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Episode 163: We Predict Who Wins NFL Week 1 · Play 4 Keeps Podcast

• Greg: 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. a lot of a lot of anniversaries, a lot of remembrance. that's crazy Jax: Happy nine eleven to all those who celebrate. Greg: the way to phrase it. But we remember these days. Salute. A lot of, a lot of a lot of other anniversaries that people don't Jax: Ha ha ha. Greg: Think about, you know, a year ago, something else happened. five years ago, The infamous crate challenge was at a peak, at a rise. You remember that? I know you remember that. Jax: Tal five years ago. Greg: That was five years ago. Jax: Sure. Greg: Old as fuck, huh? No, I'm just saying it was a lot of anniversaries. Jax: What they gotta do with nine eleven? Like Greg: I'm just saying, I'm just telling you that there was just a lot of anniversaries in general. You know what I mean? I'm not trying to point, Jax: Yeah. Greg: I'm not trying to point to one or the other. You know what I mean? Some Jax: Okay. Greg: deadly, some not. Jax: Nah, that crate challenge was daily. That crate challenge was daily. I don't people doing that was crazy, bro. I don't get it, man. I don't get it. Greg: It was the fact that I saw older niggas that was doing that shit. Like niggas with great hairs that was trying to get that shit off. And I'm like, bro, what are we doing? Jax: That pandemic did a lot of damage to everybody's mind, bro. They was just gonna it was a cry. The great challenge was a cry for help. That was really all it was. That was really all it was. Greg: Recess recession indicator for sure. Somebody gives you a STEMI and your next idea is to go and get up on the fucking crates and spend that STIMI medical bills. That's that was a choice. That was a that was a choice. I was still in col no, I had just graduated. I had just graduated college. Damn. But we got things to talk about today. Don't know if it's a lot. But the way we app, it might be Jax: Ha ha ha. Greg: you never know with us. You never know with us. first things first. if you're a casual, this is the show for you. I'm your host, Greg. This is my host, Jax. Welcome to the show. If you are a casual, this is the show for you. Let's get into some donations real quick as I find my buttons. Donations. Donations. Here comes the money. Here we go. Money talks. Here comes the money. Yeah, man. It's donation time. You know, you th you thought you was gonna get two buttons, here go three. But I just need you to do your little part. I'm not gonna ask you for two thousand dollars. For three thousand unless that's Jax: Is it? Greg: going to a house or something. But other than I'm not gonna ask you for that for no spending money. You know what I mean? But if I need you, I need you to be there. To do your part. To do your little part, man. Jax: That was that was it's crazy, the Niners ain't even need bro. The Niners ain't even need Greg: And you saw and you saw that nigga got injured, number seven? he just gonna stay like one more month? my Jax: Yeah. And they was like, man, if he just if he just held out if it just lasted just a little bit longer. Greg: god Jax: You seen that video he Greg: Mm-hmm. Jax: got arrested wearing when he when he got picked up by the feds, he was wearing like Niners gear and had like his helmet and all. Greg: He had this helmet? Did they confiscate it? That's fucking nuts. That was his bread and butter. Jax: I'm pretty s I mean, I don't think they let him keep them. I don't know. I mean, they take they when you go they take everything. So they might they probably took that. They probably took it. Greg: Damn. Damn. Damn. He was fucked up, man. And we ain't like Jax: Free him. Greg: we like like what like Dejaan said, bro. We not asking for $2,000. We not asking for that. Just do your little part donate, man. Shout out, shout out to another donator. Shout out to Book. Book just donated $5, like literally like a couple hours ago. Shout out to that man. You know what I mean? And since Jax doesn't Ebo, I got a button for him too. Boop boop boop boo. Ha! Hit the roly start with the roly on. Ha! Hit the rolly start with the roly on. Come on, man. That's how we feelin'. That's how we feelin'. All right. Enough of the enough of the tomfoolery. Let's get into the things that we do not care about. First things up. If you have not been focused on the US Open, I'm here to tell you. These niggas have been hooping. Now Jax: They have yeah. Greg: One of the great one of the best matches, I understand if you didn't stay up for that, that lasted to like at least for East East Coast standard time, three thirty in the morning. Yeah, like three thirty in the morning, you know. Jax: It was like three over there. Yeah. I I'm not gonna I was I was watching that 'cause I had fi I forget what I had finished watching on Netflix. But I was like, this game's still on. Let me I think it was like the third set. I was like, okay, I'll tap and I'll probably be finished soon. Two hours later, bro. I'm like, bro, why are they still going? But it was amazing. It was amazing. Greg: Literally I couldn't even I couldn't even I couldn't even do it. I like I tried. Jax: And we're talking we're talking about the Alcaraz and Ben Shelton. we're talking about that. If you guys were confused on what we were talking about, we're talking about that match. Yeah. Greg: Yes. Yeah. My bad, my bad. Yeah. Absolutely. Al Caraz has really been whooping shit for the past couple years, the last few years. He's cold. Jax: He's cold. Yeah. Greg: Always been getting the best of Ben Shelton. Ben Shelton is like on the come up. And literally I had work literally at eight in the morning. I was like, fuck, I can't do it, bro. Like I had to tap out at like one thirty ish. I was like, fuck it. And that's and that was after that w I don't think that was the same day as T TFO. I was watching TFO. That was a good match too. Jax: I mean I got I got the T off o show right around Greg: Well Jax: the T V over there. Greg: TFO was down two sets on the like on the ropes. That nigga was about to lose and that nigga came back 2 0. And you need three sets to win in this bitch. Jax: Yeah. Greg: and then of course, on the women's side, the ladies just as dominant. always shout out Taylor Thompson. Jax: Shout out Taylor Townsend, best best tennis women's tennis player ever. Not ever. Let me let me stop capping, it's still screen. Let me s let me stop capping. Greg: god, on gosh she is. No no ain't no no no biasness, actually. Zero biasness. Real Jax: Ha ha ha. Greg: analytical. It's what was it? R N A? That's what it that's what it's Jax: Ha ha Greg: man. But we're about a few days Jax: Yeah, if you if you ain't been tapped in though, tap in 'cause US Open is is really good going crazy, so Greg: Yeah, we probably got like a few more days left before it's over. So the this is probably you're you're Jax: Yeah. Honestly. If you ain't tapped in it's too late actually. Greg: at the best of the best right now. Like you gotta catch these last ones. but next We do not care. We do not care. Had to do an audible real quick because we didn't talk about it last week. That Spurs announcer that got caught cheating got his job back. Jax: yes. Greg: Got his job back. Well, he do it. Jax: Shout out to him, I guess. Greg: God is good. Jax: Don't don't cheat on your wife or whatever, but also like that was a look they did a whole lot. They did a whole lot to him, bro. Like he didn't need to lose his livelihood. Like, don't cheat on your wife. Do cheat on your wife, but like it wasn't that serious. It was not. Greg: I'm seeing. Cooler heads did prevail in that moment. hopefully he pieced it up with everybody that he needed to piece it up with. Probably not his girl. Or maybe his you know, you know. Jax: Maybe she's looking back. I don't I we no we have no idea. Greg: Have no comment. Let me go ahead and move on, man. We do not before I say something out of pocket. Next thing Western Michigan versus Michigan. One of the college football controversies that we'll be talking about for quite a while. I'm lying, but it'll it'll be like an anniversary thing. Jax: Ha ha ha. Greg: Like a one-year anniversary. For people that didn't know, Western Michigan beat Michigan. and I I understand that people are about to say. But but the score says otherwise. No, nigga, if you saw that game, you know there was Jax: Yes. Greg: zero seconds left on that clock when Michigan was trying to make that play. The refs interceded. They came up with some bullshit that made zero sense to the common man. they were wrong out here. Absolutely. Jax: Because they were wrong. In fact, I have it, I have it right here, actually. Let me. You can see the screen right. Greg: Absolutely. Jax: Alright, now this is the play of one Michigan is a power five score. They should be stomping Western Michigan out no matter what. It did not happen. Greg: Absolutely. Jax: I think the score was what was scored? Hold up. All right, yeah. Western Michigan was up 12 Greg: Like twelve to six, right? Or twelve to seven. Jax: to 7 with one with literally one second left. And Michigan tried to throw Hail Mary. Rather it was nine seconds left, my fault. And he threw that ball, he threw the ball straight out of bounds, time expired. Until the rest were like, wait, hold on. And they reviewed it for some for some odd reason. I didn't think it needed a review, but Greg: Yeah, who does stupid shit like that? Jax: yeah, but they reviewed and they brought up the big clock. And they sells the throat. The ball's out of bounds, no time left. The game should be over, right? And then for whatever reason, the rest were like, you know what? I think it's one second left. And they put that one second back on the clock. Michigan got one last chance. And they threw a Hail Mary again. That is tiny number ninety six. I hate that so much. There we go. They got the chance to throw it again through a Hail Mary. They caught it and they said Michigan won. Now the Mac the what is Mac Sanford? Mid-Atlantic? You say what? Greg: Yes, Mac. Mid At yeah, mid Atlantic. Jax: Yeah, the Mid-Atlantic Conference, that's the conference Western Michigan is. They put in a a official like complaint or what have you to the NCAA saying, hey, the ref did this shit wrong and we did not lose this game. they declared that replay protocol was not properly followed, and they filed a formal appeal to get the game overturned and to be recognized as winner. I don't think it's going to happen but like it need like they won that game. I don't get Greg: And these are Jax: it. They won that game. So it's real deal, unfair. That's yeah, that's not Greg: Yeah. And this is this is at like the the Matt conference like it literally initially stood by the initial whatever the they said. Jax: No, I think it was a co it was a coach. I think the coach cause the coach he was just like, you what, I'm not even gonna bother trying to appeal this 'cause I know it's a moot point. And I low key like I get it 'cause that's real, 'cause he knows he knows they're not finna change the score. But the like said the Matt com the Greg: Nothing not for no smaller school like yeah. Jax: the whole conference was like, No, this is unfair. So hopefully something happens. I highly doubt it, but you never know. Greg: You never know. But I mean, I think the best thing you could do was get Michigan out of the top twenty-five in the in the following week. Jax: Are they out? I thought they were I thought they were like twenty. Greg: no, they're out. They're out. So that was probably the best thing Jax: Praise God. They didn't deserve it. They didn't deserve it. Greg: that you could do to get some sort of justice, but like you know, like we said, we we we don't care, but that was some bullshit. That was some hoe shit. and Jax: Yeah. Greg: f finally, last but not least, Bradley. Bill is switching his number from whatever the fuck he had, I kinda forgot his n his original number Jax: No. Greg: to the number three. mind you, he plays for the Clippers and mind you, C P three had that number first. Jax: In fact, when CP3, when they like the Clippers hoed him horribly and basically excommunicated him and fired him, they didn't release him, they fired him for real. But he said that during this whole conversation with the Clippers and the franchise and the staff, they were like, no, number three, you're a Clipper legend. We're gonna retire your number no matter what. And now you're giving it to Bradley Beal. And I think before Chris Paul, nobody had worn that. Like before Bradley, before this, like nobody had worn that number other than Chris Paul. So it's just like, what are we even talking about? It's just another. I mean, I I guess Steve Ballmer has bigger fish to fry, considering, you know, everything going on. But he can he can throw one more fish in that pot and fry this situation as well. Cause I don't I don't get I just don't get how I don't get anything the clips are doing, honestly. They poverty franchise overused, but they are poverty franchise. And like they didn't like Greg: They they are like the wor they are like the worst franchise ever, nigga. Jax: historically they have been, but like the PR was coming back. Like Steve Bormer was doing good until he wasn't, and now he's just doing everything bad, bro. I don't know. Greg: He just don't know how to he just don't know how to recover well when when you can't throw money at s that's what happens. When you can't throw money at certain situations. Jax: Yeah. Yeah. Greg: It it it it lets me know you know, how how good you could bounce back. and he's not doing a good job right now. Now he'll have a whole year to figure it out and learn. Jax: Mm-hmm. Greg: He can brush up, figure some shit out, 'cause you got a year to figure it out. Jax: He said he's gonna he's st he's still thinking about it trying to do some type of appeal or isn't I like a I don't know if he's going to, but he's still thinking about it. He's still maybe Greg: Yeah, I bet. I bet. Okay. Jax: that suspension will be shorter than a year. Greg: Hey, we'll find but hey, we'll find out, little nigga. and Jax: Yeah. Greg: then from from Bradley Bill's perspective, look, I'm not here to tell you that that nigga's supposed to give a fuck. I'm not here to tell you that. I'm not here to tell you I'm I'm not even here to the to say he should be reading the room. That's not his job. Cause like I said with the Kawhi thing, somebody has to approve this. Somebody you have to go through certain things for this to actually happen. But what you can't do with as as a Bradley Bill person is act like you don't understand what the fuck is going on. Or just feel or just be intentionally obtuse about it. When when I was seeing his responses or like stuff on Twitter before he started to clean it up, he was like, this this what y'all this is what y'all talking about? This nigga, don't piss me off. Jax: Is this like yes, Brad. Yes, this is exactly what we're talking about. Greg: You know why the fuck this is a thing, bro? And and and and stop acting obtuse, like we just allow all of our legends to have yeah, there it go. He said, Is that the topic of the day? LOL, yes, bitch ass nigga. What the fuck Jax: Yeah. He's a he's this the topic of the day? Yes, but there's nothing else about right. Greg: are you talking about? And then he tried to clean it up. He's a legend. The history and brand can't be touched. Yet you're touching his fucking jersey, nigga. And a wrist. Jax: All over the history. Hands all on the history. Greg: We doing the same shit that Rudy Gobert did pre-COVID. Nigga, you do all that shit, bro. I don't want to fucking hear it. And and like I said, we not talking about no Jalen Green, nigga. We not talking about like no other, we're not even talking about like no Tracy McGrady. We are talking about somebody that is top three all time at his position under any s we've never had a situation where niggas was. Wearing another nigga's jersey in the meantime, especially when we know it's gonna get sent into the rafters, when we're talking about somebody of that stature. Like I understand that he's not gonna get his jersey retired right here, right now. And technically it's not. There's plenty of people in Houston, although James Harden's jersey is retired in clubs. I know with the Rockets, nobody's touching number 13 until James Harden retires and they. officially put it in the Raptors. We're not putting that we're not giving that nigga jersey up on some it's it's it's gonna get retired at some point. Yeah, we know, but it's the principal fuck nigga. Y'all are terrible. Jax: Yeah, it's just it's just the the optics, bro. Like like you say, you're not telling Brad to Greg: And it's and you've been in the news. Jax: read the room, but you have to read the room, brother. Greg: You've been in the news not just for the whole offseason, a whole calendar year. So yes, you it's just like the nigga that keeps fucking up in the relationship. And in other circumstances, this would be bad, but like people would get over it. But no, this is just one added thing to what's already going on because you own bullshit all year. Like, I'm gonna hear that shit. You're terrible. Fuck y'all. Jax: Yeah, probably. Greg: Fuck y'all niggas, bro. And I I don't even be defending C P like this. But it do get to a point, my nigga. Like, what are we doing? Y'all don't even have a rich history. Y'all have no history, actually. You don't have nobody with no rings, no Jax: They have a they have Greg: MVPs. Jax: Do they have any retired numbers? They now they have to have at least one. Who? I don't know. But like Greg: Maybe. I don't know. Who maybe. When you have a history like that, yeah, you got some you probably got some bullshit up there. Jax: Yeah. Greg: Let me not disrespect 'cause maybe it's somebody cold. Like I Dominique Wilkins played there and I know World B Free played there, but like I don't I don't know the rich history of the of the Clippers like that. Jax: Neither did Steve Baumer, I feel. The Clippers don't ha I mean, they number six is retired 'cause of Bill Russell, because everybody retired number six. But Greg: Love Russell, yeah, for sure. Absolutely. Jax: other than that, they don't have any single retired numbers. Greg: This is going to be the first retired jersey in Clippers history and you just throwing it out. You just giving it out to people. Jax: All right man, let's move these let's talk about some other Greg: Fucking tragic. Jax: let's talk about some different bats. We're gonna talk about the clippers some more courts. But Greg: More hey, some more bullshit. You wanna talk about some more bullshit, Jacks? Nigga, goddamn. Jax: Actually, s since we're on the Clippers, bro, let's just keep it on the Clippers, bro. We already let's get let's get into the real topic since we are like I said, we already on the Clippers. But we are we talked about this last week. You know, the Clippers they done got caught with the Kawhi thing. They've been punished, they got multiple bans for multiple people, et cetera. Greg: Absolutely. Jax: And we're like, okay, Kawhi, you know, he's and also there's still more there's more to be discovered. I know like the SEC is investigating, like the FBI, all like the all the big three-letter agencies are investigating the Clippers and consequently Kawhi Leonard because these improper benefits. But a Greg: The Justice yeah, the Justice Department is yeah, for sure. Jax: lot of people have been like, you know, Kawhi only got fined 700,000. He's getting to leave. he getting was he's getting a slap on the wrist. But the trade between the Clippers and Raptors still have not gone through. And now people are starting to wonder: like, are the Clippers holding off on the trade or considering something? drastic, you know, to Matsu quote to spite Kawhi Leonard for accepting the league's punishment rather than, you know, pushing an appeal. Cause if Kawhi doesn't appeal then Steve Ballmer can't appeal. And Steve Ballmer definitely wants to appeal because he hates these niggas. So Greg: Absolutely. I think when it first came out, I think I don't know if the Clippers organization was hiding behind a quote like this or sources like this. I don't know who came out with it. But I think at first everybody's reasoning was, okay, well, like, maybe it's just because, you know, Balmer is out and Balmer suspended, and then the person under Balmer He suspended for like six months or a year. So maybe it's like they're trying to figure out who's the next man in charge to like figure out like who can push this trade. And then the NBA came out, Jax: Yeah. Greg: or Adam Silver was like, hey, hold on, nigga. I and the NBA is not stopping y'all from pushing this trade through. The only reason why it's being held off is because the teams are held off. so. What my belief is, and I could be terribly wrong, but what my belief is, is that If it's not b, if it's not for bomb, I'm taking bomb out the equation because I'm in my mind, Jax: Yeah. Greg: he's suspended, so he can't even have a negotiation of whatever fuck, technically speaking. I'm Jax: Yeah. Greg: thinking the office is saying, hey, when we made this trade, we made this trade, still having five first round picks. I think that it may be a failed attempt, but they're like still trying to be like, okay, like. Can we finesse like maybe one more draft pick? Like can we like fix this deal up that so that it can kind of feel a little bit better than what the initial trade was? And I'm not saying that it's gonna be a successful thing, but I think that they're like reviewing the trade because Jax: It won't. Greg: this was a trade made before they thought that Adam Silver Hammer was finna come through. Pause and leave it. Anything that Jax: Like they knew they knew something was gonna happen, they didn't think it'd be all of the shit to happen. Greg: Yeah. So I think they're trying to finesse like maybe like one more pick, maybe a second round of something. And if it doesn't happen, then me personally, I would just say, hey, be grateful for the for the two first round picks you gonna get. That that's me personally. Cause cause it 'cause Jax: Get get ready get ready to learn Brandon Ingram. Be grateful. Greg: if a nigga like if if I was an Adam Silver nigga, I would have blocked the trade to begin with. No, you not getting picks regardless. Nigga, you're not getting picks via trade. Fuck no. Hell no. Anything dealing with Kawhi? Hell no. But now if you w and if you want to have the conspiracy theory of, you know, Balmer is still like pissed and the Clippers organization is pissed at Kawhi, which I did see reports about, and they're trying to like spike Kawhi because they they don't they don't they don't like how Kawhi is just being scathed free or whatever. Or they're pissed that that he took the the plea deal or the or settled with them. Jax: Yeah. Greg: I'm not saying that that's a bad take. I just feel like the more like reasonable take is, hey, I'm just trying to coop up some some extra assets. But get what you hey, you get what you get and you don't throw a fit. I think Jack said that literally like before the pie, like that that's that's that's how I would summarize it. Brandon Ingram's not that bad, bro. Like just Jax: He not Kawhi, but Brennan he'll probably be health well, will he be healthier than Kawhi? Greg: He would. He he Jax: missing games. I they both be missing games, but Kawhi be missing games, for real, for real. Greg: Is he still with Glow River? Jax: I assume so. I don't know. Greg: No, okay. Well, you know, you know how these niggas be. I don't know. One day y'all Jax: Fair. Greg: good, one day, next day a nigga business just out on the streets. Jax: Listen, you know. But all right, let's Greg: Yeah. Jax: k let's keep let's keep going with the basketball. Cause it's it's some more nonsense going on. This time it's more like this isn't or this I wanna call this organizational nonsense though. It's just I don't think it's a it's like a player just being stupid, I feel like. And that player is Jalen Dern, the what was he? He was a second team was he first or second team All NBA? I'm not entirely I don't remember, but he was an all-MBA player. He played amazing in the regular season, but then the playoffs came and he went from man to mouse. And Per League sources, Detroit's la and they've been in a contract the Jalen Darren and the Pistons have been in a contract battle this entire like end of last season until now. And it's saying per league sources, Detroit's last offer was a five-year deal in the $190 million range. And Durin, who is eligible to receive a five-year, $287 million contract, is seeking at least $200 million. As is the case with any player's contract negotiation, the use of player or team options in the deal significantly impacts the final number. And Dern has been like back and forth trying to get this contract thing situated and I understand the like I understand Jalen Duran side of yes he wants more money, but I really understand Detroit side because nigga, we we needed one more score in the play like that's it. We just needed one consistent score in the playoffs. And you are our all NBA, you are a young, talented all NBA center. And Cade Cunningham is our superstar point guard. And he's just begging the team, please, I need just just some help, just one more person. And you look Cade Cunningham in his face and said, I'm not gonna help you today. And you said that for 12 straight games. Cause y'all won one series without you playing good. Then y'all then the next series, you still didn't play good and y'all lost. And it's just like Jalen Dern, you have to be so fucking for real, so serious, bro. You Have all the potential in the world, but like you didn't you you didn't ride to the occasion. It worries the pistons. That's why they're not trying to give you this bread. But like splitting hairs over ten million dollars. Greg: This nigga that nigga said, and they said, on top of that, when you said that, just like they're hesitant, they not even that hesitant to give you five years 190. That was the last, Jax: That's a like. Greg: that was the last offer you got. The last offer that you got was five years 190 million dollars. Jax: And now it's saying he wants to take Greg: What are we talking about? Jax: now it's saying he wants to, he's seriously considering taking the qualifying offer, which would be a one year 9.6 million dollar deal and then just becoming an outright unrestricted free agent. Play that game if you want. Play that game if you want. But you are staring 190 million dollars in the face right now. And you're gonna be like, mm, let me pass that up. And Durin, like, he hasn't even really been having much contact with the team, Saying he didn't go to the team minicamp that K coordinated. He didn't attend the Labor Day Party of the team owner. Like he hasn't really been tapped in with his team. Like you're missing. Now it's sort of getting into the chemistry, like, brother. And then the acting no, the worst part about all of this is that he said he's willing to join the Kings. Nobody wants to the only people who want to join the Kings is Ben Simmons. And he didn't even really want to join the Kings. Or he just wanted to be in the NBA, bro. Please, Jalen, don't be an idiot. Greg: Where where is Jalen from? I'm gonna look it up real quick. Jax: I wanna say Florida, but I could be so wrong. Actually, I have a laptop right here. I'm like, why am I why am I I'm like, why am I using my phone? My laptop's right in front of me. Greg: You think you got all the technology in the world? Pennsylvania. Jax: All right, Jalen Duran is from Philly or Sharon Hill. I don't know what it is. But he went to high school Greg: Or Shannon Hill. I don't know where that said though. Jax: in he went to Mont Verde later on, but he's born and raised from Philly and stuff. Greg: Okay, man. It's just niggas don't niggas don't talk to Dennis Schroeder enough, man. Like niggas don't talk to Dennis Schroeder. Jax: Yeah. Was it Dennis was Dennis Shorter one his teammates or no. Did he end up playing? I was like, was Darren there? Greg: Well, I Dennis Schroeder played for the Pistons at one point. I don't know if their their fates collide. I mean, Derrick's there been there since twenty twenty two or twenty twenty one or he'd been there for Jax: Yeah, I'm finna pull it around here. Greg: a little minute. Jax: Yeah. Sort of nah, I don't think they played together. Greg: Maybe not. Jax: Just missing it. Greg: But it's just like my nigga, like You wanna be you wanna be a you ten mil short. What you think you is you think you a man Thompson? 'Cause 'cause the men Jax: I'm not gonna lie, if I'm Jalen Durant and I see Amin Thompson get 200 million dollars, I'm a little bit like, come on now. I'm not saying he's better than I'm not saying he's better. I'm not saying he's Greg: You should be saying, Come on to yourself. You should be saying, Come on to yourself. Jax: worse. I'm just saying, like, I'd be like, come on, bro. He getting 200 and I can't. Greg: You saying come you you say come on a hoodoo. You know what mean? You should be looking in the Jax: I'm saying Greg: mirror and saying, Come on, my nigga. Cause you you have every right to say I'm more skilled than a man, I do X, Y, and Z, but a nigga Jax: Yeah. Greg: that quote unquote can't shoot was more productive than to than you in the playoffs. Jax: Ain't no quote unquote. But you're also true on the in the you're also true. He did outperform in the playoffs. Greg: Like he had he does not have a jump shot and yet still found a way to be productive five inches shorter than you, playing in the dunker spot. Jax: The spot you should be he really like if you play like I'm in Thompson. Greg: Like, he's playing your position, nigga. You let niggas like I know, like we need to understand. Do you realize Jax: Ha ha ha. Greg: podcasts ago, we were out here going to the Cleveland Cavaliers depth chart and seeing how many rebounds niggas was out rebounding Jalen Durin, and we had to count Jax: Yeah. Greg: with at least more than one hand, and three of them niggas were guards that out rebounded this nigga? Jax: And rebound is supposed be his bag, bro. Like Greg: Like that's true. You're a big man, nigga. We're not talking about the Wendell quarters in the world. Because, you know, passionate fans of the Detroit Pistons were willing to say maybe that was just a bad matchup. Maybe you were just in your head. Just move forward to the next matchup and opponent. Because, hey, you know, anything's possible. We're thinking Jared Allen and Evan Mobley might be rebounding you. We were seeing Max Struce numbers. We were looking Jax: Yeah. Greg: at. Niggas that have less melanin than you get up higher. I'm not trying to hear none of that shit. You should absolutely feel like, damn, you should be saying, come on, my nigga, in May's voice. Come on, my nigga. You should be saying it to yourself. Crazy. Jax: Like in the regular season, I just have I just when we looked up where he was from, I was still on his Wikipedia. And just looking at his numbers, his regular season number you can see the screen, right? Greg: Yeah, I can see Jax: All right, baby. Regular season numbers last year, 19 and a half points, ten and a half rebounds, seventy-five percent from free throw line, sixty-five percent from the field. In the playoffs, ten points. eight and a half rebound, sixty-seven percent from the free throw, fifty-one percent from the field as a big man. Bro, you fell off you averaged half of everything. Greg: Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Like you cut everything in half, bro. Everything. And some of those, and some of those playoff games, that's your average. Some of them playoff games were worse. That stat line alone, right now, as an average, is bad. But there were games that were worse than that said average stat line. Jax: Yes. Greg: It was horrendous, nigga. And you got dunked on. Jax: Play as fuck up. But still Jalen, come on, murder. Greg: Mm. Yeah, all right, nigga. Come on, game. Where's your pride, bro? Jax: So Jalen Duran, I know you Jalen Duran, I know you're not watching, but if for some reason you stumble on this, just take the money, dog. Like be so for real. Just take just take it. Just take the money, Greg: And you know hey, Jax: bro. Greg: you know what's trending on our podcast right now? There's a certain video that's like been super trending. You remember a long time ago we had watched the Jalen the Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, they had that podcast. Jax: Yeah, it would clip from it though. Greg: We yeah, we we watched a clip of like a Knicks fan going crazy on the movies. Get some get some Jax: like going cra yeah. Yeah. Greg: W's, nigga. Get some d you light skinned bitch. Like that's been trending like we got like five thousand views in like the last two weeks, nigga. I don't know what happened. Well, of course the Knicks won the championship, but like it's just in rotation. But nigga, get some W's, nigga. Lock it like lock it in, you know what I mean? Because yes, I agree. You with your skill set and your height, you should be right at right where wherever a min Thompson's contract, if not higher. I agree. You didn't show that in the playoffs. Jax: Yeah. Greg: At all, nigga. And the fact that you're not even willing to take 18 mil less than a nigga like a min. Your asking price is 200 mil, you're 10 mil off, and you're thinking that's disrespectful. Nigga, what you put and displayed on the playoffs was disrespectful. Because at the end of the day, Max Struuss on multiple games out rebounded you. You feel disrespected. The basketball community feels disrespected, my nigga. Catch a break. Actually, send that nigga to Sacramento. Hey, Jax: Forget the basketball community. Cade Cunningham feels this Greg: if he wanna go to Sacramento, hey, send that nigga to Sacramento, man. If he wanna go there. I've never seen somebody just excited to go there. He only going there because he knows Sacramento might be able to give that nigga the money he wants. Go over there. Go over there then. Jax: Yeah. He's he wanna go there 'cause he knows Sacramento will pay anybody to to play. Greg: Yeah, bad poor poverty. Bad. Basura, nigga. Yeah. Jax: okay. Greg: He d he don't want to win. That's what it sounds like. Cause how you Cause how 'cause how Jax: He clearly didn't want to win. We we saw what happened. He clearly didn't want to win. Greg: you giving a high how you leave a hundred a hundred and ninety on the pi on the table? Dennis Schroeder would have a heart attack, nigga. Jax: Denn sort of not made that mistake. Greg: Ma Malik Beasley would kill somebody, nigga. He might be somebody ass. They they they they didn't let too many real niggas leave the Detroit organization Jax: Yeah. Greg: to shake this nigga by the shoulders and say, hey nigga, hey, it ain't it ain't it ain't greener on the other side, my nigga. Like just take that take that bread, bro. They love you. Come on, bro. And you're gonna get more Jax: All right, man. Greg: pissed because Asan Thompson gonna get an Amend Thompson. Similar deal, bro. Like he's he's probably gonna get that he's probably gonna get that same deal. It's gonna be in that Jax: Who's be is Greg: ballpark. Jax: I mean like who's better? I know a man gets more like opportunities, but who's Greg: my God. You talking like who's better between the twins? Jax: Yeah, 'cause a man he gets more opportunities, but like Greg: Amen Amin is a min is the better offensive player. Asar is better defensively. Jax: Them niggas just need a fusion dance and call it a day. But all right, bro. Let's let's get to college football. Cause it's I wonder who we're gonna talk about. We're gonna talk about LSU because they keep giving us stuff to talk about. But this Greg: Absolutely. Jax: is a little bit more positive question mark for LSU. Now, recently we Greg: Yeah. Jax: like I said we've talked about how LSU they're trying to roster these pro players, Xavier and Harris and Daquan Wright, A DT and a tight end, respectively. Well, turns out they're not going to do it. they officially added two more players, college players, age-appropriate players, to their roster, officially like locking their roster so no more changes can be made, no more additions to come. So now Daquin Wright and Xavier Harris, they are SOL. I don't really that's why I thought this whole thing was bad from the get-go, because it's not really helping them in the first place. But That whole situation has been resolved and now LSU they had a whole meeting with all the schools in the SEC or rather meeting of the SEC presidents and chancellors and it ended without any punishments being imposed on L S U. People were, you know, talking about, we might need to Expel them from the conference completely. And that would be crazy because LSU is one of the founding members of the SEC. But like you said, that did not happen because LSU at the end of the day did not rock with those players. And a funny quote I seen, who is this? Craig, is it Craig Elko? Mike Elko, who's Craig Elko. I don't know. But Mike Elko, AM's head coach, he said, this is a little bit like the son figuring out where the limits are until dad comes home and raises his voice. And the son's I was just kidding. He says it's just a little bit of parenting. And I thought that was funny, and also like Lane Kiffin like fifty years old, bro. Like d everything Elko said is true. But Lane Kiffin is also fifty years old. Why this nigga still need parents like come on, bro. Lane Kim is just some, he just seemed like the type who don't know when to stop. Like, when to say when. I feel like that's a big, a big problem of his. And he just tried to keep this going until I'm pretty sure the school was like, all right, you need to chill out. And you know what? I'm grateful that the school did that. Because we can finally hopefully move on from this debacle. Greg: Yeah. And I think that I think the the meeting that they were supposed to have Thursday, it I think everybody came into that meeting kind of understanding that they probably weren't going to kick LSU out. But they that is true. Jax: But the f but the fact that's even mentioned is the crazy part. Like the fact that's even Greg: That is true. But I I think the meeting was more about hey. We need to be able to have the power, if need be, to do something like that, if necessary. Cause I think at the time, I don't even think they had like a real power to like do it until they had that vote on Thursday of that, okay, bet, let it it it's like empowering a father with a belt. You know what I mean? or Jax: Yeah. Greg: allowing corporal punishment to happen with your children. And it's just like, hey, hey bad, look, we need To have this as an option at some point, just in case we run into another lane Kiffen that wants to try stupid shit out. We should have, you know, quote unquote rules in place for stupid shit like this to happen. And I understand that when we had these conversations about how stuff is gonna be out of control, especially with LSU, I think a lot of people gloss over. Glossed over the warning signs that Nick Saban and other people had, mainly because people didn't want to hear from that messenger. They didn't want to hear from Nick Saban saying, hey, there's a problem in college sports right now. Cause nigga, hey, nigga, shut up. You would have done the same thing if it was in your position. Okay, but all right, but they doing it. Like, is the alternative like, okay, just let these niggas do whatever the fuck? Because He would have tried to do it too, or how about we just try to put a stop to this and and try to and try to get some fucking order? Because it's starting well, it's not even starting. It has become, hey, you want the NCAA to do something, but what can they do if niggas can just run to a judge and say, Hey Jax: Yeah. They they wanted they wanted to finally be like, okay, you're actually going like instead of just talking about it, actually being about something. Greg: Absolutely, finally. So Jax: Yeah. It only took them how how many years? Greg: Yeah. Their whole lives. Forty 40 years. fuck it though. It's is it's dumb. And on top of that, now we got these niggas that can't go to N can't go back to the NFL. at least for this year. Jax: Yeah, like that's really like that's the part that makes Greg: So now they're just in limbo right now. Jax: me the most upset about like you really messed up them players. So bad like granted, like they weren't, you know, high draft picks or anything like that. I think Wright was undrafted, but like he was getting playing time in preseason games. I think Harris might have been hurt. I could be misremembering that, but like these are players who still like had potential, I feel like. And I I mean I guess they will still have that potential, even though they're gonna be a year older next year, but it's just like I'd be so pissed off of the players. And actually, the player I'm really, or I'm more a little bit more upset for right, but the player I'm not really that much upset for is Xavier Harris because you probably don't remember this, but after Ole Miss, after Lane Kiffin left Ole Miss, because Harris was at Ole Miss first, that he gave like an interview and he was like, man, or yeah, he gave an interview and he was just Trashing Lane Kiffin talking about man, he just does all this stuff for attention and blah blah blah, whoop de whoop. And then you go to the NFL and then he comes, Hey, you wanna come play for us? And you're like, Yes, and you come back, like you knew what type of nigga he was and you still fell like the fell forward again award, you still got that. So Greg: The Fellford the Fellford again award. Yeah. Jax: Yeah, bro. Greg: Oops, I did it again. Yeah, I mean, look, getting finessed by Lane Kiffin twice is a little crazy. I'm not gonna hold you. That's that second time was in fact a choice. These brothers could be on somebody's practice quad right now. that's very unfortunate. But you they're young enough to, you know, learn that lesson, internalize it if I was them. Make sure that those degrees are good. get some CDOs just in case because you never know. You know, Jax: Yeah. Greg: you never know. people talk about it all the time. Look, man, look, Shiloh Sanders is a is a streamer now, man. So, you know, just find you know, you have a year to keep your body in shape, but find some other avenues. This is the this is the time to really dig in deep and really find out who you are as a person. And and and what your real interests are outside of football. This Jax: Yeah. Greg: is not I'm not even trying to joke with these niggas, but it's just like, yo, this the time, man. You've been football athlete all your life. If you was that cold, you would still be on the NFL football field. You would not be trying to go back to college. Respectfully. If you was that nice, you would have found you found your way on that fifty three man. Or that fifty two man, is it fifty two or fifty three? One of the one of one of them motherfuckers. Jax: Fifty three, fifty three. Greg: Fifty three man. You know what I mean? I know you're trying to get some bread at LSU, but I'm sure you young brothers, y'all got degrees. Let's figure that out. I'm I'm rooting for them. Off the field. I am I am rooting for them off the field for sure. On the field, that's a different story. But off the field, you got my full support. Jax: But let's go ahead and move actually, before we move into NFL football, that has nothing to do with sports at all. But Lil Durk beat the case. Greg: Are you deadass? Jax: Yes, bro. He's acquitted on all charges. Greg: Are you are you dead? Are you fucking nut? Nah Hey Jax: I'm dead ass serious. Greg: and my usher voice, hey stop playing with me, man. Stop playing Quit playing with Jax: Yeah. Greg: me like that. Ain't no motherfucking way. Jax: He's not guilty on all charges. That's the same. Greg: What the fuck? Somebody said leak the verdict. Hey, somebody said leak the verdict or something verdict or something and they added Sham Sharania. I was like, what are talking about? I thought they was talking about some sports shit. They talking about Dirk? Jax: He beat down I'm surprised. Greg: my god. Jax: I thought he was thought he was in jail for life too. Greg: I thought he was done. What? Jax: He not guilty on every single charge they said. Shout out to him. 'Cause he for so did it, but Greg: my God. He did that shit. my God. Jax: But I guess they couldn't really they couldn't prove he paid them people to kill that dude. So shout Greg: WHAT THE FUCK?! Jax: out to him. That's funny. Greg: Wow. I would hey I was talking cash money shit in somebody's comment section on TikTok. Cause there was this there was this black girl. She had to be like some somewhere in her 20s. She was out here like legit praying hard for Dirk. I was like, girl, you that this is why there's homeless people on the streets right now. Cause y'all wasting prayers on niggas that did the shit. What are you talking about? Whole time this nigga gets. Nah I gotta fake apologize. You won. God damn. Jax: Hey man. Prayers work. Shout out shout out to Dirk. That's so funny. man. Greg: Shout out God does God approve of this? Jax: I said shout out to Dirk. I mean I I I assume God proves, I don't know. Greg: You feel you feel like you feel like God you feel like God answered that prayer? Jax: I mean, yeah, cause he's not in jail. I mean, or he's still in jail. He got to get you transferred out and all that. But like, yeah, he beat the case, shoot. But all right, bro, let's let's get to football. Let's get into football though. Alright, let's get into the NFL. Greg: Man, that's crazy. That's fucking murder, bro. All right, bro. Jax: get into some let's get into some football because the NFL season, praise God, has officially kicked off. We had a Wednesday night game, a Thursday night game, and I'm here to tell you both those games were cheeks. But football's back, so we move. Let's go ahead and start with the Seahawks Patriots game. I will being completely transparent, I missed the first half of both of these games because I was doing other shit. But I did watch the second half. And I did see first half highlights. But starting with the Seahawks and the Patriots. Unfortunately, Sam Darnold he did get hurt. And I missed that happening. He got hurt, I believe, the first drive of the game. I think like the fifth snap for real. and they said he has a hip issue. They haven't clarified exactly what it was. And they said they think he'll be out a couple weeks. So they brought in Young G. I mean, they brought in Drew Locke. And Drew Locke did his thing. I'm not gonna hold you. Drew Locke did his thing. And they and like I said, the Seahawks, it was really a defensive battle. And that Seahawks defense still got the Patriots number. they picked off Drake May three times. Ramondre Stevenson had 18 carries for 51 yards. That's not good. Matt Collins was their leading receiver, because AJ Brown also got hurt. And then Romeo Greg: He did get hurt. Jax: Dobbs, as if somebody had Romeo Dobbs in fantasy last season. I sort of understood the Romeo Dobbs experience before, you know, going into this game. So I knew it was going to be a couple knucklehead plays, and he he fulfilled those, that role. He dropped a couple of wide open passes that was just like come like I can't catch, but I probably could have caught him ones for real. And I'm a nigga who cannot catch at all. but on the Seahawks side, you Jerry and Price, rookie running back, he looked good. 10 carry 52 yards. JSN, he heard everybody calling him slow. He caught that short pass, burnt everybody to the end zone, burnt everybody to the end zone. And that really is what went in the case. Greg: In bird dead nigga. Catch me catch me if you can, bird des nigga. Crazy. No, that's fair. Jax: But I will say Christian Gonzalez was locking him up like Christian Gonzalez has JSN's number. Like even in the Super Bowl, Gonzalez was locking locking JSN up. Like he did have a hundred twenty two yards, but a lot of that was on that catch and run and Christian Gonzalez was not guarding him on that play. So what were your takeaways from this game? Greg: surprisingly, I don't think I've ever seen Drew Locke lose a game that I've intentionally watched. I don't like Jax: What? Really? Greg: I did the last time I saw Drew Locke play a football game, it was against the Eagles and he beat them niggas. Jax: see. Greg: like I'm sure that he loses games, obviously if he was like a great quarterback. Yeah, like obviously he's Jax: You you just haven't seen it. You just haven't seen it. Greg: if he was a great quarterback, he would be like a a starter. But every time that nigga just gets sprung out there, nigga ends up pulling it out. I don't know why. great lore. second of all, yeah, Drake May was for sure throwing turkey subs out there. He was for sure he was Jax: I'm not actually the fun the funniest thing was the last interception, because who was it on the Mike Tarigo? He was like, terrible! He screamed to the mic, he like, terrible decision. I started crying. And I'm not gonna lie, it was a terrible decision. He said that shit, I started crying, bro. Greg: Because y you were in field goal range. You had you did not have to do Jax: That's a terrible decision. I was fucking crap. Greg: I've never seen a nigga do that. That felt that's that shit felt like that shit felt like what you call it? when Paul George was was in the bubble and a nigga hit the side of the backboard and they were like, way off. Whoa, bitch. Okay. Jax: Bro, that's it. It reminded me of Will Levis when he threw that pick and he was just like, no. Greg: It's like that. Jax: Ha ha Greg: my God. It was so bad. But another takeaway that I had, Well, yeah. Okay, well, I'll I'll I'll start off on the Drake May standpoint. I need some of y'all niggas to kind of pump the brakes on like the Drake May stuff, like from a from a slander perspective. Like I know there's people that's been on the the side of Drake May, Drake the Schedule May. Like I underst I understand y'all niggas, but there was some niggas that were like y'all was still on that hype train. And this one game flipped y'all niggas to becoming like slanderous individuals. And I'm here to say, nigga, if you on that side, this was not the game to declare, my God, it's time to go on the other side. When we're talking about a Super Bowl champion level defense in the Seahawks, I would like to see other quarterbacks go against the nah, I it is bad. I want you to understand, Jax: Like Greg: it is bad. But I'm talking about the niggas that were specifically on the train of, yeah, Drake May, Drake May nice, he he whatever. I'm not talking about the niggas was already slandering. I'm specifically talking about a subgroup of niggas that was hyping these niggas up. AKA Brandon, aka some other niggas that I know. This is not the chance for you to be like, my God, fuck Drake May. What you need at least two or three more weeks before I deem it acceptable for you to just flip over, nigga. Relax. Relax. Jax: And for people talking about Drake May only struggling in one game, this it's been four straight games 'cause last year in the playoff they they got to the Super Bowl, but he ain't played good in none of them games. He ain't played good in none of them playoff games. Greg: And you what them niggas was doing? Talking about how good that nigga was. Drake made nice. Drake made nice. You playing the Super Bowl champion Seahaw Seattle Seahawks should not be your 13th reason as to why you flip over. But last and certainly not least for this game before we go to the next one. and this will go into the next game. I I truly believe that the the the Seattle, the Seattle Seahawks is the best defensive football. Jax: But that defense is nothing. It's just Greg: That's the best that's the best defensive football. I don't care what anybody says. I don't care. Jax: I don't even think like it's not even like they're not even a defense that has like a crazy elite pass rusher or anything like that. They just got like waves of guys and then their D Bs are all versatile. 'Cause I think who I d I don't remember the dude's name they talked about, but he ha he was on the practice squad and they called him up 'cause of a injury at the last minute. And he, you know, performed very well. I think it's not Job, it's not twenty nine. It was I c I really cannot remember the dude's name, but like That's just the type of defense they have. And just waves and waves of depth in players, and everybody good, and everybody wanna hurt you. And it'd be working. Greg: Yeah. They calling Mike McDonald the the Shaw McBay the Shaw McVay of defense. I can see it, nigga. Like you he Jax: And I can I can see it. I s for sure 'cause he's cold. Greg: just or whatever, the Kyle Shanahan of defense, just being able to just plug and play niggas into his system as a defensive-minded coach, and he's young. Yeah, bro. that defense scares me than the other defense that we're about to talk about. And that is the 49ers Jax: Yeah, so let's Greg: in LA Rams. Jax: In this game it happened, it was Thursday game, in Australia. Did you did you have you been keeping up with the whole sleep schedule stuff they've been talking about in regards to the game? Greg: Absolutely. Absolutely. 'Cause it the the time difference is super crazy. I used to work like I used to work that Jax: Yeah. You did work yeah. Greg: for like that Australia side and like literally Jax: Yeah. Greg: even doing graphics for like football games, I had to like remind myself I can't say Sunday. I have to say Monday, ten AM, Monday eleven Jax: Yeah. Greg: I had to like mentally say that. So like that's a real that's a real thing. Like that it's a crazy time during the next day. Literally. So Jax: Yeah. But for the for the unfamiliar with this whole situation, this was the NFL's first game in Australia and they got like a fourteen hour difference, I think, from Greg: Yeah. Jax: California, because that's where both these teams are located. And so the San Francisco Forty Niners, they left for the game a week early. So they had already been in Australia for a week and then they played the game on Thursday. The Rams, they're like, you know what? This is the crazy part to me. They said we've had staffers going back and forth to and from Australia for two years. Doing I was like, Why two years? But I digress. And they were like, you know what? The best option for us would be to leave directly before the game, get off the plane that day, warm up and go play football. And they looked like a team that just hopped off a fourteen hour flight or however long that flight is and play football. 'Cause Greg: Yeah, I don't know why they did that stupid ass shit. Jax: They they lost 27 to 7. Matthew Stafford, he he looked bad. I mean, he's old now, but like, that's Stafford, he's 38. He shouldn't be, he can't be doing this. His back hurt. But but Greg: Ha ha. Jax: and they tried to do that quarterback. When they tried that quarterback sneak with Stafford and they did not get it, I was like, I could have told you that wasn't gonna work. But still, Greg: What? Come on, my nigga. Jax: bro. But yeah, Stafford, he didn't have his best game. Puka was Puka was Puka, he ain't go crazy, but he ain't do bad or nothing like that. But Brock Purdy, you know, he started feeling himself very early into the game. He got he got his government mandated interception out the way. Then he just started jigging and dancing after first downs, using his feet a lot more. I feel like people forgot how athletic he was, but he was moving and shaking and throwing touchdowns. Debo caught a touchdown as well. Like miners looked very good. Fred Warner was back because he was injured most of last season. Nick Bosa was back. He wasn't gonna, he was even though he wasn't gonna play bad on that game, not on the not on the anniversary, but who else is out there? Greg: Yeah. Jax: Drake Greenlaw was out but like yeah the 49ers cause they're healthy or as healthy as they can be, like they got their star players back and they look pretty, pretty decent. Even Mike Evans, you know, he's old but he he mossed a nigga. Embarrassingly. Over Greg: Called a touchdown too. Yeah. Jax: the nigga, yeah. Greg: Yeah. Had that nigga on my bench. Shit pissed me off. Jax: Ha ha ha. Greg: That's why I'm that's why I'm a little disappointed in the Rams. Nigga, I I I deliberately put them niggas on the bench. I had Debo and and Mike. I was like, man, look, I don't know. I don't know what this defense is about to do. Let me just let me just wait and see how this shit pan out. Terrible decision. Terrible. Terrible throw. Jax: Miles Garrett, it was his first game as a Ram and he didn't he said I don't remember the exact quote, but he was basically said, like, I put it out my worst self, the worst version of myself was out there last night. And like valid cause he he didn't record a single tackle, a single sack. Now like the first game for him like that in a very long time. I don't know how many years they said, maybe five. I can't I can't remember the exact number, but it's been a very long time since Miles Garrett, who was one of the best defensive players ever, to not record a single stat in the game. Greg: they they and also they they was also joking around and saying, you know, this this was the largest crowd he's ever dealt with in the NFL. From all it's like Jax: You not lie, they're not wrong. Greg: he not he not used to he not he not he not used to performing in no bright lights. Jax: I'm on the I've never heard Miles Garrett slander before. I've literally never have. Like Greg: His team was too terrible to even have slanders. You just gotta appreciate greatness and a pile Jax: Yeah. Greg: of dog shit. You know what I mean? Just dog shit around him, but damn, there's a diamond in there. We feel bad for that nigga. I will say, that Rams defense ain't scared nobody. Now, while I I still believe that. Jax: yeah, by the way, Aaron Donald did not play in that game. He did not play in that game. He will be back next week. Not this week. He'll be back next week. Greg: He didn't, he did not. He did not. He did not. I also want I also do not want people to give me revisionist history and keep including that Aaron Donald is not here for week one. We know that, but when we first made that Miles Garrett trade, we already knew Jax: yeah, yeah. Greg: and said, hey, this defense was gonna be crazy. This defense was gonna be nice. Niggas was hyping up that defense when Miles Garrett got there. And then it's turned into, my God, this shit might be insane if Aaron Donald got there. But that that they weren't like an Aaron Donald away from being a great defense. They were already gonna be a great defense. Already got great players. They just did not perform well and the travel is the w we'll we'll see. We'll see how the rest of the season because I still think they're gonna be a good team. But yeah, Brock Purdy looked nice. sometimes I forget Jax: Yeah. Greg: that Brock Purdy and Tyler Han Tyler How Tyrese Halliburton. we're roommates. I keep forgetting Jax: Sorry. Greg: that. Yeah, they used to be they used to be roommates in college. They went to the same college. Iowa State. Jax: How about Iowa State? I thought he went to Iowa. Who went to Iowa? Greg: K Clark. Jax: Mm, okay. I swear Greg: Yeah. Jax: Tyrus went to I don't care enough, but like I swear he went to Iowa. But they probably just bonded over being Iowa ass people. Greg: Well yeah, I mean it's it's Iowa, so I'm sh I'm sure Yeah, it's only thirteen motherfuckers in that bitch, bro. Jax: So it's only thirteen people in Iowa, so You'll know everybody, so I guess. Greg: Yeah, and you know, I I also I think it is time to give Brock Purdy a a little bit more respect than than probably what he's he's given. Jax: Yeah. He don't he don't get respect. But Bro Purdy not he's not like he's not c he's not nice. I mean, he's not bad, bro. He's low-key nice, like. We got we got the Greg: Yeah, like it was understandable why people were like trying to pump the bricks. A lot of it was emotion, I think for me. I can speak for myself. You know, I still I was still in my feelings about Trey Lance not getting that opportunity that I I desperately Jax: Listen. Greg: wanted him to. And, you know, it was just a unfortunate situation. Jax: And he trained and never got the opportunity since, bro. That's it. Greg: It was unfortunate. So I wasn't ready to give him I wasn't ready to give Brock Purdy my full respect just yet, because in my mind I'm like, man, you got all these weapons, woody woo, woody why, but Man, at some point you gotta recognize when a nigga's hooping. This is probably the the best Mr. Irrelevant we've ever seen in our lifetime. I don't think there's a Mr. Irrelevant that's better than him. I don't know. I could be dead wrong. We Jax: If there has been if there was one that we we would have known already. Greg: would have known. Like it was probably some nigga from the fifties or some shit. Some white wide receiver from the fifties that probably got some good stats. But when we come to Mr. Irrelevant, not not best seventh round draft pick or whatever, because I know we got some skill position plays there, but Mr. Irrelevant, I I I think he's probably the best one. And he's developed very well and he you know, he has great great weapons around him and stuff. He'll be he's gonna be good, but Yeah. Jax: Yeah, I'm I'm looking at a list of Mr. Relevance yeah, he's the best one. Greg: Yeah, so kudos to him, man. I I I think he's finna have a good year. I think the p I think the I I Jax: If ev if everybody can survive the the sub if they can survive the substation, he should have a good year. But the crazy Greg: Yeah. Jax: thing is, they're probably still the like, yes, they beat these Rams, but I still think they could they could still probably be the third best team of the division, just 'cause that division is so tough. Greg: I and if we're being if we're being honest, a game like this is the type of game that would give Seattle a tiebreaker to win the division. You know what I mean? These are the type of games Jax: Yeah, I do yeah. Greg: where it's like, man, y'all are so close. And this one game was definitely a defining moment of okay, well, we lost that first game in the opener, and that and that's why they got the the nod. Because I think All three of them teams have an opportunity to be good. That's it's gonna be the toughest division, especially in the NFC. you know, except the Cardinals obviously, but Jax: You never know, Jacoby was set there. We do know, I'm sorry. But last thing Greg: Yeah. Jax: before we get to our picks, cause we do got picks in our hot takes. Greg: Absolut Absolutely. Jax: real, real we're not even gonna talk about this that much, but real fast, Tua Tagobiloa. He won that he he quote unquote won the starting job because everybody else was hurt. And then today he hurt his back in practice not doing anything. Is this a this is a video I think a fan or whatever had? Where is it? Where is it? Where's show? Greg: I've actually never seen a video. Jax: Yep, there we go. Nobody really the fan didn't capture what happened, but they just shows Tua gingerly limping off and falling down. And it's a back problem. He's going to be out for this game. And because of that, Cooper Russ, former Cowboys backup and Ravens backup, 'cause he was with the Ravens too, Cooper Russ will be starting. 'Cause Michael Penix is still not a hundred percent, which Come on, bro. Like, I know it's nothing he can do about it, but it's just like I he probably like looking at his knees like, really, my nigga, like y'all can't y'all can't lock in one more time, so. Greg: Yeah. Jax: Would you rather be a Clippers fan or a Falcons fan? Greg: Falcons. No question. There's so much more black culture there. I can still rock a mic, Jax: Fair. Greg: I could still rock a Micha Michael Vick jersey. I still have Julio Jones. You know, I have that bad Super Bowl run, but at least I made it Jax: Yeah. Greg: to the Super Bowl. You know what I mean? we got B. John Robinson, we got we got some niggas. Now on a and and Jax: Like the Falcons always have cool players. They just like never Greg: and and the and the jerseys are cooler. The jerseys are a lot cooler, a lot flyer than the Clippers. If I had to wear I'll wear I'll wear a black Falcons jersey before I wear a Clippers jersey. Jax: That's fair. That's fair, that's fair. Greg: you know. I mean now look, they can both go criminal for criminal. It's just a matter of what what kind of criminal you wanna be. Wanna be a white collar or a blue collar? Jax: What collar a dog collar? Greg: Oof. Or a new one. Thanks. That resume, man. God damn. Jax: But Greg, it it's that time though. sh I forgot about that nigga. my I forgot about him. Somehow I believe. Gosh, man. But Greg, it's it's that time, man. It's that time. Greg: Yeah, unfortunately. Unfortunately. I do not have that f that that sound just yet. So what what what I Jax: It'll be it's fine. It'll be like that. Greg: just need you to do your little part. I'm not gonna ask you for two thousand dollars. For three thousand unless that's going to a house or something. But other than that, I'm not gonna ask you for that for no spending money. You know what I mean? But if just do your little part, man. Just do your little part, man. Damn. I'm gonna try I'm gonna try I'm gonna try Jax: All right. But we already Greg: that my girl. I'm gonna see if that I'm gonna say that word. Pray for me. Jax: But we we already gave our pigs last week for the Wednesday and Thursday game. So there's a primetime Sunday night game that's left and a Monday night game that's left. So those are gonna be two again for picking, and then we also pick a lock we each pick a lock for the week and an upset for the week. So the remaining primetime games we got the Cowboys at the Giants, I believe. Yeah, it's Cowboys. Yeah, the Cowboys at the Giants. That's gonna be the Sunday night football game and I am humbly picking the Cowboys to win this game. Greg: Man, stop being soft, bro. You ain't we we ain't got to be hey, we come to you as humble as we nah bro, we just gonna say, you know, respectfully. Cowboys gonna go they gonna win. Did you see that? Jax: Yeah. Greg: Did you see that that great the George Pickens interview? 'cause I guess Greg Newsome plays for the the Giants now. And I think they had like a back and forth back when he was in in Pittsburgh or whatever. They into like a fight. Or whatever on the field or some shit like that. And I think Greg Newsom like, Yeah, we got the we got the best D Bs in the I don't know if he said in the division or in the league. He said something outrageous. And then it Jax: Mm-hmm. Greg: and then and they asked George Piggins. Hey, you know he said that and he was just like, I mean I mean, I mean, he should feel that way. Now reality is different, you know, how I feel is totally different, but he yeah, he he should In fact, feel that way. Cool beans. I was like, this nigga this nigga might go for a buck seventy gang. I I don't know. Jax: But we got we got the Monday night game next. It's gonna be the Broncos at the Chiefs. Excuse me. this one I'm not a Bo Nicks fan. In fact, I might be you could you can probably call me a Bo Nicks hater, but Patrick Mahomes is also coming off of an ACL injury. And the Chiefs also did nothing on offense. And also the Broncos have an amazing defense. But with all that being said, I'm still picking the Kansas City Chiefs. Greg: I'm gonna say this nigga had a long soliloquy just to go back to the Chiefs. He was about to make me switch my pick. Jax: I don't feel good about it, but I like I don't like the Broncos. Or I don't like Bone Nicks. I don't like Bone Nicks. Greg: I'm about to say, I'll say, what Pat Sortan do to you, nigga? Jax: Aster Tang is nice. Broncos might Broncos might whoop him. I'm not gonna Broncos might whooped him. I chose the Chief, but the Broncos might beat them so bad, bro. Greg: nigga standing in solidarity with his hatred. Yeah. Jax: Mm. Greg: Whatever team he was gonna pick, I was gonna pick the opposite because I can't I I can't be no Dig Rider. So I'm Jax: Okay. Greg: gonna go to Broncos, even though I feel like the Chiefs might pull this out since they're at home. I'm going to Broncos though. Jax: Wait, so do you want to pick the Chiefs and I pick the Broncos? Okay. Greg: Let's do it. You just wanna be a you just wanna be a bonic hater. I was just I'm just gonna pick opposite of you. Like I really feel like the Chiefs are gonna win. Jax: Okay. Okay, then I'll pick the Bronco. And you can pick the Jesus. Alright now. Greg: All right, but all right, bro. Put your head aside, nigga. Jax: Alright, now let's go to our lock of the week. for me, the lock of the week, I'm gonna go ahead and take Greg: God damn. Jax: the Eagles over the Commanders. I'm just leaving that. Greg: Damn, that's a lock. That's a lock for niggas. Hey, I don't see a lot of locks. I ain't gonna lie. All these niggas all these niggas look Jax: Season just started so season just started, so it's hard to predict locks. Greg: all these niggas either are facing within division or they kinda compy. Like even the Browns Jaguars, I don't know who gonna win that shit. Actually, I'm I'm I'm playing. Jax: Stop it. Greg: I'm playing. That was that was a bad, that was a bad toss up. And with that being said. I will in fact pick the Jags as my luck Jax: Yeah. Greg: over the Browns. I need the Browns to lose. I I gotta I gotta see them lose because I gotta I I need I need to see Shador one more year because it's the last year I probably will see this nigga. I I gotta support. You know what I'm saying? So I gotta support this nigga any way I can. Yeah, I'm gonna put my wrist up. All right, Jax: This is the last time he gets a chance to start, so have fun, sure. Have fun. Greg: who's your upset? Jax: Alright, my upset. I'ma take I'm gonna take the Saints over the Lions. I think the Saints might got something for bro. Greg: Damn, in Detroit. Okay. Okay. I don't know why I don't know why They got the Bengals as the favorites. That's not a that's not a upset. That's not a upset at all. I actually expect the Bengals Jax: Fifty. Greg: to lose week one. I can't do that. Mmm, you know. Fuck it, I'm gonna do it. I got Trey McBride anyway. Gimme the Cardinals over the St Chargers. Gimme, gimme Jax: She okay. Greg: Niggas n hey niggas niggas got faith in and and Brissett till it's time to have faith to Brissett. Nigga, I look car this scene. Jax: my faith in Jacoby percent is not I I have faith in Jacoby. I don't got faith in the rest of the team. Greg: I got ps Trey McBride for me is enough. It's enough. I don't give a fuck about if man. The Chargers don't fear me. Didn't they just deal As Keenan Allen not with the Chargers no more, is he? Well Jax: No, he with the coats now, he with the coats. Greg: it don't even matter because that nigga got caught for drunk driving. Something happened or some stupid shit. I don't even know if he's playing week one. But Jax: I'm pretty sure. I think he is still. Greg: he probably is. He's a football player. yeah, I I I I got the Cardinals. I I don't know what kind of leap I'm expecting from Marvin Harrison Jr., if any. I just want him to just catch a ball. Catch a ball will be fine. I got the Cardinals done. Jax: Great. Now I think it's about so yeah, that was that was our that was our locks and our upsets, right? So yeah, we don't have to pick. So I do think it's about that time now. Greg: Absolutely. I'll I'll go first. I tend to let you go first. I'll go go first just go around. Jax: All right. Greg: my hot take Hey, these niggas gotta start playing in the preseason again. I know it's a short, I know it's a short sample size. Jax: Yes, one hundred one hundred percent agree. Greg: I know it's a short sample size. I get that niggas was traveling. I kinda wanted to wait one more week just to see what everybody looked like in week one, just to make sure 'cause I know it's it's a bet you know, traveling to Australia and all these little other countries. Jax: Yeah. Greg: I know that's a real thing. But man, this quarterback play been shitty. I've been seeing turkey subs on my screen all week, nigga. All week, nigga. Jax: It no this it's been like this since they cut it from since they cut it to three preseason games, bro. Like Greg: Three to four from four to three, yeah. Jax: every every time the season starts, these they be a it games be ass, bro. Greg: These niggas be so rusty, nigga. I'm like, God damn. Or like I remember once upon a time, game four was the tune up game. Game four is when I saw my actual starter and he'll go out there for a drive or whatever. Jax: Nah, it would be game game three nah, game three would be the tune up and then game four they just have all the scrubs play. Cause it'd be Greg: okay. Jax: like they have like two like starters and stuff would play a little bit in like two and three. Like they play a little bit more in two and three, and then four is just all the scrubs. And just like starters don't even play anything now. And that's why these niggas suck at the start of season. Greg: I'm saying I should not be seeing Caleb Williams not suited up for any games. Like, that should never be a thing. I I g one drive or whatever. I promise Jax: J at least one drive. One two drive. Really really two. Greg: you, I promise you, if a nigga gets injured in preseason, it was just destined for you to not. Jax: Who like who's probably not there's nothing great about that. Greg: Yeah, like there's nothing you could do about it, bro. If you if you wasn't gonna get injured there, you're gonna get injured somewhere else. Like freak accidents happen all the time. We're not telling you to be acrobatic and shit. But nigga, all these little these little what what do you call them little meetups at camps or whatever? Like these w not these one on ones, but these joint practices, that shit not enough. This joint practice Jax: yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. Greg: bullshit, cause all y'all went all y'all niggas end up doing is fighting. And and and putting niggas. Jax: It's fine. It's fighting each other. Greg: Y'all not doing no real football over there. I mean. Fuck. And I'm not saying you gotta play the full game. Just, hey. Yeah, bro, cause this shit look, Jax: Just let me just let me see you drive down the field just one time. Just make sure just get the rust out. Greg: everybody look like they still in preseason mode the way some of y'all niggas is is going about this shit. So that's my my thing. Bring it back. Jax: And I and I know on Sunday it's gonna look wor it's gonna look bad too. I already know it's gonna look bad on Sunday. Yeah. Greg: It's gonna look bad. It's gonna look bad. nah, unless you in your late thirties. Like unless you met like if you mad Stafford, of course. And and and Jax: yeah, like Matthew Stafford, I'm fine with you not playing for you too old. Aaron Rodgers, don't even t I I think Aaron Rodg I need to see you throw the ball one time. Just one just make sure you can still do that. Greg: for special circumstances, yeah. Joe Burrow, sure, fine. Cause I understand how freaky deeky this nigga at he this nigga get injured every year. Jax: Yeah, no. Greg: You have a track where okay, fine. But everybody else, nah, nigga, I need to see. I I Jax: Exactly. Greg: need to see. Go through the motions. Y'all be all right. but that's my hot take. Bring Jax: Yes. Greg: starters back into the preseason. Preferably more than one game. Me personally. I would I would do two. But one is fine, I guess, but something. Jax: I I agree wholeheartedly. Wholeheartedly. Greg: Shit was fucking. It's been so fucking ass, bro. It's been so garbage. Jax: All right. Whether we like it or not, in the foreseeable future, there will be a Super Bowl broadcast only on a streaming service. Like, whether we like to whether we want to see it or not, it's going to happen. Cause you see the NFL, they're doing more and more with Netflix now. They Prime got their own individual night. They're putting they they put some playoff games on Paramount and stuff like that. Like, this is just this is just a start. They're not going to stop. They're going to keep Greg: Yeah, no. Jax: going until they have a you said what? Greg: No, that is 'cause the the Cowbo the Cowboys Jax: I thought you said I thought you said you can't. Greg: Thanksgiving game was on Paramount Plus. I mean, you could do Jax: Yeah. Greg: it on other platforms, but it was streaming on Paramount Plus too. Jax: Yeah, but like this like this is only the start. It's going to keep going because these companies, once they s all they care about is money. So once they find that they can get paid a lot for doing something, they're not gonna stop doing it. So just I don't know when. I really wanna say like it sounds soon, but I feel like in like the next ten years it's gonna be like a s a Super Bowl. Only you can only watch it on Peacock or you can only watch it on I'm trying to think of like a random ass one. Or shit, maybe only watch it on Netflix. Although that Netflix, they low key Greg: The Netflix. Jax: they low key not good at the football thing. But neither here nor there. But yeah. Eventually there's gonna be a I'd say within ten years there's gonna be a streaming only Super Bowl. Greg: Yeah. the further we move away from cable, the more that will be a piable Jax: Despite more and more people wanting cable back because people are like, my gosh, I'm tired of these streaming services, you can't watch stuff on Greg: Well, we we only went to streaming services because the cost was cheaper. But now that one, Jax: Mm-hmm. Greg: streaming services raised their prices. And then two, there's like Jax: You need a service for everything. Greg: yeah, like you have this app, then that app, then this app, then that app. And it's just like it it's not even stopping at fucking streaming services. Nigga, these these like fool places and these goddamn apps be like fucking ridiculous. Jax: What's me? Greg: I remember back in the day, like when it was time for my like my girl's birthday was last month. And she's like, yeah, like I never really did like the freebies stuff. Like, you know, like go to the place and get your freebies and all that stuff, whatever food plays, nothing bunk cake. All Jax: Yeah. Greg: these places want you to download the app and sign up first just to get the I'm like, and some of these apps, they want you to Jax: Can't do it. Can't do it. Greg: like download it the day before so that like on your birthday, you get the email notify. Nigga, bitch, give me what happened to show you my ID and say, hey. I got XY, you know, I'm getting off topic. I'm getting off topic. We ain't talking about food. We talking about streaming services. But all this shit, what do we? Jax: He's like. Greg: I'm not here for it. I totally agree. There would be a Super Bowl. I you saying ten, that's generous. Five. Jax: Five feels so I think they already have like the providers for like the next five. I'm not gonna lie to I think they already like have it mapped out and shit like that. But Greg: Yeah, but like but like the Peacock provider is NBC. So anything that's Jax: fair you right. Greg: on NBC is gonna automatically go to Peacock. A B C is in the Disney umbrella, so Disney Plus and all these like Hulu, all of that is tied into ABC stuff. Jax: The d the day they put a Disney plus only Super Bowl. You're gonna remember another day. You're gonna remember another day. You're gonna remember another Greg: They wouldn't do that. And them niggas Jax: day. Greg: they put it on Disney Plus so you can buy the bundle is n it's actually fucking insane. It's actually insane. Jax: Exactly. And I and the fact that this is like this is going to happen too, which is the worst part about it. Cos. I hate these Greg: for sure. that's horrible. Jax: these old niggas with money, worst people in the world. Worst people ever. Historically. Historically they've been the worst people Greg: That's why we gotta this why we gotta put niggas like Steve Ballmer in check, bro. We gotta we gotta we gotta commit to it, bro. These niggas just can't keep throwing money at everything. Jax: The funniest thing, like, this is off topic and we finna be done anyways, but like Greg: Yeah. Jax: imagine if it was Jerry Jones. Like imagine if the cowboy did something like this. Like what what do you think would have like I don't know, I don't I don't know if anything could have been done. I'm not gonna lie to you, 'cause it's Jerry Jones, like. Greg: I mean s some niggas might have said the same thing about Steve Ball, man. How much money that nigga had. Like, what can you Jax: But Jerry Jones Jerry Jones really liked the secret commissioner of the NFL. Greg: No, but like I feel like niggas would I feel like a nigga like you and me, we would ask we would absolutely cheer for a suspension. Cause then we would think we would Jax: But I don't think J Greg: really have a chance of winning something all the way. We always feel like we're a bucket away and we get the best of both worlds. Where it's like, okay, we're not wishing death on a nigga, but he's away from the organization for one year. And now we get we get back to the Super Bowl. Jax: I don't even think like imagine imagine banning Jerry Jones from Jerry World, bro. That nigga, he would lose his fucking mind. He'd probably hire somebody to kill Roger Goodell. But that's neither here nor there. Greg: He might do it himself. He might do it himself. He'll try to do it himself. Nah, nah, nah. This was mine. This was mine. I got him. I got this. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, that that that's crazy. That's crazy. Damn. No, that nigga is from Lil Rock. Yeah, you're right. Jax, any last words? Jax: go outside, go touch some grass, you know, even though it's dark now. Lil Durk is free, go listen to the music, run up his streams. Greg: You telling niggas to go outside when dirk is free is crazy. Get back inside, nigga. Yeah, well I Jax: He he already he well, he he already well, he didn't get the guy he wanted, but the guy he wanted is in jail. So he got the guy he wanted to friend at least. So I mean, I think he might be Greg: Ain't there ain't there a church song that said i i if he done it before, he could do it again? Right here, right now? Jax: I think he knows everybody's watching him now. I don't think he he's gonna be on his young thug shit. Where he can't say he can't do no gang signs, can't talk about no nothing. It's pretty work, he probably couldn't make some of the worst music ever of his life, but neither you know. Greg: Who was anybody that's was there any like artists that snitched? Like artist? Jax: On who? Dirk? no, it was Greg: On dirt. Yeah. Jax: just one of his friends. Greg: he wasn't an artist. Jax: You know. Greg: So nobody can have like a gunner arc in this situation. Like, Jax: Nah. Greg: okay, damn. All right. Well. Well, well, I look, if your name is Quando Orondo, late low. Stay low, nigga. They was trying to get you up out of here. Stay there. Jax: And he's in jail right now. He's in jail right now. Or he'd been in prison. Greg: Stay there. You're safer there. They tried to get you up out the paint five different times. They said, no, it's just too crowded. We're good. Damn, how did he get away with that? All right, let me let me go ahead and let me go ahead and end this. Let me go ahead and end this podcast, man. Jax: Yeah. Greg: my last words, I need six informants right now. Let me stop. Let me stop. make sure y'all like, subscribe, Jax: Mm. Greg: make sure y'all y'all touch some grass indoors. It's not safe outside, bro. we got too many anniversaries. of of bad and terrible shit that didn't happen in the past week on top of Dirk getting out. So protect protect all body parts. All right. Stay inside. Stay covered up. Wear a hat. with that being said, we'll catch y'all niggas next week.