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Speaker 3: Welcome in episode one. What's right with Nick? Right, Today's
Speaker 3: going to be a fast show. I know I say
Speaker 3: that a lot, Yeah, today I actually mean it because
Speaker 3: today the NCAA tournament starts. So I figure people are
Speaker 3: already blocked out for about twelve hours of sports content today.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna be quick. We're gonna be done well
Speaker 3: before the bat the games get going. Give you a
Speaker 3: nice little break if you're watching us live on YouTube
Speaker 3: before the games tip off a little afternoon. Also, I
Speaker 3: gotta be totally transparent here. You don't know if you
Speaker 3: believe like what you just said. No, I do believe
Speaker 3: what I just said. I am really nervous about the
Speaker 3: UH ratings for today's television.
Speaker 4: Show, for today's specific because of the tournament.
Speaker 3: Because of the tournament's where we're gonna be programming the
Speaker 3: tournament now Tomorrow, Luckily the TV show is dark. We're
Speaker 3: off I think because a NASCAR or something or I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what. Well, whatever it is, we the we
Speaker 3: don't have to. We're not on the air tomorrow today.
Speaker 3: I do think there are no The problem is this
Speaker 3: even people such as myself who are not super into
Speaker 3: college basketball throughout the regular season are watching the tournament,
Speaker 3: and so I was gonna be like, maybe NFL and NBA. No,
Speaker 3: because even NFL and NBA fans are gonna be watched.
Speaker 3: So we'll see maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and we'll
Speaker 3: do a nice number today on television. But the tournament
Speaker 3: has not started. This show has. It's episode one thirty five.
Speaker 3: Let's get to what. Oh, by the way, kept the commitment.
Speaker 3: Third straight show. We're in the coordinating tracksuit. We'll see
Speaker 3: how how many of these we keep going. I think
Speaker 3: I've worn this exact outfit on the show two other times,
Speaker 3: once when I interviewed Lil Wayne and one other time randomly.
Speaker 3: All right, first, what missed the cut? Matt Ryan has
Speaker 3: been released by the Indianapolis Colts. The Clippers team plane
Speaker 3: was struck by lightning, and that's not a euphemism for
Speaker 3: signing Russell Westbrook. It actually was struck by lightning. And
Speaker 3: Ezekiel Elliot Cutt needs to play center elsewhere. That does
Speaker 3: suck for Zeke. His final play as a cowboy was
Speaker 3: him getting power bomb to the center of the earth
Speaker 3: on that against the Niners. All right, let's start the
Speaker 3: show to Monday.
Speaker 5: All right, man, Aaron Rodgers pulled the old reverse card
Speaker 5: on Pat McAfee, yeah, saying that Rogers said the Packers
Speaker 5: are the ones dragging their feet on the trade and
Speaker 5: not him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry about that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Now there are rumblings that this trade may be drawn
Speaker 5: out even further as both teams believe they're the ones
Speaker 5: with the leverage. Yeah, the whole world now thinks Rogers
Speaker 5: is a Jet. So wouldn't it be really funny if
Speaker 5: this ended up falling through the cracks at this point?
Speaker 3: All right, So it's not gonna fall through the cracks,
Speaker 3: but there is a legitimate question about when this happens,
Speaker 3: So we can talk about that in a second. First,
Speaker 3: I want to talk about Rogers' actual interview. So Rogers
Speaker 3: clearly tried to make the case that the Packers, for
Speaker 3: lack of a better term, owe it to him to
Speaker 3: just move on. They he said, I'm the longest tenured
Speaker 3: packer ever, I'm arguably the greatest packer in team history.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, they owe it like that, They owe it
Speaker 3: to him to just let him go, to take whatever
Speaker 3: the Jets are offering and move on.
Speaker 5: After the huge contract he just requested the previous show
Speaker 5: exactly right.
Speaker 3: So there was first, let me say this because I
Speaker 3: said it on TV. I believe Aaron Rodgers when he
Speaker 3: said he told them on Friday he wanted to be
Speaker 3: a Jet, and so I should apologize for criticizing him
Speaker 3: for dragging this out into free agents, because it does
Speaker 3: not look like he did that free agency opened Monday.
Speaker 3: Essentially he told them Friday. I believe him on that.
Speaker 3: I do not believe him when he says when he
Speaker 3: went into the darkness he was ninety percent retired, ten
Speaker 3: percent coming back. That's not credible to me. And Broussard
Speaker 3: made a really good point on TV, which was he
Speaker 3: claimed when he went into the darkness he was ninety
Speaker 3: percent retired, ten percent coming back. A packer only wanted
Speaker 3: to play for the Packers. Came out of the darkness,
Speaker 3: found out the packers didn't want him. Well, if that's
Speaker 3: the case, then you just retire if you were leaning
Speaker 3: ninety percent retirement, or just play with the Packers. You
Speaker 3: then find out the packers don't want you, It doesn't
Speaker 3: make a lot of sense. They're like, okay, now I'll
Speaker 3: just go play for the Jets. So I don't believe
Speaker 3: him on that he can be upset if he wants
Speaker 3: it's sixty million dollars guaranteed to him. Sorry about that,
Speaker 3: if it's sixty million dollars guaranteed to him if he
Speaker 3: plays this year. I don't think he was ever retiring.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: So you're saying that you think there might be some
Speaker 5: false like he went in there thinking that he was
Speaker 5: probably gonna try to play for another team.
Speaker 3: I think he went in there thinking he was gonna play,
Speaker 3: and this idea that he was blindsighted that the Packers
Speaker 3: were ready to move on. When December twenty sixth, Mark
Speaker 3: Schlereth told me on TV the Packers were ready to
Speaker 3: move on, there have been at the NFL combat. There
Speaker 3: have been rumblings for weeks the Packers are ready to
Speaker 3: move on. It seems odd that Rogers would be the
Speaker 3: last to know about something like that. That's first of all.
Speaker 3: Second of all, I don't think Rogers has generated enough
Speaker 3: long term goodwill, given how high maintenance he's been over
Speaker 3: the last few years, to where the Packers are just
Speaker 3: going to be like, all right, third round pick, let's
Speaker 3: move on. I don't think they're gonna do that. It
Speaker 3: would be bad business. Even you could argue even if
Speaker 3: he had generated that, that would be bad business. But
Speaker 3: I don't think he has generated that type of goodwill that.
Speaker 3: Second of all, Third of all, he was not totally
Speaker 3: honest in this interview on stuff we know about. So
Speaker 3: he went after Diana Roussini. So I want to read
Speaker 3: you Diana Rusini's actual tweet. Okay, So Diana Rusini two
Speaker 3: days ago say that again, demark the.
Speaker 5: Wish list that Aaron Rodgers requested. I find it crazy
Speaker 5: that people don't think that he did that.
Speaker 3: Well, he admitted that he did that much. So here's
Speaker 3: what's interesting. So Diana Russini called it a wish list.
Speaker 3: Here is the exact tweet. Aaron Rodgers has provided the
Speaker 3: New York Jets with a wish list of free agents
Speaker 3: he would like them to target. It includes Randall Cobb,
Speaker 3: Alan Lazard, Mercedes Lewis, and Odell Beckham Junior. He went
Speaker 3: on McAfee and debunked the idea that he demanded they
Speaker 3: sign these guys, and then explained how he absolutely talked
Speaker 3: to them about guys he likes and gave his opinion.
Speaker 3: He confirmed. She did not say now if she had
Speaker 3: tweeted Aaron Rodgers has told the Jets he will only
Speaker 3: accept a trade there if they sign X, Y and Z.
Speaker 3: That's different. That is not what she reported, and they
Speaker 3: have signed Lazard. He on McAfee spoke glowingly about Mercedes Lewis,
Speaker 3: who's thirty eight years old, Randall Cobb, who was the
Speaker 3: seventh oldest receiver in football last year that actually played,
Speaker 3: and Odell so.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 3: He gets very upset about stuff without always having his
Speaker 3: facts exactly lined up. So there's all of that. Now
Speaker 3: there's the actual cap mechanics of this. And I apologize
Speaker 3: for all these bells and whistles going on this morning.
Speaker 3: There's all these cap mechanics going on about it. Okay,
Speaker 3: the Packers are going to take a forty million dollar
Speaker 3: dead money hit by trading Aaron Rodgers for forty million
Speaker 3: is going to go to Rogers cap if he's not
Speaker 3: on the team now, if they trade him after June first,
Speaker 3: they can spread that out over two years. Sixteen million
Speaker 3: this year, twenty four million next year. Now, you know
Speaker 3: my belief, if you're not competing for a Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: take your medicine. Now, I think it would be smarter
Speaker 3: for them to take the full forty million this year
Speaker 3: and have a clean cap next year. However, if they
Speaker 3: feel like, we don't want the first year without Rogers
Speaker 3: to be a totally down year, we want to be
Speaker 3: able to compete at the highest level possible, then in
Speaker 3: that circumstance, they might think we're better off waiting until
Speaker 3: after June first. Now, flip side to that is that
Speaker 3: would mean whatever compensation you get from the Jets is
Speaker 3: not this year's draft. It's next year's draft, right, so
Speaker 3: that they have to weigh all of that. But right now,
Speaker 3: the Packers they can wait as long as they want.
Speaker 3: They can wait theoretically into August if they want to.
Speaker 3: I don't think they will, And I don't know strategically
Speaker 3: if Rogers played yesterday properly, I just don't And so
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 5: Do you think this cements Rodgers is one of the
Speaker 5: biggest NFL divas in history.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's skyrocketing up the list.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I I mean obviously I haven't always
Speaker 5: followed football, but I can't.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 5: The only guy that comes to mind when I think
Speaker 5: of divas is like Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 3: Well, let's stay with quarterbacks from a lot of wide
Speaker 3: receiver divas Corners. It's kind of part and parcel with
Speaker 3: the position. You don't you don't remember Cam, you would
Speaker 3: Cam a little bit. Maybe you don't remember the Farv stuff.
Speaker 3: He's Farv retired, came back retired, came back. You you're
Speaker 3: but and so there is, and Rogers replaced Farv like
Speaker 3: and Rod Farv ended up going to the Jets like
Speaker 3: there's and Rogers sat for three years and love Is
Speaker 3: sat for three years. There's a lot of history repeating
Speaker 3: itself here, the Rogers taking late in the first round,
Speaker 3: Love singing in the first round. Farv was upset with
Speaker 3: the pick right, there's now four Jets fans. The biggest
Speaker 3: piece of optimism is actually a bit of an indictment
Speaker 3: on Rogers. It The biggest piece of optimism is that
Speaker 3: Rogers can still be great when he's got a chip
Speaker 3: on his shoulder and motivated, and he just wasn't last year.
Speaker 3: So Rogers won his back to back MVPs right after
Speaker 3: the Packers drafted Jordan Love and made it clear they
Speaker 3: were ready to move on. Then he was great. Then
Speaker 3: he signed his new contract and was not good. Now
Speaker 3: he does seem to be motivated again himself. However, if
Speaker 3: this if Rogers play declining last year was a lack
Speaker 3: was due to a lack of motivation, and now all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, he's excellent. It's almost an indictment on
Speaker 3: him as an athlet.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: They gave you the one of the greatest contracts in
Speaker 3: NFL history, and you're like, Okay, now I can relax.
Speaker 3: That ain't great. That's really not great. Uh. I don't
Speaker 3: think the Jets should do this, but they're too far
Speaker 3: down the road. They've signed Lazarre, they hired Hacket, they're
Speaker 3: doing this. I don't think it will work out. And
Speaker 3: do you have another question you want to ask me
Speaker 3: before I move on?
Speaker 5: But yeah, if the Packers draw this out too long,
Speaker 5: should the Jets extend Lamar and off?
Speaker 3: They're not doing They're the Jets are pot committed now
Speaker 3: to the Rogers thing, and I believe Rogers is gonna
Speaker 3: play there. But I don't if this was going to
Speaker 3: if this was going to be a relatively simple negotiation,
Speaker 3: it would be done. It is in both teams best
Speaker 3: interests for it to be done. But it is more
Speaker 3: in the Jets' best interest for it to be done
Speaker 3: than the Packers. Right, because Jordan's been with the team,
Speaker 3: he's on the team.
Speaker 5: About Rogers trying to leave, Jordan Love asked out, though,
Speaker 5: what do you mean, Like, I mean he wants Cobb
Speaker 5: to come hard to coming.
Speaker 3: He's like, well, well that's that I don't blame him for.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Cobb like, if the jets, if
Speaker 3: the jetson signed Cobb, Cobb's career zone right, Marcedes Lewis
Speaker 3: career should be over. So that's where we're at. I
Speaker 3: don't you know, I didn't think Rogers made himself look
Speaker 3: great on McAfee yesterday. And it's a really weird turn
Speaker 3: he's taken over the last few years. I don't totally
Speaker 3: get it. There's some toxic Internet brain part of it.
Speaker 3: And let's not forget this piece. The entire Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: heel turn, if you will, started with the misleading the
Speaker 3: media about being vaccinated. I'm immunizedment whatever. Okay, his initial
Speaker 3: claim there was he was allergic to what the Johnson
Speaker 3: and Johnson vaccine. He has since on McAfee talked a
Speaker 3: ton about Big Pharma being one of the most evil
Speaker 3: entities in the world, cause of mayhem, destruction, pain suffer.
Speaker 3: The new York Jets are owned by Woody Johnson. I
Speaker 3: understand Johnson is a common last name, but it is
Speaker 3: not a coincidence. Woody Johnson is the heir to the
Speaker 3: Johnson and Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. So after talking about the
Speaker 3: ills of Big Pharma, he now works for Big Pharma
Speaker 3: or is about to that. The irony there is unbelievable,
Speaker 3: speaking of NFL owners, last names and big companies. Fun fact,
Speaker 3: Robert Craft not Craft, Mac and Cheese, Nope, just the
Speaker 3: same name, got his money differently. I always I thought
Speaker 3: for years he was a mac and cheese guy, not
Speaker 3: the mac and cheese guy, believe it or not.
Speaker 5: All right, Next, Yeah, this was supposed to be a
Speaker 5: fast show. How long do we spent on there?
Speaker 3: In twelve minutes? That was a major topic. Yeah, opening monologue.
Speaker 5: Speaking of diva quarterbacks, you called it out on Tuesday,
Speaker 5: that and Baker that Baker Mayfield to play for the
Speaker 5: Bucks and he's obviously on the Bucks now. In other words,
Speaker 5: Tampa Bay has upgraded from seven times Super Bowl champ
Speaker 5: Tom Brady, they stood up pieces to work with. And
Speaker 5: we know how you feel about the Saints, so you
Speaker 5: like Tampa to win the division right.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe Caroline's gonna be starting the first overall pick quarterback.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna win the division. Atlanta doesn't know what
Speaker 3: they're doing. They now they could go sign Lamar and
Speaker 3: be awesome and be really good, but they don't seem
Speaker 3: to want to do that. I do think it wouldn't
Speaker 3: shock me if the Saints win nine games and win
Speaker 3: the division. I don't think the Saints are, you know,
Speaker 3: locked into being a horrific team. I think they are
Speaker 3: locked into not competing for super Bowls. But do what? Where?
Speaker 3: Did Let me check real quick? This is I played
Speaker 3: a trick on Wilds yesterday and kind of boxed him
Speaker 3: in on saying that Baker would be better than Brady.
Speaker 3: But here's the point that I want to make here.
Speaker 3: Last year, the Tampa Bay Bucks ranked in the NFL
Speaker 3: in scoring twenty fifth in scoring. The only teams to
Speaker 3: score fewer points than them were Pittsburgh, the Rams maybe
Speaker 3: twenty six, the Titans, the Jets, Colts, Texans, Broncos. Do
Speaker 3: I think the Tampa Bay Bucks with Baker will average
Speaker 3: more points per game than they did with Tom I
Speaker 3: do because that team's offensive line was in shambles in
Speaker 3: a way, it won't be this year. They seem to
Speaker 3: be like Tom wouldn't take any hits. Tom was kind
Speaker 3: of checked out, it seems. So. Do I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna be really good? No? Do I think the offense
Speaker 3: could be better? I do? Next told you we're going fast?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right?
Speaker 5: The MAVs are three and nine over their last twelve.
Speaker 5: Hold on, you gotta update it.
Speaker 3: They're four and nine now before over the last thirteen
Speaker 3: because they won an overtime last night against the Spurs.
Speaker 4: Yes, they did beats the Yeah, they beats Antonio. But
Speaker 4: Jason Kidd can't coach, and.
Speaker 5: Kyrie is already the Kyrie moves already looking like a failure. Wow,
Speaker 5: Kyrie messing up another team that you're super investing.
Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't super invested in the Nets except for
Speaker 3: the season tickets.
Speaker 5: But go ahead, Okay, how long until Luca comes on
Speaker 5: onto the pod to an Oults he wants out of Dallas?
Speaker 3: All right, what I tell you when they traded for Kyrie,
Speaker 3: this is the first domino in Luca leaving Dallas. I
Speaker 3: said that. Now, I didn't expect it instantly to go
Speaker 3: this poorly, but Kyrie's you know, missing games, Luca's hurt,
Speaker 3: they could miss the playoffs. I don't think they'll miss
Speaker 3: the playoffs. And because Luca is such a brilliant postseason
Speaker 3: performer second highest points per game in playoff is behind
Speaker 3: only Jordan, they're they're live once they get to the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But talk about a year from hell for a team
Speaker 3: that made the conference finals. They're in the midst of it.
Speaker 3: I can't defend my champion pick right now, Dallas Maps.
Speaker 3: I just can't. Let's move on. Told you we're going fast,
Speaker 3: Let's move on. I don't want to talk about Wow.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, the Lakers have been on a tear without
Speaker 5: without Lebron until they lost to the Rockets last night.
Speaker 4: Has Rockets.
Speaker 5: But you still think they're gonna You still think that
Speaker 5: they're gonna carry him to the playoffs, right, well, I think.
Speaker 3: They're gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: On TV, you said Lebron will be extraordinary when he
Speaker 5: comes back from what appears to be a hyperbaric chamber.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna show a picture. Yeah Lebron put that
Speaker 3: on Instagram.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, uh, And then you said the Lakers are
Speaker 5: the most dangerous team in the West. Yeah, So my
Speaker 5: question is, did you lose your mind? Did you go
Speaker 5: into some type of hyperbolic chamber or hyperbaric chamber?
Speaker 3: Look at that. That's a cool picture. That's one of
Speaker 3: the reasons to watch on YouTube. So so here's the deal.
Speaker 3: Last night's loss is a disaster, and that is the
Speaker 3: cost of being overly cautious with Anthony Davis. I just
Speaker 3: want everyone to understand this. Had they won last night,
Speaker 3: first of all, they'd be five hundred for the first time.
Speaker 3: They would be five hundred for the first time all season.
Speaker 4: Did the Pelicans win?
Speaker 3: The Pelicans didn't play last night, but the but the
Speaker 3: MAVs did win, right, And so right now, the Lakers
Speaker 3: are thirty four and thirty six, which is the tenth seed.
Speaker 3: Had they won, they'd be tied for the seventh seat
Speaker 3: with Minnesota and Dallas, and they play Dallas tomorrow. The
Speaker 3: Warriors are thirty six and thirty four, the sixth seed.
Speaker 3: So instead of being a game back of the Warriors,
Speaker 3: and they have the tiebreaker with the Warriors, they're two
Speaker 3: games back. And they lost to a Rockets team that
Speaker 3: is the worst team in the West. It's just a
Speaker 3: disaster for them. There's no way around it, and they
Speaker 3: don't lose if Anthony Davis plays. With that said, and
Speaker 3: here's the other thing that'll say, they're like, oh, we
Speaker 3: want to be cautious with ad. The best thing you
Speaker 3: could give a d is a week off before the playoffs,
Speaker 3: which if you're not in the play in, he gets.
Speaker 3: But if you are in the play in, he's got
Speaker 3: to instantly play high intensity do or die games. So
Speaker 3: there's it's just a bad, bad loss that they didn't
Speaker 3: have to have. With that said, I do think they're
Speaker 3: super dangerous the way Anthony Davis is playing Lebron. Lebron
Speaker 3: earlier this year missed two weeks. Over the next thirty games,
Speaker 3: after he missed two weeks, he averaged thirty two, eight
Speaker 3: and six on fifty two percent shooting. Okay, him having
Speaker 3: a month off before the playoffs, you could see a
Speaker 3: brilliant version of Lebron, and the West is wide open.
Speaker 3: Phoenix should be the most dangerous team. But let me
Speaker 3: tell you what Phoenix has to be worried about right now.
Speaker 3: Right now, Phoenix is thirty seven and thirty two in
Speaker 3: the four seat. They're not catching Memphis or Sacramento. They're
Speaker 3: five losses behind, right, so the four is the best
Speaker 3: they can do. They're thirty seven and thirty two. The
Speaker 3: Clippers are thirty seven and thirty three at the five seats.
Speaker 3: So the circumstance of Durant coming back right before the
Speaker 3: playoffs and then instantly being thrown into a series with
Speaker 3: the Clippers and Kawhi guarding him, that's a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess it's not the playoffs.
Speaker 5: But Lebron did so Katie could do the same thing,
Speaker 5: came back average thirty two, eight and six or something.
Speaker 3: No, that's true, No, no, no, that's absolutely true. The
Speaker 3: difference was Lebron wasn't coming back to a team he'd
Speaker 3: never played with. True, so I'm talking, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, like that three games with him, like the
Speaker 3: lack of continuity, all of that, and so I think
Speaker 3: Durant will play really well. But that's a that's a
Speaker 3: tough spot. Phoenix is finding themselves in. That's why I
Speaker 3: said the Lakers are the most dangerous. Dallas. I'm sorry, Well,
Speaker 3: Dallas is falling apart. Denver's lost four in a row. Memphis,
Speaker 3: now we do know Jo is coming back, but we'll
Speaker 3: see how that goes. Sacramento has no experience. The Clippers
Speaker 3: are scary, but Kawhi's a huge health concern, and russ
Speaker 3: can screw anything up. The Warriors can't win on the road.
Speaker 4: Like everything's lining up.
Speaker 3: Everything's like man, I told you fifty to one.
Speaker 5: It's the same thing as the Buccaneers path to the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl that you're explaining.
Speaker 3: Except Lebron's not playing poorly like Brady was and Anthony
Speaker 3: Davis is playing great. So I still believe the Lakers
Speaker 3: are super dangerous, but last night's loss was an abomination.
Speaker 3: They could have been five hundred, given themselves a little
Speaker 3: breathing room. They so now they're in this spot, like,
Speaker 3: let's just be very clear here. They're thirty four and
Speaker 3: thirty six. They have twelve games left to ensure they
Speaker 3: make the playoffs. They need to go seven and five.
Speaker 3: They go seven and five, they finish forty one and
Speaker 3: forty one. That will ensure they're at least in the
Speaker 3: play in. In my opinion, to ensure they don't have
Speaker 3: to be in the play in, I think they have
Speaker 3: to go nine and three. So what their schedule is
Speaker 3: the rest of the way they play the MAVs on Friday.
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis will play Let's see what Luke and Kyrie's
Speaker 3: status is. That's a must win. They play the Magic,
Speaker 3: that's a must win. They didn't play the Suns, No Durant,
Speaker 3: they didn't play the Thunder the Bulls in back to
Speaker 3: back games, the timber Wolves two weeks from Friday, which
Speaker 3: becomes a facto playoff game potentially because the Timberwls right
Speaker 3: now are one game up on them, and then they
Speaker 3: finished the year. They get the Rockets again and then
Speaker 3: a very tough final four Jazz, Clippers, Sons, Jazz. The
Speaker 3: other question for them will be are the Jazz at
Speaker 3: that point still trying to make the playoffs or the
Speaker 3: Jazz at that point trying to improve their draft position.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be a noteworthy thing. So that's where the
Speaker 3: Lakers are at. I didn't go quite as fast as
Speaker 3: I promised. We'll go very fast in the next segment,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to start the Sea block little tease forward,
Speaker 3: not the B block, which is next. I'm going to
Speaker 3: start the Sea block with some personal business that has
Speaker 3: to do with one of the members of this show.
Speaker 3: It's next.
Speaker 6: What's right, We're so done with New year, New you.
Speaker 6: This year is more you on Bumble. More of you
Speaker 6: shamelessly sending playlists, especially that one field with show tunes.
Speaker 6: More of you finding geminis because you know you always
Speaker 6: like them. More of you dating with intention because you
Speaker 6: know what you want and you know what we love
Speaker 6: that for you? Someone else will too be more you
Speaker 6: this year and find them on bumble.
Speaker 3: Welcome back in episode one thirty five. What's right with Nick? Right, demonse,
Speaker 3: Let's get right to.
Speaker 5: It all right, So March madness is starting in today,
Speaker 5: but gone in the days of magic and bird. Now
Speaker 5: players are going now, players are going one and done
Speaker 5: or going to other leagues, and so many elite players
Speaker 5: are coming from overseas.
Speaker 4: Is this a pole, dude?
Speaker 5: Neither of the top two picks. Everyone's talking about her
Speaker 5: in college? Make this one right?
Speaker 4: What would it take for you to care about college
Speaker 4: basketball again? Ronnie James?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: I mean I'll be intrigued to watch him. Yeah, But
Speaker 3: no question here's that I as I College basketball is
Speaker 3: an undeniably inferior product to what it once was. There
Speaker 3: are many reasons for that. Market forces a lot of things,
Speaker 3: but it is hard to fix because you, and again
Speaker 3: you did. You had guys go straight from high school
Speaker 3: to pros. But that actually, to me was better for
Speaker 3: college basketball because then the best college basketball players you
Speaker 3: didn't think were just guaranteed to only be there one year.
Speaker 3: Guys that you know were, so you had more continuity
Speaker 3: amongst the teams, and most guys stayed two or three years.
Speaker 3: I don't know a fix. I'm not going to advocate
Speaker 3: if you go to college you gotta stay for three
Speaker 3: years like baseball is, or you're not eligible for the
Speaker 3: draft until three years after high school like football is.
Speaker 3: But Monsa, you have no recollection of this. Some of
Speaker 3: these college teams used to be awesome because.
Speaker 4: The college basketball at some.
Speaker 3: Point I understand, but but I mean even I'm talking
Speaker 3: about the like around the time you were born, and
Speaker 3: like the so you had teams that guys were good
Speaker 3: enough to go pro, but they just planned on staying
Speaker 3: at least two years, usually three. Leaving early was considered
Speaker 3: after three years, and so they had this continuity together.
Speaker 3: They played a like really smart, high level basketball, and
Speaker 3: that's just gone. And so to me, the pageantry is
Speaker 3: still there, the passion is still there, but just the
Speaker 3: level of play is not what it once was, and so,
Speaker 3: but you're not gonna be able to pay them enough
Speaker 3: as much as the NBA A and so I don't. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to back on the sport. I know
Speaker 3: a lot of people love it and March is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I get all that, but I do think there are
Speaker 3: certain things where it's just like the golden era is
Speaker 3: past us and I ain't got to happen with college basketball,
Speaker 3: and so the it is. I do care about it,
Speaker 3: and I do watch it, but it's not appointment viewing
Speaker 3: for me until this time of the year. Now. The
Speaker 3: flip side is this, the NCAA Tournament is the best
Speaker 3: postseason tournament there is, and you maybe you make up
Speaker 3: for the lack of interest over the first five months
Speaker 3: four months of the year by how much intense interest
Speaker 3: there is at this point in the season. But barring
Speaker 3: a rule that I would rally against, which is guys
Speaker 3: have to stay a minimum of years, there is no
Speaker 3: going back. There's no turning back the clock on this,
Speaker 3: which is fine. Actually, do wonder if letting guys go
Speaker 3: straight from high school to pro would improve college basketball,
Speaker 3: because then guys who went to college maybe would only
Speaker 3: be going there if they wanted to be there. But
Speaker 3: I don't have a fix. I apologize for that.
Speaker 5: All right, Next, all right, today's game, we are playing
Speaker 5: Freak Out or Chill Out?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Uh, free Falling Contenders Edition.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Our first off, we've got Ja Morant was hit with
Speaker 5: an eight game suspension.
Speaker 3: Should be noted though it's retroactive, meaning it's not eight
Speaker 3: more games. It counts the ones he's missed. So he
Speaker 3: missed he's eligible to come back Monday, right, but they
Speaker 3: don't think he's gonna be back Monday. He's gonna take
Speaker 3: some time to ramp up.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, right, so he has two more games left.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard to imagine he just comes right back
Speaker 5: and everything's fine, especially what the other injuries Memphis is facing.
Speaker 4: Should the Grizzlies freak out or chill out?
Speaker 3: I think they should chill up. I think that Listen,
Speaker 3: they're gonna be the two or the three seeds. I
Speaker 3: don't know how much it matters right now. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure how much they like they care if they're two
Speaker 3: or the three. They're not gonna get to one. They're
Speaker 3: not gonna fall to four, so they're gonna stay in
Speaker 3: that part of the bracket, and it will matter if
Speaker 3: you're the two or the three, depending on who you play.
Speaker 3: But we have no idea who's gonna be the six
Speaker 3: and seven, you know what I mean, Like, so there's
Speaker 3: no way to game it right now, like, oh, we'd
Speaker 3: rather be the three because we'll play this team because
Speaker 3: you don't know who's gonna be the six. You know
Speaker 3: who's gonna be the seven?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I mean freak out, I mean chill out
Speaker 5: in a basketball and standpoint, but what about like a
Speaker 5: go ahead, a Jah Morant standpoint.
Speaker 3: Listen. I think it's good he got treatment for whatever
Speaker 3: he was dealing with. I think it's I'm not comfortable
Speaker 3: speculating on what he was going through. I know there's
Speaker 3: a lot of rumors going around, but it would seem
Speaker 3: like it is not, you know, a quick fix, right.
Speaker 3: But do I think he'll still be an awesome basketball player? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Do I think it's gonna be an ongoing process for
Speaker 3: him to get right in whatever he was dealing with. Yes,
Speaker 3: I think this was his wake up call, though I hope.
Speaker 5: I feel like I feel like I can see he's
Speaker 5: actively trying to get better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that, and but I don't Again,
Speaker 3: I don't know what he's going through, so I don't
Speaker 3: know how like what the full process is. But I
Speaker 3: think the Grizzlies, as soon as he comes back, now
Speaker 3: the injuries do matter, are very dangerous team to come
Speaker 3: out of the West. They wouldn't be my pick, but
Speaker 3: they're a dangerous team.
Speaker 4: Next, what's going on with my Celtics.
Speaker 5: Man, They've lost the last five of the five of
Speaker 5: their last nine and Marcus Smart got into a fight
Speaker 5: with Trey Young on Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the Celtics freak out or chill out.
Speaker 3: I'd freak out a bit because Philly looks so good.
Speaker 3: The Philly looks so good. And now the reason the
Speaker 3: Celtics should be concerned is the one seed was gonna
Speaker 3: is gonna matter so much in the East, not because
Speaker 3: of home court as much as because, again, sorry to
Speaker 3: be a broken record on this, there are three teams
Speaker 3: in the East that could win the title, Milwaukee, Boston,
Speaker 3: and Philly. The one seed only has to play one
Speaker 3: of them. The one seed in round two is gonna
Speaker 3: get Cleveland. Meanwhile, Boston and Philly, assuming Milwaukee's the one,
Speaker 3: are gonna play each other and then Milwaukee gets the
Speaker 3: winner of that, and Boston was in such a good
Speaker 3: position to be the one seed and then this swoon.
Speaker 3: Now they're tied in the lost column with Philly, so
Speaker 3: they I do think home court matters a bit in
Speaker 3: that if you fall to the three line, now Philly,
Speaker 3: you gotta beat Philly and Milwaukee, and you gotta go
Speaker 3: on the road to beat them both. But more importantly
Speaker 3: was he missed out on the one seed. So and
Speaker 3: I'll say this going into the year, it wouldn't have
Speaker 3: been my prediction, but the most optimistic people are like
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum could be League MVP this year. We could
Speaker 3: go into a series with the best player on the court.
Speaker 3: But now against Philly they'll have the best player, and
Speaker 3: against Milwaukee they'll have the best player. You know what
Speaker 3: I mean? Like you embiads better than Tatum right now?
Speaker 3: He just is. It doesn't have a playoff resume. And
Speaker 3: we know Yanna is the best player in the world
Speaker 3: by a mile, like what Yannis is done by a mile.
Speaker 3: Here's a fun Are the Bucks in the show? They're not,
Speaker 3: so let me talk about Yianni's just here for a moment.
Speaker 3: This could be good for social If the Bucks win
Speaker 3: the title this year, where do we put Giannis? Where
Speaker 3: do we update him on the fifty greatest players of
Speaker 3: the last fifty years?
Speaker 4: Just be a second one.
Speaker 3: Be a second one. So let's let's go through it
Speaker 3: from how I had it, lebron Kareem, Michael Magic. That's
Speaker 3: to me, like the again, this last fifty years, we're
Speaker 3: only Wilt Russell West Oscar out that's your mount rushmore
Speaker 3: those guys. To catch any of them is no one's
Speaker 3: gonna catch them while they're like, they're gonna need to
Speaker 3: be near the end of their career, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. So set them aside. You then have another bucket.
Speaker 3: That next bucket is Duncan Kobe burd Okay. Yannis can't
Speaker 3: catch those guys right now either. Could he eventually catch
Speaker 3: them maybe, but not this year. Now we have another bucket,
Speaker 3: the eight through ten buckets, a keen shack step put
Speaker 3: a pin in that, and then the eleven through fourteen buckets.
Speaker 3: Doctor j Moses Durant. Yannis with the title this year,
Speaker 3: does he pass Durant In my opinion, yes, We'll have
Speaker 3: the same number of rings. Let's assume the same number
Speaker 3: of finals MVPs more regular season MVPs A defensive Player
Speaker 3: of the Year will have done, will have done. Kind
Speaker 3: of the bizarro Durant in this regard. Both of Durant's
Speaker 3: rings came with a team that was a championship level
Speaker 3: team before he got there and after he left. Right
Speaker 3: Jannas didn't have another Hall of Famer on his team,
Speaker 3: don't have one. Middleton is a really nice player and
Speaker 3: underrated player. H I agree with you. I think it
Speaker 3: is Drew and maybe Drew al if they win the title.
Speaker 3: Maybe Drew does make the Hall of Fame, but he's
Speaker 3: not like a perennial All Star. I think he passed Durrant.
Speaker 3: I think he passes Moses. I think he passes Doctor
Speaker 3: J and then Steph Shack a team. I don't think
Speaker 3: he passes a team. I don't think he yet passes
Speaker 3: Steph or Shack. But he's on their heels man, and
Speaker 3: that's what Yanni's has in front to gain in front
Speaker 3: of him. With the title this year, and I believe
Speaker 3: they win last year if Middleton doesn't get hurt. Now,
Speaker 3: they had a game six at home that too. Let
Speaker 3: me look up the exact numbers in that game. To Jason,
Speaker 3: Tatum's credit.
Speaker 4: Dropped like forty four or something.
Speaker 3: He was unbelievable. It wasn't fifty. But he went toe
Speaker 3: to toe with Yannis and beat him in a game
Speaker 3: six and seven. But that game six, Yanni's had forty
Speaker 3: four twenty and six in that game and Tatum had
Speaker 3: forty six nine and four, went toe to toe and
Speaker 3: beat him. And if this Bucks win that game, I
Speaker 3: believe they win the title because I don't think the
Speaker 3: Warriors had any answer for Giannis whatsoever. All right, next,
Speaker 3: are right?
Speaker 5: So far the Sun's betting on Katie's health has gone
Speaker 5: worse than you betting on the Jacks. Okay, but now
Speaker 5: there's a real chance they fall to the play in.
Speaker 5: Should the Suns freak out or chill out?
Speaker 3: All right, there's no chance they fall to the play
Speaker 3: I disagree with that analysis there. The Suns have thirty
Speaker 3: two losses, the play in is at thirty five losses.
Speaker 3: I understand it's like, oh, it's only three losses different.
Speaker 4: Their remaining games.
Speaker 3: Well, it's the remaining games, and it's the fact that
Speaker 3: none of the play in teams. It's not like we
Speaker 3: expect the Timberwolves all of a sudden to go eight
Speaker 3: and two, you know what I mean? Like the those
Speaker 3: teams are around five hundred for a reason, I would
Speaker 3: freak out, though, I would freak out if I were
Speaker 3: the Suns because they are staring at a first round
Speaker 3: series against the Clippers, and I don't know that I
Speaker 3: trust the Clippers to be healthy for two months, but
Speaker 3: they can be healthy for the first two weeks to
Speaker 3: the playoffs next all.
Speaker 5: Right, seed the one seed Nuggets are a disaster on
Speaker 5: a four game losing streak, and yo, could just the
Speaker 5: MVP cases hanging on by a thread. Yeah, you're over
Speaker 5: there grinning, Mike Willan wonder allowed that the team has
Speaker 5: gotten soft, that didn't beat better?
Speaker 4: Looking pretty good?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Should the Nuggets freak out or chill out?
Speaker 3: All right, Let's talk about the MBI bet for a minute,
Speaker 3: because that's what I care about more. Right now, I'm
Speaker 3: trying to find it right now.
Speaker 4: Oh you're trying to see the changed Oh, I mean
Speaker 4: they've definitely changed.
Speaker 3: I know they've changed. So hold on NBA MVP updated
Speaker 3: odds as of this morning. Let me see if we
Speaker 3: have it. And I for some reason, I can't find
Speaker 3: it on Fox bet right now. But It was texted
Speaker 3: to me this morning. Our friends at Fox Bet for
Speaker 3: the first time have Joel Embiid as the MVP favorite.
Speaker 3: I got him. He's minus one oh five. I got
Speaker 3: him at plus three hundred on Monday minus one oh
Speaker 3: five for Joel emb to win the MVP. I got
Speaker 3: him at plus three hundred on Monday. Why a bet
Speaker 3: by me? Smart and I knew the odds were gonna change.
Speaker 3: I Embiid had another monster night last night, and yeah,
Speaker 3: the Nuggets should freak out and the Nuggets should really
Speaker 3: here's the problem for the Nuggets go ahead. I just
Speaker 3: feel like this is so uh.
Speaker 5: I feel like the difference between Monday and today making
Speaker 5: that bet would be so drastically different if Yo kicch
Speaker 5: hadn't won MVP last year. I think if this is
Speaker 5: his second year and everything was going the exact same way.
Speaker 3: Reason, Oh, that's no, there's no if Yo Kic. One
Speaker 3: of the reasons I bet Embiid was because he's finished
Speaker 3: second and back to that year and Jokic's not like
Speaker 3: there was enough momentum against Jokic was gonna have to
Speaker 3: be overwhelming in order to win it. A third tree year.
Speaker 3: Jokic had never won it, he'd still probably be the favorite.
Speaker 3: But now, all of a sudden, the Sixers have a
Speaker 3: better record than Denver. Milwaukee's got a better record than Denver.
Speaker 3: Boston's got a better record than Denver. So the o
Speaker 3: the best record in basketball. Oh, they've lost four in
Speaker 3: a row. All these things. But here's why the Nuggets
Speaker 3: should really freak out. I believe the six seven eight
Speaker 3: in the West is going to be in one order
Speaker 3: or another Golden State, Dallas and the Lakers. Who of
Speaker 3: those teams do the Nuggets want to face in Round one?
Speaker 3: One of them is gonna be the eighth. Who do
Speaker 3: they want to play?
Speaker 4: You said, Dallas, Lakers or in Golden Yeah, I own
Speaker 4: with the Lakers.
Speaker 3: Oh really, I don't think. I don't think so. I
Speaker 3: think Anthony Davis and Lebron can torture Jokic. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think they want to play them at all.
Speaker 5: All right, next, all right, we already know your stance
Speaker 5: that the Warriors absolutely need to freak out. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: come on now, Steph trouts fifty and you still lose. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's now nine straight losses on the road. Should the
Speaker 5: Warriors freak out or massively.
Speaker 3: They gotta freak out. Man, I gotta tell how many
Speaker 3: times are gonna say this? Step scored fifty points and
Speaker 3: you lost in a critical game.
Speaker 4: Did Raymond do a podcast the day before?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but Draymond uh did get a sixteenth tech,
Speaker 3: which means he's now suspended the next game at Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Can I just feel like you can't be this much
Speaker 5: of a How could you even like claim yourself to
Speaker 5: be a vet?
Speaker 4: Still out here getting technicals? It's like that.
Speaker 3: Man, Well, I don't mind technicals, I do mind suspensions
Speaker 3: right when your team is in you know, gotta get
Speaker 3: every game now, he says, since the suspensions getting rescinded,
Speaker 3: I disagree with that. All right, I'm not even gonna
Speaker 3: do the Patriots one wait. I said we're gonna go fast.
Speaker 3: We didn't go fast at all. Little personal business to address,
Speaker 3: and then your questions next in the final block of
Speaker 3: the show, very quick break, one minute break, right back
Speaker 3: to you guys, what's right? All right? Welcome back in
Speaker 3: episode one thirty five, What's when the Great? We'll get
Speaker 3: to your your questions at a moment. First, and No
Speaker 3: and Demonse probably anticipated that I was going to bring
Speaker 3: this up at some point. So shortly before Tuesday's show,
Speaker 3: I said, I was trying to, you know, coach Demons
Speaker 3: up and I said to him, I was like make
Speaker 3: sure I was like good, high energy. And Demonse very confidently,
Speaker 3: was like, you know, that's starting to get patronizing. I
Speaker 3: think I have good energy all the time. And as
Speaker 3: I know he noticed, I got briefly but violently angry,
Speaker 3: just steing in fury that A he he responded like that,
Speaker 3: but that b that he didn't recognize that well, okay,
Speaker 3: maybe you think you have great energy all the time,
Speaker 3: but the fact that I say it before every single
Speaker 3: show my mean that I think you should up it
Speaker 3: at times. And so I just said there, I was like, whatever, man,
Speaker 3: this this guy. I was really mad. I was really upset.
Speaker 3: Pro Oh that's right, that's right. Demonse after I set after,
Speaker 3: you could tell I was angry, and he was like,
Speaker 3: what did my responsible other of you? I was like, no,
Speaker 3: you're a pro whatever, man, you you do it, And
Speaker 3: so I was really I was just been kind of
Speaker 3: sitting in that for a couple of days. Now, what
Speaker 3: I want to dress whatever? So yesterday I'm on the
Speaker 3: phone with an executive. We'll call it that. Whether I
Speaker 3: have to with Fox or the podcast doesn't matter. I'm
Speaker 3: on the phone with an executive and the next few
Speaker 3: months of the podcast come up and about how Demonsea's
Speaker 3: getting ready moved to California. He's gonna be off the
Speaker 3: show for a bit, you know, his mom, his sister
Speaker 3: going to fill in for him. And this executive tells
Speaker 3: they were talking to an even higher up executive, and
Speaker 3: that person's only note was, all right, that all sounds good,
Speaker 3: but let's make sure we have a hard and fast
Speaker 3: plan to get Demonse back on the show. I really
Speaker 3: like seeing him on the show, and I got so angry.
Speaker 3: I was like, I was thinking about firing him for insubordination.
Speaker 3: And now my boss's boss's boss is like, all right,
Speaker 3: all that sounds good whatever Nick's plan is, but let's
Speaker 3: just make sure we know when Demanse's coming back on
Speaker 3: the show. I was so mad about it. So good
Speaker 3: job whatever. I guess your energy is effing perfect. Like whatever, man,
Speaker 3: you're impressing people. I guess it's really unbelievable. All right,
Speaker 3: now to the listener questions.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Uh, Caleb Gwynn, I'm gonna say this, like, Nick,
Speaker 7: if you think I'm watching the NCAA tournament over first things, First,
Speaker 7: you were flatly demonstrably wrong.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, thank you so much, Caleb. I appreciate that. Uh,
Speaker 3: that's very kind of you. I'm you know what more
Speaker 3: people should say that? All right?
Speaker 5: Next, Dumitio Spence asks, Yo, Nick, how do you feel
Speaker 5: about vich letting all these guys go. I'm a little concerned. Still,
Speaker 5: I'm a little concerned. Still, trust the committee. Just a
Speaker 5: little concern, all right.
Speaker 3: Listen, the Chiefs got Juju Smith Schuster for one year
Speaker 3: three point eight million dollars. Now, he ended up making
Speaker 3: like eight million because he reached all of his incentives
Speaker 3: and they won the Super Bowl and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: But they got the contract he signed was one year
Speaker 3: less than four million. The Patriots just gave him three
Speaker 3: years thirty three million. Good for Juju. He's earned it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But I'm okay with them not paying that much money
Speaker 3: for Juju. I'm okay with that. Orlando Brown, I like
Speaker 3: Orlando a lot. The Chiefs offered him six years, one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty a year ago. Now a lot of
Speaker 3: that's funny money, and he turned it down and he
Speaker 3: just signed for four years sixty four with Cincinnati. Yesterday
Speaker 3: the Chiefs tried to resign him. I have a personal
Speaker 3: relationship with Orlando Brown. He helped the Chiefs win a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. Great chief I wish him luck in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: That's a business do that, I'm not I think the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs need one more tackle. Are they gonna get
Speaker 3: that because Andrew Wiley has gone as well, or Orlando
Speaker 3: Brown's gone and they signed Jawan Taylor? Are they gonna
Speaker 3: draft the tackle? Are they gonna try to trade for
Speaker 3: a tackle? Are they gonna sign a tackle or are
Speaker 3: they gonna move Juwan Taylor? They just signed to the
Speaker 3: left side and then sign Lucas Niang or I'm sorry, uh,
Speaker 3: you have Lucas Niang play right tackle? What's up the
Speaker 3: receiver situation. I'm gonna get to that. OK. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get to that in a moment. The SO but that
Speaker 3: they have an obvious need at tackle unless they believe
Speaker 3: Lucas and Nan can play it. But I think the
Speaker 3: Chiefs run office has unequivocally earned the benefit of the Dell.
Speaker 3: Now the wide receiver situation, let's talk about SO Mark
Speaker 3: Wesvoldez Scantling is still under contract. He's a fine number three.
Speaker 3: They spent a second round pick on sky Moore. He
Speaker 3: didn't do much last year, and then he had an
Speaker 3: awesome AFC Championship game in Super Bowl AFC. Now they
Speaker 3: weren't It wasn't a ton of plays. It was the
Speaker 3: punt return and then the touchdown his first touch under
Speaker 3: the season game in the Super Bowl. You hope that
Speaker 3: leads to a good offseason. Kadarius Tony is their number one,
Speaker 3: and Kadarius Tony is under contract, and when he's healthy,
Speaker 3: which has been his big bugaboo, he's excellent, really excellent.
Speaker 3: I also think there is a chance. I know they
Speaker 3: are considering Odell, but I think there's a chance they
Speaker 3: trade for DeAndre hop he's available. He has yet to
Speaker 3: be traded for. I So I don't think they are
Speaker 3: going to go into the season with this being the
Speaker 3: wide receiver for Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then that thing that you talked about, how like.
Speaker 5: Mahomes went in the second Super Bowl in the last
Speaker 5: four years, and how teams want to go like when
Speaker 5: guys are on their way out or if they're really
Speaker 5: hungry for a Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Correct gravitate towards mahomes.
Speaker 3: Correct, and so now that to me is less. That
Speaker 3: mindset doesn't help you that much with wide receivers in
Speaker 3: my opinion, because wide receivers a young man's game, right,
Speaker 3: That helps you more with like situational pass rusher, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like those types of spots. But
Speaker 3: in general, I think they'll be able to get some bargains,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 5: Next truth Bear says Yannasa had too many bad years
Speaker 5: to start his career to become top ten all time.
Speaker 3: Okay, I flatly disagree with that. So keep in mind
Speaker 3: Jannis came into the league at nineteen. Okay, by twenty
Speaker 3: two he's an All Star, averaging twenty three a game.
Speaker 3: The from age twenty three on this is now, so
Speaker 3: that's five seasons including this one, he is averaging twenty
Speaker 3: nine to twelve and six on fifty five percent his
Speaker 3: even with the slow start to his career, His career
Speaker 3: averages are twenty three, ten and five and going up.
Speaker 3: You then add to it that Jannis, despite the slow
Speaker 3: start to his career, is already a four time about
Speaker 3: to be five time first team All NBA, two times
Speaker 3: second team All NBA, and has won two league MVPs,
Speaker 3: and a Defensive Player of the Year could win another
Speaker 3: MBP this year. I disagree. Like the Bird didn't come
Speaker 3: into the league until he was twenty three, Giannis was
Speaker 3: an MVP candidate by then. He just so. His career
Speaker 3: averages are gonna be depressed a bit by the fact
Speaker 3: that his first year in the league he averaged seven
Speaker 3: points a game. But he's gonna have plenty of time.
Speaker 3: He's only twenty, is he. I don't know if he's
Speaker 3: turned twenty nine yet. He's let me see, he's uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's twenty eight years old. Doesn't turn twenty nine until
Speaker 3: next season? All right? Next?
Speaker 4: Uh Chico forty two?
Speaker 5: Ass Is this the first time we've seen Nick without
Speaker 5: wearing Jordan's on this show?
Speaker 3: No, I've worn Lebron's on the show. Yeah, I've worn
Speaker 3: uh this brand of tennis shoes a few times on
Speaker 3: the I've worn as Yeah, No, that's not true. All right. Next,
Speaker 3: mister GKV.
Speaker 4: Demonsay is going to colost to Herd. Remember where you
Speaker 4: heard it first?
Speaker 3: Okay, the that's a bridge too far for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't do that to me.
Speaker 3: Man, You don't think three hours in front of the
Speaker 3: microphone on the herd.
Speaker 4: I think McIntyre has got it.
Speaker 3: He does, mcantire does have. But he did a good
Speaker 3: job co hosting or hosting the other day.
Speaker 4: All right, Well that guy wants to take a vacation.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, let's pump the brakes. All right, first
Speaker 3: things first. In three and a half hours, enjoy the
Speaker 3: NCAA tournament. Good show today, talk to you guys later.
Speaker 3: What's right,