Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake. Happy Martin Luther King
Speaker 1: Junior Day? Do you say happy? That always gets tricky
Speaker 1: with the holidays. January twentieth, big day in the States
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. And today on Waken Jake,
Speaker 1: We're going to talk No, we're going to talk sports
Speaker 1: because we have to hopefully close the loop on the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: They signed Tanner Scott, probably the best reliever available after
Speaker 1: winning the Rokie Sasaki sweepstakes, which we haven't fully touched
Speaker 1: upon on here. So yeah, I think we might close
Speaker 1: the loop on that, But who knows who could be
Speaker 1: next for them because they are on a war path
Speaker 1: to build an unsoppable team, and we'll talk about if
Speaker 1: that can even happen. In baseball, Massive football weekend, God,
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs take care of their business. They're
Speaker 1: going to line up with the Buffalo Bills to run
Speaker 1: that back, which is exciting and I've been stewing on
Speaker 1: that this morning, along with how about the Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: changing a franchise with a quarterback and new ownership. Maybe
Speaker 1: we should talk about ownership more in sports. Brutal for
Speaker 1: the Lions, brutal for Matthew Stafford and Trevor Ploof who
Speaker 1: went out there to watch his friend lose to the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and they had a chance even though they shouldn't have
Speaker 1: had a chance. We'll talk about all of that in
Speaker 1: a little bit, but first let's do some baseball as
Speaker 1: it is. When I say January twentieth, okay, most teams
Speaker 1: are reporting hitchers are getting there a little early. Players
Speaker 1: are getting there the seventeenth fourteenth, I think for the Cubbies,
Speaker 1: still the same names out there. Profar Bregman, Santander, Flaherty
Speaker 1: hasan Kim eating dog, Pistol, Pete, Alonzo and Pivetta. You know,
Speaker 1: I still think pitchers should do okay, Like whatever Nick
Speaker 1: Pavetta's looking for, I think a team will come around.
Speaker 1: Maybe it won't. We're starting to get to that point.
Speaker 1: Pete's in the weird spot. I think Santander is gonna
Speaker 1: get paid, and maybe they're both gonna get paid by
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, because that's not where this should start.
Speaker 1: But it was kind of crazy, kind of tough to
Speaker 1: see John Hayman being like, right after Sasaki turned down
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays that they have interest in Pete, they
Speaker 1: have interested in Santander, which was my original landing spot.
Speaker 1: So I will be digging up some of the receipts
Speaker 1: if that happens. But let's not start with them. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the Dodgers and I we like to peel
Speaker 1: back the curtain. I think it's been a successful method
Speaker 1: for us. The Dodgers are big. It's la It's the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most recognizable brands in baseball. They
Speaker 1: have Joey Otani. Otani is one of the athletes that
Speaker 1: actually moves the needle. If we put Otani in a
Speaker 1: thumbnail or a title, the clicks and reviews go up.
Speaker 1: It's it's like real, Like I think it's it's actually
Speaker 1: kind of fun that we can talk about that on
Speaker 1: our end because I feel like ESPN for years and
Speaker 1: how we're raised, they were like, you know, we we
Speaker 1: don't do that stuff. And then it they kind of
Speaker 1: went the other way when they had to like it.
Speaker 1: You know, when first take and everything would be opening
Speaker 1: with Lebron or you know, it was like, how how
Speaker 1: could they possibly be there? You know, the joke has
Speaker 1: now become they talk about the Cowboys quarterback in like July,
Speaker 1: so they have made their move that way, and I
Speaker 1: guess for us because we are fans, like fan media
Speaker 1: is one of the terms we throw around, you know,
Speaker 1: I I know you don't. There's a lot of other
Speaker 1: sports teams that you don't want to be opening it
Speaker 1: every time, and we're hunting out that click. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers recently have kind of taken things into their own hands.
Speaker 1: I'll start with Sasaki because I guess we haven't done
Speaker 1: in here, and I'm I was laughing in hindsight because
Speaker 1: when I was doing Sasaki conversations on here, well a
Speaker 1: the last time we talked, literally as BBD was posting it,
Speaker 1: he turned down the Yankees, and I gave a nice
Speaker 1: little speech about like Yankees could make sense, like he
Speaker 1: could be the star. They haven't had a Japanese player
Speaker 1: in a while. One chance, they've got good pitching development
Speaker 1: that matters to Roki. So yeah, right as posting and
Speaker 1: I think even a title change came out, he's told
Speaker 1: the Yankees I'm not interested, which was a crazy Hey, Roki,
Speaker 1: I'm in no place to give you or your agent advice.
Speaker 1: Next time, you can just tell the team you're signing with,
Speaker 1: I'm signing with you. You don't have to tell all
Speaker 1: the other teams. No, I don't really know what that was.
Speaker 1: That was. That was okay internet fodder, but that was
Speaker 1: just it was interesting. Rokie signs with the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: when I opened up the whole Waken Jake episode with that,
Speaker 1: and whenever we talked about it, I would say it
Speaker 1: starts with saying, if it's not the Dodgers, because it
Speaker 1: seems like it could just be the Dodgers. And there's
Speaker 1: some of the obvious reasons why. The the location it
Speaker 1: is LA. It's one of the best cities in the world. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they've had a couple insane, crazy, scary weeks there, but
Speaker 1: it's it's La. I mean, it's the home of music, movies, sports,
Speaker 1: good weather, and for Jpanese players, being located on the
Speaker 1: West Coast is clearly important for them and for I
Speaker 1: think for Japan to kind of be tuned into them.
Speaker 1: Uh So you start going into the other layers I
Speaker 1: mentioned Yankees and the other orgs. If you're looking for
Speaker 1: good pitching like that used to be kind of the
Speaker 1: Dodgers thing. We've seen guys go to the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: kind of rebuild themselves up Andrew heen Dog did a
Speaker 1: little bit of who was the Tyler Anderson? Is that
Speaker 1: the other lefty that did that? Yeah, and never mind
Speaker 1: just tapping into young players and making them successful pitchers.
Speaker 1: So even before this version of the Dodgers took off,
Speaker 1: they were pitching factory and clearly a step ahead of
Speaker 1: a lot of organizations. The lineup stacked, the team is stacked.
Speaker 1: He has Japanese teammates on the team. If you're looking
Speaker 1: to win, which I do think as we get to
Speaker 1: Tanner Scott in a second, which that that is now
Speaker 1: an interesting wrinkle. If you're looking to win, LA would
Speaker 1: be the number one place to be. They literally just
Speaker 1: won the World Series. This franchise has been so good
Speaker 1: and so dominant, whether you want to keep it in
Speaker 1: the last decade or the last like three decades, what
Speaker 1: they have done to the NL West and what they've
Speaker 1: done in the regular seasons and now it's turning into
Speaker 1: championships that we could be seeing another level for this franchise,
Speaker 1: and they are. It's an embarrassment of riches, and I
Speaker 1: think the Rokie one stung a lot of baseball fans
Speaker 1: for more. For the different reasons for the Okay, hey,
Speaker 1: if the Dodgers are going to go out and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are going to sign whoever sho Heo Tani seven
Speaker 1: hundred million, it's one of the weirdest contracts we've ever seen.
Speaker 1: What's there's unfortunately twenty five or so teams in the
Speaker 1: league that are like, well, yeah, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's just not happening. We don't have that kind of money.
Speaker 1: Shohy doesn't want us. That is what it is. Roki
Speaker 1: Sasaki coming over being on essentially a minor league international
Speaker 1: free agent contract. That means every team could do it,
Speaker 1: and you're still not competing with these guys, which now
Speaker 1: that starts to get a little daunting for the rest
Speaker 1: of the league. And I guess it's where I started
Speaker 1: the clickbait part of this that I don't think today's
Speaker 1: episode episode should be in, but it's you know, the
Speaker 1: conversation is, are the Dodgers like unfair? Are the Dodgers
Speaker 1: good for baseball? I think currently yes, because there's there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of conversation over the offseason. I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see the product on the field. It's going to
Speaker 1: be very good. It's just what range of it you
Speaker 1: know that they have this deep pitching staff that they're
Speaker 1: gonna pitch, they have that lineup they're gonna hit. I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see are they going to have an effect
Speaker 1: of like when the Dodgers come to town, are other
Speaker 1: teams gonna turn it up? Because that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: one of the scary parts of the MLB season grind
Speaker 1: is that if you're the Dodgers and you're grinding through
Speaker 1: a season and there's injuries and there's slumps, Like it's
Speaker 1: every baseball team that's ever played has those two things.
Speaker 1: So if you're dealing with that and you'd have the
Speaker 1: target around your back everywhere you go, it can make
Speaker 1: the baseball season tricky. Man If teams get up for
Speaker 1: you every weekend and you're you're starting to hit that
Speaker 1: summer malaise, that can that can be tough. That being said,
Speaker 1: they can be so dominant, there's gonna be some series
Speaker 1: and games that other teams almost aren't invited to. You know,
Speaker 1: I there's a couple times in every season when the
Speaker 1: year starts sorting out and it's like good team, bad team,
Speaker 1: And you know when we deep dive into series on
Speaker 1: talking baseball, Hey, anything can happen in a three game series.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's not true. Sometimes there's a really good team
Speaker 1: and sometimes there's a really bad team that even if
Speaker 1: that really bad team gets like that that four to
Speaker 1: er lead early, it's like, hey, this this isn't gonna
Speaker 1: hold today. If if the Dodgers want it, they're gonna
Speaker 1: get it. And I think the other thing that's interesting
Speaker 1: to me as I go through these Dodgers teams because
Speaker 1: in a way, they've always had a lineup like, you know,
Speaker 1: even going back to MVP Cody Bellinger, you know, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers they've put together lineups throughout and they've even had
Speaker 1: the starting pitching, which I think it's funny. Kershaw's still
Speaker 1: unsigned right now, but it sounds like they're gonna bring
Speaker 1: him back and he's gonna do a mid season party
Speaker 1: up again, which good. Why not the Dodgers bullpen And
Speaker 1: this brings us over to their most recent Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers bullpen was always good, but it always felt
Speaker 1: like a potential weak spot. The Bruce dargraderol breakout like
Speaker 1: that was pretty sick when that was going on. God,
Speaker 1: speaking of forgotten guys, how about ureus for them and
Speaker 1: how he would kick to the bullpen for playoff games
Speaker 1: and he was kind of their secret weapon in the
Speaker 1: playoffs when they got it done and he was doing
Speaker 1: multi inning outings, he was doing the final outs in
Speaker 1: games that the Dodgers' bullpen. And I had a little
Speaker 1: chuckle today because Evan Phillips is a very good MLB
Speaker 1: reliever and there was a couple of years there where
Speaker 1: he was like the Dodgers closer and it was like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Evan Phillips is good. If his name was a little cooler,
Speaker 1: would we have respected Evan Phillips a little more? I
Speaker 1: think so, And that's a little messed up by just
Speaker 1: baseball in general. H Right now, Evan Phillips has slotted
Speaker 1: into their arguably their fourth reliever right now. They traded
Speaker 1: for Michael Kopek, who was electric for them. They just
Speaker 1: signed Tanner Scott, who as high end lefties go, he
Speaker 1: was the best free agent and he has he always
Speaker 1: had the arm talent. It was kind of getting the
Speaker 1: control down and it looks like that has all come
Speaker 1: together together in peak form. Blake Trinan, who is there
Speaker 1: with Phillips, and it was always like, Okay, trying kind
Speaker 1: of gets the important out. It's like, don't worry about Phillips,
Speaker 1: and you know that kind of came to fruition. And hey,
Speaker 1: I Alex Vesia now their second lefty relievers twenty eight
Speaker 1: in sixty six point one innings. He had a one
Speaker 1: to seven to six last year. So the Dodgers bullpen
Speaker 1: without Tanner Scott was one of the best in baseball.
Speaker 1: They now add or Scott and it's it's really wild. It's,
Speaker 1: you know, just run through a quick for everyone. Snell Yamamoto,
Speaker 1: Glass now Gonsolin, Roki Sasaki, dust In May. That's six
Speaker 1: starting pitchers without mentioning sho Hee Otani who is going
Speaker 1: to pitch for them this year, and again like never
Speaker 1: mind if they are gonna do something with Kershaw, which
Speaker 1: again every time they allude to this they do. Bobby
Speaker 1: Miller's currently in Triple A. Ben Casparius pitch in the
Speaker 1: World Series Land and knack sixty nine regular season innings
Speaker 1: to a three, six five. So they're their pitching depth
Speaker 1: is there. If they need to tap into trades, they can.
Speaker 1: I don't know where they will, cause their lineup's pretty
Speaker 1: damn good too. Show Hey Mookie Freddie Taoskar Max Munsey,
Speaker 1: Will Smith, canford O, Tommy Evan, High Song Kim Let's
Speaker 1: see what he's all about that If he's good, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a real that's gonna be a little twist.
Speaker 1: Miggy Row, Chris Taylor, Andy pa has on the bench,
Speaker 1: James Outman's and triple A. Uh, They've got everything you
Speaker 1: could want. It will be interesting to see how the
Speaker 1: season goes on if if if they really need a
Speaker 1: corner another outfielder, like you could see someone squeezing in there.
Speaker 1: They have more than enough trade capital h to get
Speaker 1: really whoever they want or God, it's gonna be super
Speaker 1: interesting if if they have a significant injury, I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll be able to go out and get whatever replacement
Speaker 1: they need. So it really is you know it it
Speaker 1: leads into some fun baseball conversations. Is this one of
Speaker 1: the best baseball teams we've ever seen? On paper? Like yes,
Speaker 1: Like that's I can can end that conversation pretty quickly
Speaker 1: and then all time, I mean, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: it's tough to go into the mentality of before a season,
Speaker 1: what does a team really feel like? Because I I
Speaker 1: I ever regrets the Atlanta Braves when they won the
Speaker 1: World Series, the Atlanta Braves were stacked, and for me,
Speaker 1: part of the formula was, you know, to just repeat
Speaker 1: is really hard in any sport. Baseball hasn't had a
Speaker 1: repeat champ since two thousand, Hello Yankees. And hey, maybe
Speaker 1: that's the volatility of baseball. Maybe that's the player movement.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the fact that whatever team you are, however
Speaker 1: good you are, it's gonna come down to a five
Speaker 1: game set that if you play another good team, If
Speaker 1: the Dodgers play the Phillies and I don't know, a
Speaker 1: pitcher's tipping his pitches one game and that's one of
Speaker 1: the five, your season can end. So that first five
Speaker 1: game Dodger playoff set, watch out for that one, because
Speaker 1: that's gonna be their first pressure pack series of the year.
Speaker 1: I wonder who who they get and what both teams
Speaker 1: are looking at at the time. But the fact that
Speaker 1: we can pencil them in the postseason is pretty wild
Speaker 1: in the sport, and I'm interested to see what's next.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they build a dynasty here, well there
Speaker 1: should be a roadmap out there for other teams. I
Speaker 1: guess the part that is scary about the roadmap is
Speaker 1: if you're the landing spot for every Japanese baseball player.
Speaker 1: Other teams cannot copy that part of the roadmap, so
Speaker 1: that'll be something to check in as this process goes on. Hey,
Speaker 1: I know I'm not the most beloved with Dodger fans
Speaker 1: as they play the Yankees in the World Series, and
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks have kind of adopted me. It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the Bo Nicks story with that
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Like, I don't know, if you're a Dodgers fan,
Speaker 1: you should be enjoying it and say it's nobody else's business.
Speaker 1: One final thing though on Tanner Scott is that he
Speaker 1: got offered more by the Red Sox and the Cubbies.
Speaker 2: Believes so that that's interesting to me.
Speaker 1: Because LA if you were looking for potential pit downfalls,
Speaker 1: you know, the taxes are significant there. Tanner Scott has
Speaker 1: made a little under ten million dollars playing baseball. That
Speaker 1: is a lot of money. Compared to some of these guys.
Speaker 1: It's not as much money. And Tanner Scott, a lefty
Speaker 1: reliever who's in his thirties, I was peaking at the
Speaker 1: right time. This is his moment to get his contract
Speaker 1: that turning down other money, and again who knows how
Speaker 1: much Like we're the cubs in the Red Sox each
Speaker 1: each another fifty K because at that point we're not
Speaker 1: moving the needle any direction. But supposedly they they offered
Speaker 1: more money, and Tanner Scott said, I'm going to la
Speaker 1: and you get it to a degree. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to put our I think it's hard for
Speaker 1: a lot of us to put ourselves in the shoes
Speaker 1: of someone who's even made ten million dollars playing baseball.
Speaker 1: But you know, I could go into the speech about
Speaker 1: taxes and agents. Okay, so let's cut that in half,
Speaker 1: and then we're buying nice meals and things like Tanner
Speaker 1: Scott might only have a million dollars. Either way, that's
Speaker 1: some really good Tanner Scott problems. Hey, man, I the
Speaker 1: more I thought about it, and I was kind of unhappy.
Speaker 1: Tanner Scott pitched for the bad Orioles teams. Tanner Scott
Speaker 1: pitched for the bad Marlins teams. Maybe Tanner Scott wants
Speaker 1: to be on a winning baseball team. No, it's awesome winning,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers are set up successfully for that. So
Speaker 1: that's where the Japanese thing. I think there's a fair
Speaker 1: conversation on if it really just becomes a Dodgers pipeline,
Speaker 1: Like you know, we've in Hey, this this isn't just
Speaker 1: for Yankees fans. Who you know, who's our guy? Munataki Morikami.
Speaker 1: I believe he's a free agent next year, power hitting
Speaker 1: first baseman, third baseman. It's taking a I think some
Speaker 1: steps back, but is a guy that's supposed to come
Speaker 1: over and has a chance to be very good, and
Speaker 1: every player from Japan has a chance to be very good.
Speaker 1: They won the WBC. They've clearly caught up to whatever
Speaker 1: the normal expectation is. Max Munsey is a free agent
Speaker 1: coming up this season, thick third baseman. That the is
Speaker 1: that the safe spot for more Kami. I mean it's
Speaker 1: I don't want this to come off as whining Yankee
Speaker 1: fan who just lost the World Series because their team
Speaker 1: couldn't play defense. It's just the Dodgers have become the example.
Speaker 1: They won the World Series. They're getting players in free agents.
Speaker 1: You every team wants their team to be doing what
Speaker 1: the Dodgers is doing. I guess if you got ownership,
Speaker 1: which is very important and going out and getting free
Speaker 1: agents and making trades for guys and paying players and
Speaker 1: all that. If you have that, there's currently one thing
Speaker 1: that's missing from your organization, and it's that ability. So
Speaker 1: I'm just interested to see the next steps I super
Speaker 1: teams and repeating it rarely works out that, you know,
Speaker 1: I there's there may be a day in late to
Speaker 1: mid October when we're talking about remember all that conversation
Speaker 1: about super team another, the Dodgers unfair and all that,
Speaker 1: and sometimes a lot of times baseball rears its ugly
Speaker 1: head and it's like, here's the Diamondbacks, Let's see what
Speaker 1: happens with them. I'm interested to see what goes on
Speaker 1: with the pipeline from Japan because I don't know, and
Speaker 1: I'm coming at this from a Yankees perspective, and I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if there's an element of this being unfair, and that's,
Speaker 1: you know, as a guy who watched Moneyball over the weekend,
Speaker 1: here's your Dodgers, here's the Yankees. Here's a lot of
Speaker 1: other teams, here's fifty feet a shit, and then there's
Speaker 1: a couple other teams down there nowadays that if I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make this a fair playing field for everyone,
Speaker 1: which it's part of the reason I do enjoy sports.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to track the next steps as of now.
Speaker 1: Good for the Dodgers. Anyone could have signed Blake Snell
Speaker 1: that contract was not in another atmosphere. Another team could
Speaker 1: have traded for Tyler Glass now and paid him. They
Speaker 1: did not. The Dodgers had the advantage of depth and
Speaker 1: being the dog that some of his injury fears they
Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about. Ta Oscar was a free
Speaker 1: agent from Seattle a year ago. Like Freddie you know,
Speaker 1: remember his free agency got a little weird. Like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of this team that you can't point at
Speaker 1: and say bad or funny business or whatever. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see what Dodgers baseball looks like. I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see where does the line stop. And it's also the
Speaker 1: Tanner Scott example. If they're getting players and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying for a discount, but other teams putting in slightly
Speaker 1: better bids on players and they're choosing the Dodgers, well,
Speaker 1: that's because they're going to win games, and it's because
Speaker 1: they're a good organization. It's because Dave Roberts is beloved
Speaker 1: and it's because their clubhouse is reportedly just an awesome
Speaker 1: place to be, so for the other team games, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of figure keep up on the
Speaker 1: other levels, so that if Japan just becomes their best
Speaker 1: minor league pipeline, then you can complain about that. But
Speaker 1: as of right now they're doing so much other stuff
Speaker 1: could but yeah, there's a little bit of jealousy and
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so interested to see the next steps and
Speaker 1: how the rest of this free agency pans out. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I guess I mentioned Toronto a little bit off
Speaker 1: the jump. They were the second finalists to Sasaki Padres.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna talk about you because I think
Speaker 1: it's a very sad conversation and I don't know the
Speaker 1: next steps. Your ownership is fighting. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: money and good players on that books. I hope, Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a profar and there's a something else and where
Speaker 1: we get excited for some Padres baseball because this team
Speaker 1: was up two to one on the Dodgers and they
Speaker 1: felt like the best team. Think about that, the Padres
Speaker 1: as of what was that three months ago? For a
Speaker 1: couple of days, we're like, I think they're the best
Speaker 1: team in baseball and they're going to win the World Series,
Speaker 1: and now we're wondering, how are they going to fill
Speaker 1: out their team rotation? You know, are they even going
Speaker 1: to get the money for I don't want to say
Speaker 1: stopgap type players, but at MLB players to participate in
Speaker 1: the bottom of their lineup and back into their rotation.
Speaker 1: That's going to be wild to track. Now the Toronto
Speaker 1: Blue Jays and hey, are waken Jake Redheaded step Son
Speaker 1: Foolish Baseball he had it first. Man. I think it
Speaker 1: was one of the first times I asked him. I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, man, if you've got something you want
Speaker 1: to talk about, like we're we're kind of fueled by
Speaker 1: passionate topics. And I think it was the end of
Speaker 1: twenty two or middle end of twenty three, and Foolish
Speaker 1: was like, this could be the end of the Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, man, like, I hope you understand.
Speaker 1: I can't really say that I can, but Blue Jay
Speaker 1: fans they are hostile, and especially to Yankee fans. Toronto
Speaker 1: is sitting at a weird spot. And I guess, I,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I should acknowledge the Miles Straw trade
Speaker 1: a little more. George Springer clearly on a second part
Speaker 1: of his career. He's thirty five. Remember he had that
Speaker 1: bizarre start last year that he did bounce back, so
Speaker 1: there's something in there. But he was a one point
Speaker 1: two war player, a ninety five weighted runs created plus
Speaker 1: at thirty five. Does he have another season of something
Speaker 1: in there? Sure also could not Boba Shet. I think
Speaker 1: the whole world is expecting him to bounce back in
Speaker 1: a big way, hopefully just being healthy. Contract year can
Speaker 1: go and that would be obviously a massive change from
Speaker 1: a loss last year. Vladdie the break the final breakout
Speaker 1: hopefully happened. He is in his contract year. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of the stories of the sport this year.
Speaker 1: Let's see, you know, Flattie, My god, if he does
Speaker 1: what he did last year again, he'll be twenty six
Speaker 1: in free agency. Uh, it's gonna be closer to Sodo
Speaker 1: than anyone thinks, because if Juan Soto got that money,
Speaker 1: vlad is in a ballpark offensively with Soto. And this
Speaker 1: is gonna sound kind of crazy, but Vladdie's position at
Speaker 1: least is gonna make more sense for a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's it's a wiggly conversation.
Speaker 2: Sodo is it'll be like a real test of like
Speaker 2: what how much your first baseman just not valued? Because
Speaker 2: if he repeats this year and has like any difficulty
Speaker 2: in free agency next winter, like all right, then we
Speaker 2: got a first base problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't early report, I wouldn't think so,
Speaker 1: I think I think the bigger thing. I mean, for
Speaker 1: Pete it was the supplying deman of this offseason. And
Speaker 1: but I mean part of the conversation is like do
Speaker 1: you do you love Pete at first base? What does
Speaker 1: that look like? In a couple of years and his
Speaker 1: bad has kind of been on a minor decline, where
Speaker 1: with Vladdie it seems like it's coming together. It seems
Speaker 1: like there was a little immaturity on some of those
Speaker 1: early Blue Jay teams that it seems like that's going away.
Speaker 1: And you know, the difference between twenty six and twenty
Speaker 1: two is significant, Like that's you know, I've seen young
Speaker 1: BBD go through that change in our workplace. You know,
Speaker 1: now he's got a beard, so that I think for
Speaker 1: Vladdie it's it's it's repeating last year because he's had
Speaker 1: the good season. If he does that again, he's going
Speaker 1: to have age on his side, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: you can plug him at first base and he's going
Speaker 1: to be there for probably the next decade or so.
Speaker 1: Where for Sodo, you know, depending how you value outfield defense,
Speaker 1: that conversation is going to get interesting that between the
Speaker 1: d H spot or is he willing to move where
Speaker 1: Vladdie Junior You're almost like, yeah, I mean he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to play first base at a similar
Speaker 1: level until he's thirty three, thirty four, where Soto has
Speaker 1: potential to become a very big negative defensively. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at Jin Carlos Stan Anyways, Vladdie's going to go
Speaker 1: chase a big number and who's going to be involved.
Speaker 1: Joe's McFly partially thinks that the Mets dream is to
Speaker 1: go full basically his dream team, it's to sign Vlatty
Speaker 1: next offseason. So it's Lindor Soto and Vlattie. Maybe they will.
Speaker 1: Maybe that is the plan. If I'm the Toronto Blue
Speaker 1: Jays and Vladdie Guerrero Junior will sign anywhere near a
Speaker 1: dotted line, I think you need to get that done.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even saying this offseason because he's gonna
Speaker 1: hit free agency. He's made it this close. He deserves
Speaker 1: to hit free agency and drive up a bidding war
Speaker 1: and get paid. Layers clearly struggle with the Toronto thing.
Speaker 1: Man George Springer signed there because he got an extra year.
Speaker 1: Hinjin Reyu signed there because he got an extra year. Barrio,
Speaker 1: so I think when they traded for him, it was
Speaker 1: kind of like, hey, if you sign this extension or
Speaker 1: we can be in the ballpark here, and he was
Speaker 1: about that. Uh. The only one that makes me laugh
Speaker 1: was Chris Bassett. Chris Bassett was kind of a normal
Speaker 1: free agent, you know, three years a year or whatever,
Speaker 1: like okay, but signing free agents in Toronto hasn't been
Speaker 1: as easy. And that's where I liked Anthony Santander from
Speaker 1: them from the start. And again, this part kind of
Speaker 1: stinks for Toronto, but it's because Santander has a couple flaws. Defensively,
Speaker 1: he doesn't stand out. The on base percentage is in
Speaker 1: kind of a risky spot. But hit forty four homers
Speaker 1: and if you're looking to have a shot this year,
Speaker 1: you know, look at the money that's getting handed out
Speaker 1: around baseball. If Santander if other teams are scared to
Speaker 1: give that fourth year or whatever it is. If the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays are willing and he's willing to sign, you
Speaker 1: have to do that because that would be the switch
Speaker 1: hitter you'd have between Bashett and Vladdie, that could give
Speaker 1: you a top three in a lineup that could move
Speaker 1: things offensively. So for the Toronto Blue Jays, it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: How are they gonna go back to the drawing board
Speaker 1: if they're really struggling to extend and sign guys. Do
Speaker 1: they need to invest even more in their minor leagues?
Speaker 1: Or when guys are coming up on free agency, do
Speaker 1: they almost need a raise, you know, one to two
Speaker 1: years out. Do we have to trade guys to cash
Speaker 1: in on their value now to rebuild it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Something's a little off. There's another part of me that wonders,
Speaker 1: are they just gonna go ham to finish off this
Speaker 1: free agency? Are they gonna get Santandre? There's Pete rumors
Speaker 1: right after their DH spot is currently listed as Will
Speaker 1: Wagner again. A little bit of that is Hayman, who's
Speaker 1: you know, there's some rumors him in him and Boris
Speaker 1: or in cahoots I'm interested to see if Toronto throws
Speaker 1: the kitchen sink at it or is this gonna be
Speaker 1: a weird We're gonna play some defense and we've got
Speaker 1: some you know, Earn Clement can get you to warn
Speaker 1: a season and what does that do? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think if you're Toronto and you're trying to woove
Speaker 1: Laddie for the last time, there's a couple moves and
Speaker 1: players out there that you can still do. You can
Speaker 1: have a bad daydream about their rotation and their bullpen.
Speaker 1: And if you added a couple hitters, other guys become
Speaker 1: more valuable, Andres Jmenez's defense who they traded for, he
Speaker 1: becomes more valuable. Alejandro Kirk on both sides of the
Speaker 1: ball can be an asset for them. That let's see
Speaker 1: where Toronto goes the rest of the way, because I
Speaker 1: for a couple of these free agents that they're starting
Speaker 1: to get a little anxious with spring training and everything
Speaker 1: coming up, if they can get the value that they
Speaker 1: were looking for from the Toronto Blue Jays. You know what,
Speaker 1: there's taxes up there that are that are real. You're
Speaker 1: you're not like a citizen, Are you having a kid?
Speaker 1: Are they now Canadian things I haven't had to think about.
Speaker 1: But let's see what goes on. We've got a couple
Speaker 1: more bodies to go. Will there be a secondary trade market?
Speaker 1: Remember everyone kind of thought Dylan Cease was gonna go,
Speaker 1: but we don't. No one knows what's going on with
Speaker 1: that franchise in San Diego currently. Let's see what happens
Speaker 1: the rest of the way until then, a little bit
Speaker 1: of football college National Championship game tonight, just remember that.
Speaker 1: So that's exciting. Notre Dame Ohio State. I'm going to
Speaker 1: start planning my whole day around that. That is huge.
Speaker 1: Get ready for that. Ohio State's supposed to roll big spread.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what Notre Dame has in
Speaker 1: their back pocket, if anything, or they may not. And
Speaker 1: we may be talking about a somewhat historic Ohio I
Speaker 1: mean definitely a historic Ohio State run. As they went
Speaker 1: from kind of a laughing stock. They never beat Michigan
Speaker 1: in four years? How could this happen? Ryan Day? What
Speaker 1: kind of die is he putting in his beard? How
Speaker 1: do they seemingly lose every big game they need? Here
Speaker 1: they are on one of their most dominant runs that
Speaker 1: We've seen a college football team go on and if
Speaker 1: they can put it together for sixty more minutes against
Speaker 1: a team that they can a team that lost to
Speaker 1: Northern Illinois early on this year, it could be dominant.
Speaker 1: It is fun, you know the storylines that sports can provide,
Speaker 1: and that's part of the reason that you know, media
Speaker 1: and sports almost need to be more hand in hand.
Speaker 1: Like Notre Dame has left an offensive tackle who's starting
Speaker 1: in this game who was out all season, but he
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a stud. So it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: is that guy going to come in and be dominant
Speaker 1: or is that guy going to come in and get worked?
Speaker 1: Is that guy going to come in get worked and
Speaker 1: then limp off three plays in? Like it's it's the
Speaker 1: crazy part of sports that it could be game changing.
Speaker 1: Could run it behind them every play and then they're dominant.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I'm rooting for good football if
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm putting cheese on it, it might be
Speaker 1: Ohio State as the spread with a little bit of
Speaker 1: happiness hedge, because Ohio State can get under my skin
Speaker 1: a little bit, but so can like Notre Dame for everyone,
Speaker 1: So this is like the most hated championship game. Ever,
Speaker 1: will Notre Dame be able to pass the ball? Who
Speaker 1: will make the plays? How will college football rear its
Speaker 1: ugly head? Never know about that one. Let's watch that together.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk a little bit on Wednesday. Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little NFL football because this is the best week
Speaker 1: of NFL football of the year. And it started off
Speaker 1: with the Kansas City Chiefs and we had Penticon last week,
Speaker 1: and you know, this is this is the Chiefs. People
Speaker 1: are calling it the you know, the Chief's Invitational Tournament.
Speaker 1: You know, get get your memes ready with Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and the referee doing a jersey swap. You know, a
Speaker 1: couple AI videos that little sultry between Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: the referees, at least I think they're AI. And those
Speaker 1: memes came out after this game because there was a
Speaker 1: couple penalties that you're just like, come on, fellas. With
Speaker 1: that being said, Chiefs come out, they win twenty three
Speaker 1: to fourteen, and it's just a it's a very weird
Speaker 1: exercise with the Kansas City Chiefs, who are now fifteen
Speaker 1: and two, or they were fifteen and two in the
Speaker 1: regular season, fifteen and one in games that the other
Speaker 1: teams were that they were competing in. There's just a
Speaker 1: weird you feel like you have to be perfect against them,
Speaker 1: even though the numbers and statistics don't lose that. And
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs offense hasn't been kind of scary all year,
Speaker 1: but the Texans missed the field goal and that hurt
Speaker 1: them early on. Chiefs get a block on a late
Speaker 1: one even though the game seemed to be already decided
Speaker 1: at that point. Their defense, Chris Jones is one of
Speaker 1: the most dominant players in the NFL, and he went
Speaker 1: from people need to talk about him more to know
Speaker 1: he's dominant and he kind of gets the respect he deserves.
Speaker 1: And Mahomes to Kelsey was working seven for one to
Speaker 1: seventeen man for a touchdown. So to see them have
Speaker 1: that the running game not really there for them and
Speaker 1: this Texans team, you could see their defense coming together
Speaker 1: at the right part of this season, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: enough in Arrowhead, which is a, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the toughest NFL environments, if not the toughest. I feel
Speaker 1: like we've got this weird thing with the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: I was very guilty of it this year that they've
Speaker 1: been so chiefsy, if you will, that we ignore and
Speaker 1: we look at the other teams and what else is
Speaker 1: brewing because we know they're still Mahomes. We know they
Speaker 1: play good defense. Spagnolo is gonna get shout outs during
Speaker 1: the games because some of the blitzes he dials up.
Speaker 1: It's like, wait, we read all these stats about WHOA
Speaker 1: this quarterback is so good against the blitz don't blitz them.
Speaker 1: Spagnolo always blitzes, And it seems like it gets home
Speaker 1: enough that has there ever been the Chiefs game that
Speaker 1: it's like, Oh, there goes another guy running free. They blitzed,
Speaker 1: and like it just doesn't happen. Chiefs and Andy Reid
Speaker 1: coming off the long layoff too, people were worried about.
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem to affect them too much. Although we
Speaker 1: get basically the same Chiefs game we get all year.
Speaker 1: Important to some a late safety at the end of
Speaker 1: this one, and yeah, I'm I want to fast forward
Speaker 1: and talk out some Bills. Bill's Chiefs a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I guess I can circle up on that at
Speaker 1: the end. Hey, for Houston, this is what it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's almost like you you took your
Speaker 1: your sophomore stroud year. That felt just everything felt a
Speaker 1: little weird, from the coordinators to some of the play,
Speaker 1: to some real injuries that that changed how this team felt.
Speaker 1: You bring it to the drawing board. Next year, you
Speaker 1: get better. You're still feeling bright about that in Houston,
Speaker 1: speaking of feeling bright. The other game on Saturday, Commanders
Speaker 1: Lions get ready for the shootout. You know, one of
Speaker 1: the higher over unders of the season. Uh, this Lions
Speaker 1: team who won again a pseudo playoff game against the Vikings,
Speaker 1: and they look dominant against them. The Commanders, who Hey,
Speaker 1: I've been driving the Jaden Daniels bus. But I was
Speaker 1: also very much like you can look at a lot
Speaker 1: of things on their schedule and be like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: they escaped with a couple wins against bad teams, and
Speaker 1: their defense had some times this year that were very
Speaker 1: lackluster that it was like, hey, maybe you know, they
Speaker 1: barely survived the Bucks. If the Bucks don't run a
Speaker 1: jet sweep and fumble it, the Buccaneers probably win this game,
Speaker 1: and that's who the Lions would be playing. Unfortunately for
Speaker 1: the Lions. Jaydeon Daniels is that guy Dan Quinn, is
Speaker 1: that guy, I mean dan Quinn man, he is a
Speaker 1: couple horrifying plays away from having a very different NFL resume.
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcon Super Bowl game. That again, go look
Speaker 1: at the Atlanta Falcons as a franchise, not one of
Speaker 1: your more successful franchises. He had them there with Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: and I know that was so weird that, you know,
Speaker 1: dan Quinn was the head coach and Shanahan was the coordinator,
Speaker 1: and Shanahan got a lot of the credit. But also
Speaker 1: if they had just run the ball more in the
Speaker 1: second half, they probably win that Super Bowl. And then
Speaker 1: we're talking about dan Quinn as a Super Bowl winning
Speaker 1: or coach for the Atlanta Falcons, which there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of people you look at and say that. You know,
Speaker 1: he had the Cowboys defense playing at an extremely high level,
Speaker 1: that that went away when dan Quinn left. Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: originally goes back to those Seahawks defenses, the Legion of
Speaker 1: Boom and that kind of thing. Like, dan Quinn has
Speaker 1: an amazing resume as a football coach, and it's all
Speaker 1: come together with this Commander's team, Cliff Kingsbury calling the plays,
Speaker 1: who I think he's an amazing offensive coordinator, not a
Speaker 1: head coach. We'll talk about that another day. And they
Speaker 1: get the turnovers, the pick six golf gets rocked a
Speaker 1: twenty eight point second quarter from the Commanders. That man,
Speaker 1: I feel bad for Lions fans when you so the
Speaker 1: Lions have the breakout season and it's you know, they
Speaker 1: were supposed to be the breakout team and then they
Speaker 1: were and that was awesome, but still nobody had expectations.
Speaker 1: Now the expectations happen and they live up to them.
Speaker 1: They're fifteen and two. The offense is clicking. The defense
Speaker 1: seemed like they survived so many injuries and they were
Speaker 1: getting guys back and healthy that maybe the defense was
Speaker 1: going to bounce back. They did not. Commanders hang forty
Speaker 1: five on them. Again, the little things that are having
Speaker 1: Diami Brown, the wide receiver is breaking out at the
Speaker 1: right time for Washington. Terry McLaurin. Terry McLaurin with a quarterback.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of old tweets out there about that
Speaker 1: he had the one breakoff run where he could not
Speaker 1: be caught. Zach Ertz with another playoff touchdown. Jaden fifty
Speaker 1: one on the ground. Eckler had forty seven runs like
Speaker 1: they ended up running for one eight two passing for
Speaker 1: two ninety nine Lions. It's brutal. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. It's it's get that defense healthy, add
Speaker 1: to the defense for the next year, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of the the beauty of playoff football where
Speaker 1: we had a lot of the dominant teams win this weekend.
Speaker 1: This was unfortunately for the Lions. This one was the
Speaker 1: outlier man. Brutal, brutal feeling for Detroit fans out there
Speaker 1: and they haven't signed anyone in free agency. Alex Cobb
Speaker 1: that leads us to Sunday Eagles Rams Rams kind of
Speaker 1: feeling like the other team rivaling the Commanders, accept different story.
Speaker 1: It's the veteran quarterback, it's the whiz kid head coach,
Speaker 1: and they're going into Philly to face the Eagles in
Speaker 1: the snow. Does it get any prettier? The Eagles dominated
Speaker 1: them last time, but everyone kept seeing the stat this
Speaker 1: week that was running backs that ran for two hundred
Speaker 1: in the regular season facing a team later that year
Speaker 1: and they were all held under like sixty yards that
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think for a lot of us
Speaker 1: that haven't played football on the NFL level, hell college football,
Speaker 1: hell high school football. For myself, it's like, okay, so
Speaker 1: you know football is obviously played with a mean streak,
Speaker 1: and if you have the big bodies, is it. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're not letting this happen and we're coach them up. Hey,
Speaker 1: big boys up front, we gotta be better. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Saquon runs for two bills the Eagles, the Eagles, Eagles
Speaker 1: in this one man, Like, I think that's what i'd say.
Speaker 1: Jalen hurts twenty attempts or less fifteen for twenty one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight yards. Saquon Barkley two to Zho
Speaker 1: five on the ground, Jalen hurts seventy on the ground,
Speaker 1: like that is where their bread gets buttered. And it's
Speaker 1: it's I don't know fully what it was. Was it
Speaker 1: the NFL went to all these spread offenses and everyone
Speaker 1: plays nickel defense, and finally the one team adjusted that
Speaker 1: said we're gonna go big, and we're gonna go massive
Speaker 1: at every position and we're gonna jam it down your throat.
Speaker 1: Because that's feels like what happened. It feels like what
Speaker 1: we want in sports when things swing too far. One
Speaker 1: way that we go the other with them that they
Speaker 1: have the quarterback who squats a billion pounds and they
Speaker 1: can get a touchdown whenever they want, except they didn't.
Speaker 1: They had third and goal from the two yard line.
Speaker 1: The team that can get a free two yards essentially
Speaker 1: whenever they want it. Saquan gets stopped right at the
Speaker 1: goal line, goes to replay review and then they go
Speaker 1: for the tush push false start by Lane Johnson that
Speaker 1: they have to kick a field goal that gives the
Speaker 1: Rams life on this and Stafford deep in his bag
Speaker 1: Man three twenty four, two touchdown, zero interceptions, Puca was
Speaker 1: six for ninety seven, cup Higbee DeMarcus Robinson like there
Speaker 1: was a lot of guys contributing for the Rams. That
Speaker 1: the Rams have the ball and are driving down the
Speaker 1: field with less than two minutes left. What Eagles with
Speaker 1: their classic just moments of what is you doing? Baby?
Speaker 1: They get the stop when they meet it, need it
Speaker 1: a huge, huge Jalen Carter sack after on second and
Speaker 1: twelve from the Philly twenty three, Stafford gets it to
Speaker 1: Nikua for ten yards. Stafford gets sacked, They lose nine
Speaker 1: fourth and eleven, looks for Nikou again, it's out of bounds.
Speaker 1: Eagles win and yeah, it's the most Eagles thing ever.
Speaker 1: I it felt dominant, but they could lose and that's
Speaker 1: how they actually lost to the Washington Commanders a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. A fun run for the Rams obviously that
Speaker 1: they're not at the point where they want to they
Speaker 1: want to hear that. And the Eagles, I I think
Speaker 1: they're still my super Bowl team. I went into the
Speaker 1: postseason with that and that's it's because it feels like
Speaker 1: they sometimes make these horrible mistakes and they still find
Speaker 1: a way to be fine because they can run it
Speaker 1: for two hundred on any team in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: they did that in the playoffs, letting the Rams know
Speaker 1: it was coming. Jalen Hurts with the big run too early.
Speaker 1: That set the tone. Eagles move on in the snow,
Speaker 1: pretty snow, good football snow. That set up the game
Speaker 1: of the weekend Bills Ravens, I mean, the two MVP quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: We ran through the whole thing. I do think something
Speaker 1: that gets overshadowed throughout all of this was the Ravens
Speaker 1: were favored, which I again, this is Vegas, but it's
Speaker 1: money like it's real and for coaches it's motivation that
Speaker 1: I think they said something because this Bills team has
Speaker 1: been really good for a long time now. It's like
Speaker 1: the first time in it's like twenty home games that
Speaker 1: the Bills haven't been the favorite or something like that.
Speaker 1: So they the Ravens who beat the Bills either. Earlier
Speaker 1: this year, the Bills looked like a motivated bunch, you know,
Speaker 1: a defensive defensive lead heead coach who I've been tough
Speaker 1: on in Buffalo, but you saw it in the defense early,
Speaker 1: like the Ravens were trying to run the ball, and
Speaker 1: Buffalo was coming out firing that We're not going to
Speaker 1: let Derrick, Henry and Lamar just run loose on us,
Speaker 1: Like that's not how this game is going to go. Today.
Speaker 1: Ravens come down the opening drive, they get a touchdown
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, okay, but hey, maybe a blessing
Speaker 1: from my Denver Broncos they did the same thing, and
Speaker 1: the Bills came back and Boat raced them. The Bills
Speaker 1: came back the rest of that half twenty one to three.
Speaker 1: The rest of the way, Josh Allen looking incredible. James
Speaker 1: Cook has been a clear difference maker for them. They're
Speaker 1: backup running backs Ty Johnson and Ray Davis. You know,
Speaker 1: I was on some James Cook betting props last night
Speaker 1: that Davis and Johnson. I mean, they looked a little better,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that was element of surprise
Speaker 1: or cooks out so they're not going to them, But
Speaker 1: it kind of goes back to the story. Now for
Speaker 1: this Buffalo Bills team, Shakir is the go to wide
Speaker 1: receiver and man, he's got a little a little wiggle
Speaker 1: to him, as they say in football six for sixty seven.
Speaker 1: But otherwise we're spreading the ball out Shakir Cook, Mac Collins, Kinkaid,
Speaker 1: Samuel Ty Johnson, Kean Coleman, Dawson Knox all with receptions.
Speaker 1: That being said, it wasn't the prettiest game passing through
Speaker 1: the air for Buffalo, and it really didn't need to.
Speaker 1: They were moving the ball enough. That being said, in
Speaker 1: the second half the Baltimore Ravens, they kind of got
Speaker 1: the juice. The offense started clicking more. Derek Henry and
Speaker 1: Justice Hill started getting some more yards. Lamar was finding
Speaker 1: guys two fifty four through the air for him to
Speaker 1: the fact that they needed to drive for a touchdown
Speaker 1: to tie the game, and they did it with ease,
Speaker 1: almost too quick if you're one of the football people
Speaker 1: at home thinking about that. But they needed the two
Speaker 1: point conversion and absolutely brutal. They draw up the right play.
Speaker 1: It's kind of that rollout play that I think a
Speaker 1: lot of football fans have gone familiar with. And is
Speaker 1: it the wide receiver, is it the running back who's
Speaker 1: out there in the flat by the pylon? It's Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews lamar hits him in the belly. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a weird play because again, your boot body's
Speaker 1: moving in different directions and you gotta squeeze it and
Speaker 1: still keep your energy going backwards because he's right by
Speaker 1: the goal line. It's no excuse for that, though. Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews drops it. A play that will live in Baltimore
Speaker 1: infamy for years. And that was it, and that was
Speaker 1: all that the Buffalo bill has won twenty seven to
Speaker 1: twenty five. I think the home field thing got overlooked
Speaker 1: just a little bit, that Buffalo especially. I mean, my goodness,
Speaker 1: that that place was going nuts. But couldn't I look
Speaker 1: back in point at those Detroit Lions and say the
Speaker 1: same thing And it wasn't the difference there so good
Speaker 1: on Buffalo. I did have a moment when when they
Speaker 1: were announcing it at the end of the game that
Speaker 1: I think in this era of football, if there's a
Speaker 1: team that deserves another shot at the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: it's these Bills. They the famous overtime game that you know,
Speaker 1: just whichever team had the ball was scoring and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs won the toss. Buffalo deserves their hack at them,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna get it in Arrowhead, and I I'm
Speaker 1: questioning things. I sure am, like I believe in the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the that they win games because that's just
Speaker 1: what they do, because they have a legendary head coach,
Speaker 1: that have a legendary quarterback, legendary tyan, legendary de coordinator,
Speaker 1: legendary d lineman. Like they they are the Chiefs for
Speaker 1: a reason. But God, it still doesn't feel great. And
Speaker 1: yet the Bills kind of do like this feels like
Speaker 1: the best version of the Buffalo Bills that I don't know,
Speaker 1: I guess I fully don't have my head wrapped around it.
Speaker 1: This morning, I was thinking of flipping over to Bills
Speaker 1: from Kansas City because I've thought it's gonna be Kansas
Speaker 1: City and the Eagles for a while. The Bills are
Speaker 1: very much, very much in it and might flip me
Speaker 1: by the time the game comes around, because it if
Speaker 1: you didn't know it was the Chiefs, you'd be saying
Speaker 1: it's the Bills. Problem is it is the Chiefs. And
Speaker 1: then on the NFC side, Eagles Commanders again, these teams
Speaker 1: played a few weeks back and it was very Eagles
Speaker 1: Commanders that the Eagles looked like they were running away
Speaker 1: with it and had the game in the bag. Washington
Speaker 1: scored twenty two in the fourth quarter to win thirty
Speaker 1: six to three, and Jayden put on a show five
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. So that's you know, the funny thing with
Speaker 1: motivation is and this was there was a lot of
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett in this game for the Eagles. So is
Speaker 1: this going to be this is gonna fuel the Eagles
Speaker 1: to dominate over a lesser, lesser team at home instead
Speaker 1: of on the road, or is this a thing for
Speaker 1: the Commanders where it's like, hey, guys, you can do this.
Speaker 1: Jaden threw for five touchdowns on them, we can beat
Speaker 1: this football team and it would be an exciting story
Speaker 1: of Jaden. I mean, he will become a star of star.
Speaker 1: If the rookie quarterback can lead a team to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, my goodness. I'm still on the Eagles. They
Speaker 1: they can hand the ball off every play and win
Speaker 1: a football game, and that that was thought to be
Speaker 1: out of this league a long time ago. And yet
Speaker 1: I think it's in fat more than ever. As you're
Speaker 1: seeing running the football at all level of football, it's
Speaker 1: kind of where it starts, and teams have forgotten that
Speaker 1: and running the football sexy again. So the other thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention the big loser of the weekend,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, keeps it rolling. Sam Donald had a little
Speaker 1: bit of a loophole that was like, you know what, Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe Sam Donald, he caught the lines at the wrong time.
Speaker 1: They got ANZELONEI back that home Field's disgusting whatever commanders
Speaker 1: put up forty five on them. So that's tough for
Speaker 1: Sam Donald. The other team was the Rams. Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: the Rams are peaking at the right time. They got
Speaker 1: this young d line that it's all coming together for them.
Speaker 1: I don't know, they were fine, but it was more
Speaker 1: so I was looking for a Sam Donald loophole that
Speaker 1: maybe he just got screwed to in the year. Still
Speaker 1: not looking good for Uncle Sam. So great football weekend, Natty.
Speaker 1: The Natty is get excited for that. And again we
Speaker 1: still got some baseball moves that's gonna happen. So appreciate
Speaker 1: uh BBD firing it up on MLK on Monday morning
Speaker 1: to get this out for the good people and his
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