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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one eighteen, What's Right with Nick Wright
Speaker 2: as we preview the Divisional round of the NFL Playoffs,
Speaker 2: the single best weekend on the entire sports calendar. This
Speaker 2: weekend will be no different. Four football games, six of
Speaker 2: the eight teams in the league are still standing, plus
Speaker 2: a surprising Giants team and a not so surprising Prince
Speaker 2: from Jacksonville. All of that is on the calendar. We're
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Speaker 2: But let's get right in first. We will discuss what
Speaker 2: we're not discussing on today's show. Oh Demant probably don't
Speaker 2: even know this. Nick Tennis Corner about to be back
Speaker 2: with a vengeance. The Australian Open, one of our four majors,
Speaker 2: is underway as we speak of. Nadal lost in round
Speaker 2: one while you were sleeping a few nights ago. Now,
Speaker 2: he did get hurt in the match, however, he was
Speaker 2: already down a set and a break when he got
Speaker 2: When he got hurt, he was being outplayed. Shout out
Speaker 2: to the unranked American that beat him. Djokovic was allowed
Speaker 2: to actually enter Australia for the first time post COVID
Speaker 2: after the vaccine controversy. He's winning. He's won Sean Payton
Speaker 2: interviews with Denver and Houston, and a foot archery record
Speaker 2: has been set in Australia. We're not going to discuss
Speaker 2: any of those things. And by the way, oh there's
Speaker 2: the video. By the way of the foot archery record,
Speaker 2: let me watch this. That is pretty impressive. This is
Speaker 2: why he should describe on YouTube that, oh wow, look
Speaker 2: at that bullseye. Nailed it. So you can see if
Speaker 2: you're listening, you missed video of a young lady standing
Speaker 2: on her head and hitting a bullseye a La Robin
Speaker 2: Hood from I don't know thirty meters out using only
Speaker 2: your feet but demon And also check out the chat
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Speaker 3: Chat.
Speaker 2: Dusty is live in the chat. All right, deman, say
Speaker 2: what are we starting with?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Man, tough game for you coming up. Chiefs won game
Speaker 4: from the Super Bowl the Prince to remain undefeated on Saturdays.
Speaker 4: Which one Take your pick. It must be hard for
Speaker 4: you being the number one Kansas City guy, but also
Speaker 4: being the number one Trevor Lawrence stand in the media.
Speaker 2: Is Stan or truth teller? Have I told a lie
Speaker 2: about Trevor Lawrence have been that's fine, but Stan, I
Speaker 2: feel like is a bridge too far, But go ahead.
Speaker 4: The question on everyone's mind is what is the best
Speaker 4: case scenario for Nick right.
Speaker 2: To just continue to be right about this as I've
Speaker 2: been all year long. Guys, all I did was when
Speaker 2: the Jags were foreign eight, or maybe they had won
Speaker 2: one game, maybe they were five and eight was I
Speaker 2: and the Titans at that point in time still looked
Speaker 2: really good. I had the courage to come on television,
Speaker 2: to come on this show and say the Jags were
Speaker 2: still making the playoffs and that they were not, and
Speaker 2: that they were not only making the playoffs, they were
Speaker 2: going to win a playoff game and they would not
Speaker 2: lose again until they played Kansas City in the divisional round.
Speaker 2: And I said that when they were like the eleven
Speaker 2: seed in the AFC, and yet they have not lost
Speaker 2: since then. They won the playoff game in stirring fashion,
Speaker 2: and now they will lose to Kansas City in the
Speaker 2: divisional round. It is worth noting Trevor's two I'd said
Speaker 2: this on television yesterday, I will reiterate it here today.
Speaker 2: Trevor's two best previous player comps are Andrew Luck and
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning. Andrew Luck, early in his career, I think
Speaker 2: it was year two, had a twenty eight point playoff comeback.
Speaker 2: That one was against my Chiefs, and then went to
Speaker 2: New England that at the time dynasty of the AFC
Speaker 2: and got his teeth kicked in. The very next year,
Speaker 2: played New England in the playoffs again and got his
Speaker 2: teeth kicked in. Peyton Manning. Now it took Peyton Manning
Speaker 2: six years to get his first playoff win, but after
Speaker 2: he did, he then went to New England and got
Speaker 2: his teeth kicked in the very next year he got
Speaker 2: beat by New England again before finally breaking through the
Speaker 2: following year. So Trevor Lawrence is already ahead of schedule.
Speaker 2: But now he hits his head on the ceiling of
Speaker 2: the AFC, that is the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3: So you're picking the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm picking the Chiefs. The Chiefs are. The
Speaker 2: Chiefs are so clearly the best team in the AFC.
Speaker 2: I can't say they are so clearly the best team
Speaker 2: in the NFL because San Francisco is a legitimate threat
Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball. But Kansas City had
Speaker 2: the best record, they have the best player, They have
Speaker 2: a top three defensive player in Chris Jones. They have
Speaker 2: one of the best weapons in the league in Travis Kelce. Quietly,
Speaker 2: that young defense second in the league in sacks for
Speaker 2: the season, not a small sample size this season, and
Speaker 2: they are healthiest they've been all year. So for all
Speaker 2: those reasons, I do not think the Jags are ready
Speaker 2: for this level. They were ready for the previous level.
Speaker 2: And so what is my best case scenario. My best
Speaker 2: case scenario is the Chiefs get up early, run away,
Speaker 2: and hide and it was a hell of a season
Speaker 2: for Trevor and the Jags.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just feel like there's a little bit more
Speaker 4: room because you love being right, but it's kind of
Speaker 4: kind of conflicted what you just said.
Speaker 3: I think you've got a lot more room to be
Speaker 3: right with Lawrence than you do with the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: And I feel like if they were to beat the Chiefs,
Speaker 4: you were just that much more right.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 2: But the thing is this, I'm already you right about
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence, when in a way no one else was.
Speaker 2: I picked the Jags before the year to make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: to go nine to eight, and I never abandoned it
Speaker 2: right and much to your guys chagrined you guys put
Speaker 2: gambling bands on me on the Jags. But I also,
Speaker 2: all year long was very consistent that the Chiefs have
Speaker 2: been wildly undervalued, and by the way, we continue to
Speaker 2: see it. But we saw this game earlier this year,
Speaker 2: and the Jags did a surprise on sidekick to start
Speaker 2: the game. They the Chiefs then turned the ball over
Speaker 2: three times, and the Chiefs still won comfortably. They were
Speaker 2: up twenty to nothing, they were up twenty seven to seven.
Speaker 2: In this game. There was no point where it looked
Speaker 2: like the Chiefs could lose, even though the Jags essentially
Speaker 2: got four extra possessions. The Jags defense was never able
Speaker 2: to stop Kansas City except when kan City was fumbling
Speaker 2: the football. So I have massive respect for what Doug
Speaker 2: Peterson's done. I obviously think Trevor Lawrence is not the
Speaker 2: next great quarterback in this league. He's already a great
Speaker 2: quarterback in this league. But this is where the run ends.
Speaker 3: So a couple questions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this's a little random, but if me and your
Speaker 4: Slovenian some to play one on one in basketball, who
Speaker 4: are you picking to win?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Does that have to do with anything?
Speaker 4: Okay, because it's like the Chiefs Jags to your two teams.
Speaker 2: Okay, well I would probably pick a guy who's top
Speaker 2: two player in the NBA over you, buddy.
Speaker 4: Okay, disrespectful okay, all right, and another one if the
Speaker 4: Prince somehow pulls this off.
Speaker 3: Are the trumpets? Coming back to? First things first?
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. Those those guys, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I'm supposed to say this or not, but I will.
Speaker 2: Those guys who come in now three times. They are
Speaker 2: from Juilliard, which is the world's most prestigious, prestigious performing
Speaker 2: arts institution for acting, music, all of it. We have
Speaker 2: to book them. The best part about those guys being
Speaker 2: there is we have had to book them days. We
Speaker 2: booked them the previous week. So that is how that
Speaker 2: is how convinced I've been at each turn that we
Speaker 2: are booking them a week before these games are played,
Speaker 2: and they are coming through for me. So am I
Speaker 2: booking them today to come back Monday? I am not. Okay,
Speaker 2: I tell you right, You know what I the I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna burn money, whether it's my money or fs
Speaker 2: one's money. When we know how this one's ending. So
Speaker 2: the trumpets. Now maybe here's the and here's the other thing.
Speaker 2: On this particular game, I've got my co hosts just
Speaker 2: so boxed in. What are they going? How could they
Speaker 2: possibly like try to have one over on me? No
Speaker 2: matter the result here, do you think they can come
Speaker 2: in Monday? If the Jags lose?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 2: Like, hah, Nick, the Chiefs are in their fifth straight
Speaker 2: AFC title game.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: And if the Chiefs lose, yeah, I'll be sad, but
Speaker 2: it's because Trevor was even better than I said. So
Speaker 2: it's a win window.
Speaker 3: If they end up winning, all do the emergency trumpet session?
Speaker 2: Oh you'll come in?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: No, PRIBLEM I appreciate that. All right?
Speaker 4: Next, all right, we could be in for a game
Speaker 4: to remember on Sunday between Dallas and San Francisco. Rock
Speaker 4: Party and Dak Prescott both silenced the Doubters in the
Speaker 4: wildcard round. Both teams have loaded rosters and have strong defenses.
Speaker 4: Are you worried another statement game from Dak could put
Speaker 4: your Super Bowl prediction into the ground?
Speaker 2: All right? So I have before the year on our
Speaker 2: gambling show, I gave out fifty to one documented Chiefs
Speaker 2: Niners Super Bowl right now, that bet would you'd get
Speaker 2: it at like seven to one, right, So if that
Speaker 2: in fact, I think worse, I think like five to
Speaker 2: one maybe. So it obviously was amazing value. I am
Speaker 2: not worried about this game. I think the Niners positional versatility,
Speaker 2: their ability to put out used check Simac Kittle, Ayuk
Speaker 2: and Debo on the field, and you don't know if
Speaker 2: they're gonna run. You don't know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 2: I think it is going to be such a more
Speaker 2: sophisticated offense than the one Tampa was running last week.
Speaker 2: By the way, what did Tampa think of their offense
Speaker 2: last week? Moments ago? They just fired Byron Leftwich. By
Speaker 2: the way, what a bad beat for Byron Leftwich. The
Speaker 2: guy was getting head coach interviews. They actually you know what,
Speaker 2: now I think about it. It was reported last year
Speaker 2: that because Byron Leftwich Demons back before you were a
Speaker 2: big football fan, was the Jaguars quarterback. And after they
Speaker 2: fired Urban Meyer, it was reported last year they wanted
Speaker 2: to hire Byron Leftwich and he turned the job down,
Speaker 2: reported because he didn't like to set up with the
Speaker 2: GM there. So he was going to get to coach
Speaker 2: Trevor he turned it down to go with Peterson. It
Speaker 2: works out great. Now he's fired, So that's a sidebar.
Speaker 2: But my point is that Bucks were running a caveman
Speaker 2: offense with no running game whatsoever. The Niners have one
Speaker 2: of the most versatile, devastating running games we've seen in
Speaker 2: modern NFL history, so I think it's gonna keep the
Speaker 2: Cowboys pass rush off balance. I also think the Niners
Speaker 2: defense is drastically better than the Bucks defense, and Dak's
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to wheel and deal quite the
Speaker 2: way he was on Monday Night. Also, and this is
Speaker 2: a if I were a Cowboys fan, I'd be really
Speaker 2: upset about this. The Niners played Saturday afternoon, the Cowboys
Speaker 2: played Monday night. So that is a two and a
Speaker 2: half day rest advantage going into the divisional round. It's
Speaker 2: a massive difference. Yeah, and so all of that screams Niners. Now.
Speaker 2: I want to say something else here. I am not
Speaker 2: convinced brock Purty is good. You don't like that take,
Speaker 2: but here's my very simple justification. I was never convinced
Speaker 2: Jimmy Garoppolo is good and Brock Purty is playing better
Speaker 2: than Jimmy G. But it is it is not so
Speaker 2: much worldly better for you to be to convince me
Speaker 2: that this isn't simply the system. Now, Purty is better
Speaker 2: downfield faster than Jimmy G. I'll give him that. But
Speaker 2: the fact that we have seen this offense work with
Speaker 2: Jimmy G to the tune of getting to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: getting to a conference championship game, and that they were
Speaker 2: able to do that with worse weapons than they currently
Speaker 2: have because they didn't have Christian McCaffrey, to me, speaks
Speaker 2: to the fact that this is a Kyle Shanahan situation.
Speaker 2: Now Party, is he better than a seventh round pick?
Speaker 2: Should be sure, But am I convinced that Brock Purty
Speaker 2: would be having any success that no matter what system
Speaker 2: he was an he would be having success.
Speaker 4: Absolutely rock Party was playing the forty nine ers, he'd
Speaker 4: be screwed.
Speaker 2: Oh I think he would be ruined. Yes, absolutely right,
Speaker 2: And so it almost you know, it is almost good
Speaker 2: for the NFL that the Niners don't have a great
Speaker 2: quarterback because they have the best defense in the league
Speaker 2: and the best weapons in the league and a good
Speaker 2: offensive line and a super savvy coach. Like the only
Speaker 2: reason to me there is real intrigue in this season
Speaker 2: is because, uh, it is because the the Niners have
Speaker 2: a question at quarterback. But I think Brock party and
Speaker 2: the Niners win. But I don't think it's because of
Speaker 2: Brock Purty all right.
Speaker 4: Next, the poll that people the fans with you, seventy
Speaker 4: five percent say or seventy seven percent say no, twenty
Speaker 4: three percent say yes.
Speaker 3: Thanks on Will Dallas upset?
Speaker 2: Yeh, San Francisco?
Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, but next, the Bengals haven't lost since Halloween,
Speaker 4: but are getting five points in Buffalo. Meanwhile, the Bills
Speaker 4: will have a huge home field advantage obviously, especially if
Speaker 4: Jamorrow Hamlin ends up coming back into the building. Will
Speaker 4: it be enough to overcome roller coaster Josh Allen's mistakes
Speaker 4: and Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I love Cincinnati getting points. I
Speaker 2: actually also liked them to win out right. I do
Speaker 2: think there will be massive emotion at the beginning of
Speaker 2: this game, and I expected Moore Hamlin to be there.
Speaker 2: With that said, there couldn't possibly be more emotion than
Speaker 2: there was in the Bills Patriots game when Naim Hines
Speaker 2: returned to the opening kick for a touchdown. Right, and
Speaker 2: yet the Bills found themselves trailing in that game, Naim
Speaker 2: Hines returned another kick for a touchdown and the Patrio
Speaker 2: were still right there. So I don't think you're gonna
Speaker 2: be able to purely ride the emotion. And if I
Speaker 2: am Buffalo, if I'm a Buffalo fan, I am incredibly
Speaker 2: concerned about how my secondary has looked. Now this is
Speaker 2: in part that is unfortunately and I'm only even comfortable
Speaker 2: saying this because Damar's you know, looks like he's going
Speaker 2: to be totally fine. They missed Damar Hamlin, he was
Speaker 2: already filling in for Micah Hyde. Then he obviously is
Speaker 2: lost for the year, and now they have a third
Speaker 2: string safety in there, and Jordan Poyer, their other Pro
Speaker 2: Bowl safety, is banged up, and they're not getting pressure
Speaker 2: on the quarterback as much anymore because they don't have
Speaker 2: von Miller. If if von Miller were healthy, the Bengals
Speaker 2: offensive line injuries no left tackle, no right tackle, no
Speaker 2: right guard, might be enough for von Miller to single
Speaker 2: handedly win him this game, the way he flipped the
Speaker 2: Chiefs game at the end earlier this season. But von
Speaker 2: Miller's been out and the defense hasn't been the same
Speaker 2: and Josh Allen can't help himself. Josh Allen could have
Speaker 2: had five turnovers in a game against Miami that all
Speaker 2: he had to do was take care of the ball
Speaker 2: and they couldn't lose. If Josh Allen simply is cautious
Speaker 2: with the football, they can't lose that game. Instead, he's
Speaker 2: throwing bomb after bomb after bomb. And I saw people
Speaker 2: when I criticized him for that on Monday, say, oh, well,
Speaker 2: if such and such catches this, and guys, fifty yard
Speaker 2: passes down the field are hard to throw and hard
Speaker 2: to catch. Those balls are dropped more often than nice, easy,
Speaker 2: safe eight to twelve yard passes. Now, obviously they have
Speaker 2: a much higher upside, but there is risk to go
Speaker 2: along with that reward risk that they're picked. But also
Speaker 2: you are asking your receiver in a dead sprint, often
Speaker 2: laying out hitting the turf, to control that ball. So
Speaker 2: I guys, dropping those is not shocking. That is not
Speaker 2: something that's like, oh, if we do it again, they
Speaker 2: want to. Of course they could have those drums. The
Speaker 2: reason those passes are so hard is you need two
Speaker 2: guys to do something great, the throw and the catch.
Speaker 2: And so I don't like the way Josh Allen has
Speaker 2: been playing. He has thirty two combined picks and fumbles
Speaker 2: on the year. Joe Burrow and the Bengals, by the way,
Speaker 2: should have lost this weekend, but they didn't, and both
Speaker 2: of these teams obviously could have lost. Neither did. The
Speaker 2: Bengals were going up against the best defense in the league.
Speaker 2: The Bills were going up against the team that had
Speaker 2: limped into the playoffs losing five of six ers on
Speaker 2: the third string quarterback, and a team whose offense had
Speaker 2: just scored nine points against the Jets. That game was
Speaker 2: it ended eleven to six because of a safety at
Speaker 2: the end and the Dolphin move to the football. So
Speaker 2: I like Cincinnati in this spot.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, here's a crazy stat.
Speaker 4: Yep, dak is somehow the oldest remaining quarterback in the
Speaker 4: playoffs at twenty nine years old. Mahomes and Allen are
Speaker 4: the only other quarterbacks left in the playoffs on their
Speaker 4: second contracts.
Speaker 3: Rogers, Russ Watson, and.
Speaker 4: Kyler we Top were the top four highest paid quarterbacks
Speaker 4: this year and they all missed the playoffs. That's not
Speaker 4: gonna stop teams from going all into bit on Lamar,
Speaker 4: Rogers and even Derek Carr. But do these playoffs prove
Speaker 4: it's better to throw darts in the draft than a
Speaker 4: dish out of fact contract for a veteran?
Speaker 2: Okay, no, the playoffs don't prove that. So and by
Speaker 2: the way, this is you said, Dak is the oldest
Speaker 2: of the remaining quarterbacks. Of all the quarterbacks that made
Speaker 2: the AFC playoffs, Mahomes was the oldest. And let's talk
Speaker 2: about that when we talk about throwing darts. So you
Speaker 2: have Joe Burrow number one overall pick, Trevor Lawrence number
Speaker 2: one overall pick, Josh Allen top ten pick, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: top ten pick, Justin Herbert top ten pick. So those
Speaker 2: aren't darts, and whom I and then Tua is the
Speaker 2: reason Miami was in the playoffs. He was a top
Speaker 2: ten pick. And then the reason the Ravens were in
Speaker 2: the playoffs was Lamar who was an of the first
Speaker 2: round pick, right, so to me, and why did the
Speaker 2: Ravens lose? In part because their quarterback couldn't get it done? Okay,
Speaker 2: So there's that now. The NFC, Kirk Cousins was a
Speaker 2: third round pick, Dak was a fourth round pick. Brock
Speaker 2: Purty was a seventh round pick. Daniel Jones was a
Speaker 2: top ten pick but hasn't worked out. Jalen Hurts was
Speaker 2: a second round pick. Here's what is true. If you
Speaker 2: can get a quarterback no matter where you draft him,
Speaker 2: that is good enough for you to compete immediately when
Speaker 2: he's a rookie, it is the fastest way to trying
Speaker 2: to build a contender. Because quarterbacks make forty million in
Speaker 2: your pay Guys on rookie deals almost nothing, and everybody
Speaker 2: knows that. It's also why for Cincinnati this is and
Speaker 2: I really like Joe Burrow, but when he said my
Speaker 2: super Bowl window is in my entire career, well yes
Speaker 2: and no, yes it is your entire career. To would agree,
Speaker 2: But this might be the most talented team he ever
Speaker 2: has because they're gonna have to pay him. They're gonna
Speaker 2: have to pay Jamar Chase. If you pay both of
Speaker 2: those guys, you can't pay T. Higgins as well. And
Speaker 2: if you do choose to pay T. Higgins as well,
Speaker 2: then you're not gonna be able to pay anybody. On defense.
Speaker 2: The fact that Higgins, Chase, and Joe are all on
Speaker 2: their rookie deals is such a huge edge and the
Speaker 2: Chiefs by the way, won their Super Bowl when Mahomes
Speaker 2: on his rookie deal. Now that Mahomes got paid, that's
Speaker 2: part of the reason you move on from Tyreek Hill now.
Speaker 2: So no, I think that as far as now, the
Speaker 2: worst thing you can do, to answer your question directly,
Speaker 2: is to pay a mid tier quarterback like he's a star.
Speaker 2: That is what has hurt Dallas. That is what has
Speaker 2: hurt the Vikings. That is what a lot of people
Speaker 2: felt hurt, the Raiders, hurt the Titans. Paying these guys
Speaker 2: that are just okay, twenty five to thirty five million bucks,
Speaker 2: in Dak's case, forty million bucks. You don't want to
Speaker 2: do that. So if the question is would I rather
Speaker 2: draft a guy or give Derek Carr forty million a year?
Speaker 2: Probably draft a guy unless I like the Jets might
Speaker 2: be an exception because they have had so such non
Speaker 2: existent success in drafting guys. They have the rest of
Speaker 2: the team already built. But yeah, I think that overpaying
Speaker 2: the mid tier quarterback is the quickest possible path to
Speaker 2: being okay but not a true contender. That I fully
Speaker 2: and totally agree with. All Right, keep your questions and
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right?
Speaker 2: Episode one eighteen. Let's get right to it. A little
Speaker 2: bit of hoops before we get back to football. And also,
Speaker 2: by the way, put your comments and questions in the chat.
Speaker 2: We'll get to those in the next segment. Monte go
Speaker 2: right ahead, all right.
Speaker 4: The Warriors traveled to Boston for the first time since
Speaker 4: the finals tonight.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: The Celtics at the top of the East, riding a
Speaker 4: seven game win streak. Those boys, well, Golden State has
Speaker 4: a five hundred and only won five ro games all year. Still,
Speaker 4: both teams are favorites to win their conferences. Yes, the
Speaker 4: Warriors started slow, obviously, but without stacked the East is
Speaker 4: do you have more faith in them to win their
Speaker 4: conference than Boston?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. The Warriors are broken. Here we go the now. Listen,
Speaker 2: my pick in the East before the year was Philly.
Speaker 2: Right now, I think the smartest bet it's probably Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: But that's just blind faith in Giannis and the blind
Speaker 2: faith Middleton will come back at some point and play,
Speaker 2: you know, look at all like Chris Middleton. There's a
Speaker 2: long time injury Longton. I mean he's played seven games year,
Speaker 2: but didn't look like himself. But I don't think the
Speaker 2: Warriors are good. The Warriors needed someone young to take
Speaker 2: a lead. Wiseman went in the wrong direction, kaminga state
Speaker 2: where he was at Moody maybe went in the wrong direction.
Speaker 2: And Pool has not improved one percent and every listen.
Speaker 2: The Lakers, for instance, had a terrible loss last night,
Speaker 2: another game where there's nothing like I think Lebron had
Speaker 2: thirty two, nine and eight and it just doesn't matter
Speaker 2: and they lose to the Kings. The Kings who, by
Speaker 2: the way, are good Kings are twenty five and eighteen,
Speaker 2: and dearon Fox, a guy you remember from Houston is unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: But the Warriors, so the Lakers think about how injury riddled,
Speaker 2: how bad, how up and not even up and down,
Speaker 2: mostly down the Lakers have been. The Warriors are two
Speaker 2: and a half games up on them in the standings.
Speaker 2: The Warriors this year are five and seventeen on the road,
Speaker 2: and Steph is back. And you simply cannot convince me
Speaker 2: that it is coincidental that the Warriors. All the vibes
Speaker 2: have been off ever since Draymond hit Jordan Poole right,
Speaker 2: And by the way, the aside from the plus side
Speaker 2: for the Warriors is there have been some moments where
Speaker 2: it looked like Clay was getting some of the old
Speaker 2: Clay stuff back. He's up to forty percent from three,
Speaker 2: savaging twenty a game. Those are all positive signs. But
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole, who can't defend, who is not a great passer,
Speaker 2: shooting thirty one percent from three is a disaster for them,
Speaker 2: And and Draymond just being, you know, an eight seven
Speaker 2: and seven guy. That's one thing. If you've got the
Speaker 2: league's best defense, because it's like, Okay, Draymond's the biggest
Speaker 2: reason for and the Warriors when they win titles. Last
Speaker 2: year included have been a top three defensive team the
Speaker 2: Warriors this year, where they are in defensive rating, I'm
Speaker 2: going to give it to you real quick. This season
Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors in defensive rating, I think they're fourteenth. No,
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, I overrated them. They're seventeen. So if you
Speaker 2: have a below average defense, what's Draymond doing for you?
Speaker 2: And so I don't look at the Wars. If I'm
Speaker 2: talking about the Western Conference right now, you've got to
Speaker 2: say Memphis, New Orleans, if Zion gets healthy, and Denver
Speaker 2: are all clearly better than the Warriors. I think Dallas
Speaker 2: could be because they would have the best player on
Speaker 2: the court, and I Sacramento I don't trust long term.
Speaker 2: And then the question is are the Lakers actually going
Speaker 2: to try to win and make a move or they
Speaker 2: find just squandering this year. I don't know, But the
Speaker 2: Warriors aren't in as much trouble as the Suns are,
Speaker 2: who are twenty one and twenty four, But they're in
Speaker 2: real trouble. To me, they are not a finals contender next.
Speaker 3: All right, so we're playing right ends.
Speaker 2: Oh so it's a game. Do we have props? Got
Speaker 2: you an marker and a whiteboard? I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so our first one we've got mondays seem like
Speaker 4: it could be the end for tom Brady, though we've
Speaker 4: been saying that for a decade. I'm sure the goat
Speaker 4: doesn't want to go out like that. It was a
Speaker 4: really bad game, but I bet he still has a
Speaker 4: Peyton Manning like run left in him. Before joining you
Speaker 4: at Fox Studios, what do you think tom Brady's next stop?
Speaker 2: Right before I answer this, did you remember the Erasers?
Speaker 2: If you did not, why don't I answer this while
Speaker 2: you hop up into some paper towers or something or else.
Speaker 2: We're not going to be able to erase these all right,
Speaker 2: So yeah, Demande already wrote his answer. He's going to
Speaker 2: go grab the Erasers. So I think that we're gonna
Speaker 2: power rank the possible Tom Brady destinations as the following.
Speaker 2: I think the most likely destination is New England. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: is Miami because of the concerns about to his health.
Speaker 2: Because Steven Ross, the owner there, is a big Michigan guy.
Speaker 2: Because they tried to get him previously. I think Miami
Speaker 2: is the most likely destination. I think the next most
Speaker 2: likely destination is the Raiders because Josh McDaniels is there
Speaker 2: and they scuttled Derek Carr for a reason. I think
Speaker 2: the next most likely destination is the Pats, and I
Speaker 2: think the I think the only other possible kind of
Speaker 2: sneaky destination possibility is Tennessee because vrabel is there. But
Speaker 2: my answer, I am going to say Tom Brady next
Speaker 2: year is in Miami. Demonsa, you say the Pats, noep,
Speaker 2: you think it's a little homecoming.
Speaker 3: I think he's going back to the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Brady just can't help himself, but try to following Lebron's footsteps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he goes to Florida, wins a title or two,
Speaker 2: then goes back to the team, and then he tries
Speaker 2: to end in California. Also, by the way, we have
Speaker 2: a little additional in case people missed the news earlier.
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay offensive coordinator Byron left, which was fired this morning.
Speaker 2: Apparently when they win, it's all Tom, and when they lose,
Speaker 2: it's all Byron.
Speaker 3: Fuck.
Speaker 2: Oh go ahead, no, go ahead, ask the question.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, do you think he gets head coach? Look,
Speaker 4: do you think he gets any head head coaching looks
Speaker 4: this offseason?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I think that we're not particularly fair to black coaches
Speaker 2: in this league. He wasn't getting a real aside from
Speaker 2: the jack job. He didn't have any great opportunities and
Speaker 2: head coaching looks when people liked him. Now he just
Speaker 2: got fired. So no. Also, though, Gabe put this in
Speaker 2: just because he wants to take a shot at Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: So this is where I remind Gabe, Gabe, Today's the
Speaker 2: twenty one year anniversary of the tuck rule when the
Speaker 2: whole thing started. Today is the twenty one year anniversary.
Speaker 2: That's been twenty one years of this guy but deviling
Speaker 2: our producer, David.
Speaker 4: But go ahead, another shot at Tom Brady. I just
Speaker 4: noticed how I think people say that NFL teams have
Speaker 4: the tendency to follow the same characteristics as their quarterback.
Speaker 3: And I heard an announcer.
Speaker 4: Saying on the TV that the Tampa Bay offense and
Speaker 4: defense just looked old and sluggish, and I think that
Speaker 4: was like a direct correlation.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I mean, he did look old. Brady can't move
Speaker 2: anymore except for when he's trying to you know, slide tackle.
Speaker 2: The opposite had been a great public that would have
Speaker 2: been a good public defender. That was a dirty play,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 4: Next, the Eagles are coming off the buy in our
Speaker 4: favorite to beat the Giants for the third time this year,
Speaker 4: but there's still major questions surrounding Jalen Hurts and his
Speaker 4: shoulder injury.
Speaker 3: Reports are he won't be one hundred percent on Sunday.
Speaker 4: To win, the Eagles need Jalen Hurts at So here's
Speaker 4: the thing.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be one hundred. But
Speaker 2: I also think that there is a path for the
Speaker 2: Eagles to win where they do nothing on offense, because
Speaker 2: I think that I'm not I'm this is not what
Speaker 2: I'm saying is my prediction, but I'm saying I think
Speaker 2: there is a path where let's see where they where
Speaker 2: they win based purely on what that defensive line can
Speaker 2: do to Right now, Daniel Jones, who I think right
Speaker 2: now is getting a little too much hype, and so
Speaker 2: I I if Jalen Hurts is one hundred percent, yeah
Speaker 2: they they or even ninety percent that should guarantee a win.
Speaker 2: But I think even fifty percent they theoretically could win
Speaker 2: if the defensive line just gets to Daniel Jones the
Speaker 2: way I think it will, demands put up eighty three percent.
Speaker 2: I if you guys saw me do this thing, I
Speaker 2: was trying to see what it looked like. I drew
Speaker 2: the struggle emoji guy, all right, but I don't know
Speaker 2: how many percent he has to be. So that's what
Speaker 2: I tried to draw it, you know.
Speaker 4: The Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what percent he has to be because
Speaker 2: I think this might be more about what the Eagles
Speaker 2: defense can do to the Giants offense. Next Picasso and
Speaker 2: thanks all right.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Eagles Giants, I've rallied the demand stands and
Speaker 4: reorganized them into Danny Dives fans.
Speaker 3: I think he has what it takes this week.
Speaker 4: And I say that honestly speaking after facing Phillis defense.
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones stock will go.
Speaker 2: That one's very easy and my drawings even easier. Uh listen,
Speaker 2: I think that. So you've got Demonse's got an arrow
Speaker 2: pointing up, I've got an arrow pointing down.
Speaker 4: Daniel Jones didn't care about that pass rush Man when
Speaker 4: he could run.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I think this is a game where
Speaker 2: the way you beat Philly is get them vertical. The
Speaker 2: Giants don't have the receiver threats to do that. They
Speaker 2: Eagles are gonna be have a spy on Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a really, really tough game
Speaker 2: for him. If the Eagles are gonna win, they're gonna
Speaker 2: have the force turnovers. The defense is gonna have to
Speaker 2: be excellent. Saquon's gonna have to be excellent. I don't
Speaker 2: think Daniel Jones has a big game. I think the
Speaker 2: Eagles are gonna press those receivers and take away those
Speaker 2: dinks and dunks that he's lived on all year. So
Speaker 2: I think the stock goes down next.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers told Pat mccaffee then McAfee, McAfee sorry that.
Speaker 3: He still thinks he can win MVP in the right situation.
Speaker 4: Seems like he found some new confidence obviously, maybe some
Speaker 4: old ayahuasca lying around.
Speaker 3: The only way Aaron Rodgers can win MVP is what
Speaker 3: a weird thing? Though?
Speaker 2: What's a weird thing?
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess I don't play football, but was
Speaker 4: he chasing an MVP? Well, he's freaking a Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's a weird thing. And Gronk kind
Speaker 2: of took a shot at him for that exact point.
Speaker 2: I think his point was I won the MVP last year,
Speaker 2: I could win it again. But the only way Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers can win MVP is hallucination. Listen, when it goes,
Speaker 2: for guys, it goes. We have seen it. Drew Brees
Speaker 2: went from almost winning an MVP to out of the
Speaker 2: league in two years. Peyton Manning went from fifty five
Speaker 2: touchdowns to out of the league in two years. Tom
Speaker 2: Brady led the league in multiple major passing categories a
Speaker 2: year ago. He's going to be out of the league
Speaker 2: in two years. Rogers was not good this year, and
Speaker 2: because he makes fifty million, it's not like he's gonna
Speaker 2: be able to go to some stacked team. So he's
Speaker 2: done winning MVPs in this league.
Speaker 4: Flatley next, All right, you have to feel bad for
Speaker 4: Brett Meyer for missing his first four extra extra point
Speaker 4: attempts Monday night. Then again, he's a pro athlete paid
Speaker 4: to make kicks. Extra points can be that hard, right,
Speaker 4: or can't be that hard, right? So if I take
Speaker 4: five extra point kicks, how many would I hit?
Speaker 2: All Right, I want you to answer this honestly. I
Speaker 2: want you to answer it honestly, and I'm very curious
Speaker 2: what you're gonna say. Let me see what your number is.
Speaker 2: You put two, all right, that's fair point.
Speaker 3: It's not a whole.
Speaker 2: It's not a fifty yard I put one. So here's
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you and I were on the same baitch here.
Speaker 2: Demanse is a good enough natural athlete that I think
Speaker 2: that so an extra point. By the way, it's not
Speaker 2: college to where you're kicking from the nine.
Speaker 4: It's like the twenty five, right, well, you're kicking from
Speaker 4: the twenty two two.
Speaker 2: So yeah, because they sent from the fifteen, it's like
Speaker 2: a thirty two to thirty three yard field goal. I
Speaker 2: think Demanse, once he shanked the first one the second one,
Speaker 2: once you get a feel for it, I think you
Speaker 2: could make one.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I absolutely think you could make one. We we had
Speaker 2: a family dinner like four months ago down the street
Speaker 2: from here, actually, and and I know people don't necessarily
Speaker 2: believe this, and I was not near the athlete Demonse was,
Speaker 2: but I was, I would say I was. How do
Speaker 2: I put it? So? I was terrible with what I
Speaker 2: would call the hand eye coordination element of sports. So
Speaker 2: I couldn't hit a baseball. I was a bad tennis player.
Speaker 2: I kind of had a funky jump shot those things.
Speaker 2: But I was very very good at track. I could
Speaker 2: jump really high. In high school, I never in a game,
Speaker 2: but I dunked a basketball. I'm barely over six feet
Speaker 2: and I still not the last few months. But ride
Speaker 2: the peloton and finish in the top zero point one
Speaker 2: percent of basically every class. Orlovski and who's the other guy?
Speaker 2: And Orlovsky and Booger McFarland always post their peloton scores,
Speaker 2: and I crushed those guys. Crush them. So I foolishly thought,
Speaker 2: because of my youth, not my current youth, but because
Speaker 2: of my ability to run and jump as a youth,
Speaker 2: and because I'm still good at the peloton, that I
Speaker 2: could compete with Demanse in a race. So we did,
Speaker 2: me versus the three kids in a race down the street,
Speaker 2: and Demanse was wearing flip slides, and I got an
Speaker 2: unintentional bit of a head start and it was what
Speaker 2: I would call probably a one hundred yard dash made,
Speaker 2: and within four steps Demonse was fifteen meters ahead of me,
Speaker 2: and I mean was running backwards.
Speaker 4: At the end, and I mean it's in the legs, man.
Speaker 2: I mean it was. First of all, the strides were
Speaker 2: unbelievably long. Second of all, I mean it was just
Speaker 2: nothing I could have done. Nothing I could have done.
Speaker 2: So I do think you could. You're fast, and you're tall,
Speaker 2: and you're strong. So I do think you could kick
Speaker 2: a field goal. I don't think I think it would
Speaker 2: have to be on a practice field by yourself.
Speaker 3: Oh you don't think I can did a field goal
Speaker 3: in the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a little bit of a different situation.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, fair enough, All right, Well I answer
Speaker 2: your listener questions and viewer questions. Next What's Right? Welcome
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Speaker 2: Please subscribe, rate, review, do all those things. We're trying
Speaker 2: to get to one hundred thousand subscribers. Dusty, if you're watching, man,
Speaker 2: just text me your question. I feel bad. I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the question. Oh wait, we've got one on from him. Okay, good, Okay,
Speaker 2: we got a Dusty question in there. I'll do that
Speaker 2: one first, all right, go ahead and do it first.
Speaker 4: All right, Dusty said, we need to get demonte watching
Speaker 4: the all twenty two.
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones stinks.
Speaker 2: So the All twenty two is the film Teams and
Speaker 2: Scouts US where instead of the game broadcast, they call
Speaker 2: it all twenty two because you see all twenty two players.
Speaker 2: It's like the end zone and the sideline view where
Speaker 2: you can see what everyone does on every play, so
Speaker 2: you can see you, did he miss an open guy?
Speaker 2: Was this how you can actually break down film?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So his point is when you watch it from that perspective,
Speaker 2: you realize Daniel Jones is not very good. Listen, Daniel
Speaker 2: Jones average two hundred yards per game this season, fewer
Speaker 2: than one touchdown pass per game. He had two games
Speaker 2: this year where he had more than two hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty yards passing, and in both those games he threw interceptions.
Speaker 2: If you the moment you take the handcuffs on him,
Speaker 2: he'll turn the ball over again. Dable's done a great job.
Speaker 2: He is not a great quarterback. We were talking earlier
Speaker 2: about the worst thing you can do with a quarterback,
Speaker 2: and I said, over, hey, the mid tier guys, that's
Speaker 2: what's about to happen Daniel Jones, because he's a free agent.
Speaker 2: If the Giants they should probably just franchise tag him,
Speaker 2: but if they sign him, they're gonna regret it.
Speaker 3: Next dare you Dusty? All right?
Speaker 4: Jonathan asked, I Djokovic wins the Calendar Grand Slam, will
Speaker 4: he become the goat of tennis.
Speaker 2: For a lot of people? Yes?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: For me? I listen, I flatly believe that Federer played
Speaker 2: at the highest level anyone has ever played at, and
Speaker 2: I think Nadal has the best resume. So I have
Speaker 2: Djokovic in third. Now. If he goes through the Grand
Speaker 2: Slam this year, will I have to reevaluate? Probably, But
Speaker 2: with Na Doll battling injuries and Federer done, it's I
Speaker 2: don't want to say it, won't be as impressed, still
Speaker 2: be very impressed. Still got to go through Kurios I
Speaker 2: understand all that, and I'm probably being biased here, but
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's ever played at a higher level
Speaker 2: than Federer at his best, and I think the Doll's
Speaker 2: resume right now looks pretty unimpeachable. But if Djokovic wins
Speaker 2: the next four, I guess I'll have to adjust.
Speaker 3: That next, Okay.
Speaker 4: Joey Demonte asked would mahomes on the forty nine ers
Speaker 4: be the best team ever, Yes, easily, Yeah, yeah, easy, yeaheah.
Speaker 2: I mean, here's the thing. Mahomes has never had a
Speaker 2: great defense, so he's never even had, statistics speaking, a
Speaker 2: very good defense. I would and the Chiefs are trying
Speaker 2: to fix that. That's why they traded Tyreek and drafted
Speaker 2: all those young guys. I would love for there to
Speaker 2: be a moment in Mahomes' career where he gets what
Speaker 2: Brady got, which is get to eighteen points and we win,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, and so that, but I
Speaker 2: just don't think, I mean, on the Niners with those
Speaker 2: he has had weapons similar what the Niners have, but
Speaker 2: he's never had a running game or a defense at
Speaker 2: all like what the Niners have. All right, next, all right, Jake, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Jake Archer. Oh did you did?
Speaker 3: You said the Chiefs had the second most sacks this year? Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're just talking about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did have the second most sacks, but that
Speaker 2: but their defense does not rank in the top ten
Speaker 2: as far as points per game, yards per game. They
Speaker 2: have been able to get after the quarterback, but they
Speaker 2: have not been any great defense.
Speaker 3: The no, of.
Speaker 2: Course, but the so here's the thing. They have actually
Speaker 2: had a really good pass rush, but their overall pass
Speaker 2: defense has been well below average. If the quarterback gets
Speaker 2: the ball out, we haven't been able to cover people
Speaker 2: they the and as far as points per game allowed,
Speaker 2: all of that stuff, they've been right below league average.
Speaker 2: It's still it's just what It's just what's been the case,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 4: Next, uh, Jake Arsher asked, who's your ideal fit to
Speaker 4: pair with Luca no restrictions.
Speaker 2: No restrictions. AD A D is the answer. But because
Speaker 2: of the injury factor with AD, like long term, a
Speaker 2: guy like Evan Mobley would be amazing. Embiid Actually embiids
Speaker 2: my answer, EMBEI, it is my answer. You want a
Speaker 2: great defensive big who can also score but doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: need the ball a ton and so AD is perfect,
Speaker 2: which is why he was perfect with Lebron, because Luke
Speaker 2: and Lebron are very similar. But AD's injuries at this
Speaker 2: point you just got to say, you've got to bank
Speaker 2: on them happening, all right.
Speaker 4: Last one, Jose ap as, who's the best fit, Joe
Speaker 4: Burrow or yourself?
Speaker 3: Who has the best fits.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Joe Burrow because he can pull off
Speaker 2: so many things that I can't because he is just
Speaker 2: naturally I mean, that's harsh, but I mean he's fifteen
Speaker 2: years younger than me, right, He's a true celebrity. He
Speaker 2: just carries himself like such a cool guy. I can
Speaker 2: pull a lot of stuff out off when I'm out
Speaker 2: with your mom because I kind of like coast off
Speaker 2: her coolness. But when I'm just by myself, the only
Speaker 2: reason I can get away with wearing some of the
Speaker 2: stuff I wear is because I have sent my notoriety.
Speaker 2: I couldn't wear dress how I dress. If I was
Speaker 2: just like a mid level lawyer, he'd be like, what
Speaker 2: is wrong with this guy? But no, the answer is
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. All right, really good show, fun show. Everybody,
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