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Joba and the Mouth 1/14/26 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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The divisional round kicks off this weekend as the final eight
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teams remaining continue their March towards the Lombardi
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Trophy and Super Bowl 60 at Levi's Stadium in San Fran.
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His start Saturday as Josh Allen and the Bills traveled a Mile
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High to take on Bo Nicks and their elite defense led by first
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team All Pro Zach Allen and second team All Pros Nick Benito
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and Patrick Certain. The second It continues Saturday
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night with a big division rivalry as Purdy and the 49ers
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travel to Seattle to take on the 12 Sam Darnold and 2025's
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receiving yards King, Jackson, Smith and Jigba.
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On Sunday we kick off with Drake Mays, Patriots hosting Will
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Anderson Junior and the Texans elite defense followed by Kayla
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Williams and the Bears hosting Matt Stafford, Puka Nakua and
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the Rams to round out the action.
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We will break down all of it from every angle and make some
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picks you can take to the bank. And on Monday night, Heisman
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Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza, Coach of the Year Kurt Signetti
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and the number one seeded, undefeated Indiana Hoosiers take
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on the surprising #10 seed Miami Hurricanes quarterback Carson
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Beck and head coach Mario Cristobal for all the marbles
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playing in their home stadium trying for the upset.
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Can the Hoosiers do the unthinkable and finish their
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perfect season out of nowhere? Or were the Canes play spoiler
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and raise another natty to the sky for the first time in over
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20 years? And before we dive inside
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baseball and call our shots, we cover the resignation of
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longtime Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin on another all gas,
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no brakes, Wheeling and dealing, styling and profiling live
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Wednesday night edition of Jabba and the man they're going to
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have a ton of money to. Spend Why not putting in one of
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the top three offensive players in.
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The League. We're going to be looking at
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Aaron George and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see the one. Doing that, a game where you got
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to go. Before I told you Giant fans,
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Saquon Parker at this point. Whatever you want.
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He's the best quarterback in the NFL, really.
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The Jabba and the mouth. 631-672-3108 is the number to
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call. You're listening to another show
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of Jabba and the mouth. I see niffen dancing in the
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background. You know who I am.
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I know everybody's probably wondering if my voice is
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changing. It cracked a little bit over the
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last 48 hours and I've been screaming a lot.
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Not at anybody particular, but I, I mean, obviously everything
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that's going on in sports, you have to scream if you're a Jet
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fan. Are you mad about the Dante
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Moore move? Does Dante hurt the New York
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Jets? Well, ladies and gentlemen, we
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will get into that a little bit later in the show.
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I I'll give you my take on it maybe a little bit until next
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week. I do have a story out Speedy and
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I know I is it up it. Is up.
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I wanted to tell the fans what the title of the story is.
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Yeah, so why The Jets are winners?
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Because of Dante Moore is the main premise of it all.
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You Jets fans, Errol actually has a positive thought process
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on The Jets. I thought long and deep and I
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mean long and deep about this story when Dante Moore, the
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announcement, I know Nathan sent us a a group text message that
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Dante Moore is going to head back to Oregon.
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And everybody was like, there was a frenzy out there.
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For all you New York Jet fans, oh, The Jets aren't going to get
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their quarterback this year. Maybe it works best that The
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Jets don't land their quarterback this year.
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They wait until next year where there's AI would say about 5 or
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6 complete quarterbacks coming out of the class and we can talk
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about that next year. But I, I know a lot of people
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over the last, I would say 15 hours were upset because Dante
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Moore was sitting there at #2 because Mendoza is the
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predominant #1 pick after the Oregon Ducks slashing.
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So a lot of people are upset that maybe The Jets don't get a
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quarterback, but maybe The Jets are sitting there at 2:00.
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Maybe they trade down and they add to their draft stock with
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which Moji has done a significant job going into the
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trade deadline and landing themselves a positive draft
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stock of players that they can land in the next two years.
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So I'm not upset about this, but I'll get into the ends in the
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outs. I did it in my story.
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If you guys want to check it out on the Worldwide Sports Radio
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Network, it's www.worldwidesportsradio.com.
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And I will say this, I know there's AI, don't know where the
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backlash this sounds coming from.
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I will say this for all you fans out there that have obviously
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asked me why are we doing the show on Wednesday?
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I am going to Montreal for the rest of the week.
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I've been very, very busy. I'm heading to Montreal on a
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like I would say a mini vacation.
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I love Canada. I went there last year in
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Toronto and obviously I went to this wine event and I there was
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a big Blizzard that happened and I parked my car in the street at
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this hotel or motel that we stayed at because we had nowhere
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else to go. We were staying at the at the
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Sheraton and what the Sheraton at in Niagara.
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It's like a four-star hotel. We had to stop somewhere because
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we were in the middle of the Blizzard.
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So we stopped at this 3 1/2 star hotel.
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It looked pretty nice. We parked our car the next
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morning, our window was bashed in.
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They stole our wine. Thank God we didn't leave our
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bags in there or our passports or we wouldn't even be home
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today. So we would have had to find a
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way to get our passports or redeem our passport passports or
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of some kind. I don't know how it works over
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there in Canada, but it was it was a horrible situation.
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So this year, instead of going to Toronto or Niagara, we're
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going to Montreal. We are driving there, but we're
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renting the car here in the United States because the rules
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and regulations and the, I don't know, the deposits that they
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want here is much lower than they are in Canada.
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And I don't have to, I don't have to worry about a deductible
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of $3000 if. So where are you?
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Where are you driving from? We are driving here.
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We're, we're driving in Long Island, from Long Island to
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Canada, Montreal, which is about 6 1/2 hours away.
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I think I, I would say it's about 6 1/2, six hours and 45
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minutes. I'm going to leave tonight a
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little bit later. Why?
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Because I miss traffic. I don't have to bump into a
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bumper to bumper traffic. I get on the I-95, I shoot up
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there and then obviously twist and turn from one Rd.
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I have to be careful because the last time I drove from Canada,
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I, I got a ticket, I, I was somewhere upstate New York and I
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didn't realize it was, it was snowing and I didn't realize
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that that particular area, the speed limit was like 30 mph.
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There's like 1, I guess there's one sign in that whole town and
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I missed it. And of course the cop was
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waiting for me and they pulled me over and I got a big time
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ticket and I had to hire a lawyer.
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It was horrible. So I'm going to stay away from
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that, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to stay far, far away from
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that. So I don't want to pay any more
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tickets, $500 in dealing with the police over there, the Popo
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as they, they made me feel and, and The funny thing is, at the
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time I was, I was working for the fire department.
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I was a volunteer firefighter. So I pull out my volunteer
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firefighter card. You I think they would have let
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me go. Oh no.
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He took the card and he threw it back at me and says, what is
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this supposed to do for me? I said I'm a volunteer
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firefighter. He says, I don't give a crap
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what you are. I'm getting you.
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I'm giving you a ticket. You were speeding in a in a
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speed lane or going 15 miles over the speed limit like I
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knew. And and and here's another
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thing. When you go to these small
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towns, you know how your GPS tells you how fast you're
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supposed to go? Well, some of these towns there
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is there is no nothing on your GPS that tells you you're
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supposed to go 30 or 35 mph. So you're really driving blind
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on a on a thin Rd. So unfortunately it didn't work
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very, very well for me and my complaining and Brittany
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screaming at him and Brittany was Brittany was in excruciating
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pain because at the time she had a neck problem, which she had
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surgery on and she all the way home.
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I drove straight through from Canada to hear the Long Island
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in about 9 1/2 hours because I had to go through Pennsylvania
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because of the Blizzard. I had to escape the Blizzard so
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I didn't hit it head, head on. So it was horrible.
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It was absolutely horrible. I don't want to remember that.
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And thank God I I don't need to think about it anymore.
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I'm going to take another way. We've not.
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She's never been to Montreal. I've never driven to Montreal
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except on a bus when I was a kid playing hockey.
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But driving alone or driving with my girlfriend, I've never
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done that before. So this will be a first time to
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go to Montreal. So hopefully it's a lot better
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than usual. At 8:45, we'll be talking to
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Newsday. Mets beat writer.
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I think a lot of Mets fans will like this.
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Laura Albanese is going to be joining us.
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She's never been on this show. I don't remember her.
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And she's a Met beat writer. So all you Met fans, I'm sure
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you're going to be in tuned or stay tuned because Kyle Tucker
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could be a Met in the next 48 hours.
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Because there was some stories that I was reading over the last
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48 hours that the Mets sat down with with Kyle Tucker and his
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agent very within 24 to 48 hours ago.
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Had dinner with him and supposedly offered him 50
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million a year and up to five years with an opt out.
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So a players opt out. So I don't know if he's going to
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agree to that or it's something that Kyle Tucker and his agent
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is going to use to try to get bigger contract from somewhere
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else. I don't know.
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But for Met fans, you should be excited because they might land
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another big bat in the lineup. A little bit better than Pete
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Alonso, but he's again, another guy that you're buying.
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And I don't know if that's going to work.
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It doesn't bode well. Usually ask the Yankees, ask a
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lot of teams. It has worked for the Dodgers
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with the deferred money, but everybody else, for some reason
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over the last couple of years, it hasn't worked.
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But hey, we'll see. How about the Blue Jays maybe,
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maybe overspending for a guy, a guy like Kyle Tucker, because
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I've heard that they're not interested in Beau Beauchet
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anymore. I think they're going to move
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away from Beau. So lot to get into a little bit
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later in the show. The NFL divisional round begins
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this Saturday with Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills taking on
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Bo Nix and the Broncos. The Bills have a top four
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offense in both points and yards per game, while the Broncos have
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a top three defense in both yards and points per game.
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The bills also own the number one pass defense in the NFL.
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In the nightcap, Kyle Shanahan and 49ers take on possible Coach
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of the year Mike McDonald to and and top seeded the Seattle
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Seahawks. This is a rematch of the Week 18
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game where the Seattle Seahawks won giving them the first round
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by The 49ers beat the Seattle Seahawks way back in Week 1,
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splitting this season series. In this NFC West rivalry, the
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Seahawks have the number one points per game has the number
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one points per game defense in the NFL against the 49ers
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offense, which is top ten in both yards and points per game,
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but will be without George Kittle with a torn Achilles.
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Sundays Sundays kicks at Sundays games kick off with the with CJ
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Strout and the Houston Texans traveling to Foxborough to match
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up with Drake May and the Patriots.
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Both teams have excellent defenses, with the Texans ranked
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near the top of the league in mostly everything every
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category. Quarterback Drake May will have
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to get his offense going after only scoring 16 points last week
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against a tough Chargers D Finally, Sean McVeigh and the
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Rams travel to Chicago to take on rookie head coach Ben Johnson
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and the Bears. These two offenses are elite.
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The Rams ranked number one in the NFL with MVP favorite
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Matthew Stafford at quarterback and stud wide receiver
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Pukanakua, while 2 thousand 2024's number one pick Caleb
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Williams looks to keep the magic going after a huge comeback win
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over the Packers in the Wild Card game.
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Everybody here in New York can't wait until this game against the
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Broncos. And again, it's not a prime time
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game. It's it's the first game of the
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weekend and that to me throws me off.
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I Josh Allen, it is to me the best quarterback out of all
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these quarterbacks still in the playoffs.
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He's the big superstar. This is the guy that.
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Do we, Do we know why they like schedule those games?
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Like do they pick a? Game No.
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The NFL. You know why that?
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I have no idea why the NFL decided to go with the Buffalo
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Bills as the first game, and the NFL has their own obviously
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choices. Maybe they think the headlining
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game is Seattle in the 49ers being that the the Seattle
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Seahawks in the 49ers have played against one another a
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significant amount of times in both games were fun to watch.
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I don't know, but I will say this, watching the Buffalo Bills
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last week and seeing what Josh Allen is as as a player on his
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team as an important piece to that team, it only shows you why
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I believe this is a prime time game.
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Everything you think about when it comes to quarterback play,
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when you want a strong arm, a guy that can move outside of the
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pocket, run through people, run through walls, when it comes to
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getting first downs, this is what this man does.
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And I'm not saying Bo Nicks isn't a good quarterback.
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I'm not saying Bo Nicks can't win this game in Denver.
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This team was the number one seed in the AFC, but a very weak
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AFC. All season long.
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It was either the Broncos or the Patriots.
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The Patriots with their, I guess, scale of schedule when it
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comes to their teams that they played and the Broncos who
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really barely won most of their games, they should have lost
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against The Jets. If we go on and on and on about
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their record and their complete games, especially finishing
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games the way they did, they remind me of the Minnesota
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Vikings when they played the New York Giants, when the Giants
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knocked them out in the divisional game.
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Remember that to me? But it's also author viewership
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two of those games to like you, you look at time zones and and
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all the other stuff. So I, I think that's probably
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what goes into it of understanding how much I you're
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going to get on the game, even though like as, as we see it, we
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see the best game that should be prime time.
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Dude, the best game is no doubt the Buffalo Bills I.
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Don't know I I'm not disagreeing.
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And the Broncos, first of all, the Broncos are West, they're W
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team central, whatever. They are right behind Las Vegas.
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So they're 3 hours a difference over here from New York.
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And, and to me, I'd rather see Buffalo Bill, the Buffalo Bills
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in a prime time game, maybe move Seattle, or maybe you take
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Seattle, move them to the second day and move the Patriots as
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game #1 Why does anybody want to see the Texans versus the
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Patriots? I know it's game number one on
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Sunday. I don't want to watch that game.
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The Patriots, yeah, they were the number two seed.
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Where they really are, they really worth the time and energy
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to watch? Yeah, Drake May is a MVP
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candidate. That's because honestly, when
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you look at the the quarterbacks that played this year, Lamar
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Jackson wasn't healthy this year.
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You know, Joe Burrow wasn't healthy this year.
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If you Patrick Mahomes wasn't healthy this year.
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So you you look at the the quality of quarterback play, of
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course, you look at Matthew Stafford as a veteran.
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You would think after what Matthew Stafford did and
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probably the hardest division in football this year, you would
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give it to him. But everybody likes Drake May
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because of Drake May winning 10 games in a row and what Drake
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May did all season long. And then last week, I wouldn't
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say had the best game, but played against Justin Herbert,
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who is I? I'm not playing with Justin
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Herbert, an offensive line that was 100% not healthy.
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He lost Slater and Alt Earl Slater or before the season
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started, alt before the season even went to the second-half.
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So you lost a significant amount of talent before you even got
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into the playoffs. And Jim Harbaugh, just there's a
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little bit of credit for what they did.
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But to get back to the Josh Allen situation, Josh Allen
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doesn't have superstar wide receivers.
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He doesn't. He's got one of the elite
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running backs in the league. And Cook and, and Cook didn't.
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James Cook didn't look very good last year.
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Last week he didn't. And I, I want to see more of
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this running game that has been the best running game in the NFL
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all season long if they expect to beat the Broncos.
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And the Broncos are one of the best run stopping teams in the
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NFL, one of the best all around defenses in the NFL.
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You wouldn't believe that when you think about who the head
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coach is and Sean Payton. Sean Payton, who's an offensive
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mighty coach. And going into the season, when
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we had Sanderson on the show before the season started, I
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asked him who is your second optional player that's going to
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catch the ball? And he couldn't answer me.
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Who did he give? US Pat Bryant, a rookie.
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A rookie. And maybe that's the reason why
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this is the first game of the weekend, because there's no
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superstar wide receivers on both sides of the ball.
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There really isn't there there. There are great wide receivers,
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but one great wide receiver. But there's no elite wide
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receivers in this. Game.
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There's definitely no elite tight end.
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No, no. So.
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You got you look at two from the viewership side, like Bills fans
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are crazy. Like that's that's just.
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That's why, that's why. So they're, they're going to
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watch no matter what time the game's on, right?
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You want the younger kids to watch this game and and again
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during the during Saturday afternoon.
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What are kids doing? They're playing sports, they're
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hanging out with their friends. It's still kind of light
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outside. I I mean, it's getting dark, but
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their parents are letting them go out and play video games.
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You want these kids, especially here in New York.
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And New York is such a big market.
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The Buffalo Bills have such a great following.
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What are you going to do? You're you're this is
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back-to-back weeks where you have the Buffalo Bills not at a
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prime time game. And that's where Jabba, we could
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go back and forth on why the NFL does this.
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And yeah, maybe they look at how many, how many clicks are on
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whatever they, how they rate the, the games or something.
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I don't know how they do it. The NFL doesn't give us that
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information on how this all works and how they decide from
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one team to another or one game to another in a divisional,
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divisional series. What I do know is I I look at
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the Broncos and I look at the the Buffalo Bills.
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Whoever wins this game I believe is probably going to get to the
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Super Bowl. As good as the Texans defense is
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and how good they looked against the Pittsburgh Steelers, it's
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the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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It's Aaron Rodgers who's like 80 years old.
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This is this is a different both these teams, the Buffalo Bills
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and the Broncos are two different teams.
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If they match up against the Broncos, it's defense versus
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defense and it's not going to be much of offense.
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It's going to be one of the most boring games to watch watching
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the Broncos and the Texans. And then if you look at the
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Buffalo Bills and the Patriots, well, a lot of people predict
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could happen. I don't know if I want to watch
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that game either, even though both, both games this year were
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fun to watch. I, I just, I, to me as a
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football fan, I don't want to see the Buffalo Bills and and
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Josh Allen play against the New England Patriots and Drake May
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to watch the New England Patriots obviously get lucky and
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jump ahead of the Buffalo Bills and go to another Super Bowl
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with another quarterback. I don't want to see that.
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Now it could happen and I'm not complaining about that, but the
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NFL has to look at these particular games and and wonder
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how did, like you said, how do they choose from one game to
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another on where they start the prime time game or where, which
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team or what, what game they're going to put at prime time and
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what game they're going to put out the game before I I don't
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get it. But again, looking at this game,
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it's it's really the the two defensive teams.
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The Buffalo Bills are one of the best pass rushing defenses in
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the league, but they can't stop the run.
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And the Broncos, who lost the running back early in the
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season, have this kid Harvey, who a lot of people like.
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Is he going to have a lot of pressure on him?
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And are the Broncos going to put Sean Payne, going to put a lot
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of pressure on him to take the pressure off his young
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quarterback at Bonex? Because Bonex has been here
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before, but he came up short. He's seen this before.
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Sean Payton has done a successful job with a with a
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rookie quarterback while second year quarterback.
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But the way I still look at it, he's still a young quarterback
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who's played college football till the age of 2425.
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So he's one of the older second year quarterbacks we've seen in
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a very long time. Has been successful in his
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freshman year and has been up and down in his sophomore year.
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I don't know if I'm up to watching this, I'm going to
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watch it. Obviously, I'm rooting for the
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Buffalo Bills, but there's nothing in this game that stands
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out to me. Really nothing.
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The battle of the coaches, really.
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I know Sean Payton has a heavy advantage and everybody's going
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to give Sean Payton the heavy advantage.
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Now, that doesn't mean Sean Payton's going to win, but Sean
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Payton's the only one out of these two coaches that have won
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a Super Bowl before. And again, when everybody, all
24:40
the giant fans out there are so excited about John Harbaugh, if
24:43
they land John Harbaugh, I mean, half of these guys, Mike
24:46
Tomlin's won one Super Bowl, Mike McCarthy won one Super
24:49
Bowl, John Harbaugh won one Super Bowl.
24:52
So you you look at the game advantage in this game,
24:55
obviously winning goes to Sean Payton.
24:58
But the Buffalo Bills have been here every single year, and this
25:03
is your chance. They don't have to jump Lamar
25:05
Jackson. They don't have to jump the
25:07
Cincinnati Bengals. They don't have to jump Patrick
25:10
Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, who are their
25:13
kryptonite. It's been that way for the last
25:17
few seasons. This is his stance.
25:19
You knock off the Broncos, you can book their way to the Super
25:23
Bowl. I think they beat the Texans.
25:25
I think they beat the Patriots. This is their chance.
25:28
When I, when you look at this game, I, I mean it.
25:31
There's nothing that I really speed.
25:33
Does anything in this game stand out to you that you're excited
25:36
to watch? Yeah, it's interesting because
25:38
the Broncos running attack has been good in the second-half of
25:41
the season. But again, is it enough for you
25:43
could trust a rookie to just do things randomly all at once?
25:45
And we saw that in the Super Bowl run the Broncos had with
25:48
Peyton Manning. They had Ronnie Hillman and CJ
25:50
Anderson, guys like that break out of nowhere.
25:52
So if they could expose that match of advantage in the game
25:55
because they do have the offensive line.
25:56
The Broncos offensive line and the Bills offensive line are
25:58
both top five in the league this year.
26:00
But the Broncos cannot win if with a high passing volume and
26:03
expect to be able to win this game because the Bills secondary
26:06
has been very good and the Bills pass rush is still very good.
26:09
That's not my question. I asked you why do you think
26:12
this game is so exciting? If if you're not a fan or you're
26:15
not interested in football and some of your your girlfriend
26:19
pops on a football game and you're not interested in sports,
26:23
what would sell you about this game?
26:25
Potentially turnovers I think for one with their.
26:27
With, oh, that's what it is, potential turnovers.
26:30
That's why I'm going to watch the game.
26:32
If you were a new fan and you wanted to watch this game, what
26:37
would sell me to watch this game?
26:40
Give me, give me your sale. Pitch Well, yeah, the main thing
26:42
is Josh Allen, obviously, he's the most talented quarterback
26:44
right now in the league and. That's your sale pitch.
26:48
I'm just. Analyzing a a thing.
26:50
Like I'm asking you give me a sale pitch.
26:53
I'm not. I'm analyzing a game.
26:54
I'm I'm analyzing you on you trying to sell me to watch this
26:59
game because to me, when I look at I want to see this as a
27:02
product on game because I want to see Josh Allen and the
27:05
Buffalo Bills on a product on game because this is a New York
27:07
team. But besides that, if you were
27:10
trying to sell this to a sponsor, how would you sell it?
27:15
Josh Allen? That's it.
27:16
What if if you're watching, you've watched both these teams
27:19
all season long and I've watched both these teams and up and down
27:22
the Buffalo Bills have been up and down all season long.
27:25
They're they they picked up their their games in the
27:28
second-half of the season. Josh Allen really had to pick up
27:31
his game. He didn't have the season he had
27:33
last year. But I don't even think Josh
27:34
Allen should have won the MVP last year.
27:37
Lamar Jackson should have, but if I look at this game and I'm
27:41
looking at the Broncos, obviously Jabba's his.
27:43
His son. Cart is a big Broncos fan.
27:46
If you're not a fan of any of these teams, what would you do
27:50
if you were trying to sell this game to a fan that's not
27:52
interested? Yeah, it's not.
27:54
Again, it's not a team that's it's not either one of these
27:56
teams that have one flashy receiver.
27:57
I think that's maybe where you're the angle you're getting
27:59
at because that's the other position that gets a lot of
28:01
hype. Obviously outside of the
28:02
quarterback and you talk about it like Courtland Sutton's
28:04
really the only receiver that is like a is a star in any.
28:07
He's not a * he's a great pleasure.
28:09
Yeah, again, he's in that second tier of all right, He's
28:12
observing of his contract, A20 plus $1,000,000 a year wide
28:15
receiver. But again, that's what you're
28:16
looking at when it comes to those flashy names because James
28:19
Cook would be the other one that is kind of a flashy name.
28:21
But Even so, he's a fourth year running back that really only
28:24
started to get going in the second-half of the 2023 season.
28:27
But Speedy, you're right. I think like where Errol's going
28:32
with it. But I think you said it's like
28:35
it is Josh Allen. And that's kind of what what we
28:37
talked about previously is like those one ABC guys of franchise
28:44
quarterbacks. And what changes the team like
28:47
Josh Allen is the drive. And I think what Arrow was going
28:51
towards was like, what, other than Josh Allen?
28:54
Because let's, let's, we're stating the obvious.
28:58
What other gets you excited about it?
29:01
No, I understand what you guys are saying.
29:03
You're right because most of these other teams are built on
29:05
the offensive line when the Broncos and the Bills both have
29:07
top five and they have pass rushes.
29:09
Broncos are definitely top five pass rush and the Bills are
29:11
probably a top 10. So they're built in the trenches
29:13
that don't have as much of the flash.
29:14
We know defense wins championships, but the NFL has
29:17
built the league on offenses and and both teams.
29:21
When you look at Sean Payton, he has been Mr. Offense.
29:24
He came from the Saints. He came from Drew Brees 5000
29:28
hard seasons with Drew Brees, dominant offenses from the
29:31
Saints year in and year out. Their defenses were good as we
29:35
all know that the gates that that happened over there.
29:38
Yeah. And then they fell off badly
29:39
after that. Yeah, but again, you you expect
29:43
Sean Payton to put up big time points in and this year their
29:46
offense wasn't elite. I'm sorry they weren't.
29:49
And Bonex had his big days and his big games where they were
29:52
against bad teams mostly. Yeah, I was going to say a lot
29:55
of he's had a lot of big. Games, but just not enough
29:57
consistency and that's why their offense is still outside the top
29:59
10 as a result. So maybe that's why the NFL
30:02
decided to move. That's where I was getting at.
30:04
Maybe the NFL was looking at the Broncos and looking at the Bills
30:08
and saying, hey, this is not going to be a highly profiled
30:12
offensive game. This is, this might scare our
30:15
sponsors away because this could be a low scoring game, which
30:19
more than likely when the NFL thinks about these kind of
30:21
things, they're high scoring games.
30:23
They're completely different the way the NFL expects them to be.
30:27
But yes, Josh Allen is the big name.
30:30
He's the the big draw. But back and forth, when you
30:33
look at these two teams, I don't think there's anything about
30:36
these two teams that makes me get hot or makes me get want to
30:40
get high. I mean, seriously.
30:42
Kenny Kenny will get high no matter what football games are
30:45
at. This point, I'm just speaking
30:46
the truth here, and maybe that's why.
30:48
And Speaking of something that's going to get you really hot is
30:52
the Seattle Seahawks and the 49ers, because you got CMC, you
30:57
got him over there. Christian McCaffrey is one of
30:59
the more elite offensive options in the NFL.
31:03
And then you have Seattle Najigba, one of the best, if not
31:06
the best wide receiver in the NFL.
31:08
You have Sam Darnold, Brock Purdy, Sam Darnold, who's a top
31:12
three pick by the New York Jets, who's flourished over there in
31:15
Seattle. And then you have Brock Purdy.
31:17
It was the last pick in the seventh round and has become an
31:21
elite quarterback right in front of our eyes.
31:24
And that was in the same draft where I, I think San Francisco
31:27
go trade it up three first round draft picks to get a guy that is
31:31
a, a, what is he 1/3 backup, backup corner with the Chargers?
31:35
I mean, he's horrible. So it just shows you how the NFL
31:40
looks at these games and that's where I was getting at.
31:42
That's the whole point. Speedy's trying to nitpick and
31:46
try to look at the analytics. There's nothing analytic about
31:49
both these games except you have a team and two game, two games,
31:53
one game that could be so very boring as we watch the Patriots
31:57
and the Chargers play against one another in the, well, the
32:00
second to final game, Sunday Night Football, where you would
32:03
think Sunday Night Football is the draw.
32:06
Everybody wants to watch Sunday Night Football.
32:08
You know what? We watch A-60, a 16 to 3
32:12
debacle, and we watched Drake May and, and really, I think a
32:17
Patriot defense that's pretty damn pretty good against an
32:21
offensive line that shouldn't have showed up because they're
32:24
like 4th, 4th tier, you know, offensive lineman.
32:28
They shouldn't have even played in that game.
32:31
So that's that's where I know that's a good picture right now.
32:34
That's a good picture right there.
32:36
I I wouldn't, I wouldn't ask Speedy to sell anything to
32:39
anybody. I wouldn't want to sell
32:40
anything. But that's what you are.
32:42
You're an analytic guy. Wouldn't you?
32:43
Wouldn't you try to sell this? No, I, well, I would and I I
32:47
will. I could sell the Seattle
32:48
Seahawks. I can sell the 49er and Seahawk
32:52
game. And I'm gonna Here's my sale.
32:54
When you look at elite teams offensively all season long, I
32:59
would pick both these teams. Rock Purdy, the last three weeks
33:02
has been as good of any as any quarterback in the league.
33:06
It didn't matter who they played.
33:07
He was elite all. Ever since he's come back and
33:12
then you look at a guy like Sam Darnold and what he has done
33:16
after getting that three-year, $100 million contract by the
33:20
Seattle Seahawks in the offseason.
33:22
Him and Nick Jigba have been a dynamic duo and they've got a
33:26
very great running game. Charbonnet and Walker, I mean,
33:31
these guys are as good as a tandem in the NFL right now.
33:34
They're. Off what do you think?
33:35
What do you think the difference in this game is going to be?
33:38
I think it's going to be the trenches.
33:40
I think it's going to be what offensive line is going to take
33:44
over the game when they need to to protect their quarterbacks.
33:47
And I'm going to say the defenses now.
33:49
Robert Sala last week was fantastic.
33:53
His play calling last week was elite.
33:57
When you look at the Eagles, the Eagles aren't an elite offensive
34:00
team all season long, but they have elite players.
34:03
A.J. Brown at one point was elite.
34:05
Smith is an elite player. Goddard, they have elite
34:09
players. Saquon Barkley, they have elite
34:11
players. And what Robert Sala did was he
34:15
used their his strengths of his defense.
34:17
He had a Kendricks, what, 48 hours before the game, had him
34:22
understand the offense, to run his offense.
34:24
And what did he do? He made this.
34:27
He made the Eagles beat them the way they couldn't beat teams all
34:31
season long is use the air and they couldn't get the ball to
34:35
their stars. They couldn't get the ball to
34:37
A.J. Brown and they couldn't get the
34:39
ball to Smith. And to me, that was the reason
34:41
why I believe the 49ers won the game.
34:45
And that's why I think this game is going to be interesting
34:48
because you're going to have a cat and mouse game.
34:51
You're going to have McDonald, who's one of the best defensive
34:54
minds in the NFL right now, who's a head coach that really
34:57
has delivered one of the elite offenses in the league and a
35:01
very good defense all season long.
35:04
And he he brought veteran players, ex Jets and Giants,
35:08
Giants, Giants players to this team to help absorb the
35:12
weaknesses that this team has had when they had guys like Pete
35:16
Carroll there and Geno Smith. And you can see the difference
35:19
of this team and the way they rotate their players and how
35:23
much talent they have on their bench.
35:25
If a player goes down, another man comes up.
35:28
And that's that's the difference of this game.
35:30
And that's why I think this game is going to be probably the best
35:32
game of the weekend. Speedy is the fact, yeah, George
35:35
Kittle is gone. It does affect the 49ers the way
35:38
they run their offense. No doubt that it does.
35:41
But when you look at both these teams, they have elite star
35:45
power. Elite.
35:47
Could you imagine if Nick Bosa was in this game or Fred Warner
35:51
was in this game? You know much?
35:53
That's even crazier to think about it because the 49ers are
35:57
not being that elite defense all season long.
35:59
But Robert Sala has figured out what his strengths and
36:02
weaknesses are at the end of the season, and it's changed the
36:05
factor of why the 49ers have moved on and the Eagles are
36:09
sitting home playing golf. So I I think that this game
36:13
stands out more than any of these games this weekend because
36:16
of the factor of the talent on both sides of the ball.
36:20
Yeah, I'm curious on the how the Seahawks or the Seahawks going
36:23
to adjust to the Christian McCaffrey from the receiving
36:25
game because they've done it in the running game so far.
36:27
But sometimes those flat passes, that's why they kiddle injury
36:31
hurts because they if the Seattle Seahawks had one
36:33
weakness last year, this year has been against tight ends.
36:35
They're not great. They're league average against
36:37
them, so if McCaffrey or any one of these other bigger slot
36:41
receivers can get it going for the Niners, that would be the
36:43
adjustment. That Jawan Jennings, I mean, he
36:45
knows how to throw the ball. Yes, Jawan.
36:48
What kind of trick plays Kyle Shanahan could pull out?
36:51
And then on the other end of it for the 49ers, can they get
36:54
protection on the offensive line against that?
36:56
Seattle interior rosters been really good this year and I
36:59
talked about it with certain quarterbacks struggling against
37:01
interior pressure. Rock Party I think has been one
37:04
of them in his career. The Niners have not sometimes
37:07
put either use Check or Kittle enough as a blocker to help them
37:10
out. And now with use Check being the
37:11
only guy there and having be used to receiver a lot last
37:14
week, especially in the second-half when Kittle was
37:16
down, will they be able to be able to block Byron Murphy and
37:18
guys like that up front? And then on the other side, the
37:21
49ers have game plan for Najigba pretty well each of the first
37:25
two meetings. Najigba got it going later in
37:27
that game, but the Niners young secondary looked really good.
37:30
And it's your boy Bembe Salah. Can he adjust to actually be
37:32
creative in his scheme like he was last week against Seattle?
37:35
We will see because McDonald has always been creative in his
37:38
scheme. Well, and that's the thing too,
37:40
and I'm glad Fish jumped in here because I've always looked at it
37:46
too. And you guys have opened my eyes
37:48
to like so many different aspects of the game where now
37:54
Errol even touched on it a little bit.
37:56
Like what coach with this certain aspect of the game, who
38:03
who's going to make that chess match, right?
38:06
Who's going to who's going to put the Rook in position?
38:08
Who's going to put the Bishop over here to get a checkmate?
38:12
And you said it was in the trenches.
38:14
And we have one of the best and one of the smartest people I
38:17
know when it comes to coaching and fish, where he can give us
38:22
such a different aspect. Because I think when you get to
38:26
this point, everybody knows everybody.
38:29
It's who makes those adjustments and how do you make them.
38:34
And I think it's the talent is obviously there.
38:37
Yeah, we're talking about viewership and all the other
38:40
stuff. But when it comes down to this
38:42
game, I think it's it's very different.
38:45
And as you said it Errol, it's like it starts in the trenches
38:49
and this is where it goes. And what is that chess match
38:53
going to be do Do I move my pawn here or, or what do I do?
38:57
And and as fish can can speak on this better than any of us
39:00
because obviously when none of us are coaches, where like what,
39:04
what move do you make? You know, Jabba, he kind of lost
39:08
his Rook. If we're going to talk about,
39:11
you know, the chess analogies, when you lose a guy who can do
39:14
both receiving and blocking, it's really a big loss.
39:18
And George Kittle's loss is going to hurt them in their run
39:21
game and it's going to hurt them in their pass game, but more in
39:25
the run game. I don't think people realize how
39:27
hard it is to set the edge to run an outside play.
39:31
And they want to run outside zone a lot.
39:32
This is a staple of the Kubiak offense, dating back to Terrell
39:36
Davis and his father. And in both of their fathers,
39:39
you know this is what they want to do.
39:41
Back right now. I will because that's where this
39:43
offense comes from. It's from Gary Kubiak and Mike
39:46
Shanahan, and this is the same offense with obviously a whole
39:49
bunch of bells and whistles and some real good trickery.
39:52
I'm going to talk about that trick play and vicious play of
39:54
the week and after the break I have a whole bunch of stuff to
39:57
say about it. But before we get there, I want
39:59
to answer your question. I, as a coach, am always trying
40:03
to see if I can't run outside. It's not easy.
40:06
The line has to move as one and then whoever's playing tackle or
40:10
if you have a tight end on the field, has to be really good at
40:12
setting the edge. Jake Tongs or Tongas, I don't
40:15
know how to pronounce his name. He's going to fill in for
40:17
Kittle. Tongas, he's a good receiver.
40:19
I don't know if he's going to be able to block like Kittle, and I
40:21
would doubt it because nobody really blocks like Kittle.
40:23
I think he's the best blocking tight end who's also a receiving
40:26
tight end since Gronk played. No one's Gronk, but he's the
40:29
closest thing we've had to Gronk since then.
40:31
It's it's really tough. And then you have Trent Williams
40:35
and you had Kittle and you can run to the left and you can
40:39
pretty much be assured you're going to get the edge pretty
40:41
much every time if they didn't get any penetration inside.
40:44
CMC hasn't run as well this year as he's run in previous years.
40:47
He's tip he's he's banging on the door of 30.
40:50
Maybe he's not the same super athlete as far as you know,
40:54
burst that he used to have like straight out the gates.
40:57
I don't see it the same where he's making those moves.
40:59
But he's still a great, great player.
41:01
He's one of the best receiving running backs we've ever seen in
41:03
the history of the game. It's just they don't have a full
41:06
deck that they're playing against this Mike McDonald
41:08
defense, and that defense is humming.
41:10
And I'm a little concerned that Shanahan's going to have to rely
41:14
on more trigger than he wants to in order to win this well.
41:16
Usually, usually in these games, and I and I, I will say this,
41:20
when, when you know you have your weaknesses, George Kittle
41:23
is not playing, you expect that obviously there's going to be an
41:27
advantage to the other team. But again, I've got to give Kyle
41:31
Shanahan a little bit of credit. He's got pieces, he's got
41:34
players on on his roster that might not be able to block like
41:37
Kiddo, but could open up the open up the skill positions and
41:41
and again, they have the ability to still open up the offense and
41:46
the offensive side of the book because they have CMC.
41:49
He's still 100% healthy. Errol that's that's where the
41:52
chess mats comes in, though is like now that you don't have
41:56
that piece and like Fish just said, you took your Rook away
42:00
and now it's like, OK, how do how do I game plan?
42:03
And now because I know I'm not going to be able to have that.
42:06
Well, what he's going to do, and I'm going to tell you what he's
42:08
going to do, he's going to use another offensive lineman.
42:10
That's what he's going to do. And that's what he's what Kyle
42:13
Shanahan has done all season long.
42:16
George Kittle for years has been hurt.
42:18
He the guy is not a healthy guy. He doesn't stay healthy all
42:22
season long. The guy fights injury every
42:25
single year because of the way he plays, he's aggressive and
42:28
and the way he blocks. So what is Kyle Shanahan like to
42:30
do? He likes to use 1/5 option, 1/5
42:33
optional offensive lineman or sometimes he uses a defensive
42:37
lineman in the way he runs his offenses.
42:40
So I've seen him do it. He's a smart man.
42:42
He's not a he's not stupid. He understands the offensive
42:45
side of the game. But the problem with obviously
42:48
over the last couple of years since Robert Sala went to the
42:51
New York Jets was the defensive side of the ball, the play
42:54
calling on the defensive side of the ball.
42:56
And ever since Robert Sala left, the defense hasn't been as good
43:01
as it was when he was there. And now you see the difference.
43:04
You see why Robert Sala was so really important to the way the
43:08
49ers ran their defense. And now you're seeing the
43:11
difference. Robert Sala doesn't have elite
43:13
players on the defensive line. He really doesn't.
43:16
He lost two of the best players at their positions in the league
43:21
and what is he doing? He's still finding ways to get
43:24
to the quarterback. He's still finding way ways to
43:26
put pressure on quarterbacks. And something that he hasn't
43:30
done many, many times is blitzing, and he did that last
43:33
week a lot. He blitzed something that he
43:36
never did with The Jets. And, and, and again, that's
43:39
something that is trickery. And maybe that's, that's the
43:42
game plan. And I think in this game,
43:44
they're going to have to use trickery if they're going to
43:47
beat the Seattle Seahawks, because Seattle is very well
43:50
built. They have a great offensive
43:52
line, not a good a great offensive line.
43:55
They've got star power at the running back position.
43:58
They've got a good tight end. He's not an elite tight end, but
44:01
he's a good tight end. And they don't have a number, a
44:04
real top end #2 wide receiver. But pick up arguably the best
44:09
wide receiver in the league. So when you have those kind of
44:13
pieces and you have McDonald, who is one of the elite
44:17
defensive minds in the NFL, and I don't want to hear anything
44:21
from the Baltimore Ravens anymore or any fans out there to
44:24
tell me that McDonald isn't a great defensive mind.
44:27
Go look at the Baltimore Ravens defense since he's left.
44:31
I mean, they they were a top five, top three defense.
44:34
Where have they been over the last two years?
44:37
Last year they got worse. This year they were one of the
44:39
worst since McDonald's been gone.
44:41
So you see how important a coach can be to run a defense.
44:47
Speaking of important, CJ Stroud.
44:50
And I think this game is interesting because you have the
44:53
battle of two young quarterbacks.
44:56
CJ Stroud, where he was rookie of the year a couple of years
44:59
ago, this guy was probably had the best freshman year we've
45:03
ever seen. A quarterback half.
45:05
Bryce Young was drafted in front of him.
45:07
And I, I remember that because Bryce Young, the Carolina
45:10
Panthers moved up to get him and a lot of people, CJ Stroud was
45:14
hurt when when when Carolina moved up to get him and didn't
45:18
draft him and he thought he was going to fall out of the top 10.
45:21
And what did he wanted to do? What did he do after he got
45:24
drafted? He was thanking God, he was
45:26
thanking everybody. He was thanking the organization
45:29
and the Texans saying that you're not going to regret this.
45:31
And I don't think the Texans ever regretted drafting CJ
45:36
Stroud. Because if you look at what CJ
45:38
Stroud has done as a player since he's come into the league,
45:42
even if even his ups and downs in his sophomore year, he played
45:46
great. This year was his third year and
45:49
he showed you he doesn't have all his ducks in a row.
45:53
He didn't need that in the first half of the season.
45:55
His defense was elite. They kept the team afloat.
45:59
And then as soon as Nico Collins got healthy and his team fairly
46:04
found somewhat of a running game with Marx, they're they're a
46:07
different offense. And I'm going to tell you this
46:10
right now, the Texans have the advantage against the Patriots,
46:14
even though it's in New England. And there's a lot of reasons
46:18
why. And I'm not saying Drake May
46:19
isn't special. Drake May is a great player.
46:22
Drake May has not played against the defense this good all season
46:26
long. He hasn't, let's be honest, he's
46:29
never played a defense this dominant, especially in a
46:33
secondary. So what are they going to do
46:35
against Drake May? They're going to pressure him.
46:38
They're going to make him put the ball in places he is
46:41
uncomfortable doing as we saw them do it against a veteran
46:46
superstar quarterback, one of the greatest passing
46:49
quarterbacks of NFL history, in NFL history, and Aaron Rodgers.
46:53
I don't know if anybody saw what they did to Aaron Rodgers.
46:57
They made sure that Aaron Rodgers couldn't breathe in the
46:59
pocket. They made him do things that he
47:02
was uncomfortable doing, and that's exactly what they're
47:05
going to do against the Patriots.
47:07
Young offensive line. This isn't a veteran offensive
47:10
line. This is a young offensive line
47:13
that's never been in a position like this before at all.
47:17
Half of these guys have never even played in a big game like
47:19
this. So Drake May's never been in a
47:22
big game like this. So when you think about that and
47:25
you see you see the position that CJ Stroud's in, CJ Stroud's
47:29
been in this position before. This guy took his team in his
47:33
rookie season to the playoffs. This guy has been as good of of
47:38
of quarter as good of a quarterback in the second-half
47:40
of the season. And where from any of the young
47:42
quarterbacks that we have mentioned over the last couple
47:45
of weeks, he has been sensational.
47:47
Now, I do believe the Patriots are going to put a lot of
47:50
pressure on a bar. More is going to stress and put
47:53
they're going to put pressure on the gaps.
47:56
They're going to make CJ Strout move outside of the pocket where
48:00
when you see CJ Strout move outside of the pocket, he makes
48:03
mistakes. He doesn't step into his passes.
48:06
He backs off on his passes. He he throws on his back foot.
48:10
When he does that, he doesn't have as as as enough power on
48:13
his throws. And you can see the difference
48:15
in his game. And I'm going to tell you this,
48:18
I don't trust the Texans offensive line either.
48:22
The offensive line's been up and down all season long.
48:25
It has not been a good offensive line and that has been probably
48:29
the problem in the first half. They've got better in the
48:32
second-half, but how much better?
48:35
Where are they ranked right now, Speedy?
48:36
18th. 18th against the defense and my Mike Vrabel, who Mike
48:42
Vrabel loves to use different blitz packages.
48:44
He loves to pressure up the seams and up the gaps and makes
48:49
the young quarterback make mistakes.
48:51
Bill Belichick was the king of doing that.
48:53
He finds your weakness and he he would bury your your strength
48:58
and, and attack your weaknesses. That's what he would do, and
49:01
that's what Vrabel does as a head coach.
49:04
So where do you where do you think he attacks the most in
49:07
this game? The running game because Drake
49:10
May is not going to have a #1 receiver anywhere close to the
49:14
cornerback levels that Derek Stingley is.
49:16
And obviously Kamari, even Kamari Laster on the other side,
49:18
if he's healthy is a good #2 this year.
49:20
And Errol talked about all the time that safety tool with the
49:23
Texans too is really good. That's going to make it
49:25
interesting to see how they use the pass catching running back.
49:27
Same thing I was saying with the 49ers, if they can use that to
49:30
counter the the pass rush because that offensive line
49:33
edition not being very good. The Patriots is banged up too.
49:36
Garrett Bradbury is not 100% healthy.
49:37
Will Campbell just came back from IR and we saw fish in the
49:43
Giants playoff game against the Vikings when Bradbury was hurt
49:45
at the end of the year with Minnesota.
49:46
Leonard Williams was feasting over there.
49:48
And Houston's got a lot of guys on the interior too that could
49:50
do the same kind of thing. So they're going to need a quick
49:53
passing game for Drake May to make it work.
49:55
And the running backs and the tight ends are going to be the
49:56
best way to do that. The key is the run game.
49:59
You're right, speed and before before I started to interrupt
50:02
just they they fed from Andre Stevenson last week against the
50:06
Chargers. I don't see that happening this
50:08
year this week. This is going to be a Trayvon
50:10
Henderson game. This is going to be an outside
50:13
the edge. Try to use speed, try to, you
50:16
know, do some more sweeps. Try to get outside these guys
50:19
because you're not running inside on this Texans team with
50:22
that line, with that offensive line, against that defensive
50:25
line. I don't see it happening in a
50:26
million years. So you shouldn't give it to the
50:27
between the tackles guy. You should try to get to the
50:30
home run guy. Now that's going to put more
50:32
pressure on Drake May if he can't break one or two.
50:35
We've seen him break a couple this season already.
50:38
He's that good. It might be a defensive battle
50:41
just like last week where it's like 1 big play could determine
50:44
the game. Yeah, and that's where I think
50:46
Houston's going to have to get secondary receivers because
50:48
Christian Gonzalez gets Nico Collins will probably cancel out
50:51
with both being big guys, but if they can.
50:53
Get I don't think Collins is playing speedy.
50:55
He's has a concussion. They're talking that he's not
50:57
going to be ready. They're in a lot of trouble.
50:59
They have Higgins and Noel from Iowa State, and I believe
51:02
Hutchinson's also from Iowa State 3.
51:04
Years earlier, yeah. From a few years earlier,
51:06
Higgins look pretty good, but he's the number 2 at best in his
51:10
rookie season. I don't.
51:11
No one really expects him to be able to do that.
51:14
And he's going to have one of the best corners in the world on
51:17
him. Yeah, Schultz.
51:18
Will have to be the guy that steps up for them.
51:20
Yeah, it's probably going to be a lot of tight ends and a lot of
51:23
running backs from both teams. Errol, I know you said you don't
51:26
want to watch this game. This is going to be boring.
51:29
No, it is. This one's the ugly game of the
51:30
week. It's.
51:31
The ugly If you like defense, you know, if you think Drake May
51:35
hasn't been tested, this is the test.
51:37
Can he pass this test? Because that defense is real,
51:41
Will Anderson Junior is real and they got about 8 other real guys
51:44
on that. That's.
51:45
The most interesting game of the week and the weekend is this
51:49
game, the Rams and the Chicago Bears.
51:53
And I'll tell you what, because obviously the coaches and we all
51:57
know Sean McVay is one of the best offensive minds in the NFL.
52:01
He likes the yap. He's got one of the worst voices
52:04
you've ever heard. I can't stand his voice.
52:07
I can't stand it. And then you have Ben Johnson,
52:10
who likes to curse. He's that young personality,
52:14
gets his players amped up in the locker room.
52:17
I love that about Ben Johnson. We heard him after they knocked
52:20
off the Packers. We saw what he did with Matt
52:24
Lafleur and he was trying. When Matt Lafor put his hand out
52:26
there, he didn't even shake his hand.
52:28
He smacked his hand. So you can see the personality
52:32
that Brent Ben Johnson brings to the table.
52:35
And then you look at the quarterbacks, Matthew Stafford,
52:38
a Hall of Famer, one of the greatest quarterbacks of this
52:40
era. And then you have Caleb
52:42
Williams, one of the most controversial quarterbacks in
52:45
the NFL, likes to paint his fingernails, likes to speak out
52:49
to the press in all different ways.
52:52
You like him, you hate him. He doesn't show up to film
52:54
there. There are things that Caleb
52:56
Williams has done this year that has you shaking your head.
52:59
But his talent, his God-given talent, what we've seen over the
53:03
last couple weeks, how many guys could do what Caleb Williams
53:06
could do when he's at the top of his game, he's.
53:09
But that amazing, but that's what we talked about Errol too.
53:12
You you got to understand Ben Johnson let Caleb be Caleb and
53:17
we've seen you you said it early in the year.
53:20
You like you think he's going to be special.
53:22
Well, then when I think we've talked about coaches in this
53:26
realm, when you allow somebody to be able to be authentically
53:30
themself, and I've said that before, you see special things.
53:35
And we're like some of those passes that he made, like
53:38
there's no reason he should have made those passes in that game
53:41
in those situations. If that was Caleb the year
53:44
before and Ben Johnson and obviously none of us, we, we
53:49
don't know him on on an individual basis, but he's like,
53:54
go be you, go be you. And we've seen what happened and
54:00
it's it. It's going to be David, Goliath,
54:03
I will say this, but it's going to be fun to watch.
54:04
I will say this, the Rams defense has been very good all
54:08
season long. They're young.
54:10
Their front 7 is as good as any front seven in a league when
54:13
they get at the quarterback. But there are games they
54:15
disappear. And we've seen that in the
54:18
fourth quarter against Seattle a couple of weeks ago, that
54:20
defense different disappeared. That front 7 disappeared.
54:23
They have to play all out against this Chicago Bears
54:27
offensive line who have pro ball players on it.
54:30
They have good offensive lineman on this offensive line, guys
54:36
that have won Super Bowls before, guys that have been in
54:39
these situations before. And again, this is a Rams
54:42
defense that's very young. A lot of these guys had never
54:44
been in these situations before. Pukanukua is a superstar player.
54:49
He is he's he's fantastic to watch.
54:51
But guess what? Roma Dunes pretty damn good too.
54:54
So you have two elite wide receivers in this game.
54:58
We were talking about obviously the Broncos in the and and the
55:01
Buffalo Bills, how there's really no elite wide receivers.
55:05
There's a dozen of them in these games.
55:07
It what what we mentioned with the Seattle game and now the
55:10
Bears game. This is to me as fun of the game
55:14
to watch than any other games this weekend because you know,
55:17
both teams don't like each other.
55:19
Sean Mcfae is going to be gassing on his sideline.
55:22
You're going to see Ben Johnson dancing and prancing on the
55:25
other sidelines. You have two teams that don't
55:28
like each other. Both offenses and defenses are
55:31
elite of elite. And, and I'm going to tell you
55:34
this right now, whoever wins this game can absolutely go to
55:38
the Super Bowl. As a matter of fact, my
55:39
prediction is I think that whoever wins this game is going
55:44
to the Super Bowl. I don't trust Seattle with some
55:47
of the young players in Sam Donald in an AFC title, an NFC
55:51
title game, and I know I don't trust the 49ers with some of the
55:55
injuries they have. I think this these two teams
55:58
have the best all around talent out of all the teams still in
56:01
the NFC and Job. I want to go back to what you
56:04
were saying about the scheduling, because the the
56:06
Bears and the Rams actually really benefit on they play a
56:08
longer week, while the 49ers and Bills play a shorter week.
56:11
And I think that's something that could keep these offenses
56:13
very fresh. Because you talk about chess
56:15
matches, Ben Johnson and Chris Shula even on the defensive side
56:18
with the Rams, because Errol, you're talking about like they
56:20
have a good pass rush with the Rams, but they have a lot of
56:23
like really chess pieces. Besides that.
56:25
They have a lot of young corners, a couple they just
56:27
traded for just sign and safety. Same kind of thing getting him
56:30
for. Other Could you sell this game
56:32
speedy? I'm not trying to sell this, I
56:36
admitted. I'm not a salesman.
56:37
I'm a game analyst. I'm not.
56:39
I'll let I'll let somebody else do that.
56:42
Nevertheless, Ben Johnson coaches fearless.
56:45
And I think that's the big thing you're looking at why they're
56:47
here at this point as fast as they were this year in a very
56:49
difficult division or the best division of football.
56:52
And they have a lot of receivers that are specialist.
56:54
Roma Dunes is a big body good possession guy still needs to
56:57
work on his route to DJ Moore is a good quickness guy off the
56:59
line of scrimmage and burden fishy.
57:00
We talked about it during the draft.
57:02
It's kind of a smaller receiver that's fast but not overly
57:05
quick. So it's somebody is interesting
57:07
where the Bears have to win though.
57:09
They're going to have to run the ball really well early in the
57:11
game because the Rams run defense is top five in the
57:13
football and that interior on that defensive line is very
57:16
good. I mentioned it.
57:17
Can they run inside against the the Packers last week?
57:20
And they did. Can they get the call?
57:22
If they can do that and get out to an early league because the
57:24
Bears have been a slow starting team, they could definitely win
57:26
this game. I'm leaning more towards the
57:28
Rams right now with the experience and talent.
57:29
But the Bears, I agree with you, Errol.
57:31
If they win this game, I think they'd probably go to the Super
57:33
Bowl too. Well, and let's let's shout out
57:35
Sean in in the messages on on YouTube.
57:39
He's got Bears, Patriots, Super Bowl.
57:42
That is Kevin and Kevin also said Bell Seahawks so.
57:45
I'll say that is a very possible aspect if if things all come to
57:51
fruition like we talk about. I had Rams and Bells at the
57:55
start of the playoffs. Well, it's going to be tough
57:58
though, because the Rams are going to have to go against
58:01
this. I think Kayla Williams is the
58:02
most talented quarterback in the NFL right now.
58:05
The throws he made last week were absurd.
58:08
It was like he was Kobe Bryant doing fadeaways, throwing at 30
58:11
yards on on the dime layering throws.
58:14
Roma Dunes got broke his foot or something like 6 weeks ago and
58:17
he's and he missed five straight games, came back.
58:19
He isn't the same guy. He caught that long bomb from
58:21
him on one of those crazy scrambles in the game, but he's
58:24
not healthy. DJ Moore is a gamer.
58:28
That dude is going to show up in the playoffs.
58:29
He had a touchdown last week. He's a tough dude, tough as
58:32
nails. He's one of my favorite players
58:34
in the NFL that's really unheralded.
58:36
I always take him every year in fantasy and he always has a
58:38
couple of 20 point weeks for you because he's just that kind of
58:41
dude. I I really love their offensive
58:44
line. The Bears went out this
58:45
offseason when they hired Ben Johnson and stacked that
58:48
offensive line. You build through the line.
58:51
Ben Johnson's no fool if you can create confidence from your
58:54
quarterback, which he did this year, because Caleb did not play
58:58
with any confidence last year, for good reason with Matt
59:01
Heberfluse. But I'll tell you, this is one
59:05
of the most confident guys I've ever seen making throws that
59:07
nobody should be making. And you can beat great defense
59:10
and great scheme with superior talent.
59:13
And Caleb is the guy that I would be most afraid of if I was
59:16
Sean McVay in this entire playoffs.
59:18
And I don't know if he's going to be able to stop him,
59:21
especially if they don't get pressure, because that line's
59:23
really good. Speaking of a great game, Monday
59:28
night's National Championship game will feature Carson Beck
59:34
and the number 10 seed Miami Hurricanes facing off against
59:38
Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza and the undefeated
59:43
number one seed Indiana Hoosiers.
59:46
Miami gets a boost as the game is being played on their home
59:51
field at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, but the Hoosier fans will
59:55
be traveling in large numbers as they did for the last two games.
1:00:01
Miami's pass rush, led by Bain and Messidor, has 13 sacks in
1:00:07
the College Football Playoff, facing an Indiana offensive line
1:00:12
that has allowed just 4 sacks in their two CF.
1:00:16
B Playoff Games Miami running back Mark Fletcher has rushed
1:00:22
for 395 rushing yards in the three College Football Playoff
1:00:29
games, while Indiana's run defense allowed only 32 yards
1:00:34
against Alabama and 93 yards against Oregon.
1:00:39
Fernando Mendoza has 369 passing yards and eight touchdowns in
1:00:44
the two CFB games, while Carson Beck also has 509 passing yards
1:00:53
and four touchdowns in their three CFP games.
1:00:58
In the AP poll era, Indiana is currently the second best team
1:01:03
all time with a + 44175 point differential, only behind Jameis
1:01:11
Winston's two 2013 Florida State God squad.
1:01:16
I'm sorry I had to do that because I'm a Florida State fan
1:01:19
who were a + 553. Indiana is an 8.5 point favorite
1:01:26
after the line opened at 7.5. This game's going to be fun,
1:01:31
ladies and gentlemen, and it's all going to be if Miami can get
1:01:35
an early lead. If we've watched the Indiana
1:01:40
Hoosiers play all season long, they get this early lead and
1:01:44
then they drop the hammer on these teams.
1:01:47
This is one of the elite offensive lines in the nation.
1:01:50
They have dominated against great defenses all season long.
1:01:54
Look what they did to Oregon last week.
1:01:56
That offensive line protected Mendoza.
1:01:58
He only got hit one time, one sack.
1:02:03
They had one sack the whole game.
1:02:05
This is an Oregon Ducks defense that is is is as elite as any
1:02:10
team in the nation. They were top ten in the nation.
1:02:13
Almost every single defensive statistic.
1:02:17
Miami has talent. Bain and Mesador, these guys are
1:02:20
great. These guys going to be first
1:02:22
round talents. They're sensational, but are
1:02:25
they going to be able to put pressure on Mendoza in this game
1:02:29
where it's going to throw him off his spots?
1:02:31
Nobody's been able to do that all season long.
1:02:35
That's why they're undefeated. That's why nobody's beating
1:02:37
them. Miami is going into a game where
1:02:41
they're underdogs, but they've been underdogs going into the
1:02:44
playoffs. Think about it, what they have
1:02:47
done in the playoffs. Look what they did against the
1:02:49
Ohio State Buckeyes. We would have thought that this
1:02:52
would have been Indiana and the Buckeyes in the national
1:02:55
championship, not Miami and Indiana.
1:02:59
And everybody thinks this is going to be an absolute debacle,
1:03:02
that Miami is going to get pulverized by the Hoosiers.
1:03:06
I don't know if that's going to happen.
1:03:08
Do you think so too? And, and I've I've talked about
1:03:11
this too. Do you think the pedigree that
1:03:15
Carson Beck has has surrounded himself with being at Georgia
1:03:20
and seeing them win, Do you think that is going to play a
1:03:24
part in it? Because Mendoza, he he's
1:03:27
obviously the Heisman winner, great talent.
1:03:30
We understand that, but he's never won.
1:03:34
Carson Beck's been around a winning.
1:03:37
And this is where Signetti comes in and as a coach and what he
1:03:42
is. But when you got to do it on the
1:03:44
field, and that's what I've always said.
1:03:46
I think it's it's going to be the running games.
1:03:49
And we've been saying this over and over and over again.
1:03:51
Fletcher junior has been sensational, Hemby's been
1:03:54
sensational. Both teams have great powerful
1:03:56
running games and we've seen how they can dominate the line of
1:04:00
scrimmage when they can run the ball.
1:04:01
I will tell you this, whatever defensive line shows up early in
1:04:05
this game and puts pressure on the opposite sides, quarterback,
1:04:10
I think the advantage is going to go to that team.
1:04:12
Miami, even though they don't and again, Indiana doesn't have
1:04:16
first one of what do they call it, one star, whatever, five
1:04:20
star recruits they don't have 5 star recruits they have, they
1:04:23
have guys that are not even star recruits.
1:04:26
These guys they got from James Madison, they got these guys
1:04:30
from the the portal. A lot of these guys weren't even
1:04:32
star recruits, and they've played sensational under
1:04:35
Signetti's style. And and again, it's styles make
1:04:39
team, styles make opponents, as we all know.
1:04:42
And Miami might be Indiana's kryptonite.
1:04:45
We won't know until the beginning of the game.
1:04:47
We see what Bain can do in the game.
1:04:49
We see what Mesador could do. These two guys are dynamic.
1:04:53
And if I were the New York Jets, this is what I would do.
1:04:56
I would draft Bain and I would draft Mazidor.
1:04:59
That's what I would do. That's what I would do.
1:05:02
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to solidify my defensive line.
1:05:07
Think about it, who's the last team to do that?
1:05:09
Speedy. The last team on the same duo?
1:05:12
It's solidified. I'll tell you right now, it's
1:05:13
from. I'll give you a hint.
1:05:15
It's from my Florida State Seminoles.
1:05:17
The Rams, Yeah. That's right, the Rams.
1:05:19
The Rams were the team to do that and they've done.
1:05:22
Look at their defense. Look how it changed their
1:05:24
fortunes. I'm going to tell you this right
1:05:27
now, Mesador and Bain are much better than the dynamic door
1:05:30
that they have over there with the Rams.
1:05:33
But I think that if you look at the potential that you have with
1:05:37
these two players, these guys can cause havoc in the middle,
1:05:40
they can cause havoc on the corners.
1:05:42
They can do everything. I don't think any organ doesn't
1:05:45
have these kind of players that we have seen in this tournament.
1:05:49
Tournament, like Miami, has put pressure on every single team
1:05:53
they played. Again.
1:05:53
Look what they did against the Buckeyes.
1:05:55
I think, I think when you say that and you say it comes down
1:05:58
the running game, but you have those guys that can spread the
1:06:00
field, right? So they it gives it gives
1:06:04
options to where now if if you say the discerning factor is the
1:06:09
running game, well, so you got to worry about those guys,
1:06:11
right? So you're going to spread the
1:06:13
field and then now that opens it up to do what those guys are
1:06:18
great at. And I, I think it's you, you are
1:06:23
100% right because that is the discerning factor.
1:06:27
But is he going to get them the ball is, is he going to succumb
1:06:32
to the pressure? Are they going to get to them?
1:06:35
And now you said defensive line in that how much pressure is
1:06:40
there are they going to get? Yeah, and there's a reason
1:06:43
Jabba, I think Malachi Tony might be the biggest X Factor
1:06:46
for Miami in this game because they've used him as a runner
1:06:49
sometimes as well. So if they if they're all keep
1:06:51
game planning for. Fletcher.
1:06:53
Yes, if they're all game planning for Fletcher inside it,
1:06:57
like Indiana's done with the Oregon and Alabama running backs
1:06:59
that are duo, then I look at, I look at like him reversing,
1:07:04
spacing them out, the Indiana defense, because Errol's right,
1:07:07
Miami has to get to an early lead.
1:07:08
Indiana when they've gotten a little exposed in November, a
1:07:11
little bit when they weren't, weren't playing great.
1:07:13
A lot of those teams got out to early leads.
1:07:15
You saw Michigan do it. Well, actually Michigan was a
1:07:16
little early in the season. Michigan got out to an early
1:07:19
lead. Indiana came back later, but
1:07:20
they it was a back and forth game.
1:07:21
Penn State when they played them close that one game did that
1:07:24
same kind of thing. And even in the Big 10
1:07:26
championship game, Ohio State was pretty much controlling the
1:07:29
game in the beginning until Indiana got it going in the
1:07:31
third quarter. And then Indiana really just
1:07:33
dominated after that. Miami has to be able to run the
1:07:36
ball in many different ways and not just rely on just.
1:07:38
Remember what Miami did against the Ohio State Buckeyes
1:07:42
offensive line. This is an elite offensive line.
1:07:45
The Indiana Hoosiers have an elite offensive line.
1:07:49
When you watch what Messador and Bain did to that offensive line,
1:07:54
they terminated them early in the game.
1:07:57
They put so much pressure on the Ohio State Buckeyes by the
1:08:00
second-half of the game. I know that the the coaching
1:08:04
staff over there in Ohio, Ohio State, and I'll tell you this, I
1:08:07
talked to Wes about this and we had this conversation.
1:08:09
He's a Buckeyes fan and he said Ryan Day got outclassed and out
1:08:14
coached by a guy that obviously understands defense.
1:08:19
And and again, I don't know if Ohio State expected to see Bain
1:08:24
and Mesador dominate the line of scrimmage the way they did.
1:08:27
I'm going to tell you this right now.
1:08:28
If they don't have an answer for these two guys, this is going to
1:08:31
be a long, long day for Fernando Mendoza because Fernando
1:08:36
Mendoza, he's had his way really in the last two weeks.
1:08:40
Oh, his way. He didn't really, you have to do
1:08:42
much. Everybody looks at his numbers.
1:08:43
His numbers didn't pop out at you.
1:08:45
Why? Because he has five touchdowns
1:08:47
and 107, seventy, 177 yards. They're not 350 yards.
1:08:52
They're not 400 yards. He didn't do it.
1:08:54
You know Joe Burrow did when when he went into the national
1:08:57
championship game. I mean it all season long, he
1:09:00
did things that he did enough to help his team win.
1:09:04
It wasn't because of Mendoza on why they won.
1:09:07
I'm sorry, fans, I'm just telling you the truth.
1:09:09
It was because of the running game.
1:09:11
It was because of the offensive line in the dominance, dominance
1:09:14
and, and, and what they did to organs offense, completely
1:09:18
throwing Dante Moore off his spots.
1:09:21
That's the facts. That's the only reason why I
1:09:24
believe the Indiana, Indiana Hoosiers won that game and
1:09:27
dominated the way they did. They they dominated.
1:09:29
What was it, 56 to 22 or whatever the hell it was?
1:09:32
It was a score golly for college.
1:09:33
It was a ridiculous number, but the game was over before it even
1:09:37
started. Quickly before our guest is in,
1:09:39
I just want to mention the Indiana, the Indiana offensive
1:09:42
line too. Against that Miami interior rush
1:09:45
is going to be a big key too because a lot of Indiana success
1:09:47
on the ground game has come inside and Bain and Messidor are
1:09:50
going to get all the attention. But Miami's interior rush has
1:09:52
done very well. And then on the offensive line
1:09:54
for Miami, Java, you were talking about it and Errol, you
1:09:57
were talking about like the recruiting advantage for Miami
1:09:58
because Indiana's relying on a lot of five star, three star
1:10:01
guys. Miami's the top five in terms of
1:10:03
getting five star guys. So their offensive lines don't
1:10:05
slouch either. But again, they're going to have
1:10:07
to be a little more tricky, and Cristobal's good.
1:10:09
Done it so far. Signetti forgot.
1:10:10
It you know, I'm reading what Sean's saying in the group
1:10:13
message and he says Indiana will win and and hurt. the Hurricanes
1:10:17
have been inconsistent. Yeah, their offense has been
1:10:19
inconsistent. But guess what, guys?
1:10:22
As inconsistent as Miami's offense has been in this
1:10:25
tournament, guess who's in the national championship?
1:10:29
And as a 10 seed, so the inconsistency and and love love
1:10:34
the feedback, obviously, but you got there.
1:10:38
They're A1 seat. Indiana was expected maybe, but
1:10:42
as A10 seat, you're like, maybe, you know, it's a shot in the
1:10:46
dark. It's the Florida Gulf Coast of
1:10:48
March Madness. Every once in a while that
1:10:49
happens, but they're there. Yep, and that's why I'm not
1:10:55
going to count them out and and he's saying that they're
1:10:58
Indiana's going to win. I wouldn't bet on that.
1:11:00
And I'm going to tell you this right now as as you look at the
1:11:03
points, it's eight, what is it, 8.58 and a half?
1:11:06
It's 8 1/2. I bet you the game is going to
1:11:09
be a lot closer than people think.
1:11:10
This isn't the Oregon Ducks and the Indiana Hoosiers.
1:11:14
The Indiana Hoosiers in Signetti had something to prove against
1:11:16
the Ducks, especially what Dan Lanning was saying before the
1:11:19
game. I you haven't heard the
1:11:21
Hurricanes come out there. There's nothing on the
1:11:24
chalkboard that tells me that they're going to have something
1:11:27
set up and say, well, look what this guy said and look what that
1:11:29
guy said. There's nothing.
1:11:31
And I think the Hurricanes have been very quiet in the way
1:11:34
they've planned and the way they play their game.
1:11:36
And you could see the coach, he says, everybody says they were
1:11:39
that, that the Miami, the Miami, Miami Hurricanes are back.
1:11:44
Well, he says they're not back until they win.
1:11:47
That's what the coach said. So I mean, when you hear the
1:11:50
coach see that, it says a lot about the coaching staff and
1:11:52
what the coach believes in his team.
1:11:54
He says you got to win to be back.
1:11:57
All right, ladies and gentlemen, my deuce of the day.
1:12:00
The deuce of the day you log. Not a log.
1:12:04
I don't have a log but you. Know.
1:12:13
Ladies and gentlemen, my deuce of the day goes to Dante Moore.
1:12:19
Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, I know a lot of Jet fans are upset
1:12:22
and probably crying to the whatever they're crying or if
1:12:25
they're going to the bank and they think they were going to
1:12:27
buy themselves a fowl, well, there's nothing to buy or cry
1:12:30
about. Dante Moore decided to go back
1:12:33
to the Ducks for one reason. Money.
1:12:36
NIL. He has a chance to make between
1:12:38
5:00 and $7,000,000 next year. Get a chance to learn under Dan
1:12:43
Lanning one more year. He looked bad in his final game
1:12:47
of the season against the Indiana, the Hoosiers.
1:12:49
I think that if Oregon wins this game and they go to the national
1:12:53
championship and maybe win, I think Dante Moore comes out of
1:12:56
the draft. I, I think the fact that he got
1:12:59
embarrassed on national television, I think that says a
1:13:02
lot about who he is as a player and what he believes he could be
1:13:06
after next year. I know a lot of people have said
1:13:09
that he doesn't want to be a Jet and that's why he didn't want to
1:13:11
come out of the draft. Nothing has been said in any of
1:13:14
the stuff that I have read that just because The Jets were
1:13:18
drafting two, that was the reason why he decided to go
1:13:21
back. I I understand The Jets are not
1:13:23
a good organization. No organization drafting at the
1:13:26
top of the draft are going to be good, including the New York
1:13:30
Jets. So if that's why Dante Moore
1:13:32
decided to go back to college, shame on him.
1:13:34
But here's the here's the great thing about this.
1:13:38
I do believe as a Jet fan and as a Jet guy, that this is a good
1:13:42
story. Why?
1:13:43
Because The Jets don't have to dig deep on really watching
1:13:48
Dante Moore film or Lookout, maybe Ty Simpson.
1:13:52
You already know that The Jets are not drafting a quarterback
1:13:55
in the first round this year. That tells me that The Jets can
1:13:59
trade down from the number two pick, move down a couple of
1:14:02
spots, get another first round draft pick, still get the player
1:14:05
they want and set up for next year.
1:14:08
Not one, not 2, but three first round draft picks to get the
1:14:13
quarterback that they feel is the the proper quarterback of
1:14:17
their future. So for all the fans out there,
1:14:20
all the Dante Moore lovers, he could go back to Oregon.
1:14:24
We don't need them maybe till next year, but my deuce of the
1:14:27
day goes to Dante Moore going back to Oregon.
1:14:32
There you go. All right, when we come back,
1:14:34
ladies and gentlemen, I'm a little tired.
1:14:36
But guess what? I've got a lot of heat to lay
1:14:40
the smack if on the New York Mets, as the Mets reached all
1:14:46
offseason and hopefully they reached the Kyle Tucker because
1:14:50
there's a story coming out that Kyle Tucker was offered, I don't
1:14:53
know, a little bit of money by the New York Mets.
1:14:55
We'll see if they seal the deal with him.
1:14:57
Ladies and gentlemen, when we come back, we will be talking a
1:14:59
Newsday Mets beat writer for the first time on Job On the Mouth
1:15:05
Laura Albanese. But first, our sports minute
1:15:08
with the one and only fish. This is the Jabba and the Mouth
1:15:15
Sports minute. What's up everybody?
1:15:18
Aaron Fishman here with your sportsman.
1:15:20
It got a couple of stories for you before we get into the
1:15:22
scores this evening. In frightening news this week,
1:15:25
former New York Giants cornerback Sam Beale has been
1:15:28
reported missing for over half of a year.
1:15:31
Apparently Beale, who was a supplemental pick of the Giants
1:15:33
back in 2019 and played for a franchise for three seasons but
1:15:37
was often heard, didn't really suit up that much.
1:15:39
He he started Western Michigan in college and was reported
1:15:42
missing back in July by his sister, Essence Zane after he
1:15:46
went to Virginia Beach and never came back.
1:15:49
Beal's car with clothes and sand on the floor was found by the
1:15:52
beach, but Beal has not been found and the family says they
1:15:56
have exhausted all leads. Authorities ask anyone with
1:16:00
information to contact Kenwood Police at 616-698-6580 or
1:16:06
Virginia Beach Police at 757385 4141.
1:16:11
Hopefully, Beale, who is only 29 years old, will be found in one
1:16:14
piece in the near future. And despite both center Rudy
1:16:18
Gobert and star guard Anthony Edwards sitting out the road
1:16:22
game against the Bucks, Minnesota absolutely blew the
1:16:26
doors off of the Doc. Rivers LED Team 139 to one O 6,
1:16:30
leading by as much as 41 points on the road without their top
1:16:34
guys. As the team struggled to the
1:16:36
finish Yannis intended, Kupo crashed hard to the floor on a
1:16:39
play at the rim as the home crowd booed the team throughout
1:16:42
much of the game. Yannis, after selling out and
1:16:44
landing hard, sat up and gave his patented thumbs down taunt
1:16:48
to the crowd. Except this time, it was aimed
1:16:51
at his home fans, and after the game, Giannis told reporters.
1:16:55
Whenever I get booed, I Boo back.
1:16:57
It doesn't matter. I play basketball for my
1:16:59
teammates. I play basketball for myself and
1:17:01
my family. When people don't believe in me,
1:17:04
I don't tend to be with them. I tend to do what I what I am
1:17:07
here to do, what I'm good at. It won't change home or away.
1:17:10
But yeah, I've never been a part of something like that before.
1:17:13
And I don't think it's fair. I don't.
1:17:14
But everyone has their opinion to do what they want to do.
1:17:17
I'm not going to tell them what to do or how they should act
1:17:19
when we don't play hard or when we lose games or when we're
1:17:22
where we're not supposed to be. I don't think anybody has the
1:17:24
right to tell me how I should act on a basketball court after
1:17:27
I have been here 13 years and I'm basically the all time
1:17:30
leader in everything. Well, that doesn't sound like a
1:17:33
guy who's staying in Milwaukee. The honest moving at the
1:17:36
deadline would be the biggest move in recent memory outside of
1:17:39
the time Nicole Harrison effed around and found out last year
1:17:42
when he traded Luca for Mr. Glass Anthony Davis and lost his
1:17:44
job. The honest movie would be less
1:17:46
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1:17:49
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1:20:05
Well, now we have a very special guest we are talking to Newsday
1:20:10
Mets beat writer Laura. Albanese, Laura, What's up?
1:20:14
Not much. How are you guys doing?
1:20:15
We are good. I don't know about you.
1:20:18
I mean, there's a lot to get into with the New York Mets.
1:20:20
We, you know, it's crazy. We had Bobby Valentine on last
1:20:24
week and we asked him what he thought about the ownership and
1:20:28
Steve Cohen. And, and I asked him, I was
1:20:30
honest with him. I said, do you think Steve Cohen
1:20:33
has done the right job so far over the last, I would say the
1:20:39
last year or so. And he said, well, I love, I
1:20:42
love Steve Cohen. I love what him and his wife
1:20:44
does. And, and I I'm not going to
1:20:46
count them out. I'm not going to count or attack
1:20:48
anything they've done. They've done a lot of great
1:20:50
things for the New York Mets. So my question to you is, you
1:20:54
saw Peter Lonzo and Edwin Diaz go to separate teams, One guy
1:21:00
that never got a contract offer and the other guy went to a team
1:21:05
that you can't stand as a Met fan, you can't stand the LA
1:21:08
Dodgers. And you look at it, you look at
1:21:11
their offseason. Do you think this is a winning
1:21:13
offseason so far in the position that they are in?
1:21:18
Well, no. I mean, the offseason is still
1:21:20
very, very in its early stages, so.
1:21:22
But right now, absolutely not. If you're a Mets fan, you're
1:21:24
ripping out your hair. You're like, OK, there goes Pete
1:21:26
Alonzo, there goes Brandon Nimmo, even Jeff McNeil.
1:21:28
There was like some consternation.
1:21:30
And then obviously, you lose Edwin Diaz, which is probably
1:21:33
kind of the biggest smack in the face because the Mets very, very
1:21:36
much wanted to have Edwin Diaz back.
1:21:39
But what does it say that your closer goes to the Dodgers for
1:21:43
$5,000,000 more and then doesn't even give you a chance to
1:21:46
counter offer? It indicates that he kind of
1:21:48
just didn't want to be there anymore.
1:21:50
I mean, like $5 million at that point.
1:21:52
You want to go, you have to uproot your entire family, go
1:21:55
across country. He wants it to be a Dodger.
1:21:57
So now, you know, it's kind of getting a little bit late early.
1:22:01
It feels like if they don't nail this Kyle Tucker acquisition,
1:22:05
which we're hearing, you know, Tucker might make a decision as
1:22:08
soon as tomorrow. You're kind of scrambling.
1:22:12
Look at the roster. They have two outfielders.
1:22:15
The last time I checked, you needed three, so at least three.
1:22:18
So you got that going for you. Their rotation, Do they have the
1:22:22
depth? Yeah, but there's a lot of
1:22:23
question marks there. And then they have, you know,
1:22:25
approximately like 900 infielders.
1:22:27
So I mean, like, the roster construction is a little bit
1:22:30
confounding right now. Yeah.
1:22:31
I was going to mention that with the pitching because I think the
1:22:33
Mets since David Stern's taken over and even before that too
1:22:36
with with Eppler, it seems like they never either trade or sign
1:22:39
for pitchers in their prime. They went after Max Scherzer and
1:22:42
Justin Verlander, who were in their 40s when the Mets signed
1:22:44
them, and it seems like they're always in rumors for these other
1:22:46
pitchers, Freddie Peralta being the most recent one.
1:22:49
But now it seems like the Yankees are the favorite.
1:22:50
So are you surprised that the Mets have not taken the approach
1:22:53
to get more starting pitching to help out the kids like McLean
1:22:55
and not put a lot of pressure on them?
1:22:57
Not necessarily. I think we've seen from David
1:22:59
Cern's track record that he does not like really offering these
1:23:02
big long term contracts to pitchers because pitchers tend
1:23:05
to get hurt. And so you see Ranger Suarez
1:23:07
going for five years, you're going to look and you're going
1:23:09
to say, OK for Amber Valdez is probably going to get something
1:23:11
really similar. Do you want to give forever
1:23:13
Valdez five years where he's a very good pitcher, but he's not
1:23:16
really the ace that they're necessarily looking for Their
1:23:20
their philosophy has been pretty consistent in that they want to
1:23:23
be able to develop internally. They they struck gold with Nolan
1:23:26
McClain. If you can stay healthy and you
1:23:28
know he's going to the world Baseball classic.
1:23:29
So go ahead and hold your breath, even though it's really
1:23:32
awesome. And then I think it's cool.
1:23:34
And then after that, he. How much do you give for Freddie
1:23:39
Peralta? Because a lot of people want
1:23:41
Freddie Peralta. And the asking price is going to
1:23:43
be high. I don't even think you even look
1:23:45
at school at this point. They're going to want your
1:23:47
entire farm system if you're going to get a guy at that
1:23:49
caliber. So they're in a little bit of a
1:23:51
difficult position. Yeah, but they're also counting
1:23:55
whether for good or for bad on those internal options.
1:23:58
The idea that Shawn Manaya is going to have a real spring
1:24:00
training, Christian Scott coming back from Tommy John surgery,
1:24:04
Tom and others development. There is a lot, a lot of what
1:24:08
ifs. And you know, on the one hand,
1:24:10
that can be exciting if if you're a gambling man, on the
1:24:14
other hand, you saw what happened in the second-half of
1:24:16
the season when no one can pitch into the 5th or 6th inning.
1:24:18
Don't. Worry Steve Cohen's building a
1:24:19
casino. It might be perfect for that,
1:24:21
yeah. Oh, I've heard, yeah.
1:24:25
So Laura, you said, you said to you kind of touched on it with
1:24:28
like Stearns and and his track record of not doing like long
1:24:31
term contracts. What you you know better than we
1:24:35
do. What from the front office side
1:24:39
is and I got a little bit of David Stearns playing from the
1:24:44
front office side. What leverage does he have or
1:24:48
does he the final decision to make if he makes those contracts
1:24:52
to get it? A guy like Freddie knowing the
1:24:55
asking price and whatever it is. I think that's a really
1:24:58
interesting question because I think that there has been a
1:25:00
shift. I do think that maybe last
1:25:03
offseason Steve Cohen had a more hands on approach and right now
1:25:06
he's kind of, you're kind of seeing him give Stearns the keys
1:25:09
to the Kingdom a little bit more.
1:25:11
It's like, all right, we're going to sink or we're going to
1:25:13
swim. And you're going to like, prove
1:25:15
to me what you can do to construct this team.
1:25:18
And I mean, like, you don't become a billionaire because
1:25:21
you're bad at business. And you don't become a
1:25:22
billionaire by hiring guys that you don't trust.
1:25:24
You can't do everything yourself.
1:25:26
So he hired Stearns for a very specific reason.
1:25:29
He courted Stearns. He waited a long time, and now
1:25:32
he's saying, OK, let's do your vision your way because
1:25:36
obviously last season, for as many of you know, as many
1:25:39
superstars as that team had, was a complete and utter disaster.
1:25:43
And sometimes that could happen when there are too many cooks in
1:25:44
the kitchen. So it really does feel like this
1:25:46
offseason is being very much guided by David Stearns, his
1:25:50
philosophy. We are talking to Newsday Mets
1:25:53
beat writer Laura Albanese. You know, you mentioned David
1:25:56
Stearns. Now my question here is, here it
1:25:59
is for you is if David Stearns has another bad year, he doesn't
1:26:05
land Kyle Tucker. And even if he does land Kyle
1:26:07
Tucker and he falls short again for the playoffs, is his job in
1:26:11
jeopardy? I don't necessarily think so.
1:26:13
I think he's got probably one more year after that.
1:26:15
I think there was too much work put into this.
1:26:18
I think if anyone is going to kind of like bear the brunt of
1:26:21
this, it's going to be Carlos Mendoza.
1:26:23
Usually when you know, your entire coaching staff gets
1:26:26
fired, it's the Canary in the coal mine where you're you're
1:26:30
probably going to be next on the chopping block.
1:26:32
And then maybe after that, if if there continues to be a
1:26:35
situation where Stearns is not producing, then maybe Steve
1:26:39
Cohen decides to move on. I mean, it hasn't been a
1:26:43
complete disaster. 2024 was a very good season.
1:26:46
And a lot of that had to do with Cerns ability to kind of like
1:26:49
find those diamonds in the rough and be like, OK, let's let's put
1:26:52
together, let's put together all these pieces and have it work.
1:26:55
2025 they you could say, well, you know, there were a bunch of
1:26:58
nagging injuries. There were there were a lot of
1:27:01
things that kind of worked against them. 2026 is going to
1:27:05
be pivotal for him. I don't think it's going to cost
1:27:07
him his job, but I do think we're going, it's going to be
1:27:11
kind of like a really good litmus test of what he can do
1:27:15
because David Stearns, he's a very patient person.
1:27:19
Like, he's not the type of guy who's just gonna throw money
1:27:21
away just to throw money away just because he has the richest
1:27:24
owner in baseball backing him. Well, but there is kind of has
1:27:28
to be that balance because you can be patient.
1:27:30
You can be patient, but suddenly you're so patient, you're backed
1:27:33
into a corner because you know, there aren't that many marquee
1:27:37
free agents left and you still need to fill out this roster.
1:27:40
We're probably going to see him a lot more active kind of in the
1:27:44
trade market, I would assume, because they do have that
1:27:47
capital they have now. They've built one of the best
1:27:49
farm systems in baseball. And that is one of David Stern's
1:27:52
things like that. That is what he was
1:27:54
concentrating on. So do that.
1:27:56
And he he he is confident in those like those young kids.
1:28:00
Like he keeps bringing up Carson Bench as a real possibility to
1:28:03
be a starting center fielder. McClain show what he can do.
1:28:07
Obviously Jonah Tong is still really green, but there's
1:28:10
obviously a lot of interest there.
1:28:12
His name keeps showing up in like in trade conversations.
1:28:16
So there are points of optimism and I do think that as these
1:28:22
young players develop, that's one of the reasons why I feel
1:28:24
like he'll be safe this year. You really have to see their
1:28:27
full potential, but not to see what they can do well.
1:28:29
Laura, you don't know if these guys are going to develop.
1:28:31
Me and Jabba talk about this all the time.
1:28:33
These are guys that are getting called up.
1:28:34
We don't know if they're going to develop into stars.
1:28:36
We don't know if they're going to be subpar players at best or
1:28:40
bench players. They might be sent down.
1:28:41
Look at look at Anthony Volpe. He had one Goodyear and then all
1:28:45
of a sudden Yankee fans want to throw him to the dust.
1:28:47
They don't want anything to do with him anymore because he had
1:28:49
a bad season. And and again, I agree with you.
1:28:52
I think David Stearns is safe right now.
1:28:54
But if he has another season where they're they were playing
1:28:57
great baseball in the first half and then completely fall off and
1:29:00
have one of the biggest drop offs we've ever seen and a Major
1:29:04
League team ever have and do it again the way.
1:29:06
The biggest in history. Yeah, I mean, and who was the
1:29:09
other team that did it? It was another Met team.
1:29:12
So it was they were two Met teams that done a trend.
1:29:15
It's a trend for the Mets. And and I look at David Stearns.
1:29:18
I I, I honestly believe that if this happens again, as good as
1:29:22
he had in his rookie season and they went all the way as far as
1:29:25
they did. I think that was a a fast-paced
1:29:28
very lucky how everything fell together for the New York Mets.
1:29:31
I don't know if he's going to be so lucky with the New York Met
1:29:35
fans. The fans were killing him at the
1:29:37
end of the season. And as good as Juan Soda he was,
1:29:40
and he was a great acquisition, when the going got tough, he was
1:29:43
the only one that hit. Everybody else couldn't hit.
1:29:46
So I mean, that's the problem right now with the New York
1:29:49
Mets. And yay.
1:29:50
And remember, David Stearns got away.
1:29:52
He decided to move on for Brandon Nimmo, another fan
1:29:55
favorite by the New York Mets fans.
1:29:57
And Pete Alonzo was one of the biggest in history for the New
1:30:00
York Mets. Fans a family favorite too,
1:30:02
because I played with his brother at Nebraska.
1:30:04
So I I followed Nimmo through Wyoming through all the other
1:30:09
stuff. And that's I love that you
1:30:11
touched on that too. Do you think there's a part of
1:30:15
what the Mets are like the nucleus of what they created and
1:30:19
now they're kind of moving in a different direction?
1:30:23
Do you think? Was that like not scripted?
1:30:27
But what, why are you moving away from what you built and
1:30:31
these integral pieces of what you've had?
1:30:35
And obviously you, you brought in Frankie, you brought in Juan,
1:30:39
but like the centerpieces of what you had in Pete and Nimmo
1:30:45
and why, why did they feel like they needed to move on from
1:30:48
that? It was such a huge gamble, too.
1:30:52
Like just to start off, like the idea that you blow up your core
1:30:55
but you don't necessarily have a foolproof kind of like
1:30:58
replacement already kind of in the wings was wild to me.
1:31:02
I mean, this is really David Stern's gambling on himself.
1:31:04
But he really projected that he was going to do that even like,
1:31:07
OK, so right after they get eliminated, we're over in Miami
1:31:10
and they're like, OK, get on the plane.
1:31:13
David Stern's is doing a post mortem the day after and like,
1:31:15
it's literally been hours since you've been eliminated.
1:31:18
And he was already projecting, like something needs to change.
1:31:22
It needs to be a big shake up. So a lot has been talked about,
1:31:26
you know, like the culture in the clubhouse, the culture in
1:31:29
the clubhouse, just being around there every day.
1:31:31
Like, I don't know, I'm, I'm, you know, like it's very
1:31:33
different from what people project to the media than what's
1:31:35
going on behind closed doors. We're only in there for 50
1:31:38
minutes a day and then post game or whatever else.
1:31:41
But yeah, there, there were guys who didn't necessarily talk to
1:31:44
other guys. And that's fine.
1:31:45
Not everyone has to be best friends, that's cool.
1:31:49
But when you start losing, suddenly those tensions can get
1:31:51
a little bit thornier and I think you saw that a little bit
1:31:54
towards the second-half of the season and.
1:31:57
You on the beat, you see it every day.
1:31:59
And I I understand that to an extent because I'm still friends
1:32:04
with some of the beat writers that covered me, but you see it
1:32:09
from a different perspective. Did did you, do you think that
1:32:12
that was the move that needed to be made?
1:32:16
Because I know the Nimmo family, I know exactly what they are and
1:32:19
they are one of two they're delightful of.
1:32:24
The Earth. They're delightful people.
1:32:25
They're it's unbelievable. Like you guys are way too nice.
1:32:28
You guys aren't real like this. You guys aren't real.
1:32:30
It's like his older brother Bryce.
1:32:33
And I'm just like, you guys aren't real.
1:32:36
And I'm like, you need that for the culture of the clubhouse.
1:32:40
Did they think they, like you said, do you like the shake up?
1:32:43
Like you need somebody to come in as Ariel and I have argued
1:32:47
about this, you need a Jazz Chisholm, you need a guy with
1:32:50
with that kind of bounce, that swag, that grip, like all that
1:32:55
thing. Do you think that was kind of
1:32:56
part of kind of what they doing with the second-half fall off?
1:33:01
A little bit, possibly because it seemed like they could, just
1:33:04
couldn't get out of their own heads.
1:33:06
I mean, the clubhouse was tense, not in the negative way, but
1:33:10
just like literally like, Oh no, guys, something's going down.
1:33:14
But it was also like very professional, you know, the
1:33:17
Brandon Nimmo thing. I think that was a full on
1:33:20
business decision. His contract was not going to
1:33:22
appreciate well. And we're seeing Sterns kind of
1:33:25
like go in with a sort of like surgical precision that
1:33:29
completely kind of throws sentimentality out.
1:33:33
That is an interesting thing because like I've, I've said it
1:33:38
once, I said a million times, baseball is a business, but
1:33:40
businesses are full of people and personalities matter.
1:33:43
Leadership matters. You know, being able to, to kind
1:33:47
of bring guys together and bring them out of that rut.
1:33:50
You know, that is actually a skill set.
1:33:53
So getting rid of Nimmo, who is one of those guys, but who I
1:33:56
feel like maybe probably was not as vocal toward the latter half
1:34:00
of the season and, and, and kind of tossing him out.
1:34:04
That's that's tough. And then you also have to kind
1:34:07
of like fill in that vacuum and how are you going to do it?
1:34:11
So, you know, like I, I do feel like sometimes the idea of
1:34:13
chemistry is overblown. But like when you simply can't
1:34:17
stop a losing streak because everyone is pressing and
1:34:20
everyone is tense and nobody really wants to talk to each
1:34:22
other anymore, Suddenly it does become a little bit of an issue.
1:34:26
But like, but then you ask Stearns about it and we have
1:34:29
he's like, well, you know, like, you can't predict chemistry.
1:34:33
And to a certain extent, that's true because a lot of the same
1:34:36
guys that maybe didn't have that same chemistry in 2025 had
1:34:40
really good chemistry in 2024. Things are constantly shifting
1:34:43
in the baseball landscape. We are talking to Newsday Mets
1:34:46
beat writer Laura Albanese. Good speed I.
1:34:48
Was going to ask being you covered the Yankees for a little
1:34:51
bit before you joined the Mets, I think two years ago or
1:34:53
whenever you did. The philosophy, the philosophy
1:34:56
that we've seen the Mets do is take a lot of ex Yankees, which
1:34:59
I guess Steve Cohen's trying to be the the little, the trying to
1:35:01
rise into the Big Brother of New York or whatever.
1:35:03
Love that whole thing that Mets fans love.
1:35:05
But what is your thought process?
1:35:06
A lot of those signings with Montage not working on somebody
1:35:09
like Clay Holmes kind of up and down this year and then doing it
1:35:11
again with some of the moves this year.
1:35:12
I mean, I don't necessarily mind it.
1:35:13
I just go with the best player available to you that you can
1:35:16
get, even if they happen to play in the Bronx.
1:35:19
And there is one thing to that credit, which is like, alright,
1:35:23
you know when Cody Hollander came to the Yankees, everyone
1:35:25
like he's not going to be able to hack it.
1:35:26
He's not going to be able to hack it under the bright lights.
1:35:28
And he did fine. So you look at people and there
1:35:33
is something to be said about having a track record of being
1:35:36
able to play in New York. Can it be overblown sometimes?
1:35:39
Maybe. But it is it is kind of a
1:35:42
different sort of landscape. When let's say, you know, you
1:35:45
blow a lead in the 9th inning and you've got like 2 reporters
1:35:48
talking to you and you're like, hey, whatever.
1:35:50
And then you blow a lead in the 9th inning in the Yankees and
1:35:53
suddenly you're surrounded by a zombie horde of all of us going
1:35:56
why? Why did this happen?
1:35:58
Like it's a completely different thing.
1:36:01
And there is a psychology. There is a psychology to that.
1:36:03
You know, like some players go in and the last thing that they
1:36:06
want and like God's green earth is to be on the Backpage of the
1:36:09
New York Post. So, Laura?
1:36:10
That is, in some people's mind, no.
1:36:12
Arrow, hold on. I'm going to touch on this
1:36:14
because I'm the only one that can.
1:36:18
We talked about this and you touched on it too, because you
1:36:22
obviously see it and you see it from a different realm.
1:36:27
It's the reason why I said this, as soon as Devin Williams
1:36:30
started failing, right? He's not in Milwaukee anymore.
1:36:34
Like you said, there's not two or three reporters.
1:36:37
You have everybody and you have to answer to that.
1:36:41
And why, like, I think in certain ways, when you get to
1:36:46
the bright lights or whatever you want to say is when you now
1:36:51
have to have 20 to 30 people sitting at your locker because
1:36:57
it's a different, it's a different bird.
1:36:59
It's a different bird being here and why I agree with you 100%.
1:37:04
You don't you don't mind that, that they come over and steal
1:37:08
them and do whatever because now they have the aspect of like,
1:37:12
OK, I know if I do great or if I fail, what I should expect.
1:37:18
And I think that's a huge part. And I think why like picking
1:37:23
guys and taking them over there. I, I really think it, it does
1:37:27
help because now it's, it's such a different market and you guys
1:37:32
give us such a different realm of what you guys do because
1:37:36
you're with us every day like you guys are with us every day.
1:37:40
Yeah. And it's actually why I kind of
1:37:42
like the Devin Williams signing because you know, like Devin
1:37:45
Williams, he had a strong second-half of the year.
1:37:48
How difficult must it be to come to New York essentially suck?
1:37:53
Let's like there's no like there's no way to around it.
1:37:57
And then bring yourself back from that when you, when you're
1:38:01
suddenly like in a completely different market and you're
1:38:03
surrounded by people and you hit free agency and you can go
1:38:05
wherever you want and you're like, I'm going to go back into
1:38:09
the Thunderdome. I think that shows something.
1:38:11
I think that shows something really important.
1:38:13
I think that he'll do well because now he knows what it
1:38:16
means. Sure, it wasn't because he
1:38:18
wanted to go back to David Stearns.
1:38:21
I I don't know, I mean, I do actually think he really likes
1:38:24
New York. That doesn't.
1:38:25
No, it didn't seem like it because when he came to the
1:38:27
Yankees, as soon as he, he went to, he decided to sign with the
1:38:31
Mets. He puts up on his Twitter
1:38:33
picture of him or the Mets, you know, hat and everything like
1:38:37
that. He didn't do that when he was a
1:38:38
Yankee And and that to me, I, I don't think he really wanted to
1:38:41
be with the. Yankees.
1:38:42
Laura, Laura, Laura presented that in the same in and she did
1:38:46
it very delicate because now he knows now and he knows what that
1:38:51
means to be in a New York market.
1:38:53
So, So what does that mean? What that means to fans?
1:38:56
Why am I still relevant? I've been retired for eight
1:38:59
years. Why am I still relevant?
1:39:01
And I can go back and do signings and get paid stupid
1:39:03
money to do dumb shit. But that has nothing to do with
1:39:07
a guy. Like, but I embraced it.
1:39:09
I embraced it exactly what you said that he posted that now he
1:39:14
understands what being in this huge market does.
1:39:18
Oh, OK, so he was with the Yankees for a year and he
1:39:24
understood what it was to be in New York.
1:39:27
He failed to be with the Yankees.
1:39:28
So, hey, you know what? I'm going to stay in New York.
1:39:30
I'm going to go to the other team.
1:39:31
Great. That's wonderful.
1:39:33
I'll be known as a New York Met for the rest of my.
1:39:35
Career, the best possible throw job.
1:39:36
And I was like, my fingers are crossed.
1:39:39
I'm like, man, I hope when Devin does his introductory press
1:39:42
conference, I hope he does a clean shape.
1:39:43
And because that would be the funniest thing in the history of
1:39:46
the planet, he did not. He kept the beard for the Mets
1:39:49
press conference. I can't stand looking at Devin
1:39:51
Williams because I just after every single game, when he
1:39:55
failed, he didn't have a good approach to speaking to the
1:39:59
media. He just found a way to duck and
1:40:01
weave the media. And, and to me, if you love New
1:40:04
York, do you want to stay in New York and you understand what it
1:40:07
is to be in New York, like Jabba is saying, then you have to
1:40:10
understand that you have to speak to the media.
1:40:12
You have to understand how the media is going to attack you.
1:40:15
They push back on that a little bit because I was speaking, you
1:40:17
know, like when the Mets signed David Williams.
1:40:19
I obviously go to my, my Co workers over at, you know, who
1:40:21
covered the Yankees and I'm, I'm like, Hey, you know, I, I only
1:40:24
was able to cover him on the Yankees for, for so long because
1:40:26
I was doing all met stuff and a few people said the same thing.
1:40:31
He's like, he actually got like better with the media the more
1:40:35
he struggled. And that is a very rare quality
1:40:38
to have. And I think, I think that does
1:40:41
speak to his character. And I do think that that speaks
1:40:44
to his ability to take accountability.
1:40:45
So maybe sometimes and it's weird because you know,
1:40:48
sometimes the camera is on you and the lights are flashing and
1:40:51
you know, players clam up because we're all human.
1:40:54
We've all been there. But you get them one-on-one by
1:40:57
by their locker and it's a different situation because
1:40:59
you're just having a conversation person to person.
1:41:02
Sometimes it's not just like, oh, he can't handle the media.
1:41:05
Sometimes it's just really difficult to deal with a camera
1:41:08
in your face and knowing that everything that you say is going
1:41:11
to be widely scrutinized. So, Laura, you looking at the
1:41:13
Mets right now? All right, if they strike out on
1:41:16
Kyle Tucker now, I've heard through the Grapevine that the
1:41:20
Mets are offering him 50 million, possibly five years
1:41:24
with an opt out. Now, if that is true, the Mets
1:41:28
have two play. If he signs with the Mets,
1:41:30
they're going to have two players, one that's making
1:41:33
68,000,000, the other one that's making 50 million.
1:41:36
Their owner is spending almost $120 million a year on two
1:41:40
players. And if they fail to make the
1:41:43
playoffs, honestly, I understand you're saying the manager.
1:41:46
I would say that I would get rid of the manager and the president
1:41:50
of the organization. You cannot go into a season with
1:41:54
this kind of lineup with Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Lindor and
1:41:58
all this talent. And if you find a way to get a
1:42:01
pitcher, maybe a Tarek Schuble, I mean, you're going to how's it
1:42:05
going to work? How's it going to work?
1:42:07
So I do have like a hard and fast rule.
1:42:09
I never call for anyone's job as just like.
1:42:11
That's just something. I know, I know.
1:42:14
But I do understand where you're coming from.
1:42:16
I I and I do think, yeah, it's probably going to be like
1:42:20
Mendoza's going to have to be the flak jacket a little bit
1:42:22
because they're going to get Stearns a little bit more of a
1:42:24
leash. So you probably, yeah, if they
1:42:26
don't make the playoffs, I don't see Mendoza surviving this.
1:42:30
I think it's the end of his contract anyway, so they
1:42:31
probably wouldn't renew it. Stearns, you know, like he has
1:42:35
kind of like a five year plan. Steve, Steve Cohen has has
1:42:40
seemingly bought in. But yeah, if you get Kyle Tucker
1:42:45
and you don't make the playoffs, that's going to be an issue.
1:42:48
I mean, and but there are like, there's so many.
1:42:50
Like, OK, so you now you have two right fielders essentially,
1:42:54
even though one of the yeah, they can both play either
1:42:56
corner, but you have two right fielders locked in for like
1:43:00
however many years, five years, four years, whatever Tucker ends
1:43:02
up getting, you have no true first baseman.
1:43:06
Oh, you got. Wait a second.
1:43:08
You sign Jorge Polanco, you're moving in the first for the
1:43:12
first time in his career. That makes a lot of sense.
1:43:15
Thank you, David. You've given us a.
1:43:17
Strategy. Hey, playing first for a base is
1:43:20
extremely easy. Tell him what?
1:43:24
No. Well, like I, I, I, I do have my
1:43:27
reservations about the Jorge Polanco Mark Vientos first place
1:43:31
platoon. So let's see how that goes.
1:43:35
Last question for me, I want to shift gears a little bit.
1:43:37
I know you recently did an interview with with Billy
1:43:39
Wagner, who just got inducted Hall of Fame last year.
1:43:41
Good interview by the way. Yes, and obviously all the Hall
1:43:44
of Fame controversy, Jeff Kent finally getting in this year.
1:43:46
We talked about it with a Nationals play by play bar
1:43:48
coster Charlie Slows, who's had his thoughts on the way they've
1:43:51
operated. First of all, what was the
1:43:52
interview like with him as you doing it as a player?
1:43:56
And also, what are your thoughts on the Hall of Fame?
1:43:58
OK, first of all, Billy Wagner is is so cool and you know,
1:44:01
every time I get to talk to to some of these guys, we also have
1:44:03
book show alter on a little bit more like I obviously I never
1:44:06
played professional baseball. These guys have forgotten more
1:44:09
about baseball than I will ever know.
1:44:10
And the idea that just to be able to pick their brain and see
1:44:14
kind of like a different version of a sport that I love is
1:44:18
fantastic. So Billy was great.
1:44:21
It was honestly just nice to see him exhale because I feel like
1:44:24
he's spent the last 10 January's just in a state of like constant
1:44:27
turmoil. And I was super proud because
1:44:30
last year was my, my first year being allowed to vote for the
1:44:35
Hall of Fame because you need 10 years of continuous service.
1:44:39
And I, I, I banged that horn for Billy Wagner.
1:44:43
And I was like, and I was on SNY at the time and they're like,
1:44:46
Billy Wagner got in and my mouth just dropped open.
1:44:49
Yes, justice for relievers. So I think that's cool.
1:44:53
And, you know, he said some interesting stuff.
1:44:55
He does think hopefully that relievers will be more valued in
1:44:59
the future by Hall of Fame voters, especially as the voting
1:45:03
class gets a little bit younger. I mean, those of us who are
1:45:06
starting to get our votes now grew up in the age of the
1:45:09
reliever. You know, we didn't grow up,
1:45:11
grow up in the age of the, you know, every guys throwing a
1:45:13
complete game, 140 pitches, whatever else.
1:45:16
So we see the value. You know, we grew up with Billy
1:45:19
Wagner, we grew up with Mariano Rivera, we grew up with Jumpy.
1:45:21
Like these are the guys like, you know, let all these guys are
1:45:26
huge parts of our baseball experience.
1:45:28
And so we put value on them even though they're not going to have
1:45:30
the counting stats of a starting pitcher.
1:45:33
So I do think that there's going to be a shift there.
1:45:36
And in terms of the Hall of Fame, like it's a cool thing.
1:45:40
It's an honor to be able to get to vote, to always get it right,
1:45:43
No? Do you Do you post yours?
1:45:46
I do, but I have to wait until tomorrow, I believe, because my,
1:45:50
my newspaper I write for Newsday wants us all to kind of do it at
1:45:54
the same time. So I'll, I'll reveal my ballot
1:45:57
tomorrow. But, you know, spoiler alert,
1:46:00
Carlos Beltran should be in the Hall of Fame, so we'll see that.
1:46:04
So I, and this is my last question and, and this is
1:46:07
something that's near and dear to my heart because I've gotten
1:46:11
to become friends beyond the business side of being a beat
1:46:16
writer. And I know how hard it is
1:46:19
because you first and foremost have a job and provide, but
1:46:25
second of all, you have to get into us and to know us and for
1:46:29
us to trust you. So what have what have you seen
1:46:35
in your realm? And, and knowing the guys like
1:46:38
George King and all these guys that have been in the post and
1:46:43
Sweeney Murti and all these guys that I still am dear friends to
1:46:46
this day. Fines and all these guys that
1:46:48
have moved on doing different stuff, right?
1:46:51
What? What would you give advice to
1:46:55
players to be like? Hey, we're not here to attack
1:47:00
you. We're here to praise you, but to
1:47:05
be accountable at the same time. And I think it's exactly that.
1:47:10
It's just I, I'm never in attack mode and I don't know that many
1:47:14
of my colleagues are. Most of the time we're just
1:47:17
trying to figure out why. If you're struggling, we're
1:47:19
trying to figure out why, you know, because that's what fans
1:47:22
are asking us about and we're trying to relay that
1:47:25
information. And like, we all love baseball.
1:47:30
I think there's like this, like thing of this like, oh, you
1:47:32
know, the cranky baseball beat writers, they don't even like
1:47:35
what they're doing and blah, blah.
1:47:36
I could do your, your job better than you.
1:47:38
And I'm like, dude, I would not be away from home 10 months out
1:47:42
of the year if I hated the sport of baseball.
1:47:44
Are you kidding me? I'm in Port Saint Lucie for 6
1:47:47
1/2 weeks and I'm doing this because I hate baseball.
1:47:50
There are other ways to make money like so I, you know, I
1:47:55
think sometimes and we're all guilty of it.
1:47:58
We do it to players, players do it to us.
1:48:02
We tend to forget that everyone's just human.
1:48:05
We're all going back to families.
1:48:07
We're all trying to make, you know, enough money to get by
1:48:11
and, or enough money to, you know, for generations to get by,
1:48:14
depending on which job that you have.
1:48:16
And I find what I've learned from the older guys is, you
1:48:21
know, just try to engage in people on a human level helps a
1:48:25
lot. And then you when you have that
1:48:28
trust, don't portray it. And that doesn't mean never say
1:48:31
anything bad because it's my job if something is bad to say, hey,
1:48:35
this is bad. But it's also not taking pot
1:48:38
shots. It's not like, you know, gotcha
1:48:40
sort of situation. It's well, you know, his ERA in
1:48:43
the months of like whatever his ERA in the month of July was
1:48:46
7.35. That's not good.
1:48:48
I mean, like, it's one of those things.
1:48:50
So there's a balance there. For as much as you give people
1:48:54
Flack, you have to also praise them when they're doing well
1:48:56
well. But I also think you you
1:48:59
understand from that perspective.
1:49:01
And for me going through it, and I was a 19 year old kid that had
1:49:05
my son. A year later, I'm in New York
1:49:10
City. Yeah, my son literally did an
1:49:13
interview for me. And the relationships that you
1:49:19
create, because exactly what you said is get to know them on a
1:49:23
human level. Because really, when it comes
1:49:26
down to it, we all put our clothes on the same way, we
1:49:30
shower the same way. We do the same thing, we just do
1:49:32
it differently. And when you can relate to them
1:49:36
and they trust you, when you talk shit about me, it's because
1:49:40
I deserve it. My son literally came in and
1:49:44
there was 30 of you in front of my locker.
1:49:46
He goes, Dad, you couldn't throw your fastball for a strike.
1:49:50
And I go, there is everything that I needed to tell you guys
1:49:54
tonight. There you go.
1:49:56
And they all and they all do. Like there's nothing more to
1:50:00
even ask. Like, even though I'm getting
1:50:03
asked different questions, that's the story.
1:50:06
Yeah. But the human aspect of all the
1:50:08
guys that I got to know and I think and, and you are amazing.
1:50:13
You are great in the stories that you and I, I love now
1:50:16
getting to hear the perspective that you come from of knowing it
1:50:20
on a human level, because sometimes they all look at us as
1:50:24
different. And like, that's my job.
1:50:27
Well, it goes deeper than the job, like because I love the
1:50:31
game, but also because I love the game.
1:50:35
I have to love the people in the game and when you get that and
1:50:41
why I'm still friends with these guys to this day is because they
1:50:46
cared. They know I sucked and I was an
1:50:51
open book. I sucked.
1:50:53
I sucked. I'm going to tell you, I'm going
1:50:55
to answer the bell every day, good and bad.
1:50:57
But you hit the nail on the head when you get to know them on a
1:51:01
human level and they get to open up to you.
1:51:04
And like you said, the one-on-one, that's when it's
1:51:07
just like we're able to be able to do that and, and be
1:51:11
accountable for what we suck at, what we're good at, good and
1:51:16
bad. And I think that's great.
1:51:19
And you're, you're doing a fantastic job.
1:51:20
And it's, it's, it's an honor to have you on the show.
1:51:22
And I appreciate everything you said because it's always, it's
1:51:27
always funny and, and Brian hoax obviously on the show a bunch,
1:51:31
but it's just, it's real. He he sent me beef jerky for
1:51:34
Christmas. This is very Hoke like.
1:51:38
Yeah. 100% love him. And so it, it, it's just, it's
1:51:43
just refreshing to see because like you said, you're getting
1:51:48
stories and people want to hear that, but the relationship is so
1:51:52
much bigger than what people see.
1:51:54
And there are going to be times when we suck to like we are
1:51:57
human. The one thing that I can only
1:51:58
say, and that's like my parting thing is, and even to aspiring
1:52:02
sports reporters out there, oh, if you write something bad about
1:52:05
somebody and not even bad or critical, show up the next day,
1:52:09
show your face, I think that's super duper important.
1:52:11
And I feel that's starting to become a lost art.
1:52:14
All right, Laura, I have one more question to ask you.
1:52:16
It's like a two-part question. Obviously the we mentioned Kyle
1:52:20
Tucker, let's say the Mets strike out on him.
1:52:24
Do they go after Cody Bellinger one or do they wait until the
1:52:29
season starts at the trade deadline where they can make a
1:52:32
move? They can they could trade for
1:52:34
another outfielder, bring in a bring up one of these younger
1:52:36
guys that they have in their farm system.
1:52:39
And my, my number two question, if that doesn't work, do they
1:52:44
dig deep this offseason before the season starts?
1:52:47
Pitchers and catchers, and they overpay for Tarek Scubal.
1:52:50
All right, so to if, if. Not gonna happen.
1:52:53
Relax. If no, Scubal's not gonna happen
1:52:55
there. The Tigers are asking for the
1:52:57
universe for Scubal like you'd have to.
1:52:59
He's a free. Agent No, McClain is not a met
1:53:02
anymore if you're getting Scubal, And that's just the
1:53:04
beginning of what's gonna happen.
1:53:07
So I don't think they're gonna do that, especially for a rental
1:53:10
because there's no way that Boris is gonna let him sign an
1:53:12
extension before before the end of the season.
1:53:15
So, you know, taking that out of the equation, no, Kyle Tucker,
1:53:18
you're going to be in trouble. You do need an outfielder.
1:53:20
So they love the Carson bench kid.
1:53:22
But again, unproven prospect Cody Bellinger is another issue
1:53:26
because, you know, reportedly the Yankees already offered him
1:53:30
five years, 30, one, $32 million and he actually wants to go to
1:53:34
seven. I don't see a world where David
1:53:36
Sterns commits to Cody Bellinger for seven years because right
1:53:39
now his market, I think I'm very pro player.
1:53:42
Players need to get paid, but just in the grand scheme of
1:53:44
things, how it's projected, his market is inflated.
1:53:47
I do think as a fit, he fits great because he also plays
1:53:50
first base and they need a first baseman.
1:53:53
I just don't know how realistic it is with as hard as the
1:53:55
Yankees are going after Ballinger.
1:53:57
After that you might you might have to start looking at stuff
1:54:01
like, OK, hey, Harris and Vader, which great defensive outfielder
1:54:07
and you know you don't have a great defensive outfielder and
1:54:10
Juan Soto and then you have Tyrone Taylor.
1:54:12
And then you just pray that Carson Bench is really good and
1:54:17
further explore the trade market and see what's available.
1:54:19
It's very interesting. I'm, I'm interested to see what
1:54:22
the Mets are going to do with the Tucker move.
1:54:24
I I do believe that the Cubs are going to land them.
1:54:27
That's why they decided to go with Bregman.
1:54:29
I think that was the draw to keep him over there with the
1:54:32
Cubs. And I think that's where he's
1:54:34
going to wind up signing $400 million over there with the
1:54:37
Cubs. And the Cubs are going to ride
1:54:38
off into the sunset because they've had the best offseason,
1:54:41
I believe, in the National League if they make that move.
1:54:44
But thank you, Laura, for joining us.
1:54:46
You're fantastic. Keep up the good work and we'll
1:54:48
get you on before the season starts.
1:54:51
Awesome. Thanks so much for having me fun
1:54:53
guys. It was fun.
1:54:54
Absolutely, Newsday Mets beat writer Laura Albanese.
1:54:58
She was fantastic. I was my my thought here is, is
1:55:02
the Kyle Tucker move. If the Mets fail to get Kyle
1:55:06
Tucker, which more than likely is going to happen, I think he's
1:55:08
using the Mets as like, what would you call that like a, a
1:55:13
pull up trying to get that next range of money?
1:55:17
And I think the Cubs are going to give him what he wants.
1:55:19
I, I don't know if the Cubs are willing to give him that extra
1:55:22
$100 million, which is going to make it because I think in my
1:55:26
opinion, Kyle Tucker's between 300 and 350 million.
1:55:30
I don't think he's worth 400 million.
1:55:31
But I think the Cubs are going to have to reach now because now
1:55:35
the Mets are going to offer him 50 million a year, five years
1:55:38
with an opt out clause, which is something that I believe Kyle
1:55:42
Tucker is asking for. So it's going to be very
1:55:45
interesting. And she says in the next 24 to
1:55:47
48 hours, it does not mean that Cody Bellinger might be off the
1:55:52
board after that. Because as soon as Kyle Tucker
1:55:55
goes, I believe Cody Bellinger. Well, it's, it's, it's the same
1:55:58
thing we talked about though. It's Bregman set the market and
1:56:02
we talked about age, we talked about years and he set the
1:56:05
market for what it's going to be.
1:56:09
And obviously Boris works different than Excel, works
1:56:12
different than Varner with Boba Shet and all the other things.
1:56:16
But it kind of set the market. Yeah, well.
1:56:20
We'll see what happens. We'll get into a little bit
1:56:22
later because Fish wants us to move on.
1:56:24
All right, save your tears, Mom. What's one thing?
1:56:29
That you can't talk to me about. My sexual fantasies.
1:56:34
Say your sorry. It is not ideal, but if it's
1:56:36
what means, it is not ideal, but if it is not ideal, but if it
1:56:39
is, what means you can't dribble stamp a double stamp, you can't
1:56:43
dribble stamp a double stamp Lord.
1:56:44
You can't dribble stamp a double stamp.
1:56:46
Lord you guys. It's time for Save your tear
1:56:52
save. Your tear.
1:56:54
All right, everybody, welcome back to Save Your Tears,
1:56:58
everyone's favorite fantasy game.
1:57:00
We got $15 salary cap. We're not my favorite.
1:57:03
The divisional round, well, I guess you don't count as part of
1:57:06
everybody for this then Errol, you're just above and beyond
1:57:10
because since you came in last place this last week that.
1:57:14
Shows you how much I care. That shows you how much I care.
1:57:18
I don't know. You seem to be the same guy that
1:57:20
was really invested in his second and third place finishes
1:57:23
most of the regular. Season The only the only time I
1:57:28
was happy was when I was kicking your butt in fantasy football.
1:57:31
That's that's different. That's that's that.
1:57:33
Was the only thing that I was concentrating on whipping your
1:57:36
ass? Balls, you had a ridiculous team
1:57:38
this year to be. You got Jonathan Taylor in the
1:57:42
second. I mean, you got the second best
1:57:45
running back in the second round.
1:57:45
That's how you win. But guys, let's talk.
1:57:48
Save your tears. I'm going to throw this up here,
1:57:51
Speedy. You were the winner last week so
1:57:52
you can decide the order and it looks like it was goody.
1:57:56
No Goody was the winner. I'm sorry, Goody was the winner.
1:57:58
Well, you were in silver goodies.
1:58:00
Not here. So, Speedy, you're the next guy.
1:58:02
So let's get the knit back in for Goody and you know what let
1:58:06
me go first speedy, because I already did mine because I
1:58:09
wasn't sure I was going to make the show.
1:58:10
This is my Michael Jordan flu game right now.
1:58:12
Somehow finding a way to get it done.
1:58:14
But I took and I'm going to put it up here for everyone to look
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1:58:45
Here's the $5 ring. We got three games.
1:58:47
We're going to do the first three games of wild card
1:58:51
weekend, which is the Bills, Broncos, 49ers, Seahawks and
1:58:54
Pats. Texans $5 quarterback Josh Allen
1:58:57
followed by Drake May, Sam Darnold, Brock Purdy for two and
1:59:01
you can get Bo Nicks for a cool dolar at running back.
1:59:05
After his performance last week, we're putting CMC right back at
1:59:08
the top. James Cook was not great last
1:59:10
week, but he's still the $4.00 running back after his great
1:59:13
season. Kenneth Walker, the third.
1:59:14
RJ Harvey and Houston, TX running back Woody Marks for for
1:59:19
$1.00 at receiver. One, we got JSN, the leading
1:59:22
receiver in the league this year for five, and it kind of gets a
1:59:26
little hairy here early. Stefan digs for Jaden Higgins, 3
1:59:30
again, Nico Collins, unlikely to play Troy Franklin and DeMarcus
1:59:34
Robinson for a Buck wide receiver 2.
1:59:37
Cortland Sutton a big time target for Bo Nicks is that $5.
1:59:42
Juan Jennings with his miracle play last week at 4K, Shawn
1:59:45
Bodie for three, Khalil Shakur the only Bills receiver I have
1:59:49
on this list and an old time. Great Cooper Cup for Buck here
1:59:53
and at tight end last week. Got a touchdown to win the game
1:59:56
or really put it out of reach. Hunter Henry for 5 bucks, Dalton
1:59:59
Kincaids for Dalton Schultz is 3, AJ Barner 2 and George
2:00:04
Kittle's fill in Jake Tungus for a buck.
2:00:09
All right, I'm going to give you my team first and then sweetie,
2:00:11
you can figure out the rest. I'm going with Darnold for three
2:00:15
and JSN back that combo. I was on them in the preseason.
2:00:20
It would be foolish for me not to stay with them.
2:00:22
I'm going to go courtland sudden also.
2:00:24
So now I'm spending $13 on wide receiver one and two and
2:00:28
spending three on quarterback. That means I got $2.00 for
2:00:31
running back and tight end. I'm taking Marks and Tungus.
2:00:35
So Darnold, Marks, JSN Sutton and Tungus Speed.
2:00:39
Who's next? You're I'll change it up.
2:00:41
I'll go next. Actually I will go Josh Allen,
2:00:44
give me Kenneth Walker, give me Shakur.
2:00:46
All right, let me take JSN then and I'll take Schultz.
2:00:49
So I got Josh Allen Walker, JSN Shakur and Schultz.
2:00:51
Who's next? The new.
2:00:55
Yeah. Oh wait, myth myth.
2:00:58
I didn't know if you know this, but you were real.
2:01:01
We got some footage of you outside of City Field the other
2:01:03
day and it was really impressive.
2:01:06
I didn't know you had this kind of control over the organization
2:01:11
over there. Really a great job by you I
2:01:14
would say. Another.
2:01:15
Toe job. I'm so glad you put Stearns on a
2:01:18
leash. I'm putting you on a leash now.
2:01:20
And it's a bedazzled leash. It's beautiful.
2:01:22
Breaking you and call me the ladies man and Mr. Still your
2:01:25
girl. I got to.
2:01:27
I got to be the new. I got to.
2:01:28
Be the new GM of the Mets now not.
2:01:30
Well, honestly, I feel like you you're you might as well just be
2:01:33
given the title butt plug. I am a.
2:01:36
All right, Myth. What do you got, kid?
2:01:39
Oh man, I'm going to go Brock Purdy.
2:01:46
Let's see, Brock Purdy up CMC, Jaden Higgins.
2:01:56
I'm going to go. I'm going to go Booty Speedy's
2:01:59
mom, and then I'm going to go you.
2:02:01
Got 2 left. 2 left. OK, I'm going to go.
2:02:05
AJ Barner, A. Lot of hot.
2:02:07
Lady. All your money this week,
2:02:08
Nathan. There you go.
2:02:11
I got pretty CMC Higgins booty and bar.
2:02:16
Who's next? Jabba will go you this week.
2:02:19
Bo next I had to take a shit. Then I'm gonna go CMC.
2:02:24
I got the bubble guts. Then I'm gonna go digs.
2:02:29
I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.
2:02:33
And you know, I always go the booty, the booty serial killer.
2:02:38
And I'm gonna save a dollar this week, but I'm gonna go tongas.
2:02:42
I I'd like the fact that kittles out and I think they're gonna
2:02:46
use tongas a little bit. He tastes himself.
2:02:50
All right, I got Bo, Nicks, CMC, Biggs, Bodie and Tungus.
2:02:56
Who's the next Tommy All? Right, Tommy?
2:02:58
I want to pull jobless panties down I.
2:03:04
Forgot about that. That was a good one.
2:03:05
All right. Fucking.
2:03:09
Daily Wives. Let me go.
2:03:11
Josh Allen. James Cook.
2:03:15
It can wait. I'm.
2:03:16
Going to go Jaden Higgins. Anyone.
2:03:21
Khalil Shakur and somebody I'm always picking.
2:03:23
And Jake Tongis, do you have? A direct diagonal.
2:03:26
I do. I didn't realize that as you
2:03:27
just said that. But I I'm not doing any freaking
2:03:29
tag team direct. Diagonal going in so.
2:03:34
Very strategic, Tommy, well done.
2:03:36
And that leaves only our host several marks.
2:03:39
A big boobs, I can tell you that.
2:03:44
All right, I'm going to go Brock Purdy CMC JSN.
2:03:51
So I got that would be 12 already.
2:03:53
All right, I will go Shakur. And how many do I have left one
2:04:01
left Tong, right. Tongus.
2:04:04
Tongus, that's where I'll go. There you go.
2:04:06
All right, I've got Purdy, CMC, Tungus, JSN, and Shakur.
2:04:13
I'll bring it up so we can see the full board.
2:04:15
We got a couple of Josh Allen's, a couple of Purdies, CMC on half
2:04:19
the ballots, JSN on half the ballots, a lot of Booty and
2:04:24
Shakur going on and everyone wants a little Tungus buffed
2:04:28
everything out. Guys, We will go over this on
2:04:32
Tuesday's show next week. We're not going to be on Monday.
2:04:34
It's going to be Tuesday next week for Save Your Tears.
2:04:38
See you then. See you then.
2:04:40
Speaking of CNN, that is Mike Tomlin.
2:04:44
Who's seeing them then? ESP NS Adam Schefner reports
2:04:48
that Tuesday that 19 year Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin
2:04:52
is stepping down and will not return for his 20th season.
2:04:57
Yahoo Sports reports that Mike Tomlin isn't planning on
2:05:00
coaching during the 2026 season and since he resigned instead of
2:05:07
being fired, the Steelers will retain Tomlin Wright.
2:05:11
Wright's forcing A-Team to trade for him if they want him as
2:05:16
their head coach for the future. Tomlin is likely to take a high
2:05:20
profile broadcasting job this season and has offers from 4
2:05:24
different networks already. Reports say that Steelers owner
2:05:28
Art Rooney wanted to keep Tomlin in 2026 for the season, but
2:05:35
admitted he wasn't shocked when he decided to step down with the
2:05:39
Steelers loss to this Tex to the Texans.
2:05:42
Tomlin also tied Marvin Lewis for the most consecutive playoff
2:05:47
losses for a coach, having lost seven straight playoff games and
2:05:52
not winning a playoff game since 2016.
2:05:57
Despite the failures in the postseason this past decade,
2:06:01
Tomlin never had a losing season.
2:06:04
In his 19 year tenure, Tomlin finishes a with a record of 193
2:06:10
and 114 and 2A playoff record of 8 and 12 and winning Super Bowl
2:06:17
43. Since the AFL and NFL merger,
2:06:21
Tomlin is just the third head coach the Steelers have had
2:06:25
alongside Chuck Knoll and Bill Cower.
2:06:30
Now, no, no other team has ever had fewer than 10 coaches over
2:06:36
that time. I will say this, Mike Tomlin is
2:06:40
one of the best coaches in the NFL.
2:06:42
There's no question that he has regular season coaches as far as
2:06:46
the playoffs are concerned. He hasn't really had a good
2:06:50
career in that sector. Now, maybe it's because of Ben
2:06:53
Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger was at the
2:06:55
tail end of his career. He was always hurt.
2:06:58
He was never healthy. And I think that definitely
2:07:01
affected the Steelers and, and really what they did with that
2:07:05
second tier team when they lost some of their star players like
2:07:09
Palomalu and James Harrison that that everything started falling
2:07:14
off for the the Pittsburgh Steelers.
2:07:17
And I and again, the fact here is Mike Tomlin has had a long
2:07:24
career with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
2:07:26
There's no doubt he he doesn't need to do anything more for a
2:07:30
franchise than what he has done for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
2:07:33
But if you look at this offseason and you look at the
2:07:36
coaches that have been let go of, walked or resigned, you look
2:07:40
at John Harbaugh, 18 years, 1718 years with the the Baltimore
2:07:45
Ravens, Kevin Stefanski who won two coach of the years in in a
2:07:50
five year stint, another guy that got let go, Brian Dabel.
2:07:55
If you look at some of these coaches that were let go or
2:07:57
resigned, this might be the biggest offseason we've seen
2:08:01
when it comes to coaches being available.
2:08:04
Mike McCarthy still available. There is so much talent out
2:08:08
there when it comes to veteran coaches and that's what you're
2:08:11
looking for. When you look at some of these
2:08:12
teams that haven't been successful over the years, the
2:08:15
New York Giants, the Miami Dolphins, the New York Jets, we
2:08:18
could go on and on and on. You look at these organizations,
2:08:22
they're looking for that veteran coach that can get them over the
2:08:24
hump. There are a dozen of them that
2:08:27
are available right now. And, and you talk about some of
2:08:30
the young guys that are going to be available after the season's
2:08:32
end. You you talk about the defensive
2:08:34
coordinator right now. What's his last name on, on the
2:08:37
Chargers? Minter Minter.
2:08:39
Minter is going to be a guy that is going to be interviewed.
2:08:42
You have all these guys. Shula is another one that is
2:08:45
going to his father was a was a great coach in the NFL.
2:08:49
There's a lot of great, talented offensive and defensive corner
2:08:54
still available. But when you look at a
2:08:55
franchise, you're looking for that veteran guy.
2:08:58
What are the Pittsburgh Steelers going to do now?
2:09:00
You lose Mike Tomlin, what are the Ravens going to do?
2:09:02
You lose John Harbaugh, you're, you're going to bring in either
2:09:07
a rookie, a guy that's never been in this position before, or
2:09:09
somebody that's been a part of that organization for a
2:09:12
significant amount of time. That doesn't bode well.
2:09:14
Now, John Harbaugh never had a coaching experience when he took
2:09:18
over for the Ravens, when obviously the the step down of
2:09:23
Brian Billick. Brian Billick, who won a Super
2:09:26
Bowl in 2000 with the Ravens with, with all those great
2:09:29
talented players that he's had, when he took over that team, he
2:09:32
was a special teams coach. And then you look at Mike
2:09:35
Tomlin, he's another guy, special teams coach that took
2:09:38
over for a Coward, who is a great head coach who won a Super
2:09:43
Bowl and then decided to step, step down after drafting a guy
2:09:47
like Ben Roethlisberger. Remember Ben Roethlisberger at
2:09:50
the time when Coward stepped down, was only in the league for
2:09:52
like two or three years. So he wasn't there that long
2:09:56
when Coward decided to step away from the game.
2:09:59
So and and never took another job after that.
2:10:01
You you think about Mike Tomlin, Mike Tomlin doesn't need a coach
2:10:05
anymore. That's what I'm trying to get
2:10:06
at. He could be like a Coward and
2:10:08
you could say, you know what, I could be a a successful
2:10:11
broadcaster, a successful analyst and be a football guy
2:10:15
and never have to travel, not have to deal with what I was
2:10:18
dealing with for 1819 years. Look at the guys that he had to
2:10:21
deal with, Le'veon Bell, Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown,
2:10:26
Juju Smith, Schuster. Look at all these guys that he
2:10:29
had to deal with the Tik Toks and Instagrams and all the
2:10:33
stupid things that Antonio Brown was doing on and off the field.
2:10:36
Ben Roethlisberger was doing on and off the field that he got
2:10:39
away with. People forget riding his
2:10:41
motorcycle and all the other stuff that he was doing at the
2:10:43
bars. So you think about Mike Tomlin,
2:10:47
there are a lot of ups and downs in his career as a head coach
2:10:50
for the Pittsburgh Steelers, But one thing I could say about Mike
2:10:53
Tomlin, he was a likable person. Every single player that's ever
2:10:56
been coached by him said he was a great, great leader, great
2:10:59
coach, great man, great father figure.
2:11:02
And, and that's the, the one thing that I could say and I
2:11:05
could pinpoint on the things that I didn't like about a guy
2:11:08
like Mike Tomlin is he couldn't develop a quarterback.
2:11:11
Think about it, Kenny Pickett, they brought him to the team,
2:11:14
brought him to the team a couple of years ago.
2:11:15
Failed you, you, you talk about all these different guys that
2:11:19
they've drafted over the years that have failed second round
2:11:23
picks, third round picks, first round picks.
2:11:25
He couldn't develop a quarterback.
2:11:27
And I'm not saying it's easy to develop a quarterback, but you
2:11:30
talk about franchises that couldn't do it, Miami, The Jets,
2:11:33
all failures of organizations. The Giants haven't really
2:11:37
developed the quarterback since Eli Manning.
2:11:39
Now you, you think that Jackson darts the guy.
2:11:42
So there's a lot of guessing at that when it when you when it
2:11:45
comes to the quarterback position.
2:11:46
But Mike Tomlin is going to be looked at not because of his
2:11:49
wins and loss record. It's his playoffs.
2:11:52
It's his failure to win in the playoffs besides the Super Bowl
2:11:56
that he won and it wasn't his team.
2:11:57
It was honestly that was Bill Coward's team.
2:12:01
He took over for Bill Coward and within what was it, 2-3 years,
2:12:04
he wins the Super Bowl. That does that just doesn't
2:12:07
happen. And since then, he's never won.
2:12:11
He's never been to a Super Bowl since then.
2:12:14
There's there was they were OO9. They were the Yeah O 708-0809
2:12:20
season was. That year.
2:12:22
It was the year after the Giants beat the Patriots.
2:12:25
Again, you look at the organization as a whole and you
2:12:28
look at Aunt Rooney. Where does Aunt Rooney go here?
2:12:30
Does he bring in a veteran guy? Does he sign?
2:12:33
Bring in a Mike McCarthy. Does he bring in a Kevin
2:12:35
Stefanski now? I think right now with Mike
2:12:38
Tomlin stepping down, they were rating the teams and where they
2:12:42
were rating on ESPN. And by the way, I I can't stand
2:12:44
Stephen A Smith because I don't want to ask him what he thinks
2:12:48
from top to bottom, who the best team is to the worst team.
2:12:51
We all know he roots for the Giants.
2:12:53
So we put the Giants number 2 when it comes to pure talent.
2:12:56
It would go in my in my honest opinion, I would say the Atlanta
2:13:01
Falcons, then I would say the Pittsburgh Steelers, then I'd
2:13:04
say the Baltimore Ravens, then I'd say the New York Giants, and
2:13:08
then and so on and so on. Arizona and Arizona would
2:13:11
probably be a little bit under the New York Giants.
2:13:13
Some people would put them over the Yeah, I would.
2:13:14
Just say that's a toss up. Yeah, so the.
2:13:17
Yeah, But do do you think like when they when he stepped down,
2:13:22
do you think it was more like to to save face that they didn't
2:13:27
fire him? They.
2:13:28
Weren't going to. Though no they weren't I I do
2:13:31
not believe they had any interest in fire.
2:13:33
They're going to hold his rights anyways because they're going to
2:13:35
get something. Out of the other reason, Jabba.
2:13:37
Is it's the Sean Payton thing when he went to the Broncos?
2:13:41
Yeah, but guess what? He's only under contract for
2:13:43
another year now. Oh, it's only a year.
2:13:46
It's. Only another.
2:13:47
Year all they said was the 2026 season.
2:13:49
Yes and I think the only reason he would have been fired Jabba
2:13:52
is if they actually did sell the team like they rumored to in the
2:13:55
offseason but they never did. As long as the Rooneys are
2:13:57
there, I don't think they were ever going to fire.
2:13:59
Him. I think that's the reason why my
2:14:00
Tomlin is going to step down this year and sit out for the
2:14:03
season. He doesn't want to be
2:14:04
controlled. He doesn't want to be, oh, we're
2:14:06
going to trade you here and you got to coach this team.
2:14:08
He doesn't want to deal with that.
2:14:09
He also doesn't want to be a coach that obviously gets traded
2:14:13
and then decides, you know what, I don't want to, I don't want to
2:14:16
coach this team just like Bill Belichick did within 24 hours
2:14:19
with the New York Jets, stepped down with The Jets and went to
2:14:22
the the Patriots. He doesn't want to do something
2:14:24
like that. Mike Tomlin doesn't have that
2:14:25
kind of personality. I think Mike Tomlin really
2:14:29
realizes now he has a career in broadcasting if he wants to step
2:14:33
away from it. Remember what he was dealing
2:14:35
with in Pittsburgh was craziness year in and year out.
2:14:39
Some of the the personalities. Look at George Pickens, you
2:14:42
know, I mean dealing with him the way he had to deal with him
2:14:45
the time that he was there. And then DK Metcalf on some of
2:14:49
the things that happened at the end of the season that he was
2:14:51
dealing with that I think they kind of blocked out what was
2:14:54
really going on in that locker room and what he was doing with
2:14:57
some of the things that DK Metcalf was doing on and off the
2:15:00
field. I mean, there's a lot of things
2:15:02
that he was dealing with. He took on a a big
2:15:05
responsibility taking all these different personalities and a
2:15:08
lot of unique personalities he had to deal with over there in
2:15:11
Pittsburgh and have to deal with it with ease.
2:15:14
So I would give him credit for that.
2:15:16
What I won't give him credit for is the development of the most
2:15:20
important position in professional sports, and that's
2:15:23
the quarterback position. Everybody wants to make fun of
2:15:25
this coach and that coach and and this coach and that coach.
2:15:28
Hey, guess what? He was the one that wanted Kenny
2:15:30
Pickett. He was the one that said Kenny
2:15:32
Pickett look great when he watched him play for Pitt.
2:15:35
He also was the one that said this guy could be a franchise
2:15:38
quarterback for us for the next 15 years.
2:15:41
How long did it take him to realize that Kenny Pickett
2:15:44
wasn't the guy? Too long, and that's the
2:15:46
problem. When you look at some of the
2:15:48
instances of the Steelers losing their best players, you talk
2:15:50
about Paula Malu and Harrison and guys like that.
2:15:53
Look at the core of that defense.
2:15:54
Really, they had trouble finding and drafting and developing
2:15:57
corners, which is a key position in today's game, especially with
2:16:00
more spread offense. Porter's been pretty good.
2:16:01
Porter's been good. But I, I would say in the last
2:16:04
Patrick, I would say, well, he he's a hybrid.
2:16:06
I would say he and he was also a trait too.
2:16:08
I'm talking. About yeah, but he he still
2:16:09
helped develop. Drafting and developing.
2:16:11
Better with Pittsburgh. Sure.
2:16:13
And I I just think in general, there's just not enough
2:16:15
consistency with that on the defense.
2:16:16
And this is a guy that Mike Tomlin that he came from the
2:16:19
defensive side and I think parts of the stretches, even though
2:16:22
you're right, he was good at stabilizing the culture there
2:16:24
and he was still good at being competitive.
2:16:25
And what has been a very difficult division outside of
2:16:27
the Browns, all the all the other teams have been
2:16:29
competitive for good stretches of time.
2:16:32
The other thing that I think he refused to evolve a little
2:16:35
quicker. And that's why you saw Bill
2:16:36
Belichick really carve him up in playoff games.
2:16:38
A lot of the time. You saw the Ravens even destroy
2:16:40
them. Besides the first year with
2:16:42
Flacco and Harbaugh there, when the Steelers be in the AC
2:16:44
championship, you saw them carve them up in playoff games and big
2:16:46
time playoff games too. Now I will give him credit for
2:16:49
the fact that I think he's evolved with different types of
2:16:52
players recently to that I talked to you on the phone,
2:16:54
Errol, a few days ago about. That's why I think he could
2:16:57
probably be more evolving to the modern game than Harbaugh would
2:17:00
be. Even though I think Harbaugh did
2:17:02
some things with Lamar Jackson, I think there was more Ozzie
2:17:04
Newsome than it when. But you knew the writing was on
2:17:07
the wall when Ben Roethlisberger came out before the season ended
2:17:11
on his podcast and said that he thinks he should go to college
2:17:14
football. He said Ben Roethlisberger said
2:17:17
that he should go and coach. I think what Tomlin is great at
2:17:21
and why I think Roethlisberger probably said that was because
2:17:25
he's a culture guy. He's a culture guy.
2:17:28
Like he gets with the culture. He understands people in the way
2:17:32
they move and shake. Why he got a Pickens, why he
2:17:36
dealt with AB and in his stuff and why he was so good at that.
2:17:41
When you bring up like Tik Toks and all the other stuff and why
2:17:43
I think Ben said that is because yes, he did he not do a great
2:17:49
job of developing based upon the fact that he never won after O 9
2:17:55
is because he's a culture guy. And so when you go into that
2:18:00
college realm and like where I think he would be a great fit is
2:18:06
because he gets that and he understands it.
2:18:10
I'd be afraid. I'd be afraid I'd step away if I
2:18:13
was any, you know, school or I was any program.
2:18:18
And I'm looking at Mike Tomlin, who's never had any experience
2:18:21
as a head coach or even assistant coach for college
2:18:24
football. I would worry to take on a
2:18:27
responsibility to. Like the landscape of college
2:18:30
football has changed. You have GM's that are basically
2:18:33
running the so he can he can be that piece of the puzzle and run
2:18:39
the culture and be like, hey, guys, this is what we're doing.
2:18:42
Like you've seen all these coaches in college adapt to
2:18:47
different things. Like Matt Ruhl never did
2:18:48
anything social media and now he's got a podcast.
2:18:50
Now he's on McAfee now he's on. So they they adhere to what?
2:18:56
And I think he just. Did a great job.
2:18:58
He took over a job at 34 years old, a very young man.
2:19:03
He's been there for 19 years now.
2:19:06
He's in his 50s. OK, would you decide, hey, you
2:19:11
know what? I'm going to completely change
2:19:13
my whole outlook to what I was as a head coach.
2:19:16
And I felt you have to, you have to evolve.
2:19:18
He's too old. He's too old to do that.
2:19:20
I I wouldn't know that that's you're looking at Bill
2:19:24
Belichick. Bill Belichick only did that
2:19:26
because of his father. He only took that
2:19:29
responsibility. But at the same time, he's still
2:19:31
evolving the aspect that he's letting his girlfriend or
2:19:34
whatever they are. And he's failing, and he's
2:19:36
making himself look like a complete.
2:19:38
Ass, yeah, and that's OK, but I'm just like, is it?
2:19:44
You have, you've looked at as the greatest coach of all time,
2:19:47
Bill Belichick, the greatest mind the NFL has ever seen, and
2:19:51
you decided, hey, you know what? I didn't get the Atlanta Falcon
2:19:55
job. I'm going to college.
2:19:57
I'm going to coach North Carolina and I'm going to
2:20:00
recruit players. I'm going to figure out what the
2:20:03
NIL deal is all about. And I'm going to bring my sexy
2:20:05
girlfriend who's 24 years old, running up and down the
2:20:09
sidelines acting like a complete ass.
2:20:12
And it's going to work. It's absolutely.
2:20:14
Absolutely going to work. It hasn't worked.
2:20:16
As a matter of fact, if I was an organization right now with the
2:20:19
NFL, as good as Bill Belichick is and one of the greatest of
2:20:22
all time, I'm staying far, far away from Bill Belichick after
2:20:26
seeing what I have to deal with in North Carolina.
2:20:29
And also you're dealing with a larger sample too.
2:20:30
Jabba, he hasn't only coached the one year so far and which
2:20:33
was drama filled because of his girlfriend and stuff like that
2:20:35
too. So I don't know what kind of
2:20:36
sample you're judging of a long time NFL coach going in.
2:20:39
It's different with somebody like Saban, only coach in the.
2:20:41
NFL I'm staying far, far, far away from Mike Tomlin, from
2:20:44
college football. Far, far away I'll be.
2:20:47
It's going to be on TV. Yes, I'll be an analyst before I
2:20:50
I even think to go coach college football to deal with recruiting
2:20:54
players and all that garbage. I if I was my Tom and I'd stay
2:20:58
far, far away from. That the last eight years he's
2:21:01
had no quarterback he's had declining Roethlisberger.
2:21:05
I'd say the third to last year of Roethlisberger's career, he
2:21:07
was still good, but he had two crap years of Roethlisberger and
2:21:11
then the Kenny Pickett poo poo platter along the way with the
2:21:14
41 year old Aaron Rodgers. That roster's terrible Errol.
2:21:18
They TJ Watt had a punctured lung and they had Patrick Queen.
2:21:21
They had like one good offensive lineman and McCormick and Joey
2:21:24
Porter's good, right? But that's not a lights out
2:21:28
defense. And DK Metcalf, you know, he has
2:21:30
his troubles. Rodgers not the same player as
2:21:33
was it his height? I think he overachieved Tomlin
2:21:37
for the last eight years. Getting to the playoffs with
2:21:40
some of these crap rosters is is an unbelievable feat.
2:21:43
If Aaron Glenn or Brian Dabel had this Steelers team, it would
2:21:46
be a top five pick just like the two team those.
2:21:48
Two, that would be a winless year.
2:21:51
I'm telling you, that's a bad roster.
2:21:53
He was able to, you know, with the culture, with all those
2:21:56
things to get them playing together, and I think it wore
2:21:59
him out. The guy deserves a break.
2:22:01
He absolutely does. He had one of the hardest jobs
2:22:04
in football with the least talent.
2:22:06
He did more with less than I would say 99% of.
2:22:10
You want to hear something funny when we talk about the three
2:22:13
coaches that have been there, Chuck Noel and Bill Coward,
2:22:17
Every single one of them. After they left the Pittsburgh
2:22:19
Steelers, they retired from coaching.
2:22:21
Yes, every single one of them. Every single one of them.
2:22:25
And I wouldn't be surprised. But we we've also seen them
2:22:28
leave and get bigger contracts being broadcasters in on TV.
2:22:34
Well, I, I, well, first of all, I don't know what Chuck no got,
2:22:38
but I know Bill Coward got a big contract with CBS and he's very
2:22:41
much loved at CBS. He's the one guy that they've
2:22:44
kept over the last 15 years out of all the guys that they keep
2:22:48
transitioning. So I, I think Bill Coward's a
2:22:51
very likable person. I, I don't think Mike Tomlin's
2:22:54
the same personality. I think Mike Tomlin's a likable
2:22:57
person and I I think he's a lifer and that's why I think
2:23:01
he's going to take another coaching job.
2:23:03
I just think he doesn't want to go to a team where Pittsburgh's
2:23:06
going to trade him to and he's going to have to, hey, I'm going
2:23:09
to have to do it because that's something that Mike Tomlin will
2:23:12
do. He will take the job on if he
2:23:14
says that he'll be willing to be traded.
2:23:16
I think Mike Tomlin, if he got traded to Arizona, he'll take
2:23:19
the responsibility on. That's the type of person he is.
2:23:21
I don't think he wants to do that.
2:23:23
I think he wants to wait until next offseason where he can
2:23:26
choose where he wants to go. Yeah, it's it's definitely not
2:23:29
right now. Take the time off, get on TV.
2:23:32
He's going to take that Jimmie Johnson slot.
2:23:34
He's retiring from the Fox Show. That's the one that I'm hearing
2:23:37
right now. That is most likely for him.
2:23:41
I'm sure he'll be good. You know, it's just first year
2:23:43
doing it as just like anybody, you get better the more you do
2:23:45
something. But I'd like to hear what he has
2:23:48
to say, you know, after so many years of, you know, playing it
2:23:51
close to the vest. I want to hear his opinions.
2:23:54
I want to hear what a great coach in the modern era.
2:23:57
Because all the guys we hear, they're old time guys now.
2:23:59
Like the game has changed so much from when they were
2:24:02
coaching. Remember Tony Romo that first
2:24:04
year he came into the broadcast booth, he still knew all the
2:24:06
players in the league. And now he doesn't research
2:24:08
anything. He don't care no more.
2:24:10
That's kind of like and then he's not as good.
2:24:11
People are really upset at him. They're talking about demoting,
2:24:14
you know, Nance and Romo to be the number two team.
2:24:16
It's not going to happen because of Nance and the CBS forever.
2:24:19
Because of the money they're getting too.
2:24:21
And the money, but they're they're not good anymore.
2:24:23
Like they weren't good, but Romo was really good when he was
2:24:26
involved in and Tomlin's still got the league on his mind.
2:24:29
Like he'll know, at least for the first few years that who
2:24:32
who's really good and who what coaches do what.
2:24:34
And I can't wait to hear stuff like that.
2:24:36
He's going to give us great insight.
2:24:37
I, I don't know how good he's going to be.
2:24:40
You know, when it comes to working and dealing with
2:24:42
personalities at a table, you know, you, you look at
2:24:45
Gronkowski, he's a great personality on a football field.
2:24:48
When he speaks, he speaks like an idiot.
2:24:50
I don't want to hear Rob Gronkowski and his, his, his
2:24:53
thoughts on the play or or quarterback play in the NFL
2:24:58
right now because every time I heard it, I laughed.
2:25:00
I I don't want to hear what he's got.
2:25:02
To say that's kind of Jason Whitten, too.
2:25:04
You remember Jason Whitten? He wouldn't win the booth.
2:25:06
They're all bad, man. They're all bad.
2:25:08
I mean, Julian Edelman, I love you.
2:25:10
But Julian, I, I think you're a funny guy.
2:25:12
You really are. But your podcast is one of the
2:25:15
most ridiculous podcasts I've ever heard before in my entire
2:25:19
life. And I understand he's got a good
2:25:21
relationship with Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski gets all these
2:25:24
different guests on his show, ex NFL players.
2:25:27
That's great. And I want to hear what they got
2:25:28
us. I don't want to hear Julian
2:25:29
Edelman. And now he's signed with Fox
2:25:31
because his best buddy Tom Brady's there and Rob
2:25:35
Gronkowski's there. Who's next?
2:25:37
Oh, let's bring in Vince Wilfork.
2:25:39
Hey, if Bill Belichick gets fired from North Carolina, let's
2:25:42
bring him to the dinner table. Let's get all four of them at
2:25:45
the front lines of Fox Sports. I don't want to hear these guys.
2:25:50
I want to hear guys that are actually know the game as a
2:25:54
broadcaster, not as a player. Because really in the ends of
2:25:59
understanding the game of football, they know more than we
2:26:01
do. But when it comes to bringing
2:26:03
out a personality and understanding it in a
2:26:07
personality type of way, I don't want to hear them because
2:26:10
they're not funny. They're stupid and dumb.
2:26:13
And I, I just, I'm afraid to see what Mike Tomlin is going to be
2:26:18
between these guys and the, you know, Michael Strahan and Rob
2:26:23
Gronkowski. And I don't know any one of
2:26:26
these guys. I, I don't know who's the other
2:26:28
one. Terry Bradshaw.
2:26:29
Terry Bradshaw, you know, I don't know how this is going to
2:26:32
work. I love Jimmie Johnson because
2:26:34
you know what Jimmie Johnson used to do?
2:26:36
He used to tan. He used to smile.
2:26:38
They asked him a couple of questions and he got paid.
2:26:41
Mike Tomlin's not that type of guy.
2:26:43
He's not going to sit there and say, go ahead, pay me.
2:26:46
Mike Tomlin speaks and he has a personality and he's going to
2:26:50
say what he feels and he's going to, you see what he's done to
2:26:54
some of the players he called his players out on, you know, on
2:26:57
media day, he called his players out before the season started by
2:27:02
the lack of play that they were doing in a preseason game.
2:27:05
So we know what Mike Tomlin is all about.
2:27:08
So I don't know how this is going to work when they tell him
2:27:10
to zipper his mouth and he's not going to zipper it.
2:27:13
All right, ladies and gentlemen, Fish's Play of the week.
2:27:16
This is great about sports. You play to win the game.
2:27:19
Hello. You play to win the game.
2:27:23
Fish's play of the win. Win.
2:27:26
All right, guys. Welcome back to Fish's.
2:27:29
Play of the Week. I got a great one for you.
2:27:31
We mentioned it a little bit earlier tonight.
2:27:35
There's a great name for this play, the one that beat, you
2:27:38
know, Errol's beloved second favorite team, the Eagles.
2:27:42
You know, I personally, you know, it was just made me so sad
2:27:46
to see the Eagles be so uninventive offensively and then
2:27:49
lose against a trick play. I blame I.
2:27:51
Think we need to see it. What a beautiful play.
2:27:55
Listen, they they beat a couple of all pro defenders on this
2:27:58
play, right? Quinjan Mitchell and Cooper
2:28:00
Digena, first team all pros. Here's the play.
2:28:03
They call this Sky Bang Reverse Pass.
2:28:07
Let's take a look. CMC looks like a pretty easy
2:28:10
touchdown. We got to go back and see why.
2:28:12
So we're going to start off with this formation.
2:28:14
We're motioning the slot receiver across.
2:28:17
I would have been pissed off if I was the Eagles because this
2:28:20
looks like an illegal formation. Notice the tight end, Tungus
2:28:23
over here. He looks like he's sort of on
2:28:25
the ball, but not on the ball. And then you have the receiver
2:28:28
on the line on the outside. So he's supposed to be off the
2:28:30
ball. He looks even with that tackle.
2:28:32
I would have said that's an illegal formation.
2:28:34
Lost my mind on the sideline if I was the Eagles coach on this
2:28:37
one. Yeah, they didn't argue.
2:28:38
It sucks to be you, Eagles. Now take a look at what's going
2:28:42
to happen. So you go back from this.
2:28:43
We call this a rebound motion. He runs one way and then come
2:28:47
backs the other way. And this is a traditional jet
2:28:50
sweep play. This is something they do in
2:28:51
high school. This is from an old Wing T type
2:28:54
of an offense, but it's not a regular jet sweep.
2:28:56
This is Mike Shanahan. They're doing the outside zone
2:28:58
scheme here. They're pulling the guard to do
2:29:01
what they call a pin pole block to kick out that edge rusher so
2:29:04
that guy can't get his hands and mess up this really cool
2:29:08
exchange that you never see. This is a jet sweep reverse to a
2:29:12
receiver on an orbit motion which goes behind the running
2:29:16
back and the running back runs out of the wheel.
2:29:18
You see right here, Cooper Jean knows he's screwed.
2:29:22
He did not stay with the running back.
2:29:23
He bit up on the receiver running the reverse and it's
2:29:27
over right here. He cannot catch up.
2:29:29
He was flat footed and he gets a touchdown open by 5 yards and it
2:29:34
was enough to put them ahead. They got came back, but this
2:29:38
game, if they don't have this play, Eagles win this game, man.
2:29:40
And that's why sky bang reverse. Oh wait, I got a couple more
2:29:45
things. This was run, run three times by
2:29:47
Shanahan in San Francisco. They used to call it the Debo
2:29:51
bang reverse pass. They did it with Debo and I
2:29:54
think they scored a touchdown about 8 to 10 years ago or
2:29:57
whenever he first got the job when Emmanuel Sanders was there
2:30:00
and he threw it to routine. Mostert 2019.
2:30:03
So 7 years ago. They should have known this was
2:30:07
in the playbook, I think. I think everybody.
2:30:10
I think everybody was shocked, As a matter of fact, you.
2:30:13
Should have saw. You should have saw the coaching
2:30:15
staff on the sideline from the Eagles after they, they, they
2:30:19
collide, they, they landed the play and CMC got that touchdown,
2:30:22
I mean. I'm telling you this is a legal
2:30:24
formation though. This should have been a legal
2:30:27
formation. That tight end should have been
2:30:28
more off the ball. I, I, I really would have lost
2:30:32
my mind as an eagles coach because what that happens, and
2:30:34
you mentioned that earlier, Errol, when without Kittle,
2:30:37
they're going to have to do more of those tackle looks out there.
2:30:40
You call that AI used to call that a tank or an extra tackle
2:30:43
formation. But if you have a tackle out
2:30:45
there, you're not bringing the safety down to cover the tackle.
2:30:47
So it's not the same defense that would go against that if
2:30:50
Kittle was there. So on this one, because he's
2:30:52
kind of you can't really tell if he's covered up or not because
2:30:55
if he's on the line, he can't go out for a pass.
2:30:57
So you don't need to cover him. So that's kind of playing fair a
2:31:01
little bit by Shanahan. I think there is no mistake that
2:31:04
he was like barely behind the tackle in this formation.
2:31:08
Shanahan's a dirty man. That guy has some great points.
2:31:10
Hey, listen, it closed and it was sealed and they sealed the
2:31:14
deal. They knocked off the Eagles and
2:31:16
I was very upset about, I think a lot of people that I'm not
2:31:19
even saying Eagle fans, people that were betting people lost a
2:31:23
lot of money on this. And and and by the way, if you
2:31:25
bet on the 49ers, you want a lot of money.
2:31:27
So I mean, because they were not the favorites, so.
2:31:30
It was just, it was just an unbelievable play if you bet on
2:31:33
a great job. And it was this play that really
2:31:35
brought them that victory and it that's why it's vicious play of
2:31:39
the week. Watch how I eat my string
2:31:42
cheese. Anyways, there you go, ladies
2:31:45
and gentlemen, we call this Let's Parlay.
2:31:57
It's time for Lens, for Lang. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
2:32:03
we have Worldwide Wes and the one we call Reno in the feed.
2:32:09
And if you don't know how to play the game, it's very simple.
2:32:11
If you're a handicap woman or man, you should be listening to
2:32:15
the you should be listening to the segment because these guys
2:32:18
give you some of the best winning handicap picks in the
2:32:23
business. So this is how we're going to
2:32:24
play. Both Wes and Reno Johnny are
2:32:27
going to give you their top three picks of the week and then
2:32:30
they're going to give you their 4th, which is a parlay pick.
2:32:34
Are you boys ready? Yeah, yeah, I'm ready.
2:32:36
All right, so we're going to go Reno Johnny first, Worldwide W
2:32:41
2nd. Here we go.
2:32:44
Whale It was a rough week, let's put it that way.
2:32:47
We are. We're bouncing back this week.
2:32:50
My first play of the game of the of the week is actually going to
2:32:53
be the Chicago Bears on Sunday night or Sunday afternoon
2:32:57
football. It's quite simple for me, I
2:32:59
think. I think the weather is going to
2:33:01
play a factor. There shouldn't be a whole lot
2:33:03
of precipitation. Looks like 15% chance on snow,
2:33:06
but it's going to be damn cold. It's going to be 16°.
2:33:10
They're playing the later game, so it's just going to get a
2:33:12
little bit colder as they go through the night.
2:33:15
You're looking at Matt Stafford, who I have a ton of respect for,
2:33:18
but he played in Texas, went to Georgia and played in domes his
2:33:22
whole career. This weather is absolutely going
2:33:24
to be a factor. I do think it's going to it's
2:33:26
going to translate on the field and I love the fact that the
2:33:29
Bears are catching points on their home field in a 16° game
2:33:36
against a team that plays in domes.
2:33:39
I think it's just going to it's going to be a a game that
2:33:42
they're just going to be a little bit fatigued come late in
2:33:45
that game. I think the Bears offense is is
2:33:48
definitely a a a a an X Factor in this game.
2:33:52
Gimme Ki. Never thought I'd say this.
2:33:53
I never thought a million years I would say this.
2:33:55
Gimme Caleb Boys +4 at home Saturday Night Football.
2:34:00
All right, Wes, give us your first pick of the week.
2:34:03
I'm, I'm going to start with a college hoops game and this one
2:34:06
is, this one's a layup. This is tomorrow night and I'm
2:34:10
going to, I'm going to lay a point and a half taking Delaware
2:34:14
over UTEP. UTEP hasn't won a game on the
2:34:16
road this year and their game, their game is kind of predicated
2:34:21
on steals taking the ball away. And Delaware's not a team that
2:34:25
gives the ball away. If you want to shift over to
2:34:28
line movement, for whatever that's worth, 77% of the tickets
2:34:32
are on UTEP and the line started at 1 1/2 and it hasn't moved
2:34:38
with that kind of that, that kind of ticket volume on one
2:34:42
side, probably a lower volume game.
2:34:43
That line should move and it's not.
2:34:45
Vegas is holding strong. I realized Delaware's only won
2:34:48
five games this year, but I think they're going to win
2:34:50
tomorrow probably by 7-8. So easy layup of a hoops game.
2:34:55
You can't get it unless you have an app subscription of some
2:34:58
sort. But it's college hoops time of
2:35:01
the year. And I'm, I'm actually having a
2:35:02
lot of fun betting it and watching it And you know, I've,
2:35:05
I've catched 5 tickets out of seven today.
2:35:08
All right, Reno, Johnny, give us your number 2.
2:35:11
We're sick and in the NFL here. I think it's pretty simple for
2:35:14
me. I've said it from the beginning,
2:35:16
I have a preseason ticket on the Bills.
2:35:18
Got a couple of them. Now I got a parlay piece.
2:35:21
It's still alive on a preseason future on the Bills.
2:35:25
They're even money. Give me the Bills.
2:35:27
I don't care about anything metric wise in this game.
2:35:30
I'm riding with what I said at the beginning of the year.
2:35:33
Now that being said, I do think the Bills are the better team
2:35:36
here in this situation. I understand the Broncos record.
2:35:42
It looks pretty. It's shiny.
2:35:44
They haven't been a soul. I think it's a great spot for
2:35:48
Josh Allen, who has not had the postseason success, but he has a
2:35:53
shit ton of experience and against guys like Mahomes, guys
2:35:58
that he loses in the in the playoffs to go on and win the
2:36:01
Super Bowl. So he's been right there.
2:36:03
This is Josh Challenger to win it all outside of the NFC, when
2:36:07
you got, when you have, you know, Matt Staff on the other
2:36:09
side. There is nobody in these
2:36:11
playoffs that would rather have than Josh Allen.
2:36:14
I think they win this game. I think Bo Nicks basically shows
2:36:17
me a little bit of Auburn Bo Nicks where he's just the moment
2:36:20
is too big for him. Give me the Bills win this game
2:36:24
on the road. All right, Wes, give us your
2:36:28
number two. Well.
2:36:32
I'm going to go to that game too, and I'm in the opposite of
2:36:34
everything you said. So I don't really need to talk
2:36:36
much other than I disagree with everything you had to say there.
2:36:40
We are still friends, we always will be.
2:36:43
But I, I just like Denver in this spot.
2:36:45
I think that that the Bills, their depth at wide receiver is,
2:36:49
I mean, they have 3 receivers on their roster right now.
2:36:52
But I, I have been on the winning side of Josh Allen in
2:36:56
the playoffs for seven years running now.
2:36:58
Six years running, he he joshes in the playoffs.
2:37:03
He he shows up big in some of these games, but there's always
2:37:06
a key play that he joshes and doesn't win And it it's he
2:37:11
doesn't have enough around him in terms of online in order to
2:37:16
stop what the Broncos are going to be able to do.
2:37:19
They have three active wide receivers on the roster and
2:37:21
you're telling me that Sean Payton coming off a by with, you
2:37:25
could argue the best defense in the league, but they're at least
2:37:27
in a group of of top three defenses in the league.
2:37:30
They won't be able to game plan for three wide receivers and
2:37:33
only one of them is any good. I, I just, I think Josh Allen is
2:37:37
going to get really beat up in this game and just cue the
2:37:40
narrative and, and I hate it because I think that Josh is
2:37:43
currently the best quarterback in football, but it's looking
2:37:48
like he's going to have a very Peyton Manning start to his
2:37:50
playoff career because he's going home.
2:37:53
You know, I just want to point out that Josh Allen probably
2:37:56
should have won last year. But when you're playing the refs
2:37:58
too, doesn't really work out for you, does it?
2:38:00
That's how they that's how they change the rules.
2:38:03
I hear you. I'm I'm hearing you.
2:38:06
But maybe, maybe the refs are against him for a reason.
2:38:09
Maybe next year's the year with that new stadium.
2:38:13
All right, Reno, give a shit #3. #3 we're going to stay in the
2:38:17
NFL and it's going to be a play that I also did not really
2:38:21
expect or like, but I'm going to lay the points here with the
2:38:24
Seahawks. I, I think the, the Niners are
2:38:27
outmatched in this situation. And I understand last week
2:38:30
actually the public back then the public was actually heavier
2:38:33
on the Niners. The public actually did really
2:38:35
well last week. I think they went they lost one
2:38:38
I think where the public game where they didn't win every
2:38:41
other every other public play actually cash last week, which
2:38:44
is probably why I didn't do too well.
2:38:46
I think it's a good spot for the Seahawks.
2:38:48
They're at home and the Niners are just banged up and they're
2:38:51
banged up even more now. They do not have George Kittle
2:38:55
tears the the Achilles last week.
2:38:56
Their defense is still banged up.
2:38:58
They didn't really, you know, I think I think the Eagles kind of
2:39:02
gave that game away and you know, they had the trick play.
2:39:04
I get, I just think that the Seahawks and I hate it because
2:39:08
I, I've been a anti Sam Darnell probably his entire career, even
2:39:13
more so when he's been on winning teams, because I don't
2:39:15
think he I think he's really just put him in the system and
2:39:17
that good enough. I think that they can blow out
2:39:20
the night. I think they they they've really
2:39:22
handled the Niners this season. Even games that might have been
2:39:24
close. They dominated the metrics in
2:39:26
those games. I think the Seahawks win this
2:39:28
game by at least a touchdown. All right, Wes, give us your #3.
2:39:33
You know, I'm going to agree with Johnny there, and this is a
2:39:36
hard one. This is a very hard one for me
2:39:38
to go Seahawks and and this is a 7 1/2 point spread.
2:39:41
Are you guys still seeing 7 and? A.
2:39:44
Half this is a hard one because if you peel back everything
2:39:49
going on this week, this is a division matchup and and in
2:39:52
regular season we, I mean, Johnny, you and I would say set
2:39:56
anything about 6 in the division, you probably want to
2:39:58
take the points or walk away. I mean that that's a that's
2:40:02
that's kind of entry level, you know, handicapper stuff right
2:40:05
there. But that being said, I agree
2:40:07
with what Johnny just said about the Eagles.
2:40:09
The Eagles kind of gave that game away and I don't think it
2:40:13
was that trick play. I think where the Eagles gave
2:40:15
the game away is just lack of an offensive plan.
2:40:18
I think the Eagles defense did what it was supposed to do, but
2:40:21
you're you're not. Going to keep CMC from from
2:40:23
doing what he does. I mean, he's going to make an
2:40:25
impact on the game. You're not going to shut down
2:40:28
some of those players completely.
2:40:29
But so I, I think that I think that, you know, Seattle, there
2:40:36
was a game this year where they were, they had like 40 points on
2:40:39
the board in the first half. And it was just that they're
2:40:42
defense. These these no name defensive
2:40:45
players are just flying around like wild piranha, just taking
2:40:49
bites out of everything that's going on.
2:40:50
I think Donald's better quarterback than 30.
2:40:53
All right, Reno, give us your final pick of the night.
2:40:57
Final play, I'm going to do this like I've never done it before.
2:41:00
I'm going to take this as a true parlay piece.
2:41:03
So whatever W says in his parlay piece, this is what I would
2:41:07
recommend doing if you're going to do a two team parlay because
2:41:10
I never do it. So with all that said, I'm going
2:41:12
to take a money line. I'm going to take a big money
2:41:16
line. I'm going to take Indiana money
2:41:19
line. So whatever Wes is going to give
2:41:21
you, hopefully take that minus 2250 or whatever it is, put it
2:41:25
in a parlay piece. I've been against Indiana.
2:41:29
I was against Indiana in in the last game.
2:41:31
I was against Indiana all year. I, I think I met Ohio Sabres,
2:41:34
Indiana. I I've really been against that,
2:41:37
that the system and the coach and and all of it.
2:41:40
And I, I can't do it because I thought Oregon was the best team
2:41:44
in the country coming into this into last weekend and they put
2:41:48
up 56 points. I lost.
2:41:51
I lost. I lost some money last week.
2:41:54
Let's not see how there was some coin lost.
2:41:57
I was eating ramen for a couple days.
2:42:00
It it was a game that I didn't expect.
2:42:01
But at the end of the day, I think this offense is much
2:42:04
better than Miami's. I do not, I still do not back
2:42:07
Carson Beck. I think they're winning games,
2:42:09
but it's nothing to do with quarterback.
2:42:11
They do have a good defense. I think the what's going to win
2:42:15
this game is discipline. As good as Miami has been, they
2:42:19
had three penalties on the drive.
2:42:20
Two of them were were unsportsmanlike and they
2:42:23
probably should have picked up a third.
2:42:25
They had multiple false star penalties.
2:42:28
You just don't get that out of Indiana.
2:42:30
Their standard is a lot higher in Miami.
2:42:34
They that's not acceptable. You will you will not see a late
2:42:38
hit on Indiana in this game. You might see one or two out of
2:42:41
Miami in big situation. So I I think the discipline of
2:42:44
this game, Gimme Indiana to win the game personally.
2:42:47
I'm also going to bet him on the spread and their team total
2:42:50
because I do think that they're going to run away with this
2:42:52
game. Whatever, whatever W says,
2:42:54
parlay the money line with his butt.
2:42:56
All right, W final pick of the nights.
2:42:59
Yeah. So in the playoffs, I'm saying
2:43:02
in the NFL, the only, the only Rd. team that I actually have
2:43:06
winning is is Houston. And it's outright.
2:43:09
I don't, I don't think. And when you, when you look at
2:43:12
these playoff games, you have to kind of peel back.
2:43:16
You put the number aside for a second.
2:43:18
But when you look at this game, is there a world where where New
2:43:24
England went by less than 3? I don't see that world, which
2:43:28
means I'm going to take, I'm just going to take the three.
2:43:31
Houston is is not going to just lose by two.
2:43:34
I mean, that's a weird number. But I don't see CJ having a
2:43:38
repeat of the kind of game that he had.
2:43:41
I mean, he had a terrible game. CJ Stroud early in the game.
2:43:45
And and I mean, I, I believe CJ, I mean, that's my favorite
2:43:49
Buckeye of all time. But he tried very hard to give
2:43:52
the Pittsburgh Steelers that game and their defense just
2:43:57
wasn't going to have it. And I think that that defense up
2:44:03
against Drake May is going to make him look like a younger
2:44:08
quarterback in the league, but I don't in New England.
2:44:11
They're just not deep at receiver.
2:44:13
They're going to have to run the ball and they they'll have
2:44:16
success doing that, but nobody really has success doing
2:44:20
anything against Houston. So they're going to be somewhat
2:44:23
1 dimensional. And I think that when they,
2:44:26
Houston's going to have to put up some points early, They
2:44:28
can't, they can't just come out the way that they did.
2:44:32
But I, I think that Houston's going to outright win this game.
2:44:35
It is wild that we're going to be possibly looking at Houston,
2:44:38
Denver in, in a, in a conference championship game or, or Houston
2:44:43
Buffalo even. I mean it's just, it's crazy,
2:44:46
but I, I like them to win outright.
2:44:48
I don't. The Texas would be the home
2:44:51
team. Figure that out.
2:44:53
Well, boys, I love your picks and you both, Well, I'm sure
2:44:58
you're both not picking the Patriots, and I love you even
2:45:00
more for that. Anyways, Wes Reno, we love you.
2:45:04
We'll see you next week. Yeah.
2:45:07
See you next week. Yeah, I'll be on that Texas
2:45:09
money line as well. And bear down and bear down, big
2:45:13
time. Whore bag.
2:45:15
Oh, gosh, pour bag. All right, there you go.
2:45:19
Ladies and gentlemen, let's parlay Wes and Reno Johnny
2:45:22
giving you their picks of the week.
2:45:24
All right, when we come back, we got call your shot.
2:45:27
We got some baseball and we're going to finish up with what's
2:45:31
that smell? But let's go to our sports man
2:45:34
with the fish. This is the Jabba and the Mouth
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Sportsman ads. All right guys, Aaron Fishman
2:45:43
here with your second sportsman of the evening.
2:45:45
Got a couple of stories for you before we get into the scores.
2:45:48
Lane Kiffin has had quite a handful of weeks, starting with
2:45:52
his much criticized decision to leave Ole Miss for LSU as Ole
2:45:56
Miss was in the College Football Playoff.
2:45:58
Pretty lucrative for him because he earned $500,000 for their two
2:46:01
wins. They were able to get to the
2:46:03
national semi finals without him, but he did allow his
2:46:05
offensive coordinator Charlie Weis junior to stay coaching the
2:46:08
Rebels while also working at LSU.
2:46:11
Kiffin does have a problem now at his new school.
2:46:14
He needs a quarterback, Garrett Nussmeyer graduating and his two
2:46:18
backups transferring Van Buren in the South floor.
2:46:20
And the other one is, well, leaving.
2:46:22
Well, Kiffin struck it big no surprise here on Monday, landing
2:46:26
the number 2 ranked quarterback in the transfer portal, Sam
2:46:29
Levitt from Arizona State. Levitt, who was hurt for much of
2:46:33
the 2025 season, LED Arizona State to the College Football
2:46:36
Playoff in 2024 when he had Cam Scataboo as his running back and
2:46:41
he was the Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year.
2:46:44
Now as a red shirt sophomore, Levitt brings a strong pedigree
2:46:48
to the SEC and will join a Tigers squad that will have 9
2:46:52
new wide receivers via transfer, including Winston Watkins from
2:46:55
Ole Miss, Jace Brown from Kansas State and Eugene Wilson, the
2:46:59
third from Florida. Former Alabama quarterback and
2:47:03
current Carolina Panthers QB Bryce Young is being rewarded
2:47:07
for taking his team to the playoffs this season, with the
2:47:09
organization picking up Young's fifth year option.
2:47:12
This move buys Panthers GM Dan Morgan some time to evaluate
2:47:16
whether or not to give Young, who's been up and down in his
2:47:18
NFL career, a contract extension or to move on to a signal caller
2:47:23
for what Morgan is calling a big picture view of the franchise's
2:47:27
future. Bryce did a great job this year
2:47:29
and I'm really just excited about moving forward and still
2:47:32
developing chemistry with our receivers and just the pieces
2:47:34
around him and then really having that translate into
2:47:37
Sunday or Saturday. I just felt like he had a lot
2:47:40
more command out there this year and in reality, just kind of
2:47:43
coming into his own and getting better every week, just
2:47:46
attacking every day. That's really all you can ask
2:47:48
for from any player. Unfortunately, the Panthers
2:47:51
needed just a little more from Young as it fell into a they
2:47:54
fell to the Rams and a thriller, giving up the game-winning
2:47:56
touchdown the last minute after Young led his own team down the
2:47:59
field to take the lead on a clutch touchdown pass to Jaylen
2:48:02
Coker. Young will look to keep
2:48:04
improving under head coach Dave Canales in 2026 and hopefully
2:48:07
get that extension. If not, one of the best
2:48:10
quarterback classes in years could be the cure for the
2:48:12
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2:49:45
Speedy, do you see Jabba? He's wearing his one.
2:49:48
Yeah, the return of the onesie for like the first time since
2:49:50
like the first month you started.
2:49:51
What is that Curious George over there, Jabba?
2:49:54
We got, we got a monkey action going on right now, Yeah.
2:49:57
Well, I wish I had some other monkey action, if you know what
2:49:59
I mean. Where's Brittany?
2:50:02
Oh well, she's actually packing. We're after the show.
2:50:05
I am actually going to be traveling all the way to
2:50:08
Montreal. I'll be driving the 6 1/2 hours.
2:50:11
I'll be taking the ride all the way up while she's having her
2:50:15
beauty sleeve, while I'll be driving all the way up there to
2:50:19
Montreal, but. Anyway, What Car are you taking?
2:50:21
Hers or yours? No, we rented.
2:50:23
We rented a car. Are you rented a car?
2:50:25
That's right. We're not going to beat up any
2:50:26
our cars. We're just going to rent a car.
2:50:28
We got a, I think we got a Subaru, a big one, one of those
2:50:32
big like 7 seaters. So yeah.
2:50:35
So you're going like, right after the show, like driving the
2:50:38
red eye? Yeah, probably.
2:50:39
You're wild. I'm a wild.
2:50:41
Person, man, I'm a wild. Person, but Yep, that's that's
2:50:45
what I'm doing. I'm driving the red eye.
2:50:47
Anyways, we called. It I just I just ordered wing
2:50:50
stop so. I might stop to wing stop before
2:50:53
I get on the road. Anyways, we call.
2:50:56
Just call you shot. I'm not an X's and O's guy.
2:50:59
Right. I'm not a tactician.
2:51:00
I'm a motivator in the classic sense of the word.
2:51:03
You know Lombardi, Charles Lindbergh, that nun over in
2:51:05
India, like those people? Call your shot a big boobs.
2:51:10
Like a swan. Sod is a bitch, all right?
2:51:12
Welcome to Call Your Shot. This is our segment.
2:51:15
We do this every so often where we're going to make some
2:51:18
predictions just out of the blue and we're going to lay them
2:51:23
down. I hope not a few of them are
2:51:26
going to be absolutely right. Errol, who do you want to go
2:51:28
first? I'm going to say the old
2:51:31
speedster to go first. All right, so Fish, you've
2:51:33
hinted at it the last couple of shows where we've talked about
2:51:36
some hockey, the New York Rangers.
2:51:38
You've asked him if Errol and myself if they should be sellers
2:51:41
or not. Again, I don't think they're
2:51:42
going to be drastic sellers. I do agree with Errol on that.
2:51:44
But there is one guy I do think it seems like inevitable that's
2:51:47
going to be traded at this point and that is our Tammy Panera in
2:51:49
the sea. The teams are not seeing eye to
2:51:51
eye with his contract situation. He's had a 50 point season so
2:51:54
probably still a good time to sell it and there's five teams
2:51:57
interested in there's no trade clause and there's team that
2:52:00
loves to go through contact negotiations and get last second
2:52:03
trades that are always big. The Lightning were the best with
2:52:05
the cap, no manipulation in the beginning, but that team is now
2:52:08
the Vegas Golden Knights and I think that is where he will be
2:52:11
traded to. So the Rangers will trade our
2:52:13
Timmy Panera into Vegas. They'll find a way to loop,
2:52:15
manipulate the cap again, and Vegas will win the Western
2:52:18
Conference. With that dauber in the dirt.
2:52:20
Asia never cut his hair. He's he's never the same, but
2:52:23
that's a whole other story. You want me to go next?
2:52:26
Yes, I want you to go next. All right, so I've got a real
2:52:30
easy prediction. I predict Carson Beck's going to
2:52:33
throw 3 interceptions in the National Championship Game one.
2:52:37
Wait. I think he is such a fraud.
2:52:40
I can't wait for a real defense to make him to expose him.
2:52:44
Please exceptions. Finish I well, because I think
2:52:47
what's going to happen is they're going to get desperate
2:52:50
and because I think he's going to fall behind on a bad pick in
2:52:53
the beginning of the game. And I think Mendoza is going to
2:52:55
be lights out. I I, I see it being a 30 point
2:52:58
game, like just like the last two of them and the coronation
2:53:02
of one of the greatest teams college football has ever seen,
2:53:06
especially definitely in the playoff era.
2:53:09
So that's my shot. Sometimes I sit on it.
2:53:13
All right, Chopper. You know what, I'm I'm going to
2:53:16
switch gears too. And I'm it's going to be a
2:53:19
Nebraska reference and it's going to be we have won 21 games
2:53:25
in a row. We are one of the last five team
2:53:27
standings undefeated in the top 10.
2:53:30
But we are the only school in a Power 5 to never win a game in
2:53:33
March Madness. Nebraska is going to win a game
2:53:40
in March Madness, and I'm calling it this year.
2:53:42
I had to take a shit and I'm excited about it.
2:53:46
I love it near and near in my heart because Braden Frager grew
2:53:51
up with my son, played basketball, but they have never
2:53:54
won a game in the tournament. And they've had T Lou, they've
2:53:58
had Jeron Boone, Eric Strickland, they've had some
2:54:01
decent dudes, Eric Pykowski, guys that have spent time in the
2:54:06
NBA. We've never won a game in March.
2:54:08
Match, baby, we go win the game. I'll let you lick my butt.
2:54:13
All right, if that. Happens Catherine is leaking my
2:54:16
butt. There you go, I definitely want
2:54:18
to watch that. I don't think she'll allow it
2:54:21
anyways. 100% she will. She's a gamer.
2:54:27
All right, my final call, your shot goes to the New York Mets.
2:54:32
And I think Met fans are going to be very, very happy in 24 to
2:54:35
48 hours. There's going to be announcement
2:54:39
Kyle Tucker is going to sign with the New York Mets, 50
2:54:45
million a year, five years with an opt out.
2:54:48
Book it. He will be a New York Met.
2:54:51
For all you Met fans that are just absolutely disappointed
2:54:55
this offseason, I and you should be.
2:54:58
They're going to land Kyle Tucker.
2:54:59
They're going to do whatever it takes to get them and they're
2:55:01
going to give them an opt out clause.
2:55:03
Book it 24 to 48 hours before the weekend.
2:55:07
You're going to hear that Kyle Tucker is signing with the New
2:55:09
York Mets. And there you go, ladies and
2:55:11
gentlemen. Speaking of New York Mets, we're
2:55:14
going to go into inside baseball.
2:55:17
Now let's go deep, deep inside. What I am excited.
2:55:21
This is inside baseball. Well, let's start right there,
2:55:25
Errol. You had mentioned it.
2:55:27
Let's get into it. The Mets have offered, We talked
2:55:32
about it a couple of times tonight because this is the big
2:55:34
news, in my opinion. This is the big news in baseball
2:55:36
right now. He's been the top guy on the
2:55:38
market all offseason. Problematic if he plays the same
2:55:43
position as Juan Soto. But they do need outfielders,
2:55:46
$50 million annual average value of the contract doesn't mean
2:55:52
that it's going to be 50 a year. Might might be higher in the
2:55:55
beginning, lower at the end, or who knows if they're going to
2:55:57
front load or back load or they're going to let him do the
2:56:00
Alex Bregman thing where they'll let him opt out after one year
2:56:04
and it's really a one year, $50 million contract.
2:56:08
If they do that. I'm not as excited about this
2:56:12
deal. But if they can lock them in
2:56:14
without the opt out being after year one, I think it's a pretty
2:56:18
good move regardless for the Mets, even if it's a like $100
2:56:23
million in two outfield positions.
2:56:25
What do you think guys? I think it's a great deal for
2:56:28
the New York Mets. I don't know if it's going to be
2:56:30
one year. I think it's going to be two
2:56:31
years. That's what I've been hearing,
2:56:33
that he can opt out after his second year.
2:56:36
So they're going to have him for at least two years and they're
2:56:39
going to be going for that World Series.
2:56:41
And I expect if they land Kyle Tucker to make a big trade at
2:56:44
the trade deadline, obviously Tarek's Google will be available
2:56:48
next year. He's going to be a free agent.
2:56:51
So I could see the Mets, if they, if they're one piece away
2:56:54
or one pitcher away from possibly fighting for a World
2:56:57
Series, I could see them doing it.
2:56:59
I, I think I, I think this is a great deal for the Mets.
2:57:02
If it's two years, if they, if he gives them two years on an
2:57:06
opt out clause, I think it's slam dunk for the Mets and they
2:57:09
can win. They could absolutely be a World
2:57:10
Series contender this year. Yeah, $50 million a year for a
2:57:14
guy that's durable enough is fine with me.
2:57:16
Again, we're curious on the length of the contract.
2:57:18
They were talking about Laura before, like it's going to be
2:57:20
pushing that five year standard if they're going to be an opt
2:57:23
out, yeah, I'd say two or three years is probably the likely
2:57:26
there's an opt out in the contract.
2:57:27
But again, for a player that's pretty durable, I know again, he
2:57:30
had the bad second-half, but he wasn't playing.
2:57:32
He wasn't playing 100% healthy. Again, the Mets, they're trying
2:57:35
to build the Super lineup. We'll see if they can get the
2:57:37
pitching after that. Yeah, I mean, it's it's a great
2:57:40
deal for him if he can get it. The opt out will be very
2:57:44
interesting and see how they structure the deal.
2:57:46
I think is is kind of going to be the caveat of if this deal
2:57:50
does get done, I just don't think they have enough pitching.
2:57:56
And yeah, they struggled with McClain, right?
2:57:59
But I just don't think they have enough pitching with a super
2:58:04
lineup. I mean, you're still going to
2:58:06
have to stop guys from scoring and I, I don't know if they have
2:58:12
enough on the front end and the back end in that lineup for him.
2:58:16
I think it's great. I think, you know, obviously
2:58:20
with Bregman kind of setting the market with what he's not a $50
2:58:25
million player to me, he's not durable.
2:58:28
I agree with that with what Speedy said, durable.
2:58:32
Obviously he got a little injured this year, but I he's
2:58:35
not a 50. He's not a game.
2:58:37
He doesn't scare me. He's not Aaron Judge.
2:58:41
Obviously, Aaron took a discount to be what he is, but he's not
2:58:46
an Aaron Judge. Kyle Tucker does not scare me.
2:58:50
Like, if Kyle Tucker beats me, I'm OK.
2:58:54
You don't let Aaron Judge beat you.
2:58:57
And Kyle Tucker for me isn't that dude.
2:59:00
He is an unbelievable player, but he's not a $50 million
2:59:05
player to me. We'll see. 3030 good defense,
2:59:08
though, you know, you take that every single time.
2:59:10
High batting average, still young.
2:59:13
We'll see what happens. Part of me thinks the Blue Jays
2:59:16
are going to get them though. Man, I, I feel like they're just
2:59:18
loading up. They, they smell it and they
2:59:20
want it, but we'll see. Let's keep going on.
2:59:23
Fish like Kyle Tucker's not a name that comes in like when you
2:59:27
think of baseball, Tucker's not a name that comes to your head
2:59:30
for 50 million a. Year.
2:59:31
You know who he reminds me of? He reminds me of George
2:59:34
Springer, that's who. He reminds me of you know what's
2:59:37
interesting you say that he reminds me of someone that you
2:59:40
hate. Not that he plays like him, but
2:59:42
his numbers and the impact he has on the game is similar.
2:59:45
It's your boy Jazz, jazzy boy, similar 3030 guy.
2:59:49
He's got he got a lot of pop. He plays good D, you know, like
2:59:54
you want those guys that's on your team.
2:59:56
Maybe less theatrics than Jazz, you know as well.
3:00:00
Well, yeah, but I think that's too to like Kyle Tucker's game.
3:00:04
Like there, there's not many of those.
3:00:06
Like Jazz relies on that too. And but Kyle Tucker, he'll lay
3:00:11
under the radar. You ain't laying under the radar
3:00:13
when you're making 50 mil. Now you put, you put, you put a
3:00:17
bullet on your back and everybody wants to hit it.
3:00:21
Yep, everyone's gearing up for you, trying to beat you and let
3:00:23
everybody know. I just struck out a $50 million
3:00:26
a year guy and. Prove him wrong.
3:00:27
Even though he's collecting the paycheck every two weeks, he's
3:00:30
so he don't. Care.
3:00:31
Well, Speaking of this new market being said, Errol, the
3:00:35
Yankees and Cody Bellinger have been at an impasse the last few
3:00:39
days at least it's been reported over the years in the contract,
3:00:42
Cody Bellinger and of course Scott Boris wants the longer
3:00:45
contract, the seven-year contract.
3:00:47
The Yankees are only willing to go 5.
3:00:49
The Yankees and Bellinger's camp continue to talk this week, John
3:00:54
Heyman of The Post wrote on X. The Yankees are trying to bridge
3:00:57
the gap in years by enhancing their latest offer, which
3:01:00
there's five years by including an opt out, a nice signing bonus
3:01:04
and no deferred money. Parties have possible options,
3:01:08
but effort being made to stay together.
3:01:12
I personally would have liked them to go after Tucker.
3:01:14
That was a fluke hand injury, got hit by a pitch and played
3:01:16
through it for a number of weeks.
3:01:18
He should have sat out and he would have been fine.
3:01:21
Bellinger a little older. Numbers have never been as good
3:01:24
except for his two. His MVP year is when he was
3:01:27
first came into the league. It's not that guy anymore.
3:01:30
Obviously does a lot for you with his versatility on defense
3:01:34
and plays good defense wherever he goes.
3:01:37
I don't think you want him playing center field, but this
3:01:40
is a guy that, you know, good baseball teams have guys like
3:01:44
this on their team and hopefully the Yankees can add him and it's
3:01:48
not one of these one year out dash.
3:01:49
The longer there is a wait, the better chances they have to
3:01:54
sink. I do believe Bellinger will be a
3:01:57
Yankee. I don't think he's going
3:01:58
anywhere else else. I I don't see anybody offering
3:02:01
him more than what the Yankees are going to offer him.
3:02:03
I think the Yankees will probably add a year main job,
3:02:06
but we're talking about it. I could see them five years to 6
3:02:10
with an opportunity to opt out after three or 4I.
3:02:13
I could see the Yankees doing that.
3:02:15
He doesn't want to go anywhere else.
3:02:16
He wants to be a Yankee. His father was a Yankee.
3:02:20
He grew up a Yankee fan. He said it many, many times.
3:02:23
This was the place that he wanted to finish his career and
3:02:26
I expect him to do so. I, I and I, he has a great
3:02:29
relationship with a lot of the guys on this team, including
3:02:33
Aaron Boone, who raves about him.
3:02:35
I don't think he's going anywhere.
3:02:37
And like I said, the longer it the IT the longer the weeks go
3:02:41
before pitchers and catchers, the better chances the Yankees
3:02:45
have to sign Cody Bellinger. And by the way, I think Cody
3:02:48
Bellinger is a better all around player than Kyle Tucker because
3:02:53
he can play multiple positions. He's a better defender in my
3:02:56
eyes than a guy like Kyle Tucker.
3:02:59
And I think Jabba says it best. He won an MVP.
3:03:03
Kyle Tucker has never won an MVP.
3:03:05
So until he does that, I still think Cody Bellinger is a better
3:03:10
player. Yeah, he's one of the. 3
3:03:12
Bellingers won. He's been on a winning team.
3:03:16
Yeah, I think the main competition was the Mets, but
3:03:18
now the Mets are all in on Tucker.
3:03:19
It seems like that the Yankees have all the leeway in the world
3:03:22
to do that because again, there was really no other direct
3:03:24
competition to threaten a a high payroll team like the Yankees.
3:03:27
Like you say, I already tell Simebrenner's comments and all
3:03:29
that, but there's still a high payroll team so.
3:03:31
And they're going to get him on the cheat.
3:03:33
They're going to get him on the value.
3:03:34
I think that Brian Cashman was kind of targeting last month
3:03:36
when we talked about it with Charlie Slows and I think that's
3:03:39
why those comments were made and maybe they look smarter than
3:03:42
that. You hit it right on the head is
3:03:44
the longer it gets towards pitchers and catchers.
3:03:48
I think it's it's a better value for Bellinger.
3:03:53
And it's kind of what we talked about with Laura earlier is just
3:03:58
like knowing New York, playing in New York and understand like
3:04:01
he he handled it well. And I've, I've always said this,
3:04:05
I've said this from jump street. His defense is very undervalued
3:04:10
and he can give you so many different.
3:04:13
What if Ben Rice doesn't work at first base?
3:04:15
You got an option in Cody Bellinger and you're not going
3:04:19
to have to pay 50 million a year.
3:04:21
Where we've talked about before is that year, mom.
3:04:26
That's the thing that I think he wants.
3:04:29
But if he gets the opt out with, I would say two to three years.
3:04:36
If he gets two to three with with an option and a no trade,
3:04:41
because that's definitely going to be in there at that point at
3:04:43
his age that I think I think it can work.
3:04:46
But I think the longer it gets drawn out, I think it's a better
3:04:52
likelihood of him going back to the Yankees and and with what he
3:04:57
can provide for the team and what he's already done.
3:05:02
It's a great fit. And Kyle Tucker was obviously
3:05:05
the name, but I would take Cody Bellinger over Kyle Tucker any
3:05:10
day of the week. All right, let's move on.
3:05:13
We got more and this is my favorite thing Cashman's done in
3:05:16
a long time. This is a under the radar trade
3:05:19
that happened yesterday. The Yankees added pitcher Ryan
3:05:23
Weathers. Now Weathers was with the
3:05:25
Marlins and he was traded for four.
3:05:28
I guess low a ball type guys are very low prospects.
3:05:33
I guess it's a dump by the the Marlins who are always doing
3:05:35
moves like this. Ryan Weathers is the son of
3:05:39
David Weathers, who was a World Series champion back in the day
3:05:43
with the Yankees. And that's so much fun.
3:05:46
He is a very crafty lefty who has a good fastball.
3:05:50
He can't stay healthy is the reason why he got him for such,
3:05:53
so cheap. But for me, you don't need
3:05:56
another lefty in this rotation. Why don't we go see if we can't
3:06:00
recreate Andrew Miller? Why if we can't see if we can
3:06:03
get that guy that can come in for two innings, whatever you
3:06:06
need twice, 3 to 3 1/2 times a week, you know, three times a
3:06:11
week and just make it so that nobody can ever get anything on
3:06:16
you. I just think this is a brilliant
3:06:18
move. I don't I think they'll try him
3:06:20
in the rotation as Rodon, you know, kind of and Cole come back
3:06:23
to full strength. Rodon had some offseason work
3:06:25
done. This guy, I think long term
3:06:28
role, is that like super reliever?
3:06:31
Their game plan, their game plan of bringing him in was not to be
3:06:36
in the rotation to put him in the ball pan.
3:06:39
It's been something that Brian Cashman has done year in and
3:06:42
year out. He finds these starting pitchers
3:06:44
that he could put in the bullpen and he could put them in that
3:06:47
mix of players that helps them be one of the better rotations
3:06:52
in the bullpen in baseball. The problem is with the Yankees
3:06:55
is the second-half of the season he they burn them out, hopefully
3:07:00
by bringing in some of these pitchers and some of these
3:07:02
younger pitchers and bringing some of these pitchers up, maybe
3:07:06
moving Warren to the bullpen. And I think that's something the
3:07:09
Yankees should think about doing because I think Warren could be
3:07:11
a good closer. I think he's got the stuff to be
3:07:14
a closer. I think the Yankees need to
3:07:16
figure out who is going to be in the bullpen and who's going to
3:07:19
be in the. Rotation, we have a closer, now
3:07:21
we have Bedmar. Yes, but I don't know what the
3:07:24
Yankees, these guys are up and they're down.
3:07:26
I don't know what these guys are going to be.
3:07:28
Betnar is he's been good since he's come to the Yankees.
3:07:31
And then we've seen these guys the first year they're good and
3:07:34
then the second year they're they get extended and they're
3:07:36
horrible. So I'm, I'm thinking what Brian
3:07:39
Cashman is trying to do is bring in guys that he thinks that
3:07:43
could be a closer or fit in as you know, part of that bullpen
3:07:48
where they can mix and maneuver as the season moves forward.
3:07:52
So I, I think it makes a lot of sense why they did this, but I,
3:07:55
I do not believe they think what Ryan Weather is going to be in
3:07:59
the rotations. I think they believe he's going
3:08:02
to be a part of their lefties in the bullpen.
3:08:04
Yeah, spot starter on occasion, I guess, and versatile bullpen.
3:08:08
I always liked him when he was with the Padres and they used
3:08:10
him in that kind of role. When guys went down, they always
3:08:12
had a lot of veteran pitchers that got hurt and, and again, he
3:08:15
could transition to the bullpen. Doesn't have to be in a big
3:08:17
role. You're not going to force him to
3:08:18
close like you guys were saying. But again, you could probably do
3:08:21
other impactful relief pitching if needed.
3:08:23
Works an opener if needed. I think there's a good a lot of
3:08:25
good with this. Move.
3:08:26
He's got stuff to be a closer, he does.
3:08:29
Well, in I think what this move does, it gives them options and
3:08:36
it's kind of what I was touching on with Cody because now you you
3:08:41
have a guy that can do multiple things.
3:08:44
And I think that's kind of the way Cash is kind of trying to
3:08:48
manipulate this offseason is bringing in a guy like this.
3:08:53
You get him a cheat because obviously he hasn't been able to
3:08:55
stay on the field, but he's shown signs of being able to be
3:09:00
very, very quality and he can do it in multiple facets of the
3:09:04
game. And so I think obviously you're
3:09:08
going to fill some gaps early, but then he's able to do that in
3:09:14
every way. And then when you get everybody
3:09:16
back, as Cash always says at the deadline or something, hey, it's
3:09:20
like getting a guy back healthy is like getting a free agent.
3:09:24
And now you're going to have a guy like Weathers that, you
3:09:27
know, can spot start, can do that, can can come get those 23
3:09:31
innings and get lefties out. So I think I love this move.
3:09:36
I love this move for the Chief and what it is.
3:09:39
And I think it just gives them a different opportunity to be able
3:09:45
to use him in different spots because he's done all of it.
3:09:48
All right, this one is not cheap.
3:09:52
I'm on the cheap here because the Red Sox today gave a five
3:09:57
year, $130 million deal. Former Phillies pitcher Ranger
3:10:03
Suarez. Yes, that Ranger Suarez, who
3:10:06
throws about 91 miles an hour but has six different pitches,
3:10:09
mixes them up and has lowered his ERA in the last few seasons
3:10:13
in the National League. 325 over the last five seasons and he
3:10:18
mixes it up. His WAR has gone up every year.
3:10:21
He had a four WAR this past year.
3:10:23
He was my sleeper that I had in fantasy.
3:10:26
He strikes out a little bit less than one an inning despite the
3:10:28
lack of velocity. Because he has such a good pitch
3:10:30
mix, he will slot in as the number 3 starter behind Crochet
3:10:35
and recently acquired Sonny Gray, probably ahead of Bray
3:10:39
Ambello and I guess Oviedo from Pittsburgh would be their 5th
3:10:43
starter right now. I like Ranger Suarez, I do, and
3:10:46
he was an All Star last year or. He was a snub, yeah.
3:10:49
He was a snub, but he should have been.
3:10:51
He should have been. Yeah, but he should have been an
3:10:52
All Star and and that's why I said that he was an All Star
3:10:55
last year. I thought he was sensational the
3:10:58
last two seasons and he was a big part of the Philadelphia
3:11:01
Phillies making the playoffs, especially making any kind of
3:11:05
run that they did at the at tail end of the season.
3:11:07
He was a part of that. I think giving him $130 million,
3:11:12
that's actually cheap for a starting pitcher and he's really
3:11:15
a number two guy. I think Sonny Gray's going to be
3:11:17
a number 3. Sonny Gray is not going to last
3:11:20
that long over there in Fenway. They're going to burn a hole in
3:11:22
him after he pitches his worst one game or two games that he
3:11:27
looks really, really bad over there.
3:11:28
They're going to kill him. I think Suarez, he's been in
3:11:31
that situation before. I think he's more of a #2 and
3:11:34
for a #2 pitcher, 5, five years, $130 million, it's a steal.
3:11:39
I love the move. Yeah.
3:11:40
I think it's somebody that's going to age well because like
3:11:42
you're saying, Fish, maybe he doesn't have the raw velocity
3:11:44
right now, but sometimes we see pitchers can rely later on on
3:11:48
just pitch sequencing and he's smart enough to do that.
3:11:50
And I think because of that, I think that will allow him to be
3:11:54
a good mentor for a lot of these younger pitchers.
3:11:56
You mentioned Bello, they've had a lot of guys, they've had a lot
3:11:58
of others like Hoc that have not been healthy, but and they've
3:12:01
still been good when they've been on the field.
3:12:03
And I think that's somebody that can weather the storm, doesn't
3:12:06
pitch a ton of innings, but is pretty durable throughout his
3:12:09
career and I think will age very well five years.
3:12:11
I think it's it's a great sign. And also I think you guys didn't
3:12:15
take into credit what he has done in the playoffs is a career
3:12:19
1.4 in the playoffs. And I think that's part of what
3:12:24
they look at when you go to what he's done.
3:12:27
And yeah, and he's 30 years old, but I think it's a great deal
3:12:33
too, because as you said, like being able to teach some of
3:12:36
these young kids. But then when you get to the
3:12:38
postseason and being able to have somebody that has the nuts
3:12:43
and knows he can do it in the postseason, which he has done, I
3:12:48
think is it, it's a, it's a great sign.
3:12:51
And I, I, they, they definitely got him on the cheek, I, I
3:12:54
believe. I'm going to throw a little
3:12:56
water on this before we move on. I I've every time I do like
3:13:00
fantasy baseball things. If I have a guy that's dropped
3:13:04
in velocity each of the past two years, eventually there's a
3:13:08
tipping point where it drops too much and he just gets shelled
3:13:11
all the time. If he falls below 90, I don't
3:13:15
think he could be as anywhere near as effective.
3:13:18
And the fact that he keeps falling off, I would not want to
3:13:20
give that kind of contract to a guy who's dropping velocity.
3:13:24
But you know, maybe obviously super talented he was.
3:13:28
Actually career 3/3 though and he's but are you paying for?
3:13:32
Before Or are you paying for what's going to happen going
3:13:34
forwards Because he wasn't 93. Well, that's what you're paying
3:13:37
two years ago. You're paying for it before.
3:13:39
That's how baseball. Is well, But you know what
3:13:41
though? That's how you screw up though.
3:13:42
That's how you screw up a baseball.
3:13:44
Sometimes, hey, listen, if the Red Sox win a World Series,
3:13:48
which Suarez one year out of the five short winners, they're
3:13:52
winners. So sure, listen, he's a good
3:13:55
player. I just would be a little.
3:13:56
That's the one devil's advocate thing.
3:13:58
Like sometimes the velocity drops too much.
3:14:01
Let's move on to a guy who's a little long in the tooth job.
3:14:04
But you know this guy very well. We wanted him to be traded to
3:14:07
the Yankees last season. Nolan Arenado was just traded
3:14:11
the other day to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
3:14:14
So the D backs acquired Nolan Arenado to trade with Saint
3:14:18
Louis Tuesday, concluding the Cardinals like 18 month journey
3:14:23
to try to move him as they're rebuilding.
3:14:25
So the Cardinals received pitching prospect Jack Martinez
3:14:29
and sent 31 million to the Diamondbacks to help cover the
3:14:33
42,000,000 remaining on Aaron's contract.
3:14:36
So the Diamondbacks only have to pay him 11,000,000 over the next
3:14:39
two seasons. He waived his no trade clause to
3:14:41
do so. He struggled last year, hitting
3:14:44
237289-ON base 377, slugging 12 homers.
3:14:49
Defense has slipped a little bit.
3:14:50
Still very good. Love it out there, love it.
3:14:52
Young team needs leadership. This guy is going to provide
3:14:56
that and that's you can't buy leadership.
3:14:59
I don't care how much they gave up or whatever they whatever you
3:15:05
think that they gave up for a guy like Nolan Arenado, you're
3:15:09
bringing in a guy that knows most leadership understands the
3:15:12
game of baseball. You got a young team that was in
3:15:14
a World Series a couple of years ago.
3:15:16
They need that that that personality in that, that
3:15:19
dugout. They need that personality
3:15:21
behind the scenes. I think Nolan Arenado gives him
3:15:24
that and he's a likable person as far as what we know.
3:15:27
I know Jabba knows him. A lot of people that we've
3:15:29
spoken to Speedy in the past, it says has said Nolan Arenado is a
3:15:33
great leader and a great person on and off the field.
3:15:36
It's a slam dunk for the Diamondbacks.
3:15:37
It's also a young team that played really well after they
3:15:40
treated a lot of their veterans last year.
3:15:41
They traded Suarez, which obviously Arenado will be the
3:15:43
direct replacement for now, and then Naylor, who signed back in
3:15:46
Seattle, and Merrill Kelly. And the Diamondbacks were right
3:15:49
with the Mets and the Reds and all those other teams fighting
3:15:51
for that last playoff spot after they sold everything.
3:15:54
So it's a you're accumulating A-Team that's like that.
3:15:57
And the Cardinals, when Arenado got traded over, they were kind
3:15:59
of like that. They were either just the first
3:16:01
team out or just the first team in a lot of those years.
3:16:03
And the Diamondbacks are kind of in that same trajectory.
3:16:05
Yeah, no, I, I think it's, I think it's huge.
3:16:07
I I love Nolan. Nolan is one of the nicest
3:16:10
people in the planet and is a phenomenal player and Yazzy
3:16:14
probably on the back end of his career, but he he still can give
3:16:17
you a lot of things that you can't quantify.
3:16:22
And I think with that young team and they've been close.
3:16:26
They have young talent, they they have bits and pieces of it.
3:16:30
And I think he's kind of gone through it and just the
3:16:33
leadership that he's going to bring in, just the way he
3:16:36
carries himself and how he goes about his business.
3:16:40
This is a great move for them. He was he wanted to get out of
3:16:46
the Cardinals just because they weren't doing anything.
3:16:50
And so I think this is this is a huge move for them.
3:16:53
All right, we got one story left.
3:16:55
And this one, I honestly only picked this one for you.
3:16:58
Jabba and Errol, I don't know if you're going to care about this,
3:17:01
but the Royals decided that they're moving in the fences at
3:17:04
Kauffman Stadium about 10 feet. So the Royals are going to keep
3:17:09
the center field at 410, but they're tapering.
3:17:12
They're tapering in the fences, starting in the power alleys
3:17:15
where it goes from 389 to 379. And it's going to continue on
3:17:18
that path about 9 to 10 feet shorter all the way to the
3:17:21
corners. But they're going to keep the
3:17:22
foul poles at 3:00. 30 You're going to lower this.
3:17:25
One second, I'll tell you why I'm going to get the quote for
3:17:27
you. The height of the fence is also
3:17:29
being shortened from 10 feet to 8 1/2.
3:17:33
We want a neutral ballpark where if you hit the ball well, it
3:17:36
should be a home run. Royals general manager JJ
3:17:39
Piccolo said. The second they start feeling
3:17:41
like they can't get the ball out of the ballpark, they start
3:17:44
changing their swing. I watched it for years and years
3:17:47
and years, and I just felt like this is the time to try to push
3:17:50
it and see if everything we felt for however many years is
3:17:53
accurate. Speedy remember to be
3:17:55
fascinating. Speedy's a He's a Met fan.
3:17:58
Remember what happened in Citi Field?
3:18:01
Remember that with the Wilpons and what they were saying and
3:18:05
why they move, move the fences in.
3:18:09
This sounds just like that. Absolutely just like Citi Field.
3:18:14
When the when Citi Field was built and a lot of people, a lot
3:18:18
of players and the Wilpons were complaining about how how deep
3:18:23
the field was and if that's why there's no home runs and that's
3:18:26
why we have to bring the field. We got to bring the fences in.
3:18:29
This sounds just like that. Orioles did the same thing.
3:18:32
The Orioles did the same thing which definitely didn't help
3:18:36
their offense last year and Kansas City I guess is in dire
3:18:39
need of offense is how bad their team OPS was bottom 5 in
3:18:43
baseball last year combined with that with all their pitching.
3:18:45
And well, why are you doing it now when you're you just signed
3:18:48
a deal to move the stadium? It's a good question.
3:18:51
I guess they're maybe. They're trying to test out that
3:18:53
way of thinking. I don't know.
3:18:55
It doesn't make sense. None of it does.
3:18:57
As a pitcher, though, Jabba, like, doesn't this piss you off
3:19:00
a little bit? Like I would be upset.
3:19:03
I I loved pitching there like you, you have, you have fields
3:19:07
in that are pitchers, ballparks and it just, they've done
3:19:14
everything to hurt the pitcher in the game of baseball.
3:19:18
They shortened field, they lowered the mound.
3:19:21
What have they done for hitters? They've made everything better.
3:19:27
And so for us on that side of the fence, literally and
3:19:30
figuratively, it sucks because now we don't have the Bob Gibson
3:19:36
15 inch mound that we can get downhill and create velocity.
3:19:42
Now it's shorter. Now you're bringing fences in,
3:19:44
you're lowering walls. Well, I get you want the game to
3:19:48
be sexier. Understand it, but it sucks for
3:19:52
us as pitchers because you're like well damn, you're just
3:19:54
making it easier for them because if they miss hit
3:19:56
something they can kind of get it out.
3:19:59
I think the Royal pitching should be worried about their
3:20:01
training staff at this point. You had three key.
3:20:03
Guys, I mean, that's a whole nother topic, yeah.
3:20:08
Maybe we'll cover that topic next time.
3:20:11
Inside Baseball. I will say this when this story,
3:20:15
when you mention this story reminds me of the Mets and the
3:20:17
Wilpons and, and just the complaining at the end of the
3:20:22
first season, Citi Field was was was built and, and all the
3:20:26
players there was how many home runs hit in Citi Field.
3:20:29
I don't think the Mets had a guy that hit over 30 home runs that
3:20:32
year. No.
3:20:32
And there was so many complaints, so many complaints
3:20:35
that they got to bring in the fences.
3:20:37
The fans were complaining and then the Wilpons complaining to
3:20:41
the league that they got to bring in the fences and how the
3:20:44
league was going back and forth with the Wilpons about bringing
3:20:47
in the fences. So that's what it reminds me of.
3:20:50
Anyways. Ladies and gentlemen, a final
3:20:53
segment of the night. What's that smell?
3:20:55
Hold up, what is that smell? What's right smell?
3:21:03
Wow, you don't see that everyday.
3:21:06
This makes my pecker hard. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
3:21:09
the final segment of the night, it's been a long 1 and I get a
3:21:13
chance to drive to Montreal for almost 7 hours.
3:21:15
So yay, ladies and gentlemen. All right, so this is how we're
3:21:20
going to do it. We're going to go.
3:21:22
We're going to go fish. We're going to go.
3:21:26
Let's bring Nathan. You want you want Nathan to do
3:21:28
this. Let's get Nathan.
3:21:30
There's no way Nathan has. What's that smell?
3:21:33
Do you have a What's that smell? I have anything.
3:21:35
All right, just just describe what, what, what that smells
3:21:38
like right now. What smells like shit?
3:21:42
I'm putting. You on a leash now?
3:21:43
Breaking news A lot of hot ladies.
3:21:45
Breaking news. Do you want the jerking off?
3:21:48
All right, So what we're. Gonna do is I'll get I'll get
3:21:50
something for you guys for the next What's you smell?
3:21:53
I gotta go. You do that.
3:21:54
No, that's what he's gonna do. He's gonna go whack off now.
3:21:58
Hey, Speedy's mom. All right, All right, ladies and
3:22:03
gentlemen, this is how we're going to do it.
3:22:04
We're going to go poops. We're going to go fish.
3:22:07
Speedy me here. We.
3:22:09
Go busy all day today. Lick it and stick it I.
3:22:13
Like that one? That's a good one.
3:22:14
Lick it and stick it. All right, so I'm going to be
3:22:15
talking. About Glory pole.
3:22:17
Something we somewhat covered the other day on the show on
3:22:20
Monday, but we talked about Trey Young going over to Washington.
3:22:25
He had his introduction already and everybody remembers that on
3:22:28
his introduction. He talked about how we praised
3:22:30
them, how he thinks that teams overlooked.
3:22:33
He thinks that he has a great he's feeling real good about his
3:22:37
new fresh start he has over there.
3:22:39
And now is today that it was announced that he's going to be
3:22:41
out all of the All Star break. He's going to be pretty much
3:22:44
coming back towards the end of February.
3:22:46
So hey, Trey Young's Trey Young start over in Washington's
3:22:49
already stopped pretty good. Me and Fish were talking about
3:22:52
it before the show actually started.
3:22:54
As a Knicks fan, we're not too. We're not.
3:22:56
We don't have too many, too much skin off our back here.
3:22:59
If anything, hey, let the guy come back.
3:23:01
Let him be an amazing player. Yep, Fish.
3:23:03
Isn't losing tears because. Let him come back, do his thing,
3:23:06
do whatever he has to do. He's just going to be the reason
3:23:09
as the Knicks get a great. I love Reese and.
3:23:12
Great first round pick next year.
3:23:14
So what is that smell like the whole ordeal with?
3:23:17
Trey Lulu. And his whole being out and
3:23:20
whatnot a well. Suck my indo.
3:23:22
You got to be honest, it smells, according to the ChatGPT, the
3:23:25
smelliest thing in watch. Roba.
3:23:27
The Potomac Roba, especially in the summer, which is very it
3:23:32
smells like hot, humid of the river, smell like rotting algae,
3:23:36
sewage and swamp. Water high ran view.
3:23:39
Especially near the low tide areas.
3:23:41
Thumb up my ass. And the riverbanks.
3:23:43
And it might smell like Nathan's thumb up his ass.
3:23:46
So. The move, this one smell.
3:23:48
Like so? There we go.
3:23:51
That's an interesting one, right?
3:23:52
There, I knew the rope up. I couldn't believe this story
3:23:55
when I read it earlier today. So everyone knows a few.
3:23:59
What was it in this about a month ago?
3:24:01
Actually, NASCAR, long time NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and
3:24:07
his family died in a car in a plane crash, right?
3:24:11
And this is, you know, just one of the worst things that we can
3:24:15
hear about. Well, let's add something not
3:24:18
worse, but some insult to injury.
3:24:20
Apparently the Biffle residence, which has been secured for the
3:24:24
past couple of weeks since they died, was burglarized and
3:24:27
robbed. Guns and 30,000 in cash were
3:24:30
stolen as well as a backpack from the place.
3:24:34
They just cracked the safe and took it out because they're dead
3:24:37
and not going to be using the estate.
3:24:40
No arrests have been made and no one else was at home at the time
3:24:43
of the crimes. We're working the case.
3:24:46
We're are waiting on some digital evidence, the police
3:24:48
said. Well, I, I mean, there's low and
3:24:52
then there's lower than low. And what's lower than low?
3:24:55
That's hell. And I looked up what hell would
3:24:57
smell like on AI and it says hell.
3:24:59
And this smells like hell. And this smells like burning
3:25:02
flesh, sulfur, death, decay, and putrid toxic fumes stemming from
3:25:09
biblical references to fire and brimstone as well as mystical
3:25:14
accounts of demonic encounters. Very specific.
3:25:20
Very specific. That's AI for you all.
3:25:24
Right, So I'll transition to, I don't know if you Java, I don't
3:25:26
know if you saw these all these memes about the colleges that
3:25:30
don't have state income tax. It started with UCF and I guess
3:25:34
they're using it as a recruiting tactic.
3:25:36
And a lot of the other schools that are in Texas, Mississippi,
3:25:38
I know Houston did it, North Texas did it.
3:25:40
They all have these memes and all these like exemplifying
3:25:43
things with the mascots, like they were branding one of the
3:25:45
players or something like that just because they, this is their
3:25:47
state. Politicians have no income tax.
3:25:49
By the way, Stanford had a funny counter to it too, because
3:25:52
obviously they're in California. They have a state income tax.
3:25:54
Like maybe you should be more educated and alert about tax or
3:25:56
something like that. That was one of their pitches,
3:25:58
but the meme may be a little overblown at this point.
3:26:01
Kind of exemplary. Be a little more creative for
3:26:04
all these other schools. It was fun while it lasted.
3:26:06
So what does it smell like? Well, there's two things we know
3:26:08
about in Orlando, one of which is Nick Goody, the other one of
3:26:11
which is Disney. So it.
3:26:13
Smells like a duel between Nick Goody's Aliens versus Stinky.
3:26:18
A bunch of Stinky Pete. 'S I love Lisanne the.
3:26:22
Toy Story, huh? Jabba, you have a What's that
3:26:26
smell? 100% And that was a nice segue,
3:26:30
even though you didn't know. I'm going to go on the theory.
3:26:34
Get off my desk of the EMS causing all of the San Francisco
3:26:42
49ers injuries. Oh, I saw this.
3:26:46
Yeah. And how they think because their
3:26:49
practice facility, the electrical substantion near it
3:26:54
is causing them to be hurt more than any other team in
3:26:58
professional. Like specific tissue injuries.
3:27:00
Too, Yes. And it's to Achilles and knees.
3:27:04
And so it's a theory it they kind of debunked it.
3:27:08
They haven't. But it smells like there's some
3:27:12
legitimacy to this because we've seen it and we've seen their
3:27:18
players succumb to it, so Goody may be on to something, you
3:27:24
know? You mean ChatGPT?
3:27:28
Well. That that too.
3:27:30
Yeah. Goody goody, goody Jack.
3:27:33
Chat goody. PT AI GPT.
3:27:36
Chat Goody PT. Yeah.
3:27:40
Right my final what's that Speaking of San Francisco big
3:27:43
story one day after his 21 day practice window was open San
3:27:49
Francisco 49ers linebacker Fred Warner made it clear Wednesday
3:27:55
that he hasn't ruled out his return at after fraction is
3:28:00
dislocated right ankle. He could play actually Saturday.
3:28:04
He has made the announcement today that he believes that
3:28:08
there's a possibility he might make an appearance in Saturday's
3:28:12
game against the Seattle Seahawks.
3:28:14
If that happens, this might be a completely different game.
3:28:17
It might not be 100% Fred Warner, but even if you get a
3:28:21
70% Fred Warner, you're getting an important piece to your
3:28:24
defense and a beast of a man in the middle.
3:28:27
So what does that smell like? It smells like Seattle Seahawks
3:28:32
dump. If he's going to be sniffing it,
3:28:35
I won't be sniffing anybody's dump.
3:28:37
But maybe the Seattle Seahawks will be sniffing, you know, Mr.
3:28:40
Fred Warner's dump after he walks out on the field on
3:28:44
Saturday and surprise and shocks everybody.
3:28:47
Because. Speaking of walking, you know
3:28:49
Cooper Flag just walked to the locker room.
3:28:51
Yeah, so did. So did Jalen Brunson.
3:28:54
So it doesn't look good. We'll see what happens.
3:28:57
I don't know. They're saying they're saying
3:28:59
it's a leg injury, but we'll see.
3:29:01
It's probably. Definitely looked like Twisted
3:29:03
something. In the lower leg, probably an
3:29:05
ankle. It's an outrest of the game's
3:29:08
ankle. Yeah, left ankle strain for the
3:29:10
flag, Yeah. It seems like it's always his
3:29:12
ankle, so he's always had bad ankles.
3:29:15
Even when he came from Dallas. That was a big problem over
3:29:17
there. So hopefully and it the Knicks
3:29:20
don't rush him back if it's a high ankle sprain, keep him out,
3:29:23
let him rest. They're fine at the point guard
3:29:26
position right now with the players that they have on their
3:29:29
roster. So that's just my opinion.
3:29:31
All right, thank you to Laura for joining us.
3:29:35
She was fantastic as always, all the guests that we have, Laura
3:29:39
Albanese, who is the Newsday Mets beat writer.
3:29:42
She's fantastic. Thank you for joining us.
3:29:44
Go check out all her stories that she posts about the Mets.
3:29:48
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3:29:52
handicappers, Wes and Reno Johnny for joining us as they
3:29:55
always do for let's parlay giving us their picks.
3:29:58
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3:30:01
They're actually horrible for the last two weeks.
3:30:04
So hopefully this week it's a slam dunk for them and they get
3:30:07
back on the winning ways for them because I know they, I know
3:30:10
Wes, he'll probably jump off a bridge if he doesn't.
3:30:12
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3:30:14
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3:30:15
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3:31:00
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3:31:04
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3:31:06
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3:31:08
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3:31:12
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3:31:23
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3:31:28
tired I am. And I got to drive in this.
3:31:31
It's it's definitely going to be crazy, but I have to.
3:31:34
Yeah, good luck is right. I'll be on the phone with a lot
3:31:36
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3:31:40
that's for damn sure. While she Miss Prissy will be
3:31:43
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3:31:48
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3:31:51
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3:31:55
It's stupid. It's absolutely stupid, but
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