pulling yourself out out of the game. Shouldn't your medical staff be pulling you out of the game. Well, he hit a three recently, and then.

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Speaker 2: Bill self said to Bill self, right, he literally turned right around and tapped bill Self and said, hey, coach, put his finger up, come get me.

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Speaker 1: He just buried it. Fis Hey, But because it was a cramping issue, uhh, who knows? Okay, So if it's not a cramping issue, then okay, I understand there being some blowback. If this is a indeed a situation where he is finishing up an opportunity, pushing through the pain. You know, some people are actually turned into heroes off of staying in the game while hurt and wild injured. Yeah, he completed the three pointer, Get me out. Like, I got you another three before I came out, but this cramp is bad. My question is is their legitimacy to the cramp. If there's legitimacy to the cramping issue, I have no problem with him pulling himself out if somebody is not aware of the cramping issue. If they were aware of the cramping issue and they left him in there and he's like, Okay, I can't take the pain of the cramp anymore, pull me out. I have no problem with that. If you're saying there's some other underlying reason he got his point and now he's ready to get out of the game, then I could understand why they would actually, you know, have a I guess an issue with what he did. All right, how I don't think it would be a big issue, but hey, who knows. I guess we have a big issue.

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Speaker 3: Can I give you what I believe to be a solution. And this doesn't just stand for men's college basketball. I think they need to do away with the one and done. We've gotten out to a point where it just it feels like if someone's capable of going into the NBA from high school, they should have.

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Speaker 1: The opportunity to do so and they can go start that.

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Speaker 3: Journey if they care about education, and maybe they get compensated as part of that.

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Speaker 1: They can go to college for a couple of years.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like if you're holding yourself out a bit, if that is indeed what is taking place or preserving yourself, then it's kind of making my point like you're not giving everything you have at this level because you feel like you've already gotten to a point where you know what you're gonna be at the next level. At least he's assuming he'll be a first round pick, first overall pick, and maybe that's how he's being led or guided by his team. But my general point is if we do away with the one and done, I think we actually alleviate some of the issues right now in college basketball, where you have some players who it's a facade. They go to school roughly half a year to essentially go through the motions before they then can go on and play in the NBA. Now they can go pro out of high school as it is now right, they can go to the G League, they can go overseas, but there's more money in college, which is one of the reasons why we're kind of doing this, and what I'm trying to do is find a way of protecting against what's happening in college sports because of the way NIL has impacted everything in college sports. It's pushed away from the educational component. We've gotten purely all about money. And part of the issue that I think football is seeing, and really all of college athletics is seeing right now, is because of one or two sports, meaning men's college basketball and college football, they're being precedents being said, there's players who are taking the NCAA to court and winning based on eligibility rules, etc. And it's a very flimsy system. Look at Trinidad Chombless, for example, who didn't want his years at a JUCO to account as part of his eligibility, and so the appeal to the appeal, the appeal until they find a judge that happens to being an old miss alum who's getting autograph from him after the appeal where he ends up awarding Trinida chomwis the additional year of eligibility.

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Speaker 1: Get an autograph for him? That's true, leg sweet good, so good.

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Speaker 3: You're what I'm saying though, is part of the issue with college sports right now. Is what's happening in college basketball. Men's college basketball specifically is also impacting the eligibility rules, and someone what's happening in college football. Right If you've got a pro player who comes back from the NBA and ends up coming back to play in college basketball, and let's say that there's a world where that happens, you don't think an NFL player who maybe only makes it two or three years tries to come back and do that too. I mean, they'll press and they'll keep doing it until they find a judge or they find, you know, a court that will allow them to do so. And it sounds crazy, but I think if you look at this, I would say do away with all of the the one and done or three years removed from high school for even college football. And it sounds nuts, but but hear me out. I don't think there's gonna be any kids that can go from high school to go play in the NFL right away, and so it might take a little bit away from that, but what it's going to preserve is at least for the kids who come back for the following year, like let's say Jeremiah Smith after a year to Ohio State, we all look and say, he probably could have went and got drafted. Well, all right, like he's probably the only one and anyone else here goes and takes that path, that's your path, but your eligibility is over. Like once you leave and you go to that level, it's done.

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Speaker 1: It's over.

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Speaker 3: You can't come back because there's no restrictions of coming into it if you just do away with the whole three years removed from high school. And right now, let's say this, if there was a concern about injury for some of the players.

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Speaker 1: Do you know the.

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Speaker 3: Average age of an Indiana football player from this past season's team twenty three, twenty three point four years. You at the average age of the NFL was last year.

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Speaker 1: Like twenty three. No, it's a little older. It's twenty six, twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But as soon as guys like Aaron Rodgers or people like that retire, it's gonna go right back down.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I've thought it'd been like twenty three twenty four, because if you're taking the average most college players enter into the league at like twenty one twenty two, I think no, no, no, no, not most.

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Speaker 3: That's changed a lot ever since they've implemented an IL players are actually they've seen the fewest number of early entries into the draft now because of NIL, it's actually kept guys in school longer. So the general point is that if the average age of college football is getting older, and even though you've still got a decent amount of young players in the NFL, because that's more of a byproduct of you know, if you're not a superstar, guys are being cut and moved on from there's no middle class. So you've got some rookies who come in that are twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, and they're they've proven themselves and you got the rest where if it doesn't if they don't catch on in a year or two, they're out by year three.

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Speaker 1: Average career length three years in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: So the point is that it's not like it's even a risk either necessarily from injury if you implemented.

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Speaker 1: Something like this, Yeah, I think that's but like, why are.

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Speaker 3: You making a kid go to college for half a year where they're really not going to class and they're playing a sport to make some money before they can go on to the NBA.

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Speaker 1: They just need to go back to letting them go to high school if they want. I think they're concerned that.

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Speaker 2: And people are going to say, well, you know, some of these guys aren't ready, and it's like, well, if you run the risk, then you lose your eligibility, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: Well that's the choice, I know.

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Speaker 2: And and then it's going to turn into well is that fair if they were giving bad advice, because it always that conversation always comes up. I would say, just turn it into a reality show. Do you think you're good enough to go to the NBA? Get on the reality show.

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Speaker 3: Hold for a second, Hold on for a second, and LaVar knows this how many kids are getting bad advice?

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Speaker 1: Now in college?

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Speaker 5: You go in the portal and transferred there, agreed, go to the local jail houses, go to the penitentiaries and the youth centers, the youth homes, and.

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Speaker 1: Ask them how much bad advice did you get? Right? Oh, that's why you're here, that's why you got Yeah, three hots in the cot tea. So I've just said, you don't get you don't get to live behind the barrier of I didn't know. Oh, I'm sorry, I got bad advice, Like yeah, I mean, the bottom line is is if you're in that position where you can make that type of a decision, then if you need the air on the side of caution, do so you're If you're that good, then you should be that much better the year after that, the year after that, and some few years after that before you touch your prime of maybe what your your ceiling is on your potential.

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Speaker 2: I do wonder how many players took the path of going straight to the NBA and upon further review, that was that was an awful choice, Like their careers just never took off the way it could have, and they had that one stop gap to the NBA in college.

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Speaker 1: You know, whether it was one year or whatever. How much is one year really going to make a difference?

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Speaker 3: And in all seriousness, like look at Kobe, look at Lebron, look at Kevin.

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Speaker 1: Garnett, Kevin Garnett.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there are plenty of examples, and like I said, there and just looking at it and go, I understand what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: But you can't make decisions to save everyone. Oh no, I agree.

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Speaker 2: But do you think do you think Cooper Flag benefited at all from the one year he had at.

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Speaker 1: Duke I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I would argue that because the NBA game is so similar from college to the NBA. Now, Whereas I would have said twenty twenty five years ago, the physicality of the NBA right, how how brutal they were, they were being rookies, the death they were exactly and so if you if you weren't like bulky or carried enough weight on you or muscle mass, it could be a problem. Not anymore, I mean, I don't I don't view that as the case anymore. It's a much more spread out, skilled game. So I would actually say it's probably in the best interest of Cooper Flag getting an additional year of professional basketball where he's not going to be capped or limited by whatever they're trying to do at the college level, and he can start that process sooner. I would actually say, you took away from him playing the NBA.

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Speaker 1: I would say that. Or quarterbacks, wide receivers, cornerbacks and safeties, I would say the same exact thing. The game has changed so much in football and the physicality has been taken out of it, so much of it that a quarterback could think about going to the pros out of high school. I mean in theory. I mean, I'm not saying mentally that they would be ready, but physically from the physical part. If you had somebody who was like these these whole backs and reclassification kids, a kid is like nineteen twenty going into their freshman year of college, they didn't potentially go play. Jeremiah Smith could have played in the NFL his freshman year of college. He could have played in the NFL, and he could have started for a team his freshman year that he had in college. And these are these are rare exceptions.

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Speaker 3: Right, It's not gonna have this as much in football, But I still think, like, here's the thing is one of the things that people are gonna love about Jeremiah Smith is the fact that he is still so young, Like you don't think there's.

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Speaker 1: A player like him.

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Speaker 3: Would they look at and go freshman Leonard Fournette for example, perfect example, Leonard Fournette from his freshman.

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Speaker 1: Year at LSU.

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Speaker 3: Everyone said, that's an NFL running back and then he had to basically wait the next two years to get there. And we've seen players sit out like I get concerned, and I know they're making enough money now in NIO where it kind of prevents this. But there's gonna come a point in time too where guys do exactly what Darren Peterson's.

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Speaker 1: Doing, and they don't you know, they they're already doing it now.

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Speaker 3: They opt out of the rest of the season if things aren't going well for their team so they can prepare for the draft, so they make sure they don't get injured.

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Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but why wouldn't you? I hate to say it. That's and that's but if your team stinks, like like this year with Penn State, Right, if I'm I mean Nick and k Tron were going for the records and they got they got them. But or even if I'm i mean, look at what happened to Drew. Drew wasn't having a good year. The offense was not serving his his skill set properly and perfectly. He goes down a gutter and ends up hurting himself, hurting himself, hurting his draft stock even more. I'd opt out, I'm sorry, and I would advise you can't what you're going to go to the pen strip ball. You might need to opt out. You're too big of a name, you got too much potential, and go get yourself ready for the combine, get yourself ready for the draft. There's no reason for you, there's nothing more for you to prove here. You're not fighting to get your team into the playoffs, you're not, so wrap it up. Sorry, love, my teammates love that. But if we're talking business, why would you not opt out of the rest of the season. Sounds horrible. Maybe doesn't sound like it's the right thing to do. Maybe you're letting your fans down, your classmates down, I get it, you're letting your coaching staff down. You might even be letting your teammates down. I get all that. But to what end Where Drew Eiler injured himself the way that he did and had to get surgery to repair what it is? I just you know, I think that the risk versus reward of continuing to play a season, whether it's basketball or football, when your team is out of contention to try to compete for a national title, I gotta I gotta wrap it up. Unless I'm already out of school where that doesn't exist, then that's a different maybe a different mindset. But if I'm out of power for that can compete for a national title and they're out of contention for that, and I'm the top player, why would you not think about opting out?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think my intent with the soul conversation too, is just to get people thinking about the fact that we have lost the educational component, we've lost the developmental component in college sports.

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Speaker 1: And I understand it's been in an.

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Speaker 3: Effort to catch up college athletics, in particular the main revenue drivers in football and men's basketball, to compensate these young people for what they deserve. But I also feel like it can't all be just about money. And if you force this sort of thought to it, where you make them have to be a part of an educational component, if they so choose to go into college athletics and not just you know, sit there and say and look at someone's gonna say, well, they could just go for a year and still leave afterwards. Now, maybe we figure out different, you know, different ways of structuring this, but that to me is part of the issue. Is what's happening in men's basketball is creating precedent for you know, college football.

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Speaker 1: And other sports too. And it's an Apple's orange just comparison.

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Speaker 3: So again, you know, we can talk about Peterson's decision if it is legitimate or not. But that's his choice, and it's hard to argue otherwise, Like to your point, LeVar, when he's got that but of a future, it's hard to argue otherwise. You know, if he is battling injury somebody, he doesn't want to play through it. Like, that's his choice. But it's a tough pill to swall for Kansas fans, a tough build a swall for any other fans of full that same same exact category.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I got a cramp on my foot last night. I still shut up this morning. You're welcome everybody. You're welcome here. I am ready to go, ready to rock on. Well, if you had got a cramp in your face, it's rude. But remember when we're talking about it, you opting out, you opt in. Well, we're on YouTube now so it might be able to set. Yeah, But we were talking about, you know, guys that are good enough to play good I remember this.

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Speaker 1: Remember when Master P was trying to be in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Well, he was trying to he thought he could play in the NBA because he like he was a good player, but he thought he could play in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: And there was some GM.

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Speaker 2: I forget god, it might have been a GM for the Raptors or somebody back in the day. Was like they're like, yeah, so you know, masterp says, you know, says he could play in the NBA, and he had like a tryout and some people looked at him, and the GM said, well, his problem is like the same with eighty percent of our league.

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Speaker 1: They all think they're better than they are. I just wonder how many these college athletes are like, oh, I can go do that.

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Speaker 2: I could, I could go straight from high school based on some advice they get. Next thing, you know, they're at the back end of the bench and you know, or playing for a G League team, so or nowhere at all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's overseas.

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Speaker 2: Search Fox Sports Radio in the app to stream US Live all day, every day, and be sure to select Fox Sports Radios one of your presets in the iHeart apps, so will always pop up at the top of your screen. So we have some good news and maybe some not so good news for the Philadelphia Eagles. Lane Johnson is back. Lane Johnson the starting right tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles. He confirmed ESPN he will be returning next season. It'll be his fourteenth with the team. And what's crazy about Lane Johnson with Philly is the splits with him in the lineup and out of the lineup. Last year they were eight and two with Lane Johnson in the lineup, three and five without. In his career since they drafted him, they're thirteen games under five hundred him out of the lineup and fifty games over when he's in it. I don't you know, it would take a really deep dive to go into all the circumstances and scenarios, but I can't feel like with that sort of sample size, that's my accident that guy's probably going to be a Hall of Famer. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And that's an.

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Speaker 2: Incredible The numbers alone would tell the story of how important he is.

00:25:23
Speaker 1: To that offense. In that team.

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Speaker 3: What's interesting about it too is he's been I mean, again, the Pro Bowl view a little bit different, but he's either been a first team, second team All Pro in at least what five seasons something like that. I mean, he's if that's the metric now that we're going off of, he's he's been a part of that too. However, he's only started every single game I think what two maybe three seasons throughout his entire thirteen year career. So think about that too, though, Like he's still being voted on, you know, as part of those groups, not even playing entire seasons.

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Speaker 1: He's been that down. He'll be a Hall fam just a matter of you know, when you guys think they're going to trade A J. Brown, I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so. How many times are we going to do this with him in Philly though.

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Speaker 3: Can I be honest with you, Probably until he turns thirty, and that's when teams start looking and saying, well he's getting due old, start to move. But it's like we arted DiCaprio and dating right like time they get around twenty five, he just moves on. Like That's kind of how teams are when guys turn thirty, they're like, well, it's been nice knowing you didn't he.

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Speaker 1: Didn't he date somebody older recently. By older, I mean like six twenty six. Yeah, yeah, he's well he's getting up there too, so that is true.

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Speaker 2: I just wonder with the AJ Brown stuff because there's been some speculation, like you know, Howie Roseman came out and said, you know, earlier in the off season, you don't get rid of a guy like AJ Brown. You don't have a player like that and move on from him. Why would you want to make somebody else better by giving away a guy like AJ Brown. Just The problem is, if it was just last year, and you could look at last year and you could isolate that and say, in a vacuum, last year, we understand it was frustrating for everybody, the offense couldn't get on track, so on and so forth. We get his frustration. We're all frustrated. Let's do it again. We got rid of our offensive coordinator, and let's make this thing work again this year and get back on track. If it was that, I totally understand it. The problem is it was also the year before, and the year before it was a different coordinator and they won the Super Bowl and he still wasn't happy. So maybe at a certain point you just go, dude, it's not it's not the offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: He just doesn't like it.

00:27:41
Speaker 2: And whether he likes Jalen Hurts, And there was some poll that came out that Jalen Hurts is the most disliked NFL player.

00:27:48
Speaker 1: Who knows who took part in the poll.

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Speaker 2: But whether it's that, whether it's he doesn't like Nick Sirianni the coach, whatever it is, are you really going to get rid of Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts just to make AJ Brown happy? He's a great player, But I just it feels like it's run its course. You've seen the same thing multiple years.

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Speaker 1: In a row.

00:28:07
Speaker 2: I think it's got more to do with him than it does his surroundings at this point, go I.

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Speaker 1: C well, I think it's a number of things.

00:28:17
Speaker 3: You know that he's frustrated by the reality is he's still gonna be a thousand yard receiver almost every single season, but you know, is he gonna get as many targets and touches. It feels like when he initially got to Philly, you saw that but the past couple of seasons hasn't necessarily been the case.

00:28:37
Speaker 1: But some of that's had to do with this health too.

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Speaker 3: So I just I don't think you can allow a player who and usually some of the most talented receivers, for some reason, they always deal with this issue, and I think it's just a byproduct of their job. You know, when you work in a job where you could do everything right every single play for sixty sixty five snaps and you might not get the ball, like you might not be able to receive the portion of that, that's a reward. It's frustrating, you know, and I understand you. For a lineman, for example, like every single play they're doing their job, they don't get the ball.

00:29:15
Speaker 1: But that's also not like how they were raised in the sport.

00:29:18
Speaker 3: Like when you're a lineman, you've been alignman almost your entire career and that's that's the only world you know, and you are receiving that instant gratification of if you beat the guy's ass across from you, like you know what you just did, you could smoke by a down or route. If you don't get the ball. Outside of that dB no one knows and it really doesn't matter because the ball and go your way. So it's a frustrating position, and I think there's an element of his frustrations, whether it's the play calling, whether it's the Jalen hurts and maybe where he's plateaued as a passer. Whatever the case may be. He's too talented to want to move on. I think you make things work until it becomes an absolute disaster. And I don't feel like we're there yet. You know what we're accustomed to now just to I don't want to say, but you know, just some wanting, complaining contract be speaking too. I mean he's He's on the Eagles roster with appointable years out the twenty thirty three, so I mean he's I don't It wouldn't make sense to move on from him. He's got a dead cap number that's way too big. It's probably a number that other teams wouldn't want to take on this year. He's a better trade target next season. Ironically, when he'll be thirty years old in twenty twenty seven, that would make more sense for them to either cut ties if this continues, or trade him because they'd still have him under contract for a few more years, but a much more digestible contract for other teams. I just think you at least have to get this another year before you start really questioning yourself about all right, let's rebuild some of what's around Jalen Hurts and who knows what the conversation becomes around Jalen Hurts.

00:30:53
Speaker 2: If that's the case, So which would coincide with he'd be staring at thirty that offseason?

00:31:00
Speaker 1: That's when you would.

00:31:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll be twenty nine this upcoming season at thirty, Like I said, yeah, which is which is why if you look at the structure of the contract again, they put in the Leonardo DiCaprio clause thirty years.

00:31:12
Speaker 1: Old, time to move on. And that's that. I don't think there's too much to add to it. Why not I think A J. Brown is too good.

00:31:22
Speaker 2: You do a show with two great wide receivers. Come on, man, you can never catch enough enough balls. You can never have enough opportunities to make plays. That's what they want. They always feel they're open, they always feel as though that that's that's the situation.

00:31:40
Speaker 1: And AJ Brown clearly was uncomfortable with the idea that he wasn't getting the ball enough and so listen, you're you're never going to find a receiver that is comfortable with those circumstances, and if you do, that's probably not the type of guy you want. They're wired differently. We've we've said it so many times. Wide receivers are wired different. Are they they're divas? What else they're they're They are touched. They are touched, and it's because it's cornerback. I'd say cornerback and and receiver are the loneliest positions on on the field. Your success is not really based upon anything else other than what you do. Now. Granted, now AJ would probably debate me and say, yeah, it's based upon the quarterback. I could do everything I need to do, but if the quarterback and then yes, to a degree, that's correct. But what you're doing is purely based upon you. You don't. It's not the protection from the offensive lineman. It's not the running game. Sure, those things can add the elements of lowing down pass rushes or giving the quarterback time to deliver you the ball or see the field, but receiver and corner you are on an island, especially if it's man. If it's zone, that's different, but man to man coverage. Those guys feel as though they're lonely, uh, you know, by themself beings, and for what it's worth, they are, so yeah, they're touched, But I don't I don't think that looking at what aj Brown has done is anything unique to what receivers have done in the history of football. They're they're always going to complain there's never going to be enough balls, and that's just the way they're That's the way the great ones are wired.

00:33:47
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00:34:05
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00:34:20
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00:34:57
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I just I know the ones just keep pumping them out, man. Yeah, my goodness. I just don't understand why they don't see. Look this lady right here, Miho ta Kaji. What'd you just say, Miho? That's her name, Miho. Anyways, they're showing her from the front show hurt Like, there you go, let's get a front angle, man. I see what you're doing there? What what do you mean? Well, we won't go there. We've got some other stuff to get to. I'm just saying.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, if you missed any of today's show, you want to catch the podcast search two Pros wherever get your podcasts. Right after the show, today's pot will be posted. Be sure to follow it rated five stars. You can even provide a review. Again, just search two Pros wherever you get your podcast you'll find today's full show and the best of version posted right after we get up the air. Also a quick update here. Finland now up to nothing over Canada in the semi finals, So Sidney Cross and as it stands right now, probably no Canada and the gold medal games and jumped out on them. But right now you've got some uh I mean, are these things really that bad? Do you want to set this up? Because I feel so.

00:36:07
Speaker 1: We just started doing this segment called the worst thing you heard this week? We've got a couple no idea what that was. I mean, it's close to the worst thing I've heard all week.

00:36:16
Speaker 3: That is from Dumb and Dumber. That is an awful sound. These are three of the worst things I've heard this week. Let's kick things off though with what some may thought it weren't possible, but did you guys know you could actually get injured playing in a poker game.

00:36:30
Speaker 1: So Justin Smith must catch your king board fact dumb Water fight Justin Smith growing up both times, man to stay alive. Look how excited he is, his fans, his friends. Wait a minute, man, something's wrong out there. There's something very wrong. He's doubled over, he's he's really in pain. Yeah, and this is no bluff. Let me tell you a sport, but this is this is pretty serious or Russian digestion side. I'm really hoping it'll be okay. I'm able to play. I'll play it. I don't know. Officials will stop the clock. Yeah, we're gonna find out what's going on and we'll be right back.

00:37:16
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, that is a just celebrating playing poker.

00:37:22
Speaker 1: Oh he got yeah he did? Oh no thing right on up. I just didn't think it was possible. I could see that jumping up and down. I could buy the way.

00:37:33
Speaker 3: Was there any question of whether or not he'd be able to continue to play poker?

00:37:36
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, do you sit on your butt like go fit? But they play for like millions. I forget how much he had accumulated at that point. I think it was like six millions. Would you get it fixed if you were just a poker player? Yeah? Why not?

00:37:49
Speaker 2: I mean, was there the story in the Lway documentary times you can walk around with no no, I guess Lway had a torn a CL's entire career that they just braced it up and you know, a couple of long darts and next thing you know, he's ready to go in there.

00:38:04
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to another clip.

00:38:06
Speaker 3: This is one of a frustrated men's college basketball coach.

00:38:11
Speaker 6: All we ask is that there's a fair gam That's what we ask.

00:38:14
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:38:15
Speaker 6: C J O'Hara goes and gets an offensive rebound. Their player dives at his legs. CJ gets called for a foul. I need Donnie at the league and the new commissioner to explain to me the disparity in the officiating. That's what I need explain to me. I need somebody to explain to me how just those two. There's others that I have massive issues with, Okay, others that have met, including every time we touched him. There was a foul in the second half, the last play of the game.

00:38:40
Speaker 1: Just to get the ball. They're grabbing us and holding us.

00:38:42
Speaker 6: Okay, and again I understand if you're not calling that, that's fine. You had the exact same play at both ends in the last play of the game, the exact same play.

00:38:51
Speaker 1: They clearly heard your radio show, Doug ah. Oh no, that they have held angst. They have an axta ground with you based off of your opinions and your takes on your radio show. You're a target, bro, Live with it. You knew that this guy thought he could coach and do radio all at the same time. Foul what say something? Say something? Say text? And I bet you it gets worse from here on out. After that rant he had like he sounded like he was doing a radio segment. Oh you think he was targeted? Was targeted? Stop targeting. Uh, we've got to save time. We got one more. Uh. This is president. This is our president of the United States.

00:39:41
Speaker 7: President Penna of Paraguay is here. President. President. Thank you very much, young handsome guy. It's always nice to be young and handsome. Doesn't mean we have to like you. I don't like young handsome men. Women like men. Tim any interest good, that's right, that's right, Thank you very much.

00:40:04
Speaker 1: You're doing a great job too, that mister President.

00:40:12
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand his desire to differentiate himself based on current events out there right now, but just.

00:40:19
Speaker 1: Man, how much younger, mister president. Yeah, we gotta be careful with that one. How much younger are you saying, mister president, cast your vote? You gotta pick one. You gotta pick one. Oh, that's dope. We need to create a graphic and put that up. You gotta pick what. The worst thing I heard this week that it's got to be has got to be the president.

00:40:42
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I mean listen, but I think it makes it. I think he makes a valid point, though.

00:40:46
Speaker 1: I think he just got lost in the moment though, Like he started really fantasizing about whatever that young woman looked like he got. He got lost in it.

00:40:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go with the poker player tearing his a c L like that is.

00:40:58
Speaker 1: That's unacceptable. Come on, what you got cue? I'd say the poker play. It's close, though, that the Trump one's close. I would say the poker I didn't think that was possible. I don't like you. I didn't think you could little boys playing poker, but I do like young good looking Dan Patrick show. Thanks for having us.

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Speaker 7: Again.

00:41:21
Speaker 1: Everyone, We'll joined the weekend. Everybody have a good time, all right. Bye.