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Speaker 2: Welcome in what'ch driving the Great? Episode two seventy two.
Speaker 2: Apologies for not being here on Thursday. Just some issues
Speaker 2: on the block where the story is preventing us from
Speaker 2: being able to record. But what you missed out on
Speaker 2: was hopefully follow us on Socials was Demid giving out
Speaker 2: another winning teaser. This is a true Oh. By the way,
Speaker 2: here's what missed the cut. Demonse hit his fourth teaser
Speaker 2: in a row. There was a second Monday night football game.
Speaker 2: Listen the Cardinals won, Chargers lost, and Deshaun Watson's out
Speaker 2: for the season. I might touch on that in today's show,
Speaker 2: I might not. I'm debating it. It feels like it
Speaker 2: feels like most of the takes have been that need
Speaker 2: to be said have been said. And it'll really depend
Speaker 2: on my mood how much I want to get into
Speaker 2: the vociferous defense. You know what, screw it, I'll just
Speaker 2: start the show with it very quickly, and then we'll
Speaker 2: get to the fun stuff. So pop Demanse off the
Speaker 2: screen if you don't mind, because we're gonna get the
Speaker 2: fun stuff with him in a moment. Here's what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say. Uh, the reason people are so galled at
Speaker 2: the vociferous defense of Deshaun Watson after he pops his
Speaker 2: achilles at it's very you know, I shouldn't say people
Speaker 2: are so galled. The reason I was so galled is
Speaker 2: the very simple fact of this. And this is the
Speaker 2: only thing that I think people haven't put real voice
Speaker 2: to where if they have, I missed it, So I'll
Speaker 2: say it, and if someone else said it before it
Speaker 2: before me, my apologies. The only class of people Deshaun
Speaker 2: Watson could have been accused of doing what he did
Speaker 2: to those people or women. And you might be like, well,
Speaker 2: how many classes of people are there. Here's what I mean.
Speaker 2: If Deshaun Watson was credibly accused of abusing two dozen children,
Speaker 2: his teammates would not embrace him. And if Deshaun Watson
Speaker 2: was accused of using his power, influence and physical stature
Speaker 2: to sexually abuse two dozen male masseuses, his teammates wouldn't
Speaker 2: embrace him. That's why it's so galling is you can say, oh,
Speaker 2: it's a family, they're not worried about off the field.
Speaker 2: I am here to tell you right now, and everyone
Speaker 2: listening and watching knows it that if what Deshaun Watson
Speaker 2: was accused of doing and settled lawsuits and there's new
Speaker 2: lawsuits and incredibly credible allegations if any of that, if
Speaker 2: it involved children, no team would have touched him. And
Speaker 2: if it involved men, no team would have touched him
Speaker 2: because they'd have been worried will the locker room accept him?
Speaker 2: But because it involved grown women, there was an understanding, Eh,
Speaker 2: if he's good, I think they'll I think it'll be okay.
Speaker 2: I ain't guys, we'll be fine with it. And then,
Speaker 2: as it turned out, even though he was the worst
Speaker 2: quarterback in the league, when the guy pops's achilles and
Speaker 2: fans have a unfortunate reaction. We got folks standing up
Speaker 2: there saying he's been a model citizen for most of
Speaker 2: his career. Okay, I mean John Wilkes Booth was a
Speaker 2: model theater patron for most of his life. I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, what are we talking about? Model citism for
Speaker 2: most of his career except for those two or three dozen,
Speaker 2: you know times. So I think that's I think, at
Speaker 2: its core, it is about the lack of regard and
Speaker 2: respect people have for women as a human class. And
Speaker 2: that's that's my takeaway on it. I didn't actually, like
Speaker 2: I said, I wasn't even sure if I was gonna
Speaker 2: talk about it, but we talked about it. Now will
Speaker 2: flip things around a bit because we weren't here Tuesday. Demond,
Speaker 2: welcome back in so you might be the best football
Speaker 2: better in America right now. This is really one of
Speaker 2: the most shocking turn of events I've ever seen. But
Speaker 2: you so demands people don't know does this? Obviously you
Speaker 2: know that. But also works on the Fox Sports lot
Speaker 2: in LA for the studio shows, doing a lot of
Speaker 2: different things. But you are you occasionally ir regularly cut
Speaker 2: tape for the herd. Correct, Like we don't really talk
Speaker 2: about this much. But that's a fair job, part of
Speaker 2: your job description. So you were included in the herds
Speaker 2: Picks contest, and they the format tell me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 2: is exactly like I do my picks. Five picks against
Speaker 2: the spread a week.
Speaker 3: Correct, he's actly fuck week.
Speaker 2: So I demonte didn't want me to talk about this,
Speaker 2: but it's too remarkable, not too He's twenty seven and
Speaker 2: eight documented twenty seven and eight through seven weeks. His
Speaker 2: record by the week has been four and one, two
Speaker 2: and three in week two, and then four and one,
Speaker 2: four and one, four and one, five and oh four
Speaker 2: and one correct. I'm reading this properly. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 2: not just it's not just that the teasers you've hit
Speaker 2: four in a row, but you're twenty what is twenty
Speaker 2: seven and eight? That's twenty seven times three is seventy one?
Speaker 2: The no, it's not twenty seven times three? Holy shit,
Speaker 2: is eighty one? Twenty seven times three is eighty one.
Speaker 2: So you're probably seventy eight percent against the spread to
Speaker 2: check real quick, twenty seven over thirty five, seventy seven
Speaker 2: percent against the spread. Second place in this contest is
Speaker 2: Jaymack Who's twenty two and thirteen. Twenty two and thirteen,
Speaker 2: by the way, is an awesome record. I'd killed for
Speaker 2: it this year, You're twenty seven and eight.
Speaker 3: So I'm betting Gods, I don't know what's going on
Speaker 3: right now, but I'm hoping it continues. I Mean, my
Speaker 3: biggest mistake in the last three or four weeks is
Speaker 3: putting the Jets in anything. I mean, because I had
Speaker 3: them in the blazon and then I had them in
Speaker 3: a parlay that I actually put money on this weekend.
Speaker 2: But listen, I'm just gonna tell America demanse last week
Speaker 2: and then we'll get to Monday night football demand last
Speaker 2: week text me, uh.
Speaker 3: And that is put in the missed Yeah.
Speaker 2: The hold on wait wit no, because you hit one line.
Speaker 3: You yeah that one to two weeks ago. I hated
Speaker 3: the one that I just placed. It was I think
Speaker 3: it was like this second Yeah, was the one that
Speaker 3: I saw. It was a six legger, all five legs
Speaker 3: hit except for the Jets one Jets.
Speaker 2: So last last week, Demonse put this in Bears plus
Speaker 2: one and a half and then and the Bucks minus
Speaker 2: three and a half and then Ravens, Falcons Eagles money
Speaker 2: line it was plus seven sixteen, a seven to one
Speaker 2: five team parlay. It hit yes or this weekend Demonse
Speaker 2: put this in. It was a seventeen to one six
Speaker 2: leg parlay, Broncos minus two and a half, Chiefs money line,
Speaker 2: Commander's money line, Bengals money line, Raven's money line, and
Speaker 2: the Jets minus a point and a half. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's an all time run. And I'm just proud. This is.
Speaker 2: You know, I wasn't there for you to learn how
Speaker 2: to walk, but this is. I imagine what it felt
Speaker 2: like like seeing it from the beginning, like starting to
Speaker 2: crawl and then like.
Speaker 3: Stumbling over what this means and yeah, like oh.
Speaker 2: Oheu and now and now you're twenty seven and eight
Speaker 2: on the year. It's just fantastic. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: to the actual show. Go ahead, bell.
Speaker 3: Oh, so, after a hot start in the beginning of
Speaker 3: that game, Baker and Tampa Bay and I keep up
Speaker 3: with Lamar and the Ravens. They were humming and firing
Speaker 3: on all cylinders. Lamar is now number one in MVP
Speaker 3: Odd's by a sizeable margin. After another meteorcre performance from
Speaker 3: your guy Mahomes. You said it would be hard for
Speaker 3: Lamar to win another MVP due to voter fatigue, but
Speaker 3: who else would they give it to besides Lamar? Right now?
Speaker 2: Look, right now, Lamar is running away with it and
Speaker 2: we're in a really so this is and I'm going
Speaker 2: to this is going to be the story of today,
Speaker 2: which is I kind of have a theory that I'm
Speaker 2: going to end up being sports Twitter's main character today.
Speaker 2: And you never want to be the main character on Twitter,
Speaker 2: but sometimes sometimes you accidentally do it. Sometimes you know
Speaker 2: it's going to happen, and sometimes you feel like you
Speaker 2: have an obligation to do it, which is, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be the only person to remember what everyone said
Speaker 2: eight months ago, every single person who covers sports, which
Speaker 2: was we're done giving Lamar MVPs until he doesn't fall
Speaker 2: apart in the playoffs. That was that absolute consensus, accepted
Speaker 2: opinion in January. And now we're seven games into the
Speaker 2: year and Lamar's looking like he's going to win MVP, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm actually fine with. I don't actually
Speaker 2: care about the NFL MVP the way I care about
Speaker 2: the NBA MVP. I think one has much more historical
Speaker 2: resonance than the other. But what I am not going
Speaker 2: to allow for is everyone to pretend we have not
Speaker 2: been here before. And I saw I'm gonna do this
Speaker 2: on the show, and you know this in theory should
Speaker 2: give Kevin Wilds a head start to think of a rebuttal.
Speaker 2: But Kevin Wilds doesn't watch the podcast. I saw Kevin
Speaker 2: Wilde's tweet yesterday that is a great one. But the
Speaker 2: only problem is it word for word applied to last year.
Speaker 2: From the Ravens perspective, Lamar's the MVP and playing better
Speaker 2: than ever. Patrick Mahomes is playing the worst football of
Speaker 2: his life. If Lamar can't make the Super Bowl this year,
Speaker 2: it will literally never happen. This is literally what everyone
Speaker 2: was saying at the end of last season and then
Speaker 2: and last season, by the way, it's Mahomes was playing
Speaker 2: worse than he is now and the Chiefs were losing. Oh, Nick,
Speaker 2: Lamar nep didn't have a game like last night last year?
Speaker 2: Two hundred and eighty yards, five touchdowns a one fifty
Speaker 2: eight rating. Hey, Siri, what was the final game of
Speaker 2: Lamar jackson season last year? Oh, three hundred and twenty yards,
Speaker 2: five touchdowns a one fifty eight rating. The exact thing
Speaker 2: he did yesterday as many touchdowns as in completions more
Speaker 2: than ten yards per attempt. Guys, we've been here before.
Speaker 2: Now I can hold upple thoughts in my head at
Speaker 2: one time. What'd you say, go ahead.
Speaker 3: To the new year. We've been here before. But I
Speaker 3: think this team is a little bit more complete. No,
Speaker 3: the defense isn't great, but Derrick Henry's there and.
Speaker 2: Eric Henry is that. But the defense is far worse
Speaker 2: last years. So I'm gonna push back on you on
Speaker 2: this now. By the way, here's gonna be the downside
Speaker 2: to you being America's sharpest football better no more kid
Speaker 2: gloves on some of these football arguments. If you're gonna
Speaker 2: beat me in picks, I'm gonna have to beat you
Speaker 2: in some of these arguments. You can't say they're more
Speaker 2: complete team. You can say they're a scarier offense. But
Speaker 2: last year they had the best defense in football to
Speaker 2: go along with this offense. This year they the offense
Speaker 2: is even better, but the defense is as of this moment,
Speaker 2: not nearly the caliber it was last year. So again,
Speaker 2: I want to make this clear. I'm fine with Lamar
Speaker 2: winning MVP. I'm also fine with having a real discussion
Speaker 2: of is where does Lamar Jackson rank on the all
Speaker 2: time regular season quarterbacks list? Because his winning percentage is unbelievable,
Speaker 2: His numbers, his the numbers are weird because he's never
Speaker 2: thrown for four thousand yards and he's only thrown for
Speaker 2: thirty five hundred yards once. But his passer rating is great,
Speaker 2: his efficiency is great, his yards per attempt is great,
Speaker 2: his touchdown intercession ratio is great. And obviously he adds
Speaker 2: this amazing running threat. But and this is what is
Speaker 2: going to make me sadly the main character of sports
Speaker 2: Twitter today. None of this gives me faith that he
Speaker 2: will be anything like this in the playoffs. And if
Speaker 2: you want to say, then why play the games? What's
Speaker 2: the point? It's totally fair response. And my answer is,
Speaker 2: and again I feel like a jerk, and the listeners
Speaker 2: and viewers might be saying, it's because you're being a jerk.
Speaker 2: I want to make this clear. He has been sensational
Speaker 2: this year. I think he has been dramatically better than
Speaker 2: he was last year. Last year I thought I didn't
Speaker 2: I didn't care that he won MVP, but I didn't
Speaker 2: love that it was to me, it was like, okay,
Speaker 2: the Ravens are the best team, so I guess it's
Speaker 2: got to go to their quarterback. Like I didn't. I took.
Speaker 2: I didn't love it, but I didn't really care because
Speaker 2: there wasn't anybody else that took a stranglehold of it.
Speaker 2: Dak didn't Purty fell apart at the end. I liked
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey, but he is a running back, like there's
Speaker 2: a lot of So it was fine this year. The
Speaker 2: last five weeks in particular, he is playing close to
Speaker 2: perfect football. In fact, what is what are Lamar's numbers
Speaker 2: the last five weeks? So I and I'll I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell it to you real quick. Last five weeks, Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 2: He's got to be completing over seventy percent of his
Speaker 2: passes and his ratings gotta be in the one thirties.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna pop it up right now because and
Speaker 2: he's probably averaging two hundred I'm just talking about passing
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty yards a game, so the damn
Speaker 2: Football Reference will let me do it in quickly. But
Speaker 2: he has thirteen touchdowns one pick. Gotta be a rating
Speaker 2: in the one thirties. Over two hundred and thirty yards
Speaker 2: a game passing and everything he's doing on the ground.
Speaker 2: He's playing as well as you can play over the
Speaker 2: last five weeks, and last night he was absolutely brilliant,
Speaker 2: Absolutely brilliant. I still okay, here's the numbers over the
Speaker 2: last five weeks. I got it, finally, two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty eight passing yards a game, thirteen touchdowns, one pick a,
Speaker 2: one thirty seven rating, seventy two percent completions, and has
Speaker 2: added sixty or fifty seven yards a game rushing and
Speaker 2: two touchdowns, So a total of three hundred and five
Speaker 2: total yards per game, seventy two percent completions, ten and
Speaker 2: a half yards per attempt, five and a half yards
Speaker 2: per rush, thirteen or fifteen total touchdowns, one interception, and
Speaker 2: three fumbles lost. So nobody, nobody can question how good
Speaker 2: he's been. Everyone has not only a right, I would argue,
Speaker 2: if you're going to be consistent with how we talk
Speaker 2: about athletes, has an obligation to be highly skeptical that
Speaker 2: he will be anything like this in the playoffs. And
Speaker 2: if you want to say no, it's fair to do
Speaker 2: that to James Harden and Joe el embiid to first
Speaker 2: ballot Hall of famers to league MVPs two all time
Speaker 2: regular season guys, but unfair to do it to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: I just disagree with you, and he's not the same
Speaker 2: caliber of player. But every of you want to be like, well,
Speaker 2: basketball is different than football. Fine, everyone does this exact
Speaker 2: math to Dak Prescott, everyone and last year who came
Speaker 2: in second in MVP to Lamar, Dak Prescott so and
Speaker 2: Dak's and I having a great year, so it doesn't
Speaker 2: apply this year. But I'm saying, if Dak right now
Speaker 2: had these numbers, demons, let me ask, if he had
Speaker 2: these numbers and was looking like League MVP, do you
Speaker 2: think the second clause of the conversation would be but
Speaker 2: we got to see him do it in the playoffs
Speaker 2: or just be like man, time to give this man
Speaker 2: his flowers?
Speaker 3: No, one thousand percent, Dik gets that same rep. But
Speaker 3: I do think people would be easier, easier hand it
Speaker 3: off to Dak Prescott getting it. But yeah, not a
Speaker 3: thousand percent.
Speaker 2: So do you listen? I right now, the MVP odds
Speaker 2: Lamar is a big favorite. He's plus two to twenty five.
Speaker 2: And the reason he's a big favorite one is not
Speaker 2: only because he's been brilliant, But because the guys in
Speaker 2: second and third are having really odd years, Mahomes makes
Speaker 2: all these clutch plays and the teams play the hardest
Speaker 2: schedule and they're undefeated, but his numbers are awful. Josh
Speaker 2: Allen has totally stopped turning the ball over, just doesn't
Speaker 2: do it after it being a huge problem last year
Speaker 2: or throughout his career. But three of his games this
Speaker 2: year he's been or two of his games, pardon me,
Speaker 2: had been two of the worst games of his career,
Speaker 2: So you know what I mean, he's in a weird spot.
Speaker 2: And then there's your guy Demons Jared Goff, who has
Speaker 2: a real case to be made because he's been just
Speaker 2: as hot as Lamar since the first two weeks of
Speaker 2: the year. Both those guys have been brilliant since the
Speaker 2: opening two weeks of the year, yea.
Speaker 3: Was looking great. I mean one of those losses was
Speaker 3: to the Raiders five straight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to the Raiders when they were up to ten
Speaker 2: points in the fourth quarter. So the I do want
Speaker 2: to say what to the Bucks In one second, I
Speaker 2: want to say one thing about about Baltimore the team,
Speaker 2: And I said this for the year and a Classic one.
Speaker 2: Sorry to say it instantly correct, It was totally unfair
Speaker 2: for the NFL to make the AFC Championship Game rematch
Speaker 2: week one because, as I said then, and it's being
Speaker 2: proven out now, if they put Baltimore in a position
Speaker 2: where if they lose that game, there is nothing they
Speaker 2: can do the rest of the regular season to feel
Speaker 2: fully confident going into this postseason. And now what you've
Speaker 2: seen is they lost that game, there was a bit
Speaker 2: of a hangover effect. They lose the next game. Since then,
Speaker 2: they've been brilliant, But if we are being honest, there
Speaker 2: is this cloud looming over them, which is the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I think it would have been better for the league
Speaker 2: and for them if that was a later season matchup.
Speaker 2: Now for them, it would have been way better because
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are so banged up, and because in that
Speaker 2: first game they didn't seem to be fully invested yet
Speaker 2: in Derrick Henry or the Chiefs just have the best
Speaker 2: run defense in the NFL, which they of course do.
Speaker 2: But it's just a weird. Yeah, but going on with
Speaker 2: Baltimore this year, all right now?
Speaker 3: The follow up the month, Yeah, so the Bucks, they
Speaker 3: obviously had a really good start for their season that
Speaker 3: they're now down to their top top two I receivers.
Speaker 3: Do you think but do you think Baker has enough
Speaker 3: to get it done with the rest of this roster man?
Speaker 2: Yesterday was as devastating of a loss as a team
Speaker 2: can suffer. And I don't know how closely people were
Speaker 2: watching this game, Demanse. What you look confused about something.
Speaker 3: Really is devastating as a losses. They could it because
Speaker 3: they came out to oh.
Speaker 2: Like no, because of because because of the I'm saying
Speaker 2: that the context of how it was so see it. Well,
Speaker 2: there's just so many pieces to it. So if people
Speaker 2: didn't see it. The Bucks go down, score a touchdown
Speaker 2: seven to nothing. They then get a stop, go down,
Speaker 2: immediately score another touchdown. It's called off due to a
Speaker 2: very shaky holding penalty, but it would have been fourteen
Speaker 2: to nothing, so it should be fourteen to nothing. Everyone's healthy. Instead,
Speaker 2: they then have the holding penalty, throw a pass to
Speaker 2: Mike Evans that is a perfect not a perfect pass,
Speaker 2: but it could be caught. Evans drops it and it
Speaker 2: looks like pulls his hamstring. So now instead of being
Speaker 2: up fourteen to nothing, you're up ten to nothing and
Speaker 2: Mike Evans, who came into the game. Gimpy is out.
Speaker 2: You then that next time down have another chance to score.
Speaker 2: Baker throws a terrible interception in the end zone and
Speaker 2: it's off to the race's Baltimore. You then have kind
Speaker 2: of a fake comeback. Lamar makes a his one bad
Speaker 2: mistake of the game, the backwards pass. They score a touchdown.
Speaker 2: They then get an onside kick, score a touchdown, and
Speaker 2: now find themselves and I'll defend Todd Bowles on this
Speaker 2: down ten with a minute left. The game is not over.
Speaker 2: You're in trouble, you're a huge, huge, huge dog, but
Speaker 2: it's not over, and you've recovered an on side kick,
Speaker 2: so you should be trying to win if you're My
Speaker 2: general rule of thumb is if you are down less
Speaker 2: than three scores and there is more than twenty seconds left,
Speaker 2: the game's not over. I can you know what I
Speaker 2: If the situation exists where field goal, touchdown or touchdown
Speaker 2: field goal or even touchdown touchdown can win or tie
Speaker 2: you the game and you have a reasonable amount of
Speaker 2: time left, you should still be trying. And so that's
Speaker 2: what they did. So I don't blame Todd Bowles for
Speaker 2: leaving his guys, and if they were down seventeen it
Speaker 2: would be outrageous, but down.
Speaker 3: Two scores think they were actually doing something.
Speaker 2: Moving the ball right, And so I thought what I
Speaker 2: thought before Godwin got hurt was gonna happen is I
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, they are going to kick a field
Speaker 2: goal to make it a seven point game and then
Speaker 2: go for an on side kick with thirty seconds left,
Speaker 2: and again a million things have to happen, but you're
Speaker 2: not dead. So they left the guys in, so I didn't.
Speaker 2: And I'm watching closely also because I have Tampa plus
Speaker 2: three and a half on the show Picks, So I
Speaker 2: when they're down ten, I'm like, if they don't kick
Speaker 2: the field goal, if they just go score, and then
Speaker 2: now they're down three, and then on like I get
Speaker 2: a weird back door cover and Godwin suffers a terrible
Speaker 2: ankle injury. So now you have no Evangs, you have
Speaker 2: no God. When your defense hasn't been good all year
Speaker 2: because of the injuries, you're your real, real, real trouble.
Speaker 2: And do I think that they could still make the playoffs?
Speaker 2: I actually do because now their next three you have
Speaker 2: the Falcons huge game and then Chiefs Niners. But then
Speaker 2: after that, Demons. Here's what they have Giants, Panthers, Raiders, Chargers, Cowboys, Panthers, Saints.
Speaker 2: So you have four games, five games against some of
Speaker 2: the worst teams in football, Giants, Panthers, Raiders, Saints. You
Speaker 2: already have four wins. So I don't think they're dead,
Speaker 2: but I think that any hopes they had of having
Speaker 2: a great season are dead with no godwin, and we
Speaker 2: don't know how long Mike Evans is gonna be outful.
Speaker 2: So that's where I'm at. That was very long first
Speaker 2: few topics, and we haven't even gotten to the game
Speaker 2: of the week. So go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So in that Super Bowl rematch, you know, Kansas
Speaker 3: City obviously pulled out another improbable dub San Francisco was
Speaker 3: banged up with still might have more complete roster than
Speaker 3: Kansas City with the people that were Uh, these unlikely
Speaker 3: wins just keep stacking up. How what's longer do you
Speaker 3: think the Chiefs can stack can keep doing this?
Speaker 2: I mean, I hate everything about the question you just asked.
Speaker 2: There's nothing unlikely about it. Here's here's what Here's what
Speaker 2: I what is frustrating to me about the discourse surrounding
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. They've played six games. How many of those games, Demanse,
Speaker 2: do you think they trailed for even one second in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter of those six? Improbable?
Speaker 3: Lucky No.
Speaker 2: One the Cincinnati game, because remember the Cincinnati game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the the Ravens, Saints, Falcons Niners game. They led every
Speaker 2: second of the fourth quarter their Charge game, it was
Speaker 2: briefly tied, and then they led the rest of the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. And in the Bengals game they had to
Speaker 2: pull it out. It's not improbable for the team with
Speaker 2: the league's best defense, the league's best coach, and also
Speaker 2: the league's best quarterback, even though he's not playing that way,
Speaker 2: except for, of course, in the biggest moments of the game,
Speaker 2: where on fourth and two, fourth and goal from the two,
Speaker 2: up only two points in the fourth quarter, he truck
Speaker 2: sticks to safety to assault the game away. That team
Speaker 2: is supposed to win. The two time defending champion on
Speaker 2: a twelve game winning streak is supposed to win games.
Speaker 2: What's improbable is that Vegas continues to make Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: an underdog. What is offensive is that the Brock Purdy
Speaker 2: has never been an underdog once in his career, and
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes has been an underdog fourteen times.
Speaker 3: Stating to say that again.
Speaker 2: The San Francisco forty nine ers have not been an
Speaker 2: underdog in a single game they have played since Rock
Speaker 2: Purty took over. Meanwhile, the Kansas City Chiefs have been
Speaker 2: an underdog fourteen times in Patrick Mahomes' career, including five
Speaker 2: of their last six playoff games they were underdogs. They
Speaker 2: of course won all of those. So I mean Mahomes is,
Speaker 2: among other things, the greatest underdog quarterback in NFL history.
Speaker 2: The numbers are insane. And also he's twelve one and
Speaker 2: one against the spread and eleven and three now straight up,
Speaker 2: So wait, is that right?
Speaker 3: He was?
Speaker 2: Yeah, eleven and three straight up, twelve to one and
Speaker 2: one against the spread another game where they were underdog,
Speaker 2: And so I the I don't know what to tell
Speaker 2: you other than and I know today that the conversation
Speaker 2: today is going to be like It's just I get
Speaker 2: so irritated about how the Chiefs are discussed because people
Speaker 2: want the Chiefs to be something they're not. They're like, Ah,
Speaker 2: they're boring, Oh they're lucky, Oh they're you know, the guys.
Speaker 2: They have played the league's hardest schedule. The quarterback that
Speaker 2: everyone acknowledges is either the best or the second best
Speaker 2: player the league has ever seen, has played poorly through
Speaker 2: major stretches of this season. They have suffered as many
Speaker 2: injuries to key players as any team in the league,
Speaker 2: and they are winning these games handily. I oh, what
Speaker 2: do you mean they're winning handily. They led the Ravens
Speaker 2: for every second of the second half. The Ravens did
Speaker 2: have a chance at the end to tie it on
Speaker 2: the final play of the game, the Bengals give them trouble.
Speaker 2: Credit to the Bengals, and the Bengals almost won that
Speaker 2: game until, of course, Mahomes, having played the worst game
Speaker 2: of his career up to that point, arguably on fourth
Speaker 2: and six through a perfect pass, it got called back
Speaker 2: due to a questionable hold, even though, of course the
Speaker 2: Chiefs get all the calls, And then on fourth and
Speaker 2: sixteen Mahomes threw another perfect pass. The very next week
Speaker 2: against Atlanta, they controlled every aspect of that game. The
Speaker 2: very next week against the Chargers, they went down ten
Speaker 2: to nothing instantly, then pitched to shutout and controlled that game.
Speaker 2: The very next week against New Orleans, they controlled every
Speaker 2: aspect of that game and yesterday or Sunday against the
Speaker 2: defending NFC champion Niners, they led by double digits for
Speaker 2: major stretches of the game and led by nine plus
Speaker 2: for basically the entirety of the fourth quarter. What are
Speaker 2: we talking about? So?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: I think that the Chiefs are demonstrably better than every team.
Speaker 2: I hear a lot of people I respect saying, well,
Speaker 2: we'll see about what happens in January, but right now,
Speaker 2: Baltimore is clearly the best team. Okay. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you want to say that, that's fine. I think it's
Speaker 2: ridiculous to have that opinion, truly ridiculous to have that opinion,
Speaker 2: But it's fine. People can have that opinion. And I
Speaker 2: hope that there's more spots where the Chiefs are underdogs
Speaker 2: because they're incredibly profitable.
Speaker 3: But do you think that will happen, like I know
Speaker 3: you hope that, do you think that will actually happen
Speaker 3: again for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: I think they'll be underdogs in Buffe Yes, Vegas doesn't
Speaker 2: respect this team flatly. I think they'll be underdogs in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: I don't think they'll be underdogs at home at any
Speaker 2: point this year. But I also want people to understand
Speaker 2: what is going to happen here. The Chiefs are gonna
Speaker 2: go into that game against Buffalo nine and uh, they're
Speaker 2: home for the Raiders. They're then I'm sorry, they're at
Speaker 2: the Raiders. They're then home for Tampa. That Tampa game
Speaker 2: would have been tough, but now it's gonna be no Godwin,
Speaker 2: no Evans. And then they play the Broncos and so
Speaker 2: they're gonna be nine and oh going into the Bills game.
Speaker 2: And the other thing about this is, I the Chiefs
Speaker 2: have had incredible, you know, brutal injuries all year. I
Speaker 2: get it, but they have a if the Texans stumble
Speaker 2: at any point, and if the Chiefs beat Buffalo in
Speaker 2: a month, the Chiefs have a real chance to lock
Speaker 2: up the number one seed historically early because they're right
Speaker 2: now three games clear of Baltimore because Baltimore's got the
Speaker 2: two losses, and if they finished with the same record,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs get it. So like, let's just if the
Speaker 2: Ravens go undefeated the rest of the way, in order
Speaker 2: to be the one seed, the Chiefs have to lose
Speaker 2: three times. Now, by the way, going into the year,
Speaker 2: I did think the Chiefs were gonna lose three times
Speaker 2: this year. So let's just say they do lose three times.
Speaker 2: That means everyone else is gonna have to go undefeated.
Speaker 2: Anyone that wants to be the one seed, it's gonna
Speaker 2: have to go undefeated or beat The Chiefs had to
Speaker 2: head and only lose once. So good luck.
Speaker 3: But I are you scared that because I know in
Speaker 3: the beginning of the years A couple of years ago
Speaker 3: you were like, oh, twenty and zero, never a doubt,
Speaker 3: won't lose a game, And then coming into this season,
Speaker 3: you were like, they're not gonna go twenty and oh.
Speaker 3: Whatever is that kind of on the board. Aren't you
Speaker 3: thinking it might be possible that they do go twenty
Speaker 3: and oh?
Speaker 2: Or I don't regular goal with all the.
Speaker 3: Games that they play it in the teams that they
Speaker 3: have remaining, I mean, I get they have like rival reasons.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing is this. I think that last
Speaker 2: year I thought twenty and oh could be a goal
Speaker 2: because you want to make sure you stay locked and
Speaker 2: focused and have like this rabbit to chase. This year,
Speaker 2: they have it and it's the three peat. We've seen
Speaker 2: an undefeated season. We've seen a team go seven or
Speaker 2: sixteen and oh, and then losing the Super Bowl. What
Speaker 2: we've never seen is a three peat. And I like,
Speaker 2: this is going to be an unpopular take, but I
Speaker 2: would be absolutely fine with And I don't listen. I
Speaker 2: think if I know the Chiefs, here's what I know.
Speaker 2: They probably will lose that game in Buffalo, and they'll
Speaker 2: lose a dumb one. I think they're gonna lose a
Speaker 2: dumb game and a game the game in Buffalo. But
Speaker 2: let's say I'm wrong, and let's say they start fifteen,
Speaker 2: they beat the Texans, lock up the one seed, and
Speaker 2: they're fifteen and zero. If they do that, I would
Speaker 2: be totally fine with them resting players saying we don't
Speaker 2: care about the fifth seventeen and zero. We're going for
Speaker 2: a threepeat, all right.
Speaker 3: Next Yeah, So it turns out Davante Adams was not
Speaker 3: the cure for what the Jets needed. Rogers once again
Speaker 3: played pretty badly and took the podium to put the
Speaker 3: blame on somebody else. He said his teammates need to
Speaker 3: stop listening to the media and keep faith in themselves. So,
Speaker 3: right now, what is the Jets' biggest issue? Maybe Aaron
Speaker 3: Rodgers was internalizing there.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I did. It's actually I went back
Speaker 2: and watched it that the rant I did yesterday on
Speaker 2: the Jets, which was kind of impromptu. If you go
Speaker 2: to the First Things First YouTube page is worth checking out.
Speaker 2: If I don't say so myself, just because I'm so
Speaker 2: exasperated and it's mostly off the cuff, so I don't
Speaker 2: want to do that again. I'll be very clear on
Speaker 2: this and concise. The problem with the Jets is the
Speaker 2: same problem with the Las Vegas Raiders and the New
Speaker 2: York Giants and the New Orleans Saints. They're not good.
Speaker 2: And what frustrates me about the Jets commentary is everyone
Speaker 2: is like trying to big brain figure out what's happening here,
Speaker 2: and the answer is fucking nothing. They're bad. Teams are bad.
Speaker 2: Like I'm so confused. Can someone crack this riddle as
Speaker 2: to why a team that has a mediocre old offensive line,
Speaker 2: that has the oldest quarterback in football who's also coming
Speaker 2: off in Achilles, the worst leader in sports, and somewhat
Speaker 2: you know, interested in football and somewhat interested in the
Speaker 2: you know, the the history of the world and running
Speaker 2: for vice president and recreational drugs, that that team who
Speaker 2: fired their coach doesn't have a real offensive coordinator. Uh
Speaker 2: wasn't a thirty two year old wide receiver away? Can
Speaker 2: someone solve this mystery? Guys? It's nobody says what's wrong
Speaker 2: with the Giants? Can someone figure it out? We're just like, oh,
Speaker 2: they're bad. Bad teams are bad, guys, Can someone can?
Speaker 2: We need to spend time discussing why the Raiders are
Speaker 2: two and five? You know why the Raiders are two
Speaker 2: and five because they're a two win caliber team with
Speaker 2: the Jets. People are like, well, the talent, I mean,
Speaker 2: they've got some talented players. Max Crosby's pretty awesome. DeVante
Speaker 2: Adams was one of the talented players on the Raiders.
Speaker 2: He's like, I can't in my career this way. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you're just gonna end it on the East Coast
Speaker 2: in the exact same way, Like, I mean, I don't,
Speaker 2: I just I don't got it. People are like Woody
Speaker 2: Johnson was shaken to his core by the loss to
Speaker 2: the Broncos. Why, you know what, the Broncos are better
Speaker 2: than you. You know what, the Broncos are a decent team.
Speaker 2: You know what you are a bad team. Bad teams
Speaker 2: lose games. I mean it's just maddening, and I just
Speaker 2: I am so sick of people trying to explain it. Nobody.
Speaker 2: We don't do this with any other team. The NBA
Speaker 2: starts tonight. Oddly, this is something that's not on a
Speaker 2: lot of people's radar. We'll talk about it later. But
Speaker 2: you know what I didn't get a lot of last
Speaker 2: year during the NBA regular season. What's going on with
Speaker 2: the Raptors. Why aren't the Raptors better? And it's like, well,
Speaker 2: because they're not good. They're not a good team. And
Speaker 2: you know what, that's unfair. That's unfair to the Raptors
Speaker 2: because they won a championship recently. Let me do it everyone,
Speaker 2: Brooklyn Nets. Can someone figure out why the Nets aren't
Speaker 2: winning more games? When the answer was poorly run franchise
Speaker 2: that's not that good and hasn't been good, so they
Speaker 2: lose the game is supposed to lose. It's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right, that's it. So I'm not The Jets have
Speaker 2: beating the Titans and the Patriot. The Titans and the
Speaker 2: Patriots are your wins. Every team that is not god
Speaker 2: awful you've lost to. And people are like, well, here's
Speaker 2: the percentage of two and five teams, I want to
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. Here's the thing about the two and
Speaker 2: five teams, the six percent that made the playoffs, you
Speaker 2: know what, they weren't bad. This seems bad. So I
Speaker 2: just find the whole Jets thing. And I am annoyed
Speaker 2: at how credulous like some of the Homer cheerleaders stuff
Speaker 2: that I do for the Chiefs on national television, other
Speaker 2: folks were doing for the Jets, as if that's acceptable. Guys.
Speaker 2: I just want to let you guys know something, just
Speaker 2: spoiler alert. If I'm still on TV in fifteen years
Speaker 2: and Mahomes is no longer on the Chiefs and the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are a clown show organization, I won't be dropping banners.
Speaker 2: I won't be picking them to win the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: every year. I won't be picking him to be MVP.
Speaker 2: But these folks that are like, oh, I was in
Speaker 2: Florham Park this summer. They are dialed in. Oh, don't
Speaker 2: worry about the mini camp and the fact that the
Speaker 2: coach in the quarterback don't get along, and they tried
Speaker 2: to replace the offensive coordinator and they have the worst
Speaker 2: owner in the NFL, or at least on the short
Speaker 2: list They're gonna be great because look at the talent
Speaker 2: they added in Mike Williams. Mike Williams who now is
Speaker 2: basically out of the rotation. Just a joke. It's a joke,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: WNBA demise yeh will no longer be betting on the Jets.
Speaker 3: You're planning to bet on the underdog Chiefs to pay
Speaker 3: for the tickets for the WNBA finals. Worked out. You
Speaker 3: and Deiana went to the closeout game and saw Liberty
Speaker 3: oht win an instant classic. I know you guys were
Speaker 3: there for that buzzer beater was a Sabrina hit, Like
Speaker 3: I won't say it was like three.
Speaker 2: Fal no, no, no, I wasn't no that. We weren't there
Speaker 2: for that one. We were that that was game four.
Speaker 2: We were there for Game five, which was yesterday or something.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah it was.
Speaker 2: It was also an instant classic that went to overtime.
Speaker 2: But it was I mean, this was great. We weren't
Speaker 2: there for the buzzer beater.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the coach of the Link said that the
Speaker 3: series was stolen in an all time accusation. Your thoughts
Speaker 3: on the series.
Speaker 2: It seemed a little stolen, Listen, I'm happy for the Liberty,
Speaker 2: and they were the better team over the course of
Speaker 2: the year. The officiating in Game five was an embarrassment.
Speaker 2: There's no there's no getting around that. Uh, I mean,
Speaker 2: it just was and the and so I feel sick
Speaker 2: for Minnesota. I also, though, do think there's a small
Speaker 2: part of me that thinks I don't think it was
Speaker 2: rigged for New York. I think the officials were intimidated
Speaker 2: by a home crowd that was electric, and that's why
Speaker 2: you fight for home court advantage. And that crowd at
Speaker 2: Barclays was out of this world, out of this world,
Speaker 2: and I mean, it was pretty unbelievable. So here is
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. And it was a great series, a
Speaker 2: great series. I'm sad for Collier, who's a great player
Speaker 2: who deserved, you know, to win the championship. And some
Speaker 2: very very very tough calls at the end, it gets
Speaker 2: to overtime, and in overtime the Liberty are able to pull away,
Speaker 2: I mean despite I mean, some of the numbers in
Speaker 2: this finals game are incomprehensible. So Sabrina I and Escu
Speaker 2: demansee who's one of the greatest players in the history
Speaker 2: of women's basketball. She's the one who hit the logo
Speaker 2: three to extend, you know, to get the series where
Speaker 2: it is, or you know, get them one of the
Speaker 2: wins in the series. Demand She was one.
Speaker 3: Nineteen, Yeah, I saw her once.
Speaker 2: I saw for nineteen and Stewie, who is art maybe
Speaker 2: the greatest player in the history of women's basketball, was
Speaker 2: four for fifteen. So those two now listen. John Quell
Speaker 2: Jones one Finals MVP and deserved it. But Nafisa Collier
Speaker 2: was the best player in the series, and you feel
Speaker 2: sick for her that she you know, they don't win
Speaker 2: the championship. I will say, though, just real quick on
Speaker 2: a personal note, all time kind of set up by
Speaker 2: me there. So I tweeted what my plan was, which
Speaker 2: was to bet a somewhat irresponsible amount on the Chiefs
Speaker 2: is underdogs because it's the best bet in all of sports,
Speaker 2: and then hope that by the time the Chiefs had
Speaker 2: it locked there were still great seats available to Game
Speaker 2: five at Barclays. I live in Harlem, so I'm about
Speaker 2: forty five to fifty five minutes from Barclays in a car.
Speaker 2: So demons the actual court side seats We're going for
Speaker 2: all weekend. Four to ten thousand dollars a ticket. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's what they're going for all weekend. I have found four,
Speaker 2: like row ten center court seats that we're going for
Speaker 2: like twelve hundred bucks a ticket all weekend. But I'm
Speaker 2: thinking the closer you get to tip off, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be lower. Maybe they drop to like seven eight hundred
Speaker 2: bucks a ticket. It's a lot of money, but it's
Speaker 2: a championship game. It's a seminal WNBA season, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna win at least that on the Chiefs this weekend.
Speaker 2: That's the plan. Okay. So the Chiefs have it locked
Speaker 2: and I start looking for tickets, and your older sister
Speaker 2: Deora ends up having plans with her cousin. Your mom's
Speaker 2: been out all day, she doesn't really want to go.
Speaker 2: So now I'm looking for two instead of four, And
Speaker 2: those seats that I had been looking at were gone.
Speaker 2: My gosh, darn it. And then I see two. It's
Speaker 2: now seven thirty. The game starts at eight ten, seven thirty,
Speaker 2: and Diana is like, are we going? We should go.
Speaker 2: I can put my sweatshirt on, Let's go, Daddy, come on,
Speaker 2: And I look and see two of those court side
Speaker 2: seats behind the basket, so not sideline, but corner behind
Speaker 2: the baskets. You have a great view that we're going
Speaker 2: for six grand, four to six grand apiece. It's now
Speaker 2: seven thirty. They have dropped to eight hundred dollars a ticket.
Speaker 2: There's two right on the aisle, and I'm like, you
Speaker 2: know what life's about experiences? I just want bucket of money.
Speaker 2: Betting the chiefs bang Bottom called the uber got in.
Speaker 2: We get there, tail into the first quarter. Go to
Speaker 2: our seats, perfect, going to our seats. Here's what here's
Speaker 2: here's who we pass Spike Lee who oh I know
Speaker 2: Spike and Deanna got a picture with him. You saw
Speaker 2: it in your mom's in Yeah. Then then Angel Reese
Speaker 2: right there, Deanna got a picture with her as well.
Speaker 2: Then Caddy corner right next to us, and Angel Reese
Speaker 2: either either had no idea who I was, totally fair,
Speaker 2: or knew who I was and didn't like me. That
Speaker 2: would that would make me sad. I think I was
Speaker 2: very good to Angel all year. If she didn't know me,
Speaker 2: no problem. If she knew me and thought I was
Speaker 2: one of the people that attacked her, that makes me sad.
Speaker 2: But there was Deanna was like, is that is she
Speaker 2: mad at you? I'm like, I don't think she's mad
Speaker 2: at me. I was like, I don't know, just weird
Speaker 2: vibes again, just the vibes whatever, But she was super gracious,
Speaker 2: took a picture with Deanna right next to her Jennifer
Speaker 2: Hudson in comics. And then there's our seats. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: so our seats the court side, but their court side corner.
Speaker 2: But row two, so there's one, there's AA and BB
Speaker 2: where BB. So when I'm going to the seat, this
Speaker 2: guy black dude about my age. When I'm going to
Speaker 2: the seat, who's sitting one just right in front of me,
Speaker 2: DAPs me up and I don't know if I know him,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. But then he and I through the game,
Speaker 2: are the second quarter, are talking about the game, you know,
Speaker 2: a little bit to each other, and then the guy
Speaker 2: sitting next to him turns. It's like, what up, Nick,
Speaker 2: and it's Jadakiss And I did not. I had been
Speaker 2: talking to the person he was with the whole time
Speaker 2: and he hadn't turned, so I didn't know it was him.
Speaker 2: And so then the so I wild is the biggest
Speaker 2: locks Jakis. That's exactly right, It's exactly right. And now.
Speaker 2: And here's the other thing that's a little embarrassing for me.
Speaker 2: Maybe I shouldn't say it. Also, one hundred could have
Speaker 2: been a member of the Locks with him, but I
Speaker 2: don't the you know what I mean, Like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that was his best friend, brother,
Speaker 2: business partner, super you know, another famous musician that I
Speaker 2: just didn't I couldn't clock whatever it is. But but
Speaker 2: so I text Bruin Wilde's that I'm you know, talking
Speaker 2: watching the game with Jadakiss, and Brew text back, ask
Speaker 2: him if he remembers playing in my celebrity charity game
Speaker 2: that I won MVP of in twenty fourteen. And I
Speaker 2: was like, I will not be asking him that. But
Speaker 2: so it was. It was a great environment, it was
Speaker 2: a great season for the WNBA, some tough financial questions
Speaker 2: coming up, and maybe just maybe coming to a Mahomes
Speaker 2: Mountain introduction near you could be Jada Kiss at some point.
Speaker 2: We're working on that. All right, quick break, right back,
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Speaker 2: All right, Demanse, let's keep going. That a bloc was
Speaker 2: a full hour, so let's try to roll through this
Speaker 2: relatively quickly. Let's go before we get to our game,
Speaker 2: the NBA.
Speaker 3: So the NBA kicks off tonight or tips off tonight,
Speaker 3: whatever you want to say. With the reigning champions Celtics
Speaker 3: playing the Knicks and that new roster will stay mainly
Speaker 3: focused on the NFL as we're in the thick of
Speaker 3: the season, but looking ahead, we're gonna spend a few
Speaker 3: short minutes previewing the NBA season. Do you have any
Speaker 3: bold predictions?
Speaker 2: I know I do not, and in fact, we're not
Speaker 2: even gonna spend a few short minutes. I have two
Speaker 2: things to say. One is kind a juiceless NBA preseason,
Speaker 2: Like right now, demons, how many people that are sports
Speaker 2: fans do you think know the NBA starts tonight?
Speaker 3: Like a lot a lot of people don't know. I
Speaker 3: was in a room when somebody broke the news to
Speaker 3: about six or seven other people, So yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that is like that, like wait the regular
Speaker 2: and I understand it starts around the same time every year.
Speaker 2: But here's my theory. I think our sports brains only
Speaker 2: like compart like have room for so many high leverage events,
Speaker 2: and I think the combination of the juice of the
Speaker 2: w NBA Finals and really the juice of the best
Speaker 2: baseball postseason of the last decade maybe has pushed the
Speaker 2: start of the NBA season back. Like obviously, the NFL
Speaker 2: is taking up the majority of our sports brains right now,
Speaker 2: but then the like sidebar topics. I think for a
Speaker 2: lot of people, it's like, oh my god, this baseball
Speaker 2: playoffs has been awesome, and because of that, people aren't
Speaker 2: like locked in to the NBA yet. So I, uh,
Speaker 2: the I.
Speaker 3: N I feel like that's probably the usual because it's
Speaker 3: such a long season.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, here's where I disagree with. Usually Opening night
Speaker 2: is big and then it kind of goes in slight
Speaker 2: hibernation until Christmas and then you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and then Christmas starts going. But I just don't I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people are like, whoa the NBA
Speaker 2: is starting today. I don't think there's a ton of
Speaker 2: juice right now for it. And bonus bonus take. I
Speaker 2: think people aren't as thirsty for NBA basketball is that
Speaker 2: usually are at this point in the offseason because of
Speaker 2: the Olympics. I think the Olympics was such a great
Speaker 2: experience and run it doesn't feel subconsciously like we're far
Speaker 2: enough away from high leverage games. So I just think
Speaker 2: like our sports brains are not ready for the NBA yet.
Speaker 2: So I Kevin O'Connor just started a new podcast. Everyone
Speaker 2: should subscribe to it. He left The Ringers with Yahoo's
Speaker 2: great He asked me if I'd go on, and I
Speaker 2: told him straight up, I was like, one hundred percent
Speaker 2: want to go on. I love KOC. I cannot go
Speaker 2: on right now because I would be a terrible guest
Speaker 2: because I have not locked in to this upcoming NBA season.
Speaker 2: I just haven't, So I only have one prediction. Bronni's
Speaker 2: gonna play tonight, and some of the worst opinions in
Speaker 2: all of sports media are going to follow it tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna lose my mind. Joel Embiid is an
Speaker 2: MVP in the prime of his career who just announced
Speaker 2: y'all will probably never play back to backs again, and
Speaker 2: they think he might miss game one of the season
Speaker 2: due to load management stuff that is for good or
Speaker 2: for bad, and I think for bad. The NBA as
Speaker 2: it is today, Kawhi Leonard just is he gonna play?
Speaker 2: Who knows all? That's the NBA as it is today
Speaker 2: To act like letting Lebron James, arguably the greatest player
Speaker 2: in the history of your sport and inarguably the greatest
Speaker 2: ambassador in the history of your sport and his son
Speaker 2: to have ninety seconds on the court together to open
Speaker 2: the season that otherwise has no juice whatsoever is a
Speaker 2: bad thing. Or disrespecting the game or putting the Lakers
Speaker 2: in any significant competitive disadvantage is such a disingenuous, awful
Speaker 2: take and is only going to be had by people
Speaker 2: that just can't stand Lebron. So that's my only take.
Speaker 2: Like what am I excited for? I want to see
Speaker 2: Bron and Bronni on the court together, and then, to
Speaker 2: be totally honest, I'll check back in periodically over the
Speaker 2: next few weeks, but my brain's on football and the
Speaker 2: World Series right now. All right, demons, let's go to
Speaker 2: the right ends.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So first off with the Liberty. They won
Speaker 3: a title, and the Yankees are in the World Series,
Speaker 3: and we'll touch on them in a second. But not
Speaker 3: everything is great in New York. We got Saquon stuck
Speaker 3: it to his old team against the Giants. Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: got bnched in that same game, the Mets were eliminated,
Speaker 3: and the Jets are the Jets. The happiest person in
Speaker 3: New York is and the saddest person in New York.
Speaker 2: Is Oh I gotta think right now, the happiest person
Speaker 2: in New York is Aaron Judge thinking he has a
Speaker 2: chance to have an all time legendary Yankee season, even
Speaker 2: though he hasn't been the star of the postseason that's
Speaker 2: been Stanton. But winning an MVP, having this level of
Speaker 2: regular season, and then delivering New York potentially their first
Speaker 2: World Series title in fifteen years. I think Judge is
Speaker 2: the happiest, the saddest person in New York. I mean,
Speaker 2: I would imagine as Daniel Jones because he probably knows
Speaker 2: this Monday is probably his last start as a Giant.
Speaker 2: So I think he's gonna start this Monday against Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: and then be done because he has an injury guarantee
Speaker 2: in his contract that they're not gonna want to kick in.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go into the World Series.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers and Yankees will score off in the World
Speaker 3: Series starting later this week. The winner of the World
Speaker 3: Series will be.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I'm in a weird spot, Demanse,
Speaker 2: which is I I think the Dodgers are better. However,
Speaker 2: I will be rooting for the Yankees, and I hate
Speaker 2: like it's not fun to pick against when you when
Speaker 2: it's close, at least the team you're rooting for. And
Speaker 2: I will be rooting for the Yankees because I made
Speaker 2: a deal, and verbal is binding in my world. With
Speaker 2: everyone I saw at that Yankees Royals playoff game, every
Speaker 2: Yankee fan that I saw that gave me. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm with your mom, your sisters, a lot of people.
Speaker 2: I'm an all Royals gear. I'm really not trying to
Speaker 2: get into it with anybody. And everyone I saw I
Speaker 2: told him. I was like, hey, whoever wins this series,
Speaker 2: let's root for the rest of the way. It's like
Speaker 2: a deal, like if the Royals win, you become Royals fans,
Speaker 2: and if the Yankees win, all become a Yankee fan
Speaker 2: the rest of the series. And I made that agreement
Speaker 2: with no less than fifty people. So I am I
Speaker 2: am obligated as a man of honor to root for
Speaker 2: the Yankees, even though I think the Dodgers are better.
Speaker 2: But I also have a lot of friends that are
Speaker 2: big Yankee fans. Some of them are obnoxious, but some
Speaker 2: of them I love.
Speaker 3: And so we'll get the chance to go to the
Speaker 3: games the Yankees are winning either way, I could go
Speaker 3: either way.
Speaker 2: I could go either way, but man, these this is
Speaker 2: the most expensive baseball ticket I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2: The most expensive ticket I've ever seen. What do you
Speaker 2: the get in for standing room only? You don't even
Speaker 2: have a seat, You just stand in the outfield. Demonse
Speaker 2: is fourteen to get in the stadium. To not have
Speaker 2: a seat the seat that I had for those Alds games.
Speaker 2: For the Alds game you saw the picture of which
Speaker 2: were not a plus seats like a minus seats. They
Speaker 2: were good seats, third baseline, like ten throw oh you
Speaker 2: know from the field. Those seats right now are like
Speaker 2: four grand apiece. I've never seen a more expensive ticket ever,
Speaker 2: So I don't listen. It's on Fox, so I should
Speaker 2: be if I you know, I should be able to
Speaker 2: go to some games, and I think I will probably
Speaker 2: go to some games. But I my general rule of
Speaker 2: thumb in sports is I don't ask anyone for tickets.
Speaker 2: I always buy tickets because I want to be able
Speaker 2: to root however I want to root. I want to
Speaker 2: be able to do what I want to do. I
Speaker 2: might break the rule for this World Series. The tickets
Speaker 2: that expensive and it's on Fuck, I might I might
Speaker 2: break the rule. Uh for this one. All right, let's
Speaker 2: quickly get to the next ones.
Speaker 3: The Lions are rolling golf is playing at an historic level,
Speaker 3: and they just beat the undefeated team in the NFC
Speaker 3: misis and Minnesota obviously did play well, and no shame
Speaker 3: in losing to Detroit. Detroit wins the NFC unless.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, listen, there's a lot of things that
Speaker 2: can happen there, unless the Aiden Hutchinson injury is too
Speaker 2: much to overcome, unless Dan Campbell's game management bites. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't think I think Detroit's excellent. I don't think
Speaker 2: there's an overwhelming favorite in the NFC. Uh. And by
Speaker 2: the way, like clockwork, and we're just gonna we're just
Speaker 2: gonna wrap this here. We'll do the listener questions. But
Speaker 2: Seam Sharania Joel Embiid is out for the opener against
Speaker 2: the Bucks. Progressing well and ramping up scrimmaging this week.
Speaker 2: He did not play this week. He will not play
Speaker 2: this week. I when did Joel Embiid get hurt? What
Speaker 2: does this even mean?
Speaker 3: Another great he was in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: I the the NBA, Honest to god, man, they gotta
Speaker 2: get their arms. This is alienating their fan base. Man,
Speaker 2: you cannot have stars. Paul George hyper extended his knee.
Speaker 2: That's just bad luck. Like Paul George also, but the
Speaker 2: guy was playing in the preseason and got hurt. You know,
Speaker 2: he's totally separate. Thing. You cannot have stars that don't play.
Speaker 2: That's so frustrating. Quick break right back, What's right? All right?
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Speaker 2: Let's go to a few listener questions quickly.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, that Joel embiid. How is this not news?
Speaker 3: Said Nick? Loved the show and the pod and a
Speaker 3: rare chance to watch. I live in England. Do you
Speaker 3: think the NBA regular season should reduced the season to
Speaker 3: seventy games to mitigate load management?
Speaker 2: All right? Two things. One is I'm not seeing Demonse
Speaker 2: right now, I'm seeing the black screen. The other one,
Speaker 2: there we go, now he's back. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that would fix it, man, I ain't. There has to
Speaker 2: like ultimately what I I don't know what the solve is.
Speaker 2: But what I do know is, you know what the
Speaker 2: best players of all time all have in common? They
Speaker 2: played Man, they played and the Joker plays Yannis. Lebron
Speaker 2: is gonna end up playing more games than anyone ever.
Speaker 2: Lebron was in that Netflix thing. They were trying to
Speaker 2: limit his minutes in game one of year twenty one,
Speaker 2: and he was like, I hate this. Kobe played Michael
Speaker 2: Kareem Magic, they played Man, play the games.
Speaker 4: Next or retire, right, producers as just play the games
Speaker 4: producers ass Some talk on Twitter about the Rams being
Speaker 4: willing to trade Cooper Cup Chiefs question.
Speaker 2: Mark, I do not listen. I think Cooper Cup in
Speaker 2: theory is very good, but he's very expensive, he's getting older,
Speaker 2: and he's injury prone. So I do think the Chiefs
Speaker 2: are gonna add someone. It's not going to be an expensive,
Speaker 2: injury prone guy. So I old guy, older guy. He's
Speaker 2: not old, but older. So they might do older if
Speaker 2: you're they're very cheap. But I think if the Chiefs
Speaker 2: add someone, it's going to I think I do not
Speaker 2: think the Chiefs are going to trade more than a
Speaker 2: fifth round pick. So whatever you can get for a
Speaker 2: fifth round pick or worse is the market they'll be in.
Speaker 3: All right, next uh, Carol Cobb, Nick, I want the
Speaker 3: same energy with Lamar Jackson wins the MVP of the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. I want you to go on national TV
Speaker 3: and give that same energy, please and thank you sir.
Speaker 2: Okay, So can I just say something real quick, Carol
Speaker 2: Cobb and anyone out there this whole keep the same
Speaker 2: energy thing? Yeah, of course, guys. Of course, if a
Speaker 2: player wins Super Bowl MVP, I promise everyone will keep
Speaker 2: the same energy and talk about how great they've been.
Speaker 2: The idea like it's just such a straw Man that
Speaker 2: when guys do what we say they couldn't done, couldn't do,
Speaker 2: or haven't done, not even what they couldn't, but what
Speaker 2: they haven't that people then don't give them credit. We're
Speaker 2: in the era of premature credit. We're in the era
Speaker 2: of even if you repeatedly have shown you might not
Speaker 2: be able to do it, you're actually just a hater
Speaker 2: if you don't say, but this is the year guys
Speaker 2: are gonna do it. I I will one, one hundred
Speaker 2: percent give Josh Allen credit the day he finally beats
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs, and that'll happen at some point.
Speaker 2: I will give Lamar Jackson credit the year he finally
Speaker 2: has a postseason run where his single worst game of
Speaker 2: his entire season is not the playoff game they lose.
Speaker 2: But it hadn't happened yet. So I you guys are
Speaker 2: worried about how I'm going to react if something does happen,
Speaker 2: I would spend a little time on that, and then
Speaker 2: I would spend a little more time emotionally preparing yourself
Speaker 2: for how you're going to react when what has always
Speaker 2: happened if that happens again? All right, last one demande.
Speaker 3: Brian question for Nick, what nicotine passions do you recommend?
Speaker 2: Trying to quit the target generic brand ones? This is
Speaker 2: generic Target brand ones work great, They're cheap, and I
Speaker 2: think they work better. They'm sure they all work the same,
Speaker 2: by the ones I've used forever. All right, demand great show,
Speaker 2: long show. Excuse me, keep the picks up. Talk to
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