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All right, now, we can do the show. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:53.080 Let's do it. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.160 Welcome In episode forty two of What's Right with Nick Right, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.320 the podcast and YouTube show, a reminder Number one on 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.400 our countdown of the fifty greatest basketball players of the 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.880 last fifty years comes out on Sunday. It is not 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.360 a spoiler to you know, acknowledge the fact that it 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.000 will be Lebron. Lebron is the one name left. However, 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.960 the video for it, oh my goodness, I mean we 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.080 almost ran out of memory on the computer when we 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.800 were recording the Lebron video. Demanse was here for the 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.959 beginning of it, left, came back. I was still going, 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.480 it's gonna be great that comes out on Sunday. But 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.480 before we get to today's show, let's get to, as 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.960 we always do, what we are not discussing on today's 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.240 version of What's Right with Nick Right, we are not 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.560 going to get into Genie Buss's Twitter account getting hacked 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.000 allegedly selling PlayStations. I thought they were just trying to 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.040 pay for Russell Westbrook buy out. Nos, she got hacked. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.080 Luca the MVP favorite once again. And by the way, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.720 have you seen the pictures demande of Skinny Luca? 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.360 Yeah about young when he was young. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:13.440 No from this week, look at Skinny Luca. Somebody get 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.560 my large adult Slovenian son of Sandwich. My man is 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.720 trimmed down this summer in Slovenia. And we are not 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.239 talking about f one's Lewis Hamilton joining the Broncos ownership group. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.520 Because we do not talk about F one on this show, however, 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.760 we will be talking about what I thought should have 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.440 been considered the biggest sports story of the summer. But 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.560 it seemed like Ben Vallin, Dan Levettard, Mike Florio and 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.640 me were the only people giving it the respect it deserved. Finally, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.800 the NFL now follow suit talking about the Dolphins and 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.080 Tom Brady and the whole nine, so demonse get Us 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:50.080 started up. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.000 According to a league investigation, the Dolphins repeatedly talked to 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.280 Tom Brady and Sean Payton without permission while while both 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.760 of them were under contract. Yep, they've lost their twenty 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.120 twenty first round pick and their twenty twenty four to 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.640 third round pick as a penalty. Team owner Stephen Ross 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.240 is suspended through six games and also has been fine 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.280 to one point five million dollars, But his net worth 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.720 is sitting at about eight point two billion, so it's 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:14.800 how much. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.039 That's going to hurt the financial penalty probably not going 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.720 to resonate that much. With Steven go ahead and. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.960 By the way, being suspended for six games, he's the 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.800 team owner, so is go to the games. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.719 He can't go to the facilities, can't go to the games. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:26.160 Okay. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.239 So and he's also not you know some team owners 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.480 or hands on right, and. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.120 It's like, hey, they're calling stuff in. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.840 Well, not not plays, but organizational decisions, okay, And he 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.160 cannot be consulted theoretically on those things. So he can 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.159 have no contact in that regard, all right. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.600 God And also, and back in twenty nineteen, when accused 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.240 of intentionally tanking or telling coach Brian floor Is to 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.039 intentionally tank, they were no, they were not found guilty 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.039 because there was no evidence that they were ever trying 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.279 to tank, because Brian Flora was actually winning games. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.280 And if you know he the claim there is that 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.520 I said it, but I was joking exactly the old 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.600 I lose a game, I'll give you one hundred thousand. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:12.320 Dollars, which is very crazy, as the league, not as 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.239 the league came down hard enough on the Dolphins. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.920 Okay, So let's talk about that and then we can 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.080 we will. I will bring us to the Brady point, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.960 because the executive producer of the show, Gabe Goodwin, would 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.400 quit in protest if we don't talk about the Brady 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.040 particular complicity here. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:27.560 Right. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.799 So here's the problem. First of all, I really dislike 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:35.359 Stephen Ross's statement where he implied that the investigation found 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.279 that Brian Flores's allegations had no merit. It found the opposite, Hey, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.120 that they you did mention the one hundred thousand per loss. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.800 The league just decided you were joking there and that 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.280 you were tampering, which is one of the things Brian 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.200 Floor has alleged. So I think Brian Flores comes out 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.159 of this looking better than anybody. I think it's full 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.320 vindication for him. Here is the problem with the league 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.720 saying that, and I quote the scope and the I 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.040 want to get this exactly right. The scope and the 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:08.240 severity of this level of tampering was unprecedented. The problem 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.960 with the league saying this is the worst example of 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:15.599 tampering we've ever seen, while also saying you're going to 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.040 your penalty for that is going to be a slightly 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.320 lower price than the Seattle Seahawks paid to acquire Jamal 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:29.400 Adams is if for multi years with multiple teams when 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.080 Brady was a Patriot, then when Brady was a Buck, 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.600 you tamper with not only the quarterback of another team, 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.479 but the Super Bowl winning quarterback of another team do 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.000 it when he goes to the next team. Actually, it 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:46.400 would appear induce him into retiring from that team and 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.000 to get him on your team, which almost happened, and 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:50.680 then also do the same thing with a Super Bowl 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.279 champion coach. If the penalty is just a first and 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.320 a third, I think it actually sends the opposite message 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.919 to the league is trying to send to the to 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.440 the rest of the league, which is I think the 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.279 message they're trying to send is you'll be punished harshly 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.440 for tamper the team. But if you know the ceiling 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:14.360 of penalty for doing it multiple years involving the greatest 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.400 player ever is a first and a third, then doesn't 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.880 it make you feel pretty confident? All right? If we 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.880 tamper with Chris Godwin when he's approaching free agency, what's 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.320 gonna happen? Maybe we lose a fifth round pick. It 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.640 would be not to bring up bad memories of yours, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.920 But Demanse went through a period in high school where 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.160 you got in trouble a lot. You're you know, you 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.280 just you didn't do a lot of bad things, but 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.720 you seem to do them in an order of as 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.119 soon as you got out of trouble, within six weeks 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.640 you were in trouble again. And it was like he 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.160 really only screwed up twice a year, but he would 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:54.560 space them out constantly punished. If whatever the biggest scrip was, 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.720 if I called you into me and your mom's room 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.760 and I said, Demanse, this is the most disappointed I've 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.240 ever been in you. This is the angriest I've ever 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.320 been in you. It is unprecedented the scope of your 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:11.360 mouth seasons and the severity of the penalty that that's approaching. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:16.040 So you are grounded for one week and no phone 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.360 for two weeks, I think you'd walk out of there 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:23.760 being like, oh, well, that's not that bad. And so 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.080 if you are going to use the language the NFL used, 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.880 I think they needed harsher penalty or else. It sends 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.400 the message to the rest of the league is inting 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.800 that big of a deal. Now, to the Brady part 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.079 of it, I will almost always take the side of 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.480 worker versus labor versus management, and I like that it's 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.720 in the collective bargaining agreement that players and coaches cannot 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:55.440 be penalized for tampering only organizations, and I think in 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.160 real day to day life that's applicable. I think that 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:04.600 if all of us ESPN tried to steal me away 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:09.200 from Fox. I think that if ESPN got in trouble for, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.120 you know, trying to induce an employee under contract with 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.280 another company, so be it. But should I get in 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.719 trouble for listening? I don't think so. I don't think 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.720 that's how that's work, you know what I mean? And 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.319 so I also, as much as I'd love to pile 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.200 on Brady here, I don't have as much of an 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:31.040 issue with it. But to satiate Gabe Goodwin's thirst for 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.319 some Brady slander, I will read you a tweet from 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.840 the Athletic. NFL teams have been forced to forfeit their 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:44.120 first round pick three times in league history. Tom Brady 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.240 has been involved in all three instances. Wow Spygate in 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.160 two thousand and eight, to flate Gate in twenty fifteen, 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.360 and now this tampering with the Miami Dolphins. I want 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.599 to say one other thing about the tampering. The Dolphins 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.120 tampering with Brady in twenty nineteen, his last year with 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.120 New England, right when everyone knew that was going to 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.960 be his last year with New England. I don't have 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.480 that big of a problem what because to me, that 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.319 was Brady was about to be a free agent, and 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.160 that was them trying to set the table to be 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.760 at the front of the line of his free agency search. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.959 I know that's against the rules. I don't have a 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:29.040 huge issue with that them continuing it once he signed 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.880 with another team, and the fact that it was successful 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.120 it induced him into retiring from his team to try 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.200 to go play for them. That to me is the 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.160 real egregious part of this. And the fact that they 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.000 ran the same you know, I don't want to say scheme, 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.160 but they did the same thing involving a coach and 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.600 got him to quit his team, right, And essensibly it's 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.840 one of the reasons maybe they fire Brian and Flores. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.960 The whole thing is, it was a very effective tampering 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.440 until the Flores lawsuit Blue lie whole thing up. I mean, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:05.600 they were Would the Dolphins have traded a million bucks 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.920 a first and a third to get Brady and Sean Payton? 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.440 Of course they would have, and it you know, not 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.760 to misquote Scooby Doo, but it wasn't for the meddling kids. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.439 If it wasn't for Brian Flores's lawsuit, it would have 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.080 all worked, all right. I hope, Gabe we got enough 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.840 Tom Brady info in there where we were fair to 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.920 Brady but also fair to the history of the league. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:26.920 All right, what's next? 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.120 Still loads of criticisms surrounding Watson or Deshaun Watson's six 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.760 games suspension. Seems that everybody on Twitter and everybody basically 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.319 in the world agrees that the punishment should have been harsher, 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.880 But the technicalities of the CVA are getting in the 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:41.720 way of common sense. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.640 What should happen to? Here's what's going on? Here? What happens? 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.640 So I'm gonna say something a little. I don't know 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:55.560 if it's uncomfortable, but I try to always be as 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.360 honest as I possibly can be when I'm broadcast. I 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.760 I I joke with your mom that I'm more honest 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.080 on television than I am in my day to day life. 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.679 That I try to be as transparent as possible. Sometimes 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:14.080 on TV I am a little more judicious with my 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:18.920 words than here because I don't want them to be 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.080 taken out of context, right, And I think here I 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.080 have more room for a full explanation. Okay, So one 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.960 of the things that I think is happening with the 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.520 reaction to what I think the vast majority of people 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.200 think is an incredibly light suspension, is I think, and 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:36.800 this is where I have to be careful, but it's 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:41.000 what I believe. I think the NFL is benefiting greatly 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:46.800 right now from the fact that the judge in this 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.280 case happens to be a woman. And by that I 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:55.360 mean this, I think if that exact same verdicts the 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.640 wrong word, but ruling was issued and it's a male 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:03.120 judge signing, and it involves the terms of non violent 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.360 sexual assault and continually referring to this as non violent 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.959 sexual assault, I think that is far more problematic for 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.760 the league if that is coming from a man's voice 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:21.839 than Judge Sue Robinson. With that said, I personally find 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.760 it just as egregious. But I just think the criticism 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.760 as loud as the criticism has been, I think the 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.280 criticism is actually a little quieter than it would have 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.200 been if this was a different person giving the rule. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.640 All Right, So that's first point. The other point that 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.680 is what is happening here is we need to remember 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.359 that while we know of more than two dozen instances. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.959 The league only presented five, and the judge essentially dismissed 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.319 one of them, so that she was only looking at 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.400 four instances. We also know that the league does draw 0:13:55.440 --> 0:14:00.280 a distinction between violent and non violent sexual assault. Whether 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.360 it should or it shouldn't, it does, and she felt 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.320 kind of boxed in by President Jameis Winston got six 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.920 games reduced to three. Zeke got six games that first 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:16.880 time offenders with otherwise good reputations the harshest penalty they've 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.160 gotten his six games, right. The question that I think 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.760 most people have is is it fair to call someone 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.720 a first time offender when there are this many accusations 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.720 that are they a first time, a second time, a 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.120 third time, a fourth time. That's not how they looked 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.320 at it. They looked at these all kind of as one, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.480 you know, big thing. The other issue that I took 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.840 personally with Judge Robinson's ruling that I think is very 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:47.760 uncomfortable for the Browns is she put in her ruling 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:52.880 that Deshaun can now only get massages from team employees, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.200 essentially like it's got to be set up through the team. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:00.320 I think that sets up a very uncomfortable situation for 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.520 the people working for the Browns. Right in that position 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.760 that might say, well, that's not what I signed up for. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.600 But on the flip side of that is he's the best, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.920 highest paid, most important player on the team, might like, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.160 do I have an obligation there? So I think that's 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.280 something for the Browns to handle with, you know, internally, Okay, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.800 as far as what I think is going to happen, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.200 this is you know, by the time you guys hear 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.520 and see this, we will know if the NFL did, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.800 in fact appeal. I think the NFL will appeal, even though, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.240 and this is one of those damned if you do, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.720 damned if you don't things. The optics on that the 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.920 NFL is going to get crushed whether they appeal or 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.640 they don't. If they don't, people will say the NFL 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.320 was too lenient, even though they wanted a one year suspension. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.960 If they do, people will say, well, then what was 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.520 the point of having this independent arbiter if you're just 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.800 going to overrule them if it doesn't go your way. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.560 I would be shocked, though, if the NFL let the 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.600 fewest games anyone could have anticipated, being the penalty six 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.760 games and the smallest financial penalty possible, less than four 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.600 hundred grand I don't think that's standing, so I think 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.160 the NFL is gonna appeal. I don't think they are 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:19.120 going to then impose their full initial we wanted a year. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.520 That way, it does look there is some deference to 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.480 Judge Robinson's ruling, but I think he's gonna get ten 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.600 to twelve games. I think he's gonna get ten to 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.560 twelve games. And from a very cynical standpoint, I think 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.560 it is better for the NFL that he get twelve 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.320 games thereabouts than he get a full year. And the 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.440 reason for that is if he gets a full year, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.720 then going into next season, this is a story all over. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.120 His first game with the Browns is for all of this. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.080 If he gets twelve games again, this should not be 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.480 baked into the math on how much he gets. I'm 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.120 just if I'm doing the most cynical reading possible, you 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.800 give him twelve games. By the time he comes back, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.280 the Browns aren't on national TV anymore because they would 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.480 have played twelve games without him. They're out of the 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.560 playoff race. Everyone is focused on other things. It's a story. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.520 The week he comes back, they then finish their season 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.240 and then next year. It's somewhat of a quote clean slate, unquote. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.080 So I think it's in the league's best interest that 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.160 they up it. They show the world they're taking it seriously, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.919 and they do ten to twelve games. Again, apologies if 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.760 by the time you guys hear this, we already know 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.760 definitively that they are or are not appealing. My guess 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.840 is they do appeal, and they up it somewhat. All right, 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:39.400 what's next? 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.000 First game of the preseason is on Thursday. The Jags 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.719 are facing the Raiders, whose hype train is out of control. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.240 Yes it is, thank you for saying that, go ahead. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.800 Do you think the Raiders are getting too much hype? 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:49.560 I mean clearly you do. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:54.160 Yeah, I mean listen. I adding Devontae Adams helps a ton. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.159 And by the way, bummer that Trevor Lawrence is not 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.520 playing in this game. I want to see as much 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.440 Trevor Lawrence as possible. If I believed in the for 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.359 an office more and some of their other offseason moves, 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.560 I'd love to be the guy to pick the Jags 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.159 to make the playoffs. I'd love to do that. I 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.200 can't do it as much as I believe in Trevor Lawrence. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.919 But set that aside. The problem for the Raiders is 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.760 I don't want to get too much into our full 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.840 NFL season preview, and I know the Raiders made the 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.719 playoffs last year. But to me, you gotta look at 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:29.399 the AFC right now as division division, the Bills in 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.440 the East, the Bengals, and the Raiders in the North. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.800 One of the teams in the South, I think it'll 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.320 be the Colts, but that somebody's got to win the division. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.440 I think the Titans take a step back, and then 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.760 in the West the Chiefs and the Chargers. So we're 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.480 already at six teams that I think our hands down 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.080 better than the Raiders are, or in the team in 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.040 the Colts case, just better positioned. Because somebody's got to 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.680 win that division. So the Raiders, the Broncos, the team 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.479 that doesn't win the South, call it the Titans. Some 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.880 people still believe in the Steelers. I'm not one of them. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:06.040 The Browns. If Deshaun has only suspended six games, plus 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.440 if the Patriots continue what they had building last year, 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.920 I don't buy them, And the Dolphins, I don't buy them. Still, 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.639 the point is it's five or six teams competing for 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.399 one spot. And I know our Colin Goaherd loves Derek 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.720 Carr and DeVante Adams, calling him a future Hall of Famer. 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:25.320 He is, without question, the worst quarterback in his own division. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:30.440 Now that's in part because it's the greatest quarterbacking division ever, maybe, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.000 But when was the last time a team with the 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.239 worst quarterback in a division made some serious noise? It 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.280 is you've got to have. If that can happen, it's 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:45.159 because your team is built to win despite the quarterback, 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.440 the way some would argue the Niners were a few 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.840 years ago. But that's not the cage with the Raiders. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.560 What they do best is throw the football their passing game. 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.160 And so yeah, I am fading the Raiders this year. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.800 I think they are an under five hundred football team, 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.440 not a tear gable football team, but too many difficult games, 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.119 too tough of a schedule, and I don't think adding 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.800 DeVante Adams is enough of a needle mover all, Right, 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:08.359 what's last? 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.280 During the offseason, Deebo Samuel requested a trade, which many 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.160 people think that he was unhappy with his role. Sunday, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.800 he agreed to a three year seventy five million dollars deal, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.119 fifty eight point one million being guaranteed, and over the 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.600 course of these three years, if he breaks or hits 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.960 the milestones as a running back, he'll get just under 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:26.800 two million dollars. 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:27.120 Yep. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.720 Are the forty nine Ers a scary team with Trey 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.600 Lance and Deebo Samuel Listen. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.440 I think that they're again not to do the full 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.480 NFL preview thing, but I believe in Trey Lance. I 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.960 think the Niners are right now. They're my favorites to 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.080 win the NFC. I agree the Niners will buy the 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.919 end of the year, will have upgraded at quarterback. The beginning, 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.639 there's gonna be some And by upgraded at quarterback, I 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.480 don't mean moved on from Trey Lance. What I mean is, 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.920 let me say that differently, by December of this season, 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.720 they will have better quarterbacking than they had in December 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.080 and January of last season. I think by the end 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.840 of this year Trey Lance will be better than Jimmy 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.800 Garoppolo was in that offense beginning of the year. I 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:10.960 think it's going to be some growing pains. Getting Deebo 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.600 under contract was massive. I floated on first things first 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.400 on Wednesday. Could they be the team that adds Odell. 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.440 They could use some speed there. I love their defense, 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.920