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Speaker 4: Welcome in episode sixty two of What's Right with Nick
Speaker 4: right in the podcasting YouTube show, and our first full
Speaker 4: episode from our new palatial gorge is built out studio
Speaker 4: right inside of what happens to be my wife's boutique
Speaker 4: here in Harlem. We don't have the infrastructure yet for
Speaker 4: you to be able to do like a live show,
Speaker 4: but if you walk by Lenox between one nineteenth to
Speaker 4: one twentieth, we'll at least wave to you if we're
Speaker 4: not if we're not recording at the time. So we've
Speaker 4: done sixty two of these shows, forty five regular shows,
Speaker 4: seventeen NBA Player our greatest fifty player countdown shows. We
Speaker 4: are now into football season. We're going to be back
Speaker 4: on three shows a week. We'll talk more about what
Speaker 4: that third show every week is going to look like
Speaker 4: in just a moment. But before we get to demans,
Speaker 4: before we get to today's show from our brand new
Speaker 4: kick Ass studio, let's start the show the way we
Speaker 4: always do by discussing what we are not actually discussing.
Speaker 4: Here's what did not make the cut for today's show.
Speaker 4: Gino Smith winning the worst quarterback battle ever anyone that's
Speaker 4: ever seen Drew Locke play dating back to when he
Speaker 4: was playing in high school in Kansas City, knew he
Speaker 4: wasn't gonna be an NFL starting quarterback Mickey mantlecard sells
Speaker 4: for twelve point six million dollars. You know why that
Speaker 4: made me feel good because it wasn't It was an
Speaker 4: actual old school cardboard baseball card, not an NFT selling
Speaker 4: for ten million. No, it's something you can actually hold.
Speaker 4: And our role as Chapman goes to the il after
Speaker 4: a reaction to a bad tattoo, how about that. You've
Speaker 4: never had a medical reaction to a bad tattoo. You've
Speaker 4: maybe had an emotional reaction. No tatty tattoo. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: Tomnse I feel good this morning. You're gonna bust your
Speaker 4: balls a bit, all right? Demand where are we starting with?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: We are starting with my boy. Gilbert Renez went on
Speaker 2: his podcast and basic said that Jannis doesn't know how
Speaker 2: to be a great basketball player. Yet says that he
Speaker 2: doesn't know how to train his body quote unquote, and
Speaker 2: the double down Phil Handy, Lakers assistant, agreed with him. Uh,
Speaker 2: defend this or I don't want to say defend this.
Speaker 2: Giannis is also a two time MVP, one time MVP
Speaker 2: in the finals in twenty twenty one. But is this
Speaker 2: the most egregious basketball take during this offseason or take period,
Speaker 2: not even Bata.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. And you had a great tweet
Speaker 4: about this, by the way, so shout out to you
Speaker 4: on that. And speaking of Twitter, remember how we had
Speaker 4: this contest about who's going to get to five thousand
Speaker 4: or five hundred thousand first I do. I'm not even
Speaker 4: at four ninety six yet I like, I think that
Speaker 4: that bet cursed me. I have gained no followers since then.
Speaker 4: It was a terrible bet. Okay, Now to the actual
Speaker 4: content of the show. A really weird thing happens with
Speaker 4: other basketball players and Yannis and I flag this two
Speaker 4: years ago because something would happen where if steph was
Speaker 4: going off, or if Harden was going off, or if
Speaker 4: Durant or Lebron, any of the truly great players were
Speaker 4: having an all time night. What you would see is
Speaker 4: other great players chime in on Twitter about it. And
Speaker 4: Yannis never got that from anyone, and one could argue, well,
Speaker 4: it was because people hadn't seen him perform at the
Speaker 4: highest level, at the highest stage. Free championship. It wasn't
Speaker 4: just that he hadn't won a title. It was that
Speaker 4: similar to James Harden, by the way, he seemed to
Speaker 4: get a little worse in the postseason. Harden gets a
Speaker 4: lot worse, Hart and Giannis got a little worse. But
Speaker 4: then when at the fact that people are still saying
Speaker 4: these things after an NBA Championship where Yanni's averaged thirty five,
Speaker 4: thirteen and six, Gilbert was part of his argument was
Speaker 4: that Giannis didn't play enough minutes.
Speaker 5: Thirty eight minutes that he was.
Speaker 4: You know, you got to play thirty eight You gotta
Speaker 4: play forty minutes. Jannis is playing. Giannis is playing thirty
Speaker 4: two minutes he was. And by the way, that was
Speaker 4: a criticism of mind, not of Giannis, but of his coach,
Speaker 4: that he wouldn't let him play big enough minutes. But
Speaker 4: then what happened in those NBA finals. In those NBA finals,
Speaker 4: coming off what looked like a catastrophic knee injury, what
Speaker 4: was Gianni's doing, Oh, he was playing forty plus minutes
Speaker 4: per game. I'll pull up what he had. How many
Speaker 4: minutes he averaged in just a moment. It was he
Speaker 4: It should have answered all of the possible Yiannis questions,
Speaker 4: and then he won the championship with a fifty point game,
Speaker 4: but it didn't answer all the possible Jiani's questions. So
Speaker 4: the listen Gilberts a goofball. He's funny, he's interesting at times,
Speaker 4: but a goof Holls. So why? To me, the most
Speaker 4: interesting part of this is why do people still make
Speaker 4: this case about Yannis despite for and by the way,
Speaker 4: it wasn't just the finals. We saw him in these
Speaker 4: NBA Playoffs without Chris Middleton in games five and six
Speaker 4: against Boston go forty to eleven, and then game six
Speaker 4: to beat Boston. They didn't beat Boston, but to beat
Speaker 4: Boston went forty four and twenty with six assists. So
Speaker 4: why do people still say it? People refuse to recognize
Speaker 4: what Yannis is and instead they try to make him
Speaker 4: what he isn't. So people look at Yannis and they
Speaker 4: want him to be a traditional wing, and they're like,
Speaker 4: why don't you have the skill set of the traditional wing.
Speaker 4: What they misunderstand is what Yannis is is the next
Speaker 4: generational check. What they misunderstand is is that Yani is
Speaker 4: not a traditional wing. He is the futuristic center. He
Speaker 4: is has the size, the power, and the strength of
Speaker 4: a center who also can do other things, can bring
Speaker 4: the ball up, can hit the occasional three pointer. They're
Speaker 4: looking at him through the prism of he is the
Speaker 4: modern wing, and in the prism of the modern wing.
Speaker 5: We know how the hell you're looking at is a
Speaker 5: modern wing.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the only justification or explanation for this criticism
Speaker 4: he gets because nobody criticized Shack about this shit. Nobody,
Speaker 4: And they would have seemed ridiculous if they were, like,
Speaker 4: why doesn't Shaq have a pull up jump shot? But
Speaker 4: because Yan, they don't. They're looking at him through the
Speaker 4: wrong prism. And you brought up yesterday and we were
Speaker 4: talking about this just sitting on the couch that how
Speaker 4: much of the criticism with Giannis has to do with
Speaker 4: the fact that he's a foreign guy, that he's not
Speaker 4: in these NBA clicks like some of these other guys.
Speaker 4: I think that's a piece of it, But I think
Speaker 4: more than that, it is a misunder standing of the
Speaker 4: player that he is. He is the futuristic Shaquille O'Neal
Speaker 4: who can absolutely destroy you and only make shots within
Speaker 4: six feet. Everything he does from there out is a bonus. Now,
Speaker 4: if the team wasn't able to win because teams just
Speaker 4: sagged off him and dared him to shoot, then that
Speaker 4: would be a hole in his game. But they won
Speaker 4: the title a year ago, and I believe would have
Speaker 4: won the title this year if their second best player
Speaker 4: doesn't get hurt. Even with their second best player getting hurt,
Speaker 4: they go seven against Boston and Giannis in that series
Speaker 4: that they lost. By the way, what did the average Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, thirty four and fifteen with seven assists. They
Speaker 4: lost a series. He averaged thirty four to fifteen to
Speaker 4: seven assists and played forty minutes per game. One other thing,
Speaker 4: and this is where I will just always disagree with
Speaker 4: a certain type of former NBA player. And there's also
Speaker 4: a fans that think like this. But I'm more interested
Speaker 4: in the NBA players guys that and I think this
Speaker 4: Gilbert applies here. Despite all their success, despite what great
Speaker 4: players they were, don't actually understand the objective. The objective
Speaker 4: is to score as many points as you can and
Speaker 4: prevent the other team from scoring as many points as
Speaker 4: they can. It's very very basic. Jannis is top three
Speaker 4: every year in scoring, top three every year in efficiency.
Speaker 4: So as an offensive player, he's as good as anybody
Speaker 4: in the league. Now he doesn't do it as prettily,
Speaker 4: prettily as pretty as other guys in the league. And
Speaker 4: as a defensive player, he's the best defensive player in
Speaker 4: the league by a mile, and way better than the
Speaker 4: other guys who are are they the best player in basketball?
Speaker 4: He's a way better defender than Kde, than Staff, than Jokic,
Speaker 4: than Lebron, so he he is the only way better
Speaker 4: than Luca defensively. Obviously his game should be unimpeachable. But
Speaker 4: because his bag isn't that big, and because it's not
Speaker 4: as pretty as like, I think Gilbert would take a
Speaker 4: polygraph and say Kyrie Irving is a better basketball player
Speaker 4: than Yannis, even though Gianna scores more, does it more efficiently,
Speaker 4: and is one hundred times the defender and one hundred
Speaker 4: times the leader. I think it is a fundamental misunderstanding
Speaker 4: of what the goal of the game is.
Speaker 5: People are failing to come around.
Speaker 4: To be honest, well, it's unbelievable that there's still that
Speaker 4: it's still happening. All right, what's next?
Speaker 2: We got Tom Brady the Goat took some time off
Speaker 2: during this preseason with some personal issues. Yeah, he says,
Speaker 2: quote unquote, I'm forty five.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of going on. I didn't mean to
Speaker 5: say the S word.
Speaker 4: No, that's that was the exact quote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he also says he's ready to go. And
Speaker 2: a player like Tom Brady or of Tom Brady's caliber,
Speaker 2: you just automatically think he's gonna be ready to go.
Speaker 2: But do you think he's a guy that's ready to
Speaker 2: win a super Bowl?
Speaker 4: No, Listen, we're gonna have the gambling show. That's gonna
Speaker 4: be our third show of the week. Every week is
Speaker 4: gonna be a football gambling show that's gonna come out.
Speaker 4: I think this Friday, Thursday or Friday. I'm not sure which.
Speaker 4: What you're gonna see on there is that I'm gonna
Speaker 4: fade the bucks considerably. Fade means go against Gambler and Brady.
Speaker 4: This Brady press conference was legit concerning to me because
Speaker 4: I've never and you guys know, I didn't kill him
Speaker 4: for the time off.
Speaker 2: I could have surgery.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, listen, the guy does look like he's
Speaker 4: had some pillers. That's fine. You know what, his body,
Speaker 4: his choice. I'm not gonna ask him for that. I
Speaker 4: don't think that's where he was though. I don't think
Speaker 4: he was out getting plastic surgery. But when I said
Speaker 4: I wasn't going to attack Tom Brady for taking the
Speaker 4: time off, I gave the reasons for it on the
Speaker 4: previous episode. People want to hear it, they can't. But
Speaker 4: I was operating under the assumption Brady was going to
Speaker 4: come back the way a lot of us come back
Speaker 4: after a vacation, rejuvenated, refreshed, excited, ready to go. Brady
Speaker 4: seemed despondent. Brady seemed like a guy who wanted to
Speaker 4: keep playing football, but didn't want to keep playing football
Speaker 4: where he was. He seemed like a guy who thought,
Speaker 4: at this phase of my career, I'm going to be
Speaker 4: somewhere else. And we know that at this phase of
Speaker 4: his career he thought he was going to be somewhere else.
Speaker 4: And I think Brady knows that team, knows that locker room,
Speaker 4: knows that new coaching staff, and if he thought that
Speaker 4: that was a super caliber team, he would be far
Speaker 4: more excited than he appears to be. He wouldn't be
Speaker 4: taking this time off and then seeming upset when he
Speaker 4: got back.
Speaker 2: You don't think it's more of like, you know, this
Speaker 2: is like the usual for Tom Brady, Like it's just
Speaker 2: like excited to win another Super Bowl, Yay, like he's
Speaker 2: won what how many Aready seven?
Speaker 4: But no, because I it was I've never seen Brady.
Speaker 4: I've seen Brady happy, I've seen Brady withdrawn, I've seen
Speaker 4: Brady angry, I've seen Brady all these things. I've never
Speaker 4: seen Brady nonchalant. It wasn't even nonchalant. It was it
Speaker 4: was like he was stuck. And again, maybe I'm reading
Speaker 4: too much into this, but it was alarming to me.
Speaker 4: The two week absence and then him saying forty five
Speaker 4: years old, got a lot of shit going on, was
Speaker 4: very odd. It all, what if Brady were, you know,
Speaker 4: Lebron is a few months away from breaking Kareem's record.
Speaker 4: Let's say there were an NFL record like that, that
Speaker 4: Brady was that close to eclipsing. I would have seen that. Presidents.
Speaker 4: I always said, oh, he doesn't even want to play this year,
Speaker 4: but he's so close to an all time record that
Speaker 4: he's just he wants to do it. That's not the case.
Speaker 4: Brady has all of the records, and he retired and
Speaker 4: then chose to come back. So yeah, the short version
Speaker 4: of this is I am super fading the Bucks because
Speaker 4: I think Brady is fading the Bucks whether he knows
Speaker 4: it or not. All right, next, all right, you've.
Speaker 2: Been super high on Trevor Lawrence and Trey Lance's offseason.
Speaker 2: You were also high on the Chicago Bears. Justin Fields
Speaker 2: has looked very amazing and he threw for three touchdowns
Speaker 2: in the last preseason.
Speaker 4: He looked great in the last preseason. That's I'm sure.
Speaker 2: And so by the end of the year, how do
Speaker 2: you think we'll rank the five second year quarterbacks between Lawrence, Wilson, Lance, Fields,
Speaker 2: in mac Jones.
Speaker 4: Okay, so these are two different I'm gonna answer two
Speaker 4: different things. I'm gonna I'm gonna rank the five as
Speaker 4: far as the year I think they will have, and
Speaker 4: then I'm gonna rank the five as to how I
Speaker 4: think they will be looked at moving forward. So I
Speaker 4: think Trey Lance will have the best year. I think
Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence will have the next best year. I think
Speaker 4: Mac Jones will be third, I think Justin Fields will
Speaker 4: be fourth, and I think Zach Wilson, who's already hurt,
Speaker 4: will be fifth. That's as far as if you just
Speaker 4: look at their end of year quarterback rating, touchdowns, yardage,
Speaker 4: I think it will go Field, Lawrence Jones. I'm sorry
Speaker 4: I said that backwards. Apologies. I think it will go
Speaker 4: I think go number one, Lance, Lawrence Jones, Fields, Wilson.
Speaker 2: That's what I.
Speaker 4: Think is coming After the year, how will they be
Speaker 4: looked at? As far as if we did a redraft,
Speaker 4: I still think Lawrence will be one. I think Lawrence
Speaker 4: will be the best of this class. I think Lance
Speaker 4: will be two. I think Fields will be three. I
Speaker 4: think Mac Jones will be four, and I think Zach
Speaker 4: Wilson will be five. I think that because of the
Speaker 4: offensive line and receiver issues. I think Justin Fields is
Speaker 4: gonna have real issue, you know, trouble having a monster
Speaker 4: statistical year, but I think it will show flashes enough
Speaker 4: to where he jumps above Mac Jones in the hierarchy.
Speaker 4: I think Trey Lance is going to have a better
Speaker 4: year than Trevor Lawrence. But I think Lawrence is gonna
Speaker 4: have a good enough year with the overall talent that
Speaker 4: he has around him that people are gonna say, Okay,
Speaker 4: he's the best. But I think there are two future
Speaker 4: Pro Bowl star level quarterbacks. Of these five, I think
Speaker 4: it is Lawrence, and I think it is Lance. I
Speaker 4: think Mac Jones ceiling is mediocre. Justin Fields might be
Speaker 4: screwed by the franchise. You're right. I did have in
Speaker 4: my way too early preseason for Chicago being really good.
Speaker 4: But that's why their way too early preseason predictions, the
Speaker 4: actual season predictions. We're not going to be that high
Speaker 4: on Chicago, and I am. Zach Wilson's probably screwed. Oh
Speaker 4: hurt already he plays for the Jets. I don't like it,
Speaker 4: all right, last he's tragic, all right. So Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: went on Joe Rogan's podcast this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, talked about playing playing games on pain
Speaker 2: killers like percocet and misleading about his vaccine status. Blames
Speaker 2: the media for not asking follow ups after he claimed
Speaker 2: that he was quote unquote immuneisized, immunized. But all right,
Speaker 2: so if Kyrie said something like this could obviously be
Speaker 2: the talk of the town and we talk about it forever.
Speaker 2: But why is Aaron Rodgers able to say stuff like
Speaker 2: this and get away with it?
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. I don't think he really is.
Speaker 4: I think we just already filled up our cup on
Speaker 4: the Aaron Rodgers vaccine talk. Okay, So I think that
Speaker 4: these topics have a shelf life depending on how juicy
Speaker 4: they are, of a certain number of days and hours discussed.
Speaker 4: And we did so much of Aaron Rodgers vaccine stuff
Speaker 4: when he was missing the Chiefs game in that moment
Speaker 4: that people are now sick of it. So I don't
Speaker 4: think it's a double standard Aaron and Kyrie. I think
Speaker 4: Aaron caught a lot of shit. I just think people
Speaker 4: are now tired of it. I however, I am not
Speaker 4: quite tired of it, and I will discuss it from
Speaker 4: let's do it all right. First thing, I want to
Speaker 4: make this very clear. He claims he's allergic to the vaccine.
Speaker 4: That's why he didn't get it, that the Pfizer and
Speaker 4: MODERNA stuff has an ingredient that he's allergic to. Wow,
Speaker 4: I don't believe it.
Speaker 5: I wonder what doctor he paid to put that on paper.
Speaker 4: Man, I flatly don't believe YEA. Now, about two percent
Speaker 4: of the public has an quote allergic reaction to the vaccine,
Speaker 4: but that includes if it gets super itchy, if if
Speaker 4: the For me at least, it was the second shot
Speaker 4: I got was sore for a week, and so the
Speaker 4: I was looking at I was looking it up this
Speaker 4: morning because I knew we're gonna talk about this, all right.
Speaker 4: Then there is a severe allergic reactions, Okay, severe allergic
Speaker 4: reactions are even they're like point three percent of the public,
Speaker 4: and that itself still is not necessarily as dire as
Speaker 4: it sounds. Anaphylaxis is what you really have to worry about, okay,
Speaker 4: which is a life threatening allergic reaction.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: That was point zero two percent. Okay, So two percent
Speaker 4: is two and one hundred point two percent is two
Speaker 4: in one thousand. Point zero two percent is two and
Speaker 4: ten thousand, So in other words, one in five thousand.
Speaker 4: Do I believe Aaron that he was in that category?
Speaker 4: I don't. So he lied to us about other stuff,
Speaker 4: admitted he lied to us. Is that admitted he was
Speaker 4: being intentionally, he was obfuscating intentionally and being misleading. So
Speaker 4: I don't believe him, that's first of all. Second of all,
Speaker 4: it's a really hard time, and I have applauded him
Speaker 4: on the ayahuasca stuff, but it's a very hard time
Speaker 4: convincing me that you are My body is a temple
Speaker 4: I'm not going to put anything in me that could
Speaker 4: possibly have some ramifications that I'm unprepared for. I'm going
Speaker 4: to fly to Peru and smoke ayahuasca because that is
Speaker 4: a live wire, my friend. Now you can say, oh,
Speaker 4: it's natural. A lot of things are natural. Peanuts are natural.
Speaker 4: They kill people, So the idea that so, I just
Speaker 4: don't buy that. But my bigger issue always with Aaron
Speaker 4: was not with the line, was not with the not
Speaker 4: getting vaccinated. It was and this is what I wish
Speaker 4: Rogan had talked to him about, because he claims he
Speaker 4: truly believed he was immunized, not vaccinated, but immunized. He
Speaker 4: believed he, in his research no had found a way
Speaker 4: to become immunized by Like, if you listen to Rogan,
Speaker 4: whatever's process was, whatever it was, I don't care. If
Speaker 4: it was take three asprin and chug a gallon of milk,
Speaker 4: I don't care. If it was smoke of carton of marlboroughs,
Speaker 4: I don't care. If it was spoon, was someone who's
Speaker 4: two weeks removed from the virus, whatever the process was,
Speaker 4: if you truly believe you have found you Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4: In addition to being defending league MVP have discovered an
Speaker 4: immunity to COVID.
Speaker 5: Put us on, put us on?
Speaker 4: How many people do you know that are afraid of
Speaker 4: the shot? You couldn't be like, hey, I have a
Speaker 4: big platform America. I also didn't want to get the shot.
Speaker 4: Guess what though, I figured it out, doctor Fauci, you
Speaker 4: can't throw a football. I can do your job and
Speaker 4: throw a football.
Speaker 2: Eat that.
Speaker 4: It's just so ridiculous. It's just so outrageous to me
Speaker 4: bringing up Kyrie. It's the same bucket of Kyrie wants
Speaker 4: to be a voice for the voiceless, but wouldn't talk
Speaker 4: about anything. If Kyrie really was I am so angry
Speaker 4: that the New York City public workers got fired for
Speaker 4: not getting vaccinated. I am gonna take a stand. I
Speaker 4: maybe would listen to you, I at least would be
Speaker 4: open to it. But you can't convince me that's why
Speaker 4: you're doing this. If you then never talk about it,
Speaker 4: if you truly believe you have discovered a natural immunity
Speaker 4: to a pandemic that has claimed the lives at last
Speaker 4: count of over one million Americans, the vast majority of
Speaker 4: whom post vaccine were unvaccinated Americans are the secret bro.
Speaker 4: That's been my issue with Aaron about this the entire time.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in What's right? Nick Wright. Episode
Speaker 4: number sixty three is our second segment. Oh, I know
Speaker 4: we're starting this one because you know what started on Monday.
Speaker 4: Oh you know, not only is it one of the
Speaker 4: four tennis majors of the year, but it's the one
Speaker 4: right here in our backyard and Flushing Queen.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, guys, didn't know the US Open was
Speaker 2: in Flushing. That's why you're asking for the tickets. I
Speaker 2: thought you were gonna go to like England or something.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is not a rousing start. To Nick's tennis corner.
Speaker 4: But that's all right. I'm not gonna let you bring
Speaker 4: me down Knicks tennis corner. Let's go.
Speaker 2: We are back, Yeah, Nick's tennis corner. Yeah, my favorite
Speaker 2: US Open kicked off on Monday and will run through
Speaker 2: September eleventh. No Novak Djokovic, and it's Serena's last US Open.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Could Serena shock us all and go for one last run?
Speaker 5: No, no, straight like that.
Speaker 4: Serena can't win it. However, Serena and Venus were late
Speaker 4: entries on the women's doubles side, and they could win that. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna act like I've scouted the women's doubles,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean history. What I do know
Speaker 4: is the two of them have played in finals teen
Speaker 4: times as doubles partners. They are fourteen and zo. And
Speaker 4: what that also means is Serena might get two US
Speaker 4: Open farewells, which is dope. Is if she gets knocked
Speaker 4: out on the single side, Listen to single side if
Speaker 4: you want. Like, Hallep is not the betting favorite, she's
Speaker 4: the second favorite. The favorite is the lady named sweetech Swatek.
Speaker 4: I might be saying it wrong. I apologize. Coco Goff
Speaker 4: has a chance. That would be super dope. I would
Speaker 4: love to see Naomi Osaka have another great US Open
Speaker 4: moment after she's kind of dealt with some things. The
Speaker 4: smart money is probably on Hallip. I actually watched Simona
Speaker 4: hallep in her as the number one seed in her
Speaker 4: first or second match against an unranked player at the
Speaker 4: US Open a few years ago. Watched her lose in person,
Speaker 4: and seemingly nobody was there because it was a women's
Speaker 4: match on the against the A qualifiers too. But no, Demonse,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. There's going to be one hundred plus thousand
Speaker 4: people that go to the US Open this week because
Speaker 4: basketball is going on. You're gonna be one of them.
Speaker 4: You're going with me at least one day, maybe multiple
Speaker 4: days this week and then in the next week. We'll see.
Speaker 4: Next week, the ticket's get a little pricier, so I'm
Speaker 4: not sure I'm gonna spend them on someone like you
Speaker 4: that can't necessarily appreciate it. But Serena can't win it.
Speaker 4: It would be amazing if she did, but she can't.
Speaker 4: It's unfortunate she can't. She could win doubles with her
Speaker 4: sister I'm excited to see that. On the men's side
Speaker 4: of things, I don't want to spend more time talking
Speaker 4: back stuff. I do think it is Listen, I think
Speaker 4: Djokovic just being a dupis and refusing to get vaccinated
Speaker 4: and costing himself part of his tennis legacy. As he's
Speaker 4: trying to surpass in the doll or Federer depending on
Speaker 4: who you look at as the greatest player ever, he's
Speaker 4: costing himself tournaments. I also think it does not cause
Speaker 4: a public health issue if the US government were to
Speaker 4: make one off exceptions for elite performers in individual fields
Speaker 4: to briefly come into the country. Like, I do think
Speaker 4: that that. I do think that it's kind of crazy
Speaker 4: that he can't, just like I think it's kind of
Speaker 4: crazy the Canada wouldn't let the unvaxxed American baseball players in.
Speaker 4: I do think if it's a temporary thing for a
Speaker 4: someone that is going to generate in generate you know,
Speaker 4: income or some type of revenue for the city that
Speaker 4: he's going to, you can make an exception. I don't
Speaker 4: think it's going to cause an outbreak.
Speaker 2: But like what about I'm sorry, I'm not even gonna
Speaker 2: this is like such a go ahead. I mean, aren't
Speaker 2: all of us the citizens this is gonna I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to get like that, but aren't all of us
Speaker 2: the citizens bringing in some type of money to America?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure, but it's money. But we live here, so
Speaker 4: we were going to be generating at either. He Novak
Speaker 4: Djokovic is one of the greatest sings players ever. I
Speaker 4: don't look at him as like, oh, you let him
Speaker 4: in all of a sudden, we're gonna have a fifth wave, right,
Speaker 4: So I understand their opinion is this is just the
Speaker 4: rule if you're if you're a non American citizen, you
Speaker 4: can't come into the country unless you're showing your vaccinated
Speaker 4: I think they could make exceptions to it. Set that
Speaker 4: aside because he's not in there. The biggest winner is Medvedev,
Speaker 4: who might end up winning the tournament. I am going
Speaker 4: to be rooting for Nadal. You and you became a
Speaker 4: bit of a nad Doll fan.
Speaker 5: The doll is the guy that does the thing behind
Speaker 5: his year every time.
Speaker 4: Yes, and he's the guy who we watched play that
Speaker 4: match hurt and then couldn't play the next one. Yes,
Speaker 4: curios who you like because he's insane. He has a chance. Citypas,
Speaker 4: who I don't like, has a chance. But Nadal will
Speaker 4: be my pick. If it were gun to my head,
Speaker 4: I have to be right, I would my two winners
Speaker 4: would be hall of and Medvedev because I'm not going
Speaker 4: to gamble on this, and because they both have a chance.
Speaker 4: My actual picks are going to be cocoa, golf and
Speaker 4: at all. Those are my two picks. But if it
Speaker 4: was my family's been kidnapped, they only get released. If
Speaker 4: you're right, then I would go hall up on the
Speaker 4: women's side and Medvedev on the midside. There's the tennis corner.
Speaker 4: By the way, if you think next Monday we're not
Speaker 4: doing a tennis corner when we're halfway through the US Open,
Speaker 4: you're crazy. And if you think the following week, which
Speaker 4: will be the first show the first day after Week
Speaker 4: one of the NFL, if you think we're not squeezing
Speaker 4: in a couple of minutes after we've had the men's
Speaker 4: and women's US Open final that weekend, then you don't
Speaker 4: know this show?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: What's next?
Speaker 5: All right? Man?
Speaker 4: Listen, I don't need yes, I don't need it.
Speaker 5: So uh, we connected with Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: What's the name of the segment we're doing here?
Speaker 5: Oh I'm free.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, guys, we are playing right or wrong?
Speaker 2: There you got the apologies new studio. Yeah uh to
Speaker 2: A connected to Tyreek Hill on a deep ball in
Speaker 2: the preseason and social media went nuts.
Speaker 5: But Small was like, seriously underthrown. I think they're overreacting.
Speaker 2: But right or wrong, this is the start of something
Speaker 2: very beautiful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna say wrong. I of course you are listen.
Speaker 4: I I said I would take to a number one
Speaker 4: overall on his draft over Joe Burrow. I would love
Speaker 4: to be able to stand on that opinion, dight stand
Speaker 4: on it. I just don't think it's gonna work. And
Speaker 4: I think Tyreek's gonna get super frustrated. And I understand
Speaker 4: that every you know, the whole Miami Dolphins organization is
Speaker 4: behind Tyreek or behind two A pardon me, I don't
Speaker 4: buy it. I also don't think severely underthrown is totally fair.
Speaker 4: It was a little underthrown, but they did connect on
Speaker 4: it on the first play of the preseason of that game.
Speaker 4: I'm happy for him, but no, I don't think it's
Speaker 4: to start something beautiful next.
Speaker 2: All right, So reports are Utah is trying to trade
Speaker 2: Donovan Mitchell before the season starts. Right or wrong, Spider
Speaker 2: will be a nick by October.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, thank you. Uh. I think that's absolutely right.
Speaker 4: I think you will be. I think this trade eventually
Speaker 4: gets done. First of all, I hope it gets done
Speaker 4: because we're doing the show from my wife's store in Harlem,
Speaker 4: and there's this nice gentleman named Flash Oh helps my
Speaker 4: wife out with stuff like cleans up in front of
Speaker 4: the store, does little stuff for he every single day.
Speaker 4: I see him, and I'm not gonna do His accent
Speaker 4: is a very he is a very colorful Caribbean accent.
Speaker 4: He asked me, are we gonna get Donovan? What are
Speaker 4: they doing? Trade? And he called him today? He called him.
Speaker 4: DJ said trade DJ. What he means r JJ, Yeah,
Speaker 4: trade him. You know who is really nervous about this?
Speaker 4: But I do think the trade's gonna happen. I think
Speaker 4: everything's right now in a holding pattern, but it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: You know who's really nervous.
Speaker 5: About this trade, Quinn Grimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. Quinn Grimes was Demonse's teammate on basketball
Speaker 4: University which was an AAU team in Texas. Quinn Grimes
Speaker 4: was a top five recruit, went to KU, it didn't
Speaker 4: work out, had an amazing first game, and then like
Speaker 4: didn't work out for him. He transfers to Houston and
Speaker 4: is awesome. Get some I think to the Elite eight
Speaker 4: is awesome, but he would have been if it would
Speaker 4: have been back when you can go straight from high
Speaker 4: school to pro, would have been probably a top five
Speaker 4: pick instead. I'm gonna look it up real quick. I
Speaker 4: think it was a late late first rounder. He might
Speaker 4: have been a second rounder. I'm gonna I'm gonna check
Speaker 4: real quick. Whatever it is it was. You know, it's
Speaker 4: tough if your college career doesn't go the way you
Speaker 4: were projected to your drafts. He was the twenty fifth
Speaker 4: pick of the draft, so he probably could have been
Speaker 4: top five in staid he goes twenty fifth. But with
Speaker 4: the Knicks, he's been really good. It's been way better
Speaker 4: than you would back to late first round pick to bat.
Speaker 4: So the Jazz really want him in this trade. Imagine
Speaker 4: being Quinton and you're like becoming us not a star,
Speaker 4: but maybe on your way to being a star in
Speaker 4: New York City, and they might trade you to slid
Speaker 4: Lake City. So he this is where it's like victim
Speaker 4: of his own success. If he had been a little
Speaker 4: worse than maybe the Jazz wouldn't care about him. But
Speaker 4: I think he's probably gonna be in the trade. I
Speaker 4: feel for your Quinton. That's tough. It's tough. Go now,
Speaker 4: let me find one bright side. Utah is gonna be
Speaker 4: so bad and they're gonna play just young guys.
Speaker 5: They're gonna build up that resume.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you could average twenty points, right, he could
Speaker 4: be one of their primary scores. But yes, I think
Speaker 4: the trade happens. All right, what's next?
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald swung helmets in a brawl with the Bengals
Speaker 2: at a joint sorry, at a joint.
Speaker 5: Practice last week. Right or wrong?
Speaker 2: Having a Super Bowl rematches this preseason practice is a
Speaker 2: bad idea.
Speaker 4: I think that's obviously right, that it's a bad idea.
Speaker 4: I also will think that there are so I know
Speaker 4: it's practice and not a game, but there were a
Speaker 4: lot of people who were demanding Miles Garrett be criminally
Speaker 4: prosecuted for hitting Mason Rudolph on the head. That's quarter Well,
Speaker 4: Mason ruolphs a quarterback. For the Steelers. Miles Garrett's the
Speaker 4: guy who hit it round with the defensive end for
Speaker 4: the Browns. A couple of years ago, he got suspended
Speaker 4: six games and they were demanding he'd be criminally prosecuted.
Speaker 4: Aaron Donald went double coconuts, went two helmets, and was unhinged.
Speaker 4: And he's not going to get in any trouble because
Speaker 4: the NFL evidently can't suspend you for stuff you do
Speaker 4: a practice, which I actually think is a good rule
Speaker 4: because then it's a I hate this term, but it's
Speaker 4: a slippery slope too. You know, if you fight your
Speaker 4: own teammate, you in trouble, all types of things. But
Speaker 4: Donald gets himself up to such like a a fraud
Speaker 4: when he's playing, and he's so big and so strong,
Speaker 4: I think it would be really really. I think part
Speaker 4: of the reasons he's so great is I think he
Speaker 4: scares other NFL players, Like if you've seen the drill
Speaker 4: he does where.
Speaker 2: With the neck, Yeah, hidding him in the neck.
Speaker 4: Like he's just so he's so dominant that guys do
Speaker 4: whatever it takes to try to slow him down. And
Speaker 4: he gets himself up to such a fervor that, yeah,
Speaker 4: but to answer the question, Yeah, you shouldn't have a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl rematch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 4: Of course guys that you know, guys are gonna be chippy.
Speaker 4: All right, what's last?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: This this weekend, the Ravens mascot got injured in a
Speaker 2: football game and had to be carted off and the
Speaker 2: Braves mascot stiff armed about five children.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right or wrong?
Speaker 2: Mascots need to stop playing football.
Speaker 4: No, that's totally wrong. First of all, I love the
Speaker 4: Braves mascot. Just housing these it's amazing, it's such a
Speaker 4: great The first one is go then if you're watching
Speaker 4: on YouTube and see it with us. If you're not,
Speaker 4: then apologies. I think he was like, man, I want
Speaker 4: to just house it and get the mascot costume.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 4: Nobody's saying to you as far as the Raven's mascot,
Speaker 4: that seems like a workers comp issue. I mean, I
Speaker 4: feel and the fact that he stayed in character on
Speaker 4: the cart is amazing and take the raven head off.
Speaker 4: You're like, no, I gotta stay is this thing even
Speaker 4: though I just blew out my knee.
Speaker 5: Did you see they didn't say anything about it in
Speaker 5: the rundown. Did you see the.
Speaker 2: Mascot that did like the summer, he did like three
Speaker 2: or four flips and his.
Speaker 5: Helmet fell off. Yeah, and he like stayed on the ground.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're not because you're not supposed to. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, you can't. You can't lose your helmet. Did uh.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember this, but you remember
Speaker 4: when your youngest sister, uh, when she would have either
Speaker 4: Mickey or Minnie come to her birthday pre and there
Speaker 4: was nothing funnier, nothing funnier than in Houston after was
Speaker 4: it Mickey was either Houston, New York. I don't remember
Speaker 4: she had Mickey come to one, Mini come to the other.
Speaker 4: But the guy it was it must have been Mickey,
Speaker 4: because it was the guy. I give him all the
Speaker 4: credit in the world. He didn't ever want there to
Speaker 4: be a chance that Deanna see him out of costume,
Speaker 4: So he drove to our house in costume, head on
Speaker 4: and everything. Can you imagine driving down the road and
Speaker 4: it was like an old Toyota Tursell and Mickey Mouse
Speaker 4: in full costume.
Speaker 2: Hey man, you know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 4: I feel like, yeah, it was great, it was great.
Speaker 4: I listen. I'm a big fan of mascots. I am
Speaker 4: not a big fan of the NFL's top one hundred.
Speaker 4: We will dissect that briefly into the show next. All right,
Speaker 4: welcome back in What's Right? Nick, Right from our live
Speaker 4: new studio, Live from our new studio here in Harlem.
Speaker 4: I'm Nick. He's demons. Usually this last segment we try
Speaker 4: to have a little fun. We talked, you know, life nonsports,
Speaker 4: but it is football season, so the show is going
Speaker 4: to be a little more sports centric now that it's
Speaker 4: football season, and I needed to squeeze this in. A
Speaker 4: few hours before we recorded this, the NFL released the
Speaker 4: final ten of the top one hundred players going into
Speaker 4: this season. Number one's Tom Brady. That's fine. I'm not
Speaker 4: I wouldn't rank him number one, but he almost won
Speaker 4: league MVP last year. He's really good. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 4: So he's number one, so be it. Number two is
Speaker 4: Aaron Donald. I'm good with that as well. Aaron Donald
Speaker 4: arguably could be number one. That's fine. Three is Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4: I don't agree. Four is Cooper Cup You want to, okay,
Speaker 4: you want to just say he's the best wide receiver.
Speaker 4: I get it. Five is Jonathan Taylor, six is TJ Watt,
Speaker 4: seven is Demante Adams. Eight is Patrick Mahomes. The problem
Speaker 4: in what world is Patrick Mahomes the eighth best player
Speaker 4: in football? Where does that exist? And it just it's indefensible.
Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey is ten, which, by the way, shout out
Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey. But and Kelsey's awesome in the future, first
Speaker 4: ballot Hall of Famer. But the gap of value between
Speaker 4: Kelsey and Mahomes is not one spot, which is Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 4: I want to see just quickly, I'm gonna check the
Speaker 4: how the so quarterbacks just quarterbacks. They have Brady Won
Speaker 4: Rogers two, Mahomes three, Josh Allen four, Joe Burrow five,
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford six, Lamar's seven, Justin Herbert eight. That's way
Speaker 4: too low for Herbert in my opinion, Dak nine, maybe
Speaker 4: a touch high for Dak Kyler ten, Russell Wilson eleven.
Speaker 4: I actually agree with that, Derek Carr twelve, Mac Jones third. Okay,
Speaker 4: the list has gone off the rails. But having back
Speaker 4: Mahomes on this, here are the rankings that he has
Speaker 4: had since he's been in the league, right, so twenty nineteen,
Speaker 4: which was after his unbelievable year, after his unbelievable rookie season,
Speaker 4: when he had fifty touchdowns five thousand yards one league MVP,
Speaker 4: they ranked him fourth. And if you remember that, next
Speaker 4: year he scored a touchdown in a playoff game and
Speaker 4: counted off one, two, three, four, She's like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: the fourth best player in the league. Huh. Last year
Speaker 4: after the Super Bowl, I'm sorry. The next year, after
Speaker 4: winning the Super Bowl, they they ranked him fourth again.
Speaker 4: They then they said he was fourth. They had Lamar
Speaker 4: Jackson number one, Russell Wilson number two, and they had fourth.
Speaker 4: Going into last year, they had him number one rightfully,
Speaker 4: and now they drop him to eight, justin justin outrage.
Speaker 4: And Patrick doesn't have Like Patrick's done a really good
Speaker 4: job of protecting his image and his brand, and he's
Speaker 4: a really good guy. But to say Patrick is sure
Speaker 4: of himself or as a bit of an ego, he's
Speaker 4: probably understating it. You bet your ass there will be
Speaker 4: a moment this year he throws up eight fingers. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he might try to break the record and have an
Speaker 4: eight touchdown game just for being REMP eight ranking Patrick
Speaker 4: Mahomes as the eighth best player in football, in my estimation,
Speaker 4: invalidates the entire list will tell you about what teams,
Speaker 4: not players, what teams we think are overvalued and undervalued.
Speaker 4: At the end of the week, when you do are
Speaker 4: a gambling show from our brand new studio. We're back
Speaker 4: on Thursday with a regular show Friday with our first
Speaker 4: gambling show of the year. All that coming up later
Speaker 4: this week, and by the time you see or hear this,
Speaker 4: hopefully there's been some bit of an announcement regarding the
Speaker 4: television show, which I promise will be a positive one.
Speaker 4: All that's coming up throughout the week. We'll see you
Speaker 4: guys on Thursday.