1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving the Great Episode four forty. This 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: episode of What's Right with the Right, as always, is 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: brought to you by my great friends at boost Mobile. 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Demonse great to see you every time I see you. 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: Oh I am I realize. Oh I bought Demanse a 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: really cool jacket in Japan that I need that I 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: have not shown you or sent you yet. And it's 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: about to be summer in La so but uh, I 9 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe on a rainy day the president. 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I like this for them. 28 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: I think that this makes it to where they don't 29 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: have to throw Fernando Mendoza right into the fire, that 30 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: they can have stability at the quarterback position for you know, 31 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: the first few weeks of the season if they don't 32 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: want Mendoza to be the rookie week one start. 33 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 2: Very similar to. 34 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: Personality for sure, Yes, and personality I think they are. 35 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: I think they are. I know Kirk is and I 36 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: think I know this about Mendoza, both very deep into 37 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: their faith. Yeah, I mean I think that is a 38 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: really good fit. Seem to have great dispositions for those 39 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: two guys and everybody. You know, when you have a 40 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: number one pick of the draft, you obviously hope for 41 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, MVP, super Bowls. But if Fernando Mendoza 42 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: ended up having at the end of his career, Kirk 43 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: Cousin's regular season career, you'd want a little more playoff success. Yeh, 44 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: that's a probably above average outcome, even for a number 45 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: one overall pick. So you know, it's a guy who 46 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: had a lot of success for multiple teams coming in 47 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: and mentoring him. I didn't see this story. That's why 48 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: I missed the cut. Tom Izzo was considered for the 49 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: Sun's job, and he considered the Sun's job. And I mean, 50 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,839 Speaker 1: it's not shocking because Ishbie is a Michigan State guy. 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: It's also not shocking that is Or didn't want to 52 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: leave Michigan State and Artemis two departs for the Moon. This, 53 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: you know, so a little behind the scenes here. Daniel, 54 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: our resident Nuggets fan, typically is on the controls on 55 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: the show. Daniel's boss is Matt Ford, who used to 56 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: be on the controls for the show. Matt Ford also 57 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: has I will call it a unhealthy obsession with alien 58 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: life and outer space, and he really wanted to get 59 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: me on a tangent about the original moon landing and 60 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: us going back. I saw right through that, Matt. We 61 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: have too much to do here. Demon's let's get right 62 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: to the show. 63 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 2: Lispers of ten straight, and Wimby continues to prove his 64 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 2: point with forty one points last night in twenty nine minutes. 65 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 2: Do you expect this performance to drop off on playoff time? 66 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: Maybe so Here listen, I think there are a lot 67 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: of reasons to be very optimistic about the Spurs and 68 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: about Wmby come the playoffs. And I think that is 69 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: where the twenty nine minutes a game thing can really 70 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: factor in. Where it's like, all right in the playoffs. 71 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,559 Speaker 1: Let's assume he's capable of playing thirty five minutes a game, 72 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: that the twenty nine minutes a game is, you know, 73 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: more of an artificial cap than an actual cap. Then 74 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: more minutes with Winby on the court, more great defense, 75 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: or the scoring goes up. All of that I think 76 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: is a reason to think the Spurs are very, very dangerous, 77 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: and that if the Spurs can be the first team 78 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: since Bill Walton's Blazers to have layoff experience, not matter 79 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: that they have all they check every other box of 80 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: a team that could win a championship, That part I 81 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: think is legitimate, fair, smart cojin analysis. With that said, Demons, 82 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to get radicalized. It's not gonna be it's 83 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: gonna be a little Wimby's fault and it's going to 84 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: be a lot the media's fault if I get radicalized 85 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: on Victor Windbanyama, because I have for the last month 86 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: been told scoring forty points and playing mediocre defense is 87 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: no way to win an MVP, and that and that, 88 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: and now the Spurs win a game against what's left 89 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: of the Warriors, a Warriors team that had to have 90 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: in the first quarter a guy shoot a free throw 91 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: with his offhand because they didn't have enough healthy players. 92 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: They're out of two ways. They're like, you know what, sorry, pal, 93 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: who was it? I don't even remember who it was, 94 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,679 Speaker 1: but one of their guys was shooting with his left hand. 95 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: They a Warriors team that had your old AU teammate LJ. 96 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 1: Cryer played twenty three minutes last night and be their 97 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: second leading scorer and fresh out in the G League. 98 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: Shout out LJ. By the way that team scored one thirteen. 99 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: Wimby had the Spurs, you know, understandably played a we're 100 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: gonna outscore you style of game, and everyone's like, and 101 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: everyone's like, holy shit, look at what Wimby did. Man, 102 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: that feels like a double standard. 103 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 2: Away still recorded, still recorded three blocks. 104 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: Listen, and he's he's obviously obviously the best defensive player 105 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: in the league. But the last two games when people 106 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: are like, look at Wimby, a tanker and and a 107 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: de facto tanker because they don't have staph, the Bulls 108 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: and the Warriors put up well above their median points 109 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: for the year one fourteen and one thirteen, and the 110 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: and the and the Spurs won with Wimby focusing far 111 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: more on his offense than his defense, and everyone's like, 112 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: this is why this guy's unstoppable, and I'm watching it, 113 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, I thought, that's what you're not supposed to do. 114 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: I thought in twenty twenty six the path t MVP 115 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: was a nice, tidy twenty five points and holding your 116 00:07:55,080 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: opposition in the nineties not a point. It's explosions, because listen, 117 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: I'm old fashioned. I like a nice forty point game. 118 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: I think they're valuable in professional basketball. I like seeing 119 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: Wimby go out there and just have Draymond Green threaten 120 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: him to or dare him to shoot, and he's like, Okay, 121 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: i'll shoot. I'll take these mid range jumpers. I'll do that, 122 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: no problem whatsoever. But it the there is that the 123 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: a lot of stupid memes that come to mind when 124 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: I look at the reaction to Luca averaging forty for 125 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: a month and Wimby scoring forty and back to back 126 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: games against awful opponents, and so I am I am 127 00:08:53,559 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: a little it conflicted is the wrong word. There's two 128 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: things happening in my brain simultaneously. One is I believe 129 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: the Spurs can win the championship, and I believe Wimby 130 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: is only going to get better. And I also think 131 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: his disposition is one that will likely suit him very 132 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: well come the playoffs, and that I don't think the 133 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: playoff stage is going to be too big for him. 134 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: So I believe all of that, and I also believe 135 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: that him opening his campaign for MVP by saying and 136 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: the third prong of my three prong platform is there's 137 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 1: more to offense than scoring, and everyone in the media 138 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: being like, he's right, you know, have you heard a 139 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: role gravity? And then he scores forty and back to 140 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: back games and everyone in the media is like, what 141 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: can't this man do that? To me? Feels I don't know, don't. 142 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 2: Think it's kind of interesting the timing of how Wimby 143 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 2: has said everything and then now he's focused on offense. 144 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 2: He can do it he clearly can do it, and 145 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: it's like he can clearly do it. On the defensive side, 146 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 2: It's like, Oh, if I want to play offense and 147 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 2: drop forty, I can. But if Luca wants to play 148 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 2: defense and be dominant and do whatever, you probably couldn't 149 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 2: winby just decided to. 150 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: So I don't listen. I don't know if Wimby not. 151 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: I don't know. I do know that Wimby, at least 152 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: as of yet, cannot consistently do what Luca or Shay 153 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: or Joker, any of the three do on offense. Now, 154 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: can he pop off? Certainly? And is his ceiling right 155 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: now higher than his twenty four point per game average? Obviously, 156 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: I think all that's true. And can Luca do can 157 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: anyone what maybe can do? Defensively? No, all of that 158 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: is definitionally true. What I find hypocritical by folks covering 159 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: the league is they're YadA YadA ing Luca putting up 160 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: forty consistently for a month and then going head over 161 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: heels over Wimby doing it a couple games in a row, 162 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: in in games where his team, yeah, kind of went 163 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: away from their identity of this lockdown defense, egalitarian style 164 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: of offense because he's gunning for an award like that. Again, 165 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: I I don't necessarily have a problem with guys gunning 166 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: for awards. I have a problem with a media that 167 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: has never liked that. And you know when after Russ 168 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: when they're like, oh, he's triple double hunting, you have 169 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: heard different when after EMBIID, when the he was like, oh, 170 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: he's doing all of this just to win the MVP 171 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: because it mattered to him later in his career than 172 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:33,199 Speaker 1: Wimby is obviously, And now Wimby is transparently doing it. 173 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: And then after the game's talking about doing it, goes 174 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: on with Scott van Pelt and he's like, yes, it's 175 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: very important to me and everyone loves it. That to 176 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: me is just it's just odd. And so I again 177 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:59,439 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't on a principled level. I don't 178 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: even necessarily dislike it, because I don't mind. I understand 179 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: pro athletes, I understand anybody in competitive endeavors being like, 180 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 1: I want to be recognized as the best. I want 181 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: to go do things to where my accomplishments grow and 182 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: grow and grow. I actually get that and to a 183 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: degree relate to it. But this so this has never 184 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: been covered like he is being covered, particularly for someone who, 185 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: even if we all believe eventually he will, as of 186 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: this moment, has accomplished very, very little. And that's that's 187 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 1: all that I am saying here, and so listen, we'll 188 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,479 Speaker 1: see and I whether I like it or not, because 189 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: and it's it's not a You can cull the full 190 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: transcript of every Wimby take I've had since he's been 191 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: in the league, and if you were to read it out, 192 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:15,839 Speaker 1: aside from maybe some harsh commentary when he and Chris 193 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: Paul cheated in the skills competition, I don't think I've 194 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: ever said anything actually negative about him. Now. I didn't 195 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: pick him to win Rookie of the Year because I 196 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: didn't think he'd play the sixty five games needed. Uh, 197 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: And I thought Scoot. Would you know the Scoot take 198 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: is not aged well. Uh. But because my commentary surrounding 199 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: Wimby has just been pretty positive, I have found myself 200 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: as like the most negative Wimby guy in the media 201 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: because I am just because I am just con pretty 202 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: positive about his MVP chances this year and some of 203 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: his quotes and all these things I am. It's a 204 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: skewed distribution. It's you have sixty percent of the folks 205 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: somewhere from putting him as a deity to future goat 206 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: to already the best player in the world, thirty percent 207 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: of the folks being like, man, he is, we've never 208 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: seen anything like him, and he'll probably win a combined 209 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: twenty defensive Player of the Year MVPs and championships, and 210 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: me and maybe a couple others being like, yeah, right now, 211 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: I think he is the fourth or fifth best player 212 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: alive and his team could to win the title, and 213 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: people were like, you fucking hate her. It's a really 214 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: really interesting setup, the likes of which I'm not I'm 215 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: not familiar for the count for. 216 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 2: This could turn into like a Yokic type of thing. 217 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 2: Man you are you weren't? You were a little bit 218 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 2: more negative on k with. 219 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: Yet no Jokic. I was. Here's the thing on Jokic. Jokic. 220 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: My Jokic MVP opinions I stand by because it felt 221 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: like we were changing the rules on the the boxes 222 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: you have to check to win a m v P 223 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: and then multiple m vps, So I stand by those, 224 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: But I was stone wrong about how great of a 225 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: player he was going to be and maybe already was right. 226 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: I was. I was flat wrong about and I was 227 00:16:55,120 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: far more negative about Joke like I was just wrong 228 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: about him. I don't think there's anything I've said about 229 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: Wimby that even has the possibility of being classified as wrong, 230 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: because I haven't put a ceiling on what he's he 231 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,239 Speaker 1: can be. I haven't. I haven't said, well, here's the 232 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 1: reason he's actually his defense is overrated. I'm not doing 233 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: but I'm also not trafficking in the space that so 234 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: many of my colleagues are, which is giving him credit 235 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: for in this MVP race. For hypotheticals, well, what if 236 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: he played more minutes, What if he took more shots? 237 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: What if he focused more on the offensive end? That 238 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: Those are great questions to ask about can the Spurs 239 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: win the title? Those are wholly and entirely irrelevant questions 240 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: to ask when it comes to who should be the 241 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six NBA mv All Right, speaking of the 242 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: twenty my top two MVP candidates play tonight. We'll discuss 243 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: that in a second, but first reminder, today's show is 244 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 1: brought to you by representing sponsor hard Rock Bet Florida's Sportsbook, 245 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: The biggest weekend in college basketball's almost here. 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We'll see how telling will this 280 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 2: game be for both teams. 281 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I don't think Luca, I want to be clear. 282 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: I don't think Luca has any shot to win MVP. 283 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: The I think that the he is it is it 284 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 1: has become a two man race, and I think Luca 285 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: is likely actually to finish fourth, to finish behind Joker 286 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 1: uh and so I don't if he's in a weird 287 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: spot where if Luca win, if Luca plays great and 288 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:47,719 Speaker 1: they win tonight, it oddly actually might just help Wimby 289 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: more than it helps him, because then the Spurs are 290 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: only a game out of first place. I do think 291 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: I tonight, I would anticipate the Thunder. I would be 292 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 1: very surprised if the Lakers win tonight because and this 293 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: is how precarious they are, their their ability to go 294 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: on a deep playoff run is I think they would 295 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: be better off being without. I think the third let 296 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: me rephrase it. I think in a series against the 297 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 1: Thunder or a game against the Thunder, I think the 298 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: third most important Laker is Marcus Smart. I think against 299 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 1: this team, I think it goes Luca Bron Smart, even 300 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: though Austin is over the entirety of the season, a 301 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: more critical piece and a better player, certainly obviously at 302 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: this point in both of their careers. If they didn't 303 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 1: have Austin tonight, then Bron just assumes that role. And 304 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: takes on more of the offensive workload. Without Marcus Smart, 305 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: they just have nobody with a shot to guard SGA 306 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: like the Their best point of attack point guard defender 307 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: without Marcus Smart is probably Bronnie now maybe Jared Vanderbilt Ronnie, 308 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: but he hasn't really the I mean I I think 309 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 1: of him more as a wing defender, but yeah, you 310 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: would put him out there before. But they're just so 311 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: thin on that front. And by the way we have 312 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: talked about it, shout out to Bronni for getting real 313 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: minutes in real games. And also, you know, I again 314 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if Al Horford's sister or my pal 315 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: steven A are still, you know, so desperately concerned about 316 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: that young man and the other young men who were 317 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: you know, snubbed in the draft. But the Lakers had 318 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: two picks in that draft, a first round or named 319 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: Dalton Connect and a second rounder named Bronnie James. And 320 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: the second rounder is all of a sudden at the 321 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: fringes of their rotation, and the first round of Dalton 322 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: Connect just put up an absolute stinker in the G 323 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: League last night in it was either the playoffs or 324 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: the last game of the regular season. And he looks 325 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: like he is a G League player for the foreseeable future. 326 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 1: But that's either here nor there. Here, though, is what 327 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: is interesting about this game, Demons, and about the ramifications 328 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 1: of it, and the more I think about it, maybe 329 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: this is a positive for the Lakers. I'm not. I've 330 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 1: been trying to I've been thinking about this all morning, 331 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: and I've kind of gone back and forth. If the 332 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: Lakers lose, it makes Okac far more likely to stay 333 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 1: in the one seed. Okay See gets another win. They have, 334 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: you know, they still have that two game cushion, really 335 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: one game cushion, a game and a half on the Spurs. 336 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: If the Lakers win, it obviously makes it more likely 337 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: the thunder r the two and would be the Lakers' 338 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: second round opponent. But I guess if they win this 339 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: game in okay See without Marcus Smart, maybe they feel 340 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: okay about that matchup. Like the I have been operating 341 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: under the belief that the Lakers would far prefer play 342 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: San Antonio than okay See in Round two, that the 343 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: discrepancy inexp playoff experience would be such an edge for 344 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: the Lakers that they could overcome the Spurs' depth, potentially 345 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: now the Spurs would be the favorites in that series, 346 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: and I might pick the Spurs in that series. But 347 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: the there is it's such a unique spot in the 348 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: Western Conferences playoff race. Now the other side of this is, 349 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: and we're gonna get to this in a moment, if 350 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: the Lakers lose their hold on the three seed becomes 351 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: a little more tenuous because as by virtue of all 352 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: of the tankers, none of the good Western Conference teams 353 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 1: lose anymore. It's a really remarkable situation we have where 354 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: the Thunder if we just look at last ten, the 355 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 1: Thunder of one three in a row, and they're nine 356 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: and one in their last ten. The Spurs of one 357 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: ten in a row. They're ten and zero in their 358 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 1: last ten. The Lakers have won four in a row. 359 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,160 Speaker 1: They're nine and one in their last ten. The Nuggets 360 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: have won seven in a row. They're eight and two 361 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: in their last ten. The Rockets have won four in 362 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: a row. After kind of you know, falling apart for 363 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: a bit there, they're six and four in their last ten. 364 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: And the Timberwolves without Anthony Edwards, they won their last game, 365 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: but they are six and four in their last ten, 366 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: which is why despite the Lakers being on this crazy 367 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: run fifteen and two in March, they haven't really gained separation. Yeah, 368 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 1: they they They absolutely could drop to the four, and 369 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: I don't think it's possible or realistic. They dropped to 370 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 1: the five, but Denver could catch them, and so Denver, 371 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: But again it's Denver's next game is against the Spur, 372 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: and so it's very hard to handicap what the playoff 373 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: matchups are going to be because one versus two is 374 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: totally in flux in Spurs Thunder. The Spurs have two 375 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 1: more losses than the Thunder, but if they finish with 376 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: the same record, the Spurs get the one seed. So 377 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: that's a game and a half difference, and Lakers have 378 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: the tiebreaker with everyone beneath them Nuggets, Rockets, Timberwolves. But 379 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: the Lakers also have of those teams the toughest remaining schedule, 380 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: with two games left against OKAC, plus a game against 381 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 1: Phoenix and a game against Golden State where maybe Steph 382 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: is back. So if my guess is the bracket ends 383 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: one through four the way it is right now, OKC one, 384 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: San Antonio two, Lakers three, Nuggets four, and then the 385 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: one flip is right now, Houston's five and the Timberwolves 386 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 1: are six. I think that flips, But if it doesn't, 387 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: that's not exactly like. You know, the Lakers gift of 388 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,439 Speaker 1: getting the three seed is Minnesota Round one, which, assuming 389 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards is back for that series, that was a 390 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: Round one series last year, and you know we'd eat 391 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: the Timberwolves annihilated the Lakers. Now that was Luca's one 392 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: bad playoff series of his whole career. All right, let's demons. 393 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 1: I know I bounced around here a little bit. Uh 394 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: let's go back to the LUCA and SGA MVP stuff 395 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: for a minute. 396 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So LUCA and SGA both chose not to 397 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 2: boast about their MVP about the MVP race. Do you 398 00:28:58,400 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 2: think that that was a mistake. 399 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: I think it was a mistake by SGA because I 400 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: think SGA could have put out a case that he 401 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: would have been allowed to put out because he is 402 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: the defending MVP and they're the defending champion, that would 403 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: have felt pretty bulletproof. I think if SGA came out 404 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: and said, listen, I we've been the best team in 405 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: the league. Wired to wire. I am this is my 406 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: fourth straight year averaging more than thirty. As a guard, 407 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: I am shooting a career high from three and well 408 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: a second career high I guess from three and fifty 409 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 1: five percent from the field. I also lead my team 410 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: and assists and and we as a whole take you know, 411 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: massive pride in our defense, Like what more would you 412 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: like me to do? I think people would have even 413 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: if the fans were like stop valvating. I think the 414 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: media would have responded well to that. I think if 415 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: Luca made a case for himself to be the m 416 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: v P people, it would have hurt him. 417 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 2: I think people go aheadst Yeah, people right now be 418 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 2: really mad. 419 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: And so I I think a s G A. I 420 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: think it might have been in, you know, useful to 421 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: ask GA to be like, hey, pull up the guard 422 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: seasons with my level of scoring and my level of efficiency, 423 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: like just let me see him, let me see. 424 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 2: You know what this is. 425 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, but but the sure and you know I should 426 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: have done this. I'm making the case for him, but 427 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm actually gonna check that myself right now. 428 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: The seasons in NBA history where someone has averaged thirty 429 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: a game on greater than fifty five percent from the 430 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: field I can look that up easily actually, so I'm 431 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: just gonna do it real quick. Thirty a game on 432 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: fifty five percent from the field. Okay, Here is the 433 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:39,719 Speaker 1: full list of seasons in NBA history in you know, 434 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: from oldest to youngest, so to speak. Kareem did it 435 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: three times. He's obviously a sinner. Adrian Dantley did it 436 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: four times. Yeah, how tall is Adrian Dantley? Adrian Dantley 437 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: was I would consider him a wing, but he wasn't 438 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: a big so Adrian Dantley, I think I think he 439 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: was like six', six but he was he played small 440 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 1: forward when he was doing it for The. Jazz Karl 441 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 1: malone did it, Once giannis did it three, times And 442 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: shay right, Now so depending on how And i'm gonna, 443 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: go depending on how you consider, It, No, Adrian i'm. 444 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: Right Adrian, dantley if you go to his basketball reference 445 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: page for all fifteen years of his career is listed 446 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: as a small. Forward so it's been done by a, 447 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: center a small, forward two power, forwards And shay this 448 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: year and the and then the other thing THAT i 449 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: would maybe check IF i Were shay if you wanted 450 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: to do was how many games of the thunder gonna 451 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: win right. Now they're at sixty, already, right so the 452 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 1: let's call. It let's let's put it at sixty two 453 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: wins because they'll definitely, get you, know at least two 454 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: more wins all teams by team, wins guys to average 455 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: thirty a game on teams that won sixty two or. 456 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: More kareem Twice jordan he WON mvp uh and Did 457 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: kareem WIN mvp both of those. Years, SORRY i hope 458 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: this is interesting to the. Audience it's interesting to. Me, 459 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: yes average thirty or more on a sixty two plus win. 460 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: Team the people who have done It kareem in seventy, one, 461 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: ONE Mvp kareem in seventy, two, ONE Mvp jordan in ninety, two, 462 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: ONE Mvp jordan in ninety, six, ONE Mvp Steph curry 463 00:33:55,760 --> 00:34:00,080 Speaker 1: in twenty, sixteen ONE Mvp James harden twenty eighteen one ON, 464 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: mvp And shae this. Year so, YEAH i Think. Shay 465 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: If shaye wanted to make a case for, himself it 466 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,280 Speaker 1: would be That i'm having one of the greatest guard 467 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: seasons ever and every single guy at any position who 468 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: has scored like this and team has won. Six you 469 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 1: know sixty had twenty or fewer, losses IS i guess 470 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 1: a way to put, it has WON. Mvp but have 471 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: you seen his role of? GRAVITY i JUST i, mean, 472 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 1: LISTEN i think that as much AS i Love, LUCA 473 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:44,799 Speaker 1: i don't think there is at the moment a compelling 474 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:50,760 Speaker 1: case For luca Over shae FOR. Mvp and that's despite 475 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: the fact THAT i Think luca's better than. It BUT 476 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: i THINK mvp has to be about what guys have, 477 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: done not just a lining up of who the best player. 478 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,880 Speaker 1: Is and it's you gotta be fair about. It so, 479 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 1: YEAH i Think shay could have made his. CASE i 480 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: just made his case for. Him it seemed pretty. CAPELLA 481 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,360 Speaker 1: i don't, Know Tim, Bond tim strawpol voters are gonna 482 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,839 Speaker 1: watch this, pod but maybe that'll move some. Things all, 483 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 1: Right let's go to jail and hurts BECAUSE i wanted 484 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 1: to get. This. 485 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 2: Yesterday, yeah SO espn dropped a story on the dysfunction 486 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty Five. Eagles hertz And sirianni were 487 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 2: scrutinized very. Heavily more Aj brown frustrations came to. Light 488 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 2: is this way worse than what you? 489 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 1: THOUGHT i don't know if it's way worse than WHAT i, 490 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: thought but here's WHAT i. WELL i also find it 491 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: interesting that this story can, exist meaning that you had 492 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:57,840 Speaker 1: ten people with The eagles in various ways kind of 493 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 1: throwing shade at their franchise quarterback or their head. Coach 494 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 1: that this story can't exist In Kansas. City you can't write. 495 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 1: It There's you're just you're not gonna find three, people 496 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 1: much less double digit. Sources they're gonna be, like here's 497 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,640 Speaker 1: the problem With. Patrick this story can't exist In. Buffalo 498 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,439 Speaker 1: this story kind of existed In baltimore and the head 499 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 1: coach got and. That but the head coach is, out 500 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:34,719 Speaker 1: you know WHAT i? Mean like the It stories like 501 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: this don't come out of thin, air and here is 502 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,880 Speaker 1: so it just kind of rapid fire takeaways on. It 503 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 1: you you said MORE aj brown frustrations came to. LIGHT 504 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 1: i looked at a little bit. DIFFERENTLY i looked at 505 00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: it as this, story to, Me, demansey is a little 506 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: confirmation as to WHY Aj brown being such a pain 507 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,800 Speaker 1: in the ass the last two years did not seem 508 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:17,000 Speaker 1: to hurt his popularity in that locker room or standing amongst. 509 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:28,439 Speaker 1: Teammates that even If Aj brown's methods of messaging were 510 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:34,640 Speaker 1: clumsy or unprofessional that it seems like there were enough 511 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: people in that building that were, like at least someone 512 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 1: saying something that it you, know created it inoculated him 513 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:48,319 Speaker 1: a bit from WHAT i think could be problematic if 514 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,040 Speaker 1: nobody was if everybody was like Man, aj such a 515 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,600 Speaker 1: diva just wants his stats everything, else THEN i Think 516 00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: aj would not still have been as stable in that 517 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,480 Speaker 1: locker room as he seemed to. Be so that you know, 518 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:13,200 Speaker 1: that to me. Jumped another thing that jumped from this 519 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: article was them really zeroing in On jalen's there's leadership 520 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: style and play. Style we'll start with. Playstyle jalen's allergy 521 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:35,839 Speaker 1: to playing the position certain, ways more under, center more play, 522 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,120 Speaker 1: action turning his back to the, defense more pre snap, 523 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 1: motions those types of things that can make things easier 524 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,680 Speaker 1: for receivers and quarterbacks if they're willing to do, it 525 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:54,360 Speaker 1: and the way that truly limited their passing, game And 526 00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: jalen not wanting to adjust from. There another piece of 527 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,520 Speaker 1: the story THAT i thought was really fascinating was one 528 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:12,280 Speaker 1: of the most criticized moments of The eagles. Season late 529 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:17,319 Speaker 1: in the year ten to, seven Against Green bay When 530 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:23,680 Speaker 1: siriani decided to go for a fourth. Down And i'm 531 00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 1: going to pull up the time score situation exactly BECAUSE 532 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,839 Speaker 1: i remember us seeing when it. HAPPENED i came on 533 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:35,040 Speaker 1: the show AND i couldn't believe it That sirianni not 534 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,080 Speaker 1: only went for the fourth. Down now that obviously is his. Call, 535 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 1: oh it wasn't late in the. Season it was early 536 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,760 Speaker 1: in the. Season pardon, ME i mean the exact midway 537 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,760 Speaker 1: point of the. Year but so here's the time score. 538 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,880 Speaker 1: Situation Green bay is out of. Timeouts it is fourth 539 00:39:54,920 --> 00:40:00,160 Speaker 1: and six for The eagles at the Green bay thirty 540 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:05,400 Speaker 1: five yard. Line so and there's thirty three seconds, left 541 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 1: and So siriani chose not to kick the field, goal 542 00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:16,920 Speaker 1: WHICH i think probably was smart because you missed that field, 543 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,839 Speaker 1: goal you, know all of a sudden they're near, midfield 544 00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,480 Speaker 1: and felt they were too close to. PUNT i disagreed 545 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 1: with that piece of. IT i, thought you, punt try 546 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,080 Speaker 1: to pin him. Back. Whatever he decided to go for, 547 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,279 Speaker 1: it which WAS i thought. Questionable but then what we 548 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:40,759 Speaker 1: really criticized was the play call was a bomb down 549 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 1: the left sideline From Jalen HURDS A. J brown this 550 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 1: article revealed they just called that on their own and 551 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,680 Speaker 1: That jalen will occasionally just call stuff on his own 552 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,960 Speaker 1: or draw up routes essentially on his. Own that was 553 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: not what they'd practic this or what the play design. Was, 554 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:09,080 Speaker 1: man if you're gonna do, that you need to Have 555 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:13,399 Speaker 1: ayer's success rate at. It Then jalen has had certainly last. 556 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 1: YEAR i think that's. Fair and then here is another, 557 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: criticism and then the big picture piece of. It they 558 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,600 Speaker 1: said in the article That jalen's has This Kobe Bryant 559 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:33,360 Speaker 1: Michael jordan's style of. Leadership this is maybe going to 560 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,439 Speaker 1: be a controversial, take AND i want to make SURE 561 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:42,800 Speaker 1: i say it. RIGHT i don't know That Kobe bryant 562 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 1: And Michael jordan's leadership styles were. GOOD i think they 563 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:59,480 Speaker 1: were effective for them. Specifically and it would that leadership 564 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,960 Speaker 1: style is not in general the right way to be 565 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:11,120 Speaker 1: a leader and can only work if your individual excellence is. 566 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,080 Speaker 1: Unimpeachable does that make sense. 567 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:20,480 Speaker 2: Because It's kobe And jordan like those rights one of one's. 568 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:25,799 Speaker 1: Exactly SO i just think That, again people roll their 569 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,760 Speaker 1: eyes at My mahome, stuff but it's it's all. True 570 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,840 Speaker 1: it's not at All patrick's style of, leadership The kobe 571 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,640 Speaker 1: Or jordan's. Style but he's probably the only quarterback in 572 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 1: the league, that if it, were could get away with, It, 573 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,759 Speaker 1: like what are we going to say to this? Guy 574 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 1: you know WHAT i? Mean he's the he's the. Best 575 00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 1: he is going to go down in history as the 576 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,120 Speaker 1: greatest or on the very Like, kobe on the very 577 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 1: short list of. Greatest what are we going to? Do 578 00:42:54,440 --> 00:43:01,760 Speaker 1: SO i JUST i think that could IF i used 579 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,640 Speaker 1: the wrong camp on THE tv show yesterday when this came. 580 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,560 Speaker 1: Up BUT i want to use AN nba comp, LIKE 581 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:13,719 Speaker 1: i don't think The kobe Or jordan's style of leadership 582 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:20,879 Speaker 1: would if when, NOT i can't use him because they 583 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,279 Speaker 1: didn't they didn't have any success And jalen obviously has 584 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:30,279 Speaker 1: had a lot of. Success If Tyrese halliburton was, LIKE 585 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,800 Speaker 1: i have A kobe Or lebron style or A kobe 586 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:43,080 Speaker 1: Or jordan's style of, LEADERSHIP i think people might be, like, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, 587 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:47,840 Speaker 1: listen you're really, good don't get me, wrong but we're 588 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:53,440 Speaker 1: not quite there. Yet and then here's the football read on. 589 00:43:53,520 --> 00:44:01,360 Speaker 1: It it's very simple and this is where The Russell 590 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:08,880 Speaker 1: wilson comps just continue a pace Because Russell, wilson Like Jalen, 591 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:13,160 Speaker 1: hurts went to two different colleges because one place didn't 592 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:17,359 Speaker 1: want him. Anymore Like Russell, Wilson Jalen hurts has won. 593 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:21,200 Speaker 1: Everywhere Like Russell, wilson went to Two Super bowls very, 594 00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:26,560 Speaker 1: early winning, one losing. One Like Russell, wilson particularly early 595 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,800 Speaker 1: in his, career had real questions about what a precise 596 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,600 Speaker 1: thrower he. Is with that, said the one type of 597 00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,120 Speaker 1: throw that from the very beginning he was excellent at 598 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,120 Speaker 1: was the deep. Ball Like Russell, wilson seemed to have 599 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:45,880 Speaker 1: very odd relationships with. Teammates Like Russell, wilson there was 600 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,240 Speaker 1: a real debate about how much credit he should get 601 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:54,040 Speaker 1: for winning a championship on that team with that. Style 602 00:44:54,800 --> 00:45:00,319 Speaker 1: and here is Where Russell, wilson to his, credit the 603 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:06,640 Speaker 1: second half of His seahawks career, adjusted Once Russell wilson 604 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:15,520 Speaker 1: stopped being this, dynamic scrambling running, threat he did develop 605 00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:20,520 Speaker 1: as a better. Passer Jalen hurts his first full time 606 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,799 Speaker 1: year as a starter ran for seven hundred and eighty 607 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:27,239 Speaker 1: five yards his second and THE td NUMBERS i are 608 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,680 Speaker 1: weird because of the tush push piece of, it SO 609 00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:33,800 Speaker 1: i don't even know how to calculate. Those his second 610 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,080 Speaker 1: year as a starter he ran for seven hundred and sixty. 611 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,320 Speaker 1: Yards his first year it was five point six a, 612 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,200 Speaker 1: carry his second year's four point six a. Carry his 613 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,160 Speaker 1: third years a, starter he ran for six hundred and 614 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 1: five yards at three point nine yards of. Carry is 615 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,000 Speaker 1: fourth years a starter ran for six hundred and thirty 616 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,960 Speaker 1: yards at four point two a, carry and last year 617 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,759 Speaker 1: he ran for four hundred and twenty one yards at 618 00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:06,439 Speaker 1: four point zero at. Carry if you are going to 619 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:13,040 Speaker 1: no longer be a true dynamic on any snap dual threat, 620 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:19,360 Speaker 1: quarterback you must do What rust did and greatly improve 621 00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:24,359 Speaker 1: as a. Passer Russell wilson his second, years third year 622 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,000 Speaker 1: as a, starter ran for eight hundred and fifty yards 623 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:35,120 Speaker 1: by you. Know by twenty, eighteen his seventh year as a, 624 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,759 Speaker 1: starter that was down to. Three he went from eight 625 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,959 Speaker 1: fifty his third year to three hundred and seventy six 626 00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:46,520 Speaker 1: and no rushing touchdowns his seventh. Year but that year 627 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:50,279 Speaker 1: he threw for thirty five touchdowns seven, interceptions had a 628 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,279 Speaker 1: one to ten rating the next two years he had 629 00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,720 Speaker 1: a combined one oh five ratings seventy one, touchdowns eighty 630 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,000 Speaker 1: picks and threw for more than four thousand yards each. 631 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:06,400 Speaker 1: Year so if the running is not going to be 632 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,920 Speaker 1: as big of a part of your, game you he's 633 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:16,080 Speaker 1: he's got to get better as a, precision fully developed, 634 00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:20,080 Speaker 1: passer or he's got to lean into the running more 635 00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:24,160 Speaker 1: like he used. To and this is the last Thing 636 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:29,560 Speaker 1: i'll say on this to. Monsay siriani is obviously on 637 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:38,520 Speaker 1: the hot. Seat Jalen hurts seat is warmer than a 638 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,839 Speaker 1: guy who is fourteen months removed from Winning Super bowl 639 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:47,520 Speaker 1: MVP's seat has any business Being does that make like 640 00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:54,879 Speaker 1: the you would think he had a three year minimum 641 00:47:54,920 --> 00:48:02,719 Speaker 1: gracey and it feels like it might be two year 642 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:08,640 Speaker 1: minimum grace. Period and then some did this not at? 643 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,680 Speaker 1: All conversations go. 644 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,520 Speaker 2: Ahead this didn't take away any flack On, Sirianni like 645 00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,200 Speaker 2: you don't think his seat gut a little bit cooler with? 646 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,880 Speaker 1: This, well it seems like some of the criticisms in 647 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:25,360 Speaker 1: the article was That sirianni doesn't you, know won't Criticize 648 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,120 Speaker 1: jalen or won't you, know isn't going To SO i don't, 649 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:33,520 Speaker 1: KNOW i it did in THAT i do Give sirianni 650 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,799 Speaker 1: credit on that play THAT i talked about Against Green. 651 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,279 Speaker 1: Bay he went to the press conference and said he 652 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,400 Speaker 1: called it, right and you, know throw, him SO i. 653 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,959 Speaker 1: Do he is good at taking blame for other guys, 654 00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,719 Speaker 1: stuff AND i think that's one of the reasons his 655 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,080 Speaker 1: players love, him and SO i will give him credit for. 656 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:56,719 Speaker 1: That All, right we're gonna talk about another quarterback in the. 657 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,640 Speaker 1: Second but, first Boost mobile is proving that you don't 658 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,360 Speaker 1: have to owe pay for great. 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Now in the LAST cba negotiations between 678 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,640 Speaker 1: the players and the, owners the players wanted more. Money 679 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:17,120 Speaker 1: the owners held the line and, said instead of giving 680 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,680 Speaker 1: you more, money will essentially make you work, less make 681 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:25,320 Speaker 1: training camp, easier have less mandatory days of offseason. Stuff 682 00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,640 Speaker 1: and one of the REASONS i feel like the coaches 683 00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:34,000 Speaker 1: were fine with the owners doing that was because they 684 00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:39,640 Speaker 1: correctly assumed the media would shame players who don't show 685 00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,759 Speaker 1: up for voluntary, stuff so voluntary would essentially end up 686 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,600 Speaker 1: becoming to facto. Mandatory the owners could keep more, money 687 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,680 Speaker 1: and there would be a real pressure on guys to 688 00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,799 Speaker 1: show up even though they don't have. To So i've 689 00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:00,120 Speaker 1: never wanted to be a part of. That SO i 690 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,279 Speaker 1: basically had a blanket policy of not criticizing guys who 691 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,080 Speaker 1: don't show up for the voluntary portion of the. Offseason 692 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:13,759 Speaker 1: that blanket policy has had a caveat OF i do 693 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,359 Speaker 1: feel like it's a little different for. Quarterbacks quarterbacks are 694 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,160 Speaker 1: paid the. Most they, are you, know almost a part 695 00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:26,960 Speaker 1: of management. Themselves they just have the most control over the, 696 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:33,680 Speaker 1: game and their salary is so disproportionate to everyone. ELSE'S 697 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:38,319 Speaker 1: i do think it's okay to ask a little bit 698 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:42,920 Speaker 1: more from. Them, okay so there is that piece of. It. 699 00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,560 Speaker 1: Now what is also true Is lamar historically has not 700 00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:51,360 Speaker 1: gone to these. Things last, year The ravens had nine voluntary. 701 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,160 Speaker 1: Practices he went to one of. Them he doesn't like 702 00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:58,279 Speaker 1: to Go and aside from last, year you could never 703 00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,680 Speaker 1: point to a season where it's, like, well, look, look 704 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,040 Speaker 1: it sure looks Like lamar needed that offseason practice that 705 00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:10,360 Speaker 1: you know They've he's been excellent throughout his. Career with 706 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:15,800 Speaker 1: all of that set he is coming off individually his worst, 707 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:21,080 Speaker 1: season the team is coming off collectively their worst. Season 708 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,799 Speaker 1: he does want a new, contract AND i don't think 709 00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,080 Speaker 1: THAT i don't think this is a negotiating. Ploy i'm 710 00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,200 Speaker 1: just adding that to the you, know tapestry of what's happening. 711 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:37,920 Speaker 1: Here and most, importantly this is the first time in 712 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,520 Speaker 1: his career where in an off season they have changed. 713 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:48,680 Speaker 1: COACHES i think he should be, there AND i don't 714 00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:54,120 Speaker 1: think THAT i don't think it is a massive indicator 715 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,960 Speaker 1: of how successful their season will or won't be if 716 00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:05,719 Speaker 1: he's not. There BUT i think it's really weird that 717 00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,640 Speaker 1: the new head, coach Jesse, mentor seems to just be 718 00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,200 Speaker 1: resigned to the fact that he doesn't expect him. There 719 00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:19,520 Speaker 1: you are The lamar. Guy how do you feel about? 720 00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:25,200 Speaker 2: This, well he hasn't officially not gone. Yet it is 721 00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:29,839 Speaker 2: a new head. Coach, uh, YEAH i THINK i think 722 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,680 Speaker 2: last it was, no, no. No the last season was the 723 00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,600 Speaker 2: type of season where it's, like maybe you should get 724 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,799 Speaker 2: in all the extra work and you can like if 725 00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,279 Speaker 2: this were a different, year MAYBE i feel a little bit. 726 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,279 Speaker 2: Differently but, YEAH i. DON'T i don't love. IT i 727 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,960 Speaker 2: don't hate it too. MUCH i, MEAN i know he's 728 00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,080 Speaker 2: at least working out. 729 00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,439 Speaker 1: The, Yeah, no he's Definitely and so that's the other 730 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,880 Speaker 1: piece of it that makes the him not going to 731 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,600 Speaker 1: the offseason stuff so odd to. 732 00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:55,200 Speaker 2: Me he. 733 00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,920 Speaker 1: Works his ass. Off, yeah he's improved so much in 734 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,320 Speaker 1: different parts of his. Game he's always in great, shape 735 00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,520 Speaker 1: like he the you can't it's not even like In 736 00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,800 Speaker 1: april it's. COLD i, know it doesn't like the. Cold 737 00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,560 Speaker 1: it's not cold In baltimore this time of, year, like, 738 00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:15,439 Speaker 1: uh it's you, know it's not going to drop into 739 00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,200 Speaker 1: the fifties where he has to worry about getting the 740 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:25,279 Speaker 1: flu as. Usual LIKE i. DON'T i don't don't. 741 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,880 Speaker 2: Understand that's also he's always done it this way and you, 742 00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,799 Speaker 2: know but, yeah the new, coach it makes sense to. 743 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:37,480 Speaker 1: Go it's so hold on THE I i just real 744 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:44,600 Speaker 1: quick before we, go all, RIGHT i want to read 745 00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:50,120 Speaker 1: all of these because this is so much. FUN i, 746 00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:54,200 Speaker 1: mean it's just so much. Fun The Kirk cousins contract, 747 00:54:54,280 --> 00:55:03,799 Speaker 1: Details oh, yeah because you know WHAT i. FEEL i 748 00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:11,040 Speaker 1: feel LIKE i have done good work in my role 749 00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:17,279 Speaker 1: of shaming some of THE nfl insiders on info they're 750 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:22,560 Speaker 1: putting out and so credit where it's. DUE i am 751 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:27,120 Speaker 1: going to start With, rapaport who is the subject of 752 00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,920 Speaker 1: a bit of my ire on The who's. Contract, oh 753 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,839 Speaker 1: The travis kelce. Deal the one year twelve million Dollar 754 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,440 Speaker 1: Travis kelcey deal is reported as a three, year fifty 755 00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,319 Speaker 1: five million Dollar travis kelce. Deal, yeah because it had 756 00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:46,919 Speaker 1: a fake year two option of forty million. Bucks Rap, 757 00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:51,280 Speaker 1: APORT i will read his tweet. Directly The raiders are SIGNING. 758 00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,879 Speaker 1: Qb Kirk cousins to a contract that pays him ten 759 00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,920 Speaker 1: million dollars for playing In Las vegas in twenty twenty, 760 00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:01,879 Speaker 1: six one point three paid by The, raiders the rest 761 00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,600 Speaker 1: paid by The, falcons and ten million in Next march 762 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:11,080 Speaker 1: in a fully guaranteed roster bonus with no. Offset there 763 00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:16,720 Speaker 1: is a two year team option for eighty million. Dollars 764 00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:22,720 Speaker 1: so instead of reporting it as this massive, deal he's telling. 765 00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,360 Speaker 1: Us and then he follows up essentially a twenty million 766 00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:31,120 Speaker 1: dollar payday for Kirk cousins In Las vegas for twenty twenty. 767 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:34,759 Speaker 1: Six then we'll. See but the idea was that he 768 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,439 Speaker 1: wouldn't play for the. Minimum now he gets a lot. 769 00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:41,400 Speaker 1: More rap report then follows up with twenty million is 770 00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,640 Speaker 1: also bridge starter, money a sign that Kirk cousins could 771 00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,879 Speaker 1: indeed be taking the first snap In Las. Vegas rap 772 00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:54,120 Speaker 1: sheet love, it well, Done we got the actual information 773 00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:04,919 Speaker 1: rap Sheets frontemy Rival Adam. Schefter let's see how how 774 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:10,439 Speaker 1: he reported. This hold, on don't go to that. Yet oh, 775 00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:14,800 Speaker 1: wait oh that's. Great here we. Go comp. Update Kirk 776 00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,600 Speaker 1: cousins will sign a five, year one hundred and seventy 777 00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:23,080 Speaker 1: two million dollar deal with The raiders that in, reality all, 778 00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,040 Speaker 1: right love. It i'm good with this. Too shifter well. 779 00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:30,760 Speaker 1: Done a one, year fully, guaranteed twenty million dollar deal 780 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,600 Speaker 1: that contains a club option for two years at eighty million. 781 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:39,360 Speaker 1: Dollars falcons will play Pay cousins eight point seven this, 782 00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,400 Speaker 1: Season raiders another one point, three And raiders agreed to 783 00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,760 Speaker 1: pay its newly it's NEW qba fully guaranteed to million 784 00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,880 Speaker 1: dollars roster bonus on the third day of the twenty 785 00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,320 Speaker 1: twenty seven New league year and maybe most notably sets 786 00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,000 Speaker 1: on the new. Mark this will be the eleven straight 787 00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:59,040 Speaker 1: season Which cousins contract will be fully. Guaranteed, guys this 788 00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:03,560 Speaker 1: is all we need to. Do we the. Now nobody's, 789 00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:08,120 Speaker 1: like holy, shit are The raiders not Drafting. Mendoza they's 790 00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:13,480 Speaker 1: Gape Kirk cousins one hundred and seventy, Millions so that 791 00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:20,440 Speaker 1: those are, all you, know various contract mechanisms about teams 792 00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,400 Speaker 1: being able to to void years or different ways to 793 00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:27,280 Speaker 1: manipulate how much shows up on this year's. Cap but 794 00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:31,840 Speaker 1: it's a one, year twenty million dollar. Deal everyone understands 795 00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:38,080 Speaker 1: it because our two BIGGEST Nfl transaction reporters nailed, it. 796 00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,400 Speaker 1: GUYS i. Can't i'm not ready to say my work 797 00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:45,760 Speaker 1: here is, done BUT i do feel like we're moving 798 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:49,880 Speaker 1: towards a, better more informed, public which has been my. 799 00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:54,080 Speaker 1: Goal all, right that'll do it for. Today we're gonna 800 00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:57,120 Speaker 1: stick around and do a mailbag. EPISODE a huge thank 801 00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,440 Speaker 1: to thanks to Boost mobile and to Hard rid as, 802 00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,760 Speaker 1: always huge thanks To Blue duck and to The. Volume 803 00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:08,800 Speaker 1: huge thanks To Matt ford for filling In daniel's metaphorically 804 00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:12,280 Speaker 1: giant shoes BUT i think literally probably quite small, shoes 805 00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,480 Speaker 1: doing a great. Job talk to you guys tomorrow for 806 00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:16,920 Speaker 1: the mailbag Episode What's right