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okay one to that you've already deposit

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the island. Lesson. We've all been

2:01

there. All right. Here is what is

2:03

not on today's show not on today's

2:05

show Harden playing defense

2:07

on Kawhi That might

2:09

actually somebody asked me a question in the

2:12

comments on that because I've now decided I

2:14

want that in the show Not enough to

2:16

reorganize the whole thing It's

2:18

the dumbest play in NBA history and

2:20

that's a league that has employed Jordan

2:23

Poole for five years So we'll get

2:25

to that best sporting event of the

2:27

year for some March Madness tips off

2:30

in about 90 minutes, which means you

2:32

know if there's ever a

2:34

day for me to make massive errors or

2:36

drop an f-bomb on TV Today's

2:38

the day because nobody will be

2:40

watching It's a weird thing doing a

2:42

sports television show when you know, nobody's

2:44

watching it But that's gonna be the

2:46

case listen for maybe you people catch

2:48

it on YouTube after the fact and

2:51

then What might be the

2:53

biggest story in sports? So

2:56

you might say why is it not in the show

2:58

the Shohei Ohtani? his Interpreter

3:01

here is the loose facts

3:04

and I'm gonna put facts in quotes The

3:06

story as is being

3:08

told is Shohei Ohtani's interpreter

3:11

Was four and a half million in

3:14

the hole gambling

3:17

Shohei paid it off and

3:19

there is now an investigation I'm

3:22

going to go ahead and say More

3:24

facts are going to come out and I am

3:27

not Making any

3:29

allegations with that. I'm not

3:31

trying to protect anyone. I'm not trying to defame

3:33

anyone. I am simply Saying

3:37

this the Shohei Ohtani Discussion

3:40

right now Feels like

3:43

election night coverage when

3:45

all we have is those

3:48

six people that vote in Delaware

3:50

or wherever Vermont at midnight and

3:52

it's like oh four

3:55

to two Trumps ahead. It's

3:57

like well We could spend time

3:59

analyzing. Isn't that? or we could wait

4:01

literally a few hours or in this

4:04

case of few days before we have

4:06

real data. So. I think we're

4:08

going to get real information on the

4:10

show, a story, and rather than spend

4:12

a lot of time on it when

4:14

we have minimal information, I'd rather wait.

4:16

So my guess is by the next

4:18

time we're doing the pod. There.

4:21

Will be a real reporting on

4:23

it. A. I and I also

4:25

have the ability and good pals with

4:27

Jeff Bass and so all probably hit

4:29

him up this weekend and ask him

4:31

to give me the dummies version of.

4:34

What is known in what is believed and

4:36

then we can maybe talk about it more

4:39

Tuesday, But the speculation right now to me

4:41

seems a bit of a fool's errand, someone

4:43

I spent a lot of time on that

4:45

demands a. What? Are we going to spend

4:47

a lot of time on? Go ahead. Or

4:49

the Boston Celtics they play last night. Dame

4:51

and Tatum put on a little chaotic and

4:54

the both were able to t the game

4:56

pretty close despite live in the office so

4:58

are. We. Already know few thoughts on

5:00

these teams in the East, but use it's it's

5:02

kind of conflict. You've got. The box is your

5:04

final speak, but you have the Celtics a top

5:06

of your teeth of your fears or know. What's.

5:09

Up with that? Yeah, So.

5:11

Right now, the Celtics deserve

5:13

the respect to say they're

5:15

the best team in the

5:17

least. They. Have. A

5:20

Top six all time point differential that's

5:22

meaningful to me like that he is

5:25

and the other teams on that all

5:27

time point differential list are some of

5:29

the best teams ever. They.

5:31

Have a universally respected

5:33

excellent starting five. There

5:36

are healthy. And they

5:38

have. Seven. Wins

5:40

more. Than. Every other

5:42

team in the league. They're. Gonna

5:45

finish. Our

5:47

like? sixty five and

5:49

seventeen. And no other

5:51

team in the league is going to

5:53

get to sixty wins. So they deserved

5:56

to be a top the tears so

5:58

to speak. I

6:00

didn't believe that. While. Also

6:03

believing Milwaukee or Denver

6:05

would beat them in

6:07

a series. And

6:09

so to me those are. The.

6:11

The those two ideas are not

6:13

in conflict to least in my

6:16

mind. I already doing miami type

6:18

of thing. Well.

6:20

It, it's a little bit of that. Added.

6:22

That yeah he is. or. I guess it's

6:24

a lot of that. It's not that

6:27

I don't think the Celtics are a

6:29

good player. Post season team they made

6:31

a final they've made for conference finals

6:33

and stadiums. Been there. it's more that

6:35

I think. The. Box have

6:37

been a work in progress all

6:39

year. But. If we

6:42

pause and take a moment and

6:44

say. What

6:46

we thought of Milwaukee last year was

6:48

they need is a Guy just like

6:51

Dame. And. They added dame now

6:53

the deep and took a step back,

6:55

but I using some of the skepticism

6:57

about Milwaukee was or it's If you

7:00

add a guy like Dame, what does

7:02

it do to younis. Will.

7:04

Younis offensively and his

7:06

employer side obviously. You.

7:09

Could argue is having the best

7:11

season of his career. He's.

7:14

Averaging. Point. Three beneath

7:16

his career I am points. He's.

7:18

Averaging by a full half

7:20

assist, his career i in

7:23

assists and he's averaging by.

7:26

Four percentage points. His.

7:28

Best shooting percentage of reason

7:30

sixties. Thirty one points, eleven

7:32

rebounds, six assists sixty two

7:34

percent from the field. Every

7:36

single night. And. Here's

7:39

the other things that to me

7:41

is noteworthy about what the box

7:43

of done recently including last night

7:45

to bring it to last night.

7:48

The. Box ability as of late.

7:51

So. Play these other good

7:53

to excellent teams. And

7:56

to play them with out

7:58

younis. And. To.

8:01

Be. Really good. I

8:03

think is highly impressive. So

8:06

they didn't have Yannis for the Clippers

8:08

game they won. They didn't have Yannis

8:10

for the Suns game they won. They

8:12

didn't have the on his last night.

8:15

And that was a three. Point game against the

8:17

full frank Celtics team in Boston.

8:20

I actually think that and I

8:22

think John is. Missing.

8:24

A little bit of time here. Could.

8:27

Actually be. Good for

8:29

the box in this regard. It. Allows

8:32

Dame. To. Really?

8:34

Get no pre poll season riddle.

8:37

Woods. Dames been good but not

8:39

great this year. Dame. Has not

8:42

been as good as he was

8:44

last year and dame talked about.

8:46

Kind. Of the emotional toll that

8:48

you know.divorced dad to move.

8:50

he feels lonely. All.

8:53

Those things are real things Sidebar

8:55

of the Sidebar demands. I. Did.

8:58

You see the De Andre Eight and quote. Oh

9:01

who knows? You already know

9:03

nothing. Wrong. No, not

9:06

suit on himself. So.

9:08

I'm gonna read it to you. And

9:11

then I'm. The. Altai This to the

9:13

dame Self animal. So. I'm

9:15

gonna redo the story from Kurt

9:17

Island on back or pro basketball.

9:20

It. Has taken the andre in a while just

9:22

to Portland. Both. On and off the

9:25

court Back in November, he averaged sports

9:27

scene and nine suit and fifty nine

9:29

percent solid numbers, but eight was passive

9:31

much of the time that the inside

9:33

presence blizzard with downing on since the

9:35

break. Ah, dick. eight

9:37

in his average twenty four and

9:39

fourteen on sixty four percent. So.

9:42

What saints? Aden

9:44

talked about that of Just Through There and

9:46

centers of the Oregonian. Ah,

9:48

And this is what he wrote. Those is

9:50

what he said quote. My. Body just

9:52

wasn't my body. People.

9:54

Forget. The. Humane difference of

9:57

me adjusting the everything. i

9:59

did see that just be the mattress

10:01

just be all right good yes yes

10:05

just being comfortable waking up quote

10:09

I didn't have a bed for quite

10:11

some time I was

10:13

on an error mattress just trying to

10:15

figure things out so I'm

10:17

now going to give you two facts

10:21

fact one DeAndre

10:23

Aiten is 25 years

10:25

old fact two

10:28

DeAndre Aiten currently makes

10:32

32 million dollars a

10:34

year I'm gonna add

10:36

a third fact fact three DeAndre

10:39

Aiten makes his money with his body

10:43

if you are a grown man and

10:45

you are in the mid

10:48

eight figure earnings club you know what I'm

10:51

gonna lower that if you're in the seven

10:53

you know what I'm gonna lower that if

10:55

you're in the mid six figure earnings club

10:57

if you're a grown man making more than

11:01

two hundred thousand dollars a

11:03

year and your body is how you

11:05

make your money you're

11:07

not allowed to sleep on an air mattress for more

11:09

than one night and that has to be a really

11:12

disastrous scenario for it to be one night that

11:14

is when he's like when he's

11:16

like oh my goodness the humane part of

11:19

it here's the here's the adult part of

11:21

it I'm a super

11:23

rich guy this is affecting

11:25

my performance at work I

11:28

need the best bed available in

11:30

the Portland area delivered to my

11:32

house today and

11:35

oh wait you're gonna charge me

11:37

you know triple for overnight shipping

11:39

you know what I've got it

11:41

and it's my job to me they pay

11:43

me this to make sure things

11:46

like sleeping on an air

11:48

mattress are not part

11:50

of you know the potential difficulties

11:53

so when people say the humane

11:56

parts of NBA players I guess

11:58

I'm inhumane there that That

12:00

quote right there Sorry,

12:02

DeAndre Aiden. You're not a serious person

12:06

You're not an adult yet. I am

12:08

NOT comfortable with you being a major

12:10

part of my franchise now Dame

12:13

saying I'm lonely

12:15

and I'm going through a dose that

12:18

I totally understand money doesn't fix

12:20

that But if

12:22

you are super rich and you

12:25

are having a problem that literally

12:27

money fixes like I Like

12:29

let me ask you this if DeAndre Aiden had

12:32

said well, you know, I wasn't

12:35

playing well because

12:38

The place I moved to the

12:40

fridge and stove were broken So

12:43

I hadn't eaten for a week. Would you

12:45

say oh this poor guy? Would

12:48

you say you know what buddy you got to figure that one out? There's

12:50

options there the air mattress is

12:53

not a viable excuse So

12:55

what I try to be an

12:57

empathetic person and for Dame going

12:59

through a divorce I can only

13:01

imagine How horrifying

13:03

moving away from your family? Those are

13:06

real things that I think too often

13:08

people like a you're rich get over

13:10

it Money doesn't help you

13:12

there It might ease some of

13:14

the things like you can see your family

13:16

easier than someone who's not rich can but

13:18

so I feel for Dame in that regard

13:21

DeAndre Aiden talking about sleeping on an air

13:23

mattress is honest to God one of the

13:25

most embarrassing quotes from an athlete in years

13:27

like give me a brand money I Get

13:30

that either. I also just told

13:32

one of the producers of the podcast and I

13:34

couldn't watch TV over the weekend by accident but

13:37

uh like Internet

13:41

actually not similar scenario. No not internet problem

13:43

I was just tied up had some things

13:45

but I initially led with I wasn't able

13:47

to watch TV this weekend And that just

13:49

wasn't true. So it's like but

13:52

the anything I didn't I didn't understand I didn't get why

13:54

he was saying he had to sleep on air. I could

13:56

have slept in a hotel Bunch

13:58

other. We're. Also listen

14:01

while you in Aden are the

14:03

same age you and eight and

14:05

do not have the same ability

14:07

to fix problems with money so

14:09

like a view if your work

14:11

was hampered if when you moved

14:14

to L A. Was. Like

14:16

man, I'm fallen behind at work because

14:18

I can't work from home because the

14:20

internet's not set up in my house.

14:22

Yes, that. Does. Not make

14:24

you less of an adult. That

14:27

is a legitimate excuse for someone

14:29

that is starting off in their

14:31

careers. If you made thirty, Two

14:34

mil if every two. Weeks demands

14:36

a you got direct deposited.

14:38

A million for in your bank

14:41

account and you told your employer

14:43

like sorry behind on emails my

14:45

a hotspot got caught office then

14:47

they'll say okay and are serious

14:49

person ah I'm. So. How

14:52

does is Abdul with celtics box of

14:54

his? I was talking about de Mille

14:56

awards more a pseudo say and zip.

14:58

Here's the thing is about the celtics. Tell me view

15:00

agree with me to mom's a. This.

15:03

Celtic season. Feels.

15:05

A little. Ravens

15:08

He. In this

15:10

regard, If

15:13

you don't get over the hump now, when are

15:15

you going to? So.

15:18

You him beat his hurt. The

15:20

Box fired their coats. They don't

15:22

You know what I mean. They say the box

15:25

and he wasn't. that our last year with the

15:27

Celtics to I guess now the big up was

15:29

induced. They made their baxter moves say as though

15:31

they got for zingers. They got through. You know,

15:34

I mean that is a. Little. Of

15:36

the last year they weren't the one

15:38

seed Milwaukee was. There were a lot

15:40

arabia who it. On.

15:43

And so. There

15:45

is an element of. If.

15:47

This Celtics team this season. All.

15:50

At one caviar. If they

15:52

get to the finals. And

15:55

play a very competitive series

15:57

against Denver. and

15:59

joe good Yo-Kits just kills them

16:01

then maybe the Celtics don't

16:04

re-tool anything and they're just like, you know what?

16:07

We we are running up against a

16:09

generational player the Correct,

16:12

but you might say well, that's what happened to

16:14

the Ravens But that isn't what I guess the

16:17

this year's Chiefs team That

16:19

didn't have the profile that this year's Nuggets

16:22

team has nobody is watching this year's Nuggets

16:24

team saying This is the worst Nuggets team

16:26

in years that there's something wrong with them

16:29

And so but if the Celtics fail to

16:31

make the finals or make

16:34

the finals and lose to anyone But Denver

16:36

or make the finals and lose to Denver, but

16:38

it's a washout Then I

16:40

think they have real hard questions

16:43

to answer about are

16:45

we really really really good? But

16:48

not gonna be good enough. All right next All

16:51

right. So Caleb had his pro day yesterday

16:53

and his future teammate Keenan Allen was in

16:55

attendance You said on

16:57

your show yesterday the cable fall somewhere

16:59

between Troy Aikman and Terry Bradshaw So

17:02

that means about three to four balls

17:04

maybe well, let me I like

17:07

how you put them right at where Patrick Mahomes

17:09

Is right now give you a little time that

17:11

no, so that's not even how it

17:14

happened Wild's went through the

17:16

15 most successful successful

17:19

number one overall pick quarterbacks

17:21

and He was like do

17:24

you think Caleb will be better than this guy

17:26

then this guy then and so

17:28

great He asked me

17:30

would he be better than Aikman? I

17:33

said yes, and the next name he

17:35

said was Bradshaw and I said no

17:37

so that you know I

17:39

mean that's where I got so much

17:41

that he's necessarily winning that

17:43

many Super Bowls But it is that

17:46

I think he will be a better player than

17:48

Aikman Bradshaw

17:51

is you know kind of universally

17:53

can see that considered one of the

17:55

ten greatest quarterbacks ever Am

17:58

I Gonna go ahead and install? Caleb

18:00

their that seems a little to bullish but

18:02

I do them. Caleb is gonna be great

18:05

but go ahead. Is I

18:07

mean? with that said, Oh. And you

18:09

think about how long do you think it'll be into his

18:11

who moms and kill whims face off in a Super Bowl.

18:15

So. Here's the funny thing about Super

18:17

Bowls. We

18:19

very rarely get. Marino

18:23

Montana. Now. We

18:25

I use that example because we

18:28

did good. Marino. Montana and

18:30

the won Superbowl Marino. One words

18:32

like these are the two best

18:35

quarterbacks alive And they're in the

18:37

Superbowl and you know you got

18:39

Aikman Kelly twice. Ah,

18:41

but. Neither. Eight min Nord

18:44

Kelly. Were. Really in the

18:46

argument for the best quarterback in

18:48

the lead? Ah, You didn't get

18:50

far of l way. But. Elway

18:52

was at the very

18:55

very end. A

18:57

and was no longer in Bpl

18:59

way. But. It's

19:01

pretty rare. That. You

19:03

did. You. Know to

19:05

top three or four quarterbacks against

19:08

each other in a Super Bowl.

19:10

So. Of wheat like Lutz is go

19:13

backwards and see in a So yes

19:15

I do think Calebs going to be

19:17

a superstar quarterback fight and some of

19:19

that exists happenstance. Like Brady and Manning

19:22

played in the same conference forever. So

19:24

they played five times in the

19:26

play, but they could never play in

19:29

the Superbowl because they will for the

19:31

entirety of Manning's career. They're both in

19:33

the A of See So pure

19:35

the Superbowl matchups. That. We've

19:37

had. Just. Going backwards. More.

19:40

Homes Party. So. That's number

19:42

one vs like number nineteen to grow

19:44

more homes hurt. More. Homes Hurts

19:47

Now That was the Mvp in

19:49

the Mbp runner up, but I

19:51

don't know how that's going to

19:54

Aids. Historically right, people rely on

19:56

while. i'm burrow

19:58

stafford Pretty good. Two

20:01

guys both firmly in the top seven

20:03

or eight. Brady

20:06

Mahomes, obviously, a legendary

20:08

matchup. The

20:11

game ended up not being a good game, but

20:14

that was, from a quarterback perspective, probably

20:16

the best you could have hoped for.

20:20

Mahomes Garoppolo, no good. Brady

20:23

Goff, when Goff was at that, you

20:25

know, I understand, well, Goff wasn't

20:27

struggling yet, and that one looked better

20:29

in the moment than it does now, and also that was

20:31

a 13-3. Brady

20:34

Foles, whatever. Brady Matt

20:36

Ryan, the year Matt Ryan won

20:38

NFL MVP, that's a pretty great

20:40

one, and ended up being one

20:42

of the greatest Super Bowls ever. Peyton

20:46

Manning, Cam Newton, but that

20:48

year Peyton got benched. Like

20:50

that year Peyton was at the very, very end.

20:53

So Peyton got hurt and got benched

20:56

and then came back. I

20:58

think he had, you're not going to believe, the

21:00

year Peyton won his last Super Bowl to Mase,

21:03

and I love this part of, I know

21:05

I've said this so many times, but I

21:07

love this part of the pod, the like natural

21:09

discovery from things that happened when you were in

21:12

high school or earlier, and I'm not being a

21:14

smart ass here. I'm not at all. I hope

21:16

that I'm not taking a shot. No, no, seriously,

21:18

when we get to these, we are wandering off

21:21

into uncharted territory for me. Like

21:23

I am learning new stuff. Yeah, exactly. So,

21:25

so Peyton's final year in

21:27

Denver, he had nine

21:29

touchdowns, 17 interceptions,

21:32

and a 68 passer rating, and

21:35

they won the Super Bowl. So like

21:37

whenever, so it's such a unique spot. Peyton's

21:40

second year in Denver. Was there a running game really guys? No,

21:43

they had Von Miller, DeMarcus, they had one

21:45

of the best defenses in the league. Peyton's

21:49

second year in Denver, when they made the Super Bowl

21:51

and lost, he had 5500 yards and

21:54

55 touchdowns, one of the greatest,

21:56

maybe the greatest quarterbacking season ever.

22:00

And by the end of his

22:02

third year, you could tell, oh wait, he's

22:04

not the same guy. And then

22:06

his final year in Denver, he got

22:08

hurt. They didn't, Brock

22:10

Osweiler took over, Peyton then took

22:12

back over, and Peyton

22:14

was just not the, and even in

22:16

that playoff run, in that

22:19

entire playoff run when they won the title,

22:21

Peyton threw for two touchdowns and one pick. Just

22:23

wasn't the same guy. All right, so back to

22:25

what we were doing here. Brady

22:31

Russell Wilson was pretty good. And

22:35

Russell Wilson, prime Peyton Manning was

22:37

pretty good. But then

22:39

you have things like Flacco Cap,

22:43

Brady Eli, Big

22:46

Ben Rodgers is

22:49

probably the best,

22:51

like Caleb Mahomes possibility, which

22:53

is, you know, Rodgers at

22:56

that point was maybe, you know, in route

22:58

to being considered maybe the best quarterback in

23:00

the league alongside Brady and Manning. Big Ben

23:02

was already a Super Bowl

23:04

champion a couple

23:06

times over. And so

23:10

that's a really good one. And obviously,

23:12

Breeze Peyton when it was prime

23:14

Peyton. So that's

23:17

just, you know, going through the last 15 years. So

23:20

it is our bet.

23:22

If Caleb makes a Super Bowl,

23:24

and I believe he will, he's

23:27

almost, it's almost guaranteed that

23:29

it's going to be a great Super Bowl matchup

23:32

because it's either going

23:34

to be him against Mahomes or him

23:36

against Allen or him against Lamar or

23:38

him against CJ, you know, it's going

23:41

to be, or him against the Prince

23:43

or him against, it's Justin. It's going

23:45

to be, it's very hard to imagine

23:47

an AFC team without a great quarterback

23:50

going, you know what I mean, making it to

23:52

the Super Bowl in this era. But

23:54

yeah, I, my confidence in Caleb is

23:56

as high as it's been. Go ahead. What's

23:59

your question? I mean do you think you'll be there in the

24:01

next three? Well,

24:05

so here's another thing and I know that

24:07

with this podcast we're kind of doing bit

24:09

of history lessons, but the

24:13

quarterbacks that make Super

24:15

Bowls Make

24:17

them early Ross

24:20

made two on his rookie deal

24:22

Mahomes made two on his rookie

24:24

deal Burrow made one on his

24:27

rookie deal Cam was

24:29

at the end of his rookie deal Flacco

24:32

who's not a great player was at

24:34

the end of his rookie deal.

24:36

Uh You know ever

24:38

since the new Pay

24:41

the when the Eagles made it they

24:43

had Wentz on his rookie deal He got hurt

24:45

foals was the backup but it went got him

24:47

to 12 and 3 or whatever They were 13

24:50

and 2 something and then Jalen obviously

24:53

on his rookie deal Purdy was on

24:55

his rookie deal. So Caleb

24:59

is the guy that I think he is the

25:02

Bears probably should make

25:05

a Super Bowl in the next

25:07

five years if He

25:09

is the guy that now Lamar's great. He

25:11

hasn't made one Josh Allen's great He hasn't

25:13

made one, but those guys have had to

25:15

go through Mahomes Their best

25:17

years have all been ended by Patrick. You

25:20

don't really have that so much in the

25:22

NFC Go ahead. It seems like

25:24

you want to I honestly the these

25:26

situations always confuse me I thought of

25:28

it in my mind Some

25:30

reason I thought of my work It's probably really

25:32

bad But as far as when teams trade up

25:34

or they trade away players to get higher in

25:36

the draft What if like the

25:38

49ers gave Brandon I uke in like Oh

25:40

trailing doesn't even play there anymore I guess

25:42

like Brandon I uke and Brock Purdy maybe

25:45

To maybe move up to the second spot

25:47

or maybe take the first spot from the Bears I

25:50

get it's very likely it's so I would say

25:52

no But in the off chance

25:54

that the Bears were attracted to those two.

25:56

So is it a money thing is No

26:00

salami. What you're saying is. What

26:03

a team! That. Has

26:05

cause I know what you're saying. I don't

26:07

know if the audience's exactly what you're saying

26:09

we're seeing that feels like. It

26:12

has. It as really good

26:14

players but not good enough to break through.

26:16

Would. They want to kind of reset.

26:19

The. Back to say scale

26:21

clocked. Me the

26:23

pyramid someones was. Exactly.

26:26

Right? So the Niners are in a

26:28

great example because their quarterback doesn't make

26:30

any money but the laws there is

26:32

so that the So the example for

26:35

that is. Why the

26:37

Chargers teams in Dallas Cowboys?

26:41

Said. To. The New England

26:43

Patriots. Will. Trade zu

26:45

den. For. The third overall

26:47

pick. You. Get stability unknown

26:49

factor at quarterback while you try

26:52

to build up thrust your team

26:54

and we can resign. Cv Resigned

26:56

My god try to soap and

26:58

zip with out the my hair.

27:00

It's you. Didn't realize it when

27:02

you were saying it. This is

27:05

exactly what the Niners did with

27:07

Three Lance. They had Jimmy G

27:09

on a semi expensive contracts they

27:11

had been to a Superbowl. They

27:13

had been banging on the door.

27:15

They weren't good enough. So instead

27:18

of treating. Players they traded for

27:20

a first round draft picks.

27:23

To. Move up so they could

27:25

start the rookie contract plaza over

27:27

fair. That's what they did. And

27:29

so there's yeah, what your described.

27:31

Bill Barnwell wrote an article. For.

27:34

Five years ago. About. This exact

27:36

question. And. It was about the

27:39

Rams with Goff any was ahead of his time

27:41

on it was before they paid Goff. He.

27:43

Was because it was when golf. the bloom

27:45

was coming off the rose a bit. And.

27:48

The question was. Would.

27:50

There ever be a team. That.

27:53

Drafts the quarterback. develops

27:55

that quarterback. Turns. that

27:58

quarterback into a frames

28:00

quarterback and instead

28:02

of giving him the massive extension

28:05

that then makes them have to

28:07

tear away pieces of their team

28:10

trades him for a

28:12

top five pick so they

28:14

can start the process always

28:18

and always have a superstar

28:20

supporting cast you know

28:23

what I mean like wood and so if

28:25

you that that to me

28:27

is a legitimate

28:30

question if you

28:32

have a quarterback let me find the

28:34

right quarterback example of

28:38

who would you've got to

28:40

really thread the needle and you've got

28:42

to have the confidence in your own

28:44

drafting and evaluations that you can

28:46

then so I'll give you an

28:48

example if

28:50

I were the Miami Dolphins and

28:55

the Minnesota Vikings were

28:58

willing to give me the

29:01

Vikings wouldn't do this but just follow me here the 11th

29:04

pick of the draft for Tua and

29:08

I'm like alright sitting there I can

29:10

draft panics I might be

29:12

able to draft McCarthy maybe they love BONIX

29:14

which I wouldn't understand whatever but

29:17

are we better off making sure

29:19

we can keep waddle we can

29:22

keep Tyreke we can do all

29:24

these things rather than this offseason

29:27

pay to a like

29:29

he's great when we know he has

29:31

a ceiling that to me is a

29:35

legitimate question like that's

29:37

a lead correct and so

29:39

I I would the now

29:42

quarterbacks like you mentioned Justin

29:44

Herbert Herbert I think

29:46

is too talented to

29:48

roll the dice on that but the

29:51

Chargers right now are drafting and the way

29:53

his contract works because they've already paid him

29:57

they could they can't actually trade him right

29:59

now But we know how

30:01

much Harbaugh loves JJ McCarthy. They're sitting

30:03

at 5E Coach McCarthy. In

30:05

this fake world where Justin Herbert's

30:09

tradable, would

30:13

it be

30:16

a viable thought exercise that

30:19

someone like the Chargers like, you know what, we don't wanna

30:21

have to cut Keenan Allen, or

30:24

trade Keenan Allen. We

30:26

don't wanna have to tear our team down, and

30:29

we wanna get younger through the draft. You

30:32

know, what could you get for Justin Herbert?

30:34

From again, I'll use New England. Would New England

30:37

give you the third overall pick, and

30:39

their second round pick, and next

30:41

year's number one for Justin Herbert?

30:43

The answer is yes, they almost assuredly would.

30:46

And then could we draft our

30:48

quarterback, and Marvin Harrison, and

30:50

have an extra first round pick? These

30:53

are legitimate conversations

30:56

that nobody in NFL front

30:59

offices is having, because

31:01

trading away a stability

31:03

at the quarterback position is so terrifying.

31:05

It's unheard of. But if you just,

31:08

right, if you had, if

31:10

you owned the team and ran it, and

31:16

just could do whatever you wanted, it

31:18

would be an interesting idea. So I

31:20

knew what you were saying. You didn't

31:23

phrase it exactly right. But it is,

31:25

it's a smarter idea than

31:27

like you gave yourself

31:29

credit for. All right, let's, oh

31:31

by the way, DeAndre, I'm

31:34

told DeAndre, listen. He

31:37

listened to the show, and he actually just sent us a picture

31:39

of his room. Yeah,

31:41

I mean, it's just, I mean,

31:43

come on, man. I mean, come on, man.

31:49

This job is hilarious, the basketball. All right, this

31:51

is why you should watch on YouTube. This is

31:53

why you should subscribe to the show. All right,

31:55

next. All right, so the

31:58

Jets clearly haven't learned their lesson. Yeah.

32:01

So they they've signed more players that are

32:03

com or of injuries. ah the eleven of

32:05

their games this year will be coming from

32:07

seems that what their had winning records into

32:09

the other twenty three another quarterback Aaron Rodgers

32:12

is are running for vice President's Is it

32:14

time for Jets fans to be excited about

32:16

this coming season or who they just be

32:18

set themselves up for failure. Or

32:20

disappointment serial. The thing that I

32:23

just don't understand. I.

32:25

And I guess I do understand it.

32:27

I just think it is. So

32:30

ludicrous. That. Though,

32:33

we're just fine with that.

32:36

folks. Are don't have a problem with

32:38

it. So. The old

32:40

this tackle. Signed. In

32:42

Free Agency. The. Oldest. Is

32:45

Tyron Smith. I. Am looking

32:47

at it on Spock. She's. The only

32:50

tackle over thirty two years old

32:52

that's as signed in free agency.

32:54

Okay, The. Jets also.

32:57

Signed. Are traded for another

33:00

tackle. Morgan. Moses who's a

33:02

good player and a healthy player. Sees.

33:04

Also, thirty three years old.

33:07

If we then go to wide

33:09

receivers. Those.

33:12

Who. Do y u do like are Mike Williams

33:14

isn't that old? The. Wide

33:17

receivers that have been signed.

33:19

That. Are older than Mike. Williams is

33:22

the want a Parker. Who.

33:24

Got. Five million

33:26

max probably a million

33:28

guaranteed And Matt Collins.

33:31

Ah, Who got? i'm trying to

33:33

look at a million guaranteed and then

33:36

Mike Williams. Those are the only do

33:38

wide receivers who have signed who are

33:40

older than Mike Williams. wire Tyron Smith

33:42

of Mike Williams available. Because.

33:45

In the last two years they have each

33:47

miss seventeen and eighteen games. So.

33:49

A team that last year was

33:51

derailed by having an old injury

33:54

prone roster. Signed. Old

33:56

injury prone players. and

33:59

they're like ah Can't blame

34:01

us if it goes wrong. So

34:03

I just think it's a ludicrous

34:05

way to run your team and they're

34:07

doing it all in service of

34:10

an old, the oldest player

34:12

in the league coming

34:14

off a torn Achilles. So

34:16

I think the jets are

34:19

poorly run. Clubby's getting fired. Not

34:22

the end of the season. Well, they

34:24

made these moves because

34:26

if they

34:29

say trying to save their jobs,

34:32

like ah, my, this is the

34:35

old you

34:37

have. Eh,

34:40

this is not a perfect analogy, but I'll use

34:42

it and people don't do this. Let's do it.

34:44

You have squandered the

34:48

half of the company's expense account

34:51

and the next day you have a

34:53

meeting where they're going to do an audit of

34:55

it and you're like, oh my

34:57

God, they expect there to be

34:59

a hundred thousand dollars here. If they see

35:01

there's 50 I'm

35:04

fired. I'm just fired. Well,

35:08

I guess I'm going to take the 50 that's

35:10

left and put it

35:12

on black on one spin of the

35:14

roulette wheel. If I win,

35:17

then I keep my job.

35:19

If I lose, I was

35:21

fired anyway, which for your

35:23

like game theory of your

35:25

own personal wellbeing, I guess

35:28

makes sense. But for the company,

35:31

for the people you answer to, it's like, well,

35:33

wait a minute here, we can't

35:35

get like the 50 you blew is

35:38

gone, but let's not risk another 50.

35:41

And so the jets had this

35:43

amazing 2022 draft. They

35:46

got sauce Garrett Wilson, Jermaine Johnson,

35:48

and breeze hall. And

35:51

then last year was totally squandered

35:54

because they chase the Aaron Rodgers

35:56

rabbit without ever addressing the offensive

35:58

line. Maybe they're gonna

36:01

squander this year trying to build as

36:03

if the NFL doesn't exist after this

36:05

year, so I don't buy it I

36:07

don't like the hype and I

36:10

don't know what evidence people have there

36:12

Rogers is gonna be great again He

36:15

what last year he was injured the year

36:17

before he was mediocre

36:19

all year long so we've

36:21

got to go a ways

36:23

back Like Tom Brady has

36:25

been great more recently than Aaron

36:27

Rodgers has been great That's

36:30

noteworthy all right next pretty

36:32

noteworthy all right so

36:34

rumors are 49ers wide receiver Brandon I

36:36

you could be on the run He's

36:39

been linked to Pittsburgh. I think for those watching

36:41

on YouTube. We may show a tweet but

36:45

You so here. Let me just add

36:48

some context here He

36:50

tweeted to Mike Tomlin saying that they're saying

36:52

we look like twins Think I

36:54

see a resemblance, but here's why

36:56

it's noteworthy Ayuk had

36:58

not tweeted in 11

37:01

months So he gets linked

37:03

to the Steelers by friend of the pot

37:05

Andrew Phillip pony who broke that story by

37:07

the way um and Then

37:10

he tweets about it, so that's why there's

37:12

a little smoke where there might be some fire, but

37:14

go ahead I mean you

37:17

say where there's smoke I guess Yeah,

37:19

so you said that signs for changes to

37:21

come in San Francisco So question

37:24

is so the 49ers in for the for a

37:26

big regression like you predicted last year I? Don't

37:30

know that they're in for a big regression and to

37:32

be fair last year. I still had him making the

37:34

playoffs I just thought quarterback play would

37:37

bite them earlier than it did it turned out

37:39

it didn't bite them till the Super Bowl so

37:41

bully for them, but uh the

37:44

here is Here is what

37:46

is trip? Currently

37:49

have The highest paid

37:51

running back in football the highest paid full

37:53

back in football the highest paid tight end

37:55

in football The highest paid

37:57

left tackle in football the highest paid

37:59

defense of player of any position in

38:01

football, the highest paid middle linebacker in

38:04

football. That's six positions. They

38:06

also pay Deebo three or 70

38:09

million bucks. When

38:12

all of those things happen, it's

38:15

hard to then pay Brandon Ayuk, right?

38:18

And that's the beef. The beef is he

38:20

wants a contract. And if

38:22

the Niners believe Murray is the real

38:24

deal, they know that at some

38:26

point they're going to have to pay him, he's

38:28

going to go from 1 million to 50 million.

38:33

So the point that I

38:35

am making is, oh, and they signed,

38:38

who's the big de-tackle they signed in the

38:40

off season to a big, oh, Javon Hargrave.

38:42

They gave him a big deal this past

38:45

off season. That's why, I

38:47

don't want to say quietly, but they

38:49

cut Eric Armstead because the

38:51

salary gap chickens

38:54

are starting to come

38:56

home to roost a bit. And

38:59

it's why not winning

39:01

the Super Bowl last year or the year

39:03

before, they, I don't

39:05

want to say they were all in, but

39:08

they were highly leveraged. And

39:11

the odds that they are ever going to have

39:13

more raw talent on the field than they had

39:15

in last year's Super Bowl is low. And

39:18

so I think Ayuk's an excellent player. So

39:22

next year they're going to be going to

39:24

war with no Eric Armstead. Don't

39:26

know the status of Dre Greenlaw, which

39:28

is sad and sucks, but he

39:31

popped his Achilles in the final game of the

39:33

year. We don't know about

39:35

Ayuk. Now they will have Hufanga back

39:37

because he tore his ACL early last

39:39

year and Hufanga's awesome. But that's

39:41

another guy they need money for. I think Hufanga's

39:43

probably in line next year to become the highest

39:46

paid safety in the league. So

39:49

I just think the Niners, I don't

39:51

want to say they missed their opportunity,

39:54

but the window is

39:56

slowly closing on having this

39:58

All-Star team. That's all. That's

40:01

all I'm saying. So, I know, I mean,

40:04

they're not saying that he's going to Pittsburgh, but you

40:06

weren't high on Pittsburgh when they got Russell Wilson. If

40:09

they got Iuk, how would you

40:11

feel about Pittsburgh's post-season success? Oh, it'd be great for Justin

40:13

Fields. It'd be great

40:15

for Justin, I mean, for their eventual

40:17

starting quarterback, Justin Fields. The

40:20

problem for Iuk's fit in Pittsburgh with

40:22

Russ is, Russ doesn't throw over the

40:24

middle of the field. Even

40:26

when Russ was great, he didn't throw over the middle of the

40:28

field. Why doesn't he throw over the middle of the field? He

40:30

can't see it. He's too short.

40:33

It's just the reality. I know people

40:35

are like, ah, that's unfair. No, it's just true that

40:37

the first shorter quarterback seeing over the

40:39

middle of the field is the hardest

40:41

part to see, that intermediate middle. And

40:45

that's where Iuk, you know, Iuk doesn't make

40:47

his money on those deep

40:49

routes that Russ is still great at. He makes his

40:52

money over the middle of the field. But

40:55

in Justin Fields, we don't know where he

40:57

throws because he hasn't been a consistent passer

40:59

yet, but we know he can see everywhere

41:01

because he's a regular quarterback size. All

41:04

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All right, welcome back in, We'll Try With Nick

44:13

Wright, episode 223. Demondi,

44:16

let's roll, and by the way, don't forget your

44:18

questions and comments for the C block. Let's try

44:20

to roll through this as quickly as

44:22

possible because that was a 40 minute

44:24

A block because I spent eight minutes on

44:27

DeAndre Ayton's air mattress and another 10 minutes

44:29

on Super Bowl history that was not scheduled

44:31

part of the rundown. Okay,

44:33

go ahead. Yeah,

44:35

we're playing right or wrong. First off, we start

44:37

off with Zion. The Pelicans are on a roll,

44:39

and Zion has reportedly lost 25 pounds in

44:42

the course of the season. Right or

44:44

wrong, Zion is officially here to stay.

44:48

So I think, I wanna

44:50

tentatively say right, and

44:53

I just think that with

44:56

tempered expectations. When

44:58

Zion came into the league, I said, this guy's gonna be an

45:00

MVP. And you guys

45:02

know how strongly I feel about how good you've

45:05

gotta be to be an MVP. I

45:07

thought that's who he was gonna be. And

45:09

I still think,

45:11

oddly, Zion's second

45:13

year, which

45:16

was, he played 60 games

45:19

that year, and keep in mind that

45:21

was not a 82 game season. So

45:23

he played 60 games, and

45:26

I think it was a 76 game season,

45:30

I could be wrong, maybe it was, it doesn't matter. He

45:33

was 27 a night on 61% from the field at 20 years

45:35

old. No

45:40

one, not even Prime Shack had done that. That's

45:43

almost the numbers you were saying Giannis

45:46

is putting up just earlier this season.

45:48

So the, by the way, you're right.

45:51

The, well, so Giannis has more

45:53

rebounds and assists. Giannis is having,

45:56

you know, maybe

45:58

the greatest. high-volume

46:00

scoring high efficiency percentage

46:02

season ever but that

46:04

obvious Giannis's season this year obviously hadn't

46:07

happened then and so Zion

46:09

did something that no one had done up to

46:11

that point and then it

46:13

went sideways for him on and off the

46:15

court and now he is he's played

46:18

57 games so he's gonna play

46:21

probably close to 70 games

46:23

the Pelicans are good he's

46:25

been really good but

46:27

I no longer look at him like oh he might be the best

46:29

player in the league one day I look at

46:31

him like oh he could talented as

46:34

hell they counted as hell and

46:37

a good player like you know

46:39

I mean he should be a multi-time all-star

46:42

but not an MVP candidate and so

46:44

that's kind of a bummer but it

46:46

by the way a year ago

46:49

even this was in question it

46:52

was is he gonna is his weight

46:54

is his health is never

46:56

been with basketball right it's

46:58

always like it's

47:01

always off the court stuff

47:03

like discipline yeah so when

47:05

he played he was always

47:07

excellent right but he

47:09

doesn't seem quite as exploit

47:12

like explosive he's just not

47:14

quite as good as he

47:17

was right when he came into the league but he's

47:19

healthier and the pelicans are good so I'm

47:21

buying that this could be the new look

47:24

Zion which is good and bad so to

47:26

speak all right next so

47:28

a top receiver in the draft Marvin Harrison

47:30

jr. didn't work out at the combine and

47:33

now he's skipped working out at his pro

47:35

day he slated to go

47:37

after the top three quarterbacks to Arizona but

47:39

does he does it it seems like he might not

47:42

want to right or wrong Marvin

47:44

Harrison jr. is trying to avoid Kyler wrong

47:47

I don't think that's what's happening

47:49

here at all I think

47:52

it's that he is correctly saying

47:55

watch the tape I am good

47:57

enough I don't have to jump through these hoops

47:59

is the last thing I mean the last thing that last football we saw

48:01

him play was for Ohio State and so So,

48:09

I mean he hasn't done any of the stuff guys

48:11

normally do but I'm okay with that. This is the

48:15

the guys that are That

48:18

can I think Marvin's in a place

48:20

where he can't really help his draft

48:23

stock And he

48:25

can now can he hurt it? Like

48:27

I know there are some Neighbors

48:30

might go ahead of him, but I think that

48:32

perversed while I don't buy it second of all

48:35

He's not falling out of the tops He's

48:37

never he's never going top three because

48:40

it's gonna go quarterback quarterback quarterback And

48:42

he was never going past seven So

48:45

he's almost assured he is assuredly gonna be the

48:47

first or second wide receiver taken and he's almost

48:49

assuredly gonna be the first Wide receiver taken so

48:52

he's saying I don't have to do this, so

48:54

I'm fine with it. Um alright

48:56

next All right According

48:58

to say Quan after his move to

49:00

the Eagles his daughter said does that

49:02

mean we're gonna start we're gonna win

49:04

now right or wrong Saquon's daughter knows

49:07

ball right or wrong Saquon's daughter

49:09

well I was

49:13

Right I I Believe

49:15

she said it. I'll go ahead

49:18

and say she knows ball I don't think the Eagles

49:20

are gonna be great, but they're gonna be better than

49:22

the Giants were so yeah You know what

49:24

I mean all I don't want to I don't

49:26

want to talk about Saquon's daughter I should have taken this one out

49:28

of the show Yeah,

49:33

all right next The

49:36

NFL is considering changes to the hip

49:38

drop to hip drop tackling kickoff rules

49:40

and potentially allowing for replay reviews Of

49:42

whether a game clock expired before the

49:44

snap, but why? Right

49:47

or wrong constant rule changes are good for sports

49:51

In theory they're good for sports in Practicality

49:54

they're not we can't spend all

49:56

football season every year being like

49:58

the refs aren't in good and then

50:00

in the off season be like add more

50:02

things to their plate like

50:05

it just doesn't make sense

50:07

we go through the same thing

50:10

every time where it's like the

50:12

refs are not competent make their

50:14

job harder and so

50:16

I just I don't I

50:20

so in a

50:23

perfect world I understand

50:25

a lot of these wanted adjustments in

50:27

the world in which we live it

50:30

doesn't make sense next are

50:32

you said Tuesday that you're too busy sending

50:34

cheese GM Brett Veatch mock drafts to build

50:36

a bracket sounds like a straight-up

50:39

Nick Wright fan fiction the producers and I

50:41

have some questions right

50:43

or wrong Veatch has

50:46

replied okay so text

50:49

between Brett Veatch and I are personal what

50:52

I will tell you is this Brett

50:56

Veatch texted Kevin

50:59

Clark great writer used

51:01

to be for the ringer now he

51:03

does podcasts for Omaha he's on

51:05

around the horn you guys know Kevin Clark because

51:08

Kevin and I were at this the reason

51:10

we didn't have a podcast last Thursday was

51:13

because I was speaking at this media

51:15

conference Kevin was there so Kevin and

51:17

I took a picture together and he

51:19

texted to Veatch and

51:21

do you know what Veatch replied I'll

51:24

send you the screenshot to maz a Veatch replied two

51:27

of my two of my guys tell

51:30

Nick to send me his latest

51:32

mock so

51:37

take that for what you will if you guys

51:39

are interested in my latest mock

51:41

draft when

51:44

I open up my downloaded

51:46

files this says PFF mock

51:48

results parentheses 28 in parentheses

51:50

so this is my 28th that I've done

51:53

but this is where it landed with the

51:55

first round pick the Chiefs took lad mcconkey

51:58

we then traded luxurious need for the the

52:00

43rd overall pick to Atlanta. With

52:03

that draft pick, we took Kamari Lassiter,

52:05

the cornerback. With the final

52:07

pick of the second round, we took

52:09

Jatavion Sanders, the tight end from Texas.

52:11

We then made another trade. We traded

52:13

down from 81, I'm

52:15

sorry, we traded up from

52:17

95 packaging the 159th pick to

52:20

pick 81 to target Texas

52:23

a defensive tackle to Vondre

52:25

Sweat. We

52:27

then took another corner, Kam Hart in

52:29

the fourth round. With

52:31

our fifth round pick, took a value position,

52:33

Zach Zenter, the guard from Michigan who got

52:35

hurt in his final collegiate game, probably gonna

52:38

have to miss the year, but that's a

52:40

guy that should be a day two pick

52:42

that's gonna fall because of the injury. The

52:44

Chiefs have Trey Smith and Joe Tuni at

52:46

the guard positions for next year, but Joe

52:48

Tuni maybe could be gone in a year,

52:51

so you slide Zach Zenter into there. Then

52:53

we traded back. This is how sick I've

52:55

gotten on these mock drafts. I

52:57

traded pick 148, four, and the seventh round

53:00

pick, I'm

53:03

sorry, I traded with the Raiders,

53:08

and one of the things I got back was

53:11

a future sixth round pick,

53:14

but the mock drafts, there's no future drafts.

53:16

It's not like I'm actually acquiring that capital

53:18

to do anything with it. It just felt

53:20

like good value. After

53:23

those trades, I ended up drafting Jaylen

53:25

Green, the Ed Rusher from James Madison. Now

53:28

that's a small college player, but he had

53:30

like 18 sacks last year. I

53:32

liked the upside. With the final pick of the

53:34

draft, I took the good looking quarterback from Notre

53:37

Dame, Sam Hartman. Felt like he's a

53:39

guy that after a couple years under Andy, being

53:41

in the quarterback room with Patrick Mahomes, could be

53:43

a guy that shows enough in preseason that we

53:45

can then flip him for maybe a fourth round

53:48

pick. So go

53:50

ahead and clip this off for social

53:52

media, my mock draft here, and I'll

53:54

just share it. You know what? Hmm,

53:57

this is interesting. I don't know if

53:59

I wanna share it. the whole world because that could

54:01

give those other GMs an edge. Let's just clip

54:03

this off on social media and send it to me

54:05

so I can distribute it as we want.

54:08

That was Mockdraft 28. Let

54:11

me just, Damante, pick a random number

54:13

between 15 and 28. That's

54:20

boring, but okay, 27. Let

54:26

me pull up Mockdraft 27. Oh

54:30

my goodness, that was the one where I had

54:32

four trade downs. That's too many. I

54:35

ended up drafting 13 players and had four trade downs.

54:37

I'm going to have to pick one where I didn't

54:39

do trades. It's just so hard when there's value out

54:41

there. You know what I mean?

54:43

You want to make these trades. So let me find

54:45

one where... Oh, you said 21? All

54:48

right, perfect. With

54:54

the first round... Oh, this one I got

54:56

Lad McConkie again. Oh, and

54:58

then this one Xavier Worthy slid all the way to

55:00

the third round. Oh my goodness

55:02

gracious. I also drafted Zach Zenter again.

55:05

I must really like Zach Zenter. Okay,

55:07

we can move on. I don't know where we're at in

55:10

the show. I know I said we were going to go

55:12

faster, but we can move on. Go ahead. I

55:15

got to read this one. Last

55:17

week I asked Ammanze to watch

55:19

Barbie and Oppenheimer during his day

55:21

off for the old

55:23

Barbenheimer. Oh, that's a great... You should make

55:25

this your profile picture, Ammanze. That's really good,

55:27

Daniel. I know that was what you were

55:29

going to do. Did you do this, Ammanze?

55:33

I did. I watched Oppenheimer. I watched

55:36

Barbie. I enjoyed

55:38

Oppenheimer. I got to

55:40

go back and rewatch it. I

55:42

get Oppenheimer's the bad guy for creating

55:44

the bomb. Yeah, and then they do

55:46

past with regular color and they do

55:48

future stuff with black and white. It's

55:51

like... But I really enjoyed the movie and

55:54

honestly taught me a little bit more

55:56

about Hiroshima than I already knew. I did

55:59

not do too much digging. that um but

56:01

uh but yeah barbie I

56:04

gotta say man I was not

56:06

entertained at all and this is not just like

56:08

a boy thing like it was just like I

56:11

don't that's not the it

56:14

was cool it was it was a nice movie no

56:16

that's fine you don't want to step on your toes

56:18

here you just felt like you didn't like it I

56:20

get it yeah it's just one it

56:22

was just one for me but so here

56:24

is I I understood the message

56:27

of Barbie and I thought it was

56:29

a smart one what I found so

56:31

fascinating about Barbie was the

56:34

way they I think smartly

56:36

created the Barbie universe I

56:38

was because when I heard they're making a Barbie movie I'm like

56:41

how are they gonna do it but the fact they had all

56:43

the different types of Barbies and all that I always actually I

56:46

thought it was a well thought-out movie

56:48

um yeah but we don't have to definitely well

56:51

done I'm no I'm not saying the movie sucks

56:53

it's just not for me yeah

56:56

I do but yes loved

56:58

up and over it's very cool

57:00

okay very loud quick break yeah

57:03

very loud is great quick break right back into

57:05

some of your questions I talked about James Harden

57:07

close now in Kawhi what's right all right

57:15

welcome back in what's right been the great demand a

57:17

before we get to the listener questions go

57:19

ahead and let's talk hard and Kawhi real quick all

57:22

right Travis Kelsey no I'm joking you know we're

57:24

gonna talk about the UTS so you tease

57:27

is the top of the show James Harden played

57:29

defense on uh for the first time ever in

57:32

his career he gets Kawhi Leonard too

57:34

bad it was against his own teammate obviously

57:36

what was going on there Oh

57:40

he's explained to me Jomade

57:46

do you know when

57:48

this happened in the game it

57:51

was third quarter right third quarter they were up

57:53

it was 80 to 60 80 to 60 water

57:56

yeah they were up 8161

58:00

or 8161 they were either up 19 or 21 points with 20 minutes left in this game You

58:07

can't do that. Just can't do it. The

58:10

it is I Understand

58:12

you're playing the Blazers you feel like

58:14

you're gonna win you're dominating them. I

58:16

get it This

58:18

is outrageous. I Mean,

58:21

it's just I I don't

58:23

want to be You

58:26

know Someone that makes a

58:28

big deal out of minor things, but this

58:30

is not a minor thing to me and

58:34

this is Like

58:37

this is and I love the NBA But

58:40

this is the type of thing that if

58:42

it happened in another sport It

58:45

people would be losing their minds like

58:48

let's say that

58:52

the Go ahead and

58:54

football would be tackling your you're running back Like

58:59

you're going to like making your running

59:02

back like try to juke you Because

59:05

you're up 24 in the third quarter like

59:09

this is it's just I But

59:13

it's like if anybody in the league is gonna do

59:15

that I was saying it's James Harden Like

59:18

that that's the other problem brand

59:20

like you don't You

59:24

you haven't earned the right to be

59:26

this silly I'm sorry you

59:28

haven't you just haven't

59:31

and so I I hate it. I Legitimately

59:34

hate it. All right, let's get to some

59:36

of the listener questions What do you think

59:38

it'll be explained like will he have to

59:40

spartans said he was like it was good

59:42

for team vibes It's

59:44

what he said Hard name. Oh, it

59:46

was like yeah, he's like I'm just trying to keep it

59:48

loose and happy and good for All

59:52

right Game

59:54

so that's what it is. Gabe

59:57

felt just said hey Nick. I believe

59:59

the Chiefs could sit it 32 and

1:00:01

pick what's best for them and

1:00:04

a tackle or wide receiver, should the Chiefs

1:00:06

be aggressive to unload Snead while they could

1:00:08

get something for him, unlike T. Higgins? Well,

1:00:11

listen, the Chiefs have been ready to trade Snead,

1:00:14

but the problem is that the

1:00:16

Chiefs had

1:00:19

worked out the Snead compensation

1:00:21

as far as what they would get

1:00:23

in return for him with another

1:00:25

team. But in

1:00:27

order for that team to agree to the

1:00:29

trade, Snead then has to agree to a

1:00:31

long-term contract with them, and Snead

1:00:33

evidently wants $23 million a year, and

1:00:37

no teams are willing to pay it. And

1:00:39

so, I think teams are willing to pay $20 million,

1:00:41

but not $23 million. And

1:00:44

so the hang-up, so the Chiefs clearly are

1:00:46

prepared to trade Snead, but also,

1:00:49

because they've been so judicious in free

1:00:51

agency, they don't have to trade him,

1:00:54

and they can carry the $19 million cap

1:00:56

hit this year. Because

1:00:58

they signed Chris, and

1:01:00

because they signed Hollywood, they

1:01:03

can sit there at 32, and

1:01:06

if a D-lineman, corner, wide

1:01:08

receiver, or tackle they love

1:01:10

is sitting there, they can

1:01:12

draft any of those spots. It's not

1:01:15

like, oh my god, we have to

1:01:17

get this position. We have

1:01:19

this player ranked as the 49th best player in the draft,

1:01:21

but he's the best left of that position, so I have

1:01:23

to take him at 32. It

1:01:25

also allows them to trade down if they want to,

1:01:28

if they have a bunch of guys they still like,

1:01:30

so they can, as some would

1:01:32

say, let the draft come to them rather

1:01:34

than rush it. All right,

1:01:36

go ahead. Salvador

1:01:39

Finale asks, question for Devontae, how are you

1:01:41

enjoying LA compared to New York? Traffic

1:01:48

is traffic, and I hear

1:01:50

a lot of talks of people comparing

1:01:52

New York traffic to LA. Los Angeles

1:01:55

traffic is in the league of its own, in my opinion.

1:01:58

I like driving everywhere. I go though I

1:02:00

don't really miss walking. But

1:02:03

yeah, no, I'm really enjoying it. The weather

1:02:05

is obviously super dope. The people are

1:02:08

interesting. There's a time that I was...

1:02:10

I hate it when

1:02:12

people like... the best example I

1:02:14

could think of is when I got in that car accident

1:02:16

like two and a half years ago,

1:02:18

the guy like hit me from the side and

1:02:21

they got out and I had a green light

1:02:23

and they were speeding. And they got

1:02:26

out and they're like, what the F roll? And I'm just like,

1:02:28

dude, do you think that I wanted to get

1:02:30

in a car accident with you? Like what is the point in

1:02:32

getting out and like... Was that in New York or LA? That was

1:02:34

in Kansas. It was in Kansas City. I haven't

1:02:36

got an accident in New York. Thank God.

1:02:39

But yeah, so it's just like... That would have been in my

1:02:41

car. I was going to say you might have just been in

1:02:44

New York or something. I was like,

1:02:46

I was trying to play pretend you know.

1:02:48

Like what the hell are we talking about?

1:02:50

What car accident? Two and

1:02:52

a half years ago. Okay, that was

1:02:54

Kansas City. Yeah, basically, I just

1:02:56

think some of the people are hoity in the

1:02:59

LA area. Like I was pulling out and it was

1:03:01

just like one of those areas where in

1:03:03

order to get in, I have to kind of

1:03:05

pull out of where I'm at. And the civilian...

1:03:08

I'm on the sidewalk. I get that. A civilian

1:03:10

walks past my car and literally

1:03:12

stops, turns around, bends over and looks inside

1:03:14

of my car. And I'm like, dude, I'm

1:03:17

just trying to go. Like, I'm sorry that I'm right

1:03:20

here. You were able to walk around. But

1:03:22

yeah, I'm loving it. It's cool. I haven't been doing

1:03:24

too much lately with the Achilles, but

1:03:27

I'm excited to get back out there.

1:03:30

Okay, good. Caleb asks

1:03:33

would I ever consider making the top 50

1:03:35

quarterback list? I got it.

1:03:38

Like the NBA top 50 list. That's an interesting

1:03:40

project. Top 50 quarterback... Because

1:03:42

top 50 NFL players is

1:03:44

so hard because like how do you

1:03:46

cross pollinate positions, offense, offense. Top 50

1:03:49

quarterbacks could be fun. And

1:03:51

then UCO says shout out to

1:03:53

DeMonzay. You're improving your game. Real

1:03:55

progress being made as a host

1:03:57

compared to a year ago. More focus, more knowledge,

1:03:59

more good takes keep it up one

1:04:02

love I totally agree with that I actually

1:04:04

had somebody asked me the other day if

1:04:07

this is what you want to do professionally

1:04:10

like awesome not like is this what demands they

1:04:12

want to do and I told him I was

1:04:14

like I don't think so I

1:04:16

was like I don't you know this is always kind

1:04:18

of been a side gig but the fact that somebody

1:04:20

asked that I think is awesome to your

1:04:23

progression over the year and a half no I

1:04:25

appreciate that oh that's super

1:04:29

nice you guys say was really fun show

1:04:31

good job everybody thanks to our tech team

1:04:33

for getting everything set up I gotta go

1:04:35

I got a very busy day I'm getting

1:04:37

a haircut for the wedding that is the

1:04:39

pre wedding haircut meaning I'm getting a haircut

1:04:42

today just to set up the haircut that

1:04:44

I evidently have to get right before the

1:04:46

wedding I don't understand it either to be

1:04:48

honest with you I get it today talk

1:04:51

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