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Speaker 3: Welcome in Episode one seventy one, What's Right with Nick Right?
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Speaker 3: do today, and we're doing something different to start the show.
Speaker 3: But first so and it's gonna probably just heads up
Speaker 3: to yourra the opening topic. If I keep it under
Speaker 3: thirty on the opening topic, I will have done a
Speaker 3: good job. Under thirty minutes on the opening topic I need.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to nap.
Speaker 3: You know, it'll be riveting information. But there's thirty two teams.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. We'll all explain in a moment. But
Speaker 3: before we even get to that, let's get to what
Speaker 3: missed the cut for today's show. Not on today's show,
Speaker 3: the US Soccer League Sacramento Republic signs a thirteen year old,
Speaker 3: the youngest pro athlete in the US. Shakira says, Jimmy
Speaker 3: Butler different from other men. Shout out Jimmy Butler and
Speaker 3: Johnny Manzel reportedly, or by his own admission, watched zero
Speaker 3: film in the NFL. I have a new rule. I
Speaker 3: only watch sports documentaries if I am prominently featured in them.
Speaker 3: So the Johnny Manziel doc is not gonna make my docket.
Speaker 3: In fact, I haven't even seen a few of the
Speaker 3: latest sports docks that evidently I'm in. It's very weird
Speaker 3: when we want to use clips from these documentaries on TV.
Speaker 3: Very often it's like, no, it wasn't clear they wouldn't
Speaker 3: let us do it. But nobody asks me if they
Speaker 3: can use my, you know, wisdom and great takes in
Speaker 3: their documentaries. Well, yeah, very awesome. Very often it's wisdom.
Speaker 3: You could learn a few things from my wisdom most
Speaker 3: of it?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 3: Right, Dior, though, what are we starting today's show with
Speaker 3: thirty two teams?
Speaker 4: What we know? What you hope, and what you fear?
Speaker 3: Okay? So I liked what we did on Tuesday where
Speaker 3: we went through all the teams and their potential Hall
Speaker 3: of famers all of that, and I wanted to kind of, oh,
Speaker 3: they put thirty on the clock. Wow, And I wanted
Speaker 3: to continue that because we're going to be off next week,
Speaker 3: and then the week when we return, we really kick
Speaker 3: it into full football gear and we do our official predictions,
Speaker 3: we bring the Gambling show back, your brother makes his
Speaker 3: return from Los Angeles. That's all coming. And as kind
Speaker 3: of dipping our toe into the prediction waters, what I
Speaker 3: want to do here is go through all thirty two
Speaker 3: teams as quickly as I can and say what you know,
Speaker 3: what you hope, and what you fear if you're a
Speaker 3: fan of any of these teams. So I'm gonna start
Speaker 3: in the NFC, go to the AFC. I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: go as I see them listed on the NFL standing
Speaker 3: s page with everyone zero and zero, So it's basically
Speaker 3: a random order, if you will. We will start as
Speaker 3: it happens, and we'll go east, north, southwest, because that's
Speaker 3: how the standings are listed. As it happens. We'll start
Speaker 3: with the Dallas Cowboys. What we know about the Cowboys
Speaker 3: is they're going to have a really good defense. It's
Speaker 3: impossible for that team with Micah Parsons, with Dan Quinn,
Speaker 3: with the other personnel on that defense to not have
Speaker 3: a really good defense. What you hope is with Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 3: and this is a big risk here, taking control of
Speaker 3: the offense from Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore being gone that
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott gets back to who he'd been in his
Speaker 3: entire career prior to last year, cut down on the interceptions,
Speaker 3: take care of the football. Tony Pollard, who was the
Speaker 3: best running back on the team the last couple years,
Speaker 3: is now that we know he's going to be the
Speaker 3: featured back, that he can carry the workload, and that
Speaker 3: defense plus a lack of turnovers on offense leads to
Speaker 3: the Cowboys for the first time since the mid nineties,
Speaker 3: going on an actual postseason run. What you fear is
Speaker 3: that the offense takes a step backwards, not because Dak's
Speaker 3: turnovers jump, but because McCarthy's too conservative. And what you
Speaker 3: really fear is that Mike McCarthy, who has always dealt
Speaker 3: with game management and clock management issues, that now he
Speaker 3: has even more on his plate on game day since
Speaker 3: he's calling plays, that the Cowboys have some end of
Speaker 3: game in of half meltdowns that cost them games they
Speaker 3: otherwise shouldn't. That's the Cowboys the Giants. What we know.
Speaker 3: We know that Brian Daviles a good coach. We know
Speaker 3: that what you hope is that Daniel Jones can keep
Speaker 3: his turnovers low like last year while expanding what he's
Speaker 3: allowed to do through the air throwing the football. What
Speaker 3: you fear is that when they put more on Daniel
Speaker 3: Jones's plate, the turnovers will jump back up. The touchdowns
Speaker 3: might go I mean they had fifteen touchdowns last year,
Speaker 3: might go up as well. But this is a team
Speaker 3: that cannot deal with turning the ball over the way
Speaker 3: they're trying to win. And so you know they have
Speaker 3: a good coach and that they're on the right track.
Speaker 3: You hope Jones what now if they take the training
Speaker 3: wheels off of him, that he can can continue on
Speaker 3: this trajectory. You fear that when they take the training
Speaker 3: wheels off of him, he's going to become Danny Drops again,
Speaker 3: one of the most turnover prone quarterbacks in the league,
Speaker 3: and they can't sustain that. Philadelphia Eagles, what we know,
Speaker 3: it's almost an impossibility for this team not to be
Speaker 3: at least good. They have too good of a roster,
Speaker 3: too good of an offensive line, too good of a
Speaker 3: defensive line, too good of a leader at quarterback. So
Speaker 3: we know that their bare minimum is ten wins. Probably
Speaker 3: what you hope is that because of the leadership of
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts, that that team does not suffer a Super
Speaker 3: Bowl hangover, that they got a absolute steal at number
Speaker 3: ten in the draft in Jaialen Carter, that his Georgia
Speaker 3: teammate Jordan Davis looks like the player he was in college,
Speaker 3: more so the player he was as a rookie where
Speaker 3: he wasn't quite as impactful as people thought. That they
Speaker 3: got another Steel and Nolan Smith, and that Jalen can
Speaker 3: continue on the trajectory he was on in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: which was his best game throwing the football of his career.
Speaker 3: What you fear is that Siriani, who is not as
Speaker 3: level headed in my opinion as Jalen, hurts and has
Speaker 3: not faced real adversity as a head coach in this league,
Speaker 3: that Siriani doesn't deal well if they get off to
Speaker 3: a tough start, that Jalen does not take the next
Speaker 3: jump throwing the football, and that all of a sudden
Speaker 3: they're in a dog fight in the NFCS when they
Speaker 3: were cruising all last year, And that this team feels like,
Speaker 3: oh man, our opportunity was last season and now all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, we because they have They've put a
Speaker 3: lot on the credit card in Philadelphia, and now all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, we're not going to have as stacked
Speaker 3: of a roster moving forward. That's what you fear, And
Speaker 3: you fear that the draft strategy of just take Georgia
Speaker 3: players might not be the best one Washington. What you
Speaker 3: know about Washington is they should have a good defense.
Speaker 3: What you hope with Washington is that Eric the enemy
Speaker 3: can get the absolute most out of out of Sam
Speaker 3: Howell and what are some underrated weapons. What you fear
Speaker 3: is that they have clearly the worst quarterback in that
Speaker 3: well yeah, I mean right now, clearly the worst quarterback
Speaker 3: in that division, not a ver in my opinion, not
Speaker 3: a very good head coach. That the season is already
Speaker 3: off to a weird start with Ron Rivera airing out
Speaker 3: the enemy unnecessarily, and that Washington is all of a
Speaker 3: sudden in the Caleb Williams sweepstakes when they're trying to
Speaker 3: be in the wildcard sweepstakes. All right, that's the NFC
Speaker 3: East NFC North Chicago Bears. What you know is they
Speaker 3: have more talent. In the last year, they added DJ Moore,
Speaker 3: they addressed the offensive line, They spent some money last year,
Speaker 3: they spent the year in jail. They got the number
Speaker 3: one pick Because of it, they were able to flip
Speaker 3: that for a lot of draft capital. What you know
Speaker 3: is that they will have more talent on the field
Speaker 3: this year than last year. What you hope is that
Speaker 3: Justin Fields can become just league average as a passer,
Speaker 3: his ability as a runner, in his athleticism. If he
Speaker 3: is just a league average passer, he'll be a time
Speaker 3: quarterback because he's one of the two best running quarterbacks
Speaker 3: in football. What you fear is that he is not
Speaker 3: going to evolve as a passer, that going with a
Speaker 3: defensive minded head coach when you're trying to develop a
Speaker 3: quarterback is not going to work out, and they are
Speaker 3: going to say, oh man, we could have drafted our
Speaker 3: quarterback at number one. We traded out of that pick.
Speaker 3: So you fear that you in addition to that kind
Speaker 3: of fear that Carolina is better than people expected and
Speaker 3: those picks you have coming back from them aren't as good.
Speaker 3: The Detroit Lions, what you know. You know that they
Speaker 3: have playmakers on offense. They've spent a lot of resources
Speaker 3: on trying to improve that defense, and you know those
Speaker 3: players will play hard for Dan Campbell. What you hope
Speaker 3: is that the offensive line holds up the way it
Speaker 3: did last year Jared Goff, because with the clean pocket
Speaker 3: Jared Goff can play. You hope the offensive line holds up,
Speaker 3: and you hope that even though you took what are
Speaker 3: considered non premium positions high in the draft, that those
Speaker 3: guys are instantly day one starters and you get more
Speaker 3: out of your rookies than most teams that took guys
Speaker 3: maybe at premium positions, but weren't the best or the
Speaker 3: second best player at their positions in the draft. What
Speaker 3: you fear is that you're the damn Lions, and every
Speaker 3: year of your life as a Lions fan that you've
Speaker 3: gone into with any type of hope, they have found
Speaker 3: a way to kick you in the gut. And that Golf,
Speaker 3: the offensive line is not quite as good, which means
Speaker 3: Golf doesn't have a clean pocket, which means Golf goes
Speaker 3: back to who he was at the end of his
Speaker 3: time with the Rams. That the defense doesn't get it together,
Speaker 3: that drafting a running back and an inside backer with
Speaker 3: your first round picks was as bad as all the
Speaker 3: analytics folks said it was, and that a year where
Speaker 3: you have legitimate playoff expectations, you fall flat Green Bay.
Speaker 3: What you know. You know that, honestly, there is a
Speaker 3: team that probably knows as little as anybody else, as
Speaker 3: little as anybody in the league. But what you know
Speaker 3: is that you have a good coach in Lafloor, and
Speaker 3: you are able, for the first time in thirty years
Speaker 3: in Green Bay to kind of fly under the radar
Speaker 3: because you don't have a superstar at quarterback and no
Speaker 3: one expects anything out of you this year. What you
Speaker 3: hope is not can Jordan Love be as good as
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers in the entirety of his career? But can
Speaker 3: Jordan Love be about as good as Aaron Rodgers was
Speaker 3: last year? Maybe Rogers wasn't very good those young receivers,
Speaker 3: can you hope they can take the next step? And
Speaker 3: you hope that the team and Jordan, but mostly the
Speaker 3: rest of the team take it personally that Rogers seems
Speaker 3: to be so damn thrilled with his new setup and
Speaker 3: his new spouse and his new football spouse, I should say,
Speaker 3: with the Jets, and you take it personally. What you
Speaker 3: fear is that Jordan Love is not the guy, and
Speaker 3: Rogers play is rejuvenated and plays really well, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you're like, oh my god, we're in
Speaker 3: the NFL wilderness without a place to turn for the
Speaker 3: first time, and like I said, thirty years Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3: What you know is you have the best receiver in football,
Speaker 3: and you are going to get above average, not great,
Speaker 3: but above average play from your quarterback. That plus an
Speaker 3: offensive minded head coach guarantees you some competency on offense.
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson League, average quarterback play offensive my head coach
Speaker 3: of the offense gonna be fine. What you hope is
Speaker 3: that the defense can just be slightly below average instead
Speaker 3: of a disaster the way it was in so many
Speaker 3: spots last year. What you fear is that your eleven
Speaker 3: and oh record in one score games was historic for
Speaker 3: a reason and is totally unsustainable. Atlanta Falcons, we're gonna
Speaker 3: go fast, hopefully through the NFC South. Because we are
Speaker 3: thirteen minutes in, we've done eight teams. Is not going
Speaker 3: even I thought this would be long. It's going a
Speaker 3: little longer than I thought. How do you think we're doing?
Speaker 3: Are you interested? You locked in? You just over here,
Speaker 3: just snifflin. You're not gonna even say anything.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm listening, you.
Speaker 3: Know, locked in. You listen, you're gonna go off to college.
Speaker 3: And if people are gonna bring you people from all
Speaker 3: over the world, all over the country, dimnent football teams.
Speaker 3: If you retain just one piece of information about each team,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be able to jump into any conversation and
Speaker 3: be like, WHOA.
Speaker 4: I'm okay. I don't think I'll be a part of
Speaker 4: many foot both.
Speaker 3: Well, you never know, Diora all right, Atlanta Falcons. What
Speaker 3: you know is Bjeon Robinson is gonna be awesome. You
Speaker 3: know that. What you hope is that in that division
Speaker 3: that Ritter looks competent. Bijon, Kyle Pitts, the other weapons,
Speaker 3: Drake London, you have all those weapons and you can
Speaker 3: be a fun team. What you fear, and I wouldn't
Speaker 3: actually fear this, I would be hoping for this, is
Speaker 3: that Ritter can't play at all and somehow you're you're
Speaker 3: in the Caleb Williams sweepstakes. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 3: be bad enough to be in that, but you kind
Speaker 3: of fear. What you actually fear is that the weapons
Speaker 3: in Bijeon are enough to get you to like and
Speaker 3: you've invested some money in defense Kalais Campbell and others.
Speaker 3: You get to six seven wins and you're kind of
Speaker 3: stuck in that purgatory the Saints. What you know is
Speaker 3: you're not going to be terrible. You brought in Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: You keep pretending you're challenging for Super Bowls right now.
Speaker 3: What you hope is that in that division with car
Speaker 3: with a bit of a chip on his shoulder, Kamara
Speaker 3: coming back after the suspension, a defense that every year
Speaker 3: is pretty damn good. Yeah, I should turn my ringer off,
Speaker 3: thank you. You hope that you can get to ten wins,
Speaker 3: which is enough for the division. What you fear is
Speaker 3: that you end up where you've been the last couple
Speaker 3: of years, right on the outside looking in, and you
Speaker 3: have put so much on it. I know Saints fans
Speaker 3: hate me because they don't understand how the salary cap works.
Speaker 3: That's fine that you kept borrowing from Peter to pay Paul,
Speaker 3: and you weren't even really paying Paul. You were just
Speaker 3: paying off the interest. But the debt has stayed the
Speaker 3: same because that bill is coming due in New Orleans
Speaker 3: over the next few years, and that is only worthwhile doing.
Speaker 3: Like if Tampa or the Rams did it. If you
Speaker 3: have a legitimate chance of winning the Super Bowl. You
Speaker 3: had that with Breeze. You do not have it now
Speaker 3: with Derek Carr Tampa Bay. What you know is you've
Speaker 3: got some good receivers. It's about it. What you hope
Speaker 3: is that with the offensive line back from injury, with
Speaker 3: still some talent on defense, not a lot, but some,
Speaker 3: and in that division, that you can be around the
Speaker 3: type of team you were last year, even though it's
Speaker 3: Baker in for Brady, and you can be alive to
Speaker 3: win the division. What you fear is that Kyle Trask
Speaker 3: is your quarterback by week five because Baker's played himself
Speaker 3: out of the job, and that you're one of the
Speaker 3: worst teams in the league. Carolina. What you know, you
Speaker 3: know that you're at least going to have fun this
Speaker 3: year watching Bryce Young as you figure out if you
Speaker 3: made the right decision in trading all those assets to
Speaker 3: move up to number one to get Bryce. What you
Speaker 3: hope is that, hey, you were around five hundred last year,
Speaker 3: you have a good defense, You're in a bad division.
Speaker 3: Why can't you, on the talent of the number one
Speaker 3: pick of the draft quarterback go win the division. What
Speaker 3: you fear is that Bryce is too small, the team stinks,
Speaker 3: and you have given up future draft picks that you
Speaker 3: are going to need to get him all right to
Speaker 3: the NFC West, the Los Angeles Rams. What you know,
Speaker 3: this is going to be a really tough year. What
Speaker 3: you hope, if you're a smart Rams fan, that the
Speaker 3: team recognizes this is going to be a really tough year,
Speaker 3: pivots to rebuild, and you maybe swallow hard and trade
Speaker 3: Aaron Donald. You don't mind if you have to put
Speaker 3: Stafford on the shelf and you say, we want to
Speaker 3: be the worst team in the league. Start the whole
Speaker 3: thing over. We have no one on our defense that
Speaker 3: reminds us of the Super Bowl except for Donald. On offense,
Speaker 3: you have a quarterback coming off an injury. You have
Speaker 3: Cooper Cup that's fine, but your offensive line is still
Speaker 3: a mess. What you hope is they recognize that and
Speaker 3: try to bring in the kid from La Caleb Williams
Speaker 3: with the number one pick. What you fear is that
Speaker 3: Sean McVay won't allow it. That instead, you're destined to
Speaker 3: another season like last year, where you're a five or
Speaker 3: six win team, kind of stuck in this football purgatory.
Speaker 3: The Arizona Cardinals. What you know is you're gonna be terrible.
Speaker 3: What you hope is that you're the worst team in
Speaker 3: the league. What you fear is that somehow you get
Speaker 3: a few wins you shouldn't otherwise get. Because the Cardinals
Speaker 3: are positioned so well because they have they traded away
Speaker 3: the number three pick of the draft so they could
Speaker 3: get and Houston's first round pick next year, and they
Speaker 3: have their own first round pick next year and the
Speaker 3: ability to trade Kyler at some point, the Cardinals will
Speaker 3: be able to get one of the top two quarterbacks
Speaker 3: in this draft class and maybe Marvin Harrison Junior and
Speaker 3: have an additional first round pick from a potential Kyler trade.
Speaker 3: This season's gonna stink. It will set the table for
Speaker 3: the next decade of Cardinal football. If they're smart. San Francisco,
Speaker 3: what you know, you're gonna be really good as always.
Speaker 3: You have. You have two through fifty three is good
Speaker 3: of a roster in the league. You're gonna have one
Speaker 3: of the best defenses in football. You're gonna have when
Speaker 3: he's healthy, a great running game, great receivers. What you
Speaker 3: hope is that what we saw from brock Purty last
Speaker 3: year was not a mirage, that it continues on this trajectory,
Speaker 3: and that all of a sudden that you are once
Speaker 3: again a legitimate Super Bowl contender. What you fear is
Speaker 3: that brock Perty who was physically limited already now coming
Speaker 3: off major elbow surgery, that he is not the guy
Speaker 3: that he looked like for two months last year, and
Speaker 3: Stead he's the guy that was the last pick of
Speaker 3: the draft, And all of a sudden you have already
Speaker 3: given up on Trey Lance. Sam Darnold's the only quarterback there,
Speaker 3: and once again we are all left saying, man, if
Speaker 3: the Niners had a real quarterback, they'd be dynamic. That's
Speaker 3: what you fear. And then lastly, in the NFC Seattle,
Speaker 3: what you know is that you crushed the draft last year.
Speaker 3: You had rookie tackles. One of them was awesome, the
Speaker 3: other and played well fifth or sixth round corner. That's dynamic.
Speaker 3: That you have all these young players that Pete Carroll
Speaker 3: is molding and that should only be better. What you
Speaker 3: hope is that what we saw from Gino last year
Speaker 3: was not a mirage. And with those weapons and win healthy,
Speaker 3: you get those running backs back. But DK and Locket
Speaker 3: and your running backs that you've spent consecutive second round
Speaker 3: picks on, and Geno leading the NFC in touchdown passes
Speaker 3: last year, that you can actually not just be a
Speaker 3: wow shock the Seahawks made the playoffs but maybe won
Speaker 3: the division. What you fear is that Geno regresses to
Speaker 3: the player that he was a year before, and that
Speaker 3: this team all of a sudden has some of the
Speaker 3: struggles offensively that people expected them to have last season.
Speaker 3: All right, that's the NFC. That was hard, that was
Speaker 3: longer than I thought. So you know what, let's do this.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of change up the idea here.
Speaker 3: Let's now do the rest of the A block as
Speaker 3: quickly as we can, and then to start the B block,
Speaker 3: the next segment will do the AFC. So there's the
Speaker 3: there's the NFC done on the team's won through sixteen
Speaker 3: every division. We can now get to your portion of
Speaker 3: the show and we'll make it. And then in the
Speaker 3: start the B block will do.
Speaker 4: The AFC as long as I guess.
Speaker 3: No, it started at thirty, we did, and so it
Speaker 3: took twenty minutes to go through. It took twenty minutes
Speaker 3: to go through half the league. Okay, all right, do
Speaker 3: you or what's our first topic or second topic of
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 4: The New Hard Knocks debuted and got another IMDb credit.
Speaker 3: Yeah I did. I mean they used me right off
Speaker 3: the top of the show. Evidently it's true.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Evidently, I'm sure you have seen it.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it yet. I actually haven't seen it yet,
Speaker 3: but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers look like a hero, not a villain. But
Speaker 4: we all heard and saw out saw out of Green
Speaker 4: Bay the past few years. What a diva he was.
Speaker 4: What's a change of scenery really all this guy needed.
Speaker 3: It's possible. But here's the thing on that, because I
Speaker 3: know a lot of people's opinion is man an angry
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers, a motivated Aaron Rodgers, or a happy Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: That's what made That's why they're gonna He's gonna be
Speaker 3: great again. If that's true, that is such a stinging
Speaker 3: indictment of Aaron Rodgers football character. If it's true that
Speaker 3: he was a player that was trailing off and then
Speaker 3: saw Jordan Love get drafted and that's what motivated him
Speaker 3: to win back to back MVPs. He always had it
Speaker 3: in him. But he had to be angry, and then
Speaker 3: he got the big new contract and got complacent, but
Speaker 3: then the Packers wanted to move on from him, and
Speaker 3: now he's angry again. He's gonna be awesome. That is,
Speaker 3: it would be somewhat remarkable, but it also, to me,
Speaker 3: would be a huge blemish on his resume. The guy.
Speaker 3: Just how good he is has to do with how
Speaker 3: slighted or insulted he feels, and so I don't think
Speaker 3: that's what it is. I do think he's happier now,
Speaker 3: but I also think he's almost forty, coming off an injury,
Speaker 3: coming off his worst season. I don't think he's going
Speaker 3: to be great. You have a follow up on Rodgers.
Speaker 4: If Rogers left Green Bay years ago, how differently would
Speaker 4: we all view him.
Speaker 3: Well, the idea there is if he had more postseason success,
Speaker 3: and yes, the Packers at times I think didn't necessarily
Speaker 3: surround him with as many weapons as you would like
Speaker 3: to see a great player surrounded with. But he did
Speaker 3: have DeVante Adams. It's not like he was stuck with
Speaker 3: the Cleveland Browns, some terrible franchise, and a lot of
Speaker 3: their postseason failed had to do with him not coming
Speaker 3: up big in the biggest spots, So I don't maybe
Speaker 3: we'd view him more favorably, or maybe we'd view him
Speaker 3: the exact same.
Speaker 4: All right, next, Okay, it's the time of the year
Speaker 4: where all the headlines are about teams bright futures. There's
Speaker 4: not a shed of a shred of bad news across
Speaker 4: the league except in Dallas. Dak can't stop throwing interceptions
Speaker 4: in a make or break year. If the Cowboys fail
Speaker 4: to make a deep playoff run this year, will it
Speaker 4: all fall on Dak?
Speaker 3: I gotta see how it happens. I mean, my big
Speaker 3: concern with the Cowboys is McCarthy at end of games.
Speaker 3: I think Dak has just vacillated from overrated, underrated, and
Speaker 3: never properly rated. Throughout his career. Dak Prescott is somewhere
Speaker 3: from the sixth best to the tenth best quarterback in football.
Speaker 3: It's just undeniable that that's where he is. Like if
Speaker 3: you and it is basically impossible to make a list
Speaker 3: of ten quarterbacks, the top ten quarterbacks in the league
Speaker 3: and not have Dak on it, because if you have
Speaker 3: Mahomes Burrow, the Prince, Jalen Hurts, Josh Allen say All
Speaker 3: five of those guys are clear cut better than him.
Speaker 3: The next group of quarterbacks, even if you say Rogers
Speaker 3: is better than him, Lamar is better than him, justin
Speaker 3: Herbert's better than him, that's eight. For him not to
Speaker 3: be top ten, we would need two more guys. So
Speaker 3: who are you gonna say, kirk Cousins. You can't say
Speaker 3: Dak's lack of playoff success knocks him out of the
Speaker 3: top ten. But Kirk Cousins is there. You want to
Speaker 3: put Stafford there, maybe, but Stafford now coming off an injury, Tua,
Speaker 3: We've never seen two in the postseason, like, Dak's right there.
Speaker 3: And if Dak has a really good year, he can
Speaker 3: leap ahead of Rogers. If Rogers has another down year Lamar.
Speaker 3: If Lamar is another down year, Herbert who has no
Speaker 3: playoff success, if that's what you're holding against him, so
Speaker 3: the I think Dak is more likely this season to
Speaker 3: raising people's eyes as far as his standing than to
Speaker 3: fall in people's eyes. And I think the interceptions last
Speaker 3: year were an aberration. He has always been a quarterback
Speaker 3: that took care of the football. That has not been
Speaker 3: his problem. I don't think all of a sudden he's
Speaker 3: at this stage of his career, just is going to
Speaker 3: become a super turnover prone player.
Speaker 4: All right, Next, Chiefs GM and a fan of the show,
Speaker 4: Brett Veach said, Chris Jones deserves a big contract. The
Speaker 4: Chiefs have never had a top ten defense during the
Speaker 4: Mahomes eradde, the Chiefs even need defense as long as
Speaker 4: they have Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Well, if they want to rip off the dynasty that
Speaker 3: I'm talking about here, listen, dynasty's in the NFL modern
Speaker 3: NFL history. The Steelers in the seventies led by their defense.
Speaker 3: If you want to call the Niners in the nineties
Speaker 3: or in the eighties, pardon me. The San Francisco forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers in the decade of the nineteen eighties allowed
Speaker 3: the fewest points of any team in the league. So
Speaker 3: they over the course of that decade when they won
Speaker 3: four Super Bowls, they had the number one defense. The
Speaker 3: Cowboys in the nineties, yes they had the triplets. They
Speaker 3: also year in year out had a top five defense.
Speaker 3: The Patriots obviously, certainly their first three Super Bowls they
Speaker 3: were led by their defense, and then their last three
Speaker 3: Super Bowls they were led by their offense. But they
Speaker 3: had top ten and usually top five defenses. The Chiefs
Speaker 3: are trying to do something that's nevern done in the NFL,
Speaker 3: which is rip off a dynasty with a below average
Speaker 3: for get great a below average defense. I don't know
Speaker 3: that that is unrealistic, but not impossible for this Chiefs
Speaker 3: team to be the team I know it can be.
Speaker 3: They don't need to have a top five defense. They
Speaker 3: need to have a round a league average defense. And if, if,
Speaker 3: and when Chris Jones is back, and I think he'll
Speaker 3: be back, I believe they can have a top ten
Speaker 3: defense for the first time in the Mahomes era. And
Speaker 3: if this Chiefs team has a top ten defense and
Speaker 3: they stay healthy, they absolutely forget. When the win the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, they can go undefeated. I one thousand percent
Speaker 3: believe that the Chiefs defenses have turned on at times
Speaker 3: in the postseason, but they also some of their most
Speaker 3: epic victories the Divisional round against the Bills. The defense
Speaker 3: is in order to be found this last Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: now last Super Bowl, the defense made the play of
Speaker 3: the game, the scoop and score by Nick Bolton, but
Speaker 3: that was kind of an unforced error by Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3: I mean, the Chiefs needed thirty eight points to win
Speaker 3: the game. So all right, So that's there's the A
Speaker 3: block is gonna nice meaty thirty minute opening segment. We'll
Speaker 3: do the AFC all sixteen teams. What we know, what's
Speaker 3: your hope, what's your fear? Will do that next and
Speaker 3: play a game of this or that before we take
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Speaker 3: so we're gonna slightly change what the plan is for today.
Speaker 3: We'll get to this or that in a moment, but
Speaker 3: we started today's show by doing what you know, what
Speaker 3: you hope, what you fear for all sixteen NFC teams.
Speaker 3: We will do the AFC teams. Now again, I'm just
Speaker 3: reading them down the list as they're listed on the
Speaker 3: NFL standings page, and everyone zero and zero and so
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's it's not alphabetical, it doesn't
Speaker 3: seem but doesn't matter. So to the AFC East, we
Speaker 3: will start with the Buffalo Bills. What you know, much
Speaker 3: like the Eagles, you know you're going to be at
Speaker 3: a bare minimum good. You know you're gonna have one
Speaker 3: of the six or seven highest scoring offenses in football.
Speaker 3: You know you are going to be one of the
Speaker 3: toughest teams to beat in the league for anybody. And
Speaker 3: you know your best, you're gonna look as any team,
Speaker 3: as good as any team in the league. What you
Speaker 3: hope is that you can somehow construct a running game
Speaker 3: without asking Josh Allen to to be your most dynamic runner.
Speaker 3: That Josh can keep himself out of harm's way in
Speaker 3: the running game, only do it in critical spots, particularly
Speaker 3: late in the season, not that it's a really a
Speaker 3: break glass in case of emergency part of his game
Speaker 3: instead of a featured part of his game. And you
Speaker 3: hope that Josh can cut down on those untimely turnovers,
Speaker 3: particularly red zone turnovers that plagued you last year. What
Speaker 3: you fear is that another year removed from Brian Dable,
Speaker 3: that Josh Allen is going to further regress to the
Speaker 3: turnover mistake prone player he was early in his career,
Speaker 3: That the Stefan Diggs drama carries over into the season,
Speaker 3: That you miss Leslie Fraser, that Von Miller when he
Speaker 3: comes back from his ACL is not the guy he
Speaker 3: was at the beginning of last season when you signed him,
Speaker 3: and for the first time on this little Mini Bill's era,
Speaker 3: you're not even the division winners in the AFCs. That's
Speaker 3: what you fear, Miami Dolphins. What you know is you're
Speaker 3: gonna be as fast as any team in the league.
Speaker 3: Your defense will be improved with the addition of Vic Fangio,
Speaker 3: even though Jalen Ramsey might miss the majority of not
Speaker 3: the entirety of the season. That Hill and Waddle will
Speaker 3: cause headaches for defenses all year long. McDaniel's gonna scheme
Speaker 3: them open, and that you are a very viable postseason
Speaker 3: You should be a very viable postseason team, if not threat,
Speaker 3: That's what you know. What you hope is that Tua
Speaker 3: can stay healthy all year, because when Tua was out there,
Speaker 3: you had a top five offense in football. What you
Speaker 3: fear is that Tua suffers another concussion and it's that
Speaker 3: might end his career, and that once again you're on
Speaker 3: this quarterback rufe let that even though you had experience
Speaker 3: with it last year, it was not a good experience.
Speaker 3: And right now your backup quarterback situation after Tua is
Speaker 3: Mike White and Skyler Thompson, and that you go into
Speaker 3: the season with the biggest injury risk in the league
Speaker 3: at quarterback. It bites you in its submarines. Your second
Speaker 3: straight year New England. What you hope or sorry, what
Speaker 3: you know is that you're gonna have a top ten defense.
Speaker 3: You're going to be incredibly well coached, and your offense
Speaker 3: is going to make more sense than it did last
Speaker 3: year because you have a professional offensive coordinator instead of
Speaker 3: Patricia and Judge figuring it out on the fly. What
Speaker 3: you hope is that Mac Jones is really awful. Season
Speaker 3: last year was purely a product of the offensive coordinator situation.
Speaker 3: That he and Juju and Mike Giseki create instant connections
Speaker 3: that Mac Jones can get back to the limited but
Speaker 3: stable quarterback he was as a rookie, that the offensive
Speaker 3: line can protect him, that Bill O'Brien can scheme some
Speaker 3: guys open, and that Belichick has one last hurrah in
Speaker 3: him if you will, as he pursues Don Shula's all
Speaker 3: time wins record. What you fear is that the issues
Speaker 3: last year were not just about your coordinator situation. They
Speaker 3: were also about mac Jones regressing that you didn't add
Speaker 3: enough weapons of this offseason, that you regret not getting
Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins, and that Belichick's plan of only hiring friends
Speaker 3: and family who is coaching staff really bites him this
Speaker 3: year and for the first time since before Tom Brady,
Speaker 3: since Tom Brady's rookie year, I should say, before Tom
Speaker 3: Brady took over, you finished dead las in the AFC
Speaker 3: East AFC North Browns. What you know? You know you
Speaker 3: have a great running back, maybe the best in the league,
Speaker 3: certainly short list. And do you see the screen there
Speaker 3: out here talking tray They're asking if you're still awake.
Speaker 3: Deora is captivated by this. The Browns. You have maybe
Speaker 3: the best running back in the league and maybe the
Speaker 3: best edge rusher in the league. You know that you
Speaker 3: hope very obviously that Deshaun watson struggles last year were
Speaker 3: about rust and the fact that he obviously had a
Speaker 3: lot going on, and that Deshaun Watson this year looks
Speaker 3: closer to the Deshaun Watson that we saw. Uh That
Speaker 3: the Deshaun Watson that we saw in Houston and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, him and Amari Cooper, Donovan Buobles, Jones,
Speaker 3: Nick Chubb. That's a dynamic offense. What you fear is
Speaker 3: that the Deshaun Watson that you gave a fully guaranteed
Speaker 3: contract to and three first round picks for is never
Speaker 3: going to be that player again, and that you are
Speaker 3: back to being the Browns Pittsburgh. What you know, You're
Speaker 3: gonna be in almost every game. You're gonna be as
Speaker 3: well coached as any team in the league. TJ. Watt's
Speaker 3: gonna kick a lot of ass. You're gonna have overachieving
Speaker 3: mid round receivers. You know that because you're the Steelers.
Speaker 3: What you hope is that Kenny Pickett turns out to
Speaker 3: be worthy of the first round pick, takes the prototypical
Speaker 3: year one to year two leap, and you are in
Speaker 3: the mix in that division. What you fear is that
Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett, in his tiny hands, are not able to
Speaker 3: handle being asked to do more offensively, that for the
Speaker 3: fifth or sixth straight year, it would feel like you
Speaker 3: are very limited at the quarterback position the end of
Speaker 3: the Big Ben era to right now, and that once
Speaker 3: again you're stuck in that eight to nine win range.
Speaker 3: I guess it'd be, yeah, eight or nine win range
Speaker 3: as Tomlin's never been below five hundred, and you're kind
Speaker 3: of stuck in neutral. But you're not gonna be terrible.
Speaker 3: There's no chance you're terrible, Cincinnati. What you know is
Speaker 3: when Burrow gets back out there, you are going to
Speaker 3: have a top six passing game. You kept t Higgins,
Speaker 3: you obviously still have Chase. Burrow's awesome, and you're your
Speaker 3: passing game and that side of the ball offensively should
Speaker 3: be very very good. You know that. What you hope
Speaker 3: is that all the personnel changes on defense don't hurt
Speaker 3: you too much, Burrow comes back fully healthy from the calf,
Speaker 3: and you are able to not just win the DESI
Speaker 3: as you've done the last couple of years, but have
Speaker 3: a really gaudy regular season where maybe you're playing home
Speaker 3: playoff games as the Bengals after Round one of the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Each of the last two years have been on the
Speaker 3: road the entire time. What you fear is that Burrows
Speaker 3: cap injury lingers, that the defensive personnel changes make your
Speaker 3: defense worse, and that a year that really needs to
Speaker 3: be a seize the moment year because you're probably losing
Speaker 3: t Higgins after this year, that you're not able to
Speaker 3: do it. Instead, you take a step backwards and you
Speaker 3: were a man was the most talent we were going
Speaker 3: to be able to put around Joe at least in
Speaker 3: the first seven eight years of his career. Did that
Speaker 3: window already close on us? And lastly in the AFC
Speaker 3: North Baltimore, what you know, this team doesn't know all
Speaker 3: that much. Actually, they have the widest range of potential outcomes.
Speaker 3: You know you're gonna be well coached because of Harball.
Speaker 3: You know you're not gonna have a bad defense because
Speaker 3: you never do, and you have good personnel there. What
Speaker 3: you hope is that Lamar could have been a better
Speaker 3: passer all along, or at least last few years. He
Speaker 3: was being held back by Greg Roman and that system,
Speaker 3: and that the move to Todd Monkin spending a first
Speaker 3: round pick on Zay Flowers, signing Odell, all of those
Speaker 3: giving Lamar that contract, all of those decisions will be vindicated,
Speaker 3: and you will have the scariest offense in the league
Speaker 3: because you will have a good passing game to go
Speaker 3: along with Lamar's one in a lifetime ability as a
Speaker 3: runner from the quarterback position, and you can go storm
Speaker 3: and win that division, a division you were in the
Speaker 3: running for until late last year. Despite Lamar's injury. Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: you're almost beat in the playoffs, despite playing a backup quarterback.
Speaker 3: What you fear is that the reason Greg Roman was
Speaker 3: running the type of offense he was was because Lamar
Speaker 3: can't take that next step is a passer. All of
Speaker 3: a sudden, your offense is markedly worse because it doesn't
Speaker 3: have that diversity of the running game scheme. Lamar is
Speaker 3: easier to game playing for as a passer because you're
Speaker 3: not worried as much about the speed option and all
Speaker 3: the other things Greg Roman was doing in the running game,
Speaker 3: and that it was a mistake, that putting all these
Speaker 3: chips on Lamar as a passer was a mistake, and
Speaker 3: that you take a step backwards. That's what you fear
Speaker 3: AFC South quickly the Titans. What you know is you'll
Speaker 3: be and sorry it sounds like a cop out, you'll
Speaker 3: be well coached. Last year you found you kept fighting.
Speaker 3: The last few years, you find ways to win games.
Speaker 3: Last year, obviously, you got derailed by the quarterback injury.
Speaker 3: What you hope if you're Tennessee is that you can
Speaker 3: without having a miserable season, you can find a way
Speaker 3: to transition to Will Levis to give him a real
Speaker 3: opportunity to see what he has. Like. Ideally, you're winning
Speaker 3: games defensively and with Derrick Henry, but Tannehill's not playing
Speaker 3: that well, so you can transition to Levis and get
Speaker 3: a look at him without having a terrible year. What
Speaker 3: you fear is this is the year Derrick Henry finally
Speaker 3: hits a wall. DeAndre Hopkins follows in the line of
Speaker 3: Randy Moss and Andre Johnson and Julio Jones of all
Speaker 3: time receivers who have come to Tennessee to do absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3: And then you really fear that when you look at
Speaker 3: Levis or Malik willis a different quarterback that you spent
Speaker 3: a mid round pick on. Sorry, I don't know how
Speaker 3: I tripped. I just like slipped while sitting in this chair.
Speaker 3: Doers looking at me funny that they don't have it
Speaker 3: and you're stuck in quarterback prerogatory the Jags. What you know,
Speaker 3: you know you're going to have a top ten offense.
Speaker 3: You know that you have one of the best quarterbacks
Speaker 3: in football. What you hope is all of that draft
Speaker 3: capital over the last few years, high picks that you've
Speaker 3: spent on the defensive side of the ball, that they
Speaker 3: take a big leap, that Trevor takes another leap under
Speaker 3: Doug Peterson, and that you are in that division, with
Speaker 3: that schedule, fighting for the number one seed in the conference.
Speaker 3: What you fear is that the boost we all expect
Speaker 3: you get from Calvin Ridley, the fact that he's missed
Speaker 3: all of last season with suspension. The previous year he
Speaker 3: missed half the year with injury, that Ridley is not
Speaker 3: the player that you thought you were getting when you
Speaker 3: traded for him. You pay paid a premium last offseason
Speaker 3: in free agency, which is kind of tied your hands
Speaker 3: as far as flexibility moving forward. Trevor's about to get
Speaker 3: this big contract. You kind of stay in neutral when
Speaker 3: nine ten ish games are not a real Super Bowl threat,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden you're about to have to
Speaker 3: pay Trevor fifty five million a year and things get
Speaker 3: a lot harder. That's what you fear. Now. To the
Speaker 3: AFC West Denver, what you know, You know you'll be
Speaker 3: better coach than you were last year. Sean Payton. Even
Speaker 3: if I'm not as high on him as others are,
Speaker 3: he obviously was better than Nat Hackett, and obviously the
Speaker 3: team will make more sense offensively under Sean Payton. What
Speaker 3: you hope is that the fast majority of Russell wilson
Speaker 3: struggles last year were due to Nat Hackett and the
Speaker 3: change his scenery and all of these things, and that
Speaker 3: Russ can get back to who he was the majority
Speaker 3: of time in Seattle. What you fear, obviously is that
Speaker 3: while the game management stuff was on Nat Hackett, the
Speaker 3: quarterback play was on the quarterback, and that the Russ
Speaker 3: you saw last year is the rusher getting moving forward.
Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs, what you know, You're gonna win a
Speaker 3: minimum of twelve games. You're going to have one of
Speaker 3: the four best offenses in football. You're going to have
Speaker 3: as good of a chance as anyone to win the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. That's what you know. What you hope is
Speaker 3: that Chris Jones gets to camp at some point in
Speaker 3: the next couple weeks, one of these young receivers, either
Speaker 3: Sky Moore or Shay Rice or Justin Ross, who I love,
Speaker 3: takes a big leap. Kadarius, Tony can stay healthy and
Speaker 3: you are a juggernaut like you were the last time
Speaker 3: you were the defending champs, winning your first fifteen games.
Speaker 3: You went fourteen one before resting Mahomes the final week
Speaker 3: of the year and then getting back to the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl where your offensive line was all destroyed. But that's
Speaker 3: what you hope. What you fear is that Tony stays
Speaker 3: nicked up, none of the young receivers take a leap,
Speaker 3: and Kelsey hits a wall. Age wise, I don't think
Speaker 3: those things are likely, but that would be the fear.
Speaker 3: Plus you don't get a deal done with Chris Jones,
Speaker 3: so he's unhappy all year and it's your last year
Speaker 3: with him. Those would be all of the fears. I
Speaker 3: don't think any of those are likely. The Raiders, what
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, I don't know. Man. Raiders are
Speaker 3: in rough shape. What you know is Davante's awesome I'll
Speaker 3: give you that. What you hope is that Jimmy G
Speaker 3: can stay healthy all year, that Jimmy G with Josh McDaniels,
Speaker 3: with Devonte Adams can be above average passing offense, That
Speaker 3: the defense finally makes some splash, impact plays like they've
Speaker 3: struggled in the last few years, and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden you're alive for the playoffs the way you were
Speaker 3: two years ago with Carr. What you fear is that
Speaker 3: Jimmy G gets hurt early, that Josh McDaniels is as
Speaker 3: bad of a coach as he's appeared to be throughout
Speaker 3: his head coaching career, and that you are staring another
Speaker 3: last place AFC West finished dead in the face, but
Speaker 3: you're not bad enough to get one of those top
Speaker 3: two picks to draft a quarterback. And then finally the Chargers.
Speaker 3: What you know, you know you have about as much
Speaker 3: talent on paper as any team in the conference, that
Speaker 3: when you're healthy, there is no team in the league
Speaker 3: you can't beat. That's what you know. What you hope
Speaker 3: is that Justin Herbert gets back on the trajectory he
Speaker 3: was on the first couple of years of his career
Speaker 3: with Kellen Moore, allowing him to be more aggressive down
Speaker 3: the field early, you know early in drives on first
Speaker 3: and second down, and that you are finally not snake
Speaker 3: bitten due to injury. What you fear is you're just
Speaker 3: a cursed franchise who's always gonna deal with injuries. That
Speaker 3: Herbert is going to stay in neutral for the third
Speaker 3: straight year. And this is a big one. That you
Speaker 3: essentially are at the biggest disadvantage of any team in
Speaker 3: the league because you play half your games on the
Speaker 3: road and half your games at a neutral site, because
Speaker 3: you have no home field advantage, and that is enough
Speaker 3: of a disadvantage for you to go be a ten
Speaker 3: win team instead of a twelve thirteen win team like
Speaker 3: your talent says you should. So there it is, DIORA
Speaker 3: know what your hope, what you fear? I think we
Speaker 3: did a bang up job there. That was great. Now
Speaker 3: let's play a quick game before we get to the
Speaker 3: listener questions.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we're gonna play a game of this or that? Yeah,
Speaker 4: sho off a thirty point triple double. Luca and Slovenia
Speaker 4: face off against Team USA this weekend. You are rooting
Speaker 4: for your nation or your son.
Speaker 3: You know, what in this one. I'm rooting for my son.
Speaker 3: I'm rooting for Luca. It would mean so much more
Speaker 3: for Slovenia and for Luca to win this game. And also,
Speaker 3: I don't really the Team USA stuff. I care during
Speaker 3: the Olympics. I don't really care during the off year
Speaker 3: international competitions. We obviously didn't send like our best NBA players.
Speaker 3: I'd like to see Luca win it, all right, Next.
Speaker 4: Okay, the Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrine's a new class
Speaker 4: this weekend. If you've ever picked up a basketball, you
Speaker 4: make it in. Meanwhile, you aren't letting Derek Henry in
Speaker 4: the NFL Hall of Fame. The better hall of Fame
Speaker 4: is football or basketball.
Speaker 3: To be fair, I didn't say Derek Henry's not in.
Speaker 3: I just said he's not a lock, and it's obviously football.
Speaker 3: The NBA Hall of Fame is too watered down. It's
Speaker 3: not even the NBA Hall of Fame. It's the basketball
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, so you get credit for college and international.
Speaker 3: The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the better hall
Speaker 3: of fame, and it's not even a debate. Next first round.
Speaker 4: Rookie running back by John Robinson is listed third on
Speaker 4: the depth chart. Reading into early depth charts is essential
Speaker 4: or hilarious.
Speaker 3: Hilarious. Listen, b Jon Robinson's best player on that team
Speaker 3: is a rookie. Flatly, he's not gonna be third. It's
Speaker 3: just like, oh, he's a rookie. He's got to earn
Speaker 3: his spot. He earned his spot when you took him
Speaker 3: in the top ten. Guys. They're putting him third on
Speaker 3: the depth charts is stupid. All right.
Speaker 4: Next, someone famous who often makes ridiculous statements said yesterday,
Speaker 4: anything not first is second or last. The notorious leader
Speaker 4: of men who said this was Russell Williams.
Speaker 3: Russell Willis Wilson.
Speaker 4: That's like the third time I've done that. Yeah, our
Speaker 4: Ricky Bobby.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it was Russell Wilson. It was
Speaker 3: a really ridiculous quote. I've read it a couple times. Uh.
Speaker 3: He said anything not first is second or last. The
Speaker 3: Broncos would be thrilled to finish second division. You also
Speaker 3: can make the playoffs finishing second or third. Technically, you
Speaker 3: make the playoffs finishing last in the division. It's just
Speaker 3: never happened. It's just it's just a bad quote, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, Okay, gosh, sorry, my iPad glitch. A new game
Speaker 4: has fully occupied the brains of sports fans for the
Speaker 4: past few weeks. Even the Vikings are playing them in
Speaker 4: team meetings. Which one are you better at? Nick's better
Speaker 4: immaculate grid is NBA or NFL.
Speaker 3: I think this will surprise people. I'm not good at
Speaker 3: stuff like this. I don't like I if you were
Speaker 3: to ask me right now, like what number does Trevor
Speaker 3: Lawrence war I can't tell you. I like can't see it,
Speaker 3: so like players Jersey numbers and then just like the
Speaker 3: instant recall of oh, this guy played for multiple teams
Speaker 3: for some reason. I'm no good at it, like I'm
Speaker 3: very and it's not because I don't have a good memory.
Speaker 3: Because I could you ask me who won any Super
Speaker 3: Bowl or any NBA championship in history. I can tell you,
Speaker 3: But that's another thing I can't tell you, because like
Speaker 3: I know who won the nineteen seventy five super Bowl.
Speaker 3: What I can do is I can go backwards in
Speaker 3: history year by year by year by year and give
Speaker 3: you all of it. But I'm no good at the
Speaker 3: immaculate grid thing.
Speaker 4: I think something that Nick Wright is not good.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of things I'm not good Everybody, take note. No,
Speaker 3: there's plenty of things you don't think. I think I'm
Speaker 3: good at everything. There's plenty of things I'm not good at.
Speaker 3: But this is the type of thing I think people
Speaker 3: would expect me to be good at. I'm just not
Speaker 3: good at all. Right next, Okay.
Speaker 4: The last six shows of Taylor Swift's aristour have generated
Speaker 4: three hundred and twenty million dollars for the Los Angeles economy.
Speaker 4: Kobe once gave her a jersey, and Taylor gave his
Speaker 4: daughter the twenty two hat. La seems to have really
Speaker 4: embraced her. The star more adored in La is Taylor
Speaker 4: Swift or Lebron Probably Taylor.
Speaker 3: Here's what I well, here's what I find so interesting
Speaker 3: about the Taylor Swift stuff. And I don't who do
Speaker 3: you think the biggest musical star in the world is Beyonce.
Speaker 3: I'm not a Swiss, so okay, so here's the thing
Speaker 3: I'm not. We've talked about being Swifties and stuff before
Speaker 3: on the show. I'm not either value nothing against it,
Speaker 3: but the way, so the Renaissance tour is going on
Speaker 3: right now as well. They're both obviously massive international tours. Yes,
Speaker 3: but there is to me like a real too America's
Speaker 3: thing about do you think the biggest pop star in
Speaker 3: the world, you know, is it Taylor Swift or is
Speaker 3: it Beyonce? Because prior to this tour one second, I
Speaker 3: would have thought everyone was playing for second place to Beyonce.
Speaker 3: But Taylor's selling out six shows in LA in a
Speaker 3: row and all these things, and she has like four
Speaker 3: top ten records right now. Maybe objectively speaking, just raw numbers,
Speaker 3: maybe she is bigger than Beyonce. But I do think
Speaker 3: there is a huge either cultural or racial divide on
Speaker 3: Swift versus Beyonce. Now I think Taylor. I think Beyonce
Speaker 3: probably has more of a crossover fans than Taylor necessarily does.
Speaker 4: But Taylor is Taylor's more with my generation.
Speaker 3: More so. Taylor's bigger among younger people than Beyonce.
Speaker 4: Now there's kids at my school who like, when I
Speaker 4: first came to the school, I love Beyonce, and people
Speaker 4: are like, who's that?
Speaker 2: Man, I don't believe, No, it's It's like it.
Speaker 4: It may be a slightly racial thing in some in
Speaker 4: some senses, who's Beyonce. I'm like, oh, the one who
Speaker 4: sings this song? Oh, I know that song, but like
Speaker 4: I didn't know she's saying that.
Speaker 3: Okay, well maybe so maybe the maybe my age is
Speaker 3: showing here. And I guess that makes sense because Beyonce's
Speaker 3: been big for twenty years, but Taylor was big enough.
Speaker 3: The Kanye thing at the at the Grammy's happened fourteen
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago, so she's been big for a really
Speaker 3: long time too. I just find it. I find it
Speaker 3: fascinating that maybe I just had a blind spot for
Speaker 3: how massive Tailor Swift was because I thought everyone was
Speaker 3: playing playing for second place to Beyonce. No matter. I'm
Speaker 3: not talking about quality and music. I'm talking about any
Speaker 3: of that. I'm talking about worldwide acclaim.
Speaker 4: I think it's because Beyonce didn't come out with music
Speaker 4: for a really long time. Oh maybe it made people
Speaker 4: and that Taylor Swift just kept going.
Speaker 3: And man, they're all hits. She had four top ten
Speaker 3: do you I'm just say, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I I I again, I don't. I'm not. I don't
Speaker 3: listen enough music, nor am I sophisticated enough musically to
Speaker 3: evaluate any of this stuff. I'm simply saying, by the
Speaker 3: definition of what a hit is she creates hits on
Speaker 3: a level we have not seen since Michael Jackson. Taylor,
Speaker 3: you're trying.
Speaker 4: To say that she's the new Michael Jackson, that's what,
Speaker 4: But that that is something I refuse to listen to.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing though, on that by the.
Speaker 4: Numbers she is, I don't care about I right, but
Speaker 4: that's what people genuinely going around being like Taylor Swift
Speaker 4: is the new.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing that opinions are subjective. The numbers
Speaker 3: that she does, as far as what her songs chart,
Speaker 3: the the ticket sales arenas all this stuff. She I
Speaker 3: guess she is bigger than Beyonce, but that is just
Speaker 3: unfathomable to me. And but it's just objectively true. And
Speaker 3: as far as the numbers, if we are just talking
Speaker 3: about like most successful musical acts ever, the Beatles, Michael Jackson,
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift appear to be I know, but it's crazy,
Speaker 3: but it's true. Man, Like they appear to be three
Speaker 3: of the Mountain. Like I think she has passed the
Speaker 3: Rolling Stones.
Speaker 4: I like won't even hear it, but it's but I
Speaker 4: know I will not even what I'm telling.
Speaker 3: You is it's just objective fact it's fascinating to me.
Speaker 4: Is a better perform Taylor Swift can't even date.
Speaker 3: Okay, careful, now we're gonna I don't need a contact
Speaker 3: by these.
Speaker 4: No, I'm pretty sure this is like a known thing
Speaker 4: with all of her fans. Taylor Swift can't dance and
Speaker 4: Beyonce's performance.
Speaker 3: I agree, Listen, Dior, I just like I agree with
Speaker 3: you one hundred on like preference and quality, all of it.
Speaker 3: But it is a phenomenon what this woman is doing,
Speaker 3: and I think she is the biggest pop star in
Speaker 3: the world. It's it's fascinating to me. We answer your
Speaker 3: listener questions. Next we'll try.
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Speaker 4: Welcome Back, Episode one seventy one. We're gonna answer your
Speaker 4: fan questions. Glass on You in twenty five said petition
Speaker 4: for Nick to do Immaculate Grid on air as a
Speaker 4: segment moving forward.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: First of all, I don't think it'd be good content.
Speaker 3: Second of all, I don't think i'd be that good
Speaker 3: at it. And I'm not really into like publicly doing
Speaker 3: things i'm not excellent at. It's not my thing, Like, Hey,
Speaker 3: here's this thing that I know i'm not great at,
Speaker 3: let me do it in front of thousands of people.
Speaker 3: That doesn't sound fun, all right?
Speaker 4: Next, FtF said, Russ has looked really good in training camp.
Speaker 4: So if Russ has a really good outing on Friday
Speaker 4: in the preseason, would you be more confident in him?
Speaker 3: No, I need to see it. And I just I
Speaker 3: didn't think Russ looked good his final year in Seattle.
Speaker 3: I know some of the numbers were good, he didn't
Speaker 3: look like the same player, and I think that Russ
Speaker 3: as a top an above average quarterback in this league.
Speaker 3: I think that's done, so I will need to see
Speaker 3: it for an extended period in the regular season for
Speaker 3: me to believe it.
Speaker 4: Next, Ethan Cross asked, do you think the Steelers are
Speaker 4: getting disrespectful by having the worst odds to win the
Speaker 4: AFC North.
Speaker 3: Well, I think they should have worse odds than Cincinnati
Speaker 3: or Baltimore. I don't think they should have worse odds
Speaker 3: than Cleveland. But it's not the Steelers who that is disrespecting.
Speaker 3: It's Kenny Pickett. That's just Vegas flat Lee and I
Speaker 3: guess the general public not believing in Kenny Pickett. It's
Speaker 3: as simple as that.
Speaker 4: Next phase ninety one said, Hey, Nick, Prague viewer getting
Speaker 4: married in about ten days and a response would be
Speaker 4: the best gift. If you weren't in the US, what
Speaker 4: culture slash reson region would you choose to immerse yourself
Speaker 4: in sports wise?
Speaker 3: Oh that's it. Oh listen, by the way, shout out
Speaker 3: to Prague, Shout out to the Czech Republic. I'm going
Speaker 3: throughout northern Europe next week, going to make it to
Speaker 3: the Czech Republic. I'm going first time in any of
Speaker 3: these places for me. I'm going to Amsterdam, Cologne, Germany, Brussels,
Speaker 3: and then Paris over the next ten days. After you
Speaker 3: know we leave tomorrow, me, my wife, and our August
Speaker 3: travel partners, which are her grandparents who are ninety three
Speaker 3: and ninety. Her granddad hosted the show with me one time,
Speaker 3: but my answer is, what what do you are? He did, Yeah,
Speaker 3: back when we were doing at home, back when the
Speaker 3: podcast was at home. Yeah, granddaddy did a segment with me.
Speaker 3: I think I have to watch the so but my
Speaker 3: answer to that is European football, European soccer, and the
Speaker 3: only place I've there are two places I've been that
Speaker 3: I think I could actually live full time, uh, outside
Speaker 3: of the US, and that's Barcelona and Rome. I and
Speaker 3: maybe just Barcelona, maybe Rome, but definitely Barcelona. And I
Speaker 3: could definitely get into Spanish football. Spanish soccer. I like
Speaker 3: it already, But I the I think the Caribbean is beautiful,
Speaker 3: but I couldn't live there is not It's just not
Speaker 3: enough to do and not enough food options. If I'm
Speaker 3: being totally honest, I think my favorite thing about living
Speaker 3: in New York City is the food. But I I
Speaker 3: I think I would just just dive headfirst into European
Speaker 3: soccer because it's so passionate and I've been to a
Speaker 3: game and it's so good. But I but I listen.
Speaker 3: I'm traveling to a whole areas of Europe that I've
Speaker 3: never been. I haven't traveled as much as I would
Speaker 3: like to have up to this point in my life.
Speaker 3: But I'm I'm trying to make up for it now.
Speaker 3: So that that's my answer. Phase and shout out people
Speaker 3: say Czech Republic is beautiful. All right, that's that'll. That'll
Speaker 3: do it for today's show. We are off next week.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna ask that last one. We're off next
Speaker 3: week and we the TV Show is off next week
Speaker 3: as well. TV show is also off tomorrow on the
Speaker 3: air today at three o'clock. Then the next time you
Speaker 3: guys will see me will be a week from Monday
Speaker 3: on First Things First. The next time you'll see Diora
Speaker 3: and I will be a week from Tuesday right here
Speaker 3: at Trentage for What's right, See you guys then,