WEBVTT - LeBron James RETURNS to Lakers, Chiefs DESPERATE vs. Colts, Joe Burrow BACK IN ACTION? | Nick Wright 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.080 Welcome in. We'll drive in the great episode three ninety four, 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:10.320 once again going solo as Demonse is still on paternity 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.440 leave and I actually next week, by the way, we'll 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.880 have a couple shows before Thanksgiving, and then I will 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.840 be out in Los Angeles as I will get to 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.400 see Demonse and get to meet his new baby girl, Mila, 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.040 which I could not be more excited for. This episode 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:28.880 of What's Right with the Grid is presented to you 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.960 by boost Mobile. We will get right to it straight. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.240 The voicemail presented to you by our friends at boost Mobile. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:44.400 Michael Penix really really rough. Year two's for Michael Pinnix 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:49.239 and for JJ McCarthy in particular. Pinis the worst of 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.239 it as he, after an injury riddled college career, is 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:58.080 undergoing season ending knee surgery. The NFL my play game 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.720 in Paris in twenty twenty six would be sick and 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:06.920 Aaron Rodgers planning to practice today despite having a broken 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.880 left wrist. Let me tell you, guys, as someone who 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.880 had a broken left wrist not that long ago, seems 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.840 impossible that one could play an NFL game with it. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:24.320 I'm very interested in how this plays out. Obviously, fractures 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:29.000 are different. Everybody's body heals differently, but Aaron Rodgers doesn't 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:33.360 seem super fond of getting hit as is. I can't 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.640 imagine what it will be like if he's playing a 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.880 game with a broken left wrist. Remindered everybody like rate, 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.640 subscribe review to the pod. It helps us a ton 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.760 as we you know, inch really inch towards a quarter 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.960 of a million on YouTube list follow us on or 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.520 subscribe on iTunes and Spotify. Those numbers have been great 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.640 lately and we really do appreciate that. So even if 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.520 you watch us live on YouTube, if you just click 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.280 the subscribe button on your phones to one of the 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:12.720 audio platforms, that's super helpful as well. So as I 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:19.239 am inundated because Kevin Wilds is, so we're going to 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:25.800 start talking about the Lakers and Lebron's debut, but a 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:33.320 little inside baseball, if you will. To first things first, 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.960 Kevin Wilds only wanted to discuss a potential of Anthony 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.560 Davis trade if there was a possibility that Anthony Davis 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.040 would be able to be traded back to the Lakers. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.440 And I told Wilds that was not possible, and it 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.280 was a dumb idea. And so he has now spent 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.440 the last thirty minutes trying to create a fake trade, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.200 and he now has done it involving the Brooklyn Nets 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.520 being a third team where they for some reason that 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:11.000 I'm gonna have to ask Wilds to explain trade away 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.239 multiple of their own first round picks so they can 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.360 get a couple second rounders and Jared Vanderbilt in order 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.880 to facilitate the Lakers getting Anthony Davis back. K W. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:31.320 I know you don't listen to the pod, but if somebody, oh, okay, 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.040 here we go. Then he then writes, I didn't create it, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.720 but you have to believe somebody else did for him. Okay, 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.400 neither here nor there. Now to the actual show. kW 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:50.400 stays a dufus forever Lebron's back, and I have a 0:03:50.400 --> 0:04:04.440 lot of takes. So no athlete in my lifetime has 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:16.480 generated more idiotic and immediately self refuting opinions than Lebron. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.839 And it's because I think it's because he's been for 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:28.360 basically as long as daily sports television has existed, Lebron 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:33.120 has been one of, if not the main character, and 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:38.440 because he has played, you know, throughout the entirety of 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.440 this medium and because he has been at the eye 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:48.280 of the NBA storm, which while the NBA has never 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.839 in his career been the country's most popular sport, but 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.600 it has been at various times in his career the 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:02.640 country's most talked about. When it comes to sports debate 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:08.000 and sports TV and sports talk radio, Lebron is the 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:19.640 Lebron commentariot has spawned just some truly ridiculous and upon reflection, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.880 hilarious moments. And these are for me, friends and foes alike. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:34.880 I mean, we are twelve twelve. Is that right? No, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:41.599 it's not right. Thirteen years ago, my dear pal Dan 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:47.560 Lebtard announced Lebron was on the downside and Miami had 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.640 gotten the best of him. That was thirteen years ago. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.120 And I'm going to talk about guys that I love 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.839 and adore, so it doesn't seem like I'm trying to 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:04.320 take cheap shots here. Famously, the owner and founder of 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:14.000 this company, my mentor Colin, eight years ago said Lebron, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.000 hang it up whenever you want. We've got the NBA's 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.840 got it from here. It was actually nine years ago, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:27.280 and that that's an all time clip a because Lebron 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.320 would go on to win multiple championships after that, but 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.159 b because he was saying that Ben Simmons is gonna 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.560 take over. I listen, Colin, I was as high on 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.839 Ben Simmons as about anybody. I have to hold that 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.279 l as well. And there, of course is all the 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.159 skip stuff with the clutch, and then the latest steven 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.279 A stuff with the real personal I don't like that 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:54.839 guy so much of it just outright silliness. And then 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.880 we got an unexpected dose of it in The Wee 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.600 Leader in the week or so leading up to Lebron 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:10.239 making his debut, which was, hey, will Lebron be able 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.680 to fit in with the Lakers even though we saw 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.080 Luca and Lebron and Austin Reeves play together last year? Hey, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:24.960 will Lebron actually make the Lakers worse? Will he screw 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.600 up what they have going on? These were real conversations, 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:38.680 real discussions about the most malleable, most flexible as far 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:44.080 as how he can help your team player in NBA history, 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:51.320 about arguably the only guy in the history of the 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:59.400 league that can legitimately and has literally made an All 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.680 NBA team at all five positions on the court. Check 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:10.080 his Basketball Reference for that was an All NBA center 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.800 one year for the Lakers and an All NBA point 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.520 guard the year after that for the Lakers. Late stage, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:23.119 Lebron was an All NBA shooting guard as a young 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.480 player early and then obviously All NBA small forward and 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.480 power forward throughout his career. That that guy that can 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:36.040 play all five and certainly the younger version of him, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.319 and to a degree, the older version of him can 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:43.200 guard all five, that that guy was gonna screw up 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:50.520 a team. And then Lebron comes in keeps his double 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.280 digit point streak alive, which is going to be a 0:08:55.600 --> 0:09:01.520 very fun and funny thing to watch this year because uh, 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:08.840 it's obviously an untouchable record and we'll get more on 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:14.000 the Lebron untouchable record stuff in a moment. But he 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:18.920 wants to keep it going. But he is, I believe, 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.719 going to play a very different style this year. That 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:27.200 game Tuesday night, that's the fewest shots he's ever taken 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.360 in a game he didn't leave with injury. And speaking 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:36.480 of the double digit point streak, one of those games 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.280 that he left with injury, because there's only been two 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.840 games in his career he took fewer than seven shots, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.439 which is what he took Tuesday Night one, he didn't 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.439 play the second half because he took an elbow from 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:54.240 to Kim Big Matumbo, and one he left early when 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.320 Solomon Hill fell into his ankle and derailed the Lakers 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:05.640 title defense the twenty twenty one season. But that game 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.440 involves one of my favorite Lebron moments of all time, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:18.600 which is Solomon Hill falls into his ankle, Lebron recognizes 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:24.840 he has suffered the first truly significant injury of his 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:31.640 entire career up to that point and is going to 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:39.319 be out months and is sitting at seven points and 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:44.520 the streak is dead, And despite suffering an injury that 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.600 is going to knock him out for the next two months, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:53.640 he pretends he's not hurt badly, stays in the game, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:01.400 gets the ball, takes a corner, three hits, it keeps 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:05.320 the double figure point streak alive, and then is out 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:11.040 for the majority of the rest of the season. But 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:19.040 that's sidebar Lebron being dropped in as a team's ultimate 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:24.400 Swiss army knife and Lebron taking pride in that ability, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:33.800 and Lebron then saying after the game with a smile, Yeah, 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.120 I heard what was being said. I've been a you know, 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.600 you could put me on any team and I would 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:46.000 make it work. Is just obviously true. And people's you know, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.920 people say that about Kevin Durant all the time, like, oh, 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:57.000 you just drop him in anywhere, And yes, that's true 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.920 about other players, great players. You drop him in and 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:09.120 they would make any team better. The distinction is can 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.880 you drop a player in and can they instantly do 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:19.080 at a high level the exact thing that team needs 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.840 them to do. This Lakers team right now might need 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:34.200 Lebron to be more facilitator, cutter, screener than scorer. Unlike 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.440 some of the other great players in this league. He 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:45.280 has the skill set at forty in year twenty three 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.040 to be excellent at all at anything. Now, is he 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.040 the best player in the league anymore? Of course, not 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.480 see a top five player in the league anymore. No, 0:12:55.559 --> 0:13:01.480 But is he still have a legitimate show at being 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:06.640 right around top ten And is he, assuredly when he's healthy, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.640 still a top fifteen guy in the league. Yes, And 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:17.600 that guy with that malleability helps any team in the 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:22.600 history of basketball. Now, is it all right? Now? A 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:28.280 moot point for the whole NBA because of who and 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:34.160 what OKC is maybe everybody might be playing for second 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:43.160 this year, but we'll see things happen, and there's an 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:50.120 element of, I don't want to say lack of appreciation, 0:13:50.960 --> 0:14:00.520 but numbness to what we are seeing at this moment. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.880 And this is something that you know I've said before, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:11.280 but I don't know that people like fully take it in. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.440 And especially because you know Steph is playing at such 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:21.600 a high level at an advanced age. Durant is playing 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.160 at such a high level at an advanced age. But 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.080 see whether you want to focus on the age forty 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:41.680 part or the year twenty three part. The it being 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:49.320 without precedent is such a wild understatement. Like Kobe Bryant, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:56.760 the late great Kobe Bryant. How old do you think 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:02.120 Kobe was when he played in his final playoff game 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.800 with the Lakers. I'm gonna give it a pause so 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.120 you can actually think about it. How old was Kobe 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:17.200 in his final career playoff game? Are you shocked when 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.920 I tell you the answer to that is thirty two. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:32.160 Kobe Bryant did not play in a playoff game with 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:37.480 the Lakers after the age of thirty two. Like a 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:48.120 little context to that, Lebron joined the Lakers when he 0:15:48.400 --> 0:16:02.360 was thirty four. So obviously Jordan stop with that was 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.560 done with the Bulls at thirty five, thirty six. Obviously, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:10.280 we've never seen a player play in a year twenty three, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.160 and the only one to get to a year twenty 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:18.320 two was Vince It's I said this a couple of 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:24.040 years ago and people laughed. I think we are now 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.640 seeing it in real time. He'll simply never be bad 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:36.520 and he could easily play at again, not an MVP level, 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:43.280 but a high level throughout his forties barring again, barring 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.480 a you're always at this age of a catastrophic injury away. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.240 But he's ducked that up to this point in his career, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:58.920 and people can have the argument about the greatest player 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:03.520 of all time that is going to age so well 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.120 on my end and so poorly for so many other folks, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.840 because it is when it does come to And this 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.919 isn't the whole discussion, but it is at least a 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:19.520 piece of it. The record books. With the way things 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:25.639 are going right now as far as injuries, load management, 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.520 guys not being able to make it through a full season, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:37.680 Lebron's longevity records are going to when people look back 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.520 on him in forty years. It's going to be like 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:45.920 if you look at complete games in baseball right now 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:50.200 and you're like, wait, a guy had forty in one year. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:57.360 Like all of these games, minutes, points, the playoff records 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:03.920 are going to be shame Mberlin esque, untouchable and farcical 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:13.320 in the numbers to future generations. And I'm very, very 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:20.520 interested to see the full role Bron takes on with 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:25.160 the Lakers, because in Game one of year twenty three, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:30.880 he was like, Okay, I'll be late stage Magic Johnson, 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:37.959 and that's pretty damn good. There's one other Bron adjacent 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.280 thing I wanted to talk about, and this is one 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:48.399 of those things that I imagine will do well on 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:55.320 social media or YouTube or and might cause me a 0:18:55.320 --> 0:19:02.200 little grief, but I I just I can't leave it unaddressed, 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:08.159 and I don't. I'm not trying to start anything, but 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.439 this is so it was maddening when I heard it. 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:20.160 So the greatest sports podcaster of all time, the guy 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:26.080 who in some ways invented the medium, and a guy 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:31.800 I like a lot, Bill Simmons brought the mail bag back, 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.879 which is awesome. It's vented Simmons. It's part of the 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:41.000 reason that he's who he is and it's awesome, and 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:47.200 because I'm a fan, I was listening and he gets 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:54.840 asked about the biggest sliding doors moments in NBA history, 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:05.560 and he goes to the Draymond Groin shot of Lebron 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:11.199 in Game four of the twenty sixteen Finals, which is 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.200 a legitimate sliding doors moment, There's no doubt about it. 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.639 And he talks about how if the Warriors win that title, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:26.960 Durant can't go, you know, to Golden State. So then 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.960 who wins the next two? Does Lebron ever win in Cleveland? 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:34.159 Does Lebron ever go to the Lakers? There's that is 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.960 you know, what does it mean for Steph? Back to 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.359 back championships? He and Lebron then at that moment would 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.240 have been two to two. He would have had back 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:50.359 to back league MVPs, including a unanimous there are it's Clay, 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.080 He's Simmons talks about all of it, and he's correct 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:57.719 about that being a sliding doors moment. But there's two 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:06.280 pieces of the commentary that are just one is enraging 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.879 and it's not about Bill, and the other one is 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:14.760 I he just must talk to very different NBA people 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:24.400 than me, because what Bill said was the conspiracy theory 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:29.639 that people believe more than any other conspiracy is that 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:36.600 the NBA suspended Draymond because they wanted Cleveland to win 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:44.040 the title. And I've literally never heard that. Now, I 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:50.479 certainly have heard the conspiracy that they suspended Draymond because 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:55.080 they hoped the series would go longer than five. But 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:03.920 the idea that in real time, anyone outside of the 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:10.800 Calves locker room, me and Zach Lowe, we're all on 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:18.560 the record during this, everyone's doing media. Nobody else when 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:22.880 that suspension came down said oh, well, now I think 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:26.919 the Calves are going to win. That Warriors team was 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:31.360 considered the greatest team of all time and had dominated 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:33.800 the Calves through the first four games of that series. 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:39.320 So the first point is the idea that it is 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:47.800 widely thought in NBA circles that the Draymond suspension was 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:55.160 going to lead to the Calves winning the championship. We 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:58.480 were all there in real time that was not a thing. 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:05.520 And then and then to the opinion piece of it, 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:15.840 nothing is more maddening for me as a bron fan. 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:27.480 Then the fact that when that happened, and then the 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:35.200 Calves win Game five by fifteen and Lebron scores forty 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:49.119 one points. The entire media asserts that would have never 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:53.240 happened if Draymond was there. The Calves winning by double 0:23:53.320 --> 0:24:01.720 digits and Lebron scoring forty plus never happened if Draymond's there. 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:08.280 And then in Game six, when Draymond is there, Lebron 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:14.360 scores forty one and the Calves win by fifteen points. 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:21.160 Game five of those finals, No, Draymond, Bron scores broncos 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.320 I'll give you his exact stat line, just so we 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:28.480 all are on the same page. Forty one, sixteen and 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:33.359 seven on fifty five percent from the field, sixty three 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:38.879 percent from three, and the Calves win by fifteen. So again, 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:43.560 forty one sixteen to seven, fifty five sixty three splits, 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:49.359 fifteen point win. Game six of the finals, Forty one 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:55.359 eight eleven on sixty five seventy five splits and the 0:24:55.440 --> 0:25:01.720 Calves win by fourteen. Like, what are we talking about? 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:08.639 What are we talking about? Oh? Hold on, I gotta 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:11.959 do that, because I'm sure I have to fix that. 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:15.080 I have to fix that. I apologize I gave you 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:18.520 the wrong field goal percentages. Let me do that again, 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:20.960 because I want this to be accurate. I gave you 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:28.640 so Game five of the Finals, No Draymond forty one 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:35.240 sixteen and seven on fifty three fifty splits in a 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:40.600 fifteen point win. Game six of the Finals with Draymond 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:46.640 forty one, eight to eleven on fifty nine fifty splits 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:56.640 in a fourteen point win. It's just revisionist history. And 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:05.200 it's the only other reason that's relevant to me right 0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:18.240 now is that game happened ten seasons ago and this 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:26.200 guy's still playing. It's just a career that will never 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:35.160 be even remotely approached. And it's if you're if you're 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:40.920 listening to this right now and a sports fan of 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:49.240 this era. The fact that we got to experience Tom 0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:58.600 Brady going more than twenty years of elite in the 0:26:58.640 --> 0:27:10.560 mix every single year, ten Super Bowl appearances across multiple teams, 0:27:12.200 --> 0:27:19.639 while experiencing Lebron doing the exact same thing in the NBA, 0:27:20.920 --> 0:27:27.119 it's just unreal, just unreal. Today's show brought to you 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:30.440 by our new presenting sponsor, a hard Rock Bet. 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Go six and one and it would 0:30:14.160 --> 0:30:19.840 be very difficult to miss the playoffs, and you'll be 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:26.120 super dangerous going into the postseason. Go five and two 0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:32.920 and you're probably out. Go four and three and you're 0:30:33.000 --> 0:30:38.800 definitely out, and it's a true disaster of a year. 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:47.440 That's where they're at. Okay, I am not going to 0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:54.160 be quite as chesty about my feelings and predictions for 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:59.440 this game given what we saw last weekend. Now in 0:30:59.520 --> 0:31:03.360 the despite the Sauce Gardner trading, the fact that they 0:31:03.480 --> 0:31:09.240 might have Tavarious Wardback obviously does not have the defense 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:14.880 that Denver has. This game, you know, is in Arrowhead, 0:31:15.840 --> 0:31:22.400 not on the road. There is no deforce Buckner, and 0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:30.840 Daniel Jones has been shaky his last few appearances. All 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:39.080 of that makes me feel as confident as I can 0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:46.680 given how I feel after that Denver game. Jonathan Taylor 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:50.600 is a great, great player. The Chiefs tend not to 0:31:50.640 --> 0:31:55.800 get gashed by like they're pretty good at at least 0:31:56.280 --> 0:32:02.479 not shutting down but slowing down great backs. But Daniel 0:32:02.560 --> 0:32:06.240 Jones is better than bon Nicks, and bo Nicks carved 0:32:06.280 --> 0:32:11.600 the Chiefs up so and this is the Colts off 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:19.240 a bye. With all that said, as important as this 0:32:19.360 --> 0:32:24.240 game is for the Chiefs, it is greatly important for 0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:28.080 the Colts as well, because what the Colts all of 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:33.320 a sudden have is seven straight games to end their 0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:41.600 season against teams fighting for their playoff lives to one 0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:47.160 degree or another. So they're at the Chiefs. They then 0:32:47.400 --> 0:32:53.360 get the Texans, who will be on extra rest themselves 0:32:54.400 --> 0:32:59.520 after tonight's Bill's Texans game, and the Texans will either 0:32:59.600 --> 0:33:03.440 be six and five coming off their best win of 0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:08.160 the year, or five and six in a de facto 0:33:08.160 --> 0:33:13.440 playoff game. They then go to Jacksonville, then to Seattle, 0:33:14.360 --> 0:33:17.840 then home for the Niners, home for the Jags, and 0:33:17.880 --> 0:33:24.840 at the Texans. Really odd for the Colts that they've 0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:28.120 only played two divisional games up to this point in 0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:32.000 the season. They're both against the Titans, so we haven't 0:33:32.040 --> 0:33:38.280 really seen well not really, we have not seen the 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:44.240 Colts play the other two legitimate AFC South teams. So 0:33:44.320 --> 0:33:51.160 a loss here and things maybe get a little shaky 0:33:51.240 --> 0:33:55.600 for Indy. A win here and they're like, hey, why 0:33:55.640 --> 0:34:02.560 can't we be the one seed? So I obviously like 0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:06.840 the Chiefs in this spot, but they have lost for 0:34:06.880 --> 0:34:15.200 the short term, the supreme confidence that they'd had that 0:34:15.239 --> 0:34:18.120 they would have had in this spot at any other 0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:26.040 moment of the Mahomes EUO and the inability to get 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:30.320 off the field in third and long is the number 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:39.879 one problem for me with the defense and offensively obviously, 0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:43.719 and I've talked about it. Patrick needs to be more precise, 0:34:43.800 --> 0:34:49.520 particularly on the deep balls. But the biggest systemic issue 0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:59.960 with the offense right now is teams basically play the 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:04.400 pass at all times against Kansas City, and Kansas City 0:35:04.440 --> 0:35:06.919 doesn't make him pay for it by running the ball. 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:16.200 It's just that it's just the truth that the total 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:21.120 lack of any threat of the under center run game 0:35:22.120 --> 0:35:25.560 has made it to where Patrick in the passing offense 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:32.759 is up against really onerous defensive looks at all times 0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:35.399 that should be easy to run on, but they won't 0:35:35.440 --> 0:35:39.680 run the ball. Now, maybe with Pacheco likely back, that changes, 0:35:39.719 --> 0:35:50.600 one would hope. I also got to acknowledge lou An Arumo, 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:56.400 the former Bengals decoordinator who's now with the Colts, has 0:35:56.800 --> 0:36:00.000 cooked up some really good stuff against Patrick in his career. 0:36:01.800 --> 0:36:10.080 So that's the concerning pieces of it, the bright sides 0:36:10.120 --> 0:36:16.440 of it. So to speak or this a week from now, 0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:24.360 they could be at seven and five a week from today, 0:36:25.960 --> 0:36:29.839 take care of business at home against the Colts, go 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:36.360 to Dallas on Thanksgiving and they'd be seven and five 0:36:37.920 --> 0:36:40.800