WEBVTT - What's Wright - Best of: Nick Wright GOES OFF on Mavericks-NBA Draft lottery rigging rumors, Jalen Brunson all-time Knick, NFL schedule release reaction 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.560 Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.280 with Nick Right, the best takes and moments from this 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.840 week on the show. Enjoy before I even bring into Monday. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.520 And this is something where I'm probably gonna hurt some 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.560 people's feelings, and I Am probably gonna hurt some coworkers' feelings, 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:28.840 and I don't care. There are some times we get 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:37.199 real in live action in the moment impromptu IQ tests 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.600 for the general public, and one of them is this, 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:47.600 do you think the NBA Draft lottery is rigged? Because 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:52.760 if you think it is, you're kind of dumb. Now 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.600 you might be like, I'm not dumb. Explain the odds 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.600 of these things. And the answer to that question is 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.520 go to your local community college. You can probably get 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.399 courses for seventy dollars a credit hour and take introduction 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.200 to probability and statistics. And what you'll learn is the 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.520 thing about things that have a one point eight percent 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.360 chance of occurring, is they occur one point eight percent 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.240 of the time. And when you have a bunch of teams, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.280 all of whom have eight like so here is the 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.160 simplest way to explain it. And I knew it. I'm 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.360 not gonna name names, but I knew there would be 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.600 people working on this show. Might be one person co 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.560 hosting the show. I'm going to bring in a bit, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.400 who's like, well, obviously it might be rigged. I know 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.480 that I'm a jerk for calling you guys dumb, and 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.120 I'm not saying you're dumb. Maybe I did just say 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.920 that you're just dumber than you think you are. So 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:54.560 here is like the most simple way to look at 0:01:54.600 --> 0:02:01.000 it from a probability perspective. What are the odds of 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:07.080 any one person winning the power ball? Like, what is 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.919 it like one point four billion to one, not one 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:15.560 point eight percent, but like point zero zero one hundred 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:20.520 times one percent that someone's going to win it. But 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.040 someone always wins it. So how does that happen? You 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.600 had one in a billion? You had there are more people. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.040 There's not a billion people in the United States, yet 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.359 every week someone hits a billion to one shot. That's 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:41.920 how That's how probability and statistics work. Also, the idea 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.520 that the firm Ernst and Young is gonna be like, listen, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.160 been around for about one hundred years. We have a 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:54.800 super profitable business. We also have a side business where 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:00.960 we rig the NBA Draft lottery for reasons that aren't 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:06.440 totally clear. Like the latest conspiracy is if you trade 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:11.400 with the Lakers, you get the number one pick. But 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:17.120 that of course is idiotic because Anthony Davis. Because like 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.560 they traded Davis, they got Zion. The NBA didn't want 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.720 Zion to go to New Orleans. It was a disaster 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:29.880 for everyone the moment it happened. Well, the the NBA 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:37.839 called in is sent in, listen, trade Luca to the 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.000 to the Lakers, and we'll get you Cooper Flag. And 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.600 the part of that story that folks are ignoring is 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:51.200 the Dallas Mavericks were won a play in game, tried 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.880 to make the playoffs, and were playing the Memphis Grizzlies 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.760 in a game that if they won, they don't even 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.200 have any ping pong balls. That was so neat. It's like, 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.720 how how big does the conspiracy go? Boys? People are 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.640 just and there's five teams that if they would have 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.000 won it, we would have said, if the Spurs won it, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.880 we would have said rigged, duh, Wimby and Flag. If 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.560 the Sixers won it, we'd have said, rigged. Oh you 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:25.919 gotta you're you gotta get him beat a lifeline. There's 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.640 like more teams that you would have called it rigged 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:28.960 than not. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.240 Have made people call it the most rigged though, like 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.680 that that's the that's the team that but. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:40.560 Every right, but people did the same ship with Wimby. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:46.960 Oh of course, the like the spurs, they right from 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.880 Duncan into Wimby. People reverse engineer these conspiracies. Here's the 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.120 problem with the conspiracy. The draft lottery is now. Listen, 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:01.560 all conspiracies are not created equal that do I think 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:07.200 forty years ago when the process was the commissioner sticking 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.039 his hand into a globe and grabbing an envelope, do 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:16.480 I think that maybe oh, or freezing one of those envelopes. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.520 That's not idiotic because that's easy to execute, and one 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.640 person has to be involved any conspiracy where it's like well, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.560 we need a whole lot of the executives and lawyers 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.680 at Ernst and Young to be in on it. We 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:37.680 need the league owners to be fine with it. The 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.000 Wizard's owners like, god damn it. This conspiracy has never 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.640 works for me, but I'll keep playing along. We need 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.279 the reporters to be in on it. It's so dumb 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.080 and the reason I'm leading the show with it is 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.719 because you're I'm just telling you right now, sometimes it's 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.200 hard to tell like who's smart and who's not as 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.520 far as people who have public platforms and talk about 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:04.360 things for living. If one of your favorite personalities today 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.880 is like haha, wink wink, we knew that was gonna happen, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.840 they're just not that they're not as bright as they 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.159 think they are. Just dock their IQ points and it's 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:18.160 like if you saw them, you know, fall off a 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.800 twenty foot ledge onto their head, like moving forward to'd 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.720 be like, oh, probably not as smart as they once were. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.719 You now know it. So I'm sorry. And like I said, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.400 I know I'm hurting some people's feelings today and I 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.200 know they but but it's just idiotic. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.280 Blending Vice's signature dynamic storytelling with the high octane. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:38.800 World of sports. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.360 Vice Sports brings an exciting and diverse range of programming 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.839 that goes beyond the game, catch action packed live events, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.600 and exclusive sports documentaries and profiles, only on Vice TV. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.440 So Brunston almost shot forty last night? Do you think, well, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.599 he's the best Knicks player since who Mellow? Are we 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:02.840 putting him above Mellow? Because Mellow is just. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.640 So he is not yet above mellow. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.760 In Like, Daniel, what in the other room, he's Oh, 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:15.480 now he's not better than Mellow. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.320 Well, so let me finish the thought, Daniel. I guess, Daniel, Well, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:25.000 I get yeah, yeah, uh, he's not above Mellow In 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:33.320 my if I did a play my player pyramid, like 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.680 all time, if Jalen Brunson retires today, is he one 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.480 of the forty five greatest players ever? Like Carmelo is 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:47.840 obviously not right, Like we all agree on that that 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.200 he has not yet had a better career than Carmelo Anthony. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:58.640 But if the question is was he a better Nick, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:04.280 the answer to that is yes, yeah he is. Yeah, 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.760 so that's why. Yeah, that's that. That's what I was. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.320 I I had to build the whole bridge, Dan, I 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:18.720 think they're now agreeing with me. I I think that 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:25.280 he's pretty clearly the best Knick since Patrick Ewing, the best, 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.000 not the best player to play for the Knicks, but 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.000 the best Nick since Patrick Ewing. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.760 And go ahead, if he wins the finals this year, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.640 Like if you were to win the finals. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:51.360 This year, Oh wow, probably not yet, but he would 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.080 be a favorite to have one if they win. I 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.200 guess if they win the title and he's the lead 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:03.120 guy in ship and he's the lead guy, so like, 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:14.200 what lead guys on a champion? Do I have mellow 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:31.000 ahead of so? Chauncey? Yeah, I mean I the is 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:39.520 that the only one? So? Well? Tatum, I have a 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.439 mellow right now? You know what I mean. But again, though, 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.679 that's kind of let me not do the guys who 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.160 are still playing, because they're still kind of you know, well, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.560 they're still writing their stories so to speak. But no, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.840 so let no, I'll include them. So let's just oh, 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.240 this will be fun. Can I Can I do it again? Demonse? 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.040 Remember when we did this five years? Was it fifty 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.360 or the top fifty? No? I think I did? Did I? 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.440 I think I did? League MVPs League V But let's 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.480 just yeah, let's just see if I can do it. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:21.040 Just go backwards for Champions twenty four Tatum and then again. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:26.720 So the question is this question? Is this uh all right? 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.560 Because if Brunton wins the title, does he jump mellow 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.520 in the all time hierarchy? And my answer is not yet. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.280 But then the question is lead guy on a Champion? 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.720 Which of these guys do I have mellow ahead of? So? 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.120 Now I'll just try to go backwards in history and 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.319 do lead guys on Champions twenty four, Tatum Melos ahead 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:53.760 of him twenty three, Joker No. Twenty two, Steph No. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:11:03.120 Twenty one, Yannis No. Twenty, Bron No. Nineteen, Kawhi No. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:11.160 It's close though, because Kawhi's weird career eighteen seventeen Steph 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:16.160 kt KT Steph No. No. Sixteen, bron fifteen, Steph No. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:16.319 No. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:25.240 Fourteen Again Kawhi Duncan. Kawhi wasn't the best player on 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.160 the team. I should have just said Duncan but No. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:36.200 Thirteen twelve, Bron No. Eleven, Dirk No. Ten to nine, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:43.880 Kobe No. Eight, Garnet No. If you think Pierce my answers, yes, 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:49.360 I do have Mellow above Pierce. Sorry, Paul, So that's 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.640 two maybe, but I think Garnett was the best player 0:11:51.640 --> 0:12:02.280 on that team. Seven Duncan No. Six, Wade Shack No. Five, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:09.640 Duncan No. Four, Chauncey Yes, so we're three uh three, 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.920 Duncan No. Two to one zero Again, those are the years. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.280 Shaq No. Ninety nine, Duncan No. Ninety eight, ninety seven, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.439 ninety six, Jordan No. Ninety five ninety four, a Caem No. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:29.800 Ninety three, ninety two, ninety one, Jordan No. Ninety eighty nine, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:38.200 Isaiah No. Eighty eight, eighty seven, Uh Magic's slash Kareem 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:45.320 No Uh eighty six, Bird No. Eighty five, Magic slash 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:54.720 Careem No. Eighty four, Hold on a second here eighty four, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:04.400 Oh eighty four magic Kaream Wait eighty five was magic 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:15.320 Kaream eighty four Celtics Bird No. Eighty three, Lakers Right 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:22.679 eighty three Lakers eighty two sixers and seventy six ers 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:28.760 Moses Uh Doctor j No. Eighty one, Celtics No. Eighty 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.120 Lakers No. And then you get to seventy nine eighty 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.360 and you get to the weird ABA NBA Merger stuff, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.559 and you have the Wizard. So you'd in the last 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:45.360 forty five years I would. The only guys I had 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:51.360 were Tatum, Pierson Chauncey. So I know my answer is no, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:56.120 he wouldn't yet be above Mellow, but he would be 0:13:56.160 --> 0:14:00.000 in root. But he's already a better nick and the 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.040 a real like if here's another question, and no, he 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.200 wouldn't even with a championship. He's not above viewing either yet. 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:16.160 But I mean the he now is is jailing. Here's 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.080 another question. We're doing an hour on this game. I 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:23.800 gotta get better at this stuff. Here's a better question. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.640 Maybe is Jalen Brunson now on the mount rushmore of 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:43.120 Knicks read Fraser Ewing are three locks? I think Brunson's four. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.960 Willis Reid's got finals MVPs. One of the greatest players ever, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:56.440 Walt Fraser. And again for the kids out there in 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.800 the DEMONSI you've you've heard of the Willis Reid game. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.280 The game Willis Reid was injured and he came out 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:07.120 on one leg, hit two jumpers. Crowd exploded. Think about 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.080 that game? Is those are the only two shots he 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.920 made all game? He was too injured to play. The 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.680 reason the Knicks won that game seven of those finals 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:20.000 was because Walt Fraser had thirty six points and nineteen 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.880 assists thirty six and nineteen in a game seven of 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:28.320 the finals to win the championship. So Reid and Fraser 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.640 are on there. Ewing is on there. I think Brunson's 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:32.280 now on there. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.040 He's got to win the title or something to get there. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:41.000 Well, the problem is, but here's the thing, Demons, only 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.880 Reid and Fraser have won the title. Yeah, like the guy. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.360 The guy he's competing with is Bernard King. But Bernard King, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.800 who was I think fiftieth on her fifty Greatest Players 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.880 of the Last fifty Years list, had a shortened career 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.560 due to injury, and like the and so, yeah, that 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.520 that's where I've got it. But first, let me tell 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.240 you guys, NBA's eighty two game grind is done and 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.520 the real fun has begun. 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What sticks out to you with the schedule? 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:27.320 So there's so many schedule related things, and I was 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.680 I told the producers I was gonna do a lot 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.439 on the schedule, but it's almost like there's so much 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.800 on the schedule that it's going to be that it's 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.800 gonna be overwhelming to do. I so I want to 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.320 do it like this. I want to go through the 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:54.320 nationally televised games and then I will dive deep into 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:59.280 individual teams who I feel like have either got lucky 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.760 or unlucky. Maybe we'll do more of it next week 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.560 because I do want to do more NFL stuff, So 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.680 our Sunday night football slate, we can just go through it. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.760 You guys don't have to worry about this chief schedule 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.320 right now. And if it helps you guys, I should 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.360 have given you guys a heads up on this. If 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:22.080 you go to the Twitter account my sports Update, which 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.280 is Ari Meirov, he has the image of the three 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.800 like the night schedules, because that's what I'm looking at 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.479 and people can watch along. I don't even know if 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.480 we have the capability to pull this up. I still 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.439 don't really know how production works. But the first Sunday 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.320 night football game of the year to Monse is Ravens 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:45.400 at Bills, and I'm here to tell everyone that I think, 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:52.560 for the second straight year, to Monse the dirty Yeah, 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:53.440 you agree. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.560 I see it as an opportunity again same way I 0:19:58.560 --> 0:19:59.400 saw it last year. 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:01.720 But it is it. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.560 Is an opportunity that the Bill like it could have 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.280 been another good team against the Ravens other than the Bills. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:11.800 I want to make sure the audience knows what we're 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:17.960 talking about. For the second straight year, the NFL is 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:25.520 sending the Baltimore Ravens to the location of their gutting 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:31.800 postseason defeat, obviously against the team that beat them, and 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.560 because it's not a divisional matchup, no chance for a 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:42.280 get back. So last year two years ago, the Chiefs 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.920 host or no, I guess it's not to the location 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.600 two years ago because the Ravens hosted that game. But 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.760 two years ago the Ravens beat the chief The Chiefs 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.280 beat the Ravens in the AFC Championship game, and then 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.879 weak Ones against the Chiefs. The Chiefs beat them, and 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.680 I don't care what the Ravens said in the back 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:03.800 of their head. All year had to be can we 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:08.359 beat this team? They've beaten us twice and now the 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.520 Bills beat them to end the year, and Week one 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:15.280 they play the Bills. Now it is a great opportunity, 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.679 and that is a kick ass game, like a really 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:24.040 a kick ass game. But I don't, I don't. I 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.399 don't get it to like, be totally honest with you, 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:38.800 all right. Week two Sunday Night Football is uh. It's 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:43.880 almost as if the schedule makers, Oh, good job producers, 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:49.760 they got the graphic, forgot that Kirk Cousins lost the 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.120 starting job because the only reason I care about Falcons 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:59.320 at Vikings is if Kirk Cousins is starting for the Falcons. Otherwise, 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.640 like I guess Pinnix McCarthy. But I'm not that into it. 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:08.240 Week three, Chiefs at Giants, I gotta tell you, I'm 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.080 into it, and I might go to that game Sunday 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.439 Night met Life see the Chiefs. Maybe the world is not. 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.639 I can't imagine the world is super into that game. 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.600 Week four, This again, there's the Sunday Night Slate. Week 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:32.360 four Packers at Cowboys, good early season, kind of measuring 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.520 stick game for both teams In this regard, I think 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:38.439 both of these teams kind of best case scenario is 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:42.160 they are fighting for one of those wild card spots. 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:46.520 So this could have real postseason implications if the Cowboys 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.199 are better than people think and if the Packers are 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:53.800 about what people think. Week five Patriots Bills. I think 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:57.239 the Patriots are gonna stink. Vegas thinks the Patriots are 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:59.720 gonna be fighting for a playoff spot, so that becomes 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:04.640 a cue huge game. Week six Lions at Chiefs one 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.840 of the games of the year, like just objectively one 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:11.320 of the games of the year. And here is a 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:17.959 years of little known fact. Jared Goff, I do believe, 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:24.879 is the only quarterback in the league that Mahomes has 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:29.679 played more than once and never beaten. So he lost 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.520 to him in the fifty four to fifty one Monday 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:38.919 Night Football epic Chiefs Rams seven years ago, and lost 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:44.720 to him the season opener two years ago. Lions Chiefs. 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:50.680 Week seven Falcons Niners. Again, I feel like we're being 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:54.320 a little overserved the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday Night Football. 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:58.200 I gotta be honest with you. Week eight one of 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:03.040 the most exciting games of the year, or theoretically Aaron 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:06.440 Rodgers taking on the Green Bay Packers, assuming Aaron Rodgers 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:09.400 signs up to play. So I'm into that one. Are 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:11.440 you into that one? I'm in. I wish it were 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:13.720 in Lambeau, but I'm into that one. I'd love to 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:18.000 see Jordan Love put it on him. Yeah, I think 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:24.199 it'd be great. Week nine, Seahawks Commanders. I think the 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:27.359 Seahawks might be really bad. Commanders should be fun, but 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:29.240 I think the Seahawks might be really bad. We'll see 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:37.280 about Sam Darnold week ten. Week ten, if these seasons 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:39.000 go the way I think they're gonna go, might be 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:43.200 a Sunday Night Football is a second screen. I don't 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:45.800 know what HBO has on at that point of the year, 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:49.239 but Steelers Chargers. I'm not as himing the Chargers as 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:52.879 everyone else is, and I think the Steelers it's not 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:56.600 gonna work. We're getting Wow, two out of three weeks. 0:24:56.640 --> 0:24:59.280 We're getting Aaron Rodgers theoretically in the Steelers on Sunday 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:07.560 Night Football. Week eleven, awesome game Lions Eagles, massive implications 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:11.719 for tie breakers, and playoff seating everything. Week twelve. I 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:15.399 think that's an awesome game too, Bucks Rams, two of 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:19.040 my favorite quarterbacks. Who my favorite teams to watch? Week thirteen, 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:29.639 bo Knicks against Jaden Yeah yeah, see about the Broncos. 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:36.080 Week fourteen Texans Chiefs awesome. Texans tried to get some 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:39.359 get back for the playoff game last year. Week fifteen, 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:48.520 Vikings Cowboys okay. Week sixteen, Bengals Dolphins. Week seventeen, I 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:54.760 like it a lot. Bears Niners. I will say Sunday 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:58.159 Night Football. I feel like this is probably good for 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:06.359 my employer Fox. I think I think America's game of 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:12.080 the week, the Giant Fox four thirty game on Sundays 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:17.400 stole some of the best matchups from Sunday Night Football. 0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:23.280 Monday Night Football. We can go through much quicker. If 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:31.800 I'm ESPN, I am irritated is the wrong word. But 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:34.439 there's only a few jump off the page on you. 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:39.160 Week one Vikings Bears, Listen. I'm excited to see Caleb. 0:26:39.560 --> 0:26:42.920 I am not as into the Vikings as maybe the 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:49.400 schedule makers are. Week two doubleheader pretty good, actually, Bucks Texans, 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:52.800 I like it. Chargers Raiders. I'm high on the Raiders 0:26:53.080 --> 0:26:56.960 and Week three is unbelievable Lions Ravens. That's another game 0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:02.359 of the year. Then it gets a little Jets Dolphins 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:09.080 h Bengals Broncos and Chiefs Jags. I love that matchup. 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:13.560 I don't know if America does. But Travis Hunter, even 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:17.400 if you don't care about the Prince Travis Hunter. Week thirteen, 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:22.640 Bill's Falcons Bears, Oh Bears Commanders. That's an awesome game. 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:26.480 Jaden and caleeb That's awesome. Maybe this is a better 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:28.879 schedule than I thought. Actually, now that I'm actually diving 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:33.479 into it, Bucks line, this is again money night football, Bucks. 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:37.119 Lion's great with a doubleheader of Texan Seahawks, and then 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:40.040 the very next week, Jaden takes on Mahomes for the 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:45.159 first time ever. That's sick Cardinals Cowboys. The storyline there'll 0:27:45.200 --> 0:27:49.359 be or just make this prop bet now, there is 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:52.239 going to be a highlight package of Kyler Murray as 0:27:52.280 --> 0:27:56.240 a high schooler winning state championships in Cowboys stadium that 0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:58.679 we're gonna get that. We're like, this guy's unbelievable in 0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:05.000 this stadium. Ten potentially really good one Eagles Packers, Week eleven, 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:07.760 Cowboys Raiders. Again, I think the Raiders are gonna be good. 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:17.119 Week twelve are Niners hosting the Panthers November twenty fourth. 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:21.360 That's a date night, I'll tell you right now. That's 0:28:21.400 --> 0:28:30.480 a Monday night date night. The next week Giants Patriots. 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:33.080 We might have back to back date nights. Yeah, back 0:28:33.119 --> 0:28:36.679 to back Monday night date nights. Put it on your calendar, honey. 0:28:38.440 --> 0:28:44.280 Week fourteen Eagles Chargers good, and then Week fifteen Dolphin Steelers, 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:48.720 and then Niners, Colts and then Rams Falcons. So Monday 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:50.800 Night Football kind of ends with a bit of a whimper, 0:28:52.120 --> 0:28:54.360 but it has really I think the first half the 0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:56.760 schedule better than I thought. And now we go to 0:28:56.840 --> 0:29:06.120 Thursday Night Thursday. Week one, Packers, Commanders, love it. Week 0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:09.800 two Dolphins Bills. Oh, so this is what we're when 0:29:09.800 --> 0:29:12.880 we do this more schedule stuff next week. This is 0:29:13.160 --> 0:29:16.880 the things that are because we are obviously already know 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:20.640 who's playing who, so it's more about when they're playing 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:24.480 for the schedule release, not more about exclusively. The Dolphins 0:29:24.520 --> 0:29:29.520 getting their game in Buffalo in September is a huge 0:29:29.560 --> 0:29:33.040 win for them. Them not having to go to Buffalo 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:36.800 in November December is very helpful for the Dolphins. Then 0:29:36.800 --> 0:29:43.360