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This is the best of two pros and with labar Ares rating Winn and Jonas Knox on radio.
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Our timberwolves, the howling wolves of Minnesota, are on their last legs.
What happened to the saying man, strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. Well, I guess, I guess that does make sense, though, you know, because the pack at the wolf has not been supportive of the pack, and the pack has not been supportive of the wolf.
It felt like.
That felt like John Randall didn't want to join in on the hunt. Julius Oh you know what, Okay, Julius Randall.
If his name was Johnny would had a better game, did I say?
I just love saying John.
He's like one of my favorite of Minnesota. It's a Randall and this Minnesota.
There you go, Well that Randall didn't win a super Bowl in Minnesota either, But you know, but I know, but he went to the Hall of Fame though, you know, Anthony Edwards and hey, bruh, I mean, this is one of those moments in time where you gotta take the criticisms that come with being a budding young superstar go ahead.
Well, I was just gonna say this, did you not get the feeling watching that game last night that the game was competitive? The final score was close, but it never felt like Minnesota was that close, you know what I mean? Like, it never felt like that game was as close as the final score was indicative of. It was more of Oklahoma City Thunder was to win that game. It was just by a matter of how many.
I felt like I felt like looking at the get no, you didn't.
I felt like, I concurred, doctor, I concur that's good.
I you know, I looked at the way they played early on the Timberwolves. They were sloppy, They they were they were careless with the ball. They really didn't play in a way that would have gave you any type of confidence that they would be able to win the game. So so to your points, it's definitely that's that's that's legit. I don't think they did really anything against a team that you have to do everything to be able to beat, and they still only end up losing by by two points. But they just didn't do really anything in that game to challenge their defense in a way where they made them uncomfortf ball. They again, they were sloppy turnovers, sloppy with with the ball, protection of the ball. The rotations were just seemed off. They just seemed off. They just seemed off. And and you know, obviously you need your best players to play great. Anthony Edwards did not play great. Julius Randall, he's on a milk carton box after after that game. I mean, he showed up, showed up in the one game that they won, but has not shown up pretty much the entire series other than that last game. It's just not good man. Rudy Gobert, he I mean, you know, he got he did what Rudy does. How about that, I'll say Rudy did what he did he's supposed to do. I guess, like, yeah, he's like he's a roll. I told y'all, don't get carried away when he had that game against the Lakers, Like I didn't understand it how he was able to have that type of game and that be the dominant, you know, performance that led to them winning. But the series is over, like it is better yet, have no fight left?
Yeah, I called use at two.
By the way, I'm sad, you know you by the way, it might have been you referenced.
You referenced the milk carton? Yeah, man, whose idea was that?
Lee?
Could you look that up?
Like, who thought that would be a good idea if somebody is missing, put their picture on the on the side of a milk carton, because that's.
Going to be At one point that was a big thing. By the way, I figured everybody needed milk.
By the by the time people are having their cereal the next day to realize so and so is missing, he probably it's probably over. So I'm just trying to figure out, like, who thought that was the good idea to throw that out?
Don't you just you're probably right? That would be an interesting piece of trivia or or homework.
Well, the Missing Children Milk Milk Curtain program started in eighty four eighty five. I'm not exactly sure who started it, but that's believe.
Were you ever on one of those? Were you ever on there?
Lee?
I could? I could see that in your family's like, oh, where Lee go? It's been gone for.
About a month now, good thing they had that that program. They found me.
They might not we haven't seen him in a while.
Put him on the milk box. Hey, there's Lee's he's walking by the milk and the seven eleven gone, Hey, Maddie, that's me.
Hey, it's Lee. He didn't know he was abducted.
I was.
Now, you know why you call her Carol mom? Liter Early mom would have just worked, but you know, it's Carol Mom. They got a whold.
You probably came home and she was like, hey buddy, Hey buddy, Hey buddy, you're here on the milk cart and.
Get some milk from my white Russian there.
So you mentioned the struggles of you know, Anthony Edwards or well, I mean, look to each their own. Some people their description of struggling is a little bit different than others. But here was the ant man Anthony Edwards discussing his performance post game with the media.
Definitely not the.
I guess the points I wanted to get, But I mean they didn't really let me get too many shots off. They did a good job of debt. Every time I had the ball, they showed me a trick crowd. So just making the right play getting off of it. I guys hit shots tonight, so we shouts to him so.
Much of you guys play in front of the point. It was a big nights from you.
And random and how to kind of hit you from the fact that you got to pull struggle.
At the same time that I I don't look at it like I struggled or he struggled. They just they had a good game plan making us get off the ball. Especially for me, Man, it was super into gaps. I made the right play all night. So I don't really look at it like I struggled. I didn't get enough shots to say I struggled. That's that might be how you guys look at it.
The Yeah, it was just directly so he getting a little bit of that bit damning though he's getting a little bit of heat. I mean, he didn't take his first shot until the end of the first quarter. They was in front of him the whole time. Man, they were in front of him. And and they, you know say as crazy as they didn't play well on the offensive side of the court, but they didn't they didn't compensate for it on the defense side. They didn't figure out like they were leaving them open. They weren't closing out shots. They were they were loose in there in their defense like they were like basically like falling back, like they were so afraid of what Sga and and others were going to do. They weren't even playing sturdy defense. It was like they were just letting them, you know, kind of just get to the get to the rim, you know, and they were moving back with them. Like it wasn't like like Rudy Gobert get caught at the top of the key, he put his hand up and he just wait, you know, got moved back be Sga, maybe Dort. They get caught, move back and Rudy Gobert didn't go boom they shooting. But then there's the times where they did go and it was like they just kept moving, like they didn't try to get in front of them, stop them, you know, take a charge or anything like that. They just were kind of just letting them flow. They were flowing to the to the realm they were shooting, and there was no one on them. It just it just didn't seem like it was a really good game. And for me watching it, and maybe I sound, you know, crazy, but just watching it just didn't look like it was a good game to me.
I would say sturdy is one way of describing it. I kind of thought they were a rock steady stayed rocking on all night long. It's kind of how I saw it, but that's just me rock hell yeah.
Insteady today, you guys have made the point that the locker room doesn't start until immediately, and so that's that's when the real locker room happens and begins, and whatever we see on the outside isn't a reality.
That's just what we are allowed.
To see the idea that and some people are upset and it was you know, you had your hot takes on social media afterwards. Anthony Edwards not being accountable. He should be held accountable, he should take responsibility for this loss. He's just because that's his messaging postgame to a couple of reporters while he's sitting there, you know, after a game in his locker doesn't mean that's not the discussion that they're having, or a different discussion they're having behind the scenes. And something tells me Chris Finch and Anthony Edwards have brutally honest conversations. It's why he could criticize him the way that he did publicly and it not turn into a thing. I find it hard to believe that Anthony Edwards doesn't realize, Yeah, I did struggle. I am struggling. I'm the leader of this team. I've got to try and figure out ways to make this team better. Just because I'm not presenting it's because I'm not giving you all the information while I'm sitting here at my future. Just because I'm not giving you all the information while I'm sitting here at my locker fifteen minutes after we just lost a game four and or down three to one in the series is probably over, doesn't mean I'm not aware that I need to be better. This is just publicly what he's giving people, and that's why they're running wild with it.
That would be sure.
I think there's an element to that.
I mean, I think the most relatable way for people to see this is it's kind of like family business, you know, where you're not going to allow family drama things like that to to, you know, get outside of your family, at least you don't want to. It's very similar. So you might have certain conversations in public that are very different than in private, and that's probably how they've handled this. But I think there's a couple of things going on. What surprise me most about in particular last night, how you played. You know, we've heard people make comparisons or he plays like or he looks like you know MJ. Or there's like a little bit of that in his game. Last night was an example, and LaVar kind of pointed it and pointed it out where you know, he wasn't as aggressive early and didn't set the tone as much early and and look, maybe you give Oklahoma City credit for what they've done defensively to take that away from him. I mean, right now, if we all said, okay, who are you gonna stop? If you're building a defensive game plan around the Minnesota Timberwolves, who's gonna be built around stopping? It's hemany edwards like that. That's that's the be all end all of this team. Now, there's gonna be like Julius Reynolds's gonna pitch in. There's gonna be others who pitch in. But if you're looking for the most consistent, the fire start of the guy, who's gonna be that for their offense, for their team, it's him. So if you take him away, like who else can really step up consistently to allow the Timberwolves to beat dilklom site Thunder. We've talked about this from the beginning of the series. The Thunder's just a deep roster. They just they have other guys who even if SGA isn't having a great night, there's other guys who can step up and make buckets and make plays. So it's not like that so much with Minnesota. I mean, Julius Randalls kind of had his moments, and you could probably touch on a few others, but part it's Anthony Edwards and they kind of go as he goes. So I think for him, he's probably stuck between a rock and a hard place in regards to he wants to make smart basketball plays. He wants to obviously, you know, dish the ball around when it's there too, but also and also not force things, especially if they're trying to take him away, and he feels that way. I mean he's publicly saying like that a great game plan. Well they've had a great game plan for him the entire series, and it seems like ultimately he's either just got to, you know, put up a bunch of shots that might be considered bad shots and risk looking like a guy who's trying to will his team getting back into it potentially you know, you know, miss a bunch of shots and look like he's happening off night, or look like he's trying to do too much just to be able to keep his team in it because they're down three to one at this point, nothing else really matters, you know, Yeah, this series is pretty much over.
And I also think he's twenty three. Every superstar in the NBA in the history of the league has all gone through this. They've all gone through it. Jordan went through it, Lebron went through it, Kobe went like everybody went through early on in their career. There were struggles, there were times they were outplayed, a team had a great game plan for him, they didn't shoot well.
Whatever it is, this is just part of the process. Like I don't look at.
This and go, oh that that tells us a lot about who Anthony Edwards is a player now. That tells me that he's twenty three years old. It's part of the growing pains and ultimately he's going to figure this out. Like I don't look at this as concerning long term.
Well, give credit to Oka. See, you know, it's a lot. We're making a lot about Minnesota because I believe we thought. I know, I thought this was going to be the best series of the playoffs and turns out to be pretty much everything but that, and it almost made you feel like for like a moment there where you guys watching the game and was like, man like, if they look like this against OKC, what do I feel about the Lakers?
Like?
If Minnesota is looking this bad, if Oka se is making Minnesota look that bad, how do I feel about the Los Angeles Lakers? Man Like, I had a moment last night like it might have been a better series with the Lakers and Oka see thunder what it might have been, because this one ain't good. It's not very good at all, and it just seems like why are they Why are they so and listen, maybe it's the greatness of how good they are that they're making them look so marginal, but man, it just to me, it just looked like sloppy play. It didn't look like especially early on in the game, just didn't look like it was something that was being dictated to them. Like, yes, they were on Anthony Edwards is a lot and they made it hard for him, but like to say, you can't get a shot off, Like, if you can't get a shot off, then there better be two three other dudes that are blowing their heads off on that court. And that's how you start to open things up. Is that. Okay, they decided they're going to stop Anthony Edwards. That's what they did. They said, we're going to stop Anthony Atwards. But that doesn't mean that that that slows your offense down, like totally and completely shuts your your your offense down. And maybe that's I started thinking to myself, this is maybe where uh you know, what's what's what's what's the kid that just went there from Dallas always makes their names up. It's not Jokich, is what Luka?
By the way, he's us Wait you see that?
Well, I thought he might have had a better he This would have been a better looking series with a score. Who gives zero f's about what's going on? What's in his face? If we need a point here, I'm putting it up and it could be from deep I could be driving whatever. And I think that's why Denver gave a okay, see such a hard time is because you got a score. And the other one in Jokic, where it just he doesn't care wherever he's at. He's going to create his shot see that in this series.
I think the fact that it wins seven against Denver is a credit to Jokic that he is that good and that he's the best player in the league. Because people also forget that OKC won sixty eight games this year. Historically, there's four teams that have had more wins in a season than OKA see in the history of the league.
They're really that good.
So I just the fact that Denver kept it close as a credit to Joker, like he's he that's how good he is. I don't I don't care who was that they were going to get. This is probably what the end result was going to be, and they're going to go to the finals.
I think we see our our NBA championship team. I mean, I don't see anybody out of the East beating OKAC this year. I don't know who's going to come out of the East. I think that there's a possibility, if Carl Anthony Towns has found himself in that last game, that this could be a really, really hard series for Indiana to win. Now if Karl Anthony Towns continues to play the way he did in the second half of the last game. But I don't feel like it matters. And maybe I could be wrong, maybe we got to see him play first, but I just I think it's a foregone conclusion. Okac is going to win it, and they proved how donno what Bam?
Hey, you know Brady and I have also said that at times.
Too, Bam.
I said it after those two, but you know, I don't get any support behind us.
Yeah. I just got to tell you, guys, man, if I'm looking at this with a critical eye, I'm just thinking that this is going to be an okay c year man, that's all, you know.
Nice face there, Huh.
She didn't do it. She didn't do it on that one. I was doing it to get another you know. I mean, y'all shamed her out of giving me the sticks picks, so I just figured i'd try to get it to her again.
She didn't do it, so that's really unfair.
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There is something that we need to address though. To start off this hour. I think it is important for those of you that were listening. Last week, Lee was telling the tale about how is good. Buddy Todd, who once sang karaoke on this show live on the air.
Lee's buddy Todd had an issue with his mic cover. Yeah, that basically stole his cover.
I got you to do might cover.
So Todd Todd basically had a testicle growing out of his ear, some sort of an infection looked like Syphiliss, who knows. Uh, it looked like something that you would get in like the eighteen hundreds that there's no cure for, and he ends up dying at like twenty two. But Lee was for some reason the designated driver to take Todd Todd to urgent care. And by designated driver, I mean designated driver because there's no way Todd was sober for that trip. So Lee sent a picture over yesterday of the post op.
Yeah. In fact, let's go Yeah.
In fact, I just tweeted it out before and after photos of Todd's ear. So yeah, last week I looked over at him. Uh, I said, dude, do you get you got cauliflower getting a fight, And yeah, he's got a huge growth and I've taken him to the urgent care, not more than once, and he keeps walking out because he didn't want to pay for it because he doesn't having shirts. And uh, he went to a tattoo artist friend of ours to stab it to see if it would leak. That didn't work, so I finally got to go back and yeah, they lanced at yesterday morning, first thing, yesterday morning, after the show.
I got him over there and uh.
Dude, what is in it? Why does zeer look like that?
Basically a ruptured just blood collection in there. I thought it was gonna be They said that there was no puss in there, so.
It was all blood that was sitting in there. Yeah, and come to find out, the doctor says drinking buddy.
Just think about that. Lee a story. Lee got that. That's the story.
Then my old spie, No, no, I was just joking. That's not the doctor. Some dude at the bar, but posy with the photo we went.
So after after we got got him leaked out, we went over the bar.
That's just some of the bet on the ponies, some of their lush.
So when they when they lanced it, it did leak out.
Yeah.
I debated whether or not to stay in the room with him. But I thought it was gonna smell like it no, because it was taken forever.
So I went and got a bite or whatever, so and I thought it was gonna smell. I thought it was gonna stink.
So did he say it hurt? Yeah, it was hurting more after the fact than during. They they numbed it up, but that went away. So we went to the bar to numb up a different way.
So did that and then went to the barbecue.
And so now the Collie flower ear is gone because it's alleviated. Like, how does that work? I've never really I've seen the air, but I just always thought, once you have it, it's there forever.
Yeah, you got to take care of it right away. That's why I was trying to tell him. Uh, it's I think it's called a hematoe. Well I think that's what they said it was when they went there. Yeah, if you don't take care of it, that'll that'll stay, that'll stay the same. So hopefully we'll see we'll see if it goes goes down and goes away.
Okay, I just wonder, like, Lee, if you're not able to do this for him, what's plan B death, what happens after?
Yeah, I've I have taken him near death to the e R before. But if not you, if not me, I don't know, he'd probably I don't know what he would do. He'd probably die, Yeah, do anything, Yeah, exactly.
And And by the way, we're talking about Lee here helping.
Out time, which is crazy.
That's a low boyark, right, I mean, I mean, I'm gonna go out on lim right now. That robot that Elon Musk has made, it would be better right now than Lee taking care of Todd. It's not even close to being human, Mike. Yet it can do enough task where I think it would beat you Lee. If Todd was really in a pinch and needed help with something. I'm betting on optimists over you at this current juncture right now.
And yet he takes care of us for this show.
There you go.
I'm in a lot of his Scott. See if we can buy a robot to take in take over for me, or.
At least help them, although the robots quickly don't realize like I could.
I could take this guy's job.
I could take him.
Yeah, I could take him.
The robot said, everybody, everybody, anybody, anybody, I just.
That is a wild, wild day in the life. And the first thing you guys do after you leave Virgin Care is you go to a bar, a bar middle of the day, and the picture in the background is your typical middle of the day dive bar that for some anddom reason that nobody can ever make sense of. They've got like decorations up, They've got TVs. They've got a fake backdrop where behind the bottles to make it seem like that's, you know, a real brick. It's probably not. It's wallpaper.
They've got stale wood, a cash register that looks like it's from the eighties.
It's a great dive bar, champs and uh yeah, then they had the ponies on, so I was gonna I was losing big time on the ponies yesterday.
Not surprising either.
That's the whole nother world. Yeah, that's the whole nother world.
Man.
He dropped sixty bucks on the hot spot the other day won five bucks.
Oh my god.
All right, well that was Memorial Day.
Yeah, it'll uh the last Memorial Day you guys will spend together.
I'm sure the way that the way he's gone.
So there's your update on Lee's Buddy Todd and you can see the before and after at Lee to lap On X is where you can find that stuff. So it's very disgusting. Don't do it while you're eating breakfast.
I'll just say that.
So we do have a little bit of an update here. Somebody feels threatened. I don't know if you guys are familiar with Darryl hush Ducet. He's a quarterback for the US national flag football team, and he is concerned that maybe NFL players getting an opportunity to play flag football could take away chances for them, because he feels like they've earned the right. It's a completely different game. If they want to come in and try out and they make the team, fine, but he feels like that they don't need anybody. They don't need the NFL's help. But he feels like this is going to be something to where if the NFL gets there get a hold of it, or if they start taking players from the NFL, that all of a sudden, guys who have been growing with flag football over the past several years are going to be iced down a little bit, to which I say, dude, you need whatever coverage you're gonna get.
If it means bringing in a couple of superstars to grow the sport. Why would you turn that down.
We also just be honest about the fact that yes, it's I mean, have you seen this guy throw?
Yeah, I mean it's just what's wrong with it?
Well, he ain't gonna be able to play in the NFL. Well, let's put it this way. So if the NFL players could come in and immediately take his job, which they all could and probably should and will if we want our best players in there representing our country, but the other way around would work, Like he can't make it in the NFL as a quarterback or as anything other than that. So it's not like our best guys are playing flag football in this league competing with them. So it's no disrespect for the game they've been a part of. But if these guys were good enough, they wouldn't be playing flag football. They would be playing in the NFL because that's where you actually you make real money. None of these dudes are walking around like being like, man, if I could just you know a little bit more of this flag football keeps growing, like we're really gonna get No, Like the NFL is where your hopes and dreams are for football. It's not flag football. And I'm not saying that to discourage any young people who are playing flag football. It's fun. It's not an opportunity though, to grow and play into a real sport like the NFL is, which is the greatest sport in this country. So I feel bad for him because he's thinking this way when in reality, like, dude, the best and brightest aren't playing in your sport right now. Like, the only reason that you're there right now is because they're not. If Patrick Mahomes wants to walk in, Josh Allen, who name your quarterback from the NFL, wants to walk in and play in flag football, he's going to be able to take over and be better than what you've been producing. That's just the reality of.
I mean, what else, what more is there to it? Like, I feel for you, buddy, But if they allow them to play and they want to play, and you obviously, the Olympics is the country's best, best represented you know, representatives of that sport. I mean, why would you, you know, if they if they had the opportunity to do it, why not come in and compete and listen. I like the fact that he said, come in and win the job. But I mean, be be clear. I mean, if they come in to compete with you, they're going to beat you out. Like you said, probably every single quarterback in the league and the backup and the backup would probably beat you out. So it's sad for him, you know, and it's probably sad for the other guys that would have had an opportunity to go play. But I'm reminded of that. You know, they had basketball three on three basketball in the last Olympics.
Right, yeah, Jimmer Jimmer Fourdett was on that team, wasn't he.
We didn't win gold. There were no NBA players on on the teams, right, there were no NBA players, you know what I mean? So, and we didn't win, Like, I don't even think we got silver. I don't know what metal we got. I stopped watching because I was tab it embarrassed.
Leak. Do you look up? How did we do on three on three?
Uh? So? Uh?
You know crimea river or some sort of fast answer which if you had to guess right now, which country do you think won? Uh?
The three on three gold in the Olympics. I'm gonna go Ireland? Why why not?
Knocks lock.
Okay.
In the twenty twenty four Olympics, the US men's three by three basketball team finished with a two to five record, failing to qualify for the knockout stage.
Think about that, damn, and you out here complaining about.
Women's got bronze, by the way.
Okay, and that's not even.
You know who, not even who got the gold in each who got the gold my old spice.
My Ireland got it Lee Lee fall.
Asleep, and the Netherlands won the gold by the way, Yeah, Germany women's for men's in Germany won for women's.
Okay.
I always said Germany for one of them because I was like, remember a German team winning, but.
Nether Lens beat up friends. That's interesting, man, But I think that proves my point. Like I'm sorry, bro, but you're a generic football player, damn you are. And if you're going to bring in Nike versus Pro wings, I'm bringing in the Nike crew, not the Pro Kids crew. And that just is what it is like. Tough tough nuts, tough balls, tough tough way, tough tough luck. I don't know which one it is, but I don't feel confident in getting the gold with you. I feel I feel great if it was Patrick Mahomes, or if it was you know, Justin Herbert or somebody like that, or you know, Joe Burrow, Like come on, man, hey, you know who's seven on seven on air? You know what I mean? Like flag football, Like flag football is a little bit more than seven on seven, you know, because as you're going to score, like you're working to score in a different way, like you can run the ball and stuff like that. And you I do believe you have a few linemen out there, man, but I just.
You know, they run it around, but I don't I don't think they have linemen.
Var you know, we should, uh we should get to be the quarterback of the US flag football.
Team to go for the gold, Brady Quinn, and then we can, yes, come on, he should be their front and center.
Come on, I will be the first first.
I'll tell you.
I'm not an advocate for flood flag football.
Yeah, but if you could get it, I don't know.
I don't mean to sound like disrespectful about the game flag football. I know a lot of kids play it. They have funnel a fit. It's great, it's in gym class cool. It's not football, and it bothers me a ton that we sometimes try to make it seem like, well, we'll let them play flag, then when they get older they can play at tackle. It's like no, no, no, they're gonna get older to a point where it's gonna be harder to teach them good technique. Like if you have good coach and you teach them good technique at a young age, that grows with them. And so I have an issue with it because I feel like a lot of kids when they get older and they go to play, they have bad technique. Bad technique leads to injuries, and then tackle football gets a bad rep because of that because they're like, oh, you know, so and so got hurt or so and so out did this and that. I'm like, well, yeah, because they it was a poor tackling or they didn't use the right fundamentals and trying to tackle. So I just I can't get on the flag football train. I'm sorry, it's not for me. It's it's fun to see if other people enjoy doing and all that not kind of try to rate on the parade just saying not my thing, not my style.
Me, that's exactly how I raised you.
Know, my wife would probably look at me and she'd be like, yeah, this doesn't count, and I'm like, yeah, you're probably right, yes, she would medal judge you if you brought home a gold. Half the crap that has become Olympic sports now it's like, okay, we who are we doing this?
For me?
Think about some of the most obscure sports that are in the Olympics. There's some of the crap like break dancing is one of like what how was an Olympic sport? Why is that? Why is that someone that should even make the light of TV and be like like what about that makes it a sport? And eOne wants to watch anyone's at a stay claimed to, especially when it was like interpretive. I mean the chick last year, she thought she was doing a good job, Like she thought that was actually a good job taking to someone else's spot. Oh ray gun, yeah whatever it was.
Listen.
You know art is art, and I thought she was painting a masterclass there in front of everybody, Like I was thoroughly impressed with what she was doing.
I think she was.
Screwed, And you know, it's unfortunate the backlash she got.
He's an artist is cornhole? Is cornhole an Olympic sport?
It should be? Should be? I mean, yeah, I mean.
Playing with a beer in his hand, like any buddy going for the Olympics.
Buddy.
I wish I could compete with those guys. Those guys guys are good. It's a good watch too, and I think some of them make some money. Good sponsored I was playing, I was playing yesterday.
Cornhole players make what do you think they make drinking or playing?
What do you mean?
Free beer at the cornhole competition?
There? You got Lee?
Uh, what's what's ay? Cornhole player salary?
Uh?
It's the top ones is around one hundred thousand and ninety five thousand dollars more per year.
Not bad, all right, it's.
Not bad at all. Yeah, thing a professional tailgate game, you know, it's not bad.
I do appreciate the fact that we like asked Lee like he had his fingertips. He answered that question without any research whatsoever. And it's like banking on the fact that he's right about that.
Well, the low ones make five thousand, but yeah, top players can out sixty thousand. That's a big ran. It is a huge range. Yeah, Well, you gotta be good at that cornal man.
By the way, I'm fighting out other others, but he'said top earners are from sixty to one hundred hundreds, like the top end, and yeah, we're not having sure it gets there so far. So average arnings are five to twenty five per season. Yeah, well sounds like.
Good drinking beer and free beer. So there you go.
I'm not seeing the free beer anywhere. I think you're just throwing that in.
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It is a Tuesday at this time. Tuesdays at this time have a tradition. That tradition is the one and only. Pete Prisco. Pete Prisco, senior NFL columnist for CBS Sports, CBS Sports HQ Analysts, And apparently he has pissed off. He has pissed off yet again. You can find him on x if you want some of that smoke at Prisco's CBS Peter, you pissed about the Panthers game last night?
What's going on?
Well, I mean, they should have closed them out last night, but you got three of your best players not playing, and they didn't.
Play very well.
You could tell right from the start that they weren't playing as well as Carolina. And if Carolina is a better team than what they showed in the first three games. So yeah, yeah, am I angry?
Yeah? Am I worried.
No, is that the team David Tepperons? Is that correct, Pete?
No, he's owned.
He doesn't own Carolina's hockey team.
I don't think so.
Okay, he also separate team and they've done well lately.
Yeah.
No, well, let's not get into that right now. It's not football season yet, Pete. Let's give him the twenty twenty five offseason. See what they become this season. I do want to go back to hockey. Can you explain to people, because there's some out there who they see the rats when they're throwing the ice when the Florida Panthers play, and they don't know what that means. Can you explain the history of that to people out there?
Way back in the day, the first time that they went to the Cup, they were playing in the old Miami Arena and after one of the games there was a rat in the locker room, nice, and one of.
The guys killed it with his stick.
Nice and so ever since then, that's where the rats are. That's the origin of the rats, and that's kind of carried over, but that's where it started. And it looks it's a good tradition. It's funny and they throw them all on the ice. But that's where it started to think about that that guy actually killed him with a stick. What a mean man?
Wow, Okay, he's main for killing the rat.
Well, I mean, I mean, which.
Probably probably rat traps all over the place, and they probably died a much slower, much more scruciating death, you know, being up in that that you know place, eating that poison and stuff.
Like your hands on.
I wouldn't have got my hands on him, because that skunk was was like exceptional with the spray, very regulary, like surgical. I wasn't gonna get I wasn't gonna get close enough. My dog was looking at me, I was looking at him. He was taking the brunt of it. It was bad, Pete, it was bad. It traumatized him. He saw him the other night by the way and was going nuts, like was losing it. He was crawling. He was walking across the uh the gate or whatever, and and yeah, stick saw me.
He traps. So you can take care of that skunk, uh.
I mean, I didn't invest in looking into that. I just felt like, you know, he's he's a wild animal. One he's allowed to or she is allowed to live their life until it like you know, comes to a stick being involved, or the dog gets a hold of it. Something something could happen. You just never know. But I just let it. Let it be, you know what I mean, Let it be what's going to be. You know, That's how I see it.
And what are the odds in Vegas and you're getting sprayed again?
I think about it. I think about it often every time, every time the sun starts to go down. I think about if I go out here and I sit and I have a cigar or smoking hookah with my.
Dog in the fat traumatized by it.
It's stunk, Pete. And speaking of let me transition into this, we had the conversation of of Aaron Rodgers. It continues to be the conversation when he gets to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. It's starting to stink a little bit to me, Pete, And and it's starting to reek of could this be a tremendous set up for a letdown in Pittsburgh? And what is the fallout? And I know I might sound negative, but I'm just if I'm thinking about it. He got hurt the first year, he wasn't bad the second year, statistically, but record wise they were they were poor. I don't have any real reason to think that Aaron Rodgers is going to make Pittsburgh a better football team, but there's the chance that he could. What's your like, what's your take on it?
Like?
Is this the way it's setting up and the wait for Aaron Rodgers to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers. I mean, what what's your opinion on it?
Well, you say letdown?
You let down in him playing or let down in him not playing?
I mean, what do you mean?
I mean, I mean if he doesn't play, they're gonna play with Mason Moodoff. I mean, that's a light wile, that's a letdown.
That's that's the end of the season.
Well, I mean you think what Mason Rudolph is going to take that team to play?
Okay, Well, so that's so I.
Just wanted to a letdown.
Are they better off with Aaron Rodgers than with Mason Rudolph or Will Howard?
Absolutely?
One hundred percent. And if you go back into last year, the last five six games of the year, he actually played good football. Aaron Rodgers.
I don't think he was ever healthy.
Remember all that talk you trying to come back in November December of the year before. Sure he was he wasn't even healthy early last year. He looked healthier down the stretch. He played much better. Aaron Rodgers at his age coming off that injury two years ago, is still significantly better than Mason Rudolph. And by the way, Brady Quinn at his age right now might be better than Mason Randoff.
First off, I've already said that I'm washed up, uh, and I don't want any part of that or this flag football Olympic thing, which is even worth talking about, Pete. When this guy's like, now we've earned it, We've brought the sport to this point. NFL players shouldn't be allowed to come into this.
Do you look at this?
Chuckle?
Did you see you see the video of him throwing a pass? Dude?
Come on.
But you know the reality is, though, Brady, that group that plays all that flag football could probably go into the Olympics and win the gold medal. Why would an NFL Why would an NFL player play in the Olympics.
That's the dumb.
Medal, a gold medal, the gold When.
Are the Olympics? When are the Olympics? Yeah? But when are they they're in They're in August, Sunday.
The summer, the summer.
No, there is there is July.
No, it's like July into What do you tell me.
My wife just went last year, moron.
I'll just there dad anyway.
So anyway, so if it's July, isn't that when training camp is moron.
The end of July.
There's some sports. There's some sports that actually finish like they're almost finishing when like opening ceremonies, heads like they finished pretty close to the.
Beginning of it.
Okay, but here's the here's the problem. Okay, let's take that aside. At first, it's just being.
In training camp.
You gotta be ready to play.
Be what if somebody gets hurt.
Pete, there's always that risk, and they'll have you know, they can figure that out. Here's what I would have you know, hold on, hold on. You've covered the NFL long enough to remember when dudes had second jobs and they probably had a case of beer after every day in training cant and yet now you're advocating for this whole Well, they're they're going to beer shape for trading camp.
Come on, Pete, Yeah, but you know you're gonna be You're gonna be sitting in your house drinking some beers. You're not gonna be planting and cutting your leg and you know, putting your foot in the ground and making moves. Do you remember Robert Edwards, Do you remember that cautionary tale?
Yeah, I mean it.
Was the same.
It was for that matter. I remember seeing you down off loss soles after a few drinks. You were a liability after that, so you know, any beer involved.
And by the way, I'm not going to argue you that, but I didn't have to plant my foot in the ground the next day and try and stand on a podium because I beat Great Britain's worst and France's worst.
Are you kidding me?
That's the thing. I said this the other day in our office.
I say, can you imagine this?
Here we go, we go to the podium for the metal ceremony, got Great Britain, won the sober and Branch won the bronze, and then you got the United States. And then here comes one of the best players in the NFL limping onto the podium to get his medal. But he's not going to play in the in the season. In twenty twenty eight, you okay with that?
I mean I think I have to ask if the players okay with that?
He would be the owners have already allowed to play.
They're okay with it.
The owner's already allowed it. It's not up to the players.
Then it's just I wouldn't play. I wouldn't play. I'm just not playing for gold medal.
Well, you also are gold medal. You're also a trenches guy. Like there's no lineman, there's no biting ankles or grabbing grundles or whatever you were doing, Like there's.
None of that involved. Yeah, Pete, don't be a moron. Okay, come on off, Pete. I do have a quiet for you. Come on on the tush push, which I know you are. You are sick and tired of hearing about and we have you know we're moving on. It's going to be here next year. But I am curious, do you believe And this isn't a direct shot at your Jacksonville Jaguars or Tennessee or any if this was a play that was done by Jacksonville, Tennessee, insert another franchise that isn't the Eagles and isn't as loud about it as Philly is. Is this even getting the coverage or the discussion or even being kicked around of the play getting banned at.
All, probably not. But you've got a super Bowl winning team that used it to its advantage, So I think that highlights it and makes it even that much more prominent in people's mind. So now that, yeah, I mean, look who was used by you know, a city that gets no attention by Jacksonville, sure absolutely wouldn't be the same thing.
So yeah, I hate the play.
I mean, I'm gonna sit there. I told you guys that I can't stand the play.
I think it's boring. I think it's a dumb play.
I don't like watching it. But again, I respect the fact that they've made it theirs, and they've made it work, and they wrap it and they work on it until somebody figures out a way to stop it.
And by the way, Jacksonville was actually one.
Of the teams that did stop it last year, surprisingly because the only damn thing they did very well.
Wow, I found a way to work them, man, huh.
Yeah, Well, because he's the mayor's I.
Take shots that you gotta take shots.
That's the previous regime. It was terrible. But I think when you when you look at Philadelphia, I.
Give a lot of credit to them because and by the way, this whole talk of the injury, they've had one injury on that play, Eagles, not one zero.
Well, yeah, it only takes one though, that could be catastrophic right before they.
I hate to play, Brady, I hate to play. I think they should get it out. I'm one hundred percent to be honest with you. With the League office pushing court last week, I really thought it was going to get out because they hate to play without the coaches and gms there, and it didn't.
I was a little surprised that it did not.
To me, it's a it's more of a bad look. I honestly really don't care one way or another. I don't think it looks like a football play. But what bothers me is if they're like, well, we took out the rule because we didn't feel like we can properly officiate it, It's like, dude, you have so many TV you know, cameras now and angles that. How could you not see it? How could you not make it a reviewable call and implement that rule If that's the only reason you took it out in the first place, then why wouldn't you just put it back in and just say it's a reviewable play. So if we if it appears that someone was aiding the runner, then we're going to look at it and that would be able to fix it rather quickly. I do want to ask you this, though, Pete, what would you be like.
Isn't it kind of the sun of the bush push.
Comes up?
I don't think you need to give Matt and Regis. I'm just saying you need to give them that much credit and act like those guys started it, okay.
I think he was just making sure he took a sh.
I've always said this to Matt. I was like, they didn't have to push me to have me get through there. I would have been through it that that actually started when liners stopped doing backsquats. I needn't have the leg drive to be ald a bush in there in the first place. Pete, what would.
You be going to bet like a ligne minute?
Oh yeah, yeah?
What would you be willing to bet that Aaron Rodgers is starting and playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers next year? Like you obviously are nice enough to come on with this weekly even though I think she's going on more on. But but in all seriousness, what would you be willing to bet that he's starting for the Pittsburgh Steelers when it's all said done this year?
I mean, if I had to put the odds on it, I'd say eighty five fifteen he started.
Okay, So I think LeVar is on the fence about this. We talked about this earlier in today's show. Can you make a bet?
Then?
If LeVar loses? And I don't want to speak for you, LeVar, but I think this is a good promotion. You send Pete some of your stick City lagger? Is that fair?
Okay? Okay?
If Pete wins, he sends you whatever you'd like in exchange for that whatever, Pete, what's your beer? What's your beer?
A tanning lotion? How about that? Whatever he uses that, I want you to send me a case of that piece.
I'll send you some skunk cologne or something like that. Okay, okay, So you can follow you everywhere, by the way, you know, first off, you don't have to send me the latter.
You can send me the beer I actually drink.
Is my beer? Thank you, sir?
We will you know what I get.
I'm happy, you have a beer and everything. I just want a normal, everyday light beer that's always.
Normal, that's not light.
I don't I don't want to go into a brew pub and say, hey, I'd like to have Miller light or or whatever and they say we only have we only have the beer on our tap, which is like Gator tail, smells like ret you know, Pete. And it's gonna be great.
So every one of every one.
Of those groups, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
That's right.
Here's the thing, Pete. We're gonna have Lee s because Lee visits a bar or liquor store every day, so it should not be an issue for Lee to be able to send you some sort of beer alcohol right.
Well after that store, you told that when we.
Were at the Super Bowl, I would be visiting a bar for liquor store every day.
Pete.
We appreciate it. Always fun. We'll do it again next week and go cats.
Aaron Rodgers is going to play.
I do.
He's on the fence.
I'll just on the fence on how it's going to work out.
Yeah, well I don't know how it's gonna work out either, but I think he's playing and I think he loves the attention.
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