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Chiefs QB Mahomes looking good in practice, and we talk with Sheryas Laddah about ... watching videos of people's morning routines? Plus KU Baseball talk.
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00:00All right, welcome back, everybody.
00:02It is Sports Daily.
00:03Glad to be here with you.
00:05Shrius, we'll see if we can connect with Shrius.
00:06No worries if not.
00:08I want to, though, TJ, Shrius, he's having a technical issue.
00:13He'll be on in just a second.
00:15So, real quick, Mahomes practicing yesterday.
00:21What are you giving?
00:22What's your expectation?
00:24I'm going to say my official expectation is that he plays week one.
00:28Yeah, I am too.
00:29I'm there already.
00:30I think that, you know, I think that everything has shown us that that's what the plan is going to
00:35be.
00:35I think that it's notable.
00:37It's notable.
00:38You have to, like, kind of retrain your mind.
00:40Because I think that our minds right now, seeing him yesterday is like, all right, cool, he's there.
00:47Our minds in December will probably be like, yeah, there's just not a chance that's happening.
00:52And, like, be mind-blowing and everything.
00:54But I think from what we've seen, the videos of him working out, the videos of him golfing, like, all
01:00that stuff.
01:00We're like, I mean, yeah, he can drop back and throw passes.
01:03They're not going to hit him.
01:04I think he can definitely go to OTAs.
01:07Like, it'd be a bigger story today if he wasn't there, which is insane.
01:13Um, yeah, it would be.
01:15It would be because we got the expectation that he would be there.
01:19But let's say that never happened.
01:21Let's say they never said he was ahead of schedule.
01:24Would we be surprised if he wasn't there for this part?
01:26I would say no.
01:27And I would still expect it's a possibility.
01:29Yeah.
01:30But when this all happened, this is where it got into, like, man, it's Mahomes.
01:36And that's one of his greatest skills is his ability to be on the field and play through stuff.
01:42And if that translates into an injury recovery, which it did with his knee, or what was that?
01:47A dislocated knee?
01:48What was the official injury on that?
01:50The one from a couple years ago?
01:51On the quarterback sneak?
01:52Yeah, something like that.
01:54Then this would tell you that he's got the ability to heal quickly.
01:57And he has.
01:58And it's amazing.
01:59Because let me tell you, if somebody gets older, injuries don't heal quickly anymore.
02:04Like they did when you were little.
02:06Like, you put your socks on wrong and you feel it for a week.
02:08The fact that he's going to rehab that quickly at now age 31 is pretty wild.
02:12Pretty wild.
02:13All right.
02:13Let's get Shreyas Lada in now.
02:15Shreyas, welcome in to Sports Daily.
02:17How are you?
02:18Good.
02:18How are you guys?
02:19Good.
02:20So I'm going to ask you this question as a man of your generation.
02:25Is there any world where it is acceptable to create an eight-minute TikTok video of your morning routine
02:33and brushing your teeth?
02:35The Bryce Harper video has come into question, which I'm sure you've seen,
02:39and his method of applying toothpaste.
02:42But, like, that's one small part.
02:45I have less of an issue with that.
02:47But you're a young guy.
02:48You're of the social media generation.
02:50Eight minutes to just talk to your phone about your morning routine?
02:55Look, I'm not self-important enough to be able to create an eight-minute routine about my life.
03:01Is anybody?
03:03Well, you know, Bryce Harper might be, right?
03:06There's probably somebody super interested in Bryce Harper.
03:08Why is there an audience for that?
03:10Because look at his skincare.
03:11He's glowing.
03:12Yeah.
03:13Yeah.
03:13All that stuff is so – I don't know.
03:17Like, there's an audience for people who work regular office jobs and have their, like,
03:24this is my day in the life, and they have, like, hundreds and thousands of followers.
03:29There is?
03:30Yeah.
03:31Why?
03:31Like, go look up on TikTok.
03:33Like, there are people who literally just film themselves, go to the office,
03:35get ready for the office, filming at the office, come back, making food, go to the gym.
03:41Like, it's –
03:42What's the bigger problem with society, that we're making these videos or that people
03:49are watching these videos?
03:51A little column A, a little column B.
03:54I mean, personally, I don't really care for it.
03:55But if they work cool jobs, it's a little interesting, right?
03:59Like, you know, if they're, like, a baseball player or a basketball player,
04:03they're showing us, like, oh, this is what my daily routine looks like.
04:05I don't know if I'd watch it, like, multiple times.
04:07I want to see him, like, hit in the cage or something.
04:10I don't want to see him brush his teeth.
04:11This is true.
04:12This is true.
04:12I like that as well.
04:15I don't think I particularly care for Joe Schmo and their 9-5.
04:20No disrespect to Joe Schmo, their 9-5.
04:22But, you know, like, I don't think anyone wants to see my morning routine.
04:25And I think I like to say I work a pretty interesting job compared to the average American.
04:33All right, Trace, are you watching KU baseball yet?
04:35Yeah, a little bit, of course.
04:37He's in.
04:39Yeah, yeah, should be fun.
04:40The regionals should be fun.
04:42What would you say about that?
04:45Like, how do you – how do we quantify how wild this is that they came out of nowhere off
04:51the top rope like that?
04:52Because we're being told in today's college athletics that doing that's impossible, right?
04:57Like, we'll never – it's all so skewed to the haves and not the have-nots.
05:02And I just, like, for everybody out there, KU baseball has not been a have, and they're hosting a regional.
05:07How do we quantify this with the other sports?
05:09Like, this always feels possible now.
05:11I think it's a little different because it's baseball versus basketball and football, but it's still super impressive.
05:17And they've done it in a way that's sustainable.
05:19They're digging deep into the JUCO market, right?
05:23Like, they're picking up JUCO guys, and they're saying, we have identified the way to get good JUCO talent that
05:30translates over to this level and make it work with our team.
05:35You know, all these firsts they're having for the first time is, what, like, 1949, and they won a title,
05:40and, like, you know, they're hosting a regional for the first time ever and all this other stuff.
05:44Like, that's tremendous.
05:45And that's just how good of a coach Dan Fitzgerald is.
05:50And, you know, like, KU baseball and Dan Fitzgerald and Travis Goff should be commended for the program's upward trajectory
06:00over the last two, three years.
06:02And the Lawrence Regional is going to be really, really interesting.
06:06I think it's hard to quantify the sense of, like, how hard it is because I'm not as familiar with
06:13the baseball landscape.
06:14From what I've gathered, I think it's a little easier for this to happen than it is for, for example,
06:19basketball or even football, right?
06:22Because these are sports where, you know, like, you can recruit from the JUCO level for that.
06:28That, there's not as much of a, well, my roster's built from JUCO players.
06:34So, Dan and his staff have identified a great method of picking up players and picking up the right guys.
06:42And those guys are clearly working for KU.
06:46So, you're completely right.
06:47We talked about it earlier in the show.
06:49The reason that it works so well in baseball, Shrius, is when you look at Major League Baseball, there's not
06:54a salary cap.
06:55And it's kind of for a reason.
06:56Is it paying for the best players doesn't always result in the most wins?
07:00The Yankees haven't won a title in decades.
07:02It's the same thing in college baseball.
07:04You know, you can spend, you know, $50 million and the power of friendship can still find a way to
07:08beat you.
07:08So, the question becomes, I guess now, is that is it sustainable going forward?
07:12I know this season's still going on, so we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but, like, you know,
07:17all of the talk of how college athletics works is, like, hey, look how good we are.
07:21We need your help to keep going forward.
07:24Like, can you live in this world of, you know, underspending in doing this?
07:30Or do you need to go become a have now that you're good?
07:34Well, I mean, they're already investing, right, more in this baseball team.
07:39And, I mean, like, logically speaking, they're going to have an easier time recruiting non-Juco players now because they've
07:47had the sustained level of success over the last few years.
07:50And people have seen players that have come out of Dan Fitzgerald Jayhawks go on and play in the MLB,
07:56at least some of them, right?
07:56Like, I mean, like, I think it's a two-part question.
08:01It's, well, Kansas is going to spend more because they're seeing success, and we clearly know that.
08:08But also, B, like, I just think recruiting for them is going to be so much easier the next few
08:14years because they've had success.
08:16It's, like, the same thing with KU football, right?
08:18Like, KU football is getting guys they never would have gotten consistent three, four stars, really three stars, really, mostly.
08:25Over the last few years, because of Lance Leipold and his staff and because of their level of success that
08:31they brought to Kansas.
08:33If they're winning two wins for the last four or five years, you know, who wants to play for that,
08:40you know?
08:42So, I think it's absolutely sustainable, and I think they can make it work.
08:46And as long as Dan Fitzgerald is there, you have to feel good if you're a KU football.
08:49But they'll play Friday at noon, their first game, for everybody trying to jump on board with that regional.
08:54Now's the time.
08:56Tres, I don't know if you saw and have seen or been following the SCORE Act or any of the
09:03legislation, potentially, that's going out there.
09:05Now has legs again.
09:06Apparently, last night we see the report that whatever the follow-up bill is should be introduced in the next
09:13couple of days.
09:14It's bipartisan.
09:16If Shrey Eslata was a legislator and writing line one, item one on this stuff, like from what you hear
09:26from people and everything else, what is the top thing they have got to accomplish with legislation?
09:33Because they may only get one shot at this, while it's a pretty universally desired piece of legislation.
09:42I mean, I just love contracts.
09:45That's always been my thing.
09:47Player contracts?
09:47Yeah, let's just have player contracts.
09:49I'm a little tired of this constant, like, revolving door.
09:53And if they have player contracts, there should be outs and ins for everybody, both sides.
09:57But, I mean, I think there's got to be some level of player contracts and some sense of, like, a
10:04maybe – I don't know if a salary cap.
10:08But, like, I think player contracts is the thing that I am most like, okay, I think they need to
10:13do this just because of the way the system is.
10:17And the constantly revolving door of prices changing for players and, you know, players not realizing their worth or thinking
10:26too highly of their worth.
10:27And then it's just guys sitting around without teams.
10:30They're not having to go play Juco or whatever.
10:33So it's just a weird landscape right now.
10:36There's a lot of agents that maybe are not doing their job as well as they should slash taking advantage
10:42of players who would think they are better than they actually are.
10:45So player contracts can, I think, help both sides and also some level of semblance of, like, you know, consistency
10:52year in, year out from certain teams.
10:56Like, Kansas would certainly have more returnees if they had two-year player contracts or whatever every year.
11:03I think that, you know, that's in the same breath of what Jacob and I were talking about is that
11:07the biggest problem with college sports
11:10and, you know, the giant inflated salary numbers is the fact that the pool of players that you can go
11:16get is literally every single player in college sports.
11:20Like, there's unlimited free agency every single year.
11:22I think that whether that be a, you know, transfer rules or contracts going down, like, there's a reason that
11:29Florida Badunga got paid, you know, X million dollars that he got paid.
11:33It's just because, you know, you had to fend off everybody in the country every single year, and that's why,
11:38you know, they can say, like, yeah, we're going to go this time
11:40because we're going to go make this somewhere because somebody is going to pay for it.
11:44But if it was the matter of, like, okay, like, there's one big man out there, you know, three or
11:49four big men out there,
11:50rather than every single big man in the country, I imagine those prices go down, right?
11:55Supply and demand?
11:56Well.
11:57Or backward supply and demand, I guess.
11:59Yeah, yeah, it wouldn't go up because there's less bigs now out there on the market, theoretically.
12:04Like, maybe Flory's getting paid $8 million instead of...
12:06It wouldn't have been.
12:09You know.
12:11But to his point, though, like, do we care that Flory's salary goes up, or do we care more that
12:18he's recruited in season?
12:20Like, that's where I think that, and I think TJ and I agree on this, like, I don't care how
12:24much they make.
12:25Yeah.
12:26I just care that they're re-recruited all the time.
12:29No, I agree with that.
12:31I think the constant need to guard your player from outside schools and outside environments is always there.
12:39But, I mean, if these guys are professionals, right, like, that's where we're pretty much at,
12:45and that's where I'm, like, kind of willing to say they're basically professionals.
12:48I mean, that stuff happens all the time in the NBA and the NFL, right?
12:50Like, tampering and, you know, backdoor negotiations and talks and stuff like that.
12:58But it just kind of is a quirk of the, how do I say, the sport.
13:07I think that's kind of what college athletics is right now is it's just a quirk of the sport where,
13:12yeah, maybe the player's not trying to talk to other schools,
13:16but the representation definitely is, you know?
13:20So it's just one of those things.
13:22So, I mean, look, the Flory thing was a unique case.
13:25Kansas was never going to pay $6 million or whatever.
13:29And, I mean, like, I was talking to an NBA scout that's pretty high up for a lottery team yesterday
13:36for, like, 30, 40 minutes.
13:37And we were talking about Flory.
13:38He was, like, I think it's ridiculous that Flory's can't even let him go out there and play during the
13:42NBA draft process.
13:43What if he turns an ankle or something or, like, breaks his leg or something?
13:47Like, that kid should be protecting every single part of his body when he's getting paid $6 million a year.
13:52He's not going to make anywhere near that money in the NBA if he were to stay in the NBA
13:57draft.
13:57So, look, Flory got an absolute bag.
14:01I tried to text his guardians and see if I can get something set up, but they don't want to
14:05do any medias, I was told.
14:07So the Flory train should be fun.
14:10And excited for KU to watch him and play against him and plenty of others, Departees, Departees.
14:17It'll be fun.
14:19Shreyas, enjoy baseball this week.
14:21A nice break from it all.
14:23Go follow Shreyas.
14:25We've got a podcast out.
14:26Find him to work with KC Star.
14:28We appreciate it.
14:29Go brush your teeth.
14:30Make a video.
14:31We'll watch it.
14:36We're coming right back.
14:37We've got more Sports Daily.
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