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Speaker 4: But hey, I'm not gonna lie this this particular steak
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Speaker 2: Welcome in. It is What's right, Nick Right the podcast
Speaker 2: and YouTube show, we finally have completed our countdown of
Speaker 2: the fifty greatest players of the last fifty years. It
Speaker 2: culminated on Sunday with the more than one hour video
Speaker 2: breaking down Lebron James' entire career. I'm sure we'll discuss
Speaker 2: that at some point on today's show. Also, by the way,
Speaker 2: not on today's show, but on Thursday, we will announce
Speaker 2: the winner of our thousand dollars free roll contest, because
Speaker 2: there was at least I think there were three people
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Speaker 2: be left out. So we will do that on Thursday.
Speaker 2: More on that coming up, More on whether or not
Speaker 2: Demande is going to be on Winning Time coming up,
Speaker 2: and at some point on today's show, we need to
Speaker 2: discuss what is going to replace our Sunday pod in
Speaker 2: going into football season in place of the countdown of
Speaker 2: the fifty greatest players of the last fifty years. But
Speaker 2: before we do any of that, let's start the show.
Speaker 2: How we always start the show by discussing what we're
Speaker 2: not discussing. Here's what did not make the cut for
Speaker 2: today's show. Durant and Harden party with Travis Scott. That's
Speaker 2: one of the one of Demand's favorites, Travis Scott. I
Speaker 2: like Travis Scott a lot. Your sister loves him as.
Speaker 4: We very controversial guy at this point.
Speaker 2: But yes, yeah, I mean, listen, we don't need to
Speaker 2: get into that. I don't feel like he deserves as
Speaker 2: much blame with the tragedy of Wis Concerted about a
Speaker 2: year ago. But Katie and Harden partied with him. Uh,
Speaker 2: Murray and Bonco beefing after the pro am. I think
Speaker 2: that did make the show. I don't think that missed
Speaker 2: the cut. I think that is actually going to be
Speaker 2: you know what, if it's not the show, We're putting
Speaker 2: it in the show because I want to discuss that
Speaker 2: to Jonte Murray and Polo Bonco beefing after prom and
Speaker 2: the Coldest sponsored by an ac company. I don't know
Speaker 2: what that is. That's h do you know what that is?
Speaker 4: League?
Speaker 2: No, that's the crossover. Oh so you don't know what
Speaker 2: it is either the Coldest Crawford. I don't know what
Speaker 2: this is. Oh, d Coldest is a football player. His
Speaker 2: last name is Crawford. This is the problem of Demonsee
Speaker 2: only partially listening to the producers when they're setting things up.
Speaker 2: Here Crawford, he says his league, it's fine, don't worry.
Speaker 4: What missed?
Speaker 2: What did you say? Oh, it's what missed? You know what?
Speaker 2: You're right, I didn't know about it. You didn't know
Speaker 2: about it. Now let's get into the actual show, demonse
Speaker 2: what are we starting with?
Speaker 4: All Right, is your number one in the last fifty years? Yep,
Speaker 4: everyone of course agrees with you. Nobody saying anything about it.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, what's the most compelling? But what's the most
Speaker 4: compelling argument that you've heard against Lebron at number one?
Speaker 4: And now that you're done with the list, would you
Speaker 4: like to do over? Be honest?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's start with the most composed. So there's
Speaker 2: the top fifty players. There is Jalen and Jacoby my
Speaker 2: dear friend. You know, I shouldn't call them my dear friends,
Speaker 2: but I do. I consider both of them friends. Jalen
Speaker 2: Rose and of course Dave Jacoby chiming in saying not
Speaker 2: on a Sunday, there's Tory Smith, former great Receiver with
Speaker 2: the Ravens, some other teams sending the great wire gift,
Speaker 2: we BA saying wow, okay too about the list. So
Speaker 2: before I talk about any potential regrets, let me discuss
Speaker 2: the The biggest and most legitimate argument against being number
Speaker 2: one is if you look at Kareem and Michael, neither
Speaker 2: one of them ever had anything close to the twenty
Speaker 2: eleven finals on their resume. And the question is, is
Speaker 2: the twenty eleven finals disqualifying it? Can you be the
Speaker 2: best ever if you have that type of moment on
Speaker 2: your resume that cost your team a championship? I obviously
Speaker 2: believe the answer is yes. I think his body of
Speaker 2: work before that, and most notably his body of work
Speaker 2: in the decade since that makes it and the totality
Speaker 2: of it makes that a part of his story, but
Speaker 2: not even close to the defining part of the story.
Speaker 2: And I actually think there is now this is being
Speaker 2: very generous, But the most generous reading of it is
Speaker 2: because of that moment, the guy who came into the
Speaker 2: league more hype than anyone, with more pressure than any
Speaker 2: athlete ever when they arrived to the league as a teenager,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, had even more pressure in the
Speaker 2: midst of his career because he had that failure and
Speaker 2: had to overcome it that I don't even know that
Speaker 2: I fully believe that that would be the most generous
Speaker 2: reading of it. However, I do think that if you'd
Speaker 2: simply say the twenty eleven finals are disqualifying, that if
Speaker 2: Lebron had won eight consecutive NBA titles, it wouldn't have mattered.
Speaker 2: I disagree with you, but that is to me a
Speaker 2: fair critique that those if you're gonna be the greatest ever,
Speaker 2: you shouldn't have that moment. It's not how I view it,
Speaker 2: but that, to me is a fair argument. A lot
Speaker 2: of the other arguments are just nonsense. The idea that
Speaker 2: because Michael Jordan has a Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 2: award that he was a better defender than Lebron, Like
Speaker 2: you can argue he was a better defender than Lebron.
Speaker 2: I think you're wrong, But you can make that argument.
Speaker 2: But the fact that Michael won it in the late
Speaker 2: eighties and Lebron came in second, was three votes short
Speaker 2: of winning it in twenty thirteen, that doesn't move me.
Speaker 2: That's not resonant. The Michael Jordan, the never losing in
Speaker 2: the finals has never been as relevant to me as
Speaker 2: is to other people. Because guy played fifteen seasons in
Speaker 2: the league and won six titles, so he lost at
Speaker 2: some point. There were losses, they just came earlier than later.
Speaker 2: Those things don't move me. But if you want to
Speaker 2: say the twenty eleven finals is disqualifying, that's fine. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: You want to say something like sad No, I mean
Speaker 4: I think the twenty eleven finals being disqualifying. I think
Speaker 4: that him not folding, like I think that it was
Speaker 4: easy for him to fold after that.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the point. Well, and it's the very next year,
Speaker 2: they're down three two to Boston. He has the best
Speaker 2: game of his second best game of his career. And
Speaker 2: so again that's kind of part of the story. And
Speaker 2: by the way, if it were myth making or fiction
Speaker 2: instead of sports, you would have that moment. If this
Speaker 2: were a movie, it would you would have that moment
Speaker 2: and then overcoming it and all of that. Okay, Now,
Speaker 2: as far as regrets on the list, I don't really
Speaker 2: have regrets on the list. However, there are some things
Speaker 2: that I would like that if I were to do
Speaker 2: it right now, I would adjust. Okay, First one is this.
Speaker 2: If I had done the list knowing that jokicch was
Speaker 2: gonna win a second MVP, he's got to be on there.
Speaker 2: Bernard King gets bumped, he gets on there.
Speaker 4: It's not right, even though, like how how much you
Speaker 4: were saying that he shouldn't have gotten the MVP.
Speaker 2: Again, correct, Listen, I don't think you should have gotten
Speaker 2: the MVP, but I've got to base it on what
Speaker 2: guys and now, much like with Nash, Nash has two MVPs,
Speaker 2: I have him fortieth behind a bunch of guys who
Speaker 2: never won MVP and a bunch of guys who only
Speaker 2: won one MVP. So it doesn't mean that I have
Speaker 2: to put him any higher than forty seventh on the list,
Speaker 2: but by virtue of winning two of them, I shouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have left him off. However, again this, I
Speaker 2: did that part of the list and debuted it and
Speaker 2: did the video and all of that before he won
Speaker 2: the second MVP. I have had a lot of pushback
Speaker 2: on Sidney Moncrief. I do not regret that at all.
Speaker 2: Bill Walton is a tough one because his window was
Speaker 2: so short. But I think I got that one right.
Speaker 2: Kawhi is a guy that when I look back at it,
Speaker 2: I say, could I have had Kawhi a little higher?
Speaker 2: And I you can convince me that when it comes
Speaker 2: to let me find a four instance with Kauhi. Who
Speaker 2: has Kawhi in a short perioderiod of time made at
Speaker 2: least an equal impact on winning and on the league
Speaker 2: as for instance Jason Kidd.
Speaker 4: Did.
Speaker 2: I think the answer to that's probably yes, even though
Speaker 2: Kid did it for such a long period of time.
Speaker 2: Is there an argument for Kawhi over Patrick Ewing and
Speaker 2: those guys in the mid late twenties? There probably is,
Speaker 2: And so maybe I would adjust Kawhi and the one
Speaker 2: But the one thing everyone.
Speaker 4: Is assuming I'm gonna say, is Lebron your top.
Speaker 2: No, what everyone's thinking I'm gonna say is Luca luc
Speaker 2: at twenty. Okay, And the point that I would make
Speaker 2: in defense of the Luca ranking is this the list
Speaker 2: I believe would look foolish in two years time if
Speaker 2: Luca isn't on there By putting him as high as
Speaker 2: I did, it made it clear that his was the
Speaker 2: one spot that was pure projection. He had and listen,
Speaker 2: second most points per game in his career if anyone
Speaker 2: in the NBA playoffs. He's already a three time first
Speaker 2: team All NBA guy. He's already three time top five
Speaker 2: MVP finisher. He's done a lot of things. His playoff
Speaker 2: numbers are I believe I haven't looked, but I believe
Speaker 2: if you add points, rebounds, and assists per game together
Speaker 2: as one thing, so if you average twenty five ten
Speaker 2: and five, that's forty twenty five plus ten plus five.
Speaker 2: I think Luca's points, rebounds, assists per game in the
Speaker 2: playoffs are the highest of any player in league history. Okay,
Speaker 2: so I think the Luca ranking like I think he has.
Speaker 2: He's obviously accomplished a lot, but not nearly enough to
Speaker 2: be included on the list yet, and not nearly enough
Speaker 2: obviously to be at twenty. The reason I felt feel
Speaker 2: good about him being at twenty is because if I
Speaker 2: had put Luca at forty six, I think it would
Speaker 2: look like I was saying he already is the forty
Speaker 2: sixth best player by putting him at twenty. It's so
Speaker 2: clear I am not arguing he has accomplished more than
Speaker 2: Chris Paul already has. I'm saying this is where he
Speaker 2: is going in order to be a top twenty player.
Speaker 2: So the short version is maybe a couple tweaks. One
Speaker 2: has to do with the fact that you know, the
Speaker 2: NBA calendar didn't cooperate. One has to do with maybe
Speaker 2: just maybe I underrated quiet touch. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: I think I did an a plus job. I think
Speaker 2: it is the definitive and best ranking of NBA players
Speaker 2: that anyone's ever put together. And I think that I
Speaker 2: deserve massive credit for having the courage to give respect
Speaker 2: to Kareem even at the expense of everyone's idle. Michael Jordan,
Speaker 2: Now let's move on.
Speaker 4: What's next. I thank you Lebron and the Lakers have
Speaker 4: started talking extension. Yeah, thank god he's got your list
Speaker 4: for some leverage.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I expect him to break hold on. Can
Speaker 2: I tell you something. People aren't gonna believe this. Don't
Speaker 2: put this on social because people are just gonna call
Speaker 2: me a liar, and I don't have the energy for it.
Speaker 2: But you said he's gonna use my list to create
Speaker 2: some leverage. So I the twenty eighteen Calves Lebron's last year.
Speaker 2: There after they traded Kyrie. That was a terrible team.
Speaker 2: It was a mess, and it looked like at the
Speaker 2: trade deadline they were gonna stamp pat and it was
Speaker 2: unfathomable to me they were gonna not try to maximize
Speaker 2: one last year of Lebron, And I went on, I
Speaker 2: think one of my best rants ever about what Dan
Speaker 2: Gilbert needs to do. Authorize David Griffin to go out
Speaker 2: and try to win this year. And that year, by
Speaker 2: the way, in the playoffs, was when Lebron had two
Speaker 2: buzzer beaters, eight forty point games and the single best
Speaker 2: game of his career the fifty one to eight and
Speaker 2: eight in the finals, and made the finals, won two
Speaker 2: game sevens. That two days before the trade deadline, I
Speaker 2: was friends with someone on the coaching staff. That coach
Speaker 2: saw Dan Gilbert in the office or in the building
Speaker 2: and played him my clip and text me the next
Speaker 2: day and said, he thinks, now, maybe he was just
Speaker 2: trying to stroke my ego. He thinks it moved him.
Speaker 4: He thinks moved him.
Speaker 2: That it moved him for So I said, let's say
Speaker 2: this the idea that it's just insane that Lebron would
Speaker 2: use my list as Leverageah, there's a little precedent for it.
Speaker 2: But okay, go ahead. You're talking about Lebron an extension.
Speaker 2: That's a true story I've never told. I'm probably wasn't
Speaker 2: supposed to tell it again his for podcasting. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess I if someone checks out the coaching after the
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen Caps, they can probably figure out who the
Speaker 2: guy is. Let's just move on.
Speaker 4: Go ahead. But the Lakers are still going through things
Speaker 4: with having Russ and the Anthony Davis rumors. Yep uh.
Speaker 4: And they also might not have the their twenty twenty
Speaker 4: four pick when Bronni might be in the draft.
Speaker 2: Correct that pick in New Orleans can have the Lakers
Speaker 2: pick in twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five. New
Speaker 2: Orleans gets to decide once they see where the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four pick falls. That's how that works, exactly right, right,
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: So should he resign with the Lakers?
Speaker 2: Well, not prematurely. Maybe Lebron should resign with the Lakers.
Speaker 2: But there is no reason whatsoever for him to do
Speaker 2: it now. None. The reasons against him doing it now
Speaker 2: are five fold. The only reason you sign an extension
Speaker 2: early is because in case of injury or talent or
Speaker 2: skilled depreciation, you guarantee yourself the money. Lebron's got over
Speaker 2: a billion dollars, right, he doesn't need that. The financial
Speaker 2: security of it is use is meaningless to him. So
Speaker 2: here's why you wouldn't want to do it. First of all,
Speaker 2: you want to keep the Lakers' feet to the fire
Speaker 2: on potentially acquiring Kyrie or potentially trying to win this year. Two,
Speaker 2: you want to see what if for the third straight
Speaker 2: year Anthony Davis kitts and it's like, oh, he's not
Speaker 2: you know, I'm still up here and he got there
Speaker 2: during the Championship roun and there's never okay, you want
Speaker 2: that information. Three, I like Darvinham. There's a chance, though
Speaker 2: Darvinham's a disaster. Who knows you all of these things
Speaker 2: to get information. Four you want And this is the
Speaker 2: part that I don't think anyone's considering. There is a
Speaker 2: chance that Lebron that the Lakers are awesome this year.
Speaker 2: It goes great and the Bucks and Giannis or whomever wins. Right,
Speaker 2: but the Lakers have a great season, there's a chance
Speaker 2: Lebron does want to stay and he just does it
Speaker 2: for less money.
Speaker 4: Yeah that Lebron says, you know what, go ahead, that's
Speaker 4: what I think you should do. I think you might
Speaker 4: do it and did it right. And doesn't that make
Speaker 4: it much easier for Kyrie to get there this offseason?
Speaker 2: Yes, it becomes as a free agent. Could make a
Speaker 2: lot of things easily. Yeah that if Lebron says, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be in year twenty one, it's going to
Speaker 2: be my age, this is the year after this one,
Speaker 2: my age thirty nine season, I'm gonna play for less,
Speaker 2: so all of those things. So I see no upside
Speaker 2: to him signing the extension now. Doesn't mean he's leaving
Speaker 2: the Lakers, but I see no upside to him signing
Speaker 2: it now. All right, what's next?
Speaker 4: You said on TV that Trey Lance can win the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did this.
Speaker 4: Last Sky's last season as a starter was at North
Speaker 4: Dakota three years ago.
Speaker 2: North Dakota State, North Yida State. Sorry, yeah, no problem.
Speaker 4: So is this a Andrew Wiggins Part two type of
Speaker 4: thing are you worried about?
Speaker 2: Okay, So, first of all, it is it is very
Speaker 2: the only way when you're saying Andrew Wiggins Part two,
Speaker 2: you don't get as crushed by those sons of bitches
Speaker 2: online for being too high on a guy. Do you
Speaker 2: understand what I mean? If I said that Trey Lance
Speaker 2: was going to be a complete bust and then he
Speaker 2: wins Super Bowl MVP, that is setting yourself up. I'll
Speaker 2: give you a little more. One of the reasons people
Speaker 2: crushed me for the Wiggans thing is they thought the
Speaker 2: take was mean. They thought, so, I don't think there's
Speaker 2: any take you can give that is positive that's going
Speaker 2: to be If it's a positive take that ends up
Speaker 2: being wrong, is not ever going to be as polarizing
Speaker 2: as a negative take that ends up being wrong. All right,
Speaker 2: you follow me now? The question I was asked is
Speaker 2: what is Trey Lliance's ceiling? And I stand by listen,
Speaker 2: I obviously haven't seen Trailiance played a handful of NFL games.
Speaker 2: He played college at Division two school and his final
Speaker 2: year in college going played a game because of COVID.
Speaker 2: I get all that. I also trust the Niners. I
Speaker 2: trust the draft evaluators that all that he was. I
Speaker 2: don't want to say a consensus top five pick, but
Speaker 2: a lot of teams would have taken him in the
Speaker 2: top five. Niners traded three first round picks to go
Speaker 2: get him, right, that's first of all. Second of all,
Speaker 2: I like what I saw from last year. Third of all,
Speaker 2: the Niners made two of the last three NFC Championship
Speaker 2: games with mediocre to blow average quarterback. So do I
Speaker 2: believe in a week NFC the Niners could find themselves
Speaker 2: in the NFC Championship Game again? Of course, could they
Speaker 2: win it? Of course? So if I think he could
Speaker 2: be in the Super Bowl, he's the quarterback of the team.
Speaker 2: His ceiling is Super Bowl MVP, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: this is year two for us. Since Colin Kaepernick in
Speaker 2: year two took over for the Niners, they went to
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes in year two, after playing
Speaker 2: nine year one, took over for the Chiefs. They went
Speaker 2: to the AFC Championship Game in overtime. Joe Burrow in
Speaker 2: year two just went to the Super Bowl. Carson Wentz,
Speaker 2: who stinks in year two was gonna win League MVP.
Speaker 2: That team ended up winning the Super Bowl. Without him.
Speaker 2: How many Lamar Jackson in year two won league MVP
Speaker 2: guys in year two? If they're that guy, are his
Speaker 2: in recent NFL history? Pretty damn good? So yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's speculative. But I believe in Trey Lance, and I
Speaker 2: believe in Deebo and Ayuk and Kittle and Shanahan and
Speaker 2: that offense, all of it. All Right, that's the time,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna squeeze in one last mini story before
Speaker 2: we move on what's next.
Speaker 4: Now, everybody's feeling as confident about their quarterbacks as you
Speaker 4: feel about Trey Lance. Matt Stafford has an abnormal elbow injury.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they say it's like a baseball injury, like ten
Speaker 2: to niners. It's weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he doesn't seem to be bad.
Speaker 2: And I no, he seems fine. But I think they
Speaker 2: got like on a pitch count and practice.
Speaker 4: But go ahead. And mag Jones has been struggling in
Speaker 4: training camp. Yeah, and with Kyler Kyler Murray's contract clause,
Speaker 4: everybody thinks that it's possible that he's not focused. Yeah,
Speaker 4: what's the biggest red flag you here?
Speaker 2: Well, let's just go through them all individually quickly. The
Speaker 2: Stafford thing is either this is one of those things
Speaker 2: where it's either nothing or it changes the entire landscape
Speaker 2: of the NFC. It's if it's just soreness and he's fine,
Speaker 2: then it's nothing. If Matt Stafford, you know, has to
Speaker 2: miss time, the Rams are just totally screwed. They are
Speaker 2: a very top heavy team. No team can afford to
Speaker 2: lose their quarterback. But I would argue the Rams are
Speaker 2: now they maybe I shouldn't say they're particularly in that
Speaker 2: boat because their defense can win them games on their
Speaker 2: its own, but they are the favorites in my eyes
Speaker 2: in the NFC right now. They're not my pick, but
Speaker 2: they're the favorites to me. They should be over the Bucks.
Speaker 2: So that is if he's if he's not who he
Speaker 2: was last year, then they have no chance. So that's
Speaker 2: either like nothing or as big of an offseason story
Speaker 2: as there is. Kyler, I think the bigger story in
Speaker 2: Arizona is how poorly the organization is run. And I'm
Speaker 2: not you know, we've talked enough about that story. Listen,
Speaker 2: the Mac Jones thing. Mac Jones was awful the final
Speaker 2: six weeks of last year. After they mortified him on
Speaker 2: National TV only let him throw three passes, they lose
Speaker 2: Josh McDaniels, They don't have a single difference maker as
Speaker 2: a pass catcher. I think that mac Jones comes way
Speaker 2: back down to earth this year, and I think he
Speaker 2: that he is the guy we thought he was coming
Speaker 2: out of college, which is the most pro ready but
Speaker 2: the lowest ceiling. What does that mean? Most pro ready
Speaker 2: probably gonna be the best rookie, but then his other
Speaker 2: guys improve and reach their potential. I think he stays
Speaker 2: about the same. I think I think mac Jones's destiny
Speaker 2: is to be a Ryan Tannehill esque guy in the
Speaker 2: right circumstances can be perfectly competent and the wrong circumstances
Speaker 2: can look bad and is never going to be a
Speaker 2: guy you're like, Yep, he's the reason why.
Speaker 4: Mid is what you're saying. Say it again, he's mid.
Speaker 2: I guess that's what the kids would say, Yeah, Mac Jones,
Speaker 2: mid Ye? Did I do that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? All right, We'll be right back like that.
Speaker 2: Dude, Katie on Twitter, demanse is so good. So a
Speaker 2: year ago I found this. I found this sweet from
Speaker 2: the year ago. To set this up, someone tweeted to
Speaker 2: Katie relaxed big dog. You're Kevin Durant. Life is too sweet.
Speaker 2: This is a year And Katie replied to him, there's
Speaker 2: no relax, Champ, no relax when I'm on Twitter. I'm
Speaker 2: on tin until the second I closed the app. You relax, okay,
Speaker 2: And he really has just lived by that credo. So
Speaker 2: the other day I don't even remember what it was.
Speaker 2: Oh it was he hadn't tweeted in a couple of days,
Speaker 2: and then he sent out the It was in relation
Speaker 2: to the ninety eight Bulls against the twenty seventeen Warriors,
Speaker 2: and he was like his drama was talking about it. Oh,
Speaker 2: and it was like I don't know who would win,
Speaker 2: but I know Steve Kerr would put Steve Kurr in
Speaker 2: a bunch of picking rolls.
Speaker 4: And that was.
Speaker 2: It was like seven am, and this is only tweeting
Speaker 2: for the day, so and don't put up Katie tweet yet.
Speaker 2: So at seven o six am, this guy, just some dude,
Speaker 2: Michael Patron uh tweets car wouldn't start this morning, get
Speaker 2: to work late in our internet's down. Lol. I love
Speaker 2: this shit. Unlike at Katie Trey five, I actually enjoy
Speaker 2: taking the hardest road. It's basically just problem solving practice.
Speaker 2: So by before I even get to Kevin Durantstein, I'm
Speaker 2: now clicking on this guy and he is.
Speaker 4: He's got like an NFT profile picture.
Speaker 2: No but eight figure Amazon seller. Uh and my and
Speaker 2: just one of these guys that is like, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: he's one of these guys. Would you take a million
Speaker 2: dollars or dinner with jay Z?
Speaker 4: I do dinner?
Speaker 2: Just one of these just total buffoons. Sorry, buddy, I
Speaker 2: that's my take from just that one tweet. So now
Speaker 2: we can put the kd tweet up this guy. Since
Speaker 2: this at seven o six am, Kiddy hasn't tweeted in
Speaker 2: two days. Seventeen minutes later, KD. Wright, you enjoy having
Speaker 2: a car and getting to work and not being able
Speaker 2: to connect to the internet. He's funny, man, That's really funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, what are you gonna do? Man? Instead
Speaker 4: of like being all pissy, I really like how he's
Speaker 4: clopping back with these folks. That was that was dope.
Speaker 2: I I you know, I it's a shame that, you know,
Speaker 2: through a lot of my own doing, I think he
Speaker 2: really dislikes me because I have totally come around on Kdah.
Speaker 2: I've totally come. I've come around. I never you know,
Speaker 2: I never dislike How can you dislike the basketball? Clary is?
Speaker 2: I I thought he had made some very poor choices,
Speaker 2: and there are some things that I've criticized, but man,
Speaker 2: and I've obviously taken some shots. But he's funny.
Speaker 4: I U truly disliked KT at one point a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't need to relitigate the Warriors thing. It
Speaker 2: was just such a turn off for so many people.
Speaker 2: But the Twitter, the the burner account thing was such
Speaker 2: But now he has flipped the whole Twitter thing now,
Speaker 2: like what was his most exactly? And it's so funny.
Speaker 2: You enjoy having a car not being able to connect
Speaker 2: to the internet. God, he's funny. All right, you ready
Speaker 2: for the second segment?
Speaker 4: Let's do it?
Speaker 2: All right, let's do it. How are we starting to
Speaker 2: the B block today?
Speaker 4: We're going to talk about winning time? Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: emailed them about real quick.
Speaker 2: Did you actually send the email?
Speaker 4: I can show you right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, I believe you.
Speaker 4: I wanted to make and everything demon Okay, yep, I
Speaker 4: emailed them. They haven't gotten back to me. I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure it's either the fans haven't been tweeting enough. Somebody
Speaker 4: might already have my job. They might be in the
Speaker 4: studio already. I don't know. But I am still doing.
Speaker 4: I'm working out, doing at least two hundred push ups
Speaker 4: to day, This is true, doing at least one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty curls a day. It's just so I can
Speaker 4: be as tune as Byron Scott. So I'm gonna need
Speaker 4: you guys to pick it up. I'm gonna need more tweets,
Speaker 4: more at winning time, HBO Demond hashtags, I need it.
Speaker 2: And also tweet at ghost Panther that's actually the producer's
Speaker 2: uh Twitter handle, ghost Panther. Okay, so tweeted him. Do
Speaker 2: we though have Here's the thing I keep telling people
Speaker 2: you were a great basketball player.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, go ahead, we've got proof.
Speaker 2: Really we've got proof. Is it high school? Don't want
Speaker 2: to see it was.
Speaker 4: My latest my last college games that I played. Okay,
Speaker 4: right here, look at that shot, man.
Speaker 2: All right, that's a good looking shot. I mean the release.
Speaker 2: You never quickened the release the way it hopes, but
Speaker 2: it was a smooth shot. Yeah, it's a great shot.
Speaker 2: It's a good looking shot. And by the way, I
Speaker 2: don't know if you can see it if you're watching it,
Speaker 2: Demonte's just banging threes. This is I mean, all of
Speaker 2: these were critical moments, especially these last two. This one
Speaker 2: I think is off screen, but this is the dagger
Speaker 2: to win the game. But do we have any clips
Speaker 2: of the athleticism? Do you have any? Oh, there's the
Speaker 2: next game. I remember there's this a putback dunk.
Speaker 4: Man that the pass was amazing. That was a great
Speaker 4: past pass. Was amazing.
Speaker 2: The okay, I like this clip and then again.
Speaker 4: And you can see you can see my dad and
Speaker 4: then in the bottom screen on most of them. Yeah,
Speaker 4: jumping up, jumping up.
Speaker 2: I flew to San Diego to watch.
Speaker 4: It's amazing. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Was that the game that you had almost thirty in
Speaker 2: the first half?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I think I finished with like twenty seven
Speaker 4: points there.
Speaker 2: But they didn't let you play most of the second
Speaker 2: half because you cursed at yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so they teed you up. Yeah, which was
Speaker 4: really I don't think. I don't get technicals often. It
Speaker 4: was really weird.
Speaker 2: No, but you were cursing it yourself. Also, it's college,
Speaker 2: it's not high school. I didn't even know you got
Speaker 2: a technical for that, but neither here or that. All right, listen, folks,
Speaker 2: Demonse's planning on moving to la He will go there earlier,
Speaker 2: and our producers they were like, hey, Demons, you can
Speaker 2: you know, in the meantime, since you're not set up
Speaker 2: in la yet, you can use our address. What they
Speaker 2: don't understand what that means is if he gets this gig,
Speaker 2: it's not just use the address. It's live at your
Speaker 2: house until he gets his apartment, which depending on the
Speaker 2: credit check and the credit score, might take a few months.
Speaker 2: So I hope everybody understands what they've signed up for.
Speaker 2: But if it ends up with Demanse being Byron Scott
Speaker 2: on one of the biggest shows in America, you know
Speaker 2: who I reached out to to help us with this, Bamani,
Speaker 2: because Bomani is a show on HBO, is produced it's
Speaker 2: produced by the same guy, and it's on HBO, So
Speaker 2: we're trying.
Speaker 4: To all right, Demanse stands, we still need you guys,
Speaker 4: but that's huge.
Speaker 2: Demonse stands, Okay, I don't know if those people exist.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm going to create a name for him.
Speaker 2: How about just you know, friends of the Pod. Friends
Speaker 2: of the pod, we don't need demanse stands. See that's
Speaker 2: where we don't listen. I just want to get demand.
Speaker 2: I want demand to get an audition. I think you
Speaker 2: would do great. I think you look enough like Byron Scott.
Speaker 2: I think your build is incredibly similar, and I think
Speaker 2: you're yeah, you are getting bigger. I think the game
Speaker 2: is similar. I think there's a lot of things by
Speaker 2: the way, real quick before we get to right or wrong.
Speaker 2: You know, because you have been doing a shit ton
Speaker 2: of push ups. You know that every time I holler
Speaker 2: at you and you're like, let me finish, or you're
Speaker 2: working out, and you make that clear, your mom just
Speaker 2: roasts me. Really yeah, man, because I haven't been working out.
Speaker 2: I did really good for about a year of not
Speaker 2: just the peloton but lifting weights. I was working out
Speaker 2: five days a week. And then it's not just that
Speaker 2: the pod started, it's that your Momuck, she's here right now,
Speaker 2: and I don't think she's gonna watch this whole show.
Speaker 2: Your mom's store opened, and I got basically another job
Speaker 2: from work. Every day, open up the gates, do all
Speaker 2: these things during the normal workout time. So I've fallen
Speaker 2: off a bit and so now every time you're down
Speaker 2: there doing pushups, she's like, oh, Demonse has time. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you gotta be you.
Speaker 4: For lost time. Man. During that year that you were
Speaker 4: grinding on the peloton and weightlift, Yeah you.
Speaker 2: Got fat, buddy. Yeah, yeah, you're looking bad. You did
Speaker 2: the No, you weren't looking bad, and you didn't get fat.
Speaker 2: But you also and then we can move on to
Speaker 2: the actual show. Uh, you did do a full year
Speaker 2: of building fins, which kept me in great shape. Well
Speaker 2: I would imagine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it almost might have been better than basketball shape.
Speaker 2: Oh you certainly stronger. Yeah yeah, and then you got
Speaker 2: Then it's amazing. What what living right around the poverty
Speaker 2: line buildings and eating noodles three meals a day?
Speaker 4: Will it? Will do?
Speaker 2: And then you come move it back in here. You're
Speaker 2: not building fences. We got a chef, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden it's like, oh boy, life's good. Then you
Speaker 2: got yourself back. I'm proud of you. All right, let's
Speaker 2: play a game. Right or wrong?
Speaker 4: Oh? Right or wrong? Luka Donsons be spotted in Slovenia
Speaker 4: looking skinny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well not that skinny, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Apparently he's been training extra hard this offseason, and it's
Speaker 4: clearly showing right or wrong, Luca is too skinny.
Speaker 2: I actually think that's right.
Speaker 4: You think he's too skinny.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that he will put on some more weight.
Speaker 2: If it was the season we're starting right now, I
Speaker 2: would not want him that weight. I do think he
Speaker 2: needed to get in better cardiovascular shape because he has
Speaker 2: such a load on him. Offensively, I think one of
Speaker 2: the reasons that he either was call it lacka days
Speaker 2: ago on defense or wearing down in fourth quarters was
Speaker 2: he was not in the best physical condition. Okay, However,
Speaker 2: I think Luca's NBA equivalent as far as stylistically on
Speaker 2: offenses Lebron right, and he's not the athlete Lebron is,
Speaker 2: but he plays very similar and puts up very similar
Speaker 2: you know the twenty seven to seven and seven Lebron's
Speaker 2: thing where it's you're gonna fill up every part of
Speaker 2: the box score, right. One of the keys for Lebron
Speaker 2: to be able to do that is taking the punishment
Speaker 2: and I and for Lebron it was with pure muscle,
Speaker 2: but then later in his career also put on extra weight.
Speaker 2: Luca is never gonna have that type of body, But
Speaker 2: I do think a little extra weight helps him deal
Speaker 2: with the punishment.
Speaker 4: I literally, I was just saying this, Yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 4: I was just saying, like, the only way this I
Speaker 4: was I don't I didn't want to say that he
Speaker 4: was too skinny, but I was just saying that the
Speaker 4: only way that him losing all this weight works if
Speaker 4: he's just that much faster.
Speaker 2: But he's not gonna get that much faster. No, I
Speaker 2: don't think he's gonna get by the way. I don't
Speaker 2: think he needs to be faster. He makes everyone play
Speaker 2: at his speed. He gets him on his ass, like
Speaker 2: right on his hip and just does what he wants.
Speaker 2: What he needs is to be totally honest, his lungs
Speaker 2: to be in better shape. He needs just to be
Speaker 2: in better cardio vast condition. Yeah, for real. And I
Speaker 2: think trimming down. I think it is easier once the
Speaker 2: season starts, or leading into the season to bulk up
Speaker 2: with good weight, which I assume he will do. So
Speaker 2: I like this as a sign of what he's doing
Speaker 2: this offseason. I would think this would be too skinny
Speaker 2: for it to be his playing weight. I think he's
Speaker 2: got to gain a little bit of weight, all right,
Speaker 2: what's next.
Speaker 4: Okay, the jont played in a pro am game in
Speaker 4: Seattle with his new teammates Trey Young and Jason and
Speaker 4: John Collins. Yeah, after the game, he urged more NBA
Speaker 4: players to play in proram games for fans they can't
Speaker 4: afford it. Yep, right or wrong, it's worth the injury
Speaker 4: is for NBA players to play in PROME games. Right.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, and this was the knock on Ben
Speaker 2: Simmons among other a handful of other guys who don't
Speaker 2: like seem to show year over year improvement. Here's the
Speaker 2: thing about NBA players. They're going to play basketball all
Speaker 2: year round, maybe take a month off after the season. So,
Speaker 2: whether it's a pro am game, whether it's the open
Speaker 2: run at UCLA that's been going on forever, whether it's
Speaker 2: pick up at twenty four when you lived in Houston,
Speaker 2: how long would you see Dwight Howard.
Speaker 4: Yah, he came up. He came up to our school
Speaker 4: in toime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, guys love to play, So I don't look
Speaker 2: at it as more of an injury orrisk playing in
Speaker 2: these proram games than playing at lifetime or twenty. These
Speaker 2: guys are going to play it's not like football where
Speaker 2: there's so much more contact and you can't really play
Speaker 2: organized football, you know what I mean, outside of the
Speaker 2: context of your team. So I think it is at
Speaker 2: the injury risk.
Speaker 4: And then I think as long as they're playing with
Speaker 4: the right folks, I think that you could be playing
Speaker 4: against high risk like people that are more well Listen.
Speaker 2: I think some people would argue that it is a
Speaker 2: higher risk at the pro am because it's guys who
Speaker 2: are like, I could be a pro and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: show him. But what's really gonna get you messed up
Speaker 2: is if you're playing with someone totally sloppy, totally out
Speaker 2: of control. And that's not gonna happen in a pro
Speaker 2: am game as likely as it's gonna happen at just
Speaker 2: some gym, some open run. So I think it's worth
Speaker 2: the risk. I also want to talk here because I
Speaker 2: said we're gonna talk about it. The Dejonte Murray Polo
Speaker 2: Boncaro all of a sudden feud. I love it. I
Speaker 2: love that both. I love that Paolo all of a
Speaker 2: sudden is like taking on the mantle of ours, the
Speaker 2: number one pardon me, but pick of this draft. Nobody's
Speaker 2: gonna talk trash to me and Dejonte, who nobody's ever
Speaker 2: thought of as a star in year five. Jonta Murray, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that sounds right. I'm not sure if it's your five
Speaker 2: or year I.
Speaker 4: Think I just think it's like I compare it to
Speaker 4: me fighting with Deanna. How are you gonna be beefing
Speaker 4: with this dude? They just got to the NBA.
Speaker 2: Well, I think he's the number.
Speaker 4: One pick, and it's like, but at.
Speaker 2: So he's played five years, but he missed one year
Speaker 2: with injuries, so he's so this is he's played six
Speaker 2: years if you include that, so this will be your seven.
Speaker 2: It's because of the number one pick and Dejonte's feeling himself,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, got traded for all these picks,
Speaker 2: is looking at a big deal coming up, so I
Speaker 2: get it. I also like Palo not backing down. I
Speaker 2: like the whole thing for both of them. All Right,
Speaker 2: I know we're out of time, so we'll go quick
Speaker 2: through these last few. What's next?
Speaker 4: Former Pats offensive lineman Rich Ornberger said that he sorry
Speaker 4: not so, but once, after oversleeping, intentionally crashed his car
Speaker 4: so he could dodge the raft of Bill Belichick. Right
Speaker 4: or wrong. This is the sign of a great coach. Okay,
Speaker 4: I that's freaking crazy.
Speaker 2: All right, it's story time real quick. Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: this is like the most instant karma that ever happened. Right,
Speaker 2: So I'm not even gonna answer this question. I Belichick.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 2: Belichick's a hard nosed guy. We all know it's fine.
Speaker 2: Is the reason I left this in the show is
Speaker 2: tell the story. So college, my friend Tamara, who you know,
Speaker 2: was flying back from somewhere to Syracuse. I like an
Speaker 2: overnight flight, like six thirty am or maybe even earlier landing,
Speaker 2: and I told her I'd pick her up. I had
Speaker 2: been gambling it was coming back from winter break at
Speaker 2: turning Stone Casino in Syracuse, and I lost track of
Speaker 2: time or I didn't care or whatever. And as I'm
Speaker 2: walking to my car, she calls me to say like
Speaker 2: where are you? And am walking to my car from
Speaker 2: the parking lot and I've got It's a forty five
Speaker 2: minute drive and it's snowing because it's Syracuse in the winter.
Speaker 2: And I answer and the phone dies and I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god. So I get on all Syracuse highways
Speaker 2: is out. There's toll road. Get to the toll booth,
Speaker 2: and I convinced the toll booth operator this is both
Speaker 2: pretty easy to take chips, no to let me use
Speaker 2: his phone to call her.
Speaker 4: And tell her.
Speaker 2: So I call her and she's yelling at me. She's like,
Speaker 2: where are you? I've been waiting and I'm like, And
Speaker 2: I got irritated that she was irritated with me. She
Speaker 2: doesn't know this, but she I don't know if she
Speaker 2: watches the pot. I got irritated that she was irritated
Speaker 2: with me, so I said I was like, Tamara, I
Speaker 2: gotten a wreck, and she was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: are you okay? Like, I'm fine. Car's a little banged up,
Speaker 2: but I'm running late, but I will come. I will
Speaker 2: be there. She's like, okay, I'm sorry. I'm like, don't
Speaker 2: worry about it. I'm on away. Give the guy his
Speaker 2: phone back. Leave the toll area. From the toll area,
Speaker 2: it's a ramp to the next highway. Car spins out
Speaker 2: on the ramp and bangs the guardrail right after I
Speaker 2: claimed I had gotten in a wreck. So two things.
Speaker 2: One is that's crazy karma. Second is I don't know
Speaker 2: what my plan had been about when I when I
Speaker 2: picked her up, and she was gonna be like where Jay,
Speaker 2: Where's But now there was actual damage to the vehicle.
Speaker 4: I would have kicked the car kicked it.
Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't worth it, but I so, yeah, so
Speaker 2: I've done something similar. I get it the old car
Speaker 2: wreck excuse, except I didn't try to get in the
Speaker 2: car wreck. But I did get in the car wreck. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, let's building.
Speaker 4: Let's it's just as scary as angry.
Speaker 2: Yet I think that's actually smart. I think Rich probably
Speaker 2: would have gotten cut. I think it's actually smart. He's
Speaker 2: cut guys for less. All right, go ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: So Aaron Rodgers said last week his back to back
Speaker 4: MVPs came from his improved mental state from taking some
Speaker 4: psychedelics called.
Speaker 2: You've been practicing this all morning?
Speaker 4: Ayahuasca?
Speaker 2: Oh nailed nailed it?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so right or wrong? To improve the show,
Speaker 4: we should take psychedelics.
Speaker 2: Well do they work?
Speaker 4: To Monsea, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: You a damn line.
Speaker 4: I don't. I took psychedelics. Am I allowed to say this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sure, I'm a grown man. I'm twenty four years Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm taking Amaron Rogers, So, yeah, I took psychedelics once
Speaker 4: when I was a kid, and I want to slip.
Speaker 2: When you were a kid, and oh my god, I alight,
Speaker 2: all right, bleep that entire you know what, hold on,
Speaker 2: hold on, We're gonna Oh my god, that makes me
Speaker 2: look so bad. That's not what I thought you were
Speaker 2: gonna say. Oh, you can leave this in the show.
Speaker 2: But bleep, bleep some of that. I was just bleep
Speaker 2: the context of winning where to stop? Stop stop talking,
Speaker 2: stop talking. I was joking, you weren't.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I've got to get that like that.
Speaker 2: That since of like when I'm serious and when I'm not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like what you're like? Are we playing a game here?
Speaker 2: Am I serious? I respect the honesty, dude. I remember
Speaker 2: the I know how old you were the last time
Speaker 2: you went what do you?
Speaker 4: What are you? I was eighteen.
Speaker 2: I don't think that you keep saying it like I
Speaker 2: was eighteen. You're still the illiter. No, the answer to
Speaker 2: this question is no, we're not taking psychedelic drugs to
Speaker 2: improve the show. And no, I'm not taking ayahuasca or
Speaker 2: micro I joked on TV that I would microde osh psilocybin,
Speaker 2: uh like they did in that nine Perfect Strangers thing.
Speaker 2: But I'm not a drug guy. I have enough vices.
Speaker 2: I gamble, I drank, I occasionally smoke. I am not
Speaker 2: a drug guy.
Speaker 4: Uh agreed?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, what's the last topic? This really went
Speaker 2: off the rails. I blame the producers for putting this
Speaker 2: in there without fully vetting you.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, video surface the Royal Sodeo breaking his mother's ankles. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a new net at the NETS training facility.
Speaker 2: Uh huh?
Speaker 4: Right or wrong? I should do this to mom?
Speaker 2: How do you think that would go for you?
Speaker 4: I just don't think i'd post her up?
Speaker 2: Okay. But but if you were playing basketball with her
Speaker 2: and she ended up falling to the ground and people
Speaker 2: were around, how do you think that would go for you?
Speaker 4: Honestly don't know.
Speaker 2: I do. Do you remember the time? I mean don't
Speaker 2: Maybe no, maybe you don't remember because maybe you were
Speaker 2: tripping balls right before you went to Schlittermond. But uh,
Speaker 2: the last time your mom you were you were in
Speaker 2: high school. We were standing in the kitchen and I
Speaker 2: don't know what you said to your mother and my.
Speaker 4: Nose, Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah's big ass is towering over Danielle and he said
Speaker 2: something that made her mad. Yeah, and she she said,
Speaker 2: she reached up stucker in your nose, in like all
Speaker 2: the way in my nose, like not just.
Speaker 4: Like right, yeah, like like like like.
Speaker 2: Daring you like do something like oh my god. I
Speaker 2: was stating there like, oh my god, well it's gonna
Speaker 2: happen here.
Speaker 4: It was after an elite performance in an AAU basketball game.
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know, that's probably why you
Speaker 2: were feeling yourself. You re you got a little got
Speaker 2: a little too big for your breeches. Yeah, all right, Well,
Speaker 2: you know we're gonna we're gonna discuss, you know, me
Speaker 2: and my wife's parenting strategies of you know, the late
Speaker 2: twenty tens, because it looks like we might have had
Speaker 2: a few misses and we'll come right back.
Speaker 4: By the way, that never happened.
Speaker 2: It was just for the Oh that's what you always say,
Speaker 2: like anyone whenever, just so you know, a little little
Speaker 2: pro tip is another wisdom for my buddy life. Well,
Speaker 2: anything you say on the air, that thing causes blowback
Speaker 2: in your real life. You just say, what are you
Speaker 2: talking about? We're entertainers just for the show. Like you're
Speaker 2: resting Johnny Depp for being a drug trafficker, don't you
Speaker 2: see blow No, you're not like we're just performing here
Speaker 2: even though it's all true.
Speaker 4: Okay, well but it's not.
Speaker 2: It's not, it's not.
Speaker 4: I thought it would be a cool story, exactly. There
Speaker 4: you go, all right, we'll be.
Speaker 2: Right back, all right, welcome back in what's right? Nick? Right?
Speaker 2: Final segment. Try to be quick here, because not shockingly,
Speaker 2: our first two segments both went a little over. So
Speaker 2: I said, we're still gonna be doing three pods a
Speaker 2: week most weeks. And by the way, also next week
Speaker 2: we're off. Next week, I'm going to Italy one last vacation,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna be on until through the end
Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl. But once I come back, we're
Speaker 2: gonna be doing three pods a week, just like we've
Speaker 2: been doing. And we might even have a fancy new studio.
Speaker 2: Keep that under wraps for now, but at some point
Speaker 2: it's coming and we'll show that to you guys. But
Speaker 2: we're not gonna be doing the fifty years players in
Speaker 2: the last fifty years, and I don't have another ready
Speaker 2: made list that I've been working on for a couple
Speaker 2: of years. So what is going to come in place
Speaker 2: of that third pod a week, and the answer is
Speaker 2: during NFL season is gonna be a gambling show. So
Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of elements here that
Speaker 2: we are still working out. One of them is, while
Speaker 2: Demonse's a football fan and watches the games, he does
Speaker 2: not bet on football, and in fact it does not
Speaker 2: even as I think maybe a lot of you is
Speaker 2: not familiar with things like teasers and some of the
Speaker 2: exotics that are big in football. By the way, a
Speaker 2: little if you can still get down on it. I
Speaker 2: think my favorite bet of week one is a two
Speaker 2: team six point teaser where you're gonna tease the Bengals
Speaker 2: to a pick them at home against the Steelers and
Speaker 2: whatever doufest they tried out at quarterback and the Broncos
Speaker 2: to a pick them at Seattle where they're gonna annihilate
Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks, or there's just no chance Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2: I'm not big Russell Wilson, ever, there's no chance they
Speaker 2: lose to that Seahawks team that's starting either Drew Locker
Speaker 2: or Gino Smith. So a nice little early preseason two
Speaker 2: team teaser start your season off right. So we are
Speaker 2: going to do a weekly gambling show, and I am
Speaker 2: going to try to get other media members across not
Speaker 2: just Fox, but across you know, all of national media
Speaker 2: to enter into an official picks contest of Now, this
Speaker 2: will part of this will be part of what we
Speaker 2: do on the show. We're gonna We're gonna kind of
Speaker 2: iron all this out, but I would like to get
Speaker 2: all of as many national media members as possible to
Speaker 2: put you know, call it five hundred bucks, a thousand bucks,
Speaker 2: whatever it is for the season.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: So it's not weekly or anything like that, but every
Speaker 2: week we give our picks like the Las Vegas Hilton
Speaker 2: Super Contest or whatever it's called now and at the
Speaker 2: end of the year we have a winner. Going into
Speaker 2: the year, though a little preview if you are curious
Speaker 2: what I am on headed into the season. As far
Speaker 2: as season long win totals, where I'm at, I really
Speaker 2: like the Jags over six and a half wins at
Speaker 2: plus money. I believe in Trevor Lawrence. I think Trevor
Speaker 2: I think quarterbacks of that caliber plus the Doug Peterson
Speaker 2: addition in that division. Can the Jacksonville Jaguars win seven games?
Speaker 2: And the answer is unequivocally yes, And you're getting plus
Speaker 2: money on that. And you might say Jacksonville was so
Speaker 2: bad last year. It's true, But Jacksonville on the schedule
Speaker 2: this year has Washington has two games against Houston, they
Speaker 2: also have they have six, they have Detroit, they have
Speaker 2: the Jets and the Giants. So that's six games against
Speaker 2: some of the worst teams in football. If they can
Speaker 2: just go call it four and two in those six games,
Speaker 2: can they find three wins in the rest of their schedule? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: In fact, I think the Jags could go nine and
Speaker 2: eight if everything falls right. As so, the Jags are
Speaker 2: one team that I'm very high on the season long over,
Speaker 2: as far as a season long under that I like
Speaker 2: a lot. I don't see how Denver gets to eleven wins,
Speaker 2: and right now their win total is sitting at ten.
Speaker 2: At ten and seven would be a push with the
Speaker 2: for the Broncos just to do this quickly the Broncos.
Speaker 2: How many wins do the Broncos need to have banked
Speaker 2: to get to eleven wins when you consider here is
Speaker 2: their final six games of the year, Baltimore home for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, home for the Cardinals, at the Rams, at
Speaker 2: the Chiefs home for the Chargers. So that is six games.
Speaker 2: You have two against the Chiefs, one against the defending
Speaker 2: champion Rams, one against one in Baltimore. Arizona is the
Speaker 2: only easy game, and they were a playoff team last year,
Speaker 2: and then home for the Chargers to end the year.
Speaker 2: So even if they are eight and three through eleven weeks,
Speaker 2: are they a lot to get to eleven wins? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: Are they like if they're nine and two, are they
Speaker 2: a lot to get to eleven wins? No, they're likely,
Speaker 2: but they could at nine and two. I'm sorry, they're
Speaker 2: nine and two and they will go two and four
Speaker 2: down the stretch shore. So I guess point is this
Speaker 2: Denver under ten I like a lot, Jacksonville over six
Speaker 2: and a half, I like a lot. And that tease
Speaker 2: of the Bengals to a pick them and the Broncos
Speaker 2: to a pick them. You're not saying Nick saying the
Speaker 2: Broncos under, and you're putting the Broncos in the tease,
Speaker 2: hanging the Broncos and start that you're two and oh
Speaker 2: they start at Seattle and home for Houston. But they
Speaker 2: need to start the year basically seven and one in
Speaker 2: order to hit that over. Give them what their second
Speaker 2: f schedule is so more of that, plus some games
Speaker 2: and some contests between Demanse and I during our weekly
Speaker 2: gambling show that'll be coming up later in the week.
Speaker 2: One more pod this week, then I go to Italy
Speaker 2: and we're back full force with the NFL season. That's
Speaker 2: today's show.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, folks. Remember what I said.