Hour 1 – Maxx Crosby Is Happy, NFL Dealmaking Underway

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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I hope you had a great weekend. Gangs all here ready to go, a lot of puzzling moments last week. We move on every day. It's the super Bowl, right, Marv, Unless you're the Bills, Yes, but if you get to the super Bowl, you want to win, right, That's what we established last week.

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Speaker 3: But dB, I had time to maul over this.

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Speaker 2: Oh you did. Do you want to clarify this?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I would rather get to the super Bowl than losing the second round, unless you are this iteration of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 3: You said they have to just get there.

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Speaker 4: They're not in a position to just get there, just like the Lions in the Ravens and if.

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Speaker 2: You're the Charger, gets there. No, the Buffalo Bills need to take the next step. Now that might not mean winning a super Bowl, but they have to move past, you know, at least the AFC Title game. They're all in. Some other teams, and I said this last week, I'm surprised more teams don't follow the La Rams blueprint win be all in. Now we saw the Ravens, they're all in. They just traded for Max Crosby, you've seen it. Buffalo got their wide receivers. So you start to see some of these teams realize this window, like the Bengals window did it close already? I mean wasn't opened very long, and that's what you have to realize. Detroit did their window close? San Francisco did their window close. It's quick, but we'll talk about the Max Crosby trade. Not surprised maybe that they got two first round picks for him, and good for the Raiders. Hopefully they're able to use those picks to fortify an offensive line for Fernando Mendoza. All right, good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, that's our streaming partner. It's a Monday, so best and worst of the weekend. Once you saw that you liked you didn't like, Operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls, play the day poll question, stat of the Day, which is brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. All of that forthcoming first hour brought to you by ty Iraq. They've been helping you find the right tires for how and what and where you drive. They ship them fast and free back by free road hazard protection, convenient installation options like mobile tire installation tiraq dot com, the way tire buying should be. We'll talk some college sports coming up. Also, we'll talk to the ESPN NFL front office insider Mike Tannenbaum and Reggie Miller will stop buy as well. NCAA bids Queen's College, which is in Charlotte, North Carolina. Raise your hand if you knew about the Queen's Royals in Charlotte, North Carolina. I'm right there with you. I didn't unlike Queen's College in Queens, New York. You know it's in Charlotte, North Carolina. High Point in North cal Carolina. Got in Northern Iowa, l i U Tennessee state. Yes, we're punching tickets to the big dances. They like to say.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Paul, I had no idea about this school. Queen's University dan in Charlotte, and they're the Royals, the Royals, the fighting Royals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that. So it's not Queen's College, it's Queen's University, right.

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Speaker 5: I thought Queen's College is in Queens, the borough of New York. This is Queen's University in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Todd and LU the primary campus I have Long Island University happens to be in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 3: They're secondary campus is the one that's actually on Long Island. So helped me out with that.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't it years ago that Charlie Sheen picked LU to win it all? Aren't they? Are they the blackbirds of Long Island University? Todd?

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Speaker 3: They are the LU Brooklyn Blackbirds. Okay, that is right, all right. I had a check for a second, and we want to give it a wrong information.

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Speaker 2: No, your mascots here, all right, so we'll get to your phone calls. Yes, Marvin, I just was told by the back. I was just told by the back they're the Sharks. Wait, the l IU Sharks now, yes, I believe so, okay, I thought two years ago they just changed it. Oh okay, so they didn't want to be called the Blackbirds. Now they're the Sharks Long Island Sharks.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Football, Max Crosby figured that you had to trade him. You aren't going to win now. I think the fallout from not letting him play those last two games last season wasn't going to leave Max Crosby and they had to move on from him, and vice versa. They get two first round picks. The Ravens aren't normally in the top fifteen, and you got to go back to the Ronnie Stanley draft pick. I think that was twenty sixteen when they had a pick in the first fifteen. Well raided it and you get Max Crosby, and Max Crosby certainly sounds like he's a happy guy.

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Speaker 6: I'm so excited. I love all of y'all, all my supporters, everyone tuning in. Football is my world, man, It's my passion. Since I was a child, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life, and that's to be the best football player in the world and help win a Super Bowl with whatever organization I'm with. So that never changes. It's greater nation for life. But right now it's flog nation and I'm all in. I'm gonna give you all everything I have in my heart and soul, man, and it's going to be an incredible journey and we got work to do, man. But I love you guys. I appreciate you, every single fan. Everyone tuning in. The love, you know, the hate, the love, all that is welcome.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 6: It's understandable, but it's time for this next chapter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Max Crosby goes to the Ravens. The Ravens are the favorites to win the AFC. Prior to getting Max Crosby, they were at plus five hundred. Now they're plus four fifty, followed by the Bills, the Chiefs, and the Chargers. In the NFC, the Rams they're the favorites, followed by the Seahawks, the Eagles, and the Packers. And you start to look at players who have been traded for two first round picks. Now this is recently, so Max Crosby to be determined how this plays out. Sauce Gardner, he was traded for two first round picks, missed the playoffs, Micah Parsons with Green Bay, Russell Wilson that didn't end well, Deshaun Watson that didn't end well. Matthew Stafford won a Super Bowl, Jamal Adams that didn't end well. Jalen Ramsey won a Super Bowl, Khalil Mack played well, but the team never really improved, and Laramie Tunsel limited playoffs success for the Texans. Those are the players' recent players who have been traded for multiple first round picks. Also, you start to think about this. The Seahawks spent the fourth most money in free agency last year and they won the Super Bowl. It's spent the most in free agency. They went to the Super Bowl. The Bears spent the ninth most in free agency. They went from five to twelve to eleven and six. I would tell any of these teams, any of these general managers that would listen, you have the opportunity, and we said this, We say this all the time. They'll be back next year. There is no guarantee. We know that. I don't care how good your quarterback is or your roster. You know, Joe Burrow, he's a great quarterback. They got two great receivers, but they don't have a great team. They may never get back to a super Bowl in the Joe Burrow era. If I'm New England, if I'm Buffalo, I'm the Ravens, I'm the Rams, I'm all in. What's it going to take? Because I want something that I know is proof of you know concept there. I want to somebody has to sample size. I can go. I'm going to take that defensive back from the Chiefs and we're going to be ready to roll that's what you want. You know, the Ravens traded for somebody they know is already great. Buffalo picked up DJ Moore, they already know his track record. You got an opportunity, you know, Seattle, I wouldn't do this. Well, we won a Super Bowl. I'd go right back in. Now, you might be losing your running back, You're gonna lose a couple of players, but you got to fortify that team. You got the opportunity go all in Yeston.

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Speaker 8: Do you think that this is an anomaly or more of a trend that sort of teams moving in the direction of valuing a proven commodity over the potential of the draft.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think teams GMS love potential. It's like, oh, that guy, but I like to know that that guy that I'm looking at, he's already been an All Pro Pro Bowl player. He's proven that he can play, not the oh the potential. That guys get fired for potential. It's rare when you get fired when you get somebody who's like Max Crow is really good. Now there might be a defensive lineman in the draft and you go, boy, that he's got the potential. They always have the potential to be somebody that's already playing in the NFL normally, like he could be the next Miles Garrett, he could be the next We'll go out and get that guy. And that's what the Ravens did getting Max Crosby. You know, the Cowboys were in on this too. I'm not sure what their final offer was, but I think at first it was a couple of first round picks and a player. Turns out it's a couple of players, you know, like AJ Brown. Patriots reportedly offered I think a first and a second, and they wanted a player as well, and I thought AJ Brown would probably be dealt before Max Crosby would be. But there's always today or the rest of this week with free agency. The Dolphins just announced that they will release to a tongue of Iiloa. And I think he can sit and watch football just like us this season and make almost fifty million dollars and he doesn't even have to get off his couch.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Paul, Yeah, I'm looking at the contract for Tua and I think if he does not play football whatsoever this year, he would make fifty six million, three hundred thousand dollars guaranteed. I don't see any way around it. For the Dolphins, Okay, yeahs for him, Good for him.

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Speaker 2: Feels like there's going to be a landing spot. It's probably going to be once Kyler goes, and then you'll have maybe dominoes here.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a chance Geno Smith ends up back with the Jets. Hasn't he suffered enough? Dolphins? I would just say, we got Quinn Eewers, We'll get another quarterback, and let's ride this this year out. Let's just write this season off as a loss, and uh, maybe you get a quarterback in the draft next year. All right, eight seven seven to three, DP Show Email address Dpatdanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. We're saying wanting to our radio affiliates. iHeartRadio, Fox Sports Radio. I was watching the Spurs yesterday and I've said this. I said this early in the season, Hey, maybe they're a year ahead of schedule. Now the more I keep watching, they're kind of like the Patriots, where you go, yeah, Patriots, they're year ahead of schedule. We kept saying that for most of the regular season, and then what happened. The Patriots go to the Super Bowl. Maybe the Spurs aren't a year ahead of schedule. Maybe they're right on schedule. And what you saw yesterday, it's just rare to see somebody who is that tall, be that athletic handle touch shooting form is great both ends of the floor. And they put up a number on the Houston Rockets in San Antonio. I don't think they're a year ahead of schedule. It feels like they're right on schedule. And the Celtics with Jason Tatum easing him back into the line, maybe not exactly easing, they put him in and you know, playing twenty seven minutes and uh, look good over the weekend, look good against the MAVs. I think the Celtics are the team to beat. Watching the Lakers yesterday with the Knicks, and it wasn't great basketball, but you know you're watching two heavyweights of sorts kind of slug it out a little bit there, and Luca takes some wild shots. Man, he makes some wild shots too, between him and LaMelo Ball. I mean, those guys take wild shots wild and it's pretty I mean these are deep, deep shots falling out of bounds, you know, threes. Yes, Marvin, those guys take horse shots. You're supposed to shoot that horse. Oh, I thought I heard something else. I thought you horse said horse shots horse like the game horse.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, in the game horse, right, okay.

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Speaker 4: And he makes him sometimes like oh what a shot, and then when he misses it, oh what a stupid show.

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Speaker 3: Why would you keep doing that?

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Speaker 2: But when you see Wemby break you down in transition or fast break, he beats you off the dribble and you're going, oh, my goodness. And that form for anybody, beautiful shooting form. And he's twenty two years of age.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Paul, I would love to know the defensive scouting report on Webb Yama, Like what do you want him to do? Because it doesn't appear he has a weakness or like a regular move that he only goes to. I can't imagine what the scouting report is.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you go back to his rookie season and I said, you're doing an injustent. This is like not getting a good offensive line for a quarterback. They didn't have a point guard who would put him in position to succeed. Now he knows he's got spots. All these great players, any great scorer has a spot or spots. Don't let him get you there. If he gets you there, he's going to dominate. You know, Jordan would get you on the low block, and then you know, lights out certain guys. If I get you there on the wing, I'm gonna beat you off the dribble. And you see that now with Wemby, and I think Stefan Cassel and Aaron Fox have done a wonderful job looking for him or waiting for him to get to a spot because he kind of floated in the paint and then he never really was comfortable there and he'd get it and he seemed a little flummixed. Man. He got a basketball IQ, yes, Marv. And then when you see the Spurs play, they have great spacing. They shot fifty percent from three point range yesterday. Those guys were wide open because they know where to go when Wendy gets the ball in his spot, like you said, and Dylan Harper's contributing as well, but I mean he should be if you're the second pick in the draft. But you know, they got some depth there. And but you got to watch him because they they have some players that you're probably not that familiar with, but Wemby can't take my eyes off of him. Yeah, Paul.

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Speaker 5: He's even a good free throw shooter. He shoots eighty three percent from the free throw line. You think there'd be a weakness where oh, well, hack the guy and he shoots seventy two percent.

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Speaker 9: He doesn't have that.

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Speaker 2: I know, got beautiful for him.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Mark, is there any way he can win the MVP this year or is it just too far gone with Joker?

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Speaker 2: Well, if these other players don't qualify, I don't think Jokers winning it. I still think he's the best player in the game. But if you're looking for value of what Wemby has done, I mean I got a look at Jalen Brown too. I mean, let's be honest, I thought this was a lost year for the Celtics and Jalen Brown, you know, has them in the number two seed and they're just getting Tatum back. But if you have it by default, and that's not really fair to these players, but it might be by default that you know, these guys don't qualify, then Wemby might be able to do it. You know, you got twenty games. We'll talk to Reggie Miller about that. You'll join us in a little dip all right, phone calls, Best and worst of the weekend and we'll settle on a poll question as well. Just getting started on this Monday, Dan and The Dan at Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: We will get to your phone calls best and worst of the weekend EH seven to seven three DP show come up with the poll question as well. Chiefs, Browns, Raiders, Jets, Cowboys, all with two first round picks will be there in Pittsburgh for the draft and with the Raiders on the clock with that first pick and whatever they're able to do with all the money. They got more money than anybody else in free agency this year. This is where you build that foundation and could provide some dividends. Here you get Linemen here, Brady probably more involved in this. But if you're able to get some of those guys up front, which is where you win Super Bowls. You know, the difference between Seattle and New England was upfront. Seattle won that they were better upfront than the Patriots were. All right, so seet let's pull question here for the first down over the program. Well, we got one here from Paul Dude. More questionable signing Cardinals and Kyler or Dolphins in Tua. I would say, I mean Kyler had some like three or four really respectable, if not good seasons. And the Dolphins teased us a couple of years ago because we thought Man with that offense, defense was decent. You got fast guys, you got a play calling quarter coach, You're ready to go. Tua is going to stay healthy, and then all of a sudden it went south in a hurry. And if I'm the Dolphins, I just basically write this off as we're gonna be. We're gonna be. We're gonna be in the lottery for the number one pick in the draft. Don't spend any money on a quarterback, and if you do, you bring in somebody who is reasonable. Now, they might go out and get Malik Willis, but they would I would not do that, as much as I like Malik Willis. If I'm the Dolphins, you need help, and maybe you look at next year. You want to get that quarterback on that five year contract, Maybe you get your starter. I'd have Quinn Ewers in there. I'd bring in somebody as the backup, and then maybe you get you know, maybe you find out a couple of things. Maybe that's important.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Paul, the two assigning a couple of years ago is kind of interesting because remember in twenty twenty two, he had the three concussions in that season. He had a nice season, but there I found tons of articles that said, you can't sign to it, you can't extend him. So they didn't extend him after that twenty twenty two season. They let him play his fourth seat. Forty five hundred yards, seventy percent passer, thirty touchdowns, one of the best quarterbacks in the AFC, And then they had to make the decision stick or go at that point, and they stuck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand it, but I said at the time, I wasn't going to do that. I would not do that. Kyler Murray said the same thing. I would not do that just because I didn't trust him. You know, his was more of effort with tuas, more of just the health. But it's hard not to sign him when he puts up those numbers. But now you've got a guy making fifty million dollars, you're paying fifty million dollars to but he's not going to play more than likely.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: See, it does seem interesting that teams are more following like the Denver Broncos model of how to handle contracts post Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 9: You know, let's just eat this for a year or two.

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Speaker 7: Have it.

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Speaker 8: It's gonna suck, but man, are we going to be better off? On the On the other side of it, it seems to be less. You know, you're not as hamstrung by owed money. It's like, forget it, let's just we're going to pay it anyway.

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Speaker 9: We might as well just move on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I.

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Speaker 2: Think what Denver did. But Denver was helped by the trade or Seattle was helped by that trade with Russell Wilson. So they were very smart to go, we're not going to pay this guy. And Denver was like, Hey, all we're missing is a franchise quarterback. And then you realize that he's the reason why you're not going to be winning, and you're right, write it off. Made a mistake, you know. And I thought the Browns were going to do the same thing with Deshaun Watson. I talked to somebody yesterday said they're really encouraged by Deshaun Watson his progress. I'm like, yeah, I think he was a healthy scratch last year. Put him out there. You're paying him forty five million dollars and you've already taken the pr hit because you brought in this guy. But I wonder if they're going to extend Deshaun Watson's contract, which would be crazy to think about, but they might in that while all right, uh yeah, Paul, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, if you're the head coach, the new head coach Jeff Halfley of the Dolphins, I wonder what your expectations are for this season and what your team wants you to do this season?

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Speaker 2: Do they want you to win ball games?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You're right, because he's going in and he wants to set the world on fire. It's like, I'm a head coach. I want to win and then hey, this is who you got to win with. And I mean, I wonder do you keep Jalen Waddle as valuable as he is. I probably would trade him as well. Take it down to the foundation, down to the studs, and then you know, just decide to take it down to the studs. Yes, And is it realistic you're going to catch the Patriots and Bills anytime soon?

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Speaker 3: At least in the very near future.

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Speaker 2: You forget about the jet but you've got two teams that are dominant teams in the AFC in your division.

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Speaker 5: There, Yeah, take the year off, you technically have to play the games.

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Speaker 2: You do have to Yeah, I do have to play the games.

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Speaker 7: Yes, but.

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Speaker 2: Let's see christ and Syracuse leads us off on this Monday. Good morning, Chris, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 7: Hey?

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Speaker 11: Thanks Dan?

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Speaker 12: I got the best and worst in a comment and my comment, I don't like the idea of the US government making executive awarders when it comes to college sports or any sports. I have faith the NCAA and the conferences will work things out. And my worst Lebron James who missed the lakers last two games.

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Speaker 11: He had nagging.

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Speaker 12: Injuries all year and the Lakers are nine and two this year, when the duo of Luca and Austin Reeves play together and Lebron's out and Lebron at forty one missing games because of sciatica and arthritis, to quote our friend Buddha, not good. And my best to the NBA Saturday night, have who I think is no doubt the face of your league for years to come. Care so much, gets so emotional, actually brought to tears over a regular season win. Wenby is a unicorn in so many ways, and also Wemby and his Spurs, in so many ways are the antithesis of Tim Duncan and his Spurs. The NBA has to love that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Chris. Yeah, he got emotional. They came back. They were down whatever twenty five to the Clippers, and people are like, he came back and beat the Clippers. He's twenty two years of age, he's playing hard, and he got caught up in These are the kind of wins that are more than just one victory, where collectively you do something and I think that's probably what he saw. I mean, it's his team. He's twenty two, it's his team. Cooper Flag is nineteen, it's his team. This is mind bending for me when you think about these are guys going against own men and they've only been in the league. Well, Cooper Flag his first year wemby a couple of years, and now you're leading a team. I mean, I thought, what Magic did his rookie year for the Lakers, winning a championship coming out of college. But he was more seasoned than these guys. Yes, PAULI, he said.

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Speaker 5: The Miami Dolphins said, get it down to the studs. They are trading Minka Fitzpatrick, the defensive back, to the New York Jets in exchange for a twenty twenty six seventh round draft pick seventh round the Jets. This is from Adam Schefter will sign Menka Fitzpatrick to a three year, forty million deal year deal.

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Speaker 9: Okay wow.

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Speaker 2: President Trump said that he will write an executive order within a week that will solve all the problems brought forth in an unprecedented meeting at the White House. He's looking at the future of college sports. Well more on this coming up top of the hour, but he was hosting these sabing college sports roundtable. I know it sounds like there's a possibility here, but an executive order can't make a law. It can't provide antitrust exemptions or override state laws, or any policies in the executive order can be challenged in court. So you know, you bring all these people together, former coaches, former players, you got people from networks, you got athletic directors. Here's what jumped out at me. First of all, I don't think this is going to do anything. Second of all, why don't you have a current coach or coaches and current player or players. Those are the voices that I would want to hear from, not guys who aren't coaching anymore. Nick Saban, he can be the voice of college football, but I'd like to have a coach. Put Lane Kiffin in there, put Trinidad Chambliss in, let them talk about what it's like to be a current player. And just because you know, all of these presidents and chancellors, you know, made the mistake on their watch of allowing this to happen. I can't go back and put the toothpaste in the tube. Can't do it. You can try, good luck, It's not gonna work. And nothing's gonna work this quickly. But Ross Dellinger, who was covering the event on Friday at the White House, the college football reporter for Yahoo, will join us at the top of the hour. Gust In la Hi, Gus, Welcome back.

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Speaker 7: Good morning, mister Patrick. Go if you're and the boys had a great weekend, Beth and worth of the weekend. Man. You know, I don't think we talk about marathons much on this show, but this morning we're going to American Nathan Mortin won the Los Angeles Marathon yesterday by zero point zero one second, closest race, closest finish in the history of the race, the worst of the weekend. Is Michael Kamu losing the Los Angeles Marathon by zero point zero one after leading the entire race. He actually made a bit of a blunder. He followed the camera bike, the motorcycle with the camera on, and he followed it as the bike went out of the course and he had to go back and return to the course, which allowed American Nathan Morton to close the gap in record time. You boys have a great week, Thank you, Gus. I didn't see the story.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't aware of it, but imagine you're running over twenty six miles and you lose by less than a second, yes, Pauling.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the guy who won the American Nathan Martin. He was losing by thirty maybe thirty yards with two hundred meters thirty yards to go meters, I guess. And it was a literal photo finish at the end he hit the tape just before him.

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Speaker 7: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Buddha in San Francisco, Good morning, Buddha, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 11: What up? DP?

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Speaker 13: Happy Monday boys? Shout out to the b rg's baby Dan. You're looking good in the main Cave today and I got a real quick five minute post question for you guys are the Jets in? Are they the Washington Wizards of football? Best of the week, Best of the weekend. And watching all the the World Baseball Classic action this weekend, it was like really entertaining and fun to watch. And I mean just watching show. Hey Otani, he's just he's just doing work for Japan.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 13: This should be a great showdown as all the teams come down and the final championship works his way to fruition musty TV man and Worst of the Weekend. And watching the Lakers win this weekend without Lebronic, you know, against the Knicks and and it's just like a legiti force of a team, right, I mean it just speaks volumes as to where we're at as a Lakers team. I mean, Austin Reeves is really the one bright spot we have. And Luca, I mean he's just like a petulant child. He needs to see a therapist. And Lebron, I mean, as Todd's Valley Girl would say, yeah, oh you just needn't retire.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Buddha. Yeah, the World Baseball Classic, there's there's energy showing up. I was watching Puerto Rico and Panama and all of a sudden, Puerto Rico walks it off, and you know, I mean it was playoff baseball. I go back to the Four Nations tournament. The intensity rivaled playoff hockey, Olympic basketball. We saw that, you know, we saw that with the Olympics with hockey. I mean Terrek Skoubaal, the cy young winner with the Tigers, was going to pitch one time for Team USA. I think he got caught up in it. Now he's kind of petitioned the Tigers too. Can I get one more start here? I love it. You know, when players present cities, they compete for standings, but when you represent your country, it's something completely different. The steaks are larger, the moments are louder, and suddenly exhibition baseball feels like the World Series. And it's been fun to watch. But when you get those crowds, the home crowds, instead of maybe a sterile crowd that you know the two countries aren't from that city, you know, then you don't get the ambiance. But man, when you watch Otani, I was watching Korea against Australia, and granted these aren't the best rosters, but you are seeing the atmosphere of what it means to them. Let's see Jim in Colorado. Hi, Jim, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 11: Hey, I got a question for you, and I know I'm pretty hyped on this for a Monday. I had called up your your show five years ago, and I love your show. You guys are great. I want to say that right off the back. But I had called up there about five years ago and told you that it was a mistake draft in Tua and a lefty quarterback. Now there it is again, out fifty million dollars, nothing to show for it. And that's my example of why I'm giving you guys a call. These gms they need to go back and watch Draft the movie, because I guarantee you they're not drafting the right players that should be for their organization, for their system. And look at all these quarterbacks that are getting paid all this money, except Sam Darnold that Minnesota who was a complete idiot organization that gave up him, and then now he went to Seattle and won a Super Bowl. My point is, I'm right, Tua was a bust. He was a bust from the beginning and out all this money and I just want to hear your take on it. About some of these players that they draft to give all this money to, especially quarterbacks, and they don't prove it. Like Mahomes who just took thirty million dollars as a cut to try to help his team get other play.

00:33:17
Speaker 2: Well, okay, he shifted money. He didn't take a cut. He shifted money to It wasn't a bust. He's somewhere in between.

00:33:27
Speaker 7: Now.

00:33:28
Speaker 2: You know, he's kicking cans down the road making fifty million dollars, not doing anything. But he didn't resign himself and he did put up some you know, he had a couple of seasons where he you know, he played pretty well. The Dolphins were all in on Joe Burrow. They were willing to give I think four or five first round picks and didn't happen. Yes, you know, to a not a big arm. But you know, he played at a big university. He played at a football power. Now, does Alabama tend to inflate their quarterbacks? Yeah, I think we've seen that down through history. But Miami got him. You thought they had something. You had Tua, you had Tyreek, and you had Waddle and that's what you need in today's NFL. You know, the concussions. Thankfully, they haven't really come back. But I don't know if anybody's going to pick him up to be a starter. But yeah, he's somewhere in between a bust because he did put up a couple of really good seasons, yes, paul Yeah.

00:34:32
Speaker 5: Tua as a starter in six years was forty four and thirty two. His average season, he was thirty nine hundred yards twenty six touchdowns. Those are nice numbers for a career. It's just you have to dive into the different areas of his career in different points.

00:34:48
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00:36:23
Speaker 5: This just in, also from Adam Schefter, The Packers are finalizing a deal to send defensive lineman Rashaan Gary to the Cowboys in exchange for a late twenty twenty twenty seven twenty twenty seven draft.

00:36:38
Speaker 9: Pick, not twenty six twenty seven.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: Okay, that's nice. They like the Packer defensive lineman and come round of applause from Seaton. Okay, all right, Dallas get in there. So they were trying for Max Crosby, but I don't know what the offer was. And Gary's been a nice player, although I mean, such a big guy. What's his number eight? Like that doesn't it's always weird.

00:37:06
Speaker 3: Was Gary fifty two?

00:37:08
Speaker 5: Was Kenneth Murray?

00:37:09
Speaker 7: Eight?

00:37:11
Speaker 2: Know your Packers? Yeah, Marvin, I think Jared Verse is a single digit guy. I think he works number eight six. Yeah, oh he wears eight, I believe so. Yes, I thought Gary wore eight for the Packers.

00:37:26
Speaker 3: I got him at fifty two.

00:37:28
Speaker 6: Eight?

00:37:28
Speaker 5: Was I think the linebacker Kenneth Murray or someone like that Walker?

00:37:35
Speaker 8: If you played, if you guys played, would you get a normal number like to your position or would you go like completely out of bounds?

00:37:41
Speaker 5: You could do an hour on this.

00:37:42
Speaker 9: Yeah. Sorry, I didn't mean to blow up the whole the whole week of shows.

00:37:46
Speaker 2: Really, that's a great topic. Oh my god. Okay, so what position am I playing?

00:37:55
Speaker 9: What would you What would.

00:37:56
Speaker 3: You like to be?

00:37:57
Speaker 9: You'd be a defensive end if you want.

00:37:58
Speaker 14: Defensive end, I want to be quarterback or so okay, you're gonna be the quarterback the Yeah, okay, it'd be like eighty eight as a quarterback.

00:38:09
Speaker 9: Something weird.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: No, because they have rules of what numbers you can have. I don't think they do anymore. Oh they don't know.

00:38:17
Speaker 9: That's like, yeah, that's kind of the whole point of the question.

00:38:19
Speaker 7: Is.

00:38:19
Speaker 8: They don't have those rules anymore, so you can be a linebacker and wear seven or something.

00:38:24
Speaker 2: Like Doug Flutie was twenty two in college. John Hadel was number twenty one. I was also played in the NFL. Heath Shuler.

00:38:33
Speaker 3: Was he twenty in college? Twenty two? I think so was he?

00:38:37
Speaker 2: And then he was was he five in the NFL? Yeah? Or was he just a fifth pick in the NFL?

00:38:43
Speaker 5: Bernie Cosar Miami number twenty.

00:38:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that was awesome. I think I'd be like number eleven if I'm an edge rusher be It just makes you look a little fast.

00:38:58
Speaker 9: Yes, eleven is a good ball.

00:38:59
Speaker 2: It's sleek and slimming. Yeah, certain numbers, but then we equate that to offensive lineman like his number sixty three. We can't be fast, but eleven.

00:39:10
Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin, there's there was nothing better when I was a kid. LaVar Arrington or Penn State number eleven. He's the linebacker. Yeah beautiful, Yeah, yes, don don't you want to.

00:39:20
Speaker 2: Be that imposing seventy five or seventy seven like that's usually for me or ninety nine, those are those big guys. Ninety five, Yeah, but that's old school. You're you're you're thinking back to mean Joe Green.

00:39:32
Speaker 3: I would still want to.

00:39:33
Speaker 2: I just I think there's something imposing about a number, like in the mid seventies or ninety nine. Who was Carl Mecklenberg number seventy seven?

00:39:40
Speaker 3: He was and Rulan Jones was seventy five.

00:39:43
Speaker 7: Yeah.

00:39:43
Speaker 2: See, that's that's we're tapping into your Bronco days. I'm talking about now where you could be number nine. When Jadavian Clowney Wasn't he number nine?

00:39:57
Speaker 7: Is that right?

00:39:58
Speaker 3: I believe he was number seven? That's South Carolina?

00:40:00
Speaker 4: Yeah maybe yeah, yeah, Or like Marvin Austin at North Carolina he was like six five, three and nine.

00:40:10
Speaker 2: It's just the you know, the jersey gets stretched so much. It's one number.

00:40:15
Speaker 5: Yeah pull my favorite one about eight nine years ago, there was this really good nose tackle defensive lineman Lewis Knicks for Notre Dame and he was huge. He was like six three three forty number one, so good.

00:40:28
Speaker 1: He took one.

00:40:30
Speaker 2: Uh Sid in Baltimore, Good morning, Sid, how's morale?

00:40:37
Speaker 15: Hi?

00:40:37
Speaker 7: Dan?

00:40:38
Speaker 15: I'm calling in because number one, I'm off of school because of parent teacher conferences. So that's one of the best days.

00:40:43
Speaker 11: Of the year.

00:40:45
Speaker 15: But I'm calling to ask you what the expectations are after the Ravens landing Max Crosby. I have a sports podcast called Not What I Meant, and I personally think that it's Super Bowl or bust. But I also think that that's the expectation every year, So I don't know.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be, it should be. How about you win a playoff game? How about Lamar plays well? But yeah, if you're giving up a couple of first round draft picks and you're bringing Max Crosby in, yes, you're looking at Buffalo, You're looking at the Chiefs probably again. You know the Chargers, these teams in the AFC, they're going to be all in. Yeah.

00:41:25
Speaker 9: By the way, not what I meant.

00:41:27
Speaker 8: The podcast hosted by Liam and Sid not just it. It's not a solo podcast. Two middle schoolers from Baltimore. Sid and Liam are bringing you the angles of sports that will make you reconsider your views.

00:41:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Sid took the title, though he took credit, he did the creator. He is listed as the creator of Sid's Rundown Recap, which is a sports newsletter as well. Yeah, I'd like to give a shout out to Liam All right, all right, we'll talk to some college sports and more NFL news coming up, Regg Miller in the final hour of the program back after this