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Speaker 2: Welcome in Episode two forty nine, What's Right with Nick? Right?
Speaker 2: Not a live show today, So if you're watching this
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Speaker 2: shorter show than usual today because I have to get
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Speaker 2: We will still tell you what missed the cut for
Speaker 2: today's show. Lindsey Harding joining the Lakers' coaching staff, becoming
Speaker 2: the first female coach in Lakers history. Kyrie undergoing surgery
Speaker 2: for a broken hand. That's a little ominous for the MAVs.
Speaker 2: Also demand say, I don't know if you saw Chris
Speaker 2: Middleton had double ankle surgery. He had arthroscopic surgery, which
Speaker 2: is the minor surgery, but on both of his ankles.
Speaker 2: And staff we found out sick of hearing, not like us.
Speaker 2: Lebron not so sick of hearing, not like us. Also,
Speaker 2: I am now putting out there that I believe demons
Speaker 2: unless Lebron decides I'm just tired of playing basketball and
Speaker 2: only plays two more years, because he I think he
Speaker 2: could play at a All Star ish level, not the
Speaker 2: level he's at right now, but like around the twentieth
Speaker 2: best player in the league level for maybe six more years.
Speaker 2: Six if he decides he wants to do that, I
Speaker 2: think he and Steph are going to be teammates one day.
Speaker 2: I don't know where, and I don't know under what circumstances,
Speaker 2: But I think those guys want to play together, and
Speaker 2: I think right now they're about to both go through
Speaker 2: wildly frustrating seasons where both of them are still top
Speaker 2: ten players in the league and neither of them are
Speaker 2: competing for anything other than to hopefully avoid the play
Speaker 2: in And I just wonder if this month together with
Speaker 2: the Olympics is going to get them on the same page.
Speaker 2: If again, if Lebron wants to play for a long time.
Speaker 2: All right, Demanse, what are we starting the show with? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So, your Chiefs obviously had to endure a lot of
Speaker 3: criticism last year with the stagnant play, but after winning
Speaker 3: back to back Super Bowls, nobody can no longer criticize
Speaker 3: them besides one person, Yeah, and that's Patrick Mahomes. He
Speaker 3: said that last year wasn't fun and they weren't getting
Speaker 3: better on a.
Speaker 4: Week to week basis.
Speaker 3: So my question to you is anything short of a
Speaker 3: three peat would that be a fun season for your Chiefs?
Speaker 2: The ma Homes No, I mean that at this point
Speaker 2: they are the ultimate anything short of a Championships of failure.
Speaker 2: They haven't. Their worst season since Mahomes took over is
Speaker 2: losing in the conference title game in overtime. That's been
Speaker 2: the floor. So missing the playoffs is not winning the
Speaker 2: division is you know far move from that. Just losing
Speaker 2: a close round two playoff game would be their worst season.
Speaker 2: Losing in the super Bowl is their third worst season.
Speaker 2: But I'm more so it's not just about what the
Speaker 2: ultimate goal is. But I think Patrick Patrick is very
Speaker 2: good at saying things without saying anything. But this was
Speaker 2: real honesty, which was obviously the ultimate goal is to win.
Speaker 2: And because they won, you're okay with what happened last season.
Speaker 2: But I do not think the way they played last season,
Speaker 2: not only from a struggles perspective, but from a style
Speaker 2: of play perspective, is how Patrick wants to play. He
Speaker 2: doesn't want to dink and dunk and thirteen play drives
Speaker 2: and be grinding stuff out. Fine, you know what a.
Speaker 4: To destroy everybody?
Speaker 2: Well, I think by funny he also that, and he
Speaker 2: also means chuck that sucker deep. I think by fun
Speaker 2: he means remind everyone that he's got the best arm
Speaker 2: in football. And you saw that in. They went out
Speaker 2: and signed in free agency Hollywood Brown, who is a
Speaker 2: pure speedster, and they used a first round pick on
Speaker 2: save You're Worthy. It was one hundred and sixty pounds,
Speaker 2: the fastest player to ever run in the combine. So
Speaker 2: that they prioritize being able to take the top off
Speaker 2: the defense the way they were able to with Tyreek
Speaker 2: Kill cause two years ago. The first year without Tyreek,
Speaker 2: they scored a ton of points. And I'm sure it
Speaker 2: was more fun, but again there was a seat like
Speaker 2: it was short stuff. There was I think Patrick had
Speaker 2: like thirty one touchdowns to running backs and tight ends
Speaker 2: and NFL record at the time, it wasn't the laser
Speaker 2: show that we've become accustomed to with the Chiefs. And
Speaker 2: the other thing demands that Patrick said that I found
Speaker 2: interesting was about Xavier Worthy. So Xavier Worthy was the
Speaker 2: first round pick and then missed essentially almost all of
Speaker 2: the off season prior to training camp dealing with a
Speaker 2: hamstring issue, and Patrick's quotes were along the lines of like, listen, man,
Speaker 2: there's no slowly coming along, like we now we need you.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be relying on you, and you need to
Speaker 2: be available. And with the program. I also this morning,
Speaker 2: my pal Greg Rosenthal just started a new venture with
Speaker 2: the NFL called NFL Today NFL Daily. I should know
Speaker 2: his venture if I'm gonna p NFL Daily he used
Speaker 2: to do around the NFL him, I'm hands this and
Speaker 2: Sessler and the NFL kind of without announcement and unceremoniously
Speaker 2: ended that after they had they'd done that pod demonse
Speaker 2: for more than a decade together. Uh. And I don't
Speaker 2: have all the details on that. As a listener and
Speaker 2: as a fan, I was bummed at how that thing ended. Uh.
Speaker 2: But and I don't know Mark or Dan, and I
Speaker 2: wish them the best. That was a great show. But
Speaker 2: Greg is now transitioned to this NFL Daily show, which
Speaker 2: is a great pot. It's a really good pod. It's
Speaker 2: new and I enjoy it. And I was actually listening
Speaker 2: to it this morning and he had Jordan rod reeg
Speaker 2: one and she said something that I thought was super
Speaker 2: smart that I had not considered, which was that guys
Speaker 2: who are specifically training for the combine, for the forty
Speaker 2: yard dash and for those tests, they often then post
Speaker 2: combine when they get to football practice. Rookie OTA's Mini camp,
Speaker 2: stuff like that suffer these soft tissue injuries because their
Speaker 2: body has been training for one specific thing and hasn't
Speaker 2: yet transitioned back to, you know, real football stuff. And
Speaker 2: she kind of speculated I don't even know if it
Speaker 2: was about Worthy or not. I think it was that
Speaker 2: that might have been what happened with Worthy. I thought
Speaker 2: that was super smart and something I hadn't considered. But
Speaker 2: hamstring's worry me. The kid in Green Bay, Watson, He's
Speaker 2: had a hamstring his whole career. He's available, he's excellent,
Speaker 2: then he's out three weeks with a hamstring. He's available,
Speaker 2: he's excellent, then he's out a game with a hamstring.
Speaker 2: So seeing the Chiefs first round pick Xavier Worthy miss
Speaker 2: most of the pre training camp offseason with a hamstring
Speaker 2: was concerning. So watching to see if he's a healthy
Speaker 2: go for training camp is wildly important. The other weird
Speaker 2: thing Demons about kind of the way the NFL media
Speaker 2: cycle works, and it obviously applies to the Chiefs, is
Speaker 2: when's the last time anyone said anything about Rashi Rice's
Speaker 2: pending suspension. Like it feels like that kind that kind
Speaker 2: of got forgotten, Like it was a huge story and
Speaker 2: it should have been. Then he seemingly got in trouble again,
Speaker 2: and it was like, oh my god, what's going on.
Speaker 2: Then that second trouble went away entirely because the guy
Speaker 2: said it didn't happen. People can believe what they want
Speaker 2: to believe. But the guy who allegedly got hit said, no,
Speaker 2: I didn't get hit. It was a misunderstanding. And so
Speaker 2: but I I as a Chiefs fan, but as an
Speaker 2: NFL fan, I the NFL has not told us. Are
Speaker 2: they going to wait for the legal process to take course?
Speaker 2: The legal course? I said that weirdly. I apologize, but
Speaker 2: wait for that to play out before they levy a suspension,
Speaker 2: because if they are, then he's not going to be
Speaker 2: suspended for any games this year because that's not gonna
Speaker 2: happen until next offseason. If they aren't, then I would
Speaker 2: think that they could just go ahead and announce that
Speaker 2: suspension sooner than later. So, you know, so he and
Speaker 2: the team know what the rules are, but the as
Speaker 2: of now, it's just kind of hanging over the team
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure you know how that's going to
Speaker 2: roll out. But the the fact of the matter is
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are going to try to have a fireworks
Speaker 2: offense this year and we'll see if they're able to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, pal, Yeah, how is it possible to have
Speaker 3: Kelsey on your team and not be leading the league
Speaker 3: in fund And also another.
Speaker 2: Way, I think they had a lot of fun. Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about your quarterbacks saying that he
Speaker 3: wants to have fun on the verge of a three
Speaker 3: pat You don't sound worried at all, but I feel
Speaker 3: like that might worry some other fans.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because other fans don't have the greatest player
Speaker 2: ever on as their quarterback and leader. Yeah, that would
Speaker 2: worry fans of teams whose quarterbacks haven't accomplished ten percent
Speaker 2: of what Patrick has. People are like, oh, he's bringing
Speaker 2: a TV to training camp this year, guys. Patrick is
Speaker 2: locked in. And Patrick now has with this past two years,
Speaker 2: winning an MVP without Tyreek Hill and winning a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl when everyone wrote the team off for dead. He
Speaker 2: has evolved somewhat already in his career, demanse to the
Speaker 2: side Quest's portion like, I want to win, and I
Speaker 2: want to win and have fun. I want to win
Speaker 2: and maybe win another MVP. He's earned that right because
Speaker 2: he's won in every way imaginable, and so I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about that in the least. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: to the Jets.
Speaker 3: So after the disaster of a season for the Jets
Speaker 3: last year, it seems like they're definitely going to run
Speaker 3: it back with their coaches. Reports are saying that they
Speaker 3: even reached out to Arthur Smith to call the players
Speaker 3: for Nat Hackett's offense.
Speaker 4: Rogers got a little chrippier.
Speaker 3: I think he got a little annoyed with Solid by
Speaker 3: saying that his absence was excused on his Egypt trip,
Speaker 3: so unexcused.
Speaker 2: He was upset that he caught it unexcuses. I told
Speaker 2: you he would be go ahead.
Speaker 3: Right with all that said, do you think it's too
Speaker 3: early to start hammering the Jets under nine and a
Speaker 3: half wins?
Speaker 2: No, Listen, I wouldn't necessarily hammer it because I think
Speaker 2: they're an eight or nine win team, which means I
Speaker 2: think I do think they're an under But it's not
Speaker 2: like I think they're a four win team. The defense
Speaker 2: is too good, and assuming Rogers plays two thirds of
Speaker 2: the season, they'll have upgrade, well, any amount of time
Speaker 2: he plays, they'll love of an upgrade at quarterback play.
Speaker 2: But I I do think that the team is wildly
Speaker 2: overvalued from a contention standpoint, and the Thent Hackett has
Speaker 2: that job because Rogers believes in it. And I said
Speaker 2: this on the show yesterday, because Rogers, I think, is
Speaker 2: not happy that Robert Sala aired him out as somewhat
Speaker 2: and called that absence unexcused. I am just putting a
Speaker 2: few chips on the roulette table of takes, as Wilde's
Speaker 2: would say. On the Jets get off to a bad
Speaker 2: start and we end up with interim head coach Nat Hackett,
Speaker 2: even though they tried to, you know, replace him in
Speaker 2: the shadows in the offseason. He is Rogers guy. Week one, Demons.
Speaker 2: They play on Monday Night against the Niners. That is
Speaker 2: a brutal spot. And if you remember the story of
Speaker 2: the Niners, either last year or the year before, it
Speaker 2: was every team lost the week after they played the Niners.
Speaker 2: It is such a do you remember, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you remember that stat from cut you remember, but
Speaker 2: it was such a physical brand of football. Okay, So
Speaker 2: they play the Niners on a Monday night, which means
Speaker 2: they then have the Titans, who I don't think are
Speaker 2: gonna be good. But the Titans on a short week
Speaker 2: post playing Niners, and then another super short week Thursday
Speaker 2: night against the Patriots, who should be brutal if somehow
Speaker 2: they were zero to three, I think Roberts. And then
Speaker 2: you have that mini by before the Nat Hackett revenge
Speaker 2: game against Denver. I don't know. I wouldn't be too
Speaker 2: confident if I were. It is very important for Robert
Speaker 2: sala they get off to a good start. That is,
Speaker 2: especially if Rogers is a little nonplussed with him. All right,
Speaker 2: what'sh What else do you have on?
Speaker 4: You called yesterday?
Speaker 3: You called Salah, Rob Bob, Bobby, and Robbie Bruce said
Speaker 3: you were subtly disrespected him.
Speaker 4: Do you have any other any other names you want
Speaker 4: to give him?
Speaker 2: No, I don't have any others. I just the guy's name.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of variations of Robert. I don't see.
Speaker 2: So here's where I think that I am the most
Speaker 2: fair person in the media. Might be rude at times,
Speaker 2: might be a little disrespectful. Nobody when when the Broncos
Speaker 2: hired former Packers offensive coordinator, his name was Nathaniel Hackett,
Speaker 2: and then as we saw him become an inover his
Speaker 2: head head coach, he became Nate and now he's na Hackett.
Speaker 2: And sometimes it's not can't hack it people to do
Speaker 2: all these it is and Nope, yes, yes, But my
Speaker 2: point is it's consistent. Nobody had a problem at all
Speaker 2: with Nathaniel becoming gnat as like, we don't take you seriously.
Speaker 2: So I yeah, I me calling Robert Salah, Rob or
Speaker 2: Robbie or Bob or But yes, I it is rude.
Speaker 2: I am not. I am not denying that it was rude,
Speaker 2: and it was. It was to me, harmless rude. But yes,
Speaker 2: it was rude, but it was consistent. And so I
Speaker 2: don't think I don't, well, you just you just it
Speaker 2: just becomes shorter and shorter. Like I'm trying to think
Speaker 2: of other examples of how this is gone, and if
Speaker 2: they're like, if there are the it didn't happen to Belichick,
Speaker 2: But let Belichick have gone four and thirteen one more time,
Speaker 2: and he would all of a sudden been Billy. It
Speaker 2: would have been old Billy Belichick. I'm just telling you
Speaker 2: that's how that goes. All right, let's talk Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3: So last night, Kaitlyn Clark set the WNBA record for assists.
Speaker 3: She had nineteen, but the Fever still lost to the
Speaker 3: Dream and are currently seventh place heading it to the
Speaker 3: All Star Olympic Break. How would you evaluate her season
Speaker 3: so far?
Speaker 2: I mean a flat A. I don't know the A
Speaker 2: if you want to say a minus because the turnovers.
Speaker 2: She has already set the all time single season record
Speaker 2: for turnovers, which is kind of bananas, not for rookies,
Speaker 2: just for players. But so the turnovers are a legitimate demerit.
Speaker 2: But from an offensive perspective, I actually think she's been
Speaker 2: better than even her biggest realistic supporters thought she would be.
Speaker 2: Right now, she leads the WNBA and assists. She is
Speaker 2: I want, fifteenth in points and has a chance at
Speaker 2: cracking the top ten. And the other element of it is,
Speaker 2: let me tell you the ages. She's twenty two of
Speaker 2: the people ahead of her in points per game twenty seven,
Speaker 2: twenty nine, twenty seven, thirty twenty seven, twenty six, twenty nine,
Speaker 2: thirty thirty three, twenty six, twenty nine, thirty four, thirty two,
Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty five. By the way, so the youngest
Speaker 2: person who's point one ahead of her is actually Kennedy Carter,
Speaker 2: who's been excellent.
Speaker 4: The girl who has been good.
Speaker 2: I think people know her name because of the little
Speaker 2: shoulder bump that heard around the world. But she but
Speaker 2: there is if we want to go the the Aleah Boston,
Speaker 2: her teammate, is the only other person under twenty four
Speaker 2: averaging more than fourteen a game, and she's at fourteen
Speaker 2: point two and the only other person under twenty four
Speaker 2: averaging more than I want to make sure I get
Speaker 2: this right double digits other than those two is Angel,
Speaker 2: and Angel's averaging thirteen a game. So then you go
Speaker 2: to the assists where she's first. Yeah, so, and the
Speaker 2: here's the rest of the top five and assists their
Speaker 2: age thirty two, thirty two, thirty three, twenty six, twenty eight,
Speaker 2: and she's first. I mean the I understand, and I
Speaker 2: try to be lightly more than lightly sympathetic to folks
Speaker 2: that have a lot of emotion tied up in how
Speaker 2: Caitlin was covered versus how Angel was covered, and a
Speaker 2: lot of that, which is real stuff, and we have
Speaker 2: discussed a lot. But on the back basketball side of things,
Speaker 2: if you are out here denying how brilliant she has been,
Speaker 2: you're just being dishonest. She's on a team that had
Speaker 2: back to back number one overall picks. They are going
Speaker 2: to firmly be in the playoffs. She is putting up
Speaker 2: seventeen points, six rebounds, and eight assists a night, which
Speaker 2: again you have to adjust your mind for WNBA stats
Speaker 2: versus NBA stats. The games are lower scoring and the
Speaker 2: games are shorter, and she has got her percentages back
Speaker 2: up where she's now over forty percent from the field
Speaker 2: and thirty three percent from three and as good as
Speaker 2: Angel has been, Angel who's giving you thirteen and twelve
Speaker 2: a night, which is awesome. She is shooting percentage wise
Speaker 2: the exact same from the field as Caitlin, despite the
Speaker 2: fact that Caitlin is shooting eight threes a game and
Speaker 2: Angel is shooting won three every three games. She's averaging
Speaker 2: point four to three point attempts a game, So again,
Speaker 2: you don't have to blow out someone else's candle to
Speaker 2: make someone shine brighter. Angel Reese is having a Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year caliber season for the majority of seasons
Speaker 2: in WNBA history, but this ain't one of them. And
Speaker 2: the other thing about the triple double, that ain't that
Speaker 2: Caitlin had the other night in the entire league. This
Speaker 2: again reminds you kind of the way the numbers are
Speaker 2: different NBAWNBA. In the entire league this year, not rookies players.
Speaker 2: There have been four triple doubles. They're incredibly rare in
Speaker 2: the WNBA, and so Angel's double double streak was spectacular.
Speaker 2: The fact that she has seventeen double doubles on the
Speaker 2: season is great. That's first in the league. Caitlyn is
Speaker 2: tied for sixth on double doubles, and that's you know,
Speaker 2: you typically points and assists, and she had nineteen last night.
Speaker 2: She was this close to having a twenty twenty game,
Speaker 2: which obviously has never happened in WNBA history. Both of
Speaker 2: those young women are more than holding up there into
Speaker 2: the bargain. And I saw Shaq yesterday come out and
Speaker 2: say Angels the rookie of the year. She's not. It
Speaker 2: couldn't change post Olympics maybe, but right now it's pretty
Speaker 2: clear if we're doing a fair voting up to this point,
Speaker 2: if they voted, there should be a unanimous first place
Speaker 2: and a unanimous second place. No one should have Angel
Speaker 2: lower than two. But can't you can't make a cogent
Speaker 2: basketball related argument that Caitlin Clark hasn't been the Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year thus far, and I think this Olympic
Speaker 2: break man, she's gonna come out on fire post Olympics,
Speaker 2: and I think the Listen the Fever are not going
Speaker 2: to There is a very clear hierarchy in the league.
Speaker 2: The Liberty are the best team, the Son or the
Speaker 2: second best team. The Aces are the two time defending
Speaker 2: champs and have clearly the best player in the league
Speaker 2: in Asia Wilson, and then the Links and Storm are excellent.
Speaker 2: Those are your five best teams. I would personally power
Speaker 2: rank them Liberty one, Aces two, Sun three, and then
Speaker 2: Links Storm kind of tied. After that, it's anyone's ballgame.
Speaker 2: And it's pretty clear at this point who the other
Speaker 2: three playoff teams are gonna be. The Mercury with Diana Tarazzi,
Speaker 2: the Fever with Caitlin Clark, and the Sky with Angel
Speaker 2: Reese because the other four teams Dreams, Sparks, Mystics and
Speaker 2: Wings are just bad, even though one of them just
Speaker 2: obviously beat the Fever last night, and they're not gonna
Speaker 2: make up the ground. But I'm really interested to see
Speaker 2: if the Fever can catch the Mercury in the standings
Speaker 2: and then maybe clip the Stormer the links in round one.
Speaker 2: That would be great for the sport. Also, I saw
Speaker 2: this morning the WNBA announced their three point competition and
Speaker 2: there's five people, and Caitlin nor Sabrina are one of
Speaker 2: the five. I didn't do enough research on that to
Speaker 2: figure out how and why that can be the case.
Speaker 2: But Sabrina was out here competing with Steph in a
Speaker 2: three point competition, and Caitlin is one of your most
Speaker 2: popular players in the league and one of your best
Speaker 2: three point shooters in the league. It seems at first
Speaker 2: blush a little odd to have neither in the three
Speaker 2: point competition, but I didn't read enough about it to
Speaker 2: really have a take on it. But that struck me
Speaker 2: as an odd basketball and business decision. All right, Demonse,
Speaker 2: let's take a quick break, talk a little Team USA
Speaker 2: men's ball, play a game of right or Wrong? And
Speaker 2: we have an f one minute What's Right? All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright? Episode two?
Speaker 2: Uh Demanse, Let's do a little Team USA men's basketball
Speaker 2: before we get to right or Wrong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so things are going swimmingly for Team USA.
Speaker 3: They blew out Jokic in Serbia one five to seventy
Speaker 3: nine yesterday one of the huge dominant.
Speaker 2: Is basically dominant from after ten minutes into the game.
Speaker 2: They dominated the entire rest of it.
Speaker 3: But good Jokic not seem way more like I mean,
Speaker 3: I guest he's playing for his country. He seemed very animated.
Speaker 3: He seemed to be taking that game personally, really wanted
Speaker 3: to win.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think he was. Also, I think Jokic
Speaker 2: was like, I need better teammates. Kis is like, ah,
Speaker 2: this kind of sucks, this is this, this is not
Speaker 2: that much fun, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, one of the huge storylines from this
Speaker 3: is a if Ant will emerge as the guy. So
Speaker 3: obviously he's got the confidence in the game to back
Speaker 3: it up. But now he's saying he could beat anybody
Speaker 3: on Team USA and swimming, So he gotta be thinking
Speaker 3: if the stars of the Team USA decided to put
Speaker 3: themselves in another sport, which type of Olympic sport would
Speaker 3: they join?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm I don't know if anyone has ever watched handball,
Speaker 2: but handball, I'm quite certain with a couple months training,
Speaker 2: we could just take our men's basketball team and win
Speaker 2: the gold every year. So like the and again, if
Speaker 2: you're the if you're watching this on YouTube, you could
Speaker 2: maybe take a quick break and just go to YouTube
Speaker 2: or open another YouTube window and type in Olympic handball.
Speaker 2: Imagine like indoor soccer, like that type of court, but
Speaker 2: there's a three point line, there's a goalie, and there
Speaker 2: is that of around that size of goal, like an
Speaker 2: indoor soccer goal, but it's handball, and so there's a
Speaker 2: lot of basketball elements to it and athleticism to it.
Speaker 2: So I am certain we would crush in handball. Bill
Speaker 2: Simmons said years ago, did a column about which NBA
Speaker 2: players would make great US soccer national team members if
Speaker 2: we gave him the training, and a lot of soccer
Speaker 2: fans found that insulting. I don't, he said. For example,
Speaker 2: Sean Marion would be an elite goalie. Well so obviously
Speaker 2: so like except Sean Marion that's fifteen years ago. But
Speaker 2: peak athletic Lebron as a six ' eight octopus in goal,
Speaker 2: I think would be pretty good. I think I think
Speaker 2: Lebron could be a goalie. I would imagine that with
Speaker 2: the right training, Steph would be a brilliant midfielder. You
Speaker 2: know what I mean, britt like because of his movement, his.
Speaker 4: Hand eye coordinations.
Speaker 2: They go. So midfielders do score some, but they have
Speaker 2: to play both ends, you know what I mean. Defenders
Speaker 2: mostly hold back, forwards mostly play forward midfielders. The reason
Speaker 2: I said midfielder is it's the most exhausting of all
Speaker 2: the spots because you gotta be you know, playing both
Speaker 2: ends on it. I think Anthony Edwards as a striker
Speaker 2: because leaping, ability to get up for header's strength, speed,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So those those are the
Speaker 2: things that immediately come to mind and people given how
Speaker 2: Team USA, our US men's notional team looks in soccer,
Speaker 2: it's not a terrible idea. It's honest, like that take
Speaker 2: and I have said, man, I really do think that
Speaker 2: US soccer should go to some high schools across the
Speaker 2: country and recruit the way the US military used to
Speaker 2: or maybe still does, and find be like, hey, who
Speaker 2: is your star at like some six A Texas high school?
Speaker 2: Do you have a star running back? A guy who
Speaker 2: since he was twelve years old, people like, oh, he's
Speaker 2: gonna go play at Texas A and M and have
Speaker 2: a full ride and probably be a pro. You have
Speaker 2: a guy like that and he plays running back. Okay,
Speaker 2: let me talk to him and just show them a
Speaker 2: chart of running back career length career earnings and then
Speaker 2: soccer length career earnings, and like, can we get you
Speaker 2: in a camp? Man? Can we get you in an academy?
Speaker 2: We've got three hundred and thirty million people in this country,
Speaker 2: maybe more. Can we convince some of at a young age. Again,
Speaker 2: when I'm talking about for basketball, they haven't played in
Speaker 2: so long, it's probably not realistic. But if you get
Speaker 2: a kid who is just a freak, like I believe
Speaker 2: Demanse could have been great at almost any sport if
Speaker 2: at a young age you had focused on it. And
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to like just make you feel good,
Speaker 2: but like the you're big, you're strong, you can jump high,
Speaker 2: you're fast, you're coordinated. You just picked basketball, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. You picked basketball and focused on it,
Speaker 2: and you were great at basketball. But if you had
Speaker 2: I did this day. Believe that if you had decided,
Speaker 2: or if I had pushed you or whatever at thirteen,
Speaker 2: I want to do the hurdles, that you would have
Speaker 2: been an awesome hurdler because of the body of a hurdler,
Speaker 2: the height. Yes, you're not like raw, like crazy fast,
Speaker 2: like a sprinter. It has to be. But you you're
Speaker 2: very fast in the like I and so. And when
Speaker 2: you see guys who are a lot of these guys
Speaker 2: like Mahomes, I'll use as an example, it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: who was the best, you know, high school basketball player
Speaker 2: in his district? Patrick Mahomes. Who is the best baseball
Speaker 2: player in his district? Patrick Mahomes, who's the best football player?
Speaker 2: Those just raw pure athletes. If you get him young enough, sasketball,
Speaker 2: That's what he said he wanted to that.
Speaker 3: Was always baseball, football, and he wanted to go that's crazy.
Speaker 2: No, basketball was his favorite, but I think basketball was
Speaker 2: what he was quote worst at but worst. He was
Speaker 2: still All state in Texas and so the but the
Speaker 2: problem for that is he's six to two, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, he's and so they're no. He obviously
Speaker 2: chose the right path. But my point is those raw, natural,
Speaker 2: crazy athletes. If we got more of those guys instead
Speaker 2: of guys who are good athletes who always love soccer,
Speaker 2: guys who are crazy athletes and be like bro focus
Speaker 2: on soccer. The best soccer players in the world make
Speaker 2: more money than Lebron and the second tier soccer players
Speaker 2: in the world all make way more money than Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 2: You know, let's let let's talk about this. So I
Speaker 2: don't know if that really answers the question. I don't.
Speaker 2: I think people immediately think NBA players and high jump,
Speaker 2: but that is like so specialized in how you do it,
Speaker 2: like the body can you know, because when you when
Speaker 2: you see the guys, you just run up yeah, and
Speaker 2: you're like, right, it's the I do think some of
Speaker 2: these guys would be good long jumpers and triple jumpers,
Speaker 2: but the high jump is such a unique, uh kind.
Speaker 4: Of not niche sport.
Speaker 2: Well it's not niche, it sure it is, but I'm
Speaker 2: saying the fundamentals of it are so specific, like the
Speaker 2: footwork of it. All right, let's play right or wrong
Speaker 2: before we get to the f one minute right or wrong.
Speaker 3: First off, we got our Brandon Ayuki officially recruit demanded
Speaker 3: a trade from the forty nine ers after failing to
Speaker 3: reach a contract extension. The Avengers may be breaking up
Speaker 3: despite how little San Francisco is paying party. Right now,
Speaker 3: right or wrong, you will be a forty nine eror
Speaker 3: week one.
Speaker 2: Right, They're not going to trade him. There's not deboed
Speaker 2: requested to trade a year ago. They didn't trade him.
Speaker 2: Their kicker requested to trade, they didn't trade him. Now
Speaker 2: those guys did get new contracts. I don't think I
Speaker 2: who will, But they know that Party needs all the
Speaker 2: avengers around him. They're not trading him. They're in there,
Speaker 2: they're just not and they now could they franchise and
Speaker 2: trade him a year from now? Maybe, but they're not
Speaker 2: trading him. But they also can't pay him. I don't
Speaker 2: think they paid Deebo. They paid Bosa, they paid Trent,
Speaker 2: they paid McCaffrey, they paid Kittle, and they're worried they
Speaker 2: might have to pay Party. I mean, they hope that
Speaker 2: they have to pay Party. You know. The only way
Speaker 2: they don't have to pay Party is if Purdy melts
Speaker 2: down this year in epic proportions. So they yeah, So
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna pay him all right? Next,
Speaker 2: So why dode?
Speaker 3: Jordan Love and the Packers appear to be closing in
Speaker 3: on signing an extension, but there's no deal yet, and
Speaker 3: Jordan Love said that he thought that he'd have a
Speaker 3: contract by training camp.
Speaker 4: What's going on here? Right or wrong? Love is waiting
Speaker 4: for dak to sign. I think you should wait for sign.
Speaker 2: Well, he might, he might be waiting a full year.
Speaker 2: Then no, I'll tell you what I think screwed it up. Honestly, God,
Speaker 2: you want to know what I think screwed it up?
Speaker 2: My guy, Trevor's deal. I think that they were offering
Speaker 2: him a deal that was less than like the Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow justin Herbert standard, like, hey, you haven't accomplished as
Speaker 2: much as those guys like come in, you know, a
Speaker 2: little lower. And then Trevor got his and he's like, uh,
Speaker 2: I've accomplished as much as him, Oh, what are we
Speaker 2: talking about? Uh, you're saying I only have one great year?
Speaker 2: What about him? You're saying I only have one playoff win?
Speaker 2: What about him? And So I think that's what screwed
Speaker 2: it up, honestly, that fact I think that they I
Speaker 2: have no intel on that. It's just to me. He
Speaker 2: looked at Trevor's deal and says, why would I not
Speaker 2: get what he got? Right? And they and they don't
Speaker 2: want you know, they don't want to tell him because
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, you're not the prince that was promised, buddy.
Speaker 2: We like it but you're not Trevor Lawrence. But Trevor
Speaker 2: got five for two seventy five, and so I think
Speaker 2: that screwed it up. And so I think that'll be
Speaker 2: a tricky negotiation because as great as he looked the
Speaker 2: final three months of last year, it is three months
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh boy, but they have no choice
Speaker 2: but to pay.
Speaker 3: The way they embarrassed Dallas was very convincing. But so
Speaker 3: you're saying, so are you saying Trevor over Love?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, yeah, I think Trevor's a better quarterback
Speaker 2: than Jordan Love. I don't the but I understand why people.
Speaker 4: He's still got his claws in you, man, this is crazy.
Speaker 2: What I mean, I don't know. I mean they either.
Speaker 2: Throughout the season, he was awesome. In year two, he
Speaker 2: had the second biggest comeback in playoff history or third
Speaker 2: biggest comeback in playoff history. And then in year three
Speaker 2: they were eight and three playing for the one seed
Speaker 2: and he suffered a catastrophic ankle slash knee injury that
Speaker 2: was so bad people wanted an investigation as to why
Speaker 2: he wasn't carted off the field. And now everyone has
Speaker 2: memory hold that and they're like, what happened to the Jags,
Speaker 2: and it's like, I don't know, man, we saw him
Speaker 2: get bent over backwards three different ways and then hobble
Speaker 2: the locker room in the season fell apart. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I still believe in Trevor Next. All right.
Speaker 3: Just after the show Tuesday, Pat Bev signed a two
Speaker 3: year deal with the Israeli basketball team Uphole Hotel of
Speaker 3: Eve for four million. Right or wrong, this is the
Speaker 3: last time we'll hear from Padgri Beverley Pat Bev. Actually bad, I.
Speaker 2: Be not sure I buy the contract. Just for the record,
Speaker 2: I know that it was initially reported at two million.
Speaker 2: Now people are saying four million, so I I'm not sure. Uh.
Speaker 2: Obviously demand's a classic one by me, great tweet that
Speaker 2: I had. Will Pat Bev have his podcast translated next
Speaker 2: year for the reporters in that country? Or are they?
Speaker 2: Is he gonna make them an exception? Good day for
Speaker 2: the NBA? You know what I mean? That's a good
Speaker 2: day for the NBA. Go enjoy Uh.
Speaker 3: The same thing as Bob Salah Robbie him.
Speaker 2: No, it's the opposite, actually, because that's a cool nickname
Speaker 2: that he doesn't deserve. Like that. It's the opposite, he
Speaker 2: should be the the his given his standing in the
Speaker 2: league and accomplishment, he should be occasionally called Patrick Beverton
Speaker 2: or Peter bever like where people are like, oh, I
Speaker 2: got the name wrong, darn it, Like I on TV
Speaker 2: the other day called a manual quickly, Isaiah quickly, like
Speaker 2: where it's like, You're not quite relevant enough for everyone
Speaker 2: to know your exact name. Instead, somehow he got a
Speaker 2: nickname that everyone knows. So yeah, none, cool, it sounds cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, So Mahomes is reportedly bringing a TV to Chiefs
Speaker 3: training camp for the first time. His reasoning is to
Speaker 3: watch the Olympics and play college football at twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: So I've got two for you here. First, right or
Speaker 3: wrong Mahomes is distracted, and more more importantly, right or wrong.
Speaker 3: You and Mahomes will play in CAA twenty five together,
Speaker 3: all right?
Speaker 2: So the first one obviously wrong, not distracted. The second
Speaker 2: one maybe. But I, first of all, I don't know
Speaker 2: if he's an Xbox or PlayStation guy. Second of all,
Speaker 2: I've got to actually play the game and see how
Speaker 2: good I am at it before I would want to,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, play with you know publicly play,
Speaker 2: but I do think he and I in the off season,
Speaker 2: if we like streamed a college football twenty five match
Speaker 2: between us, that would do numbers? Would that would be dope.
Speaker 2: I actually had a dream about n Cuba twenty five
Speaker 2: last night because I don't have it yet, and I
Speaker 2: had a stream that I went to the store and
Speaker 2: bought it and got home and they had given me
Speaker 2: the disc for Madden instead of in c double A,
Speaker 2: and I was so annoyed because I already had Madden.
Speaker 2: So then I try, I'm like, you know what I'm
Speaker 2: in the dream. I was like, I'm just gonna download it,
Speaker 2: but then it was like it's seven hours to download,
Speaker 2: and I was devastated. And then I woke up, so
Speaker 2: that all happened. Yeah, all right, quick break, come back
Speaker 2: with our F one minute What's right? Welcome back in
Speaker 2: while Driving the Great Episode two forty nine. Today's show
Speaker 2: wasn't live, so we obviously can't do listener questions, so
Speaker 2: instead we will leave you today with our F one
Speaker 2: minute from Sierra Fadel previewing this weekend's race. Tuesday, we'll
Speaker 2: recap that race ton NFL and does Tiger win the
Speaker 2: British open, probably not. Does he make the cut? God,
Speaker 2: I hope so he's minus three hundred to miss the cut.
Speaker 2: That was a bummer. As of recording, he had birdied
Speaker 2: number three, bogeie number four. I'm afraid to check the
Speaker 2: score right now. Enjoy the F one minute see you
Speaker 2: guys on too. Oh but also one other thing, major
Speaker 2: positive first Things first announcement coming on today's show, So
Speaker 2: a little preview for that. It's a positive announcement relating
Speaker 2: to first things first, and it is not what the
Speaker 2: internet thinks it is. So all that. Enjoy the F
Speaker 2: one minute. Talk to you guys later.
Speaker 5: What's right, Welcome back. We're gonna talk all things hunging
Speaker 5: in Grand Prix this time around because we are entering
Speaker 5: the thirteenth round of the twenty twenty fourth for we
Speaker 5: one season, so we're gonna be in the Hungary Rover
Speaker 5: ring in Budapest, so it should be interesting. So I'm
Speaker 5: gonna bring forth some things till the gout four if
Speaker 5: you're tuning into the race this Sunday, so let's get
Speaker 5: into it. As far as the circuit itself, it's sometimes
Speaker 5: referred to as the Monaco without Wolves, so overtaking is
Speaker 5: super tricky basically, and their position in qualifying is super
Speaker 5: important because it's gonna play a significant role in the
Speaker 5: actual race on Sunday, all right, So can Mercedes pull
Speaker 5: off another win? That's what we all want to know.
Speaker 5: I mean, they've beaten Red Bull back to back and
Speaker 5: this hasn't happened since twenty twenty two, so we're looking
Speaker 5: to see both another one. And it's an interesting dynamic
Speaker 5: for the team because Lewis Hamilton is looking to really
Speaker 5: push the team forward and to end on the high
Speaker 5: end of season on a high note the team, and
Speaker 5: Jeorge Russell is kind of needs to kind of show
Speaker 5: that he can be the leader of next year's team
Speaker 5: because he will be most likely the senior driver. One
Speaker 5: driver in particular that I'm sure everyone will be watching
Speaker 5: this weekend is Nico Holkenberg because he's absolutely outperformed all
Speaker 5: expectations because he's in a hass which is not the
Speaker 5: best car on the grid, and he outperformed Ferrari last weekend.
Speaker 5: He got P six and he was ahead of the
Speaker 5: Kirk by the landslide and then he was just behind
Speaker 5: Carlo Sins who got P five. So he's been able
Speaker 5: to give hass more points in the last two Grand
Speaker 5: priz than Sogio. Perez has been able to give points
Speaker 5: to Red Bull in the last six, so he's really
Speaker 5: showing his tail, and I want to see if you
Speaker 5: can do even better. So my predictions, I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: Lando Norris number one, Max for number two, and then
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do a Mercedes for number three. I just
Speaker 5: don't know which one. I don't know who will be
Speaker 5: Lewis or George, but it's gonna be one of them.
Speaker 5: I think before I go, I'm gonna quickly read off
Speaker 5: the standings for the driver's championship and then the constructors.
Speaker 5: So obviously first, Maxi sappened with two hundred twenty five points,
Speaker 5: Norris with one, seventy one, La Clerk one fifty, Signs
Speaker 5: one forty six, Piastree one twenty four, so Perez one eighteen,
Speaker 5: Russell one eleven, Hamilton won ten, Alonzo forty five, Stroll
Speaker 5: twenty three, Polkemberg twenty two, Sonoda twenty, Ricardo eleven, Bearman six,
Speaker 5: Ghastly six, Magdison five, Album four, Okon three and guan
Speaker 5: U Sergeant and Bill Task with zero and then so
Speaker 5: bear with me, Bear with me, Bear with me. It's important,
Speaker 5: it's important. Constructors. The teams we have Red bullt with
Speaker 5: three seventy three, Ferrari three oh two, McLaren two ninety five,
Speaker 5: Mercedes two to twenty one, Aston Martin sixty eight, Visa cash,
Speaker 5: aapp thirty one has twenty seven ALP nine billion for
Speaker 5: and Steak F one Salber zero. All right, I'm out.
Speaker 5: That's been your f a minute for today. I'm excited
Speaker 5: to see if McLaren can pull off a second place
Speaker 5: in the Constructors because ferraris only three oh three oh
Speaker 5: two and McLaren is two ninety five, so I think
Speaker 5: they can push ahead. But we'll see how everything plays
Speaker 5: out after the Grand Free this Sunday, and I'll talk
Speaker 5: to you guys after bye.
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