The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 3 – Petros Papadakis

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn and LaVar Arrington are joined by The Old P, Petros Papadakis to talk about the NFL opening in Brazil, the Rams possibly moving on from Matthew Stafford and more! The NFL raising the salary cap means huge paydays for QB’s. Plus, horrendous television ratings for the NBA All-Star Game. #2prosSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You can find this here on the IHart Radio app and on hundreds of affiliates all across the country, and we are going to be taking you all the way up until the end of this hour, 3 p.m. Eastern Time, 12 o'clock Pacific, and we will be catching up here with our guy, the old P. Petrus Papadakis coming up here in just a couple of moments from now. you hear Petros on in LA weekdays with Matt Money Smith, who's the voice of the LA Chargers on radio. And so I'm sure Petros will have some thoughts. Maybe the old P will be sent out to Brazil to cover the L.A. Chargers.

That'd be fun. Yeah, there could be some conversation we had there with Petros. So as soon as we've got Petros lined up and ready to go, we will keep you posted here. You know, not imagining we're going to have any P. Prisco. issues from yesterday, but it does look like confused looks there behind the scenes. Your thoughts on the confusion

behind the scenes, Brady. What would you say about that? Bad news beers. It does seem like whenever Lee's involved not to throw Lee under the bus, but for those of you that have listened to our show early in the morning, there tends to be a lot of fuzzle

things that are going on and stuff just doesn't work and Lee maybe forgot to call one of the guests to say, hey, we changed our hours. We're actually going to be calling you a little later in the day. Is that okay? Sometimes those little details fall through the cracks. Running for Curis. There he comes. Here comes. Yep, there he is. Running from Kearse. Captain Curis coming to save the day. How's this happened two days in a row? It's very, very troubling. All right. So without further ado, let's turn it over to the man himself, Petros Papadakis,

he is the co-host of the Petros and Money Show, which you can hear on The Blow Torch. AM 570 LA Sports, a Fox College football analyst, and get him on X at the old P. Good morning slash afternoon, depending on where you're listening in the country, but we appreciate

you coming on with us here. No problem. Hello, hello. This is not my first time on this show. Nice. But usually it's the fill-ins that ask me to come on. Oh, okay. So I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying.

I see what you're saying. That's a blazing, huh? I've been on there with Count 405, but not in a while. Okay. Count four o'clock. Bang, bang. What do you mean? How are you doing, P?

Is that a shot at you, Jonas? Yeah, of course it is. No, no, not at all. It's not. I'm count 101, 201. Yeah, he's off the 101. Yeah, I'm off the 23. Filins.

Petros, when is the last time you saw? John is in person? Not long. A couple months ago. Really? Yeah, he has an interesting look. What does he look like? He also looks pale as hell.

Like he never goes out in the sun. Well, I mean, the guy does a radio show at two in the morning in the West Coast. And then he sometimes, you know, does one of the afternoon. What I'm saying is he's indoors a lot. Yeah. Well, I don't think the sun's going to help the night. He's like an editor. He's not.

He probably go outside after the show. It's in an edit day all day. It just grows old. He lives in a coffin that night. It is gross old. It is true. He doesn't need sun. It's not made for him.

Hey, Petros. All right, I'm here for you guys. I know we've caught up since the Super Bowl, but I wanted to make sure you understood there was many a mornings where I looked out in that crowd, and I thought, that's Kansas City's version of Petros. Hey, yeah, afternoon drive. There's Philadelphia's version of Petros.

Yeah, it's tough. That's St. Louis's version of Petros. I mean, you kind of kept going down the line. I completely understood your stance on that. Where is the next Super Bowl? Santa Clara? Yeah, you'll be there. Wow.

I mean, that is an amazing drop-off, right? I mean, I'm not for parties or people or really a good time at all. I'm very hateful, which is why I probably haven't been on in a while. But that being said, New Orleans is a great town. And New Orleans is a fun resort kind of, not resort, but a convention. it kind of absorbs that kind of stuff very well. And the Super Bowl's great there because you're having a good time. But at the same time, you don't feel like the cheeseball idiot that you really are

because you're partying at the Super Bowl. That does not exist in Santa Clara. In fact, almost nothing exists in Santa Clara. And you're nowhere close to anywhere you want to be. San Jose has nothing to offer you. San Francisco used to be the Baghdad by the bay. Now it's a big pile of poop and needles. But that being said,

I mean, it's still kind of a fun city to kick around in, but you're at least 45 minutes from there in Santa Clara in a badly built stadium. I mean, that is kind of an amazing thing in today's day and age, that we have all this technology, all these architects, all these people in the 21st century, and you can still just totally drop the ball building an NFL football stadium. Even though you have billions of dollars and all that, You just build it the wrong way. What do you not like about?

Well, the sun is like, well, the sun is blaring down on you at one o'clock on the home team side, which was a big problem. Have you been in there? Yeah, Brady. We did a game in there once. Remember we did the Pack 12 championship? Yeah. Can I make a case for you? I feel like you're an unbelievable host.

And I'm not just saying this because you're on with us. Like I've worked with you. I've witnessed it. you did do such a good job in those scenarios. You did the big 12-1 to one year we were together, and then you did the pack 12-1. And both of them I was like, I wanted to watch those. Like usually that's like, okay, like let's pack up and go.

I literally stayed just to watch, just to watch you on those. Like that's how entertaining it was. Yeah, they don't ask me to do them much anymore. They used to like me to do the old Dr. Pepper halftime thing because they couldn't trust Bruce Feldman with it, I guess. Oh, no. I mean, I love Bruce, but could you imagine him doing that? not his deal.

Yeah, could you imagine? He'd sit there and like take a text from Chip Kelly halfway through and no one would know who won. So that's why they would have me do it, I guess, is just to do the Dr. Pepper. But you're right. I enjoy those. I remember doing one of those, the one I did at the Pack 12 when Washington, our friend Chris Peterson, beat a pretty beat up Utah team. A very boring game.

It was like 9 to 6. And I remember doing that half, doing that post game with Larry Scott. who was at that point already universally despised and anybody with half a brain saw that he was taken down the conference. But besides the nice gift you used to get at the Pack 12 dinners, remember the media days? Oh, come on.

I still use my earbuds right now. But Larry Scott was like, okay, I'll take the microphone now. I said, no, you won't. You will not. And I almost had to battle him with my fist and the mic where he tried to like kind of pry it out of my hand like Pat Hayden and Steve Sarkesian behind stage that one night. And it got a little ugly for a second.

But the one thing you have to know is, if you ever give your mic to anybody, I don't care if it's Rob Gruncowski, who just won the Super Bowl or what. You can't give your mic to Larry Scott or the young man you're interviewing or the head coach, be it Chris Peterson or anybody.

You've got to keep that mic. If they want to hold the mic, they've got to hold the mic outside of your hand. Your hand has to be the prophylactic because if you give up that mic, you're never getting hired again. Now, of course, I never gave up the mic, and I'm still not getting hired again. So, yeah, there's some advice. Speaking of getting hired or getting fired or moving on. I want to get higher.

Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. I know that song, too. I know that's why I did it. Go ahead. Your guy, Matthew Stafford. is he to go or not to go that is the question and do you like the I guess we're hearing

Garoppolo possibly or maybe you know I don't what are you thinking in terms of quarterback for how long well what is that that old Schaefter said you know not that I pay much attention to anything but Schaefter said maybe Aaron Rogers yeah I was going to hit you with what you think about that well don't they have a bit of a connection through LaFleur and all those guys from commanders, from what I understand. McVeigh and all those people, they were all on that Shanahan staff through your old team, LeVar.

And then they've kind of scattered around the NFL. But most of those guys, I imagine, kind of like Andy Reed and Brett Favre and that old contingent of coaches, Steve Mariucci that we used to hear about, those guys all seem to really like Aaron Rogers, you know, the same way all those guys that scattered around from the Green Bay staff

under Mike Holmgren really like Brett Favre. So maybe that works in L.A. Aaron can be in a major media market and it gives the Rams a chance to stick it to Kelly Stafford because they're tired of listening to her and her podcast. My radio partner brought that up yesterday on our show that maybe they say, oh, Kelly, you like that? You want to go on there and say this, say that?

Well, here you go. You get to go to New York City where they suck. And here comes Aaron Rogers to take your place. Woo. Dang. Yeah, we don't need your podcast. We had the top macabee show. Well, because Rogers feeds that redemption, right?

I mean, because Farrv did the same thing. He left Green Bay. He went to the Jets. He took a picture of his gray, a pub patch. Whoa. What? He didn't? What are you talking about?

That wasn't him. I mean, those looks like his crocs, but that was definitely not him. All right. I'm sorry. That's alleged. That was definitely Breft-Far. Well, you could just say it didn't end well.

It ended in controversy. And because of that, you know, he needed a redemption story, which he really did get in Minnesota. I mean, he was bawling his old ass off. He did have a nice watch. In Minnesota. That's true. I'll show you a watch. Dang.

So anyway, maybe Aaron Rogers gets that at Solfi. You know, that'd be pretty cool. Petros, just curious, your thoughts. Obviously, you mentioned your partner, Matt Money Smith, the voice of the bolts. They're on their way to Brazil. I saw that. Yeah. So, I mean, what's the plan?

As you guys know, I'm a bit of an agoraphob and really, really don't like traveling, getting worse as I get older. I have to go places and I do. But going to Brazil where I've read a little bit about, but I know it's pretty wild and chaotic is not on my list, although I do enjoy the music, the tropicalia, which is like what they listen to inside Brazil and the Basanova, which they sent around the world with

the great writer and composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Luis Bonfa, and many like that. So, yeah, I'm in... How are you so well-versed when you have these, you know, moments? Like, when you have an agoraphobic moment...

I just get uncomfortable, you know? Okay, that's it? Like, you can handle it, though. I guess. I mean, I'm not. I haven't been to Brazil. No one's trying to steal my kidney. You know, that Ryan Lockney got in a fight at a gas station. Remember the swimmer? Yeah. No, it looks like a lot of fun.

What we like to do with Matt, because he does travel. You know, he works with the Chargers, and he travels other than that, too. He does college basketball and stuff. I like to, there's a movie called The Five Obstructions, and it's like a bet between two really, really famous international movie makers, Yergen Leth and Lars von Trier. and this guy like sets up these impossible movie-making obstructions for this other movie maker and then makes a movie about him trying to clear the obstructions. So we do that with Matt.

Like when he went to Baltimore, I made him find Edgar Allan Poe's grave. I made him go and get a big can of Natty Bow, the National Bohemian Beer, that they made him eat a crab cake. You know, it all has to be documented. In Jacksonville, there's like some weird cartoon-looking dinosaur. I made him get on an Uber and find that. And, you know, his obstructions in Houston that the Chargers, when they had their playoff game, I only do it for the playoffs, didn't go so well.

And maybe that's why the Chargers lost. Some allege. So we'll see. Like, I could send him to Brazil and do obstructions, but he might not live through. Oh. I mean, what was the plan in Houston that he didn't execute? I wanted him to go to this really old bar in downtown. and instead, he was like, well, we were staying 20 minutes.

I didn't make it. He kind of blew it off in a way. And I'm not saying that's why the charges collapsed at all. Yeah, they didn't play well. No, he did make it to one of the structures, like a weird fountain or something. Better situations. Is it a better situation to keep your guy?

I'm sorry, is it a better situation to keep Stafford or is it a better situation with one of the other options? Well, I don't think they're going to get rid of him because his wife is annoying. although it's pretty annoying That's good to know I mean just think about the timeline Remember last year

I mean they have Puka Nakua Who's fixing to be the best rookie receiver We've seen in years Yeah and he's on there He's in their camp And remember she came out on her podcast I was like Matt doesn't even relate With these young guys

I was on their phone And he doesn't even know Remember that? Yeah I do I do now that you said it like that I do remember Yeah

I mean these guys have to be Less Need doesn't seem like he's not annoying, but he's got to be annoyed by this, you know? And, uh, I mean, you've seen his frames and the glasses he wears. And that stupid shirt on the parade. I mean,

she's done a lot of things that are pretty questionable. And then, yeah, you know, I dated the backup to make him jealous. You know, that was that. And now there's like, if I have to be the dog, I will be. You know, we want to win a championship. Mathia wants to win. It's like, okay. But I don't think that's why

they'd get rid of him. But if they're going to, if they're far apart on a deal, I don't think that would help that she's got wind in her jaws. And I think, no, I think the pragmatic thing to do is to bring in Matt Stafford again, and he's still playing on a high level, and he's got a great arm,

and he's competitive, and even though it seems like his wife beats a crap out of him, he's pretty tough. What, is he Cap Rooney? Yeah. Was that the kid Dennis Quaid? Yes. Lauren Hawley, a forgotten 90s actress.

Petros, I want to go back and get your thoughts on the NBA All-Star game as well as LeBron, deciding to opt out of the All-Star game. Well, I mean, can I go full conspiracy theory? I mean, I know I already mentioned Brett Farms' nether regions, but can I go full conspiracy theory? Sure, sure. All right. Do we have any Unsolved Mysteries music we can play for Petros?

I mean, I'll take current affair, the old Tony Bruno. I think Adam Silver did this. I don't believe that this idiot in Dallas and our guy with a tight bomber jacket in L.A., Polenka and Nico Harrison figured this out themselves and it didn't leak for months. And I don't believe an ounce of that story. I don't. I believe that a call was made, probably late into the afternoon. From Jeannie Bus or some proxy could be Linda Rambas.

To the vampire Adam Silver's house. And in his coffin, six feet deep, he took the red phone call and said, Blah! Hello! And because he's like a vampire. And Jeannie Bus said, look, we took LeBron. Now you've got to get us out of this. His weird agency is up in our building. He's destroying everything.

And none of our fans like us anymore. Many of our fans won't start watching the Lakers again until he's gone. We need something. Just like we needed something when Kareem came. Just like we needed something when Powell Gasol came. Just like we needed something. And all these other times. And Silver waved his vampiric fingers and made this happen.

So he's my Jonas' people. That makes LeBron and his people, because they're not without power. Upset. How do they counter? Well, they act all cool when Lucas shows up, and he plays the nice guy. That won't last.

Oh, I see where you're going, Pete? LeBron says, here's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to play. I'm going to wreck your All-Star game. I'm going to wait until an hour before tip, and then I'm going to squat down and defecate on your entire weekend. It's a great theory, bro. Good call.

That's a very, very strong theory, my gosh. Thank you. All right. Can I pose this question there? Why don't you put that in your pipe, Robert Stack and smoke it? Guys, did anyone care that he wasn't a part of a game that really wasn't entertaining? Well, no, but he made it about himself again, which is part of the point. And took a shot at Gottlieb, darn it.

He could have at least put on the All-Star uniform, right? At least we had the deflection where, ooh, he got Gottlieb good. Yeah. Nice deflection, LeBron. Thanks for ruining your sport. but just deflect to a team in Minnesota, and Wisconsin. All right, cool.

Dang. But yeah, that's my theory. He could have put the uniform on and not play. He didn't want, he, bruh, that's Petros, that's the best I've heard. Because I have been made aware of the fact

that they truly did not know. I thought they were in the know, but. No, and they're not happy. They were not in the know about what took place with this trade. Well, what bothers me is you look at all, these guys, the people that work for LeBron, the LeBron media contingency, and we all

know who they are. One of them looks like a tortoise. Who would that be? I look kind of like a walrus. Anyway. Who would be the tortoise? The one with the horse wind. Dang. Now, these guys all came out and

said, right, and I barely try to pay attention to this stuff, but the hypocrisy is so glaring. These guys for years, you know, every move that's been made with the Lakers, these guys for years been like, well, you know, LeBron's got nothing to do with it.

A lot of people want to say he does, but he's got nothing to do with it. And then this trade happens, and LeBron actually has nothing to do with it, and they all come out and say, well, this is the first time LeBron's had nothing to do it. It's like, well, what about the last seven years of your lies? You freaking shill?

I don't know how any of the, I mean, look, I am not without problems, and I am not without. flaws, but the lack of integrity and honor, not that the sports media, I mean, we're already the toy department. How do you mess up the toy department and how do you mess up

a rock fight? I mean, we have really destroyed how to cover these people. And it's because they have proxies within the media that are planted. I mean, when LeBron came to L.A., they brought a studio host and a beat rider with him

and said, hey, hire this studio host and, hey, hire this beat writer. Do you think they ever write anything bad about LeBron? Not much. Thank you, Jonas. Yeah, if you know, you know, Patros, you know. It's one of those. I've been known things.

Yeah, that's a hell of a theory, though. I like that. It's not a theory. I was at yoga today, and my friend Joseph, who I believe was on the Filipino national basketball team. All right. was asking me, you know, what I thought about the Luca trade. And I told him about the phone, the bat phone and the vampire house.

And some other guy who was tall, so he probably thought he had some kind of basketball legitimacy, which he probably does over me. He was like, oh, you guys are going with a conspiracy theory. So it's like, you don't know. Get out of here. Talk to me. Petros, are you guys going to, is it a flex? Is it a flex alert tomorrow?

The Dodgers are back. The Petrus and Money Show in LA, you mean? Yeah, I mean, is this a... We're only going to be on where the Dodgers are going to play from noon to whatever, and then we're going to come on, and we're only going to be on an hour, and then we've got to flip it like a Tommy Frazier or Eric Crouch pitch to the sideline to the Clippers. Okay. Who are in Milwaukee, who have Kyle Kuzma, who's recently engaged to that woman,

that supermodel with Vidal. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know you're talking about. Winnie Harlow. Congratulations to the happy. Oh, congrats. Nice. That's beautiful.

And did you guys know that Cardi B's hooking up with Stefan did? I told Jonas that earlier. See, I'm not just up on Swift and Kelsey. You're up on all the game, my guy? My umbrella. There you go. I mean, LeVar just showed me some information about Lamar Odom and who he's dating. Yeah, did you see that one?

Hey, you got it. My first song on the radio that I ever did parody song was To the Gambler by Kenny Rogers. Okay. You know, you got to know when to hold him. Oh. You got to know. Lamar Odom. He rolls blunts and smokes her.

Oh. Oh, no. Yeah, wow. He's definitely smoking bloods. In third grade, he was 11. He found that. Don't put 11 in that. He found another one.

I just saw. I just saw what's happening. What does she look like? Oh, that's funny. Is she young in the mind? Is she young in the mind? Oh, the mind might be a little different than is she young in the mind.

Put it this way, Petros. And she, the is silent. Oh, yeah. Dang. Brian was like, what exactly does that mean? Very interesting.

Well, that's wonderful for them. I hope they're happy. Off the market. At the old P is where you can find him on X. All I see is a custom life size sex doll. I mean, he was a part of that too. He used that for shift gears a little bit. Petros.

You want to a secret. Yeah, as I said, you got to use that the carpool. pooling. That's what you've got to do out there. Dang. I used to drive it all time. But his last name is... Did you really? Yeah.

You've got to know Lamarod. Petros, the coast of the Petros and Money show, which you can hear on the blowtorch. AM 570, L.A. Sports, Fox College Football Landalyst. I don't think I'm going to be invited on in a while. Let this be a lesson to everybody. Leave me alone in the mid-morning.

So there he is. Petrus Poppanakis. It's always a fun ride with Petros. here. Every Wednesday morning, you can hear Petrus with us as well, too, on two pros and a cup of Joe. It is the herd here on Fox Sports Radio, LeVarrienton, Brady Quinn, Jonas

Knox with you. Coming up next year, we are going to dive back into our coverage of the NFL. All sorts of fun stuff, juicy rumors, headlines. They are yours coming up next year on on FSR. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays

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Got me again. You're not going to ruin my song, Playboy. I mean, that was the lyrics. Was that not the lyrics? Yeah. And who sings that song? Outcast. Yeah, let's keep it that way.

Damn. Dang. Well done. All right. Jeez, Ryan. Good. Gosh, almighty. I mean, that's one way I do it want to rhyme.

I mean, friendly fire. Yeah. All right. You ain't too big to get slapped out either. My bad. My bad. Be clear on that. Why do you always got to resort to violence?

That's what I know. That's what I know. I'm hostile, you know. Maybe people do have something. They got a legitimate gripe against me. I'm just saying. Like you were, I mean,

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LeVar? I don't care. I don't care. If he dies, He dies. Damn. I don't care. That dude was attacking me, man.

And blamed it on me, though. How are you going to attack me and blame an attack on me? That's weird, man. Yeah, I don't know. Well, anyway. Hey. If he dies. He dies.

It's the herd here on Fox Sports Radio. LeVar Earrington, Brady, Quinn, Jonas Knox. In for Colin. coming up in about 15 minutes from now in the final edition of the Herdline News here on this Wednesday we are going to tell you about some numbers that came in that, well, don't blame us, we're just reporting the news. So don't blame us, the numbers are in,

and it's not a good look for some people in the world of sports. That'll be yours here again, a little over 15 minutes from now. Speaking of numbers, the NFL did send out a memo to teams on Wednesday, informing them that the salary cap for the 2025 season will be somewhere between 277.5 and 281.8 million. It was set at 255 last year and 224 in the 2023 campaign. So the number over the last two years has jumped up, well, a little over $50 million for the NFL.

Is that a lot? I mean, it would speak to if they're doing pretty well. Okay. It seems like they've rebounded from the COVID year. Not doing too bad, huh? 50 mail. Yeah. Opens up the door.

And people need to get comfortable with players earning some ridiculously huge numbers. Because most quarterbacks in particular, who are going to keep pushing the envelope, their salary or their compensation is going to be tied to the percentage of the cap. So, I mean, we're already seeing quarterbacks make around 60 million per year. Like, I don't think it's that crazy to see Patrick Mahomes making, I don't know, 90 million, 100 million a year? I mean, in all seriousness, like people can find this laugh ball you want.

The guy has done nothing but making to the AFC championship round every single year he's been a starter. If you were to pay him 100 million, do you feel like you're overpaying him? No. For the guys right now in the NFL, the best quarterback in the planet?

If the chiefs balked on that, there would be somebody in 10 minutes that would be willing to give him $100 million. Jerry Jones would give him $100 million. I would think so. anyone in the league would do it if they could do it. I mean, why wouldn't you?

He's got a lot of football ahead of them. Why wouldn't you? So, I mean, and the ROI on that, I mean, the instant buy-in to the hope. If you're selling hope, most of these organizations are selling hope. What better way to sell hope than

to bring in a guy like Patrick Mahomes? He's never leaving Kansas City. That's for certain. You're right. To your point, yes, You would pay him $100 million, 100%. Now, is that a year? Is that yearly? Yeah, I mean, finding some way of paying that.

Yeah, I just, the whole discussion about you can't give so-and-so this amount of money, you can't give this guy this amount of money, it's like, what do you think Brock Purdy's going to end up getting paid? If the Niners do a deal. But he's going to get 50 to 60. You think? He'll be making $50 million a year.

Yeah. Dang. Brock Purdy? Yeah. Brock Purdy. Prepare yourself for that reality, LeVar. Wow. All right.

Good for him. Why do you look at him? Why do you stop to look at me? Because if Brock Party's getting $50 million, then the next one's up, or like that number is ridiculous. Oh, yeah. That number. That number.

Oh, that number. Oh, next man up at that position is ridiculous. That's for quarterbacks. That's why you look at what. Son, we got to have. have a discussion. That's why. You might have to flip position.

You look at Saquan Barclay making $13 million this year. Yeah. Drastically underpaid. Doesn't even matter. Like $13 million? Like, wow. Nothing. That's like dropping the bucket.

And he was fighting for that. They didn't want to pay him 14 in New York. He was fighting for $13 million. You talk about Brock Purdy. Yeah. At what world does Brock Purdy compare? of Sequin Barclay as an impact player for your team. In what world?

13 versus 50. Damn. There's something to be said about being a QB, man. Y'all are treated very differently. That's a great point. I never wanted to be a QB though. Shots out to the QBs, man. I mean, because there's a lot that comes along with that too.

I mean, I'm sitting here joking about it, but there is a lot that comes with being a quarterback, man. I would say in a lot of cases, they have the less amount of opportunity to have fun as players because all the pressure that's on them and all the attention that goes their way. Like a lot of people talk about it in one way or another, but I mean, you guys do have a ton of pressure on y'all, man. Well, I think the one thing that I would say is a little bit unfair

is there's less time for a quarterback to develop compared to other positions. Like you get it for, like most people probably wrote off Bryce Young after his rookie year because the way it looked. it looked bad. I mean, I'll be the first to admit it. It looked bad. It looked like he wasn't going to be capable of playing in the NFL. Now, since then, he's improved.

He's continued to grow and mature, and he's found a way of being able to play his game in the NFL and finished on a high note this season. But that's the reality of the position right now, is you get one chance for a first impression, and that first impression is lasting. I mean, think about this. Think about Sam Darnold.

After the year that he had had, You think that everyone would be clamoring to sign him to a big deal. And look, again, I had someone who was, you know, with the 49ers back when Darnel was with him a couple years ago. And he said, you know, warming up in the field before the game, I said, how Darnold look. I was like, I'm kind of fascinated to see what he's going to look like if he ever gets a shot in San Francisco. And he's like, well, if you saw Darnold and Brock Purdy warm up, you would be sitting there thinking, well, Donald's got to be the starter, right? Like there's not one physical trade or attribute that Brock Purdy has over. a Sam Donald.

But again, in between the years is an important part, and Brock Purdy's done a tremendous job in college Shannon's system. But it further kind of proves the point. Donald has all the tools. You know, he was thought to have all the tools when he got into the league. But because of how things went with a dysfunctional organization in New York, with how things went with a dysfunctional organization in Carolina, he's fortunately found now a spot in Minnesota where he got a chance to go play and he played really, really well this year.

but there might be some people who are hesitant who are like, yeah, but I don't know. What about those other years? And what about that first impression he made when he first got the league? People will still hold back because of that. So that's the toughest part, I think, for quarterbacks nowadays, is they've got to hit the ground running.

And then that's what people basically form their opinions on and they usually never really get off that. It's the herd here on Fox Sports Radio, LaVeyerrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox, in for Colin. here in the Hurdline news. The numbers are in and it is not a good look for somebody in the world of sports. That's yours here

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Now, this is the Herdline News starring Lee DeLap, who was staring down the barrel of a date with a Philly cheese steak in about a half hour. That place says Hogi. You know, they got to their best foot forward. Oh, yeah. That's the last thing you need.

Oh, dang. They make this awesome Chipotle, smoky Chipotle sauce I put on it. Oh, so good. I cannot wait. You better go try. Who's daily? Who's the day?

Triales are shopping afterwards. Philadelphia hoagies. Philadelphia. All you got to do is slap Philadelphia on there, no matter where you are in the country, and you're going to sell a hoagie or two, you know? It's like, do a real Philly cheese steak is cheese whiz, correct?

That's what they say. I don't like the cheese whiz myself. I don't know. go with cheese whiz either. But that is what it's considered to be the originals, the OGs of them. But go ahead, Lee. Yeah, it's like a little shack inside of a

parking lot outside of a liquor store. It's great. Oh, perfect. Boy, sign me up. Will you venture into the liquor store after you're done or before you're done? You've got to wash it down with something, so yeah, I'll be in there. Maybe get a lotto ticket. We'll see what happens. Oh, there you go. Guys,

the numbers are out for the NBA All-Star game and surprise, surprise, surprise. Viewer is down 13% from last year. Last year they were at about 5.4 million. This year, 4.7. Wow, can I actually provide you a little more analysis on this? Sure. Do you know it's the second fewest or I guess least watched

NBA All-Star came since 2000? And just to give people an understanding of the decline that the NBA has been on. So the peak was I believe in like, was it 2002, 2003 where it was 13.1 million had watched. So I think that was 2002.

And since then, it's literally been on a decline with a few exceptions. Like 2011 was 9.1 and here and there, but it's been literally declining since then. So look, I'm not like I've the answer for you as far as what they should do. But I think if you're looking at what took place at the same time, which the Canada-USA game did over 10.1 million, if you include Canada, then about 14, or excuse me, 4.4, you know, up to 5.2 or something like that, million at its peak. But if you look at that format and you divide it up the USA versus, you know, the other countries that are involved in the league, I think you'd have a pretty fun game, at least a more entertaining game to a degree, I think. I mean, if they want to fix the rating, just put on an old NFL game.

That way people will tune in, you know, if you want to get their people interested. Wow. But hey, whatever you guys do, don't be too critical, you know, because, No. People just like to complain. Yeah, people just like to complain. It's not the reality. It's just complains about the game.

Let me ask this question then. Are NBA players unaware of the dramatic decline in ratings that have happened now for years in the making? I mean. Like how can you not acknowledge that? I don't know. It's a good question. It was brutal. Was it, was Trey Young the one who came out and said, yeah, I didn't like it at all?

Like, I just didn't like whatever we were doing. It just, it's not good. What makes these numbers worse, too, is how Nielsen just changed their ratings for the out-of-home rating system we had talked about. Like, when you look at the NFL or the Super Bowl, I mean, that was an all-time highest, most rated game ever, and it was a blowout, which seems like it doesn't make any sense. So that even makes this look that much worse, if you really think about it. Lee, what did Daytona do? What was Daytona 500? I'd love, because that was actually a really entertaining race.

and I'm curious to see what their numbers were in comparison, or at least in comparison to last year, what they did. I am seeing $5.3 million at a high of 6.3. So they beat the NBA All-Star game. Yes. 7.5 is the highest. Okay. Now, everything's fine.

Listen, we're just complaining. Everyone would rather watch cars drive around in a circle. Everything's fine. For hours. I mean, if we're being real. Everything's fine. They were up from last year. It's a great race.

Oh, God. What else? Lee. More numbers for you. According to the American Gaming Association's annual report, which came out today. That was the average. Yeah, the highest was 75. All right.

American Gaming Association's annual report came out today. The American Sports Betting Industry posted a record $13.7 billion in revenue last year, up from $11.11 billion in 2020. They took in nearly $150 billion worth of bets, 22.2% increase from 2020. 23, one at a rate of 9.3. And that was just from Jontay Porter. Who else bet? Oh, John. I was going to throw your name in there.

Yeah. I mean, lost a lot of money this year. $2, $5 bet start to add up after a while. I'll say this, man. Lead the lap. Just deliver the goods. Can't say enough. You're very welcome.

I just can't believe he hated on Captain America, the new one, though. That really was disheartening. He's a racist. I mean, that's why. That's the most racist. you love Black Panther, you're not racist? Oh, my God. Oh, hey, Lee, do you have a bunch of black friends, too?

And you listen to the temptations. Hey, Ryan, I'm sorry that you get subjected to this today. First of all, he's, you know, blowing it up in there, and then he's making comments like that. His true, true colors came out. Wow. Yeah. What a horrible way they in the show. You're more a red hulk or green hulk?

I'm more of an adult, so I don't partaking either. Yeah. I'm not. It's not partaking. No, it's not my thing. Yeah, I'll skip Captain America. My wife wanted me to go see that movie with

She was taking my son And her sister was going, she was taking her kid. She said, yeah, so the movie starts with my what movie? She's Captain America. I was like, oh, you think I'm going? No chance. Zero chance. Is that H-H-L-A

theater? Is that like the real deal? Should we go? Should I go there? The what theater? It's like H-H-L-A. It's like a, Big, big theater off the side of the highway. The Howard Hughes, the Howard Hughes Cinemark? I haven't been.

It looks like it's badass, but I don't know. I want to go to one that's like really, really like, you know, like that next level one. I've been to the one that has the miss blow on you and all that stuff. The 4D. Yeah. No, it looks cool. I'll check that out. Yeah, let's go see a movie.

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