OverDrive - OverDrive - March 14th, 2025 - Hour 2

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

Join Bryan Hayes, Jamie McLennan and Dave Feschuk for Hour 2 on OverDrive! TSN Hockey Analyst Mike Johnson joins to discuss Auston Matthews' scoring issues, the decline of his statistics and the Panthers' win against the Maple Leafs. They also discuss the Raptors winning through the rebuild, Cooper Flagg's injury and TSN Golf Analyst Bob Weeks joins to discuss the headlines around the Players Championship.

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Hour two overdrive continues powered by FanDuel bringing you everything from the opening line to the final score. Brian Hayes, Dave Festruck of the Toronto Star, Jamie Noodles, McClennan. We've got Bob Weeks later this afternoon from the players. A lot of stuff going on down there at the players. So we'll catch up with Weeks. He get his take on that. Also Tiger Woods with the Achilles surgery. When are we going to see him again? Will we see him again?

Quick update on that later this hour. Mike Johnson coming up. Johnny was calling the game last night on TSN. Leafs losing 3-2 to the Florida Panthers back in action tomorrow night. And Edmonton lost. And this is what's crazy is that like the Leafs and the Oilers you know have been so good for so long it's so dominant in the regular season and McDavid and Matthews and it's they're really they're they're kind of a mirror image of each other right now. Yeah yeah like their best best players are nowhere close to

playing at the level that they're capable of playing at they're losing a lot of games they are not defending very well well that's kind of why i brought it up in the last hour is like you you know the the success of these teams rely on the best players and and the core of the team like it you know it it a fourth liner or somebody chip in here there but at the end of the day

you'll only go as far as your best players. And that's why I said, like, 97 looks out of sorts, 34 looks out of sorts. The weird part is, is 29, like, Dry Sottle scores again last night, like he's, what is that, 47, right? So he's closing in on 50. Like he's the only guy that's been a bright spot in Edmonton consistently. You know, Mitch Marner, I didn't have a great night last night, but he's been, you know, he's been a, and Willie, Willie has been very, you know, had a great season as well. John too actually, 27 last

night. Sure. There's guys that definitely, like the stats of a lot of guys in Toronto, like cause Nugent Hopkins not having a great year, Hyman not having a great year. Oh, right. You know, and the other guys have kind of come and gone in terms of the lineup and Nabluck trying to figure out who it is, Bouchard compared to the year he had last year, Skinner, you know, like really, it's basically dry, subtle on an island in terms

of continuously having years that you would expect him to have, where with the least there are, there are definitely guys who are at least matching what they're capable of doing. Like Marner's had a very good year, hasn't had a last great last couple of games. You know, it was not great in Utah, was not a brilliant shootout winner. Last night I thought he blended into the game like a lot. Him and Matthews it just it was wasn't wasn't their best stuff. And didn't't have their a game But Marner has proven throughout the year that he'll bounce back and he'll be consistent and even Willie and in Tavares Like Willie's had ups and downs the last month month and a half Like he's kind of faded in and out of games like last night. He made a beautiful play to start that game

He had his moments, but really last night. I thought Max Domi I thought the hit for on Verhege was incredible the fight on schmidt that you haven't seen a fight like that while that was where domy was like we're going out and schmidt was yapping out of but i don't know schmidt i don't want to fight i don't think you want to get either but he realized that i gotta go this guy i'm six three and max domy's five-foot nine but max got a man he got a pretty bad last night Oh, yeah, and then he scores a goal which has been few and far between for Max this year. He needs it He's got a lot of games like that man. He's had a dreadful season

Yeah, he really has and they like when you look at it those are the guys when we were talking was it Wednesday the three of us were talking like In the bottom six you need like who are the guys how is it gonna look you know what's the left side gonna look like well Max Domi is a guy that you know might get an opportunity there but he he hasn't been a consistent enough performer as far as points and and if anything the only thing I have to point out that Max is consistently done, and this is just a slightly lazy comment, he's taken a lot of bad penalties.

Yeah, he has. But last night was a noticeable game. He was an impactful guy. Maybe you hope that that springboards some confidence in his game. Because he was a good passer. He's a pass first type of player, likes to make a play, uses his speed, he he was a good passer he you know he's a pass first type of player likes to you know make a play uses his speed he's aggressive all of that type of stuff but to put it together that's what they need from him that's where the depth will will come in yeah and then mcmahon's

got to follow he's got to get better too bobby mcmahon's kind of he's he's had a bit of a down period because this year it's been about the core four Matthew Nyes Bobby McMahon, right? Like that's what we've been discussing. Like, okay, you got four guys that you've got a pretty good idea of what they should do and what they're capable of doing, whether or not they do it is a different story. But then Nyes has had a career year, obviously still young, but Bobby McMahon, you know, 40, 45 games into the year had really established himself. Like it looked like a guy that was gonna rip home 25 goals and be someone you could rely on

for that secondary depth scoring. And he slowed down, he slowed down a lot. So they're gonna need that. It starts at the top, Matthews has got to be better. Like there's just no other way to put it. He has to perform. He's got to be the best goal scorer in the world, I think for this whole thing to work. And then it filters down to Marner and Nylander and Tavares and Knives and McMahon and everyone else. So everyone's going to

have to play their role. But last night it was a fun game. Like it was a really fun game. Like a lot of energy, tight checking, a lot of scrums, hits, fights, but it was a very familiar outcome. Like the team that's comfortable in those situations won the game and that would be Florida and the team that needs to prove they can get comfortable in games like that lost and that would be the Maple Leafs. Joining us on the Maple Toyota Hotline here's our TSN hockey analyst Mike Johnson. Johnny was in the building last night. How would you describe that game after it was over,

in terms of how close the Leafs actually were to possibly winning it last night? There was a good game, Avery. The Leafs played hard, they were engaged, they were physical. I think you saw when the game was played on Florida's terms, Florida's better than Toronto at like cycling, mucking, possessing, you know,

that physical grindy kind of forechecking hockey they played and they were good at it and they played, Florida did a good job of it. And when they did, Toronto at times, you know, were hemmed in their own end a little bit and didn't have the puck as much as they want, even if they weren't giving up a lot of chances. And then Toronto, when they had a chance to make some plays off the rush, found a little

bit more open ice where they could get it off the wall. They showed well, like they made nice plays, they did good things. And that was sort of the give and take of the game. But the one thing you mentioned, like, I remember thinking when Max told me score to make it three two, I remember thinking this will be not a test, but maybe an example of the comfort in Florida, like the poise and the ability to close out games. Cause Toronto's playing hard, they were pressing,

they were skating hard and could, even though they're a little bit depleted Florida just managed the game and make enough plays and get the puck over the blue line all the time and they did I think I left that game more complementary to Florida than I would be critical of Toronto Yeah, I would agree with you on the on the macro level that I think that that's probably the way you should leave that game is that Florida like they're they're champions for a reason. And they proved it in a difficult situation against an opponent that's trying

to track them down. They just kept pushing them away, pushing them away, pushing them away. You know, on a micro level, because I don't know, like Sam Bennett had two goals last night, and they were very Sam Benedy goals, like right in front of the net, goes to a tough area, no one touches him and he finds a way to contribute to his team, but outside of that, I don't know who, like on Florida I'd say was phenomenal last night, one way or the other, yet with the Leafs,

and that probably speaks to their depth and the way that they're built, with the Leafs, for nine years now, it's been Okay, these these four guys or these three guys have got to be Greater than the other guys, you know on the other side and I don't think that was the case Like I don't think like Matthews and Marner in particular It was a big opportunity for them last night and I just I didn't see enough out of them that would suggest They kind of relished the opportunity to beat Florida at home chasing the number one seed it

looked like a playoff performance from those two guys in a big game. Yeah so I mean for example both of Bennett's goals were on the power play right so it's not like he was running around five on five taking advantage of guys they're only he scored power play goals in front of the net you know on breakdowns in coverage and it was less about him being rugged Sam Bennett than it was a guy in front of the net doing what guys in front of the net do now the part about Matthews and Marner what I always have to say they were going up a lot against Barkov we We know Barkov is as good as it gets doing that, shutting down opponents, making life

difficult and he did a good job of that. But you're right, at five on five, they didn't generate a lot. And the reality is, from the Toronto Maple Leafs, when those guys are so integral to their success that they have to. Like, they're rarely going to win against really good teams unless their good players are good and by some means productive. And they weren't that last night. So in that sense, I get the sort of like, that was felt like a playoff game in the sense that Elif's played hard, of course, and they think they were engaged, of course

but they couldn't quite find a way to get it done and For you know and the top guys they had the almost power plays where they have four or five power plays in the game you know and they couldn't find a way to get a tying goal and you know, they didn't they didn't get on the board when some of the other top guys did. And yeah, so that's a problem. But I do think it was a good game. I don't know if Toronto would walk away being flustered

other than that they lost, knowing that that's, cause they didn't give up much either. Like as much as Florida played well, they didn't have a boatload of great chances either. And so it goes both ways But the other thing that you sort of reference and I think it's it's a conversation sort of worth having and we sort of Dance around it. Is that you know as Excellent as Austin Matthews is

He's on pace for what 40 goals and 90 points or something like that, right? I think it's lower Yeah, it's a lot lower than that now. I mean when you consider like if he had played 82 games. Yeah. If he had played every game, he'd be scoring like every other game sort of thing. And that's a great year, but it's not the best in the league year. And he sort of needs to be closer to be the best in the league because that's the way the team is built to have him be that guy. And he just hasn't been, was it one five on five goal?

He's the greatest five on five goal score of this generation by far. I'm unquestionably by a mile to be, to be arrived. He's got one five on five, 15 games, 16, crazy, crazy right? One empty empty that are one power play that's just absurd and that's not just bad luck and that's not just the rub of the green like that something going on there

where it's it's gone that cold and he if he's capable and i don't know if he capable i don't know if he's healthy you're not talking about the without the you know he's not talking about being injured. He doesn't mention it as an excuse to everybody. He's not laying it out there and I respect that. But when you see a guy who's going to go from 70 goals to 35, you're going to take a half

goal a game almost for the year on the team off of his production alone. I don't know if they beat Florida in a playoff series of Austin Matthews as a 30 goal scorer. They need him to be something closer to a 50-60 goal scorer to have a chance to beat a team that is probably top to bottom, deeper and better than Toronto. They need their stars to be the difference makers. I watch Austin play. He's doing a lot of good stuff. He gets chances.

He just doesn't finish the same way. In my research for last night's game, Hayes, this is what I dug through. Last year, he led the same way. All right, listen in my research for last night's game page This is what I dug through. Okay last year. He's not the league in goals, right? His expected goals. I'm not gonna go through the numbers, but he was first in the league and expected goals His actual goals also first in the league were 50% greater than his expected goals. So that would make sense, right? He's a great shooter. He would outperform his expected goals. And that would make sense, right? He's a great shooter. He would outperform his expected goals. This year, once again, his expected goals are almost the exact same number. Exact same as last year.

First in the league, or second or third. But for the first time in his career, he is underperforming by a considerable amount, by like a third, his expected goals. He's never not scored more than the models would suggest he should until this year. Now, why would that be? That's the question I think we sort of need to find an answer to. Is it bad luck? Is it goal centers improving? Is it teams figuring out how to defend them? Or is it a lack of health? Because he didn't forget how to shoot this summer, right?

So this is in a nutshell, he's not playing bad, he's still getting around the front of the net, he's just not scoring the way he once did and it's been a year long thing and I chalk it up to, I don't believe he's quite healthy and he won't admit it, he won't acknowledge it and i respect that if you're not going to get healthy that's going to be a problem here you're right johnny and just a quick follow-up on that you you put a lot of stock in in shooting percentage because that you know i i i don't know what i did

well i think that the years that he's kind of had you know we'll call it down years and at forty gold is a down year but uh... we have context is important here. The shooting percentage is a lot lower than it was in years where he got 69 and when he got 60, right? He was 17 percent, he was 18 percent in the years where he was in the 40 range. It's 12 percent. This year it's 11 something. So, you know, there is, you're right, there is an, I don't think there's a simple answer to it. It's just like, oh, the guy's got a sore arm or whatever.

Like to me, there's a lot of different factors. You guys watch him. We reference it in the four o'clock hour. He puts himself in a really good spot to score yesterday and he doesn't score. That was just those plays last year and previous years. Those are just automatic goals. They feel like anyways, that's how I feel, but they're just not. And that's where you've got to put your finger on, is it a lack of confidence?

Is it tied into an injury? Is it a bunch of things that factored into kind of 11.7% shooting percentage? But he's generating chances. That's the thing. Like, he could have got a couple goals last night. He was around it, but it just didn't go in for him. No, that's the thing i don't know if you've got a couple goals last night he was around it but it just it didn't go in for it no that that's all right and all correct you know all hundred percent on point

he and i'm not even faulting him of course he tried his best but like he's not scoring right like he's converting at a pace i think his in his actual goals for uh... for sixty per play, he's like 65th in the league. He can't be the 65th best finisher in the league for the Leafs to go where they want to go. It just can't happen. No, it's not possible.

That's his burden. That's the way the team is built. That's his responsibility because of who he is and what he's done and salary gets paid and all of it. But the only other thought I have here about this is that, maybe he's done and salary gets paid and all of it. But the only other thought I have, Hayes, about this is that, like, you know, maybe he's healthy. I just can't believe it's dropped this much without there being something else going on.

But if it was as something as simple as like, whatever, his back is bothering him. If the team knew that he could get healthy by missing four weeks, I think they would've sat him out four weeks. Yes. Yes. And he did miss whatever, whatever he missed, have sat him out four weeks. Yes. Yes. And he did miss whatever, whatever he missed, like two or three weeks previously.

He must be going through something that they know won't get better with rest. Otherwise, I would rather, if I'm Toronto, finish second or third and have a 100% 70 goal scoring loss of math in the first round, than finish first or second and have the 37 goal scoring loss of math in the first round. It's not even close. I think our chances to win a Stanley Cup can only work with the first guy and not the second guy, but they would know that as well as I would and the fact that they're not sitting about he's playing every game he's even practicing and he rarely misses practices and stuff. That tells me if there is something going on there, and it just feels like there's kind of a number of suggests there's got to be something going on there, it's not

something that would resolve itself with just rest. Otherwise you'd be criminal not to just rest them. Well yeah, exactly Johnny. That's the facts. He missed most of the month of November, took the trip to Munich to get whatever treatment he needed to get he did speak about Acquiring another injury a different injury at the four nations, right? So we know those two things to be true. It's all we really know for a fact, right? But but my question you Johnny and your vast experience, you know at ice level as a player as an analyst. I mean

You know, what could like, as a player, as an analyst, I mean, you know, what could, like, what could that possibly be that would be kind of taking the pop off his shot? Because he doesn't have the wow factor to the shot. He's not scoring goals as a result. I mean, we're completely speculating here, but like, can you like, it doesn't make sense to me, you know, he doesn't look hobbled, right? Like, that's the weird thing. He doesn doesn't but he also doesn't look like he's fractionally less explosive. I think You know, like he was he's never been, you know, Connor McDavid But when he stops and starts and bumps like I have to pocket he gets separation And he's not getting quite as much separation. So again totally speculating. He might be a hundred percent healthy I it just and if he is then that's unfortunate for the Leafs,

because they need better than that guy if he's healthy. But to me, it's got probably a core situation, which could be back, stomach, hip, hernia, that kind of stuff, or a wrist, which would affect your shooting ability as well. Something like that could linger a long time, something like that you could play through but maybe it might take Surgery or four months off to rehabilitate, but you know we're completely guessing but that's that's the sort of stuff that you know

Might have him skating like I looked at the edge stats the ideal of the the Jersey Trappers He's slightly slower than last year, right? His 22 mile an hour bursts are slightly fewer. His 20 mile an hour burst as far as a percentile in the league is slightly lower. It doesn't look bad, but it's just actually not quite as good. And so I don't know what that would be, but the numbers suggest something, even though the Leafs and him are not.

No, and they're not going to, and that's... And that's good, they shouldn't, I get it. But the production leaves you wondering, what the heck? Because this guy has never sort of gone through this kind of... No, it's the worst stretch of his career. I mean, there's no other way to put it. Like he, you mentioned he's got one five on five goal in his last 16 games.

He has five primary points in that stretch. Like that's third line production. That's what that is. Well, he's got 18 points overall in 16 games. So he's a point a game guy. Gotta give him credit, power play, a lot of secondary assists and all that kind of stuff. But he's got eighteen points overall and guessing games so he's a point a game guy got a good credit power play a lot of secondary assists and all that kind of stuff but he's the highest paid player in the league yeah

he's the captain of the team he's in his prime and this is a big stretch run for him and for the whole team i mean these are just facts and he just it is not just about you know he's fumble and poxies from one parts last night six on five i thought when he broke through the D last night, was in alone, you know, just looked a little bit uncomfortable, a little jittery and he almost shot it into the fifth row.

And yeah, and it's like, that's just, that's not who this guy is. That's what's amazing because he has been, he is, it just has not, it has been crazy to watch him play hockey for eight and a half years. Like that's the way to put it. Like to to watch him play hockey for eight and a half years. Like that's the way to put it.

Like to have to watch him play for eight and a half years. It's so high. It's so high and he's not there and it doesn't feel like he's close. And that's what is concerning because they played 65 games. They know what the problem is. And if they know this is what they're going to get, then that's putting pressure on everyone else. And, you know, if it is that he's banged up in some way it's not

just about his shot and I don't have the stats to back this up but it's also like is he is he going to the front of the net with the same pace reckless abandon is he gonna is he stopping a cycle with his body is he will I don't see that necessarily like I don't see a guy who looks like he's got, you know, he just couldn't care less. You want to come hit me, come hit me. Like he just feels like he's on guard out there to an extent. And that's very difficult to have success

when you're doing it. I mean, it's a very physical sport. It's only going to rev up in a month, Johnny. Like it's going to get even harder a month from now the whole thing is challenging challenging for the Leafs challenging for him he wants to be better and you know obviously like we cover the Leafs every day and I dive in the numbers every day and you know the Leafs are not a not nearly as good a five-on-five team this year as they have been in years past now some of that is system- and they're trying to limit chances, they don't create as much and all that.

But like a whole bunch of the decrease in the least success in so many areas can almost be directly tied to Austin Matthews. Like he was one of the best five on five players. When he's on the ice, the Leafs control 57% of the shots and get 58% of the goals and And that's tilt of the ice. This year, whatever, he's 50. He's barely 50.

Plus minus whatever it is, last year plus 31, the year before, plus 31. This year, he's plus two, which is a true reflection of how his game has been at five on five. He's been fine, but he hasn't been dominant. And yet here they are, even though he lost last night, there are four points out of first with a game in hand,

knowing that, or maybe fingers crossed that, he gets out of his funk, and whether it's health or confidence or whatever, because if he does, they're that much better because they're pretty darn good anyway. Like they're really pretty good regardless, but he just, yeah, it's just, it's, it's part of the story because, um, he's that player. He's that player. He's the highest paid player in the league and he scored 70

last year, 69, and it's not quite happening at that pace, um, so far. So it's, it's, it's So it's a tricky dynamic. Yeah, it's the number one topic in my opinion in this city right now. Like as much as you're tracking who they're gonna play in the first round and Carlos here now and Lawton's here, you get through the deadline. It's Matthews.

I mean, the first time we saw him play, the guy scored four goals. Like he's just, he's been a lightning rod since he arrived. And we're also getting closer to go time here when it was always going to be the platform that was going to matter and You know ultimately for Austin and everyone else all this can be completely irrelevant If you do flip the switch and you have a great playoffs and you win big games and you have clutch moments That's all that was ever going to matter in terms of defining the 24-25 season

but you know you're running out of time to make it feel as if you're getting there and that you're going to pop. And we were saying prior to coming on, are you coming on, John? It's the same thing at Edmondson. They were up 2-1 last night. They blow a lead in the third. They're losing a lot of game. Now LA won last night.

LA's ahead of them. Like they're going in LA. Game one, if the playoffs started tonight tonight they're starting on the road and LA's got three losses at home the whole year right the whole year they got also like that series which you thought Evan's in a roll right through not so sure anymore I'm curious about this though doodles maybe you have a thought because you've been around some really good players goaltenders as well Hall same caliber guys like you wonder if a player as accomplished

as Austin Matthews, and goes through a rough stretch, for whatever reason, health or otherwise, if confidence can be shaken. Like, I think they're human, probably more resilient than a regular player, but I wonder if confidence is a bit of a thing too. You talk about bobbling the pucks and missing the one little hack right there in the second

period. Would you think that might be a thing? Have you seen that in whether Aggie or Bobby Lu or whoever, like, you know, those kind of players? Yes, 100%. Like, they're human. This is the other thing too. We can point to an injury and all of that, but you can also point to confidence.

I look at guys and, you guys and I remember playing with Jerome. And Jerome was a freak of nature, I always joke, because he hadn't scored in maybe 10 games or 8 games and it would be on the front cover of the paper, you know, what's wrong with Iggy? What's going on with Iggy? Should we trade Iggy? All of this type of stuff. And he'd come in in the morning and say, you know, how's it going?

He's like, oh, it's all right. And then he would say, God, I can't wait to score. He goes, you know, it comes in bunches. Like he goes, I can't, it's going to be so fun when we get going. Like he would treat it in another way. But you could tell, like, it's obviously on his mind. You know, Brett Hall, I played with some elite scorers and guys who could, you know, were difference makers.

Chris Pronger, like, they all go through it. Grant Fear, Roberto Luongo, they all go through stretches where they're not playing well. I remember a time where Roberto Luongo had a tough stretch and I said, do you want to go out early for practice tomorrow morning? And he said, no, I'm going to do it by myself. No goalie coach, no nothing. I went and watched from underneath the stands. He was out there for an hour working on his game. Like not in, and it wasn't the Kyle

Lowry, Hey, I need the cameras after a game and that it was like way before practice working for an hour. And he worked his way out of it. Like, you know, confidence is a fragile thing for, for an average player for star players. They do go through it. It's just, it looks different and it's under a microscope so i agree johnny i think there is a chance that confidence does factor into whatever else is going on with the mcdavids with the you know matthews that type of stuff i could see that i mean you know matthews is feeling it like his his whole

identity of course he does he cares is that an effort thing like that's the thing about the lease lot they i thought they showed up to play like it's not an effort thing this isn't like anything along those sorts it's just it's perplexing um it's got to be sorted out it's very concerning and you know his whole identity his whole career Matthews has been nobody can score like me and now for the better part of two months a lot of guys score like him or better than him a lot better than and like he scored the one goal he scored five on five was that goal in Vegas and I made it five one he fist pumped that goal yeah remember that that

was a like pump they're getting pumped he fist pumped that and I made a note of that I'm sure you you were there you saw johnny i said on the broadcast but i don't know more action for down five nothing exactly right and that's it that's the guy who's like i need one i need one here and then again but i mean from the me he hasn't scored since so

you know it's you know he's thinking about it he's he's got to be but you know that's he still got 17 games left in the regular season. Same thing with McDavid, like McDavid's guy that's always best player in the world, Art Ross, Locke, Ted Lindsay, that's not going to be the case for him this year. Like, it's not going to happen. So that would be a crazy Jerry's. Is there any chance he could win the art ross

now it was one of the plants twenty points back now manny and i waited the way that the candidates planned to have any he's on another planet that's what's crazy is that can is doing it again you know like and it does have cycles you have up your you know i'm i'm betting that now austin matthews will return to his status as the best goal scorer in the world i'd i'd be willing to put a lot of money on that

that that happens but it seems more likely it's going to start next year i don't know if it's gonna happen between now and the end of this year so mcdavid is one of the david he's eighteen points back in mckenna yeah that he's not catching on man but man-o-man like they're like if they're like that's the scary part that we talk about how special these players are like there's there's a slight doubt in the in your mind going I consider like you're like that's the crazy thing about it because you're right it's like it's over

it doesn't but you're like I could see this guy if he has 12 points and three games they get dry saddle probably stay ahead of them if he does that yeah I settle pick up points in the power play and he's not gonna slow down I mean yeah it's true anyway all right Johnny we'll see what happens tomorrow night battle of Ontario it's gonna be a fun one listen it could be a first round matchup yes it quite quite you know it's not all the odds are but whether Toronto wins and and Ottawa seventh or Toronto come Like what is Ottawa four behind Tampa? Yeah They're in reach of moving up into the three seed. Absolutely not out of the question and they're rolling right now

So yeah should be a fun one Yeah, we'll see what happens. But it was good game last night Like that was there was they thought about playoff game and like game and they brought the energy, they brought the physicality. They were close, but maybe when it matters most, I'll get them next time. Yes, been a deja vu in the end. Thank you, Johnny. We'll do it again soon. All right, boys.

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Mandatory, I had an interesting lunch this afternoon. I had my kids out. My wife decided not to come. We went to get skate sharp and we were doing different things, then we went out for lunch. So my wife's like, all right, you're working this afternoon, you're in the studio, I gotta go out and do some stuff. She had some shopping she wanted to do.

And I wasn't thinking at the time, so I'm like, yeah, no problem, we'll just go and do our thing, we're gonna go out for lunch. And my phone rings at 1250, and I'm there with my kids, my kids are running around like lunatics, and I answer and it's Cam. Because I was going on with Tati,

I forgot that I was going on with the Tap Man. No, yes guy. Yes guy, no guy with the Tap Man, And I was like, guys, I'm in, but you gotta please keep it to only a few yes guy, no guys. Yeah, I had kids sleeping in the background. Because I have no idea where my kids are right now. Oh man. It was one of those scenes out for lunch. And I'm like, I'm going to say yes guy. And

I'm like, where's my youngest? Where is she? But everything worked out in the end. Everyone had've got a good lunch at a good little yes going to go to the top man and you know that's kids are still accounted for in intact they're still intact yeah yeah and i'm yelling yes guy in the hallway of the restaurant people at the time and i'm not yes guy

i think i came here with kids but now he's just yelling yes guy and the hallway of the house are hard no guy i'm gonna say no guy uh... i thought i was like we have dessert no guy but yeah i was doing yes and no guys great to be on the tab and what coming out of last night a lot coming out of uh... tomorrow night as well with the battle on terry it's gonna be a lot of lot of fun the rafters slight underdogs in Utah tonight Wow

Last time I checked there were a slight underdog and How is that even possible unless they've liked unless they declared they're dressing the trainer and Team doctor or something they are they are trying to like now They're bringing guys sending guys back down to the G League that played a little bit too Well, that's right. Yeah, like that happened the other night and they're like now that's not gonna work like Rodan You can't come on the trip. You're going down to the G League. I haven't seen who's playing tonight for them I assume Scotty and you know, maybe he's the he needs a little bit more rest Do you guys remember out there in Utah? You can't you can't expect them to play through that

Do you remember when the Buffalo Sabres were tanking for with this format you have read those from the david a very very very the evidence anybody who played well was like on the trading block that the goalie stand on his head like you're out of here to have a you know this and roth they they were like you're playing too good you've got to get out of your trade it's a dallas i think it was a yeah wherever but it was just

they were getting rid of people like just making them walk the plank who was playing well because they did not they were in all in here's it like David Jared Rodin he had 25 the other night yeah like it was the game of his life game of his career and they've sent him back to the Raptors 905 for the weekend instead of staying with the Raptors which I feel for him because he's like seriously like now I got to go back to the 905 I could be private jet down to Utah on the road per DM you're making NBA money oh yeah no you played too well you gotta go and yeah I guess Scottie's questionable tonight Abaj is questionable tonight Purtles Purtles out for rest so he's out.

It's crazy man. It's crazy. Yeah it is crazy but. I mean the league's trying like they're finding teams for not disclosing injuries properly but teams it's just a great. It's so blatant. It's so blatant. And Cooper Flagg who I don't believe is playing tonight right in the semis for the ACC tournament

but he rolled his ankle yesterday. Scary moment. Really scary moment. For the tournament, you know, obviously for him, but it's not gonna have any effect on his draft status. He's going first overall. But if you're a guy like myself, who I don't have enough time to follow college basketball during the year, but I get to the tournament, I'm excited.

You have to have him playing. Yes, right. He's gotta be ready to play in the tournament right and it looked ugly yesterday but it sounds like he's he's gonna be okay that way you're hearing Dave yeah you're a big Cooper flag well I've been watching him a lot because he's all I've been hearing from my NBA scope pals is that he is something to see and I've wanted to see it but yeah apparently like when they rolled him off in the wheelchair that seems a bit much but why are they wheeling him so fast? It's not a

wheelchair race like it's like he's going 20 miles an hour they're like rolling him down a hill. Someone count us. Someone count down to 10 and see if I get Cooper to the back in a wheelchair. But apparently he walked in with their kids. Somebody said he walked in the arena today looking like he wasn't even limping So that's a good sign even though he's not playing they can win they can beat Carolina tonight without him. They're that deep They're that good right as Duke gonna be a one seed in the tournament. Oh, yeah Yeah, yes them and Auburn and maybe Bama maybe Florida I mean this there's only there's a lot of separation in college basketball this year

Some teams figured out how to get the NIL money and some didn't although last year remember it was bedlam and one seeds going down early and it was uh... and uh... though the talk of it last year was the nl has been spread nl's been spread out so much that it's very difficult to predict how the terms can apply up means a little different issue a little bit more predictable is there was galley we don't know the payroll but it's it's that somehow they get some money to be darn high okay it's it's that somehow i got some money darn high okay it's booster money you know what it is not so there's no rules it's the wild

west not even illegal anymore they don't don't kid yourself there was plenty of that going around before noodles but now it's just all of us now exactly pitts yeah don't hate the uh... player hate the game you had a problem with that so what will see what happens with cooper flag but the uh... players is uh... obviously still being played down at tpc sawgrass taylor pendrith

has wrapped up his second round he is five under for the tournament so he's going to make the cut we got min woo lee with his two iron you see him sl slinging two irons all over this golf course unreal uh... he's at eleven under batia's at eleven under morikawa nine under rory nine under uh... but some canadian flags kore's t twenty five and you know the cut line right now is minus one so it's pendor think honors in terms of the canadians

and will see mckenzie hughes on the course but he's got to go low down the stretcher but said down to the players here's our tsn golf reporter bob weeks how's it going down there Weeksie? Terrible, you know this is just an awful job. It's sunny and warm, we got some golf going on and they got free food and oh yeah it's beautiful. Loving it, loving it. Everyone I read online anywhere that has the luxury of going there every year says this

is it's tough to top the players because like you said the weather's great the course is cool you can get around everywhere like the clubhouse is amazing it's a great field like this is a spectators dream going to the players it is and then you know you can hang out or at the 17th hole they've made it really easy to kind of get a good view of what's going on there you got 16 just over at one side so that's kind of their you know it's like their waste management hole doesn't get as rowdy or as obnoxious let's say but it's it's pretty pretty good place to be a lot of fun going on there and there's lots of and it's an easy course to walk and there's lots of

good viewing spots so it is a pretty good if people can't get into a major you know this is this is as close as you'll come to seeing some great golf there's a good field here absolutely the weeks the uh... speaking around you know noxious there is you know what was your take on the whole rory with the young college golfer who chirps and uh... it was a practice round it was kind of a bizarre scenario to me i still

want to know more about it because it doesn't add up that rory pulls one of the water, the kid who plays at the University of Texas, he's an aspiring player, maybe on the PGA Tour soon, he says to Rory, just like at Augusta in 2011, and Rory walks up to him and takes his phone bizarrely. Apparently he returned it later, but what did you make of all that and the fact that this guy got under or his skin so easily yeah i i would count

mystified by that whole thing it almost look like a setup but i mean he walked over and just a ticket i see your phone and in and you know it took it into the walk down the fairway uh... i guess if you're or you probably hear a lot of comments and you probably hear a lot of different things that most of it i would have to think it's pretty positive i was kind of surprised and he came in afterwards

the next time we got a chance adam and and one of the british reporters said you know can i ask you about the incident yesterday because no thank you i don't really want to talk about it so i think they're both kind of a little embarrassed i think the kid who uh... had to write apology letters and and i think you got some kind of a suspension or anything kicked out of Sawgrass. Yeah, he got kicked out of Sawgrass, but I think his college coach was there too, right?

Uh-oh. And I think he suspended him or something. There was some kind of retribution. And I think Rory was probably a little bit going over the top. I don't know what led to it, why one comment like that, because you hear stuff all the time from guys out here, especially when they get a little juice in them. So I was kind of shocked at that to be perfectly honest. It was very sort of non-Rory. So unless he's willing to talk to us down the road, I'm not sure what's happened. Yeah, it's weird.

I have to think there was more chirping going on that like the one comment about reminds you of 2011 and Augusta leads to a reaction like that I find that hard to believe I would think this guy may have been on him for a while and like you said he's written letters to McElroy to Monahan maybe to TPC trying to get back in there but in a year in which the Ryder Cup is gonna be at Bethpage in New York. Like McElroy is going to get destroyed. Yeah. Like people, they're going to be chanting, like just like in 2011, just like in 2011, Augusta in 20,

like he has set himself up now to, this is going to follow him. This is the chirp to use on McElroy. Well, and listen, he's going to be target number one. You said it. And at Bethpage, I've been to a couple of u.s. open there at the crowd is i mean it's it off the hook you know it was pretty rough last year at montreal i'll tell you that there was uh...

there's a couple of incidents where some of the american players were walking down a hole in people were screaming some from pretty good imagine it was this summer bob imagine this september there is a lot of the world uh... yeah i know yeah i mean it's it's going to be off the hook there i just don't know what what do you think about the anticipation of that but yeah rory's gotta get a little thicker skin because that uh... and you know he's pretty good with that kind of stuff but

i guess if you said i think there's probably more to the story than that we heard so bob with you know earlier in the week we're talking about connor's we're talking about nick taylor and uh... how wasenderith jumped into the leaderboard currently tied at 17th? Yeah, so Taylor Penderith last year finished third in strokes game putting. He was in a tremendous putter. He also hits it a mile. So when you got those two ends going for you, it's pretty good.

This year he's still hitting it a mile, but his putting was like he was almost dead last when the strokes came putting. And on Thursday his putter lit up and his driving unfortunately left him, but he still managed to put a good score together. And then the same thing, but opposite happened today on Friday. He drove the ball really well, put it in the fairway a ton, and he just couldn't sink a putt. So he's still pretty good. He's got some good mojo going. I think he seems to feel good about his game right now, which is always a big step. A lot of the guys who grew up in Ontario,

Connors and guys like that, they're not big on the West Coast. So when you see guys struggling at the start of the year on those west coast greens which are different grass I don't read a lot into it it's when they get here if they're still struggling then I'm worried and I'm not really worried about Taylor Pendrath but we'll see we'll see what happens tomorrow hopefully he can put them both together. With Bob Weeks earlier this week we also heard Tiger Woods had surgery for a ruptured Achilles. How much has the presence of Tiger kind of hovered over this week

and the news that came out earlier this week, how is it affecting all the PGA live talks and where the PGA Tour is going with media and all these different things that seem to be at the forefront of what Monahan was talking about earlier this week and other players. how does that all kind of mesh together when you consider Tiger? We may not see him play again on the PGA tour. Well I don't know if that if his Achilles is the bigger news or the rumor that he's dating Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-wife. That making the rounds down there? Yeah we got some note on that. Yeah, I think that

Achilles' injury is, it's not, I talked to a really good podiatrist about it, he said it's not career ending, but he said he might have a hard time walking up the hills at Augusta National now. And you know, he's got, now got two bad legs basically, and he won't be doing anything until, you know until maybe the father-son in December because it's going to take 12 weeks according to this doctor, 12 weeks before he's going to put any weight on it and probably 6 to 7 months before he can even swing a golf club. This guy is 48 years old, he's got more bolts and nuts in him than Frankenstein Monster

being held together by all this stuff. I just don't see if there's any real value in him playing because I don't think anybody really wants to see him be kind of an exhibition golfer. You don't want him to see there. You want to be able to at least hit some good shot to the finish middle of the pack or something. I don't know if he's got that in him anymore. We'll see. Listen, he's proved me wrong, I don't know what, 15, 20 times with these injuries that he's got over the years.

So hopefully there's one more embarrassment for me rather than him. Yeah, we'll see what comes of it. Again, some guys still on the course. It looks like the cut line will be one under. Enjoy the coverage down there. Enjoy the weekend. Bob will do it again soon. Okay. Take care guys. Bye. Bye. There's Bob Weeks or TSN golf reporter Yeah, that sneaky little Tiger Woods. Hey like yes. Yeah, he's got a lot going on in his life Like Achilles or otherwise it doesn't matter Tigers gonna be right in the middle of things Alright, we'll come back and catch up with Cory Schneider in about 15 minutes. We've got Dear Hazy Beasto to come as well.

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