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this is the best of the herd with colin cowher on fox sports radio all right here we go it is a

tuesday live in los angeles it's the herd wherever you may be

however you may be listening thanks for making us part of your day Nick

Wright Byron Scott both stopping by today Boston Celtics Eastern Conference

Championship here we go against the Pacers looks like a mismatch I think it's a

mismatch we'll get to that in five minutes J-Mack you know I'm I come to work every morning and the staff lays out the

team lays out a bunch of stories and a lot of them are about quarterbacks wanting to

get paid getting paid OTAs to a DAC as a lot of that talk right now. And I wanted to address it. Oh, geez, here we go.

Everybody wants to get paid, right? I'm, yeah. Can you blame them? Don't blame them at all.

So there's a lot of stories about is Jordan Love Packers going to get paid? Is Tua going to get paid?

Trevor Lawrence getting paid. Jared Goff just got paid. And I was thinking about this because the

Celtics, Larry Bird, the Larry Bird exemption, I'm going to get to this in a second, but I'll make, I'll twist it all

together. So if you were going to pay quarterbacks based on four factors, and I think most of us would

agree on the four factors, which is, are you productive? Are you highly productive? Do you have success? Does

your team win and win in the postseason? This isn't baseball. You got to win games when it matters,

not just compile stats. Are you reliable? Are you healthy? Are you available? And number four is,

do you have leverage? Every negotiation, I don't care if you're an attorney, a doctor, a quarterback, a landscaper.

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