WEBVTT - Jalen Hurts & Eagles IMPLODING? 49ers-Seahawks grudge match, WHINY Bills | Nick Wright 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:09.100 Welcome in What's Driving the Great, episode 512. This episode, 0:00:09.260 --> 0:00:12.520 as always, is brought to you by our friends at 0:00:12.660 --> 0:00:15.840 Boost Mobile. Damanze, good to see you. How are you 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:16.440 this morning? 0:00:16.460 --> 0:00:18.820 Good to see you. Doing great. Feeling refreshed. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.099 Good. I'm glad you're feeling refreshed. I'm finally, I think, 0:00:23.180 --> 0:00:26.060 caught up on sleep after a weekend in Vegas without 0:00:26.140 --> 0:00:30.320 much sleep. I also have some quick little business to 0:00:30.380 --> 0:00:33.450 handle before we get to the actual show, which On 0:00:33.490 --> 0:00:36.150 today's show, by the way, we will talk about the 0:00:36.190 --> 0:00:39.610 potential collapse of one of my Super Bowl picks, the 0:00:39.650 --> 0:00:43.150 Philadelphia Eagles. The only saving grace for me is all offseason, 0:00:43.170 --> 0:00:46.900 I was like, hey, could see them going 14-3, could 0:00:46.940 --> 0:00:50.080 also see them going 7-10. Now, I did end up 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.420 landing on the 14-3 go to the Super Bowl side 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:58.100 of it, but this was always on the board, and 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.320 we'll discuss why and what they do from here later on. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.540 There's a Thursday night football game tonight that the Cowboys 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.520 can kind of just end. Another one of my not 0:01:09.580 --> 0:01:11.860 Super Bowl picks, but playoff picks, the Bucs season. I'm 0:01:12.340 --> 0:01:18.490 a little worried about that game for the Cowboys. Whenever 0:01:18.510 --> 0:01:23.410 your defense is that bad, an upset is always on 0:01:23.450 --> 0:01:25.330 the board, is what I would say. Even against a 0:01:25.350 --> 0:01:29.970 backup quarterback, if you have just a terrible defense... All 0:01:30.030 --> 0:01:34.510 it takes is one mishandled kick return, the other team 0:01:34.530 --> 0:01:37.330 gets back-to-back possessions, and you're playing from behind the eight 0:01:37.350 --> 0:01:40.809 ball the whole game. So we will discuss that and 0:01:40.830 --> 0:01:45.550 a little sports media ombudsman on What's Right with Nick Wright, 0:01:45.630 --> 0:01:50.930 a little media commentary after some viral takes yesterday. But 0:01:50.970 --> 0:01:55.210 before we get to any of that, I have been 0:01:55.690 --> 0:02:01.020 dealing with, for years... The tax demands a of at 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:06.720 some point on some pod on this show or some, 0:02:06.740 --> 0:02:12.980 I did a power ranking of my children. And I put, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.890 I said in that very moment, when you were asking me, 0:02:18.669 --> 0:02:23.320 your youngest sister was in last place and she has a, 0:02:24.330 --> 0:02:26.929 I forgot even what she had done. It was something 0:02:26.990 --> 0:02:28.870 I thought it was. I thought I was being, as 0:02:28.930 --> 0:02:32.410 they would say, cheeky. She has never taken it that way. 0:02:32.810 --> 0:02:37.660 She brings it up quite a bit. I guess. I 0:02:37.690 --> 0:02:42.300 don't know, man. There are two things she brings up 0:02:42.980 --> 0:02:45.680 all the, not all the time, but way more often 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:50.480 than she should. One is six years ago, seven years ago, 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.860 I guess, actually. When we were moving into the house 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.460 we currently live in and I was building an Ikea closet, 0:02:59.180 --> 0:03:02.980 she came by as a five or a six-year-old and 0:03:03.100 --> 0:03:06.280 asked me for a hug. And I said, not right now, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.820 because I was like lifting something up. And she, to 0:03:08.860 --> 0:03:11.700 this day, will be like, don't say I can have 0:03:11.740 --> 0:03:15.340 a hug whenever I want. Remember the time in the closet? 0:03:15.940 --> 0:03:19.620 And she'll bring up the power rankings thing. So... With 0:03:19.710 --> 0:03:24.230 that said, today happens to be, and this is kind 0:03:24.290 --> 0:03:31.200 of horrifying for me, my baby girl's 13th birthday. Your 0:03:31.260 --> 0:03:36.120 little sister is a teenager now. And so if you 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.770 were to ask me this very moment, this second, power 0:03:40.850 --> 0:03:45.570 rank the kids she is in pole position you are 0:03:45.630 --> 0:03:49.640 in a strong number two and nothing against diorah who's 0:03:49.700 --> 0:03:52.440 very often the favorite but she left me on red 0:03:52.500 --> 0:03:55.600 yesterday on a text message that was good advice so 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:56.760 right now she's. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.860 In last everybody's getting left on red by diorah It's crazy. 0:04:01.500 --> 0:04:04.780 What is she doing? I mean, she's just out to lunch. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.640 She just won't even come see us or won't even 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.120 talk to us. It's really unbelievable. But so happy birthday, 0:04:11.180 --> 0:04:15.720 baby girl. I'm going to tell you one other quick 0:04:15.780 --> 0:04:19.590 thing before we get to the real show. Um, she 0:04:19.670 --> 0:04:22.830 sent us a birthday list. That was like a Christmas list. 0:04:23.450 --> 0:04:26.850 It's like, like, you know, calm down a bit on this, 0:04:27.470 --> 0:04:30.970 but one of the things on there is, was for 0:04:31.070 --> 0:04:36.370 me to talk to my agent about her because because 0:04:36.529 --> 0:04:40.050 she's an aspiring actress and she is determined because i 0:04:40.110 --> 0:04:41.940 always said like no you're not going to be a 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.719 child actor like not i'm not doing it and now 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:51.120 she thinks that she since she is 13 she's you 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.070 know no longer little kid coming off a little bit 0:04:54.130 --> 0:04:55.630 she should have made that the only thing on the 0:04:55.650 --> 0:05:00.200 list Oh, strong take. Strong take. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:00.659 Okay. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.200 All right. So happy birthday to Deanna. Let's get straight 0:05:04.230 --> 0:05:06.890 to voicemail brought to you by our friends at Boost Mobile. 0:05:07.210 --> 0:05:10.310 Drake Mays, not certain we landed on the moon. Tyrese 0:05:10.330 --> 0:05:14.450 Halliburton returns from his Achilles injury. Probably upset that game 0:05:14.850 --> 0:05:22.260 wasn't on ESPN National Television. And Lamar, unconventional ankle sprain. Now, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.960 Schefter came out yesterday and was like, maybe he'll play the– 0:05:26.820 --> 0:05:31.450 I Lamar's injury stuff is always a little murkier than most. 0:05:31.870 --> 0:05:34.250 I do not expect him to play this weekend. The 0:05:34.390 --> 0:05:36.580 odds makers don't expect him to play this weekend. 0:05:36.620 --> 0:05:36.960 Go ahead. 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.740 You think that it's always weird for Lamar with his 0:05:39.860 --> 0:05:41.410 injury stuff because he doesn't have an agent. 0:05:42.510 --> 0:05:44.010 Was that probably? Oh, okay. 0:05:44.070 --> 0:05:46.490 That's exactly, that's, I don't think that's the only reason, 0:05:46.890 --> 0:05:49.210 but I think, no, no, no. I think that's part 0:05:49.230 --> 0:05:52.390 of it. I think, you know, from those reports that 0:05:52.430 --> 0:05:55.000 we got as Harbaugh was on the way out, he 0:05:55.100 --> 0:05:59.500 doesn't seem the most communicative within the building. So I 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.920 think that is, you know, can be problematic on its own, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:09.229 but his own lack of communication with, you know, the 0:06:09.350 --> 0:06:13.450 higher-ups within the organization, combined with the fact that he 0:06:13.500 --> 0:06:15.680 doesn't have an agent on the back end to go, 0:06:16.100 --> 0:06:18.560 you know, do that, I think those two things make 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.640 it murky. Also, one last thing. The New York Liberty 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.680 got screwed yesterday, and I'd be really, really upset if 0:06:25.740 --> 0:06:29.300 I were them. I just want to paint the picture. Overtime, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.790 down three, playoff game. There's four and a half seconds left. 0:06:34.230 --> 0:06:37.150 Ryan Rucco on the call doing a great job. They 0:06:37.230 --> 0:06:40.650 have a timeout, DeMondsey, where they can advance the ball 0:06:40.670 --> 0:06:44.180 to midcourt, which obviously you'd want to do. They don't 0:06:44.250 --> 0:06:47.940 take it. They end up getting off actually a decent look, 0:06:48.260 --> 0:06:51.120 but a desperation look because it's in transition. You're trying 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.119 not to get fouled the whole thing. Rucco can't believe 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.280 they didn't call timeout. After the game, Breonna Stewart says, 0:06:59.260 --> 0:07:01.980 she's like, I don't want to blame the refs. But 0:07:02.010 --> 0:07:06.840 it's very frustrating when, because Atlanta was at the free 0:07:06.860 --> 0:07:10.030 throw line leading up to it. When during those free throws, 0:07:10.970 --> 0:07:15.830 I asked both refs, do we have a timeout? Can 0:07:15.890 --> 0:07:19.020 we advance it? And both of them told us we 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.990 were out. So they wanted to advance it. They asked 0:07:24.050 --> 0:07:28.650 if they could. The refs both told them no. So 0:07:30.290 --> 0:07:34.590 even though they thought they could, they were like, okay, 0:07:34.650 --> 0:07:37.670 I guess we've miscounted. The refs told us no, and 0:07:37.710 --> 0:07:41.660 then they did have one. That's a brutal mistake. And 0:07:41.940 --> 0:07:44.520 even if you're like, well, it's up to you to 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.100 keep track of that stuff with the coaching staff, You 0:07:47.220 --> 0:07:50.440 almost would, even if you're certain you have it, be like, well, 0:07:50.460 --> 0:07:53.060 the refs who are the ones to determine this are telling. 0:07:52.860 --> 0:07:53.860 Us we don't. You get a technical for that. 0:07:54.380 --> 0:07:57.220 Yeah, you get a technical and the game's over. So 0:07:57.260 --> 0:08:01.080 that's a really tough spot for a team that, you know, 0:08:01.190 --> 0:08:04.170 had a huge upset in round one. And it's just 0:08:04.210 --> 0:08:10.290 a tough spot. Okay. This has been a rough few 0:08:10.310 --> 0:08:16.250 days for Eagles fans. It. was compounded a bit yesterday, 0:08:16.530 --> 0:08:27.500 it would appear, by Stephen A. 's jocular, what many 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:35.380 people perceived as mocking, Lane Johnson retiring for mental health purposes, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.929 the too-long-didn't-read version of it is, Stephen A., not at 0:08:41.190 --> 0:08:44.110 all to the amusement of his panel, You know, it 0:08:44.130 --> 0:08:48.290 was like, basically, Eagle season's so bad, this guy's saying 0:08:48.330 --> 0:08:53.189 it's bad for my mental health. And then he kind 0:08:53.330 --> 0:08:58.500 of softened it after Kimberly Martin did him a solid. 0:08:58.510 --> 0:09:00.239 And he's like, some people might think you're making light 0:09:00.260 --> 0:09:02.560 of a mental health situation. Then he went on his 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.240 podcast and after promoting the TV show where he said 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.960 it and then spending two and a half minutes explaining 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.780 about his own struggles and he explained why the audience 0:09:13.820 --> 0:09:16.970 might have misconstrued what he said. You're now caught up. 0:09:17.830 --> 0:09:19.949 So there are three points I want to make on this. 0:09:21.490 --> 0:09:24.630 The first one is, and all of these kind of, 0:09:25.309 --> 0:09:29.680 I'm going to try to make them how I view it, 0:09:29.850 --> 0:09:32.230 how it applies to me, so it doesn't feel like 0:09:32.250 --> 0:09:35.930 an outward attack, even though I'm sure Paul's going to 0:09:35.990 --> 0:09:38.880 put on YouTube, on the thumbnail on this, Nick writes, 0:09:39.500 --> 0:09:40.740 eviscerates Stephen A. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:40.939 Smith. 0:09:41.710 --> 0:09:47.020 Not really what I'm doing, but maybe it is. One 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:52.520 thing I worry about for me is, and I try 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:57.710 to be aware of, am I spreading myself too thin? 0:10:00.380 --> 0:10:02.260 I do the TV show for two and a half 0:10:02.300 --> 0:10:07.020 hours every day. I do this show three days a week, 0:10:07.100 --> 0:10:09.620 and this show has gotten longer and longer and longer. 0:10:10.300 --> 0:10:14.040 I might start doing this show even more often. I am, 0:10:14.300 --> 0:10:20.710 you know, side questing, trying to become a semi-professional poker player. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.510 I have different stuff I'm thinking about doing on Sundays 0:10:26.010 --> 0:10:31.010 during NFL football. And there's only so much time. There's 0:10:31.070 --> 0:10:35.700 only so many hours in a day. I obviously have wife, kids, family. 0:10:36.260 --> 0:10:39.680 And I worry at times. Not am I spreading myself 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.980 too thin. Like, am I going to wear down? I 0:10:42.220 --> 0:10:46.240 don't really worry about that. I'm 42. I'm an old 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.490 42 because I'm a grandfather. However, I'm a young 42 0:10:49.490 --> 0:10:52.179 and kind of how I live my life. I'm not 0:10:52.220 --> 0:10:58.020 worried about that. I am worried, Demond, say, am I 0:10:58.110 --> 0:11:00.020 not going to be quite as informed? Am I going 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.949 to talk more about things? And because of that, I 0:11:02.990 --> 0:11:05.950 am less informed about the things I'm talking about. Does 0:11:05.970 --> 0:11:10.270 that make sense? Like, am I on the air so 0:11:10.350 --> 0:11:13.510 much that I have less time to, like, consume the info, 0:11:13.590 --> 0:11:16.350 watch all the games like I love to do? And 0:11:16.390 --> 0:11:18.650 am I going to... Are you going to have an 0:11:18.770 --> 0:11:21.250 emperor has no clothes moment of like, this guy doesn't 0:11:21.270 --> 0:11:24.689 know what he's talking about. So that is why I 0:11:26.410 --> 0:11:31.880 am so much more hesitant these days than I was 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.059 10 years ago, or maybe even five years ago to 0:11:36.179 --> 0:11:43.980 talk politics or real life stuff. Because if I make 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:54.730 a mistake or if I'm not fully informed on nonsense, 0:11:54.910 --> 0:12:00.699 fun carnival sports stuff, I can, you know, it's embarrassing. 0:12:01.380 --> 0:12:05.359 I hate being, you know, having fact errors, but I can, 0:12:06.260 --> 0:12:10.060 I can deal with that. But on real life stuff 0:12:10.860 --> 0:12:15.220 that impacts people or affects people, I really don't want 0:12:15.300 --> 0:12:19.910 to give my opinion if I don't feel totally 100% 0:12:19.910 --> 0:12:23.150 buttoned up on things, which is why on this show, 0:12:23.230 --> 0:12:25.459 really never on the TV show anyway, but on this 0:12:25.540 --> 0:12:29.920 show or on Twitter, I only venture into the real 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.719 life stuff that I am super well-informed on, that I 0:12:33.770 --> 0:12:36.860 am super passionate about, and I feel totally buttoned up about, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:42.860 because I haven't followed the day-to-day of the closing of 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.400 the Strait of Hormuz. I haven't followed the day-to-day of 0:12:47.780 --> 0:12:51.560 the upcoming midterm elections. I think I followed it as 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.000 much as the average American has, but not in a 0:12:55.059 --> 0:12:58.860 way that I feel comfortable giving opinions on it, because 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:04.740 it's real-life stuff. And where I think, not where I think, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:11.880 where I know Stephen A steps on a rake somewhat 0:13:12.140 --> 0:13:18.160 often is however much I'm working, he's working more. He 0:13:18.250 --> 0:13:23.430 is on so many shows on multiple platforms that he owns, 0:13:23.490 --> 0:13:27.730 that ESPN owns, that Sirius owns, other people's shows on CNN, 0:13:27.790 --> 0:13:30.910 on Bill Maher, all of these things. And he is, 0:13:31.330 --> 0:13:34.170 you know what he's talking about today? Whatever the hell 0:13:34.190 --> 0:13:37.950 the big news of the day is across the board. 0:13:38.970 --> 0:13:47.010 And you simply cannot be super well-informed on everything at 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:52.410 all times. which is why it's so dangerous. Dangerous is 0:13:52.429 --> 0:13:59.190 probably too strong, but it can be problematic if it's like, oh, 0:13:59.230 --> 0:14:02.200 what's the big topic? Listen, I'm doing my political show. 0:14:02.220 --> 0:14:04.559 There's a lot of stuff going on. Watch the football 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.180 this weekend. It's a Wednesday. There were no games last night. 0:14:08.420 --> 0:14:11.040 I was catching up on this. What's the big story? Oh, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.710 Lane Johnson retired. Oh, he said it was for mental health. Man, 0:14:16.500 --> 0:14:19.380 Eagles sure must suck. So bad. I got it. You 0:14:19.420 --> 0:14:20.979 know what? I got it. Don't worry about it. I 0:14:21.020 --> 0:14:23.800 got it covered. I got a good bit on this. 0:14:24.460 --> 0:14:26.940 The Eagles are so bad right now. It's hurting guys' 0:14:26.980 --> 0:14:31.530 mental health. That's funny. Without having the time or the 0:14:31.570 --> 0:14:36.229 wherewithal to know the background that Lane Johnson thought about 0:14:36.270 --> 0:14:38.510 retiring in the offseason. That Lane Johnson, I'm not going 0:14:38.530 --> 0:14:42.150 to get into the specifics on this because it's been 0:14:42.270 --> 0:14:45.390 lightly reported, but it's not really my business. He seems 0:14:45.430 --> 0:14:50.900 to have family that is in failing physical health, that 0:14:50.980 --> 0:14:57.000 he is truly dealing with things outside of the day-to-day 0:14:57.060 --> 0:15:05.770 stresses of an NFL season. Had, I believe, had Stephen A. 0:15:05.870 --> 0:15:10.820 known that, had he had the time to research it, 0:15:11.460 --> 0:15:15.670 or if he had just been dialed in enough to 0:15:15.810 --> 0:15:18.810 just sports. Like I'm not, I wasn't, I didn't know 0:15:19.070 --> 0:15:22.229 all the specifics. When we saw Lane Johnson retired, I 0:15:22.250 --> 0:15:24.850 didn't know all the specifics of everything. I know more 0:15:24.870 --> 0:15:28.479 of it now, but I'm dialed in enough to the 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.100 day-to-day sports that I remembered, oh, he thought about retiring 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.140 in the off season. I think he has a family 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.320 situation going on. He missed this Sunday's game because of 0:15:39.780 --> 0:15:44.330 last minute personal reasons and I saw someone report he 0:15:44.370 --> 0:15:48.250 was contemplating retirement. So it gave me a context of 0:15:48.790 --> 0:15:51.500 if I had to be on the air the moment 0:15:51.630 --> 0:15:58.100 after he retired, which by the way, he retired Tuesday. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.680 This was Wednesday morning that this happened. So it wasn't 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.780 like live on the air reaction. You had time, but regardless, 0:16:07.500 --> 0:16:10.260 I would have at the very least known air on 0:16:10.300 --> 0:16:13.790 the side of caution here. You know, there's other things 0:16:13.830 --> 0:16:18.990 at play. But if you're doing a hundred different things 0:16:19.050 --> 0:16:21.729 at all times, you don't have that context. So that's 0:16:21.790 --> 0:16:25.830 first point. There is a tax to spreading yourself this thin. 0:16:25.930 --> 0:16:27.880 I'm not even saying you shouldn't do it, but you 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.390 might have a responsibility to the audience if you are 0:16:30.430 --> 0:16:36.359 going to do it to really, really make sure you're 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:40.830 coloring within the lines once we're not talking about Is 0:16:40.890 --> 0:16:45.510 Dak Prescott overrated? That's the first point. Second point is this. 0:16:46.750 --> 0:16:51.010 And this is something that, again, applies to me personally. 0:16:51.390 --> 0:16:53.080 And you guys have heard me talk about this a bit. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.820 If you go back and watch the initial clip that 0:16:57.860 --> 0:17:03.700 everyone got mad at, watch it through the eye of 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:10.130 and asking this question. Is Stephen A. trying in that 0:17:10.230 --> 0:17:14.179 moment to do a good television show? Or is he 0:17:14.260 --> 0:17:18.940 trying to create a good viral clip? Also, under the 0:17:18.980 --> 0:17:21.540 context of, he did not in that moment think he 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.939 was doing anything wrong or being harmful or hurtful. I'm 0:17:23.980 --> 0:17:30.350 not saying... And this is... If you are at one 0:17:30.390 --> 0:17:34.550 of those tables on TV, it is such a different 0:17:34.690 --> 0:17:38.859 medium than how I am right now. Right now, I 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.660 am talking to you. Right now, I occasionally do things 0:17:42.700 --> 0:17:45.060 that I'm like, you know what? This will be good 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.440 as a 90-second breakout on social media. It is not communal. 0:17:49.900 --> 0:17:52.200 It is when Demanze and I are riffing back and forth, 0:17:52.220 --> 0:17:56.879 that's somewhat communal. But this is a lot of me monologuing, 0:17:57.180 --> 0:18:00.400 you and I bouncing off each other. It's very different 0:18:00.460 --> 0:18:03.740 than the TV show, which is we're out there playing jazz, 0:18:03.780 --> 0:18:10.149 going back and forth. And there is a... There are moments, 0:18:11.540 --> 0:18:16.680 and this again, it is why, in my opinion, that 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.600 TV show is not as good as it once was, 0:18:19.660 --> 0:18:23.780 and it once was the best. There are moments on 0:18:23.820 --> 0:18:27.160 that show, and there are other folks, some very, very 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:31.990 popular folks, that consistently do this on their TV shows, 0:18:32.770 --> 0:18:38.730 which is, I'm not trying to have a communal experience, 0:18:38.780 --> 0:18:41.980 that'll be a good segment. I am trying to have 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:48.840 the hottest, most viral take of the day. There's a very, 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:56.590 very popular sports media guy who you can't go a 0:18:56.630 --> 0:18:59.970 week without him for two minutes staring down the barrel 0:19:00.030 --> 0:19:05.490 of the camera, delivering some rant, semi- you know, straw 0:19:05.530 --> 0:19:10.100 man angry about something that exists on a TV show, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.080 but it is not for that TV show at all. 0:19:12.580 --> 0:19:15.180 It is for him to be able to put on Twitter. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.260 And it felt like that's what Stephen A was doing yesterday. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.919 It felt like he didn't care that nobody was laughing 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.159 with him. He didn't care that the room wasn't with him. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.980 I don't think he recognized how much he had stepped 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:29.850 in it, but he's like, this is going to be good. 0:19:30.740 --> 0:19:33.550 They're going to put on the internet The Eagles are 0:19:33.609 --> 0:19:37.100 so bad. Stephen A says they're wrecking guys' mental health. 0:19:37.580 --> 0:19:43.920 You know, laughing emojis. And it's surprising when someone does 0:19:43.980 --> 0:19:47.449 that when they have a separate platform like this. I 0:19:47.570 --> 0:19:49.929 used to do that a lot when the TV show 0:19:49.970 --> 0:19:54.050 first started. I was not doing right by Chris Carter 0:19:54.090 --> 0:19:57.770 and Jenna Wolf when I did it, which was I 0:19:57.970 --> 0:20:00.630 would put stuff into the show that I didn't even 0:20:00.670 --> 0:20:03.920 necessarily think was going to be good TV. But I'm like, shit, man, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:06.640 that's going to be a good clip. Like I've got 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.639 a good 90 seconds on it. But now I have this. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.120 So it's surprising to see Stephen A doing that when 0:20:15.140 --> 0:20:18.090 he has these other platforms to do it. And then 0:20:18.150 --> 0:20:20.369 last but not least, and then we will move on. 0:20:21.050 --> 0:20:26.109 And this is something the last time we discussed Stephen 0:20:26.130 --> 0:20:31.619 A that I made the point of. And sadly, it 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:40.910 still really applies. You've got to simply be able to 0:20:41.090 --> 0:20:48.760 take an L and actually apologize. Not I'm sorry for 0:20:48.820 --> 0:20:52.979 how this was misconstrued on my TV show that you 0:20:53.020 --> 0:20:56.980 can watch 10 to noon every day on ESPN and 0:20:57.060 --> 0:21:03.169 then try to garner your own level of sympathy or 0:21:03.210 --> 0:21:07.369 whatever it was by explaining your own very real struggles 0:21:07.410 --> 0:21:11.820 with mental health after a very real personal tragedy, it 0:21:11.900 --> 0:21:16.020 is not that hard, folks, to simply be able to 0:21:16.060 --> 0:21:23.160 be like, hey, earlier today, I was on TV. You 0:21:23.180 --> 0:21:26.149 guys know I do a lot of stuff. I have 0:21:26.170 --> 0:21:28.830 a lot of responsibilities. There are a lot of things 0:21:28.910 --> 0:21:33.230 I'm following. I did not have the full context of 0:21:34.150 --> 0:21:37.950 of everything Lane Johnson was going through. It's my responsibility 0:21:38.060 --> 0:21:42.420 to have that context. That's totally on me. It's not 0:21:42.540 --> 0:21:45.140 on any producers. It's not on anyone else. I thank 0:21:45.180 --> 0:21:48.260 Kimberly Martin for having my back in it, but it 0:21:48.300 --> 0:21:53.480 was my responsibility and my screw up. I thought this 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:58.680 was a lighthearted moment and I was trying to be funny. 0:22:00.650 --> 0:22:03.650 Now that I do have the full context, I realize 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.900 that was wholly and totally inappropriate for the situation. I've 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:14.700 reached out to Lane via the Eagles to apologize. And, 0:22:15.180 --> 0:22:17.710 you know, I will try to do better to make 0:22:17.810 --> 0:22:22.710 sure that when real life stuff happens, that I triple 0:22:22.770 --> 0:22:26.230 check I have all the facts rather than assume I 0:22:26.250 --> 0:22:29.230 have all the facts and just go with you know, 0:22:29.270 --> 0:22:32.470 trying to be entertaining and funny and that stuff. So 0:22:33.010 --> 0:22:37.250 I'm really sorry about that. I screwed that up. It's 0:22:37.270 --> 0:22:41.550 not hard. And the audience appreciates it. And it doesn't 0:22:41.590 --> 0:22:43.399 make you a lesser man. It doesn't make you a 0:22:43.430 --> 0:22:47.919 lesser broadcaster. Doesn't make you any of those things. To 0:22:47.940 --> 0:22:51.520 just be like, I screwed that up. Here's why I 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:53.639 screwed it up. Here's what I will do in the 0:22:53.700 --> 0:22:55.460 future to try to make sure I don't screw that 0:22:55.540 --> 0:23:00.450 up again. And we roll. But putting it on the audience, 0:23:01.050 --> 0:23:04.610 I'm sorry that you guys didn't get what I was saying. 0:23:04.630 --> 0:23:11.280 And then doing an appeal to authority fallacy of actually 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.080 here's how tuned in to mental health issues I actually 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.900 am because of real life stuff I had to deal 0:23:16.940 --> 0:23:20.020 with myself. That ain't it, man. It's just not it. 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:23.060 It's not the biggest thing in the world, but he 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:25.580 is the biggest person in the world in the space. 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:26.900 And. 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.629 There are a lot of folks that take little pot 0:23:30.670 --> 0:23:36.469 shots at, you know, what the craft I have dedicated 0:23:36.550 --> 0:23:46.480 my professional life to because of stuff like that. And 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:49.620 so it's worth 15 minutes for me off the top 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:54.750 of the show. That's it. This will do shockingly well 0:23:54.850 --> 0:23:58.730 on YouTube because people love media on media crime. But 0:23:58.750 --> 0:24:02.620 Monty said on a podcast yesterday that he thinks his 0:24:02.690 --> 0:24:06.359 podcast might do bigger numbers if it was just this stuff. 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:10.659 If it was only if he just did like was 0:24:10.780 --> 0:24:15.010 the ESPN ombudsman and just commentated on what was going 0:24:15.070 --> 0:24:17.030 on there. Might be right. I don't know why the 0:24:17.130 --> 0:24:20.590 algorithm loves it. They love it. That is not why 0:24:20.710 --> 0:24:23.800 I did this. I tried to do it sparingly, but 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:26.740 it was a big story. I thought it deserved the time. 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:29.899 Now we can talk about the actual football implications, pal. 0:24:30.700 --> 0:24:32.300 Let's bring the Monza back in. Go ahead. 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:36.130 Yeah, so along with Lane Johnson retiring, Cam Jurgens got 0:24:36.150 --> 0:24:39.910 traded to my Ravens. So they're now down three offensive 0:24:39.950 --> 0:24:43.209 linemen from opening night. They've had some weird situations, but 0:24:43.250 --> 0:24:45.050 still going on to win the Super Bowl in a 0:24:45.090 --> 0:24:48.919 couple years past. Does this situation feel different? 0:24:50.500 --> 0:24:57.399 It feels really different. So Lane Johnson, do you remember 0:24:57.440 --> 0:24:59.139 a couple years ago, not a couple years ago, a 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:03.040 year ago to Monza, when Micah got traded and we 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:09.450 showed the Barnwell stat, Cowboys with Micah on the field, 0:25:10.050 --> 0:25:13.930 top three defense, Cowboys with Micah off the field, bottom 0:25:13.990 --> 0:25:16.909 three defense, and like over the course of his career 0:25:18.010 --> 0:25:21.970 and just the impact that one player had, those same 0:25:22.050 --> 0:25:25.300 exact stats just on the offensive side of the ball 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:29.800 exists for the Eagles with Lane Johnson. Their offensive efficiency, 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.860 their passing game, their running game, their win percentage, all 0:25:32.900 --> 0:25:37.080 of it has hinged on whether he is or isn't 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:38.119 playing over the years. 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:39.030 He is. 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:47.790 A dominant all-time player. And so him walking away is devastating. 0:25:48.850 --> 0:25:54.930 The fact that the Eagles team, more than any team 0:25:54.970 --> 0:25:59.950 in the league, is built inside out. And now all 0:25:59.990 --> 0:26:03.149 of a sudden it's Jordan Mailata and a bunch of 0:26:03.250 --> 0:26:08.500 kids is devastating for the Eagles. The fact that this 0:26:08.580 --> 0:26:11.500 is happening in the midst of what I think is 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:17.500 fair to call the biggest slump of Jalen Hurts' career 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:23.909 since he's been an established starter is problematic. In the 0:26:23.970 --> 0:26:28.610 context of Saquon Hurta's hamstring, Tank Bigsby's on the IR, 0:26:28.950 --> 0:26:35.890 Devontae's dealing with something, this could be a system failure. 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:47.070 This could be an absolute unrecoverable spot for them. And 0:26:47.090 --> 0:26:53.629 I do wonder if that is one of the reasons 0:26:55.190 --> 0:27:01.250 Howie Roseman decided, you know what? If we're going to 0:27:01.290 --> 0:27:04.129 move on from Cam Juergens at some point, do it now. 0:27:04.540 --> 0:27:09.609 Second round picks are good. return. He wasn't playing great anyway. 0:27:09.990 --> 0:27:13.210 The Ravens really need a center as they were like 0:27:13.230 --> 0:27:17.629 down to their fourth string and this season might really 0:27:17.690 --> 0:27:20.090 get away from us. I think that's on the board. 0:27:21.430 --> 0:27:23.520 I said before the year that when I picked him 0:27:23.540 --> 0:27:24.840