00:00All right, dealer's choice, fellas.
00:02Hit the music and we'll figure out our assignment.
00:05Go ahead.
00:10Tasty.
00:16Oh, Michael, we were off yesterday, so technically it's Monday for us.
00:23And yes, it seems like I don't search this stuff out,
00:28but your team just keeps making headlines.
00:32So can we say that the Giants have squashed the locker room controversy
00:39between Jackson Darden and Abdul Carter?
00:42No.
00:43No.
00:43And this is where players, look, you have to make a decision.
00:48You're an adult, but you're a highly public figure and you're in a locker room.
00:53You got to steer away from the politics because 50% are going to hate you
00:57and 50% are going to love you.
01:00It was dumb for Jackson Dart to do it.
01:02It would have been dumb if it were the other side of the guy.
01:04Do not get political.
01:06Don't do it.
01:07Bad enough you do it on social media.
01:09Now, when you're out there at rallies and stuff,
01:11you're just asking for a rift with teammates.
01:13We saw that take place years ago in a certain Michigan State locker room,
01:17and we'll leave that alone.
01:18The point is it's just not good business.
01:21So you have the rest of your life to be highly political.
01:24And newsflash, I don't want to hear about how you have a platform
01:27and somebody needs to talk.
01:28Ain't nobody listening to you for advice on who to vote for or what to do.
01:32You're a 20-something-year-old quarterback.
01:35I'm just, hey, he can do it.
01:37This is the price of free speech.
01:38It's not free.
01:39You can do whatever you want, but you run the risk of alienating some teammates.
01:44And to me, at this stage of your life, this should be priority one.
01:47Now, that's different than you are invited to the White House as a champion.
01:52I think you just go because that is respecting of the office,
01:56no matter who is in.
01:57Whether you're Tim Thomas, Steph Curry, or anyone in between, that's different.
02:01When you, on your own volition, are doing intros, it's bad business.
02:06I just, I'm hoping they can work through that
02:10and get everybody locked in for a year where we win more than three games.
02:14Please.
02:14Yeah, this brings people in on the inside a little bit
02:17because things happen in the locker room.
02:19It just is, right?
02:20Different opinions.
02:21You can have five different opinions on pizza in a locker room,
02:25let alone something like this.
02:27Or a paternity.
02:28Yeah, that's true.
02:29It becomes now public, and now it opens it up for the media
02:32to ask other teammates questions about this, and that's the problem.
02:36Right.
02:37Nothing he did was offensive on surface,
02:39but there are people who do take politics like a team sport.
02:43And that's, look, it's just not smart when you're the quarterback
02:46of an NFL franchise to get involved in that stuff.
02:48But even if you just say, oh, he's young, he made a stupid mistake,
02:51doesn't he have people in his camp, whether it's agent, family, friends,
02:54you know, business manager, somebody to be like,
02:56hey, man, if you believe it, cool, but don't do that.
02:59That's a bad idea.
03:00Okay, okay.
03:00As an example, though, hey, Steph Diggs,
03:03how about not six kids with six women?
03:05Right.
03:07I'm just throwing it out there.
03:09Oh, you're not wrong.
03:10No, you're right there.
03:12Uh-oh.
03:13Guys, can we say that maybe the dumbest statement ever by a coach
03:20was Kenny Atkinson saying that analytically the Cavs were winning the series.
03:26This was before game four.
03:29He said that, yeah, I know they're winning games,
03:32but analytically speaking, we're actually winning.
03:36It reminded me of the Cavs, Shepard.
03:39He'd take away a few plays, and, you know, this Lions defense is great.
03:43I'm going to be totally sincere when I say this.
03:47No hyperbole.
03:48I'd fire Kenny Atkinson.
03:50It's a good thing I don't own the Cavs.
03:52Analytically.
03:53Analytically speaking, you're fired.
03:55Oh, and in reality, also fired.
03:58I just, I can't.
03:59And it goes all the way back to not using his timeouts
04:02because he thought he was going to lose them.
04:04The blowing of that game.
04:06Then his just vision quest with James Harden to then that comment.
04:12Yeah, I just, I'll leave it alone.
04:15But if I ran the team, oh, yeah.
04:17No, no.
04:18My head would have exploded.
04:19Yeah, I'm not surprised that there were some reports already out
04:22after the game that he was going to get fired
04:25because I think the players, after game one, gave up on him.
04:32You cannot do that with the timeout.
04:35You cannot say some of the things and do some of those things coaching-wise.
04:38They just were done with him.
04:41David, you saw the quit last night.
04:43And the announcers kept bringing it up.
04:45Like, look at the Knicks.
04:47They've got four men back, and you've got four men on the other side of the court
04:50just jogging up the court where you had, I think it was Ananobi,
04:54gets the rebound, throws it out, and then makes the basket on the other end
04:58and runs past every Cavalier.
05:01Guys, can we say, and maybe this is just me because, you know,
05:05I like the old-school baseball, but a combined no-hitter is just not the same
05:10as one pitcher out there throwing a no-hitter.
05:12Yeah, I agree totally.
05:13It's still a hell of a team accomplishment,
05:15but they're in a separate category than an actual no-hitter.
05:18The Astros threw a 9-0 no-hitter against the Rangers,
05:22but it's like, eh, that's cute.
05:24But it's not one person going out there and facing, you know,
05:29and getting the 27 outs.
05:31David?
05:32This is what I'll say.
05:33I hope you're ready for this.
05:35This is the new no-hitter.
05:37You will not have pitchers going the distance anymore.
05:40It will be nothing but combined no-hitters.
05:44That's what it is now.
05:45Also, too, I've got to throw this out there.
05:47I'm not demeaning, but I am going to diminish a no-hitter.
05:52The league blows.
05:53Nobody can hit.
05:55I mean, the average OPS in this league is like 690 now.
06:00Nobody can hit.
06:01So it's kind of like I'm expecting one of these a month at this point.
06:06If a guy's hitting 270, he's next to Ty Cobb in Cooperstown.
06:10This is true.
06:11Can't hit.
06:12This is true.
06:14Real quick, Mike, can we say that the best thing that's happening
06:18to college football is Ed Orgeron will be back.
06:21Yeah.
06:22It, LSU, in some capacity.
06:25LSU, DGAF.
06:27They just don't care.
06:29I wouldn't be shocked if they hired like Ted Bundy as the team psychologist.
06:33They don't care.
06:35They just do whatever they want, whatever sport they want.
06:38Now we've got to find out if JoJo still works at that Hummer dealership.
06:42Oh, wait, he doesn't.
06:43We called and tried to find out.
06:44If you, oh, tell them about it, JoJo.
06:48If you, oh man, if you've never seen it, it's the greatest commercial ever filmed.
06:54Just type in Ed Orgeron car dealership.
06:57You're going to love it.
06:59All I'll say here is plan B, she just moved their headquarters to Baton Rouge.
07:04Okay, then.
07:05Okay.
07:06Tell them about it, JoJo.
07:07We'll run this back a little bit later on in the show.
07:12That's Can We Say That, part one, 97.
07:14971.
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