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July 14, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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You want to listen to a podcast?
By who?
Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
All right, everybody.
Welcome back to the Doug Collins Podcast.
Glad you're with us.
It's Friday.
Friday's finest is upon us.
It is a great time to be alive, unless you're, frankly, suffering in the heat of Texas, which James, I'm sure, will opine about here shortly.
Folks, a lot's still going on.
Congress is just still a mess, and dealing with the National Defense Authorization Act in the House, Look, if you think that the chaos is going to continue, this is a bill that normally passes, and I talked about this earlier in the week, is a bill that passes normally with bipartisan support.
It passes with both Republicans and Democrats.
You'll have a few on both sides that won't vote for it.
But at the end of the day, it's typically, this is the policy that's set for our military.
So you typically have pretty good response.
Now, because of going back and forth, and frankly, I think some of what the Democrats and Biden have done in the military, in previous NDAAs, especially dealing with some social issues, abortion and other things like that, this has now become the Republicans' turn to go the opposite way.
So you're looking at a bill now that probably will pass with little to no Democrat support unless they kill Unless in Democrats' opinion, they kill a lot of amendments on the floor.
So we'll see how that works.
Again, Biden in Europe, we said that was going to be a real hootenanny, and guess what?
He didn't disappoint.
He looked lost most of the time.
King Charles had to encourage him on down the line when they were reviewing the troops.
Again, just Joe Biden on the world stage.
So we get what we get there.
But also looking ahead here on the Doug Collins podcast, we're going to get into Friday's finest.
We've got SB Awards, got an all-star game.
We got Amy the Dog from Dallas.
And there's some things that we're going to be talking about football as we go forward.
But just as a preview coming up, we got Chan Gailey.
Coach will be back with us next week on the Doug Collins Podcast, ready to talk football.
We're less than a week away from the rookies and certain players We're good to go.
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Got to get ready for that as well.
So lots to talk about here on the Doug Collins Podcast.
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All right, we're here at Friday's Finest.
I'm glad to be back, as always, on Friday's Finest.
And we have James, our Texan by way of New Jersey, is with us today.
James, my understanding, this is still like a Katy Perry song in Texas.
Everything goes outside and melts the popsicle, right?
Well, that's a perfect explanation.
Yeah.
You know what I was thinking about?
That I could, every time I could, because I was listening to the intro, I feel like every time I can come on here, I can have like that, the world's smallest violin playing, you know, that sad sound.
And then I just talk about the heat in Texas in a very Shakespearean way.
Like, you know, just like it was dark.
It was 280 degrees.
We couldn't make it outside.
You know, something like out of a movie.
Because I can't...
It's...
It's so silly, because I know that there are people dying and sad and hungry and all that stuff, but it doesn't compare to my situation, and I'll tell you why.
Because...
Yeah, and everybody, let's make sure that we understand.
James is not digging ditches in Dallas, okay?
No.
No, it's so crazy, like...
It's funny because I don't remember.
I live, as some people know who listen to this show, is that I was born and raised in New Jersey.
So we've had hot days and we're like, alright, stay in New York.
We've had legitimate hot days.
They've existed.
But they're one time, maybe twice a summer where you're like, alright, don't go outside because you're a child and you could die.
Outside of that, Yeah, outside of like the 100, I think we have like a couple, maybe twice a year, it's 100, 102, whatever.
The rest of the time though, it is, you know, your kid is outside, especially when you're a kid, not as much as an adult, but like go out, come back in about 18 hours and dinner will be ready.
That's the summer motto.
What do kids do in Texas?
Yeah.
Has it always been like, don't go outside, you'll die?
We have stuff at the house?
I'm not even trying to be funny about it.
I am genuinely curious.
Is there indoor stuff for kids to do?
I mean, you've lived in Georgia.
I can't imagine it's much...
I don't know what the summers are like there, but I'm assuming it's not cold.
No.
I mean, look, Georgia's a different state in the sense that we have.
It's infinitely similar to Texas.
I mean, there's elevation changes.
The start of the Appalachian Trail is up not far from my house.
I mean, I'm in the foothills.
Now, we still get up even in my part of the world.
We'll get 90, 95, 100 degrees on the lake and up in the mountains.
It'll get up in the 80s and 90s.
It's hot.
But we have humidity.
Humidity is our big issue, just like in Florida and other places in the south.
Now, you get further south, like where I have my Air Force training base is Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia.
And, you know, south of Atlanta, Really, the weather is not a lot of difference from there down to Miami.
It's hot.
It's humid.
Most of the summer, your heat indexes are triple digits or high 90s.
I hate that heat index thing.
Here's the big thing, though.
You mentioned about kids.
We played in this when I was a kid.
We went outside anyway.
Right, and that's the thing.
You go outside in the heat, but I don't know.
I think if you let your kids out right now, you should have your kids taken away as a parent.
No, but give them a water hose in the front yard and let them go out.
We can't do that anymore.
Is it even legal to let your kid drink out of the hose anymore?
Well, it better be.
I was just thinking, I was like, our parents did it, but I don't see anybody else doing it anymore.
I'm sure there's plenty.
When and if, and I'm sure my boys are listening to this, and girls, when and if I have grandkids, they will learn to drink from a hose.
They will learn that they don't have to do all this weird stuff.
I have to share you one that came out the other day.
This was pretty freaking hilarious.
It was talking about what we're talking about here about generational stuff and going outside.
Here is, let me find this again.
Okay, this is the saying.
It was off of Instagram.
I saw this.
Some of y'all come from the, if you quit crying, I'll buy you something generation.
We came from the, if you don't quit crying, I'll give you something to cry about generation.
Yeah, that's me.
No, go ahead.
But this is like, come on, folks.
Really?
I've got to ask, because this is something my mom always tells us about.
God bless this woman.
She raised two sons that are 14 months apart.
Yep.
Alright.
And we were animals.
No question.
I mean, she was able to get us in line.
My dad was too.
But, like, we're still boys.
Boys will be boys.
There's almost nothing you can do about it.
And talking about like, I'll give you something to cry about or something.
My mom was never afraid.
You notice how parents are afraid to reprimand in public because they think that kids won't.
It's not about their kids, it's about other parents.
My mom did not have that fear, not once.
And we'd be shopping or whatever and she would be like, alright, you guys can go to the cereal and then we'd come back with six items and we'd throw them in the thing and run around the cart like animals.
But I'm just thinking about how often she had to grab us by the wrists and be like, do you have any idea what's going to happen to you when we get home?
Because she'll say it's smiling, so no one in public can see really what's going on.
But it's that terrifying, like, hey, you guys are dead when we get home.
And the wrist grab, you know, that firm wrist grab that only a mom can give you?
Oh, yeah.
I just think that is...
That's, I mean, I'm not saying that's the difference in our generations, but that is one of the few things.
I'm curious if parents still do that.
No, my mom, God bless her, she's no longer with us, but she could pinch you.
It's like, oh God!
She would just come, like I was doing something in public, she just reached behind me and just pinched me in the side or something.
It's like, ah!
Yeah.
I'm dying.
And you knew you were in trouble.
Yeah, you know, oh God, it was going to be worse.
But, you know, also though, for my brother and I, my mom would also, if it got really bad at church, she would just put the bolo paddle on the pew.
I kid you not.
She'd just lay it on the table.
Yeah, I didn't have that.
See, the misbehaved church thing is crazy.
Yeah, and we didn't.
We had a very high incentive not to.
Yeah, it was an incentive, but we got away with it, though.
Well, I think you take care of yourself.
I mean, out there, for all of you listening to the podcast, wherever you're at, and it's hot, common sense.
Okay, if you're outside, if you're on the beach, or you're in the mountains, or you're in Texas, or you're working, just drink a lot of fluid, make sure you got sunscreen on, take some precautions, and you'll be fine.
What I have found, though, James, is the more I stay in air conditioning, the worse heat is.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
If I'm out in it, you know, then it doesn't bother me near as bad.
And again, I think that was what it was like when we were kids.
So, I mean, as you go along here, you know, you take this, it's what you get used to.
And it doesn't make it any easier at times, especially for all those, you know, God bless all those men and women out there working in the streets and, you know, law enforcement, firemen, linemen, you know, electrical workers, plumbers, builders, contractors, God bless you all, you know.
Yeah.
As you do it, but it is pretty wild.
All right, moving right along from the heat and the stupidity, we've got to discuss the ESPYs.
The ESPYs were last night, the full list of awards.
I'm going to try and not go off on the issue of the United States Women's National Team being the Profiling Courage Award.
I'm not quite sure about that one, but I will defer for now on that one.
But I thought there was some interesting discussions and awards that were given out last night.
And I'm interested to hear, James, from your perspective on this.
Best UFC fighter, Jon Jones.
I can agree with that one.
I mean, there's some good ones, but Jon Jones, he's pretty good.
I mean, he's been...
It's just, obviously, he's had some off-the-mat troubles, out-of-the-octagon troubles.
Yeah, no, I'm with you.
I mean, I don't follow it like I did when I was in high school and stuff, because all my friends were wrestlers, and some of them still fight to this day.
I think it's just, every time he steps in, you're like, oh, this is a wrap.
He's a monster, and that, first of all, that bloodline, that family, is just pure athletes.
His brother Chandler is...
Well, I don't know.
Is Chandler still playing in the NFL? I don't know.
But either way, I'm just saying it is fascinating to see someone like him who's been through...
Who's had a lot of time off.
Has had some...
I guess...
I don't know if they're drug troubles.
I don't know if he was like...
Severely addicted to cocaine or whatever the issue was or whatever he was taking.
But there was a lot of gap time between his wins.
And he just waltzed back in and was like, no, no, no.
I'm the best and I'm going to prove it to everyone.
Also, Francis Nagamo is now going to fight Fury.
That's going to be an interesting...
I have such a disdain for that stuff.
I don't understand.
If he gets a good payday out of it, then by all means.
Because I think I've seen that he didn't get paid or wasn't being paid correctly in the UFC. And he's one of its top players.
Well, it was, yeah.
Well, I think there's a lot to go along there, but this crossover has never really worked.
I mean, especially if you take an MMA fighter and put him in a boxing match.
Now, if you put the boxer in an MMA... Yeah, he's got no shot.
Yeah, it's just a whole different issue there.
And yeah, it would be the other way around, but no boxer is stupid enough to get in the octagon with a...
What are they, out of their mind?
Yeah, they ain't gonna do that.
They weren't built to grapple.
Okay, let's get...
Moving on to some of these...
I'm going to get into your wheelhouse here a little bit, and this is basketball.
Best comeback athlete, Jamal Murray, Denver Nuggets.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
When he went down...
And when he went down and he tried to come back, he had a rough start.
And it's...
He's always been a guy that was fringe.
He could be an all-star for sure year in, year out, but also maybe he's not consistent enough, blah, blah, blah.
Now, to come back in these playoffs and play the way he did and win a championship, now, even if they didn't win a championship, I think he still would have won Combat Player of the Year, but to top it off like that was beautiful.
Also, best NBA player was Joker.
Oh, was it?
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, I lost you there for a minute.
Yeah, no, it shouldn't have been up for debate either.
He should have won MVP this year too, but I don't feel like arguing about nonsense.
Well, that is it.
Let's see.
Patrick Mahomes, best NFL player, but he also got, and I disagree with this one.
I'm going to have to be honest.
He's a great quarterback, but best athlete in sports, Patrick Mahomes.
Ooh, okay.
Who were the nominees, by the way?
Because I think if Jokic was in there, he could have been in there.
I'm trying to think, baseball-wise.
I mean, probably Shohei Ohtani would be the one, but he'll win it next year.
Yeah, Ohtani was best MLB player.
NHL player was Connor McDavid out of Edmonton.
Best driver of Unstopping out of F1. Messi, best soccer.
And they take all the winners?
I mean, they have to take all the winners of those things, right?
Because that would make you the best athlete.
I guess.
Because it would be weird if it's one of those categories and it wasn't like one of them.
Uh, listen.
Well, Art, do you have a pick, or are you just saying you don't agree with it?
No, I mean, think of all the athletes in, you know...
Again, it's hard to go across sports, okay?
But just in football, I mean...
Mahomes is, I guess when I think athlete, maybe, I mean, I don't know.
Is he top, you know, is he top two or three?
Yeah, I mean, sure.
Yeah, he's an athlete.
He does weird, I mean, he does amazing stuff on the football field.
Don't get me wrong.
But, I mean, you got some of those receivers out there.
I mean, even his own, like, tight end Kelsey.
I mean, you got...
So you're talking about in the literal sense of the word athlete.
Yeah.
Okay.
If it's literal sense of the word athlete, then it's anyone from the Olympics over all of those people.
Oh, John Jones.
I mean, you know, let's talk about it.
Anyway, I thought that was weird.
But one that I want to hit on here a minute is...
Oh, by the way, Justin Jefferson got best play for catch of the century.
Oh, did he?
You mean the best catch you've ever seen in your lifetime?
Yeah, he got that.
Sorry.
Here's one I completely, completely disagree with.
I mean, you can start the chant now.
I know we're getting into football pretty soon, but I'm just going to start it out.
Overrated.
Caleb Williams, USC, was voted best college athlete in men's sports.
Are you kidding me?
Okay.
I mean, just over this past year.
No, I know.
I mean, I'm tired of this.
I guess because I don't have a better one off the top of my head.
If you do, please.
Well...
I mean, come on.
Okay.
You know, let's just go back to...
Best college football players.
Stetson Bennett?
No, I'm just kidding.
No, no.
I'd have to agree with that.
I'm just kidding.
Are tied in.
At Georgia.
Oh.
Yeah, I'm blanking out.
See, but if it's not a household name, they're not going to do it.
And you know that.
Okay, here it is.
It's just like the Heisman.
I am sick of the Heisman.
Okay, fine.
I don't care about the Heisman.
Heisman is a joke.
Heisman is a...
I mean, just start calling it...
It's a quarterback competition.
It's a quarterback war.
Quit having...
And it was a running back competition.
Yeah, I mean, so just quit.
Because, I mean, the...
Anderson kid, the defensive Will Anderson out of Alabama, should have won the Heisman.
Okay, he should have won the Heisman.
They just won't do it.
They just won't.
Well, then just quit calling it the best player in college football.
I mean, quit calling the Heisman the best player.
Call it the player you want seen on the podium.
That's what you should call it, the player you want seen on the podium.
Call it the one that sports writers love to write about award, you know, or something.
Doug, I think the Caleb Williams thing is...
It's fascinating because next year, there are teams that are, and I'm afraid the Vikings are going to be one of them, but there are teams that are going to tank.
You're going to look at them and be like, you're tanking intentionally, which is hard to see in the NFL, but...
There are teams that are going to go out of their way, look bad and terrible and have the worst record so they can get Caleb Williams.
Because they are certain he is going to be the future of the NFL. That is how they are talking about him.
Almost the way people say that Anthony Richardson could be, that conversation for six hours a day.
But what I'm saying is, they're talking about Caleb.
So obviously, people are seeing something like that.
They saw it this year.
But to me, the big reason he can't is because on the biggest stage, when people were like, hey, you gotta be like...
This is your moment.
He kind of floundered out, especially after he talked so much.
Both losses.
He talked so much before that.
He said something...
You know what?
I'm forgetting it now.
I'm sure we talked about it then.
He put on his fingernails the F-Utah.
Ah, that was it.
It wasn't he said something.
It was that he did that gesture, and then he got beat up.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Look, it is where it's at.
And look, for Caleb Williams, look, you don't impress me something.
You know, this is...
Don't tell me you're all that in a bag of chips and then you go out there and you lay an egg.
You're sitting out there in the Pac-12, the easiest conference in college football.
I don't care what the ESPN people will tell you so they can get you watching late night ball games from the Pac-12.
The Pac-12 is the AA of SEC. And, you know, I'm just sick of it.
And then you send him out there, and everybody throws.
Defense is unheard of for the most part.
And, yeah, they play each other close games because they're all on the same level.
Right, right, right.
And, look, Lincoln Riley put him in the same boat.
I mean, look, it's just – but, again, you give him the best – I mean, it's just you could go almost any team.
I mean, I would even go up to, you know – The receiver, Ohio State, who got hurt in the semifinal game.
His dad played in the NFL. Wait, did he win best college athlete?
Athlete!
Oh, I thought...
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on.
Not best college football player.
No, he won best college athlete men's sports.
So there were no kids that were trying to get ready for the Olympics?
The pitcher for the...
I know that I'm...
Not a stickler for the Olympics thing, but...
Yeah, I mean, the pitcher for LSU that just got drafted number one.
Yeah, absolutely.
Actually, speaking of...
Sorry, go ahead.
No, I mean, look, give me a break.
Caleb Williams, I mean, have you ever heard of Ryan Leaf?
You know?
Ooh, is that who you're comparing him to?
Are you saying Caleb Williams is going to be Ryan Leaf?
Doug, do we have you quoted on that?
I mean, you got to...
Tell me what he's done!
He's done nothing yet, but neither have most of the quarterbacks that are going to get drafted and become gods.
But again, don't tell me he's all world.
Tom Brady changed football forever and was a nothing prospect out of Michigan when he came out.
Most of the quarterbacks that are quarterbacks in the NFL today, except for a few, came in middle rounds or not very highly touted.
The NFL has a history of Of believing the hype on some of these college quarterbacks.
And then they just don't pan out.
And your best of your best.
Think about it.
And I'm trying here to go back and look.
And I'm not saying you can't find it.
But think of a top five quarterback that have become the rarity.
The Peyton Mannings, the Eli Mannings.
Some of these quarterbacks are more of your outliers than they are the mainstream.
Think about the draft from three years ago when you had all the quarterbacks.
How did that work out for the Jets and the Giants and the Patriots and the Carolina Panthers?
Right now, he's still in a work in progress down in Jacksonville.
I wouldn't call him a work in progress.
That man's going to be...
We're going to be talking about him next year.
No, I hear you.
He's getting better and better.
But again, think about that.
Out of, what, five or six or eight, quote, all these are going to change the game quarterbacks, one.
That's all I'm saying.
No, you're right.
We really don't.
Well, here's the thing.
You have to believe a lot of the time.
Because the position is so impossible to fill.
I mean, you look at...
Okay, here's an example.
This hopefully comes off as unbiased as possible.
But I will use the Vikings as an example, right?
Okay.
I don't think anyone would say Kirk Cousins is a bad quarterback.
Bad.
Bad is...
We've seen bad, okay?
Bad is Baker Mayfield right now.
Who, by the way, undoubtedly is finding a home in Tampa Bay, it sounds like.
Yeah, but we all saw that off-season video.
Bad was Johnny Manziel and, you know, bad is...
I mean, we can go on forever.
Christian Ponder was a bad quarterback.
Okay?
Kirk Cousins is extremely serviceable.
And if you look at his stats, and then you saw the way people talk about him, you'd be like, that's insane.
He's one of the better players, quarterbacks of the league.
That is how difficult that position is.
Is that he has all the numbers.
But he has a lot of the attributes.
And he still cannot win big games sometimes.
And they still are looking for his replacement every day.
Right.
I'm just saying.
And so that's my point.
So that glimmer of hope of them seeing it in the Pac-12.
That, oh, look what he can do.
He's going to be a superstar.
And look, I'm rooting for him because I think the Vikings are going to try to get him.
Yeah.
No, I'm just kidding.
But in all seriousness, I get that.
Yeah, listen, they might.
Hey, look, they got rid of a lot of people.
But I get that.
I get the wanting him to be great.
And putting him on the ESPYs certainly helps.
The ESPYs will do anything to get attention so they can get...
It's just, look, they're so desperate to have a media market in LA. Okay, let's just take this back.
They're going to hump up and pump up USC, UCLA. They're dying for the days when USC, Notre Dame was still a thing.
And, you know, the USC had Charles White and all the running backs and they won a national title.
Brady Quinn.
Brady Quinn and Notre Dame.
Yeah, yeah.
But I mean, it just doesn't happen.
I mean, I get it to a point, and again, I'm hard on the Pac-12.
The SEC's got a lot of their own stupid to deal with as well, but they're by and afar, heads and shoulders above the other divisions.
Big Ten, okay, I'll give you a little there with Ohio State and Michigan and some others.
But When put head-to-head, SEC is dominant, okay?
And not just in football, it's in baseball and others as well.
But again, I'm going to take it from a different perspective.
I don't wish Caleb Williams bad.
I don't, okay?
I just don't think he's the best college athlete, number one, of any of the college athletes.
I don't think...
I think they're putting too much pressure on him, and he could be a good, solid, possibly even Hall of Fame quarterback, if put with the right team, with the right tools.
But coming in, basically saying, again, I'm anxious to watch, well, I'm really not, but Anthony Richardson.
I think they've done such a disservice for this kid.
I do.
I mean, I watched him at Florida.
We played against him.
I mean, he had one game against Utah last year, a couple other games against none.
And now they're putting him up as if he's the next Peyton Manning in Indianapolis.
Well, you're talking about that's what Indianapolis is, the picture they're painting?
Yeah.
Well, of course they are.
They have to sell it to their fans.
Yeah.
I'm not trying to be...
I'm just saying, like, you have to sell it to them.
Why did we use the fourth pick in the draft to pick Anthony Richardson when we could have got him in the 38th pick of the draft in the second round?
I'm telling you, I have...
First of all, I just watched Anthony Richardson play pickup basketball, which if I was the Indianapolis Colts, I'd be like, get off the floor now.
But he is an animal.
You want to talk about pure athlete, he should have won athlete of the year.
That human being is a peak physical form athlete.
Oh, yeah.
But that's like Metcalf.
DJ Metcalf up at Seattle.
I mean...
Yeah.
No, that guy's not human.
DK Metcalf was created in a lab somewhere.
DK Metcalf is a freak.
I mean, he is.
And he's amazing to watch.
I love to watch that man play football.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's all heart.
He is.
He just plays.
Anyway, so there's the ESPYs.
Again, there's more controversial.
Like, again, I do not understand the Arthur Ashe Courage Award going to the United States Women's National Team for soccer.
But, hey, okay.
Whatever.
I do like the Pat Tillman Award going to the Buffalo Bills and others.
That was emotional.
I watched that video.
That was emotional for him.
That was pretty good.
Can I just say something real quick?
Because we were talking about sports and whatever.
We were talking about the MLB... I think we mentioned the MLB draft for a moment.
A kid from my hometown got drafted by the Boston Red Sox, Kyle Teal.
Outstanding.
Shout out to Kyle Teal.
Good old Mawa, New Jersey's pumping out athletes, baby.
There we go.
I love it.
I love it.
All right.
Let's move on.
One quick thing before we move off.
Again, we've got Coach coming next week.
Can't wait to talk to Coach about some of this.
It's going to be a very good interview.
I feel like Because he's going to have a lot to say about what's happening right now.
But I specifically am curious about how he feels about the running backs.
Well, and that leads in, great James.
That leads into my question.
Would you have thought...
We've got this done going.
Would you believe...
I don't think anybody would have believed at the beginning of free agency this year that Ezekiel Elliott, Dalvin Cook, and Leonard Fournette would still be free agents a week away from training camp open.
Well, Leonard Fournette's going to be the last one picked up.
Probably so.
And for almost no money.
And that's fine.
He's not the same player he was.
I get that.
Even Ezekiel Elliott, to an extent, got a huge payday, but he hasn't played up to his standard or the standard that we set for him when he had a great couple first seasons.
Right.
But there is another man on that list that you mentioned, Dalvin Cook.
And I have no idea...
Okay, I brought this up before the show, and I'm going to bring it up again.
If everyone knows from SportsCenter and NFL Network now, it's Rich Eisen.
And he was talking about Dalvin Cook and how this is the most pivotal season for running backs in general.
Is Dalvin Cook and Alexander Madison an example for the Minnesota Vikings?
The Vikings let Dalvin Cook go because they didn't want to pay him, I believe, something around $11 million.
Which is a lot of money in running back terms nowadays.
The Vikings are like, we have Alexander Madison.
We think he's good enough.
But we are giving up Dalvin Cook, who has been a consistent 1400-yard runner.
That is a lot of yards every year.
That is a lot of yards every year.
The guy is an absolute monster.
But it doesn't matter because we don't want to pay him because that's too much money for a running back and we think Alexander Madison will fill those shoes in just fine.
Do you know how crucial it is that Alexander Madison plays great for himself but also for all the other NFL teams that are like, yeah, we'll just replace our running backs every few years.
It'll be a guarantee and if Dalvin Cook doesn't play up to par and is getting paid too much money, which I don't think he's going to get what he wants, it's just going to prove the NFL right.
Yep, it's...
I mean, it is going to be one of those things that you've got to look at in the whole changing of the guard and how we deal with it and the desire.
I mean, look, we've seen this in Major League Baseball, we've seen it in NFL now, that nobody can stand the technical game, okay?
Nobody likes the 6-3 or 14-7 defensive struggles.
They want to see the 57-56 three-overtime blowouts with no defense and everything else.
And we're seeing it in baseball with the pitching clock and everything.
Although, I'm going to have to say...
Oh, baseball's been great this year.
Baseball's been better.
I mean, the pitch clock...
I mean, when you're having two hour and a half games and you can actually watch...
And the statistics have not really changed.
It didn't favor the batters or the pitchers.
I mean, you saw a perfect game thrown this year.
It's been all positive.
Every change they've made this season, obviously there were some before that that were garbage, but this season they made the right changes and baseball couldn't be in a better place.
Except for the Mets who don't know how to cheat right.
I don't know why you've got to do that.
There are so many reasons to just be kind and you choose the low road, Doug.
Well, I'm waiting for Frank to thank him on the show.
That's what we need.
That poor man.
He's going to have an actual heart attack.
I'm worried about him.
I'm worried about Frank.
We've got to go get Frank.
We've got to get Frank.
But anyway, as we come along, All-Star Game, again, it does show that the All-Star Game has issues.
But here's one for you.
And you can talk about balls.
You can talk about bats.
You can talk about strength of hitters.
You can talk whatever.
But it was interesting that Vlad Galero Jr. won the home run contest.
His father won it.
Jesus.
Home run derby.
Home run derby.
His father won it like 16 years ago.
17 years ago.
He hit more in his final round than his dad did, I think, in the whole derby.
Yeah, the rules have changed.
Yeah, it's just like, something ain't right here.
I mean, this is pretty wild.
Did you see a couple before that?
The kid from the Mariners who had 41 in one round?
Yeah.
Did you know anything about the rules?
Because I watched most of it.
No, I thought they were basically still the same.
So they get three minutes or two minutes to 30, somewhere between two minutes, 30 seconds, three minutes.
Now I'm actually blanking out on the number.
But if you hit a home run 440 plus feet, you get 30 extra seconds.
And you automatically get 30 extra seconds for no reason at all.
And it's amazing.
First of all, watching these guys hit for three straight minutes, they get like one break in between.
Yeah, they call a timeout or something.
These guys are...
I'm sorry.
I was thinking about how hard it was to hit a home run with a metal bat when I was a kid.
Yeah.
Think about these are just grown men who spend their time just raking balls in the left field.
And he did it for...
He hit 41 in four minutes.
Do you think you can hit 40 home runs in four minutes?
No.
No, because you're not a superhero.
No.
Yeah, that was pretty amazing.
But again, also the old rules was you had 10 non-home runs.
Yeah, essentially 10 strikes slash...
10 strikes, yeah.
And I think so that could have cut down.
I mean, if you'd have probably applied that standard to several of these this year, they would have been out quicker.
Right, I think that's it.
They want more home runs.
By the way, did you see that kid get hit by a ball?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Doug, I know that it is hard to watch somebody get hit, but not for me.
I know that they're children, and I should feel bad, but anytime anyone gets hit by a baseball or something out of nowhere, as long as they're okay, it is the funniest thing I could think of.
It's like watching somebody trip in public.
I know that's horrible, and it happens to me more than it should.
But just that, like...
I don't know.
I can't help it.
I come over and help, but I am the worst.
I'll laugh right at you.
Yeah, that is pretty bad.
Anyway, again, it was sad.
Hopefully the kid is doing better.
But again, having that many kids out there is another problem to it.
There's like 700 kids!
Yeah, that's just a problem.
But you know what, though?
Can I just say this small thing?
This is a culture shock from New Jersey to Texas.
Do you know that they have...
They let kids go chase a small cow or a sheep in those cattle wrangling cowboy stuff.
I don't know why I can't think of the word.
Yeah, they got ropings and stuff like that.
I don't know.
Yeah, but why can't I think of the word for...
Rodeos?
Thank you.
Oh my god, Doug.
I've been living here for almost two years.
I can't even think of the word rodeo.
These adults...
Let their kids, and these aren't like, they're not like 15, they're like 9. Yeah.
And there's about 20 or 30 of them, maybe more, and they just put them in the middle of the rodeo, and they release a wild animal, either a small cow or a sheep, and those kids have to take it down.
This is the craziest thing I have ever seen in my life.
You know, let's go back to the very first start of this show where you said, what do the kids in Texas do?
There you go!
Yeah, I just found out.
This was actually like my third week here.
I was like, let's go to the rodeo because I want to be a tourist.
And it wasn't.
I went to the least touristy rodeo.
They have it every week.
It's like a thing here where you actually go.
It's in Fort Worth.
Doug, if you've never seen it, please go watch Children Chases Sheep.
It is one of the funniest things I've ever watched.
It's totally worth it.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
I'll back up, but I just thought about that when I saw that kid get clocked with a baseball.
Yeah, I got it.
It's pretty amazing.
I mean, I got a lot of buddies who do rodeo stuff.
They do calf roping.
They do a lot of stuff.
I mean, it's still pretty amazing to me.
They can come off a horse.
They can throw the rope, jump off the horse, throw down, and tie those legs in six, seven seconds.
I mean, it's just...
I don't even think I can get a rope near any live animal.
I can't even get one near my dog if I threw it at him.
It's pretty impressive.
Speaking of Dallas, I do have one to mention.
We're going to put some pictures up from the Instagram.
Dallas Animal Foster is a lady named Lauren Siller.
S-I-L-E-R. Dallas Animal Foster under...
In Instagram.
That's the Instagram account, Dallas Animal Foster.
And I started following this.
It's one of those things, sometimes you see things pop up, James.
And we always talk about dogs.
You know, Cree's made her performances on, appearances on here on the podcast.
You talk about your dogs.
Long story of this was that she was coming back from a trip, saw this, the animal foster shelter in Dallas, this dog named Annie.
Annie was an older dog, I think 18, 19 years old.
And the vet in the hospital had gave her just a few months, a few weeks or two months to live.
The family that owned Annie had turned her in basically, I guess, not wanting to deal with her dying or whatever.
But anyway, they took her in, started feeding her, got her some help, you know, and just, you know, playing with her, letting her go walk.
She lived for a year.
And the Dallas Animal Foster Instagram site, you need to go take a look at it.
You'll see the pictures of Annie.
Well, um, and on June 24th, she made a year.
Um, they were sort of giving, you know, if you watch the Instagram account throughout the year, they'd say, she made it the 4th of July.
She made it to Easter.
She made it to Halloween.
She made it to Christmas.
She made it to, you know, this.
And she made it a year.
And they had a, uh, uh, A party for her that she made a year.
It's been two weeks ago and I said I wasn't going to get emotional about this.
But Miss Annie, right after the party, passed away.
Annie had drawn a lot of attention to You know, the plight of foster dogs and others, and it was really there.
But if you ever want something to cheer your heart and look at is to see this Dallas Animal Foster Instagram page.
Danny's gone.
They're still promoting some stuff, you know, from what Annie did.
But it was just sometimes on the Internet, we talk about how much bad's out there.
We talk about how much crud's out there.
But then you run across a story like this that I followed for a year and you were sort of always waiting.
If they didn't post, you know, in a week, I was saying, okay, what happened to Annie?
And then when that came across about three weeks ago and Annie had passed away, it was, you know, it's like a journey.
And, you know, for all of you who love your animals and stuff, just remember that, you know, it's hard in the end, but stay with your animal.
You know, because they become part of you as well.
And it's hard to let them go.
And I've had to put down or had died, you know, family.
We had a cat that we had for almost 20 years.
We've had, you know, one of our animals who, you know, had issues and we had to, it got old and had to be put down.
One of our cats who had gotten in and got hit.
And those are tough.
But those animals put so much into your life Please don't let them go in the last.
I think that was my story about this.
It was just, I wondered how Annie's family that gave her up, you know, hopefully they saw that she had a good, good, good last year of her life and that she loved life and it, you know, and it lasted longer than they would have thought.
But again, James, just a, I know a little sad, but also a good, just heartwarming story.
No, no, you, you, you, I mean, I don't know why you told me, so now I have to cry with you, but.
I just looked it up.
No, I just looked it at myself.
I had seen him before.
There's some billboards in Dallas.
And the TV station out there actually started picking up the story.
But anyway, I just wanted to put that out there for everybody.
I'm with you.
The whole thing of...
We could talk about how important dogs are and cats and whatever animal that you have in your house.
But for a dog to live that long alone is incredible.
And the people who gave her up, I don't know your situation, but I had two dogs that I both lost to cancer early.
The first one lived to four and a half years, the other one only to six and a half, seven years.
For your dog to live that long and for you to give it up, that is...
Look, I don't know their situation, so I'm not going to rag on somebody I don't know, but you said it best.
Make sure you're there for that last breath, because it may hurt like hell, but...
They are the most...
Listen, it's not...
Back in the day, people were like, oh, it's a dog, shoot it out back, or whatever people used to do.
That is not the world we live in anymore, and you can talk about how it's soft and all that.
No, no, no.
Our dogs are our best friends, mainly because they're not rude and they're not people.
But it is.
I think we've come to the conclusion now, we're like, oh yeah, no, cool, Jim from work is cool, but my dog actually cares and won't yell at me.
No, I'm with you.
That's for sure.
That's a crazy story and it's beautiful.
It's a beautiful story.
Folks, go see it.
It's on Dallas Animal Foster on Instagram.
Go adopt the dog today.
Yeah, go do it.
That's the lesson.
Go adopt dogs.
Yeah, I mean, it's gotten to be where Lisa and I, as the kids have gotten older, I mean, Cree is like, I mean, we think of Cree like, how's Cree?
I call home, I'm traveling.
How's Cree?
Yeah, how's the dog?
Of course, absolutely.
It's a 100% member of the family.
Before we go, in case you missed it department, only Tiger Woods could come up with this.
Tiger Woods has designed a golf course that is 8,000 yards long that includes a 275-yard par 3 and a 702-yard par 5. I thought Tiger doesn't want to keep walking around.
This is a pure golf cart golf course.
Exactly.
Charlie's going to have to play this one.
And by the way, if y'all have not seen some of the social media posts with Charlie and Tiger and Justin Thomas, Jordan Speed, some of those guys, and Colin Morikawa, they're hilarious.
The one where he's talking about Charlie out driving him is one of the funniest things.
Yeah, he's out driving him.
Because you can tell he's like between being a dad of being proud and being like, there's no way I can let this happen.
No, no, no, it can't happen.
But look, I think Charlie, and I love the way it seems to be Tigers working with him.
He's not pushing and he won a tournament.
In Florida, you know, just a regular nine-year-old turn, ten-year-old turn, whatever his age is.
You know, and he won that.
It was low flight at the club.
But, you know, you don't see him.
They play together.
When you see him, you see him with Tiger.
To me, it's just a pretty cool vibe that's going on there.
And I hope it is going to last.
Because, you know, look, the kid's playing as well as he's playing now.
I mean, as he gets older, I hope he still loves the game.
And plays like his father.
I mean, if he has any ability to play like his father, he'll go really, really far.
Say whatever you want, but his father, and hopefully he'll continue, his father is the only reason we still care.
We care as much as we do about golf in this country.
He just is.
Yeah, he is.
There's a million great players.
And John Daly.
And John Daly.
Yeah, but if Tiger's on the tour, we don't care.
John Daly's a national icon.
Oh my god, you gotta love John Daly.
Alright folks, we have successfully covered the gamut of world sports.
We make Wild World of Sports and the old guy who was doing ski jumping who fell off the ramp look normal because this is the Friday Finest Show with Doug and James.
Glad you were with us.
We covered it all.
We'll be back again to cover it next week.
Remember, we've got Ken Gailey being on with us next week.
Other things coming up, don't want you to miss it here on the Doug Collins Podcast.
We'll see you next time.
Say goodbye, James.
Go adopt an old dog.
We're out of here.
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