0:01

Part of the interruption, but I'm Mike Bilban,

0:03

it's Friday, the thirteenth, Tony.

0:06

Are you superstitious?

0:08

And Sony corners are not really other

0:11

than wearing the same pair of underpants every

0:13

day. No. No tikka. Okay.

0:16

That's just roast. That's

0:18

not superstition. Really?

0:21

That's sloth. You don't

0:23

change. I wash them occasionally in

0:26

the sea. You

0:28

know, it's like little house on the ferry.

0:31

I watch them in the sea. Welcome

0:34

to PTI boys and girls in today's episode,

0:36

Lamar Jackson clarifies his condition.

0:39

Bill Bellatick gets busy, and Kendrick

0:41

Perkins joins us to five good minutes,

0:43

but we begin today with wildcard weekend.

0:46

There are six NFL games spread over

0:48

three days. All of them are match ups

0:50

that were already played at least one this

0:52

season. Twice in the cases

0:54

of Miami, Buffalo, Baltimore, Cincinnati,

0:57

and Seattle, San

0:58

Francisco. Wilbon, which is the most

1:00

compelling match up on the board. Tony,

1:03

this is easy for me. It was the last

1:06

image we just saw on the screen of that

1:08

video. It's Dallas Tampa. I

1:10

mean, you've got this situation. First of

1:12

all, you you got Tom Brady and that's gonna

1:14

give you a maximum amount of

1:16

drama particularly this year. As

1:18

opposed to ten fifteen, twenty years ago

1:21

when he was some heavy favorite. You

1:23

got a situation where a lot of people are picking

1:25

against Tampa at home in a playoff game.

1:27

Picking against Tom Brady, expecting them to

1:29

lose. I don't know what the odds are. I don't care what

1:31

Vegas says. But a lot of people think

1:33

that Dallas is the better team. Dallas is the better

1:36

team. Based on the full season. They are. You got this

1:38

whole deck there. Got drama with

1:40

him -- Right. -- and is in perceptions, although

1:42

that story lines overrated and overstated,

1:45

because half is in receptions like six of

1:47

them lately out of the fourteen were

1:49

tipped or bubbled or fumbled away

1:51

by a receiver. So that whole thing is just

1:53

bogus junk that people

1:55

can latch on to and have a storyline. But

1:58

I like that game. I mean, that's a great

2:00

primetime game that that that

2:02

this network

2:03

has. I'm looking forward to that game more

2:05

than the others. It's interesting

2:07

because that's gonna get the most eyeballs of any

2:09

game all year because you have Dallas which is the

2:11

number one draw and Tom Brady, the number

2:13

one individual. You're you're right about that. I wasn't

2:16

gonna mention that because it's Monday. I was gonna stick with

2:18

the ones Saturday and Sunday. I'm gonna eliminate

2:20

the Buffalo game, the Cincinnati game,

2:22

the San Francisco game. Charles, I think they're

2:24

gonna win handily, and a couple

2:26

of them might be very

2:29

lopsided because Baltimore

2:31

and Miami are starting second and third string

2:33

quarterbacks. That leaves us with the chargers

2:35

Jacksonville for a second. That's

2:37

probably gonna be the tightest game out there,

2:40

but it doesn't interest me as much as the two others.

2:42

The Minnesota Giants game interests me because

2:44

Minnesota has a gaudy record, Mike,

2:46

and they've won a lot of really close games. Well,

2:48

when they've been in there against a good team,

2:51

they've gotten slammed. To get Yeah.

2:53

Giant's good team. Is Daniel

2:55

Jones a good quarterback is Sequan Barclay

2:57

Healthy and and the other game

3:00

that's out there

3:02

Well, that yeah. The other game, because now I'm PTI The

3:04

other game to is exactly what you were talking about.

3:06

PTI out Tampa Bay against yeah.

3:09

Against Dallas. So I take

3:11

back that there were two other games I was

3:13

interested in. It was only one. But you know

3:15

what I'd like to say one game? I'm gonna be brief

3:17

on this. I wanna see is Justin Herbert

3:19

a really good quarterback, as everybody says,

3:21

because he came in with Joe Burrow. And Joe

3:23

Burrow is a really good quarterback. And

3:25

I wanna see if Minnesota is a fraud

3:28

or they are for

3:28

real. Okay? Even if

3:30

Minnesota wins, you're going to

3:32

say there's still a fraud and you need another

3:35

week. Then you can ask what you're gonna do. And

3:37

it's okay. By the way, it's okay to say

3:39

the Minnesota to prove it again. It's alright.

3:42

Lamar Jackson, who wish

3:44

he could prove it this week, has

3:46

clarified his condition. The

3:48

Raven's quarterback took to Twitter last night

3:50

to explain that his PCL

3:53

spraying is more serious than originally believed

3:56

and that he will not play in

3:58

Sunday night's wildcard round game

4:00

against the

4:00

bingles. Tony, does Jackson's

4:03

clarification answer your questions?

4:07

This is the first time Lamar Jackson

4:09

has spoken at all about his

4:11

injury. The Raven speak

4:13

about it all the time and make you think that

4:15

he's day to day or week to week. And

4:17

apparently, this is not the case. Right?

4:20

I my first question about this, Mike,

4:22

is why is Lamar Jackson making

4:24

a statement? Why aren't the Baltimore

4:27

Ravens making a statement? And this seems

4:29

an obvious clue that there is a rift

4:31

there. And I'm gonna cut to the chase right

4:33

here. Our friend Jason Locke and

4:35

Fuhrer. Who knows more about football

4:37

than just about everybody who lives in

4:39

Baltimore and follows the NFL,

4:42

covers the NFL, was on my podcast

4:44

this morning. He used this words to describe

4:46

the relationship between the Baltimore

4:48

Ravens and Lamar Jackson. Quote, it's

4:51

over. He says it's

4:53

done. They can franchise them

4:55

if they want. Again, the only question

4:57

that matters now is

5:00

where will they trade him and how

5:02

much will they

5:03

get? That's Jason Larkenville. Yeah.

5:05

What do you think you're at? Well, Tony,

5:08

this is not basketball. I mean,

5:10

it's harder in pro football

5:12

to force your way out. Now, the

5:14

exceptions are great quarterbacks. But

5:17

the Baltimore Ravens have built their

5:20

whole operation

5:21

around Lamar Jackson. And

5:23

the way he

5:24

plays He's his unique Yeah. And

5:26

so you you you can't just transfer and

5:28

say, well, let's slip this guy in and see how he

5:30

works. Because there ain't anybody else

5:32

who's gonna quite work the way that Lamar

5:35

Jackson does. It's got

5:36

one. I gotta I gotta I gotta think

5:38

of it. I got

5:39

one more extent to the Chicago bears.

5:41

It's something you ask where I get back. Yeah.

5:43

This is exactly This is what I wanna

5:46

ask you. And would you trade?

5:48

If you ran the bears, would you trade

5:50

Justin Fields and the number one?

5:53

For Lamar Jackson. Would you do

5:55

it? I wouldn't. No,

5:57

Tony.

5:58

Justin

5:59

I know Lamar Jackson

6:00

is a rare talent. He's a

6:02

great player, but it's two years that are

6:04

always not out there. You know what I'm saying?

6:07

I want a guy who's gonna be out there. And by the way, If

6:09

Justin Fields continues to play the way

6:11

he is playing out, he won't be out there

6:13

either. But, no,

6:16

I'm not. And Lamar Jackson, if

6:18

this rift will develop with Baltimore Place

6:21

where they've been in the playoffs

6:22

and, like, he's been an MVP, then

6:24

how do I know to trust that in Chicago? I

6:27

I it's

6:28

tempting you may change

6:30

my mind in six weeks as we get

6:32

closer to the draft. Thinking about it. And

6:34

my personal mock draft, as you

6:36

know, the one

6:37

point o edition week. At March.

6:38

I'm sure it's sometime tomorrow. But right now,

6:42

don't think so. We

6:44

turn now to some interesting internal movement

6:46

within the Patriots. Normally, the

6:48

most circumspective franchises the Patriots

6:50

announced that they will begin next week to

6:52

interview for an offensive coordinator. In

6:54

the wake of poor offensive performance, they

6:57

scored seventeen fewer touchdowns this

6:59

year than last year. They're making a big

7:01

move, perhaps bringing somebody in from the outside.

7:04

They are ending this insane experiment of not

7:06

Patricia, a defensive guy calling

7:08

plays, and experiment Bill Bellage incented

7:10

and endorsed. Well, ma'am, what does this

7:13

say about Bellatrix mindset?

7:16

Does anybody's

7:17

mindset? It says the same thing

7:19

that it was said by any team that's in the dumpster

7:22

as opposed to being king of the hill.

7:24

When you're in the dumpster, okay,

7:26

and who look, they're a long

7:28

way from being unable to sell tickets

7:31

or any of that stuff. It's the Patriots, man.

7:33

They've been great for a long time. But Tony,

7:35

For different reasons, you and I have lived

7:37

through this. We live in a

7:39

place where the team had a

7:41

waiting list of fifty thousand

7:44

people for couple of decades. And

7:46

they went in the dumpster and now they'll

7:48

beg you. They will beg you to

7:50

listen to them, to watch them, to

7:52

watch their shows on to

7:54

buy their product in New Jersey's and

7:56

come buy their tickets. And when you

7:59

go in the dumpster, and New England

8:01

is at least slipped on a banana peel, and

8:03

they're in a little bit of a free fall, having

8:05

one only half their games and and and and been

8:07

no factor. Even the

8:09

New England Patriots have to go, well,

8:11

you know what? Let's not be

8:14

so high handed right now.

8:16

We can't afford to be that right

8:19

now. And you you start to talk to

8:21

people, you start to try to make sense to other people.

8:24

Bill Bellachik is a five hundred coach since

8:26

Tom Brady left. Yep. Their offensive

8:29

year was absolutely lost. These are some

8:31

numbers that are fabulous. From one

8:33

year to the next, their red zone efficiency,

8:35

just from last year this year, not breeding. Last

8:37

year went from eleventh to thirty second

8:40

DFL. Their third down production

8:42

went from tenth to twenty seventh. Their

8:44

total first downs from ninth to twenty eight.

8:47

And Bill Bellatick has to own the fact

8:49

that as you say about Russell Wilson,

8:51

you don't say it's his fault, Matt Jones

8:53

took a step back, but he didn't have any coaching.

8:56

He didn't have any coaching. Well, so you

8:58

have to go out and do nothing. You

9:00

you have to go get some coaching. One of the

9:02

names mentioned interesting Leah's

9:04

Cliff Kingsbury, I didn't know this.

9:06

He was apparently a backup to Brady at

9:08

one point. But if you go out there

9:10

and Dan Wetzel says this on Yahoo!

9:13

This is what Nick save and did when he brought

9:15

in Lane, Kaffinib, he brought in Steve Sarkisian.

9:17

He changed the offense, he aired it out,

9:20

and they've continued to win. With

9:22

a passing offense, which they didn't have

9:24

before. Tony, if don't know what's coming up. Surprising.

9:27

Him explaining it, but they talking

9:29

about it publicly explaining

9:30

it, letting it out there or actually doing

9:33

it. I'm not sure which one of those

9:35

two things is more simple. We'll see if they do it.

9:37

We'll see if they welcome within or from without

9:39

the Steph Curry's return, solve

9:41

the Warriors problems. We're gonna ask Kenrick

9:43

Perkins. We'll also gonna ask him

9:46

if he likes the NBA having

9:49

so many contenders. We're

9:51

halfway through the season tone. A lot of

9:53

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11:07

We're at the midway of the NBA season,

11:09

which makes it a perfect time to bring in our great

11:11

friend from NBA today. America

11:13

stands six foot ten. Just

11:16

like me, mister Kendrick

11:18

Perkins will start with his first name.

11:20

Damian Lillard had fifty

11:23

points last night and lost the Cleveland

11:25

fifty. We have had so

11:28

many high scoring games. Fifty

11:30

doesn't even raise an eyebrow anymore. This

11:32

fifty's three nights a week as a player

11:34

who was known for defense,

11:37

how does this thing sit with you that everybody

11:39

scoring so many points? What what

11:41

to the fans is great. Right? Because you

11:43

get to see guys getting to their bags

11:45

and and be able to showcase this

11:47

skill set in the evolution of the game.

11:50

But as a as a former player,

11:52

it makes my damn skin crawl

11:54

because defense is all about

11:56

effort. And I don't see guys

11:59

fighting to get over screens. I don't see

12:01

guys taking charges. I don't see

12:03

guys getting deflections. All

12:05

I see is is that you scored on me.

12:07

We about to hurry up, get the ball out, and go

12:09

score on you. And and it's like, it's

12:11

it's it's where is that? So Now I've

12:14

I've grown accustomed to it because I figured,

12:16

hey, the game has not changed

12:17

it, but I hate every part of

12:19

it. Tony's great to sit

12:21

next to him when he's upset

12:23

about watching all this offense. It's great

12:26

to sit next to him and watch a little angst

12:28

on that face. Pert, Steph

12:30

Curry, of course, is back. Wiggans,

12:32

apparently, is back. But

12:35

the warriors, are they is that does

12:37

that solve everything having those

12:39

guys back on the floor now with half the

12:41

season to go. No. You

12:44

know what's crazy? The Warriors has lot

12:46

they lost to the

12:47

magic, the Pistons, the SUNS,

12:49

without their best three players. And you know

12:51

what everybody say, Oh, it's okay.

12:53

They'll be just fine. No. They won't.

12:55

But for the simple fact, yes, you trust

12:58

Clay Thompson, and yes, you trust Jeff Curry

13:00

and Andrew Wiggans and Dremore agree.

13:02

But people don't realize is that guys

13:04

like Descono Anderson, Auto

13:06

Porter Junior, along with

13:09

Damien Lee, and Gary Payton the

13:11

second, were huge for them.

13:14

Right? So we don't know what's going on with

13:16

Steve, current, James Wiseman, or do he

13:18

trust James Wiseman? Moses Moody

13:20

has not lived up to expectation. Jonathan

13:23

Kamingo, he's not available right now,

13:25

but he's been up and down. I don't

13:27

trust the others. And unless they make AAAAA

13:30

tray to bring in some more role plans

13:33

to to get more depth that's gonna

13:35

help them off the

13:36

bench, No. The warriors are not gonna

13:38

repeat this year. Perking

13:41

some was going on and we're at the halfway

13:43

point now. Usually, by

13:45

this time, we have a real good feeling of

13:47

who the best team in the league is or who the best

13:49

two or three are. We have a feeling about

13:51

who definitive, feel about who the MVP

13:54

is or the leading candidate for MVP.

13:57

We don't have that now. Like, who's your MVP

14:00

of the week?

14:01

So far this week. And who's your

14:03

best team as we go into the second

14:05

half? Well, you know what? I'm going with

14:08

Yolked. And all teen

14:10

whack body. He's representing for all the

14:12

whack bodies across the world. We're

14:14

talking about a guy forget jumping on

14:16

the curve. He can't even do a

14:18

calf raise. But he's out here

14:20

averaging a triple double. He's out

14:22

here giving people work, and you know what else,

14:25

his team is winning. And

14:27

he's making others around him better.

14:29

And speaking of that team, the devil nuggets,

14:32

they have the perfect team to go and compete

14:34

for title. And actually win the title

14:36

this year, and especially if they

14:39

get home court advantage. I look at

14:41

guys like Bruce Brown, along

14:43

with Aaron Gordon, how he's playing right

14:45

now, the championship pedigree at

14:47

Carl Webb Pope, those guys have

14:49

been phenomenal. And if they

14:51

could stay healthy, along with getting

14:53

home court

14:54

advantage. I don't know a single team

14:56

in the NBA that could beat them in the seven

14:58

game series. We'll

15:00

get you out of here on this because I gotta go

15:02

practice if I can do a calf raise or

15:04

not. And I'm gonna confess

15:06

my prejudice to this. My prejudice

15:09

is towards dynasties. Mhmm.

15:11

I like teams that win

15:13

year after year after year and I like to see him

15:16

win and then I like to see him get knocked off.

15:18

We have an NBA right now. We don't

15:20

appear to be dynasties. There's a thousand

15:23

contenders. Do you like the league

15:25

this way? Willbond seems

15:27

to, or do you like it when there's one

15:29

or two teams where you

15:30

go, I've identified them. I either

15:32

wanna see him win or I wanna see him get beat.

15:35

No. I love it. The way it is right

15:37

now because look, all the superstars

15:39

are healthy, all the teams, every

15:41

team in in the off season has

15:43

went got, you know, great players and

15:45

added players. Like, you look at even

15:48

the Malcolm Progman situation with the Boston

15:50

Celtics, like, teams went out

15:52

this year and got better, right, for

15:54

us, they're upgrading their roster. So

15:56

I like it because I like not

15:58

being able to say, you know what? Is

16:01

is the Golden State War? You're Steph and PTI,

16:03

go take it again. No. I wanna know who's

16:05

gonna come out of the Eastern Conference. I wanna

16:07

know who's the better duo out of Jason

16:09

Salem. Jalen Brown, you know, Kevin

16:12

Durant and and Kyle

16:13

Reurban. Like, I wanna see those match ups.

16:15

So I'm looking forward to it. Good

16:18

to hear. Thank you, Carrie. Yeah. We just smack

16:20

ponytail. Have

16:21

you. Get that

16:22

dinosaur talk out of here. Get

16:24

that stuff out. It's good to have you back, man.

16:26

Thank God for having me as always, my brothers.

16:31

Let's take one last break that's still to come

16:33

with an update on Sean McVeigh's

16:35

future with the Los Angeles

16:36

ramps. And on

16:38

the Lakers' right that they deserved the foul

16:41

call that might have won the net double

16:43

over time game against the mask last night.

16:45

Spoiler alert. Hell no. Time

16:47

of the Lakers win you. Get a Lakers.

16:49

Stop. Win the game. And then

16:51

you came back from nineteen down, you played

16:53

great. I mean, it was a great game.

16:56

But stop. Well, stop whining. Please.

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Happy time. People happy twenty sixth

17:39

birthday, Connor McDavid. The Edmonton

17:41

Euler's captain and center leads the

17:43

NHL in both goals thirty five

17:46

and in the SIS forty four. Indeed

17:48

McDavid has finished first or second in

17:50

points each of the seven years he's

17:52

played in the league except his rookie year

17:54

when he only played forty five games. Was

17:56

the number one first overall pick

17:59

in the NHL draft two thousand fifteen

18:01

and he justified it. Recently, the athletic

18:03

wrote a piece projecting McDavid would

18:05

become the first player since Wayne Gretzky to score

18:07

two thousand points. McDavid and

18:09

teammate Leon DriCytle, A12

18:12

in scoring this year. Last year, they went

18:14

to the Western Conference finals before losing

18:16

to eventual Stanley Cup champ, Colorado.

18:19

Somehow, the orders are only eighth

18:21

in the West this year. He's

18:24

a beast, Tony. There's no doubt about that, but

18:26

how long is it gonna take him to win four

18:28

championships which is what Gretzky

18:31

did in that

18:32

sweater. How long is that gonna

18:34

take? That's that's important

18:36

to every people. Hello. Not sure we'll ever

18:38

do it. Happy anniversary, Tom Brady,

18:41

on this day ten years ago. Brady became

18:43

the winningest quarterback in NFL postseason

18:45

history wanted to put three hundred forty

18:47

four yards and three touchdowns. And

18:50

the Patriots beat Houston for Brady's seventeenth

18:52

playoff win. One more than Joe Montana.

18:55

Ten years later Montana remains in second

18:57

place, but the gap to Brady has

18:59

widened. Brady now has thirty

19:02

five playoff wins. With thirty

19:04

six available to him Monday night against Dallas.

19:06

Aaron Rogers is the closest active quarterback

19:09

to Brady, and he has eleven playoff wins.

19:11

Patrick Holmes has a. Think about

19:13

this. Brady is nineteen ahead

19:15

of the second play sky Montana. More

19:17

than double Montana is sixteen.

19:20

Nobody is ever going to catch Brady.

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This is world scoring a hundred. This is

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unapproachable

19:25

Mike. Yet, if

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you had to play a game or playoff game

19:30

tonight and your life was in the balance

19:32

to save your own

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life, would you start brady or

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Joe Montana, I'm expecting this to be a generational

19:39

answer. I know what mine is. I

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would not start Skyler Thompson. I can

19:43

say that declaratively HAPPING

19:45

TRAILS TO A POTENTIAL INGREZZA RACIA.

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COUBLESS AT THE END OF REGULATION

19:51

LAST NIGHT WITH THE SCORE TIED BETWEEN THE

19:53

LACURES AND MAVERICK the Lakers Troy Brown

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Junior, shot a three that missed therapy. Brown

19:58

was defended by Tim Hardaway Junior and the

20:00

Lakers cried foul. Indeed, LeBron

20:02

said, and I'm quoting here, That's a bleep been

20:04

foul. That bleep is blatant

20:06

unquote. And Lakers coach Darvin

20:08

him said a bit more genteeling quote,

20:11

it looked clear his day that it was a foul.

20:13

After the no call, the game went into overtime

20:15

and double overtime in Dallas one, a

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hundred nineteen, hundred fifteen behind Luca

20:20

Doncic. Getting thirty five points,

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fourteen rebounds, and thirteen assists.

20:25

It was dodgy just nine thirty

20:27

point triple double o season That's

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three more than the rest of the league combined.

20:31

By the way, it looks like Hardaway gets part

20:34

four, part brown. Yeah,

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I watched it

20:36

live. I thought it was a foul. So I sort of agree

20:38

with the Lakers even though I'm tweaking them. Well, you

20:40

know, wasn't a foul? Don'tchage extending

20:43

the game twice over time and

20:45

second over time with threes from

20:48

the same

20:49

spot. I mean, seriously, I don't wanna hear

20:51

the whining. Defend dodges. Course,

20:53

nobody can really descend doctors. Unbelievable.

20:55

They can. He's that good. He's that good. He's that An apparent

20:57

happy trails to Sean McVeigh leaving the

21:00

Rams, Diana Rizzini of ES PM is

21:02

reporting that McVey has told members

21:04

of the Rams organization he will be staying on

21:06

his head coach. McVey floated the idea

21:08

of leaving after the Rams went five twelve

21:10

this season in what he called a professional

21:12

failure. All of this is unusual because

21:14

the day just thirty six and signed a big

21:17

extension after the Rams won last season

21:19

Super

21:19

Bowl. Can

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he get all of his assistance back that he told they

21:23

could look for new jobs? I'm just wondering.

21:27

Let's go to the big finish. And let's know what college

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looks like. Number two Stanford, visit

21:31

your girl at number eight UCLA who

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you got.

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Hi. Kinky Rice, UCLA, a family,

21:37

like a like a family member. Come on. Now you know who

21:39

I got all year forever. Patrick,

21:41

my home's got forty nine and the fifty

21:43

first place both for first team up for quarterback.

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Wow. Doesn't that surprise