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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome in episode one thirty four, What's Right
Speaker 2: with Nick Wright? After the let's call it mixed reviews
Speaker 2: of my sweatsuit from yesterday from uh Thursday's show, I've
Speaker 2: decided I'm just gonna wear I'm gonna wear as many
Speaker 2: shows in a row some type of sweatsuit or tracksuit
Speaker 2: until I run out of it. They won't all be
Speaker 2: exactly coordinating, monochromatic. I should say the way the first one,
Speaker 2: the way the one on Thursday was. However, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be like this. Also, before we even get intoday Today's show,
Speaker 2: I'd like to say something about the local radio business.
Speaker 2: If I will, if I may, and I may. So
Speaker 2: I'm a radio guy through and through. I've done television
Speaker 2: now for amazingly God. I got hired by Fox April
Speaker 2: twentieth of twenty sixteen, so almost seven years. I'm a
Speaker 2: month away from seven years at Fox. But I did
Speaker 2: radio in college in Syracuse. I did radio for five
Speaker 2: years in Kansas City. I did radio for four years
Speaker 2: in Houston. During the TV show, I did two years
Speaker 2: of mad Dog Radio. And that's why I like doing
Speaker 2: this podcast. This podcast has a radio feel to it,
Speaker 2: and sometimes the local radio industry is just maddening. So
Speaker 2: on two different coasts, in two different, drastically different sized markets,
Speaker 2: there were two I don't even know if you'd call
Speaker 2: them firings, but two guys were let go and both
Speaker 2: are indefensible for different reasons. One guy I know, one
Speaker 2: guy I don't. And I just want to spend ninety
Speaker 2: seconds on it here to start the show before we
Speaker 2: get to the NFL free agency and everything. So in Syracuse,
Speaker 2: New York, Brent Axe, who has been the voice of
Speaker 2: Syracuse sports on a sports talk in a sports talk capacity,
Speaker 2: was let go yesterday or was it Sunday. It was
Speaker 2: announced yesterday, and they're not hiding what happened. The guy,
Speaker 2: the owner of the station, said he was too critical
Speaker 2: of Syracuse. Jim Beheim also happens to be an equity
Speaker 2: owner of the station. They're doing a lot more stuff
Speaker 2: with Bayheim now the BAM's retired. And the guy put
Speaker 2: quotes in the newspaper saying he bleeded Syracuse Orange and
Speaker 2: thought Brent was too critical, which would be an embarrassing
Speaker 2: quote to give for anyone. It's particularly embarrassing when you're
Speaker 2: talking about a region or a city, most notably a
Speaker 2: school that is supposed to have the best journalism program
Speaker 2: in the country, and saying you wish Brent Axe covered
Speaker 2: Syracuse the way he covered is the Buffalo Bills. Will
Speaker 2: the Bills my poking at them? Notwithstanding are going through
Speaker 2: the best period they've had in thirty years, while Syracuse football, basketball,
Speaker 2: lacrosse is going through arguably the worst period it's had
Speaker 2: in thirty years. So that I thought was mortifying. I
Speaker 2: feel sick for Brent, even though I don't know him. Then,
Speaker 2: on the other coast, Damon Bruce, who I do know,
Speaker 2: who I think is one of the three or four
Speaker 2: or best sports talk guys in the country. He got
Speaker 2: let go by my former employer, and best I can tell,
Speaker 2: and I haven't talked to Damon, but best I can
Speaker 2: tell he was a victim of longevity and success. Damon
Speaker 2: just crushed in the ratings. He worked for the game
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, which is owned by the same company
Speaker 2: that owned the station I worked for in Kansas City
Speaker 2: and Houston, and was number one in the ratings, beating
Speaker 2: the other station had been there a decade. And these
Speaker 2: companies because so many of the of the programmers aren't
Speaker 2: actual programmers. They're salespeople or whomever they got promoted that
Speaker 2: don't understand the value of the actual human being. To
Speaker 2: generate the ratings, to generate the success, they were like,
Speaker 2: well we got a cup budget. And again I haven't
Speaker 2: talked to Damon. It's just my guest. He probably was
Speaker 2: making a lot of money because the show is very successful,
Speaker 2: show continue to be successful, and so they just think
Speaker 2: they're like, well, you get rid of him and Ray
Speaker 2: Ratto save the most money. That's the best show, and
Speaker 2: so listen. I'm sure Damon will land on his feet.
Speaker 2: He had probably outgrown that local radio anyway.
Speaker 3: Maybe not.
Speaker 2: But it's just as a guy who when I got
Speaker 2: out of college I thought I would do I would
Speaker 2: do radio and radio only forever.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: Tough business. Tough business where one guy in a smaller
Speaker 2: market who has been doing it for twenty plus years
Speaker 2: gets fired for being honest, another guy in a major
Speaker 2: market gets fired for being too successful. Just brutal. All right,
Speaker 2: here's what's not on the show today. My Kansas City
Speaker 2: Chiefs signed Juwan Taylor to a huge deal. Well, in
Speaker 2: rumors they still might trade for Laramie Tunzel, which would
Speaker 2: give them far and away one of the best offensive
Speaker 2: lines in modern NFL history. We'll see if they end
Speaker 2: up making that happen. They're letting Orlando Brown, my buddy walk,
Speaker 2: the Chargers, Austin Eckler's eyeing a trade, and the Oscars
Speaker 2: did not make the show. Does Nick watch movies? Is
Speaker 2: on the screen? I do? I love movies. One of
Speaker 2: my favorite hobbies is watching good movies. But I don't
Speaker 2: have an Oscar's take. I was actually watching during the
Speaker 2: I watched Rihanna's performance, and then other than that, I
Speaker 2: was watching the Lakers blow a game to the Knicks.
Speaker 2: All right, demand let's get the show started.
Speaker 3: All right, man. So it's about ten forty five am
Speaker 3: on Tuesday, and we still don't know if Rogers is
Speaker 3: going to the Jets. Yeah, this is pretty low, even
Speaker 3: by his standards of always making everything about him. Uh huh. Well,
Speaker 3: the deal reportedly in place. All he has to do
Speaker 3: is make the decision yes or no, and he can't
Speaker 3: even do that if the Jets are still doing everything
Speaker 3: to get a guy doesn't even really seem like he
Speaker 3: wants to be on the team. Sure reports of that
Speaker 3: New York is pursuing Allenzard to get his favorite wide
Speaker 3: receiver from the last team. My question is, what is
Speaker 3: the point in the Jets doing this? Doesn't it seem
Speaker 3: like it's bound to fail.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the point is, and it's very simple. Last year,
Speaker 2: thirty seven quarterbacks through at least one hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: five passes. Yeah, by passer rating, the thirty fifth, thirty sixth,
Speaker 2: and thirty seventh rated. The three worst quarterbacks in the
Speaker 2: league by passer rating were Joe Flacco, Zach Wilson, Mike White,
Speaker 2: the three Jets quarterbacks. The Jets have not had competent
Speaker 2: quarterbacking in consecutive seasons in my adult life. They had
Speaker 2: a good year of Chad Pennington, a good year of
Speaker 2: Vinnie Testaverdi, a decent year of Brett Favre, but they
Speaker 2: can't string it together, and so they are desperate for
Speaker 2: any type of quarterbacking that is not awful. Rogers is
Speaker 2: a year removed from winning league MVP, so I understand
Speaker 2: why they feel like this is the move. Do I
Speaker 2: think it will work? No? But to me, the more
Speaker 2: notable thing is this Rogers. The one thing he has
Speaker 2: been consistent on is I won't drag this out. I
Speaker 2: understand that the Packers, the Jets, he didn't say the Jets,
Speaker 2: but the Packers and whomever else. They need to know
Speaker 2: what I'm doing before free agency starts. Free agency started yesterday,
Speaker 2: and we all know he's not retiring. Listen, if Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers actually retires, and because that I believe could be
Speaker 2: a torturous and difficult decision. Yeah, oh, you were watching
Speaker 2: FS one yesterday. I promised to do that yesterday. If
Speaker 2: he actually retires, I will apologize, and more than apologize
Speaker 2: because then all understanding. But I don't think there was
Speaker 2: ever a chance he was retiring. I don't think there's
Speaker 2: a chance he's retiring. You don't fight for a new
Speaker 2: contract to walk away from the best part of the
Speaker 2: new contract, which is the sixty million guaranteed he gets
Speaker 2: for playing this year. By the way, we'd get another
Speaker 2: forty million for playing next year, but sixty million guaranteed
Speaker 2: this year. So I believe this is just a bit
Speaker 2: of look at me, the Packers don't want it. You
Speaker 2: can argue the merits of that. But Mark Murphy, their
Speaker 2: team president, came out and said, the Packers don't you
Speaker 2: know that essentially said they don't want him. Did say,
Speaker 2: and I don't even realize after my little Syracuse thing,
Speaker 2: I'm wearing you drinking out of a Syracuse w a
Speaker 2: R mug uh. The Packers said they're ready to turn
Speaker 2: the page to Jordan Love. They're ready, and it sucks.
Speaker 2: What sucks, that just.
Speaker 3: Sucks with him that they ended up, you know, going
Speaker 3: with Jordan Love. That Rogers didn't abstain.
Speaker 2: Well, I know, I think they are choosing that. I
Speaker 2: think that they want to just move on, that they're
Speaker 2: done with this drama, that antics all of it, and
Speaker 2: they need to see Jordan play. And I think but
Speaker 2: here is the problem. The problem is and let me
Speaker 2: let me grab my computer so I can get this
Speaker 2: exactly right. Uh when I say free agency opened, yes yesterday, guys,
Speaker 2: if we have seen so many deals. We saw Jalen
Speaker 2: Ramsey traded. We just saw Jacobe Meyer sign. We saw
Speaker 2: Shaq Mason traded. We saw Taylor Heineke sign. We saw
Speaker 2: the Chiefs sign. We just mentioned him the right tackle
Speaker 2: Juwan Taylor, saw TJ. Edwards sign, We saw Tremaine Edmonds sign.
Speaker 2: We saw big deals by a lot of teams. Now,
Speaker 2: let me go to what the Jets have done on
Speaker 2: spot rank. The Jets have done nothing other than sign
Speaker 2: their own player, Quincy Williams to a contract extension and
Speaker 2: signed Greg Zerline a kicker. Okay, the Packers, let's see
Speaker 2: what they have done. The Packers agreed to a one year,
Speaker 2: six million dollar contract with a special team or slash corner.
Speaker 2: And that's it. You know why those teams haven't done
Speaker 2: anything because they're in a holding pattern, Rogers, and if
Speaker 2: you want to end up competing for a championship with
Speaker 2: either of these teams, you want them to have the
Speaker 2: information as soon as possible. And now, if the answer
Speaker 2: is Rogers has one more ask, and that ask his
Speaker 2: sign Alan Lazard, and then all agree to a trade.
Speaker 2: I suppose that's his prerogative, but I don't think that's
Speaker 2: the fastest path to getting him a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: What if he's waiting to announce his decision when he
Speaker 3: shows up on Pat McAfee's show on Tuesday, So see
Speaker 3: him doing something like that.
Speaker 2: I that would be That would make what I'm saying
Speaker 2: here even worse. If you're making the Jets, you know,
Speaker 2: unable to participate fully in free agency, unable to like
Speaker 2: the Jets. Gotta know, do we have Aaron Rodgers? If
Speaker 2: we do, do we? I don't think they would? But
Speaker 2: do we want trade for DeAndre Hopkins? Would they have
Speaker 2: wanted to trade for Jalen Ramsey? Jalen Rams went for
Speaker 2: a third round pick, Sauce Gardner Jalen Ramsey as your
Speaker 2: two corners. That seems fun. There's a lot of things
Speaker 2: to do, and I don't even know if he's going
Speaker 2: on McAfee today.
Speaker 3: That was drew S's question, By the way, I mean.
Speaker 2: I think some people are speculating that, even by Rogers standards,
Speaker 2: to me, that would be beyond all right.
Speaker 3: Next, all right, so a lot of people like the
Speaker 3: Jets to make a playoff run if Aaron Rodgers decides
Speaker 3: to go there. But Miami made a big splash over
Speaker 3: the weekend, like you just said, trading for Jalen Ramsey. Uh,
Speaker 3: and they got to an insurance policy in Mike white
Speaker 3: Er usual. You can never count out Bill Belichi.
Speaker 2: You can count him out out Beligium. The team says, okay,
Speaker 2: weapons they just lost j Kobe Myers to the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're gonna trade for DeAndre Hopkins and they have
Speaker 2: far and Away. Assuming Rogers goes there by a mile,
Speaker 2: the worst quarterback in the division, you can count out
Speaker 2: the Patriots.
Speaker 3: I say, we'll see. Okay, but none of this matters
Speaker 3: considering Buffalo's probably the overwhelming favorite to win the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, stop that. First of all, my aunt, listen, Miami's
Speaker 2: on their ass. Now, Miami was right there last year
Speaker 2: until Tua got hurt. You Now, I am not a
Speaker 2: huge to a guy, but the results were super positive
Speaker 2: obviously when he was healthy. Just for context, Well, the Bills, Wow,
Speaker 2: the Bills are I mean, there's Co's second favorites. The
Speaker 2: Chiefs are six to one, and then Eagles, Bills, Bengals,
Speaker 2: and Niners are all nine to one. So all those
Speaker 2: teams are tied at nine to one, and then the
Speaker 2: Dolphins are down all the way at twenty eight to one. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's different to win the Super Bowl, not to win
Speaker 2: the division or AFC or anything. So the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: the favorites by a healthy margin, and then Eagles, Bills, Bengals,
Speaker 2: and Niners are all nine to one. I the Bills
Speaker 2: Leslie Fraser retired or took a year away from football
Speaker 2: as their defensive coordinator. They're losing guys in free agency
Speaker 2: as we speak. We'll see. I don't listen. Josh Allen's
Speaker 2: going to have a lot of opportunities. However, this iteration
Speaker 2: of the Bills, their best chance might have been the
Speaker 2: last two years if you just look, or the last
Speaker 2: three years. If you look at the Bills last three years,
Speaker 2: they make the AFC Championship Game, and then the next
Speaker 2: year they don't play that well, but then they peak
Speaker 2: at the very end of the season, play amazing in
Speaker 2: the final few weeks, play a perfect game against the Patriots,
Speaker 2: have the Chiefs down with thirteen seconds left, and then
Speaker 2: this year they end up with the two seed. They
Speaker 2: get a fourth string quarterback in Round one in Miami.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and then they blow a home game to
Speaker 2: the Bengals. I do wonder if they take a step backwards. Now,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean they don't win the division. But Miami
Speaker 2: is Zavian Howard and Jalen Ramsey plus the other stuff
Speaker 2: they're doing, Miami can't be dismissed.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, Josh McDaniels and the Raiders
Speaker 3: finally got their Super Bowl winning former Patriots quarterback and
Speaker 3: Jimmy g. Yeah, Jimmy had pretty solid numbers last year,
Speaker 3: and now it gets ja Kobe Myers plus Davante Jacobs
Speaker 3: and Waller. Is Vegas the team that will give your
Speaker 3: Chiefs the most trouble in the division.
Speaker 2: The Raiders are not as serious. They got worse at
Speaker 2: quarterback what Derek Carter and Jimmy g they got.
Speaker 3: Finally saying the Saints shouldn't have traded for.
Speaker 2: Well, the Saints shouldn't have signed him because the Saints
Speaker 2: need to admit they're and rebuild. But I think the
Speaker 2: Jets should have signed him. I think Carl Listen Carr
Speaker 2: is the definition of a league average quarterback Jimmy's a
Speaker 2: below average quarterback, but gimme, the Raiders are the least
Speaker 2: of my words, the Raiders are likely going to finish
Speaker 2: last in that division. The Raiders, here's fun fact a
Speaker 2: few of them for you. First of all, Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 2: has as a starter, has spent the entire time of
Speaker 2: his career in the NFC. Despite that, other than the
Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks, do you know Jimmy only this unbelievable stat
Speaker 2: By the way, Jimmy only has nineteen career losses tomorrow,
Speaker 2: say four of them have come to the Chiefs. He's
Speaker 2: zero and four against the Chiefs, and the Raiders since
Speaker 2: Mahomes got there are one and nine against the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: The one time the Raiders beat the Chiefs, they took
Speaker 2: their buses on laps around Arrowhead Stadium, and they've never
Speaker 2: beaten them since, and hadn't beat them in a couple
Speaker 2: of years prior to go ahead.
Speaker 3: Is Jimmy g cheaper than Derek Carr. He's got to
Speaker 3: be cheaper than that.
Speaker 2: He is cheaper than Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: So what if this is like some two way move
Speaker 3: to then get Brady Well cheap quarterback?
Speaker 2: The thing is Brad that Eric I said this on
Speaker 2: the show yesterday, Man Jeanie floated the idea of Brady
Speaker 2: coming back not at the beginning of the season, but
Speaker 2: later in the year. If a team suffers a quarterback injury,
Speaker 2: what is the quarterback most likely to get injured? Jimmy
Speaker 2: g O. Jimmy g has been is injured. You know,
Speaker 2: he's been injured almost every year of his career in
Speaker 2: some capacity. You add to that the oh you add
Speaker 2: to that that that the Raiders Josh McDaniels, they know
Speaker 2: the offense. That's an offense Brad he's used to. I
Speaker 2: could see that happening at some point, But right now
Speaker 2: they're playing as Jimmy g and that's a bad plan. Flatly,
Speaker 2: that's a bad plan. Right If you're power ranking the
Speaker 2: AFC West, it's very very simple. It's the Chiefs number
Speaker 2: one with a bullet, the Chargers lingering, then a big
Speaker 2: gap the Broncos, and then the Raiders. The Broncos are
Speaker 2: gonna get a boost because Russell won't be the worst
Speaker 2: quarterback in the AFC this year, and Sean Payton will
Speaker 2: be really good for them.
Speaker 3: You don't think that Russell's gonna have. Like, I know,
Speaker 3: this is kind of off topic. You're right, quarterbacks, You
Speaker 3: don't think Russell's gonna have like a comeback season.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you'll bounce back a bit. And like
Speaker 2: I said, he won't be the worst quarterback in the AFC,
Speaker 2: but I don't think he's gonna be top ten. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's gonna be very good.
Speaker 3: All right, next, All right, the draft isn't for a
Speaker 3: few months, but the Bears are already looking like winners
Speaker 3: man It traded back to the ninth spot for a
Speaker 3: bundle of assets and are set up for the future.
Speaker 3: Now they're definitely winning eleven games again this season.
Speaker 2: What are we showing?
Speaker 3: Well, flashback one of your hot takes. Oh, okay, see this,
Speaker 3: this is so misleading and unfair. This was you see
Speaker 3: how we're still remote? This was.
Speaker 2: I do a I do a thing every year where
Speaker 2: the day after the schedule comes out, I pick every
Speaker 2: single game. And that is I am not tied to that.
Speaker 2: It is not my official predictions. It is it is
Speaker 2: I go through all two hundred and seventy two games
Speaker 2: week by week, kind of agnostic of what it would
Speaker 2: mean the team's record is. I just look at Week one,
Speaker 2: and I pick winners week two, Week three, Week four,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And then at the end of it, I
Speaker 2: see what everybody's record is. So I was not in
Speaker 2: a the Bears winning eleven games go ahead.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna ask, I mean, what type of
Speaker 3: season did it? Because I just became like a real
Speaker 3: football Yeah, that's sure, I guess. So I asked My
Speaker 3: question was what was the Bears record the year before that?
Speaker 2: On wasn't good, but they were starting a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 2: Two years prior, they had made the playoffs with Mitch
Speaker 2: Trubisky as their quarterback, but they had the Bears. After
Speaker 2: I did that, they tore everything down, They traded away
Speaker 2: all their players, they cleared the books, and we're not
Speaker 2: rehabbing a take that wasn't even a take.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right, everybody's saying the Bears won the trade.
Speaker 3: But this means that they're choosing fields over the number
Speaker 3: one quarterback in the draft.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Will this Will this end up being a huge missed opportunity?
Speaker 2: No, I think it's smart because if they are, they
Speaker 2: now have a number one receiver for fields and Dj
Speaker 2: Moore they are they have a legitimate receiving core with
Speaker 2: with DJ Moore, Chase Claypool and Mooney, they still so
Speaker 2: what they got was the ninth pick. Carolina's the ninth
Speaker 2: pick this year, a second from Carolina this year. Whi's
Speaker 2: like thirty seven or something. The Carolina's first next year
Speaker 2: that's important, and Carolina's second in two years? So why
Speaker 2: is Carolina's first next year important? Carolina is gonna be
Speaker 2: starting a rookie quarterback. They don't have Christian McCaffer anymore,
Speaker 2: they don't have DJ Moore anymore. They're in a rebuild,
Speaker 2: so they're gonna be terrible next season. They are probably
Speaker 2: gonna have a top five pick next season, but that
Speaker 2: goes to the Bears. So now, what the Bears can
Speaker 2: do is barely evaluate justin fields and next year, if
Speaker 2: he's no good, they'll have a good draft pick plus
Speaker 2: Carolina's good draft pick. They can then draft their quarterback
Speaker 2: next year. If not, if he is good, right off
Speaker 2: into lineman the ninth pick of the draft. And if
Speaker 2: he is good, you can then use those two picks
Speaker 2: next season to upgrade the defense or do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: So I think this was smart by the Bears. They
Speaker 2: traded down a lot. Now you could have traded with
Speaker 2: the Colts at four, but you wouldn't have got what
Speaker 2: they got. Carolina is number one next year, which is
Speaker 2: intensely valuable because Caroline's gonna be starting a rookie quarterback
Speaker 2: and not any good a second rounder, A good second
Speaker 2: rounder from Carolina this year, which is valuable, a future
Speaker 2: second rounder which is semi valuable. And Dj Moore, who
Speaker 2: if you tried to trade for Dj Moore, you'd probably
Speaker 2: have to trade a late first. So they got the
Speaker 2: ninth pick this year, the equivalent of a future first.
Speaker 2: And Dj Moore because that's what you would add trade
Speaker 2: for him, and what I think will be a great
Speaker 2: first round pick next year. And two seconds. That's as
Speaker 2: good as you could have done. Now, you need Justin
Speaker 2: Fils developed as a passer, but I like Justin fields
Speaker 2: and is an athlete, and you just gotta be a
Speaker 2: little more refined as a passer. And the other part
Speaker 2: for me is this, I would feel like it was
Speaker 2: a huge missed opportunity of Caleb Williams within this year's draft,
Speaker 2: the quarterback from USC that won the Heisman this past year,
Speaker 2: who I think is going to be a superstar, but
Speaker 2: Bryce Young's too small. Ohio State quarterbacks don't have a
Speaker 2: good track record in the NFL. Let's c J. Stroud.
Speaker 2: And then there's Anthony Richardson who is intriguing, but number
Speaker 2: one overall picks seems a stretch for me. So if
Speaker 2: there was, I think they made the right move. I
Speaker 2: like it, and I understanding Carolina finally saying, all right,
Speaker 2: let's go get our quarterback. All right, quick break, don't
Speaker 2: forget you guys. Canna ask questions, We'll answer them the
Speaker 2: C block, We got some games play and I go
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Speaker 2: Right, Welcome back in what dry with Nick? Right? Episode one?
Speaker 5: Four?
Speaker 2: Uh, demand before we get to the game or whatever
Speaker 2: game we're playing today. I think it's right or wrong.
Speaker 2: Talk a little wall, NBA.
Speaker 3: All right, the MVP debate is front and center, no
Speaker 3: pun intended. That's boring since obviously Yokic should win.
Speaker 2: I don't think yok is gonna win.
Speaker 3: You think it Beat's gonna win.
Speaker 2: I think is gonna win. I you know, if you
Speaker 2: have a boat, you're not allowed to gamble on it.
Speaker 2: The NBA, egregiously won't give me a vote. I don't
Speaker 2: understand why. I don't understand how am I not one
Speaker 2: of the one hundred most qualified people, probably the way.
Speaker 3: You're talking about the future three time MVP.
Speaker 2: Okay, well okay maybe uh But because I don't have
Speaker 2: a vote, I can gamble on it, and I bet
Speaker 2: I got. I made two big NBA bets yesterday. Really yeah,
Speaker 2: I did futures. So I bet a significant amount on
Speaker 2: EMBIID to win MVP at plus three hundred. I think
Speaker 2: right now it's a coin flip. Right now, I think
Speaker 2: it's like forty five percent EMBIID forty five percent, Jokic
Speaker 2: ten percent, Yarns and I got embid at three to one.
Speaker 2: I also bet the Lakers to win the title. What
Speaker 2: do you you're laughing at me? What do you think? Okay,
Speaker 2: you're laughing. Just wait a second. What do you think?
Speaker 2: I got him at.
Speaker 3: What's sixteen to thirty two to one, forty nine to one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, forty nine to one, forty nine to one
Speaker 2: to one. Say, this is this is the old Adam?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: What's the Adam Sandler? This is how I win? Meme?
Speaker 2: Seeing that Oh from have you not seen Uncut Gyms?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, you would love that movie now that you're a gambler. Oh,
Speaker 2: you got to go watch it on Netflix as soon
Speaker 2: as you get home today. Kevin Garnett's in it. It
Speaker 2: was really good. It's stressful. That movie is stressful. But
Speaker 2: you know how I was this close to winning that
Speaker 2: fifty thousand on the Chiefs Niners Super Bowl exacta.
Speaker 3: As you were drunk at two in the morning on
Speaker 3: some random what do you mean me? No, the how'd
Speaker 3: you come from?
Speaker 2: No, that's how you lost you? No, the Chiefs Niners
Speaker 2: Future from before the year. I picked it and I
Speaker 2: wouldn't hedge out of it. Our whole season long bet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I put a thousand bucks on the Lakers at forty
Speaker 2: nine to one, So that's not that's forty So I'm
Speaker 2: just letting you know, and I won't hedge out of it.
Speaker 2: But I like the Lakers chances right now. But that's
Speaker 2: either here or there. Let's get at the All NBA stuff.
Speaker 3: The more interesting debate may just be the All NBA debate. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you released your ballot on Twitter. Do your best rationalize
Speaker 3: having Lebronz, Steph and Katie on there while all while
Speaker 3: missing half the season.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's go. Let's go through. Uh, let's go
Speaker 2: through the list here of what we've got the for
Speaker 2: the All NBA. What my tweet was? Okay, so my
Speaker 2: tweet what was a lot can change in the final month.
Speaker 2: As of now, my All NBA teams would be So
Speaker 2: I am going to go with the traditional rules that
Speaker 2: a center is a center. So I'm not putting Jokic
Speaker 2: and in Bid both on my first team. I know
Speaker 2: they pardon me. They changed the rules last year so
Speaker 2: you could. But that's ridiculous, Jokic, you'r All NBA teams
Speaker 2: should theoretically be able to take the court together, and
Speaker 2: Jokic and Embiid would never be on the court together.
Speaker 2: Neither one of them will forward, so you have to
Speaker 2: choose between them. So I went Embiid center. Some of
Speaker 2: these are obvious. Tatum's got to be a first team forward,
Speaker 2: Giannis has to be a first team forward, Embiid or
Speaker 2: Jokic have to be a first team center, and Luke
Speaker 2: has to be a first team guard. So that then
Speaker 2: leaves one guard spot available. I'm rewarding winning how clutch
Speaker 2: he has been. Daron Fox gets my last first team
Speaker 2: guard spot. As of now, they are are they still
Speaker 2: the two seater? Did they fall technically to the three line?
Speaker 2: Last night? They're the three seed by a game. He's
Speaker 2: been outstanding. I don't think there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 2: of argument there. Now we get to second team, so
Speaker 2: Jokicic is the center. It's either Jokic, Embiad and Beaid.
Speaker 2: Jokic is the center. We'll get to Lebron the forwards
Speaker 2: in a moment. Durant, well, so here's the problem, So
Speaker 2: well let me get there. Okay, So this is where
Speaker 2: I say it can change, because right now, when it
Speaker 2: comes to games play, So the Lakers have played sixty
Speaker 2: six games, right, sixty eight games. Lebron's played forty seven, okay,
Speaker 2: Steph has played forty three, Durant has played forty two.
Speaker 2: All right, you out of six forty seven forty five
Speaker 2: forty two out of sixty six is barely enough, but
Speaker 2: enough forty seven forty five, forty two out of eighty
Speaker 2: two is not enough. You gotta play at least a
Speaker 2: little more, you know, more than half the season, So
Speaker 2: Durant could fall off it. If Durant doesn't come back
Speaker 2: at all, Steph is healthy and playing, we'll see how
Speaker 2: much longer Lebron's gonna miss? Can we throw that back
Speaker 2: on the screen though the All NBA ballot right now?
Speaker 2: Though all of those guys have played enough in my
Speaker 2: opinion to qualify. So Lebron was underrated, how exceptional he
Speaker 2: was despite the roster being fully broken to start the year,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that Anthony Davis was out injured. Lebron
Speaker 2: for the season is thirty points, eight rebound, seven assists
Speaker 2: on better than fifty percent from the field. Now Durant
Speaker 2: is similar numbers, worst passing more efficient. However, Durance missed
Speaker 2: more time and I am flatly and I think it's
Speaker 2: fair gonna ding you a bit for demanding a trade
Speaker 2: from a team you built like. So there's that. Plus
Speaker 2: he's played less, so that's Lebron over Durant. Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: Lauri Markinin. Lari Markinin's numbers are better. I have Jimmy
Speaker 2: Butler's second team. Lauri markin in thirteen numbers are better.
Speaker 2: Jimmy is such a winning player and if you watched
Speaker 2: last night, a defensive play to help win the game
Speaker 2: he hit. He never shoots threes. He had huge three
Speaker 2: last night. To me, he's just one of the fifteen
Speaker 2: best guys in the league. And now there really and
Speaker 2: then guys big men who missed or frontcourt guys who missed.
Speaker 2: Kawhi missed. Kawhi is close. Kawhi has only played forty
Speaker 2: one games and his numbers are only twenty four points
Speaker 2: per game. But since mid January he's been unbelievable. But
Speaker 2: because he's played so little and a lot of those
Speaker 2: games who's on a minute restriction, he just misses and
Speaker 2: Bam misses. Because I think the Kings deserve two guys,
Speaker 2: and Demontes Sabonis has been awesome, so Demontes gets my
Speaker 2: final center spot.
Speaker 3: So Kawhi could take Durant's spot in a few get
Speaker 3: more games.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, Kahi absolutely could take Throw that back on
Speaker 2: the screen again, guys, Sorry, Kawhi absolutely could take Durant spot.
Speaker 2: In fact, I would anticipate he might take Durant spot.
Speaker 2: And then there's the guard stuff and it's the hardest.
Speaker 2: So Steph has been unbelievable for a bad team. He's
Speaker 2: carried them. I know he's missed time, but he's one
Speaker 2: of the greatest players ever. He's having an awesome season.
Speaker 2: He's averaging thirty a game. He's shooting forty four percent
Speaker 2: from three. He's averaging thirty six and six. Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 2: has been the difference for the Cavs this year. He's
Speaker 2: giving you also around thirty a game and then Dame
Speaker 2: his team stinks is the problem. But he is averaging
Speaker 2: thirty to a night and shooting thirty eight percent from three.
Speaker 2: And I think James Harden's been underrated in what he's
Speaker 2: done with Philly, and Philly could win the title. Harden
Speaker 2: this year. I think people are discounting him. His scoring
Speaker 2: is down, but he's twenty two point six rebounds eleven
Speaker 2: assists on four and three, and the Sixers deserve two guys.
Speaker 2: But that does leave Sga off it entirely, which feels unfair,
Speaker 2: but they also are now losing a lot. Jalen Brown
Speaker 2: doesn't make it and Anthony Edwards doesn't make it. Sga
Speaker 2: was the hardest one to leave off. Maybe I end
Speaker 2: up taking Dame off for him, but I do think
Speaker 2: Dame's better than him. But that's my all NBA as
Speaker 2: of now. It can James, there's a month left.
Speaker 3: Can you bet on all NBA?
Speaker 2: Maybe I've never seen it, but maybe you can't. Oh sure,
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the game.
Speaker 3: All right, today we're playing right or wrong? First up,
Speaker 3: we got with Rogers assumedly going to the Jets and
Speaker 3: the Dolphins signing Mike White to an Inevita in that place.
Speaker 3: Yeah to At some point, where does that leave Mac
Speaker 3: Jones right or wrong? Back? Jones is the fifth best
Speaker 3: quarterback in the AFC East.
Speaker 2: Well, I actually think right, but not because of Mike White,
Speaker 2: because I think Zappi is better than him. I think
Speaker 2: it's Josh Allen, Tua Well, Josh Allen, Rogers and Tua Zappi.
Speaker 2: Mac Jones, So I think that's right. Fifth best quarterback
Speaker 2: in the AFCs. Next, jeez, with uh.
Speaker 3: With Rogers and Brady out of the NFC, the conference's
Speaker 3: quarterback situation is looking pretty dicey, right or wrong? The
Speaker 3: second best quarterback in the NFC is Jared Goff.
Speaker 2: Yeah so no, no, no, no, no, he's not so if
Speaker 2: we're just gonna say, Jalen Hurts is one, DA's gotta
Speaker 2: be two. Yeah, Stafford's gotta be three. He was out
Speaker 2: injured this year. Stafford's gotta be three. And then and
Speaker 2: then I don't know. Golf is in the gino. Golf
Speaker 2: fields are all in the discussion. I'm leaving someone out
Speaker 2: that you want to include Daniel Daniel, your guy Dan?
Speaker 2: All right? Next?
Speaker 3: Uh? The forty nine ers signed the top defensive lineman
Speaker 3: and free agency and stayed away from the quarterbacks. That
Speaker 3: means that they have full belief in Lance party right
Speaker 3: or Lance or party yep, right right or wrong? Trey
Speaker 3: Lance will hold back to forty.
Speaker 2: Nine Ers wrong. If he's healthy, They're gonna be really
Speaker 2: good guys. They went to a Super Bowl and an
Speaker 2: NFC championship game with Jimmy Garoppolo. They then went to
Speaker 2: an NFC championship game with Brock Purty, the final pick
Speaker 2: of the draft as a rookie.
Speaker 3: The idea, I think Rock Party would nice though, Wait no.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think he was very good
Speaker 2: Rock Party. I think he played well because Shanahan's offenses
Speaker 2: quarterback proof. I think Trey Lance will be an upgrade
Speaker 2: for them if Trey Lance is healthy. That's why I
Speaker 2: picked them to go to the super Bowl. If Trey
Speaker 2: Lance is healthy, I believe, well, I just I mean,
Speaker 2: he's played fine in his opportunities except for the Monsoon
Speaker 2: game against the Bears to Week one this year, He's
Speaker 2: had very limited opportunities. I believe in the talent, and
Speaker 2: I believe a mobile, mobile running quarterback in Shanahan's system
Speaker 2: could be unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Next I'm excited to see it. Yeah, all right. Reports
Speaker 3: out that Tom Brady's replacement in Tampa could be your
Speaker 3: old Powell Baker Mayfield. Ready to buy a bit of right,
Speaker 3: ready to buy a bit more Baker's dock right or wrong.
Speaker 3: Baker will be the start the Bucks starter week.
Speaker 2: One, so that's interesting one. I think he will be,
Speaker 2: and they do still have good receivers, and I think
Speaker 2: that's a good buy low Chris Godwin, I think it's
Speaker 2: a good by low opportunity. I don't think they'll be
Speaker 2: very good. They're you know, they're slowly trying to rebuild.
Speaker 2: They just traded Jack Mason. But I think I think
Speaker 2: Baker could be fine there if he can stay up right.
Speaker 3: Next, all right, your crusade against the Saints cap decisions
Speaker 3: and Derek Carr may have made you public enemy number
Speaker 3: one in New Orleans. Right or wrong, Saints fans are
Speaker 3: now the number one nick right haters.
Speaker 2: Well, I Saints fans are being misled by Saints media.
Speaker 2: I I and the Saints media. Guys, we all know
Speaker 2: what's happening here. And I'm not going to name names,
Speaker 2: but I had three separate prominent national media people DM
Speaker 2: me yesterday when I was in this tet, a tet
Speaker 2: with Saints media, saying to various degrees, get them. These
Speaker 2: people are insufferable. Uh. And guys, we all know what's happening.
Speaker 2: Mickey Loomis and or Dennis Allen feed you information so
Speaker 2: you feel beholden to them, so you defend what is indefensible.
Speaker 2: And these guys acting like oh, you just don't understand
Speaker 2: what the Saints do with the cap. Yes, I do,
Speaker 2: pardon me that. It's very simple what the Saints do
Speaker 2: with the cap. Let me explain it briefly. What the
Speaker 2: Saints do with the reason they can owe they're in
Speaker 2: terrible cap shape, but now they're okay, is they convert
Speaker 2: salary into signing bonus. Salary must hit the cap that year.
Speaker 2: Signing bonus can be pro rated over the life of
Speaker 2: a contract. So if a guy is scheduled to make
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars in salary this year, he's a twenty
Speaker 2: million dollar cap hit. Okay, But if you turn that
Speaker 2: into one million in salary and a twenty million or
Speaker 2: nineteen million dollars signing bonus, you can then divvy that
Speaker 2: up over the remainder of the contract. Say he has
Speaker 2: four years left on the deal million five million, five million,
Speaker 2: five million, and now this year, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: he's a six million dollar cap your salary plus this
Speaker 2: year's signing bonus. The problem is the bill comes due.
Speaker 2: The problem is eventually every dollar you pay a player
Speaker 2: must be accounted for in some year's cap, and the
Speaker 2: same thing like, oh well, the cap goes up and
Speaker 2: we add void years. So void years are too nerdy
Speaker 2: to get into, but it's essentially fake years on the
Speaker 2: end of a deal that you can tack that signing
Speaker 2: bonus pro ration onto. But the player when those years come,
Speaker 2: they're not on their they're not under contract anymore, so
Speaker 2: then they hit your cap that year. I understand it
Speaker 2: very very well. It is of the many things you
Speaker 2: could try to gotcha on me? Gotcha nick on me
Speaker 2: is understanding the finances and the mechanisms of salary caps
Speaker 2: is not one of them. It's not astrophysics, guys. It's
Speaker 2: basic accounting practices. And what the Saints have done is
Speaker 2: continually kick the can down the road, so this year
Speaker 2: they can feel the most competitive team possible. The problem is,
Speaker 2: as they're walking down that road, they keep stumbling over
Speaker 2: previous kicked cans, and those Once a player is no
Speaker 2: longer on your roster, that pro ration hit you instantly,
Speaker 2: so you have what's called dead money, which is salary
Speaker 2: cap space allocated to players who are not on your team.
Speaker 2: It hits you that season, so two years ago, because
Speaker 2: they had done I understood them doing all of this.
Speaker 2: By the way, when you have a Hall of fame
Speaker 2: quarterback at the end of his career. You should go
Speaker 2: for it. You should say I'll pay this bill later.
Speaker 2: Let's get as many great players on the team right
Speaker 2: now as possible. That's what they're with Breeze. But then
Speaker 2: Breeze retired, and they had all these bad contracts and
Speaker 2: most notably Breeze's money came on the books, so they
Speaker 2: had forty million in dead money. So the salary gap,
Speaker 2: call it two hundred million, you're operating with one sixty.
Speaker 2: It puts you at a disadvantage. You have twenty percent
Speaker 2: of your cap not available to you. What they should
Speaker 2: have done is take their medicine and say, Okay, we're
Speaker 2: not gonna we missed our window. Drew retired, Let's clean
Speaker 2: up our books. Do what the Bears did. Bottom out
Speaker 2: for a year, clean up our books and move forward. Instead,
Speaker 2: they pretended they could win a Super Bowl with Jameis Winston,
Speaker 2: and then they saw they couldn't. And they did it
Speaker 2: again last year, and they saw they couldn't even win
Speaker 2: or come in second, maybe they tied for second, or
Speaker 2: remember the worst division in recent Infel history. And then
Speaker 2: they went and signed Derek Carr to pretend they could
Speaker 2: do it this year, and I understand the mechanisms. I
Speaker 2: understand what they're doing. I also understand that it is
Speaker 2: not a sustainable model, and the only way to justify
Speaker 2: it is if you are in a true win now,
Speaker 2: super Bowl window for a great quarterback at the end
Speaker 2: of his career. So right now the Saints actually have
Speaker 2: legit cap space. It's unbelievable, but they do. But next year,
Speaker 2: for the contracts they have on the books again, the
Speaker 2: solar CAP's at two hundred and twenty million. Next year
Speaker 2: they're at three hundred and forty four million, So they're
Speaker 2: more than one hundred million over next year's cap. Why
Speaker 2: is that, Well, they just restructured Jamis, so Jamis has
Speaker 2: those void years after this year that that hit the cap.
Speaker 2: Derek Carr this year's cap hit seven million bucks, next
Speaker 2: year thirty five million dollars and then forty five and
Speaker 2: fifty five. So you know what they'll do next year,
Speaker 2: They'll turn Derek Carr's salary into signing bonus and again
Speaker 2: have it inflate long term. What about Alvin Kamara this
Speaker 2: year eight million, next year eighteen million. Michael Thomas this
Speaker 2: year fourteen million next year sixty million dollars for receiver
Speaker 2: that doesn't even play anymore. Now will they actually pay that, No,
Speaker 2: of course not. But then all that bonus money pro
Speaker 2: ration comes due. Let's go to their Taysom Hill. This
Speaker 2: year seven million for Taysom Hill, which is an abomination,
Speaker 2: Next year fifteen million, the year after that fifteen million,
Speaker 2: and then void years of five million. A third string
Speaker 2: tight end who's two million this year, seven million next year,
Speaker 2: and then five million dollars avoid years that are going
Speaker 2: to hit their cap. We can go up and down
Speaker 2: the list. Ryan Ramchick, their their right tackle. Eleven million
Speaker 2: this year, twenty seven million the following year. Guys Cam
Speaker 2: Jordan who needs a new deal. Cam Jordan's on the
Speaker 2: last year of his deal. He's only fifteen million on
Speaker 2: the cap this year, He's twenty three million on their
Speaker 2: cap next year. To not play for them, that's a disaster.
Speaker 2: And so you guys can say, I don't understand what
Speaker 2: I'm telling Saints fans. One of my favorite cities in
Speaker 2: the country, New Orleans. Your local media is misleading.
Speaker 3: Someone someone said the Saints sound like degenerate Cambler's.
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's just they Oh there's the This is
Speaker 2: how I win. It is the Saints operate the salary
Speaker 2: cap the way I would expect someone to operate their
Speaker 2: America an Express card if the doctor just gave them
Speaker 2: a terminal diagnosis, like you have six months to live, Like, well,
Speaker 2: screw it. I'm never paying this bill by everything I want.
Speaker 2: But assuming the Saints believe the NFL is going to
Speaker 2: exist over the next decade, they are not operating smartly
Speaker 2: or correctly. Quick break answer your questions. Talk a little
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright
Speaker 2: Episode one thirty four. Before we get to your questions,
Speaker 2: demant say you had a March madness thing you want?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's the Sea Block ye the week of
Speaker 3: the tournament, and we still haven't talked about March madness. Man,
Speaker 3: what is this? All right?
Speaker 2: Well, so listen. I think it is my, particularly on
Speaker 2: this show, my responsibility to talk about things that either
Speaker 2: I am passionate about or I know a ton about.
Speaker 2: Going into the NCAA Tournament, I'm not the guy to
Speaker 2: get your college basketball placks from. I'm not watching a
Speaker 2: ton of regular season college basketball, and I unlike and
Speaker 2: I won't name names, but many of my colleagues across
Speaker 2: national sports media, I'm not going to pretend that I
Speaker 2: have real insight on who the sleepers are. So, like,
Speaker 2: what you're going to see is this from folks that
Speaker 2: are not watching any Now. Obviously a lot of people
Speaker 2: do watch college basketball. Listen to them. But you know
Speaker 2: what you're gonna hear. You're gonna hear a lot of this. Oh,
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you be careful. Utah State little sleeper
Speaker 2: team over Missouri in the Southern bracket for someone that
Speaker 2: couldn't name half a player on Utah State or on Missouri. Oh, guys,
Speaker 2: let me tell you, Let me tell you what my
Speaker 2: final four is okay. You know, in the South, I'm
Speaker 2: going with I'm going with Alabama despite all the controversies
Speaker 2: around in their program, too much talent. I like Alabama.
Speaker 3: In the Midwest, yeah, I think they do too.
Speaker 2: In the Midwest, we're going Houston. So top of the bracket,
Speaker 2: we're going Chalk. But it's gonna get a little crazy
Speaker 2: out West. Kansas upset they didn't get, you know, the
Speaker 2: Midwest brag where they get to play in Kansas City.
Speaker 2: I think Bill Self's tendency of losing to lower seated
Speaker 2: teams continues. You can upsets Kansas and the Sweet sixteen,
Speaker 2: but making it out of that bracket. You know what
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. I like Gonzaga. People think they're
Speaker 2: no good because of the soft schedule. I like the
Speaker 2: the veterans on that team. And then out East. So
Speaker 2: we've got two ones in a three and out eas
Speaker 2: This is where your brackets get busted. Everybody in a year,
Speaker 2: everyone rode them off. Coach cal and Kentucky rally get
Speaker 2: it together at the end of the year and come
Speaker 2: out of the East. So we've got Alabama, Houston. We've
Speaker 2: got a minor upset out West with Gonzaga making another
Speaker 2: final man Mark Few, never underestimate Mark Few, and then
Speaker 2: out East coach cal Is a one seed he under
Speaker 2: achieves in a year where they say is on the
Speaker 2: hot seat, he makes his twelfth career Elite eight makes
Speaker 2: another Final four. There it is, it's all fake. You
Speaker 2: know who watches college basketball and you know who doesn't. Now,
Speaker 2: I will be locked into the tournament because it's the tournament,
Speaker 2: and after this weekend, I might have some opinions once
Speaker 2: I've watched these games, all of them, and watched all
Speaker 2: these teams, But right now I don't have a take
Speaker 2: other than my take every year, which is, if you
Speaker 2: want to be able to brag about your bracket, you
Speaker 2: are only allowed to fill out one. You can't have
Speaker 2: six different final fours, an upset bracket. Talk bracket of
Speaker 2: this bracket, and then tell me about how good your
Speaker 2: bracket is. Now, let's get to the listener questions.
Speaker 3: All right, First we got Ryan Fitzgerald. He asked, how
Speaker 3: is Rogers to the Jets not another version of Russ
Speaker 3: to the Broncos.
Speaker 2: Well, they're not going to give him a new contract
Speaker 2: and they're not going to trade all those picks. So
Speaker 2: it's not going to be as devastating for them. But
Speaker 2: with the latest news, Schefter said they might be signing
Speaker 2: Randall Cobb two, So that's what that. Evidently what's taking
Speaker 2: so long is Rogers is making them sign as friends
Speaker 2: before he goes and plays for him next.
Speaker 3: Alix Fries said, is it possible teams are waiting until
Speaker 3: after the draft to make Lamar an offer so they
Speaker 3: can keep this year's draft pick, assuming next year's pick
Speaker 3: will be later in the first round.
Speaker 2: That's possible, and I think that might happen with the Colts.
Speaker 2: So the Colts want a Bryce Young. They were talking
Speaker 2: about trading up for the number one pick. They didn't.
Speaker 2: Now they're sitting at four. If it goes Stroud Young
Speaker 2: one to two, the cults of the fourth pick. If
Speaker 2: they were to try to sign Lamar now and the
Speaker 2: Ravens were to not match, they give up the fourth
Speaker 2: pick and next year's pick. They wait until after the draft,
Speaker 2: they give up next year's pick in the year after,
Speaker 2: and you would think with Lamar it's not gonna be
Speaker 2: the top four pick. So I do think that's absolutely
Speaker 2: in play. I also think Detroit is a sneaky Lamar contender.
Speaker 2: They could wait till after they have two first round
Speaker 2: picks that there are sixteen and eighteen I think, or
Speaker 2: six and eighteen, pardon me, wait until after the draft,
Speaker 2: and then trade Golf for probably two get Lamar. It
Speaker 2: could happen next.
Speaker 3: All right? Aurora Robriguez said, what's one player you want
Speaker 3: the Chiefs to sign or trade for?
Speaker 2: I think Odell might go to the Chiefs, and I
Speaker 2: think that is hard leaving Hardman's gonna be gone. Juju
Speaker 2: might be back if they let Juju walk. I would
Speaker 2: sign Odell, and there seems to be a little bit
Speaker 2: smoke around them trading for Laramie Tunsell. It would be
Speaker 2: surprising to me after they just signed Jawan Taylor to
Speaker 2: four years eighty million. But that your tackles, I guess
Speaker 2: would be set. All right.
Speaker 3: Next Negative four and two said, do you think the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers getting Sam Donald is a further hit
Speaker 3: that they want to trade Trey Lance?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I think Sam Donald is a hint that
Speaker 2: they're not certain Brock Purdy is going to be healthy
Speaker 2: for Week one and they need a backup quarterback.
Speaker 3: Next Ryan Patierano, Nick, what are your thoughts on the reports?
Speaker 3: That players will need to play a minimum number of
Speaker 3: games to qualify for NBA awards.
Speaker 2: I think that's one solution. You got to figure something out, guys.
Speaker 2: You can't. I'm not trying to sound like old man here,
Speaker 2: but and it's a lot of the teams doing it,
Speaker 2: imposing it on the players rather than the players asking
Speaker 2: how the games. But it's it's reached a tipping point.
Speaker 2: There's too many. Either you turn on Sunday Night ABC
Speaker 2: and Gyannis isn't playing. I know he has a wrist injury,
Speaker 2: but Warriors bucks like it's too much of a crap shoot.
Speaker 2: And the tickets are two weeks defensive for fans to
Speaker 2: not know who's gonna play. That has to get tightened up.
Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it. That's an idea
Speaker 2: Coward's been big on that you gotta do something. We
Speaker 2: gotta have because the other reason is this. You can't
Speaker 2: even be like, well, the bright side is because of
Speaker 2: load management, guys are suffering less injuries. That's not the case.
Speaker 2: So it's not even we don't even have data that
Speaker 2: load management is working. All right, we'll be back on
Speaker 2: Thursday talking to you guys. Right as the before the
Speaker 2: NCAA Tournament tips off. We will talk to you guys.
Speaker 2: Then have a wonderful day. See on TV today, what
Speaker 2: trick