Speaker 1: Welcome in We're Driving the Great Episode three seventy six.
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Speaker 1: Mobile a ton to do. As Major League Baseball playoffs
Speaker 1: are in full swing. I was in attendance for Game
Speaker 1: three Yankees Blue Jays and listen, I gotta say that
Speaker 1: Judge home run. And credit to the Blue Jays, they
Speaker 1: were the better team all series. They dominated the Yankees
Speaker 1: in that series. They deserve to move on. But that
Speaker 1: Judge home run was one of the most electric in
Speaker 1: person moments I've ever been a part of. And I
Speaker 1: didn't even like I didn't have an investment in the
Speaker 1: game except the fact that if the Yankees won, I
Speaker 1: got the next day off from work because we were preempted.
Speaker 1: But him coming through in that moment and oddly demonse,
Speaker 1: it made me feel like you should feel better about
Speaker 1: one day Lamar having a similar postseason moment.
Speaker 2: For real, like, just make it all that much sweeter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Judge had been has been in a his It's
Speaker 1: not an over exaggeration to say a historically great regular
Speaker 1: season player with the numbers and the accolades to back
Speaker 1: that up. Truly one of the greatest players of not
Speaker 1: just his generation, but any generation. He's in that class
Speaker 1: who had year in year out, played some of his
Speaker 1: worst baseball in the postseason. And I understand for the Yankees,
Speaker 1: you know, it's another year without a World Series sixteen.
Speaker 1: Now it's it's a year where they, you know, don't
Speaker 1: even make the ALCS as a team. It's disappointing. But
Speaker 1: Judge was phenomenal start to finish of this playoff run,
Speaker 1: and that three run bomb to tie the game and
Speaker 1: keep their season alive was all time. It was really
Speaker 1: really all time. We're gonna obviously spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time today on Week six in the NFL. Tomorrow we
Speaker 1: will get into our gambling show, where again the story
Speaker 1: of our gambling show this season has been I go
Speaker 1: two and three every week, Demande hits his teaser every week. Sadly,
Speaker 1: that's basically I haven't quite gone two and three every week.
Speaker 1: I went three and two once or twice. But I've
Speaker 1: been doing decidedly below mediocre, and Demonte's been crushing on
Speaker 1: the teasers, including a teaser that he didn't actually put
Speaker 1: on the show, but he did bet so really he's
Speaker 1: five and one on these ridiculous eight points. I ain't
Speaker 1: three teamers that he just can't lose on. Also, I
Speaker 1: am not yet ready to dive in to the NBA.
Speaker 1: I know preseason's going on, and that also means I
Speaker 1: am not going to even though this will make our
Speaker 1: YouTube overlords very unhappy and some of the data and
Speaker 1: analytics people in charge of this pod unhappy because this
Speaker 1: would do numbers, But I just don't have the time, energy,
Speaker 1: or urge right now to respond to the single most
Speaker 1: high profile person in sports media saying paraphrasing essentially, but
Speaker 1: saying that if a forty soon to be forty one
Speaker 1: year old player in year twenty three has a bad game,
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume he might be drunk. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to entertain that commentary. And I did funny thing
Speaker 1: real quick before we get into the full show. So
Speaker 1: the whole bit demonse that I did about how anybody
Speaker 1: being fooled by Lebron's tweet was a dope. I was
Speaker 1: on Lebotard show yesterday and he asked me about it,
Speaker 1: and I basically did the same bit that Lebron's tweet
Speaker 1: was an IQ test that you if you got fooled
Speaker 1: by it, you're a dummy. And what I didn't know
Speaker 1: was that Lebotard had been oh, this whole I go,
Speaker 1: I do this whole brand. And then Dan just very calmly,
Speaker 1: he's like, well, he's like, so Nick's calling me an
Speaker 1: idiot to my face, and I and listen, Dan's the greatest.
Speaker 2: I have great relationship for him.
Speaker 1: No, I love him, but I think and he's a
Speaker 1: good enough sport. I think he thought I knew that
Speaker 1: I was talking about him, but I didn't know I
Speaker 1: was talking about generals. I would have been a little
Speaker 1: nicer with it, or I would have attempted to be
Speaker 1: funnier with it and directly make fun of him in
Speaker 1: a lighthearted way. Instead, I just very matter of factly,
Speaker 1: was like, if you thought he was announcing his retirement,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're a very smart person. And then
Speaker 1: after I got done saying that, Dan was like, well,
Speaker 1: I was one of those people. So that wasn't great.
Speaker 1: But we recovered. All right, let's get to straight. The
Speaker 1: voicemail brought to you by boost Mobile. Jonathan Gannon find
Speaker 1: one hundred grand for hitting de Marcado on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones find quarter of a million dollars for his
Speaker 1: obscene gesture people are gonna look at those as portionate.
Speaker 1: The Yeah, and Jerry was like I tried to go
Speaker 1: thumbs up.
Speaker 2: I went middle finger.
Speaker 1: The problem is there is a precedent owner. Oddly, there
Speaker 1: is a we have been through the owner flipping off
Speaker 1: fans thing. It was Bud Adams with the Titans like
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. So the fine was a quarter of
Speaker 1: a million then, so it's got to be a quarter
Speaker 1: of a million now. It also kind of means Jerry
Speaker 1: got off cheap because of inflation and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I do. We didn't really talk much much about it.
Speaker 1: The Jonathan Gannon thing. To me, I I don't think
Speaker 1: i'd fire him because of it, so I think one
Speaker 1: hundred k is the right amount. But I did think
Speaker 1: it was a terrible look and I do wonder how
Speaker 1: correct how the locker room he's gonna respond and the Yannest.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'll say about the Yiannis trade rumors. Quickly.
Speaker 1: Did you see the report about his family?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like they went back, they want to go back
Speaker 2: to Athens. His wife preferred to be out there.
Speaker 1: His wife and kids are going to live in Athens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was not to me.
Speaker 1: An unrelated story to Yanni's potentially leaving Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: And playing in his hometown.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, In that I listen, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Yannis is spread in Athens is sick, and Athens
Speaker 1: is you know, I've never been to Greece, but I've
Speaker 1: kind of nothing but amazing things about how beautiful it
Speaker 1: is and the weather and the food and the people
Speaker 1: all that. So I'm sure it's great. But do I
Speaker 1: think that his you know, Kevin O'Connor pointed out that
Speaker 1: the only US city with direct flights to Athens is
Speaker 1: New York City. I think it's Newark.
Speaker 2: It might be JFK.
Speaker 1: But either way that that's something. But do I also
Speaker 1: think that is that are there may be American cities
Speaker 1: that provide more of the things Athens provides than Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: That if Jannis we're playing in the family would be
Speaker 1: back there because this is the NBA season, buddy, is long,
Speaker 1: and to have your wife and four young children halfway
Speaker 1: around the world is enrolled in school over there, that's jarring.
Speaker 1: And so I found that story to be a kind
Speaker 1: of tied to Jannie's potential future in Milwaukee, Like I.
Speaker 2: Think that always has them on eggshells over there in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's.
Speaker 1: Correct, but and like he also seems like a real
Speaker 1: family guy. Yeah, and if he was borderline unhappy in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee already, how is it going to play now that
Speaker 1: he's after practice just going home by himself. Like, that's
Speaker 1: a tough one. And so that is to me something
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Speaker 1: we get to the Belichick thing. I was going to
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Speaker 1: Okay, like you know that that's the connection. And I've
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Speaker 1: before we get to NFL Week six, I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Bill Belichick. Let's get to it.
Speaker 2: So, Yeah, things have not been going well over there
Speaker 2: in u NC for Bill Belichick. They are off to
Speaker 2: a two and three start, and there's even talks of
Speaker 2: the documentary being canceled, but I think that's actually canceled.
Speaker 2: And there's there's other talks of Bill Belichick initiating his
Speaker 2: own million million dollar buyout. You wanted to talk about this.
Speaker 2: Things are looking rough for Bill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so listen. I think that it is noteworthy what
Speaker 1: Ali Connolly is saying. So you guys might be like,
Speaker 1: who is Oli Connolly? People that listen to NFL Daily
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal's Great Pod are familiar with Ali Connolly He
Speaker 1: also has a sub stack in a newsletter called The
Speaker 1: Read Optional. I think he also is involved in some
Speaker 1: of in but he's in the UK.
Speaker 2: He's a.
Speaker 1: He's in the UK. I don't know if he's British.
Speaker 1: If he's Irish, I'm not sure. I think he's British.
Speaker 1: I know that that's one you don't want to get wrong.
Speaker 1: My apologies regardless. The reason I am mentioning it is
Speaker 1: he was the guy who broke Belichick to North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and people initially like one of the reasons they it
Speaker 1: didn't get taken as gospel initially was because it's like,
Speaker 1: why is this guy in the UK breaking this story?
Speaker 1: But he had it first by a lot. So he
Speaker 1: then yesterday sent out the following tweet thread that I
Speaker 1: want to read to the audience again. The guy who
Speaker 1: first had Belichick to Carolina told us this. Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: has discussed buyout options with North Carolina's hierarchy. Belichick has
Speaker 1: signaled a willingness to trigger his own million dollar buyout
Speaker 1: if he can find a soft landing with another team
Speaker 1: or in media he goes on. Members of Belichick's coaching
Speaker 1: staff have already spoken to other schools that are expected
Speaker 1: to be in the College Football Playoff about taking on
Speaker 1: roles during the postseason. From one coach quote, the rats
Speaker 1: are leaving the ship end quote. Some staffers believe a
Speaker 1: change will come within two weeks. Reports of serious recruiting
Speaker 1: violations remain under investigation at UNC. Recruiting and practice violations
Speaker 1: have already been proven by the school, according to multiple sources,
Speaker 1: Using recruiting violations to knock down a coach's buyout has
Speaker 1: become a standard practice. If Belichick cannot find a landing
Speaker 1: spot to trigger his own buyout, he's expected to accept
Speaker 1: a greatly reduced compromised rate. More on that in a second.
Speaker 1: I'll explain it. Belichick's community Back to Dolly Connolly. Belichick's
Speaker 1: communication with his staff in the past two weeks has
Speaker 1: been described as weird and distant by multiple members of
Speaker 1: UNC's coaching staff. Multiple coaches were unable to get a
Speaker 1: hold of him during un c's bye week last week.
Speaker 1: From one UNC defensive assistant, what we've done to these
Speaker 1: kids is eft up end of tweet threat. So let
Speaker 1: me just give a little explanation about the buyout stuff,
Speaker 1: so people understand. If Belichick gets fired, they owe him
Speaker 1: like twenty million. If Belichick leaves on his own accord
Speaker 1: one thought, potentially for another job, they Belichick or whoever's
Speaker 1: hiring him has to pay one million. What Ali is
Speaker 1: reporting is that it is now on the board that
Speaker 1: Belichick pays that million himself just to bounce, just to
Speaker 1: be out of there, or if that doesn't happen, if
Speaker 1: he doesn't have you know, like they said soft landing,
Speaker 1: that he agrees to a greatly reduced number off that
Speaker 1: twenty million. But what Ali Connelly is reporting, the too
Speaker 1: long didn't read version is this thing's already over If
Speaker 1: you already have coaches talking about who they're going to
Speaker 1: coach this year's playoffs, it's over there. And that would
Speaker 1: be we have talked about like can Belichick, is it fair?
Speaker 1: Can your legacy ever go backwards? In sports? Right? Like
Speaker 1: all Let's say bron was in year twenty five and
Speaker 1: averaged three points a game and was terrible, Like, would
Speaker 1: that be fair to hold against him? And my general
Speaker 1: rule has always been you shouldn't. You should not be
Speaker 1: penalized for continuing to do something if like, if your
Speaker 1: legacy was here, I'm putting my hand if you're listening,
Speaker 1: up to my eyebrows, basically, and if you quit, it
Speaker 1: was going to end there. Then continuing to play your coach.
Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily have to raise it, but you shouldn't
Speaker 1: go backwards, right. There are rare instances, though, where it
Speaker 1: feels like people do go backwards. I think Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: posts Seattle. I think he went backwards a little. I
Speaker 1: think of Russell Wilson after when Seattle had said I'm retiring,
Speaker 1: and we never saw him be bad. We never saw
Speaker 1: him on awful teams, We never saw teams repeatedly move
Speaker 1: on from him. We would hold him in a probably
Speaker 1: higher light. For Belichick, for the the thing at Carolina.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he needed to be great there. But
Speaker 1: the fact that they are yet to beat a Power
Speaker 1: five school. The three legitimate teams they've played have beaten
Speaker 1: them by an average of twenty six points per game,
Speaker 1: and they are averaging on scoring themselves eleven points per game,
Speaker 1: and he might just be ready to call it holy
Speaker 1: smokes man. I it is unfathomable that it would have
Speaker 1: gone on this wrong, this gone this wrong, And I
Speaker 1: say this with all sincerity. It is a bit of
Speaker 1: a lesson and not just Hubris. But in what can
Speaker 1: happen if you only surround yourself with acolytes and with
Speaker 1: yes men like the GM is Lombardi whose whole the
Speaker 1: only you know, the only relevance he has left in
Speaker 1: the NFL and in football is his relationship with Belichick.
Speaker 1: I don't listen, I don't relish saying that for me.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of the audience knows this.
Speaker 1: But when I started with Fox, I did a three
Speaker 1: time a week, two time a week for a full
Speaker 1: football season podcast where it was just me and Mike Lombardi.
Speaker 1: It's called make Me Smarter. I mean, I know the guy,
Speaker 1: but I get fair is fair. I have to call
Speaker 1: it what it is like. In the last decade, his
Speaker 1: connection to pro football has been his connection to Belichick.
Speaker 1: Lombardi's kid is on the coaching staff. Both of belichick
Speaker 1: kids are on the coaching staff. They they have they
Speaker 1: have not. There is not a lot of new ideas
Speaker 1: coming in. They seemingly did a very poor job in
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. And I mean there was the quote
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell.
Speaker 2: You where I saw going against the integrity of the game.
Speaker 2: But their recruiting process and all that, like, he's it
Speaker 2: sounds like they were kind of cheating a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, so that so that listen, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I how much of that is true or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know enough yet about the recruiting violations.
Speaker 1: And I also, to be totally honest, don't even know
Speaker 1: what's legal and what's illegal in college, Like I don't
Speaker 1: even know what, Like it seems like I don't know
Speaker 1: how you could break the rules these days, like and
Speaker 1: so that part of it is odd, but set that aside.
Speaker 1: There was a quote from a coach of a non
Speaker 1: power five square last week that said, yeah, I knew
Speaker 1: North Carolina was going to be screwed because they were
Speaker 1: recruiting all the same players we were. He's like, whenever
Speaker 1: there's a team that is recruiting all of the guys
Speaker 1: we're after, I know that team is not going to
Speaker 1: be able to compete at the top level, but they
Speaker 1: so they and that sounds mean from the coach, but
Speaker 1: that coaches. Again, I'm not saying what school exact because
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's saying he's coaching a small
Speaker 1: school and so they should not be going after this.
Speaker 1: North Carolina should be able to get elite players and
Speaker 1: did again. I don't want I don't want to put
Speaker 1: you on the spot here, but you had a friend
Speaker 1: or someone you knew.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was, but he he ended up going to Colorado,
Speaker 2: but he he Yeah, he went on, did the whole process.
Speaker 2: I think he was going to do it, but you know,
Speaker 2: playing at Colorado this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, but he was recruited by Belichick's crew. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as a transfer student. Right, he wasn't a graduating senior.
Speaker 1: He was transferring somewhere, right, Those seventy kids that transferred
Speaker 1: into North Carolina did.
Speaker 2: It yeah for Bill. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if we are five games in and they're already
Speaker 1: talking buyout and just giving up, that's pathetic, man. And
Speaker 1: I do think that. And I try to always be
Speaker 1: consistent and honest on this.
Speaker 2: I so.
Speaker 1: The revisionist history that some folks do, acting as if
Speaker 1: those first three Super Bowls weren't teams that were led
Speaker 1: by the defense into which Belichick was in charge of.
Speaker 1: I'm not down for that. And the final Super Bowl
Speaker 1: they held the Sean McVeigh, Todd Gurley Good, Jared goff
Speaker 1: Rams to three points. So I am not going to
Speaker 1: act like Belichick was carried by Tom Brady. I don't
Speaker 1: think that is the case at all. I think they
Speaker 1: both helped each other greatly. But I'm also not going
Speaker 1: to act like.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: The last half decade has not been an abject disaster
Speaker 1: for Bill. He's stopped being able to draft, he made
Speaker 1: outrageous coaching staff decisions, his personal life became very public
Speaker 1: and a legitimate distraction. All the bridges with New England
Speaker 1: seem to have been burnt. And now he goes to
Speaker 1: North Carolina and we're talking about it being over already.
Speaker 1: That's a train wreck. And there is not yet any coach,
Speaker 1: any modern coach Demons that has a close enough resume
Speaker 1: to Belichick's to start a reel who's the best coach ever?
Speaker 2: Debate?
Speaker 1: But if we get you know, Andy is the obvious
Speaker 1: one that has a shot. But I but I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to make this about the Chiefs. I'm not even
Speaker 1: really trying to make this about Andy. The point I'm
Speaker 1: making is this, if somebody gets close how it is
Speaker 1: ending for Bill will hurt him. The fact that it
Speaker 1: was just rank incompetence across the board. The moment Tom
Speaker 1: left even will make people do something that I think
Speaker 1: is unfair, as I said a moment ago, which is
Speaker 1: start to put a bit of a curve negative curve
Speaker 1: on what he did with Tom, and so I normally
Speaker 1: would not.
Speaker 2: Leading with this. All this was with Tom and then
Speaker 2: like every single thing he did after that.
Speaker 1: It's been a disaster. It's and so and again.
Speaker 2: But the thing was is him trying to recover on that.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, I went to college, look at what
Speaker 2: I did and.
Speaker 1: Correct or and that's one of the reasons he wanted
Speaker 1: to go to another NFL team to show he could
Speaker 1: do it. And so it will just like again just
Speaker 1: to bring up the Andy piece of it, like Andy
Speaker 1: had an awesome run without Patrick Mahomes, you know, like
Speaker 1: double digit playoff appearances, went to a super Bowl, multiple
Speaker 1: conference championship appearances, all like they it didn't get to
Speaker 1: the top of the mountain. But was an excellent coach
Speaker 1: without Patrick. Now he had Donovan mcnabby and Mike Vick.
Speaker 1: He had good It's not like he had terrible quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Obviously had really really good quarterbacks. And so it's not
Speaker 1: an apples to apples comp I'm not acting like it is.
Speaker 1: But and nobody cares about like where did Vince Lombardi. See,
Speaker 1: you know how I know nobody cares. I don't even
Speaker 1: remember like Vince Lombardi did he finish with the Saints,
Speaker 1: the oh no, Washington, Washington for a year, Like people
Speaker 1: don't tend to care about, you know, the final chapter
Speaker 1: of an all time legend if it even if it
Speaker 1: doesn't go well. But this has gone so horrifically, Like
Speaker 1: nobody does the audience remember what Bill Parcell's final stop was,
Speaker 1: and it was the Dolphins. But he wasn't the head coach.
Speaker 1: He was the you know, basically the guy in charge
Speaker 1: of everything, and so people don't people don't typically hold
Speaker 1: that stuff against you. But this is such a train
Speaker 1: wreck that and I, by the way, I believe Ali Connolly.
Speaker 1: If Ali Connelly says this could happen in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, This could happen in the next couple weeks.
Speaker 1: And what I think is now locked and why it's
Speaker 1: worth discussing and then we'll move on. I think it is.
Speaker 1: I think it is now minus one thousand that Belichick
Speaker 1: is not the head coach of North Carolina next year,
Speaker 1: which leads us to this, and then I promise we
Speaker 1: will move on I guess he's just not gonna coach again.
Speaker 1: Like if the NFL was leary of him after the
Speaker 1: Patriots stint, then I guess this is just how it ends.
Speaker 1: What a crummy ending, man.
Speaker 2: And hey, if you they just start winning games.
Speaker 1: They're not good. I mean, I don't think they recruited
Speaker 1: the right players. I don't think they And it seems
Speaker 1: like there was an article on w R A L Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is like the A rally Raleigh the city in
Speaker 1: North Carolina? Is it Raleigh Rally? I'm gonna pronounce it wrong, Raleigh,
Speaker 1: I think. BUTMANI used to live there. The that uh
Speaker 1: about the dysfunction and the infighting amongst players about It's
Speaker 1: a bad situation.
Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 2: The Eagles are heading to the met Life them and
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Speaker 2: kind of downplay in the converse they had with aj
Speaker 2: Brown Sakwon, kind of saying that it shouldn't have gotten
Speaker 2: out or it should have stayed between the two, the
Speaker 2: three of them. I guess, is there anything that the
Speaker 2: Eagles can do to kind of quiet the noise?
Speaker 1: Yes, play a normal game. I mean, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a standalone national TV audience against a bad Giants team.
Speaker 1: Can you just play a normal game? Handle your business,
Speaker 1: have a nice mix of running pass, not this bipolar
Speaker 1: offense half to have, Like, I don't some of this
Speaker 1: stuff for Philly, I have to say is self inflicted.
Speaker 1: Two years ago, when they were ten and one to
Speaker 1: start the season, they kept talking about how something felt off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're but we're not playing our best ball, and then
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Speaker 1: their final seven, including the playoff game. They then made
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Speaker 1: said yeah, we need to basically get better in the
Speaker 1: passing game. And then Brandon Graham, who was still on
Speaker 1: the team, did a radio interview saying, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened with Aj and Jalen. They used to
Speaker 1: be super close. That was not the The media was
Speaker 1: not looking for something there. And then AJ Brown started
Speaker 1: reading books on the sideline like that all, they did
Speaker 1: that themselves. Now they won the Super Bowl anyway this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Aj said a little something, but it was really just
Speaker 1: the media and fans reacting to these bizarre games. The
Speaker 1: game against the Rams when they can do nothing in
Speaker 1: the first half, then the game against the Bucks when
Speaker 1: they do nothing in the second half, and then the
Speaker 1: game against the Broncos last week when they have a
Speaker 1: lead at halftime and just never run the ball again. There.
Speaker 1: How much of this is just Kevin Bittulo, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it is a weird team to have this much
Speaker 1: success and this much self inflicted drama. I and and also,
Speaker 1: like other four and one teams are not having multi
Speaker 1: hour meetings between their best players to figure out what's
Speaker 1: going on. So just play a normal game, that's all,
Speaker 1: and you should be able to against the Giants.
Speaker 2: I loved what Dabel said in his presser. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they got a lot of weapons over there in Philly.
Speaker 2: He's like that all the time.
Speaker 1: You saw that, Yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker 2: People don't smart.
Speaker 1: If people don't know, it was really smart, But you
Speaker 1: don't know what de Mondesay's talking about. Brian Dables asked
Speaker 1: about all this, and he talks about how many great
Speaker 1: players they have and all this stuff, and then he
Speaker 1: ends the answer with and I mean, if you turn
Speaker 1: on the film, hey J. Brown is open a lot
Speaker 1: like sewing a little discord, like, hey, why is he
Speaker 1: not getting the ball? I thought, I thought that was
Speaker 1: really sharp by Dable, and I liked it a lot.
Speaker 2: If the conversation wasn't such a huge deal, why do
Speaker 2: you think that it was leaked?
Speaker 1: So I do find it interesting that it got leaked,
Speaker 1: and I don't know who is incentivized to leak it,
Speaker 1: like I don't you. Usually the way to figure out
Speaker 1: where leaks are coming from, leaks really only come from
Speaker 1: two places. One is someone that wants to damage one
Speaker 1: of the parties involved, and the other one is someone
Speaker 1: who wants to look better by the information leaking right,
Speaker 1: So very often you can you can triangulate who a
Speaker 1: story came from based on who looks good in it,
Speaker 1: who looks bad in it. My issue is this, and
Speaker 1: this is the reason I can't figure this one out.
Speaker 1: Nobody that knows about this meeting wants bad things for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and I can't imagine there's anybody in the
Speaker 1: meeting who thinks leaking this makes me or the team
Speaker 1: look good. So I don't know why I can't figure
Speaker 1: that one out. I was thinking about that because would
Speaker 1: be the It's usually not that hard to figure out
Speaker 1: where stories come from. You can never like definitively say it.
Speaker 1: But and if you can't, if there's ever little I
Speaker 1: think I've talked about this on the pod before, but
Speaker 1: a little for the very you know in tune football,
Speaker 1: consumer basketball as well, I guess if you ever wanted
Speaker 1: to know who within organizations might feed information good, bad,
Speaker 1: or indifferent to the media. It's a really cool thing
Speaker 1: most of the insiders do at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: which is they basically compile a list of all their
Speaker 1: leak sources for you in the form of keep a
Speaker 1: look out for this guy as an up and coming
Speaker 1: GM head coach, scout coordinator, and then it's a bunch
Speaker 1: of names of people we've never heard of. That is
Speaker 1: typically the payment the return for all. Right, you give
Speaker 1: me a heads up what's going on in the organization,
Speaker 1: and then I'll throw your name out there as man,
Speaker 1: this is a front office guy the whole league has
Speaker 1: its eyes on. So you can usually you know, read
Speaker 1: between the lines a bit. All right, one more follow
Speaker 1: up on this game.
Speaker 2: The Giants have allowed the six month most rushing yards
Speaker 2: of the NFL. Saquon obviously hasn't been able to get
Speaker 2: it going this year. Do you think this is the
Speaker 2: time that he can against his ex team?
Speaker 1: Tell me if you think this is fair. If Saquon,
Speaker 1: assuming you know, he gets carries, it's not like the
Speaker 1: second half of the Broncos game. If Saquon gets the
Speaker 1: opportunity to get it going tonight against his former team
Speaker 1: that has a bad rush defense and doesn't get it going,
Speaker 1: do you think it's fair to say he's not going
Speaker 1: to get it going this season.
Speaker 2: I mean, I always feel like when teams play like
Speaker 2: their X players, they're all on ten. And then especially
Speaker 2: the Giants were really pissed it him when he left.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, those same guys were over there.
Speaker 2: But I mean he's also dealing with injury. I believe
Speaker 2: in Saquon. I just think it's I think it's a
Speaker 2: weird situation right now. I think it's also a little
Speaker 2: bit of the play calling as well.
Speaker 1: But no, I think it's all of the above, for
Speaker 1: whatever it's worth. Last year against the Giants Saquon in
Speaker 1: the first game against them, did he not?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he missed the last game against him. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was the final game of the year. In the first
Speaker 1: game against him, he had seventeen carries for one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy six yards all right, So they were really
Speaker 1: able to slow him down. I think it does. If
Speaker 1: has another quiet game, then I think it's fair to
Speaker 1: just be like, hey, this year, he's not gonna have
Speaker 1: a great year. The wear and tear of last season,
Speaker 1: the extra games, the extra carries. Did you already say
Speaker 1: that eighty three and a half?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean a touchdown.
Speaker 1: The touchdown prop to me is not instructive on how
Speaker 1: good of the game he has, you know, because so
Speaker 1: you you can have a well right, The toush push
Speaker 1: takes touchdowns away from him typically, but you could a
Speaker 1: running back can get a touchdown without having a great game.
Speaker 1: It's more about the yardage and listen, set at eighty
Speaker 1: three and a half. Given how this year is gone,
Speaker 1: it feels like the smart bets the under, but you
Speaker 1: gotta feel like he should be able to hit that over.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet in either direction, but he should be
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Speaker 2: Chiefs in primetime again, this time against Detroit. Detroit we
Speaker 2: know has looked pretty well ever since that week when
Speaker 2: lost in Green Bay. Kansas City is two to three,
Speaker 2: coming off of brutal loss to Jacksonville. You guys really
Speaker 2: need this one. How are you feeling well?
Speaker 1: It would feel like it makes up for giving away
Speaker 1: the game to the Jags right that after that Ravens
Speaker 1: game when they steadied themselves. If you had said the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna be three and three, getting Rashi rice back.
Speaker 1: You just said, Okay, like that. Now, the assumption would
Speaker 1: have been they win at Jacksonville and lose at home
Speaker 1: to the Lions. I thought they could win both those games.
Speaker 1: They obviously, you know, could have won the Jags game.
Speaker 1: We spent a lot of time on it on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We don't have to rehash it. They they they didn't
Speaker 1: do it. I am going to spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time on this game during our pick show because the
Speaker 1: line is interesting. Of all the games where you thought
Speaker 1: the Chiefs might be home dogs, this would have been
Speaker 1: high on the list and they're not. The Lions are
Speaker 1: the hottest team in the league, and the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: coming off of many meltdown against Jacksonville, and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are still the favorites. This is what I'll say. Being
Speaker 1: two to four through six weeks not a death knell,
Speaker 1: but not great. So how badly do they need it?
Speaker 1: They need it, And I also think they they have
Speaker 1: played so many high leverage playoff games that you don't
Speaker 1: want to be playing a ton of high leverage regular
Speaker 1: season games leading into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And so the do you think the NonStop primetime games
Speaker 2: ever wayl in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Well, listen. Yeah, I think the fact that they are
Speaker 1: the premiere I don't care what their record is. I
Speaker 1: don't care honestly that the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are the premier team in the league. And
Speaker 1: because of that, for five years or six years now,
Speaker 1: they get everyone's best shot. Every single week they and
Speaker 1: they play. They're under the spotlight more than any other team.
Speaker 1: They have the you know, like you said, prime time pressure,
Speaker 1: all of it, more than every other team. And I
Speaker 1: think they have dealt with it as well as any
Speaker 1: team in the history of the league since you know,
Speaker 1: other than Brady's Pats, to be totally fair, and they
Speaker 1: felt with it to me as well as Brady's Pats.
Speaker 1: But they're not typically in this position of a slow
Speaker 1: start now. The last time they lost the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and I've said this many times, will say it again,
Speaker 1: they started that year three and four, and if they
Speaker 1: lose this game, they're gonna start this year three and four.
Speaker 1: And you might say, well, they could start two and
Speaker 1: five their next games against the Raiders and after that,
Speaker 1: so that they should be fine on that front. But
Speaker 1: I I this is a huge spot and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it more on Friday Show. I know you have
Speaker 1: a couple of quick follow ups on it.
Speaker 2: Though, Mahomes and Golf have gotten into a legendary shootout
Speaker 2: against each other before. What are you expecting in this one?
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna I think shootout is what it's
Speaker 1: gonna be.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: And also, Golf, I believe is one of the only
Speaker 1: act that maybe the only active starting quarterback that Patrick's
Speaker 1: played more than once that he's never beaten. I think
Speaker 1: he's zero to two against Golf the fifty four fifty
Speaker 1: one Classic on Monday Night six seven years ago and
Speaker 1: we see over. Yeah, I think those are the only
Speaker 1: two times they've played, and so oh that's I think
Speaker 1: that's an interesting little wrinkle to it. The bruises can
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm wrong on that, but I think
Speaker 1: that's in and that my be hard to look up
Speaker 1: in real time, but I think that's the case.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Uh, Golf, we know is a different quarterback
Speaker 2: when he's under pressure. Are you expecting a crazy game
Speaker 2: from Chris Jones or what are you expecting from Chris Jones?
Speaker 1: Listen? I think Chris. You know, Chris has to bounce back.
Speaker 1: It's a tough moment. For him at the end of
Speaker 1: that game. I'm not going to overreact to it was
Speaker 1: a tough moment, uh And you know, Patrick got a
Speaker 1: bad moment with the Big six, Chris had a bad
Speaker 1: moment with the play when Trevor fell down, and so
Speaker 1: you need your first ballot Hall of Fame guys to
Speaker 1: respond and I and I expect they will all right
Speaker 1: next game.
Speaker 2: All right, so it looks like we got Mac Jones again.
Speaker 2: Party's still dealing with that turf toe. You said there's
Speaker 2: no quarterback controversy in San Francisco, But if Mac Jones
Speaker 2: kid managed to pull this one off against Tampa Bay,
Speaker 2: who's kind of been humbled as well.
Speaker 1: I don't think there will be a controversy in the building.
Speaker 1: I don't think Shanahan is going to, you know, consider
Speaker 1: not playing Brock and he's healthy. But I do think
Speaker 1: there will be a lot of noise surrounding it. And
Speaker 1: I also think the better Mac plays and the better
Speaker 1: the team plays, the more cautious they'll be with Perty's
Speaker 1: injury that we're now told could linger all year. And
Speaker 1: I do think because of the injury, if Purdy comes
Speaker 1: back and plays really poorly, I think that there are
Speaker 1: they have an out to go back to mac Jones
Speaker 1: without being like we benched Brock to be like, no,
Speaker 1: he's not healthy, and listen, I think Shanahan will just
Speaker 1: They drafted a kid third overall and before he had
Speaker 1: barely played, they were like, no, we're going with Purty.
Speaker 1: They you know they are not will He is willing
Speaker 1: to simply play whoever he thinks that season. Those games
Speaker 1: give him the best chance. And I've been skeptical of
Speaker 1: the Niners, but you have to give him it for
Speaker 1: being four and one, dealing with all these injuries, and
Speaker 1: you know some Kittle will be back. The other receivers
Speaker 1: you know will be back. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: to expect from Ayuk, but they're a dangerous team at
Speaker 1: this point. And San Francisco Tampa is just an awesome game.
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Speaker 2: Uh So, Monday, last year's top two picks, Kle Williams
Speaker 2: and Jane Dames are facing off, and we remember how
Speaker 2: last year went with the hail Mary. Who needs this game?
Speaker 2: Who needs this game more?
Speaker 1: Between the I think the Bears coming off of bye,
Speaker 1: I think the Bears need it more. And I also
Speaker 1: think that we are in a very cool spot where
Speaker 1: twenty ish games into these guys' careers, we really don't
Speaker 1: know Caleb, Jaden, Drake, Who's who's gonna be the best
Speaker 1: of them? We just don't know it like it was
Speaker 1: we knew the last time when it was ced Bryce, CJ,
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson. It was very clear, and even though CJ
Speaker 1: is regressed a bit, there's been no debate at any
Speaker 1: point who the best quarterback in that class is gonna be.
Speaker 1: It's CJ. Anthony can't get on the field and Bryce
Speaker 1: is about to get taken off the field. Jaden obviously
Speaker 1: had this transcendent, historic rookie season, but I still think
Speaker 1: Caleb is a viable option that he might end up
Speaker 1: being the best of that class, and Drake may some
Speaker 1: people think he already is the best of that class.
Speaker 1: So this is a really fun game and for Washington,
Speaker 1: it's to basically reassert themselves as Hey, we're just as
Speaker 1: good as we were last year, as long as Jaden
Speaker 1: is playing like. We lost a weird Thursday night game
Speaker 1: with a bunch of injuries to Green Bay, and then
Speaker 1: you know, we lost another game without Caleb, but we're here.
Speaker 1: And for Chicago, it's a way to stay on optimistic
Speaker 1: schedule for the season off of by play Jaden outplay him,
Speaker 1: get to three and two and then have the Saints, Ravens,
Speaker 1: Bengals Giants as your next four. And at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year that didn't sound like an easy stretch
Speaker 1: because of at Ravens at Bengals. Right now, at Ravens
Speaker 1: at Bengals is about as easy of a road stretch
Speaker 1: as you can have now. Again, Lamar should be back
Speaker 1: for that game, so that changes things. But yeah, the Bears.
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Speaker 1: green Bay real quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Cincy is heading over to Green Bay and
Speaker 2: they are fourteen point dogs. I don't know what that
Speaker 2: is because Cincinnati just created for Joe Flacco. Joe flaccoll
Speaker 2: obviously beat Green Bay earlier in the season. Do you
Speaker 2: think it's possible you can repeat this.
Speaker 1: I do not think it's possible he's going to repeat it.
Speaker 1: I am interested that Cincinnati wanted Flacco over Jamis. Like
Speaker 1: if I were trading for a veteran QB that I
Speaker 1: just like, hey man, can we just get the ball
Speaker 1: to our star receivers? I would have gone Jamis. And
Speaker 1: I also, here's my other thing. There's I have two
Speaker 1: other notes on this. One is that and I'll just
Speaker 1: never get over this. And I understand this is now
Speaker 1: almost ten years old, but I remember the insistence at
Speaker 1: times when people were trying to act like Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 1: was not blackballed from the NFL. One of the big
Speaker 1: things that would happen his first year of being black
Speaker 1: baled was when a quarterback got hurt and folks like
Speaker 1: me on TV were like, hey, you can call cap.
Speaker 1: The response would be like, oh, well, no reason to,
Speaker 1: because you know, the starter is supposed to be back
Speaker 1: in three weeks, and it would take him two or
Speaker 1: three weeks to get up to speed for the playbook anyway.
Speaker 1: And then every year we see an instance where it's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not true. We saw Baker Mayfield the day after
Speaker 1: he got signed by the Rams win a game for them.
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco is going to play this week. He was
Speaker 1: traded for two days ago. And so that, you know,
Speaker 1: I just I feel almost an obligation to remind the
Speaker 1: audience how many people put their head in the sand
Speaker 1: that Colin Kaepernick was not being blackballed and just created
Speaker 1: narratives out of whole cloth that have no grounding and
Speaker 1: how actual NFL football works. The other one is this,
Speaker 1: if they name Bailey Zappi the second string quarterback over Shadoor,
Speaker 1: then we've got a real problem Again, I am not.
Speaker 1: I think I have been very fair. I've called balls
Speaker 1: and strikes on the Shador thing. I don't think many
Speaker 1: people have. I think a lot of people are trying
Speaker 1: to play to Twitter mentions or afraid of getting on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of people or whatever it is. But
Speaker 1: you cannot have Bailey Zappi jump Shador in the depth chart.
Speaker 1: You can't. And it is the idea of oh does
Speaker 1: not go ahead.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's also going to get to a
Speaker 2: point where the Browns when it's like, if Gabriel, they
Speaker 2: might as well just get you know, five games in
Speaker 2: from Gabriel, five games in from Shador or whatever, they
Speaker 2: can test some stuff out. You guys aren't about to
Speaker 2: do anything.
Speaker 1: I think that's what the owner wants them to do.
Speaker 1: But I think that the Browns themselves, in fairness, if
Speaker 1: Gabriel plays well, then he should just stay the starter
Speaker 1: right like the you know it would they they should.
Speaker 1: There should be no circumstances where Gabriel is playing really
Speaker 1: well and they're like, no, we have to put you
Speaker 1: to the bench to play. Sure, that shouldn't happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it's mediocre, at some point you got to play Shador.
Speaker 1: You'll want to see some of Shador. But if you
Speaker 1: put Bailey Zappy in, we we have a we have
Speaker 1: a problem. We and I not even if you put
Speaker 1: him in, if he is listed as the backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have some real questions. All right, the mont let,
Speaker 1: Let's get some of the listener questions. Donna says, did
Speaker 1: I miss the picks again? Just a reminder for the audience.
Speaker 1: Picks Now is its own separate show that comes out
Speaker 1: on Fridays, So you guys will get all the picks
Speaker 1: and we will go through every single game other than
Speaker 1: Thursday night game on Friday for Friday Show.
Speaker 2: All right, Next, Curtis s which of the quarterbacks in
Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen draft class will win a Super Bowl? First?
Speaker 2: You got Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen, and Lamar Jackson. Dude,
Speaker 2: that's I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think two of them could win it
Speaker 1: this year. And Baker and Josh I like that. That
Speaker 1: could be your super Bowl this year. Yeah, if the
Speaker 1: Bills make it, that's the super Bowl I think we'll get.
Speaker 1: I would say if I were I would say Josh,
Speaker 1: I would power rank it Josh Baker, Lamar Donald one
Speaker 1: through four. But that's all of a sudden turning into
Speaker 1: a monster quarterback class. And I'm sorry that we've got
Speaker 1: Baker out of Lamar, but I just, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I think Baker, at least for this season, is in
Speaker 1: a much better position.
Speaker 2: All right, Next, uh Zicco. As Colin said, Golf is
Speaker 2: one hundred percent Hall of Famer. I think he's not
Speaker 2: even close unless he wins uh wins super Bowls. What
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 1: I didn't hear Colin say that Jared Goff is not
Speaker 1: even close to being a Hall of Famer. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just like not. And I don't even think one
Speaker 1: super Bowl win would get him in. So like I
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Zeko, And I gotta Colin sometimes
Speaker 1: plays fast loose with the yeah, and I also gotta
Speaker 1: see what he actually said.
Speaker 2: All right. Last though, Ethan asked Nick, what's your favorite
Speaker 2: part about living in New York City? If you didn't
Speaker 2: have to work, would you stay there?
Speaker 1: The food and the culture and the big events that
Speaker 1: are here is my favorite part if I didn't have
Speaker 1: to work. Listen, there's the if. I I think New
Speaker 1: York City is an amazing place to live if the
Speaker 1: fact that it is obnoxiously expensive doesn't ruin it for you.
Speaker 1: So like I would have not enjoyed living here at
Speaker 1: all ten years ago. And you know, just so the
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say that without sounding like
Speaker 1: an I'm not trying to sound like an elitist. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to I'm just being transparent to the audience. Like,
Speaker 1: if you're going to have money related stresses, that'll sap
Speaker 1: all of the cool parts of the city away from it,
Speaker 1: and so much of the cool parts of the city
Speaker 1: cost a lot, so the and so I assume it's
Speaker 1: similar to like Paris in that way, Like Paris is
Speaker 1: unbelievable if you can take advantage of all the things
Speaker 1: Paris has. All right, there's some stuff for Demonse quickly.
Speaker 1: Leons must be new to the show, says, what's this
Speaker 1: guy's name on the right, and who is he to nick?
Speaker 1: His name is Demanse and he's my son. Andy demands
Speaker 1: this snake update.
Speaker 2: Demons, Hey man, the snakes are all doing good. Everybody's
Speaker 2: eating well, we're just at that process is selling them.
Speaker 2: You know, I got a bunch of guys hitting me
Speaker 2: up about stuff that is not pictured. H So you know,
Speaker 2: we're just dealing with that. I think it's all going
Speaker 2: very well though. Everything looks healthy. Okay.
Speaker 1: I feel like you might be under underpricing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think what do you like under like
Speaker 2: literally underpricing the snakes or underpriced?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I feel like, yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like you should if you have a bunch of people
Speaker 1: trying to buy them, then I think you, you know,
Speaker 1: to have the most efficient market here, I think you
Speaker 1: should raise, keep raising what you're asking and once you
Speaker 1: get to a price point where nobody in.
Speaker 2: Exactly no, no, no, the price that I told the
Speaker 2: first person definitely changed from the second person after. Okay,
Speaker 2: Garson was like, oh, yeah, that's all good. But like
Speaker 2: I'm not a gouger, and it doesn't didn't jump crazy,
Speaker 2: but but I know that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the fact that you're not trying to overprice them, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I also think you maybe have underpriced them a bit.
Speaker 1: And John says that when you did the mind bit
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