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  Military broadcast radio, The station that's giving veterans a
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  voice. Find us on the web at MB Radio
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  dot US. Think of all that time, every
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  wait in the winter, all those all actors, no one else.
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  Every Sprint in the summer, every summer dies early.
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  Mornings on the levee, late nights in the film room, bus
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  rides to playoff games. Every bump in the road, every
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  moment of ecstasy, every moment of doubt, years wondering is it
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  all worth it? It's all led to this.
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  Man. I got this.
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  It's a 60 minute drive for a 60 minute game.
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  After all the miles we've traveled, we're almost there.
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  After all the hours we've worked, one more can make us
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  legends. After all that time, this is our
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  time. seems like no nonsense guy like
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  reemphasize that for the Saints fans out there on TikTok
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  caveman. What did you just say?
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  The rebuild starts right now. Marshall Lattimore is gone.
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  So the defense like we're not we're not getting any better.
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  Looking to get into Smith. What a pass that game with the
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  game winner. All right, goodness.
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  That is why you have Air Fry pass the a career you like.
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  You have one of them you're having you have the best
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  quarterback in the league, or usually the best wide receiver
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  in the league, and you've got the best edge rusher in terms of
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  total sacks this season in your four and seven.
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  And your playoff chances are hanging on by it.
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  Let's make it interesting we're. Making it interesting.
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  Come on, it was the freaking. 10 No.
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  Who the heck is that guy? Deflect the good health defense
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  from the Warriors. Oh, in the past and to make it
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  throws it down. What chance this could be the
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  pass of the year so far? You might watch every game the
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  rest of the season in the NBA. Mr. Announcer Guy.
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  So don't you go saying that you're never going to see that.
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  You're such a. The station where our veterans
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  voices are heard MBR talk. Hey, thanks.
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  on military broadcast. Right here.
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  Letting our veterans voices be heard.
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  The boys are back. We got a buzzing week in sports.
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  UFL Week 7. We got the Western, the
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  conference finals for the NBA and the NHL should be kicking
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  off here soon. We also have the NBA.
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  Welcome in to all the viewers on TikTok.
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  Let's get right into it today, UFL Week 7, and we got some NFL
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  training camp coverage we're going to cover this week.
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  Exactly. And maybe some more draft grades
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  to hand out because we only got through a few as well.
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  We. Didn't get through all of those,
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  so if we got some time, we can go to those.
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  Boom, there you go, UFL. Let's give them this.
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  UFL action How'd the Battlehawks do?
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  You know, well, they were the final game of the weekend, but
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  we can honestly start there because they would have probably
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  the worst game of the weekend. I'm not going to lie, they won,
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  but it wasn't pretty. Ugly defensive slugfest.
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  My man Max Duggan. Just still.
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  He's not. He's not doing it.
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  Struggling bro. He was a lot, lot more accurate
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  but only put up 158 yards and a touchdown.
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  He did have 57 rushing yards and a touchdown as well.
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  But ugly 19 to 9 victory over the now one in six Memphis
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  Showboats. The defense has been looking
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  pretty dominant. But yeah, the offense not really
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  keeping the whole whole lot of pace, pace for him here and
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  making them really, really work to to win these games.
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  But they shut down Memphis again, a ton of pressure, that
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  is, and just harassment on the quarterback.
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  Two catches in two weeks for Akeem Butler.
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  Yeah. What is that I can't get?
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  We got the touchdown last week, but one catch for six yards.
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  It's I, I'm not even really putting it on him.
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  He just our quarterback just can't throw the ball that far
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  down the field. Gary Jennings was decent in this
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  one, a solid run game overall, but it was a lot of just, you
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  know, 3 and outs or or get one first down and punts and then
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  yeah, have the defense go out there and hold.
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  I just hope that you guys are getting stops.
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  Your first half doesn't look all bad if you're just checking out
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  the box score like 10 points in the first quarter, you know that
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  ain't bad. Going off to a decent start.
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  Got your touchdown in the second coming up with a decent 16-6
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  lead. Well, that's The thing is the
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  offense looked, you know, pretty good actually in the first half.
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  They looked outright serviceable, you know, and
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  you're like, OK, well, maybe the we won't have to rely on the
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  defense that much. And then it just, it was gone in
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  the the second-half. I really just, that did skew it
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  a little bit just how porous they were in the second-half.
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  But that's the worst time for your offense to disappear is in
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  the second-half of the ball game.
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  That's where you'd want it to to show up even more.
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  That's where you'd hope you'd have your 10.
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  Points you only have 16 points like that ain't where you're
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  that's that's no place to get comfortable and can place and
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  thinking you're all good and that's.
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  This is a good thing that you're playing the Memphis showboats
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  who really aren't able to do much offensively either.
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  I mean, Dresser Wynn has some at 196 yards in the touchdown.
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  Like their receiving game or their pass game looks like it
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  did pretty decent. They just couldn't really get a
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  drive that went down the field for a touchdown.
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  Wynn, he only got sacked twice, but he was on the move a lot and
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  you can see it in the in the the completion percentage here.
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  He just was, he was kind of inaccurate because of that.
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  He had to move a lot, move around in the pocket, roll out a
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  whole lot. Wasn't wasn't ever really get
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  comfortable a wins a win if you're the battle Hawks.
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  But Max Duggan in come playoff time, I don't know if he's going
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  to be the answer. And it's not like you're you're
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  shooing for the playoffs anyways.
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  It's pretty competitive, top 2 near the top of the the
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  divisions here, so they really got to lock in and figure
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  something else out offensively. This is just it's getting the
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  job done for now, but it's not going to be winning football
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  when. You're in the your boy.
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  Your boy's going to come back healthy.
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  He Wilkins, we need you. We miss you.
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  He's going. To come back healthy, he's going
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  to be strong. We miss you, Manny.
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  Our first game of the week, the between the defenders and the
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  San Antonio Brahmas, whose season we were saying is
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  effectively over. A decent fight put up here by
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  the Brahmas. It was actually 12 to 12 here at
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  halftime. Yeah, it could have played
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  spoiler there. Yeah, DC kind of took over down
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  the stretch, 20 points there in the second-half that close it
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  out and the Brahmas only able to manage 12 points in the
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  second-half as well, so. Shout out Joshua on Joshua on
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  Corbin that you say his name. He was absolutely carrying this
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  offense. He had 109 yards and a touchdown
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  on 9 attempts. This dude's going.
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  Crazy. I just feel like they didn't
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  give him the ball enough. They did kind of get down in the
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  second-half, which, you know, forced him to throw it a little
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  bit more, given that three straight touchdown drives before
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  the end of the game will do that to you.
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  That's very true. But like when it was close and
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  it was tied, like they still weren't really going to him all
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  too much. And I mean, he was the hot hand
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  that he just didn't seem to want to feed him there.
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  Now I know he's like carrying the team with 9 attempts right
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  here. Is there.
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  It looks like Kevin Hogan was getting pressured a lot in this
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  one too. I haven't checked how the stats
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  look for the defense for DC, but 64% from Hogan?
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  And only three sacks on the the defenders.
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  Again, it was one of those things where yeah, the pressure
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  didn't show up so much as in sacks and just making the
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  quarterback a little more inaccurate.
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  Yeah, this is this is his most accurate game.
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  Nineteen 24278 three touchdowns then the feathers look really
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  good. The run game still almost non
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  existent. I don't know who's going to
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  really step up for him there, but doesn't doesn't seem to
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  matter all that much when Tahami was just slaying it and got a
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  big play for Braylon Sanders. Man, he just his only catch of
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  the day is 76 yard touchdown. Now Briley, Moore, McKinley big
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  game from this guy and flying under the radar and at the
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  bottom of the depth chart for the defenders for a lot of the
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  season. But he got some, some chances in
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  this game and he really showed out.
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  Yeah, 5 targets, 5 catches. Finally, a quiet game from Chris
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  Rowland, but didn't matter because you got more McKinney,
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  Chris or Cornell Powell rather those stepping up for, you know,
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  10 catches, 141 yards on the touchdown between the two of
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  those guys. Yeah, yeah.
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  It's three guys above 70 yards receiving.
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  They're getting everybody active in the offense.
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  That's what's really fun about them.
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  Yeah, right now the the Fenders looking like, dare I say, the
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  best team in the league. They're looking like it.
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  Five and two record. They seem they move the ball
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  really well. The defense is is pretty stout.
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  And I mean, in this game, Isaiah Johnson, he had 11 tackles in
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  this. Like, I was all over the field
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  just flying to the ball. And I'm just thinking too like
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  the amount of pass attempts that Te'yama's thrown like the past
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  two weeks before this, their their offense is calling a lot
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  of plays like defenses are can really get tired out playing
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  playing. Them they go on some long
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  sustainable drives. That's that's what really helps
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  their defense out is, yeah, they can just wear, you know, wear
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  down the team. And they were taking advantage
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  of some turnovers. And when they had short fields
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  punching it in really quickly and they they had the just A2
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  play, 27 yard drive and then the touchdown.
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  And then in the fourth quarter when they hit the big play on
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  that 33 play, 90 yard drive that took him just a minute and four
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  seconds. That's where they had that 76
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  yard touchdown. And then really to close it out
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  here, you've already got a lead. Get the ball back with around
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  9:27 left to go on the 13 plays, 79 yards, 7 minutes and 32
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  seconds off the clock. Punch that ball in the end zone,
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  just about the Backbreaker right there.
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  Yeah, that's just a dagger. Yeah, that that just about did
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  it. End of the game there for for
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  the Brahmas. San Antonio Brahmas.
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  That was that was just a crusher because they they had really
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  started the fourth quarter. They had responded quickly and
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  scored the touchdown to make this game, you know, within 6
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  points. And just like that they go the
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  the defenders just marched down the field drain all that clock,
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  punched the ball in the end zone that you're looking at the two
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  store score game. That's pretty much it.
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  It's kind of forced, forced a turnover on that last drive and
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  finished the job. End it it's another week like
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  kind of wade Phillips defense kind of got you know beat down
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  there at the end, but you know that's a it's a pretty good
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  defenders team. Like you were saying they looked
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  like the best team in the league.
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  I I. Actually, Wade Phillips got
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  fired, so it's an interim coach. They did fight.
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  End of fire. Dang, Dang, that's a well, I
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  mean, come on. Not.
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  Bad unfortunate, yeah, but it's proud, you know, come on, it's
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  about time there with old Wade. So I'll do our next game though
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  Panthers and. The nail.
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  Biter dude, it's a nail biter. 2524 win. 28 points score here
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  in the fourth quarter now like it was a defensive slugfest for
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  a whole lot of this game you're looking at a nine six ball game
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  going in the half time only six points scored in the third
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  quarter and then an explosion 12 for the renegade 16 points for
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  the Panthers and they win finish it off and win the game on a
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  last second touchdown. They scored with one second left
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  the cap off an 11 plays 71 yard drive to close out this game and
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  like we got the bust the best out of both teams here in their
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  the second-half. There are these final two drives
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  that they had touchdown drives for each team and the Panthers
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  the difference there they hit their two point conversions to
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  get that. So 16 points off of two
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  touchdowns went for it from the five yard line for two got both
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  of them. But some long drives here from
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  each team. First touchdowns in the, you
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  know, end of the third, end of the third, end of the fourth was
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  a 12 play 93 yard drive from the Renegades.
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  Panthers answer right back, 12 plays, 60 yards and a touchdown.
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  Arlington's like we're not going to get out, done 6 play or 7
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  plays, 65 yards in the touchdown and then 11 play drive where
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  they punch it in the very last. 2nd Bryce Perkins throwing 53%
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  completion on the day coming out with the Jordan Ta'amu day
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  leaving us in rushing though and getting 2 touchdowns on the day.
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  I I love watching this dude play football.
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  He had one play in this game, he rolls out, rolled out left and
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  like still in the position ready to throw with two defensive
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  lineman chasing him down from behind and he finally makes the
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  decision just take off down the sideline, runs through like 3 or
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  4 defenders, gets his helmet knocked off, ends up getting the
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  first down and just pops up like nothing happened.
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  Goes ready right to the huddle. Look into the sideline for the
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  play call. This guy's got the heart in him.
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  Like I like him. I like Perkins man.
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  We had a solid solid QB room in the offseason.
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  I think we we made some changes we that we needed to.
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  We got rid of EJ Perry, right? He was our starter most of the
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  year last year and his kind of wire offense had to stick to
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  running the football so much was 'cause he he wasn't cutting it.
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  So shout out Bryce Perkins that he is on putting in work for
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  this week. He is and tua tala man, he was
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  the one that punched in the last second touchdown.
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  Quiet day from him otherwise besides that, but he's been
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  really stepping up for the Panthers and jumped up, you
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  know, in the running backroom the past couple weeks.
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  Could be a little Secret X Factor for him down the stretch.
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  Sciosi Mariner starting to look like the team's best receiver.
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  He's been pulling in some pretty consistent performances. 5
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  catches for 86 yards this week. And if you're the Renegades
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  offense you like, they are moving the ball up and down the
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  field, especially late in that game.
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  Pretty much at will. Tyler Vons had a monster day.
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  Him and Sal Canela, the two leading receivers, 9 catches for
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  1:27 in the touch for Vons. Canela 6 grabs, 92 yards in the
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  touchdown. Those guys went off.
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  And Perez 314 and two touchdowns on 25 of 34 passing kind of a
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  non existent run game for the Renegades, which I think is
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  going to be the big frustration for him here as they they drop
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  to 3:00 and 4:00 and it's the same thing.
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  The offense is there, but the defense has been pretty
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  inconsistent for him a lot this season.
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  And there have been some games that that that has flipped a
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  little bit, but we've seen them the the Renegades be able to
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  pull out and win those games. And what running quarterbacks
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  have been where they've really struggled.
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  That's because they they have the Panthers.
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  You know, they would have them in these third down situations.
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  And it would be like Perkins legs, whether he just picked it
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  up on the ground or being able to extend the play.
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  Yeah, just made. See a guy late?
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  It just made a big difference. So we're we're going to take a
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  look at the standings here after we recap our last game, but
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  Renegades starting to get late for him here this season.
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  It's. A big win for the Panthers,
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  though. They're going to need some
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  things to fall their way. A huge win for the Panthers, who
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  jumped up to five and two. We saw how our guys are looking
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  in those big moments. That's good.
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  Going into playoffs here, there's.
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  Just I like that. I like that Birmingham, though,
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  kind of bouncing back. They were.
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  We said that they weren't really looking like defending Champs
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  put up 33 points, though, on Houston in a strong second-half.
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  If it was a game they got, yeah, it was looking like it was going
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  to be ugly for them. They were down 25 to 12 at
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  halftime. Roughnecks were rolling,
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  everything was working. And then they just they came out
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  and totally different, you know, tone and I think they they
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  started running a lot more zone and zone blitz schemes and these
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  disguise looks that just started to give the Roth necks a whole
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  lot of problems and it confusing shut up worked out well, shut
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  them out in the second-half, 16 points or 15 points rather in
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  the fourth quarter here for the Stallions.
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  And you look at how how this game starts, you know, their
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  opening drives, a touchdown, then you get interception, punt,
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  punt, and it's getting a little off the rails.
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  And I think the huge what was huge the the confidence boost
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  that they got here when they got that last drive there in the
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  second-half, 13 plays, took it 64 yards and got a touchdown.
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  Think that was huge for their the confidence of that team.
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  And, you know, after they started, well, some things
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  started to go wrong and then they they got back on schedule
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  on that last drive. And I think they just it
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  something clicked where they're like, we're better than this
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  team. We're going to just take we're
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  going to come out in the second-half, dominate them and
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  take control this game. And then that's exactly what
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  they did open, you know, open the the second-half three
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  straight drives. So they get a field goal and
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  then their final two drives, both touchdowns to end off the
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  game here. So you go in the halftime with a
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  touchdown, come out of the come out into the second-half, go
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  field goal, field goal, field goal, touchdown, touchdown and
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  the game here. And on the other side, what
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  started great for the Roughnecks, three straight
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  touchdown drives. They were feeling good.
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  And then they got just smacked around on their last drive in
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  the second-half, you know, 3 and out, where all they did was lose
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  a yard. They punt, They had to punt the
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  ball. That was really where I think
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  Birmingham figured out their defense.
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  There was like how they defend this team.
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  And it was, yeah, you know, polar ends of the spectrum,
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  where one team gained a lot of so much confidence that they
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  took in the half time despite being down, and another team
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  might have been rattled a little unsure of themselves, and it
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  showed. Yeah, it's backfired.
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  Ugly drives. They're in the second-half.
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  A three and out. Punt, punt, punt, fumble,
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  turnover on downs. All of the second-half
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  possessions there for the Roughnecks.
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  That's not really what you want to see.
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  Then three, another 3 and 14 that does not want to be there
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  right now. Kind of got they got exposed on
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  this one and yeah, but the top teams are starting to pull away
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  just a little bit. Obviously these three and four
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  teams aren't out of it yet. And you know, like, well, the
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  team like the battle Hawks that has a real rocky situation like
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  quarterback, that's really where you're looking.
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  You're looking at your chops, like, OK, we got a chance to.
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  If we can, if we can get it together, this team might salute
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  the ball. Absolute to you, too.
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  Stallions 6 teams are out, yeah. Yeah, they're done.
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  I would there's I absolutely no shot.
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  I think like mathematically they're still technically away,
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  but. No, no, they're they are.
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  They're already got eliminated. They're officially eliminated.
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  Standings, yeah, No one's clinched only, only
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  eliminations. That's the Stallions 2 headed
• 25:43
  Rush monsters starting to wake. Ricky Person and CJ Marbler are
• 25:49
  really. Starting to get.
• 25:50
  Going really starting to get going 13 for 61 for person, 10
• 25:55
  for 43 for Marbler, each with a touchdown on this game.
• 25:59
  Buck 42 and 3 touchdowns total for your for your stallions
• 26:06
  here. And then they bring they brought
• 26:08
  in Jamar Smith to use them a little bit in the run game and
• 26:11
  also some gadget passing place three or five for 63 yards.
• 26:15
  So they're, they're, they're doing that stallion thing they
• 26:18
  did last year where they, you know, it's been mostly Kate's
• 26:22
  cookus, but they've been bringing in Smith a little bit
• 26:25
  just as a some for some gadget stuff.
• 26:29
  They ran a lot of stuff with both their quarterbacks this
• 26:32
  year. Had fun with it.
• 26:34
  Jay Sternberger, I think this is I, I've been waiting for him to
• 26:38
  really pop off and and give us a good game and this was
• 26:41
  definitely his best one of the season.
• 26:43
  I thought this guy might be a potential, you know, got got to
• 26:48
  make it on the NFL roster. Didn't you know, didn't get the
• 26:51
  call. And I was, I was really looking
• 26:54
  for him to have a break out, you know, maybe make his way on
• 26:56
  there from rather quiet from him for the most part.
• 26:59
  But here he is with that 4 catches, 74 yards and a
• 27:04
  touchdown. There it is.
• 27:06
  It's kind of I think they just have like a real dynamic offense
• 27:10
  and they're doing it with some newer faces.
• 27:14
  So this season, I think it kind of just took a little bit longer
• 27:18
  for it to click like this game might be might be something to
• 27:22
  look out for those other top teams going in the end of this
• 27:27
  as a as me watching the Panthers, hoping the Panthers
• 27:30
  win that this game definitely is going to be scary.
• 27:35
  So right now we're just looking at the standings here.
• 27:39
  Obviously, Brahmas show boats are eliminated, playing for
• 27:43
  nothing more than pride. Arlington and Houston are three
• 27:48
  and four in their respective divisions or conferences.
• 27:52
  Looking for one of these top five and two teams to slip up in
• 27:58
  the XFL Conference. That's the Defenders and the
• 28:02
  Battlehawks. Like if that season ends today,
• 28:07
  you know, and that's the match up, defenders are going to kill
• 28:10
  the battle Hogs if they can't get anything going offensively
• 28:13
  that that offense is just too dynamic for you to be on the
• 28:17
  struggle bus like that. Like their defense will match up
• 28:21
  with a pretty well or at least fair enough to keep you in the
• 28:25
  game, but not if you can't move the ball at all.
• 28:28
  And then this would be the doozy of Michigan against the
• 28:33
  Panthers. Or the Michigan against the
• 28:38
  Stallions, Rather Birmingham and Michigan, the 2, five and two
• 28:42
  teams at the top of the USFL Conference.
• 28:45
  The African Panthers Stallions game, we got 3738 final or
• 28:50
  something, both of those defenses and we're they're just
• 28:55
  going to let us score all our points in the first half and
• 28:58
  then shut us out, pull a crazy comeback something.
• 29:02
  Something like that, yeah. I got hope, though.
• 29:05
  I got hope, though, because Bryce Perkins.
• 29:07
  I still think the I still think the stallions are pretty
• 29:10
  beatable right now. I like I like the Panthers more.
• 29:14
  They're if I if I actually are the predicted a championship
• 29:18
  right now, I would say Panthers defenders is what's looking most
• 29:22
  likely. Let's go perk.
• 29:25
  Carry us, Carry us to the promise I.
• 29:27
  Think there's a team with like the most, you know, swag flair
• 29:31
  in the league right now I think. Yep, and Samson Nukua will slap
• 29:35
  your fans in the face. Yeah, in your home state.
• 29:39
  Yeah, don't piss off Samson Nukua.
• 29:43
  Alrighty, that's going to do it for our coverage of the UFL Week
• 29:46
  7 as we look ahead just the Week 8 and some of the matchups we
• 29:50
  got coming up there. What do we got?
• 29:53
  Well, on Friday we've got the battle of the eliminated teams,
• 29:59
  the showboats and Brahmas. So you know, I guess the the
• 30:04
  pick for the OR the battle for the number one pick, I suppose.
• 30:08
  And then we've got the Panthers taking on the roughnecks.
• 30:12
  So big conference game right there.
• 30:17
  That could, you know, a loss there could really hurt the
• 30:20
  Roughnecks shot at making the playoffs and whereas winning
• 30:27
  would do a huge favor to them and just giving them a chance
• 30:32
  and the team that they're closer to in the standings being the
• 30:35
  Panthers, then this could get bad if Wilkins isn't good to go
• 30:41
  Stallions and the Battlehawks on Saturday.
• 30:49
  Not sure how I'm feeling about that with the Max Duggan, if he
• 30:54
  if he's still good to go there would hurt a lot if we lost
• 30:58
  that. But the good news is the
• 30:59
  Renegades have to play the defenders.
• 31:02
  But if they see that the battle hogs lost, that gives them even
• 31:05
  more to play for. So going to be a very
• 31:08
  interesting week 8. Don't miss it with the UFL.
• 31:12
  That's been pretty exciting coming up on 8:30.
• 31:15
  So we're going to go ahead and hit our first music break of the
• 31:18
  day. When we come back, we've got
• 31:21
  more action in the round two of the NBA and NHL playoffs.
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  Plus the NBA Traft lottery has come and passed, so now we know
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  at till the final whistle. Everybody HD and Caveman back in
• 33:01
  the house. Just finished up our UFL Week 7
• 33:05
  coverage heading into Week 8 and that season is getting very,
• 33:10
  very close to playoffs, meaning that the NFL season is going to
• 33:14
  be starting up soon. But we got the ice.
• 33:19
  The action is heating up on the ice, getting close to the
• 33:22
  conference finals in the NHL and the NBA, but we're going to
• 33:25
  start over on the NHL side. HG which one of those series
• 33:30
  second round series are you feeling covering the most?
• 33:34
  Let's let's jump into this Hurricanes and Capital series.
• 33:39
  I like it. Trip in here.
• 33:44
  Why does it say ESPN says that it's a three one series lead for
• 33:49
  Carolina? Oh that's right, it is.
• 33:53
  I'm looking at I read one of those scores wrong.
• 33:55
  I was like what the heck. All right my bad.
• 33:58
  Y'all haven't had enough coffee this morning?
• 34:02
  Yeah, it is a three one series lead.
• 34:03
  I was. Capitals, that was my pick to go
• 34:07
  Eastern Conference, go to the Stanley Cup.
• 34:10
  Yeah, and it's just, it's been, it's just been getting away from
• 34:14
  him, man. Like dropping one at home in
• 34:18
  game one and then the Canes, you know, series comes back to them
• 34:23
  in Carolina and they just, you know, on over 2 games beat them
• 34:30
  nine to two, shut them out in game three.
• 34:34
  Dropped five goals in game four. It's been it's been rough going
• 34:39
  jump in the game 3A little bit here.
• 34:43
  Kind of tough to see that this is probably going to be the end
• 34:46
  of that Alexander Ovechkin's amazing season.
• 34:52
  Yeah, it's kind of an unfortunate ending is he'd lose
• 34:55
  in the gentleman sweep to a lower seeded team here.
• 35:00
  I kind of feel like they'll they might force a Game 6, but then
• 35:04
  again, that goes back to Carolina.
• 35:06
  And yeah, they just look like Carolina looks really, really
• 35:11
  good on their home ice too. Like they just look dominant on
• 35:16
  their home ice. Here you go the game 3 here they
• 35:23
  were two for two on their power play opportunities and really
• 35:27
  evenly matched for the most part by the the Capitals, but they
• 35:32
  just weren't able to make the most of the opportunities they
• 35:36
  had. Obviously they go home for two
• 35:38
  on their power plays. They blocked 27 shots, which I
• 35:43
  would say is less about their defense and more about the
• 35:45
  pressure on offense from those from the Hurricanes there and on
• 35:51
  the penalty minutes, Galloway from them here in game three.
• 35:55
  They had those 18 penalty minutes, but they they were
• 35:58
  both, they were tied 30 and 30 on the face off.
• 36:01
  So that's that's something, I guess.
• 36:05
  Yeah. Logan Thompson, He he he
• 36:08
  struggled in this one. Yeah, that's kind of been the
• 36:12
  killer for him. They haven't really been able to
• 36:14
  find too much success there. And it's just been Hurricane
• 36:23
  just been spreading the wealth, everyone's getting involved and
• 36:27
  it's been a just a very complete team effort.
• 36:30
  This game. Four different guys scored all
• 36:32
  four goals. You got Jack Roslovic, Eric
• 36:35
  Robinson, Jackson Blake, Andrei Shanakov, all of them getting
• 36:43
  involved, scoring the goal in that one.
• 36:48
  And then if we move on here to game 452 loss here for the
• 36:53
  Capitals. And again, they win more face
• 36:57
  offs and you've got a 23 block shots.
• 37:01
  But it's I see those less as good defense and just more of a
• 37:07
  a product of all the pressure that the the Canes were putting
• 37:12
  on them. They were just getting a lot of
• 37:14
  good shots to go. I mean 30-8 shots to just 21 in
• 37:18
  this one. That's a massive difference.
• 37:21
  Right and the power play again, Capitals could not convert on it
• 37:29
  one of five on this. They did a better job of
• 37:31
  stopping it had the the canes go oh, of three.
• 37:35
  But you know, that doesn't when you're one of five and you lose
• 37:40
  by three goals, that just that just stings a lot where you
• 37:45
  know, like you didn't make the most of your of your
• 37:48
  opportunities there. I think they've just done a good
• 37:53
  job really of of limiting A vetchpin too.
• 37:56
  He did give a goal and this one, but it was like nothing easy
• 38:01
  coming. You know, he really had the one.
• 38:02
  Swarming him. Like he had to work really hard
• 38:07
  to get this one in. It came out a point where it was
• 38:11
  almost feeling like God, too little, too late, too late,
• 38:14
  right? You're going that into the third
• 38:16
  period down to nothing. You give up three goals and that
• 38:20
  one even though you score 2 yourself and.
• 38:23
  Then you finally that's when you finally end up getting the goal
• 38:28
  when they they score 3 unanswered on you.
• 38:31
  Allen had to go empty net so early and that just resulted in
• 38:35
  another goal. Yeah, Thomas, he did a little
• 38:39
  better than this one. I mean, he he had the he had 37
• 38:42
  shots on goal come his way, got 33 of them.
• 38:45
  But that's a lot to ask of your ask of your goalie here.
• 38:50
  And again, just all these different guys getting involved
• 38:52
  for the Canes. Really like one of these teams.
• 38:56
  I was just looking like super complete as a team and like
• 38:59
  really just In Sync where like they just play really well as a
• 39:04
  team together. So you got a couple of
• 39:09
  defencemen getting involved, Gobbish here, Slavin and that
• 39:15
  those defencemen each got a goal there.
• 39:17
  Seth Jarvis got one in, Taylor Hall getting one as well.
• 39:21
  And then Shanevikov gets gets another goal in this one as
• 39:25
  well. Going back to Washington.
• 39:29
  That's going to be tomorrow night.
• 39:32
  I think they can win that one. I'll.
• 39:34
  Say the Capitals, yeah, they they'll force a little force in
• 39:39
  Game 6. I think Carolina ultimately
• 39:42
  takes takes him down though. Not too many competitive series
• 39:47
  in the second round other than Maple Leafs.
• 39:50
  Panthers tied up at 22, but Golden Knights are down 31 to
• 39:55
  the Oilers and Dallas is a three to one against The Jets.
• 40:01
  I think Dallas is going to win the the Cup.
• 40:04
  Man I thought they look so good. Yeah, man.
• 40:06
  Well, they're they're on fire. We'll get to who's likely going
• 40:10
  to be their big competition though first that is Edmonton.
• 40:15
  Oilers baby. Don't forget about Conor
• 40:18
  McDavid. Do not forget about the man
• 40:21
  himself. So obviously we talked last
• 40:24
  week, they stole the two games, one and two on the road, came
• 40:30
  down to a thriller in overtime to take down the Knights.
• 40:33
  Knights got gained 3 though and won that one four to three.
• 40:41
  And taking a look at what happened here, you know each
• 40:45
  team did a good job of not giving the other one to the
• 40:47
  opportunities. Just two power plays each for
• 40:49
  each squad and the the Oilers just coming away with more of
• 40:56
  those face offs in this one and a lot of guys, just a lot of
• 40:59
  penalty minutes in this one and a lot of guys that had to sit in
• 41:03
  the box for a while and then, you know, both teams were just
• 41:07
  giving the puck away a good amount.
• 41:09
  You know, 17 for Edmonton, 14 for for Vegas here.
• 41:17
  Excuse me, look at some of these guys that were were difference
• 41:21
  makers here. Excuse me for the Golden
• 41:25
  Knights, see if it. Getting an ESPN to load here,
• 41:33
  sorry. Really Smith was the, you know,
• 41:39
  he had the two goals there, so big for them.
• 41:43
  I think they just Jack Eichel was having a tough time getting
• 41:48
  involved in this one. Edmonton did a good job taking
• 41:51
  away. So I thought it was a good job
• 41:52
  guys like Smith was stepping up on.
• 41:54
  Nicholas Roy did a good job as well.
• 42:00
  Barbashev, although he he didn't really contribute a whole lot to
• 42:03
  the the box score. I thought he had a really,
• 42:07
  really solid game there as well. William Carlson added the the
• 42:13
  the last and fourth goal for the Golden Knights here.
• 42:19
  And then on the other side, you know, like David had the goal
• 42:22
  and the assist Corey Perry bit of legacy game for him.
• 42:26
  Two goals on this one flying up and down the ice.
• 42:32
  And then but when when you're Vegas, I wouldn't feel too
• 42:36
  confident. You know when that in this one
• 42:38
  where your goalie 20 shots on goal and he gives up three goals
• 42:42
  in that, that's that's not a real busy night for him and he.
• 42:46
  Yeah, no, not at all. He struggled and the protection
• 42:49
  there a little bit and then, you know, on the other side, I guess
• 42:52
  Edmonton shouldn't feel too good.
• 42:54
  Stewart Skinner giving up four goals and 24 attempts right
• 42:59
  there as well. But then flip it back.
• 43:02
  You know, flip over the Game. 4 here.
• 43:05
  One that was really dominated by Edmonton, like 32 shots to 23.
• 43:11
  The offense of Vegas disappeared thinking this one.
• 43:15
  Killed him on face offs, nearly 160% of them.
• 43:19
  I mean, you can honestly round up this percentage here to 60
• 43:23
  6040 all around and they even had less power play
• 43:27
  opportunities in this one, but Skinner just killed it.
• 43:32
  Real bounce back game allowed four goals on 23 shots in game
• 43:37
  three-game 4 spins it back 100 percent, 23 to 23 say.
• 43:42
  Locked it down. Yeah, he was huge in this one.
• 43:46
  And then, yeah, it's nice when you're McDavid and you really
• 43:49
  don't, you can kind of take more of a night off.
• 43:51
  You'd wasn't asked to do a ton. I mean, he was still pressuring
• 43:55
  the goal a lot. He had five shots on this one.
• 43:59
  Nougat Hawkins also with three shots.
• 44:01
  Evander Kane, though, kind of stole the show.
• 44:05
  He had the goal. He had an assist, four shots on
• 44:08
  there and he was he was lighting some dudes up on the ice.
• 44:14
  And then Adam Heinrich, now that this is another team that's
• 44:17
  looking really good, there'll be some trouble for Dallas for
• 44:21
  sure, though. I think they're going to
• 44:23
  probably take this one in five. I I feel, yeah, Vegas just this
• 44:28
  gave me really looked like they lost their confidence.
• 44:32
  We'll see if that home crowd, the threat of elimination can
• 44:35
  give them the rally a little bit.
• 44:37
  But I'm looking at Edmonton to close this thing out here in,
• 44:42
  close it out in five and move on to the Western Conference
• 44:47
  finals. Where they will most likely be
• 44:50
  facing off against the Dallas Stars unless The Jets pull
• 44:55
  something crazy out the hat. But after a 5 three loss in game
• 44:59
  three and this three one loss in game 4I mean what's really
• 45:05
  what's really going on here. They looked good in Game 240
• 45:09
  win, as we talked about last week.
• 45:12
  Looked like they were bouncing back a little bit.
• 45:15
  But allow three unanswered goals in the third period.
• 45:18
  A Game 3 is what kills them. It's Tide going into that third
• 45:23
  period. Yeah, it was a it was a pretty
• 45:27
  bad collapse for them and that that third period.
• 45:31
  And that's really that's where the story of the stars this post
• 45:34
  season is. They get it done in the clutch
• 45:37
  moments. That's what I like about them.
• 45:39
  Wake up at the end right Cuz like that series against the ABS
• 45:43
  where they're down that whole game and they just keep hanging
• 45:47
  away they would just they just fought their way back and they
• 45:51
  like a series where you could honestly say like if you just
• 45:54
  like eliminated, you know the final like 5 minutes to 510
• 45:59
  minutes of every third period and showed somebody like what
• 46:02
  happened in that game you're like, oh I've swept them but
• 46:05
  those last minutes of the third period they'll.
• 46:08
  Get you? Like they just turn into a
• 46:11
  different team. The focus and the play making is
• 46:16
  all there. Branton is having himself a heck
• 46:19
  of a post season. He shut down 4 power play
• 46:23
  opportunities here and it was really even.
• 46:28
  Yeah, we do have this streaming on YouTube.
• 46:30
  You can find this there MB Rs YouTube which was that's MBR
• 46:37
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• 46:54
  win here in Game 3 for Dallas, 52, obviously.
• 46:58
  Or MBR talk shows on Twitch. Excuse me?
• 47:05
  They shut down all those power play opportunities and then
• 47:07
  super even, you know, in terms of shots on goal, each team at
• 47:11
  26 and Dallas just making them more, making the most of all of
• 47:16
  theirs. Yeah, Hella Buck, man.
• 47:19
  He it's it's been kind of a rough series for him.
• 47:23
  He was great. Like game two, he locked it
• 47:26
  down. But they they've just been, you
• 47:30
  know, like he's had some really impressive saves, but then also
• 47:34
  there have been some goals around like man for like the
• 47:37
  caliber of goalie that he was all season.
• 47:41
  To see that one kind of slip past them.
• 47:43
  You're like what I. Mean they got brought to, they
• 47:46
  got brought to seven games against Saint Louis, but he's
• 47:50
  having a tough post season in general, really.
• 47:53
  Alden just better man like he's he's been one of the real IVPS
• 47:58
  from Dallas this this man's making some absolutely unreal
• 48:02
  saves and here just like getting his his legs his arms to stick
• 48:10
  into some just wacky angles where I'm like I don't know how
• 48:14
  he. I don't know how.
• 48:16
  He how he managed to do it, but he's been he has just been
• 48:20
  locked down there in the goal and I'm like we said that we're
• 48:24
  going to go over to the offensive side.
• 48:26
  Nico, he was having a great post season.
• 48:29
  He was great in this one. One goal, 2 assists.
• 48:33
  Yeah, Wyatt Johnston also having a pretty good post season.
• 48:36
  He gets a goal in this one. Mikhail Grundland with his his
• 48:40
  two assists rope hints gets a goal in this one as well.
• 48:44
  And then the defenseman Thomas Harley and Alexander Petrovich
• 48:49
  also added some goals in this one as well.
• 48:54
  And playing a blocked shots from all, like at least one block
• 48:58
  shot for all but one of the defenseman on the Dallas side
• 49:02
  just all over Winnipeg in this game especially like a lot of
• 49:06
  this all happening in the third period too.
• 49:09
  Stars just a different team when that third period gets going.
• 49:12
  They'll get you. They'll get you talking about
• 49:15
  the moments when it matters. That's really when it does.
• 49:19
  Dallas Stars. Great.
• 49:20
  Who's their head coach? Let me just let me search that
• 49:23
  up. Yeah, we got to give.
• 49:24
  You're, you're getting a shout out of there, man.
• 49:27
  I'll chat. I've been terrible about
• 49:29
  learning these hockey's hockey head coaches, whoever they got
• 49:34
  there. Yeah, he's he's got the boys
• 49:36
  playing. I.
• 49:37
  Peter de Boer, you know, it's not not too hard to pronounce.
• 49:41
  Nice. Yeah, he's been he he's coaching
• 49:45
  one heck of a hockey team here. Game 3 they're just nothing but
• 49:51
  consistent all game out of goal in every period and only give up
• 49:55
  one there in the second again lockdown defense and Winnipeg
• 50:01
  got a lot more like 8 more shots than them in this Good morning,
• 50:05
  caveman in HG more than our TikTok listeners.
• 50:09
  Thanks for tuning in Welcome in all these blocked shots 18 over
• 50:14
  here for for the stars and again another great pretty good game
• 50:22
  from Niko Niko leading the squad here Johnston those two pretty
• 50:29
  dynamic duo. I like Dallas.
• 50:34
  Dallas and Edmonton's gonna be some cinema though.
• 50:36
  Those are some really good match teams and well, I've been
• 50:40
  talking to this one. That the guy that was really.
• 50:43
  Welcome back. Taken the guy that really took
• 50:46
  control of the game for Mikhail Granlund.
• 50:51
  Three goals on this one. All three of the goals here.
• 50:54
  Come to the dark side, Kyle, You got to have Dallas as your pick
• 50:57
  to go. Go to the Stanley Cup.
• 51:01
  I can't pick against Edmonton though.
• 51:03
  They're my that's my squad. Dallas is my pick.
• 51:05
  Edmonton, man, it's I just, I think it's going to be tough for
• 51:08
  him to get back there. But they do match like a lot of
• 51:12
  star power on both of these rosters here.
• 51:15
  They're teams that can get out and play some fast-paced hockey,
• 51:19
  but also can buckle down and play some, you know, some
• 51:23
  grinded out defensive type of hockey.
• 51:25
  So it's like we're going to see I think this, I think Dallas
• 51:30
  wins in five as well. They'll take care of that
• 51:34
  tomorrow night, finish off win the peg and then you've just
• 51:39
  you've got Edmonton, Dallas. We're going to see a good
• 51:43
  mixture of games, you know, some some real like fast-paced
• 51:48
  shootouts and then yeah, some real fast-paced shootouts and
• 51:56
  then also some real defensive battles where you like 1 nothing
• 52:01
  to one type of games there where it's going to be just an
• 52:05
  absolute duel. I like the canes pick though.
• 52:09
  Canes are looking good too. They kind of just been cruising
• 52:12
  through everyone they've played. Certainly, at least in my
• 52:17
  opinion, one of the teams is getting, I don't think is
• 52:20
  getting as much attention as they should.
• 52:23
  The quieter playoff coverage for them.
• 52:26
  It looks like they might get 2 back-to-back gentlemen's sweeps,
• 52:31
  right? Maple leaves though.
• 52:33
  This has been we're. Just up two to zero last
• 52:36
  episode. And all of a sudden, here come
• 52:39
  those defending champs floor the Panthers.
• 52:43
  Rallying back. Game three overtime thriller. 54
• 52:48
  win, getting the last second goal in overtime. 36 shots to
• 52:54
  31. I mean, this is a really even
• 52:56
  game. Right.
• 52:58
  Oh, this is back and forth between both teams.
• 53:00
  Three power play chances to four for what that three for the
• 53:04
  Panthers, 4 for Toronto. Good amount of not not a lot of
• 53:09
  penalty, but it's rather for either team.
• 53:12
  So very clean game too. Both teams giving the puck away
• 53:16
  decent amount and it was just a just real back and forth here.
• 53:21
  And this is a tough team to count out.
• 53:25
  And the the Panthers, obviously they got Matthew to Chuck, Sam
• 53:31
  Bennett and Sam Reinhart guys both both great.
• 53:36
  And then you know, Bob Roski, still one of the better goalies
• 53:41
  in the NHL. This is a tougher, little
• 53:43
  tougher game for him. 31 shots on goal and four, only four
• 53:48
  goals given up though. So he he made some pretty good
• 53:51
  plays and he is, you know, did give up that goal.
• 53:55
  That wasn't a tie it they're late in the third, but he was
• 53:59
  locked down there in overtime and they just got it done.
• 54:06
  It was a Brad Mcshann finishing off there in OT there for the
• 54:11
  Panthers. Yeah, this has been a real tight
• 54:14
  series. Oh my gosh, We got we got to put
• 54:18
  in a clip of this goal on the break.
• 54:20
  It's like ricocheted off his teammate.
• 54:22
  Hold on. That's crazy right there.
• 54:27
  He shot it like it was like kind of a closer shot, but it got
• 54:32
  ricocheted and blocked and it just flipped up and in.
• 54:36
  That is insane. Yeah, that was that was a tough
• 54:41
  way to lose it to her. He used it was almost
• 54:45
  essentially own goal there. Yeah, I like hit off somebody's
• 54:49
  skate here. That's crazy.
• 54:51
  It gets really mocked up there in front of the the net and
• 54:54
  things like that happen. It's just been one of those
• 54:57
  types of series right there. Then Game 2.
• 55:02
  Really. Bank shot it off his teammate's
• 55:04
  chest right there. That's a crazy shot.
• 55:07
  Game four rather. My apologies it was all Panthers
• 55:11
  and the defensive duel they get the the two nothings shut out to
• 55:19
  tie this series back up heading back to Toronto.
• 55:24
  This one I think might go to 7. This has, yeah.
• 55:28
  This has the makings of the game.
• 55:29
  That's going to go to seven for the I want to see them do a
• 55:34
  little bit better on their power plays this game, especially like
• 55:38
  6 opportunities that only and only one goal off of that.
• 55:42
  They had 37 shots to the just the 23 here from the Maple
• 55:46
  leaves. They just, you know, they it
• 55:52
  was, I mean, you look at it, it was kind of a a sloppier game
• 55:55
  for them offensively and Toronto could just never get their
• 56:00
  really get their offense going and just wasn't able to put a
• 56:04
  lot of pressure on them there. So like the Panthers wasn't a
• 56:09
  great game out of them that they just found a way to win it in
• 56:12
  this one here. Got it done.
• 56:14
  Got it done in. Game four, like Joseph Wool,
• 56:17
  man, like 37 shots on goal and only two go in.
• 56:22
  Like that's a pretty good day at the office.
• 56:24
  Like I can't even really pull too much against them here, man.
• 56:27
  Like you're you guys got the points.
• 56:30
  Step it up there. I mean, like all these power
• 56:32
  play opportunities, like Toronto played some really good defense.
• 56:37
  They just couldn't turn it into offense on the other end.
• 56:40
  They didn't generate anything on the other side for him.
• 56:43
  They needed some something, something they swing the
• 56:47
  momentum their way because when you get a defensive stop, you
• 56:50
  know, that's, that's one thing like going down on the other end
• 56:53
  and like getting the game tied up or just holding some
• 56:57
  possession for a little bit. I mean like they couldn't get it
• 57:01
  done. Carter Verhege and Sam Bennett
• 57:04
  getting the two goals here for the Panthers and this one Game 5
• 57:09
  slips back over to Toronto and what I'm seeing here, Maple
• 57:15
  Leafs, they're going to win this one and then the Panthers win
• 57:18
  out the next two to win the series 3 to 2.
• 57:25
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  All right. Well, that's yeah, that's going
• 57:59
  to be our wrap up our coverage of round two of the NHL
• 58:05
  playoffs. And yeah, we're looking at we're
• 58:10
  predicting these final match ups.
• 58:12
  It's going to be Stars and Oilers and Panthers and Canes
• 58:19
  coming up here for the those conference finals.
• 58:23
  Can't wait to see it. I.
• 58:25
  Like those picks, I like those two picks there.
• 58:28
  I think that'll be a good, good what good conference finals
• 58:32
  match up. Who do you think will ultimately
• 58:35
  be in the Stanley Cup Finals? So.
• 58:37
  Give me Dallas and Carolina. Honestly, let's let's call I'm
• 58:45
  just going for a little upset. Panthers are back.
• 58:48
  We're in that last year see them getting shocked.
• 58:52
  They're a little bit by Carolina.
• 58:54
  Give me I still I'll take in Dallas the whole way.
• 58:57
  I don't know they just look good.
• 58:59
  They just look really good. I'm.
• 59:01
  Going Canes and Oilers here. Canes and Oilers VI Stanley Cup
• 59:06
  Finals match up. We will see.
• 59:10
  All right, well, we're coming up on our second break, but don't
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  Boys are back buzzing because there's big controversy with the
• 1:03:29
  NBA draft lottery this year. We saw one of the craziest
• 1:03:33
  trades happen, one of the craziest trades in NBA history
• 1:03:37
  with Luca going to the Lakers for Anthony Davis.
• 1:03:41
  You know, pretty much bag of chips because Anthony Davis got
• 1:03:44
  injured in his first game, barely played, got injured in
• 1:03:49
  the play in game as well. He was.
• 1:03:51
  Good. He was a monster in those play
• 1:03:53
  in games, but yeah. Got injured it.
• 1:03:56
  Was a struggle. So 1.8% chance to get the number
• 1:04:00
  one overall pick. Surely The Mavericks won't get
• 1:04:02
  it. This would be like one of the
• 1:04:04
  biggest bailouts in NBA history for one of the worst trades ever
• 1:04:09
  conducted. Nope.
• 1:04:12
  And guess who ends up with the number one overall pick?
• 1:04:15
  The Dallas and Mavericks. How?
• 1:04:18
  Right. I mean, people are just shocked
• 1:04:21
  and it came down to being between them and the Spurs.
• 1:04:25
  Like are we like the two teams with some of the lowest chances?
• 1:04:30
  So again, two teams that the two teams that I would say in the
• 1:04:33
  lottery deserved it. The least, the least, Yeah.
• 1:04:36
  Rigged. Rigged.
• 1:04:38
  They did deserve the least. And you know what, Kyle, you
• 1:04:41
  just might be right about it being rigged.
• 1:04:43
  I mean, it's like, hey, This Is Us, the NBA paying back Nico
• 1:04:48
  Harrison for sending Luca to LA. You know, send a young superstar
• 1:04:53
  player to the biggest market in the league and we'll make sure
• 1:04:57
  you get, you know, the number one pick and you can get Cooper
• 1:05:00
  flag and and rebuild your your franchise around back.
• 1:05:04
  To it, get right back to it or right where you left off.
• 1:05:09
  It's just dumb. We wouldn't be talking about
• 1:05:11
  getting rid of franchises from the league.
• 1:05:14
  If the Hornets or the Jazz or the Wizards could get a number
• 1:05:17
  one overall pick or maybe just be the in the top three even,
• 1:05:20
  you know somewhere in there the the Jazz being the worst team in
• 1:05:26
  the league, having the worst record and only getting the 5th
• 1:05:28
  overall pick. That's BS.
• 1:05:31
  Do they like Charlotte's never been relevant?
• 1:05:35
  And here they are with the 4th overall pick man.
• 1:05:38
  They have like go on 2K, look at their all Time Team girl they're
• 1:05:42
  like 70. Like they low key kind of got
• 1:05:44
  like a nice little roster that they sort of been constructed
• 1:05:47
  down there with some of those high draft picks.
• 1:05:49
  Let him rebuild, dude. Like you put a player like Flag
• 1:05:52
  on there and like, I don't know, like him with, you know, Lamelo,
• 1:05:58
  Brandon Miller's kind of been balling out, you know, Miles
• 1:06:03
  Bridges, domestic abuse aside, he's been pretty good player.
• 1:06:08
  I mean, like they got some guys down there almost.
• 1:06:10
  Lost their centre, they got him back.
• 1:06:12
  Though, right? And they it was just they have.
• 1:06:14
  Nurk Williams, something like that.
• 1:06:15
  They have Nurkich off the bench. Yeah, Big Nurk is down there
• 1:06:18
  too, like Lok that that could have been kind of a fun team
• 1:06:22
  man. And like a play in team maybe,
• 1:06:24
  you know, and then they're like not really that far off from
• 1:06:28
  potentially being a playoff team.
• 1:06:32
  It's just like, and like now it's like you're at the 4th pick
• 1:06:35
  and it's like, well, it's not like that's horrible.
• 1:06:38
  It's not like you can't not get good players there.
• 1:06:41
  It gives them a chance. Look, look, look, they rebuild
• 1:06:44
  in time. 2021, who got the number one overall pick?
• 1:06:47
  Detroit got Cade Cunningham. Look at them now.
• 1:06:51
  If they knew how to close out a game, they could have been in
• 1:06:54
  the second round. They honestly might have beat
• 1:06:56
  the freaking Celtics. Hey looky Like come on, you got
• 1:07:00
  to give him a chance. When did and?
• 1:07:02
  Then that same draft of Rockets get Jalen Green, Cavs get Evan
• 1:07:06
  Mobley, those top three picks were huge and then it's like 4,
• 1:07:09
  you drop down. It's like Scotty Barnes has been
• 1:07:12
  good, hasn't exactly been like the franchise savior.
• 1:07:16
  Next year, number one overall pick from Duke Paolo Bankero
• 1:07:20
  goes to the Orlando Magic. I mean, they just, they need to
• 1:07:25
  get some guards over there and they're going to be a solid team
• 1:07:28
  that competes in the playoffs. OK, see they have the number two
• 1:07:31
  pick. They get Chet Holder and then
• 1:07:33
  Jabari Smith going to the Rockets and Pistons.
• 1:07:37
  You know Cade wasn't up, but they get a top five pick.
• 1:07:40
  And now because you got that number one overall pick and
• 1:07:43
  you're able to just take the best possible player in the
• 1:07:45
  class, boom, now you have Jayden Ivy and you can draft a bit more
• 1:07:50
  for fit. And then, yeah, but like the the
• 1:07:54
  Wemby draft the the the Hornets for number 2, they get Brandon
• 1:07:59
  Miller. Scoot Henderson goes third
• 1:08:03
  overall. I'm on Thompson.
• 1:08:05
  He he joins the Rockets as Sir goes to the Pistons and then you
• 1:08:11
  saw them on both of those guys have some big impacts in the
• 1:08:14
  playoffs here and then this last year was a very weak draft.
• 1:08:19
  So it's like when they. It was a it was the second year
• 1:08:23
  in a row last year where a team that wasn't even in the
• 1:08:27
  contention really to have the number one overall pick got it.
• 1:08:32
  And like last year, you're like whatever Zachary Reese has said
• 1:08:35
  he looked good down the stretch. Like I like he's not by any
• 1:08:39
  means, you know, going to like a franchise save your type of
• 1:08:43
  player. It's like, you know, he be a guy
• 1:08:46
  that you could be that could give you some good value.
• 1:08:51
  Because it's like you look here, Hornets got stuck down at six
• 1:08:56
  and they got to John Salon, who really didn't have big impact
• 1:09:01
  for him. I don't think there's any left.
• 1:09:04
  I don't know, maybe there. Is.
• 1:09:07
  I think we're all out. Yep, that was too bad.
• 1:09:11
  All right, no more Doctor Pepper for your boy HD.
• 1:09:14
  That's OK. We'll we'll pick some up for the
• 1:09:16
  studio here soon. This is just I mean shock and
• 1:09:21
  we're not even talking be the Wizards just looking back at
• 1:09:24
  through all these like drafts the previous three years, they
• 1:09:28
  haven't had a top five pick once.
• 1:09:30
  Like you want to talk about a franchise in purgatory?
• 1:09:33
  Oh my God. And then like here they are
• 1:09:35
  again, 8th pick. They got the 6th pick in this
• 1:09:38
  one. It's just.
• 1:09:41
  Apps lagging too. I think try the YouTube.
• 1:09:44
  Yeah, I think try the YouTube. YouTube seems like they're
• 1:09:47
  sharing that. And be your radio.
• 1:09:50
  Not a lot of issues there. Yeah, I mean, the four teams
• 1:09:55
  with the worst records in the league end up picks 4 through 7,
• 1:10:01
  so they might just be right back at it for the next few years.
• 1:10:06
  6th pick for the for the Wizards.
• 1:10:08
  That's just brutal. The Nets down down there 8th.
• 1:10:12
  Yeah, the Nets too. Like where?
• 1:10:13
  Where have they even been in any?
• 1:10:15
  Of these like again, also kind of bail out for the Spurs and
• 1:10:19
  the 76ers, man, like here they are with picks two and three,
• 1:10:28
  right? Like, I mean, you can get like
• 1:10:30
  especially when you're like you have teams that are, you know,
• 1:10:36
  like they've Got Talent there. They just banged up a little
• 1:10:40
  young and they just they just got to add a few more pieces and
• 1:10:44
  now you can put like a a, you know, a top five caliber player
• 1:10:49
  on the team like that can really elevate them all over the
• 1:10:53
  sudden. Yeah, like what the heck.
• 1:10:57
  I mean, I just, I'm just cannot believe the Spurs literally
• 1:11:00
  almost got, although the OKC doesn't they they had the second
• 1:11:07
  pick a couple years ago and that's where they got Chet
• 1:11:10
  Holgren and that we were just talking about how that made a
• 1:11:12
  huge difference. Yeah, we were recovering the
• 1:11:14
  previous for them. It's looking like the Thunder.
• 1:11:19
  They do have a first round pick and it is the 15th overall this
• 1:11:24
  year. And I think that's by virtue of
• 1:11:27
  somebody that they traded with. Because like, that's what they
• 1:11:31
  did. They built up for the future.
• 1:11:32
  They got so many first round draft picks traded and stocked
• 1:11:36
  up. We've been talking about this.
• 1:11:37
  Recently Paul George for SGA and all of those picks.
• 1:11:42
  Man, like what? That changed it.
• 1:11:45
  That changed it for him, like big time.
• 1:11:48
  And here they are with two first round picks.
• 1:11:50
  Yeah, that's going to be just crazy Nuggets done out of a
• 1:11:53
  first round pick, so that's pretty awesome.
• 1:11:55
  That's terrible. One team that's going to be
• 1:11:57
  stuck in purgatory. Like the Nets, they got four
• 1:12:00
  first round picks and it's just like, I mean, you're just hoping
• 1:12:04
  for something like by yeah, just finding some quality in your
• 1:12:10
  quantity. 8/19/26 and 27. Honestly, that's not bad that
• 1:12:17
  that'll be it. What's Round 2 picks do they
• 1:12:20
  have they got the 36 overall pick in the second round and I
• 1:12:25
  mean 5 picks in this draft. They can.
• 1:12:27
  They can really do some special here.
• 1:12:30
  They do. The Nuggets don't even have a
• 1:12:31
  pick in this draft. Let's go.
• 1:12:34
  You know who I feel like is going to be stuck in purgatory
• 1:12:36
  here pretty soon is the Phoenix Suns is after this season.
• 1:12:43
  They do not have a first round pick until 2032.
• 1:12:48
  I mean, they might have to to blow it up, you know, trade KD,
• 1:12:53
  trade Booker, trade Bradley Beal, see, like send the the
• 1:12:59
  older guys off to ring chase, send Booker to the, you know,
• 1:13:03
  team that's got a lot of first round picks or something.
• 1:13:08
  Because, yeah, that experiment failed.
• 1:13:10
  It failed. It's not, it's not going to be
• 1:13:12
  championship winning basketball. I mean, it's been clear in the
• 1:13:16
  playoffs that the only way for those for them to win was like
• 1:13:19
  for Kevin Durant and Devin Booker to just play absolutely
• 1:13:23
  flawless offensive basketball where they hit, you know, near
• 1:13:28
  down, near every shot. Yeah, the Suns are Suns.
• 1:13:33
  They're there in purgatory. Look, and this this spurs
• 1:13:37
  getting the number two pick. I mean come on.
• 1:13:40
  Like least obvious Giannis trade.
• 1:13:44
  Yeah, it's like the third, third year in a row also where it's
• 1:13:49
  like a team that lost in the play in is the team that got the
• 1:13:54
  1st. Well, maybe not this 2023 year
• 1:13:59
  with the Spurs. I think they might have missed,
• 1:14:00
  they might have missed the playoffs a few years before.
• 1:14:03
  I just think. Like the Hawks definitely were
• 1:14:05
  in the play in in 2024 or 2023. To get this first overall pick
• 1:14:11
  somehow and Dallas being in the play in and getting the 1st
• 1:14:15
  overall pick is just insane. Well, yeah, the lottery.
• 1:14:19
  I don't know if this is the answer because like I made it.
• 1:14:24
  It's interesting, like it's cool.
• 1:14:25
  They have their own thing to it and they don't just.
• 1:14:27
  Like it doesn't, but like, the reason they have it is to
• 1:14:30
  prevent tanking. And it's like tanking still
• 1:14:32
  happens. Like teams are just gonna tank.
• 1:14:35
  Like aren't. They just suck for higher odds
• 1:14:39
  at the number one pick. Right.
• 1:14:40
  Like I don't like all you're kind of doing is maybe just
• 1:14:43
  prolonging how long a tank is going to take.
• 1:14:47
  Where like maybe you can make a rule that like you can't have
• 1:14:52
  the number one pick consecutive years in a row or something like
• 1:14:55
  that. Or that there's maybe you make
• 1:15:01
  the two worst teams in the league play a game for it.
• 1:15:05
  Maybe that could that could be like a late that could be also
• 1:15:09
  over play in weekends. You've got your playing games
• 1:15:11
  and then you've got your your number, you've got the the
• 1:15:14
  playing tournament and the top the, the top 4 draft pick
• 1:15:18
  tournament basically. And that that could just
• 1:15:21
  honestly be something even more interesting.
• 1:15:25
  Yeah, the lottery's just been robbing people.
• 1:15:27
  And it's like, I mean, you look back at some of these these
• 1:15:31
  things that happened not like Wembe to the Spurs, Cleveland
• 1:15:35
  getting the number one pick when it was when LeBron was up to be
• 1:15:38
  drafted. D Rose to the Bulls.
• 1:15:42
  And it certainly makes you think like there's some something
• 1:15:46
  fishy going on there. I don't.
• 1:15:50
  Like it? CIA plot right here NBA and the
• 1:15:55
  CIA are getting. Yeah.
• 1:15:57
  Working together. Well, obviously we know Cooper
• 1:16:01
  flags going #2 we'll have to. We'll have a breakdown in the
• 1:16:05
  mock draft coming up as we get closer to the draft on who's
• 1:16:09
  who's going to be going behind the flag.
• 1:16:12
  But yeah, Dallas, no fan base deserved it more, but no front
• 1:16:17
  office and ownership deserved it less.
• 1:16:20
  Yeah, it's a good way to put it there.
• 1:16:22
  The ownership and that GM do not deserve it.
• 1:16:25
  I just feel so bad for Charlotte, Utah and Washington
• 1:16:30
  fans, especially Charlotte and Washington.
• 1:16:31
  Those teams have been so bad for so long and it doesn't look like
• 1:16:39
  there's any. I hope they're getting better
• 1:16:42
  anytime soon in the future. I don't know what the NBA is
• 1:16:47
  like one of these leagues where it just they seem like they want
• 1:16:52
  all the the talent in the big markets.
• 1:16:55
  And for that reason why I think they just, that's why they fall
• 1:16:59
  behind some of these other leagues is they just can't,
• 1:17:02
  they're stuck in like the 80s when like, yeah, like Boston and
• 1:17:05
  LA and New York, we're making you all your money.
• 1:17:09
  But it's like, oh, you look at the NFLI mean like NF LS
• 1:17:12
  dominating. And they have teams, you know,
• 1:17:15
  coming out of Kansas City, MO, Green Bay, WI, kind of been like
• 1:17:22
  some of your top teams like New England, Massachusetts, you
• 1:17:27
  know, like where Foxborough, Massachusetts, like not big
• 1:17:30
  cities by any means. Like, yeah, the Patriots are
• 1:17:32
  kind of connected to Boston just by area, but they're not in
• 1:17:36
  Boston, you know? And it's like you can make it
• 1:17:42
  like they're making the money off of like, like teams in
• 1:17:45
  smaller markets are still doing good and it's and are able to
• 1:17:50
  get talent. And it's, you know, I think it's
• 1:17:53
  the same with the, the NHL and the, the MLB too, where you have
• 1:17:58
  some of these smaller market teams still do good, you know,
• 1:18:03
  and are able to, to get some big name players and some talent and
• 1:18:09
  be competitive and everything. And it's, it's good for the
• 1:18:13
  leagues and it provides more parity.
• 1:18:18
  And I mean, look at it like I would say, like ratings wise, I
• 1:18:22
  think the NBA is, is last. Like I know NFL is definitely
• 1:18:28
  first. I think MLB second and it's
• 1:18:32
  probably close with NHL and Demo and NBA, but NH LS having a
• 1:18:37
  really good year. Let's.
• 1:18:42
  See, man K man's going to hop on the back and pewter and figure
• 1:18:45
  that out. Well, let's know what your
• 1:18:46
  thoughts are. You know, should the NBA make
• 1:18:49
  more of an effort to get some more talent to these smaller
• 1:18:52
  markets and, you know, worry less about all the the stars
• 1:18:57
  ending up in the big markets? OK, while K Band looks set up,
• 1:19:03
  we're going to jump into NBA playoffs Round 2 action and
• 1:19:09
  we'll start with the Pacers and the Cleveland Cavaliers series.
• 1:19:15
  Man oh man, did I not see this coming.
• 1:19:18
  Cleveland is done in 5. The Pacers.
• 1:19:22
  That's. Just take him out.
• 1:19:23
  He. Went out sad.
• 1:19:26
  Donovan Mitchell had all of the series, though, man, he
• 1:19:31
  absolutely balled out in game three after dropping 48 points.
• 1:19:37
  He drops 43 to get the lone win of this series for the
• 1:19:45
  Cavaliers. And yeah, the rest of his team,
• 1:19:49
  like Taylor and I'll tell Mobley and Garland we're back.
• 1:19:55
  DeAndre Hunter was back. Max Struth was kind of getting
• 1:20:01
  buckets out there. He had 20 points.
• 1:20:03
  Mitchell was all over the court though. 43, nine and five hit 5
• 1:20:09
  threes. It's 14 to 29 electric playoff
• 1:20:14
  riser. I really want to see Donovan
• 1:20:16
  Mitchell get a ring someday, man.
• 1:20:18
  He is like we. He doesn't get enough love as a.
• 1:20:24
  As a playoff riser and just everything that he does like he
• 1:20:27
  he was really putting the team on his back in this series.
• 1:20:31
  And I don't think we we got enough out of the guys like
• 1:20:36
  Mobley and Garland. I mean, Garland was really bad
• 1:20:41
  in this in this game despite the win.
• 1:20:42
  And then you go over here, we're going to jump into Game 4
• 1:20:47
  blowout loss, 129 to one on 9 here.
• 1:20:51
  Pacers taking care of business in this one in Indiana.
• 1:20:56
  Man, they are just scary. Who is say Aunt Tyrese
• 1:20:58
  Halliburton was overrated? Now I got to know that because I
• 1:21:01
  need to. Find out.
• 1:21:03
  He's just been cooking offensively, defensively, and
• 1:21:07
  this Pacers team, they're so they're just so deep and they
• 1:21:13
  work together as a unit so well. Yeah, Mitchell got kind of hurt
• 1:21:18
  in this one, only 12 points, Garland finally showing up a
• 1:21:23
  little bit in this 121. But it was just a really bad
• 1:21:26
  game in general. And it's like you look at like
• 1:21:32
  the Pacers, no one necessarily goes off by any means, but
• 1:21:36
  you're just getting solid performances all over the place.
• 1:21:39
  Siakam with 21 miles turned there with 20, Obi Topping with
• 1:21:43
  20. And they all can score.
• 1:21:46
  Ben Shepherd, TJ McConnell, 14 and 13 off the bench.
• 1:21:51
  Like everybody's doing a little bit of everything.
• 1:21:53
  All the starters. Halley with five rebounds,
• 1:21:57
  Turner with 7 rebounds. Yacht them with six rebounds.
• 1:22:02
  That hard with 7 assists. You know, like McConnell with
• 1:22:06
  eight assists, Halley with five assists, you know, 6 steals as a
• 1:22:12
  team, it's just everybody. They've got guys that can do a
• 1:22:16
  little bit of everything and it's just like no one person has
• 1:22:23
  to go off on this team. They just play together as such
• 1:22:27
  a good cohesive unit. It is.
• 1:22:30
  It's really hard to stop. Actually do I do got, I do go
• 1:22:34
  some stats. So it's the third most watched
• 1:22:37
  sport in the US, the NBA. So I'm in the top three at
• 1:22:41
  least, but it was it is down 2% in their average viewers.
• 1:22:47
  So the 2425 season averaged 1.53 million viewers across the three
• 1:22:54
  channels ABCESPNTNT and despite you know, oh, that was actually
• 1:23:02
  never mind 2023 draft marked record high viewership of 3.7
• 1:23:07
  million. Obviously because Victor went
• 1:23:09
  Miami was draft number one overall.
• 1:23:12
  Those very, very highly, highly touted draft.
• 1:23:17
  Well, generational players on the board, yeah.
• 1:23:20
  And there you go. I thought it was saying last
• 1:23:23
  year's draft, I was going to be like, we had, you know, Zach,
• 1:23:25
  Reisa, Shay. Yeah, everyone was turned in for
• 1:23:28
  Zachary Reisa Shay man. Yeah.
• 1:23:30
  Oh, I do see. Yeah, See, we just hit a little
• 1:23:33
  reset there. I see what the viewers are
• 1:23:36
  talking about now. We just hit like a little reset
• 1:23:39
  on the stream, the green screen like cut out.
• 1:23:45
  Now you know, we're not actually behind the cool logo with like
• 1:23:50
  you want to go on commercial and try to change it.
• 1:23:52
  Well, it looks like we're still going.
• 1:23:54
  It looks like we're still going. We see what you're seeing,
• 1:23:57
  viewers all. Right.
• 1:23:59
  Well, let's Game 5 for the Pacers to close it out.
• 1:24:04
  Let's talk about it. Mitchell gave it all he could.
• 1:24:08
  35 in this, 19 rebounds, either 25 though, he was just getting
• 1:24:16
  this whole series. He was just so aggressive just
• 1:24:20
  getting to the basket and giving, excuse me, getting to
• 1:24:23
  the line. I mean, he just was, he was just
• 1:24:26
  looking to attack. I feel like they had a lot of
• 1:24:30
  people that went down early in this series that could have made
• 1:24:34
  an impact. Like Darius Garland, I don't
• 1:24:36
  really know how many. He only played, what, 2-3 games
• 1:24:39
  in the series? I think he only missed the one
• 1:24:41
  game but OK. Like elimination game for him.
• 1:24:44
  Yeah, he had no rhythm. If so, he had couldn't find.
• 1:24:47
  It this was a stinker from Garland man 416 O 6 from three.
• 1:24:53
  Only 11 points. You just need more the bench.
• 1:25:00
  They got a good they got good production on their bench.
• 1:25:02
  DeAndre Hunter had 12 tie. Jerome had eight and he got four
• 1:25:07
  out of the Dean Wade two out of a chorus and now, you know,
• 1:25:09
  can't complain about that too much.
• 1:25:11
  That's to like 26 points off the free from your bench.
• 1:25:15
  Not too bad. Just against a space series team
• 1:25:17
  that's you know, that isn't always going to get the job
• 1:25:20
  done. I thought Mobley, probably one
• 1:25:24
  of his better games in the series, maybe his best, arguably
• 1:25:28
  11 rebounds, 24 points. He had two blocks as well, so
• 1:25:32
  was doing a lot of good things defensively.
• 1:25:34
  They just didn't have an answer for Halliburton in this game.
• 1:25:36
  Dude, he was like, he was very selective with how he took his
• 1:25:41
  shots. Only 15 attempts in this 1-6 or
• 1:25:46
  six rebounds, 8 assists, 31 points though.
• 1:25:50
  Also the block and the steal. So he was like just a real
• 1:25:55
  mastermind out there on offense on this one, you know, taking
• 1:25:59
  the good shots when you have the opportunities, finding the right
• 1:26:01
  guys, making the open read there.
• 1:26:04
  Aaron D Smith man, 13 rebounds from the guard position, also 13
• 1:26:09
  points. Pascal Siakam with 21.
• 1:26:12
  You got 10 out of turn there and 18 on the dem hard.
• 1:26:15
  So this was just a game where the starters took over and, you
• 1:26:19
  know, closed it out here. And it's unfortunate, man.
• 1:26:25
  Like this. This Pacers team is really
• 1:26:28
  scaring me. Yeah, I think that they're going
• 1:26:31
  to match up pretty well against the Knicks, I mean.
• 1:26:36
  He's not leaving. The Pacers, Oh, there's no way
• 1:26:39
  he's. Not leaving the Pacers.
• 1:26:40
  He's like Jokic never leaving the Nuggets.
• 1:26:43
  I I like the optimism there Kyle, but there's absolutely no
• 1:26:47
  way in hell that they're getting rid of him.
• 1:26:48
  We would have to give. Away our entire team right and
• 1:26:52
  like. I'd be I'd be Yokich,
• 1:26:55
  Halliburton, Murray and a couple of YMCA.
• 1:26:58
  We would just be picking people out the stands.
• 1:27:00
  That's how we would start selling tickets.
• 1:27:02
  We we have Caveman and Mercury down there competing in open
• 1:27:06
  tryouts to to round out the bit the bench office.
• 1:27:09
  Office, I'll run the. Office.
• 1:27:12
  Yeah, I'd love to have him here, but now he is too valuable to
• 1:27:15
  that Pacers team. I guess they're they're more
• 1:27:18
  than happy that they think people around the league think
• 1:27:21
  he's overrated cause second year in the row now where they they
• 1:27:25
  finally add another dynamic big man to run that four spot
• 1:27:29
  alongside the ham with Ham and Miles Turner.
• 1:27:32
  They've got those young guards and and wing players, D Smith
• 1:27:35
  and them hard and then they've just got that great depth off
• 1:27:38
  the bench guys, other just great contributors.
• 1:27:43
  Thomas Bryant, you know he'll always be a an NBA legend
• 1:27:49
  because he's in the photo of LeBron breaking the Kareem
• 1:27:52
  record, calling for the ball, posting up.
• 1:27:55
  Hey. History only happens once, but
• 1:27:59
  fundamentals are forever. He's wide open.
• 1:28:01
  Come on. Now he doesn't care bro.
• 1:28:03
  He was. He wanted that ball.
• 1:28:06
  Kick that thing. And here he is.
• 1:28:09
  He's given some good minutes for them off the bench in this
• 1:28:11
  series. Yeah, Indiana, I think, is going
• 1:28:15
  to match up real well against what'll likely be the New York
• 1:28:20
  Knicks as we get to our second game of the Eastern Conference
• 1:28:25
  play offs. The Celtics, the defending
• 1:28:28
  champs, are pushed to the brink, and they're going to have to do
• 1:28:31
  it without Jayson Tatum. Who?
• 1:28:35
  Ruptured his Achilles. Man, brutal to see that happen
• 1:28:39
  and what really took the steam out of what could have been a
• 1:28:45
  fantastic finish to game 4. Yeah, he was on fire. 42 points
• 1:28:51
  before he went out. We'll cover just Game 3 real
• 1:28:55
  quick. And what the Celtics did well,
• 1:28:56
  there finally got a win in this one.
• 1:29:01
  They just, yeah, they they kind of just forced Brunson and Cat
• 1:29:04
  to do a lot of the scoring. Took away that jump shot from
• 1:29:08
  Bridges. Just didn't want to get to that
• 1:29:10
  spot as much. So something you'd like that
• 1:29:12
  they might be able to do on defense and without Tatum there,
• 1:29:20
  it's just going to be really tough.
• 1:29:22
  This is a, a Peyton Pritchard game, man.
• 1:29:24
  He hit 5 threes off the bench there.
• 1:29:26
  You're going to need some action like that from him.
• 1:29:29
  They're going to need a lot of these guys on the bench to step
• 1:29:31
  up and like who's going to fill in for Tatum?
• 1:29:36
  Like that's that's the real question.
• 1:29:38
  Like who's going to start at that that three spot?
• 1:29:41
  You know, like I wonder, do they rotate Pritchard into the
• 1:29:46
  starting line up and kind of rotate Brown down there to the
• 1:29:50
  four Now the Tatum's really more of the four.
• 1:29:52
  Do you have Horford play the four?
• 1:29:54
  If Kristaps is good to go, you have him play the five.
• 1:29:57
  I don't. Know what happened to Kristaps
• 1:30:00
  though, Is it hit the injury or yeah, like he just, he just been
• 1:30:05
  off for a while. But let's we go over here, the
• 1:30:08
  game 3 or 4 out there. And this was a fantastic game.
• 1:30:14
  It was it was like Brunson and Tatum were just throwing
• 1:30:18
  haymakers at each other. I mean, this was both like the
• 1:30:21
  stars of New York and Boston just taking over the game.
• 1:30:24
  And Tatum as three ball was finally dropping.
• 1:30:28
  He was willing to attack mismatches and get to the rim a
• 1:30:34
  little bit too. Here, he wasn't so tentative
• 1:30:36
  and, you know, sheepish driving to the basket.
• 1:30:41
  Like we said, man, 40 minutes before he goes down, he was just
• 1:30:45
  on fire. 7 to 16 from 316 to 28 from the field.
• 1:30:49
  Has 42 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals, 2 blocks.
• 1:30:55
  Like it was like the he does, he has this ability.
• 1:31:01
  And that's why he's such a frustrating player because he'll
• 1:31:03
  also just he'll go from just dropping absolute stinkers to
• 1:31:07
  just lighting it up in the playoffs.
• 1:31:10
  And you're like, what? You don't know what's going on
• 1:31:14
  and was desperately trying to stave off elimination here.
• 1:31:18
  Yeah, I don't know what's up with Kristaps.
• 1:31:20
  And like, they haven't played 24 minutes.
• 1:31:22
  He just has been looking bad. They haven't.
• 1:31:25
  Really. Found a way to use them very
• 1:31:27
  often. I mean credit the cat Mitchell
• 1:31:31
  Robinson even though Gianna Nobi like.
• 1:31:34
  Yeah, that's cool. I'm really putting it on like
• 1:31:36
  they're. Like, I don't know, like he kind
• 1:31:37
  of like doesn't look comfortable when he's like with all the
• 1:31:40
  pressure that they're bringing on him.
• 1:31:43
  It's kind of like they need. Derek White to just he's got to
• 1:31:46
  be electric. He he did hit six threes on this
• 1:31:49
  one. I'm just not sure like how
• 1:31:52
  they're going to feel that fill that hole there at the four spot
• 1:31:56
  with Tatum. You know, like maybe like I, I
• 1:32:01
  don't, it's like maybe the best option is you rotate Pritchard
• 1:32:04
  into the starting lineup because Pritchard's been pretty good
• 1:32:07
  this series. He gives you a lot of he's a big
• 1:32:11
  threat to shoot the three. Jalen Brown can.
• 1:32:15
  He can run the four spot. Horford can you can run five and
• 1:32:19
  then holidays your your small 4, Derek White's your shooting
• 1:32:22
  guard, something like along those lines or Pritchard's your
• 1:32:26
  shooting guard. Derek White's still your PG.
• 1:32:30
  It's there's a huge loss though, and I don't I don't know if
• 1:32:34
  there's really anything that they can do the to come back
• 1:32:38
  from this one. I think it's just time to call
• 1:32:40
  the rap for the Celtic season, be like the fifth year in a row
• 1:32:44
  that the defending champion goes out in the second round if they
• 1:32:48
  don't find a way to come back in this.
• 1:32:49
  But they're gonna have to do it without taking them and we'll
• 1:32:53
  talk about the Knicks and what they did in this game cuz they
• 1:32:56
  were fantastic. Obviously Brunson was just super
• 1:32:59
  aggressive getting to his spot, getting his shots up.
• 1:33:03
  He got into a rhythm early and they couldn't get him out of it.
• 1:33:07
  And he also 39 points. Yeah, that's the big headline.
• 1:33:10
  But he this was I think his best passing game of the play offs.
• 1:33:14
  I know 12 assists. I mean, he was absolutely diving
• 1:33:17
  them up out there, had some incredible reads, some
• 1:33:20
  incredible finds. The Mikhail Bridges, Karl
• 1:33:23
  Anthony Towns. Yeah, they weren't able to get
• 1:33:25
  Bridges out of his off his spot. He was he was electric with that
• 1:33:29
  MIDI and four steals and the and the block shot for bridges on
• 1:33:34
  this one. So the offense, the defense was
• 1:33:36
  just cooking OG with 20 man. He's been so fantastic.
• 1:33:42
  He's always a playoff riser in my opinion.
• 1:33:45
  It was I was really feeling on on Inobi last year.
• 1:33:48
  The starters of New York Cat 23 and 11 in this one.
• 1:33:52
  The starters of New York are really good.
• 1:33:55
  Josh Hart only had six points when he contributed 9 rebounds,
• 1:33:59
  5 assists and even got a steal on that one and he was for he
• 1:34:03
  forced some his shots there man. Like his defense was really good
• 1:34:07
  in this one and he had the tough, tough ass covering Jaylen
• 1:34:11
  Brown, but he did a good job of, you know, limiting the damage
• 1:34:17
  that Brown did. Brown still a solid game with 20
• 1:34:19
  points, but I think Hart did a pretty good job on him for the
• 1:34:22
  most part. It's just the problem with the
• 1:34:26
  Knicks is that like they're, they're just not gonna really be
• 1:34:30
  able to go to their bench the way that the Pacers are gonna be
• 1:34:34
  able to. I think that's gonna be what's
• 1:34:36
  gonna be the real, real killer here and why I would favor the
• 1:34:40
  Pacers over New York in this series.
• 1:34:44
  Game 5 for this one, it's going back to Boston.
• 1:34:48
  Do do the Knicks find a way to to close it out on the road?
• 1:34:53
  Can Boston stay alive? Caveman?
• 1:34:56
  What are your thoughts? Listeners, what are your
• 1:34:58
  thoughts? I'm good that the Knicks just
• 1:35:02
  close them out. I think the loss of tanks.
• 1:35:05
  Just close them out right here. Too great here.
• 1:35:10
  It would just it would be so crucial if Porzingis was playing
• 1:35:15
  good, but he just has not been good this series.
• 1:35:18
  I, I think the optimal line up if Porzingis was on would be hit
• 1:35:22
  at the five. Horfrey could play your your
• 1:35:24
  power forward spot and then you don't really have to move, you
• 1:35:29
  know, Brown, Drew Holiday and Derek, why you don't have to
• 1:35:35
  move any of those guys around, But that's just not going to be,
• 1:35:39
  they're not going to be able to get away with that in this one.
• 1:35:43
  So unfortunately, looks like Nixon 5.
• 1:35:47
  And you know who else is probably winning in five?
• 1:35:50
  Those Minnesota Timberwolves. Caveman.
• 1:35:52
  And that's one team that I honestly want to win in five.
• 1:35:57
  Let's just have him go back-to-back Western Conference
• 1:36:02
  Finals appearance for him. Julius Randall is really just
• 1:36:06
  the MVP for him in the series. Loss of Steph Curry like the
• 1:36:11
  defense of the Warriors hasn't really missed a beat, but they
• 1:36:14
  just can't find that offense. Like these have been some pretty
• 1:36:17
  low scoring games. Game three one O 2 to 97, but
• 1:36:22
  Ant Man and Julius Randall doing enough to get on an offensive
• 1:36:27
  end and helping contribute defensively on the other end. 3
• 1:36:31
  steals for Randall to go along with his 24 points, 10 rebounds
• 1:36:35
  and 12 assists. So triple, double and game 3 for
• 1:36:38
  Randall on the road here, 36 for Anthony Edwards, not not going
• 1:36:45
  super deep into their bench. You know, Nasri Dante Di
• 1:36:48
  Vincenzo coming off the bench a little bit, Nikhil Nikhil
• 1:36:52
  Alexander Walker, who just kind of was out there doing cardio O
• 1:36:57
  for four zero points, had a couple couple rebounds, 4
• 1:37:02
  assists. So wasn't completely wasn't a
• 1:37:04
  complete cardio day for him, but.
• 1:37:06
  Not fully, not fully. Yeah for the must work Rudy
• 1:37:09
  Gobert four blocks 13 rebounds in this do the Warriors just got
• 1:37:14
  like I mean he's just been eating up those those drives
• 1:37:17
  inside like they can't they they just really can't attack four
• 1:37:22
  blocks that their lock their lack of size and like not having
• 1:37:27
  like a big man that they can post up on him and like he's
• 1:37:31
  just able the. Reason that they're.
• 1:37:32
  Down Yeah, he's just able to camp in and they're just like
• 1:37:35
  it's forcing a lot of jump shots and three pointers there.
• 1:37:38
  It's just it's tough and like without Curry out there, man,
• 1:37:43
  it's just tough because like Jimmy Butler, that's where he
• 1:37:46
  kind of is best and like it's he's still finding ways to get
• 1:37:50
  to the line and score points. He had 33 in this one.
• 1:37:54
  You know, Jonathan Kaminga finally maybe living up to the
• 1:37:59
  hyper 30 points and this one off the bench for him, he was he was
• 1:38:03
  huge. I don't know why Trace Jackson
• 1:38:05
  Davis was starting in this game. That was crazy to me.
• 1:38:10
  But not like they have a ton of points or a ton of options.
• 1:38:16
  Yeah. And Buddy Hield, the shooting
• 1:38:18
  numbers are right. He's just not.
• 1:38:22
  He's just not has. He's cooled off a lot, you know.
• 1:38:26
  That's yeah. I mean, he's he was very, very
• 1:38:30
  clutch for him in that last series against the Rockets.
• 1:38:34
  Like he had some games where he's looking like Curry himself
• 1:38:36
  out there. But I I think the loss of Curry
• 1:38:39
  in this series alone has just been this something that.
• 1:38:43
  Absolute Backbreaker for. They lost to the.
• 1:38:47
  Warriors the fact that they weren't able to get one at home
• 1:38:51
  despite Curry being out is just killer for him here going over
• 1:38:56
  the game four and it was the Anthony Edwards Julius Randall
• 1:39:00
  show 31 points for Randall, 30 for Edwards.
• 1:39:05
  Those two are really just home in an offense.
• 1:39:08
  Edwards he he's just being super aggressive and the three-point
• 1:39:13
  shooting starting to get better for him too.
• 1:39:14
  So like now he's just able to he's like down scoring all over
• 1:39:18
  the all over the court. Randall was 50% from three in
• 1:39:22
  this one. Jaden McDaniels Double Double
• 1:39:25
  1010 points, 13 boards. The only thing that scares me
• 1:39:30
  really about Minnesota going into the next series where you
• 1:39:35
  either got to play Denver or OKC, their role, guy shooting,
• 1:39:40
  very inefficient. D Vincenzo 2 for seven.
• 1:39:44
  Nikhil Alexander Walker is your saving grace off the bench right
• 1:39:48
  here with going 5 for five, not missing a shot in his 17
• 1:39:53
  minutes. They're like Mike Conley, 2 for
• 1:39:56
  six from three, two for 9 from the field.
• 1:40:00
  It gets gets pretty solid assists facilitating, but like
• 1:40:05
  Anthony Edwards and Julius Randall aren't going to be able
• 1:40:07
  to take every single shot of the game so.
• 1:40:10
  And this one, credit to Steve Kerr.
• 1:40:12
  I mean, he was just throwing all these different guys in there
• 1:40:15
  and got scored 110, but the defense gave up 117.
• 1:40:22
  Kaminga another 23 points here. That's just Curry.
• 1:40:26
  Doesn't look like he's going to be back anytime soon.
• 1:40:30
  I mean, I like it's looking more than likely that his season's
• 1:40:34
  actually done and they're just giving people false hope by
• 1:40:37
  saying, yeah, maybe if we can get to this game, he can come
• 1:40:39
  back. But the the type of injury he
• 1:40:41
  has, it kind of seems like a season out there and.
• 1:40:43
  You saw my tik toks Kyle. I did react to my goat retiring.
• 1:40:48
  Derek Carr is gone, man. Well, well, yeah, we'll save
• 1:40:51
  some time for you to talk about that at the end of the show that
• 1:40:53
  came in. It would be great.
• 1:40:55
  Yeah, Timberwolves. I think gonna they're gonna wrap
• 1:40:59
  this up in 5. They're coming back home with a
• 1:41:02
  3-1 lead chance to close now the best that your your opponents
• 1:41:06
  best players hurt and you've got your two star players just on
• 1:41:12
  tear right now absolutely cooking.
• 1:41:17
  It's yeah, it's looking like it's probably wraps for the
• 1:41:21
  Warriors. I'd be curious to see how
• 1:41:24
  different this series was if Curry didn't get hurt.
• 1:41:29
  I think he could have been very could have been a lot more
• 1:41:33
  competitive. And like Golden State might,
• 1:41:38
  honestly, it might. The rules might be flipped in
• 1:41:40
  like Golden State might have been able to have Minnesota on
• 1:41:45
  the brink because just the threat of Curry shooting just
• 1:41:48
  opened up so much on offense for him that they just don't have.
• 1:41:53
  That's a. Double most times, yeah, you're
• 1:41:56
  going to, you're going to go and try to double that.
• 1:41:58
  Have some type of help as close as possible on that.
• 1:42:02
  Now we get to our Denver Nuggets here against the freaking
• 1:42:11
  Thunder. What a great a great game for
• 1:42:17
  from us that was just. That was the worst.
• 1:42:21
  First half in playoff history since 19/19/88 or something.
• 1:42:26
  That said like we were shooting 21% at halftime against them.
• 1:42:32
  Seventeen for 20 on free throws. We were shooting 21% on every
• 1:42:36
  other shot in game three. It was really like one that I
• 1:42:41
  feel like we kind of let one go because they they only scored 92
• 1:42:47
  points. Yeah, well, we were atrocious
• 1:42:51
  shooting numbers for both sides. I mean, both teams were 24% from
• 1:42:54
  three, but the Nuggets 25 of 80 from the field, and we missed a
• 1:43:01
  big chunk of our free throws. We're only 72% at the line.
• 1:43:06
  Really, really rough. Second-half just broke.
• 1:43:10
  Down, Yeah. And Michael Porter junior in the
• 1:43:14
  shooting it, I get he's trying to play through the injury, but
• 1:43:18
  man, like it is like his shot is so off because of it.
• 1:43:23
  He's getting rebounds at least I guess, but it's not like he's
• 1:43:28
  getting good looks and just not hitting those 1705.
• 1:43:32
  I think we could get. Whole team shot atrocious though
• 1:43:35
  here. I think we could get nine boards
• 1:43:38
  in a block out of Peyton Watson and better shooting if he gets
• 1:43:42
  more minutes. Exactly.
• 1:43:44
  I honestly back. On size a little bit, but at the
• 1:43:47
  same time like he's still a good defender.
• 1:43:50
  He's lengthy, athletic dude. I feel like he could still do
• 1:43:53
  it. The Nuggets big problem now is
• 1:43:55
  that they are just, they get hot and cold.
• 1:43:57
  It's like it just they get so streaky where it's like, yeah,
• 1:44:00
  they'll they'll have like a a 6 minute run where they just are
• 1:44:04
  hitting every shot and then they'll go 8 minutes where they
• 1:44:07
  can't hit the shot. And they let the Thunder, they
• 1:44:09
  did it multiple times in this where they like they're getting
• 1:44:12
  on the run and then they let the Thunder pull away, then they get
• 1:44:14
  on the run, then they let the Thunder pull away.
• 1:44:16
  They just wildly inconsistent shooting.
• 1:44:20
  It's all over the place. This was just ugly from every
• 1:44:26
  team and it was just less ugly down the stretch for the
• 1:44:32
  Thunder. They hit some shots late that we
• 1:44:36
  didn't. That was that was really the
• 1:44:39
  difference here. I wouldn't even like they were
• 1:44:42
  both teams were really physical with each other and causing a
• 1:44:46
  lot of havoc, a lot of turnovers from both sides and just yeah,
• 1:44:52
  neither, neither side shot anywhere close to well.
• 1:44:56
  And this one certainly not going to be a game to remember really
• 1:45:01
  ugly from all all parties. Shay and Jokic were the the
• 1:45:06
  leading scorers 25, Shay 27 three Jokic a lot of that work
• 1:45:11
  getting done at the line because they weren't hitting a lot of
• 1:45:14
  stuff from the field. Now we get the Game 5.
• 1:45:19
  This this one is even this angers me even more because
• 1:45:24
  Charles Barkley was right. We there was a sequence where we
• 1:45:28
  let the Thunder go on the run at the end of the second-half.
• 1:45:32
  That's where we lost this game. We were like really getting into
• 1:45:37
  a rhythm, had the Thunder, you know, had them rattled.
• 1:45:42
  And then to start the third same thing where we we built up a 12
• 1:45:45
  point lead at some point and we were hitting tons of shots and
• 1:45:49
  then it just turned into brick central.
• 1:45:53
  And then late, late situations where we're getting good looks
• 1:45:56
  and it's like atrociously. Vadnais is really like, I've
• 1:46:00
  never even had close to a shot. Yeah, or it's like a Russ air
• 1:46:05
  ball or something crazy. Just way over the rim or we're
• 1:46:09
  like hitting off a front iron. And the thing that the IT what
• 1:46:15
  was my biggest worry to start the season, throughout the
• 1:46:20
  season, to go into the playoffs, is that Yokich and Murray were
• 1:46:24
  going to play well, but they were going to play a deeper team
• 1:46:28
  like the Thunder and not get a whole lot of help from the
• 1:46:32
  supporting cast. And here it is again. 13 out of
• 1:46:36
  Gordon, 8 out of Christian Braun, 10 bench points in total.
• 1:46:43
  You want to look at the Thunders bench point?
• 1:46:45
  Alex Caruso outscore their whole bench by himself.
• 1:46:49
  Yeah, dude, Like, what the heck? And then big hitting threes and
• 1:46:56
  big moments when they need the 2.
• 1:46:58
  That was what the Thunder were doing and just a like complete
• 1:47:03
  defensive meltdown where we get let some guys get wide, wide
• 1:47:10
  open for three. And it just it burned us a 4415
• 1:47:17
  game out of the Yokich, 28 points out of Jamal Murray.
• 1:47:22
  And it just, it's the lack of depth on this team is it's
• 1:47:30
  really concerning. Yeah.
• 1:47:33
  It's just the inconsistency where we've seen these guys in
• 1:47:36
  this playoffs. Multiple, multiple times.
• 1:47:39
  You know, play really well, shoot out a real high
• 1:47:43
  percentage, give you great play, defensive plays.
• 1:47:46
  And Murray, known for being the playoff riser.
• 1:47:49
  I mean, like hit some this one, but just not efficient shooting,
• 1:47:55
  yeah. Hit some he did hit some big
• 1:47:57
  shots Jokic like we hit like maybe the most incredible 3
• 1:48:03
  we've seen from him yet where he like pure weathered and then
• 1:48:07
  just falling away. Bury the shot to tie it back up
• 1:48:10
  one O 3 to one O 3 with less than a minute left.
• 1:48:14
  And then in that time frame they gave up two wide open threes to
• 1:48:18
  get us down 6 and then just some horrendous air balls on the
• 1:48:25
  other side. Like how do we have the game
• 1:48:28
  tied under a minute left and then they go on a 9 two run
• 1:48:36
  that's just that's just a stab in the back.
• 1:48:38
  Right there like the Thunder have they've clearly learned
• 1:48:42
  from those last two games and they're now we look like the
• 1:48:45
  more in the experienced team. We're losing our composure late
• 1:48:48
  in the games and it's like blowing defensive assignments
• 1:48:53
  when you don't at the worst time and not hitting, you know, not
• 1:48:59
  hitting shots when you need them to.
• 1:49:01
  And this and their their starting line up just was was so
• 1:49:05
  good. And this one, Holgrom gave you
• 1:49:07
  14. Lou Dort gave you 12.
• 1:49:10
  All of those were threes. Shay with 31, Hartenstein with
• 1:49:17
  15, Jaylen Williams with 18, Caruso with 13.
• 1:49:24
  I mean we're going to need like a another magical 2 game stretch
• 1:49:31
  out of these role players through the Nuggets if they want
• 1:49:33
  a chance. Or just Aaron?
• 1:49:35
  Gordon and this one. Aaron Gordon.
• 1:49:37
  Yeah. Do I feel like this series can
• 1:49:40
  go the seven? Yeah, I still think it does.
• 1:49:44
  But then Thunder got homecourt advantage.
• 1:49:47
  Your role players tend to play better at home.
• 1:49:52
  We've let letting that game four and then this game get away from
• 1:49:57
  us to multiple opportunities, really had a chance to pull
• 1:50:01
  away. And then we just got ice cold
• 1:50:03
  for long stretches and let the Thunder back in it.
• 1:50:08
  And ultimately, I think I'm going to look back to this game
• 1:50:12
  even more than Game 4 for if we end up losing the series and
• 1:50:16
  that's how the season ends to just.
• 1:50:19
  Honestly, that's not that's not bad.
• 1:50:21
  This was one where we could have stole another game on the road
• 1:50:25
  and then gone back to Denver to close it out in six.
• 1:50:27
  And now you're going to have to win two straight against the
• 1:50:32
  team that's really starting to shake off the, the, the
• 1:50:38
  antsiness and the nervousness of being in the playoffs.
• 1:50:42
  Like that's they're shaking that off and they, they're keeping
• 1:50:47
  their poise and they're finding a way to close out these clutch
• 1:50:50
  games. And we, we're losing ours.
• 1:50:55
  So it's unfortunately my, it's probably thundering 7 caveman.
• 1:51:02
  I hate to say it. I'm just going to.
• 1:51:05
  I've taken them at six. Honestly, I think the homecourt
• 1:51:09
  advantage will help us out, but I don't know.
• 1:51:13
  It's it's just that's the best team in the league right here.
• 1:51:17
  I think they're just going to come in.
• 1:51:19
  They've outplayed us in the first four games, I can't even
• 1:51:22
  lie. And then this one, in the last
• 1:51:24
  minute of the game, they found a way to just out just outplay us.
• 1:51:31
  Well, drop your predictions and the comments below.
• 1:51:34
  But yeah, we're certainly a little, we're a little bummed
• 1:51:38
  out how this one's this one's going it.
• 1:51:42
  Was a really good year. I didn't expect him to make it
• 1:51:45
  this far in the play offs or like have this good of a series
• 1:51:49
  against the the Thunder. This team isn't a it's a no
• 1:51:54
  joke, real good, real good Thunder team.
• 1:51:57
  And we played a real good Clippers team to really
• 1:51:59
  underrated Clippers team. The the silver lining here is
• 1:52:03
  that even at the season's over, it's going to be a new general
• 1:52:06
  manager. There's clearly, clearly a
• 1:52:11
  president to put some more talent around Nicole Jokic and.
• 1:52:16
  And have just better team chemistry overall.
• 1:52:20
  Like have just better vibes in the locker room.
• 1:52:24
  Like have it more of a community and have everyone be together on
• 1:52:27
  the decisions. Less toxicity, 'cause it seems
• 1:52:31
  like Josh Kronke was like, you guys are going to act like this,
• 1:52:34
  you're both out of here. It was late in the season.
• 1:52:38
  But I do think a big splash free agent signing a defensive anchor
• 1:52:43
  really more than anything, is what we could.
• 1:52:45
  Get our new GMs, get our new coach, make a big splash, trade
• 1:52:50
  in the make big splash move in the offseason.
• 1:52:53
  Like come on, the hype will be back.
• 1:52:56
  The hype will be back. People will be ready for next
• 1:52:58
  season. I'm going to still remain
• 1:52:59
  delusional that we'll somehow pull off a way to get Giannis.
• 1:53:02
  You know that's. Right I.
• 1:53:05
  Full a full delusion mode, I believe.
• 1:53:07
  All right, we can get them. You know who's going to be
• 1:53:10
  there? You know who else needs to be
• 1:53:11
  delusional this season? New Orleans Saints fans, because
• 1:53:16
  we are really banking it in on the 40th overall pick, Tyler
• 1:53:20
  Shuck. Maybe that is our freaking day
• 1:53:24
  one starter, it seems like because we wouldn't have drafted
• 1:53:27
  him in the second round if we were going to play Rattler at
• 1:53:30
  all. I'm not going to lie.
• 1:53:32
  Rattler is a fifth round pick. I think anyone that we value
• 1:53:35
  higher to draft higher than him at the same position.
• 1:53:39
  I'm pretty sure Tyler Shucks going to start for us.
• 1:53:43
  But we did have the retirement of Derek Carr, which kind of
• 1:53:46
  sealed the deal for it. Kind of proved that Tyler Shuck
• 1:53:49
  was going to start. Hell no.
• 1:53:52
  We are not signing Aaron Rodgers.
• 1:53:54
  If if the Saints sign event, I want us to sign somebody like
• 1:53:58
  Carson Wentz, you know, somebody that it's actually going to be
• 1:54:01
  on the bench. If we're going to have a young
• 1:54:04
  guy that starts, I don't want any Aaron Rodgers type of season
• 1:54:09
  because then we got to deal with another older quarterback that's
• 1:54:12
  going to not really play well behind our young and kind of
• 1:54:17
  injured still offensive line like we need to have.
• 1:54:21
  We need to get young guys and just build off of that unit
• 1:54:25
  right there, see if there's any improvement with this kid.
• 1:54:28
  Why not? I still think Aaron Rodgers, the
• 1:54:31
  Pittsburgh is basically a done deal.
• 1:54:34
  I just thought or maybe he's going to retire.
• 1:54:38
  I, you know what? I spoke out of town.
• 1:54:40
  I don't know what the hell Aaron Rodgers is going to do.
• 1:54:42
  No, but he does. If he signs with the Saints,
• 1:54:44
  though, it's going to be terrible.
• 1:54:47
  Yeah, it's going to be a rough one.
• 1:54:49
  He might get appointed to some high-ranking job at the, you
• 1:54:53
  know, Department of Health. He's going to be going from
• 1:54:56
  ayahuasca to freaking voodoo in the freaking backwoods Bayou,
• 1:55:00
  Louisiana. That's going to be the next
• 1:55:03
  documentary season where he's all you're getting shaman work
• 1:55:06
  done with the by a witch doctor. That's what the heck's going to
• 1:55:10
  happen if he signs with the Saints.
• 1:55:11
  Don't do that, please. Dude, I you had a great career,
• 1:55:16
  man. You had a great career.
• 1:55:18
  And Rogers? So OK man Derek Carr retirement
• 1:55:22
  though. Bro this was like it.
• 1:55:24
  Was a different day. I mean, they were like, the
• 1:55:26
  witch is dead, everybody was. Everyone was happy, ecstatic
• 1:55:33
  fans. Fans were, I heard I was seeing
• 1:55:35
  videos, they said they were. They ran out into the streets to
• 1:55:40
  to celebrate. I'm not.
• 1:55:43
  I'm not upset that he's retiring.
• 1:55:46
  You know, I won't say that I'm super ecstatic just because, you
• 1:55:50
  know, he could have been like, you know, a starter if he was
• 1:55:54
  healthy. Like maybe have cause Tyler
• 1:55:56
  Shuck in the end of the day was most compared to Derek Carr and
• 1:56:01
  like in most by most people in the draft, I'm not even going to
• 1:56:05
  lie to you. That's why.
• 1:56:07
  So it's like if we really still had them, like it would be kind
• 1:56:10
  of helpful to his career. Just semi mobile pocket passer
• 1:56:14
  with a good arm and and accuracy with a a tendency to panic under
• 1:56:19
  pressure. Yeah, kind of.
• 1:56:21
  Yeah. They're, they're a car 2.0 right
• 1:56:24
  there. And there are dudes as old as Bo
• 1:56:27
  Nicks. We got another freaking oldest
• 1:56:30
  rookie in the draft. Let's go, man.
• 1:56:32
  We got freaking the next Christian Ponder as our
• 1:56:35
  quarterback, but it's fine. I was honestly, in my opinion, I
• 1:56:39
  think Derek Carr really underrated player.
• 1:56:43
  I think the Saints somehow managed to have a worse coaching
• 1:56:47
  staff and a worse freaking organization and front office
• 1:56:53
  than the Raiders for the two seasons that he was our starter
• 1:56:57
  because we we signed that dude. No NRO line was freaking old and
• 1:57:01
  banged up. We had Ram check getting injured
• 1:57:03
  all the time. We had Tyron Armstead before he
• 1:57:07
  went to Miami and retired and he was getting banged up all the
• 1:57:10
  time. We had no offensive line like
• 1:57:13
  Trevor Penning and Derek Carr. Like what a recipe for a
• 1:57:16
  freaking a crap Stew. That's a freaking like, what are
• 1:57:22
  we like what are we doing there? That we, we made bad decisions
• 1:57:26
  with our son, our picks and like I feel like we didn't really
• 1:57:30
  build around for the guy at all. He lost mobility.
• 1:57:33
  That's another reason why I feel like he panicked under pressure
• 1:57:36
  more and kind of threw through hospital passes was because he
• 1:57:41
  couldn't really move like he could.
• 1:57:42
  His last play as a professional is him unnecessarily diving like
• 1:57:49
  the reason he was not playing. The reason that he retired is
• 1:57:52
  the last play of his career, trying to break a fall with the
• 1:57:56
  stiff arm. I'll say, man, he was special
• 1:57:59
  for that one 2016 season, having the Saints or not the Saints,
• 1:58:07
  the Raiders in 2016, that 12 and four season.
• 1:58:11
  That was pretty solid. He was honestly good when they
• 1:58:14
  had Crabtree too back in those days and Rick and Jared Cook.
• 1:58:19
  Raiders. Raiders kind of had to give some
• 1:58:21
  good squads with them. They have not come to terms.
• 1:58:27
  Him in Cincinnati have not come. To terms, I heard that they're
• 1:58:32
  who they take Shamar Stewart or he's holding out for more money.
• 1:58:36
  He's not happy with the rookie contract.
• 1:58:38
  Dude, he hasn't signed his rookie.
• 1:58:39
  Bro, the the Bengals cannot get anything right on the defensive
• 1:58:44
  side of the football. Yeah, it sounds good.
• 1:58:47
  Yeah. So we'll have all that more to
• 1:58:51
  discuss next week. Obviously, rookie mini camps are
• 1:58:55
  under way in the NFL. We're going to probably be on
• 1:58:58
  the Eastern Conference finals this time next week for the NHL
• 1:59:01
  and the NBA, plus UFL Week 8 and you know, MLB season starting to
• 1:59:07
  get a little interesting. We'll talk about maybe some
• 1:59:09
  potential All Stars and everything.
• 1:59:10
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