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Episode 7 - NFL & NBA takes · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, welcome, Welcome, everybody, and to another episode of the so
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called sport tenne List. I'm your host, saw Fonso Portio. I'm excited
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to be back with you guys, and let's go ahead and get straight into
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it. First, we're gonna talk about, obviously, the Philadelphia Eagles and
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the Kansas City Chiefs. This is one of the one of the best Super
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Bowl games I've ever seen, and it was a tell of two different halfs.
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The Eagles, they played great the first half, struggled in the second
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half. And the biggest thing that I could really see pop out was the
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coaching experience between Andy Reid and Spagnola versus Serreanni, then the two coordinators for
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the Eagles, who now they'd have head coaching jobs. But in the first
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half, when the Eagles, they were on script with everything, they were
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playing a perfect brand of football, and they only got that got to fourteen
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points to Kansas City Chiefs was because that scoop and score by General Hurts,
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which is the only mistake he made ended up being costly, but that was
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the only mistake they in the first half. And then in the second half.
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You have an experienced coach like Andy Reid and Steve Spagnola, who's seen
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everything. They're able to take advantage of it, and it seems like the
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Eagles they weren't able to adjust. And the biggest thing that stood out is
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whenever those a motion. I believe the first one was Kadarius Tony. It
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was a jet sweet motion. Then he just went straight out to the flat
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scored a wide open touchdown. There was nobody within ten yards of him.
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And same with the second one that put him up I think thirty five to
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twenty seven. It was the same exact play, just on the other side
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and there was nobody within ten yards. And for you to be in a
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Super Bowl and giving up something like that, that's unacceptable right there. And
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I think even me, I'll take myself into this account. But I overrated
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the Philadelphia Eagles defense. I guess seeing the Philadelphia Eagles play in the playoffs
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against an average quarterback and Daniel Jones and then Brock Purdy who sprained his sprained
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his UCL. I believe that's what it was. He'll need Tommy John surgery.
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But every time they played a good quarterback, they averaged thirty three points
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a game that was Jared Golfweek one. I believe he scored thirty five.
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Trevor Lawrence, they scored twenty one. Aaron Rodgers he was in half of
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the game. Jordan Love played the rest of the game. They scored thirty
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three. Dag dropped forty on them, So maybe Debo he was right about
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saying that d line makes the back him look good. And like I said,
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the Chief's offensive line could match up with any offensive line except the right
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tackle. And you saw the tight end Chip on the right side, and
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you had the run back Chip and Mahomes. I don't know how we did
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it. After he sprained his ankle, I thought the game was gonna be
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over because obviously, if you don't have Mahomes, you're not gonna win that
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game. And in the second half he just pulled all the stops and whenever
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he needed to win. I believe they had four drives in the second half,
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and the first three it was touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, and the
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game winning field goal. So just adjustments and Patrick Mahomes being Patrick Mahomes,
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he made the plays that he needed to make. And with Jylen Hurts,
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I believe he had over three hundred. I believe it was three hundred and
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eighty total yards and four total touchdowns. He played a great game and he
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showed that in my opinion, he is a top five quarterback. Where you
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rank him, that's wherever you wanted to be personally, I have him at
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five. I'll have Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen. They do.
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I'll have Lamar Jackson. They don't have Jalen Hurts. But he has proved
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that he is a top five quarterback. But now he's gonna be getting paid
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a lot of money. And remember he was the second round pick, so
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he doesn't get that extra fifth year option, so I believe this will be
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his last year underneath his rookie contract. Then after that he's gonna be getting
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paid on the sat of cap fifty to sixteen million. So this is the
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best team that he's gonna have around him. And yes, I know we
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had a great season, played as a second best quarterback all year, but
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he's not gonna have a talented team around him like this and Chauncey Gardner Johnson
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because zero, why t J Edwards, Miles Sanders. You have different people
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like that that are gonna need to get paid. DeVonta Smith. Actually,
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he's gonna need to get paid next year, so you're gonna have people that
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are gonna get paid, and Jalalen Hurts is gonna have to be making those
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plays, and I believe he can make those plays. But compared to the
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other teams in the NFC, because you still have the San Francisco forty nine
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ers, We'll see what the Packers do. And there's always going to be
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a surprise team next year, maybe the Cowboys. I shouldn't have even said
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the Cowboys. You already know what the Cowboys are gonna do. But yeah,
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this was the best team that Jaalen Hurts had and he played great,
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but he just could not take him to the Promised Land. And another thing
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that I did notice is that if you looked at the stat sheet the Philadelphia
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Eagles, it looked like they dominated this entire game. You go through even
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third down efficiency, the Chiefs were four for eight fifty percent, which is
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good. Then you have the Philadelphia Eagles who are eleven for eighteen and then
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total yards four hundred and seventeen to three forty. So it looked like the
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Philadelphia Eagles they dominated throughout this entire game. On the stat sheet. But
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the only advantage that went to the Chiefs, which was very surprising to me,
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was the Chiefs had one hundred and fifty eight rushing yards and the Eagles
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had one hundred and fifteen. So they were actually able to stop the run
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game very effectively. Because Jenna Hurts, yes, I know, he had
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seventy yards rushing, but as far as the running backs, so they dominated
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that offensive line. And like I said, the Chiefs defensive line is not
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known other than Chris Jones, but they have the big bodies to match up
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with the Eagles, and they have just enough to get in the way and
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let those athletic linebackers and Nick Bolton and Willie Gay be able to run up
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in those gaps and hit the running backs. So and even the red zone
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percentage of Kensas City Chiefs four for five, they're very efficient. And then
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you had the Philadelphia Eagles there were three for five. So that's a big
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telltale stat right there. Obviously one team scored more than the other. And
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obviously the other big play that was known was the Kadarius Tony play. I
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believe there was the longest punt return in Super Bowl history and it's still funny
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to see that Giants players they're still help helping let the Eagles lose with James
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Bradberry and Kadarius Tony. But yeah, that was big right there. That
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changed the entire game because even though the Chiefs there were up twenty eight to
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twenty seven with that poem return, you still did believe that Philadelphia had the
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edge because they could choose the clock and they were dominating the time of possession.
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I believe they had thirty six minutes compared to the Chiefs twenty four minutes.
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So the Philadelphia Eagles they were dominating. And I know the Eagles they
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only scored eleven points in the second half, but they were still moving the
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ball and getting at least a good twenty to thirty yards And I would have
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thought that the Eagles they could have gotten a stop and possibly got a game
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winning field goal out of it because Jalen Hurts he was making all the plays
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that he needed to make. But once again, the Kadarius Tony play that
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changed everything. But that's once again, while you trade for people in the
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middle of the season to make plays for you. And the craziest thing about
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is that the Kansas City Chiefs they were in a rebuilding year. They traded
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away Tyreek Hill, and they had a bunch of rookies. I believe they
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had the fourth most steps played by rookies in the NFL. The only people
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that are in front of them was the Bears, Texans, and Titans.
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Obviously the Texans or the Titans they had a bunch of injuries, so they
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didn't want to play the rookies, but they had to. And the Texans
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and Bears they have the first and second overall pick for a reason. So
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and Mahomes. Mahomes just dominated in the second half and especially the twenty six
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yards scramble with that sprained ankle. I don't know how he did it.
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He happened to pull it into another gear. And but that's what the great
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ones do. They find a way to make the plays in the biggest moments.
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And I think that's that's the biggest play of Patrick mahomes career so far,
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because you go back to the other Super Bowl. I believe it was
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three years ago against the Niners. No, two years ago against the Niners
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where he had that third and fifteen play. They were down ten. That
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punt, it was basically a punt to Tyreek Hill. That was a big
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play right there. But this is a big play right here because unlike in
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the San Francisco game, Mahomes, he was up and down throughout the entire
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game. Mahomes, in this game he looked like the same Oh Mahomes,
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efficient, effective check down the ball, took the right play and made let
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us skill receivers or skill position players make the right play plays. And Patrick
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Mahomes now, in my opinion, he is a top five quarterback of all
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time, no question. Obviously you're gonna have Tom Brady and Joe Montana in
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front of him. But the only person I can say that you could argue
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for him not being in the top three is Peyton Manning. And Peyton Manning
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he had five MVPs, he had two Super Bowls. But look what Patrick
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Mahomes he's done already so far within five years He's had five A conference championship
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championship games in Arrowhead. Then he has two MVPs, two Super Bowls,
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two Super Bowl MVPs. And I was looking at some stats compared to Tom
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Brady his first five years played, and Tom Brady he was fifty eight and
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twenty Patrick Mahomes sixty three for sixteen, and then compared to as far as
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passing yards, Patrick Mahomes had twenty three thousand, nine hundred and fifty seven
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compared to Brady who had seventeen thousand, nine hundred and eighty three. Then
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touchdowns interceptions one hundred and ninety two to forty eight for Patrick Mahomes and one
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hundred and twenty three to sixty six for Tom Brady. So as of right
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now, you can make a case that Patrick Mahomes is the best peak quarterback
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ever because he can do everything that you need a quarterback to do. He's
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smart, he knows how to dissect the defense, he's mobile enough to make
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plays, he has a big arm, he's very accurate. There's no flaws
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in his game. And what I noticed is that when Joe Burrow and Patrick
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Mahomes they were playing in the AFC Championship game, everybody they were saying Tom
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Brady versus whoever, Peyton Manning or whatever. That's a resemblance. You can
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see resemblance in Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, and other quarterbacks
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as you go through history. But Patrick Mahomes, he's a one of one
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and that's what the great players are. They're one of one, and you
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can't make a case that anybody looks exactly like him or has the same play
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style. We probably won't see another quarterback with this kind of play style and
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still be so effective. The only person you can say that's done this in
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the past was Brett Farve, But Brett Farve, he threw many interceptions and
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he did not win the big game as much so with Patrick Mahomes, he's
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very efficient, does not turn the ball over and he's already won two Super
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Bowls in his first five years. As far as them being a dynasty,
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I don't know if I would say that, but they are on the bound
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of a dynasty. If they do win next year, I would consider them
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a dynasty. For three championships in six years, that's very hard to do.
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Let alone, we've seen I believe the last back to back team to
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win a Super Bowl it was a Patriots O two and oh three. So
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if they do that, right there, that's a dynasty. And Patrick Mahomes,
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I believe he's making forty five million a year and whenever Lamar Jackson,
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Justin, Herbert, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts gets paid, he's gonna be
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out of the top ten as far as highest quarterbacks paid. And that's that
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number is only gonna go up with the salary cap going up. So you
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have the best quarterback in the league and you have one of the best contracts
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in the league two as far as with the quarterbacks. So it's gonna look
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very scary for what the Chiefs are gonna do in the future. As far
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as I'm repeating, I'm not gonna go as far as to say that,
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but it's gonna be exciting to see. But we're gonna talk a little bit
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more football. I believe it was a Friday or Saturday. Derek Carr he
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got released by the Oakland Raiders by not accepting any trades from anywhere because he
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had a no trade clause. And there's been potential landing spots as far as
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where he can go, and the biggest one so far is the Saints and
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the Jets. But another team I want to bring up, and there has
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been reports about, is the Tennessee Titans. So Ryan Tannehill. He is
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a free agent this year, so they could either resign him or they could
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possibly go another way draft a quarterback. But I don't see the Tennessee Titans
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with that roster, who is who do have an older roster end up going
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for a younger quarterback and letting him develop. So the Tennessee Titans they hired
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an offensive coordinator whose name is Tim Kelly. Tim Kelly he was a quarterback
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coach and offensive coordinator for the Houston Texans back when Deshaun Watson was a quarterback.
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And we see how Deshaun Watson is now. Yes, I know he
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had about a year and a half off of football, but still he had
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him playing as a top ten quarterback and he had the second highest passer rating
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and passing offense in the NFL. So what this means to me is that
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the Tennessee Titans they're going in a different route as far as from running the
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ball, ground and pound to making it more pass pass heavy. So it's
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gonna be surprising. Yes, I know you have Derrick Henry. You're still
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gonna use Derrick Henry, but you also want to save Derrick Henry for some
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of the later games or potentially playoff games that you're going to have. And
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there's been a bunch of rumors coming out that the Tennessee Tennessee Titans. They
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want to trade for DeAndre Hopkins or draft a young wide receiver and Jordan Addison,
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Jackson Smith and Jibbah or Jalen Hyatt. So they want to go from
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a team that's just strictly run heavy to a team that can pass the ball,
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because that's what you need to do nowadays. Just look at the teams
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that were in the Super Bowl. You had Jalen Hurts had over three hundred
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yards and Patrick Mahomes, who was the best quarterback in the league. So
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you have to have a good quarterback and have to pass the ball down the
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field effectively to do this, and I believe Derek Carr he can do just
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enough to I wouldn't say super Bowl bound, but I could say make some
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noise in the playoffs. So Ryan Tannehill, he is a good quarterback.
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I would say top fifteen at best, but he's gonna just follow the script,
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check down the plays, every once in a while, run with his
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legs. But with Derek Carr, he can make some plays and every once
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in a while he looks like a top ten quarterback or even better. Yes,
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I know this year. Josh McDaniels everything that went on, he did
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not look that good. But let's not forget Darren Waller. He was hurt.
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Hundred renfro he was hurt. He still have DeVante Adams, but when
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you have those two skilled position players out, you're gonna be able to double
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DeVante Adams and then stack the box for Josh Jacobs. So, yes,
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he did have the talent on his team, but everybody they got hurt around
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him, including the offensive line. And not even to mention how terrible that
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defense is. And with the Tennessee Titans, yeah, Mike, Mike Verbel
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and that defense, that's always a top ten defense, sometimes top top five.
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You have Jeffrey Simmons, you have Kevin Byard, so you have good
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pieces around them in order to make a run. And they are a talented
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team. So if this is true that you do trade for a wide receiver,
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possibly DeAndre Hopkins, and then you go signed Derek Carr, they could
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be a team that can compete in that division because the Jacksonville Jaguars, yes,
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I know they made the playoffs, but we always know how the AFC
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South is. It's always up, up and down. You have the Colts
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almost win it one year, the Texans win it four years ago, and
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then the Jags they won it this year for the first time since twenty sixteen
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seventeen. So it's always up down. You never know who's gonna win this
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division. And Derek Carr, I'm not saying he is as good as Trevor
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Lawrence, but he can compete with Trevor Lawrence and it won't be that much
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of a drop off because Trevor Lawrence, he is a top ten quarterback,
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but he's not that good where there's a disparity between them, like Patrick Mahomes
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and Derek Carr. You know the big difference right there. Trevor Lawrence.
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Possibly he makes that step next year, but as of right now, he
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is not that guy. So I would be excited to see the Tennessee Tie
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Ends making a move for Derek Carr. But one of the other teams,
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like I mentioned, was in New Orleans Saints and there's connection there. So
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Dennis Allen, he was a head coach. I don't know if y'all remember.
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I believe it was in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen. He was an intern
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for about six games, so he was able to coach Derek Carr along that
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time. I know it wasn't a long time, but there's some familiar familiarity
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there. So the defense, they're still solid. You still have Cam Jordan,
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you still have Marshaw on that, Amore Damario Davis, so you still
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have good pieces on the defense. And then the offense you still have Alvin
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Kamara, Juwan Johnson, Chris Olave. Then the offensive line, it's not
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bad, but it can get better. And during the time where Derek Carr
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he was going to get traded from the Oakland Raiders, he only met with
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the New Orleans Saints. Obviously he ended up declining the no trade costs,
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but that was so he could he could get released and so he could make
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his own contract terms. He doesn't have to promise promised to be anywhere long
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term. I think that's what Derek Carr's doing because that was a contract that
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that was a good contract. He was making around thirty five to forty million
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a year. So they have good pieces right there, and he would instantly
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go right away to the NFC South and be the best quarterback. Because obviously
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Tom Brady retired the Panthers, we don't know what they're gonna do, possibly
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draft a quarterback and the Falcons. There has been talks about the Falcons with
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Lamar Jackson, but obviously that is a superstar quarterback. You're probably not going
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to be traded a way to superstar quarterback. The last quarterback that moved to
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a different team that was big was obviously Brady, but he was a free
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agent. He wanted to go somewhere else. But the last one it was
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Kirk Cousins, and he wasn't that good of a quarterback. Definitely not on
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Lamar Jackson's devil, who's an MVP. So I can see it working out
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and they would instantly become the favorites in that division. But there's a ceiling
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for that. Even though Derek Carr he would go to the NFC where they
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have weaker quarterbacks, You'll still have Jenn Hurts, Dak Prescott, You'll still
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have Aaron Rodgers. We don't know what Aaron Rodgers are going to do exactly,
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but he'll still be in that division, and then possibly whoever the Niners
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have at quarterback. So you have teams that are way more talented than the
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Saints. Right there, there's a ceiling, and I believe Derek Carr wants
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to go somewhere where he wants to win. But I do understand the Saints
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perspective because you're in cap Hill. You have all there, all your draft
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picks, they're gone traded for Chris Olavy Marcus Davenport about a year or two
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ago, so they have no choice but to go all in. So getting
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Derek Carr would be the right move and they would win the division. But
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like I said, there's a ceiling to it, and I think the best
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chance he does have is with this other team. It's the New York Jets.
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Obviously they're the most popular choice right now. They're getting the most attention.
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They have the young players and pieces, especially on offense. You have
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Garrett Wilson, who won Offensive Rookie of the Year, Elijah Moore, you
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have Bruce Hall, you have James Robinson. You have good offensive line pieces
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in McKay, Beckton, OLIVERA Tucker, So you have pieces around there.
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Or he can win on offense and especially the defense that was a top three
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defense last year and a good coaching Robert sala So, and I believe they
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got No, they don't have Michael Floor no more. Actually, they're still
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looking for an offensive coordinator, So we'll see how that's gonna go. And
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the Jets last year, why I believe this is the best spot is because
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with Zach Wilson and Mike White through the first eleven and twelve games, there
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were seven and four and they went on a losing street because how terrible Zach
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Wilson played, and a tougher schedule. I believe they had Buffalo twice,
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they had Miami, so they had a tough schedule down the road. So
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I believe that's all the Jets need right there. They just need a quarterback
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that can just be good enough to make plays every once in a while.
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And even at that, you have all that skill position or all that talent,
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and you can have your skill position players just make the plays for you.
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So just simple checkdowns. And the reason why the Jets they went down
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that losing skid last year was because every once in a while, the checkdowns
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that will be covered the skill position players, they won't make the plays.
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So you need a quarterback to make a play every once in a while.
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And obviously Zach Wilson and Mike White they cannot make those plays. And their
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car like I said earlier, he can play sometimes at a top ten quarterback
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level, sometimes top eight. And I can see this team. I know
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it's gonna be a tough division because you'll have Buffalo with Josh Allen, Sean
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McDermot and that whole crew, and you have the Miami Dolphins Mike McDaniel and
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two who played at an MVP level for a second. But Derek Carr,
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I would say he is better than two right now. And Josh Allen and
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the Buffalo Bills, they're about to be in cap hill right now because how
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I talked about two three weeks ago. Now they're going to be paying Josh
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Allen for this big contract, so he's not going to have as many pieces
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around him. And with the Jets, this is prime position because you still
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have draft picks, you still have all the young pieces around around him who
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are not getting paid. Quinny Williams is the only guy that needs to be
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paid, but it's gonna be a shocker if you don't see him come back.
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So I think that the Jets they can make an easy playoff push.
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But to put them over the top, I would say they need to have
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another good draft class because this year, obviously you had your two main Studs
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and Sauce Gardner. Then you had Brusaw next year or this coming year in
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April. If you have two to three guys pan out, you can possibly
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see this team going for a Super Bowl because you have your young quarterback,
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cornerback, young linebackers, defensive lines nasty, a good coach, a defensive
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mining coach, and you have a quarterback that could just make enough plays,
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mobile and have skilled positions around him. That reminds me. I'm not gonna
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say that the New York Jets to the Legion of Boom, but they have
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the same play style, same physicality, and same team as them where they
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have their defense that mainly controls the game, have a good running game,
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good skill position players. Then you have a quarterback who's not deemed all time
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great or a top five sometime top ten quarterback. Because Russell Wilson, before
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he won the Super Bowl started getting Pro Bowls, he wasn't considered a top
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ten quarterback. And same thing goes with Derek Carr here. So I think
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that if you have a draft class that's good enough to get two or three
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guys that are instantly starters, then possibly make some moves and free agency you
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can't be working with something there. But we're gonna talk about another guy who's
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been released. It's in the NBA, obviously, and it's not looking good
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for him. It's Russell Westbrook. I believe it was last Thursday, Russell
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Westbrook, he got traded from the Los Angeles Angelus Lakers to the Utah Jazz.
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The Utah Jazz they're about to buy him out. I believe they have
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till March first to buy him out, and they're gonna buy him out soon.
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The only team's interested right now is the Clippers and the Chicago Bulls,
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but I don't believe those are good fits right there, especially if those teams
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are trying to win. But Russell Westbrook, if you just look at the
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stats, it looks like he's had a good season. Sixteen points, forty
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one percent from the field, six rebounds, about eight assists from the or
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eight assists, But he has a big spacing problem and as far as him
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being ball dominant, it kills the whole team. Just look at the Los
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Angeles Lakers now. They already looked like a better team and a team that
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has more camaraderie than what they did just two or three games before Russell Westbrook
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left. And I know that nobody wants to talk about Russell Westbrook because he
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always gets scrutinized. But I'm not talking about Russell Westbrook as a person.
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We know that he's a great human and all the things he's done for charity,
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but as far as him being a basketball player, he cannot be on
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a team that is contending for a championship. So even though Russell Westbrook he
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was technically a six man for the Los Angeles Lakers, he was playing over
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thirty minutes a game and sometimes playing in the fourth quarter for the Lakers,
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so in name, he was a six man, but when you actually looked
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at the game, he was in the game the entire time because he wants
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his minutes, and he was an MVP, and four or five years ago,
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he was the most electric and exciting player that you've seen on the court
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and with all the passion, drive and energy. But he's just not that
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same guy anymore that can still get away with what he used to get away
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with. So I believe that Russell Westbrook he's on a down soap right now.
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Who's gonna really want him? And even if he does go to a
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championship contending team. He's gonna be on a team where they're gonna get ten
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to where he's gonna get ten to fifteen minutes a game, and it's not
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gonna be much. And with him being so wreck list and having a bad
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spacing problem and even being a bad defender, he has no strengths other than
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driving to the wreck. I could possibly see the Clippers working because Paul George
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did play with Russell Westbrook and Kawhi Leonard. He doesn't need the ball,
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he doesn't need to be ball dominant like Lebron was, but it's still gonna
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be a liability on defense. And his turnovers are so bad every once in
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a while. And it's crazy to think of, but for a point guard,
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he has one of the worst hands in the league. Because I've watched
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I think fifteen to twenty Laker games this year, and I can guarantee you
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in almost every single game I've watched Russell Westbrook, he's dropped a pass or
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threw the ball out of bounce, just little mistakes right there that point guard
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should not be making, and especially for a championship contending team. So I
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don't know where he's gonna be able to go and be effective. And even
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these teams that are rebuilding, like the Magic and Pistons, you don't want
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to pick up Russell Westbrook and end up killing your whole locker room because he
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wants to be ball dominant and getting thirty to thirty five minutes a game.
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So Russell Westbrook, he's gonna have to decide what he wants to do.
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Is he gonna want to get the stats, be ball dominant or is he
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gonna want to contend for a championship, because that's the only thing missing off
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is Hall of Fame resume. He has a a VPS, he has an
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All Star All Star MVP. He just needs to ring and he got close
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in twenty twelve. But that's all he's missing. So we'll see about that.
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It should be coming up soon because Russell Westbrook has Russell Westbrook and the
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Utah Jazz. They have about four teen days until he gets bought out.
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Maybe he does stay with the Jazz, but they are a rebuilding team,
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so maybe he does get his wish and stay on that team, still get
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paid that contract and average thirty minutes a game. But speaking of the West,
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we're gonna talk about the Western Conference standings. As of right now,
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the Nuggets are still the one seed. They're forty one and eighteen. They're
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in a three game winning shriek. Nicola Yoki, he still looked dominant.
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He's actually an MVP front runner, which is crazy than me. But I
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still don't believe that this team can do it, especially with all the trades
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that just happened. During the trade downline. You had Kevin Durant, then
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you have the Lakers making moves, then you have the MAVs making moves,
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so I don't know what's gonna happen. And then you have the Memphis group,
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Memphis Grizzlies, who's not worried about anybody in the West, who are
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thirty five and twenty two. They still look good right now. They are
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very JOT dependent and a good defensive team. But I do believe they should
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have made a move during the trade deadline to get another offensive scorer, because
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having Desmond Bain as your second option and having him score twenty points a game
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is very inconsistent. Yeah, the Sacramento Kings, they're thirty two and twenty
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five. They're still standing, still a top three team in the West.
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Offense still looks dominant. Darren Fox is there. Then you have the four
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seed Phoenix Suns. They're thirty two and twenty seven. They don't have Kevin
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Duran back yet, but there's still a top four seed whenever they do get
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him back. I believe there's about twenty three twenty four games left in the
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season, they're gonna be looking really nice. I believe they should be the
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favorite, and they're already a top four seed, so I'd be surprised if
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they don't get out the West. Then we have the Clippers, who are
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the five seed. We just talked about the thirty two and twenty eight right
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now. They're only starting to look like a better basketball team. Right now,
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Kawaia started to playing more games, and obviously at PG they let go
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of Reggie Jackson, which I don't understand. They do need another point guard,
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maybe it's Russell Westbrook, but they're not a team that I can see
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them actually going far. And you have a sixteed in Minnesota Temberwolves. They're
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thirty one and twenty nine with Mike Conley in the lineup. It has made
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Rudy Gobert look like a little bit of a better move than what they did
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in the off season after trading all those assets for them, But they still
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don't look like a team that can play defense in the playoffs and get a
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bucket. At the other end. They just look like a team that's in
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the regular season that's going to just be flashy, exciting and fun, but
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not actually do anything with it. Then you have a seven seed MAVs Luca
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don Chitz, Kyrie Irving that thirty one and twenty nine. As of right
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now, they'd be in the playing game. I believe it was two days
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ago. It was about two to three days ago. Luca and Kyrie they
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played in their first game. They looked very good in it. Offensively,
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there's still a dynamic threat, but defensively they have taken a drop off worse
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than I expected, but hopefully they'll get that fixed. Then we have the
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eight seed New Orleans Pelicans. They're thirty and twenty nine. They're starting to
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fold down. The last time I talked about them, they were a top
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five seed. Now that the eight seed right now battling to just stay in
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the play in Zion Williamson, we don't know when he's going to be back.
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Maybe he'll be out the rest of the season like he was last year.
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It's not a good look for them, especially with them putting all the
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pieces in the middle of the table. I just wanted to give you a
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quick update on that. Then we have the Eastern Conference standings. The Celtics,
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they're forty seven and seventeen, dominant team in the East. Jason Tatum,
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he has fallen out of the MVP race, but still has dominant Jyalen
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Brown. Joe Missoula actually got officially announced as a head coach, so good
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for him, but not really much to sound them. The Milwaukee Bucks down
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eleven game win streak, forty and seventeen. Finally he's starting to find the
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rhythm back MVP. Honest, he looks healthy again. They still don't have
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Chris Middleton right now, so they're only gonna be getting better. Then you
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have the Philadelphia seventy six ers four game win streak. They just beat the
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Calves the other night. They're thirty eight and nineteen. Joel Embiid. He's
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obviously an MVP candidate and he can be the best player in basketball whenever he
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chooses to. Then you have the four seed Cleveland Cavaliers, who at thirty
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eight and twenty three, Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell. It looks like it
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has paid off both of them. They look like dominant players. Both can
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bridge thirty points a game, drop fifty easily any night, have a good
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backcourt or front court with Jared Allen Evan Mobley. But I don't know if
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they can compete with those top three teams since it's so young. Then we
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had the five seed, the Brooklyn Nets, the thirty four and twenty four.
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This is kind of misleading right here, because before Kevin Durand and Kyrie
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every went out, they were a top three seed. So they're starting to
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go down just a little bit. I don't know if they'll happen to still
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stay in the playoffs, potentially playing. I could see them staying on that
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because, like I said last week, they still have good pieces around them,
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but not a bunch of pure scores. I know mckel bridges he did
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have forty five points the other night, but that's unprecedented right there. And
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he did make seven or eight threes, and I don't know how consistent that
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is. Then you have the New York Knicks thirty three and twenty seven.
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I guess you could say they're a little bit better. Jalen Brunson looked like
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he was a good signing, but not that good of assigning to put them
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over the top. Then you have the seven seed Miami Heat, who they've
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kind of been disappointing this year. That thirty two and twenty seven Kyle Larry.
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He has taken a step down. Jimmy Butler. I don't know what
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it is about Jimmy Butler, but in the regular season it seems like he
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doesn't care and he waits to the playoffs to turn it up. Then you
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have the eight seed Hawks who have been disappointed as well. After trading for
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de Jontay Murray and giving up I believe it was three or four first round
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picks. They're under five hundred, twenty nine and thirty, so there'd be
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the last team left in the play in. I don't know where they can
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really go. Their offense was supposed to be dominant, and you're supposed to
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have somebody to hide Tray Young defensively, but that has not worked out.
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Defense has gotten even worse and so is the offense. And I believe there's
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just an issue as far as Tray Young. He needs a ball in his
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hands to be effective. Then you have de Jontay Murray, who needs a
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ball in his hands too to be effective, because last year he was able
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to do that with the Spurs because nobody else was on that team. Right
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there, who I think will make it out of the East. I still
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do think it's in between the Celtics and the Bucks. It's for them to
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lose. But the seventy Sixers, they do have a chance. Like I
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said, with Joel Embiide, he can be the best player in the league
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if he chooses to, and obviously health bearing, and then James Harding,
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he has had a better year, Tyrese Maxie has taken a step. So
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they have a good team. I guess you could say they're the sleeper team
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of the East. But if you did put the Sixers in the West,
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I do believe they they'd be the favorites, even though the Suns would begin
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there based on just how they're playing right now. But we'll see after this
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All Star Game, there's gonna be twenty five games left. It's gonna be
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the crunch time of the season. We're gonna see who makes a plan,
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who does not, who folds, who looks better after trade deadline. But
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this is gonna go ahead and wrap up the episode. I appreciate you guys
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about potentially a team next year in the NFL that should go all in.
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39:31
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