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So there's 11 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: still a few moves being made. Bradley Chubb got picked 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: up by the Bills. I thought that was a decent 13 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 1: He's gonna get you about nine to ten sacks a year. 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: I thought that was a pretty good get by Brandon 15 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: being the GM. They got DJ Moore, Bradley Chubb. Those 16 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: good pickups, especially DJ Moore, So I thought I would 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: give you these are my five favorite moves of free agency. 18 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: These are the five that jump out to me that 19 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: are like game altering. Number one. I think Tyler Linderbaum 20 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: and Jalen Naylor, the wide receiver from Minnesota I think 21 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: the Raiders nailed it. I think Linderbaum is second best 22 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: center in the sport. This is what the Bears did. 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: Go get your young quarterback and the elite center. I 24 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: also think Jalen Naylor was the fastest Vikings wide receiver 25 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: last year under the radar, signing to go along with 26 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: the brock Bowers Ashton Genty. I thought the Raiders nailed it. 27 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: Number two. The Rams getting two corners including Trent McDuffie, 28 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: made them literally in Vegas Super Bowl favorites. So Jalen 29 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: Watson's a good, solid corner, arguably better than anybody but 30 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: McDuffie now on the Rams. But the Rams are not 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: paying anybody on that defense for another year or two. 32 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: They've drafted so well. They're very young, so they get 33 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: a veteran that can match up with the top Niner, 34 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 1: Arizona and Seattle receivers in division and beyond. I love 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: that move. Number three Milik Willis. I know it's only 36 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: six starts, but last season he was thirty of thirty 37 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: five with five touchdowns and no picks. Really accurate. Jeff Hafley, 38 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: the head coach at Miami, was the defensive coordinator in 39 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: Green Bay, he watched him for two years. Twenty two 40 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: million makes him the seventeenth highest paid quarterback in the NFL. 41 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: I think it's very realistic that at some point next 42 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: year you will feel like Malik Willis is at least 43 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: the seventeenth best quarterback in the NFL. I feel very 44 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: confident saying that the number four team. I think Dj 45 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: Moore is a good get. I think he's a very 46 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: good player, never miss his starts, five years, really durable, 47 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: smart guy. I think sometimes late in the year with 48 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: the explosion of Luther Burden for the Bears in Colston Loveland, 49 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: he felt a little lost and overlooked. He will not 50 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: feel that way in Buffalo. So he's gonna get twelve 51 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: targets a game. He can go over the top. Josh 52 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: Allen like Caleb Williams strong arm quarterback, he can get free. 53 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: Deep thought it was a great move by Brandon Bean 54 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: and I like Tarik Woollen to the Eagles on a 55 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: one year deal. Listen, they've already got two great corners. 56 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: No other team in the NFL can say they have 57 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: three elite trade corners except the Philadelphia Eagles. He joins 58 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: Cooper de John and Quinyan Mitchell. So this is a 59 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: stacked secondary for the Eagles. I loved all five of 60 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: these moves. Those were as good as it gets to me. 61 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: And I will say this, I do think Bradley Chubb 62 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: coming in late Trey Hendricks into the Ravens solid, Bradley 63 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: Chubb to the Bills solid. Those are good plays as well. 64 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: So you know, if you're struggling. Is a business, and 65 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if the NBA is struggling, but it's 66 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: always hard, whether you're a football team or a business. 67 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: You have to identify your problems and I think the 68 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: NFL has been very good at that. I think baseball recently. 69 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: Baseball a couple of years ago, Rob Manfred said the 70 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: game's not fast enough and we're losing young viewers who 71 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: are on their phones. We cannot have three hour and 72 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: twenty minute games. So they instituted at pitchclock. And baseball 73 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: also had another issue. Analytics told them, hey, home runs 74 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: over everything. Well, the problem is strikeouts went up because 75 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: of a defensive shift. There were fewer base runners and 76 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: the game was boring. There weren't enough guys on base 77 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: stealing bases, second to home play at the plate so 78 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: Baseball made moves. So I think the NBA is struggling 79 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: to figure out what their real problem is. They think 80 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: it's tanking, and I don't. They've been tanking forever. They 81 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: think it's dynasties. 82 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 2: I don't. 83 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 1: The heatles were popular, the Bulls were popular, Kobe and 84 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: Shaq were popular. I don't think dynasties or tanking of 85 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: the problem. I think the game's gotten boring and repetitive 86 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: with too many threes. So I would eliminate the corner 87 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: three and make it easier to defend the arc threes, 88 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: the perimeter threes, en forcing players to move inside the line, 89 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: body on body, more physicality, more collisions at the rim. 90 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: Get rid of the corner three. Darryl Moury, who was 91 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: mister Analytics, who was a proponent of the threes, has 92 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: now said, you know what, we've overcorrected. Here's Darryl Moury. 93 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: I could not agree more. Change the three point line. 94 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 3: I don't have the exact remedy. I would move the lineback, 95 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 3: even that won't fix it. I would get rid of 96 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 3: the corner three. I would move the lineback will help, 97 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 3: but I wouldn't get rid of it. For example, I 98 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 3: believe something needs to be done. I think it's more 99 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 3: urgent than tanking. As much as people talk about the 100 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 3: different ways people get to threes and think that's all true, 101 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 3: the reality is fifty percent more is too much for 102 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 3: that shot. The game is unbalanced for sure. Three is 103 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 3: too much for that shot. 104 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: So it used to be the three point shot was 105 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: featured on All Star Weekend. Now it's called Tuesday Night 106 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: Hawks against Hornets. So last season, here's something I just 107 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: want you to think about. So most NBA teams shoot 108 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: about thirty five percent from threes, thirty five percent. So 109 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: let me ask you. If you're only succeeding at thirty 110 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: five percent of anything, it could be five foot potts 111 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: at the Masters, it could what of Major League Baseball 112 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: pitchers only through strikes thirty five percent of the time. 113 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: It would slow the game down. Your hit rate for 114 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: anything in sports has to be higher than thirty five percent. 115 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: If the NFL decided summarily, the league decided, no more screens, 116 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: no more drag routes, no more rollouts, no more underneath stuff. 117 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: Everything has to be twenty yards plus down the field. 118 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: Do you know what the completion percentage in the NFL 119 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: was last year for throws twenty plus down the field 120 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: thirty five percent. Do you think the game would be 121 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: better if quarterbacks were completing thirty five percent of their throws? 122 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: It would be unwatchable, it would be awful. It's excellent 123 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: when it's at sixty five to sixty eight percent, right, 124 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: we want offense to succeed. It's great that baseball pitchers 125 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: half the time or more throw strikes speed the game up, 126 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: force batters to swing. So listen to these numbers. So 127 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: last year, three hundred and ninety six games, there were 128 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: at least eighty threes. Again at a thirty five percent 129 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: hit clip. That gives you, on average, fifty two bricks 130 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: a game. Do you believe watching an NBA basketball game? Oh, 131 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: I watched fifty two clanks. If you have any more bricks, 132 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: you can join a union. I mean, at some point 133 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: it's not good sports. That's why Roger Goodell cleaned up 134 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 1: the catch and Roger Goodell changed the pat Because the 135 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: NFL's always understood aesthetics matter. I've said it many times 136 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: on this show. When you go to a nice restaurant, 137 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: they want to make sure it looks appealing, not just 138 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 1: tastes appealing because you eat with your eyes first. That's 139 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: why there's no blue food. You don't eat with your mouth, 140 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: you eat with your eyes. So if you go to 141 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: a Bobby Flay restaurant, you go to an Emerald, you 142 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: go to any nice restaurant. I live in Chicago, anyburn 143 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: in the country. It looks appetizing. The problem in the NBA, 144 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: you watch these games, it's not aesthetically pleasing. You have 145 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: the greatest athletes in the world shooting thirty five percent 146 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: on the shot they shoot the most. You know what's beautiful. 147 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's mid range game. That's beautiful. The sound of 148 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: the swish, the aesthetics of the swish. It looks cool. 149 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: So we don't talk about this at all. Baseball had 150 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: this issue too. Home runs were everything. Well it was 151 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: home runs or strikeouts, launch angle. The problem is there's 152 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: no base runners. Part of the beauty of baseball is 153 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: first to third, second to home, stealing bases, athletes on 154 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: the base pass. You eliminate that. It's not the same game. 155 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: And Rob Manfred got it, and the catch and moving 156 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: the kickoffs NFL got it. Forget the math may work 157 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: on the three, but you're asking teams to launch fifty 158 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 1: two bricks a night you go to basketball game. You 159 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: ever once driven home after a basketball game? And so 160 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: I got to tell you that eight out of nine 161 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 1: bricks in the third quarter was riveting. It's bad aesthetics, 162 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: it's boring and bad to watch. So I don't buy 163 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: for a second that tanking's the end of the world. 164 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: Teams were tanking during Jordan's era and magic and birds, 165 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: And I don't think dynasties are a problem if they 166 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: happen to happen. I mean in college I mean college basketball. 167 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: If I told you Michigan wins the next three national 168 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: championships in college basketball, give you somebody to hate, right, 169 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: give you somebody to root four, and somebody to root against. So, 170 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: I mean, here's another one. Wemby's seven foot six Wemby 171 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: took four hundred and three three point shots last season. 172 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: Do you really think that's aesthetically pleasing? But if you 173 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: cut off the corner three, okay, now, it's easier to 174 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: defend the wing three, forcing guys in I and I'm 175 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: also a believer of that. I think basketball is better. 176 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: You'll see this in March Madness and you'll see it 177 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs. I think basketball is better when 178 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: there's physicality and there's bumping and tempers flair, and I 179 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: think physical basketball is more fun to watch than just 180 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: up and down the floor ymca pick and roll jack 181 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: of three. I don't think of that compelling. And what's 182 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: amazing Wenby took four hundred and three three point shots 183 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: and he missed half the year with blood clots. I mean, 184 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: at some point, guys, it's just the same. Everybody's playing 185 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: the same game. The other thing I've always thought about basketball, 186 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: it's our most artistic sport. I mean, Magic didn't play 187 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: like Bob Coosey, didn't play like Alan Iverson, didn't play 188 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: like Steph Curry. Doctor J didn't play like anybody and 189 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: Michael and the tongue out and the switching hands, and 190 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: it's artistry, Like there's a real artistry to basketball. Why 191 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: would you sap and reduce the artistry by asking everybody 192 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: to shoot threes. I want Ant driving to the basket. 193 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: I want Kobe and MJ. I want them being artists. 194 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: Go look at it, Go look at Doctor J's highlights. 195 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: They're I watched Vince Carter and Doctor J. Highlights last 196 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: night just going up Vince Carter Dunks and Doctor J 197 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 1: Highlights not a three, but it's incredibly The artistry is insane, 198 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: and I think the threes are formulaic. I do. I 199 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: just watched The Great Movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn. 200 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 1: It was the opposite of formulaic. I didn't know what 201 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: I was getting that when you watched MJ and Doctor J, 202 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: you didn't know what you were getting every time down 203 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: the floors, Like, I got no idea what MJ's do. 204 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: I know exactly what I'm getting from everybody, every possession 205 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:45,599 Speaker 1: now fifty two bricks a game. Yeah, so guys like 206 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: j Mac who like to jack them up love it. 207 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 4: I mean you said a lot there, Colin. You seem 208 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 4: a little. 209 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 5: Combative on this, NBA. First it was tanking. 210 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 4: Everybody's outraging, I'm out, And now it's like, well, too 211 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 4: many threes. 212 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 5: I mean, artists are changing over time. 213 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 4: It evolves, Right, What was awesome art wise in the 214 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 4: fifteenth century changed by the seventeenth century. 215 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: I would argue eighteen seventies, NBA, I would argue, that's 216 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 1: not true. Picasso today was worth more than Picasso then 217 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: great new doers. 218 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, but nobody's painting like Picasso did. They're painting in 219 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 4: different ways, and now modern art is different but still beautiful. 220 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 4: I would just say that the dunks are still happening 221 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 4: and the threes are artistry. 222 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 5: I've never seen a seven. 223 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 4: Foot seven guy, what he seven, five, seven, six, whatever 224 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 4: he is, he's a giant. He looks like a prig 225 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 4: mantis shooting threes and it's fluid and clean, and to me, 226 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 4: that's art. I don't I love threes. I'm a little 227 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 4: disappointed in Darryl Morey. I guess he's upset that he 228 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 4: just was never able to break through with all his 229 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 4: strategies and numbers and process. 230 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: Or he's seeing the same thing everybody else is. World 231 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: Baseball Classic ratings, Olympic ratings, World Cup ratings, NFL ratings 232 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: calling back. All these ratings are up, up, up, and 233 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 1: there's this, you know, there's a little bit of a 234 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: malaise with the NBA where people are like, even like 235 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: diehard NBA people are like the regular sees it, let's 236 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: cut games. Why you gotta cut games? Hockey guys aren't 237 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: cutting games, Baseball aren't cutting games. NFL's everybody's adding games. 238 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 1: Basketball is like, we've got to have fewer games, how 239 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: about work on your products. 240 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 4: Well, the counter is World Baseball Classic is like two weeks. Okay, 241 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 4: baseball season is long, and their ratings were not great 242 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 4: last year in the regular season. NHL ratings were down 243 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 4: last year in the regular season. So let's compare apple 244 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 4: to apples. NBA eighty two games don't compare to NFL or. 245 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: College baseball three years in a row ratings through the roof. 246 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 4: But they're not significantly like above the NBA or anything. 247 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 4: I mean, they're regular season games are fine. World Series amazing. 248 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 4: Those ratings are massive. 249 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 5: NBA playoffs are gonna be fine. 250 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 4: We're gonna shelve all this talk as soon as the 251 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 4: playoffs hit. You're gonna love the artistry of Anthony Edwards. 252 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 4: Three pointers, Oh, Colin geez, well, Austin Reeves no artistry. 253 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: There again, his I don't think he's a three shooter. 254 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: I think he drives to the basket, creates contact. I 255 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: like watching Austin. He's a con creator. He's not a 256 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: three point shooter. I mean, I don't think of I 257 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: don't think of Austin Reeves as a three point shooter. 258 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: I think he's a contact creator. I love a Dwayne 259 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: Wade contact creator. I love those games. 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Please subscribe, rate and 279 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 6: review Steve Gotson Company and God Blessed Football. Taylor's livelihood 280 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 6: depends on it. You do it today and you can 281 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 6: check all of those out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple 282 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 6: podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. 283 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: So this is interesting. Albert Breer just put this out 284 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: with the release of Kyler Murray by the Cardinals. Just three, 285 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: just three of the twenty nine first round quarterbacks drafted 286 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: in the second decade of this millennium twenty ten to 287 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, just three remain. Three of twenty nine remain 288 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: with the teams that drafted them. Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, 289 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: Josh Allen. All three joined winning cultures Ravens under Harbaugh, 290 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: winning culture Sean McDermott, Bills had made the playoffs the 291 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: year before Josh Allen got there. And you know Andy 292 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: Reid and the Chiefs for making the playoffs with Alex Smith, 293 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: three of twenty nine in a ten year period still 294 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: with their team. Quarterbacks. Kids and actors, you're a product 295 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: of your environment. There's a reason the best actors in 296 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: Hollywood try to try to work with the same directors 297 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: and writers over and over and over again, or the 298 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: same companies. You know, you'll sign a deal with Netflix 299 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,640 Speaker 1: and the same director and I mean you can only 300 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: do so. I mean, Joe Burrow can't make the playoffs 301 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: now and on any given Sundays, the best quarterback in 302 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: the league Cincinnati. So you know, I've said everybody's looking 303 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: for the reclamation project in the NFL, the next Sam Donold. 304 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,479 Speaker 1: It's Kyler Murray. I don't know if it will happen, 305 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: but it would be the same team Donald exploded with 306 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 1: in Minnesota, with the coach and the receivers and the 307 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: old line and TJ. Hawkins. It's like Kyler Murray, if 308 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: he's ever gonna make it, this Minnesota team, this is 309 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: going to be the one. And it's a division Detroit, Chicago, 310 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: Green Bay defenses are beatable. They're not elite defenses. So 311 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: you can walk into a division where you you're not 312 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: you know, you're not facing the best necessarily the best 313 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: lineup of defenses. So it's your a product of your environment. 314 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: There's only so much you can do. Joe Burrow can 315 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: only do so much to overcome the front office ownership 316 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: of kind of a second dear franchise. J Mack with a. 317 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 2: News no news, this is the herd line news, all. 318 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 4: Right, This Max Prosby stuff. Colin it's not going away. 319 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 4: The Ravens and their GM Eric DaCosta, spoke to the 320 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 4: media yesterday and they pushed back against the narrative that 321 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 4: they had Buyer's remorse over Max Prosby. 322 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 8: I understand it. We live in that age of skepticism 323 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 8: and people question, especially people that don't really know me 324 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 8: or know the Ravens culture and the Ravens organization. So 325 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 8: I understand it. It's very very challenging. Again, I understand 326 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 8: how people might maybe from the far would feel that way. 327 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 8: But nobody's more upset about this than me. Got it 328 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 8: by it actually, and so I regret, big regret for me, 329 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 8: but we would move on as a as a football team. 330 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean they can't close. They've struggled to 331 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: close out leads in the fourth quarter. So they also 332 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: lost by the way. They lost a running back to 333 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: the Chargers, kind of a kind of a very speedback, 334 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: and they lost their tied end to the Giant. So 335 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: you know, it's been it's been a little bumpy Ravens offseason. 336 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 4: So it's interesting this this narrative that instantly built. Oh oh, 337 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 4: Ravens are backing out of the deal because Buyer's remorse 338 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 4: once that took hold Colin. 339 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 5: It hasn't. It hasn't let go. 340 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 4: I think, you know, we're in an era of social 341 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 4: media where people are just wedded to their idea of 342 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 4: their belief. They're not coming off of it. If they 343 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 4: believe something, they believe it. No amount of facts or 344 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 4: evidence can trust them otherwise. And I just wonder, can 345 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 4: the Ravens fix this? Is this? This is just who 346 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 4: they are now? 347 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 9: Oh? 348 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: They Well, it's the off season, so everybody's fine, it's 349 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: not in season. But I mean, Kethon Mitchell was a 350 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: nice speedback. He's gone the tight end now to the Giants, 351 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: he's gone. You thought you had Max Crosby. So I 352 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,360 Speaker 1: said this, J Mack. I said this two months ago 353 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: when John Harball left. You know sometimes, you know, when 354 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: you lose your job, everybody's like, oh, I feel bad 355 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: for John Harbaugh. A little bit of a mess in 356 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: Baltimore right now with Lamar Jackson and his health, and 357 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: he wants a new contract, and he really wants to 358 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: be the highest paid and there's a recent history the 359 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: highest paid quarterback can struggle to make the playoffs. So 360 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: I think everybody looks at John Harbaugh oh, you know, 361 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: when Jim Harball left the Niners, he did just fine. 362 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 1: When Jim Harbaugh, you know, they kind of wanted to 363 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: show him the door in San Francisco. How did San 364 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: Francisco look for the next three or four years after that? 365 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 1: I think the Ravens have some real challenges ahead. Some 366 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:02,719 Speaker 1: might be putting him mildly. 367 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 4: All right, let's move on to your Chicago Bears, Colin, 368 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 4: and I guess there's some consternation in Chicago that maybe 369 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 4: Bears fans are like, what are we going to do something? 370 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 4: We're gonna get a big guy. You got coward out 371 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 4: here talking about Max Crosby. We didn't get him. I know, 372 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 4: we lost DJ Moore, we lost our center and Chicago. 373 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 5: I don't know, Colin. You know, I'm looking at their moves. 374 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 4: Khalif Raymond is a fine get, but you look at 375 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 4: their wide receiver depth that's not great after a dunze. 376 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: Chicago Bears are talented enough today to win a Super Bowl. 377 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: Not saying they should be favored. Remember you may not 378 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: play the best teams. They get upset if you look 379 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:52,439 Speaker 1: at their roster. Devin Bush, Gallimore, Jedrick Willis. They and 380 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: they also have a they have picks, they've drafted pretty well. 381 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 1: Their their talent is good enough. Drew Dolman is a loss, 382 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 1: but picking up Garrett Bradbury is about as about as 383 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: well as you can do considering the situation. They the Bear. 384 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: There's seven or eight rosters in this league that are 385 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 1: good enough to win the Super Bowl. Rams, Seahawks, Lions, Eagles, Bears, 386 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: Buffalo is close, Chargers, Denver, Denver. There's about there's about 387 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: seven to eight that you need breaks. But I think 388 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: the Bears fall into that. They think got enough weapons, 389 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 1: they o line quarterback coach, they need an edge rusher. 390 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: You get that in the draft, So I think they're fine. 391 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 4: So it's interest They got the twenty fifth pick. Obviously, 392 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 4: the defense was not great all season. And Colin, how 393 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 4: often do you say, hey, you get the quarterback on 394 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 4: the rookie. 395 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 5: Deal, spend spend, spend, Well they did. 396 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,680 Speaker 1: They go, They went and got B players. They didn't 397 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: take one big swing. Who's you really think Gallimore is 398 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: a B player? And Devin Bush, I don't know, oh 399 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: Man Pro Football Focus, the analytics for those guys is 400 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: it's not great. Kobe Bryant is probably their best defensive move, 401 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: but does he shore up what was a weak link 402 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: in the defensive secondary. Well, my guess is their first 403 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 1: pick is a corner, because the end of the first 404 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: rounds got three or four really good corners. So they 405 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: go get they go get him from the Seahawks. Then 406 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: they get their first picks a corner, and suddenly now 407 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: they've only got one real need and that isn't a rusher. 408 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 4: All right, We'll wrap up with Caitlyn Clark Colin. I 409 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 4: feel like, remember how big of a deal she was 410 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 4: a couple of years ago here on the show. She 411 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,719 Speaker 4: hadn't played in eight months, and she made her debut 412 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 4: for the US senior national team at the Feebo World 413 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 4: Cup qualifiers. Obviously, the USA roll by like sixty points, 414 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 4: but how about this. Clark nineteen minutes had seventeen points 415 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 4: in twelve assists, and you know, we'll talk about the 416 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 4: producer here about this segment. And I'm like, so she 417 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 4: shoots like Steph Curry and she's now adding a passing element. 418 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 4: Twelve assists in nineteen minutes. That's magic, Johnson is does 419 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 4: somebody put a cut up together of the real of 420 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 4: her assists? She's making some really nice, no look passes, 421 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 4: high level stuff. 422 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 5: She's I'm not going overboard. 423 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 4: She's a Curry Magic Johnson combo as a point guard 424 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 4: in women's basketball. 425 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 1: That's kind of And for the record, I don't mind 426 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: her shooting threes because she's revolutionized women's basketball, taking threes 427 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: well beyond where any other WNBA player will take it, 428 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: and she's a guard. I don't have a problem with 429 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: Steph Curry shooting threes. I don't have a problem with 430 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: Kevin Durant shooting threes. I don't want Wimby shooting four hundred. 431 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: So and that's my take on what Darryl Moury says 432 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: is we got it's too much repetition. There's the corner three, 433 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: there's too much. Caitlin Clark is on a short list. 434 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: I compared her to Tiger Woods. I'd never seen a 435 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: golfer like Tiger Woods. She is. If she is playing 436 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: and I'm bouncing around the TV and she's on, She's 437 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: got an incredible sticky quality that I'm not changed in 438 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: the channel. She's very unique in the history of women's basketball. 439 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: I don't think there's ever been any player like her. 440 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, people are making some hot takes about it. I 441 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 4: totally agree Colin. I didn't know there was a Feebo 442 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 4: Women's World Cup qualifier until I saw Caitlin Clark was playing. 443 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 5: And then you see the highlights and. 444 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 4: You're like, oh, this is interesting. She just does things 445 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 4: that you don't see normally. I'm kind of excited for 446 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 4: the WNBA season. I can't name fifteen players in the league, 447 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 4: but I know if Clark's playing, Like you said, I'm 448 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 4: tuning in. 449 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. J Mack with the News, Well that's the news, 450 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: and thanks for stopping by. 451 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 2: The Heard Line. 452 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: News had tom Izzo on, We had Rick Patino on. Recently, 453 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: Mark fu came on tom Izzo today about you know, 454 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 1: there's been a lot of changes in college sports and 455 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: you know, I've heard you know a lot of the 456 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: listen it's broken, it needs to be fixed. Well, I 457 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: think anytime you introduce something radically different to like AI 458 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: right now, I mean there's a lot of guessing with AI. 459 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: I don't think it's the end of society. I don't 460 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: think unemployment's going to thirty percent. I don't buy it. 461 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: I think it's I think people like relationships and working 462 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: with groups and people, not computers. So and when you 463 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: introduce NIL and transfer portal to college it's jarring. It's 464 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: like whoa. But the ratings for college football and college 465 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: basketball are way up since the NIL and the transfer 466 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 1: portal were initiated, So I think you have to figure 467 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: some things out. There is no listen. It used to 468 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: be that, you know, you choose the school and you're 469 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: kind of stuck, and then if you did transfer, you 470 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: had to sit out a year. Well, that wasn't a 471 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: good system. Coaches could move players could now do. I 472 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: think we have too much movement in college basketball. It 473 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: feels like it in college football. I'm still pretty comfortable 474 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: with the movement, which is eight to nine ten players 475 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: a year for most programs. You got eighty five scholarships. 476 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: Ten guys change teams. That doesn't really bother me. You know, quarterbacks, 477 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,199 Speaker 1: they're gonna get paid. That's the most important position. But 478 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: I had Tom Izzo on last hour and I asked him, 479 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: you know, with NIL, you know the players can transfer 480 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: it any minute. Do you coach them as hard? Do 481 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 1: you coach them differently? Today? 482 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 7: I'm at the point in my career where I don't 483 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 7: need to worry about it. But you know, I've had 484 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 7: the privilege of being, you know, around guys like Magic 485 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 7: Johnson or you know, watching the NBA. I've had some 486 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 7: chances to go there, and I think they all think 487 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 7: the same thing. You know, the great players want to 488 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 7: be coached. Everybody's got to be pushed. I mean, everybody 489 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 7: pushes people. That's the way it should be. That's the 490 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 7: way it needs to be if you're really going to 491 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 7: be successful. If it was easy, as they say, everybody 492 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 7: would do it. 493 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, I am. I am for just like AI. I 494 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: think it's going to be revolutionary. It's going to be 495 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: jet fuel to the economy. I don't believe it's thirty 496 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 1: percent unemployment. New stuff scares people, and I I mean 497 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: I had friends who loved college football. Tell me three 498 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: years ago, I'm not watching college football. It's pro football. 499 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: Now they watch as much college football as they ever watched. 500 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:14,679 Speaker 1: So I do think, you know, college basketball feels a 501 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,479 Speaker 1: little top heavy because the rich are getting richer. But 502 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 1: can we be totally honest about March madness? A lot 503 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: of it's always been mythology. I mean, how many sixteens 504 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: have beaten ones? How many fifteens of beaten twos? It 505 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: was a lot, you know, every other year you'd get 506 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: a massive upset, and so you know it's easy to 507 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 1: promote and sell and market the fact, oh just upsets everywhere. No, 508 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: it's not, that's not true. It always ends up being one, two, three, 509 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: and four seeds in the elite eight, especially the final four. 510 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: So to me, the great thing about the transfer Portal 511 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: andil the very best thing is that if it used 512 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: to be that, if you you know, your program was 513 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: a mess and it took you like four years, three 514 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: years to kind of get it right, and it feels 515 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: like you can stab your fingers. Indiana football gets the 516 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: right coach. Wow, they're good while they're national champs. To me, 517 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: you can you can course correct so much more quickly 518 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: if you get the right coach, and it you know, 519 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: it's up to you as a university to get the 520 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: right coach, which you know it's a fifty to fifty proposition. 521 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays 522 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 2: and noone eastern nin am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio 523 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 2: FS one and the iHeartRadio app. 524 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 4: Tonight, the Big East Tournament quarterfinals tip off on FS 525 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 4: one first at six thirty eastern. Xavier takes on Yukon. 526 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 4: Then at nine thirty, Georgetown battles Villanova. It all begins 527 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 4: tonight at six thirty only on FS one. 528 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 1: Hey, Johnny Manziel's coming on next hour. And for years, 529 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: you know, I've said with Johnny Manziel, I just don't 530 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: think and I said a pre draft, I didn't think 531 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: he kind of had the maturity to be a franchise quarterback. 532 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: I thought he was a good guy, good time. I 533 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 1: love to go golfing with him, hang out with him, 534 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: but in terms of like franchise quarterback, I just didn't 535 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: think he was the guy. And I thought Cleveland made 536 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: a big mistake. And so I had bumped into him 537 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,479 Speaker 1: a couple of times before. I once jumped into an 538 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: Uber suv years ago in Florida and he had just 539 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: taken Johnny Manziel the previous weekend around with a girlfriend. 540 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: Had great Johnny Manziel stories, and so he's a good time, 541 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: no question. But last week I had Matt Hasselbeck on 542 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 1: and I heard a story about Johnny Manziel sort of 543 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: mentoring one of the quarterbacks in this year's draft, and 544 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: I'm like, that's a bad idea. And Matt Hasselbeck said 545 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: I had Jeff George, who had a very turbulent relationship 546 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: in the NFL with media and teammates. He mentored me 547 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: and he was fantastic because he'd had so many chaotic 548 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: moments in his career. He had all sorts of things 549 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,479 Speaker 1: for me, Matt Hasselbeck to avoid in my NFL career, 550 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: and so I thought, you know, that's actually a great 551 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: way to flip the telescope on that. Let's get Johnny 552 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: Manziel on the show and let's talk about that. I mean, 553 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: Manziel's no dummy. He just what. There are certain things 554 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: to be a franchise quarterback that are really important, and 555 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: one of them is maturity, because you're like you're the 556 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: centerpiece of it. And I was very critical of Baker Mayfield. 557 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: Though I thought Baker was a huge talent. I'm like, 558 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Baker's mature enough. And sure enough, 559 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: he went to Cleveland and he kind of wore out 560 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: his welcome. So Manzel's going to be interesting. His life 561 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: story is something else. I mean, I saw a documentary 562 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago on the Cleveland Experience. It 563 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: was something else. So I've said today Max Crosby goes 564 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: to the Ravens and then it blows up, it unravels. 565 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: He didn't pass a physical Everybody says, ah, the Ravens 566 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: wanted to back out of this. I don't believe that 567 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: that's internet chatter. The bottom line is you take him back. 568 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: People break up all the time. Who cares? I mean, 569 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:56,479 Speaker 1: the bottom line, great player. Here is the reaction from 570 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: the two newest Raiders, Okay Tyler Leondarbaum and Kuay walk Walker. 571 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 1: Here's their reaction on joining Max Crosby in Las Vegas. 572 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 9: Listen to this love you know Max to be here 573 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 9: and play with him, and I've gone against him. He's 574 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 9: not fun to go against, you know how we have 575 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 9: to scout him and his disability to lead a leaded 576 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 9: team is pretty special. 577 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 10: Miss so much that he can do and artensity that 578 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 10: he play with. Honestly, I just love his play style 579 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 10: and I can't wait to play alongside him, and honestly, 580 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 10: just to match his energy day in and day out. Uh, 581 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 10: That's all I got to say. I think Miss Crosby, 582 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 10: his name and his play speak for it. 583 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: So very few guys in this league that feel like 584 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: the team they play for Max Crosby feels like a raider. 585 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 1: Like to me, he feels like a raider. I always 586 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: said this for years and years. Aaron Rodgers played for 587 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: the Packers. He didn't necessarily feel like a packer. He's 588 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 1: just good looking, LA guy, lives in Malibu, you know, 589 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: dating celebrities. I'm like, he plays for the Packers, he 590 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily feel like a packer. I mean Tom Brady 591 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: in the summers he got out of Boston, he'd go 592 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: to New York, he'd go to Europe with Giselle, And 593 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: did he feel like a Patriot? You know, people now 594 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: in New England don't think he's loyal enough to the 595 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: team he used to play for. Now that he's a 596 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: broadcaster for Fox, Max Crosby feels like a raider and 597 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: that has value. Here's Tim Matt Hasselback earlier yesterday on Max. 598 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 11: Max Crosby has the respect of the NFL players, teammates, opponents, coaches, scouts, everybody. 599 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 11: And he's not a one trick pony. A loe of 600 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 11: these guys that come up with all these sacks. They're 601 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 11: great at rushing the passer, they're not great against the run. 602 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 11: This dude's the real deal in every way. I mean, 603 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 11: he's always at the top of the list in TFLs, 604 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 11: tackles for loss. In the run game, he's the real 605 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 11: deal in the run game, the pass game, on the field, 606 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 11: off the field, and identity better. You know, he's a dog. 607 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: I think it's it's interesting. There was a stat that 608 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: I think Jason, one of our producers, gave me this 609 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,839 Speaker 1: week that I thought know was Ryan. It's a fascinating 610 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: stat that it's hard to wrap your brain around. Four 611 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 1: of the last seven Super Bowls. No other sport is 612 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 1: like this in the world. Four of the last seven 613 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,240 Speaker 1: Super Bowls have had a team in it that didn't 614 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:34,840 Speaker 1: make the playoffs the previous year. Last year Seahawks Patriots 615 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,839 Speaker 1: two for two didn't make the playoffs. So I'm not 616 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: saying the Raiders are going to do that. But if 617 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: you look at the Raiders today, if Clint Kubiak and 618 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza are as good as I think they're going 619 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:53,320 Speaker 1: to be, with Tyler Linderbaum and all these young offensive players, 620 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: Colton Miller back at left tackle, I'm telling you the 621 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: Raiders I am. If they stay healthy through camp, see 622 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 1: what they do. They have eleven picks in the draft, 623 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,799 Speaker 1: so again, they've got a first, a second, a third, 624 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: a bunch of force and fifths. I would not be 625 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,239 Speaker 1: surprised they're such a young team if they took a 626 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: bunch of those fourth and fifth and sixth round picks 627 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: and moved up and got more threes and went kind 628 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 1: of top heavy on the draft. And the other thing 629 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 1: is you could say to yourself, well, I mean, I mean, 630 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: the Raiders aren't gonna leap Kansas City right now. The 631 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: Raiders roster, if Fernando Mendoza is as good as I think, 632 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: it's not that far off Kansas City's roster, it may 633 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,400 Speaker 1: be better. You think I'm crazy, It may be better. 634 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,680 Speaker 1: They don't have a pass rusher close to Max Crosby. 635 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,760 Speaker 1: Colton Miller is better than any offensive lineman playing tackle 636 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,600 Speaker 1: right now. For the Chiefs. The Raiders have the better, 637 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: younger tight end, the better running back. They're both a 638 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 1: little fin at wide receiver, and both have issues in 639 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 1: the secondary. Both have offensive coaches, one obviously Andy Reid. 640 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:07,359 Speaker 1: So listen, I think J Mack and I agree on 641 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:12,360 Speaker 1: very little. Kansas City is interesting. So the Chargers have 642 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,280 Speaker 1: a ton of cap space. They picked up another running 643 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: back last night, Chargers have a ton of cap space. 644 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,800 Speaker 1: Denver is stacked. The Raiders have eleven picks and have 645 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,240 Speaker 1: had a very good off season. I think the number 646 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: one off season so far has been the Raiders and 647 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 1: Kansas City is doubling down on Travis Kelsey, who again 648 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: is productive and is durable. Here's Kelsey on being back next. 649 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:41,479 Speaker 12: Year, taking a step back, letting the emotions settle down, 650 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 12: the frustrations from the season. Of course I want to 651 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 12: come back. Of course I don't want to end my 652 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,920 Speaker 12: career not making the playoffs. And it still felt like 653 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,520 Speaker 12: I was hungry enough to get back at it. And 654 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 12: obviously there's still a little bit of that grid in 655 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 12: that emotion that you know, I hated the way that 656 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,919 Speaker 12: ended last year, and I want to do this. 657 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: I want to make it right. So the playoff teams 658 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:13,280 Speaker 1: last year in the AFC Broncos, Patriots, jag Steelers, Texans, Bills, 659 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 1: and Chargers. AFC teams that missed the playoffs for Colts, Ravens, Bengals, 660 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,440 Speaker 1: we tend to think they'll all be better. I'm telling you, 661 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,239 Speaker 1: it's pretty log jammed at the top. 662 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,480 Speaker 4: Can I ask two questions? So in this Raiders chief scenario, 663 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,920 Speaker 4: who are you penciling at quarterback for the Raiders, Cousins or. 664 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:39,080 Speaker 1: Mendoza, Mendoza eventually not sure day one, Mendoza eventually okay, And. 665 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,360 Speaker 4: Then who are you penciling at quarterback for the Colts 666 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,920 Speaker 4: Because listen, Daniel Jones coming off of major injury, I 667 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 4: would assume at least the first eight games he's not 668 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,239 Speaker 4: going to be there. I mean, maybe I'm being a 669 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 4: little conservative. We just saw Jason Tatum return in ten 670 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 4: months from an achilles. But like, if it's not Daniel 671 00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:57,360 Speaker 4: Jones starting, are the Colts? 672 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: Even if you asked me to pick the seven playoff 673 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:07,560 Speaker 1: teams in the AFC right right now, Broncos, Patriots, Jags, 674 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 1: Bill's Chargers. 675 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 5: You need someone from that Steel Jackson's. 676 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,680 Speaker 1: I don't have the Chiefs in No, definitely, not in 677 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,800 Speaker 1: that probably Ravens. Probably Ravens. 678 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,480 Speaker 4: Let me push back a little on the jag So 679 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 4: they lose Etn, they lose their great linebacker who was 680 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,560 Speaker 4: the All Pro, who had the pick six of Mahomes. 681 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,840 Speaker 4: Name escapes me right now, but those are two significant losses. 682 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 4: They get Travis Hunter back at receiver. There's a lot 683 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 4: of chatter Brian Thomas probably gonna get shipped here in 684 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 4: the coming week. A lot of change. Do you think 685 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,480 Speaker 4: Jacksonville continues? Yeah, what was a pretty damn good season. 686 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, the second year. Liam Combs said, now I'm just 687 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: looking over at playoff teams. Patriots schedule is going to 688 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,000 Speaker 1: be a lot more difficult. Yeah, I mean, I think 689 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 1: Kansas City is in a weird space. I think it's uh. 690 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: I think the moves they made, like Kenneth Walker, they 691 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,359 Speaker 1: were kind of forced to make. I don't think they 692 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: had a choice. It was a bad it's a bad 693 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: running back draft, and they It's not like the Chiefs 694 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 1: had the Raiders eleven picks where they could move use 695 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 1: two or three fours and go get Jeremiah Love. They don't. 696 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: They don't have that many picks left, and they're up 697 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 1: against the cap and their stars are getting old. Yeah. 698 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,000 Speaker 1: I mean I think Kansas City. I think Kansas City 699 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,359 Speaker 1: had to go get Kenneth Walker because I don't think 700 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,880 Speaker 1: this draft after Love, provides a day one, plug and 701 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 1: play star running back, there's one in the whole draft. 702 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,200 Speaker 4: If you think this Chiefs team is a playoff worthy, 703 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:50,880 Speaker 4: you believe Steve Spagnolo can put work magic with that defense. 704 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 4: Colin again, you could go position group by position group. 705 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: Who are their four best who are their five best players, Mahomes, Creed, 706 00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:58,720 Speaker 1: Humphrey Top. 707 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,280 Speaker 4: I don't I think Kelsey's in there. I mean Kenneth 708 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:02,400 Speaker 4: Walker probably has to be. 709 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,240 Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker's in there. 710 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,359 Speaker 5: I Chris Jones is aging again. They just don't have a. 711 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,719 Speaker 4: Lot of talent. Like, it's not a knot guys. Look 712 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 4: at the secondary, look at the lineback. Nick Bolton was 713 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:16,560 Speaker 4: good a couple of years ago. 714 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 5: I don't know. 715 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,120 Speaker 1: It's it's you get once you pay the quarterback, you 716 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,960 Speaker 1: get old very fast. And so you know, because you 717 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,239 Speaker 1: pay the quarterback, and you want to keep people that 718 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,560 Speaker 1: the quarterback, like Travis Kelsey is comfortable with and and 719 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,920 Speaker 1: Travis and Mahomes are great third down red zone. So 720 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,920 Speaker 1: when you have that veteran quarterback, you tend to keep 721 00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 1: people around the veteran quarterback who are expensive, familiar. That's 722 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,359 Speaker 1: why Seattle moving off Kenneth Walker takes some guts. I mean, 723 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,279 Speaker 1: you have Sam Darnold, you lose your OC now you 724 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: lose your running back. I mean that's big. So no, 725 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,759 Speaker 1: I this is not enough. I think Kansas city's really 726 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,719 Speaker 1: well run. But what makes the NFL so great. You 727 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:06,319 Speaker 1: can go pathetic to playoffs and off season and keep 728 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:07,240 Speaker 1: your eye on the Raiders.