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Episode #6 NBA Trades Reaction & Super Bowl predictions · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to another episode of the so called Sports Analysts,
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Episode number six. I am your host, Alfonso Portillo. I'm excited to
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be making another episode for you guys. I have a lot to talk about.
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A lot has happened since the last time I recorded, and we're gonna
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go ahead and get straight into it. So Lebron James officially passed Kareem Abdul
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Jabbar at all time points with thirty eight thousand, three hundred and ninety points,
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now potentially forty forty two thousand, whatever he ends up being at.
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But coincidentally, he was thirty eight years old on the thirty eighth day,
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scored thirty eight points and broke the record that lasted thirty eight years. So
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that's just crazy to see. But in all seriousness, Lebron James doing this
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right here is just remarkable. We've never seen a player this into his career
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and still be this dominant offensively. The last player we have seen as dominant
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offensively this laid in their career was Kobe Bryant. You can say in year
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twenty what he average seventeen points a game, but he shot the ball about
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twenty five twenty six times a game, so it was very inefficient. But
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Lebron James, he still is the best driver in basketball, the best passer
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in basketball, and his mid rain shooting in his three point shooting, it's
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gotten slightly better over the years. Obviously, his free throw shooting is still
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not the best, but that still isn't stopping him from being a great offensive
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threat. Defensively, obviously he has declined a little bit, but that's just
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given right there. But this just makes Lebron James right here at worst top
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two player of all time in my opinion, the greatest player of all time,
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but we're not going to get into that. But just him doing this,
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it's it's ridiculous and there's never gonna be another player like him to be
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able to do this. And this record that Lebron James has it's going to
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be lasting potentially another thirty eight forty years. So for example, you'd have
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to have a player from year one to year fifteen average thirty five points per
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game, So that means thirty five points at least every single game for fifteen
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consecutive years in order to just break this record that Lebron just broke. If
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Lebron James does not play another game ever, So Lebron James, he is
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going to get to forty thousand points, maybe forty two thousand points. So
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we will see how far this record lasts. Maybe it will last another thirty
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eight years, like I said, or maybe another fifty sixty years. But
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with him doing this, it's just ridiculous, and I'm glad I was able
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to watch Lebron throughout the middle of his career and then now into his older
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stages of his career. So, but we're gonna go ahead and get on
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to the next topic. NBA trade deadline. It had plenty of moves.
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This is the most movement I've seen in the NBA trade deadline in a while.
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And the first one we're gonna talk about is the Dallas Mavericks acquiring Kyrie
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Irving for Spencer Dinwoodie during Phinney Smith in a first round pick. I talked
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about this about I want to say, three or four weeks ago, and
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it was about needing to surround Luca don Chis with help because they are good.
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They're too good of a team to be in the lottery, but too
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bad of a team to be competing for a championship, and with this move
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right here, it shows that they are trusting Luca don Chich and Kyrie Irving
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to get them over the hump and showing Luca don Chiz that they do want
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to compete for a championship because they were going to end up in a spot
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where Lebron James was and his first go around with Cleveland, where they weren't
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surrounding him with enough talent and he eventually left. So this is a smart
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move obviously for right now, but in the future as far as for Luca
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don Chitch and the Dallas Mavericks because this will influence your star player, potentially
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all time great player staying in Dallas, and if you go a little bit
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deeper than that, Luca don Chich in the playoffs last year was the only
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player to be able to consistently put up points or generate offense for this Mavericks
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team and they made it to the Western Conference Finals. It was the five
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to six minutes that Luka don Chich went to the bitch where they struggled,
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and with Kyrie Irving, he's able to score forty points on any given night.
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And the main concern that everybody has is that Kyrie Irving, Luka don
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Chitz, they don't fit together. There's two of them and there's only one
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ball. But that's not true because Luka don chich and Kyrie Irving they can
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mesh well together. And I believe they will mesh together because Kyrie Irving he
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can play off ball. Remember, just two years ago played with James Harden,
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Kevin Durant and then also Kyrie Irving. Right there, James Harden was
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a facilitator. Then you could go back to his go around in Cleveland.
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For Kyrie Irving, he played with Lebron James. Lebron James was the main
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facilitator, and same thing goes for here, Luca don Chez, you'll be
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the facilitator and Kyrie Irving he'll be playing off ball. So that won't be
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the problem right there. But obviously they did lose key pieces and Spencer Dinwoodie
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and Dorian Phinney Smith, but this was the right trade to make. Defensively,
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you can say they won't be as good, but without Dorian Finney Smith
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in the lineup, there were still a top twelve defense. So I believe
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this they will still be able to put up a fight on defense, and
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even at that nowadays in the NBA, your defense is your offense, because
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if you generate a lot of points, you're gonna have the opposing team just
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trying to chunk up threes or just have a quick drive or a quick series.
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They're just trying to score and possibly that's when you get reckless turnovers and
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everything. So it won't be as much of a problem as people think.
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Just look at the Sacramento Kings. They play no defense and they're still one
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of the top seats in the Western Conference right now, so defense is not
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going to be a problem for them. It was just surrounding Luca don Chich
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with another star player who can take over a game. Yes, Jalen Brunson
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last year was a nice player and he did play good when Luca don Chitch
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he didn't play against the Jazz, but he's not on Kyrie Irving's level.
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Kyrie Irving for a series can average thirty points a game. So with this,
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it's just the right move and I could see them possibly get into the
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Western Conference finals. If it wasn't for this Kevin Durant move that we're about
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to talk about, there would be one of the best duos in the league.
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Let alone the Western Conference. So it's gonna be very fun to see
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what they're gonna be able to do. But as far as the Net side,
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this just shows that this was one of the worst moves the Nets,
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or the worst decisions that the Nets made as far as putting all in their
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assets for Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, James Harden. Now they're gonna be
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in a tough spot right now. It's funny because actually I wrote my notes
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for Kyrie Irving to the Mavericks before the Kevin Durant trade, So I was
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saying, potentially they could make an Eastern Conference final run or maybe maybe when
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a playoff series or two. But now that Kevin Durant's out of the picture
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two, they're gonna be stuck in no man's land because they still do have
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good players. They still have Kem Thomas, who has looked like the next
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Steph Curry these past four games. You said have Patty Mills, se Seth
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Curry, Nick Klaxton, Joe Harris, you got Ben Simmons, Royce O'Neill,
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so you still have talent on that team, but you have none of
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your first round picks, so you're gonna have to be be competing because the
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Rockets say owned their picks for the next four or five years. And yes,
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I know they got some first round picks back, but that's not going
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to be the same. Yes, you've got some picks from the Sixers,
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but the Sixers they are a top three seed. The Phoenix Suns, they're
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about to make potentially Western Conference finals run. And same with the Dallas Mavericks.
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Sallow their picks, they're gonna be late in the twenties, so they're
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not gonna be useful. You need top five, top ten picks in order
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to get a superstar or a life changing player. So now they're gonna be
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in a spot where too good to be bad, but too bad to be
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contender. And I don't know what they're gonna be able to do or what
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they are going to do because because again you have no first round picks,
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your salary cap is all jacked up right now. So it's just sad to
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see that twice they failed, because remember they traded for Kevin Garnett, Paul
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Pierce, Jason Terry once upon a time about I want to say seven eight
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years ago, and then once again they put all their chips in for James
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Harden, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Durant. So it just proves that sometimes
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teams going all in that's not the best bet right there, and good luck
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to them for whatever they're gonna be able to do in the future. All
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Right, The next topic that we're gonna get into is obviously the craziest move
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of them all, which is Evin Durant going to the Phoenix Suns for mckel
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Bridges, Jay Crowder, Cam Johnson and four unprotected first round picks. Obviously,
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the Phoenix Suns are going for it all, but we've never seen a
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trade like this happened before. We've seen all star players be moved like Kyrie
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Irving, Carmelo Anthony, We've seen a couple of players move, but not
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a top five, top ten player moving in the middle of a season to
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another team that was already good and the Phoenix Suns. And the craziest thing
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for me is that the Phoenix Suns they were still able to keep Chris Paul,
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Devin Booker, and DeAndre Ayden on the team, and with that I
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can see them easily become the Western Conference favorites and their offense is going to
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be deadly with Chris Paul, Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, DeAndre Aiden.
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They could play any style of basketball. They could play up tempo, they
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could play slow, play physical, and it's just a perfect match for them.
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Kevin Durant, he can go to any team in the NBA right now
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and he can mesh perfectly, no matter or the coaching, the players,
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anything. So it's gonna just be as simple as a plugging play. And
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Kevin Durant, He's always been the type of player, not the one that
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wanted to lead a team, but just play basketball, and there's nothing wrong
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with that. And you already do have your leaders there and Chris Paul and
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Devin Booker, so he'll just be able to step in play basketball and potentially
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win another championship. I do not consider this team a super team. If
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Chris Paul was playing at the level he used to play even two two years
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ago, when they had that Arnold's run, I would consider a super team.
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But I can I'll consider it maybe of a tier below a super team.
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But even at that, you'll still have in the East. If they
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get out, you'll still have to face the Boston Celtics or the Milwaukee Bucks,
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who'll still face a tough challenge. But anybody in the Western Conference right
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now, I don't think just on paper. Obviously, injuries they can happen.
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In injuries they will play a factor because Chris Paul he does have an
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injury history. Kevin Durant he has a major injury history, and Devin Booker
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he has an injury history. And then DeAndre Aiden he has spurts where he
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plays great, in the spurts where he plays bad. So this team,
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they're going to depend on health right here. But that's what happens when you
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trade away all of your bench players and you just have star players left on
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your team. But like I said, on paper, this looks like the
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best team easily, and I don't know who can stop who can stop this
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team realistically? In the West, you have the Nuggets who have nicolea Yo,
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kids, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr. Who they are a good
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team, but nobody really fears the Nuggets. Then you have the Grizzlies who
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have John Morant. They are a good defensive team, but they can't keep
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up with the points that the Suns are gonna be putting out. The Kings
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we're not even gonna get into the Kings. Then you have the Warriors,
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who haven't been looking at as good of late, maybe the Lakers, but
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even at that, there's not a real team that poses a threat in the
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Western Conference. And I believe this is a championship or bus season already for
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them because Kevin Durant and Chris Paul, they are only going to be getting
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older. Kevin Durant, he is thirty four years old this year. Chris
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Paul he is going to be churning thirty eight years old. So the clock's
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ticking for for them, and so these next two years are going to be
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really crucial. Again, you went all in, like I talked about about
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the Brooklyn Nets. You go all in, and yes, it could pay
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off, but if it does not pay off, then you're gonna be screwed
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and in cap Hill for the next four or five years. So we're gonna
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see what they're gonna be able to do. And it's just gonna be exciting
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to see when all four of them are able to get on the court together
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at the exact same time. So but we're gonna go ahead and get into
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the other trade that happened and that is Russell Westbrook being officially traded from the
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Los Angeles Lakers for Malie Beasley, D'anezel Russell, and Jaylen Vanderbilt. And
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obviously the Lakers they did make some other moves. They got more bomba trade
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away Thomas Bryant, but we're gonna just focus on this trade right here.
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Russell Westbrook. He has been a great player off the bench for the Lakers.
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But that's the only thing I can really say about that. Russell Westbrook.
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He has been a turnover machine, and he messes up the spacing on
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the offense, and he just did not fit together as well as I thought
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they were gonna fit together well, but with Anthony Davis and Lebron James.
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But it makes sense. You can't have three players that are dependent about getting
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to the paint all on the same team, let alone in the starting lineup
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in this day and age three point three point barrage. But them getting Russell
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Westbrook off the team not only for spacing helps but as far as defensively too.
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With the players they did bring in, with Malik Beasley and Jalen Vanderbilt,
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Danzel Russell, He's basically going to bring what Russell. Westbrook did not
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or brought offensively other than the turnovers. So Danzel Russell he is a good
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mid range shooter. He is a good three point shooter too, so he'll
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be able to space the floor more. But as far as the points,
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they average around the same points eighteen and seventeen points a game, so that's
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kind of a wash right there. But what they got with Malik Beasley and
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Jalen Vanderbilt, that's the big difference right there. Because Malik Beasley, he
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is a three and D player. He's been shooting over the past two seasons
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the third high I had three point percentage in the league, behind obviously Steph
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Curry and Buddy Hill and then Jaylen Vanderbilt. He is more of a crash
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the boards guy and just get the easy tip in layups. And this is
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and with this move, you're able to move Anthony Davis to the four,
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where he naturally likes to play, because he's even came out and said he
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didn't like playing the center. So this makes the Lakers not only a better
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team right now but in the future, which is the best of both worlds.
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Because Malik Beasley and Jelen Vanderbilt they're both twenty three years old, d'anzel
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Russell's twenty six, so you got younger and you can compete right now.
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So how they were able to pull off this trade, I do not know
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how they pulled off this trade because they only gave up Russell, Westbrook and
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a first round pick, But who knows. They ended up working out in
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their favor. And it's always good when you see a Marquis franchise and a
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player like Lebron James and his stature making it to the playoffs or potentially making
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it to the Western Conference finals or finals run. We do not know how
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good this team is going to be, but all I can say is that
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there's going to be more space in on this team, and there's gonna be
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more defense on this team. And with Lebron James, hes thrives off of
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players that can shoot threes, and that makes them an even more deadly offense
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and defensively with those two pieces pieces, like I said, they're gonna be
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able to at least stop stop something now because before this trade they weren't able
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to stop a nosebleed. They gave up I think it was one hundred and
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thirty three points to the Oklahoma City Thunder, And yes, I know they
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score a lot of points with Sha Gilgas Alexander, but they are not a
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very good team. So we'll be able to see what they really do with
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these trades, and hopefully they make the playoffs. I could even see them
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possibly getting up to the four seed because in the Western Conference, the seeds
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four through twelve or thirteen, they're all within four or five games, so
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it's not that much of a hole that the Lakers have to climb out of,
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but they do have to start winning some games. But now we're gonna
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go ahead and get onto the next topic, the last topic of the day.
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It's gonna be when everybody's anticipating this Sunday. It's the Kansas City Chiefs
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versus the Philadelphia Eagles. I'll tell you this. When Al was dissecting everything
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trying to find weaknesses for the Chiefs and Eagles, it was very hard to
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find any and I was able to point out just a few, but there's
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not many. These are the two best teams who have been playing all year
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in their respective conference. Is too there were the one seats for a reason.
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And we're gonna go ahead and start off. Who has a more star
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power Obviously the Philadelphia Eagles, I will say, other than quarterback and tied
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end everywhere else. They have the Kansas City Chiefs beat. So this game
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is gonna come down to coaching and quarterback. And the coaching and quarterback edge,
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I give that to the Kansas City Chiefs. Andy Reid, he has
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been to the Super Bowl three or four times. Mahomes this is his third
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trip to the Super Bowl, so they are experienced. And Mahomes is a
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better quarterback than Jalen Hurts. And yes, Jalen Hurts, he has had
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the second best season this year for a quarterback, but he's still not on
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Patrick Mahomes's level. So this game is gonna come down to who who is
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the better coaches game between Andy Reid and Nicks Arianni, and who is a
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better quarterback between between Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts. And one thing that's not
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gonna be able to happen is Jalen Hurts. He's he is going to be
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a factor in this game and how good he does that's going to determine the
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outcome. Because these past two games against the New York Giants in the San
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Francisco forty nine ers. Yes, they did make it into the playoffs and
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did win playoff games or multiple playoff games, but they did not have a
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quarterback like Patrick Mahomes and offensive mastermind and Andy Reid. So the Kansas City
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Chiefs they're gonna be able to put up some points against this team. And
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the biggest thing is if the Kansas City Chiefs get out early in this game,
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it's gonna make Jalen Hurts have to throw the ball even more. And
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again, we don't know how healthy the shoulder is for Jalen Hurts. Same
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thing how we don't know how healthy the ankle is for Patrick Mahomes. But
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I'd much rather trust Patrick Mahomes on a bum ankle, who can still throw
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the ball and still has mobility which we saw against Cincinnati Bengals, especially that
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last play that set him up in field goal range, then Jalen Hurts,
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who has a banged up shoulder, and he did not look as good against
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the Niners. And after looking back at the tape against the Niners in the
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Philadelphia Eagles that game right there, the score thirty one to seven, that
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was overstated because as soon as Brock Party went out. It changed the script
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for both the offense for the Niners and the defense. So what I could
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tell they started to run. They started to run some aggressive plays, some
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blitzes, some exotic coverages to get a turnover, possibly a scooping score,
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to just be able to get themselves back into the game because they knew their
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offense wasn't gonna gonna be able to put up points with a quarterback that messed
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up his elbow, which I believe it was a Tommy John or he needs
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Tommy John surgery and your backup quarterback who did throw the ball maybe twice got
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a concussion. So it just changed the outcome for everything. And that defense
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they started running exotic stuff, so them being gassed the way they did get
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gassed was overstated. And the Chiefs, believe it or not, they have
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one of the best defenses in the league, and I believe as far as
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offense and defensive line, they can match up with the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm
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not saying they are as good as the Philadelphia Eagles, but they can't match
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up with them. The Kansas City Chiefs, they do have a top five
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offensive line in the league, and they only gave a twenty six sacks the
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entire and obviously that plays into a part as far as Jalen Hurts being mobile
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and trying to make a play so running into a sack. But the same
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thing goes with Patrick Mahomes. But the main key that's gonna be right here,
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you're gonna be able to see who won this game is the Chiefs defensive
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line versus the Eagles offensive line. I know that sounds crazy to say,
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but if you just look on paper, obviously you'll see the Eagles. It's
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like, oh, they have Lane Johnson, Jason Kelsey have I can't pronounce
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their left tackle's name, but he's an All Pro player compared to the Chiefs
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defensive line, who you have noble or you don't recognize anybody from them,
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but they can match up physically with the Eagles. And they still do have
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this guy named Chris Jones who is a top three defensive player in the league.
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And you have different players like Frank Clark, George Karlofkis, then you
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have then you have different guys like Willie Gay the linebacker, and then I
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believe his name is Morton, I'm not sure exactly, but again, they
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have players that can match up with the front of the Philadelphia Eagles, and
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like I said, they're gonna make They're gonna make Jalen Hurts throw this fall
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in the game because they're gonna key in on the run game and have to
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make Jalen Hurts make tight window throws. And this secondary, like I talked
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about with the Kansas City Chiefs, they're only getting better. There's a bunch
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of rookies in this secondary, and so they're only playing better and rising up
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to the competition. And we saw that against the Bengals, who they only
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allowed twenty points to and look dominant. Let's remember what the Cincinnati Bengals did
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to the Buffalo Bills. They destroyed them and it wasn't a close game to
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to against the Buffalo Bills, who were the Super Bowl favorites and had the
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VP candidate at the beginning of the year, they destroyed them. And as
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soon as they played the Kansas City Chiefs, they weren't able to move the
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ball and made Joe Burrow look like an average quarterback and make Jamar Chason T
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Higgins basically non existent. So again, the Chiefs, they have a really
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good defense and it's going underrated and I don't think it should be going underrated.
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And even the Kansas City on third down they allow forty six percent on
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third down, which is which is top five in the NFL. And then
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red zone percentage as far as on defense, Kansas City they owned and compared
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to the Philadelphia Eagles, who allow forty eight percent on third down and sixty
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six percent in the red zone. So what that's telling me is that the
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Philadelphia Eagles when they get into third down situations or red red zone situations and
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on defense, they're not able to stop a team. But with the Kansas
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City Chiefs on third down or red zone, they only get better. And
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you do have a good coach in Steve Spagnola who is going to be able
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to call up some great plays in this game. So that's gonna be a
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really interesting matchup right there. But we're gonna go ahead and get into what
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everybody they're gonna be watching the entire game. It's gonna be the Kansas City
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Chiefs offense versus the Philadelphia Eagles defense, a high power offense versus the high
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power defense. Who will win usually goes to the defense. But I'm gonna
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be honest with you, guys, I'm not sure how this is gonna go
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for the offense and defense because you see weak links on both the Kansas City
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offense and the Philadelphia Eagles defense. And the weakness that I want to point
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out for the Chiefs is their right tack on Andrew Wiley. So Andrew Wiley,
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he's allowed nine sacks this year and that's the second most in football throughout
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the entire NFL season, and that's not including playoffs right there, that's just
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throughout the regular season. And the Philadelphia Eagles they had c ST eight sacks
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on the entire year, which is a ridiculous number. So that means there's
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a weak links on a spot where the Eagles they have one of their biggest
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strengths or if not their best, with Hassan Reddick, who has been playing
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like a monster in these playoffs. So they're gonna be able to put Hassan
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Reddick, their best pass rusher as of late, on Andrew Wiley, and
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maybe you can't chip or running back or tied in. But that affects the
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whole offense. Because Kansas City's offense it's based off of movement, precision,
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quick plays, and so they need that extra running back. They need that
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extra tight end for the misdirection, so it's gonna be tough to see.
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But all the other guards as far as or guards and linements for the Chiefs,
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they're all ranked top twenty per Pro Football Focus, So that's not my
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concern. It's just a right tackle. And luckily it's just a right tackle
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they have to worry about because Mahomes he could still step up through the left
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and still step up through the pocket or depending on his mobility, he can
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make place. But that's what helps him out right there. But again,
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you have nasty guys on the defensive line for the Eagles with Javon Hargrave,
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Jordan Davis, like I said, Hassan Reddick, Josh Swept, Brandon Graham,
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Fletcher Cox, So you still have massive players on their defensive line.
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Every once in a while, your top offensive lineman, they are going to
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get beat. So it's all going to depend right there as far as for
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the right tackle and how he holds up against his Eagles front. Other than
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that, the Kansas City offense, I don't see anything that can slow them
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down. And one thing that the Eagles they do have a weakness in is
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their coverage against slot receivers in which Kansas City they use most of their most
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of their plays through it's through the slot receiver because sometimes they put Travis Kelceya's
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slot receiver Kadarius Tony, Juju Smith Schuster. Even look at last or two
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weeks ago, the Chiefs they use Marquez Valdes Scantling in the slot and he
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had I believe it was like one hundred and twenty yards and a touchdown or
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so for six receptions. So they use the slot receiver to their advantage.
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In the Eagles with their number one and number two ranked cornerbacks who play the
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outside in Darius Slay and James Bradberry, they're ranked top three in the league.
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But as far as they're cornerbacks, which is a vant Maddox in the
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slot or I believe it's Mike GPPs sometimes he plays safety and goes down to
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the cornerback position. He or they rank twenty six in the league, which
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is the sixth worst in the NFL. So that's the big weakness for the
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Eagles, where the Kent City Chiefs they have their biggest strength at So you're
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gonna be seen a lot of quick passes or possibly play action passes attacking that
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slot cornerback, and I could see them using Travis Kelcey to get him off
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of Chauncey Gardner Johnson, who is one of the best safeties in the league,
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or maybe Marquez Valdes scanty. But who I think he is really going
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to have a big game this week is Juju Smith Schuster because he does play
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the slot majority of the time for the Kansas City Chiefs. Obviously against the
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Bengals he did it. That was Marquez Valdes scantling. But I could see
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Juju easily going for over a hundred yards and a couple of touchdowns and having
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the Super Bowl MVP. That sounds crazy right now, but that's the biggest
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weakness right there, in the biggest strength for the Chiefs and Juja smith Schuster.
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He fits that perfect a possession receiver who every once in a while could
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have the defense stretched back and throw it deep over the top for a big
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play. And the biggest thing that we're gonna see. I believe that if
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Kansas City they get the ball, or whoever gets the ball, Kansas City
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or the Eagles, I believe they'll be electing to receive the ball because they're
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gonna be trying to set a point because these are both high powered offenses.
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But it's more important for the Chiefs to do that, to make Jalen Hurts
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play from behind and not be as dependent on the run game. And will
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Mahoons be able to cash in in the red zone. That's gonna be another
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thing right there. Against the Bengals a couple of weeks ago, who do
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have a good defense, but not as good as the Eagles, they weren't
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able to cash in the red zone. I believe they got two touchdowns out
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of four possessions. And against the Philadelphia Eagles, who yes, I said,
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even if you make Jalen Hurts throw the ball down the field, they're
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still gonna be able to score points. So you're gonna be able to or
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you're gonna need to be able to cash in against his team right here.
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So again it's it's time to make predictions. I think that whoever whoever makes
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the biggest play, or whoever kicks a field goal first, I believe that
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will be the one that determines the outcome first. So I believe the first
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team that kicks a field goal in this game, they will end up losing
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this game because both of these coaches, they're both aggressive coaches and and you
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need to score touchdowns against them because say, for example, the Chiefs they
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get up seven to three against the Eagles, and say, if the Eagles
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kick another field goal, go down the field, kick a field goal,
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and it's seven to six. Next thing you know, the Chiefs they score
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another touchdown, then it's fourteen to six, and you're playing behind the whole
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time. Chiefs offense has momentum, Chiefs defense they have momentum. So whoever
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kicks the field goal first in this game, it's gonna be tough. So,
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man, this is tough because this game right here, this is the
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most balanced game you can say right here for a Super Bowl I've seen in
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a while. Because even last year with the Bengals and Rams, you knew
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who the favorite was in this game, it was obviously the Rams and they
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had the experience. But with this game right here, you've had the team
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who's played the best the entire year in the Philadelphia Eagles. Then you have
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a team with with the Kansas City Chiefs, who they have the experienced quarterback,
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the best quarterback in the league, and the best coach in the league.
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So I think that I think Mahomes he'll be able to find an enough
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place or enough rabbits out of the hat to beat the Eagles and win his
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second Super Bowl in already submitting himself into Captain Ohio and being the first quarterback
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in a while. Actually I didn't bring up this stat. I believe it's
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been since nineteen ninety nine a MVP has not won the Super Bowl the same
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year. So Mahomes he'll be looking to break that, and I do think
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that he will break that than Andy Reid, he'll become one of the best
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coaches of all time. I don't think it's gonna be as high scoring as
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people think, but I do think it's still going to be over if there's
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any betters out there. So I think the score it's I believe it's gonna
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be I believe the score. My bad, it's it's just tough. It's
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just tough asiding how this game is gonna play because both of these teams they're
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two balanced. I believe the score it's gonna end up being thirty one to
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twenty seven Kansas City Chiefs. I believe that the score will be twenty four
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twenty seven. Late late in the third quarter, going to the fourth Kansas
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City, they have a drive, they put together, score touchdown, get
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up thirty one to thirty one twenty seven. Then the rest of the way
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it's a defensive game. But alright, guys, that's gonna wrap up everything.
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