00:00Josh Appel is going to join us here on the Toyota of Hollywood Hotline.
00:05He's got NWSL Action, Bay FC, and Boston Legacy tomorrow, 10 p.m.,
00:14and then Decision Day in Gainbridge Super League on Saturday.
00:21What's that, Appel?
00:23You don't know what Decision Day is?
00:25I don't.
00:26Decision Day is the final day of the regular season.
00:30Where we determine or make decisions based on results.
00:34Who wins the player's shield?
00:37Who makes the playoffs?
00:38Who misses the playoffs?
00:40At Universal and Soccer?
00:41Decision Day?
00:42Yes.
00:43I'm learning a lot about soccer over the last few weeks, honestly,
00:47because I didn't understand the Champions League and the EuroLeague and all that stuff.
00:50I'm literally learning more about soccer than I've ever known.
00:54And I'm trying to retain it.
00:56Decision Day in America is a bit different than Decision Day in Europe.
01:00Because, of course, we have playoffs here.
01:02And so, like, Decision Day in the Premier League would be, okay, who's making the Champions League?
01:07Who's playing in the Europa League?
01:08And then who's getting relegated and promoted?
01:11But don't you know in advance just based on – they call the standings the table, correct?
01:16Don't you know in advance?
01:19Sometimes, but it could still change.
01:21Well, if you're saying Decision Day, so that would be the final day of game action for this.
01:27I got you.
01:28I got you.
01:28Final fixture.
01:29The final fixture.
01:30Scheduled fixture.
01:31So, it's not like a panel.
01:34It goes off of the record.
01:36Right.
01:37But it's the actual game day.
01:39Because I'm thinking Decision Day, like, you know, March Madness, Election Sunday.
01:43I'm thinking where somebody goes, you're relegated.
01:47And you're like, well, wait a second.
01:49I thought we had enough wins.
01:51Like, I didn't think we were being relegated.
01:53So, it's the last day of game action.
01:57Correct.
01:57The decisions are made by the players on the pitch.
02:01Okay.
02:02All right.
02:03This is exciting to learn all this stuff.
02:05We're less than a month away from the World Cup crowd.
02:07Are you retaining any of this information that we're learning?
02:11It's too much.
02:12It's Euro League.
02:13It's Hispanic League.
02:14It's La Liga.
02:15It's Euro Lopa.
02:17It's Copa America.
02:19It's too much.
02:20But just take a little bit at a time.
02:22Take a little bit at a time.
02:23That's how you learn a language, right?
02:25You don't learn all the words at once.
02:27You learn one word.
02:29But Rosetta Stone is easier than a Pell and Solana Stone.
02:34Well, there's no question there.
02:36I think a kidney stone is easier than a Solana Stone.
02:39Well, not to throw Hawk onto the bus here, but he's going on back-to-back days of X's on
02:44Wordle.
02:45And I did not get an X today.
02:48Back-to-back X's.
02:49I haven't even had the heart to send him to Coach Laranaga because that is a sign of significant mental
02:58decline.
02:59Two days of X's in a row.
03:01And I don't want that following me around.
03:04Devon HN.
03:05So he gets the extension.
03:06And we were talking about this, Appel.
03:08Well, I think that John Eric Sullivan and Jeff Halfley believe they've got a very good core for their offense
03:17with Malik Willis and Devon HN.
03:19And I was submitting to Crowder and Solana that I don't think they feel like they're auditioning Malik Willis.
03:27Well, obviously they are, but I don't feel like they think they're auditioning him.
03:32I feel like they think they've got the right quarterback.
03:35And I think now they believe they've got the right running back.
03:39Hopefully the offensive line is good.
03:41I'm not suggesting that they're planning on winning anything much this season, but I think they think they've got a
03:48pretty good core to build around for the offense.
03:51Agree or disagree?
03:51Agree.
03:52Yes.
03:53Well, at the same time, noting that, all right, in a season from now, if they decide, all right, maybe
04:00it's better for us if we want to trade Devon HN, that's not an untradeable contract for them either.
04:06And if they decide after two seasons, all right, like we notice the decline here.
04:11We don't want to go spending $16 million back to back for two more seasons on a running back.
04:17They can get out of the contract then too.
04:19So I think you, you keep your best player happy by rewarding him for his performance and how much they
04:25use him.
04:26And yeah, to your point, you don't give Malik Willis the money they gave him.
04:32If they didn't think he was someone that they could have a future with, right?
04:36Like regardless of whether or not he actually turns out to be that, they clearly think that he can be
04:44the guy to lead them through this rebuild and come out the other side as their franchise quarterback.
04:49And they're also betting, which again, that contract for Malik Willis is not hamstringing their future either, where if he's
04:57bad, then they get higher draft picks and they address that position through the draft in the coming seasons.
05:04I don't really see a downside in the A-Chan contract or the Willis contract.
05:09And again, all of this, this season is going to be about the process and what does it look like?
05:18Is this an embarrassment or is this something that is competitive week in and week out for the most part,
05:25even knowing this is probably not a team that's going to win more than five ish games.
05:30And speaking of A-Chan and Jeremiah Love, I was listening this morning to Omar was kind of breaking down
05:36the contract.
05:36Jeremiah Love, we don't, he was great at Notre Dame, but we don't know a pair of what he's going
05:40to be in the league.
05:41But the other guys that A-Chan is paid like is Saquon Barkley and Christian McCaffrey.
05:47Now, is he on that level?
05:49Are we in love with A-Chan or is A-Chan on the level of a Christian McCaffrey, Saquon Barkley
05:54type running back?
05:55Well, first of all, this poor Jeremiah Love, I mean, he can go on to have an incredible all pro
06:01career with the Cardinals.
06:03And it's still a horrific pick at number three.
06:06Overall, they're paying him double the guaranteed money that Devon A-Chan is getting.
06:11And he hasn't played a snap in the NFL.
06:13And again, he can turn out to be a good player, but it is a boneheaded pick at number three.
06:19I think, and Bill Barnwell brought this up on his, in a tweet earlier today.
06:25I don't think that that framing Crowder is the way to look at this.
06:29I think the framing is Jameer Gibbs and Bijon Robinson are both due contract extensions this offseason.
06:37They're going to get paid more than Devon A-Chan, and that's going to reset the market.
06:41And to what Bill Barnwell said was, look, the Dolphins probably just saved themselves a decent bit of money by
06:48getting this extension done now before Jameer Gibbs and before Bijon Robinson get their extensions and reset the market again.
06:57I think the way that the Dolphins used Devon A-Chan in the passing game, of course, in the running
07:03game, I think to them makes him worth what guys like McCaffrey and Barkley make.
07:10But he's still not making as much as them.
07:12He's just closing in on what those guys make.
07:15So I understand what Omar's general point was, but for what he means to the Dolphins, I think that this
07:22contract is certainly worth it, especially when you compare it to what Jameer Gibbs and what Bijon Robinson are both
07:28about to get.
07:28But I thought there was going to be maybe a change of course with how the running back was utilized
07:35under Jeff Halfley.
07:37They're trying to build a powerful offensive line.
07:40They want to build in the trenches first.
07:42And I just assumed, DePell, maybe they'd be transitioning into more of a power back.
07:47Does this almost solidify the idea that they're still going to use Devon A-Chan in those ways that you
07:53just mentioned, based on the amount of money that they gave them?
07:57Certainly.
07:57I don't think that they can't be that power running team with Devon A-Chan.
08:03He is capable of running.
08:04I know he's obviously excelled in a zone run scheme with Mike McDaniel before this, but I don't think that
08:11that necessarily makes it so that they're not going to be a power team,
08:15a team that can line up and get two yards, three yards when they need to.
08:19We know that has been one of their biggest issues over the last four seasons, since really Lusaka Polite was
08:26a Dolphin.
08:26That was automatic back then.
08:28Now it's the complete opposite of that.
08:31Great name.
08:32Who's your guy, Rick Crowder?
08:35Oh, I love Lusaka.
08:36I texted with Lusaka Polite yesterday.
08:39Did you really?
08:40LP?
08:40Yeah.
08:41He's part of the NFL Trust.
08:44He does a lot of NFL Trust with the old guys trying to get him insurance and crap.
08:48I don't take it back.
08:49He's not a scuba instructor in Belize or whatever Randy Starks was allegedly doing.
08:54Randy Starks is a scuba instructor in Belize, a pail, if you really want to know.
09:00Belize, I think, has water around it.
09:02I think you said like Bolivia or something.
09:06Now he's at USF with Brian Hartline.
09:10I mean, go Bulls.
09:11Look at you.
09:16Anyway, the lines just came out.
09:19We don't know what the actual schedule release is going to be, right?
09:22It's still tonight.
09:23But there have been enough leaks regarding week one.
09:26People have put together the puzzle pieces and BetOnline has just released the week one lines.
09:31If the Dolphins do play the Raiders week one, which is seeming like what it's going to be in Vegas,
09:39and we don't even know if it's going to be Fernando Mendoza or Kirk Cousins, right?
09:45I gave you guys a quiz yesterday.
09:47What do you think the line is?
09:50I'll go around the room here.
09:52Dolphins at the Raiders week one.
09:58Are the Raiders like a one-point favorite?
10:01I'd say Dolphins one-point favorite.
10:04No way.
10:06Raiders three-and-a-half-point favorites.
10:11Raiders.
10:14If I'm reading this correctly, now I'm not certain how to read this.
10:18Yeah.
10:19Raiders are three-point dogs.
10:23Yeah.
10:24Yeah.
10:25Vegas, Believers and the Dolphins.
10:28How about that?
10:30J-E-S.
10:33Half league.
10:35A couple other ones here.
10:37Patriots at Seahawks.
10:39That'll open the season on that Wednesday night.
10:42Yeah, it's a good game.
10:43Yeah.
10:44I don't like...
10:46Get out of here with these Wednesday games and these Friday games.
10:49Oh, I love it.
10:50Oh.
10:51I wish they'd have like a teaser game this week.
10:54Like, the first game of the season is this week inexplicably.
10:58I like my Thursdays, Sundays, and Mondays.
11:00All right?
11:01Enough with the Wednesdays.
11:02Enough with the Fridays.
11:03You're going to be watching Red Zone on Sunday.
11:05There's going to be three games the whole day.
11:06I was watching ESPN today, and they said, the new Thanksgiving Eve game.
11:13There's no Thanksgiving Eve.
11:16Because they want to play a game Wednesday night because everybody's together.
11:18I'm with you, man.
11:19This Wednesday is ridiculous.
11:21It's Thanksgiving Eve.
11:22What are you talking about?
11:23That's the first time you've ever said the phrase Thanksgiving Eve.
11:26Oh, man.
11:26We always celebrate Thanksgiving Eve in our house.
11:31That's when Lori prepares the spaghetti.
11:34Spaghetti night, huh?
11:36Thanksgiving Eve.
11:37I think I'm going back to Turkey, I told you.
11:39I think I'm going back to Turkey this year.
11:40I think I had my two-week.
11:41I know I'm a fraud.
11:42I think I had my two-week respite away.
11:44It was Arande who talked me into it.
11:47Arande is like the leftovers.
11:49You want a leftover turkey sandwich on one of those dinner rolls,
11:52or you want a leftover piece of cold lasagna?
11:55And he's right.
11:57There's something to be said for that.
11:59Anyway, Seahawks hosting the Patriots.
12:04Seahawks, four-point favorites.
12:06You nailed it.
12:07You nailed it.
12:08Yeah.
12:09Seahawks minus four.
12:12There you go, J.A.
12:14Get him, J.A.
12:16Did I get it right?
12:17Anything else interesting here?
12:20The Sunday games.
12:22How about Arande's sons, Chargers, Mike McDaniels, Chargers offense,
12:30hosting the Arizona Cardinals?
12:34Oh, goodness.
12:35Now, who's the Cardinals quarterback?
12:38Jacoby Brissett.
12:39Yeah, Jacoby Brissett probably.
12:41Jacoby, Carson, Beck, or Gardner Minshew?
12:46Chargers, nine-point favorites.
12:49They're Chargers minus six-and-a-half.
12:53Chargers, four-point favorites.
12:55Chargers minus ten-and-a-half.
12:57Wow.
12:58Mike McDaniel offense on the West Coast.
13:01Look out.
13:02Oh, he's going to whoop them early.
13:03Then they're going to figure out that little goofy post game,
13:06that little post every play, and they're going to set them down.
13:09But, you know, Justin Herbert starring in music videos
13:12with his pop star girlfriend now this offseason.
13:14Who knows?
13:15Is the focus from Ole Misser winless in the playoffs, Justin Herbert,
13:19where it needs to be this offseason?
13:21Oh, we've got a focus debate on May 14th.
13:25We've got a focus.
13:27We've got an NFL focus debate.
13:30We are so back, baby.
13:31We are so back.
13:33Herb got him a bad one.
13:34It's a schedule release day, man.
13:36Isn't he with Madison Beer?
13:37Is that who he's with?
13:39Yeah.
13:39I don't know.
13:41Yeah.
13:44Yeah.
13:45You approve?
13:48I just – I don't know.
13:50I'm married.
13:50I just see a girl.
13:52I was talking about him.
13:52He's a good-looking dude.
13:54He's a looker.
13:55He is a good –
13:55With a playoff game.
13:57How about the Monday night game, the first Monday night game of the season,
14:01the Chiefs hosting the Broncos.
14:04Now, is everybody back?
14:06Is Mahomes back for the Chiefs and is, you know, Bigfella back for the Broncos?
14:16Hey, Josh.
14:17How good could a player be if you called him Bigfella?
14:20I couldn't remember – I couldn't remember your name yesterday.
14:24So, I was like – I was like, it's either going to be Malik or, you know,
14:28that guy.
14:31Our guy.
14:31All right.
14:33Is it Bo Nix?
14:35Bo Nix.
14:38Bo Nix.
14:40Are they both healthy for the opening?
14:43Mahomes will be.
14:44I saw that he's a huge favorite to start week one.
14:48So, the expectation is we'll start week one.
14:50I haven't seen any sort of update on Bo Nix.
14:54Collusion with the league giving them an extra day for Mahomes to be ready.
14:57If they were playing the Wednesday game.
14:59Right.
15:00More than a day.
15:01What do you think that line is?
15:03Chiefs hosting the Broncos Monday night football.
15:07Chiefs favored for sure at home.
15:09Minus, I would say three and a half.
15:11Chiefs minus two.
15:14Broncos minus one.
15:17Chiefs minus two and a half.
15:20Yeah, we'll give that to Appel.
15:21All right.
15:22Josh Appel.
15:22We love you, Joshua.
15:23I love you guys.
15:24We love you back.
15:25All right.
15:27Oh, this is my Marlins captain's hat.
15:30This is the Yacht Rock hat.
15:31This is a great promo, right?
15:34Mm-hmm.
15:35I'm glad you finally got your hands on it.
15:36Look at this.
15:39Wow.
15:40These are the Marlins Barbie game day hats, which will be.
15:45You know what day that promo is, Solana?
15:47That's coming up soon.
15:48No.
15:48I do not.
15:52We did something with the movies that you don't want to admit to people that you watch every time they
15:58come on when you were off, Hawk.
16:00And mine was Barbie with Marco Rodney.
16:03I've never seen it.
16:04Oh, good movie.
16:06Oh, you can go watch.
16:07Is it a good movie?
16:08Great movie.
16:10A great movie?
16:11It's a good movie.
16:13Above average movie.
16:17Barbie game day, Lone Depot Park, May 9th.
16:23Oh, last week.
16:24All right.
16:25Yeah.
16:29Get out there last week and get yourself that Barbie game day.
16:36Fire up the old DeLorean.
16:38Get out there.
16:39Keep up the park.
16:41I might just love Margot Robbie, I think.
16:45Oh, my goodness.
16:46Wolf of Wall Street.
16:47Come on.
16:48Are you kidding me?
16:50She was the lunatic in that superhero movie?
16:54Suicide Squad.
16:56Oh, my goodness.
16:57Harley Quinn.
16:59She tried to teach me things about the financial market in the big short.
17:03From the bathtub.
17:05I'm not really sure I remember anything.
17:07You had a tough time retaining her lessons?
17:10I wasn't focused either, Jay.
17:12I am no longer watching movies.
17:15I am just watching episode four, season three, Euphoria, over and over and over again.
17:22And after I've seen it about 1,050 times, maybe I'll move on to something else.
17:28All right.
17:28See you, Josh.
17:29Bye, guys.
