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Speaker 1: July eve as we get set for a big Fourth
Speaker 1: of July weekend social distancing hot dog eating contest and
Speaker 1: Robert I tell you, I can't get over there's Fourth
Speaker 1: of July stories, and then there's Joey Chestnut thinks he
Speaker 1: could set a record for hot dogs because the eating
Speaker 1: conditions will be just right for it. I mean, for all,
Speaker 1: you know, my whole life. Oh boy, there's not gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of points scored today, the rain and
Speaker 1: the snow and the you know, in this NFL game,
Speaker 1: But the eating conditions are going to be right. Watch out.
Speaker 1: We could see big time eating fireworks a day from now.
Speaker 1: You know what, I've always had an issue with dipping
Speaker 1: hot dogs into water for them to go down easy.
Speaker 1: Whatever happened to the ketchup and the mustard and the
Speaker 1: relish and the onions, the condiments. I just couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to, and your hot dogs, well,
Speaker 1: it makes it well, you have to do it for
Speaker 1: the bread. Otherwise you're not gonna you can't eat the
Speaker 1: bread as much the winning The winning person would have
Speaker 1: like eight hot dogs. I'm sorry, I'm this bread is
Speaker 1: just I've filled up on it. I can't eat anymore.
Speaker 1: That bread does fill you up, but just a wet
Speaker 1: bread for the hot dogs. I just I've watched them
Speaker 1: and I've just been amazed at how those guys are
Speaker 1: able to do it. I'm gonna start doing that when
Speaker 1: I go to dinner, and you know, and I'm able
Speaker 1: to go out to restaurants again and going out to
Speaker 1: dinner instead of filling up on bread. So oh, man,
Speaker 1: I eat too much bread, and by the time your
Speaker 1: meal comes, you can't eat it. When I want bread,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna dip it in water and eat it.
Speaker 1: And then I realize I'm gonna be good. I do that,
Speaker 1: and then I can eat. I can have the feeling
Speaker 1: of eating the bread, and then I can have my
Speaker 1: meal when it comes and I'll be okay. And they'll
Speaker 1: also be room for dessert after it's all over. Dip
Speaker 1: the ice cream in the water and I eat the
Speaker 1: ice exactly, and the cheesecake in the water, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and I can just digest. It'll be a lot easier,
Speaker 1: you know. Sometimes you know, you have dinner and then
Speaker 1: you they're like dessert and you just look at them,
Speaker 1: like dessert. What do I have room for dessert? It's
Speaker 1: so hard to get dessert down. So while we're looking
Speaker 1: ahead at Fourth of July, maybe we get some Fourth
Speaker 1: of July fireworks and find out that someone like Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown has a new NFL team. Because last night, late
Speaker 1: last night, before I went to bed, normally do that.
Speaker 1: I do the same thing whenever I'm gonna fill in,
Speaker 1: you know, for Dan here today, you know, with you
Speaker 1: and you know, and Doug and all of us, you know,
Speaker 1: filling in you and Chris do some days too. Whatever
Speaker 1: I do, I always get online at and I go, okay,
Speaker 1: here's some stories that we like we're looking at for
Speaker 1: early in the morning. And I get online last night
Speaker 1: and I see at the top of everything a B
Speaker 1: to the Texans, and I go, oh my god, seriously,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown to the Texans. That happened. And then now
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta go through Twitter, which is like
Speaker 1: going through the looking glass. You know, it's you know,
Speaker 1: there's gonna don't know what's real, what's no no, And
Speaker 1: I may as well go to Reddit and try to
Speaker 1: figure something out. So I'm like, okay, what is it?
Speaker 1: And then it boils down to the fact that Chad
Speaker 1: Johnson put out a tweet saying AB to the Texans
Speaker 1: with praying hands. So then I'm like, oh, okay, this
Speaker 1: is yet another push from Antonio Brown to try to
Speaker 1: get people interested in him. Like if he throws it
Speaker 1: out there that he wants to go to the Texans,
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's gonna go huh. I never thought about that.
Speaker 1: Let's call and get into I never thought about Luckily
Speaker 1: he put that out on Twitter. I would have never
Speaker 1: thought about Antonio right, Let's call and try to get him,
Speaker 1: because that's been AB's strategy the past few weeks. Here's
Speaker 1: here's video of me working out with Russell Wilson. See
Speaker 1: I'm a good guy. You can put me back in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Here's video of me working out with other teams.
Speaker 1: And now you're seeing, you know, the stories of teams
Speaker 1: interested in Antonio Brown, which I look at this and go, okay,
Speaker 1: is this real or is this like the story we
Speaker 1: get every year that there are teams interested in Colin Kaepernick.
Speaker 1: Teams are calling and then nothing winds up happening of it.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like the same thing, like this
Speaker 1: is what we're getting. Here's you know, let's try to
Speaker 1: get some juice around Antonio Brown coming back to the NFL.
Speaker 1: And this is where we're at now. I don't doubt
Speaker 1: that eventually there would be some teams interested in him,
Speaker 1: But Rob, this is like, you know what came first,
Speaker 1: the chicken or the egg. Because if a team wants
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, they're going to tell the NFL we want
Speaker 1: to sign him. The NFL is going to say, well, okay,
Speaker 1: he's going on our exempt list because he's got to
Speaker 1: figure out his legal problems, which which include, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: being accused of sexual assault by by a woman he's
Speaker 1: got but I mean, you have to clear that up, right,
Speaker 1: But you got to clear that up if he's going
Speaker 1: to come back to the NFL, he's got to have
Speaker 1: a clean slate legally to be and he doesn't have
Speaker 1: that right now. He's still coming off of a few
Speaker 1: months ago when he had a melt down and him
Speaker 1: and him and a buddy beat up a driver who
Speaker 1: was trying to get furniture from his house. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got to clean his slate if he's going to
Speaker 1: come back, So he doesn't have that yet. So if
Speaker 1: a team says we want to sign him, the NFL
Speaker 1: is going to say, okay, he's on our exempt list
Speaker 1: and we're going to do an investigation into him. And
Speaker 1: teams are gonna say, okay, well we're not into it now,
Speaker 1: uh or you know, okay, is it likely he's coming back?
Speaker 1: Not Okay, we're not going to sign him. So teams
Speaker 1: know this that if they do wind up signing him,
Speaker 1: they would want him for now. They'd want him to
Speaker 1: be ready. Hey, we have a season coming up soon.
Speaker 1: We haven't had a regular offseason. Let's get a great
Speaker 1: receiver who has been fantastic, who you know is a
Speaker 1: self motivated workout guy. The one thing you never have
Speaker 1: to worry about him was working out. He loved practicing,
Speaker 1: he loved doing all of those things. But if teams
Speaker 1: know he's gonna go on the examp list, well why
Speaker 1: are we going to sign him? So he's kind of
Speaker 1: in that that purgatory of okay, yeah, potentially you can
Speaker 1: come back, but this is what's going to happen if
Speaker 1: a team wants him, and so because he's got to
Speaker 1: go on the exemp list, then nobody's going to sign him.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what's happening right now. Yeah, I get it,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you, and we've seen this over
Speaker 1: and over. When you have a talented guy like that
Speaker 1: and people are looking for talent, as many players are
Speaker 1: as there are Jason in the NFL, there aren't that
Speaker 1: many talented people laying around, you know, And if you
Speaker 1: really believe like adding a player of his caliber could
Speaker 1: make a difference, you're willing to do that. The only
Speaker 1: people who don't, they don't bend over backwards for guys
Speaker 1: who can't play right. Then they won't take the headaches,
Speaker 1: they won't take the other stuff that comes with it.
Speaker 1: I believe he's going to get back in the league
Speaker 1: because he's young enough and the last time we saw
Speaker 1: him was good enough. I think he's been humbled by
Speaker 1: everything that's gone on. He's really it's weird where he
Speaker 1: was in Pittsburgh despite the you know, Facebook live kind
Speaker 1: of thing, but he was never disruptive. This guy was
Speaker 1: just productive, not disruptive, and was very good in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: And the thing that people never say is he doesn't
Speaker 1: work hard. He's not a you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: he doesn't put in his work, or he's a slacker.
Speaker 1: It's never been that, or he's not a great teammate
Speaker 1: as far as on the field. He just has some
Speaker 1: personal issues that really derailed his life and his career.
Speaker 1: And if he can get that straightened out. If I'm
Speaker 1: a GM in the NFL, I want Antonio Brown if
Speaker 1: I have a spot for a wide receiver, and I
Speaker 1: could think of a number of teams that could use him,
Speaker 1: So I hope he gets it together. I'm I love
Speaker 1: redemption stories and comebacks, especially if he can get his
Speaker 1: personal life Jason straightened out and see what everything was
Speaker 1: and make sure that all the claims against him, you know,
Speaker 1: and the NFL does did due diligence. But after that,
Speaker 1: if that all works out, get him back in the league. See,
Speaker 1: I'm on the other side of you. I'm a GM.
Speaker 1: I'm giving ab a hard pass because it's if you
Speaker 1: want to take his career and think about it what
Speaker 1: it used to be. Okay, It's kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: people want to look at Cam Newton and go, oh
Speaker 1: my god, look at if Cam Newton can make plays
Speaker 1: like this with the Patriots and all the stuff that
Speaker 1: fills my social media feed and I go, this is
Speaker 1: a play from two thousand and thirteen, this is two
Speaker 1: thousand in twenty. He's been hurt for two years. This
Speaker 1: is he can't just suddenly, oh, because he could make
Speaker 1: a play like this seven years ago, suddenly do that.
Speaker 1: But Antonio Brown, when he was in his heyday, when
Speaker 1: he could do it, he was the best. And I'm
Speaker 1: not arguing that with you, But Pittsburgh enabled him. You know,
Speaker 1: all the behavior issues that he had, Pittsburgh was able
Speaker 1: to cover it up and keep him around because that's
Speaker 1: what they did. That's what Mike Tomlin didn't. He deserves
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. Oh, you talk about Leveon Bell
Speaker 1: and Ben Roethlisberger. Antonio Brown keeping those guys all on
Speaker 1: the field and throwing the football to each other. That's
Speaker 1: some kind of job that he probably shouldn't have had
Speaker 1: to do, but he did. Aby leaves the Steelers and
Speaker 1: what happens. He goes to Oakland and he finds his
Speaker 1: way out before he even plays a game. He's at
Speaker 1: odds with the Raiders over stupid reasons, and John Gruden,
Speaker 1: who wanted him so desperately, finally said, we have to
Speaker 1: get rid of him. He has a meltdown to practice
Speaker 1: and calls Mike Mayock a racist term. And he's out,
Speaker 1: all right, now, he's out, now, okay, Now, now let's
Speaker 1: see what happens. The Patriots signed him, and everybody says,
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Just how he wanted it to work.
Speaker 1: Now the Patriots are gonna have him, They're gonna win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. He plays one game and then the
Speaker 1: sexual assault story has a second break in the story,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots say, we can't have anything to do
Speaker 1: with you, and he's gone. He has found his way
Speaker 1: now off of three teams. He wanted out for Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: for so long. Finally Pittsburgh said, fine. He gets he
Speaker 1: gets to Oakland, he's out before he plays a game.
Speaker 1: He goes to New England. He's there for a week.
Speaker 1: He's his own worst enemy. You know, he can't stay
Speaker 1: away from Twitter, he can't stay away from controversy. So
Speaker 1: if I go through, jump through all of these hoops
Speaker 1: to sign him, how long do I know I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have him for until he's out of the league. How
Speaker 1: long until I wake up on an idol Tuesday and
Speaker 1: go He tweeted that Oh my, I can't believe he
Speaker 1: tweeted that. Oh my good Jason. So how long am
Speaker 1: I going to have him for before I realize he's
Speaker 1: got to be off the team. It's not worth that
Speaker 1: investment for a guy I know could be gone in
Speaker 1: one game. It may even play a game for us.
Speaker 1: But this is the only issue I have. You know,
Speaker 1: you're talking about tweeting and social media. The NFL has
Speaker 1: so many guys who are convicted felons, who are vehiculo homicide,
Speaker 1: got chances, who beat up women, and and and all
Speaker 1: kinds of other things. And the list is too long
Speaker 1: for me to go into it. But those guys seem
Speaker 1: to get chances to play again. And because a guy
Speaker 1: does some social media stuff that people don't like, it's
Speaker 1: the end of the world. I think he's been treated
Speaker 1: way too harshly. He's got sexual I'm talking about. But
Speaker 1: you're you're talking about social media and and posting videos.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm That's what I'm saying that there are other
Speaker 1: guys who have done some pretty bad things in the league.
Speaker 1: Would you at least give me that? Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: they gotten they have, they gotten chances. But we got
Speaker 1: to stop at some point, right, I mean, that's no,
Speaker 1: but that but but that's my thing. If you told
Speaker 1: me that nobody in the league with with those kind
Speaker 1: of things happening to them, then then no, then I
Speaker 1: got it. But the league is literally with those guys,
Speaker 1: and I just don't understand where where you're drawing the line.
Speaker 1: And because of his social media activity, that's the last straw.
Speaker 1: The guy's a talented football player and if he can
Speaker 1: get and I'm just saying, go through the due diligence, right,
Speaker 1: let these things play out. Just because people accuse you
Speaker 1: of stuff doesn't mean so I can remember, huh, other
Speaker 1: players where this stuff has happened before and we find
Speaker 1: out later that it's not true. So all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is the NFL should do it. Just because someone says
Speaker 1: you did this or did that doesn't mean that it's
Speaker 1: it's fact because someone makes a claim against you. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is I would I want the NFL
Speaker 1: to investigate it, find out really where he is with
Speaker 1: Jason I'm I'm I'm against. I'm against your stands that
Speaker 1: he shouldn't get another opportunity. He's way too good, way
Speaker 1: too talented. Yes, he's had some issues. Um, but I'm
Speaker 1: willing to give the guy another chance if he can,
Speaker 1: if he can clear his name. Has he shown anything
Speaker 1: in the last year and a half that he could
Speaker 1: do that he hasn't. He has to say that he
Speaker 1: can he can play in the NFL. He has, He's
Speaker 1: shown that he's going to be able to stay in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He hasn't. He found his way. He did
Speaker 1: everything he could to find his way off of the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Everything he could. He finds his way off. Then he
Speaker 1: lands in a perfect spot. And then what does he do?
Speaker 1: Then text messages come out of him sending a text
Speaker 1: to one of his friends about taking care of the
Speaker 1: woman who is accusing him of sexual assault. So this
Speaker 1: is why I'm giving you that you have given you
Speaker 1: that you can't trust investigate all that. What day, Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna wake up and see something like that on
Speaker 1: a day. A team is not gonna say, listen, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna I can't go to bed every night thinking
Speaker 1: the next day Antonio Brown, something's gonna happen. That's gonna
Speaker 1: embarrass the franchise, you know, And I get that from team.
Speaker 1: I understand. How how long can they possibly have him
Speaker 1: for you have you have other guys in the league
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys they were uh um, I just don't
Speaker 1: have to name in front of me. Uh who got
Speaker 1: signed after he left Carolina? He was convicted. Um, he
Speaker 1: was convicted in a in a court of law, and
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys pick snapped him up. They couldn't snap
Speaker 1: him up fast enough. And and I'm just saying, like
Speaker 1: I've seen these circumstances and people don't seem to have
Speaker 1: an issue there. I just change change uniforms. Well, but
Speaker 1: you gotta start somewhere. You know, you're talking about Greg Hardy, Right,
Speaker 1: Greg Hardy? Thank you Greg Hardy. Do you remember that case?
Speaker 1: I mean, he was he was convicted. It wasn't even
Speaker 1: it wasn't even like hearsay. He was convicted in court.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys couldn't They fell over himselves to sign
Speaker 1: Greg Hardy. But it's not that that the NFL is
Speaker 1: keeping him out. It's it's what he has done. He
Speaker 1: is keeping himself out of the NFL. He's the guy.
Speaker 1: He's a guy. Obviously the teams say, we can't trust that.
Speaker 1: We we don't know about getting him back. And at
Speaker 1: some point you have to start somewhere. We're saying, all right,
Speaker 1: if this guy is doing this, he can't come back
Speaker 1: to the NFL. It's look, it's it's almost like the
Speaker 1: same thing we're dealing with with all these changes going
Speaker 1: on in the world about Hey, let's let's let's take
Speaker 1: care of Washington's nickname. You know, here goes the Confederate flag,
Speaker 1: all all of these ideas that were out there that
Speaker 1: have been out there for a long time, or bad
Speaker 1: ideas well, they were accepted for a long time. Well
Speaker 1: that was bad. But we gotta start somewhere. So let's
Speaker 1: start now, NASCAR bands, the Confederate flag. You're seeing all
Speaker 1: the other things happening in the world right now with
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins. They may not have their nickname for
Speaker 1: a while. We gotta start somewhere. So if Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: is the guy for hey, I can't get back in
Speaker 1: the NFL, Dude, if you could, if you could not
Speaker 1: be in a situation where you are beholden to the
Speaker 1: law because of stuff you didn't been accused of, you'd
Speaker 1: be in the National Football League. And the fact that
Speaker 1: he's not in my heart doesn't bleed for him. That
Speaker 1: he's not in the NFL. If he if he can
Speaker 1: clean up his act to get back in and show
Speaker 1: that he can clean his act up and got okay,
Speaker 1: then he'll get another chance. But he hasn't done it yet, Andy,
Speaker 1: and he's still you know, sitting out there waiting wondering
Speaker 1: why am I not getting another chance? Well, I mean
Speaker 1: you gotta look in the mirror at some point and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: what I'm doing is and what I've done is what's
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not I'm not saying that I'm endorsing
Speaker 1: his behavior, but I just I don't understand, like who
Speaker 1: determines which guys get other chances and which guys don't.
Speaker 1: And when the Patriots signed him. If you remember, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, and maybe you were one of those
Speaker 1: guys when he got released by the Raiders, I remember
Speaker 1: people reveling in, Oh, that's it. He'll never play in
Speaker 1: the NFL again. He's done. Look at what he did
Speaker 1: with the Raiders. Oh he released that video? Do you
Speaker 1: remember all that? And and then the Patriots signed him
Speaker 1: eight hours later or whatever it was. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, is like the overreaction from people
Speaker 1: now with the legal stuff I'm not saying he's clear
Speaker 1: and free and he didn't do anything, but let's have
Speaker 1: let's find out what's what's been done and figure out
Speaker 1: what's true what's not true. You can't just convict a
Speaker 1: guy because people have made claims against you, That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And once that is done and you figure
Speaker 1: it out, then you should be able to put them
Speaker 1: back out there and let teams decide whether they want
Speaker 1: to deal with talents. Sometime when you have talented people,
Speaker 1: it comes with issues, and some people are willing to
Speaker 1: work through them. Everybody's not a choir boy, everybody. Some
Speaker 1: people have different issues. I'm just not in that camp
Speaker 1: to throw away a talented guy. And we heard Adam
Speaker 1: Kaplan just recently on our show say that this guy's
Speaker 1: a hall from his body of work. He's already a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, that's how good he is. That's why
Speaker 1: it's worth the risk to me. Twitter at, how about
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Speaker 1: the ab debate, We'll have more NFL coming up this hour,
Speaker 1: because speaking of on opposides of a debate. You and
Speaker 1: I are definitely on the opposite sides of Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: so we got to get to that coming up later
Speaker 1: on this You mean Cam that is going to win
Speaker 1: the AFC least Division. Yes, Cam, who may not make
Speaker 1: it to week one. That Cam for President is Garrett
Speaker 1: contracts guarantee. Look at you. I'm all insident Camp for
Speaker 1: President does the score? Can we're to scarf at the
Speaker 1: White House. I'm all in Oh, He'll bring great hat
Speaker 1: fashion to the White House, that's for sure. So we
Speaker 1: got that coming up later on this hour. But straight ahead,
Speaker 1: is the NBA really ready to open up a second bubble?
Speaker 1: Are the Lakers title chances higher after this long layoff?
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Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated NBA insider and Rob I know you talked
Speaker 1: about this yesterday on your show, and we talked about
Speaker 1: it yesterday as well, the possibility that we're getting a
Speaker 1: second bubble in the NBA. Certainly we have the bubble
Speaker 1: in Orlando that we're going to try to finish the
Speaker 1: regular season in playoffs, and but NBA working on a
Speaker 1: second bubble. Agent Waljarowski having the story a day ago
Speaker 1: to invite the teams that weren't invited to Orlando to
Speaker 1: have some kind of training camp in the month of September.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be able to play games, because obviously it
Speaker 1: would be unfair if you're going to start the season
Speaker 1: at some point soon after that you have twenty two
Speaker 1: teams that are going to be in the mindset of
Speaker 1: playing having just played a bunch of games, and you
Speaker 1: have these other a teams not doing it. So those
Speaker 1: teams would be invited. The Knicks would now be to
Speaker 1: have a chance to maybe win something as they are
Speaker 1: invited to the n I of bubbles. So I'd be
Speaker 1: pretty happy for them there. Not only can the Knicks
Speaker 1: uh that they would wind up in the trouble Bubble
Speaker 1: that's for the bad teams. I mean, you know, I
Speaker 1: get it. It's funny though, but the but but Adam
Speaker 1: Silver doesn't want to be in any bubble. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna stick around, which is interesting. Oh my god, what
Speaker 1: a horrible optic that is. You guys all got to stay.
Speaker 1: What about your commissioner. Now I'm gonna be in and out.
Speaker 1: I might pop in and say hey, then I might
Speaker 1: my jet, but then I'm coming back, but then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna jet again, and then I'm coming back. I mean
Speaker 1: it just like, you know, like give him that. People
Speaker 1: are like putting themselves and you know, and jeopardy health wise,
Speaker 1: and it just would be like if the commissioner was
Speaker 1: there and go, I'm in this with you. I get it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm asking you to do something. But he
Speaker 1: he clearly said he was not interested. But the second bubble,
Speaker 1: I guess it's weird because you're right, other teams wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to do anything, and then that would be
Speaker 1: a long layoff until the next season, right because the
Speaker 1: season ended prematurely, so they probably got a lot of
Speaker 1: pushback from the other teams that weren't involved. It would
Speaker 1: be different if they would have just taken a sixteen
Speaker 1: other teams, right, the sixteen teams that qualified for the
Speaker 1: playoffs when the season started, and went from there, Jason,
Speaker 1: But that's not what they did. By adding the other
Speaker 1: teams that still had a chance and having twenty two teams,
Speaker 1: you left out the other eight. So I get it.
Speaker 1: Joining us now on the hotline. For more on these stories,
Speaker 1: you can follow them on Twitter at SI Chris Mannox.
Speaker 1: That's at SI Chris Mannox, Fox Sports, Won Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: NBA insider Chris, good morning. What's happening, man? What's happening?
Speaker 1: Chris's going on? Guys? What's going on? Dude? We're talking
Speaker 1: a second bubble, maybe a third bubble, fourth bubble, it's
Speaker 1: something maybe a fifth bubble. Five. Let's have bubbles for
Speaker 1: everybody in the NBA. Yeah, on the second bubble. The
Speaker 1: way it was explained to me yesterday was you don't
Speaker 1: get too far ahead on all this. There has already
Speaker 1: been some push back from some teams. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Michelle Roberts has made it clear that she's not going
Speaker 1: and she and the player is not going to sign
Speaker 1: up on anything unless there are the exact same protocols
Speaker 1: in a second bubble as there are on the first one,
Speaker 1: and that logistically, you know, maybe incredibly difficult. What may
Speaker 1: be the more likely scenario is that we see teams
Speaker 1: be allowed to have mini camps in September, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they're a week two weeks long. We then get
Speaker 1: their whole team and maybe their two league affiliate involved
Speaker 1: in all that. And if teams regionally want to get
Speaker 1: together specifically Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, if they want to find
Speaker 1: a way to create a smaller bubble, that would you know,
Speaker 1: take you know, less resources to put together. That's that's possible.
Speaker 1: I just I just can't envision an eight team bubble
Speaker 1: happening amongst those eight teams that have been left out. Chris,
Speaker 1: you know, Dwight Howard hasn't committed to come into the
Speaker 1: bubble and playing. I think that would be another blow
Speaker 1: to the Lakers, you know, the longer that he doesn't
Speaker 1: commit to me, and obviously he was with Kyrie and
Speaker 1: about whether they should even play and whatnot. Just my
Speaker 1: gut tells me the longer guy holds up and isn't
Speaker 1: sure that there's a good chance at the end he's
Speaker 1: gonna say I'm not coming. Well, what's your take or
Speaker 1: what have you heard about Dwight Howard. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: the Lakers from what I've been told that they they
Speaker 1: remain cautiously optimistic that they can work the situation out
Speaker 1: with Dwight. I think right now, the greater concern in
Speaker 1: Dwight Howard's life is his young son, who he's with
Speaker 1: right now after the passing of her his mother, that
Speaker 1: that is of a more significant concern than the social
Speaker 1: justice movement. I think, like like a lot of other players,
Speaker 1: you know, the players have been um, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to know what the right words impressed, but they've
Speaker 1: been They felt good about what the NBA has done
Speaker 1: over the last week or so to ensure that the
Speaker 1: social justice movement will you get the appropriate and considerable
Speaker 1: attention inside the bubble. So I'm not sure that's necessarily
Speaker 1: Dwight's number one concern at the moment. He's got a
Speaker 1: familystra deal with. The Lakers are hoping they can find
Speaker 1: a way to make all this work. So there. You know, obviously,
Speaker 1: Avery Bradley being out is a body blow, but I
Speaker 1: get the sense the Lakers are still, you know, cling
Speaker 1: to a strong hope that Dwight Howard can play ballpark.
Speaker 1: This for me, Chris, because with the NBA players getting
Speaker 1: set to go and evilessly, there's different thoughts from everybody
Speaker 1: about going and not going. Percentage of players who are
Speaker 1: going to the bubble that are going to be into it, excited,
Speaker 1: ready to go compete rest of the season, win a
Speaker 1: championship percentage of players that want to do that, versus
Speaker 1: the players who were saying, you know what, We're going
Speaker 1: to go play a bunch of games and then I'm
Speaker 1: out and going home and I'm really gone. I'm showing
Speaker 1: up to the bubble with one foot in and one
Speaker 1: foot out. But I think even players that are excited
Speaker 1: about winning a championship aren't excited about going to the bubble.
Speaker 1: I mean I would put the number of players excited
Speaker 1: about resuming at like one percent. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know who that like, They're just it's just like not
Speaker 1: an ideal circumstance for as you point out, a variety
Speaker 1: of reasons, whether it's health concerns, family concerns, um you know,
Speaker 1: physical safety, you know, when it comes to getting injured
Speaker 1: in that situation. I mean, there's there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, kind of like resignation. I guess that
Speaker 1: this is how the NBA's and the season now that
Speaker 1: makes change as they get into games, and certainly will
Speaker 1: change to get deeper into the postseason and the possibility
Speaker 1: of a championship crystallizes for a lot of these players.
Speaker 1: But there's not a lot of enthusiasm at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: players are certainly anxious to, you know, to get out
Speaker 1: of their houses and get back to playing, and you're
Speaker 1: kind of seeing that reflective and some of the interviews
Speaker 1: guys are doing after practices this week. But I mean this,
Speaker 1: you know, there's an understanding that this is going to
Speaker 1: be a mentally taxing ordeal, especially for the players that
Speaker 1: are down there for the duration. They'll be there for
Speaker 1: at least a month, you know, without family members and friends,
Speaker 1: and after that we'll see how many they can bring in.
Speaker 1: And it just it's not going to be a comfortable
Speaker 1: situation for all players, and there really isn't a lot
Speaker 1: of excitement because of that. Chris, I'm gonna jump ahead.
Speaker 1: I picked the Clippers before the season started. I think
Speaker 1: that the deepest team. I love what they did a
Speaker 1: year ago without any star. They beat the Warriors twice
Speaker 1: in Oakland, you know, like they just have a dog
Speaker 1: about them, and then they had Kawhi and Paul George.
Speaker 1: If Kawai and the Clippers were able to win the championship,
Speaker 1: would what would that do for Kawai just the idea
Speaker 1: that he would have on his resume. Obviously wanted San
Speaker 1: Antonio as a Finals MVP, but to win back to
Speaker 1: back championship with two organizations that had never won a championship,
Speaker 1: would that elevate him? How would you look at Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard after that if the Clippers did win, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: would significantly elevate him in my eyes, and I think
Speaker 1: in the in the eyes of most around the league.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is really hard to put together a
Speaker 1: championship team. It takes years sometimes to put together a
Speaker 1: championship team. Even when you have the pieces that are assembled,
Speaker 1: most teams don't always win that first year or second year.
Speaker 1: I mean, even the Miami superteam, you know, didn't win
Speaker 1: that first year with Lebron, Wade and Boss. It just
Speaker 1: takes time to build chemistry. And I think that a
Speaker 1: championship this year world established. Kawhi is just that kind
Speaker 1: of guy that can fit into any situation. That's close
Speaker 1: to championship caliber and elevate that team to a title.
Speaker 1: I mean it would I don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: rarefied air it would put him in. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it puts him in the Jordan category or even
Speaker 1: the Lebron category, but whatever that tier right behind them,
Speaker 1: you would have to include him in that group because
Speaker 1: it's just it's just not easy to go to two
Speaker 1: different teams, adjust to two different situation as coaching staffs, terminology,
Speaker 1: and get comfortable with your teammates and accomplish something in
Speaker 1: that first year. So this would really be a reckoning,
Speaker 1: I think for Kawhi Leonard in a moment for him
Speaker 1: to jump into another tier of players. And Chris, let
Speaker 1: me just follow up, who did you pick going into
Speaker 1: the season and are you sticking with your pick or
Speaker 1: have you changed your mind as who's going to win
Speaker 1: the NBA Championship? Yeah, I think I had the Clippers
Speaker 1: coming into this season. But this is one of there's
Speaker 1: gonna be something weird that happens, Like it's just it
Speaker 1: just the way it is. You go back to the
Speaker 1: ninety nine season when the Knicks made that run of
Speaker 1: the eight seed something like that, is going to happen.
Speaker 1: And this isn't even a weirder situation because there's no
Speaker 1: home crowd, there's no home court advantage. So if it
Speaker 1: ends up being Portland versus Philly in the finals, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be surprised at this point. I'm just
Speaker 1: not like, I mean, you look at it. I mean
Speaker 1: I kind of joke about those two teams, but there's
Speaker 1: reasoning behind it. I mean, that's the best offensive backcourt
Speaker 1: that you might have in the game. You know, which
Speaker 1: is that suddenly getting their starting front court back, Like
Speaker 1: here comes Zach Collins and use of Nurkic who were
Speaker 1: done in mid March, and now they're ready to play
Speaker 1: maybe thirty minutes a night on the other side of
Speaker 1: the Brackett. I mean, Ben Simmons just did an interview
Speaker 1: where he said, like, I'm better than I was to
Speaker 1: start of the season. I'm stronger than I was to
Speaker 1: start of the season. So this was also a guy
Speaker 1: that was done in mid March. I remember that Sixers team.
Speaker 1: You know they'll lose something not playing at home, but
Speaker 1: they were terrible on the road, So maybe that you know,
Speaker 1: it has an advancement not having to play road games
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. So I think, you know, we can
Speaker 1: sit here and say Lakers Bucks or Clippers versus Raptors
Speaker 1: or Clippers Celtics. But something weird is almost assuredly going
Speaker 1: to happen in this postseason. That's going to see probably
Speaker 1: a bottom, you know, four seed wind up in the finals.
Speaker 1: All Right. Lastly, speaking of weird, you know, Rob and
Speaker 1: I talked about this a few minutes ago, is Adam
Speaker 1: Silver gonna have to change his mind and hang in
Speaker 1: the bubble for the entire time because that optic is
Speaker 1: not playing well. That Yeah, everybody's got to be there,
Speaker 1: but he's got to be in and out, coming back
Speaker 1: and forth. Yeah, it's it's not a great I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I don't know this is going to change
Speaker 1: his mind on it, and I don't think I don't
Speaker 1: feel too I don't feel too strong one way at
Speaker 1: the other about one person going in and especially given
Speaker 1: the precautions, I'm sure that Adam Silver is going to take.
Speaker 1: My bigger concern still is what those Disney employees are
Speaker 1: going to do and what kind of access they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to players. I mean, you're gonna see I mean,
Speaker 1: the terminology says that the only people on tests they're
Speaker 1: gonna be people that are within or have to be
Speaker 1: six feet away from anyone inside the bubble. How do
Speaker 1: you police that? I think the only way to ensure
Speaker 1: the best kind of safety is to make sure everybody
Speaker 1: is tested on a regular or semi regular basis if
Speaker 1: they're going in and out of that bubble. The idea
Speaker 1: that just temperature checks and like a symptoms questionnaire is
Speaker 1: enough to get people in and out that that doesn't
Speaker 1: that's not a good look. I think that that is
Speaker 1: a far more significant importance than you know, Adam Silver
Speaker 1: potentially parachuting in a couple of times and Chris real quick,
Speaker 1: is it true to Adam Silver picked Orlando because this
Speaker 1: is the closest Magic fans we'll ever get to see
Speaker 1: in a championship. Hey, they could make a run. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe this is the year the Magic Kingdom, the Magic
Speaker 1: make their run behind. I don't know who he's even
Speaker 1: playing for them at this point, but you know, maybe
Speaker 1: this is the year they run the table. It'll be
Speaker 1: a Mickey Mouse Championship. No matter what, you feel better
Speaker 1: getting that outbub You feel better now after that? Okay, great,
Speaker 1: Try to be all okay, I'm here all week. That's
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of Chris Maddox's life. He's never going to
Speaker 1: get back. There's just so you know. He's on Twitter
Speaker 1: at SI Chris Maddox. That is at SI Chris Maddox.
Speaker 1: Chris as always man appreciated, Have a great weekend. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. You got I knew when you said.
Speaker 1: And lastly, is it true picked Orlando? I knew exactly what,
Speaker 1: knew where I was going. I've known you. I've known
Speaker 1: you so long, though I go. He's just going for
Speaker 1: the cheap one line already doing. That's all he's doing,
Speaker 1: is going for it. You know, it's interesting that he says,
Speaker 1: look something crazy he's going to happen in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: like like Knicks running ninety nine is an eight seed
Speaker 1: all the way to the NBA. You remember that Alan
Speaker 1: Houston shot against Miami stayed on the rim forever, right,
Speaker 1: It hit like every piece of the rim before. And
Speaker 1: if viewing doesn't get hurt, the finals go differently against
Speaker 1: the Spurs because they had nobody to stop Duncan and
Speaker 1: Robin said, oh man, but all right, anyway, I can
Speaker 1: worry about the NIXT layer. Um. You know, the thing is,
Speaker 1: he says something crazy's gonna happen, and it's really hard
Speaker 1: to break down what we're gonna see, But I think
Speaker 1: I can tell you what we're gonna see. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see some teams show up that are just going there
Speaker 1: for a few games and they're ready to go, and
Speaker 1: you'll be able to tell right away what teams are
Speaker 1: there for the long haul that think we can win
Speaker 1: a championship. Let's be here and do it. And you're
Speaker 1: gonna tell what teams are there to play eight games
Speaker 1: and maybe four in a playoff round and then go home.
Speaker 1: So so from that perspective, you're going to eliminate a
Speaker 1: lot of teams right away, and you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: playoff in which there's gonna be a lot of sweeps.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of sweeps. There gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of five game series because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have to worry about, well, what happens when you know
Speaker 1: it's two zip, But they're gonna go home and win
Speaker 1: two games and then we go back and forth and
Speaker 1: we're at game seven and home. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be whatever team wants to win is gonna
Speaker 1: steamroll through the playoffs, and you're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: of sweeps, five game series. I don't know, if you
Speaker 1: had to say, what if I would put long odds
Speaker 1: to say, could I bet we don't get a seven
Speaker 1: game series in the playoffs? And I would put money
Speaker 1: on that because I think that would come true, because
Speaker 1: I just don't think you're gonna see it with everything
Speaker 1: else going on. The neutral sits or Lando, no crowds.
Speaker 1: Whoever wants to win is going to have such a
Speaker 1: big advantage because so many players, as Chris said, look,
Speaker 1: one percent are excited to be there. You're gonna tell
Speaker 1: right away this team doesn't care about being there. This
Speaker 1: team just wants to go home. And I get it.
Speaker 1: I get players who are who are being, you know,
Speaker 1: forced to go into this because it's what the NBA
Speaker 1: wants them to do. I understand that part of it,
Speaker 1: and I get that they're gonna go there and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hopefully be Okay, I get tested every day.
Speaker 1: We're gonna play this and then we're going home. And
Speaker 1: then mentally I need to decompress for a while, because
Speaker 1: this has been a lot of stress about what's going
Speaker 1: to happen, and that's going back and now actually being
Speaker 1: put in a situation where some people could get sick.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting. And I think you're right. And one
Speaker 1: guy who has to be highly motivated even though he
Speaker 1: could be down two important players, and I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Lebron James, because let's just face it, Jason, this might
Speaker 1: be his best last chance to win a championship. The
Speaker 1: way that the Lakers have played this year before the stoppage,
Speaker 1: right where he is in year seventeen. You know, one
Speaker 1: day it's just not the same. I know he's playing
Speaker 1: at a high was playing at a high level. Next
Speaker 1: year's year eighteen. The body has just so much in
Speaker 1: it and all of a sudden things aren't always like
Speaker 1: they used to be. Anthony Davis, the future, what else
Speaker 1: other moves? The team is set up to win now.
Speaker 1: So I think Lebron will be highly motivated, don't you
Speaker 1: in this situation, because this could be if he doesn't
Speaker 1: win this year, I don't know if he'd ever win again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know that. It's I don't worry about the
Speaker 1: pieces for Lebron because the Lakers figured it out right
Speaker 1: before coronavirus hit. They didn't make a lot of adjustments,
Speaker 1: but they figured their team out and they were rolling
Speaker 1: through people and I said, Okay, this this is how
Speaker 1: they're going to do it. And they're certainly going to
Speaker 1: pick up where they left off. It's the same team
Speaker 1: you're you're adding Dion Waiters. And look, Jerry Smith isn't
Speaker 1: even gonna play. He's just there's break glass in case
Speaker 1: of emergency, in case other players get sick or get hurt.
Speaker 1: But they figured it out, and Lebron after a long
Speaker 1: rest like this, he's gonna be able to blitch through
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Look, I think Anthony Davis is right, the
Speaker 1: long layoff is gonna help us. Any all the older teams,
Speaker 1: the long layoff is gonna help because they're just going
Speaker 1: to be fresher. Lebron's not going to be worn down
Speaker 1: by the time he gets to the NBA Finals. They
Speaker 1: have had time to decompress and now get ready and
Speaker 1: it's eight games and then the playoffs. Yet the Lakers
Speaker 1: are still the favorites in the West. You know, I
Speaker 1: just I don't see the Lakers as the favorites because
Speaker 1: when you talk about the Lakers and the Clippers. The
Speaker 1: Clippers were able to beat the Lakers, Jason, even when
Speaker 1: they didn't have their full squad. They won two of
Speaker 1: the three games. I know the Lakers won the last one.
Speaker 1: But the other part is all year to late, the
Speaker 1: Clippers were dealing with Kauhi not being one percent healthy.
Speaker 1: Paul George. Now these guys who are younger, and now
Speaker 1: they've had three months to heal up and get and
Speaker 1: feel better and shake off those injuries. How in the
Speaker 1: world could you not look at the Clippers and think
Speaker 1: that they still would be better. And when they were
Speaker 1: a team, I mean fully loaded and healthy they were.
Speaker 1: They were fourteen and one in the fifteen games where
Speaker 1: everybody was healthy, so they didn't lose. I just don't
Speaker 1: I see them as the favorites going in, although I
Speaker 1: picked the Clippers in the beginning of the season because
Speaker 1: they were deeper. But obviously things have changed now with
Speaker 1: the coronavirus pandemic, and especially if lou Williams doesn't go
Speaker 1: and he says he's fifty fifty right now, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna win. I mean, there's gonna be teams that are
Speaker 1: gonna lose players here and there, and I get that
Speaker 1: because that's just something you're gonna have to go through.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be players who have to sit out with
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and who knows, one day it could be Lebron,
Speaker 1: it could be be honest and that could There are
Speaker 1: that variables to it. But if Lou Williams, he's one
Speaker 1: of the He's one of the main reasons that I
Speaker 1: think that I picked the Clippers to win because he
Speaker 1: can win two games in the playoffs all by himself's
Speaker 1: coming off the bench, scoring twenty eight points a game.
Speaker 1: They don't have Lou Williams. That's a huge blow for
Speaker 1: the Clippers. That's why this is like a big story
Speaker 1: that people aren't watching that they need to because of
Speaker 1: all the Billiers and having a healthy Kauhi and a
Speaker 1: healthy Paul George. And don't get me wrong, Lou Williams
Speaker 1: is a big piece. I'm not pooh pooing him, but
Speaker 1: to have those two guys finally healthy, I just think
Speaker 1: that that's what they didn't have all year. And it's
Speaker 1: not like the Lakers ran away from the Clippers. They
Speaker 1: had a five game lead over them, but they were
Speaker 1: banged up all year and I'm just saying, when you
Speaker 1: get those two guys healthy, and Patrick Beverley was banged up,
Speaker 1: get him back, and look at the depth that they've added.
Speaker 1: They got all the players that were available. I mean,
Speaker 1: they made some moves. I love what the Clippers have
Speaker 1: and Doc Ruvers has that championship caliber coaching. So when
Speaker 1: you put all that together, I know people love Lebron
Speaker 1: and love what they were doing at the n Jason,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go with the Clippers. I think the
Speaker 1: Clippers run away with it. Twitter right, how about a
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Speaker 1: a huge day from Major League Baseball. But Rob, something
Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to talking to you about this week.
Speaker 1: You seriously think that Cam Newton is going to deliver
Speaker 1: the Patriots to the AFC East Crown and is going
Speaker 1: to have a better year than Tom Brady with the Buccaneers. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I think, first of all, camp people are looking at Cam.
Speaker 1: Kim was hurt, Kim wasn't healthy. I remember watching one
Speaker 1: of his last games. It was a national game. He
Speaker 1: couldn't even deliver the football he was so banged up,
Speaker 1: and so he's past his physical I think if they
Speaker 1: give him an opportunity to play and Bill Belichick and
Speaker 1: what he does up in New England, I think that
Speaker 1: the AFC least I get. The Jets finished seven and two.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many meaningful games they wont during
Speaker 1: that stretch. Zero they pay. They played nobody at the end,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. So I'm not there Buffalo. I
Speaker 1: know that they've got a pretty good team as well.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They never seem to be able to
Speaker 1: put together back to back good years when they even
Speaker 1: have a good year, Jason, So that's up in the
Speaker 1: air with me. And when you talk about Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and you talk about the Patriots, I mean talk about
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. The issue that I have is that I've
Speaker 1: seen this movie before. Everybody would jump on the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns bandwagon. If you remember a year ago, they went
Speaker 1: from a million to one odds to fourteen to one.
Speaker 1: They're going to the super Bowl. Oh my god, they
Speaker 1: got old b J. Baker Mayfield. Nobody will be able
Speaker 1: to stop them. Me at so many weapons, it won't
Speaker 1: even be fair. Do you remember all that? And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they didn't even make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and the same thing. Tampa hasn't made the playoffs in
Speaker 1: twelve years. It will be a Baker's dozen with Tom
Speaker 1: Brady because I see on paper, but I also see
Speaker 1: the Saints. I also see the Falcons. I'm not convinced
Speaker 1: that the gronk who had to be talked into playing
Speaker 1: football again, who had already given up his competitive card
Speaker 1: when he joined the pro wrestling, So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: where he's gonna be. Guys like that who come back
Speaker 1: often wind up getting injured. I don't want him to
Speaker 1: get injured, but I'm thinking it could happen. And Tom
Speaker 1: Brady wasn't great last year. Let's just be honest. It
Speaker 1: was the worst. Ain't no team I'd ever seen. They
Speaker 1: beat a lot of also rands, And when Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and then play better teams, they struggle and go look
Speaker 1: at his numbers across the board. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: forty three year old quarterback. I'm not convinced what Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's gonna be there. Is it the quarterback that won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl without throwing a touchdown? Is it that
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? Or was it the Tom Brady last year
Speaker 1: who threw or pick six to end the playoff game
Speaker 1: and his last pass as a Patriot? Is it that
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? I just think people are living in the past.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is not the same guy. And nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: be surprised by the Bucks. Everybody thinks that, oh, the
Speaker 1: Bucks are gonna sneak up on everybody and beat no
Speaker 1: nobody's going to be surprised by the Bucks. And as
Speaker 1: bad as Jamis Winston was, he threw for five thousand yards,
Speaker 1: had thirty touchdowns. Jesse had the thirty picks, I get it.
Speaker 1: But he put up some unbelievable numbers and they still
Speaker 1: couldn't win. I'm not buying the Bucks until further notice.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, first, you can't just say yeah, I
Speaker 1: get the thirty picks. It's thirty interception. I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it. Look, you talk about living in the past.
Speaker 1: Cam hasn't been an elite quarterback in five years. Five years.
Speaker 1: His one loss record is five hundred, his quarterback rating
Speaker 1: is below average. He has not been great since twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: and now he's coming off injuries. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he makes it to week one. I don't it's Cam serviceable,
Speaker 1: Sure he is. But you want to make a bet
Speaker 1: on that, Let's make a wink. I will tell I
Speaker 1: will tell you this. Brady wins more games with the
Speaker 1: Bucks than Cam wins with the Patriots if he even
Speaker 1: makes it to week one. That gay, Look Brady, I
Speaker 1: give you. Brady is more Joe Montana with the Chiefs
Speaker 1: at the end than he is Peyton Manning with the Broncos.
Speaker 1: All right, because Brady is really one or two years
Speaker 1: left and this will be the best year he has.
Speaker 1: But he's got enough weapons down there, way better than
Speaker 1: he had in New England. There's gonna be a fresh
Speaker 1: batch of energy around the team. They'll win enough games
Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs. Eventually they'll play a team
Speaker 1: that's better than they are, and they'll wind up going home.
Speaker 1: It'll be very much like Montana with the Chiefs, where
Speaker 1: they make it to the playoffs, but they play teams
Speaker 1: that are better easily. I will go with Brady and
Speaker 1: the Bucks over over cam Newton. How many wings? How
Speaker 1: many wings do you want? Twenty wings and a large
Speaker 1: diet coke for me? No, you know what? How about
Speaker 1: two large diet I'm feeling cocky and arrogant. Two diet cokes.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Two diet cokes and twenty wings. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna how long do I have to wait to eat?
Speaker 1: I mean, should you just give him to the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year, because it's gonna so when they start out,
Speaker 1: when the when the Buck start out and five you
Speaker 1: can opt out of your bet and bet ten wings
Speaker 1: and one diet coke and I'll have my palmer gan garlic,
Speaker 1: all flats and a diet coke. This is Fox