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Watch Unstoppable now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.840 Welcome in episode sixty four of What's Right with Nick Wright, 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.000 the podcast and YouTube show. And before we even get 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.440 into today's show, before we get into what we're not 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.840 discussing on today's show, I want to discuss what's happening 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.360 on the television side of things. As was announced yesterday morning, 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.520 we have a new FS one lineup. First Things First 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.680 is now moving to the afternoons. You might say it's 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.680 still called First Things First. Your damn straight, it's still 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.000 called First Things First. Have to help build that brain 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.399 for five years or not changed the damn name and 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.760 it still works. Yeah, it doesn't work time wise, But 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.640 you know how people start arguments a lot, they say 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.000 First Things First. Let me tell you something. Even hip 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:50.840 hop songs have it a lot, So it doesn't have 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.000 to be in the morning. Was Biggie only wrapping in 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.480 the mornings when he did? No, he wasn't, So the 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.320 name is staying in the mornings. However, Craig Carton is 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.480 coming to FS one. Listen. If you're not in the 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.400 New York area, you're not familiar with Craig, or you're 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.760 only familiar with Craig because of the controversy that he 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.120 was involved in a few years ago. I'm gonna say this, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:17.880 Craig Carton is as talented a broadcaster as exists in 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.520 the nation on the sports side of things. He's a 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.560 Syracuse guy like I am, so I'm also partial to him. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.600 He also used to have me on his radio show, 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.040 so I go a long way back with Craig. I 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.840 could not be happier that he is the one taking 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.640 over mornings on FS one. Then there's undisputed unchanged the 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.360 Herd changed in this regard. Joey Taylor no longer gonna 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.400 be alongside Colin and said, is Jason McIntyre more on 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:42.200 Joy in a moment? 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:42.760 Then? 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.519 And I've had great partners on First Things First over 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.240 the five years one two hundred and fifty eight shows 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.200 that we've done, of which I've been a part of 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.960 one thousand, two hundred and probably forty of them. But 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.960 my two best partners ever are Kevin Wilds and Chris Brussard. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.440 That is First Things First, moving forward three pm Eastern 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.680 every day three pm to four thirty, me Brew Wilds. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:09.120 That then leads to Emmanuel Acho Joy Taylor. That's why 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.760 she's leaving the Herd. She's joining Acho and LaShaun McCoy 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.400 Shady McCoy, former great NFL running back. So that's the end. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.840 Then NASCAR Race Hub for our racing fans. So seven 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.079 am to seven pm Eastern we are live. I am 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.160 thrilled for a million different reasons. There's an emotional side 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.679 of it for me, which is I get to now 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.480 take the baton from Colin Cowhard, which is a dream 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.440 come true. There's a personal side of it for me. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.520 For ten years in a row, I've had pre five 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.000 am wake up calls that's now gone. I have not 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.920 been able to take my kids to school for a 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.600 single day. For the entirety of your little sister's life, 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.360 I've never taken her to school. I now could take 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.160 them to school, and because of the schedule, I get 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.280 to pick her up from school every day. The last 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.960 time I took anyone to school to monsday was when 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.240 you were in junior high school. Our entirety of the 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.000 time living in Houston, I was doing mornings. Entirety of 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.000 the time living in New York, I was doing mornings. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.680 So from a personal standpoint, it's great and sleep. If 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.039 I'm going to be totally candid, I also think the 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.359 sports media landscape in that time frame that we're on, 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.320 there's an opening to make some noise. So for all 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.800 those reasons, I'm excited. I'm excited. Oh and we're in 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.359 a brand new studio. So all that's coming Tuesday. This 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.159 coming Tuesday, the new FS one lineup. That's the television 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.280 promo portion of the podcast. Now to the podcast portion 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.839 of the podcast, before we get to our topics here, 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.120 as we always do, is what did not make the show? 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.080 What did not make the show is cam Smith, the 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.800 number two rank golfer in the world, going to the 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.880 Live Tour for one hundred million dollars. When I saw 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.360 this news is the first time I was like, ooh, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:07.600 PGA Tours gotta start being nervous now. Now the if 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:13.480 they offered Tiger eight hundred million, he said no, if 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.120 Tiger or Rory left, I don't know if the PGA 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.239 Tour could withstand it. Now. I don't think they will, 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.400 but they lost, can't they now have? The Live Tour 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.520 is making serious inroads now, Julian Edelman teases is on retirement. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:32.080 Nobody cares Julian, and a question of an over under 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.240 four and a half honey deuces that I consumed at 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.279 the US Open last yesterday when I was there all day. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.599 The answers under The answer is under, sir, I'm a 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.760 responsible man. It's not under by a lot, but it's under. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.000 I don't know if we're saving that. I think that 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:51.760 might come up later. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.880 It might come up later in the show. Okay, listen, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.240 I'm now before we get to the show, since you've 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.599 decided to use the word schmizz before I even have 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.359 introduced you, I'm going to say on the air, but 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.599 I keep telling you off the air you have gotten 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.839 too comfortable, not too comfortable in what you're saying, but 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.400 in how you're delivering it. You see my excitement, you 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.920 see my energy. You're just like you seemed pretty schmiz bro. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.720 That's not gonna play. Need I need a little more 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.760 energy from you, my partner in our brand new studio. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.599 All right, demanse, what are we starting the show with today? 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.760 Jimmy g is officially returning to the forty nine Ers YEP. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.720 Is the highest paid backup quarterback YEP. Forty nine Ers 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.960 couldn't find a trade partner all off season. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:30.320 YEP. 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.599 Does this mean that nobody wanted Jimmy or the forty 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.160 nine Ers aren't quite in on Trey Lance yet. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.479 Oh see, this is not about Trey Lance. This is 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.080 about the fact that Jimmy Garoppolo and his agent and 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.640 the Niners, they surveyed the landscape and they said, will 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:50.520 anyone in football give up even a sixth round pick 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.960 to have Jimmy Garoppolo for more than twenty million dollars? 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.960 The answer was no. Then the question was, okay, if 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.800 Jimmy were to take eight million dollar pay cut and 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.240 gonna instead of making around twenty four million, if he 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.680 was gonna make sixteen million, will anyone give us a 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.960 fourth round pick if he's cheaper? The answer was no. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.360 So the Niners then had to make this decision. Should 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.920 we just release him and get no value for him whatsoever? 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.600 Or is there an amount of money that is in 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:31.240 line with top flight backup quarterbacks that he will accept 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.480 that he will be in on that. Obviously, for the Niners, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.800 who is the best possible backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. The 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.400 guy who knows the system, who's been there, who knows 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.200 the players, knows the personnel. So if you want to say, well, 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.600 Tyrod Taylor is a great backup quarterback Finer Teddy Bridgewater. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.680 Those guys are great backup quarterbacks, and some people would 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.040 say I'd rather have those guys. If you were on 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.800 the Seahawks, would you rather have those guys as your 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:58.680 backup quarterback? 0:07:58.800 --> 0:07:59.240 Maybe? 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.480 But on the nine, Jimmy Garoppolo is the best backup 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.120 quarterback by a mile because he knows the system, He's 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.760 familiar with everybody. This is not about people that don't 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.640 want either they don't want Trey Lance to succeed, or 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:22.000 more accurately, they are emotionally or take wise invested in 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.600 Jimmy Garoppolo being more than he was. Are trying to 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.120 turn this into an indictment on Trey Lance. It is 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.640 not an indictment on Trey Lance. It is the Niners, 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:38.000 in my opinion, taking advantage of the fact that nobody 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.080 wanted Jimmy Garoppolo, and that's why he was willing to 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:48.280 accept six million dollars as his salary. And I'll add this, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.280 I know he has a quote no trade clause unquote 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.720 not really what that means is they won't trade him 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.120 anywhere he doesn't want to go. But no team would 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.600 trade for jim Garoppolo if he doesn't want to be there, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.439 because nobody wants their quarterback to not want to be there. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.120 So what the Niners did here in getting him to 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.319 agree to this lower salary that he can make, you know, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:16.760 an extra ten million with playtime incentives, is it made 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:24.960 him exponentially more trade a bull. Why because if somebody's 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.280 quarterback goes down in the first couple months. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.600 Of the seasons, contract. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.600 Exactly right, and then you go to Jimmy and say, hey, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.560 there's this team they would like to trade for you. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.160 We couldn't get a sixth round pick for you. They're 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.680 desperate right now, They'll give us a third round pick 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.360 for you? Or do you want to go there and 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.920 become the starter? So I think this is a win 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.760 for the Niners. I think this is a way to 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.720 save face a bit. If you're Jimmy Garoppolo, I do 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.840 not look at this as an indictment on Trey Lance whatsoever. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.800 Not at all. Is this an indictment on Trey Lance? 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:02.720 All right? What's next? 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.600 The Eagles trading for a new defensive back yesterday and 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.360 suddenly everyone is in on them. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.280 They had a good we had a good draft and 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:10.120 got aj Brown. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.640 Dallas is already down Tyron Smith and Washington and Giants 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.439 aren't very good. The Eagles are now plus one forty 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.240 to win the division. Yeah, are you in on that? 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:25.320 No, I listen Tyrone Smith's injury for Dallas's massive right, it's, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.240 in my opinion, the biggest injury that has happened this offseason. Okay, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.880 there's there's no question about it. I think, though, there 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.679 has been a little too big of an overreaction, and 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.960 I think the Eagles became like the out of nowhere 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.880 the in team. Right. My buddy Adam Lefgo, who does 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.600 a great job on inside the NBA. He and I 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.120 went to college together. He used to have an amazing 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.000 football podcast. He's still a great NFL guy, but people 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.600 know him for the NBA, so he's a diehard Eagles fan. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.319 He texted me when I was in Italy saying he 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.600 was crushed. I wasn't picking the Eagles to win the division. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.920 I understand the Eagles have an excellent roster, and I 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.240 understand the Eagles, or at least I believe they have 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.200 a better coach than Dallas because their coach is at 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.400 Mike McCarthy. I get all of this. I think people 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:25.800 are glossing over too quickly the deficited quarterback between Dak 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.160 Prescott and Jalen Hurts. I would like to believe in 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.320 Jalen Hurts. I like the people that represent him. I 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.880 like the way he handled himself in college. I think 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.520 he has been a tremendous young man, and I think 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.400 he has conducted himself at every stage of his career 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:47.120 with class and grace. H I think he's probably the 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.839 twenty fifth best starting quarterback in football. I'm doing that 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.600 off the top of my head. And listen, this is 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.120 one of them. This is could be the Andrew Wiggins moment. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.720 This could be the time that someone says, oh you 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.560 doubted this guy. May be and I'll be happy to 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.200 be wrong about it. But and maybe I'm a little 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.280 too scarred from that playoff game against Tampa where he 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.800 looked so in over his head. But the Eagles to me, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.040 Chauncey Gardner Johnson's a nice player. He's a good slot corner. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.319 It looks like the Eagles are gonna play him at safety. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.559 And they got him for I mean, getting him for 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.320 a fifth round pick is great value. I understand that. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:31.320 But he is not a good enough player that. I 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.960 feel like the reaction to this trade was as if 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.880 they had just traded for for what's a good example 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.360 of someone who's been traded recently. It was a reaction 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.440 like when it was similar to the Chargers acquiring Khalil Mack. Now, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.360 Khalil's been banged up the last couple of years, but 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.040 it's like, oh my god, look this guy could transform 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.840 their defense. I don't look at it that way at all. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.160 I look at this as a nice addition. And I 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.320 like the Eagles offensive line. I love the Jordan Davis kid. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.199 I wanted the Chiefs to draft him. The A lot 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.000 of things about the Eagles I like, and I understand 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.360 the cow The left tackle injury with Tyron Smith is 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.640 a major one. But I looked at the Cowboys as 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:19.400 being three games better than the Eagles going into the season, 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:24.480 or you know, a month ago. Does Tyron Smith's injury 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.920 and Chauncey Gardner Johnson's edition is that a three game jump? 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:31.320 To me? 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.000 It is not. It is not a three game jump. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.800 And so the if the when the Eagles were right 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.080 now you said plus one forty, they're dead even with Dallas, 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.560 depending on where you get it, they're both plus one 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.840 forty five or one team plus one forty one teams 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.720 plus one thirty five. They are almost identical. Do I 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.280 think the Eagles are as good as the Cowboys? I don't. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.280 I flatly don't. And so no, I'm not I'm gonna 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.719 beat They've become like the hipster pick. I listened to 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.880 Bill Simmons talk about could they be the one seed, 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.920 what their props on them going to the Super Bowl are. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.760 At the end of the day, it's still to me 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.160 is a coach and quarterback league, and I have major 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:18.520 questions about their quarterback and significant questions about their coach. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.680 And so no, I'm still gonna go with Dallas. Not 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.920 I think it's a mediocre division, but I soldink Dallas 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.360 the best team in the division, all right. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.840 Next A Genie Buss said it christ yeah. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.720 The set in an interview with the athletic Russell Westbrook 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.680 was the Lakers' best player last season. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:35.560 Oh, that's delightful. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.840 She eventually walked it back and said that the word 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.600 that she should have used was consistent, and she said 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.080 it's really tough to when when Anthony Davis isn't on 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.000 the court and Lebron was actually hurt a lot of 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.760 the season, but Russ showed up every game and played 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.280 as hard as he could every night. Yeah, she actually 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.280 backing Russ or is she trying to increase his trade value? 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.480 I listen with Genie Buss, you never know. I honestly 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.480 don't know what she's doing. There is no Uni averse 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.640 where Here's what Russell Westbrook was for the Lakers. He 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:09.360 was the most available player. He was at and played 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.360 eighty games. He was the most available player. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.880 Does available not full hand in hand with like consistent? 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:20.840 Well, listen if and I I am using this just 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.720 simply as a metaphor. Because you are not late for work, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.000 you are great at this. But if you were late 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:31.840 for work every single day, that is consistent, you are 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.360 consistently late. So in this regard, Russ was consistent. He 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.280 was consistently terrible. Every night you knew it. Russ was 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.680 going to show up, play thirty plus minutes and be back. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:45.360 Okay. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.800 So I don't think that's what she was meaning, though, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.760 And when calling him their best he was here and back. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:58.240 Calling him their best player is an absurdity. Look, Lebron 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:04.120 was sensation last year. Yeah, Lebron was thirty eight and 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.840 six on better than fifty percent from the field. Now, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.000 he missed twenty games, missed the quarter of the season. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.120 That's a problem, and that's why Lebron wasn't the best 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.280 forward or this. If Lebron had put up those numbers 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.520 and played seventy five games, he would have been the 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.920 second best forward in the league last year, behind Gianni's 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.840 It would have been Giannis and Lebron. Because he did 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.800 miss those games, one could argue Tatum was better some 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.760 are you know Durant missed a bunch of games too. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.520 Durant's numbers were similar, like because he missed those games. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.840 That's why you knock him down a pick. But Russ 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:46.040 was below. Russ was a hindrance to winning when he 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.200 was on the court. You would have been better off 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:55.960 with just a random bench player. And so the last year, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.640 I'm not saying that's who he's gonna be for the 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.000 rest of his career, but that's what he was last year. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.200 That is what he was. It didn't fit, it didn't work. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.359 He also seemed to get worse at the things that 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.160 he hadn't been good at before, like his I mean 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.040 some of it. I mean, there's a long highlight reel 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.919 of this obviously of the stuff yes, yeah, I mean 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.360 shots by four feet yeah, and the no. I think 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.560 he got in his own head and that was a 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.440 problem for him. Like I don't think Russ is done 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.720 as an NBA player. I'm not arguing that, but it 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.359 shouldn't be debatable what he was last year. So why 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:37.400 would Genie Bus say this? Either because she's being irrational 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:41.280 or because they are trying to find a way to 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.360 build up his trade value a bit. Now, I don't 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.879 think think Bus's quotes build up much. Go ahead, what 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:47.280 do you think? 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.440 I think it's like, hey, man, he's gonna be here 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:50.920 next year. You might as well give him a little 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:51.639 bit of confidence. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.840 You know, he can't be there next year. They can't 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.760 actually be they have to. 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.040 When you're speaking from like an emotional standpoint, I feel. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:04.080 Like to a agree, yeah, I think he's gonna be there. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.639 Now, you think he's gonna be there all year? I 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:11.240 mean I don't. You'll just be punting on this season. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.960 You just you can't win. Now if Russ would, it. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.080 All depends on how the start of the season goes. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.240 Like the I feel like the only knowledge that we 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.360 have is of what Rust did last year. 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:22.800 That's fair. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.959 I have no idea how I feel like these players 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.440 are gonna mesh this coming year what they've done during 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:28.040 the offseason. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.640 But no, that's fair. I just don't Rust doesn't seem 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.840 like he's gonna change. And Russ needs to be on 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.320 a team that he is the focal point of that 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.280 he has the ball in his hands, because when when 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.600 he is that, you get the good of him. Yeah, 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.359 the good of him is the energy, the intensity, the 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.280 freedom for him to drive to the basket. And you 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.320 still deal with the bad, but at least you get 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.359 the good. When Russ is your third option, you get 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.239 the bad, the lackadaisical defense, the lack of spacing, all 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.320 that stuff without the good, right, And that was the problem, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:09.000 which is why I argued all year. Have him be 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:13.119 the super sixth man, lead the bench unit. When you 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.600 take eighty and Lebron out, put Russ in. Let him 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.520 run with that, I thought, But he didn't want to 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.200 do that. We'll see what Darvinham can do. Also, we'll 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.600 probably see Russ in Indiana. I don't think Indiana the Lakers. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:27.480 All right, what's next? 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:27.880 All right? 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.600 So Lebron said on Sports illustrated that he wants to 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.199 play in the NBA, but not one, but both of 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.600 his sons. Yeah, he said he's been paying attention to 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.720 as the twenty year, twenty twenty four, and twenty twenty 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.080 seven first round picks, the. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.560 Whole twenty twenty four, twenty five, six twelve. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.080 Okay, twenty twenty four through twenty seven. Yeah, that's what 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:45.760 dashes means. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:47.600 Yeah, there, but could be a lot of the Lakers 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.040 haven't trade any picks after twenty twenty five. Yeah, to 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.760 play with Bryce, Lebron will be well into his forties, 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.000 which is a crazy thing to think about. He says 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.080 he thinks he could play for a while. Who knows 0:19:58.119 --> 0:19:59.600 if his sons will even be good enough to play 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.000 in the NBA. Yeah, do you think he's serious about this? 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:06.560 Okay, here's what I think Lebron is doing. People get 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.359 caught up in, Oh, is bronni really an NBA player? Oh, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.560 now they're talking about Bryce? Is Bryce really an NBA player? Okay, 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.320 I'm gonna try to be very clear because I think 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:23.160 it's so obvious what Lebron is doing, and you can 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:28.800 say it's bad. It is exactly what I would do 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.440 if I were in his position, and in a very 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:35.400 different version, it's what I have done in his position 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:42.040 in my field, leverage his own power to try to 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:47.560 get his kid foot in the door somewhere he otherwise 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:53.399 wouldn't have the chance. So Bronni is undersized. Bryce. I 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.880 don't think anyone's ever thought of as an NBA prospect. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.320 Maybe he will be. I mean, he's very young, all right, 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:02.119 but I think Lebron recognize that as long as he 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:07.600 is performing at a high enough level, there will be 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:13.320 incentive for a team to take a flyer on his kid. 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:18.480 And if you believe your kid is gonna work hard enough, 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.600 train hard, have high enough character, all those things that 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.480 if he gets his foot in the door, can Seth 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.399 curry this thing? Because that's what happened with Seth. Seth 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:34.880 kept getting chances because of Steph, just like Yannis's brothers 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:40.439 keep getting chances because of Yanni's and Yannas's brothers haven't 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:44.399 proven to be have enough talent to be able to 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.160 fully take advantage of those chances, right Seth. As Seth 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:50.600 was cut from G League teams, Seth got cut by 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:54.679 multiple teams, and now he's gonna make eighty million dollars 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.400 playing pro basketball. But if it wasn't for Steph, he'd 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.240 have been in Europe five years ago. Teams kept giving 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:05.639 him a chance. So what Lebron is clearly doing is 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:08.720 trying to set up a scenario where if Lebron is 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:12.720 an A plus player or even an a minus player, Bud, 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.800 he's Lebron, so he brings all the attention, ticket sales, revenue. Right, 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.040 you want to be in the Lebron business, you've got 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:21.439 to also be in the Bronni business. Let's start with 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.280