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Speaker 2: get to what we're not doing on today's show, as
Speaker 2: we always do. What is not on today's show is
Speaker 2: Western Arference Finals Game one, because that takes place in
Speaker 2: a few hours from us actually doing this, even though
Speaker 2: it took place a few hours after you guys were
Speaker 2: hearing this.
Speaker 4: It's confusing, but just trust me.
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Speaker 2: Brady getting roasted Tom, maybe more accurately, Tom Brady's social
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Speaker 2: We will get to what is on today show in
Speaker 2: just a minute, but if you didn't hear the episode
Speaker 2: earlier in the week up, we have up the clock
Speaker 2: by two minutes. We have twelve minutes for the first segment.
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Speaker 2: the new twelve minute time frame is what we should
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Speaker 2: What are we starting with?
Speaker 5: So, yeah, Miami won Game one against Boston, just like
Speaker 5: you said, yeah, I'm not abandoning shit, but it's uh,
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously there were key players missing. You did
Speaker 5: say that the Heat would win because like, you know,
Speaker 5: Celtics were gas or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they were missing.
Speaker 2: You're missing Marcus Smart and Al Horford.
Speaker 5: I feel like if that's not the narrative, they definitely
Speaker 5: win the game. Okay, but you know, so are we
Speaker 5: all just sleeping on Jimmy Butler in the heater?
Speaker 3: What's going on here? I'm not sleep on Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2: All right, So a lot of things discussing. First of all,
Speaker 2: I will give you credit. You have been the biggest
Speaker 2: Robert Williams time Lord fan there is.
Speaker 4: And he played yesterday and played well.
Speaker 2: Played very well, and it was looking great for the Celtics.
Speaker 2: The Celtics are up ten at halftime, and if they
Speaker 2: win that game in Miami, no Marcus Smart, no Al Horford,
Speaker 2: It's very hard to figure out how the Heat are
Speaker 2: going to be able to win four of the next
Speaker 2: six as the Celtics get healthier. But then the Celtics
Speaker 2: and notably your guy Tatum, had the worst quarter they've
Speaker 2: had all postseas yea, and now that was inflicted upon
Speaker 2: them by the Miami Heat defense in Jimmy Butler. But
Speaker 2: Tatum tied the modern playoff record for most turnovers in
Speaker 2: a quarter in any playoff game. He had six turnovers
Speaker 2: in the third quarter and it went from a ten
Speaker 2: point Celtics lead to a ten point Celtics deficit in
Speaker 2: the span of six game minutes. First six minutes of
Speaker 2: the third quarter was a twenty two to two Miami run. Now,
Speaker 2: that was done some by Jimmy, but a lot by
Speaker 2: the Miami.
Speaker 4: Defense as a whole.
Speaker 2: But to answer the question about are we sleeping on
Speaker 2: the Heat, I mean they're the one seed. They made
Speaker 2: the finals two years ago. Everyone discounts that finals appearance
Speaker 2: because what they're really trying to do because so much
Speaker 2: of not just for me, but from so much NBA
Speaker 2: commentary revolves around the Sun that is Lebron James, and
Speaker 2: so people discount what the Heat did in the bubble
Speaker 2: as a way to discount what Lebron won in the bubble.
Speaker 2: If you acknowledge the Heat, we're an awesome team. It
Speaker 2: gives more validity to Lebron's championship instead of me calling
Speaker 2: it a bubble title or a Mickey Mouse title. But
Speaker 2: if you look at it like, okay, so the Heat
Speaker 2: went to the finals in twenty twenty. Last year they
Speaker 2: ran into peak of his powers Giannis, and they played
Speaker 2: poorly and guys were banged up and they got swept
Speaker 2: in around one. This year they're the one seed. They
Speaker 2: have been able to deal with injuries throughout the year,
Speaker 2: still be the one seed. And now we get to
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler. Which this is something we acknowledge is happens
Speaker 2: all the time with some regularity in the negative direction.
Speaker 2: But people need to open up their eyes that this
Speaker 2: can happen the positive direction.
Speaker 4: Here's what we know.
Speaker 2: What happens in the negative direction. An all time great
Speaker 2: regular season player gets to the postseason and gets worse
Speaker 2: every year.
Speaker 4: James Harden is an example.
Speaker 2: James Harden is regular season wise, statistically one of the
Speaker 2: greatest players ever, and in the postseason is twenty five
Speaker 2: to thirty percent worse. Before your era, Carl Malone was
Speaker 2: like this, Carl Malone second leading all time scorer. Well
Speaker 2: did Lebron pass him yet, I'm not certain, but regardless
Speaker 2: he was the second leading all time scorer one two
Speaker 2: MVPs finished second to other times and Carl Malone come
Speaker 2: the postseason would be just a little bit worse. We
Speaker 2: would say, Okay, you're great in the regular season and
Speaker 2: you're just good in the postseason. Jimmy Butler's the inverse
Speaker 2: of that. He's good in the regular season twenty points,
Speaker 2: five rebounds, five assists, and come to the playoffs, he's
Speaker 2: a different level. Gone. He ups his game by twenty
Speaker 2: five to thirty percent. Jimmy Butler the year they went
Speaker 2: to the finals had zero forty point games in the
Speaker 2: regular season.
Speaker 4: In the playoffs, he had too.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler this year had zero forty point games in
Speaker 2: the regular season. In the playoffs he already has three.
Speaker 2: So is Jimmy Butler a superstar in the regular season?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: In the playoffs? Are there ten guys you'd rather have?
Speaker 2: Sure doesn't seem like it. So in the playoffs he's
Speaker 2: a superstar in the playoffs that matters the most. We
Speaker 2: saw this a bit with your guy Rondo near the
Speaker 2: end of his career, but that wasn't to the same.
Speaker 4: Was happening with Rondo was Rondo was.
Speaker 2: Bad in the regular season and then would be above
Speaker 2: average to good in the playoffs. Yeah, Butler being good
Speaker 2: in the regular season and then great in the playoffs
Speaker 2: is a unique thing. But yeah, I mean some people
Speaker 2: are sleeping on the Heat. Some people picked the Heat
Speaker 2: to win the series. Heat and seven was the pick.
Speaker 2: Feel pretty good about it. But you guys will get
Speaker 2: Smart back, You'll get Horford back, Your guy.
Speaker 4: Tatum needs to play better. It all is not lost.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a tight nip and tuck series. However, Yeah,
Speaker 2: some people saying, well, Heat, not me because I've gotten
Speaker 2: basically everything about these NBA playoffs right except for the
Speaker 2: Buck Celtics series, and Chris Milton was out, so it
Speaker 2: doesn't even really.
Speaker 3: Can there's sticking with Heat and seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course I'm not going to abandon it after
Speaker 2: they win Game one, of course.
Speaker 4: Not all right, what's the next?
Speaker 3: Chris Faull says he's coming back next year. Wolves reports
Speaker 3: that Ayton's due for a max and free agency.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Suns fan, wait on, Yeah, Suns fans are blaming
Speaker 5: everyone from Maddy Williams to Kendall Jinner.
Speaker 3: So did they just have a bad Game seven or
Speaker 3: do you think they need to blow it up?
Speaker 2: There's a fork in the road moment for the Suns
Speaker 2: because Robert Sarver, who deals with a bunch of off
Speaker 2: the court stuff that he inflicted upon himself, is notoriously cheap.
Speaker 4: He's the owner of the Suns.
Speaker 2: I do right now. Booker's on a max, Chris Paul's
Speaker 2: making thirty million per Mikhail Bridges is making twenty million,
Speaker 2: Jay Crowder's making ten million, Landry Shamman's making ten million.
Speaker 2: There in Landry Shaman's contract disaster. And that's before they
Speaker 2: pay eight and a nine. So the fork in the
Speaker 2: road moment is this because Aighton will get a MAX
Speaker 2: from somewhere.
Speaker 4: The question is will it be Phoenix?
Speaker 2: They could have given him the max last year after
Speaker 2: he helped lead them to the finals, they didn't.
Speaker 4: Are they going to give him a MAX this year?
Speaker 3: Any idea why that happened?
Speaker 2: Well, I think because Starbar's incredibly cheap, and because there's
Speaker 2: questions about Aton's maturity, and there's questions about does it
Speaker 2: make sense to play a center to pay a center
Speaker 2: in this NBA the max unless he's Embiid or Jokics
Speaker 2: that caliber of a guy. But somebody will. The other
Speaker 2: problem for the poor Suns is eight and went number
Speaker 2: one in Luca's draft, so they could have just had
Speaker 2: Luca and I said they took DeAndre Aid, but set
Speaker 2: that aside.
Speaker 4: Here is to answer your question. Yes, it was a disastrous.
Speaker 2: All time gag job of the game seven that was
Speaker 2: not indicative to the quality of their team. But Chris
Speaker 2: Paul's thirty seven. There's no reason to believe he's going
Speaker 2: to be better. He's only going to slowly deterior. So
Speaker 2: the Sons have a choice. Run it back one more
Speaker 2: time with Chris, maybe sign in, trade Aighton, or just
Speaker 2: let Aighton walk and hope Michale Bridges gets better, Booker
Speaker 2: bounces back from a rough series. Chris can hold on
Speaker 2: or pivot the other way, sign Ayton move on from Chris.
Speaker 2: So there's a trade out there if they want it.
Speaker 2: That's an easy one to make. That is actually about
Speaker 2: the Lakers that we can discuss in a moment. I
Speaker 2: don't know if they would want to do it, but
Speaker 2: it exists. But there are other teams. There's not a
Speaker 2: lot that would want thirty seven soon to be thirty
Speaker 2: eight year old Chris Paul making thirty million each of
Speaker 2: the next two years, but they could do that. I
Speaker 2: don't think they're going to do that. I think they're
Speaker 2: going to run it all back and move on from Ayton.
Speaker 2: But the short version is this, I think the Sun's
Speaker 2: window a slam shut. I think the next time the
Speaker 2: Suns make a conference finals, let alone in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 2: Chris Paul will be long retired.
Speaker 4: And if you agree with me on that, then you probably.
Speaker 2: At least consider moving on from CP three, which I
Speaker 2: think leads us well oddly enough into our next topic.
Speaker 2: But go ahead and tell us about our next topic,
Speaker 2: which appears to be about the Lake somehow.
Speaker 3: The Lakers made the show today.
Speaker 5: Yeah, while since we talked about them perspective, coaches are
Speaker 5: saying that Russ is still in their plans.
Speaker 3: Coach Magic and Phil Johnson are helping.
Speaker 2: The Phil Jackson. Phil, what I said, this is Phil Johnson.
Speaker 2: You think the Magic Johnson?
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, Phil and Magie Johnson are responsible for this.
Speaker 3: But you know, who do you do? You do you
Speaker 3: think Russ will actually, you know, has any chance of
Speaker 3: coming back to the Lakers.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I think that people are misunderstanding. Of course,
Speaker 2: the Lakers are telling coaches that Russ might be back
Speaker 2: because they're not going to hire all these guys and
Speaker 2: if you interview a guy for a job, he doesn't
Speaker 2: get the job, then he can tell anyone in everyone
Speaker 2: they're all they're done with Russ.
Speaker 4: They're trading Russ.
Speaker 2: If they want to have any chance to have any
Speaker 2: type of leverage in any potential Russ trade, which they're
Speaker 2: already kneecapped on, there needs to be the pos like, hey,
Speaker 2: we might just run it back and keep him. So
Speaker 2: I think I can't. But even though Phil Jackson reportedly
Speaker 2: has said keep Russ and trade Lebron, which is just insanity,
Speaker 2: I love if the Lakers did that. By the way,
Speaker 2: I don't like Lebron playing on the West Coast. It
Speaker 2: ruins my sleep schedule during the year. The Lakers are
Speaker 2: are our poverty franchise at this point, not but I
Speaker 2: don't think they're going.
Speaker 5: Obviously, don't think Russ was responsible for too much of
Speaker 5: the downfall of the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think you watched enough of Lakers Russ
Speaker 2: was terrible with that said, let me get back to
Speaker 2: the CP three thing. Okay, So Russ only has one
Speaker 2: year left on his deal. If the Lakers call up
Speaker 2: the Suns and say.
Speaker 4: You want to pay thirty seven soon to be thirty
Speaker 4: eight year old Chris Paul. I don't know. We like
Speaker 4: paying old guys.
Speaker 2: You want to be able to get off Landry Shammits
Speaker 2: ten million this year and next year, we'll give you
Speaker 2: Russ plus a couple of draft picks future picks that
Speaker 2: could be good because Lebron will be gone by then,
Speaker 2: Chris Paul will be gone by then. You can have
Speaker 2: those picks for Russ, for Chris Paul and Landry Shammitt
Speaker 2: plus picks from the Lakers, And then Starver can decide
Speaker 2: that Suns can decide will we try to use Russ
Speaker 2: or we just buy him out? Will we try to
Speaker 2: pay him thirty eight million of the forty seven million
Speaker 2: to pay him to go away? He can go sign
Speaker 2: somewhere else, and we can instead of being on the
Speaker 2: hook for around ninety million for Chris over the next
Speaker 2: three years, We're just gonna be on the hook for
Speaker 2: this forty to forty seven million for us this year,
Speaker 2: and we get off Shammit's money and we get the
Speaker 2: draft picks. Because if they do want to, the Lakers
Speaker 2: are going to really have to thread the needle on
Speaker 2: this rush trade. They're going to have to take back
Speaker 2: bad contracts. Is Chris Paul a bad contract at this point?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's it's hard to say he is given how well
Speaker 2: he played during the regular season. But it's also hard
Speaker 2: to trust his body at the end of a regular
Speaker 2: season at the end of a postseason. But I don't
Speaker 2: really want to slander Chris Paul right now because this
Speaker 2: guy we're about to talk about is taking care of
Speaker 2: it for the whole world. What's our final topic, Demansey, It's.
Speaker 5: Been a few days since Patrick Beverley went on his
Speaker 5: disrespectful rant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely went in on CP three.
Speaker 5: Players like Katie Dame and Matt Barnes back Chris Paul up, Yeah,
Speaker 5: saying that he was out of line. I think, you know,
Speaker 5: he might have just been trying to be entertaining, Like
Speaker 5: why would anybody care about this?
Speaker 2: It's a weird thing. But Patrick Beverly is in the
Speaker 2: exact wrong position to be disrespectful of a great athlete.
Speaker 2: Here are the people that, rightly or wrongly, the general
Speaker 2: public has no problem with with being.
Speaker 4: Disrespectful of a great player.
Speaker 2: Other great players Shack and barklay On inside the NBA
Speaker 2: can say whatever they want, or guys like me who
Speaker 2: never played the only like, if you never play, you're
Speaker 2: Steven A. If you're me, you can just crush people,
Speaker 2: and people like that's the job. If you're an all
Speaker 2: time great, it's like, oh, you gotta listen to him,
Speaker 2: it's all time great. If you were a role player,
Speaker 2: people are like, don't how dare you? How dare you
Speaker 2: take a shot at Chris Paul like that. It's a
Speaker 2: really weird thing where if Beverly was just way worse
Speaker 2: at basketball and never made the NBA, nothing he'd be
Speaker 2: saying would be considered that out of line. But because
Speaker 2: he's good enough to make the NBA but not good
Speaker 2: enough to be a good NBA player, he's getting.
Speaker 3: Take on it. By the way, that's what he said.
Speaker 2: He was like, listen, we were role players. We gotta
Speaker 2: we gotta zimmy exactly right. No, that's how it works.
Speaker 2: And so it's why I've always wondered. And then I'll
Speaker 2: wrap up like our Laslow asked me this once, my
Speaker 2: old buddy from can't see Radio. If he thinks quarterbacks
Speaker 2: get like, who are quarterbacks more bothered by when they
Speaker 2: get criticized by? Like if I am criticizing Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2: Is he more bothered by me criticizing him someone who
Speaker 2: never played, or if Dan Orlovsky criticized him when Orlovsky
Speaker 2: played but was known for running out of the back
Speaker 2: of the end zone on his safety and was.
Speaker 4: A bad player. Who is a great analyst?
Speaker 2: Like who? Who doesn't bother the athlete more?
Speaker 4: And I think, actually it bothers.
Speaker 2: The alute talking right, exactly right. But for some reason
Speaker 2: the commentary are like, ah, that's his job, all right,
Speaker 2: We'll we write back.
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Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly is he's always hated Chris Paul right, I mean.
Speaker 5: And like he tried to like make it seem like
Speaker 5: it wasn't hate by saying, you know, like I.
Speaker 3: Love the guy.
Speaker 4: Here's the other problem.
Speaker 2: If Pat Beverly's going to talk about how bad of
Speaker 2: a defender Chris Paul. And by the way, Chris Paul
Speaker 2: for a decade was one of the best defenders in
Speaker 2: the releet.
Speaker 3: He's old, he's nine times.
Speaker 2: Defense, but now he's gotten worst defensively and he's always
Speaker 2: been small, which makes it hard. Right, But let's say
Speaker 2: Pat Beverly was Jamal Crawford. If Jamal Crawford was like,
Speaker 2: gotta tell you, look at Chris Paul up there, and
Speaker 2: we start looking because Beverly like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The problem is Beverly has never been able to exploit anyone.
Speaker 4: On offense.
Speaker 2: Ever, Like Beverly at his apex is very good defender
Speaker 2: and might knock down a couple threes. The idea that
Speaker 2: you could have picked the worst defender in the league
Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly is not like clear out for me.
Speaker 4: He's just a trash offensive Oh my god, which is
Speaker 4: what made it more laughable.
Speaker 2: Chris Paul's final five games, which were the worst five
Speaker 2: game stretch of his career are Beverly's career average?
Speaker 4: Like, stop it, all right?
Speaker 2: I failed hitting the clock that first segment, but I
Speaker 2: was close.
Speaker 3: I was really close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, within a minute, I think it's okay. I'll hit
Speaker 2: it this segment. We got ten minutes on the clock.
Speaker 2: It's second segment of the show. It's episode twenty of
Speaker 2: the What's Right with the Great podcast? You did very
Speaker 2: well that segment. Yet you know why? How I know
Speaker 2: you did well is your evolution as a broadcaster. You
Speaker 2: had one little stumble reading the question. You didn't let
Speaker 2: it bother you. You just powered through. You're like, ah, I know,
Speaker 2: no reason.
Speaker 4: To stop down. We don't. Let's just keep it moving.
Speaker 2: People understand, Demonse is here not necessarily because he enunciates
Speaker 2: perfectly or necessarily knows that the guy's name is Phil Jackson,
Speaker 2: not Phil Johnson. He's here because he's the eye candy
Speaker 2: of the show and occasionally shocks you with the good take.
Speaker 2: All right, Demonse, what are we starting with for the
Speaker 2: second segment?
Speaker 3: Draft lottery happened Tuesday night? Yep, magic getting the number
Speaker 3: one page.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the lottery is fun. But what can
Speaker 3: we do to make it better.
Speaker 2: Oh, a little nick makes it right? All right, here's
Speaker 2: the deal. Because I actually like the lottery. I like
Speaker 2: how they flatten the odds. I enjoy watching it every year.
Speaker 2: There's some suspense. I think Malika did an excellent job
Speaker 2: on the broadcast yesterday. Malika is the young lady who
Speaker 2: I told you her kind of rise to prominence in
Speaker 2: NBA media. How cool that is to unbelieve. And she
Speaker 2: does a great job. Here's the only tweak I would make.
Speaker 2: It's not a massive tweak, because teams should be a
Speaker 2: little embarrassed when they end up in the lottery. Thirty
Speaker 2: teams in the League sixteen make the playoffs, so you
Speaker 2: got to be a below average team to make the lottery.
Speaker 2: You should be really embarrassed if you show up in
Speaker 2: the lottery repeatedly.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I don't think owners should be allowed to send emissaries there,
Speaker 2: so like the Blazers sent Dane and the Pelicans sent
Speaker 2: Swin Cash, who's their VP of basketballs the lottery and
Speaker 2: some owners go occasionally. Dan Gilbert famously used to go
Speaker 2: with the Caps. I think the owners of all the
Speaker 2: lottery teams should have to go, and they should have
Speaker 2: ownership statistics, So it would say, for the veck who
Speaker 2: owns the Kings, it should say the vech ran a deba, pardon.
Speaker 3: Me if I get his last last five? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Uh, lottery veteran, his ninth consecutive season in the lottery,
Speaker 2: in his ninth season of ownership, absolutely supposed them.
Speaker 4: And then like when a team that's.
Speaker 2: Well run shows up, it's like, oh, it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: the Blazers first season in the lottery in six years,
Speaker 2: Like okay, good for them, Like you're doing a good
Speaker 2: job that way. You're not tanking well. It's seeing sometimes
Speaker 2: with tank but owners have been. There has to be
Speaker 2: some shame to it when when the thunder who have
Speaker 2: just not tried to win basketball game over the last
Speaker 2: four years, that Clay Bennet or whomever the primary owner is,
Speaker 2: shows up, it should say, you know, best odds for
Speaker 2: number one pick every year the last four you know
Speaker 2: it should I want lot I want ownership statistics of
Speaker 2: how often you're in the lottery. I want those screen
Speaker 2: grabs floating around, and I want there to be some
Speaker 2: public shaming of teams that are not trying to compete.
Speaker 4: Aside, that's a.
Speaker 2: Good one right now, it'll never happen because the owners
Speaker 2: technically own the league and are in charge of things.
Speaker 2: But I if I Bill Simmons, you saw about there
Speaker 2: being a sports Zar, someone who's like the Attorney General
Speaker 2: for the country, except over sports, who has power over
Speaker 2: even league commissioners.
Speaker 4: If there is a sports zar, implement.
Speaker 2: This, I think that's I just think it would disincentivized
Speaker 2: tanking a bit, and every once in a while a
Speaker 2: little public shame for billionaires can go a long way.
Speaker 4: Okay, what's next?
Speaker 3: You've picked every game for the twenty twenty two season already?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 4: Fact, Let me see if I can find it.
Speaker 3: It's so early. Odell Beckham doesn't even have a team yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the grid. I don't have the picks
Speaker 2: on me, but I fill out this grid. I highlight
Speaker 2: it green is green is wins, red as losses, and
Speaker 2: then I can pile it.
Speaker 4: Okay, so there are my standings.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Yeah, so what are you doing here? What
Speaker 3: are you making right?
Speaker 4: What am I hold on?
Speaker 2: What do you I don't even understand what you're asking
Speaker 2: me here. You're asking me why I do this?
Speaker 3: Yes, Like, how are you going to pick these? The
Speaker 3: outcome of these games.
Speaker 2: You know, when I guess I'm a sports genius, Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean this is I mean do it now. Listen,
Speaker 2: it's two hundred and seventy two games. Do I think
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go two hundred and seventy two and two
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy two. No, of course I don't like.
Speaker 2: But it gives me a good template to kind of
Speaker 2: base my early season predictions.
Speaker 4: It gives me.
Speaker 2: An idea of you know, I go through it one
Speaker 2: by one and I'm like, oh, man, like it's a
Speaker 2: four instance. I didn't realize how screwed the Patriots were
Speaker 2: before I did this. When you look at the Patriots are,
Speaker 2: our lead producer, Gabe will like this a lot. You
Speaker 2: look at the beginning of their schedule and you're like,
Speaker 2: at Miami at Pittsburgh, home for Baltimore at Green Bay. Okay,
Speaker 2: so New England's going to be Vegas underdogs in all
Speaker 2: four of their first games. Then you look at the
Speaker 2: end of their schedule, New England at Minnesota underdog, home
Speaker 2: for Buffalo, underdog at Arizona underdog at the Raiders, underdog,
Speaker 2: home for Cincinnati underdog, home for Miami favorite at Buffalo underdog.
Speaker 2: So the Patriots the first four they're going to be underdogs.
Speaker 5: Is this a set who were filling out while you're
Speaker 5: getting pestered by d Yes, yes, it's yeah.
Speaker 3: It might be a little bit accurate.
Speaker 2: No, it's not going to be accurate. But so let
Speaker 2: me finish the point. Then we'll talk about the annoyance
Speaker 2: of that Patriots first four they're going to be underdogs.
Speaker 2: Final seven to six of them, they're going to be underdogs.
Speaker 2: They're screwed, just flatly screwed. Now, occasionally there's some a
Speaker 2: few squirrely results where after I do it because I
Speaker 2: go week one, Week two, week three, and then I
Speaker 2: add up to the wins and losses. An occasionally I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh wow, as we're gonna talk about a moment like
Speaker 2: h My model, which is just my brain seems to
Speaker 2: like the Bears more than anybody else.
Speaker 4: But here's the other reason I do it.
Speaker 2: Other broadcasters sometimes pick, you know, here'll be the final standings,
Speaker 2: and then when you add them all up, they've accounted for.
Speaker 2: There's two hundred and seventy two games, so your finals
Speaker 2: records need to be two hundred and seventy two wins
Speaker 2: and two hundred and seventy two losses by me doing
Speaker 2: it like this. Every time I go through Week one
Speaker 2: Arizona or against kan City, I highlight green kan City.
Speaker 2: They're gonna win red Arizona, They're gonna lose that way
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, the records, even though
Speaker 2: ib you say I won't get them all right, the
Speaker 2: records could be exact. Other folks will do it, and
Speaker 2: if you do the math on it, it's two hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty wins and two hundred and sixty four losses
Speaker 2: for the league. That doesn't That can't work.
Speaker 4: So that's why I do it.
Speaker 2: I do it in part because I'm a little ocd
Speaker 2: enough that I want the record see be exactly two
Speaker 2: seventy two and two seventy two, but also because it
Speaker 2: gives me a nice loose template of how I think
Speaker 2: the season's.
Speaker 3: Going to go.
Speaker 2: But there were, as you can probably see on the
Speaker 2: right side of the screen, a few outlier predictions. I
Speaker 2: think we're going to get to those right now. In
Speaker 2: two wrongs and one right demonse, take it away.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, the forty nine ers will go fourteen to
Speaker 5: three because Trey Lance's quarterback, Jimmy g is quarterback or
Speaker 5: with Shanahan, does it not matter or does quarterback not matter?
Speaker 2: Sorry, no, I don't think Jimmy g is going to
Speaker 2: be the quarterback, so we can get rid of that one.
Speaker 2: It's a combination of one in three of Trey Lank.
Speaker 2: I think Trey Lance is going to be really good
Speaker 2: in this Shanahan offense. I think they were smart for
Speaker 2: not folding to Deebo Samuel's trade demand. And I the
Speaker 2: Niners made the conference championship game last year with I
Speaker 2: think below average quarterback play. Two years ago they made
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I like their coaching a ton. I
Speaker 2: like their roster is fourteen three a bit ambitious? Sure,
Speaker 2: it's just how I You know, once I picked every game,
Speaker 2: I realized I am winning fourteen games. But I do
Speaker 2: think they're going I think the Niners and the Rams
Speaker 2: are far and away the two best teams in the NFC. Now,
Speaker 2: I think we're getting to my most controversial pick so far.
Speaker 4: All right, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Admit defeat all these predictions already Bears eleven and six,
Speaker 5: Jaguars eight to nine, or.
Speaker 3: The Ravens going fourteen and three.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm definitely not amitting defeat on the Ravens.
Speaker 2: The Ravens were eight and three last year and were
Speaker 2: the one seed before Lamar got hurt. That was despite
Speaker 2: all their running backs being injured in the preseason and
Speaker 2: then late in the year Lamar got hurt and all
Speaker 2: their their entire secondary got injured. I think the Ravens
Speaker 2: will be excellent. The Jaguars, I don't love what they
Speaker 2: did in the draft. I don't love their GM, but
Speaker 2: I do love that they have a new head coach,
Speaker 2: not Urban Meyer, who the players clearly were not vibing
Speaker 2: with to say the least. And I think Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 2: is going to be a great quarterback, so then winning
Speaker 2: eight games to me, is totally reasonable.
Speaker 4: The Bears one, here's the problem with I like Justin Fields.
Speaker 2: Okay, However, you know Danny my Markets, Yeah, Danny Parkins,
Speaker 2: he lives in Chicago, is the number one sports media
Speaker 2: guy in Chicago covers the Bears. He texts me when
Speaker 2: Bears when these picks came out, and he said, you're drunk, buddy,
Speaker 2: And I was like, you're not You're not believing in
Speaker 2: the Bears and he was like, dude, eleven wins Issa,
Speaker 2: what is odd. Is the first time I ever did
Speaker 2: this was my first time at Fox doing It was
Speaker 2: six years ago. And you know what, the big outlier
Speaker 2: prediction that time was the Bears. I had the Bears
Speaker 2: with with Mitch Trubisky going twelve and four for some reason.
Speaker 4: Mike, did they do that season?
Speaker 2: Not twelve and four.
Speaker 4: For some reason?
Speaker 2: My my, My week by week NFL picks have a
Speaker 2: strong Bears bias. So I guess the one that's probably
Speaker 2: the least likely the Bears. But I'm sticking with all
Speaker 2: of them. All right, what's next? You pick these three
Speaker 2: teams to miss the playoffs? Which and base will you
Speaker 2: be apologizing to at the end of the season. Okay,
Speaker 2: New England, Cincinnati or Las Vegas. Oh, New England I
Speaker 2: think is drawing dead. And Vegas I know they made
Speaker 2: the playoffs this past year, but the division got so
Speaker 2: much better except for the Chiefs, and the Chiefs were
Speaker 2: already so much better than them.
Speaker 4: I think Vegas gonna finish last. My answer is very simple.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati is the one that was the hardest because they
Speaker 2: did upgrade the offensive line, they did make the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: and Bengals fans, I would be the one fan base.
Speaker 2: I would apologize to you because they were actually pretty
Speaker 2: gracious after they dispatched of my chiefs.
Speaker 4: I like Bengals fans.
Speaker 2: I don't have much time for Patriot fans because they're
Speaker 2: also Celtic fans. I'm not a huge fan of the
Speaker 2: general area. You're fine, but it's Celtics. The Celtics, of course,
Speaker 2: not all right. What's the last question?
Speaker 3: Lebron did a Q and A. What was the most
Speaker 3: interesting revelation?
Speaker 5: Yep, picking Katie and Kyrie's teammates, saying Luca is his
Speaker 5: favorite player, or saying the twenty eleven finals is a
Speaker 5: low point.
Speaker 2: Oh, the most interesting thing was the first one you mentioned.
Speaker 2: We already knew the twenty eleven finals was a low point.
Speaker 2: And he has already said Luca is his favorite player
Speaker 2: in the league because listen, Lebron's got a bit of
Speaker 2: an ego and Luca is his.
Speaker 4: Favorite player because Luca plays most like him.
Speaker 2: Bron when he was asked who would you pick as
Speaker 2: far as all time guys, the question was it's Michael
Speaker 2: and Scottie against you and somebody who's your teammate, and
Speaker 2: he said, Kobe, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Kyrie kad that makes sense or Kyrie.
Speaker 2: The Lebron Kyrie slowly but surely, because Kyrie did some
Speaker 2: interviews that said, you know, I kind of regret.
Speaker 4: How it ended there. Yeah, yeah, I mean I got it.
Speaker 2: Maybe Kyrie is reading the writing on the wall that
Speaker 2: the Nets aren't as high on him as he was was.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little I was trading Russ earlier to the
Speaker 2: Suns for Chris Paul. Maybe a Katie Russ reunion in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: How about that and Lebron Kyrie reunion. I've only been
Speaker 2: pitching that for six months. God, I'd love for that
Speaker 2: to happen.
Speaker 5: And I don't even want Kyrie to join Lebron because
Speaker 5: I just don't want.
Speaker 4: You don't want Kyrie to success.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I was about saying I don't want him
Speaker 3: to win it.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't want Kyrie to have success.
Speaker 2: I understand, I understand why you feel that way, but
Speaker 2: I do want Lebron to win another ring. And Kyrie
Speaker 2: with Lebron has been a dynamic duo. With that said,
Speaker 2: Kyrie is not a guy who had pick in that
Speaker 2: two on two match. Because he's not two on two.
Speaker 4: You got to be able to guard.
Speaker 2: He's not guarding right guy, all right, will be right back,
Speaker 2: all right, welcome back. In final segment of episode twenty
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Speaker 2: time to shine. I know there was something that we
Speaker 2: were as a family, all sitting in the office watching
Speaker 2: the beginning of the Celtics game, and I said this
Speaker 2: would be a good topic for the end of the show,
Speaker 2: But I don't remember what we were discussing.
Speaker 4: I hope you do.
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 5: I remember a couple of discussions, Okay. One Mom revealed
Speaker 5: this picture to me that I'm assuming.
Speaker 4: Okay, now, I do remember.
Speaker 2: I was thinking of the thing with your little sister
Speaker 2: and the ice cream shop.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but I'll go ahead and talk about this
Speaker 3: one first, Okay.
Speaker 5: So I'm assuming that it was like the night that
Speaker 5: the Lakers got eliminated from the play in. Mom shows
Speaker 5: me a picture of you sitting in the bed, boxers
Speaker 5: on and everything, smoking a black and Mile, no ashtray
Speaker 5: in sight, just smoking a black and Mile on the
Speaker 5: bare bed.
Speaker 2: In just my underwear. That picture will never see the
Speaker 2: light of day. By the way, Yeah, so this was
Speaker 2: so I don't listen. I don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: recollection of that night. And it is evident by the
Speaker 2: fact that I was smoking in the house, in my bedroom,
Speaker 2: I mean, just bleary eyed.
Speaker 7: I wish I was like, I'm just just wrecked, and
Speaker 7: I can't believe like I was. I must have been
Speaker 7: so gone that I do.
Speaker 2: You realize how in real life, how scared I would
Speaker 2: be of your mom seeing me. I don't like when
Speaker 2: your mom sees me smoke at all, much less smoke
Speaker 2: in the house, much less get down to my boxer shorts.
Speaker 4: And that picture that black mouse smokeing to the.
Speaker 2: It is it is. I'm smoking it to the filter
Speaker 2: and she just snapped.
Speaker 4: A photo of me.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't remember. I would have.
Speaker 2: I would have bet any amount of money that didn't happen.
Speaker 4: But there's photographic evidence.
Speaker 3: Yep, Okay, all right, that's not what we can exposure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me tell.
Speaker 2: You, because you weren't there, Deana, my youngest daughter. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: we're at sugar Hill Creamery, which is a great ice
Speaker 2: cream shop directly next door to my wife's boutique, Trentage.
Speaker 4: By the way, if you're in New.
Speaker 2: York City on Linux, which is sixth Avenue between one
Speaker 2: nineteen the one twenty, it's stopped by sugar Hill Creamery.
Speaker 2: Unpaid endorsement. Get some ice cream, then stop by Trentage.
Speaker 2: Get some great women's.
Speaker 3: Clothing trendy meets vintage.
Speaker 2: There you go, We're turning means vintage. Great job, great
Speaker 2: family plug. I'm there yesterday with your little sister, and
Speaker 2: the people that work there know me and they like
Speaker 2: talk sports with me. And one of them says like, hey,
Speaker 2: who do you have MAVs Warriors? And I said, oh,
Speaker 2: I got the MAVs. I was like, you know, Luca's
Speaker 2: one of the two best players in the league, and
Speaker 2: they go one of the two best.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, him and Giannis.
Speaker 2: And Deanna gets indignant and looks at me and says,
Speaker 2: what about Lebron? I thought Lebron was your favorite. I'm like,
Speaker 2: he is my favorite player, but he's not the best anymore.
Speaker 2: Deanna then there are people eating ice cream and the
Speaker 2: workers and people online. Deanna stands up and says, excuse me, everybody.
Speaker 2: I want you guys to know that if you're my
Speaker 2: dad's favorite player, as soon as someone's better than you,
Speaker 2: he'll cheat on you with somebody else.
Speaker 4: I said, excuse me.
Speaker 2: She's like, it's true, Daddy. You always said Lebron was
Speaker 2: the best, and now Luca, who I never heard of,
Speaker 2: now you're saying he's better than him.
Speaker 4: Is she like?
Speaker 3: Wass this might have something to do with Fortnite.
Speaker 5: That might have been like a you know, transparent little
Speaker 5: bashing right there.
Speaker 4: What do you mean somebody with fortance?
Speaker 3: I mean, if you.
Speaker 5: Remember how she was, you are having her direct to
Speaker 5: you in Fortnite, and then like when I started coming
Speaker 5: around and I'd say things, I feel like she was.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, you don't take my advice anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she got mad at me. Maybe she's just
Speaker 2: been bitter at me because I picked a better Fortnite
Speaker 2: coach than her, lashing out, And she's lashing out by
Speaker 2: trying to expose me in ice cream shops around New
Speaker 2: York City, saying I'm cheating on my favorite player by
Speaker 2: acknowledging someone else's better.
Speaker 4: So there it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's today's show.