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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Driving the Great? Episode two fifty nine
Speaker 2: A ton to do Today. NFL season is fifty eight
Speaker 2: hours away from kicking off. We have, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: the single best and no quarterback in football is about
Speaker 2: to agree to a contract and end his holdout. In
Speaker 2: Trent Williams, we had an awesome college football weekend, but
Speaker 2: we're actually starting with none of the above. We'll tell
Speaker 2: you what we're starting with in just a moment, but first,
Speaker 2: what missed the cut? Patrick Mahomes shouts out Dylan Riola,
Speaker 2: Baby Mahomes, and by the way, Dylan Riola and Nebraska
Speaker 2: are gonna light Colorado on fire this weekend. We will
Speaker 2: discuss that in a bit. Sean Cohn says, the Jags
Speaker 2: team best is the best Jag team ever assembled, and
Speaker 2: Joey just Nutt eats eighty three hot dogs and breaks
Speaker 2: the record. So you know, real quick, deman' say, you
Speaker 2: know how on I think this happens on Instagram? I
Speaker 2: know what happens on Twitter, where if you click on
Speaker 2: one random thing, the algorithm can all of a sudden
Speaker 2: think you're really interested in that topic and over index
Speaker 2: you to that exact type of content just because you
Speaker 2: clicked on one thing or watched one video. I really
Speaker 2: do fear that has happened a bit on this podcast
Speaker 2: when it comes to the producers funneling Joey chestnut content
Speaker 2: my way, because once upon a time I gave an impassioned,
Speaker 2: brilliant argument as to why he's the world's greatest athlete,
Speaker 2: not because I wanted to, but because I was asked
Speaker 2: to and we were doing Nick Wright Public Defender, and
Speaker 2: I was so good at it that I think the audio.
Speaker 2: The producers then determined I'm really into this freak, and
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not into him eating hot dogs dipped lemonade.
Speaker 2: I'm not into him. I'm not into any of it.
Speaker 2: But anytime there's Joey Chestnut news, the producers think of me,
Speaker 2: and they shouldn't. They are human beings who have been
Speaker 2: tricked like an Internet algorithm because of one segment I
Speaker 2: did three years ago. That's that's what's happened here. So
Speaker 2: let that. Let that be known moving forward. But I
Speaker 2: said we weren't starting with any of those things. We're
Speaker 2: also not starting with Joey chestnutt We're starting with the
Speaker 2: w n B A and demands get us started, if.
Speaker 3: You will please.
Speaker 4: So w NBA legend Lisa Leslie Wade in on the
Speaker 4: Caitlin Clark and Angel Reice debate, and she's actually said
Speaker 4: that they both deserve to win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: Why don't we.
Speaker 2: Give you all the rookies? You know what they're all trying.
Speaker 2: Why don't you know why have awards at all? Why
Speaker 2: even keep score? So all right, so here's the deal.
Speaker 2: I and you guys, I know, we have a new
Speaker 2: social team we're building up because the Great Lori reyis
Speaker 2: uh It has left us. Got a great job shout
Speaker 2: out to her. So we'll kind of do this on
Speaker 2: the fly. This entire WNBA, Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and
Speaker 2: media take you can put on the internet the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Because not to be too self congratulatory, we have nailed
Speaker 2: this every step of the way. When there was dating
Speaker 2: back years, when there was clear racism in the coverage
Speaker 2: of Angel Rees and LSU, we discussed it. We leaned
Speaker 2: right into it, and we were not We didn't couch
Speaker 2: our words when there was an obvious double standard in
Speaker 2: Caitlin taunting versus when anyone else taunted. We discussed it
Speaker 2: when Angel a lot, when Angel talked about all the
Speaker 2: she's been through on the internet, and some people, some
Speaker 2: of my colleagues, you know, said basically, buck up, kiddo,
Speaker 2: you talk trash. You got to deal with it. I said,
Speaker 2: I thought they missed the boat on that and didn't
Speaker 2: totally understand what she was going through. We also told
Speaker 2: you three weeks into the season, when everyone was talking about,
Speaker 2: oh my god, the Caitlin Clark Olympic snub, that this
Speaker 2: would be the absolute best thing to happen for the
Speaker 2: Indiana Fever and to Caitlin Clark because the reason they
Speaker 2: were so bad early was because they were playing three
Speaker 2: games and four nights back to backs all the time.
Speaker 2: Their schedule was front loaded with all the best teams
Speaker 2: in basketball in the WNBA, I should say, and we
Speaker 2: told you that after that brutal opening stretch, they had
Speaker 2: no back to backs left, they had no three games
Speaker 2: and four nights left. They got the softest part of
Speaker 2: their schedule post Olympics, when Caitlyn would be rested, adjusted,
Speaker 2: finally have time to breathe the first time in probably
Speaker 2: more than a year, and she would go and light
Speaker 2: the league on fire. And that is exactly what's happened, Okay.
Speaker 2: And there were a lot of people loud wrong on this. Now,
Speaker 2: some of them were loud wrong, in my opinion, out
Speaker 2: of yukon loyalty. And these are legends who were loud wrong.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean they're not legends, but they were loud wrong.
Speaker 2: The idea that we if you watched Caitlin Clark and
Speaker 2: we'll get to the Angel Reeves part of this in
Speaker 2: a moment, if you watched Caitlin Clark at Iowa with
Speaker 2: those teammates and thought, oh yeah, I mean when she
Speaker 2: comes to the WNBA, I mean she'll be fine, but
Speaker 2: she's gonna have you know, her rookie season is gonna
Speaker 2: be tough, and you know he's not going to be
Speaker 2: an all star level player. These are grown women than
Speaker 2: in my opinion, you either don't fully understand basketball, but
Speaker 2: a lot of these people who were saying it, I
Speaker 2: know they understand basketball. So you were allowing your own allegiances,
Speaker 2: whether it's to university, other players, or whomever, to muddy
Speaker 2: your opinion. Geno Oriema maybe knows more about women's basketball
Speaker 2: than any human being ever. He is certainly on the
Speaker 2: short list. Here is what Geno Oriema said to my
Speaker 2: dear friend Dan Patrick early in the season when the
Speaker 2: Fever were struggling. Quote the kids on the wrong team.
Speaker 2: She's got the wrong skill set to handle the physicality
Speaker 2: in the league. And she's a rookie. This rookie class
Speaker 2: is even one of the best rookie classes in the
Speaker 2: last ten years. She's not built for the physicality of
Speaker 2: this league, and she's not quick enough to get away
Speaker 2: from the physicality. End quote wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Speaker 2: The girl is a superstar, a superstar, and is she
Speaker 2: a perfect player? No? Is she the best player in
Speaker 2: the league. No, that is clearly and unanimously Asia Wilson.
Speaker 2: And that then brings us to the Rookie the Year thing,
Speaker 2: which now, in my opinion, is a different example of
Speaker 2: people embarrassing themselves. Folks have bent over backwards to try
Speaker 2: to explain why what Angel is doing, which is spectacular,
Speaker 2: is on par with what Caitlin is doing, which is historic,
Speaker 2: and it's just not months ago. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: folks decided, you know, what should be the tiebreaker in
Speaker 2: a Rookie of the Year race in a team sport?
Speaker 2: Team record? Never heard that ever in my life, but
Speaker 2: that was a real discussion. Okay, But now that the
Speaker 2: team records are, Caitlyn's team is seventeen and sixteen, one
Speaker 2: of the hottest and most dangerous teams in the league
Speaker 2: outside of in the WNBA. Listen, there are in my opinion,
Speaker 2: two I guess I have to include the Links, three
Speaker 2: awesome teams in the Liberty, the Sun, and the Lynx,
Speaker 2: and then a team that's won the last two titles
Speaker 2: and has the best player in the Las Vegas Aces,
Speaker 2: and a team that I think will be playing for
Speaker 2: a championship again in the Aces. I would separate those
Speaker 2: four teams from everyone else that the Fever are as dangerous,
Speaker 2: if not more dangerous, than any team outside of that group.
Speaker 2: They're now seventeen and sixteen, and the Chicago Sky are
Speaker 2: eleven and twenty one. The Fever of one four in
Speaker 2: a row. The Sky have lost six in a row.
Speaker 2: So now we're not doing the team record thing anymore.
Speaker 2: And now we're not we are now and again Lisa
Speaker 2: Leslie is a legend, which is why I find so
Speaker 2: much of this commentary so disappointing. Now, what we're trying
Speaker 2: to do, I think is not piss off the shitty
Speaker 2: corners of the internet, because some of the worst people
Speaker 2: on the Internet are stridently in different camps on this.
Speaker 2: Some of the people that don't care at all about
Speaker 2: the WNBA but like the fact that there's this white
Speaker 2: girl that's kicking ass are vocal Caitlin Clark supporters, and
Speaker 2: some folks that are are flatly attacking anyone that gives
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark her flowers, if you will, out of what
Speaker 2: would appear to be pure racial allegiance are some of
Speaker 2: the most vocal angel Rees supporters in this, And I
Speaker 2: hang a lot of people don't want to get yelled
Speaker 2: at so now all of a sudden, we're doing participation trophies. Now,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, we are gonna try to pretend
Speaker 2: like Angel, who again is having a ninety one out
Speaker 2: of one hundred rookie season, is on par with Caitlin's
Speaker 2: rookie season, which is one of the greatest rookie seasons
Speaker 2: in the history of the league, if not the greatest.
Speaker 2: And it's just embarrassing, guys, we have to be able
Speaker 2: to have honest conversations about even if it goes against
Speaker 2: some of our priors or some of our allies on
Speaker 2: the internet, and nobody with a straight face can say
Speaker 2: there is a real debate about who the most impactful
Speaker 2: or best rookie in the women's basketball has been this year,
Speaker 2: it's Caitlyn Clark. Angel's rebounding is spectacular and she again,
Speaker 2: I think it is. I think some people go too
Speaker 2: far with it. On the They're like, oh, Angels read
Speaker 2: she's just rebounding her own, missus. That's not true. Oh
Speaker 2: she doesn't have a real impact because look at the
Speaker 2: team's record. That's not true. That team when she's off
Speaker 2: the court gets boat raced. When she's on the court,
Speaker 2: they play people even but Caitlyn Clark's arguably already one
Speaker 2: of the five best players in the league, inarguably one
Speaker 2: of the eight best players in the league. And we
Speaker 2: gotta be able to say that there should be two
Speaker 2: unanimous awards in the WNBA this year. The MVP should
Speaker 2: be unanimously to Asia Wilson every single first place vote,
Speaker 2: and Rookie of the Year should be unanimously to Caitlin
Speaker 2: Clark every single first place vote. And if you are
Speaker 2: approaching this without your own preconceived notions or biases polluting it,
Speaker 2: then I think that's pretty obvious. I have found some
Speaker 2: of this to be really unfortunate. I think the whole
Speaker 2: Cheryl Swoops thing is not great. Now all of a
Speaker 2: sudden we have a Cheryl Swoops Nancy Lieberman beef. These
Speaker 2: are two of the greatest all time legends. I don't
Speaker 2: love that. How much of this has fallen down racial
Speaker 2: lines is just another to me, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: crack in our social fabric, if you will. How much
Speaker 2: of this has been exacerbated by bad actors on the Internet,
Speaker 2: all of it. But what is not up for debate
Speaker 2: is that Caitlin Clark has been as advertised. And I'm
Speaker 2: really curious if some of the biggest skeptics or some
Speaker 2: of the loudest critics who early in the year they
Speaker 2: had access to the same schedule I did, they had
Speaker 2: access to the same date I did. If some of
Speaker 2: those people, if they want to say, either my bad,
Speaker 2: I missed it, I got it wrong, I didn't see it,
Speaker 2: or if they want to say, you know, I let
Speaker 2: my own allegiances, whether it be to yukon other players
Speaker 2: or strangers on my phone yelling at me getting the
Speaker 2: way my commentary. And so this can be a real
Speaker 2: celebration for the league, and it is very important for
Speaker 2: the league that it's not just Caitlin that this whole
Speaker 2: rookie class, but Caitlyn and Angel, you know, are obviously
Speaker 2: the two standouts that you do have potentially two players
Speaker 2: who are so different from each other by the way,
Speaker 2: Caitlyn's a range shooter, amazing passer, week defender. Angel is
Speaker 2: the best rebounder in the league or second best. Already
Speaker 2: very good defender who really needs to work on, honestly,
Speaker 2: just her shot within five feet, and she does that
Speaker 2: between this year and next year. And she's all of
Speaker 2: a sudden one of the best players in the league,
Speaker 2: and those two players being rivals and on ascending teams
Speaker 2: is great for the league. League. But man o, man,
Speaker 2: the Fever dangerous team now, I mean there's just there's
Speaker 2: there's no denying it. You have the number one overall
Speaker 2: pick from a few years ago from South Carolina, the
Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm not thinking of her name,
Speaker 2: My apologies Boston, who has been absolutely spectacular, Thank you,
Speaker 2: Eliah Boston. But no, who's been great and quietly or
Speaker 2: maybe not so quietly, Kelsey Mitchell is the one actually
Speaker 2: leading them in points. So you have three players on
Speaker 2: your team who can go for twenty plus any given night.
Speaker 2: Kelsey Mitchell's been outstanding. Aleah Boston, after a rough start
Speaker 2: to the year, is playing like the player that she
Speaker 2: was in college and the player we know she is.
Speaker 2: And Caitlin Clark's is getting better and better and better.
Speaker 2: And man, oman, if you if, if you are one
Speaker 2: of those top four teams. I was talking about the Liberty,
Speaker 2: the Sun, the Links, and the Aces. You do not
Speaker 2: want to see Indiana in round one. And I'm hoping,
Speaker 2: by the way, it's not Aces Fever in round one
Speaker 2: because the Fever of the team I root for, but
Speaker 2: I am fascinated by Caitlin and I want to see
Speaker 2: how far she can take this. I'd love to see
Speaker 2: that somehow in round two that if maybe the if
Speaker 2: the Fever stay the sixth seed, I guess that'd be good.
Speaker 2: If the Fever don't catch the Storm, well no, then
Speaker 2: in that case they could only play in the final.
Speaker 2: I don't think they could make the final. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be hard to get Fever aces in these playoffs. But
Speaker 2: I want to see how far each of those teams
Speaker 2: can go. All right, Demanse, there's our WNBA fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: You got any objection, any take, any problems or anything.
Speaker 3: I said, no, that all set well with me.
Speaker 4: I do think that I'm obviously not as tapped into
Speaker 4: the WNBA as you are.
Speaker 3: When I was telling one of the producers that.
Speaker 4: Just like at fhase for, I think it's obvious that
Speaker 4: Caitlyn Clark deserves Rookie of the Year, like it's I
Speaker 4: don't think anybody could take that from you from her,
Speaker 4: And you did definitely call it like the with the
Speaker 4: after the Olympic break like that was crazy. She definitely
Speaker 4: picked it up started rolling immediately.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I just you got to think about it,
Speaker 2: like Caitlin Clark went from unless you were a real
Speaker 2: die hard women's basketball fan going into the NCAA tournament,
Speaker 2: not the most recent one, but the twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: in Cuba tournament, nobody you didn't really know Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2: And then that tournament when she you know, ends up
Speaker 2: beating South Carolina, losing to LSU, they have all that controversy,
Speaker 2: carries IOWA to the championship game. She becomes a superstar. Yeah,
Speaker 2: from that moment that so March of twenty three until
Speaker 2: July of twenty four, it's just fifteen months of mayhem
Speaker 2: for her. She goes from relative anonymity, you know in
Speaker 2: the national skit stage, to one of the biggest celebrities
Speaker 2: in the female sports world. She's at award shows, she's
Speaker 2: at the ceremonies, she's at gallas, she has endorsement deals.
Speaker 2: She is the bigger, a way bigger celebrity than you
Speaker 2: could have ever imagined on campus. Goes right into the
Speaker 2: college basketball season where once again she has this spotlight.
Speaker 2: Her games are getting huge ratings. Is she breaks the
Speaker 2: scoring record another NCAA tournament. Days after the tournament, WNBA
Speaker 2: draft number one pick. Now she's a private jets or
Speaker 2: not endorsement money boom season starts. Who do you play?
Speaker 2: All the best teams immediately on TV all the time,
Speaker 2: And by the way, we're gonna rough you up a bit,
Speaker 2: all of them in fourteen fifteen months. And and then you know,
Speaker 2: I gotta talk about this. I have to answer for that.
Speaker 2: I have to make sure everything I say. And then
Speaker 2: there's three weeks where oh there's no cameras, there's no games,
Speaker 2: there's no interviews. For the first time since I have
Speaker 2: been famous, I can breathe and there's no you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. And so I just think it was
Speaker 2: I think making the Olympic team would have been brutal
Speaker 2: for her. She would it would have been just a
Speaker 2: different circus surrounding her. Instead, she finally got to breathe
Speaker 2: and she's kicking ass man. Good for her and good.
Speaker 3: For the fever.
Speaker 2: It's good for the sport, I think maybe they do,
Speaker 2: but I think for her it was perfect. It's not
Speaker 2: like she would have turned it down and Team USA
Speaker 2: won anyway. Now, the gold medal game was closer than
Speaker 2: it should have been, but they won anyway, and now
Speaker 2: so I think it's great. All right, let's get to
Speaker 2: the NFL.
Speaker 4: All right, so we know what what the stakes are
Speaker 4: for the Chiefs this year. They're on the verge of
Speaker 4: a three peat. Would a super Bowl this year make
Speaker 4: them one of the best dynasties or the best dynasty ever?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: I think it would. So here the real question is
Speaker 2: do you consider the Patriots one continuous dynasty. That's the
Speaker 2: real question because if you do the Patriot dynasty, if
Speaker 2: you do is call it to it's nineteen years. But
Speaker 2: call it, yeah, just I'll call it what it is,
Speaker 2: nineteen year run. In those nineteen years, they made nine
Speaker 2: Super Bowls, thirteen conference championship games, made the playoffs seventeen
Speaker 2: of nineteen years, won the division seventeen of nineteen years,
Speaker 2: and won six Super Bowls. That's the Patriot dynasty. Keep it,
Speaker 2: You might be like, aren't those numbers short? No, because
Speaker 2: you don't. The Patriot dynasty doesn't get credit for Brady
Speaker 2: with the Bucks that so if that's one continuous dynasty
Speaker 2: in your opinion, then this Chiefs run probably comes in
Speaker 2: second to it. But the issue, if you will, with
Speaker 2: looking at it as one continuous dynasty is from two
Speaker 2: thousand and five through two thy thirteen. Those nine years
Speaker 2: they won zero Super Bowls. So do you have a
Speaker 2: can you have in the in during a dynasty a
Speaker 2: decade without a championship. So if you look at the
Speaker 2: Patriots as two separate dynasty, and those dynasties would be
Speaker 2: one to four, three super Bowls, three super Bowl wins,
Speaker 2: and then twenty eleven to twenty eighteen, eleven to eighteen
Speaker 2: would be eight years, three rings, five super Bowl appearances.
Speaker 2: All eight years you won at least twelve games. All
Speaker 2: eight years you were in the conference championship game. This
Speaker 2: Chiefs run would be better than either of those individually.
Speaker 2: I think this Chiefs run will beat the Stealers of
Speaker 2: the seventies. They won two, had a two year break,
Speaker 2: if you will, then one two more so they won
Speaker 2: four and six. The Cowboys of the nineties obviously they
Speaker 2: won three and four. The Niners of the eighties they
Speaker 2: won four in nine years or ten years. I think
Speaker 2: in nine years this would be clearly better than all
Speaker 2: of those. If the Chiefs win this, it would be
Speaker 2: three in a row, four super Bowls in six years
Speaker 2: and over a seven year stretch, seven conference championship games,
Speaker 2: five Super Bowl appearances, four rings, and so if they
Speaker 2: win it, they are undoubtedly the second greatest dynasty ever,
Speaker 2: and depending on how you parse the Patriots one, you
Speaker 2: could argue the best dynasty ever. And for folks objecting
Speaker 2: to me saying, oh, how can you call it two
Speaker 2: separate ones, well, let me ask you this. If the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs don't win it this year and they
Speaker 2: don't win another Super Bowl until twenty thirty two, will
Speaker 2: you consider that super Bowl part of this run? I
Speaker 2: don't think many people would. And that's what happens the Patriots.
Speaker 2: The Patriots won and O four and then didn't win
Speaker 2: again until fourteen. So like, what is if the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: who won it in twenty three I said twenty thirty two,
Speaker 2: that was wrong, don't win again until twenty thirty three.
Speaker 2: Will you consider that super Let's say the Chiefs don't
Speaker 2: win again and then they went back to back in
Speaker 2: thirty three and thirty four. Will you consider that part
Speaker 2: of this dynasty? I don't think you would. And so
Speaker 2: it's a testament to the Patriots that they had two
Speaker 2: separate dynasties. But I do look at it as two
Speaker 2: separate dynasties, in which case the Chiefs right now this
Speaker 2: season can become the greatest dynasty in NFL history.
Speaker 3: All right, next see if they can do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels like nine times out of ten when
Speaker 4: these NFL guys hold out the end of getting their money.
Speaker 4: You proved that he just got thirty million a year
Speaker 4: from San Francisco and it's a talk of the town
Speaker 4: as Trent.
Speaker 3: Williams is reportedly getting his deal done today.
Speaker 4: So does this mean that San Francisco is back to
Speaker 4: the runaway NFC favors?
Speaker 2: So I don't. I don't think they are the runaway favorites.
Speaker 2: I do think getting Trent Williams back was an absolute
Speaker 2: must do, and now they are. They are basically running
Speaker 2: back a similar team that they had last year. I
Speaker 2: think people slightly overvalue what the Niners did last year
Speaker 2: and talk about them like they were this start to
Speaker 2: finish juggernaut. They were really good. I'm not denying that
Speaker 2: they were a really good team, but they were also
Speaker 2: a team that had a three game losing streak and
Speaker 2: trailed in every single playoff game they played in. Now,
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean they weren't an awesome team, but they
Speaker 2: were a twelve win team. They won the same games
Speaker 2: amount of games last year as the Cowboys did, and
Speaker 2: I don't think the Cowboys were really good. I don't
Speaker 2: think they looked at There was only one start to
Speaker 2: finish Juggernaut and football last year, and that was the
Speaker 2: Ravens the Niners. To me, there are two this season
Speaker 2: concerns for the Niners, and then there is an overarching concern.
Speaker 2: This season concerns are since Christian McCaffrey got there, they
Speaker 2: have been incredibly fortunate on injury look with one glaring
Speaker 2: exception being the NFC Championship game against the Eagles, whenever
Speaker 2: all they had no quarterbacks available. So let's just you
Speaker 2: know what, let me rephrase it. Last year, they for
Speaker 2: a team that has older guys and guys with injury history,
Speaker 2: they were pretty fortunate. They lost one guy of their
Speaker 2: key contributors throughout the season in Hufanga, and I think
Speaker 2: Lufanga is excellent. So that's a big loss, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it. But Trent was healthy, Simac was healthy, both
Speaker 2: receivers were healthy. Obviously Brock was healthy. Their whole defense
Speaker 2: of the Hufanga was healthy until the Super Bowl. In
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, losing Drake green Law is a big loss,
Speaker 2: and so I do have a concern about that piece
Speaker 2: of it. The other concern I have is if, like
Speaker 2: this season is a little rocky, do all these guys
Speaker 2: it's hard to climb that mountain all from the very beginning,
Speaker 2: when you've been so close to the mountaintop so many
Speaker 2: times and you just haven't quite broken through. I mean,
Speaker 2: for a team in the same six year stretch twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen to I guess is it six years?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I guess that's five years. Wow, that's crazy. So in
Speaker 2: the same last five years where the Chiefs have won
Speaker 2: three Super Bowls and been to four, the Niners have
Speaker 2: been to the conference championship game four of those five years,
Speaker 2: been to the Super Bowl two of those five years,
Speaker 2: led in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl both
Speaker 2: of those times, and they have zero championships to show
Speaker 2: for it. It's just and again to testament to their consistency,
Speaker 2: greatness or roster excellence to coaching. But man o, man o,
Speaker 2: man you having slight technical difficulties. On the other side,
Speaker 2: We'll do some college football stuff and I'll discuss the
Speaker 2: long lasting Niners concerned. We'll do that next What's Right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's Right with the Right
Speaker 2: episode two fifty nine. Sorry about that. The point I
Speaker 2: was making about the Niners is for this season, I
Speaker 2: think mostly they'll be fine. I do think that the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl hangover, particularly when you've been that close for
Speaker 2: that long with this core, if you have a rocky start,
Speaker 2: that can hurt you. The bigger issue for the Niners is,
Speaker 2: I know that it has become trendy for folks to say,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to do a whole salary cap thing,
Speaker 2: but folks be like, the cap isn't real. The cap
Speaker 2: is absolutely real. It can just the ramifications can be delayed,
Speaker 2: and you can kick the can down the road. But
Speaker 2: for the Niners, these are the financial realities of what
Speaker 2: they've done, of the way they have built their team.
Speaker 2: They have right now a player in George Kittle, who
Speaker 2: this year counts twelve million for the cap, next year
Speaker 2: twenty one million. Trent Williams, who will see what the
Speaker 2: adjusted deal does, but this year ten million, next year
Speaker 2: thirty four million dollars. Nick Bosa this year fourteen million,
Speaker 2: next year twenty one million, Javon Hargrave this year nine million,
Speaker 2: next year twenty eight million dollars. Fred Warner this year
Speaker 2: thirteen million, next year twenty nine million dollars. Uh, So
Speaker 2: they have all those guys whose salaries are jumping. You
Speaker 2: then add to it Chavarius Ward is in the last
Speaker 2: year of his deal. You have multiple starting offensive linemen
Speaker 2: in the last year of their deal. And brock Purty
Speaker 2: you hope plays really well and is in for a
Speaker 2: raise from where he goes from around one million to
Speaker 2: around sixty million dollars. Now that sixty million won't be
Speaker 2: you know, all hit the cap at one time. But
Speaker 2: still the point being they are nearing the end of
Speaker 2: this iteration of the team. And it's why they were
Speaker 2: so hesitant to pay Trent Williams because the easiest way,
Speaker 2: because Trent's money was not guaranteed at all for next season,
Speaker 2: so the easiest way to carve out cap savings would
Speaker 2: have been to move on from Trent Williams. When he's
Speaker 2: turning thirty seven next year, You're now not going to
Speaker 2: have that operability and you probably don't want to do
Speaker 2: that anyway. Now, will they trade a debo? Probably? And
Speaker 2: so his twenty four million comes off the books. But
Speaker 2: the fact of the matter is this is a team
Speaker 2: that has borrowed from future versions of themselves to keep
Speaker 2: this core together. Eventually, you have to pay the price
Speaker 2: on that, all right, Demonta, it's a little before we
Speaker 2: do college football. Actually, let me remind you, guys about
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Speaker 2: New York. All Right, we're gonna because I went so
Speaker 2: long in the double NBA, We're gonna kill tennis corner.
Speaker 2: Just suffice it to say I went last week. I
Speaker 2: was also there on Sunday, I watched Coco. Man. I'm
Speaker 2: a little annoyed because I lost money on the match.
Speaker 2: But also I think Coco had eight double faults. I've
Speaker 2: never seen her that rattled on her serve. Now, shout
Speaker 2: out to Emma Navarro, another American who ended up, you know, winning,
Speaker 2: But it's not even like Emma had to play great.
Speaker 2: Coco just couldn't get a first serve in to save
Speaker 2: her life. Now, this is a wide open bracket, as
Speaker 2: wide open as I can ever remember, And if so,
Speaker 2: I guess we will do a slight miniature tennis corner
Speaker 2: right now. The smart money, I guess is on sinner
Speaker 2: I am. If I were placing a bet, I would
Speaker 2: bet it on. I would bet Meda. But it does
Speaker 2: look like we should hopefully get uh an American male
Speaker 2: in the final, be it Fritz or Tifo. Now, Dimitrov
Speaker 2: or Zverev could ruin that, but I would love to
Speaker 2: see my I'm rooting for Tifo. I don't think he'll
Speaker 2: get there. Uh My money would be on Medvedev. On
Speaker 2: the women's side of the bracket. I guess we're probably
Speaker 2: gonna get Sue Tech Sabolenka. It's probably gonna be chalk
Speaker 2: on that. I'd love to see how far Emma can
Speaker 2: take it. And we have two American women left, Pagoula
Speaker 2: whose family owns the Buffalo Bills, and Emma Navarro. But
Speaker 2: Pogula has got her hands full with sweet Tech, and uh,
Speaker 2: if Navarro gets past her quarterfinal match Sabolenka, You've got
Speaker 2: to think is probably too much for her. All Right,
Speaker 2: there's the quaint tennis corner of demand. What game? What
Speaker 2: game were we or no? Before we even do Coco
Speaker 2: had nineteen double faults. My god, I didn't know how
Speaker 2: many it was. It was insane, But uh, go ahead,
Speaker 2: before we get to the game. College football start.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you had some tweets about the Colorado game,
Speaker 4: but you're mostly caught, mostly quiet throughout. What's the biggest
Speaker 4: story of this opening week of college football to you?
Speaker 2: All Right? So the Colorado thing is very simple, and
Speaker 2: that it really does seem like it's rents repeat from
Speaker 2: last year. You have a few your quarterback is a star,
Speaker 2: you might have the best player in the entire country
Speaker 2: in Travis Hunter, and Jimmy Horn Junior is awesome, and
Speaker 2: the rest of your team stinks. I mean, they just
Speaker 2: don't have big, good linemen offensively or defensively, and because
Speaker 2: of that, I don't know how they're going to be
Speaker 2: able to compete. And so I'm just not going to
Speaker 2: buy into the Colorado hype at all because I think
Speaker 2: that this week Nebraska is gonna push him around. The
Speaker 2: other big story is is Georgia that much better than
Speaker 2: the good teams in college football? Or is Clemson truly
Speaker 2: fallen off? And I mean that was I mean that
Speaker 2: game was six to nothing at halftime and then Georgia
Speaker 2: just annihilated them the rest of the way. And obviously,
Speaker 2: I think for a lot of people, the other story,
Speaker 2: given last night's game in particular, is Florida State missus
Speaker 2: Travis Hunter in a very real way. And speaking of
Speaker 2: Florida football or the state of Florida football, Miami shout
Speaker 2: out to my friend Mike Ryan. Miami is a team
Speaker 2: to be feared this year. One other note, as USC
Speaker 2: beats LSU twenty seven, to twenty, and people send me
Speaker 2: tweets saying it doesn't look like USC miss Caleb Williams
Speaker 2: that much. Here's a fun question, fun fact, Demonse. If
Speaker 2: USC football during Caleb's career allowed twenty points every single
Speaker 2: game he played twenty exactly, how many games do you
Speaker 2: think Caleb would have lost?
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 2: The answer is won one game. It was one game
Speaker 2: his whole career that if the defense would have done
Speaker 2: against just random teams what they were able to do
Speaker 2: against LSU, they would have lost. And that was a
Speaker 2: game they actually won against Oregon State seventeen to fourteen
Speaker 2: his second year, his last year, a team that went
Speaker 2: seven and five would have been undefeated if they allowed
Speaker 2: twenty points in every single game. So the savior Caleb
Speaker 2: slander for someone else. All right, now, let's go to
Speaker 2: our game. Demonse.
Speaker 3: It's yeah.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna do a preseason t take time capsule.
Speaker 4: So how it works is before the season starts, we're
Speaker 4: gonna make a time capsule of takes and we'll dig
Speaker 4: these up later in the season to see how the
Speaker 4: takes have aged. Okay, first off, you got three teams
Speaker 4: really stole the headlines this offseason with their players holding
Speaker 4: out in Dallas, Cincinnati, and San Francisco. The forty nine
Speaker 4: Ers got their fixed seemingly, and the Cowboys and Bengals
Speaker 4: still have major contract issues. Which of these teams is
Speaker 4: most likely to be impacted by.
Speaker 3: The most by these offseason moves in the regular season?
Speaker 2: All right, in the regular season, the answers Dallas, because
Speaker 2: every single game, Dak's gonna have to answer questions about
Speaker 2: his contract after every single day. Long term, the answer
Speaker 2: will Mike McCarthy, By the way, long term, my answer
Speaker 2: is Cincinnati Demons, because this is the canary in the
Speaker 2: coal mine that the Bengals are still the Bengals and
Speaker 2: they're gonna be cheap. Did you see? I have to
Speaker 2: make sure this wasn't fake news. Bengals selling TVs. I
Speaker 2: have to make sure I saw it. Listen. I saw
Speaker 2: one of those dumb aggregator accounts tweet this out. I
Speaker 2: want to see if I can find Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: So we are at WCPO, which is the ABC affiliate
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati. So real news, Okay, looking for a new TV.
Speaker 2: Hamilton County is selling more televisions from pay Corps Stadium.
Speaker 2: This county is gearing up to sell another one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty TVs from the Bengals stadium amid multimillion dollar
Speaker 2: renovations to the stadium. These and these are the okay,
Speaker 2: So so it seems like, I mean maybe, now this
Speaker 2: is saying the county is doing it.
Speaker 3: So maybe.
Speaker 2: And by the way, here's the breakdown of the prices
Speaker 2: to Monday. They are selling fifty six inch to eighty
Speaker 2: five inch TVs for sixty dollars. Okay, So he's got
Speaker 2: to show up in the stadium, stay with a truck
Speaker 2: and cash. And so now if the county is the
Speaker 2: one doing it, I guess I can't bang on the Bengals.
Speaker 2: This is why I wanted to get the actual facts.
Speaker 2: It's not Mike Brown doing it. It does seem a
Speaker 2: little low rent. But if the county is doing it,
Speaker 2: I guess the county owns the stadium. But I just
Speaker 2: worry about the Bengals long term finances. But for this season,
Speaker 2: the Cowboys coaching quarterback being on lame dunk lame duck
Speaker 2: contracts part of me are a real thing, all right?
Speaker 4: Next, All right, so the Chiefs might not have a
Speaker 4: true rival, but that doesn't mean that they're unbeatable.
Speaker 3: So Baltimore, Buffalo.
Speaker 4: And Cincinnati have come the closest in the past if
Speaker 4: he and the Chiefs, who do you think is the
Speaker 4: largest threat to the Chiefs this season? Baltimore, Buffalo of Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe themselves or other.
Speaker 2: No, I'll go with Cincinnati. Listen. I don't know how
Speaker 2: much longer this Bengals seems going to be together. But
Speaker 2: they have t Higgins this year, it's probably his last year.
Speaker 2: They have Chase assuming he shows up and Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: is awesome.
Speaker 3: And one would they'd obviously be a threat at that point, right.
Speaker 2: No, No, Okay, this is a weird We'll talk more
Speaker 2: Chiefs Ravens on Thursday to Monday. But there's a weird
Speaker 2: spot where for the Ravens it's an absolute must win
Speaker 2: they have to win the game, and for the Chiefs
Speaker 2: it's an absolute can't lose in that who cares. If
Speaker 2: they win the game, then great, And if they lose
Speaker 2: the game they lost Week one last year and they
Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl. I'm just telling you that's the
Speaker 2: benefit of being the two times Super Bowl champion. It's
Speaker 2: just what it is.
Speaker 4: I think win for the Chiefs just because you can't
Speaker 4: have Lamar Jackson going win to the season knowing that
Speaker 4: he can beat the Chiefs. I mean, it sucks that
Speaker 4: they lost the end of last year, but I don't
Speaker 4: think it will be good for your Chiefs if the
Speaker 4: Ravens have that in their mind, they know, especially if
Speaker 4: it's a bad game and then they blow them out.
Speaker 2: But okay, well, I don't think all blowouts coming in
Speaker 2: either direction. But I think think I don't think you
Speaker 2: even believe that if the Ravens win this game and
Speaker 2: then they play again in the playoffs, that the Ravens
Speaker 2: will have the psychological legend that game. At best, it's neutral.
Speaker 2: At best, it's neutral. And so, no, it's not gonna hurt. No,
Speaker 2: I agree with that. I agree with that entirely. But
Speaker 2: if the Ravens lose this game and Lamar and so,
Speaker 2: but the answer is Cincinnati, since because the difference is this,
Speaker 2: Cincinnati can lose to the Chiefs in Week two and
Speaker 2: still feel like we can beat them in January because
Speaker 2: they have Cincinnati is the only team that can be
Speaker 2: like we actually have beaten them in a game that matters.
Speaker 2: They're the only team and so the Chiefs are gonna
Speaker 2: have a massive psychological edge on every other team in
Speaker 2: the league. They just are.
Speaker 3: All right next, all right? Yeah, last last year c J.
Speaker 4: Stroud and Jordan Love or the breakout quarterback stars of
Speaker 4: the league. You're in on the Texans, but you said
Speaker 4: that you're out on the Packers.
Speaker 3: So what is that?
Speaker 4: Does it have anything to do with their quarterbacks?
Speaker 3: Like? Which which quarterback? Breakout quarterback? Is legit? Between C J.
Speaker 3: Stroud and Jordan Love?
Speaker 2: Before I go? Because you like both of these guys, correct, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you like both these guys a lot. Which guy do
Speaker 2: you are? You do you think is more likely to
Speaker 2: be a perennial superstar?
Speaker 4: Well, I just have to go with C. J. Stroud
Speaker 4: because a larger sample size at this point. But I mean,
Speaker 4: after this year, I feel like I'll be able to
Speaker 4: give a way better analysis or a more definitive answer.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I just have to go with CJ. Stroud
Speaker 4: right now, just because I've seen more games. But I
Speaker 4: do love Jordan Love. At the end of the day,
Speaker 4: it's my guy.
Speaker 2: I So what's uh? So I agree with you? Even
Speaker 2: though Jordan Love and CJ. Stroud have played basically the
Speaker 2: exact same amount of games, it feels like Jordan Love
Speaker 2: was only good for half a year while CJ was
Speaker 2: good for the whole year. And so even though Jordan's older,
Speaker 2: it does feel like we know more about CJ, which
Speaker 2: is counterintuitive, but it's exactly what you said is exactly
Speaker 2: how I feel. I think that I think there is
Speaker 2: a chance Jordan Love regresses a bit this year, and
Speaker 2: I just don't see CJ regressing now. It doesn't mean
Speaker 2: he's gonna throw four picks again or five picks whatever
Speaker 2: he threw last year, but I think CJ is going
Speaker 2: to just be even better this year than he was
Speaker 2: last year. I think Jordan could have more fits and starts.
Speaker 2: So my answer is CJ. I think CJ is already
Speaker 2: a star and I think Jordan is a potential star.
Speaker 2: That's the distinction I would draw. And it is going
Speaker 2: to be easier for CJ early on because he's going
Speaker 2: to be so cheap the next couple of years. Jordan,
Speaker 2: because he had to sit, He never really got the
Speaker 2: benefit of that rookie contract supercharge team because they had
Speaker 2: to pay him immediately.
Speaker 4: All right, next right, Quarterbacks are getting paid all around
Speaker 4: the league. Chances are somebody's bound to have some Buyers
Speaker 4: or Morse.
Speaker 3: Which team do you think that'll be?
Speaker 4: Between Miami, Philly, Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, Detroit.
Speaker 2: All right, So I don't think including Tampa Bay in
Speaker 2: this is fair just because Baker makes so much less
Speaker 2: than all these other guys. Baker, I think, got three
Speaker 2: years one hundred million. So I think that even if
Speaker 2: you think Baker is the worst of the four, of
Speaker 2: the five, it was, Yeah, it was three years, one
Speaker 2: hundred million exactly, He's almost, you know, half the price
Speaker 2: of the other guys, so you can almost take him
Speaker 2: out of it. Of those four, who did you guess?
Speaker 2: I was gonna say Miami, Miami, no doubt. I just
Speaker 2: don't think two is that good. And I think that Miami,
Speaker 2: when they have to start pairing away the talent, I
Speaker 2: think they kind of deep down know that and they're
Speaker 2: worried about it. I'm curious who you think I would
Speaker 2: say after Tua is the biggest concern between travel, golf
Speaker 2: and Jalen.
Speaker 4: I mean, my gut tells me it's Jalen Hurts. But
Speaker 4: for some reason, I feel like you might be, you know,
Speaker 4: doing some galaxy thing. It might be golf, but no, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's kind of each list.
Speaker 2: As long as as long as the Lions are able
Speaker 2: to keep that offensive line and continue to play indoors golf,
Speaker 2: is gonna be fine. He's not gonna be I don't
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be a superstar, but he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: I'm worried about Jalen Hurts this year. I'm worried about
Speaker 2: their coaching situation. I'm worried about their offensive line, pardon me,
Speaker 2: compared to the offensive lines they've had in years past.
Speaker 2: So now people can say Nick that you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, you're biased when it comes to Trevor. Why
Speaker 2: are you not concerned about Trevor? And the answer is yes,
Speaker 2: I'm biased. No, I'm not concerned. The guy is gonna
Speaker 2: be a star. Just believe me. I can't prove it
Speaker 2: to you, Just believe me. Uh. The best evidence I
Speaker 2: have right now is look at Clemson since he left.
Speaker 2: Tried to tell you guys, he's superstar. But the yeah,
Speaker 2: to me, Tua and Jalen are the biggest concerns are did.
Speaker 3: They of the tush push like it's banned? Right? No? No,
Speaker 3: no, no yet they talked about Vanny or something. They talked
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: They decided not to do it, but I do wonder
Speaker 2: if they're going to ban it. I'm sorry, not going
Speaker 2: to ban it. That's all I was gonna mint say
Speaker 2: at all. I wonder how effective it's gonna be without Kelsey.
Speaker 2: And I also wonder if they're gonna have, say, if
Speaker 2: they're gonna have Saquon do it instead of jailing. I
Speaker 2: think that would make sense because Jalen was so banged
Speaker 2: up last year.
Speaker 4: All right, Next, there are three teams nobody can figure
Speaker 4: out Pittsburgh, the Jets, the Chargers, and the Chargers. Who
Speaker 4: are you sure about between those teams, Pittsburgh the Jets.
Speaker 2: I'm sure about all three of them. The Chargers will
Speaker 2: be significantly better immediately because of the coaching upgrade. They're
Speaker 2: not gonna be a contender, but they're gonna be a
Speaker 2: fringe playoff team and immediately better because of Harball. The
Speaker 2: Jets are once again going to be one of the
Speaker 2: most overvalued preseason teams in the league. And then they're
Speaker 2: gonna suffer a couple typical injuries because it's football and
Speaker 2: they're an old team and the and then they're also
Speaker 2: gonna deal with the dysfunction of the co which in
Speaker 2: the quarterback not being on the same page and the
Speaker 2: fact that they have the worst offensive coordinator in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And then people are gonna throw their hands up and
Speaker 2: be like, who could have seen this coming? And the
Speaker 2: Steelers are gonna have a really good defense and impossibly
Speaker 2: bad offense and win eight games. I feel very confident.
Speaker 2: And eight games, by the way, is probably bad for Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: probably better for them to win four or five games,
Speaker 2: finally bottom out and be able to we finally draft
Speaker 2: the quarterback high and start the thing over all.
Speaker 4: Right, next, so we've got a bonus question for you.
Speaker 4: By which week will the media start panicking about the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I don't think it will happen
Speaker 2: this year because I think everyone feels so burnt by
Speaker 2: last year. I think the Chiefs could start zero to
Speaker 2: two and people will still be like they're the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're gonna see as long as Mahomes
Speaker 2: is healthy, everyone is going to be very judicious in
Speaker 2: any criticism of the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: So the questions like it's like I thought you saying
Speaker 4: they start off zero and two, but like they're saying that,
Speaker 4: when are they gonna start panicking about them. So you're saying,
Speaker 4: even if they're losing, you're gonna be like, yeah, they're
Speaker 4: getting there somehow.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, I mean they they
Speaker 2: would have to be four and eight for people to
Speaker 2: bail on them entirely. Yeah. So yeah, and that's obviously
Speaker 2: not gonna happen. All right, answer some listener questions next,
Speaker 2: What's right? All right? Welcome back in What's driving? Nick
Speaker 2: right demands Let's do a few listener questions before we
Speaker 2: get out of here.
Speaker 4: Mister Gabe asked, does Robert Salah have the worst job
Speaker 4: in sports?
Speaker 2: No, No, you don't have the worst job in sports.
Speaker 2: I Uh, I don't think it's a great job. I
Speaker 2: think coach of the Jets historically isn't a great job.
Speaker 2: And with the and with Rogers kind of holding these
Speaker 2: dueling you know, press conferences or whatever, it's not ideal.
Speaker 2: But no, I think it's I think the worst that's
Speaker 2: a whole topic, the worst jobs in sports.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I'm the Cowboys head coach is not a
Speaker 2: great one. Uh, it sounds like it's a great one.
Speaker 2: But then Jerry is just always holding these press conferences
Speaker 2: and you got to answer for it. I think that
Speaker 2: Alabama football coach is sneaky, not a great job because
Speaker 2: you go, you know, eleven and two and win the
Speaker 2: Iron Bowl and it's a failure because of what Saban
Speaker 2: and Bear Bryan had done, and so like there's yeah,
Speaker 2: it's so but no, it's not the worst job, but
Speaker 2: it's not a great job. Mayo. I well, being the
Speaker 2: guy that follows Belichick, that's probably not ideal, but no,
Speaker 2: it's not the I don't think I don't think Sala's
Speaker 2: got the saying worst job in sports for the Thursday topic.
Speaker 2: That's like a March topic, not a first day of
Speaker 2: the NFL season topic. But it is a good topic,
Speaker 2: all right, go ahead to the next.
Speaker 3: One to Mont Austin, TA.
Speaker 4: How can you tell the quality of the of the
Speaker 4: guard spot? And why aren't there a lot? Why aren't
Speaker 4: there a lot of Hall of Fame guards? Is the
Speaker 4: lack of namesake or the nature of the position?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, I think it's lack of name
Speaker 2: recognition in the nature of the position is and I
Speaker 2: think most people, you know, how do we know who
Speaker 2: the best guards are? We just trust the people who
Speaker 2: evaluate them, you know, and look at all pro voting
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. Yeah, so I think that's I
Speaker 2: think that. Listen, every spot on a football team is important.
Speaker 2: But if you were ranking most to least, I mean, guard,
Speaker 2: inside linebacker, and tight end, are the three that are
Speaker 2: gonna jump out as the least important, probably with safety
Speaker 2: being those in safety. Those are the four spots that
Speaker 2: are paid the least least glamour. And I think we
Speaker 2: know the least about the differences with inside linebacker, tight end,
Speaker 2: and safety. The great, great, great ones have unbelievable stats
Speaker 2: or highlights.
Speaker 3: Safety one, it's a.
Speaker 2: Fun one, but it's just not valued the way it
Speaker 2: once was. And same with inside linebacker, even though Ray Lewis,
Speaker 2: Bryan Rlacker, you know what I mean, some of the
Speaker 2: greatest players ever.
Speaker 4: All right, next, Robbie Ralph, I'm six years into a
Speaker 4: ten year bet that says Lamar will not win a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl? Am I gonna win the five hundred you're
Speaker 4: praying on his downfall?
Speaker 2: Robbie, I mean, that is an odd bet, but I
Speaker 2: mean I would say you're a fa for it, Like
Speaker 2: do I think Lamar is gonna win a Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: In the next four years. If I was offered even
Speaker 2: money on that, I think that I would take the
Speaker 2: no side. You're a slight favorite. You were an underdog
Speaker 2: spot four years ago, you know, four years ago, and
Speaker 2: it was like, well, lamar went in the next eight
Speaker 2: years the answer looked like yes, but now a couple injuries,
Speaker 2: another bad playoff performance, and so now it's you know,
Speaker 2: slight to the know all right. Two more questions quickly to.
Speaker 4: Mose Isaiah A, DJ Moore or Roma Dunzay for fantasy.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I don't do fantasy questions, but this one slipped through
Speaker 2: DJ Moore without a doubt. DJ Moore is gonna have
Speaker 2: a monster DJ Moore at a monster year with Justin Fields.
Speaker 2: Now that's because Field's only threw in the ball and
Speaker 2: then ran. But DJ, I mean, Dooonday is gonna be
Speaker 2: really good. Roma Doonday's already really good? All right.
Speaker 3: Last one, Danny Tanner.
Speaker 4: If poker were at it to the Olympics, would you
Speaker 4: try to qualify?
Speaker 2: No? I would not be Uh. There's just too many
Speaker 2: players way way, way way better than me. And if
Speaker 2: it were out of the Olympics, would have to be in
Speaker 2: tournament fashion and the greatest tournament players in the world.
Speaker 2: It would be like me trying to qualify for any
Speaker 2: Olympic sport like I wouldn't I wouldn't really have a chance.
Speaker 2: With that said, I'm thinking about cycling because the lady
Speaker 2: who was a grad student or whatever just picked up
Speaker 2: cycling ended up winning the gold. She had just started
Speaker 2: doing cycling in her spare time. She end up winning
Speaker 2: the gold. And I am back on my peloton grind
Speaker 2: and I am crushing people. I mean just absolutely crushing people.
Speaker 2: So maybe I could do like some maybybe not slight cycling,
Speaker 2: but like some type of triathlon type, maybe not Olympics.
Speaker 2: The problem with the triathlon is the swimming. I can swim,
Speaker 2: but swimming for a mile seems like an absurd thing.
Speaker 2: It just seems like the But the jogging. I got
Speaker 2: great new running shoes. I'll shout them out in the
Speaker 2: next spot. I don't know if I'm supposed to yet.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the sponsorships signed, sealed and delivered yet.
Speaker 2: But I got great new running shoes from potential what's
Speaker 2: right sponsor, and the cycling I'm crushing. So yeah, But
Speaker 2: so no, I couldn't qualify for poker in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: You can though, by the way, I'll be able to
Speaker 2: talk about it next week. I'm gonna be playing poker
Speaker 2: on TV again very soon with one of the greatest
Speaker 2: athletes in the last twenty years. He's gonna be alongside me,
Speaker 2: so I'll tell you guys about that at a podcast
Speaker 2: coming up today. Oh, huge day on FS one, new
Speaker 2: lineup out, breakfast Ball has been rolling. The facility is
Speaker 2: going on as we speak. Colin is back from his vacation.
Speaker 2: Our show the new Speak feature and enjoy Taylor. It's
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