Randy Moss
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 1 May
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When you go back to when he was with Dallas, CeeDee Lamb, Dak Prescott, their best season was with Mike McCarthy as the play caller.
But back to this Aaron Rodgers thing, I don't know the future of Aaron Rodgers is coming back or not.
but Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy.
Aaron Rodgers was two-time MVP with Mike McCarthy as his head coach and play caller.
So one more year, I don't know what Aaron Rodgers has left in the tank, but one more try to go with Mike McCarthy because one thing about Pittsburgh, their offense stinks and it needs a lot of help.
And now for something completely different.
Well, you and I have talked about this before in the past. The horse is fine. The horse is actually in great shape. But trainer Bill Mott, the owner's dolphin, don't want to run the horse back in two weeks after the Kentucky Derby, which is the ultimate stress test for racehorses.
They feel like that the horse needs more time to recuperate for safety reasons, for the horse's health and well-being, and also for performance reasons because they think the horse will run better. With more time in between races. It's a very familiar mantra right now. If the trainer were Todd Pletcher, we'd be seeing the same thing, in my opinion.
If it were Brad Cox, we'd be saying the same thing. It's going to happen more and more frequently in the future until such time as the Triple Crown races begin.
It's totally the calendar. Totally the calendar. But they're going to run him in the Belmont Stakes. And after the Belmont Stakes, they'll probably point him for the Travers. And after the Travers, they'll get another race and point him for the Breeders' Cup Classic. So he'll run more this year as a three-year-old. Yes, his value has improved after the Kentucky Derby.
But the Preakness is a classic. The Preakness is an American tradition in the sport. There is plenty of value to a horse in winning the Preakness States, even a horse that just won the Kentucky Derby. But they think it is counterproductive to bring him back in just two weeks. Look, back in the heyday of the Triple Crown, okay, in the 40s, 50s, 60s, there was no problem.
running these horses back in two weeks. As a matter of fact, there were a couple of Preakness winners, 1959 and 1960. They finished second in the Kentucky Derby. Then they come back two weeks later, and they win the Preakness with a race in between, with a race on Monday of Preakness week called the Preakness Prep.
So back then it was normal, for example, for horses, the one, two, three finishers in the Kentucky Derby to all come back and run in the Preakness. Sometimes one, two, three, four, five in the Derby would all come back and run in the Preakness. Now you almost never see that. And it's really cheapened. the Triple Crown as a whole, because that's the way horses are trained nowadays.
And that's why the schedule needs to be adjusted. And I think it will, not immediately, not next year, but maybe two or three years down the line. I think that's probably what you're going to see.
Yeah, that's going to open up a can of worms. What you're referring to, like the load management thing and the baseball innings pitched and things like that, that's the performance issue. And there's part of that going on in thoroughbred racing, right?
Todd Pletcher, for example, one of the best trainers in the business, he runs horses back nowadays on two weeks rest or less, four-tenths of 1% of the time. And the reason why? It's health of the horse, but also he has a 21% win percentage overall. When he runs horses back in two weeks or less, 5%. Same thing with Bill Mott.
Almost exactly the same statistics with Bill Mott, the trainer of sovereignty. But it's primarily it's it's the problem here is it's it's performance based. It's also horse safety because they've done plenty of studies that show that horses are less inclined to become injured with more time in between races to recuperate.
And let's face it, the Kentucky Derby is the ultimate stress test in horse racing for three year olds. But, you know, it's the health of the Triple Crown as a whole, really, is the bottom line. And this sport is not what it used to be. Everybody knows that. But it still has the Triple Crown. The Triple Crown is still a huge event.
It's by far the most important thing horse racing has, the Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup. And it's been cheapening because all the good horses that run in the Derby that used to come back and run in the Preakness, Doesn't really happen nearly as often anymore. And now you're seeing the Derby winners. start to skip the Preakness. Something's got to be done.
Yeah. I mean, you love horse racing. There's nothing bigger in sports in general than rivalries, right? And we used to see when the same horses that ran one, two, three in the derby come back and run in the Preakness and then come back sometimes and run in the Belmont. You get these rivalries like Affirmed and Aladar and Easy Goer and Sunday Silence and Ali Sheba and Bet Twice.
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