Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. Nico Harrison has not yet
Speaker 1: been fired in a truly mortifying end to a truly
Speaker 1: indefensible nine month reign of terror. Nico Harrison has a
Speaker 1: meeting with MAVs ownership in twenty five minutes where he
Speaker 1: will be fired. I gotta tell you, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I'd show up to that meeting. If Shams has it
Speaker 1: and the whole world knows that, you know what guys
Speaker 1: with this can be assumed. So the impacts and implications
Speaker 1: of this are far reaching. Most notable is the following
Speaker 1: and this This might sound shocking, this might sound drastic,
Speaker 1: but I believe this to be true. Teams around the
Speaker 1: league should immediately call Dallas and ask about Anthony Davis's availability.
Speaker 1: Certainly teams around the league that would be interested, and
Speaker 1: this probably is going to have to be something far
Speaker 1: later once you see him if he returns pre trade deadline,
Speaker 1: should ask about Kyrie Irving. And that is because the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks are now in total build around Cooper Flag
Speaker 1: try to rebuild our draft capital to keep in mind,
Speaker 1: they do not either have they either don't have well,
Speaker 1: they either don't have a pick or don't have their
Speaker 1: own pick. In the next four drafts, they had gone
Speaker 1: all in around historically great superstar Lukadancic, and then, because
Speaker 1: of ego and hubris, Lukadancich was traded in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night in the type of move that if
Speaker 1: there were ever cause for a fan base to file
Speaker 1: a class action lawsuit against management, this would be it.
Speaker 1: You had one of the greatest players ever at the
Speaker 1: very beginning of the prime of his career. And I
Speaker 1: said it at the time and I will say it again,
Speaker 1: and because of nothing more than power and ego, you
Speaker 1: lit the franchise on fire, power and ego. Everyone was
Speaker 1: searching for why Nico would have done this, and the
Speaker 1: only logical and it's not logical, but the only reasonable
Speaker 1: explanation was he didn't like the fact that someone within
Speaker 1: the organization had more power than him, and that someone
Speaker 1: was Luca, So we got him out of there. And
Speaker 1: it will go down in the annals of sports history
Speaker 1: as one of the single greatest gaffes in a front
Speaker 1: office has ever made. That is not an overreaction that
Speaker 1: is not an overstatement. That is simply what it was
Speaker 1: the moment it happened, and now is being exacerbated night in,
Speaker 1: night out as Luca instead of coming off an injury
Speaker 1: as he was last year, reminds everyone. Yes, I am
Speaker 1: the guy who dragged a Dallas Mavericks team to the
Speaker 1: conference finals when I was twenty two, and to the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals when I was twenty four, And now I'm
Speaker 1: twenty six, and I have more first team All NBAS
Speaker 1: under my belt than Steph Curry does, and you got
Speaker 1: rid of me, and I don't. I also don't think
Speaker 1: this is an overstatement. Nico Harrison will never work in
Speaker 1: an NBA front office again. He's gonna have to work
Speaker 1: for Nike or an agency or something. But this is
Speaker 1: you cannot recover from something like this, and the arrogance
Speaker 1: that less than you know. We are a dozen games
Speaker 1: into this season and Nico, after they spun a one
Speaker 1: point eight percent lottery ball chance into Cooper Flag, the
Speaker 1: fact that he said, do you see the vision now
Speaker 1: was one of the most tone deaf, ludicrous statements. And
Speaker 1: I'm not a MAVs fan. Hell, I'm an adopted I
Speaker 1: guess Laker fan. Because that's who Bron plays for. So
Speaker 1: the Lakers getting Luca, who's my second favorite player, was
Speaker 1: and he and Bron playing together was a true dream.
Speaker 1: And I'm still mad about this trade on behalf of
Speaker 1: Mad fans. I can't imagine what this is. This was
Speaker 1: a sports felony inflicted upon a fan base. And yes,
Speaker 1: now the villain has been captured and is facing justice,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't change the havoc he reeked and the
Speaker 1: long term impact on your fandom. So I I want
Speaker 1: to just revisit before we get to last night's game,
Speaker 1: before we get to football, what I set off the
Speaker 1: top and credit to Tim Bond, TIMPs. He's been talking
Speaker 1: about this for a while, but now it is to
Speaker 1: me a more because it was never gonna happen with
Speaker 1: Nico in charge. But the Dallas Mavericks have to consider
Speaker 1: a fire sale. So let me let me. I want
Speaker 1: to give everyone the actual draft picks situation for Dallas.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six, they have their pick, so my apologies,
Speaker 1: I said that wrong. Twenty twenty six, they have their pick.
Speaker 1: This year, they have their pick, and maybe that's good
Speaker 1: because right now they're terrible. In twenty twenty seven, their
Speaker 1: pick basically totally unprotected, protected only for spots one or two,
Speaker 1: so unprotected goes to Charlotte. In twenty twenty eight, Jesus,
Speaker 1: the rich get richer, the Thunder can swap with them.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty nine, their pick goes somewhere in a
Speaker 1: swap and they do have the Lakers pick, And in
Speaker 1: twenty thirty, my god, the Spurs can swap with them.
Speaker 1: So first of all, in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty,
Speaker 1: the Mavericks first round pick is gonna go to the
Speaker 1: Thunder and then the Spurs. Holy shit. In twenty twenty nine,
Speaker 1: their pick goes somewhere. I can't figure it out. It
Speaker 1: says two most favorable of Dallas Houston, Phoenix to Houston
Speaker 1: and then other to Brooklyn via Dallas, and Phoenix to
Speaker 1: Brooklyn via Dallas, or Phoenix to Houston via Houston. Swap
Speaker 1: for Dallas or Phoenix. I don't get it, but whatever,
Speaker 1: the MAVs will not after this coming year's draft. They
Speaker 1: do not have control of their their first until twenty
Speaker 1: thirty one, until Cooper flag is in the midst of
Speaker 1: his second contract, so they need to recoup picks. They
Speaker 1: need to figure out, like Klay Thompson's contract is fully underwater.
Speaker 1: Kyrie's an interesting one, and I it's just and by
Speaker 1: the way, the three and eight, and I think, let
Speaker 1: me check. I think they have literally the worst offense
Speaker 1: in the NBA. I know, so let's just check in
Speaker 1: real quick. Defense wins championships, because that's all we heard
Speaker 1: from this this guy. All we heard from him. Their
Speaker 1: offense is, oh, is it no longer dead last? The
Speaker 1: hold on, let me, I had it. I thought they
Speaker 1: were dead last. Maybe I'm wrong because that says they're
Speaker 1: fourteenth right now, So oh that's last year. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at last year. It's like, hold on a second, this
Speaker 1: can't be correct. It can't be the Mavericks having the
Speaker 1: fifteenth offense. No chance, all right, here we go. Oh no,
Speaker 1: if fair is fair, they don't have the worst offense
Speaker 1: in the basketball. They have the second worst offensive basketball
Speaker 1: to the Pacers, whose best player Torrey's achilles in Game
Speaker 1: seven of the finals and second best or third best
Speaker 1: player left the team. Now, I mean, this is just perfect,
Speaker 1: just chef's kiss. Perfect defense wins championships. The Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: are three and eight. They fired Nico Harrison. They currently
Speaker 1: have the third best defense in basketball. Maybe that was
Speaker 1: a miscalculation because you have the second worst offense in basketball.
Speaker 1: Good luck, MAVs fans. I feel sick for you. Today's
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Speaker 1: huge games Lions Eaglesday Night Football, and once again the
Speaker 1: Eagles cannot stay out of their own way despite winning games.
Speaker 1: And I was listening to my one of my favorite podcasts,
Speaker 1: NFL Daily, I talk about a lot with Greg Rosenthal
Speaker 1: and company, and in previewing this game, his Cospatrick Claiban,
Speaker 1: you know, basically tongue in cheek, melted down about the
Speaker 1: media bothering Sirianni and hurts about AJ Brown and about
Speaker 1: how this team won a Super Bowl last year and
Speaker 1: about how this is much ado about nothing because the
Speaker 1: latest AJ Brown drama is him going on a Twitch
Speaker 1: stream and saying thing is things are not going well
Speaker 1: and drop me on your fantasy team, and how he
Speaker 1: and I'm sure others think it's a non story. Here's
Speaker 1: why I vehemently disagree with that. AJ Brown being happy
Speaker 1: or not might not matter. But the Philadelphia Eagles with
Speaker 1: the most expensive offense in NFL history, with guys who
Speaker 1: are all Pro caliber all over the offensive line, multiple receivers,
Speaker 1: Saquon Jalen Hurts. That team being this pedestrian on offense
Speaker 1: is a story. It flatly is, and it's inexplicable. Their
Speaker 1: inability out of a buye in a game they scored
Speaker 1: zero points in the first half to get AJ Brown
Speaker 1: involved is in a splicable. Them leading the league by
Speaker 1: a huge margin on three and out rate is indefensible.
Speaker 1: And so I give the Eagles credit because they do
Speaker 1: find a way to win, and they're champions, and the defense,
Speaker 1: particularly with the addition of Jalen Phillips, is rounding into form.
Speaker 1: All of that is great. But AJ Brown is not wrong.
Speaker 1: He might be wrong in his delivery in the way
Speaker 1: it feels diva ish or selfish, all that's fine. But
Speaker 1: his concern that this offense is not functioning properly is
Speaker 1: totally correct, totally correct, and I don't have an answer
Speaker 1: for it. Seems like Petullo and Sirianni are wildly conservative
Speaker 1: with the play calls up until they are just lunatics
Speaker 1: on the fourth and down at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: They have the highest rate of running the ball on
Speaker 1: third and long of any team in twenty five years,
Speaker 1: which are just give up plays. Now, some of that,
Speaker 1: a tiny bit of that might be push push related,
Speaker 1: but really their give up plays. And so it feels
Speaker 1: silly to concern troll the Eagles who have won like
Speaker 1: twenty two of their last twenty four and of the
Speaker 1: defending champs. But it also feels ridiculous to watch that
Speaker 1: team have zero points at halftime, to see AJ Brown
Speaker 1: with multiple games this year with three or fewer targets
Speaker 1: after he had one game like that the previous three
Speaker 1: years and act like nothing is wrong. Also, it is
Speaker 1: to me, at this point a four gone conclusion that
Speaker 1: AJ Brown is going to be gone this offseason, and
Speaker 1: I would be I personally would be quite surprised, Like
Speaker 1: my money would be on AJ Brown is going to
Speaker 1: be a new England Patriot a year from now. But
Speaker 1: none of that matters for this season. I almost shouldn't
Speaker 1: have even brought it up because the trade deadline has passed.
Speaker 1: And that's the other part of this that is baffling
Speaker 1: to me. You have a buye, you decide not to
Speaker 1: trade AJ Brown the market for receiver like Again, this
Speaker 1: is me just speculating, but if Buffalo was gonna give
Speaker 1: up A one and a three for Jail and Waddle,
Speaker 1: I would imagine they would have given up something similar
Speaker 1: for aj Brown. Philly didn't want to trade him, so
Speaker 1: then use him. And if you're not gonna use him,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be because the offense is humming without him,
Speaker 1: but it's not Saquon the game before the buye. Notwithstanding,
Speaker 1: Saquan is having a brutal year, he is averaging three
Speaker 1: point nine yards per carry. Saquon's yards and yards per
Speaker 1: carry by game this season sixty three point three, eighty
Speaker 1: eight four point zero, forty six two point six on
Speaker 1: three two point three thirty five point zero, only got
Speaker 1: six carries and a loss to Denver fifty eight four
Speaker 1: point eight forty four two point four, the game against
Speaker 1: the Giants one fifty ten point seven and then sixty
Speaker 1: for two point seven. So aside from the Giants game,
Speaker 1: Sekuan this year has run the ball won one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty five times for four hundred and twenty nine yards.
Speaker 1: So what is that one thirty five for four to
Speaker 1: twenty nine one thirty five times three is four oh
Speaker 1: five so that is three point two yards per carry.
Speaker 1: I'm now gonna check. I'm now gonna do that math
Speaker 1: real quick and see if I got it. I think
Speaker 1: it's three point two yards per carry. So we said
Speaker 1: it was four twenty nine divided by one thirty five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: three point one point eight yards per carry. Aside from
Speaker 1: the Giants game, So feed the bald aj Brown. It's
Speaker 1: just baffling, and I don't think it's We can say
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Speaker 1: The Colton Saints are on a buy and that leaves
Speaker 1: us these five picks. I liked Miami minus two and
Speaker 1: a half against Washington when I briefly thought the game
Speaker 1: was in Washington. I love it when it's on a
Speaker 1: neutral site in Madrid. I think Washington is just flatly
Speaker 1: two injured quarterback out, a half dozen defensive players out.
Speaker 1: That Washington is so banged up Miami all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: sneaky good vibes. I know Tua has not done well
Speaker 1: in his international starts, but one of those was against
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I'll throw that one out. Uh. I think
Speaker 1: Washington is just right now, one of the softer spots
Speaker 1: in the league until Jaden gets back, and I'm laying
Speaker 1: less than a field goal. So I'll take Miami minus
Speaker 1: two and a half from Madrid. Chicago getting three at Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this, but this is crazy. The Vikings
Speaker 1: are zero to six against the spread after facing the
Speaker 1: Lions under Kevin O'Connell. That one, I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: It's not nothing. It the that that applied the last
Speaker 1: week's game against the Ravens, so maybe I wish I
Speaker 1: knew it then. I I thought Minnesota had a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities against Baltimore. I didn't think Baltimore played that
Speaker 1: one well and they just couldn't make the most of them.
Speaker 1: I think Chicago likely wins this game outright, and I'm
Speaker 1: getting three points. Also, I like getting that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, very explosive Chicago offense in a dome. So
Speaker 1: Chicago getting a full three at Minnesota. When I think
Speaker 1: Chicago can win outright, I'll roll with them. Tampa getting
Speaker 1: five and a half at Buffalo, I just don't know
Speaker 1: that right now. Buffalo deserves to be laying more than
Speaker 1: three and a half against any really good team, and
Speaker 1: I think Tampa's a really good team. They're also, this
Speaker 1: will be the first game maybe all year, where Tampa
Speaker 1: is the healthier team. They might have Bucky Irving back,
Speaker 1: they might have Chris Godwin back. At Buffalo meanwhile, is
Speaker 1: super banged up. I don't need Tampa a win out right,
Speaker 1: even though I think they could. I just need them
Speaker 1: to keep it, you know, manageable, and they're healthier, and
Speaker 1: Buffalo I think has some soul searching to do. Tampa
Speaker 1: plus five and a half probably my I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: call it my favorite, but I like this a lot,
Speaker 1: even though all the trends are against me because Shanahan
Speaker 1: has not covered against the Cardinals and Arizona is pretty
Speaker 1: good as a covering team coming off a loss. But
Speaker 1: San Francisco minus two and a half at Arizona, I
Speaker 1: think Arizona is a bit of a mess. We just
Speaker 1: saw them get absolutely demolished this past weekend. San Francisco
Speaker 1: reckon should have Purdy back. Now. I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a big difference between Purdy and mac Jones this point,
Speaker 1: but they should have Purty back, and they are. They
Speaker 1: understand that it's gonna be between them and Chicago for
Speaker 1: that final playoff spot. This is a game you've got
Speaker 1: to take care of business. I love that I don't
Speaker 1: have to lay three and a half. Just feels like
Speaker 1: San Francisco can control this game and win by three
Speaker 1: points and I'm only laying the two and a half.
Speaker 1: So I'll take San Francisco minus the two and a half,
Speaker 1: and last but not least, the Chiefs laying three and
Speaker 1: a half at Denver. I be if you got this right,
Speaker 1: when it opened at three. Good for you. I may
Speaker 1: have gotten it right when it opened at three, but
Speaker 1: I will still lay the three and a half. I
Speaker 1: just do not think bo Nicks can get this Broncos
Speaker 1: deep offense to more than seventeen points. So then the
Speaker 1: question is do I think the Chiefs can score twenty
Speaker 1: one even against that Denver defense? I think they can.
Speaker 1: My real analysis of this game and everything about it
Speaker 1: you can hear on yesterday's pod, you know, around the
Speaker 1: ten minute mark. We get into it if you want
Speaker 1: to hear more there. So our five picks this week
Speaker 1: are Miami minus two and a half in Madrid against Washington,
Speaker 1: Chicago plus three at Minnesota, Tampa plus five and a
Speaker 1: half at Buffalo, San Francisco minus two and a half
Speaker 1: at Arizona, and Kansas City minus three and a half
Speaker 1: at Denver