Speaker 1: And we continue on Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete, and special
Speaker 1: guest Eric Dickerson today on five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: We got the NFL Draft starting here in a couple
Speaker 1: of hours. Rams and Chargers do have first round picks,
Speaker 1: Chargers twenty two in the Rams I think around twenty eight,
Speaker 1: but there's talked that they may make a deal with
Speaker 1: the Giants, so we'll see. Okay, Eric, before the break,
Speaker 1: you said you wanted to talk draft, so let's do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty six for eight, Rams got twenty six six. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: So what you're saying, I mean, I guess we talked
Speaker 2: about the draft. I mean I think one thing is
Speaker 2: when I look at the Rams football team, I mean
Speaker 2: I got to say this year and I said at
Speaker 2: the end of the season, I said it doing the season,
Speaker 2: I did not see this coming. I did not see
Speaker 2: him being that good. I didn't see that defense being
Speaker 2: that good at one point. I mean, I got to
Speaker 2: say that Jared Verse and Kobe Turner, I mean they
Speaker 2: did a great job that they did a great job
Speaker 2: on that defense. The whole defense did as a unit.
Speaker 2: At times they had breakdowns, some big breakdowns, especially against
Speaker 2: for you, but I didn't see them winning after they
Speaker 2: went eleven.
Speaker 3: Games with to put the playoff again. One of the
Speaker 3: eleven games or ten eleven games, I didn't see that.
Speaker 2: I think this year, I think people are expecting even
Speaker 2: more out of the Rams. I think the big question
Speaker 2: is is how long much long can Matt Stafford play?
Speaker 2: You know, can is he the guy that can can
Speaker 2: lead this team back to the super Bowl again?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Do they have a young quarterback someone that possibly can
Speaker 2: can take his spot if something happens to him? And
Speaker 2: I know we won't get killed one. I know we
Speaker 2: won't get a chance to cam Ward. I think he
Speaker 2: probably be the first pick that yeah was the Shadil
Speaker 2: Sanders won't We won't get him even Jackson Dart from Mississippi,
Speaker 2: you know, none, none of those guys. So I think
Speaker 2: if we do have a quarterback, it's gonna have to
Speaker 2: be someone that a young quarterback is going to be like, Wow,
Speaker 2: this guy, he just came out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I think I think that to me, I think
Speaker 2: the quarterback and an offensive line is the position. And
Speaker 2: also cornerback. You know, they got some quarnerback issues that
Speaker 2: they need to to really kind of tighten up, you know,
Speaker 2: on on this football team. But you know, I think
Speaker 2: this year, I think I think a lot of Ram
Speaker 2: fans are expecting more out of them, how to say,
Speaker 2: because of last year. And you know, right now, you
Speaker 2: notice as well as I do, it comes down to injuries.
Speaker 2: It comes down to you know, guys staying healthy, how
Speaker 2: they're playing, how they mesh together. You know, you know,
Speaker 2: we got to live out there, Adams. You know, how's
Speaker 2: that going to work out?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: Missing?
Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't even understand the Cooper Cup thing.
Speaker 2: I just don't get that. I really don't deal with
Speaker 2: it when it happened. I just don't get it.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: It's almost like, you know, I got to say, it
Speaker 2: almost remind me of myself the way they did me.
Speaker 3: You know, just just just wrong.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: It was just to me, it's just wrong. I mean,
Speaker 2: I just didn't like it and I don't like the
Speaker 2: way it's handled. But you know, I don't work in
Speaker 2: the front office, so you know McVeagh and les Need
Speaker 2: has done a good job. But I just didn't like
Speaker 2: the way that went down. Yeah, but that's football, that's football.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Unfortunately, it is the business side of football that
Speaker 5: that not even I mean even for US players we
Speaker 5: don't always understand or agree with. And yet it goes
Speaker 5: down and it happens, and you know, they're they're banking on, uh,
Speaker 5: this is the way it is and in the long
Speaker 5: run is going to work out the best for the team.
Speaker 6: But sometimes, you know, you look up and go, I'm
Speaker 6: not so sure.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure this works out for the best for
Speaker 5: the team, you know, I mean, we got to we
Speaker 5: got a cat that is delivered for us. We're not
Speaker 5: you know, we're not talking about somebody else, you know,
Speaker 5: off the street. We're talking about a cat that that
Speaker 5: delivered for us. That was Super Bowl MVP, right, you know,
Speaker 5: he's a Super Bowl MVP. You don't just you know,
Speaker 5: replace a guy like that, and you do with everything
Speaker 5: everything it takes to keep it. And I think that
Speaker 5: that that kind of is the thing that rubs at
Speaker 5: least it rubs me with a lot of people.
Speaker 6: Players.
Speaker 3: Players, Yeah, yeah, players.
Speaker 6: Wise you know you in that locker room.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he didn't you know, like, wait, we didn't sign who, right,
Speaker 5: we didn't.
Speaker 6: We didn't bring who back.
Speaker 2: That's exactly that's exactly how it sounds about you saying
Speaker 2: it right, just perfect.
Speaker 3: What we did, what we signed, why we signed him.
Speaker 3: He can't play. I'm serious, I'm red. That is exactly
Speaker 3: riding is right on. I've been I'm like, what the
Speaker 3: hell we doing getting him?
Speaker 6: He a bum?
Speaker 3: Or while we while we cut.
Speaker 2: Him and money? Man, you know how these teams are.
Speaker 2: You know it's all about the money, you know. I
Speaker 2: just it's so frustrating because I'm not thinking about it,
Speaker 2: like you just said, right, and he was h the
Speaker 2: MVP of the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's gonna it's gonna be a while.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you he's gonna have a bad tation as
Speaker 2: my about the Rams for a while.
Speaker 3: I would I mean I did. I mean, I was
Speaker 3: that guy.
Speaker 2: Man, I hated the Rams and I left then, but
Speaker 2: the way they did me, I mean I hated them,
Speaker 2: I mean, and then met with john Shaw and we
Speaker 2: just kind of I just kind of forgave everything after
Speaker 2: he said, I'm gonna tell you that was my fault.
Speaker 2: It should have never happened, and you will always be
Speaker 2: a Ram to us for life. So I just want
Speaker 2: to let you know that. And yeah, that that that
Speaker 2: made me feel better because I'm like, man, I gave
Speaker 2: my heart and soul for.
Speaker 3: This football team.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I feel I feel that Cooper finally
Speaker 2: feels the same way. I mean, it's like and it
Speaker 2: just to me, they just I don't know, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, like except I'm not on the inside, you know,
Speaker 2: But to me, they just didn't put a forurth enough
Speaker 2: effort to try to keep it.
Speaker 5: You know, that's just yeah, that's it. That's it, d
Speaker 5: that's it. It's like one thing. It's one thing to say,
Speaker 5: you know, we letting them go and just like well whatever,
Speaker 5: But when guys feeling guys know players, no locker room
Speaker 5: knows when you don't you don't exhaust every effort to
Speaker 5: try to keep him. You know, if it's a money thing,
Speaker 5: it's a money thing, and you know, you know, people
Speaker 5: can deal with that. Guys can deal with that. We're
Speaker 5: all we're big boys. We got our big boy pants on.
Speaker 5: We can understand that that. You know, money, money sometimes
Speaker 5: doesn't it doesn't come out the right way, and you
Speaker 5: gotta do what you gotta do. But if you feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, the team didn't do everything they could or
Speaker 5: or maximize the effort that they could to keep a cat,
Speaker 5: that everybody liked and that one, you know, one day
Speaker 5: right of the Super Bowl for you, and you didn't
Speaker 5: really go out and fight for him. That's it, right, Eric,
Speaker 5: You didn't fight for him. You ain't fight for him. Man, Man,
Speaker 5: that that's I damn sure. No, they ain't fight for me.
Speaker 5: They ain't gonna fight for me.
Speaker 3: So that's exactly right.
Speaker 6: For me.
Speaker 5: No, they ain't gonna fight for me. So I'm you know, okay,
Speaker 5: good Brittons, I'm out by. I ain't got no you know,
Speaker 5: I'm done with y'all because there's you know, we're talking
Speaker 5: about lord Y all you want. But man, if you
Speaker 5: don't fight for this cat, how you gonna fight for me?
Speaker 5: And why should I fight for you going forward?
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: When john Shaw told you that, er, Eric, when john
Speaker 1: Shaw told you that, despite the fact it was john
Speaker 1: Shaw that made the move to move you, I mean,
Speaker 1: and you don't you know you made me feel better
Speaker 1: because you feel better. I go, john go screw yourself.
Speaker 1: You did that and you and then all that my bad?
Speaker 3: Really yeah, I mean, that's that I thought. That's all.
Speaker 3: That's all he could do. That's all he could say.
Speaker 3: That's all he could say.
Speaker 2: I mean, because look, John Shaw back in those days,
Speaker 2: and a lot of the Jim managers. Now, let me
Speaker 2: tell you a lot of these guys, they don't know
Speaker 2: the hell they're doing.
Speaker 3: Fred. They have no clue. I mean, they really don't.
Speaker 2: They guess they have these jobs because of you know,
Speaker 2: they've been through the organization, or a buddy, or they
Speaker 2: got a rich friend, or I'm gonna take care of you,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Get passed down.
Speaker 2: A lot of these guys they don't even know what
Speaker 2: it's like to get hitting them out playing football, have
Speaker 2: no clue. So when John John was a numbers guy,
Speaker 2: John was an attorney and a accountant. John was all
Speaker 2: about the numbers. I will never forget. John made a
Speaker 2: statement to someone. They told me said, John, y'all says
Speaker 2: this about football players, They're like horses. You open the gate,
Speaker 2: they're going to run, which is true. Think about that.
Speaker 2: If you put us on the field, we're gonna play hard.
Speaker 2: I mean, cause, when I can tell you it was
Speaker 2: times I was so mad at them, but I got
Speaker 2: that I can't let my team down. I mean, and
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna luwer myself to play
Speaker 2: sloppy because I'm mad at them because I have a standard.
Speaker 3: I have a standard to playoff too. And yes, I
Speaker 3: mean that's all I got. I got like I was.
Speaker 6: And it's gonna look on you, not not anybody else.
Speaker 5: It's gonna look upon you as a guy that didn't
Speaker 5: didn't try to do whatever.
Speaker 6: It's all gonna be on you. Nobody cares that way.
Speaker 3: And like this, I think the thing for me, No, no,
Speaker 3: they don't care.
Speaker 6: The thing.
Speaker 2: I think they got me and I think, you know,
Speaker 2: like I said, I don't know, it's the Cooper situation.
Speaker 2: But you know, for me, especially back then Fred, they
Speaker 2: vilified me. I was a bad guy. Nobody liked me.
Speaker 2: They made that. See, nobody liked me. I was not
Speaker 2: a good teammate. I was selfish, I was arrogant. And
Speaker 2: that's what man. My mother hated the rams. He hated football.
Speaker 2: She said, I hate that crap, he said, because I
Speaker 2: know how we raised you very Those are all a
Speaker 2: bunch of lives. And you know, it's just it's sad
Speaker 2: when when when the team don't stand up for the players.
Speaker 2: But hey, man, like I said, this is football, I
Speaker 2: got somebody you know what is that I do? You
Speaker 2: know how they are. But you know, I you know,
Speaker 2: thing against me is sometimes they keep guys I call them,
Speaker 2: you know, I call them they keep their booty liquors.
Speaker 3: The guys who are right, but Kischers keep them. I'm like,
Speaker 3: well they give me old booty liquors. Yeah, keep keep you.
Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 6: Eat is. Thanks for hanging today, man, it was great.
Speaker 6: All right, man, I love you, We love you brother.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back to Clippers, back at
Speaker 1: it tonight, try to grab a two one lead over
Speaker 1: Denver and the salty a will join us.
Speaker 6: They are Yeah, he left that fast.
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Speaker 1: All right, we've got the Clippers and Denver. They're at
Speaker 1: the Intuit Dome tonight pre game here in the radio
Speaker 1: station at six, the game at seven. On his way
Speaker 1: to the Intuit Dome. Right now, the salta, Adam Auslin, Adam,
Speaker 1: good afternoon.
Speaker 4: I may be a little bit more salty, guys, because
Speaker 4: I'm stuck in traffic. So the A and the salty
Speaker 4: A may not stand for Adam, if you know what
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 6: Oh, where you stuck at?
Speaker 3: Where are you? Adam?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm about to get I'm on the one ten South,
Speaker 4: about to get on the one oh five west. I
Speaker 4: believe it's like going to Lax when you're leave going
Speaker 4: from Burbank to into it Dome thinks about an hour
Speaker 4: to get there. But at night after the game, I
Speaker 4: can get home in twenty eight minutes. Believe it an hour?
Speaker 3: Yeah, of coursolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 6: It depends on if you And what's crazy about La? Right?
Speaker 5: You can you can leave five minutes on either side
Speaker 5: of your your your nation, you or your departure. You
Speaker 5: leave five minutes on one way or another, and that
Speaker 5: will cost you another thirty minutes.
Speaker 6: Just because of where LA is. And it's incredible that way.
Speaker 5: He's not gonna know. I got you know, I don't
Speaker 5: have to leave right now. I got five more minutes.
Speaker 5: I can leave in five minutes, but that five minutes
Speaker 5: will turn it into thirty minutes if you don't leave
Speaker 5: at the appropriate time. It's just a it's just a
Speaker 5: deal of living in La. What is the into a
Speaker 5: Dome gonna feel like tonight.
Speaker 4: Adam, Well, there's a little bit of something extra going
Speaker 4: on tonight that has Clipper Nation amped up and fired
Speaker 4: up for this ball game. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: guys heard it or playing it on the show, but
Speaker 4: David Adelman yesterday seemed to take a shot at into
Speaker 4: a Dome, calling the wall kind of a high school thing.
Speaker 4: He said it was cool, but then he also talked
Speaker 4: about how they're pumping in sounds and he seemed to
Speaker 4: be implying that they had fake crowd noise there. He
Speaker 4: compared it to a situation a couple of years ago
Speaker 4: when they were playing Phoenix in the second round, and
Speaker 4: so Clipper Nation is gonna take offense to that is
Speaker 4: the first ever playoff game there tonight, obviously it's their
Speaker 4: first ever home I say they're gonna be ready to
Speaker 4: go and have a little something extra. For David Adaman
Speaker 4: who said, you know, it's different the wall, he wasn't
Speaker 4: giving it too much credit, even though back in I
Speaker 4: don't know, December, when they first played their Denver they
Speaker 4: went ten of nineteen at the Charity Strikes. So teams
Speaker 4: all year long when they shoot against the wall, they
Speaker 4: shoot their lowest free throw percentage in the league. It
Speaker 4: has been extremely effective. They have a home court advantage.
Speaker 4: And David Adaman also said is it gonna survive? And
Speaker 4: he seemed to be infered that is the NBA gonna
Speaker 4: take it away? Is it too much of an advantage? Then,
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure when they built this thing they knew
Speaker 4: exactly what they were doing. They cleared everything with the NBA,
Speaker 4: and if anything, Commissioner Adams still that's where I think
Speaker 4: likes it because it just makes it such a unique
Speaker 4: place to be at. So there is going to be
Speaker 4: some more juice tonight add into it. Though when it
Speaker 4: comes to the crowd and the cheering and the booing
Speaker 4: for the Denver Nuggets and David Adelman, well, I.
Speaker 1: Can't believe he would even suggest that it would go away,
Speaker 1: because he didn't say it did very much to him.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, that is what he said. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think I'd be more concerned about the fact that the
Speaker 1: Clippers are a better team. That's what I think I'd
Speaker 1: worry about.
Speaker 3: David.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'd worry about the wall, and if
Speaker 1: the NBA likes the idea, I think I'd be more
Speaker 1: concerned about the fact that the Nuggets kind of look
Speaker 1: out a sink at him.
Speaker 4: I do like David Adelman, and he said all the
Speaker 4: wrong right things so far, but this may have been
Speaker 4: the wrong thing. This may have been his first rookie
Speaker 4: mistake as a head coach. And he knows better because
Speaker 4: obviously as dad Rick Adelman, he remembers Phil Jackson back
Speaker 4: in the day inciting the Kings fans and saying it
Speaker 4: is a cow town and so they brought the cow
Speaker 4: bells there at Arco Arena. David Adaman was there for
Speaker 4: all of that, and he just had this little tongue
Speaker 4: in cheek just trolling going on yesterday where it just
Speaker 4: seemed like he was poking fun at it. He had
Speaker 4: a little bit of a grin on his face. But
Speaker 4: him saying that they were pumping in artificial sound there
Speaker 4: that has fans going. But yes, his team, they don't
Speaker 4: have the momentum right now. It's all with the Clippers
Speaker 4: after what they were able to do in Denver in
Speaker 4: Game two and just the other worldly performance by Kawhi
Speaker 4: Leonard guys, going fifteen of nineteen from the field in
Speaker 4: that Game two and responding after he had seven turnovers
Speaker 4: in Game one. That was his second best playoff game
Speaker 4: ever as a Clipper. He had a forty five spot
Speaker 4: in the must win situation of the first round in
Speaker 4: Dallas in the Lions, then against Luka Doncis and the
Speaker 4: Mavericks back in twenty twenty one. But outside that, this
Speaker 4: was just Pete Kawhi Leonard. And I know a lot
Speaker 4: of people are saying, look, he hasn't been this good
Speaker 4: or he hasn't looked this good and so long. Well
Speaker 4: that's not true. When he's healthy, he looks this good.
Speaker 4: Last season he was playing some of the best basketballs
Speaker 4: of his career and then a month before the playoffs started. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: as de Flerida like, he has always been able to
Speaker 4: come back and look like the same player he eventually
Speaker 4: gets there. And the way they have done this where
Speaker 4: you know they've held him back. He wanted to play earlier,
Speaker 4: but they wanted to be overly cautious because of all
Speaker 4: the NI issues going on the last few years. So
Speaker 4: now he's at thirty nine games right now, he has
Speaker 4: played so far this season, and he's right in that
Speaker 4: sweet spot hopefully where he is good to go and
Speaker 4: peaking at this time of the year as they're in
Speaker 4: a playoff series, because that's what it looked like on
Speaker 4: Monday night in Game two.
Speaker 6: Yeah I did, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 5: And he's a tremendous talent as you mentioned, when he
Speaker 5: is healthy, and the same goes for James Harden. I mean,
Speaker 5: we talked about it before the series started, who who's
Speaker 5: got the pressure on them to to play to play big?
Speaker 5: You know, and we we went to the local guys.
Speaker 5: Is it is it James Harden? Is it Luca Dantage,
Speaker 5: is it Lebron James? And a lot of folks believed
Speaker 5: it was James Harden as the one guy that's got
Speaker 5: the most amount of pressure on him to perform, because
Speaker 5: you know, he he is a guy that hasn't wherever
Speaker 5: he's been, there have been teams that he's been on
Speaker 5: that you know, blew three to one leads.
Speaker 6: Uh, he hasn't come up big.
Speaker 5: So in that respect, Adam, do you believe that there
Speaker 5: is more pressure on James Harden than any any other
Speaker 5: star in this town in terms of the playoffs and
Speaker 5: going deep or is it or is the pressure off
Speaker 5: of James Harden, because it's not really necessarily him. It's Kawhi, Leonard,
Speaker 5: It's Lebron and Luca, So James Harden is more of
Speaker 5: an after thought. I tend to believe that James Harden's
Speaker 5: got a lot of pressure on him to.
Speaker 6: Prove that he is he is the guy or is worth.
Speaker 5: All of the attention and everything he's getting from the
Speaker 5: Clipper and Clipper Nation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's definitely plenty of pressure on him.
Speaker 4: Kawi does alleviate it to a degree because he is
Speaker 4: the batman on this team, and you just saw it
Speaker 4: in Game two. But James Harden hasn't been good enough
Speaker 4: in elimination games specifically, that's where a lot of his
Speaker 4: shortcomings have been. In the playoffs. We're not there yet.
Speaker 4: When that time comes, there will be more pressure on
Speaker 4: him to perform to either close out a series or
Speaker 4: stay alive in a series against Denver. But up to
Speaker 4: this point, he's been very good. He's averaged twenty five
Speaker 4: points through two games.
Speaker 3: He had he was.
Speaker 4: Sensational in Game one. Had they won Game one, which
Speaker 4: they should have up by fifteen he would have been
Speaker 4: the best player on the court for the Clippers. Obviously.
Speaker 4: I think he had thirty one points eleven assists is
Speaker 4: just too turnovers. That game wasn't on him. He did
Speaker 4: his part. It's funny in this series, both teams can
Speaker 4: make the argument the game they won they actually played
Speaker 4: worse it. The Clippers won a game where it was
Speaker 4: pretty much just Kawhi Leonard and some big shots from
Speaker 4: Norman Powell lay that pulled them through, and Denver ended
Speaker 4: up having twenty turnovers. But Denver overall, they played really
Speaker 4: well in that game outside of the turnover issue. They
Speaker 4: out rebounded the Clippers by eighteen. They probably should have
Speaker 4: won that ball game. The Clippers can say the same
Speaker 4: thing for Game one. They had a few guys that
Speaker 4: were playing at a really high level, but they're the
Speaker 4: team that had twenty turnovers. That was the difference. So
Speaker 4: you look at it this way. Yeah, they're one in
Speaker 4: one so far in this series, one game apiece, but
Speaker 4: it's a series that has been determined by one point
Speaker 4: so far. The Clippers have scored one more point through
Speaker 4: two games and the Denver Nuggets. That's how razor thin
Speaker 4: the margins are. That's how close this thing has been?
Speaker 5: All right, wait quick before ronn Is it that close
Speaker 5: Adam though in terms of these teams and how good
Speaker 5: they both are? Is it that close in terms of matchups, Adam?
Speaker 6: Or is it one has more of an edge?
Speaker 5: I mean, and they're playing like it's closed, But is
Speaker 5: it really that close?
Speaker 4: I think the Clippers haven't been as close to touching
Speaker 4: their ceiling as Denver has. The Clippers have two guys
Speaker 4: that have way underperformed in this series so far in
Speaker 4: Norman Powell and bo Don Bogdanovich. If either of them,
Speaker 4: or if both of them start to hit shots, Bogie
Speaker 4: is over in the series so far, then the Clippers,
Speaker 4: I think, can get some distance between them and the
Speaker 4: Denver Nuggets. Then they can show the separation in talent.
Speaker 4: But the other side of it is Niko hasn't played
Speaker 4: his best ball yet now, credit to Clippers and the
Speaker 4: defense they're playing on him and showing him a lot
Speaker 4: of different looks out there. But there's still gonna be
Speaker 4: a game coming. It might come tonight where Nico drops
Speaker 4: forty and as his Kawhi moment. Like Kawhi, I knew
Speaker 4: how well he played in Game two with that level
Speaker 4: of efficiency. Joki is capable of the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: It's coming at some point. It is inevitable. So I
Speaker 4: think the Clippers they have more of that higher potential
Speaker 4: and they haven't reached that yet than Denver has. But
Speaker 4: make no mistake, the Denver Nuggets still have the best
Speaker 4: player in the world over the last five years in
Speaker 4: igally Jogic.
Speaker 1: All right, adam, battle to traffic, have fun tonight.
Speaker 4: All right, love you guys, be good.
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Speaker 5: Oh yes, closing it out on a full show on
Speaker 5: a throwback Thursday with the grooves, with the hips, with
Speaker 5: all the good stuff. My man Eric Dickerson joined us
Speaker 5: today as tonight is the NFL Draft. I don't know
Speaker 5: about you, Fred, does it feel like it's a little
Speaker 5: bit lackluster from years past? Just in terms of first
Speaker 5: of all, the star power is not there as it's been,
Speaker 5: which is okay, but it's it's still a solid draft.
Speaker 5: And maybe not, like I said, the biggest stars in
Speaker 5: the world in previous drafts, but but quality of the
Speaker 5: players in the draft certainly.
Speaker 6: Is up there.
Speaker 1: I think there's some of the not big a lot
Speaker 1: of name value in this draft. I also think this
Speaker 1: we're now seeing the full effects of nil.
Speaker 6: And you go, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Well, the kid at Tennessee held out and ended up
Speaker 1: at UCLA because of a contract dispute. And when you're
Speaker 1: seeing these college players now, you're talking about how much
Speaker 1: money they're making, and that's being a pro. They're getting
Speaker 1: paid right now, and the story's coming out before the
Speaker 1: draft who's making what in college? So I actually think
Speaker 1: just from a perception standpoint, and because there's not that
Speaker 1: one guy that's a killer. Yeah, it seems a little
Speaker 1: more subdued this year. I agree with you on that, Rodney.
Speaker 1: It does just doesn't seem to have the old oomph.
Speaker 1: And not every draft will have that open not everything
Speaker 1: in life has that same hmm. They try to resent
Speaker 1: in a way where it's really exciting. Yeah, they're solid players,
Speaker 1: and some teams are gonna get better tonight, and that's great.
Speaker 1: But Travis Hunter, he's a great story.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he's the story of the draft.
Speaker 5: I think, you know, when he goes though, you know,
Speaker 5: it kind of falls off and go, well do we
Speaker 5: need to keep watching? Which, you know, having the draft
Speaker 5: in Green Bay, I think is I'm sure they didn't
Speaker 5: have really, you know, the big time knowledge that this
Speaker 5: was going to attract the attention that they absolutely had
Speaker 5: to have, because without the Green Bay's become the story
Speaker 5: more so than the draft itself and the players that
Speaker 5: are being taken, you know, and that's no disrespect to
Speaker 5: the players that are going to go in the top
Speaker 5: fifteen to twenty picks, but to look up and go, oh,
Speaker 5: we got this guy, or you know, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 6: Is going to go here, and Drake May is going
Speaker 6: to go here.
Speaker 5: And it's going to be organizational trage or change in
Speaker 5: this draft, and so it's going to be so exciting.
Speaker 6: No, it's not that case. It really is that, you.
Speaker 5: Know, we'll see what teams get better, but there's not
Speaker 5: that instantaneous person that comes into a room or a
Speaker 5: building and go, we're changing the culture and everything's going
Speaker 5: to change because we got this one guy that that's
Speaker 5: not happening with this draft right now.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: It may happen down the road, but just as we
Speaker 5: look at it from outside looking in, it doesn't feel
Speaker 5: like there's that guy right now that can come into
Speaker 5: the building and go, Okay, we went from you know,
Speaker 5: being a non playoff team that doesn't have a clue
Speaker 5: to a team that, man, we got a shot to
Speaker 5: go deep into playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll find out starting tonight tomorrow, Benny Bonsignor
Speaker 1: will be on the program and we'll go over what
Speaker 1: had happened to that point also tomorrow. Davidssa from the
Speaker 1: Stadium and Dan wik from Minneapolis. Ronnie, thank you great
Speaker 1: job today, Kevin, appreciate it very much. Again, a big
Speaker 1: shout out to ed for hanging with us for about
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, and Rodney we get them tomorrow, yea, sir,