Speaker 1: Welcome in. What's Right with Ni great episode three oh seven,
Speaker 1: fresh off a whirlwind last twenty four hours. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that in a moment. I know I say this
Speaker 1: a lot, but today actually will be a quick show.
Speaker 1: We did two bonus shows since our last scheduled pod
Speaker 1: with de monsday. Friday morning, we did a show right
Speaker 1: after the Lakers beat. The next Sunday morning, we did
Speaker 1: a show right after Lebron's injury. And I have been
Speaker 1: in Vegas and back since that Sunday morning show and
Speaker 1: there's ton to do. I do Colin today the TV show,
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say anything right here, but
Speaker 1: a very important moment for my family today that hopefully
Speaker 1: we can discuss on Thursday show. So we got a
Speaker 1: very very busy schedule, so I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: rapid fire through a bunch of stuff and also tell you, guys,
Speaker 1: is about the last twenty four hours in Vegas. Demonsey
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Speaker 1: they join the What's Right team. But great to see you.
Speaker 1: Let's get right into it. Here's what missed the cut.
Speaker 1: The Jets signing Justin Fields two years, forty million a year,
Speaker 1: which is literally the cheapest you can get a starting
Speaker 1: quarterback who's on on a rookie deal. This Steeler. By
Speaker 1: the time some of you guys hear this, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: might be a Steeler. I don't like that for them.
Speaker 1: I the reason we're not doing that heavily today is
Speaker 1: because everything that's been said about the speculation about him
Speaker 1: going there has been set already. We'll see it. Seems
Speaker 1: like the Giants are a possibility, the Steelers are a possibility.
Speaker 1: Say that again.
Speaker 3: You said you don't like you don't like him for them,
Speaker 3: I'm saying what I know we're not gonna handle out.
Speaker 2: What else would the Jets do? Hi either, I mean
Speaker 2: not the Jets, the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, drafted quarterback is probably the
Speaker 1: only way to get themselves out of this. Maybe use that.
Speaker 1: What I would do potentially is trade, just quickly George Pickens,
Speaker 1: because Pickens and DK Metcalf do not work as a duo,
Speaker 1: and Pickens is going to be super pissed if he
Speaker 1: does not get paid this offseason, especially if he doesn't
Speaker 1: get paid and his targets go down because DK's the
Speaker 1: number one. And I would then try to use the
Speaker 1: extra pick I get from Pickens and try see if
Speaker 1: maybe I need to move up. I wouldn't mind one
Speaker 1: more Bridge year with Russell Wilson. What I wouldn't do
Speaker 1: is get in the Aaron Rodgers business. And so I
Speaker 1: guess we did get to that. And Steph Curry named
Speaker 1: the assistant GM at Davidson. Shout out to Steph. He
Speaker 1: also at twenty five thousand points. A reminder to you
Speaker 1: guys like rate subscribe review Man oh Man the poker
Speaker 1: game I was in yesterday. There's somebody there who was
Speaker 1: a YouTuber. He does the H three show.
Speaker 2: Or something.
Speaker 1: Listen. I didn't know who he was, but I did
Speaker 1: know he had a YouTube show because they told me,
Speaker 1: and he was super nice guy, Ethan, So I went
Speaker 1: to his YouTube channel, six million subscribers. I should have
Speaker 1: buttered this guy. And then there was another guy, the
Speaker 1: guy they called rip It, who has an investment YouTube
Speaker 1: show that he does live every morning at five am
Speaker 1: West Coast time from Vegas. This fellow with the six
Speaker 1: million subscriber channel it no, no, no, no, it's a
Speaker 1: comedy show. So shout out to him and his six
Speaker 1: million subscribers. I should have tried to kind of ride
Speaker 1: that wave a bit. But all right, so let's just
Speaker 1: get into it before we get to the basketball. The
Speaker 1: producers have convinced me that people are at least somewhat
Speaker 1: interested in what I did yesterday, So I'll tell that
Speaker 1: quick story before we get to the sports.
Speaker 2: So set me up to monsay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, not too long ago, you were in Vegas
Speaker 3: playing poker. Shout out to all the folks that watched
Speaker 3: on the channel, Yes, sir, or last night, should I say,
Speaker 3: tell us about the event.
Speaker 2: How did you go? How'd you like it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So the event went amazing, So here was the last
Speaker 1: my last forty eight hours. I did the Instant Reaction
Speaker 1: Lebron James pod. Your mom was with you in LA
Speaker 1: and so right after the Lebron James Instant Reaction pod,
Speaker 1: I then furiously cleaned the house because if your mom
Speaker 1: came home to a dirty house and I'm in Vegas
Speaker 1: playing cards, that's an abject disaster. And then flew to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Landed around nine to thirty Vegas time, met up with
Speaker 1: poker and broadcasting legend, maybe the best all around poker
Speaker 1: player in the world today, Nick Shulman, had some drinks
Speaker 1: with him and a few interesting characters that I might
Speaker 1: I might try to bring into the What's Right podcast
Speaker 1: universe if that universe exists, Like I think there is
Speaker 1: an appetite for a show by professional gamblers, not like
Speaker 1: giving out picks so much, but just talking about their
Speaker 1: lives as professional gamblers, professional poker player, sportsbetter just guys
Speaker 1: who it's because it's kind of living for a lot
Speaker 1: of us, part time gamblers living the dream like these
Speaker 1: guys live in Vegas every day just try to find
Speaker 1: an edge in something a card game, a golf match,
Speaker 1: some fight, you know, a football or basketball game, and
Speaker 1: every single day have five and six figure swings, and
Speaker 1: I think that would be a hell of a would
Speaker 1: be a real cabstrivating content if it's an insane way
Speaker 1: to live. And it's so. I had. So. I had
Speaker 1: dinner and drinks with Nick Shulman TVK guy named Taylor,
Speaker 1: who is one of the best poker players in the
Speaker 1: world if you ask me, and another fella that they
Speaker 1: call Jing Tao, who is just a legendary gambler. So
Speaker 1: we talked kind of business, smoked cigars and drank and
Speaker 1: then I had the brilliant, brilliant idea. It's now one
Speaker 1: in the morning, Sunday night, Monday morning, Vegas time. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm in a big televised poker game tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I probably should get some reps in now. And sat
Speaker 1: in a private twenty five point fifty PLO Nolan at
Speaker 1: Holdham game at the Aria with nothing. It was a
Speaker 1: table of professionals and Colby Covington, the UFC fighter and
Speaker 1: me and I did not realize it was Colby Covington
Speaker 1: at the table. I also have said this publicly and
Speaker 1: made it somewhat clear at the table. Once I found
Speaker 1: out who it was that I find Colby Covington to
Speaker 1: be one of one of the more reprehensible people in
Speaker 1: sports things. A bad guy with terrible takes and just
Speaker 1: pretty really awful dude. But he's also a professionally, you know,
Speaker 1: a literal professional fighter, and so it's kind of a
Speaker 1: weird spot. And you know, long story short, I got
Speaker 1: my head kicked in not literally thankfully, in that game.
Speaker 1: I got absolutely annihilated in my warm up poker game
Speaker 1: to where I was worried I was going to lose
Speaker 1: the money that I had brought with me for the
Speaker 1: real game in this game. So that wasn't I that
Speaker 1: wasn't ideal. It's now three point thirty in the morning
Speaker 1: and we have a seven am call for first Things First,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, well, it's probably time to go to bed.
Speaker 1: But again, you know, full disclosure here, I'm in Vegas,
Speaker 1: fully unsupervised. So from in to get from the poker
Speaker 1: room to the hotel to the hotel elevators, that area,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to walk by that high limit
Speaker 1: blackjack rom and I'm like, well, you know, if God
Speaker 1: created blackjack for any reason, it's to try to get
Speaker 1: even real quick before bet and in one of the
Speaker 1: more unlikely turns of events, an all time fifteen minute
Speaker 1: blackjack run, won seven consecutive hands to start. The shoe
Speaker 1: ended up winning eleven of thirteen, and to the shock
Speaker 1: of the dealer and the floor, I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm done. Let's call that a night. Let's
Speaker 1: call that a night. Let's not have the mortifying experience
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning of having to call my people at Bank
Speaker 1: of America and be like, Hey, you know how I
Speaker 1: had you guys wire X amount of dollars to the
Speaker 1: aria for this poker game on Monday. Well, the game
Speaker 1: hasn't happened yet, and I'm gonna go ahead and need
Speaker 1: you a that same amount again. Nope, I got even there,
Speaker 1: So we're good. Go to bed, Wake up do The
Speaker 1: TV show was a great TV show. Even though I
Speaker 1: was remote, I thought we did a great job. TV
Speaker 1: show ends at two pm Pacific. Poker starts at two
Speaker 1: thirty Pacific. Hop in an uber, go across the street
Speaker 1: to the Poker Ghost studio. From the studio, I was
Speaker 1: doing the TV show Change Clothes, which listen if you
Speaker 1: watch the stream, you might be like, Nick, are those
Speaker 1: of the clothes you wore on the stream. They are
Speaker 1: did it? Played in the poker game. And in the
Speaker 1: poker game, Phil Hellmuth shows up as a mystery guest.
Speaker 1: I have a big history with him. Jennifer Tilly shows
Speaker 1: up as a mystery guest. Jennifer Tilly. So she's a legend.
Speaker 1: You might not know her name, Demanse, but you know
Speaker 1: who she is. She is the voice of the Bride
Speaker 1: of Chucky. She is the voice of the mom on
Speaker 1: Family Guy. And you know she was an Oscar nominee
Speaker 1: Oscar winner for Bullets over Broadway.
Speaker 2: Is she's huge and professional poker huge.
Speaker 1: So she's yeah. So she married. She was married to
Speaker 1: the creator of the Simpsons, Sam Simon. They got divorced.
Speaker 1: I'm not really privy to that divorce settlement, but it's
Speaker 1: you know, it probably is not a bad spot to
Speaker 1: be divorced from the guy who created the Simpsons and
Speaker 1: then married my buddy Phil Locke, who used to be
Speaker 1: called the Unibomber. I guess still is a professional poker
Speaker 1: player and she plays in all these high stakes televised games.
Speaker 1: But I'd never played with her. So now we're in
Speaker 1: the game. The game is from two thirty to nine
Speaker 1: thirty and it's a game where they said bring five.
Speaker 1: You know it's a five thousand dollars minimum buy in.
Speaker 1: I bought in for fifteen thousand. The guy to my left,
Speaker 1: the rip It fella, he bought in for forty some
Speaker 1: Phil bought in for ten, A couple of the other
Speaker 1: guys bought in for five. Jennifer bought in for one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand, which then made rip It add
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty thousand. And then this professional player
Speaker 1: at the end that they were what were they calling him?
Speaker 1: He got crushed, poor guy, he got absolutely lightning Lightning.
Speaker 1: I think Lightning was in for fifty thousand. Is a
Speaker 1: rough night for him. But I had won goal, and
Speaker 1: really well, I had two goals. Goal number two was
Speaker 1: to win money. Goal number one was to torture Phil
Speaker 1: helm youth and check Check won some money, but truly
Speaker 1: tortured Phil. And I posted some of the clips, but
Speaker 1: it was I was really peak locked in on torturing Phil.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna give hand histories here because I
Speaker 1: don't know if people care. You can watch the stream,
Speaker 1: it's still up on the channel. You watch some of
Speaker 1: the clips, but but that was great.
Speaker 2: So then.
Speaker 1: So I end up I think second biggest winner. Oh,
Speaker 1: this dude named doctor Dad was I think the biggest winner.
Speaker 1: He just he was like a whit, like a just
Speaker 1: a guy who plays some online poker in Wisconsin. Is
Speaker 1: it Michigan? Maybe doesn't matter with Poker Stars. He got
Speaker 1: the seat from Poker Stars for five grand. He has
Speaker 1: a PhD in something. He said he was trying to
Speaker 1: create a man made liver that people could use if
Speaker 1: they're liver went back on them. I don't know. Dude
Speaker 1: seems super smart and super nice, and he ended up
Speaker 1: a huge winner. Joe Stapleton was a winner. I was
Speaker 1: a pretty decent sized winner. Phil lost the Lightning fella
Speaker 1: got buried the Ethan, the big YouTube guy got buried.
Speaker 1: But Jennifer I think did okay regardless ends at nine
Speaker 1: p thirty go to the airport. Eleven thirty flight. Truly
Speaker 1: miserable flight because that it seemed like the AC wasn't work.
Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on, but it was
Speaker 1: so hot. It also might have had to say it again.
Speaker 2: It's warm on the plane. I don't think it was
Speaker 2: on the plane.
Speaker 1: Okay, so here's the thing. It's possible that it was
Speaker 1: hotter for me than for others, because if you watched
Speaker 1: the stream, I drank a lot last night. I mean
Speaker 1: once once the table starts doing tequila shots, and the
Speaker 1: tequila shots came in rocks glasses. They weren't shots, they
Speaker 1: were glasses. But so we ended up. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: playing a big poker game. Jennifer Tilly's getting hammered, so
Speaker 1: we're all so whatever. So I then, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: on the plane kind of sweating it out out trying
Speaker 1: to sleep, and got here, got to the house ninety
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Found out your mom backed into the garage
Speaker 1: while I was gone. That's twice, and now I'm talking.
Speaker 2: She's there for like one day while you were.
Speaker 1: One day one day backed into the garage. She came
Speaker 1: in twenty minutes ago. She came in the in this room,
Speaker 1: sat on my lap and said, I have something to
Speaker 1: tell you. And I just knew. I just knew. I
Speaker 1: was like, she messed the car.
Speaker 2: Check it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think I hear her walking by right now.
Speaker 1: If that's you, dam pooh, you're welcome to stop in.
Speaker 1: And now I'm talking to you guys. So that was it.
Speaker 1: So it was great. Uh Justin Cogan says this quick
Speaker 1: show is going to be two hours. Uh. Stott in
Speaker 1: the chat remember like rate, subscribe, review all that stuff, says,
Speaker 1: when do you sleep? I know, I'm I mean I
Speaker 1: slept on the plane, but it was not ideal sleep.
Speaker 1: But I'll get my sleep, Like, I'll be fine. These
Speaker 1: are the things one has to do.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I don't do this often, but I'll be okay, and
Speaker 1: I'll be you know, I'll be sharp enough. But the oh,
Speaker 1: the reason I'm wearing the same clothes is, hey, I
Speaker 1: got here ninety minutes ago. I mean I went from
Speaker 1: the game to the plane, from the plane to here
Speaker 1: and then sat in, had my first things, first meeting,
Speaker 1: and then this So I won't you know, after this,
Speaker 1: I'll change and go to work. But yeah, so that
Speaker 1: was great. That was a really fun experience. I owned
Speaker 1: Helme youth always you know this is and really needled
Speaker 1: him and it's worth watching if you're a poker fan.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the basket weekend. Say it again.
Speaker 2: Sounds like blackjack saved your weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh you know that's the thing. I mean, yeah, like
Speaker 1: they're yeah, I mean, how does any of this go
Speaker 1: If I don't have that really nice run before bed
Speaker 1: Sunday night, Monday morning, and I walk into that game
Speaker 1: feeling super stocked in everything. Yeah, no, it could go
Speaker 1: totally different. I'm I'm well aware of this. It's also
Speaker 1: why I never ever go to Vegas alone. I'm not
Speaker 1: a I don't care that people be like, Nick, you're
Speaker 1: a grown man, I know, but I know my own limitations.
Speaker 1: I cannot be left solo. It doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: my wife. I just need a It's just I need
Speaker 1: in Vegas. I need the buddy system. If Demons were there,
Speaker 1: or if Parkins were there, certainly if Danielle were there,
Speaker 1: if someoneould be like, hey, Nick, it's you really want
Speaker 1: to sit in this poker game against nothing but pros
Speaker 1: And as it turns out, a professional fighter who you
Speaker 1: have talked shit about on the internet.
Speaker 2: He talked mess about him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the guy that said he wanted he said
Speaker 1: three days ago he wanted to fight Lebron.
Speaker 2: He's the guy like if you for what reason?
Speaker 1: Because Lebron? Well really, because the guy everything Lebron represents,
Speaker 1: this guy represents the opposite. But also because it was
Speaker 1: about the Stephen a thing.
Speaker 2: He's like, he's like on the beaff of step.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. He's like, he's like, I'll be his champion.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk basketball.
Speaker 2: All right. So Luca finally got to run the show.
Speaker 3: That ended in a three point loss to the Nets
Speaker 3: Lucas Stilgarnish twenty two to twelve and twelve.
Speaker 2: But they obviously lost. So does that game make you
Speaker 2: nervous and this upcoming stretch without Lebron, Well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that game. The Lakers right now are
Speaker 1: so shorthanded, so they the the reason I wasn't super concerned.
Speaker 1: I was actually a little encouraged about the Celtics game
Speaker 1: absent Lebron's injury was the Celtics treated that game truly
Speaker 1: like a play not only a playoff game of Game seven,
Speaker 1: the only regulation game in Tatum's career he's ever played
Speaker 1: more minutes than he played against the Lakers on over
Speaker 1: the weekend was Game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. There has never been a
Speaker 1: regulation regular season game Tatum and Brown combined for more minutes,
Speaker 1: and the Lakers were right there with five minutes left.
Speaker 1: And that was despite playing essentially a six to eight
Speaker 1: and underteam they're already you know, a week at the
Speaker 1: center position. But Ruey was out and Jackson Hayes was out.
Speaker 1: You went into this game Lebron was out, Ruey's still out,
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes out, still out, and Dorian Finney Smith out.
Speaker 1: You knew it was a losable game. What's frustrating about
Speaker 1: the They're up twelve after the first I understand in
Speaker 1: the NBA that really means nothing, but Austin Reeves I
Speaker 1: was hoping with Lebron out might get going. But if
Speaker 1: if you're that shorthanded and Luca and Austin Reeves combine
Speaker 1: despite having decent counting stats to go eleven for forty
Speaker 1: from the field, pardon me, and four of fifteen from three,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna lose, and or at least got a
Speaker 1: real good chance of losing, even if you're playing a
Speaker 1: NETS team that had been, you know, on I think
Speaker 1: a seven game losing streak going into the game, and
Speaker 1: so worried is maybe too strong, resigned to the fact
Speaker 1: that they now enter they have the next two days off,
Speaker 1: they being the Lakers, and then they enter a six
Speaker 1: game in eight day stretch, and four of those six
Speaker 1: games are against Denver and Milwaukee, so they're gonna slide
Speaker 1: in the standings. It is at Milwaukee Thursday, at Denver Friday,
Speaker 1: home for Phoenix Sunday, home for the Spurs Monday, then
Speaker 1: home for Denver Wednesday, home Milwaukee Thursday. So you have
Speaker 1: Denver and Milwaukee, Denver on the second night of a
Speaker 1: back to back, and then Milwaukee on the second night
Speaker 1: of a back to back. Again, when it's Milwaukee Denver
Speaker 1: and then Denver Milwaukee, and sandwiched in the middle is
Speaker 1: a different back to back, which is Phoenix San Antonio.
Speaker 1: This is you might be like, why is the schedule
Speaker 1: like that? This is part of the rescheduling because of
Speaker 1: the wildfires, and they're just gonna have to deal with it.
Speaker 1: So they are going to slide in the standing the
Speaker 1: fact they did. Technically they went into yesterday in second,
Speaker 1: they're now in third, and the standings look like this.
Speaker 1: Denver's got twenty three losses, the Lakers have twenty three losses,
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies have twenty four, the Rockets of twenty five,
Speaker 1: and Golden State is crept up to six, but they're
Speaker 1: sitting at twenty eight. I still think it is very
Speaker 1: unrealistic that the Lakers slide past the five, but sliding
Speaker 1: to the five is certainly in play, and it is Lucas.
Speaker 1: Luca has to play better, and he will, but they
Speaker 1: really what has to happen is they have to get healthy.
Speaker 1: Uh say it again.
Speaker 3: Luca has to play very twenty two, twelve and twelve.
Speaker 3: It's just so good, like that's that's a pretty good
Speaker 3: sate line was just.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but the eight of twenty six from the field.
Speaker 2: Is probbs over the weekend. Yeah, right, and.
Speaker 1: I can deal with the turnovers, but eight of twenty like,
Speaker 1: he's just his shots just not really there for him
Speaker 1: right now. And even in the Celtic game he ended up,
Speaker 1: he ended with thirty four, but the first three quarters
Speaker 1: they did a pretty good job on him. So listen,
Speaker 1: assuming Lebron is back by the end of the month,
Speaker 1: the Lakers will be fine. But they can they survive?
Speaker 1: You know, survive is probably too strong. What shape are
Speaker 1: they going to be in in the standings when Lebron
Speaker 1: gets back. If Ruy and Jackson Hayes don't get back
Speaker 1: soon because Alex Lynn can't be playing, I mean, they
Speaker 1: are playing guys that you really can't be playing real
Speaker 1: minutes like Alex Lynn. They're not trying to kill alex Lynn.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have an NBA job a month ago.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some MVP stuff.
Speaker 3: Going Eiel Jones signed with the Colts for one year,
Speaker 3: fourteen million.
Speaker 1: By the way, love really, Oh that is just real quick.
Speaker 1: That is interesting because I wonder what it means for
Speaker 1: the Vikings. So because I thought the Vikings were going
Speaker 1: to bring him in to be like the veteran potential backup.
Speaker 1: But Daniel Jones won year fourteen million, so he'll compete.
Speaker 2: With Anthony Richardson. Say it again, Rogers still out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that would be really weird if the Vikings
Speaker 1: were like, we want to sign Daniel Jones to be
Speaker 1: a veteran backup. Oh we missed out on him, so
Speaker 1: we're going to sign Aaron Rodgers to be our starter,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like though, like that part,
Speaker 1: I would some people think that's what's gonna happen. That
Speaker 1: to me wouldn't be a cogent thought. But Daniel Jones, man,
Speaker 1: it's good. It's good to be a quarterback in this
Speaker 1: league if you just have a pulse and a chance
Speaker 1: at being a starter, You're gonna be paid like the
Speaker 1: fifth best corner in the NFL like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just I know that's guy, and now he gets
Speaker 1: to compete with my guy, Anthony Richardson, the two great
Speaker 1: running threats at quarterbacks. All right, now, let's talk MVP stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, after dropping the first ever thirty twenty twenty
Speaker 3: twenty game against Phoenix, Jokic's MVP odds cut in half.
Speaker 3: Then SGA got the best of them in that Denver game.
Speaker 3: He dropped forty and then Jokic got a little get back.
Speaker 3: So they're kind of kind of a weird situation for
Speaker 3: the MVP right now, who do you have?
Speaker 1: I think it's Shay. I don't think it's really that debatable,
Speaker 1: and I am consistent. Well, here's why Demansey and I
Speaker 1: heard Mike God Michael Malone. Basically, if you're not willing
Speaker 1: to say the NBA logo should be changed from Jerry
Speaker 1: West to Nikola Jokic, like you're not giving Jokic enough
Speaker 1: respect by Michael Malone's standards. I mean the idea that
Speaker 1: Jokic has won three of the last four MVP. He
Speaker 1: won back to back MVPs prior to ever going on
Speaker 1: a deep playoff run which was not unprecedented but close
Speaker 1: to unprecedented. And so like, this idea that he's not
Speaker 1: getting enough respect is just crazy. And here is why
Speaker 1: I feel the way I do about the MVP, and
Speaker 1: it is the same reason I felt it was very
Speaker 1: clear Josh Allen was the MVP this past year in
Speaker 1: the NFL. We cannot play Calvin ball with how we
Speaker 1: give out MVP awards. And if people don't know what
Speaker 1: the phrase Calvin ball is, it's from the old cartoon
Speaker 1: Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip. But it's where you
Speaker 1: just make up the rules as you go. It's essentially heads,
Speaker 1: you lose, tales I win. It's where whatever the whatever
Speaker 1: the rules need to be for me to win, those
Speaker 1: are the rules. And so two years ago the NFL MVP,
Speaker 1: Josh had these amazing numbers and not so much Josh,
Speaker 1: actually it was really brock Perty and Dak had these
Speaker 1: amazing numbers. Lamar had middling numbers, but his team had
Speaker 1: the best record. He played, you know, great in some
Speaker 1: big spots, and they gave it to Lamar. Then this year,
Speaker 1: Lamar has amazing numbers, but his team's record is you know,
Speaker 1: mediocre compared to the other MVP candidates. Josh had good numbers,
Speaker 1: not as good as Lamar's. The team had the better record,
Speaker 1: and people were like no. Some people were like no,
Speaker 1: it should be Lamar again, like well he can't win.
Speaker 1: For one set of logic in twenty three and infer
Speaker 1: cetle logic in twenty four that if we give Joker
Speaker 1: the MVP this year, then we need to go back
Speaker 1: last year and give the one he won there to
Speaker 1: Luca because last year here was Luca's numbers, thirty four
Speaker 1: points per game, the scoring champion by three and a
Speaker 1: half points, nine rebounds, ten assists. He was thirty four,
Speaker 1: nine and ten on forty nine thirty eight splits. Joker,
Speaker 1: who won the MVP was twenty six points per game,
Speaker 1: twelve rebounds, nine assists on fifty eight thirty six splits.
Speaker 1: So why did Joker win it? Because the Denver Nuggets
Speaker 1: tied for the best record in the Western Conference. They
Speaker 1: had fifty seven wins and Luca's team was the five seed.
Speaker 1: They had fifty five or they had fifty wins. Pardon
Speaker 1: me that seven win golf is why not only did
Speaker 1: Joker win it, but it was not close. If I remember,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check real quick. Joker had got seventy nine
Speaker 1: first place votes, Shae got fifteen, Luca got four. He
Speaker 1: ran away with him. So this year, when Joker's numbers
Speaker 1: are remarkable, and they are remarkable, He's at twenty nine,
Speaker 1: thirteen and ten, Shae is going to win the scoring title,
Speaker 1: by the way at thirty two and a half, but
Speaker 1: then only five and six. But Shae is the in
Speaker 1: my opinion, rightful MVP because his team has fifty three
Speaker 1: wins and the Nuggets have forty two.
Speaker 3: Would He's not say no team, He's more just like
Speaker 3: if the Thunder didn't have SGA, you know, they'd be
Speaker 3: less off good. I think if Denver didn't have Yokics,
Speaker 3: they'd be absolutely.
Speaker 2: A ft no.
Speaker 1: That is listen, that's definitely true that Denver would completely
Speaker 1: collapse without Joker. That's definitely true. But that can't be
Speaker 1: the solo standard, and we can't change the rules year
Speaker 1: over year like the And it is true and it
Speaker 1: has always been true that the hardest MVP to win
Speaker 1: is the next one. The easiest MVP to win is
Speaker 1: your first, and then to win a second one, you
Speaker 1: usually have to be even better than you were for
Speaker 1: your first one, and then to win your third one,
Speaker 1: you've got to be truly in historic territory. And then
Speaker 1: to win your fourth you have to be have a
Speaker 1: historic season and be one of the greatest players of
Speaker 1: all time and not have any first time attempted first
Speaker 1: time winner have a real case. So and Joker is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest players of all time and he
Speaker 1: is having a historic season, But the guys before are
Speaker 1: Bron Will Russell, Jordan Kareem. Those guys have four or
Speaker 1: five or six. I'm not saying Jokers not allowed to
Speaker 1: join that group one day. What I am saying is
Speaker 1: we can't give Jokers third MVP, even though Luca had
Speaker 1: one of the most insane statistical regular seasons ever, because
Speaker 1: Joker's team was better, and then give Jokers fourth MVP
Speaker 1: because he's having an insane statistical regular season when Shay's
Speaker 1: team is better. Like if the we have to be
Speaker 1: consistent with it. And also like this idea that the
Speaker 1: Thunder would be okay without Shay, I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1: The Thunder without Shay.
Speaker 2: Would be I mean, they wouldn't be in great shape.
Speaker 2: The point I was just making was Denver.
Speaker 1: Denver would have instantly become one of the worst teams
Speaker 1: in the league. I get that, But Sha Shae scoring
Speaker 1: thirty three a game for a team that doesn't have
Speaker 1: another established star is super valuable. So like I just
Speaker 1: I just like consistency in this stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the pruss I think from the beginning, and
Speaker 3: we've just gotten really far off of what MVP means.
Speaker 3: I think it should have just been the actual most
Speaker 3: valuable player as I get like the I don't know.
Speaker 1: So this is a point Crow makes and and I'm
Speaker 1: curious how you feel about it. And then we can
Speaker 1: get to the NFL stuff quickly. And I don't know
Speaker 1: why I ever say we're doing a quick show. I
Speaker 1: don't have the capability of it. Does Is that to
Speaker 1: the previous eras right? And here's what I mean. If
Speaker 1: all of a sudden we change it to just like, hey,
Speaker 1: who is the consensus best player in the league and
Speaker 1: is he having an awesome season? Then he's the MVP.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, Joker ends with six
Speaker 1: and maybe one day Wimby ends with seven. It's like wow,
Speaker 1: when that's not how we treated Kareem Lebron or Mike
Speaker 1: or Michael like is that like?
Speaker 2: So is that fair?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, say it again.
Speaker 2: I said you have to make a new league. I
Speaker 2: was joking, but yeah, not.
Speaker 1: No, but yeah, I mean it just and so and
Speaker 1: also this is it should be noted Shay the going
Speaker 1: into this year, the only guy on his team who
Speaker 1: had ever been an All Star is going to run
Speaker 1: away with the scoring title, scores thirty three a night
Speaker 1: on good efficiency, only plays thirty four minutes because they
Speaker 1: blow so many teams out. His team has a historic
Speaker 1: net rating and they have won. They are eleven games
Speaker 1: clear of the Nuggets in the standings. That it's not
Speaker 1: like this is a you know, a week MBP case
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some NFL free agent. See
Speaker 1: this stuff we will do quickly. Demands a go.
Speaker 2: Ahead, So your chiefs.
Speaker 3: They locked up Nick Bolton in Hollywood, brown over a
Speaker 3: free agency, one of their top targets, though Ronnie Staley
Speaker 3: he did make it to the open market. So they
Speaker 3: got Jalen Moore. YEA, how worried about you?
Speaker 2: How worried are you about your old line?
Speaker 1: I'm not listen. I don't the Jalen Moore signing is
Speaker 1: a heavy price for a guy who's never been a starter.
Speaker 1: But he's young. When he has played, he's played well.
Speaker 1: And why hasn't he been a starter? Well, because the
Speaker 1: guy in front of him at left tackle is the
Speaker 1: best left tackle in the league in the last decade
Speaker 1: and Trent Williams. So if there's anybody who's back up
Speaker 1: you want to take a chance on, it's the guy
Speaker 1: who's backing up the best player at his position in
Speaker 1: the league. There. I've been saying this, I will say
Speaker 1: it again. The kid they drafted in the second round
Speaker 1: last year, Kingsley Suamantaia, they're going to give him a
Speaker 1: shot to play left guard. They drafted him as a tackle,
Speaker 1: they're gonna try him at guard. I obviously Creed is
Speaker 1: the best center in the league. Trey Smith is a
Speaker 1: really good guard, even if he had kind of an
Speaker 1: up and down season. And Juwan Taylor's fine. So I am.
Speaker 1: I am fine with what they did. Ronnie Stanley had
Speaker 1: way higher upside, but also as the injury risk and
Speaker 1: was gonna cost more money. Now, it would have been
Speaker 1: good to weaken Baltimore. The Chiefs did that once with
Speaker 1: Orlando Brown, who they got from Baltimore and then he
Speaker 1: ended up going to Cincinnati when he left the Chiefs
Speaker 1: also obviously there was it was quite the whirlwind this
Speaker 1: weekend for Xavier Worthy where Xavier Worthy gets arrested and
Speaker 1: it the allegations are awful, and I do think this
Speaker 1: is noteworthy. So he got arrested in and was a
Speaker 1: cute used of domestic violence and he then was released
Speaker 1: and they decided not to charge him, not because the
Speaker 1: accuser recanted, because I think some people see that sometimes
Speaker 1: and they're like, hmhm, was there a you know, was
Speaker 1: there some money involved here? Whatever?
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: Instead, according to the police and the district attorney, based
Speaker 1: on multiple witness statements, the district attorney there said, oh,
Speaker 1: this is not a chargeable case. And so that is
Speaker 1: noteworthy to me as far as you know, do you
Speaker 1: believe this guy actually didn't do it or that this
Speaker 1: guy just is going to get away with something he did.
Speaker 1: But so because that would have been you know, for
Speaker 1: just not to be crass about this, but just from
Speaker 1: a football standpoint, it had been pretty disastrous because Rashi
Speaker 1: Rice potentially going to be suspended to start the year
Speaker 1: if Xavier Worthy, as you know, a domestic violence arrest
Speaker 1: or conviction or whatever. He then you then have to
Speaker 1: worry about him not being on the team at all
Speaker 1: moving forward, and all of a sudden, the wide receiver
Speaker 1: rooms decimated again and again I feel a little awkward
Speaker 1: even just talking about the football piece of it on
Speaker 1: something that's serious but that you do have to kind
Speaker 1: of fifer kate your brain and think about certain things
Speaker 1: and the other pieces of it. But that's now. It
Speaker 1: would appear a one day thing and gone. They brought
Speaker 1: back Hollywood Brown, and I liked the idea of Hollywood
Speaker 1: Brown like I liked the idea of it last year.
Speaker 1: And I think they're and they kept Nick Bolton.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else that you would like to see
Speaker 2: them do?
Speaker 1: Well, there's two defensive starters on the Chiefs that our
Speaker 1: free agents haven't signed elsewhere yet, so justin Reid the
Speaker 1: safety and Charles Aminaho the defense end, I am holding
Speaker 1: out hope that they are able to bring at least
Speaker 1: one of those guys back, that maybe the market those
Speaker 1: guys thought they were gonna have doesn't quite materialize, and
Speaker 1: that they're able to bring one of those guys back.
Speaker 1: But the Chiefs clearly think by their moves they were
Speaker 1: good enough last year, and I think they were. They
Speaker 1: played their worst game at the worst time, but they
Speaker 1: aren't treating this like they need a major overhaul, and
Speaker 1: I actually think that's smart.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Next San Francisco has been tearing it down. They've been
Speaker 3: spinning big on that roster. They've been right around the corner.
Speaker 3: So they traded Debo and could trade Ayuk after just
Speaker 3: extending them last year.
Speaker 2: Do you think that they officially missed their window? I do.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean they'll never open again, but I do think
Speaker 1: that the Niners, as we know them as this team,
Speaker 1: with these all pros on both sides of the ball
Speaker 1: all over the place, that's done now. And you know,
Speaker 1: a sneaky, big loss, in my opinion, was talanoa Hufanga, who,
Speaker 1: again I understand the last couple of years he's you have,
Speaker 1: injuries have kind of stolen them from him.
Speaker 2: But he was.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable, an unbelievable mid round pick for them, who played
Speaker 1: at an all pro level instantly. But so they lost
Speaker 1: Aaron Banks, one of their most reliable linemen, probably their
Speaker 1: most reliable lineman other than Trent Williams Malik Collins. They
Speaker 1: cut for cap reasons. Dre Greenlaw, who sadly popped his
Speaker 1: achilles in the Super Bowl, and you know he went
Speaker 1: to Denver, Javon Hargrave, who they had to move on
Speaker 1: for cap purposes, Hufonga who went to Denver, Kyle Yuschek,
Speaker 1: who was really valuable to them as a kind of
Speaker 1: do it all full back, Jalen Moore their backup tackle,
Speaker 1: and that is an important spot with Trent Williams at
Speaker 1: his age playing left tackle. To Kansas City. Elijah Mitchell,
Speaker 1: one of their kind of depth running backs, is not
Speaker 1: a huge one. To Kansas City. They traded Deebo Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel and Trevarius Ward, former Great Chief and a really
Speaker 1: good corner who suffered a real personal tragedy with the
Speaker 1: loss of a child this year and said basically like
Speaker 1: he and his family needed to move from California and
Speaker 1: get a fresh start because of how much pain that was,
Speaker 1: and you feel just absolutely sick for him. He signed
Speaker 1: with the Cults. So it's just very, very very different team.
Speaker 1: And if you're doing all this just so you can
Speaker 1: pay Brock Party, that's not the business I would get in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean that probably means through all this
Speaker 2: party is getting paid.
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess they feel like they have to,
Speaker 1: but I I would I I would be very careful
Speaker 1: with how much money I off for Brock Party. Everybody
Speaker 1: he knows how I feel about that, so we don't
Speaker 1: have to get too deep into it and all that.
Speaker 3: Whufungah. They're both on the Broncos. Now, yeah, mahomes twice.
Speaker 1: Listen, Denver's defense is really good. H Denver's defense is
Speaker 1: really good. And so I there'll be an interesting team.
Speaker 1: I said yesterday, I thought the Raiders with Gino could
Speaker 1: jump Denver in the division, and I thought Denver could
Speaker 1: finish last. But the AFC West men's tough. The AFC
Speaker 1: West is is legitimately really really tough. Uh. We might
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Speaker 1: let's go to a few listener questions. I think the
Speaker 1: producers have one Demont's.
Speaker 3: Ah, yeah, they said, as Jada not count as an
Speaker 3: established star next to SGA, he's pretty.
Speaker 1: Good, certainly not going into this year. He didn't now
Speaker 1: that he's been an All Star. I guess, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't look look at Jalen Williams as an established
Speaker 1: star yet I look at him as a budding star
Speaker 1: and Chet as a potential star. But neither of them. Again,
Speaker 1: we're comparing them to Denver. Okay, so he's got an
Speaker 1: unbelievable roster, unbelievable depth, but none of them have any
Speaker 1: We're close to the pelts of the Wall of Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray exactly right, all right.
Speaker 3: Next one, Andrew thoughts on value for Rams having the
Speaker 3: top defense for the twenty five twenty six season.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna have the number one defense,
Speaker 1: but I do like that. I do like the pieces
Speaker 1: they've added, and I think they've been very good in
Speaker 1: the draft as of as of the last couple of
Speaker 1: years since they started having their own draft picks. Again,
Speaker 1: do DJB real quick demanse.
Speaker 3: DJB oh there is yo yo, Nick? Could I get
Speaker 3: your blessing to print a T shirt with your face
Speaker 3: on it? And put quote mister consistency printed underneath for
Speaker 3: my own personal.
Speaker 1: Use, not only my blessing. I fully endorse it. I
Speaker 1: I think that's yeah, of course that would be an
Speaker 1: honor and do juwanify and then we'll get out of here.
Speaker 2: Uh djuantify.
Speaker 3: If we were wiping the historical slate clean, who would
Speaker 3: be the MVP in that case?
Speaker 2: I would say.
Speaker 1: Jokic maybe, But I mean the guy who's gonna win
Speaker 1: sixty five games and win the scoring title averaging thirty
Speaker 1: three points a game. It's not like that's a crummy case.
Speaker 1: And that's and so maybe he Joker would be the MVP.
Speaker 1: But we're not wiping the historical slate clean. We're not.
Speaker 1: And so like that's to me less relevant than it
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