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Speaker 1: All right, we saw the Texans thump the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: tonight and I got my draft Kings bet right. Houston
Speaker 1: minus four and a half to cover in the first half.
Speaker 1: First play of the game was actually a touchdown ineligible
Speaker 1: man downfield. Screw that up, but they scored Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: on a big run after that to take a lead.
Speaker 1: Never look back. I mean. The first thing is c J.
Speaker 1: Stroud has struggled for about five weeks, and you can
Speaker 1: tell why he's got a bad offensive line and golf
Speaker 1: they call it the yips. He lets go of the
Speaker 1: ball too quickly. I don't worry that he's got, you know,
Speaker 1: more interceptions now than he did all of last year,
Speaker 1: because when he had Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins healthy,
Speaker 1: he was four and one. He's still undefeated in division.
Speaker 1: He's four and four after the win over Dallas tonight.
Speaker 1: In the rest of their games, I think the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans are fine. They're the Green Bay Packers of the AFC.
Speaker 1: They're a year away. They need another draft. They're a
Speaker 1: little bit thin. The Packers are a little young. Texans
Speaker 1: are a little thin. They both have good young coaches,
Speaker 1: really good young quarterbacks. They're just not ready to beat
Speaker 1: the Detroits or like the Buffalo's in Kansas City's. But
Speaker 1: it's a good team. And I don't take anything away
Speaker 1: from c J. Stroud. His comp was Jared Goff. Well,
Speaker 1: if you go back to Jared Goff's third year in
Speaker 1: the NFL that wasvey, his passer rating dip to like
Speaker 1: mid eighties, high eighties, and so you know CJ doesn't
Speaker 1: trust his protection. PFF has their O line at like
Speaker 1: twenty six twenty seventh. His top receiver, Stefon Diggs is out.
Speaker 1: Nico Collins came back tonight. He's been hurt. Nico Collins
Speaker 1: is amazing. He went to Michigan. He was a southern
Speaker 1: kid from I think Alabama went to Michigan. Productive, but
Speaker 1: not a superstar in college, like mid thirties catches, and
Speaker 1: they got him in the third round. And boy, he
Speaker 1: is a hard guard. He is a hard guy to defend.
Speaker 1: It it you know, you can tell c J. Stroud and
Speaker 1: his comp is golf, so he's not a playmaker. He's
Speaker 1: a sit in up pocket and throw darts. When Goff's
Speaker 1: offensive line is great, Jared's great. His rookie year, c J.
Speaker 1: Stroud had a very good offensive line. He was outstanding.
Speaker 1: Goff and Stroud, those were the comps by scouts, and
Speaker 1: it was accurate. CJ moves a little better. But when
Speaker 1: they don't have great protection, they rush things, they throw
Speaker 1: more interceptions. They're just not as on point. And I
Speaker 1: think that's c J. Stroud just needs better protection. He'll
Speaker 1: be fine. I think the Jared Goff comparison's always been true.
Speaker 1: And they have great protection. They're really special. You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting though watching the Cowboys. So the Cowboys right now,
Speaker 1: if you go to the current NFL draft order, there's
Speaker 1: five teams with two wins Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Las Vegas Giants,
Speaker 1: and then there's four teams with three wins, the Jets,
Speaker 1: New England, Carolina, and Dallas. Dallas is now at three
Speaker 1: and nine, and so the advantage for Dallas is, Listen,
Speaker 1: they have a chance to end up with just three
Speaker 1: wins now with Cooper Rush. But they played Tommy DeVito
Speaker 1: and the Giants on Thanksgiving, and if they win that game,
Speaker 1: and I think they will, that'll be their fourth win.
Speaker 1: It'll take Dallas out of any shot for a first, second,
Speaker 1: or probably third pick in the draft. It's not a
Speaker 1: particularly strong draft, and they wouldn't take Shador Sanders anyway.
Speaker 1: But what I was hold because if Dallas can get
Speaker 1: into the top five, and they still have a shot
Speaker 1: even if they beat the Giants, that would be four wins.
Speaker 1: They also play Carolina. But if you're Dallas at this point,
Speaker 1: this is why the New York Giants are not going
Speaker 1: to go to Drew Locke. They're going to Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 1: They'd rather not win games and the Giants have a
Speaker 1: real shot because I think Jacksonville, Tennessee and Cleveland are
Speaker 1: two talented. They'll win another game. If the Giants get
Speaker 1: beat by Dallas, there's a real possibility they don't win
Speaker 1: another game and they have the number one pick, and
Speaker 1: they will absolutely draft Shadoor Sanders. So Dallas, I would
Speaker 1: draft Shaeddoor Sanders, but I wouldn't sign Dack to a
Speaker 1: long term contract. But Dallas isn't going to draft him.
Speaker 1: There's some good players in this draft. The number two
Speaker 1: pick I think will be Kelvin Banks. He's an offensive
Speaker 1: tackle from Texas. Travis Hunter, a very explosive player from Colorado,
Speaker 1: will go second or third. Mason Graham, the defensive tackle Michigan,
Speaker 1: Will Johnson, the corner from Michigan. Will Campbell, the offensive
Speaker 1: tackle from LSU. T Mac the wide receiver Arizona, really
Speaker 1: big target, Southern California kid. He's really good player. Cam
Speaker 1: Ward is going to go somewhere in the top ten,
Speaker 1: although I, you know, a little backyard football for me,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't draft him that high. But it's not a
Speaker 1: great draft. There's a lot of Mikhale Williams the defensive
Speaker 1: the edge for Georgia. There's a lot of Georgia and
Speaker 1: Michigan guys in the top twelve, top fifteen. Not a
Speaker 1: great draft. And listen, if I was Dallas and I
Speaker 1: got a top five pick, I would move down because
Speaker 1: I don't think they're close to Detroit, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I don't think their rosters close. I don't think one
Speaker 1: player is going to solve it. But if I don't
Speaker 1: think this is a good enough draft where people are
Speaker 1: going to want to move up unless you have a
Speaker 1: top five pick and maybe a top yeah, a top
Speaker 1: five pick, and somebody wants cam Ward, who I think
Speaker 1: is an okay prospect. I think shud Or Sanders is
Speaker 1: a strong prospect, kind of in the Jade and Daniels class.
Speaker 1: You know, electric moving arm, very accurate. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a winner. He was a winner first year in college.
Speaker 1: He's a winner at Colorado. I mean, they're a really
Speaker 1: good football team now that could win the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: So you know, Dallas there is This is what happens
Speaker 1: for the Giants who reached the Daniel Jones the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: who have overpaid Dak had some injuries. I would strongly
Speaker 1: consider the one thing about this draft. It's week at quarterback,
Speaker 1: it's strong at wide receiver, and it's strong in the
Speaker 1: first round on edge rusher. I would consider moving Micah Parsons.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody's going to give you a first round
Speaker 1: pick and have to pay him. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of teams in this league that are close,
Speaker 1: but they could use an elite edge rusher and mic
Speaker 1: O unhealthy is that and you could go draft another
Speaker 1: edge rusher and restart the clock on that position. And
Speaker 1: there's several. Abdul Carter the edge rusher from Penn State,
Speaker 1: it's a top ten pick again, Williams from Georgia, top ten,
Speaker 1: twelve pick. But I think I think Dallas, you know,
Speaker 1: they they have to have like a come to Jesus moment.
Speaker 1: They're just not very good. I mean, you watch tonight.
Speaker 1: You know Ceedee Lamb's an explosive player, but they know
Speaker 1: their past protection is just okay. They have the weakest
Speaker 1: running back root in the league. They have nothing after
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. Of note, they need a lot of help.
Speaker 1: Their corners are okay, not special in my opinion. So
Speaker 1: I think that's that's where Dallas is. It's not a
Speaker 1: year in the NFL draft to want a quarterback, there's one,
Speaker 1: and I think you know, listen, Vegas and the New
Speaker 1: York Giants both need one. I think Sam Darnold will
Speaker 1: probably have a market, a decent market, because I think
Speaker 1: Minnesota is gonna I think they've got a chance to
Speaker 1: sneak into the playoffs. They're just good enough. But Dallas
Speaker 1: has a long way to go. Houston's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be fine. They're gonna get better next year.
Speaker 1: I like their coach, their quarterback, their front office, they
Speaker 1: got some players. Their old lines just kind of a mess.
Speaker 1: A lot of penalties, don't pass protect particularly well. You
Speaker 1: saw it tonight. They don't pick up blitzes, they just
Speaker 1: they just it's a bad unit. But but Dallas has
Speaker 1: to really think long and hard. The downside a mediocre
Speaker 1: draft like this year is the Cowboys would love to
Speaker 1: trade down. This is why I believe they have to
Speaker 1: have a top five pick because the people the only
Speaker 1: players that people will trade up for is a Shadoor
Speaker 1: Sanders or maybe a cam Ward. There's like there's like
Speaker 1: one or two great tackles. There's four or five. I
Speaker 1: think Mason Graham the defensive tackle for Michigan's really really special.
Speaker 1: He's been unblockable by a single offensive lineman in college football.
Speaker 1: You kind of have to double team him, so you know,
Speaker 1: just it's it's interesting to see all these teams at
Speaker 1: the top of the draft. Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Vegas. You know,
Speaker 1: you're kind of used to them, Jets, Carolina. Then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you go, oh yeah, Dallas, Wow, Dallas.
Speaker 1: But you watched the night there's nothing there, So you're
Speaker 1: you're seeing something all through college and pro sports, and
Speaker 1: it was very noticeable this weekend. You know, the Trump
Speaker 1: dance by young NFL players, African American players, white players,
Speaker 1: veteran players, Brock Bauers, the young tight end for Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: But I was really you know, athletes have a sense
Speaker 1: of humor. You know, it's a sport. It's a business,
Speaker 1: but it's a sport, and you know, after you score,
Speaker 1: you celebrate. I don't care what players do, I really don't,
Speaker 1: but I did think it was interesting that in soccer,
Speaker 1: United States men's national team star Christian Poolisic did the
Speaker 1: Trump dance. And the reason I think it's surprising is
Speaker 1: that soccer tends to have a very young left leaning audience,
Speaker 1: and when he did it, I thought, oh boy, there's
Speaker 1: going to be a meltdown. And regardless of where I've
Speaker 1: always viewed myself really as a moderate independent. But you
Speaker 1: can drive yourself crazy all you want. But the reason
Speaker 1: the athletes are doing this is because it's really a quirky, weird,
Speaker 1: odd dance. And every time Trump did it, it just
Speaker 1: looks so outdated. And I think Trump sort of leans
Speaker 1: into it now and knows people get a kick out
Speaker 1: of it, and it's okay to take a deep breath.
Speaker 1: And regardless of what you think of a politician, it
Speaker 1: is a three second, four second dance. They're pro athletes.
Speaker 1: Take a deep breath, or you can go into therapy
Speaker 1: for the next four years. And because you're side lost
Speaker 1: and be miserable, you know. Sometimes I think in politics
Speaker 1: the greatest advantage conservatives have is people watching the other
Speaker 1: side melt down and look crazy and out of their mind.
Speaker 1: It's just a dance, it's no big deal. It's three seconds.
Speaker 1: Athletes have a sense of humor. We're all going to
Speaker 1: be okay on that. But it was noticeable to me
Speaker 1: that when Poolisic did it, I thought, Oh, that's that's surprising.
Speaker 1: You know, soccer players in the soccer community have always
Speaker 1: felt a little European, kind of left leaning, young stylish.
Speaker 1: That's what it's always felt like to me, you know,
Speaker 1: the hipsters. I love. I love soccer. You know. I've
Speaker 1: told the story before. My mom was British and when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, really really young, I was probably
Speaker 1: six years old, seven years old, my mom took me
Speaker 1: to England and England was the Netherlands with Johann Crouve
Speaker 1: a great soccer star, and England were the dominant kind
Speaker 1: of teams in the world, and England had won a
Speaker 1: World Cup back then. And my mom bought me a
Speaker 1: little soccer set and I can remember playing with it
Speaker 1: in the window ledge in England, Lancashire, in the middle
Speaker 1: of England, where my mom was from. And so I
Speaker 1: I remember those I had these strong It's one of
Speaker 1: the first memories of my life is playing with this
Speaker 1: soccer game. And Netherlands wore orange, that's their country's color,
Speaker 1: and it was on television. It must have been around,
Speaker 1: you know, the World Cup, because that's all my mom
Speaker 1: and her twin brother, my late mother and her twin
Speaker 1: brother Peter. That's all they you know, that was like
Speaker 1: a big topic of conversation, and they went and got
Speaker 1: me that soccer game. So I've always been and then
Speaker 1: I moved to the Pacific Northwest, you know, I was
Speaker 1: from there, the Seattle Sounders, the Portland Timbers, and then
Speaker 1: I went there in my career. So I've always liked soccer,
Speaker 1: especially the United States men's national team. But I didn't
Speaker 1: look at the reactions of their fans when Polistic did that.
Speaker 1: But I thought there's gonna be some melt founds over that.
Speaker 1: And again, take a deep breath to four second dance.
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Speaker 1: going to be their last year with them. So over
Speaker 1: the course of I think it was late last week,
Speaker 1: it was announced in the negotiation between the NBA and TNT,
Speaker 1: Adam Silver didn't want TNT involved in it. Long story,
Speaker 1: mostly boring. The top executive for Warner Brothers just pissed
Speaker 1: off Adam Silver and he no longer wanted him associated
Speaker 1: with the league. And so basically they struck a deal
Speaker 1: and ESPN is going to get the show, The Barkley
Speaker 1: Shack Show. I actually think it is significant because in
Speaker 1: the regular season, that show is often more entertaining than
Speaker 1: the games in a long NBA regular season, And I'm
Speaker 1: a huge fan of Mike Breen. I never understood breaking
Speaker 1: up Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson and Mike Breen. I
Speaker 1: thought at the time it was easily their strongest broadcast unit.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it. Probably political. Van Gundy had been
Speaker 1: at times critical of the NBA, so it felt like
Speaker 1: Adam Silver stepped in and blew that up. And it's
Speaker 1: happened before. I remember when David Stern was commissioner. I
Speaker 1: had heard complaints that he wasn't happy with the I
Speaker 1: forget the broadcaster one of the broadcasters on ABC ESPN
Speaker 1: and David Stern had pressured ESPN to make changes. So
Speaker 1: but I do think ESPN's NBA coverage for the last
Speaker 1: I mean, what do they had the rights twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two years. I love Breen, but it's just been a
Speaker 1: revolving door of personalities and they've never really stepped up
Speaker 1: and spent big money and got landed a superstar. And
Speaker 1: I think this will really cement. I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: for years and years, Monday Night Football was kind of
Speaker 1: swimming in mediocrity. It's nothing against the broadcasters, but it
Speaker 1: never felt as good as like al Michaels or you know,
Speaker 1: the bigger broadcast teams. Jim Nantz and so Buck and
Speaker 1: Aikman have solidified Monday Night Football. They make it feel
Speaker 1: big again. And for years, I just I felt like
Speaker 1: it just it didn't feel as big as the Fox
Speaker 1: Game of the Week or the Sunday Night Football Game
Speaker 1: of the Week, or the CBS Jim nance Romo Game
Speaker 1: of the Week. ESPN felt like Number four and buckan
Speaker 1: Akman have elevated it. And I think ESPN's pre and
Speaker 1: postgame show has been really weak. And I mean I
Speaker 1: mean the halftime shows like two minutes and commercials. I
Speaker 1: mean they don't even care. They're just selling spots. So
Speaker 1: I think this will make it more formidable like buckan
Speaker 1: Akman do. It'll make it feel big. And I think,
Speaker 1: if you're Adam Silver, NBC is going to have NBA,
Speaker 1: ESPN's going to have NBA, and Amazon's going to have NBA,
Speaker 1: but the incumbent is ESPN, and I think it's a
Speaker 1: strong play. I think, you know, I love the business
Speaker 1: I'm in. I think Jimmy Bataro, who runs ESPN, has
Speaker 1: taking big swings. I think Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, Bucan Aikman,
Speaker 1: Shaq Barkley, Jason Kelsey, Bill Belichick, those are big swings.
Speaker 1: And I think is our business as the market's gotten
Speaker 1: wider and wider and wider. It's harder to develop shows.
Speaker 1: It's easier to go get widely recognized personalities. To put
Speaker 1: a Nick Saban on a Game Day, and I think
Speaker 1: he's been the perfect tonic on that show. Between all
Speaker 1: their other casts, it just he just clicked with them,
Speaker 1: and so I and the reason ESPN has done some
Speaker 1: big game hunting, I mean they've really taken some big
Speaker 1: swings is because for years and years they were swimming
Speaker 1: in red with their streaming growth, you know, Disney Disney
Speaker 1: Plus and it was losing you know, four five billion
Speaker 1: a year. Well they just turned a profit. This year,
Speaker 1: they made a billion, and so this point forward, Disney's
Speaker 1: going to be making four eight, twelve twenty billion dollars
Speaker 1: a year in their streaming. So you know, underneath Disney
Speaker 1: is ESPN. And even though cable television is probably got
Speaker 1: six years left, seven years left from what I read,
Speaker 1: Disney's now humming. So they're taking big swings and they're
Speaker 1: going buying big name people as the market has become
Speaker 1: very very wide, and it's just it's when people there's
Speaker 1: so many platforms, there's so many options. I mean, people
Speaker 1: are sitting on TikTok all day. To get attention, you
Speaker 1: got to go take big swings, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think that's what Shack and Barkley and Kenny and Ernie are.
Speaker 1: I think that's arguably as good as any pre postgame
Speaker 1: halftime show. I think Fox's Football Show and that show
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