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How about this? On Wednesday, the Big 12 Conference, I lost track of how many members there are. I know it's more than 12. We'll find out on Wednesday because they're kicking off their media days, plural, in Las Vegas. And once we get to that silly season of coaches standing at podiums around the nation saying nothing, in my mind college football is officially back.

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Plus, Eddie Murphy said he didn't really want to play Axl Foley again until Netflix showered him with millions of reasons as to why to reprise that classic character. I watched Axlep. I thought it was very well done.

A nice blend of nostalgia and making sure it was more current content. And that gets me to the Cowboys. Now, you're probably saying, wait a minute. I've been dealing with you all week long and it's presumptuous of me to think that you would devote that much time, especially during a holiday week. But if you've been part of this show this week, you know I've gone heavy on the NBA. Now, in fairness, it was thoroughly justified because we had Paul George on Monday. We had Klay Thompson on Tuesday. We had the LeBron James family affair on Wednesday.

And yesterday, I tried my best to take a macro view to sum up the meaning of everything that happened. But I cannot sift through the dying embers of what candidly was a lackluster free agency cycle by design. Because of this new collective bargaining agreement, owners have given themselves cover to do nothing. To spend less than they used to because they can say, hey, don't blame me.

It's a second imprint. If you're a Nugget fan, you should be outraged that Stan Kroenke, who has Walmart money. Last time I checked, no need for a GoFundMe for anyone affiliated with the Walton family. The fact that they let Catavius Caldwell Pope walk was a sports crime. And you can say, hey, that's over the top. He's a role player.

Yes. But as we just saw with the Celtics championship run, you need more than your big two. Tatum and Brown carried that team. But think about Drew Holliday or Grant Williams and when the Nuggets made their championship run last season. It wasn't just Jokic and Murray. Guys like Bruce Brown and KCP were meaningful. But once we got the buddy healed signing with the Warriors yesterday in a sign and trade, if you really want to get into the weeds, that told me, let's pause the NBA conversation. I know other shows because I've been in the, as JJ Reddick calls it, engagement farming industry for a long time.

He's a bright guy, but he's too clever by half many, many occasions. I could venture a guess because believe it or not, summer league starts tomorrow, not the good one in Vegas, the minor league in Sacramento. It's still NBA players, quote unquote, playing basketball, I guess in the summertime.

Lakers play tomorrow. That means shows are going to go all in on Bronny James. I just can't do it again. Plus I realize whose name is on the bright glittering marquee in front of me. That is Mr. Eisen. This is undeniably the football show of record. So in an hour, we're talking Tom Brady, who had some, I think candid, although with Tom, it's always in my estimation by design, comments about why he did not have more joy in his career. And I will try to pivot then to his approach as a broadcaster. But as I mentioned, watching my man Axel do his things in Beverly Hills, it got me thinking about the Cowboys.

And this is not a stretch because I was also on my phone and you hopefully had better things to do yesterday with friends, family, and loved ones. And I care to say this, and I just want to be very straightforward. This is not a political observation.

However you view the state of our Republic. I'm going to say this with conviction. No nation on the planet loves fireworks more than the good old US of A.

How do I know? I took a sleeping pill last night at 7 30 and it already felt like the bombs were being dropped in London in 1942. As I go Edward R. Murrow to kick off the program. It was outrageously loud.

So I got my prep in early. And as I was multitasking, enjoying Axel, solve yet another crime in very humorous fashion, the internet lit up yesterday. Pyrotechnics across social media. And as we now know, thanks to you TikTok kids, if there's no pics, it didn't happen. Well, there was a pic. Dak Prescott in a walking boot on vacation in Cabo San Lucas. That was thrown up late on Wednesday.

And thankfully, most of us missed it because we're getting ready for the holiday. Then you had all of the NBA insiders saying, what is going on? And what does this mean for Dak? Because remember the Cowboys, because they are profoundly dysfunctional and stuck in the 80s and 90s, like Axel Foley used to be.

Don't know what they're doing. Is this going to have implications for Dak who wants the mega deal? Well, come to find out, like many things with the Cowboys, it apparently is much ado about nothing. Now it occurred to me in real time thinking about this, because I do follow this stuff closely.

It is my job and occupation. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but I was thinking about all of the twists and turns for the Cowboys in this offseason filled with inertia, waiting for them to do something, anything after another bold proclamation from Jerry Jones, the week of the Senior Bowl, volunteering to reporters. He didn't have to say this.

He wanted to say this because he got an headline. And that's all Jerry cares about. It's not winning championships clearly, not even making a conference title game. Forget about the Super Bowl.

Jerry is an engagement farmer. He just wants his name and his team to be atop the news cycle. But at no point did I hear anything about Dak having a foot injury. And to his credit, even though he's a lame duck, theoretically, he's going to get paid at some point, folks. He's not going anywhere. But he didn't stay away from OTAs. He didn't withhold his services. So he fully participated in the off-season program.

Everything the Cowboys do is magnified. Nobody mentioned anything about a foot injury. So come to find out this was Dak being responsible because you may recall he did have an ankle injury in 2020.

I know that feels like a blur given the global pandemic. And Dak since then has said, because remember the key phrase was he was on vacation. Whenever he stands for a long period of time, occasionally he has some pain with his foot, which I think we can all appreciate.

Well, he was deep sea fishing yesterday, he told the Dallas-Fort Worth Telegram. And the whole point of the boot was preventative, that he knew he's going to be on this boat. He's going to be up trying to haul in Marlon. And he didn't want to put himself in a situation where there might be negative implications for the foot issue.

That's it. He's fine. Going to show up at camp. And then in addition to, hey, Dak, what's the latest on your contract? The follow-up is going to be, hey, how's your foot?

And the first answer is going to be, don't ask me, ask Jerry. Although Dak knows how to play the game much more eloquently than that. He'll say all the right things about wanting to do everything he can to end his career with the star on his helmet. And then the follow-up will be about how is your foot doing right now?

What are the details there? But come to find out, like most things with the Cowboys, this was fluff. This was overblown because that is the brand associated with quote unquote America's team. In terms of real issues, I don't think the Dak situation is that troubling because it's not my money. And the only intriguing component here is how much is Dak going to get now? Because he's played this brilliantly, although it's like when you're playing chess with a six-year-old kid who thinks you're playing checkers, when the other side is completely over-matched, it certainly is to your benefit.

Because the longer the Cowboys have waited, as we have found out not only through the laws of physics, you know things going up and things coming down, as I go Isaac Newton for you. I'm Brian Weber doing my best Dennis Miller homage here. As many obscure references as I can, jam into the monologue.

844-204-7424 is the number to call. In 30 minutes something of monumental magnitude happened this week in sports not involving the NBA. Did you notice it? I'll give you the particulars coming up and prior to that in 10 minutes since I do talk some baseball, mostly in entertaining fashion, although it's getting harder and harder because nobody can hit. Baseball is on pace to have the lowest league-wide batting average since 1967. And last time I checked, Bob Gibson ain't on the hill this year knocking dudes down. But if I'm throwing baseball out, the other thing that immediately comes to mind? Freaky injury.

So I have another installment in that never-ending list of weird things on diamond. But in terms of where the Cowboys are, they should have gotten this deal done with Dak a long time ago because they don't know what they're doing and they're dysfunctional. And they're run by a person who is consumed by his image, his ego, and it's his team. I know there's a notion that there's a civic trust between the team you love so much and the business itself.

Well, that's nonsense. We romanticize sports because unlike other forms of entertainment, most of us were never stand-up comedians until we were 16 years old. Most of us were never good thespians. We were in the school play because we were forced to and we were terrible. But I assume if you're listening to me as a fill-in host, the day after the 4th of July, you love sports as much as I do. And where was that ingrained? During what stage of our life did that passion become so resonant when we were kids? Because we all played as long as we could and then we got pushed aside by the folks who were on their way to the pros. But if you're hoping the Cowboys at some point as a Cowboy fan, and I know there are millions and millions out there, are going to smarten up.

Unfortunately, I'm not trying to be macabre. I'm just going to tell it like it is. Nothing is going to change until Jerry Jones passes away. And your dilemma then is Stephen Jones might try to impersonate his old man for reasons that we see in a lot of family businesses. And remember, Stephen's already involved with player personnel. If you watched any of the draft coverage, sitting right next to Pops was the Sun.

I wonder how Stephen got that job since we were talking nepotism with Bronny James. Nobody seems to care when it happens in every other aspect of professional sports. But we'll skip that for now because I don't want to venture into the NBA swamp. The problem for the Cowboys is going to be they're going to put themselves even deeper into salary cap hell. But that's not something that impacts my life or your life. It just restricts their ability to make wise football decisions, although they never do.

So how is this any departure from what we've seen in the past? Once Jared Goff got paid, that reset the market. Trevor Lawrence got it up to the mid fifties. I'm talking fifty five million ish per season. If you're Dak Prescott's agent, you don't take a penny less than sixty million dollars.

Why? He's got total leverage because the Cowboys have so botched this situation by waiting and by the terms of his current deal that will expire at the end of the season. You never let a franchise quarterback get to the last year of their contract.

Now, you could push back and say, hey, fill in hack. I don't think Dak is a franchise quarterback. I'm not going down that road. I'm not going to list my top 12 quarterbacks or Mount Rushmore's watch games. Now, the fair criticism of Dak is the decline in play come playoff time. And you can look at the radical disparity of what Dak does in a typical regular season versus the postseason. Again, to try to be fair with our analysis, remember, we're only talking about a handful of games because the Cowboys never go anywhere in the postseason. But Dak had a horrific year, not this last season, season prior, with a boatload of turnovers. He cleaned that up last year, had very good numbers, and then reverted to playoff Dak in that utter debacle at home against Green Bay. That should have cost Mike McCarthy his job. But did I mention the Cowboys don't know what they're doing. So here we are with the clock continuing the tick. Dak is going to get paid at some point.

If he doesn't, talking about having the ultimate hammer and unprecedented leverage, if Dak got to market, 60 would be a low number because we've endured. If you watched what I thought was a I and I think we're all looking for content during quote unquote a slow week. But I think that is just an excuse. If you think you can't find enough out there to do a compelling show, you should not be on the air as again, I pat myself on the back metaphorically.

But you saw the inner workings. If you watch the debut of the off season edition of Hard Knocks featuring the Giants, how they see things and part of their motivation to part ways with Saquon Barkley, although I think they had already made up their mind, came down to two things. They've now lowered the bar to saying if you get to 27, you're on the cusp of being washed as a running back. And I realize you can massage numbers any way you want. That seems like a reach to me. 30 was the old number. But I get it.

Late 20s, you're going to have diminishing returns. Secondly, they didn't say it out loud. The Giants have averaged roughly five wins throughout Saquon Barkley's terrific individual career. So they're thinking we're a five win team with or without them. Let's save the money and find other pieces back to the notion that running backs are largely interchangeable in the modern NFL. But there was also a conversation in there about Daniel Jones being paid 40 million dollars not to hand off the ball, which again is the ultimate Giants, speaking of dysfunction, kind of line. So if Daniel Jones, and we know he's not the answer, wets the bet again this year, what would the Giants pay Dak Prescott if he got to market? What would the Raiders pay him? What would the Jets pay him if this is Aaron Rodgers' final year? So Dak has a myriad of ways of getting paid in front of him. It's not going to get to that. The Cowboys are going to throw a gigantic pile of cash his way.

They're going to have to do it with C.D. Lamb as well, because they botched those negotiations. And the minute Justin Jefferson got his massive payday from the Vikings that reset the market, Cowboys should have come in a little bit lower because C.D. Lamb is obviously not as impactful as Justin Jefferson. This is not that hard. And I'm just a radio guy who happened to go to grad school and take some business courses.

And I think I'm Warren Buffett. So, Cowboy fans, I guess the good news is you can exhale, let's do it together. The walking boot was nothing, but you have deep systemic problems that aren't going to change anytime soon based on who your head coach is for now.

Slow start by the Cowboys. I think it's clear Big Mike gets fired by week seven or eight. Mike Zimmer, the obvious coach in waiting based on his relationship with Jerry Jones coming back as the defensive coordinator. And he had very solid results. I know Viking fans wanted more, but look at what Zimmer's body of work was compared to the years immediately before his long tenure in Minnesota.

And then ultimately, until Jerry Jones either decides to walk away from the organization or moves on to the big luxury box in the sky, nothing is going to change. I'm Brian Weber, in for Rich Eisen. I'm not trolling you, Cowboy fans. I'm telling the truth.

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BW Weber Weber with two B's. I had less than stellar clock management in that meaty monologue so we'll keep this concise in less than 15 minutes. There was a monumental development this week in sports.

Forever changing the landscape of one sport not the NBA. What was it that occurred? We'll let you know coming up and cowboy fans I appreciate your passion. I rarely block but if you're going to come at me with f-bombs I have a degree of dignity even as a fill-in host so I hope you feel better about yourself and tell me in words that do not involve four letters what I said that was not factual because I understand what the intensity of fandom is like. That's why I got into this occupation. You want me to go deep into the handbook?

Fanny short for fanatic. You never heard that before but cowboy fan she can't be delusional unless you're satisfied with the status quo and I realize because I try to be fair and objective the cowboys have won 12 games in three consecutive years. Okay I thought you're the cowboys aren't we judging this franchise by Lombardi trophies? When's the last time you even played for a chance to get to the super bowl? So if you're content with the mediocrity of the franchise in terms of games that matter tell me what you've done in the postseason that's cool you do you but don't come at me and tell me that either I'm making stuff up or it's fake news and if you don't enjoy the content the customer is always right. I am never going to have a problem with somebody objecting to what I said but at least I want you to be straightforward acknowledge that what I offered was thoroughly factual. Now let's get to one of my favorite self-indulgent topics although if I'm talking baseball the minute I mention baseball you're going to reach for whatever device you're listening to me on and turn it off I understand that so if I'm talking baseball I'm gonna have a good guess like Keith Law used to work for ESPN now you can check out his great work at the athletic or I'm getting into weird stuff that only happens on the diamond so I saw this yesterday JD Martinez of the suddenly relevant Mets thanks to Grimace said his ankle is sore this week because he tried a new cleat that didn't fit right his shipment from Adidas was delayed so he went to an online platform and bought new cleats for himself now there's a disconnect there right you play for a major league team you need cleats go down to the clubhouse guy and say hey all those boxes back there find me a nine and a half I'm thinking if your body is your money maker you're not going to Amazon last time I checked I know AI has taken things to incredible heights you can't just stick your foot through the computer to try on the cleats but this is baseball where bizarre things happen because they play every freaking day so got me thinking and thanks to the beauty of the internet which remembers everything we're going to go quickly through some of my favorite baseball weird injuries that only happen in this sport do you remember Marty Cordova falling asleep in a tanning bed I do how about Matt Cain injuring himself while making a sandwich Will Smith not the slapping one guy who plays for the Dodgers tore his LCL that's a knee injury taking off his shoes David Price Joel Samaya hurt themselves playing video games because a carpal tunnel with repetitive action Glenn Allen Hill I remember covering this and I never believed this but he's sticking to his story he fell through a glass table because he claimed he had a nightmare based on spiders and he was afraid of spiders I want to know the real story there right he had to have either been breaking out of a room or into a room past curfew but I give him credit for creativity Sammy Sosa sneezed so hard he threw his back out among his other problems Salvador Perez tore his MCL another knee injury carrying his luggage and my favorite of all time Clint Barmus of your Colorado Rockies hurt himself because Todd Helton his teammate gave him a gift of deer meat Barmus was carrying the deer meat and slipped and fell down the stairs and now you know the rest of the story tell me one other sport that has anything nearly as bizarre and surreal as baseball now if all these things happen on TikTok the sport would be thriving but again pics or didn't happen I'm Brian Weber in for Rich Eisen coming up I alluded to a seismic change happening just a few days ago it landed in college football did you feel it I'll give you the particulars and we're talking Tom Brady in 25 minutes as we kick off our number two we roll on great to have you with us coast to coast it's a Friday 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for everybody just search believe that's BLEAV podcast wherever you listen brian weber back with you on this outstanding friday hope you had a great independence day and are enjoying potentially a super-sized holiday week or weekend i'm in for rich and the guys they've enjoyed the full week off and they certainly deserve it for all of the great work they do on a daily basis 844-204-7424 the number to call or slide over to the x platform and if you want to throw some profanity my way that's okay i appreciate anyone who's going to take the time to respond to what i'm throwing out there i don't think i'm infallible i am paid to have an opinion if you disagree that's cool we can have the conversation on x bw weber weber with two b's in less than 20 minutes we head back to the nfl tom brady living his best life on the hamptons yesterday although he threw a pick in a beach football game great to see damar hamlin out there what a remarkable story that is can't spend enough time thinking about what we all witnessed that monday night football broadcast in cincinnati and here he is not only fully recovered but still contributing in the nfl gonna get into an unexpected byproduct of what i thought was a really boring first installment of the new hard knocks off-season edition featuring the new york football giants they just handed more motivation apparently to the philadelphia eagles we'll give you the details coming up and since i rattle through those wacky baseball injuries i mentioned that the glenn allen hill one has stayed with me for many years and not to be reading my resume because most of you don't know who i am nor do you care nor should you i'm a filling hack after all but i got my start in the san francisco bay area and when i was covering the giants jeff kent put together arguably a hall of fame resume he's not in i think primarily because the sports writers didn't like him and that's not fair i would change the balloting for the hall of fame to diminish the role of the media but jeff kent as i'm just thinking through wacky unusual injuries that only happened in baseball claimed he hurt himself washing his truck and then we learned of course he was not telling the truth because that was often an issue would jeff who would smile at you and then mf you at the same time the minute that camera was off he was out there on a dirt bike and then tried to tell everybody no no no i was just reaching over for a sponge to connect that to football which we're heading back to is our next destination just saw this on twitter joe burrow who is living his best life might have seen him at a fashion show in paris last week rocking a shirtless ensemble he could pull it off that's a tough look i'm i'm of the mindset if you're heading out to the club tonight to celebrate your freedom and enjoy a friday night after a long day of hanging out at the beach or barbecue yesterday do not go out saying shirt but joe somehow made it look appropriate as he was wearing a double-breasted jacket that probably cost more to my car joe has been learning to play the piano this off season not just because he's a man for all seasons there is a strategic point to it he claims it's helping to rehab his wrist injury because of the repetitive motion so you have one of the best young quarterbacks in football doing all he can to make sure that wrist is 100 that's in contrast to baseball players winding up on the deal because they're eating fried chicken and they're playing video games two very different sports i love college football as much as i love the nfl although being a part of the college sports space has become more challenging now i'm going to preface what i'm saying right now by my lack of objectivity to a degree because i'm an alum of two schools that used to be in the pac-12 now if i want to root for my respective alma maters i have to pretend that i care about the acc which i just cannot so we've gone from the atlantic coast conference to the all coast conference and my other school is part of the big 10 which i'm more inclined to have at least a connection with because i'm going to work for big 10 network so this is not about me feeling disgruntled because i lost the job i had a great 11 years of pac-12 network candidly i'm going to be 55 in the fall i shouldn't be calling soccer games by myself i did it because i'm a broadcast courtesan the more you work the more you make those opportunities should be going the way of young people on the way up so not to get too deep as a fill-in guy the day after july 4th things happen for a reason so if this is getting me in a different direction terrific but i am still going through the stages the stages of grief because there was no reason for the conference after a hundred years of tradition to go away this is pure greed so when i mentioned the seismic change earlier this week it became official that for example texas and oklahoma are now part of the sec making the undisputed heavyweight champion of college football and many other sports they dominate college baseball as well as you know even deeper because for years we've been waiting quote unquote for texas to be back well steve sarkeesian finally has that program where they need to be they made it all the way to the college football playoff last year in that wild sugar bowl against washington oklahoma's down but if we're just following the money which is ultimately now what college sports is all about and it's always been that way it wasn't just so crass and in your face but think about all the resources that oklahoma has they're a superpower and while this is a bit of a down cycle how many years back do we have to go to oklahoma being in the college football playoff it's not ancient history the lincoln riley era so the sec just added two more titanic programs the big 10 which now has 18 teams adds washington coming off a trip to the national championship game oregon which is a phenomenal program i think dan laning is a terrific coach i give him credit for staying in eugene for now it helps when you have nike backing not only to pay dan and his staff but in the age of nil to make sure you're getting the players you need as well oregon preseason top 10 ucla they're just going along for the ride because not to get too far into minutia they're a public school and i'm here in california this is not a red state blue state observation in fact i'm going to do some work for ucla coming up in a month or so so i'm going to tread lightly as a public school they have financial challenges when it comes to the athletic department the move of the la schools the big ten was completely engineered by usc my other alma mater and that was solely about making more money period end of sentence and the problem i have is usc has billions and billions of dollars in their endowment they virtually prince money take a look at the stock market how are rich folks doing these days there's no need for them to jump to the big 10 other than pure greed and i get it more is more greed is good as gordon gecko told us in wall street don't go watch the sequel this weekend unwatchable unlike my guy axel f very good follow-up in the final chapter of the beverly hills cop franchise so i am not sitting here wringing my hands because there's nothing i can do and this has been a slow motion train wreck for over a year we found out last august that washington and oregon effectively killed the pac-12 but they were already on life support they pulled the plug when they took the big 10 money here's how i think you should view it as a sports fan yes more of college football especially in games that matter is a very good thing i got no problem with the expansion to the 12-team playoff sign me up give me more games of consequence the only problem is going to be if you want a little bit of variety if you want beyond the usual suspects you're not going to see it because the disparity between the top one percent of college sports and that's the scc and the big 10 and the acc is also circling the drain clemson and florida state trying to fight their way out of that conference as we speak north carolina a very attractive school for the big 10 based on their basketball profile and it's a good academic school because we have to pretend we care about what happens in the library but i just don't want college football to be a precise carbon copy of the nfl and we're virtually there a team could play 17 games this year to win the national championship unless you get a first round bye and good for these young people i say kids and i sound even older than i am good for these young folks getting every dollar that they can strength and conditioning coaches now at sec and big 10 schools make over a million bucks a year that's a guy if he didn't have that job who would be a gym teacher his degree is in physical education i'm not sliding what he does but doesn't that sound a little bit of skew this is the strength and conditioning coach and i realize the importance of lifting weights if you're going to be a successful a successful football program i'm just saying it's gotten obscene and it's gotten so crass that i find it distasteful now i'm not going to be a hypocrite when big 10 network calls or i have a chance to work for the big 12 because i split my time in tucson arizona sign me up i love college sports it's been the foundation of my career it's allowed me to sustain this occupation through tough times because i got damn lucky in my early 20s that i was calling volleyball and softball and college baseball and women's basketball and the more you can do the better chance you have at survival so i'm not trying to be a hypocrite and i'm going to watch these games just like you but there was no reason for this change you can't tell me the power four makes any more sense than the power five and if you care about other things than football and men's basketball and most of you do because most of us if you're lucky enough to play college sports don't play football or basketball you're on the baseball team you were a wrestler maybe you played soccer i mentioned the bay area schools let's say or smu for example i'll take my bias as a alum from palo alto off the table if you go to school in dallas and now you're a member of the acc does it make any sense as a member of the baseball team you're flying to talahassee florida for who for what i think about all of the thousands of dollars that are going to be burned through unnecessary travel expenses and we do have a lot of student athletes who know this is the end of their athletic career so they better get good grades and get that degree because they're looking for a job how are they supposed to balance actually going to class well what they're doing on the field none of it makes sense it was all in the name of football which we know drives the train and i would predict if you enjoy this act what i'm in for rich and the guys the week of july 4th within three to five years all of the non-football and basketball sports will go back to playing local rivals the way they should because in the interim they're just gonna burn money on travel expenses i'm brian weber in for rich 844-204-7424 the number to call hit me up on the x platform that's bw weber weber with two b's what happened on hard knocks they got aj brown of the eagles so miffed we'll let you know as we roll on onto friday this is the rich eisen show welcome to talkville the ultimate smallville rewatch podcast season four i'm glad that it's over i'm glad that it's over um as as we know now that season five is supposed to be one of our better seasons obviously the tattoo storyline you know how i feel about that you were hating that storyline probably a lot of joy because i kept waiting to see how it was going to keep going and then how they would somehow settle it binge seasons one through four of talkville before season five begins wherever you listen you