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But none 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.080 of that actually made the show. We can start the 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.560 clock right about now. If you're watching us, you will 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.080 be able to see me try to beat the clock. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.320 I am zero five, by the way, in beating the 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.800 clock as I rotate to Deman Demons, Good to see you, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.320 my friend. What are we starting with today? Let's start 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:05.000 with the Lakers. 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.399 Yeah, they got crushed by Dallas Tuesday and absolutely could 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.320 miss the playoffs. You said they should trade everyone but 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.160 Lebron and Ad, but the Ad trade rumors have already started. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.079 Should they trade a d And at this point, why 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.160 would anyone even want to play with Lebron James? 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.160 See see, you gotta throw that little stuff in there, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.520 like you gotta throw it. Why would any I don't know. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.639 Why would anyone want to paint with Picasso? Why would 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.519 anyone want to compose with Mozart? I'm not sure. Seemed 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:33.760 to be a fun thing to be able to tell 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.520 your kids I did played with Lebron. James probably went 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.600 to the finals. Probably want a championship. Like has there 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.280 been Here's an interesting question that I gotta think on 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:48.600 for a moment. In the last twelve years, has there 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.280 been anyone who has played more than one season with 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.320 Lebron and not made the NBA finals? 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:54.520 Oh? 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.000 Wait, I don't have to think on that at all. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.120 The answers, No, there hasn't been because Lebron in the 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.320 last twelve years hasn't gone more than one year without 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.120 making the finals. Accept until that's probably going this year unfortunately. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.840 But to answer the questions, no, they should not trade 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.399 Anthony Davis unless Lebron asks out. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.880 If Lebron asks out and. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.320 Says I don't want to be there and I do 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.720 not think that's going to happen, then you can make 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.160 the argument tear it all down to the studs. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:21.680 Trade AD. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.240 But for all of AD's flaws and we understand that 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.720 they are there. Anthony Davis still gives you a far 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.239 better chance to win next year's title with Lebron James 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.960 alongside him than what you would what are You can 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.080 trade him to Oklahoma City for SGA and a bunch 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.600 of picks that might be good for the twenty twenty 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.320 seven Lakers, but not good for the twenty twenty three Lakers, 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:45.920 which is. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.400 What they have to be focused on. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.960 As Lebron enters year twenty coming off a season where 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.640 he gives you thirty eight and six and they're terrible anyway. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.800 So I feel like the pendulum has swung a little 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:02.280 too far against Anthony Davis. The injuries are a huge problem, 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:08.520 but one playoffs to go, Anthony Davis matched up against 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.040 Nikola Jokic and tortured him, and then in his first 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.680 two NBA Finals games of his career, dropped thirty two 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.680 and thirty four points in that playoff run. He averaged 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.000 twenty eight to ten in his career in the playoffs. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.800 He has played thirty nine career playoff games, twenty nine 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.960 of them he's gone for twenty five plus He's twenty seven. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.120 Points per game career in the playoffs. That's top ten 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:31.600 all time. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.719 You are not going to get a better guy to 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.239 be alongside Lebron in a playoff run than Anthony Davis 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.560 in in any potential ad trade. Now, do the Lakers 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.159 have to remake the entire roster? 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.240 They do? Should Rob Polinka be a part of it? 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:46.799 He shouldn't. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.279 Should Frank Vogel be coaching it? 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:49.400 He shouldn't. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:54.359 But unless Lebron asks out, you don't trade Anthony Davis. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:55.800 All Right, it looks like we're going to stay in 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:56.760 the NBA. What are we doing? 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:57.400 Let's do it? 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.479 Stay in the NBA. We've spent a lot of time 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.479 talking Nets and Lakers. Yeah, but they're both fighting for 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.520 the players. Yeah, they're actually both terrible. They're actually both 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.920 bad basketball teams. Lakers are worse, but the Nets are pretty. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.799 The Nets are sometimes unwatchable as well. But what go ahead? 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.560 No, a man? What Kyrie? I mean? 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.120 Katie has definitely done a better job at picking his team. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.280 It's it's it's not let's move on. Okay. You know, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.719 while the Sun's Grizzlies Heat and celticsit the top of 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.920 the conference, YEP is building super teams no longer the 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:32.800 way to win in the NBA. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:34.800 I so here's the thing. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.359 I don't know that building super teams was ever the 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.200 exact way to win. There was a level of well, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.159 if one guy's got a super if Lebron's got a 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:44.800 super team, then I have to have a super team 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.839 to combat that. But the way to win in the 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:51.560 NBA has been incredibly consistent for oh the better part 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:57.040 of forty years. You must have an APEX top five 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.359 player in the league at a minimum, and then you 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.840 fill in the surrounding hole. So if we just think 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.240 about the champions, why did the Bucks win? Were the 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.599 Bucks a super team? No, they were organically built for 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.000 the most part, despite the Drew Holiday trade. But they 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.680 had Giannis at the peak of his powers the year 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.880 before the Lakers. Was that a super team, I would argue, No, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.440 it was two great players, but they were acquired in 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.159 free agency and be a trade in Lebron and Ad. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.800 But you had Lebron at the peak or close to 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.800 the peak of his powers. The year before it was 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.039 Kawhi again, a guy who at the moment was top 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:31.599 five guy. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.080 The peak of his powers. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.760 When it felt like you had to have a super 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.400 team was when a team such as the Warriors that 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:44.239 was a champion already, then added an MVP and Kevin Durant. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.240 Then it felt like, oh my god, how can anyone 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.719 beat them? But it should be noted the team that 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.359 came the closest to beating them, the only team to 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.680 take those Warriors with KD a healthy Warriors with KDI 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.599 passed five games, was a Rockets team that, yes they 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.920 had added I did Chris Paul, but what they had 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.599 was at the time James Harden, who was a league MVP, 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.960 top five guy at the peak of his powers. So 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.520 if you don't have one of those guys, then you 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.560 must find a way to add as many, you know, 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.080 players six to fifteen as possible, but that's probably not 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:23.440 getting it done. So I've always thought it was a 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.720 misnomer of oh, you must have a super team. You 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.680 must have a pantheon guy, a guy that's going to 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.800 be a no doubt inclusion on my Top fifty Players 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.440 the Last fifty Years list when that comes out next 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.880 month little plug within the podcast for a future part 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.520 of the podcast. That's what you've got to have, and 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.880 then you have to fill out the roster smartly surrounding it. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.800 But you mentioned four teams there. You mentioned the Grizzlies, 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.920 the Suns, the Bucks, and the Heat. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.680 There's only to me one. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.160 There's one team there that I feel like nobody doubts 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.120 can win the title, and that's the Bucks. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.560 Why because they have a top five guy at the 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:03.720 peat for his powers. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.640 The Suns have had an unbelievable regular season. They're gonna 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.600 win sixty plus games. A lot of people believe they're 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.880 gonna win the title. For them to do so, it 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:18.520 would be somewhat unprecedented. Because Booker, as good as he is, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.360 is No, we're close to a top five guy in 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.880 the league. And Chris Paul, as historically great as he's been, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.000 he's not there yet anymore. And the Grizzlies, I love him, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.280 but they're drawing dead to win the title. The Heater 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.800 drawing dead to win the title like that, You've got 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.480 to have one of those guys. That's what NBA history 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.960 tells us. And I'm gonna fail against the clock again. Okay, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.559 let's move on. Let's hit some golf for the first 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.760 time in the show. Yeah, you feel great about this, 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.440 This is amazing. Yeah, you're exciting about talking golf with me. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.840 Go ahead, Tiger might actually play the Masters. Yeah, he 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.199 can't seem to walk away, and he's not the first. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.720 Yeah, Brady couldn't do it, mj couldn't do it, and 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.120 you won't admit it. But one day Lebron will do it. Okay, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.120 what does Tiger have left to prove? And why can't 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:05.760 goats ever seem to walk away? 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.599 All right, so Tiger has nothing left to prove to 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.280 the world. I think to himself, I think Tiger still, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.960 a tiny part of him holds out hope he can 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.160 catch Jack with the eighteen Majors. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:18.959 Now he's not gonna do that. He's at fifteen Jacks 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:19.400 at eighteen. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.720 I also, though, I think more than a tiny part 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.520 of Tiger and a large part of me believes, oh, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.960 he could still win another Masters. Maybe that's insane. And 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.800 all I've seen is like brainy footage of him practicing 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.480 post injury, postcar wreck. But he knows the course so well, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.440 the fact that he wanted a few years ago. I 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.000 and Tiger is the way I look at Tiger is 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.760 the way so many broadcasters look at Michael Jordan like 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.240 I erase the flaws. I only see the greatness. He's 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.720 you know, one of my two favorite athletes of all time. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:02.040 I have more fond sportsmanory involving Tiger Woods than almost 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.880 anybody any other athlete I've ever watched, and so I 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.760 think he has something left to prove to himself. As 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.320 far as why can't goats seem to walk away? Certainly, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.800 and why can't they walk away on top? I think 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.760 if you are in the discussion for the greatest in 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.840 the world at something, or the greatest to ever do something, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.200 you need it to be proven to you that that's 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.000 no longer the case. I always thought walking out on 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.760 top was slightly was an overrated concept. All of us 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.160 want to play sports as long as we can. It's 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.200 always a sad day the last time we're allowed to 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.760 play sports, you know, competitively, and so the if you 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.520 can play in the toughest league at the top level 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.960 and you're still the best or in the argument for 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.040 the best, the idea of giving that up, you know, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.440 by choice, seems crazy to me. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.640 So I don't It's. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.680 Totally rational and reasonable to me why athletes have a 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.760 hard time walking away. I think the other thing would 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.400 be ear raction guys who are at the top, being 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.560 like I've had enough of this, I don't. I think 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.760 that the mentality of I've had enough of this almost 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.000 never coincides with the mentality that it takes to become 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.880 the greatest in the history of the world. It's something, 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.200 all right, I'm gonna go oh for this is our 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.360 sixth show. I'm gonna be oho for six against the 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.160 clot because we have less than a minute left. We're 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.440 about to talk about something that I think is going 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.320 to take some time, so demant go ahead. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.200 Time for a serious topic. Yep. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.640 The NFL is requiring teams to hire one female or 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.640 minority offensive coach this year. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.360 Yep. Uh is this a meaningful step in the right direction? 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.400 So I do think it is a somewhat meaningful step. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.960 And I understand some folks are gonna say this is tokenism. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.439 Or and listen, they'll be bad. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.839 I'm not worried about the bad faith actors say the 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.800 folks that would be like what happened to the best 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.440 person for the job? That is such a maddening concept, 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:03.640 because when when you have a statistically impossible discrepancy is 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.840 skewing towards white people having all these jobs and the 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.320 assumption being well it was when it was all white 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.000 people getting jobs or the maast maority white people getting jobs. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.720 That was a meritocracy. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.000 But as soon as we mandate some non white people 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.200 getting jobs, then it's not a meritocracy. The idea that 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.280 all these coaches, kids and family members are getting gigs 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:30.920 and that's a meritocracy is laughable. But so I understand 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.720 why the NFL is doing it, and I do think 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:37.559 it is a decent move, But will it actually fix 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.960 the problem. And the answer to that is, of course no. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.520 And there's two reasons for it. One is really really 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:49.320 unfortunate and the other is really really reasonable. Let me 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:54.960 start with the reasonable one person. People hire friends and 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:59.319 family in every industry, and that cuts across all races. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.320 Black people hire black people because they know more black people, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.600 they're friends with more black people, and obviously their families 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.640 you know very often other black people. White people do 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:14.520 the same. That is in every industry, across all time, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.480 across all countries, people hire people they know, and in 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.520 the country as segregated as the United States, the people 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:27.000 you know very often are going to skew dramatically to 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.600 the same race that you are. So that is just 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.679 going to be a part of the of any companies 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:38.400 hiring practices, which is why it is critically important any 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:43.520 industry takes a serious effort to make sure the hiring 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:48.000 positions in particular is a diverse group of people, so 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.280 that way you have black hiring managers in addition to 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.120 white hiring managers and other minority groups, so that it 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.960 can then filter on such The NFL also has a 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:01.199 big nepotism problem. Coaches hire their kids, and obviously, in 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.600 the vast majority of cases, your kids are the same 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.040 race as you, so that perpetuates it. I don't actually 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.079 blame people for those paradigms because I think that cuts 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.840 across all races. That's the non nefarious reasoning for it, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.040 and that I don't think is easily solvable until you 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:24.080 get more black people in general manager, team president, team 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.400 ownership positions to where they're then circle and friend group 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.960 and their own family tree can fill out some of 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.240 the jobs. The nefarious reason and the reason it's important 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:39.320 that offensive coaches that there is there is a emphasis 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.040 on offensive coaches not just being white guys, is because 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.360 for two reasons. One is it's very clear the best 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.760 way to become a head coaches coach the offensive side 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.120 of the ball, as the league is skewed super offense, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.520 offense offense. So where's the nefarious part. I think it 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:59.520 is very very clear that there are certain NFL teams, 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.760 people running NFL teams that have a hard time believing 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:10.160 that black people are smart enough to be a quarterback, genius, 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.800 quarterback guru, an offensive mastermind. The numbers would say that 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:20.040 it is again almost statistically impossible for these white for 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.400 these coaching staffs on the offensive side of the ball, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.840 and for front offices to be as lily white as 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:30.880 they are when the vast majority of NFL or of 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.680 football staffs are made up of former players, and the 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.840 vast majority of players are black. That couldn't happen by chance. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.920 And I can't just say, ah, it's all because of 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.240 the non nefarious reasons I laid out before. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.400 There is clearly. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.480 Belief amongst some people in various high positions across a 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:57.840 number of NFL teams that listen, I trust this black 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.960 guy to be able to fire up my running back, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.440 but I don't trust this black guy's brain to be 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.480 able to break down game film with my quarterback. And 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:12.840 so I do think some of the hiring discrepancies are understandable, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.680 and some of them are just old school tale, as 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.680 old as time, racism, the old I don't think the 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.240 black guy is as smart as the white guy, and. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.600 So does this help? 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Watch un Stopped now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.840 Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right Podcast Episode six. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.919 You can also watch this on YouTube subscribe on all 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:16.240 your favorite podcast platforms. I've been hearing the producers giggle 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.439 on the background in my ear when they've referenced what 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.520 we're gonna do in the final block of the show. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.920 I never know what we're gonna do in the final 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.000 block of the show. But I'm already I already have 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.000 a bit of trepidation on what these people are gonna 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.080 throw at me, and I imagine you, the young man, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:31.919 are gonna be a part of it. However, before we 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:33.919 get to the final block of the show, tell me 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:34.880 what we're doing right here. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:36.880 Pick the bigger NFL story this week. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:42.520 Okay, postseason overtime rules changing or the bills stadium being 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.000 partially publicly funded. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.159 Okay, we'll get to the overtime stuff later. The public 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:54.120 funding of stadiums is one of the most It's something 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:58.919 that I promise you history will not look upon pond 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.080 here people are like, oh, what was one of the 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.240 reasons American infrastructure in public schooling all seem to fail? 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.600 And they're gonna be like, well, there's money issues a 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.480 lot of things. And they're gonna be like, oh, well, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.800 that's funny because all these municipalities sure seem to find 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.119 a billion dollars when they needed it to build a 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.440 stadium that's going to be used a dozen times a year. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:24.720 With that said, there are certain cities in America that 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:29.639 I think you can justify the public kicking in some 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.840 dollars to the team, and Buffalo might be one of them. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:39.000 So here's my general point. Take your top fifteen cities 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.479 in the country. All of them should come together, have 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.920 a meeting of the mayors or the governors of the states. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:46.919 However you need to do it and make a pact 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:51.000 and all a nice little collusion against the leagues. Guys, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.000 none of us are ever paying a dime. You know 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.400 why because pro sports leagues want to be in New York. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.560 They want to be in LA they want to be 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.280 in Dallas, they want to be in Houston, they want 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.240 to be in Miami, they want to be in DC, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.280 they want to be in San Francisco. Their threats to 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.560 leave are hollow threats. We never need to pay a 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.680 dollar if we're a major American city for a team, 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.919 the leagues want to be here, the owners have the money, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:22.080 let them pay. Now a city such as Buffalo, you 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:27.200 can make the argument that the difference between Buffalo and 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:31.800 Schenectady is one thing that they have pro sports, the 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.159 Sabers and the Bills, and that I've said for a 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.600 long time growing up from Kansas City, what's the difference 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.160 between Kansas City and Des Moines. Well, aside from the 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.240 history of Kansas City and the amazing barbecue and the jazz, 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.760 all that, the real contemporary difference was Kansas City had 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.760 the Chiefs and the royals, and des Moines didn't. So 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:56.200 I do understand why a small city might feel incentivized 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.320 to make sure their team doesn't move. So I get 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.479 why the Bills are doing right, the Buffalo's doing it, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.600 but it's the State of New York that's doing it. 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:09.480 And I know these two headlines aren't exactly aligned. 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:10.440 But around the. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.440 Same time I found out the State of New York's 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.000 gonna kick in about eight hundred million for the Bills stadium. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.800 I read in the New York Times. Our new governors 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.520 say there's about an eight hundred and fifty million dollar 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.240 New York State Public school short Paul kind of pissed 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.840 me off, to be totally honest. But if you're Buffalo, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.800 if you're Green Bay, if you're a small city that 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.320 is kind of just happy to have a team, I 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.240 get why you might want to make sure the team 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:40.080 never leaves. But big cities should never pay a dollar 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.600 to these leagues. They get tricked by them. They're never 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.720 leaving pro sports leagues are never leaving New York or 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.120 LA or the cities I mentioned. They want to be there, 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.159 so don't get tricked into it. Speaking of the Chiefs, 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:55.640 looks like we're gonna talk about them for a moment. 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.640 Speaking of stadiums, Yeah, is it possible that the Chiefs 0:20:58.720 --> 0:20:59.959 end up leaving Arrowhead? 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:01.800 Okay, so listen. 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.360 Arrowhead Stadium is loud, and it's a fine stadium. It's 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.520 not state of the art, but it's fine. It also 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.199 is in the it's in the middle of nowhere. It 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:16.160 is thirty minutes from downtown Kansas City. The closest restaurant 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.680 to Arrowhead or Kaufman is a Taco Bell. The closest 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.760