Speaker 1: Welcome in what driving Nick write episode three to two.
Speaker 1: As we are officially for this podcast purposes in basketball season,
Speaker 1: there will be some football on the show. We will
Speaker 1: get to later, Luca Lebron Game two not quite as
Speaker 1: good as Game one in fact, really bad game and
Speaker 1: where you saw some of the concerns for the Lakers
Speaker 1: as far as big men. We will get to that.
Speaker 1: A huge game on the other side of that trade
Speaker 1: with the MAVs on the strength of Kyrie Irving dropping
Speaker 1: forty two, get a really important win over Golden State.
Speaker 1: We will get to that. Oh, and also a much
Speaker 1: needed Bronni update. I'll explain why I'm doing that in
Speaker 1: a bit, But first, demons, welcome in. Great to see you.
Speaker 1: As always, this is the time of year I miss
Speaker 1: when the fifteen months that I lived on the West
Speaker 1: Coast because the late night West Coast basketball that isn't
Speaker 1: actually late night if you're on the West Coast is
Speaker 1: such a nice thing that these games are over. I
Speaker 1: know the Warriors game actually was late even by for
Speaker 1: you guys last night, but uh, most games are over
Speaker 1: before ten thirty and then you neither you know, go out,
Speaker 1: you get do whatever you want, set out here you're
Speaker 1: struggling til one one thirty in the morning. But such
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Speaker 1: NBA playoffs, living on the East coast. Here is what
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Speaker 1: Dak says, Dallas is very close to the Eagles. They
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Speaker 1: get into all of that. But before we even get
Speaker 1: to the games from yesterday, a game from the day
Speaker 1: before yesterday had a wildly important NBA moment that led
Speaker 1: to some wildly ridiculous NBA discussion. So let's get right
Speaker 1: to it. Pal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Katie just joined the thirty thirty thousand point
Speaker 2: club the other day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Steven A.
Speaker 2: Smith put him in his in his top ten all time.
Speaker 2: It's perfect topic all time, yep, all time. We're bringing
Speaker 2: some of that evergreen back. How do you feel about this?
Speaker 2: Where would you? All?
Speaker 1: Right? So first first, let me talk about what thirty
Speaker 1: thousand points means. It means you are in a club
Speaker 1: with Kareem, Karl Malone, Kobe, Michael Dirk, and Wilt. And
Speaker 1: you might be like Nick, you didn't include Lebron and that, Well,
Speaker 1: Lebron's not in that club anymore. He graduated. He's in
Speaker 1: the forty thousand point club. But how hard is it
Speaker 1: to score thirty thousand points? Michael Jordan did it as
Speaker 1: a wizard. Let me say that again. Think about all
Speaker 1: of the points Michael Jordans scored as a Chicago Bull.
Speaker 1: It wasn't thirty thousand. So that's what Kevin Durant has done,
Speaker 1: and he's done it. He's the fourth youngest to ever
Speaker 1: do it, despite losing two full seasons of his career
Speaker 1: due to injury, the broken foot year and the torn
Speaker 1: Achilles year. Truly one of the greatest pure scorers in
Speaker 1: basketball history. The greatest, not the first great shooting seven
Speaker 1: footer that was Dirk, but the best shooting big man
Speaker 1: of all time. And it's not even really debatable. Like
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, a seven footer who could
Speaker 1: shoot meant he could hit twelve to fourteen footers. Ewing
Speaker 1: was pretty good at it, David Robinson was okay at it.
Speaker 1: A Cheme was the best at it as far as
Speaker 1: the great big men, but those were all true sinners.
Speaker 1: Then Dirk came around. Kevin Garnett then was really great
Speaker 1: at the mid range for a guy who wouldn't let
Speaker 1: you call him seven feet tall but was seven feet tall.
Speaker 1: Dirk then changed the game. And look back on Dirk's career,
Speaker 1: what will surprise you is he didn't shoot as many
Speaker 1: threes as you remember. Dirk for his career averaged three
Speaker 1: and a half three point attempts per game, not make attempts.
Speaker 1: Dirk in his prime, you know, from basically year three
Speaker 1: until call it the year after the championship, averaged three
Speaker 1: point two three point attempts per game. So he was
Speaker 1: not a volume three point shooter, but he was the
Speaker 1: first seven footer that would reliably shoot some and was
Speaker 1: excellent at it. Then Durant came around and instantly changed everything,
Speaker 1: where this guy is a true seven footer, and he
Speaker 1: was at various points in his career either the single
Speaker 1: best or the second best or clearly top three shooter
Speaker 1: in basketball. And so he deserves massive credit. And is
Speaker 1: Brew called him a pioneer, and I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: Usually we use pioneer in kind of terms of more gravity,
Speaker 1: but this, as far as shooting BigMan, he is that.
Speaker 1: Now all of that can be true, and it can
Speaker 1: simultaneously be true. To Monse that calling him a top
Speaker 1: ten all time guy is not an allowable opinion, and
Speaker 1: by it's not allowable. And here's why I say it's
Speaker 1: not allowable. I don't actually think anyone who calls Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant a top ten player, if they put pencil to
Speaker 1: paper and made their list, would have him in the
Speaker 1: top ten, and again I like, so that is what
Speaker 1: we are going to do, and you can do it
Speaker 1: with me, Okay, And I understand you don't have your
Speaker 1: twenty six. You don't have the full historical knowledge of me.
Speaker 2: Of a lot of you give me, I can see
Speaker 2: if those are like.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly right. So I'm gonna start with the ones
Speaker 1: that I think there will be no argument whatsoever. Okay,
Speaker 1: it must be in the top ten. Lebron James agreed. Agree,
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Okay, those not only in
Speaker 1: my opinion, have to be in your top ten, they
Speaker 1: have to be in your top three. But that is
Speaker 1: an opinion. Okay, But there's three locks, dead locks. All right,
Speaker 1: let's before we even get to the guys whose games
Speaker 1: were in black and white. Let's name some more magic. Johnson.
Speaker 1: We agree, he's in the top ten, of course, yep.
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan five ring, six finals appearances, two league MVPs,
Speaker 1: arguably the greatest defensive player of the last thirty years,
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan. So now we're at five, we have five
Speaker 1: spots remaining in the top ten. I have not yet
Speaker 1: mentioned Kobe Bryant, does anybody think Kevin Durant's better than
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. I don't think Kevin Durant thinks Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: it's better than Kobe Bryant. Like now, Durant might think
Speaker 1: he's the second best ever and that Kobe's the only
Speaker 1: one ahead of him, but I don't like So, so
Speaker 1: now we're at six. We got four spots left. Larry Bird.
Speaker 1: Now there when this clip goes out, there are going
Speaker 1: to be a bunch of children. And I say that
Speaker 1: intentionally who are like man Katie would wash Larry Bird
Speaker 1: feel like, well, what could Larry Bird do that Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant can do? And Demonse might be one of those children. However,
Speaker 1: what what when we are doing top ten lists, it
Speaker 1: cannot be such a bias to the current times that
Speaker 1: accomplishments are totally irrelevant. So when you go to Larry
Speaker 1: Bird and then I tell you the following things, Demonse
Speaker 1: from his rookie year, starting with his rookie year, Demonse
Speaker 1: through the end of year nine, so we're not skipping
Speaker 1: his rookie year the day he walks into the league
Speaker 1: until the end of year nine. He finished first, second, third,
Speaker 1: or fourth in MVP voting, how many of those nine years?
Speaker 1: Throw me a number eight, No. Nine every single year
Speaker 1: in including a stretch where he went a six year
Speaker 1: stretch Larry Bird where he went second, second, second, first, first, first,
Speaker 1: a six year stretch where in MVP voting he was second, second, second, first, first, first.
Speaker 1: He's a three time champion, two time finals, MVP, made
Speaker 1: five finals, and he has nine time all, nine time
Speaker 1: First Team All NBA in the first ten years of
Speaker 1: his career.
Speaker 2: So the are to say it's unfortunate. What'd you say,
Speaker 2: it's just unfortunate? You would say Larry Bird and Katie
Speaker 2: are similar archetypes.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, here's the thing. Yes, in both great shooters.
Speaker 1: But where you give the nod to Bird is Bird
Speaker 1: is actually one of the best passers in league history.
Speaker 1: Katie a better.
Speaker 3: Similar ball handler, Like.
Speaker 1: Katie's a better ball handler. Bird was a better rebounder.
Speaker 1: Katie's a better defender, but Bird just did more. But again,
Speaker 1: so here's the and so you might be like, well, Nick,
Speaker 1: so maybe it is arguable because you're arguing about Bird
Speaker 1: and you're only at seven. And here's why I can
Speaker 1: definitively say you can't have him in the top ten,
Speaker 1: because are we simply going to say that none of
Speaker 1: the old heads get in, none of them. So Bill
Speaker 1: Russell and his eleven rings are out and his five
Speaker 1: league MVPs or we're just throwing him out, Wilt Chamberlain,
Speaker 1: Jerry West, and Oscar Robertson. We want to throw all
Speaker 1: four of those guys out because if those guys are in,
Speaker 1: then Bird might not be in. But you know what,
Speaker 1: let's just pretend we're throwing those four guys out. They
Speaker 1: don't count. We still only have three spots left, and
Speaker 1: we have not mentioned Shaquille O'Neal. Shaquille O'Neal was better
Speaker 1: than Kevin Durant. We have not mentioned Steph Curry. Steph
Speaker 1: Curry has had a better career by any available metric
Speaker 1: than Kevin Durant. We now have one spot in our
Speaker 1: top ten remaining. So again lebron Kareem, Michael Magic, Duncan,
Speaker 1: Kobe Byrd, Shaq, Steph there's nine. We have simply said,
Speaker 1: totally unfairly and ridiculously that for this exercise, anyone that
Speaker 1: played prior to nineteen seventy isn't a top ten player.
Speaker 1: That Wilt Chamberlain is not a top ten player, that
Speaker 1: Bill Russell is not a top ten player, that Jerry Wesnscar.
Speaker 1: But let's just do it. Let's just say, you know what,
Speaker 1: They're out. We now have one spot remaining, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you three names who are better than Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: The first one is a kim Olajuan, the greatest defensive
Speaker 1: player arguably in league history, certainly other than Bill Russell.
Speaker 1: And then two guys playing right now, Nikola Jokic and Yannis.
Speaker 1: So are is anyone or are people really going to
Speaker 1: say Katie has been better than Joker? I don't think
Speaker 1: you can incredibly argue that. Are people like you can
Speaker 1: argue Janis? Yannis is very very borderline. And then you
Speaker 1: get to the group. Durant is in Doctor J. Who
Speaker 1: again I I will get just to show on being
Speaker 1: fair here, I will give Durant the nod over Doctor J,
Speaker 1: even though this was Doctor J's career. He's in the ABA.
Speaker 1: In the ABA, he wins the league MVP three times,
Speaker 1: he wins the championship two times, he wins the playoff
Speaker 1: MVP two times. He then goes to the NBA and
Speaker 1: immediately makes finals after finals after finals before finally playing
Speaker 1: on arguably the greatest team of all time and winning
Speaker 1: a championship. Give him the nod over him, Give kd
Speaker 1: the nod over Moses Malone, and give Kade the nod
Speaker 1: over Isaiah Thomas. You still have. And this is why
Speaker 1: if you're gonna like, I care more about top ten
Speaker 1: lists than basically anyone in the world, but you can't
Speaker 1: flippantly throw it around lebron Kareem, Michael Magic, Duncan, Kobe Bird,
Speaker 1: Shaq Steph. We are at nine right then, and there
Speaker 1: there is one spot available for all of the following people,
Speaker 1: Bill Russell, Wilt, Chamberlain, Jerry West, Akima, LaJuan Nikola, Jokic,
Speaker 1: Jannis Antinakumpo. So in order to say Kevin Durant in
Speaker 1: the top ten, you have to say he is better
Speaker 1: than Joker, He is better than Yannis, he is better
Speaker 1: than a Keem, he is better than Russell, Wilt, West, Oscar.
Speaker 1: You don't actually think that, And the U I'm talking
Speaker 1: to is literally everyone. You might think he's better than
Speaker 1: a couple of those guys, there is no chance you
Speaker 1: think he's better than all of them. And so.
Speaker 2: I maybe was talking about like eighteenth or something.
Speaker 1: If I were to truly order it, this will be fun.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. This is my true to heart order
Speaker 1: Lebron won, Kareem two, Michael three, the hardest one is
Speaker 1: this four to five Russell four, Magic five, Wilt six,
Speaker 1: Duncan seven, Kobe eight, Bird nine, God dog it. And
Speaker 1: then this is so this is where my top ten
Speaker 1: debate is. And yeah, and I did that top fifty list,
Speaker 1: but the problem my top fifty list was of the
Speaker 1: last fifty years, so i'dn't have to worry about Russell,
Speaker 1: Wilt West.
Speaker 3: Those guys.
Speaker 1: So now for the ten spot dreamshak Staff West are
Speaker 1: the contenders. I will tentatively go as follows. Number ten,
Speaker 1: Achem Olajuan, number eleven, Shaquille O'Neal, number twelve, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: number thirteen, Jerry West, number fourteen, Oscar Robertson, number fifteen, Nikolijokic,
Speaker 1: number sixteen, Oscar Robertson number seventeen, Yannis, number eighteen, doctor
Speaker 1: j and number nineteen Kevin Duran, with number twenty being Moses,
Speaker 1: twenty one being Isaiah. And then that the rest of
Speaker 1: your top twenty five, in some order or another, are Dirk,
Speaker 1: Carl Malone, Charles Berkley, and Dwayne Wade, and we could
Speaker 1: argue about it, but I think that is a fair
Speaker 1: ranking that anybody could push back on movement of a
Speaker 1: guy three spots in one direction or another. You can't
Speaker 1: credibly say the dudes a top ten player.
Speaker 3: As a player, as a scorer.
Speaker 1: He's well, his skill set.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like his ability to just go and get a
Speaker 2: bucket like you know.
Speaker 1: Well and not just get a bucket.
Speaker 3: He's thirty.
Speaker 1: As a basketball player is top ten. But that's a
Speaker 1: different conversation. You know, what does that make? You know?
Speaker 1: What it? It has to be what you accomplished in
Speaker 1: your career has to be the huge weight of the argument.
Speaker 1: With skill set and stuff being important and tiebreakers and
Speaker 1: all of that. What to do with the resume is
Speaker 1: the resume And the fact that Durant has gone his
Speaker 1: entire thirties, his whole thirties and did not play a
Speaker 1: single meaningful playoff game is remarkable to me and so like,
Speaker 1: and that obviously has to play a role in this.
Speaker 1: And so I just think that I think that throwing around,
Speaker 1: I think that throwing around the top ten all time is.
Speaker 3: Disrespectful Okay, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: It's just and again, I just I think that it
Speaker 1: is something that people and I'm not even really trying
Speaker 1: to take shots. I just think aren't doing the work.
Speaker 1: I just think, like I shouldn't say doing the work,
Speaker 1: because it's not even our laziness. I just think people
Speaker 1: aren't putting pen to paper and being like, Okay, who
Speaker 1: is my top ten? And I think if they did,
Speaker 1: they would be like, oh, damn, turns out he's not.
Speaker 1: And so that like, if somebody wants to sit up
Speaker 1: here and say Kevin Durant was better than dream Shock
Speaker 1: and Steph and all the old guys that is, that
Speaker 1: would be crazy to me, At least to me, that
Speaker 1: would be crazy. Go ahead, poll.
Speaker 2: So of the old guards, the old guards remaining, who
Speaker 2: could you see at it another batch to their legacy?
Speaker 2: I mean, and these are the ages start next season.
Speaker 2: Lebron's at forty, you got Katie at thirty six, Steph
Speaker 2: at thirty seven, Chris Paul is gonna be forty, you
Speaker 2: got hard and at thirty six, and Russ's gonna be
Speaker 2: turning thirty six next season as well.
Speaker 1: The answers and none of them, like I Lebron's got
Speaker 1: the best chance because he's with Luca. But Durant, you know,
Speaker 1: Durant's we'll talk about what's next for Durant briefly, like
Speaker 1: maybe this offseason. They wouldn't do it, but man, it'd
Speaker 1: be so much fun. What if OKC just gets popped
Speaker 1: early in the playoffs and they're like bring him home?
Speaker 1: Like that would be sick. That would be and then
Speaker 1: and I would I would love that. My only thing
Speaker 1: is they're probably not going to get popped early in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They're probably gonna make the finals. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then they're not gonna
Speaker 1: all of a sudden bring in Durant.
Speaker 3: But but do you think.
Speaker 2: Durant would like, oh, like like a pay cut, like
Speaker 2: t take a little bit less money to.
Speaker 1: There's no pay cuts allowed in the NBA. Okay, it's weird.
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're a free agent, you can sign
Speaker 1: for anything you want whatever at contract, so you have
Speaker 1: to trade.
Speaker 2: They just got to buy it out copy Okay.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and I mean, and so here's the thing.
Speaker 1: They it's Phoenix isn't gonna buy him out because then
Speaker 1: they get no draft picks for him. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, So like he could be a free agent
Speaker 1: fifteen months from now, but a year from now, someone
Speaker 1: have to take on the salary. All right, let's love
Speaker 1: Lakers here first.
Speaker 2: Second. Uh So, Luca and the Lakers struggled against the Jazz.
Speaker 2: They obviously beat them the other day and they got
Speaker 2: popped in the mouth last night. Luca has sixteen four
Speaker 2: and four even six or thirteen one of five from
Speaker 2: a free throw and five turnovers in twenty three minutes.
Speaker 2: So he came out and said we can go very far.
Speaker 2: Obviously today I felt a little bit rusty, you know,
Speaker 2: two games back from my injury, turnovers, misfree throws, so
Speaker 2: I gotta do way better. How are you feeling about
Speaker 2: your guys over there and yellow?
Speaker 1: So listen, that was a bad loss. There's no way
Speaker 1: around it. You have no business. Why say it again?
Speaker 3: You could you could see why.
Speaker 2: I mean, like that, tell me Jackson a Jackson Hay
Speaker 2: is going down pretty early. The Jazz are obviously just
Speaker 2: way too big for him, like it, and they need it.
Speaker 1: Was all of that. It was also you know all
Speaker 1: All Star game, you know All Star Game being around
Speaker 1: the corner. Yes that and listen, Luca is getting back
Speaker 1: into I know this sounds awful. He's actually he right
Speaker 1: now actually is out of shape because he's he's coming
Speaker 1: off six weeks out with a lower body injury, and
Speaker 1: that's what's gonna happen like the and so he's getting
Speaker 1: his rhythm. Look, they're trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: play with each other. Alex Lynn, fresh off the buy
Speaker 1: out market, is you know with the team Jackson As
Speaker 1: gets popped in the face, he obviously is, you know,
Speaker 1: then he's out and the Jazz just clock you. It's
Speaker 1: a bad loss in this regard. The Jazz are horrendous
Speaker 1: and every single game here matters. Like they had they
Speaker 1: won last night, they would wake up this morning and
Speaker 1: they're still the four seed with the same number of
Speaker 1: losses as Denver. Because they lost last night, they're the
Speaker 1: five seed and you know, they're two and a half
Speaker 1: behind Denver. So like they it does matter. And I'm
Speaker 1: not but they had one what did they won nine
Speaker 1: in a row, so you'd won nine in a row,
Speaker 1: you're fitting lukea in I am. Last night's game does
Speaker 1: not make me worry about the Luca Lebron fit. I
Speaker 1: don't think we've seen anything close to what that fit
Speaker 1: is going to be because we haven't seen Luca be
Speaker 1: Luca yet. Luca hasn't played twenty five minutes in a game.
Speaker 1: Luca hasn't gotten rolling yet like that, so that'll take time.
Speaker 1: The question is are they just going When the trade
Speaker 1: was made, we all said they needed at a big.
Speaker 1: They then thought they added the big and Mark Williams
Speaker 1: they didn't. By the way, did you see that drama
Speaker 1: that mark. Dave mcminnimon said to Rich Eison yesterday that
Speaker 1: the Hornets are still trying to argue that trade should
Speaker 1: go through, and rich Eysen asked him, like, what does
Speaker 1: that mean, like you bring in a third party doctor?
Speaker 1: And Dave mcminnimon said that the way he understands it
Speaker 1: is the NBA would hold quote something of a mock
Speaker 1: try where both teams would present their cases, and okay,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of that. If that's the case, they
Speaker 1: got to air that All Star weekend, we got to
Speaker 1: see the Lakers Hornets mock trial where they're they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: here's what's problem with Mark Williams injuries. So the point is,
Speaker 1: and by the way, the Lakers must have massive concerns
Speaker 1: with that dude's injuries because they clearly need a center.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and I mean and thereof they're trying to
Speaker 2: get the Jet, I mean, not the Jazz, but the
Speaker 2: Magic is trying to get rid of him. I think
Speaker 2: doesn't make it any better. Like there there is something,
Speaker 2: but are the Hornets. But if he if he goes
Speaker 2: back there and they use him, Like if they're going
Speaker 2: to use him, why can't the Lakers just take him?
Speaker 3: You need a big man?
Speaker 1: Well, so he was. He went from not being on
Speaker 1: the injury report to now this pass game for the
Speaker 1: Hornets listed out with an injury. And I don't think
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. I don't think the Lakers are
Speaker 1: arguing he's too injured to play this very moment.
Speaker 3: Something's eventually gonna happen, is what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Not only something's eventually gonna happen, but he is playing
Speaker 1: through an injury that either needs surgery or needs to
Speaker 1: be a dressed like so something like that. So I
Speaker 1: am not Last night was a bad loss, last game
Speaker 1: four All Star. You're on a hot streak. Luke's getting
Speaker 1: his legs under him. I won't freak out about it,
Speaker 1: but it is a loss that the end of the year,
Speaker 1: you might be like, damn, I wish we'd have taken business,
Speaker 1: taken care of business against the twelve win Jazz. You know,
Speaker 1: if we're fighting for seeding, I do demond'say, there is
Speaker 1: a follow up here that I want to get to.
Speaker 1: This will yeh, this will make people mad, probably so Brownie.
Speaker 2: He played, He played in garbage time. He got a
Speaker 2: couple of nice budgets. At the end of the game.
Speaker 2: He had a really nice step back. So give us
Speaker 2: our Bronnie update.
Speaker 1: The Bronni update is, are we still gonna go crying
Speaker 1: on television begging lebron James to be a better father
Speaker 1: and stop this farce? Or are we gonna be like
Speaker 1: turns out, Bronni is playing exactly like a generic fifty
Speaker 1: to fifth pick of the draft should play. So here's
Speaker 1: a fun one, Demons. I looked it up this morning.
Speaker 1: Bronnie James was the fifty to fifth pick of the draft.
Speaker 1: We're now more than halfway through the season. Where do
Speaker 1: you think Bronnie James ranks amongst rookies in minutes? Let's
Speaker 1: just start with minutes, and again, this is you know,
Speaker 1: a little reductive analysis.
Speaker 3: But you would have the rookies.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a ton of rookies because you have
Speaker 1: the fifty eight who were drafted and then all the
Speaker 1: undrafted kids. But my point is you would hope that
Speaker 1: the kid drafted number one is near number one in
Speaker 1: minutes and points, you know what I mean? And so
Speaker 1: and if so he was the fifty fifth drafted rookie
Speaker 1: amongst all rookies, if it was just a generic you know,
Speaker 1: guy who you drafted fifty fifth, you would hope you're
Speaker 1: getting in the moment, I guess the fifty fifth most
Speaker 1: production of the rookies like that, that would mean he's
Speaker 1: playing to his generic draft stop. So we're at the
Speaker 1: All Star break, how's Bronni doing. He is amongst rookies
Speaker 1: exactly fifty fifth in minutes? Oh okay, Well maybe that's
Speaker 1: because the Lakers are just you know, because he's bronze kid,
Speaker 1: giving him more opportunities with He's fifty fifth in minutes,
Speaker 1: But where is he in points? Amazingly, like just it's
Speaker 1: crazy that this happened. He is exactly fifty fifth in points.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So he's played the fifty fifth pick of
Speaker 1: the draft, has played amongst all rookies the fifty fifth
Speaker 1: most minutes and has the fifty fifth most points. What
Speaker 1: about other things? Where is he in assists amongst all rookies?
Speaker 1: And the answer is he is forty seventh. Oh, you know,
Speaker 1: right in line, but a little maybe better than you'd hoped.
Speaker 1: Where is he amongst all rookies and steals? Right? That
Speaker 1: feels like a fair question. Oh, he's forty fourth, the
Speaker 1: fifty fifth pick of the draft? Okay, where is he
Speaker 1: in blocks? The fifty fifth pick of the draft? Brownie
Speaker 1: James is forty second. The only category the six to
Speaker 1: two guard is not fifty fifth or better amongst rookies
Speaker 1: is rebounds. Where he's in I think I'll pull it
Speaker 1: up because I gave the exact ones on the other ones.
Speaker 1: I want to give the exact ones on this one.
Speaker 1: Bronnie James in rebounding is I had it right here?
Speaker 1: Sixty third? So he need you know? So he's not
Speaker 1: playing to his draft the six to two guards not
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Speaker 1: we have some breaking news. You see this in the rundown.
Speaker 2: Fifty bucks in my pocket? I see it. Jets just traded.
Speaker 2: We have informed Aaron Rodgers that we will be moving
Speaker 2: in a different direction at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Well hold on, let's go back to the fifty bucks
Speaker 1: in your pocket. Did you bet somebody that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Me and a colleague like three or four months ago,
Speaker 2: I think I was like, how much do you want
Speaker 2: to bet that Aaron Rodgers won't be the quarterback of
Speaker 2: the Jets next year?
Speaker 3: And he's like, I think he will be, you know.
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't think he will.
Speaker 1: All right, Can I give you some advice? You have to.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, no, you.
Speaker 1: Have to, you gotta.
Speaker 2: Oh no, it was mentioned two days ago, like it
Speaker 2: was there were there was already there was already talks
Speaker 2: of this like already going on.
Speaker 3: But I think it's official now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if they've tweeted it, yeah, okay, that's what
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. Any old bets, once the verdict
Speaker 1: is in, you have to to make sure you snap
Speaker 1: identify or else you know, So all right, good job, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I think betting with colleagues as long as it's one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars or less is fine, I can I tell you,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get to the Jets day. So I
Speaker 1: bet with Hubbs, who runs our show. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: have been escalating bets where five, ten, twenty, and then
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars and every bet that I've won, I'm
Speaker 1: four and zero in these bets now. To be fair,
Speaker 1: what they really are is like he's betting like twenty
Speaker 1: to one on things. So like the five dollar bet was,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Aaron Judge will hit sixty five home
Speaker 1: runs or you know, something like that. So I'm on
Speaker 1: the house side of it. Essentially, I'm a huge favorite
Speaker 1: in these. But he gives me the money and I
Speaker 1: tape it to the office wall. So when you walk
Speaker 1: in our conference room, there is a five, a ten,
Speaker 1: of twenty and one hundred dollars bill taped to the wall,
Speaker 1: and it's just a taunt. Well, you know what the
Speaker 1: hundred was, Wild Hubs never met me a hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: The hundred was when I beat wilds and bowling, and
Speaker 1: I made pay me and now it's taking bowling.
Speaker 3: I don't take either. One of you guys are like.
Speaker 1: Wild Wild's good bowler. I'm a horrific bowler. He choked,
Speaker 1: choke and then and not only flat choked he because
Speaker 1: he it was it doesn't matter. I beat him straight
Speaker 1: up and bowling, and near the end or right after
Speaker 1: I beat him, I was like ribbing him, was like
Speaker 1: let's just go double or nothing, like you're better than me,
Speaker 1: blah blah, And he turned to me stone serious, and
Speaker 1: he's like, I know you think this is helping our relationship.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 3: So he knew he was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: I was a peak obnoxious. He was at today office
Speaker 1: party and I was being peak obnoxious. Okay, let's talk
Speaker 1: Rogers here. Uh, this is a great move by Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 1: Even if they don't know who their quarterback is going
Speaker 1: to be, you you have to claw back control of
Speaker 1: your locker room. And I'm not saying Rogers was universally reviled.
Speaker 1: It's very clear some of his teammates really really liked him.
Speaker 1: I don't know that all of them did, but it's
Speaker 1: very clear some did. But if you are going to
Speaker 1: have any chance of, for the first time, damn near
Speaker 1: in my lifetime, of the Jets being a competent, regular
Speaker 1: organization and of the Jets being able to operate the
Speaker 1: way a functional football team does. You're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to change the owner. You probably want to, you can't.
Speaker 1: The best you can do is change the GM and
Speaker 1: head coach, which you did, and allow the Jets for
Speaker 1: the first time in a few years to be under
Speaker 1: the radar, to not be a hot topic, and to
Speaker 1: not have one of the most famous and polarizing and
Speaker 1: at this point also not that good quarterbacks in the league,
Speaker 1: holding weekly symposiums on McAfee and all and all of
Speaker 1: the stuff that goes along with being in the Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers business. They had to get out of that business.
Speaker 1: They had to. And so I don't know the Jets,
Speaker 1: what are they drafting ninth? Hold on five NFL draft Wiki, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Jets are drafting seventh, So Schador and Cam won't
Speaker 1: be there now. Maybe you can reach on Jackson Darter,
Speaker 1: Jalen Milroe, or maybe you just take to a bridge quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I know what sucks for the Jets is the
Speaker 1: most sought after Bridge quarterback this year is probably Sam
Speaker 1: Darnald and they don't want Sam Donald. They already had
Speaker 1: Sam Donald. So yeah, it's it. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a tough year for them at that position. But it
Speaker 1: gives Aaron Glenn a chance to be the voice, the
Speaker 1: guy for that franchise and that couldn't happen with Aaron.
Speaker 1: And the other side of it is this, they're not
Speaker 1: good enough outside of quarterback to be like, well, but
Speaker 1: with Aaron we can win a championship. If if you could,
Speaker 1: then maybe you stomach it for a year you thought
Speaker 1: that was the case. This past year, now you're drafting seventh.
Speaker 1: You won five games, you there was no world there's
Speaker 1: the Jets are not close and so what you need
Speaker 1: to do is start building out the team and figuring
Speaker 1: out what that what the actual Jets culture and organization
Speaker 1: is going to be about. And so yeah, I would
Speaker 1: take a flyer, uh on a quarterback? I would who
Speaker 1: are the you know? Would I consider and this is
Speaker 1: gonna sound funny coming from me, would I consider being like, hey,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, you want to come for a year? Maybe
Speaker 1: would I see if a year of being under read
Speaker 1: and Mahomes, Carson Wentz can give me a year of
Speaker 1: halfway decent football. Sure, like those would be the things
Speaker 1: I do while I try to fix the offensive line,
Speaker 1: lead with defense and go from there. Then the question
Speaker 1: becomes Demons, where does Aaron Rodgers go and what does says?
Speaker 3: It's most likely the Steelers.
Speaker 1: So there seems to be a lot of smoke there. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the report this morning
Speaker 1: from a guy I'd never heard of before, but no disrectimized.
Speaker 1: Think he's a local reporter somewhere. But I loved it.
Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers called about evidently the Prince. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: get the Prince down in Jacksonville. Yeah, Mike, get in
Speaker 1: with Mike Tomlin. That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine Mike Tomlin with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Well except remember they had that like flirtation thing like
Speaker 1: the where like Tomlin like winked Adam Rogers smiled at
Speaker 1: him while they were playing each other. This happened a
Speaker 1: couple times. Maybe Tomlin thinks he could do it. He
Speaker 1: can be answer, So the Steelers do make sense. Here's
Speaker 1: another one. If Aaron really just wants to follow the
Speaker 1: exact Brett fav game plan. What about Minnesota? If Minnesota
Speaker 1: is like, we're you know, Darnold's gonna cost too much
Speaker 1: JJ because of the injury, we're not sure on yet,
Speaker 1: and you know, we want to be good again, so
Speaker 1: we want a veteran quarterback that has a fringe possibility.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the other places. So let's
Speaker 1: just do it real quick.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, go.
Speaker 1: Ahead, Oh no, go tell me what draft.
Speaker 2: The the They've got the Steelers at plus two hundred,
Speaker 2: Raiders at plus three hundred forty nine, Ers at plus
Speaker 2: three fifty.
Speaker 1: Forty nine, Ers would be wild yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then they got Vikings at plus four hundred and
Speaker 2: Titans at plus seven fifty.
Speaker 3: So I think those are the most likely.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean the Titans obviously would want him. I
Speaker 1: if Aaron's only opportunities to play for the Titans, I
Speaker 1: think he probably just has to retire like all those
Speaker 1: other Well, the ra the Raiders thing are the Raiders pieces.
Speaker 1: Not that I think the Raiders gonna be better than
Speaker 1: the Titans this year, but at least the Raiders are
Speaker 1: kind of a marquee franchise. They're in Vegas and Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll's there right, then Devonte is probably like Jesus man
Speaker 1: could have done this a year ago, and I hauld
Speaker 1: have just stayed. The forty nine ers would be unreal it.
Speaker 1: Just as far as storylines, if the Niners are like, hey, Brock, sorry,
Speaker 1: we'll pay you later. Uh, I just think that is
Speaker 1: a remarkable I I can't imagine that happening. I just can't. Like,
Speaker 1: I just and I was gonna go, so I want
Speaker 1: to go the way I always do this is I
Speaker 1: just go division by division. Bill's no chance, Miami no chance,
Speaker 1: Jets obviously no chance, Patriots no chance. AFC's done, Baltimore
Speaker 1: no chance since he no chance, Pittsburgh real chance. So
Speaker 1: we have one real chance Cleveland, I don't see it.
Speaker 1: Texan's no chance. Cults reason maybe maybe, I mean they
Speaker 1: don't have a quarterback. They're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: draft them, Like.
Speaker 3: What do you mean what's going on with Anthony Richardson?
Speaker 1: He shouldn't. They don't have a quarterback, and they have
Speaker 1: made it clear he's gonna have to compete. They don't
Speaker 1: know they have a quarterback. If you're Aaron, that might
Speaker 1: be an attractive place. Decental line is the Dome, WINNA
Speaker 1: Bull Division something Jacksonville, No Titans, maybe a f C
Speaker 1: West only you know, Broncos, Chargers, Chiefs, no Raiders, maybe
Speaker 1: n FC East Eagles, no Commanders, no Cowboys, no Giants.
Speaker 1: You can't see it. He's not gonna go, mate. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe do you go to the Giants.
Speaker 3: While on Earth you.
Speaker 1: Don't have a quarterback? Oh yeah, Packers no obviously, Bears,
Speaker 1: no Bucks, no Falcons, no Panthers, no Saints. No, because
Speaker 1: they're dealing with car Oh oh, maybe the Rams do
Speaker 1: end up trading Stafford, use that pick to draft a quarterback,
Speaker 1: use Aaron as a bridge. That would be in. Now
Speaker 1: you might be like, in that case, why would you
Speaker 1: not just keep Stafford? They seem to want to get
Speaker 1: young at that position. That would be interesting though. Seahawks,
Speaker 1: no Cardinals, no Niners. Evidently they're on the list. So wow,
Speaker 1: So real breaking news here from you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: From while we're on the air. Uh, all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna have to skip some stuff here. So
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Speaker 1: All right, demon's a real quick let's let's act. Let's
Speaker 1: go through the Wednesday night NBA games, bang bang bang,
Speaker 1: and then we'll do this other stuff if we can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Milwaukee won, oh three, it's Minnesota's one on one.
Speaker 2: There was no Yiannis and no Dame Kuzma.
Speaker 3: I know what's the leader there?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Is it time for Minnesota to panic? Is that? Is
Speaker 3: there a problem there? Oh?
Speaker 1: I panic?
Speaker 3: If by Minnesota Kuzma.
Speaker 1: I would no, I would legit panic, I would listen.
Speaker 1: I I don't want to make light of, you know,
Speaker 1: the internet stories swirling around Anthony Edwards, but they're there,
Speaker 1: and you know you need it. He's twenty three, he's going,
Speaker 1: you know, he's dealing with stuff, and the team has
Speaker 1: one of the greatest game seven comebacks in the last
Speaker 1: deck you know ever Actually in the NBA playoff history
Speaker 1: against the defending champs. They then blow it up. Essentially, Hey,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say blow it up, but they trade one
Speaker 1: of their franchise centerpieces for Julius Randall and de Vincenzo.
Speaker 1: And now they're hovering around five hundred. You're you know,
Speaker 1: you're losing to a Bucks team that's without its only
Speaker 1: two stars and that had just traded its others, you know,
Speaker 1: former star. That's a bad, bad loss. There's just no
Speaker 1: way around it. And when you look at where they
Speaker 1: fall in the Western Conference, now they're in the play
Speaker 1: in demonse, there's sandwich between the Clippers and the MAVs.
Speaker 1: When people thought this team was gonna be a real
Speaker 1: championship contender, Like that's just that's just brutal, all right.
Speaker 2: Next game, Houston one nineteen to Phoenix one eleven. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: the Sun's are they're dealing with injuries right now and
Speaker 2: they're now in the eleven seed. After this loss, they're
Speaker 2: plus three seventy to make the playoffs. So did you
Speaker 2: make that bet?
Speaker 1: No chance make the make the Keep in mind, those
Speaker 1: make the playoffs bets means including them making the play
Speaker 1: in doesn't get you in.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you got it.
Speaker 1: You have to get you the actual team tournament. And
Speaker 1: so those are those are because the Suns do we
Speaker 1: think they're gonna, let's just say they get to the
Speaker 1: play in Are they gonna climb to the seven eight
Speaker 1: line where you only need to win one play in game,
Speaker 1: or are you gonna be in the nine ten line
Speaker 1: where you need to win two at least one and
Speaker 1: maybe both on the road. So and you got like
Speaker 1: Durant Man, Durant had thirty seven on twenty two shots,
Speaker 1: and they got they were leading going into the fourth
Speaker 1: by a lot, by the way, but they they they
Speaker 1: were leading by eight going into the fourth and they
Speaker 1: lost by eight. I'll score thirty five nineteen in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter against the Rockets team that's just markedly, markedly
Speaker 1: better than them. And you know that's a spot maybe
Speaker 1: for Durant in the offseason, but no, I think the
Speaker 1: Suns are in desperate trouble, desperate trouble, and it just
Speaker 1: sucks so much for Durant. D all right, next one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dallas is depleted in one Saturday at the very
Speaker 2: end offensive foul by Jimmy Butler's so Golden Stay is
Speaker 2: now the tenth seat and their minus one on five
Speaker 2: to make the playoffs. Why do you think the Vegas
Speaker 2: trusts to Jimmy and Steph more than they trust Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Well, I just think that they think that Jimmy and
Speaker 1: Steph and I got to think about this for a
Speaker 1: second about the bet that I would make. They Okay,
Speaker 1: I got it. They think Jimmy and Steph are in
Speaker 1: way better position. The Warriors are going to get better.
Speaker 1: That was, though, a great win. I'm more interested in
Speaker 1: the win from the Mavericks side of things for the MAVs,
Speaker 1: dealing with everything they're dealing with against a team that
Speaker 1: they're fighting to stay in the play in with Kyrie
Speaker 1: drops forty two, and what would worry me if I
Speaker 1: were the MAVs would be this, But maybe the All
Speaker 1: Star breaks came at the exact right time.
Speaker 2: Say it again, I mean Kyrie dropped forty two and
Speaker 2: they won bout four points.
Speaker 1: Yes, but they I mean, they'll get Anthony Davis back
Speaker 1: at some point. But here's what I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: Demon's last five games for Kyrie, Well, you know what
Speaker 1: we'll do last seven games. We could go further. I'll
Speaker 1: do the last five minutes forty forty four, forty two,
Speaker 1: forty forty two. That is, I mean, that's and if
Speaker 1: you just go back, I mean Kyrie's been ever since
Speaker 1: Luca got hurt. Okay, let me see if I can
Speaker 1: pull this up exactly, and this is now maybe the again,
Speaker 1: maybe the All Star break came at the exact right
Speaker 1: time because Kyrie since Christmas Day and now he missed
Speaker 1: time with injury. So we'll just go since Kyrie came
Speaker 1: back from again a back injury that which concerned you,
Speaker 1: there has been one game he didn't play heavy minutes one,
Speaker 1: a blowout against Washington. His minutes are as follows thirty nine,
Speaker 1: forty thirty eight, thirty nine, forty two, twenty eight, thirty nine,
Speaker 1: thirty seven, missed a game forty two, thirty nine, forty two,
Speaker 1: forty four, forty So it's a thirteen game stretch or
Speaker 1: a fourteen game stretch where he missed one game. Where
Speaker 1: he's averaging more than thirty nine minutes per game at
Speaker 1: his age, with his injury history with an injured back,
Speaker 1: that would concern me. But he was awesome.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the flight home from the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So did you see my tweets about this or am
Speaker 1: I telling you this for the first time?
Speaker 3: This is this is new to me.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this will be great again. New listeners viewers
Speaker 1: like rate subscriber review, hit the bell, please do all that.
Speaker 1: But if you are a new viewer, Demonse is my son.
Speaker 1: Demanse's mom is my wife, and that will make Demanse's
Speaker 1: thoughts on this all the better. So super Bowl, about
Speaker 1: six days before I went to New Orleans, your mom
Speaker 1: says to me, you know, I changed my mind and
Speaker 1: I do want to go to super Bowl. Like okay, well,
Speaker 1: I that's listen. She comes with me every year. I
Speaker 1: was shocked she wasn't going to go, but she had
Speaker 1: said she wasn't going to go, And now you know,
Speaker 1: I have to figure out the flights thing. And that's
Speaker 1: days before the super Bowl too. New Orleans is in
Speaker 1: a huge city, like you know what I mean, It's
Speaker 1: not like the super Bowl's in Dallas or LA, where
Speaker 1: you have a thousand flights. Like okay, all right, let
Speaker 1: me figure it out. So I find her flight in
Speaker 1: and for a flight back Sunday morning. I'm like, you
Speaker 1: want us to be on the same flight, right, She's
Speaker 1: like yeah, obviously. I'm like, well there's a flight like
Speaker 1: forty minutes before or after mine. It's way easy. Like
Speaker 1: we're being the same air, no same flight, got it,
Speaker 1: No problem. I'll buy maybe the most expensive one way
Speaker 1: New Orleans to New York ticket that's ever been bought,
Speaker 1: so we can be on a foot together. Like that's fine,
Speaker 1: no problem. Fox pays for my travel. I'm traveling for work.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 1: And when Fox again pays for my travel, they fly
Speaker 1: me first class. Now, the New Orleans to New York
Speaker 1: plane is not some giant jump but not one of
Speaker 1: those planes where you walk by and first class has
Speaker 1: their own suite and you know all that stuff. It's
Speaker 1: just slightly bigger seats and you get free drinks and
Speaker 1: food whatever. There were no first class tickets available when
Speaker 1: I bought your mama ticket, or else I would have
Speaker 1: boughter one because this coach ticket had to cost five
Speaker 1: x what my first class ticket costs to begin with,
Speaker 1: because mine was bought months ago. Whatever. And so as
Speaker 1: soon as I buy it, I'm like, well, I know
Speaker 1: how this story is gonna end. This story is going
Speaker 1: to end with your mom sitting in my seat and
Speaker 1: me sitting in the back of the plane. Like I
Speaker 1: know that that's how it's going to end. But I've
Speaker 1: I've I have accepted that right. So morning of We're
Speaker 1: going to the airport and she's for the first time.
Speaker 1: She's like, so, where's my seat. I'm like, well, actually,
Speaker 1: you haven't been assigned a seat yet. It's like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean. I'm like, it won't. No. She had
Speaker 1: a confirmed ticket, but not a confirm like they have.
Speaker 1: You got to go to the gate to get the seat,
Speaker 1: and she was like, where's your seat. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: where do you you know? Where do you think my
Speaker 1: seat is? And she's like no, but you have an
Speaker 1: assigned seat. I'm like, yeah, yeah, seat one A is
Speaker 1: my seat. She's like, okay, you should see if I
Speaker 1: can sit up there with you.
Speaker 3: I'm like yeah.
Speaker 1: So we get to the gate. I go up there.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hi, here's my ticket. Is there any way
Speaker 1: I can up grade my wife's ticket. Here's her you know,
Speaker 1: boarding pass, says see agent. And the guy's like, oh no,
Speaker 1: we're fully booked in first class. It's like, okay, can
Speaker 1: you at least you know, can we get her seat now?
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, no problem. So I'm seat one to A.
Speaker 1: She is seat thirty eight D on what appears to
Speaker 1: be a thirty eight row playing I'm like, well, this
Speaker 1: isn't gonna be great, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sitting back there. That's fine, said I fly.
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm a first class only flyer. I
Speaker 1: don't buy myself first class seats, you know what? The
Speaker 1: but whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So she's like, so, did you get it. I'm like no.
Speaker 1: I was like, but I'll trade with you. She's like, no,
Speaker 1: don't do that. She was like, there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: people flying back from the super Bowl, like they might
Speaker 1: know you. They might you know you're nervous about the game.
Speaker 3: Don't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, we can trade. She's like, no, it's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I guess. So we get on the plane.
Speaker 1: I sit in the first row. She does bye and
Speaker 1: walks to the back of the plane. Text me, I'm
Speaker 1: literally in the back row. Like okay, sorry, text her,
Speaker 1: do you want to trade? She texts back, No, I
Speaker 1: text again, we can trade all exclamation points. She texts back, no, okay.
Speaker 1: Now the whole plane is boarded. I'm just about to
Speaker 1: watch a movie. She texts me. The only empty seat
Speaker 1: on the plane is next to me. You can come
Speaker 1: sit with me. So now it's like wait, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna have an empty for cutsy.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Right, But we're getting ready to take off, so I
Speaker 1: text her back. I'm like, Okay, once we get in
Speaker 1: the air and they turn off the fasten your seatbelt sign,
Speaker 1: all come back there. Banking on the fact your mother
Speaker 1: will fall asleep. Yeah, snap, fall asleep. Be fine, she
Speaker 1: says to me. I just asked the flight attendant. He said,
Speaker 1: you can come back now. I text her back, that's
Speaker 1: crazy because the person up here said we have to
Speaker 1: stay in our seats. In fact, she said I'll be
Speaker 1: put on the no fly list if I get up,
Speaker 1: like obviously joking tomanse oh she almost ninety ninety seconds later,
Speaker 1: I get a little tap on my shoulder. It is
Speaker 1: the flight attendant who says, front of the cabin.
Speaker 3: You can come back here.
Speaker 1: You're why I wanted me to tell you you're allowed
Speaker 1: to go back there. I'm like, oh, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, we're not taking off for like three minutes,
Speaker 1: so if you want to go, you just have to
Speaker 1: go right now. So I gather my stuff, walk to
Speaker 1: the back of the plane, take this picture, and sit,
Speaker 1: I mean sit in the final row. We're on a
Speaker 1: fully booked flight. There ended up being one seat open
Speaker 1: and it was seat one A. And that's that. So
Speaker 1: it's married life. I suppose, pal like, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey man? Uh the flight attending. I thought it
Speaker 2: was gonna be like mom coming up there and pressing
Speaker 2: you like hey. I found out that. Yeah, the flight
Speaker 2: attendant coming up.
Speaker 3: There to grab you up. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1: No. Uh, well, the and I mean.
Speaker 2: It's just more bonding you guys. I mean, why would
Speaker 2: you guys sit separate on a flight together? And I
Speaker 2: think this has happened before, is it not?
Speaker 1: Well, no, we've traded, like the thing is this? I
Speaker 1: don't I don't mind it. But within ten minutes she
Speaker 1: was asleep. Yeah, and I'm and now I'm like, do
Speaker 1: I leave? Do I come up there? Like no, I'll
Speaker 1: just sit back here all right. Uh, let's do some
Speaker 1: listener questions real quick?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Oh, World Beaters, says Saint Duran's top ten
Speaker 2: is as crazy as saying Katie is nineteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, make your own list again. I won't make your
Speaker 1: list World Beater Like I gave you the names. I
Speaker 1: went through the names again. I said, we can argue
Speaker 1: three spots here or there. You want to say he
Speaker 1: should be ahead of Jannis and doctor Jay, so be it.
Speaker 1: There is no argument for him ahead of And if
Speaker 1: you even want to say my list shouldn't your list
Speaker 1: isn't gonna include the old old timers, that's fine. But
Speaker 1: if you remove the old old timers, I don't have nineteen.
Speaker 1: I have him fifteen. So like, if you're gonna do
Speaker 1: the whole thing, you gotta do the whole thing, all right.
Speaker 2: Next, justin at Nick Wright, should the Chiefs shopped Chris
Speaker 2: Jones before his new contract kicks in, they would get
Speaker 2: hellipicks in cap space if they got the right offer.
Speaker 1: No, they're definitely not trading Chris Jones. And the way
Speaker 1: they've done his contract is not really a real tradable contract,
Speaker 1: and that's not their mo Go to Nick question.
Speaker 2: Uh, you were prepared to call this Chiefs team the
Speaker 2: greatest ever and the Eagles stomped them. Does this make
Speaker 2: this Eagles team the best ever? Or in the conversation, no,
Speaker 2: so I was the.
Speaker 1: Chiefs piece of it had a lot of factors that
Speaker 1: only the Chiefs were eligible for because it was colored
Speaker 1: under the While going for a three peat. You know, like,
Speaker 1: that's not the team right what I now, I was
Speaker 1: saying the twenty twenty four Chiefs if they finished it off,
Speaker 1: this season's Chiefs team could this season could be called
Speaker 1: the greatest team ever. But it was under the context
Speaker 1: of accomplishing all of this, winning in all these different ways,
Speaker 1: beating all those playoff teams while going for a three peat. No,
Speaker 1: what I will say is though the Eagles had one
Speaker 1: of the most dominant final two games ever and their
Speaker 1: final I mean they won sixteen of seventeen to close
Speaker 1: the season, and the one loss was when Jalen got hurt.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, a greatest st Ebber is a
Speaker 1: bridge too far, but this was a dominant football team,
Speaker 1: played dominant football down the stretch. All right, great job, everybody,
Speaker 1: I gotta get to work, great job, Demandsay's a ton
Speaker 1: of fun. Little programming note Next week, two pods. Then
Speaker 1: I'm gone for a week to New Zealand. Then when
Speaker 1: we're back in March, three pods a week, maybe one
Speaker 1: of which with the person who we just told that
Speaker 1: story about my wife. More details on that next week.
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