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We've got Jalen Brunson going off

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for forty seven points. Oh yeah,

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It could be highly frustrating these

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NBA Playoffs games.

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Yeah,

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I did so

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well in March Madness and everything's

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coming back down on to Earth. I knew it was gonna happen at some point. I

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was hopeing it didn't happen to the ball season. That's

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happening now, Wh're like, I'm just getting I'm

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getting hooked everywhere, guys.

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You know, just it's bad.

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Bride it's bad.

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You know.

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I wish I was the game for Jalen

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Brunson of a prop way during the NBA

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playoffs. But I'm more like,

1:20

like I even know the equivalent is who's played

1:22

bats so far?

1:22

In say maybe it was Isaiah

1:25

Hartenstein. Yeah, they picked up five

1:27

files in one quarter and didn't well that's what.

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So Yeah, I had him over

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fourteen and a half points in rebounds, he

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had twelve when he got when he got his fifth

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foul, and they didn't come back in the game.

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Yeah, so there's that.

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It's six in the NBA, right, it's five in college

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basketball. So he just didn't play because they were

1:45

playing well, I think, and he's kept them out of

1:47

the game. But how about that atmosphere in

1:49

Philly? Those Knicks fans, man, I'll

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tell you what. I played

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for the Giants for two years

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and everyone has great fans. It's

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not a knock them. But the New York fans,

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man, there's there

2:04

there. Let's

2:06

just say this about fans in the Northeast are built

2:08

differently. They're just built differently.

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Man. I don't know

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if it's the culture up there, Yeah,

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the harsh winters,

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the rudeness, which

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I actually love I love going New York City

2:21

because guess what if I'm going from point A to point

2:23

B, everyone around me is going as

2:25

fast as possible at all times. Or

2:27

other places like where I live in North Carolina, they

2:30

you know, just kind of goes slowly.

2:31

You know.

2:31

I like the rudeness, like get where you gotta go, be routed

2:33

about it. Let's go. But

2:36

but I mean, how about that

2:38

that scene. Man, they're they're cussing

2:40

it and embad and and

2:42

and brunts, and I mean, my man, he played

2:44

so well today. And you know that

2:46

was a game where Philly was favored by five

2:49

and a half points or five points at tip

2:51

and was up early and then

2:53

New York just controlled the rest of the

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game.

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Yeah, they did forty seven points

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for Jalen Brunson. That's a new record

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for the Knicks. It broke the

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previous high of Bernard King. So

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that's the most points scored

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in a Knicks playoff game. That's what Jalen

3:11

Brunson did today. And the Knicks

3:13

go up three to one in the series. And

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I'm with you right. A couple of things like

3:17

Joel Embiid ran out of gas. We'll

3:19

get to him for sure in the fourth quarter. But those

3:22

Knicks fans in Philly,

3:25

because I'm getting ready for the show. I'm

3:27

watching the game, but every now and then I'm

3:29

glancing down at my computer and getting stuff

3:31

ready, and you'd hear

3:33

like a and I

3:35

would just think, oh, okay, something

3:37

good for Philly happened. It's like, no, something

3:40

good for the Knicks just happened. There

3:42

were so many loud Knicks

3:45

fans there it almost sounded like

3:47

the home team scored many times.

3:49

They're just that into it.

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It was. Look, we

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need sports where

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passionate fan base is essentially

4:03

hate each other. It

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is good for sports. Is

4:08

great for sports when fan

4:11

bases hate each other. And

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look, the Knicks I think would do this to anyone that was nearby,

4:16

but just happens to be Philly. Who the

4:19

rivals in football, the rivals in basketball,

4:22

the rivals in baseball, and

4:24

to be able to I mean hockey, right

4:26

like, there are rivals and everything, and

4:29

I am I imagine it's

4:31

this weekend game, quick train

4:33

over to Philly, and the

4:36

scene was awesome. Man,

4:39

this is what sports

4:42

should be. And look good old

4:44

clean fun too, right like nothing nothing

4:46

crazy, nothing harmful, just

4:49

fans they're passionate about their team, and

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they should be because Brunson, to

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your point, men, I mean, it

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was incredible today. He was no one else

4:59

the Knicks. No one else showed up, no one.

5:01

I mean, Josh Hart had been playing great three

5:03

points, I think four points in this game, and it was sixteen

5:07

eight forty seven, four

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eight one and fourteen from the bright off

5:11

the batch. You had a couple of big threes there, I

5:15

mean. And to go on the road and

5:18

win that game in the way they did. They were down twenty

5:20

seven to seventeen in their first quarter, Brian, Yeah,

5:22

they battled their butts back, and yeah, it's not

5:25

always pretty basketball to watch sometimes

5:28

the Eastern Conference. But I

5:30

mean, I don't know how you didn't like watching Brunson today.

5:32

It's incredible.

5:33

Well, And I also think this traces back

5:35

to Tibbs a little bit, because

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there's another side to the coin. He

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gets a lot of criticism for

5:42

how hard he pushes his guys, but

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this is the benefit of it. And

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the Knicks aren't the only team to get greedy.

5:50

And I mean this as a compliment when they're

5:52

up to one in the series, when they're on the

5:54

road, like they were down

5:56

in that game early on, and

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they never got lax.

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They just battle, battle, battle, That's

6:03

part of their DNA. So I get

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when some people are like, well, look at the minutes

6:08

of brunts and then look at this in the regular season.

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I think the criticism goes too far. But

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I think we don't look at the other side of the

6:16

coin, which is this next

6:18

team. They could have been content, Jeff.

6:21

They could have said, you know what, we'll

6:23

bomb away from three and if we get hot,

6:25

maybe we can win this game. But if not, what

6:27

Ebbs, It's cool, we're tied to

6:29

two. We still have home court advantage. They

6:32

got greedy and they took a game, and

6:34

I think that goes back to Tibbs

6:37

and the tone he sets. He sets

6:39

a tone that we are here

6:41

to battle, and that's what the Knicks did

6:43

today.

6:45

Yeah, and what I like about

6:48

what you said, I mean, Brunton had only two

6:50

threes. That was it the whole game, and

6:54

it they

6:56

just kind of they won the paint. That won on defense,

6:59

especially the end of that game, right, there was a couple moments

7:02

where they won on defense. And you're right,

7:04

And look, I

7:06

think we've seen the NBA at times

7:08

and I'm curious the final game tonight between

7:10

Suns and Tea Wolves. Is

7:13

sometimes, you know, the effort in the

7:15

games that you sort of don't need,

7:18

it cannot be there sometimes. And

7:22

I sort of appreciate what the Knicks did

7:24

today, right, the game was good, obviously.

7:27

I also appreciate the Lakers last night, Brian.

7:30

They didn't have to go that hard. They're not

7:32

beating Denver in the series, and I will say

7:34

they win game five and again, most of the games

7:36

have been close for three quarters, you know, and

7:39

it'll make the Denver pucker

7:41

a little bit, right, they don't lose it to Denver, but

7:44

man, and I'm a Lakers fan, and it sounds

7:46

like a loser talk being like, you know what, I was happy when my

7:48

team showed up. But I do appreciate

7:51

it, Brian, Like I appreciate the efforts the

7:53

Lakers, and that's the coach to Lebron have

7:55

given in this series, knowing

7:59

they're probably not gonna wait and last night,

8:01

you know, they could have did one, two, three, Galvinston

8:03

and they didn't, you know, they they

8:06

went and played their butts off. And I'm

8:08

curious about again Phoenix tonight, who

8:10

Minnesota has just dominated

8:14

for three games. To put it, put it easily

8:16

for everyone, and the effort that they're going to show

8:18

tonight, because we've seen a lot of sort of bad basketball

8:21

in the playoffs a little bit with some of these blowouts.

8:24

But the Knicks didn't pack it in today.

8:27

They were down early. They could have. And the Lakers last

8:29

night I thought were super impressive, and it went against a Nuggets

8:31

team that what they had beaten thirteen

8:33

times in ever anything, it was fourteen.

8:34

Times eleven I think it was eleven in a row. But

8:37

still you lost eleven in a row

8:39

to this team. You're down three, right,

8:42

Like the competitor in you is

8:44

like, hey man, one game at a time, But deep down

8:47

you're like, we're gonna be the only team in NBA

8:49

history to come back and beat the defending

8:51

champs. And oh, by the way, we'd have to win a

8:54

minimum of two games on the road

8:56

at altitude with a game

8:59

a day off in tween from here on out

9:01

in this series?

9:03

Is that happening?

9:04

But you're right, they showed up and they battled.

9:06

That speaks to your competitiveness, your

9:08

professionalism, all that stuff. So yeah,

9:10

and I'm with you. It sounds like

9:12

like loser talk like it's

9:15

a or they say a moral victory

9:17

type thing. But it's real. It's

9:19

real what you're talking about.

9:20

It's absolutely real. And I

9:22

think I saw the number they had the telecast and look,

9:24

don't I can probably find I know, my buddy to put

9:27

it on on Twitter. I'm still calling Twitter

9:29

forever. But I think Lebron's

9:32

at the most thirty point games in

9:35

the history of the NBA in elimination

9:37

games. Now, he's played a lot of them, right, He's played a lot

9:39

of playoff games, so it makes

9:41

sense. But I mean the ability

9:44

for him and his age to just will

9:46

his team to victories, yeah,

9:48

is I know everyone wants

9:50

to have the debate all the time, who's the goat, Who's

9:53

I don't know man. To be at this age

9:56

and continue to play the way he does is

9:59

pretty remarkable. It's right here, nineteenth

10:02

career thirty point game when facing elimination.

10:05

Yeah, I'm pretty good. Are we taking

10:07

the over for game five? Is that what you just told

10:10

me? Right though?

10:10

Well, buddy, elimination the way it's going

10:12

for your boy, everything

10:15

everything, and then you know, you

10:17

know when it's bad when you're gambling,

10:19

when like the thing

10:22

you wanted to wager on hits it.

10:24

You know, it's always always that happens. You gets

10:26

kind of scared away from

10:29

doing it. But look, uh

10:31

no, I'll think Nuggets first quarter in Game

10:33

five. I'm gonna think Nuggets come out hot. They haven't come

10:35

out hot any games yet right that, Lakers have mostly

10:38

won all the first quarters. So

10:42

I'm gonna I think Nuggets win

10:44

Game five, but Lakers could definitely scare

10:46

them early in that game.

10:47

Maybe maybe I think if we're you

10:50

know, complaining about the downside

10:52

of gambling super fast, but I hate two

10:54

things. I hate when

10:57

my bet sucks for

10:59

that game, but the next game it

11:02

would have been great. Oh

11:04

that's brutal. And the other thing

11:06

is I swear gambling trolls you. It's

11:09

like, outely, I hate getting

11:11

hooked, like you said, losing by one point

11:14

that's lame. But I also hate being

11:16

nowhere near winning. I hate

11:19

drawing dead. And there are times

11:21

where if you're like, hey, I'll take Dallas first

11:23

half just as an example, I didn't have

11:25

this, but and it's like, okay,

11:27

not only was I wrong, but the Clippers are

11:29

like you were so wrong.

11:32

Okay, I'll take the l You don't

11:34

have to rub it in.

11:36

I think Luca just looked

11:38

like Luca got hit on his knee again. I

11:42

actually just I'm fine with losing my bet immediately.

11:45

Yeah, I mean like it's being like I'm I'm

11:47

out, Like it is what it is, you

11:49

know, and it's being about Luca, MAVs

11:52

and Clippers playing right now. He clearly just

11:54

can't get any elevation on his shot. Not that

11:56

he's a leaper

11:59

on his jump shots, but that leg

12:01

is certainly affecting the way he's able to play tonight. And I

12:03

appreciate him, you know, trying to play through it. Oh

12:06

yeah, look, he just hit his knee on the floor,

12:08

got tripped up here. But he just can't

12:10

He can't jump, can't

12:12

run even right now. And so we'll see how this. The

12:14

mass are making a little bit of a push, you know, in the NBA,

12:17

you're at home, your good team, you're

12:19

gonna get make a little push. But Luca

12:21

just can't move right now, and that's gonna

12:23

obviously the effect the way they can finish this game.

12:26

Yeah, you're right, though, a long way to go in this game.

12:28

Dallas is only down by ten. They

12:31

were down by twenty plus

12:33

in this game, as Paul George was just

12:35

on fired twenty six first half points

12:38

real fast, and we'll expand on this. Speaking

12:40

about injuries, Joel Embiid is clearly

12:42

not one hundred percent.

12:44

Yeah, he just.

12:45

Ran out of gas. He had twenty seven

12:47

points today, I think only one point in

12:49

the fourth quarter. Yeah, and he's

12:52

affected, right, He's got the knee issue going

12:54

on, he's got the bells pallsy

12:56

thing going He's got a lot going on over here.

12:59

And he's still played well overall, but absolutely

13:02

faded down the stretch. And for the

13:04

Sixers, man, they haven't gotten

13:06

beyond the second round of the playoffs

13:09

since they reached the finals in two

13:11

thousand and one. Remember when Ai

13:13

did the step over of Tron

13:16

lou As the last time Philly

13:19

got past the second round in the playoffs.

13:21

It's been a while, and with Philly down

13:23

three to one, handwritings on the wall,

13:25

man.

13:26

It is and you know the big thing, like you

13:30

know, people will you

13:32

know, the usual things,

13:35

you know, get in shape and but I don't

13:37

know that's this problem though. It's the injuries.

13:39

And look, I don't know what shape

13:41

you want him in. He seems to be

13:45

fine playing shape. He just gets

13:47

hurt a lot. That's that's the thing that happens

13:50

with a lot of big players. That's the

13:52

they just get hurt. Man. I don't know what to tell you.

13:55

How many big men over the years

13:57

in this game have had careers

14:00

cut short but not even I'm not saying that, but

14:02

just thin get naggy injuries. I mean, get bigger you

14:05

are. Sometimes it's tougher to battle

14:07

your way through it, to fight your way through the older you

14:09

get. It's tougher to recover in these instances.

14:11

And I mean, look at it, obviously, look at your honest

14:13

right now. Is not gonna play tonight. Talk about Embiid.

14:16

We've got Luca tonight. I mean they just

14:18

it's big men get hurt, man, It's

14:21

part of the sport, and so

14:24

you got to try to build around them. So if it happens,

14:26

you have some people to pick you up, right.

14:28

Yeah, I know, it's unfortunate. It sucks

14:31

that Embiid is in one hundred percent. We haven't

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16:17

So the blind sided that would

16:19

be Kirk Cousins of

16:21

the Atlanta Falcons as his

16:23

new team selected Michael

16:25

Pennix Junior with the eighth overall

16:28

pick. Jeff, Yeah,

16:29

they go Pennix Junior.

16:32

What was your I was stunned. What was

16:34

your reaction when that pick was announced?

16:37

So a bunch of us had Byron

16:39

Murphy, the defensive from

16:41

Texas, at like plus one thousand to be the first defensive

16:44

player taken, and we were hoping he'd

16:46

go at eight because that was the you know, the thought Atlanta

16:48

was taking a pass rusher. They needed a pass

16:50

rusher, they needed edge rusher. But you

16:53

know, Lato Law two seemed a little bit early for

16:55

eight, which is ironic because he ended up being the first

16:57

defensive player drafted right and

17:00

at fifteen to the Colts, and

17:02

so we're sitting there and there were

17:04

two people that

17:06

I saw my time. One there were tipping pecks essentially

17:10

one of Jordan Schultz, who was doing it.

17:13

I don't know if you saw that. And that's the last name, Jordan

17:15

Schultz.

17:16

It's not the voice. The isn't the other

17:18

one.

17:18

No, the voice was not the other one. And then I think Albert Bert

17:21

was doing it. And so

17:23

I'm kind of refreshing their twitter feeds.

17:25

I'm at my son's my

17:28

son's baseball game too, by the

17:30

way, so I'm like, I'm not at home

17:32

in front of television, and I'm just

17:34

refreshing the twitter feed and I

17:36

saw someone like Pennex to

17:38

the Falcons, and I think

17:41

I did an audible gasp, like in at

17:43

the at my son's

17:45

game. I'm

17:50

still sort of shocked

17:52

by it, because there's

17:55

no good reason to do

17:57

this. So for those who missed it,

18:00

thank you for tuning into our radio station.

18:02

I'll tell you about it. Michael Pennex was

18:05

as a quarterback for the Washington Skis was drafted eighth

18:07

overall by the Falcons, who just

18:09

signed Kirk Cousins to what essentially

18:12

is a two year deal for one hundred million dollars guaranteed.

18:15

So there's

18:18

nowhere for the eighth pick to play right now

18:20

for at least two years.

18:23

And what we were hearing

18:25

from Atlanta, Brian is

18:28

we're going to follow the green Bay Packers plan.

18:31

So for those who might have missed the Packers plan, Aaron

18:34

Rodgers was there. The Packers

18:36

drafted Jordan Love twenty third overall, by

18:38

the way, not eighth as

18:40

a succession for Aaron Rodgers. But at that

18:42

point Aaron Rodgers, and you remember this everyone,

18:45

he threatened to retire every offseason, Okay,

18:48

so there was a thought that maybe this

18:50

was near the end of his career in Green Bay. He

18:53

also the year they drafted to Jordan Love,

18:55

the previous start, should say did not play

18:57

good. That was not as good as he had been in

18:59

the past. There was some talk about injuries

19:01

and whatnot. Did he wrote off two trickd VP seasons.

19:05

Not the same thing, Brian, Not the same thing,

19:07

No, definitely, Oh, Alex Smith, Pat

19:09

Mahomes the

19:12

Chiefs roster. They made the playoffs

19:14

every year they need a new quarterback. The

19:17

falcons of the playoffs are twenty seventeen. Again,

19:19

not the same thing. Alex Smith also easily movable,

19:22

right, they moved him very quickly to Washington.

19:24

Cousins is not movable. No one's gonna take on

19:27

Cousins salary right now. So it's

19:30

just it makes zero

19:32

sense to do it this way. There's no justification

19:35

for this, Brian, No matter what

19:37

they try to sell you on, it's bad

19:40

process. The process is bad.

19:42

Yeah. My whole thing is it

19:44

doesn't make sense to do both. If

19:47

you sign Kirk Cousins,

19:49

just roll with him. Roll with Kirk.

19:51

We're in the Kirk Cousins business over

19:54

here, you know. And don't

19:56

draft Michael Pennix junior because

20:00

he's not gonna play for a couple of years.

20:02

Yeah.

20:03

And then the flip side is you knew

20:05

Pennick junior was going to be there.

20:07

If he's your guy, then don't

20:09

sign Kirk. Just just draft,

20:13

just draft Pendix junior and be done with it. Because

20:15

here's the thing. Look at

20:17

the Packers. Okay, not the same thing.

20:20

In terms of draft positioning, we're talking

20:22

about an eighth overall pick in Penix junior

20:24

Jordan Love twenty sixth. Right,

20:27

So yeah, it's like three

20:29

times as much. It's

20:31

different. You're in different real estate. As

20:34

far as that goes, you could have gotten Roma

20:36

doonsay, you could have gotten another weapon

20:38

for Kirk Cousins. You could have gone defense.

20:40

To your point with Murphy or Dallas Turner.

20:42

Their pass rush sucks right, and

20:45

they're like, nah, let's plan for the future.

20:47

It just doesn't make sense. And you can't

20:49

take advantage of that rookie deal.

20:52

That's the thing with the Packers. Yeah, it

20:54

looks like it's worked out as

20:56

best as it can where Jordan

20:59

Love played really well last season thirty two

21:01

touchdown passes. But you didn't

21:03

take advantage of that rookie

21:05

deal. And the Falcons can't take

21:07

advantage of that with Michael Penix

21:10

Junior holding a clipboard for what two

21:12

three years, It's look

21:15

at the teams that made it to the Super Bowl. The

21:17

last three teams had

21:19

a quarterback on their rookie deal. It

21:22

was it was Brock Purdy, it

21:25

was Jalen Hurts, it was Joe

21:27

Burrow. All those guys were on their rookie

21:29

deals. It's the biggest advantage you have.

21:32

That's why the Texans are building around C.

21:34

J. Stroud. I just I hate that you're

21:36

negating your biggest advantage right

21:39

away when Pennix Junior isn't even

21:41

playing.

21:42

That's a fabulous point. I'm glad

21:44

you made it, because the

21:47

best contract in sports, in all

21:49

of sports, is a rookie

21:51

quarterback that is good, that

21:54

is good on that fixed salary.

21:57

Yeah, first eve ended up being really

21:59

the first three years. It came stretch

22:01

into four. But after three we're seeing a lot of guys get

22:03

that first extension. However, it doesn't

22:05

really kick into the end of the five years, the

22:08

first five year contract, right and so like, it's

22:10

not kicked in for a while. Even though they get a quoe

22:12

unquote new deal, they get just getting new signing bonus

22:14

money. So you have four

22:16

to five years to build

22:18

up that roster to hit

22:21

that window right before the money starts being expensive.

22:24

And to your point, we've seen now

22:27

even going back to Russell Wilson, ye to

22:29

Big Ben. Now that was before the rookie wage

22:31

scale, but the quarterbacks weren't making as much. I

22:33

guess it depends that was a long time ago. That

22:35

was like Sam Bradford making seventy two million dollars. Carson

22:38

went through the Eagles, right, Remember the Eagles team

22:40

won the Super Bowl he was on a

22:43

rookie deal. Mahomes and Brady

22:45

are the like the last two to not be on

22:47

rookie contracts and they have won in Super Bowls. It's

22:50

it's like, I guess staff for two right, It's

22:53

really hard to do. And you've

22:55

now to your point. You've now taken away a

22:58

couple of those years to

23:00

sit Michael Pennox like for

23:02

for again for what's the what's the

23:04

plan in the process? And then beyond that,

23:07

Brian, beyond that, okay,

23:09

is you did not tell Cousins

23:12

before you did this. Wait, looks you

23:14

don't have to. You're not breaking

23:17

a rule that the NFLPA is not gonna

23:19

follow a grievance. But it's

23:21

your franchise quarterback now that you just paid this money

23:23

to like you should that

23:25

you should. It's bad business to not tell

23:28

them what you're gonna do. They

23:30

also now have to worry about every

23:33

time Cousins has a bad game. Yep,

23:36

why is Pedix not playing put in Penix, put in Pedeck.

23:39

It's just not good for your organization.

23:42

No, Now, I'm with you, man, it just

23:44

doesn't make sense to me. And

23:46

uh for that's the crazy

23:49

thing for Kirk Cousins to have not taken

23:51

a snap yet, and this is

23:53

like his welcome to the neighborhood moment. It's

23:56

like he just moved into a new neighborhood and

23:58

the neighbors just egged as you know. That's

24:01

what it feels like with them drafting Penix

24:03

Junior, where it's like, how is this some

24:05

housewarming gift? Apparently

24:07

they had told him they were looking at drafting

24:09

a quarterback later in

24:12

like maybe Day three. Fine, great, knock yourself

24:14

out that eighth. Overall, it's that's

24:16

crazy, man.

24:18

You know, go back to the idea of process, right,

24:20

Like you sign Cousins

24:23

about a month and a half ago, right to a contract,

24:26

you start talking about that deal at the combine,

24:28

that's when those things sort of happened. Well, at the

24:30

same time, obviously you're

24:32

doing evaluations of the players for

24:35

the upcoming draft. You you

24:37

sort of had to already

24:39

know that you liked

24:41

Penix in my opinion, at that point,

24:43

you had to otherwise what's

24:46

the point of the whole process. And so it's

24:50

it's man, Atlanta

24:52

fans, sorry man, Yeah,

24:55

and then and then lastly too, but Brian, it's

24:58

also unfair. Michael

25:00

Pennix.

25:01

Who.

25:02

Yeah, Now, look I I we can talk

25:04

about where these quarterbacks, I think, you

25:07

know, how they'll play their their homes and their sixth

25:09

of them, we could talk about that. I'm not as high

25:11

on penex as maybe the NFL is, so

25:13

like, I just think this is I don't I wasn't hie him anyways.

25:16

And now he's going to a place that he won't play

25:18

for. He'll he's theoretically not gonna play Tho's twenty

25:20

six years old. He's twenty four. He'll be twenty four next

25:23

week. So he's twenty six.

25:25

Yeah, if that right. And that's the

25:27

thing is if you look at we always talking

25:29

about, hey, if you're one of these top quarterbacks,

25:32

who are the best teams to go to? Who

25:34

are some of the worst teams to go to in terms

25:36

of coaching staff, personnel,

25:39

like who you have to throw to that sort of thing.

25:42

I think Pennix Junior is in the worst spot right

25:44

here. I want to play. If I'm one of these

25:46

top guys I want to play, I'd rather be Drake

25:48

May with the Patriots than Pennix

25:51

Junior with the Falcons right now.

25:53

Even though the situation for Drake May is the worst

25:55

I think have any of these quarterbacks. So he's

25:57

the worst spot. But he'll play at least and you can kind

25:59

of you know or not know if he's your guy early

26:02

on in his career. So it's

26:06

just it's

26:08

bad. It's just bad process. Man. These

26:10

guys gonna get fired for this. You

26:14

know, the comment of oh, well, if we don't

26:16

have to play for four or five years, that's a good

26:18

thing. Then you wasted your

26:20

right pick.

26:21

That's right, just wasted it.

26:25

That's not awesome, man. And they don't

26:27

even get it right. They're not even looking at it

26:29

that way. But hey, someone who

26:31

gets it is Moncey

26:33

Bolangos. She gets sports,

26:36

huh, she gets life in

26:38

general. And she's she's

26:41

getting a MAVs comeback right now. That's

26:43

something that she does not want to get exactly.

26:45

This is what I don't get right now, Brian,

26:47

what the Clippers are doing.

26:49

It has been sloppy on both ends a little

26:51

bit. In this third quarter.

26:53

Definitely, the Mavericks are the ones who have

26:55

cut their deficit right now to just five.

26:57

They were up the Clippers at one point in this

26:59

game by twenty five.

27:01

Now it's just five.

27:02

They're on top seventy eight to seventy three

27:04

less than two minutes to go in the

27:06

third quarter. Paul George twenty six

27:08

in the first half, has not scored in the second half.

27:11

Kyrie Irving has come alive for the Dallas Mavericks.

27:13

He's got twenty three points. I am on edge.

27:15

I'm not feeling well.

27:18

I can't I am supposed to tell you about

27:20

other things. I guess.

27:21

The Knicks took Game four in Philadelphia,

27:23

coming out on top ninety seven to ninety

27:26

two. New York now leads that series three

27:28

to one. Game five is gonna be on Tuesday

27:30

in New York. Jalen Brunson was the one who put

27:32

on a show in Philly, a new franchise

27:34

record forty seven points and ten

27:36

assists. We still have two other games

27:38

in these NBA playoffs. First, it's

27:41

gonna be the Bucks taking on the Pacers

27:43

in Indiana.

27:44

Once again.

27:44

Milwaukee will be without Gianna Santa Tokompo and

27:46

without Damian Lillard. And then we end in

27:48

Phoenix with the Timberwolves trying to close

27:50

out a complete sweep of

27:52

the Suns. I can't believe I'm even saying that with the tip

27:55

off set for a nine thirty pm Eastern time.

27:57

Now.

27:58

In the NFL, this just happened to while

28:00

ago, the Houston Texans announced that wide receiver

28:03

Tank Dell was a victim of a shooting last night

28:05

outside of a bar in Sanford, Florida,

28:07

where ten people were shot. A sixteen year old

28:09

has been arrested. Dell sustained a

28:11

minor wound and has been released from the

28:13

hospital.

28:14

The team announced this information.

28:16

Let's move on to Major League Baseball, where the

28:18

ash Shows are currently on top of the Rockies.

28:20

It is four to two in the seventh inning,

28:22

the Giants on top of the Pirates three to one bottom

28:25

of the six.

28:25

The Angels have scored, but the Twins are still on top.

28:28

It's five to four bottom of the fifth, the Mariners

28:30

holding onto their lead over the Diamondbacks tu to

28:32

one top of the six, and the Phillies

28:34

of taking the lead over the Padres. It's

28:36

six to three top of the six inning.

28:38

And we also have hockey playoffs,

28:41

and right now it is a tie game between the Canucks

28:43

and the Predators. They are tied at one apiece

28:45

with about thirteen minutes to go in the first period,

28:47

while the Avalanche already beat the Jets five to

28:49

one. Colorado now leads that series

28:52

three to one, and after sixteen

28:54

seasons, Candace Parker announced on social

28:56

media that she is retiring from the WNBA

29:00

and the Clippers are up seventy eight to seventy

29:02

six. I can't do this, fellas ninety seconds to go

29:04

in the third quarter.

29:05

I am not well.

29:07

Back to you, man, I hear.

29:09

I mean not to be not to be mean,

29:11

but I mean your clippers finger's sort of used

29:13

to this.

29:13

This is very true. You're

29:16

not wrong, though,

29:18

yeah, and you're not.

29:19

You're This is the same old song and dance,

29:22

and you know what, I still enjoy

29:24

it so much.

29:25

Why is that?

29:27

Yes?

29:27

Yes, The important thing here is that Moncey

29:29

asked Chris Profett and I if she should tax

29:32

carry Rhodes after the first quarter roach

29:35

MAVs fan, and we we told her to wait until

29:37

after the third quarter.

29:38

That's literally what they did. Yeah, I really wanted

29:40

to and I did not. Good thanks

29:42

guys, than.

29:44

Those are good friends.

29:45

They absolutely yeah,

29:47

thank you.

29:48

There's nothing worse than gloating after

29:50

a good start that just

29:53

goes completely south. Seriously, seriously,

29:56

It's it's also worse when you put money on something

29:58

and you quote about it, you're well, we're not going to lose.

30:01

You cannot mention the game at all until

30:03

it actually goes final.

30:05

I did that with one of our friends, Russ

30:08

shout out to him. I'll never forget. It

30:10

was Perdue and he had

30:12

a prop bet on Zach Edy.

30:18

Was it the game that I can't remember if it was against

30:20

Tennessee or I can't remember who they were playing,

30:22

But he's like, he gave

30:25

us a screenshot. He shared a screenshot

30:27

of his bet, and what was it? Jeff

30:29

like points rebounds.

30:30

I think it was something where like Edie

30:33

had twenty eight in the first half or someone saying.

30:35

Right, it was just points. It was just straight points.

30:38

And yeah, he went crazy in the

30:40

first half. He needed like a couple

30:42

of buckets and I'm like, oh, lock

30:44

City, USA, And the

30:46

next thing i know, it's blowout City

30:49

and he's just resting and I'm like,

30:51

uh, sorry's

30:53

your bet there, buddy.

30:54

It might have been like Zacha game Tennessee was

30:56

close.

30:58

Yeah, he went off for like forty in that, didn't.

31:00

He Yeah, I forget what, yeah, I mean what

31:02

it was, but it was it was very funny. It was.

31:06

It was, yeah, you jinxed

31:08

them.

31:08

Yeah, it happens. I know you

31:10

had. I hate to bring

31:12

this up, but Caitlin Clark in the

31:15

final right where

31:17

against South Carolina, she scored like eighteen

31:19

points right away.

31:20

Oh yeah, and she was in the chain of being at half point.

31:22

Yeah, and it's just like, yes, this

31:25

is beautiful, let's go Caitlyn. And

31:27

then you know it was.

31:29

It just that's that's waging, right. I mean the amount

31:31

of times you get hooked. That hook you

31:34

know, it gets you. Man, it's

31:37

part of part of the way during life. But then you

31:39

know, the end of this game, I'll tell you what. You know. The to

31:42

me, the officiating in sports, I just wanted

31:44

to be even you know. Yeah, and they

31:47

just let these dudes play in the third quarter, the team

31:49

is wild, right, it's very very hectic, and

31:53

I wonder how they're going to referee the fourth

31:55

quarter because

31:57

again they're letting these dudes kind of get after it in

32:00

this this core, a lot of this foul shots

32:02

to crowd back into it. Look, if

32:04

Luca was one hundred percent,

32:07

I think the Masters will win this game. But he can't

32:09

jump. He's oh for six or seven from three.

32:11

I haven't checked the box score recently, but

32:14

he just can't really move and

32:16

that makes a big difference in this. He can't make he shots

32:18

from outside the keys. He's kind of limping up

32:20

the court right now. Back on defense, Paul

32:23

George has not done

32:25

what he did the first half. We talked Brian

32:27

over text message. How many points in the first half.

32:29

Twenty sex, twenty six?

32:30

Yeah, and his total for the game it was only

32:32

thirty eight and a half at halftime, and

32:35

I was gonna take the under. I

32:37

didn't and he ha, it's like three points since

32:40

then, so.

32:41

You never know what the fourth But the Schwartz

32:43

syndicate that was a good angle, absolutely

32:46

a good angle. And that

32:48

sucks as well when you're like, yeah, I

32:50

should have actually bet on that. I

32:53

just decided to pass.

32:55

I took mab second quarter and third quarter, so I'm

32:58

I'm covering my losses so far for the game

33:01

and we'll see how the rest of the

33:03

rest of it, the rest of it goes.

33:05

Yeah, well, it should be a good fourth quarter here.

33:07

We got Dallas trailing by

33:09

what four points as we head into the

33:12

fourth, Yeah, so you should get some major

33:14

fireworks here down the stretch.

33:15

I mean, the injury bug is just you know,

33:18

And I just saw a report that Jamal Murray

33:21

has a calf strain is officially questionable for

33:23

for tomorrow.

33:26

That was laid against your Lakers. Right, he

33:28

grabbed the back of his knee, grabbed

33:30

that calf area, right, little

33:32

ginger.

33:33

Math and ude, the calf is weird.

33:35

Man. The calf takes a lot of time

33:37

to heal sometimes. And

33:40

then turned into that. You know, I

33:42

think the Bucks were very smart enough to bring Jannis back,

33:45

like there's just no, it's just it's not worth it, you know.

33:47

No, I thought they should have shut him

33:49

down, and they probably will. I

33:51

think he's no, he's not going

33:53

to play in Game four, and well no.

33:55

But they lose tonight. They're ten point hundred dollars. No

33:57

damn and no, no, honis that should

33:59

be. I don't think they bring it back game five,

34:01

right.

34:02

They'd be out of their minds to do that. That's

34:04

the thing, man, It's a risk reward thing. And look,

34:07

if he's if he's healthy by all

34:09

means, but we're talking about a strained

34:11

calf, and he only missed the last

34:14

three regular season games. He's missed

34:16

the first three games of the playoffs. That's not

34:18

a lot of time to heal from it.

34:20

And it's like, if you're being completely

34:22

honest with yourself, what are

34:24

the Bucks gonna do? I mean,

34:27

really, at this stage, what are they

34:29

doing in the East. Are they just gonna have all

34:31

of a sudden be blessed with

34:33

great health and run through the Celtics and

34:35

route to a finals appearance? Like, come on, man,

34:37

it's not gonna happen. It's not worth the risk to

34:39

do that.

34:40

They're not. And so now

34:42

Nuggets with Murray, what do you do? Do You shut him

34:44

down for Game five and you

34:47

hope he's ready for Game six.

34:49

If there's a game six. Now, they

34:51

can still beat the Lakers without him?

34:52

I think you, oh, absolutely yeah.

34:54

Because you know if Tangel Russell turned into

34:56

a pumpkin again.

34:59

Remember it was Anthony Davis

35:01

was it last year against there?

35:03

It was one good game?

35:04

What horrible games?

35:06

You just was him?

35:08

Yeah, I think that's the way it is with Russell.

35:10

It would have been a good bet yesterday

35:13

to take over his points, over

35:15

his threes. Now I feel like you gotta fade

35:17

the guy.

35:18

Yeah, yeah. And so look,

35:20

the Lakers can make things fun tomorrow. It's tomorrow

35:23

day after. Yeah, I'll make it fun. Yeah.

35:25

I was, uh, I had gone to bed when he stranged

35:27

his calf last night. I was, I,

35:29

it's up for that end of that one.

35:31

Yeah, that's pretty crazy. The Lakers had

35:34

that firm control of the game. And we'll

35:36

get to that a little bit later. Coming up around the corner

35:38

though. According to Monsey,

35:41

that is right, three angles,

35:44

three topics, three opinions.

35:46

She will share them with all of us. Right

35:49

around the corner. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian.

35:51

Now hang with us right here on Fox Sports

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35:55

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36:01

Let's dive into this.

36:04

Corrine and now it's

36:06

time for Absolutely it's

36:09

not gonna be pretty.

36:10

According to Monsi, I love it. Ah.

36:12

Yes, according to Monsi, the

36:15

NBA has dropped the

36:17

ball again.

36:18

Oh yeah, I mean they do this a lot. But let's

36:20

be real, fellas.

36:21

Joel Embiid should have been suspended for

36:23

Game four today against the Knicks after he

36:25

pulled Mitchell Robinson down in Game three when

36:27

he was on the floor. If you didn't watch this,

36:29

this was not a basketball move, nothing

36:32

whatsoever. He straight up grabbed Robinson's

36:34

legs while Robinson was airborne

36:36

and tried to pull him down.

36:38

He wasn't trying to protect himself.

36:40

The NBA has dropped the

36:42

ball again because we see this with Draymond

36:44

Green, who is a quote unquote repeat

36:46

offender. But so is Joel Embiid. He's

36:48

a big dude and he purposely falls on

36:50

players. I'm sure if Robinson would

36:52

have been injured on that play, because he got

36:54

injured later in the game, the league.

36:56

Would have suspended Embiid. But that's the problem.

36:58

It shouldn't be based on the outcome, it should

37:01

be based on the intent. Today, in Game

37:03

four, it looked like Embiid purposely stepped

37:05

on Josh Hart's ankle when he was on the floor.

37:07

He has been trending the last two games for

37:09

these dirty plays. That's not good.

37:12

That is a bad look for the league. It's a bad

37:14

look for him. He's one of the biggest stars in the game,

37:16

but he clearly thinks he's above the

37:19

like law.

37:19

And now that's the league's fault.

37:21

Maybe because of how they've handled Draymond Green

37:23

over the years. But they have to they have to start thinking

37:25

of these dangerous non basketball plays

37:28

more seriously because players are going to see how lenient

37:30

they are and they're going to try.

37:31

To take advantage.

37:32

And let's not forget to mention that he's putting his

37:34

teammates in danger by doing this stuff,

37:36

because we know players out there will defend

37:38

their own. He should have been suspended

37:41

game four. And that's that's just plain and simple.

37:45

Yes, real fast, go bright, real fast.

37:47

It just makes me think of at a flashback

37:49

against Speedy Claxton. Remember this where

37:52

he kicked Speedy in the.

37:55

No call nood no and

37:57

again a repeat offender.

37:59

You know what I'm saying.

37:59

It's just he does it less obvious, I

38:01

guess, but I could not believe that.

38:03

I could not believe that.

38:04

Yeah, according

38:07

to Monsey, that's

38:10

you, Jeff.

38:11

Okay, what am I supposed to say? The

38:16

go ahead, go.

38:16

Ahead, bo you do it.

38:17

According to Mansi, the Lakers have no culture,

38:20

right.

38:20

We keep hearing the word culture

38:23

when it comes to teams like across the world of

38:25

sports, and each team has their own style

38:27

of culture. You know, the Heat's culture is

38:29

different from the Nuggets culture, which is different

38:31

from the NFL's Detroit Lyons culture,

38:33

but the common denominator in any culture is that

38:35

everyone on the team is on the same page and

38:38

they believe whatever script they're writing.

38:40

The Lakers have shown in the last four games against the Nuggets

38:42

that they have no culture. They let three double

38:45

digit leads get away. Their leader and captain,

38:47

Lebron James has blamed the refs for their losses.

38:49

He blamed his teammate for losing the ball off

38:51

his own knee. He's thrown one of the biggest tantrums

38:53

of his twenty one year career because he clearly

38:56

wants his coach his staff to be competitive

38:58

and be on his side.

38:59

There not on the same page. Nobody's on

39:01

the same page. D'Angelo Russell wasn't even part of

39:03

the huddle during the time out.

39:04

When Darvin Ham showed him support, he literally

39:07

said thanks, but no thanks. This team isn't

39:09

playing with any type of culture. In fact,

39:11

it seems like there's barely any respect.

39:15

According to Monse.

39:18

They play kind of hard the other night, though I don't know how you. I

39:20

mean, what are a team with no culture? Just pack it up

39:22

and go home?

39:23

But it's one game.

39:25

It looks it has looked bad

39:28

just on the sideline.

39:29

It looks bad according

39:32

to Monsey.

39:35

Yeah, I just think a team

39:37

with no according to Monse, would

39:40

have had a rough go of it.

39:43

All right, last one here. According to Moncie, Candace

39:45

Parker will be the first female to coach in the NBA.

39:47

Oh yes, I'm projecting this out loud, fellas,

39:49

I know what this is. Seems like far fetched, but it really

39:51

isn't.

39:52

Kandas Parker has such a great

39:54

resume from college to the w NBA.

39:57

She also has experienced calling.

39:58

NBA games, so she already she has a relationship

40:01

with the players. And the big thing for a woman

40:03

to a woman to coach in the w NBA or

40:05

in the NBA, excuse me, is the respect,

40:07

and I think she brings the respect.

40:10

She was a Defensive Player of the Year, she was an

40:12

MVP, she was a rookie.

40:13

She's done it all.

40:14

I think we may see her as the first NBA

40:17

coach Kandae Parker.

40:19

Interesting, it seems to be trending in

40:21

that direction. Whether it's her or somebody

40:23

else, at some point it's

40:25

gonna happen.

40:26

Huh.

40:26

But that'd be a splash higher

40:29

if she's the first, I'm I'd say.

40:30

It's gonna happen right now. I'm just saying, you

40:33

know it'll It'll be there.

40:35

No doubt. All Right, we'll get you updated

40:37

on the MAVs comeback to the tempt

40:40

and one little win and the positivity

40:42

is.

40:42

Overflowing, according

40:46

to Monsey, who is.

40:49

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40:51

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41:09

Jeff, you've got a good one. Here,

41:11

got a good one, Bruin With

41:14

the Dallas Mavericks, they're trying to come

41:16

back. They were down by twenty

41:19

plus points in this game looks

41:22

like an and one. Well,

41:24

it looks like a file. Yeah. Zubats

41:26

shooting a couple of free throws as the

41:28

Clippers try to extend their lead.

41:31

They are up by five and Zubats

41:33

misses the first one. Any in

41:36

game possibilities here, mister

41:38

Schwartz, syndicate any way you're leaning

41:40

here, no anything in this game.

41:43

I hit my wagers. I'm good. Every

41:45

person I've had today that I needed to get, like an over,

41:48

has missed multiple foul shots.

41:50

So it's just been you know, you

41:52

know, sometimes it's your day, sometimes it's not. So

41:56

No, I'm just gonna sit tell you to watch the last

41:58

six minutes and see the math can win with uh

42:01

with Luca and.

42:03

Yeah, man, and he's got five fouls. H

42:06

Luca does so not great for Dallas

42:08

with him being affected by that,

42:10

you know, lower leg injury and

42:13

uh, but man, Dallas is pesky. Just

42:15

hit a three. They're only down by three points.

42:17

Here, fast

42:20

forward a little bit here. You must be ahead of me. I don't know. I can't.

42:23

TV's paused. I mean they're just putting about

42:25

the floor right now.

42:27

Sorry man, Yeah, my bad

42:29

on that. I love when these games

42:31

when you can go like with the antenna

42:34

for local channels, because

42:36

yeah,

42:39

I'm like, oh, this is beautiful. I feel like I'm

42:41

a week and a half behind. When it's

42:43

when you're streaming something.

42:45

You know, I'm not sure I'm watching TV.

42:47

Oh you are.

42:48

Yeah, I don't know why it's a little bit behind you.

42:50

I won't tell you what just happened, Jeff.

42:52

You will see us go to rebound.

42:54

They're down three. I'm gonna guess that

42:57

they hit another three, or because the

42:59

way you just said.

43:00

That, there's a good guess.

43:02

Good guess.

43:02

I can't move poor guy. Man, he's

43:04

gotten out though.

43:05

He's still nasty. You know, it's

43:08

crazy.

43:08

What did he get the step back?

43:10

Yeah?

43:12

I saw, I saw at the end of the third quarter.

43:14

I was gonna think a Luca Live over

43:17

one and a half. Three's was like plus money. Oh

43:20

man, I didn't do it because I just he's

43:22

can't move like. I don't

43:24

expect him to get over that. Maybe it's

43:26

another one that'd be nice.

43:28

Wow, yeah, crazy, all right, we got

43:30

a tie game about four minutes left. I

43:33

want to shift things to your your Lakers

43:35

here briefly, Jeff, because they

43:37

won Game four. Nice win for

43:40

them. My favorite phrase in sports.

43:42

They staved off elimination. No

43:44

one would ever say that in real life. It's

43:47

totally a broadcasting thing. But

43:49

they're still alive and heading into

43:51

Game five. I

43:54

just caught something from Kendrick

43:56

Perkins, who I think does a really

43:58

good job at that he has I

44:01

enjoy his stuff, but he was

44:03

talking and he was like, all the pressure

44:05

is on the Nuggets to close out

44:07

the series in Game five, and

44:10

I'm like, what is he talking about.

44:12

I completely disagree. It's

44:14

just funny where it was one win

44:17

for the Lakers and all of a sudden, it's

44:19

just this overflowing

44:22

positivity of well, look at

44:24

how many minutes they've led in

44:26

this series. They've led about one hundred

44:28

and forty minutes. And they've had a

44:30

lead at halftime in every game

44:33

and they've led by double digits, and that

44:36

it's like, okay, fine, look

44:39

at what they have to do to win the series.

44:42

You gotta go to Denver and win

44:44

at least twice. The pressure

44:46

is all on LA to stay

44:48

alive. They're trying to do something no

44:51

NBA team in playoff history has ever

44:53

done before coming back from an

44:55

O three deficit. So for

44:58

one win and all of a sudden, all the pressure is on the Nuggets.

45:01

They could show up and be like, yeah,

45:03

Lakers, you win, and they'd

45:05

still be favored to win this series with six

45:07

and seven.

45:09

You also have to kind of think about the pace

45:12

of these games right where Lebron

45:15

sort of has

45:18

a kind of a finite amount of

45:20

minutes to give his one hundred percent effort,

45:22

right, And the first

45:24

couple of games, he chose the beginning and was

45:27

like, yeah, we're not gonna do that as much, right, We're gonna choose

45:29

the story of the end. And but

45:32

but in the end, Denver has won what

45:34

eleven last twelve for a reason, yep.

45:37

And it's because of that, right, Like, the Lakers just

45:39

don't have a guy. And

45:41

I know Lebron played well last night, but just like

45:43

they don't have a joker,

45:46

like a twenty four to seven no

45:49

matter what time of the game, one hundred

45:51

percent, not never

45:53

tire type of guy. Right, And

45:56

that's it's not Lebron's fault. He's again

45:58

we praised him earlier. He's incredible both

46:00

for what his ages. But that's why the

46:02

Lakers can't finish these games. Yeah, they

46:04

don't have anyone else to finish the game for.

46:06

Them, right. Well, it's one of those where I

46:09

just think that what Denver

46:11

has around Yokic means a

46:14

lot. This We talked about the Angelo

46:16

Russell, the yo yo thing, you know, where

46:18

he was over in Game three

46:20

and then last night in Game four is pretty good,

46:23

pretty good, And it's like which the Angelo Russell

46:25

is gonna show up. You don't see that as

46:28

much with the Nuggets. Jamal

46:30

Murray didn't play well last night,

46:32

but you rarely see Michael Porter juniors

46:35

just freaking awful or Aaron Gordon

46:37

just does nothing for you know what I mean? Like you have

46:39

that more often with the Lakers.

46:42

You absolutely do, so port us is not as good.

46:45

But it does feel like if

46:48

the Nuggets just said, you know what, we're

46:52

going to play for sixty

46:54

minutes or the first

46:56

thirty minutes like we do for that

46:58

three to four minute stretch up game go

47:01

on a long run. It does feel like this

47:03

could be a fairly quick game on game five, right,

47:05

if you know they sort of toy with the Lakers, they

47:07

play it at a pace they like, and

47:09

then it was time to turn on. They turn on, Like

47:13

I should have won Game two. They didn't.

47:15

They won Game four. They're down three to one, but

47:18

the pressures on the Lakers to

47:20

to to make the Nuggets feeluncomfortable

47:23

in Game five, right, but again, they've

47:25

won a championship, but they're not going to be uncomfortable

47:28

at any point in that game. They're at home too, and

47:30

their ability to score a lot of points

47:33

quickly, makes them feel like

47:35

in any situation they can come back and win the game. We

47:37

saw them do this in Game two, right, Brian. So the

47:39

pressures on the Lakers to make

47:43

the Mavericks accuse mean the Nuggets

47:46

feel some sort

47:48

of way in this game to get them off, you know,

47:50

off their confidence.

47:51

Yeah, absolutely, make them sweat a little

47:53

bit, you know.

47:54

And then if they win Game five, the pressure I think goes

47:56

to the Nuggets.

47:58

I could see it shifting at that point

48:00

depending on how Game five went down.

48:03

But still I would still even

48:06

if again the nuggetshit they

48:08

don't show up at all, it's the worst

48:10

game they've ever played, they lose Game five,

48:13

They're still heavy favorites

48:15

to win the series. It's like, how can the pressure

48:17

be on them? That doesn't make any sense? I

48:20

think. Also, Man, you could

48:22

speak to this too, Jeff, as a former

48:24

NFL player, the feeling of

48:27

running out of gas. If you just

48:29

think about from sport to sport, I

48:32

mean any kind of combat

48:34

sport like boxing, MMA,

48:36

that's got to be the most uncomfortable to run

48:38

out of gas and you could be

48:41

physically whipped, you know, But

48:43

man, you what sport is comfortable

48:45

to run out of gas if you're at

48:47

altitude and you're the Lakers

48:50

and it's just slipping away

48:52

in Game two, and Anthony

48:54

Davis is just like, I have nothing

48:57

left in the gas tank. That's

48:59

what's happened with the Lakers. I just don't

49:01

see how one day off they're going to be fully

49:03

charged for this one. But man, that's

49:06

that's got to be as uncomfortable as it gets to run out

49:08

of gas like that on a public stage. Being the

49:10

way it.

49:11

Is and with that altitude,

49:13

sometimes you just can't help it. And I played a couple of games

49:15

in Denver. You

49:18

you most of the time, you can sort

49:20

of if you warm up and get yourself

49:22

a little bit into a lather and kind of get that second win,

49:25

you be okay a little bit. But

49:27

it's it's once it hits you in Denver, there's no coming

49:29

back from it. Like there's no there's no way

49:32

to you. When you watch NFL players

49:34

there, they have the oxygen on the sidelines. I never

49:36

see NBA players together with all they

49:39

then you get it sells a little fresh oxygen. Yeah,

49:42

I mean, the feeling is terrifying

49:44

as a player right where you

49:46

you're given all your effort and then nothing

49:49

happens like you thought it would, like

49:51

it's supposed to happen. It stinks as a player,

49:54

and when you're in a situation like like

49:56

an altitude, then when

49:58

it happens, it happens quickly and that's the end

50:00

of it. Yeah.

50:02

Yeah, Do you have any crazy stories

50:04

of running out of gas and you're going up against

50:06

like a pro bowler or anything like that.

50:09

Uh? No, I you

50:12

know, I was never like you

50:16

know, I just didn't move enough to run out of gas.

50:18

I don't think, oh yeah, and.

50:21

Didn't move on.

50:22

No.

50:22

I mean, look, I'm sure I had

50:24

series where I have thirteen fourteen plays.

50:26

But here's the thing about it, though, is

50:29

that those long drives,

50:31

when we're tired, the

50:33

defense is probably more tired than we are. Now they

50:35

get to rotate and we don't. But

50:38

those two minute drives, like those ten play two minute

50:40

drives, you notice at the end of it, if

50:42

there's no breaks, no timeouts, not like

50:44

everyone's just gas. The defense can't rush the passer.

50:48

I don't remember an instance where we've

50:51

we've had games with injuries where we've

50:53

sort of run out of gas because we're injured.

50:56

And our season halted, our game halted, but not

50:58

one specific game I can.

51:00

Yeah, how about Dallas taking

51:03

the lead. They're up by a point

51:05

with just over two minutes to go. Kyrie Irving

51:07

has gone crazy. He's got thirty eight points.

51:10

He was scoreless in the first quarter, and

51:12

he's been in double digits in every

51:14

single quarter since, so he's

51:17

he's almost got a forty burger as

51:19

Dallas is looking to take a three to one stranglehold

51:22

lead on this series. That's

51:24

that's another thing we were talking about injuries earlier. Jeff

51:26

Kawhi Leonard out in this game,

51:29

also missed game one, and

51:32

he tried to get it out in games two and three, but clearly

51:35

not even close to his normal self.

51:37

This is this is a game you need him though, right because

51:39

you need that closer and Paul George

51:41

is not that guy. He's not been in his career. And

51:45

you know again, twenty six first half

51:47

points right and at twenty eight points right now,

51:49

So that underwent a hit man.

51:51

Yeah, should have done it, should have done

51:53

it. It was a great angle by you.

51:55

Yeah, and I didn't do it.

51:57

So look,

52:00

the Clippers have the pieces to win this game.

52:03

They're on the road. Who

52:05

does the ball go through? Is go through Harden, Just go

52:07

through to George.

52:08

It's gonna be Paul George. Yeah, he's

52:10

gonna go through. Do you think, yeah, he's

52:12

gonna be the main guy. Yeah, Harden

52:14

is more gonna be a table setter here, but

52:17

it's definitely gonna be the Paul George

52:20

show down the stretch.

52:21

And he just fun He's standing bounce

52:23

like just a perfect Paul George play open under

52:25

the basket, just just loses

52:28

loses the ball. Oh

52:31

jezu.

52:35

I was ahead of you, and I'm like, oh man, I'm

52:37

just gonna I'm gonna.

52:39

I'm gonna listfold.

52:41

Two middle fingers right there here.

52:44

Must have heard me on the court there. I

52:47

mean, they're like Triple Team and Kyrie and it's

52:49

not mattering at all. It's insane.

52:51

Wow, man, I'll tell you what a

52:53

couple of big buckets by the Clippers

52:56

down the stretch here. We got a minute

52:58

twenty to go. I don't want to ruin it for

53:00

you.

53:00

They must have hit another shot, so yeah,

53:02

this would be a big win for them. They can pull this one out, especially

53:05

up thirty one.

53:07

Wow, it grew all the way to thirty one. Huh

53:09

goodness, and they're trailing by a point

53:12

with two point fifteen to go, and

53:15

now they're definitely in the driver's

53:17

seat to win this game. What a crazy

53:19

game, man. Can

53:21

you imagine going MAVs money line

53:24

when they're down by whatever. It's

53:26

hard to time it out perfectly, but say they're

53:28

down by twenty twenty five, you

53:30

go money line, they come all the way back, they've

53:33

got to lead. You're like, this is awesome,

53:35

and then maybe the last two minutes

53:37

just goes to hell. That's just cool.

53:40

You should The cash out option is never

53:42

worth it, but this is one where you like, probably

53:45

could have cash out for a profit.

53:47

Yeah, and that's uh. I

53:49

feel like that's another way

53:51

to kind of kick yourself. It's

53:54

the cash out option. If you just let

53:56

it ride and don't get anything, you're like, I should

53:58

have cashed out. If you cash out and

54:00

you end up being right, you're like, I shouldn't

54:03

have done. It's just a it's a kick me option. I

54:05

think that's what it is.

54:06

I think I had to cash out this year that I did for like

54:08

three dollars, Like it was like a two dollars

54:10

wager that just wasn't gonna hit and

54:13

I was like, you know what, I'll just take the three dollars of zero

54:15

dollars. I cashed out like three bucks

54:17

just just to get off my ledger. I

54:24

went off the ledger.

54:25

Yeah you didn't want the l right there, I got

54:27

you, man, all right, I.

54:28

Told you this, young man. I did this

54:30

this year. I have recorded

54:32

every wager I've made.

54:33

You've stuck with that?

54:35

Oh yeah, every day.

54:36

It's awesome, man.

54:37

Yeah, I mean it's a lot, it's too many wagers, but every

54:41

day and then and then since March eleventh, we

54:43

got legal sports wager in North Carolina. I've tracked

54:45

dollars in dollars out.

54:46

So there you go.

54:47

Man, I'm on it. Man. You look, if

54:49

you're gonna do it, you might as well track

54:52

the wager and see if there's any. Like my live

54:54

wagers in the any postseason have been bad,

54:56

like I have to stop, but like

54:58

that's why you track them, so you know, no.

55:01

It's a good it's a good way to do it, man, Absolutely

55:03

a good system.

55:04

All right.

55:04

Right around the corner, Let's talk some NFL. Adam

55:07

kaplan FSR NFL

55:09

insider. He'll join us. Lots

55:11

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55:13

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55:28

the Birds Podcast, Jimmy

55:30

Hendricks fan, Right, I got

55:32

a mean tennis backhand? Do I have everything

55:34

on the resume?

55:36

Check out you there? Well, you know it's funny. I was

55:38

working on my backhand today. I have a Usta match

55:40

coming out. But no, it's like

55:42

the little intro with Jimmy Man, I've done getting better

55:44

than that, done a gatty, better than that top

55:47

shelf.

55:47

Well we go from can't get better than

55:50

that too, Maybe can't get worse than this. I

55:52

don't know what is your opinion on

55:54

the Falcons drafting Michael

55:57

Pennix Junior.

55:57

All right, so I'm running a piece tomorrow for Pro

56:00

Football Network dot Com and it just I'm

56:02

doing the first half and then of the jury once

56:04

picks one through sixteen and then seventeen

56:06

through thirty two will be the following week's column. And

56:10

looks it's nothing against Michael Panicks,

56:12

trust me, don't blame the player, blame the club.

56:15

That's kind of what I've come up with. When

56:17

you're trying to build something, you don't

56:19

have your first round pick already knowing

56:22

that he's going to sit for a minimum of two years off the starting quarterback

56:24

Kirk Cousins, where they're paying one hundred million

56:26

over the first year he stays healthy. It's

56:28

called team building. It's a term that's come up with me, like

56:31

with four or five people. It's kind of funny that

56:33

they all brought that up, that that when you're trying to

56:35

build a team, you don't decide that your first

56:37

round pick's not going to play. That just it didn't.

56:40

It just didn't sit well with people I spoke with, and even

56:42

some coaches.

56:42

Were against it.

56:43

Again, nothing against Panics, who's the first

56:46

round talent. I felt pretty strongly, you go in the first

56:48

round, and look, I'll say that

56:50

I'll defend the Falcons in one way. I'm pretty

56:52

certain that the Raiders

56:54

or Broncos or some other team would have taken them

56:57

if the Falcons would have traded down, so they

56:59

got their franchise quarterback for the future. But it's

57:02

certainly very unique and one this is your

57:04

twenty four for me? I don't remember anything like this

57:06

before, to be honest with you.

57:10

The future though, might be like three years from now, So I

57:12

don't know.

57:12

How exactly I know exactly. It's just not

57:14

it's bizarre, Jeff.

57:15

So I thought the Broncos had to

57:18

come out of the first round with the quarterback

57:20

and sending their quarterback room like they didn't have a choice.

57:22

They end up with with bo Nix, who

57:24

was the kind of last man standing of that group

57:26

of six? Would they have drafted

57:29

anyone that was there at six? Pennex

57:31

McCarthy or was Nick sort of

57:33

always their target? I know what they said afterwards.

57:35

We know what teams say after the draft, But do

57:38

you think whoever was there they were taking

57:40

that guy?

57:40

Yes, I do.

57:42

McCarthy know week in debate, you know whether he's

57:44

really worth being a first round pick. But I

57:47

put him in my mock for profablenetwork dot com that

57:49

he was going to go to the Vikings one way or the other.

57:51

The Vikings got him with

57:55

Denver.

57:57

Their workouts were great with him, but they

57:59

were just taking a quarterback.

58:01

Jeff.

58:01

You know this, And I remember talking to Mike Tanabaum about

58:03

this. When they drafted mat when

58:06

they drafted Mark Sanchez, they were

58:08

getting a quarterback. Like we could debate whether

58:10

Sanchez should have been a first round pick, that's not the point.

58:12

When a team says they're doing this, you can't

58:14

talk them out of it. They want their quarterback, they

58:17

want this settled. I remember Denver did not

58:19

come into the draft with a lot of draft picks, and

58:22

because of the push up for all these quarterbacks,

58:24

they had to do it. I mean, I mean six

58:27

in the first round, Six folks within

58:30

the top twelve.

58:31

Who saw that coming? I certainly didn't. Yeah,

58:33

that's crazy. If you think about week one

58:35

cap and assume all these quarterbacks

58:37

are healthy, how many of the six do

58:39

you think are starting Week one?

58:42

Drake May is kind of.

58:45

Because they've got Chakobe Prisado's a really

58:47

good probably, I'll give you the NFL's best backup quarterback.

58:49

May needs a ton of work. Talking to the quarterback

58:52

coaches and coordinators I've spoke with, they

58:54

all seem to agree that he's probably not going to be ready,

58:57

needs to be refined a bit, and it needs time to

58:59

develop. You know that New

59:01

England it's not very good at receiver. That's a position that

59:04

they still need to develop, not

59:06

a great offensive line, like they need a lot of work there.

59:09

I would say overall, he's probably

59:11

kind of far away. McCarthy

59:13

will start, No quote Sam Darnald so can be the starter

59:16

that's gonna happen, and obviously Penis won't play, and

59:18

then McCarthy, Look, I

59:20

think that's a good offense by the way, playing

59:22

the same offensive brock Party plays and he didn't throw

59:25

the ball that well downfield, but he's a great time in quarterback.

59:28

Everyone I've spoke.

59:29

To it doesn't like McCarthy does agree that this is a good

59:31

system that he's going to play in Minnesota.

59:34

So we ended

59:37

up not getting the trades up

59:39

that we thought we would get. Is

59:43

that more because of

59:45

sort of the draft complex

59:47

of the media beforehand we kind of hype things up.

59:50

That becomes teams genuinely wanted

59:52

to move up but just couldn't because we were told

59:54

everyone's moving up, everyone's moving back, And the

59:56

first round ended up not having as much

59:59

action, especially the top. But then I think we thought we'd

1:00:01

get well Jeff.

1:00:02

First of all, there was not a defensive player

1:00:04

taken until fifteen, and that guy Laatu

1:00:07

Latu. I mean, I know teams had set

1:00:10

ground grades on him because of the neck. There's concerned about

1:00:12

how long he'll play, So that's

1:00:14

part of it. This was not a great first round.

1:00:17

Other than your position offensive line, which is

1:00:19

phenomenal. With nine taken, they're all studs.

1:00:22

It's just not a very good

1:00:24

draft for overall talent. And

1:00:26

that's why, quite frankly, the

1:00:28

defense was not hit very hard other

1:00:32

than offensive line. Yeah, receiver

1:00:34

was hit a little bit, not very much. There weren't

1:00:36

great. It was not a great upper

1:00:38

half of upper half of the receiver

1:00:41

group. This is not what we call blue chip

1:00:43

draft.

1:00:43

It really was not, which blew

1:00:46

your mind the most cap You had six

1:00:48

quarterbacks in the top twelve. You

1:00:50

had the first fourteen players all

1:00:53

offensive guys, and then in

1:00:55

the first round it set a record twenty three

1:00:57

offensive players. Which of those three was

1:01:00

the craziest to you.

1:01:01

I still I couldn't

1:01:03

believe that the firs there was not a defensive player

1:01:05

take until fifteen. The

1:01:07

corner that the Eagles got, Quinion Mitchell, was clearly

1:01:10

the best corner for this draft. But he's not the

1:01:12

waves explaining to me, guys, is he's

1:01:14

not in the class of Patrick Sertain

1:01:16

junior or the sec whatever it is,

1:01:19

not with certain not Sauce Gardner,

1:01:22

and that's why he was He was sort of

1:01:24

like a rung below in terms of talent. But

1:01:26

he's a great, big time zone corner. He'll

1:01:28

fit really well. Fic Fangio and his scheme

1:01:31

he goes got him. At twenty two. Terry

1:01:33

On Arnold dropped as well. He went right after he

1:01:36

was the second highest graded corner. He went

1:01:38

to the cornerback Needy Lyons. This

1:01:41

is just one of these drafts guys that when

1:01:43

you look at it, and now I'll say this much

1:01:46

Byron Murphy I put this out two months ago,

1:01:48

is going to go way higher than people think. He's the

1:01:50

Texas d tackle actually put in my mock to

1:01:53

Seattle. He's really gifted

1:01:55

and he's a guy that a lot of people thought

1:01:57

had a chance to be a big time talent at the next level.

1:01:59

That's got to watch Bier Murphy the second out

1:02:01

of Texas to Seattle.

1:02:05

We ended up getting the I believe, the seventh

1:02:07

quarterback not drafted until round

1:02:09

five. In terms of Rattler, were

1:02:11

you surprised that a lot of people kind of had him

1:02:14

maybe third round, and he obviously didn't go there.

1:02:18

I thought third or fourth, Jeff, I didn't think. I

1:02:20

didn't think he threw the ball that well at the senior ball.

1:02:22

Some people on tape says he throws it really

1:02:24

well. Michael Pratt, who had a very good

1:02:26

week the Tulane quarterback, didn't go to the

1:02:28

seventh. I was told fourth or fifth round for

1:02:30

him. Yeah, it was kind of weird. But

1:02:33

the drop off, Yeah, in a quarterback star

1:02:35

of league, how does

1:02:37

Ratler drop as far as he did that That certainly surprised

1:02:40

me. If you go from round one where they're six taken

1:02:42

then not to a round five. And it was a very

1:02:45

bizarre draft. Let's call it like it is. I was

1:02:47

doing TV for Sports Guer Thursday, and I warned everyone,

1:02:49

guys, there are gonna be some bizarre things

1:02:51

here which are gonna be hard to describe.

1:02:53

Now.

1:02:53

I did not know about number eight, to be honest

1:02:55

with you, but there'll be some things that you're it's

1:02:57

going to take a little bit to figure out. And

1:03:00

I'm just I'm looking at it now and Xavier

1:03:03

Worthy is a great start, you know. I heard that

1:03:05

the sound clip before I came on here Xavier Worthy,

1:03:08

Buffalo not taking Worthy, actually trading

1:03:10

him, trading the ability to get him.

1:03:12

By the way, this is crazy.

1:03:13

They spent a ton of time on him, I'm told, but

1:03:16

in the end they didn't want him.

1:03:18

I don't get that.

1:03:19

With Josh Allen's armstrength, I look,

1:03:21

I get it, some people don't think he's that

1:03:23

skilled, and we could debate that. But

1:03:25

man, for a team that's not very good at receiver,

1:03:28

heck, I would have taken them to get I would

1:03:30

have taken them to get I don't get that.

1:03:32

Yeah, And it's one thing they didn't

1:03:34

know who they were gonna who the Chiefs were gonna select.

1:03:36

It's one thing for the Bills to pass on

1:03:39

Worthy, but now they have to face them like

1:03:41

that's you want Mahomes to have Worthy.

1:03:43

I thought that was kind of strange that the Bills

1:03:46

allowed the Chiefs to trade up. Did you find

1:03:48

that strange at all?

1:03:49

Cap I did.

1:03:50

That was another one of those quagmires in round

1:03:52

one where I call, I don't understand this. I have enough

1:03:54

intelling Worthy. I kind of know who he is as a player.

1:03:57

Josh Allen has never had anyone could really run

1:03:59

that well. Stefan Diggs is a possession

1:04:01

plus receiver, cat run after the catch guy,

1:04:04

obviously very good football player, but

1:04:07

Gave Davis was an inconsistent player, not

1:04:09

a speedster. A good possession receiver runs

1:04:12

well after the catch. But man, how do you pass on a

1:04:14

guy this electric?

1:04:16

I don't know. I don't get it.

1:04:17

Buffalo had of I know some people are actually

1:04:19

were praising their draft. Uh you

1:04:21

know, Kean Coleman is an okay player. I

1:04:24

don't know. Man, they only they only drafted

1:04:26

one receiver and it was with the first pick in the second

1:04:28

round.

1:04:30

The other team standing out to you is having a

1:04:32

good drafts field. The Chiefs did well for what they

1:04:34

did. I thought the Chargers did a really good job.

1:04:36

I know they didn't kill heavy wide receiver, but you

1:04:39

know, I think Alton mcconkee is better than

1:04:41

neighbors and whatever they're tackle they could get in the second round.

1:04:43

Oh yeah, the lat mcconkey's. Lat McConkie's.

1:04:46

He may go down the road as one of the top

1:04:48

three receivers for this draft. Who's got elite

1:04:51

short aera quickness? Joe alt On line

1:04:53

coaches I talked to, they all Greeds is the safest

1:04:55

offensive lineman. I don't think he's the best one though. Okay,

1:04:58

I only he's the best offense to line for the

1:05:00

stript, but he's.

1:05:01

A safe, safest guy. I think

1:05:03

Green Bay did a phenomenal job. Guys. I thought

1:05:05

they did a great job. Brian Kuonecuz

1:05:08

is terrific.

1:05:08

They got Jordan Morgan who's a multi positional

1:05:10

player on the offensive line, Edrean Cooper the best

1:05:12

all off the ball linebacker, Javon

1:05:15

Bowler won of the best safeties. Marshaon Lloyd maybe the best

1:05:17

third down back who could have a pretty big role.

1:05:19

With Josh Jacobs contract, they can get out of it after year

1:05:22

one.

1:05:22

I just thought they're really smart and by the way, they're gonna

1:05:24

be my pick for the win that division over the lines.

1:05:26

I picked the lines last year, probably back in May.

1:05:29

I feel super strong about Green Bay and they changed

1:05:31

their defensive coordinator, which needed to happen. I'm

1:05:33

super high in green Bay this season.

1:05:35

Okay, interesting, before you go, cap, I'm

1:05:37

just curious now that the draft is

1:05:39

over. I know you're gonna stay busy with the NFL stuff,

1:05:41

as you always do, but in your spare

1:05:43

time, what does it look like

1:05:45

the next couple of months, is it NBA playoffs?

1:05:48

A little baseball action? How do you get down?

1:05:50

Yeah, Phi Phil, I'm a big Phillies guy.

1:05:52

You had no question about NBA playoffs, no question.

1:05:54

I got crushed today with the Sixers.

1:05:56

That was a tough one. Outer

1:05:58

Banks for vacation.

1:05:59

Do a little bit to that, getting,

1:06:02

you know, just keeping my stay in better shape and

1:06:04

starting playing. And I'm actually, I believe or not,

1:06:06

I actually start planning my training camp tour.

1:06:09

I start finding out about the joint practice.

1:06:11

Usually in June. I go to

1:06:13

a ton of them. That that is. I cannot tell

1:06:15

you.

1:06:15

How much information I get, how fun it is to

1:06:17

see teams practice with each other. I love that which

1:06:19

happened in usually late July,

1:06:21

early August.

1:06:23

Very cool stuff. Man, go ahead, Jeff, what

1:06:25

do you make.

1:06:26

Of what Chris Ballard said? The cult?

1:06:28

Yeah, well you know what.

1:06:30

Okay, okay, okay, fine, let's

1:06:32

talk about this. We don't have enough time, but I'm just gonna give

1:06:34

you a Cliff Hunts version. Adie

1:06:36

Mitchell had some some immaturity

1:06:39

issues. I talked to multiple teams about a super gifted

1:06:41

player went kind of where he should

1:06:43

have second round. I do

1:06:46

believe there was a chance with the team picking i'd

1:06:49

say twenty two to thirty two, they would have drest him.

1:06:51

Had their their time with him going well enough.

1:06:53

I'll leave it at that. It's absolutely true.

1:06:55

I mean we could say, Chris. I know Chris personally,

1:06:58

I know Chris puts it out there. I'm

1:07:01

telling you that there's some stuff that's true

1:07:03

about Adie Mitchell, but

1:07:05

Ballard Chris versus hard and Sleep.

1:07:07

I respect that.

1:07:07

I have no problem with what he said. But Chris

1:07:10

could didn't you know it? You know it's one thing.

1:07:12

But see, I only saw the stuff that's in video.

1:07:14

I have the transcript, which I look at this week. I

1:07:16

may I wind up talking. I might wind up talking to Chris. We'll

1:07:19

see this week. But the fact

1:07:21

of the matter is usually when

1:07:23

like three or four people put this out, it's

1:07:26

probably true. And I know it's true that he had maturity

1:07:28

issues because knowing about this stock and receivers

1:07:30

coaches. He's not a bad kid, by the way, nothing nothing

1:07:33

like super bad off the field. It's just handling

1:07:36

social situations well and so forth. But

1:07:38

look, he's a he's a receiver. These

1:07:41

guys could be emotional and there's some stuff out there

1:07:43

for him. But that was fascinating.

1:07:45

It definitely was. Guys, this was a

1:07:47

very interesting draft and Chris Ballard

1:07:50

topped.

1:07:50

It off of that stuff.

1:07:51

Yeah, you really did well. Hey man, always

1:07:53

good to catch up. If he can't help you, have a good Sunday

1:07:55

man to see you.

1:07:57

Thanks there.

1:07:57

He is Adam Kaplan FSR

1:08:00

NFL Insider Inside the Birds podcast.

1:08:03

Good stuff right there. How about the salad

1:08:06

with Chris Ballard? You know, let the hair

1:08:08

grow a little bit, little Eddie Vedder esque.

1:08:10

I think I know.

1:08:12

What you think of what of? What of? What he said?

1:08:15

You know what, Let's let's get to that in just a little

1:08:17

bit because I think we got to stretch our legs out

1:08:19

on that one. I love that topic, Jeff, So we'll

1:08:22

do that here momentarily. First though, Moncey

1:08:24

Bolanos, who.

1:08:26

Is riding.

1:08:28

Is it Clippers Nation? This is

1:08:31

Clippers Nation Rising.

1:08:33

I'm city baby, We're.

1:08:34

Going on there for series.

1:08:38

I'm still sweating. I

1:08:40

was yelling.

1:08:41

Luckily, I'm in a soundproof little room, even though

1:08:43

I did have the door open, so I think they could hear me down the hall.

1:08:46

But let's this is the moment where where

1:08:48

I took a sigh of relief PG.

1:08:51

Thirteen working on Derek Jones Junior

1:08:53

with seven sit step right corner.

1:08:55

Three hits Oh

1:08:57

George well bucket.

1:08:59

Clippers rech lead.

1:09:02

Five and five seventy LA Sports

1:09:04

on the call.

1:09:04

That was right after Jeff was talking smack

1:09:06

about BG three and then he hit that three

1:09:09

in the corner. We took the lead, and it was just a syre of relief

1:09:11

because he hadn't scored, and so I was

1:09:13

like, Okay, he saw it go in.

1:09:15

We're getting there.

1:09:16

And the Clippers end up holding on to

1:09:19

the thirty one point lead that

1:09:21

they had at one point. They just won

1:09:23

by five one sixteen, won

1:09:25

eleven. The series is now

1:09:27

tied at two apiece. We head back to La

1:09:30

Paul George thirty three points, twenty

1:09:32

six of them came in the first half,

1:09:34

but then James Harden.

1:09:36

It helped that Luka.

1:09:37

Doncic had five fouls at the end

1:09:39

and James Harden got a couple of quick points

1:09:41

there. He ended with thirty three points,

1:09:43

and then Kyrie Irving came alive in the second half

1:09:45

for Dallas. He had forty points. Luka

1:09:48

Dancic ended with twenty nine points, but the

1:09:50

Clippers held on. I can breathe

1:09:52

the sire of relief. I'm still sweating what

1:09:54

happened earlier though in Philadelphia. Maybe Phillies

1:09:57

fans are still sweating because Jalen Brunson put

1:09:59

on a show, a new franchise record for the Knicks

1:10:01

forty seven points, ten assists. They took

1:10:03

Game four against the seventy six Ers ninety

1:10:06

seven to ninety two. Was the finals, so New York

1:10:08

leads that series now three to one. Game five

1:10:10

is going to be back in New York on Tuesday. Still

1:10:12

to come the Bucks and the Pacers.

1:10:15

No Yanni Sante too coompo, No Damian

1:10:17

Lillard four the Bucks. So we'll see how this one ends

1:10:20

up. And then finally, the Timberwolves are going

1:10:22

to try to close out the series by sweeping

1:10:24

the Suns in Phoenix.

1:10:25

That's last game of the day.

1:10:26

Tip office set for a nine to thirty pm Eastern

1:10:29

time. On the ice, the NHL

1:10:31

Playoffs are going on. The Predators are beating the Canucks

1:10:33

two to one. Halfway through the second period.

1:10:35

The Avalanche officially beat the Jets five to

1:10:38

one, so Colorado leads that series three

1:10:40

to one in Major League Baseball. The Phillies

1:10:42

are currently beating the Padres eight to six.

1:10:44

It's the top of the ninth inning. The Twins are

1:10:46

beating the Angels nine to five, top

1:10:48

of the eighth inning, while the Yankees exploded

1:10:51

and crushed the Brewers earlier today. Fifteen

1:10:53

to five was the final score. Anthony

1:10:55

Rizzo with his three hundredth career

1:10:57

home run in this one, and then in

1:10:59

the NFL. Houston Texans

1:11:01

wide receiver Tank Dell was a victim of a shooting

1:11:04

last night outside of a bar in Sanford, Florida.

1:11:06

Ten people were shot. A sixteen year old

1:11:08

was arrested.

1:11:09

Dell sustained minor injuries

1:11:12

along with the others that were shot.

1:11:13

He has been released from the hospital. The team

1:11:15

announced back to you,

1:11:18

guys.

1:11:18

Wow, that's crazy right there.

1:11:20

It is it is.

1:11:21

I hope favorite thing's okay with them. Thank you, Manzi.

1:11:24

Yes, yeah, Brian not Jeff Schwartz

1:11:26

with you right here, coming

1:11:28

to you live from the tiraq dot Com studios.

1:11:31

I think when Monzi was going through the baseball

1:11:33

scores there, Jeff, I know the Guardians

1:11:35

lost today to the Braves as and extra

1:11:37

innings. I think we need to bet on the Guardians

1:11:40

here. They've been playing

1:11:42

some good baseball. They're nineteen and nine,

1:11:44

and I was telling Bo Benz and our trusted producer

1:11:47

off the air, they're not one of those national

1:11:49

teams, you know what I mean. Like, if you're thinking about

1:11:51

betting on the Dodgers or the Yankees,

1:11:53

you gotta pay that tax. It's not the

1:11:56

same way with the Cleveland Guardians.

1:11:58

Man, But nineteen and nine, you go toe

1:12:00

to toe with the Braves. You're playing the Astros

1:12:02

next. Maybe we load up on the Guardians

1:12:05

here and recoup our lost the NBA wagers.

1:12:07

What do you think?

1:12:08

So I make three baseball wagers

1:12:11

every day if everyone's playing. I

1:12:13

bet the run line against the White Sox

1:12:16

that has been good until this week. They

1:12:18

actually just swept the

1:12:22

go right back tomorrow with they play the Twins

1:12:24

tomorrow. Go right back to the Twins tomorrow. I

1:12:28

do the run line against the Marlins.

1:12:31

However, they were favorites

1:12:34

three games in a row. I just took the Nationals

1:12:36

to win the game. Nationals won all three. And

1:12:38

then I bet against the Rockies every night too. And

1:12:41

it seems to be a good system going right now. But

1:12:45

again, it's union sized right like, like

1:12:47

like what tis have won three in

1:12:49

a row tomorrow, I'll probably put a

1:12:51

little bit more on them to lose.

1:12:53

Yeah, you know what I mean.

1:12:55

So yeah, I don't. It's

1:12:57

kind of my baseball my baseball path right now.

1:13:00

I like the baseball pet That's.

1:13:02

That's where I'm rolling. It's helping with some of these these

1:13:04

gambling lots. I just got. I got hooked

1:13:06

again in the NBA game with with Luca's

1:13:08

point total.

1:13:11

So what was it?

1:13:12

What was the I took it over

1:13:14

thirty and a half. I took an over thirty at

1:13:17

plus money and he had twenty nine and

1:13:20

he missed two foul shots in the fourth quarter, brutal.

1:13:24

Thirty would have pushed I mean, thirty would have won

1:13:27

it. Yes, you would have kept one

1:13:29

more point. He missed two foul shots in the fourth quarter. But

1:13:32

it happens, buddy. So that's

1:13:35

that's the NBA for you.

1:13:36

So you want to be a gambler, our guy, crack oh

1:13:38

real fast? Here Uh we got a tweet

1:13:40

here David ash shout out to him. He just wrote,

1:13:42

whoa No? One Schwartz on a Sunday afternoon,

1:13:45

get me up call Crack for a segment.

1:13:48

That's our guy Bill Krackenberger,

1:13:50

who we work with on Sundays typically

1:13:53

right during the football season.

1:13:55

What do you think Bill's doing right now? He's not watching sports,

1:13:57

we know that, So what is

1:13:59

he doing?

1:14:00

It's such an interesting life that I

1:14:02

tell you what.

1:14:03

Man, no interesting human I know than

1:14:05

Crack.

1:14:06

I don't know that. Whatever

1:14:08

he's doing, I'd be like, yeah,

1:14:11

I believe it, you know what I mean. Like, if you told

1:14:13

me he's doing this, he's

1:14:15

uh, he's working on his garden right

1:14:17

now, I'd be like, yeah, I could see that. You

1:14:20

could say anything practically

1:14:22

and I'd be like, I can see him.

1:14:23

Yeah, a celebrity, but.

1:14:24

Yeah, yeah, I'm having a He's having

1:14:27

dinner with money May right now. I

1:14:29

could see that somehow.

1:14:31

Is that a concert he's at traveling

1:14:34

somewhere. He's the most interesting

1:14:36

maunt of that I know.

1:14:37

And he's

1:14:40

awesome man. He's sports handicapper.

1:14:42

Uh does a great job. So shout out

1:14:44

to Crack all right, coming up next, What you wanted to

1:14:46

get to, Jeff the Chris Ballard situation.

1:14:49

Put your name on it, like Herman Edwards

1:14:52

once said, that's what Chris Ballard is saying,

1:14:54

do you agree with the guy? We'll get into that next.

1:14:57

I'm Brian know he's Jeff Schwartz. Hang

1:14:59

with us right now here on Fox Sports Radio. He's

1:15:02

Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian no here on

1:15:04

Fox Sports Radio, coming to you live

1:15:06

from the Tirack dot Com studios. So,

1:15:09

Jeff, you threw this out when we were talking to Adam

1:15:11

Kaplan about Chris

1:15:13

Ballard the Colts GM Ballard

1:15:17

unplugged, if you will. So

1:15:19

the Colts drafted a receiver in the second

1:15:21

round from Texas, a d Mitchell,

1:15:25

and there were some reports that there were some

1:15:27

red flags, he had some

1:15:30

some character issues, if you will,

1:15:33

or there were just whispers

1:15:35

of that. So he was asked about

1:15:38

that by a reporter and

1:15:40

uh he let loose check this out.

1:15:42

I read some of the book that was set

1:15:44

on tea. I mean, just a typical excuse

1:15:47

my language, our typical league

1:15:50

unnamed sources in

1:15:52

a bad interview.

1:15:53

That's such booth. I mean, if it's.

1:15:56

Bull like, put your name

1:15:59

like, put your name on it. I'm

1:16:02

tired we tear these young men

1:16:04

down. These are twenty one, twenty two young men.

1:16:07

And if you can, if people out there can

1:16:09

tell me they don't. They're perfect

1:16:11

in their lives. It's crap.

1:16:13

It's crap.

1:16:14

This is a good kid, and

1:16:17

you know, for for that, for those.

1:16:19

Reports to come out, thank you know, I

1:16:21

said it last year.

1:16:23

It's it's.

1:16:25

I'm sorry. I apologize for the language.

1:16:27

I don't but I do.

1:16:31

I'll say this is my cliffs Notes version. Jeff

1:16:34

is. The one thing I agree

1:16:36

with him on is put your name on it. When

1:16:39

all this stuff is anonymous and

1:16:41

this anonymous source is saying that, and this anonymous

1:16:44

coach and this anonymous scout, and I

1:16:46

totally agree with, Hey, if you have something

1:16:48

positive or negative to say, put your

1:16:51

name on it. I have zero issue with that.

1:16:53

The other side of that is not

1:16:56

every report is going to be glowing,

1:16:58

and sometimes these reports sort are accurate.

1:17:01

Adam Kaplan was on with us and he was like, I

1:17:03

checked with numerous sources and they were

1:17:05

like, yeah, there's some stuff here. It's

1:17:07

not earth shattering, it's not the

1:17:09

heavens are falling. This guy is the

1:17:12

biggest, you know, jackouse on

1:17:14

the face of the earth. It's not that, but

1:17:16

there's some stuff there. And

1:17:19

so for I think,

1:17:21

in my opinion, for Chris ballor to overreact

1:17:24

as if people are just making the biggest

1:17:26

deal out of nothing. I think

1:17:29

that's silly too. So I can meet him halfway,

1:17:31

put your name on it. Great, but not

1:17:34

every report is going to be a

1:17:36

glowing one.

1:17:37

Yeah. So I

1:17:40

think there's different ways to sort of view the

1:17:43

source the source articles during

1:17:45

this process. Okay, there

1:17:47

are the ones from sort of respected journalists

1:17:50

that talk to NFL

1:17:52

scouts in front office members and coaches, you

1:17:55

know, and you know their access

1:17:59

is a lot. You know is happens

1:18:01

because they don't name the coaches and the

1:18:03

general managers and finless people. And look,

1:18:06

are there things said there that I think are kinda

1:18:09

I'd rather than not share. Yeah,

1:18:12

you know, but but guess

1:18:14

what in the rooms they're having

1:18:16

these discussions, Like the teams

1:18:18

were absolutely discussing whether

1:18:21

or not Mitchell you

1:18:24

know, I think it was about as it was about his diabetes. Are that

1:18:26

worthy? One of the two Texas wide receivers was common

1:18:28

about their their diabetes. And

1:18:30

you know, like teams are talking about these things right,

1:18:33

wrong and different. We want

1:18:35

we want to know how teams talk about players.

1:18:38

This is how they do it. They bring up

1:18:40

all the negative things that could possibly be

1:18:43

said about a player. Those,

1:18:46

to me are sort of okay

1:18:48

to have an article or two about those. The

1:18:51

thing that bothers me the most are sort of like

1:18:54

the dweeves on Twitter that have no followers

1:18:56

but just make up stuff on social media about

1:18:59

players. That bothers me

1:19:01

the most. You

1:19:03

know that that person does not have access to anything

1:19:05

the NFL knows about a certain player, and

1:19:08

they just make up something about

1:19:10

the player anyways. That bothers me

1:19:12

more than when I read a respected journalist

1:19:14

who you know, reach out to some scouts and coaches.

1:19:16

Mm hmm.

1:19:17

No.

1:19:17

I think the point about we

1:19:20

want we want to know what they're talking

1:19:22

about, you know, and that's a great point

1:19:24

where they're gonna be talking about

1:19:26

any sort of character concern

1:19:29

whatever it may be. They're

1:19:31

absolutely talking about that, and

1:19:34

so to get a little bit of a glimpse

1:19:37

into that, that's what I think it was.

1:19:39

Again, Chris Ballard is acting like he

1:19:42

read an article that was saying

1:19:44

ad Mitchell is literally the worst

1:19:46

person on the face of the earth, Like his

1:19:48

reactions seem to fit that

1:19:51

that article was never written. So

1:19:53

I think that was an overreaction. But I can

1:19:55

understand being annoyed that someone isn't

1:19:58

putting their name on it because that's.

1:19:59

All so defending his player he drafted to

1:20:01

by the way.

1:20:02

Well, that's absolutely But last year

1:20:04

he did that too. I think it was war with CJ. Stroud

1:20:07

because the talk was about

1:20:09

what the S two test were

1:20:12

that should be released.

1:20:13

Like I feel like, again, it's nuanced

1:20:15

to this, it's levels to this.

1:20:17

Yeah, no, he was. He was definitely outspoken

1:20:20

about that. But not everything

1:20:22

is just character

1:20:25

assassination, you know what I mean, Like, there's

1:20:27

gonna be some things that are out there that are

1:20:30

not ideal or perfect.

1:20:32

It's it's okay, all right.

1:20:34

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1:20:59

So not just the

1:21:01

NFL draft, the NFL

1:21:04

draft and beyond. If you will do

1:21:06

a little thumbs up thumbs down. So let's start

1:21:09

the thumbs up category. Any

1:21:12

teams they're drafts

1:21:14

that you liked, who's top of mind

1:21:16

for you?

1:21:18

The Chargers I really liked. Yeah,

1:21:20

I liked what the Chiefs did. I mean the Chiefs

1:21:22

got Xavier Worthy and

1:21:25

got a starting left tackle, you

1:21:28

know, with the second with the second

1:21:30

pick, so I

1:21:33

with their second pick, like, it's just

1:21:35

a very solid draft. What

1:21:39

other teams, I mean the I think

1:21:41

the first round, a lot of teams did did what

1:21:43

they had to do, which was important. I mean, look the Bears,

1:21:46

I think you get like a

1:21:48

A plus plus. Yeah,

1:21:52

they ended up trading out

1:21:54

of one last year, got

1:21:56

themselves a right tackle, got

1:21:59

them Dj Moore,

1:22:02

and then this year they got Caleb

1:22:04

Williams and Roal Madoonsay, man, I don't know, how

1:22:07

do you do better than that over to year period.

1:22:09

Yeah, no, that's pretty good. I give

1:22:13

a thumbs up to the Ravens

1:22:15

and the Eagles. Those teams.

1:22:18

Man, yeah,

1:22:20

I thought that both of those teams,

1:22:24

especially in the first round. I'm like, man,

1:22:26

that guy was still on the board. I said

1:22:28

the same thing for both teams, where it's like the

1:22:31

Ravens at the end of the first round thirtieth

1:22:33

overall, they get Nate Wiggins out

1:22:35

at Clemson, who's a physical corner. He

1:22:37

just fits what they do so

1:22:40

well. And the Eagles they needed

1:22:42

secondary help, they get Quinyon

1:22:44

Mitchell out of Toledo twenty second overall.

1:22:46

That's good value. Again, he was

1:22:48

a guy that could have transferred to another

1:22:51

school, and if he's in the

1:22:53

Power five, he's a much more

1:22:55

much more of a household name. You know, it's

1:22:57

much more known if he transferred to

1:22:59

Bam or wherever. But he stayed

1:23:01

at Toledo. They got him twenty second

1:23:03

overall. And then Cooper Degene out of Iowa,

1:23:06

really good athlete, thought to be

1:23:08

possibly a first round pick. He slides all

1:23:10

the way to fortieth overall. So

1:23:12

for the Eagles who needed help in the secondary,

1:23:14

to get those two guys at the spots

1:23:16

they got them at not having to trade up.

1:23:18

I thought that was great value. Again, Jeff,

1:23:21

you know this time will tell. Just because you

1:23:24

bought something like I bought a TV on

1:23:26

sale, Well, if you plugged the TV in

1:23:28

and it doesn't work, it's not a great deal, right,

1:23:30

So just because you got good value draft

1:23:32

wise on these guys. Doesn't mean they'll

1:23:35

be productive, but for the here and

1:23:37

now, I really like what those teams did.

1:23:40

To me, Brian, A lot of it is about

1:23:42

process to appointment. The Eagles, right, Eagles

1:23:44

needed corners and their

1:23:47

process ended up getting them possibly

1:23:49

the number one corner in the draft and another player

1:23:51

who you know, people had mocked

1:23:54

in the first round. Now we don't

1:23:56

know, of course, where

1:23:58

teams had guys individual on their boards.

1:24:01

A lot of the mock drafts that I trust I

1:24:03

look at are done with inputs

1:24:06

from NFL teams. Right, They're just not They're not made

1:24:08

up, right, Brian, So a

1:24:10

guy that people thought was a first round pick. That

1:24:12

that process, to me feels

1:24:15

like a winning process. What the Chiefs did,

1:24:18

it feels like the Ravens always seem

1:24:20

to have a winning process. The

1:24:22

Steelers went heavy on offensive line. I

1:24:24

like it. Protect you gotta protect Wilson and fields.

1:24:27

Yeah. Process was good there. Yeah.

1:24:30

Yeah. How about thumbs down

1:24:33

any team? I feel like you have to ask it any

1:24:35

team beyond the Falcons. I

1:24:37

feel like we're all down on the Falcons.

1:24:39

It's just a silly pick.

1:24:41

Only anyone did terribly outside of Atlanta,

1:24:43

you know, it's it's hard to rarely

1:24:46

screw it up. I mean, there are some trades that I think

1:24:48

are were not necessary and the value might

1:24:50

not have been there, but you got the player you wanted. I

1:24:53

was surprised Panthers went running back second round.

1:24:55

I think, not

1:24:58

that it was a terrible They've gone

1:25:01

about their offseason trying

1:25:03

to get as many

1:25:05

pieces as possible around Bryce Young, which

1:25:08

I really do like, and I just was surprised

1:25:10

that they were the one to do

1:25:13

that to run back.

1:25:15

Some people were low on the Browns draft.

1:25:18

I just look, man, when you go all in for

1:25:20

Deshaun Watson and you

1:25:22

don't have a couple of your top

1:25:25

picks, you don't have a first round pick, it's

1:25:27

hard to have a sexy draft.

1:25:30

You know they drafted that

1:25:32

was a non sexy draft. That was

1:25:35

you know, d line guard,

1:25:37

fifth round wide receiver. But

1:25:39

that's the cost of doing business. If you're going to go

1:25:42

all in for Deshaun Watson, that

1:25:44

guys, it's stating the obvious.

1:25:46

Man.

1:25:46

If he.

1:25:48

Can somehow turn the corner and turn the clock

1:25:50

back to what he was before, they're

1:25:53

cooking with grease. But if

1:25:55

he's still the same old guy in Cleveland Man.

1:25:58

That's an epically fit old

1:26:00

trade.

1:26:02

It might go down as one of the

1:26:04

worst trades we've ever seen. I have a history along

1:26:07

with Funny Enough Russell Wilson. You

1:26:11

know, it seems like these have happened more recently.

1:26:14

I do appreciate teams being aggressive and kind

1:26:16

of going for it, which is

1:26:18

nice because I think you have to, right, you

1:26:20

have to be bold to win championships.

1:26:24

But you know, you know, Ron, I really thought the

1:26:26

first round, a

1:26:28

lot of teams just kind of got what the

1:26:30

player they needed to get.

1:26:32

Yeah, right, Yeah, It's it's

1:26:35

always.

1:26:36

Do Dolphins do? How do you feel a Dolphins draft?

1:26:39

Okay, like Chop Robinson. This

1:26:42

is what's weird. He's got a ton of ability,

1:26:44

but it's like he didn't have great production.

1:26:49

Quarterback down.

1:26:49

Yeah yeah, So it's like I hope

1:26:51

he turns the light on. I'm hoping he's you know,

1:26:54

the next version of Cameron wake who

1:26:56

out of Penn State was amazing for the

1:26:58

Dolphins. That guy was an app beasts,

1:27:00

So I'm hoping for the second coming of that. But

1:27:03

it's always alarming where you're like, oh,

1:27:05

this guy's measurables are off the charts.

1:27:07

Production not quite there in

1:27:09

college. That's that's strange.

1:27:12

And they went running back. They went with Jalen Wright

1:27:14

out of Tennessee in the fourth

1:27:16

round, which was an interesting pick

1:27:18

because they have a

1:27:21

chan back there and they've got a couple

1:27:23

of capable running backs. But more speed,

1:27:25

I mean, Mike McDaniel wants more and more and more speed

1:27:28

there.

1:27:29

Look, if you can't, if

1:27:31

you can't, you can't beat them,

1:27:33

just run by them, you know you can't by

1:27:38

how many? How many teams

1:27:40

do you think draft in the AFC with

1:27:43

the idea of how do we beat the chiefs versus

1:27:45

more like how do we build our

1:27:47

best roster for ourselves?

1:27:49

Now that's interesting, right, Like that's

1:27:52

the thing where let's take the Raiders, for instance,

1:27:54

if you're in the same division, I think

1:27:56

you really have to think like that, and

1:27:59

the race it's like, eh,

1:28:02

we'll stay put, We'll just take brock Bauers

1:28:04

and just run it with Gardner

1:28:06

Minshew, I guess you know, And like, how

1:28:09

is that going to work in the same division with

1:28:11

Mahomes. I think that you have in

1:28:14

the AFC West, if the Broncos,

1:28:17

if you know, the Chargers, if

1:28:19

any team isn't thinking

1:28:21

like that that's the wrong approach.

1:28:24

But I think for teams that are on the cusp,

1:28:26

like the Bills, and I don't understand

1:28:29

why the Bills are trading with the

1:28:31

Chiefs.

1:28:32

Again, by the way, after they traded the

1:28:34

Mahomes, you'll very famously that

1:28:37

the uh the Raiders

1:28:40

are interesting kind of talk about value

1:28:43

on a draft board because

1:28:47

if Brock Bauers was their fourth highest

1:28:49

graded player, let's say, or fifth,

1:28:53

or let's say, you might have been the highest graded non quarterback,

1:28:56

certainly possible, and that

1:28:58

they're at thirteen, he's the highest grade on the board.

1:29:00

If you if you were if you were drafting

1:29:02

Brian off your board, you take rock hours like

1:29:07

that's what might have happened

1:29:09

here. Yeah, And

1:29:11

that's why you have to trust your board. It might not be great.

1:29:14

You might it might not end up like being

1:29:17

what you have to do, but you know he was

1:29:19

the highest on your board. You have to take them. It's why you go through

1:29:21

the process.

1:29:22

Yeah, and that's what's I think

1:29:24

the draft was really interesting for the Raiders

1:29:27

because you're in this weird spot where

1:29:29

you're picking thirteenth overall and

1:29:32

the only way to go up and get one

1:29:34

of the top quarterback prospects. He had to get

1:29:36

uber aggressive and trade

1:29:38

up the bunch. We were just talking about

1:29:40

the Deshaun Watson and Russell Wilson

1:29:43

trades that didn't work out. If you want to do

1:29:45

a draft day traded, be Trey Lance. The

1:29:48

Niners traded a boat load to get Trey

1:29:50

Lance. Didn't work out. But that's the

1:29:52

thing is you could find potentially

1:29:54

value later in the draft, but to get a top

1:29:57

prospect, you got to move up or

1:29:59

just run it back with Gardner Minshew like,

1:30:01

that's where you're at in the NFL.

1:30:04

I did not think the Raiders should trade up. I actually

1:30:06

don't think any of these quarterbacks are worthy of a trade out. Brian,

1:30:09

it's some killer Williams. So I'm

1:30:11

the Raiders. I think did the right thing. I just stayed where they

1:30:13

were and we'll worry about

1:30:15

quarterback obviously next year.

1:30:17

Well that's the thing is, if they're in the same spot,

1:30:20

it's the same scenario all over again.

1:30:23

Right, you're gonna have to get aggressive and trade up

1:30:25

for a dude that you're like, eh, maybe

1:30:28

right, Like maybe he works out. I was

1:30:31

getta kick out of these people saying if

1:30:33

it's your guy, if you really believe

1:30:35

it, then go get him. It's like that doesn't matter

1:30:37

anyway, you know.

1:30:39

Did right?

1:30:40

Yeah, you're just guessing by the way

1:30:42

thumbs up, thumbs down. What do you think as

1:30:44

the Pacers and Bucks are getting it going

1:30:47

here? What do you think about the NBA

1:30:49

challenge system in general?

1:30:51

I I don't

1:30:54

not that I don't get it, but like, there's

1:30:57

a lot of challenges. I don't think there were this many challenges

1:30:59

allowed. Every time I turn the TV, I'm like,

1:31:01

wait, there's a stoppage, a challenge has

1:31:03

happened. Ye, feeling there's a lot of challenges.

1:31:05

No, there are. There are

1:31:08

a lot of challenges.

1:31:09

And how may you get.

1:31:12

Bo You probably know this, uh NBA

1:31:15

guy, but I think you get to And

1:31:18

I'm I don't want to confuse it with the NFL,

1:31:21

where if you like, if you get one right, then

1:31:23

you get another one. I think you at least

1:31:25

you.

1:31:25

Are you are right, uh? Coaches awarded.

1:31:28

Coaches are awarded a second challenge if their first is successful.

1:31:30

So it is kind of like the NFL.

1:31:31

You get one challenge, yeah, one challenge, but.

1:31:33

If you if you win, you get another one.

1:31:35

I believe challenge.

1:31:37

That's a quick google, so that could be wrong, but

1:31:39

uh, it also doesn't matter because

1:31:41

they never get it right.

1:31:42

So who cares?

1:31:43

Right?

1:31:43

And I think do they not automatically

1:31:46

review things at the end

1:31:49

or.

1:31:49

I think you can't. I

1:31:51

think it's like the NFL where you can't challenge after

1:31:53

a certain point. So that's why you always see players

1:31:56

like, uh, throw their fingers up

1:31:58

into the circle. But I'm not sure.

1:32:00

Yeah, man, that's the one thing is two

1:32:02

things with the challenge thing correcting

1:32:06

obviously blown calls. I'll always

1:32:08

be a fan of that. But when they go to

1:32:10

the replay and I'm like, more

1:32:12

times than not, Jeff, I'm like, I don't know what

1:32:14

they're gonna rule. I really don't. It looks

1:32:16

like a file to me, but I don't know if they're gonna

1:32:18

call a foul or overturn it or whatever. So

1:32:21

I don't know what they're gonna call and what

1:32:23

they're gonna see. Oftentimes when they go

1:32:25

to replay, and I hate the index finger. It's

1:32:27

just a constant. It could be the first

1:32:29

quarter, three minutes have gone by, a

1:32:32

guy gets whistled for a file. He thinks it's

1:32:35

a garbage call, and the index finger is

1:32:37

just twirling around like review it, review it,

1:32:39

review it. It's like that throughout a lot of the

1:32:41

game.

1:32:41

Man.

1:32:41

Yeah, it's aggressive. I

1:32:43

uh. I'm of the opinion that

1:32:47

these reviews should

1:32:50

be to fix egregious errors. I

1:32:52

think, I think far too often.

1:32:54

Yeah, it's not you.

1:32:55

It's just used to fix like simple things, and

1:32:58

to me, that's like not the spirit of

1:33:00

what this should be totally. And I think

1:33:03

in all in all sports, by the way,

1:33:05

it's review is fixing gregious

1:33:08

errors. Yeah, it's not. It's not like

1:33:10

whether or not the you know, the second basement's

1:33:12

toe tip the base as he tried to turn

1:33:15

two.

1:33:15

It's like.

1:33:17

That happened at the end of last night's game, Jeff,

1:33:19

where it was Jamal Murray. Jamal

1:33:22

Murray had the ball and a Lakers

1:33:24

player might have been D'Angelo Russell, I can't remember.

1:33:26

He knocked it out of bounds and

1:33:29

the Lakers challenged it and they were

1:33:31

right because it technically grazed

1:33:34

like the rand finger of Jamal

1:33:37

Murray.

1:33:37

That happened at the end of the now Chremester game. If you

1:33:39

remember Virginia Texas

1:33:41

Tech, Like, if the ball

1:33:43

is hit out of your hand,

1:33:47

it will it will sometimes

1:33:49

hit off your fingertips going away from your body.

1:33:52

That to me is not is not something

1:33:54

you overturn.

1:33:55

Yeah, I hate that. It drives

1:33:57

me crazy. It does. But that's

1:34:00

the thing where if you can correct

1:34:03

calls that are obviously missed, great,

1:34:05

knock yourself out. But when

1:34:07

they are looking at the lit like the

1:34:09

tiniest detail, not a fan last

1:34:12

one here, Jeff, I just noticed this

1:34:15

thumbs up with thumbs down on blocking people

1:34:17

on Twitter. So you had a popular

1:34:19

tweet right here, what's awesome?

1:34:23

Well, this is the guy who who

1:34:25

made up So

1:34:28

this is a kind of engagement account on social

1:34:30

media, right, They're just sort of posting things to get

1:34:32

engagement, which I felt bait of. But

1:34:34

they mentioned the organ and wide receiver Troy

1:34:36

Franklin fell because he doesn't

1:34:39

like football and bombed his interviews. And

1:34:42

I'm not a person who breaks

1:34:44

news. It's not my not my business.

1:34:48

I just don't do that. I don't want to be in

1:34:50

that business. But you know, I talk enough

1:34:52

people in this world that I get a

1:34:54

lot of stuff before it's

1:34:56

you know, before it becomes news or behind

1:34:58

the scenes. But again, I my rule is not to

1:35:01

share that information. Brian and the reason I get told it

1:35:03

and we have communication because I don't share it right, Like,

1:35:05

for example, Mackai Beck in the offensive lignment

1:35:07

just signed with the Eagles about

1:35:09

it thirty minutes ago. I knew

1:35:12

that eight hours ago. But like, it's

1:35:14

not my job to break that news, right, It's not my job.

1:35:17

And so I got a call from a buddy of mine who's

1:35:19

a head of a scouting department

1:35:21

in the NFL on Saturday morning,

1:35:24

sort of out of the blue, and he's like, hey man, I saw your tweet

1:35:26

about Franklin dropping and he kind

1:35:28

of went through why he dropped, and

1:35:31

it was nothing at all what this guy had

1:35:33

said. And so all I said was, hey

1:35:35

man, that's not true.

1:35:37

You're making it up. And he oh

1:35:40

man, Brian, he got like super

1:35:42

angry. And then I come and find

1:35:44

out people sent me a bunch of shot screenshots. He makes

1:35:46

up everything with those accounts that just throwstuff

1:35:49

against the wall, tries to make it say, these are

1:35:51

the accounts that Chris Ballard doesn't

1:35:53

like. Right, These people on social media just sort of make

1:35:55

things up. The thing about about

1:35:57

a person like Jay Glazer who brings a bunch

1:35:59