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[00:01:39] right now. So get it off my chest. So Mr. Lodgeable knows
[00:01:46] that if I don't care about nothing else, I care about my college football.
[00:01:54] And you know, as a Florida State fan, all the drama going on with the ACC,
[00:02:01] you know, Florida State trying to get out suing the ACC. They want to have court down in
[00:02:07] Florida. The ACC says no headquarters in North Carolina. We want to do it there.
[00:02:12] Clemson came through and said, nah, because y'all said that Florida State can't vote on these
[00:02:17] issues and they're not a part of this anymore. But we didn't even vote on that.
[00:02:23] The ACC was like, yo, we're just looking out in the best interest of the conference.
[00:02:27] So that's cool. You know, Florida State came into the conference in 91, 92.
[00:02:32] Clemson was there a little bit, you know, back in the 50s, you know, all that good stuff.
[00:02:37] But what the ACC never counted on
[00:02:42] was North Carolina raising up, spitting that argyle over their head like a helicopter
[00:02:52] and saying that we might one out two. You know, they're down having the ACC meetings this week.
[00:03:00] The chancellor wants audits because he feels like the money ain't right. He's being lied to.
[00:03:07] So it's one thing, right? Florida State, Clemson, the football schools, football drives the train.
[00:03:12] But North Carolina is the brand of the ACC. That basketball conference is what they were built
[00:03:18] on. So this is the difference. The SEC can look at FSU and say we have Florida already.
[00:03:31] They could look at Clemson and say we have South Carolina already.
[00:03:35] The Big Ten, they had a rule. I don't know if it's still a thing, but they wanted schools
[00:03:40] from states that were contagious to one another. So since Penn State's in there, connected to
[00:03:47] Maryland, connected to New Jersey, so that's why Maryland and Rutgers can survive. But the SEC
[00:03:53] could look at North Carolina and say we don't got a team from there. And even though this
[00:04:01] is about football, I'm sure Kentucky, our basketball breadwinner, would love to have a
[00:04:09] school like North Carolina and our conference. So I say all of that to say is that if the ACC
[00:04:18] in 2027 is the ACC that we see today, color me surprised. Yeah, it's not gonna happen.
[00:04:30] Yeah, it's not gonna happen. They out of there. Everybody that wants out is gonna be arbitrated,
[00:04:36] especially when you come to the audit. You gotta open the books and you have to answer to like
[00:04:41] where did this 12 million go? Where did this 80 million go? What happened to this? What
[00:04:45] happened to that? It's gonna be a lot of arbitration, a lot of buyouts, a lot of,
[00:04:51] you know, getting people out of their leases, so to speak, just to avoid, you know,
[00:04:55] that peek behind the curtain. So yeah, I would expect it to be very different. Like I said,
[00:05:01] you know, I've had conversations, you talked about it. It's probably gonna be either four
[00:05:05] major conferences with about 80 schools in it regionally, northwest, northeast, south,
[00:05:14] southwest, and they're just gonna hash it out. Those four best teams are the three
[00:05:20] best teams from each. It'll be something crazy because everyone's chasing the money
[00:05:24] to the point where you got to put 18 schools in the big 10, 16 in the big 12. You know,
[00:05:32] the SEC then put a number on theirs, but they're gonna just add whatever they want to add because
[00:05:35] people are gonna follow that money. That 70 million looks way better than 35 million.
[00:05:39] This is true. That's where we are nowadays. Yeah, follow the money, follow the hype,
[00:05:46] follow the outrage. So might get off my chest. It's not that, you know, it's not that crazy.
[00:05:51] I'm trying to keep it simple. You know, I'm trying to stay in a realm of positivity these days,
[00:05:56] but I'm positive that the people who are posting about Caitlin Clark's bad first game
[00:06:01] didn't give a damn about the WNBA three weeks ago. Let's keep it a bean.
[00:06:09] Talk about Diana Tarazi was right. I'm like, you're judging a person's totality
[00:06:13] of the career off one game. I told you she wasn't a goat. The conversations about her
[00:06:18] college basketball career, which was stellar. Let me know what I was going to be next year
[00:06:25] in the tournament. They won't be a one, two or three or 13 seed.
[00:06:30] Hell, the coach didn't left.
[00:06:32] So you tell me where Caitlin Clark fell short. Like she did everything she could do
[00:06:38] in the environment that she was in. She did to best her ability. I noticed controversy
[00:06:43] with if she's all time score and not what whatever metrics they're following right now,
[00:06:47] she's number one at that. So we can deal with the controversy later,
[00:06:52] but for her to have one bad game in her professional career, she went from playing
[00:06:58] against 19 and 20 year olds to playing against grown women who've been playing for
[00:07:05] you know, their whole life and professionally for a few years, got some notches on her,
[00:07:09] got some film study on her. Give us some time. She's going to drop 50 in one of these
[00:07:13] games. And I don't know if the same people who posted about her bad game are going to post
[00:07:17] a 50 point game. I will because I'm all about girl that my daughter plays sports. She loves
[00:07:24] basketball, softball. I'm getting her into golf this summer. Get a little golf bag,
[00:07:28] get a little driver, a putter, a seven iron and I think like a pitching wedge in it says
[00:07:35] golf girl on the side of her bag. So my daughter is going to be in the sport. So
[00:07:39] like I'm with it. But the same sense people posting and judging her and like all these men
[00:07:45] just kind of agreeing with like, come on dog, it's one game. If you know sports,
[00:07:49] you know that you can't judge it off of one game. You can't judge someone's whole career
[00:07:54] for one game. So can we stop posting and sharing this unless you're going to post
[00:07:59] all the time, unless you literally go and get into the WNBA don't post when someone has
[00:08:05] a bad game and say, see told you I was right. But you don't follow up with the good game.
[00:08:12] Don't talk about the signature shoe. If you're not going to buy at least one of the shoes,
[00:08:18] you're not going to bring a Sabrina shoe. Asia Wilson's got a shoe coming out.
[00:08:22] I bought the shoe that she was representing the cosmic. I bought that. It's not the color way.
[00:08:27] I bought the shoe that she was representing like that was being marketed as her shoe. It
[00:08:33] wasn't her signature shoe, but I went to Nike bought it size 12. Holla at me. So
[00:08:41] just calm down like I get it and understand the sports we have these conversations you and I
[00:08:47] talked about it. You don't have to be right to have a good sports conversation.
[00:08:53] You can be passionate about it. You can be articulate about it, but it doesn't have to
[00:08:58] be see told you so because that never pans out. It's too nuance is too is too vast of a
[00:09:08] scope for you to say one statement if that statement to be true and extrapolate that
[00:09:13] across an entire career, entire league, entire team, what have you. So have authentic
[00:09:20] conversations. Stop posting this fake outrage and this fake bravado because you really didn't
[00:09:25] care about the WBA three weeks ago. Now you just posting this stuff now like come on like
[00:09:30] shout out to the people. I'm not shitting for you for posting it, but let's get some perspective
[00:09:36] here. I mean just get some perspective. Yeah, I just want to know can we talk about
[00:09:44] Nika Muel at some point, but you know that's just me. If y'all want to talk about Kelsey
[00:09:50] Plum, that's cool too. Yeah, we could talk about Kelsey Plum. You see that fit she came
[00:09:54] into the arena with I'm telling you one of them WBA the one of the NBA players is going to have
[00:09:59] that same outfit on in about a week. It's going to be a midriff chest high leather jump off.
[00:10:08] I guarantee you lucky the Clippers ain't playing because it'd be Russell Westbrook.
[00:10:12] Yo, I thought it was gonna be SGA, but he came into something. He had to jack a full
[00:10:17] jacket, but it was pretty much the same fit. He had a full jacket on like I bet
[00:10:22] this Tyrese Halliburton gives you a couple more games. He'll wear some crazy like that.
[00:10:26] Yeah, I'm old man. I'm old, you know what I'm saying, but keeping it on where Mr. Logical took
[00:10:32] it. I was right that it looks like we go into game seven, but I didn't think it was going
[00:10:39] to look like this. I'm watching it live now. It's just sometimes they you know how to say
[00:10:50] don't foul a good player on the off night because you don't want him to see the ball go through the
[00:10:57] hoop. Yeah, Minnesota was the ball started going to the hoop then the role players then the fans
[00:11:06] ramp up. Okay, see tried to get it going last night because there was a couple possessions.
[00:11:14] I think they were like down 10 or 11. They get it to seven. The fans get into it and
[00:11:19] then Luke will hit a step back or he hit a lob. He was throwing so many lob alley hoops
[00:11:25] all night long and in that just deflated the crowd every time they try to keep it up,
[00:11:30] but it was like and they would just kind of sink back in their seats.
[00:11:35] I wasn't a big fan of them changing the uniform. I'm like listen the playoffs you got to be
[00:11:41] a little superstitious. You should have stuck with your colors that orange and blue that okay.
[00:11:45] He had on last time like now you shouldn't have done that. It throws off the feng shui.
[00:11:50] We can talk about the 2016 calves. They kept wearing those black jerseys
[00:11:58] when they were playing in Golden State some of my favorite uniforms and Golden State was like
[00:12:03] I cool. I'm like now you should have made them change. You should like now. Yeah,
[00:12:07] I got to wear the white. I got to wear something else. We gonna wear this. So you
[00:12:10] got to wear something else just to throw it just to throw them off.
[00:12:14] But like I said, I like this current game that's on right now. We're just looking at the stats
[00:12:20] right now. Bench points, Minnesota 15 Denver zero Jamal Murray looks hobbled 25 point lead.
[00:12:28] I mean game seven is a coin toss. They've already won two games in Denver.
[00:12:34] Shout out to Adam Silver and Prijor he's in his office right now just like
[00:12:38] petting a cat sitting at his desk. I'm like yeah, I orchestrated all of this
[00:12:43] because this is probably one of the best playoff friends because think about the superstars that
[00:12:47] aren't in it. You know we talked about for years how people were like I'm not watching
[00:12:52] that because so-and-so's not playing. I'm not watching that team because of this team.
[00:12:56] You're watching Minnesota and Denver. You might never been to Minnesota. I've never
[00:13:00] been to Minnesota. Never been to the airport. Never been to Minnesota at all in my life.
[00:13:04] Been to Denver. Shout out to me and Mike. You know that's why you got the two five name.
[00:13:08] In Colorado but it's just I think it's outstanding basketball. I like the Knicks
[00:13:14] and the Patriots series. I think it's outstanding basketball. Some blowouts and some
[00:13:17] contentious moments. Some coaches with looking befuddled. Tom Thibodeau looks like this at
[00:13:22] every call. Every call. It just makes me laugh but yeah this game right here is definitely
[00:13:32] it's a surprise. Ooh, Brown got nasty on that dunk. Too bad it's not worth 25 points.
[00:13:40] Well you know like that's why the media is so I don't want to say toxic but you know going
[00:13:49] going back to your point about Caitlin Clark. You know they're like oh look at Rudy Gobert.
[00:13:54] You know that's the defensive player of the year and all these you know this kind
[00:13:58] of stuff like that and get and I get it right. The defensive player of the year should
[00:14:02] be playing better defense but can I tell America a secret? I don't know if y'all do
[00:14:07] this or not. Yokich is unstoppable. Yokich is inevitable. We said the same stuff about AD
[00:14:15] just two weeks ago you know because AD was talking about how he should have been in the
[00:14:20] MV or I'm sorry defensive player of the year race and then Jamal Murray hit the game
[00:14:25] winner and everybody said that's why he's not the defensive player of the year. This is what
[00:14:30] Yokich does. I took it back to Roy Jones. Y'all must have forgot. Y'all got the nerve
[00:14:35] to say that I fight nobody. I just make them look like nobody. That's what Yokich does.
[00:14:42] Obviously tonight like to Mr. Logical's point Minnesota got the crowd involved early.
[00:14:49] You know Ant got some dunks early. He had 14 in the first quarter so they didn't let Denver
[00:14:55] get started and Denver didn't look like a champion because as I always say and just like
[00:15:02] I said last week you know they just keep these teams. They just pull up shoot threes and it's
[00:15:08] like dude you're only down seven right now. Just go get a bucket but what happened? Minnesota
[00:15:15] went on a 20-0 run then in the second quarter they went on a 13-0 run because Denver started
[00:15:22] out two for 12 from three. That's not what the champs are supposed to do. You leave that to
[00:15:27] these candy ass jabronis in Boston to do that. You know what I'm saying? So hey Boston's the only
[00:15:34] team that's already through to their conference finals just throwing it out there. Just throwing
[00:15:38] it out there but you know I mean I'm pretty sure like most teams would have beat Miami
[00:15:44] without Jimmy Butler and would have beat the Cavs without Donovan Mitchell playing.
[00:15:49] We don't need context right now. I'm just throwing up the fact. Yo you know what's crazy
[00:15:54] it's crazy that their run is super I don't know I won't say it's not competitive but it's like
[00:16:02] it's definitely like snap. No I won't say an ashery but it's like they definitely have a very
[00:16:07] they had a smooth path. I don't know if you saw this but last night Donovan Mitchell got
[00:16:12] called out by the wanted only nature boy Ric Flair. Is Ric Flair from Cleveland?
[00:16:22] No but what Ric Flair said was I was out there wrestling with torn rotator cuffs.
[00:16:30] I got in a plane crash and I was wrestling and you out here hurt with a calf?
[00:16:36] And I'm like nature boy poor Zingas is missing. He hasn't played since April 29th because of a calf.
[00:16:43] Yo is are they calf strings or are they Achilles strings? So I know with Giannis it was the
[00:16:50] soleus or soleus however you pronounce it which is more of the calf but it's all connected.
[00:16:58] So you probably have a little bit of both but especially being the size the height
[00:17:03] and everything and with the force that somebody like Giannis plays with you can't ask him to
[00:17:09] you can't ask him to come out there and because Giannis is one of those Russell Westbrook guys
[00:17:14] that never cheats the game you know from an effort standpoint his shots might not fall he
[00:17:20] might miss some free throws but he's going to give you the effort. He can't play in that
[00:17:25] condition as far as poor Zingas go he's a little more of a shooter but he's also seven
[00:17:30] foot three so those injuries might impact someone of his stature just a little bit more
[00:17:39] because Dane had the same similar but his was listed as an Achilles
[00:17:44] so I guess it just depends on how it happened. Yeah like I said the playoff's been entertaining
[00:17:53] I'm looking forward to Nick's Pacers tomorrow going back to Indiana. I mean can they get
[00:18:01] their running gun back? I mean you keep in mind last time they were in that building they won by 32
[00:18:07] so I mean maybe it's an opportunity. I just I wish there was guys who stopped looking at the
[00:18:14] rest and looking to the replay as much but it seems like in these blowouts no one really
[00:18:18] cares but in these tight games every single bump push slap tug slide any screen is too
[00:18:26] hard as a foul. Well that's why I was happy about last night not just because I picked Dallas to
[00:18:33] win the series against Oklahoma City but Lucas stopped trying to be Dwayne Wade and what I
[00:18:39] mean by that is throwing himself on the ground looking for bailouts going up to the basket with
[00:18:45] no intention of making the shot at all maybe getting as they say minimal contact and acting
[00:18:53] like that's a huge one and acting like he got shot in the kneecap last night he just came out
[00:18:59] and played basketball and he showed this is what I do you know because he had his I'm
[00:19:06] scabbing around moment. This series should be over because they should have won the previous
[00:19:11] game you know back in Dallas with the collapse they would have won that series in
[00:19:16] five games but here we are okay see it's still alive you know with a chance to win on
[00:19:22] Saturday night so we'll see what happens from there but back to the Knicks so I know Timodou
[00:19:29] he might not have heard me he might not have heard two five but the talk around TV and media
[00:19:38] the last couple of days was about him playing these guys all these minutes how you know even
[00:19:44] when they lost 5 30 he still had Brunson and DiVincenzo out there 30 plus minutes and here
[00:19:51] we are they win the game by 30 and he still plays Jalen Brunson 42 minutes still plays Josh
[00:19:59] Hart 39 minutes and people keep saying the Knicks don't have anybody else to put in the game
[00:20:05] well I wonder why because he's running them into the ground what came first the chicken or
[00:20:12] the egg I mean he'll figure it out which I still don't know the answer to that question
[00:20:19] after all these years I don't think anyone knows I think it's one of those arguments that
[00:20:24] we're gonna have forever similar to some other arguments that we see the original LeBron Jordan
[00:20:32] there you go into the new Mahomes Brady conversation so you ready for the stat
[00:20:41] Caitlin Clark Diana Torezi it's all getting crazy I love it I love sports you ready for
[00:20:46] the stat the stat of the day let's hear it all right so Knicks and Pacers right
[00:20:53] 3-2 series Knicks are up 3-2 yep every the home team has won every game in that series
[00:21:00] correct Tyrese Halliburton my god you know saying at home averaging 34 and a half with
[00:21:10] eight assists the three losses in New York 17 13 points seven and a half assists how are you
[00:21:20] that different of a player I have 21 points different from Tuesday to Friday well like you
[00:21:33] said though like you know you get the crowd going at home you know because remember in New
[00:21:39] York there was a couple of games where or it even one of the Indiana games he came out first
[00:21:46] half on fire and then went to third quarter or whatever it was and I guess he was trying to
[00:21:52] go back into facilitator mode and it just didn't work so you know I expect a big game
[00:21:58] from him tomorrow but I'm wondering you know big time pause worthy you know I wonder if
[00:22:06] they shot their load already you know if Indiana's done out in these streets because they played
[00:22:13] their little hearts out in front of their little midwestern fans eating on corn and just sitting
[00:22:20] around eating sunflower seeds getting blown out in game five might have helped because now that
[00:22:30] it wasn't like an emotional letdown like if they lost game say they were up three or four couple
[00:22:37] of minutes left and New York runs off six or seven points in a row and they lose that game
[00:22:42] a heartbreak fashion sort of like game one yeah so then they got to go back home but the
[00:22:48] last time they're at home they won by 32 points so I think they can rest on again we
[00:22:52] got tossed we just were sitting and chilling and now we just will get back
[00:23:01] see you only see stuff like this on sports reporters order you ain't getting this on fs1
[00:23:07] you know but uh yeah no no that's a great point you know uh because I've always said
[00:23:13] you know if I was a professional athlete you know obviously you don't feel like this in the
[00:23:17] moment but beat me by 25 yo yoke is on the bench right now with his whole hoodies this whole
[00:23:27] jumpsuit on zipped all the way up no ice packs on like these dudes not going back
[00:23:34] furious because all he thinking right now is I was going to hang out with my horses this
[00:23:37] weekend yo that man can't wait to get back to serving as like can we wrap this up I gotta
[00:23:42] go win this parade yeah so like like I said right now Minnesota's gonna live it up right
[00:23:49] you got 8 30 left you down 36 looks like everyone's weighed the white flag and it's just
[00:23:57] you got Nas read on the floor you got slow mo Anderson but for the most nope
[00:24:03] rutiko bears a lot there so you still have reps yeah you just need to get some reps uh
[00:24:10] we got the three is so like right now they can already start their regrouping process
[00:24:18] yeah while you're in the stadium pretty much for the next hour
[00:24:23] you could just regroup and by the time you get to the bus and to the plane to get back to
[00:24:28] Denver guys aren't gonna be thinking about man I wish I would have made that play because
[00:24:33] they you know you lose by a couple points they're like all right we got our ass kicked
[00:24:37] I mean it definitely shows you the difference between having Mike Conley and not as well
[00:24:41] since he didn't play in uh game five so you know there's something there and you know Tim's did
[00:24:49] have the extra day so I'm gonna pull I'm gonna say the Knicks are gonna close it out um on
[00:24:56] the road and get ready for Boston but where are you with okay see right now uh
[00:25:03] uh I don't know if they can win in Dallas and on top of the fact that all the all the stats
[00:25:14] as far as the the winner of game five goes on to win the series 82 percent of the time
[00:25:23] they can't really win in Dallas I think like I said Luca had his I am Kevin Durant moment
[00:25:27] we talk about that gear gets the clippers and Kevin Durant was like you know I am I'm Kevin
[00:25:33] Durant I think Luca kind of came to the game was like why am I out here begging for calls
[00:25:40] I'm Luca I'm unguardable I can shoot from anywhere I can pass like I control the entire game
[00:25:48] so he just came out he was smiling a lot he was talking shit to fans he was doing what
[00:25:53] Luca does and I think when he stuck to that and that's when I it was a few times I
[00:25:58] thought maybe okay so you can make a run but Luca would just get the ball at the net
[00:26:02] get the ball in the inbounds come up smiling I was like yeah this game was over I watched it
[00:26:09] because you know it was on so Wednesday I like basketball but yeah it was it was a while where
[00:26:15] it's like I don't think they I don't think last night was okay sees night I think it was
[00:26:22] night now can he do it again
[00:26:31] what happened I'm sitting up here trying to interact and uh answer a question and I was
[00:26:37] talking about how Denver's bench is a disappointment and it says YouTube rejected your comment
[00:26:43] oh can you use the word disappointment yeah I guess so they said yeah I'm so sick of the
[00:26:50] liberals got me but uh can't you say what you want anymore it's the first amendment say what
[00:26:56] did you want say with your chest as long as you're not well just for that block this
[00:27:01] YouTube block this YouTube yeah so I expect Kyrie to come out game six on I'ma post this video
[00:27:09] energy you know what I mean because because like Kyrie's been pretty quiet he's been playing
[00:27:17] the team role but now okay see has to adjust because it was PJ Washington but now Derek Jones
[00:27:25] went off last night you know so now I think Kyrie's gonna have to come through like the
[00:27:32] original Jew in Shining Arbor you know said to send okay see home you know because you can't
[00:27:39] tell that man what he is because he don't where he came from he's a pillar so game six
[00:27:46] he's coming out to put the state through okay sees heart I wouldn't deny that uh it is unfortunate
[00:27:56] to be a number one seed and essentially be like I said I haven't really heard many pundits pick
[00:28:06] them like I said I picked them in seven which is kind of a cop-out pick I just figure like
[00:28:09] out of respect for the number one seed they have home court I figured I give them a shot
[00:28:16] and after game one it looked like I was okay this is how they're gonna play but when they came
[00:28:20] out cold in game two I think they just been battling ever since because even game game four
[00:28:25] that they won it wasn't like they played well it was more like Dallas just played a little
[00:28:32] lack of days ago like these in these spurts where they should have gotten points it was
[00:28:37] like each team was going like two minutes without a field goal two and a half minutes
[00:28:41] well if you'll go bad possessions bad files and it just was very it's very odd it was very
[00:28:47] odd oddly played game the game four I mean game five look a lot more like what you expect
[00:28:55] but you know guys just like the whole door never lost his confidence so I think that's one
[00:29:01] thing like having role players don't lose their confidence I think that I helped them out well
[00:29:06] that's the problem is that with this new NBA okay see is treating they treat Chet the way
[00:29:13] that Cleveland treats Mowgli you know to be like Mowgli will come out first half go four for five
[00:29:21] and then you know get two shots the rest of the game you know and that's what okay see
[00:29:27] because I mean jdub took more shots than check last night and yes okay sees lack of
[00:29:34] experience is an issue I was talking about Monday on Monday when we talk about experience
[00:29:40] we usually focus solely on the players but this is their first this is their coaches first go
[00:29:45] around as well Martin Dagonal and he is a good coach but you know you can't simulate
[00:29:52] alley-all but I don't think they've done anything on the court that is indicative of
[00:29:59] that lacks experience we could talk about like we talked we talked at nauseam about
[00:30:04] Missoula's lineup changes and who he had on the floor and we still talk about like I
[00:30:10] talked about it last week where he had a Pritchard, Houser, and Cornett on the floor
[00:30:17] at the same time trying to defend Donovan Mitchell I'm like that's that doesn't work
[00:30:24] like you need to have defenders that you can't have two small guards you only shoot threes
[00:30:28] trying to defend Donovan Mitchell and pick and rolls I don't think Dagonal has done anything
[00:30:34] like to the detriment of the team I just feel like their shots just haven't fallen
[00:30:37] oh I do I think that he took Giedi at the starting lineup so he made that move yeah after
[00:30:42] five games it was four I mean four games he should have four games after game two but it's
[00:30:52] two too so it's not like he's like oh but Giedi wasn't getting that much run but he took him out
[00:30:56] of starting lineup brought him in he made some timely passes like I said Luca just was on a
[00:31:00] Luca move and it just was nothing you can I don't think like that three-quarters court alley
[00:31:06] that he threw to Derrick Lively like they might have to look into that like yo you guys
[00:31:11] can't cheat off of Luca because he has two guys that all they do is run and jump
[00:31:18] and catch lobs and Derrick Jones jr and Derrick Lively these dudes really about to have a 50
[00:31:22] point lead yo these bench players are just firing off threes like you know but I also
[00:31:30] think okay see uh like we talked about uh we talked about um how they can't play in the half
[00:31:38] court setting and you know you normally see that with young teams like SGA is the only one
[00:31:44] that can really create outside of Giedi so Giedi does give you that at least but but outside of
[00:31:51] that SGA is the only one that can consistently score in the half court so if okay see's not
[00:31:56] running they're really ineffective and this is the team that led the NBA in three point
[00:32:02] percentage in the regular season and last night for example they shot 10 for 40 so you know
[00:32:08] and Dallas is playing them weird too Dallas it seems like when SGA is driven to the paint
[00:32:15] I was looking it's like everyone in Dallas is just coming to the paint it's like but when he
[00:32:21] kicks it out those guys aren't hitting their shots game one they were hitting those threes
[00:32:28] you know Isaiah Joe was hitting the threes Jalen Williams was hitting the threes Lou Dirt
[00:32:31] was hitting like Chet was hitting them now they just seem to collapse on SGA and he's getting a
[00:32:38] lot of tough shots that's why you're getting a lot of free throws because the help defense is
[00:32:42] coming from both sides pause right and it's just so he's getting a lot of free throws or he'll
[00:32:48] get the step back or if he gets there and he gets stuck like they're trapping him at the
[00:32:53] the free throw line he has to kick it out and it's a scramble scramble scramble that's
[00:32:57] why they went 10 for 40 because a lot of those threes weren't they were contested
[00:33:02] they weren't in rhythm because it was like he's trying to bail them out whereas Dallas plays
[00:33:06] like that Dallas kind of plays they wait on Luca to kind of get them the ball in certain
[00:33:10] spots and certain guys get to certain spots but so I don't think like their experience I
[00:33:15] don't think has been like I don't think they've done anything wrong with their lack
[00:33:19] of experience you know what I mean I just think that Dallas just made the adjustments
[00:33:23] and Dallas has the better player like they have I know SGA is good but what Luca can
[00:33:31] what Luca does to your team is different than what SGA does right and and like like I said
[00:33:37] Kyrie hasn't been looked at the score a lot but he's been here before so he knows when he
[00:33:45] lets the game come to him and when he needs to do something he will but for the most part
[00:33:51] it's all about getting everybody else involved so he's kind of taken over
[00:33:55] Luca's role as the playmaker and Luca has become more of the Kyrie dribble dribble shoot
[00:34:04] you know so they kind of swapped roles and that might have thrown something that minor
[00:34:08] might have thrown OKC off because of the size difference between them pause doing the things
[00:34:15] that they're doing so I mean there's a lot of things at play I'm not going to bang on
[00:34:19] OKC I'ma just say I said Dallas and six I still got OKC in seven I'm like I'm not sure if they
[00:34:28] can win in Dallas but you get a couple of these early three pointers to drop it's a
[00:34:35] different game so after the first quarter you know like that seems to be the rhythm of most
[00:34:39] of these games is like who comes out hot because we've seen a lot of blowouts there's
[00:34:44] been a lot of games that look like this yeah it's been a lot it's been a lot of tough games
[00:34:48] where teams have pulled it out in the last you know few possessions we've seen it within
[00:34:53] the Philadelphia Knicks series we've seen it with the Clippers Dallas series we've seen it
[00:35:00] with OKC Dallas so we're getting like a very broad playing dynamic and entertainment dynamic
[00:35:11] with these play-offs so like I'm all about it so I'm sticking with it Denver in seven
[00:35:16] Dallas in six and then I'm gonna call Knicks closing it out in six as well
[00:35:24] yeah I say I like that I like that we'll go with that all right so uncle oh uncle oh
[00:35:30] what did the Steelers do to the NFL for the NFL to decide that this season
[00:35:39] is going to be the year that Mike Tomlin goes under 500 I thought you know they had a good
[00:35:48] relationship with the lead they don't have any any crazy players not a B's gone
[00:35:53] I can't believe they did was it the eight-week stretch is there a buy in there at all no so
[00:36:01] let's get into this real quick so the last eight games of the season for the Steelers
[00:36:06] Baltimore at Cleveland at Cincinnati Cleveland at Philadelphia at Baltimore Kansas City and
[00:36:17] Cincinnati that's the final eight games in addition to having to travel cross-country to Denver and
[00:36:25] Las Vegas not that those are good teams or anything like that but you know the travel they
[00:36:31] got three games in 10 days in one of these windows that I just mentioned so like if the
[00:36:38] Steelers can get the 500 this season or I should say if they can go nine and eight this
[00:36:43] season it'll be a dead Tomlin's got to be coaching a year absolutely because I'm looking
[00:36:49] at the schedule and I'm looking at something like six and 12 you got them losing an extra game
[00:36:57] oh there you go they're gonna lose an extra game they're gonna lose to the bye week too
[00:37:05] so it is seven at worst I hope you're right but but you gotta keep in mind Cleveland getting
[00:37:11] Cleveland late the Sean's injury history it's quite likely that by week seven or eight he's
[00:37:22] limited hurts a shoulder or something because he hasn't been healthy in years and even when
[00:37:30] he was really good in Houston the granite ACL that's that's a different kind of energy
[00:37:34] but he always has something nagging like he had the shoulder last year then he came back
[00:37:39] and played and ended up missing the rest of the season and you're playing games with Joe Flacco and
[00:37:47] DTR like yeah yeah the worst way Robinson Robinson yeah so I think yeah like like
[00:37:56] Stephans get like three or four different starting quarterbacks last year so by the time that
[00:38:00] Cleveland part comes might not be that Joe Burrell hasn't been able to finish a lot of
[00:38:07] seasons healthy he always comes in with a nagging injury or his rehabbing from another one
[00:38:12] so by the time they play Cincinnati maybe Cincinnati's playing Jake Browning at that
[00:38:16] point yeah and with all that being said Baltimore Cincinnati Kansas City just you
[00:38:22] just share uh I'm sorry Baltimore Cleveland's and Kansas City just your top three defenses
[00:38:27] nothing to worry about there you know I mean granted they get two every year so it's like
[00:38:35] they're constantly playing tough defenses then you got Cincinnati speaking of Joey's old line
[00:38:41] speaking of Cincinnati they have four opponents that are playing them with at least 10 days
[00:38:47] rest so that would be Kansas City Dallas and Pittsburgh both times that they see Pittsburgh
[00:38:54] not to mention that the Kansas City game is the foulest of them all because Kansas City's
[00:39:00] going to open the season at home against Baltimore and then play Cincinnati the next
[00:39:05] Monday night football so you're coming into week two already getting the champs off a
[00:39:11] 10 days rest 10 days rest you know so I don't know what the north did I don't know what the
[00:39:16] north did you know but for some reason it didn't extend to Cleveland because Cleveland
[00:39:21] got about a month at home week seven through ten at home by in week 11 so you know but
[00:39:28] the thing that stood out to me about the NFL schedule outside of these individual teams
[00:39:34] is the lack of great or even good dare I say Monday night football games let me pull that up
[00:39:43] yeah so I'll tell you the ones that I like real quick so we got Jets at the 49ers to get
[00:39:48] us started for some reason the Jets got six games they said the Jets owe them one so
[00:39:54] I guess that means the rest of us have to suffer you know week three you know you got
[00:39:59] Washington at Cincinnati and the only reason I care about that game is because I'm a Washington
[00:40:04] fan so you're gonna skip over week two Atlanta I don't care about that
[00:40:12] week four Seattle at Detroit you know they've been kind of in each other's way the last
[00:40:16] couple of years week 10 I like Miami at the Rams week 11 I like Texas at Dallas
[00:40:24] and I like the finale Detroit at San Francisco all the rest of those
[00:40:28] Monday night games I could do without put them on Thursday
[00:40:33] hold on what about the brother bowl November 25th Baltimore at the Chargers don't care
[00:40:41] the hardball you don't care about the hardball bowl I do not care about the hardball bowl
[00:40:47] once the Chargers get some players in there I'll care about it I think that's that's a nice
[00:40:53] little matchup for the holidays good to see your brother it's a nice story if that's what
[00:40:58] you're into I'm here for the football I saw the Atlanta at Philly I'm like okay bet let me check
[00:41:03] these tickets $399 for nosebleeds I'm good you got holla at bet ticks yeah I might have
[00:41:12] to I need I need to get a free tick get somebody in a parking lot kind of ticket
[00:41:16] like what she emailed me run that ticket because it's 300 like I bought two tickets to the Jets
[00:41:23] granted to Jets but this is after they signed Aaron Rodgers last year when the schedule
[00:41:28] got released I bought two tickets for Jets Falcons row two and at the end zone or like on the
[00:41:40] Falcon side line for $289 or $299 for both tickets and this is after they signed Aaron
[00:41:47] Rodgers and the Jets so I'm not how the hell these tickets $399 for Falcons at Eagles week
[00:41:54] two there's not even a rivalry speaking of which let me tell America what you did to me
[00:42:00] you know saying that man was all excited we got Washington and Atlanta and then he saw the
[00:42:07] schedule and said December 29th I'm out now I'm not gonna it happens it's happened it's happened
[00:42:16] the last three or four seasons I remember it was one year Atlanta played Baltimore and they played
[00:42:26] uh the the commanders I think they were the Washington football team then
[00:42:31] and I think Matt Ryan was playing because this when he played for the Colts he was playing
[00:42:36] somewhere around here as well those games were Thanksgiving weekend Christmas weekend
[00:42:44] and New Year's Eve weekend I'm like I can't I'm not like first of all it's cold I'm
[00:42:50] not sitting in these these cold games potentially and then on top of that you got
[00:42:53] all this other stuff going on all the holidays and like every game that was close to me
[00:42:58] was on a holiday weekend so I was like I don't know if I can be able to do that but December 29th
[00:43:03] in in Maryland off off the water now I'm good you won't have me I ain't losing my toes
[00:43:13] yeah so you know uh it's crazy right because you know you got you know the Texans
[00:43:20] the Ravens Chiefs and Steelers I mentioned it you know three games in 10 days totally
[00:43:25] unacceptable especially when we're talking about potentially going to 18 games like you know what
[00:43:31] I mean like get out of here player safety's done we're forget your kicked off you know they've
[00:43:37] never cared I want to say they never cared about player safety they they care about player
[00:43:41] safety because it could cost them financially that's why they authorized guys to wear like the
[00:43:45] little concussion things during games because they don't want to sue because they can say oh
[00:43:49] we put in all these measures we call these penalties for these hits I'm still trying to
[00:43:54] figure out how this kickoff situation is gonna look all I'm saying bro that's all I'm saying
[00:44:01] that's all I'm saying but hey I tell you one thing they ain't going to be 45 cent like the
[00:44:07] Panthers games but speaking of the Panthers you know last year right I know Germany got
[00:44:14] stuffed with Indianapolis and New England but we did give them Kansas City Miami and then the
[00:44:22] NFL was like nah y'all got to take Giants and Carolina this year man they they've been pumping
[00:44:29] the like the Giants were the first team to really get that I think they're really trying to put
[00:44:34] Jacksonville in London yeah back to back weeks again I think they're trying to move that team
[00:44:40] to London yeah I think they're trying to have them like their home field is going to be
[00:44:45] the old Trafford or Wembley or whatever these these hopefully their opponents hopefully their
[00:44:52] opponents don't pull the dumb assery that Buffalo pulled when they showed up on Friday
[00:44:59] to play on Sunday you know they should have left after their game that they had Sunday
[00:45:04] she's like listen honey I love you but the bags are packed I gotta go to London so we can
[00:45:08] acclimate sleep at least let me hell even get to see the city get to go see another country
[00:45:14] like I know it's all about football but if you're gonna put them go to London like so I'm gonna
[00:45:19] fly here on Friday and play a game whatever I want to see something because you're not gonna
[00:45:23] be able to stay on Monday at least fly out there Tuesday so how you feeling about this
[00:45:29] Baltimore Kansas City to get us started I wish it was Houston Kansas City I like the idea of
[00:45:37] no one ever you don't think the upright the the the upstart team versus the
[00:45:46] you know the the champion is not a good because that's what she did in the early season I think
[00:45:51] the MVP versus the Super Bowl MVP gets the computers Putin nah I don't think so because like
[00:45:58] I I I would I wanted Houston versus Kansas City so when I saw it was Baltimore Kansas City
[00:46:07] it felt like a bit of a letdown I'm gonna watch obviously but I would have liked the scene the
[00:46:13] young I would like to see the young guy like yo can he can he come out and beat the champs
[00:46:20] because everyone you know Houston is rising up the odds especially after they see these free
[00:46:26] agent signings and these trades that they made if that if that meshes if they can get mixing and
[00:46:31] digs and tank Dell and uh what's the other guy's name Nico Collins if that offense can get the
[00:46:38] rolling and then you got your defensive players pieces you add if that gets going then they're
[00:46:44] only gonna rise in their Super Bowl odds I would have liked to see them match up against
[00:46:49] the Super Bowl champion because that's that's the story I've always been I've always been
[00:46:55] team just give me the Super Bowl rematch you know especially with these two teams that we're
[00:47:03] talking about you know what I mean like San Francisco and Kansas City I think that would
[00:47:07] have been the perfect week one for me just for two five but uh but I get it you know
[00:47:12] not everybody feels that way yeah but I'm also but I'm also the battle that I'm looking
[00:47:16] forward to is Bo Nix against Zach Wilson that's the battle that I'm looking forward to
[00:47:23] I don't know Zach like let's see it quarterback whisperer he's close he's closer to home
[00:47:31] you know being in Colorado so maybe he can get more family at the games things like that bro
[00:47:38] he in trouble because Colorado is the most fit state so it's just fit milfs everywhere
[00:47:43] yo maybe it might it might fire him up he might be he gonna roll left and throw that
[00:47:49] will be going and it's gonna be in the in the air because he's gonna be hanging out with the
[00:47:54] big hurt doing those eugenic commercials don't appreciate it too yeah so I mean
[00:48:02] you know I don't know who I don't think the quarterback whisperer is that at all you know
[00:48:08] how I feel about uh Mr. Sean Payton over there I still know what you what we expect from
[00:48:16] Sean Payton and the Bo Nix relationship because we haven't seen Sean Payton mold the quarterback
[00:48:25] ever Drew Brees came as a finished product like he when Drew Brees wasn't there yeah he had
[00:48:32] James Winston for a few games but James was a number one pick Heisman Trophy winner national
[00:48:39] championship like he was James is a good quarterback granted he threw a lot of interceptions
[00:48:43] but I don't think he did anything to make it wasn't like that transformation that Andy Reid
[00:48:48] did with Michael Vick yeah they got the Philly and then all of a sudden it was like oh Vick
[00:48:55] standing in the pocket throwing deep post routes in the Tampa too and completing them like he
[00:49:00] didn't do that at all in Atlanta I don't think James did anything different when he was being
[00:49:04] coached by Sean Payton other than this y'all talking all this shit about Deshaun Watson
[00:49:11] in Cleveland don't let James come out there and bury the Steelers you know uh but then
[00:49:17] but then we got our Netflix uh Christmas game you know we first it was boycott Peacock now
[00:49:24] it's boycott Netflix I guess you know uh Kansas City and Pittsburgh on Christmas
[00:49:30] I like the matchup you know but I guess the NFL everybody's getting a little bit of the money
[00:49:36] so that's what I was thinking about earlier I was listening to a money is coming in crazy
[00:49:41] from yeah I was listening to uh I want to say it was the NFL showing the ringer
[00:49:46] I apologize if I got that wrong I'm trying to remember what podcast I was listening to
[00:49:51] but they were bringing up like how pissed are you if you are uh like Fox and CBS like we
[00:49:58] paying y'all all this damn money and y'all giving the exclusive games
[00:50:04] to Netflix and Peacock while we stuck showing like more Aaron Rodgers
[00:50:11] yeah they're getting but they're paying like Peacock paid 23 million for the
[00:50:17] the Miami Kansas City playoff game last year which doesn't seem like that doesn't seem like
[00:50:25] that much like I don't know maybe because I didn't do the math on like the NBC contract
[00:50:32] or the CBS contract but just for Peacock to pay 23 million for one game I would have thought
[00:50:40] the number would have been bigger mainly because we talk about all these TV deals at
[00:50:44] all these these conferences are getting all these the NBA is getting NBA is getting
[00:50:47] 2.5 billion from NBC so for 23 million for my game it seems like a lower number
[00:50:53] I figured it'd be higher but I guess we did the math for the 200 I think it's like 256 regular
[00:50:57] season games it might be more now they added that one game but so if you if you did that
[00:51:03] math across the entire contract it's probably about that rate or maybe a little less and then
[00:51:08] they doubled it saying hey let us get this one game we'll give you 23 million versus
[00:51:13] side note that was almost my get it off my chest because I was like yo inside the NBA can't go
[00:51:19] Oh it's gone
[00:51:23] it's gone it's gone and what a loss what a loss it's gone unless they unless they really like
[00:51:30] that group but if you're gonna pay 2.5 billion for it you would probably want your own stamp
[00:51:37] on it I don't know if you just like if you like if you bought a football team
[00:51:42] yeah you'll keep the coaches to have in place for one year but ultimately you want to get your
[00:51:48] own people in it I think with NBC they could just start off fresh right when they get it back
[00:51:54] yeah so the the Jets roll politicians did you know like five prime time games they have six
[00:52:00] starting you know they're tied with the 49ers and cowboys for the most Atlanta got four which
[00:52:06] surprised me like that does surprise me I don't know if it's the if the Kirk Cousins signing
[00:52:12] really moved the needle that much considering like the narrative surrounding Kirk Cousins
[00:52:16] in prime time games hey last night he said my trajectory is to be on the field week one
[00:52:25] yeah I gotta you get they're paying him 67 million dollars this year
[00:52:30] I wouldn't even show up to practice
[00:52:35] but she's not benching me no one pays 67 million dollars for someone to hold a clipboard
[00:52:41] right right I'm starting he can come in out of shape he could come in and just all he
[00:52:48] does is put amigos in the locker room and not throw 80 passes and he gonna start
[00:52:54] oh man that's a good one you know so like I don't think that the schedule you know
[00:53:00] I haven't dissected it all the way down yet but I gotta look at it so I can see
[00:53:06] start looking at who the surprise teams are going to be you know both positively and negatively
[00:53:13] you know who's gonna meet expectations or who's going to fall short of expectations
[00:53:20] but I have to say you know I do appreciate Dallas and Washington ending the season against
[00:53:27] each other you know it should be either starting or ending the season and you know
[00:53:33] give me that thanksgiving every so often but you know I think I think the NFL is they got some
[00:53:39] questions to look at because I think like whoever did that Taylor made song for Drake
[00:53:44] I think that's who did the NFL schedule
[00:53:49] like they just put it in the chat and they didn't spell check it or like
[00:53:53] they didn't grammarly that shit yeah they just went for it no we're not good with
[00:54:00] well I'm not good with Perkins in the studio you know big perk carry on you know but uh yeah so
[00:54:13] yeah yeah like Falcons like like you know Mr Falcon you know what's your early projection
[00:54:19] to? Well they have according to the metrics the easiest schedule in the NFL they have offensive
[00:54:31] weaponry it is the complete opposite of the AFC North's I think the top three toughest teams
[00:54:40] is Cleveland I think it's Cleveland Cincinnati Baltimore they have the toughest schedule but
[00:54:47] that's there because they're out of conference and their end conference is pretty tough
[00:54:51] uh the problem is I think Atlanta could still start the year off 0-3 if not 0-4
[00:55:00] I can see that possibly and and that's and that's what I that bothers me because they got the
[00:55:04] Steelers fresh out the gate and I'll beat this drum even though I know it couldn't happen
[00:55:12] if they were going to drive Michael Pinnix at eight they should have just taken Russell
[00:55:15] Wilson for 1.2 million dollars draft the Pinnix and have him be the bridge guy and I would Pinnix
[00:55:22] like I don't understand why I can see that and they couldn't because I work here at an Air Force
[00:55:27] base and you get paid to make a decision like that and you completely botch it then you get
[00:55:32] on tv and try to rationalize it so I think that's going to be a problem if you lose
[00:55:36] the Steelers you lose it eat it's gonna be a prime time Monday night game Kirk Cousins
[00:55:41] the narrative you lose maybe he doesn't look good now you got the Chiefs coming in another
[00:55:48] prime time game back-to-back week and you probably are going into each one of these games
[00:55:55] maybe you have an advantage at quarterback against the Steelers but defensively you're
[00:56:01] at a disadvantage so that's gonna that's gonna that's gonna wash out the quarterback
[00:56:06] advantage you have because one defense is so much better than the other
[00:56:11] the Eagles same thing they're gonna they have like their corners they drafted two young
[00:56:17] corners they had two veteran corners there's no way that that group isn't gonna be good
[00:56:24] even if the young guys start and the old has like yo if the old has taken a stride
[00:56:30] they'll teach these young guys how to lock down Drake London they'll probably put one of
[00:56:34] them on cow pits so I just gonna eliminate the passing game then you got the Chiefs
[00:56:40] so you start out on three Kirk Cousins 0 and 2 in prime time games week four we got the
[00:56:48] Saints coming in people gonna be screaming for Pinnix to start and it's just gonna be problems
[00:56:53] it's gonna be the conversation every single week I want to last year was optimistic
[00:57:02] just saying it's not 15 and 2 oh no not 15 and 2 that was blasphemous last year anyway but like
[00:57:09] this year definitely like I said just I don't understand like I said the the main thing is
[00:57:15] I don't understand the quarterback move because I think every division game is going to be a
[00:57:19] toss-up so they could potentially go three and three in division not beating the Cowboys
[00:57:27] then they got the whole AAC it just I don't know it just it's it's setting up to be another seven
[00:57:32] and ten year where it should be it could have easily been I'm gonna say easy it they could
[00:57:38] have made better moves to make it a 12 and five year like we talked about the defensive
[00:57:42] tackles they drafted they drafted the defensive tackles coming off an ACL and then the all
[00:57:47] American defensive tackle goes next well to be fair to be fair we took that all American
[00:57:54] tackling he's getting a foot surgery so you know like we'll see how that pans out but I so for my
[00:58:00] guys I think I'm going with seven and ten I think I'm gonna go two and oh to start out so
[00:58:06] beat Tampa beat the Giants lose the Monday night game to Cincinnati even though Cincinnati
[00:58:12] is known to start slow but I'm gonna just keep it real you know they will lose to Cincinnati
[00:58:17] beat Arizona lose to Cleveland and Baltimore back-to-back split Carolina Chicago
[00:58:24] sweep the Giants lose to Pittsburgh
[00:58:30] lose to Philly beat Dallas at home beat Tennessee and then lose out
[00:58:38] so so so after the bye week they might get one of Atlanta or New Orleans but
[00:58:46] you know so at best I say eight nine at worst I can say six and eleven
[00:58:52] yeah but you're starting a young quarterback and it's gonna be growing pains I think every fan
[00:59:00] every team every coach and staff can live with growing pains I'm we're starting a controversy
[00:59:08] where it shouldn't be one like Kirk Cousins should just be able to come in
[00:59:13] play and have a good defense but he didn't get that opportunity
[00:59:19] that opportunity like you could have just kept telling Hanukkah is the backup no one's
[00:59:24] no one had been clamoring for him but if he had to play a game maybe maybe he you know makes
[00:59:30] a few good throws and you know Atlanta wins he's definitely a confident backup you don't want
[00:59:35] a guy who could start for any other team that needed a quarterback this year to sit behind a
[00:59:40] guy for two to three years it just the logic doesn't make any sense and I think if they
[00:59:47] especially they start 0-3 it's gonna be people clamoring for Penex and it's like the back because
[00:59:53] the owner spent 67 million dollars on number 18 yeah I mean that's the thing you know because
[01:00:00] by the time Penex does get in the lineup you know his face don't look like mine
[01:00:05] so you know that's the problem within itself but he's gonna be on the second contract by the
[01:00:10] time like he's gonna be a 30 year old getting at that point he'll probably get he'll probably
[01:00:17] get his own 45 million dollars a year contract because he won't have enough to prove but you
[01:00:21] gotta pay him 45 million yeah it just it just poorly designed uh I'm excited for the season
[01:00:28] though I like I didn't really think the schedule release was that big of a deal
[01:00:33] until like the last few years I started like kind of paying attention to it and then that's
[01:00:36] obviously we've been doing the pod but it yeah I think the Pittsburgh run is definitely
[01:00:43] that's that's a tough stretch it was uh you know being the old guy and everything
[01:00:52] I just hate all the spoilers man like I just want the schedule release I don't need you
[01:00:59] telling me who's playing who the day before the schedule releases like there was some dude
[01:01:06] out of the 242 or 272 regular season games there was somebody that had spoiled like
[01:01:14] the first 200 before it even came before it even came on tv hey remember when this
[01:01:22] remember when the like test results like for promotion would come out like somebody would get
[01:01:27] the excel spreadsheet and they would send it around before it came out I was an ALS airman
[01:01:32] leadership school um Pinnix gets respects yet but the problem is you're not gonna play him
[01:01:40] and pay another guy 67 million that's the problem like there's nothing I think Pinnix is
[01:01:46] gonna be a dope quarterback it just he doesn't does do anything for you if he's sitting behind
[01:01:52] a guy that you paid six seven million dollars to this year to play he can't you can't you
[01:01:57] can't get him on the field as quickly as he could be because you're paying 67 million
[01:02:02] but yeah I mean yeah at least Justin Fields can return kickoffs right or or you can bench
[01:02:07] Russell Wilson because you're paying them you're paying them a bugatti let's say you can you
[01:02:12] can bench them for that but yeah so ALS airman leadership school I remember because people
[01:02:17] would get the uh the test results or like the the results early they wouldn't let us check our
[01:02:24] email like from noon the day before because all the commanders were coming to give us all of
[01:02:31] our uh all the people who made staff they said we will kick you out of airman leadership school
[01:02:39] if you we catch you checking your email and we had we had the the desktops but the monitor
[01:02:44] was under the desk so like I had my hand just like chilling like this and my instructor came
[01:02:49] over he was looking over and he was like looking I was like you can I guess make sure
[01:02:54] you went checking email I'm like I need to check the email I look I know I made it
[01:02:58] like I knew I made it when I sat down like as long as I got there on time I knew I was
[01:03:02] gonna make it and I did he's like are you sure you want to be sure I'm like I'm 110 sure I
[01:03:06] made it and I did shout out to the spandallim air base ALS but yeah but yeah so it's is just
[01:03:15] like don't give me the spoilers just release the whole thing on Wednesday
[01:03:18] it's not like guys need to make plans the schedule is still four months away
[01:03:23] so it's not like guys got to make plans for a june 1st football game you got to give them
[01:03:27] a heads up it's like the first game is in September so just release the whole thing on
[01:03:32] Wednesday don't send it to any media outlets before Wednesday morning because they can figure
[01:03:39] it out get into them 5 a.m. Wednesday morning they can have their nine new one o'clock show
[01:03:44] it doesn't take that much for these guys to put their show together we say this is the
[01:03:48] thing though Mike this is the thing though as Russ as washed as you think Russ is
[01:03:54] all he got to do is be better than Kenny Pickett you know all he got to do is be better than Mason
[01:04:00] Rudolph all he got to do is be better than Trubisky I don't think he's watched I think he
[01:04:07] had a really good year last year I just think that Sean Payton treated him as if he expected
[01:04:15] him to throw for 40 touchdowns like yo dog your offense is not that dynamic I still like
[01:04:22] Sean Payton and I think Sean Payton said from the beginning he set the narrative he set the tone
[01:04:27] because if you look at the numbers Russell Wilson's numbers were the same as CJ Straud
[01:04:31] granted CJ Straud is young but it he did not have a terrible season they gave up 70 points
[01:04:39] in a football game not on Madden like in real life real life you gave up 70 points in
[01:04:46] the football game so I don't want to hear that that not do a Russell Wilson what I got to do
[01:04:54] you know but yeah like uh you know as far as if the old line is better I don't know
[01:05:00] you know but if they're not then as Mr. Lodge will always says
[01:05:06] Russ just needs to throw the ball and not hold on to it yeah don't hold on to the ball
[01:05:10] that's you have to be able to get ranked that way yeah they the old line I don't think they
[01:05:15] rank how hard the guys hit with their hands but they rank based off how effective are you
[01:05:22] running the ball and do you give up sacks well if you don't run the ball effectively if you
[01:05:29] don't call the right plays or you're running back like Nachi Harris I saw some plays where
[01:05:34] the hole was as wide as an f-150 to the left and it was the size of the Miata to the
[01:05:38] right and he ran right into the tiny Miata hole and got tackled for two or three yards
[01:05:43] you know you just got you have to have the playmakers offensively to make the offensive
[01:05:46] line look good if you're holding on to the ball it's only so long these guys can block these
[01:05:51] six foot seven super athletic defensive ends and these six foot four 300 pound guys inside
[01:05:59] is you you have three seconds that's it if you're lucky you get four if you can slide
[01:06:06] back but if you try to roll out and double back now four seconds is an eternity back there get the
[01:06:12] ball out I don't know what cleave with uh what Pittsburgh dig in the in the wide receiver game
[01:06:17] I don't know if they got a guy that that they can get the ball underneath I don't know if
[01:06:20] they're just gonna use fry moose but I just feel like what up Dave yeah yeah I feel like
[01:06:29] Russell Wilson got a bad rep last year because Sean Payton came in he let his check
[01:06:34] uh he thought his check was commiserate with this talent and the skill set and really just
[01:06:39] committed with his ego and it's gonna be proved this year when he's gonna have to bench
[01:06:45] boldnicks to start Zach Wilson or start Zach Wilson and then bench him for boldnicks
[01:06:50] and then people are gonna really see like oh Sean Payton is just Mike McCarthy with more ego
[01:06:55] tell him I said that tell him I said that
[01:07:02] Roman Wilson you know I like that pick up for the Steelers but you know I think I just think
[01:07:08] that we're at a point where the north is just so tough that with that last eight game stretch
[01:07:15] that Pittsburgh has it doesn't matter if it's Justin Fields it doesn't matter if it's Russell
[01:07:20] Wilson it don't matter if Moses came out of the Red Sea like they're going three and five at best
[01:07:27] in that stretch and you know they're I don't know if they're good enough on the front side
[01:07:33] because there's gonna take a game or two for us to adjust to Russ and for us to adjust so
[01:07:40] so like I said if Pittsburgh goes nine and eight this year
[01:07:44] so like I said if Pittsburgh goes nine and eight this year
[01:07:50] you know but they have the luxury of being able to be like all right well we're paying
[01:07:55] I think Justin's getting they didn't pick up his options I think he's getting on his rookie
[01:08:01] deals he's probably like 20 million yeah he's probably getting 20 so you're getting 22 million
[01:08:06] to the quarterback position and you can start either one of them and be better than Kenny Pickett
[01:08:16] yeah like that's that's the that's the that's the position that Pittsburgh is in right now
[01:08:20] like I said certain teams are just in position aware optimism is a realistic energy in their
[01:08:28] building I don't think everybody's in that position I don't think New Orleans is in that
[01:08:32] position I think it's kind of do or die for their car Dennis Allen with their coaching staff I think
[01:08:38] they're on a hot seat I think Carolina with the temperament of their their owner that's that's
[01:08:45] could be tumultuous right there because it wouldn't surprise me if he fired this guy that he just
[01:08:50] hired this year like when he walked in and took the hat off that dude's head I'm like yo
[01:08:56] you're a psychopath you have a dungeon it wouldn't shock me if he fired people if you
[01:09:01] think about Denver like I said I'm up you know Mopey Sean painting up all year long
[01:09:06] they're paying him reportedly I've never seen any new facts but like reportedly he's getting
[01:09:11] like 20 million a year yeah you got Dallas you know I don't know if Jerry's not big and firing
[01:09:16] coaches midseason but they are not on solid ground so I think a lot of teams went into this
[01:09:22] all season knowing that nah they're never gonna fire they're not gonna fire Pittsburgh
[01:09:27] fire coaches the man's never been under 500 well what I want to what I want to know is from
[01:09:33] the Steelers fans up in the chat I want to know how to steal their fans feel about Quinn yours
[01:09:39] because Carson Beck ain't going to be there and Deon ain't gonna let Shador play in Pittsburgh
[01:09:45] so Quinn yours is gonna need another quarterback I think I think Justin Fields is gonna win that job
[01:09:54] I think he's gonna win a job because I don't know if you can just look at you got two
[01:10:01] quarterbacks one guy's 5'11 good quarterback other guys 6'4 220 and he's like eight nine
[01:10:08] years younger like as long as his attitude is right he's gonna win that job because
[01:10:15] you see the smear jobs are coming out now about how like he didn't want advice from Nick
[01:10:20] Fold and yeah but Nick Fold had two good years it's like why am I listening to you
[01:10:26] yeah he had nice soil he had the 27 touchdown two pick year but for the most part everybody
[01:10:31] who signed Nick Fold through a contract Jacksonville still pissed St. Louis is still pissed
[01:10:37] goddamn Kansas City is everybody that gave him money is still pissed off him because
[01:10:42] he didn't do anything outside of Philly shout out to Carson Wentz for getting him that far
[01:10:46] and then the having the defense Michael Bennett all those guys like really
[01:10:51] yeah so I think Justin Fields can win that job and I think they can go forward with
[01:10:57] Justin Fields and feel optimistic like I said Washington it's good to go I think New England
[01:11:03] with Drake May if they can sit Drake May and have him learn from a professional like Jacoby
[01:11:08] Brissette get his footwork together whatever all like I say everything is going to come out
[01:11:12] I remember the first person that said anything negative about Drake May was Meryl Hodge and he
[01:11:17] said it was such animosity like he had a beef with him he was like Drake May's kind of player
[01:11:21] against Coach Fire I'm like damn dog it's it's February like he didn't say anything and then
[01:11:27] so I think a lot of these narratives are just being kind of painted by whoever has
[01:11:32] allowed his voice whoever has the megaphone uh so like I said it's gonna be a lot it's
[01:11:39] gonna be a lot of growing pains for teams but like I said the Houston you capitalize
[01:11:44] on your young quarterback on the Ricky Deal you made some moves uh it says he could play you
[01:11:52] don't want to learn. Fields is a good quarterback he I think he got he didn't get a great deal in
[01:12:01] Chicago but I think Chicago by their team did right by their team by moving him
[01:12:08] for whatever they can get for him I think they probably could have moved him earlier they
[01:12:11] probably could have called Atlanta and made a move earlier and got him home but who knows
[01:12:15] Atlanta probably still would have drafted Michael Pinnix after he got Chesa Fields
[01:12:19] so that wouldn't have made any sense either both Black Fields get throw better than Quiddel
[01:12:32] like type of too fast you know like Mike slow down slow down you know no I think I think
[01:12:39] that uh Fields I don't know who's going to win the starting job initially you know but
[01:12:46] I do think Fields will be playing before I'd say week 11 um Fields will be playing I'm gonna
[01:12:54] say probably even earlier than that especially with the like it's gonna be the it's gonna be
[01:13:00] the same conundrum that Atlanta has where you're not gonna have early season success and
[01:13:05] you have two quarterbacks I think Pittsburgh could potentially be in that same same realm
[01:13:11] but they are not beholden to stay with Russell Wilson because they're only paying him 1.2
[01:13:18] million Denver is paying him 37 is like he's still gonna get his money he could be a good
[01:13:24] backup I think you'll I think you'll be a good backup a good voice for Fields I think
[01:13:29] Fields would listen to him contrary to the reports about Nick Foles but they can make
[01:13:35] that decision quicker because they're not financially tied to either player and one
[01:13:42] player is physically more gifted than the other so it's not like you're it's not like
[01:13:46] you're benching like the way they benched Russell Wilson for Jerry Stenum right
[01:13:51] Jerry Stenum was is nowhere near a NFL starting caliber quarterback whereas Justin
[01:13:58] Fields is and he's bigger stronger faster than Russell so I think even benching Russell you
[01:14:03] still get an upgrade with Fields so that's that's I think that's a good position to be in
[01:14:09] versus being like a team like I said like for Atlanta Atlanta can't bench cousins because
[01:14:15] you're spending so much money on him and you have them locked in essentially for three
[01:14:19] two years maybe three yeah if Atlanta benches Kirk Cousins it's probably like week 15
[01:14:25] maybe 14 you know like the Falcons are five and nine or something along those lines
[01:14:31] and maybe you throw pinnacles out there just because but unless it's an injury I can't see
[01:14:36] anything earlier than that yeah so but if I mean if you look across the league
[01:14:45] there's a lot of games games on Fridays is games on Wednesdays is games what was it Kansas
[01:14:51] City's playing on every day but Tuesday or something like that but Tuesday you never know
[01:14:57] you get a you get a weather delay on a Monday night game they were uh they'll end up playing
[01:15:04] on Tuesday so so their schedule is crazy especially to be the Super Bowl champion
[01:15:11] I think they just want to ride just my home's popularity wave and just get them on TV as
[01:15:18] much as they can or is it about Taylor Swift God I can't believe you just said that on the show
[01:15:31] I honestly like I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure there's some kind of metrics
[01:15:38] I just want to see if she really boosted their numbers I think I'm curious
[01:15:46] or were we just gonna watch these games anyway or did you get 20 more 20 million more
[01:15:53] fans because she was gonna be at the game like I think I think it's interesting if they have
[01:15:59] that information case when I win again well it's tough to win again I didn't think they're
[01:16:03] gonna win it last year I picked against them every single week in the playoffs into the
[01:16:06] Super Bowl yeah I think I'm like I know I was so mad at myself too because I was like
[01:16:12] they're gonna beat Baltimore but I just didn't have the balls to actually say it
[01:16:16] I just thought Baltimore would keep it simple and just run the damn ball like run the ball
[01:16:21] and double Rishi Rice let him throw the Kelsey all day like I don't know if you heard but
[01:16:28] I don't know if you heard but Rishi Rice might be getting doubled very soon oh wow wow
[01:16:35] we're just gonna just just flood our show with plausible shadow man type moments huh
[01:16:44] yeah like I said I picked against them every week and not because I
[01:16:48] I didn't pick against them because I thought they were lacking something I or or inept I
[01:16:54] just felt like this team has a definitive advantage and they just never employed it
[01:17:00] well they didn't employ it enough like they panicked when they were down 10
[01:17:05] so that was that's my only thing as far as uh well I mean they went out and got their uh
[01:17:11] their next version of Tyreek Hill I guess and you know to add next to Hollywood Brown
[01:17:19] you know uh you gotta see if they call those plays if they call if they call those plays
[01:17:24] then and they hit like if they can get those deep crossing routes that Tyreek used to hit
[01:17:33] if Worthy can get open because we thought the same thing with Kaderis Tony Kaderis Tony has that
[01:17:39] I don't know if he has the shiftiness of Tyreek Hill but I'm pretty sure at their apex of
[01:17:45] their sprinting and all our runs I'm pretty sure he's close yeah they didn't call those
[01:17:51] they didn't call those routes well I think I think Snead is going to be the uh
[01:17:57] like the loss you know to me that's going to hurt Kansas City if they don't win
[01:18:03] well they they had corners uh who's number six I keep forgetting his name he got injured late
[01:18:08] in the season last year um so like I said I think the defense is fine they they play very
[01:18:17] tough up front like the defensive front your defensive front makes your cornerback looks
[01:18:23] better because instead of the quarterback having three and a half seconds to throw he has two and
[01:18:28] a half yeah so a lot of corners are good I think AJ Terrell's probably a good cornerback
[01:18:33] Patrick Sartain I'd say he's probably best in the league but if there's no pressure if there's
[01:18:37] no pressure up front in the face of the quarterback then eventually Devonte Adams is
[01:18:41] gonna work his way open you know what I mean?
[01:18:45] Patrick Mahomes is gonna work he's gonna work the pocket enough to where
[01:18:49] because you can't cover these wide receivers for six seconds but if you can get that push
[01:18:53] up front that's what Baltimore has been famous Baltimore it's like that's why I was so shocked
[01:18:58] that they didn't that Mahomes came out and was like 11 for 11 or 12 for 12 to start that
[01:19:03] game out because it's like they do such a good job of putting getting pressure on the
[01:19:08] quarterback if they just didn't do it this year or in that game yeah I mean Kansas City
[01:19:17] as long as they make the playoffs then they got a shot at this point
[01:19:21] I think some of those games I think they I think a guy with a tight hamstring maybe he
[01:19:26] rests a couple of weeks and you just go in you let Hollywood Brown rest his hamstring or
[01:19:31] an ankle because you know you they have such an odd schedule it might be something that
[01:19:37] they just kind of work around like all right well for me it's just hard when I look around the
[01:19:41] AFC because you know outside of Baltimore Son and Derek Henry that is a big deal
[01:19:47] you know but like okay I don't trust Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs you know Miami always
[01:19:54] fades late Kansas City owns Buffalo you know Burrow I guess it just depends on line play
[01:20:03] it depends on his injury status you talked about how he's injury prone you know nobody
[01:20:10] from their division is going to beat them in the playoffs so you're left with basically
[01:20:16] Houston and Baltimore standing in Kansas City's way to get back to the Super Bowl
[01:20:21] yeah I think Miami's Miami is like they lost their last five or six games when the weather
[01:20:29] the kickoff temperature is 45 degrees and under yeah so that's not good we play games in January
[01:20:37] Buffalo traded Stefan Diggs maybe it's addition by subtraction but then they brought in Chase
[01:20:43] Claypool which is just a big like your guy uh mvs yesterday yeah but so you got the drop
[01:20:52] sees and then you got the big light skin unproductive version of Stefan Diggs and
[01:20:57] Chase Claypool but yeah that's why I said that big and never get the ball like your six foot
[01:21:05] four two twenty two thirty like just go 250 and play tight in it's down to Houston
[01:21:10] and Baltimore unless Jacksonville gets abnormally hot they made some wide receiver
[01:21:19] oh I like that Dave I like that he's curseful yeah he might be in a situation where he might
[01:21:28] not make it to the season he might be one of those guys that get cut because just
[01:21:33] that's it when he went to Chicago I thought okay bet you can get you could be the second option
[01:21:39] you could put uh Mooney back in the slot and then you can just be the jump ball guy
[01:21:45] just a big body guy red zone target Houston I said Houston I said Houston or Baltimore that's
[01:21:52] that's the last hope to stop Kansas City from getting to the Super Bowl but then in the
[01:21:57] NFC you know obviously San Francisco got to the Super Bowl last year you know you got Detroit
[01:22:03] that was a half away you know we'll see what Jordan Love can do in year two uh you got uh
[01:22:12] the Rams are always going to be tough Big V is always going to have a game plan
[01:22:16] you know Philly has the talent we got to see if they can put it together mentally
[01:22:21] Dallas you know they got the quarterback you know can the rest of the team follow his lead
[01:22:28] so San Francisco's road is probably a little harder than Kansas City get back to the
[01:22:33] Super Bowl I don't know how happy I know I don't know if happiness is a requirement to be
[01:22:39] a good football team but like I think it kind of factors in the cohesion the fact that both
[01:22:43] of their top receiver's you had on a trading block openly we all knew about it even even
[01:22:49] John Lynch admitted that he was like yeah we're past that now so that's definitely
[01:22:55] and like something else so you don't want to pay me but you're ready to trade me
[01:23:00] and you couldn't trade me now you want me to come back here and play my heart out
[01:23:04] it's right I think that could be tough you got to settle some of this stuff like teams need to
[01:23:09] get out of their own way like I was talking about this at work this morning is like I think
[01:23:13] sometimes we sit here and we see that these GMs are in position in these coaches and we
[01:23:18] think we got they got there because of their intellectual attributes sometimes it's just a
[01:23:22] matter of just being in these right jobs and you just get promoted up there's no way that I'm
[01:23:28] going into a football season after I lose the Super Bowl and I put both my wide receivers
[01:23:33] on a trading block it's known and I have a quarterback that's relies heavily on getting
[01:23:39] the ball to those two guys quickly and I don't pay one of them but I put them up both on the
[01:23:44] trading block and then I don't make it just it just doesn't seem like you're going to be
[01:23:49] able just to convince them hey we're playing for the greater good I'm like no we're we also
[01:23:54] play to get paid we also play for respect and if you're willing to trade me but not pay me
[01:24:01] and then you didn't get a good enough deal that you felt was respectful for my talent
[01:24:05] but you still don't want to pay me like how you expect me just to go because
[01:24:08] Brock Purdy is going to get paid we all know it the conversation already been had
[01:24:15] like the owner has already said he expects to pay Brock Purdy's like that's a good problem
[01:24:20] to have when you have to pay a really good quarterback so everyone in locker room knows
[01:24:25] right now you know Debo Samuels knows this guy's gonna get a bag and you are willing to trade me
[01:24:33] versus pay me that's that's gonna be tough because in those games where
[01:24:40] you need that final drive or you you need a guy you need someone to make a tough contestant
[01:24:45] catch does he get alligator arms or does he not run hard or you know they go down two
[01:24:54] touchdowns do guys say you know my hamstrings tighten up I mean these people are human and
[01:25:01] you're treating them like commodities you know and they get upset if they act like it
[01:25:09] yep so yeah I you know I I do think that Kansas City schedule may hurt them during the
[01:25:17] regular season you know as far as getting home field advantage or something along those lines
[01:25:23] but once the playoff start it's basically until further notice so until somebody beats Kansas
[01:25:31] City what you want me to do that team had no business winning the Super Bowl last year
[01:25:40] not even a little bit you know said no no business went into Super Bowl last year
[01:25:45] you know what I mean but when you have the best doing it you know
[01:25:49] got Brett the Hitman hard out there the best there was the best there is and the best
[01:25:53] there ever will be out there it just kind of happens that way but you know as the season goes
[01:25:58] on though we'll see what Baltimore does uh you know they did lose Gus Edwards so we'll see what
[01:26:05] they have behind Derek Henry you know because you know he is coming up on 30 if he's not
[01:26:13] already so you know I don't know if this year is going to be the decline but I brought
[01:26:19] it up I got to bring it up one more time you know he finished second to Christian McAfee
[01:26:23] in Russian this year which sounds awesome until you take out the fact that Christian McAfee had
[01:26:30] eight more carries but 290 more yards so you know yeah but you gotta also factor in Will
[01:26:37] Levin's place for many of those games and it's like I got it's eight dudes in the box
[01:26:41] there's an old man but Adrian Peterson was running with eight men in the box all the time
[01:26:47] right he'll ran for 296 yards still NFL record with Christian Ponder at quarterback and Tavares
[01:26:55] Jackson so watch your mouth a little Florida State guy I remember when he got drafted I was like
[01:27:00] how I know I was saying the same thing yeah like yeah when they utilize and they can't
[01:27:07] I don't know how either one of them got drafted yeah so they said the AFC
[01:27:15] there's got to be a surprise we talk about every year now with 14 teams making the playoffs
[01:27:19] the team's going worse the first in division I believe we go around the jets were definitely
[01:27:26] worse than the AFC East they have been getting their quarterback back regardless how you feel
[01:27:32] about Aaron Rodgers and his you know being eccentric so forth and so on he uh he is a
[01:27:38] he is a top quarterback in the league granny hasn't thrown for 300 yards in 23 games but
[01:27:43] I'm pretty sure he'll get an opportunity uh so they have an opportunity to go worse the first
[01:27:49] uh believe Carolina does not because they gave it to us draft capital
[01:27:56] if they think they think they get their first round pick next year so
[01:28:02] hopefully Bryce Young could do something I think this year let's see what the the Saints
[01:28:07] finish last right now Carolina oh I'm sorry Carolina yeah Carolina Carolina Atlanta Saints
[01:28:15] and then Tampa Bay won it that's right um so who who went last in the AFC South Tennessee
[01:28:24] Tennessee they have an opportunity to win the division because I mean a lot of this is
[01:28:28] toss-ups so nothing else they made moves yeah they made moves they have a reason to feel
[01:28:33] optimistic yeah like they lost Derek Henry you know but they bought in Bradley they brought in
[01:28:39] Snead yeah they brought in Pollard so to go along with Tajay Spears and I love Tajay Spears
[01:28:48] so uh so like they're moving in the right direction you know um when you look at
[01:28:54] the AFC West you know like it's Kansas City until further notice um the Broncos
[01:29:06] you know nothing left to say yeah you know we don't know that actually
[01:29:13] actually you know be on the lookout you know speaking of
[01:29:18] the
[01:29:27] you remember that year when Pittsburgh was the worst 11-0 team in NFL history
[01:29:32] guess who took care of that who took care of that you know but uh yeah so you got that
[01:29:40] um you know I think that Arizona doesn't have a chance to go from worst to first
[01:29:48] you know um that's really it I mean I guess technically Cincinnati finished last
[01:29:59] yeah but but I still think they're missing stuff you know uh yeah so basically the Jets
[01:30:09] maybe the Titans I doubt it though but yeah Jets, Titans we'll throw Cardinals in there because
[01:30:18] unless we want to say unless you want to be bold and say that the Bears got a chance
[01:30:25] I think they do because I think Dan Campbell will go for two to go up nine or some silly
[01:30:30] shit like that instead of just instead of just kicking a extra point going up eight
[01:30:36] like I think he'll do something like uh we're up seven let's go for two and go
[01:30:42] yeah so we're up to possession with two minutes left and you know Jared golf just got paid
[01:30:47] Jared golf got paid, Caleb Williams he has the targets we want to know if he could play on
[01:30:53] schedule we don't know because USC he seemed to be running for his life a lot but he was
[01:30:56] making a lot of very accurate throws yeah so we'll see and they seem to love him in the
[01:31:02] building already I think he seems to love being the Bears quarterback he seems to really kind of
[01:31:07] he already told the punter don't expect to be on the field much this year that much yeah so
[01:31:12] I like it and like I said I like I like how they matched his they matched his talent with
[01:31:19] their moves like I think they because we all knew they were going to get the number one
[01:31:23] pick because Carolina was was terrible for so long right I like how they bolstered the
[01:31:28] defense last year with some trades and then they went out and made like moves offensively
[01:31:35] knowing that we're bringing in a young quarterback you know he went out and got uh
[01:31:41] a doomsday you know so you ready for you ready for this one Mr Logical let's hear it I'm not
[01:31:47] even going to say anything I'm just gonna put it on the screen and I'm gonna let you react
[01:31:51] ready yeah three two god
[01:32:03] come on mike Johnny football we all knew that Johnny Mandel was out there winging it he was
[01:32:15] partying all the time he was his off the field antics led to him not being a success
[01:32:22] on the field and he said it in many interviews I don't think Caleb Williams is that same person
[01:32:28] because the coaches would get that vibe from him they wouldn't talk so positively about him
[01:32:33] because we remember like last year with Jordan Love before he started Matt LaFleur wasn't saying
[01:32:37] much it was a lot of like mums the word kind of conversations but these guys are flat out
[01:32:43] they're interviewing Caleb he's talking he's on different podcasts you can see it's a
[01:32:48] different level of maturity and listen we you can knock him for it for his confidence but Thomas
[01:32:55] Edward Patrick Brady Jr walked into Robert Kraft's office when he wasn't even a starter and said
[01:32:59] I'm the best decision your organization has ever made so if he can walk into an office and say
[01:33:05] that then these guys should be optimistic about like listen if you know you put the work in
[01:33:11] like listen you got to cheer for yourself I know sometimes people don't like it
[01:33:15] but you know how long you struggled you know how your back felt at a game you know how your hands
[01:33:19] felt when you got when it got stepped on you know what it felt like to be bench you know
[01:33:23] you know this about yourself so if you have come through and you rise out of the ashes and
[01:33:28] you're the phoenix that you feel you are scream into the mountain tops this modesty stuff
[01:33:32] is cute but I'm like now like someone told me like oh you're so cocky I'm like would you
[01:33:36] like me if I didn't have confidence no who wanted to be around someone without confidence
[01:33:41] I'm like listen sometimes you got to be your own advocate for your own talent and be your
[01:33:45] own cheerleader and I think Kayla Williams doing that I wish them all the best unless they
[01:33:49] got to play the Falcons in the championship game I hope he goes over 30 but that's neither
[01:33:53] hidden or there but up until that I hope I hope his confidence matches his output
[01:34:00] you don't think he could be Anthony Edwards brashing out spoken and then terrorizing everybody
[01:34:08] you know so I think you should like like I said I if I've worked this hard to get this far long
[01:34:15] as you put in the work there's nothing wrong with saying I telling the punter I don't think you'll
[01:34:19] be on the field that much like I said I don't mind I don't mind that kind of bravado long
[01:34:26] as you can stand up at the podium if you if you guys if you throw a pick that ends the game
[01:34:31] if you can't stand at the podium after a loss and you don't have to be jovial I get it you
[01:34:36] just lost the game but at least stand up at the podium listen we're not gonna stop my shine you
[01:34:47] can't like say you got it sometimes you gotta stand up and say we live in fame and go down
[01:34:52] in flames around here yeah listen off we go into the wild blue yonder you know what I'm saying
[01:34:59] but no like you know said I just think that you know um Caleb Williams if nothing else
[01:35:08] he has the weaponry around him you know so we're going to find out real quick if he's
[01:35:12] the real deal or not you know and it's real excitement it's real excitement we all saw
[01:35:17] Justin Fields face when he got drafted by the Bears it was not optimism in his face
[01:35:23] in his eyes it was simply not like we remember him sitting on his couch I don't know if it's
[01:35:27] because he slipped and he got drafted behind all his other quarterbacks or if he's like oh my god
[01:35:32] I'm going I'm going to Chicago at least Caleb is like excited and ready ready to lock in
[01:35:40] and he seems to build up being built a rapport and the fact that they got two top 10 picks
[01:35:44] at the same in the same draft that's what he just did when he got Deandre Swift
[01:35:53] so you know the Bears are locked and loaded you know what I mean like as long as he is
[01:35:58] decent you know they get they can at least play spoiler to somebody this year
[01:36:05] you know even if they don't make the playoffs themselves they could be the reason that
[01:36:10] somebody else doesn't make the playoff yeah so and that's you know year one I'll take that
[01:36:16] you know what I mean it is what it is yeah yeah I like Keenan Allen too like um and
[01:36:25] especially with a doomsday coming in you know since we're talking about people learning from
[01:36:30] other people you know a doomsday coming up under Keenan Allen you know is perfect it meets the
[01:36:37] timeline window because Keenan Allen probably only has you know two years or so you know
[01:36:45] at the level that he's at right now providing maybe one year since we're talking about
[01:36:50] injuries and stuff but you know but that but I think he'll rub off on a doomsday I think
[01:36:55] a doomsday is already going to be good so I don't think it's a hurt to have him around
[01:37:00] somebody like Keenan Allen they still have Cole Comet you know Deandre Swift so you know if
[01:37:07] like I said I don't want to do the year one thing but Caleb's got no reason to fail you
[01:37:15] know he fanned he may out here he too big to fail yeah and if you look at the first three
[01:37:20] games you got Titans so you got Titans at home you got the Texans and you got the Colts
[01:37:27] the Titans are running out a second year quarterback they made some moves so it could
[01:37:31] be a good battle there the Texans TJ Shroud is you know the next guy up and then you got the
[01:37:38] Colts Anthony Rich is coming back from injury and then Rams Panthers so your first five games
[01:37:48] that's a that's a three and two potential yeah you get three and two out of that and you play well
[01:37:57] you snipe Green Bay once you know if you could sweep Minnesota you cooking with gas
[01:38:04] yeah especially if Minnesota's talking about running Sam Darnall out there and not JJ McCarthy
[01:38:09] yeah you know we are you know you're seeing ghosts so you're already looking at potentially
[01:38:14] six and three you know just going off but that's not the order of the games but just
[01:38:19] using that thought you know that's six and three right there you know beating Detroit might be a
[01:38:25] tall task you know what I mean but all you have to do is do it once yeah and if they get
[01:38:30] depends if they get Detroit at home because you know so they get Detroit they get Detroit
[01:38:35] at home and they get Detroit at home in December it might be a little cold I don't
[01:38:40] know how Caleb is gonna play in the cold but Jerry Goff is a California kid you know Caleb
[01:38:48] so a lot of these guys you know Tua is from Hawaii he doesn't play great in the cold
[01:38:53] you know like I mean when you're at that level you can either play or you can't
[01:38:57] you know what I mean like or like you know like somebody like Tua
[01:39:01] is fortunate that they got the four by 100 champions lining up with him yeah but you know
[01:39:12] that's that's the thing that's that was a smart move by the organization they didn't get a bunch
[01:39:17] they didn't get a bunch of guys I know they had Chase Claypool in there as a big target
[01:39:22] but for some reason they still got Cedric Wilson in there you know uh they went and got
[01:39:27] Jalen Wright so another fast dude you know like Miami I don't know if it's going to work
[01:39:33] I mean Miami is the team that they probably need home field advantage and it's not even because
[01:39:40] their home field is so great it's just that you don't want to go on the road
[01:39:44] in those cold ass cities yeah you don't want to be playing road in Baltimore Baltimore you
[01:39:51] definitely want to go back to Kansas City again you saw what happened to get life again
[01:39:54] and you know so it's like yeah but yo that's right um only in the 305 but yo thanks for joining
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