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Speaker 2: All right, welcome in What Right with Nick Wright? Episode
Speaker 2: two fifty one, little late start today. That's my fault.
Speaker 2: Apologies for that, so let's get right to it. Here's
Speaker 2: what missed the cut? Just an objectively bad haircut from
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, a bat like the buzz cuts. One thing.
Speaker 2: I don't really love that photoshop of me. I gotta
Speaker 2: be honest, but the M and M platinum blonde is
Speaker 2: way worse. Diduh you know what? But it does allow
Speaker 2: Coco Golf is gonna be a flag bear alongside Lebron
Speaker 2: and the NBA picks. Amazon over TNT. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you something de Monsey you don't know real quick, uh,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get into the show. I forgot about
Speaker 2: this and then just remembered when I saw that picture
Speaker 2: of me. I think my junior or senior year of
Speaker 2: high school. We you know what, in my senior year,
Speaker 2: we were all shaving our heads, everyone on the basketball team.
Speaker 2: When I say shaving our heads, I mean bicking like
Speaker 2: stone bald all the all the senior basketball players were
Speaker 2: doing it. So right before the season got going was Halloween,
Speaker 2: and so I went as Eminem for Halloween, and I
Speaker 2: dyed my hair like Joe Burrows is, and of I
Speaker 2: have a vivid memory, vivid memory of I Also, god,
Speaker 2: I was such an idiot. But nineties kids will get this.
Speaker 2: In the nineties, it didn't matter how nice your car was.
Speaker 2: What mattered was did you have subwoffers in the back?
Speaker 2: Did your trunk like rattle from the base of the
Speaker 2: music you were listening to, like you the that is
Speaker 2: what that is what defined it. Did you have a
Speaker 2: good amp, did you have a couple of twelves? Whatever
Speaker 2: it is? And I had big subwoofers in the back,
Speaker 2: and then also a light. God, I would have hated
Speaker 2: me as a teenager, A red, white and blue like
Speaker 2: little light in my back window that according to the
Speaker 2: beat of the song with light up via vibration. All right,
Speaker 2: so I give it a bet it was really hitting
Speaker 2: it with it would flash whatever. So we are driving
Speaker 2: to a Halloween party high school. I am wearing an
Speaker 2: all the Lord jumpsuit, which I still would wear to
Speaker 2: this day, bleach blonde hair, and probably some fake jewelry
Speaker 2: as part of the costume. I'm driving and my light
Speaker 2: is like for a couple blocks, malfunctioning and flashing, flashing email.
Speaker 2: The music's not playing crazy, like, what is going on?
Speaker 2: I then realize my light is not malfunctioning. I have
Speaker 2: had a cop trying to pull me over for blocks,
Speaker 2: but I've been driving thinking it's my own light, the red,
Speaker 2: white and blue whatever it is. I then pull over
Speaker 2: and I just remember this police officer coming to my window.
Speaker 2: I'm just an idiot teenager dressed like eminem with freshly
Speaker 2: dyed hair, and as best he can tell, I have
Speaker 2: been evading him for blocks. It's like what He's like,
Speaker 2: did you not see me trying to pull you over?
Speaker 2: And I'm like do I explain to him that I
Speaker 2: have almost assuredly an illegal light in the back of
Speaker 2: my car, or do I just fall on the story here? Uh,
Speaker 2: that's really apropos of nothing, except I try to every
Speaker 2: time that you've aged out of this, but now your
Speaker 2: sister is aged into it. Every time one of my
Speaker 2: kids does some a dumb teenage thing that just infuriates me,
Speaker 2: I try to remind myself of those types of moments,
Speaker 2: like how did my mom. I don't remember how my
Speaker 2: mom reacted when I came home at midnight that night
Speaker 2: she saw I had dyed my hair and I told her,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, By the way, I got a ticket for something,
Speaker 2: and included on the ticket was like failure to yield
Speaker 2: or pull over whatever, the violation of not evading pulling vaide.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was evading. I don't think they
Speaker 2: wrote me up for like, you know, fleeing. But it
Speaker 2: was something, all right. So that that's the best thing
Speaker 2: to come out of Joe Burrow's ridiculous hairstyle. Is I
Speaker 2: got was reminded of and told that story? All right,
Speaker 2: pal let's get to some football here.
Speaker 3: So let's check on our NFC title contenders. Shall we. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we got Dallas had that awful offseason. CD is
Speaker 3: holding out and they still need to extend Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3: The forty nine ers had you demanded trade a while ago,
Speaker 3: they didn't do that. Now Trent Williams is holding out
Speaker 3: and reports are saying that hurts and Sirianni's relationship is
Speaker 3: a work in progress. Whose problems of those do you
Speaker 3: think are the worst?
Speaker 2: Well, I think they're all bad, man. So the Niners
Speaker 2: are in the best shape, but the Niners have two
Speaker 2: of their best players not there. And I listen, I
Speaker 2: talked about this on the show yesterday, so we're gonna
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time on this opening topic. So
Speaker 2: I want to start with the Niners. So I just
Speaker 2: kind of did a cursory list in my head and
Speaker 2: then on the show yesterday of skill positioned studs on
Speaker 2: your team, of you know, the best quarterbacks are teams
Speaker 2: that made the playoffs, So the running back, wide receiver,
Speaker 2: tight end last season? How many A you know, a
Speaker 2: A A plus type of guys does did your team
Speaker 2: have last year? So like, here's a guy that gets
Speaker 2: a lot of credit, demonse, your guy Jordan Love had
Speaker 2: zero zero guys that were definitive stars last year at
Speaker 2: wide receiver, tight end or running back, and they still
Speaker 2: made the postseason. A bunch of quarterbacks had just one.
Speaker 2: Mahomes had, Kelsey, Dak had cd CJ. You could say
Speaker 2: had zero. Nico I think edged into that group, but
Speaker 2: it's close, and I'm you know, Lamar only had Mark
Speaker 2: Andrews really and then he got hurt, right, Yeah, A
Speaker 2: few guys have two. Joe Burrow, I know he was
Speaker 2: hurt last year, but as Higgins and Chase Uh, you
Speaker 2: could say the Jalen Hurts has A J and Davante
Speaker 2: this year maybe three if you include Saquon in that group. Purty,
Speaker 2: of course, last year, had four in Cimac, Kittle, Deebo
Speaker 2: and Ayuk, Which is what makes the Niners not trading
Speaker 2: Ayuk so curious to me, because even if they had now,
Speaker 2: I understand why they didn't. Won't don't want to trade
Speaker 2: him now because anything they get from him now won't
Speaker 2: help you this season, but it would help you in
Speaker 2: If you had done it before the draft, you would
Speaker 2: still have a bit of an embarrassment of riches. You'd
Speaker 2: still have an excellent wide receiver, a top three tight
Speaker 2: end in the best running back in football. But I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to have a long party conversation right now.
Speaker 2: I think they understand what that quarterback needs. Another guy
Speaker 2: who made the playoffs and had two absolute studs but
Speaker 2: still just two is tua in Tyreek and Waddle and
Speaker 2: then good players other places. But they're not gonna trade Ayuk,
Speaker 2: and Ayuk's canna end up coming back, whether he gets
Speaker 2: paid more or not. Trent Williams is a trickier one.
Speaker 2: Trent Williams might be the single most important player on
Speaker 2: the team because the rest of the offensive line isn't great.
Speaker 2: He is the best tackle in the whole sport. And
Speaker 2: Trient's I think, thirty six years old and still amazing.
Speaker 2: And he yeah, he is thirty six years old? Is
Speaker 2: that right? No? Man? Yes, he turned thirty turn yeah,
Speaker 2: turned thirty six last week actually, and understands he's probably
Speaker 2: not going to get another contract because he has three
Speaker 2: years left on this deal, so he wants more money now.
Speaker 2: I think they have to flinch when it comes to
Speaker 2: Trent Williams. So I think the Niners will be okay
Speaker 2: for this season, but they're in an interesting spot moving forward.
Speaker 2: Dallas objectively horrifying offseason lost multiple offensive linemen, did not
Speaker 2: address the running back position, have not gotten deals done
Speaker 2: with any of their three best players, their star defensive player,
Speaker 2: their star wide receiver, and their franchise quarterback. And Jerry
Speaker 2: said he wanted to wait for more leaves to fall.
Speaker 2: The only really leaves left are his own guys. And
Speaker 2: you are now staring at Micah expecting thirty five million
Speaker 2: a year because Nicki Bosa makes thirty four CD expecting
Speaker 2: thirty five million a year because that's what Justin Jefferson makes,
Speaker 2: and Dak's gonna and Dak is going to not sign
Speaker 2: for a dollar less than sixty million a year, which
Speaker 2: to me means they're not going to be able to
Speaker 2: keep all three. And so for this year they'll have
Speaker 2: all three again. A lot of the for the Niners
Speaker 2: and Cowboys, the issues aren't about this season. They're about
Speaker 2: what it means down the road. Because the Niners are
Speaker 2: gonna have I think, this whole team together for this season.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys are gonna have this whole team together for
Speaker 2: this season. They're their issues for this season. The Cowboys
Speaker 2: are not addressing running back. How you know do they
Speaker 2: have is the center position. Take care of those things.
Speaker 2: The Eagles. The stuff is concerning the Diana Russini report
Speaker 2: demase that said Sirianni and Jalen Hurt's relationship is a
Speaker 2: work in progress. This is Sirianni's fourth years the head coach.
Speaker 2: Jalen's been the starting quarterback the whole time, like the
Speaker 2: the let me tell you this right now, any relationship
Speaker 2: that four years in your leg is a work in progress.
Speaker 2: That's just what it's gonna be. It's not all of it.
Speaker 2: Like listen, those first four years we didn't really like
Speaker 2: each other. But let me, I mean, that's not that.
Speaker 2: And so it's a weird spot. And they have very
Speaker 2: different personalities, and in my opinion, the different personalities can
Speaker 2: work if the roles were flipped, if the braggadocious, over
Speaker 2: the top guy is the player and the reserved, cool,
Speaker 2: calm collections. I'm not saying Sirianni's the problem necessarily. What
Speaker 2: I'm saying is you don't have to have the same
Speaker 2: personality to get along. But what is very tough is
Speaker 2: if the one who's the more flamboyant the wrong word
Speaker 2: but kind of in your face live wire, that needs
Speaker 2: to be the player role, not the coach role. And
Speaker 2: so you know, so I under say it's not coach quarterback,
Speaker 2: but Travis Kelcey Andy Reid have a similar dynamic of
Speaker 2: Sirianni and Hurts, but the roles are reversed. Yeah, Andy
Speaker 2: Reid's the stoic, you know what I means, his mind right,
Speaker 2: but it's but it can work in that situation. And
Speaker 2: so I think that folks need to remember the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: Eagles from Week one to the end of the year
Speaker 2: last year were a bottom five defense. You then add
Speaker 2: to it that the offense seemed to somewhat fall apart
Speaker 2: over the final month and half of the year. They
Speaker 2: lost six of their final seven games, and in that
Speaker 2: playoff game it looked like they quit flatly quit. So
Speaker 2: all of this is really a preamble to why demonse
Speaker 2: I think I'm picking the Bears to win the NFC
Speaker 2: because there isn't There is not a clear cut end
Speaker 2: boss they have to get through. There are big issues
Speaker 2: with every known quantity team. The other team that comes
Speaker 2: to mind is the Rams, But the Rams might have
Speaker 2: suffered the single biggest loss of any team in the
Speaker 2: league this offseason with Aaron Donald retiring like that can't
Speaker 2: be it. It's it's not looked at the same as
Speaker 2: if Aaron I feel like if Aaron Donald had left
Speaker 2: the Rams to go play for the Texans, that when
Speaker 2: we talk about the Rams, there would be more discussion about, oh,
Speaker 2: and they lost Aaron Donald. But because he retired and
Speaker 2: he's out of the league, I just don't think it's
Speaker 2: at the front of people's mind. And I get he
Speaker 2: was not still peak Aaron Donald, but what he was
Speaker 2: was at worst, at worst the third best player in
Speaker 2: the league at his position, and some would argue he
Speaker 2: was still the best. Some people think he was still
Speaker 2: better than Chris Jones. Uh, and so he's probably the
Speaker 2: second best he tackle in the league. That guy leaves
Speaker 2: and so I So I like the Rams a lot,
Speaker 2: but there's a yeah, but there there's no one in
Speaker 2: the NFC South that I is a legitimate Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 2: I don't buy Atlanta like that. That then does leave
Speaker 2: the two other NFC North teams, the Lions and the Packers.
Speaker 2: The Packers were a nine win team last year, so
Speaker 2: the gap between them and Chicago wasn't as great as
Speaker 2: it is in our mind's eye, and that Obviously, Chicago
Speaker 2: made massive upgrades this offseason. Now the Packers upgrade was
Speaker 2: they're so young, everyone got better, and then there is
Speaker 2: Detroit and maybe it'll be Detroit. But the teams that
Speaker 2: are kind of the NFC standard bearers the last few
Speaker 2: years all have real yeah butts about them, which is
Speaker 2: why it could be which is why it could be
Speaker 2: a weird season.
Speaker 3: Did you predict the Bears to go eleven and six
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two?
Speaker 2: I mean possibly, so I'm not sure. I can't tell
Speaker 2: you the exact record prediction. I do the Daniels saying
Speaker 2: yes in twenty twenty two or twenty twenty three. Are
Speaker 2: we talking about two years ago or last year? Guys
Speaker 2: cut the okay? So two years ago?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think I was that was, Oh that
Speaker 2: makes sense, Yeah, because I thought justin Fields, if let
Speaker 2: me see if I have this right, Bears, the that
Speaker 2: was I think the Bears were coming off. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: look this up exactly. Uh not that it's a super relevant. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the Bears had what they had gone to the
Speaker 2: playoffs in twenty twenty. The next year was was that
Speaker 2: Field's rookie year? Yeah? I think so? Where they kind
Speaker 2: of ripped everything down. And then that year I thought
Speaker 2: Fields was gonna take a jump. Instead they won three games,
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean that was and they ended up
Speaker 2: I think, well, they had the number one pick of
Speaker 2: the draft. Yeah. So I've been high on the Bears
Speaker 2: incorrectly in the past, but this this is a little
Speaker 2: different situation where they added Roma Dunes, they brought in
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams. They're coming off seven wins.
Speaker 3: So those of the n the NFC contenders that we
Speaker 3: talked about initially, like Dallas, San Francisco, and uh, who's
Speaker 3: the team in Philly? Does any of those those mishaps
Speaker 3: bring you more joy than one of the others.
Speaker 2: No, none of it brings me joy. I'm a positive guy.
Speaker 2: I don't root for team's downfall. I there there are
Speaker 2: certain teams that I think need their come up ince
Speaker 2: and I thought that. I thought Philly whining about the
Speaker 2: turf in the Super Bowl consistently and then Sirianni yelling
Speaker 2: at Chiefs fans after that regular season win. I thought
Speaker 2: that was, you know, they they deserved their come up
Speaker 2: and as I said, and they got it by executing
Speaker 2: one of the greatest collapses in NFL history, the cowb
Speaker 2: I feel badly for Cowboys fans at this point. They
Speaker 2: win twelve games every year. I bought into him last
Speaker 2: year and then they they just expect the playoff collapse
Speaker 2: and I got listen. I think the Niners. I think
Speaker 2: Kyle Shannan's a brilliant coach. I think they're an incredibly
Speaker 2: well run team. Niner fans don't like me because I
Speaker 2: won't fall for the okie oak on brock Perty the
Speaker 2: way I wouldn't fall for the okie oak on Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 2: and people get mad about that. Now, Purty's better than Garoppolo,
Speaker 2: but it's it's as if we haven't seen these exact
Speaker 2: beats before, and so we'll see if I end up
Speaker 2: being wrong with it. I don't really root against any
Speaker 2: of these teams. I'm getting close to rooting against the
Speaker 2: Bengals because of Jamar Chase, but I like Joe Burrows
Speaker 2: so much that's gonna be hard.
Speaker 3: To wait, what but the because of what he said
Speaker 3: on the top one hundred things like what are you
Speaker 3: talking about here?
Speaker 2: It's yeah, I mean, it's just a lot. It was
Speaker 2: Jamar the whole Bengals. It started with burrowhead and then
Speaker 2: it's the Joe Burrow says is handles it properly. I
Speaker 2: Jamar is and I as as recently as a year ago,
Speaker 2: I would argue Jamar I used to argue Jamar Chase
Speaker 2: might be the best receiver in the whole league. I
Speaker 2: think he's a brilliant player. They irritate me a little bit,
Speaker 2: but I'm not rooting against them.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And Bill's fans again, I have nothing against Bill's fans.
Speaker 2: A lot of the Bill's stuff is just it's really
Speaker 2: media criticism more than anything else. It's it's about an
Speaker 2: premature or anointing, and it's about the the double standards
Speaker 2: of things. But I don't you know, I mean, well,
Speaker 2: you know what. I take it back. I do root
Speaker 2: against the Broncos. Is that team ruined my child old
Speaker 2: and uh and I am not a John John Elways
Speaker 2: want to, as far as sports goes, one of my
Speaker 2: most disliked athletes and executives of my lifetime. So them
Speaker 2: going through these struggles does bring me joy. But that's
Speaker 2: just a Chiefs Broncos rivalry, nothing else really so much.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Rogers.
Speaker 3: All right? So, uh, Aaron Rodgers. Let's let's take a
Speaker 3: listen to what he had to say about his unexcused absence.
Speaker 3: Quick side.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm an adult. I knew what I was
Speaker 5: getting into, I knew the find that was coming, and
Speaker 5: also knew how much I wanted to be to be
Speaker 5: in Egypt. I wish there hadn't been a conflict scheduling wise,
Speaker 5: but you know, it was what it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Pyramids and Egypt aren't going anywhere obviously.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers what he should have been a practice. How
Speaker 3: soon do you think the Jets were regret getting into
Speaker 3: the Aaron Rodgers business?
Speaker 2: I mean midway through this year when they realized that
Speaker 2: they they put everything about their franchise in this guy's
Speaker 2: hands and football is just one of his interests. And
Speaker 2: in general that can work and that can be okay,
Speaker 2: but it can't work for quarterback savior when it's just
Speaker 2: And I thought he handled that press conference fine. I
Speaker 2: thought he was uncharacteristically honest and a given credit for that,
Speaker 2: but it was telling when he was like, listen, I
Speaker 2: had a choice to make, and I chose the other thing.
Speaker 2: But my actual if I were a Jet fan, thank god,
Speaker 2: I'm not. Here is the thing that I would be
Speaker 2: most unnerved by the T shirt he wore going into
Speaker 2: training camp. Did you see it? Demanse? So he wore, Okay,
Speaker 2: we've got it right there. It's an Egyptian cat. It's
Speaker 2: a little it's it's it's it's just if you do
Speaker 2: get the image Egyptian cat, that's what comes up. So
Speaker 2: here's why, right, it's uh, it's it's just a little
Speaker 2: reminder needle of who's in charge. And so it's just
Speaker 2: it is an odd choice in my opinion. And I
Speaker 2: know folks think I'm too hard on Aaron and I
Speaker 2: don't even know if we spent time on this show
Speaker 2: when he did the thing on pardon my take when
Speaker 2: he was like, well there's you know, words or funny
Speaker 2: things they mean different things, trying to change the definition
Speaker 2: of mandatory, which was such an odd choice to make
Speaker 2: when like mandatory just like words do mean certain things,
Speaker 2: and mandatory means mandatory like obligatory. You've got And so
Speaker 2: that part I didn't love. But it he is operating
Speaker 2: as if he is still a superstar, and I don't
Speaker 2: think he is. We'll see, but I think right now,
Speaker 2: because people the big question I have or A big
Speaker 2: question people ask me is what you know, what do
Speaker 2: I dislike about the Jets? How do I not like
Speaker 2: their roster? And I think they have an outstanding defensive roster,
Speaker 2: and I think they have a decent offensive roster. And
Speaker 2: if it were Madden and we turned all injuries off,
Speaker 2: I would say their offensive roster is good, because it's not.
Speaker 2: And you have to bake in injury history with guy.
Speaker 2: That's why I call it a decent offensive roster because
Speaker 2: when a few of your biggest acquisitions are historically consistently
Speaker 2: injured players, take rogers out of it. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: give you seventeen games for those guys like Tyron Smith
Speaker 2: and Mike Williams. But my biggest concerns with Number one
Speaker 2: concern with the Jets is I think they have a
Speaker 2: bottom five in the NFL coaching staff. I think that
Speaker 2: is a fair reading of the situation. I think they
Speaker 2: have a front office that we have no reason to
Speaker 2: believe knows what it's doing, as evidence by the fact
Speaker 2: that they traded for Hassan Reddick because and the reason
Speaker 2: so bres Hall, Bryce Hall. I get these two players
Speaker 2: once or well there's two, here's The problem. Breece is
Speaker 2: the running back. Bryce is the pass rusher. The problem
Speaker 2: is they both were on the Jets.
Speaker 3: Like bree I think the.
Speaker 2: Hold on and I'm gonna get this all wrong. Breece
Speaker 2: is the running back, that's right. But the guy who
Speaker 2: signed with the Eagles in the offseason for a bunch
Speaker 2: of money, Bryce Hoff. That's it. So this is what's
Speaker 2: so confusing. Sorry, Breece Hall. Breece Hall is the running
Speaker 2: back for the Jets. Am I getting this right? Breece
Speaker 2: Hall is the running back for the Jets. Bryce Hall
Speaker 2: is a corner I think for the Bucks. Bryce Hoff
Speaker 2: was a pass rusher for the Jets. It's confusing. I apologize,
Speaker 2: But now that I have this name right, this story
Speaker 2: will make more sense. I think both. Actually I think
Speaker 2: there's actually a Bryce Hall in the NFL and a
Speaker 2: media personality, neither of whom are relevant to this conversation. Oddly,
Speaker 2: neither was Breece Hall. I was trying to say Bryce Hoff.
Speaker 2: So the Jets had Bryce Hoff their pass rusher. The
Speaker 2: Eagles signed him in free agency because Hassan Reddick, who
Speaker 2: was there designate pass rusher, wanted a contract extension and
Speaker 2: they didn't want to give it to him. The Jets
Speaker 2: then traded for Hassan Reddick, and Hassan Reddick is now
Speaker 2: holding out of Jets camp the way he was going
Speaker 2: to hold out of Eagles camp because he doesn't have
Speaker 2: a contract extension and the Jets are leaking to you know,
Speaker 2: favorable local media. It was a misunderstanding. That's a poorly
Speaker 2: run team. If you trade for a player and think
Speaker 2: he's going to report without you giving him a contract extension,
Speaker 2: and then he you don't give him a contract extension
Speaker 2: and he doesn't report, that's a bad front office. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say that's a bad for an office. That's
Speaker 2: a bad That is the type of mistake a bad
Speaker 2: front office would.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: That's one of those things if you don't wanna when
Speaker 2: I started a quick sidebar and then I'll get back
Speaker 2: to the Jets. When I first started on the radio. Uh,
Speaker 2: I remember one of my bosses telling me this, Gosh,
Speaker 2: at this point fifteen years ago, don't criticize people, criticize actions.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what do you mean. It's like, well, don't
Speaker 2: don't say someone's dumb. Say doing X was dumb, That
Speaker 2: was dumb, you know, what I and don't say, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, try not to say this person is a liar,
Speaker 2: say this was a lie. Like those are the kind
Speaker 2: of distinguishing things. And the way that I because I
Speaker 2: didn't really like I I that I've never liked being
Speaker 2: told what to say, even and if you even and
Speaker 2: if I wasn't going to say what you're telling me
Speaker 2: not to say, it really bothers me that you either
Speaker 2: think I don't know not to say that or you
Speaker 2: think you can, you know, like basically not censor but
Speaker 2: guide what I'm gonna say. And so the way that
Speaker 2: I took that little coaching moment was if I thought,
Speaker 2: what I would go with was this turn of phrase,
Speaker 2: which was I'm not saying this person's dumb, but they
Speaker 2: do a lot of things dumb people do. And so
Speaker 2: I'm not saying the Jets front office is poorly run,
Speaker 2: but there are a lot of decisions they make that
Speaker 2: mirror exactly what a poorly run front office would would make.
Speaker 2: So I think they have bad coaching staff. I'm questioned
Speaker 2: about the front office. And then here's the other thing.
Speaker 2: I do not think the Jets have above average quarterback play,
Speaker 2: and that is what it's gonna come down to. And
Speaker 2: that's not about Aaron being injured. It's about the fact
Speaker 2: that two years ago, Aaron was dead average in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Not by Aaron Rodgers standards, by NFL standards. His last
Speaker 2: year with the Packers, he was a league average quarterback.
Speaker 2: Now he's two years older, off in Achilles with a
Speaker 2: worst coaching staff. So I think they're going to have
Speaker 2: a round the sixteenth seventeenth best quarterback play in the
Speaker 2: league this year, plus a bad coaching staff, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, that's how a team that thinks they
Speaker 2: can win the Super Bowl wins eight or nine games.
Speaker 3: You think that he was ranked above Prince, the Prince
Speaker 3: that was promised on the top NFL one hundred.
Speaker 2: I mean they were so close. It was ninety four
Speaker 2: to ninety two. To me, that's essentially equivalent ranking. I
Speaker 2: think that, Listen, the Prince has a lot to proved
Speaker 2: this year. I think the Prince will have a better
Speaker 2: year than Aaron.
Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, he's a big year.
Speaker 2: Is a big year for Trevor, There's no doubt about it. Listen,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not gonna I in my opinion, Trevor Lawrence's
Speaker 2: story is quite easy to understand. By year two in
Speaker 2: the NFL, he was excellent, executed one of the greatest
Speaker 2: playoff comebacks ever, took that momentum and then lost to
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes, who everyone loses to in the playoffs. Then
Speaker 2: took that momentum into the next season, was eight and three,
Speaker 2: had his team on Monday Night Football, the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 2: playing for the one seed midway through his third year
Speaker 2: in the league, and then suffered three consecutive awful injuries
Speaker 2: in the season. Philipart, that makes a ton of sense
Speaker 2: to me. I know a lot of folks think, no, actually,
Speaker 2: the guy just stinks. Just he just was. It was
Speaker 2: make believe for three years at Clemson. I don't know
Speaker 2: how people could that second year in the league and
Speaker 2: the playoff comeback whatever. But yes, you're right, demansay he
Speaker 2: has a lot to prove this year. All right, let's
Speaker 2: move on.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, after the show on Tuesday, you auditioned to
Speaker 3: be a US Open ball boy. Uh didn't go your way.
Speaker 3: It seems like you might have hobbled away even are
Speaker 3: you gonna make any excuses for your performance? How do
Speaker 3: you feel about it?
Speaker 2: No, I thought I did great. I don't think I
Speaker 2: got the job, and I didn't go into it one
Speaker 2: hundred percent, but I did everything that was asked of me.
Speaker 2: I clearly showed the intellectual capability of understanding because it's
Speaker 2: different jobs. There's back, there's net. You have to understand.
Speaker 2: You really have to know tennis because you have to
Speaker 2: know waight. Was that a fault? Was that a point?
Speaker 2: Where does the ball go? You gotta be on your feet,
Speaker 2: and man, it's ninety minute shifts, the ninety minutes off
Speaker 2: and yeah, I mean listen, first things first is going
Speaker 2: to publish the video, and you're gonna see me gallantly
Speaker 2: fighting through multiple injuries. I don't know why you're laughing
Speaker 2: despite the injuries. I you know I did. I played
Speaker 2: tennis for like an hour before that was probably a mistake.
Speaker 2: I then went through a full hour training session, and
Speaker 2: then after that there was the actual tryout. So by
Speaker 2: the time we got to the tryout, my jet ski
Speaker 2: back injury was really bad and I could tell I
Speaker 2: was this close to monse to a torn left hamstring.
Speaker 2: I could feel it, I could feel it going, but
Speaker 2: I didn't want to quit. I particularly did not want
Speaker 2: to quit when this happened. So there were thirty four
Speaker 2: people auditioning this outworks fourteen hundred, tryout hundred, make it
Speaker 2: one hundred, make it of the fourteen hundred and summer.
Speaker 2: And so they have different tryouts throughout the day and
Speaker 2: throughout the week, and it's once you're actually trying out
Speaker 2: they pair. They don't pair. They do groups of six
Speaker 2: because that's how many ball people there are, two you know,
Speaker 2: behind each player and two at the net. Uh and,
Speaker 2: so that gives you six. So in our group demanse
Speaker 2: were a couple young ladies who it was their first time,
Speaker 2: and then four guys in their twenties who, for all
Speaker 2: of them it was their fifth consecutive year.
Speaker 3: Uh oh.
Speaker 2: And there were more than uh oh, demanse. Then there
Speaker 2: were And obviously, I mean you've been to the US Open.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of matches going on early in the week,
Speaker 2: there's like thirty courts, and then eventually by the end
Speaker 2: of it, you're down to the semifinals, the actual finals, whatever.
Speaker 2: So the best of the best get you know, the
Speaker 2: semi final, the final whatever. These two twin guys super
Speaker 2: nice watched the show. College baseball players, local kids from
Speaker 2: Queen's awesome guys. I think they were identical twins. I
Speaker 2: know they were twins. I think identical twins. So I'm
Speaker 2: talking to them. They're like, yeah, this is our fifth year.
Speaker 2: We do whatevery year. I'm like, okay, I'm like, what's
Speaker 2: the biggest match you've done? And one brother kind of
Speaker 2: like sheepishly, is like, oh, I did a Novak last year,
Speaker 2: like you did Novak Djokovic. He's like yeah. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what position were you in? He's like, I was net
Speaker 2: and that's the hardest, it's the most lined on the
Speaker 2: side of the net exactly. I'm like, you did you
Speaker 2: were net for a Djokovic match? And he's like yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'm like which one? And he said the final,
Speaker 2: Like wait, you were the you were net ballperson for
Speaker 2: the men's final last year. And he's like, trying to
Speaker 2: be you know, humble but honest, he's like yeah. I'm
Speaker 2: like that's unbelievable. So then I ask his brother, his
Speaker 2: twin brother. I'm like, what about you. He's like, I
Speaker 2: was net for the men's final the year before. I'm like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, so you're the two best in the world.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you guys. They got to me competing against
Speaker 2: literally the two best ball people in the world.
Speaker 3: You have to try out though, in order to yeah, well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, of course, right exactly, you have to keep trying,
Speaker 2: you have to earn your spot. Every year they had
Speaker 2: to be there. But my point is it's I mean,
Speaker 2: they exactly throw me into the kids into the pool.
Speaker 2: I'm out there against a city. I'm out there against
Speaker 2: the Djokovic Alcoraz of ball's people, the two best in
Speaker 2: the certain I shouldn't say the world, but here's the thing.
Speaker 2: The Australian, the French and Wimbledon don't pay. They're volunteer positions.
Speaker 2: The US Open pays. So it is not an exaggeration
Speaker 2: to say these two brothers, who have done the men's
Speaker 2: final in back to back years, are the two best
Speaker 2: balls people in the world. And I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I thought I held my own with them, I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you, and I was despite the injury. And so
Speaker 2: because of the injuries, I don't think I'm going to
Speaker 2: be selected this year. However, now that I know the requirements,
Speaker 2: now that I know uh the muscles, I need to
Speaker 2: make sure I stretch out, and now that I know
Speaker 2: when The tryouts are all make sure that I'm in good,
Speaker 2: better physical condition for next year in my age forty season.
Speaker 2: Much like Lebron, I will compete once again and I'll
Speaker 2: make it next year. I'm telling you right now, I'll
Speaker 2: be selected to be a US Open balls person next year.
Speaker 2: I know the rules. My role is elite. I under
Speaker 2: like how you roll the ball because you got to
Speaker 2: like do a relay throw from one. But it's got
Speaker 2: to be a role. I still have ninetieth percentile quickness
Speaker 2: stop start ability. Uh, I just I mean, you're saying
Speaker 2: I just don't know, don't You're eighth percentile athlete, and
Speaker 2: so you you don't. I'm okay. Well again, the I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll let the video speak for itself because I despite
Speaker 2: the fact that I clearly have a couple slip discs
Speaker 2: in my back, I'm I'm kind of crushing some of
Speaker 2: these drills, and so I don't know why you're laughing
Speaker 2: so hard. But but I'll be back. It was a
Speaker 2: great experience and I'll be back, much like this show,
Speaker 2: play a little more to gain, more to lose next
Speaker 2: what's right, Welcome back in We'll driving the great and
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I should have led the show with
Speaker 2: this before we get to more to gain, more to lose?
Speaker 2: Major announcement major. I almost Should I make it? Or
Speaker 2: should I allow Demanse to make it? Hold on? I
Speaker 2: want to if I let all right, Demonse, I am
Speaker 2: texting you something right now. It's a video. Tell me
Speaker 2: when you get it, and then just narrate the video
Speaker 2: to the audience. It should be you should have it momentarily. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's a short video. Uh, it says, it says it
Speaker 2: was delivered, you got it. Narrate what you're seeing to
Speaker 2: the audience and what it says.
Speaker 3: Made national champions I'm assuming this is. Uh, let's see
Speaker 3: what does it?
Speaker 2: Hold on? I feel like you. I mean, that's all
Speaker 2: you said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you got ACC Defensive Player the other week.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry about all the awards I won. I'll
Speaker 2: explain that national champions National championship, the national championship. I
Speaker 2: won the champion.
Speaker 3: Oh, you were winning the league championships before.
Speaker 2: I won some ACC titles and I got to the
Speaker 2: the and I got to the college football playoff, but
Speaker 2: I had never actually finished the deal. If you remember,
Speaker 2: on our last episode of What's Right, I explained how
Speaker 2: in the new College Football video game, I had made
Speaker 2: a very risky decision, which is my junior quarterback who
Speaker 2: had really helped build Syracuse into a perennial top twenty
Speaker 2: five team, and I had convinced to stay at the school,
Speaker 2: and we were winning nine games, winning the ACC title
Speaker 2: even what made a college football playoff. Under his stewardship,
Speaker 2: I benched him for a true freshman, and it didn't
Speaker 2: go great that first year, but I believed in this
Speaker 2: young man, Greg Marciano. And two years later, his junior season,
Speaker 2: we lost our first game of the year in overtime
Speaker 2: to Arkansas, twenty seven to twenty one. And all he
Speaker 2: did was rip off sixteen consecutive victories, finished second in
Speaker 2: the Heisman. And you might say finished second in the Heisman.
Speaker 2: Who won it his teammate, our great wide receiver Brian Tompkins,
Speaker 2: who had twenty four touchdowns, finished one two in the Heisman,
Speaker 2: sixteen straight victories, won, UH won every award there was. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm not playing. I'm simulating, so I mean it's on Heisman,
Speaker 2: but I'm not I'm just building the team, letting the
Speaker 2: chips fall where they may. And now UH I got
Speaker 2: to tell you now that the job has been done
Speaker 2: for Syracuse University. Uh, We're open to other offers. The
Speaker 2: you know, southern California seems awful, nice, and you know,
Speaker 2: maybe a traditional power. I'd said that I would bring
Speaker 2: a national championship to my alma mater. I've done it.
Speaker 2: The cupboard is more than stacked for whomever takes over
Speaker 2: after me, and I'm very excited about what's next to come.
Speaker 2: But and I'm still yet to actually play the game.
Speaker 2: I'm yet to actually play a game. I but I
Speaker 2: need you know now that I have won the national
Speaker 2: championship and finished first second in the Heisman, won every
Speaker 2: award there was. Essentially, I feel like at some point
Speaker 2: I probably should play the game, but I'm not ready
Speaker 2: to do that quite yet. But I just that's a
Speaker 2: quick little college football n CAA twenty five yards.
Speaker 3: I'm scared to figure out how good or bad you
Speaker 3: are at the actual playing, because like you could be
Speaker 3: playing games on the side of you doing like you're
Speaker 3: your whole syracuseteynas well.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I don't have the stats on it,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna say I'm averaging. I don't know a
Speaker 2: good few hours a day on this thing right now.
Speaker 2: It takes it's tough so to all of a sudden
Speaker 2: exhibition in exhibition games. It just seems it seems like
Speaker 2: it would not be, you know, the best for my
Speaker 2: personal or professional life. I think your sisters would respect
Speaker 2: it more rather than seeing me just sitting there dming
Speaker 2: fake high school students to try to come to my school.
Speaker 2: Uh as part of the recruitment process. But you know,
Speaker 2: such is life. This game's been out of my life
Speaker 2: for eleven years, and I'm just so glad to have
Speaker 2: it back. All right to Mom's let's play more to gain,
Speaker 2: more to lose.
Speaker 3: More to gain, more to lose? A Team USA basketball audition, Men's, Uh,
Speaker 3: you called Lebron the best player on Team USA, which
Speaker 3: means both the team's success and or a failure will
Speaker 3: be accredited to him. Does Lebron have more to gain
Speaker 3: and more to lose in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Oh, definitively more to lose. Like, here's the thing, if
Speaker 2: they eat everyone who was making I shouldn't say everyone,
Speaker 2: A lot of the people who were making the argument
Speaker 2: before the Olympics that Lebron should not even be starting,
Speaker 2: that he's not one of the five best guys. If
Speaker 2: they don't win, will instantly blame him. That is a
Speaker 2: guarantee that he gets demons. He gets blamed for the
Speaker 2: four meltdown, despite the fact that when those Olympics took place,
Speaker 2: he was nineteen years old, he had just finished his
Speaker 2: rookie season. He was not even one of the significant
Speaker 2: minute skinners anything. And people are still like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: that O four team. He was nineteen on the Olympic
Speaker 2: team and people hang that around his next So yeah,
Speaker 2: but so definitely more to lose. Definitely more to lose.
Speaker 3: But not more to gain with the fact that he's
Speaker 3: thirty nine and can carry this team to the end.
Speaker 2: Like the vision, I mean, I think that the folks
Speaker 2: will again, this will There's a lot of stuff that
Speaker 2: does not follow a logical tree. It just follows a
Speaker 2: lebron derangement syndrome tree. Just see the bubble when people
Speaker 2: thought that the Lakers weren't gonna win that title and
Speaker 2: the Clippers were gonna win it, and that then nobody
Speaker 2: was being like, well, this is not gonna be a
Speaker 2: real title. At that time, people were talking about how
Speaker 2: it would be one of the hardest titles. Ever about
Speaker 2: how even if you earned home court, you don't get
Speaker 2: home games. You're away from your family, that you have
Speaker 2: to live in Disney World. You're in the middle of
Speaker 2: a pandemic. But then the Lakers crushed everyone and people
Speaker 2: now put out Mickey Mouse emojis. There's just a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff that it's just Calvin ball with lebron Heads.
Speaker 2: You lose tails, I win all right.
Speaker 3: Next o, Embiid has yets proved he can win anything
Speaker 3: and things are looking great for him so far during
Speaker 3: the Exhibition Games? Does Embiid have more to gain and
Speaker 3: more to lose at the Olympics?
Speaker 2: More to lose? I mean, I'd like Embiid just consistent,
Speaker 2: like and you don't like Embid. I do like Embiid,
Speaker 2: but he he is not. There was a like even
Speaker 2: little silly things, which is there's a fun little social
Speaker 2: media video going out right now of guys. Have you
Speaker 2: seen it?
Speaker 3: Demon's eight Yes, it's like four of them, four or
Speaker 3: five of them.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a bunch of them. But this is about
Speaker 2: who has the best nickname? Have you seen this one?
Speaker 3: No? I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's funny because you have like Derek White
Speaker 2: really taking it seriously and where he's talking about He's like, well,
Speaker 2: book doesn't count because that's just a shortening of it.
Speaker 2: And then they were like, is BAM a nickname? And
Speaker 2: Drew Holliday's like, yeah, somebody asked me last year what
Speaker 2: BAM's actual name was, and I said Beaumonte, even though
Speaker 2: that's not his name, So now we call him that,
Speaker 2: and then and and some people say King, and then
Speaker 2: so's I forget who, but King James and Chef Curry
Speaker 2: get the most votes from like other people. Somebody says
Speaker 2: a slim reaper. Durant asked about it, and he's like,
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't used to like that nickname because
Speaker 2: I didn't think I'd earned it, but now I love
Speaker 2: that nickname. But everyone is throwing out possibilities for other people,
Speaker 2: and then Embiid's in it. In the middle of it.
Speaker 2: They're like, so, what's the best nickname? And Embiid votes
Speaker 2: for himself. He's like the process, and I just like,
Speaker 2: what are we doing? Like there's and so I and
Speaker 2: again I like Joelle, but he hasn't played well. The
Speaker 2: quotes we talked about last week I thought were not great.
Speaker 3: Is sneaky a teammate. You think he's like I think
Speaker 3: he might sneaky, be a bad teammate.
Speaker 2: So some people think that. Man, I have not wanted
Speaker 2: to think that, but he has some rough quotes, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you that, and even recently where he was the
Speaker 2: I don't know about.
Speaker 3: It, I know him saying that his team would get
Speaker 3: blown out if he rested for I just think that's
Speaker 3: what you're throwing out your teammates. Like even if even
Speaker 3: if that is the case, dude, like you're still playing
Speaker 3: with some of these guys. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's a rough quote that that is true.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's move on.
Speaker 3: To Gianni's Janis has failed to stay healthy in the
Speaker 3: playoffs since winning the title. Now he has the opportunity
Speaker 3: to remind everyone he's the best player in the world
Speaker 3: on the big stage. Does Giannis have more to gain
Speaker 3: or more to lose at the Olympics?
Speaker 2: Way more to game? This is easy. He's on a
Speaker 2: total free roll. Nobody expects anything, agrees and if you know,
Speaker 2: it's all I mean again, I'm not even take injury
Speaker 2: out of it, Like that's the no, remove that factor.
Speaker 2: He has nothing to lose and only stuff to gain.
Speaker 2: If every game they win, it will be because he's awesome.
Speaker 2: And if he can get him just into the knockout round,
Speaker 2: that would be a hell of an accomplishment, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Jokic is coming off an embarrassing twenty point blown
Speaker 3: lead in Game seven at home. The title of the
Speaker 3: best title of the best player in the world is
Speaker 3: detainably up for grabs. It's no better way to put
Speaker 3: the debate to rest by pulling off the David versical
Speaker 3: upset on the world stage. Does Jokic have more to
Speaker 3: gain or more to lose at the Olympics?
Speaker 2: The same with Jannis more to gain because nobody is
Speaker 2: expecting Serbia to do anything, and it would just be
Speaker 2: because Jokic carries him weird. I don't know, Daniel. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you some weird KCP quotes about the Nuggets being
Speaker 2: out of gas, about how they thought the Lakers should
Speaker 2: have beaten them. Now KCP is obviously not on the
Speaker 2: Nuggets anymore, so maybe you can speak more freely, but
Speaker 2: I do the Yo Kic Yo Kic sneaky back up
Speaker 2: against the wall out of nowhere. You lose, Bruce Brown,
Speaker 2: you lose KCP. Yeah, you're up three to two in
Speaker 2: round two after being down oh two, and you lose
Speaker 2: that series. You blow a twenty point lead at home.
Speaker 2: You're not the favorite anymore. And so anything Jokics does
Speaker 2: in the Olympics is a bonus. Uh, but yeah, he
Speaker 2: has way more to gain, all right.
Speaker 3: Last, Draymond also said the Nuggets should have I mean,
Speaker 3: the Lakers should have beaten the Nuggets during an interview.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah he did. Yeah, but go ahead, Draymond. Draymond,
Speaker 2: you know, is very very heavily on team Lebron, and
Speaker 2: so I think he's gonna bend in that favor.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, your guy. Dylan Brooks may have another chance
Speaker 3: to poke the bear if Canada faces the US. Does
Speaker 3: Dylan Brooks have Does Dylan the villain have more to
Speaker 3: gain and more to lose at the Olympics.
Speaker 2: More to lose? And I'm gonna go ahead and call
Speaker 2: my shot here. I think that when Canada loses in
Speaker 2: the I think Canada is. I think Canada will make
Speaker 2: it at least to the semifinals, maybe the finals, but
Speaker 2: probably the semifinals. I mean, but they're gonna lose whenever
Speaker 2: they play the US maybe before, but certainly and when
Speaker 2: they lose the one of the critical buckets in that game.
Speaker 2: Because can is good enough to play, anybody close will
Speaker 2: be scored on Dylan Brooks and they play. If they
Speaker 2: play the US, Lebron will torture him, and so it
Speaker 2: is he has a switch. No, no, Dylan will be
Speaker 2: trying to guard him. I mean that'll be his job
Speaker 2: and Lebron will torch him. What do you mean you
Speaker 2: seem confused by something?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean if Dylan Brooks is the guy on
Speaker 3: Canada that they want guarding Lebron, what.
Speaker 2: Do you mean that's that's that's what he's there for.
Speaker 2: I mean, the the is I mean, I think that's
Speaker 2: what he's there for. The I mean, I guess lou Dort.
Speaker 2: Lou Dort could be the other guy. But I mean
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks thought he could guard Lebron in the playoffs
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, ended up punching him in
Speaker 2: the groin and being kicked out of the game. Uh.
Speaker 2: Folks want predictions for group winners? Yeah, no problem, I
Speaker 2: think that And how how how does it work? I
Speaker 2: there's three groups? Right? Do eight teams advance? So I
Speaker 2: apologize for not knowing this, but my eight teams advance,
Speaker 2: so the three group winners and then the five other
Speaker 2: and then the three second place teams and then two
Speaker 2: wild cards. Essentially, I gets are there only three groups
Speaker 2: or are there four groups? Guys? I should know this.
Speaker 2: I apologize. Okay, So the US, Germany, and and Canada
Speaker 2: will win their groups. So let's start here. US, Germany,
Speaker 2: Canada will win their groups. Australia, France, Serbia will come
Speaker 2: in second. And then who are gonna be the other
Speaker 2: two teams? I'm gonna say Greece and Puerto Rico are
Speaker 2: gonna be the seventh and eighth. So that's how I
Speaker 2: think it's gonna go. Uh, that's my that's my not
Speaker 2: that educated but slightly educated. Guests, we missed a huge
Speaker 2: f one minute on Tuesday. We bring it to you next,
Speaker 2: and I reply to listener questions and some really scurless
Speaker 2: accusations by the producers. It's all next, What's right? Welcome
Speaker 2: back in What's Right? With Nick Right? So uh, I
Speaker 2: was supposed to play this on Tuesday, and I forgot
Speaker 2: in getting all kind of wrapped up in the excitement
Speaker 2: of the two hundred and fiftieth show, but there was
Speaker 2: evidently a very intriguing and controversial weekend on the F
Speaker 2: one circuit. So we'll go right to our F one
Speaker 2: senior reporter, Sierra Fiddel with this week's F one minute.
Speaker 4: Some hot news. Oscar Priasci has won the Hungarian Grand Prix,
Speaker 4: which means we have seven new race winners out of
Speaker 4: thirteen Grand Prix so far this season. It just keeps
Speaker 4: getting better. But there was also a collision between Maxis
Speaker 4: Tappa and Louis Hamilton, and this victory may not be
Speaker 4: as good as it seems, may not be as joyous
Speaker 4: as it should be. Let's get into it. Like I've
Speaker 4: just mentioned, Oscar Piastre has won the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Speaker 4: It was his first Formula One win and it should
Speaker 4: have been a joyous moment for him to celebrate with
Speaker 4: his team, with his family, but instead it has this
Speaker 4: kind of dark backstory lore to it that's really awkward, honestly,
Speaker 4: and puts both drivers in a real situation. So let's explain.
Speaker 4: So it was a front row lookout for McClaren this weekend.
Speaker 4: Lando Norris tried from pole position and Oscar was right
Speaker 4: behind him in second place, but per usual, Landa was
Speaker 4: not able to keep this position literally after the first lap,
Speaker 4: so his teammate eventually emerged ahead of him and then
Speaker 4: was in front for a good chunk of the race
Speaker 4: until McClaren pulled off this weird pit stop strategy which
Speaker 4: allowed Lando Norris to pit first and then Oscar Piastre.
Speaker 4: So now first and second are swapped. Lando comes out
Speaker 4: of the pits first and first, and then Oscar behind him,
Speaker 4: and this was McLaren's own doing. But we're gonna fast
Speaker 4: forward a lot of laps all the way towards the end,
Speaker 4: and they're in Lando's ear, his team talking about swapping,
Speaker 4: and it didn't go very well.
Speaker 2: For a little bit.
Speaker 4: It seemed like Landa was not gonna give it up.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you.
Speaker 4: He was driving and he was widening their gap even
Speaker 4: more while the team was in his ear saying, hey, hey,
Speaker 4: let Oscar through, Like another seconds go by, Hey think
Speaker 4: about the team like kind of blackmailing. But you didn't
Speaker 4: hear that from me, But I mind you, this is
Speaker 4: a guy who's fighting for the driver's championship right now.
Speaker 4: He's behind by a lot, but every point counts for
Speaker 4: this man, and it's very it's not a game. But
Speaker 4: eventually he did. And this this meant that Oscar won
Speaker 4: the race. And I think Oscar Priacture himself was not
Speaker 4: too happy about how he won this race, because you
Speaker 4: can hear on his team radio he's like, yep, thanks team,
Speaker 4: good work, thanks, thanks, thanks for the good work team.
Speaker 4: And I think he acknowledges that this was a team
Speaker 4: effort to really push him forward. This was not like
Speaker 4: some epic victory where he had a crazy overtake and
Speaker 4: won the race. He won because Landa led him through.
Speaker 4: But enough about McLaren. It was Lewis Hamilton's two hundredth
Speaker 4: podium this weekend. He got third place. However, he had
Speaker 4: to fight to get there because Max found himself behind
Speaker 4: Louis for a good chunk of the race and he
Speaker 4: was really struggling to get past him. In a heated moment,
Speaker 4: he folded under the pressure, under the impatience. He folded,
Speaker 4: and he tried to launch his car basically to the
Speaker 4: moon and tried to pull off this move that did
Speaker 4: not work. It didn't work, and it resulted in a collision.
Speaker 4: Nobody was heard, of course, So that's all I have
Speaker 4: time for. I can't explain the different sides and stories
Speaker 4: for this whole debate about McLaren, but either way, it
Speaker 4: was a really good weekend for them. They pulled in
Speaker 4: fourty three points for the Constructors Championship, so I know
Speaker 4: I mentioned on Thursday they were really close to Ferrari
Speaker 4: and they've actually beat them. Now that's which may look minute,
Speaker 4: but we're talking millions, so I know they're celebrating that
Speaker 4: they have something to celebrate at least, not so much
Speaker 4: Macres happened. So it is a race week. So I'll
Speaker 4: see you on Thursday to talk about the Belgium Garan Prix.
Speaker 4: But until then that's been your f one minute and
Speaker 4: I'll see later.
Speaker 2: And we'll get a recap of that Belgium Graham pri On. Well,
Speaker 2: I guess we'll actually get it on Thursday. One programming note,
Speaker 2: we don't have a show Tuesday. We'll get a recap
Speaker 2: of the Belgium Graham Prix from Sierra on Thursday. Tuesday
Speaker 2: is the funeral for the friend of ours that passed
Speaker 2: that we talked about last week. What I was gonna
Speaker 2: say there was the thank you, Yes it is. I
Speaker 2: think we picked a good year to start caring about
Speaker 2: f one because the last few years has just been
Speaker 2: max Verstapping taking any Injurgue away from the whole circuit.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't seem like it's that this year, and
Speaker 2: Sierra's doing a great job keeping us apprized of it.
Speaker 2: All right, Demanse, let's go to some listener questions.
Speaker 3: Producers say, you said you were very close to a
Speaker 3: hamstring tear before your tryout, but you also said that
Speaker 3: you faked AMSTRM injury when you knew you were going
Speaker 3: to lose a track relay. This raises credibility concerns. Just
Speaker 3: saying listeny.
Speaker 2: That that has haunted me for twenty two years. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's true. I had to confess to my teammates about
Speaker 2: it years later. One of them, you know, one of
Speaker 2: them was the officiant at my wedding. One of them
Speaker 2: was stood up at my wedding. I don't feel great
Speaker 2: about what I did in that state final, But what recredit?
Speaker 2: Do you not know this story? You don't know this.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know this.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't retell it.
Speaker 3: I was like, hey, man, if you want to, if
Speaker 3: you feel it's too crazy.
Speaker 2: I was on the four by eight hundred relay team
Speaker 2: in high school, running third, I think the third leg.
Speaker 3: And oh no, I know how you go go ahead, sir?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no. And I thought I thought I was losing
Speaker 2: the race for US because I kept getting passed and
Speaker 2: I thought I was running a great time. But I
Speaker 2: got passed by three people, so I thought I was
Speaker 2: running a bad time. And so for the last like
Speaker 2: quarter lap, I ran while holding my hamstring, so I
Speaker 2: had a preemptive excuse for my bad time. But then
Speaker 2: it turns out I ran a good time and I
Speaker 2: just was getting passed by faster people. But I but
Speaker 2: in my history onics I you know, I cost us
Speaker 2: some spots on the podium, and I still feel badly
Speaker 2: about it. That is not the circumstance of the US
Speaker 2: Open tryout for the record well, And so the producers
Speaker 2: love bringing that up at every chance they get. I
Speaker 2: don't you know, I'd love to find out what their
Speaker 2: biggest moment of shame in their life is so I
Speaker 2: can constantly remind them of it. But you know, I guess,
Speaker 2: you know, I guess I don't. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: do that. Uh, all right, what's the what's the next question? Demonse?
Speaker 3: The producers also Uh uh yeah, producers also found you
Speaker 3: and qs winning the title. We're gonna show a little.
Speaker 2: Oh we have a we have a picture of it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Oh there's my guy. That's right, you're damn straight.
Speaker 2: That is uh. Coach Nick Wright made the right choice
Speaker 2: on Marchiano. That's right, it is. I mean, that is
Speaker 2: exactly what happened. Go ahead and send me that picture.
Speaker 2: That is a great that's the best photoshop we've ever done. Uh, demonse,
Speaker 2: Let's go to Curtis Matthews.
Speaker 3: Curtis Matthews asked, with new kickoff return rules in the
Speaker 3: NFL this year, which team do you think will be
Speaker 3: the most dangerous on the kick returns?
Speaker 2: So I listen, there's that it is going to be
Speaker 2: less about personnel and more about special teams coaching. That
Speaker 2: is going and there are going to be some teams
Speaker 2: I am mad that just wave the white flag on
Speaker 2: covering these kicks and just give the other team the
Speaker 2: ball in the thirty just boot it out of the
Speaker 2: end zone because they don't want to spend time on
Speaker 2: it and they don't want to figure it out the well,
Speaker 2: I mean again, five yards does matter. Uh, and more so,
Speaker 2: it's that if you cover it, well, maybe it's not
Speaker 2: five yards, maybe it's ten, Maybe you get them at
Speaker 2: the twenty. But that's gonna be one of the most
Speaker 2: exciting and fun things to watch, particularly about preseason, because
Speaker 2: there are going to be people that are NFL fans
Speaker 2: but aren't watching shows like this, aren't locked into everything that.
Speaker 2: I have no idea this rule was changed, and they
Speaker 2: are gonna be totally confused, all right. Noah Rodriguez says
Speaker 2: he missed Tuesday show. Can't believe nobody said their favorite
Speaker 2: mom whenever was Nick's Joey Chestnut rant. That was a classic.
Speaker 2: I can't find it anywhere online. I think it's on Twitter.
Speaker 2: I think if you just like Google or you know Twitter,
Speaker 2: get Nick right show. Uh yeah, something like that, you'll
Speaker 2: find it. All right? What ad team Mark Apulo say?
Speaker 3: Uh? He said, Nick? What would it mean for Jokic's
Speaker 3: legacy if he were to upset Team USA and win
Speaker 3: the gold.
Speaker 2: That'd be unbelievable. I don't really I don't have a
Speaker 2: precedent for what it would mean for legacy stuff because
Speaker 2: there's we've never had that. We've never had a great
Speaker 2: like all time legendary international player, then go to the
Speaker 2: Olympics and win the gold and so I don't it's
Speaker 2: not like, well, this is what it meant for Dirk
Speaker 2: when he did it, like they so I don't have Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it'd be it'd be on correct, so it
Speaker 2: would certainly help, that's for sure. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: to Mark.
Speaker 3: Mark's Mark Pascal. A question for Nick. How excited are
Speaker 3: you to see nadall on Alcaz Teamyo for the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Love the show from Barcelona?
Speaker 2: All right, well, I'll be in Barcelona briefly, very briefly
Speaker 2: in August. Excited for that. I've been there once before.
Speaker 2: One of my three favorite cities in the world. I'm
Speaker 2: super excited to see see that. I don't really lock
Speaker 2: in so much except for basketball. The Olympic sports I'm
Speaker 2: most interested in are the sports you only see in
Speaker 2: the Olympics, so like soccer and tennis and golf. I'm
Speaker 2: not that interested in come the Olympics because you can
Speaker 2: see him elsewhere. But Alcarez and Nadal teaming up is
Speaker 2: amazing And oh yeah, well, first of all, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: winter Olympics, not summer obviously, but yeah, that would be
Speaker 2: one that I right, exactly the game. The sports that
Speaker 2: are like hockey, basketball, soccer, tennis, golf, you can watch
Speaker 2: all you know, anytime during the year, so I'm not
Speaker 2: typically as interested in them in the Olympics as the
Speaker 2: ones that you can only watch are in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Basketball is the one exception where I really do care
Speaker 2: about Team USA. Justin Jones says, demons looking sharp in
Speaker 2: that shirt, and Mike c h compliments my style, which
Speaker 2: is just a testament to my wife. All right, great show,
Speaker 2: no show Tuesday. We will see you guys on Thursday.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm headed to FS one right now. Man,
Speaker 2: this extra thirty minutes on the show, I haven't really
Speaker 2: gotten used to it yet. Every day around four to
Speaker 2: twenty five, I'm like, all right, we're about done and
Speaker 2: hope we got another thirty five minutes to go. But
Speaker 2: we'll hit our stride and bru. We'll be back on Monday.
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