WEBVTT 1 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.839 I'm back with you here on Exus and Bros. Monday through Friday, six 2 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:29.719 till nine. Thanks for joining us. I always appreciate it. The Meyer 3 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.640 Hotline is open for you eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. 4 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:37.840 You could text the program Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Wherever it 5 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:43.399 is you may be. We welcome your thoughts whatever it is that might be 6 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:50.679 on your minding in the world of sports. JJ Watt recently made headlines in 7 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:54.200 sports because he said he was willing to come back if Demko Ryan's the head 8 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:59.719 coach with the Houston Texans ever really needs him. Now, what is thirty 9 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.959 five? He was named Rookie of the Year his rookie campaign, in which, 10 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:08.640 by the way, he played with Damiko Ryans. He was named the 11 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.560 Defensive Player of the Year three times. His one hundred and fourteen and a 12 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:18.400 half career sacks rank him twenty fourth all time. So yeah, that's good. 13 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:19.959 If he says he's willing to make a little bit of a comeback. 14 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:27.359 Sure. He's also now a new analyst for CBS on their show on their 15 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:33.359 NFL show, and I'm sure he'll do a really good job. Boomer's Siasin 16 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.400 is out, Phil Simms is out. Both have had really nice runs. 17 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:45.400 But I suppose the turning of the page takes place in every industry. So 18 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:48.560 it's kind of unfortunate because you don't like to see people lose their jobs. 19 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:56.239 And I thought those guys were I thought probably a sias In more than Phil 20 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.079 Simms, was really good at what he did. Personally, I think there's 21 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:05.840 way too many analysts on these pregame shows and postgame shows. I mean, 22 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.039 you're basically getting in one thought, and you're getting paid millions and millions of 23 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:14.439 dollars. But if the networks are making the money on it, who cares. 24 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:21.520 JJ Watt is in the news for a different reason yesterday, and that's 25 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:28.120 because Austin Rivers. You know who Austin Rivers is, right, played for 26 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:32.759 a period of time in the NBA, son of Doc Rivers. Okay, 27 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:46.319 he said something on Tuesday on the Pat McAfee show on ESPN. He said, 28 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:51.120 because Pat McAfee, I'm sure you folks know this. He was in 29 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:54.960 the NFL. He was a punter. He was a punter in the in 30 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:07.719 the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts, and he he's turned a really successful talk 31 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:16.960 show into TV, so good for him, and he had Austin Rivers on 32 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:23.919 and Rivers said this, I can take thirty players right now in the NBA 33 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:30.479 and throw them in the NFL. You cannot take thirty NFL players and put 34 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:39.159 them in the NBA. That might be I don't think you could do that, 35 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:46.520 but that might be closer to NBA doing it to the NFL than the 36 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:52.240 other way around, So it might be. I mean, there are guys 37 00:03:53.560 --> 00:04:00.319 who were really good football players in high school, mind you, who later 38 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:08.199 played in the NBA. Again, high school, it's tough to project. 39 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:11.240 People always said, and look, he's a freak. He's one of the 40 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.919 greatest players of all the time. Lebron James sixty eight to fifty to sixty 41 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:24.959 could have played in the NFL. Maybe, I don't know that, nobody 42 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:30.680 does now. He was recruited by Ohio State and Alabama and Miami and Notre 43 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:36.519 Dame. Mark Murphy, who used to play safety in the NFL played eleven 44 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:43.399 years with Green Bay Packers, was the defensive coordinator at James's high school, 45 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:53.279 and he was convinced convinced that he would have been an NFL receiver because he 46 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:58.319 was a two time All State selection. He had one hundred rocks in nineteen 47 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.920 hundred yards and twenty seven. I mean, it was unbelievable what he did. 48 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:08.319 I guess I would say, if you think that could happen, why 49 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:11.720 would people not believe the guy like Calvin Johnson who was sixty five two hundred 50 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.480 and forty pounds or dk Metcalf who was sixty four to two hundred and thirty 51 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:27.240 pounds physical specimens could not make it. What makes you think that? I 52 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:36.439 think they could, but I don't know. James was fast. He was 53 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:43.240 incredible, right, okay, fair enough. Don't know, but it sure 54 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:48.639 appears like he could have like Charlie Ward did it. Here's a quarterback in 55 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:55.160 Florida State him on the Heisman Trophy and played for the New York Knicks. 56 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:03.319 Pretty damn good. Allen Iverson was a hell of a player in the NBA, 57 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:10.279 right, But he was a really good high school player. Jalen Suggs, 58 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:13.600 who played for Villanovo, won a national championship. He's a really good 59 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:17.920 high school football player. I don't know if that translates. I couldn't tell 60 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:21.759 you if a guy played in high school who could play in the pros. 61 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:26.959 How many times have we been wrong about things like this? How many times 62 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.839 we have to be proven that a lot? Who's the best high school football 63 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:39.600 player you ever saw? I mean, Drew Henson was unbelievable, you guys. 64 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:45.160 He was an All American punter, He's an All American quarterback. He 65 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:50.000 had offers from any place in the country, went to Michigan. You all 66 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:56.399 know the story, okay, and he played in the NFL. He's an 67 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:00.759 unbelievable basketball player too. Averaged twenty nine points, close to nine points per 68 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:09.360 game. So he's a really good football player. He's an All American baseball 69 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:15.560 player. He's all of a basketball player, made it to Triple A, 70 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:24.639 made it to the majors, and made it in the NFL. Matt Barnes 71 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:29.759 was a really good football player in high school. Could he have played in 72 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:35.319 the NFL? I don't know. I know, guys like Tony Gonzalez he 73 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:43.120 played college basketball, right, Yeah, he played college basketball and made it 74 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.879 in the NFL. And Tonio Gates. We could go on. There's a 75 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:53.839 there's a number of guys who we've talked about in that regard who played college 76 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:59.600 basketball and then went and played in the NFL. Okay, some of these 77 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:03.519 other guys that I just mentioned or who Austin Rivers is thinking about, didn't. 78 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:13.920 Julius Peppers, he's a dual sport athlete at North Carolinas, a walk 79 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.000 out on the basketball team. I don't know if people remember that. Jimmy 80 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.240 Graham, he's part of the Hurricanes that reached the NCAA turned in two thousand 81 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:31.120 and eight. Quinton Rollins for the Green Bay Packers. Here's a guard at 82 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:41.639 Miami with the RedHawks. Julius Thomas at Portland State. Darren Fells another guy. 83 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:48.159 He's a tight end in the NFL and played some college hoops. Don't 84 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.200 tell me that guys in the NFL can't do it the other way around. 85 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:58.919 That's ridiculous, because you know, damn well they could. Austin Rivers should 86 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:05.159 know that. JJ Watt was kind of taking offense to that and called him 87 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:13.399 out. JJ Watt on X came out and said, you don't got a 88 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:18.080 job in either right now, so go ahead and try it. JJ Wat's 89 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.240 not suggestion that he could do that, no way, and he did say, 90 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.279 for the record, I could absolutely not play in the NBA. Six 91 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.480 hard follows is about all I could give you and call it a day. 92 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.799 But don't be saying I can take thirty players right now in the NBA and 93 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:41.759 throw them in the NFL. That's dissing another professional league, and it ain't 94 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:48.960 right, and it couldn't do it anyway. Who do you think could make 95 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:54.440 that transition besides some of the players I've already mentioned Meyer Hotline eighty sixty six 96 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:58.120 eight three eight forty eight forty three. You could text the program sports Radio 97 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.080 to twenty one thousand. This is Xes and Bros. 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You could text the program 116 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:13.000 Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Wherever it is you may be, We 117 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:18.120 welcome your thoughts whatever it is that might be on your mind in the world 118 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:26.279 of sports. JJ Watt recently made headlines in sports because he said he was 119 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.840 willing to come back if Demiko Ryans the head coach with the Houston Texans. 120 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:35.519 Ever really needs him now. Watt is thirty five. He was named Rookie 121 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.919 of the Year his rookie campaign, in which, by the way, he 122 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:45.279 played with Demiko Ryans. He was named the Defensive Player of the Year three 123 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:48.840 times. His one hundred and fourteen and a half career sacks rank him twenty 124 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:54.120 fourth all time. So yeah, that's good. If he says he's willing 125 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.799 to make a little bit of a comeback. Sure, he's also now a 126 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:05.399 new analyst for CBS on their show, on their NFL show, and I'm 127 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.159 sure he'll do a really good job Boomers. Siasin is out, Phil Simms 128 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:15.159 is out. Both have had really nice runs. But I suppose the turning 129 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:20.000 of the page takes place in every industry. So it's kind of unfortunate because 130 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:24.320 you don't like to see people lose their jobs, and I thought those guys 131 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:31.320 were I thought probably a sias In more than Phil Simms was really good at 132 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:37.919 what he did. Personally, I think there's there's way too many analysts on 133 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.399 these pregame shows and postgame shows. I mean, you're basically getting in one 134 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:46.440 thought and you're getting paid millions and millions of dollars. But if the networks 135 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.960 are making the money out of who cares. JJ Watt is in the news 136 00:13:52.120 --> 00:14:00.919 for a different reason yesterday, and that's because Austin Rivers, who Austin Rivers 137 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:05.080 is right, played for a period of time in the NBA, son of 138 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:15.200 Doc Rivers. Okay, he said something on Tuesday on the Pat McAfee show 139 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:24.600 on ESPN. He said, because Pat McAfee, I'm sure you folks know 140 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.240 this. He was in the NFL. He was a punter. He was 141 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:37.480 a punter in the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts. And he he's turned a 142 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:50.279 really successful talk show into TV, so good for him. And he had 143 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:56.600 Austin Rivers on and Rivers said this, I can take thirty players right now 144 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:03.440 in the NBA and throw them in the NFL. You cannot take thirty NFL 145 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:13.919 players and put them in the NBA. That might be I don't think you 146 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:18.919 could do that, but that might be closer to NBA doing it to the 147 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:24.960 NFL than the other way around, so it might be. I mean, 148 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:33.879 there are guys who were really good football players in high school, mind you, 149 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:41.519 who later played in the NBA again high school. It's tough to project. 150 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.559 People always said, and look, he's a freak. He's one of 151 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.679 the greatest players of all the time. Lebron James sixty eight to fifty to 152 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:58.320 sixty could have played in the NFL. Maybe I don't know that, nobody 153 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:06.039 does now. He was recruited by Ohio State and Alabama and Miami and Notre 154 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:11.879 Dame. Mark Murphy, who used to play safety in the NFL played eleven 155 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:17.759 years with Green Bay Packers, was the defensive coordinator at James's high school, 156 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:26.519 and he was convinced, convinced that he would have been an NFL receiver because 157 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:32.279 he was a two time All State selection. He had one hundred rocks in 158 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:38.840 nineteen hundred yards and twenty seven. It was unbelievable what he did. I 159 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:42.320 guess I would say, if you think that could happen, why would people 160 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.320 not believe the guy like Calvin Johnson who was sixty five two hundred and forty 161 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.200 pounds, or DK Metcalf who was sixty four to two hundred and thirty pounds 162 00:16:48.399 --> 00:17:00.759 physical specimens could not make it. What makes you think that? I think 163 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:11.440 they could, But I don't know. James was fast, He was incredible, 164 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:18.240 right Okay, fair enough. Don't know, but it sure appears like 165 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:23.680 he could have like Charlie Ward did it. Here's a quarterback in Florida State 166 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:32.119 him in the Heisman Trophy and played for the New York Knicks. Pretty damn 167 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:38.160 good. Allen Iverson was a hell of a player in the NBA, right, 168 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:44.799 But he was a really good high school player. Jalen Suggs, who 169 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:48.039 played for Villanovo won a national championship. He's a really good high school football 170 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.839 player. I don't know if that translates. I couldn't tell you if a 171 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.240 guy played in high school who could play in the pros. How many times 172 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:00.680 have we been wrong about things like this? How many times we have to 173 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:07.079 be proven that a lot who's the best high school football player you ever saw? 174 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.920 I mean, Drew Henson was unbelievable, you guys. He was an 175 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.680 All American punter, He's an All American quarterback. He had offers from any 176 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:25.960 place in the country, went to Michigan. You all know the story, 177 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:32.400 okay, and he played in the NFL. He's an unbelievable basketball player too. 178 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:41.240 Averaged twenty nine points close to twenty nine points per game. So he's 179 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.759 a really good football player. He's an All American baseball player. He's all 180 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.480 of a basketball player, made it to Triple A, made it to the 181 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:59.720 majors, and made it in the NFL. Matt Barnes was a really good 182 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.640 for ballplayer in high school. Could he have played in the NFL? I 183 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:12.960 don't know. I know guys like Tony Gonzalez he played college basketball, right, 184 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.160 Yeah, he played college basketball and made it in the NFL. And 185 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:22.240 Tonio Gates. We could go on. There's a number of guys who we've 186 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:30.480 talked about in that regard who played college basketball and then went and played in 187 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.279 the NFL. Okay, some of these other guys that I just mentioned, 188 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:42.839 or who Austin Rivers is thinking about, didn't. Julius Peppers, he's a 189 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:49.359 dual sport athlete at North Carolina, a walk out on the basketball team. 190 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:56.440 I don't know if people remember that. Jimmy Graham, he's part of the 191 00:19:56.519 --> 00:20:02.039 Hurricanes that reached the NCAA turned in two thousand and eight. Quinton Rollins for 192 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:11.160 the Green Bay Packers. He's a guard at Miami with the RedHawks. Julius 193 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:18.880 Thomas at Portland State. Darren Fells another guy. He's a tight end in 194 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:23.880 the NFL and played some college hoops. Don't tell me that guys in the 195 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:30.119 NFL can't do it the other way around. That's ridiculous, because you know 196 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:38.079 damn well they could. Austin Rivers should know that. JJ Watt was kind 197 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:44.519 of taking offense to that and called him out. Jj Watt on X came 198 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:48.440 out and said, you don't got a job in either right now, so 199 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:53.079 go ahead and try it. JJ Wat's not suggestion that he could do that, 200 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:57.880 no way, And he did say, for the record, I could 201 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:02.440 absolutely not play in the MBA. Six hard follows is about all I could 202 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:07.359 give you and call it a day. But don't be saying I can take 203 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.400 thirty players right now in the NBA and throw them in the NFL. That's 204 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:18.119 dissing another professional league at it ain't right, and it couldn't do it anyway. 205 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:26.440 Who do you think could make that transition besides some of the players I've 206 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:30.319 already mentioned Meyer hotline eighty sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. 207 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:33.880 You could text the program sports Radio to twenty one thousand. This is x'es 208 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:37.599 and bros. Across the Great State of Michigan. We'll be back huge chair 209 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:42.039 for the Michigan High squad Letic Association. You can stay up to date on 210 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:48.559 the latest from land Sing twenty four to seven at MHSAA dot com, at 211 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:56.960 mhsa A on Twitter and MHSA on Facebook. 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In the Myra Ontline eighty sixty six 229 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:56.519 eight three eight forty eight forty three, you can always text a sports radio 230 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:00.920 to twenty one thousand Tigers and Winter yesterday, hoping to win this series today 231 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:06.799 in Cleveland, Parker Meadows demoted to Triple A because of the struggles. Andy 232 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:10.319 A. Banya is four for four yesterday on base five times, four runs 233 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:12.279 scored, four runs driven in two home runs. Not a bad day, 234 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:18.559 huh. Also, really good hockey games last night, both ending in overtime, 235 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:22.920 one in double lot, the Rangers beating the Hurricanes for to three. 236 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.279 Colorado did the same, came from three goals down. Now have Home Ice 237 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:32.799 beating Dallas for to three in overtime The heroes were Vincent Trochek for New York, 238 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:36.839 Miles Wood for the San Jose Earns the lottery, they get the first 239 00:24:36.839 --> 00:24:41.160 overall pick. The three finalists for the Hart Trophy Nathan McKinnon, Connor McDavid, 240 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:48.079 and Nikita Kucherov. In basketball Boston Rules Cleveland one twenty ninety five, 241 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.720 Jalen Brown had thirty two OKC handles. Dallas won seventeen ninety five. Shay 242 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.880 Gilgess Alexander had twenty nine. Rudy Gobert wins Defensive Player of the Year Award 243 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:02.000 to the full lines be Who's waiting for us? We have Mark and Gun 244 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:04.160 League. Hi, Mark, good morning, good to talk to you. 245 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:07.680 Hey, Good morning, chef. How you doing. I'm doing great? 246 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:12.640 How about yourself? Good good? Hey? You were talking about the NFL 247 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:17.960 players and the NBA players stuff like that. I think it was back in 248 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.240 seventy two. I went to see an exhibition game of the Detroit Lions playing 249 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:32.240 against the Grand Rapids Area coaches at Union High School, and Charlie Sanders was 250 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:36.279 school and everybody and I walked out of that gym. I was twelve years 251 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:37.559 old. I walked out of that gym and I looked at my dad and 252 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:42.000 said he could be in in the NBA easy, and my dad agreed with 253 00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:45.599 me on that. But he you should have seen this guy play. Have 254 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:51.200 you ever seen Charlie Sanders play basketball? I could only no, I did 255 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:56.519 not, but I only know of what he has told me or what he 256 00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:59.839 told me. Oh and when he and I worked together, we worked together 257 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:07.200 for years as part of the Lions broadcast, Charlie told me about his exploits 258 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.839 as a basketball player. Yeah. Oh, he was just fantastic. But 259 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:15.880 one more thing I wanted to ask you, when it comes to multi sports 260 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:22.079 athletes, do you think that rick Leach made the right choice in going into 261 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.640 baseball, because I think he should have win in the football. And I'll 262 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:30.640 listen to your comments on the air here. So Dave, thanks for taking 263 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.359 my call, and you're doing a great job. Thanks. I appreciate it. 264 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.400 Thanks very much. It's always good to talk to you, so we 265 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:38.680 welcome at any time. That's a great question. I who am I to 266 00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:44.599 say about what rick Leach should have done? Keep this in mind, I 267 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:49.240 mean he did have a ten year stint in Major League baseball Detroit Toronto. 268 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:53.279 What did he play for? I think he completed a year in Texas, 269 00:26:55.160 --> 00:27:06.079 but he spent ten years. Would he have spent ten years in football? 270 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:11.079 The reason a lot of guys make the chance that the transition to baseball. 271 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:15.000 You know, Kirk Gibson, Rick Leach, they were both first round picks 272 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:19.640 for the Tigers. Oh, he played. He played a year in Texas 273 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.839 in the year in San Francisco. The reason they do that, as you 274 00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:30.160 know, is for longevity and health reasons. And these guys like playing games. 275 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:34.279 People like playing games, and baseball you play every day. In case 276 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:41.359 people are unaware. Rick Leach grew up in Flint, played at Flint Southwestern 277 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.440 all right, and he was also a basketball player too. I mean he 278 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:48.279 was an All conference player. He's one of the best athletes the States ever 279 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.119 produced. Four year starter at quarterback at Michigan, also played baseball there. 280 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:59.680 What was it, three Big Ten titles All Big Tennis quarterback three times. 281 00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:04.720 He was third in the Heisman Trophy voting as a senior as an All American, 282 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:11.519 but he was a Big Ten batting champ his junior year, so he 283 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.079 was a He was an All American in baseball and football. When you're a 284 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:19.279 first round pick just because you don't play for the team that drafted you in 285 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:23.720 your first round pick. That's pretty damn good, right, you'd take that. 286 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:32.160 I don't know how effective rick Leach would have been in the NFL with 287 00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:40.240 his style of play. You know what would have happened. I don't know. 288 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.359 I don't think he was an option quarterback. He was a running quarterback, 289 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:53.680 though he's a hell of an athlete. I remember reading an article about 290 00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:59.279 Rick Leach and they had asked him, did you wish you'd chosen football? 291 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:06.880 And he said immediately, no, absolutely not. He was pursued like I 292 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:12.799 don't even know if he would have been drafted highly in the NFL. I 293 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:19.200 think there was a team I think it was Montreal in the CFL who wanted 294 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:26.240 him, and now you look at it, he was a fifth round pick. 295 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:32.039 He was a fifth round pick in the NFL by Denver Red Miller. 296 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:36.359 Do you remember Red Miller? Remember Craig Morton and the Orange Crush when they 297 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:41.720 made the Super Bowl? I think it was seventy nine. Anyway, when 298 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:48.400 the Tigers drafted him in the first round, thirteenth overall in June. He 299 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:52.400 was drafted in May by Denver and then drafted in Major League Baseball in June, 300 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.559 and he said, you know, I get a chance to stay in 301 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.920 my home state, play in the leagues in front of friends and family for 302 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:06.279 the team I loved, and I looked at the longevity factor, the injury 303 00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:11.319 factor and everything. So he never regretted it once. So he played, 304 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:15.599 you know what, eight hundred games or whatever in Major League Baseball. That's 305 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:22.000 a really good question. He's better to answer it, but he's answered it 306 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:29.000 in an article or two, I'm sure since and you could make the argument 307 00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:30.799 that he did make the right choice. When you have a ten year career 308 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:36.480 doesn't mean he played one hundred and sixty two games every year. Kirk Gibson, 309 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:41.279 who's a friend of mine, he he was an All American football player 310 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:47.759 and an All American baseball player. He'd have been a top top ten pick 311 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:56.039 for sure in the National Football League, easily one of the best wide receivers 312 00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.559 in the country. And he just killed everybody. He flew by everybody. 313 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:07.240 That dude was incredibly fast. He would challenge guys. People would say, 314 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.759 you're really not that fast, he says, twenty bucks to prove it. 315 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.559 They'd go over to the local high school or a track and he'd blow them 316 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:18.680 away. He'd tell guys to their face, hey man, this is what 317 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.119 I'm going to do. I'm going to run a post and there's nothing you 318 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:27.000 can do about it. And he would do it. Two sports stars. 319 00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:34.640 Some guys just have it. Bo Jackson amazing, Dion Sanders amazing, Brian 320 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:45.599 Jordan amazing because they did it in football and baseball. Remember soon thereafter or 321 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:52.720 soon there before that was never you really never did it. There's only one 322 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.119 guy, I believe in reading. There's only one guy I believe who has 323 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:02.160 played in the NBA and played in the NFL in this. But you gotta 324 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:08.079 go way, way, way way back for that. That's how rare it 325 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:15.279 is. But that's a really good point about Charlie Sanders. Charlie Sanders was 326 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:25.960 at the University of Minnesota and he was a phenomenal athlete. Remember the All 327 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.160 Decade team in the seventies Hall of Famer. But yes, it was a 328 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:35.759 hell of a basketball player. This is old news. I'm sure you already 329 00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:40.599 know this. One of the greatest athletes you probably would ever see is Dave 330 00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:52.640 Winfield. Dave Winfield was actually at the University of Minnesota on a baseball scholarship, 331 00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:59.839 but they saw him in the gym one day in a pickup game, 332 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:07.279 gave him a basketball scholarship. He could have been. He could have been 333 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:13.000 a Major League Baseball player, which he was. He was all of He's 334 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:19.680 a Hall of Famer, phenomenal player. He could have been a guy you 335 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:27.279 could see play in the NBA, and he could have been in the NFL. 336 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:35.079 There's no doubt about that. See guys like Kyler Murray, who was 337 00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:37.960 drafted by the A's and plays quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. I don't know 338 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:43.440 what he would have been in Major League Baseball. I think that's the one 339 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:49.319 that's a little difficult to try and examine and figure out whether or not a 340 00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:55.559 guy would be effective. But Dave Winfield, who was what sixt' six, 341 00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:04.240 He he led Minnesota to a Big Ten basketball championship. He won the College 342 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:12.960 World Series MVP as a senior. They wanted him to play football. He 343 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:17.880 was a man amongst boys. He was incredible, hit the ball a country 344 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:22.519 mile, but could score. The Padres drafted in the first round, the 345 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:30.159 Atlanta Hawks drafted him in the fifth round, and the Minnesota Vikings drafted him 346 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:36.800 in the seventeenth round. At the time, he was one of only four 347 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:45.280 players in history to be drafted in three different sports one of four. The 348 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:52.440 other are Mickey McCarty played a year on the Chiefs, Noel Jenke no Idea, 349 00:34:53.159 --> 00:35:00.400 and Dave Logan who played for the Browns in the eighties. But he 350 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:06.760 was drafted. Actually, if you think about it, Dave Winfield was drafted 351 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:12.679 in four leagues because the ABA, the Utah Stars at the time, drafted 352 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:17.360 him in the fourth round. That's how good he was. Right now, 353 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:22.880 Ben's going, holy crap, who the hell's Dave Winfield? Vikings thought he 354 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:29.760 was going to play tight end so he could run and catch. That's an 355 00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:35.880 athlete. That's a guy who could do it all. So sometimes you need 356 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:40.199 to put things in perspective Austin Rivers whomever, before you start saying stuff like 357 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:47.559 that, those types of athletes. But just because you played in high school, 358 00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:52.159 I mean, Dave Winfield did in college. Just because you played in 359 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:57.079 high school doesn't really matter, because there's a lot of really good high school 360 00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.400 football players out there who can't make the jump to the next level. I'll 361 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:05.639 bring I'll give you a good example. I've called the high school state championships 362 00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:09.719 for about thirty years. I really enjoy it. And I enjoy it because 363 00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:16.039 I'd like seeing players from smaller towns, smaller schools who maybe don't always get 364 00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:21.760 the recognition they deserve, but the opportunity to see who they are and what 365 00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:27.599 they can do, and see them against talent that they may not have seen 366 00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:30.840 during the regular season or whatever get the chance to see unless they played in 367 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:37.400 a state title game. I love hearing stories from coaches about what kids do, 368 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:40.320 not only in the community but in the classroom and what they have to 369 00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:45.239 sacrifice in order to get there. One of my favorite stories was I was 370 00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:49.280 talking with a coach one time and he said, yeah, we almost missed 371 00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:52.840 this kid, I forget his name, but we almost missed him in our 372 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:58.639 state semi final game because it was his turn to work the farm. And 373 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:00.000 I said, what do you mean work the farm? He said, well, 374 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:07.760 it's hunting season and his dad and his brother were going hunting and they 375 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:13.679 said to him, sorry, state semifinal or not, it's your turn to 376 00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:17.280 do the chores. And he had to get up and do those roughly four 377 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:22.320 o'clock in the morning before going to play in his semi final game and he 378 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:28.159 had to get it all done. That's discipline, man, It's awesome. 379 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:32.199 It was one of the best stories ever. I loved it, and I 380 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:37.119 told that during the broadcast. Well, one of the best players I saw 381 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:42.760 in a state championship game is a kid by the name of Mark Catlan and 382 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:47.320 he played it Lowell for the Red Arrows and he played in a Division I 383 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:53.039 think it was Division three state championship game. He owned the field. He 384 00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:58.320 was a quarterback on a cornerback. He was the best player by far on 385 00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:05.719 the field to play. And I believe he went to Grand Valley and played 386 00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:12.519 cornerback. So you put his highlight reel film on and you go, oh, 387 00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:16.599 good lord. But it's not like he went to a Power five school, 388 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:22.599 went and played college ball. Though it's a hell of a job. 389 00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:30.920 Good for him, it's not easy to do. My point is, just 390 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:36.400 because he was great in high school and he was, doesn't mean you're going 391 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:42.639 to be an NFL player, folks, if you're not, If you can't 392 00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:46.000 be a great NFL player based on how great you were in college, Hi, 393 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:54.119 Brian Bosworth, Hi to Marcus Russell, Hi, Tony Mandrich. Doesn't 394 00:38:54.159 --> 00:39:00.639 mean just because you were a hell of a high school player, didn't pursue 395 00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:05.599 that sport and chose to focus on something else that you automatically get a free 396 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:15.280 pass to being thought of as an NFL talent. Meyer hotline is eight sixty 397 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:19.519 six eight three eight forty eight forty three. The text line is sports radio 398 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:25.239 to twenty one thousand. I think it's there's too often we kind of just 399 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.000 we see the talent, we see the skill set, and we think it 400 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:36.480 automatically translates, and athletes, by the way, lose sight of that too. 401 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.840 Austin Rivers is a really good example. Does he know what it takes? 402 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:45.400 And that's where JJ watts offence comes into play. Does he know what 403 00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:51.360 it takes to play in the NFL? Just because you're big, just because 404 00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:55.760 you're strong, doesn't mean you can do it. High brock Lesner, big, 405 00:39:55.840 --> 00:40:02.599 strong wrestler and all that stuff couldn't make it in the NFL. Dwayne 406 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:09.519 Johnson, guys couldn't make it in that league for various reasons, even though 407 00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:14.719 they're big, and even though they're strong, and even though they may have 408 00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:23.119 had a very good college career. There is a kid who played at Maryland 409 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:28.800 and was the player of the Year in lacrosse, leading the Turps to a 410 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:34.840 national championship. He was done. He had a fifth year eligibility. He 411 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:39.719 went to Farris State and forre TONI Nice played quarterback and won the Harlan Hill 412 00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:46.599 Trophy and a national championship for the Bulldogs, and then was an undrafted free 413 00:40:46.639 --> 00:41:00.480 agent and made the Atlanta Falcons. How great of an athlete is that oppressive? 414 00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:07.760 That's outstanding? How great was he in high school? 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