2 Pros and a Cup of JoeJerry Jones isn’t wrong about negotiations with agents and Micah Parsons could price himself out. First-Ballot Hall of Famer, Calvin Johnson joins from the JamesHardie Pro Football HOF Invitational. Plus, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
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Tell you wish Shevin would hit me with a golf ball right now? So I have to listening to song a d C sir, Yeah, uh, just put my head on the tea.
Mister Quinn, your tailored.
Why y'all like talking over my song, y'all some haters? Man, huh uh, it's my song.
You know what?
Not?
Your song is my song?
You know what I think it is. I think it's because the song stinks. Yeah, you got problems, man, ya, yall need help?
I hate that song, dang well.
I mean it's not like I feel an ounce of shame for for loving the song like that's my song. Oh, we're not shameful, I'm keeping it for No, you're not going to shame me out of it. So choosing another song? So what we got going on? Oh oh, that's a lot of moving parts.
Yea. I was about to say, well, what is that.
Push going on?
No, dude, Jonas will share the picture. I'm set up. I'm set up right outside the tenth t and you're gonna start hearing the tea times are going off as uh, I'm singing. We'll bring it to you live from the James Hardy Invitational here in Boker, its own, Florida for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational. So here's the cool thing about today's and really this week's event. There's three main charities they're helping out the Habitsat for Humanity first Tea in the book or it's on regional Hospital. So all big time charities that are going to be receiving a lot of funds too from this week's event. So pretty cool deal for the James Hardy Corporation to team up with the Pro Football Hall of Fame to put this together.
And people are letting the F bombs fly a little bit.
There wasn't an F bomb. It was more of a s you know bomb if you will, But I mean there might have been one some guy that I'm literally near the tenth tee and like the registration, so there's a lot of people kind of moving in and out.
So we did years ago. We were at Tory Pines and we were there doing the show, like and people are just kind of cruising through. And it was later in the day. It was like around new and or one o'clock local time there and Tory Pines and La Joia and David Wells walked by and was right within shouting distance to us, and he was drinking like a couple of beers, but it was like a couple of beers, and he was just taking the plastic cups and stacking them on top of each other to show everybody his work, and was dropping f bombs left and right. And at a certain point, you only have so many dumps that you got because it's coming up over the air and we're like, just got to let it go. So anybody who was listening to that from a golf event before, you heard some profanities, and maybe we'll get a few of that coming up here throughout the course of the show with Brady Quinn although I don't know if people do people since it's like a prestigious thing. Are people been in the elbow or they wait until afterwards?
In I think they will bend the elbow there is so how the pairing goes is each group will get a professional, a senior PGA Tour player as well as a Pro Football Hall of Famer, and then there's three amateurs that go along. So I would imagine those three people that are coming along as part of this probably been in the elbow a little bit. There was a pairings party last night where they announce like who they're playing with, and I was at the when I checked in the hotel, it seemed like there's a bunch of people coming from the event and they seem pretty sauced up. Like just imagine that you had one hundred and twenty les walking around after a long night out. Essence, that's an essence what you.
Had you see that at waste management, bro that that did crazy.
Let me ask you this about so when do you t off?
I don't see off till this afternoon, not till like twelve fifty, So we'll see how that goes. There could be some weather at that time of the day. But the morning looks clear, it looks cool. I did tap in with a couple people. It's just it's the first day they're having this, so it might be tough to be able to get guys to come on. Because a couple of them were like, my tea times in twenty minutes and I'm not even there yet, So we'll see how this looks and starts to take.
That stuff seriously, right, Hell yeah, Like guys like Tim Brown and them, they're like really, they're like really serious about like like Marcus Allen and all of that.
Yeah, and Timmy Brown teeth off at eight, and again I have not seen him yet. He's and be going off the first t so I probably won't get to see him swing. But uh, Thereshon Randall, he takes it John Randall, Yeah, he's teen off at seven.
He keeps some nice cigars with him, you got.
I'm a cigar smoker, so I want to I'll swing, I'll swing the polls, but I just I want to smoke cigars and drink a beer when I'm out there. That's really all I want to do. And get to Molly's at the the you know, the stop in clubhouses around, like, what is it whole the whole night.
I guess they have it at a couple.
Well that's usually after the round, but yeah, you know somebody's at the turn.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, So I like doing that, you know, I mean, but you stay close to John Randall. I wanted them evins he's gonna have a dope ass cigar already.
I already saw him walk in and I was like, damn, yeah, he still looks like he could play right now.
He looks exactly the same.
You know how guys are, like they're kind of towards the end of their career and they'll say, all he wants to sign with the Super Bowl contender. I'll mark my words. John Randall could sign with the team going to the playoffs and give them meaningful minutes right now based on what I just saw as he walked.
In, and just what a dope person Brouh wanted.
The nicest dude you'll ever meet, man, Like, just so super cool dude. Man.
So back during the day, when what was it like Randy Moss and Chris Carter with Dante Culpepper like heaving it up. I remember when the first Nintendo sixty four, like Madden Game came out, I would always play with the Vikings. Like I loved Robert Smith. He came in and talked to us so when I was like young, so I kind of followed his career as he was kind of a part of that team too, And for whatever reason, John Randall was such a beast in that game. Sometime I'd put him all the way back at free safety and he'd be like picking balls and stuff like that. I'd move him around everywhere like he was like my Troy Paul Malou where I would put him like anywhere on the field, Like if I needed a sack, I'd put him down the line. If it was like a third and long situation, I'd put him back at free safety and he'd be like picking balls off. I don't know how realistic the Madden game was back then for Nintendo sixty four, but I literally used to play with the Vikings all all the time, and in part because of John Randall.
Yeah, you just throw that up.
Though you throw it up, somebody coming down with it on that one with that team.
See let it.
Roll, speaking of great defenders. As we do this show live here from the tire rack dot com. Studios tire rack dot com. We'll help you get there an unmatched selection, fast free shipping, free road has a protection at over ten thousand recommended installers. Tire rack dot com The way tire buying should be. Micah Parsons is in line for a big contract. There was a report out that maybe the Cowboys have already have an offer out to Michaeh Parsons that would make him the highest paid non quarterback in the league in NFL history. And so Jerry Jones was at the owners meetings in Florida yesterday and he had a discussion about not only working with Micah to try and find commonality on a deal, but also maybe a little bit of a shot at Micah Parsons agent. David mulagedto, let's take a listen.
The agent is not a factory, are something to worry about, And I don't know his name, And so my point is that I'm not trying to be meaning in any way, but just isn't about an agent.
The agent doesn't.
Have one thing to do with what we're doing on when we get on football field against the team Mike does to the degree I'm involved and the people that have something to do with what we do going forward relative to our fans in football for me and the player, but not the agent.
What hell? What the hell is Jerry talking about?
So, Clarence Hill what who's covered the Cowboys for a long time? Set out the following tweet, Jerry Jones with blatant disrespect to Michael Parsons agent David Mullageta. The agent is not a concern here. Muligeta is one of the best and most respected agents in the NFL. Parsons is wise to have hired him. So Michael Parker.
People will get to get fired by t Higgins.
Yeah I believe so.
Yeah, Well all right, anyway, here's the thing is, Jerry is not wrong. In the most direct line of communication from him to Mica or in any business. The only thing you're doing, it's the quickest way, fastest way to get stuff done. Like there's the people who usually mess up deals are the people in between who are trying to you know, look, David, look at it. Has done a great job for his clients. He's going to at times they'll continue to push push, push, push push, and that's gonna take this. It's gonna make the deal harder to come by. It's gonna take it longer for them to sign the deal. And then Jerry Jones is gonna try to get his one of his best players for as cheap as possible. That's just how it works. So the more people you eliminate in between point A and point B, the easier that negotiation is gonna be. There is truth to what Jerry's saying. I just don't think it's gonna go well on these negotiations.
While I'll say, your agent, this is something that should be stated but isn't very clear. More often than your agent is your employee. Your agent works for you. You're paying your agent to work for you. That should be stated because I think that that's something that gets maybe screwed up or gets diluted or gets confused.
You're not best friends.
It's not your uncle, he's not your dad, he's not your father figure.
He's your agent.
And that's where I will say it does make sense where you have the conversations with the people that you're going to do to deal with. If that's Jerry, you have those conversations with Jerry. If you're the player, and then as you get deeper into the negotiations and the conversations, then you allow your this is how I view it. Now, maybe people have a different approach to how they go about doing these things, and clearly I that's screwed. So maybe maybe my approach isn't the right approach. But I just feel like you should be in conversations with with the people who are paying you during those times, so you guys can have a firm understanding of what the deliverables are, what the expectations are on both sides, and then you let the agent kind of like go through the language of it and the different things that are connected to it.
Because in the end, if.
We're being if we're being honest an agent, if you look at the definition of what an agent is, they find they're hired to find something. You find it right, I find you a job, I will negotiate your deal, and I take a percentage of it.
You're not looking for anything with Mike Parsons.
There's nothing to look for it, there's nothing to seek, there's nothing to search out.
Like when you look.
At the relationship aspect of it, I get that you've built relationships through the years doing doing contracts with all the different organizations. Okay, I understand you guys may have a better line of communication, can get things discussed and worked out, ironed out, little details, okay, But for the most part, you know what it's going to be. You know what the comps are. He's gonna want more than Miles Garrett probably. I mean, it has a great argument to get it or be right there at it.
What else is there?
Like?
What else is there? And as an agent like you could try to push the envelope as far as you can. But one thing that I've learned in life, you can price yourself out. There's the possibility of pricing yourself out, and you just got to be aware of where that threshold is as the player, so that your expectations for your agent are are realistic expectations too, because if you're just relying on your agent, your agent's gonna tell you what it is and this, that and the other la bla you, then you are at the mercy of what the agent wants to do. And that's not how it should be. Your agent is supposed to execute what it is that you want done. Get the education, understand what that represents, and have a conversation with your representation and let them go through it with with with the owner or whoever it is the negotiator that's doing the contract negotiation.
At least that's how I see it.
Micah had his back, you know, he defended this agent on social media, so in lockstep he said, I hope.
You he's paying the guy. He'p you defend him a couple of things on the actual negotiation. All this itself, as you would imagine, the Dallas Cowboys have waited probably too long to get I wouldn't say a discount, but not to push the envelope down the road so far that you're going to see a deal that maybe tries to serve pass Mile Scarett. Right, And to your point, LeVar, I think he's put himself in that position because of his age, he's coming off his rookie deal and his production, so all those things are aligning for him to try to surpass that number that Miles Garrett assigned for. So that's that's one of the big things. The hard part for it is he's playing under his fifth year option this year, so he's going to make a little over twenty four million, which the reason why that kind of matters from a cap planning standpoint, a negotiation standpoint is when you get this far down the road and a rookie deal, you know the team has prepared for, you know, having you on under the cap for you know, X amount of dollars based on how things are going. So like let's say after year three and twenty twenty three, they would have had him planning on him being there for year four, being there for that fifth year option because he's obviously proven himself, and so they can plan that into a lot of their other negotiations and what things look like. Well, now you get to the fifth year option, you've already planned into twenty four million, but it's it's probably going to be more substantial than that, And then you have to least look at the next two years as far as the franchise tag and then a second franchise tag, like that's the floor of the negotiations. And the problem with that is that number obviously increases exponentially because of the Miles Garrett deal and how that impacts you know, his specific position. So this I don't think it will be complicated because I think Jerry, at the end of the day, always takes care of his boys, his guys he always has, but it seems like he does like waiting or making them wait, making them continually prove themselves. And that's just his way of doing it. You know, if he's gonna shell out a bunch of money and reset the market and and pay these guys, you know, top dollar, and that's obviously what David Mullagett is gonna try to do. He's gonna try to reset the market at that position. H You know it. They always tend to push the en votes so long to the point where it actually hurts the salary cap for the Dallas Cowboys. But that's been what we've seen Jerry Jones do for the previous I don't know, like three big contracts they've signed with Ceedee Lamb, Dak Prescott, et cetera.
Do you think Jerry Jones do you think Jerry really doesn't know who David Mulagett is. Do you think he doesn't know his name?
He does?
Well, he's old too. We should give him the benefit of that, you know what I'm saying.
And I mean his first it wasn't like a significant deal, but I mean, I don't know how many players have played for Dallas that Mula Gata has represented and how many times has Jerry Jones gotten involved in the negotiation?
I just looked up. I think Malie Hooker is a David Mulligata client.
I think isn't Trayvon Diggs. I think Trayvon Diggs may be. I could be wrong. Here's what I'll say. I'll take them at face value and say he doesn't really know who he is. And sometimes sometimes man, sometimes agents, you know, sometimes agents are a little bit like, you know, too high on themselves. The opinion of themselves is too high. Do she That's a good word. That could be a good word for it. I mean, it's just like your relevance is somebody like you don't have to.
Waite agents not like that. I don't care. I don't care who your agent is.
If you're Michael Parsons, you're not You're not gonna have that heart of a job.
Wait, Jonas, is your agent named Jill? Isn't your agent's name?
That is correct?
Just look at your left hand for big fan.
Dang.
She really she really works hard.
I mean, who's like, what what does David Mullagetta really have to do in this situation other than wait for Jerry Jones.
What else does he have to do? I mean, honestly so.
To Jerry's point, To Jerry's point, what happens on the field, like he doesn't have anything to do with it.
Didn't David Mullagetta, negotiate your contract with Stop you stop, bro, what are you doing?
Don't make this like this me.
I don't have no beef with that dude. I don'tingularly like the way the dude is. But I don't even know him. I don't know him either. I'm like Jerry, I know his name, but I don't know him.
It is a.
Valid point, it's a valid point. But there are some nuances to the contract strung sure, you know, seeing when the salary caps going, making sure that two three years from now. Mike is still excited about the deal, and he's now looking back at his agent going, man, what do you do? What do you put me in? I'm getting surpassed by these guys or I don't have the guarantees that I want within my contract. I mean, you'd like to put your player in a position where he can get as many years guaranteed as possible and as much money up front as possible, like those are obviously the biggest things you're trying to negotiate. So there are some there are some things that I think David Mulligetta, really agent for that matter, can provide. But there is something too, like you've got arguably that's one of the top defensive players, Like it should be that hard.
All I gotta do is be certified and be able to read. If I know how to read, then I'm gonna be okay with Michael Parsons and in negotiating his contract. I want this much guarantee needs to be more than what Males Garrett's got. That's where we're starting. That's where we're starting. That's where we're ending. And all I need to do is be able to go through legal documents line for life, and I mean go through that bad boy line for line. Don't take not one break on what the line for line.
Is because they'll get you.
They will get and you better make sure that you read it three times, get three four times. Make sure everybody signed off because there are mistakes. It's so crazy. Mistakes are made in these contracts, and you gotta see it because you got everybody's got to sign off on it. It's got to get certain. Look, you hardly saw how my voice went up. His mother efforts jacked up my contract, jacked up my career in DC because because the whole corrections that were like literally corrections littered all through the contract. But because of the timeline and the deadline for doing it for cap purposes, we just rushed and we rushed to get it done. And I'm like, I want to help the front the tea. I want to be here forever, so if something goes wrong, we'll be fine because we'll fix it. Sure enough, something went wrong. But anyway, you got to certify the contract. Everybody's got to sign off on it. I just say, have a lawyer, man, have a lawyer, like a forensic type lawyer that's that's certified within doing NFL contracts by the PA or whatever the whole qualifications are. Have a lawyer go through that man. Pay them for the hour to go through your contracts. And look at if I'm a Michael Parsons. If I'm a Michael Parsons, I just need to know how to read, man, I just need to know how to read.
It's all that works.
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Two Pros and a Cup of Joe, Fox Sports Radio, LaVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you here coming up and we'll call it a little over fifteen minutes from now here from the tire rack dot Com Studios, we are going to have our Midweek Awards, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, that is a Wednesday tradition here on the show that will be yours here on FSR. Brady Quinn though is in Florida and he's ready to golf. But before he golfs and before he partakes and going out there and shooting like fifteen under par at the boots on the ground coverage that we are providing for you here at the James Hardy Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational in Boca, Florida at the Old Course at Broken Sound. We are now joined by also a Hall of Famer, Calvin Johnson is with us here. Calvin, thanks so much for the time. Man, Do you get nervous before you go out there and swing the clubs? Or is this you know just kind of.
No, I've embarrassed myself plenty of times.
That is. It's an interesting question though, because again, the elite of the elite in the game of football, and then you come play the game of golf and at times it's it's very humbling.
Oh yeah.
And I think one of the biggest misconceptions too about watching professional golf versus you never see bad shots on TV. Like that's one thing with football is like you'll see some bad plays here or there, but in golf, like they only show the highlights. They never show the low lights of players for the most part. So the thought is like every PGA Tour player just stripes it. That's that's usually not the case. But talk to us a little bit about just the event itself, what brought you here, and I just kind of you're excitement for it.
Yeah, I mean one of the big biggest things I'm most excited about is that, you know, I'm in Michigan, so this is like one of the few times in the New Year that I've brought out my club. So being able to get down here, obviously playing this event, being able to play with pros anytime you can play with pros, man, it's special just to be able to see them. Like you say, it's stripped the ball for the most part, do stripe it all the time, but you know, and then and then you might have one or two shots that might beat him out during the whole course of the day. But that's just one or two out of seventy shots.
That's right, Megatron, It's LeVar Man. How you feeling, man, Everything good, very well, thank you. I got to ask the question, it's one of the dopest nicknames that a guy could get, and to get it at the wide receiver position.
Where did it come from? Where? Like, do you remember the first person who called you that? Where? What's the origin of the nickname? Megatron?
So in two thousand and seven, the first Transformers movie came out, and uh, just during that year, Roy Williams just started calling me Megatron, Mega t that's Mega Tron wow. And then he's just finally stuck in after that second year, I was calling me Mega Tron.
Wow. That's pretty dope.
So Roy Williams, Roy, your teammate, Roy Williams, not Roy Williams, the Dallas Cowboy Roy.
Yeah Williams U T receiver Yeah.
Okay, nice and y'all were y'all were transformers. He was just as tall as you were, right, I were.
The same height and towers out there.
Calvi, what's been the biggest now that you've been back to Detroit and had a chance to see how things are there now? The culture, what Dan Campbell's done with the front office has done what stood out to you the most as far as the difference between now and when you were there as a player.
I mean you spoke to it already. It's just the culture, you know, the energy around that building. People wanted to be there, not that we didn't want to go to do our job when I was playing ball there, but you can you can feel it when you walk into the building. You see the smiling faces. People love to be there to do their job because there's a level of accountability. And with that accountability, you know, people are able to overcome whatever obstacles because they know they're being held accountable to the job that they have to do. And I think that when you're able to overcome adversity like this team has done, like Dan has brought this team over the last couple of years, you know, from where it was when he got there to where they are now as as a contender every year. There's that level of accomplishment right there. You know, that's what everybody sees, they know that came from. And then with that, you know, the guys or you know guys come in there, you know, ready to do whatever they can to help this team, you know, get to you know, the where they want to go.
Calvin, I don't know what was it like when you found out you're getting the Pro Football Hall of fam Like, take me through the moment, take me through just I don't know your feelings, Like did you have a sense that you'd be a first ballot you're getting in right away, and did you have any sense of like how the whole process would work.
Had no idea, had no idea that I would get in. I didn't think I would get in on the on the first one because everybody, you know, thing was out. I didn't play long enoughing like shooting. I mean I played a decent amount of time there, But just going to when I got inducted, I guess I was in the garage taking a late meeting and my wife was telling me the hey, her girlfriend's here, come say hello or my family. Oh yeah, this is during COVID. Oh yeah, that's right. So it was during COVID. We were having family meetings or just because we couldn't see each other, so we would get on the call like every like once a month, and this is is that time and during the month to get on the call, and she's like, come on, it's time to talk. And I go inside get them to get on the call, and then I here. I guess my wife had my family young because she knew. And then I hear the doorbell rang. She was like, oh, it's it's just my girlfriend and her girlfriends who she said it was. She's rather a small figure. And I looked at the door. It's like a damn bear. Hell no. I was like, let me go grab my pistol. She's like, first, she's like, don't go get your pistol. I'm like, what do you mean? You see what I'll see? She was like, don't go get you And then when she said it like the second or third time, I kind of like, let me go. When I walked to the door, open the door. And it's just a flush of emotions kind of just you know, instantly go back and relive a lot of those moments, you know, from you know, high school to middle school, high school, college, all the way up.
It's crazy refresh my memory on who the bear was at the door, because they usually have a teammate, but the the guy that runs the Hall of Fame or whatever, he's a big fellas and he's usually there at times as well.
But who was the big figure? Yeah, yeah, yeah it was.
Not you're not a do it with your teammates, but yeah, he's a big dude. Yeah.
All right, all right, So one last quick question for me and looking at where the rules are now in the game, and I mean you're not too far removed, but just looking at how things are done now, what what type of career, like, what type of yardage, what type of advantages do you think you would have in today's NFL versus the one you played.
In, Man, I'd be me and my receiver buddy and were talking, you know, the guys I played with around the same time. We was just looking at looking at it now, like dang, you can't test the receiver in the first five yards. Now, I'm like, shit, I wish that was the case. I feel like I was dragging guys in the first five yards all the time. Then again then I guess they're playing a lot more attention to the contact after five yards, and I'm just like wow, Like I feel like I was dragging dudes fifteen yards down the field, like that would be lovely if I could just run.
Geez. Yeah, that's well.
Listen, Calvin, we know you got to get to it, man. We appreciate a few minutes your time. Always good to catch up with a Hall of Famer, And thanks so much for joining us here on Fox Sports Trading.
There he is, Calvi, I just.
Hit a ball just now, didn't I Is that what we just hurt?
Calvin Johnson with us here on Fox Sports Radio the Hall of Famer there maybe from the Detroit Lions, and uh yeah, it is a good point.
Yes, someone just did hit a bit. I believe that actually would Uh, it might have been mark Ingram's group.
They made a good, good contact with it. I heard it, okay.
Good, it doesn't sound like that when I swing it for some reason.
I'm sure you're having way more fun where you're at than where we are.
Bro.
You guys are more than welcome to come on out of flying out for that.
And I would do these types of things, would you if you let us know in advance?
Okay, okay, And I'm trying to work on more of this stuff.
Yeah, I mean you're the one that gets invited to everything. Man, you got to invite us. I just had Jonas other stuff.
Let me let me world there. They said you couldn't wear salmon pants, and so then Jonnas immediately opted out.
I'm not going to play by everybody's rules like I have my own rules.
They also said they don't allow vampires on that Yeah, in particular.
Excuse me, sir, there's gonna be sunlight. It's not for you.
No fangs allowed, not for your kid.
Dang.
It is like because I've I've heard people throw out, man, what would Dan Marino like some of the other players, Man, what would they do in.
This new league?
Like you can't touch like I've seen Dan Marino get planted, like I've seen quarterbacks in that era of time get absolutely just destroyed. I'm talking and you get like two three steps back then now it was coming to an end during my time.
You got one in half when I was coming through.
At one point, I got two steps to go hit a quarterback after they released the ball.
Think about that, that was the rule.
You know what's really interesting about how football, like you hear more of the old time players are the ones that are like saying now, like I would have done this in today's NFL, would have done this in the NBA. It's always comparing the current players to the past players. It's like the other way around, and it's like, oh, Kevin Durant would have scored two hundred and fifty whatever points they against Bill Russell, all right, and you're like, wait a second, Like you don't think Bill Russell would have been able to dominate in today's NBA just because of you know the rules and how they were back then.
People need to go look up Wilt Chamberlain, like look it up like he was in now of it too.
All of it off the court as well.
Yeah, like well, yeah, I mean all of it when.
You say he was a Hall of Famer in every like every ounce of what that is, all of its stilt.
That's what they call him about that, that's what they called him. Look up his athletic accomplishments. It'll blow your mind. Like he how strong he was, how he used to do the high jump with the one that you jumped over like you ain't. You didn't even use the the the whole thing you land on like go over with your back. And now this dude was jump. He was high jumping like where you hurdle the high jump, like the old school way of high jumping. Dude's athletic ability was super ridiculously sick.
Look him up.
But anyway, a dude like Megatron, there's certain dudes that could have played in every every single era of time. He's one of those guys, Like I was a big fan of his his game, but he's one of those those just physical specimens that he could have. His his talent would translate in any anytime that that the NFL has been around.
Bread Did you play against him in college?
Too?
Did you get was it?
Because I know you guys played against each other in the NFL. Did you play in college too? Who? Uh you did?
Notre Dame played Georgia Tech. Yeah, we played him in our our senior year. Now in Georgia Tech. I'm pretty sure my dad got in a fight, like in the stands or maybe before the game. There was a uh those look the South knows how to party. It was a night game to open the season, and they were rowdy, and uh yeah, that was Calvin's in the final year. I don't know if it was a I thought. I think we were the same class, but it was a tight game. They were a much better team that I think people realized. But uh yeah, I'm pretty sure Chopper got into it with someone at some point in time. So it was it was a pretty uh hotly contested game.
What what year did you get drafted?
Oh?
Seven? Yeah, the same one year, so Calvin was drafted number two overall.
Oh y'all came out oh seven draft together?
Yeah? Okay, yep, go oh seven draft when he had trained down in Orlando. But we had cross paths a little bit, and I just remember like, and I'm obviously seeing him, you know, when you're playing against him, How I'm watching him because I'm admiring you will never see. And this is I think one of the reasons why he's a first ballot Hall of Famer. If you asked any quarterback during his time who he'd want to throw to, they would have sent Calvin Johnson. And I actually think that's one of the cases that I don't know the people will hold that against Matt Stafford. But if you're looking at like the numbers for Matt Stafford, how prolific he has been. Don't get me wrong, He's a talented quarterback. He's got arm talent, very rare in NFL history. But it also helped to have those two twin towers you mentioned in or two power forwards if you will, that were catching footballs for him and especially Calvin for such a long period, almost his entire career. So you know, just watching him, especially when we only play in the NFL, you're just going a holy cow. I mean, you could throw a ball in a spot where only he could get it, and it didn't matter if they had two guys on them, because those guys weren't gonna be able to elevate and jump and high point the football like he could.
Yeah, he felt that way about Sean Taylor about the way, happy birthday to you, bro yesterday, but happy birthday.
Yeah.
Yes.
Dice freaks man.
Just physical gifted freaks. Just see them and be like, what am I looking at right now? Like mutants. There's there's a few of us in football that we look like mutants. But basketball players they all look like avatars, you know. Yeah, except for Michael Conley, he looks normal. Yeah, it looks more like you, you know.
Label to you. Yeah, all right, you got one up top. Hell yeah.
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Of course, there are some good things that happen, and there's some bad, and then there's some downright ugly things. It's type for good, bad.
And ugly, all right, lead to laugh, who's got what?
Well?
As we do each shit every Wednesday, we start with the good, and this week we get really good news because we got a little bar handed oother good.
I don't know if it's good news, but I'll say my good for the week is Kanye delivered again. I mean every once in a while he gives you a nice little uh vacation from looking at sports headlines, and he steals the headlines and well his latest his latest interview, he definitely gave gave me some entertainment.
Where he delivered is all I will say, what do you mean? I'm not I'm not certain.
I don't know where woke, where the woke for the community comes in to play on this one. I don't know where the any other community, the Jewish community, the white community.
You know, I don't know what.
I don't know where all the lines are drawn on this one in particular. But Kanye West definitely gave you a reason to well ask yourself the question. So it was a good vacation for me from you know, sports and wondering about sports and trying to figure get my head wrapped around.
What he did for the for the radio audience, like like how did it look?
Well, you just got to look it up, you know. But it was a robe that he had on, one of those uh historical robes that's a part of American history. Uh. There was a a hood, a hooded mask. A hood went to a point, it had a point very high point, like also connected to the historic outfit that was worn before. Yeah, yeah, you know he could have had like a you know what or the things called that wizard's head. That's right, it could have been a wizard would have wand no, I don't know, but that was my good for the week.
Ye to it.
We can't have good without the bad, I suppose, or bad without the bad.
Brady, what was bad this week?
Oh boy?
Uh?
Well, last night, I'm not sure if anyone was watching the Hawks game, but they had a uh they had a I'm not a competition, I guess you'd say, and had halftime where her one of their fans in trying to go attempt to I don't know, hit whatever or however many shots. It looked like it towards a cl and it was bad. I mean, he he was running towards the basket, clearly didn't have the proper attire and shoes on, and when he went down he thought for a second it might be an April Fool's joke, and then he kept laying there and they cut quickly away. But it's gotten viral, and unfortunately that is my bad for this week. Hope that hope that young man's all right.
The best part was that the competition. The other fan that was there just kept on going and crushed him.
In the competition.
Would the I don't know, but he did win. I don't know what the prize was, but the announcer was saying like, hey man, you might want to take a break. I'll look that up to see what he want. Guys can't have bad without well from bad to words, Jonas, what was ugly this week?
The Atlanta Braves.
The Atlanta Braves came into the season second shortest.
Odds to win the World Series.
They are currently the only team in Major League Baseball without a win on the year. They followed the Dodgers last night. They're now oh and six and on top of all that, Jerrickson Profar, one of their players, a free agent signing this offseason, pissed hot and got popped eighty games. So he's on the gas and they catch it again. Come on, man, it's that's the good old days, you know, when when when people had the guts to say, you know what, despite all the shame I might get, I'm gonna go ahead and take that because I want to I want to get paid. The good old days. So that's my my ugly.
For the week. The awful start of the Atlanta Brids. So there we go.
All right, we'll test some PDS just to see how Jonas reacts by piss hot.
Yeah, why not?
Well that's why he says, is your suspensions punishment every time you're off.
Yeah, but that hasn't been legit. It's always like charity work or something with the family.
I don't know, man, People are starting to believe it's pds.
