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Speaker 2: Welcome in Episode one twenty two. What's Right with Nick
Speaker 2: Wright the podcast? By the last week or earlier this week,
Speaker 2: we asked you all to subscribe on YouTube so we
Speaker 2: could maybe get to one hundred thousand subscribers by the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I then send out a tweet about that.
Speaker 2: People evidently were very mean to Demanse in the comments. Man,
Speaker 2: you told me about it. What are you laughing about?
Speaker 3: Cause no, no, because as soon as you said something
Speaker 3: about the one hundred thousand subscribers, it made me instantly
Speaker 3: think of the tweet.
Speaker 2: Man. Evidently you got roasted your mom told me you
Speaker 2: got roasted. Yeah, she was like, did you see the
Speaker 2: comments on there there and not being nice to Demanse.
Speaker 2: So first of all, don't be jerks. Hey, this is
Speaker 2: Demanse's side gig. However, maybe it's becoming his real gig.
Speaker 2: We'll show you why in a moment. But here's the
Speaker 2: real news. We're now, We are like a dozen people
Speaker 2: away from ninety seven thousand. We are right there. So
Speaker 2: we need just over three thousand subscribers between right now
Speaker 2: and Super Bowl Sunday, and I think we can do it.
Speaker 2: You get a plaque, you get a cash bonus. Were
Speaker 2: people mean to you on that because I said you're poor?
Speaker 2: Is that what happened?
Speaker 4: They were coming at me from different angles.
Speaker 3: Man, I've got a tough exterior when it comes to
Speaker 3: that type of thing. So don't worry guys. Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: not asking to be flamed anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, exactly. Yeah, be nice to the guy.
Speaker 4: But no, so uh it was.
Speaker 3: The yes, Like, there was one I saw one comment
Speaker 3: that stood out. It was like he was like, you
Speaker 3: shouldn't be moving to Los Angeles if you're poor or
Speaker 3: if you and I was just like, ah, the other
Speaker 3: guys are coming at me about like my somewhat speech
Speaker 3: impediment when it comes to the show.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a speech impediment. You just
Speaker 2: stumble over your words sometimes. And by the way, La
Speaker 2: the people have been moving to Los Angeles without having stable,
Speaker 2: you know, the most stable financial situation for as long
Speaker 2: as Los Angeles has existed, the city of hopes and dreams.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get into what is not on today's show.
Speaker 2: Here's what missed the cut. Katie out at least two
Speaker 2: more weeks, the new NBA All Star game format and
Speaker 2: not on the show. And Demanse do other podcasts? Now?
Speaker 2: Do we have photographic evidence of this? If you're watching
Speaker 2: on YouTube, you see Demanse on his buddy Daniel Salvador's podcast.
Speaker 2: You're being called a Fox reporter?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 2: Did they ask you, like, how do you want to be? Yeah?
Speaker 4: The problem?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't know that you
Speaker 2: have full authorization to be using the Fox brand as
Speaker 2: a Fox reporter. By the way, I need to listen
Speaker 2: to that podcast. I need to check that out. And
Speaker 2: if you need if you're if you can't get enough Demanse.
Speaker 2: He also has the Twitch stream right upside down if
Speaker 2: you want to follow him there. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: to the show.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right, Vegas, you've insulted Nick, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Chiefs open as a favorite since he was a road
Speaker 3: favorite until right before showtime. Yeah, just flipped yep, and
Speaker 3: now it's Kansas City by one. Still disrespectful considering mahomes history. Honestly,
Speaker 3: is this the extra fire at Kansas City needs to
Speaker 3: beat there boogey man?
Speaker 4: Or is this an ominous sign of what's to come?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: On the gambling side of things, the difference between minus
Speaker 2: one and plus one and all of that is minimal
Speaker 2: except four when it comes to teasers, as we talked
Speaker 2: about on Monday show, if when the Chiefs were getting
Speaker 2: two and a half or getting one and a half,
Speaker 2: you teased them, you got immense value. By the way,
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes Demanse has played ninety two career games, cause
Speaker 2: you could have teased the Chiefs to plus seven and
Speaker 2: a half. Right, how many of those ninety two games
Speaker 2: do you think plus seven and a half would have
Speaker 2: been a winning bet?
Speaker 4: Isn't it so?
Speaker 2: The Chief Mahomes has started ninety two games. If you
Speaker 2: were getting the Chiefs plus seven and a half. How
Speaker 2: many of those ninety two do you think would you
Speaker 2: have covered? I mean, I'll give you a little hint here.
Speaker 2: He's won sixty eight of the ninety two or sixty
Speaker 2: nine of the ninety two, so you know there's at
Speaker 2: least sixty nine of the go ahead.
Speaker 4: I'd say about ninety eighty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mahomes four times in his career is lost by
Speaker 2: more than one score. So I say all that say
Speaker 2: this teasing the Chiefs, Now, there is not value because
Speaker 2: you're teasing through the zero as we talked about last week,
Speaker 2: and you're only getting them up to plus five or
Speaker 2: plus six. So if you were gonna include, if you
Speaker 2: were gonna do the Chiefs Niners teaser, which felt like
Speaker 2: the best teas are available, it's no longer available. That
Speaker 2: ship has sailed. I'm not teasing this game because I'm
Speaker 2: just committed, committed on the Chiefs winning. Now, when it
Speaker 2: comes to bulletin board material, there's a lot of bullets
Speaker 2: and board material. The Bengals are given the Chiefs calling
Speaker 2: arrowhead Burrowhead taught Joe Mixon saying we're the big dogs
Speaker 2: of the conference. A whole lot of stuff that and
Speaker 2: I didn't used to believe in bulletin board materials, like
Speaker 2: that's a media creation. This is it's the playoffs for
Speaker 2: the chance to go to the super Bowl. But the
Speaker 2: players year after year, time after time, talk about it
Speaker 2: being meaningful. The Bengals were clearly motivated by the fact
Speaker 2: that the logistics of Chiefs Bills being at a neutral
Speaker 2: citement they had to start selling tickets early. The Bengals
Speaker 2: kept referencing that and were motivated by that. Everyone thought
Speaker 2: that this is in bulletin board material but it's of
Speaker 2: the same kind of a family of motivational materials that
Speaker 2: the Bills were motivated by having Damar Hamlin in the
Speaker 2: building or the previous week after Damar's injury when they
Speaker 2: started the game with the kick return. I do think
Speaker 2: the Bengals are playing with fire. I also think that
Speaker 2: the Bengals since Burrow has taken over this era of
Speaker 2: Bengal football, they have scored one playoff fourth quarter touchdown
Speaker 2: and was by a defensive end, Sam Hubbard, after the
Speaker 2: Tyler Huntley fumble return. So the defense really has been
Speaker 2: the story in these playoffs. Plus Burrow with some clutch
Speaker 2: plays early but not doing all that much late.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, you know you said the bulletin board material stuff.
Speaker 3: So like, don't you think it's a little different because
Speaker 3: is Burrow co signing on this type of stuff. I
Speaker 3: feel like it's different, like if Burrow was the one
Speaker 3: calling it burrowhead. You know.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. He's the only one being smart,
Speaker 2: not doing it right. Burrow has come out and said,
Speaker 2: you know, the Chiefs are still the team to be Burrow,
Speaker 2: but I I don't know that it matters where it
Speaker 2: comes from. And Joe Mixon and Eli Apple and all
Speaker 2: these guys and Eli Apples not good. That's the other thing.
Speaker 2: Like the best players aren't doing the trash talking. And
Speaker 2: I saw Mahomes jogging around at practice Wednesday, being a
Speaker 2: full participant. And I think the Chiefs this is such
Speaker 2: a brilliant opportunity for the Chiefs right now because when
Speaker 2: you look at the AFC, Okay, so the Bills took
Speaker 2: their shot, and now Josh Allen's cap hit goes up
Speaker 2: by twenty five million, Stefan Diggs cap hit doubles, Von
Speaker 2: Miller's cap hit triples, and the Bills are gonna have
Speaker 2: to pair away guys off that roster. The Chargers are
Speaker 2: in a similar cap situation and they have to pay
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert. Right, the Raiders traded for Devonte Adams don't
Speaker 2: even make the playoffs. Cincinnati is in a wonderful position.
Speaker 2: And however, this summer they pay Joe Burrow, they pay
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase, and then they make the decision, can we
Speaker 2: also pay T Higgins? Probably can't. You probably can't have
Speaker 2: two twenty five plus million dollar a year receivers. So
Speaker 2: then they have to make the decision. Are we gonna
Speaker 2: let t because they have one more year on Ta
Speaker 2: Tiiggans rookie contract. Are we gonna just play it out
Speaker 2: and then see him walk in free agency and we
Speaker 2: get nothing, or are we going to trade him now
Speaker 2: so we get something back? Allah what the Titans did
Speaker 2: with aj Brown because they didn't want him to walk
Speaker 2: and they want to resign him. And now that was
Speaker 2: a mistake that set out aside. Point is, I think
Speaker 2: the Bengals are gonna be in it for years and years,
Speaker 2: but this might be. This is certainly the cheapest their
Speaker 2: two best players will ever be because and Chase get
Speaker 2: the extensions. The Chiefs, on the other hand, traded away
Speaker 2: Tyreek Kill and played rookies more snaps this year than
Speaker 2: any teams other than Chicago, Houston and Seattle. They have cheap,
Speaker 2: young defensive players and a lot of cap flexibility and
Speaker 2: extra draft picks. If that year when they were supposed
Speaker 2: to be taking a slight step back, when so much
Speaker 2: of the rest of the conference was positioned for right now,
Speaker 2: and with Mahomes less than one hundred percent, If even
Speaker 2: under those circumstances, the Chiefs win the conference, that is
Speaker 2: utterly and thoroughly devastating to everyone else in the conference.
Speaker 2: Gets harder for Buffalo, It gets harder for Cincinnati, It
Speaker 2: gets harder for the Chargers. The Ravens don't. It gets
Speaker 2: harder for them if they're gonna pay Lamar or not.
Speaker 2: If this was not the year the Chiefs were supposed
Speaker 2: to be winning the conference. They're supposed to still be
Speaker 2: good because they have Mahomes, but the offense takes step back.
Speaker 2: You're playing all these rookies, win ten to eleven games,
Speaker 2: win a playoff game, and then be rebooted for next season.
Speaker 2: If the reboot year they still win the conference, it's
Speaker 2: a bad sign for everybody, and not only do I
Speaker 2: think they're gonna win. I don't think this is gonna
Speaker 2: be who has the ball last Classic. I think the
Speaker 2: Chiefs are going to control this football game next.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, no matter what I try to tell
Speaker 3: you about the Chiefs, I know you're sticking with them,
Speaker 3: but they are serious concerns. When it comes to your
Speaker 3: fifty to one Super Bowl taken on the forty nine
Speaker 3: Ers side. To win, you need a rookie quarterback to
Speaker 3: win in a hostile environment. You do realize that no
Speaker 3: rookie has ever won in.
Speaker 4: The Super Bowl Super Bowl and you're still not hedging.
Speaker 2: No, I'm still not hedging. And it's very simple. I
Speaker 2: ain't they. I understand that the Niners have a massive
Speaker 2: question at quarterback and.
Speaker 3: Crazy You've always been like a stat guy like I
Speaker 3: feel like this this particular stat we'll stand out.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal. Yeah, I yes, I do care
Speaker 2: about the numbers. But this is a tiny sample of
Speaker 2: the rookie quarterbacks who've even been out in a position
Speaker 2: to get to a Super Bowl. And Sean King, Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 2: uh gosh, I know who the other ones are, uh,
Speaker 2: Mark Sanchez and Joe Flacco. And the distinction that I
Speaker 2: would draw is number of things. One is, none of
Speaker 2: those teams had dynamic offenses the Niners do. The Niners
Speaker 2: have all pros all over the place.
Speaker 4: All of those.
Speaker 2: Teams had great defenses, as the Niners did that. I
Speaker 2: picked the Niners to win the NFC with either essentially
Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback Trey Lance. He's not a rookie, but
Speaker 2: he's essentially a rookie, and the other Like we have
Speaker 2: seen guys. We saw Russell Wilson in his rookie year
Speaker 2: win a playoff game and almost win a second. We
Speaker 2: saw Mahomes in his first year as a starter get
Speaker 2: to a conference championship game. We saw Joe Burrow in
Speaker 2: his second year as a starter but first fully healthy year,
Speaker 2: make a Super Bowl. Furthermore, I just don't think the
Speaker 2: Niners need great quarterback play. And I am not someone
Speaker 2: that thinks, oh, brock Perty was this amazing steal. Brock
Speaker 2: Perty's this great player. I think he is a product
Speaker 2: of Kyle Shanahan's system. Now am I nearly as confident
Speaker 2: in the Niners going into the Link as I am
Speaker 2: the Chiefs at home against the Bengals. Of course not.
Speaker 2: And while I am team never Hedge. Let me be
Speaker 2: very honest here, if the Chiefs were the early game
Speaker 2: and the Chiefs won, and then it would be fifty
Speaker 2: thousand or zero on whether or not brock Party melts
Speaker 2: down at the link, I might break my no head's
Speaker 2: rule where if the Chiefs had it locked in and
Speaker 2: now it's just the Niners, you know, either win or
Speaker 2: I lose my bet. Maybe I would, But I do
Speaker 2: think Niners Eagles is a sixty to forty game in
Speaker 2: the Niners ed Niner side, even though the line would
Speaker 2: say it's sixty forty on the Eagles side. And it's
Speaker 2: not as if Jalen Hurts has exponentially more playoff experience
Speaker 2: than brock Party. In fact, they have the same amount.
Speaker 2: They have both played two playoff game. Jalen Hurts played
Speaker 2: one last year and one this year, and brock Perty's
Speaker 2: played two this year. Jalen also has has not cooked
Speaker 2: up a dominant He's been great this year, but he
Speaker 2: has not cooked up a dominant defense. The Niners have
Speaker 2: a dominant defense. I give respect to what Jalen's accomplished
Speaker 2: this year. I know I've been an Eagle skeptic, and
Speaker 2: thus far they've proven me wrong, but I like the
Speaker 2: Niners in this spot. By the way. Also, the speaking
Speaker 2: of hedging, I you know, I texted our group earlier
Speaker 2: this week. Hedging is for what did I say? Cowards
Speaker 2: and stock traders. I'm a goddamn gambler. We're making those
Speaker 2: T shirts. They probably would already be made, but I
Speaker 2: have not get They sent me the different designs and
Speaker 2: I haven't on a come to a decision on them.
Speaker 2: But we should have those by the super Bowl. Al right, next?
Speaker 4: All right, Oh, yes, they just.
Speaker 2: Showed the T shirt. We can show that T shirt again.
Speaker 2: This is not what they're going to look like. I
Speaker 2: vetoed putting my face on the shirts. I think we'll
Speaker 2: put the What's Right logo on the shirt. But we're
Speaker 2: gonna find a good way to do it. All right,
Speaker 2: go ahead, all right.
Speaker 3: Bill's GM Brandon Bean had a lot of excuses for
Speaker 3: a lot of the team that he put together lost.
Speaker 3: He said since he had a better team because their
Speaker 3: stars are on rookie contracts. He also said, I don't
Speaker 3: want to suck bad enough to get Jamar Chase. You
Speaker 3: have to feel bad. You have to feel for the
Speaker 3: Bills and Bean here right is a cheese fan. You
Speaker 3: know firsthand how hard it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, stop that. So here's the problem with what Brandon
Speaker 2: Bean said, and it's multifold. First of all, it should
Speaker 2: be noted and demand say, I don't think you know this.
Speaker 2: But the Bills got Stefan Diggs by trading for him
Speaker 2: from the Vikings. The pick they traded for they traded
Speaker 2: a first, a third, and a fourth for Diggs, so
Speaker 2: three picks. The first round pick that they traded he
Speaker 2: came justin Jefferson. So if they wanted a cheap rookie
Speaker 2: contract receiver, they could have had justin Jefferson. They went
Speaker 2: out and got Digs. And by the way, that was
Speaker 2: actually fine because Diggs has been awesome for them. Help
Speaker 2: Josh Allen take the leap, so be it. But you
Speaker 2: made that choice. Additionally, when you say you don't want
Speaker 2: to suck bad enough to get Jamar Chase, the year
Speaker 2: after you drafted Josh Allen, you had a top ten pick,
Speaker 2: just like the Bengals did. Now, the Bengals the year
Speaker 2: after they drafted Borrow had the fifth pick. You had
Speaker 2: the ninth pick. The difference is the Bengals took a
Speaker 2: superstar wide receiver in Jamar Chase. You took a d
Speaker 2: tackle in ed Oliver Houston, kid who's been a disappointment.
Speaker 2: Three D linemen taken in the nine picks after Ed Oliver,
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Simmons, Brian Burns, and Dexter Lawrence, all pro players.
Speaker 2: You took the wrong guy. That's first of all. Second
Speaker 2: of all, here's where Bean's comments really rung hollow. He's
Speaker 2: talking about how Burrow's on a rookie contract and Chase
Speaker 2: on a rookie contract, but Josh and Stefan are expensive
Speaker 2: and not true. Burrow and Chase this year made a
Speaker 2: combined seventeen million bucks. Alan and Diggs this year made
Speaker 2: a combined twenty seven million bucks, So more expensive, but
Speaker 2: ten million. That's that's one good player. Okay. Next year, however,
Speaker 2: Burrow and Chase make a combined eighteen million, and Alan
Speaker 2: and Diggs Demanse make a combined sixty million because Allen's
Speaker 2: contract extension kicks in and Digs's cap hit doubles. So
Speaker 2: if Brandon Bean was having trouble building out this roster
Speaker 2: when Alan was making sixteen and Diggs was making eleven,
Speaker 2: it's gonna have a lot of trouble, and Allen's making
Speaker 2: forty and Diggs is making twenty.
Speaker 4: All right, next sounds very salty. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Lebron's out forty six the other night and I lost,
Speaker 3: but it got people talking. Anthony Davis came back Wednesday
Speaker 3: and they beat the tanking Spurs. Plus they finally traded
Speaker 3: for a superstar. Let me check my notes.
Speaker 2: It's his name, Ruey Hashimura.
Speaker 4: Ruey hasher more. Oh yeah, I saw some Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: Anthony days.
Speaker 3: With Anthony Davis coming back, the Lakers could go on
Speaker 3: a run if they turn it around.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna start seeing Lebron should win the MVP? No?
Speaker 2: I listen, Lebron's been unbelievable since he turned thirty eight.
Speaker 2: He's averaging thirty five points per game. We've never seen
Speaker 2: anything like it. And I, you know, I don't even
Speaker 2: really want to talk about the Lakers lack of moves
Speaker 2: other than Ruey Hachamura, and I don't want to talk
Speaker 2: about the MVP thing. Here's what I want to say
Speaker 2: about the Lebron thing. Okay, he's one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: points away from passing Kareem and it seems like the
Speaker 2: media collectively is decided we are not treating this like
Speaker 2: a big deal. Kareem has held the scoring title, demonse
Speaker 2: since before Lebron or I were born. Do you know
Speaker 2: in the last let me do the math here fifty
Speaker 2: five years, who has held the NBA scoring title. I'll
Speaker 2: give you the full list, Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Speaker 2: That's the list for fifty five plus years. Two people
Speaker 2: have held this for the last forty years. Every single
Speaker 2: day the NBA's all time scoring leader has been Kareem.
Speaker 2: It was thought of as a truly unbreakable record. Up
Speaker 2: to and including five, six, seven years ago, there were
Speaker 2: articles written that it can't be broken, that it's an impossibility,
Speaker 2: and Lebron it. It's not only that it is now
Speaker 2: a fate accompany one hundred percent chance he's breaking it.
Speaker 2: He's also, by the way, it's so annoying. The Lakers
Speaker 2: play in their next three games, two of them. I'm
Speaker 2: going to they play the next Monday and the Knicks Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and Lebron's probably gonna break it the game or game
Speaker 2: or two after that. I'm gonna miss seeing him do
Speaker 2: it by a game or two. I mean, he would
Speaker 2: need to average fifty a night over the next three,
Speaker 2: so he's not it's gonna get He's really gonna be
Speaker 2: just a few, which is also to shame for him
Speaker 2: too in this regard MSG on national TV. He's gonna
Speaker 2: go into the game, I think probably needing like like seventy,
Speaker 2: so he's not gonna be able to do it. So
Speaker 2: he'll break it at home, but it won't be on
Speaker 2: national TV. But here's my frustration there. This is one
Speaker 2: of the many things that folks said would never happen,
Speaker 2: and now that it is happening, folks are going to
Speaker 2: act as if this is not the only NBA record
Speaker 2: that has ever mattered. Like there are team accomplishments and
Speaker 2: championships and rings and all of that stuff, But all
Speaker 2: time scoring title, like the all time assist title is
Speaker 2: held by Stockton, nobody cares the all time steel title,
Speaker 2: by the way, also held by Stockton, Nobody cares like
Speaker 2: one hundred points in a game Kareem's scoring record. These
Speaker 2: are the things that have resonated. And the fact that
Speaker 2: Lebron what I was trying to say, I interrupted myself,
Speaker 2: is not only going to break it, but he's going
Speaker 2: to break it wild dominated, well, he's not breaking it
Speaker 2: while being a fifteen minute game guy, and then he.
Speaker 4: Might truly make the record unbreakable.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. So Lebron has been He's the youngest
Speaker 2: guy to every thousand point mark in league history. He
Speaker 2: just became the youngest guy to thirty eight thousand. But
Speaker 2: only two people have gotten there, him and Kareem. He's
Speaker 2: gonna put up forty two forty four thousand points and
Speaker 2: four context there. And by the way, this is ultimately
Speaker 2: does become when we talk goat stuff. The longer the
Speaker 2: timeline goes, the more people are going to think that
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan being the greatest ever is ludicrous because history
Speaker 2: is going to look at it and say, okay, so
Speaker 2: why is Jordan the best? People will be like, well,
Speaker 2: six championships, It's like, oh, that's the most. It's like, no, uh,
Speaker 2: Kareem also has six. Oh, it's tied for the most. No,
Speaker 2: there's this guy named Bill Russell. He has eleven. Oh, okay,
Speaker 2: the guy is eleven. How long did he eat third?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: So it's not the chips thing. He was just clear
Speaker 2: far and away the best players. Five mv He is
Speaker 2: the most MVPs No, that's actually also Kareem. He has
Speaker 2: five MVPs and we'll see or six MVPs. Pardon me. Oh,
Speaker 2: so he must have been the greatest scorer ever. Well
Speaker 2: kind of. He averages the most points. But by the way,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's gonna stay because scoring is
Speaker 2: going up so much.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: Where is he on the all time points list? He's fifth?
Speaker 2: Oh is it close? Well, no, he scored thirty two
Speaker 2: thousand points. Oh who has the most? Lebron how many
Speaker 2: did he score? Forty four thousand points? The gap so
Speaker 2: right now, right now, this moment, just for context, here,
Speaker 2: the gap in career points, which is what Jordan was
Speaker 2: best at, between Jordan and Lebron, is six thousand. The
Speaker 2: gap between Jordan and Lebron is bigger than the gap
Speaker 2: between Jordan and Dominique Wilkins, bigger than the gap between
Speaker 2: Jordan and Paul Pierce. Okay, So I'm just telling you guys,
Speaker 2: it is and what it's going to turn into is
Speaker 2: you just had to be there. You just had to
Speaker 2: trust us that Jordan was And it's like, oh, oh,
Speaker 2: I get it. He had to go through, but winning
Speaker 2: those rings, he had to go through like that was
Speaker 2: when the league was at its best. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 2: his big rival in the East were the Knicks. How
Speaker 2: many great players did they have? One? And then there
Speaker 2: was the Pacers. They were kind of a rival briefly.
Speaker 2: How many great players did they have? Half Reggie Miller? Okay,
Speaker 2: that's in the East. But in the finals he had
Speaker 2: to go through super teams, right like Lebron did all
Speaker 2: those things. It's like, well, no, not really. He beat
Speaker 2: the Lakers for first championship. Oh they had Kareems. No,
Speaker 2: Kareem had been gone, and and Magic was kind of
Speaker 2: on his you know, on the downslope a bit. Magic
Speaker 2: was so great. But we're okay, what about the next one?
Speaker 2: The Blazers they had one great player? But oh oh,
Speaker 2: the Suns they had one Hall of Fame player. What
Speaker 2: are the next? The Sonics they had one and a
Speaker 2: half great players? And so I'm just telling you guys,
Speaker 2: so more, more of the story.
Speaker 3: Didn't have a shot at winning MVP this year, but
Speaker 3: he is the greatest basketball player to ever play the game.
Speaker 4: Never missed the opportunity to tell us that Lebron is.
Speaker 2: The well, I mean, yere's the thing. I guess I'll
Speaker 2: just take the charge to do it because he's about
Speaker 2: to break the most important record in the history of
Speaker 2: the sport, and nobody gives a damn, nobody seems to care.
Speaker 2: And he's doing it while averaging thirty points per game,
Speaker 2: while when you look at everyone else on this list,
Speaker 2: how what they were averaging when they scored their final points.
Speaker 2: It's thirteen, it's fifteen, it's twelve.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: It would be really weird for him to break this
Speaker 3: record had him not averaging thirty points per game, like
Speaker 3: you know, like if he happened to break this record
Speaker 3: while scoring like ten to fifteen points.
Speaker 4: But that's it could be like a really weird thing.
Speaker 2: But that's kind of how these records almost are always broken.
Speaker 3: Right, So like Kareem in and so many points that
Speaker 3: you've got to be in there for a.
Speaker 2: Long time exactly, So Kareem, even Kareem, when Kareem broke
Speaker 2: Wilt's record, I'm gonna check real quick. Kareem beat wilt
Speaker 2: record by seven thousand points. So Kareem. The year he
Speaker 2: broke Wilt's record, he was still awesome, but he was
Speaker 2: not League MVP Kareem anymore. He was averaging twenty one
Speaker 2: a game. Yeah, and then he played another five years
Speaker 2: when Jordan scored his final points, he's averaging twenty a
Speaker 2: game playing for the Wizards. The I mean top another
Speaker 2: top six all time scorer. You look at what Kobe's
Speaker 2: last year he averaged, like seventeen, Dirk's last year he
Speaker 2: averaged I think eleven. Lebron, the Lebron's gonna be averaging
Speaker 2: thirty when he crosses forty thousand points. Nobody else in
Speaker 2: league history averaged twenty five when they crossed thirty thousand points.
Speaker 2: It's a little context there, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, so could we got a little poll?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Could I mean not a little pole? Yeah, we do
Speaker 4: have a little pole.
Speaker 3: Could Lebron have a shot at MVP? Thirty eight percent?
Speaker 3: Say he has sixty percent?
Speaker 2: He's not gonna win MVP. The team's not gonna be
Speaker 2: good enough. Uh, this is gonna be Luka Jokic with
Speaker 2: Tatum having an outside shot and with Giannis having an
Speaker 2: outside shot. Those your MVP candidates. All right, we're inna
Speaker 2: a fast b block because I got to get to TV.
Speaker 2: We'll come right back. Be back. What's right live on YouTube?
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back? In episode one What's Right with
Speaker 2: Nick Wright got TV today at three o'clock. Should be
Speaker 2: a great show. We also got a little bit of
Speaker 2: breaking news involving the Jets coaching staff that we're gonna
Speaker 2: get to later in this segment, but demonte let's get
Speaker 2: right to it, my friend.
Speaker 3: Yes, a lot of speculation surrounding Sean Payton this last season.
Speaker 3: Seems like he's down to two options between Denver or
Speaker 3: staying retired. Yeah, Denvergis traded everything for Russell Wilson. Obviously,
Speaker 3: now they're trading another high pick for a coach. Yep,
Speaker 3: if you're the Broncos, do you think this is the
Speaker 3: right move to the right move to make the catch
Speaker 3: up to Kansas City?
Speaker 2: Okay, so listen, the Broncos do have another first round
Speaker 2: pick to trade because they got a first round pick
Speaker 2: when they traded Bradley Chubb, which it came from the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: but it's actually the Niners pick. So have the Niners
Speaker 2: first round pick this year. I think hiring Sean Payton
Speaker 2: objectively would be a great move by them. I do
Speaker 2: not think that team is good enough for it to
Speaker 2: make a significant difference, and I do not think that
Speaker 2: he's going to be able to fix Russell Wilson in
Speaker 2: a way that's going to make them a contender. I
Speaker 2: don't think that roster's great. I think everyone overvalued their receivers.
Speaker 2: I like Javonte Williams, but he got hurt, and running
Speaker 2: backs after they get hurt, you're always worried about him.
Speaker 2: So there's that. It is a brutal division, and I
Speaker 2: think Sean Payton's best option, honestly is staying retired and
Speaker 2: waiting to see if the Chargers or the Cowboys job
Speaker 2: comes open, or see if the Cowboys job comes open
Speaker 2: this year. And I know it looks like they're not
Speaker 2: firing McCarthy, and I get it, he's won twelve games
Speaker 2: and back to back seasons. I understand all of that.
Speaker 2: But if the Cowboys are being honest with themselves, they
Speaker 2: are not going to break through with the McCarthy Dak
Speaker 2: combo and they're not doing anything with Dak. So see
Speaker 2: if you could reinvent Dak under Sean Payton, that's what
Speaker 2: I would recommend. I don't think they're gonna do that.
Speaker 2: If I were Sean Payton, You're gonna have just as
Speaker 2: much leverage next season. You got a great job with Fox,
Speaker 2: make good money, good life, all that stuff. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: rush to go to Denver. Now. If they're gonna pay
Speaker 2: him though five years, one hundred and twenty five million
Speaker 2: to be a head coach, maybe he does it, but
Speaker 2: I don't think that makes them catch up. Obviously it's
Speaker 2: a massive improvement over Nathaniel Hackett, but I don't think
Speaker 2: it would be enough, especially because that Russ contract is
Speaker 2: a disaster and all those picks they traded. Is hard
Speaker 2: to build out a roster. All right, what's our game?
Speaker 4: All right? Today's game? We're playing this or that.
Speaker 3: No time for the tennis court today, but we will
Speaker 3: be live after the men's final today final Monday. Yet
Speaker 3: it until then, let's get a prediction from the Australian Open.
Speaker 3: Winner will be Novak Djokovic or the field.
Speaker 2: First of all, great pronunciation of Djokovic means you've been
Speaker 2: paying attention to the tennis corner. I would take Novak,
Speaker 2: but I will admit this is the one major on
Speaker 2: the tennis calendar that I don't pay that much attention
Speaker 2: to because it's during the NFL playoffs and because it's
Speaker 2: happening in the middle of the night, Because it's over
Speaker 2: in Australia. I am not locked into this the way.
Speaker 2: I will be the French Open, Wimbledon, and of course
Speaker 2: the US Open. So I would take Novak Djokovic, admitting
Speaker 2: that I haven't been watching much of the Australian Open next.
Speaker 3: All right, the coach of the phone felt the coach.
Speaker 3: The Coach of the Year finalists were announced earlier this week.
Speaker 3: Many of the names we expected made the final cut,
Speaker 3: with two notable exceptions. The bigger Coach of the year
Speaker 3: stuff was Dan Campbell or Andy Reid's.
Speaker 2: Andy Reid, No, well, listen, coach of the year. I
Speaker 2: think Belichick's only won it once or twice. A Coach
Speaker 2: of the Year has become what it means is like overachieved,
Speaker 2: yes exactly, And I ain't Coach of the year this year.
Speaker 2: Actually is Kyle Shanahan. So I was third quarterback. They
Speaker 2: got the two Seedy. I think he deserves it. So
Speaker 2: I'm good with Kyle Shanahan. But everyone pretending like they
Speaker 2: expected the Chiefs to be dominant this year. They're lying
Speaker 2: that is not what Vegas thought, that is not what
Speaker 2: the audience thought. And then Andy Reid, It's like, oh okay,
Speaker 2: no big deal. They had the highest scoring offense and
Speaker 2: the most efficient offense despite losing the guy that some
Speaker 2: people think is the league's best offensive weapon, and by nobody.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs number one receiver Mcole Hardman has been out
Speaker 2: for two months and nobody and their number one running
Speaker 2: back's been out for two months and they haven't missed
Speaker 2: a beat. But I understand Mahomes gets the credit, but
Speaker 2: he should Andy should have at least been nomine by
Speaker 2: Ain Kyle Shannon's Coach of the Year.
Speaker 3: By the way, the finalists were McDermott, Sirianni Shanahan and
Speaker 3: Dable and.
Speaker 2: And Doug Peterson. I don't understand how Sean McDermott gets
Speaker 2: nominated and he read doesn't. I just don't. And maybe
Speaker 2: it's because they think he handled the DeMar Hamblin situation beautifully,
Speaker 2: so like, maybe that's it. But if that's it, that's fine,
Speaker 2: But I don't understand otherwise, all right, next.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: During the Bills game, Stefan Diggs was visibly upset at
Speaker 3: Josh Allen, and after the game he reportedly attempted to
Speaker 3: leave the stadium before the coaches even made it to
Speaker 3: the tunnel. Yeah, Stefan Diggs is a competitor or a
Speaker 3: cry baby.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna actually go with both. Listen, this is an
Speaker 2: emotionally immature team, and Josh Allen actually plays kind of
Speaker 2: an immature style, just going for kill shot after kill shot,
Speaker 2: deep ball after deep ball. We saw their offensive coordinator,
Speaker 2: remember the timber tantrum he threw in the booth, throwing
Speaker 2: the papers and everything, just a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2: So if that's okay from Ken Dorsey, a grown man
Speaker 2: in khakis, you know what I mean, up in the booth,
Speaker 2: then Stefan Diggs can get upset on the sideline. What's
Speaker 2: not good from Diggs is he seemed to be blaming
Speaker 2: Alan directly, and I don't think that's great for their team.
Speaker 2: But I think he's a competitor and I think he's
Speaker 2: whining a bit.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, Bill.
Speaker 3: O'Brien is returning to the Patriots. I didn't know that
Speaker 3: the Patriots hired competent assistance. Next season, bill O'Brien will
Speaker 3: turn back around or burn mack down.
Speaker 2: I think Mac will be a little bit better, so
Speaker 2: I guess I'll say turn back around. But here's the problem.
Speaker 2: Belichick refuses to hire anyone other than his kids and
Speaker 2: people he taught football to. Everyone on his staff is
Speaker 2: either related to him or someone who previously was on
Speaker 2: his staff. He needs to bring in new blood, someone
Speaker 2: that will challenge him and try to bring some cutting
Speaker 2: edge ideas. There's a Boston Herald article that came out
Speaker 2: this morning. I haven't read the whole thing about how
Speaker 2: dysfunctional that entire team was this year, and Belichick seems
Speaker 2: destined to just keep making the same mistake again and again.
Speaker 3: Next All right, Aaron Rodgers is reportedly open to a
Speaker 3: networking or being sorry, reworking his deal, reworking his deal,
Speaker 3: either for the Packers or another team if he's traded.
Speaker 3: Wait the fifty million dollars quarterback held back his team.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers is sincere or trade bait.
Speaker 2: It's trade bait. I think Rodgers getting traded. I think
Speaker 2: Packers want to trade him. I think Rogers is finely
Speaker 2: being traded. I wouldn't give up a first round pick
Speaker 2: for Aaron Rodgers, but maybe somebody will. I think it'll
Speaker 2: be a mistake. But that actually brings us to our
Speaker 2: next question. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Aaron Rodgers breaking news, his buddy Nett Hackett
Speaker 3: was just named Jets offensive coordinator Nett Hackett.
Speaker 4: Great hire or the best of the best hire.
Speaker 2: I mean if this is the Broncos evidently hired Hacket
Speaker 2: hoping to get Rogers. Now the Jets are doing the
Speaker 2: same thing. What a great setup for this guy, Nad Hackett,
Speaker 2: who like, if you remember, Collinsworth told us during one
Speaker 2: of the broadcasts, the reason Rogers liked him so much
Speaker 2: was because he made him laugh and they played darts
Speaker 2: together or whatever, not because of his brilliant offensive system.
Speaker 2: But this does to me set up for the Jets
Speaker 2: trading for Aaron Rodgers. I think that's pretty clear. That's
Speaker 2: why they're bringing in mad Hackett. And I listen, I
Speaker 2: think Rogers is clearly on the downslope. I think we
Speaker 2: saw the Cliff come and get him this year, and
Speaker 2: he's wildly expensive. But the Jets they think they're right
Speaker 2: there with competent quarterback play. So you'll see if they
Speaker 2: get it from Rogers. I don't believe in it, but
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens, all right. Last one, Oh this
Speaker 2: for me Demonse officially and invited guests or other shows.
Speaker 2: Now Demonse stands are real I'm feeling like a proud
Speaker 2: father or a monster maker. Look, Demonse, look at the screen.
Speaker 4: Look it's that.
Speaker 2: That's Demonse just taking over me on First Things First.
Speaker 2: That's Demonse with Joe Rogan. This is why you should
Speaker 2: watch on YouTube. That's Demonse with Joe Rogan watching First
Speaker 2: Things First in the background, and you're wearing the same
Speaker 2: outfit for both of them. Uh No, I'm proud. I
Speaker 2: love it. I love that. Uh, Demonse, do you want
Speaker 2: to mention Daniel's podcast?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, Dani, I'm sorry. If you see this, oh
Speaker 3: we got it, we gotta go over it and stuff.
Speaker 4: I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I did it, I got you. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: That's fine. No, I love that answer that. I am
Speaker 2: prouder now than before. Demonsey's like, no, I don't want
Speaker 2: to mention that. I'm not sure what's going out there.
Speaker 2: Not sure. We're just not doing it okay. And by
Speaker 2: the way, the Dangels I can see this, you know,
Speaker 2: and watch my podcast, so it's no problem. But no,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm even prouder now. That's great. Follow him on
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Speaker 2: the comments. But take quick break, come back, answer the
Speaker 2: listener questions. Next where we wrap up episode one twenty two.
Speaker 2: What's right? Our episode one twenty two. We're now answering
Speaker 2: your listener questions live on YouTube. Demons, go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Our first off, we got Jonathan Appraisa or Piza Sorry
Speaker 3: it said Nick. Do you think the trade between Westbrook
Speaker 3: and Lavine will become true? Apparently Chicago is interested in
Speaker 3: this trade if Laker's had two first rounders.
Speaker 2: I don't think that Rob Polink is making any significant
Speaker 2: moves of the deadline. I think that. I mean his
Speaker 2: quotes this week that were like, I would only make
Speaker 2: a move if I thought it put us in championship contention,
Speaker 2: which is him saying we're not the team I built,
Speaker 2: can't win, right, which would make sense if so, if
Speaker 2: going into the year, if you're Polenka, it's like, what's
Speaker 2: the best case scenario for how Lebron's gonna play? Well,
Speaker 2: he's exceeded that.
Speaker 4: If you feel, all.
Speaker 2: Right, what's the best case scenario for how Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: is gonna play? He's exceeded that. Now he got hurt,
Speaker 2: but he's back now all right? What about uh, how
Speaker 2: the west is gonna shake out. Is anyone going to
Speaker 2: be running its dominant teams? Nope? Wide open right now,
Speaker 2: there are two games separating the five seed from the
Speaker 2: twelve seed. So everything fell exactly the way you had hoped,
Speaker 2: and yet you still don't think you're a championship contender.
Speaker 2: Why because the roster is not good enough. You built
Speaker 2: the goddamn thing.
Speaker 4: It's so frustrated, unfortunate that is in this situation. Even
Speaker 4: though he doesn't seem like.
Speaker 2: Really, oh he's mad, No, I think he cares onlinka guy.
Speaker 4: It sounds like a coward.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 4: That's what this guy's legacy.
Speaker 2: And the Lakers and Polinka got the job. He was
Speaker 2: Kobe's agent and then they hired him be the GM.
Speaker 2: They were an unmitigated disaster until Lebron saved them because
Speaker 2: he wanted to live in La then got Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: to go there. And now it's like they're punishing it
Speaker 2: Lebron because he pushed them to trade.
Speaker 3: For Westbrook, aabotaging sabotaging Lebron, so he doesn't surpass Kobe
Speaker 3: too much.
Speaker 2: So what you just said there sounds ridiculous, except for
Speaker 2: the fact that that is like on like the deep
Speaker 2: web of like the biggest Lebron stands there are. They
Speaker 2: truly believe that that the Lakers are actually not wanting
Speaker 2: to win because they don't want Lebron. That I don't
Speaker 2: believe that. I just believe they're bad at their job.
Speaker 3: All right, next, All right, Ryan Fitzgerald, he wants me
Speaker 3: to do something.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Nick ran his.
Speaker 3: Best to worst case scenario on the Super Bowl winning
Speaker 3: teams Bengals winning at all, worst case or Philly that
Speaker 3: he's doubted.
Speaker 2: My best case scenario is obviously the Chiefs, my worst case.
Speaker 2: My second best case scenario would be the Niners because
Speaker 2: it would prove me so correct that Jimmy g was
Speaker 2: just a product of the system and that anybody could
Speaker 2: come in and do what he did or do it better.
Speaker 2: My next best case scenario would be the Bengals, because
Speaker 2: I give them credit like I don't. If the Bengals
Speaker 2: beat the Chiefs for a fourth straight dime and then
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl, salute, we got a real they
Speaker 2: have a real claim they're the team to beat, and
Speaker 2: the Chiefs got to go chase them.
Speaker 4: Salute.
Speaker 2: Good for them, they will have earned it. And then
Speaker 2: the worst one would be the Eagles because I've doubted
Speaker 2: them all year. Those fans already hated me, and those
Speaker 2: are some and I go to Philly a lot to
Speaker 2: play cards. That's that would be the worst. Yeah, there
Speaker 2: would be no question that would be the worst.
Speaker 4: All right, Next, conrac Queeny, says Demonse.
Speaker 3: If you get it that one thousand dollars bonus, how
Speaker 3: much of it will you bet on an insane super
Speaker 3: Bowl parlay?
Speaker 4: Twenty five percent?
Speaker 3: What I'm kidding, that's not a good idea.
Speaker 4: I'm joking.
Speaker 2: Works one hundred bucks on a super Bowl parlay? Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: Demonsey's the gambling hasn't been going great for Demonse lately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, I don't, I really don't even I don't
Speaker 3: like that there's only like two guys.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: That's what I knew. That's what you were about to say, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can't put in an exotic seventeen parlay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I only I was just telling him at earlier.
Speaker 3: I want to just do teasers all the time now.
Speaker 2: Like teasers are teasers are dangerous because they always look
Speaker 2: like Danny And yes, Danny and I have a long
Speaker 2: standing joke of we text each other a couple teasers
Speaker 2: a week and then just text in all caps. How
Speaker 2: does it lose? Yeah, Like it feels like they can't lose, No.
Speaker 3: And ever since I switched up my freaking my the
Speaker 3: bills plus two and a half to sense you back
Speaker 3: to plus thirteen or thirteen or whatever, I just feel
Speaker 3: like a wizard with it.
Speaker 4: Like I feel like.
Speaker 3: With everything that you've given me about you know, teasing
Speaker 3: across his zero and all that. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 3: when I make those teasers, I really am that. And
Speaker 3: the losing the first five hundred to the Dak Prescott
Speaker 3: freaking yeah, pick to the jacks.
Speaker 2: But I still can't believe you did that. You woke
Speaker 2: up at two in the morning and made a ten
Speaker 2: X bet the old ten you or I guess you're
Speaker 2: you were betting like twenty to thirty dollars a game,
Speaker 2: So I guess that's like a twenty unit bet you made.
Speaker 3: I mean, initially I was doing like fifty seventy five,
Speaker 3: but I was doing it like just on.
Speaker 2: The line, right, you were ok at yeah, right, And
Speaker 2: then you were betting smaller amounts on super long shots. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then how many legs? Was that teaser four?
Speaker 4: Five or it was all? It was all four of
Speaker 4: the games? Last? Are you talking about the one that yeah,
Speaker 4: the Dak Prescott. Yeah it might have been five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot of way. That's the thing,
Speaker 2: just and I just so you know, it's not free money.
Speaker 2: Once you need five separate outcomes fors tough, but doable.
Speaker 2: I would stick to two or three team teasers, but
Speaker 2: it's fine.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: One last question.
Speaker 4: Justin Dusty, say, can demonte started streaming on Twitch for
Speaker 4: longer than forty minutes?
Speaker 2: All right, Dusty, what why are you annoyed with him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, I'm not annoyed. That just didn't happen. So I did.
Speaker 4: It was two separate streams that I did.
Speaker 3: There was one where you know, I was I think
Speaker 3: I was just playing mad, and then I had switched
Speaker 3: over to Fortnite. I think the stream had told it
Speaker 3: out to like an hour and forty five minutes. It's
Speaker 3: not my fault, you cameley.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we'll take that. See we are really super serving.
Speaker 2: One audience member right now was Demonse is explaining to
Speaker 2: Dusty how he what happened on that thing? I think
Speaker 2: that means it's probably a good time to end the show.
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