WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.519 Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, 2 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.679 I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I 3 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.280 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.520 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.240 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football for everybody, I think that 6 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:40.640 at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday. 7 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.799 Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same thing 8 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.759 for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play 9 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:56.359 to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a 10 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.679 great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care if 11 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.640 you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start 12 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:12.680 telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the matters, damn 13 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:18.719 right, it matters. Sarah Edwards, it's a hump day. It's a 14 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:25.000 Wednesday around the State of Michigan and Axes and Bros. We are with you 15 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:29.200 Monday through Friday, sixtell nine. We know you tune in at different times 16 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:33.359 to check us out and check out different radio programs. We're cool with that. 17 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.959 Anything that might be on your mind. The Meyer hotline is there for 18 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.799 you eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three, or you can 19 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:45.359 text the show at sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Ben's our producer. 20 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:49.200 I'm Matt Shephard. Welcome. Tiger is a winner yesterday. Isn't it interesting? 21 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.519 Yesterday we were complaining. I suppose a lot of people have been complaining 22 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.480 about the Tigers offense, and for good reason, but they were able to 23 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.719 jump out of it in a big way. They snapped a four game slide 24 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.240 in a five game road losing streak with an eleven to seven win in Cleveland. 25 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:14.800 The hero. Now there's that saying, right, your best players have 26 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:16.800 to be their best in big games. That's not necessarily a big game. 27 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:24.400 Every game is important in baseball, but I wouldn't say it's a big game. 28 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:30.199 Detroit finally got fifteen. I mean they got fifteen hits. That works. 29 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:37.360 The offense found something or maybe it was Logan Allen. I don't know 30 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.560 what it was. I don't care what it was. I just know it 31 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:46.439 has to continue. But Andy Abaniez was in the middle of it all. 32 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:50.960 He was at the start of it all. He hit the third pitch over 33 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:53.479 the wall. He had two home runs, he went four for four, 34 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:58.560 he was on base five times, he drove in four, scored four times. 35 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:06.560 From the top of the order at second base. Doesn't mean that you 36 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.680 play him every single day. It doesn't mean that he should be your leadoff 37 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:19.360 guy every single game. But he does put together some decent at bats. 38 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:24.039 He had four of their fifteen hits. He had half as many as Cleveland 39 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:30.719 did as a team. Detroit jumped on Cleveland in the first I mentioned ibania 40 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.360 Is with the home run. Then Cleveland plates two right away and you're going, 41 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:38.400 oh, come on, really, Detroit scores four in the second, 42 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:43.000 it's five to two, and you think, okay, with the history of 43 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:49.080 their pitching. We told you the numbers yesterday, top four and four main 44 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:53.840 categories. You think good, feel comfortable now to a certain extent, because 45 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:59.080 Cleveland's not known as a great hitting team. And then suddenly they played five 46 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:09.560 and it's seven to five. Detroit answers right back and it's a tie game. 47 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:15.560 You love the resiliency. Isn't there a part of you that felt pretty 48 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:20.560 damn good about that? You know, we had mentioned earlier in the week 49 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:30.199 about teams getting down, Boston Bruins beating Toronto. They're down one nothing, 50 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.160 they tied at one, Toronto's got chance after chance, and then suddenly Boston 51 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:39.600 able to come through, showing some grit, showing some moxie, little attitude, 52 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:45.680 love it right. Tigers had a little bit of that yesterday when so 53 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:49.240 Perez with two more hits, Matt Veerling with a couple of hits, Jake 54 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:58.879 Rogers with a couple of hits, and the guy by the name of Ryan 55 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:08.079 Delayed with a couple of hits and three RBIs, including his first major league 56 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:15.199 hit. Cinderella story. Who knows? Does it matter? For one game? 57 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:24.040 It did. It's interesting that Justin Henry Maloy wasn't brought up or a 58 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:28.279 Kiel Badeu aj Hinch saying I'm going to see a lot of lefties. The 59 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:33.759 reason I say brought up is because Parker Meadows was sent down. Big struggle 60 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:39.120 for Meadows. You and I both know it. We've talked about it. 61 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:45.879 It's unfortunate, but it was necessary. And as good as he is defensively, 62 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:49.480 what do we always say you got You got to be able to score 63 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:55.000 runs and you have to be able to hit the ball and the fastball. 64 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:58.839 I think I think it was Scott yesterday who brought it up. It's a 65 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:06.040 great point, missing the fastball. He was a key contributor to that needs 66 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:12.360 at bats young guys. When people wonder why aren't you just bringing up this 67 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.399 young guy, well, because it can be a double edged sword. You 68 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:21.480 want to promote a young player for a job well done in the minors. 69 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:29.439 You want them. We've talked about this with hockey too. Okay, guy 70 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:34.800 does a really good job down in Dahl with Grand Rapids. You'd love to 71 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.360 see him with the Red Wings. Is he going to get the same amount 72 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:44.959 of time in the same situations as he would down there? And it's the 73 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.560 same thing in baseball. Is he going to be in the lineup every day 74 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:54.319 to get the at bats, to make himself feel comfortable like he's contributing, 75 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:59.279 seeing all the pitches, so on and so forth. You want to make 76 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:05.439 sure you can do that, and if you can't, all you're doing is 77 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:12.879 stunting his growth. Now, what's the balance there? What is the balance 78 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:16.959 between you saying okay, Parker Metals, for example, I'm going to keep 79 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:23.920 you in there. I'm going to have you bat against lefties even though you're 80 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:32.639 struggling against lefties compared to I'm gonna sit you so I don't ruin your confidence. 81 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:40.800 On the other hand, you want guys to be everyday players, right, 82 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:46.399 I sure as hell do. Parker Metal's second round draft pick a ton 83 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:51.439 of talent. I want him to be an everyday player. But when you 84 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:57.120 dip below one hundred, it's got to be enough, don't you think. 85 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:05.160 Anyway, good win for Detroit. They'll play the series wrap up this afternoon, 86 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:13.040 Reese Olsen against Tanner Beebie. I don't want to be negative after a 87 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:18.720 win. I think too many people are. Usually you see that on Mondays 88 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:26.079 after a Lions game or some type of NFL game in some market. Too 89 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.800 many times sports radio is all about, you know what, I need to 90 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.840 get calls. I need to get some likes, So I'm gonna throw throw 91 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:46.159 out some outlandish and vervacious opinion and take it from a negative point of view. 92 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.159 I don't want to do that. You know we did that yesterday, 93 00:08:52.840 --> 00:09:01.919 ripping on the offense in a two to one loss. And when they get 94 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:07.399 a win and they get the victory the way we want them to or expect 95 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.399 them to, or have called and complained about their lack of ability. They 96 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:18.000 finally show the ability. It's a small sample size, granted, but you 97 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:24.240 get the point. I don't want to dwell on the negative. But you 98 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:31.559 also have to be realistic. You also have to understand a problem when you 99 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:41.960 see it, and Kentamieta has been a problem. It's hard to deny that 100 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:50.080 sample size needs to be kept in perspective. But you're getting to the point 101 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:58.799 where you're about a quarter of his starts. We'll explain when we come back. 102 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.679 Just getting things wrong here on a Wednesday morning. 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We were talking about a 127 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:18.200 few good Tigers went over Cleveland eleven seven to get them a couple of games 128 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.480 over five hundred, get them even in this series and the series wrap up 129 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:26.000 taking place this afternoon, weather permitting the problem yesterday, and he'd love to 130 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:31.559 focus on the positive, and we mentioned andy A Banye's good feeling at the 131 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:37.639 top of the ear. I suppose part of the reason it's it's it's not 132 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:45.720 as warm and fuzzy for me is because fair or unfair. I don't view 133 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:52.240 andy A Banyez as an everyday player, and it's probably unfair. That's an 134 00:12:52.360 --> 00:13:00.919 unfair thought on on my behalf. I just don't I see him as a 135 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:09.840 role player. You know, there are guys who have made livings in Major 136 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:20.000 League Baseball out of being a versatile player. A guy who's not in the 137 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:30.440 same position every single game for his career or for a season. Ben Zobrist 138 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:35.240 is a good example. Okay, guys who aren't married to one position. 139 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.960 Who says you can't do that, who says Andy A. Banyez couldn't play 140 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:46.720 almost every day as a second baseman, sometimes as an outfielder, sometimes it's 141 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:52.200 a shortstop, sometimes it's a third baseman. The versatility he brings, I 142 00:13:52.240 --> 00:14:01.480 don't see that. But if you're hitting three sixty four, slugging five seventy 143 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:07.240 six, you force your way into the lineup. He's not going to sustain 144 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:11.840 those numbers. We're just not sustainable for him. But it's great right now. 145 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:18.840 And perhaps, and this is where as fans we have to figure out, 146 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:26.519 Hey, is is he doing that well because he is a guy who 147 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:33.399 plays every once in a while, or is he that good that forces us 148 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:43.759 to decide he should be playing more. That's up to the manager. That's 149 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.720 up to aj Hanchen his staff to figure out, is this a guy we 150 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.639 want in the lineup every day even if he doesn't have one position, because 151 00:14:52.639 --> 00:15:00.759 that's the way this team is made up, right Because Matt Erling, He's 152 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:05.159 gonna play some third He's gonna play some right Rightley Green's gonna play the left, 153 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.360 although they mentioned yesterday he's an option in center, and why wouldn't he 154 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:18.799 be. Torkosen's not playing any place other than first. Baiez isn't playing any 155 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.320 place other than shortstop. Carson Kelly and Jake Rogers aren't doing anything other than 156 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:28.120 catching or maybe dehing. I don't know why you dh Carson Kelly. So 157 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:35.159 you get the point, right, Well, that's great. It's great to 158 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:39.080 get the eleven to seven win. You don't want to be negative. It's 159 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.399 too damn easy to go there. But there's a difference between being negative and 160 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:54.960 being concerned. There's a reason to be concerned about Kentamayata signed in the offseason 161 00:15:54.960 --> 00:16:00.279 to a two year deal. He makes fourteen million dollars. Not everything is 162 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:06.799 associated with money, I get that, but that's a commitment. That's a 163 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.399 hell of a commitment. And right now, in seven starts and you figure 164 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:15.679 he's never made more than thirty two, and that was his rookie year with 165 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.039 the Dodgers. Throw that aside. He's never made more than twenty six. 166 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:27.960 That's the most he's made. Twenty five, twenty twenty six, eleven COVID 167 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:34.120 twenty one twenty last year made twenty. Let's say he gets to last year 168 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:44.320 because he was hurt, which is more than likely now that he'll find his 169 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:48.759 way on the ils at some point. But let's just say he makes twenty 170 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.320 starts. So he's at a third of his starts right now. If that's 171 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:59.679 the case, if you want to take it's not necessarily his career high. 172 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.639 But if you want to take the twenty six he's at, you know, 173 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:10.880 twenty seven percent of his starts. When you're one in one with an ERA 174 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.759 of six seven five and you've given up more homers than anybody else in the 175 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:23.039 league nine, that's not a good sign. I'm not saying it's not a 176 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:27.559 good signing. I said it's not a good sign right now. I wasn't 177 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:36.319 thrilled with a signing. I want guys who post. I want guys who 178 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:42.680 are reliable. He hasn't been reliable. Hurt last year, hurt the year 179 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:49.880 before. Just don't like it, don't like the way it's trending. Whatever, 180 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:56.359 Nothing I can do about it. Bottom line is he is one in 181 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:02.839 one in seven starts with an ERA just under seven. That's a problem. 182 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.640 If you were a spot starter, it'd be one thing. He's a starter. 183 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.799 Every fourth day or fifth day. At some point you're going to go 184 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:17.079 see what you have to do with him on the mound. You have to 185 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:27.039 plan for a bullpen day. You have to plan in case you need him 186 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:33.599 or you need your bullpen, because in all likelihood you are going to need 187 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:44.759 your bullpen. Dude's only gone six innings twice, did it against Minnesota, 188 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:52.680 and he did it in his lone win against Saint Louis, which wasn't bad. 189 00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:00.160 Forgive me if I'm not going to focus on the one win against Saint 190 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:04.559 Louis, and I'm going to look at six earned runs, five earned runs, 191 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:11.359 seven earned runs, seven earned runs. Yesterday in two innings of work, 192 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:23.119 walk three, struck out one concerning something to monitor for us moving forward? 193 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:30.839 Right, absolutely, series wrap up again today. We'll get into some 194 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:36.720 of the issues moving forward. And it's starting to be recognized by national writers 195 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.880 too. They got to fill space, all right, they need clicks. 196 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.839 I get it. It's websites. You and I will see some type of 197 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.880 scintillating headline and it'll make us go, oh, I want to read that. 198 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:53.920 That's what they're supposed to do. So when you rank teams, to 199 00:19:55.039 --> 00:20:00.319 me, you know the power rankings. To me, it's a little ridiculous 200 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:04.880 in baseball at this time, but they do it once a week all kinds 201 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:10.119 of websites. Read one website yesterday and look, I'm guilty of it. 202 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:12.440 I'm sitting here complaining about it, but I read it. So how hypocritical 203 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:18.079 is that? But when you do a show for three hours every day, 204 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:23.160 there are certain things you want to check out, and you also want to 205 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:27.759 validate your thoughts if other people are feeling the same way. And my son 206 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:34.680 always tells me dead you got to figure out who's giving you the information. 207 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:40.519 If you're going to read this, make sure you know who's writing it, 208 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:45.440 and it's worthy of bringing up. Well, he's right, and Matt Schneider 209 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:51.319 or CBS Sports is a reputable writer. His latest power rankings Tiger's at fourteen. 210 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:53.359 That's not even the point. Here's the point. This is what he 211 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.839 writes. This is exactly what we talked about yesterday morning, as if he 212 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:00.119 was listening. Tigers are twenty second in runs, twenty fifth and average twenty 213 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:04.920 fifth in ops and for twenty fourth in home runs. They are also supporting 214 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:08.880 a winning record. 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Get your tickets now at Meyer LPGA Classics dot Com 232 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:02.400 ran into Savannah Jack tier Line not with a shot blocked by slaving all up 233 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:10.440 to say thanks. Star burnsent trucks Hack who lives in It overtime for New 234 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:22.319 York FDNY Trumpchick played more than any New York ranger tonight over thirty five minutes 235 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.640 of hockey, a rebound will come to the next name. Spoon Check is 236 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:32.279 right on the spot to take the loose puck off of Brank Burst and he 237 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:37.519 slams it through erandic Fox up. Robertson trying to work it out for Shotston 238 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:41.920 Big hit there in behind and Cayliano zooms it ahead, Wood Win speed Wood 239 00:23:42.000 --> 00:24:07.160 trucks in can't hit Scot Niles Wood the hero it over time, thrilling stuff 240 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:11.359 in the NHL last night, Welcome Back Exus and Bros. On a Wednesday 241 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:18.559 morning that saw the Tigers win in Cleveland and then two thrilling finishes in hockey. 242 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:25.039 You heard him there on ESPN. Bote calls Rangers edge of the Hurricanes 243 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.960 four to three in DOUBLET. Vincent Trocheck with a game winner. He has 244 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:36.880 a five game goal streak. The biggest issue for Carolina. And they're good. 245 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:41.000 I mean they built a two to one lead, a three to two 246 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:48.400 lead before falling in DOUBLET. They're really good. But how disciplined are you? 247 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.359 I mean they went They're in the box for seven New York power plays. 248 00:24:55.319 --> 00:25:00.160 Rangers went two for seven with the extra attacker. It's ridiculous. They 249 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:07.319 had a power play in the third and seconds after they were awarded it spashing 250 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:14.200 a cough with a tripping call. I'm watching this game and I'm not rooting 251 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:15.480 for one team over the other. Don't get me wrong, but I'm thinking, 252 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:18.599 what in the world's going on here? How do you keep taking these 253 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:27.079 tripping penalties? It's ridiculous. You get to this point and you're that undisciplined 254 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:37.400 with your stick, especially can't happen. It was a fun game to watch. 255 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:45.480 Both teams are really good, really good. Really like Sebastianaho I'm sure 256 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:49.799 you do too if you've watched him play at all. But damn, I 257 00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:56.960 mean the lack of discipline. Jake Ginzel had a couple of had a couple 258 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:03.000 of goals for Carolina. He got an undisciplined penalty, he jabbed in the 259 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:08.799 face and then took a swing, so he gets sticked to two minutes there 260 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:14.400 before the grace of God, go I right, who wouldn't retaliate? But 261 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:19.160 the referees, one linesman and one referee were right there with him up against 262 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:26.000 I forget who who the ranger was, but how do you not call them 263 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:33.400 both? They didn't. They get the retaliatory just way too many undisciplined calls 264 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:38.519 against Carolina, and it burned them. So they're down two games to none 265 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:44.799 Colorado in the main time. And this was amazing if you stayed up and 266 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:51.319 watched this game, because the Abs, they've got to be considered the favorite 267 00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:53.079 coming out of the West, just to because how good they are, how 268 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:59.440 balanced they are, how dangerous their special teams are. They really are so 269 00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:04.160 good. And I get it. When you get to this point, you've 270 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:11.680 got to be good. So I understand when you look at the NHL and 271 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:17.200 you're in the final four. You're not getting there by mistake. This is 272 00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:22.319 not the NCAA tournament with one upset. You've got to own it. You've 273 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:26.440 got to recognize that there's really good teams. I think the Oilers are fun 274 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:33.640 to watch and they're really good. Vancouver's really good obviously, Dallas and then 275 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:37.200 as I just mentioned, Denver or Colorado. I should say, but Colorado 276 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.599 came from three goals down to beat the Stars four to three. Miles would 277 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:47.079 you just heard with the game winner almost nine minutes into ot Stars have lost 278 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:56.119 now six straight game once six straight, and yet they keep winning series. 279 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:03.039 We mentioned earlier. Best players have to be their best right when you get 280 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:08.480 to this time of year, you need those. Nathan McKinnon had the game 281 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.839 tying goal when they were down three to nothing. He scored early into the 282 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:22.319 third to tie to three. He had two points, Sekustin a goal and 283 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:30.640 an assist. Cale mccarr one of the best defensemen in the league. Even 284 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.960 though he's not up for the Norris or no, he is up for the 285 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:41.119 Norris. Excuse me, A goal in two helpers best players at the best 286 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:45.680 and biggest time of the year. So Colorado's up one game tone San Jose 287 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:51.279 wins the lottery. They earned the first overall pick for the first time in 288 00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:56.680 franchise history. That's a good thing because they had by far the worst record 289 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.599 in the league. Chicago's going to pick second, Anaheigh third. Red Wings, 290 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:06.200 by the way, will own the fifteenth overall pick. What does that 291 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:15.720 mean because there's from what I've read, and yes I watched some college hockey, 292 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:19.519 but from what I've read, I can't say that there's for sure a 293 00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:30.640 Connor Badard out there. But Maclin Celebrini out of Boston University, who turns 294 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:36.000 eighteen just a couple of weeks before the draft in June, and with the 295 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:41.559 youngest player ever to win the Hoby Baker will probably be the first overall pick. 296 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.799 It's good looking player, big reason why bu is ranked in the top 297 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:53.920 five all year long. It's a good player. How good I don't know. 298 00:29:53.960 --> 00:30:00.440 He's playing against other teenagers and some twenty year olds, but he's a 299 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:04.559 good looking player. He's expected to go first overall. There was three finalists 300 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:11.559 for the Hart Trophy. One name we've already mentioned, Nathan McKinnon. Then 301 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:18.039 there's Connor David Connor McDavid rather and Ankita kucher Off. Now I've talked about 302 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:22.640 Connor McDavid because I think he's the best skater I've ever seen. I know 303 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.920 people would say Paul Coffee back in the day, perhaps Mike Gartner, but 304 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:36.160 this guy, he just glides. He's incredibly gifted. Love watching him play. 305 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.000 He's won it three times. He's trying to become the first back to 306 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.960 back winner since Alexandrovchkin. He led Edmonton with one hundred assists one hundred and 307 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.640 thirty two points one hundred and twenty two in the last sixty five games. 308 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:56.559 That's when they replaced their coach. They dismissed Jay Woodcroft and got Chris notblocked 309 00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:06.720 in there, so that turned things around for Edmonton. Kutcherov led the league 310 00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:12.279 in points. He's won the Heart or the MVP of the NHL. He's 311 00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:15.759 won it twice before last time he won it. He's got more points this 312 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:22.880 time this year than he did when he won it then. He had a 313 00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:27.400 career high forty four goals and a career best one hundred siss one of two 314 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:32.920 guys with one hundred a sists or more this year, him and Connor McDavid. 315 00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:44.400 Anyway, he also finished get this fifty four points ahead of his second 316 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:52.640 closest teammate. On top of that, he led the league in scoring by 317 00:31:52.680 --> 00:32:00.079 scoring fifty percent of his team's goals. That's incredible. I think McKinnon's going 318 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:04.799 to win it. I think some of it has to do with the fact 319 00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:09.960 that he's had another great season. The problem is he's never won it before. 320 00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:13.480 Fifty one goals, one hundred and forty points, second most in the 321 00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:19.839 league. He has thirty six points in front of his closest teammate, and 322 00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:24.839 he had two scoring streaks that voters can fall back on. He had a 323 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:30.599 scoring streak of thirty five straight at home, second most ever to Wayne Gretzky's 324 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:36.079 forty when Gretzky's with the Kings, and he had another run of nineteen straight 325 00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:39.759 points. So he's the first player to have two separate streaks of nineteen straight 326 00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:52.400 or more inna season. That's worthy enough. What's interesting is the omission the 327 00:32:52.440 --> 00:33:06.759 omission of who right, Austin Matthews sixty nine goals and he's not a finalist. 328 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:17.319 How crazy is that? Twelve points ahead of the next highest goal scorer, 329 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:23.960 Sam Reinhart, Florida. He also had one hundred and seven points. 330 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:32.640 His team was really good this year. Now his points finished behind David pastronak 331 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:42.000 behind our Temmy Panerin. But sixty nine goals and you can't get to be 332 00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:51.559 in the finalist conversation for the Heart Trophy. It's a little surprising. I 333 00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:53.240 think a lot of people thought for sure he'd be a finalist. I'm not 334 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:57.000 sure how many expected him to win. Who are you going to take out 335 00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:01.680 McDavid would be the obvious answer, But he was third in the league in 336 00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:12.239 scoring. He rescued his team from early struggles and early losses. Helps to 337 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:16.880 get healthy too. NBA Boston rolls Cleveland one, twenty to ninety five. 338 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:21.519 Jaylen Brown had thirty two. Derek White had twenty five on seven triples. 339 00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:25.119 Here's a good one for you. You ready. Derek White has twenty eight 340 00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:32.119 triples over a six game playoff span. That is most in Boston history. 341 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:40.760 It's not Paul Pierce, it's not Larry Bird, not Dennis Johnson, it's 342 00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:50.360 not Danny Ainge. It's Derek White. Would you have guessed? Hell no? 343 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:53.840 But you see how certain guys are elevating their game a little bit like 344 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:58.840 Jason Tatum had a double double earlier this year. Jason Tatum was in the 345 00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:07.000 conversation for MVP they get eighteen and eleven last night just fits in. Different 346 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:13.920 guy steps forward on a different night. The reason Boston is the favorite who 347 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:17.400 in the NBA title and was the one seed in the East. The one 348 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.760 seed in the West played last night. Okay see, they handled Dallas one 349 00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:25.960 seventeen ninety five. Tough night for Dallas sports fans. Don't cry on my 350 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:30.800 shoulder. I'd love to have my hockey team and my basketball team in the 351 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:36.199 playoffs, but they're not. Neither one was good enough to make it and 352 00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:42.440 one set a franchise record for fewest wins ever. But it was a tough 353 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.920 night for Dallas fans because the Stars lost in overtime and they have now lost 354 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:52.639 six straight game ones. Dallas loses in regulation, they have now lost five 355 00:35:52.800 --> 00:36:00.480 straight game ones. Luka Dacic is supposed to be the guy who saves them 356 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:07.320 all the time. He's bothered by a bad right knee suffered in the series 357 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:13.960 against the Clippers. He had nineteen That snaps a streak of twenty four straight 358 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:17.920 playoff games with at least twenty points or more. And we just talked about 359 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:23.679 Derek White and how good he has been from Deep. Luka Doncic has been 360 00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:31.320 the opposite five for thirty five from Deep over the last four games. He 361 00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:37.599 is a finalist for MVP and should be. He deserves to be led the 362 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:45.239 league in scoring. Terrible defensively, but the NBA's about scoring. Defense gets 363 00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:47.119 their own award. We'll get to that in a minute. You get your 364 00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:50.880 own award if you want to be the MVP, if you want to be 365 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.920 in the conversation for MVP, you have to score the ball, as simple 366 00:36:53.920 --> 00:37:01.719 as that. I've always found it interesting and funny that we go defense wins 367 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:05.760 championships, and then when it comes to voting for the most Valuable Player, 368 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:14.239 what do we do? We immediately gravitate toward offense. Right there are three 369 00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:19.559 men up for the final up for the MVP award in the NBA. Two 370 00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:23.760 of them are in the top three of scoring. The other one is an 371 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:30.800 absolute freak of nature because of his ability to do everything. It's not necessarily 372 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:40.039 defense. It's about his ability to score, rebound, and distribute. That's 373 00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:47.280 Nikola Jokic, who still was in the top ten in scoring second most triple 374 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:54.880 doubles, second most double doubles, and his team is coming off a championship 375 00:37:54.880 --> 00:38:01.519 and he's won a couple of MVPs. As it is. Anyway, I 376 00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:08.159 digress. The other guy in that game last night who is in the MVP 377 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:15.719 conversation is Shay Gilgess Alexander. Right, it's Doncic, Shake Gilgess, Alexander 378 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:22.039 and Nikola Jokic. The finalist for the MVP. How good was Alexander Twenty 379 00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:25.760 nine points, nine boards, nine er sis, that's how good he was. 380 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:30.599 Love to see him win it. I don't think he will. I 381 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:35.960 think Doncic shall win it because again we're enamored with the high scoring, even 382 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.599 though Alexander was third in the league scoring. We mentioned defense, well, 383 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:45.960 Rudy Gobert won the Defensive Player of the Year award. Here's what I can't 384 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:55.159 help but wonder Victor webbin Yama I think should have won it, but he's 385 00:38:55.159 --> 00:39:05.119 a rookie. If he puts together that type of season and he's not a 386 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:10.519 rookie, you think he wins it. I bet he does. Instead, 387 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:15.840 it goes to Gobert, who finished six in the league in block shots, 388 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:21.079 which you know what. That kind of pisses me off that I just said 389 00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:28.360 that block shots isn't isn't the only defense? You know? He holds opponents 390 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:31.519 to forty five percent shooting, which is among the best in all of basketball. 391 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:40.280 So who gives a crap about black shots? Can you defend? I 392 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:45.639 suppose it's a pretty important statistic for big guys, but it doesn't. It's 393 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:49.320 not the be all end all when it comes to Defensive Player of the Year 394 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:53.800 award anyway. Gobert has now won it four times. He won it in 395 00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:58.159 eighteen, he wanted in nineteen, he won it in twenty twenty one with 396 00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:05.360 the Jazz Go Bears, now with Minnesota. There are two other men who 397 00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.280 have won the Defensive Player of the Year award four times in their careers. 398 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:22.719 Who are they? One you should know Ben Wallace. The other was famous 399 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:35.719 for a finger wag to Kenby Matumbo. Webin Yama finished second, bam Autabayo 400 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:42.679 third. That's how it worked. And to wrap things up, Denver's Jamal 401 00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:45.800 Murray gets fined one hundred grand for the incident Monday night in game two. 402 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:52.079 Do you see what he did? He didn't get suspended in a regular season 403 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:59.559 game he gets suspended. You could have injured somebody. 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I'm back with you here on Extras and Bros Monday through Friday 437 00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:15.679 six till nine. Thanks for joining us. I always appreciated the If Meyer 438 00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:19.320 hotline is open for you eight sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty 439 00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.639 three. You could text the program Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Wherever 440 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:29.199 it is you may be, We welcome your thoughts whatever it is that might 441 00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:34.280 be on your minding. In the world of sports, JJ Watt recently made 442 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:38.840 headlines in sports because he said he was willing to come back if Demiko Ryans, 443 00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:44.920 the head coach of the Houston Texans, ever really needs him now. 444 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:50.280 WAT is thirty five. He was named Rookie of the Year his rookie campaign, 445 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:53.559 in which, by the way, he played with Demiko Ryans. He 446 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:59.320 was named the Defensive Player of the Year three times his one hundred and fourteen 447 00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:02.320 and a half career. Your sacks rank him twenty fourth all time, So 448 00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:06.280 yeah, that's good. If he says he's willing to make a little bit 449 00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:13.039 of a comeback. Sure, he's also now a new analyst for CBS on 450 00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:16.719 their show, on their NFL show, and I'm sure he'll do a really 451 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:21.960 good job. Boomers. Siasing is out, Phil Simms is out. Both 452 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:27.760 have had really nice runs. But I suppose the turning of the page takes 453 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:32.159 place in every industry. So it's kind of unfortunate because you don't like to 454 00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:38.119 see people lose their jobs. And I thought those guys were I thought probably 455 00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:44.360 a sias In more than Phil Simms was really good at what he did. 456 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:51.039 Personally, I think there's way too many analysts on these pregame shows and postgame 457 00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:54.639 shows. I mean, you're basically getting in one thought and you're getting paid 458 00:45:55.079 --> 00:45:59.679 millions and millions of dollars. But if the networks are making the money on 459 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:06.639 it, who JJ Watt is in the news for a different reason yesterday, 460 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:13.920 and that's because Austin Rivers, you know who Austin Rivers is right, played 461 00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:19.760 for a period of time in the NBA, son of Doc Rivers. Okay, 462 00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:31.000 he said something on Tuesday on the Pat McAfee show on ESPN. He 463 00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:36.960 said, because Pat McAfee, I'm sure you folks know this. He was 464 00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:40.679 in the NFL. He was a punter. He was a punter in the 465 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:51.320 in the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts. And he he's turned a really successful 466 00:46:52.400 --> 00:47:02.800 talk show into TV, so good for him. And he had Austin Rivers 467 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:08.400 on and Rivers said this, I can take thirty players right now in the 468 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:16.159 NBA and throw them in the NFL. You cannot take thirty NFL players and 469 00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:24.840 put them in the NBA. That might be I don't think you could do 470 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:31.320 that, but that might be closer to NBA doing it to the NFL than 471 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:37.800 the other way around, so it might be. I mean, there are 472 00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:45.840 guys who were really good football players in high school, mind you, who 473 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:53.159 later played in the NBA. Again, high school, it's tough to project. 474 00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:57.119 People always said, and look, he's a freak. He's one of 475 00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.239 the greatest players of all the time. Lebron James six eight two fifty to 476 00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:10.199 sixty could have played in the NFL. Maybe I don't know that nobody does 477 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:16.920 now. He was recruited by Ohio State and Alabama and Miami and Notre Dame. 478 00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:22.199 Mark Murphy, who was used to play safety in the NFL, played 479 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:29.360 eleven years with Green Bay Packers, was the defensive coordinator at James's high school, 480 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:37.000 and he was convinced, convinced that he would have been an NFL receiver 481 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:43.760 because he was a two time All State selection. He had one hundred rocks 482 00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:46.039 and nineteen hundred yards and twenty seven. I mean, it was unbelievable what 483 00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:52.800 he did. I guess I would say, if you think that could happen, 484 00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:57.199 why would people not believe the guy like Calvin Johnson who was sixty five, 485 00:48:57.199 --> 00:48:59.519 two hundred and forty pounds, or DK Metcalf who was six four, 486 00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:07.800 two hundred thirty pounds. Physical specimens could not make it. What makes you 487 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:21.880 think that? I think they could, But I don't know. James was 488 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:28.320 fast. He was incredible, right, okay, fair enough. Don't know, 489 00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:31.960 but it sure appears like he could have. Like Charlie Ward did it. 490 00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:39.239 He's a quarterback in Florida State him in the Heisman Trophy and played for 491 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:46.199 the New York Knicks. Pretty damn good. Allen Iverson was a hell of 492 00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:52.360 a player in the NBA, right, But he was a really good high 493 00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:58.480 school player. Jalen Suggs, who played for Villanovo, won a national championship. 494 00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:00.840 He's a really good high schoo football player. I don't know if that 495 00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:07.519 translates. I couldn't tell you if a guy played in high school who could 496 00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:10.280 play in the pros. How many times have we been wrong about things like 497 00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:15.519 this? How many times we have to be proven that a lot? Who's 498 00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:23.280 the best high school football player you ever saw? I mean, Drew Henson 499 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:29.119 was unbelievable, you guys. He was an All American punter. He's an 500 00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:35.639 All American quarterback. He had offers from any place in the country, went 501 00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:40.079 to Michigan. You all know the story, okay, And he played in 502 00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:45.760 the NFL. He's an unbelievable basketball player too. Averaged twenty nine points close 503 00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:52.920 to twenty nine points per game. So he's a really good football player. 504 00:50:53.119 --> 00:51:00.880 He's an All American baseball player. He's all of a basketball player, made 505 00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:06.039 it to Triple A, made it to the majors, and made it in 506 00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:12.800 the NFL. Matt Barnes was a really good football player in high school. 507 00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:19.880 Could he have played in the NFL? I don't know. I know guys 508 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:27.440 like Tony Gonzalez, he played college basketball, right, Yeah, he played 509 00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:30.159 college basketball and made it in the NFL. An Tonio Gates, We could 510 00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:36.119 go on. There's a number of guys who we've talked about in that regard 511 00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:44.920 who played college basketball and then went and played in the NFL. Okay, 512 00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:47.840 some of these other guys that I just mentioned, or who Austin Rivers is 513 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:55.719 thinking about, didn't. Julius Peppers, he's a dual sport athlete at North 514 00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:01.599 Carolina, a walk out on the basketball team. I don't know if people 515 00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:08.400 remember that. Jimmy Graham, he's part of the Hurricanes that reached the NCAA 516 00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:14.679 turned in two thousand and eight. Quinton Rollins for the Green Bay Packers. 517 00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:23.559 He's a guard at Miami with the RedHawks. Julius Thomas at Portland State. 518 00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:31.360 Darren Fells another guy. He's a tight end in the NFL and played some 519 00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:37.440 college hoops. Don't tell me that guys in the NFL can't do it the 520 00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:43.320 other way around. That's ridiculous, because you know, damn well, they 521 00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:51.320 could. Austin Rivers should know that. JJ Watt was kind of taking offense 522 00:52:51.360 --> 00:52:55.760 to that and called him out. Jj Watt on X came out and said, 523 00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:00.519 you don't got a job at either right now, so go ahead and 524 00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:07.320 try it. JJ Watson suggestion that he could do that no way, and 525 00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.440 he did say, for the record, I could absolutely not play in the 526 00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:15.000 NBA. Six hard follows is about all I could give you and call it 527 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:20.199 a day. But don't be saying I can take thirty players right now in 528 00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:27.320 the NBA and throw them in the NFL. That's dissing another professional league and 529 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:34.719 it ain't right and it couldn't do it anyway. Who do you think could 530 00:53:34.719 --> 00:53:38.920 make that transition besides some of the players I've already mentioned. Meyer Hotline eighty 531 00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:42.920 six to six, eight three eight forty eight forty three. 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That's MHSAA 541 00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:44.519 dot tv twenty four to seven. Everything you need to know about high school 542 00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:51.480 sports in Michigan. Log onto MHSAA dot com. We're teaming off our tenth 543 00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:58.000 year at the Meyer LPGA Classic for simply gives. Get ready for the best 544 00:54:58.039 --> 00:55:01.199 who are yet to help neighbors in need well enjoying golf, food and family 545 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:07.480 fun. Join us June thirteenth through the sixteenth at Blakefield Country Club for fabulous 546 00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:10.400 food, discovery land for kids, and of course, elite women golfers from 547 00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:15.960 around the world competing to help feed our neighbors. Get your tickets now at 548 00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:43.400 Meyer LPGA Classic dot com. I'm back with you here on Exis and Bros. 549 00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:49.159 Monday through Friday six till nine. Thanks for joining us. Always appreciate 550 00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:52.079 it. The Meyer Hotline is open for you eight sixty six eight three, 551 00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:55.880 eight forty eight forty three. You could text the program Sports Radio to twenty 552 00:55:55.920 --> 00:56:02.320 one thousand. Wherever it is you may become your thoughts whatever it is that 553 00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:07.639 might be on your mind in the world of sports. JJ Watt recently made 554 00:56:08.599 --> 00:56:14.199 headlines in sports because he said he was willing to come back if Demiko Ryan's 555 00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:19.679 the head coach of the Houston Texans ever really needs him now. Watt is 556 00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:23.960 thirty five. He was named Rookie of the Year his rookie campaign, in 557 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:29.440 which, by the way, he played with Demiko Ryans. He was named 558 00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:32.760 the Defensive Player of the Year three times. His one hundred and fourteen and 559 00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:37.440 a half career sacks rank him twenty fourth all time. So yeah, that's 560 00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.239 good. If he says he's willing to make a little bit of a comeback. 561 00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:47.159 Sure. He's also now a new analyst for CBS on their show, 562 00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:52.480 on their NFL show, and I'm sure he'll do a really good job. 563 00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:57.239 Boomers Science is out, Phil Simms is out. Both have had really nice 564 00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:04.639 runs. But I suppose the turning of the page takes place in every industry. 565 00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:07.400 So it's kind of unfortunate because you don't like to see people lose their 566 00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:14.280 jobs. And I thought those guys were I thought probably a sias In more 567 00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:20.719 than Phil Simms, was really good at what he did. Personally, I 568 00:57:20.719 --> 00:57:24.960 think there's way too many analysts on these pregame shows and postgame shows. I 569 00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:30.880 mean, you're basically getting in one thought, and you're getting paid millions and 570 00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:34.239 millions of dollars. But if the networks are making the money out it, 571 00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:39.239 who cares. JJ Watt is in the news for a different reason yesterday, 572 00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:46.239 and that's because Austin Rivers. You know who Austin Rivers is, right, 573 00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.679 played for a period of time in the NBA, son of Doc Rivers. 574 00:57:52.199 --> 00:58:04.199 Okay, he said something on Tuesday. I'm the Pat McAfee show on ESPN. 575 00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:09.760 He said, because Pat McAfee, I'm sure you folks know this. 576 00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:15.559 He was in the NFL. He was a punter. He was a punter 577 00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:23.400 in the in the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts. And he he's turned a 578 00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:37.199 really successful talk show into TV, so good for him. And he had 579 00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:43.320 Austin Rivers on and Rivers said this, I can take thirty players, right 580 00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:47.840 now in the NBA and throw them in the NFL. You cannot take thirty 581 00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:59.679 NFL players and put them in the NBA. That might be I don't think 582 00:58:59.719 --> 00:59:05.760 you can do that, but that might be closer to NBA doing it to 583 00:59:05.800 --> 00:59:10.880 the NFL than the other way around, So it might be. I mean, 584 00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:19.679 there are guys who were really good football players in high school, mind 585 00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:27.079 you, who later played in the NBA. Again, high school, it's 586 00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:30.159 tough to project. People always said, and look, he's a freak. 587 00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:32.679 He's one of the greatest players of all the time. Lebron James sixty eight 588 00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:38.599 to fifty to sixty could have played in the NFL. Maybe, I don't 589 00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:51.239 know that. Nobody does now. He was recruited by Ohio State and Alabama 590 00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:55.800 and Miami and Notre Dame. Mark Murphy, who was used to play safety 591 00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:00.880 in the NFL, played eleven years with Green Bay Packers, was the defensive 592 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:09.360 coordinator at James's high school, and he was convinced, convinced that he would 593 01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:15.239 have been an NFL receiver because he was a two time All State selection. 594 01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:19.960 He had one hundred rocks and nineteen hundred yards and twenty seven I mean, 595 01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:27.079 it was unbelievable what he did. I guess I would say, if you 596 01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:30.960 think that could happen, why would people not believe the guy like Calvin Johnson 597 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:32.800 who was sixty five two hundred and forty pounds, or DK Metcalf was sixty 598 01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:37.960 four to two hundred and thirty pounds. Physical specimens could not make it. 599 01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:50.880 What makes you think that? I think they could, but I don't know. 600 01:00:54.760 --> 01:01:00.480 James was fast. He was incredible, right, okay, fair enough? 601 01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:07.039 Don't know, but it sure appears like he could have like Charlie Ward 602 01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:14.239 did it. Here's a quarterback in Florida State him in the Heisman Trophy and 603 01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:21.199 played for the New York Knicks. Pretty damn good. Allen Iverson was a 604 01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:25.280 hell of a player in the NBA, right, But he was a really 605 01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:31.119 good high school player. Jalen Suggs, who played for Villanovo won a national 606 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:36.039 championship. He's a really good high school football player. I don't know if 607 01:01:36.079 --> 01:01:40.639 that translates. I couldn't tell you if a guy played in high school who 608 01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:45.519 could play in the pros. How many times have we been wrong about things 609 01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:50.880 like this? How many times we have to be proven that a lot who's 610 01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:58.639 the best high school football player you ever saw. I mean, Drew Henson 611 01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:02.480 was unbelievable, you guys. He was an All American punter. He's an 612 01:02:02.519 --> 01:02:09.000 All American quarterback. He had offers from any place in the country, went 613 01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:15.440 to Michigan. You all know the story, Okay, and he played in 614 01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:20.119 the NFL. He's an unbelievable basketball player too. Averaged twenty nine points close 615 01:02:20.159 --> 01:02:28.280 to twenty nine points per game. So he's a really good football player. 616 01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:35.239 He's an All American baseball player. He's all of a basketball player, made 617 01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:39.400 it to Triple A, made it to the majors, and made it in 618 01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:46.159 the NFL. Matt Barnes was a really good football player in high school. 619 01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:53.239 Could he have played in the NFL? I don't know. I know guys 620 01:02:53.320 --> 01:03:01.159 like Tony Gonzalez he played college basketball, right, Yeah, he played college 621 01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:05.800 basketball and made it in the NFL. Antonio Gates, We could go on. 622 01:03:05.880 --> 01:03:13.599 There's a number of guys who we've talked about in that regard who played 623 01:03:13.719 --> 01:03:19.719 college basketball and then went and played in the NFL. Okay, some of 624 01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:22.880 these other guys that I just mentioned, or who Austin Rivers is thinking about, 625 01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:35.239 didn't Julius Peppers he's a dual sport athlete at North Carolina, a walk 626 01:03:35.239 --> 01:03:38.280 out on the basketball team. I don't know if people remember that. Jimmy 627 01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:44.519 Graham, he's part of the Hurricanes that reached the NCAA turned in two thousand 628 01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:51.400 and eight. Quinton Rollins for the Green Bay Packers. He's a guard at 629 01:03:51.880 --> 01:04:01.920 Miami with the RedHawks. Julius Thomas at Portland State. Darren Fells another guy. 630 01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:09.440 He's a tight end in the NFL and played some college hoops. Don't 631 01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:12.480 tell me that guys in the NFL can't do it the other way around. 632 01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:19.480 That's ridiculous, because you know damn well they could. Austin Rivers should know 633 01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:27.800 that. JJ Watt was kind of taking offense to that and called him out. 634 01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:33.000 JJ Watt on X came out and said, you don't got a job 635 01:04:33.039 --> 01:04:38.480 in either right now, so go ahead and try it. JJ Wat's not 636 01:04:38.599 --> 01:04:43.519 suggestion that he could do that, no way, And he did say, 637 01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:45.840 for the record, I could absolutely not play in the NBA. Six hard 638 01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:50.280 follows is about all I could give you and call it a day. But 639 01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:55.280 don't be saying I can take thirty players right now in the NBA and throw 640 01:04:55.320 --> 01:05:01.039 them in the NFL. That's dissing another profet in the league at it ain't 641 01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:09.360 right. It couldn't do it anyway. Who do you think could make that 642 01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:14.679 transition besides some of the players I've already mentioned. Meyer Hotline eighty six six 643 01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:17.400 eight three eight forty eight forty three. You could text the program sports Radio 644 01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:21.360 to twenty one thousand. This is X's and Bros. Across the great state 645 01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:26.559 of Michigan. We'll be back huge here for the Michigan High School Athletic Association. 646 01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:30.519 You can stay up to date on the latest from Lansing twenty four to 647 01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:41.679 seven at MHSAA dot com, at MHSA on Twitter, and MHSA on Facebook. 648 01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:46.119 The latest news, press releases and stories connected to every high school in 649 01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:51.480 the state of Michigan available for you twenty four to seven from the Michigan High 650 01:05:51.519 --> 01:06:00.480 School Athletic Association. Log onto MHSAA dot com, at MHSAA on Twitter and 651 01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:06.960 MHSAA on Facebook. And if you're looking for archive boys and Girls high school 652 01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:15.920 Sports m HSA a dot tv. That's MHSAA dot tv twenty four to seven. 653 01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:19.719 Everything you need to know about high school sports in Michigan. Log on 654 01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:29.400 to MHSAA dot com. We're teeing off our tenth year at the Meyer LPGA 655 01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:32.360 Classic for simply give. Get ready for the best who are yet to help 656 01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:38.239 neighbors in need while enjoying golf, food and family fun. Join us June 657 01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:43.639 thirteenth through the sixteenth at Blakefield Country Club for fabulous food, discoveryland for kids, 658 01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:46.800 and of course, elite women golfers from around the world competing to help 659 01:06:46.880 --> 01:07:17.960 feed our neighbors. Get your tickets now. Admire LPGA Classic dot Com thirty 660 01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:21.599 five after the hour, Welcome back exoduson Bros. Monday through Friday six till 661 01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:26.280 nine. Thanks for listening. Wherever it is you may be Flint, Cadillac, 662 01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:30.079 Grand Rapids, Grayling, Gaylord, the Tosky, Charlotte Boy, Traverse 663 01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:31.840 City, Midland, sagan On, Bay City, Wherever it is you may 664 01:07:31.880 --> 01:07:35.800 be tooling around right now. Thanks for your time. Always appreciate your feedback. 665 01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:40.280 In the Myra Online eighty sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three, 666 01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:44.400 you can always text a sports radio to twenty one thousand. Tiger's a 667 01:07:44.440 --> 01:07:48.960 winter yesterday, hoping to win the series today in Cleveland, Parker Meadows demoted 668 01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:54.079 to Triple A because of the struggles. Andy and Banya is four for four 669 01:07:54.199 --> 01:07:57.960 yesterday on base five times, four run scored, four runs driven in two 670 01:07:57.960 --> 01:08:02.280 home runs. Not a bad day, huh. Also, really good hockey 671 01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:06.159 games last night, both ending in overtime. One in double lot the Rangers 672 01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:11.039 beating the Hurricanes for to three. Colorado did the same, came from three 673 01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:15.960 goals down, now have whole ice beating Dallas for to three in overtime. 674 01:08:15.359 --> 01:08:19.640 The heroes were Vincent Trochek for New York, Miles Wood for the Abs. 675 01:08:19.640 --> 01:08:23.760 San Jose earns the lottery. They get the first overall pick. The three 676 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:28.640 finalists for the Hart Trophy Nathan McKinnon, Connor McDavid, and Nikita Kucherov. 677 01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:33.880 In basketball Boston Rules, Cleveland one twenty to ninety five, Jaylen Brown had 678 01:08:33.880 --> 01:08:39.960 thirty two OKC handles. Dallas won seventeen ninety five. Shay Gilgess Alexander Head 679 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:45.279 twenty nine. Rudy Gobert wins Defensive Player of the Year Award. To the 680 01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:46.920 phone lines, Ben, who's waiting for us? We have Mark and gun 681 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:50.079 League? Hi, Mark, good morning, good to talk to you. 682 01:08:50.520 --> 01:08:54.600 Hey, good morning, chef. How you doing. I'm doing great? 683 01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:58.640 How about yourself. Good. Good, Hey, you were talking about the 684 01:08:59.199 --> 01:09:02.800 NFL players and the NBA player stuff like that. I think it was back 685 01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:08.880 in seventy two. I went to see an exhibition game of the Detroit Lions 686 01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:17.159 playing against the Grand Rapids Area coaches at Union High School and Charlie Sanders was 687 01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:21.199 school and everybody and I walked out of that gym. I was twelve years 688 01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:24.479 old. I walked out of that gym and I looked at my dad and 689 01:09:24.520 --> 01:09:28.239 said, he could be in the in the NBA easy. And my dad 690 01:09:28.279 --> 01:09:31.159 agreed with me on that, but he you should have seen this guy play. 691 01:09:31.439 --> 01:09:35.760 Have you ever seen Charlie Sanders play basketball? I could only no, 692 01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:41.119 I did not, But only I only know of what he has told me 693 01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:45.119 or what he told me. Oh, and when he and I worked together, 694 01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:50.399 we worked together for years as part of the Lions broadcast, Charlie told 695 01:09:50.439 --> 01:09:56.000 me about his exploits as a as a basketball player. Yeah. Oh, 696 01:09:56.279 --> 01:09:59.439 he was just fantastic. But one more thing I wanted to ask, if 697 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:05.640 it comes to multi sports athletes, do you think that Rick Leach made the 698 01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:09.880 right choice in going into baseball, because I think he should have win in 699 01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:14.800 the football. And I'll listen to your comments on the air here. So 700 01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:17.439 Dave, thanks for taking my call and you're doing a great job. Thanks 701 01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:19.760 h. I appreciate it. Thanks very much. It's always good to talk 702 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:23.960 to you, so we welcome at any time. That's a great question. 703 01:10:24.720 --> 01:10:30.000 I who am I to say about what rick Leach should have done? Keep 704 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:32.520 this in mind. I mean, he did have a ten year stint in 705 01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:38.800 Major League Baseball Detroit Toronto. What else did he play for? I think 706 01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:43.800 he completed a year in Texas, but he spent ten years. Would he 707 01:10:43.960 --> 01:10:53.920 have spent ten years in football? The reason a lot of guys make the 708 01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:59.359 chance that the transition to baseball. You know, Kirk Gibson, rick Leach, 709 01:10:59.399 --> 01:11:04.279 they were both first round picks for the Tigers. Oh, he played 710 01:11:04.279 --> 01:11:08.079 in He played a year in Texas, in the year in San Francisco. 711 01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:13.319 The reason they do that, as you know, is for longevity and health 712 01:11:13.399 --> 01:11:18.119 reasons. And these guys like playing games. People like playing games in baseball, 713 01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:25.960 you play every day. In case people are unaware, rick Leach grew 714 01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:30.079 up in Flint, played at Flint Southwestern all right, and he was also 715 01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:31.479 a basketball player too. I mean he was an All conference player. He's 716 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:35.199 one of the best athletes the States ever produced. Four year starter at quarterback 717 01:11:35.239 --> 01:11:42.439 at Michigan, also played baseball there what was it, three Big Ten titles 718 01:11:43.600 --> 01:11:47.039 All Big Tennis quarterback three times. He was third in the Heisman Trophy voting 719 01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:53.680 as a senior as an All American, but he was a Big Ten batting 720 01:11:53.800 --> 01:11:58.840 champ his junior year, so he was. He was an All American in 721 01:11:58.880 --> 01:12:04.000 baseball and football. When you're a first round pick just because you don't play 722 01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:08.520 for the team that drafted you and your first round pick, that's pretty damn 723 01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:15.039 good, right, you'd take that. I don't know how effective Rick Leach 724 01:12:15.119 --> 01:12:21.720 would have been in the NFL with his style of play, you know what 725 01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:28.560 would have happened. I don't know. I don't think he was an option 726 01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:35.199 quarterback. He was a running quarterback though he's a hell of an athlete. 727 01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:43.039 I remember reading an article about Rick Leach and they had asked him, did 728 01:12:43.079 --> 01:12:47.199 you wish you'd chosen football? And he said immediately no, absolutely not. 729 01:12:49.880 --> 01:12:54.600 He was pursued, like I don't even know if he would have been drafted 730 01:12:55.600 --> 01:13:00.800 highly in the NFL. I think there was a team, I think it 731 01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:11.760 was Montreal in the CFL who wanted him, and now you look at it, 732 01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:15.119 he was a fifth round pick. He was a fifth round pick in 733 01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:19.199 the NFL by Denver Red Miller. Do you remember Red Miller? Remember Craig 734 01:13:19.239 --> 01:13:23.680 Morton and the Orange Crush when they made the Super Bowl? I think it 735 01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:30.399 was seventy nine. Anyway, when the Tigers drafted him in the first round, 736 01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:36.520 thirteenth overall in June. He was drafted in May by Denver and then 737 01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:42.399 drafted in Major League Baseball in June, and he said, you know, 738 01:13:42.439 --> 01:13:45.039 I get a chance to stay in my home state, play in the major 739 01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:48.640 leagues in front of friends and family for the team I loved. And I 740 01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:54.920 looked at the longevity factor, the injury factor and everything. So he never 741 01:13:54.960 --> 01:13:59.600 regretted it once. So he played, you know what, eight hundred games 742 01:13:59.680 --> 01:14:02.840 or in Major League baseball. That's a really good question. He's better to 743 01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:09.399 answer it. But he's answered it in an article or two, I'm sure 744 01:14:09.439 --> 01:14:15.159 since and you could make the argument that he did make the right choice. 745 01:14:15.159 --> 01:14:18.199 When you have a ten year career doesn't mean he played one hundred and sixty 746 01:14:18.199 --> 01:14:25.640 two games every year. Kirk Gibson, who's a friend of mine, he 747 01:14:25.800 --> 01:14:30.159 was an All American football player and an All American baseball player. He'd have 748 01:14:30.199 --> 01:14:39.079 been a top top ten pick for sure in the National Football League, easily 749 01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:45.279 one of the best wide receivers in the country. And he just killed everybody. 750 01:14:45.079 --> 01:14:51.520 He flew by everybody. That dude was incredibly fast. He would challenge 751 01:14:51.560 --> 01:14:55.640 guys. People would say, you're really not that fast, he says, 752 01:14:55.680 --> 01:14:58.880 twenty bucks. To prove it, they'd go over to the local high school 753 01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:02.760 or a track and blow him away. He'd tell guys to their face, 754 01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:05.520 hey man, this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna run a post 755 01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:08.560 and there's nothing you can do about it. And he would do it. 756 01:15:12.920 --> 01:15:18.680 Two sports stars. Some guys just have it. Bo Jackson amazing, Dion 757 01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:27.680 Sanders amazing, Brian Jordan amazing because they did it in football and baseball. 758 01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:34.880 Remember soon thereafter or soon there before that was never you really never did it. 759 01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:42.399 There's only one guy I believe in reading, there's only one guy I 760 01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:45.680 believe who has played in the NBA and played in the NFL, and that's 761 01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:54.119 but Grant, you gotta go way, way, way way back for that. 762 01:15:54.119 --> 01:15:59.359 That's how rare it is. But that's a really good point about Charlie 763 01:15:59.399 --> 01:16:09.479 Sanders. Charlie Sanders was at the University of Minnesota, and he was a 764 01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:15.640 phenomenal athlete. Remember the All Decade team in the seventies. Hall of Famer, 765 01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:18.520 but yes, it was a hell of a basketball player. This is 766 01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:24.760 old news. I'm sure you already know this. One of the greatest athletes 767 01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:31.880 you probably would ever see is Dave Winfield. Dave Winfield was actually at the 768 01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:43.920 University of Minnesota on a baseball scholarship, but they saw him in the gym 769 01:16:44.479 --> 01:16:51.079 one day in a pickup game, gave him a basketball scholarship. He could 770 01:16:51.079 --> 01:16:58.399 have been He could have been a Major League Baseball player, which he was. 771 01:16:58.199 --> 01:17:04.199 He's a Hall of Famer, nomenal player. He could have been a 772 01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:12.560 guy you could see play in the NBA, and he could have been in 773 01:17:12.600 --> 01:17:19.560 the NFL. There's no doubt about that. See guys like Kyler Murray, 774 01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:24.640 who was drafted by the A's and plays quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. I 775 01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:28.800 don't know what he would have been in Major League Baseball. I think that's 776 01:17:28.840 --> 01:17:33.880 the one that's a little difficult to try and examine and figure out whether or 777 01:17:33.960 --> 01:17:42.039 not a guy would be effective. But Dave Winfield, who was what six 778 01:17:42.119 --> 01:17:48.560 ' six. He led Minnesota to a Big Ten basketball championship. He won 779 01:17:48.720 --> 01:17:56.039 the College World Series MVP as a senior. They wanted him to play football. 780 01:17:58.760 --> 01:18:03.359 He was a man amongst boy. He was incredible, hit the ball 781 01:18:03.359 --> 01:18:09.479 of country mile but could score the Padres drafted in the first round, the 782 01:18:09.520 --> 01:18:15.039 Atlanta Hawks drafted him in the fifth round, and the Minnesota Vikings drafted him 783 01:18:15.199 --> 01:18:21.720 in the seventeenth round. At the time, he was one of only four 784 01:18:21.720 --> 01:18:29.159 players in history to be drafted in three different sports, one of four. 785 01:18:30.159 --> 01:18:38.960 The other are Mickey McCarty played a year on the Chiefs, Noel Jenke no 786 01:18:39.039 --> 01:18:46.159 Idea, and Dave Logan who played for the Browns in the eighties. But 787 01:18:46.239 --> 01:18:51.039 he was drafted. Actually, if you think about it, Dave Winfield was 788 01:18:51.159 --> 01:18:57.800 drafted in four leagues because the ABA, the Utah Stars at the time, 789 01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:03.279 drafted him in the fourth round. That's how good he was. Right now, 790 01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:09.720 Ben's going, holy crap, Who the hell's Dave Winfield. Vikings thought 791 01:19:09.720 --> 01:19:15.560 he was going to play tight end so he could run and catch. That's 792 01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:20.560 an athlete. That's a guy who could do it all. So sometimes you 793 01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:26.399 need to put things in perspective, Austin Rivers, whomever. Before you start 794 01:19:26.399 --> 01:19:32.800 saying stuff like that, those types of athletes. But just because you played 795 01:19:32.800 --> 01:19:36.600 in high school, I mean, Dave Winfield did in college. Just because 796 01:19:36.600 --> 01:19:42.359 you played in high school doesn't really matter, because there's a lot of really 797 01:19:42.399 --> 01:19:45.439 good high school football players out there who can't make the jump to the next 798 01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:49.319 level. I'll bring I'll give you a good example. I've called the high 799 01:19:49.319 --> 01:19:55.920 school state championships for about thirty years. I really enjoy it, and I 800 01:19:56.000 --> 01:20:00.600 enjoy it because I'd like seeing players from smaller towns, all their schools who 801 01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:05.960 maybe don't always get the recognition they deserve, but the opportunity to see who 802 01:20:06.000 --> 01:20:12.439 they are and what they can do, and see them against talent that they 803 01:20:12.479 --> 01:20:15.600 may not have seen during the regular season or whatever get the chance to see 804 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:21.000 unless they played in a state title game. I love hearing stories from coaches 805 01:20:21.359 --> 01:20:26.319 about what kids do not only in the community, but in the classroom and 806 01:20:26.399 --> 01:20:30.399 what they have to sacrifice in order to get there. One of my favorite 807 01:20:30.439 --> 01:20:33.000 stories was I was talking with a coach one time and he said, yeah, 808 01:20:33.159 --> 01:20:36.680 we almost missed this kid. I forget his name, but we almost 809 01:20:36.720 --> 01:20:42.239 missed him in our state semifinal game because it was his turn to work the 810 01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:45.319 farm. And I said, what do you mean work the farm? He 811 01:20:45.359 --> 01:20:51.479 said, well, it's hunting season and his dad and his brother were going 812 01:20:51.600 --> 01:20:58.279 hunting and they said to him, sorry, State semi final or not, 813 01:20:58.680 --> 01:21:01.520 it's your turn to do the chill. And he had to get up and 814 01:21:01.560 --> 01:21:08.279 do those roughly four o'clock in the morning before going to play in his semi 815 01:21:08.279 --> 01:21:11.760 final game. And he had to get it all done. That's discipline, 816 01:21:11.760 --> 01:21:15.720 man, It's awesome. It was one of the best stories ever. I 817 01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:20.319 loved it, and I told that during the broadcast. Well, one of 818 01:21:20.319 --> 01:21:26.560 the best players I saw in a state championship game is a kid by the 819 01:21:26.600 --> 01:21:30.640 name of Mark Catlan and he played it Lowell for the Red Arrows and he 820 01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:38.840 played in a Division I think it was Division three state championship game. He 821 01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:42.479 owned the field. He was a quarterback and a cornerback. He was the 822 01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:49.680 best player by far on the field to play. And I believe he went 823 01:21:49.720 --> 01:21:55.960 to Grand Valley and played cornerback. So you put his highlight reel film on 824 01:21:56.159 --> 01:22:01.399 and you go, oh, good lord. But it's not like he went 825 01:22:01.439 --> 01:22:08.800 to a Power five school, went and played college ball. Though it's a 826 01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:13.640 hell of a job. Good for him, it's not easy to do. 827 01:22:15.800 --> 01:22:18.159 My point is, just because he was great in high school and he was, 828 01:22:19.600 --> 01:22:27.319 doesn't mean you're going to be an NFL player, folks, if you're 829 01:22:27.319 --> 01:22:30.840 not, If you can't be a great NFL player based on how great you 830 01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:39.079 were in college, Hi, Brian Bosworth, Hi to Marcus Russell, Hi, 831 01:22:39.199 --> 01:22:43.800 Tony Mandrich. Doesn't mean just because you were a hell of a high 832 01:22:43.800 --> 01:22:48.960 school player didn't pursue that sport and chose to focus on something else that you 833 01:22:49.039 --> 01:23:00.319 automatically get a free pass to being thought of as an NFL talent. Meyer 834 01:23:00.359 --> 01:23:03.039 hotline is eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. The text 835 01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:10.039 line is sports radio to twenty one thousand. I think it's there's too often 836 01:23:11.520 --> 01:23:15.119 we kind of just we see the talent, we see the skill set, 837 01:23:15.399 --> 01:23:20.640 and we think it automatically translates, and athletes, by the way, lose 838 01:23:20.680 --> 01:23:25.800 sight of that too. Austin Rivers is a really good example. Does he 839 01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:30.800 know what it takes? And that's where JJ Watts offence comes into play. 840 01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:35.159 Does he know what it takes to play in the NFL? Just because you're 841 01:23:35.159 --> 01:23:40.439 big, just because you're strong doesn't mean you can do it. High brock 842 01:23:40.560 --> 01:23:45.239 Lesner, big, strong wrestler and all that stuff, couldn't make it in 843 01:23:45.279 --> 01:23:55.640 the NFL. Dwayne Johnson guys couldn't make it in that league for various reasons, 844 01:23:55.800 --> 01:24:00.239 even though they're big, and even though they're strong, and even though 845 01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:06.520 they may have had a very good college career. There is a kid who 846 01:24:06.560 --> 01:24:14.119 played at Maryland and was the player of the year in lacrosse, leading the 847 01:24:14.159 --> 01:24:18.600 Turps to a national championship. He was done. He had a fifth year 848 01:24:18.640 --> 01:24:25.359 eligibility. He went to Farris State and for Toni Nice played quarterback and won 849 01:24:25.800 --> 01:24:31.399 the Harlan Hill Trophy and a national championship for the Bulldogs, and then was 850 01:24:31.439 --> 01:24:42.880 an undrafted free agent and made the Atlanta Falcons. How great of an athlete 851 01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:51.199 is that. That's impressive, that's outstanding. How great was he in high 852 01:24:51.199 --> 01:24:56.000 school? Don't know? 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Looking in the mirror, do I 886 01:27:44.159 --> 01:27:46.720 look good? I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes. 887 01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:50.319 Be a doll. We don't need no meals. We don't need no 888 01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:55.840 cats. We need more dogs. W lot at the turn? Are you 889 01:27:56.039 --> 01:27:59.680 not that a tame? We weren't good. There's no sense asking me things 890 01:27:59.720 --> 01:28:01.079 about the game. I'm telling you. We laid an egg, So I'm 891 01:28:01.079 --> 01:28:04.520 not going to break it down for you. He sucks. He sucked. 892 01:28:05.279 --> 01:28:09.000 He laid an egg. That's all I have to say. Guys, I'm 893 01:28:09.039 --> 01:28:11.560 sorry. I'm not going to break it down for you. Nothing went well 894 01:28:11.600 --> 01:28:14.279 for us. It's on us. We have to figure it out. And 895 01:28:14.359 --> 01:28:18.640 we went dad. All right. Things went well for the Tigers yesterday and 896 01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:25.279 their win over Cleveland. Offensively, it went well. You see, sometimes 897 01:28:25.319 --> 01:28:30.039 in baseball, sometimes the offense is good and the pitching not so good. 898 01:28:30.119 --> 01:28:34.399 Sometimes the pitching's really good, the offense not so good. The beauty of 899 01:28:34.479 --> 01:28:40.920 baseball for teams that play well on a regular basis is they get both. 900 01:28:42.039 --> 01:28:45.600 We want that. It's not always easy to achieve, but that's what you 901 01:28:45.720 --> 01:28:49.439 strive for. Welcome to the Final Hour of ex'es and Bros. Monday through 902 01:28:49.479 --> 01:28:54.279 Friday, six till nine throughout the great State of Michigan. I'm Matt Sheppard. 903 01:28:54.319 --> 01:28:58.960 Ben is our producer. You can call him on the Meyer Hotline eighty 904 01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:02.279 six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. You can text US Sports 905 01:29:02.359 --> 01:29:08.840 Radio to twenty one thousand. Tigers do win eleven to seven over Cleveland yesterday. 906 01:29:08.960 --> 01:29:13.680 Andy Abannya is the offensive hero four for four, a walk, four 907 01:29:13.760 --> 01:29:16.239 run score, drives in for two home runs, and he was on base 908 01:29:16.319 --> 01:29:26.000 five times. The concern has to be Kentamaeta two innings, seven runs allowed, 909 01:29:26.039 --> 01:29:29.600 the era just under seven in seven starts. And we said this in 910 01:29:29.640 --> 01:29:32.199 the six o'clock hour in case you missed it. This is a guy who, 911 01:29:33.079 --> 01:29:36.840 you know, the most starts since his rookie year, most starts he's 912 01:29:36.840 --> 01:29:44.760 had his twenty six, he's at seven right now. If you get twenty 913 01:29:44.840 --> 01:29:47.319 two like he got a year ago, you're almost at thirty three percent of 914 01:29:47.319 --> 01:29:55.560 your starts. When are you going to judge slash recognize who he is and 915 01:29:55.600 --> 01:30:00.319 what he is capable of. That's up to you. I'm not going to 916 01:30:00.399 --> 01:30:06.520 necessarily do that right now, but I'm going to tell you that this is 917 01:30:06.560 --> 01:30:13.000 a growing concern. Guy makes fourteen million bucks. He's not a two year 918 01:30:13.039 --> 01:30:18.640 deal. He's got to get right. It's important. Rangers beat the Hurricanes 919 01:30:18.640 --> 01:30:23.199 in double overtime four to three, Vincent Trocheck with the game winner. Colorado 920 01:30:23.239 --> 01:30:26.720 comes from three goals down, uses overtime to beat Dallas for to three. 921 01:30:26.800 --> 01:30:31.119 Miles Wood the hero san ose the worst team in the NHL rewarded for it. 922 01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:34.199 They are. They're going to get the number one pick in the draft. 923 01:30:34.239 --> 01:30:40.600 The three finals for the Hard Trophy Nathan McKinnon Colorado, Connor McDavid Edmonton, 924 01:30:41.079 --> 01:30:47.159 and Tampa's Nikita Kuchirov No Austin Matthews. Despite scoring a league high sixty 925 01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:54.760 nine goals in the NBA, Boston beats up Cleveland one, twenty to ninety 926 01:30:54.800 --> 01:31:00.479 five. Derek White is such an interesting story, a late round draft pick. 927 01:31:00.359 --> 01:31:05.640 Twenty eight triples over a six game playoff span, which is the most 928 01:31:05.960 --> 01:31:13.880 in Boston Celtics playoff history. I would have guessed Paul Piercer, Larry Bird. 929 01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:17.119 I wouldn't have gone so far as to say Chris Ford. I would 930 01:31:17.159 --> 01:31:20.159 have said the other two, but the answer is Derek White. He is 931 01:31:20.199 --> 01:31:26.199 the franchise leader in that category. And Shay gilgis Alexander, who's a better 932 01:31:26.239 --> 01:31:29.680 player than most of it. If he didn't play in OKC, dot dot 933 01:31:29.720 --> 01:31:31.600 dot. We hear that all the time, don't we. If he didn't 934 01:31:31.640 --> 01:31:35.520 if he played in Boston or New York or Los Angeles, well, he 935 01:31:35.560 --> 01:31:39.399 plays in Oka. See this, dude is awesome. Twenty nine points, 936 01:31:39.520 --> 01:31:43.840 nine boards, nine dimes. He and OKAC handled Dallas one seventeen ninety five. 937 01:31:44.039 --> 01:31:49.439 Would not be surprised if that series is a sweep because OKC plays both 938 01:31:49.520 --> 01:31:54.960 ends of the floor and they're deep. Dallas is more of an offensive minded 939 01:31:55.000 --> 01:31:59.720 team and they're not deep. And Rudy Gobert wins a Defensive Player of the 940 01:31:59.760 --> 01:32:04.319 Year award. That's the fourth time that's happened in his career, the other 941 01:32:04.359 --> 01:32:09.439 three with Utah, this one with Minnesota. There's only two other players in 942 01:32:09.479 --> 01:32:13.640 the history of the NBA who have won the Defensive Player of the Year award 943 01:32:13.760 --> 01:32:17.039 four times, and one of them's a Piston, and it's Ben Wallace. 944 01:32:18.840 --> 01:32:21.520 The other guy, by the way, is to Kenmy Mtumbo. Let's get 945 01:32:21.520 --> 01:32:26.119 to some techs because Ben's been waiting and chomping at the bit to give it 946 01:32:26.159 --> 01:32:30.119 to us. Yeah. Ben, we got some great players that were texted 947 01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:35.119 in, Charlie Ward, Tony Gwynn, JJ Evans, and Carl Weathers. 948 01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:46.640 Carl Weather's the actor, a little bit of a cup of coffee. Tony 949 01:32:46.720 --> 01:32:54.319 Gwyn good point. But Tony gwyn is baseball and basketball, not football and 950 01:32:54.439 --> 01:32:58.880 basketball. Otherwise you can go Kenny Lofton. Kenny Lofton is point guard at 951 01:32:58.880 --> 01:33:03.399 Arizona. So we weren't necessarily focused on dual athletes. There's plenty of those. 952 01:33:03.880 --> 01:33:11.680 We were focused on football and basketball. Because Austin Rivers told Pat McAfee 953 01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:15.560 in a podcast or on his TV show, I should say that he could 954 01:33:15.640 --> 01:33:18.720 name thirty players right now in the NBA who could play in the NFL. 955 01:33:19.039 --> 01:33:23.000 I'd love to know who those thirty players are. So if he were on 956 01:33:23.039 --> 01:33:27.560 my show and he said that, I would say go right away, I'd 957 01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:30.239 say, all right, go who are they? I know who the first 958 01:33:30.319 --> 01:33:34.239 name is going to be. It's going to be Lebron James. I'd love 959 01:33:34.319 --> 01:33:39.960 to know who else? Who else is it going to be? Now? 960 01:33:40.039 --> 01:33:45.279 Keep in mind, this is not a knock on Lebron James. He's an 961 01:33:45.439 --> 01:33:49.960 amazing athlete, arguably the best you've ever seen, because what he did in 962 01:33:50.039 --> 01:33:58.880 high school and the recruiting. The letters he got for football speak for themselves. 963 01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:04.920 His numbers in high school amazing, one hundred rocks, you know, 964 01:34:05.880 --> 01:34:12.479 two thousand yards, getting letters from Miami and Alabama and Auburn and Georgia and 965 01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:16.000 places like that. I've told you this story Byron Buxton, who plays in 966 01:34:16.000 --> 01:34:21.039 Major League Baseball from the Minnesota Twins. He was a highly recruited wide receiver 967 01:34:21.119 --> 01:34:26.680 for Georgia but chose to focus on baseball. The point is, I'd love 968 01:34:26.720 --> 01:34:31.239 to know from Austin Rivers who, besides Lebron James, who else. Don't 969 01:34:31.319 --> 01:34:34.399 just give me a guy who's well, he was athletic. A lot of 970 01:34:34.479 --> 01:34:41.640 NBA guys are athletic, super athletic. I don't think Luka Doncic could play 971 01:34:41.640 --> 01:34:45.159 in the NBA or in the NFL. He's a hell of a player in 972 01:34:45.159 --> 01:34:51.119 the NBA and he's really athletic. Now, Anthony Edwards, yeah, I 973 01:34:51.119 --> 01:34:54.560 could buy that. I don't know what his background is. I don't know 974 01:34:54.560 --> 01:34:58.439 if Anthony Edwards played high school football, and if he did, I don't 975 01:34:58.479 --> 01:35:01.560 care. Did Kirby Smart? Do you think there's ever a time when Anthony 976 01:35:01.680 --> 01:35:05.479 Edwards was at Georgia that Kirby Smart thought, let's see if this kid can 977 01:35:05.479 --> 01:35:10.560 play football? I don't. I don't know that, but I doubt you 978 01:35:10.560 --> 01:35:15.520 can name thirty and JJ Watt pushback. That's the reason for the text. 979 01:35:15.520 --> 01:35:18.760 What else we got, Ben? Yeah, it says I want to see 980 01:35:18.840 --> 01:35:23.880 rag Now on the Pistons. They need a player who can lead and play 981 01:35:23.960 --> 01:35:29.840 every game through tough times. Yeah, I'd love to see Frank Ragnow too, 982 01:35:29.840 --> 01:35:33.880 because he'd clear space. Now here's the smart alec in me. He 983 01:35:33.880 --> 01:35:39.479 didn't play every game. He got hurt too. Might might not be the 984 01:35:39.479 --> 01:35:42.920 best example. Penney School. Maybe how about that? Can we do that 985 01:35:42.960 --> 01:35:48.920 instead? Jack Campbell? I mean big tough, strong guys. Here's the 986 01:35:49.000 --> 01:35:54.319 problem, though, we're not being too serious about this. What the Pistons 987 01:35:54.319 --> 01:35:58.319 needs a shoot her? They don't need they don't need a space cleaner. 988 01:35:59.439 --> 01:36:02.119 They need a more than anything else. But that's funny. That's a good 989 01:36:02.119 --> 01:36:06.119 one. Anybody else on a text? Yeah, it says for multi sports, 990 01:36:06.279 --> 01:36:11.199 I think of three guys, Gibby Dave Winfield and probably the best. 991 01:36:11.239 --> 01:36:16.439 Bo Jackson. Yeah. Bo Jackson was just amazing. Dean Sanders was really 992 01:36:16.479 --> 01:36:18.880 good too then, and that's why I brought up Brian Jordan too. I 993 01:36:18.880 --> 01:36:24.760 mean, he's a forgotten guy. Brian Jordan played for the Braves and played 994 01:36:24.760 --> 01:36:30.520 for the Falcons. He's the forgotten guy he was. He's a safety and 995 01:36:30.560 --> 01:36:33.479 he was an outfielder and he was pretty damn good man. 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They're still breaking down the 1031 01:39:45.560 --> 01:39:53.520 best drafts. They are still breaking down who people feel will have the best 1032 01:39:54.199 --> 01:40:03.479 rookie year. A recent article I read seven rookies were selected to the NFL 1033 01:40:03.560 --> 01:40:10.199 Pro Bowl a year ago. Who has that chance this year? And then 1034 01:40:10.239 --> 01:40:15.520 they break down various categories who had the most success during the draft. A 1035 01:40:15.520 --> 01:40:19.039 lot of people feel like it's Chicago. When you can put together a Dunzee 1036 01:40:19.079 --> 01:40:26.920 in Williams, that's pretty impressive. I would argue, and I think others 1037 01:40:27.079 --> 01:40:33.880 have said the same, that the Pittsburgh Steelers probably had the best draft. 1038 01:40:34.199 --> 01:40:42.680 Troy Fatano, Zach Frasier, Roman Wilson, Peyton Wilson, Mason McCormick. 1039 01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:49.960 Primarily the trenches front seven if you want to include a linebacker. So of 1040 01:40:50.000 --> 01:40:57.039 their what one, two, three, four, five, five first picks, 1041 01:40:59.239 --> 01:41:01.000 I think it's fair to say four were in the trenches, and actually 1042 01:41:01.079 --> 01:41:06.880 five of their first six were in the trenches, So I would argue that. 1043 01:41:09.479 --> 01:41:12.319 But if people want to say the Bears, that's cool. Some people 1044 01:41:12.359 --> 01:41:15.479 feel like Washington, Jaden Daniels, Johnny Newton, Mike Sanders still out of 1045 01:41:15.479 --> 01:41:23.720 Michigan, Luke McCaffrey wide receiver. They break down who had the worst. 1046 01:41:24.520 --> 01:41:27.319 Who do they think is going to be offensive rookie of the year. I 1047 01:41:27.359 --> 01:41:32.920 would side a little bit toward Malik Neighbors personally, but that's because I really 1048 01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:38.119 like Neighbors. I have to remember, somebody's got to be able to get 1049 01:41:38.199 --> 01:41:42.680 them the ball. How confident do you feel that Daniel Jones will be able 1050 01:41:42.720 --> 01:41:48.119 to do that. I don't know. When they wrote defensive Rookie of the 1051 01:41:48.199 --> 01:41:59.279 Year, Terry On Arnold's name was the first mentioned. And here's what Josh 1052 01:41:59.439 --> 01:42:04.439 Edwards CEBA Sports wrote about Terry on Arnold. The decision boiled down to either 1053 01:42:04.880 --> 01:42:13.800 the Colts pass Rusher out to Lafu Latu rather and Arnold, and he said, 1054 01:42:14.279 --> 01:42:16.119 I want to provide this perspective when it comes to Rookie of the Year 1055 01:42:16.119 --> 01:42:20.119 on ours. You're looking for an impact performer who's ready to contribute from week 1056 01:42:20.199 --> 01:42:26.199 one. I'm sure Latuo will be ready to contribute week one for the Colts 1057 01:42:26.239 --> 01:42:30.880 too. But whatever, he says, Arnold plays for a Detroit team that 1058 01:42:30.960 --> 01:42:35.199 should make a run in the playoffs. Okay, that's a wasted sentence. 1059 01:42:36.000 --> 01:42:39.600 I mean, what's your first reaction to that? No, blank, no 1060 01:42:39.760 --> 01:42:45.239 kidding. He said. It also has an attacking front, which should allow 1061 01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:51.159 him to capitalize on the back end. Not great insight, but the thought 1062 01:42:51.239 --> 01:42:56.840 that of all the defensive players taken, and this takes everybody into account, 1063 01:42:56.920 --> 01:43:00.800 not just first rounders, of all the defensive players taken, he did think 1064 01:43:00.880 --> 01:43:04.119 highly enough of Detroit's Terry On Arnold to do that. That's cool. We 1065 01:43:04.319 --> 01:43:10.359 like that. I'm sure you expect the same not necessary Ricky of the year, 1066 01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:13.159 but from week one he'll be a starter. I don't think there's any 1067 01:43:13.239 --> 01:43:16.199 question about that. I think it's a pretty valid point. When you're talking 1068 01:43:16.239 --> 01:43:20.600 about an attacking front. Find me a defense who's front four doesn't attack. 1069 01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:27.720 If you've got a defense who's front four doesn't attack, you're not playing football, 1070 01:43:27.920 --> 01:43:33.119 or you're sure as hell not playing successful football. Right. Those are 1071 01:43:33.159 --> 01:43:39.079 words just to take up some space. As far as I'm concerned, Detroit 1072 01:43:39.079 --> 01:43:44.520 should make a run in the playoffs, no kidding. They made the NFC 1073 01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:49.479 Championship Game a year ago. They got better in the offseason. Yes, 1074 01:43:51.319 --> 01:43:56.279 there's no question they should make a run in the playoffs. And if they 1075 01:43:56.399 --> 01:44:00.359 don't, and many would argue in Detroit, if you don't make the super 1076 01:44:00.399 --> 01:44:04.640 Bowl, it's not a successful season. Now, you may shake your head. 1077 01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:06.800 Some may shake their head and say, come on, man, I 1078 01:44:06.800 --> 01:44:11.920 mean a lot of things have to go right, so on and so hey. 1079 01:44:12.640 --> 01:44:15.600 When your franchise has never been there, when you've got that window of 1080 01:44:15.680 --> 01:44:20.920 opportunity, when you have an architect like Brad Holmes at a coach who demands 1081 01:44:20.960 --> 01:44:27.640 respect and appreciation in Dan Campbell, and you've got the talent Detroit has, 1082 01:44:28.039 --> 01:44:31.840 and it's relatively young, and there's a perfect mix, we think, a 1083 01:44:31.840 --> 01:44:35.640 perfect mix, and they're going to do whatever they can, especially at the 1084 01:44:35.640 --> 01:44:40.560 trade deadline, to fill in the holes. You damn right, you have 1085 01:44:40.640 --> 01:44:46.880 high expectations. That's a good thing. It's a really good thing to say. 1086 01:44:46.920 --> 01:44:49.920 You know what, we're on the right track now. We've reached what 1087 01:44:49.960 --> 01:44:55.079 we think will be the pinnacle. It's not the Orlando Magic basketball team. 1088 01:44:57.000 --> 01:45:00.199 We talked about it on Monday, Paula ben Carral. What did he say. 1089 01:45:00.600 --> 01:45:03.279 There's a lot of reasons to be optimistic. They were okay, not 1090 01:45:03.399 --> 01:45:10.279 that they wanted this, but they understand the situation. So they were okay 1091 01:45:10.479 --> 01:45:15.760 reaching the postseason and losing in Game seven to Cleveland. They're dealing with it 1092 01:45:16.800 --> 01:45:20.800 because they feel like it's the footprint. It's the start of what they consider 1093 01:45:20.920 --> 01:45:26.680 to be something big Lions fans have already gone through that. They went through 1094 01:45:26.720 --> 01:45:29.600 that two years ago, not this past year, but two years ago. 1095 01:45:30.600 --> 01:45:39.159 Last year was the next step. This year needs to be the final voyage 1096 01:45:40.960 --> 01:45:45.079 and what they hope will be the start of something big, A nice little 1097 01:45:45.159 --> 01:45:49.680 run here, not saying at Kansas City Chiefs run where you're winning super Bowls, 1098 01:45:50.159 --> 01:45:54.960 you know, and playing super Bowls and four out of five or three 1099 01:45:55.000 --> 01:46:02.880 out of four whatever we're talking about getting there and then you feel like, 1100 01:46:02.960 --> 01:46:06.039 yeah, got a chance to win it. Other teams have had that opportunity 1101 01:46:06.079 --> 01:46:12.119 San Francisco under Kyle Shanahan and not being able to kick in the door. 1102 01:46:13.479 --> 01:46:15.439 But don't give me this. This is a team that should make a run 1103 01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:20.279 in the playoffs. No, this is a team that expects to make the 1104 01:46:20.319 --> 01:46:29.199 Super Bowl. What a refreshing feeling that is going into training camp this year. 1105 01:46:31.319 --> 01:46:35.239 A team that other teams want to be like, a team, a 1106 01:46:35.279 --> 01:46:44.399 fan base that other fans wish they could be, or even better or just 1107 01:46:44.479 --> 01:46:46.880 as good, I should say, a fan base where others would go, 1108 01:46:46.960 --> 01:46:50.760 yeah, I want to see them do well. Now, some of that, 1109 01:46:50.920 --> 01:47:00.520 unfortunately has to do with the past ineptitude of this franchise, but they 1110 01:47:00.560 --> 01:47:04.439 still feel I think a lot of people around the NFL, if my team 1111 01:47:04.560 --> 01:47:13.560 can't win, I wouldn't mind seeing this team do just that. And I 1112 01:47:13.600 --> 01:47:18.960 think that's that's a pretty cool feeling that Lions fans can embrace, and I 1113 01:47:19.000 --> 01:47:25.680 think they will. And it starts, you know, with the established veterans 1114 01:47:25.680 --> 01:47:30.319 that they have, but some of this new blood that they have in camp 1115 01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:33.600 soon and it starts with Terry on Arnold. Now there's a really cool story, 1116 01:47:34.640 --> 01:47:41.800 a special story about another Lions draft pick. I don't know if you've 1117 01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:44.840 heard this one yet, but we'll get to that when we come back. 1118 01:47:45.760 --> 01:47:48.760 The Meyer hotline is eight sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty three. 1119 01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:51.760 You can text the program. All you got to do is text Sports 1120 01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:56.920 Radio to twenty one thousand. 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Join us June thirteenth through the sixteenth at Blakefield 1136 01:49:25.560 --> 01:49:30.119 Country Club for fabulous food, discoveryland for kids, and of course, elite 1137 01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:33.720 women golfers from around the world competing to help feed our neighbors. Get your 1138 01:49:33.720 --> 01:49:41.319 tickets now at Meyer LPGA Classic dot com. So Boston started the game on 1139 01:49:41.399 --> 01:49:43.960 a twelve to two Want Jalen Prapp what I still have an out of the 1140 01:49:43.960 --> 01:49:47.239 answer defensive room for you. I'm not shooting at he's kind of pushing that 1141 01:49:47.520 --> 01:49:50.640 jump book there. It's got to be a little more committed to it. 1142 01:49:51.920 --> 01:49:59.479 Jalen Brod snaps another through the net to kind of just settle the nerve for 1143 01:49:59.560 --> 01:50:03.680 this young as group. So it's an eleven point game. Second three the 1144 01:50:03.800 --> 01:50:09.680 night for Beverland. Jalen Brown. We'll korl hit three to six from deep 1145 01:50:09.720 --> 01:50:14.159 in the first half. Jalen Brown knights in trying to challenge Mowgley, just 1146 01:50:14.399 --> 01:50:19.840 master over his feet in tight, good driving kick into the quarter. Three 1147 01:50:19.920 --> 01:50:26.199 pointer. That time, I'll go from O corals. Jalen Brown stops on 1148 01:50:26.279 --> 01:50:41.560 a dime and he burries another triple. It was amazing last night. Jalen 1149 01:50:41.600 --> 01:50:46.000 Brown heart to see TNT by the way. Jalen Brown taking control leading the 1150 01:50:46.000 --> 01:50:50.279 Celtics of the Cats one twenty to ninety five. Brown out of the University 1151 01:50:50.319 --> 01:50:58.800 of California last night thirty four minutes twelve for eighteen four from six from deep 1152 01:51:00.039 --> 01:51:04.760 points to lead all scorers and Boston takes game one. Welcome back Ex'es and 1153 01:51:04.800 --> 01:51:10.920 Bros. Monday through Friday six till nine. Brown the third overall pick in 1154 01:51:11.039 --> 01:51:17.199 the NBA draft back in two thousand and sixteen. Would you take Jaylen Brown 1155 01:51:18.119 --> 01:51:25.520 over Ben Simmons and Brandon Ingram. This is what we do all the time. 1156 01:51:25.920 --> 01:51:31.520 I do it constantly. Looking back, I remember that draft and thinking, 1157 01:51:31.680 --> 01:51:35.399 man, Buddy Healed can shoot. He can flat out get it done. 1158 01:51:35.640 --> 01:51:40.920 And I liked the kid by the name of Tarian Prince out of Baylor. 1159 01:51:41.920 --> 01:51:44.920 Now with the top five pick, I'm just saying I really liked him. 1160 01:51:45.560 --> 01:51:48.680 Jaylen Brown has been the best player. Well. Jamal Murray was in 1161 01:51:48.680 --> 01:51:54.760 that draft too. Jamal Murray was pretty damn good. Would take any of 1162 01:51:54.760 --> 01:51:59.079 those guys. I talked about this the other day. That's the year the 1163 01:51:59.119 --> 01:52:04.119 Pistons wisely took Henry Ellenson, who played one year at Marquette. Needed a 1164 01:52:04.119 --> 01:52:09.520 shooter, got to take him. Karris LeVert was there for them, but 1165 01:52:09.640 --> 01:52:18.560 so was Pascal Siakam. And Pascal Siakam has been damn good. You'd take 1166 01:52:18.640 --> 01:52:25.399 him in a minute. Guys drop for whatever reason they fall. Jalen Brown 1167 01:52:25.399 --> 01:52:29.479 didn't, but he's been the better of the top three picks, and you 1168 01:52:29.520 --> 01:52:33.159 could argue the best player in that draft. Murray would probably be right behind 1169 01:52:33.199 --> 01:52:38.039 him. Welcome back, Exus and Bros. The Meyer Hotline eight sixty six 1170 01:52:38.119 --> 01:52:45.520 eight three eight forty eight forty three. Let we said this regarding the NFL 1171 01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:51.479 Draft and the Lions in the last segment, and how a website predicted Terryan 1172 01:52:51.560 --> 01:52:59.279 Allen Arnold rather being a Rookie of the Year candidate defensive Rookie of the Year 1173 01:52:59.319 --> 01:53:02.880 candidate. I don't know if us Rakestraw will be I don't even know if 1174 01:53:02.920 --> 01:53:09.000 he's going to start. The scouting report on him is that he's got really 1175 01:53:09.039 --> 01:53:13.840 good length. He's got really good start and stopability, which is kind of 1176 01:53:13.840 --> 01:53:17.800 an underrated trait for corners because guys, do you know, double moves all 1177 01:53:17.800 --> 01:53:24.319 the time, does a really good job of mirroring receivers. He's got great 1178 01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:30.600 instincts, good he reads things really well. He's really tough as a run 1179 01:53:30.640 --> 01:53:35.640 defender, fights off blocks really well, tackles well, all things that you 1180 01:53:35.800 --> 01:53:40.199 definitely want. And it's a reason he was taken, you know, in 1181 01:53:40.279 --> 01:53:45.560 the second round, twenty ninth in the second round. Here's another cool thing 1182 01:53:45.800 --> 01:53:50.359 about nus Rakestraw, who was born in Texas but grew up just outside of 1183 01:53:50.439 --> 01:53:59.479 Dallas. When he was selected, he fulfilled every kid's dream is to do 1184 01:53:59.560 --> 01:54:02.199 this. I mean, if you play football is a little leaguer and you 1185 01:54:02.279 --> 01:54:04.920 have some type of success, you're probably thinking of yourself, Man, I 1186 01:54:05.039 --> 01:54:08.159 want to do this for the rest of my life. Who doesn't want to 1187 01:54:08.199 --> 01:54:14.399 be a professional athlete. All these kids playing and playgrounds and stuff. I 1188 01:54:14.439 --> 01:54:20.319 mean, they they got dreams. Not all of them are realistic, and 1189 01:54:20.399 --> 01:54:25.000 maybe not all of them are for quote unquote the sport that they're playing. 1190 01:54:25.439 --> 01:54:32.600 But there's a fleeting moment there where you envision yourself doing that. I know 1191 01:54:32.680 --> 01:54:38.920 me and my friends did while we were playing baseball. We wanted to be 1192 01:54:38.920 --> 01:54:42.079 a Tiger. When we go to a baseball game, we wanted to be 1193 01:54:42.119 --> 01:54:46.600 a Tiger. When we went to a football game, we wanted to play 1194 01:54:46.680 --> 01:54:54.720 for the Detroit Lions. At some point, realism kicks in and you're like, 1195 01:54:55.319 --> 01:54:58.640 this is never going to happen. But it's still fun to dream, 1196 01:54:59.039 --> 01:55:02.600 right, Who in the backyard doesn't feel like I want to make the winning 1197 01:55:02.600 --> 01:55:06.720 play. I want to direct the winning drive. All that stuff, right, 1198 01:55:08.039 --> 01:55:11.640 all the stuff that Joe Burrow has lived and Josh Allen has lived, 1199 01:55:11.680 --> 01:55:15.800 and Pat Mahomes has lived. All that stuff well. When Rakestraw was in 1200 01:55:15.840 --> 01:55:23.920 fourth grade, he wrote a letter to one of his teachers because Rakestraw had 1201 01:55:23.960 --> 01:55:31.319 some tough times growing up. I don't know if you saw this, but 1202 01:55:31.359 --> 01:55:35.399 it's pretty awesome that he's chasing a dream. I get kind of choked up 1203 01:55:35.439 --> 01:55:40.079 thinking about it and reading about it. But he wrote a letter to his 1204 01:55:40.159 --> 01:55:45.520 teacher that he still has, and this is what he wrote. You're the 1205 01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:49.800 best teacher ever. Her name is or the name is mister Gammon. Teacher 1206 01:55:49.880 --> 01:55:55.399 is mister Gammon. You always had my back. You gave me confidence. 1207 01:55:56.520 --> 01:56:00.000 When my little brother had a seizure, you gave me food and snap. 1208 01:56:00.439 --> 01:56:05.319 I wish I didn't want to leave you, but I have to. I 1209 01:56:05.359 --> 01:56:11.920 hope you come and see me. Please come see me, I hope because 1210 01:56:11.960 --> 01:56:15.680 I miss you again. He's in fourth grade, so he's writing. It's 1211 01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:19.279 a little awkward and not exactly perfect, but who cares, he says. 1212 01:56:19.640 --> 01:56:24.720 He wrote, I hope you're alive because if I make it to a professional 1213 01:56:24.760 --> 01:56:28.560 football player, I will talk about you. Please give me your phone number, 1214 01:56:30.960 --> 01:56:36.680 and he's doing that. His former elementary school teacher caught wind of this 1215 01:56:38.119 --> 01:56:45.720 because he posted it on social media and responding talking about the great pride that 1216 01:56:45.720 --> 01:56:50.079 he has. You put it out there ten years old and made it happen. 1217 01:56:51.319 --> 01:56:56.319 I have no words how proud I am of you telling everyone I played 1218 01:56:56.319 --> 01:57:00.159 with you and against you through multiple touchdowns. You and you. Yes it 1219 01:57:00.199 --> 01:57:02.920 was recess, but it was technically true. You know. It's kind of 1220 01:57:03.239 --> 01:57:12.159 a funny aspect of it. The impact, you know, what you get 1221 01:57:12.199 --> 01:57:15.960 out of this dreams for sure. This is one of the many things I 1222 01:57:16.000 --> 01:57:25.039 love about sports. The dream is there, Absolutely the encouragement, the impact 1223 01:57:25.279 --> 01:57:30.880 you have, in this case, a grade school teacher, a grade school 1224 01:57:30.880 --> 01:57:41.000 teacher in Dallas by the name of mister Gammon for Inness Rakestraw, or a 1225 01:57:41.159 --> 01:57:45.720 coach. If you are a coach and you impact a player, whether that 1226 01:57:45.760 --> 01:57:50.960 player makes it to the highest level or not, really is not as significant 1227 01:57:51.640 --> 01:57:57.800 as the impact you're having on that person, whether it be tough love. 1228 01:57:58.600 --> 01:58:01.560 Some guys don't mind being coached Terry On Arnold. That's a big reason I 1229 01:58:01.880 --> 01:58:11.479 loved that draft pick. Sure he's really talented. Sure he's one of the 1230 01:58:11.479 --> 01:58:16.680 best cover corners in the draft. Mitchell for Toledo, Quinnion Mitchell or Terry 1231 01:58:16.720 --> 01:58:21.520 On Arnold, take your pick. But Arnold apparently was number one on the 1232 01:58:21.560 --> 01:58:29.479 Lions board. Yeah, I love that about him. But I love the 1233 01:58:29.479 --> 01:58:32.640 fact that he doesn't mind being coached hard. While he was at Alabama. 1234 01:58:36.199 --> 01:58:45.159 Rekestraw has had to fight for everything he's gotten, like many players in many 1235 01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:51.319 sports. But the appreciation that he has from way back when he was ten 1236 01:58:51.399 --> 01:59:00.479 years old, and then the impact that that teacher had, it's a beautiful 1237 01:59:00.520 --> 01:59:05.600 story. I'm sure there's a lot of people who are listening who are coaches 1238 01:59:05.640 --> 01:59:10.920 themselves, little league coaches, and I hope we all keep it in perspective. 1239 01:59:12.600 --> 01:59:17.520 I hope you recognize that you're not winning the Vince Lombardi Trophy in football. 1240 01:59:18.279 --> 01:59:23.479 Okay, it'd be great to lead your team, your little league team, 1241 01:59:23.520 --> 01:59:27.680 your travel team, or your house league or your whatever league team to 1242 01:59:27.760 --> 01:59:33.359 a championship, but how do you lead them number one and number two? 1243 01:59:33.880 --> 01:59:43.800 Who gets an opportunity to be part of it? I sure hope it's everybody. 1244 01:59:44.680 --> 01:59:50.399 I sure hope that you take the approach of playing all your players. 1245 01:59:51.079 --> 01:59:55.279 I've always said this, Once you get di varsity in high school, all 1246 01:59:55.319 --> 01:59:59.439 bets are off. You're playing the best players, There's no doubt about that. 1247 02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:04.560 But while you're coaching kids early on in life, what is the coach's 1248 02:00:04.640 --> 02:00:13.399 job there? As a volunteer? Kudos, your job isn't first and foremost 1249 02:00:13.439 --> 02:00:18.199 to make your son or daughter better. Your job, I think is to 1250 02:00:18.239 --> 02:00:25.640 make all players better. But all players enjoy the sport they're playing, so 1251 02:00:25.680 --> 02:00:32.920 they want to keep playing it and hopefully one day they give back as long 1252 02:00:32.960 --> 02:00:38.000 as you're not putting them in harm's way. I coached all my kids in 1253 02:00:38.079 --> 02:00:42.239 football and baseball to a certain point. At some point you've got to let 1254 02:00:42.239 --> 02:00:47.039 them go, right. But the impact you can have, I think is 1255 02:00:47.199 --> 02:00:53.439 everlasting because you make those relationships with young men who then go on and play 1256 02:00:53.479 --> 02:00:58.920 high school. One of the better compliments friends of mine and I ever received 1257 02:01:00.079 --> 02:01:05.680 while coaching kids in grade school football is those kids went to high school and 1258 02:01:05.760 --> 02:01:10.600 we didn't win a championship in grade school. It's not like we were out 1259 02:01:10.640 --> 02:01:14.680 there celebrating. Hey, here we go. Now, this is what it's 1260 02:01:14.720 --> 02:01:16.800 all about. We get to put a trophy in the school's trophy case. 1261 02:01:16.800 --> 02:01:19.319 That'd be great, it would be It'd be a lot of fun, And 1262 02:01:19.359 --> 02:01:24.039 that was part of the reason you're out there competing. You want to compete, 1263 02:01:24.079 --> 02:01:30.640 you want to win. Not a big believer in the UH runners up 1264 02:01:30.680 --> 02:01:38.119 trophies and all that other stuff, But when the kids get to high school. 1265 02:01:38.880 --> 02:01:43.399 At a high school coach says you've been well coached. That to me 1266 02:01:43.399 --> 02:01:50.039 meant more than anything else. And the fact that every kid played and participated, 1267 02:01:51.359 --> 02:01:57.199 knowing that the week's worth of practices were worth it to him or her. 1268 02:01:59.640 --> 02:02:10.000 That was most important. Being fair with your all your kids and wanting 1269 02:02:10.039 --> 02:02:14.319 them or hoping that they want to play. Hey, you're gonna play in 1270 02:02:14.359 --> 02:02:17.039 high school. Absolutely, that tells you something. They don't just love the 1271 02:02:17.079 --> 02:02:23.319 sport, but they loved being coached by you. That's awesome. It's not 1272 02:02:23.359 --> 02:02:27.239 about the parents, it's about the kids, you know at some point. 1273 02:02:27.279 --> 02:02:31.399 I mean, you've had your time as a parent to be who you are. 1274 02:02:33.479 --> 02:02:38.399 Now you get a chance to dive into your kid's life and let them 1275 02:02:38.439 --> 02:02:45.239 be who they're going to be. I coach my daughter too in the off 1276 02:02:45.279 --> 02:02:51.560 season in lacrosse, and some of those girls, I coached a lot of 1277 02:02:51.600 --> 02:02:59.800 them, just like I coached the boys. Strict, tough at times. 1278 02:03:00.000 --> 02:03:02.920 I have some fun, absolutely, but this was high school. Now in 1279 02:03:03.000 --> 02:03:10.039 the off season when coaches can't be part of them. I remember bringing the 1280 02:03:10.039 --> 02:03:14.399 girls together and saying, listen, if it's too much, if you don't 1281 02:03:14.520 --> 02:03:17.359 like how I'm pushing you. If you don't like how I'm coaching, Let's 1282 02:03:17.399 --> 02:03:24.479 talk about it. Let's make sure that you're all right with the direction we're 1283 02:03:24.520 --> 02:03:28.960 taking these practices, because the last thing I want you to do is come 1284 02:03:29.000 --> 02:03:33.880 in on a Sunday morning indoors in the winter time when it's chilly, You're 1285 02:03:33.880 --> 02:03:39.560 getting up early and dreading coming to practice. Now, we love it, 1286 02:03:39.760 --> 02:03:44.399 we want to be pushed, so on and so forth. That's the beauty 1287 02:03:44.439 --> 02:03:48.239 of it. That's the impact you have. And then when you have kids 1288 02:03:48.239 --> 02:03:51.800 come up to you later on in life and saying you're one of my favorite 1289 02:03:51.800 --> 02:03:57.159 coaches, or when you have a parent come up to you and say, 1290 02:03:57.239 --> 02:04:00.279 you know, little Ben said still talks about you as one of your best 1291 02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:05.239 coaches. Doesn't that make it more worth it than having some trophy that's in 1292 02:04:05.319 --> 02:04:09.640 the school showcase when they're in seventh grade. To me, it does. 1293 02:04:11.119 --> 02:04:17.279 The impact this school teacher made on Anus Rakestraw is immense and pretty cool. 1294 02:04:18.720 --> 02:04:25.680 Love that story. Hope we get more of those, not just for the 1295 02:04:25.760 --> 02:04:30.239 Lions, but for sports in general. The impact people make on others and 1296 02:04:30.279 --> 02:04:38.439 then the give back. So my hope from that would be Rakestraw has benefited 1297 02:04:38.479 --> 02:04:42.359 from it and at some point and he sure seems like the kind of kid 1298 02:04:42.399 --> 02:04:46.000 who would do this, kid's probably unfair. The young man who's going to 1299 02:04:46.000 --> 02:04:50.600 do this, he's going to use the experience he had with that teacher and 1300 02:04:50.720 --> 02:04:58.199 try to make an impact with another young player or a young fan. At 1301 02:04:58.199 --> 02:05:02.640 some point, he's going to be a sighting factor in that child's life. 1302 02:05:02.880 --> 02:05:05.880 Doesn't have to be his child, just like it wasn't in his situation. 1303 02:05:08.000 --> 02:05:11.119 When you've got a grade school teacher making that type of impact, and it's 1304 02:05:11.159 --> 02:05:14.439 a little thing, but it's a big thing to him at the time. 1305 02:05:15.840 --> 02:05:20.840 Such a cool story, such a feel good story. And there's so many 1306 02:05:20.880 --> 02:05:27.319 of them in sports, so many. I remember when I was a coach. 1307 02:05:27.359 --> 02:05:31.920 I used to in baseball. I used if I were trying to describe 1308 02:05:32.039 --> 02:05:38.560 or tell a young boy what he should be doing in the type of form 1309 02:05:38.680 --> 02:05:45.560 he should have in pitching or hitting, or fielding or catching a fly ball, 1310 02:05:45.199 --> 02:05:48.520 I would find one of my many baseball cards, because I still have 1311 02:05:48.640 --> 02:05:53.199 them, I still have a ton of them. I would find one of 1312 02:05:53.199 --> 02:06:02.079 my baseball cards that kind of explains through picture what I mean, and I 1313 02:06:02.119 --> 02:06:08.199 would give them that baseball card. This is what I'm talking about. It 1314 02:06:08.279 --> 02:06:12.720 gives them a visual reference. I mean, kids today are more in a 1315 02:06:12.800 --> 02:06:16.840 visual medium, right, They're constantly on their phones, they're on their iPads, 1316 02:06:16.880 --> 02:06:21.920 they're on their laptops, they're looking, they're thirsting for information, but 1317 02:06:23.079 --> 02:06:28.199 visual information. So trying to describe how you're supposed to hit the ball, 1318 02:06:28.439 --> 02:06:31.119 how you're supposed to swivel your hips as a cornerback, how you're supposed to 1319 02:06:31.119 --> 02:06:39.600 have a swim move as a football player. Sometimes doesn't necessarily work. But 1320 02:06:39.680 --> 02:06:44.159 if you show them, this is the way Reggie White clubbed his offensive lineman 1321 02:06:44.199 --> 02:06:47.279 to get to the quarterback. This is the way Dion Sanders would swivel his 1322 02:06:47.359 --> 02:06:54.840 hips when he was guarding a wide receiver. This is how Alan Trammel field 1323 02:06:54.880 --> 02:06:59.479 at a ground ball. And you show them and they can reference that, 1324 02:07:00.920 --> 02:07:02.640 it makes a little bit more of a difference. At least that's what I 1325 02:07:02.680 --> 02:07:08.600 found. Just like there was a difference in Innis Rakestraw's life and it came 1326 02:07:08.640 --> 02:07:13.520 in grade school and he has never forgotten, never forgotten it, gotten it. 1327 02:07:14.239 --> 02:07:17.399 That's that's the best, Absolutely the best. You guys are the best. 1328 02:07:17.479 --> 02:07:20.319 Thanks to the phone calls on the Meyer hotline. Remember keep it in 1329 02:07:20.359 --> 02:07:24.760 your phone on speed dial eight sixty six, eight three eight forty eight forty 1330 02:07:24.760 --> 02:07:28.720 three. We appreciate the text as well. Our thanks to Ben for his 1331 02:07:28.720 --> 02:07:31.479 production of our show this morning. We'll be back with you tomorrow morning here 1332 02:07:31.840 --> 02:07:36.319 on x'es and Bros. 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