WEBVTT - Best Of - Chiefs in PANIC MODE, Giannis TRADE? Lane Kiffin doesn't get it 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.480 Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.200 with Nick Right, the best takes in moments from this 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:10.280 week on the show. Enjoy all right, demons, Let's get 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.119 to it. The Chiefs are six and six. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:13.600 Chiefs are a rough spot. 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.439 You've always said, with the combination of Andy Reid and 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.239 Patrick Mahomes that they've always had a shot. But now 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.080 your Chiefs are six and six in two games out 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.400 of the Wildcard, not two games out of the Arrowhead 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.400 Invitational to the Wildcard. Yep, yeah, they have none of 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.800 the key tie breakers with the head to add teams. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.239 How word are you at the state the Chiefs are 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:33.760 in right now? 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.440 Well, listen, I mean, you've got to be really concerned 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:44.120 that the only way they guarantee themselves a spot in 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.560 the playoffs is by winning out, And I am listen, 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:53.040 some folks are It is not a mathematical certainty that 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.200 winning out gets them in, but winning out gets them in, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:04.679 and so they they are alive. And the AFC to 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:10.280 me does feel as wide open as it has at 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:15.600 any point in my life, maybe since eight, the year 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:20.120 Brady went down with an injury, and it wasn't a 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.440 great Peyton Manning year. And so certainly the most wide 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.759 open it's been in more than a decade. So if 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:32.920 they were to get hot, play their best football, get in, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.520 I think that they would be immediately the Vegas favorites 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.240 to win the conference. The problem is getting in is 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.200 going to be very difficult because of those tiebreakers they 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:53.600 don't have that you mentioned now. If they were to 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.760 beat Houston and then the Chargers, which are their next two, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:05.440 then baby, they could lose to Denver and sneak in 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.320 at ten and seven because they would have a tiebreaker 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:13.400 over the Colts, tiebreaker over the Ravens, which won't matter, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:18.400 and a tiebreaker over Houston. Maybe there would be a 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:22.239 path there, but the only certain path is winning out, 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:30.120 and right now it is very difficult to trust this team. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.799 Even though Patricks had at least a five game winning 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.240 streak every year of his career, It's very difficult to 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.000 trust this team to win five straight because quite simply, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.880 they can't get off the field. And this was a 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:52.880 problem in Week one against the Chargers. It was a 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:58.960 problem against Josh Allen, it was a problem against bow Knicks, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.480 and it was a huge problem against Dak Prescott and 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:12.800 the Dallas Cowboys. Where historically what the Chiefs defense would 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:19.799 do really well is one good run stop on a 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:26.320 drive to put you in second and nine, one forcing 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.919 completion to put you in third and nine, and then 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:36.119 dial something up to get you off the field. All 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:44.480 game long and all season long, this team has been 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:51.320 forcing third and longs and then been totally unable to 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:56.800 get off the field. And that is why despite Patrick 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.280 playing at the level that he is, and he was 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:07.480 brilliant on Thursday, and he's currently he's third in the 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.400 league in yards, fourth in the league in touchdowns, second 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.880 in the league in QBR, the ESPN stat first in 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.159 the league in the nerd stat that I don't love EPA. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:29.040 He's having an awesome year, but poorly time turnovers by 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:34.480 the Chiefs in previous games, and the total inability all 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:39.719 season long, aside from the Colts fourth quarter against the 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:46.719 Colts to make impact plays on defense might wreck the season. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:52.760 They are right now the fourth worst third and long 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:59.880 defense in the league. They have the fourth fewest sacks 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:05.360 in the league. They have the sixth fewest force turnovers 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:13.120 in the league, and that's why they find themselves in 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:14.239 this position. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.800 With all that said, do you think that there was 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.080 a move that they could have made during the during 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:21.960 trade deadline. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:23.840 During the trade deadline to change. 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.400 That, well, I mean, listen, the Eagles picked up Jalen Phillips, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.720 they could like, he's the only real impact pass rusher. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.160 They're not gonna they weren't gonna trade for Quentin Williams 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:38.240 when you have Chris Jones. Like and at the trade deadline, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.800 people wanted them to go after a running back and they, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.200 by the way, they almost did trade for Bresee Hall. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:48.320 But I don't they need more from the Listen, they 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:53.520 paid George Carloffts this offseason, they have drafted ed rushers. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:59.440 They're just it's it's Chris Jones or nothing on getting 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.159 to the quarterback. And that's a problem. And now you 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.599 have this game against Houston Demonse where Josh Simmons, who's 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.120 been an a plus as a rookie left tackle when 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.120 he's been out there, he missed that month with the 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:21.760 family issue. He suffered such an unlucky fluke freak injury 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.880 that I don't know if you saw how he got hurt, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:32.000 he's blocking. I forget who an ed rusher for Dallas 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.800 and the Chiefs running back I don't know if it 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.800 was Hunter Pacheco tried to help him to chip like 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.560 where they throw the shoulder and they missed the cowboy 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.040 and hit him in the left arm and snapped his wrist. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:57.520 So his own teammate just kind of friendly fire. And no, 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.520 I think it's I think he's out along. I think 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.440 he might be out the rest of the year, but 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.200 he's certainly out this weekend and they play, in my opinion, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.040 the best pass rush in the NFL this weekend in Houston. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.760 Juwan Taylor will see if he plays. They if he's 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.720 just out, then they should be able to at least 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.840 make do because then you have Jalen Moore, who you 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:28.360 sign this offseason. If he is, if he and Juwan 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.840 Taylor are out and you have to play Juanya Morris, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:37.320 who they have tried and tried and tried to make 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.480 a legitimate NFL tackle and just hasn't worked, then you're 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:51.720 in real, real trouble. And so it is. It's very precarious. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.680 It's the most precarious it's ever been in Kansas City. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:05.880 There's no getting around that. Now. With that said, I 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:12.320 know myself and I don't think it will be unreasonable 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:22.160 or irrational that if if they win Sunday, and I'm 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.160 telling you right now, with that offensive line situation, Chiefs 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.000 minus three and a half are not gonna be one 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:32.880 of my picks this week. If they win Sunday, then 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:38.840 I will feel like, all right, beat the Chargers next 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:43.160 week and you're gonna go to another Super Bowl. That's 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.240 how all feel I will. I feel like they're a 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:51.880 win away from being a win away. If that makes sense, yeah, sense, 0:08:52.920 --> 0:09:00.720 And so I I have not my hope. I've not 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.640 given up hope or given up belief, but my confidence 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:10.280 has been shaken because it should be. Because they had 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:16.120 to have the Broncos game and they lost. They then 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.160 really had to have the Colts game, and it took 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.760 everything furious fourth quarter, the biggest fourth quarter comeback of Mahomes' 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:32.839 career to win that one. And then they had the 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:38.320 opportunity against Dallas. And that's again I'm not gonna bang 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:45.080 on the defense too much, but three times this year, Demons, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.719 the Chiefs have trailed in the fourth quarter, Mahomes has 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:56.760 led a fourth quarter comeback to take the lead, and 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:01.200 then they lost the game anyway. Three times. Via Scott 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:11.120 Kasmar for context. The third blown fourth quarter comeback for 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:19.200 Tom Brady in his career came in year fifteen. Year 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:26.280 fifteen tappened three times this season, So it's the margins 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:33.480 are that thin and if there is one game or 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:45.439 one moment that to me just stands out as if 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.520 they don't go on this run, and if they missed 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.760 the playoffs by a game that I'm going to look 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:59.800 back to, it will be up fourteen nothing against the 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:06.560 Jags dominating that game. Trevor throws a lollipop up in 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.080 the air. Two Chiefs have a chance to pick it, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.360 and basically in the game in the first quarter, they 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.560 bump into each other and it falls to the ground. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.000 They kind of laughed and like, you know, they're dominating 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:25.360 the game, and then that led to a Jags touchdown 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.800 a couple hours later. Mahomes throws the one hundred yard 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:33.480 pick six. A little bit after that, after the Chiefs 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:37.800 take a late lead, Trevor falls down, Chris Jones doesn't 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:42.320 see it, he runs it in. That's the difference right 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.840 now between the Chiefs being six and six and having 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.920 none of the tiebreakers and the Chiefs being seven and 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.480 five and having a few of the tiebreakers. So that's 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.120 that's how thin your marans are. 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.880 You're saying like they're a win, they're one. There are 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.480 two games away. Even if they you're saying that they 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.040 could they could also make the super Bowl. If they 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.600 do make the Super Bowl, are you still like scared 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.960 of those defensive problems with getting off the field. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.040 Scared of Listen? Of course, listen, I don't think that 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:19.440 is those are going to go away. What I what 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:25.720 I do think is they have they are better than 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:30.000 a six and six record, and the AFC is wide open. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.959 And if, like again I have. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.280 To say, you're expecting some teams to slip. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.560 I'm expecting to well a couple of things. One is 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:46.520 I if they make the playoffs, it will mean they're 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.040 on a five game winning streak and playing their best 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.760 football of the year. So I will then, of course, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.160 you know, believe that they can get through this version 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:01.440 of the AFC. And then to answer you're hypothetical, if 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.960 they were to then make the Super Bowl, they'd be 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.560 on an eight game winning streak, and I of course 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.760 would feel like those things are solid. It's also and 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:15.680 this isn't excuses, that's just reality. It's an unlucky year 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:23.040 to potentially be a ten win team. Since they expanded 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.640 the playoffs in twenty twenty, so we have five years 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:32.040 of it. Zero eleven win teams have ever missed the playoffs. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:37.640 Only two in five years. Ten win teams have missed 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:43.319 the playoffs and eight teams And this isn't by winning 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.080 a bad division. This is wild card teams. Eight teams 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:53.520 with eight or nine wins have gotten a playoff spot. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.240 So if it were just you know, the but this 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.600 year it's not that. This year the AFC is wide open, 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:08.960 but the there's not really a middle class. It's teams 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:13.320 that are gonna win nine, ten, eleven, and then teams 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:18.440 that are awful with really no is not a glut 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.080 of seven or eight when teams it doesn't look like 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.200 and that's gonna make getting into the tournament really hard. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:34.720 With that said, all of this is predicated on obviously 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.880 the Chiefs winning this weekend. So if they win this weekend, 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.520 they have the same record as Houston with the tiebreaker right, 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:49.320 so that moves them ahead of Houston. They still would 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.920 need to jump two more teams. Will they play the Chargers, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:15:00.240 who they're two behind, But the Chargers schedule is is 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:08.600 the hardest in football by a mile Eagles, Chiefs, Cowboys, Texans, Broncos, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.960 and Justin Herbert has a broken left hand. So again, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:19.800 if you're assuming Chiefs can win the next two, that 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.920 puts them in really good position versus the Chargers and 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.320 the Texans, and then you just need one of Actually 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.560 you know that would do it, wouldn't it. That would 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.920 do it, because what the Steelers and Ravens take care 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.480 of themselves, So that would do it. Now, with all 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:45.360 that said, I actually think the team most likely to 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:50.800 full on fall apart is the Colts. I think the 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:58.000 Colts are mid fall apart already and demons. If they 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:03.120 lose to the Jaguars this weekend, they might not win again. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.280 They've already lost three of their last four, their one 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.560 win was in overtime against Atlanta, and their final five 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:16.600 are at Jacksonville, at Seattle home for the Niners, home 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.560 for the Jags, at Houston and Sauce Gardner is going 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:25.160 to be out, so I the Colts. Daniel Jones as 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.200 a fracture in his leg, Sauce is out, Jonathan Taylor 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:33.640 has slowed down, so I the team ahead of the 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:38.480 Chiefs most likely in my opinion, to just fall off 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:44.600 is Indy okay, and and so that's the the path 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.680 for the Chiefs to make it. At ten and seven 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:56.680 is Indy falls apart, and the Chargers fall apart, and 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:03.520 then the Jags Texans one team from the AFC North 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:10.600 Bill's Patriots Broncos chiefskin it. So like that's the that 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:15.600 would be the route, that's the path, but that's a 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.879 pretty The only way to be sure they get in 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.719 is win all five, and they have not yet looked 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.480 like a team that's ready to go on a five 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:29.920 game winning streak. 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Concern about gambling in Florida call one eight 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.960 eight admit it in Indiana if you were someone you 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.320 know as a gambling problem wants help call one eight 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.280 hundred and nine with it gambling problem called one eight 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.240 hundred gambler in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.280 or Virginia Demons. Let's talk Giannis. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.239 Yeah, So on Tuesday we talked about how impossible it 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.560 was for Gianni's to be catching Lebrono in that all 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.560 time season points. Today we're gonna be talking about how 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.440 possible it is that he's leaving Milwaukee. Do you think 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.760 that's gonna eventually happen? His agent and the Bucks are 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.960 talking about his future there. Jhanna seems a little fake. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.679 Too, What do you mean? I don't know. 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.560 I feel like he says one thing and he always 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.399 means another thing. Like I feel like he did the 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.560 same thing with the like Drew Holiday trade. I feel 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.720 like he did the same thing with this offseason. It 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:47.680 saything he wants to be there, and like he kind 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.919 of hasn't wanted to be there the entire time. 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.480 So this kind of goes back to the Lane Kiffen thing. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.720 It's very important in life to learn at an early 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:10.919 ag nobody gets everything. Nobody gets everything, and there is 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:18.600 there are trade offs that adults have to make where 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:23.479 they do the old cliche pros and cons list, and 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:28.160 you determine what matters most to you and what will 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:34.120 make you happiest and act accordingly. And when you say 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:39.359 Yannis has seemed a little fake, what I think is 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:46.679 causing that is he wants to be beloved in Milwaukee 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:51.320 and doesn't want to play for Milwaukee anymore. And he 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:59.000 I think recognizes those two things might be in conflict. Now. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.360 I don't think he would ever be reviled or hated 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:07.520 in Milwaukee at large. He's a franchise legend. He delivered 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.439 them their only championships since Kareem there. You know, he 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:15.960 has been a great NBA citizen and an even greater 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.160 NBA player or vice versa, however you want to look 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.800 at it. He's one of the twenty greatest players ever. 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:28.919 All of that is that cement is dry. But I 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:36.199 think he understands that in whatever is left of his prime, 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:41.080 which could be you know, up to four years, maybe 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:45.760 he might have that much longer in his prime. This 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:48.080 Bucks seems not going to be able to compete for anything. 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:53.640 They have mortgaged and second mortgaged and taken out payday 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:59.280 loans on the future and those bills have all slowly 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:04.040 but surely do and so I think it's pretty clear 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:09.359 he does want out, and I think it's also pretty 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:13.920 clear he doesn't know exactly how to do that because 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.720 he doesn't want to just straightforward to a trade demand. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:25.200 But we are inching towards it. So in today's NBA there, 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:27.959 and by the way, it should also be noted, last 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:33.200 night it looked like he might have suffered a catastrophic injury, 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:38.400 the dreaded non contact look back did someone kick me reaction, 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.479 which everybody these days knows that is part and parcel 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.560 with an achilles tear. But we've now had back to 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:50.800 back big time athletes in a couple of weeks have 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:55.640 that exact reaction to what appears to be that injury, 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:59.720 and for both of them it was the far less 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:03.280 series but still very scary calf strain to what happened 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:06.400 with Sauce Gardner a couple of weeks ago, and Toy, 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:13.440 I'm with Giannis last night, and so I talked with, Uh, yeah, 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:19.600 I'm allowed to say this. I actually oddly, randomly, Uh no, 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.159 I'm not gonna say who it was. I talked with 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:27.399 one of the greatest athletes ever, uh in real time 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:35.719 about Tyrese Haliburton's achilles right when it happened, and that 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:41.520 what that person said was in our game. The calf 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:47.600 strain is the new I think he said acl not 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:50.280 in that you're out of year with it, but it's 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:56.480 the most dreaded injury, and it's because there's no way 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.080 this again, this was this guy's opinion, but he would 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:05.280 know there's no way to rehabit. You simply have to 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:10.320 stay off it. So I think Yannis, like, here's the 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:14.000 thing that I think is noteworthy and why I wanted 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:21.400 to start with this. It is very possible that last 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:27.760 night was Yannis's last game with the Bucks. That's on 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:32.119 the board. I might even go as far as to 0:24:32.200 --> 0:24:42.240 say it's the most likely reality because if he has 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:47.159 to miss weeks, maybe up to a month with a 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:52.119 calf strain, and obviously he and Milwaukee are going to 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:59.840 want to be incredibly cautious with this. Then come December fifteenth, 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:06.880 you know, that's eleven days away, and that's when everybody 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:10.640 who signed this offseason is eligible to be traded. More 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:14.480 people are eligible to be traded starting the beginning of January, 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:19.240 and this just could happen in the next month, and 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:23.840 at this point I think it is going to happen in. 0:25:23.840 --> 0:25:25.800 The next month. Where do you think will be the 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:26.960 best landing spot for him? 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:35.240 So ESPN credit to them, did a good job putting 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:41.040 together five trades. And this is why I'm I really 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:46.159 want to credit them, because with the new CBA and 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:52.959 the aprons, it is very difficult to construct trades that 0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:58.800 actually work. So these five ESPN trades, Bobby Marx has 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:03.679 given them the stamp of yes, the CBA would allow it. 0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:14.000 The off the board most interesting one that I actually 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:22.560 think might be the most win win, have a chance 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:29.359 to compete, go on deep playoff runs, and you could 0:26:29.400 --> 0:26:35.919 sell it to both fan bases, and sadly is the 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:42.359 least likely to happen is Yannis to the Hawks. So 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:48.280 here is ESPN's trade is as follows Jannis and Cole 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:54.240 Anthony for salary reasons for Trey Young and Resa Shay. 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:56.960 So the number one overall pick from a couple of 0:26:57.000 --> 0:26:59.639 years ago in Resa Shay, Trey Young who's got a 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:04.200 couple of years left on his deal. And then some 0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:12.399 really juicy picks, most notably the first round pick the 0:27:12.480 --> 0:27:17.959 Pelicans traded to the Hawks. Which keep in mind, here's 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:22.639 why that trade is so interesting for Milwaukee. That first 0:27:22.720 --> 0:27:27.040 round pick the Pelicans traded to the Hawks demons is 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:32.359 the better of New Orleans is picked this year or 0:27:33.440 --> 0:27:39.800 Milwaukee's pick this year. Yeah, so what Milwaukee would right, 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:43.760 what Milwaukee would then allow for is if by trading 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:49.920 Giannis you fall apart in the short term, you then 0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:55.280 have the Pelicans ping pong balls and your own ping 0:27:55.440 --> 0:28:02.720 pong balls, right, and whichever is the best of those two, 0:28:02.800 --> 0:28:08.160 you get that pick in this draft. Atlanta also has 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:14.439 twenty twenty seven first round pick top four protected in 0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:19.200 this trade. That is again, well, this is the worst 0:28:19.280 --> 0:28:22.720 of the Pelicans in the Bucks, but maybe you could 0:28:22.760 --> 0:28:25.160 sweeten it to the better of and then a couple 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:31.280 other picks. So that to me is really interesting. If 0:28:31.280 --> 0:28:38.480 you keep Jalen Johnson, you keep Dyson, Milwaukee then can 0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:44.440 maybe flip Tray Young as well. And Resa schay was 0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:48.320 the number one pick of a draft and Atlanta, which 0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:52.240 has proven they're just as good with or without Tray 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:58.080 Young this season, maybe better without him. Jannis Jalen Johnson 0:28:58.200 --> 0:29:01.760 porzingis when he's out there, it's a very interesting team 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:06.000 in a wide open East and with flexibility moving forward. 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:09.600 So that's the one that makes the most sense for everybody. 0:29:10.520 --> 0:29:20.200 I don't know that I think that one is realistic 0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:22.360 in that I don't know if that's something Yannis would 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:27.160 sign off on. Yeah, and but I think that's the 0:29:27.200 --> 0:29:28.800 best Milwaukee. 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:29.000 Can and doesn't it. 0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:31.480 It has seemed like Gianni's has wanted to play for 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:35.440 a big market team. 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:37.600 So the way that he talks, and that might be right. 0:29:37.760 --> 0:29:41.920 And Atlanta is bigger than Milwaukee obviously, but it's not 0:29:42.040 --> 0:29:46.520 like the Marquee market. I also think Atlanta is more 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:54.400 attractive to American born NBA stars than international so I 0:29:54.400 --> 0:29:57.800 think that. But from a basketball perspective, you stay in 0:29:57.840 --> 0:30:02.320 the Eastern Conference, the team key really good pieces. I 0:30:02.400 --> 0:30:04.320 think there's a lot of reasons for it. The next 0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:06.880 rad ESPN brings up, it's the one we talked about 0:30:06.880 --> 0:30:12.120 all summer, which was Yannis to the Rockets. Here's the thing, 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:16.800 so this is Yannis and his brother for Shingoon and 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:19.520 Van Vliet, who's obviously out for the year with an injury, 0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:27.480 and one first round pick. I don't love this for 0:30:28.400 --> 0:30:33.240 either team. Yeah, to be totally honest, I don't think 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:41.400 that's quite enough. Demon's if you're Milwaukee. As much as 0:30:41.440 --> 0:30:45.200 I love I love Shongoon, that's to me not enough 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:49.360 because you've traded away so many of your own future picks, 0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:53.920 like you need more draft capital. And if I'm Houston, 0:30:54.080 --> 0:30:59.200 I'm like, man, I'm all of a sudden getting really old, 0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:02.640 like I already have Durant. Now I'm adding a guy 0:31:02.840 --> 0:31:08.840 in year thirteen in Yon, I promise, yeah, right, it doesn't. 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:12.960 Right now as is, we have the number one offense 0:31:13.160 --> 0:31:16.960 in all of basketball and we're doing it without a 0:31:17.040 --> 0:31:21.600 point guard because Shingoon kind of plays that. So that's 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:24.719 just if I'm Houston. And the other thing is if 0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:28.960 I'm in the West this year, I don't know that 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:32.480