WEBVTT - Best Of - Nick Wright goes SCORCHED EARTH on Josh Allen's media coverage, Lamar Jackson to Raiders? LeBron James x Lakers DRAMA brewing 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.480 Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.200 with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:12.959 week on the show. Enjoy Demonse Divisional Round weekend. We're 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.640 gonna start with the first game of the weekend. Bill's Broncos. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:17.680 Let's get to. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.120 It, big stuff. So the Broncos ended the Bills season 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.920 on Saturday, got Sean McDermott fired, so they obviously lost 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.400 this game. Josh Allen had four turnovers. Do you think 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.040 that the team built around him kind of failed Josh Allen? 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.600 Or do you think that Josh Allen failed the Bills 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:35.560 with his turnovers? 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.880 Defending League MVP had four turnovers in a playoff game, 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.280 including one of the most cartoonish fumbles in the history 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:51.400 of the league. That happened. Okay, before I even get 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:56.120 in that that is you don't have to be a 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:01.400 die hard sports fan to understand. Oh, that's that's probably 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:07.080 why they lost. Yeah, before I get to that piece 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.959 of it, let me say this on the front end, sincerely, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.680 And I know Broncos fans aren't gonna want to hear 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.480 this from me, and they might say I'm full of shit. Whatever, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:27.560 I can't remember a more gutting postseason injury than the 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:35.120 one the Broncos suffered to have won the game. Be 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:41.039 celebrating that you're going to the conference championship game at home, 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:47.680 have beaten Josh Allen and have watched bow Nicks play 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:52.240 one of in my opinion, best games of his life, 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:57.200 and two separate times come through for you in just 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:02.040 huge spots before the half to put the Bills on tilt, 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:07.400 which it's ten to ten with thirty seconds left, and 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.359 Josh Allen in the first half, Josh Allen has zero turnovers, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.440 the Bills are feeling fine. Bo Nix hits that deep 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.000 bomb to the front corner of the end zone to 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.880 put the Bills on their back foot, and then late 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:26.160 in the game, down four drives them down, puts them 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:33.040 ahead with a minute left. Like whatever skepticism I've had 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:41.000 about your quarterback, he was nails on Saturday afternoon. However 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:45.160 annoying I have found Sean Payton to be. He called 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:51.079 a hell of a game, and you're celebrating, You're feeling great, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.600 you really think you can win the Super Bowl, and 0:02:55.639 --> 0:03:01.760 then you find out on a somewhat nothing play that 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.640 no one even noticed your quarterback breaks his an broke 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.840 his ankle and kneeds surgery. It's just a stomach punch 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.280 of all stomach punches. And I do I legitimate again, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.120 Broncos fans, You're allowed to hate me. It's fine. I 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:28.679 legitimately feel sick for you, guys, and I don't it obviously. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:34.200 It's in the same bucket as Haliburton Game seven and 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.760 the one you kind of because he had been dealing 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:43.560 with an injury, that kind of specter loomed. This was 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.960 just so out of nowhere. I don't even know now. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.360 On the bright side, it shouldn't impact your next season 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.520 at all, but this is who knows what next season's 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.480 gonna be. So Broncos, I feel sick for you, sincerely, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.560 and you guys have proven me wrong all you and 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:07.480 I just and bow. If Bo's gonna have a come 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.000 back down to Earth moment, it ain't gonna be this season. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.760 Because he ended last season, or he ended that, he 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:17.280 ended this season, pardon me. With probably the best game 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.839 of his career, all things considered, and in my favorite 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.600 football weekend of the year with Drake May and Matt 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.960 Stafford and Josh Allen and c. J. Stroud and Sam Darnold, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.120 all those guys playing bo Knicks played the best game. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:45.080 It just is what it is. And I wonder why 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:53.040 that version of commentary I just did about bow Knicks 0:04:55.040 --> 0:05:01.719 so many folks have trouble doing in the other direction. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:09.640 It's one thing to say this guy, this team that 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.880 I have always been down on, or I have always doubted, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:21.480 he with his play proved me wrong. It does feel 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:29.200 like people are have an easier time doing that leap 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:37.880 than the opposite one, which is this guy, this team, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:46.159 this player that I have elevated beyond any realistic place 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:56.960 that is justifiable. His play proved me wrong. And instead 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:01.640 of being able to do that after Josh Allen's four 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:07.960 turnover playoff game, folks are just going out making a 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:18.520 fools of themselves. So I understand the Bills would not 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:24.160 have been there without Josh Allen. No shit. That is 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:31.320 that If the standard is standard for criticism is if 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.360 a guy is the biggest reason a team got to 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:40.240 a point, then criticizing his play it at that point 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:45.680 is unfair. Then I guess we can never criticize any 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:52.560 NBA superstar for a playoff performance ever, because every single 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:57.120 NBA superstar is the reason their team gets to the postseason. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:03.200 And so then I guess if you're James harden It, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.120 you're just an asshole if you're like he cost his 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:12.080 team because the thirty five IQ responses, well, would they 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.560 have been there without him? No, they wouldn't have. So 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:21.040 I guess it's all it's all reputational free rolls. It 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:28.440 just doesn't And here this is. It is not demons, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:34.800 it's not complicated. The analysis of Bill's Broncos, it's really. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.480 Not Josh Allen. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.640 Josh Allen, go ahead, he pooped the bed. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.280 Yeah, he definitely. He messed up pretty badly. I mean 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.280 it's uh, it's four turnovers. That's that's a lot. I 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.800 was surprised when Germany got fired, to be honest, I mean, 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.680 I know that is go ahead. No, I just know 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.520 that this is their year, and you know, if they 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.320 lost to the Broncos or if they just lost in 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.480 this playoff front, it was gonna look bad. But in 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.160 that instant and where it was four turnovers, I just 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.360 felt like they might have let it ride a little bit. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.680 Uh. But yeah, I thought so too. Maybe and we'll 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:21.520 get to the McDermott piece. But guys, I'm listening and 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:26.920 I DMed Bill about this Bill Barnwell. I'm listening to 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:34.720 Barnwell this morning. Who you guys know, I have as 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.840 much respect for his football opinions as anyone in the world. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:47.120 And I'm stunned because he's talking about how he thought 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:58.600 McDermott screwed up by not really impressing upon Josh Allen 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.680 when they got the ball back with twenty seconds left, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:10.920 that he can't do something dumb. And Bill said, and 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.680 I quote, you have to be aware you have a 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:27.400 lunaticket quarterback and it the agency removal from the soon 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:33.120 to be thirty year old defending league MVP, like, well, 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.040 we can't try to go get points here at the 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:41.480 end of the half because the guy might run for 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.120 no reason. By the way, the scramble was, even if 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.559 he hadn't been sacked, the scramble was a dumb play. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.040 I'm sorry, even if he hadn't fumbled, because they had 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.960 no timeouts, like you weren't gonna it was just a 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.040 dead play the moment you don't throw the ball, but 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.040 that guy might just hold the ball like a loaf 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:07.079 of bread and lose the football. You just gotta know that. Okay. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:17.760 That so there's four turnovers right. The first one is 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.240 right before the end of the half. It's the worst 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.680 fumble of the NFL season. The second one is right 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:29.000 after the half. It's a blind side hit him. You'd 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.840 like him to hold onto the ball, but a lot 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.319 of quarterbacks have problems holding onto the ball this weekend. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.800 You want to give him a slight pass on that, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:42.280 so be it. The third one is right after bo 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:47.000 Nicks makes his only mistake. You go for a kill 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.760 shot you don't need to, in a decent down and 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.000 distance on the fringe of field goal range, and you 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.800 throw a bad pass. The fourth one is the allegedly 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:05.160 controversial interception. More on that in a minute. And in 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.280 between the third and the fourth, you had two passes. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.480 One was easy, one was hard that would have won 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:18.240 the game. You had Khalil Shakir on a wide receiver 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.280 screen that I know he would have scored a touchdown 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.120 on because he did score a touchdown on it. But 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.560 then we saw you one hopped it to him. And 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.720 then what would have been a tough pass to Dawson 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:37.200 Knox in the waning seconds that you missed. Now is 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.560 are is that asking a lot of the quarterback? Not 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.840 really but is it certainly holding him to a highest 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:53.000 standard shore. But the reason this is fair, and the 0:11:53.080 --> 0:12:00.600 reason some of the Josh Allen Media com and terry 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:09.319 is so maddening, is because folks can't help themselves. But 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:17.440 one up the hyperbole. It's no longer enough to say 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.400 I think he might, even though he's never been to 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:27.280 a Super Bowl. And even though three hundred and sixty 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:32.120 days ago he for the fourth time in the playoffs 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.400 shared a field with Patrick Mahomes and for the fourth 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:41.319 time was outplayed and lost. Even though those that happened, 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.080 I think he might be the best quarterback in the league. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:55.600 That's not enough. And even though two of his contemporaries 0:12:56.480 --> 0:13:01.200 have more league MVPs than him during his during this 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:07.160 run in Patrick and Lamar, and those same two guys 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.920 have more First Team All Pros than him in this run. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.439 And another one of his contemporaries has been to a 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:20.800 Super Bowl and Burrow forget Patrick going to five and 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.240 winning three, even though all those things are the case, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:32.720 calling him hands down the best player in the league, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:39.320 that's not enough either. And in the last cup few months, 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.680 and this is not a straw man, and this is 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:48.560 from not only people I like but one of them. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:55.880 My dearest friend and boss at the volume Coward call 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:04.959 him the most talented player ever, ever, the most talented 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:13.480 quarterback ever. Greeny yesterday, yesterday, after the four turnover game, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.320 said does as a matter of fact, no one has 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:27.400 ever played the position better. If that is the way 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:38.720 he has discussed, then you can't also do a blame 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:46.800 pie blaming McDermott and Brandon Bean and Brandon Cooks and 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.360 the poor left guard who didn't fall on Allan's fumble 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.520 when we're discussing them losing a playoff game when he 0:14:54.560 --> 0:15:04.440 had four turnovers. He's the only guy in the league 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:10.440 that when they win, he's an all time legend, and 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.720 when they lose, even when it's because of his mistakes, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.200 it's got to be someone else's fault. You are not. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:34.200 It is not a tenable sports opinionist position to continually 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:45.800 call a player better than historic legends and contemporaries that 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.520 have more pelps on the wall by a wide margin, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:58.760 and then give him a full on pass for a playoff. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:03.360 Meltdown, and he's on the record saying that he feels 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.880 like it. Let his team do well. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.920 That's the other thing. Josh Allen is more is more 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.120 of a realist about what happened than his media sickophants. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.960 Josh Allen was in tears. You know why because he 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.000 is the best player on the team. Obviously, he is 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.240 their leader, he is the reason they're there, and he 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.320 blew it. That's okay, It's sports, And it wouldn't be 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.240 that big of a deal if I didn't have to 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.840 listen to people the day after it happens still say 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.280 he's the no one's ever played the position better? Are 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.000 you fucking kidding me? Like, take my homes out of it. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.040 I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.720 think Tom Brady played the position better than Josh Allen. Yeah, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:54.800 like I and so I there is an element of demons. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:17:01.520 Last week there was a little medium or little mini 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.760 media and we talked about it, firestorm about Lynn Jones, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.199 the older Black Lady. Oh yeah, he said to Liam Cohen, like, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.439 hold your head up high. Ye all these folks were like, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.640 once you turn, once you become media, you don't root anymore. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:22.440 You don't do that, And then those same people are 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:28.680 sending tweets. My heart breaks for Josh Allen. He does 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.840 why what like I don't mean why like that. Like 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.639 I I understand feeling empathy for a person that's a 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.760 great player that you feel like can't get over the hump. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:46.600 I understand that, but the he doesn't. You don't think CJ. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.120 Stroud feels like shit this weekend. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:55.879 I you don't think the guy gets stopped so many times. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:57.760 I also think people just get caught up with the 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.960 physicals of Josh Allen. He's perfect, Like he's got the 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.680 big arm, he could run around. He's a big dude. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.960 But yeah, he obviously is. He is. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.800 Part of being an all time great is being able 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:28.040 to harness your greatest attributes while minimizing the risk associated 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:38.960 with them. And I have watched the he has been incredible. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:45.679 That last year's playoff game against Kansas City he fumbled 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:51.119 three times. They recovered all of them. The year before 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:56.320 the playoff game against Kansas City, on what they thought 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.800 was gonna be the game time drive, he fumbled running 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.399 the around like he did at midfield near halftime. It 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.120 should have been scooped and scored by the Chiefs. One 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.840 of his teammates fell on it after the Chiefs kicked it. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:20.560 He's loose with the ball and when he switches his 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.040 style up to not be loose with the ball, his 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:29.600 gaudy stats go down. That's when his passing yardage numbers 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.399 go down. And all he has not yet shown the 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:42.159 ability to have the type of season where you get 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:50.280 the crazy gaudy numbers without the crazy turnovers, which is fine. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.080 I still think he's the second best quarterback in the league. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.879 But you gotta call a spade a spade on a 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:05.520 four turnover playoff game, and I he was fine with it, 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:15.520 he knew he blew it. And then the well, get 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.600 to the follow ups because there's a lot about the 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.840 calls and the whining and all of it, so you 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:22.159 can go to all this. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.359 Yeah, So after the game, Josh Allen, Dion Dawkins, and 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.520 Randon Cooks were all very emotional in their interviews and crying. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.480 How do you feel about players crying after a round 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:33.119 two exits? 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.439 So I think a couple things. Listen, I I it 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.119 does now seem like the Bills were gonna fire McDermott 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:46.120 if they didn't make the Super Bowl. If they hadn't 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:51.400 made that decision after seeing how emotional the players were, 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.040 I would have felt like, sorry, Sean, even if it's 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.520 not your fault. We have to we can't just run 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:00.320 this back. This is a this is a scarred team. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:06.440 And the demonse, why do you think the Bills were 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:11.959 so devastated about this loss in this postseason because I 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:12.880 have a theory. 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.320 Well, this is their this was their this was their 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.919 shot this year. Like I just feel like this was 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.200 because nobody else's I mean, you're you got Drake May, 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.040 you got all the I mean, you just got Matt Stafford, Mahomes, Burrow, 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:29.639 uh At, you know, Lamar, They're all gone. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:39.440 It's so I think they clearly viewed it as the 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:44.320 Chiefs aren't there and this is our moment. And that's 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:48.360 and by the way, certainly the media after they reacted 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.680 to the McDermott firing kept bringing up that this was 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.359 the moment where the Chiefs aren't there and this is 0:21:54.400 --> 0:22:02.120 the other thing, if I'm being transparent here, that frustrates 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:08.200 me about the just blowing past like Josh past Patrick 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:16.159 in this quarterback hierarchy, folks simultaneously have this opinion, Josh 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.240 is clearly the best quarterback in the league. He's better 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.639 than Mahomes. He's been better than Mahomes the last few years. 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:29.520 They believe that while simultaneously believing this was such a 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.440 massive missed opportunity for the Buffalo Bills because they finally 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:35.800 would have been able to get to a super Bowl 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:41.359 without actually having to beat Patrick Mahomes like that it was. 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.639 I think they did view it as the path is clear, 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:46.520 and I don't think they viewed it as the path 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:49.640 was clear because Lamar wasn't there, because Josh has played 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:51.720 Lamar twice in the playoffs and beat them both. I 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:53.440 don't think they viewed as the path that's clear because 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:55.680 Burrow's not there, because Burrow only been there the last 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:57.640 three years. 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Seems like I'm in the 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:43.919 minority and not thinking my own trade idea is dumb. 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:47.760 Go ahead and let's talk it through. 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:50.200 All right. So we're running of games to talk about. 0:25:50.240 --> 0:25:53.000 So it's rumors slash trade talk time of the year. 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:55.920 People are throwing around trades and rumors. A trade or 0:25:56.000 --> 0:25:59.920 rumor that you co signed was Lamar for Max Crosby 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:03.480 and the number one pick, which are probably Bendoza to 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:04.080 the Raiders. 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:09.720 Yeah so no, well you might just become a Raider fan. 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:12.359 You can just you can just follow Lamar. 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:14.680 But yeah, Lamar and genty would be pretty cool. 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:23.840 So here's the deal. I I don't I'm not saying this, 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:26.000 and I didn't just create this out of thin air. 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:31.280 The ESPN did like bold predictions for the offseason, and 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:36.280 one of them was could Tom Brady and the Raiders 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:40.439 make a play for Lamar Jackson. I don't know that. 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:43.399 I think the Raiders, after watching them and believing in 0:26:43.440 --> 0:26:49.360 them this year, are you know, close enough to make 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:57.160 a move even for Lamar Jackson. However, I am more 0:26:57.200 --> 0:27:01.520 interested in this from the raven side of it, And 0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:03.560 I don't know who the next Ravens head coach is 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:14.199 going to be, but whomever it is, I think in 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:20.160 the universe where this was available, you get the equivalent 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:26.320 I believe of demand's a five first round picks, the 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:31.200 equivalent of five first round picks for Lamar, and by 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:34.359 that I mean Max Crosby on the open market is 0:27:34.400 --> 0:27:38.280 worth two firsts. And we know the number one pick, 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:43.119 given the Bryce Young trade, it's equivalent, the equivalent that 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:47.719 it's worth is a little more than three, you know, 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:51.400 middle average first round picks. I know number one pick 0:27:51.480 --> 0:27:55.080 is literally one first round pick, but it's in order 0:27:55.160 --> 0:27:57.040 to get it you would have to trade like the 0:27:57.119 --> 0:27:59.879 fifteenth pick and to future first to move up them. 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:02.359 So this is the equivalent of you know, call it 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:10.080 five first round picks. And you would not be like, 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:13.040 all right, well now we're in the quarterback wilderness, because 0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:15.520 now you might end up being if Mendoza is not 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:19.359 the guy. But you're not trading for the number one 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:22.760 overall pick blind saying, you know, or trading for a 0:28:22.800 --> 0:28:25.520 future year pick when you don't know who the players 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:28.440 are that you'd be taking. You would know you are 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:33.199 taking Fernando Mendoza. And the point that the reason I 0:28:33.280 --> 0:28:38.160 find this interesting from the Ravens perspective, this theoretical fake 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:41.240 trade that ESPN alluded to it. And then I put 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:44.400 a fine tooth comb on or a finer point on, 0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:51.560 I should say, I do think that it is a 0:28:51.640 --> 0:28:57.480 legitimate discussion. What is a better path to winning a 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:07.600 championship young quarterback on a rookie scale plus Max Crosby 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:14.360 plus the extra forty some million dollars of cap space 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:22.080 to build out the rest of the roster, or Lamar Jackson, 0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:29.280 who will enter next year undoubtedly as the highest paid 0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:32.840 player in the league on a sixty plus million dollar 0:29:32.880 --> 0:29:38.080 a year contract. And it is worth noting the two 0:29:38.160 --> 0:29:44.560 Super Bowls the Ravens have won, they won with cheap 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:52.320 quarterbacks and stacked rosters. The Denver Broncos are attempting this 0:29:52.440 --> 0:29:54.960 right now. I know bo Nix is now out, but 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:59.239 young quarterback, all this talent around him. The Patriots, I, 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:02.080 you know, don't think they actually have all that much 0:30:02.360 --> 0:30:05.360 talent around them. I think what the job May and 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:09.760 vrabil have done's unbelievable. But they spent money this offseason. 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:13.200 They have more money to spend this next offseason. You know, 0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:18.760 I'm not breaking news that good young, cheap quarterback who 0:30:19.160 --> 0:30:24.840 gives you franchise quarterback play on rookie quarterback salary at 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:28.240 a bunch of pieces has been a very successful model. 0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:32.760 And then when you add to it what I think 0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:40.880 could be some squeamishness for the Ravens of a brand 0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:48.240 new contract for Lamar after at the very least we 0:30:48.320 --> 0:30:53.560 can call it an injury riddled year. I think it's 0:30:53.640 --> 0:30:59.640 worth a real discussion, and it is. I also want 0:30:59.680 --> 0:31:07.760 to make this part clear. This is not an insult 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:14.600 to Lamar, because if I were the Raiders, I would 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:18.560 not like Let let me again, this is we're playing 0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:23.680 in double hypothetical worlds here. But let's say the Raiders 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:27.640 offered this to the Ravens, Max Crosby and the number 0:31:27.640 --> 0:31:30.200 one pick for Lamar and the rap and the Ravens 0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:34.000 said no, thank you. And then the Bengals heard it 0:31:34.040 --> 0:31:37.240 had been offered and they called the Raiders and they said, 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:40.840 we'll take it for Joe Burrow. If I'm the Raiders, 0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:44.160 I wouldn't do that deal. I don't think Joe Burrow 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:48.680 is worth the number one overall pick plus Max Crosby, 0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:54.600