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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one sixty seven, What's right with Nick Wright?
Speaker 2: I am flying solo today and next week Do your
Speaker 2: Will also be out, but my wife will be in
Speaker 2: for her next week. Do your Will then be back
Speaker 2: in a week and a half. But today it is
Speaker 2: just me and we have some breaking news via a
Speaker 2: flame throwing interview from Sean Payton to get to Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers taking a pay cut. All of that, plus we
Speaker 2: have talked you about Jalen Brown and Justin Herbert's big
Speaker 2: new money extensions. But first, what we're not getting into
Speaker 2: NFL preseason amazingly just one week away last night, the
Speaker 2: US women's national team got a hard fought draw with
Speaker 2: the Netherlands. Not ideal, and I lose my wager that
Speaker 2: I got really good odds. But I bet the US
Speaker 2: women's national team to run the table to go undefeated
Speaker 2: in the tournament. Obviously, to win the tournament they have
Speaker 2: to go undefeat in the knockout stage, but it also
Speaker 2: meant they had to go three to zero in the
Speaker 2: group stage. They will not with the tie against Netherlands,
Speaker 2: but they should be fine. And Burrow confident that Cincinnati
Speaker 2: keeps everyone. They won't t Higgins. This will be his
Speaker 2: last year on the team, but hey, you go win
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl this year and your fun and it's
Speaker 2: worth it. You don't win the Super Bowl this year,
Speaker 2: you're gonna wish you had traded them for a first
Speaker 2: round pick, as you could of this offseason. But the
Speaker 2: latest news in the NFL is the are we you
Speaker 2: know what? I screwed this up? Possibly? I thought we
Speaker 2: were gonna start with the Aaron Rodgers news. We will
Speaker 2: get to the Aaron Rodgers news in just a moment.
Speaker 2: We will start with the Justin Herbert news. My apologies
Speaker 2: there on the Aaron Rodgers thing. I teased it, and
Speaker 2: we're not starting with it, but we will get to it.
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert is the new highest paid player in the
Speaker 2: NFL five years, two hundred and sixty two point five
Speaker 2: million dollars. And there is some pushback because he is
Speaker 2: getting this money before having ever won a playoff game,
Speaker 2: and I understand that, but they also had to pay him.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. All of the other quarterbacks who
Speaker 2: have gotten huge money deals right after the rookie deal
Speaker 2: under the new Twist salary structure, all of those guys
Speaker 2: had won a playoff game except for Kyler, and I
Speaker 2: think they're gonna regret that and Carson Wentz. But Wentz
Speaker 2: was in a unique spot because he had played well
Speaker 2: enough to where his team was positioned for the number
Speaker 2: one seed. They then ended up winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: He obviously wasn't playing because he was hurt. But Wentz
Speaker 2: also that deal didn't work out. But Deshaun Lamar held,
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones obviously, Mahomes, Jared Goff had been to a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Go up and down the list. Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: had been to a Super Bowl. He hasn't gotten his
Speaker 2: money yet, but he's about to to a not won
Speaker 2: a playoff game, he didn't get the big money deal. Now,
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert is an objectively excellent player, but there is
Speaker 2: still the yeah but of We've seen him play in
Speaker 2: one playoff game and one de facto playoff game, and
Speaker 2: he wasn't great in either spot. The playoff game, when
Speaker 2: the Chargers had a chance to win the game outright,
Speaker 2: essentially to go up by five scores at the end
Speaker 2: of the first half against the Jags, he missed a
Speaker 2: couple of big throws. He then wasn't great in the
Speaker 2: second half and they blow a twenty seven point lead.
Speaker 2: The de facto playoff game was Week eighteen of the
Speaker 2: year before, and that was when they were playing the
Speaker 2: Raiders and the famous if there's a tie, they both
Speaker 2: go to the playoffs. Now, if you watched that game,
Speaker 2: the last half of the fourth quarter he played perfect football,
Speaker 2: but the time leading up to that he struggled mightily,
Speaker 2: which is why they needed him to played great in
Speaker 2: the latter half of the fourth quarter. Then they end
Speaker 2: up losing in overtime. This is a deal the Chargers
Speaker 2: had to do. It's undeniable. But now Justin Herbert, who
Speaker 2: was so great as a rookie and really sensational in
Speaker 2: year two two, and then last year took a bit
Speaker 2: of a step back. You can say it was the
Speaker 2: injuries on the team. You can say it was the
Speaker 2: cracked ribs. Whatever it was, took a bit of a
Speaker 2: step back. It's now not about the cannon of an
Speaker 2: arm or the raw arm talent or any of that.
Speaker 2: It is more about the actual are you going to
Speaker 2: take the next step? Because in the AFC you have
Speaker 2: these eight quarterbacks that are all vying for the argument
Speaker 2: of where am I in the hierarchy? So you have
Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna listen him in order, I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna go off the top of my head by divisions.
Speaker 2: You have Allen, Rogers and Tua. In the AFC East,
Speaker 2: you have Burrow and Lamar, and some people would throw
Speaker 2: into Shaun Watson. I wouldn't. But in the AFC North
Speaker 2: you Trevor Lawrence in the AFC South, and then you
Speaker 2: obviously have Mahomes and Herbert in the AFC West, and
Speaker 2: again some would throw in Russell Wilson. I won't. That's
Speaker 2: eight guys, all of which, at various times of their
Speaker 2: career have looked like great quarterbacks for Tua. It's the
Speaker 2: smallest sample, but he was playing so great earlier last
Speaker 2: year before the injuries. You're in a weird spot in
Speaker 2: the AFC right now where you can be a really
Speaker 2: good quarterback and average in your conference. So they need
Speaker 2: Herbert undeniably to take that next step forward. Maybe Kellen Moore.
Speaker 2: He will do it with Kellen Moore. But this is
Speaker 2: a massive year for him because after this year, when
Speaker 2: this contract really starts to kick in, it gets so
Speaker 2: much harder for them to build a winner, and you're
Speaker 2: not going to be able to have Mac and Bosa.
Speaker 2: They just drafted Quentin Johnson number one with their number
Speaker 2: one pick, which I love that pick for them, but
Speaker 2: you're not gonna have Mike Williams and Keenan Allen and
Speaker 2: him long term. So you probably have as much talent
Speaker 2: around you as you ever will right now if you're
Speaker 2: the Chargers. So it's a big spot and they're now
Speaker 2: paying him like he is a top five quarterback in football.
Speaker 2: He obviously has top five quarterback talent, he has not
Speaker 2: quite delivered top five quarterback results. We'll see if he
Speaker 2: does all right next. Sean Payton talked to USA today
Speaker 2: and absolutely torched, I mean torched the previous regime in Denver.
Speaker 2: He said, quote, it might have been one of the
Speaker 2: worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. I'll
Speaker 2: read you the full quote. Everybody's got a little stink
Speaker 2: on their hands. It's not just Russell, who was a
Speaker 2: poor offensive line might have been one of the worst
Speaker 2: coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. That's how
Speaker 2: bad it was. He also took a shot at the Jets.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read you that quote from the article, where
Speaker 2: the full quote is. It doesn't happen often where an
Speaker 2: NFL team or organization gets embarrassed. That happened here. Part
Speaker 2: of it was their own fault relative to spending so
Speaker 2: much time trying to win the offseason, the pr pomp, circumstance,
Speaker 2: marching people around and all this stuff. We're not doing
Speaker 2: any of that. The Jets did that this year. You
Speaker 2: watch hard Knocks, all of it. I can see it coming.
Speaker 2: And so he's taken a preemptive shot at the Jets.
Speaker 2: He took a retroactive shot at Nat Hackett and the
Speaker 2: entire Broncos coaching staff, all in service of maybe partially
Speaker 2: his ego, but also in Russell Wilson defense. Guys, I
Speaker 2: watched every single snap Russell Wilson played last year. I
Speaker 2: also watched him his last year in Seattle. This was
Speaker 2: before he got in the NAT hacket business. This was
Speaker 2: a clearly declining player and last year. There's a great
Speaker 2: tweet from Warren Sharp today that I don't know if
Speaker 2: Warren was defending Russ, but Warren puts up the video
Speaker 2: of how embarrassing it was when the Broncos fans were
Speaker 2: counting down the play clock for the Broncos so they
Speaker 2: would stop getting delay of game penalties. And it's a
Speaker 2: three play cut and this we're I'm actually gonna do
Speaker 2: something with this on the TV show today to show
Speaker 2: it to you. But I'll just walk you through it,
Speaker 2: you know, through my words. Here it's a three play
Speaker 2: cut of the play clock winding down and you hear
Speaker 2: the fans in Denver going three two one so they
Speaker 2: don't get a delay of game. And it does show
Speaker 2: what a mess the process and the coaching was there.
Speaker 2: But what if you watch the full forty five second cut,
Speaker 2: it doesn't end right when the ball is snapped. They
Speaker 2: show the three plays and they are three cartoonishly awful
Speaker 2: plays by Russell Wilson after the ball is snapped, And
Speaker 2: so Sean Payton in this article also says. The article
Speaker 2: starts with quote, I'm gonna be pissed off if it
Speaker 2: is not a playoff team. We'll be ready to be
Speaker 2: pissed off, Sean. And the fact of the matter is,
Speaker 2: I just listed, when talking about Justin Herbert, eight AFC
Speaker 2: quarterbacks didn't even I didn't even consider including Russell Wilson
Speaker 2: in that group. Nine and ten would probably be DeShawn
Speaker 2: And you would hope Russell Wilson last year he was
Speaker 2: not one of the top twenty five quarterbacks in football.
Speaker 2: Will he bounce back a little? Sure? Will he bounce
Speaker 2: back enough that they are going to be able to
Speaker 2: overcome the fact that his five year, two hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five million dollar contract does not even start until
Speaker 2: next season. No, they will not. And Sean Payton, the
Speaker 2: level of cock sureness that he is displaying here I
Speaker 2: think could bite him in a real way. Again, I
Speaker 2: think he's a very good coach. I also think, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm seemingly the only person that remembers this or cares
Speaker 2: about this, But Michael Thomas, remember when Michael Thomas was,
Speaker 2: you know, one of the best players in the league,
Speaker 2: set the record for receptions in a season. All of that,
Speaker 2: and then week one of the following season, the the
Speaker 2: Saints were playing the Bucks and blowing them out, and
Speaker 2: Sean Payton wanted to run up the score and with
Speaker 2: like a minute and a half left near the goal line,
Speaker 2: had Michael Thomas in the game and he got rolled
Speaker 2: up on and suffered a high ankle sprain that three
Speaker 2: years later he has not recovered from. That was Sean
Speaker 2: Payton's ego getting a little bit of the best of him,
Speaker 2: and this interview I do not think is gonna do
Speaker 2: himself any favors. And you never a head coach, certainly
Speaker 2: an active usually even a retired head coach take shots
Speaker 2: at another coach this way. So I'm sure the Jets
Speaker 2: they have set themselves up where the opening month of
Speaker 2: the season for Denver's nice Vegas, Washington, Miami's tough than Chicago.
Speaker 2: But now all of a sudden with them taking preemptive
Speaker 2: shots at the Jets, when their next six games are
Speaker 2: the Jets, the Chiefs, the Packers, the Chiefs again, Buffalo
Speaker 2: Minnesota season could go off the rails on them in
Speaker 2: a real quick hurry before we get to November. And
Speaker 2: so I'm not a believer in the Broncos. I wasn't
Speaker 2: a believer in Nat Hackett. I was adamant about that
Speaker 2: all year last year. But he was not the only problem.
Speaker 2: All right, Next, so the Celtics have signed Jalen Brown
Speaker 2: to the biggest contract in NBA history. Our resident Celtics
Speaker 2: fan Demonse sends in a question from Los Angeles, Demonse,
Speaker 2: go right ahead, what's up? What's right? Crew, listeners?
Speaker 3: I saw that a couple of Boston Celtics fans did
Speaker 3: not agree with my take on putting a left handed
Speaker 3: turnover clause in Jalen Brown's new contract. I'm here to
Speaker 3: tell you that I one hundred percent stand on that.
Speaker 2: I still think that they should.
Speaker 3: Obviously, something isn't working with this Jason Tatum and Jalen
Speaker 3: Brown duo. We keep making it so far just to
Speaker 3: squander it. It hurts me. It's annoying. I'd rather us
Speaker 3: just be bad and know that we're bad and nothing's
Speaker 3: to come of it. Then to have these players and
Speaker 3: we have all the necessary tools to make it to
Speaker 3: the finals and win a finals. But we just aren't
Speaker 3: doing it, so I think that something needs to be
Speaker 3: switched up. My question for my dad and the listeners,
Speaker 3: do you think that we took a step forward with
Speaker 3: this Jalen Brown thing or a step backwards? In my opinion,
Speaker 3: this is a huge step backwards. But let me know
Speaker 3: what you guys think.
Speaker 2: Be so all right. Thank you to Monse, appreciate the question.
Speaker 2: Can't wait till you rejoin us on the pod here
Speaker 2: at the end of August beginning of September. I I
Speaker 2: disagree with the Monse, but he's not entirely wrong. Here's
Speaker 2: where I disagree. You had to sign him to this deal.
Speaker 2: You can't let him become a free agent a year
Speaker 2: from now and walk for nothing. He is one of
Speaker 2: the twenty five best players in the sport. Now. Is
Speaker 2: it an overpay? It is, but it's what it costs
Speaker 2: to keep him, so you have to sign him to
Speaker 2: the deal. Do I think the Celtics are gonna win
Speaker 2: the title this year? I don't. I don't think Kris
Speaker 2: STAPs is enough of a difference maker. And you don't
Speaker 2: know if Kristap's gonna stay healthy. And when they don't,
Speaker 2: now they're the Vegas favorites to win the time. I
Speaker 2: think that's crazy, but they are the Vegas favorites to
Speaker 2: win the title. But when they don't win the title,
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Jalen Brown's gonna show up
Speaker 2: in trade rumors again. That's just what's gonna happen. He
Speaker 2: can't be traded now for twelve months, but if they
Speaker 2: don't win the title, to show up in trade rumors again.
Speaker 2: The thing is this, Jalen Brown is good enough to
Speaker 2: be the second best player on a champion. Jalen Brown
Speaker 2: is also not like Jason the problem for the Celtics.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I'm clear with my words here.
Speaker 2: Tatum is better than Brown. That's undeniable. Brown is good
Speaker 2: enough to be the second best player on a champion.
Speaker 2: Tatum is not good enough to be the best player
Speaker 2: on a champion. Nick, that's unfair. No, it's not best
Speaker 2: players on champions again. Guys, since nineteen teen eighty are
Speaker 2: the following Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Larry Bird, Moses Malone with
Speaker 2: Doctor J. But Moses was the best player at that point,
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson, Isaiah Thomas, Michael Jordan. I'm not listing every
Speaker 2: champion some of those guys, I am listing every champion,
Speaker 2: but the repeats were only listening him once a. Keem olajuwon,
Speaker 2: Tim Duncan, Shaquille O'Neal, put Chauncey billups over here in
Speaker 2: this category, Dwayne Wade with Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin Garnett with
Speaker 2: Paul Pearson Ray Allen but kind of put him over
Speaker 2: here in this category. Kobe Bryant, Dirk Novitzky Lebron James,
Speaker 2: Steph Curry, Kawhi, Leonard Yannis Jokic. So all of those
Speaker 2: guys that I listed are top twenty all time guys
Speaker 2: except for Chauncey who is the strong outlier, Kevin Garnett,
Speaker 2: who is right on the fringe but had Pierce and
Speaker 2: ray Allen with him. You had three top seventy five
Speaker 2: all time guys in their prime, and then Kawhi, who
Speaker 2: was pacing towards being an all timer and injuries derailed it.
Speaker 2: In this league if you and Jokic has become an
Speaker 2: old timer. If you don't have a legend, you don't
Speaker 2: win the title. And Tatum's awesome, but he's not a legend,
Speaker 2: and I don't think he's going to be. Now, you'd
Speaker 2: be like Nick, you didn't think Jokic was gonna be
Speaker 2: that's true, so maybe you'll take a giant leap. But
Speaker 2: I don't see that happening. So the Celtics, they're in
Speaker 2: a weird spot because Brown is the movable piece and
Speaker 2: you wouldn't trade Tatum. But if Tatum's your best player,
Speaker 2: probably not winning the championship, just not. And so listen,
Speaker 2: they're the Vegas favorites. I could be wrong. I do
Speaker 2: think that they waited to sign Jalen because they don't
Speaker 2: love They don't think the Tatum Brown fit is perfect.
Speaker 2: But you gotta you can't let him walk for nothing.
Speaker 2: And he will be a movable piece even if he is,
Speaker 2: you know, will be upset that for the seventh time
Speaker 2: in eight or for the fifth time in six years,
Speaker 2: he's a part of trade rumors again. All right, Next,
Speaker 2: talk a little col now Boys. Jerry Jones said they've
Speaker 2: got a team that can compete for the top spot.
Speaker 2: I said on TV the Eagles should be worried about
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. Does that mean you're leaning on the Cowboys?
Speaker 2: The producers asked me at plus six hundred to win
Speaker 2: the NFC, I might be I'm gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: give my full We're not doing our NFL preview show.
Speaker 2: But there are a lot of things that I like
Speaker 2: about the Cowboys this year. The coaching staff take out
Speaker 2: the coaching staff, which I don't love. And if you're
Speaker 2: like me and you think the Niners quarterback situation this year,
Speaker 2: they're not They're finally not gonna be able to overcome it.
Speaker 2: And you think the Eagles might have a bit of
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl hangover. Who's left in the NFC. The
Speaker 2: Cowboys are the best looking of the remaining teams. Talk
Speaker 2: more about them in a moment, And then the news
Speaker 2: from last night. Rogers seemingly I still have almost a
Speaker 2: hard time believing this, but all of the reporting has
Speaker 2: been just flat gave up around thirty five million dollars,
Speaker 2: changed his contract to where he add more than one
Speaker 2: hundred million guaranteed to now seventy five million guaranteed. Think
Speaker 2: he had one hundred and seven million guaranteed, so it's
Speaker 2: like thirty two million he just gave back. And yes
Speaker 2: there is some irony in you know, the sports world's
Speaker 2: biggest critic of Big Pharma giving Big Pharma's number one
Speaker 2: air Woody Johnson more than thirty million dollar rebate, but
Speaker 2: I'll leave that alone. This objectively helps the Jets. There's
Speaker 2: just there's no shots to take. There's no Yeah. But
Speaker 2: does it maybe are the Packers waking up this morning
Speaker 2: like you gotta be efing kidding me? Maybe? Does this
Speaker 2: make the trade for Rogers a better trade? Of course?
Speaker 2: Does it give the Jets a better chance to compete
Speaker 2: for a championship over the next two years? Undeniably? Is
Speaker 2: it a shocking move? You don't see guy. You see
Speaker 2: guys restructure contracts, move money around. You don't see guys
Speaker 2: flatly give up thirty some million that has already been
Speaker 2: agreed to. You see guys take undermarket deals, those types
Speaker 2: of things. But this contract was signed, they owed him
Speaker 2: this money, he gave it back, So you've got to
Speaker 2: give him credit for it, unless there comes out with
Speaker 2: some reporting that, oh, well, actually he's gonna get the
Speaker 2: whole thing. But that doesn't seem to be what it is.
Speaker 2: Tom Pelasaro initially reported it, then everyone had it after
Speaker 2: and they have echoed it. He's flatly giving this money back,
Speaker 2: which the Jets might try to sign Dalvin Cook. They're
Speaker 2: bringing him in today. Hey, Craig Cartin first reported that
Speaker 2: now a lot of people have I it helps them,
Speaker 2: and it helps his chances of being able to win
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl there, so I'll give him credit for it.
Speaker 2: Does it make me change my opinion that the Jets
Speaker 2: are far over hyped? No, it does not. Does it
Speaker 2: make me change my opinion that the Jets are at
Speaker 2: best the seventh playoff team in the AFC and probably
Speaker 2: on the outside looking in. It doesn't, But it does
Speaker 2: help them greatly for next season in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: and it does give you real belief that he's planning
Speaker 2: on sticking around for these next two years. And we'll
Speaker 2: see if I'm wrong about him this year. But listen,
Speaker 2: I have there are a lot of things Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: done over the last few years that I've been highly
Speaker 2: critical of. This is truly putting his money where his
Speaker 2: mouth is on trying to win a super Bowl with
Speaker 2: the Jets. I don't think they can do it. I
Speaker 2: don't think they're that good of a team. And I
Speaker 2: think last year's we talked about it on Tuesday. Their
Speaker 2: seven wins last year one was against Josh Allen, excellent win.
Speaker 2: One was against Aaron Rodgers, very good win, and five
Speaker 2: we're against backup or third string quarterbacks, and so I
Speaker 2: don't and they have a brutal start to the season,
Speaker 2: and they lost six straight in last year. So I
Speaker 2: am not a buyer on the Jets, but this move
Speaker 2: helps them, and it certainly is going to ingratiate himself
Speaker 2: at least temporarily to the New York media, which I
Speaker 2: think will be helpful. And I'm excited to see the
Speaker 2: scene on Hard Knocks where they cover it all right,
Speaker 2: quick break, come back, play, a game, a likely, maybe,
Speaker 2: what if? What's right?
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in episode one sixty seven. Reminder, you guys
Speaker 2: can throw your questions into the chat. We'll get to
Speaker 2: him in the next segment. Starting off here with a
Speaker 2: player who's not being traded, shoe A Otani. He's off
Speaker 2: the market. And by before I even get to the question,
Speaker 2: this is the right move I said on TV two
Speaker 2: weeks ago today? Actually, uh that or actually was two
Speaker 2: weeks ago Wednesday. So I guess fifteen days ago that
Speaker 2: the Angel shouldn't trade him. You have a guy who's
Speaker 2: in the discussion to be the best player in the
Speaker 2: history of the sport. You're a few games out of
Speaker 2: the playoffs. You're gonna get Mike trout back, make a push,
Speaker 2: and they did. They went out and traded for Giolito
Speaker 2: last night. Has read that this morning. They are trying.
Speaker 2: They are buyers instead of sellers, which is what they
Speaker 2: should be. When you have this guy, and maybe you
Speaker 2: convince him to stay. I don't know, but you're not
Speaker 2: going to get equal return. If Otani actually might be
Speaker 2: the best player ever, you gotta do everything you can
Speaker 2: to keep him. Now, could you get equal return if
Speaker 2: he's leaving in a few months and you miss the playoffs, yes,
Speaker 2: but you roll those dice, try to make a playoff push,
Speaker 2: try to convince him to stay, try to win the
Speaker 2: whole damn thing this year when Trout comes back. So,
Speaker 2: I think they made the right call there. I applaud
Speaker 2: them for that. But the producers wanted to know who
Speaker 2: would get the biggest return in a hypethetical mega trade, Otani,
Speaker 2: Giannis or Mahomes, assuming all players are healthy and under
Speaker 2: long term deals. The Andrews Mahomes by a wide margin,
Speaker 2: A wide margin. I if Mahomes were available, you the
Speaker 2: Chiefs could get Herbert Bosa, Derwin James, the three best
Speaker 2: players from the Chargers, and three first round picks. And
Speaker 2: by the way, the Chiefs would say no to that,
Speaker 2: there is not a trade you could make for fair
Speaker 2: value for Mahomes. I'm the The Eagles could the offer
Speaker 2: you the best three Hurts plus aj Brown and Hassan
Speaker 2: Reddick and three first round picks, and the Chiefs would
Speaker 2: hang up the phone. There's not a trade that could
Speaker 2: be made. There just isn't. I used to back when
Speaker 2: I did radio in Kansas City, and Rogers was he
Speaker 2: had just won the Super Bowl and was just I
Speaker 2: think going fifteen to one that next year, entering his prime,
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs had no quarterback, and we're about to
Speaker 2: have the number one pick of the draft. Now this
Speaker 2: trade is not allowable in the NFL, but I said,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs should call up Green Bay, offer them the
Speaker 2: number one pick, and have the trade actually be we
Speaker 2: trade you our first round pick in perpetuity as long
Speaker 2: as Rogers is on the roster. So it would be
Speaker 2: it would be this is twenty eleven, I guess twelve.
Speaker 2: You get the Chiefs first round pick until Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: is no longer our quarterback. So that could be eight
Speaker 2: first round picks, nine first round picks, ten first round picks,
Speaker 2: with the belief being that we're gonna be drafting near
Speaker 2: the end of the first round. We're gonna have our quarterback.
Speaker 2: If someone offered that to Kansas City, Kansity would say no.
Speaker 2: If you said, you can have our first round pick
Speaker 2: every year that Mahomes plays for us, could be twelve
Speaker 2: first round picks. The Chiefs would say no. And they
Speaker 2: should say no. You have the most talented player in
Speaker 2: the history of the sport, who, according to NFL history,
Speaker 2: is just now entering his prime. There is no trade
Speaker 2: that could be made. All right, let's play our game.
Speaker 2: Likely Maybe what if Sean McVay was asked about the
Speaker 2: rams projected win total being six and a half, he said,
Speaker 2: they don't believe in us. Is there actually value to
Speaker 2: be had in betting the Rams over? It's likely the
Speaker 2: Rams are terrible. It's likely the Rams are one of
Speaker 2: the five or six worst teams in football. They don't
Speaker 2: have the depth. The Stafford injury is concerning. And listen,
Speaker 2: they went all in on the Super Bowl. They won it.
Speaker 2: Credit to them. Would have been really painful if they hadn't.
Speaker 2: But now they're entering a long wilderness. Maybe Stafford gets
Speaker 2: traded during the season. Let me look at how the
Speaker 2: Rams season starts. I don't think it's a brutal schedule,
Speaker 2: but well, it's not a good start. It's not a
Speaker 2: brutal overall schedule, but it is a brutal beginning of
Speaker 2: the schedule at Seattle home for the Niners, at the Bengals,
Speaker 2: at Indy home for Philly. If they start one in four,
Speaker 2: which they will, If there's a Super Bowl contending team
Speaker 2: that suffers a quarterback injury, could you see Stafford traded? Absolutely? Absolutely,
Speaker 2: But what if I I guess the what if would
Speaker 2: be what if Geno massively regresses the Niners quarterback situation's
Speaker 2: too much of a mess. And the NFC West this
Speaker 2: year is last year's NFC South and eight wins can
Speaker 2: win you the division. But I so I guess the
Speaker 2: what if would be the Yeah, they win a terrible division,
Speaker 2: but I don't see that being realistic at all. All Right, next,
Speaker 2: mac Jones didn't take long This again, I'm reading from
Speaker 2: the producers show how great the Pats defense wasn't camp
Speaker 2: first play on seven on sevens the quarterback through an interception?
Speaker 2: Is this guy gonna be good or not? It's likely
Speaker 2: that mac Jones is a top tier backup quarterback, that's
Speaker 2: who he is, flatly. But maybe mac Jones is actually
Speaker 2: just a bottom tier starter. But what if mac Jones
Speaker 2: doesn't even make it through the season because Bailey Zappi
Speaker 2: takes his job. There is no I'm not gonna do
Speaker 2: the well the coordinator's situation was so bad last year,
Speaker 2: It was terrible last year. But Zappi, who I do
Speaker 2: not think is some future star. The two games he played,
Speaker 2: the Patriots offense looks good, looked good. Mac Jones is petulant,
Speaker 2: He's immature. He's the only quarterback in the league history
Speaker 2: to be marked a dirty player for what he has
Speaker 2: tried to do post turnover with the gator rolling and
Speaker 2: sliding with his cleats up. That was kind of a
Speaker 2: brady thing. But the ankle twisting, I know, I just
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna believe in him. I don't think he's good.
Speaker 2: And I talked about him way too much on the
Speaker 2: TV show because a wild so not getting into it now.
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones. Tiki Barber said Daniel Jones would get top
Speaker 2: five quarterback Demons probably agrees. What do you think, Well,
Speaker 2: it's likely that Daniel Jones is exactly who smart people think.
Speaker 2: He is a good athlete with strong limitations as a
Speaker 2: quarterback who will put a ceiling on your team as
Speaker 2: long as he's your starter. That's the most likely that
Speaker 2: he tops out tops out at the sixteenth best quarterback
Speaker 2: in football. But maybe it's likely Daniel Jones is Dan Jones.
Speaker 2: That's right, But maybe the Giants truly lean into his athleticism,
Speaker 2: try to turn him into a very poor poor man's
Speaker 2: Cam Newton, lean on the running and win that way,
Speaker 2: and the what if is what if they open up
Speaker 2: the offense this year to see what he can be,
Speaker 2: which they should have done via the franchise tag. Instead,
Speaker 2: they gave him the long term deal, and you realize
Speaker 2: you've invested four years, one hundred and sixty million dollars
Speaker 2: into a bad quarterback. So I understand the Daniel Jones
Speaker 2: folks were taking a bit of a victory lap after
Speaker 2: last year. I understand. No, no, no, it's not the
Speaker 2: what if. Demonse was right, it's what if that he's
Speaker 2: that the Giants realize they're screwed because demons likes Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: I've never I give him credit. He stopped fumbling the
Speaker 2: ball and he didn't throw picks last year, but it's
Speaker 2: because it was a training wheels offense asking him to
Speaker 2: do as little as possible, where he threw fifteen total
Speaker 2: touchdown passes. I'm just not even in it. Just I'll
Speaker 2: die on that hill, but I'm not gonna die on
Speaker 2: the hill, all right. To brock Purty, brock Purdy has
Speaker 2: been given the all clear. They'll continue to follow the
Speaker 2: original return playing Shanahan said when he does return, he'll
Speaker 2: be with the starters. Will perty be able to recapture
Speaker 2: his rookie year magic. It's likely Brock Purdy is a
Speaker 2: slightly worse version than he was last year. More film
Speaker 2: on him, suffered a major injury to his throwing arm,
Speaker 2: already had athletic limitations. Maybe Purdy becomes an all time
Speaker 2: Cinderella story in this league. Maybe Purdy builds on last year,
Speaker 2: is even better, and the Niners do have their quarterback
Speaker 2: of the future. What if, though, Brock Purdy has to
Speaker 2: miss time and Trey Lance, who this team gave three
Speaker 2: first round picks for, has never really played, and they've
Speaker 2: seemingly already given up on. What if Trey Lance ends
Speaker 2: up being the guy they thought he was when they
Speaker 2: drafted him, and the Niners are awesome. I think the Niners'
Speaker 2: only hope of being awesome is if Trey Lance plays. Now.
Speaker 2: It's possible Trey Lance is terrible. The Niners seem to
Speaker 2: think he's terrible. I don't. We haven't seen enough from
Speaker 2: him in actual football games to determine that. His rookie season,
Speaker 2: he played a game and a half, played well in
Speaker 2: one of them. His second year, he played his first
Speaker 2: game in a torential downpour in Chicago looked bad and
Speaker 2: then broke his leg a couple snaps into Game two.
Speaker 2: But that athleticism in the Shanahan offense would be deadly
Speaker 2: and I'd be interested to see it all right. Next,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelce has a crush on Taylor Swift. She wouldn't
Speaker 2: see him before or after the show. He really wanted
Speaker 2: to give her a friendship bracelet. He said this on
Speaker 2: his great podcast New Heights, which I should be a
Speaker 2: guest on. Come on, Travis and Jason, make that happen.
Speaker 2: If they get together break up, there'red one hundred percent
Speaker 2: be a song about Travis. What will happen here? It's
Speaker 2: likely and I love Travis, you guys know that, But
Speaker 2: it's likely. The Taylor Swift is I guess too big
Speaker 2: of a celebrity for Travis. I guess if she snubbed him.
Speaker 2: I listen, we need Diora here for this segment. I
Speaker 2: don't know a ton about Taylor Swift. I know she's
Speaker 2: like neck and neck with Beyonce for the biggest star
Speaker 2: in the world on the musical scene. So maybe she's
Speaker 2: too big time, or's likely she's too big time. Maybe
Speaker 2: she hears about this and is gonna be like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I love him. I didn't know he's trunn
Speaker 2: to even be a friendship bracelet, and it starts a
Speaker 2: beautiful relationship. What if Taylor Swift just made the bulletin
Speaker 2: board for the Chiefs bulletin board on the TV show
Speaker 2: be watching today to find out? And then, lastly, what
Speaker 2: our great executive producer Matt Ford wanted the entire show
Speaker 2: to be about aliens? According to a congressional hearing from yesterday,
Speaker 2: aliens are real. Multiple whistleblowers said the US found non
Speaker 2: human biological pilots on UFOs. Shortly thereafter, our producer met
Speaker 2: freaked out, what does this mean for the world? All Right,
Speaker 2: it's likely, in my opinion, that aliens exist but have
Speaker 2: not visited Earth, despite this congressional hearing. I was all
Speaker 2: in on the congressional hearing, and then I heard one
Speaker 2: of the people testifying who was like, well, as I've
Speaker 2: explained on my previous interviews on News Nation, I was like, yikes,
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. It's likely they exist, but
Speaker 2: we haven't had any contact. Maybe these people are telling
Speaker 2: the truth. We have had contact and and we're trying
Speaker 2: to deal with it on a governmental level, but haven't
Speaker 2: figured out the right way to do it. The what
Speaker 2: if is the scariest to me, which is, what if
Speaker 2: it's everything they're saying is true. They give us even
Speaker 2: more public evidence that it's true, and America collectively shrugs.
Speaker 2: That scares me more than any of it, because, you know,
Speaker 2: dating back to Hell Independence Day, Great Will Smith movie,
Speaker 2: there was the idea of, yeah, we're polarized and somewhat broken,
Speaker 2: and you know, there's wars and there's there's so much
Speaker 2: partisanship and all of that, but if we ever faced
Speaker 2: a true existential threat, we would come together. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure about it. I'm not sure people would pay that
Speaker 2: much attention, and I'm not sure people would come together.
Speaker 2: And that's the scarier part for me, And that is
Speaker 2: why Matt was so excited for me to talk about this.
Speaker 2: But this is actually kind of a depressing topic for me,
Speaker 2: because I did think the congressional hearing yesterday was pretty shocking.
Speaker 2: And this morning I go to the New York Times
Speaker 2: and the top of their website is about US economic recovery,
Speaker 2: a little on inflation, then there's a Ukraine story. The
Speaker 2: right side of the page is about thirty six hours
Speaker 2: in Newport, Rhode Island. The Real college admission scandal. A
Speaker 2: Pamela Paul column called Don't call Her Karen, which I
Speaker 2: think I would. I would rather be beamed up by
Speaker 2: the aliens than read a Christopher Roofok column about how diversity,
Speaker 2: equity and inclusion programs are getting in the way of education.
Speaker 2: I would rather let the aliens experiment me on me
Speaker 2: than read that one. An article about Trump's lawyers. July
Speaker 2: is on track to be the hottest month ever. Oh yeah, hey,
Speaker 2: hey world, how would we deal with an existential threat,
Speaker 2: be it aliens coming down or the ocean's literally boiling?
Speaker 2: Oh we eh, We're gonna do more on the heat wave,
Speaker 2: more on colleges and legacy admissions. The US women's national
Speaker 2: team won. How the US Supreme Court makes millions on
Speaker 2: book deals. I'm still going a migrant labor exploitation article.
Speaker 2: An article about Biden and the Prime Minister of Georgia,
Speaker 2: Anado Resube Shonnado O'Connor, a shnado O'Connor story, something on
Speaker 2: the Korean War. Mitch McConnell's weird thing from yesterday. Guys,
Speaker 2: I'm still looking for the alien story on the New
Speaker 2: York Times article What happened when fifteen of Twitter's top
Speaker 2: celebrities joined threads? How to tell if your brain needs
Speaker 2: a break, How to stop sweating so much? All right, now,
Speaker 2: I'm concerned. An article about black Wutompson Detroit in Seville,
Speaker 2: Spain rappers come together. Where's the alien article? All right,
Speaker 2: I'm going back up to the top and I'm doing
Speaker 2: a control f alien zero results? Hold on? What were
Speaker 2: they called these UAPs? Zero results? Did the all right?
Speaker 2: Maybe is the time centering it? It's all right, I
Speaker 2: gotta go to wappo. Hold on, Washington Post. I got
Speaker 2: it now I'm angry in a different way. Washington Post.
Speaker 2: All right, top story. Trump needed two hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: five million. A little known bank came to the rescue.
Speaker 2: Shocker Ukraine launched his new push brisk consumer government spending.
Speaker 2: Why the famed Appalachian Trail keeps getting longer and harder?
Speaker 2: Opinion articles elon Harvard and legacy admissions, army recruiting, a
Speaker 2: book review, a podcast that dumbass Governor of Virginia Glenn
Speaker 2: youngin an article about him, Mark Milly on Ukraine and
Speaker 2: a listenable article about being immersed in hookup culture until
Speaker 2: COVID forced me into intimacy. Okay, let's keep going. Trump
Speaker 2: lawyers me with a special council. State siphoned away three
Speaker 2: quarters of a billion infrastructure funds. The US Women's World Cup,
Speaker 2: an article about the RFK stadium into the Commander's home.
Speaker 2: Where's the alien coverage?
Speaker 3: Hold on?
Speaker 2: Latest headline? Supreme Court two thousand year old grave lungs
Speaker 2: a female warrior, severe story. Oh here it is, God
Speaker 2: talk it. I swear to God, this could this bit
Speaker 2: couldn't have been better and it wasn't even a bit.
Speaker 2: This is the headline. And again we are I read
Speaker 2: this is where it is. It's in the latest headlines.
Speaker 2: It's the six to one listed. Here's what it reads.
Speaker 2: Congress asks are aliens real? Many Americans respond, man, that's
Speaker 2: the headline. Matt put Matt on camera. Please, Matt. I
Speaker 2: think we're screwed, buddy, I mean I really I think
Speaker 2: we're in trouble. And by the way, there's a bit
Speaker 2: of the tag the tail wagging the dog here. When
Speaker 2: the Washington Post is like, ask about aliens real? And
Speaker 2: Americans are like, eh, who cares? Well? When you put
Speaker 2: it on your own page, beneath a seven minute listenable
Speaker 2: article about hookup culture and an opinion article about why
Speaker 2: Twitter is now called x and a podcast about the
Speaker 2: masculinity and modern man, and a long form piece on
Speaker 2: the expanding Appalachian Trail. Maybe America's like, it must not
Speaker 2: be that big of a deal. The Times isn't covering it,
Speaker 2: and the Post all right, last one and then we'll
Speaker 2: move on. Sorry, I didn't expect to go down this
Speaker 2: rabbit hole. Wall Street Journal, God, Wall Street Journal won't
Speaker 2: even let me go to their front page. If I'm
Speaker 2: not a subscriber. That's not true, and I am a subscriber.
Speaker 2: I'm just not logged in Wall Street Journal. All right,
Speaker 2: they got Hunter Biden. They have a thing on smart guns.
Speaker 2: I'm just doing a control f alien nothing uap oh
Speaker 2: recommended videos. A video, God dog it, it's a The
Speaker 2: only thing on the wash on the Wall Street Journal's
Speaker 2: website is their fifth most recommended video is a fifty
Speaker 2: nine second recap of this hearing. All right, well we're screwed.
Speaker 2: I'm out, We're done. We got we you know what.
Speaker 2: We just better hope they're not here, because we're not
Speaker 2: prepared we're not guys, we don't have our a team
Speaker 2: on it. We we got we we're in. We're in
Speaker 2: real trouble. Okay, answer your listener questions. Next, is I
Speaker 2: face a bit of a existential crisis? What's right? All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in episode one sixty seven, we will now
Speaker 2: read the listener questions. Blue Whale asks how does the
Speaker 2: alien news affect Lebron's legacy? I know you'd be a smartest,
Speaker 2: but here's what is true. If the aliens were to
Speaker 2: come down and take over, it would submit Lebron as
Speaker 2: the all time goat. Because the worry for Lebron, as
Speaker 2: he already is the goat, is, you know, is Wimby
Speaker 2: or someone else gonna overtake him? But if the aliens
Speaker 2: take over and there's no more Nba, then all his
Speaker 2: records stand. You know, in an odd one of the
Speaker 2: few winners of an alien takeover would be Lebron James
Speaker 2: NBA legacy. Skeeter Andrews asked if you could choose any
Speaker 2: three quarterbacks in history to be on the new Netflix
Speaker 2: Dot quarterback? Who would you choose in history? Is hard,
Speaker 2: but I would want Year two Michael Vick mid Dynasty
Speaker 2: Bradshaw and young Marino. You know, I was saying young Marino,
Speaker 2: but that made me think of Steve Young. Steve Young
Speaker 2: when he took over for Montana would probably be a
Speaker 2: good one too, But young Vic, dynastic Bradshaw, and and
Speaker 2: I think young Marino. I wonder if there's any obvious
Speaker 2: ones I'm leaving out. Warren Moon when he finally was
Speaker 2: able to come over would be interesting from the usfl uh,
Speaker 2: But those are my the The producers ask if Joe
Speaker 2: Namath be on there. I I mean, I think I
Speaker 2: know what was going on there. I don't. I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not that I I know that story, Gabe says
Speaker 2: Brett Favre maybe like maybe, but I'm going like no,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm going with the ones I said, I think
Speaker 2: young Marino who was doing things no one had ever
Speaker 2: seen in the history of the league, uh dynasty, Bradshaw
Speaker 2: with those Steelers and that era the seventies, and then
Speaker 2: Vick right when he came, you know, a year into
Speaker 2: the league, when he was looked like he might take over,
Speaker 2: those would be my picks. If Aliens were to visit
Speaker 2: and said, bring me your leader. Who are we bringing?
Speaker 2: All right? I know that I said, we all couldn't
Speaker 2: like nobody. You know, we're all bipartisan, we're all broken
Speaker 2: all these things.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 2: I do think that if it was like, hey, the
Speaker 2: aliens are here and they have the ability to annihilate us.
Speaker 2: If that's been established, you can bring us one person
Speaker 2: to do to talk to them. I even think our
Speaker 2: red hatters that watched the show, I even think they
Speaker 2: would be like, can we see if Obama's available? And
Speaker 2: even even you know, into the biggest Biden supports, be
Speaker 2: like Joe, you can see this one out, Don and
Speaker 2: Ron and you folks, you guys talk amongst yourselves. Let's
Speaker 2: just see if Barrock's got some free time. I think
Speaker 2: he's That's the answer if we're being you know, if
Speaker 2: if world annihilation is on the line, here cutlass ass
Speaker 2: anyone else think demons looks like Jordan Poole. He's gotten
Speaker 2: that before and I've talked to him about it. Also
Speaker 2: played like Jordan Poole had a lot of the same
Speaker 2: frustrations as Jordan Poole didn't get punched in the face
Speaker 2: by a teammate. Though, like Jordan Poole, hat on a
Speaker 2: Fox asked you were forcing into a career change, and
Speaker 2: you're shoved into the booth to call a game, to
Speaker 2: commentary for a specific sport and team. What sport would
Speaker 2: it be in for what team? Listen? It's one of
Speaker 2: my I hope to do it at some point career
Speaker 2: goal is I really really would like to be the
Speaker 2: third person in a booth for the NFL or the NBA.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have any real shot of it
Speaker 2: happening with the NFL. I think it could happen with
Speaker 2: the NBA, but add I think the way we go
Speaker 2: to the refs experts for the NFL, we could use
Speaker 2: an analytical expert why they're doing this? Was that punt
Speaker 2: the right decision? It kind of cut through it rather
Speaker 2: than just saying ah the analytics said and then throw
Speaker 2: it out. That would be for the NFL and for
Speaker 2: the NBA. There's a lot of interesting strategic things that
Speaker 2: have to do with time and score and fouls and
Speaker 2: things that I feel like get glossed over in in
Speaker 2: the regular broadcast that I'd be really good at and
Speaker 2: I've always wanted to do it. When I was a
Speaker 2: little kid. Actually that was my dream job was NBA
Speaker 2: color commentator because I didn't realize you had to be
Speaker 2: a basically had to be a former player or coach.
Speaker 2: But I mean that's what it would be, and I
Speaker 2: hope to be able to do at least one of those.
Speaker 2: One day. Chico forty two says Imbape is reportedly going
Speaker 2: to turn down three quarters of a billion dollars. What
Speaker 2: wouldn't you do for three quarters of a billion? Well,
Speaker 2: it's less what wouldn't I do? That's the it's a
Speaker 2: weird spot for Imbape because he's already making hundreds of millions,
Speaker 2: so you got to look at it on that level.
Speaker 2: But if let's say, because Lebron and Jannis and Draymond
Speaker 2: all seemingly joked about going to play in that Saudi
Speaker 2: Arabian league, if they ever if they got a league,
Speaker 2: or if they set it up and offered him that
Speaker 2: type of money. If you're asking me, if they were
Speaker 2: to be offering five x my salary to go over
Speaker 2: there and in English obviously be a color commentator for
Speaker 2: a Saudi Arabian basketball league, would I do it? It
Speaker 2: wouldn't be an instant no, And I hope people will
Speaker 2: judge me for that or whatever. That's why I stayed
Speaker 2: out of the lib golf controversy. I think, yeah, you
Speaker 2: offer me five x my salary for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: It's not a lifetime deal. Be considered. It wouldn't be
Speaker 2: dismissed out of hand. I'll tell you that much. All right,
Speaker 2: today it was fun show. We have a massive TV
Speaker 2: show scheduled for you today, so I hope you joined
Speaker 2: us at three o'clock on FS one. We'll be back
Speaker 2: right here on Tuesday with my wife sitting in Hope
Speaker 2: you enjoyed the solo show. Have a great weekend, everybody,
Speaker 2: See you guys.