Hour 2 - NBA Finals Preview, Mike Tannenbaum

Published May 31, 2024, 5:03 PM

Dan Patrick previews the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Mavericks and gives his thoughts on what Boston will need to do to win the title. Dan reacts to the latest headlines around the NFL, including Jaylen Waddle's extension and the Bears being the latest team to host Hard Knocks during training camp. Former NFL GM Mike Tannenbaum joins DP to discuss the expectations for Caleb Williams in his rookie season in Chicago.

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Player that will decide the finals Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, Luka Dancic, Kyrie Irving or other other.

Yes, what do you think who is going to who is going to decide? Yeah, I'll say Luca. I'll say Luca. Is that in a good way or a bad way? Well, I'm gonna say Luca. Is it his offense that in a good way or his defense in a bad way. I don't think it'll be defense. I think it's it.

If they let him go off like Minnesota did last night, then he can change the series. But if they have and they'll have better defenders on him, they'll have more defenders on him, He'll have different looks pretty much, you know, from quarter to quarter, certainly game to game. So I would say, if Boston's able to neutralize him, you know, you might have Kyrie go off on a heater, but you know, Luca is the one that can put up fifty or sixty. Now, I would say how they play defense on him will be, you know, will determine if Boston's going to win the title or not, or Dallas is going to win or lose.

So I'd say Luca.

Boston has a lot of weapons and they you know, it could be you know, Drew Holliday has a good night. You know, certainly with Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, they have experience of being here. Al Horford can shoot threes. I mean, they do have players who have experience, and I think he got to factor that in because we saw Minnesota they didn't have experience and it showed last night because that's where you need to get out. You need to get a step on the accelerators when you step on the floor, and they did not. It's almost like they were trying to shift gears but there was no clutch. And Anthony Edwards had a good series, not a great series as it ends in five. But I think Minnesota has a lot to be proud of to get to this point, just like the Knicks. Now, although the Knicks were under man they weren't healthy, but Minnesota surprised a lot of people to do what you did to Denver in Denver three times. Nobody does that until you guys came along. You know, we'll slow the he's the next Michael Jordan. You know, we'll table that till next season. Now it's going to be as Luca the best player in the world. That'll be the conversation today. Nothing has changed really with Luca except for now he's playing for a title. As if what he did before there was no validation of that. Now you're playing for a title, well you got to be great. It's just like Joker. Yeah, people in the media that just thought, well, he's a stat stuffer, and I go, no, he could if he wanted to, then he should take twenty five shots a game. If he really wanted to pat his stats, that's not who he is. Luca can pad his stats and we look at all, right, there's a triple double. Great, he does that every night. What he's doing now, this is what he does. It's just people are now watching it. Now it means more. Now you're gonna go to the NBA finals. Now, all of a sudden, there's validation, just like Joker. Once he won the title, then all of a sudden it validated those MVPs yes, MARV.

Going into next season, does Anthony Edwards get real consideration for MVP at the beginning of the season because.

Of the game run?

Who would have better odds between these two players, Anthony Edwards Jalen Brunson. Who is going to be given more consideration for MVP based off what we saw in the playoffs? I would think Jalen Brunson MVP. That doesn't mean he's a better player than Anthony Edwards are more talented, it's the value that he showed in the postseason.

Yes, yes, I'm gonna say a man only because his team will probably have a better record than the Knicks.

Well, it does help that Brunson plays in New York as well, and that ground swell of coverage compliments and he played well. I mean, he earned that right to be an MVP candidate, absolutely, and even more so in the postseason. But I would I'd be curious who has better odds because Luca, to me, if he wins the title is going to be the odds on favor to be the MVP next season, then you'll still have Joker in there. If Tatum wins, then maybe Jason Tatum will have better odds to win the MVP, and I'm looking you know, there are some odds here, the odds to win the finals MVP. It's Jason Tatum, then it's Luca, then it's Jalen Brown. Kyrie Irving is a distant fourth. Here the Celtics are favored. Got a wait a week here, Christops porzingis his availability. I'm expecting him to be playing in the series in the finals. If you're Dallas, you probably want to have this series start right now, like this morning or late last night. Can we start the NBA Finals. This is just a sampling of Luca in the first quarter last night.

Fourteen from Lucas going on here.

Gears on Monday night, oke delay Anderson controlled by them out.

There goes another heat check from Luca chi Chigne. Another three.

He's a fine flower.

He has over fired twenty points.

Reggie and Kevin Harland on the call. Here's Jason Kidd after the game talking about Luca.

Well, he was definitely Luca magic mode and just thinking about is he going to play all forty eight? You know, why not if he's going like that again? I thought he set the tone and then he just made it easier for everybody else. And everybody else stepped up.

Jake Kid is monotone. Yeah, if he was going to play forty eight way he was playing, and he could have just stayed out there and then that would have been great.

Boy.

He was really impressive last night, wasn't he. That's Jay Kid.

But you know, it's fun to watch a surprising watch from the first quarter when Luke out scores Minnesota twenty to nineteen. But yeah, Boston will be ready. Boston will be ready for Kyrie. I hope Boston's ready for Luca as well, but I know the fans will be ready for Kyrie.

All right.

So that's what went on last night. Panthers over the Rangers. They're up three to two and a chance to go back to the Stanley.

Final.

I was watching, you know, I couldn't watch the basketball game too long because it was over. It was twenty nine points at a half time. I go, let's see how my Panthers are doing. And they ended up beating the Rangers. What a great series though, it feels like everything over time one goal. It's been great and the Bears hard knocks. Congratulations, Paul. The Bears are on hard knocks prior to the start of the season, not to be confused with the Giants part of hard Knocks prior to the start of the prior to the start of the season.

Very exciting. Bears are very relevant in the off season.

Yes, yeah, I like their chances.

I do.

I'm on the hype train.

Okay, how many rookie quarterbacks have made the postseason, Let's say, in the last twenty years, because that's what we're asking Caleb Williams to do. By the way, Mike Tannenbaum, former front office executive in the NFL, Neil John is coming up because the wide receiver market is being reset. It feels like every week. And I'm curious because Jalen Waddle he got money that number one wide receivers get in Miami. I was surprised, and justin Jefferson, he might be looking for thirty three thirty four million dollars a year, maybe thirty five million dollars a year. And you're going to get to the point where do you pay him with a rookie quarterback coming in or do you trade him? And I thought they were going to trade him, And prior to the draft, I thought that they were going to go up and maybe go up to number two and trade with Washington and take Daniels. I thought that they were going to do that, but now you got JJ McCarthy and Sam Darnold. So trying to get something out of your rookie quarterback. But you know, here's another thing. I think people look at the Bears and they go, well, the Bears are bad. They had the number one pick. Well, no, they made a great trade, and then they he got the number one pick from Carolina, who is really bad. The Bears weren't bad last year. At seven wins, you can tackle on a couple more here, maybe squeeze in a wild card team. How many rookie quarterbacks have made the postseason?

They kind of led their team. Russell Wilson, he won a playoff game as a rookie. Robert Griffin third got the Redskins to the playoffs, Andrew Luck he didn't win. Andy Dalton played a playoff game. This is recent history, Mark Sanchez, Joe Flacco, Matt Ryan, of course, Ben Roethlisberger.

But how many of those quarterbacks played on teams that were good before they got there. Russ goes to a Seattle team that was good. Ben was on a Pittsburgh team that was good, Andrew Luck not on a team that was good.

Yeah, Paul, they weirdly, the Colts weren't that bad. They lost Peyton Manning and they reverted back to awfulness. But their roster wasn't bad.

Okay.

It was the Curtis Painter year. Ooh, no offense, and the Cults weren't the bad like a bad roster okay.

Because the Bears, you know, they have a good roster.

It's not elite, but you know, I thought that they made some you know good You bring in Keenan Allen, I'm assuming he's going to be good. You know that you have wide receivers there, and I just feel like you're giving Caleb Williams a head start more so than you did justin Fields.

Yes, Mark, Keenan Allen, he's always good, but he's always injured.

Yes, Yeah.

The health is the issue that's always where they go. Yes, it's uh Keenan when healthy Allen? Yes, Todd.

Can they have a winning.

Record based on a pretty tough division without having all the other opponents in front of me on the Bear schedule?

Can you see them going at least nine and eight?

Yeah?

Well you're not going to get into the playoffs going eight and nine. So I see them winning nine games this year.

Yeah, Paul, I'm in favor of the NFL moving to eighteen games because it's so awkward to say nineteen. I know in eight and nine. For that reason alone, I'm in.

Favor that I hate seventeen.

Yeah, he's a hell schmelth. I just want yeah.

Yeah, we don't care about their health. They don't Oh, give me an extra paycheck.

We're gonna be nine to nine this year. Yeah, that's fun.

Yes, Ton, one year, you.

Get one more home game and then you get one less home game.

Well no, I think what happens is we're going around the world. Okay, hey, you don't get that home game. The NFL gets that home game. We're going to be in Bartholona, We're going to be in Canada, We're going to be in Brazil, Dublin, Munich, London.

That's what's happening.

They're not going to give you an extra home game, No, buddy, no buddy.

You know I saw this. Eminem has a new song. When's the last time he put out a song? Is this a record or is it a song? But it I think he said that he wants to disappear.

Now.

The song's name Houdini is he.

Puts something on social I saw a couple of days ago about how he's like enough for my next act, I'm going to make my career disappear or something like that.

I thought he already did.

No.

No, I'm saying that he he doesn't do much. I mean does he does?

He tour? I see him more at sporting events than I do on stage.

Has Ton, Can you get rappers block where you just can't come up with all those lines anymore?

You know what?

I think?

I better wrap this up.

Yeah, well it'd be called writer's block, but I see what you're doing with the rapper writers block. Yes, yes, Paul.

The new album is called The Death of Slim Shady. Oh, and this single is Houdini.

Do we have a little bit of eminem?

I don't know.

We'll find it, okay. Yeah. I thought that might be part of the segment, that we would play the song and then we'd know.

We're allowed to.

Oh were we allowed to?

It's called m as they say.

Okay, so he's got a new song, get permission from Marshall.

I did hear the song it's it's like almost like not a remake of one of his more popular songs, but it sounds like an offshoot of it. A Top Gun was just like the first Top Gun. This is. This is like a classic eminem song with new lyrics.

Doctor Dre Yes, Doctor Dre's in it. Okay, well maybe we could see if we get clearance there, Clarence Yes, Marmon.

Would you see him a concert?

Yeah?

Sure, he doesn't.

He doesn't do much of anything really, so whenever I see him, I saw him at Lions games. Like you said, I see him more sporting events than I see him do anything else.

Or at his daughter's wedding who just got married recently. But I feel old. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I sure i'd go see him.

This new song, Houdini is a callback to his O two single Without Me. It almost starts a similar way. It samples Steve Miller bands Abracadabra bro. No one's doing that these.

Days, no nobody?

Okay, So cert lean into more classic rock samples in hip hop.

We should or people should Yeah no, not really.

Oh okay, I got the Marshall Tucker Band. Here's Charlie Daniels that never went down to Georgia featuring feet eminem Yeah feet.

Uh.

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Rookie quarterbacks who made the playoffs since nineteen seventy.

CJ.

Stroud did that last year, Brock perty in twenty twenty two. How about Skyler Thompson with my Dolphins in twenty two two, Mac Jones did it, Lamar Jackson, Connor Cook with the Raiders, Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson, RG three, Andrew Luck, TJ. Yates with the Texans, and some of these they're filling in for somebody who was injured, Mark Sanchez, Joe Flacco, Matt Ryan, Ben, Roethlisberger, Sean King, Todd Marinovich, Jim Everett, Peter Brock, Bernie Cosar, Dan Marino. We're asking Caleb Williams to join that group.

I think he can.

Let's bring in Mike Tannenbon, former front office executive for two NFL teams. You can find him on Get Up Sports Center, NFL Live throughout this summer. Good to see you, Mike T. Do you think Caleb Williams leads the Bears to the playoffs this year?

I don't dan, but I think he's gonna have a great career. And I think we're playing such an enormous amount of pressure on these young quarterbacks. You know, you look most recently at guys like Patrick Mahomes, Jordan Love. They sat and now there are two of the younger, bigger stars in our league. Obviously Mahomes is the best player. And I think going back to like you mentioned Sanchez, like Mark was a meaningful part of what we did at the Jets, but he was not the leader of the of the band by any stretch. And I think these guys are going to hit bumps in the road and that's just part of the development. I look at Caleb Williams beyond hard knocks stand I just want, like, really worry it's the old coach Parcels, like, let's not put him in Canton quite yet.

If you were front office exec with the Bears, would you have embraced hard knocks to give your team more, you know, publicity exposure nationally, or because because you have a rookie quarterback, you'd be like, nope, not this year.

Yeah, you know, I lived it and the whole world got to see what a shitty punt returner I am. So that will live on forever. But look, the bottom line is, you're the quarterback of the Chicago Bears. You're like beyond Barack Obama. You must You're the most important person from the state of Illinois for the foreseeable future, and that's going to take some time. Like Dan, you know, look at you. You're a Hall of Fame broadcaster. You're a hell of a lot better today than you were the four years of your career. Like, there's just you got to put your time in. And if I was the Bears, I would have kicked and scream and said, hey, we don't mind doing hard knocks, but not this year. Let this kid grow, let them develop, let them, you know again, make some mistakes without the eyes of the whole world seeing.

Yeah, I think they want the publicity there. And if Mike was talking about being a kick returner, you can google that Mike Tannenbaum returning punts and you don't have a good laugh there. When you saw the Jalen Waddle deal, your reaction was.

Smart, good young player, explosive touchdown score. You know that market's only going up. I'm hard pressed to understand what Minnesota's doing.

Dan.

The day that Kirk Cousins.

Graduates and goes to the Falcons, I fly to see Justin Jefferson's agent, and I don't leave the room out getting a deal done, and that market just continues to explode.

Well, I was curious Wattle. It felt like got number one wide receiver money. And at what point does Tyreek Hill go I need to renegotiate here.

I actually think that's apples and oranges. I think Tyrek Hill is going to ask for a new deal.

You know after this year.

He has no guaranteed money, so I think regardless, like I think Tyreek Kill's mindset is.

I love Wadel, but he's one A or one B, whatever it is. I'm the guy here.

I'm the best receiver in the NFL, and I'm gonna wun thirty four to thirty five million dollars a year.

And I'm glad that I have Robin. But I'm Batman.

Okay, speaking of Tyreek Hill. We had this discussion earlier today. Let's say Tyreek Hill and Randy Moss were coming into the NFL. Now you knew what their talents were, which one would you take first in today's NFL Randy Moss or Tyreek Hill.

I'm always gonna take Moss just because there's things about his game that are literally indefensible.

You know.

I think with Tyrek Hill, who's a Hall of Famer, I think you could try to jam him at the line of scrimmage. You can put somebody over the top. There's way at least slow down speed. But with Randy Moss, it was kind of like with Gronk for all those years, stand like red zone, like you know what's coming, and literally it's indefensible what he could do in terms of a high point in the ball. Like, So to me, like I would take Moss over Hill.

But I'm watching when they had hard knocks during the season with the Dolphins and they just had a camera on Tyreek Hill. You can't cover him, like even trying to get him off the line of scrimmage. Mike, it's I just think he can beat you short long. He's so quick. He's as fast as Randy Moss, or at least close to it. I'm guessing now he doesn't have the height advantage, but he'm not afraid. You know, he's gonna get it, and he can take it eighty yards and you know the pass can be four yards and he takes it eighty. It always felt like Randy, and look, he was unbelievable, but he was a home run threat. I need singles in doubles sometimes too, and it feels like Tyreek Hill gives me both.

Yeah, look, I'd love to have either or both on the team. But again I go back to Randy. Moss to me is a little bit more like Gronk, Like, no matter what we did with Gronk, we couldn't defend him like just because of the size. And I think Moss's ability to high point the ball, to me, is what would separate the two.

But again, I'm taking nothing away from tyer Kill.

All right, let me go back to the wide receivers here, Jefferson. I thought they might entertain trading him because if you're gonna let Kirk Cousins go, now, I got Sam Darnold and you're gonna get a rookie quarterback in there. Jordan Addison is you know, a star in the making as well. But Justin Jefferson thirty five million dollars a year wide receivers that where we're starting out.

Look, I think that's exactly the right, Dan. It's a really fair point. If we were going to move on from Cousins, maybe we blow the whole thing up. Take JJ McCarthy and say, hey, you know, in two to three years we're gonna be really good and run the Detroit Lion play. Obviously they did not do that. So again, like I think they're a little bit half pregnant, which was if you're going to keep Jefferson, get the deal done before aj Brown, DeVante Smith, now Jalen Waddell. And by the way, the big winner and all this to me is Jamar Chase ccitting and Cincinnati dam with his feed up and say hey, I'm gonna have my LSU teammate do all the heavy lifting and I'm just going to walk in and tell you know, the Brown family I need ten percent more than.

You know whatever. You know, Justin Jefferson gets and we're good to go.

Okay, where do you rank wide receiver on your priority list as far as who you're paying and how much you're paying.

I'm not paying them as much, but for a different reason. I think the position's super important, but it's also replaceable. And let me give you a great example. If you and I were running the Cowboys. First of all, I'm shocked that that's that signed yet, like they've given him a blank check, but he's going to be there. I'm going to pay Micah Parsons before Cede Lamb just because it's a lot harder to find Micah than it is Cdee Lamb. Taking nothing away from Cede Lamb. But if we were running a team, dam we can find a receiver, and that's why I would consider.

Paying one too.

And I think a good example of that is like what Cincinnati's doing. They're gonna let t Higgins graduate. They drafted Jermaine Burton the third round and hopefully in a year he's going to replace Higgins. We saw San Francisco take two receivers, Jacob Cowey in the fourth, they took Ricky Kersel in the first round. Presumably they'll let you know either Deebo Samuel or Brandon Ijuko at the end of the year.

Talking to Mike tan and baumb ESPN front office insider. Let me go back to the Cowboys. Are they in a good situation? If you're the GM of the Cowboys, how do you feel about this season? With Ceedee, Lamb, Dak and Micah Parsons all looking for new contracts.

They're in a catastrophically terrible situation. Here's why.

Dak Prescott's thirty one years old. He was second in the league in the MVP, and he has no ability to be franchised. So Dan, imagine if we were running the Raiders, there's no price we would pay not to go get Dak with some other really good pieces there.

You know.

Now they have brocked hours DeVante Adams, So it's not what you think he's worth, it's what he could get in the market. And without them drafting a quarterback this year. Now, look, maybe Trey Lance develops, but let's face it, that's a long shot. You've essentially given him a blank check. I mean, you have to get him signed. He's in the prime of his career and there's absolutely nothing you can stop him from leaving at the end of the season.

Yeah, and it feels like if they don't get I just don't know why they're not paying him if if Jerry's saying, well, let me see it one more time, like give me the reason or logic. If you're the GM and you go to Jerry, why aren't why don't we have a deal with Deck? Yeah?

I think there is an argument out there, and when you talk to teams there's a little bit of a sentiment of would you rather have Gardner Minshew at ten million dollars a year and versus someone like you know, Daniel Jones or Kirk Cousins between thirty five and forty million or a year, meaning that being market is one where it's say, you have so much of your resources unless they are like a difference. Are are we better off just going young? Or you know a Marcus Mariota a Minshew type now to me, daft to me is an a I know there's some postseason concerns, but he's played really well and when you talk to people in that building, his leadership and character is beyond reproach and he has a personality that could withstand being you know, basically like one of the highest profile positions in the sport.

Yeah, they keep waiting and the price tag keeps going up. If I said you can have Jordan Love for the next five years or Trevor Lawrence the next five years.

Oh, that's easy for me. It's Jordan Love. I'll put it to you this way.

It's easy. That's not easy.

It's easy. Dan.

If we were drafting NFL players, I think you and I would agree we take Patrick Mahomes number one.

I'm taking Jordan Love number two. I've really been thinking about.

This a lot, like who would you take before Jordan Love in terms of youth ability? And I think his future is limitless. And while well, I think Trevor Lawrence has a ability, you know, at some point you know this is the old Belichick like you should show greatness. And I think what we've seen with Trevor Lawrence is being shown being good B plus. But we've seen Jordan Love in one year show greatness. He was arguably, over the last half of the season, arguably the best quarterback in the NFL.

So if we're having a quarterback draft, you're taking Mahomes and then you're taking Jordan left one.

Hundred percent, And I'm not even thinking about it. You can have anybody else, but you give me Jordan Love. I'm set for the next decade. High character, great ability, been fully baked and developed, and I'm not looking back. And by the way that team is loaded with young skill players, I'm hard pressed to think that they're not going to be right back where they were a year ago.

Deep in the NBC playerffs, look at you, Look at you.

Mike Greenberg's probably crying right now because you're saying this on my show and not on Get Up or First Take with Steven A. ESPN's got to go, Hey, Mike, t like, easy there, save the hot stuff for our shows.

We'll get to that once the NBA files are over.

I'm sure new kickoff rules this year, do you draft differently? Like what's the strategy from a front office executive with the new kickoff rules?

Yeah, it already impacted the draft. You know, talk to a lot of teams about it. What's really interesting, Dan, and again none of us know, but based on the limited information we have from like the XFL and others, you're looking at a little bit of a different body type. It's really interesting. So for example, like we talked about Tyreek Hill, the people that are there gravitate gravitating to is someone like Cordrell Patterson, someone a little bit bigger, sturdier, because I think what you're going to be seeing is someone that has to break a tackle before you.

Get into space.

And look, that's the speculation, but I'm not saying it's gonna be him, but someone like a Deebo sand or someone that's really physical, because this rule is designed to have physicality in a small space so you don't have that high speed impact. And I think if we're sitting here around Halloween and talking about player X leading the league and kickoff returns, I think it's gonna be somebody that has the ability to break tackles.

Would you have Tyreek Hill go back if you're the Dolphins.

If the game was on the line, I want the ball in his hands one hundred percent of the time. But I also have to be smart to know that it's a seventeen game season, and let's face it, if it's Week four and more on the road against an NFC team, I'm not doing that. And I think, you know, we got to remember. I know he's not a quarterback, but last year, sixty six quarterbacks started a game, and the health of your frontline players matter.

Great stuff. People in Green Bay love you.

Yeah, they'll buy me a beer next time in the town. So I appreciate it.

Dan, Thank you. Mike.

That's Mike tannebaumb ESPN front office executive and he speaks from experience. He was a GM for a couple of teams there. How about that with Jordan Love?

Okay? And he said, oh, it's easy.

When I said if you were taking Trevor Lawrence Jordan Love and he goes, it's easy, I thought, well, he's going to say Trevor Lawrence all of a sudden, Jordan Love. I go ooh, okay, that's a one year performance from Jordan Love. It's one of those where you go and this is why I think that Green Bay wanted to move on from Aaron Rodgers a year earlier. Is eventually you know what you have. It's just like when they moved on from Brett fav they could see what they had with Aaron Rodgers and then you're like, oh gosh, you know Kansas City, you know you had, you know a situation where you go, okay, Alex is going to take us so far. Look at that guy when Justin Herbert went to the Chargers and you saw him during training camp and then you go, oh, my gosh, okay, that guy's going to be your starter. The players see it before everybody else does. But Jordan Love is the second quarterback off the board with everybody in there, Joe Burrow, mar Jackson. Wow, all right, you're welcome Green Bay. You're welcome Wisconsin. Let me get a couple of phone calls in here, Sean and Oregon. Hi, Sean, what's on your mind today?

Hey, thanks for taking my call.

Dan.

I heard you talking about the Bears earlier and you said they have seven wins and they're pretty good team. I mean, I doesn't even go together. I mean, they not be one of the worst teams. But America doesn't believe in the Bears, and we're not so sure that Caleb Williams won't even be a bus with those guys, and we're just not believers. Brother.

Okay, look, I'm not a Bears fan. I'm just telling you what I think, and I think that with seven wins. The reason why I say that they're, you know, a respectable team with seven wins is normally having amber one pick, you had two or three wins, so they're already ahead of the game. They got the number one pick. They also got a number one wide receiver in one of the greatest fleecing that we've seen in NFL history with a trade and you got Caleb Williams. And no, I don't know if he's going to be successful, but I am. I'm assuming he's going to be respectables first year. You got some talent there. It's great to have an offensive line, some consistency with the head coach or offensive coordinator, which hopefully he gets and uh, you know, you could be an eight or nine win team.

Yeah.

Set the Bears had seven wins last season. Yeah, that didn't feel like a respectable season. Well for the for the team with the first pick. Overall, how many seven win you know teams like that get. You know, I have them as seven and ten last year, three and fourteen, The year before six and eleven, eight and eight, eight and eight, twenty eighteen, they were twelve and four. Man, does that feel like a lifetime?

It was a long time? Holy smokes. All right, I'm just on.

I'm on the Bears bandwagon, and I can say that I haven't been on the Bears bandwagon since Jim McMahon was there.

I feel like Kayleb Williams has to start at eight wins plus.

That's a disappointment if he doesn't get to eight wins. If you're matching what Justin Fields.

Did or CJ. Stroud?

Are the Bears as good as the Texans were going into last season.

Or like if PFF grated the roster, Yes, we could check.

That, Yeah, because nobody had the Texans doing anything. You had a rookie coach and a rookie quarterback and you didn't know anybody on that team.

Yeah.

The Texans were three thirteen and one when they drafted CJ. Stroud and then the next year obviously made the playoffs. The Bears had four more wins.

Let's take a break. More phone calls coming up, be short.

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No basketball coming up this weekend, got a wait a week before the NBA Finals start. Some of the other events you got UFC coming up this weekend? The Chicago Sky versus the Indiana Fever. It's Katelyn Clark and let's see in three Chicago skot Yes, yes, yeah, scourging.

Yes, injuries, making history, getting no credit she's a double double getting no credit?

Yeah, yeah, Inner Miami, didn't they just lose. They just suffer their first loss.

They lose. They're not invincible. Okay against Saint Louis City sc U s lcsc S s LC s C. Yeah, I've got the all Seaton Champions League Final. It's versus Real Madrid, who had Don playing in the Champion versus Goliath. There is where is Dortmund? Seaton in Germany? A little more specific than that, do you know where Dortmun.

Is a name?

Yeah?

I don't know, like which, like what quadrant of Germany it is? It's southeastern North all right.

Dortmun is known for developing stars then they move on to other teams.

Like Real Madrid's big star this year is Jude Bellingham and he came from uh Doan.

Yeah, I've got that.

Dortmund is a city in Germany's North Rhine Westphalia region.

Okay, it is in uh Holland from U Dortmund.

Yeah, the Christian Polistics some time there, Okay, A bunch.

Of US guys Lewindownski Yeah, okay, look who knows their soccer a little bit?

First soccer now?

Yeah, hockey hockey. A's versus the Braves. Who's with me?

That's essentially the real Madrid Jort of Major League Baseballs.

Bradsh David versus Goliath. There Sliding into the weekend brought to you by our partners at King Sawaan. They want you to get together with friends and family and food. Enjoy the weekend. Make every Sunday slider Sunday. Eric in Atlanta, Hi, Eric, what's on your mind?

Harpy got the newest fan of the DP show here born Wednesday night, little Margaret Anne at nineteen inches six pounds four ounces hand size approaching Marvin. Okay, I just wanted to call in and let you know we're going to spend in the next few months on the couch watching the show. Wanted to get some advice from the guys.

Oh I can. I can hear their sleep when she sleeps? If you can, that would be good advice. And once again, you gotta have patience, You have to have a sensi humor. You have to put her first, and then you put your wife second, and then you're third. That would be just a little like the handbook my cliff Notes version of Newborn Advice.

There.

Good luck, though, Eric and congratulations. Hank in Missouri, Hi, Hank, what's on your mind today?

Hey, good morning Dan. Five to eleven triproduces. Hey, First of all, there will be no ceasing to assist. I'm going to give you the rights to the T shirt in exchange for the prototype of my wife's size. Let's go back to the Super Bowl. I'm a huge Chiefs fan. We're watching the game. Some clown breaks through, gets some Homes on the ground. I'm having a pritty like tirade. Might have been a profanity in there, and I might have thrown something, but anyway, my wife Denise was on the end of the couch, very calmly seeing Sack of the day.

Sack of the day.

Yeah, back of the day, Sack of the day.

Okay, So we could have Mahomes sprawled out with an outline of him and have the sack of the day.

Jonathan in Texas, Hi, Jonathan.

Hey, guys, I gotta doing today?

Good?

Great?

Hey?

You know a little earlier you're talking about Luca. Is he the best? Is he not the best? I think he was the best last year. He just didn't need the credit because of where the team finished this year, finishing with fifty wins, doing something that's never been done in NBA history before thirty four, nine to nine. I don't think there's a question as to whether he's the best player in the NBA anymore. I think it's it's hands down. But on a very serious note, I have just taken a job teaching journalism in high school, first time ever teaching the class, and I've got a question, what would be your biggest piece of advice for a new teacher in journalism.

Oh, Paulie, you're a teacher.

Yeah, I teach a journalism class. I would say, give them real life examples of stuff that's going on now, not stuff that happens sixty years ago. It'll engage them better.

And also make sure they write every day.

You know, musicians talk about whatever their instrument is, you got to play it every day.

Writers write every day. Got to do that.

Get into the habit sixty seconds where here's the top story. Give me a sixty second recap or a two minute recap. That would be just a little bit of advice. But Paulie does teach students. I advise students with my broadcasting school. But I always tell them, as a writer, be curious and don't take you know, the first answer you get or the first piece of inf Always always be willing to question something. And when you interview people, short questions, open ended, get people talking. The more they talk, the better your column is going to be, your your article is going to be, or your book is going to be. You want people to talk. That's my goal when I have people on, I want them to say things like I would take Jordan Love as the second best quarterback, give me the NFL.

Mike t gonna make some headlines with that one, and he said it was easy.

Yes, well, but he was saying law with Trevor Lawrence. And I still think, you know, that's that's a questionable take. Though I'm waiting for Trevor to be something more. Jordan Love is surprising us that he's something more. So there's a difference.

It's like.

As opposed to Justin Herbert. I wait for Justin Herbert to be great. Look at bron Perdy, Well, we had no expectations for him. Final Hour, John Saling for NBA Titles. He'll join us coming up more of your phone calls as well. Eight seven to seven to three DP show Final Hour in This Meet Friday, on the way

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