Baldy Picks His Worst Teams
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00:00So, guess what? Sunday, I'm going to New York. I'm going on vacation right before football
00:05season. I told my girl, Yankees are in town. We're going to see Yankees-Rockies. I don't
00:09give a damn about the Rockies. It's all about Aaron Judge and Juan Soto. And I'm expecting
00:14him to hit like two home runs that day. It's box office, Baldy. It's electricity. The cameras
00:18are going all paparazzi. And now we got the Giants losing to the White Sox, who are one
00:23of the worst teams ever. And we're pulling pitches with 93 pitches, man. What is going
00:28on?
00:29We were having this discussion throughout the week where we were talking about the worst
00:33teams that we've ever seen in any sport, right? And in my mind-
00:37I played on one of them.
00:38Okay. I would love to hear it in a second. I'm thinking like the Bucs, right? The old
00:42Tampa Bay Bucs teams that used to be on all the blooper tapes, VHSs that we used to watch.
00:47049ers were one of the worst teams I've ever seen in my life. Eric Johnson at tight end
00:52with Tim Rattay and a bunch of-
00:54Tim Rattay?
00:55Yeah.
00:56Watek, baby.
00:57Yeah.
00:58Watek.
00:59Yeah.
01:00And-
01:01That got them drafted.
01:02Yeah. The 2016 49ers with Chip Kelly, where they ran the same slow-developing read option
01:06play and Jeremy Curley's their number one option. What's the worst team, when you close
01:12your eyes and you just think about it, the worst team you've ever seen?
01:15Well, I mean, is it the 08 Lions? 0 and 16?
01:18So I think the Cleveland team might've been worse.
01:21That lie seems bad. They had Megatron. That's it.
01:24Yeah. I mean, I played on a 1 and 15 Colts team.
01:27Whoa.
01:28When I got to New York, we beat the Jets and I partied my ass off. When I stayed in New
01:32York, I parked my ass. I'm like, we got one. Like, we can't go left. Cause I thought like,
01:36you know, everybody got hurt. It was one of these things where somebody had a voodoo doll.
01:40We had eight guys that year break a leg.
01:42Oh my God.
01:43Eight different players, including our starting center, who should be in the hall of fame,
01:47Ray Donaldson, who had never missed a game in his life. And this like second game of
01:50the year, we're out at the Coliseum in LA and we're playing the Raiders and he's on
01:55the ground.
01:56And Ray used to tell me all the time, Baldy, if you ever see me on the ground, I'm having
01:58a bad game. So he's on the ground. And I looked down at him and go, what's wrong with you?
02:02And he goes, I broke my leg. I go get the hell out of it. So sure enough, he hops off
02:06the field. I see him at halftime. He's got a cast on his leg. So I'm the backup center.
02:10So I got to go play center against Howie Long. Like, you know, and I haven't played center.
02:15I'm a backup center. I'm the right guard. I got, and I got Howie talking to me on my
02:19nose, like, you know, just, just ear banging me like crazy. But that, like, that was a
02:26year, like eight guys broke their freaking leg.
02:27What year was that?
02:28That was 1991. I'm looking at the roster right now. Jeff George was the quarterback.
02:31Jeff George.
02:32Jeff George was the quarterback.
02:33Eric Dickerson played running back, played in 10 games.
02:36Yeah, but he got suspended the first six games. So he had a contract dispute. So he, he holds
02:42out like the whole thing just went south. But we were so bad. We were so bad that I
02:47literally got the MVP of the team award.
02:50I don't know if I should say that or not.
02:53You guys beat the Jets 28 to 27. They're a lone win. You lost to the Patriots later on
03:00in the season in overtime. You started off 0 and 9. And the coach was Ron Meyer. Remember
03:04that?
03:05He got fired.
03:06He got fired.
03:07So Rick Venturi.
03:08There you go.
03:09Rick Venturi was our interim head coach. He's now the voice of the coach. Like he does their
03:12Ron Meyer was the guy who coached SMU with Eric Dickerson at Pony Express. And then he
03:16left and went to New England.
03:19He brought me to Indy. So I got nothing bad to say about, I'll say this about Ron. I go
03:23to, I go to the Colts. I have a choice. I go to Houston where my girlfriend's living
03:28or I could go to Indy. I'm like, I had a vibe about like, maybe the thing's not gonna last
03:32with a girl, but I, I kind of liked this guy in Indy. So I go to Indy. So I'm up there
03:37and I'm, you know, he wanted me there. I'm going to be the backup guard center for him,
03:41whatever. So I'm up there.
03:42So we're three weeks into training camp. We have a Saturday night off and he drove this
03:45bad-ass Porsche, right? So I go, Hey coach, I got, I got this pickup truck, but I got
03:49this girl tonight. Like, can I, can I, can I use the Porsche? So he flips me the key.
03:54You had the guts to ask him to borrow the Porsche?
03:55He flips me the key to the Porsche.
03:56No way.
03:57I went out and took him, I took this girl out of his Porsche.
03:58Oh, you had the time of your life.
03:59I had a good time, man.
04:00Did you, did you have any scratches on the Porsche?
04:01No, no, no.
04:02Did you bring it back in one piece, fill up the gas again? Did you come back with a Porsche
04:03egg?
04:04No, I was just there to try to impress. That's it.
04:05How many times did you punch it?
04:06Uh, I mean, you have to, I mean, like Indy, we call it Indy, uh, the Indiana no place.
04:17And it's like the center of all these crossroads, 65, 70, like all these freeways come through
04:23Indianapolis. So you just get out there on 70, man. You like put that thing at a hundred.
04:27What was Jeff George's issue? Like what? Cause clearly he had talent. Cause I think of him
04:31in Atlanta arguing with June Jones and, and Jerry Clinganville.
04:35His rookie year was 1990. Look up. I think we won five games. We wouldn't have won any
04:40if it wasn't for Jeff. So like just his talent, he had some of the best arm talent. His arm
04:44was five and seven that year. His first practice in 1990, he was late. He was late to the first
04:49practice walkthrough. He was late to the, he drove his car onto the field. He was late
04:54coming from some guys were seven to nine that year. So seven to nine, seven to nine. Yep.
04:58Jeff was, he was unreal. His rookie year, man. So worst team, that was your worst team
05:01you played on. We'll watch it at White Sox. They're 31 and 97 right now. 31 and 97, Baldy.
05:07They've got 31 wins. We're about to head to the South side, man. South side is sad. The
05:11sad side. My buddy's dad used to coach that team. Larry Doby senior. Like he coached the
05:16White Sox. Oh yeah, yeah. He told us that story. Yeah. Wasn't he the first black player
05:21in the American League? Six weeks after Jackie. Yep. Yep. Yep. In American League,
05:24first African-American. So the Giants. So they're 31 and what? 97. Oh my God. The lowest
05:30amount of wins for 162 game season is the Phillies. 43. Well, what would the Phillies
05:36win? Tigers in oh four, they have, they won 43 games in oh four. Yeah. Okay. Cause I think,
05:41I think the Phillies was Steve Carlton won 27 games. I believe on a team that won 50 something.
05:49Check out Steve Carlton. Wow. He won half the games. Check that out. Philadelphia Phillies.
05:54I'm just throwing it out there. Did you watch the Pete Rose doc? No, but I would, I would love to
05:59see it. Oh my God. It's, it's sad. It's awful. I couldn't turn it off. What, what, what phase do
06:06they go through? It's like everything, everything, everything. Well, they don't go super deep on
06:10everything because there's a lot. You're like, uh, I mean, Pete off the field, Pete was a lot.
06:16I mean, whether the Phillies don't win the championship without Pete Rose. No doubt. But
06:19I didn't realize him going to Philadelphia. I mean, that changed Michael Jack Schmidt's career.
06:24I mean, he spoke about him like he was the whisperer in his ear. I mean, he was his Bill
06:29Walsh, if you will. Okay. It was incredible. Yeah, no, that's true. That all that stuff is
06:33true. But Pete came to Philly, man, forget it. Like that team was just so loaded. That team is
06:37beloved in Philly, huh? I mean, look, every baseball team in Philly that wins a championship
06:42is beloved. I mean, you know, you go, but like that team is probably cause I was the first
06:47championship. So, you know, I mean, I remember going out to Connie Mack stadium when I was a
06:51kid. Wow. And watch, you know, Dick Allen like hit bombs outside the stadium, man. Like that was,
06:57that was the greatest baseball player I saw live. Maybe Roberto Clemente, but one of the two.
07:02Who's the worst team in the NFL right now, guys? Cause I'm listening to some of my Raider buddies
07:06and they're texting back and forth. And they're like, I think, well, I mean,
07:08he's a Patriots. Are they the worst team? I think the Patriots are the best player.
07:13Wanted Jude on, on the Niner so bad. Oh my God. Let me tell you something about Matt. I was out
07:18at that sack summit in Vegas with Vaughn and Max and all these guys this year. And Matt came out
07:23there. So, you know, we're all talking about pass rush and you know, all this stuff. It was actually
07:27really, really good and enlightening to me, but I went up to Matt and I'm like, look, dude, like
07:31nobody knows all the little things that you do as part of Belichick system. I mean, whether it's,
07:37you know, not letting tight ends get a free release or checking backs out of the backfield
07:41before you, like you could get, he could get 15 sacks a year. Easy. If he just rushed the passer,
07:46if he just did that, but like, he's such a team player and he's so smart,
07:51but, but that guy is a great player, man. Like the Falcons got a great player.
07:54No, Atlanta's loading up with a justice Simmons. Now, you know, if you go Simmons,
07:59they had Jesse Bates last year, Jesse Bates right now,
08:01no many interceptions, Jesse Bates and Justin Simmons have between the two of them.
08:05They've got 50 interceptions. Wow. Wow. They're going to be ball Hawks. And he got AJ Torell
08:10just signed a big contract extension. So we're talking about these bad teams, New England. I
08:15think we'll be really, really bad. It's a bad roster, which is, I don't blame bread and IE for
08:20not wanting to go to that roster. What's the worst team you've seen or covered in an FL history?
08:25Paul, do you play it on a one to 15 Patriots? Um, what was it last year? The year before that
08:29they got beat 34, nothing by the saints. And if they had, if they had a hundred possessions,
08:34they wouldn't have scored. What was it? Was it, was it the lack of offensive innovation
08:39for Belichick personnel was clearly a problem. They had Jalen Rager starting wide receiver.
08:43Like this guy can't play. He's still in the roster. What happened with Belichick and the
08:48offensive coordinator thing? Like I know McDaniels and him made sweet music. Why could he never find
08:52anyone else outside of McDaniels? Like, you know, Matt Patricia, like, I mean, it was just like,
08:55it was bizarre. Like he just thought he could plug anybody in at any of these positions.
09:00It really started falling apart when Dante Scarnecchia retired the second time. The first
09:05time he retired, you know, they lost at Denver and you know, Denver, like they, they, I don't know,
09:10they hit Tom Brady 20 times that game. And like literally Belichick fired his offense line coach
09:16on the way home from that championship game in Denver. And then they hired Dante back
09:20and I played for Dante. So I'm speaking on behalf. Like he's a great coach, but like they,
09:24they hadn't really replaced him. They can't build an offensive line. Like they don't have a left
09:29tackle right now. Like they, like they're not getting, like, I feel bad for Drake May if he
09:33has to go out there or anybody that plays quarterback. So what is it like being on one
09:37of these bags? Cause we were talking about boy, what is it like on the White Sox? They're out
09:40there playing in the outfield. They're losing five to one. You know, you're going to lose another
09:44game. You're probably thinking about your nightlife. I used to use the analogy that literally
09:47the wheels would fall off every game of the car, but like what, what, how early would the wheels
09:52fall off? And you feel helpless. Helpless. Like I, we had a lot of young guys, you know, they
09:58weren't professionals. They're out drinking. They're at Hooters, you know, all night, whatever.
10:02So Saturday I used to have a special film session for everybody. Uh, like the Saturday morning
10:08before our team session. Right. So, so I'm playing, I'm playing, I think right tackle.
10:14And we have this kid, I'll, I'll, I'll say his name, Pat Tomberland. He was a third round pick
10:18out of Florida state. He didn't really like football. He was a wide body, big guy, you know?
10:22So I remember we were playing, um, we're playing the Arizona Cardinals. So, uh, I'm playing right
10:28tackle. He's at right guard. We had an injury, so he's got to come in and play. So they kicked me
10:32from right guard and right tackle in this game. So I go out there. So like we have this timeout
10:36and we got, we're in the game against Arizona. So they got Freddie Joe, none out there, right?
10:41They got some pass rushers. So we got this timeout and I go to Pat, I go, look, if Freddie
10:46Joe sinks down to a three technique, you got to block him on this protection. If he's out wide,
10:51I got him. Okay. So, so sure enough, like we're in the snap count and Freddie Joe sinks down
10:59at three technique, right? So like, I'll never forget this. Like I, I turn around,
11:05something's weird about the play and there's Freddie Joe non sack and Jeff George. So in the
11:10sack, FOMO Arizona gets the ball. So I'm coming off the field. The coach is yelling at me,
11:15like yelling. I'm like, look, coach, like, honestly, I told him what to do.
11:19Like, so I go to Pat, I go, what the hell, what happened? He goes, oh man, I just had a brain
11:23freeze. So like, there was like, there was that type of thing. Like these guys just weren't,
11:31they just didn't study and they weren't professional. And we didn't have enough
11:34guys that really, you know, wanted it. We got to go on the other side. Cause I've
11:38got more on this bad teams, bad teams, watching the white Sox in town, man. The giant score,
11:4311 runs against the white Sox probably shows how mediocre they are. Fought life and death
11:47with the 31 to 97 white Sox man, three and two against the A's and white Sox. This is bad
11:53baseball ball. The ball can't come soon enough here in the Bay area. All right. We're coming up.