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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode sixty six of What's Right with Nick Wright,
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Speaker 2: political it's not even political. Come on, they built the
Speaker 2: middle class. Time for the show. Here's what we're not
Speaker 2: discussing on today's show. Sue Bird arguably the goat. I'm
Speaker 2: not a WNBA historian the way I am NBA historian.
Speaker 2: But Diana Trozzi's got a case. Sue Byrd obviously is
Speaker 2: a case. Cynthia Cooper, I don't think she has a case,
Speaker 2: but she didn't win. Like the first four titles, Sue
Speaker 2: Bird retires from the WNBA. Luca Uh one of my
Speaker 2: two favorite sons, Luca dropping forty seven on France. Luca
Speaker 2: was asked the day before who do you think is
Speaker 2: going to score the most points in EuroBasket? He was
Speaker 2: like Jiannis and they're like why, He's like, because he's Yiannis.
Speaker 2: And then Luca dropped forty seven, which is most points
Speaker 2: anyone has scored in euro basket in sixty five years,
Speaker 2: second most points ever.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he's the greatest.
Speaker 2: Also, people you know what I'm not even gonna get
Speaker 2: into the Yiannis commentary from the week. And Albert Pooholtz,
Speaker 2: who looked cooked the last few years, is now the
Speaker 2: most devastating hitter in baseball. If he's facing a left
Speaker 2: handed pitcher, he might get to seven hundred home runs.
Speaker 2: It is a captivating story, an absolutely captivating story from
Speaker 2: Maple Woods Community College, right in the outskirts of Kansas City.
Speaker 2: That's where Woods. You know, maple Woods, Royal Woods is
Speaker 2: the apartment Royal Woods was the apartments you used to
Speaker 2: live in a long time ago. By the way, any
Speaker 2: of our Kansas City listeners, that's true story. And if
Speaker 2: you know Royal Woods in google Royal Woods. That's why
Speaker 2: when Demanse says he got it from the dirt, that's
Speaker 2: what he's talking about. But Albert Boolts not really a
Speaker 2: Kansaity legend, but I claim him because he went to
Speaker 2: Maplewood's community college. All right, what I know we're starting
Speaker 2: with because football starts.
Speaker 3: At day football is officially back. We're dropping the show
Speaker 3: before Rams Bills. Yeh, super Bowl champs are underdogs at home? Yes,
Speaker 3: do you feel strongly enough about this game to pick
Speaker 3: it in our first gambling show.
Speaker 2: Okay, so tomorrow we debut the gambling Show. We're actually
Speaker 2: recording that in about an hour and spoiler alert for that. Yes,
Speaker 2: I do, and I'm picking the Rams. They are home underdogs.
Speaker 2: I want to use this so ramslus two and a
Speaker 2: half of my pick. I don't think the Rams went
Speaker 2: out right. It wouldn't be shocking if the Bills won.
Speaker 2: The Bills are really good. But I want to use
Speaker 2: this time to talk about what's happening with the Buffalo
Speaker 2: Bills right now, because it is baffling to me. I
Speaker 2: totally understand why some people would pick the Bills to
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl. I understand why people would pick
Speaker 2: Josh Allen to win League MVP. If you know, if
Speaker 2: you say I think the Bills are the best team
Speaker 2: in the AFC, you have a very reasonable stance for that.
Speaker 2: They had a very good defense last year. I think
Speaker 2: it was a little They had the number one defensive
Speaker 2: football last year, but by numbers, not by eye tests.
Speaker 2: They had nine of their eleven wins were against some
Speaker 2: of the worst quarterbacks in the league, but still a
Speaker 2: good defense. Some people think Josh Allen's the best quarterback
Speaker 2: in football. Everyone, even I agree, he's one of the
Speaker 2: five best quarterbacks in football. They have Stefan Diggs, like
Speaker 2: they have Gabe Davis. They have really good players. My
Speaker 2: issue is they are being treated like the seven Patriots.
Speaker 2: They are the they are the overwhelming super Bowl favorite.
Speaker 2: One of the shows on NFL Network, five hosts they
Speaker 2: gave their Super Bowl picks. All five hosts had the Bulls,
Speaker 2: the Bulls, the Bills going to and winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: They are. They are favorites in Los Angeles. So if
Speaker 2: you're not a big gambler, whatever the points spread is,
Speaker 2: you got to keep in mind the home team is
Speaker 2: getting an extra laying an extra three points. So what
Speaker 2: And so the Bills being two and a half point
Speaker 2: favorites in LA means if they were playing the Rams
Speaker 2: on a neutral site, they'd be around five and a
Speaker 2: half point favorites, right, And if they were playing LA
Speaker 2: in Buffalo, they'd be eight and a half point favorites.
Speaker 2: It's insanity and so disrespectful. It's well, it's not just
Speaker 2: it's not so much about disrespect for the Rams as
Speaker 2: much as it as it is Vegas. The general public
Speaker 2: and the media look at the Bills as some like
Speaker 2: it's the Bills and everyone else they're treating it like
Speaker 2: it's the Warriors. In twenty seventeen, it just came off
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl right as opposed. And I just want
Speaker 2: to give people the history here. Two years ago, the
Speaker 2: Bills were the two seed. They made the AFC Championship Game.
Speaker 2: They won twelve games, they lost to the Chiefs in Arrowhead.
Speaker 2: Last year, the Bills were the three reseed. They won
Speaker 2: eleven games, They made the Divisional round and lost to
Speaker 2: the Chiefs in Arrowhead. Now I understand it's devastating fashion
Speaker 2: the way they lost. Easily could have won that game.
Speaker 2: But for the it is the AFC is way too
Speaker 2: deep of a conference for anyone to be the overwhelming favorite.
Speaker 2: I'm not arguing the Chiefs should be the overwhelming favorite.
Speaker 2: I do think they're the favorite. But if you came
Speaker 2: at any time, you're on the side of the bracket
Speaker 2: in a conference where there could be a credible case
Speaker 2: made for not two, not three, at least four and
Speaker 2: maybe five teams to win the conference, because you could
Speaker 2: make a case for the Bills, the Chiefs obviously, the
Speaker 2: Bengals who did it last year, the Chargers, who might
Speaker 2: have the most talented roster in football. Or the Ravens,
Speaker 2: who were eight and three last year despite all the
Speaker 2: injuries then Lamar got hurt season went til lost all
Speaker 2: their secondary There's five teams that I believe could make
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl out of the AFC, and I'm not
Speaker 2: even including the Broncos, who a lot of people like.
Speaker 2: When the conference is that difficult. Nobody should be considered
Speaker 2: this much of a juggernaut unless they have proven it
Speaker 2: in years past. And here's my last issue for the
Speaker 2: Bills this year. Even if they go to Los Angeles
Speaker 2: tonight and by the time some of you watch or
Speaker 2: see this, you know they've beaten the Rams by fourteen.
Speaker 2: My concern for the Bills, in addition to losing Brian Dable,
Speaker 2: their offensive coordinator, is very simple. There has to be
Speaker 2: a psychological component. Two two years ago, they were this
Speaker 2: close to the Super Bowl. They were up two scores
Speaker 2: on the Chiefs in Arrowhead and then the Chiefs went
Speaker 2: on a thirty eight to six run like a dominant
Speaker 2: AAU basketball team and blew them out. Last year, going
Speaker 2: into the year, the GM, the coach, the players said,
Speaker 2: we are obsessed with Kansas City. We are building our
Speaker 2: team to beat Kansas City, they go into Arrowhead, they
Speaker 2: have a lead with thirteen seconds left, Yeah, and they
Speaker 2: lose the game. So it's not about me being a
Speaker 2: Chiefs fan. This is about psychology of sports. I don't
Speaker 2: think the Bills are going to be fourteen and three,
Speaker 2: but even if they are, there will still be a
Speaker 2: hurdle for them. Of man, we've never beaten Mahomes in
Speaker 2: a big spot, and so I just I think the
Speaker 2: Bills are really good. I give him way more respect
Speaker 2: to that game last year. I give Josh Allen tremendous respect.
Speaker 2: I think them being two and a half point favorites
Speaker 2: on the road against the defending Super Bowl champions is insane.
Speaker 2: All right, next, all right?
Speaker 3: Word up. Earlier this week you dropped twenty four ahead.
Speaker 3: This week, you dropped twenty fourth sweeks in twenty four hours.
Speaker 3: Previewing the new NFL season, touched on the Cardinals a bit.
Speaker 3: You said Cliff will.
Speaker 2: Get fired tweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, despite his five year extension, and Arizona only wins
Speaker 3: seven games, so by that logic, they're definitely getting blown
Speaker 3: out by your Chiefs this Sunday.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, let's let's let's pump the brakes on
Speaker 2: a blowout. Okay, and it's the NFL, it's not college football.
Speaker 2: I certainly think the Chiefs are gonna win. It's a
Speaker 2: road game. Now, the Cardinals don't have new compkins, so
Speaker 2: that hurts them. But they have been a team that's
Speaker 2: been excellent early and then fallen off. That's been Kyler's trajectory,
Speaker 2: that's been Cliff's trajectory. So I'm not I'm not now
Speaker 2: do I think the Chiefs. I'm very curious to see
Speaker 2: what type offense the Chiefs are running where If they are,
Speaker 2: they have maybe the best offensive line in football. They
Speaker 2: have a big, tall, strong receiving corps, but not as
Speaker 2: obviously lost the game breaker and Tyreek kill. So do
Speaker 2: they try to be more of a ball control kind
Speaker 2: of less explosive but more efficient offense. I think that's
Speaker 2: in play. So I'm I'm not guaranteeing any type of
Speaker 2: Chiefs blowout. But I do think the Cardinals are in
Speaker 2: a division with two awesome teams in the Rams and
Speaker 2: the Niners. I think they have the worst coach in
Speaker 2: the division by a mile. I think that I know
Speaker 2: he just that Cliff just got that extension. I am
Speaker 2: not as confident in the Cliff Kyler relationship as maybe
Speaker 2: some people in Arizona or I understand, I'm an outsider there,
Speaker 2: but they're obviously they're right there, and they're obviously married
Speaker 2: to Kyler. So if this season goes left on him
Speaker 2: and they feel like they've got to make a change,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of us that have been saying
Speaker 2: Cliff Kingsbury just keeps failing up. I mean, this guy
Speaker 2: was had Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech and they couldn't
Speaker 2: win eight more than eight games. They were under five
Speaker 2: hundred one year, like there's never He was fired at
Speaker 2: his alma mater, Texas Tech, and then got an NFL
Speaker 2: not co ordinating job, head coaching job. So I don't
Speaker 2: think Cliff's very good and I don't think the Cardinals
Speaker 2: are gonna have a good season, and so despite the extension,
Speaker 2: I do think he could be fired or will I
Speaker 2: guess I said will be fired at the end of
Speaker 2: the year.
Speaker 3: All right, next, All right, you picked six new teams
Speaker 3: to make the playoffs this year. Yeah, a few of
Speaker 3: which were pretty surprising and would force out some favorites.
Speaker 3: Who is gonna be the biggest surprise this year in
Speaker 3: your opinion?
Speaker 2: All right, so the six teams I have, so leave
Speaker 2: this tweet up for a moment if you could. So
Speaker 2: this is one of the things the media screws up
Speaker 2: every year, every single year of my life, at least
Speaker 2: that I can, you know, my even the last call,
Speaker 2: thirty years, there have been at least four new playoff
Speaker 2: teams in the NFL. Okay, most years there are five
Speaker 2: or six. And now there's an expanded field. Sow, how's
Speaker 2: that gonna change things? So the tweets got a even
Speaker 2: though I fixed a previous twet, still got a miss Brendan.
Speaker 2: But that's all right. I call six teams of five teams.
Speaker 2: I have six teams from last year that made the
Speaker 2: playoffs out Titans out, Patriots, Raiders, Steelers out. So that's
Speaker 2: four in the AFC, Cowboys and Cardinals out. So who
Speaker 2: takes their spot? The Colts win the AFC South in
Speaker 2: place of the Titans. The Chargers get the second AFC
Speaker 2: or the first AFC wildcard spot, replacing the Raiders. The
Speaker 2: Ravens might win that division. They'll replace the Steelers. Even
Speaker 2: the Steelers doing the division the Vikings. I think in
Speaker 2: a weaker NFC can make it. And then there's the
Speaker 2: two surprising ones, the Jags and the Panthers. So those
Speaker 2: are two terrible teams last year. I think the Jags
Speaker 2: would be the biggest surprise to people. But I want
Speaker 2: to talk about Mike Case for both the Jags and
Speaker 2: the Panthers right now. For the Panthers, it's very simple.
Speaker 2: They had the worst quarterback situation in football last year.
Speaker 2: It was Sam Darnold, Cam Newton and PJ Washington. They
Speaker 2: now have Baker. Now. Is Baker a star? No? But
Speaker 2: is Baker a more than competent NFL quarterback? Yes? Have
Speaker 2: we seen that a team can not only make the
Speaker 2: playoffs but win a playoff game with Bakers it's quarterback? Yes,
Speaker 2: So that's a massive upgrade.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I am hoping Christian McCaffrey can stay healthy. If he does,
Speaker 2: he's inarguably one of the three most valuable running backs
Speaker 2: in football and arguably the best. I like their pieces
Speaker 2: on defense. I love the schedule. I also am not
Speaker 2: a buyer on the Saints the way some people are,
Speaker 2: thanks to Dennis Allen being the head coach and Jamis
Speaker 2: nice story mediocre player, and the Bucks. I have major
Speaker 2: questions about like we talked about in last week's gambling show.
Speaker 2: So the schedule and you get it. Land in that
Speaker 2: division schedule, not that tough, good defense, huge upgrade at quarterback,
Speaker 2: weaker conference. Could I see Carolina going nine to eight
Speaker 2: and getting into the playoffs. I could now to Jacksonville Jacks.
Speaker 2: I think Trevor Lawrence is going to be a superstar.
Speaker 2: Right if I'm right about that, this is the year
Speaker 2: he starts to show that. Now they overpaid at wide receiver. Okay,
Speaker 2: Christian Kirk, they way overpaid. They have Say Jones, They
Speaker 2: have Marvin Jones. With that said, he now has legitimate weapons.
Speaker 2: He also at running back, they spent They drafted Trevor
Speaker 2: Lawrence number one last year, then they drafted the second
Speaker 2: round Travis at TN his running back from Clemson at
Speaker 2: ten got hurt before the season started. They never got
Speaker 2: to play together last year, so they have that. On offense,
Speaker 2: they upgraded the offensive line somewhat by adding Shriff from Washington.
Speaker 2: They spent the number one pick of the draft on
Speaker 2: a pass rusher, Even if it was kind of a
Speaker 2: surprising number one pick. A lot of people thought they
Speaker 2: should have taken Aden Hutchinson fine, defense should be okay.
Speaker 2: And the biggest difference is urban Meyer was an abject disaster.
Speaker 2: The team hated him. He seemed to hate the team.
Speaker 2: He's kicking kickers, he's calling coaches losers even though he
Speaker 2: hired him. He's skipping team flights doing all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Uh and by the way, let's let's not the for
Speaker 2: the it's the that's my opinion. Let's that's a podcast
Speaker 2: exclusive for and for social folks. Let's not blast out
Speaker 2: my uh my, that take there. But but it is
Speaker 2: what it is. It's the truth. The no pun in.
Speaker 2: Don't want to kick a man when he's down. No
Speaker 2: pun intend, even though I think you kicked Doug Peterson's
Speaker 2: legitimate NFL coach. Doug Peterson went to a Super Bowl
Speaker 2: and won a Super Bowl with Nick Foles as quarterback
Speaker 2: and Carson Wentz throughout the year. Carson Wentz been been
Speaker 2: a disaster since then. So in the in the AFC South,
Speaker 2: where I think Tennessee is gonna take a huge step back,
Speaker 2: where Houston's obviously still rebuilding with a last play schedule,
Speaker 2: I think the Jaggs can be the team the Oh
Speaker 2: my god, where did this team come from team. So
Speaker 2: those are the two big surprises. And I'm just am
Speaker 2: I gonna get all these?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Of course not, but I'm so sick of looking at
Speaker 2: NFL predictions where it's like, hey, in the AFC, what
Speaker 2: are your picks? And it's like, oh, five of the
Speaker 2: same seven teams, with the difference being I have the
Speaker 2: Broncos in for the Raiders and the Ravens in for
Speaker 2: the Steelers, and then the In the NFC, I have
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, the Bucks, the Packers.
Speaker 3: The ram It's like casual behavior.
Speaker 2: It's just, but it's not just casual. It also goes
Speaker 2: against history. It also goes the history says it's not
Speaker 2: gonna be chalk all right, next, Oh, this one's gonna be.
Speaker 3: So I know, it's football season. We're supposed to dedicate
Speaker 3: the whole eight block to.
Speaker 2: Just this is worthwhile.
Speaker 3: But Patrick Beverly on Tuesday had a little interview and
Speaker 3: was questioned by reporters saying, you know, how's it gonna
Speaker 3: feel to be playing with Anthony Davis and Lebron James
Speaker 3: And he interrupted and goes, they'll be playing with me.
Speaker 3: I made the playoffs last year.
Speaker 2: They didn't.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 2: It's a difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then the next day he was seeing joking
Speaker 3: around with Russ around the press and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: Is Patrick Beverley joining the Lakers turning into a disaster.
Speaker 2: I hate it so much to mon say, what was
Speaker 2: your take when you saw this video?
Speaker 3: I thought that, like if there had to be like
Speaker 3: a previous discussion and given what he said, like, I
Speaker 3: thought that, you know, he was like, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say this, But then I thought like the question was
Speaker 3: very specific. Yeah, for them to have talked about that,
Speaker 3: I think he really believes that. In his heart, he
Speaker 3: really believes he really believes it.
Speaker 2: He really believes it. But how about I got some fun.
Speaker 2: I understand Patrick Beverly's not a scorer. I understand that's
Speaker 2: not always there for but he's played six hundred career
Speaker 2: in NBA games. He has scored twenty points twenty eleven times.
Speaker 2: He has scored more than twenty five points once in
Speaker 2: his career, and the career I was twenty six. He says, Oh,
Speaker 2: you know, everywhere I go, we make the playoffs. Fun
Speaker 2: fact he was in Houston they never made it out
Speaker 2: a round two. He then got hurt. They made the
Speaker 2: conference finals. For the first time since a Keen was there.
Speaker 2: They then traded him after not making another conference finals
Speaker 2: for a couple of years, they immediately make the conference
Speaker 2: finals again. He goes to the Clippers and they're a tough,
Speaker 2: scrappy team, and then they lose Kawhi Leonard and they
Speaker 2: make the conference finals. Do you know what Tylo's big
Speaker 2: adjustment was. He benched Patrick Beverley. And here's the problem. Okay,
Speaker 2: the lack of self awareness, demanse, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I think the lack of self awareness has landed him
Speaker 3: on the Lakers. I think that if Patrick Beverly didn't
Speaker 3: have like if he if he wasn't on his usual antics,
Speaker 3: I don't think any team is like really looking at
Speaker 3: him like that. I think he's just like another average
Speaker 3: NBA player.
Speaker 2: That's fair counterpoint. Rudy Gobert was traded. He was traded
Speaker 2: for nine picks and players. Rudy Gobert is what, at best,
Speaker 2: the twenty fifth best player in the league, at worst,
Speaker 2: the thirty fifth best player in the league. Right, we'll
Speaker 2: call him thirtieth. Patrick Beverly was the eighth most important
Speaker 2: asset included in a trade for Rudy Gobert. So the NBA,
Speaker 2: his own team, was like, all right, you have around
Speaker 2: six percent of the value of the league's thirtieth best player.
Speaker 2: That team that traded for him, the Jazz. Then the
Speaker 2: Lakers called him. They're like, hey, we have this kid,
Speaker 2: Taylor Horton Tucker, and the Jazz were like, oh, the
Speaker 2: guy who, according to the Nerdy Number player efficiency rating
Speaker 2: value or replacement player, was the second worst regular play
Speaker 2: like second worst player in the entire league to get
Speaker 2: regular minutes last year. They're like, yeah, we want to
Speaker 2: trade him to you. And that team was like, boy,
Speaker 2: straight up, one for one, will you do it?
Speaker 3: And that's it.
Speaker 4: And this guy is saying Lebron James arguably the greatest
Speaker 4: player ever, inarguably one of the three greatest players ever,
Speaker 4: and Anthony Davis, who's a top seventy five guy in
Speaker 4: a champion they get to play with me. Yeah, because
Speaker 4: I made the playoffs last year they didn't. There's a difference.
Speaker 2: You're right. He does seem to be repairing that relationship
Speaker 2: with Russell Westbrook, which is nice because he just named Palm.
Speaker 2: Did I am telling you right? So Patrick Beverly, also,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember this when the Clippers
Speaker 2: got Kawhi and Paul George, Patrick Beverly reportedly said about
Speaker 2: Steph Curry, he had his time. It's my time, my time,
Speaker 2: not the Warriors had their run. Now it's Clippers time,
Speaker 2: my time. When they got Kawi and Paul George. It
Speaker 2: was in summer League was going on Vegas. Saul lebron
Speaker 2: James refused to shake his hand, saying, you don't like
Speaker 2: consort with the enemy.
Speaker 4: This guy.
Speaker 2: Doesn't comprehend like this would. I'm not I'm gonna mix
Speaker 2: metaphors here a bit, but can you imagine if like
Speaker 2: there was like some Fox Company party and it's like
Speaker 2: there's Colin Skipp and Shannon and someone walks up to
Speaker 2: you and it's like, man, it's pretty cool that you're
Speaker 2: in this room with these guys, and you're like, you've
Speaker 2: seen the views on each of our last YouTube videos.
Speaker 2: Mine did sixty thousand, and theirs are in the twenties
Speaker 2: at the moment they're in a room with me. I
Speaker 2: can't believe it, and I'm sorry for that's the meanest
Speaker 2: thing I've ever said to you. I just compared to
Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly, and I mean it good. October twenty fifth
Speaker 2: is the day he's eligible to be traded. I'm so
Speaker 2: far out on the Beverly you gotta trade us. And then,
Speaker 2: because you know what's gonna happen, there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: moment that because Lebron. Listen, Lebron does tend to if
Speaker 2: there's a defensive laps, even if it's on Lebron, do
Speaker 2: the little like look around like and Beverly's gonna bark
Speaker 2: back and leb it might be the Lebron's first scandal
Speaker 2: of his he might strike this myths. I can't believe
Speaker 2: the team that I currently root for employees, Patrick Beverly.
Speaker 2: It's such a bummer.
Speaker 3: He's a crazy We'll be right back time.
Speaker 2: Great for a segment, buddy, awesome. That's fun. And I'm
Speaker 2: glad we know the Beverly thing got you, got you
Speaker 2: more involved, you know what. I'm also really excited for
Speaker 2: before you get to the show that and I know
Speaker 2: you said you might start working at the restaurant again,
Speaker 2: like on the weekends, a little extra money, you know,
Speaker 2: see something get out of the house, which I respect.
Speaker 2: But for the first time in forever, you're you and
Speaker 2: I are gonna be able to watch football together on
Speaker 2: Sundays in forever, like even they even if you pick
Speaker 2: up some shifts at the restaurant, like you and I
Speaker 2: have been able to sit and watch football together in
Speaker 2: years in Houston.
Speaker 3: Was probably like the last time it was.
Speaker 2: And you didn't really care about it. You were, you know,
Speaker 2: you were basketball where I'm going to the wreck. I
Speaker 2: was going to the wreck and then walking out the
Speaker 2: back door of the wreck and hanging out with his friends,
Speaker 2: and then I went and picked them up, like, oh boy,
Speaker 2: another seven hour baskets. I mean, I would imagine I
Speaker 2: don't know this to be true, but I mean, you were.
Speaker 2: You were a great basketball player, but not as great
Speaker 2: as seven hours at day at the wreck would imply.
Speaker 2: I was just like, ah, yeah, okay, sure, wreck and
Speaker 2: then burger king after Okay.
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Speaker 2: How are we starting the second segment?
Speaker 3: We are starting with Nick's tennis corner.
Speaker 2: You're damn straight.
Speaker 3: We are has a long time tennis historian, I can
Speaker 3: say this is really this is really a great US Open.
Speaker 2: It's been unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Francis tiafo Is in the semifinals for.
Speaker 2: How about this? Just real quick? First Black American to
Speaker 2: make the semifinals of the US Open in fifty years
Speaker 2: since Arthur Ash, for whom the stadium is named after
Speaker 2: at the US Open. Oh how about that? But go ahead?
Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, that's that's great For a tennis historian such
Speaker 3: as myself, I don't know that. It was a great
Speaker 3: match last night that kept you up pretty late. Yep,
Speaker 3: and you and your boy Nick Kurios lost his mind
Speaker 3: after he lost. What's the best story of this tournament?
Speaker 2: Okay, so a few things. Then we'll get the last
Speaker 2: night's match. Because so we'll get the last night's match.
Speaker 2: In a moment, Serena is the story. And I was
Speaker 2: at her final match of course, uh that was Friday night.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable, but at this point that's a week old.
Speaker 2: People know that, and the Serena is the story. Nadal
Speaker 2: getting bounced, Djokovic not getting vaccinated, Medvedev getting bounced opened
Speaker 2: it up for Curios, and then Kurios melted down. I mean,
Speaker 2: Curios has Medvedev's number. He's four and one now in
Speaker 2: his career against Medvedev beat him pretty convincingly a few
Speaker 2: days ago, and then yesterday melted down and blew it. Tiafo,
Speaker 2: who was this unbelievable prospect who couldn't quite put it together,
Speaker 2: but is so good when he's on and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden has one hundred and thirty mile an hour serve,
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty mile an hour serve. He looks
Speaker 2: like he absolutely could win it. But then there's the
Speaker 2: winner from last night, who is the next face of tennis, Alcarez,
Speaker 2: nineteen year old Spanish kid. So the match last night
Speaker 2: that I stayed up for five is the second longest
Speaker 2: match in.
Speaker 3: The youth that you stayed up for.
Speaker 2: I watched check my tweets. I watched the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I thought you were playing poker last night. So no,
Speaker 3: Mom went out and she did her thing, and my
Speaker 3: sisters were sleeping, and I was sitting there like watching
Speaker 3: them while playing Call of Duty. I thought you went
Speaker 3: to go play poker. Was the tennis match on at
Speaker 3: the place that you were playing poker at?
Speaker 2: Yes, but I was still watching.
Speaker 3: Because I mean you said stayed up late like you were.
Speaker 3: I stayed and you were able to go to sleep
Speaker 3: at the poker tournament.
Speaker 2: No, all right, Yes, the news schedule for the TV
Speaker 2: show has allowed me to have a bit more of
Speaker 2: a you know, vibrant night life.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Yeah, so I was at a card game
Speaker 2: till three point thirty in the morning. But the card game,
Speaker 2: I was watching the tennis match. Okay, the second longest
Speaker 2: match in US Open history, and it was again. Alcarez wins.
Speaker 2: The first set, is up a tripull break and triple
Speaker 2: set point in the second set to go up two
Speaker 2: sets to nothing, blows it and they get to deuce.
Speaker 2: He then has another set point in the second set,
Speaker 2: blows it and Sinner wins, so now it's one set
Speaker 2: to one set. Third set. They get to a tiebreak again,
Speaker 2: so six game, six games, it's a race to seven.
Speaker 2: Loses the tie break, seven nothing, seven straight points for center,
Speaker 2: and it's like, oh my god, he's gonna lose. Fourth set.
Speaker 2: Cinner has a match point. Win this point, you win
Speaker 2: the match Alchaz saves it, wins the set, then wins
Speaker 2: the fifth set convincingly. Has did you see the behind
Speaker 2: the back shot? No, hold on, I have to show
Speaker 2: you this. I absolutely have to show you this, because
Speaker 2: it is he didn't even win this point, demonse, but
Speaker 2: this is this guy. Hold on, I look at this.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna be able to hear it, but just
Speaker 2: watch what he does. Shut it. Sorry for the audio there,
Speaker 2: and I, oh, yeah, it's unbelievable what this guy can do.
Speaker 2: This has been as good of a tournament as I
Speaker 2: can remember. No Nadal the last week, Djokovic doesn't show
Speaker 2: Serena's only plays three matches and it's still so compelling.
Speaker 2: So listen, my pick Coco lost the other day. My
Speaker 2: picks went down in flames. Yeah, it's hard to pick
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty eight men and one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty eight women. It's hard to pick the winners I
Speaker 2: had Coco and Nadal and either even made the semis. Okay,
Speaker 2: my bat, but I am so enthralled by it. Can
Speaker 2: I say one more tennis thing before remove on because
Speaker 2: we have to hit time today. I beg of you,
Speaker 2: Is it the USTA? Whoever puts on the US Open?
Speaker 2: I think it's USTA. Can you please move the US
Speaker 2: Open back one week? Because there is nothing more illogical
Speaker 2: than the US Open, which is the culmination of the
Speaker 2: season of tennis, having its men's final in the afternoon
Speaker 2: of the first NFL Sunday of the year. It's so dumb,
Speaker 2: it's so silly. Move it back one week, you A,
Speaker 2: then we'll get more people watching, or at the very least,
Speaker 2: if you don't want to do that, put it on
Speaker 2: Sunday night so you're only up against one NFL game
Speaker 2: and you can you know a lot of you will
Speaker 2: multi screen whatever. But if you do that, you're still
Speaker 2: what you're losing out on. Is any chance at any
Speaker 2: sports show on the Tennis channel or my guy Mad
Speaker 2: Dogs radio show talks about you on Monday, We're all
Speaker 2: gonna be talking NFL the whole time. College football's figured
Speaker 2: this out. They try to have some monster games the
Speaker 2: weekend before the NFL starts, and they're all not even
Speaker 2: playing on Sunday. They're playing on Saturday. So it has
Speaker 2: been unbelievable when I feel really happy that tennis is
Speaker 2: in good hand. Sinner's only twenty one. He played great yesterday,
Speaker 2: and Alkarez could end up being a legend if he
Speaker 2: wins the US Open at nineteen and he's the favorite. Well,
Speaker 2: I can't say he's the favorite right now, because the
Speaker 2: other thing is tomorrow. He's got to play Tiafo and
Speaker 2: a TFO pardon me, and you do worry that playing
Speaker 2: the second longest match in US Open history at night,
Speaker 2: that he is he gonna have any legs left, so
Speaker 2: TFO could win it. The whole thing's great. I hope
Speaker 2: the winner of TFO Akarez wins the whole thing. All right, now,
Speaker 2: let's go very fast here.
Speaker 3: It's time for two wrongs. Run right, let's get it.
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson, the Ravens reportedly still far apart from contract commands,
Speaker 3: according to Ian Rappaport, how will this affect his play positively, negatively,
Speaker 3: or not at all?
Speaker 2: All right, I do wonder if this gets done, maybe
Speaker 2: even gets done before people see this. But probably not.
Speaker 2: I think the answer is going to be not at all.
Speaker 2: There is a chance it affects him negatively just in
Speaker 2: this regard. Part of what makes Lamar so devastating is
Speaker 2: he plays with such a reckless abandon and his style.
Speaker 2: Could it even subconsciously, could he play a little more
Speaker 2: cautiously right, throw the ball away instead of run?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And maybe the Ravens want him to play that way,
Speaker 2: but it's not what is their best chance of winning
Speaker 2: each individual game when he doesn't have the one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty million locked right. So I don't think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be positive. It's probably gonna be not at all.
Speaker 2: But if it was gonna if you only gave me,
Speaker 2: it's either gonna help him or hurt him, I would
Speaker 2: say hurts more likely.
Speaker 3: Next three of the most historic franchises in the NFL
Speaker 3: are having questions at quarterback. Who benches their current starter first,
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh with Mitch Trubisky, San Francisco with Trey Lance, or
Speaker 3: the Giants with Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely not San Francisco with Trey Lance. It's
Speaker 2: definitely not. I don't really look at Mitch Trubisky as
Speaker 2: the Steelers starter. He is, but they he's a stopgap.
Speaker 2: They drafted a guy in the first round. That guy,
Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett, played well in the preseason. I think it's
Speaker 2: Mitch Trubisky is just holding onto that job for a
Speaker 2: month until I think that's inevitable. So the answer is Trubisky.
Speaker 2: But I do think Daniel Jones gets binched this year
Speaker 2: eventually as well. And that's real benching. That's a guy
Speaker 2: they spent a top ten pick on. It's supposed to
Speaker 2: be their guy, and they're gonna have to turn the
Speaker 2: page on next.
Speaker 3: Sometimes preseason storylines matter, Sometimes they don't. Which storyline will
Speaker 3: matter in a month. Roger has no Rogers has no receivers,
Speaker 3: Patriots offensive line in disarray, offense in disarray, Tom Bradley,
Speaker 3: and Tom Brady's personal life.
Speaker 2: All right, I think these could be three rights. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think they all could matter. But if I'm gonna
Speaker 2: power rank them, I'm gonna say the one that's gonna
Speaker 2: matter the least is whatever tom Brady is going through.
Speaker 2: I think he'll be able to compartmentalize. I think the
Speaker 2: one that will matter the next lease or second, I
Speaker 2: should say, is Rogers wide receivers. Listen, DeVante Adams is
Speaker 2: awesome and he had a very special on the field
Speaker 2: relationship with him, and I think he's gonna miss him.
Speaker 2: But he's also Aaron Rodgers. I think he'll make do.
Speaker 2: But it's going to matter. The Patriots offense is gonna
Speaker 2: be a show all year, and it's going to I
Speaker 2: think they're gonna win six.
Speaker 3: Games, seven games with Patriots. Sorry, all right, since our
Speaker 3: last Since our last part, Donovan Mitchell has traded not
Speaker 3: to the Knicks though, but to the Calves. Who won
Speaker 3: this trade? The Jazz? The Calves or the Knicks.
Speaker 2: Oh, listen, I think the Jazz came in last of these. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna power rank them. Sorry, I know it's not
Speaker 2: the case the segment, uh I would I don't like
Speaker 2: what was reportedly the knicks best offer was a far
Speaker 2: better return than the one the Jazz got. And you're
Speaker 2: gonna have Knicks draft picks than Calves draft picks because
Speaker 2: the Caves have Darius Garland, Evan Mobley and in two
Speaker 2: years they might have bron and Browny set them aside.
Speaker 2: So I think the cat the Jazz lost it. I
Speaker 2: think the Knicks, though, came out okay, because I think
Speaker 2: it would have been crazy what that initial offer was
Speaker 2: reported of r J. Grimes three unprotected firsts. That's that's
Speaker 2: too much for Donovan mitchellhen you already have Jalen Bronson.
Speaker 2: But the real winners are the Calves. Donovan Mitchell provides
Speaker 2: exactly what they need. Mobley and Jared Allen will be
Speaker 2: able to cover up the defensive deficiencies. And now you
Speaker 2: have four legit ant, high level rote starters. Garland is
Speaker 2: an all star, Donovan Mitchell's approven score, Mobiley's gonna be
Speaker 2: a superstar, and Jared Allen's nice piece. They just the
Speaker 2: only spot they don't have a small forward. Only there
Speaker 2: was a small forward, then two years could be available.
Speaker 2: And if only they had a draft picked the year,
Speaker 2: the one draft pick they didn't trade is the year
Speaker 2: it'd be Brown. He's one and done year intriguing little
Speaker 2: part three for Lebron year twenty two, that would be Cleveland.
Speaker 2: It'd be unbelievable, all right.
Speaker 3: Last Katie was rated in ninety six in NBA two
Speaker 3: K twenty three and took to Twitter to call it
Speaker 3: Ronnie two K Katie is actually mad being sincere. Where
Speaker 3: is a Twitter genius.
Speaker 2: He's a Twitter genius, and he's actually mad at two K.
Speaker 3: I think he is.
Speaker 2: I think he's by the way, is not your screw up.
Speaker 3: I had no idea that that was up there.
Speaker 2: Hold on, no, you did this right. Is not your
Speaker 2: screw up. I'm gonna ask our producers what's the difference
Speaker 2: between being sincere and actually mad. I'm gonna go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and say one of those actually
Speaker 2: mad being sincere should be being sarcastic, being sarcastic. But
Speaker 2: that's all right, you know what, we we read what's
Speaker 2: on the screen. We're just trained monkeys over here. Just
Speaker 2: read what's on the screen. But the so, I think
Speaker 2: he actually is mad, but there's I'm gonna tell KD
Speaker 2: why he's not ninety go ahead, he's actually mad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no way he got swept in the freaking
Speaker 3: playoffs this here in the first round and is questioning
Speaker 3: his six.
Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, and I love two K. I'm
Speaker 2: in the game. But uh, they've got it, guys. They
Speaker 2: took They were a little cowardly with the rankings this
Speaker 2: year because they put Lebron, Katie Steph Embiid and one
Speaker 2: other person.
Speaker 3: Klay Thompson kind of dirty.
Speaker 2: But they put all five of those guys tied at
Speaker 2: ninety six and then Jannis at ninety seven. Y's best
Speaker 2: player in the league, yoah should be But why are
Speaker 2: they they all bunched uff like that? And the answer
Speaker 2: is because they have to protect the sacred cow that
Speaker 2: is Michael Jeffrey Jordan. He's on the cover, so he
Speaker 2: ninety nine and we can't even have anyone in ninety
Speaker 2: eight because got you and nobody's even close. So now
Speaker 2: the top is ninety seven and then it's all bunched.
Speaker 2: But listen, the Giannis has to be the highest ranked
Speaker 2: player in the game. Katie's tied for second. He should
Speaker 2: be happy.
Speaker 3: I bet Shaquille o'neils on ninety nine as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know. If Jordan's in ninety nine, then I
Speaker 2: bet Shack's in ninety eight. All right, we'll be right back,
Speaker 2: all right, welcome back in when we need to clock
Speaker 2: here very quick, final C block, because if I'm being
Speaker 2: totally honest, we got another show to record, and I
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