Speaker 1: Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right, the best takes in moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy all right, demons, Let's get
Speaker 1: to it. The Chiefs are six and six.
Speaker 2: Chiefs are a rough spot.
Speaker 3: You've always said, with the combination of Andy Reid and
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes that they've always had a shot. But now
Speaker 3: your Chiefs are six and six in two games out
Speaker 3: of the Wildcard, not two games out of the Arrowhead
Speaker 3: Invitational to the Wildcard. Yep, yeah, they have none of
Speaker 3: the key tie breakers with the head to add teams.
Speaker 2: How word are you at the state the Chiefs are
Speaker 2: in right now?
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I mean, you've got to be really concerned
Speaker 1: that the only way they guarantee themselves a spot in
Speaker 1: the playoffs is by winning out, And I am listen,
Speaker 1: some folks are It is not a mathematical certainty that
Speaker 1: winning out gets them in, but winning out gets them in,
Speaker 1: and so they they are alive. And the AFC to
Speaker 1: me does feel as wide open as it has at
Speaker 1: any point in my life, maybe since eight, the year
Speaker 1: Brady went down with an injury, and it wasn't a
Speaker 1: great Peyton Manning year. And so certainly the most wide
Speaker 1: open it's been in more than a decade. So if
Speaker 1: they were to get hot, play their best football, get in,
Speaker 1: I think that they would be immediately the Vegas favorites
Speaker 1: to win the conference. The problem is getting in is
Speaker 1: going to be very difficult because of those tiebreakers they
Speaker 1: don't have that you mentioned now. If they were to
Speaker 1: beat Houston and then the Chargers, which are their next two,
Speaker 1: then baby, they could lose to Denver and sneak in
Speaker 1: at ten and seven because they would have a tiebreaker
Speaker 1: over the Colts, tiebreaker over the Ravens, which won't matter,
Speaker 1: and a tiebreaker over Houston. Maybe there would be a
Speaker 1: path there, but the only certain path is winning out,
Speaker 1: and right now it is very difficult to trust this team.
Speaker 1: Even though Patricks had at least a five game winning
Speaker 1: streak every year of his career, It's very difficult to
Speaker 1: trust this team to win five straight because quite simply,
Speaker 1: they can't get off the field. And this was a
Speaker 1: problem in Week one against the Chargers. It was a
Speaker 1: problem against Josh Allen, it was a problem against bow Knicks,
Speaker 1: and it was a huge problem against Dak Prescott and
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Where historically what the Chiefs defense would
Speaker 1: do really well is one good run stop on a
Speaker 1: drive to put you in second and nine, one forcing
Speaker 1: completion to put you in third and nine, and then
Speaker 1: dial something up to get you off the field. All
Speaker 1: game long and all season long, this team has been
Speaker 1: forcing third and longs and then been totally unable to
Speaker 1: get off the field. And that is why despite Patrick
Speaker 1: playing at the level that he is, and he was
Speaker 1: brilliant on Thursday, and he's currently he's third in the
Speaker 1: league in yards, fourth in the league in touchdowns, second
Speaker 1: in the league in QBR, the ESPN stat first in
Speaker 1: the league in the nerd stat that I don't love EPA.
Speaker 1: He's having an awesome year, but poorly time turnovers by
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in previous games, and the total inability all
Speaker 1: season long, aside from the Colts fourth quarter against the
Speaker 1: Colts to make impact plays on defense might wreck the season.
Speaker 1: They are right now the fourth worst third and long
Speaker 1: defense in the league. They have the fourth fewest sacks
Speaker 1: in the league. They have the sixth fewest force turnovers
Speaker 1: in the league, and that's why they find themselves in
Speaker 1: this position.
Speaker 3: With all that said, do you think that there was
Speaker 3: a move that they could have made during the during
Speaker 3: trade deadline.
Speaker 2: During the trade deadline to change.
Speaker 1: That, well, I mean, listen, the Eagles picked up Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 1: they could like, he's the only real impact pass rusher.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna they weren't gonna trade for Quentin Williams
Speaker 1: when you have Chris Jones. Like and at the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: people wanted them to go after a running back and they,
Speaker 1: by the way, they almost did trade for Bresee Hall.
Speaker 1: But I don't they need more from the Listen, they
Speaker 1: paid George Carloffts this offseason, they have drafted ed rushers.
Speaker 1: They're just it's it's Chris Jones or nothing on getting
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. And that's a problem. And now you
Speaker 1: have this game against Houston Demonse where Josh Simmons, who's
Speaker 1: been an a plus as a rookie left tackle when
Speaker 1: he's been out there, he missed that month with the
Speaker 1: family issue. He suffered such an unlucky fluke freak injury
Speaker 1: that I don't know if you saw how he got hurt,
Speaker 1: he's blocking. I forget who an ed rusher for Dallas
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs running back I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was Hunter Pacheco tried to help him to chip like
Speaker 1: where they throw the shoulder and they missed the cowboy
Speaker 1: and hit him in the left arm and snapped his wrist.
Speaker 1: So his own teammate just kind of friendly fire. And no,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think he's out along. I think
Speaker 1: he might be out the rest of the year, but
Speaker 1: he's certainly out this weekend and they play, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the best pass rush in the NFL this weekend in Houston.
Speaker 1: Juwan Taylor will see if he plays. They if he's
Speaker 1: just out, then they should be able to at least
Speaker 1: make do because then you have Jalen Moore, who you
Speaker 1: sign this offseason. If he is, if he and Juwan
Speaker 1: Taylor are out and you have to play Juanya Morris,
Speaker 1: who they have tried and tried and tried to make
Speaker 1: a legitimate NFL tackle and just hasn't worked, then you're
Speaker 1: in real, real trouble. And so it is. It's very precarious.
Speaker 1: It's the most precarious it's ever been in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: There's no getting around that. Now. With that said, I
Speaker 1: know myself and I don't think it will be unreasonable
Speaker 1: or irrational that if if they win Sunday, and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now, with that offensive line situation, Chiefs
Speaker 1: minus three and a half are not gonna be one
Speaker 1: of my picks this week. If they win Sunday, then
Speaker 1: I will feel like, all right, beat the Chargers next
Speaker 1: week and you're gonna go to another Super Bowl. That's
Speaker 1: how all feel I will. I feel like they're a
Speaker 1: win away from being a win away. If that makes sense, yeah, sense,
Speaker 1: And so I I have not my hope. I've not
Speaker 1: given up hope or given up belief, but my confidence
Speaker 1: has been shaken because it should be. Because they had
Speaker 1: to have the Broncos game and they lost. They then
Speaker 1: really had to have the Colts game, and it took
Speaker 1: everything furious fourth quarter, the biggest fourth quarter comeback of Mahomes'
Speaker 1: career to win that one. And then they had the
Speaker 1: opportunity against Dallas. And that's again I'm not gonna bang
Speaker 1: on the defense too much, but three times this year, Demons,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have trailed in the fourth quarter, Mahomes has
Speaker 1: led a fourth quarter comeback to take the lead, and
Speaker 1: then they lost the game anyway. Three times. Via Scott
Speaker 1: Kasmar for context. The third blown fourth quarter comeback for
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in his career came in year fifteen. Year
Speaker 1: fifteen tappened three times this season, So it's the margins
Speaker 1: are that thin and if there is one game or
Speaker 1: one moment that to me just stands out as if
Speaker 1: they don't go on this run, and if they missed
Speaker 1: the playoffs by a game that I'm going to look
Speaker 1: back to, it will be up fourteen nothing against the
Speaker 1: Jags dominating that game. Trevor throws a lollipop up in
Speaker 1: the air. Two Chiefs have a chance to pick it,
Speaker 1: and basically in the game in the first quarter, they
Speaker 1: bump into each other and it falls to the ground.
Speaker 1: They kind of laughed and like, you know, they're dominating
Speaker 1: the game, and then that led to a Jags touchdown
Speaker 1: a couple hours later. Mahomes throws the one hundred yard
Speaker 1: pick six. A little bit after that, after the Chiefs
Speaker 1: take a late lead, Trevor falls down, Chris Jones doesn't
Speaker 1: see it, he runs it in. That's the difference right
Speaker 1: now between the Chiefs being six and six and having
Speaker 1: none of the tiebreakers and the Chiefs being seven and
Speaker 1: five and having a few of the tiebreakers. So that's
Speaker 1: that's how thin your marans are.
Speaker 3: You're saying like they're a win, they're one. There are
Speaker 3: two games away. Even if they you're saying that they
Speaker 3: could they could also make the super Bowl. If they
Speaker 3: do make the Super Bowl, are you still like scared
Speaker 3: of those defensive problems with getting off the field.
Speaker 1: Scared of Listen? Of course, listen, I don't think that
Speaker 1: is those are going to go away. What I what
Speaker 1: I do think is they have they are better than
Speaker 1: a six and six record, and the AFC is wide open.
Speaker 1: And if, like again I have.
Speaker 2: To say, you're expecting some teams to slip.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting to well a couple of things. One is
Speaker 1: I if they make the playoffs, it will mean they're
Speaker 1: on a five game winning streak and playing their best
Speaker 1: football of the year. So I will then, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, believe that they can get through this version
Speaker 1: of the AFC. And then to answer you're hypothetical, if
Speaker 1: they were to then make the Super Bowl, they'd be
Speaker 1: on an eight game winning streak, and I of course
Speaker 1: would feel like those things are solid. It's also and
Speaker 1: this isn't excuses, that's just reality. It's an unlucky year
Speaker 1: to potentially be a ten win team. Since they expanded
Speaker 1: the playoffs in twenty twenty, so we have five years
Speaker 1: of it. Zero eleven win teams have ever missed the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Only two in five years. Ten win teams have missed
Speaker 1: the playoffs and eight teams And this isn't by winning
Speaker 1: a bad division. This is wild card teams. Eight teams
Speaker 1: with eight or nine wins have gotten a playoff spot.
Speaker 1: So if it were just you know, the but this
Speaker 1: year it's not that. This year the AFC is wide open,
Speaker 1: but the there's not really a middle class. It's teams
Speaker 1: that are gonna win nine, ten, eleven, and then teams
Speaker 1: that are awful with really no is not a glut
Speaker 1: of seven or eight when teams it doesn't look like
Speaker 1: and that's gonna make getting into the tournament really hard.
Speaker 1: With that said, all of this is predicated on obviously
Speaker 1: the Chiefs winning this weekend. So if they win this weekend,
Speaker 1: they have the same record as Houston with the tiebreaker right,
Speaker 1: so that moves them ahead of Houston. They still would
Speaker 1: need to jump two more teams. Will they play the Chargers,
Speaker 1: who they're two behind, But the Chargers schedule is is
Speaker 1: the hardest in football by a mile Eagles, Chiefs, Cowboys, Texans, Broncos,
Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert has a broken left hand. So again,
Speaker 1: if you're assuming Chiefs can win the next two, that
Speaker 1: puts them in really good position versus the Chargers and
Speaker 1: the Texans, and then you just need one of Actually
Speaker 1: you know that would do it, wouldn't it. That would
Speaker 1: do it, because what the Steelers and Ravens take care
Speaker 1: of themselves, So that would do it. Now, with all
Speaker 1: that said, I actually think the team most likely to
Speaker 1: full on fall apart is the Colts. I think the
Speaker 1: Colts are mid fall apart already and demons. If they
Speaker 1: lose to the Jaguars this weekend, they might not win again.
Speaker 1: They've already lost three of their last four, their one
Speaker 1: win was in overtime against Atlanta, and their final five
Speaker 1: are at Jacksonville, at Seattle home for the Niners, home
Speaker 1: for the Jags, at Houston and Sauce Gardner is going
Speaker 1: to be out, so I the Colts. Daniel Jones as
Speaker 1: a fracture in his leg, Sauce is out, Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: has slowed down, so I the team ahead of the
Speaker 1: Chiefs most likely in my opinion, to just fall off
Speaker 1: is Indy okay, and and so that's the the path
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs to make it. At ten and seven
Speaker 1: is Indy falls apart, and the Chargers fall apart, and
Speaker 1: then the Jags Texans one team from the AFC North
Speaker 1: Bill's Patriots Broncos chiefskin it. So like that's the that
Speaker 1: would be the route, that's the path, but that's a
Speaker 1: pretty The only way to be sure they get in
Speaker 1: is win all five, and they have not yet looked
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Speaker 1: or Virginia Demons. Let's talk Giannis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So on Tuesday we talked about how impossible it
Speaker 3: was for Gianni's to be catching Lebrono in that all
Speaker 3: time season points. Today we're gonna be talking about how
Speaker 3: possible it is that he's leaving Milwaukee. Do you think
Speaker 3: that's gonna eventually happen? His agent and the Bucks are
Speaker 3: talking about his future there. Jhanna seems a little fake.
Speaker 2: Too, What do you mean? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like he says one thing and he always
Speaker 3: means another thing. Like I feel like he did the
Speaker 3: same thing with the like Drew Holiday trade. I feel
Speaker 3: like he did the same thing with this offseason. It
Speaker 3: saything he wants to be there, and like he kind
Speaker 3: of hasn't wanted to be there the entire time.
Speaker 1: So this kind of goes back to the Lane Kiffen thing.
Speaker 1: It's very important in life to learn at an early
Speaker 1: ag nobody gets everything. Nobody gets everything, and there is
Speaker 1: there are trade offs that adults have to make where
Speaker 1: they do the old cliche pros and cons list, and
Speaker 1: you determine what matters most to you and what will
Speaker 1: make you happiest and act accordingly. And when you say
Speaker 1: Yannis has seemed a little fake, what I think is
Speaker 1: causing that is he wants to be beloved in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: and doesn't want to play for Milwaukee anymore. And he
Speaker 1: I think recognizes those two things might be in conflict. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't think he would ever be reviled or hated
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee at large. He's a franchise legend. He delivered
Speaker 1: them their only championships since Kareem there. You know, he
Speaker 1: has been a great NBA citizen and an even greater
Speaker 1: NBA player or vice versa, however you want to look
Speaker 1: at it. He's one of the twenty greatest players ever.
Speaker 1: All of that is that cement is dry. But I
Speaker 1: think he understands that in whatever is left of his prime,
Speaker 1: which could be you know, up to four years, maybe
Speaker 1: he might have that much longer in his prime. This
Speaker 1: Bucks seems not going to be able to compete for anything.
Speaker 1: They have mortgaged and second mortgaged and taken out payday
Speaker 1: loans on the future and those bills have all slowly
Speaker 1: but surely do and so I think it's pretty clear
Speaker 1: he does want out, and I think it's also pretty
Speaker 1: clear he doesn't know exactly how to do that because
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to just straightforward to a trade demand.
Speaker 1: But we are inching towards it. So in today's NBA there,
Speaker 1: and by the way, it should also be noted, last
Speaker 1: night it looked like he might have suffered a catastrophic injury,
Speaker 1: the dreaded non contact look back did someone kick me reaction,
Speaker 1: which everybody these days knows that is part and parcel
Speaker 1: with an achilles tear. But we've now had back to
Speaker 1: back big time athletes in a couple of weeks have
Speaker 1: that exact reaction to what appears to be that injury,
Speaker 1: and for both of them it was the far less
Speaker 1: series but still very scary calf strain to what happened
Speaker 1: with Sauce Gardner a couple of weeks ago, and Toy,
Speaker 1: I'm with Giannis last night, and so I talked with, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to say this. I actually oddly, randomly, Uh no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say who it was. I talked with
Speaker 1: one of the greatest athletes ever, uh in real time
Speaker 1: about Tyrese Haliburton's achilles right when it happened, and that
Speaker 1: what that person said was in our game. The calf
Speaker 1: strain is the new I think he said acl not
Speaker 1: in that you're out of year with it, but it's
Speaker 1: the most dreaded injury, and it's because there's no way
Speaker 1: this again, this was this guy's opinion, but he would
Speaker 1: know there's no way to rehabit. You simply have to
Speaker 1: stay off it. So I think Yannis, like, here's the
Speaker 1: thing that I think is noteworthy and why I wanted
Speaker 1: to start with this. It is very possible that last
Speaker 1: night was Yannis's last game with the Bucks. That's on
Speaker 1: the board. I might even go as far as to
Speaker 1: say it's the most likely reality because if he has
Speaker 1: to miss weeks, maybe up to a month with a
Speaker 1: calf strain, and obviously he and Milwaukee are going to
Speaker 1: want to be incredibly cautious with this. Then come December fifteenth,
Speaker 1: you know, that's eleven days away, and that's when everybody
Speaker 1: who signed this offseason is eligible to be traded. More
Speaker 1: people are eligible to be traded starting the beginning of January,
Speaker 1: and this just could happen in the next month, and
Speaker 1: at this point I think it is going to happen in.
Speaker 3: The next month. Where do you think will be the
Speaker 3: best landing spot for him?
Speaker 1: So ESPN credit to them, did a good job putting
Speaker 1: together five trades. And this is why I'm I really
Speaker 1: want to credit them, because with the new CBA and
Speaker 1: the aprons, it is very difficult to construct trades that
Speaker 1: actually work. So these five ESPN trades, Bobby Marx has
Speaker 1: given them the stamp of yes, the CBA would allow it.
Speaker 1: The off the board most interesting one that I actually
Speaker 1: think might be the most win win, have a chance
Speaker 1: to compete, go on deep playoff runs, and you could
Speaker 1: sell it to both fan bases, and sadly is the
Speaker 1: least likely to happen is Yannis to the Hawks. So
Speaker 1: here is ESPN's trade is as follows Jannis and Cole
Speaker 1: Anthony for salary reasons for Trey Young and Resa Shay.
Speaker 1: So the number one overall pick from a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago in Resa Shay, Trey Young who's got a
Speaker 1: couple of years left on his deal. And then some
Speaker 1: really juicy picks, most notably the first round pick the
Speaker 1: Pelicans traded to the Hawks. Which keep in mind, here's
Speaker 1: why that trade is so interesting for Milwaukee. That first
Speaker 1: round pick the Pelicans traded to the Hawks demons is
Speaker 1: the better of New Orleans is picked this year or
Speaker 1: Milwaukee's pick this year. Yeah, so what Milwaukee would right,
Speaker 1: what Milwaukee would then allow for is if by trading
Speaker 1: Giannis you fall apart in the short term, you then
Speaker 1: have the Pelicans ping pong balls and your own ping
Speaker 1: pong balls, right, and whichever is the best of those two,
Speaker 1: you get that pick in this draft. Atlanta also has
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven first round pick top four protected in
Speaker 1: this trade. That is again, well, this is the worst
Speaker 1: of the Pelicans in the Bucks, but maybe you could
Speaker 1: sweeten it to the better of and then a couple
Speaker 1: other picks. So that to me is really interesting. If
Speaker 1: you keep Jalen Johnson, you keep Dyson, Milwaukee then can
Speaker 1: maybe flip Tray Young as well. And Resa schay was
Speaker 1: the number one pick of a draft and Atlanta, which
Speaker 1: has proven they're just as good with or without Tray
Speaker 1: Young this season, maybe better without him. Jannis Jalen Johnson
Speaker 1: porzingis when he's out there, it's a very interesting team
Speaker 1: in a wide open East and with flexibility moving forward.
Speaker 1: So that's the one that makes the most sense for everybody.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I think that one is realistic
Speaker 1: in that I don't know if that's something Yannis would
Speaker 1: sign off on. Yeah, and but I think that's the
Speaker 1: best Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Can and doesn't it.
Speaker 3: It has seemed like Gianni's has wanted to play for
Speaker 3: a big market team.
Speaker 2: So the way that he talks, and that might be right.
Speaker 1: And Atlanta is bigger than Milwaukee obviously, but it's not
Speaker 1: like the Marquee market. I also think Atlanta is more
Speaker 1: attractive to American born NBA stars than international so I
Speaker 1: think that. But from a basketball perspective, you stay in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, the team key really good pieces. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of reasons for it. The next
Speaker 1: rad ESPN brings up, it's the one we talked about
Speaker 1: all summer, which was Yannis to the Rockets. Here's the thing,
Speaker 1: so this is Yannis and his brother for Shingoon and
Speaker 1: Van Vliet, who's obviously out for the year with an injury,
Speaker 1: and one first round pick. I don't love this for
Speaker 1: either team. Yeah, to be totally honest, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's quite enough. Demon's if you're Milwaukee. As much as
Speaker 1: I love I love Shongoon, that's to me not enough
Speaker 1: because you've traded away so many of your own future picks,
Speaker 1: like you need more draft capital. And if I'm Houston,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I'm all of a sudden getting really old,
Speaker 1: like I already have Durant. Now I'm adding a guy
Speaker 1: in year thirteen in Yon, I promise, yeah, right, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Right now as is, we have the number one offense
Speaker 1: in all of basketball and we're doing it without a
Speaker 1: point guard because Shingoon kind of plays that. So that's
Speaker 1: just if I'm Houston. And the other thing is if
Speaker 1: I'm in the West this year, I don't know that
Speaker 1: I want to push all my chips in this year
Speaker 1: because I might feel like, Okayc's just sitting there anyway.
Speaker 1: So I loved that this offseason, I don't love it
Speaker 1: as much now that the next trade ESPN had. And again,
Speaker 1: I usually like to make my own trades, but the
Speaker 1: CBA is so restrictive and there's only a handful of
Speaker 1: teams that this makes sense for that it didn't make
Speaker 1: sense for me. I would have come up with these
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about these same four or five teams, and
Speaker 1: if we're talking about the same teams, we're all gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about the same players. So I'll just give
Speaker 1: Kevin Pelton and Bobby Marks their their credit for getting
Speaker 1: this out there and crib off their work. The next
Speaker 1: one de monsa is the Knicks Yannis and Sims again
Speaker 1: for salary reasons. Sims back to New York by the way,
Speaker 1: for Karl Anthony Towns collect Diadet. So really Yannis for
Speaker 1: Towns plus a twenty twenty six first round pick that
Speaker 1: won't be a first round pick because it's the Wizard's
Speaker 1: pick that's top eight protected and where are the Wizards?
Speaker 1: So like that that one's that's a fake good pick. Like,
Speaker 1: let me just look at the standings real quick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Wizards where I thought they would be, where they always
Speaker 1: are last. So that that that the and then some
Speaker 1: pick swaps and and just really just pick swaps. So
Speaker 1: that's the problem. The problem for Milwaukee getting to getting
Speaker 1: Yannis Demons, I'm sorry, the Knicks getting Yannis is it's
Speaker 1: really just Yiannis for Towns straight up, with likely no
Speaker 1: extra picks. Right man, that's a tough Cell. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a really tough sell if you're Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I was gonna say, and you might. I
Speaker 3: think Karl Anthony Towns is the better shot. Obviously is
Speaker 3: the more physical, imposing.
Speaker 1: Player, but is a way better player. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 1: would change. You would lose shooting, you would lose some spacing,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. But if the Knicks could
Speaker 1: flip Towns for Giannis, and that's the only rotation pieces
Speaker 1: they're trading, they become the overwhelming Eastern Conference favorites over
Speaker 1: the Jalen Brunson and Gianni's running pick, Like, there's overwhelming.
Speaker 1: I just they traded all those picks away for Bridges.
Speaker 1: And so the only way Yiannis goes there is if
Speaker 1: the he says that's the only place I want to go,
Speaker 1: and Milwaukee bends to it. So there's two more the
Speaker 1: Spurs they can include a bunch of picks, and again
Speaker 1: it would be a real negotiation. Are you including Castle
Speaker 1: or are you including uh Dylan Harper? Are you are
Speaker 1: we trading dearon Fox? That's the one that if if
Speaker 1: I were Milwaukee, I would be interested in if I
Speaker 1: could get Harper instead of Castle, and if I were
Speaker 1: san Antonio, I might look at it like this, Man,
Speaker 1: I do not know how long Wimby's prime is gonna be.
Speaker 1: Like I think that is. I think because of his
Speaker 1: size and already the injury stuff. I think that like
Speaker 1: you can't treat Wimby's timeline like Cooper Flax or like
Speaker 1: a traditional.
Speaker 3: When it comes to trading, I can actually think about
Speaker 3: putting him in or no no no no no.
Speaker 1: No no, I'd never trade him. What I'm saying is,
Speaker 1: I'm saying I think sometimes when you have a great
Speaker 1: really young players not yet to his prime, you're like,
Speaker 1: let's wait to make the move.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're saying, like move now back now.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, accelerate. I'm saying, if you're san Antonio, it
Speaker 1: might make sense to accelerate because you don't know if
Speaker 1: in ten years what you know your best chance to
Speaker 1: win might be right, you know, the next four years
Speaker 1: or something. So that to me is an interesting one.
Speaker 1: But again, does Yannis want to go uh from Milwaukee
Speaker 1: to San Antonio? And does Yannis want to spend the
Speaker 1: end of his prime as maybe the second guy on
Speaker 1: a team I don't know? And then the last one
Speaker 1: is Golden State, which I just don't under understand why
Speaker 1: Milwaukee would do this. This is Draymond, Kaminga and Healed,
Speaker 1: none of which are at this point in their careers
Speaker 1: useful players like at a high level without Steph, without
Speaker 1: you know, somebody that creates the offense. Draymond's super useful
Speaker 1: in his role, but on a bad team. And then
Speaker 1: a bunch of first round picks. I totally get why
Speaker 1: the Warriors would do this, but I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: And I feel like Draymond going to another team that
Speaker 3: definitely stunts it a much longer season in the league.
Speaker 1: I think they'd buy Yeah, and I you know Draymond,
Speaker 1: you would then maybe flip Draymond to a contender that
Speaker 1: could want right because he's Draymond's still super useful if
Speaker 1: you're playing big backsketball games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah and so, and if I'm Milwaukee, I don't
Speaker 1: know that I want a bunch of first round picks
Speaker 1: from Golden State when I know Golden State's got that ownership,
Speaker 1: that coach, and going to have Jiannis even when Steph
Speaker 1: is gone. So Atlanta is the best trade. Houston's the
Speaker 1: most interesting. The Knicks are far and away the worst trade.
Speaker 1: And what only happen if Jannis demands it and and
Speaker 1: Milwaukee acquiesces and then I don't see the Warriors and
Speaker 1: the Spurs. One really depends on how aggressive the Spurs
Speaker 1: want to be. So but I think Giannis, my big
Speaker 1: takeaway Demons is I think we now it is more
Speaker 1: likely than not that the next game, because of the
Speaker 1: injury last night, the next game Yannis plays in the
Speaker 1: NBA will be for a different team, which is crazy.
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Speaker 1: let's talk a little college football if we can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, big story college football. Lane Kiffin's now going
Speaker 3: to LSU. You wanted to talk about this, but not
Speaker 3: as like a college football story, but more a more
Speaker 3: of a media story.
Speaker 2: So the floors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there is something. Here's a little parental you know,
Speaker 1: to tie in Demanse, being a new parent. Here's something
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about this for a very
Speaker 1: long time, Demanse. But this is I take this with you,
Speaker 1: some parental wisdom, okay, because this to me has applied
Speaker 1: mostly particularly with my daughters, more so with you than
Speaker 1: with you, and really the most with Deanna, our youngest,
Speaker 1: which is you give them options, both of which are
Speaker 1: things they want. It's not like, you know, be cliche
Speaker 1: each your vegetables are clean your room. It's two things
Speaker 1: that they would want to do independently, like, oh, you
Speaker 1: can go to the mall with mommy or you can
Speaker 1: go hang out with Nana. It's your choice. And then
Speaker 1: they seem no matter what they choose to instead of
Speaker 1: being be excited about what they're going to get to do,
Speaker 1: sad about the thing they're not doing. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that I've said to your little sister a
Speaker 1: bunch is you're I don't want to be harsh, but
Speaker 1: you're like, you're not allowed to be sad about the choice.
Speaker 1: If you're the one that's making the choice, like you are,
Speaker 1: you have two options. They're both good options whichever no
Speaker 1: matter how much uh wistfulness you might feel about not
Speaker 1: being able to do the other, you must feel like
Speaker 1: you're gonna get more joy from doing the one you're choosing.
Speaker 1: That's why you're choosing it. Okay. So like when when
Speaker 1: you have two really good options in front of you
Speaker 1: and you are the one who's making the choice, sadness
Speaker 1: should not be associated with it because you are. If
Speaker 1: it really is making you that sad, then pick the
Speaker 1: other one like you're making the choice. That is a
Speaker 1: lesson that more adults, most notably in this case, Lane
Speaker 1: Kiffen and some of his apologists in the media, never learned.
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen had two great options. Stay at Ole Miss,
Speaker 1: coach this team through the college football Playoff, get a
Speaker 1: sick raise, Get an even better contract. And be a
Speaker 1: legend in Oxford, or leave Ole Miss, go to rival LSU,
Speaker 1: get an even sicker contract for a more prestigious program,
Speaker 1: and have an opportunity to create a historic legacy, while
Speaker 1: knowing that will mean abandoning your team on the precipice
Speaker 1: of the biggest games it's played in program history. Please
Speaker 1: do not cry these alligator tears about how sad you
Speaker 1: are or how tough this was. You chose to leave.
Speaker 1: That is your prerogative. You are absolutely allowed to do that.
Speaker 1: But if it if it's that devastating of a choice,
Speaker 1: then choose. You should have chose to stay, and you
Speaker 1: had to know there was a very realistic, overwhelmingly likely
Speaker 1: possibility that if you chose to leave, they were not
Speaker 1: going to let you coach the playoff. You chose it anyway. Again,
Speaker 1: the ridiculous lawless college football world allows these things to
Speaker 1: happen in a way they could never happen in pro sports.
Speaker 1: You could never, like could never if last year, before
Speaker 1: the AFC playoffs started, the Bills couldn't have said, Hey,
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, we'll give you thirty million a year to
Speaker 1: leave Kansas City and come to us immediately. Even if
Speaker 1: Andy wanted to. They're not allowed to because there's a
Speaker 1: governing body in place that doesn't exist in college football.
Speaker 1: So this is allowed to happen, and Kivin made his choice,
Speaker 1: so be it. Salu good luck. I think it screws
Speaker 1: over the players a bit, But even though they're young people,
Speaker 1: they kind of know the business. They're in college football.
Speaker 1: It's the wild West. Fine. So that's my take on Kiffin.
Speaker 1: My take on the commentary surrounding it is, Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: not into all everybody's like Jimmy Sexton, you know, has
Speaker 1: all these coaches, he's the agent. That actually is true.
Speaker 1: But then there's a lot of and Jimmy Sexton works
Speaker 1: for CIA, and CIA represents these media personalities, and so
Speaker 1: they're conflicted out I listen, I used to be repped
Speaker 1: by CIA. That that bag demands that you carry some
Speaker 1: of your electronics in a is a CIA sports bag.
Speaker 1: I'm no longer repped by CIA. People throw a lot
Speaker 1: of like age. I don't think people totally understand how
Speaker 1: the agent stuff works. Like people. People seem to think
Speaker 1: folks in the media work for their agents, when we
Speaker 1: are the ones who pay the agents, like the agents
Speaker 1: work for us. So I'm not going to get into
Speaker 1: the agent part of it, because I think that is
Speaker 1: a red hearing. Here's what's not a red hearing the
Speaker 1: amount of otherwise smart people blaming a grown ups decision
Speaker 1: on an inanimate object. This object is the calendar. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's the calendar's fault. The college football calendar is just
Speaker 1: fucked everybody here, that's the issue. You can't blame you. Oh,
Speaker 1: of course Lane's is gonna take the best job, and
Speaker 1: it's the Is the college football calendar a mess? Sure?
Speaker 1: Does that mean we remove agency from choices adults make
Speaker 1: like to? Again, this is not a perfect example, but
Speaker 1: I've talked, you know, somewhat about how one of my
Speaker 1: career I don't even want to call it bucket list,
Speaker 1: but things I'd really like to do but doubt I'll
Speaker 1: ever be able to do it is be a part
Speaker 1: of an Olympics broadcast. Right, So the Winter Olympics are
Speaker 1: around the corner, and I, again, I have a real contract,
Speaker 1: not these weird college football contracts, so I couldn't even
Speaker 1: do this, But just stick with me for a moment.
Speaker 1: Let's say the Chiefs do go on a sick run
Speaker 1: and make the playoffs. And then let's say we're staring
Speaker 1: at a divisional round of Chiefs Ravens and then potentially
Speaker 1: a conference championship round of Chiefs Patriots. Like the first
Speaker 1: Things First bonanza, And in the week of that divisional round,
Speaker 1: NBC calls me up and they're like, Nick, we want
Speaker 1: you to come to Milan. We want you to come
Speaker 1: be a part of our Winter Olympics broadcast. But obviously
Speaker 1: you'd have to be done with first things first immediately
Speaker 1: if I said yes to that, and then why Wilds
Speaker 1: and Brew were understandably upset. But then people were like, well,
Speaker 1: you can't blame Nick, it's this stupid calendar, Like why
Speaker 1: do the why do the Winter Olympics have to you know,
Speaker 1: overlap with the NFL playoffs? Like if only it were
Speaker 1: three weeks later, it'd be fine. No, yes, it would
Speaker 1: a lot of things in life would be easier and
Speaker 1: maybe better if we had them planned out, Like the
Speaker 1: I talk about all the time, the US Open Men's
Speaker 1: Final being on the first Sunday of NFL football. I
Speaker 1: hate that. It's the calendar. Change it fine, But again,
Speaker 1: choices adults make, weighing all their options, they must be
Speaker 1: accountable for them. And certainly we're not gonna blame dates.
Speaker 1: Like it's just so the and the amount of water
Speaker 1: carrying that I've heard over the last week from folks
Speaker 1: that simply it's like, I like the too long, didn't
Speaker 1: read version. Is either I like Lane Kiffen, or Lane
Speaker 1: Kiffen is a source, or Lane Kiffin and I have
Speaker 1: mutual business interests. Whatever it is, it's just embarrassing. And again,
Speaker 1: I don't even kill him for the decision. I think
Speaker 1: there's pros and cons of the decision. I happen to
Speaker 1: think he made the way riskier decision. He could have
Speaker 1: been a legend at ole Miss for the next twenty years,
Speaker 1: but it's not what he wanted to do. So you know,
Speaker 1: the contract allows for it. Fine, And.
Speaker 3: But almost like Miles Garrett with the contract that he
Speaker 3: accepted and say yes, I'm tired of losing, and then
Speaker 3: he got the money and he stayed.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then by the way, no problem with it.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to feel badly afterwards. And so
Speaker 1: the I don't I don't know, man, I just there
Speaker 1: is some there's a level of shamelessness in some of
Speaker 1: the coverage of these things that I I I find.
Speaker 3: It's just not acknowledging the fact that, like he made
Speaker 3: his left decision.
Speaker 1: It screws over the old mis kids a bit. He
Speaker 1: knew it, he was okay with it. We don't need
Speaker 1: to pretend he We don't need to pretend it was
Speaker 1: deeper than lane Kiffin did what he thought was the
Speaker 1: best for Lane Kiffin and was able to the He
Speaker 1: would have been more sad about missing out on the
Speaker 1: opportunity to coach LSU than he is sad about leaving
Speaker 1: the kids at all miss and missing out on the
Speaker 1: opportunity to coaching the college football playoffs. It's as simple
Speaker 1: as that.