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Speaker 2: Welcome in. We'll driving the great episode two fifty six
Speaker 2: to not quite get Away Day, but it's close to it.
Speaker 2: We've got this show, the TV Show, potentially some announcements
Speaker 2: at Fox the TV Show tomorrow, and then I'm off
Speaker 2: for the next ten days after that before we get
Speaker 2: into full blown football season, and so a lot to
Speaker 2: do today, Gonna do it fast. There's a really tough
Speaker 2: NFL injury, a big NFL trade last night. We're gonna
Speaker 2: give some coaches some advice, as we have in the past.
Speaker 2: We'll open up the coaching hotline all of that, but
Speaker 2: first let me tell you what missed the cut. Not
Speaker 2: on today's show is Micah Parson's playing running back at practice,
Speaker 2: even though I thought that was fun. Josh Allen calls
Speaker 2: Zen's his secret trick. Oh, Josh, let me tell you
Speaker 2: not to give the bills some added advice, but pop
Speaker 2: on a couple stage one nicotine patches buddy before a game.
Speaker 2: You will focus and feel alive the way you never have.
Speaker 2: And Jim Harbaugh says at thanks but no thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin Kaepernick the quarterback, but is open to Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 2: the coach. Demonse, good to see you, And I'm now
Speaker 2: gonna tell you don't know the story I'm about to tell.
Speaker 2: It's not about you. I always feel bad when I
Speaker 2: tell Demanse a story that's about him that he doesn't know.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell that's not what's happening here. But I
Speaker 2: think you'll like this story. So eight years ago I
Speaker 2: went to literally like eight years almost to the day,
Speaker 2: I went to Syracuse and did a talk. So that
Speaker 2: was before first things first existed, when I was just
Speaker 2: filling in and going on Collins Show. I went to
Speaker 2: Syracuse and it wasn't like a big formal thing. Like
Speaker 2: in a theater. It was at the radio station that
Speaker 2: formed my career War and they announced it to the
Speaker 2: kids who were working at WAR that they could come
Speaker 2: and you know, I basically talk and answer questions whatever
Speaker 2: it was. And one of the people there was ty Butler,
Speaker 2: who if you know Demons, you've met him. He was
Speaker 2: a student there. He ended up working with me on
Speaker 2: What's Right with Nick Wright, the radio show on Mad
Speaker 2: Dogs Sports Radio. And now tye is a local New
Speaker 2: York sports talk star. He works for ESPN New York.
Speaker 2: He does stuff on TV. He and I have become friends.
Speaker 2: And you know, Syracuse and War is you know, kind
Speaker 2: of not It's not the only place, but it is
Speaker 2: the place for young aspiring sportscasters. And during the Olympics,
Speaker 2: I'm watching Noah Eagle and I've been I've obviously been
Speaker 2: aware of Noah for years. In Noah's dad is Iron Eagle,
Speaker 2: who was a Syracuse legend and a great broadcast for
Speaker 2: forty years or thirty years. I don't want to date him.
Speaker 2: And Noah did the Clippers job and has gotten some
Speaker 2: big gigs and was doing the Olympics with Dwayne Wade.
Speaker 2: But that's all I had thought of when I saw
Speaker 2: Noah Eagle over the years was us as a young kid.
Speaker 2: And to me, there is a real Joe Buck Jack
Speaker 2: Buck possibility of And this is a high compliment. Jack
Speaker 2: Buck was one of the greatest broadcasters ever. His son Joe,
Speaker 2: Joe might not like me saying this, but I believe
Speaker 2: has surpassed him. Where Joe is now maybe the greatest
Speaker 2: him costas obviously Al Michael's play by play guy ever,
Speaker 2: where the dad was a legend and the son maybe
Speaker 2: overtook him. It's too early to say that's going to
Speaker 2: happen with Noah and I an Eagle, but after his
Speaker 2: performance in these Olympics, it's on the board, his kids
Speaker 2: twenty seven years old and crushed it met the moment
Speaker 2: consistently on the men's and women's basketball and his profile
Speaker 2: is only going to grow. And his dad is a legend,
Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame broadcaster, and maybe he'll surpass it.
Speaker 2: Uh So here's the reason I'm telling the story right now.
Speaker 2: And I said the eight years ago thing. During the Olympics,
Speaker 2: something occurred to me. I was like, did I ever
Speaker 2: talk to Noah Egle Because I was like, wait, he
Speaker 2: was probably at Syracuse when I did that talk, and
Speaker 2: so I went to my email and typed into the
Speaker 2: search bar Noah Eagle, and this came up, and I
Speaker 2: want to read it to the audience. Mister Wright. My
Speaker 2: name is Noah Eagle, and I was amongst the crowd
Speaker 2: and new house last night to listen to you speak.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed your stories and great piece of advice. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry I couldn't stay longer afterward to come up and
Speaker 2: introduce and formally introduced myself. Oh that's funny, it says formerly,
Speaker 2: he meant formally. I work at both War and Z
Speaker 2: eighty nine, and to hear you talk about how both
Speaker 2: played such a vital role in your future success was
Speaker 2: a reminder how great Syracuse is. I'm a big fan
Speaker 2: of yours and love what you've been doing at Fox.
Speaker 2: I look forward to seeing what the future as in
Speaker 2: store for your career. I was honored to be able
Speaker 2: to hear you speak and hope to meet you one
Speaker 2: day in person, And thankfully, because I'm not good at email,
Speaker 2: I did respond. It was like a couple weeks later
Speaker 2: I responded, it was nice to meet you, appreciate the note.
Speaker 2: Keep in touch, but that was crazy to me, Like
Speaker 2: it's a crazy to me for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 2: One is I'm now officially like the old guy. Like
Speaker 2: this guy who's calling the Olympics heard was at a
Speaker 2: talk I gave when he was in college. It also
Speaker 2: speaks to his meteoric rise that he was sending me
Speaker 2: that email on August thirty first, twenty sixteen, and on
Speaker 2: August tenth, twenty twenty four, he's calling the gold medal
Speaker 2: game for the men's Olympic team. I mean, it's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3: At that time.
Speaker 4: And had no idea that you guys had had a
Speaker 4: conversation previously.
Speaker 3: I guess via email, but.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, no, I it was. Here's the thing, he
Speaker 2: and I have never spoken since then. That's our only interaction.
Speaker 2: But I saw that and it made me feel old.
Speaker 2: It also made me want to shout out Syracuse and
Speaker 2: Z eighty nine and wa R. And it was really
Speaker 2: cool and so inspiring. I mean, it's really cool. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, listen his dad's iron eagle. I think he
Speaker 2: had plenty of inspiration separate from it, but it all,
Speaker 2: it's the It's just it was really I couldn't believe
Speaker 2: when I saw that and on Tuesday, I when I said,
Speaker 2: remind me telling Noah Eagle story, that's the one that
Speaker 2: I wanted to tell. So shout out to him. Good
Speaker 2: for him, Uh, good for great you know, a great
Speaker 2: young broadcaster, and he is. You know, Joe Joe Buck
Speaker 2: talked about this because there's a lot of broadcasters that
Speaker 2: got their foot in the door because their dad was
Speaker 2: a great broadcaster. And then the question is, you know,
Speaker 2: do you kick the door open? How well do you do?
Speaker 2: Joe obviously is the gold standard of that. But Noah's
Speaker 2: doing a hell of a job. All right, let's talk
Speaker 2: football here to Monsey and to some sad news.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Minnesota's had a pretty crummy off season. Uh
Speaker 4: jj McCarthy is out for the year, I think with
Speaker 4: a tormniskus and Darnld's officially the starter. Jordan Addison was
Speaker 4: carted off at practice yesterday. Minnesota was already plus one
Speaker 4: thousand to win the division before this. What do you
Speaker 4: think their chances are at winning anything at this point?
Speaker 4: And should the TA should have? Should the Vice can
Speaker 4: just go full out tank and trade justin Jefferson?
Speaker 2: So maybe the Chiefs No, they no, Okay, they're not
Speaker 2: going to trade Justin Jefferson. Uh and they listen, they
Speaker 2: this is brutal for them because it so I couldn't
Speaker 2: believe this fact. But then I thought about it, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I guess it kind of makes sense. JJ McCarthy is
Speaker 2: going to be the first quarterback drafted in the first
Speaker 2: round in the common Draft era, which means since nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty seven, So we're talking about more than fifty five
Speaker 2: years to miss his entire rookie season with injury without
Speaker 2: ever playing a single snap. So you might say, well,
Speaker 2: that's crazy, And then I thought about it. I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: that would mean you would have to get injured before
Speaker 2: Week one, which is what happened to him. So it
Speaker 2: is relative. We've had guys sit their whole rookie season.
Speaker 2: We've had guys like Anthony Richardson play briefly, get hurt
Speaker 2: and then miss time. He's the first guy first round
Speaker 2: quarterback ever to miss his entire rookie no, so, but
Speaker 2: that was that was not his rooki year. That was
Speaker 2: he got injured in the seton in it in year
Speaker 2: two and he got there. And there have been plenty
Speaker 2: of guys to play zero snaps their rookie year, but
Speaker 2: not because of injury. It was because of a Mahomes
Speaker 2: Alex Smith situation. But even in that situation, Mahomes played
Speaker 2: the final game of that season. So it is it
Speaker 2: is brutal for Minnesota for this season. The bright side
Speaker 2: is twofold one is the torn meniscus is a tricky
Speaker 2: one because there's two procedures you can do and it's
Speaker 2: counterintuitive as far as the impact it has and how
Speaker 2: it works. If you tear your meniscus, you can do
Speaker 2: a procedure where they just trim the meniscus, basically shorten it,
Speaker 2: and you can be back in a month. The other
Speaker 2: option they have is to repair the meniscus, fix the tear,
Speaker 2: and you're out four to six months. So why wouldn't
Speaker 2: they just trim it. The reason you choose to repair
Speaker 2: it and not just trim it is because the trim
Speaker 2: can shorten your career and lead to longer term knee issues.
Speaker 2: Dwayne Wade is a guy who early in his basketball
Speaker 2: career suffered a torn meniscus. They trimmed it, and he
Speaker 2: would tell you that's one of the reasons that eight
Speaker 2: nine years later he had all those knee issues and
Speaker 2: now he's calling the Olympics alongside Noah Eagle. What Lebron
Speaker 2: his draft mate play in the Olympics when d Wade's
Speaker 2: career ended years ago. So the I was worried that
Speaker 2: the Vikings were going to and JJ was going to
Speaker 2: opt to do the trim because man, I don't want
Speaker 2: to miss this full season. You do a trim, I
Speaker 2: could be back out there by week two or three.
Speaker 2: They did the judicious smart thing. But it's just so
Speaker 2: whack for them that he's now out for the year.
Speaker 3: There and go ahead, go ahead, Sorry, no, I was
Speaker 3: just go ahead and they're over under his two and
Speaker 3: a half. Now do you think that's well, it's a
Speaker 3: little crazy.
Speaker 2: No, I listen, I know the producers put that in there.
Speaker 2: That's impossible that that's true. Hey, that's not your mistake.
Speaker 2: There's no chance that's accurate. And if they if the
Speaker 2: producers show me that that is correct, I will put
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars on it before the end of the
Speaker 2: podcast that that's the that's their hold on that's their
Speaker 2: division wins. So they were the producers wrong twice that
Speaker 2: there's zero two and a half division wins. You only
Speaker 2: get six so yeah too. No, no, no, no, I honestly
Speaker 2: I doubt it changed. They're over under uh much because
Speaker 2: a rookie JJ McCarthy versus Sam Darnold, who's just gonna
Speaker 2: be bad. But you know, it's a seven year vet.
Speaker 2: They they're over under before the injury was seven and
Speaker 2: a half. My guess is it's still right around that still.
Speaker 2: So I don't actually think it impacts their ability. It
Speaker 2: lowers their ceiling this year because maybe JJ was gonna
Speaker 2: light the world on fire, and I did love his
Speaker 2: performance in that preseason game, but it it does not.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really make them, you know, the worst team
Speaker 2: in football this season anything like that. Uh, it's just
Speaker 2: a bummer because you wanted him to take his lumps
Speaker 2: this season. You wanted him, you wanted him to learn
Speaker 2: from this season. Now, one bright side is that I
Speaker 2: think JJ what JJ was going to be if he
Speaker 2: played Week one. The second youngest quarterback to ever start
Speaker 2: a game in the NFL. The youngest was actually Darnold.
Speaker 2: He's twenty one years old, Okay, so even with him
Speaker 2: missing this year, he's going to start his career at
Speaker 2: twenty two years old. Compare that to, for example, Michael Pinnix,
Speaker 2: who is twenty four. Bo Knicks who turns twenty five
Speaker 2: this season or at the very end of this season.
Speaker 2: So he's still so young that I think he'll be okay.
Speaker 2: It's just if you're a Viking fan, You've had such
Speaker 2: a sad offseason. You had a play a player die
Speaker 2: tragically in a car accident, you had two other corners injured,
Speaker 2: the Addison injury. Here is the one thing I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say about carted off and training camp. That can be
Speaker 2: a misleading thing, and people covering these teams need to
Speaker 2: need to do a better job of clarifying. So, for example,
Speaker 2: yesterday I'm driving into work and I see Chiefs right
Speaker 2: tackle Juwan Taylor carted off the field, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: you've gotta be kidding me. But what happened was he
Speaker 2: tweaked his shoulder and he rode off the field in
Speaker 2: the front seat of the golf cart. So carted off
Speaker 2: in the regulars season means devastating, awful injury. Carted off
Speaker 2: in preseason can mean that. It can also mean they
Speaker 2: have carts all over the place, and if a guy
Speaker 2: gets dinged, he rides in the cart. You know what,
Speaker 2: I mean to the training room, and so it's so,
Speaker 2: but that Addison got it. You know, Addison got in
Speaker 2: trouble this offseason and then also got injured, So it
Speaker 2: hasn't it obviously has been a brutal offseason for the Vikings,
Speaker 2: and you feel for him. I do think their their
Speaker 2: course of action here was the smart one, and I'm
Speaker 2: glad this is the path that they took. I just
Speaker 2: think if you're a Vikings fan, now you don't have
Speaker 2: much reason to care about this season.
Speaker 3: All right, let's just je.
Speaker 2: Did you say that they just signed him? They just
Speaker 2: signed him. There's first of all, they can't trade him.
Speaker 2: Second of all, it the the the reason you would
Speaker 2: trade great players is if you don't have the draft
Speaker 2: capital to move up to get your franchise quarterback. They
Speaker 2: think they have their franchise quarterback in JJ. So no,
Speaker 2: it's just kind of a you know, hold in place
Speaker 2: season and then you move on. All right.
Speaker 4: Next, So Jalen Hurts is not throwing an interception in
Speaker 4: training camp. Oh well, some may say that's good. You
Speaker 4: think that it's a problem. I think you think that
Speaker 4: maybe Jalen Hurts isn't taken enough chances or maybe there's
Speaker 4: a problem with that Eagles defense.
Speaker 3: So here, what is it here?
Speaker 2: All right? Listen, I understand I'm gonna come across as
Speaker 2: a total hater here, but I just know I'm right.
Speaker 2: This is the comp that Wilds used and then he
Speaker 2: was too cowardly to do it on the air, but
Speaker 2: he did it off the air, And so now I'm
Speaker 2: gonna quote him was you don't want to hang out
Speaker 2: with someone that is when you go to dinner, they're
Speaker 2: going to the bathroom three times because they're blowing lines
Speaker 2: of coke. And you don't want to go to someone
Speaker 2: that when you hang out with them, when they go
Speaker 2: to dinner, they ask the waiter to tell them every
Speaker 2: item in every dish because they can't have gluten or
Speaker 2: sugar or wheat, and they don't drink coffee and any
Speaker 2: of it. Those two extremes both will ruin your night.
Speaker 2: So here's my point. You don't want a guy throwing
Speaker 2: a pick every day at training camp, and you don't
Speaker 2: want a guy who's thrown none at training camp. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's everything, but I don't think it's nothing.
Speaker 2: And again people can make fun of me for this.
Speaker 2: They asked me on the show what's the right amount
Speaker 2: of training camp interceptions? And I said, I don't know,
Speaker 2: probably how many mahomes is thrown whatever, however many he's
Speaker 2: thrown is probably the right amount. I think we're taking
Speaker 2: a few internet hits. So let's take a Wick break,
Speaker 2: come back and give some coaches some advice. We'll do
Speaker 2: that next What's Right? Welcome back in What's Driving? Nick Right?
Speaker 2: Apologize for those slight technical difficulties to monsday. Before we
Speaker 2: get to our coaches corner or coaches hotline, I should say, uh,
Speaker 2: let's keep the show going talking little packers Texans.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yesterday on your show you said that Green
Speaker 4: Bay or Houston is bound to have a letdown season.
Speaker 4: So which team are you going to lean towards and
Speaker 4: what will influence your decision on that?
Speaker 2: So I don't know yet, but I just know that
Speaker 2: those two. So let's go back two years ago. Okay,
Speaker 2: two years ago the two teams that I guess we
Speaker 2: got to go back three years ago, but just follow me.
Speaker 2: Three years ago. The Lions and Jags were bad, bad teams,
Speaker 2: but they one of them chained. They both changed quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: they changed coaches, and there was you know, that's what
Speaker 2: the franchise had hoped for. But then those seasons they
Speaker 2: won like two or three games each of them, maybe
Speaker 2: the Lions won four. The Jags obviously fire their coach,
Speaker 2: the Lions don't, and the next year those two teams
Speaker 2: kind of came out of nowhere. Both came on strong
Speaker 2: at the end of the season. The Lions end up
Speaker 2: winning their final game of the year against Green Bay,
Speaker 2: but still missing the playoffs. The Jags surge into the
Speaker 2: playoffs win a playoff game that was them two years ago.
Speaker 2: And both of them came into last season as trendy
Speaker 2: popular picks, the Lions and the Jags. Young quarterback in Jacksonville,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of quarterback on a second chance, not
Speaker 2: necessarily young in Detroit, but both of those teams were
Speaker 2: the trendy. They were too popular to even be called sleepers.
Speaker 2: People really believed in them. And one of them lived
Speaker 2: up to all those expectations. In Detroit won game the
Speaker 2: first game of the year against Kansas City. They were,
Speaker 2: you know, putting Marquis Spots got to the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 2: The other one the Jags ended up, I think because
Speaker 2: Trevor got hurt. But whatever, having a very disappointing season,
Speaker 2: falling short of expectations. The reason I tell that story
Speaker 2: is the Jags Texan I'm sorry, the Jags Lions last
Speaker 2: year remind me a lot, not even because they're both
Speaker 2: from the NFC North and the AFC South of the
Speaker 2: Packers Texans. This year teams that two years ago we
Speaker 2: would have thought were, you know, in the kind of
Speaker 2: no man's land rebuilding figuring it out. Last year. Both
Speaker 2: came on very strong at the end of the year,
Speaker 2: played their best football after not being very good early
Speaker 2: in the year. At the end of the year, one
Speaker 2: playoff games, and both of them are considered kind of
Speaker 2: fringe Super Bowl contenders. This year, I'm here to tell
Speaker 2: you NFL history tells us one of those two teams
Speaker 2: is going to disappoint because progression in this league is
Speaker 2: not linear. It's not the NBA, where it's like you're awful,
Speaker 2: you get to five hundred, you finally make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: you finally go on a playoff run, and then you
Speaker 2: can win a championship. In the NFL, progression is more
Speaker 2: like you go up, take a couple steps back, go up,
Speaker 2: go up again, step back. That's how it is historically
Speaker 2: for players and for teams, and for the.
Speaker 3: Packers anticks for these not the bost.
Speaker 2: Yes exactly. I just think one of these teams, I
Speaker 2: don't think. I think these two teams are a little
Speaker 2: too trendy, and we are a little too focused on
Speaker 2: the last thing we saw from them rather than the
Speaker 2: entirety of what we saw from them. The Packers are
Speaker 2: considered have a lot, a lot of hype for a
Speaker 2: team that through fifteen weeks last year was six and eight,
Speaker 2: six and eight, and then they win their final three games,
Speaker 2: they blow out the Cowboys, they're in great position in
Speaker 2: round two, or seemingly great position, and then lose, and
Speaker 2: now everyone believes in them. The Texans are going for it,
Speaker 2: adding Digs, adding Danell Hunter, adding Joe Mixon, and I
Speaker 2: get that, and I respect it. Point where I am
Speaker 2: willing and we'll see when we come back from vacation
Speaker 2: and we do our official picks and predictions and bets
Speaker 2: all of that, which of these two teams I land on.
Speaker 2: The point I'm making demands is, if NFL history is
Speaker 2: our guide, one of these two teams is going to
Speaker 2: fall woefully short of expectations. And I I right now
Speaker 2: am leaning. I think the Texans are better than the Packers,
Speaker 2: but I think the Texans are more likely to be
Speaker 2: the team that deals with that because I think the
Speaker 2: Texans the Packers don't have to deal with the first
Speaker 2: place schedule the Texans do. The Texans are in the
Speaker 2: AFC and as good as much as I like CJ
Speaker 2: and Demico, the Texans this year, while the schedule starts
Speaker 2: off relatively soft, the end of the year I think
Speaker 2: is brutal and I could see I could see this
Speaker 2: going sideways on them, but I'm not sure because I
Speaker 2: think CJ is awesome and I love their receiver core,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot to like about the team in.
Speaker 4: The locker room as well. Now who knows what that
Speaker 4: with that effect affect.
Speaker 2: That could be correct and that could be combustible, so
Speaker 2: we'll see. I just I think there is this time
Speaker 2: of year nobody wants to pick an actual sleeper. They
Speaker 2: want to pick a team that is a trendy pick
Speaker 2: and call it a sleeper like this would not be
Speaker 2: my pick, but an actual sleeper would be. I think
Speaker 2: Seattle is going to be dangerous. I think Washington is
Speaker 2: going to be dangerous. I think the the Raiders are
Speaker 2: going to be dangerous. That's an actual sleeper. The Packers
Speaker 2: and Texans are a couple standard deviations away from sleeper.
Speaker 2: They are trendy picks. All right, let's go to you
Speaker 2: want to say something I see. I don't think they're
Speaker 2: I don't think they're a sleeper super Bowl team. I
Speaker 2: think they're by the odds. I think they're a fringe
Speaker 2: super Bowl team. But maybe I'm wrong. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go hard. Let's go to the holdouts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the holdouts are continuing. We got Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 4: We don't know if you're staying in San Francisco or
Speaker 4: going to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: There's no movement for CD.
Speaker 4: Weirdly on Hassan Reddick has no connection with the Jets
Speaker 4: and is not playing. So when we look back at this,
Speaker 4: which holdout do you think will end up hurting their
Speaker 4: team the most?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I think CD is gonna end up with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I don't understand what they're doing. It could hurt him
Speaker 2: in week one, but he'll be fine. I thought Ayuk
Speaker 2: was a Steeler a week ago. So if Ayuk stays,
Speaker 2: then I think they're fine there. Okay, if they end
Speaker 2: up trading him, obviously, it's devastating. The holdout that was
Speaker 2: not mentioned here that I think could be the most
Speaker 2: important is Trent Williams with the Niners. He's the best
Speaker 2: player on their team. He is the only guy you
Speaker 2: really trust on their offensive line, and he's old, and
Speaker 2: so him missing all of camp if that leads to
Speaker 2: another injury. He also wants upon a time in Washington
Speaker 2: held out for like half the season, so he has
Speaker 2: shown he's one of the only guys in the league
Speaker 2: who has shown I'm willing to miss games, and so
Speaker 2: that would that's that has not gotten enough coverage. The
Speaker 2: Hassan Reddick thing is the flashing red light siren for
Speaker 2: multiple reasons. One, the Jets need him. As good as
Speaker 2: the Jets defense was last year, they had one guy
Speaker 2: with at least eight sacks, Bryce Huff. He's gone to
Speaker 2: the Eagles. The Eagles signed him because they were trading
Speaker 2: Hassan Reddick, so it's a position of need for the Jets.
Speaker 2: They lost Huff, they spent a first round pick on
Speaker 2: Will McDonald last year, who has not popped at least
Speaker 2: didn't last year, and Reddick doesn't want to play for them.
Speaker 2: But the other reason it's a flashing red or it's
Speaker 2: a red flag is because it shows total organizational incompetence.
Speaker 2: Like Matthew Judon yesterday got traded to the Falcons. Why
Speaker 2: because he wanted a new contract the Patriots didn't want
Speaker 2: to give him. You know what, I am one hundred
Speaker 2: percent certain on the Falcons have worked out a contract
Speaker 2: with Matthew Judin to where he'll be happy, because that's
Speaker 2: what organizations that know what they're doing do. They don't
Speaker 2: trade for a player who's unhappy about a contract without
Speaker 2: working out a new deal and then act shocked he's
Speaker 2: unhappy about a contract so they need him on the
Speaker 2: field and it shows organizational incompetence. Go ahead, Demantsey.
Speaker 4: I mean, at least those guys at least they didn't
Speaker 4: have to at least they hadn't played a season with
Speaker 4: Hassan Redick. Yet I still think the CD Lamb one
Speaker 4: is the worst of the three.
Speaker 3: If he does end up not playing, what's gonna you know,
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen to that playing? Right?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 4: And then yes, but but what does it say, like
Speaker 4: you know what, CD, you're playing with me at this point,
Speaker 4: like you're going on you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Nobody appreciates CD more than me. It's like, what are
Speaker 3: you talking? Just just pay me?
Speaker 2: Oh well, listen, I think it's dumb, and I totally
Speaker 2: agree with you, But I think all feelings will be
Speaker 2: healed when they give him four years, one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty million dollars, which I'll go ahead and plant my
Speaker 2: flag on that right now. I think that's what he's
Speaker 2: gonna get, four years, one thirty with seventy five guaranteed
Speaker 2: and so so that'll but it still could lead to
Speaker 2: a slow starter soft tissue injuries because of the lack
Speaker 2: of training. I get that, but I don't think there's
Speaker 2: any chance he actually misses time. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: to our game, demands the coaching hotline.
Speaker 3: Coaching hotline.
Speaker 4: All right, So coaches around the NFL are paying attention
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're about to put me in the room first. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So coaches around the NFL are paying attention to you,
Speaker 4: not because of your world renowned clock management skills, but
Speaker 4: because of your revolutionary run the ball on second and
Speaker 4: seven approach at NCAA twenty five.
Speaker 3: So are you officially playing now?
Speaker 2: Oh? I? Oh? Not only am I playing? So yeah,
Speaker 2: the franchise, we retired it. We did ten solid years
Speaker 2: at Syracuse. We won two national championships, we had three
Speaker 2: number one recruiting classes, and my work there was done.
Speaker 2: So now I've actually started playing the game, and I'm
Speaker 2: here to tell you I'm cooking. I'm here to tell
Speaker 2: you that that I am the no. It's all online.
Speaker 2: I'm playing, and I am confident enough, and I'm justifying
Speaker 2: how often I'm playing by saying it's helping me learn
Speaker 2: about the college football rosters headed into the season because
Speaker 2: this new gun has the real ratings, the real names,
Speaker 2: all of it, which means every game I use a
Speaker 2: different team. So I've played forty games and I've used
Speaker 2: forty different teams. I started with all the Tier one teams.
Speaker 2: Now I've used all the Tier two teams. Now I'm
Speaker 2: making my way through the Tier three teams. And I'm
Speaker 2: here to tell you if you're a starting quarterback on
Speaker 2: one of the teams I pick, and you're slow and
Speaker 2: there is an accurate, low awareness, but very fast freshman
Speaker 2: deep on the depth chart, you're getting benched, buddy, because
Speaker 2: I am out here running the speed option and the
Speaker 2: read option so option, like I'm Georgia Tech. I am
Speaker 2: out here just putting speed on the field, running the
Speaker 2: damn ball, running the damn ball, and then chucking it
Speaker 2: deep and frustrating people. Yesterday I had this guy in
Speaker 2: the torture chamber because here's the thing. Yesterday I played
Speaker 2: a game before I went to work, so this usually
Speaker 2: I play when I get home from work, but yesterday
Speaker 2: I had all my stuff done early, and it was
Speaker 2: like ten to twenty and I was the only one
Speaker 2: at home. I'm like, I'm getting a game, in which
Speaker 2: means now I'm playing. Either now I'm playing. If it's
Speaker 2: an adult, it probably means he doesn't have a job,
Speaker 2: because it's ten twenty in the afternoon and we're playing,
Speaker 2: or ten twenty the morning and we're playing in Cuba.
Speaker 2: And this guy was so mad at the defensive coverages
Speaker 2: and disguises I was throwing at him, and he kept
Speaker 2: saying into the mic, you just stay in that cover.
Speaker 2: You're just in cover two man. Get out of cover
Speaker 2: two man. But I was never in cover two man.
Speaker 2: I am just in the absolute torture chamber. And listen,
Speaker 2: I only score like thirteen points a game. I'm out
Speaker 2: here kicking field goals demanday, I'm punning on fourth and media.
Speaker 2: I am, well, yeah, you got it, you gotta. I'm
Speaker 2: using third down as just to give up down to
Speaker 2: center the ball to make sure I'm in good field
Speaker 2: goal position for your I am playing the most conservative
Speaker 2: brand of video game football anyone's ever seen, and nobody
Speaker 2: can deal with me. I mean, I just keep now again,
Speaker 2: the way it works, you have to win enough to
Speaker 2: get to the level of the actual great players. But
Speaker 2: I have rapidly ascended the ranks. I won the quote
Speaker 2: national championship in whatever the second easiest difficulty is. I
Speaker 2: in my ten games, I did so well. Yeah freshmen, right,
Speaker 2: So now I'm I'm currently undefeated in the sophomore division.
Speaker 2: So I guess I haven't played. I've played almost thirty games, okay,
Speaker 2: and I'm just out here cooking, and so eventually I'm
Speaker 2: sure I'm going to I'm going to play people that
Speaker 2: are really, really good. But these these.
Speaker 3: Kids, you should play me.
Speaker 4: They I've played like like maybe sixteen games and used
Speaker 4: Texas in every single one of them, so I'd be using.
Speaker 2: Texas, so you should. So you so, but the Texas
Speaker 2: is excellent, and Quinn your is a good passer, but
Speaker 2: he's not mobile. The team you should try if you
Speaker 2: want a team that has great players and the and
Speaker 2: a good quarterback, but also he can scoot. Georgia is
Speaker 2: no George's quarter Alabama, Alabama Jalen Milrow. Yeah. The other
Speaker 2: thing I'll tell you right now is the second fastest
Speaker 2: quarterback in the entire game is Syracuse's third string kids
Speaker 2: at speed? Oh my goodness, folks, get mad. I placed.
Speaker 2: So I played with Syracuse a few times. Exit's my school,
Speaker 2: and I'm here to tell you man. They're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: like they're Ohio State, and then they see they're playing
Speaker 2: a Tier three Syracuse. They're all excited, and they've got
Speaker 2: a great tight end Aronde Gadson Junior and this quarterback.
Speaker 2: And I'm just out here running the option, running the option.
Speaker 2: You're ready for it, You're ready for it. And then
Speaker 2: boom Gadson over the middle, and then running the option,
Speaker 2: running the option. Oh yeah, oh I'm out. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: love this game. I missed this game so much, and
Speaker 2: so all right, sorry coaches, so oh the reason you
Speaker 2: even brought this up is because I said to coach Mangini,
Speaker 2: I now have a newfound respect for running the ball
Speaker 2: on first and ten, for running the ball on second
Speaker 2: and seven, for making the defense respect the run to
Speaker 2: open up my passing options. And so Coach Manginie's been
Speaker 2: trying to convince me that for years. But now that
Speaker 2: I'm in it, now that i'm.
Speaker 3: Really you didn't always agree with run the ball on
Speaker 3: second and seven.
Speaker 2: Strategy, I get very frustrated. Basically, let me just tell
Speaker 2: you something in video games. Maybe I was on with
Speaker 2: coach about real football, and he knows he's watched enough
Speaker 2: Chiefs games with me that basically, every time the Chiefs
Speaker 2: run the ball, I get mad. Let's just let Patrick
Speaker 2: do it. Just leave it, leave the game in Patrick's hands.
Speaker 2: That's what I want, but I do understand it. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's go to our coaching hotline. Sorry, that's probably longer
Speaker 2: than people wanted or needed on n C Double eight,
Speaker 2: but I'm here to tell you I love the game.
Speaker 2: I missed it so much, and I'm so glad it's back.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, I'm glad you're having Bob's So yeah, since
Speaker 4: the hot line is blinking, we've i mean, since the
Speaker 4: demand is so high, We've started a hotline. So new
Speaker 4: head coaches get sixty seconds of your time for you
Speaker 4: to iron them straight. First off, you got Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 4: He's been away from the NFL for nearly a decade
Speaker 4: and needs to be caught up to speed.
Speaker 3: What's your advice to Jim Harball? All right?
Speaker 2: Advice Jim Harbaugh is very simple, which is stick with
Speaker 2: what got you there. There's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 2: external pressure. You have justin Herbert. He has this cannon.
Speaker 2: He's Herbert's dealing with Planner Fascia, a planner for Situs injury.
Speaker 2: Was Planner Fascio. Instead of drafting Neighbors at number five,
Speaker 2: you drafted Joel. You're in a division where none of
Speaker 2: the teams, the Chiefs included, have great run defenses. You
Speaker 2: hired Greg Roman. You want to the ball, keep running
Speaker 2: the ball and Bill and don't do what the previous
Speaker 2: regime did there. And I think, by the way, he's
Speaker 2: gonna take all this advice and try to microwave it.
Speaker 2: Look at it as this year we're gonna get back
Speaker 2: to respectability. Next year we're gonna expect to be a
Speaker 2: playoff team, and the year after we're gonna try to
Speaker 2: compete with the Chiefs of the division. That's exactly what
Speaker 2: he's going to do, and that'd be my advice. I
Speaker 2: don't think he really needs advice. I think he's doing
Speaker 2: it the smart way and that's what they're gonna do. Next.
Speaker 3: Take it.
Speaker 4: Next is Raheem Morris with the Falcons. He's asking to
Speaker 4: do a better job than Arthur Smith. Doesn't seem too hard.
Speaker 4: What's your advice for Raheem Morris?
Speaker 2: So I listen, there is going to be a lot
Speaker 2: of focus on Oh my god, finally Kyle Pitts and
Speaker 2: Drake London can get the ball. And again, this is
Speaker 2: gonna sound very old school of me. However, even with
Speaker 2: the addition of Matthew Judhan on defense, the Falcons are
Speaker 2: going to have one of the worst defenses in football now.
Speaker 2: Raheem is a great defensive mind and will be able
Speaker 2: to coach them up to a degree, but they don't
Speaker 2: have enough talent, which means they can't be getting in shootouts.
Speaker 2: The most important player on your team needs to be
Speaker 2: Bjean Robinson. He was my pick last year for Offensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year. Before the year, if you remember,
Speaker 2: I still think he is a superstar. I think he
Speaker 2: might leave this season as the best running back in
Speaker 2: football and then get Kyle Pitts back re engaged via
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins. But you don't want to get in shootouts
Speaker 2: with that defense. I think Raheem knows this.
Speaker 4: Next, Yes, sir, all right, dan Quinn is back as
Speaker 4: a head coach, this time it's in Washington.
Speaker 3: Good news for him.
Speaker 4: There's nothing he can do that's worse than blowing the
Speaker 4: twenty eight to three lead in.
Speaker 3: The Super Bowl. What's your advice for dan Quinn?
Speaker 2: Keep man, do not do not allow designed quarterback runs
Speaker 2: to be a big part of the first two months
Speaker 2: of your team. I understand that Jaden is great at that,
Speaker 2: and I understand that that is going to be some
Speaker 2: of one of Jaden's first instincts will be I'm faster
Speaker 2: than these guys. Until you have seen for months of
Speaker 2: practice that he knows how to protect himself. Tell him, man,
Speaker 2: you are sliding, you are getting out of bounds, and
Speaker 2: you are running as a last resort. I watched him
Speaker 2: in college take some of the most brutal hits people
Speaker 2: talk about Lamar, him and Lamar. Lamar is much thicker
Speaker 2: previously was, but also Lamar is the best I've ever
Speaker 2: seen at not letting people square him up. Don't let
Speaker 2: Jaden get lit up early, even if it puts a
Speaker 2: ceiling on your offense early. This is a long term thing.
Speaker 2: And so I like Jayden's talent. He is so thin
Speaker 2: and takes such big hits that until he bulks up
Speaker 2: and learns how to avoid those hits, that would be
Speaker 2: my biggest focus.
Speaker 3: Next, we just blessed Dan Quinn with ten extra seconds.
Speaker 4: Mao and Mike McDonald aren't only replacing legendary and coaches,
Speaker 4: they're also they also need your help.
Speaker 3: What's your advice for Girard Mayo and Mike McDonald.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess we need sixty seconds here because it's
Speaker 2: for two of them. For Girard Mayo, man, just try
Speaker 2: to get through this this season. Your nobody wants to
Speaker 2: come play for you. You just trade it away your
Speaker 2: best defensive player and it would uh Honestly, if I
Speaker 2: knew Gerard, what I would tell him was, man, just
Speaker 2: make sure you have a good relationship with Craft's kid,
Speaker 2: because it seems like he's running the show and this
Speaker 2: is going to be a brutal season, a brutal season.
Speaker 2: The while I didn't believe the over under for the
Speaker 2: Vikings could be set at two and a half. The
Speaker 2: Patriots it could have been. It's not. I think it's
Speaker 2: four and a half. And it's not a bad thing
Speaker 2: if Drake May doesn't play for a little bit till
Speaker 2: you get your offensive line figured out. Like the Patriots are,
Speaker 2: you know, really looking like for the second straight year
Speaker 2: they're going to be a bottom two team in the NFL.
Speaker 2: For Mike McDonald, it's a different story, Mike McDonald, man,
Speaker 2: I saw you with listen. Rokwan Smith is a great player,
Speaker 2: Kyle Hamilton is a great player. The rest of those
Speaker 2: players on the Ravens defense last year are not blue chippers,
Speaker 2: and you turned them into one of the three best
Speaker 2: defenses in football. I wonder what you can do with
Speaker 2: that Seattle defense with Weatherspoon. It doesn't have as much
Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't have Kyle Hamilton Roqwan Smith duo,
Speaker 2: but you have Weatherspoon, you have Rik wooland so you
Speaker 2: think your corners are taken care of. I think that
Speaker 2: division is a little more open than other people do.
Speaker 2: I think the Rams are good, I think the Niners
Speaker 2: are good. I don't think either one of them are great,
Speaker 2: and so I think if Gino can get back to
Speaker 2: the geno he was two years ago, and if you
Speaker 2: allow say, you know what, He's gonna throw some picks,
Speaker 2: but I'm okay with that. We have two good wide receivers,
Speaker 2: maybe three with jsn Lockett and Metcalf, chuck it deep.
Speaker 2: Take chances on offense, and trust your own coaching acumen
Speaker 2: to raise the level of the defense. The Seahawks could
Speaker 2: be a sneaky team. So that's the advice I would
Speaker 2: give those guys, was that the least one.
Speaker 4: Dave Canals is in for quite the challenge in Carolina,
Speaker 4: say the best for last. What is your advice for
Speaker 4: Dave Canalis?
Speaker 2: Well, this year is about one thing and one thing only.
Speaker 2: Can you get Bryce Young to a level where you
Speaker 2: feel like you don't have to start over at quarterback again?
Speaker 2: You were smart and that you spent money on interior
Speaker 2: offensive lineman this offseason, which you have to do because
Speaker 2: you have a short quarterback. He can't have pressure up
Speaker 2: the middle. It's just what you have to do and
Speaker 2: pour as much resources as possible into that side of
Speaker 2: the ball. By the way, Baker's not very tall. You
Speaker 2: got a great season out of Baker and see if
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, you believe Bryce can
Speaker 2: tap back into the player he was at Alabama. I
Speaker 2: am highly skeptical because of the size. But this year
Speaker 2: is about nothing other than getting an answer about Bryce
Speaker 2: Young by the end of the season. I think he
Speaker 2: knows that. And also just steer clear of the owner.
Speaker 2: Is the least contact you can have with that.
Speaker 3: Guy, the better.
Speaker 2: That's the advice I would give him.
Speaker 3: All right, Is that it? Yeah? I hope he takes it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: My coaching consultancy business is just, I mean absolutely cooking.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know the first couple guys I gave
Speaker 2: pretty obvious advice too. That was perfect advice to everyone.
Speaker 2: We answer some of your listener questions. Next, What's right?
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick? Right,
Speaker 2: let's answer some listener questions Demansea.
Speaker 4: Nick Wright muse. Does Lebron get a legacy spot on
Speaker 4: Team USA? I'll to ROSSI for LA twenty eight, especially
Speaker 4: if he's still a Laker.
Speaker 2: Oh listen, if he's still in the league in four years, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he'll get a spot. Yeah, I mean that I don't
Speaker 2: and the fact that it's in LA, maybe he would
Speaker 2: want one. I think if he let me put it
Speaker 2: like this, if he wants one, I think he gets one.
Speaker 2: I don't know that he'll want who knows what he's
Speaker 2: doing in four years, but yeah, I think he'd get
Speaker 2: one in four years if he wants one.
Speaker 4: Next corn Beer. Is the Ravens super Bowl window closed
Speaker 4: if they don't win it this year?
Speaker 2: No, listen, this is something Joe Burrow did have right
Speaker 2: when Joe was asked a year or two ago about
Speaker 2: the Bengals super Bowl window and he was like, our
Speaker 2: super Bowl windows my whole career, I do. If you
Speaker 2: have a great quarterback, your super Bowl window is never
Speaker 2: fully closed. It's yeah, I mean it was a great
Speaker 2: quote by Joe, And it has different levels of openness,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like right now, the Bills,
Speaker 2: for instance, are not in a rebuild, but they're in
Speaker 2: a retool, clean up the books, tweaking situation, so their
Speaker 2: window is a little more closed than it was two
Speaker 2: years ago, but it's still open the Ravens. The question
Speaker 2: for the Ravens is you know, going to be at
Speaker 2: some point if they keep coming close and falling short,
Speaker 2: are they going to say John Harbaugh's message is growing stale?
Speaker 2: I don't think they're close to that point out of
Speaker 2: the year they had last year, but the that it
Speaker 2: can just be tough for a team, even if it's
Speaker 2: not even if the coach is great if well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean Dallas, but I mean McCarthy's not been there
Speaker 2: nearly as long as Harball. But it can just when
Speaker 2: this is the only coach these guys have had with
Speaker 2: this team and you keep coming short, like that could
Speaker 2: happen to mc What I'm describing about a couple of
Speaker 2: years from now, potentially happening to Harball, could happen this
Speaker 2: year with McDermott. Where if the Bill's losing Round one
Speaker 2: or two again this year, even if they don't think
Speaker 2: McDermott did a bad job, they might just be like,
Speaker 2: we need a new messenger, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like it's just the that's kind of what happened to
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll. Pete Carroll's very old, but that's what happened
Speaker 2: to Pete Carroll last year.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, Niko Draganich, is Herbert under any pressure
Speaker 3: this year or is the lack of weapons gonna be
Speaker 3: gonna be the excuse now that he has Harball? What
Speaker 3: needs to happen for Herbert to lose the elite status.
Speaker 2: So listen, I don't think Herbert's an elite quarterback. I
Speaker 2: think he's got elite talent, but he needs to put
Speaker 2: together a start to finish elite season at this point
Speaker 2: in his career for him to be in that top
Speaker 2: top tier, well, the second tier. Top tier is mahomes
Speaker 2: by himself. For him to be in that second tier,
Speaker 2: he's not there. I do think he has some built
Speaker 2: in excuse excuses as far as they have one of
Speaker 2: the worst wide receiver rooms in the league, and you
Speaker 2: lose Keenan, you lose Mike Williams. But I do think
Speaker 2: here's where the pressure is amped up on Herbert. No
Speaker 2: one's going to blame coaching the way they have in
Speaker 2: years past with Anthony Lynn and with Brandon Staley. That's
Speaker 2: not going to be the case. So now it will
Speaker 2: fall on Herbert to a degree. But his talent is
Speaker 2: so eye popping that there's going to be a lot
Speaker 2: of people that just I mean, there are smart football
Speaker 2: people that swear justin Herbert's better than Joe Burrow. I
Speaker 2: disagree with them, but those people that they talk about
Speaker 2: his ability to make all the throws, his size, his strength,
Speaker 2: all those things arm power. I disagree with them, but
Speaker 2: that's where the listener's talking about his quote elite status.
Speaker 3: Next, Scott Frasier, what very highly rated team falls on
Speaker 3: its face and what bad teams actually play well and
Speaker 3: are a threat for a division or a wildcard.
Speaker 2: So that is a great question, Scott, And that is
Speaker 2: that exact question is going to be the premise of
Speaker 2: a huge amount of our gambling show, cause it's really
Speaker 2: asking which teams are overvalued which teams are undervalued. So
Speaker 2: I'm not going to answer that right now for two reasons.
Speaker 2: One is I don't want to answer it in sixty
Speaker 2: second where I'm must to spend twenty minutes on it.
Speaker 2: And also, pardon me, I haven't done really the requisite
Speaker 2: study yet to know which I fully one hundred percent
Speaker 2: believe and I know where I'm leaning, but I haven't
Speaker 2: done my full Warren Sharp preview, Football Outsiders preview all
Speaker 2: they're not football outsiders anymore, but Aaron Schatz's preview. All
Speaker 2: that stuff that'll dive into on vacation and when we
Speaker 2: get back.
Speaker 4: Next, Doctor Octagon win is the game Mplin show. Is
Speaker 4: Demons going to be betting again. This cold streak last
Speaker 4: year paid for my Christmas in vacation. Oh on the
Speaker 4: bets O.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Gambling Show comes back. First day, the Day
Speaker 2: of Chiefs Ravens. Three weeks from today, the Gambling Show
Speaker 2: comes back. So I mean, yeah, that's going to be great.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to do. Doctor Arctagon.
Speaker 2: I think maybe it's down the two teams. Yeah it was,
Speaker 2: but you were too. We'll get it together, don't worry,
Speaker 2: all right, last.
Speaker 4: Question, uhriez Nick. My friends and I were arguing about
Speaker 4: this yesterday in poker. Should a straight beat a flush?
Speaker 4: I know it doesn't, but should it?
Speaker 2: No, it shouldn't. So the reason it's very very simple.
Speaker 2: What beats one in poker is just based on what's
Speaker 2: more probable than the next. So in a five card
Speaker 2: poker hand, you're guaranteed to at least have high card.
Speaker 2: That's why that's the worst hand you can have. It's
Speaker 2: just have high card. The next most likely thing you're
Speaker 2: to have is one pair. The next most likely is
Speaker 2: two pair, than three of a kind, then a straight,
Speaker 2: than a flush, then a full house, than four of
Speaker 2: a kind than a straight flush. So if you actually
Speaker 2: did that the math on how likely is a straight
Speaker 2: versus how likely is a flush? You are about twice
Speaker 2: as likely to get a straight than you are to
Speaker 2: get a flush, which is why a straight doesn't beat
Speaker 2: a flush, because they're easier to come by. So no,
Speaker 2: it shouldn't. That's the very very simple explanation. It's just
Speaker 2: a probabilities thing, and so the least probable is the
Speaker 2: most valuable. The most probable is the least value, and
Speaker 2: it is inversely. The strength of hand is inverse first
Speaker 2: directly correlated to its probability. That's it. I hope that
Speaker 2: was a nice little math and poker lesson at the
Speaker 2: end of the pod. On that note, speaking of gambling,
Speaker 2: guess what I will be doing one week from today. Really,
Speaker 2: if I do the time zone change, it might be
Speaker 2: one week from this very moment. Yes, I will be demanse.
Speaker 2: Do you want to guess or do you want me
Speaker 2: to tell you?
Speaker 3: Playing poker in Vegas? Oh?
Speaker 2: Well no, you're close, but no, I might be playing poker,
Speaker 2: it might be blackjack, it might be craps. It will
Speaker 2: not be in Vegas. I will be wearing a tuxedo
Speaker 2: a la James Bond, and I will be gambling at
Speaker 2: Casino Monte Carlo in my I have booked my dad.
Speaker 2: We're staying in Monico. Is the size of Manhattan? If
Speaker 2: that it's basically well yeah, no, I mean, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be in Europe the whole time. So but we are
Speaker 2: in we're from We are at some point going from
Speaker 2: the south of France up to Milan, and en route
Speaker 2: you pass through a country that really shouldn't be a country.
Speaker 2: It's this tiny place that's just like a tax haven
Speaker 2: for the richest people in the world. That's some royal
Speaker 2: family set up called Monaco, and they have the maybe
Speaker 2: the greatest casino in the world there. You have to
Speaker 2: wear black tie. I don't know what the steaks are,
Speaker 2: probably higher than I'm totally comfortable gambling, but I'm doing it,
Speaker 2: and so your mother and I for what, We're only
Speaker 2: gonna be there one day. It's we're just passing through
Speaker 2: so we can get dressed to the nines and go
Speaker 2: gamble at Casino Monte Carlo. I can't wait. It'll be
Speaker 2: one week Thursdays when I'm gonna be there. It'll be
Speaker 2: one week from right now. Oh my goodness, my heart's
Speaker 2: racing just thinking about it.
Speaker 3: Oh, leave with some Monico money.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, that's a great point. Uh yeah, me too.
Speaker 2: But you know what you pay for the experiences, that's
Speaker 2: what you do. Oh my goodness, gracious, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll see you guys on TV in a
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