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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome man, What driving Nick great? Episode two
Speaker 2: twenty four A ton to do Today? The NFL officially
Speaker 2: changed it's kickoff rule. I'm actually fascinated by that. I
Speaker 2: think it's a good change. We do need to get
Speaker 2: into the gambling scan doles now plural encircling our sports leagues. Also,
Speaker 2: since you've last seen me, I had surgery on my arm.
Speaker 2: I have a steel plate there, so that's why you
Speaker 2: see this rat. But otherwise I'm doing great. Before we
Speaker 2: get to any of that, though, this is not a
Speaker 2: sports topic.
Speaker 3: This is just a.
Speaker 2: My thoughts on something that just happened so overnight. If
Speaker 2: you haven't seen it, a ship crashed into the Francis
Speaker 2: Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the bridge collapsed, and
Speaker 2: obviously thoughts and if you're the prayerful type, prayers with
Speaker 2: the missing people and with anyone in the moment directly impacted.
Speaker 2: But the reason I'm starting the show with that is
Speaker 2: that will be one of the three, maybe one of
Speaker 2: the two, single biggest things to happen in this country
Speaker 2: this year. I don't think people have fully yet. It
Speaker 2: just happened hours ago, wrapped their minds around what that
Speaker 2: bridge in that port city being destroyed by a ship
Speaker 2: gone awry means. But what it means for people's livelihoods,
Speaker 2: what it means for commerce, what it means for trade,
Speaker 2: what it means for a city that couldn't really take
Speaker 2: many more body blows. What it means for their economy
Speaker 2: is right now almost unfathomable. And so I don't want
Speaker 2: to start the show off on a down note.
Speaker 3: But this is.
Speaker 2: A type of worldwide event that I don't know if
Speaker 2: And again, it just happened overnight, so a lot of
Speaker 2: you guys are probably just finding out about it right now.
Speaker 2: But the impact of it and the import of that
Speaker 2: is almost impossible to overstate. So if you have friends, family,
Speaker 2: loved ones, anyone, obviously you're checking on them to make
Speaker 2: sure they're safe. If they're in the Baltimore area, make
Speaker 2: sure they weren't on the bridge, anything like that. But furthermore,
Speaker 2: if you have anyone that works in Baltimore, check on
Speaker 2: them because their lives are about to be turned upside
Speaker 2: down in for not a short period of time. And
Speaker 2: so I know that's an odd way to start the show,
Speaker 2: but I really believe it's one of the most significant
Speaker 2: events that happen in this country in at least a year,
Speaker 2: and it's you know, I don't want to say it's
Speaker 2: nobody's fault. We don't know what happened. It looks like
Speaker 2: the the you know, I'm not a shipping expert, but
Speaker 2: a ship from Singapore lost control and ran into the bridge.
Speaker 2: And so there's that. It is an odd way to
Speaker 2: start the show. I admit we will do a very
Speaker 2: very harsh tone shift in about twenty seconds to the
Speaker 2: regular show. But it is a very very significant event
Speaker 2: for the entire world, particularly for the United States, and
Speaker 2: for the good people of Baltimore. Okay, now to the
Speaker 2: Official Sports Show. I know it's an awkward transition, but
Speaker 2: I'm all right with that. Here's what did not make
Speaker 2: the cut the mizz offering to trade and Jason Kelcey
Speaker 2: and WWE. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes evidently lost a bet, so he had to
Speaker 2: dress up like a cow. I don't really care about
Speaker 2: that either. And now, speaking of things I don't care about,
Speaker 2: we have our demand was wearing these sunglasses if you're
Speaker 2: watching on YouTube, as a gag. When I sat down
Speaker 2: to see him in the chair in LA and I
Speaker 2: thought they looked so good on him. You know, I
Speaker 2: decided to use my fifty one percent voting power of
Speaker 2: the show and mandated that he not only wear those
Speaker 2: shades today, but that might just be his look moving forward.
Speaker 2: So give us those thoughts in the comments. So you're
Speaker 2: now seeing Demanse Demanse. The producers also want me to
Speaker 2: talk about the Bachelorette, which I understand is wildly popular
Speaker 2: but I know nothing about. So go ahead, we're having
Speaker 2: a con. Well this is okay. So this is the
Speaker 2: NFL Coaches photo, which is not the bachelorette.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing about the NFL coaches photo. If you're
Speaker 2: watching on YouTube, there are people most know. There's my guy,
Speaker 2: Andy Reid looking as glorious as ever. Is that Dave
Speaker 2: Canalis next to him? I know it's.
Speaker 4: I think we're about to run through a quick little
Speaker 4: quiz for you. So I think you got the first
Speaker 4: one obviously, before.
Speaker 2: We move on to anymore. I was gonna say, yeah,
Speaker 2: so it goes John Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh, Andy Reid, I
Speaker 2: think Dave Canalis, and then best I can tell that
Speaker 2: guy next to Dave Canalis is producer Matt Fully and
Speaker 2: shout out to him for getting in the picture. But
Speaker 2: I don't know who that is. All right, go ahead
Speaker 2: there you, oh Matts in both places. I don't know
Speaker 2: what else we have. We can go through it quickly
Speaker 2: because I know for the audio listeners this probably isn't
Speaker 2: really popular for them because they can't see what we're doing.
Speaker 2: I don't know who that is. I cannot I cannot identify.
Speaker 3: That's Brian call.
Speaker 2: Oh, Brian Callian. Okay, he just got his first head
Speaker 2: coaching job. Shout out Brian Callahan. All right, next, well
Speaker 2: he's sitting next to Mike McDaniel. I'm not good at this,
Speaker 2: and this is not my bit, guys, this is Kyle
Speaker 2: Branton p f T commenter's bit. Just tell me who
Speaker 2: they are. I don't think this is good content. Mike McDonald,
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald, Oh, the Ravens decordinator. And who's the guy
Speaker 2: on the other side of him, Zach t the other
Speaker 2: yellow circle, that's Zach Taylor. Glow up, Zach Taylor. Good
Speaker 2: for him. I should have known that, you know what.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a grainy photo. But I'm not good
Speaker 2: at things like that. I'm not good at like remembering players' numbers.
Speaker 2: I'm not remember good at remembering coaches faces. Okay, now
Speaker 2: to the actual show. So I'm just gonna take this
Speaker 2: from here before we get to some of the other topics.
Speaker 2: Because last week we said, demanse we were gonna wait
Speaker 2: and hold off on the Otani story until more news
Speaker 2: came out, and I'm glad we did. And then as
Speaker 2: the Otani story, Otani finally talks, and we'll get into that.
Speaker 2: There's a John tay Porter story, and you might say
Speaker 2: it was John tay Porter and he's the brother of
Speaker 2: Michael porter junior. He was a big time recruit from
Speaker 2: Missou who never really got his career off the ground
Speaker 2: because of injuries. He's on a two way contract and
Speaker 2: there are very suspicious betting patterns involving his player, props
Speaker 2: and games. He left early with injury or ailment. I
Speaker 2: want to start with Otani, and I'm going to start
Speaker 2: in a place that I don't think anyone else has
Speaker 2: started or discussed. But to me it is the most obvious,
Speaker 2: which is this. The Otani story can be about gambling
Speaker 2: in the micro, in the macro. To me, what it
Speaker 2: is about is this. You can't, in any walk of life,
Speaker 2: whether it be the United Nations, international communication or the
Speaker 2: world's greatest baseball player, have just one factor, authentication on
Speaker 2: your interpreter. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I mean
Speaker 2: this adamantly. Every time I read anything about the Otani story,
Speaker 2: what comes to mind is got to have two interpreters.
Speaker 2: The idea that you would ever be totally reliant on
Speaker 2: one other person in all communications, in all business dealings,
Speaker 2: financial dealings, everything to one guy. Of Course, that guy
Speaker 2: is susceptible to corruption. Of course you're susceptible to get
Speaker 2: and robbed. You gotta you gotta go too, interpreters. And
Speaker 2: I'm not blaming Otani for this, because it seems like
Speaker 2: the solo interpreter is what everyone always does, but that
Speaker 2: has always struck me as perilous. If the interpreter has
Speaker 2: his own uh ulterior motives or dishonesty or whatever, it
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be a gambling problem allegedly. It could
Speaker 2: be anything. It could be you know what, I'm mad
Speaker 2: at the guy I work for. I want him to
Speaker 2: look like a jerk in the media. It could be
Speaker 2: I don't like that reporter. I don't want his actual
Speaker 2: smart question to be perceived as a smart question to
Speaker 2: I can't imagine I really empathize with Otani or with
Speaker 2: anyone that has to do business dealings or real communication
Speaker 2: through an interpreter, because you've got to feel a little powerless.
Speaker 2: And because of that, and the reason I'm starting there,
Speaker 2: it is because of that that I tend to believe Otani.
Speaker 2: So here's what I mean, And this is the angle
Speaker 2: that I don't think enough people have looked at it from.
Speaker 2: If every single interaction you have with your employer, with
Speaker 2: your teammates, with your sponsors is run through another individual
Speaker 2: who is literally translating that obviously is the person you
Speaker 2: trust more than any person in the world. That obviously
Speaker 2: is a person who would have access to your bank accounts.
Speaker 2: That obviously is a person you would implicitly believe it.
Speaker 2: And so like, who would be the easiest person in
Speaker 2: the world for me to scam? The answer is Demanse
Speaker 2: or my wife or Diora, not because they're dumb, but
Speaker 2: because they that we operate from a place of like
Speaker 2: implicit trust. If Demanse called me and was you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, as he did actually a few months ago,
Speaker 2: was like, hey, what's your recommendations on how I file taxes?
Speaker 2: Like that conversation starts from a place of this person
Speaker 2: will only ever give me good advice, will only ever,
Speaker 2: or even if it's not good advice, give me their
Speaker 2: what they think is good advice, and will only ever
Speaker 2: have my best interests at heart. And so if in
Speaker 2: that moment I was like, oh boy, I got upside
Speaker 2: down in some investments. My credit's wrecked and I need
Speaker 2: to start fresh. I'm gonna rip off Demons's credit, he
Speaker 2: would it would he would be the easiest mark in
Speaker 2: the world because of our relationship. So if if Otani
Speaker 2: relies on this guy for everything, then of course this
Speaker 2: guy could rip him off for millions of dollars. And
Speaker 2: so that is then where I actually, when it comes
Speaker 2: to the Otani part of this, have more of an
Speaker 2: issue with the Dodgers, and so this is a paragraph
Speaker 2: from the Athletic that I think is the most intriguing
Speaker 2: part of the story. Also, a quote also under scrutiny
Speaker 2: is how the Dodgers and Otani's representatives entrusted Missihara, who's
Speaker 2: the interpreter, entrusted Missahara enough to have him be the
Speaker 2: lone point person to Otani while they knew Missahara was
Speaker 2: the subject of this line of questioning. Rather that rather
Speaker 2: they followed their typical order of operations. Every communication went
Speaker 2: from the Dodgers agent nez Balelo pardon me if I'm
Speaker 2: mispronounced it, or is represented at CAAA went through Missahara,
Speaker 2: even without Otani present. This meant no one from the
Speaker 2: Dodgers or CIA supposedly ever, talked to Otani directly about
Speaker 2: the looming story involving Missahara before the interpreter talked to
Speaker 2: the entire team. After Wednesday's opener, Misera now claims he
Speaker 2: never misinterpreted anything while interpreting for Otani. But think about
Speaker 2: that for a moment. What that is saying is that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Otani's representatives were aware that there were
Speaker 2: these allegations of some level of impropriety by the interpreter,
Speaker 2: and at no point did they then be like, Hey,
Speaker 2: can we find someone else that speaks Japanese? Call them
Speaker 2: in here, get show a in here, tell the interpret
Speaker 2: to go somewhere else for a minute while we make
Speaker 2: sure show hey knows everything that is wild. That is
Speaker 2: so irresponsible That to me is the most suspicious part
Speaker 2: of this. The idea that they would say, oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: the interpreter is subjected to a gambling probe. Somebody's gotta
Speaker 2: tell Otani, we'll have the interpreter do it. What that
Speaker 2: seems like, at best incredibly careless and at worst nefarious.
Speaker 2: And the reason I say it worse nefarious is it
Speaker 2: makes me wonder if everyone was hoping that somehow this
Speaker 2: story could just go away, that somehow that the company
Speaker 2: line of interpreter did all of this on his own,
Speaker 2: and then Otani, because he's such a great guy, just
Speaker 2: covered the debts. That's the cleanest version of this, because
Speaker 2: the new version, which is the interpreter, did all this
Speaker 2: on his own and then stole from Otani. That involves
Speaker 2: not MLB investigations, not even just IRS investigations, but federal investigations.
Speaker 2: That involves subpoena power, that involves depositions, that involves talking
Speaker 2: under oath, and it would again my initial read on
Speaker 2: it is folks were hoping that this could go away,
Speaker 2: and it obviously isn't. Now as a gambler, there are
Speaker 2: also a lot of other to me curious questions that
Speaker 2: arose up to an including what bookie is giving this
Speaker 2: guy multiple millions of dollars in credit I'm sure will
Speaker 2: be made whole at some point unless the guy was
Speaker 2: representing Listen, I'm backed by one of the biggest sports
Speaker 2: stars in the world. Now that doesn't mean he was
Speaker 2: backed by one of the biggest sports guys in the world.
Speaker 2: But as again as a lifelong gambler, let me tell
Speaker 2: you typically how something like this would go if I
Speaker 2: brought Demanse to my semi weekly poker game and he
Speaker 2: played with me a couple times, and he was introduced
Speaker 2: as my guy orever or even if I didn't bring him,
Speaker 2: but everyone publicly knew he was with me, and then
Speaker 2: Demanse showed up without me and lost money. He probably
Speaker 2: could do that a couple time time and be like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: to put it on my dad's tab. But by about
Speaker 2: the third time or if and when the figure got
Speaker 2: to a real amount of money, I would get a
Speaker 2: phone call like, hey, I'm sure everything's fine, not accusing
Speaker 2: anyone of anything, but just so you know, Demons has
Speaker 2: run up this much on your tab? Are you good?
Speaker 2: Are we cool? Do you want us to cut him off? Whatever?
Speaker 2: The idea that this got to millions and then the
Speaker 2: marker was called in strikes me as abnormal. Okay, And
Speaker 2: I know that there's a lot of these days what
Speaker 2: I would call just misinformation about how gambling works. I
Speaker 2: know there was a story Bruno Mars ohs the MGM
Speaker 2: fifty million. No he doesn't, No, he doesn't. I'm done
Speaker 2: you right now with knowing nothing that's not true. You
Speaker 2: know how I know it. You can't run up a
Speaker 2: fifty million dollar bill, not possible. Doesn't matter how liquid
Speaker 2: you are, doesn't matter now, And theoretically there, if the
Speaker 2: play is we want the bill to run up so high,
Speaker 2: so we theoretically quote own the guy. I understand that
Speaker 2: that sounds good in the movies. That's not how these
Speaker 2: things actually work out. At some point, gambling debts become
Speaker 2: too large to be paid, and that's why they need
Speaker 2: to be That's why anyone that's ever gambled with a bookie.
Speaker 2: You have a figure. So if you bet one hundred
Speaker 2: bucks a weekend, maybe the figure's five hundred dollars. If
Speaker 2: you bet ten thousand a weekend, maybe the figures fifty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. But whatever it is, the figure is once
Speaker 2: I am plus or minus this amount, we clear the ledgers.
Speaker 2: You either pay up every Tuesday morning, or you pay
Speaker 2: up when the number hits a figure. That's how it works.
Speaker 2: The idea that Otani's interpreter figure would be, you know,
Speaker 2: at least north of a few million dollars strikes me
Speaker 2: as odd, and that's another thing that I would want
Speaker 2: further investigated. None of this implies Otani's to blame here,
Speaker 2: or that Otani had knowledge of it. One other thing
Speaker 2: about how this could happen on the money side of things,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get to John day Porter. The money
Speaker 2: side of things is a whole nother issue, which is
Speaker 2: people like, how could you not know this much money
Speaker 2: was taken out of your account? And the answer is,
Speaker 2: if you trust people to handle your money, you're every
Speaker 2: one of us, myself included, that trusts other people to
Speaker 2: handle our money is susceptible to being stolen from. And
Speaker 2: it is a trade off that a lot of us
Speaker 2: that trust other people to handle our money just sign
Speaker 2: up for and keep our fingers crossed. That's just the truth.
Speaker 2: When like I right now, there are three people in
Speaker 2: the world who, if they wanted to, could probably I
Speaker 2: don't want to say, clean me out, but get tens
Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars without me potentially knowing about it
Speaker 2: for months. And you might say, like, that's not supposed
Speaker 2: to be a flex That's not anything about how much
Speaker 2: money I have or whatever. It's just the the people
Speaker 2: in charge of my my actual money. Am I Like
Speaker 2: it's like I get bank statements every month? That's true,
Speaker 2: But that's a PDF file. Am I calling the bank
Speaker 2: every month, getting a human being on the phone saying,
Speaker 2: here's the account number, read me the you know the balance?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Are those are pdf files? Pretty easily forgible if you
Speaker 2: really want to. Yeah, So I know folks tend not
Speaker 2: to have sympathy when people have money stolen, Like, how
Speaker 2: could you not know? And the answer is it's pretty
Speaker 2: easy not to know, because the whole idea behind it
Speaker 2: is I'm paying you to take care of this because
Speaker 2: either I'm not good at it or I don't have
Speaker 2: time for it. So I find it totally believable that
Speaker 2: Otani could have a few million dollars siphoned out of
Speaker 2: his account and him not know it. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot of to me, unfair speculation about Otani's involvement that
Speaker 2: doesn't deal in the real world of how the and
Speaker 2: I don't know how the uber wealthy work. I don't
Speaker 2: even know how the actual wealthy work, but I know
Speaker 2: how I work, and I've got a decent amount of money.
Speaker 2: But how the uber wealthy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: How often they're actually being like, all right, let me
Speaker 2: call Bank of America and do a self audit. It's
Speaker 2: just not happening. Okay, So that's the Otani thing. Did
Speaker 2: that make sense to you? De mon' say everything I
Speaker 2: did there. Sorry that I'm kind of icing you out here. Uh,
Speaker 2: but I just wanna this is to know that that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get this is one of the touchier subjects
Speaker 4: I guess, But at the end there it kind of
Speaker 4: sounded like you were saying that there's no way Otani
Speaker 4: knew that the money was being taken, Like, of how
Speaker 4: did that much money he's taking.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying there's no way he knew. I'm saying
Speaker 2: I find it absolutely believable that he didn't know. I
Speaker 2: think there are some people saying he had to know.
Speaker 2: And what I'm saying is that I know this sounds weird,
Speaker 2: but if you've got thirty five hundred dollars to your name,
Speaker 2: you are going to know if someone took one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty bucks from you. If you've got two hundred
Speaker 2: million to your name, you might not know if someone
Speaker 2: took twenty million from you. That's what I was thinking, eventually, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah no, that was the same thing I
Speaker 4: was saying, like four and a half million to tild Tani
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: Is I don't know what that is, but.
Speaker 2: Right it's it's not it. The only way you're gonna
Speaker 2: find out is if you do a self audit, because
Speaker 2: there is nothing it is not an amount to where
Speaker 2: there's ever a purchase or a thing he's trying to
Speaker 2: do that he can't do. Also, like Otani's liquid cash
Speaker 2: is not as real value, his contract is the seven
Speaker 2: hundred million fully guaranteed he has that he can borrow
Speaker 2: against that he can do whatever he wants. So all right,
Speaker 2: So there's that. Now. The johntay Porter thing is actually
Speaker 2: way more of a canary in the coal mine. Yeah, sinister, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna accuse John tay Porter of anything. What
Speaker 2: I will say is this, the circumstantial evidence appears to
Speaker 2: be overwhelming. But take Johntay Porter out of this. This
Speaker 2: is now where we have to have a real discussion
Speaker 2: about gambling and about player props, and about this specific
Speaker 2: type of corruption being inevitable, and our sports leagues needing
Speaker 2: to decide whether or not they're going to care. So
Speaker 2: I've been on the record about this that when it
Speaker 2: comes to Pro basketball and Pro football, the sports we
Speaker 2: talk about, the sports we gamble on that I don't
Speaker 2: think fixed games are actually a problem or a thing.
Speaker 2: And that's because I know how gambling works. I know
Speaker 2: that it is all. It is incredibly difficult to get
Speaker 2: you see all these fake tickets online. I know that
Speaker 2: out there is a eighty thousand dollars John day Porter
Speaker 2: same game. Part that that's not a real thing, guys,
Speaker 2: And if it is a really honestly, if there was
Speaker 2: a sports book out there that was accepting an eighty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars same game parlay on an eighth man the
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they deserve to be robbed, but there
Speaker 2: they are. They are I don't want to say again,
Speaker 2: I don't want to say they're asking for it, but
Speaker 2: that is ripe for this type of incident. The reason
Speaker 2: that I don't think you have to worry about players
Speaker 2: fixing pro basketball or pro football games is because the
Speaker 2: money doesn't make sense. It is almost impossible to get
Speaker 2: down more than fifty grand on a random NBA game.
Speaker 2: There is basically no NBA player that is involved enough
Speaker 2: to have a definite impact on the result of a
Speaker 2: game that fifty thousand dollars moves the needle for. In
Speaker 2: the NFL, you can get down you know, a few
Speaker 2: hundred thousand on an individual game, but unless you get
Speaker 2: to the quarterback, it is very difficult to guarantee you're
Speaker 2: going to have the impact on a game as a player,
Speaker 2: and there are no quarterbacks that it would make sense
Speaker 2: to throw a game for a few hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in a one off incident, and if you did it
Speaker 2: multiple times, it certainly makes no sense because now your
Speaker 2: career is over, and even if you don't get caught,
Speaker 2: just because you must be terrible because you keep losing
Speaker 2: US games. So my concern with game fixing and gambling
Speaker 2: was always about college sports because the money matters a
Speaker 2: lot to the kids, and because kids' brains are not
Speaker 2: fully developed, kids do dumb things, and there's been corruption
Speaker 2: and game fixing in college sports for as long as
Speaker 2: college sports have existed. And the refs, because the every
Speaker 2: ref can have a massive impact on any game, and
Speaker 2: those amounts of money all of a sudden do matter.
Speaker 2: So that's where the concern is for the fixing portion
Speaker 2: of it. But then there's this whole sub genre of
Speaker 2: gambling that has become ubiquitous since gambling became legal, and
Speaker 2: that's the individual player props. That's the same game parlays.
Speaker 2: That is the you can bet on any player doing anything,
Speaker 2: and that's where, of course the money could work out
Speaker 2: for some of these guys. Of course, if a guy's like,
Speaker 2: hold on, I don't even have to impact if my
Speaker 2: team wins or loses. I just need to make sure
Speaker 2: that I don't hit a three, that I don't get
Speaker 2: four assists, and all of a sudden, I can theoretically
Speaker 2: make you know, ten twenty thirty grand. Obviously someone's going
Speaker 2: to fall into that trap, somebody. And so now is
Speaker 2: where the tougher, more awkward conversations begin, which is, do
Speaker 2: our sports leagues care enough about that to tell their
Speaker 2: official gambling partners which seem to be this endless faucet
Speaker 2: of money for podcasts, television, sports leagues, all of it. Hey,
Speaker 2: people want to better spread Okay, you're going to have
Speaker 2: every single player on the team a player prop listed
Speaker 2: with high limits on it of the bets you'll accept,
Speaker 2: then we're not partnering with you. That's a real question.
Speaker 2: And the well, right, so there's a lot of things right,
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of pieces of this where that
Speaker 2: that is all intertwined. And again I'm just here trying
Speaker 2: to be honest with the audience. It is also uh
Speaker 2: spot and Bamani has talked a lot about this. Arali
Speaker 2: Boso Vulgarris has talked a lot about this. It has
Speaker 2: become a more and more even prior to this real thing,
Speaker 2: which is how compromised a lot of us opinion makers
Speaker 2: are because all of us are either making money off
Speaker 2: the gambling sponsors used to will in the future whatever
Speaker 2: it is. And so you the question is do you
Speaker 2: want to be forthright and honest with your audience or
Speaker 2: do you want to make sure that you know what
Speaker 2: I mean the money faucet turns on. It's a tough one, right,
Speaker 2: And so we talk a ton of gambling on this show.
Speaker 2: We have Enduring Football Season, a specific gambling show. I
Speaker 2: personally am incredibly proud of how we do it. First
Speaker 2: of all, I've been gambling my whole life. It is
Speaker 2: something I enjoy. It is something that I know a
Speaker 2: lot about. But also on this show, what do we do?
Speaker 2: We pick games we do at the end of each
Speaker 2: gambling episode. We do one like silly Long you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. We will do Demand's teaser, which is
Speaker 2: a straightforward bet, and we do the offer, which is
Speaker 2: I think the way we position it as hey, look
Speaker 2: at this as a likely losing wager, but that you
Speaker 2: can have fun on. And I'm not telling people not
Speaker 2: to do it. But the distinction between that and having
Speaker 2: the vast majority of your gambling content be here is
Speaker 2: this no brainer? Same game parlay about player props feels
Speaker 2: a little different. And from the limited data we have
Speaker 2: about places where gamblings become legal, what folks are betting
Speaker 2: are parlays and player props. Because the upside's higher, it
Speaker 2: feels more fun. I get all of that. We have
Speaker 2: to be honest with the audience, which is those are,
Speaker 2: in the long run, guaranteed losing wagers. Now that doesn't
Speaker 2: mean you shouldn't make them.
Speaker 3: It is it's.
Speaker 2: A losing financial proposition to go to Dave and Busters.
Speaker 2: But if you spend one hundred bucks and have a
Speaker 2: ton of fun in the afternoon, you're not like, gosh
Speaker 2: darn it, I thought I was gonna win money. It's like, no,
Speaker 2: I was paying for my entertainment. And so I am
Speaker 2: not saying people shouldn't do this or shouldn't be allowed
Speaker 2: to do that. I have odd feelings about whether or
Speaker 2: not it should.
Speaker 3: Be playing for the Xbox on the top shelf.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, yeah, that is a different level of gambling.
Speaker 2: I guess sure, So maybe David Buster's was the wrong example,
Speaker 2: but miniature golf or whatever it is positioning it as uh,
Speaker 2: this is you know, smart money making is not honest.
Speaker 2: It's just not And the reason we do the reason
Speaker 2: we do it the way we do it on this show.
Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to pat myself on the back.
Speaker 2: It's just how I've always done it. Is we are
Speaker 2: picking five games a week. We are incorporating the viig
Speaker 2: into our plus minus, and we are keeping a ledger,
Speaker 2: and we are letting you know throughout the year and
Speaker 2: at the end of the year where we plus or minus,
Speaker 2: and that way the audience knows where we're at, what
Speaker 2: we're doing. And if you remember last year, I forget
Speaker 2: which team it was, but there was, Oh it's the Jags.
Speaker 2: My one belief in the Jags swung my entire year
Speaker 2: from being plus a few thousand to where it ended
Speaker 2: up being minus a few thousand because of the way
Speaker 2: those bets worked and how many And so that I'm
Speaker 2: not acting as if there is a writer or wrong
Speaker 2: way to do it, but there is an honest way
Speaker 2: to do it. And for the sports leagues, if you
Speaker 2: are going to have be in bed fully with gambling,
Speaker 2: companies that are offering more different ways to bet on
Speaker 2: individual performance than any time ever before. If you do
Speaker 2: all of that, the Johntay Porter story or something similar
Speaker 2: is inevitable and it will not stop. It will not
Speaker 2: go away, and it will not stop. And if they're
Speaker 2: okay with that, they're okay with that. But let's not
Speaker 2: act like we couldn't see this coming. Now. I don't
Speaker 2: see the story of NBA star big name X, you know,
Speaker 2: throws a game. I don't think that's coming because I
Speaker 2: don't think the financial incentives are there. But I guarantee
Speaker 2: you it has already happened in college sports multiple times
Speaker 2: and folks just haven't caught it yet. And the ref
Speaker 2: stuff would concern me because there are real financial incentives there.
Speaker 2: All right, there's our gambling, our gambling and bridge collapse
Speaker 2: portion of the show. Let's take a very quick break
Speaker 2: and do our regular a bloc as scheduled. Take a
Speaker 2: quick break, come back, and we'll do the regular show next.
Speaker 2: What's Right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Dry with Nick Wright? Episode two
Speaker 2: twenty four. We had some breaking news before today's show,
Speaker 2: demands about an NFL rule change. Let's get into that
Speaker 2: before we get to Lugerius snead go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the NFL just changed their kickoff rule. What do
Speaker 3: you think about that?
Speaker 2: So tentatively I like it. Let me explain to the
Speaker 2: audience what it is. So you're still kicking off from
Speaker 2: the thirty five, but everything else is wildly different. The
Speaker 2: team that is kicking off will now have all other
Speaker 2: ten guys lined up at the opponent's forty. The team
Speaker 2: that is receiving will have everyone else except for their
Speaker 2: return man, lined up between the thirty five and thirty,
Speaker 2: so they will be five to ten yards apart, all right,
Speaker 2: and then the return man will be somewhere between the
Speaker 2: goal line and the twenty. Okay, so envision it. The
Speaker 2: kickers in the normal place, The kicking team is moved
Speaker 2: forward twenty five yards to the opposing team's forty. The
Speaker 2: returning team is moved all the way back to between
Speaker 2: the thirty and thirty five, and you have one or
Speaker 2: two return men in between in the red zone, essentially
Speaker 2: between the goal line and the twenty. No one can
Speaker 2: move other than the kicker until the return man gets
Speaker 2: the ball or the ball hits the ground. Okay, once
Speaker 2: that happens, go play, go as far as you can.
Speaker 2: Here are the unique, the really unique angles to it.
Speaker 2: If the kick you kick it too short and you
Speaker 2: don't get it too inside the twenty, the receiving team
Speaker 2: gets the ball at the forty. If you kick it
Speaker 2: too far and you kick it into the end zone,
Speaker 2: the receiving team gets the ball at the thirty. So
Speaker 2: there might be some teams that just say, you know what,
Speaker 2: screw this, We're just gonna bomb this thing into the
Speaker 2: end zone and give the other team the ball at
Speaker 2: the thirty. That probably won't happen. There will be teams
Speaker 2: that screw it up and you end up getting the
Speaker 2: ball at the forty they kick it too short. But
Speaker 2: what's mostly gonna happen is there's gonna be a kickoff.
Speaker 2: It's gonna you know, land around the five to ten
Speaker 2: yard line, and then you're gonna have ten blockers, ten
Speaker 2: you know, attempted tacklers, the returnment and the kicker go
Speaker 2: after it. So there will be way, way, way more
Speaker 2: return That is a guarantee. The only potential negative is
Speaker 2: the surprise on side kick is dead. Now. Now, if
Speaker 2: you want to do an on side kick, you have
Speaker 2: to do you have to tell people and then do
Speaker 2: the onside kick. What I think is good about it is, uh,
Speaker 2: the on side kick, I think, and you guys can
Speaker 2: look this up. You see if I'm wrong, goes back
Speaker 2: to the old on side kick formation where you had
Speaker 2: a better chance of receiving it, the one that was
Speaker 2: in place forever before, like five years ago. So in
Speaker 2: general I like it. It will obviously reward this season
Speaker 2: smarter teams that figure things out, quicker, better special teams,
Speaker 2: things like that, and then once one or two smart
Speaker 2: teams figures out the way to do it, everyone will
Speaker 2: copy them. But I like this rule change, and I
Speaker 2: also speaking of rule changes, then we can move on.
Speaker 2: Don't really the hip drop tackle hyperventilation that was happening
Speaker 2: yesterday I think is way overwrought. I think there will
Speaker 2: be mark this for me. I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 2: say fewer than one hip drop tackle penalty a weekend
Speaker 2: league wide. I bet there are fewer than twenty called
Speaker 2: over the course of the season. Players will adjust and
Speaker 2: they're not gonna call I don't think the in between ones.
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going to Monday.
Speaker 3: All right, So some other news.
Speaker 4: Lugerius sneak got sent to the Titans for a twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five draft pick or a twenty twenty five third
Speaker 4: run pick.
Speaker 3: Sorry, we know that you and the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: Kingdom wanted to run it back so you guys can
Speaker 4: get the three peat, But this was destined to happen.
Speaker 4: Can't keep all those stars? Yeah, but doesn't this kind
Speaker 4: of scare you? How many more good players do you
Speaker 4: think you can? You can lose until you start to
Speaker 4: worry about it.
Speaker 2: So, I here's the thing I was. I'm not. I
Speaker 2: never thought it was realistic that Chris Jones and Sneid
Speaker 2: were both gonna be back under long term contracts. I
Speaker 2: did start to think that Chris once Chris got signed,
Speaker 2: that Snead might play under the tag. And obviously you
Speaker 2: lose an excellent player, the team gets a little bit worse.
Speaker 2: Lagarius Sneid is the one who punched out this A
Speaker 2: Flowers fumble in the AFC title game. He didn't allow
Speaker 2: a single touchdown in coverage in the regular season all year.
Speaker 2: He was an excellent player. He also is sneaky older
Speaker 2: than people think. Chris Jones is twenty nine, Lagarius Sneid
Speaker 2: is twenty seven. He also has dealt with some slight
Speaker 2: knee issues. Because of those two factors, giving him twenty
Speaker 2: million dollars a year, Titans Game nineteen would not have
Speaker 2: been smart in my opinion. And the Chiefs have shown
Speaker 2: secondary is a spot they believe they can draft and
Speaker 2: develop and they will move off guys. Kendall Fuller they
Speaker 2: let go in free agency for a bunch of money.
Speaker 2: Schavaria's Ward they let go in free agency for a
Speaker 2: bunch of money. Honey Badger they let go in free agency.
Speaker 2: And now Sneid they traded. Now folks are upset that
Speaker 2: they only got a future third. Why did they not
Speaker 2: get more? And the answer they didn't get more is
Speaker 2: because because of Sneed's contract demands, which he earned and
Speaker 2: I am happy for him. The market people were not
Speaker 2: super excited about giving up a premium pick and paying
Speaker 2: Lagarius Snead, and so because of that, this was about
Speaker 2: as solid of a return as they were going to get.
Speaker 2: And here's why there is a tangible benefit to this season.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's enough to offset losing Sneed,
Speaker 2: but that twenty million that you opened up, they still
Speaker 2: need to sign a tackle, They need to extend Creed Humphrey,
Speaker 2: they might extend Tray Smith. That money you open up
Speaker 2: right now is super valuable. Even though free agency has
Speaker 2: passed its first couple phases. So if you told me
Speaker 2: they could only keep one Snead or Chris Jones, I
Speaker 2: feel like they kept the right one. They are gonna
Speaker 2: have to pay Trent McDuffie a king's ransom in a year,
Speaker 2: so they are preparing for that, and for all those reasons,
Speaker 2: I'm not thrilled about it, but I don't think this
Speaker 2: is a devastating blow for Kansas City, and I am
Speaker 2: super happy for Lagarius Sneed, who has went through massive
Speaker 2: life tragedies, has never made real NFL money, and now
Speaker 2: gets paid based on his great work. All right, demons,
Speaker 2: h what's the next we've got?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: So Dallas is reportedly gonna let Dak's contract play out
Speaker 4: instead of extending him. You said you would like that move,
Speaker 4: but don't you. It's probably better to have an established
Speaker 4: quarterback to be looking around for one.
Speaker 3: Of this time.
Speaker 4: But yeah, despite that, hold on, I'm sorry, go ahead, yeah, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 4: So what do you what do you think about that move?
Speaker 3: And why you talk?
Speaker 2: I'll take some notes, Okay, Oh, that's why you were
Speaker 2: grabbing your notepad. So yeah, the thing, you're fine. Uh.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys are in a really rough spot. Dak Prescott
Speaker 2: at sixty million a year as a disaster. Not having
Speaker 2: a quarterback obviously is a potential disaster. I would not
Speaker 2: pay Dak Prescott top of the market money. I would
Speaker 2: prefer see how this year plays out and roll the dice.
Speaker 2: I don't know that they're actually gonna have the guts
Speaker 2: to do that, but very clearly demanse uh, I think
Speaker 2: we know. You cannot win a Super Bowl with a
Speaker 2: good ish quarterback paid like a great one. You can
Speaker 2: win a Super Bowl with a bad quarterback and a
Speaker 2: great events. You win a Super Bowl with a young quarterback.
Speaker 2: You win Super Bowl with a great quarterback paid like
Speaker 2: a great one. We have never seen under the current
Speaker 2: salary cup cap construct a quarterback in that eight to
Speaker 2: fourteen range, where Dak is eight to twelve range, paid
Speaker 2: like he's the best and the team's good enough to
Speaker 2: get to the super Bowl. So the Cowboys put themselves
Speaker 2: in this position by giving Dak the no franchise tag,
Speaker 2: no trade clause, so it's not they're not operating from
Speaker 2: a position of strength. But what I wonder is if
Speaker 2: they could take the strength back from Dak prep, if
Speaker 2: they could regain leverage, if they do let this play
Speaker 2: out and then say to Dak's agent, hey man, you
Speaker 2: really want to go from being the quarterback of the
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys to the quarterback of the Tennessee Titans. Is
Speaker 2: that what you want to do? The quarterback of the
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys to the what's another team that might be
Speaker 2: in the quarterback market right now? The quarterback the New
Speaker 2: York Jets. That's well, the commander is probably gonna draft
Speaker 2: a kid it too. But is that what you want
Speaker 2: to do? Or does it make more sense for you
Speaker 2: to take a Kirk Cousins type of deal which pays
Speaker 2: you good but not very top of the market and
Speaker 2: continuing quarterback for the Cowboys. So if they actually can
Speaker 2: stand true to this demanse, I think it would be
Speaker 2: a gutsy good move. What are you drawing? What are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 4: I was making notes, taking everything that you were saying
Speaker 4: in about you know, future sure quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: And oh you're.
Speaker 2: Oh, I get it now. Oh it's because Jerry Jones
Speaker 2: was doodling. I saw Jerry in the Rundown, and I
Speaker 2: forgot the Jerry Jones thing, and I was like, what
Speaker 2: do they have my guy demanse doing? Why are they
Speaker 2: having him doodle for no reason? But it's because Jerry
Speaker 2: Jones just had pages and pages of doodles when he
Speaker 2: was being interviewed at the owner's meetings. Okay, now I
Speaker 2: understand it. Speaking of things I don't understand. Demon's a
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the JJ McCarthy I trained is obviously really crazy.
Speaker 4: Right now, Folks like Jim Harbaugh saying JJ is even
Speaker 4: better than Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3: It's really crazy.
Speaker 4: Some reports are some reports are Washington is considering taking
Speaker 4: him as high as number two. All it took was
Speaker 4: that and Zach Wilson pass at Pro Day. Which team
Speaker 4: is gonna get sucked in? And why is it the Giants?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think he's gonna be gone before
Speaker 2: the Giants can pick. I have six Listen, man, this
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy thing. I'm willing to open up the possibility
Speaker 2: that I'm wrong, but I do not get it. I
Speaker 2: admit I don't watch a ton of college football, but
Speaker 2: last year I did watch a ton of Michigan because
Speaker 2: they were the best team in college football. I didn't,
Speaker 2: so like, did I watch a ton of Drake May
Speaker 2: during the year? No, did I, by happenstance, watch a
Speaker 2: ton of JJ McCarthy. Yes, and I'm acting like I
Speaker 2: get these right every time. But at no point watching
Speaker 2: Michigan play was I like, Oh, that guy future top
Speaker 2: five pick. But he legitimately could go number two. He
Speaker 2: absolutely could go top three. And if he doesn't, someone
Speaker 2: is going to trade with either the Cardinals or Jim
Speaker 2: Harbaugh's Chargers to move up to number five and get him.
Speaker 2: So I don't get it. I flatly do not get it.
Speaker 2: So WI question here, demon's is interesting.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, why if Harball is so high on him,
Speaker 4: would he not just trade Herbert away to get a
Speaker 4: war chest and get him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I actually thought about this exact thing, And
Speaker 2: the answer to that is because of the contract. First
Speaker 2: of all, it would be crazy. But let's just say
Speaker 2: Harball's adamant that he thinks JJ McCarthy is the best
Speaker 2: quarterback in the draft, that he's awesome, and you would
Speaker 2: have him obviously super cheap for four years. If all
Speaker 2: those things were true, then trading Justin Herbert for like
Speaker 2: four first round picks or you can't get four, but
Speaker 2: three first round picks theoretically would make sense. The problem
Speaker 2: is the contract Herbert signed is untradeable because of how
Speaker 2: they structured it. So because of the bonuses that have
Speaker 2: already been paid. Right now, if you were to trade
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert, you would take on ninety five million dollars
Speaker 2: in dead cap, so you just can't do it. So
Speaker 2: trading Justin Herbert is not like financially possible. It also
Speaker 2: would be crazy unless you believe JJ McCarthy's the best
Speaker 2: quarterback in the draft, in which case it would make sense.
Speaker 2: But it's not if he hadn't been signed to a
Speaker 2: deal yet. It would make sense if he was under
Speaker 2: the circumstance too, was under where it's like, oh, we
Speaker 2: could trade him and then draft our guy. That would
Speaker 2: be fine, But because of the contract Herbert signed, at
Speaker 2: least according to the people at spot rack, he's not tradeable.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break right back, wrap the show with
Speaker 2: a game of freak outer, chill out, What's right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right? With Nick right real quick.
Speaker 2: Shefter just tweeted the NFL is planning to play another
Speaker 2: game this year on Christmas Day, which is on a Wednesday.
Speaker 2: So a Wednesday Christmas Day game is coming. Mark me
Speaker 2: down as someone that says that is a bad idea.
Speaker 2: The NFL, I is, I think trying to grab up
Speaker 2: too much real estate last year because of where Christmas
Speaker 2: fell on the calendar, you could like the day of
Speaker 2: the week. You could justify and explain it. Because let
Speaker 2: me make sure I'm right on this. I think last
Speaker 2: year Christmas was Christmas either on a Sunday or a Monday.
Speaker 2: But let me just look, I have he right in
Speaker 2: front of me. Christmas last year was on a Monday. No,
Speaker 2: it was on a Monday, but there's usually football games
Speaker 2: on Monday. It made sense with the schedule all of it.
Speaker 2: Wednesday is the one day football are never played. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be it's good. I don't even know scheduling wise,
Speaker 2: how you're gonna do it. And putting games on Christmas Day,
Speaker 2: I know it'll do a big number. I think. I
Speaker 2: think long term it's a bad decision. All right, demand
Speaker 2: let's keep going because the show's gone long. I know
Speaker 2: that shocks everybody.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, Houston is now only one game behind
Speaker 4: the Warriors and Draymond says that he's not scared, and
Speaker 4: Steve Kurr is already arresting Stephen.
Speaker 3: Curry for the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Uh do you think that this Curry era will end
Speaker 4: up ending in an eleven seed?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that the Curry era is over,
Speaker 2: but I do think the Warriors are gonna miss. I
Speaker 2: think that if you look at what the Warriors, and
Speaker 2: if we're gonna talk about why they're gonna miss, you
Speaker 2: have to you have to talk about the fact that
Speaker 2: Draymond Green was suspended for twenty one games and how
Speaker 2: that impacted them. But what the Warriors have left. It's
Speaker 2: not a gauntlet by any means. I understand that. But
Speaker 2: here is what the Warriors have left on their schedule.
Speaker 2: The following four on the road Miami, Orlando, Charlotte, San Antonio,
Speaker 2: only one guaranteed victory Charlotte, then home for Dallas, then
Speaker 2: back to Texas for at Houston, at Dallas home for Utah,
Speaker 2: then at the Lakers at Portland Easy home for New
Speaker 2: Orleans home for the Jazz. The Rockets, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: have a slightly tougher schedule, but they are rolling. The
Speaker 2: Warriors are I'd be really worried right now, and we'll
Speaker 2: talk about the Suns in a minute. Right now, I
Speaker 2: think the nine to ten play in game demanday is
Speaker 2: gonna be Sun's rockets. I think the Warriors are gonna
Speaker 2: fall out entirely, and I the Suns are gonna keep
Speaker 2: collapsing or keep falling.
Speaker 4: All right, next, All right, we're playing freak out or
Speaker 4: chill out. My Celtics blew a thirty point lead last
Speaker 4: night against the Hawks. Yeah, I know it's just one game,
Speaker 4: But do you think it's a time for me to
Speaker 4: freak out or chill out?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you it's just one games, So go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm what's you're a yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean they're they're already getting into their post postseason function.
Speaker 4: They blew a thirty point lead to the Hawks. I
Speaker 4: don't I'm not like one of those crazy fans. That's
Speaker 4: just like like if if I'm very realistic, the Nuggets
Speaker 4: are gonna kick your ass. If you're gonna do stuff
Speaker 4: like that, you blew a thirty point lead to the Hawks.
Speaker 4: I mean no, I'm just very realistic and I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna do that. Oh you can be no, dude. If
Speaker 4: they're gonna do that type of stuff not gonna be
Speaker 4: I mean, you're not even gonna be able to get
Speaker 4: away from the Bucks let on the Denver nights.
Speaker 2: But uh, right, so that's the problem. The problem is
Speaker 2: I don't think you should freak out about one game
Speaker 2: you had won nine in a row. Uh, they took
Speaker 2: your third off the gas and weren't able to put
Speaker 2: it back on the gas. That's it. Thirty points is bad,
Speaker 2: but that happens. But I just don't I don't like
Speaker 2: the Celtics as much as I like the Bucks right now,
Speaker 2: and there is a very real possibility that round one
Speaker 2: Boston has to play Miami or Philly. Right now, the
Speaker 2: seven to eight seed is Miami Philly, meaning the loser
Speaker 2: of that game would then go into the next play
Speaker 2: in game and then have to beat either Chicago or
Speaker 2: Atlanta to then be the one seed or to play
Speaker 2: be the eight seed. I wouldn't love that path at
Speaker 2: all if I were Boston, and so I wouldn't freak
Speaker 2: out about last night, But would I freak out in
Speaker 2: general a little bit? All right? Next?
Speaker 4: Uh, the Suns dropped to the to the player in
Speaker 4: lucas their number, and they need to beat Lebron or
Speaker 4: Steff it's not a long shot. Since it's not a
Speaker 4: long shot to say they could be bouncing the postseason,
Speaker 4: Katie is stuck with no outs. If you can't make
Speaker 4: this work, should Durant freak out or chill out freak out?
Speaker 2: You just lost to the Spurs without Wimby, which is
Speaker 2: a travesty, a total travesty to lose that game. You
Speaker 2: are now if you are Phoenix, you are in the
Speaker 2: eighth seed. Now you're a half game out of being
Speaker 2: in the sixth seed. You're also the only two losses
Speaker 2: up on the Lakers in the nine seed. And we
Speaker 2: were talking schedules the Suns. It's not only that they
Speaker 2: have the hardest remaining schedule in the league by far,
Speaker 2: it's that they have This is what the Suns are
Speaker 2: about to start is the hardest ten game stretch demons
Speaker 2: any team has had at any point all season. Here
Speaker 2: are the one's final ten at Denver, at OKC, at
Speaker 2: New Orleans, Home for Cleveland, home for Minnesota, Home for
Speaker 2: New Orleans, Home for the Clippers, at the Clippers, at
Speaker 2: the Kings, at the Timberwolves. So you play one, two, three,
Speaker 2: four games against the West. One two, three, another one three,
Speaker 2: four games against New Orleans and the Clippers, and then
Speaker 2: Cleveland and Sacramento, and so I think the Sons are
Speaker 2: going to drop to the nine spot. And folks killed
Speaker 2: me when I said I didn't like the Bradley Beal. Addition,
Speaker 2: when I said I don't buy into it, I that
Speaker 2: that using all your chips, I'm getting Bradley Beal. They
Speaker 2: just keep I've said it for I'll say it again.
Speaker 2: They just have a slight They have Kevin Durant and
Speaker 2: then a slightly worst version of Kevin Durant and Devin Booker,
Speaker 2: and then a worst version of Devin Booker and Bradley Beal.
Speaker 2: They have the same like archetype of player, just three
Speaker 2: times over, and they have no moves to make moving forward. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd be freaking out if I were Durant next.
Speaker 4: All right, the Clippers have fallen off since Rusk got hurt,
Speaker 4: James Harden win from closing out on Kawhid, putting a
Speaker 4: Maxie in a headlock. Would once look like a serious
Speaker 4: contender now looks like an unserious team. Should the Clipper fans,
Speaker 4: if they exist, freak out or chill out.
Speaker 2: Well, you got to freak out. If only someone had
Speaker 2: warned you this was coming. So James Harden in his
Speaker 2: last eight games, he's missed two, so it's the last
Speaker 2: ten Clippers games. In his last eight games since March ninth,
Speaker 2: he is thirteen points on thirty nine percent from the
Speaker 2: field and thirty percent from three. It's that time of
Speaker 2: year again.
Speaker 3: It's that time. Okay, it's just.
Speaker 2: That time of year. Uh and his post All Star
Speaker 2: breaks swoon. At this point you can set your watch
Speaker 2: to it. And the Clippers aren't good enough. And so
Speaker 2: the now they're there, I expect them to stay out
Speaker 2: of the play in and then I expect them to
Speaker 2: get rolled in round one, either by Minnesota or who
Speaker 2: could they be playing in round one? If they stay
Speaker 2: the five, they could play New Orleans. They could beat
Speaker 2: New Orleans, I suppose, and then just get annihilated in
Speaker 2: round two. But Minnesota would beat them, Oklahoma City would
Speaker 2: beat them. If they fall to the six. Obviously Denver
Speaker 2: would beat them. And by the way, Laurie Reyes are
Speaker 2: wonderful uh producer, social medium. She's a Clippers fan. She says,
Speaker 2: I exist, so demands a u O Laian apology.
Speaker 4: All right, sorry, all right things will look it up
Speaker 4: for the Lakers. Eighty is playing out of his mind.
Speaker 4: D Lo just broke the Lakers single season three point record.
Speaker 4: It seems that they are peaking at the right time.
Speaker 4: Should the West freak out or chill out?
Speaker 2: So let me get Can I give you my Galaxy
Speaker 2: brain Lakers take because listen, the West obviously goes through Denver. Okay,
Speaker 2: we all know this. I'm gonna give you my The
Speaker 2: whole idea for the Lakers has been if you're a
Speaker 2: Lakers fan, like, well, maybe someone can beat Denver for us.
Speaker 2: That's not really a plan, right, hoping someone else upsets Denver.
Speaker 2: Here's now sneaky what I'm rooting for Lakers Denver? Round one?
Speaker 2: Here's why. Let me explain. How is round one different
Speaker 2: than all the other rounds? The games are so spread out,
Speaker 2: so much time between them. Is the Lakers' only path
Speaker 2: the beating Denver? Lebron being able to play like forty
Speaker 2: two to forty four minutes a night along with ad Yeah.
Speaker 2: Probably now I'm seeing Denver's beating the Lakers like nine
Speaker 2: straight games. Daniel right now is yelling in the control room.
Speaker 2: I get all of it. Denver is the far better team,
Speaker 2: but they can't beat Denver. Playing them every other day
Speaker 2: is their only hope. The spread out first round where
Speaker 2: you have two and sometimes three days between series. Maybe.
Speaker 2: Now here's what I do think. I do think that
Speaker 2: the Lakers can beat anyone in the West in a
Speaker 2: series other than Denver, and so Denver, we could have
Speaker 2: the same scenario as last year where the Lakers are
Speaker 2: the seven and they played Denil the one they played
Speaker 2: Denver in the conference finals. Like that absolutely could happen again. Uh,
Speaker 2: It's not necessarily what I'm predicting, but I do think
Speaker 2: the Lakers are dangerous. Uh. And the Lakers as opposed
Speaker 2: to when we were talking about tough schedules, the Lakers
Speaker 2: have a tough one tonight against Milwaukee that Lebron's probably
Speaker 2: gonna miss. After that, here's what the Lakers got Memphis Pacers, Brooklyn, Toronto, Washington, Cleveland, Minnesota,
Speaker 2: Golden State, Memphis, New Orleans, So Memphis, Brooklyn, Toronto, Washington, Memphis.
Speaker 2: That's five games you've gotta win. Could the Lakers right
Speaker 2: now because they if they want to get out of
Speaker 2: the ninth spot, they let's say Phoenix is gonna go
Speaker 2: four and six the rest of the way. Can the
Speaker 2: Lakers go seven and three? I think they can and
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