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Speaker 3: Welcome in What's Right, Nick Write Episode eighty Live from
Speaker 3: Trenta's here in beautiful Harlem. After a exciting and a
Speaker 3: little confusing and long week five in the NFL. But
Speaker 3: the London games I actually like them now, but it
Speaker 3: does lead to a long day of watching football up
Speaker 3: at nine thirty in the morning, games NonStop until eleven
Speaker 3: thirty at night. But we have a ton to get into. Also,
Speaker 3: since we last talked Drake, the video of Draymond punching
Speaker 3: Jordan Poole came out and Draymond's long apology happened. So
Speaker 3: all of that later in the show and right now
Speaker 3: if you're watching on YouTube, we are live this very moment.
Speaker 3: And let me add to it this fact that you
Speaker 3: can add your questions or comments in the chat and
Speaker 3: in the final segment of the show, we will get
Speaker 3: to them. But before that, as we always do, let's
Speaker 3: discuss what we're not discussing. Here's what did not make
Speaker 3: the cut for today's show. Not on today's show is
Speaker 3: the Padres pounding the Mets in a winner take all
Speaker 3: wild card game. Just a brutal final month of the
Speaker 3: season for the Mets. I also during that game, once
Speaker 3: the Mets were down four nothing live bet in the
Speaker 3: Mets at sixty to one to win the World Series.
Speaker 3: Felt like there was some value there. Instead, they get
Speaker 3: one hit through nine innings. Quarterback controversy in New England.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna get to that. As Bailey Zappi moves
Speaker 3: to one to zero on his career, you want to
Speaker 3: give him credit for the previous one as well, two
Speaker 3: to zero on his career. And Kyler Murray's game day
Speaker 3: outfit did not make the cut, but Kyler's inexplicable playdown
Speaker 3: the stretch will make the cut. Demonse, We are just
Speaker 3: a few hours removed from Sunday Night Foot. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: the game day outfit. It's just and that if you're
Speaker 3: watching on YouTube, that doesn't really even do it justice
Speaker 3: because the shoes you were, far and away the most
Speaker 3: indefensible piece of all of it. But you're gonna dress
Speaker 3: like that, probably need to win, and certainly if you
Speaker 3: don't win, what you need to do is find a
Speaker 3: way not to blow the game in the final seconds
Speaker 3: because you think you have a first down and you don't.
Speaker 3: But we'll talk more about Kyler in a bit. Sunday
Speaker 3: Night Football ended about twelve hours ago. Let's start there, Demons,
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 4: O La marlt a game winning drive to beat Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: and Justin Tucker has now hit more game winners than
Speaker 4: Lebron James.
Speaker 5: Does this prove to you that Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Is the A E fact check on that is it
Speaker 4: AFC contender or that Cincy is back or neither?
Speaker 3: Okay, so I never thought Cince he went anywhere. And
Speaker 3: there's a tough loss for Cincinnati. Any game you're up
Speaker 3: with two minutes left is a tough loss, even though
Speaker 3: Baltimore had pretty thoroughly outplayed him quickly on Cincinnati. Cincinnati
Speaker 3: is going to be just fine. Cincinnati. Cincinnati's next six
Speaker 3: at New Orleans, home for Atlanta at leveland home for
Speaker 3: Carolina up bye at Pittsburgh at Tennessee. So four of
Speaker 3: their next six are on the road. They are all
Speaker 3: inferior teams to them Cincinnati before they get to the
Speaker 3: real tough part of their schedule, which is the final
Speaker 3: six weeks Kana City, Cleveland again, Tampa, New England, Buffalo,
Speaker 3: Baltimore over these next six games four and two, at
Speaker 3: a minimum probably five and one. And if they get
Speaker 3: go five and one, then all of a sudden, They're
Speaker 3: seven and four and they're fine, So I'm not listen.
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow losing to Higgins during the game hurt. I
Speaker 3: don't love the offense that they're running, and Burrow is
Speaker 3: still taking too many hits. I also think they're going
Speaker 3: to be fun. Baltimore is a more interesting case, so
Speaker 3: credit to Baltimore, which came this close to for the
Speaker 3: third time this year, blowing blowing a double digit lead,
Speaker 3: up seven, up twenty one against Miami late, up seventeen
Speaker 3: against Buffalo at halftime, and up ten early in this game.
Speaker 3: They blew the first two. They won this one. Tucker's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Tucker is if you are a contending team that doesn't
Speaker 3: have a kicker, I well, yes, it's brutal, but I
Speaker 3: would honestly consider offering a first round pick for Justin Tucker.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if Baltimore would do it. I honestly,
Speaker 3: God don't know that Baltimore would accept that a first
Speaker 3: round pick for Justin Tucker. He's unbelievable. Lamar had a
Speaker 3: spotty game. He was fantastic on the final drive with
Speaker 3: his legs. This game could have been blown out multiple times.
Speaker 3: But Lamar threw a critical pick and then missed two
Speaker 3: guys on open touchdowns. One was a brutal miss. So Lamar,
Speaker 3: after looking like the league MVP through the first three
Speaker 3: weeks of the season, has had one bad game last
Speaker 3: week against Buffalo and then one plus or minus game.
Speaker 3: But he's very good with his legs. But none of
Speaker 3: that is the most interesting part of this game too.
Speaker 3: The most interesting part of this game is John Harbaugh
Speaker 3: got bullied by the media all week and it affected
Speaker 3: how he coached. So here's situation. Baltimore is up three
Speaker 3: midway through the fourth. They have it fourth and goal.
Speaker 3: Was it fourth and goal from the two or fourth
Speaker 3: and two from the four? I'm not you know what,
Speaker 3: Let me double check what it is. Whatever it is,
Speaker 3: they're inside the five and they have a fourth down
Speaker 3: and Harbaugh his whole career since he's gotten Lamar, it
Speaker 3: was fourth and one is what it's listed? From the three?
Speaker 3: Is what it was? Up three, that's a gotta go
Speaker 3: for its spot. But last week, if you remember, they
Speaker 3: had a similar spot against Buffalo in a tie game,
Speaker 3: went for it, didn't get it, the media killed him
Speaker 3: for it. He kicks the field goal instead, in this spot,
Speaker 3: they're up six. Now Baltimore won the game. So right now,
Speaker 3: John Harbaugh is getting applauded for learning from his mistakes,
Speaker 3: and for that is totally the wrong way to look
Speaker 3: at this he made. He went against his gut, against
Speaker 3: the personality of the team, against the numbers, in a
Speaker 3: more obvious go for its spot than last week. If
Speaker 3: you score topsdown, you're up to scores and the defense
Speaker 3: was like trut last week that Mark Speed was all angry.
Speaker 3: Trust us. Okay, he did in this spot, and Cincinnati
Speaker 3: instantly drove the field and scored a touchdown. In fact,
Speaker 3: the best thing that happened to Baltimore is that the
Speaker 3: defense showed so little resistance that Cincinnati scored quickly enough
Speaker 3: that they were able to then have enough time to
Speaker 3: go back down. This is a guy staying on fifteen
Speaker 3: against a nine in blackjack, winning and everyone applauding him
Speaker 3: for it. That's not how this works. If you go
Speaker 3: for it there and you score the touchdown, the game's over.
Speaker 3: You're up ten. Well, I guess with Baltimore it's not
Speaker 3: technically necessarily over, but you're in a great spot. Instead,
Speaker 3: he kicked the field goal. Trusted his defense and Cincinnati
Speaker 3: drives the length of the field for a touchdown to
Speaker 3: take the lead. But because everyone just plays the result,
Speaker 3: he's being applauded for it. I hope it was a
Speaker 3: one time blip. One of the reasons Baltimore has a
Speaker 3: decided edge on a lot of teams is because they
Speaker 3: are smarter than most teams on fourth down stuff. They
Speaker 3: weren't last night. They got away with it. They won
Speaker 3: despite not because of the good that decision, despite that decision.
Speaker 3: All right, next, the NFC's we got the Eagle. The
Speaker 3: Eagles are undefeated.
Speaker 4: How about the rest of the nfcas Yeah, we got
Speaker 4: the Giants just beating the Packers in London on a
Speaker 4: huge upset. The Cowboys dominated the Rams in LA with
Speaker 4: a backup quarterback.
Speaker 5: The NFC East is the best division in football as
Speaker 5: of right now.
Speaker 3: Correct, Well, I mean the record says they are, and
Speaker 3: there I think eleven and three outside of the division,
Speaker 3: which is incredibly impressive. Meaning when the NFC East teams
Speaker 3: play non NFC East teams, I think they're eleven and three.
Speaker 5: I might be wrong on the eleven and three, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, the holy I see.
Speaker 3: The nfcast as a hole when it's not playing itself.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys, Eagles, and Giants are a combined thirteen and two.
Speaker 3: It's pretty phenomenal. And the Cowboys have done it with
Speaker 3: a backup quarterback. The Giants have done it with Daniel Jones.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: The Eagles, I gotta give Jalen Herd credit. I mean,
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts is playing well. I'm not a I am
Speaker 3: not a full fledged Jalen Hurts believer just yet really,
Speaker 3: but I give credit. And the Eagles are also playing
Speaker 3: really weird in that the Eagles are let me see
Speaker 3: if I have the numbers here, I texted are some
Speaker 3: of the TV producers to try to help me out,
Speaker 3: see if they have the numbers. So the Eagles, okay,
Speaker 3: yeah they did. The Eagles in the first half this
Speaker 3: year have outscored their opponents by sixty one points. That's
Speaker 3: an average of twelve and a half points. For no,
Speaker 3: it's been five weeks. Yeah, twelve points per game right
Speaker 3: over in the over those first five weeks, in the
Speaker 3: second half, they have been outscored by fourteen points. So
Speaker 3: in the first half they have the number one point
Speaker 3: differential in football. In the second half, they are number
Speaker 3: twenty three in point differential. So the Eagles are jumping
Speaker 3: out to these leads and then holding on for dear life.
Speaker 3: Cowboys are doing it on the strength of a thoroughly
Speaker 3: dominant defense that if they if it is the best
Speaker 3: defense in football, then you've got to look at that.
Speaker 3: You've got to give them a credit that I have
Speaker 3: not yet given them. Right And the Giants are doing
Speaker 3: it through bit a good fortune, some gutsy coaching, a
Speaker 3: team that really believes. You know, sometimes you have these
Speaker 3: fork in the road moments of your season. And for
Speaker 3: the Giants, that might have come Week one, that two
Speaker 3: point conversion they got in Week one against Tennessee when
Speaker 3: that play was dead to rights and Saquon found a
Speaker 3: way into the end zone for the two point conversion.
Speaker 3: Then Tennessee the old kicker Fat Randy misses the kick.
Speaker 3: They've seemingly been riding that way for a month now.
Speaker 3: They were down seventeen to three to the Packers, seventeen
Speaker 3: to three, and they came all the way back and
Speaker 3: one you look like you have something you want to say,
Speaker 3: go ahead, I mean, go ahead.
Speaker 5: I just feel like you gotta give credit words.
Speaker 4: Due man, Well, five weeks is not the biggest I
Speaker 4: want to call it the high man.
Speaker 3: They're just good, maybe good. So the question is it
Speaker 3: the best division in football? Record wise?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? Right?
Speaker 3: Do I actually think it's the best division in football?
Speaker 3: I don't do. I fully trust any of their teams
Speaker 3: come to playoffs. No, but Philly, by the way, is
Speaker 3: now overwhelmingly likely to be the one seed. It's not
Speaker 3: just because they're five and zero. It's because let me
Speaker 3: and I did this last week as well, but I'll
Speaker 3: do it again. Philly the rest of the way. Tell
Speaker 3: me their toughest games. So they're home for Dallas next week.
Speaker 3: That's that's a massive game on Sunday night football. That's
Speaker 3: either against Cooper Rush or Dak's first game back Philly.
Speaker 3: I haven't looked at the line yet. In fact, let's
Speaker 3: look at it right now. My guess is their seven
Speaker 3: point favorites in that game? Wow? Is that really? Okay?
Speaker 3: So Vegas is not giving them quite the credit I
Speaker 3: thought they would do. Let me make sure that's right.
Speaker 3: Five and a half point favorites. Okay, I would have
Speaker 3: given them a little more credit than that. Maybe they're
Speaker 3: hedging for Dak coming back, but dak in his first
Speaker 3: game back. I don't know, but so they have Dallas right,
Speaker 3: then they have a bye, then Pittsburgh who has one win,
Speaker 3: Houston who has one win, Washington who has one win,
Speaker 3: Indy home for green Bay. More on the Packers in
Speaker 3: a moment, Tennessee the Giants, Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans the Giants,
Speaker 3: aside from their divisional games, they play one team the
Speaker 3: rest of the way that has a winning record, one
Speaker 3: team and that's green Bay, who is the other part
Speaker 3: of this com So Philly is gonna be the one seed.
Speaker 3: I see no scenario where they're not. And that in
Speaker 3: today's NFL where there's only one buy is just such
Speaker 3: a massive ed So I have to give them credit.
Speaker 3: I would two thirds of the chat by the way,
Speaker 3: I'm being told of saying the NFCS is not the
Speaker 3: best division in football the chat. The issue is with that.
Speaker 3: My gut tells me no as well. But let's just
Speaker 3: quickly go through. And I told our producers I need
Speaker 3: twenty minute a blocks on Mondays. Now we're adding a
Speaker 3: live chat element. I'm responding to, there's no chance I'm
Speaker 3: going to end on time. Uh, the Matt rule just
Speaker 3: got fired. Okay, all right, Matt Rule just got fired.
Speaker 3: Coach of the the uh well, former coach of the Panthers.
Speaker 3: That was a no doubteror that that was going to
Speaker 3: happen there, I think one in twenty seven in his
Speaker 3: career when they allow seventeen points.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, my god.
Speaker 3: But I don't really want to talk much about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, Baker's playing himself out of the league almost.
Speaker 3: The Panthers are a disaster. We knew he was gonna
Speaker 3: get Okay, first coach fired, bets cash on Matt Rule.
Speaker 3: If you had that, that's a bet you can make,
Speaker 3: by the way, first coach fired, But now it's done.
Speaker 3: Copy all right, on the NFC's thing, then on the Packers.
Speaker 3: Then we'll move on. Okay, are we and Matt? I'm
Speaker 3: just taking your word for it that Matt Rule did
Speaker 3: get fired. I didn't see that anywhere. Okay, he says,
Speaker 3: for sure, I'm making sure a darn shifter instead of
Speaker 3: Adam Schefter isn't the one reporting. Uh But yeah, he's right. Okay,
Speaker 3: good job, Matt. My apologies are doubting you, NFC. So
Speaker 3: what is the best division in football? Then let's just
Speaker 3: go through it. NFC North, no chance. The Lions are
Speaker 3: a mess, the number one scoring team in football until
Speaker 3: they play zero zero. The Bears are a mess, so
Speaker 3: they're just eliminated. The Packers again, Packers in a moment.
Speaker 3: NFC South, no chance. One team just fired their coach.
Speaker 3: Another team's New Orleans, Atlanta and Tampa. So no chance there.
Speaker 3: NFC West, I say, no chance they have now. I
Speaker 3: don't think the NFC West has any horrific teams. But
Speaker 3: Seattle's mediocre. No, no, he's in the AFC West. NFC West,
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, yeah, yeah, uh he used to be over there.
Speaker 3: Seattle's mediocre. The Rams right now look mediocre, the Cardinals
Speaker 3: look worse than mediocre, and the Niners look good. Okay,
Speaker 3: so they're out of it. AFC East hasn't argued. I
Speaker 3: can't believe I'm saying it. But the Jets, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, aren't terrible. The Patriots are. They've won two games,
Speaker 3: but maybe they round into for him. The Dolphins we
Speaker 3: got there on a third string quarterback now, and the
Speaker 3: Bills are obviously excellent. They're not the best division football.
Speaker 3: Take them out. AFC North. Maybe Pittsburgh's awful, but Cleveland
Speaker 3: is in it every week, even though I mean Cleveland's
Speaker 3: two and three now could be five and oh maybe
Speaker 3: should be five, and oh Baltimore and Cincinnati are just good.
Speaker 3: AFC South is not the best division of football. They
Speaker 3: don't have right now one team that looks like a
Speaker 3: good team, my prince that was promised keeps costing me money.
Speaker 3: And then there's the AFC West that I actually think,
Speaker 3: by the end of the year should be the only
Speaker 3: team in the conference, in their division, in the league
Speaker 3: that doesn't have a terrible team. The NFC is a
Speaker 3: terrible team. Is the Chiefs and the Chargers, who are good,
Speaker 3: the Raiders, who I don't think are terrible, but they're
Speaker 3: about to be one and four when they lose a
Speaker 3: night to the Chiefs, and then the Broncos, who have
Speaker 3: a great defense and nothing on offense. So when you
Speaker 3: break it down like that, thus far, it is the
Speaker 3: NFC East now to the Packers quickly. That is a
Speaker 3: horrifying loss. Yeah, and I like it? You like it?
Speaker 3: How come I just like it?
Speaker 4: Giving what Aaron Rodgers has been saying about his receivers
Speaker 4: and then on the last two plays of the game
Speaker 4: he couldn't even get him the freaking ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, also a little chirping in that locker room after
Speaker 3: one of the Packers running backs said, we could have
Speaker 3: gotten those two yards on the ground. This is third
Speaker 3: and two and fourth and two and they threw it
Speaker 3: both times. That's not great. JayR Alexander said, I'm not
Speaker 3: worried about the defense. I'll be worried if we lose
Speaker 3: next week to the Jets. Aaron then got upset with that, say,
Speaker 3: I love job, but I don't need saying those things
Speaker 3: talking about losing the Packers. We are five weeks into
Speaker 3: the year. They are yet to have one kick ass game.
Speaker 3: Right for a team that's been to back to back
Speaker 3: NFC Championship games, and for a team that is the
Speaker 3: back to back league VP, that's a problem.
Speaker 5: Sow and fifty million dollars right, No, two.
Speaker 3: Hundred and fifty million is roughs. Aaron was one fifty
Speaker 3: because it was only three years. Oh okay, but still
Speaker 3: he's saved fifty million eas a lot of cap space, right,
Speaker 3: A lot of cap dollars spent on him. Not a
Speaker 3: lot of cap space because they gave him all that money,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 4: Next the Bucks Snug went out against the Falcons at
Speaker 4: home twenty one to fifteen.
Speaker 3: Nice told you the Falcons love backdoor, covering five and
Speaker 3: oh five and zero against the spread for Atlanta this year.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: The refs helped Tom Brady out as usual with a
Speaker 4: rough in the passer call late in the game. Jerome
Speaker 4: Boger defended the call, saying the defender unnecessarily threw him
Speaker 4: to the ground, which is freaking crazy. By the way, Yeah,
Speaker 4: would any other quarterback.
Speaker 5: Have gotten that call?
Speaker 3: No, and listen, I'm not gonna I don't know that
Speaker 3: Atlanta would have won. I do know they would have
Speaker 3: gotten the ball back down less than a touchdown, right,
Speaker 3: so they would have absolutely had a chance to win.
Speaker 3: I also know that this wasn't even a gray area call.
Speaker 5: This was He's old.
Speaker 3: This was as bad as it gets. However, anyone that
Speaker 3: is acting shocked by this, I present to you and
Speaker 3: there's our time. And we haven't even gotten to the
Speaker 3: the a the final segment, the final question of the segment.
Speaker 3: Anyone acting shocked by this, have you not been watching
Speaker 3: football the last twenty years? There? When you are playing
Speaker 3: Tom Brady, you have to know part of the the quotient,
Speaker 3: the goat quotient is he's gonna get a few pardon me,
Speaker 3: but bullsh calls. I know was a curse on the
Speaker 3: YouTube stream. I couldn't help myself. Uh, especially if it's
Speaker 3: close length. There was if I'm I'm gonna check the
Speaker 3: play by play on it again, I think there was
Speaker 3: nobody's talking about.
Speaker 5: And then each the other like he tried to kick him.
Speaker 3: Well, of course he did.
Speaker 5: They try to kick him the.
Speaker 3: Whole thing there was. It was absolutely so. Just for
Speaker 3: the record, this is what appenson the final drive. There's
Speaker 3: three twenty left. The Falcons get a stop on a
Speaker 3: third and four and they called, I mean, Brady's favorite
Speaker 3: go to call, defensive holding away from the play, automatic
Speaker 3: first down. Then it's third, third and five. Brady gets
Speaker 3: sacked with three minutes left and justin egregious roughing the
Speaker 3: passer penalty, just absolutely egregious. Brady hadn't let go of
Speaker 3: the ball exactly, Brady. Jarrett was just rolling. There was
Speaker 3: nothing he could have done. If you would have let
Speaker 3: him go, Brady might have been able to stay up.
Speaker 3: So it was terrible. With that said, you just gotta
Speaker 3: know he's gonna get those calls he's been getting them
Speaker 3: for twenty damn years. So it's on you if you're
Speaker 3: upset about it. And yeah, Jerome Boger is not a
Speaker 3: very good ref. I understand that. But that's not about
Speaker 3: Jerome Boger. It's about Brady. Brady got that in the
Speaker 3: AFC Championship game in twenty eighteen, got a BS roughing
Speaker 3: the passer penalty, then threw up, threw a pick to
Speaker 3: endo the game Mahomes his first year as a starter,
Speaker 3: Chiefs would have won the Super Bowl. And yes, de
Speaker 3: Ford was lined up off sides, but de Ford d
Speaker 3: Ford had been lined up in that same spot all
Speaker 3: day and they don't flag it like they're saving it
Speaker 3: for when Brady really needs He's been this has happened.
Speaker 3: He's the NFC Championship game a few years ago against
Speaker 3: Green Bay, the one where Rogers doesn't run. Instead they
Speaker 3: kicked the field goal. The Packers got the stop and
Speaker 3: then there's any illegal contact or whatever they call down
Speaker 3: the field BS call. You know it's coming, It's always coming.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, you let it talk a lot of smack about
Speaker 4: the Bills, But they looked pretty dominant this I say
Speaker 4: it look pretty good.
Speaker 5: Looks great, and I really wanted to put money on them.
Speaker 5: They could have scored.
Speaker 3: They wanted to make a stupid will Josh Allen throw
Speaker 3: for more yards than can he Pickett bet at like
Speaker 3: minus one eight?
Speaker 5: Is that well?
Speaker 3: I told you? Demanse came to me. He was like,
Speaker 3: not that I do this. Why would someone not just
Speaker 3: put like a thousand dollars on this bet? And I'm like,
Speaker 3: what bet? He's like, Josh Allen threw from more yards
Speaker 3: then Canny Pikett and forget the fact that the juice
Speaker 3: was way against you. The answer was and I told you, yeah,
Speaker 3: it made sense that if you really think the Bills
Speaker 3: are going to dominate that game, they might just start
Speaker 3: running those second half of Pittsburgh throwing the lit the
Speaker 3: second half. Now, the look on Demane's face went on.
Speaker 3: The third player of the game, Joshdown threw a ninety
Speaker 3: eight yard touchdown pass and then threw for over three
Speaker 3: hundred yards in the first half. He was upset. I
Speaker 3: was upset, almost as upset as the fact that the
Speaker 3: one bet I told him to make was a Chief's
Speaker 3: Jags teaser and the Jags just need to win and
Speaker 3: they never scored touchdown the whole game. But okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: But anyways, they play Casey next week, and while we're
Speaker 4: all looking forward to that, the Chiefs still got to
Speaker 4: take care of business against the Raiders.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Are you scared Casey is going to overlook this game
Speaker 4: because they're too focused on being the favorite. It's for
Speaker 4: the super Bowl and I'll be focused on this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I mean they're playing the Bills. Are the
Speaker 3: massive super Bowl favorites. The Bills are favored by two
Speaker 3: in Arrowhead next week. The disrespect Mahomes hadn't been underdog
Speaker 3: in thirty eight weeks. Now he's underdog two of the
Speaker 3: last three weeks. Well, let's get through the Raider game first.
Speaker 3: But the disrespect to Patrick Mahomes to be an underdog
Speaker 3: at home against a team that the last time they
Speaker 3: played at Arrowhead was sobbing because they couldn't stop him
Speaker 3: for thirteen seconds. The utter disrespect. Now, I would be
Speaker 3: worried about this being a trap game for the Chiefs
Speaker 3: tonight against the Raiders if it wasn't the Raiders, it
Speaker 3: was just different mediocre team coming to Arrowhead. Maybe, But
Speaker 3: it's Mahomes in primetime where he's got the best numbers
Speaker 3: of any quarterback ever. It's against a team that two
Speaker 3: years ago beat them in Arrowhead and then did victory
Speaker 3: laps around the stadium and their team bus. They haven't
Speaker 3: gotten past that. It's a team that in his career
Speaker 3: he has twenty two touchdowns three picks, averaging thirty seven
Speaker 3: points per game against the Raiders. So no, I'm not
Speaker 3: worried about that. We will talk a lot of Bills
Speaker 3: Chiefs on Thursday's episode because I am angry that line
Speaker 3: is could the Bills? Obviously it's the regular season. The
Speaker 3: Bills could win the Billings.
Speaker 5: Everything that it took for the Chiefs to win that last.
Speaker 3: Time, Everything you took for the Bills to win that
Speaker 3: last to win that last time, but they didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Bills needed all the same miracles, but they and
Speaker 3: they got them, and they still didn't win. Get the
Speaker 3: hell out of it, Bill's favorite and Arrowhead. We'll be
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in episode eighty. What's right, Nick Wright? We're
Speaker 3: talking week five in the NFL. We'll get to Draymond
Speaker 3: in a moment, but as we're live on the air,
Speaker 3: Matt Ruhle's been fired. Kevin Wilds had a very interesting tweet.
Speaker 3: I give him credit, which is Baker Mayfield has now
Speaker 3: had let me let me make sure this is right
Speaker 3: by wild Yeah, Baker Mayfield has had twice as many
Speaker 3: head coaches in his career as Tom Brady. So Baker
Speaker 3: Mayfield went Hugh Jackson to an interim coach?
Speaker 5: Are we going college from NFL?
Speaker 3: Or just NFL? So Baker has been in the league
Speaker 3: five years. He went Hugh Jackson to an interm coach,
Speaker 3: to Freddie Kitchens, to Kevin Stefanski, to Matt Ruhle, to
Speaker 3: whomever the new who's the interim coach? Now I gotta look,
Speaker 3: I forget who's on that staff. But here's the thing,
Speaker 3: and I've defended Baker passing game, defensive passing game coordinator.
Speaker 3: Secondary coach Steve Wilkes is going to be the interim
Speaker 3: head coach. Wilkes was head coach for the Cardinals for
Speaker 3: one year.
Speaker 5: You're about say you're done with that.
Speaker 3: No, listen, I was just wrong. I was wrong on Baker.
Speaker 3: I thought that with a good defense and Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 3: he would get back to the Baker that two years
Speaker 3: ago won a playoff game and was good. And he's
Speaker 3: been one of the worst players in the league this year,
Speaker 3: by the way. Interesting a little curse in sports that's
Speaker 3: yet to bite the Bills. But I just want to
Speaker 3: put it out there. Okay, since Patrick Mahomes has been
Speaker 3: in Kansas City, the teams that have played the Chiefs
Speaker 3: in the divisional round of the playoffs, I just want
Speaker 3: to tell you what they were and then what happened
Speaker 3: to them. Okay, if I made just for a moment.
Speaker 3: Patrick mahomes first year with the Chiefs in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: in the divisional round, they played the Indianapolis Colts. Colts
Speaker 3: were a really good team with Andrew Luck as their quarterback.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs crushed them Andrew Luck then shockingly were it tires.
Speaker 3: The next year, twenty nineteen, the Chiefs in the Divisional
Speaker 3: Round play a team that looks like they should be
Speaker 3: an AFC contender for years with one of the best
Speaker 3: quarterbacks in football. That team is the Houston Texans. The
Speaker 3: Chiefs crushed them after being down twenty four to nothing,
Speaker 3: and the next year the Texans go four and twelve
Speaker 3: and then they the Deshaun Watson. That's then the next
Speaker 3: year they're evenores. Okay. The very next year, the Chiefs
Speaker 3: in the Divisional Round play the Cleveland Browns and Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 3: and it's all looking good for Cleveland. They make the playoffs,
Speaker 3: they won a playoff game. The next year they have
Speaker 3: the Year from Hell and then trade Baker. Last year
Speaker 3: in the division round, the Chiefs play the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's gonna happen to Buffalo. I just
Speaker 3: know the three teams that look like they had the
Speaker 3: whole world in front of them, Indy and then Houston
Speaker 3: and then Cleveland, it all fell apart. So we'll just
Speaker 3: see if there's a little divisional round curse.
Speaker 5: They get the gates with the great quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson was unbelievable. Andrew Luck was unbelievable. Andrew Luck
Speaker 3: quit football. Yeah, he said, I don't want to do
Speaker 3: this anymore. Deshaun Watson said, I don't want to be
Speaker 3: a Texan anymore. If Baker Mayfield's got kicked off his
Speaker 3: own team, we'll just see.
Speaker 5: Are you going on to Draymond? Now?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, we can move on. What's up?
Speaker 5: Draymond punches Jordan Pool in the face. Video gets leaked
Speaker 5: on TMZ.
Speaker 4: Draymond then says that he's going to take a step
Speaker 4: back away from the team, and this is what he
Speaker 4: had to say.
Speaker 3: I do want to give my team some space. I
Speaker 3: want to give Jordan some space and then also dig
Speaker 3: a few days and continue to work on myself. I
Speaker 3: didn't handle that well, and I failed as a leader.
Speaker 3: I failed as a man, and I failed as a leader.
Speaker 3: So there's Draymond's quote. Go ahead the monthly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you noted how Draymond didn't do his scheduled podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 4: what do you make of this whole situation? It's on
Speaker 4: and off the court ramifications and what it means for
Speaker 4: Draymond Green.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I made a big deal on Friday that
Speaker 3: Draymond hadn't said anything yet, And Draymond finally spoke and
Speaker 3: spoke for a long time, and he did seem sincere. Okay,
Speaker 3: he did seem sincere, but he doesn't mean he's geeking
Speaker 3: prevent this from happening in the future. So I'm going
Speaker 3: to use a parenting analogy, all right. Sometimes your kids,
Speaker 3: like as teens, consistently screw up, and every time you
Speaker 3: sit and talk with them, they are sincere that they
Speaker 3: feel badly. They are sincere that they want to correct
Speaker 3: the behavior. They are sincere that they know they've lost
Speaker 3: your trust, but they are not yet emotionally mature enough
Speaker 3: to win. A similar situation arises to avoid making the
Speaker 3: same mistakes, right, and this is very typical with almost
Speaker 3: all teenagers. I parented two teenagers in different ways, both
Speaker 3: of them exact same thing. In this with you, it
Speaker 3: was more like, I'm not to like do x, Y
Speaker 3: and Z on the weekends. I know I'm not supposed to.
Speaker 3: I feel badly. I hate that we keep having these conversations,
Speaker 3: and then two months later you're giving the opportunity. You're like,
Speaker 3: I can't help myself, I'm gonna go do it, and
Speaker 3: with even your younger sister, who is as well behaved
Speaker 3: as a kid and as good as a kid as
Speaker 3: one could hope for. When it comes to oh boy,
Speaker 3: I've got this homework due. I know it's due, I
Speaker 3: know I need to do it. Or I could just
Speaker 3: wait and then just do it all at the last minute.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that and then feel bad and be
Speaker 3: upset and no, dug yourself all. It's an emotional maturity thing, right.
Speaker 3: It's your brains aren't fully developed. You're always borrowing from
Speaker 3: future you for today you. It's what young people do.
Speaker 3: The Robert Draymond is what is thirty one years old?
Speaker 3: Let's say you got to grow out of that. Sh
Speaker 3: sorry my bad, I'll watch my language better. You've got
Speaker 3: to get better. You've got to grow out of it.
Speaker 3: I want to see how old Draymond is, uh, and
Speaker 3: he has so clearly thirty two thirty six to be old.
Speaker 3: Bro Lebron's thirty seven. It just looks thirty two. So
Speaker 3: I said, thirty one thirty two, you've got to grow
Speaker 3: up and unlike parents.
Speaker 5: It wasn't that. Let's just note how the punch was crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a good thing.
Speaker 5: We haven't talked about it.
Speaker 3: That's a good point, because we hadn't seen the video.
Speaker 3: Everything about the video was worse than I thought it
Speaker 3: was going I thought it was going to be. They're
Speaker 3: on the court together, jawing at each other, get kind
Speaker 3: of face to face. Someone pushes someone and it's one
Speaker 3: of those things that's a punch because it's closed fist,
Speaker 3: but that it started three inches from his head, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, where you can't really get a lot.
Speaker 3: It's like that if you're watching on YouTube, where you
Speaker 3: can't get a lot of force or momentum, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. This was a lunch and it absolutely
Speaker 3: could have broken his eye socket, broken his jaw. Draymond's
Speaker 3: a much bigger guy, a much stronger guy, so the
Speaker 3: punch was wild. The fact that it seemed to arise
Speaker 3: out of nothing, and Draymon says, how far apart, And
Speaker 3: the fact that the other thing that's noteworthy to me
Speaker 3: is pre punch, none of the other players on the court,
Speaker 3: because it's not like it's not like that Jordan Poole
Speaker 3: said something because we don't have the audio, but given
Speaker 3: everyone's reactions pre punch, it's not like he said something
Speaker 3: where people were like, oh no, like nobody's even paying attention.
Speaker 3: And so I believe that Draymond's sincere, But I also
Speaker 3: believe that Steve Kerr and Bob Myers are fed up
Speaker 3: with this. And do I think this will impact his
Speaker 3: ability to contract extension? Of course I do. Do I
Speaker 3: think this if this Warrior season goes sideways? Do I
Speaker 3: think we now have you know, a patient zero of it,
Speaker 3: an epicenter of where it started?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I do so.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I give Draymond credit because he did own it,
Speaker 3: but at some point to finish the parenting analogy and
Speaker 3: we'll get to our game. The thing with parenting teenagers
Speaker 3: is a couple of things. One is you know they're
Speaker 3: going to grow out of it eventually, and the other
Speaker 3: is there your kids, so they're any of their problems
Speaker 3: are kind of your fault, like you raised them, like
Speaker 3: you even if the kid themselves You're like, no, I
Speaker 3: was that was on me as a parent. You feel like, well,
Speaker 3: I could have done a better job, Like I'm the
Speaker 3: one who raised you, and you love them unconditionally and
Speaker 3: you're tied to them forever.
Speaker 5: Are you about to say like Draymond's not anybody's kids, not.
Speaker 3: Anybody's There's no there was no option where it's like, hey,
Speaker 3: do you want like at your lowest moment, you know
Speaker 3: what was not an option like oh boy, I could
Speaker 3: trade the monke an eight year old calf relief, Like see,
Speaker 3: I see if I can get half the production and
Speaker 3: none of the headache. It's like, no, he's my son,
Speaker 3: like deal, like that's the other thing here.
Speaker 5: At some point, yeah.
Speaker 3: At some point you run out of equity, and Draymond's
Speaker 3: walking a very thin line. All right, let's play a game.
Speaker 4: It's time for or wrong, folks. Let's start off with
Speaker 4: my favorite, Trevor Lawrence and the Jags did not only
Speaker 4: cover the seventh. They didn't cover, Yes, did not only yes,
Speaker 4: not only didn't you're saying didn't not only it's fine,
Speaker 4: not only not only did they not cover the seven,
Speaker 4: but they lost to the Texans who were all three
Speaker 4: and one and and burn you and your survivor.
Speaker 5: Right or wrong? Nick misread the prophecy of the Prince
Speaker 5: that was promised.
Speaker 3: The answer to that is wrong. But these have been
Speaker 3: a bad two weeks.
Speaker 5: This guy cheated me out of hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 4: Yesterday yeah, I throw that out there one more time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cheated me out a bit more. Uh, it's bad
Speaker 3: two weeks for my guy. The Eagles game you want
Speaker 3: chalk up to the weather, fine, I did it. Yesterday's
Speaker 3: games really really bad. The pick in the end zone
Speaker 3: just can't happen. It just can't happen. And some of
Speaker 3: the decisions like even yeah, so you have like you
Speaker 3: have fourth and eight, the game on the line, and
Speaker 3: you take a kill shot on the sideline when you
Speaker 3: just need to keep the drive moving, keep your team alive.
Speaker 3: And I like his coach. Now, I don't love the weapons.
Speaker 3: I don't love the receivers, but that's not why they lost.
Speaker 3: You scored zero touchdowns against the Texas. So I still
Speaker 3: believe in the talent of Trevor Lawrence. But this week,
Speaker 3: to me, was the worst game of his career. It
Speaker 3: was worse than the five turnover game. Five turnover games
Speaker 3: against a good team in terrible weather. This is a
Speaker 3: division game. You've got to win against a bad team
Speaker 3: at home. Is bad.
Speaker 5: I mean, nicing to a team whose record is three
Speaker 5: and one.
Speaker 3: It is just terrible. Pretty nice, it's just terrible.
Speaker 4: Next, you know, Smith may not have won Sunday, but
Speaker 4: he looked pretty solid. And Russell Wilson has been so
Speaker 4: bad on Thursday, we're talking about him on a Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 4: right or wrong, Gino Smith is better than Russell Wilson
Speaker 4: for this year. He will be definitely better.
Speaker 3: Than well, we know he's been better up to this point. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but right, I think by the at the end of
Speaker 3: the year, Gino will have had a better, better year,
Speaker 3: especially now they're all Russell is dealing with a shoulder injury.
Speaker 3: And by the way I call bs on this, I'm
Speaker 3: not saying he's not dealing with a shoulder injury. What
Speaker 3: I am saying is that is not why they lost
Speaker 3: that game on was it Thursday night? Lost that game
Speaker 3: Thursday night? Russ. Let's say the shoulder injury is totally legit,
Speaker 3: then you know what you don't do up three with
Speaker 3: two minutes and ten seconds left, try to fit in
Speaker 3: a bullet with Stefan Gilmour on the guy that's what
Speaker 3: you don't do. What you don't do is and that
Speaker 3: on the in overtime when they went for the win,
Speaker 3: he had a guy wide open or he could have
Speaker 3: run like those are not shoulder and the other interception,
Speaker 3: the moon ball prayer. But those are process errors, not
Speaker 3: shoulder errors.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe this is what Russ is talking about in
Speaker 5: his subway commercial.
Speaker 4: He's asking if you've ever done anything dangerous? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's doing something dangerous, man.
Speaker 3: But it was I mean, you could set your clock
Speaker 3: to it. The idea that there was gonna be some
Speaker 3: reporting that all Russ is dealing with an injury. You
Speaker 3: knew that was gonna happen. And I'm not doubting that
Speaker 3: he's dealing with an injury. But when we're talking about
Speaker 3: prognosticating what the rest of the year is going to
Speaker 3: look like, his processing has been bad, the coaching has
Speaker 3: been bad. Javonte Williams, the best player on offense, is
Speaker 3: now out for the year, and and now he's gonna
Speaker 3: be dealing with a shoulder injury. Gino will be better.
Speaker 3: Right now, here's a fun one knows.
Speaker 4: Actually Gino's played well. Only is he better than Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4: I just think I think he's a good quarterback in general.
Speaker 3: It would be an unbelievable turn about for that guy's career.
Speaker 3: But thus far, like that's an interesting window because prior
Speaker 3: to this football season, demons didn't watch a ton of
Speaker 3: the NFL. So if you're new to the NFL and
Speaker 3: you look at Geno Smith, you're like, why am I
Speaker 3: supposed think of him as one of the twelve best
Speaker 3: quarterbacks in football based on this year alone, He's been there.
Speaker 3: Right now, Russ is a bottom five quarterback in the
Speaker 3: AFC right now. Quarterbacks that I would take Russ over
Speaker 3: what they're doing in Pittsburgh for sure. Matt Ryan, Matt Ryan. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know Matt Ryan got the way Matt Ryan has cooked.
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know that i'd take him over Bakers in
Speaker 3: the NFC. I don't know that i'd take him over
Speaker 3: Zach Wilson. Right now, Zack Wilson's two and oh since
Speaker 3: he came back.
Speaker 5: How many touchdown passes is rustlown this year?
Speaker 3: Five? But let me look Russell Wilson on the year,
Speaker 3: four touchdowns, three picks. I mean he's been terrible, all right?
Speaker 5: Next? Wow, the Rams lost Dallas at home. Matthew Stafford
Speaker 5: looks off in LA is now two to three and
Speaker 5: might be the worst team in their division. Right or wrong,
Speaker 5: the Rams are gonna miss the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I gotta look at their schedule. But right now, you've
Speaker 3: got to say, it looks like they are. Right now,
Speaker 3: this looks like a bad football team that cannot protect Stafford. Now,
Speaker 3: Donald's amazing, and Ramsey isn't what he once was, but
Speaker 3: is still very very very good. Right I but that
Speaker 3: offensive line is in such shambles, and yesterday they had
Speaker 3: a bad special team's day two it is, it is
Speaker 3: incredibly difficult. Let me look at what they've got because
Speaker 3: they also have that Super Bowl champion schedule. So the
Speaker 3: Rams the rest to the way have they have their
Speaker 3: home for Carolina this week? That should be a get
Speaker 3: right game, right even though Carolina are they gonna have
Speaker 3: the new coach bump and Carolina's pass rush, Oh boy,
Speaker 3: I mean that's that's tough. Then they have a buy
Speaker 3: But then San Francisco, Tampa, Arizona, New Orleans, Kansas City, Seattle, Vegas, Screen.
Speaker 5: Bay didn't not sounding too sweet?
Speaker 3: No, I think, right I wonder what football outsiders has
Speaker 3: them at. I think right now they're an underdog to
Speaker 3: make the playoffs because we've got to anticipate two NFC
Speaker 3: East teams are making it. Philly plus at least one
Speaker 3: of Dallas or the Giants right right, the NFC that
Speaker 3: it's gonna be so soft in the middle. I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not writing them off as dead. But if you
Speaker 3: were to ask me, you know, even money bet rams
Speaker 3: do or don't make the playoffs. I think the small
Speaker 3: money right now is on don't. That's crazy?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: Next? All right, Kyler and cart By the way, keep
Speaker 3: asking questions in the chat. We're gonna do your questions
Speaker 3: for the final segment of the show.
Speaker 5: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Kyler and the Cardinals almost pulled off the comeback versus
Speaker 4: the undefeated Eagles, but the Cardinals quarterback displayed some Nathaniel
Speaker 4: Hackett like clock management skills in the final moments. Right
Speaker 4: or wrong, Kyler Murray's spike was the worst case of
Speaker 4: clock management this week.
Speaker 3: It was the worst case of clock management in the
Speaker 3: United States this week. Okay, Now, the London game, Matt
Speaker 3: Lafour tricked that off the first half and first half,
Speaker 3: blew the clock and it cost him a good chance
Speaker 3: that had touchdown. Said, they settled for three and in
Speaker 3: the second half. They wasted a time out early third
Speaker 3: quarter for no reason that they then needed later in
Speaker 3: the game. But Kyler, you can't go on our You
Speaker 3: can't say receivers need to be awake when you're playing
Speaker 3: with me and all this bs. And then here was
Speaker 3: the sequence. They get a first down, they're down three.
Speaker 3: Their kicker has been cut by two teams already this year,
Speaker 3: and he was the kicker to Monse from the Chiefs
Speaker 3: Colts game. That's the guy.
Speaker 5: Wait, the guy that messed up his foot. No, oh,
Speaker 5: the guy that came in.
Speaker 3: The guy that came in and missed all those kicks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this guy by the way sidebarb. Can you imagine if
Speaker 3: you're like a fringe NFL kicker just trying to get
Speaker 3: a chance, and this matt Amandola clown has gotten three
Speaker 3: teams to give him jobs this year, only run and
Speaker 3: be terrible for all of them. But set that aside.
Speaker 3: You know your kicker is a replacement kicker, right. They
Speaker 3: get a first down with around forty second forty five
Speaker 3: seconds left. They're at fringefield goal range. Fringe, they're at
Speaker 3: like the thirty five Kyler spikes it on first down.
Speaker 3: Don't love that, but fine, he does it. Second down.
Speaker 3: He runs easily has a first down if he dives
Speaker 3: or just stays running. But he slides here's why that's important.
Speaker 3: The NFL couple years go change the rules to where
Speaker 3: if you're a quarterback who slides, you are down not
Speaker 3: where you in the slide, but right where you begin it.
Speaker 3: That way, it protects the quarterbacks, but they can't just
Speaker 3: slide for extra yardage. He slides a yard short of
Speaker 3: the first down, does not have the awareness to realize
Speaker 3: he slides the yard short of the first down, and
Speaker 3: then spikes it with twenty three seconds left. If you're
Speaker 3: gonna spike it there and then kick it on fourth,
Speaker 3: you actually want to wait to spike it. It was terrible,
Speaker 3: and then of course Amandola shanks it. It was awful
Speaker 3: for a two hundred million dollars quarterback. So no, the
Speaker 3: Kyler thing was so bad. It was so bad, and
Speaker 3: he just seems like a pain in the ass to
Speaker 3: play with.
Speaker 5: It like a tough year for quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Man, Well, you know what, that's interesting. Go to our
Speaker 3: last thing and then we'll move on.
Speaker 4: Last week, Tom Brady said, I think there's a lot
Speaker 4: of bad football.
Speaker 5: That's what he was seeing around the league. Right or wrong.
Speaker 5: Tom Brady was right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom, Yes, he was right. And so a number
Speaker 3: of things have happened. Some of this is teams not
Speaker 3: playing their starters in preseason. Some of this is team's
Speaker 3: aren't practicing enough. Some of this also is teams saw
Speaker 3: the way this soft, too high shell defense affected the
Speaker 3: Chiefs last year, and now they're doing it across the league.
Speaker 3: Take away the big play, make teams be methodical, dare
Speaker 3: them to run the football, make them take small gains,
Speaker 3: and teams can't do it. And teams that are built
Speaker 3: on the big play have struggled unless they have a
Speaker 3: superstar quarterback like Mahomes were, like Josh Allen, but you
Speaker 3: see Aaron Rodgers and the Packers have struggled. Tom Brady
Speaker 3: and the Bucks have struggled offensively, Kyler has struggled a
Speaker 3: lot of these teams that are based on the big shot.
Speaker 3: With teams taking that away and daring you to run,
Speaker 3: they can't take advantage of it. So Brady was correct
Speaker 3: on that. All right, about a sixty second break, be
Speaker 3: back answering your questions. We wrap up episode eighty of
Speaker 3: What's Right with Nick? Right, you know what, somebody just
Speaker 3: welcome back in. By the way, you know what, somebody
Speaker 3: just sent me that son of a gun old take exposed.
Speaker 3: It's gonna fry me. Do you remember before the year
Speaker 3: I did the twenty four NFL observations in twenty four
Speaker 3: hours leading up to the relaunch of First Things First,
Speaker 3: I did it on Twitter number four. I'm gonna read
Speaker 3: it to you as follows. Boy, the Panthers got an
Speaker 3: absolute steel and Baker. No first round quarterback in modern
Speaker 3: NFL history has ever had the amount of success Baker
Speaker 3: out of the Cleveland Gotten trailer released for the end
Speaker 3: of his rookie contract. Massive mistake by Cleveland and huge
Speaker 3: win for Carolina. That one has an age that well.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you that one uh has not aged
Speaker 3: that well? Uh so? And also we've got okay, hold on,
Speaker 3: we've got people asking for mugs the show. I gotta
Speaker 3: stay off Twitter, all right, final segment, We've got some
Speaker 3: questions from the audience in the live YouTube chat. Demons,
Speaker 3: give him to me. What are we starting with?
Speaker 4: We're starting off with veto and he asked, do you
Speaker 4: think Cooper Rush is going to be a valuable trade
Speaker 4: piece in the offseason or a or a long term
Speaker 4: security blanket?
Speaker 3: Okay, So, unfortunately for the Cowboys, the answer might be neither.
Speaker 3: Cooper Rush. Let me make sure I'm right about this.
Speaker 3: I think is contract. Yeah, this is the last year
Speaker 3: of his contract, and he's been in the league long enough.
Speaker 3: He's not a restricted free agent. He's unrestricted. Now what
Speaker 3: do imagine? I don't think any team is going to
Speaker 3: be racing to make Cooper Rush their starting quarterback. But
Speaker 3: I think he will get some good money backup quarterback offers,
Speaker 3: and I ain't if you're the cow Boys. He's the
Speaker 3: best backup quarterback you could hope for because he knows
Speaker 3: the system and he's played well. So I do think
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to find like four million bucks for
Speaker 3: this guy. Five million bucks for this guy.
Speaker 5: Shout out.
Speaker 3: Now, Maybe I'll be wrong. Maybe a team will be
Speaker 3: desperate and stupid and try to, you know, give him
Speaker 3: a shot at be a starter, in which case will
Speaker 3: pay him like twelve million. Cowboys can't do that, So
Speaker 3: they're not gonna franchise tag him. Obviously, he'd be thirty
Speaker 3: five million dollars Rush. So he's going to be a
Speaker 3: true free and clear free agent, and it'll be very
Speaker 3: interesting to see what type of market he has. But
Speaker 3: they can't trade him. If the only way they could
Speaker 3: trade him is if they do it now, they do
Speaker 3: it in the next month, and they're not gonna do
Speaker 3: that all right. Next, low Suck.
Speaker 5: Asks would you like to be a GM for a
Speaker 5: sports team? If you could become one, which league would
Speaker 5: you pick? And which team would you try to rebuild?
Speaker 3: So you know, it's funny. I I've always said I'd
Speaker 3: love to be an MBAGM. I had someone I'll just
Speaker 3: say who it is. I was talking with Maverick about
Speaker 3: this because he's gonna he and Lebron are gonna buy
Speaker 3: a team. I just kind of trying to position myself
Speaker 3: for a front office job, and I was like, you
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to be president of basketball operations. He's like no,
Speaker 3: He's like, that's a terrible job. Like how's that terrible job?
Speaker 3: He's like, it's just everyone coming into your office and
Speaker 3: complaining about other people, the players don't like the coach.
Speaker 3: The coach as you gotten better players, It's like, that's
Speaker 3: a bad job. Now I think I would.
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing I would. I am not good enough
Speaker 3: at evaluating college prospects on the collegiate football level to
Speaker 3: be a great I'd be a terrible NFL scout I
Speaker 3: think I'd be exceptional at cat management stuff and contract stuff.
Speaker 3: But that's like, that's not a high enough ranking job
Speaker 3: for me to leave the one I have now. Mike
Speaker 3: Mayock went straight from TV at NFLGM and was terrible
Speaker 3: at it. Other guys have gone into front offices, But
Speaker 3: nobody's gonna hire me to run an NFL team, and
Speaker 3: they shouldn't. Now, could I be a good consultant on
Speaker 3: certain things? I know it sounds a statistical one. There
Speaker 3: are certain things that they the myself, barnwell, a few
Speaker 3: people are just sharper at than the vast majority of
Speaker 3: NFL front offices. Now in the NBA. The thing with
Speaker 3: the NBA is this, it's such limited opportunities to be great,
Speaker 3: because it really is, do you have one of these
Speaker 3: seven guys? And if you're running a team that doesn't,
Speaker 3: then how do you get one of these seven guys?
Speaker 5: Are you all right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You all of a sudden look sick to your stomach?
Speaker 3: Are you good?
Speaker 5: No? I just figured out how to move my ears
Speaker 5: without mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so crazy, Like I don't know, I'd like
Speaker 4: did like a little inside yawn and like now I
Speaker 4: know how to do it.
Speaker 3: Oh, Okay, well, I'm glad you discovered that. I saw
Speaker 3: the look on your face. I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 3: I know it was a Eureka moment that you just
Speaker 3: realize how to move yours in real time. I knew
Speaker 3: something was going on with you. I knew something odd
Speaker 3: was happening.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: I think right now, if I wanted to quit the
Speaker 3: TV show and work in an NBA front office, I
Speaker 3: think Darryl. I think I could get a job with
Speaker 3: the Sixers, but it would not be would you know
Speaker 3: it would it be entry level? No, it would be
Speaker 3: higher than entry level. Like Darryl and I have talked
Speaker 3: enough basketball that he is enough respect for what I
Speaker 3: know and how I see things. I could have a
Speaker 3: decent job, I think, but it would not be it
Speaker 3: would not be the the I'm not trying to start
Speaker 3: a whole new career from scratch. If somebody, if somebody
Speaker 3: offered me the opportunity to be present of basketball operations, yeah,
Speaker 3: of course, of course I would do it. But if
Speaker 3: I'm being totally honest, I think there's way better people
Speaker 3: available than me for that. I do think that there
Speaker 3: are certain things that I'm very sharp on that I
Speaker 3: could help teams with in the NFL, most notably cap
Speaker 3: management and clock stuff, and in the NBA holistically looking
Speaker 3: at the organization and understanding what's important. But those jobs
Speaker 3: don't really exist, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, o Reich Smith said or asked, do you think
Speaker 4: the Bengals will be able to overcome their terrible coaching?
Speaker 4: I don't see this team making a dream run again
Speaker 4: with this terrible No, I don't.
Speaker 3: I think there's a ceiling on them because of their coaching.
Speaker 3: And I also think that they're in a really rough
Speaker 3: spot because Mike Brown, the owner, is not gonna pay out,
Speaker 3: you know, fire a coach and pay out his contract.
Speaker 3: So I think that is a there's a ceiling on
Speaker 3: the Bengals because of that.
Speaker 5: Next, all right, Anthony asked who does Nick have?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, who does Nick have for a way way
Speaker 4: too early, way too early MVP future this year?
Speaker 5: Giannis, Luca or job?
Speaker 3: All Right? So if you ask me who I think
Speaker 3: is gonna win it, I think Luca is gonna win it.
Speaker 3: I think Luca is gonna have an unbelievable year. If
Speaker 3: you're asking me who I would bet on, let me Yo,
Speaker 3: there's Yoka zero percent to win it in your book,
Speaker 3: I just I don't think that they're the last way.
Speaker 3: Three in a row is Larry Bird. Prior to that,
Speaker 3: it was was it Wilter Russell? It was one of them,
Speaker 3: So I do not think there is any realistic chance
Speaker 3: he's going to get it. I want to se where's
Speaker 3: NBA Awards. I'm shocked they can't find it on here.
Speaker 3: Uh I was trying to find let me let me
Speaker 3: look up quickly here before we move on NBA MVP odds.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to see if there's like a good if
Speaker 3: there's a good value. Because Luke is the favorite, Luca
Speaker 3: is only plus four fifty, Embiid's plus five hundred. That's
Speaker 3: not a bad one because I think they're gonna be
Speaker 3: very good. Giannis is plus five fifty. Those are the
Speaker 3: three best bets, and I don't think it'd be terrible.
Speaker 3: If you bet on all three of those guys, you'd
Speaker 3: be getting five to three, so you'd be getting plus
Speaker 3: money on that. That might be the way to go
Speaker 3: if you're going to go with a long shot. I
Speaker 3: think the Suns are not gonna be that good. So
Speaker 3: Devin Booker twenty eight to one is no good, A
Speaker 3: long shot, long shot. It's a long shots don't usually
Speaker 3: win in the NBA MVP. John fourteen to one, I
Speaker 3: don't see it. You know what, I'll throw one out
Speaker 3: there that's a semi long shot.
Speaker 5: Step Okay just won the.
Speaker 3: Finals, hasn't won MVP in a long time. You know
Speaker 3: his numbers are gonna be great, not really an injury risk.
Speaker 3: STEP's not a terrible one. I think Steph is as
Speaker 3: far as the ten to one or longer.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 3: I know some people like Zion this year. That team's
Speaker 3: gonna be good, but not good enough to have league enbep. Well,
Speaker 3: they changed the rules for Yokis, maybe they'll change their
Speaker 3: for Zion, but I don't see it.
Speaker 4: All right, last one, we got a lot more And
Speaker 4: this is from Juicy Beats COO. Question from Houston. How
Speaker 4: does it feel to underestimate the Texans this week.
Speaker 5: And get your right move destroyed?
Speaker 4: All love, huge fan of the show and first things
Speaker 4: and first things first.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks buddy, I love that one lost. I broke
Speaker 3: all my rules, all my gambling rules on that stupid game.
Speaker 3: I just included. I had three different teasers going yesterday,
Speaker 3: right and the Jags were part of all three, so
Speaker 3: I just lost them all. I lost all of them
Speaker 3: because the Jags couldn't win and I lost. I'm I'm
Speaker 3: in a massive survivor contest where you have multiple entries.
Speaker 3: Eight Now ninety of the injries have been eliminated. I
Speaker 3: still had fifty percent of mine twenty entries. I have
Speaker 3: ten left, had ten left. Half of those were the Jacks,
Speaker 3: turning down to five injuries in that one. I lost
Speaker 3: all this money. I got demanse venmowing me sixty dollars
Speaker 3: like that's gonna make a god dog dent and what
Speaker 3: the Jags cost me yesterday. Congrats to the Texans. Good
Speaker 3: for you guys. That was today's show. We will be
Speaker 3: back on Thursday. Great job, Demnse. Chiefs gonna roll, you
Speaker 3: know what. Chiefs huge over the Raiders tonight, Huge over
Speaker 3: the Raiders tonight. And I'm I'm gonna really break all
Speaker 3: my rules, making it all back on the Oh, making
Speaker 3: it all back on the Une tonight. Imagine what Nothing
Speaker 3: exactly right? All right, We'll talk to you guys on Thursday.