Speaker 1: Welcome in episode three fifty five of What's Right with
Speaker 1: Nick Wright, And as always, this episode is brought to
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Speaker 1: do amazing weekend. I wasn't able to say what I
Speaker 1: was doing beforehand, and I'm not able to say the
Speaker 1: results yet. But if you guys remember back in the day,
Speaker 1: the NBC Heads Up Poker Championship sixty four person March
Speaker 1: Madness style bracket that plays down six rounds to one
Speaker 1: champion twenty five thousand dollars a person entry top prize.
Speaker 1: I think back then, I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: This time it was half a million bucks for top prize.
Speaker 1: Everyone in the Sweet sixteen I got twenty five K.
Speaker 1: Elite eight got seventy five K. Final four one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty K second place, quarter million, first place, half
Speaker 1: a million. I was in it and got the not
Speaker 1: low draw. I had Chino Reem in the first round.
Speaker 1: If I were to win the first round, I was
Speaker 1: staring at either Eric Lingrin or Jason Kohn, and in theory,
Speaker 1: it just got harder from there. But that's what I
Speaker 1: was doing this weekend, and it will air on Peacock
Speaker 1: in October and on Poker Go uh afterwards and so
Speaker 1: once it aired, like no spoilers. It's like taping a
Speaker 1: season of Survivor, except you know, you know, either more
Speaker 1: cool or less cool, depending on what you like. Where
Speaker 1: I know the results and I can't discuss them. And
Speaker 1: again no spoilers. But if on you know, if on
Speaker 1: the next pod, I'm wearing a new watch, maybe I did. Well.
Speaker 1: What I will tell you is it was an unbelievable experience.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to really be able to talk about it.
Speaker 1: But that's what I was doing over the weekend. Here
Speaker 1: is another thing that happened over the weekend. Demon say
Speaker 1: this is this is You'll love this. You'll love this.
Speaker 1: Listeners should love this as well. I think so. I
Speaker 1: played in Uh yeah, I think it's fair. I played
Speaker 1: in a pretty famous private card game in Vegas. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to say whose it was, because all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, card games they're getting, you know, just
Speaker 1: ask Gilbert Arenas that can go sideways on you. This
Speaker 1: of course that none of those you know, unsavory elements,
Speaker 1: but whatever, it was some of the more famous card
Speaker 1: players in the world, and there were two people there
Speaker 1: I didn't know, but were, you know, big time card
Speaker 1: players and my first day there after, about twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: one of the guys came over to me and I'd
Speaker 1: love to say who these people were, but it's privacy
Speaker 1: and whatever. So am I going to and he says,
Speaker 1: I want to show you something and he opens up
Speaker 1: his podcast app and the podcast he was listening to
Speaker 1: on the way in was You and Me our last
Speaker 1: episode from third Day. And I was like, that is
Speaker 1: so cool, and.
Speaker 2: This is on what day?
Speaker 1: Though? This is this was on Saturday night. Saturday night.
Speaker 1: He was listening to Thursday Thursday. Yeah, so cool. Then
Speaker 1: like two hours later, this British guy that I've been
Speaker 1: sitting next to for hours, he has a similar he
Speaker 1: had a similar chain as me, and so we were
Speaker 1: talking about it and he had talked about where he
Speaker 1: got his and you know whatever, and I was saying,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, if you're ever in New York, like
Speaker 1: I've got a pretty good connect, you know that I
Speaker 1: at least you know, because whenever you buy like a
Speaker 1: any diamond jewelry, unless you're a diamond expert, like it's
Speaker 1: you're just risk getting totally scammed, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: are these real are they not? Am I you know?
Speaker 1: Are you saying they're vv with this? I think it's
Speaker 1: that like, who the hell knows? And he was like,
Speaker 1: he's like, man, I really might take you up on that.
Speaker 1: He like, I've had this forever and then he just
Speaker 1: drops in He's like, but I think your two chain
Speaker 1: thing looks so cool. On the pod with Demanda, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know he knew who I was, a
Speaker 1: dude that lives in England, but he's watching, so shout out.
Speaker 1: So it made me feel great about the podcast. So
Speaker 1: that that was awesome, and I, as always, I can't
Speaker 1: thank Brent Hanks, Jeff Platt, Morey and all the guys
Speaker 1: at Poker Go and the guys at Poker Stars Garry
Speaker 1: Gates and such for getting me in the field. It
Speaker 1: was an invitational only field, so it was really really
Speaker 1: awesome and so really appreciate all those guys getting me
Speaker 1: in there. And in October we'll be able to talk
Speaker 1: about it. Like I didn't even Instagram or post that
Speaker 1: I was there because then people would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: how'd you do and I'd be like, well, I can't
Speaker 1: tell you. And so so all promote it when it's on,
Speaker 1: but it's it's great Curtis. By the way, says Nick
Speaker 1: Crazy here, it's episode three fifty five. I've been listening
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Speaker 1: the Year is the first game of the year. And
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying this because it's on Fox, but
Speaker 1: one versus two Texas Ohio State in August is pretty
Speaker 1: freaking sweet. The fact that August thirtieth, this month that
Speaker 1: we're in right now, you have a massive, massive college
Speaker 1: football game is sick. Darren Fox signs a Max extension.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that one. That was you have Castle,
Speaker 1: you have Harper, Now you have Fox, who is a
Speaker 1: player I've always liked a lot, but Fox it sixty
Speaker 1: some million a year. A little bit under the question,
Speaker 1: Daniel writes in the Dock, is is it because he's
Speaker 1: a trade piece? My question is is he more or
Speaker 1: less tradable on this extension or was he more tradable
Speaker 1: on an expiring I don't know. I like Fox a lot,
Speaker 1: but is Darren Fox ever going to be a top
Speaker 1: ten player? Obviously not? Is he clearly and unequivocally a
Speaker 1: top twenty player? Not clearly and unequivocally. He's like in
Speaker 1: the mix for that. So that just worries me a
Speaker 1: bit if I'm being totally honest, and Noah, Lyle's quest
Speaker 1: to just being totally unlikable continued, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: in full force, and the of course Kenny Bednarik shoved
Speaker 1: him because he ran into his lane. Like, I just
Speaker 1: don't get Lyles.
Speaker 2: I don't think there was some stuff going on between
Speaker 2: those two before the race.
Speaker 1: I agree, No, there clearly was. But you still can't
Speaker 1: cross over into the dude's lane. He's ran one hundred
Speaker 1: meters basically as fast as a human being can run it.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to throttle down immediately. Amazing
Speaker 1: weekend for track. Sixteen year old ran a minute forty
Speaker 1: two eight hundred the sixteen. A sixteen year old just
Speaker 1: ran a time in the eight hundred that would have
Speaker 1: won the college national championship last year. It is it's
Speaker 1: for the track nerds out there. They said, it's one
Speaker 1: of another poker guy. Chris Brewer, who was a collegiate
Speaker 1: track guy, said it's one of the most impressive track
Speaker 1: accomplishments ever what that guy did. And one other thing
Speaker 1: that didn't quite make the cut. And I didn't want
Speaker 1: to do a full topic on it, but President Trump
Speaker 1: says Saquon Barkley's part of the President's Athleticism Council or whatever.
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley's like then afterwards is like I am shocked. No,
Speaker 1: I am not, And I can't believe he would say
Speaker 1: that without talking to me, to which I would say,
Speaker 1: this is why some of us kind of said, buddy,
Speaker 1: like you can say, you're just you know, you play
Speaker 1: golf with everybody and everything's fine and you don't have
Speaker 1: a take, but you know, you get in that orbit
Speaker 1: a bit and all of a sudden, maybe you get
Speaker 1: you get scammed a bit. I don't know, just just
Speaker 1: my take. I'm not that I'm not that shocked that
Speaker 1: that went down that way. And Saquon I think it's
Speaker 1: too smart to where he shouldn't be that shocked either.
Speaker 1: Now to the biggest story in the sports world, the
Speaker 1: six quarterbacks on the Cleveland Browns. Let's get to it, Demanse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Browns who officially released their quarterback hierarchy,
Speaker 2: and it goes as follows with Flacco as number one,
Speaker 2: Picket number two, Gabriel at number three, and Shador You're
Speaker 2: gou ahe at number four. And so there's they're bringing
Speaker 2: in Snoop unty because of injuries to Gabriel and Picket.
Speaker 2: You wanted to lead with the show with this, why
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 1: Okay? So here is what is so interesting about where
Speaker 1: I have found myself with the Shadoor Sanders conversation before
Speaker 1: the draft, I was one of the biggest skeptics. If
Speaker 1: you remember, like I I said almost immediately that I
Speaker 1: did not think there was any real like who which
Speaker 1: quarterback is gonna go first overall debate. It was cam
Speaker 1: Ward clearly and unequivocally. I then also talked about how
Speaker 1: I thought there was a very real chance that the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers would be able to draft Shadoor without trading up.
Speaker 1: In one of my very first mocked drafts back when
Speaker 1: Shador was mocked in going top five. I had him
Speaker 1: sliding all the way to Pittsburgh. Then when the in
Speaker 1: the twenties, when the this is all pre draft, when
Speaker 1: the rope reports came out that Pittsburgh was flatly just
Speaker 1: going with Aaron Rodgers, I said on the TV show
Speaker 1: and on this show, Sorry, I just rolled over the
Speaker 1: dexter on the TV show and on this show that
Speaker 1: I thought it was a very real possibility should Or
Speaker 1: slid out of the first round entirely. And I was
Speaker 1: discussing how I did not think that was because of
Speaker 1: personality stuff. Now maybe I was wrong about that, but
Speaker 1: I thought everyone was focused on Shador the person when
Speaker 1: I thought Shador the player just wasn't a dominant player
Speaker 1: the way some people thought he was. That was my
Speaker 1: pre draft take. My pre draft take is good, not
Speaker 1: great athlete, not a super strong arm, you know like that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that he was a blue chipper. Those
Speaker 1: are still all my takes on Shador, by the way,
Speaker 1: But what's happened in Cleveland. He then ends up going
Speaker 1: to a team where the quarterback options are the second
Speaker 1: oldest quarterback in football, Joe Flacco, an injured first round bust,
Speaker 1: and Kenny Pickett a wee little fella in Dylan Gabriel
Speaker 1: and him. And so the point I made on last
Speaker 1: week's pod was the only guy on the roster with
Speaker 1: actual upside, even if it's very small, is sure. And
Speaker 1: since then, all Dylan Gabriel has done is have awful
Speaker 1: practice after awful practice where the beat writers covering the
Speaker 1: team or talking about how you almost feel badly for
Speaker 1: him and gotten hurt. Kenny Pickett has also gotten hurt.
Speaker 1: So here's why I want to talk about the Snoop
Speaker 1: Huntley thing. So the Browns play Friday night, it looks
Speaker 1: like demand's a picket and Gabriel are not going to
Speaker 1: be able to play, okay, so that those snaps are
Speaker 1: gone flacos one hundred. I would imagine they never planned
Speaker 1: on him playing preseason game one. So the only quarterback
Speaker 1: they've got is Shadoor. So if that's why they signed
Speaker 1: Snoop Huntley, just because they need ensure you know, you
Speaker 1: want to be able to run your offense even in
Speaker 1: the preseason game, so other guys get reps. And what
Speaker 1: if something happens to Shadoor or something like that, So
Speaker 1: be it, that's fine that there's no there's no issue
Speaker 1: with that, but Snoop Huntley should not be taking more
Speaker 1: than five practice snaps from Shoudoor, and the plan for
Speaker 1: Friday should be whatever you want to do with Flacco,
Speaker 1: you do, whether that's playing one series whatever. They Flacco's
Speaker 1: their starting quarterback and going to be their starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: and they don't want to just punt the season before
Speaker 1: the season starts. Even though their depth chart. Have you
Speaker 1: seen like the Browns offensive depth chart is something to
Speaker 1: be you just stare at it. Right now. It's Flacco
Speaker 1: at quarterback, David and Joku, who's a very nice player
Speaker 1: at tight end. Jerome Ford's their starting running back. Cedric Tillman,
Speaker 1: Jamari Thrash and Jerry Judy are their top three receivers,
Speaker 1: with Deontae Johnson being their number four, and an offensive
Speaker 1: line of Dwan Jones, Joe Potonio, Ethan Pochick, Patchick, pardon me,
Speaker 1: Wyatt Teller, and Jack Conklin as their offensive line. It's impossible.
Speaker 1: So we know they're gonna be bad, but they don't
Speaker 1: want to say off the top they're gonna be bad,
Speaker 1: so be it. So whatever you think you need to
Speaker 1: do to have Flacco ready, you do. After that should
Speaker 1: or Sanders should play the entirety of that preseason game.
Speaker 1: If Gabriel and pick it or hurt, there is no
Speaker 1: reason whatsoever on Friday for Snoop Huntley, who is right
Speaker 1: now the sixth quarterback on the Browns roster, because D'shaun's
Speaker 1: on the roster. I know he's not playing for Snoop
Speaker 1: Huntley to get a single snap. And again, this is
Speaker 1: not a knock on Snoop Puntley, who sneakily has a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl to his name and started a playoff game
Speaker 1: for your Baltimore Ravens, you know, a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad Huntley's getting another look this. I promise
Speaker 1: it's not an indictment on Snoop, But this is the
Speaker 1: opportunity to see how Shaudor books in a big sample
Speaker 1: against a live defense. And there are local Browns fans
Speaker 1: and media have gotten a little conspiratorial about you know,
Speaker 1: what the team does and doesn't like about Shadors whatever
Speaker 1: it is, And are they trying to kind of you know,
Speaker 1: slow as progress? Is it weird because the coaches didn't
Speaker 1: want them, but the owner did, you know, I don't know, you.
Speaker 2: Don't think they're getting ready to like trade them or anything.
Speaker 2: There's something.
Speaker 1: So if that's the case, then that's even more of
Speaker 1: a reason to showcase him. Right, Like, if here's one
Speaker 1: that I find interesting and that I think actually could
Speaker 1: be like a best case scenario. For best case, If
Speaker 1: I'm Shadoor, I am hoping beyond hope, I get three
Speaker 1: quarters maybe the whole game, because if Flacco's not gonna play,
Speaker 1: then Shador in theory, should play the entire game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that I look decent, and that the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: call the Browns and the Los Angeles Rams call the Browns,
Speaker 1: so I can be their third string quarterback, as odd
Speaker 1: as that sounds, because that's right. The Rams story right
Speaker 1: now is U Matt Stafford's got a bad back, and
Speaker 1: that is really concerning and their backup quarterback. While a
Speaker 1: fine backup quarterback has his own injury concerns, which is
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. If I'm Shador and I can't like getting
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, no, there will be no media attention
Speaker 1: like should he be the starter? Stafford's there, And for
Speaker 1: the Rams, it gives you a chance to maybe have
Speaker 1: an answer it quarterback, even if it's a long shot.
Speaker 1: And again I've never believed Store is a sure fire
Speaker 1: NFL starter, but he's got a shot have an answer
Speaker 1: a quarterback after this year if this does end up
Speaker 1: being Stafford's last year, and maybe more importantly, not more importantly,
Speaker 1: but equally important as to why you would do this
Speaker 1: trade now rather than the offseason, whatever it is if Stafford,
Speaker 1: you know, isn't ready for the start of the season,
Speaker 1: because yesterday McVeigh was talking about Stafford and he's like
Speaker 1: he's doing some light cardio, he's walking around like what
Speaker 1: like that. That's that's not great. So let's just say
Speaker 1: Stafford's not available the very beginning of the season, and
Speaker 1: let's say Jimmy Garoppolo gets clocked during Week one, then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're staring at stetsn't Bennett, and
Speaker 1: so like, even if it's just a little short term
Speaker 1: gap starter and we saw McVeigh get Baker ready in
Speaker 1: one day for a start like you could have. So
Speaker 1: I do hope that. And if you're the Browns, if
Speaker 1: you'd spent a fifth on Shaudoor and just trade him
Speaker 1: for a fourth, you won. It's a great job, that's great,
Speaker 1: great process. You know what I mean so. But I
Speaker 1: say all that to say I am not a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 1: But if we get this Browns practice report and Snoop
Speaker 1: Huntley was taken a lot of raps and on Sunday
Speaker 1: Shadoor plays a half and Snoop plays a half, that's
Speaker 1: my conspiracy theorist at Tenna will pop up as Wild
Speaker 1: does on Tea because that makes no sense for anyone involved,
Speaker 1: for anyone involved. So that's why I wanted to lead
Speaker 1: with the Browns. I'm actually fascinated by it. We also
Speaker 1: the only other we the court. We don't really have
Speaker 1: quarterback competitions this year except for the saddest one ever
Speaker 1: in Indy with Anthony Richardson or Dan and your guy,
Speaker 1: My guy Anthony Richardson and your guy Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: Jones is winning that battle, right though.
Speaker 1: Seems like, oh, the Saints as well. You know what,
Speaker 1: I tend to forget the Saints or an NFL team
Speaker 1: this year, and I think that one is sadder. By
Speaker 1: the way. You want to know an unbelievable fact that
Speaker 1: I want to make sure is a fact before I
Speaker 1: say it, So the Saints. Yeah, it is a fact,
Speaker 1: and by a lot actually the Saints quarterback battle is
Speaker 1: Spencer Rattler, A Hayner and their second round pick Tyler Shuck.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Tyler Shuck, who was their second round pick
Speaker 1: this year. Demonse, you're gonna laugh at this is eight
Speaker 1: months older than Trey Lance.
Speaker 2: It's think about that.
Speaker 1: He's eight months olderly than Trey Lance, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: shout out Trey Hall of Fame game. Still though, he
Speaker 1: just needs to get you know, like he's it. Trey
Speaker 1: just turned twenty five, so like he's been in the
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Speaker 1: pick this year, which is so weird. Also, the Saints,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? The demonse, what year did you
Speaker 1: graduate high school?
Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: So Tyler Shuck, who is the Saints' draft pick this year,
Speaker 1: he graduated in twenty eighteen. He's won and he's just
Speaker 1: like he finished college four months ago. Like that's a long.
Speaker 2: That's long as long it takes.
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Speaker 1: All right, demonse, let's get to the news that broke
Speaker 1: right as I got to Vegas, which is the Micah
Speaker 1: Parsons News.
Speaker 2: Micah Parsons officially requested or trade. He was on Friday Saturday,
Speaker 2: and he Friday unfortunately, I no longer want to be here.
Speaker 2: And Jerry follow it up with I'm not in any
Speaker 2: way revising the mentality that I have about how I
Speaker 2: go about negotiations. What do you think about the drama
Speaker 2: in Dallas and Jerry?
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the deal. I I find the way Jerry
Speaker 1: tried to go about these negotiations, whether he meant to
Speaker 1: do it like this or not, but to be unethical,
Speaker 1: and I don't appreciate it. I think I think that
Speaker 1: it is totally fine for a manager and an employee two,
Speaker 1: you know, be having a conversation compensation or you know,
Speaker 1: a contract or something comes up and they start discussing it.
Speaker 1: I think that's fine. And I think that if you're
Speaker 1: you know, the if you're Micah, you're smart enough to
Speaker 1: know that if you weren't comfortable having any part of
Speaker 1: that conversation, that you can just say, hey, I'm not
Speaker 1: talking money here. That's what my agent's for, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? And I think it's fine to try
Speaker 1: to work on a framework from those conversations. I think
Speaker 1: that is totally fine, and I think that it's even
Speaker 1: reasonable at times for I think it's reasonable at times
Speaker 1: that you might actually come to a real agreement. Then
Speaker 1: it might be like, yeah, yo, you'll pay me that
Speaker 1: that's what I want, that's what you want, great, Sure,
Speaker 1: no problem. I think it is outrageous for the management
Speaker 1: side to think whatever is said in that setting is
Speaker 1: binding in any way, shape or form. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's outrageous for the player to think what the manager
Speaker 1: is offering is a real offer, because that the Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones is the person negotiating for the Cowboys, Micah Parsons
Speaker 1: is not the person negotiating for Micah. And so here
Speaker 1: is the way I understand it this went. Jerry and
Speaker 1: Micah got together in March. Micah thought they were having
Speaker 1: a general meeting about team leadership. During that meeting, a
Speaker 1: potential contract came up. It seems like Jerry threw out
Speaker 1: a number or they had an idea, and Micah in
Speaker 1: the moment was like, yes, sounds good, Yeah, that would work.
Speaker 1: Micah then went to his agent and his agent said, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but I think we can do better. I
Speaker 1: think we will do better. They need to talk to me,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys stance from that moment forward has been,
Speaker 1: we don't need to talk to you. We are not
Speaker 1: talking to you. We have an agreement in place. That's
Speaker 1: that's unethical. That is, when you know someone has a
Speaker 1: professional that they pay massive amounts of money to negotiate
Speaker 1: for them, and it is outrageous to then assume any
Speaker 1: negotiation that is done without that person's involvement is binding.
Speaker 1: And Jerry now saying, and there's another piece of this
Speaker 1: that I also really really don't like, which is I
Speaker 1: do not view rookie contracts the way I view second contracts.
Speaker 1: So let me give you an example from my team
Speaker 1: and a guy that I love, Chris Jones. So, Chris
Speaker 1: Jones had a rookie deal of let me, I want
Speaker 1: to four years, six million bucks, right. He then got
Speaker 1: franchise tagged and then they worked out a new deal
Speaker 1: four years, eighty million dollars. Okay. During the going into
Speaker 1: the final year of that deal, he wanted a new
Speaker 1: contract entirely, and the Chiefs made him an offer. They
Speaker 1: were you know what, they made him what they thought
Speaker 1: was a fair offer. He disagreed. That led to his holdout.
Speaker 1: Remember he missed Week one against the Lions. He's watching
Speaker 1: it from the box. And then they ended up giving
Speaker 1: him a little extra money to make him happy, but
Speaker 1: not a new contract, just a little slight bump in
Speaker 1: that final year. They held the line on what they
Speaker 1: thought was reasonable and they they never used these terms,
Speaker 1: but it was listen, man, like, we negotiated a four
Speaker 1: year deal. We're in year four. We are open to renegotiation.
Speaker 1: But if we need to have you play this out,
Speaker 1: we're okay with that because we agreed to this contract.
Speaker 1: That's not how the rookie contracts work. At all rookie contracts,
Speaker 1: there is no negotiation, there is no agreement, there is
Speaker 1: no back and forth. You are drafted in a certain spot,
Speaker 1: you are slotted in that spot. It is a four
Speaker 1: year contract. If you're a first round pick, the team
Speaker 1: can then add a fifth year to it. That again,
Speaker 1: you have no saying, you have no ability to negotiate
Speaker 1: to change. I don't want to pick it up. So
Speaker 1: that is why every single first round pick for Micah's
Speaker 1: draft class that has performed at a high level has
Speaker 1: gotten their next deal, because it's the first deal they
Speaker 1: actually get to negotiate and they have it is why again,
Speaker 1: whether you think it was you know, some of these
Speaker 1: deals you might think was done by the team. But
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence got a new deal after year three, Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase got a massive deal this summer. Jalen Waddle got
Speaker 1: a new deal after year three, Pine Sewell got a
Speaker 1: massive deal.
Speaker 2: J C.
Speaker 1: Horn, Matt top of market deal, Patrick Sir Tan top
Speaker 1: of market deal, Deavonte Smith great deal after year three.
Speaker 1: Rashaun Slater just got a top of market deal. That's everyone.
Speaker 1: So I just went over ten guys taken in the
Speaker 1: top thirteen. Here are the people. Maybe it wasn't ten,
Speaker 1: but here are the top thirteen picks from the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one draft who did not have not gotten huge
Speaker 1: second contracts. Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, Micah Parsons.
Speaker 1: It's outrageous.
Speaker 2: That puts it in a perspective right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they guy. So top thirteen picks who from
Speaker 1: that draft class who have gotten new deals? Oh, I
Speaker 1: apologize I left one guy out. Kyle Pitts has not
Speaker 1: gotten one. Sorry, but that may again. So the ones
Speaker 1: who have gotten let me do it again. Top thirteen picks.
Speaker 1: Trevor got a deal, Jamar Chase, Jalen Waddle, Penay Sewell,
Speaker 1: j C. Horn, Patzer, Tan Devonte Smith, Rashaun Slater. Those
Speaker 1: of the eight with new deals, here are the five
Speaker 1: without them. Zach Wilson, who's on been on multiple teams,
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, who's been on multiple teams, Justin Fields who's
Speaker 1: been on multiple teams. Kyle Pitts who's shown flashes but
Speaker 1: hasn't you know, achieved up to what people exc effected.
Speaker 1: And Micah freaking Parsons, who's the first player in NFL
Speaker 1: history to be top three defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: voting in each of his first three seasons. And for
Speaker 1: them to be holding him hostage based on we had
Speaker 1: an agreement in March is insane and Jerry, Now, do
Speaker 1: I think they're going to trade him? I do not.
Speaker 1: Do I think he ultimately will get paid? Yeah? Probably do.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be another year where Jerry,
Speaker 1: because of the way he does business, gets the headlines,
Speaker 1: gets the discussion, and you know, and then it's much
Speaker 1: ado about nothing. Maybe, but it is not in anyone's
Speaker 1: interests for Mica to not be out there practicing they
Speaker 1: have a new head coach. They they are he's the
Speaker 1: best player on the team, and this is not a
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I don't love in general the honor
Speaker 1: of the contract stuff in the NFL because teams obviously
Speaker 1: can cut players at any time. We are so ingrained
Speaker 1: in teams cutting players that when a new contract, think
Speaker 1: about this is where the media can be unintentionally a
Speaker 1: little insidious. Hold on one second, if you're watching on YouTube, yeah, Dexter,
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Speaker 1: and Dexter, you're laying up on their pillow. I'm back
Speaker 1: the the way. Think about how when a new contract
Speaker 1: is signed in the NFL, it is framed. You'll hear this,
Speaker 1: It's a five year, one hundred and ten million dollar
Speaker 1: deal with forty five million guaranteed, and the team can
Speaker 1: get out of it after three years. The day it's signed,
Speaker 1: it's looked at as okay, it's five years, but really,
Speaker 1: if if it's not a good contract, when is the
Speaker 1: team able to cut ties? How quickly into it? Because
Speaker 1: we know that's how it works. So I'm not a
Speaker 1: huge fan of asking players to honor the contract anyway,
Speaker 1: when nobody gets mad when players get cut by teams,
Speaker 1: But it is particularly outrageous to ask players to honor
Speaker 1: a rookie contract that they did not get to negotiate,
Speaker 1: that they had no saying, and especially a first If
Speaker 1: Micah was just a slightly worse college player, he would
Speaker 1: have already been paid because the Cowboys wouldn't have had
Speaker 1: a fifty year option on him and he wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been a first round pick. So I think he gets paid.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Oh, he's on the subject of fIF options?
Speaker 2: Do you think the fifth years options to be taken
Speaker 2: away if you make a Pro Bowl? Are all pro?
Speaker 1: So it's interesting. I I think that the idea behind
Speaker 1: the fifth year option, in my opinion, was, I'll give
Speaker 1: you a great example. You know who. The fifth year
Speaker 1: option is really good for Kyle Pitts because he has
Speaker 1: not achieved at the level they wanted him to. But
Speaker 1: he they spin a top five pick on him, and
Speaker 1: he has shown flashes and they don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: just move on immediately, right, So I think that that
Speaker 1: is a fair compromise in his instance. So what I
Speaker 1: was going to say is, I think the player should
Speaker 1: be able to decline the fifth year option, but that's
Speaker 1: probably tricky because then every player would probably decline it.
Speaker 1: Should you be able to achieve out of fifth year
Speaker 1: option eligibility? Yeah, I think that because you have to
Speaker 1: declare fifth year option for a team after year three,
Speaker 1: I think an All Pro spot is a very high threshold.
Speaker 1: But I think that's probably fair if this Pro Bowls
Speaker 1: too tricky? Now, because what is and what isn't a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowler? You know what I mean? You could maybe
Speaker 1: you could say on the original Pro Bowl team, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like one of the not an alternate,
Speaker 1: not a replacement whatever some but certainly so this is
Speaker 1: what I would say. If a player in their first
Speaker 1: three years makes at multiple Pro Bowls or a singular
Speaker 1: All Pro team first or second team, then yeah, fifty
Speaker 1: year options out of there, like if you want. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the team still has the franchise tag, right, uh,
Speaker 1: you know the but at least and for Micah because
Speaker 1: he has been an All Pro, the price of the
Speaker 1: fifth year option is the same as the franchise tag,
Speaker 1: So you might say, what good would that do? Well?
Speaker 1: You can only franchise tag a player, ever, twice. The
Speaker 1: rule is three times, but no one's ever getting franchise
Speaker 1: taged a third time because the third one is so exorbitant,
Speaker 1: and so at least if the Cowboys right now we're
Speaker 1: threatening to franchise Micah, he would then know, okay, like, fine,
Speaker 1: you could do this once more than I can never
Speaker 1: be franchised again the rest of them my career, and I,
Speaker 1: you know, I have ultimate leverage like Dak ended up getting.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I I don't like how the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are doing this, and I don't like that Jerry, I
Speaker 1: think knows better about what ethical negotiations are and isn't
Speaker 1: really honoring that.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, you said, oh you didn't you didn't
Speaker 2: see Michael Parsons getting traded. Uh, so you want to
Speaker 2: do it? Likely? Maybe? What if? What do you think
Speaker 2: the situation is that'll end up coming?
Speaker 1: So it's likely that he gets let me pull up
Speaker 1: T J. Watts deal. TJ. Watt got three for one
Speaker 1: twenty three with one oh eight guaranteed forty one million
Speaker 1: a year. I think it is likely that Micah gets
Speaker 1: four for one seventy with one hundred and ten guaranteed,
Speaker 1: so forty two million a year. The first three years
Speaker 1: basically fully guaranteed, and the fourth year is a you know,
Speaker 1: basically a team option. That's how I think this will
Speaker 1: play out. I think that's likely. I think maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they don't come to an agreement and he plays this
Speaker 1: year out. That's probably the least likely. And the what
Speaker 1: if is what if a team says, what if Buffalo
Speaker 1: just says, you know what salary cap? Be damned. The
Speaker 1: fact that we tried this with von Miller before didn't
Speaker 1: work out, be damned. We are not Sean mcdermot's like
Speaker 1: I lose to Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs because we
Speaker 1: allow thirty points. Again, I'm out of here anyway. You know,
Speaker 1: let's figure out how to make this. I I would
Speaker 1: not want the Chiefs to trade for Micah Parsons, and
Speaker 1: I think Micah is arguably the best defensive player in football.
Speaker 1: I just think if you have the superstar quarterback, which
Speaker 1: the Ravens, the Bills, the Chiefs have, you, well you
Speaker 1: you have to. It's not you can you have to,
Speaker 1: you just can't. Like and you know, the Chiefs already
Speaker 1: have a super expensive Chris Jones, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And so like they I don't think it would be
Speaker 1: a good idea for the Ravens to trade for Micah
Speaker 1: if the Bills, the Bills maybe have to change something,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So, would it's scary? Here's
Speaker 1: the answer on would it scare me? It would certainly
Speaker 1: bum me out for this season. But I think if
Speaker 1: we're looking at the Bills Chiefs rivalry as being over
Speaker 1: the next five years minimum, I think that is the
Speaker 1: type of trade that they would long term regret. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even if Micah wins Defensive Player of the Year twice
Speaker 1: in that timeframe, I just think you'd have to give
Speaker 1: up so much and pair away so much of the
Speaker 1: rest of the roster that you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't. Uh, So, scare is maybe the wrong. Here's
Speaker 1: a team that I think, you know, might want to
Speaker 1: say screw it and do it. The Raiders. Oh, like,
Speaker 1: we got no Pat, we got no secondary, but we
Speaker 1: could have Max and Micah. We're trying to win right
Speaker 1: now anyway, why not? You know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: that is that's one I think there are a few
Speaker 1: teams that might make sense. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Sean Payton.
Speaker 2: So, Yeah, the media has been super high on the Broncos.
Speaker 2: You have not been so is Sean Payton. He came
Speaker 2: out and said, the short term goal is winning the division.
Speaker 2: But this is a team capable of winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I've caught six teams that I thought could win a
Speaker 2: super Bowl. This is my seventh. Yes, so should we
Speaker 2: believe in this? Is he too high? Too low?
Speaker 1: He also said bow Knicks in the next two year
Speaker 1: is going to be a top four or five quarterback
Speaker 1: in the world. He also said he's going to be
Speaker 1: a superstar. Also, by the way, check out what when
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Speaker 1: Did you see this? Demanse is uh bo Nicks's new
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Speaker 4: And my my take that bo Nicks might take going
Speaker 4: into the draft was bon Nicks was Mac Jones.
Speaker 1: For those of you wondering how that has how that
Speaker 1: looks so far? Well, Mac Jones in year one with
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, made a somewhat fraudulent Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: as an alternate bon Nicks check. The team won ten
Speaker 1: games kind of surprisingly made the playoffs. Bon Nicks check.
Speaker 1: The team played the Buffalo Bills in Round one, lost
Speaker 1: by four touchdowns. Bon Nicks check and Mac Jones that
Speaker 1: offseason trademarked Mac ten and all this silly stuff because
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Speaker 1: Here is my problem with the Broncos hype and discussion.
Speaker 1: Gosh darn it, Dex, you know what, I you know what.
Speaker 1: I actually think it's value add It draws attention exactly
Speaker 1: right here is here is what I think people are
Speaker 1: not recognizing when they are talking about the Broncos as content.
Speaker 1: Broncos have an excellent defense and that matters now. Dre
Speaker 1: Greenlaw's dealing with a quad already, and Hufanga, who I
Speaker 1: love as a player, has been injured every year since
Speaker 1: his rookie season. Those are their two big additions. The
Speaker 1: other problem is this last year, Demonse, they won ten games. Okay,
Speaker 1: the first game they won, they beat Baker Mayfield, salute,
Speaker 1: that's a real thing. Who's who they beat after that? Okay,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, who the Jets thing got rid of. They
Speaker 1: then beat Spencer Rattler, who is in a quarterback the
Speaker 1: saddest quarterback battle of the year. They then beat Bryce
Speaker 1: before Bryce got hot. They then beat Kirk Cousins right
Speaker 1: before they benched him. They then beat Gardner Minshew who
Speaker 1: I left that out earlier. They actually beat Gardner twice.
Speaker 1: They then beat whoever the hell was starting for the
Speaker 1: Browns at the time, Jamis who is currently I think
Speaker 1: a third string quarterback. They then beat Anthony Richardson and
Speaker 1: they then beat Chad Henney. That's all their wins. Now
Speaker 1: we are now saying they're contenders. Well to be contenders.
Speaker 1: Let's just start with the conference. How did you do
Speaker 1: against playoff teams in your conference? Well, you played Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: week two and lost. You played the Chargers week six
Speaker 1: and lost. You played the Ravens week nine and lost.
Speaker 1: You played the Chiefs week ten and lost. You played
Speaker 1: the Chargers week sixteen and lost. You played the Bengals,
Speaker 1: who weren't in the playoffs, but that was a playoff
Speaker 1: level game that game because they were still alive week
Speaker 1: seventeen and lost. You then played the Bills in the
Speaker 1: actual playoffs and lost thirty one to seven. Why am
Speaker 1: I supposed to believe that team all of a sudden
Speaker 1: is going to be great? Now? Folks out there, like
Speaker 1: ah Nick, you always just hate on the Broncos last
Speaker 1: year preseason gambling show our favorite win total of the year,
Speaker 1: Broncos over five and a half, even though I didn't
Speaker 1: believe in bo Nicks because that number was too low.
Speaker 1: They had a last play schedule. Russ, it was so
Speaker 1: terrible for him. I'm just calling it as I see it.
Speaker 1: And right now, is there any other team this year
Speaker 1: or any year that you can remember that had the
Speaker 1: pretty universally accepted worst quarterback in their own division that
Speaker 1: we were like, yep, that team look out for him? Like,
Speaker 1: let's just look at the other teams across the league
Speaker 1: who have the worst quarterback in the division. What we
Speaker 1: think of them? Justin Field's and the Jets, were we
Speaker 1: afraid of them? Whoever's starting for the Browns, Joe Flacco?
Speaker 1: How are they looking getting? The Colts with Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: the Giants with Russ, the Vikings JJ, and again that's
Speaker 1: harsh on him, but he's just young. Now maybe Demondray
Speaker 1: it's Caleb Yeah, I mean again, I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think people is even though Caleb stock is dropping,
Speaker 1: have JJ ahead of him? In the South, the Saints
Speaker 1: with whatever they're dealing with, and in the West, Seattle
Speaker 1: with Darnold or Arizona. I guess with like I, I
Speaker 1: just they just believe in them.
Speaker 2: I am again, they believe in themselves.
Speaker 1: Sean Payton has talked a lot of ship though, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and listen, this is a tricky one because Sean Payton,
Speaker 1: as great of a coach as he is, he must
Speaker 1: be a better hang because the media loves him. So
Speaker 1: many of my colleagues at Fox just from the one
Speaker 1: year of working with him, they love him. I think
Speaker 1: Peter Schrager my pal. He loves him. And we kind
Speaker 1: of give Sean Payton Nate, you know, like he walks
Speaker 1: into Denver, does the interview about what a clown show
Speaker 1: it was under Nad Hackett, and by week three the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are hanging seventy on him. Last year, after sneaking
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and then getting absolutely demolished by Buffalo,
Speaker 1: has the audacity to say, if we had won this game,
Speaker 1: we really liked our next matchup, which was going to
Speaker 1: be against the Chiefs, a Chiefs team that then beat
Speaker 1: the Buffalo team that he lost to by one hundred.
Speaker 1: And now he's like talking division isn't big enough for us.
Speaker 1: We need to be talking Super Bowl when that team
Speaker 1: has not won the division since the last year they
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I just right now, I think, is what's going on?
Speaker 1: Maybe. And here's the other thing, Demanse, I am very
Speaker 1: very prepared for a month into the year the Broncos
Speaker 1: to maybe be four and h and people and people
Speaker 1: are firing stuff back at me, like because their softest
Speaker 1: part of their schedule is the beginning in my opinion
Speaker 1: home for Tennessee at the Colts at the Chargers, which
Speaker 1: is a home game home for Cincinnati. But I'm curious
Speaker 1: how the rest of that's going to go for them.
Speaker 1: And we'll see. But I am I, uh, this is
Speaker 1: one where I've put my money where my mouth is.
Speaker 1: I'm in the process right now of negotiating a real
Speaker 1: Broncos bet with poker legend and one of the best
Speaker 1: sports betters ever, David Baker. I think I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him Broncos to win the division at plus three twenty.
Speaker 1: And I think we're also going to what demands that
Speaker 1: you look flighted by that.
Speaker 2: He wants to bet and give you money for the
Speaker 2: Broncos winning the division.
Speaker 1: Well, I got to give him plus three twenty, so
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, if we bet one thousand bucks,
Speaker 1: he can win thirty two hundred. But yeah, he wants
Speaker 1: that bet and he but I'll also I think bet
Speaker 1: him make miss playoffs and so like, maybe I'll be wrong,
Speaker 1: but I'm I want this take understood and I want
Speaker 1: to see and you know what, maybe I'll maybe I'll
Speaker 1: make a third bet with David if we can find
Speaker 1: a fair price on this and have it be an
Speaker 1: either or and if it's neither, then it's no action.
Speaker 1: Which is the Broncos are so much more likely to
Speaker 1: finish last in the AFC West, Dan finish first. They
Speaker 1: are like I think the Chargers are a are better
Speaker 1: than them. I know the Chiefs are better than them,
Speaker 1: and I think the Raiders because of schedule, coaching, quarterback,
Speaker 1: I think the Raiders can pop. Now, the most likely
Speaker 1: outcome is the Broncos finished third. I understand that, but
Speaker 1: I see no outcome whatsoever were the Broncos finish first.
Speaker 1: And we'll see, We'll see how the future superstar bo
Speaker 1: Nicks looks come November. Maybe I'll be wrong. I doubt it, though,
Speaker 1: uh and Boss Ajs says in the chat show us
Speaker 1: the team and quarterbacks the Chiefs beat. It's not that
Speaker 1: impressive last year. If we can do that, I let's
Speaker 1: see who are the teams in the who are the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks the Chiefs beat last year? Lamar, Josh Allen, Cousins, Herbert, Carr, Purty, Minshew, Baker, Nix,
Speaker 1: Brian Minshew, Herbert. I thought I said Burrow, oh Cleveland,
Speaker 1: whoever was their quarterback? Then CJ whoever the Steelers quarterback?
Speaker 1: Oh Ross, then CJ again, then Josh Allen, So every
Speaker 1: single dog though, yeah, they didn't play their guys. They
Speaker 1: set everyone and uh and then they got crushed in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They beat every So in other words,
Speaker 1: they beat every single good quarterback in football except for
Speaker 1: Jaden who they never played, Hurts who beat them, and
Speaker 1: Stafford who they never played. Good try, good effort. All right.
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Speaker 2: Campus camp has been slightly unfortunate for your guy, Kleb Williams.
Speaker 2: He went five of seventeen with three interceptions. It's also truck.
Speaker 1: Can I say something real quick, I'm putting a slow
Speaker 1: light asterisk on this five of seventeen. I saw one
Speaker 1: person tweet it, and then I saw articles written that
Speaker 1: cited the tweet, So I'm not certain that was the
Speaker 1: exact number. But he obviously struggled in front of the fans.
Speaker 1: Now keep going.
Speaker 2: He had to lay a game penalties, and he was
Speaker 2: throwing a ball at this net and he could not
Speaker 2: get it in the net and he got really mad.
Speaker 1: All right, do we want to play this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so demons, okay, do you remember when we had
Speaker 1: the dartboard out on the back deck. That final throw
Speaker 1: reminded me of when I would be playing darts and
Speaker 1: barely miss my first two attempts, and then the third
Speaker 1: one I would just rear back and fire it, sometimes
Speaker 1: miss the board entirely. And so here's the serious take.
Speaker 1: The little pout reaction after is in my opinion, more
Speaker 1: concerning than the throws. Like we know Caleb Williams can
Speaker 1: make short, quick pinpoint throws like he he didn't there,
Speaker 1: but we know, like it's not like, oh man, this
Speaker 1: guy he's not When he is not deep in his
Speaker 1: own head, he is an accurate, precise passer. The problem
Speaker 1: is the getting in his own head and the problem
Speaker 1: is the body language, uh, and the emotional stability of
Speaker 1: him as a player. Now, I I think Ben Johnson
Speaker 1: is and I'm gonna talk about in this drill. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the delay of games and that I think
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson is intentionally trying to break him down a
Speaker 1: bit to then build him back up. And trying to
Speaker 1: throw yes and trying to throw as much at him
Speaker 1: as possible. I know there was a I know there
Speaker 1: was a clip or not a clip, but a report
Speaker 1: that Ben intentionally cut out the communication between Caleb's headset
Speaker 1: to see how he reacted to that he's doing a lot,
Speaker 1: so they can then when it's time for the actual games,
Speaker 1: streamline it and things will feel easier than they actually are.
Speaker 1: I think that's smart as long as Caleb doesn't get
Speaker 1: too down on himself, and as long as Caleb can
Speaker 1: handle it well. And I do think one of the
Speaker 1: I didn't love the commentary about Caleb after he cried
Speaker 1: in college because so much of it felt kind of
Speaker 1: lowest common denominator and there was a lot of like
Speaker 1: winking in a nod to paint his nails carries immerse
Speaker 1: and now he's crying, and it just felt like, we
Speaker 1: know what you're trying to imply and like and so
Speaker 1: so I stayed out of it. I do think though,
Speaker 1: there was something to the taking a loss that hard
Speaker 1: and not being you know, able to compose yourself that
Speaker 1: was like, oh that you know, that's something you know,
Speaker 1: just like the What I didn't like was it felt
Speaker 1: that I would have felt the exact My opinion would
Speaker 1: have been the exact same if instead of crying he
Speaker 1: had gone to the gatorade table and thrown that and
Speaker 1: broken stuff or whatever. But it felt like the general
Speaker 1: reaction would have been very different because they were basically
Speaker 1: saying he's feminine, Like that's what the attacks were, and
Speaker 1: that part, like that's bullshit. But the inability to like keep.
Speaker 2: The loss and keep the composure.
Speaker 1: That part's real. That part's real, and that's like a
Speaker 1: fair concern. So I I still fully believe in Caleb.
Speaker 1: I do think that he has to He doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be excellent week one on, but he has to
Speaker 1: either be solid all year or you know, the final
Speaker 1: two months a la Jordan Love's first year with the
Speaker 1: you know Packers, where it like looks pretty shaky early,
Speaker 1: like oh man, is this guy not the guy? And
Speaker 1: then bam, you know it's like, oh shit, he just
Speaker 1: won Offensive Player of the Month, you know, something like that.
Speaker 1: If he's the guy I think he is, he has
Speaker 1: to give you a tangible reason to believe it in
Speaker 1: year two, by.
Speaker 2: The way, to be pretty good over there. I think
Speaker 2: he needs to make an effort in that department because
Speaker 2: the say on him right, it's not great. Like with
Speaker 2: the attitude thing, I think it's a it's a much
Speaker 2: bigger thing than what it needs to be right now.
Speaker 2: Outside of just.
Speaker 1: That, I agree with you. I agree with you, and
Speaker 1: I think you know from your you know, to small
Speaker 1: our experience together. Yeah, in in sports, how important I
Speaker 1: think that is. I think that when you are a
Speaker 1: team's best player and a Caleb's not, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: he's not their best player yet, but he's the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback and number one pick, like you're the de facto
Speaker 1: leader it. People take their cues from you. And this
Speaker 1: is something that I you know, I used to give
Speaker 1: demands so much shit about that that he wore his
Speaker 1: emotions on his sleeve, and I thought that opponents saw it.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, like it, people that are the leader
Speaker 1: of a team are the best player on a team,
Speaker 1: you're less. The teammates of yours that aren't as talented
Speaker 1: as you take their cues from you. So I'm not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, play favorites here, like he's got to be
Speaker 1: better about that. And it is one of, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: something Patrick Josh and Lamar do exceptionally well, it's always
Speaker 1: first of all, your pointing thumbs not fingers. And Burrow
Speaker 1: as well, by the way, is great at this and
Speaker 1: it's we got it, you know what I mean, we
Speaker 1: got it. And one of the things that you see
Speaker 1: a little bit again, I'm not trying to pick on anybody,
Speaker 1: but I think it's accurate. Jaalen, by the way, also
Speaker 1: obviously is a great leader in this stuff. But one
Speaker 1: of the things you see a little bit from Lamar
Speaker 1: in the postseason is some of these.
Speaker 2: Illustrations it leaks out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like what like it's where it feels like he
Speaker 1: feels like, oh my god, it's happening you're at in
Speaker 1: a way that never happens in the regular season. And
Speaker 1: so like I do think that stuff really matters, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, he's got to get better about it. He's
Speaker 1: got to get better about it, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's go to Luca A.
Speaker 2: Selucas signed is three year, one hundred and sixty five
Speaker 2: million extension with the Lakers over the weekend. We've all
Speaker 2: been waiting on that. So now that's finally happened. Do
Speaker 2: you think that it's time for Eleda really press the
Speaker 2: gas on trying to succeed in the now.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I got it. I said after they didn't
Speaker 1: re sign Dorian Finney Smith that I thought there was
Speaker 1: a chance I put Lucas signing the extension. Was it
Speaker 1: ninety percent? I had it. I dropped it to like
Speaker 1: seventy five percent. So I do think this is good, important,
Speaker 1: real news. I also think that because he signed the extension,
Speaker 1: they are able to slow walk this a bit if
Speaker 1: they want to, because Luca is not going anywhere over
Speaker 1: the next three years. And by the way, the next
Speaker 1: deal he'll signed Demons will be the league's first million
Speaker 1: dollar a game deal super Max.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, was that what he was supposed to?
Speaker 2: Was that what he was coming up on in Dallas?
Speaker 1: No, he was, No, he could have signed. No, the
Speaker 1: he would have gotten the biggest deal ever in Dallas,
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't. We wouldn't have gotten that threshold yet.
Speaker 1: But three years from now his contract will average more
Speaker 1: than eighty two million a year and there's eighty two games.
Speaker 1: It's a really remarkable thing here is though my general
Speaker 1: Lakers take that. No one, even the biggest anti lebron folks,
Speaker 1: haven't been able to explain to me where I'm wrong
Speaker 1: on this. I think it is overwhelmingly likely that over
Speaker 1: the lifetime of this extension, these next three years, Luca
Speaker 1: never has a teammate better than Lebron is right now. Now, listen,
Speaker 1: maybe they're gonna get Yannis and I'll be wrong. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're you know, they have their eyes on Joker, and
Speaker 1: I'll be wrong. But Shay ain't going anywhere, and Tatum's
Speaker 1: not going anywhere, and now we're like running out of
Speaker 1: people who are better than Lebron right now. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I would if I were the Lakers, prioritize trying to
Speaker 1: win right now, because if they think this is their
Speaker 1: last year with Lebron, I do not know that Luca
Speaker 1: is going to have a better running mate than Lebron
Speaker 1: over these next three years. Now, again, if they have
Speaker 1: real intel that if they keep the cap sheet clean
Speaker 1: in two years, Yannis plans on just coming there in
Speaker 1: free agency, then so be it. Then you know what,
Speaker 1: if they like then see, you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: they're drawing dead this season, like they've got a nice roster,
Speaker 1: then then keep it flexible. But that's a hell of
Speaker 1: a gamble to take, Like a hell of a gamble
Speaker 1: to take.
Speaker 2: Do you are you worried at all that there's like
Speaker 2: a riff potentially formed between Luca and Lebron or do
Speaker 2: you think that Luca knows that it's I don't think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it's between Luca and Lebron at all.
Speaker 1: I Lebron was Luca's all time favorite player. Luca is
Speaker 1: the guy Lebron tried to sign to his shoe line.
Speaker 1: Luca like, I don't think there is anything between them
Speaker 1: at all. I think there is some obvious frustration for Lebron,
Speaker 1: fair or not that the Lakers are not pressing the
Speaker 1: gas even more on this season. Now you can say
Speaker 1: that's unfair, that they shouldn't whatever, but that is to me,
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. So Baker Mayfield came into that number fifty
Speaker 2: in the NFL. Top on your list. He answers this
Speaker 2: year as the eighth best odds for MVP in Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay also drafted Amika Agbuka and they're getting got one
Speaker 2: back from his injury. What are your expectations for Baker
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 1: Expectations already has another really good season. Ceiling is he
Speaker 1: is a frontline MVP candidate and they are a true
Speaker 1: contender in the NFC. Like I think that's on the board.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. In order for them to be
Speaker 1: a contender, he has to be an MVP candidate because
Speaker 1: that defense is not going to be great. They are
Speaker 1: gonna have to outscore people. But Baker had forty touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year. He was a badass, man. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he was a badass last year. I'm so and he
Speaker 1: right now has I want to make sure I'm right
Speaker 1: about this that I didn't miss it yet. He's on
Speaker 1: the best non rookie contract in the NFL. Three years,
Speaker 1: one hundred million bucks for Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: One more good season away from getting a two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollar deal. He's been that level of player.
Speaker 1: And I'm just happy for him, man, because this shit
Speaker 1: went so sideways on him. Yeah, and his teammates love him.
Speaker 1: He is true to himself. He's tough. He is a
Speaker 1: legit awesome playoff performer. Like this is the thing that
Speaker 1: people I think underrate with Baker. He has played I
Speaker 1: think five career playoff games. I'm gonna tell you what
Speaker 1: he did. First playoff game ever. The Cleveland Browns go
Speaker 1: into Pittsburgh hang forty eight on him. Baker throws for
Speaker 1: two sixty three touchdowns a one to fifteen rating. Second
Speaker 1: playoff game ever, his only ever bad playoff game. He's
Speaker 1: against the two time to find AFC champion. Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: He's against the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs, and he's
Speaker 1: twenty three to thirty seven for two hundred yards, one touchdown,
Speaker 1: one pick, seventy five ratings. But he's in arrowhead in
Speaker 1: round two against the twenty twenty Chiefs. Like no shame
Speaker 1: in that. He then makes the playoffs with Tampa. His
Speaker 1: first playoff game ever against Philly, and again it's so crazy,
Speaker 1: this is Philly. This game was in January of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Yeah, exactly, thirty two to nine, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no picks, a one to twenty rating. The next game
Speaker 1: against Detroit three hundred and fifty yards, three touchdowns, two picks,
Speaker 1: a ninety five rating, they lose by eight. And in
Speaker 1: the game against Washington last year, a wild one where
Speaker 1: he only throws eighteen times, but he's fifteen of eighteen
Speaker 1: for a buck eighty five, two touch downs and a
Speaker 1: one forty seven rating. In his playoff career, he's got
Speaker 1: a one zero six rating, twelve touchdowns, three picks, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just been awesome in the bat Yeah
Speaker 1: so I yeah, so I'm a Baker believer through and through.
Speaker 1: All Right, Uh, let's do these last two real quick.
Speaker 2: James Cook is holding in as he looks for his
Speaker 2: contract extension.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: After a few years a big dollar running backs paying off,
Speaker 2: it seemed like the debate was put to rest, But
Speaker 2: that conversation opens back up again. Or do you think
Speaker 2: Cook is just not that guy?
Speaker 1: Well? No, I just I think Cook's really good. But
Speaker 1: I the Bills have no cap space. He's under contract
Speaker 1: for five million bucks. They know they can franchise tag
Speaker 1: him for not much. And even if you think he's awesome,
Speaker 1: do you think he's gonna be awesome four years from now?
Speaker 2: So, like, go ask me A huge part of their
Speaker 2: offense last year, like huge the last two years, right exactly.
Speaker 1: I just think they think he's gonna blink. Bro. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's that they you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I think that they think we'll give him a little
Speaker 1: more money, but not long term, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: nothing long term and then or maybe a one year extension.
Speaker 1: But the report is he wants you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's what he wants. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get this wrong, but I saw four years forty million
Speaker 1: bouncing around, which is only ten million a year. But
Speaker 1: I just think they think at that position his style,
Speaker 1: in two years he could be done, and they just
Speaker 1: it's just such a tough business for running backs. Man,
Speaker 1: it's just such a tough business for running backs, all right,
Speaker 1: Like rate subscribe review to the pod. Let's get to
Speaker 1: some of these listener questions quickly, if we can, please.
Speaker 2: Justin says Fox is getting paid more than Lebron. Is
Speaker 2: he ever gonna be better than year forty Lebron? How
Speaker 2: was his contract not holding back the Spurs like Lebron's
Speaker 2: contract calls back the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the So that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons the Lebron kind of track discussion was so absurd. Like, no, people, again,
Speaker 1: I he is Lebron is demonstrably better than Fox, and
Speaker 1: most people, I'm not one of them. Most people like
Speaker 1: the Fox contract a lot. I'm a little skeptical of it,
Speaker 1: Like that's it's just so much of Lebron discourse just
Speaker 1: so stupid.
Speaker 2: Indie ass Uh, Okay, I don't hear you about the
Speaker 2: Indie asked, Nick, can you compare the first twenty one
Speaker 2: playoff games from Patrick versus Tom Brady? I think people
Speaker 2: need to see just how great Pat has been in
Speaker 2: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Uh. I can do that another time. But Pat's seventeen
Speaker 1: and four in the postseason and the all time highest
Speaker 1: passer rating. That all of it, the numbers are just bananas.
Speaker 1: Nobody's played. No resume is going to compare well to that.
Speaker 1: There's just no question, all right.
Speaker 2: Next Matt asked, is is flat is flatley?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Okay? Is flatly your favorite word?
Speaker 1: Uh? Do I use it a lot? I must? I
Speaker 1: have some verbal like that, so maybe the a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I didn't. I didn't know, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: Uh, Dustin says Nick. I watched all of the N
Speaker 2: one movies. I don't know what one is Mission impossible, Okay,
Speaker 2: mission possible, Mission impossible movies after your cloning recommendation, and
Speaker 2: love them. How would you rank all the all movies? Uh?
Speaker 1: That you know that is? I will do that another time.
Speaker 1: I can't do that at the very end of a show.
Speaker 1: It deserves too much, you know, it deserves Uh an impossible? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're just I mean it's just the greatest
Speaker 1: film franchise ever. Uh all right, Adam says, uh that
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