WEBVTT - MNF Breakdown, NBA Preview with Noah Eagle 0:00:01.230 --> 0:00:05.170 Welcome to Not So Fast with Andrew Perloff and Paul Patz, 0:00:05.410 --> 0:00:08.690 where two longtime friends challenge each other on the biggest 0:00:08.730 --> 0:00:09.910 sports stories. 0:00:09.570 --> 0:00:12.620 Of the day. Here's Andrew Perloff and Paul Patz. 0:00:13.500 --> 0:00:14.600 Not so fast, my friends. 0:00:16.150 --> 0:00:19.090 Welcome to Not So Fast. I'm Andrew Perloff. He's Paul Paps. 0:00:19.570 --> 0:00:22.710 It's NBA season. We are in the hardwood section of 0:00:22.730 --> 0:00:23.110 the DP Show. 0:00:23.150 --> 0:00:24.590 That's what we're calling it? The hardwood? 0:00:24.980 --> 0:00:27.680 I call this the basketball portion of the man cave. 0:00:27.700 --> 0:00:29.440 It's one of my favorite parts. And you know what 0:00:29.460 --> 0:00:30.060 that means, Paul. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:31.760 We're in the field house. We're going to talk about 0:00:31.780 --> 0:00:35.120 a lot of stuff today. NBA, football, Monday Night Football. 0:00:35.260 --> 0:00:37.620 First of all, congratulations to the Tampa Rays. Not the 0:00:37.659 --> 0:00:39.680 Devil Rays. Once they shed that name, all they did 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.950 was win. They're going to face the Brewers in the 0:00:41.970 --> 0:00:44.130 World Series. Someone's going to win their first title. But 0:00:44.170 --> 0:00:47.180 coming up later today... Our boy Noah Eagle in 15 0:00:47.180 --> 0:00:49.000 minutes of NBC Sports to get us ready for the 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:50.500 entire NBA slate tonight. 0:00:50.820 --> 0:00:51.159 Oh, man. 0:00:51.180 --> 0:00:54.440 The NBA is back today on NBC with a historic 0:00:54.460 --> 0:00:57.260 triple header to tip off the new season. Celtics, Pistons 0:00:57.300 --> 0:01:00.800 in the afternoon. Then defending champion Knicks raise a banner 0:01:00.860 --> 0:01:04.190 and host LeBron in the Sixers. Then the Spurs host 0:01:04.310 --> 0:01:06.860 OKC in what we're calling Game 8 of the Western 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:11.100 Conference Finals. Watch it live on NBC and Peacock. Ball, 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:12.000 it's all happening. 0:01:12.140 --> 0:01:13.370 Okay, you're a Philly guy. 0:01:13.450 --> 0:01:15.650 I remember when LeBron went to Philly, you were texting 0:01:15.690 --> 0:01:17.550 me like 18 times, all your crew. 0:01:18.140 --> 0:01:20.200 Have you pumped the brakes? Are you more engaged? 0:01:20.300 --> 0:01:22.630 More engaged for the very simple reason that the Eagles 0:01:22.670 --> 0:01:25.670 have fallen apart. The Phillies are out of the playoffs. 0:01:25.730 --> 0:01:29.160 The Flyers look terrible. So now we're all about LeBron. 0:01:29.540 --> 0:01:30.699 Find that fountain of youth, baby. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.610 No pressure on LeBron. All right, let's get to it. 0:01:32.620 --> 0:01:35.010 Monday Night Football last night. We thought this would not 0:01:35.110 --> 0:01:37.190 be a great game, and I'm not sure it was 0:01:37.250 --> 0:01:37.690 a great game. 0:01:37.930 --> 0:01:40.069 Well, actually, you and I said, watch out for the Commanders. 0:01:40.090 --> 0:01:42.020 Had a little bit of a bounce back after that 0:01:42.140 --> 0:01:45.240 nightmare ending of the Giants game. And they made it close. 0:01:45.380 --> 0:01:46.600 It turned out to be a great game. 0:01:46.620 --> 0:01:48.460 But if you turn that game off at halftime, let's 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:49.940 just say you turned it off. You'd be like, wow, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.700 the Niners are cruising. The Commanders have nothing. They can't 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.840 figure anything out. But that comeback, was that based off 0:01:55.890 --> 0:01:58.550 a real comeback? I don't think so. I think that 0:01:58.590 --> 0:02:01.460 was where The Niners at halftime, they basically said, all right, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.710 this is an easy one. Let's start easing into it. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.650 like Usain Bolt pulling up at the 70-meter mark, and 0:02:06.690 --> 0:02:08.870 they let the commanders sneak back in. 0:02:09.169 --> 0:02:13.550 Absolutely not. The Niners, like every other contender in the NFL, 0:02:13.610 --> 0:02:16.570 has serious problems. You saw it. To me, the moment 0:02:16.610 --> 0:02:18.560 I started to worry about the Diners is when Mike 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.940 Evans caught a ball over the middle, ran out to 0:02:20.980 --> 0:02:24.399 the sideline, and had to stretch when he landed. That's 0:02:24.419 --> 0:02:27.480 like me playing basketball right now, Paul, having to stretch mid-game. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.859 He's wide receiver old. He didn't take a Zumba class 0:02:29.900 --> 0:02:31.220 in the middle of the thing. He just tried to 0:02:31.310 --> 0:02:32.170 play through an injury. 0:02:32.190 --> 0:02:35.590 No, no, but his... The second he went out of 0:02:35.610 --> 0:02:38.330 the game, they fell apart offensively. That's why I thought 0:02:38.370 --> 0:02:41.270 it was a real comeback. They've become really reliant on 0:02:41.310 --> 0:02:41.790 Mike Evans. 0:02:42.010 --> 0:02:45.060 Okay, but Brock Purdy played well. Christian McCaffrey played well. 0:02:45.139 --> 0:02:45.739 Kittle. 0:02:45.820 --> 0:02:48.560 The defense played pretty well until that third, fourth quarter. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:50.820 I think that was one of those games where, yeah, 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.220 you're injured a little bit, but the commanders were a desperate, 0:02:53.380 --> 0:02:56.410 clawing animal at the end, embarrassed from last week, and 0:02:56.430 --> 0:02:58.190 they put up a good fight. I will say there 0:02:58.210 --> 0:03:00.010 was a moment in the game, I think there's about 0:03:00.010 --> 0:03:03.650 4.15 left. Commanders are driving down. Pinheiro of the Niners 0:03:03.710 --> 0:03:06.429 misses that extra point. So it's only a six-point game. 0:03:06.750 --> 0:03:08.350 And you're like, this is closer than it should be. 0:03:08.389 --> 0:03:10.190 You even texted me like, this is way too close 0:03:10.210 --> 0:03:12.380 of a game for forcing us to stay up. 0:03:13.070 --> 0:03:15.230 But they had a touchdown run. The running back. 0:03:15.850 --> 0:03:16.570 Jeremy McNichols. 0:03:16.690 --> 0:03:20.770 McNichols, number 26. And an offensive penalty face-masked by their 0:03:21.070 --> 0:03:24.730 offensive lineman took that back. Do the Niners lose that 0:03:24.770 --> 0:03:26.150 game if that touchdown goes through? 0:03:26.940 --> 0:03:30.020 Maybe, yes. I think they do because, again, the second 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.340 Mike Evans got hurt, the offense fell apart. And the 0:03:32.370 --> 0:03:33.810 other thing, they had all these three and outs at 0:03:33.830 --> 0:03:37.010 the end of the game. What was a common ingredient 0:03:37.030 --> 0:03:38.690 in every three and out? They were not handing the 0:03:38.730 --> 0:03:40.610 ball to Christian McCaffrey. I don't know if they were 0:03:40.630 --> 0:03:42.650 trying to save him or he was a little run 0:03:42.690 --> 0:03:45.800 down or they just saw another advantage. Here's the problem 0:03:45.820 --> 0:03:48.200 with the Niners. Brock Purdy, it might be the MVP 0:03:48.220 --> 0:03:50.060 of the NFL. I will give you that. But he 0:03:50.100 --> 0:03:52.760 cannot do it alone. He needs circumstances to be right. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.750 He needs his receivers healthy. He needs that O-line to 0:03:55.780 --> 0:03:58.250 keep everybody off him. And he needs Christian McCaffrey to 0:03:58.270 --> 0:04:00.270 give him second and five. And that was not happening 0:04:00.310 --> 0:04:00.850 later in the game. 0:04:00.870 --> 0:04:02.910 Well, I think the Mike Evans thing is a real situation. 0:04:02.950 --> 0:04:04.550 If he's not healthy for the rest of the season, 0:04:04.590 --> 0:04:07.030 he's kind of had a career rebirth. But if you 0:04:07.050 --> 0:04:09.780 look at that, Debo had a bit of a career rebirth. 0:04:09.790 --> 0:04:12.360 But Pearsall being out for the season, that's a bigger hit. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.740 But it's really on Mike Evans to stay healthy, or 0:04:14.780 --> 0:04:15.660 they don't have a chance. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.020 But that's the thing. There are so many Niners that 0:04:18.060 --> 0:04:20.500 you need to stay healthy, and they are not staying healthy. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.240 Nick Bosa's already hurt. Debo's out. They're an old team. Yes, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.180 the Niners, if they're fully constituted, are incredibly talented. But, Paul, 0:04:27.220 --> 0:04:28.320 what makes you think that's going to happen? 0:04:28.339 --> 0:04:30.820 They've earned some wiggle room by being 5-0. They can 0:04:30.860 --> 0:04:32.610 afford to let a guy take a week off. They 0:04:32.620 --> 0:04:35.810 can afford a loss here and there. But they built up, math-wise, 0:04:35.850 --> 0:04:36.490 a playoff team. 0:04:36.710 --> 0:04:40.930 No, no, no. It's mid-October. The season starts after Thanksgiving. 0:04:42.529 --> 0:04:45.289 What difference does that make? I'll be dead serious. We 0:04:45.330 --> 0:04:47.620 see this team right now at 6-0. Are we going 0:04:47.630 --> 0:04:50.120 to see the same roster come January? 0:04:50.220 --> 0:04:52.000 Well, no, maybe not the same roster, but there will 0:04:52.020 --> 0:04:53.320 be a point in the season. Let's say you get 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.700 to week 16, week 17, where you can give some 0:04:55.740 --> 0:04:58.339 guys a week off where you say, maybe we don't 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.780 get home field advantage. But we give Mike Evans a 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.700 week off here then. Nick Bosa eases back. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:03.640 A little load management? 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.120 Honestly, I would load management because you're ahead of the 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:06.940 game on this season. 0:05:07.339 --> 0:05:10.039 I know what you're saying, but you're not that far 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.880 ahead of the game. And the season's so short. And 0:05:11.900 --> 0:05:13.580 I don't care how much you load manage these guys. 0:05:13.860 --> 0:05:17.039 They're all in their 30s. Trent Williams is the oldest 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.360 guy there. And he somehow stays healthy at left tackle. 0:05:21.330 --> 0:05:23.630 And Kittle is coming off an ACL. There's just so 0:05:23.670 --> 0:05:26.600 many issues right now. McCaffrey's not a young running back. 0:05:26.940 --> 0:05:29.020 So if I had money on the Niners to win 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:30.780 it all, I would feel good because I didn't expect 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.690 them to be 6-0. But I would not double down 0:05:33.750 --> 0:05:35.490 on that. I think they are right in the mix, 0:05:35.810 --> 0:05:38.550 despite playing better than everyone else. I mean, honestly, look 0:05:38.570 --> 0:05:41.190 at the final score. This is a commander's team that 0:05:41.230 --> 0:05:43.810 lost Terry McLaurin halfway through. I don't even know who 0:05:43.830 --> 0:05:47.239 they're playing a running back. Jaden Daniels and Dan Quinn 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.140 are still having procedural problems. This is not a great 0:05:50.180 --> 0:05:52.020 commander's team, and it was in San Francisco. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.820 All right, let's get to the commander's side of this. 0:05:53.860 --> 0:05:56.880 The commander's last week had that embarrassing loss versus the 0:05:56.900 --> 0:06:00.020 New York Giants in his time management, clock management. And 0:06:00.140 --> 0:06:02.669 in first half, it happened again. Jaden Daniels, who was 0:06:02.730 --> 0:06:05.089 a fourth down and two, he's rolling right. He throws 0:06:05.130 --> 0:06:07.150 it out of bounds. You're like, why wouldn't he give 0:06:07.170 --> 0:06:08.570 it to his guy to make a play, one of 0:06:08.610 --> 0:06:10.589 his crew to make a play? And it felt like 0:06:10.790 --> 0:06:13.150 same old commanders. We said on this show that the 0:06:13.170 --> 0:06:15.650 commanders don't, you know, if they could put, here's the play, 0:06:15.730 --> 0:06:18.330 fourth and two, rolling right, flag down, but you don't 0:06:18.350 --> 0:06:21.010 give anyone a chance to make a play, we're going 0:06:21.050 --> 0:06:23.000 to suppose that you don't know what's going on. It's 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.660 fourth and two, whatever it may be. But if you're 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.700 the commanders, you needed a statement win tonight to get 0:06:28.860 --> 0:06:30.640 everybody off your back. Did they do enough in the 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.360 second half to cool the criticism of their franchise as 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:33.700 a whole? 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.800 Yes and no. I mean, listen, they were competitive. They 0:06:36.820 --> 0:06:39.860 play hard for Dan Quinn. But that fourth down play, there's, 0:06:40.180 --> 0:06:42.570 you know, a lot of tentacles. Actually, Dan Quinn talked 0:06:42.589 --> 0:06:45.310 about it after the game and tried to explain why 0:06:45.350 --> 0:06:47.390 he was caught on camera mouthing down. That was fourth down, 0:06:47.450 --> 0:06:49.830 but he at least said there was a reason. 0:06:50.910 --> 0:06:52.030 No, I definitely knew it was fourth down. We were 0:06:52.310 --> 0:06:52.789 going for it. 0:06:52.990 --> 0:06:55.650 And I think what you're referring to, I was probably saying, like, 0:06:56.070 --> 0:06:58.100 with the illegal shift, there's not a penalty to go 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.370 for a field goal. Like it doesn't go like it's 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.450 the turn on downs. Like I think somebody asked me, 0:07:03.850 --> 0:07:04.590 can we kick a field goal? 0:07:06.290 --> 0:07:09.290 So that's interesting. There was an illegal shift. That was fine. 0:07:09.310 --> 0:07:11.210 And I had the same thought. I'm like, does that 0:07:11.250 --> 0:07:13.730 play count? Because it almost felt like it was a non-play. 0:07:13.790 --> 0:07:15.610 I almost threw the BS flag there. And Dan Quinn, 0:07:15.630 --> 0:07:16.770 I think he was a lot of people have. 0:07:16.790 --> 0:07:17.030 Yeah. 0:07:17.050 --> 0:07:18.830 I thought he was trying to confuse us with semantics 0:07:18.850 --> 0:07:21.440 there in his explanation. I don't think he would admit it. 0:07:21.530 --> 0:07:23.330 If he didn't know his fourth down, I wouldn't, but 0:07:23.670 --> 0:07:25.650 I'm not sure that the lip readers out there seem 0:07:25.670 --> 0:07:26.270 to think he said it. 0:07:26.790 --> 0:07:29.650 Well, the, He said, basically, they said, are they going 0:07:29.670 --> 0:07:32.130 to replay the down because there's a pre-snap penalty? He said, no, 0:07:32.510 --> 0:07:34.520 it's fourth down, so we're out of luck. The truth 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.720 is they should have kicked the field goal because they 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.760 had no play on that fourth and basically two. They 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.680 were kind of aggressive on fourth down. I don't think 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.620 it made sense. They almost felt in the first half 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.900 like desperate. We need to get back in this game. 0:07:47.140 --> 0:07:48.550 And then they start running ball in the second half. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.840 I like Dan Quinn personally, but I don't think he 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.560 recovers from that. Do you expect him to be the 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.120 coach next year? 0:07:54.260 --> 0:07:57.980 No, I think if it was the play at halftime, 0:07:58.020 --> 0:07:59.930 if halftime was the game and it went on to 0:07:59.960 --> 0:08:02.470 be a complete blowout, he may have been fired this afternoon. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.500 We were talking about that in the DP show. If 0:08:04.810 --> 0:08:07.900 you're going to pull the Band-Aid, pull the Band-Aid. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.160 For who, though? They have two very young coordinators. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.440 Oh, you're just announcing that the job's open first. You're 0:08:13.460 --> 0:08:15.600 just letting the world know that this job is open first. 0:08:15.620 --> 0:08:17.700 You were embarrassed on national TV. Some owners do that. 0:08:17.940 --> 0:08:19.280 Look at the owner of the Colts the other day. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.200 She fired her GM because she got embarrassed on national TV. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:22.860 And that happens. 0:08:23.260 --> 0:08:25.920 But Josh Harris was talking to Dan Quinn before the game. 0:08:26.660 --> 0:08:29.540 First of all, he's smart. He doesn't have any assistant 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.020 who can possibly take over in the wildest dreams. So 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.660 that's one thing. but they respect Dan Quinn. They did 0:08:34.700 --> 0:08:37.660 get to the NFL game. I have a feeling symbolically 0:08:37.700 --> 0:08:39.960 they would have given him the season, but they're not 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.340 a good team and they're injured too. So it's not 0:08:42.380 --> 0:08:43.420 going anywhere positive. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.980 Let's get to not so fast helmet stickers off last 0:08:46.059 --> 0:08:46.439 night's game. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.180 Pearl, you're going first. Who gets the helmet sticker? 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.819 I'm going with Mike Evans just about how impactful he was. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.620 I know he got hurt, but he had three catches 0:08:52.660 --> 0:08:55.680 for 94 yards. He was the key to the game. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.420 When he went out, the Niners forgot how to play 0:08:58.500 --> 0:09:00.760 offense and He's just so good, and he's perfect for 0:09:00.780 --> 0:09:04.200 Brock Purdy because Brock Purdy likes guys who are big targets. Basically, 0:09:04.220 --> 0:09:06.780 anything within five yards of Mike Evans, he is catching. 0:09:07.170 --> 0:09:09.330 I think they give him a week off against Atlanta 0:09:09.370 --> 0:09:10.010 if they're smart. 0:09:10.050 --> 0:09:10.229 Yes. 0:09:10.410 --> 0:09:13.990 And then they have a bye because he's got Achilles tendonitis, 0:09:14.150 --> 0:09:15.590 and I don't want that to be anything worse. 0:09:15.610 --> 0:09:20.489 All right, my helmet sticker goes to 49ers safety. Malik Mustafa, 0:09:20.809 --> 0:09:24.200 back-to-back plays late in the game. He drilled the running back. 0:09:24.460 --> 0:09:25.420 Wait till you see this play. 0:09:25.620 --> 0:09:27.719 There he is. He's from Wake Forest. He's a heck 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.400 of a hitter. I'm going to give you my comp 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.559 on this guy, but first of all, he just drills 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:32.800 the running back on this play. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:33.540 Bingo. 0:09:34.380 --> 0:09:37.220 Unbelievable hit. That looked like Steve Atwater back in the day. 0:09:38.100 --> 0:09:40.780 Shoulder to shoulder. And then the next play, they're trying 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.520 to make a, this could have been a touchdown. This 0:09:43.540 --> 0:09:45.510 could have been the game. He hit and poked the 0:09:45.550 --> 0:09:48.790 ball simultaneously, knocked him out of bounds. No go, saved 0:09:48.809 --> 0:09:49.270 a touchdown. 0:09:49.550 --> 0:09:50.770 Yeah, he was great. 0:09:50.790 --> 0:09:51.630 Who's my comp on him? 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:52.640 Yeah, well, who do you got? 0:09:52.770 --> 0:09:54.990 Bob Sanders. Remember the safety from the Colts back in 0:09:55.030 --> 0:09:56.940 the day? He has a Bob Sanders vibe to him. 0:09:56.950 --> 0:09:58.160 I thought you were going to go Cam Chancellor. 0:09:58.179 --> 0:10:00.179 Not that big. I don't think he's that big. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.520 He's a little bigger than Bobby Sanders, but one thing 0:10:03.220 --> 0:10:05.740 about the Niners, they hit with their helmet every single time. 0:10:06.140 --> 0:10:10.920 Every single time. Fred Warner, they famously picked up a call, 0:10:10.980 --> 0:10:13.309 picked up a flag when it was clear helmet-to-helmet, then 0:10:13.350 --> 0:10:15.690 made a make-up call. The next play he came out 0:10:15.730 --> 0:10:17.930 and helmet-to-helmeted somebody. I wonder how the NFL is going 0:10:17.950 --> 0:10:19.349 to view that because I think there's going to be 0:10:19.370 --> 0:10:21.490 four or five fines coming out of that. The Niners 0:10:21.530 --> 0:10:23.329 are trying to say we're going to hit on every 0:10:23.370 --> 0:10:25.370 single play illegally and dare them. 0:10:25.290 --> 0:10:25.550 To call it. 0:10:25.550 --> 0:10:26.970 And Greenlaw is usually the leader of that. 0:10:27.050 --> 0:10:29.569 Yeah, but Warner was using his helmet all game long. 0:10:29.610 --> 0:10:32.410 Mustafa also uses his helmet, but I don't really want 0:10:32.429 --> 0:10:35.120 to yuck their yums after a big win last night. Nice. 0:10:35.140 --> 0:10:39.059 All right, coming up next, not so fast. I totally 0:10:39.100 --> 0:10:43.140 tear into the AP poll. I have major, major issues. 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.400 And Paul weighs in again on Steve Young. You're going 0:10:45.420 --> 0:10:49.469 to want to hear this. Not so fast. Every week 0:10:49.530 --> 0:10:51.490 on Not So Fast, we do the Pub and Grub 0:10:51.550 --> 0:10:53.850 of the Week. This week, the big game, Ohio State 0:10:53.910 --> 0:10:56.429 and Indiana. Paul, you're a Midwestern guy. What do you got? 0:10:56.550 --> 0:10:58.530 Bloomington, Indiana. Been there a bunch. We got a lot 0:10:58.550 --> 0:11:00.720 of recommendations. I have a few of my own. Everyone 0:11:00.740 --> 0:11:03.780 knows Nick's English Hut. When you're there, get the Stromboli Pearl. 0:11:03.820 --> 0:11:04.900 You're a big Stromboli guy. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.240 Back in the day. I love Stromboli. 0:11:06.380 --> 0:11:07.080 Upstairs Pub. 0:11:07.140 --> 0:11:09.320 Check that out before and during and after the game. 0:11:09.820 --> 0:11:12.860 Crazy Horse, I'm told, has a huge beer selection. Here's 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.790 the bonus tip from Not So Fast. Pork tenderloin sandwiches 0:11:16.929 --> 0:11:20.030 in Central Indiana are They're huge. They're like manhole coverings. 0:11:20.050 --> 0:11:20.710 They're gigantic. 0:11:21.070 --> 0:11:25.390 There's a place down 446 south of town, The Cabin. 0:11:25.700 --> 0:11:28.240 Go to The Cabin to get the best pork tenderloin sandwiches. 0:11:28.510 --> 0:11:29.750 It's debatable. Find out. 0:11:29.980 --> 0:11:31.100 Can't wait. Help me grow the week. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:40.040 Back on Not So Fast, Paxton Perloff, NBC Sports. That's 0:11:40.140 --> 0:11:43.500 Junior Caminero gone, as Dan Patrick would say back in 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.420 the day. He's going to take his time getting around 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:46.080 the base path. 0:11:46.260 --> 0:11:46.940 You know, he's no hurry. 0:11:48.700 --> 0:11:51.720 He has no curfew. That looked like a scene out 0:11:51.740 --> 0:11:54.240 of a movie. He's beating his chest, playing with the crowd. 0:11:54.260 --> 0:11:56.460 He didn't win the World Series here. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:57.120 Did he, on this hit? 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:58.340 No. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.540 I don't think he won the World Series. That's a 0:12:00.620 --> 0:12:01.340 long trot. 0:12:01.990 --> 0:12:06.270 But, you know, the rule is if you criticize MLB 0:12:06.309 --> 0:12:08.929 players for celebrating or taking too long, then you sound old. 0:12:09.250 --> 0:12:10.050 Oh, because you're a hater. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:11.620 You're an old fogey. You're a hater. 0:12:11.660 --> 0:12:11.819 Right. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.679 The bat flip is now perfectly acceptable. The fact that 0:12:14.860 --> 0:12:16.300 the higher the bat flip, the better. 0:12:16.460 --> 0:12:18.280 So you're not telling Junior Caminero what to do. What 0:12:18.300 --> 0:12:20.179 do you think Senior Caminero would think of that play? 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:21.200 He's probably old school, right? 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:26.010 Yeah. I think that the celebrating is too much personally, 0:12:26.090 --> 0:12:28.410 but I'm not saying that out loud. I said it 0:12:28.429 --> 0:12:30.390 right now, but I don't really want to be the 0:12:30.450 --> 0:12:31.829 guy who's criticizing players. 0:12:31.970 --> 0:12:34.190 I'd be more like the fist pump guy, probably like 0:12:34.210 --> 0:12:35.370 a calm fist pump. 0:12:35.390 --> 0:12:37.209 But, you know, beating the chest, you can do it. 0:12:37.970 --> 0:12:41.060 Actually, I'm a Calvin Johnson, Barry Sanders guy. Hand the 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.540 ball to the official. Really? Run around the bases like, 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.060 of course I hit a home run. That's what I do. 0:12:45.580 --> 0:12:47.540 You don't have to celebrate. It's not even celebrating. It's 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:48.640 just what I do. 0:12:48.780 --> 0:12:50.719 What about pointing to the big man? You think about that? 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.619 You do it quick. I mean, if you are an 0:12:52.860 --> 0:12:56.599 authentic religious person, yes. But, you know, I have to 0:12:56.620 --> 0:12:58.880 see your whole body of work in regards to your 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.380 spirituality before I say whether or not you can point 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:01.900 to the big man. 0:13:01.950 --> 0:13:04.050 Pauly Palfs was an altar boy. We'll get into that later. 0:13:04.070 --> 0:13:06.290 It's time for warm takes here on Not So Fast. 0:13:06.730 --> 0:13:09.210 I'll go first, Pearl. Nice and warm. Getting you ready 0:13:09.230 --> 0:13:10.420 for October. Here we go. 0:13:11.050 --> 0:13:13.329 The New York Knicks are getting their rings and their 0:13:13.390 --> 0:13:15.449 banner tonight, something I think a lot of people didn't 0:13:15.470 --> 0:13:18.329 think they were going to see. Nobody had them going 0:13:18.350 --> 0:13:21.410 to the NBA Finals last year. The Milwaukee Brewers are 0:13:21.530 --> 0:13:24.080 this close to their first title. They're a feel-good story. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.840 The Indiana Hoosiers last year, everybody knows they won the title. 0:13:26.860 --> 0:13:29.540 They're the feel-good story of all time in college football. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.179 I think it's a little refreshing these days that the 0:13:32.300 --> 0:13:35.599 favorites in sports aren't winning. The Rams are in a 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:36.319 little bit of a jam. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:36.939 The L.A. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.000 Dodgers didn't win. In the NFL, who knows who's the favorite, 0:13:40.020 --> 0:13:43.280 but baseball, it's usually Yankees, Dodgers. In the NBA, it's 0:13:43.300 --> 0:13:45.460 certain teams, even like Oklahoma City, even though they can 0:13:45.490 --> 0:13:47.210 be feel-good-ish because it's. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.910 A small market, but it's refreshing. Look at the Knicks. 0:13:50.350 --> 0:13:52.449 You think they can't be a feel-good story because they're 0:13:52.470 --> 0:13:55.390 a huge market? Well, they've been struggling for like 50 years. 0:13:55.450 --> 0:13:57.530 They've been good here and there, but they never got 0:13:57.570 --> 0:13:59.610 over the hump. And they were kind of a likable 0:13:59.650 --> 0:14:04.570 team last year, hardworking, not star-laden. Jalen Brunson supposedly took 0:14:04.650 --> 0:14:05.950 less to help out the team. 0:14:06.390 --> 0:14:07.290 It was a feel-good story. 0:14:07.809 --> 0:14:10.469 And I'm not sure the reasons this is happening. I'm 0:14:10.490 --> 0:14:11.670 going to defer to you, Perloff. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.820 But in college football, you can say NIL. The money 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.900 is spread around. Parody, talent. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.700 In the NBA, it doesn't feel like teams are being 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:24.470 built as superpowers anymore, like dream teams, three-man teams, the 0:14:24.510 --> 0:14:27.690 big three type thing. And in baseball, it feels like 0:14:27.730 --> 0:14:31.590 it's a bit of analytics. And the Brewers analytics team 0:14:31.750 --> 0:14:33.350 seems to be winning it for their team because they're 0:14:33.370 --> 0:14:34.390 not winning it by spending. 0:14:34.730 --> 0:14:37.369 So I think this is... It's good for sports to 0:14:37.390 --> 0:14:38.090 have dynasties. 0:14:38.230 --> 0:14:40.530 It's good to have heavyweights like the Golden State Warriors 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.640 or whatever it may be. But it's also refreshing to 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.780 have some teams like the Dodgers, or not the Dodgers, 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.120 but the Knicks in there, the Indiana Hoosiers in there. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:48.780 It's refreshing. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.780 It's kind of weird, though, to say a New York team. 0:14:50.940 --> 0:14:53.080 I know exactly what you mean. They were likable, but 0:14:53.100 --> 0:14:55.000 they don't really feel like the same thing as the 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:55.900 Indiana Hoosiers. 0:14:56.140 --> 0:14:59.450 No, not historically, but the Knicks have struggled for so long. 0:14:59.730 --> 0:15:01.730 When they got there, you're like, I can't believe this team. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.580 Not a team with LeBron James or Kevin Durant or 0:15:04.620 --> 0:15:06.900 some superstar like Giannis is going to get it done. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.290 Yeah, I don't think you mentioned the Seahawks. I didn't. Yeah, 0:15:10.510 --> 0:15:11.210 out of nowhere. 0:15:11.370 --> 0:15:13.810 The Seahawks, nobody had them before the season. They dominated 0:15:13.870 --> 0:15:15.950 the whole season, and they did it with not a 0:15:15.990 --> 0:15:16.830 superstar quarterback. 0:15:16.930 --> 0:15:19.550 Yeah, yeah. I agree. I think Anna Lakes is one 0:15:19.610 --> 0:15:21.850 place to start. I think the way the financial structure 0:15:21.870 --> 0:15:23.640 of leagues and taxes has a lot to do with it. 0:15:23.650 --> 0:15:23.740 Yep. 0:15:23.930 --> 0:15:25.660 And we'll see what baseball does to get to the 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.420 Dodgers this summer. I mean this winter. Hopefully we will 0:15:29.460 --> 0:15:31.120 have baseball next year. Okay, I'm going to turn to 0:15:31.140 --> 0:15:34.090 college football for my first warm take. Paul, I'm going 0:15:34.110 --> 0:15:37.230 to have a blanket statement here. I hate the A people. 0:15:37.290 --> 0:15:37.410 Mm-hmm. 0:15:37.970 --> 0:15:40.810