Speaker 1: And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on five
Speaker 1: to seventy LA Sports the return of the Dubber this hour.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time. We'll explain who the Dubber
Speaker 1: is and why he will be here. Is coming up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, please explain. Oh I mean I can't wait. I'm
Speaker 2: waiting with baited breath.
Speaker 3: For the Dubber.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, So the Dubber will join us later
Speaker 1: this hour. But now let's bring on the host of
Speaker 1: the Clipper pregame postgame halftime show, The Saulty A Adam Ouslin.
Speaker 4: Hello, Adam, what's good guys. Good to see you guys,
Speaker 4: rough couple of days. What good to be with you?
Speaker 2: Double A double A All right, man, I'm good for here.
Speaker 5: I'm here.
Speaker 4: Clippers are four and four. You know they're hanging in there,
Speaker 4: tread water. Lakers now four and four after getting off
Speaker 4: to a hot start four and four.
Speaker 2: But are we h is that a good for and four?
Speaker 2: Mediocre for and four or scary for and four? What
Speaker 2: kind of four and four are we talking about? For
Speaker 2: both teams?
Speaker 3: Adam?
Speaker 4: I think what the Lakers is disappointing because they started
Speaker 4: off three to zero and now injuries are creeping up.
Speaker 4: Some of the same bad habits from last years are
Speaker 4: showing themselves. I mean the loss to Phoenix where you're
Speaker 4: up eighteen, and then the loss on the road to Detroit.
Speaker 4: Those are bad losses and that's where they've always struggled
Speaker 4: on the road the last couple of seasons, and they're
Speaker 4: right back to those bad habits, and JJ Reddick drop
Speaker 4: on the mic because he's upset. I think with Reddick
Speaker 4: right now, he's getting the taste of it's not just
Speaker 4: about scheme, it's not just about strategy. It is about
Speaker 4: keeping guys motivated with effort each and every night, where
Speaker 4: I think he's a little bit surprised by that because
Speaker 4: he feels like that should be the base line. They
Speaker 4: have to play hard, and so he takes a shot.
Speaker 4: The rest of the guy's saying, Lebron's almost forty and
Speaker 4: he's playing hard out there, what's wrong with the rest
Speaker 4: of you? And then you see DeAngelo Russell not play
Speaker 4: the last eighteen minutes. We'll see how he responds to
Speaker 4: that tonight against the Philadelphia seventy six ers. So these
Speaker 4: are kind of the growing pains. I think it was
Speaker 4: a young coach in the NBA just finding out these
Speaker 4: guys don't always play hard every night.
Speaker 2: You gotta motive at adam, you know, more so in
Speaker 2: the I think in the NBA than any other professional
Speaker 2: sports league. And I've heard this from you know, some
Speaker 2: current guys and some some retired guys have been try
Speaker 2: retired for a while, and some retired guys that have
Speaker 2: just retired that the NBA is in a I don't
Speaker 2: know what you call it, but but they're in a situation.
Speaker 3: Right now where.
Speaker 2: Guys that just don't don't care enough, Guys don't don't
Speaker 2: necessarily work as hard. There's so much money involved in
Speaker 2: the NBA right now with guys and it's a shorter
Speaker 2: rosters and all the other sports that they've got their
Speaker 2: money and the work ethic and everything attached to that
Speaker 2: is not as important as some of the other things
Speaker 2: that they've got going outside of basketball and I and
Speaker 2: it feels like that is.
Speaker 3: Starting become more and more of a problem.
Speaker 2: If you don't have the right environment as a franchise
Speaker 2: and as an organization, it's it's not going to help you,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna nip you in the button and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be you know, a situation where it gets worse.
Speaker 2: But from a player standpoint, it is like the players
Speaker 2: are hated, are running everything as opposed to the coach.
Speaker 2: And JJ Reddick, I think is feeling that because it's
Speaker 2: a different time from when.
Speaker 4: He played player em Era.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, let me say this. Let me say this.
Speaker 1: So d Angela Russell makes like eighteen million I think
Speaker 1: this year, right, Yeah, Okay, And d' angela Russell is
Speaker 1: exactly d'angela Russell exactly. And really, if you break it
Speaker 1: down from when he first came here, he's a little
Speaker 1: better than he was then because then his attitude was
Speaker 1: just awful and he had this incredible sense of entitlement
Speaker 1: all the talent in the world, moments of incredible brilliance,
Speaker 1: but then not so much so now he sits again
Speaker 1: doing the exact same thing. Let's not make excuses for
Speaker 1: him anymore. Let's not, there are none. This is who
Speaker 1: he is. Maybe he's up, maybe he's down, maybe he's good,
Speaker 1: maybe he's not. That guy's making eighteen million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: all right, When you're making that kind of money, they
Speaker 1: either be good bad, have an attitude, don't have an
Speaker 1: adorantee guarantee guaranteed. When you've got that money, what do
Speaker 1: you care? Ultimately, you only care when people get on you,
Speaker 1: and if they get on you enough, then maybe you
Speaker 1: play the way you can. You exert that effort. I
Speaker 1: think it's an incredible sense of entitlement. And when you
Speaker 1: are paying twenty four to twenty five year olds who
Speaker 1: really have not had to do much but play basketball,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they make eighty million dollars, they
Speaker 1: haven't gone through it. They're not Michael Jordan, they're not
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, they're not Lebron James. They're not guys that
Speaker 1: have sacrificed and busted their rafts and worked every day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and given an enormous paycheck early.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say just because they aren't as good as
Speaker 4: those guys doesn't mean they haven't maximized their abilities and
Speaker 4: put in the work. These guys are grinders. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you look at a lot of the data and
Speaker 4: some of them, If you look at a lot of
Speaker 4: the data and what the doctors are saying why there's
Speaker 4: so many guys injured nowadays, it's because they go into
Speaker 4: specialized sports at such a young age, trying to get
Speaker 4: that lottery ticket, trying to get to the league and
Speaker 4: trying to make millions, and they do grind and playing
Speaker 4: every day in the AAU ball stuff. People talk about
Speaker 4: the friendship part of it, but they're playing year round. Guys.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, we're not playing year round. Michael
Speaker 4: Jordan's agent said he didn't pick up a basketball till September.
Speaker 4: He'd go off in the offseason and just play golf.
Speaker 4: It is different, The level of competition is different. To
Speaker 4: get to the league. Now you can say, are they
Speaker 4: resting on their laurels?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: I don't know. D'Angelo Russell is just like this. He's
Speaker 4: an offensive guy. What he does isn't defense. We've known
Speaker 4: this his entire career. And JJ Reddick's trying to set
Speaker 4: a tone. Now you give up that wide open three
Speaker 4: early in the third quarter, and I'm gonna bench you
Speaker 4: the rest of the game. Because we talked about this
Speaker 4: over and over again.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be on the roster. And Adam, let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, what is the bottom line here? These
Speaker 1: guys play AAU ball and they work their whole life.
Speaker 1: They want to get to the league. They want to
Speaker 1: get to the league. By the way, when they get
Speaker 1: to the league, none of them are any good.
Speaker 3: It's almost like.
Speaker 2: You know, half the guys get to the league and
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, I got my contract.
Speaker 3: That's it, Rodney.
Speaker 1: See my point is this, they want to get paid.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna be what they are. They're not what
Speaker 1: they're gonna be. Yeah, can they play, sure, but they're
Speaker 1: not gonna have an enormous impact unless you're when Baiana
Speaker 1: or a great rookie of the year, and those are
Speaker 1: few and far between.
Speaker 4: I think this is a bit of an over simplification.
Speaker 3: I don't think so at all.
Speaker 4: These guys work their asses off.
Speaker 3: Go talk to the guys in the paid to get paid.
Speaker 4: And how many of them show greatness in the playoffs. Still,
Speaker 4: that's not just about getting paid. That's about performing under
Speaker 4: the bright lights. Come on, now, you think Anthony Edwards
Speaker 4: is resting on his laurels because he got paid, We're
Speaker 4: not saying that. There's plenty of guys. Look at a
Speaker 4: guy on his team like Jade McDaniels, do you know
Speaker 4: who that is? He got paid, he still plays his
Speaker 4: ass off and there's plenty of guys like that.
Speaker 1: Point to Rodney's point and I think it's valid. To
Speaker 1: Rodney's point, it seems a certain way, it seems that's
Speaker 1: the feeling. It's not every single person. But I think
Speaker 1: from the totality and the thirty thousand foot view, Rodney,
Speaker 1: I actually think you're right. Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: it's I mean, I've heard it that that you know,
Speaker 1: from a from a practice standpoint, from a given effort
Speaker 1: standpoint to caring standpoint, it's it's not the same. It's
Speaker 1: not the same.
Speaker 2: Where you have twelve guys on the on the on
Speaker 2: the bench on a given night that is all about
Speaker 2: one particular thing, and that is winning and working as
Speaker 2: working their ass off to get it done. You've got
Speaker 2: guys that will do it. Don't get me wrong. When
Speaker 2: you point out certain individuals, you know, Adam, I think
Speaker 2: you're right. I mean, there's Anthony Edwards of the world
Speaker 2: that wants to be you know, it's aspiration. It's a
Speaker 2: beyond money. It is I want to be the best ever.
Speaker 2: I want to be Michael Jordan, I want to be
Speaker 2: better than that. But I think for to a large extent,
Speaker 2: there are there are too many guys I would say
Speaker 2: it like this, too many guys that feel like I
Speaker 2: got my money, I'm entitled, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go out there and do what I can and I
Speaker 2: am not going to be, lack of a better phrase,
Speaker 2: one hundred percent committed to doing the little things that
Speaker 2: is going to make us win and make us better
Speaker 2: and sacrifice for the team.
Speaker 4: You want to know what, I honestly think older generations
Speaker 4: say this about younger generations and as cyclical, and we
Speaker 4: always get this stuff. Charles Barkley, I remember, I got
Speaker 4: a long memory said they don't pay me to play defense.
Speaker 4: I've been hearing this same stuff, and if you go
Speaker 4: and watch tape, you're gonna see they're a good team
Speaker 4: back then, and good teams and guys who gave effort
Speaker 4: who were superstars, and guys who were superstars and didn't
Speaker 4: give effort. This stuff has been going on forever, and
Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything new under the sun. I
Speaker 4: honestly don't. I see defensive schemes that are more complicated
Speaker 4: now than they ever have been, because you have to
Speaker 4: guard way more space because guys can shoot thirty footers
Speaker 4: with ease.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's as simple as guys don't care anymore.
Speaker 4: I think there are some guys that don't care, just
Speaker 4: like there were guys back in the day that didn't
Speaker 4: care when they got paid. And there's nothing new.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Do you think because you've watched basketball for a long time,
Speaker 1: you think the games were better to watch six years
Speaker 1: ago or they're better to watch today.
Speaker 4: I think the aesthetics of the game, its beauty is
Speaker 4: in the eye of the beholder. It is up to
Speaker 4: each subject. It is subjective. For me, I like a
Speaker 4: little bit more variety in my game. I can understand
Speaker 4: where people are saying that there's too much three point
Speaker 4: shooting out there, but I know why they're doing it.
Speaker 4: It's smart. Guess who just won the championship the team
Speaker 4: that attempted the most threes in the league, and we
Speaker 4: see it all the time now, the Boston Celtics, now
Speaker 4: they were still an elite defense, just like Golden State
Speaker 4: was when they were winning. People don't realize how good
Speaker 4: they were on the defensive end. It wasn't just hot
Speaker 4: shooting a three point shooting.
Speaker 3: What is defense? Out of what is defense? What is defense?
Speaker 2: That is effort, that is commitment, that is doing that,
Speaker 2: that is being unselfish, right, but and so you know,
Speaker 2: to that point, it doesn't feel like the modern NBA,
Speaker 2: at least from a majority standpoint, is committed to that
Speaker 2: as opposed to get mine and I'm gonna get mine,
Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna be committed to the team philosophy
Speaker 2: of let's just let's win any way we can.
Speaker 4: So there weren't any male contents back in the day.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it absolute and say there were none,
Speaker 2: because there certainly was.
Speaker 4: You think there's a higher authority.
Speaker 2: Because of the because of the salaries, and because of
Speaker 2: the committed money, and that everything is guaranteed that it's
Speaker 2: not a requirement. Pat Riley could bench somebody and shut
Speaker 2: down their career if they didn't give effort. I mean,
Speaker 2: the pat Riley coaching wise, of the of that age,
Speaker 2: you know, Papa Bitch may be the only one left
Speaker 2: that can kind of do that. Maybe maybe Steve Kerr
Speaker 2: a little bit, But there's not many of those coaches
Speaker 2: that have that power to be able to discipline their
Speaker 2: guys in a way that you don't play defense, you
Speaker 2: don't play.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I saw many Williams not playing I saw him now
Speaker 4: he's getting paid because he went to Detroit and got
Speaker 4: eighty million dollars then got fired after a season because
Speaker 4: I don't know he stopped caring. So I guess it
Speaker 4: goes both ways.
Speaker 3: He stopped caring or you think he didn't get the
Speaker 3: guys to care.
Speaker 4: I think there was some very interesting decisions that he
Speaker 4: made there, and a lot of people feel like he
Speaker 4: checked out after he got his eighty million dollars and
Speaker 4: got all that money from Detroit. But I'm going to
Speaker 4: say check out.
Speaker 3: I want to hear this.
Speaker 4: His rotations were not out there to optimize lineups. It
Speaker 4: seemed like at times he wasn't playing the best guys
Speaker 4: to win games. That's part of the story with that,
Speaker 4: asked Rob Parker, Detroit. Guy, if you want more on
Speaker 4: the situation with Monty Williams, I guess, But I'm just
Speaker 4: saying this stuff happens. I mean, I can give examples,
Speaker 4: just as I just did with DeAndre Aiden getting benched
Speaker 4: because he didn't have the right attitude and now he's
Speaker 4: up in Portland like it still happens. You don't have
Speaker 4: to be pat Riley to do this. We're talking about
Speaker 4: JJ Reddick doing it in his eighth game as a
Speaker 4: head coach to D'Angelo Russell, it still happens. It may
Speaker 4: like if you want to say there's more malcontents at
Speaker 4: a higher percentage now, maybe I don't know if it's provable,
Speaker 4: but I would say for the most part, things are
Speaker 4: the same as they ever were were. There were guaranteed
Speaker 4: contracts in the nineties and eighties too. I mean, what
Speaker 4: are we talking about. Guaranteed contracts have been around forever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah they have.
Speaker 2: But but but guaranteed contract to the tone of life changing,
Speaker 2: generational type of contracts, we're not there with.
Speaker 3: How much is that?
Speaker 2: But the Jordan, the Jordan era, the Jordan era there
Speaker 2: was that was completely different than what we're looking at
Speaker 2: right now, Adam. And you gotta know what you can't
Speaker 2: and in a lot of ways, First of all, it
Speaker 2: was it was more of a a team aspect than
Speaker 2: if you look at if you look at Steve Kerr
Speaker 2: and the way he coaches now and and talking about
Speaker 2: his players now as opposed to where the Bulls were
Speaker 2: in the nineties and the way Phil Jackson handled certain things. Yes,
Speaker 2: he let Dennis Rodman go to Vegas, and he let
Speaker 2: Dennis Robin do his thing. But at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, it was it was completely completely about the team.
Speaker 2: And now it feels like there's so much katieing to
Speaker 2: these guys, and the coaches have less power than they
Speaker 2: did in the nineties or the eighties because these guys
Speaker 2: are making so much money and they can dictate whether
Speaker 2: I leave or play or not.
Speaker 3: Or when I show up or whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, whatever I do, it doesn't matter because they
Speaker 2: can't get rid of me.
Speaker 4: Hey, I don't know. I saw Scottie Pippen not check
Speaker 4: into a game at the end of the nineties because
Speaker 4: he didn't like the guy that he wasn't.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about it in general, I mean, but I'm.
Speaker 4: Just saying I can bring up specific example. If that
Speaker 4: happened in today's game, where a star player didn't check
Speaker 4: in because he wasn't getting the ball for the final shot,
Speaker 4: let me know the last time that happened, it was
Speaker 4: Scottie Pippen.
Speaker 2: It goes to practice at him, It goes to practicing,
Speaker 2: It goes to the commitment and the offseason. It goes
Speaker 2: to a lot of different things that is different than
Speaker 2: was you know, back in the nineties and eighties and
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be an Odhead and Gold and the.
Speaker 3: Way we used to do it back in today is different.
Speaker 2: I'm hearing this from current guys. I'm hearing this from
Speaker 2: current guys that have just left the league, that that
Speaker 2: that certain guys the commitment to the team and to
Speaker 2: winning is not what it once was.
Speaker 4: I just feel like everybody wanted to celebrate the era
Speaker 4: when they were in their prime. Everybody has a little
Speaker 4: bit of that Golden Age syndrome to them. I have
Speaker 4: it too, So I don't know. I think there is
Speaker 4: something to player empowerment, Rodney. I think there is something.
Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, because it's new information. We've all
Speaker 4: been saying forever. It's a players league, and those who
Speaker 4: have the superstars have the power. So every franchise, of course,
Speaker 4: is going to cater to those guys because it's because
Speaker 4: it's so important to winning. And we've learned that over time.
Speaker 4: So we have new information now we didn't have back then.
Speaker 4: If they had the same information now that they had
Speaker 4: back then, we probably see the same stuff going on.
Speaker 4: So I don't know. I don't take that is the
Speaker 4: league has completely changed. There are still guys out there sacrificing.
Speaker 4: There are still guys out there playing basketball the right way,
Speaker 4: and I think you see the same good teams every
Speaker 4: year that are doing it, and the bad teams aren't
Speaker 4: just like back in the day.
Speaker 3: All right, well, Adam, thank you for sharing today. That
Speaker 3: was that was quite insightful.
Speaker 4: Wait wait, wait, guys, those clouds up against you that
Speaker 4: you're yelling up above you? Are you yelling at? I
Speaker 4: don't know. It may start rating soon, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Adam, Normally I think you're right. Today I think
Speaker 3: you're wrong.
Speaker 4: Well you've You've made a hell of a case, Fred
Speaker 4: just saying I'm wrong and not actually backing it up.
Speaker 3: But okay, Adam, where did Clippers go from here? Adam?
Speaker 4: Where did the Clippers go from here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well they're going to Sacramento tonight. And look, I heard
Speaker 4: you guys yesterday. I thought you made some great points.
Speaker 4: They still don't have Kawhi Leonard. They're still struggling, but
Speaker 4: Foreign four is about where they should be right, Bourn
Speaker 4: four is about where they should be without Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 4: I said the first ten games. If they're fine five
Speaker 4: and five and they're treading, we're okay. They can move forward.
Speaker 4: From that, they're a very good defensive team. They struggle
Speaker 4: at times on offense. But you see that game against
Speaker 4: Paul George and the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and Norman Palace going off and he gets twenty five points,
Speaker 4: you know, and he's averaging twenty five on shooting fifty
Speaker 4: three percent from the floor right now, And it's just like, well,
Speaker 4: if they can get enough from their guys offensively, with
Speaker 4: their defense and the way they've leaned into that defensive identity,
Speaker 4: they're in games. It's funny. Their defense keeps them in
Speaker 4: every game. Their offense keeps the opposition in every game
Speaker 4: because they're just not that good on that ends. They
Speaker 4: don't have enough high end talent offensively. But I think
Speaker 4: they do have a direction. You know, Kevin referenced that
Speaker 4: article from Sam Amck and where this franchise could be
Speaker 4: moving forward. It's about flexibility. It's about being competitive and
Speaker 4: then having that flexibility with the cap situation and staying
Speaker 4: opportunistic for any time. I don't know, disgruntled Superstar, one
Speaker 4: of these young players we've been talking about that doesn't
Speaker 4: like the situation they're in, tries to flex and use
Speaker 4: that player empowerment, and the Clippers can jump on an
Speaker 4: opportunity like that. So I think they're actually in a
Speaker 4: really good spot where over the next couple of years
Speaker 4: they're gonna have a lot of money to play with
Speaker 4: because they didn't double down with Paul George and go
Speaker 4: all in with him freed.
Speaker 2: But so at the end of the day, to let
Speaker 2: you go at him, the Paul George move, not to
Speaker 2: sign him for what they what he wanted, actually will
Speaker 2: ultimately be a good deal.
Speaker 4: I think I'd rather have a guy like Norman Powell
Speaker 4: making twenty million over the next two seasons and if
Speaker 4: he can put up over twenty points per game, and
Speaker 4: I think he's capable of that, then having Paul George
Speaker 4: making over fifty million for the next four seasons and
Speaker 4: having them over the second apron where you're all in
Speaker 4: to a point where you can't make moves on the
Speaker 4: margins at all, and you better win a championship. And
Speaker 4: we still don't know where Kawhi's health is at, and
Speaker 4: that's so disappointing because they can't. If you resigned Paul
Speaker 4: George and Kawhi is still hurt, you're still not a content,
Speaker 4: right right, So you can resign Paul George all you want,
Speaker 4: it's still dependent on the health of Kawhi Leonard. And
Speaker 4: if he is going to be available, he's the hammer.
Speaker 4: He's the guy you needing a playoff series. So just
Speaker 4: having Paul George and James Harden obviously wasn't enough. They
Speaker 4: got beat by Dallas in that first round. So it
Speaker 4: really comes down to the health of Kawhi Leonard and
Speaker 4: we don't know when he's playing again, hopefully sooner than later.
Speaker 3: Bringing it always was that thanks.
Speaker 4: I love you guys. I know it's been a rough
Speaker 4: couple of days. I missed you guys.
Speaker 1: All right, we're all here, We're all good, all right,
Speaker 1: boss the Dubber, the return of the Dubber. Oh lord, yes,
Speaker 1: so we'll come back Rodney Alfillion on the double and
Speaker 1: then we will bring the dubber on.
Speaker 3: Come on, now, let's keep this thing moving. Got lively.
Speaker 2: Thank you to the salty A double A Adam Austin
Speaker 2: bring it all, the thunder, the heat or whatever he
Speaker 2: was bringing he was bringing it. We love having Adam
Speaker 2: on because he's got the insight to the to the
Speaker 2: not only the Clippers, but he's a great, great NBA analyst,
Speaker 2: and we appreciate him. Rodney pet Fred Rogan on a
Speaker 2: Friday where we don't care, We really.
Speaker 1: Don't, all right, So Rodney. Jerry Weinstein is the director
Speaker 1: of the Laker broadcast for Spectrum Sportsnet, and he has
Speaker 1: always been a huge Rams fan. Also likes the Kings,
Speaker 1: but the Rams have always been his baby. So when
Speaker 1: you watch a Laker game on Spectrum, Jerry's a director,
Speaker 1: all right, but he's a huge Rams fan. And when
Speaker 1: I was on at the Beast, we would used to
Speaker 1: bring the dubber on and the dubber would do our
Speaker 1: RAM reports because nobody's more plugged in.
Speaker 3: Than the dubber.
Speaker 1: So the dubber was plugged in. The dubber's plugged in.
Speaker 1: So I saw the dubber recently, so why can't I
Speaker 1: come back on? I went, all right, dubber, we're gonna
Speaker 1: give you a shy of the dubber. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: to people understand who the dubber is. Are you going
Speaker 1: to do that going forward? I just want to know
Speaker 1: because I have no idea who the dubber is. The
Speaker 1: dubber will explain who the dubber is, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So Now let's bring on Jerry Weinstein the Dubber, to
Speaker 1: talk about the Rams.
Speaker 3: Hello, Jerry.
Speaker 6: Dubber, what's up, fellas?
Speaker 3: What's going on? Jerry?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Why are you the Dubber? Now I know.
Speaker 6: Because my initials are j W J.
Speaker 5: Dub the dubber makes total sense.
Speaker 3: Now I know. I heard the voice and now I know.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, all right, all right, So Jerry, let's get
Speaker 1: into the Rams. Now they're four and four and uh,
Speaker 1: early on you thought they were left for dead. Now
Speaker 1: they got a playoff shot. What do you think.
Speaker 5: That win on Sunday was the most siding win the
Speaker 5: Rams have had since the Super Bowl. I mean, that
Speaker 5: was an incredible game, a nice comeback. The defense is
Speaker 5: really starting to pick it up now. The offense has
Speaker 5: been a little so so they have their guys back
Speaker 5: cou gun Cup. Now they got to start clicking on
Speaker 5: all cylinders on offense to match the defense, which we
Speaker 5: could not say earlier in the season.
Speaker 3: So they got to match it. So what kind of
Speaker 3: shot do the Rams?
Speaker 2: Because we talked about talked about the history of the
Speaker 2: Rams and a few years ago them selling the fans
Speaker 2: that they had no shot to make the playoffs. And
Speaker 2: just to be patient because we're rebuilding right now. But now,
Speaker 2: as you look at this Rams team in the middle
Speaker 2: of the season, what are their chances of going and
Speaker 2: making a deep run.
Speaker 3: In the playoffs.
Speaker 5: I think the chances are really good. The schedule lines
Speaker 5: up perfectly for them. They have a big game this
Speaker 5: week on Monday Night against the Dolphins. They got to
Speaker 5: take care of a business that's so far where they
Speaker 5: haven't lost this year yet. Actually they did lose to
Speaker 5: the Packers, my bad, but then they have at New England,
Speaker 5: which is a totally winnable game. I think this team
Speaker 5: has a chance to go eleven and six still realistically
Speaker 5: and make the playoffs. And their defensive line right now
Speaker 5: is the best defensive line in the league.
Speaker 6: And let me tell you something.
Speaker 5: They lost Aaron Donald this year, so no one thought
Speaker 5: that the Rams defensive line was gonna go off like
Speaker 5: they have. But the rookies Jared Verse and Braden Fisk
Speaker 5: have like stepped it up and they are like literally
Speaker 5: one two for rookie in the year right now. And
Speaker 5: Jared Verse is gonna be the defensive rookie of the year.
Speaker 5: You mark my words on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, let me write that down. You gotta pen.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna mark your words on that dubber.
Speaker 3: We're gonna mark mark the words. Put some money in Vegas.
Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Mark words?
Speaker 6: You better pay money.
Speaker 5: There's a saying NDTD. It means never doubt the Dubber.
Speaker 1: For the second time today, Kevin, for the second time today.
Speaker 1: Look all right, Dubber, we hit you really late and
Speaker 1: we're showing on time. But do you have any thoughts
Speaker 1: on the Kings, because you're also the world's biggest Kings
Speaker 1: fan Before we let you go, Well.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you something, Fred.
Speaker 5: What I love about your show is you always make
Speaker 5: room for the Kings, and no other shows do that.
Speaker 5: The Kings have started the season pretty well. We left
Speaker 5: them kind of for dead. They had a terrible off
Speaker 5: season through Dowdy got hurt in the preseason.
Speaker 6: They've had a good start.
Speaker 5: They've had a couple of injuries in the last game,
Speaker 5: but they've really played well. The rookie Brant Clark is
Speaker 5: a really good prospect. I love the looks of this guy.
Speaker 5: The team has to score a little bit more goals,
Speaker 5: but I'm telling you this seems a little bit more
Speaker 5: exciting than last year. And I'm really excited about the
Speaker 5: start they've had.
Speaker 6: I think we could actually make the playoffs.
Speaker 5: When the season began, I was like, We're not even
Speaker 5: a playoff team. But I'm going to be there tomorrow
Speaker 5: night to root my kings on for sure.
Speaker 3: All Right, Dubber, Ronnie, are you good with the Dubber.
Speaker 3: I love the Dubber Dubber.
Speaker 6: Hey, that big time rubber brings it man, the dub.
Speaker 2: Dubber. That's what I'm talking about. Man, you bring it
Speaker 2: in multiple sports, multiple.
Speaker 6: Bring my own drop too. You know you like my
Speaker 6: drop drop?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we like your drop. Your drop is good. The Dubbler.
Speaker 6: For weekly.
Speaker 5: We got to go back to a weekly segment like
Speaker 5: we used to do on the old show. You know,
Speaker 5: develop the little fan base.
Speaker 3: We'll talk, we'll take out under Dubber.
Speaker 2: I'm a fan, man, I'm a fan. I became a
Speaker 2: I always like you. I heard you before, but I
Speaker 2: like you now, Dubber. I'm a fan.
Speaker 6: That's what I'd like to hear. Rodney.
Speaker 3: All right, Jerry, have a good week n goodbye.
Speaker 6: All right, fella's take care all right?
Speaker 3: There he goes Dubble Kevin or you are right. I'm
Speaker 3: doing amazing.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to wrapping things up and get ready for
Speaker 4: a great weekend for it.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll be back to wrap it up.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, winding down on a Friday, Be
Speaker 2: careful out there as you drive home from work, as
Speaker 2: you head out for the weekend, just be careful, Be careful.
Speaker 3: Rodney, Pete, Fred Rogan, we love you. Come on all right,
Speaker 3: so as we get ready to go, it's been an
Speaker 3: interesting week.
Speaker 1: We did a lot of Dodgers this week, and you
Speaker 1: should know we're going to continue to talk about the
Speaker 1: Dodgers because we understand now that normally there's not this
Speaker 1: quick of a transition at a turnaround to getting out
Speaker 1: of the winter meetings and when people start signing contracts
Speaker 1: as free agents. So we are going to stay all
Speaker 1: over this. The tailor Hernandez story is something we are
Speaker 1: not going to rest on. We will stay on top
Speaker 1: of that. And also then Rodney, just the who could
Speaker 1: be that pitcher? And I think we'll learn more once
Speaker 1: we get these winter meetings underway. I think we'll have
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea of what direction they're going to go.
Speaker 1: But it seems to me it all rests on what
Speaker 1: they do with Hernandez.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 2: I think Tayo is the number one guy that they
Speaker 2: want to figure out what they're going to do with.
Speaker 2: They gonna either you know, bring him back or is
Speaker 2: he you know, priced too high. We've heard numbers, but
Speaker 2: we haven't heard anything from Tayo in terms of what
Speaker 2: he wants and and so that that remains to be seen.
Speaker 2: But I think and wishful thinking for the Dodger fans
Speaker 2: and for us that he was a valuable and almost
Speaker 2: invaluable peace for the Dodgers winning the title. What he
Speaker 2: did not only on the field and become a clutch hitter,
Speaker 2: a clutch performer, but also intangibles of what he did
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse and befriending show. Hey, and the sunflower
Speaker 2: seed celebration was just a big deal throughout the season,
Speaker 2: and he always had a smile on his face. So
Speaker 2: we love Taale and hopefully that works out. Have a
Speaker 2: terrific weekend, Ronnie, thank you for a great week. Kevin
Speaker 2: is always truly appreciated. Short show for us on Monday,
Speaker 2: just twelve to two, but Rodney Eric Dickerson will be
Speaker 2: here the entire way.
Speaker 3: Have a good Rod home