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Speaker 1: tight clock today because I sadly misread my calendar and
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Speaker 1: that I thought was tomorrow, but it is for today,
Speaker 1: and we have breaking news. Nico Harrison's been fired more
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Speaker 1: and I think again, stay tuned for the end of
Speaker 1: the show for a really awesome announcement. So Tim McMahon,
Speaker 1: who is as plugged into the MAVs as anyone with
Speaker 1: respect to Mark Stein, telegraph this a bit yesterday on
Speaker 1: The Great Hoop Collective podcast with he and Wendy and
Speaker 1: my pal Tim Bond TIMPs talking that Nico Harrison could
Speaker 1: be fired and Nico Harrison, Now, I don't want to
Speaker 1: incorrectly report this as we record live or we broadcast
Speaker 1: live at ten thirty four am Eastern, Nico Harrison has
Speaker 1: not yet been fired. In a truly mortifying end to
Speaker 1: a truly indefensible nine month reign of terror, Nico Harrison
Speaker 1: has a meeting with MAVs ownership in twenty five minutes
Speaker 1: where he will be fired. I gotta tell you, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure I'd show up to that meeting. If Shams
Speaker 1: has it and the whole world knows that, you know
Speaker 1: what guys with this can be a zuom So the
Speaker 1: impacts and implications of this are far reaching. Most note
Speaker 1: is the following. And this might sound shocking, this might
Speaker 1: sound drastic, but I believe this to be true. Teams
Speaker 1: around the league should immediately call Dallas and ask about
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis's availability. Certainly teams around the league that would
Speaker 1: be interested, and this probably is going to have to
Speaker 1: be something far later once you see him if he
Speaker 1: returns pre trade deadline should ask about Kyrie Irving. And
Speaker 1: that is because the Dallas Mavericks are now in total
Speaker 1: build around Cooper Flag try to rebuild our draft capital.
Speaker 1: That keep in mind they do not either have they
Speaker 1: either don't have well, they either don't have a pick
Speaker 1: or don't have their own pick. In the next four drafts,
Speaker 1: they had gone all in around historically great superstar Lukadancic
Speaker 1: and then because of Ego and Hubris Lukadancich was traded
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night in the type of
Speaker 1: move that if there were ever cause for a fan
Speaker 1: base to file a class action lawsuit against management, this
Speaker 1: would be it. You had one of the greatest players
Speaker 1: ever at the very beginning of the prime of his career.
Speaker 1: And I said it at the time and I will
Speaker 1: say it again, And because of nothing more than power
Speaker 1: and ego, you lit the franchise on fire, power and ego.
Speaker 1: Everyone was searching for why Nico would have done this,
Speaker 1: and the only logical and it's not logical, but the
Speaker 1: only reasonable explanation was he didn't like the fact that
Speaker 1: someone within the organization had more power than him, and
Speaker 1: that someone was Luca. So we got him out of there.
Speaker 1: And it will go down in the annals of sports
Speaker 1: history as one of the single greatest gaffes in a
Speaker 1: front office has ever made. That is not an overreaction,
Speaker 1: that is not an overstatement. That is simply what it
Speaker 1: was the moment it happened, and now is being exacerbated
Speaker 1: night in night out as Luca, instead of coming off
Speaker 1: an injury as he was last year, reminds everyone, Yes,
Speaker 1: I am the guy who dragged a Dallas Mavericks team
Speaker 1: to the conference finals when I was twenty two and
Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals when I was twenty four, And
Speaker 1: now I'm twenty six, and I have more first team
Speaker 1: All NBAS under my belt than Steph Curry does. And
Speaker 1: you got rid of me, and I don't. I also
Speaker 1: don't think this is an overstatement. Nico Harrison will never
Speaker 1: work in an NBA front office again. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to work for Nike or an agency or something. But
Speaker 1: this is you cannot recover from something like this, and
Speaker 1: the arrogance that less than you know. We are a
Speaker 1: dozen games into this season and Nico after they spun
Speaker 1: a one point eight percent lottery ball chance into Cooper Flag.
Speaker 1: The fact that he said, do you see the vision
Speaker 1: now was one of the most tone deaf, ludicrous statements.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a MAVs fan. Hell, I'm gonna DiPT
Speaker 1: did I guess Laker fan? Because that's who Bron plays for.
Speaker 1: So the Lakers getting Luca, who's my second favorite player,
Speaker 1: was 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, they're
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 swap,
Speaker 1: and they do have the Lakers pick, and in twenty thirty,
Speaker 1: my god, the Spurs can swap with them. So first
Speaker 1: of all, in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty, the
Speaker 1: Mavericks first round pick is gonna go to the Thunder
Speaker 1: 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 recoop 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, they're 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 guy. All we heard from him. Their offense
Speaker 1: is oh, is it no longer dead last? The hold on?
Speaker 1: Let me, I had it. I thought they were dead last.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong because that says they're fourteenth right now, So, oh,
Speaker 1: that's last year. I'm looking at last year. It's like,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, This can't be correct. They can't
Speaker 1: be the Mavericks having the fifteenth offense. No chance, all
Speaker 1: right here we go. Oh no, if fair is fair,
Speaker 1: they don't have the worst offense in the basketball. They
Speaker 1: have the second worst offensive basketball to the Pacers, whose
Speaker 1: best player Torre's Achilles in Game seven of the finals,
Speaker 1: and second best or third best player left the team. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just perfect, just chef's kiss. Perfect
Speaker 1: defense wins championships. The Dallas Mavericks are three and eight.
Speaker 1: They fired Nico Harrison. They currently have the third best
Speaker 1: defense in basketball. Maybe that was a miscalculation because you
Speaker 1: have the second worst offense in basketball. Good luck, MAVs fans.
Speaker 1: I feel sick for you all right now to ours.
Speaker 1: We had three dog primetime games this week. It started
Speaker 1: with a ten to seven Broncos win over the Raiders.
Speaker 1: It ended with a ten to seven Eagles win over
Speaker 1: the Packers, and sandwiched in the middle was Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: looking every bit of forty one years old, and the
Speaker 1: Chargers blowing them out after a game that was three
Speaker 1: to two at one point. So the Eagles win ten
Speaker 1: to seven quickly on the Packers, and then we will
Speaker 1: get to Philadelphia. The Packers have now lost all three
Speaker 1: of their losses. Their defense has not allowed seventeen points
Speaker 1: that I think that is more losses when the defense
Speaker 1: allows less than seventeen than the rest of the NFL combined.
Speaker 1: Aside from the bizarre Cowboys forty to forty tie, that
Speaker 1: defense has been as advertised. But there seems to be
Speaker 1: a weird disconnect growing between Jordan Love and Matt Lafleur.
Speaker 1: And the Matt Lafleur thing that came out of nowhere
Speaker 1: was Matt Schneiderman from The Athletic wrote an article this
Speaker 1: morning and asked Lafloor last night about his job security,
Speaker 1: which I did not see coming. But Jordan Love at
Speaker 1: zero touchdowns one pick a seventy four rating over the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, two losses, the team has scored a
Speaker 1: total of twenty points. Now do I think the Packers
Speaker 1: are gonna miss the playoffs? No, but it can't be dismissed.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're the seventh seed, with San Francisco being
Speaker 1: percentage points back. As the eighth seed, San Francisco has
Speaker 1: a far easier schedule moving forward and green Bay has
Speaker 1: a far tougher one. So as far as easiest schedules
Speaker 1: moving forward, san Francisco has or toughest skill Let me
Speaker 1: do it a different way. San Francisco has the twentieth
Speaker 1: toughest schedule moving forward, so thirteenth easiest, and green Bay
Speaker 1: has the ninth toughest. Green Bay has one game left
Speaker 1: against a bad team, flat bad team, that's the Giants.
Speaker 1: San Francisco has Titans, Brown's, Cardinals Panthers, so that obviously
Speaker 1: greatly works in their favor. Now, even if San Francisco
Speaker 1: gets hot, the question is could Chicago fall out of it?
Speaker 1: Who has the second hardest schedule remaining? And that's certainly
Speaker 1: on the board. So I don't predict green Bay misses
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but it's certainly possible. More importantly, though, that
Speaker 1: team's got to figure out what's going on with the offense.
Speaker 1: That's the story out of green Bay this weekend. The
Speaker 1: more interesting thing, as always, is the pat the Eagle
Speaker 1: side of it, because the Eagles just they're they are
Speaker 1: just saints of the content industrial. Uh, what are you complex?
Speaker 1: They win, but they win in such bizarre fashion, and
Speaker 1: they create these firestorms that you see, you see them
Speaker 1: lighting fires during the game that you know are going
Speaker 1: to sustain at least until next week, even while you
Speaker 1: expect them to win. So yesterday was just a horrific
Speaker 1: offensive performance where once again, after declining to trade AJ Brown,
Speaker 1: they decided to pretend he's not on the team. That is,
Speaker 1: of course, until the very end of the game, when
Speaker 1: they have the game stone one, as all they've got
Speaker 1: to do with thirty one seconds left is punt the ball,
Speaker 1: and green Bay is going to have the ball with
Speaker 1: around twenty five seconds left, maybe backed up inside their
Speaker 1: own twenty worst case scenario for Philly on their own
Speaker 1: twenty and no timeouts. Instead, Sirianni leaves the offense out there,
Speaker 1: has them go for it, and then tries to feed
Speaker 1: aj Brown a feel good highlight moment. It falls incomplete
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the Packers are two plays
Speaker 1: away from being in field goal range. Just an absolute
Speaker 1: banana's decision, soaked in either ego or trying to play
Speaker 1: Kate what you know is going to be an upset
Speaker 1: AJ Brown. Yeah, man, we didn't go to you all game,
Speaker 1: but we went to you when it counted. All this
Speaker 1: just craziness, right, And it gave the Packers a chance
Speaker 1: to win the game. It gave him a or at
Speaker 1: least tie the game and then winning an overtime, so
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, Siriani's record is what it is.
Speaker 1: And the Eagles defense looked awesome, and while Saquan got
Speaker 1: bottled up on the ground again, he did have the
Speaker 1: one long reception that was huge. But Philly is just
Speaker 1: such a weird team and they they simply seem allergic
Speaker 1: to drama free wins. And I don't know what has
Speaker 1: happened to the jail and hurts AJ Brown connection, but
Speaker 1: I know it is in shambles compared to what it
Speaker 1: once was. And Siriani's call to go for that fourth
Speaker 1: down was just as poor game management as it gets.
Speaker 1: And for folks that always freak out about the analytics, Boogeyman.
Speaker 1: It should be noted every single analytical model preferred punt there,
Speaker 1: every single one. Sirianni was going for a highlight moment
Speaker 1: that could have cost him the game. With that said,
Speaker 1: they're seven and two after they play the Lions this
Speaker 1: coming Sunday night. They've got Cowboys, Bears, Chargers, Raiders, Commanders, Bills, Commanders.
Speaker 1: So given that we expect the NFC North and NFC
Speaker 1: West to beat up on each other, and Tampa just lost,
Speaker 1: Philly's in really good shape to maybe be the one seed.
Speaker 1: They're just such a weird team, such a weird team
Speaker 1: that wins but in not even dramatic, just angst fashion.
Speaker 1: So Scruffdog says Casey won the same ugly games last year.
Speaker 1: No doubt Casey won close, but Casey was right or wrong,
Speaker 1: a brilliant after the games, running onto the field, celebrating
Speaker 1: locker room totally connected. What Casey wasn't doing was having
Speaker 1: a weekly heart to heart with their star receiver. I
Speaker 1: guess in bart because last year Casey had no star
Speaker 1: receivers and Andy Reid calling some of the most absolutely
Speaker 1: bizarre end of game plays. So I got no problem
Speaker 1: with winning ugly, but that was weird and by the way,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna spend time on it because I
Speaker 1: just at this point I don't get why the NFL
Speaker 1: can't get this right. But once again, the Packers are
Speaker 1: in a fourth in inches, they line up for a
Speaker 1: regular football play. They false start, it gets called. The
Speaker 1: Eagles are in a fourth in inches. They line up
Speaker 1: for their stupid rugby play. They obviously on lie on
Speaker 1: live camera, not on slow moo replay false start. It
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, or Virginia. The biggest upset of
Speaker 1: the weekend Buffalo getting blown out by Miami. And so
Speaker 1: Buffalo is still the team that I would least like
Speaker 1: to play in the postseason in the AFC if I'm
Speaker 1: Kansas City. But there are some red flags here, Okay.
Speaker 1: One is this, As of a month ago, the Bills
Speaker 1: had one double digit loss in the last four years.
Speaker 1: In their last sixty games, they had one loss by
Speaker 1: more than a score, and it was the blowout to
Speaker 1: Baltimore last season. And then they avenged it and beat
Speaker 1: Baltimore in the playoffs. They have two double digit losses
Speaker 1: in their last month of football, ten points to Atlanta
Speaker 1: and really getting boat raced by Miami when Miami controlled
Speaker 1: every aspect of the game. That is concerning the fact
Speaker 1: that the Bills themselves might not think they're quite good enough,
Speaker 1: evidenced by the fact that they offered a one and
Speaker 1: a three for Jail and Waddle. That is a little
Speaker 1: concerning the fact that Josh Allen is starting to turn
Speaker 1: the ball over again, but now it's not coming with
Speaker 1: the quick strike sixty yard touchdowns on the other side
Speaker 1: of it. That is a little concerning. So it's not
Speaker 1: the sky is falling, but it is a little.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Also, they are going to be I now fully believe
Speaker 1: and this is real, tangible and it matters, and it
Speaker 1: might happen to the Chiefs too. But they are going
Speaker 1: to be the wild card team in the AFC East.
Speaker 1: They are going to be on the road for potentially
Speaker 1: the entirety of the playoffs. That's not nothing. And when
Speaker 1: they started four and oher with one of the softer
Speaker 1: schedules in the league coming like as their next month,
Speaker 1: they looked like they were in great shape for the
Speaker 1: one seed, which is one thing they've never gotten since
Speaker 1: Allen's been there. Now they're six and three with all
Speaker 1: of a sudden weight is that a sneaky, tough remaining
Speaker 1: schedule home for the Bucks, then a Thursday night road
Speaker 1: game against a suddenly semi frisky Houston team, then at Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, a game against the Bengals
Speaker 1: that people think Joe Burrow will be back for, then
Speaker 1: at the Patriots. Then you take your breath a bit
Speaker 1: at the Browns home for the Eagles, in a game
Speaker 1: the Eagles might go into saying, hey we win this,
Speaker 1: we can you know, one seed implications. And then at
Speaker 1: the home for the Jets to you know as a
Speaker 1: nice little end of season respite, so it's not nothing.
Speaker 1: And then there's also this, which I think is noteworthy,
Speaker 1: and we can fold this in to Brian Dable being
Speaker 1: fired after another fourth quarter collapse by him. If this
Speaker 1: goes badly for Buffalo, like badly, I don't think they'll
Speaker 1: miss the playoffs. But if this goes, they're the five
Speaker 1: seed and they go to Baltimore, which now is the
Speaker 1: huge favor to win the AFC North and they lose
Speaker 1: in round one, it would the Buffalo Bills consider reuniting
Speaker 1: Brian Dable with Josh Allen, but not as a coordinator
Speaker 1: as a head coach. It is something to think about. Again.
Speaker 1: I think Dable deserved to be fired. However, I his
Speaker 1: connection with Josh Allen was great. Josh Allen has had
Speaker 1: massive influence on who the coordinator's post Dable would be.
Speaker 1: It seems like there's a little angst there Dabel and McDermott.
Speaker 1: According to the great Tyler Dunn, who has a great
Speaker 1: substack that people should subscribe to. Go long TD. You know,
Speaker 1: as reported that the Dabel McDermott relationship was not great
Speaker 1: at the end and had a great story a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago about whether or not they kept the
Speaker 1: wrong coach and letting Dabel leave and keeping McDermott. Would
Speaker 1: they consider bring Dabel back and reuniting him with Josh
Speaker 1: Allen as the head coach. I'm sure they you know,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say. I'm sure I would think they'd love
Speaker 1: him as the coordinator, but I don't know what that
Speaker 1: relationship with McDermott is. Just something to consider now. As
Speaker 1: far as the comebacks, this weekend, the Jags just invent
Speaker 1: ways to lose. Some of it's on Trevor. He was
Speaker 1: not good in that game, but the comeback was more
Speaker 1: on the defense. It was a miracle with how poorly
Speaker 1: Trevor had played that they were up twenty nine to
Speaker 1: ten and then they just invented a way to lose.
Speaker 1: Just a horrific beat for me and picks in the
Speaker 1: whole nine And credit to Caleb for a second straight
Speaker 1: weekend with clutch drives in the fourth quarter to really
Speaker 1: flip the narrative on him in their season. And I
Speaker 1: don't think the Bears are that good, but they dominated Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: then collapsed and then stole it back. They got dominated
Speaker 1: by the Giants and then stole it And now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're in Minnesota, a team that they
Speaker 1: dominated for three quarters in Week one and then gave
Speaker 1: the game away with a chance to get to seven
Speaker 1: and three. And yeah, I mean there were a field
Speaker 1: goal underdog and so and I'll say one other thing
Speaker 1: about the Bears. All of a sudden, those two Packer
Speaker 1: games late in the year don't seem quite as ominous,
Speaker 1: and they are huge games, just absolutely huge games because
Speaker 1: those teams are now, I guess they're both still in
Speaker 1: the thick of the NFC North Race and while also
Speaker 1: being in the thick of wait, could we miss the playoffs?
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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers and looks like the league MVP,
Speaker 1: I'll get to have Colin's Sam Darnald moment right that
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Speaker 1: So I got this game dead wrong. The Bucks off
Speaker 1: of by get upset by Drake May and the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The Bucks are in a bit of a rough stretch,
Speaker 1: and they all of a sudden have a massive game
Speaker 1: for both teams this weekend at Buffalo, And we've said
Speaker 1: this all year that the Bucks had this Pats Bills
Speaker 1: Rams stretch, which is really hard, and then the softest
Speaker 1: final six games of the year one could ever imagine, Cardinals, Saints, Falcons, Panthers, Dolphins, Panthers.
Speaker 1: Part of our Bucks to the Super Bowl belief was
Speaker 1: that because of that schedule, they could be the one
Speaker 1: seed and if they can get a split at Buffalo
Speaker 1: and at the Rams, that still vary in play. If
Speaker 1: they can get a split at Buffalo and at the Rams,
Speaker 1: they absolutely can just sweep that right hand column and
Speaker 1: be thirteen and four. If they lose both of those games,
Speaker 1: then you probably have less faith in them also sweeping
Speaker 1: that right hand of the column, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're likely eleven and six, and it feels a little like, Okay,
Speaker 1: these are the Bucks teams we've seen before. I still
Speaker 1: believe this team has Super Bowl upside, particularly because they
Speaker 1: are they are going to get everyone back, with the
Speaker 1: possible question about Mike Evans, and they dealt with just
Speaker 1: a disproportionate amount of injuries. But that was a game
Speaker 1: they were up early and then got thoroughly outplayed by
Speaker 1: the Patriots, who shout out. Listen man, everybody, every NFL
Speaker 1: fan out there should look at what the Patriots are
Speaker 1: doing and then ask themselves, why are we Why is
Speaker 1: our If you're in a rebuild, why is our rebuild
Speaker 1: not gone? The way the Patriots has under variable And
Speaker 1: the answer for all of them if it's not going
Speaker 1: well is we either have the wrong coach or the
Speaker 1: wrong quarterback, unless they're a rookie rookie rookie quarterbacks or
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks. But all it takes to become a contender
Speaker 1: is the right coach and the right quarterback. Everything else
Speaker 1: you can fill in around the edges. And if you're
Speaker 1: certain you have the right coach and the teams you
Speaker 1: know still in the midst of is still floundering, then
Speaker 1: you don't have the right quarterback. And if you're certain
Speaker 1: you have the right quarterback and the team's floundering, then
Speaker 1: you don't have the right coach. It's really that simple.
Speaker 1: And now that's just to be like on the periphery
Speaker 1: of contending. To actually win a championship, it takes a
Speaker 1: lot more, but you can turn it around that quick
Speaker 1: in this league if you have the right coach and
Speaker 1: the right quarterback, and the Patriots are showing you that,
Speaker 1: and I think Drake while Stafford to me is clearly
Speaker 1: the MVP right now. I understand the reason Drake May
Speaker 1: is the best MVP odds is they think he's likely
Speaker 1: to be the one or the two seed, and there's
Speaker 1: a chance because of how good Seattle's been that Stafford's
Speaker 1: a wild card and that just really hurts your ability
Speaker 1: to be legal to be MVP for the quarterback of
Speaker 1: a wild card team. So that's why the odds are
Speaker 1: where they are. But through ten weeks, Stafford's been the MVP,
Speaker 1: but Drake May is now just gonna be a perennial
Speaker 1: top five quarterback. I really believe in that. I think
Speaker 1: he's that good. He's only twenty three, he's big, he's strong,
Speaker 1: he's tough, he's legit and Vrabel Rabel's game management stuff.
Speaker 1: I just like so much that he's so he's always
Speaker 1: thinking about stuff. He did something and it almost cost
Speaker 1: him and maybe it's not even the right PA move,
Speaker 1: but it's something I from my couch have wanted my
Speaker 1: team to do for years, which is recognized. At the
Speaker 1: end of the half. The goal is not necessarily simply
Speaker 1: score a touchdown, the goal is two. Like let me
Speaker 1: put it like this end of half. Too often teams
Speaker 1: don't recognize, all right, if we score a touchdown and
Speaker 1: leave the other team plenty of time and they go
Speaker 1: down and get a field goal, that is only one
Speaker 1: point better than if we just killed all the clock
Speaker 1: and kicked the field goal ourself. That's only a way,
Speaker 1: you know. It's seven to three versus three. Nothing's only
Speaker 1: one point better. And if we and if we score
Speaker 1: a touchdown and leave them plenty of time and they
Speaker 1: go down and get a touchdown, that's a net zero
Speaker 1: as opposed to grinding out the clock and kicking a
Speaker 1: field goal, which is a net positive three. Rabel was
Speaker 1: thinking about that, which is why when he had first
Speaker 1: in goal from the one and Tampa having zero timeouts,
Speaker 1: there was a minute forty left he took a knee.
Speaker 1: Now the Patriots afterwards lied about it. That's fine, that's
Speaker 1: what he was doing. And I know some of the
Speaker 1: analytic models things that's a mistake. I thought it was
Speaker 1: incredibly sharp. Incredibly sharp. Where you are you feel like
Speaker 1: we're still going to be able to get a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So let's limit the amount of time the opposing team's
Speaker 1: gonna have to come back on us. I think it's
Speaker 1: super sharp, and so I listen. I know Drake May
Speaker 1: said Videvea blew up the play. I do not believe him,
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Speaker 1: Lions beat the commanders. The commanders are done. Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: took over play calling. I'm not sure if I fully
Speaker 1: buy that he took over all play calling, but he
Speaker 1: did have his glasses on play sheet in hand. This
Speaker 1: is something interesting to monitor with the Lions as the
Speaker 1: Lions have a really important stretch coming up. I'll be
Speaker 1: totally honest, I was that afternoon window of the Lions
Speaker 1: blowing out the Commanders, the Seahawks blowing out Arizona, and
Speaker 1: the Rams blowing out the Niners was kind of uninspiring.
Speaker 1: I wish one of those games had been good. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I was checked out, but I
Speaker 1: was watching Rams Niners the closest. But that's a good
Speaker 1: bounce back win for Detroit. And then the night game
Speaker 1: Chargers Steelers, Aaron looked old and looked like he didn't
Speaker 1: want to get hit. I mean that, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Ravens are minus two eighty or something
Speaker 1: to win the division. The Steelers margin arra has evaporated.
Speaker 1: The Chargers, on the other hand, looked awesome and credit
Speaker 1: to Justin Herbert. And I don't think I did a
Speaker 1: great job on TV on this yesterday, so I want
Speaker 1: to just clarify here. I think Herbert was excellent in
Speaker 1: that game, and I think Herbert has the ability to
Speaker 1: be excellent. The point I was trying to make on
Speaker 1: TV yesterday was I just don't want if he's not excellent,
Speaker 1: or if the Chargers end up collapsing, or if they're
Speaker 1: nine to eight and sneak into the playoffs and losing
Speaker 1: Round one, I just don't want to hear how oh,
Speaker 1: it's like, what do you want from him? Is offensive
Speaker 1: line's hurt? It's the NFL, man, everybody's dealing with something.
Speaker 1: The Chargers have had bad offensive line injury. Luck Luckily,
Speaker 1: they have a great defense, a great head coach, supposedly
Speaker 1: a great quarterback, and we just saw them against Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: dominate with the team they're gonna have moving forward. So
Speaker 1: if Herbert's supposed to be one of the five best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in football, which all of his fans swear he is,
Speaker 1: then they should be a legitimate contender right now. And
Speaker 1: let's just on Sunday night, they looked like it all right.
Speaker 1: The other games quickly Broncos beat the Raiders. I'm gonna listen,
Speaker 1: We're into a ton of Broncos chief stuff this weekend,
Speaker 1: and this week I should say the the event is awesome.
Speaker 1: Bo Nicks is not good. He is not scary, and
Speaker 1: I believe he is the reason they are going to
Speaker 1: go from eight and two to being a wild Card
Speaker 1: team Colts beat the Falcons thirty one to twenty five.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is maybe one of the best running backs
Speaker 1: of his generation. The guy for his NFL career has
Speaker 1: averages one hundred and ten yards from scrimmage per game
Speaker 1: and nearly a touchdown per game in seventy seven games.
Speaker 1: Just an unbelievable football player. Jets beat the Browns twenty
Speaker 1: seven to twenty thanks to a couple kicker or special
Speaker 1: teams touchdowns. Justin Fields completed six passes in that game, saying,
Speaker 1: to meet the Panthers seventeen to seven in a game,
Speaker 1: I'll just be totally honest. I was not locked in
Speaker 1: on at all. Tyler Schucket looks like played, Okay. Ravens
Speaker 1: be the Vikings twenty seven to nineteen in the game
Speaker 1: I did watch closely. Great win for the Ravens. Not
Speaker 1: a great game for the Ravens, and they they just
Speaker 1: haven't looked like the Ravens yet this year. Maybe that's coming,
Speaker 1: but at this point they just need to stack wins
Speaker 1: and then maybe the two best teams in football. Not
Speaker 1: much to say about them right now other than they
Speaker 1: might be the two best teams in football. The Seahawks
Speaker 1: annihilated the Cardinals second straight game. They were up twenty
Speaker 1: eight to nothing in the second quarter, and the Rams
Speaker 1: beat the Niners soundly, and now we get Seahawks Rams
Speaker 1: this weekend. I cannot wait more on that, those two
Speaker 1: teams and Thursday show, and I am not going to
Speaker 1: do the very sappy.
Speaker 2: I might.
Speaker 1: I don't. Demonse would be mad at me about this,
Speaker 1: and I kind of want to do like a long
Speaker 1: form tribute to my son because the news is my son,
Speaker 1: my co host Demonse is not going to be here
Speaker 1: for the next few weeks because my son is now
Speaker 1: a dad and his baby girl, Mila, was born Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: and I'm just so so yes, I'm a grandfather now
Speaker 1: and I'm just so over the moon happy. My wife's
Speaker 1: out there in California and I I, uh, I can't
Speaker 1: describe it. And again I don't. This should have been
Speaker 1: Demande's announcement to make, but we didn't really plan it
Speaker 1: that well in that he was like, I'll announce it
Speaker 1: when I come back, and then with is you know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on social media? Like what? So, this
Speaker 1: is what I want to say. Demand has not had
Speaker 1: the easiest go of it, and he for people that
Speaker 1: know about my family whatever, you know, my wife was
Speaker 1: very very young when she had Demanse under some really
Speaker 1: tough circumstances. And he's been through a bunch and he,
Speaker 1: like everybody you know, has had some successes and some failures,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's sometimes been maybe more down on
Speaker 1: himself than I you know, felt was right.
Speaker 2: And and his his fortitude and ability to just continue
Speaker 2: striving forward and what he's the man he's turned into
Speaker 2: in the last five years, from just announcing to his
Speaker 2: mom and I he's leaving the house he needs to
Speaker 2: go figure it out on his own and got a
Speaker 2: job in the Midwest building fences to just kind of
Speaker 2: become a.
Speaker 1: Grown man and on that from there to where now
Speaker 1: he's worked at Fox for a few years, does a
Speaker 1: great job there, is so good and so fun on
Speaker 1: this podcast, and now is starting a family of his own.
Speaker 1: It's just unbelievable and I'm just so proud of and
Speaker 1: we'll talk. I'll talk about about that more with him
Speaker 1: when he's back. But congrats to him and Maddie on
Speaker 1: the baby Girl. Mila, love you all so very much.
Speaker 1: Talk to you guys Thursday.
Speaker 2: What's right