WEBVTT - Best of Nick Wright: Buss Family Sells Lakers, Baker Mayfield Deserves More Love, Are Chiefs “America’s Team”? 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:14.880 The volume. The Lakers just sold for a ten billion 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.799 dollar evaluation, which I've believed for a long time. Nick, 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:24.680 all these sports franchises are undervalued. Whenever they say, you know, 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.280 the Cowboys are worth seven billion dollars, My take is 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:33.040 if somebody in Saudi Arabia had a good month with oil, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.640 they buy him for thirteen billion. Because you don't know 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:37.840 if Google is going to be around in twenty years 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.760 or Microsoft. You know the Dallas Cowboys are going to 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:43.440 be around in twenty years. In fact, I remember reading 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.519 a story years and years ago they went back to 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.400 like nineteen eighty and they took the thirty leading companies 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.880 in the Dow Jones, and twenty five years later only 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.920 one was still like a really it was like Chevron 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.680 or something. And so my point is the Mark Walters 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.240 group is the Dodger owner. It's a really good group. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.360 And it does make me think, Okay, the mom and 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.880 pop Lakers are over, because that's been the big knock 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:13.080 in LA is that I mean family? The Dan Gilbert 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.840 could buy the Bus family four times. They've been one 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.000 of the poorest NBA ownership groups. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:22.720 Correct, and one of the poorest from a net worth perspective, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.959 and I would argue that they haven't. They have been 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.279 one of the more poorly run organizations in the league. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.200 And I know that's weird because they have the second 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.240 most championships and they just got Luca and Lebron went there. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:42.160 But I think that they have squandered a lot of opportunities. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.280 I think that since doctor Bus passed, they have There 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.680 are very few things you can say the Lakers do 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.400 top notch in the league. And while they have been, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.160 you know, willing to spend, I think they've you know, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.600 last decade, they've spent like the seventh most money they 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.400 should be the seventh most for Los Angeles Lakers. Is 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.080 not maximizing the market and the brand. I understand, it's 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.600 not baseball, so there is a cap. And in the 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:15.240 new NBA with the aprons, just spending recklessly can really 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.320 hamstring you. But this is a massive net positive for 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.119 the Los Angeles Lakers for their fans. In my opinion, 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.799 you should not have They're in a weird spot where 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:31.560 similar to the Cowboys, where ownership's primary source of income 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.000 is the team, and that's one of the reasons I 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.080 think the Cowboys don't necessarily spend the way they should. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.400 And that's how I have felt about the Lakers. So listen, 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.040 I don't know much about Mark Walters. I know that 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.240 he bought twenty six percent of the team from I 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.320 think and Shoots or whomever with the guarantee. Part of 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:56.040 that was if the buses sell, I get the first opportunity. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:03:00.480 And now he's in. Now I agree with you. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:05.800 Historically sports franchises have been undervalued. I wonder if we 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.600 are now getting to wear ten billions, ten billion dollars 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.520 kind of like, that's a lot of money. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:16.280 So think about this. Yeah, the Celtics sold for six billion. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.919 The GDP of Boston, the gross domestic product is six 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:25.280 hundred million annually. It's a trillion. In Los Angeles. The 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.480 Los Angeles economy would be the twentieth biggest economy in 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.400 the world, meaning it would be bigger than about one 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.040 hundred and eighty five countries. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.480 So and they own the the Lakers own their arena, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.560 so that's an importance. So like you just if the 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.720 arena's worth two billion, given where it is in the 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.960 real estate and whatever. So now it's not six versus ten, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.560 it's six versus eight. And you take the fact that 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.680 LA's a bigger market. And you know, as much as 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.960 this will pain our buddy Bill Simmons, the Lakers are 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.760 the biggest brand in basketball. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.839 Like this, The Celtics were in the finals two years ago. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.280 It didn't get a good rating. Oh, it didn't get 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.480 a number, right, I mean when the Lakers are in 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.480 the final, regardless of who the star is, it generally 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:11.280 gets a much bigger rating. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.480 Yes, it's also true the Lakers have never been in 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.480 the finals without one of the biggest stars in the league. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.320 It's not a lot of like Lakers time they made 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.040 the finals with that scrappy, underachieving team. No, it's Lebron 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.800 or Kobe or Shacker, Magic or Kareem or Will. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.560 But still your point stands. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.240 Yeah, no, they are the the This is a fun 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.839 one because you did your mount what was it, Mount 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.560 crush More, Mount just just more because they're just more 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:42.240 than everyone else. If we were to do God, this 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:48.239 is this is corny and make funnable content it also, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.280 I'm sure will crush On TikTok or something, if we 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:57.640 were to do the Mount Rushmore franchises in American sports. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:03.560 Four four to me, there are three no brainers. And 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.440 then people would argue about the four fourth, but the 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:11.560 three no brainers are the New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.200 and the Los Angeles Lakers. Those to me, do you 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.640 think I'm missing anything there? I think those are the 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:24.040 three brands that are truly every. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.440 Corner of the world. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.320 They're you know, somebody's walking around wearing a T shirt 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:30.599 even if they've never heard. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:30.960 Of the team. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:38.240 Yeah, I think I will say this. I think the 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:47.479 LA Dodgers because of the Walters Group, perfect spring, summer, fall, weather, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:53.320 O tawny. Now is you know Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Dodger 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.320 games are now an event. There are fans from the 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:02.680 Pacific Rim. Every home game road attendance for the Dodgers 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.040 is number one in the league. They played the Yankees, 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.279 I think it was last year it felt like twenty 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.560 five percent of the crowd was Dodger fans. They travel 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.279 incredibly well. I think the Dodgers over the last eight 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:18.000 since they have been purchased from the Mark Walters Group, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.440 I think they have become and I'm and I mean this, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.240 I think they're a step ahead of the Yankees. They 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.159 don't have all the pennants, they don't have all the titles. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:34.320 But this ownership group is much more It's got deeper pockets. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.799 It's more aggressive. I mean the way they are pushing 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.480 contracts down the road. They're not a. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.800 Bigger brand than the New York Yankees. I think they're 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.760 getting close. I think Otawi changes it. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:47.360 I really do. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.120 If the idea is like Otani brings in and a 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.160 whole similar to I. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.480 Understand one's Japanese and one. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.240 I think he brings in the Pacific Rim. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.520 Yeah, like what Yao Ming did for the Houston Rockets. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.159 We're all of a sudden, it's like you have this 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:02.000 whole new market. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.560 But if so, the. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.839 Because I really maybe eventually the Dodgers get there. If 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.920 it's Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, is the three the teams across 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:18.520 sports competing for that fourth spot. Dodgers definitely are in 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:23.040 the contention. The Celtics are the Warriors? No, probably not, 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.160 because that's good. The Warriors are like the Chiefs in 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.600 that it's the super nova of the moment in Mahomes 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.400 or Steph Curry. But they don't have a history to 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.080 where they're this big brand. So do you think you 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.480 think the Dodgers now have surpassed the Cubs as the 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.920 second biggest brand in baseball. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.880 Okay, yes, because again, remember Chicago wanted the Olympics. Why 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.520 couldn't they get them because they were not considered a 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:56.160 global city. They were considered uh maybe are They're like, 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.280 Chicago has won Best North American City seven years in 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:04.240 a row from Conde Architecture. It's an unbelievable city, but 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.119 it's not viewed as an international city. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:06.840 D C. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.360 San Francisco, LA, New York. Boston similarly is not necessarily 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.880 seen It's seen as kind of parential, of course, provincial parochial. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.880 So I think they've surfaced. And the Cubs, the Ricketts family, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.160 which by the way, they live about five minutes from 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.680 where I'm sitting right now, they are it seats thirty 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.160 six thousand, their revenues just don't They're not close. They're 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.760 just not close anymore so. And I think the Cubs 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:38.880 are historic and they matter domestically, but I don't think 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:39.560 they pull. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.240 That might be real nice, and it also might be 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.280 a lot of the benefit of the Cubs when or 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:51.120 benefits their own word. But brand recognition, for lack of 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.880 better term of the Cubs had to do with if 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.520 you're a millennial when you were growing up with like 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.000 basic cable for some reason, you got the Cubs games 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.920 because of WGN, so you could like watch your team 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.320 and the Cubs and so they they had that and 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.840 now people can watch whatever teams they want. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.640 I just saw the who. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.640 Do you sorry for this slight detour, but after the Cowboys, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.000 what do you think the biggest brand in football is? 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.000 Like I I hesitate that in the moment, it's obviously 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.680 the Chiefs, but you wonder, like if Mahomes retired, like 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.520 then the Chiefs. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:32.440 Interesting you if you bought the Chiefs today, we would 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.240 have to consider Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes part of 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.520 the buyde yes. So this idea, well, the brand, what 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.840 is the brand right now? Jerry Jones is eighty They're dysfunctional, 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.000 their roster's bad. There's value to it. But Kansas City's 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.439 got the best quarterback in the league for the next 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.800 ten years. So I mean that when Lebron James went 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.800 from the Miami Heat back to Dan Gilbert in Cleveland, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.360 I talked to somebody in that equity space. He said 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.680 that was a four four, one hundred million dollar day 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:07.040 for Dan Gilbert. Now the Cavs without Lebron, even with 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:11.599 Evan Mobley and Donovan Mitchell, Lebron changed that. It was 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.240 a paradigm shift economically for Cleveland. Literally, Ken Griffy saved 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:21.120 baseball in Seattle. Lebron James changed the economy. Taylor Swift's tour, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.160 an example, made two point one billion dollars, sold ten 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:32.360 million tickets. That is double the next biggest tour ever. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.720 So it's only big because of one reason, the artist. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.640 So if you count, I mean, let's be honest, if 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.040 you bought a soccer franchise ten years ago and Ronaldo 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.760 had an eight year contract, it would make it worth 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.480 half a billion dollars more So, I think the Chiefs 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.320 with Mahomes, that adds to me, that adds half a 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.400 somewhere between five hundred billion and a billion dollars. They 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.320 go from six billion to seven because of Mahomes. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.160 Well, so that's the other piece of this. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.520 The other piece of this is if the if the 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.520 most valuable team in the NBA is now worth ten 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.400 billion dollars, what is the most valuable team in the 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:16.160 NFL worth is it fifteen billion? Like? Honestly, like, what 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.960 is if this is the new Because you can't tell 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.559 like as much as as big of a brand as 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:24.200 Lakers are. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.000 And I understand the NBA's new TV deal. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.920 I get all that, there is nothing that is the 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.120 machine that is the NFL. So if the Lake, if 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.320 we now have Lakers ten billion, Celtic six billion, you 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:43.240 know as the metrics, then the if forget the Cowboys. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.360 I'm trying to think of a good, you know, a good. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:52.400 If the San Francisco forty nine ers were for sale, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.880 are they a ten billion dollar franchise. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.960 I'll give you. I'll give you one that is undervalued. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.400 One Cronky owns Sofi Stadium. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.760 Well, yeah, the owning the stadium is a big thing. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.240 So if you bought the Rams, you get the state. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:12.240 I get Sofi Stadium, which can house a hundred concerts 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.760 a year. Yeah, and the Chargers and the Rams. So 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.120 you have to consider that when you buy the Rams. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.760 So I would say, in the number two market in 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.920 the country, I get Sean McVeigh, I get a well 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.280 run operation, I get Sofi. I'm sorry, but that's over 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.160 ten billion dollars. I mean it just has to be. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.320 If they now that the Lakers are worth ten the 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.880 biggest NFL brands have to be worth more. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.200 Somebody once in the last year asked Baker Mayfield about 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.280 me and blah blah blah, and he said, well, we're frenemies, 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.800 and I think Baker knows I like him and respect him, 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.400 and he's always been nice to me. He said nice 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.960 things publicly. You had to take the other day that 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.920 he's Actually he was over discussed when he was in Cleveland. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.719 He's now under discussed. And it's funny because I think 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.160 Baker's better than Dak. He's better than Tua. He's better 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.400 than Gino, He's better than Aaron, he's better than Russell, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.400 he's better than Cousins. I think he and Darnold are 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.320 very similar that they can be mistake prone, but they 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.320 can plan it and they're real players. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.360 Forty touchdowns last year. Yeah No, he's been really good 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:11.840 going there. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.040 Yeah No. Baker is a prime example. You see this 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.080 a lot in the NBA where a guy comes in 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.800 and you just needs the mature Aunt Edwards. In the NFL, generally, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.480 maturity's not the issue. It's you either have it or 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.120 you don't. Baker was the rare lot of testosterone, a 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.280 lot of confidence, and I felt like, can somebody turn 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.199 the Governor down just a little. He was Johnny Manziel, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.000 but more likable and with actual talent. He could really 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.560 throw football. But I think Baker is the rare NFL 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:47.280 player in quarterback. You're like one of the talents. Inarguable, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.480 he's just got to turn the Governor down. Cleveland was 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.760 not built for Baker. You go to a great GM, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.240 a talented roster in Tampa, which is by the way, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.199 below the radar. It's in the NFC South, which is 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.400 a low profile division. Baker now is absolutely underdiscussed. He 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.160 is a really good NFL quarterback. I don't think that's disputable. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.240 Yeah, I think it's hard to make a top ten 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.000 and not include him. And but then when you add 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:19.400 to the fact that he makes around sixty percent of 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.240 what the other guys in that top ten make, his 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.880 value is massive. He for a guy who dealt with 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:32.120 injuries during in his time in Cleveland, he's incredibly durable. Yeah, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.520 his teammates love him, and he now has back to 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:41.240 back years of really high productivity, a playoff quarterback, win 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:46.920 the division again forty touchdowns last year. I And so yeah, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:51.760 I think that there was because he was talked about 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.880 so much when he wasn't yet that good, right, I 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.760 think people got I don't know. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.640 If numbs the right word. They were just kind of 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:01.400 got over him. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:06.680 And now that he is, I think really good people 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.960 are just like, okay, yeah, that's Baker, Like he's a 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.360 people I think boxed him in. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:13.239 He's a good. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.640 Story and that is true, but he's more than that 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:21.000 at this point. At this point, like, do I this 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.240 is you know, a third rail for some Do I 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.400 think he's better than Brock Birdie? 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.040 I do? So what would I rather have? 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.480 Like? And so you said, Dak Prescott, I think that's close. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.360 I think that there is There are a lot of 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.760 quarterbacks that like I'll give you a great example. Now, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.000 this guy's young and we'll see, but he makes a 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:46.600 lot of money. I think he's pretty clearly better than 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.960 Jordan Love. And I think that Jordan Love is discussed. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:51.280 Like he is. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:57.800 You know, it's interesting. So I was really not anti 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.440 Jordan Love, but but I said, for two years, there 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.440 is more footage of Bigfoot than Jordan Love. They're hiding 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.520 him for a reason. Then he came out and he 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.560 was kind of sensational, and I really bought into him. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.200 And then It's as if the league defensive coordinators got 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.640 all this footage and they found holes and at the 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.680 end of last year, you're like, oh, people have caught 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.880 on to him. This is now. It would be a 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.880 sophomore slump for anybody else, but he was like in 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.960 his fourth year. Yeah, and so I want to see him. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.040 So now it's like an NBA playoff series, like you 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.920 get worked, then you change things and that there's stages 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.640 and coaching, you know, adaptations. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.120 To a playoffs adjustment. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.200 Yeah. So now I've seen Jordan shock the league. Now 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.400 I've seen people react and he struggles. Now I want 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.560 to see his next hand with Matt Lafleur. That's why 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.880 they drafted to me a a receiver in the first round, 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.400 because they're like, listen, we he may need a little 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.000 more help than we think here. But I so, I'm 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.720 not sure Baker's better. I think Jordan's got a hell 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.880 of a whip and he's a really good athlete. But 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.160 he's he's one of the last quarterbacks in this league. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:04.760 Jordan Love. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.400 I'm not sure. 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I think he was 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:24.800 an average coordinator. I think he's more I think. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.920 Yeah, I mean certainly the most unproven and the oddest 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:28.840 higher yeaheah. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.520 So my take is Dallas will be the fourth most 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.640 watch team in the league after this year. Now, Fox 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.800 may because of Fox promotion and marketing ability and production values, 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.760 we may be able to prop up the Cowboys juice it. Yeah, 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.080 I mean, Fox just does it. Fox gives you, like 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.280 if you give Fox baseball, it just is better than 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.520 other networks doing baseball. Fox is really good at Eric 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:57.080 Shanks lived in a truck. That's how your CEO. Everybody 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.240 has a specialty. Bodenheimer was sales when I was at ESPN. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:07.399 ESPN could monetize anything, anything shit screw up in a truck. 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:11.679 So our production values are sensational. They always have been. 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.760 I mean I said this a couple of years ago. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.600 The five to six hour live Super Bowls from opening 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.840 moment the pregame show starts to the end, they're majestic. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.000 They're like as good as American television gets for us 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:31.480 live five hours. So so I think Fox may prop 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:33.399 the Cowboys up, but if you put them on another network, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.399 they wouldn't. They wouldn't resonate as much. But they're not 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:38.879 They're not a fun team. Dak is a boring player, 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.240 a second lower body body injury. He's not hyper athletic, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.760 he doesn't have a big arm. They have a couple 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.439 of interesting receivers. They're not fun to watch. Philadelphia is 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.080 fun to watch, Detroit's fun to watch, Buffalo, Kansas City. Uh, 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.640 there's some teams in this league that I I mean, 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.600 like when the receivers are healthy. Houston's fun to watch. 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:02.720 When the receivers are healthy, Cincinnati's fun to watch. But no, 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:06.119 I think I think Kansas City is actually America's team. Absolutely. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.720 I don't think there's any question. And I would say yeah, 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:12.760 I would say Buffalo to me feels like number two. 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:14.919 Oh listen. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:19.680 I think Buffalo is probably the team people the team 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:24.639 neutral fans root for the most, because I think people 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.400 they look at Buffalo not as an underdog, but like man, 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.919 they gotta get over at some point. And Josh Allen 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:32.639 is so likable, and the Chiefs have kind of become 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.720 like villains, you know, to a degree. 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:36.320 All that. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.480 But yeah, I just think I think the team that 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.640 is the biggest draw on, the most interesting is the Chiefs. 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.159 And that the reason I even asked it is it 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.560 just speaks to the power of the NFL that the 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:53.280 most popular or most interesting team in the biggest league 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.040 in the country can be from Kansas City, Missouri. 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.840 You know what I mean? Like that, it isn't it doesn't. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.120 Happen about peace. Think about this. Here's the sixth biggest 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:07.040 brands in the NFL, arguably now Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore, 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:09.720 Green Bay. 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.480 The Celtics approach of being like we are going to 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:17.760 play the fourth quarter of a playoff game the exact 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.480 style we would play the first quarter of a February 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:24.240 game is just that's not staying true to who you are. 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.080