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Episode 166: The Protect College Sports Act is a SCAM! · Play 4 Keeps Podcast

• Greg: The peeing is just disrespectful. I'm just more concerned. I've just never seen a nigga actually aggressively pee like that. Jax: The slow-mo made it 10,000 times worse, which made it 10,000 times funnier. Greg: it just didn't seem realistic. Like niggas don't realistically pee like this. You aggressively peeing like this is like imagine a nigga at the unero a euro and he Jax: and then his excuse was, was just in that mode. Like, that was his verbatim excuse. Greg: That's okay. Nigga go use the bathroom then, nigga. What the fuck? Man, welcome back to another episode of the Play for Keys Podcast, the only podcast where we do something different every single day. Not an hour, not an episode. This is a daily thing. If you are a casual, this is the show for you. Make sure you lock in with us. And what better way to lock in? Donations. Donations. Here comes the money. Here comes the money. Man, just do your little part, man. Link down below. You remember there was a time I I went back to like a random one of like our random episodes popped up on the for you and I clicked it and it and they were like, we're doing the donations. We're yeah, what's the best nation? A donation. Jax: yeah. Greg: I was like, damn, I do remember that era. I do remember that error. Jax: I remember one time you tried to click the button or you couldn't wrong one. It was like that. The kindle, the scream. remember that. That was funny. Greg: No, yeah, because I couldn't find that shit. I was like, fuck. Wrong wrong Jax: You Greg: one. But still. For still. I feel like I felt like it it went with what we were going. It went with the aesthetic. Jax: It still fit. Greg: but since we're here, we got things to talk about. But let's talk about the things we just don't care about, which did not care the list. First and foremost, it's not on our list, but I need to bring it up. Mike Tomlin. Did you see his Minecraft? Jax: Are you a Minecraft person? I've Greg: I am. I am actually. Jax: never played Minecraft, so I didn't... I thought it was like a game where you have like a... Because I know you get a character, he dropped down in the middle of nowhere with just like an axe and you got to build. I didn't know you can Greg: Yeah. Jax: make a fucking country. Like, what the hell? Greg: Yeah, like yeah, ga the like he spent like twelve years on it. So yeah, like it looks his shit looks so extensive. Jax: No, he was going, he was like, yeah, this is my aquarium. And we have like an aquarium in the hotel. And he was going through like all, every single room in the hotel. He was like, yeah, I just love doing the designs in the room. And every room was different. I was like, I didn't know you could be this detailed. And also, I mean, he said it took him, I was gonna be like, how long that take him? But he said it's a 12 year thing. So I guess, like that's. Greg: Yeah, I think when he first started like he started it when it was like still the PS4. Like he's he started it on the PS4 because his kids were like young. And then I guess that just turned into like his like therapeutic thing, like after Jax: Yeah, no. Greg: after dealing with football and shit, he just started like going crazy. But like, yeah, you can do stuff like that on creative mode. So you have like creative mode and survival mode. So like on survival mode, You get dropped down there and you get a pickaxe but at night monsters come out and they try to kill you. So you like you have to like build something like kinda fast and not as deep yet Jax: protect you and all that. Greg: to protect you. And then like once you get strong enough, then you can kind of like you can do your own thing. But if you're on creative mode, nobody no monsters are attacking you. Like you can just kind of do Jax: Okay. Greg: your own thing and you could just continue to just build all day and all night. So he was on creative mode for sure. But still, that's a lot of Jax: Yeah. Greg: shit. Like football stadium, baseball stadium, aquarium, high rises, shit. Like he will see some shit from like real life. Like I think like his son, like he moved his son into college and he had like he had like a fucking apartment that like was influenced by like the apartment that he moved his son into called like The View or some shit. And I was like, this nigga, like I can tell, like, He did this like all on his own. Like he did this one Jax: Yeah! Greg: bar for bar. I'm like, damn, that's crazy. Shout out to my doing that and still not having a losing season. Jax: He doing that while dealing with Antonio Brown and Ben LaRossus Burger. Greg: Antonio Brown, Le'Veon Bill. Have Jax: And the crazy Steelers fans, because Steelers fans are crazy. Greg: You was still you was juggling Yes. Exactly, bro. Jax: But you know, this is crazy detail. don't like this crazy. Greg: Like this is this right here, that's immaculate detail right there. Because on like aside no, like for survival mode, I don't know if it's a sand for creative, because I don't be on creative, but on survival mode, like you have to like create and build all this stuff. So like when I mean create, like that glass pane, like those the the glass window panes, you have to like Jax: Yeah. Greg: go collect sand and then burn it. And then it turns into glass. And then you like build like, but on creative, sometimes it might just be like you have all the utensils and tools and you could just pick from your disposal. But on survival, you gotta do everything from scratch because of survival. But I was just like, damn, Mike, he out here, he got smoke coming out this bitch. Jax: This is impressive. I'm random. It's very random. I wouldn't expect to Mike Tom and do this, but it's impressive. That's all I can say. Greg: I'm saying bro. And he knows his way around a a game controller, bro. Jax: Cause old people, that controller be like, cause I guess cause they came up with like the joystick errors and stuff like that, but like that controller just be like, they can't look down and Greg: That should be fucking Jax: it just be blowing their minds bro. So shout out to like. Greg: Shit be fucking them up. Shout out to Mike T, nigga. Shout out to Mike T. We Do Not Car to get into the real we do not cares. First things up, the WNBA playoffs is underway. first round is pretty much over. I think the aces, Jax: Yeah. Greg: I think the aces beat the fever. Jax: Aces knocked out the fever. The Liberty knocked out the Lynx, which the Lynx Greg: Yes. Jax: was number one seed, had Olivia Miles and the Feast of Colly. They was saying some crazy stuff about, they was calling Olivia Miles, James Harden and all that stuff. Greg: Yeah. Jax: So was like, damn, that's crazy. The Dream Greg: Yeah, Shorty, you know, Shorty she a rookie, man. Jax: knocked out the Mystics as well. I think there's one more game they played. Yeah, Dallas means that the Valkyries. That's actually pro- Greg: Dallas Wings and Valkyries. That one was a Jax: today. Greg: that was a gun one. Because the Valkyries almost won it and then Arique started going crazy, started hooping. but like 45, Jax: Are you talking like 50 or not 50 but like close to? Greg: yeah, 45, I believe. Jax: And that's Greg: Basically, but yeah, she was just she was hooping her ass off for first forced overtime and then won game two. But yeah, it's already people are already saying, Hey, they've evolved past the three game series for the first round. It's time to bump that up. is Yeah. Jax: Three is very, very, very fast. Greg: So for people that don't know the WNBA playoff method, it's first round, you only have three rounds. The only three rounds. first round's best of three, second round best of five, and then the f the WNBA finals, that's the best of seven. that's kinda how they do it. And and they've got the they're already starting to evolve because now they're going back and forth like from game one to game two. Most of the time in a three game series, the save money, the first two games would be at the I guess like the str stronger seeds. Like if you're the number one seed, you had the first two games at home. Jax: Yeah, that sucks. Greg: And then your Jax: Yeah. Greg: game three would be at the the lower seeds. So like the lower seed, they would really have to like fight tooth and nail to get a home crowd. So the fact that they have enough money to actually fly back and forth, that's a step. But now I I I think we've graduated to at least doing the best of five in the first round. At least. Because you telling me Jax: Yeah, best two out of three, that one went by super fast, I'm not gonna lie. And like damn, it's just like, Greg: No I'm saying like Jax: you don't get a chance to, you know, like you don't get a chance to like really like get into your groove, I feel like as a team. So, yeah. Greg: You can't like you can't even nigga niggas can't even be down like Olivia Miles can't even be down O two and and make a comeback. Like she like she done Jax: You can't do a comeback. Greg: Soon as you as soon as you owe one, you're in trouble. Crazy. But yeah, it's it's it's been it's been good. I highly suggest y'all to the tap in. It's a lot of a lot of great hoops going on on the female side. But next We do not care. Next things up, Porzingis got another mystery illness again. Undisclosed illness. an undescribable illness. It's been like this for a little Jax: This has been, Greg: minute though. Jax: yeah, he's, Porzingis is with the Warriors. Wait, am I wrong? he with the Warriors now, or is he with the Hawks? Hold on. Who is he with? Greg: I think he's with the Hawks, maybe. I don't know actually, I kinda forgot. Jax: He's still with the Warriors. Greg: Okay, what worries? Jax: He already came to the Warriors. But yeah, Krasniakos is with the Warriors now. I don't know what has happened. He's been having like this mystery illness for like the past X amount of seasons. Like he'll be good and then he just gets sick and nobody knows what's wrong, how it happened. It's just very weird. And now he's going through whatever it is now. People been saying he got some, they've been saying he got some. Greg: Some crazy shit. Jax: Some crazy viruses they've been saying he has. Nobody knows what's going on, but yeah, whatever it is, it got him again. And they just resigned him to a two-year, $40 million contract. I guess, bro. I truly hope he gets well soon. Greg: They saying they say they saying they saying he he got that that magic that magic virus bro shit crazy Cause at first I'm like because Jax: That's what they be saying. That's what they be saying. I don't know. I don't want to put that on that, man. So I'm not going to put that on there. Greg: I was like at first I was like man leave that nigga alone and then this nigga keep getting you know fuck these central Jax: Lit. And he be missing mad games, bro. Greg: And these symptoms just be mad accurate. Like maybe mad in line with what the normal symptoms be. It's like all right. Like I'm gonna just say it's a coincidence, but yes. Jax: You Greg: Man, press press press for the guy. Press for the guy. Absolutely. Next we do like We do not care. Tony Romo officially parts ways with CBS. Another white man down. another white man not doing commentary. First Mark Sanchez. Now Tony Romo. Jax, how do you feel about your goat saying, it's over? Jax: Maybe people have been calling for him to quit his job for a while. People don't like his commentary for a while now. you know, I think he still got like a settlement. I don't think he got because he signed like a crazy like 70 million dollar contract, some on Greg: Yeah, it was a big ass deal. Jax: the crazy contract. So. I don't, he obviously didn't get all of it, but I think they like came through with like a settlement. So we got some of it. So at least he got some bread. He don't got to travel as much. He can get whatever, whatever's going on with him. can get that in order. So, you know, a win is a win. I don't care. He, got his bread and he don't got to do nothing for it. A win is a win, bro. That's all I'm gonna say. And for what's worth, Greg: yeah. Jax: Watt been doing good on CBS as his replacement. JJ Watt's been doing good. Greg: I don't know, Jim. You know? Niggas niggas like, you know, niggas ain't got that in their bag for real. But I I do fuck with JJ doing it. And on top of that, the Tony Romo hate in the booth is very performative. I remember what niggas I I remember how niggas was Jax: I never got it. He seemed like... Greg: going crazy about this nigga in twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen when he first got in that booth 'cause he was like calling plays before the plays actually happened and Jax: Yeah. Greg: my god. my God, this is what we need. Now, now in as the years go on, they're not fucking with it. But you know, it's always j just like Yeah. Jax: I never thought he was back for real. Greg: Yeah, he was never bad for like to me, he was never bad. He seemed pretty spot on. But I feel like they do that for everybody if you do something long enough. And like, and Jax: Yeah. Greg: and like sometimes they just want like a new voice alone, just like For coaches, like you sometimes need need a new voice in the locker room. Jax: They need a new voice in the locker room. Greg: Sometimes you need a new voice in the booth. And that's fine. That's that's fair. Maybe you're just tired of hearing the same things over and over again. But it is what it is. speaking of niggas that getting fired from the booth. We do not care. A trailblazer getting fired from the booth. Forgot this nigga's name already, but a trail somebody that was that recently got hired. I think he got hired yesterday as a play-by-play announcer for the Yes, he got he Jax: this happened in a day? I thought this happened like early in this. Greg: no, no, no, no. He got hired yesterday and then he got fired the same day. He got hired as a play-by-play announcer. I think they announced it as he's the new play-by-play person. Some old tweets started digging up on social media. And then them black Vans Them black SUVs came to the crib and said, Hey, your guy, you're out of here. Got fired within a minute, probably couldn't have been no no less than what eight hours. He had that job for what, eight hours and minute, and got fired immediately after these tweets came out. One of them says, I'm not a racist at all. But not gonna lie, Asian people piss me off. Ha ha ha. Hashtag honest. girl girls these nights, dot dot dot SMH thirsty for the D. This is what ultimately got him out of there. And then the Portland Trailblazers released a statement talking about how they don't condone racism, sexism, all these isms. And Jax, before I start sounding Republican, how do you feel about this? Jax: These tweets were made when he was 15. like normally when you hear like, white people, always get like, he was young. You shouldn't be mad and blah, blah. Like white people always get that. they're just a phase in his life, which is weird how white people always have a racist phase, but I digress. Greg: Mm. Jax: I don't, am I correct? I don't think he should have got fired from these tweets. Like he was 15 when he did it. Yes, the Asian people pissed me off. guess that could, I mean, I guess it's a racist tweet, but I was expecting slurs or hard Rs or something like that when I initially heard he got fired for some racist tweets, but it's just this. So I don't think it was that bad. This might seem terrible to be the same, but I don't think it was that bad. I'm very... I'm very surprised this is what got him fired. Like if anything, feel like the trouble issues have been like made him deleted and moved on. Like I can guess what should have happened. Greg: Yeah, and I think hypothetically. What do you think made made him be pissed off at Asians? What do Asian people do that piss him off? Hypothetically speaking. Jax: I'm not finna say nothing to get me canceled. Greg: Right. Jax: But I was like, he was 15 when this happened, bro. I don't know how old he is now, but it's just like. Greg: He's like a ther like he's in his he's like early thirties, like thirty one, thirty two. Cause he was fifteen. He was fifteen in twenty twelve. Jax: 15 and 2012, okay, yeah, so he's close to 30. He's in that 30 age range. Little Greg: He's around our age or like yeah, well somewhere like that. Jax: bit younger, little bit older in that age range. So like I said, this is not that bad. I don't think he should've been fired. I'm sorry, he shouldn't have been fired. This is not that bad. This is not that bad. Greg: Jacks, do do Asian people piss you off? Yeah. Jax: Very, very funny. Very funny indeed. Greg: Hey, you see how this nigga didn't answer my question? This nigga didn't say no. Jax: Everybody, truly everybody pisses me off. Greg: Boys, we got them. word. Yeah. All lives matter. I see what you're doing. I see. Jax: That's a fucking... Greg: Hey. Nah, man. Tom Dunner can't keep getting away with this. but you're not gonna see me cake for a white man for too much, for too long. So Jax: Of course, like, yeah. Greg: whoop-dee-doo, I guess. But that's just something crazy. The first thing that came to my mind was hey, if they packing up white people like this, man, niggas. Hey, if Jax: What the hell do you think you're doing? Greg: Hey, if you're a black man or a black person, a person of color, and you're still in college and you're trying to get into the media space, I advise you just to start over. Jax: Go delete that account. Greg: Like, there's just too much, you're gonna miss something trying to like d individually delete tweets and stuff. Start the whole you're not important, you're not a celebrity. Start over. Just start the account over. Start fresh. Jax: Even if you are important or you are a celebrity, you can gain that audience back. It won't be no problem to you. Greg: Start over. If you're that nigga you can bounce back like there's plenty yeah, there's plenty, come on now. Yeah, but yeah, d the d the digital footprint is in fact forever. Remember that. I know he will. I hope he gets another job though. Somewhere else. Jax: I'm sorry, that's so funny. It's funny, but not funny, but hilarious. I have so many feelings on this situation that it makes me laugh. But let's just go Greg: It's funny it's Jax: ahead. Greg: it's funny 'cause it's not me. That's It's Jax: Yeah, yeah, that's also true. It's funny because it's not me. Greg: funny 'cause it's not me, nigga. But let's go ahead and get into the things we care about. Jax: Yeah, let's tap in. Let's tap in to college football. This past weekend was crazy. A lot of good games, a lot of interesting games, a lot of interesting celebrations. And have Greg: Thanks. Jax: you seen, well, I'm not going to ask, because I know you've seen the Collins-Simmons celebration, right, Greg? Greg: for sure. I've seen all these celebrations. Jax: Now this happened, was Texas playing Tennessee, Texas beat Tennessee. I don't care about the final score. I don't care about none of this shit for real. But, Colin Simmons, Colin Simmons superstar by the way, is going to go top five in the draft, et cetera. He had a five sack game. This was probably, think his second or third sack. And he said he was just in that mode when he did it. Cause he sacked the quarterback. He pantomime pissing all over all over the field And then he got he was like bro. Why am I getting a flag? You got the unspoiled light conduct for simulating using arrest room. Greg: Hey hey, having this bitch in slow mo is a fucking hilarious. There was no reason. Jax: But I'm showing this because I want to get into the other thing we're talking about is, is this celebration worse or is this Dylan Stewart celebration worse from a year Greg: Who's it? Jax: ago where he sacked the quarterback and then pretended to shoot him? Greg: Mm. Jax: Which one is, which celebration do you think is worse? Greg: Why are they both aggressively doing Jax: Mind you, both these people are gonna go top five in the NFL draft. Both of these are, or maybe top 10, because somebody's gonna need Greg: Hey, these niggas about to make franchise changing money right now. Bro, hey, I ain't gonna lie. One of these niggas finna get their front office fired. I'm not gonna lie. One of them niggas. But I I think shooting at me that aggressive, I think that one is worse because it just when when he did it that aggressive, I just feel like. You mean this shit. Like if I gave you a gun, you might actually do this shit, man. Like, this is how you feel it? Versus the peeing. The peeing is just disrespectful. I'm just more concerned. I've just never seen a nigga actually aggressively pee like that. Like the way he reenacted Jax: I think. Greg: it, it just didn't even look Jax: The slow-mo made it 10,000 times worse, which made it 10,000 times funnier. Greg: Yeah, like the peeing it just it just didn't seem realistic. Like that don't niggas don't realistically pee like this. You aggressively peeing like this is like imagine a nigga at the unero a euro and he Going crazy like that. Versus Stewart. What was it? I forgot his name. Stewart for South Carolina. Jax: Yeah, Dylan Stewart. Yeah. Greg: Aggressive. Yeah, I didn't seen a nigga aggressively shoot somebody. Yeah, that that looks that looks crazy. That's crazier. You're inflicting harm on me. You're insinuating violence. What do you think was worse? Jax: But I break, I think the peeing, I think the peeing was worse. Cause like, and then his excuse was, was just in that mode. Like, that was his verbatim excuse. The reporter asked him, he was like, I Greg: That's okay. You Jax: was just in that mode. So I think the peeing is- Greg: He was in that peeing mode? What the fuck? Jax: Then he said, I was just in mood. Greg: Nigga go use the bathroom then, nigga. What the fuck? Jax: But I bring up these celebrations and really I just wanted to talk about Dylan Stewart. Because like I said, he's one of them. He's, Dylan Stewart's been like the top ranked athlete. He's one of like them five stars that are like number one recruit all through high school. Five Greg: Absolutely. Jax: star, everybody wanted him, blah, blah, blah. But he's had like a plethora Greg: Yeah, he's been going through it. Jax: on the field issues. I'm not really sure about his off field too much, but he was recently after... This past week, game against Alabama, South Carolina lost because South Carolina is not a good football team. They lost and in that loss or rather after that loss, Dylan Stewart was suspended indefinitely. It came out. He's actually only suspended for one game by the coaches and everything, but they just didn't like what he was doing in the field. He had arguments with coaches sitting away from the team, yelling at the coaches. They tried to get him to come out the game. He wouldn't do it. was whining and It's a lot of bad attitude stuff going on. And do you think this can, like in this day and age with like the NIL and all that, you know, players talk back and stuff now and don't get real like repercussions and everything. Cause they're getting paid so much money. But do you think stuff like this really has an effect on, you know, draft stock and things like that? yeah. He also punched the Alabama player and he didn't get, they didn't, I don't think he got in trouble for it. Even though the ref was like right there, like the ref right there. He didn't get in trouble for this. Greg: My goodness. Jax: But yeah, do you think this really ends up having an effect on things like DraftDoc and everything anymore, or do you think people stop caring for real? Greg: talent talent just has to measure up. I know Shiloh Shiloh Sanders punched the fuck out of somebody in preseason. Never saw that nigga again. I bet you top dollar, if it was Cam Ward, they're just gonna give him a stern talking, maybe find that nigga, and then he's gonna keep it pushing. But the talent just has to outweigh the bad. The bad shit. but I do I I truly do think it's it will always bad behavior and off field stuff, that will always play a factor. It will always. Like that they they w that that will never be a time where they won't care because you're still putting millions of dollars. Like this if this is how you acting with NIL money, nigga, I can't imagine what you gonna look like with a real NFL 'cause he well, he's a he's an edge rusher, right? Jax: Yeah. Greg: yeah, so like if he like supposed to be like a top edge rusher, Lord Jesus if I'm giving you Miles Garrett money, yeah, nigga, I I do have to think about that. Okay, I I do I do have, especially if you a top five pick, I can lose my job over you, bitch ass nigga. Yeah, fuck no. But yeah, with with I I I do think we need to start treating these niggas like pros. They they they do need to get fined. Niggas need to get fuck fuck up suspen like the suspension stuff, that don't really do shit for me. Me personally, that ain't really do shit for me. Wake these niggas up, find these niggas. Y'all getting paid now. Find these niggas, bro. Find them. You making mil Bryce Underwood making 12 mil. Yeah, if he fucking up, if he doing some shit that he ain't supposed to be doing, ask some out of pocket shit. You know what I mean? Cause when when a nigga gets suspended, when when NFL pro gets suspended. That nigga's losing the game check. Jax: Yeah? Greg: When he gets suspended, what's happening? Like, he's preserving Jax: He's saving his body for the NFL. Greg: his body for the NFL. That's like, what, 50 less hits that that that day? Like, what real repercussions are you really Jax: Yeah. Greg: serving for real? In the grand? And you're not a quarterback, so it's like. Not saying that you're not impactful, but I'm saying like There there's a higher chance that they can still survive the next week if they gotta Jax: without you. Greg: miss one game from you, to like make an example or whatever. I don't care how much power I don't care how passion passionate you are about the game of football or whatever the case may be, or you le you live about this shit, but nah. Yeah, something has to happen. Like the the one game suspension game suspensions, unless you're doing some shit like Five or six games, some shit that's gonna really fuck a nigga draft stock up, cause we don't you alter this nigga's like season? Yeah, nah. You need somebody you gotta pay for that. Or or give some of your NIL money back. Jax: You sound a little bit like a, you sounded like a Republican, but I'm not mad at it. Cause like, honestly, if I, that probably would work. It probably would work. Greg: I feel like that'd cut a lot of shit out. Jax: Yeah, but Greg: Yeah. Jax: keeping it on college football, more stuff that they're doing that nobody asked for. College football, the playoff committee has had talks and now they're realistically, momentum is building for a 2014 playoff with the ACC Big 12 and Notre Dame, who's independent, they're supporting it and the SEC is open to it. And like to this, just like, why is no, like not everybody, the playoffs is supposed to be exclusive. What the fuck is 24 teams in this playoff? I don't get that at all. Like there's no, it feels like the taking away like the prestige of the playoffs, like all these people just want to be in playoffs so they can, I guess, have a chance at the national championship, even though like, I think the playoffs is being expanded to what now? Is it six or? Greg: So it's twelve, right? Jax: wait, is it 12? It is 12. But like Greg: Well. Jax: all these matches we always see like, like the Bama's of the world always blow out the like the 12th seed that gets in that miraculously squeaks in. Like I don't, like these teams, there's not 24 good enough playoff. There's not 24 teams good enough to be in the playoffs is really my thing. So I don't get why they're trying to do this in the first, I mean, I get it cause they want the money and everything, but it's just, this feels stupid. Greg: I know what they're I know I yeah, I know why they're doing it. Jax: It's excessive. It's dumb. I don't, why are they doing this? Greg: At first I was confused, but the more I think about it and I haven't really done any like real like research of the real reasoning, but I I think they might be doing this to to incentivize bowl games. For real, for real. 'Cause you really just throw Jax: What you mean by that? Greg: like you really I mean like all this stuff that's in the college football playoffs, especially the beginnings of these like playoffs, they are like under technically like a bowl game. Like peach, like the Chick-fil-A peach bowl is technically like the first Jax: Yeah. Greg: or second round of X, Y, and Z. and when you don't make the playoffs, quote unquote, there's a higher chance that those kids are not participating in said bowl games because what the fuck what the fuck am I playing for? I'm just gonna go prepare for the NFL. So when you extend it to 24, there's more niggas now. A little bit more committed to having a full stab like when LSU played when LSU played Houston for like their I don't know if it was Armed Forces bowl, I forgot what bowl that was. That was last year and Houston ended up winning it. Jax: I remember this, yeah. Greg: Houston ended up winning it and as a as an alum, yeah, I was happy as hell. I was happy. But I even I can admit, yeah, half the roster was fucking gone. Now Jax: Wasn't there. Yeah. Greg: Has have the roster wasn't there. Like I'm we're not playing the real LSU, Lane Kevin out here going back and forth with Owen Miss at the time, like some whole other shit going on. But under the new guidelines, shit, LSU probably would have been like, well, actually no, LSU was so fucking bad that year, like they're they weren't gonna do it. But like But if you explain it you if you expand it to twenty four, I think they're just trying to cover as many like bowl games to incentivize more people to be fully rostered in these ballgames that they're spending so much money on or whatever the case may be. Not that I'm saying that I agree with it, but I can see Jax: But the money would already be spent for the ballgames. That's why I'm like, ooh, I don't think it affects Greg: Yeah, but it Jax: anybody's bottom line for real. Except, it affects TV ratings maybe, but it's fuck over. Greg: Yeah, c mean it Yeah, it affects it affects T V ratings. Yeah, it Yeah, and their get the fuck over it is taking money like the people that are putting the money in taking the money away. That that's their get over it. And they're trying to make sure that no, we still care about your dollar. Keep like let's let's find a way to keep your dollar still in this mix or whatever. and we already have too many bowl games to begin with, but money. So I mean it's it's all it's all a money thing. I still disagree with it being a twenty four, a twenty fourteen thing. Jax: 24 is entirely too much. Greg: I've always I mean I'm s I'm on the book saying that twelve was too much. It'd been A. It was Jax: 12 is too much. It should really be like, when it's first starting it was four, I think four was too little. I think eight is fine. Greg: Yeah, I feel like it should have capped off at eight because six just feels Jax: Like six to eight, six to eight is fine. Greg: Yeah, 'cause six feels a little une like I know it's an even number, but like six feels like somebody's getting a buy or some shit. Like it just didn't feel weird. Yeah. But like yeah, but like eight Jax: Yeah, like that's really the only way I could see like doing six, which like I said, I'm not mad at that. Six to eight is fine. 24 is crazy. Greg: twenty four, now it's starting to feel like March Madness. Which we said it was gonna Jax: And it's not, Madness works for basketball because you can do, you can play multiple games of basketball. You can't do that with football. These niggas will die. You can't do that with football. It's not sustainable. Greg: Yeah, and this is gonna be a lot of blowouts. There's gonna be a lot of blowouts. Jax: Which is the main thing. I don't, they don't care about, but these, they don't care about the product on the field no more. They just care about how much money they can make from their TV deals, which is, I feel like there's like the downfall of college sports now and keeping on with the downfall of college sports. We talked about this a little bit last week, I believe, but the Protect College Sports Act that has passed in the, it's not like a law yet, but it's passed in what? The Senate now. So we got to pass the house and then go to the president and blah, blah, blah. Come on, shout out to, what's that? it's out to school house rock or whatever for telling me, for letting me know how to, how does this work? Greg: I'm just a bill. Jax: But yeah, that passed and, among some of the things it does, gives the NCAA the ability to enforce a spending cap. which would hopefully present lawsuits that limits athletes to one transfer without penalty and establishes a five-year window of competition and prevents coaches from coaching at a new school before the end of a team or coach's team season. All these sound good on its face, but... I sort of did more research getting down into like the nitty gritty of it. And it's awesome, like BS for real. One of the things it does, it increases the amount of money that schools can spend on direct payments to their players. So now they can spend around like 50 million and 5 million of that is guaranteed toward non-revenue sports. The Power 4 conferences, they can't grow more than 19 teams. And this makes sense now because the Big 10 has 18 teams, the SEC has 16, A lot of people allege that they're trying to like combine and make some gigantic super conference, but now with this you can't do that. So I guess that's good. But one of the biggest things that I don't like is that it states that it remains neutral on whether college athletes can be classified as school employees and if they have the right to unionize. Several people have made steadfast in believing that the bill should have specific language that prohibits athletes from becoming employees, but Instead, they just want to keep it neutral. feel, don't like that because that's cowardice to me. That's cowardly. And it's unfair because these players are like, you're doing all of this. You're put, you're literally putting a salary cap on these players and you still don't want to call them employees. That's literally what they are. Pay them what they owe or pay them what you guys owe. And I really don't like the cap on the players from how much they can make because you put a cap on the players, but not a cap on the coaches. And Nick Saban, cause this is a screenshot or whatever from ESPN, they're doing the first take and Nick Saban, I don't feel like playing the whole thing cause I don't really care. But Nick Saban, he said that he argued that coach play and player pay are different markets. And that's why players should have a cap, but coaches shouldn't. And I just make me be like, if we're this big cap to this country. And these are different markets. Shouldn't you let the market decide? Shouldn't it be a free market like we always say we want? Like it's just people not wanting to pay these players. And with the cap, you already know that schools are going to finesse and go around and pay people under the table like they always used to do. And it's just, this whole thing is just reverting. It's trying to revert stuff back to like the old NCAA rules. And I don't think it should be like that. If we're being honest, I'm not saying I have a solution, but I don't think this is the proper one. Greg: yeah, I'm I'm in a tricky I'm in a I am in a tricky situation with this one because I don't agree that as soon as it's time for a black nigga to get paid, all of a sudden we gotta have hella, hella, hella restrictions. Like, hold on now, hold on now. You can't make too much goddamn money. but at the same time, I'm just trying to figure out in a world where Yeah, maybe it is a free market and there is no like cap niggas out here going band for band with Stuart. Now we giving that nigga generational money. Not saying that you are, but I'm just like, if there is if there is like I'm not and I'm not saying for a cap, but just like I I don't know the I don't know the answer. But like what's what's to say a donor just says, Hey, fuck it, I got I got the money to Change all these fucking lives in James Madison or whatever the case may be. Jax: Another thing in the both side, you can't do that specifically. Greg: you can't. Jax: Yeah, you can't, it's saying like donors can't really go around and do that. Let me see if I can find, I had the actual thing pulled up and then I accidentally exit out, so that sucks, but let Greg: Yeah. Jax: me see if I can find it real fast. It says, further, the bill prohibits institutions, conferences, or specified entities acting for the benefit of an institution from providing athletes with compensation that circumvents the limits on sharing revenue with student athletes. So that's basically saying we can't have, we're not going to let these boosters or what have you go around and do a kawaii. Greg: Okay. Okay. Jax: But I mean, rules have Greg: I agree with that one. Jax: always been like that and these people still go around and that's why all them band players was getting them Hellcats and all that stuff. That's Greg: Yeah. Jax: not going to stop. That is not going to stop. Greg: It's too many colleges to keep up with for them to even track down. Like you would just have to have a personal Pablo Tory for each conference Jax: I'm Greg: to like keep niggas aligned and and it's not gonna happen. Jax: Especially because they don't want to keep people in line because they still want to be able to pay their players under the table and make more money and attract more people. So they were never going to go for that. Greg: Yeah, it it just sounds like it's gonna continue to be a trial and error until they find something that sticks. And and this this isn't gonna go over too well. And I'm sure well, I'm I'm not gonna say I'm sure, but hopefully they find a nice little middle ground at some point. But yeah, they're gonna have they're gonna have their lumps and bruises along the way. trying to figure this one out. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm you're just gonna keep hearing niggas like me and Jack say, Yeah, well that's fucking stupid. And we're gonna keep saying it until Jax: It is fucking stupid. Greg: we find something that makes sense. But hey, I mean, it's it's a s it's a start. It's better than just allowing shit to happen that's happening now, but Jax: Nah, bro, fuck that. Just allow lot of stuff to happen. The only thing, the only thing I actually really, really like in this is or the two things, the super conference thing. I like that. How the power for can't grow behind grow more than 19 teams because be so serious. I like that one. And then I like the. Where is it? I like that one. And then I like the transfer rules because low key, you don't need to be transferred too much. Greg: I do I do like that transfer rule. Jax: So like one transfer, I'm cool with that. I understand you guys want to go everywhere, but like that's the one thing I am cool with in this, because y'all be going everywhere too much and it needs to stop. Like find school, stick with it, grow there. And that's it. Greg: Or maybe or maybe they do it. I mean, maybe if you stop, maybe you can prevent their cap. Like not that it's like 'Cause it still should be a free market, but like maybe they treat it like they do like the other leagues where Jax: and I'm sorry, but the cap is not just for football or basketball, it's for all sports. So they have 50 million to spend for all sports in their school. Greg: Like the fifty mini the fifty million is dispersed around. Jax: Yes, but there is going to be a five million, around five to $6 million earmarked for like this specifically for the non revenue sports to make sure they have some bread. Greg: so so there's not an individual that's capped. Jax: It's the whole Greg: Okay, but Jax: everything. Greg: feel too Okay. That sounds better than individually capping a nigga because if you individually capping me, nigga, what the fuck? I can only make a certain amount. But yeah. Jax: No, the players can only be paid by the school a certain amount because they have to fit in that budget. Greg: Yeah, yeah. But like yeah, but like they're not cap like they're not individual like okay, like this nigga right here can't make over five million. Like his cap is hit like versus if they wanted to throw that nigga ten under the cap space that they have, like, okay, like if we have enough money, we can throw that nigga ten if we want to. Jax: Yeah, but spending 10 million on one nigga and then you only have 40 million for every other sport or take out five, so you only have 35 million for every other sport because you got to five million for the non-revenue sports. So you only have 35 million to spread across every other sporting team on your campus. That's not, it's not how it's Greg: You better than that, nigga? Jax: like, it's gonna be good. All right. Greg: The Jax: Okay. Greg: better nigga get it. Hey, the better nigga will get it. Let me know. But having it across all of sports. Yeah. Yeah. I was almost about to say some shit like maybe maybe you cap transport transfer portal niggas. Like, yeah, you could transfer, but you your earning, your earning degree doesn't the isn't as big. Per transfer that you go. Jax: funny. Greg: Where it's like, okay, like you you just trying to you just trying to get a bigger bag? Well you won't get a bigger bag on some Jalen Durance shit. Jax: We'll get to that guy later. Greg: Right. Jax: But let's talk NFL real fast. This should have been on We Do Not Care, but I forgot to put it there, but real fast. Jay York, 49ers owner who Greg: Yeah. Jax: got caught trying to get a prostitute in the middle of nowhere Ohio trailer park. He's suspended for six games and he also got fined $500,000, which is, he's a billionaire, so none of that's nothing to him, but very, very Greg: Suspended. Jax: funny. Greg: They said that shit like he lining up. Like like he like he a part of the like he part of the the San Francisco receiving record. Like Ooh. he he away for six games. What'd that take off in the he gonna just gonna be at home? Jax: I don't know if he's, he might be going, I mean, he's from Ohio, so I don't think him being in Ohio is really the best thing, but I digress. We know how that works. Greg: That nigga go back to Ohio. That nigga might say double or nothing. Yeah, keep that nigga out of here. Keep that nigga out of Ohio. Yeah, hell no. That nigga so ugly. Fuck. Jax: Real football news though. Shocking news to me. But nine is now a New York giant. The Vikings, they traded JJ McCarthy to the Giants. I forget the compensation, but it really wasn't that much. It might've been like a fifth round pick, I believe they sent. But this Greg: Some way though. Jax: comes after like the Giants, they obviously lost Jackson Dart in week two, I think. They have Greg: Yes. Jax: Jameis as their starting quarterback. They won one game against the Titans with Jameis as a starter. I think they lost another game with him as a starter, if I'm not mistaken. But Jameis hasn't looked too good. So they're like, hey, let's Greg: Yeah, they they lost the they lost the game that Jax: go ahead and get somebody even worse than Jameis for whatever reason. don't know why. I don't know their reasoning for this. I don't think JJ McCarthy is good. Granted, he's only played one year. but it was a god awful year. It was a god awful year. And this trade has surprised me because he's also a young quarterback. Him and Jackson Dart might be the same age. Jackson Greg: Yeah. Jax: Dart, he's out for the season, but when they come back, like, will there be a quarterback competition? I don't know. Cause like to me, him and Jackson Dart, low key the same nigga. So, I'm Greg: There there shouldn't be. Don't do that. Let's not do that. Please. Jax: a dude. don't think they're the same nigga to me. I don't care. I think, well. Greg: Please. Thank you. Thank you, nigga, please. my god. Jax: I think J.J. McCarthy's the worst Jackson dart, but they're still the same nigga. They're still the same nigga, They're still the same nigga. Greg: my god. I I every time you say shit like this, I just don't think you remember how bad JJ was. Like, that nigga was bad. Like the hardball nigga, like, didn't even allow him to throw in the first half of a championship game in college. Like, nigga, no. That nigga's bad. Jax: He's actually, he's a couple months older than Jackson Dart, but they're both still 23. Greg: Yeah, no. And that's crazy 'cause this is like year three for this nigga. Jax: Who's this nigga? Which nigga? Greg: J J. Say you're three for this nigga. Crazy. Jax: yeah. Greg: yeah. And well first first things first, nine is already taken up in in in Giants territory, so he's gonna have to pick another number anyway. Jax: He's 18 now. He wouldn't double or nothing. He wouldn't double. Greg: He he in fact did go double or nothing. That's that's sickening. That is sickening. My bad. Yeah, I don't know why they did this. Maybe they wanted two running backs in the backfield. The the the Jax: It be three, because Gataboe there too. Greg: Yeah, who the second Who the second running back? Jax: Jackson Dyer, JJ McCarthy and the Kamska, three running backs. Greg: wow. Okay. Well, damn. You're right. You're right. You're right. Nah, I mean, I I'd give I'd give Jackson Dr a little bit like I'd give him like a Taysom Hill ish utility. Jax: Ha ha! Greg: He got a little arm on him. But yeah, nah, this this is this is not no. I'm look, I'm not mad at it. Cause I don't give a fuck. Fuck that. Jax: yeah, I hope he plays and they play the Cowboys. I truly do hope he plays. Greg: Yeah, that's crazy. And they re and yeah, and they released Odell. It's a lot it's a lot of unkind things happening right now with the New York Giants. I'm not I don't know a New York Giants fan that was happy about anything that happened past week one. Jax: Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be, it's going be long season for them, which brings me personal joy, but it is what it is. I am curious to see how this, like, I think this season for them is cooked obviously, but I'm curious to see how this whole situation pans out going into next season. Cause say for instance, it takes Jackson Dard a minute to get back to what he was before and say Jay Dem-Carthy improves even marginally like. Will there be a competition? Because this is a hard, what you call it? Deja McCarthy, he played for Jim Harbaugh and now he's with John Harbaugh, Jim's brother. Like that's why this trade happened. He's quote unquote familiar with them and I guess knows a little bit of the system. So I don't, I'm very curious to see how this whole thing works out. Greg: If he loved that nigga so much, go go to the Chargers. You wanna co-sign this nigga this horrorball nigga wanna co-sign JJ McCarthy so bad, he won't put him on every every team except for his. Go let him be Justin Herbert's backup. Jax: He already got a quarterback in Justin Herbert. He don't need Jason McCarthy. He wants Jason McCarthy to succeed. So he's like, hey, go to my brother. Maybe he'll help you out. Greg: Yeah, succeed with a clipboard in your hand. Jax: I don't know, Jay-J. All the, I've heard a whole lot of like reports and stuff about Jay-J McCarthy. He don't seem like he like the clipboard in his hand, which we don't care what he likes, but still. Greg: Nigga act like he had a choice. What the fuck? Jax: But another trade also happened and this one also shocked me because I thought that was done making moves. But Dallas Cowboys have traded a six round pick in 2027 and a second round pick in 2028 for Joey Porter Jr. was cornerback for the Steelers. Why the Steelers keep trading with the Cowboys? Because where they traded George Pickens, they traded who's the tackle of Roderick Jones, now Joey Porter Jr. I don't know why they keep trading with us, but thanks, I guess. But this trade. Greg: Describe this in MBA terms. Jax: This would be like... the Rockets trading for, Cause people be saying Joey Porter Jr is good, but I've never been that high on him. This would be like if the Rockets traded for Marcus Smart, but like not DPOY Marcus Smart, but like the year after he won that DPOY. Greg: Okay, year after. Okay. Jax: Yeah, so like he wasn't as good, like, you know. Greg: He still yeah, he still has name name value. Okay. Jax: Yeah, because the only thing I hear about Joey Porter Jr. is that like, one, his dad is Joey Porter. So there's that. Two, he's a very physical, handsy corner, man corner. And he Greg: Mm. Jax: gets a whole lot of penalties called on him. Like, that's why I'm like, and he don't really take the ball away. That's another thing, because I'm really of the belief, like, you should only trade for a corner if they're like a shutdown nigga, or if they take the ball away a lot. I don't think he's either of those, to be honest. So that's why I'm like, don't know if I like this trade, I like, shit though, Dallas does need help though, so. Greg: I'm saying we need we need something. Shit. Fuck it, I'll I'll take it. Jax: And he's in line to play this upcoming Sunday as well, so we'll see. But I hope this works out a lot better than I'm assuming it will, to say the least. Greg: Well, don't know much about him, but I heard that he's worth it, so I guess we'll see. I I Jax: Yeah. Greg: guess just don't get burnt, nigga. That's all I'm asking. Especially this Sunday. Them niggas ain't got receivers for you to get burnt for. Jax: No, Nico Collins is back. You know how they be when they play. It's like how people play the Lakers. They all want to be healthy. It's the same thing with the Cowboys. When you play the Cowboys, everybody wants to be healthy. Greg: All of a sudden, niggas is not off the injury report. Now it's now it's it went from crush questionable to probable. Yeah, you got me fucked up. Yeah, you're right. Jax: Exactly. So you know how that goes. I will say though, I think like we've said this multiple times, but this for sure is the sign that Jerry Jones, he Jerry Jones thinks he's going to die soon. That's why he's doing all this. He's never him making all these moves this fast in this like immediately. He thinks he's going to he thinks time is running out. That's why he's doing all this. Greg: That's fair. I'm not mad. I'm not mad. I'm not mad at the attempt. I can respect the attempt. Jax: Go out shooting, I guess. Greg: Or kicking. Yeah. Jax: But lastly, let's step into the NBA. We said we were gonna talk about him. We're gonna talk about him. Jalen Durin, he figured out he was just bullshitting. He accepted Greg: Exactly. Jax: that $200 million deal the Pistons offered him. And this deal with the Pistons, five year, $200 million fully guaranteed. There's no options on it. No bonuses on it. It's just that five year, 200 million. That's that. I did not think this was going to happen because I've seen all the reports like, he hates the Pistons now they're at a standoff. He feels disrespected and blah, blah, blah. And I just take the deal. Good on him for taking that deal. Cause turning Greg: Thing go. Jax: down $200 million is dumb as fuck. So good on him for taking this deal. But Pistons? Cause I don't think like one, he has to be good this season and also in the postseason. But even if he's not, or even if he's disgruntled, I feel like, will there be a market to trade for Jalen Dern anymore? If they do decide to get off of him. Cause that's $200 million. And say he played, this is a non-shooting, non-defending big man. Who wants to pay him that much? Greg: no contract is untradable. somebody will grab that nigga up. He's young, he's still twenty two. so there's still some sort of belief in that standpoint. But yeah, I'm glad he didn't go to Dennis Schroederau. I'm glad he took the money. Jax: You Greg: I think that I think at some point It went from the Pistons were winning this to the Pistons were in a lose lose regardless. Because if Jax: Yeah. Greg: that nigga is saying he wants to leave and signs that qualifying offer, then your return is not gonna be good at all. You're not gonna get good return from some from another team. Because If it i if it's not to the specific team that he wants, he can always be like, yeah, this is a rental and I'm bouncing. Yeah, I'm not gonna be here. Jax: Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not resigning. Greg: So you gotta take pennies on a dollar or or whatever the case may be. 200 is is pretty steep. Not gonna hold you for especially full and guaranteed. Jax: Thanks Greg: But the fact that he brought that shit up from 170 to 200 is commendable. You know what I mean? Shout out, shout out to your agent, even though he was getting a little crazy. He was getting a little crazy. But yeah, it's I mean it it it's it's a non negotiable that he had to play good this year. He he had to play good regardless of how this contract Jax: Fair. Greg: negotiation was because his that playoff shit was garbage. It was bad. It was egregious. Jax: a crazy life. was super shock, literally shocking that everybody evolved. Everybody. Greg: He was just like, Yeah, he asked for a super he asked for a super max. I said super hell nah. I was like, Jax: You Greg: all right, like super hell nah, nigga. Like, we're not giving you the max, bro. We're not giving you that. But shit, I I hope you happy now, nigga. I need I need smiles. And I don't Jax: Yeah Greg: need and I don't need you copping no no attitudes when reporters and shit start asking you shit about the the contract negotiations and for you to clear things up and whatever the case. Don't get don't get annoyed at them niggas. Cause you brought that shit on yourself. You allowed that shit to happen. You allowed that shit to fester up. And you stayed quiet. And so Jax: He did that, he did it purposely too. Greg: Absolutely. So I'm not trying to hear no subliminals. You how some of these NBA players be all of a sudden they start posting shit on their stories like some Divas. I'm not trying to hear all that. You got your buddy lay in in. And I think the Detroit, the Detroit fan base will will shut up when you produce. specifically in the playoffs, because they don't care about the regular season. Specifically in playoffs. Damn. it was almost a cat, it was almost a cat swap, man. We almost got a Carl Anthony Town swap. Jax: I know Kate would be so happy if Kat, like Kat is really what they need. Greg: Yeah. Shit, he's still going yeah, he's still far off on on on negotiations. They want that nigga to take seventy five million less. Yuck. That's cra that's that's crazy. Jax: No, we just wanna chill. I just got married. Granted that has nothing to do with nothing, but that's what I, I'd be like, nigga, I just got married. that's beating speech allergies. Greg: They're they're hoping they're hoping they're hoping to get him on a four year two hundred million. And I'm just like Yeah. Jax: I mean, that would be a lot of money to say no to as well, what is Kaz's higher earning potential than Jalen Duran and most players in NBA? Greg: Well I mean that's de but I mean that's not the s one that's not the same contract though. Jax: do. Greg: That's like yeah, four year four yeah. The equivalent the equivalent of Jalen if you wanna do a Jalen Duran equivalent five for two hundred, yeah. Jax: Because Jalen was five for 200, Kyle would be four for 200. Greg: So yeah, you're getting ten more mil extra a year. So that's fifty a fifty Jax: the sensor. Greg: a year. So that that'd technically be like five years two fifty, which probably would Jalen Duran really want. Technically. Jax: That's I want. Shit. Greg: Nigga, give me give me the current. Give me the current two hundred bitch. Jax: You Greg: She said, I'm too easy. I would have signed the 170. You see, that's why I ain't got no agent. Jax: Shit, I would have signed Greg: Yeah. Jax: for, I would have signed to qualify now for man, fuck it. Greg: Hey, the QO? This shit, hey, this shit, just check clear, right? Fully guaranteed. Lump sum. Jax: I'll take a smooth 10 million. I'm fine with that. Fuck it. We'll see. Greg: I guess I guess treat me. Vet men. Vet minimum as a rookie is crazy. Jax: What is the vet? What's the vet man in the NBA? Is he? Greg: It might what's it like four hundred K or something? Or one point two mil? I don't know. Jax: I think it's an, Greg: Padom. Jax: this is the AI overview. So it could be wrong, but just saying that minimum Greg: Yeah, yeah. Jax: salary for the 26, 27 season ranges from two and a half million to 3.8. Greg: That sounds about right. It's two something, for sure. Jax: But yeah, if I'm into that, I'll be cool with that. I'll be cool with that. Greg: The vet men and and no NBA history. The vet men but a rookie. Crazy. Yeah, no. Jax: Greg, I do think it is about that time. Greg: The moment we've all been waiting for. It's time to give up those damn picks. God damn it, where's the damn soundboard? Where'd you at? there you go. Got where I put that bitch. We are back going into week four of NFL picks. Jax is standing at a lowly seven and ten. Had a rough album last week. Cam Ward got you all the way fucked up. And the Stewards. Jax: Man. Greg: I'm at ten and seven. Yeah, man, shout out to the Raiders, man. Shout out to the Raiders for for for cashing a check that I I brought to the table. Would have been flawless if Seattle would have lost to the Commanders. Or had Seattle beat the Commanders. But we start with a new week. And we start with Sunday night. Detroit Lions versus the Bryce Young, Carolina Panthers. Jacks, who do you have? Jax: Give me the Lions defense is bad, but give me the Lions. Cause I think a whole lot of people in the Panthers are hurt now. So I'll take the Lions. Greg: yeah, give me ooh, it's in North Carolina. Interesting. Give me the Panthers. Give me the Panthers. Monday night. NFC South standoff, the Atlanta Falcons versus the New Orleans Saints. Jax: Wasn't the Falcons just in prime time last week? Greg: Yeah, against the Packers. It was appendix appendix ba appendix Jax: These niggas Greg: debut. Jax: Yeah, give me, I'm gonna take the Saints because they're one and two, but the Saints are a good football team. They're a good football team. Greg: And I'm picked the Falcons because they're one and two, but them first two games, they didn't have pendings. They Jax: Didn't have anybody. Greg: You know what I mean? Like, they just needed somebody that can just put the ball in the vicinity. Union had to be good. Just be in the vicinity. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go Falcons with that. Even though it's in New Orleans, fuck, it's in New Orleans. I'm not changing. I can't change it. But I wish Jax: Ahem. Greg: I I wish I would have knew that before I said my pending. Jax, what's your lock of the week? Jax: My lock of the week. Give me the Vikings over the Dolphins, because Brian Flores is going to want revenge on the Dolphins. It might get ugly real fast. Greg: Yeah, and and A Chan is out for the season, so I can see I can see that being a thing. Jeez. I'm gonna stay away from the Raiders this year. this week. I'm I'm too nervous. But that's gonna I feel like that's gonna be surprisingly a good game. My lock. I got agendas. Give me the Seahawks over the Chargers. I think they bounce back and I need the Chargers to really just I I need that nail in the coffin. I need a point of no return for them niggas. Jax: You think they'd fire Jim Harbaugh? Greg: n not after that game, but I I Jax: Yeah, not at the game, but like in the seat. Like if they don't make the playoffs, you think they'd fire him. Greg: Shit, I would. I would, but you know, I don't know. Jax: That's fair. They probably want him to go back to college. If he goes back to college, will he still be suspended? Because like, he went to the NFL, he went to the NFL to escape the suspension. like, is that whole thing done? Greg: I would see him going to New York before going back to college. Jax: He don't want to coast under his brother. They've never coast under each other, so I don't think. I think if it was in a bind for money or something, his brother of course would, but they don't need no money. They rich for real. So I don't think he'd do that. Greg: Yeah. He doesn't seem like a booth nigga either. Jax: Fuck no. Greg: Yeah. He might be fucked. Jax: He'd probably be funny though, because he'd be weird. So he would be funny in the booth, because he's weirdo. Greg: He is a weirdo. I feel like it'd be more I think he's I think he's fucked collegiately. I think he would have no choice but to either be a booth nigga or be under somebody for at least like one season until like something else pops up. Maybe. Jax: I don't know, Jim Harbaugh don't seem like he, he don't seem like he take directions well. Greg: Well, he ain't he ain't no big NFL nigga though. Like he not no big NFL nigga that has done crazy things like championship wise on the NFL level to be Jax: I mean, he never had a, I don't think he had a losing season yet. He went to the Super Bowl. He won at college. Like he's a winner. He just ain't won the Super Bowl, but he also only won in college because he cheated. But I digress. Let's keep going with the Greg: Exactly. Jax: picks. Cause we got what? We got to upset now. Greg: Yeah, we got upset of the week. Jax: Yeah, my upset of the week. I'm gonna take the Jets over the Bears, because the Jets, they're not a bad football team. They just can't figure out how to win games. like, because they be getting close and then just at the end, they just fuck it up at the end. Greg: Case Keenan moved me. So I I I'm not gonna lie. That I don't know about that one, bro. No no. I can't I can't do the Giants. Let me see. Damn, the bucks are 0 3? Fuck. Jax: And Baker hurt. Greg: They got yeah, they got a black quarterback coming in. Jax: He was, I've seen him play at Kansas. They not play with him at NCAA. He not, or going to NCAA, he not that bad. Like I liked using him. And Greg: Yeah, Jax: he was, he was nice in the preseason as well. Like I don't think, I don't think it's going to be horrible, but the Bucks are also 0-3. Greg: well, I hate doing shit like this. I have no choice. Yeah, give me the Cowboys. Give me the Cowboys over the Texans. I Jax: You Greg: literally there was no other team that I just Jax: I would have found a way. I would have found another team. Greg: I can't. I can't because I don't need the Eagles to win. I wouldn't mind the Bucks winning but I just don't believe it. I don't believe it yet. Yeah, give it Cowboys 'cause they need to win. Th th this is a must win. We have to win. Jax: Both teams this is a must win for both teams because if the Texans don't win their season is over And if the Cowboys Greg: Yeah. Jax: don't win, I don't think the Cowboys season is over But if the Cowboys don't win this season some bullshit like it's not over but it's some bullshit. It's already some bullshit, Greg: This is yeah. It's unfortunate. Jax: but like It could be it could be a little bit more. I don't Greg: And and the Texans beat us like the last two times. I'm like, nigga, go go beat these niggas, bro. Shit. Jax: That's also true. Greg: So but that that that concludes our picks and it is time for the hot takes of the week. Jax, what's your take? Jax: This hurts me to say, but when Cam Ward said keeping it a buck, we ass, that ruined his, that cursed him, that ruined his chances with the team. I don't think, I don't think it's going to work out in Tennessee. I don't think Cam Ward is bad, but cause he has all the talent in the world, but it don't look good. Like the jerseys look good, but that's about it. Like the team don't look good. They're not scoring. They're not moving the ball on offense. Receivers not open Tony Pollard is and like he'd be I but he's not really that good in the more because he's old for a running back like I think it's just It's not gonna work out in Tennessee for Ken Ward. I think he needs to He might have to go through like a Baker Mayfield type thing like Greg: Damn. Jax: Is that a little too, is that too hard? too much? Like I just saying he needs, he needs a new opportunity. Greg: It's too too soon. It's only year two. Jax: Exactly, hey, if they, if the bugs keep being, I'm not the bugs, but if the Titans keep being ass and they get the number one overall pick, they gonna wanna move off of Ken Ward, even though I don't think there's any good quarterbacks coming up in this upcoming draft. But still, I think they're gonna wanna move off of Ken Ward. Cause people are getting upset. Like reporters hate him already. They see him. throwing the ball on nonchalant or whatever. Greg: Yeah. Jax: People getting mad at him and everything. So I don't know, man. I really wanted to work out for Ken Moore because like I said, I do think he's a good quarterback, but it might not be in Tennessee for him. And that hurts me just because I think he's good. Greg: Yeah. And I think that I think that goes into my hot take. And we do have I think we have parallel hot takes this year or this week. Because my hot take is we need to let these NFL young quarterbacks sit. We gotta let them niggas sit. We need to normalize letting these niggas sit for a year. Give them the Jordan Love. Jax: I agree. Greg: Give them the Jordan Love treatment. I remember we used to go back and forth on like what was the right thing to do, you know, start them niggas day one or flow them in. Yeah. After watching Case Kingdom, yeah, man, sit these niggas, bro. Sit sit them. Let them niggas pick up learn clipboard. Learn learn the offense, learn how to read a defense, not be all that stuff, Jax: Learn game management, learn signals and audibles. Greg: audibles, calling shit on the play. The version of Dak Prescott that you see was not the same version of Dak Prescott that we saw in twenty sixteen. We saw that nigga grow, learn. throw the ball, get progressively better with his arm. He always had an arm, but like progressively just learn his reads Jax: Yeah, I guess. Greg: and all that stuff. And yes, he got thrown out there. But we did see the progression. Yo, everybody's not gonna be Caleb Williams. Everybody's not gonna be Jaden Daniels. Everybody's not gonna be Drake the schedule May. Everybody's not gonna have a good schedule like Drake May. You know? Jax: Which might be a good thing. Which might be a good thing. Greg: So yeah, I I think we do need to start at the default drafting QBs in the first round, stashing them and letting them grow under whoever the the QB that you have. Now if your QB is dog shit, go get a better veteran. There's still some there are there are some veterans. You do not have to get stuck. Jax: Case Keenum is right there. Greg: Exactly. Y'all I hear talking about some Cam Warton shit and you know the nigga that's in front of him is Will Levis. That was a choice. You could have moved off and found a veteran. There's a veteran everywhere. You can find a veteran any and everywhere that will take a bag. Kirk Cousins is looking great and I think Ferman Fernando Mendoza is in a great spot right now. Jax: Yeah, I don't think don't think Mendoza gonna play unless unless you know Kirk gets hurt, which I don't you can't Greg: Exactly. Jax: predict that but I don't think he's gonna play this season and he shouldn't the Raiders look good, Like Kirk might get another Greg: They look good, bro. So yeah, like, you know. Jax: Kirk might get himself another contract with somebody. Greg: He might get another bag. Yes, because he knows how to fucking read a defense. He knows how to like he's a quarterback. He's developed. Develop these young QBs. I think I think we should do that. But I think people have gotten so comfortable with this this per Jax: Throw him out there to start. Greg: Yeah, the start, but like this perception that you can get like a a quick Super Bowl ring or a Super Bowl run in in a rookie contract and it just never happens. Jax: Yes. Greg: They get so enamored of like, yeah, let's let's find some success here and like let's push the envelope. Jax: I remember when that conversation all started, with Russell Wilson, when the Seahawks were good, when he was super young, people were like, we can, this is how we gotta do it, get a young quarterback and blah, blah. No, that's hard to do. You need a real juggernaut to win the team or to win a Super Bowl on somebody's rookie contract. That doesn't really happen like that. Greg: Yeah, and it's and it only and it only and you only garnered real success because we started moving to more mobile quarterbacks. The traditional Jax: Yeah Greg: in the pocket drop step quarterbacks that you had no choice but to read the defense. Yeah, you couldn't just throw them niggas out there with a bad old line. They wouldn't survive and you'd fuck up his confidence. So, yeah, you could get the Lamar Jackson that can run outside the pocket and then extend the play and then it turns broken or whatever, but Jax: Lamar Jackson, a quarterback who also sat for most of his rookie season and then Flacco got Greg: Absolutely. Jax: hurt and he came in. Greg: Absolutely. Bryce Bryce Young he started out like it got so bad for the nigga that they benched him a couple games just to kind of just calm that nigga down. Came back from the benching, Jax: And he got. Greg: got the hooping. Jax: Yeah. Greg: We need to start sitting our young co QBs that they don't know how to read a defense. The average young QB that's coming you think nine know how you nine don't know how to read no fucking defense. Jax: 9 to 9, 3. Greg: I mean, Bone Niggas not really reading no defense. There ain't no niggas really out here. They just simplify Tom Brady said the best. They just simplifying the playbook just to the knees, but they not read no fucking defense. Yeah, no. And you're gonna have more Cam Wards, more Will Levises, more CJ Strouds, more nines. You're gonna have them continuing to come into this league. And then fizzle out super fast because they don't have sustainability like these old niggas. Case Keatum is still in the league because he can read. Joe Flacco stayed in this league for a long time because he could read. They brought back Phillip Rivers from the corpse. Still could read a little bit. He just he just his arm was just kind of crazy, but he could still read. He could still read, nigga. That's crazy. That's my that's my hot take. Make these niggas read again. Tell them niggas to open the book up. Yeah man. Jax, any last words? Jax: go outside, you know, go touch some grass. Although I think it's supposed to like have some crazy storms. People been saying Greg: Really? Jax: that and it's rained a little bit here, but it hasn't went crazy, so I'm a little bit worried about that 'cause I feel like it's just charging up, but I digress. Still go outside, touch some grass, feel the rain on your skin, all that. And yeah. Greg: I understand the the the kids that were in special needs classes, th they grow up and they become adults, okay? And when they become adults They use social platforms just like you. They use TikTok, they use Twitter, they use all of the social platforms. So keep that in mind when you are going back and forth with people that you think don't have common sense. Okay. Let's not waste, let's not waste Jax: 'Cause they don't. Greg: our breath on people that used to be in special ed classes. That's not a diss, that's not a shade. That's just being truthful. to my future employers that may see this. You also know it's true. with that being said, you will catch y'all niggas next week. Do the Jax: It's content. It's content. Greg: do the non do the knowledge. It's onyx nigga. We'll catch y'all niggas next week.