Speaker 1: The NBA All Star Game was an utter disaster, and
Speaker 1: I got ways to fix it. And also there was
Speaker 1: pushback from the players, Draymond Green and all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And you know who actually broke it. It was the players,
Speaker 1: and I'll explain to you why in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: But also the story about Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin,
Speaker 1: the bullying incident with the Miami Dolphins. I told you
Speaker 1: all this years ago, but now the truth comes out
Speaker 1: and Richie Incognito feels like he's vindicated, but hell no,
Speaker 1: you're not not at all. And also, the NFL Draft
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Speaker 1: It has been years since the NBA put on a
Speaker 1: good All Star Game. It's been a minute, and now
Speaker 1: the players are starting to feel the pushback. You got
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant on Twitter saying, well, why don't you just
Speaker 1: give us a week off instead of if you hate
Speaker 1: the game so much? And this and that Draymond Green
Speaker 1: is upset that the Rising Stars actually played on the
Speaker 1: same floor as the NBA All Stars. So there's so
Speaker 1: much to break down, everything from the format to what's
Speaker 1: going on, how to fix it, dunk contest, three point contests,
Speaker 1: and a one on one game that we're probably gonna
Speaker 1: get next year. But we're gonna start with just the
Speaker 1: pushback from the players. And here is the biggest problem
Speaker 1: with the NBA is that the players have forgotten that
Speaker 1: there is a relationship between them and the fans, that
Speaker 1: there is an unspoken contract between them and the fans
Speaker 1: about you show up and play hard, will show up
Speaker 1: with our time and our money. And players are now like, yo,
Speaker 1: I mean y'all, y'all supposed to show up. We're supposed
Speaker 1: to get get paid. This is the NBA All Star Game.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do it how we want to do it.
Speaker 1: And then they're upset that people are pushing back and
Speaker 1: even they're complaining about it. And we're gonna start with
Speaker 1: the Draymond Green Green complaint. Actually, no, no, no, no, We're
Speaker 1: actually gonna start with the disaster that actually started first
Speaker 1: on Saturday night, which was the skills competition the three
Speaker 1: point contest and the dunk contest. We're gonna start with
Speaker 1: the skills competition because Victor Winbanyama and Chris Paul, former
Speaker 1: head of the Players Association, that Chris Paul NBA veteran
Speaker 1: long time Hall of Fame guy. So at first, when
Speaker 1: him and Victor women Yama went up there and they
Speaker 1: were doing the ski challenge, You're thinking, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a cool little pairing. They just instead of shooting the
Speaker 1: ball like they normally would, they just threw them at
Speaker 1: the basket. They were going for time because they knew
Speaker 1: that they could execute it in time and get passed
Speaker 1: even if they didn't make the baskets. So that was
Speaker 1: an issue. And then so they essentially tried to cheat
Speaker 1: the system. And initially this was pinned on Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Chris Paul, what's up with you, bro?
Speaker 1: You're too old for this. You were the president of
Speaker 1: the Players Association. You can't be doing this. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But then we find out that it was Victor winbn
Speaker 1: Yama's idea, and this is his second year in the NBA,
Speaker 1: so that means that Chris Paul, the savvy veteran, the
Speaker 1: guy who knows the inner workings and understands the stuff
Speaker 1: about the ratings, everything that's going on with the NBA,
Speaker 1: the pushback from the fans, and he went along with this.
Speaker 1: That's the issue. You got the blind leading the blind
Speaker 1: right now. And Chris Paul is too old, too long
Speaker 1: the league. He was playing when all Star games were good,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden you went along with
Speaker 1: this BS to like cheat the fans. Do you realize
Speaker 1: it was people in France that stayed up to watch
Speaker 1: this trash that they put out and they're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna move on to the finals. We're gonna win,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a tighter we're gonna get the check.
Speaker 1: Forgetting about the entertainment value for the fans. That's the
Speaker 1: most important thing. Everybody keeps putting all this emphasis on championships.
Speaker 1: Championships are the the furthest thing from what fans need
Speaker 1: and deserve because a particular fan base, yes they want
Speaker 1: a championship, but NBA fans and basketball fans in general,
Speaker 1: they want great basketball play, entertaining games, and stars to play.
Speaker 1: That's what fans want, and the idea that the players
Speaker 1: are putting this trash out there is ridiculous. And then
Speaker 1: and when calls for change happened, they're like, oh wait, wait,
Speaker 1: wait no, just just pay us more money, shake Gildess.
Speaker 1: Alexander said that after his first NBA All Star Game,
Speaker 1: and it turned me off from him, not permanently, but
Speaker 1: at least for a while. He's standing there in a
Speaker 1: mink coat making twenty thirty million dollars a year saying, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I mean hell, if you pay us more, will will
Speaker 1: play hard in the All Star Game. That is an
Speaker 1: absolute utter lie. You could pay these dudes a million
Speaker 1: dollars each to win the game and they still won't
Speaker 1: play hard. You know why? Because this is an internal issue.
Speaker 1: Do you know why? Kobe and Michael Jordan played hard
Speaker 1: because it was important to them And the older players
Speaker 1: Lebron James who I love, Kevin Durant who I love,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry who I love. These dudes have allowed this.
Speaker 1: These players who I love, the Kevin, all of the
Speaker 1: great players. Pay dudes have been the face of the NBA.
Speaker 1: They allowed this. They are responsible for this. Yeah, who
Speaker 1: else are you going to blame? This ain't the league's fault.
Speaker 1: The league can't force you to go out there and
Speaker 1: play hard. And then you got Draymond Green out there. Oh,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is terrible. The Rising Stars were
Speaker 1: on the floor with the NBA veterans. This used to
Speaker 1: be a sacred ground, a hollowed place for the NBA
Speaker 1: All Star Game. You know what, On one hand, Draymond
Speaker 1: Green's one hundred percent right. It used to be a
Speaker 1: hollowed ground for the All Stars. It used to be
Speaker 1: a special place where only very few got a chance
Speaker 1: to step on that All Star court. Put that All
Speaker 1: Star jersey on, and now you got dudes in the
Speaker 1: Rising Stars game on it. He's one hundred percent right.
Speaker 1: But do you know whose fault? That is your fault?
Speaker 1: It's the player's fault, because the NBA would not have
Speaker 1: needed to go to this drastic four team, single elimination tournament,
Speaker 1: these many games if it weren't for the players coming
Speaker 1: out there not playing hard. They are trying anything. They
Speaker 1: are like parents with a bad behaving child and they're like, Okay, hey,
Speaker 1: i'll pay you to get good grades. Okay, that's not working. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll cut your phone off. Okay that's not working. I'll
Speaker 1: give you a whooping like that. They're literally trying every
Speaker 1: single thing that they can to get with in without
Speaker 1: the whooping part. In the new gentle parenting age. They're
Speaker 1: trying everything that they can to get the players to
Speaker 1: play hard, and the players still won't do it. So yes,
Speaker 1: drastic changes have to be made. The NFL literally cut
Speaker 1: out the Pro Bowl because players refuse to play hard.
Speaker 1: There was nothing they could do to incentivize them. And
Speaker 1: the same thing is true of the NBA because it
Speaker 1: is redamndiculous that we're I've been playing in you know,
Speaker 1: pick up games with the older guys in the NBA
Speaker 1: when I was when when I was in my prime,
Speaker 1: fresh jumping out the gym, and they play harder in
Speaker 1: open gym and open runs in the summer. Then they
Speaker 1: doing the NBA All Star Game. And that's for the fans.
Speaker 1: So games that they aren't even getting paid in they
Speaker 1: play harder than they do in the NBA All Star Game.
Speaker 1: That's why there needs to be a fix. So you can,
Speaker 1: they can get mad, Kevin Durant can push back on
Speaker 1: the fans. Oh well, then just just get give us
Speaker 1: a week off, give us this. Yet, this is the
Speaker 1: issue with Jimmy Butler in his contract, Joel and b
Speaker 1: Paul George, other guys. And I'm not saying that they
Speaker 1: haven't been hurt at times. I'm talking about the load
Speaker 1: management crew because there comes a point in time where
Speaker 1: you are just curbing the what the fans need and
Speaker 1: what the fans want, and you know what you're You're
Speaker 1: gonna get what you deserve. The league is gonna get
Speaker 1: what it deserves. There will be a pushback unless there
Speaker 1: is some sort of change because if you keep putting
Speaker 1: bad television out for fans, they will stop watching. I
Speaker 1: don't care about Yes, they have signed lucrative TV deals,
Speaker 1: but the difference between the NBA and the NFL is
Speaker 1: NFL is always trying to put out competent products. The
Speaker 1: difference in the NBA is there is a percentage of
Speaker 1: the player salaries. It's either five or ten percent that's
Speaker 1: held every single year in escrow and it's held in
Speaker 1: case they don't meet revenue projections and then when when
Speaker 1: they do, which they typically do, players get paid that
Speaker 1: money back. But if not, the league keeps it. There
Speaker 1: is going to be a year if they do not
Speaker 1: change where the league ends up keeping that money and
Speaker 1: players are not going to like that. And this is
Speaker 1: why the Dallas Mavericks traded Luca, this is why they
Speaker 1: have been pushing back on players contracts and everything else.
Speaker 1: And you are going to see it more. This sixty
Speaker 1: five game rule to make all NBA and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: That's not going to impact the older players because they've
Speaker 1: already gotten max deals. They're on the way out. For
Speaker 1: the younger players, this is going to be huge because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have less players qualify for max deals because
Speaker 1: they haven't won MVP, they haven't made all NBA teams
Speaker 1: because you're not playing enough games. So that's where they're
Speaker 1: trying to push it back. But let's go back to
Speaker 1: the All Star Game for a second. You had them
Speaker 1: three teams drafted by TNT and inside the NBA analysts
Speaker 1: you had Kandas Parker, Shaq Yet Kenny and you had
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley and Candas had the Rising Stars team. But
Speaker 1: the issue with it is it was a three hour game.
Speaker 1: You ended up three games to forty points, so you
Speaker 1: only got one hundred and twenty points from one team.
Speaker 1: It took three damn hours, And I know I did
Speaker 1: not mind the tribute to T and T because they
Speaker 1: have been honestly a bigger part of the NBA then
Speaker 1: the NBA has been, especially recently. You knew you could
Speaker 1: count on Chuck and Shaq, Kenny and Ernie to entertain you.
Speaker 1: Even if the game didn't entertain you, they were going
Speaker 1: to entertain you. So yes, I did not mind the
Speaker 1: saying good goodbye and all of that. But Trey Young,
Speaker 1: Shake Gilders, Alexander Jalen Brown, all of them were frustrated
Speaker 1: with the amount of breaks and the you know, the
Speaker 1: long layoffs and everything else. It was terrible. It was
Speaker 1: terrible for the players because they got to calm down,
Speaker 1: get rapped up everything else. But the league and the
Speaker 1: players have no fault but of their own. Now, if
Speaker 1: I were a governor slash owner in the NBA, I
Speaker 1: would be savage and I would be ruthless because on
Speaker 1: one hand, I am four player empowerment. This is where
Speaker 1: I don't want this to get lost. Is I am
Speaker 1: all four players getting as much money as they can
Speaker 1: in the shortest period of time that they can, being
Speaker 1: able to have some freedom to move. But there's a
Speaker 1: responsibility to that that the players are not holding their
Speaker 1: end up right right now. They're not. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the players as a whole. They're not holding up
Speaker 1: to their end of the barget, which is to show up,
Speaker 1: play hard, night after night. That's it. But I want
Speaker 1: to give a shout out to the exciting whites and
Speaker 1: the exciting whites. Mac McClung and Blanking Ship over with
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles and Cooper degene over with the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles as well. Those are the exciting whites. They are
Speaker 1: playing positions in dB at the NFL level and playing
Speaker 1: it at a high level, and people are not used
Speaker 1: to that. I even had a white offensive coordinator when
Speaker 1: I was in the NFL, when I was playing in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: and we had a call that if a white dB
Speaker 1: came in the game. He was like, white dB, white dB,
Speaker 1: we're throwing at him. But the exciting whites are saying, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not so fast. You got Mike mac mcclun over in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Dude has only played like seventy one NBA
Speaker 1: minutes his whole career, but he's a three time NBA
Speaker 1: Dunk Contest champion, and honestly, he's been fantastic. He's been entertaining,
Speaker 1: But here's how to fix the dunk contest. Since you
Speaker 1: know the Lebron James is the Anthony Edwards. The current
Speaker 1: stars now aren't getting in it, which is which is whack.
Speaker 1: But they need to do either one or two things
Speaker 1: with the dunk contest. Either actually make it an award
Speaker 1: for the best in dunks in season dunk going from
Speaker 1: last All Star game to this All Star game, and
Speaker 1: you give it out an award. You turn it into
Speaker 1: a show right of the best dunks like Shocked in
Speaker 1: the Full and then allow the All Stars to vote
Speaker 1: on who had the best dunk like people would be
Speaker 1: going crazier for the in game dunks, which would actually
Speaker 1: increase interest in the NBA. Or the second option that
Speaker 1: you can do is take take Mac mcclunk, treat him
Speaker 1: like the professor and one let dude hit the road
Speaker 1: and find marginal basketball players who can jump out of
Speaker 1: the gym and do the spectacle dunks. Because the reality
Speaker 1: is NBA players are more focused on their moves and
Speaker 1: skills than they are with perfecting dunks, as they should be.
Speaker 1: So but I'm sending Mac McClung, like the Professor, on
Speaker 1: an and one tour all over the country, find the
Speaker 1: best dunkers from every single city every year and bring
Speaker 1: them to the NBA Dunk Contest. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: And with the Skills Contest, it's clearly a joke now
Speaker 1: that Wenby and Chris Paul did what they did trying
Speaker 1: to exploit the loophole, and they got disqualified, which I
Speaker 1: am thankful for. Like, don't put that bs out there
Speaker 1: and expect us to think it's okay, because it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not. So you can throw the skills challenge in
Speaker 1: the trash if you want to, and replace it with
Speaker 1: a one on one game. That's what you need to do,
Speaker 1: because you know what players will do. They will play
Speaker 1: one on one and there's no hiding there, there's no
Speaker 1: uh you know, of faking it. Oh, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: play defense because you will get embarrassed. You know who
Speaker 1: said he would play James Hard hell of a one
Speaker 1: on one player, Kyrie irvit. He even baked Wimby. I
Speaker 1: want to see these one on one games. I want
Speaker 1: to see Victor Women, y'ama plan. I want to see
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum versus Jalen Brown. I want to see Anthony Edwards. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: bring all y'all to the one on one game, because
Speaker 1: that may actually well not even may I believe you
Speaker 1: give the winner of the one on one tournament million dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh they're gonna show up and what they were already
Speaker 1: gonna play hard with it, but you give him a
Speaker 1: mill on top of it. Oh yeah, oh yeah, buddy,
Speaker 1: I love it, love it. That will actually work one
Speaker 1: on one next All Star game. The women just did it,
Speaker 1: and this is ridiculous that the women who are just
Speaker 1: getting All Star games. WNBA is young compared to the NBA,
Speaker 1: and they got to show the men the way in
Speaker 1: this come on, man, and like the women were actually
Speaker 1: out there playing hard in their one on one tournament.
Speaker 1: Loved it and the feast of caller baller. So but
Speaker 1: here is the truth about the NBA All Star Game
Speaker 1: is that the older players played harder and now this
Speaker 1: generation has messed the game up. And yes, it's the
Speaker 1: players that we love the most have messed it up,
Speaker 1: because think about this. From nineteen seventy four to two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, there were as many overtime games in
Speaker 1: the All Star Game as there were fifteen plus point
Speaker 1: blowouts in six and then since two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: We've still had eleven games decided by ten points or less,
Speaker 1: but the average score of the winning team has been
Speaker 1: up over one hundred and eighty points. That means nobody's
Speaker 1: even trying to play defense. These are the best players
Speaker 1: in the world, and it is hard for the NBA
Speaker 1: to compete with the nostalgia, like it's hard for you know, Lebron,
Speaker 1: James Steph and all the great players now to compete
Speaker 1: with the ghost of Michael Jordan when Michael Jordan wasn't
Speaker 1: perfect either, because in order to get a game like
Speaker 1: you had thirty years ago, you probably have to limit
Speaker 1: three point attempts to ten or fifteen per half. You
Speaker 1: would have to do that. But this what they're putting
Speaker 1: out there right now ain't gonna cut it at all.
Speaker 1: All right, next thing up, now, this is a story
Speaker 1: that goes back to when I was playing in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You got Richie Incognito versus Jonathan Martin, and ESPN did
Speaker 1: a profile of Jonathan Martin, who is now at the
Speaker 1: Wharton School of Business just like Josh rosen Is, and
Speaker 1: he's moved on from football and is now into crypto.
Speaker 1: So now Jonathan Martin also had to buy at like
Speaker 1: a shooting threat at a high school out out here
Speaker 1: as well. People just gonna glance over, but here it
Speaker 1: is so going back. So Richie Incognito, known asshole, like
Speaker 1: known jerk in the NFL, he was accused of bullying
Speaker 1: Jonathan Martin. They both played offensive line, and it was
Speaker 1: said that Richie Incognito did all sorts of stuff to
Speaker 1: him and this and that, and Richie Incognito was like, yo,
Speaker 1: actually we were a friends, right, And I have talked
Speaker 1: about this for decades. I well for almost this has
Speaker 1: almost been twenty years now, and I've been talking about
Speaker 1: this this whole time whenever anybody asked me about it.
Speaker 1: I know somebody who's making a documentary about it as well.
Speaker 1: And Jonathan Martin essentially admitted that this story was not
Speaker 1: true in terms of him being bullied. But the question
Speaker 1: is how did it get so out of hand? So
Speaker 1: Jonathan Martin said that he confided in his parents about
Speaker 1: a situation with his teammates that made him uncomfortable, and
Speaker 1: then his mom used the word bullying in a subsequent interview. Now,
Speaker 1: how NFL locker rooms work is it is like the
Speaker 1: Lord of the Flies everybody is clawing for a position
Speaker 1: to be that alpha dog, and people will try you.
Speaker 1: They will test you, and if you don't step up
Speaker 1: and draw the line of boundary, they will continue to
Speaker 1: push it over on you. They will. It's just the
Speaker 1: nature of the locker room. And I was asked about
Speaker 1: the bullying, and here's how NFL locker rooms work. And
Speaker 1: this is true of anything in life. Because I had
Speaker 1: a little kid on my team that I used this
Speaker 1: prime example because he was being bullied by another kid.
Speaker 1: If you stand up for yourself, people will come help you.
Speaker 1: If you do not stand up for yourself and just
Speaker 1: let things happen to you, people are gonna be like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: He was cool with it, and it wasn't that big
Speaker 1: of a deal. He liked it. They were just joking.
Speaker 1: They were just piling around. So if you don't stand
Speaker 1: up for yourself in life, people will not stand up
Speaker 1: for you. But if you stand up and make noise
Speaker 1: about it, oh, now they don't have a choice. And
Speaker 1: so after his mom came out with that, it came
Speaker 1: down whether to whether Martin was gonna stand up to
Speaker 1: his teammates and then also clear the error about a
Speaker 1: narrative that he didn't entirely believe or he was gonna
Speaker 1: have to participate in the Ted Wells investigation and go
Speaker 1: along with his parents' attempt to protect him from a
Speaker 1: toxic situation. And then now the rest is history. The
Speaker 1: report came out, the phone call recording of Richie Incognito
Speaker 1: calling John Than Martin. N word was included along with
Speaker 1: the other accolades accusations from the other people, and then
Speaker 1: Incognito ended up missing about a year and a half
Speaker 1: of his career and up to about ten million dollars
Speaker 1: in career career earnings. So now Richie Incognito, obviously after
Speaker 1: hearing that his parents made it up, he's like he's
Speaker 1: pissed and he's on the internet taking a victory lap.
Speaker 1: Now I understand his emotions are understandable, and neither Jonathan
Speaker 1: Martin or Incognito has had it easiest in the last
Speaker 1: ten years. And Incognito smashed the car in his own yard.
Speaker 1: Martin publicly threatened suicide that that's what I was talking about,
Speaker 1: and people were scared on his former high school campus
Speaker 1: out here in Cali, and then the story faded. But
Speaker 1: with this last revival, it's back in the news cycle.
Speaker 1: So you got Incognito acting like he's an innocent victim
Speaker 1: in the situation, but he's not. You called the dude
Speaker 1: the N word on the on the voicemail, and we
Speaker 1: supposed to feel sorry for you. No, you you were
Speaker 1: not vindicated like you were some like there. You were
Speaker 1: not guilty. That's what it was. You were not guilty,
Speaker 1: Richie Incognito of the bully, but you are not innocent.
Speaker 1: Those are two separate things. There is innocence and then
Speaker 1: there is being not guilty. This was an this isn't
Speaker 1: a circumstance of being not guilty. Yes, Richie Incognito is
Speaker 1: not innocent. He is this two days he wasn't the
Speaker 1: best person around in a Walter Payton Man of the Year.
Speaker 1: Nobody would ever describe that about Richie Incognito, got kicked
Speaker 1: out of college, got and all of that. So we
Speaker 1: were not even finish. Sit here and act like the
Speaker 1: dude is innocent. But and this is what I will
Speaker 1: tell parents, This is what I would tell people out
Speaker 1: in the world. Stand up for yourself, make enough noise
Speaker 1: if people are bothering you, because otherwise people will say
Speaker 1: that you liked it and then if somebody lies, man,
Speaker 1: this is like somebody making a false allegation. You cost
Speaker 1: this man ten million dollars. He should sue you or
Speaker 1: you should be thrown in jail. This is what I believe.
Speaker 1: You make false allegations on people, you should have your
Speaker 1: ass in jail. Book it all right. The last thing
Speaker 1: I want to talk about is in the NFL. The
Speaker 1: NFL Draft is coming up, and the top five draft selections, well,
Speaker 1: top five picks right now are as follows Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: and one Browns, two Giants, three Patriots for Jaguars five. Now,
Speaker 1: four of these five teams stink that. I think the
Speaker 1: Jaguars roster is the best out of all five of
Speaker 1: those teams. But then you get to talking about who
Speaker 1: is going to be drafted where, And I have looked
Speaker 1: at this. I like Shador Sanders, I like cam Ward Love,
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter, super Love, Mason Graham out of Michigan, like
Speaker 1: Abdual Carter, Love Aston gent Love, Will Carter, like Tyler
Speaker 1: Warren Love, Coaston Lovelin. That's where I'm at right now,
Speaker 1: at the top of the draft, and everybody's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you gotta pick Travis Hunter number one. If you're the Titans, No,
Speaker 1: you don't. Picking Travis Hunter number one if you are
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans makes zero sense. Travis Hunter, as good
Speaker 1: as he is, even if he turns into an All Pro,
Speaker 1: has zero impact or minimal impact on winning and losing.
Speaker 1: Look at Myles Garrett with the Browns, who got the
Speaker 1: second pick. Dude is an MVP, a defensive MVP caliber
Speaker 1: player for the last three or four years. And you
Speaker 1: know what team stinks teams drafting number two. Overall, you
Speaker 1: have to boaster the offensive line. Yes, your defensive line matters,
Speaker 1: but your offensive line matters, and you gotta find a quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's what you gotta have. So if you're the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans and you're not in love with Sharda Sanders or
Speaker 1: cam Ward, you need to trade this pickback, trade back
Speaker 1: and let somebody else like the Jaguars, who have a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Let them move up to one and pick Travis Hunter.
Speaker 1: Let that happen. But the Patriots, the Giants, well, actually
Speaker 1: the Patriots have a quarterback too. But the Giants, the Browns,
Speaker 1: and the Titans, any one of them. Drafting Travis Hunter
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the draft makes no sense. This
Speaker 1: was like the Browns. The Giants draft in Sakuon Barkley
Speaker 1: and then not having a quarterback and then being like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna pay Sakwan you don't have a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Running Backs are useless without a quarterback. They just are.
Speaker 1: They're useless without an offensive line. This is just the
Speaker 1: reality of the situation the Browns. So if with the
Speaker 1: current draft order from the Titans, I'm probably taking cam
Speaker 1: Wored because I like my offensive line is okay, Then
Speaker 1: if I am the Browns probably taking Shador Sanders. Now
Speaker 1: do I think that either one of those two dudes
Speaker 1: is the two best dudes in the draft? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: But you gotta go with what you need at this
Speaker 1: point in time. And then if I'm the Giants offensive line,
Speaker 1: probably I gotta go offensive line, or I mean because
Speaker 1: Mason Graham helps. And then there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: who are on the Abdul Carter train. I think a
Speaker 1: Carter is a little bit undersized, and that may matter.
Speaker 1: But if if the top five picks are going to
Speaker 1: be Shaduur, Travis Hunter, Camore, Mason Graham, and Abdul Carter,
Speaker 1: then the needs have to matter the most. Because the
Speaker 1: Raiders are sitting at six, Jets are sitting at seven,
Speaker 1: and they need a quarterback as well. So if you're
Speaker 1: any one of those two team, any one of those teams,
Speaker 1: up front, I'm trading back. I'm adding draft picks. I
Speaker 1: am taking the Oklahoma City Thunder roundabout way to get good.
Speaker 1: I am getting rid of all my bad I'm getting
Speaker 1: rid of all the dead weight. I'm getting rid of
Speaker 1: all I will trade away a good player like Miles
Speaker 1: Garrett for significant draft capital. I wouldn't even think twice
Speaker 1: about it. If you go on the price is right
Speaker 1: and you win a Bugatti, a two million dollar Bugatti,
Speaker 1: and you can't pay your bills. Prior to that, you're
Speaker 1: barely making ends. Me sell the Bugatti, and then your
Speaker 1: life you can be debt free. You can just have
Speaker 1: a whole new life and start over fresh. That's what
Speaker 1: these teams need to do, instead of trying to hoard
Speaker 1: your good players. Nope, Nope, because eventually you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pay them, and then you're gonna be having a
Speaker 1: player like Miles Garrett on a super big contract when
Speaker 1: your team is bad. Nope, reset that whole thing and
Speaker 1: just draft year after year after year after year, multiple
Speaker 1: first round picks. I'm trading away. Everything is not nailed
Speaker 1: down right now if I am the Titans, and if
Speaker 1: I am the if I'm the Titans, if I am
Speaker 1: the Browns, trading away everything about Giants too, even on
Speaker 1: down to the Raiders at six, Jets at seven. Everything
Speaker 1: must go that is not on a rookie deal right now.
Speaker 1: Anything that anybody else wants, you can have it now.
Speaker 1: Then there goes to Deon Sanders factor. Is he going
Speaker 1: to step in and prevent any of these teams from
Speaker 1: drafting Shadoor Sanders and Travis Hunt. I do not believe
Speaker 1: he would stop either of them from going to the
Speaker 1: Giants because he wants especially Shador. He wants him in
Speaker 1: a big city, because he knows big city quarterbacks make money.
Speaker 1: Big city quarterbacks, you can be a star, you can
Speaker 1: be a megastar. So he will not object from there.
Speaker 1: And the Patriots and Jaguars ain't drafted Shoudre. But as
Speaker 1: far as Travis Hunter goes, he's marched to his own drum.
Speaker 1: I tell you he's gonna have to fin for hisself.
Speaker 1: He is not going to stop any team from drafting him.
Speaker 1: He might say that publicly, but that ain't happening. And
Speaker 1: you guys, though, we still got so much to go
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