This is the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak. How many
hot birthdays you shared? Dingo? Uh not many? I know. Jason
Kidd is one and and Kyrie you get Jay, you got Jay Kid and
Kai. I let you meant like sexy women birthdays sexy men. Yeah,
I'm all about you liked me a thick bitch. That's this big Maverick's birthday
Modern MAVs March twenty third, It was Danny's birthday. Kind of snuck it
by us, but Kyrie and Kyrie turned what thirty two? Mm hmm,
Jason Kidd fifty one. He also showed the same birthday with Blair singer Damon
Albarn Oh there you go, and Aisha Curry Great Day and Williams racing driver
Alex Albam and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. I knew that you didn't know that.
It's a pretty big one. Yeah, it's not a very popular day
for birthdays, and actor Randall park Yep and wrapper Kwondo Rondo Great. Also
on Danny's birthday March twenty third, the Hunger Games came out on that day.
We've already moved to this day in history pretty woman. Those are pretty
big flicks. Yeah, pretty big stuff. Man. Yeah you Kyrie's birthday.
That's a great one. Yeah. You know what, I don't think
I was aware of that until he got here. You know, you shouldn't
have been. I wouldn't it until I read an article from Stein. Dude,
what the mats are kind of awesome? This is this is all good.
They played a night by the Way eight. Is this a sport report?
Yeah? Is it? Yeah? Are we just talking? Let's just
talk? Okay, let's just talk. I read an article by Stein called
Creative Ways to Dismantle a radio studio. Okay, you know what. It
was one bloomberable witness just spabs out moment of weakness. I think in studio
we're having fun. My interview with Rick Carlisle spazzing out in the studio no
more cats. Hates these cats and now they're farting, farting cats. My
interview with Carlisle crickets. I want to read that pamphlet and it's on a
substack, substack available now. Farting cats. My interview with Rick carlysle For
those of you don't know that don't know, we planted uh fart machines and
cat mewing machines that oh we forgot to take out. And Mark Stein showed
up to do his interview with Rick Carlyle on a Saturday morning and they were
still going off, so he turned our studio upside down. I'll say it
wasn't just us that the midday show had some I mean I didn't buy a
cat sounder, Steve. I think on that one overdoing it. Imagine the
pan when you're about to be on the phone with the curmudgeon Rick Carlisle,
worried that he's going to overhearre is that a cat back there? Where is
that cat? We start? So Stein wrote that at the twenty fifth birthday
party for Luca was in Toronto because they were on the road, that Kyrie
was the last Maverick there to close it down with Luca. As I said
earlier this week, the Mavericks held an optional practice for their low minute players.
You'r Dwight Pals of the world, you're aj Lawson's of the world to
get in some extra work, and that morning, it was a morning after
a road win in San Antonio. Both Kyrie and Luca unexpectedly attended the session
and played in the pickup games, which everyone was like, we're expecting to
see you. That's what you guys doing here the stars? You think all
the low minute guys were like, Jesus, all you do you guys?
You know you're good. All you just dribble. We need the practice,
We get it. You're the leader. You don't have to show up to
this thing to help. No, Luca, we know, we understand.
You're dedicated to basket. Gave me the ball immediately. It's just do as
I do. Time for shot. He's gripping at him. Another bounce,
hook shot. Do this easy? Done? All right, thanks Luca.
Good practice, guys. He's looking around screens. These are terrible. She's
about his back. This says, there's uh. I'm just reading Smith from
from Stein's article. There was a couple of things that happened. I said.
There's some leeway from the MAVs side in return to enhance Kyrie's comfort level.
We go back to media day and then again in Spain when Mavericks players
gathered for a team picture. There was no pushback when Kyrie wore a shirt
from his personal collection to pay homage to his native American heritage rather than a
Mavericks branded top. I saw the picture. It's the whole team wearing mav
stuff and he's got a shirt, just a normal shirt from his own collection.
One source said, no one cares, which is how you should be
about that. It doesn't matter. It's a picture, said one front office
executive from a Western Conference rival team. Kyrie, to me, doesn't get
enough credit for how he's taken a back seat to Luca to make this work.
Stein goes on Maverick's assistant coach, God Sham. God is a lifelong
family friend who knew Kyrie's father, Drederick Irving, before Kyrie was even born.
Drederick a cool name, Drederick Irving, so he knew him before Kyr's
even born. And he's the one who goes with it. Works out with
Kyrie for his pregame workout three hours before tip off, and we talked about
the Ramadan thing with God. Cham got too. Mark Keith Morris, who
has only played one hundred and sixty eight minutes this season, is one of
Irving's most trusted peers in the league. One NBA source said, everywhere he
turns, Kyrie sees people who like him and want the best for him.
Among those people is Jason Kidd. And I actually went and found this steinkind
typed it out BYuT and found it. This is from Steins Show on Saturday
at noon here with Mad's assistant coach, Jared Dudley and talking about why the
basic question why has Kyrie been so comfortable? What's one of the reasons I
think he? Number one is Jason Kidd. People don't understand how many people
many people do. I mean, Jason Kidd is top two, you know,
I mean superstar players in this league that I want to play for.
Jason Kidd. He's he's considered a cool players coach to have that respect level.
Kitty has that for mint players, especially superstar. Now, on one
hand, you're an assistant coach and Jason Kidd's the head coach. You're probably
not gonna just say bad things about Jason Kidd. But that is interesting and
for any questions we might have about Jason Kidd, and we've had many,
and mause Fence have had many, and the bottom line that Luca and Kyrie
are both happy and that kind of all that really matters. And we can
question strategy things and the moment all we want, but it doesn't matter if
we're at at the place we were lash. I think it's just really funny
that, you know, all of the firestorm and controversy wondering if Kid needs
to be fired at the end of the year. Oh wow, you get
some complimentary personnel in here and and figure out and and and make some trades
to get some bigs kicking and dunk Kid looks great now. Kids, it
has a little bit more to do with what's on the court and not what's
on the bench. Yeah, it's not excellent. Exce's, no's it's it's
dunk three. President Joe's. I don't know what the quote is. The
lob goblins is what the colin Okay Gafford and uh no, it's all I
saw it on the MAVs Reddit thing. It's kind of going around to looking
because Bennet Skinn that we're discussing we need nicknames for these guys because you can't
use twin towers clearly, Well, the Spurs did for years. Well yeah,
that was probably before nine to eleven. It was so it's like,
okay, let's switch and was like, well, we don't have two buildings
standing up next to each other that would make sense. But the lob Goblins.
I mean, look, I've heard worse kind of stupid, and I
like that. I've heard worse the lob goblins. It's sucking there, like
the sobgoblins are crying all the time, Like the lob goblins works? That
works? How fine? Or the knob Goblins. You don't want that?
What if you were two of them? What if your name was Bob Goblin.
That's a fake show. That sounds like one of the gambling guys out
here on weekends on the station. That was the word of God that was
abandoned Dallas for a long time. But bob Goblin was it? Are you
in it? I was not in bob Goblin the awesome though. Did you
think that was gonna be your big break? This is the one, I'm
sure of it. The bass player moved to Atlanta. I've got a chance
my big try out for the Bob guy this afternoon. A guy talking gambling,
placing bets that we can't do legally in the state on our weekend programming
yesterday. Uh And it was the Peterson Experience And I was like, what
in the world that's the name of the show. So it's like an Hour
with Scott Peterson. No, no, anybody listen to that. I didn't
do that. But I did do was laid out a beautiful parlay they got
from jail. He's got a com jail, the Scott Peterson. He ends
my experience every segment with the tease and then I didn't do it. Just
to be overly clear. That's his signature catchphrase at the end of every show
is Matage twenty seven and fifteen, Quick, Kyrie and Luca. Okay,
I think it's it is what you're talking about. It's a give and take.
The price you pay from getting rid of Rick Carlisle is you're giving up
some x's and o's. But what you're getting with Jason Kidd is a relatable
coach who played in the league recently who the players can go on YouTube if
they don't respect him already and know that this is one of the most unique
players in NBA history, one of the best, and that is kind of
the what you get, and that is designed to hopefully give you a happy
Luca and a melting pot that Kyrie can sit in and mesh well with the
team with. And few coaches that possess both those attributes so when they're losing
and there's not wizardly inbound plays like Rick Carlisle would always give you, damn
it, that sucks. When Luca and Kyrie are hanging together at birthday parties,
going to volunteer voluntary practices and generally loving life, that's what you get
for the small, small fee of we don't have a perfectly designed inbound play,
and kids just all enough to where I think that does stand, like
what Dudley was saying there, like these guys do respect him. Whereas for
Steve Nash was coaching Durant, Kyrie, James Harden and they all asked for
trades out of there. Yeah, because Snash is probably a little too close
to them, But that respect is he's just old enough to where it's like
we watched you play growing up. I don't know how much of that matters
whatever. Mavericks were fifteen and five and Kyrie's last twenty, with Luca fifteen
and five last twenty, both playing five and one. While during this Ramadan
span also flirting with a fifty to forty ninety season, He's forty nine percent
shooting from the field forty point five percent from three ninety one percent from the
free throw line. And the one loss during Ramadan was a lukeless game.
Yeah, Oklahoma City again. Yeah, crazy boy, he is messing with
the fifty to forty ninety club. Yeah, and that nuts. There's not
many in it. And Dirk is won. Dirk couldn't he? Good lord?
Really? Oh shoot, maybe he didn't make it. He was real
close. No, forgot that shot as much on the field. I guess
he didn't. Kyrie already has one in twenty twenty one. He has a
fifty forty ninety. And oh yeah, Dirk did make it. Oh six
oh seven, he made it in his Uh he shot exactly fifty fifty point
five zero two, so he barely made it. And boy in the ninety
he made it was point nine to zero four. I mean, not like
you're gonna make any of those by a lot. Yeah, but there's only
I mean it's Larry Bird and Reggie Miller. Steve Nash did it four times,
by the way, fifty forty ninety. That's insane. Duranced a couple
of times, but there's just not many that do it. That's cool.
Well that's three, uh do it now? When you shoot as many threes
as you do. Yeah, it's incredible. They had three nights off,
which is good. They're kind of the the eight seed right now, but
uh, they have jazz tonight. You're on the freaking eight Preham at seven
thirty. Then they've got The King's Tomorrow night, which is a late start.
So come out and see uh Stepbrothers with this ALBUMO draft Us and the
Cedars and go watch the mask. I do like the fact that they're playing
the same team back to back with three days off in between, because you
always hear in the NBA that it's really difficult to beat the same team twice
on a back to back with one day off. Yeah, I think this
kind of creates enough buffer, you know what I'm saying to where it's like
it's not It's almost like it's not a back to back because you've had so
much time off and you can kind of go into tonight fresh and cleanse the
palette from kicking their ass, you know, four nights ago. I expect
them to win. I think tomorrow is gonna be tough. Uh. So
that's all tonight, let's see. Uh, let's go to the Cowboys real
quick. John Fossil Bones, who to me is just so manic, and
I feel like he's always had too much say on the sidelines. I feel
like he has too much ability to call fake punt whenever he wants. I
don't know if that's true. Just take it. It feel like but her.
He's also a camera magnet too, right, But it's not his fault.
Just think of your special teams coach, right, yeah, snap it
and boot It is no fun boring. I can do stuff too. I
want to put in all these fakes. I mean, they're just hey there
if you need him, coach, Like, imagine if you're a tenured special
teams coach, the uh kind of crap you just kinda yell out loud,
like yeah, we got an option here, coach. I mean, you're
trying to get your intentionally be overheard, right, You're wicked fakes to get
used which might not get used once to all year, you know, because
you know you have multiple fakes for field goals. Extra crab, he's using
his creative energy for a bigger cause now. Because Fossil was saying outside of
the Ritz Carlton ballroom with a pencil behind his ear, because he's at the
league meetings and he was presenting a new kickoff proposal to all thirty two owners
that they're going to vote on today. Really, all right, I need
twenty four votes to pass it. Here you got details on that. Yes,
I do no chance at this passing Before you even say it. The
proposal watermelon kicks to increase, to increase kickoff reterms returns and reduce it injuries.
We're gonna set the football on fire. So basically, you're gonna eliminate
the running start of the kickoff team, all right, but you're also going
to incentivize kickers to drop kicks into a quote landing zone. The landing zone
will be from the goal line to the twenty so any kick that drops in
the landing zone must be returned. If it bounces into the end zone from
the landing zone, it must be returned or downed. Because the enzone you
can collect it and down it. And any kick that falls short of the
landing zone will be treated like it out of bounds kickoff and placed on the
forty like a legal procedure. So if you don't get to short, whatuld
you say? Repeat that lessons if it's short of the l z okay,
if it's short of the twenty. Yeah, you get it at the forty,
yeah, immediately, Yeah, it's a fair catch. If the ball
lands short of the forty, yeah, or short of the twenty, short
of the twenty, then the ball goes to the forty like they just kicked
it out a bound. Okay, any kick that lands in the end zoner
goes out of the back of the end zone. It's a touchback. But
instead of the ball being at the twenty five like the touchback is now,
the ball would go to the thirty. Yeah, this ain't gonna pass number
one. It's too many things. It's a lot of things. And if
there's three option, three or four things, three options on the spot of
the ball, that does sound confusing. But gold being more returns, I
thought we didn't want returns. Well, exactly, they don't want returns because
they're not he's trying to bring the return back. Okay, they're not going
to go there. And this is why there's a chance to palnce. Sounds
like self interest to me, so he can get his cool return. No
way, this is hey, and if this passes, we're ready for this,
trust me. I thought out his notebook with his pencil behind his ear.
I thought that too because of how I think about him. But it
is interesting the leagu's a little concerned about scoring twenty twenty forty nine points again
and then it's dipped since then, let's see it went to forty five to
forty three. Scoring has been dropping and owners want more scoring. And he's
like, well, here's how, here's how scoring will go up. Let's
get back returns. In twenty ten, there were four hundred touchbacks. Last
year there were two thousand touchbacks. And he's right, but because with the
safety stuff, they eliminated the kickoff. Yeah, you keeps trying to bring
it back. Do you care about this? I absolutely do, because the
kickoff is a cool play. When they house a kickoff, it is one
of the most exciting plays in football if you have a good return. Though
I don't know, because Brandon Aubrey got touched, you set the record for
most touchbacks in NFL history, right, yeah, Wait, why can't kickers
hit a landing zone though they should in the current city of the NFL,
Like, I don't know why the play happens. Essentially, it's a big,
big play that nothing ever happens on. That's the point. That's like
the whole point of this. But I think some teams boring trying to not
kick touchbacks to trying to land it at the five or inside the five,
because generally you're gonna stop them before they get to the twenty five, right,
but then you're eliminated the running start. So that's gonna oh in this
case. Yeah, but I think last year a lot of teams were smart
trying to kick it a little short of the line. You're probably gonna mathematically
tackle him into five. Yeah. So Jerry loves it. So there's one
of it now, you just need twenty three more votes. He said that
the one guy who is questioning him a lot the whole time during the meeting,
just grilling him, was Raven's head coach John Harbaugh, who famously was
a special teams coach. I forget that gets who he's like asking all these
like corny blocking questions and stuff. He's just shut Just pass it. Just
pass my new rule, man, so I can have some say I actually
think they should pass it. I think otherwise there's no point in having a
kickoff. Just take the ball to twenty five, like you change. This
could bring that back if your team sucks and you can't cover a kickoff,
it sucks for you. But have a good team that can cover kickoffs,
he said, uh. He The one weird point about all this was that
he said that the special teams players are having wear and tear from all the
running they do with no payoff. I was like, what, Yeah,
it feels like they have more wear and tear of crashing into people. But
I don't know, they don't have to do the gratuitous run all the way,
sprint through the end zone move that they do to run to get the
crowd hut whatever they run through. But they just start doing this to the
crowd every time. It is. It is weird that we don't have these
the weapon kick returner really anymore. I mean, I guess we still kind
of do. But remember what Dante Hall back in the day, or Devin
Hester or hell Dion, when you were scared to don't give this person the
ball in the open field, bad things happen, and now you can essentially
prevent it, at least not kickoffs, maybe not in punts. But I
don't know, it doesn't seem like we have that. I mean, Devin
Hester made a career basically of housing it. I mean concussions are gonna happen
either way. So let's let's just go ahead. If you're getting rid of
the running start, let's bring back that play. Oh care? Okay,
they have our vote. Could create a create a new slew of jobs for
you know, kickoff and punt return special. Yes, yeah, Bill bates
Man. Maybe job creation is is Bones's goal. Yes, it was always
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