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Speaker 2: Welcome in what'ch right with Me? Great Episode two twenty seven.
Speaker 2: How'd you spend your morning? I spent mine arguing with
Speaker 2: folks on the internet. After on Tuesday I said, don't
Speaker 2: argue with people on the internet. This was a little different,
Speaker 2: though this was an anonymous strangers. This is supposed experts talking
Speaker 2: down to me. I think that there is an element
Speaker 2: of maybe because of the job I have, or how
Speaker 2: I carry myself or whatever, the reasons are that some
Speaker 2: of these folks think that I can't get down in
Speaker 2: the analytical streets the way they can. No the idea
Speaker 2: that you're going to all of a sudden be able
Speaker 2: to outsmart me in one of these arguments. It's it
Speaker 2: would be insulting if it weren't so amusing. And that
Speaker 2: is actually where we're going to start the show when
Speaker 2: we talk about the Bills. But first, what missed the cut?
Speaker 2: Malachi Flynn and his career five point per game average
Speaker 2: dropped fifty points off the bench last night, Angel Reese
Speaker 2: declares for the WNBA draft, and Bill Nye shines in
Speaker 2: an eclipse photo shoot. Eclipse Day is what Monday eclipse
Speaker 2: is coming up. Demon's got his eclipsed sunglasses on. Those
Speaker 2: look great. I like those better than last week's sunglass
Speaker 2: or than Tuesday sunglasses. Deman's how are you? Oh they're Victors.
Speaker 2: Oh nice Victor very good. Yeah, And I've got to
Speaker 2: get to yours before I see you next week. By
Speaker 2: the way, I keep We've referenced a few times on
Speaker 2: the show. I just want there to be no confusion.
Speaker 2: I keep referencing a wedding that I'm having. I'm obviously married.
Speaker 2: Little personal life context before we then get to the show.
Speaker 2: Danielle and I when we got married eleven years ago
Speaker 2: but didn't have a wedding. I then promised her, because
Speaker 2: we didn't have any money for it, that when we
Speaker 2: had the money on our ten year anniversary, we would
Speaker 2: actually I think we might have said five year anniversary,
Speaker 2: and then even at the five year anniversary didn't quite
Speaker 2: have the I thought I had the money at the
Speaker 2: five year anniversary, but I underestimated what this wedding was
Speaker 2: going to entail. So then we kicked it five more years,
Speaker 2: said all right, in your anniversary, will do the big giant,
Speaker 2: awesome wedding called a vow renewal. Ten year anniversary came
Speaker 2: last year. It was Dior's high school graduation. We had
Speaker 2: other stuff going on, so we kicked it one more year.
Speaker 2: And now next week, my wife and I are actually
Speaker 2: getting married, even though we've already been married. We're doing
Speaker 2: it in Kansas City. So when we refer to the
Speaker 2: wedding where I'll see demanse, where demand is co best
Speaker 2: man along with Danny Parkins, he that I will see
Speaker 2: him there and he'll get his sunglasses there. Thank you
Speaker 2: to everyone in the control room saying congratulations, it is
Speaker 2: a weird thing. Your mom not shockingly said we should
Speaker 2: do a gift registry. I said, I think that is
Speaker 2: a little improper. I think it's a little rude. I
Speaker 2: don't think we can ask people for gifts for our
Speaker 2: wedding when we've been married for eleven years. But it'll
Speaker 2: be great, Demanse, you're doing well this morning.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. I'm doing great. It's good to see.
Speaker 2: Right, let's get out you as well. You look great.
Speaker 2: Let's get right into it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir. The Bills contelling you to tear it down.
Speaker 4: They just lost Stefon Diggs yesterday, as you all heard,
Speaker 4: he went to the Texans. So now Josh Allen won't
Speaker 4: be winning any quarterback debates against Patrick Mahomes with these
Speaker 4: wire receivers.
Speaker 3: What's his wire receiver room? Look like it's his top
Speaker 3: guy's probably Curtis.
Speaker 2: Samuel Khalil Shakir, Matt Collins, Justin Shorter, kJ Handler, Andy Isabella,
Speaker 2: Brian Thompson, Tyrrell Shavers. Right now, they'll assuredly draft a
Speaker 2: wide receiver. There's a lot of butterfly ripple effects from
Speaker 2: this that we'll get to, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: All right, So it seems like you might have been
Speaker 4: correct about the Bills all along. No, Phil, free to
Speaker 4: scream I told everybody so, and I'll grab my avacus
Speaker 4: for when you start to talk about.
Speaker 3: The dead cap hit for Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 2: Well, the dead CAP's pretty simple. It was gonna cost
Speaker 2: them twenty eight million on the cap for him to
Speaker 2: be on the team. Instead it's gonna cost them thirty
Speaker 2: one million for him to be off the team. And
Speaker 2: it's the highest dead cap hit for any non quarterback ever.
Speaker 2: But that's not the story here, and DEMAND say, you're
Speaker 2: right that the story for our listeners is that I
Speaker 2: told you so about the Buffalo Bills. But that is
Speaker 2: not how some are taking it. So I want to
Speaker 2: take you to the Twitter streets this morning that I
Speaker 2: was arguing with again, folks who make their living writing
Speaker 2: about football. So it started with Temo Risk from Pro
Speaker 2: Football Focus Pro Football Focus, which is plastered all over
Speaker 2: Sunday Night football their teams use their ratings. This is
Speaker 2: a real expert, Okay, he is talking down to Warren Sharp,
Speaker 2: calling Warren Sharp a casual for dunking on the Bills,
Speaker 2: explaining how the Stefan Diggs initial trade and era was
Speaker 2: actually good for the Bills, which, by the way, it
Speaker 2: might have been. Like if you want to say that
Speaker 2: the Digs four years Alan elevating his play. You paid
Speaker 2: Digs twenty million a year, You traded a first for him,
Speaker 2: that turned into Justin Jefferson. That part's not great, but
Speaker 2: you got him in the building. Alan all of a
Speaker 2: sudden elevated to the best play of his career that
Speaker 2: first year with him. You were a relevant team, You
Speaker 2: had excellent regular seasons, you had excruciating postseasons, and now
Speaker 2: eventually you're gonna get a second round pick back for him. Fine,
Speaker 2: but I thought that it was dismissive of Warren Sharp.
Speaker 2: So I quote tweeted it because in that tweet, one
Speaker 2: of the things Temo said is elevated their fringe playoff
Speaker 2: team status to quote being eight. Well, he said, Ann,
Speaker 2: but I won't be a grammar, you know, sick of
Speaker 2: fan there being a perennial super Bowl contender, And I
Speaker 2: write quote perennial super Bowl contender. In the four years
Speaker 2: with Digs, the following teams got closer to winning a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. And what I'm about to tell you is
Speaker 2: unimpeachable fact that for some reason folks are still in
Speaker 2: denial about. So the Bills had Digs for twenty twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. In those four years,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, the Rams, and the Bucks all won a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Chiefs won two. Do we all agree that
Speaker 2: winning the Super Bowl is closer to winning the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl than not? Okay? Yes, check them off. The Niners,
Speaker 2: the Bengals, and the Eagles all played in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Do we all agree that playing in a super Bowl?
Speaker 2: By the way, they all lost close Super Bowls, as
Speaker 2: did the Chiefs lost the Super Bowl in this run
Speaker 2: as well, but they got blown out. Do we all
Speaker 2: agree that playing in a Super Bowl is closer to
Speaker 2: winning a Super Bowl than not winning than not playing
Speaker 2: in a super Bowl? Yes, now we're at six. Okay.
Speaker 2: What's the closest you can come to making a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl but not making it well? Playing in the conference
Speaker 2: championship game and losing on a heartbreaker? Okay? Or losing close?
Speaker 2: Detroit played a nail bier conference championship game, was up
Speaker 2: seventeen and lost by his score. Green Bay played a
Speaker 2: nail bier conference championship game that came to down five.
Speaker 2: Have a third down against Brady, get off the field,
Speaker 2: but flag comes. That's close. Baltimore driving to be down three,
Speaker 2: leaping for the goal line fumble the football is that close? Okay?
Speaker 2: The Bills in this time frame played in one conference
Speaker 2: championship game got beat by three scores. All right. So
Speaker 2: that is Kansas City, the Rams, the Buck the Niners,
Speaker 2: the Bengals, the Eagles, the Lions, the Packers, and the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Nine teams in a thirty two team league. So more
Speaker 2: than a quarter of the league got closer than the
Speaker 2: Bills did. That's what I wrote, and this is now
Speaker 2: where I get fired up. Timo replies to this, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I also did a cursory rankings, and let's stay there
Speaker 2: and then I'll get to this other part, cursory rankings
Speaker 2: of teams and their success over the during the Digs
Speaker 2: Allen era. The Chiefs, obviously in first place right, won
Speaker 2: two Super Bowls, went to a third. Tampa second place,
Speaker 2: two trips to the divisional round and won a super Bowl.
Speaker 2: The Rams third place, multiple playoff appearances and won a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. The Niners fourth place, three trips to the
Speaker 2: conference championship game, including a Super Bowl appearance. The Bengals
Speaker 2: fifth place, two trips to the conference championship game and
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl appearance. The Eagles sixth place, multiple playoff
Speaker 2: appearances three I think maybe four three, four doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: went to a super Bowl. Baltimore seventh place, multiple trips
Speaker 2: to round two of the playoffs and a close conference
Speaker 2: championship game, Green Bay eighth place, a conference championship game loss,
Speaker 2: another and then two other appearances in round two, and
Speaker 2: then Buffalo ninth place, Dallas tenth place. If you want
Speaker 2: to parse Green Bay versus Buffalo, fine, so they would
Speaker 2: be either eight, nine or ten somewhere in there. The
Speaker 2: Bills resume is one trip to the conference tadle game
Speaker 2: where they got blown out, a close round two loss,
Speaker 2: a blowout round two loss, and then another close round
Speaker 2: two loss. So I write that, and Timo says, here
Speaker 2: is a list of teams, and this is where I
Speaker 2: lose my mind. Who were considered among realistic potential Super
Speaker 2: Bowl winners when January arrived every single year over the
Speaker 2: last four years, Chiefs Bills. End of list, end of story,
Speaker 2: end of any reasonable discussion. So let me set aside
Speaker 2: the patronizing tone and let me explain this.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately I missed this.
Speaker 2: Just because you speak it, just because you say it,
Speaker 2: does not make it true. Just because you decided that
Speaker 2: the Bills were realistic super Bowl contenders does not mean
Speaker 2: they were this year. The Bills team that started six
Speaker 2: and six was never a realistic super Bowl contender. I
Speaker 2: know you so desperately pleaded and claimed they were. But
Speaker 2: they weren't. And you saw it in their first playoff game.
Speaker 2: You saw it in Week seventeen or whenever it was,
Speaker 2: when they struggled to beat who the hell was East
Speaker 2: and stick in the Chargers. You saw it in their
Speaker 2: first playoff game when they struggled to beat Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 2: And you saw it when they lost another home playoff
Speaker 2: game last year, when a Bills team at home got
Speaker 2: annihilated by a team that then lost in the next
Speaker 2: round in Cincinnati. They were not a realistic super Bowl contender.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty, when they almost lost to ancient Philip
Speaker 2: Rivers and the Colts in round one and then got
Speaker 2: annihilated by the Chiefs in round three, they were not
Speaker 2: a realistic super Bowl You said they were, but they weren't.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty one, they were a realistic contender. They didn't
Speaker 2: get there. In fact, they lost to a team that
Speaker 2: then lost in the next round and the team that
Speaker 2: won that game then lost in the next round.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna jump they came with a go ahead.
Speaker 4: You say, it's just because you say it doesn't make
Speaker 4: it true, because like there was a chance that they
Speaker 4: could get there and buy off chance, you know, win
Speaker 4: a couple of games in a row and magically be
Speaker 4: in the Super Bowl with with a little bit of luck.
Speaker 4: But like people were saying that they were a Super
Speaker 4: Bowl contenders because of the the folks that they had
Speaker 4: on the team, and like they got so they just
Speaker 4: can't get it.
Speaker 2: And what I'm saying, and what I'm saying is, at
Speaker 2: some point the games have to matter. At some point
Speaker 2: the results are in. And in twenty twenty, you weren't
Speaker 2: that close because you got dog walked in the conference
Speaker 2: championship game by a team that then lost lost the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl by three scores. Right in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: I do think you were really close, but you lost
Speaker 2: a coin flip game, that's the thirteen seconds game to
Speaker 2: a team that then lost in the next round to
Speaker 2: the Bengals. And then that Bengals team lost in the
Speaker 2: next round. So your best team lost to the team
Speaker 2: that lost to the team that lost to the team.
Speaker 2: The next year you got annihilated by a team in
Speaker 2: Cincinnati in your building that then lost the next round.
Speaker 2: And this year you were which was your worst year,
Speaker 2: and you were injured all that you got beat in
Speaker 2: your building by a team that ended up winning the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. So no, they weren't one game away in
Speaker 2: any of these spots. Flip a result and explain to
Speaker 2: me why they then win the Super Bowl. They weren't
Speaker 2: a game away. Three of the four years they didn't
Speaker 2: even lose to the eventual champion. The one year they did.
Speaker 2: This year they lost the eventual champion and it was
Speaker 2: in there building in round two. So I replied to
Speaker 2: that to get back to the perennial Super Bowl contender discussion.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, no, that's not even what I want to
Speaker 2: go to here, because that's not what really got me
Speaker 2: fired up. Kevin Cole, who I was like, where do
Speaker 2: I know this name Kevin Cole from? And he used
Speaker 2: to be with Pro Football Focus now he does other
Speaker 2: football stuff. But it was because he condescended to Steven
Speaker 2: Ruiz on Twitter a few months ago, and I jumped
Speaker 2: in because Kevin Cole asserted with all of his chest
Speaker 2: that Lamar Jackson actually not that valuable. That was where
Speaker 2: I knew him from. So I'm gonna all I can
Speaker 2: hold on. I'm gonna get read it to you, so
Speaker 2: you guys know I'm not making this us up. The
Speaker 2: the tweet was uh, and the this was when we
Speaker 2: were talking about the MVP discussion. You can make all
Speaker 2: kinds of legitimate arguments that Lamar has outplayed his numbers,
Speaker 2: but I wonder how many people recognize the ground truth
Speaker 2: can't really be disputed. Plays he's been involved, he being
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, he's been involved in haven't been particularly valuable
Speaker 2: this season.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean Lamar Jackson is who Josh Allen who
Speaker 4: People say Josh Allen are amazing during the season.
Speaker 2: Quarter this amazing. Well, here's the thing. Josh has had
Speaker 2: some really good playoff games, some really good playoff games,
Speaker 2: and they have they both have their strengths and their weaknesses.
Speaker 2: And we'll get to Josh in a moment. I'm still
Speaker 2: arguing with people on the internet and I want to
Speaker 2: get back to it. Kevin replies to this guy and
Speaker 2: says he might not know what perennial means. He is
Speaker 2: me in that context, and uh, and then Timo replies,
Speaker 2: it's weird how someone would take the word perennial and
Speaker 2: then look for examples of teams with a quote higher
Speaker 2: noisy peak in terms of a single year playoff run.
Speaker 2: And then he replies, it's not weird when you factor
Speaker 2: in the feedback he gets. If your audience reacts on
Speaker 2: vibes and not facts and logic, you'll lean into going
Speaker 2: for vibes and not addressing actual arguments. Okay, so a
Speaker 2: number of things here. First of all, if you consider
Speaker 2: the goddamn NFL playoffs and the results of the games
Speaker 2: a noisy peak, then go and do something else for
Speaker 2: a living. If the results of the playoff games are
Speaker 2: just ah, noisy, statistically unimportant data set, then do something else.
Speaker 2: It's single elimination pro football. You're never going to have
Speaker 2: an adequate sample size to prove or disprove any of this.
Speaker 2: It's all a little based on vibes and gut and
Speaker 2: what you think. Because it's not one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: two games. You can't run a million simulations and believe
Speaker 2: it or not, you're absolutely sacricynct. Algorithms might not be
Speaker 2: able to fully factor for everything that goes into winning
Speaker 2: or losing football games. So that's first point. The second
Speaker 2: point is, don't condescend to the audience or to me
Speaker 2: and the idea that oh, his dumb audience of people
Speaker 2: who watch and enjoy football, those dumb people that look
Speaker 2: at football as a form of entertainment, they react to
Speaker 2: this stuff. Us smart guys understand it's far more than it.
Speaker 2: Then what is it? Is it just preseason Super Bowl odds?
Speaker 2: Is it just Super Bowl win expectancy as spat out
Speaker 2: by the five thirty eight computers in September? And everything
Speaker 2: else is just noise, like the arrogance to believe your
Speaker 2: preconceived notions, once proven wrong, were actually right and you
Speaker 2: just didn't have the right number of simulations to prove it.
Speaker 2: Get out of here some of us, some of us
Speaker 2: saw a team who was overly reliant on a superhuman
Speaker 2: at quarterback who tended to still trace back to some
Speaker 2: of his most juvenile mistakes. Folks for years have poked
Speaker 2: fun at the fact that I still bring up that
Speaker 2: Josh Allen, in the waning moments of the first playoff
Speaker 2: game he ever played in, threw a ball backwards over
Speaker 2: over his head because he panicked, and that I said
Speaker 2: that tells me a lot about who he is. Folks like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Nick, are you serious? And then you're
Speaker 2: still bringing that up.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: Five years later, in the biggest game he ever played
Speaker 2: against the Kansas City Chiefs at home, the third play
Speaker 2: of the game, he panicked and threw a forward pass
Speaker 2: when he was seven yards past the line of scrimmage
Speaker 2: to try to get a third down. That ended up
Speaker 2: working because the refs missed it. And two hours later,
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter of that game, before the missed
Speaker 2: field goal, he panicked and tried to stretch for an
Speaker 2: extra yard and fumbled the ball and it was bouncing
Speaker 2: to end the game and end the season, and luckily
Speaker 2: a Chiefs player foolishly tried to scoop and score and
Speaker 2: the Bills got it back. I don't know how you
Speaker 2: account for those moments, but they're real, just like it
Speaker 2: was real and not accounted for in any of your
Speaker 2: juvenile fast sile keep them in a damn lab preseason
Speaker 2: win probabilities. You know what was real? Stefan Diggs doing
Speaker 2: this on the sideline to Josh Allen. That was real.
Speaker 2: You know what was real, Sean McDermott doing this, How concerned.
Speaker 2: Am I very concerned. I'm concerned about Stefan Diggs. You
Speaker 2: know what was real, Stefan's brother saying get him out
Speaker 2: of there. It's all real. And this is maybe even
Speaker 2: more than an argument against the bills or against those
Speaker 2: dopes that I argued with on the internet. This is
Speaker 2: kind of an argument against artificial intelligence, the thrust of
Speaker 2: AI and robots into our lives versus what human beings know.
Speaker 2: You watched the bills and you said, ooh boy, Sean
Speaker 2: McDermott looks nervous, ooh boy, Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 2: I I can't tell you why. Specifically, it felt in
Speaker 2: my gut that Diggs and Alan's sideline interactions were more
Speaker 2: worrisome than Travis Kelcey literally assaulting Andy Reid on the sideline.
Speaker 2: But something in my heart and my head tells me
Speaker 2: they're different. I can't prove it to you, but I
Speaker 2: know Travis and Andy love each other and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be fine. And I can't prove it to you, but
Speaker 2: I know Stefan and Josh are not on the same page.
Speaker 2: And here we are, and the bills just got worse.
Speaker 2: You know how, I know they got worse. Their general
Speaker 2: manager had a press conference yesterday and said, we're worse.
Speaker 2: That's how I know. And so I I'm here to
Speaker 2: tell you that some of this was not that hard
Speaker 2: to see coming. And the idea that the Bills had
Speaker 2: an era is an insult to eras they were a
Speaker 2: pretty good team for the last four years. They were
Speaker 2: a touch in this timeframe better than the Cowboys and
Speaker 2: a touch worse than the Packers. That's it. They weren't
Speaker 2: some juggernaut. It was never Brady Manning, Mahomes Allen. It's
Speaker 2: an insult to everyone in that conversation to say that
Speaker 2: they weren't the Chief's biggest threat. You know how I
Speaker 2: know because the team with the better quarterback and the
Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm saying this steadier coach with a
Speaker 2: defense that instead of every year being great in the
Speaker 2: regular season and falling apart in the playoffs, was mediocre
Speaker 2: in the regular season. Next in the playoffs in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: that team actually beat Kansas City. And I understand that
Speaker 2: the AFC title game results are you know, a noisy peak,
Speaker 2: but it's the way we measure athletes and teams, guys,
Speaker 2: and now here is the thing. I will tell you
Speaker 2: there is a chance for the biggest Josh Allen fans
Speaker 2: demons to be able to get their get back and
Speaker 2: to be able to use a lot of my quotes
Speaker 2: against me.
Speaker 4: And you know how by Josh Allen performing huh.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, now it's a fair fight, right to Alan
Speaker 2: Mahomes Mahomes Allen one A one B one B one A. Okay,
Speaker 2: how would Patrick Mahomes do if his all Pro wide
Speaker 2: receiver was traded in the offseason? Well, I don't know,
Speaker 2: could that ever happen?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: It did happen. Oh did they replace him with a
Speaker 2: number one receiver?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, they just had to draft somebody or somebody's So
Speaker 2: how did that go?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: He won the league MVP and then and was the
Speaker 2: highest scoring team in the league and won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And then the next year with what was considered the
Speaker 2: worst receiving corps, not just in the NFL, but in
Speaker 2: years of the NFL. That's what I was told all
Speaker 2: year the Chiefs team, the receiving corps is so bad
Speaker 2: that a team with Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes in a
Speaker 2: great defense, that receiving corps is so bad it will tear,
Speaker 2: pull the entire team down. Won the Super Bowl again.
Speaker 2: So now this is a great moment for all of
Speaker 2: the folks who have argued Mahomes Allen is a real debate.
Speaker 2: Now you don't have to deal with the distraction of
Speaker 2: Stepan Diggs, you don't have to deal with any of that.
Speaker 2: Go do it. I'm excited to how this turns out.
Speaker 2: So here's a question I have for you, Demanse before
Speaker 2: we move on to the Texans. And I texted our
Speaker 2: group today that was gonna try to go a little fasterday.
Speaker 2: We went twenty five minutes on the first topic. Can
Speaker 2: we put up that Stefan Diggs tweet? So here's my question,
Speaker 2: and I don't know the answer. So Stefan Diggs the
Speaker 2: night before he was traded, replies to a tweet from
Speaker 2: a couple days before saying, does Josh benefit from having
Speaker 2: a top tier receiver? Yes? Is it essential to Is
Speaker 2: Digs essential to Josh's success? No? And Digs on Tuesday
Speaker 2: night tweets you sure, question Mark Wednesday morning, he's traded.
Speaker 2: So here's my question to you, Demanse. There's not a
Speaker 2: wrong or right answer here. I'm just kind of doing
Speaker 2: like a one person straw pole. Do you think Diggs
Speaker 2: knew the trade was coming when he sent this or
Speaker 2: do you think him sending this was the last straw
Speaker 2: that then initiated them to pull the trigger on the trade.
Speaker 5: I think knew he was getting traded.
Speaker 2: So you think he already knew?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so go ahead, Yeah, No, I think he I
Speaker 4: think he already knew. I mean, I feel like Stefan
Speaker 4: Diggs has wanted out for a while, and I don't
Speaker 4: think I don't know if he tweets that like and
Speaker 4: knows in the back of his mind there's a chance
Speaker 4: that he could still be on the bills, I just
Speaker 4: don't think he'd do.
Speaker 2: That, so so I think it. So here's the part
Speaker 2: of it. I think you're right. But what I find
Speaker 2: intriguing is if he knew. They did a really good
Speaker 2: job of keeping it quiet, because there were no leaps
Speaker 2: that this was coming before it happened. It wasn't like,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, potential. You're right that people
Speaker 2: thought Digs at some point could be moved, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't like there were reports the night before where agents.
Speaker 3: Does to strike. He was the type of guy to
Speaker 3: do it a little little sly like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe think I mean, okay, so that's where you're at.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on now to the Texans side
Speaker 2: of things. Listen, the Bills, congrats guys on your three
Speaker 2: consecutive AFC bronze medals. We'll never see a team like
Speaker 2: you again. Uh oh, we got to oh this See
Speaker 2: that's not nice. I mean, that's not nice. It is
Speaker 2: what it is, all right, next.
Speaker 4: All right, So on the other side of it, the
Speaker 4: Texans now have Stefan Diggs obviously c J. Stroud on
Speaker 4: his rookie deal, and they've got Joe Nixon or Joe
Speaker 4: Mixon and the running game, and they've beefed up the
Speaker 4: defense a little bit. With that said, do you think
Speaker 4: the Texans are the number one threat to the Chiefs
Speaker 4: the AFC?
Speaker 2: I think you can make a really strong case the
Speaker 2: Texans are the best team in the AFC other than
Speaker 2: Kansas City. So I want to talk about the Texans,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to forget about the butterfly effect
Speaker 2: part of this that I said, So you want to
Speaker 2: know my galaxy brain like butterfly effect of the Digs
Speaker 2: trade demonse, What's something that now I now believe the
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions are going to trade for t Higgins. So
Speaker 2: you might say, why what are the dots there? So
Speaker 2: the Lions, I think, believe they need a receiver. The
Speaker 2: Lions are drafting twenty nine. The Bengals are obviously shopping Higgins.
Speaker 2: They were going to trade Higgins or I shouldn't.
Speaker 3: Wait, I should We're going to trade something happened with Brown.
Speaker 2: No, but they want a second receiver. They just yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just they Jamison Williams hasn't really worked out the
Speaker 2: way they had hoped, and I you know, they they
Speaker 2: were connected to whatever exactly right. No, they have amenros
Speaker 2: because to be honest, I think they need some help defensively.
Speaker 2: But offensively, the offensive line's great. I'm on ros. Great.
Speaker 2: They just drafted Gibbs. They like golf. They Laporta's excellent.
Speaker 2: You know. The only spot on the offense you really
Speaker 2: look at is receiver and then some help on defense
Speaker 2: for Aiden Hutchinson. Okay, so I think the Lions were
Speaker 2: planning at twenty nine to draft a receiver. Well, who
Speaker 2: drafts at twenty eight Buffalo? Now Detroit knows Okay, obviously
Speaker 2: Harrison Neighbors and a doonsay are gone in the top ten.
Speaker 2: After that, you have Ady Mitchell, you have Brian Thomas
Speaker 2: from LSU as the fourth and fifth or fifth and
Speaker 2: fourth receivers. Buffalo is definitely taking a receiver. So now
Speaker 2: we're down to drafting the fifth receiver. Pittsburgh is a
Speaker 2: potential receive team. Cincinnati, if they trade T Higgins elsewhere,
Speaker 2: is a potential receiver team. We could be sitting there
Speaker 2: at twenty nine and at best get the fifth receiver
Speaker 2: and maybe get the sixth or seventh. So I think
Speaker 2: Detroit now is more likely to trade for T. Higgins.
Speaker 2: So that's a little kind of butterfly effect piece of it.
Speaker 2: Now to the Texans, I have seen a lot of
Speaker 2: oh my goodness, the Texans. This is a blueprint every
Speaker 2: team should follow. Okay, Well, I mean if the blueprint
Speaker 2: was draft a quarterback at two and higher the Niners
Speaker 2: decordinator as your head coach, then the Jets would be
Speaker 2: in great shape because they followed that blueprint and they're
Speaker 2: a disaster. Okay. So also the Texans blueprint of be
Speaker 2: truly horrific for three consecutive years, and in those three years,
Speaker 2: go through four different coaches before you finally get the
Speaker 2: right one, and oh yeah, by the way, pull off
Speaker 2: an all time trade heist in getting three first round
Speaker 2: picks for Deshaun Watson. My point is that part of
Speaker 2: the blueprint is not really duplicable. You can't really be like,
Speaker 2: all right, here's the play boys. We're gonna get one
Speaker 2: of the greatest trade halls ever. We're then going to
Speaker 2: be truly awful for three straight seasons to get even
Speaker 2: more blue chip picks, but not quite awful enough to
Speaker 2: ever have the number one pick of the draft. But
Speaker 2: the team drafting number one is gonna take the smallest
Speaker 2: quarterback who's ever played in the NFL. So we're gonna
Speaker 2: get the right guy at number two. And by the way,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be able to get the hottest coaching prospect
Speaker 2: on the market because he's a legend for our franchise
Speaker 2: who played middle linebacker for us and wants to come
Speaker 2: save the team he played for. That is not something
Speaker 2: a lot of teams can file. It's not like you're
Speaker 2: in Carolina, You're like, all right, boys, here's the plan.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna be all for a number of years,
Speaker 2: and then Luke Keikley is gonna come in and save
Speaker 2: us along with a quarterback we draft. That's not a plan.
Speaker 2: But the part of the plan that is replicable, I
Speaker 2: should say, is if you've gotten that guy at quarterback, spend, spend, spend,
Speaker 2: spin spind. Yes, while he's cheap, go put talent around him.
Speaker 2: And I think Diggs will be awesome this year. A
Speaker 2: motivated Stepan Diggs. I think you'll be really good for
Speaker 2: at least one more year. Age is catching up to
Speaker 2: him a little bit. But you have Nico Collins, you
Speaker 2: have Tank Dell coming back from the injury. You have
Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs, you got maybe the best left tackle in
Speaker 2: sport and tunsl you're building the defense. Like I think
Speaker 2: the Texans are excellent, excellent. Before this trade, I had
Speaker 2: them neck and neck with Cincinnati as the biggest threats
Speaker 2: in the AFC outside of Kansas City. And you know
Speaker 2: what that means, demanse, Oh my goodness, I'm so excited
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 5: What is that? What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Because you've got it, You've got one.
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: I've got a question. Now, I've got a question for you,
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna let you finish your Oh okay, do
Speaker 4: you think okay?
Speaker 5: Go ahead?
Speaker 4: It's bad Okay, yeah, So do you think the Prince
Speaker 4: will ever win an AFC South Game South game again,
Speaker 4: or well a seulth title?
Speaker 2: Uh vision Listen, I this offseason not been good for
Speaker 2: my guy, right, they're not gonna lie. I don't like
Speaker 2: the moves the Jags have made. The Jags so like.
Speaker 2: The Jags had the number one pick the next in,
Speaker 2: took Trevor the next year so bad, got the number
Speaker 2: one pick again, and they've squandered the whole thing. They're
Speaker 2: out of here, signing Gabe Davis to thirteen million a year,
Speaker 2: Trent Bulky keeps getting jobs and keeps being terrible. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I think Trevor's awesome, but I
Speaker 2: think that right now they are not the favorites in
Speaker 2: their own division, that's for sure. I agree with that
Speaker 2: piece of it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's not good for my guy to have this Texans
Speaker 2: team and CJ in his division. There's no way around it.
Speaker 2: But to be fair, you're supposed to have at least
Speaker 2: two excellent quarterbacks in each division. The AFC East right
Speaker 2: now doesn't. And I for all this trash I talk
Speaker 2: on trash is the wrong word truth I tell about
Speaker 2: Josh He's obviously an excellent quarterback. I don't think they
Speaker 2: have another excellent quarterback in that division. But the AFC
Speaker 2: North has Lamar and Burrow, the AFC West has Mahomes
Speaker 2: and Herbert, the AFC South, it's fair for them to
Speaker 2: have Stroud and Trevor. But that's not what I was
Speaker 2: going to get to. What I was going to say
Speaker 2: is this, so the initial so we had Brady Manning.
Speaker 2: Brady Manning was the thing, right, and then a couple
Speaker 2: of years into Mahomes's career after he won the MVP,
Speaker 2: and shout out to Pete Sweeney for doing the screenshots
Speaker 2: of all of these exact conversations over the last five
Speaker 2: years on TV, but we got Mahomes. Watson is that
Speaker 2: the new Brady Manning, and then Mahomes annihilated him in
Speaker 2: a twenty four to nothing playoff game. Down twenty four
Speaker 2: ended up, you know, I think winning fifty one to
Speaker 2: thirty one, and then you know, his career kind of
Speaker 2: went askew after that, crossed him off the list. Then
Speaker 2: Lamar unanimous MVP. Lamar beat Mahomes in the regular season Mahomes.
Speaker 2: Lamar is that the new Brady Manning and then Lamar
Speaker 2: had his own postseason struggles, seemed to be over him
Speaker 2: and then lost to Mahomes in the playoff game. Cross
Speaker 2: him off the list. Then it was Mahomes Allen, that's
Speaker 2: the new Brady Manning. And then Mahomes played him three
Speaker 2: times in the playoffs to beat him all three times,
Speaker 2: crossed him off the list. Then it was Mahomes Borrow,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Burrough actually won a game, and then
Speaker 2: Mahomes being the AFC title game. Unfortunately Joe Burrow got
Speaker 2: hurt and see mister the playoffs, cross him off the list.
Speaker 2: We're about to get Mahomes v. Quarterback ATX version five
Speaker 2: point zero. Mahomes Stroud is that the new Brady Manning.
Speaker 4: And is like, you can yet I don't know if
Speaker 4: you can cross him off yet. Aget he did like
Speaker 4: the Chiefs beats them last time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, listen, and it's hard to go undefeated,
Speaker 2: you know, against the team in the playoffs the way
Speaker 2: the Chiefs said with the Bills, and so credit to
Speaker 2: the Bengals. That's fine. I think that Burrow is now
Speaker 2: all of a sudden coming off a lost season and
Speaker 2: is probably gonna not have t Higgins. But we'll see
Speaker 2: like that that. My point is Stroud's the next man up.
Speaker 2: But as I told you guys over the last few years,
Speaker 2: and I will say again, it is not a Brady
Speaker 2: versus Manning scenario. It is a tiger versus the field scenario.
Speaker 2: And you can pick which of these quarterbacks is VJ. Singh,
Speaker 2: which one's David Duvall, which ones aren't he L's, and
Speaker 2: which one's Phil Mickelson. But it is not Brady Manning.
Speaker 2: It is tiger versus the field. All right, let's take
Speaker 2: a quick break, come back, talk a little Lakers, and
Speaker 2: play a little right ends. We'll do all that next.
Speaker 2: What's Right? All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick? Right,
Speaker 2: a little breaking news Julius Randall having season ending shoulder surgery,
Speaker 2: which is I mean, listen, he has been not a
Speaker 2: good playoff performer. But that's brutal for the Knicks because
Speaker 2: they did look really good when they were after the
Speaker 2: Og trade, when they were at full strength, and now
Speaker 2: you're not going to see that team again, So that's
Speaker 2: brutal for them. So that's some breaking news for the show. Also,
Speaker 2: shout up to this show for prematurely being correct about
Speaker 2: the lsu IOWA rating. So if you were listening Tuesday,
Speaker 2: we had the breaking news of this show of lsu
Speaker 2: Iowa doing twelve point two million people. We brought it
Speaker 2: to you before anyone had it, including Nielsen, because we
Speaker 2: misread a tweet about something else, but we reported it
Speaker 2: as twelve point two million.
Speaker 3: Oh we didn't correct.
Speaker 5: Man, by the way, that was Meg's doing.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, exactly a premonition by Meg. So we then
Speaker 2: apologized because we thought, oh man, we got tricked that
Speaker 2: the official numbers aren't out. Then the official numbers came out,
Speaker 2: there's twelve point three million, So we thought Meg had
Speaker 2: it first, then didn't have it, and then was had it.
Speaker 2: Definitely had it first and was right. So unlike this,
Speaker 2: so unlike the uh, the lsu IOWA rating, this is news.
Speaker 2: We have triple check verified. But it turns out we
Speaker 2: didn't need triple check verify the lsu IOWA rating because
Speaker 2: we were just ten hours before everyone on it. Good
Speaker 2: job by us there, all right, Demansey, Let's do Lakers.
Speaker 5: Thank you Megs for damas.
Speaker 4: The Lakers have been the hottest team in the NBA
Speaker 4: the past couple of weeks, but they're still at the
Speaker 4: nine seed currently, do you think they have a path
Speaker 4: out of the play in or do they at least
Speaker 4: have a path to avoid being the bottom of the
Speaker 4: play in.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is what's so interesting. The MAVs, Sons,
Speaker 2: and Pelicans have forty five wins. The Kings and Lakers
Speaker 2: have forty four wins. So it sounds super close, but
Speaker 2: it's not. Because the law you can make up wins,
Speaker 2: you can't make up losses, right, So the wins don't
Speaker 2: matter that much. What matters is the losses. The MAVs
Speaker 2: have thirty losses, the Sons, Pelicans, Kings have thirty one losses.
Speaker 2: The Lakers have thirty three losses. Okay, and the Lakers
Speaker 2: are the nine seed. So the question is, can't the
Speaker 2: Lakers cannot realistically pass two teams and get out of
Speaker 2: the play in. But you guys know how important I
Speaker 2: think it is for them to be in the seven
Speaker 2: eight part of the play in? Versus then can they
Speaker 2: catch one team? So you go through it and you
Speaker 2: realize it's harder than you think. So the Kings are
Speaker 2: the team that I think folks believe they have the
Speaker 2: best chance of catching the problem with the Kings is
Speaker 2: the Lakers lost the tiebreaker to them. So if the
Speaker 2: Kings and Lakers finished with the same record, the Kings
Speaker 2: get the higher seed. Right the Suns, the Lakers have
Speaker 2: the tiebreaker with, but they're playing great basketball right now.
Speaker 2: They had this really tough stretch of games, but then
Speaker 2: you know, they got Denver without Jokic and so that
Speaker 2: that made it not quite as tough. Are they gonna
Speaker 2: the Suns Probably not gonna catch them. So the people
Speaker 2: need to be watching is the New Orleans Pelicans. The
Speaker 2: Lakers right now have the tiebreaker with New Orleans, and
Speaker 2: in the final game of the year, they play New Orleans.
Speaker 2: So what the Lakers need is to play one game
Speaker 2: better than New Orleans the rest of the way and
Speaker 2: have and then beat New Orleans in the final game
Speaker 2: of the year. So if you think the Lakers can go,
Speaker 2: they've got five left, four and one right. So they're
Speaker 2: home for Cleveland, home for Minnesota, home for Golden State,
Speaker 2: at Memphis, at New Orleans. Say they lose Minnesota, which
Speaker 2: is the second night of a back to back, and
Speaker 2: they win the other games and they're forty eight and
Speaker 2: thirty four. What that means is you need New Orleans
Speaker 2: to lose two of the following home for San anton
Speaker 2: at the Suns, at the hopeless Blazers, at the Kings
Speaker 2: at Golden State on the second night of a back
Speaker 2: to back, and then they obviously play the Lakers. So
Speaker 2: if you're trying, if you're hoping, the Lakers can move
Speaker 2: up from nine at Phoenix, at Sacramento at Golden State,
Speaker 2: those three games for New Orleans, you need them to
Speaker 2: lose two of them, and you need the Lakers to
Speaker 2: take care of business and only lose once more the
Speaker 2: rest of the way. If that happens, they can move
Speaker 2: up to the seven eight game, and I think go
Speaker 2: on a real run if they are stuck in the
Speaker 2: nine to ten spot and they have to win just
Speaker 2: to move on to game two of the play in
Speaker 2: and then win a road game just to move on
Speaker 2: to the actual playoffs, to then play a rested for
Speaker 2: a week one seed no matter who that is, that
Speaker 2: path I think is not viable. They've got to move
Speaker 2: up at least one spot. If you are in the
Speaker 2: nine ten spot, what you basically have to do is
Speaker 2: win six of nine to get out of Round one.
Speaker 2: You're back to back playing games and then four of
Speaker 2: seven without home court advantage, you know, without arrest advantage
Speaker 2: at all against a one seed. Too hard. So the
Speaker 2: Lakers are playing great, Lebron is playing out of his mind.
Speaker 2: But that start to the season twenty four and twenty
Speaker 2: five right now looms incredibly large. And the Kings, all
Speaker 2: those Kings games that they just absolutely Game three of
Speaker 2: the season they lose in overtime to the Kings game,
Speaker 2: then they lose. The Kings beat him by fifteen, The
Speaker 2: Kings beat him by ten, The Kings beat him by thirteen.
Speaker 2: Going zero to four against the Kings could be the
Speaker 2: difference in the whole year. You'll win one of those
Speaker 2: games and you're tied with the Kings and the standings.
Speaker 2: You win two of them and you're the five seed
Speaker 2: right now. Just a brutal spot, all right, Demon's what's next?
Speaker 5: Crazy?
Speaker 4: So yeah, Bronni James is reportedly entering the transfer portal
Speaker 4: after the USC's coach left for SMU. Lebron didn't confirm that,
Speaker 4: but he says, Bronni's got some pretty tough decisions to
Speaker 4: make moving forward. You said you think one reason Lebron
Speaker 4: wants to stay in La is because of Bronni. So
Speaker 4: with that being said, do you expect Lebron to follow
Speaker 4: Bronnie wherever he goes.
Speaker 2: So here's what I would say. If I were a
Speaker 2: die hard Laker fan, I would be monitoring this. One
Speaker 2: of the reasons that I think it has been just
Speaker 2: assumed that Lebron is going who's a free agent this
Speaker 2: offseason if he wants to be that Lebron is going
Speaker 2: to stay with the Lakers this offseason is because Bronni's
Speaker 2: at USC. Well, if Bronni leaves, could I see a
Speaker 2: scenario where Bronni and where Bronni's college decision and Lebron's
Speaker 2: free agency decision are correlated? Is based on no like
Speaker 2: inside or intel, just you know, just logic. As a father. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if all of a sudden, demand was thinking about moving
Speaker 2: it from LA and I had the opportunity to pick
Speaker 2: any city to work in this summer, would I at
Speaker 2: least talk with him and be like, Hey, where are
Speaker 2: you looking at? Is there a possibility we could work
Speaker 2: in the same city? Of course, obviously, of course, and
Speaker 2: so I think it is. I think the chances of
Speaker 2: Lebron leaving the Lakers, however small they are, increase slightly
Speaker 2: if Bronnie ends up deciding to transfer from USC All right,
Speaker 2: let's go on to write INDs.
Speaker 3: Demon's go ahead, you where do you where could you
Speaker 3: see Bronni going?
Speaker 2: So I don't know so that part, and I don't
Speaker 2: think he's gonna declare for the draft, and I don't
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are connecting him to Ducaine.
Speaker 2: So if people don't know why he's being connected to Ducaine,
Speaker 2: here's why Ducaine. When Lebron was a junior in high school,
Speaker 2: Ducaine hired Frank Dambrot, the coach of Lebron's high school team,
Speaker 2: to be their head coach Ducaine University, hoping that if
Speaker 2: bron ended up not going straight to the NBA, maybe
Speaker 2: he'd go there. Lebron's teammate Drew Joyce, the third from
Speaker 2: that high school state championship team, then ended up becoming
Speaker 2: a coach himself, ended up being the assistant at Ducaine,
Speaker 2: and just got the head coaching job at Ducaine because
Speaker 2: Dan Brot twenty years later retired this past offseason after
Speaker 2: they won their first NCAA tournament game. So because of
Speaker 2: the family, I know some people have connected Bronnie to
Speaker 2: Ducane he'd obviously be featured more there, he'd be one
Speaker 2: of the highest ranked recruits that team's ever gotten. I
Speaker 2: don't again, so I think that is on the board.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I think that's likely, but I do
Speaker 2: think that this is something intriguing to follow over the summer,
Speaker 2: particularly depending on how the Lakers season ends. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to right ends.
Speaker 5: All right, We're gonna start off with Joel Jewel.
Speaker 4: Embiid returned to action versus I love that graphic return
Speaker 4: to action versus Okac Tuesday and came up clutchlely. Embiid
Speaker 4: was visibly exhausted at the end of the game, but
Speaker 4: Philly still has six games to get him back up
Speaker 4: to speed. The seventy six ers ceiling with embiidback is.
Speaker 2: I mean their ceiling is winning the title. I mean
Speaker 2: that the I mean they have an excellent roster, well rounded. Maxi's,
Speaker 2: you know, great, Darryl's done a really good job of
Speaker 2: filling out the roster, and Embiid was playing the best
Speaker 2: basketball of his career before he got hurt. Now, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a really tough putt, but their ceiling is
Speaker 2: they could win the title. Now They've never even made
Speaker 2: a conference finals since Iverson was there. But that's their ceiling,
Speaker 2: all right. Next.
Speaker 4: Uh, if you thought the Bucks losing to the Wizards
Speaker 4: is bad, things got even worse against the Grizzlies. After
Speaker 4: back to back losses to lowly opponents, Doc now has
Speaker 4: more losses than Adrian Griffin had Milwaukee. Milwaukee's problems are.
Speaker 2: Right now too many to count. Gosh, I mean Doc
Speaker 2: has now blamed the trainers, the bus driver, the traveling
Speaker 2: secretary for the team. Yeah, I mean he was like,
Speaker 2: we do everything bad on the road, Like from top down.
Speaker 2: Doc is finding people to blame. Dame's not playing right now,
Speaker 2: They're they're the Bucks. The upside is still there, but man,
Speaker 2: oh man, right now they look like a team that
Speaker 2: is not ready to compete for a championship. All right.
Speaker 4: Next, the Nuggets, the Thunder, and the Timberwolves are all
Speaker 4: neck and neck in the West with only a few
Speaker 4: games left. Who pulls away the one seed in the
Speaker 4: West will be.
Speaker 2: Well. So Minnesota has at the Suns, at the Lakers,
Speaker 2: home for the Wizards, at the Nuggets, home for the Hawks,
Speaker 2: home for the Suns. Left, that's a brutal finishing kick.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets have at the Clippers, then home for the Hawks,
Speaker 2: at the Jazz, home for the Timberwolves, at the Spurs
Speaker 2: at the Grizzlies. That is not a tough finishing kick.
Speaker 2: And the thunder they've got at the Pacers at the Hornets,
Speaker 2: home for the King's home for the Spurs, home for
Speaker 2: the Bucks, home for the MAVs, that's mediocre. What is Jamal?
Speaker 2: When is Jamal Murray? Daniel should know this. When is
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray supposed to be back? He's questionable for tonight.
Speaker 2: So for the the Nuggets gotta get Jamal Murray back
Speaker 2: right now. My money would assuming Jamal Murray comes back,
Speaker 2: my money would be on Denver. If not, I think
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City could steal it. I also think yep. And
Speaker 2: I also think that the number one seed, because you
Speaker 2: don't get to draft your playoff opponent, the number one
Speaker 2: seed might not be that valuable depending on how the
Speaker 2: postseason the play in tournament ends up. All right, next.
Speaker 4: Last week we saw Luca chirp the Kings for not
Speaker 4: drafting him. Tonight he faces the Hawks, who traded his
Speaker 4: rights on draft night. Are we in store for another
Speaker 4: dominant performance tonight versus the Hawks.
Speaker 2: Oh, I have a thirty five point triple double. The
Speaker 2: Hawks can't They're not going to guard and the Maps
Speaker 2: just lost. Lucas still is I think holding out, you know,
Speaker 2: tiny hope that he could win a league MVP. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I think this is uh the I think this
Speaker 2: is gonna be a monster stat night for Luca.
Speaker 4: All Right, last, the men's and women's finals four final
Speaker 4: fours are coming up this weekend. What are you most
Speaker 4: looking forward to Your favorite college headline heading into the
Speaker 4: weekend is.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I hope that I hope that we get it.
Speaker 2: Looks like Yukon's gonna run away with it. On the
Speaker 2: men's side of things, I think Yukon's big men against
Speaker 2: Zach Edy would be fun to watch, But I'm most
Speaker 2: interested in the women's side of things. Page and Yukon
Speaker 2: are a great story, but I'm rooting for Caitlin. South
Speaker 2: Carolina is going to annihilate NC State and then you
Speaker 2: have Caitlin against South Carolina, and I want people to
Speaker 2: understand what South Carolina has done over the last few years.
Speaker 2: So South Carolina women's basketball in the twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: season was thirty five and two and won the national championship. Okay,
Speaker 2: South Carolina women's basketball last year was thirty six and
Speaker 2: one and the one loss was in the semifinal to
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark. South Carolina women's basketball this year is thirty
Speaker 2: six and zero and the huge favorite to win the
Speaker 2: national championship. Okay, So in South Carolina women's basketball's basketball,
Speaker 2: last we do the math year, seventy nine games they are,
Speaker 2: is that right?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: That is right? Hold on, yeah, they're seventy eight and one,
Speaker 2: and the one loss came to Caitlan, right, and they
Speaker 2: won a national title, and our police to win another one.
Speaker 2: If they end up being over the last two years, demonse,
Speaker 2: just the last two years. Right now, they're thirty six
Speaker 2: and oh. This year they make the national championship game,
Speaker 2: they're thirty seven and oh. Last year they were thirty
Speaker 2: six and oh going into the semifinal and Caitlin beat them.
Speaker 2: If they end up the next last two years seventy
Speaker 2: three and two with both losses being to Caitlin Clark
Speaker 2: in Iowa, that will be one of the most remarkable.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is pretty unbelievable. Man. They win the title,
Speaker 2: they are then the undefeated defending national champions and she
Speaker 2: beats them in the final four. They then come back
Speaker 2: the next year, they're undefeated going into the final four.
Speaker 2: If she then beats them in the championship game to
Speaker 2: win the title, oh my goodness, gracious be unbelievable. All right,
Speaker 2: answer listener questions next, What's right? All right, welcome back
Speaker 2: in What's Right with Nick Grady. I got a run,
Speaker 2: so we'll do this quick. The producers tell me that
Speaker 2: Luca having a thirty four point triple double is plus
Speaker 2: three ten. I mean, that's a bad that's a square bet.
Speaker 2: But I think he's gonna do it. I think I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna have thirty five points in a triple
Speaker 2: double tonight. Again, he says, dude, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, spik dude,
Speaker 2: it's one of the things I like about him. Demon's say,
Speaker 2: read G and G productions questions because it's about Luca.
Speaker 4: G and G production said Nick. What separates guys like
Speaker 4: Luca that plays similar to Lebron from being as dominant
Speaker 4: as he went as he was in his prime?
Speaker 2: Well, I think Luca is as dominant as Lebron was
Speaker 2: offensively in his prime. The difference is Lebron and his
Speaker 2: prime was the best defensive player in the league, and
Speaker 2: so the and like Luca is a better rain shooter
Speaker 2: than Lebron was early in his career. Lebron obviously a
Speaker 2: far better athlete, but Lebron also, you know, Lebron didn't
Speaker 2: win championship it until he had better teammates around him.
Speaker 2: And we've seen Luca carry a team to the conference finals.
Speaker 2: So you know, I think that, uh, I think that's legit.
Speaker 2: And then ask the follow up that the producers wrote
Speaker 2: in there under the GM.
Speaker 4: This question, Oh yeah, is that is that why Luca
Speaker 4: hates the Sons too? Because they drafted eight and over him.
Speaker 2: Well, I think he hates the Sons because of Devin Booker.
Speaker 2: I actually think it's just about the dislike Devin Booker. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 4: I hate the Sons, but I really don't like Devin Booker,
Speaker 4: and I don't like he's He's pretty annoying.
Speaker 2: You know what, I get it. I understand that. And
Speaker 2: by the way, Booker played great last night. He's been
Speaker 2: playing great. He had fifty the other night. He's been
Speaker 2: playing great. All Right, I gotta run, I gotta get
Speaker 2: to work. I also have to have my uh, blazer.
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