1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: The volume The Colin Cowherd Podcast, brought to you by 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: Fan Duel. It's never been easier to play fantasy on 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: Fan Duel. Well they love basketball, golf, soccer, or any 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: fantasy sport. There is a contest for every fan Fan 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: Duel more Ways to win. Hi, everybody. Nick Wright will 6 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: join us in ten minutes. Let's start with three NFL topics. 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: Number one, and it's not the top topic of the day, 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,599 Speaker 1: but I watched a lot of the forty nine ers 9 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: get hammered by Arizona and Colt McCoy. And if you 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: did not watch that game, and most of America did not, 11 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,599 Speaker 1: what you saw is a hobbled Arizona team without their 12 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: best run defender JJ Watt, without their top receiver, with 13 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: a backup quarterback going to San Francisco and out scheme 14 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. And there are tipping points in any relationship 15 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: that is struggling. The Niners now cannot win home games 16 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: as a favorite. And as you look around the division 17 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: and the Rams look better coached, certainly better quarterback, more stars, 18 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: better on both sides of the ball, and special teams, 19 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: and Arizona similarly now wins again in the Bay area. 20 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: What's it looked like. It looks like John Lynch and 21 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,279 Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan are a little over their skis. The game 22 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: plan was noticeably rigid, and this has become something if 23 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: you're struggling, what you don't want to give the critics 24 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: is a narrative they can grab onto. Cliff Kingsbury came 25 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: out very clever, very multiple trick plays San Francisco, and 26 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: this has now become a theme, very rigid, very conservative. 27 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: And this is an offense that has one of the 28 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: top three tight ends in football, George Kittle, one of 29 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: the emerging stars at wide receiver, Deebo Samuel, a solid 30 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: run game, an above average offensive line. There's no excuses here. 31 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: Say what you want about Garoppolo. Look at Shanahan's record 32 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: without Garoppolo. So now you have a theme building, a 33 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: thread building against Shanahan. He's getting out schemed by Kingsbury. 34 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: He looks like his kind of intense, rigid personality is 35 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: affecting Jimmy Garoppolo. But this was a really, really bad 36 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: look for the forty nine ers and the critics and 37 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: the Wolves are going to come out now. And McVay 38 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: wowed us, then lost the Super Bowl at Belichick, goff eroded. 39 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: He was still winning, but he had to sort of 40 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: reset with Matt Stafford. So we know it's not linear. 41 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: We know that even great coaches have bad years. But 42 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: what you're seeing now, I think Shanahan's intense personality is 43 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: affecting the way Jimmy Garoppolo plays and the way the 44 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: Niners call plays, and it's a bad look. I take 45 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: away on Cleveland Cincinnati. Sometimes we know things are true 46 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: and yet we struggle to embrace them. We know chemistry 47 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: matters in sports, right. We know this. You ever go 48 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,119 Speaker 1: on a guy's trip to Vegas with four or five guys, 49 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: six or seven guys, and one guy's attirred and ruins 50 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 1: the trip. That's all it takes. We've all gone on 51 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: camping trips, Vegas trips, golf trips. Just takes one guy 52 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: who's snarky, little bit of an a hole, it ruins 53 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: it for everybody. We know that in professional sports you 54 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 1: can be really talented, but can do your team a 55 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: disservice in chemistry, a disservice. Kyrie Irving to the Celtics 56 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: is a great example. How did that not work? Good 57 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: coach Jason Tatum Marcus Smart, Jalen Brown, How did that 58 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: not work? Difficult guy, narcissistic guy. You're on the plane 59 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: with him, You're at practice with him. There were a 60 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: lot of stories. I talked to Ryan Risillo about this 61 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: about a year ago. There are a lot of stories 62 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: that didn't get reported how difficult Kyrie Irving was. So 63 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: the obj to Cleveland thing diva high maintenance, dramatic receiver 64 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: goes to a young quarterback in a dysfunctional organization. It 65 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: doesn't work, and then data over two years suggests it 66 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: doesn't work. Everybody pushed back. Can we have a new 67 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: rule in sports? Bill Maher has his new rules. Here's 68 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: my new rule that great players can leave an organization 69 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: and the organization gets better. High maintenance people, we know 70 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,799 Speaker 1: this in our own lives. You ever have a family 71 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: get together at Thanksgiving and you've got a weird brother 72 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: in law and everybody's walking on eggshells and it's not 73 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: as much fun. Same shit happens in sports. I thought 74 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield played as free and as comfortable as he 75 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: has in a year. And by the way, Donovan people 76 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: Jones is a really, really nice young receiver out of 77 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: Michigan six two over the last six or seven weeks. 78 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: He's been open a lot. If you're a Browns fan, 79 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: he is a more than capable number two wide receiver 80 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: to Jarvis Landry. And let's just stop pushing back on 81 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 1: the belief or the understanding that sometimes he lose a 82 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: great talent, but he doesn't work for the room. Dak 83 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: Prescott was better when Dez left. Okay new rule. It 84 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: happens infrequently, but it happens. I'm gonna say Green Bay 85 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: in Kansas City for Nick Wright, I want to talk 86 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: about Urban Meyer, who would arguably the worst roster in 87 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: the NFL and a rookie quarterback beat a great head coach, 88 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: a great roster and a great quarterback in Josh Allen 89 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: with the probably worst roster in the NFL. Folks, I 90 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: put a wet blanket on it six months ago. A 91 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: month ago, I'll put a wet blanket on it again. 92 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: He's not going to USC, He's not going to LSU. 93 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: He has been paid a fortune. He and his wife 94 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 1: love Florida. They love that Jacksonville area. And now I 95 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: am not saying after two years, if Urban won two 96 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: games this year and four next year, and just it 97 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: didn't work. I could see him say, and you know, 98 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: I love Trevor Lawrence. I want to get the right 99 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: coaches in here. I'm done, you know, give me seventy 100 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: five percent of the money promised. I get it. It 101 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: would look too weird for him to leave after one year. Secondly, 102 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: look at Brian Flores right now in Miami. They have 103 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: a much better roster. They are struggling. We love Joe 104 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: Judge in New York. He is struggling. By and large, 105 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: You're about as good as your roster. Jacksonville's roster is terrible. 106 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: And this idea, and I've talked about this before, there 107 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: are so many people that cover the NFL that were 108 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: so opposed to urban Meyer walking in and succeeding early 109 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: that he really entered with an anti urban agenda from 110 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: a good portion of the NFL writers. I don't know 111 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: how successfully he's going to be. But folks, it's not science, 112 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: it's football coaching. Buddy Ryan won a lot of games, 113 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: Mike Dick won a Super Bowl. These aren't geniuses. Belichick's 114 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: mom spoke seven languages. He's different and therefore has dominated 115 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: the league for twenty years. But the average football coach 116 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: for anybody listening to me, who's a successful professional education, 117 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: law anything. Had you taken up coaching, you would be 118 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: as smart as a football coach, or perhaps smarter this 119 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: idea that Urban was going to be overwhelmed by it. 120 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: My concern with urban Meyer was a simple one. Can 121 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: he build a staff? Because I think there were a 122 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: lot of doubts in NFL circles. Is this guy good fit? 123 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: A lot of these college guys have failed. So I 124 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: don't love his offensive staff. But this idea yesterday Sean McDermott, 125 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: Bill's Josh Allen. Folks, there's an argument to be made 126 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: that's the best team in the AFC, and Urban Meyer 127 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,239 Speaker 1: beat him with a rookie quarterback and a lousy roster. 128 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: Urban may not work, but we wouldn't give a quarterback 129 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: eight games in bail on him. Why do we give 130 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: a coach building a culture eight games? Just be reasonable, 131 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: just be fair about it. All Right, here's my buddy Nick. Right, 132 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: So let's start with this. Let's start with Jordan Love's performance. 133 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: I want your takeaway on what you watched from Jordan 134 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: Love in his first official Big Boy start. Well, I 135 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: think we have to be fair to Jordan because we're 136 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: now learning that, you know, the three time or two 137 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: time defending AFC champion Chiefs. It's basically steel curtain two 138 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: point Oh did you see? I don't know. I don't know. 139 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: If you watched Daniel Jones today, just just dice or 140 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: slice and dice. The Raiders made him looked awful pedestrian. Yeah. 141 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: The Titans scored zero second half points in a game 142 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: against US just a few weeks ago, so I don't know. 143 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: I mean, now, if you don't think the Chiefs have 144 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 1: a historically great defense, as all the data suggests they might. Um, 145 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: here's here's what I was worried about. Colin one. Everyone 146 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: on Friday was just crushing Aaron Rodgers as he deserved 147 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: to be crushed. And that was before the McAfee interview, 148 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: And the very last words I said on my show were, 149 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: you know, he's probably gonna get the last laugh in 150 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: this thing, because Jordan Love is going to come out 151 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: look awful and overwhelmed, and he's going to get to say, bleep, 152 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: you told you so. That's the guy you drafted to 153 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: replace me, Jordan Love. Colin. I know it's his first start, 154 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: but he's been in league a year and a half. 155 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: I know he's not supposed to look that bad. He's 156 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: and and that's well, another thing to remind the audience. Sorry, 157 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: but last year we got a hint of this because 158 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: he was not the backup. Last year he was inactive 159 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: if you remember, on game days all year long, he 160 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: was third string. YEP, So he shouldn't have looked that bad. 161 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: He's not supposed to look that bad. Yeah. People always 162 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: point to Josh Allen, who we know, coming out of 163 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: college was sort of a wild pony, you know, bursting 164 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: out of the barn. I would like to throw up 165 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 1: to you justin Herbert and Joe Burrow and Mac Jones, 166 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: who have looked very good, very quickly. So you know, 167 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: people love to use examples that benefit them. But my 168 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: concerned was also how Kansas City defended him. What Kansas 169 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: City was telling you after about three series is we 170 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: have no respect for him. We're gonna blitz him every second, 171 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: big third down. He can't read the defense pre snap, 172 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: that Troy's not allowed to change plays or something, and 173 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: poor Troy Aikman. I thought Troy Aikman's gonna jump out 174 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: of the boot at the one play where I don't know, 175 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: I don't. He didn't throw a pick on this play, 176 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 1: but it was a big play late in the game. 177 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: And Troy says, before the snap, all right, so they're 178 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: telling you there's no one in the middle of the field. 179 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: There's no one in the middle of the field. And 180 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: then he throws down the sideline, the near sideline. Yeah. 181 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: And then on the replay, Troy says, the thing is, 182 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: when there's no one in the middle of the field, 183 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: you should throw to the middle of the field, like Troy. 184 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: Troy was trying to be gentle. But he's supposed to 185 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: look better. He just is supposed to look better. And 186 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: I'm kidding about the Chiefs defense of Jeez evens isn't good. No, 187 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: Like they might not be the worst in football like 188 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: they were the first month of the year. But he 189 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: was supposed to look better than that. And the Packers 190 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: are supposed to win that game. Jeeves offense look terrible. 191 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: I know, we'll get to it. Packers supposed to win 192 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: that game and they didn't. Yeah. I mean, you can 193 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: tell a lot by how a team calls a game 194 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 1: Green Bay and Matt Lafleur very risk averse. You can 195 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: tell a lot about a quarterback by how a defense 196 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: plays him, and both told you he's very, very limited 197 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: a year and a half in, so that's not great. 198 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: Now there are late bloomers in this. I mean, you know, 199 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: we know there's some late bloomers. But I didn't already 200 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: see anything. I mean, he's not as athletic or move 201 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: around guy like Russell or Kyler. His arm is okay, 202 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: it's not special. You know, he's got a big body. 203 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: He moves pretty well, but I didn't see anything special. 204 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: Now I say that about Tuah, but I think Jordan's 205 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: a bigger, more athletic guy than two. I'm not. I'm 206 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: not talking about a completely I mean, ineffective, small average arm. 207 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 1: Jordan's got some gifts, but you know, people remember this 208 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: his last year in college, a lot of mistakes, a 209 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: lot of the gms I talked to, and small school, 210 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: which I'm not a huge fan of. And again everyone, 211 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: here's the thing about exceptions. There are exceptions for a reason. 212 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: We can't pretend we can't talk about all the trends 213 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: Josh Allen broke and then use that as a well 214 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: Josh Allen did. It's it's the same thing in the 215 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: NBA when it's like if you don't have a top 216 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 1: five player, you can't win the title. And everyone's like, oh, 217 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: the old four Pistons, What about the old four Pistons. 218 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, man, there's a reason you still have 219 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: to go back. For the only time in thirty years 220 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: it's been true, was the old four Pistons? Also nick 221 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: when people use Josh Allen, Yes, but he was six 222 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: six with a cannon arm, which Jordan loves, not that 223 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: bigger to have that arm, and he was hurdling people. 224 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: You go to YouTube and look up Josh Allen's for 225 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 1: eight games. He was hurdling linebackers, so they could have 226 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: used that today. By the way, didn't be by the Jaguars. 227 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: Oh the Bills, Oh the Big scarok Bills, Hello Josh 228 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: Allen MVP, Oh scary Bills losing the Jags? All right? 229 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: Monday night matchup. 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We know Andy, 259 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: you read smart, Mahomes is great, Spags been a good DC, 260 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: excellent weapons, Travis Kelcey, although he had a couple of 261 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: drops today. A lot of these pieces we know are exceptional. 262 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: We've seen them and people say, well, Sammy Wattkins isn't here, 263 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: and that's the difference, and I'm like, Nahn's not. It's 264 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: not because, by the way, Watkins was injured two thirds 265 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: of the time before. It would be nice to have 266 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: a secondary receiver, but that's not the answer. So when 267 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: you watch them, you know, Greg ko Sell told me 268 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: about two weeks ago he said he's going to be 269 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: much harder to coach than Justin Herbert because he has 270 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: an inclination and this was the knock on him out 271 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: of college. He likes the home run, he likes the 272 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: big hit. He's not overly patient mechanically. Some of his 273 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: great gifts come when the mechanics erode, you know, the 274 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: side arm stuff. What do you see as somebody that 275 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: watches every snap reads everything about the Chiefs. What Let's 276 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: not talk defense, because I did think with Clark on 277 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: the defensive line, they're better. Let's talk offense. What is wrong? 278 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: He's second guessing himself and he's pressing and he I 279 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: mean the first month of the year when the Chiefs 280 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: were two and two, they had a turnover and defense problem, 281 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: but all the smart number were the best offensive football 282 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: barn up. Yes, the last five games, Colin, they have 283 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: been held under twenty one four times. Wow. Up until 284 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: the last five games in mahomes whole career, he had 285 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: happened three times. Think about that. His whole career, he 286 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: had been as of a month ago, he'd been held 287 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: under twenty one three times. The last five games has 288 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: happened four times. He is missing open guys. He's skipping 289 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: passes today. He never he didn't run the ball once 290 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: he would like, didn't get out of the pocket running. 291 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: So I think he suffered some bad bad luck turnover 292 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: wise early. Yeah, and that made him start kind of 293 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: second guessing a bit, and then even when he was 294 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: trying to be more conservative, he still made a couple 295 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: terrible mistakes. And now it feels like instead of playing 296 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: every single play, he's you can see like the wheels turning, 297 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: which is why I really and I Rogers to his credit, 298 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: oddly enough, on the last interview he did before all 299 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: the vaccine stuff came out and the COVID stuff came out, 300 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: he was on McAfee and they asked him about Mahome struggling, 301 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 1: and Rogers, you know, said hey, absolutely, quarterbacks can get 302 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: the yips, can get in a slump. And he's like, 303 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 1: and sometimes it just takes one game, one drive, And 304 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: he said this, he said, sometimes it just takes one 305 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 1: play to get out of it. And so maybe I'm 306 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: you know, hopelessly optimistic. But I wonder if that third 307 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: and ten game on the line today that looked very Mahomes. Yes, 308 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: oh it's broken down. I'm rolling to the right. And 309 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: I'm certain he was told before that play. The only 310 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 1: thing we can't have his name incompletion. If it's easy, 311 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: take it. If not take the sack, because the sack 312 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: the clock runs, you're punning to Jordan Love with a 313 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: minute fifteen. The only thing we can't have is an incompletion, 314 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: and he's still ran out to the side one leg 315 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: zipped it to Tyree. That was a Mahomes play, and 316 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: I do wonder if that gets him back to it. 317 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: So I think because he hasn't been himself he was 318 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 1: he's been the last month. He's been bad and it's 319 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: the first time in his career. Forget being bad, it's 320 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: the first month of football. He hasn't been outstanding. I'm 321 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: going to add one other thing, and you know, I 322 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: want to be gentle with this because I don't know 323 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: this to be true. I just I'm just going to 324 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: present the evidentiary case. So in the last month, his 325 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: mom has tweeted about Tyreek dropping the football. His brother 326 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: has been in the news twice, Yeah, for stupid stuff. 327 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 1: His wife, who they they're like grade school sweetheart's been 328 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: together forever, seems to be very into TikTok and posting 329 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: videos with Patrick Inham and Patrick doesn't like there's there's 330 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: like a it's it's kind of semi internet famous. Now. 331 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: Patrick like just trying to eat some chips and salsa, 332 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 1: and his wife and brother are doing some TikTok dance. 333 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: So all that plus new parent right, plus for the 334 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: first time in your career not playing great. I think 335 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: it's a lot to deal with. Yeah, I think that. 336 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: I think all of those things. It's like, you know, 337 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 1: my family is famous because of me, and they're being 338 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 1: a pain in my ass right now with my fame. 339 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 1: But you love, these are the people you love most 340 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: in the world. So like, what are you gonna do. 341 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: You're gonna tell your wife, your mom, you know, to 342 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: stop doing something. You can probably tell your brother, but 343 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,719 Speaker 1: nobody his brother's a teenager or a young twenties kid, 344 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: Like his brother's not gonna listen. Anybody's dupe. It's like 345 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,400 Speaker 1: we all were with that age, right. That's not a criticism. Um, 346 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: So all that's going on, he's not playing great, and 347 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, probably sleeping less than the ar as 348 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: in life because you have a new baby, you have 349 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: a new kid, like that's a thing. And so I 350 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: think all of this coming at once has led to 351 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: him not being himself the last month. I don't think 352 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: it's a I still think that he is unanimous that 353 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: if you were to start a new league and every 354 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: player would be available. I think all thirty two gems 355 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: take him first. I still believe that. Yeah, but he's 356 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 1: got to be better. By the way Josh Allen struggled 357 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: Brady two weeks ago, struggled. This shit's hard. By the 358 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: way Jalen hurts in the last couple of weeks has 359 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 1: been sort of fascinating and interesting. Let's not bail on him. 360 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,360 Speaker 1: So you know, another team, the Chiefs defend shut down 361 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: by the way steel curtain two point. Yeah, Eagles, Eagles 362 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: shut him down. So I mean, I think we I 363 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: think you're right on, by the way, but I do 364 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: think we have to say there has to be a pause. 365 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: This stuff is really hard. It's really hard. I can 366 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: I ask a question though about the NFL right now? Yeah, 367 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: is anyone in the AFC good like that? Who's good? 368 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: It's a great question. Buffalo's a game is the best? 369 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: We know that. Yeah, but Buffalo last week looked like shit. 370 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: It was three three at half against Miami. They looked 371 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: bad last week, and this week they lost. They lost 372 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: a game that you can't lose. You just can't lose 373 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: to the Jags. The Patriots are just feasting. How many 374 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: awful quarterbacks do they get to play. It's unbelievable what 375 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: they've done. You know what it is because the NFC 376 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: has veteran quarterbacks. It's Stafford. Yeah, I mean it really is. 377 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: It's Rogers, it's all veteran quarterbacks and Kyler. Right, it's 378 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: all veterans and Kyler. In the AFC, it's all brilliant 379 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: young quarterbacks guys, and they are brilliant. But guess what. 380 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: Peyton Manning year four was awful in Indianapolis. So you're 381 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: seeing this roller coast. Okay, now let's segue into the 382 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers stuff. So you know, everybody knows my assertion 383 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: with Aaron, which has always been he's a narcissist. He's 384 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: into Aaron. He's pretty selfish when you can't get along 385 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 1: with multiple members of your family. I've always been really 386 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: skeptical and his comments about you know, I'm a critical thinker, 387 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: as if anybody that gets a vaccine, you're not a 388 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: critical thinker. The idea that he gave five hundred pages 389 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: of anti vax and ineffective mask that is weird like. 390 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: And he was asked what the NFL thought, and he said, well, 391 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: they thought it was a whack. Yeah, yeah, that's what 392 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: people do on that have nine followers on Twitter and 393 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: have a name like Jack with thirteen numbers behind it, 394 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: Like the people that think they've got the secret remedy. 395 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: It's just incredibly arrogant. Yeah, yeah, it's just incredibly arrogant 396 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 1: the idea. And this isn't just Aaron, it's a lot 397 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: of folks, but folks that think, I mean, it's what 398 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: I would ask. Pardon me here the fuck do you 399 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: think people are doing? For eight years in medical school 400 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: playing candy crush? Like these folks that are acting like 401 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: I've solved it, Well, would you do? I dedicated a weekend, 402 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: you dedicated a weekend. These poor suckers are doing forty 403 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: hour rotations or in a lab or conducting experiments. And 404 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: it's just I would never And it's so odd that 405 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 1: people have gone this route on science and medicine. Could 406 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: you imagine if I went I can't. I don't even 407 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: know what a good comp is. But I go to 408 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: the mechanic and I'm like, hey, you rebuilt that engine wrong. 409 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: How do you know? I watched a YouTube video? What? Like, No, 410 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: he's an expert, he's trained. I just can't believe the 411 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: arrogance of guys, and let me say something else about 412 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: it real quick. If Aaron Rodgers actually thought it discovered 413 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: something vaccines, it's incredibly selfish to not share it with 414 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:15,679 Speaker 1: the world, Like like you've cracked something, evidently you tell everyone. 415 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: Don't be kgo. I'm immunized. I didn't want to say 416 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: if you've If you if you've uncovered one of the 417 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: greatest conspiracies in the history of modern America, you should 418 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: let the world know. But I don't know. There's also coding. 419 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: When somebody says like Aaron, I don't care what anybody thinks, 420 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: that is code for I care what everybody thinks. And 421 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: Aaron has always been super sensitive, so he's gone into hiding. Now, 422 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: by the way, I think this is being lost. The 423 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: Packers no longer have the number one seed in the NFC, 424 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 1: Arizona does. They will not have the number two seed 425 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 1: if the Rams win. And by the way, a dome team, 426 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: a dome team Rams, and a warm weather team Tampa 427 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 1: could have played in ja Aryan Lambeau a significant break 428 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: for Green Bay if they lose, so they don't have 429 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: the number one seed, nor perhaps the two seed. If 430 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,479 Speaker 1: they lose against Seattle when Aaron can't practice, They're then 431 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: behind Tampa. They're a four seed. By the way, they're 432 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: gonna be behind Tampa. Tampa's schedule the rest of the way. 433 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 1: They have one team left that you expect to make 434 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: the playoffs, the Bills. Another game against New Orleans maybe 435 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: they will, but that those are only the third toughest 436 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,959 Speaker 1: game left for Tampa's Atlanta. This is and it's unbelievable. 437 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: I thought you might lead with this, Colin. The biggest 438 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: winner this weekend of every football player in the world 439 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 1: was Tom Brady. He didn't play. Think about it. He's 440 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: coming off a bad game. But think about Brady and 441 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: the MVP all right, Well, Josh Allen just was awful 442 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: and they lost. The Jags turn the ball over a bunch, 443 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry's done for the year. Dak Prescott was terrible. 444 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers missed the game, Tyler missed the game and 445 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: his team won. Lamar. They won. Lamar wasn't great. Who 446 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: Brady all of a sudden, I think has to be 447 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: the overwhelming MVP favorite. And with the Cowboys losing and 448 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: the Packers losing, I think the Rams and Cardinals. I 449 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: think that that schedule for both of them is tough 450 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: enough that you've got to think Tampa. I feel like 451 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: Tampa right now. A worst case scenario is thirteen and four, 452 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: and it looks like Brady's gonna be the MVP and 453 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: Tampa's gonna be the one seed. It's unbelievable. The Bucks 454 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: don't play this week and then they're the biggest winners 455 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: and Brady's MVP opes skyrocket this week. All the other 456 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: MVP candidates felt plumb. Rogers missed time. Rogers can't win 457 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: it now, even though he looks more like an MVP 458 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: now than before, because he saw the Packers without him. 459 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: No one's gonna vote for Rogers after this. He misses 460 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: time because of this nonsense. You know, it's one of 461 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: those things where you know I talked about that I 462 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: was on with Ethan Strauss the other day. He's a yeah, 463 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: he's a real smart, thoughtful I don't view him as contrarian, 464 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: but he has a lot of different views on stuff, 465 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: in fact, included covering the NBA. But you know, we 466 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 1: were talking about a lot of things, and you know, 467 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: there's he like you. He makes me think. And when 468 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: I was done with the podcast. I went and put 469 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: something on, you know, my phone for the volume, and 470 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: that one of the great pieces of device I once 471 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: got in my life is there's enough hurdles and obstacles 472 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: to overcome. Don't get in the way of yourself. It's 473 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: hard enough to overcome the challenges. I really think Aaron 474 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: has gotten in the way of himself. And Bill Simmons 475 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 1: mentioned this to me the other days. When you get 476 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: older and your single, you don't sacrifice for your kids. 477 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: You don't sacrifice for a wife being married, having kids. 478 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 1: It's a lot of else, it's a lot of take 479 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: one for the team. Combine that with Aaron is in 480 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 1: the smallest market in America for a pro sports team, 481 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: so he is a messiah. Combine that with they have 482 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: no owner to call him on his shit, and that 483 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: Aaron's gotten into a world where it's Aaron does what 484 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: Aaron wants, Aaron says what Eron wants. Aaron has no pushback, 485 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: and I think he's starting to sort of get in 486 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: his own way a little bit. Well, listen, I you 487 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: have that I said this on the show, I think 488 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: on Thursday. I'm not sure when, and I don't know 489 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: if you heard it. When you were driving in, but 490 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: I said, I was like, man, Colin's been on this 491 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 1: corner for the better part of a half decade, that 492 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has an allergy to criticism, and him doing 493 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: these gymnastics about immunized and the masking at press conferences 494 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: all for one express purpose avoiding criticism is all the 495 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: proof you possibly needed that you were right about that. 496 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: And you know, and I've gone to battle with you 497 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: about the Aaron stuff, but this whole thing is such 498 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: a rough look for him and such and listen, I 499 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: obviously think that folks who can be vaccinated should be. 500 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: However that the quarterbacks who have chosen not to it's 501 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: been a one day. If that story, then you move on. 502 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: The Kyrie was a big story because it cost him 503 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: his season, but in the NFL those guys have not 504 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: been Lamar hasn't been crushed for this. Kirk Cousins, we 505 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: made fun of him for a little bit because he 506 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: was talking about like building plexiglass rooms and stuff, But 507 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: aside from that, that was it. But Aaron didn't even 508 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: want to deal with that. And it is to me 509 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: all of it shows it does give you a window 510 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: and it's not a flattering one and on the field 511 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: if folks want to, you know, don't care about any 512 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: of the vaccine stuff, just on the field. With the 513 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: way the Chiefs offense look today, does anyone think that 514 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers out there the Packers aren't eight and one 515 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: right now? Yeah? Does anybody think that? And he's not. 516 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: They weren't and now they're in. You know, it's an 517 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: uphill battle and they likely will have one playoff game 518 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 1: in Lambeau this year and that's it. You know, it 519 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,239 Speaker 1: was interesting. We know the Patriots dynasty, they often were 520 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: a much better post Thanksgiving team than a pre Thanksgiving team. 521 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: And the Cleveland Browns. I thought Baker and the Browns 522 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: played the best football game they've played in a year. 523 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: And this is not to dump on OBJ, but we 524 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: know that you can have great players and they don't 525 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: work in the room. Kyrie to the Celtics, they should 526 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: have been absolutely in the finals. Kyrie Tatum, Marcus mart 527 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,400 Speaker 1: Brad Stevens, Jaylen Brown. They had a little bit of 528 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: size and they got worse. We know this to be true. 529 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: The data suggests Dak was better when Daz left, he 530 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: could sprinkle the infield. Baker's better that Ob j left. 531 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: I did feel like watching Cleveland, I felt like, oh oh, 532 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: this may be just one of those. Doesn't mean Obj's 533 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: a bad guy, but he was hovering over the franchise 534 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 1: and he's now all out of the room at Donovan People's. 535 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: Jones is more six two runs, well more than capable 536 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: to be a tandem with Jarvis Landry. I think, listen, 537 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: it clearly didn't fit. It clearly didn't work, and the 538 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: Browns got a nice reprieve because if the Browns lost 539 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: this week, then everything's falling in Cleveland. Instead, they win, 540 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: and it's important who they played, right, the Bengals, who 541 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: you used to make the point, and you weren't wrong 542 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: that Baker owns the Bengals and is terrible against a 543 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: lot of you know, the rest of the division and 544 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: other teams. But now the Bengals are good and you 545 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: still own the Bengals. You still kick the hell out 546 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: of them up and down the field. And I know 547 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: Baltimore ended up getting the win, but you look at 548 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: it and you're like, Okay, none of the teams in 549 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: this division are great. You now the Cincinnati, after the 550 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: high they were on, they have come crashing, crashing, back 551 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: down to earth, and the Browns feel like, Okay, we 552 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: get a nice reprieve from all the drama and we'll 553 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: see how we look in the next few weeks. Odell, 554 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: on the other hand, O'Dell does have the chance, not 555 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: at the same level, but to have And I've talked 556 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: about this a ton, the Randy Moss trajectory. Amazing in 557 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: his first stop, goes sideways at the end, goes somewhere else, 558 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: is almost irrelevant the whole time he's there, and then 559 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: a great next act of his career. But if he 560 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: doesn't have, like if wherever O'Dell picks to go it 561 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: doesn't work, things can go left real quick. Now the 562 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 1: guy had suffered a couple of major injuries, a guy 563 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: that's a pain in the ass. Now I think I 564 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: think he'll be smart and he will pick based on quarterback, 565 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: and he will pick a team that he believes is 566 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: going to be in the postseason and he can go 567 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 1: show the world he's still excellent. But if his next 568 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 1: team it doesn't work, then that's just a you know, 569 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: a squandered talent is what he'll be remembered for. Like 570 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: they you don't get, you don't usually get a fourth chance, right, 571 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: so this will be his third chance. You don't usually 572 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: get a fourth. So Odell's got a big which is 573 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: why he gave the way he had the contract restructured 574 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: the last He just wanted to not be claimed, meaning 575 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: he doesn't want Washington to pick him up and him 576 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, what am I going to do? 577 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: He wants to be able to pick his spot, but 578 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: he better pick right and a better work out because 579 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: it's been a long time since people saw Odell Beckham 580 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,719 Speaker 1: Junior do something amazing on the football field, and there 581 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: have been a few controversies since then that people won't 582 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: have time for. Okay, only two things I wanted to 583 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: talk about, Packer's Chiefs a little Brown's. So I'm gonna 584 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: give you the choice of the two NBA topics because 585 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: I'll never bring you on not talk NBA. Yeah, I 586 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: watched working out. I didn't watch it live. I got 587 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: up and lift weights on the morning on the weekend 588 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:16,840 Speaker 1: and watched Russell Wexbrook, who is absolutely horrifically bad against 589 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: Portland it was or James Harden. Yeah, let's talk about that. Okay, 590 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: So it's interesting. So I'm old enough to remember the 591 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: NBA changing several rules for wilt, the free throws, the 592 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 1: zone defense, why the lane. This has happened my whole life. 593 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: The NBA used to be able to hand check, and 594 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 1: then they said it's too physical. They used to be 595 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 1: able to put your fourarm into a guy's back. The 596 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: NBA has changed. It's almost like the irs. If they 597 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: see big companies finding a loophole, they close it, and 598 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: then the big companies find another loophole and they close 599 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: it again. And I feel like James Harden had found 600 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,439 Speaker 1: a loophole in the rules, and the league's like, nah, 601 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,880 Speaker 1: we're not going to allow this. Yep. That's what it 602 00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: feels like to me. And by the way, I have 603 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: watched the Nets played four times, not a full game, 604 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,760 Speaker 1: but probably four halves. James Harden now is a passive player. 605 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: He went from like ball centric. His ball usage was 606 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: through the roof. I mean he there are times he 607 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: disappears on the floor. It's unbelievable, and so to be fair, 608 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 1: it should be noted while everyone was watching football today 609 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: the Nets played. They played the Raptors and Harden had 610 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 1: hiding far and away his best game of the year, 611 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: and he was excellent in the fourth quarter. He for 612 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: the first time all year. It was on during the 613 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 1: late window of games, so I saw the tail end 614 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 1: of the game while I was watching the Chiefs game 615 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: and the Cardinals game. And by the way, shout out 616 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: to the Cardinals getting the dominating the Niners. No, Kyler 617 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 1: murt unbelievable. Yeah, so Harden was good today, but he 618 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:54,320 Speaker 1: was awfull Friday and prior to today, Like, this is 619 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 1: what jumps out to me and I you know, I 620 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: tweeted the numbers, but he has he has stopped not 621 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: only stopped getting to the free throw line, which we 622 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 1: talked about. He had one game where he took nineteen 623 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,840 Speaker 1: free throws. Every other game this year prior to today 624 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 1: it was four or fewer. Today he got six. But 625 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 1: it wasn't just that, Colin. He stopped taking or making 626 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 1: two point baskets. You know, I have in the prior 627 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,399 Speaker 1: to today's game, on the season, he had nineteen made 628 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: twos and forty four turnovers. He had more more than 629 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 1: twice as many turnovers than two point field goals. And 630 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 1: he So I do think he's a little out of shape, 631 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,840 Speaker 1: and I do think he's a little overweight, and I 632 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 1: do think he's still a little unsure about the hamstring 633 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 1: all of that, But it's also clearly true is and 634 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,480 Speaker 1: this is the part that people I think are not 635 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,959 Speaker 1: baking into the hardened stuff when they talk about well 636 00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 1: he'll adjust, Yes, he will adjust. But part of what 637 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,800 Speaker 1: made him so great at getting to the basket was 638 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: people were afraid to foul him, so they guarded him 639 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 1: a specific way. Now that people are less afraid to 640 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: fail him, it's not just that he's not getting the calls. 641 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,279 Speaker 1: He's having a harder time beating guys because they are 642 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,560 Speaker 1: guarding him more. Honestly, that's not going to change. That 643 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:32,640 Speaker 1: isn't going to Ajen and they Harden has to be 644 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 1: like a fringe MVP level guy for them to win 645 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,160 Speaker 1: the time. Katie's been the best player in the league 646 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 1: so far this year. Katie has been sensational basically every game. 647 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,320 Speaker 1: He's playing almost perfect offensive basketball. And the team is 648 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: not great because even with Katie playing at this level, 649 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 1: the Blake Griffin looks old fast. He looks like Detroit 650 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: Blake Griffin. Paul Millsap was never gonna make sense. Aldridge 651 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: was never gonna make sense. They need Harden and they 652 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:12,239 Speaker 1: don't need Harden at nineteen and ten. They need Harden 653 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,160 Speaker 1: at twenty six and eleven. Ye, And I don't know 654 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 1: if that Harden is going to exist again, I just don't. 655 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,440 Speaker 1: I do not know if that Harden is it's going 656 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: to exist under these rules. Just like by the way, 657 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: John Lynch, would he have been a Hall of Fame 658 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 1: level safety if he was drafted today. Probably not. Don't 659 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,640 Speaker 1: hold it against him. Rules change, players change, But I 660 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 1: don't think Harden is right a top eight guy in 661 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,360 Speaker 1: the league right now, and they have to have him. Remember, 662 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,760 Speaker 1: Harden was a late bloomer anyway. Harden started on the bench, 663 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: Harden was a player. He's thirty two or thirty three now, 664 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: and he's really only been great for about six years. 665 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 1: In our world view, he should be like twenty eight now, 666 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,640 Speaker 1: right Like when you see the great players come out, 667 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 1: they're rocky the first year and then you're like, I 668 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,520 Speaker 1: mean even Jordan Poole, You're like, he's sixteen and a 669 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: half a game now, he's not close to I don't 670 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: think Harden. But this is a league, especially now with 671 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,960 Speaker 1: the rules, where if you're offensively gifted you're really good. 672 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 1: By twenty three, you're exceptional by twenty five. I mean, 673 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 1: Lucas better than everybody, but you can dominate at one, 674 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,800 Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty three. So Harden was a late bloomer. 675 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,440 Speaker 1: So I don't think he's athletically as vertical or as 676 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,920 Speaker 1: gifted as the year as your Kobes and your Michaels, 677 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,279 Speaker 1: even though his numbers would line up with theirs. He 678 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,880 Speaker 1: had a style. The NBA allowed the style. They have 679 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,280 Speaker 1: now eliminated the style, and he's not a world class 680 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 1: athlete in the context of the other great scorers. Correct, 681 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:52,720 Speaker 1: and it's so like he is. Again, I don't hold 682 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:59,280 Speaker 1: this against him legacy wise. That he was exploiting seems unfair. 683 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,800 Speaker 1: But he understood the rules. He was playing by the rules, 684 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 1: and he was exploiting in a positive way the rules, 685 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,200 Speaker 1: and it made him he was the three years he 686 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,080 Speaker 1: won the scoring title in Houston, and he averaged like thirty, 687 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,960 Speaker 1: thirty six and thirty four those three years, he was 688 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:23,520 Speaker 1: shooting combined twenty five threes and free throws a game thereabouts. 689 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:29,000 Speaker 1: So he just he with MOREY understood, all right, the 690 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,640 Speaker 1: most efficient thing you can do other than dunk the basketball, 691 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 1: which I can't really do, like obviously, he can dunk, 692 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:36,879 Speaker 1: but I'm not. You know, I'm not above the rim 693 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 1: guy is get to the free throw line and shoot threes. 694 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,719 Speaker 1: So what if that's all I do? What if that's 695 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 1: all I do? And it was, it was unguardable, it 696 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:51,759 Speaker 1: was unbelievable. But now it's guardable, and it's to me, 697 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,880 Speaker 1: is one of the most fascinating things. The reason the 698 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:58,160 Speaker 1: Lakers thing is this, I the very little abage of 699 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,239 Speaker 1: the Lakers when Lebron's not there matter. The question is 700 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,440 Speaker 1: is Lebron now injury prone? If he is, they're screwed. 701 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,919 Speaker 1: Ye like and by the way, people, and I said 702 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,960 Speaker 1: this on the TV show on Friday as well, but 703 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,200 Speaker 1: I want to reiterate it here. Whenever we talk about 704 00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,520 Speaker 1: the greatest players ever, people think I'm needling Jordan because 705 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,439 Speaker 1: I called Jordan and without a doubt top three guy, 706 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 1: and people think I'm needling him, and it is a 707 00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,399 Speaker 1: bit of a needle. But the reason I say top 708 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 1: three is because I feel like Kareem is the most 709 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,239 Speaker 1: historically disrespected guy ever. He's the most points, he is 710 00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,959 Speaker 1: the most MVPs, he has six rings, just like Jordan, 711 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,840 Speaker 1: all that stuff. But the other thing, but Kream is 712 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 1: he never got hurt Vincent in the face that one 713 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 1: time broke his hand. Sight from that in year twenty, 714 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,560 Speaker 1: he's playing seventy four games. He never got hurt. Look 715 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,160 Speaker 1: at his game walk Now he's not as effective, he's 716 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:52,839 Speaker 1: not at a high level, but he never got hurt. 717 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,640 Speaker 1: Jordan played eleven full seasons with the Bulls. Was out 718 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,239 Speaker 1: of there. Yeah, it's gone. I'll see you later. As 719 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,560 Speaker 1: far as like injury free full seasons that there is 720 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:08,960 Speaker 1: no what Lebron is trying to do in year nineteen, 721 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,960 Speaker 1: there is no comp fort. The closest is Carl Malone 722 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:17,839 Speaker 1: year eighteen, and we are gonna see if he can 723 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: make it through. If he can make it through him 724 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,080 Speaker 1: was Anthony Davis. And what I think right now is 725 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,200 Speaker 1: a very up for grabs West, like the Warriors. I 726 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,160 Speaker 1: know you're super high on him. Warriors could be the 727 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,839 Speaker 1: favorite right now in the West. Who knows. I think 728 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,960 Speaker 1: the Lakers could be fine, and we'll see Colin. Lebron's 729 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,200 Speaker 1: not afraid to, you know, press reset on an experiment. 730 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,800 Speaker 1: I don't think they'll do that, but you know, famously, 731 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,040 Speaker 1: the Cavs did trade Dwayne Wade away like they had 732 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,760 Speaker 1: Dwayne Wade and they like, see you laterybody, it's not working, 733 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: you can go back to Miami. So if the rust 734 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 1: thing doesn't get better, I think they'll make a move. 735 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,680 Speaker 1: But the question for the Lakers is Lebron going to 736 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,040 Speaker 1: be healthy for the postseason, And if he is, I 737 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,239 Speaker 1: like their chances. But it's fair to say now a 738 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,040 Speaker 1: guy who never got hurt Colin I watched him what 739 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,600 Speaker 1: I thought was break his ankle during a playoff game 740 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:15,120 Speaker 1: with the Calves, tighten his shoelaces, miss a possession, finished 741 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:19,680 Speaker 1: the game in the finals, the game seven against the Warriors, 742 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,520 Speaker 1: when he went up for what would have been the 743 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:25,120 Speaker 1: greatest dunk in NBA history, up three and Draymond fouled him. 744 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,680 Speaker 1: I'm convinced this day he broke his wrist and Wolverine 745 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,520 Speaker 1: to that son of a bitch, like I can't have 746 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,040 Speaker 1: a broken wrist right now. It was fine, he never 747 00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,319 Speaker 1: was injured, and then he tore his groin, and then 748 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,960 Speaker 1: last year he messed up his ankle, and now this 749 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,160 Speaker 1: year he's already had two little days. So it's something 750 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,440 Speaker 1: to watch, Like it doesn't change the fact that he's 751 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,040 Speaker 1: the greatest player that's ever lived, but it does change 752 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,600 Speaker 1: the math on cam. The Lakers win the title, Nick Right, 753 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:58,040 Speaker 1: A lot of Packers, Chiefs, Little Brown's hardened, lebron perfect, buddy, 754 00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,200 Speaker 1: have a great show tomorrow, no problem. And by the way, 755 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,280 Speaker 1: the next time we talk, Chiefs will be in first place, buddy. 756 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's go first. Let's on the line against 757 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:12,799 Speaker 1: the Raiders. Let's go alright, buddy, All right, that's Nick 758 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,799 Speaker 1: Right at the Volume Sports Instagram YouTube channel. Check it out. 759 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:32,920 Speaker 1: Think you'll like it. Talk soon. The Volume