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Speaker 2: Welcome in What Driving the Great? Episode two fifty four
Speaker 2: A ton to Do Today? All Sports on Today's show,
Speaker 2: No Networkers Sports media Commentary. However, I did do Colin
Speaker 2: Coward's podcast last night, and he is often does baited
Speaker 2: me after a couple because Colin, Colin and I do
Speaker 2: these podcasts at night and we're both having a cocktail,
Speaker 2: and then he usually about an hour into the podcast,
Speaker 2: when I think it's about over and I'm, you know,
Speaker 2: finishing my large glass of wine that I started with,
Speaker 2: he starts jumping me with political topics. And yesterday I
Speaker 2: just kind of was in the mood. So if you
Speaker 2: want to hear my thoughts on the last month in
Speaker 2: the American presidential race, vice presidential candidates and such, that
Speaker 2: Cowards podcast probably comes out later today. But rather than
Speaker 2: promote podcasts other than my own, might as well if
Speaker 2: I'm doing that, tell you like, rate, subscribe, review. Our
Speaker 2: YouTube numbers have kind of stalled a bit, probably because
Speaker 2: we haven't been telling you guys to subscribe to the
Speaker 2: YouTube channel, but also because it's not football season. Demons
Speaker 2: has just got the one sad plaque leaning up against
Speaker 2: the wall in his apartment because he hasn't yet hung
Speaker 2: it up. So try to get some more before we
Speaker 2: get to the show. Let's get to what Miss Serbia
Speaker 2: USA is not gonna make the show because it hasn't
Speaker 2: happened yet. France, Germany is happening about an hour from
Speaker 2: now when we're taping and live on YouTube Serbia USA.
Speaker 2: This is the third Team USA basketball game demanse that
Speaker 2: tips off right when first things first starts, and I
Speaker 2: don't get the daily ratings, and I don't really look
Speaker 2: at the daily ratings unless it's football season. But I've
Speaker 2: got to imagine it hasn't been good for the show
Speaker 2: that I bet I could look at just a ratings
Speaker 2: graph and just without dates and be like, oh, team
Speaker 2: USA was playing, Team USA was playing, so not great
Speaker 2: for US. Rudy Gobert maybe had finger surgery. He didn't,
Speaker 2: but I maybe, I don't know. And Arizona, the Arizona
Speaker 2: Cardinals introduce a truly grotesque creation, which is a burrito
Speaker 2: of candy wrapped in cotton candy. It looks truly abhorrent.
Speaker 2: All right, Jamanse, Let's get to the actual NFL news
Speaker 2: if we could.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the huge stories of this NFL offseason
Speaker 3: is if Brandon Ayuk is gonna leave the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 3: Your guy Andrew Philipponi is reporting that there's been a
Speaker 3: verbal agreement between Pittsburgh and San Francisco.
Speaker 4: So it's all but final. But this would this be
Speaker 4: a bigger ad.
Speaker 3: For Pittsburgh or a bigger loss for party in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's an interesting way to put it. I mean,
Speaker 2: it would be a massive ad for Pittsburgh. If the
Speaker 2: Steelers get competent quarterback play, they're a legitimate team. They
Speaker 2: assuming they add Ayuk, we know the defense is good.
Speaker 2: They might have the best defensive player in the league
Speaker 2: in TJ. Watt. Last year, they found their way into
Speaker 2: the playoffs again thanks to a few really good quarterback
Speaker 2: games by Mason Rudolph. We know they're gonna be well coached.
Speaker 2: You have some offensive line questions for him, and I
Speaker 2: think they're running back duo is a little overrated. But
Speaker 2: if George Pickens all of a sudden gets dropped down
Speaker 2: to your number two receiver and Ayuk's your number one,
Speaker 2: then the question just is, can Fields or Russ just
Speaker 2: give you the eighteenth best quarterbacking season in football? And
Speaker 2: that should be enough to contend for a playoff spot
Speaker 2: and not contend for a Super Bowl. But it would
Speaker 2: be a great ad for Pittsburgh to the San Francisco
Speaker 2: side of things, because I do believe this is a
Speaker 2: fate accompany that Brandon Ayuk is going to up with
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers, that right now they're haggling over some
Speaker 2: financial details with Ayuk while they've they've hammered out the
Speaker 2: trade details with Sam Francisco. That's what Andrew Philipponi is reporting.
Speaker 2: I've known Andrew for gosh darn man, almost twenty years,
Speaker 2: and no one is more connected to the Steelers than
Speaker 2: he is, So I trust his information. Even though the
Speaker 2: National insiders are saying, you know, Andrew's saying it's the
Speaker 2: one yard line. The National folks are saying it's closer
Speaker 2: to the ten yard line. I trust Andrew. If you're
Speaker 2: the Niners, this is a debacle. And that is not
Speaker 2: because they can't compete without Ayuk. That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's a debacle of process. If you were going to
Speaker 2: trade Brandon Ayuk, you've got to do it before the draft,
Speaker 2: when Pittsburgh was offering you a first round pick that
Speaker 2: you could have used in this year's draft, left for
Speaker 2: a player that can help you this season. The Steelers,
Speaker 2: by the way, in this year's draft, had the twentieth pick,
Speaker 2: took Troy fott new from the tackle from Washington, a
Speaker 2: player the Niners. I don't know if they would have
Speaker 2: picked him, but an offensive lineman could have really helped him.
Speaker 2: When you don't trade Ayuk before the draft, then you've
Speaker 2: got to just be willing to hold your water and
Speaker 2: be like, no, we're not trading him. We're going to
Speaker 2: and if we lose him next year for nothing, or
Speaker 2: if we franchise Tag him and work.
Speaker 4: Out a trade player.
Speaker 2: So so that.
Speaker 4: Answer to the locker room.
Speaker 2: So that is exactly the point Demon's. So that's the
Speaker 2: smart point because we talked about this on the show yesterday,
Speaker 2: which is what leverage does Ayuk have? And the answer
Speaker 2: is exactly that. And I think folks underrate that how
Speaker 2: big of an impact that can have because they don't
Speaker 2: look at football teams like workplaces. But anyone that's ever
Speaker 2: worked in an office and had someone there that was
Speaker 2: important that they couldn't just get rid of, that wasn't
Speaker 2: afraid they were going to be fired, who every day
Speaker 2: walked in with a bad attitude, who talked to people
Speaker 2: behind people's backs, who just sucked the energy out of
Speaker 2: any room they go into. Anyone that's experienced that knows
Speaker 2: that has real impact on other people's ability to do
Speaker 2: their work, on other people's enjoyment of going to work.
Speaker 2: And if you're in a team environment, whether it's a
Speaker 2: literal team like a football team or a regular workplace
Speaker 2: where you work as a team, that can totally derail you.
Speaker 2: So that's clearly what the Niners are afraid of. The
Speaker 2: point I'm making Demons is they needed to determine before
Speaker 2: the draft, if we don't trade Ayuk and if we
Speaker 2: don't give him thirty million a year or whatever the
Speaker 2: number is, is that the route he's going to take.
Speaker 2: And if so, then we've got a trade. And we
Speaker 2: don't think we can deal with that, then we've got
Speaker 2: to trade him. And the other reason de Monday that
Speaker 2: I think this is so mishandled is this isn't a shock.
Speaker 2: This didn't catch any He has been flirting with Washington
Speaker 2: and Pittsburgh for months, openly talking about it on podcasts,
Speaker 2: putting out ig videos saying, oh they're done with me?
Speaker 2: Should doing a TikTok where he's breaking down the commanders
Speaker 2: all twenty two Like, this wasn't a Oh my god,
Speaker 2: who could have seen this coming? Everyone saw it coming.
Speaker 2: So if you saw it coming, had an opportunity to
Speaker 2: trade him before the draft and decided not to to
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you know, lose your metal a
Speaker 2: month before the start of the season is concerning, and
Speaker 2: I think it's damaging, significantly damaging for the Niners.
Speaker 4: Let's go on and okay, are we on to the
Speaker 4: next topic? He no, no, no, we can do with
Speaker 4: the other stuff on this Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: Being hurt in them trading Ayuk away. What do you
Speaker 3: think San Francisco's future is for this year?
Speaker 2: Well, McCaffery, they're not cooked, but last year they got
Speaker 2: outstanding health by all the Avengers. Right now they're in
Speaker 2: this situation. Trent Williams is holding out. He's the best
Speaker 2: player on the team. I think that'll get resolved, but
Speaker 2: it's not ideal. Christian McCaffrey, wh who the two healthiest
Speaker 2: portions of his career have been this time with San Francisco,
Speaker 2: is dealing with a calf strain before the season starts.
Speaker 2: That's not ideal. Ricky Persall Pearsall, their first round pick
Speaker 2: has been hurt three separate times in camp, and even
Speaker 2: if none of those are significant injuries, that is a
Speaker 2: double red flag. The first one is, ah man, did
Speaker 2: we draft a player that's gonna have major medical concerns?
Speaker 2: And the other one is rookies need training camp more
Speaker 2: than anybody. And Ayuk, who was Perty's only consistent deep
Speaker 2: downfield target last year. The reason Perty wasn't a dink
Speaker 2: and dunker was because of Brandon Ayuk. He was fourteen
Speaker 2: yards per attempt to Ayuk six and a half yards
Speaker 2: per attempt to everyone else on the team. All those
Speaker 2: things you put them together to bat offseason. Uh, and
Speaker 2: so that good. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it also seems like Iyuk was angling to play
Speaker 3: with Jaden Daniels in Washington's GM came from San Francisco
Speaker 3: with Washington not being interested in you, is there something
Speaker 3: to read into there?
Speaker 2: So what I readed into that is that Washington understands
Speaker 2: that as of this moment, they don't have an NFL
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say NFL caliber, but good enough even close
Speaker 2: to good enough offensive line, and they need their draft
Speaker 2: capital to spend on that in future years. They're not
Speaker 2: It's not like Washington this year thinks we're competing for
Speaker 2: a championship. They have Terry McLaurin, they have Donson, they
Speaker 2: have wide receiver is not their glaring need offensive line
Speaker 2: is And for them to you know, trade away elite
Speaker 2: draft resources for what would be a luxury, which is
Speaker 2: another wide receiver is one of the deeper spots on
Speaker 2: the commander's team. That's so I underste right, and I
Speaker 2: don't and I think they know that they are going
Speaker 2: to have to spend a massive amount of draft capital
Speaker 2: over the next few years building up that offensive line.
Speaker 2: They signed Tyler Biadis from Dallas this year. They signed
Speaker 2: my pal Nick Alighretti from the Chiefs this year. Their
Speaker 2: starting left tackle right now is a rookie third round pick. They,
Speaker 2: I mean, they they need the offensive line help. And
Speaker 2: when you've spent a first round pick on Dotson two
Speaker 2: years ago and Terry mclaurin's a really good player, it
Speaker 2: just seems almost like a luxury they can't quite afford.
Speaker 2: That's how By the way, Starver in the mic, that's
Speaker 2: how I read it. I listen. I'm not covering the
Speaker 2: Commanders on a daily basis, but if I were running
Speaker 2: the Commanders, I would say, this is a luxury. We
Speaker 2: are not, you know, we almost don't deserve yet we
Speaker 2: need to do. We need to build up the rest
Speaker 2: of our football team first. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 4: Fair enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So hard knocks with the Bears and Caleb Williams
Speaker 3: is officially kicked off. Nick Saban came out and said
Speaker 3: that high expectations could stunt Caleb's growth. You actually came
Speaker 3: out and said that Caleb could be in the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl this year. So do you think that you're contributing
Speaker 3: to Caleb Williams potential downfall. U.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I I think that if it
Speaker 2: were a trendy consensus pick, I think that might be
Speaker 2: a you know, not great for him. I right now,
Speaker 2: they're over under is set at eight and a half.
Speaker 2: They have the fifteenth best Super Bowl odds in a
Speaker 2: thirty two team league. There isn't too much hype. And
Speaker 2: what Caleb, what people? I understand what Saban is saying
Speaker 2: in that expectations. Can you know that if you'd the expectations,
Speaker 2: if they're too high and you don't live up to them,
Speaker 2: the damage it can do to you as a young player.
Speaker 2: What where I think Saban's mistaken is Mistaken's the wrong word.
Speaker 2: The context I would add to Saban's point is the
Speaker 2: expectations for Bears fans is the standard is so low.
Speaker 2: They've never had a four thousand yard passer. They've never
Speaker 2: had a thirty touchdown thrower. The all time franchise leader
Speaker 2: in passer rating for the Chicago Bears is Mitch Trubisky.
Speaker 2: The single best quarterback season they ever had was Eric
Speaker 2: Kramer thirty years ago. Jim Harbaugh was their starting quarterback
Speaker 2: for four years in the nineties and never threw sixteen
Speaker 2: touchdown passes. Okay, so Caleb just going out there and
Speaker 2: being slightly above average is going to put Bears fans
Speaker 2: and Bear's local media over the moon. So no, I
Speaker 2: understand Saban's point, but I don't think the expectations are
Speaker 2: too high. Let's go to the other follow ups.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So both Caleb and Josh Allen are set to
Speaker 3: play against each other this weekend. What are you gonna
Speaker 3: be looking out for for both of them?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm very curious for Caleb, he's gonna have opportunities
Speaker 2: to run and make plays with his legs. I would
Speaker 2: prefer he doesn't do much of that in the preseason.
Speaker 2: And for Josh, I'm curious who his theoretical number one
Speaker 2: target is gonna be. There have been pretty good reports
Speaker 2: out of Bill's training camp about Khalil Shakir. I'm interested
Speaker 2: in what that looks like. Everybody loves Keon Coleman, and
Speaker 2: then there's Curtis Samuel. It's kind of a hodgepodge. Keon
Speaker 2: Coleman a first round or second round pick, but Rookie
Speaker 2: and the other reports are that my guy two time
Speaker 2: Super Bowl champion, NBS might get cut. Sneaky reports out
Speaker 2: of New England and Buffalo are that Juju and MBS,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs two top receiving targets the last two years,
Speaker 2: might not make either of those rosters. And it's not
Speaker 2: like New England and Buffalo have stacked receiver rooms. So
Speaker 2: that's that's what I'll be watching for those guys in
Speaker 2: that game, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, as your prediction more about Caleb in Chicago or
Speaker 3: your lack of faith in the NFC.
Speaker 2: It's a both. It's both. I think that you look
Speaker 2: at the the NFC. We're gonna get to the Eagles
Speaker 2: issues in a moment, but they're well documented and they
Speaker 2: collapsed last year. The cow had a miserable, miserable offseason.
Speaker 2: I'm the only person that cares about this, but I
Speaker 2: do care about it. The Lions lost their kicker for
Speaker 2: the year, and I think that matters, and that's like
Speaker 2: a sneaky important injury. There's no one in the NFC
Speaker 2: South I think as a contender. The Niners are going backwards,
Speaker 2: not forwards. So that leaves the Rams who had Aaron
Speaker 2: Donald retire, and then the Packers, and I just think
Speaker 2: the Packers because they were so great in that playoff game,
Speaker 2: people are slightly overstating how good they were over the
Speaker 2: course of the whole season. So all of that, plus
Speaker 2: the fact that I think Caleb's going to be an
Speaker 2: instant star, is why I'm putting you know, I'm putting
Speaker 2: some stock in that. All right, let's go on to
Speaker 2: Hurts and Sirianni.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So a new report said that Hurts and Sirianni's
Speaker 3: relationship was fractured last year. So instead of this story
Speaker 3: dying a little while back when it first came out,
Speaker 3: it's getting more life. So it sounds like there's something
Speaker 3: really there. Who do you think has more pressure to.
Speaker 4: You know, to make amends Sirianni.
Speaker 2: Hurts, Well, listen, I think Sirianni is more pressure to
Speaker 2: make amends. But I think Jalen Hurt sneakily is under
Speaker 2: massive pressure this year. And we talked about this on
Speaker 2: the show yesterday. So follow me on this, Demanse. Here's
Speaker 2: here's the point that I would be making that I'm
Speaker 2: trying to make, and I understand it's a little counterintuitive.
Speaker 2: If Nick Sirianni gets fired by the Eagles, his next
Speaker 2: job is head coach of an NFL team. His winning
Speaker 2: percentage plus three years, three playoff appearances, plus a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl appearance means if he gets fired, he gets another
Speaker 2: head bite at the head coaching apple almost guaranteed. I
Speaker 2: know that folks are gonna say that I'm getting ahead
Speaker 2: of myself here. But if the Eagles sits sour on
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, Typically, when a team that drafts you and
Speaker 2: invests in you decides oh, you're not the guy, your
Speaker 2: next job is then a quarterback competition. That's what it
Speaker 2: was for Darnold. That's what it was for Baker. It
Speaker 2: wasn't that for Golf, and Golf ended up, by the
Speaker 2: way being the best example of this. It's what it
Speaker 2: was for Carson Wentz. It didn't work well, and I
Speaker 2: know people are like, my god, they had a pretty
Speaker 2: quick trigger on Jalen Hurts. The point I'm trying to
Speaker 2: make is this, it Hurts is mediocre this year, then
Speaker 2: you're going to look at his eight year sample of
Speaker 2: big time football and say, in college he didn't look
Speaker 2: like a franchise quarterback. Early in his career, didn't look
Speaker 2: like a franchise quarterback. The last couple of years he
Speaker 2: didn't look like a franchise quarterback. It was the one
Speaker 2: season when he damn near won League MVP, when he
Speaker 2: played a brilliant Super Bowl, and no one can take
Speaker 2: that away from him. But the more we get away
Speaker 2: from that in time until he has another year similar
Speaker 2: to that, I think there's going to be growing concern.
Speaker 2: So I think both of these guys are under massive
Speaker 2: pressure for slightly different reasons. Looks like you have a question, Demonsey,
Speaker 2: So you're.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I understand what you're saying. And I
Speaker 3: think I'm not sure how long Sirianni. How long has
Speaker 3: Sirianni been a head coach?
Speaker 2: So this three years and three playoff appearances.
Speaker 3: Exactly, and has a longer sample size, and Sirianni has
Speaker 3: a shorter one, and it's better, so.
Speaker 2: Well and and listen, and I'm no Sirianni guy. And
Speaker 2: Hurts doesn't have much longer sample size because when I
Speaker 2: say eight years, I'm talking including colleges and having to
Speaker 2: transfer from Alabama. But it's just I think that this
Speaker 2: is the other place where draft bias works. Again. The
Speaker 2: whole league had an opportunity to take Jalen in Round one.
Speaker 2: Nobody did which means there are certain teams or a
Speaker 2: lot of teams theoretically that looked at him as a
Speaker 2: certain level prospect. Teams stick with those biases. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: the same. The flip side of that happens a lot.
Speaker 2: When a guy who was a top ten pick is
Speaker 2: never good, teams keep taking chances on him because they're like, man,
Speaker 2: we had him graded as the seventh best player in
Speaker 2: the draft when we get him, even if he's been
Speaker 2: in the league four years and being cut by two teams,
Speaker 2: and so it's not like Jalen was a sixth round pick.
Speaker 2: But I just think his footing is less certain than
Speaker 2: most people tend to believe. And this article did not
Speaker 2: do him or Sirianni any favors. All right, let's move
Speaker 2: on to hoops real quick.
Speaker 3: All right, So I'm gonna talk a little bit about
Speaker 3: Lori marketing, but it's actually about Steph Curry, So just
Speaker 3: walk with me here. After failing to complete a deal
Speaker 3: with the Warriors, the Jazz extended marketing, Golden State wasn't
Speaker 3: willing to include pods into any trades, So how should
Speaker 3: Steph feel about them prioritizing the future instead of the
Speaker 3: end of his career.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so I thought, I think this is the
Speaker 2: exact right angle. So I think that the Lurie Markinen
Speaker 2: signing is actually a Warrior Steph Curry story because Mark,
Speaker 2: it's not just that he signed the extension with Utah,
Speaker 2: it's when he signed it. So he did what Lebron
Speaker 2: did a couple of years ago, which is signed the
Speaker 2: extension at a late enough date into the offseason where
Speaker 2: he's untradable this year. When you sign an extension in
Speaker 2: the NBA, you cannot be traded for six months. So
Speaker 2: if you sign an extension or a free agent deal
Speaker 2: at the beginning of free agency, you can be traded
Speaker 2: in like January, right because of when he signed it,
Speaker 2: those six months expire the day after the trade deadline,
Speaker 2: so he's untradeable this entire season. That's why it's noteworthy
Speaker 2: because the Warriors were in on marketing. A lot of
Speaker 2: people thought they were gonna get marketing. They didn't, and
Speaker 2: then people thought, Okay, well maybe they'll get him during
Speaker 2: the year. Now it's impossible, no one can trade for
Speaker 2: Lauri market in this season, which means the Warriors, much
Speaker 2: like the Lakers, didn't get better. The Lakers did nothing.
Speaker 2: The Warriors, you know, lost Clay and added some you
Speaker 2: know pieces to replace him, but nothing significant. And so
Speaker 2: I said briefly yesterday on the show Lurie Mark and
Speaker 2: and signing his extension when he did, made it one
Speaker 2: percent more likely that Stephan Lebron one day play together.
Speaker 2: One percent because I just think that the war Steph
Speaker 2: is going to have another frustrating year. And I think
Speaker 2: these guys playing on Team USA man are like, especially
Speaker 2: the older guys Steph, Lebron and KD are looking around saying,
Speaker 2: we're still good enough, guys, and our teams aren't. The
Speaker 2: Lakers are seemed just totally fine, standing pat because nobody
Speaker 2: wants to make a big decision, because nobody wants accountability
Speaker 2: for the decision. The Warriors sneakily are not trying to
Speaker 2: spend a bunch of money, and now they have been.
Speaker 2: They've spent more money than any team in the league
Speaker 2: over the last decade, but now they're quietly trying to
Speaker 2: pair that down. The Suns, on the other end, are
Speaker 2: trying to do a lot, but they don't know what
Speaker 2: they're doing. So those three guys are kind of stuck,
Speaker 2: and I find it pretty fascinating.
Speaker 3: If that was one with if that was plus one percent,
Speaker 3: what is the percentage of Lebron and Curry playing together now.
Speaker 2: One day in their careers? If I added one percent
Speaker 2: to it, I'm gonna say it's now at sixteen percent. Okay,
Speaker 2: one and six shot. It was at fifteen, Now it's
Speaker 2: at sixteen a one in six shot. So roll a
Speaker 2: die and see if you can call the number. That's
Speaker 2: the odd that's the odds one and six. That's what
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: What else? Uh does Golden State looking down the road?
Speaker 3: Do you think that has anything to do with Steph
Speaker 3: kind of lacking in this Olympic run?
Speaker 2: No, I don't buy that at all. And no, I
Speaker 2: don't think that's it. I think that I think it's
Speaker 2: a money thing. I honestly think it's a money thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe again, I'm not a reporter on
Speaker 2: the ground there. But when the owner comes out and says,
Speaker 2: our number of months ago, our number one goal is
Speaker 2: to get under the tax kind of tells you it's
Speaker 2: a money thing right now for them. And then what's
Speaker 2: the last one?
Speaker 3: If Vegas offered a bet like a step to end
Speaker 3: his career as a warrior, yes or no? What would
Speaker 3: the odds look like right now.
Speaker 2: Minus three hundred yes, plus two eighty No. But that's
Speaker 2: you know, it's one and four about that. He doesn't
Speaker 2: that's the it's it's not nothing, guys, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's not nothing. Quick break right back? What's right?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in what's right? With nick right demands? Let's
Speaker 2: get to uh some dues and dons of camp fights
Speaker 2: before we get to our game today.
Speaker 3: Yes, with joint practices underway across the league, fights are
Speaker 3: breaking out everywhere. It's not just from team to team,
Speaker 3: it's even teammates. DK Metcalf tried to pull a Miles
Speaker 3: Garrett on his teammates straight. I think he snatched one
Speaker 3: of his teammates helmet off and try to hit another
Speaker 3: teammate with it.
Speaker 4: You're on the records.
Speaker 3: You're on the record saying that you don't mind camp fights,
Speaker 3: but you don't want receivers punching helmets.
Speaker 4: So break it down. Were are some dudes and some don'ts.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, listen, the quarterback can never be involved. Daniel Jones,
Speaker 2: your guy demons tried to get involved in a camp fight.
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. You can't use any weapons, and don't punch helmets.
Speaker 2: You can see, you can slap, you can.
Speaker 3: Do Daniel Jones my guy anymore. He's not what do
Speaker 3: you mean he's my guy?
Speaker 2: Oh you're abandoning him. But yeah, okay, fair enough. You
Speaker 2: can do a Deacon Jones head slap to a helmet,
Speaker 2: you can do a mush face. There are things you
Speaker 2: but you can't punch helmets, you can't use helm's his weapons,
Speaker 2: and you can't have your quarterback involved. It's actually, we
Speaker 2: don't need to spend much time on it. Those are
Speaker 2: the obvious rules. And don't if you're a fringe roster guy,
Speaker 2: don't start a fight with a star on the team.
Speaker 2: Just don't. It's just bad business. Okay, like the It's
Speaker 2: just I understand wanting to show fight. There's different things.
Speaker 2: You can maybe bait the star into starting a fight
Speaker 2: with you, but you can't be the one to start
Speaker 2: the fight with the star. Everybody knows this. All right,
Speaker 2: let's play a game.
Speaker 3: We're playing right in today. First off, we got chiefs
Speaker 3: and Andy Reid. Andy Reid said that he's gonna he's
Speaker 3: gonna play the starters for the first quarter versus the
Speaker 3: Jaguars this weekend a Kansas City playing the Ones against Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: Is I mean, here's the thing I don't understand, and
Speaker 2: why more NFL teams don't say, Hey, what does Andy
Speaker 2: Reid do in the preseason in training camp? Yeah, let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and do that. The team that, aside from
Speaker 2: last year, starts every year undefeated in September and is
Speaker 2: more ready than everybody. And even before Mahomes got there,
Speaker 2: you know what, came into the season in great shape
Speaker 2: doing things. Why don't we do what he does. It's
Speaker 2: baffling to me. More people, I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: And I understand. It's like, well, Sean McVeigh sat everyone
Speaker 2: in preseason years ago when they started eight. No, I
Speaker 2: get that, and I'm not saying it's one size fits all.
Speaker 2: What I am saying is the Chiefs run one of
Speaker 2: the toughest training camps in football. They have the best
Speaker 2: player in the league, he plays in the preseason and
Speaker 2: it's seems to work. So I just don't understand why
Speaker 2: more teams don't copy it. That's all. So Andy Reid
Speaker 2: playing his starters in the preseason is the right move
Speaker 2: because Andy's the best coach in the league. I just
Speaker 2: just just like when for fifteen years Bill Belichick when
Speaker 2: he was at the top of his game. You know
Speaker 2: what he did in the draft traded down consistently. Oh
Speaker 2: you desperately want the forty seventh pick, well give us
Speaker 2: fifty six and one oh four and we'll do it.
Speaker 2: Oh you desperately want the twenty eighth pick, well give
Speaker 2: us thirty five and fifty eight and we'll do it.
Speaker 2: And it and it worked. I just just figure out
Speaker 2: who the best in the field are and copy what
Speaker 2: they're doing. Is a pretty tried and true way to succeed.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: So before practice, the Chiefs were asked who the goat
Speaker 3: basketball player was, and Lebron won that debate, but Montre
Speaker 3: Washington said Carmelo Anthony was the vat.
Speaker 4: Do you think was going on there?
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony Edwards got one vote, Larry Bird got one vote.
Speaker 2: But the story of this was Kobe got six, Mike
Speaker 2: got seven, and Lebron got seventeen, which to which I'll say,
Speaker 2: you're welcome, America. I mean the if you want to
Speaker 2: see the impact my consistent dedication to truth and accuracy
Speaker 2: in the most important debate in sports MJ Lebron the
Speaker 2: impact it has well, A team full of kids who
Speaker 2: never saw Mike play barely, you know, most of them
Speaker 2: didn't see much of Kobe either, who happened to be
Speaker 2: on a team that you know my TV show is
Speaker 2: on quite often in the facility. Lebron won overwhelmingly. So
Speaker 2: if you have any question about where that alleged debate
Speaker 2: is headed, I think that was a pretty good indicator.
Speaker 3: Now, what do you think the numbers would have been
Speaker 3: five years ago? Would have been out around the same
Speaker 3: or a lot different?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no different? Right, MJ?
Speaker 2: By a what by a huge margin? Look at the
Speaker 2: numbers after the last dance came out? But MJ fired
Speaker 2: his last propaganda bullet and and it wasn't enough. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, after calling Stefan Digs a great player, Josh Allen said,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd say I miss him a
Speaker 3: training camp. Between Alan and Diggs, who will miss who more?
Speaker 2: All right? So I want to be fair, Josh Allen,
Speaker 2: that's a truncated version of the quote. He said nice
Speaker 2: things about Stefan Diggs, So I so, But to be honest,
Speaker 2: I think Diggs will miss Allen more. And here's why,
Speaker 2: because I think Allen was. I think Diggs can be
Speaker 2: a lot, and I think it was he was okay
Speaker 2: with him moving on. If you're Stefan Diggs, with every
Speaker 2: year with Josh Allen, you were one of the most
Speaker 2: targeted receivers in the league. You were clearly, without question,
Speaker 2: the Bills number one receiver. You got all you got.
Speaker 2: I think there's a good chance that Stefan Diggs is
Speaker 2: the number three receiver for Houston. Nico Collins is the
Speaker 2: number one, and if Tank Dell is healthy, he might
Speaker 2: be the number two. So I think Diggs is gonna
Speaker 2: miss Josh in that man, you knew you were getting
Speaker 2: twelve ten, twelve targets a game. That's probably high eight
Speaker 2: to ten targets a game, and that's not gonna be
Speaker 2: the case anymore. Next uh.
Speaker 3: During hard Knocks, the Bears thought it was a good
Speaker 3: idea to teach their quarterbacks to slide using a slipping slide.
Speaker 4: Totally logical. The Bear's quarterback slipping slide was.
Speaker 2: It was one of the It was one of the
Speaker 2: only times a slipping slide has looked fun other than
Speaker 2: in the commercials there So this is I'm really gonna
Speaker 2: pull on the heartstrings of millennials. There are two products that,
Speaker 2: growing up in the commercial looked so elite and in
Speaker 2: practice were a disaster. One I don't know what whosh is.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 4: This this ball that they showed on a commercial.
Speaker 3: It looked like it levitated or whatever, and you like
Speaker 3: and you got it and it did none of that.
Speaker 3: But that you're probably talking about something that actually works
Speaker 3: and wasn't like a.
Speaker 2: T no, no, it was. It's something similar to that.
Speaker 2: So I one was the slipping slide. The slipping slide
Speaker 2: seemed amazing. In practice, you get it out in the yard.
Speaker 2: Within minutes, it's just mud everywhere. You try to dive
Speaker 2: on it, you hurt yourself. There's like rocks and roots
Speaker 2: under the ground.
Speaker 4: It does.
Speaker 2: It rips awful. But in the commercials it looked amazing.
Speaker 2: I want to see I don't know if we can
Speaker 2: show on camera. Go to the producer's room because you're
Speaker 2: too young for the other item, but I bet someone
Speaker 2: in the room can guess it. The other thing that
Speaker 2: looked amazing in the commercials but was just a ten
Speaker 2: out of ten commercials one out of ten application. It
Speaker 2: was a board game. It had a lot of bells
Speaker 2: and whistles, a lot of moving parts, and it really mousetrap.
Speaker 2: Good job, Daniel, that's exactly right. Mousetrap. The Mousetrap commercial.
Speaker 2: It was like, holy shit, this is going to change
Speaker 2: every sleepover I have. This is gonna be amazing. And
Speaker 2: then you get it and putting it together is a
Speaker 2: pain in the ass and none of that cool stuff happens.
Speaker 2: So like those are those are mousetrap slipping slide. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna add another one. Oh what was again? The producers
Speaker 2: the millennials will help me. Hot wheels. Hot wheels were fine,
Speaker 2: but the hot wheels tracks that really made it seem like, oh,
Speaker 2: this thing is gonna be self subs gonna work. Cook,
Speaker 2: it's gonna work like this. It's not gonna work like this.
Speaker 2: The hot wheel cars were still cool.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Sorry, this is a non sequent This is you know,
Speaker 2: a bit of a tangent. But this is a great
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to put in the listener comments other
Speaker 2: items from your childhood that I'll give you another one
Speaker 2: de monse and you might be old enough, just old
Speaker 2: enough to have dealt with this. The wrestling action figures.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah the so right. So no, those were a big
Speaker 2: part of my childhood as well, and maybe by the
Speaker 2: time you were a kid, they were a little more
Speaker 2: honest in the commercials, and maybe I was just dumb,
Speaker 2: but in the commercials, it's like, oh, this guy, you
Speaker 2: press this button, he does his finishing move on this
Speaker 2: other guy. But I guess I didn't put together like
Speaker 2: in order for that to work, it's gonna take a
Speaker 2: couple minutes of like real you know, finagling of getting
Speaker 2: them in the right spot and all of it. Those
Speaker 2: commercials were elite, but nothing. Slip and Slide and and
Speaker 2: Mousetrap were the two biggest fell for the banana and
Speaker 2: the tailpipe of what you thought it was going to
Speaker 2: be and then what it ultimately was. To answer the
Speaker 2: question the Bear's slipping slide, I thought was actually smart.
Speaker 2: I think teaching quarterbacks how to slide is smart. And
Speaker 2: if they don't know how, we've all seen it when
Speaker 2: a guy tries to slide and his foot gets caught
Speaker 2: in the turf for something and it looks bad. So
Speaker 2: I actually think that was smart. All right, we can
Speaker 2: keep going.
Speaker 3: Katie's legacy is one of the strangest in sports. To
Speaker 3: add to it, he just passed Lisa Leslie to become
Speaker 3: the all time leader in Team USA basketball points.
Speaker 4: The first line of Katie's legacy will be.
Speaker 2: One of the most talented players in NBA history and
Speaker 2: one of the most gifted scorers who oddly didn't quite
Speaker 2: have the team's success you would have expected for a
Speaker 2: player of his caliber. But also is I said this
Speaker 2: to Colin last night, Brews said something similar. If you
Speaker 2: think of the twenty greatest players in league history, okay,
Speaker 2: of all of them, Durant might be the number one
Speaker 2: pick as far as can literally drop him on any
Speaker 2: other great team in any other era, and it just
Speaker 2: makes everyone better. Nobody has to take a back seat,
Speaker 2: Nobody has to change their role, nobody all the other
Speaker 2: You drop Magic on a great Lebron team, and Lebron's
Speaker 2: got to adjust. You drop Michael on any of Kobe's teams,
Speaker 2: and all of you know, Kobe's got to adjust. You
Speaker 2: drop Shack on a Keem team, and obviously or vice versa,
Speaker 2: think of any great team in NBA history and just
Speaker 2: be like, we're dropping Kevin Durant on it. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: that works perfectly, and all their other stars can still
Speaker 2: be stars, and he's just going to take over for
Speaker 2: their worst starter at basically any spot and be great.
Speaker 2: And that's why when you dropped him on the Warriors,
Speaker 2: they became one of, if not the greatest team ever.
Speaker 2: You drop him on Team USA in any environment, and
Speaker 2: he looks like one of, if not the best guy
Speaker 2: out there. All right, So let's go to the next one, please.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Justin Fields is starting for the Steelers this weekend
Speaker 3: as Russell Wilson deals with his CAF injury. Will he
Speaker 3: take advantage of this opportunity? The Steelers QB one this
Speaker 3: season will be.
Speaker 2: I think Fields will start more games than Russ. Gary
Speaker 2: Dulac from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, I think is where
Speaker 2: he is tweeted or reported yesterday that Russ is definitively
Speaker 2: the Week one starter. I you know, I'm not there.
Speaker 2: That's a hell of a report. That seems a little premature,
Speaker 2: but it does seem like Russ is the likely Week
Speaker 2: one starter. But I think that Fields will start more
Speaker 2: games this year than Russell Wilson. And I'm told we
Speaker 2: found demons officially abandoning Daniel Jones. Oh that Demonse won't
Speaker 2: get that reference. That's from that. I think it's the
Speaker 2: greatest movie ever made. I think that is. That is
Speaker 2: my number with respect to The Godfather one and two.
Speaker 2: Daniel Plainview is played by Daniel day Lewis, is an
Speaker 2: oil man at the turn of the twentieth century, so
Speaker 2: late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds, and he becomes one
Speaker 2: of the richest, most powerful, successful people in the world
Speaker 2: while being while being just an absolutely brutal person and
Speaker 2: not good father. And in lockstep with it, there is
Speaker 2: that guy Paul Dano who is a immoral preacher who
Speaker 2: is trying to take advantage of the situation as well.
Speaker 2: I'm not giving I mean that is the very I.
Speaker 4: Feel like I've seen you watched that movie before something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for some reason, definitely, I mean I probably watched
Speaker 2: it ten times. I think it's the best movie ever made.
Speaker 2: Uh So that's a good photoshop. All right, we'll do
Speaker 2: some listener questions next. What's right? Welcome back in? What's driving?
Speaker 2: Nick right? Demanse, Let's do some listener questions.
Speaker 3: Shane Stutter a best restaurant to visit while in Casey
Speaker 3: from our friend's wedding this September.
Speaker 4: His wedding is the day after.
Speaker 3: Kansas City versus balt So, if you're in town or
Speaker 3: Kansas City versus Baltimore, So if you're if you're in town,
Speaker 3: I'd like to invite you to his wedding.
Speaker 2: Jesus all right, Well, I don't think you can invite
Speaker 2: someone to me someone else's wedding, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm gonna be in town. Sadly listen
Speaker 2: for amazing pan fried chicken and amazing giant fried shrimp
Speaker 2: and the best chicken noodle soup you've ever had Strouds.
Speaker 2: The Strouds was a place I used to take make
Speaker 2: them on. I don't know if you liked it or not,
Speaker 2: but I used to. Your mom didn't like it, so
Speaker 2: you and I would go a lot.
Speaker 3: There's also aid chicken is different. There's a different type
Speaker 3: of cadence to their It's.
Speaker 2: Good because it's not well, that's why it's called it's
Speaker 2: pan fried instead of being deep fried. So deep fried
Speaker 2: you dip the whole thing in grease. Pan fried it's
Speaker 2: in a pan with grease and you do it like that.
Speaker 2: So it is very different and I love it. There
Speaker 2: was also do you mind, Demanse, if I tell this?
Speaker 2: I don't even know if you remember. If I tell
Speaker 2: the story about when you and I were going to
Speaker 2: Strouds and we got pulled over by the cop. Do
Speaker 2: you remember this? You might beat you. You might have
Speaker 2: memoried of this is so Demanse was like twelve, and
Speaker 2: I so if Demonse was twelve. I'm twenty six, twenty seven,
Speaker 2: and we're driving to Strouds late on a Sunday, and
Speaker 2: right before we pull up, we get pulled over. I
Speaker 2: get pulled over for speeding on Shawnee Mission Parkway.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 2: The cop came over and was nice but inquisitive. Where
Speaker 2: are you guys going?
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I'm just taking my son to dinner.
Speaker 2: And again, me twenty six, demands twelve, and I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna like explain the you know, in that moment, I
Speaker 2: said him taking my son dinner, and the cop didn't
Speaker 2: believe me, but also didn't want to be he was
Speaker 2: not being he was actually being nice, but I think
Speaker 2: was concerned about this child's welfare. And it's so funny
Speaker 2: you don't remember it. He then came back to the
Speaker 2: car and asked me. He was like, hey, do you
Speaker 2: mind stepping out of the car for a moment. And
Speaker 2: I was like yeah, and I don't think you knew
Speaker 2: anything weird was going on. So I step out of
Speaker 2: I step out of the car. I step out of
Speaker 2: the car, and I see him walk over to your
Speaker 2: window and say two words to you or ten words
Speaker 2: to you. Then he gives me my ticket and he's like,
Speaker 2: all right, you're good. And when I asked you and
Speaker 2: I was like, what was that And he was like,
Speaker 2: he just asked me what we were doing. I told
Speaker 2: him we were going to dinner, like okay. So then
Speaker 2: you and I go to dinner at Stroud's and at
Speaker 2: the end of the meal, uh, I asked for the
Speaker 2: check and the waiter comes over and says, now you remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 2: The waiter comes over and says, really weird, this cop
Speaker 2: came in and paid for your meal but asked us
Speaker 2: not to say anything to you. So this, you know,
Speaker 2: this officer was skeptical and I think a little concerned
Speaker 2: about you know, this demands this kid's welfare, And then
Speaker 2: saw that we were being honest and like, not just weird,
Speaker 2: being honest, but that everything was fine, and I think
Speaker 2: felt bad about it and paid for our meal. So
Speaker 2: I I remember that like vividly, that whole thing, and
Speaker 2: I couldn't and I still I almost wish like there
Speaker 2: was something. I never saw that cop again obviously or whatever.
Speaker 2: And you know, I have a lot of criticisms of
Speaker 2: policing in America and stuff like that, but that was
Speaker 2: I thought, every single thing that officer did and without
Speaker 2: a side paying for the meal, which is obviously right,
Speaker 2: exactly right, paying for the meals above and beyond it.
Speaker 2: But it was I thought he handled all of it right.
Speaker 2: He had a funny feeling, but he also didn't want to,
Speaker 2: you know, overreact to it. But he also didn't like
Speaker 2: the idea of just leaving it being so he went
Speaker 2: above and beyond. Yeah. So so Strouds for that. The
Speaker 2: it's for barbecue Stroud Over, Yeah, for barbecue, for sit
Speaker 2: down barbecue, Jack Stack uh for more kind of hole
Speaker 2: in the wall or authentic barbecue. Every place is great.
Speaker 2: People love Kansas City or Joe's Kansas City. I'm an
Speaker 2: Arthur Bryant's guy. Obviously, Gates is super famous and for
Speaker 2: like fancy uh the place that my wife and I
Speaker 2: got in age Paropos, the lamb chops and the pork
Speaker 2: chops at Propos are elite, elite, elite and for good
Speaker 2: kind of sweet Southern Italian Anthony's on grand Those would
Speaker 2: be my recommendations, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, uh, Sean just kills Nick.
Speaker 3: If you are approached by by celebrity Jeopardy to complete
Speaker 3: against Bamani, Mina and Pablo, do you think you're walking
Speaker 3: out on top?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wow? So favorite in that? Yeah? So Pablo went
Speaker 2: to Harvard, Mina went to Yale. Bamani went to college
Speaker 2: at sixteen and got a master's from North Carolina around
Speaker 2: the age of twenty. If I'm being honest, the favorite
Speaker 2: in that is Bomani. I think because Bamani has such
Speaker 2: a random assortment of knowledge and facts, I obviously would
Speaker 2: mop the floor with my two rivals, meaning Pablo. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's obvious. But I do think Bomani's the favorite.
Speaker 3: Next, Kine Templar. Do you think lebron kd and Steph
Speaker 3: should running back in four years to secure golden three
Speaker 3: v three basketball?
Speaker 2: So evidently the rules of three on three basketball are weird,
Speaker 2: like as far as if you're allowed to play like
Speaker 2: FOEBA has it set up to where you have to
Speaker 2: play in a lot of these three on three qualifiers
Speaker 2: and get points and those. That's why we can't just
Speaker 2: send our best players like.
Speaker 4: You have to be like on the three on three process.
Speaker 2: Yeah and so so I obviously, yes, I think that
Speaker 2: we could dominate that if we sent NBA guys, but
Speaker 2: they don't want us doing that. They want you to
Speaker 2: be like a real three on three team.
Speaker 3: Next Artist Matthews is Jalen Hurts just another Carson Wentz
Speaker 3: never really that good, just average, but has one season
Speaker 3: that he looks awesome like Wentz has had his moment
Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen in the twenty seventeen season before injury.
Speaker 2: So I that to me, it's way too early to
Speaker 2: say that, but that is the comp of concern that
Speaker 2: now Wins was second big of the draft. Was from
Speaker 2: a small school where a guy for a full year
Speaker 2: plays at an MVP level but is never able to
Speaker 2: capture anything like that again and didn't look like that before.
Speaker 2: That is the concern. So I'm not ready to say that,
Speaker 2: but you can't dismiss it as a possibility.
Speaker 3: Next, Doctor turk nerf guns were always doctor Turf okayc
Speaker 3: NERF guns were always overrated.
Speaker 4: To be honest, super soakers too. I loved both of those.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we were big NERF gun We still have
Speaker 2: in our basement and like a big plastic toy chest.
Speaker 2: We still have all of Demons's NERF guns. We were
Speaker 2: a big NERF gun family. The NERF gun thing is
Speaker 2: you just can't be cheap on bullet acquisition. You just
Speaker 2: have to be fine with even if this thing only
Speaker 2: shoots six, I'm gonna have three hundred of them because
Speaker 2: what can ruin a NERF gun war is like, oh,
Speaker 2: I gotta go pick up these bullets and re you
Speaker 2: just gotta have a bunch of Is.
Speaker 3: A video out there on YouTube somewhere of me brandishing
Speaker 3: all my NERF guns collection like I was probably really
Speaker 3: fifteen years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's fun. I was in love with them.
Speaker 3: All right, go ahead, Ron Desk. Power wheels waiting twelve
Speaker 3: hours for thirty minutes of play.
Speaker 4: I don't know what power wheels are.
Speaker 2: So power wheels that that's what I was writing. When
Speaker 2: I was like five or six and my sister pushed
Speaker 2: me off the back and I snapped my collar bone.
Speaker 2: So power wheels demands are the little cars that you
Speaker 2: see little kids driving around on the side.
Speaker 4: Okay, I guess I've just never done what they were called.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, so so yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 2: that I think those were awesome. I think those apparently,
Speaker 2: I guess I don't. I don't have a recollection of that,
Speaker 2: but that makes sense. You can only you know, charge
Speaker 2: the battery for so long. So the Danny Tanner says,
Speaker 2: the easy bake oven, I buy that, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I didn't have one moonstand I know what that is.
Speaker 2: Anything slime related, I totally agree. And you were the
Speaker 2: DOORA had a massive slime phase and Deanna is in
Speaker 2: the midst of it right now of like still wanting
Speaker 2: to do slime slim slime. I hate it, all right do.
Speaker 2: LJ from Htown.
Speaker 3: LJ from Ahetown says, Hey, Nick, do you think Mahomes
Speaker 3: will break Brady?
Speaker 4: Will break?
Speaker 3: Brady consecutive AFC Championship Games, eight consecutive from twenty eleven
Speaker 3: to twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, that's so it can't be dismissed. I
Speaker 2: would have told you five years ago that that streak
Speaker 2: is more unbreakable than seven Super Bowls is eight years
Speaker 2: straight making the final four is wild. What works against
Speaker 2: Mahomes on that is the fact that the NFL changed
Speaker 2: it to where instead of two buys, there's only one.
Speaker 2: So Brady almost every year was the one or the
Speaker 2: two seed. So to make the AFC Title game, you
Speaker 2: just had to win one home playoff game and you're there.
Speaker 2: Since they switched it to only one by it now
Speaker 2: most years, even if you're thirteen and four, you might
Speaker 2: end up having to win two playoff games, So that
Speaker 2: makes it harder. But I mean, Mahomes' worst year of
Speaker 2: his career is losing an overtime in the AFC title game,
Speaker 2: so right now it feels like a good bet he'll
Speaker 2: break it. But man, it's just that's so hard. It's
Speaker 2: so hard to just to every single year be a
Speaker 2: game from the super Bowl or closer.
Speaker 3: All right, last one, Malik, Is there any position on
Speaker 3: an NFL roster that you feel like is underrated or
Speaker 3: doesn't get the attention that it deserves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, punter. I would be a guy that spends draft
Speaker 2: picks on my special teamers. I think that a if
Speaker 2: you truly can have a super elite punter, it is
Speaker 2: a real weapon, and I think they're underpaid and undervalued.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows kicker is super you know, is super important
Speaker 2: people because people think about it. But the ability to
Speaker 2: consistently pin a team back and affect how they call
Speaker 2: offense is I think an underrated thing in the NFL.
Speaker 2: All right, this was a fun show. We got shows
Speaker 2: next week and then we're on vacation for a week,
Speaker 2: so I'll see you guys. Listen, try to watch some
Speaker 2: of the TV show today. I know USA Servia is on,
Speaker 2: but check it out a case. We'd appreciate it. Thanks Demanse,
Speaker 2: appreciate you. See you guys next week. What's right? Hey,
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