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Joba and the Mouth 3-2-26 · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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If it is the worldwide sports radio network.
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The NFL Combine concluded over the weekend and college
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football's finest worked out in shorts and T-shirts, tempting
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scouts and fans with freakish athleticism and fantasies of
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finding the missing link to getting the organization back
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atop the mountain and winning the Lombardi Trophy.
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With both teams in the Meadowlands drafting in the top
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five, we will let all the New York fans know who came out of
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Indy with the biggest hype and the most eye popping numbers and
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who may have hurt themselves financially with some slow times
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and perhaps some awkward should door like interviews.
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This Sunday the New York Knicks hosted Victor Wenban Yama and
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the San Antonio Spurs and thoroughly dismantled them.
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11489 Wembe was a tall order for New York, but the Frenchman was
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contained and was turned over 7 times in large part due to
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excellent defense from OG Annanobi.
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Jalen Brunson was his usual excellent self and the Knicks
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got tremendous two way games from Mikhail Bridges and
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Annanobi. Bridges led the team with 25
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points, 5 threes, 5 rebounds and five steals.
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Can the Knicks continue this excellent smothering play on
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both ends of the court? Or is this merely just a good
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match up against a good young team that is without as much
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physicality and experience? And before we dial it up to 11
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and preview the World Baseball Classic that starts on
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Wednesday, join the boys at the NBA Round Table where we break
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down the latest news in the league on another all gas, no
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brakes, Wheeling and dealing, styling and profiling live
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Thursday night edition of Jabba and the Man.
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Give him a significant you're going.
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To have a ton of money to spend, why not pulling in one of the
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top three offensive players in? The League.
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We're going to be. Looking at Aaron Judge and
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saying that he. Can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that. A game where you got to.
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Go. Before I told you giant feet,
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Saquon Barkley at this point. To Jabba and the mouth.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
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I have my panties up in the bunch tonight.
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I don't know what it is. It's, it's one of those nights.
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I'm a little lost, but I won't be lost in any of those sports
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conversations we're going to have tonight.
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You know my name is Errol Marx, they call me the Mouth and you
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are listening to Jabba and the Mouth.
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Executive producer Mr. Aaron Fish Fishman, Mr. producer and
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Co host Mr. Speedy PD and on the board Tommy Poops behind the
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com and check out all the latest events
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and options for our network. Yes, I am back.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's been a long, long weekend.
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Been dealing with a little sickness.
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I, I've been going to doctors trying to figure out what is
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wrong with me and hopefully very, very soon I will know.
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But nevertheless, I, I make sure every single week I'm ready for
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this show, even though sometimes I am a little off, a little
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drowsy, a little out there in the world or my head's up in the
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clouds. And I'm trying to figure out, by
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the way, did anybody see the what, what was it?
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It wasn't a missile, but I think a rocket was shot last night.
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Did you see that? I did not.
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So I, I know a lot of people that don't follow what's going
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on in the world, but Elon Musk and his company last night.
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And if, if you didn't get a chance to see it, it's all of
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the social media shot out a rocket which shot to outer
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space. I don't know if anybody was on
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it, but if you were outside at about, if I'm not mistaken, it
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was like 6. Actually it was a little bit
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later in the night. It was, it was supposed to be at
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6:45 around our show 640-5630, but it winded up shooting at
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10:00 or 9:45 PM while a rocket was shot out to outer space.
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And if you actually look E you could see it, you could see it
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in the air and bunch of my friends were outside watching
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it. And you can actually see the
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orange like missile get shot up by Elon Musk and his crew or his
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company. And I don't know how much it
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cost Elon Musk, but that was pretty cool.
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I got a chance to see it on video.
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I was not outside, ladies and gentlemen, to check it out.
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But you can see it all over social media.
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Everybody was posting it up and interesting.
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I'm not, I'm not into outer space and aliens, UFOs, but I
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know there's something out there.
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There's extra terrestrial, you know, I don't know, aliens out
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there. So I, I, I, I believe in ET, OK.
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I was my favorite movie growing up, believe it or not.
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I don't know if anybody knows this.
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My name was supposed to be Elliot.
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That was what my name was supposed to be.
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When I was born, my mom wanted to give me the name Elliot.
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My grandmother did not like it. So my mom kind of switched it to
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Errol because she was a, a big Errol Flynn fan, a movie star, a
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very famous movie star from the 30's, the 40s and the 50s.
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So I my grandmother accepted my name to be Errol, but it should
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have been Elliott. Could you imagine my name?
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Elliott Marks. And this is.
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Elliott Marks Yes, there we are. Errol Flynn in like Flynn, we do
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a segment. Thank you, Fish.
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But believe it or not, my name was supposed to be Elliot.
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So I just wanted to give you a throwback if you want to get to
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know me a little bit more and a little bit more deeper.
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Yes, my name should have been Elliot Marx.
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Anyways, lot to get into. So NFL combine is where we're
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going to start. The NFL combine concluded on
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Sunday, held once again from Lucas Oil Stadium in
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Indianapolis. This year's combine featured
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some great performances and has been called one of the fastest
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combines ever. Not surprised due to several
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excellent times from the 319 draft prospects that were
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invited to show what they got already for next month's NFL
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Draft. Multiple reports believe that
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some NFLGMS believe offensive tackles Francis Agoa from Miami
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and Kaden Proctor of Alabama could be better as guards at the
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NFL level due to the size issues and arm length issues for Magowa
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and the opposite for Proctor who may be too big and slow to
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handle NFL pass rushers in space.
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Utah's two projected first round tackle, Spencer Fano and Caleb
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Lomo both had 40 yard dashes times under 5.
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Some players expected to be second day draft picks.
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Arkansas's running back Mike Washington, Georgia wide
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receiver Branch, Indiana cornerback D'Angelo Bonds,
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Tennessee wide receiver Chris Brazil and LSU quarterback
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Garrett Nussmeyer where some projected second to third round
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picks that improved their draft stock.
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Projected top 10 edge rusher David Bailey had a very strong
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NFL Combine, while other projected top 15 edge rushers in
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Kendrick Falk and Ruben Bain skipped the NFL Combine, and
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reports say that many NFLGMS are slightly concerned about Bain's
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arm length for the position. Ohio State's linebacker Avril
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Reis and Sonny Sonny Styles both ran a 4.4640 yard dash and had
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on real athletic numbers, including a fourty 3.5 inch
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vertical for Styles. On the downside, the projected
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#1 receiver in the draft, Carnell Tate, ran only a 4.5
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three in the 40 yard dash, slower than expected.
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USC's Makai Lemon, the top projected slot receiver,
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apparently had a Shidor Sanders like interview experience, as
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numerous sources report that Lemon completely bombed many of
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his team interviews in Indy. Well, I don't know about Ruben
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Bay. I know.
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I understand the thought that his arm length is not going to
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fit the NFL style of game. I, I, I understand that.
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But speed does right. The athletic ability does right.
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He was the top, one of the top pass rushers in the country all
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season long and against top SEC teams, pretty much matched up
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against some of the best defenses.
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I mean, offenses in the NFLI mean NCAA.
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I'm going to keep, I'm trying to think of what I'm going to say
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here, but in the NCAA, you think about what Ruben Bain brings to
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the table. The guy has the ability to get
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to the quarterback. The the guy has the ability to
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get down low and, and move inside and out and, and use many
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different ways and, and use many different styles of his game to
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get to the quarterback. Now there are teams like The
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Jets who could be using him in in a 3-4 or if The Jets are
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going to play a four three and I don't know how they're going to
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play it this year. Maybe they do a a different.
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They use the the 3-4 and a four three in their defense,
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depending on how a guy like Aaron Glenn, who obviously fell
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asleep a couple of times at the combine, which was posted all
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over social media and and a lot of people, a lot of Jet fans
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were attacking him, especially The Jets podcasting that's been
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around over the last couple of weeks.
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And that was at Lucas Oil said a lot of interesting things about
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Aaron Glenn. A lot of people don't like Aaron
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Glenn, but I, I think Ruben Bane would be a top five pick.
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No matter if his arms were long, his legs or his feet or his toes
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were small. It doesn't really matter.
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Speed always changes everybody's views it it always does.
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And him on the outside edge on any side, left or right with the
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New York Jets, he would be explosive.
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Explosive. Now, again, the combine doesn't
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give you the answers. It doesn't.
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Does anybody remember Vernon Galston?
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I think everybody that is a Jet fan remembers Vernon Galston.
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He dominated at the combine, dominated it strength wise,
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speed wise, everything. The guy was the best linebacker
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going into the draft. That's why he was drafted so
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high by Eric Mangini. Eric Mangini had pretty good
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drafts when he was there with The Jets.
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For the three years that he was there, the worst first round
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draft pick he ever had was Vernon Galston.
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But he also drafted Darrell Reevis.
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He also drafted Mangold. He also drafted Ferguson.
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He was there for all those guys. So you go back in time and you
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understand what Vernon Goldstein brought to the table.
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Combine didn't sell me anything. Shador Sanders was great in his
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pro day. He looked great.
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He didn't he didn't play at the combine.
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He did interview at the combine. He was absolutely embarrassing.
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And you hear what you heard about Makai Lemon.
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I mean, Makai is supposed to be the best slot receiver.
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Does it make him fall? I don't know.
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He you're a receiver, You're not a quarterback.
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And there was a lot of clout with a guy like Shaddor Sanders
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because of who his father was. And Deion Sanders came out and
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and spoke very, very highly about his son and that you'd be
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making a mistake if you you don't draft this guy.
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And nobody wanted to hear Deion Sanders and nobody wants to deal
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with Deion Sanders behind the scenes.
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And that's why a lot of teams probably decided to to pass up
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on a guy like Shador Makai. Even if he falls, does he really
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fall out of the first round? I probably not.
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And if he does, he's an early second round draft pick.
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I I could see The Jets in in the early second round with the
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Cowboys pick. If he falls out of the first
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round, Makai will be a Jet in the beginning of the first
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round. I can't see any teams passing up
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on a kid with this explosive ability.
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These guys do not grow on trees with the kind of speed that this
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guy brings to the table as far as the offensive line.
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Now, we've been speaking about Campbell, right?
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We've been speaking about the Patriots and Campbell looked
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pretty good all season long. Now, in the play offs, certain
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parts and certain games, he did not look good.
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He didn't look good against the Texans.
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He didn't look good in the Super Bowl, so 2 dominant defenses
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that can get at him and maybe it was his small arms, maybe not
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because throughout the season he played very, very well.
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He's he played consistent. So I'm not saying Campbell is a
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pro Bowler and this year he wasn't a pro Bowler.
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But can he be? Absolutely.
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Did anybody care that his arm arm length or his hands were
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small going into the draft? The answer would be no, because
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he still was a top ten pick. He was still the top tackle
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drafted in this year's last year's draft.
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So I I know everybody's looking at that and they're consistently
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pointing their fingers on, well, this guy can't run the 40 fast.
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Let's go back to Odell Beckham. Odell Beckham did not run the 40
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as fast as he runs in games. I don't remember what he ran the
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40, but he didn't run it like some of these other wide
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receiving speed demons. And Odell Beckham was still a
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top 15 pick. And look at what Odell Beckham
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did. Now, Odell Beckham also came out
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of the draft. He wasn't healthy.
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He had a hamstring problem. He missed four games early in
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the season with the New York Giants, and he had hamstring
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problems coming out of LSU. But once he stepped on the
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football field, you can see the dynamic player that he became,
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the star that he became with his ability to catch the ball with
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one hand, his athletic gifts that he has.
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And he runs routes just as he really in his first four years,
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he was as good as route runner in in the NFL and he exploded
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right off the paper. Did he have a great combine?
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No. So combines don't really sell
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everything about the play. It doesn't.
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I know everybody wants to believe it and I think guys like
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Garrett Nussmeyer, who kind of a lot of people thought were was a
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fourth or fifth round draft pick as a quarterback having the week
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that he had. I believe that other teams,
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especially NFL teams that are looking for a quarterback in the
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second or third round, maybe The Jets could look at him as an
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optional quarterback that you can sit on the bench behind a
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veteran quarterback and maybe you find lightning in a bottle
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like a Russell Wilson in a second or third round that falls
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to you and it's it's it's a player that you can build
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around. Now, Nussmeyer was looked at as
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a first round talent last year. He decided to go back to play
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for Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly was an absolute
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bomb. LSU was a complete bomb.
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He was fired and LSU program completely fell apart.
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And you know who's running that program now, but Garrus Garrett
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Nussmeyer has the arm strength. We've seen him throw a football.
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He's played with a lot of great players, as we all know,
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successful wide receivers in the NFL.
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In Jamar Chase, he played with them.
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There's another superstar player that didn't have a great season
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that's playing for Jacksonville that played with him in LSU.
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You know what I'm talking about. He played with a lot of great
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players in LSU. He was there for a while.
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I think Garrett Nussmeyer is a guy that you definitely have to
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take a flyer on, especially what you saw.
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But David Bailey is an interesting positional defensive
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lineman. One, everybody likes him.
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He's big, he's strong, he's fast off the line.
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Does he move up in the draft because of the combine that he
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had? Now he's a top ten pick.
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There's no way David Bailey is falling out of the top ten.
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No way. There's no way.
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I cannot see it, but does he jump from 8:00 to 2:00 or 8:00
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to 3:00 because of what he did at the combine?
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Maybe. So maybe The Jets look at David
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Bailey as the the missing piece to their defense, to Aaron
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Glenn's defense. I don't know.
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But I can tell you, having a combine like that for a player
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that's looked at as a top ten pick anyways, he is definitely
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jumping. Definitely.
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Now this is not an offensive line draft.
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It's not. I don't care what anybody says.
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Last year was an offensive line draft.
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This is a defensive line draft. There is 7 defensive lineman
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that are definitely being drafted in the top 22.
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Guarantee it. And I would say five of these
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guys could be game changing edge rushers now.
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Bain is one of them. Bailey is another one.
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They believe Reese can be another and he had a great
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combine. But the guy that really stood
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out for Ohio State was Sonny Styles because Sonny Styles, I
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don't know if he was looked at as an early first round pick.
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Some people say that he was an early an early second round
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pick. He jumped after the combine.
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He had the 43 1/2 inch vertical that he had the combine of, of
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the speed, the 40 yard dash that he ran.
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He ran it as fast as Reese did. Does that make him better than
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Reese? No, but there are teams at #5
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there is a team at #5 in the Giants.
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And I, I was speaking to Fish and I'm sure Fish is going to
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have his own take on this. Sonny was the the guy that was
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calling the plays at the line of scrimmage for the Ohio State
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Buckeyes. He was the leader of that
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defense. Reese was a one year starter.
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He was the one year, one year superstar over there.
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Ohio State Styles was there a couple of years.
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Now, does that make Styles better?
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Does that make him more athletically gifted?
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Maybe so. But that make him the guy that
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I'm going to choose in the in a top five over the guy that
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everybody expects to be a top five pick.
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No, if Arvel Reese falls to the Giants, the Giants are drafting
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Reese. I'm sorry, the Giants aren't
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drafting Sunny Styles. If Reese is there at five, you
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don't. You don't do that.
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You take the best guy on the board, and if you're Joe Shane,
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that's what you do. Because Joe Shane's made a lot
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of mistakes. This wouldn't be a mistake for
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him. But you look at guys like
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Zachary Branch and D'Angelo Ponce and Chris Brazil, all
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these guys had good combines, all of them.
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And maybe this makes some jump from 2nd to 1st, I don't know.
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And, and, and to me, even if you fall out of the out of the first
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round, now you're not going to get, as you're not going to make
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as much money. If you're a second round draft
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pick, you don't get that fifth year option.
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It might benefit you falling into the second round because if
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you're a second round draft pick, you only play 4 years and
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then you could be asking for a big contract, especially if you
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blow up and you become the player of the star that you
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believe you are if you fall out of the first round.
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So with the the NFL combine, I mean the NHL has a combine, the
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NBA has a combine. All the big sports, even
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baseball has a combine. Now they, these the scouts want
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to see these players in an open competition.
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And that's what it was. Honestly, I didn't pay any any
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attention to it. You know why?
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Because I hate listening to these broadcasters.
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They all have their own takes. They all have their own
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thoughts. I mean, Mel Kiper, am I going to
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trust everything that comes out of Mel Kiper's mouth?
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Mel Kiper's an idiot, OK? How many mistakes has he made?
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I remember when he said Christian Hackenberg was going
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to be a good player in the league.
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We remember Christian Hackenberg.
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Remember Clawson? Remember him?
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Yeah, he's supposed to retire, but he didn't 15 years ago and
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he didn't do it. Every time Mel Kiper came out
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with his take, I wanted to throw up, seriously.
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And there are a lot of these guys and I'm not, I'm not taking
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shots at these guys. Make a living doing what they
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do. They all do.
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And they all have a sense of understanding the way the
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combine works and the way teams are looking for players and the
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way they like to draft. I don't know what The Jets are
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planning to do because they have a coach that's falling asleep a
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pop. I mean, I, I mean, that was the
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big take. That was during Bailey's stuff
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too. That's the big take over the the
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whole weekend with the New York Jets is the pictures that were
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all over social media of Aaron Glenn falling asleep.
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I mean, seriously. And when there were a lot of
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coaches over the years, I mean, Phil Jackson, he fell asleep at
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the NBA combine. Remember that.
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Lou, what was what was it with Lou Labarello?
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Lou Labarello too, it seems. Sleepy Lou.
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That's why I gave him the nickname Sleepy Lou.
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I, I mean, I, I've given a lot of people nicknames.
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I'm not going to give Aaron Glenn a nickname because
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everybody seems to have a nickname for him.
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I, I did give Robert Solem the, the name Bambi.
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And maybe if Aaron Glenn continues doing the, the stupid
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things that he has done over the last couple of months, maybe I
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give him a nickname. But I, I'm, I'm going to believe
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that Aaron Glenn is going to figure things out.
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But again, you look at the combine and, and you could go up
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and down on, on what you believe and what you see and what these
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players are going to be. You don't know because how many
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players, how many players have we seen in the combine not have
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good combines? We're not going to be good
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prospects. They fall to the fourth, they
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fall to the fifth round and they become stars in the NFL.
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It happens a lot. It happens a lot, and that's why
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teams like Seattle have made a living on it.
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Schneider has made a living on fighting guys in the later
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rounds and turning them into superstars.
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He has. Don't go look at the the way
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they've drafted over the years. The Legion of Boom have been
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built by former drafts pretty much in the later rounds.
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Look at their secondary. I mean, Witherspoon was a first
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round draft pick, top five pick. Yeah, Woolen was not.
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Woolen was a late round draft pick.
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He was like what, fourth round? He was a.
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Fifth round pick. I believe in the same draft as
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Sauce and Stingley, yeah. I mean, he found Woolen and
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Woolen's going to be a highly profiled quarterback that's
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going to be available this offseason.
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He he might be resigned. I know whether Witherspoon is
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going to get signed before he does, but he's going to get
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paid. And their secondary is as good
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as any secondary in football as they are now NFL champions,
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Super Bowl champions. But again, Schneider has made a
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living on finding guys in the later rounds.
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Teams have done it for many, many years.
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Look at Philadelphia, look what Philly's done.
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They built it around the Georgia Bulldogs.
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But at least if you look at what they've done over the past
25:11
couple of drafts and they have one of the best GM's in all of
25:13
football is he finds players in the later rounds.
25:17
He goes into the third round, he he picks up picks and he trades
25:21
off picks and he moves up on players that he feels that is
25:24
going to fit the way he they want to run their defense and
25:27
what the way they want to run their offense.
25:29
And it's worked out. Philadelphia this past year had
25:32
had, I mean, last last year had a very good draft.
25:36
Now did it show on the football field?
25:37
No, you have to develop these guys.
25:39
It's some of these guys. It takes a couple of years to
25:41
figure out how they fit to the production that they're going to
25:44
bring to the team. So again, going back to what all
25:48
these guys put up the numbers they put out the at the combine,
25:51
how many how many times they put up 225 lbs?
25:54
Who cares how many push ups they have?
25:57
I mean, if that's not part of the combine, but I'd like to
26:00
know how many push ups these guys could do at once.
26:03
I mean, I could do 160. I mean, before I, you know, I,
26:06
my arms die down. I mean, I did it on a live show.
26:09
I mean, what? Where were we?
26:10
Speeding. It was a house.
26:11
We were at Miller's Ale House and I was trying to find content
26:15
and and I was trying to drive people to listen to our
26:17
conversations. So I had a push up contest with
26:21
everybody in there and some of my friends, they tried to do
26:23
push ups and I said I'm I'm going to knock you all out.
26:26
And I let everybody do push ups. And, and I think the highest one
26:29
was Justin, right? He had 83 push ups.
26:31
Yeah, and then your friend Eric Martini let you down a little
26:34
bit. I did the same on his hand.
26:37
He really let me down. How did you?
26:38
Do I did, I did 21. I think he did 21.
26:41
So I'm like, let me see if I can at least do 21 because all the
26:44
fans wanted me to do it. I'm like, all right, I toughed
26:46
it out. I did, I did 95.
26:48
I know. And I was wearing my coat.
26:50
I, I was all stiff and I was like, I don't want to do it, but
26:53
everybody was like, all right, Errol and I listen, I can do
26:56
push ups. I I'm pretty good at it because
26:58
I do about 3000 push ups every single week.
27:01
When you do that many, you know, your arms are not going to give
27:03
out as quick. But do do you think that that's
27:07
going to make me challenging? Hey, if, if I could beat Quinton
27:09
couples in a push up contest, does that mean I'm going to run
27:13
right past them on a football field?
27:15
Not a chance in hell. How about this?
27:17
If I can, if I could do 160 push ups at once, Do you think Ruben
27:22
Bayne is not going to kill me on a football field?
27:25
It doesn't matter. It did.
27:28
I listen. The 40 really stands out because
27:31
if you have these wide receivers running at a 4.23 or 4.26, wow,
27:35
that's sub speed. But could they do it on a
27:37
football field when the game is going on, when there's a corner
27:40
taking you that can run a 40 and a 4.31, Can you do that against
27:46
a corner that's sticking you the whole game?
27:49
That's the question. Are you going to be able to run
27:51
a route? That's the difference.
27:55
I know Carnell Tate did not have a very good combine.
27:58
He ran in a 4.53. Let me tell you guys something.
28:02
Carnell Tate, his game is not built on speed.
28:06
It's about power, OK? Power.
28:09
When you watched him play for Ohio State, his game was built
28:14
on power, right? I'm sorry, not Ohio State,
28:16
right? Yeah, it was Ohio State.
28:18
Yeah. I'm thinking about Alabama too,
28:19
but Alabama doesn't really. No, their kid Williams is not
28:22
eligible for next year. Next year.
28:25
But Carnell Tate, even in in the game, in a game against Miami,
28:31
he he showed you that he can be an explosive player.
28:34
He showed you that he can play against elite defenses.
28:38
Now the only time will tell what how he fits.
28:41
If he can stay healthy. His health is the problem as far
28:44
as I'm concerned with a guy like Tate.
28:46
If, if Carnell Tate could stay healthy, he's going to be a fine
28:49
wide receiver. He's going to give you 1213
28:52
hundred yards. That's what you're going to go
28:54
after when it comes to a first round pick.
28:56
He can score 8 to 9 touchdowns. I expect him to be that type of
29:00
wide receiver. He is going to be a top 10
29:02
prospect and if he falls out of the top ten, he will not fall
29:05
out of the top 15. He will be the first wide
29:08
receiver off the board. Speedy.
29:09
Yeah, I think Tate maybe maybe the top five talk might go away
29:13
just because of that, just because of also the pass rushers
29:16
too, like Bailey doing really well.
29:17
He might elevate himself into the top five.
29:18
There's a lot of discussion of obviously these position hybrids
29:21
too, Caleb Downs, like how early is he going to go even though
29:24
he's not a premier position? Now we're going to have that
29:26
debate with Styles because Styles did that well, you're
29:28
running a 443, you're running with wide receivers.
29:31
There's not many linebackers that can do that in man coverage
29:34
that way, probably besides Fred Warner.
29:35
Like you're not looking at that him as being that positional
29:38
prototype where as long as your coach, right, you can make that
29:41
kind of thing work. That could definitely elevate
29:42
you into the top ten depending on which teams like getting
29:45
premier in your positions. Now, obviously there are teams
29:47
like the Commanders and the Bengals seems like that, that
29:49
really need pass rush help, really need secondary help.
29:51
But still my favor somebody like Bailey a little more or Keldrick
29:54
Faulk, even though he didn't run, I'm still seeing some top
29:56
10 projections for him now. He's kind of like Rashon Gary,
29:58
kind of a weird prototype because he's 6 foot 6 and 270.
30:02
Like is he a speed rusher? Is he a power rusher?
30:04
But there's still questions with him as well, and Styles is going
30:07
to have the same kind of thing as his.
30:08
Caleb, I would I would worry about Sonny Styles and and not
30:12
because I don't think he has the athletic ability to be a good
30:15
player in the NFL. He's not expected to be drafted
30:18
as high as now he's projected to be.
30:21
He's jumping very, very fast because of the combine he had.
30:24
And this is the mistake. We've seen this with Ohio State
30:27
Buckeye type of players and defensive players over the
30:29
years, like a Vernon Galston. You jump as high as this because
30:33
of the combine you have. And let's say the Giants say,
30:36
you know what, we like him, we're going to draft him at 5.
30:38
He could be a leader of our defense and he's not as good a
30:41
player on the football field is what he's putting up when it
30:44
comes to numbers and athletic style, athletic ability he has
30:47
at the combine. You would worry that this could
30:51
send Joe Shane packing as the GM.
30:53
Maybe the Giants fans want that, maybe they don't.
30:56
But this could be the pick that sends Joe Shane packing.
30:59
And that's the only thing that I would say about Sonny Styles.
31:02
I don't know if I'm making this move if I'm the New York Giants,
31:05
because you're reaching on a prospect because of what he did
31:09
at the comp. Yeah.
31:10
And you mentioned I think middle, mid, first round pick,
31:12
it was kind of his ceiling before this combine.
31:14
And that's because I think you're looking at a lot of teams
31:17
and maybe view him as a missing piece in a defense that already
31:20
has a good secondary or a good pass rush.
31:22
As it is already like a team that has a or a support system
31:26
for a team that has maybe corners that have issues.
31:28
Maybe we'll consider that kind of thing.
31:30
But with this many pack, this much pass rushing talent, I
31:33
still should not see him going anywhere past maybe maybe the
31:37
Chiefs do it at 9 or something like that.
31:39
Like maybe that's a player that could be interesting even though
31:41
they could use a pass rusher too, but I don't see him going.
31:44
Like, I do not see the Chiefs drafting Sonny Styles.
31:49
I I'm telling you right now, Sonny Styles is not going to be
31:51
a top ten pick. And if he is a top ten pick,
31:53
whoever's picking him is making a mistake.
31:55
Yeah, that's. What I was getting at get
31:57
official, you're saying? Well, I mean, Speedy, the
31:59
problem with taking Sonny Styles in the top 10 isn't that he's
32:03
going to be a bad player. It's just that there are a bunch
32:05
of players that you think are going to be there's.
32:07
Too many edge rushers that are good, yeah.
32:10
Vernon Golston is a great example arrow that you brought
32:12
up earlier where he just never had the numbers like in in
32:18
games, like the numbers at the combine are great.
32:21
Like Sonny Styles jumps out of the gym.
32:24
He should be in slam dunk competitions, the type of
32:27
athlete that he is. But he had one sack last year
32:31
and one forced fumble and one pick, right?
32:34
You know, 83 tackles, 46 were solo.
32:38
You know, like that's a loaded defense.
32:40
He he didn't put up big numbers. I don't really want a guy who
32:44
doesn't put up big numbers. If I'm drafting in the top five.
32:47
I want a guy like Bane who knows he's just not going to measure
32:51
grade against some of these freaks from Ohio State at the
32:53
combine. So he's not going to he's shown
32:56
enough tape. He had four games, 10 games with
33:00
four plus pressures, 10 different games this season
33:04
where he had four or more pressures.
33:06
That's unheard of. That means he dominated everyone
33:09
he played and he played everyone.
33:11
Everyone that was good, including these guys on Ohio
33:15
State that he had the face as well, right?
33:18
Everybody, they all had to fade. He's faced everyone and he's put
33:22
up the tape. He's the guy that you want.
33:24
Now they're saying his arms might be too short, but he
33:27
doesn't play like it's the same game.
33:29
You know, Errol, I told you this.
33:31
Their line coach, Speedy at EU is Jason Taylor, Hall of Fame
33:36
pass rusher Jason Taylor, they know he knows all the moves.
33:41
He's his student. The guy is coming into the NFL
33:44
with a better move set going inside and outside than anyone
33:48
else at the position. Maybe he's not the same level
33:51
athlete as a guy because he's not born 65 like Sonny Styles.
33:56
But I'll tell you what, the end is more important and I want the
33:59
guy that's put it on that tape every single time.
34:02
I don't think Styles should go in the top ten either, Errol.
34:05
I'm a little worried that Harbaugh wants a middle
34:07
linebacker right, Like Ray Lewis, like he had, like he had
34:12
after Ray Lewis. He.
34:13
Didn't draft Ray Lewis either. I know, but he inherited Ray
34:15
Lewis. Yes, he did all right.
34:18
I I worry that they want to go and take care of the middle of
34:21
that defense because think about what he did after that.
34:23
They drafted queen and it didn't work out and they and they
34:27
traded him for Roquan Smith and paid him the top of the line
34:30
salary right. So he wants that guy on his
34:35
team. He's shown in the past that he
34:37
wants a captain of the defense and I believe that's important.
34:41
But I don't think I'm spending top five capital now.
34:43
The best thing, in my opinion, Errol, and I'll stop at this.
34:46
If the Giants somehow end up with Styles and Reese on the
34:50
board at 5:00, that's the only way I think they're going to be
34:53
able to trade down, because they should be.
34:56
People should be asking for that pay.
34:57
Yeah. I was going to say if to Reese.
34:59
Reese would definitely be a fit for Washington.
35:02
So if you wanted another team to trade up and steal them from
35:04
Washington at 7:00. I don't see, I do not see Reese
35:07
passing top five. I I cannot see that.
35:10
He's well, that's why I think if he's at five, yeah, I think the
35:13
Giants have that position covered.
35:16
I think that they should try to trade down, get assets, get back
35:20
to maybe 10 and maybe Caleb Downs is there at 10.
35:23
Maybe that would be nice. Again, you really need the right
35:25
situation though. Like I said, if the edge rushers
35:27
are there for. A while because Harbaugh has
35:29
shown he wants that guy, too. Harbaugh came in with Ed Reid.
35:33
He went and got Kyle Hamilton right top of the line guy.
35:37
That that's what you want. If you know anything about
35:39
defense, it's you build it up the middle, you build it on the
35:42
line and then you build it from middle linebacker and then play
35:45
calling safety. And that's what you have.
35:48
And they had. And that's why those Ravens
35:50
defenses in 2000 were so great with Reed and and Lewis up the
35:53
middle. I'm interested, I'm interested
35:55
to see how teams are going to look at this draft and, and fill
35:59
in spots they need to fill in before they, well, it obviously
36:04
you have free agency, it's going to open up before obviously the
36:09
draft. So teams are going to be looking
36:11
at how they're going to add in free agency and then look at the
36:14
draft on how they going to fill in those spots.
36:16
So I will say this, there are guys right now that The Jets, if
36:22
you're a Jet fan, The Jets going to be looking at linebackers.
36:25
If The Jets are going to bring in a linebacker from let's say
36:28
the Lions or somebody else, there's a couple of good
36:31
linebackers that are going to be available this offseason or a
36:34
pass rusher. They're going to look elsewhere.
36:36
Now, I, I also look, I, I, I do believe that The Jets are going
36:40
to look at Bailey and Bane as their top priorities.
36:43
Reese is another guy that they're going to look at.
36:45
But I, I think that if you're a Jet fan, any one of those guys
36:48
will make you happy. The question is if if you pick
36:51
wrong with one of these guys and you decide to go with Reese over
36:55
Bailey and Bane and Bane goes something like 3 spots down or
36:59
maybe 2 spots down and then barely goes 4 spots down and
37:03
these two guys become better pass rushers than Reese and
37:06
Reese is a bomb. I mean, that could, that could
37:09
set The Jets defense back for years when you're going to get a
37:12
chance at #2 to get the second best, honestly the best player
37:16
off off the board because we all know where #1 is going.
37:20
It's going to, it's going for a quarterback.
37:23
We know where the Raiders are going.
37:24
They're going after the Heisman Trophy winner.
37:26
So that's already off the board. The Jets have the number two
37:29
pick. They have a chance to pick the
37:31
best player on the board. If you think Greece is the best
37:35
player on the board, then draft him.
37:37
But don't make a mistake and pick wrong and set your team
37:40
back. Your set your team's defense
37:42
back for many, many years to come.
37:44
Let me give you a name before we move on.
37:45
Errol for the top of that second round.
37:48
Think about it. The coach is a 59 corner, right?
37:52
That was fast and really the reason why he was so good is
37:55
because he locked guys up and you can stay with guys that were
37:57
bigger than him and fight through the ball.
37:59
Talking about Darrelle Revis, no.
38:01
No, I'm talking about Aaron Glenn when he was young,
38:03
younger, when he played himself. Well, Darrell Darrelle Revis was
38:06
5. He was 511.
38:07
Revis. I looked.
38:08
It up before he's fine, he's fine.
38:10
But I'll tell you right now, I. Met Jerrell, he's.
38:12
Fine. Glenn was small, right, Aaron
38:14
Glenn. We can agree with small.
38:15
You know who the small corner is that's dominant in this draft?
38:18
It's the Indiana corner. It's Pons.
38:20
Pons plays very similarly and he had a really good combine that I
38:25
think he may even creep into the first round.
38:28
But because he's 59, he probably falls to the top of the second
38:33
and I believe Aaron Glenn is going to be running up there to
38:37
get that guy because they obviously need Corner too.
38:40
He's the number one corner and they like the kid from Clemson
38:43
too. He's he's good too, so.
38:45
He'll definitely be a first round pick.
38:46
It may be later, but Avion Terrell was AJ Terrell's.
38:49
Brother and and remember this the same thing.
38:51
If you look at what the Eagles did a couple of years ago, they
38:55
they drafted two corners in the 1st and the second round.
38:59
They did that and look what they did.
39:01
They won a Super Bowl after that.
39:02
If you look at The Jets, I honestly think they really need
39:05
to secure the secondary of that team and they have two early
39:09
second round picks and maybe you go corner in both those picks.
39:14
I I think you go, you want to solidify the secondary and and
39:18
if you're Aaron Glenn, you want to make sure that your secondary
39:21
is covered. You have two shut down corners
39:23
for the next, you know, four to five years.
39:25
That's the way I go. That's the route I go.
39:28
And then next year you worry about the offensive side of the
39:30
ball, because to me, The Jets this year are not going to put
39:34
up a lot of they're not going to put up a lot of points no matter
39:37
who the wide receivers are, because they don't even know who
39:39
their quarterbacks going to be. They they don't have any idea.
39:43
And even if they go after a Nuss Meyer, if he's still there in
39:46
the in the fourth round or if the judge want to trade up in
39:49
the third round because they don't have a third round pick,
39:52
You're still you're still reaching with the kid.
39:54
You still don't know what Nuss Meyer is going to be as an NFL
39:56
quarterback. So you got to be very, very
39:59
careful on what you're going to do with this year and not an
40:02
offensive draft. This is this is a defensive
40:05
draft. Last year was the offensive
40:07
draft with the wide. Now everybody says there's still
40:09
a lot of good wide receivers in his class.
40:11
He still could find wide receivers in a later round yes,
40:14
but they're not expected to be stars in his league.
40:16
Maybe you'll you fit, you'll find lightning in a battle and
40:19
and one of these guys turned out to be a superstar, another
40:23
Justin Jefferson or or one of these star, you know, wide
40:26
receivers in a league ACD lamp, but CD lamp, Justin Jefferson,
40:29
all first round talents. So and there are second, you
40:33
know, second day guys that have made it into the NFL and become
40:37
very good players. So we'll see how this all works.
40:41
It's again, not a draft class that I would say is an offensive
40:46
draft class. Speedy, would you say that?
40:48
Yeah. Yeah, I would say this is a
40:49
defensive line draft first and a lot of corner depth as well.
40:53
I don't really think there's a number like a superstar type
40:56
corner right away. Like I think a lot of the the
40:58
LSU corner Medelane I think is the first one I've seen on a lot
41:00
of draft boards, but he's not projected probably until to go
41:02
to probably 13 or 14. But yeah, defensive lineman,
41:06
they're all those three. Definitely Reese.
41:08
I would say Bane, even with the arm length issues, I think would
41:11
still probably go top top ten. Maybe not top five, but again,
41:16
definitely David Bailey's now going to go in the top ten.
41:18
I wasn't as sure on him because I I look at like Tyree Wilson
41:21
was the last Texas Tech pass rusher and he went in the top
41:23
ten. It hasn't really developed with
41:25
the Raiders. I thought he would be good, but
41:26
it was a weird fit over there. I think Bailey might be a little
41:29
better than him as a college prospect wise, but he's still
41:33
going to go top ten regardless. And now you're dealing with a
41:35
case of with Auburn and some of those other SEC pass rushers
41:39
that could go there too. So yeah, this is definitely a
41:41
defensive heavy draft, especially now.
41:42
Now with these new reports too, are there's questions with these
41:46
tackles being able to be a tackle in the NFL now?
41:48
I also look at the NFL in the draft.
41:51
Everybody looks at the combine. It's the end all be all.
41:54
Oh, you could find a player. If this guy has an unbelievable
41:57
combine, that's the guy I'm going to go after against the
42:00
guy that had a great season like Bain, like you were saying, Fish
42:03
Bain is that type of player that can change a team, change a
42:06
defense. You're not going to pass up on
42:08
the guy because somebody had a combine better or he didn't have
42:12
a combine or he didn't want to. He he he decided, you know what,
42:15
I'm going to do a pro day because that's what he's going
42:17
to do. He's every one of these players
42:18
have a pro day. So he is going to have his pro
42:20
day. He's going to show off to the
42:22
scouts. He just decided, hey, you know
42:24
what, I don't want to do it in front of all these other people.
42:27
I'm going to do it in on my field.
42:29
I'm going to do it in front of my guys and whip my guys and
42:31
show what I could do on my own field.
42:33
So I, I just think I know a lot of people don't are obviously
42:37
don't like when these guys don't show up, especially a defensive
42:40
lineman that obviously wants to compete with the other guys.
42:44
But I'm not going to say that Bane is not the guy that I'm
42:48
going to go after. That's not the guy that I'm
42:50
going to go and reach for just because of his arm length or or
42:54
that type of player that he has become in people's eyes because
42:58
hey, he doesn't fit the NFL mold of player so.
43:03
Remember Aaron Donald? They just said that he didn't
43:06
fit the mold either. He was 6 foot tall and you know
43:09
his arms weren't long enough. He had to play inside.
43:11
Well guess what, He became the best.
43:13
The tackle in the game, maybe the games I've received the best
43:17
3 technique. I mean just you never know.
43:19
You just got to look at the tape.
43:21
Watch what he does in games and if he always dominates there's a
43:25
good chance he's a pretty damn good player.
43:27
You don't give up on a player just because he decided, you
43:29
know what, I didn't want to play.
43:31
I didn't want to compete at the combine because all the scouts
43:35
and all the better scouts are going to go to his pro day.
43:37
Because if you're drafting in a top five, you're going to look
43:40
at him and say that that might be the guy that's going to
43:43
change my defense for the next 10 years.
43:45
And he could be a Super Bowl contending pass rusher that's
43:48
going to cause havoc at the line of scrimmage every time he's out
43:51
there and he's a three down defensive lineman.
43:55
He's that kind of player. He's going to be out there every
43:57
single game. He's a Micah Parsons, he's got
43:59
that kind of motor. He's that kind of player that
44:02
can go on the edge with speed. And I'm sure he's going to he's
44:07
going to lose a little bit of weight for this, this pro day
44:10
because he's going to show all the different moves that he has
44:12
with his his arms and an and everybody says arms, arms are
44:16
the most important thing when it comes to defensive line.
44:19
That's not true because Von Miller, Von Miller built his
44:23
game on athletic gifts that he has his spinning ability, moving
44:28
inside and out, using his position and his ability of
44:32
using his speed to get inside and attack the quarterback.
44:35
So don't tell me that because this guy has small arms or small
44:39
hands or small feet, that's the reason why you don't draft them
44:43
in the top five. It's a ridiculous statement and
44:45
you don't pass up on a guy that's gifted like him.
44:47
Yeah, you're never going to pass up on a guy that already has
44:50
those athletic traits anyway, as long as there isn't an off field
44:52
issue. And as of right now, we haven't
44:54
heard anything with that either. And I just want to finish off
44:57
before we move on with with the off field issue that you were
44:59
talking about Fish with Makai Lemon, which is interesting
45:01
because he was actually my wide receiver three.
45:03
I thought I know you mentioned you weren't sure if he was the
45:05
first round pick last week, Errol.
45:07
I thought he was, but I again, I will.
45:09
He now he will. He'll fall.
45:10
He'll fall out of the first round.
45:12
Or maybe a team that like doesn't need like later in the
45:15
draft that maybe needs a receiver in the.
45:17
First, he'll fall. He'll fall in the second round.
45:19
They'll be teams lining up in the top ten of the second round
45:23
and they're going to draft. They can't pass up on a wide
45:25
receiver. That can change, change your
45:27
team in your offense. I mean, you can put him on a
45:29
slot, you can put him on the outside, He can run.
45:31
This guy has a gift of running and he's a good route runner.
45:34
Yes. So anybody would look at his
45:37
gifts and say, wow, that's the kind of guy that I want to draft
45:41
and that's the guy I don't care what he does on and off the
45:43
field or some of the stupid things he says but did.
45:46
You see what he did, though, like every clip you see of what
45:49
he did at the combine, he tried to like, intimidate the
45:52
reporters. It was like he like, tried to
45:56
act like he was real tough and look better than it was.
45:59
It was really hard to watch. It was like he got really bad
46:02
advice. I hope that's all it was.
46:04
But everyone saw what happened this year for Sanders last year.
46:07
We all know what happened to him.
46:09
No one thinks it's going to happen again, but I think this
46:12
guy may have talked his way out of the first round.
46:15
And that's a shame because the guy's a really, really great
46:18
receiver. I think he's going to play in
46:20
the slot like more like an Amman Ross St.
46:21
Brown. He says he's wants to model his
46:23
game after him. Another Trojan.
46:26
You know, that's probably why I picked him.
46:28
But I it's, it's a similar comp. I mean, the guy, if you could
46:32
be, I'm on Saint Ross St. Brown.
46:33
You take that in the first round every single time.
46:35
Obviously, you know, so maybe he can do it, but you worry about
46:39
those character concerns, especially in the first round.
46:42
You can. That's how GM's get fired.
46:44
Yeah, I, I, I do think that Lemon is not going to be passed
46:47
up in the second round. You, you can't look at a player
46:50
with those kind of gifts and just say, hey, I don't like his
46:52
attitude. This is not Shidor Sanders.
46:54
This is not a quarterback. And you have to hit on the
46:58
quarterback. You can't make that mistake.
46:59
Quarterbacks are so very, very important to the team in the
47:03
organization. And you you don't want to strike
47:04
out on that. And that's why he fell as as far
47:07
as he did, because they didn't like his attitude.
47:09
They didn't like how he interviewed and he didn't like
47:11
how he went up there when he spoke to the reporters and said,
47:14
well, I'm Shadora Sanders. He was talking into a third
47:16
person. It doesn't work in the NFL.
47:18
Kyla Murray has really pushed his way out of Arizona because
47:22
of it. Now he's not even showing up and
47:23
in speaking to the ownership and speaking to the the GM and, and,
47:27
and even even conversating about where he sees himself with the
47:30
Arizona Cardinals. And that's why he's on his way
47:32
out. And that's why they're going to
47:33
move them. You need to be able to speak,
47:37
speak freely, but not speak in a way that's going to scare people
47:40
away from you. That's what Lemon did.
47:43
But that doesn't mean that teams are going to pass up and he's
47:46
going to fall all the way to the fifth round.
47:48
If he falls anywhere past the second round, he is an absolute
47:52
100% steal in the third round and I can't see him going past
47:57
the first pick of the third round.
47:59
You'd be an idiot, maybe even I would say not even the mid
48:01
second. You would be an idiot.
48:03
Just because of some bad interviews.
48:04
We've also heard, like how many teams have also asked these
48:06
prospects weird interview questions too?
48:08
Like, I think they were making a big.
48:09
I think when Arthur Smith was in Atlanta, he was like they asked
48:12
him some of these prospects was the weirdest.
48:14
Question Wasn't St. Brown a fourth round draft?
48:16
Yeah, he was late. Yeah, he was in that 21 draft
48:18
too, with with Chase and. Wattle and all.
48:21
Stuff like he didn't get a lot of run and he was hurt.
48:23
So like nobody really got to see him play.
48:25
It was one of those weird years with him.
48:28
Look, I really don't know what it's going to take for some of
48:32
these guys to to wake up and just realize if you don't play,
48:37
put good film on tape, it doesn't matter.
48:40
Now if you take a look at that Miami team, they had offensive
48:42
lineman that murdered people all season and Mulgoa at right
48:46
tackle was a freaking murderer. But he was better in the run
48:50
game than I thought in the past, blocking.
48:52
And usually, and this is that why Will Campbell stayed at
48:55
tackle because Will Campbell is a left tackle and left tackles
48:57
are usually left on an island in the pass protection scheme a lot
49:01
more than the right tackle. So they have more experience
49:04
handling this type of pass rush at right tackle.
49:06
You don't. So it's more likely a right
49:09
tackle will be moved inside to guard, then a left tackle would
49:12
be moved inside to guard. And I think there's a lot of
49:15
valid, you know, discussion we'll go is 65310, some 320,
49:19
something like that, which is, you know, kind of like average,
49:22
which is like guard size, right? It's a little small for tackle,
49:25
which is crazy to say that's small in any imagination.
49:28
That's small for tackle because I'm going to tell you about
49:30
another guy in a second Proctor. But Mogoa, like if he plays
49:35
guard, he could be the next great guard in the league, but
49:38
he definitely could play right tackle for you.
49:41
I would rather have him as a Giant.
49:43
If we traded back. I'm good with that.
49:45
I have no problem playing him a right tackle.
49:48
Then maybe down the road we slide him into guard if we get a
49:50
tackle. Yeah.
49:51
And I think a lot, I think as long as the prospect is there,
49:54
like, is that good? Like Malgo was supposed to be
49:56
like. I don't think A-Team would have
49:58
a problem slotting a minute right tackle versus left.
50:00
And also when you watch these guys practice against guys like
50:03
Ruben Bane and and Mazador, these guys were practicing with
50:08
Mangoa. So he was practicing with some
50:10
of the best pass rushers in the country.
50:12
And so, you know, we can compete against them because there's
50:15
film you can see there if you go watch them practice, they're
50:18
playing one-on-one every single practice against one another.
50:21
So you know that Magog could actually be a really good player
50:24
in the end at the NFL level, because these guys are supposed
50:27
to be NFL level pass rusher. So and Mesedor could he's going
50:31
to be a top end draft. He's.
50:32
Going to be a late first round pick.
50:33
I've seen him in most. Boxes he'll be, he'll be like in
50:35
the 20s, I think, or late teens. The other guy that that we
50:39
talked about was Proctor and Proctor's the big Alabama
50:42
tackle. He reminds me of Mackay back.
50:43
Would you, I want to say this, if you're the New York Jets at
50:48
#2 you, let's say you, you pick Ruben Bane and you look at
50:52
Mesador and you have the number 16th pick.
50:54
You trade down, you still, you get it.
50:57
You get a third round draft pick for that.
50:59
You trade down a couple of spots.
51:01
You still can get Mesador at the 2021 spot.
51:05
Would you do that in combined Mesador and Bane together on
51:09
that defensive line for the next 5 years?
51:13
I mean, if you were The Jets, that's the route I go.
51:16
You solidify your defensive line and then in the second round,
51:20
you go for corners and, and, and you, you solidify that
51:23
secondary. Then you really built your
51:25
defense up for the next 5 to 4 years and, and you, you really
51:30
have something. And then you in free agency,
51:33
you're bringing in a linebacker or two.
51:35
You'll have one of the best defenses in the AFC, especially
51:38
in the AFC East. Automatically you transition and
51:41
change everything for what The Jets were not last year.
51:45
They didn't have the pass rushing depth.
51:47
Now you put bane on one side and mesodor on the other and these
51:51
guys played against one. They played with each other for
51:54
how many years with each other and and put them on The Jets a
51:57
super line. I I think this would be a
51:59
perfect fit. And then you have Phillips in
52:01
the middle and then you have the kid that they just sweat that
52:04
they just added to the defensive line.
52:06
Now you have your four guys right up front that are going to
52:08
be able to go after the, for the quarterback, yet you bring in a
52:11
linebacker or two and free agency.
52:14
And then you bring in two young corners and, and, and then you
52:16
still little. And I think you do have a
52:18
pretty, we'll see how the safeties work in free agency,
52:21
because I know The Jets were interested.
52:23
I forget what safety they were interested in.
52:25
There is somebody in, in the, in free agency The Jets are
52:27
interested in, but, and they have the kid from Alabama that
52:30
played pretty well when he was staying, when he was actually
52:33
healthy this year. So I, I think you could solidify
52:36
your defense in, in the first and second round off the top.
52:39
And by the way, you trade down, you get that third round draft
52:42
pick which you're missed. And then you can go after a nuts
52:45
Meyer in the third round and reach on that, or a wide
52:48
receiver if he falls to them in the third round and and give
52:51
yourself another weapon. Probably need a tailback too.
52:53
Breeze Hall on the franchise tag?
52:55
You would imagine they're going to.
52:56
Go get a tailback Day 2, you get it in day three you can get one
53:00
in. You got two fourth round draft
53:01
picks. You.
53:02
Can get one. That Arkansas kid ran a four.
53:05
Three, I believe was the fastest running back time.
53:09
That's an interesting one. I was going to tell you Proctor
53:12
before we move on Proctor, I just don't know if I'm the one
53:16
drafting him. I don't know how many 6, seven,
53:19
370 LB guards are successful in the NFLI know it worked a little
53:24
bit with Makai Beckton that year with the Eagles get into the
53:28
Super Bowl and win in the Super Bowl.
53:30
Didn't work as well as the year after that, right for where
53:33
where he went. And I don't know if that's a
53:36
great choice Alabama lineman for whatever reason.
53:40
And look, we know it with Evan Neil.
53:42
It just hasn't panned out. It's really just like I used to
53:45
play against a team like this in high school that they just had
53:47
like 3 times as many kids in their school and their guys were
53:50
just bigger than us. They weren't better.
53:53
They just had more big guys. And Alabama is just like that
53:56
bully team where they just have the big hulking lineman.
53:59
Are they the best lineman? Not necessarily.
54:01
Do they look really good when they play together and beat
54:03
teams up? Yes they do.
54:04
Yeah, they're going to lose I. Would be a little afraid of
54:06
Proctor. He's going to lose value too,
54:08
even if they do move him in an interior too, because the Penn
54:10
State kid, their interior kid, did really well at the combine.
54:12
But Proctor's going to be a good player.
54:14
I don't think even if he falls in a couple of spots or maybe
54:17
falls in the second round, the guy's going to be good player.
54:20
Alabama, I know if you look at in the past, Evan Neal and there
54:24
are guys like Williams, Jonah Williams that was drafted by the
54:28
Bengals really didn't play at the high level that everybody
54:31
thought he was going to be as as high a pick as he was with the
54:34
Bengals. I do believe that guys like
54:37
Proctor, they do fit in the NFL type of game.
54:40
He's a big guy. You move him into the guard
54:42
position, whatever it, it doesn't matter.
54:44
He'll fit in. You put him.
54:46
Look at Makai Becton, Mackay Becton did not fit out, fit very
54:49
well as a tackle. They moved him inside and he
54:52
became a Pro Bowl. Well, The Jets didn't move him
54:54
inside. The Eagles moved him inside and
54:56
then he became a Pro Bowl guard in the NFL.
54:59
And then he got a big contract and he, I think he went to the
55:02
Chargers and he got a big contract from the Chargers.
55:04
So you can definitely move a guy with.
55:07
The Athletic He was like the second worst guard in the NFL
55:11
last year. Mackay, Beck.
55:13
Yeah, because he wasn't healthy. Yeah, because he wasn't healthy.
55:16
And that off that offensive flying was not healthy.
55:18
When you lose Slater and you lose Alt the way they did early
55:22
in the season, Slater didn't even play.
55:23
He he got hurt in preseason and and he got that big contract and
55:27
then Alt they lost him what in 6-7?
55:30
Against the Giants Week 4. They lost him pretty quick.
55:33
I I mean when you lose 2 tackles that good and and I'm going to
55:36
tell you this right now, the Chargers offensive line is going
55:38
to be the best offensive line in the NFL next year.
55:41
You can book that you. Could book it, might it might
55:43
not have Makai Beckton on it. You know, like he really was bad
55:47
last last year. So it, he had that one really
55:50
good season. It's proven that it can work.
55:52
But I I just don't know how many times we've seen guards this big
55:56
be successful in the NFL. I, I stand behind him as a
56:01
player. I, I saw what he did with the,
56:03
the Eagles. He was a big part of that
56:04
offensive line and that run that they had all the way to the
56:07
Super Bowl. He was a big part him and Saquon
56:10
Barkley. Now him going to another team in
56:13
his first year under a guy like Harbaugh and losing the players
56:17
that they lost. They just first of all, they
56:19
signed Mackay, Beckton signed a three-year deal.
56:22
So he's there for at least another year and I can't see him
56:25
losing his position because I, I don't know how much they paid
56:28
him, but they paid him a pretty decent amount to be their
56:31
starting guard. I don't see them just decide
56:34
automatically, hey, we're going to part ways with him, what were
56:37
you going to say? He it's two year.
56:39
He signed the two year, $20 million deal in March.
56:43
They could cut him. They could.
56:44
They're not going to cut him. They're not.
56:47
I thought he signed. A 2.5 million dead cap charge
56:50
that wouldn't really hurt them that much.
56:52
I don't think they're going to cut him.
56:53
I I think they'll ride with him and see what he does in, you
56:56
know, OTAs. But Makai Becton just needs to
56:59
keep his weight down. That was been that's been his
57:01
problem since he came into the league.
57:03
When he came from Louisville, he didn't work out with The Jets
57:06
because I thought The Jets should have moved him to guard
57:08
after his first season. After the first season, he had a
57:11
good first season and everybody liked him.
57:14
I just thought you can see that he was never going to stay
57:17
healthy the way the Speed Edgers were going to come off the edge
57:21
and attack him. Because after watching film,
57:23
after the first year, they watch enough film, they're going to be
57:26
able to attack him in a different kind of way.
57:28
So, and that's what they did in his second year.
57:30
He wasn't as good and he couldn't stay healthy at that
57:32
knee problem in his second year. And and it was a problem.
57:35
So I'm interested to see teams like the Chargers at full
57:39
strength this coming season. And also in the in the draft,
57:43
the Chargers didn't have, they don't have wide receiving help.
57:46
They don't have anything and I expect maybe the Chargers
57:50
reaching for Lemon in the second round, maybe trading up with the
57:53
The Jets and getting a guy like Lemon because he would be an
57:57
explosive player on that Chargers team, especially a
57:59
speed demon. And what is Mike McDaniel like?
58:02
Those fast guys that can 1 routes like Tyreke or a Waddle.
58:08
These guys are just speed demons that can run routes.
58:10
And I'm telling you right now, a guy like Lemon would fit in the
58:12
Mike McDaniel type of off. Yeah, I was just saying that was
58:14
a perfect fit for him in the first round.
58:16
Like it made sense to you? No, but.
58:19
I think he falls out because of what he did at the combine.
58:21
I mean those interviews really piss people off him and once GM
58:26
start to talk with another, with another, especially with the
58:29
interviews because the interviews are the most
58:30
important thing. I really do believe that.
58:33
Say whatever you want. It's when you're sitting down
58:35
with the coach in the GM and you're having a conversation and
58:37
they're showing you literature of how to read offense or how to
58:41
read defenses that they're going to run.
58:44
You have to interview very, very well and they're asking you
58:47
silly questions. They're asking you dumb
58:49
questions at this combine. And if you don't want to answer
58:53
them or you don't give them a straight up answer, they're
58:55
going to look at you and say, why did you ask me that
58:56
question? So obviously as, as a
59:00
personality, you have to go into those interviews and understand
59:04
that what they're looking for. And that's why you're, you're,
59:07
you're practicing. You're, you're, you're, you have
59:10
a coach, you're, you're sitting down with Jon Gruden before the
59:13
combine, because guys like Jon Gruden is going to give you the
59:16
understanding what they're looking for because he's coached
59:19
and he he's looking for this, you know, persistent personality
59:23
that's going to give you the right information.
59:26
That's going to give me that, that thought that says, yeah,
59:28
that's the guy. That's the guy that I want.
59:30
And I don't know if what Lemon said, but obviously it wasn't
59:34
very good to multiple GMs and now all the GMs are speaking.
59:37
It's like, do do you really want this head case on your roster?
59:41
Would you draft him in the first round and take him in the second
59:44
round and take a chance with him and see if this guy's the steal
59:48
of the NFL draft? And he might be.
59:51
He really might be and like. You said before, like there
59:53
might be like teams that don't that have passed up on character
59:56
issues in the past that still could get him in the second
59:58
round and still could make it a good value.
1:00:00
Like the Cardinals drafted a lot of guys last year that had a lot
1:00:03
of character issues and obviously the Browns forget
1:00:05
about it. They draft character issue guys
1:00:06
all the time, not even Justin or Sanders.
1:00:08
They drafted A defensive tackle too that had a domestic violence
1:00:11
charge on him the year before or something like that.
1:00:13
So they might still get a good value out of him as a wide
1:00:16
receiver and Miami if they if he falls there to the mid mid
1:00:19
second round Dallas. Oh no, The Jets have their
1:00:22
picks. I guess they wouldn't, but like,
1:00:24
there's enough guy. Teams are still going to do that
1:00:25
because of the character. I, I like if, if you're, if
1:00:29
you're a team looking for a wide receiver and if he falls out of
1:00:32
the first round, you're absolutely in the top five picks
1:00:35
of the second round. Going to jump on this kid.
1:00:37
You, you cannot not jump on a kid that is a first round
1:00:42
talent, A-Team talent, a guy. Remember Elijah Moore now he's
1:00:46
better than Elijah Moore. Definitely Elijah Moore fell to
1:00:48
the second round. A lot of people thought he was a
1:00:50
late 1st around talent. Elijah Moore really didn't
1:00:53
develop in the NFL. I know he was Browns best friend
1:00:56
and they grew up together and he's like a little brother to
1:00:58
him. And Brown came out and and said,
1:01:00
oh, not Antonio Brown, by the way.
1:01:04
I just say he doesn't have that level of character issues.
1:01:06
Yet, but I, I, I think that what Elijah Moore did is he, he
1:01:11
didn't develop maybe because he went to The Jets, maybe it was
1:01:14
just the coaching staff or then he put him in the right position
1:01:17
to succeed. But Elijah Moore, even when he
1:01:18
went to the Browns and when he jumped from team to team, it
1:01:21
just hasn't worked out in the NFL.
1:01:23
Speed doesn't always work out in the NFL.
1:01:25
You have to be a good route runner.
1:01:27
And if you look at the past, look at look at Justin
1:01:30
Jefferson, everybody says, well, what makes Justin Jefferson so
1:01:33
good? Is it is it his athletic ability
1:01:35
or is his speed Justin Jefferson fast?
1:01:37
But is he the fastest wide receiver in the NFL?
1:01:40
No. His route running, the ability
1:01:43
to see the field the way he does stop and, and move in, in a, in
1:01:47
a slant, you know, or move in a jig and, and, and catch that
1:01:51
ball and run on the outside the way he does.
1:01:54
He is one of the best in the league.
1:01:56
He's a an Odell Beckham prototype kid that has been so
1:02:00
successful in the league. And if McCarthy can actually
1:02:02
throw him the ball, you know, he has 15 hundred 1500 yards last
1:02:06
year and and 10 touchdowns instead of 2.
1:02:09
So I I mean, you need a guy that can get him the ball.
1:02:11
So the quarterback is the most important position.
1:02:13
And that's why Shador Sanders fell out of the first round,
1:02:16
fell out of the second round and all the way to the fifth round,
1:02:18
because nobody liked the fact that the way he interviewed and
1:02:21
the way he talked to the media. I don't know if what Lemon said
1:02:24
to the media or what Lemon said in the at the combine.
1:02:27
Speaking to the GM and the and the coaches is going to really
1:02:30
change his position because his numbers at the combine were
1:02:34
pretty damn good. Yeah, and I also like you were
1:02:36
saying too with the with Justin Jefferson, like going to the
1:02:40
argument with Tate too, like a lot of people, I think he's
1:02:42
going to fault. So that's another example of
1:02:44
like I was saying, crystal lame last week, but Jefferson maybe
1:02:47
didn't showcase the route tree as much you because Jamar Chase
1:02:49
did a lot of the deep stuff and all that stuff.
1:02:51
But Jefferson is showing it in the NFL.
1:02:52
He could do everything and now you're seeing that kind of thing
1:02:54
with Tate or what the level he could be.
1:02:55
Just because he played with Jeremiah Smith doesn't mean he
1:02:57
couldn't do other things too. To me, when you look at a
1:03:00
player, you look at what org, obviously what program they're
1:03:03
coming out of. Programs are so very important
1:03:08
because if you look at Ohio State, they have been known to
1:03:12
have great wide receivers. Alabama has been known to have
1:03:15
great wide receivers. USC has been known to have great
1:03:19
wide receivers. You see what I'm saying?
1:03:21
Miami, over the years, good wide receivers.
1:03:24
So you look at those organizations and those those
1:03:28
programs and say if it's the right coach or it's the the
1:03:32
right player, those are the guys I'm going after in the first and
1:03:36
second round or third round, late third round picks to to
1:03:40
reach on. Because those guys come from the
1:03:42
best programs. Those guys come from programs
1:03:44
where there's a success rate at those positions.
1:03:47
So that's the way I look at it and that's the way if I'm AGM
1:03:51
and I'm looking at what I'm looking for when it comes to
1:03:54
style, when it comes to speed or when it comes to route running
1:03:58
and how they're going to play offense or defense in the NFL,
1:04:02
that's the way I'm going to draft my players.
1:04:05
Knicks dominate the Spurs and Force 7 Wenby turnovers.
1:04:10
On Sunday afternoon, the Knicks hosted and dominated the Spurs
1:04:15
114 to 89 to give the Spurs their first loss since January
1:04:20
31st and the lowest point total they've had in in game in a game
1:04:27
this season. After the Spurs took a 19 to 7
1:04:31
first quarter lead, the Knicks went on a 26 to two run
1:04:35
including Jalen Bronson having the final eleven points of the
1:04:38
first quarter. The Knicks defense led by OG
1:04:41
Anobi, Force 7 Webby turnovers, the second highest total of his
1:04:46
career. 6 Knicks players were in double figures, including two
1:04:52
bench players in Muhammad Dor and recently acquired Jose
1:04:56
Alvarado. Karl Anthony Towns, Josh Hart
1:04:58
had double double S and Mikhail Bridges led the scoring with 25
1:05:03
points on 5/3 pointers to go along with five steals.
1:05:07
Outside of Wembe who had 25 points, 13 rebounds and Devin
1:05:12
Vessel who had 18 points and Stefan Castles who had 13
1:05:18
points, where the only two were the only two players of the
1:05:22
Spurs to reach double figures due to the Knicks smothering
1:05:26
team defense. The Knicks now have the third
1:05:29
best home record in the NBA, 23 and 8, which is amazing only
1:05:34
behind the the two number one seeded teams, the Pistons and
1:05:39
the Thunders. The Knicks are one of five teams
1:05:43
along with the Spurs, the Timberwolves, the Celtics and
1:05:45
the Thunder that have or that are top ten in both offensive
1:05:50
and defensive efficiency this season.
1:05:55
Mike Brown should get a lot of credit for this.
1:06:00
I know a lot of people were questioning the Mike Brown hire.
1:06:05
Tom Thibodeau was a guy that everybody loved and Tom was a
1:06:08
nick through and through. He's really born here in New
1:06:12
York. While he was born in
1:06:14
Connecticut. He grew up a New York Knicks
1:06:16
fan. He came up under Pat Riley and
1:06:18
Jeff Van Gundy. We all know the the story behind
1:06:22
the Tom Thibodeau story. Mike Brown has grown up as a
1:06:31
coach in the NBA behind two successful coaches that have won
1:06:37
multiple championships, Greg Popovich and Steve Kerr.
1:06:42
Now, everybody knows I'm not a Steve Kerr.
1:06:45
Everybody knows, but Steve Kerr plays the triangle offense,
1:06:50
somewhat of a triangle offense. He also was an assistant coach
1:06:56
under Greg Popovich as well, Steve Kerr.
1:07:00
So his styles is a unique style and Mike Brown was under Steve
1:07:07
Kerr for a significant amount of time, 2-3 years.
1:07:12
He took a Cavalier team before he went to the Spurs in the
1:07:15
Golden State Warriors all the way to the Finals.
1:07:17
Yes, with LeBron James and they they failed, they lost.
1:07:24
But Mike Brown has been a successful assistant and coach
1:07:28
in the NBA. Look what he did with
1:07:29
Sacramento. He want, if I'm not mistaken, he
1:07:33
want coach of the year. I think Thibodeau did, but I
1:07:36
think he was he was second. This is a guy that obviously
1:07:41
weighed out as welcome over there with Sacramento.
1:07:43
It didn't work out over there. Maybe because of the players,
1:07:46
maybe because of the organization.
1:07:47
It is a a failing organization, one of the worst basketball
1:07:50
organizations in professional basketball.
1:07:54
But Mike Brown, what he's done with the Knicks, slowly you got
1:07:58
to buy in. A lot of people thought that
1:08:01
Karl Anthony Towns was not buying in.
1:08:04
But over the last couple of weeks, since the All Star break,
1:08:08
it's been 2 weeks, he's played better.
1:08:12
Now I want to see Karl Anthony Towns do this in the play offs.
1:08:15
I want to see Karl Anthony Towns play at a top level when you
1:08:17
need him to play at a top level. That's why a lot of people are
1:08:20
talking about Giannis if he fails to do so in the play offs
1:08:24
once again. But those secondary players,
1:08:30
Josh Hart, high pick and roll what they used in this game
1:08:35
against the Spurs. And I'll tell you this about the
1:08:37
Knicks. This is not something to say.
1:08:39
Well, the Knicks were lucky and and, and the Spurs are one of
1:08:43
the best teams in the Western Conference and they haven't they
1:08:46
haven't lost since January 31st. That's not true, guys.
1:08:50
The Knicks beat them in the cup, the cup finals.
1:08:53
That's why they won the cup and then it just beat them.
1:08:54
They tortured them. Now Mike Brown knows how the
1:08:59
Spurs like to run their offense and their defense because it's
1:09:02
the same way Greg Popovich likes to run his defense in his
1:09:05
offense. So he knows the distinct way
1:09:07
they like to run things over there in San Antonio.
1:09:13
So the Knicks, it's all about matchups.
1:09:15
Everything in in in basketball, you can have the best players in
1:09:19
the league, But if if your team matches up against them and you
1:09:24
have pests like Jose Alvarado and OG Ananobi, you're going to
1:09:29
cause a lot of problems defensively for guys like
1:09:32
Webbingyama. Now, Webbingyama is one of the
1:09:35
best big man in the league. If you can argue, he's one of
1:09:37
the top six, top seven players in all of the NBA.
1:09:41
I've been saying this over and over and over again about him as
1:09:44
a player. He's 7 foot five.
1:09:50
He has these long legs, stilt legs.
1:09:54
I will say this, if you're a a basketball fan and understand
1:10:00
what it takes to be an elite player in this league, and I'm
1:10:03
not saying that webbing Yama is not training and going to get
1:10:07
bigger and kind of trying to get stronger.
1:10:08
He is doing that. But the problem right now with
1:10:14
webbing Yama is his development and he'll develop as a young
1:10:18
player. He's what, 20 years old, 21
1:10:20
years old, still a kid and his his legs will get stronger, his
1:10:24
body will get stronger. But when you're playing against
1:10:26
guys that are men, they're going to push you around webbing.
1:10:29
Yama is is not a man yet OG and Anobi is a man.
1:10:35
This man is a 230 LB, six foot, 66 foot 7 guard that could
1:10:42
defend or a three, you could say small forward that can defend
1:10:46
multiple positions, all 5 positions.
1:10:52
And Josh Hart, he's been used in these games as a swing man, a
1:10:59
guy that can swing and and do things.
1:11:03
The high pick and rolls you, they used them in this game a
1:11:05
lot on the high pick and rolls with Jaylen Bronson, kind of
1:11:09
like a Draymond Green and me and Fish were talking about this off
1:11:13
air. What makes the Knicks so unique
1:11:18
is if all these guys play at a high level, nobody's going to
1:11:22
beat them. Nobody if OG and Nanobi plays
1:11:26
this way defensively game in and game out and gives you about 15
1:11:31
to 16 points and gives you about 7 to 8 rebounds.
1:11:35
And Mikkel Bridges is your third option and can give you 18
1:11:39
points. And he's he's not going to miss
1:11:41
more than he's going to hit and he's going to play shut down
1:11:44
defense and rebound 6 or 7 rebounds a game.
1:11:47
And they have Jalen Brunson, it's going to give you 35 to 40.
1:11:50
And and Karl Anthony Towns definitely needs to give you 25
1:11:54
and 10. If that happens, there's no way
1:11:56
the New York Knicks are going to lose against anybody, including
1:11:59
OK C, the Spurs, Detroit, the Celtics, when Tatum comes back,
1:12:05
this team is as good as anybody in the league if they play on
1:12:08
all cylinders. But the problem with the Knicks
1:12:15
is they're inconsistent. Inconsistency does not work in
1:12:20
the playoffs. It doesn't.
1:12:23
That's why they lost against Halliburton in Indiana in the
1:12:26
Eastern Conference Finals last year.
1:12:29
The Spurs are young. They're up and coming.
1:12:32
Harper's. Dylan Harper's going to be a
1:12:34
special player. Give him a couple of years.
1:12:35
This guy's going to be one of the best point guards in the
1:12:37
league. Castle was Rookie of the Year.
1:12:42
We know what he is. This guy is a great player.
1:12:45
He was a great find, a great find by the Spurs.
1:12:49
Devin Vessel, good offensive player.
1:12:51
It's going to give you 20 and 8:20 and 7:00.
1:12:54
The guy is a great player offensively if he can stay
1:12:57
healthy. Fox.
1:13:00
Fox is going to be a big part of it.
1:13:02
If they make the play offs, which they will, he's going to
1:13:04
be a big part of their run webbing.
1:13:09
Yama needs the help and what the Knicks did was very unique is
1:13:15
they had OG and a Nobi defend Webiyama in the paint.
1:13:20
Force Webiyama to do things that he was uncomfortable doing.
1:13:23
What a lot of teams do against Giannis in the play offs, What
1:13:28
they do and what we've seen that has worked against Giannis in
1:13:31
the play offs against Milwaukee is they keep Giannis on the
1:13:34
outside, keep him out of the paint, make him shoot the ball,
1:13:37
which he's uncomfortable doing. Now, Webiyama is a much better
1:13:41
shooter than Giannis. Much better.
1:13:44
Not athletically, but I think webbing.
1:13:46
I think webbing Yama is a little bit less athletic than Giannis
1:13:49
is. But webbing Yama could do.
1:13:53
He can post up, He can shoot that 1819 foot jumper.
1:13:57
But the Knicks was swarming him. They were getting under him.
1:14:00
They were pestering him. They were pissing him off, made
1:14:02
him feel uncomfortable and made him four shots that he wasn't
1:14:05
comfortable doing. That is Mike Brown, the
1:14:09
fast-paced offense up and down the court.
1:14:12
Play defense, stick defense, make sure you play good
1:14:14
perimeter defense, force them to try to beat you in the paint and
1:14:18
make sure you that you beat them on the boards.
1:14:21
Mitchell Robinson was a big part of why they won the Cup.
1:14:26
Mitchell Robinson is going to be a big reason why the Knicks if
1:14:31
they plan to win a championship. He is going to be a big part of
1:14:35
the rebounding and the defensive side of the rim.
1:14:41
We understand why the Knicks made a move for Jose Alvarado.
1:14:46
We got it. And if, if I can argue this, I
1:14:51
will argue this to all the Knicks fans.
1:14:53
I'll, I will argue this to every single fan in the NBA right now.
1:14:58
Leon Rose is the best trade deadline GM or executive in the
1:15:04
NBA right now. Do you want me to tell you why?
1:15:08
Let's, let's go back. Let's go back in time first.
1:15:13
At the trade deadline, he made that move for Josh Hart.
1:15:18
Do we remember who they traded? Speedy, Do we remember?
1:15:24
I don't off hand. How about you fish?
1:15:27
Do you remember who we traded? Believe it was Cam reddish and a
1:15:32
late 1st. And where is Cam Reddish now?
1:15:36
Selling sneakers at Foot Locker. And what happened to that first
1:15:40
round pick? Nobody knows exactly.
1:15:44
Nobody. Yeah.
1:15:45
Then he made that trade for OG Ananobi.
1:15:48
He traded RJ Barrett and Emmanuel Quigley.
1:15:52
And I'm not saying RJ Barrett hasn't been successful with
1:15:55
Toronto. He's been good, Quigley's been
1:15:56
good. But OG Ananobi, when he is on
1:16:00
the court and he is healthy, he's as good or maybe the best
1:16:04
shutdown defender, perimeter defender in all of the NBA who
1:16:09
could defend multiple positions. I'm talking about all 5
1:16:11
positions. You know, OG reminds me of and I
1:16:14
told Fish, Magic Johnson, he's the same size as Magic Johnson.
1:16:19
Magic Johnson with 68-O GS, about 6-7, same size, plays the
1:16:24
same way, plays and defense multiple positions and can do it
1:16:30
at a high level. He's strong, he gets under you
1:16:34
and he forces you to do things that you're uncomfortable doing.
1:16:39
That was RJ Barrett where he wasn't successful.
1:16:42
RJ Barrett was 1/3 option and he wanted to be a second or maybe
1:16:46
even a first option and that's why they nick straighted him.
1:16:48
OG knew he wasn't the second or he wasn't going to be the third
1:16:51
option on this team when they made that move from a guy like
1:16:55
Carl Anthony Towns. And then this season when they
1:17:00
added Jose Alvarado, they traded a piece that wasn't working when
1:17:06
they signed 76ers. I'm sorry, what was that?
1:17:11
Yabasheli? Yabasheli, They traded him for a
1:17:13
no name guard and then they moved that guard and I think a
1:17:19
pick, a second round pick of some kind and they added Jose
1:17:25
Alvarado. They gave up nothing for Jose
1:17:27
Alvarado to the Pelicans that were just wanted to get rid of
1:17:31
them and everybody. Jose Alvarado wanted to come
1:17:34
home. He's from Brooklyn.
1:17:36
He was ecstatic when they Knicks made this move.
1:17:40
And I remember, I remember in his first game he was talking to
1:17:44
Jalen Brunson. He says what do you want me to
1:17:47
do? Where do you want me at?
1:17:49
And he was like just be yourself, play your own game.
1:17:51
We all we want you to do is be yourself.
1:17:54
And then he sat down with Jaylen Brunson's father, Rick Brunson.
1:17:57
And throughout the first quarter, if you watch that first
1:17:59
game, he was talking to Rick Brunson.
1:18:02
And I'm sure Rick Brunson was telling him the same thing.
1:18:06
Be yourself, play your game. And slowly but surely, you're
1:18:10
getting a chance to see why the Knicks made that move for Jose
1:18:12
Alvarado. Jose Alvarado has been a big
1:18:16
part of that perimeter defense. You can bring them on.
1:18:19
You can bring them on in late games, especially against their
1:18:21
best guard and stick them and tell him to stick.
1:18:24
To me, he could shoot the three. He's a very good 3 point
1:18:27
shooter. This team overall from top to
1:18:32
bottom, even bring in Sochen and and Sochen has really barely
1:18:36
played. We haven't seen enough of
1:18:37
Sochen, but we're going to see him.
1:18:40
I I think the Knicks are going to move him into that rotation,
1:18:42
that secondary rotation as the playoffs come along because
1:18:46
they're going to need him. He's a big body, he's a
1:18:49
defender, he's a rebounder. He's a tough player to play
1:18:52
against. And when you play against teams
1:18:53
like the Detroit Pistons, you need those tough players.
1:18:56
Mike Brown. Say whatever you want about Mike
1:18:58
Brown. Love him, hate him, dislike him.
1:19:02
Mike Brown is one of these coaches that is an XS and OS
1:19:07
type of guy. It was Jalen Brunson calling
1:19:11
that team meeting that changed everything for this team.
1:19:15
Ever since that team meeting when the Knicks were like 2 and
1:19:19
9 or three and nine in 12 games, that team meeting changed
1:19:23
everything for this team. Yeah, they lost against the
1:19:26
Cavaliers and they haven't showed in some of these games,
1:19:29
but we've seen them beat elite teams.
1:19:31
Look what they did against Houston coming back from Houston
1:19:34
after 18 points. They were down by 18 points
1:19:36
going into the practically the fourth quarter.
1:19:38
They came back and won that game by two.
1:19:40
Why? Because Karl Anthony Towns and
1:19:44
there are games that there are other heroes.
1:19:46
This game was Mikhail Bridges, probably with Mikhail Bridges.
1:19:49
What scares me about Mikhail Bridges is he disappears in
1:19:52
games, so does OG. They need to be more consistent
1:19:57
if both players are as consistent in games.
1:20:03
One could play defense, two could play defense, one could
1:20:05
play offense, both could play offense in defense.
1:20:07
If they both are consistent players, the New York Knicks are
1:20:12
easily going to come out of the Eastern Conference.
1:20:14
Because as good as the Celtics are right now, if Tatum comes
1:20:18
back, he is not playing more than 2728 minutes in a game.
1:20:21
He's not. He's not playing 40 minutes
1:20:23
coming back from an Achilles hair.
1:20:25
Not a chance in hell coming back as quick as he did.
1:20:27
No, it's going to be all Jalen Brown.
1:20:31
They don't have a lot, as far as I'm concerned, concerned, as
1:20:35
size. The Celtics are not a big team.
1:20:39
So the Knicks are a big team. They have size.
1:20:43
They have ability to match against some of the bigger teams
1:20:46
in the NBA because of it. The Knicks used to be very
1:20:48
small. Over the years.
1:20:50
They brought in Sochen. Sochen is A-69 guy.
1:20:53
He's a guy that you can bring off the bench.
1:20:55
He's pretty big. You can move him at the three,
1:20:56
you can move him at the four. He could defend any one of those
1:20:59
positions. Mitchell Robinson could defend
1:21:03
the three. I mean he could play.
1:21:04
He could defend the five, the four or the three.
1:21:09
Jose Alvarado could defend the one or the two.
1:21:11
Josh Hark can defend the one, the two or the three.
1:21:14
All these guys OG and nobody could defend all 5 positions.
1:21:18
When you have those abilities and you have that kind of bench
1:21:23
and you have these type of players, these style of players
1:21:25
that can give you that kind of pressure defensively, you're
1:21:30
going to be able to compete against anybody in the NBA.
1:21:32
We were talking earlier about this, I heard Zach Lowe talk
1:21:35
about like just what he Josh Hart was doing and how teams are
1:21:39
playing him offensively because Hart's this semi liability on
1:21:44
offense, right? He's really good in transition,
1:21:46
but he's not a great 3 point shooter.
1:21:48
Shots a little herky jerky with the motion at times.
1:21:51
He gets streaky with the three, but you don't have to shoot the
1:21:55
three if you can facilitate the offense and you could do ball
1:21:58
screens. And the simplest thing to do is
1:22:00
what they keep doing with Bridges in him.
1:22:02
It's just OK, give the ball to heart, have them dribble inside
1:22:06
the top of the key and then just hand the ball off one way or the
1:22:10
other as you as Bridges runs around him and use his heart's
1:22:13
body as a screen to initiate the offense.
1:22:15
And then everyone cycles off of that.
1:22:17
I mean, if you can do that, you're basically Draymond Green
1:22:21
offensively. And what he did was facilitate
1:22:24
great shooting around him. And if you get great shooting
1:22:27
around him, you can run that offense.
1:22:28
Even if you have a guy who's not great at shooting like Hart, he
1:22:32
can do enough that it's not a liability.
1:22:34
In fact, it enhances the team and they killed him yesterday by
1:22:37
letting Hart do that. Well, we got a caller.
1:22:40
Who do we have on? We have one of Nathan's friends.
1:22:44
Nathan's friend. Can you hear us?
1:22:46
Yes we can. How you doing?
1:22:48
What's going on my friend? Who we speaking to?
1:22:51
Hey, it's Joe from NY Yankee Mania.
1:22:53
Hey, Joe, how are you? Good.
1:22:56
How you doing my friends? Good man.
1:22:59
Glad that I got a chance to give you guys a call, as always.
1:23:04
You're knocking it out of the park, of course.
1:23:07
Thank you. So how you guys doing?
1:23:10
Well, I'm not dancing. I mean, if I was, I would be tap
1:23:14
dancing right now. But we're talking Knicks
1:23:17
basketball. I know you're a Knick fan.
1:23:18
You're a Yankees guy. We're we're good, man.
1:23:21
What did you think about the Knicks knocking off the San
1:23:24
Antonio Spurs? I was very, very surprised.
1:23:28
Really. Yeah, I was, you know, listen,
1:23:34
being in New York for so long, you get it.
1:23:37
You get a feel of what the teams are going to do.
1:23:40
I don't know. I guess it's just a premonition
1:23:43
that I have even that I just know when a team's going to win
1:23:46
or lose here. Call me crazy, but it's the
1:23:49
truth. I've seen so many games in my
1:23:51
life. I've worked with them and and I
1:23:54
know more or less. So that threw me before a loop.
1:23:58
I mean, to be, to be, you know, honest with you again, I, I just
1:24:03
never, I, I just thought it's always one disappointment on top
1:24:06
of another. So maybe this year's different.
1:24:10
Just like I think it's gonna happen with the New York
1:24:12
Yankees, I think a lot of people are going to be very surprised
1:24:16
with this team. I I would agree with you and we
1:24:19
will get into some Yankee conversation because the WBC is
1:24:22
right around the corner Wednesday.
1:24:23
We have Aaron Judge, a leading the United States team.
1:24:27
You have Japan and Otani, the deferred Dodgers might be
1:24:31
lurking in many different areas over there on Japan.
1:24:34
I mean, there's a couple of for, well, couple, couple of dodgers
1:24:38
right now on that roster pitching, pitching players.
1:24:40
But I, I, I would agree, I think the Yankees going to be a lot
1:24:43
better than people think they're going to be this year.
1:24:45
I, I think a lot of people don't understand what pitching Staffs
1:24:49
could be if everybody is healthy.
1:24:51
So, and I think the Yankees are going to have one of the best
1:24:53
pitching Staffs, if not the best pitching staff in baseball.
1:24:55
But I think that when you look at the Knicks and, and by the
1:24:58
way, we're talking to Joe and he has a great podcast.
1:25:01
Joe, what is your podcast, by the way?
1:25:03
It's it's called New York Yankee Mania and we do play by plays
1:25:10
and we also have a morning show at 9:30 E and that's that's on
1:25:16
in New York City and all over. Well.
1:25:18
And I appreciate you asking. Absolutely.
1:25:21
And I just want everybody to hear it and and they're gonna
1:25:23
get to hear it on all the different platforms after the
1:25:25
show cutting and chopping it up. But you know what's interesting
1:25:30
when when you think about what the New York Knicks are doing,
1:25:32
it's it's kind of it's kind of something that you do don't
1:25:37
expect with the New York Knicks, especially against great teams
1:25:40
in the NBA. The Knicks have had problems
1:25:42
against top talented teams. Last year, they weren't as good
1:25:45
of a home team in the NBA. They were, I don't even think
1:25:48
they were one of the better teams in the NBA.
1:25:50
I think they were one of the worst home teams in the NBA.
1:25:52
They were a better away team. Now this year, there are better
1:25:56
home team now. Yeah, the Knicks need to be a
1:25:58
better home team, especially if they expect to win.
1:26:01
You need homecourt advantage. You need to win those homecourt
1:26:04
games in the playoffs and at Madison Square Garden where it's
1:26:08
loud, where all the fans are going to be rooting and cheering
1:26:10
for you. You need to succeed and go out
1:26:12
there and play your game. And I think that I think the New
1:26:15
York Knicks have done very, very well this year has a lot to do
1:26:18
with Mike Brown, the offensive style of game he likes to run.
1:26:21
And this offense that he is running right now is going to
1:26:24
work work in the playoffs. They had a problem scoring the
1:26:27
ball in certain series, especially against the Indiana
1:26:30
Pacers. I don't think the Knicks are
1:26:31
going to have a problem against teams like the Celtics or teams
1:26:35
like Detroit, even though the Knicks played very well against
1:26:37
Detroit and I think it was the first round last year.
1:26:39
This is a different Detroit team.
1:26:41
Cunningham has played at a MVP level this year.
1:26:44
Duran has been as good of a center in the NBA.
1:26:47
And by the way, Duran was and I, it's funny to say this, he was a
1:26:50
Knicks draft pick, so. And it was like traded until
1:26:53
after the fact. The Knicks drafted him and then
1:26:55
traded him to Detroit and got a future first round draft pick,
1:26:59
which turned into nothing because it was a protected first
1:27:01
round draft pick. So it's typical.
1:27:03
I don't understand this unprotected, protected crap that
1:27:05
the NBA has. But what I love about that, what
1:27:08
the New York Knicks are doing right now is they're giving now
1:27:11
players an opportunity to be the forefront offensive player on
1:27:16
that roster. Now, Mikhail Bridges, he was the
1:27:18
best offensive option in this particular game.
1:27:21
I want to see more of this. I want to see, I'm not saying I
1:27:24
don't want to to see less than Jalen.
1:27:25
I don't. I I want to see Jalen Brunson
1:27:27
play his game. But if Jalen Brunson is not on
1:27:30
that night, give the ball to Karl Anthony Towns.
1:27:32
Let Karl Anthony Towns take over the games because if you look,
1:27:36
if Karl Anthony Towns is is the leading scorer of the New York
1:27:39
Knicks, if I'm not mistaken, the Knicks this year 11 and one or
1:27:42
something or 11:00 and 2:00. Their their record is
1:27:44
ridiculous. When Karl Anthony Towns is
1:27:46
leaning leading the scoring when it when it comes to the team,
1:27:49
he's the number one option. Now when you look at statistics,
1:27:52
statistics will tell you that it would work.
1:27:54
Now the isolation basketball never works in the playoffs.
1:27:57
It never does. It never does.
1:27:59
You need to move the ball and that's Mike Brown and I think
1:28:01
that's what Mike Brown is trying to get this team to do.
1:28:03
And when you see it against the Spurs and you saw it in this
1:28:06
game, this was not isolation basketball.
1:28:08
They were moving the ball. They they, they definitely put
1:28:10
these players in the right position.
1:28:12
And Mikhail Bridges, he wasn't forcing the ball in the places
1:28:16
that he wasn't, wasn't uncomfortable or he was
1:28:18
uncomfortable doing over the last couple of weeks.
1:28:20
I think he was more comfortable at, at the way he was
1:28:23
positioning himself. And I think that's why when you
1:28:26
have Mikhail Bridges doing what he did last night and you have O
1:28:30
Jen and OB defending the way he can do and the way he can play,
1:28:34
and all these guys are playing on all cylinders and you're
1:28:36
getting the bench help that you're getting giving you double
1:28:39
digits, you're going to win every single game.
1:28:41
I I, I'm telling you right now, they're going to be able to
1:28:44
compete against anybody in the NBA if they play this way.
1:28:46
Yeah. Question is, will they be able
1:28:48
to? Consistency from the supporting
1:28:50
cast is what you're going to need.
1:28:51
And Joe, Joe, you're kind of mentioning too.
1:28:52
Like you were said, you weren't surprised that the Knicks beat
1:28:54
up a team like the Spurs. This is a Spurs team that is
1:28:56
hyper efficient offensively to believe they're 8th and they
1:28:59
have a lot of guards. A lot of guards even want to be
1:29:02
being a big man. But even with guys like the Cell
1:29:04
and Castle that could really do well and the Knicks took
1:29:06
advantage of that like one-on-one matchups wise too.
1:29:09
And that's a good sign of confidence when you look at even
1:29:11
if they do like going into the playoffs, even besides those
1:29:14
teams, like they have more talent and depth than Detroit
1:29:17
does on paper. And look at the Celtics,
1:29:20
obviously, like you said, are without Tatum not being as as
1:29:23
prevalent minutes wise. They have good depth with with
1:29:26
Pritchard and some of the young kids that they have all off the
1:29:28
bench. But it's not better than the
1:29:29
Knicks on paper. And the Cavs now training
1:29:31
Garland too for hard and James Harden.
1:29:32
We know chokes in the playoffs all the time.
1:29:34
Like the Knicks should have the advantage there.
1:29:35
But now you're going with the gauntlet in the West too.
1:29:37
This is going to be one of those teams.
1:29:38
What is this is going to be a different James Harden, because
1:29:41
James Harden now knows that he is not the number one guy over
1:29:45
there. Even with the Clippers, Kawhi
1:29:47
Leonard couldn't stay healthy. Paul George couldn't stay
1:29:50
healthy. It was James Harden's team.
1:29:52
It was James Harden's roster. Now James Harden.
1:29:55
He knows Donovan Mitchell is the guy.
1:29:57
He knows it. He has to accept.
1:29:58
It he has to accept that. But now you can play off each
1:30:02
other. So I don't know if the Cavaliers
1:30:03
are going to be or this is going to be the same James Harden.
1:30:06
Donovan Mitchell hasn't been good in the playoffs.
1:30:08
Not with Utah, not with the Cavaliers.
1:30:11
Mitchell's weird because Mitchell does really well like
1:30:13
the first round of the playoffs all the time, and then he either
1:30:16
wears himself out or the just doesn't have to lose, even if he
1:30:19
still plays well in the second round.
1:30:20
And that's why he's never reached the conference finals.
1:30:23
He he tries to do too much. That guy always puts it on his
1:30:26
back, especially when he's on Utah.
1:30:28
But his playoffs numbers overall are like they look good on paper
1:30:31
just because he does really well in the first round, the first
1:30:32
half of the second round, apparently.
1:30:35
We'll see, maybe you'll get over the hump one day.
1:30:37
I just don't think a team that trades for like their second
1:30:40
best player at the deadline, usually they don't gel fast
1:30:44
enough. I just don't see that really
1:30:46
kind of come together. I think that's a it's a Hail
1:30:48
Mary. I mean, Harden's a Hall of
1:30:50
Famer, so you would imagine if anyone can do it, maybe he has
1:30:53
enough powers left. But I want to talk a little bit
1:30:56
about Bridges before we finish this up because Bridges was
1:30:59
awesome in this game. 5 steals. He was in the passing lanes all
1:31:04
day. He's playing real great
1:31:06
perimeter defense offensively. I mean, he's not shooting like
1:31:10
Reggie Miller, but he was running off screens like Reggie
1:31:12
Miller. He was, you know, going inside
1:31:14
the three-point line, going back to the three-point line.
1:31:17
Just a pain in the ass. He's just to deal with.
1:31:19
Fish, he's just inconsistent. That's why everybody keeps
1:31:22
complaining. I've I've, I've been on Quran's
1:31:25
show, I've been on many different Nick's shows.
1:31:26
I've come on different podcasts and gone on different podcasts
1:31:31
and, and I've been in that conversation about the real
1:31:34
problem right now with the New York Knicks is Mikkel Bridges.
1:31:36
If Mikkel Bridges isn't another, if he's not the third option on
1:31:39
this roster, they're not winning anything.
1:31:41
He needs to be the third offensive option.
1:31:43
OG and Anobi Ready has taken the back seat.
1:31:46
He knows he's the best defensive player on this roster.
1:31:49
I don't think it's an argument. He might even be the best
1:31:51
defensive player in the league at the way he plays at a high
1:31:54
level. But OG already knows if he
1:31:56
scores 1516 points, he earned his $40 million.
1:32:00
He is, besides Carl Anthony Towns, he's the highest paid
1:32:03
player on this roster and and the Knicks wanted him and the
1:32:06
Knicks were going after him for the last three or four years
1:32:09
before they got him it because of his defensive skills, the
1:32:12
defensive prowess that he gives to this team and his roster.
1:32:15
Mikhail Bridges, he does both. He could give you the defense
1:32:18
and he can give you the offense. And Mikhail Bridges was the
1:32:20
number one option on that Nets team.
1:32:22
Look at Michael Porter now, that's the problem.
1:32:24
Everybody looks at what Michael Porter's doing.
1:32:26
He was 1/3 option on the Nuggets and now he's the number one
1:32:28
option over there. He's putting up #1 numbers right
1:32:32
now, averaging 24 points a game. Why?
1:32:34
Because he's the only guy that could shoot the ball.
1:32:36
That's the same thing with Mikkel Bridges.
1:32:38
But Mikkel Bridges did it at a higher level than Michael Porter
1:32:41
and he's a younger player than Michael Porter.
1:32:43
So you would expect that Mikkel Bridges is going to be that guy
1:32:47
who the Knicks paid in the offseason and believe that he
1:32:50
was the guy that they traded 5 picks for.
1:32:52
I want to see more consistency with this guy, especially in the
1:32:55
big game. He didn't show up in the Detroit
1:32:57
series, but he showed up in the the Celtic series series, and
1:33:00
then he didn't show up in the Indiana series.
1:33:02
I want to see consistency. Let's see from a guy like
1:33:05
Mikhail Bridges especially what you're paying him and what you
1:33:08
gave up for. Before we wrap up this segment,
1:33:10
I just want to mention for those of the fans that were looking
1:33:13
for Chris Childs, he will not be able to make it tonight.
1:33:15
Had to deal with the family emergency.
1:33:16
His mother-in-law had to be rushed to the hospital.
1:33:18
So we will not have Chris tonight.
1:33:20
Joe, you have anything else before we let you go?
1:33:23
No, you just just one, one quick thing.
1:33:26
If the, the Knicks, like you said, they have to, they have to
1:33:29
play well at the Garden and, and, and they have to come out
1:33:33
fighting because the Garden we, you know, that they could have a
1:33:37
secret weapon there. But for some reason something is
1:33:40
just goes on, you know, and working in the Garden and seeing
1:33:44
the people, it's like, I don't know, there's just something
1:33:47
about that place with the Knicks and sometimes now with the
1:33:51
Rangers that just doesn't click. And that's got to change.
1:33:55
Well, I will say this, they sell out games and, you know, and
1:33:58
Knick games in the playoffs. After the games, the fans are
1:34:01
going crazy outside. They crummet.
1:34:04
They're they're absolutely controlling the streets of New
1:34:07
York City. It's, it's incredible.
1:34:10
I mean, people, people set up trucks with basketball courts
1:34:15
outside, like about a block away by, by Macy's.
1:34:19
I mean, it's incredible. The fans are just not absolutely
1:34:23
insane. Do you?
1:34:24
Know Do you know if the Knicks win a championship at any point,
1:34:28
the fans will go absolutely nuts.
1:34:30
I think they'll push down a building.
1:34:32
That's the kind of fans that they are.
1:34:34
I mean, they were climbing poles, winning a first round.
1:34:37
Or how about when they knocked off the Celtics?
1:34:38
What they were doing, they were dancing around and prancing
1:34:41
around like they won an NBA title or they were going to the
1:34:44
finals. That's the way Knick fans are.
1:34:46
They they really, I would say out of the old.
1:34:48
Hungry though, I mean come on, what, 5050 or 60 years they are
1:34:53
hungry? So a lot of these other teams,
1:34:55
especially the Yankees, haven't gone, haven't won a championship
1:34:58
in 16 years. They're hungry.
1:35:00
Too they are and I'm not saying not to and I want one and though
1:35:04
I want that 28 in the worst way but.
1:35:07
So do Joe Girardi, so does Aaron Boone.
1:35:10
I mean, they JoJo already changed his number 28.
1:35:13
It never got, never lasted that long.
1:35:14
So. There's a there's just one thing
1:35:16
before before I go, I just I just hope and pray that these
1:35:22
rumors that I'm hearing today are not true with Gary Sanchez
1:35:26
possibly coming back as a non invitee, I think I don't want
1:35:31
him him anywhere near Yankee land.
1:35:34
Please stay away. I don't think that's happening.
1:35:37
I don't think that's happening. I I know that's a story and
1:35:39
that's a rumor. You know what's crazy about
1:35:41
Yankee rumors? As soon as somebody brings it
1:35:43
up, it becomes the biggest rumor in sports.
1:35:46
It really Gary Sanchez. I mean Gary Sanchez the the guy
1:35:50
that had really a half a season that was just an outbreak to
1:35:54
everybody was like, oh, the next Babe Ruth.
1:35:55
Give me a break. I mean.
1:35:57
Please. And the other thing I can't
1:35:59
stand guys and I, I know you could.
1:36:01
You'll agree with me on this. These people out there, I know
1:36:06
everybody wants to get attention, but they got to stop
1:36:10
putting out these things of Paul O'Neill has cancer.
1:36:14
This one is this 1 is going to die.
1:36:17
This see this act is going to die.
1:36:20
I mean, but people and people are eating this stuff up and
1:36:24
they're getting millions of views and something's got to be
1:36:28
done. I don't understand the platforms
1:36:31
of YouTube, Facebook and all. Why did they let this happen?
1:36:36
It's got to stop. It's not going to.
1:36:38
It's not going to, unfortunately, Joe, it's never
1:36:41
going to stop because social media is king.
1:36:43
That's what it is. How?
1:36:45
Do you how do you how do you say poor the you know the guy's dead
1:36:49
when he's when he's alive and well, thank God doing his TV or
1:36:53
whatever. I'm to me that's disgusting.
1:36:57
They should get the the the I number and get him or get them
1:37:02
or I don't care. Boy girl, I don't care who it is
1:37:05
out the door. Get lost.
1:37:07
It's not fair for people like you that are out there giving
1:37:12
the fair and the correct information.
1:37:15
Thank you. That's not fair and I will go to
1:37:18
bed for that. If there's anything that we can
1:37:20
do, as with all of us as a team, my God, I'm ready to do it
1:37:27
because I think that's disgusting.
1:37:30
I, I would agree with you, but I, I will say this, Joe, you're
1:37:33
great. Congratulations on all your
1:37:36
success on YouTube and we will be talking very, very soon.
1:37:40
I'm I'm looking forward to joining your show in the very
1:37:42
near future and. Well, thank.
1:37:44
You you guys do such a great job so thank you for calling my
1:37:47
friend. Oh, you're welcome.
1:37:49
Listen guys, stay healthy. God, God be with all of you.
1:37:53
You guys are great. Thank you, Joe.
1:37:55
Joe, ladies and gentlemen, fantastic call.
1:37:58
I will say this, I don't go on social media.
1:38:01
I don't go on Facebook unless I'm posting something about our
1:38:03
show. I'm not putting anything out.
1:38:05
It's my father's birthday. I'll post up something about my
1:38:08
dad. I, I don't really go out of my
1:38:11
way to spread out my, you know, my private life.
1:38:14
It's none of anybody's business. The problem right now with
1:38:17
social media is really when you have TikTok and Instagram and
1:38:21
Facebook and YouTube, everybody, as long as you have a mic and
1:38:25
it's crazy if, if you have a niche, if you're talking about
1:38:28
asses or boobs or anything you put it up on on YouTube, people
1:38:34
are going to tune in. Why?
1:38:35
Because there's nothing out there.
1:38:37
It's my niche. Boobs are my niche or your asses
1:38:40
are my niche. If it becomes a niche, it's it's
1:38:43
a draw and it doesn't make any sense.
1:38:45
And then we're because we're talking all sports.
1:38:48
We speak about all sports and we're not sticking to just the
1:38:51
Knicks or the Yankees or the Mets or the Islanders or
1:38:55
Rangers. Oh, we're not a draw on YouTube.
1:38:58
It doesn't make any sense. I don't get it.
1:38:59
But I guess that's the algorithm.
1:39:01
It never makes sense and it never should make sense.
1:39:03
But hey, you know, that's social media, ladies and gentlemen.
1:39:08
I don't get it. Anyways, yeah, with the Knicks,
1:39:11
you want to think that this team is going to figure things out
1:39:15
and they're going to play more organically as a team.
1:39:19
You don't want to. You don't want to see them play
1:39:21
well against the Spurs and then play horrible against these bad
1:39:24
teams like the Hawks and, and, and they lose against teams that
1:39:28
are not good like Indiana. Indiana's trying to lose and
1:39:31
then you, you lose a Kingdom. It gets Indiana.
1:39:33
They lost like 10 games or 9 games in a row and then they
1:39:35
play the Knicks and they beat them in Madison Square Garden.
1:39:37
Does that make any sense to you? It doesn't.
1:39:41
You cannot let the Indiana Pacers beat you when they're
1:39:44
trying to lose. It's.
1:39:47
Embarrassing. Maybe the Knicks are being
1:39:48
strategic to make sure they can't get a lottery pick.
1:39:51
I have no idea, but hey, they could get the wizard's pick as
1:39:55
long as they fall out of out of the 8th pick out of the 8, the
1:39:58
top 8. Keep the Pacers out of the top
1:40:00
five. That's not going to happen
1:40:02
because the Knicks have always been screwed.
1:40:03
They got screwed, but with Porzingis, they've gotten
1:40:06
screwed by all these. Look, look at Duran.
1:40:09
They, they had Duran, they drafted him and then they
1:40:13
decided to trade him for a, a future first round draft pick.
1:40:15
And what did that? It was a protected first round
1:40:18
pick. And because they were so bad the
1:40:20
next, the last two years, the Knicks never got it.
1:40:23
They got a second round pick which turned into, I don't know,
1:40:25
maybe Kollick, maybe maybe it was a Kollick or the French kid.
1:40:30
It, it just, it doesn't work. And, and I, I don't know.
1:40:33
That's why the NBA, if there's something that the NBA needs to
1:40:36
change with the CBA rules and when, when, when they go to
1:40:39
strike or whatever the hell they're going to do in the
1:40:41
future when it comes to their new concept tracks, the the one
1:40:44
thing I would try to get rid of and banish is the unprotected
1:40:47
and protected draft. Picks.
1:40:48
Hopefully, hopefully the NBA goes on strike so they can find
1:40:50
a a new commissioner post LeBron James, Yeah.
1:40:53
Figure that one out. LeBron James is hopefully going
1:40:56
to be gone soon. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
1:40:59
my golf clap of the week. This deserves a golf clap.
1:41:04
No doubt. Golf clap.
1:41:05
Golf clap and ladies and gentlemen, my golf clap of the
1:41:11
week goes to the UConn women's undefeated Huskies.
1:41:16
Ariema is is one of the greatest coaches in college basketball
1:41:20
history. I'm talking about men and women.
1:41:23
This guy is a champion. If you look at the level that he
1:41:27
has brought this team to year in and year out, it's, it's
1:41:31
unbelievable, extraordinary. Listen to this if you want to
1:41:35
know what this guy and his success story is. 12 NCAA
1:41:40
Division One tournaments from 95 2002, 1002, 2004, 2009, 2010,
1:41:47
2013, 2016, 2 thousand 2524 NCAA Division One Regional Final
1:41:55
Fours from 91 all the way to 2 thousand. 2523 Big East
1:42:00
tournaments from 1989 all the way to 2026.
1:42:05
Seven ACC tournaments from 2014 to 2002.
1:42:11
Thousand 27 ACC regular seasons from 2014 to 2020 and awards.
1:42:17
Eight time Naismith coach of the year.
1:42:19
I mean ridiculous. Seven time WBCA national coach
1:42:24
of the year, nine time AP coach of the year.
1:42:27
I mean, I could go on and on and on and on and on.
1:42:33
And why are the UConn women so special?
1:42:38
You know it, this guy, the one we call Gino Gino Auriemma, I
1:42:43
mean, it's an unbelievable feat. Congratulations to God.
1:42:46
They have been unbelievable. When you talk about the man, you
1:42:49
talk about what Danny Hurley has done.
1:42:51
I think people forget what the women are doing and how dominant
1:42:54
the women have been for such a long time.
1:42:57
And look at how many WNBA players top and WNBA players
1:43:01
came from that that that program.
1:43:04
It's been unbelievable. So my my golf clap goes to
1:43:08
dominant U Conn that have been so dominant and now going into a
1:43:12
tournament that are favorites to winning the whole thing and not
1:43:16
surprised as this guy has been as dominant as everybody.
1:43:21
My Golf Club, when we come back, ladies and gentlemen, we don't
1:43:25
have a guest tonight, but we got a lot of content.
1:43:28
When we come back, we're going to get into the NBA roundtable,
1:43:31
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1:43:35
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I got a couple of stories for you before we get into the
1:43:50
scores this evening. ESP NS Adam Schefter reported on
1:43:53
Monday that the Detroit Lions are trading running back David
1:43:57
Montgomery to the Houston Texans for offensive lineman Juice
1:44:02
Scruggs, a 2026 fourth round pick and a 2027 seventh round
1:44:06
pick. Montgomery, who starred as part
1:44:08
of a 2 headed monster at the running back position alongside
1:44:11
Jameer Gibbs, had noticeably reduced role this year in 2025
1:44:16
as gives became more of the feature.
1:44:17
Back on the team, Montgomery was unhappy with his career low 158
1:44:21
carries and 182 total touches. As the season progressed his
1:44:25
usage also decreased with him receiving less than 10 touches
1:44:29
in each of the last eight games of the Lions regular season.
1:44:33
He Houston, who struggled mightily last year on the ground
1:44:35
with rookie Woody Marks from and veteran Nick Chubb, while Joe
1:44:39
Mixon, the expected starting running back, did not play a
1:44:41
single game with a foot injury that kept him out all season and
1:44:45
may not be able to make it back from.
1:44:47
Montgomery should enter the training camp as the number one
1:44:50
back on the roster after the move, even if the Texans draft
1:44:53
another running back in April. The Lions, who are now off the
1:44:55
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1:44:58
that is now kicking in, will focus on rebuilding the interior
1:45:01
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1:45:04
probably look to the draft and or find a veteran back to ease
1:45:08
Gibbs role some in 2026. Montgomery, who will turn 29 in
1:45:12
June, had 25106 rushing yards in three seasons in Detroit to go
1:45:17
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1:45:21
Montgomery came over to Detroit originally as a free agent after
1:45:23
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1:45:26
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1:45:29
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1:45:33
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1:45:36
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1:45:39
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1:45:51
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1:46:08
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Tommy, let's get the sound a little bit down.
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It's a little too loud. Thank you very much.
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If you were watching over the weekend, Denver, you know,
1:50:18
Denver's been without Aaron Gordon for a while, so they've
1:50:21
fallen back in the standings a little bit.
1:50:23
But OKC and Denver had an epic series last year in the Western
1:50:29
Conference. There's no love lost.
1:50:33
Well, there was a big fight between Nicola Yokich.
1:50:37
You know, I would say they're saying right now Shay is
1:50:40
actually the MVP favorite over Yokis.
1:50:42
They're out of their minds. That's what they're saying.
1:50:44
They're saying is that historical efficiency season,
1:50:47
because that's what everybody loves about their MVPS, their
1:50:50
efficiency. Now Dort is well known to be a
1:50:56
physical defender and well known to be a little extra legal with
1:51:02
how he defends. And look, they're the Champs.
1:51:06
They're taking it on the chin they're from.
1:51:08
Everybody's getting their best game.
1:51:10
Dort is fighting back. He was a little too physical
1:51:13
with Yokich. Yokich jumps up, gets in Dort's
1:51:16
face. They have to separate them.
1:51:19
Someone separates Yokich from him.
1:51:21
He was Jaylen Williams. And then like Jokic turns and
1:51:25
looks at Jalen Williams. What a dummy Jalen Williams was
1:51:28
in that situation. Does he not know about Jokic and
1:51:30
his brothers? I do not know if I would be that
1:51:34
courageous to step in between that but but look, Yogesh didn't
1:51:38
get ejected. They gave Dort A flake to.
1:51:41
Pretty wild scene between two heated rivals.
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But here's the thing, Nicola Yokich to me is the MVP of the
1:52:04
league. I don't I don't want to hear
1:52:05
this car bitch. I I think obviously GSA is.
1:52:09
I mean, he's been unbelievable. He has been as good.
1:52:13
Alexander has been great. He's been a great player last
1:52:16
year. Honestly, Alexander, you can
1:52:19
argue was the MVP of the league, but I don't know if I would say
1:52:22
that this year this guy is Nicole Yokich is a triple double
1:52:26
machine. He's going to finish the season
1:52:28
probably with a triple double again.
1:52:29
Last year he finished the season with a triple double.
1:52:32
This year is probably going to finish the season with triple
1:52:34
double. How how do you give this to
1:52:36
anybody else? This guy's the best center in
1:52:38
the league by far by a big margin.
1:52:42
Now, as far as him and Dort and and the aggressive nature, this
1:52:45
always happens and Nicole Yokich, he stands up for his
1:52:48
players. He comes from a a mean, you
1:52:51
know, a mean place over there. What what what's the city is
1:52:54
from Serbia, Serbia, Serbia, his his brothers.
1:52:59
Obviously you've heard a little bit about his brothers.
1:53:00
He's his brothers are, you know, tough, big yeah, He he's I think
1:53:05
he's the younger brother of his two brothers.
1:53:07
This guy comes from a very big and and mean family, so we know
1:53:11
he's going to he's not going to be pushed around by anybody.
1:53:14
He's not a small guy. He's going to throw his body
1:53:16
there and Endor, he doesn't play legally defensively, you've seen
1:53:21
him play. He likes to play under guys.
1:53:23
He likes to hit you. He like he plays Draymond Green
1:53:26
type of defense. That's what he plays.
1:53:27
He plays that type of defense. And unfortunately when you play
1:53:31
that type of defense, you know guys like Nicole Yokich is going
1:53:35
to give it to you. He's going to stick it to you.
1:53:36
He's going to yell at you and he's going to beat you up after
1:53:39
that. I, I love it.
1:53:40
I love this game of basketball when it's aggressive nature.
1:53:43
I, I think that really the new style of basketball hasn't been
1:53:48
this way. I want to see more of this.
1:53:50
I want to see more pushing and shoving.
1:53:52
That's why I, I, I love Dante Diva Chancellor.
1:53:55
I like what he brings to the table.
1:53:56
I like that mean streak. That's what you like, The old
1:53:59
New York Knicks. I love the old Pistons.
1:54:02
I love those teams. I want to see more of that.
1:54:05
So I love it. I absolutely love the fighting
1:54:07
and the pushing. Yeah, the the hunter definitely
1:54:09
play with the defensive intensity you need to be able to
1:54:12
do well. They've been #1 all season for a
1:54:14
while. It was a historically good
1:54:15
defense the way they were defensive efficiency right now.
1:54:17
And they have a lot of guys that could do that, including Dort.
1:54:19
But at the same time, you do you want to instigate somebody like
1:54:22
Nicole Yokos. This was a team in the Nuggets
1:54:23
that did take you in the playoffs last year to seven
1:54:25
games, like when you coached it pretty much the rest of the
1:54:27
playoffs. OK, I see won a championship.
1:54:29
That was the one thing I know you blew out in game seven.
1:54:31
Fine, but that that's a guy you don't want to mess with in
1:54:34
Nicola Yokich. And yeah, obviously the the 65
1:54:37
game rule, that's going to be the mark he can play the rest of
1:54:39
the year. He'll get the MVP because he
1:54:40
should. You're right, I agree.
1:54:41
Alexander I, I, I understand Alexander needs to win an MVP,
1:54:46
he deserves it. But this year there's no way in
1:54:48
hell you're giving Alexander the MVP.
1:54:52
After what Nicola Yokich is doing right now with the
1:54:55
Nuggets, who's the number two option on that roster?
1:54:58
Who's the number? Murray Murray's still there, but
1:55:01
they have No 3 without Aaron Gordon.
1:55:03
Here's the thing everybody keeps talking about Jamal Murray.
1:55:06
Jamal Murray is not the same Jamal Murray since he's come
1:55:08
back from his injury. This is not the same dominant
1:55:10
point guard that was playing at a top level in the playoffs.
1:55:13
Jamal Murray is a secondary point guard on this roster.
1:55:16
What's he averaging right now? 18 points, I mean, that's your
1:55:20
second option. Nicola Yokich is giving you a
1:55:22
triple double every single game and the Nuggets are winning
1:55:25
their top five team in the US he's at. 25 Errol, he's killing
1:55:29
it. He's at 25 points because it's
1:55:31
just the two of them and Yokich is finding him for the easiest
1:55:34
shots anyone gets. He's got 25 points a game in the
1:55:39
regular season in 35 minutes. He's been healthy and he's
1:55:43
shooting 42%. So Murray's been killing it this
1:55:46
year. It's his first year healthy.
1:55:48
I would say since that, before that Olympic run, he was kind of
1:55:53
like wore himself done down a little.
1:55:55
Bit I haven't been watching them a lot tonight.
1:55:58
I mean, not tonight this year, but I, I, I just see Jamal
1:56:01
Murray, he can't stay healthy. He has knee problems every other
1:56:05
year. He can't stay fully, you know,
1:56:06
at at at a top level. Yes, he's averaging 25 points, 4
1:56:10
rebounds per game and seven assists.
1:56:12
So he is having a pretty good season, but he's got to do that
1:56:15
consistently and he has got to do it in the playoffs.
1:56:17
I don't know if I'm going to bet on that.
1:56:19
And this is a team that depended on Michael Porter to be that
1:56:21
third option and they don't have it.
1:56:23
So it's going to be very, very hard to compete with.
1:56:25
OK C but OK C again, we got to see if they can do it
1:56:29
back-to-back years. And, and again, Houston Rockets
1:56:32
are a dangerous, dangerous team, and so are the Spurs.
1:56:35
Yeah. And again, this is the one team
1:56:36
that took him pretty far in the playoffs.
1:56:37
Where they dominated the Timberwolves in five games, they
1:56:41
dominate Africa, they played in the first.
1:56:42
I think they swept them and the Nuggets.
1:56:44
They have another good young player to a Peyton Watson who
1:56:47
coming off the bench and he's I don't know if he's six man of
1:56:49
the year compared to Pritchard, but he's.
1:56:51
Not the six. Man, Yeah, and then fish.
1:56:54
You were talking about Aaron Gordon too.
1:56:55
If he comes back healthy, that could definitely put a different
1:56:58
dimension. I'm very surprised.
1:56:59
I'm looking at their numbers. Jamal Murray is having a good
1:57:01
year, but I I don't bet on him to stay healthy for the rest of
1:57:04
the season. The Cam.
1:57:05
Johnson is giving him nothing. That's the problem.
1:57:07
Like he's he's got 11 points for them.
1:57:09
They were expecting more as him. Why?
1:57:11
I mean Cam. I never thought Cam Johnson was
1:57:13
any good. I.
1:57:15
Never 20 points a game two years ago.
1:57:16
Right. Yeah, I don't believe in Cam
1:57:18
Johnson. Who did he play for?
1:57:20
Phoenix. He was pretty good off the bench
1:57:22
with Phoenix and then it was with the Nets and the Durant.
1:57:24
Yeah, please. He played for the Nets.
1:57:26
That's why he got 20 points per game.
1:57:28
Well, I I agree. I didn't think he would be.
1:57:30
This Michael Porter's averaging, what, 24 points a game right
1:57:32
now? Because he's the number one
1:57:34
option right now for the Nets. Anybody could that again, they
1:57:37
might, they might take that trade back.
1:57:38
I don't think they would rather have.
1:57:40
I think they'd probably rather have.
1:57:41
Look what the Nets did to Thomas.
1:57:43
Look what they said. They decided to par ways with
1:57:45
him. And this guy had, he was
1:57:47
averaging, what, 2627 points when he was the number one
1:57:50
option the year before. So, I mean, anybody could score,
1:57:54
Yeah. When you're scored, when you're
1:57:56
shooting 30 or 35 shots a game, you're going to score 30 points.
1:57:59
It's just the facts, especially if you're in the NBA.
1:58:02
So I don't know if that's something to brag about.
1:58:05
That Cam Johnson averaged 20 points per game.
1:58:07
Well, I'm not bragging. I'm just saying I'm a little
1:58:09
surprised Dort's like Tony Allen, if he could shoot like
1:58:13
that's, that's who he is. He's just like in your face.
1:58:15
But he also has a shot, you know, and Tony Allen did not
1:58:19
have a. Shot I loved Tony Allen.
1:58:21
I loved him. He was on the Grizzlies, right?
1:58:24
Coney Allen was on the Grizzlies.
1:58:25
Grizzlies and then those Celtics championship teams.
1:58:27
Yeah, but Tony Allen could really get under you.
1:58:31
You can really pressure you. You made you make mistakes.
1:58:34
I wouldn't say Tony Allen Dort, because Tony Allen really
1:58:37
didn't. He used his body.
1:58:38
Dort uses his hands and gets away with it.
1:58:41
He like, he pushes you, you know, somebody like Tony Allen,
1:58:45
he got under you and he used his body and he made sure that every
1:58:49
time you were trying to move side to side or laterally, he
1:58:52
was going to stick you and he was going to get that hand in.
1:58:55
And he's not going to let you dribble the ball.
1:58:56
He's not going to let you crossover on him.
1:58:58
They're different players, but I understand what you're saying.
1:59:00
All right, the next story I wanted to bring up is something
1:59:04
that's surprising to a lot of us because Cooper Flag, you know,
1:59:08
obviously, coming into the league as the undisputed #1
1:59:13
pick, his teammate Kon Kanupal went fourth in the draft.
1:59:16
A lot of people thought that was pretty high and that might have
1:59:20
been like the rub from, you know, Flag being his teammate
1:59:23
that he gets to go so high in the draft.
1:59:26
Well right now Kanupal has already broken the rookie 3.3
1:59:31
pointers made in one rookie season record.
1:59:34
He has that record in 59 games. He eclipsed that mark.
1:59:37
He has also overtaken flag in the Vegas odds for Rookie of the
1:59:42
Year. So let me give you the Rookie of
1:59:44
the Year odds right now for Cooper Flag.
1:59:48
And Cooper Flag was the favorite most of the season, but now he's
1:59:53
at around plus 125 + 140. Canupel is at -160 to -170 You
2:00:00
can get him right now as rookie of the year.
2:00:03
That's like 3:00 to 2:00, almost a little better than three to
2:00:06
two for. For Canoople to be the Rookie of
2:00:09
the Year. I do not believe Con Canoople is
2:00:11
going to win Rookie the year. I know he has the three-point
2:00:14
record. He's having a great year.
2:00:15
I love Con and I thought with the dominant player that he was
2:00:19
in the tournament and with Cooper Flag going into the final
2:00:22
four, I thought they were going to be in the national champion
2:00:25
and they choked because we all know who the coach is.
2:00:28
But here's the facts and we understand what the facts are.
2:00:31
Cock Canoe Bull is having that 3 point ability in the NBA.
2:00:35
We understand what type of player he is.
2:00:36
We understand how much his team mates love him.
2:00:39
The Hornets, he's become really the number one option over a
2:00:42
Lamella ball who has been the number one option over there
2:00:44
with that organization. And now you're seeing that that
2:00:49
personality come out. You see him after the games when
2:00:52
that when the coaches, you know, the coach speaks to the team and
2:00:55
he goes out there and he's he calls him the hive.
2:00:58
That's what they call him when they go 123 hive.
2:01:00
I I love who Khan Kanuppali is. I love what he stands for.
2:01:04
He's from the that Duke blue devil team.
2:01:06
He loves that that gritty coach K type of style and he he he's a
2:01:10
great player. He really is.
2:01:11
I love his personality. But Cooper flag, he's having a
2:01:14
sensational year. He's playing on a bad Mavericks
2:01:16
team. The numbers that he's putting up
2:01:18
a sensational, there is no way the voters are going to take Con
2:01:21
canoophole over Cooper flag. Cooper flag right now is is
2:01:25
averaging 1.1 more point over Con canoophole.
2:01:28
He's doing as well as Con is. Obviously Con is in a playoff
2:01:32
spot because Con is in the East and Cooper is in the West.
2:01:36
And what did The Mavericks do? They traded off all the pieces
2:01:39
and they just said that Kyrie Irving's out for the season.
2:01:41
He has got nothing. It's all Cooper Flag and he's
2:01:44
playing the point. He's playing a point forward
2:01:47
right now. He's asked to do more than con
2:01:49
Canoople. So I disagree.
2:01:51
I think Cooper Flag is by far the best rookie this year.
2:01:55
And I don't even think it's an argument.
2:01:56
And whatever Vegas is saying, they're going to be wrong.
2:01:59
If you're a betting man right now, you take Cooper Flag
2:02:03
winning the Rookie of the Year. Yeah, it's recency bias because
2:02:05
the Hornets were hot and they've been, I think, since the
2:02:08
calendar year turned one of the best teams in the East and hence
2:02:11
they're in the last play in spot.
2:02:12
But it just shows the problem with the fact that the NBA
2:02:14
playoffs is already so large, isn't it?
2:02:15
Is they're having these teams with losing records getting into
2:02:18
the playoffs. Now, I'm not saying obviously,
2:02:20
that the Hornets obviously are a bad team compared to their
2:02:23
expectations, but they're still not a great team.
2:02:25
In The Mavericks, we knew their expectations were gonna be very
2:02:27
high because they made the worst.
2:02:28
Trade. Here's the problem and then this
2:02:30
is the argument here is the NBA has this love fest for the three
2:02:33
pointer. They love it and this guy broke
2:02:36
the rookie record and Steph Curry doesn't have the rookie
2:02:38
record. Klay Thompson doesn't have the
2:02:40
rookie record. Ray Allen doesn't have the
2:02:42
rookie record. It's Con canoople.
2:02:44
So what are they doing automatically?
2:02:46
He shoots up there as the rookie of the year.
2:02:49
I don't get it. I I understand that he has a
2:02:52
better three-point shooter than Cooper flag, but every other
2:02:54
part of his game is not better than Cooper flag.
2:02:57
Cooper flag is a better player. How could you automatically say
2:03:01
how could obviously Vegas pick Con Canoople right now as the
2:03:06
favorite to coming out as rookie?
2:03:08
The I don't, I don't. I mean, I know Canoople has also
2:03:10
done well with the rebounds, more than you would expect for a
2:03:12
guy that's supposed to be a three-point specialist, but
2:03:14
flagged us so more. And like you said, he's not
2:03:15
playing his natural position and he's playing on a, in a Western
2:03:17
Conference that's harder. And their division itself, I
2:03:19
know we don't talk about divisions in the NBA that much.
2:03:21
They're playing in the same division with OK C, the Rockets
2:03:24
and the Spurs. So the the take is why
2:03:28
Canoople's ahead the wind shares stat speedy.
2:03:32
A lot of it's dependent on how much your team wins right?
2:03:34
But canuple is worth double the win shares this year as Cooper
2:03:40
flag it's 6 almost 66.1 to 3.2. He's got a .5 lead in PER, which
2:03:47
is an advanced metric. But you're right if Flag clearly
2:03:50
has better, you know regular counting stats except 30% from
2:03:55
three for flag 44% yes, and much higher volume.
2:04:01
Yes, and he's getting better shots and easier shots because
2:04:04
he's playing on a better team. You are the only guy on your
2:04:08
roster. You're playing out of position
2:04:10
right now because you have no guard play.
2:04:12
You got none. So how could you give Khan
2:04:16
Kanupal the Rookie of the year? You give it to the guy that's
2:04:19
playing out of position. You know, like 44, like there's
2:04:22
a like like 10 guys that have like done that.
2:04:25
You know, like how open is he? Crazy.
2:04:27
How open is he when he's shooting these three?
2:04:29
He's pretty open. I mean, they're spreading the
2:04:31
ball. They have a better team.
2:04:33
You got a point guard like Lamelo Ball.
2:04:35
Stop, Cooper. Flag.
2:04:36
That's the point. That is a good point.
2:04:38
He doesn't have to create it as much as Cooper Flag has to
2:04:41
create it. So we'll see how it goes down.
2:04:43
I think you're probably right. The voters won't pick Canoople
2:04:46
over Flag, but it's surprising it's even a discussion.
2:04:49
I don't think it's surprising at all.
2:04:51
Well, I expected. I think Konkanupal is a.
2:04:52
Special for him to be the number two guy or number one guy.
2:04:56
Duty was the number. Draft class.
2:04:57
Duty was #4 in the draft, he was drafted at 4:00, so he was
2:05:01
expected to be a top five talent.
2:05:03
Yeah, I expected Konkanupal to be there.
2:05:06
I wasn't surprised that Konkanupal was having to get a
2:05:09
season that he's having right now because I saw him do it all
2:05:12
season long with Duke last year. And he should have done it in
2:05:15
the most important game against Houston.
2:05:17
But John Shire screwed up, as he always does at the tail end of
2:05:22
games. Thank you, John, for letting me
2:05:24
take you out in this this sacred.
2:05:26
Oh wait, Nico Harris, it was still the GM of The Mavericks.
2:05:28
Maybe he would have been dumb enough to fire Jason Kidd to
2:05:30
hire John Shire as their. Head, I think Nico Harris would
2:05:32
be stupid enough to give John Shire A5 year extension like you
2:05:36
just got. Thank you Coach K for giving him
2:05:39
all these, all these great players.
2:05:41
Thank you. All right, let's move on to not
2:05:45
a rookie, a cagey veteran who's definitely going to go in the
2:05:48
Hall of Fame. James Harden, he has a fractured
2:05:52
thumb, but he's playing anyway. He returned in the Cavs win
2:05:57
against the his, you know, hated former team, the Brooklyn Nets
2:06:02
on Sunday. So much, give me a break.
2:06:07
The pain was so much he put up. It looks like he put up 20229
2:06:14
and eight in the game. The.
2:06:16
Pain was extraordinary. 4 threes. 22 points easy.
2:06:22
Give me a. Well, look, he he fractured the
2:06:24
distal phalanx of his right. Thumb.
2:06:27
Oh, I'm sorry. His phalanx.
2:06:29
What the hell is that? Give me a break.
2:06:33
I, I distal's probably back, I say it's probably back here
2:06:36
somewhere, so. I bet you the interns know more
2:06:39
about a phalanx than I do. I I mean they.
2:06:41
Still go Phalanx was the. Phalanx.
2:06:44
I'm sorry, the phalanx. Phalanx is what the Spartans
2:06:48
did. You know, to defeat everybody.
2:06:49
Sounds like a piece of meat. You know, like a phalanx.
2:06:52
Something the end of the meet. You know, so so we're saying
2:06:54
Omaha Steak should go sell Phalanx, isn't it?
2:06:56
There you go. Name one of their meats.
2:06:58
Phalanx. Yeah, Harden Phalanx.
2:07:01
Cleveland trades for Harden. It's like they were missing
2:07:05
something. More like hard on.
2:07:08
That's a strict club identity. That's true.
2:07:12
There was a different story about strip clubs that went
2:07:14
around and Oh my God, there was some players like we shouldn't
2:07:18
have strip clubs anymore. It was that.
2:07:20
That's definitely not John Morant.
2:07:23
I think it was Luke Cornett, which doesn't surprise me, but
2:07:27
anyway, I didn't pick that one for dial it up.
2:07:30
Sorry guys, but James Harden obviously is going to take this
2:07:35
team to slightly different place than they were.
2:07:37
You know he's going to be able to get it takes some of the
2:07:40
pressure off of Donovan Mitchell as a primary.
2:07:42
Boy or girls in scoops? He doesn't have to be a primary
2:07:46
ball handler. Thumb up my ass.
2:07:49
He can use that, although there will be plenty of, I guess, ball
2:07:52
handling. That was the one I was trying to
2:07:54
press, by the way, everybody. I was giving you more chances.
2:07:57
I was trying, I was trying, I got up.
2:08:00
I mean, I'm listen guys, I'm I'm trying, we move the, we move the
2:08:04
video feed and I'm trying to figure out my position and it's
2:08:08
just, it's tough tonight. It's tough trying to get in
2:08:11
there. So, So what my question to you
2:08:12
is how much is this really going to impact this Cavs team for the
2:08:17
rest of the season? And is it going to?
2:08:19
Get squeeze them to be. Well, here's what I'm going to
2:08:23
say. It's not going to make a big
2:08:25
difference. I don't think it's going to
2:08:26
affect James Harden. As we've seen right there.
2:08:29
They're still winning. They're still finding a ways to
2:08:31
win. They've got great offensive guys
2:08:34
on this team, great rebounders. This is a great offensive
2:08:37
rebounding team. I don't think there's any
2:08:39
complaints. And they have one of the best
2:08:41
sports coach minds in all of basketball and all of sports in
2:08:45
Kenny Atkinson. The guy knows how to coach
2:08:48
defense. He knows how to coach offense.
2:08:49
I don't think it's going to be a big problem.
2:08:51
James Harden hurting his failings?
2:08:53
What? What the hell?
2:08:55
Stop complaining. Stop bitching.
2:08:57
It's so stupid. James Harden, as long as he's
2:09:00
ready for the playoffs, which he will be, and hopefully he plays
2:09:03
at a top level, I think the Cavaliers are going to create a
2:09:06
scare for some of these teams like the Knicks, like the
2:09:09
Celtics, like the Detroit Pistons.
2:09:11
Expect these four or five teams to be competitive and get ready
2:09:15
for the playoffs because you're going to see very professional,
2:09:19
great basketball in the Eastern Conference this year.
2:09:22
I think it's going to be fun to watch and we're going to see
2:09:24
there's no Halberton, there's no Indiana.
2:09:26
They could have Kamboozer next year, which is going to make me
2:09:28
sick to my stomach. So yeah, all that and more.
2:09:32
Thumb, phalanx, Slalinx, gay links, it doesn't matter.
2:09:37
Who cares? I could care less.
2:09:39
The Cavaliers will be fine. Yeah, the Cavaliers are just
2:09:41
gonna have to hope for the JA jinx for not to happen, which is
2:09:45
James Harden in the playoffs just being an absolute debacle.
2:09:47
Like you said before, he's gonna have a smaller role like I we
2:09:49
were talking about like Harding coming off the bench of with
2:09:52
LeBron when? We circled.
2:09:53
Last week, like that's the idea that it should have you.
2:09:55
Harding should be like a fourth option.
2:09:57
And I think you saw the Sixers try to do that sometimes when
2:10:00
they had him, but not enough where I don't think it was good
2:10:02
enough for winning. The Cavs are much more talented
2:10:04
than the Sixers. Do all right, we'll see how that
2:10:06
goes. I still am very dubious of
2:10:08
anyone that brings in a guy like that late season thinking that
2:10:12
they're going to make. My phalanx, it's hurting me.
2:10:16
We're going to move from Phalanx's Errol to Tower Bone
2:10:21
stresses because yeah, this is what's going on with Zach Edie.
2:10:26
Zach Edie missed, had a really good rookie season and then
2:10:30
missed at the end of this season with an injury.
2:10:33
He's only played eleven games this year.
2:10:36
He's now out for the season. This is a guy that's real big
2:10:41
with bad feet already, and that's a problem.
2:10:44
Joel Embiid missing another three games.
2:10:48
Little, a little oblique, little, you know, take a little,
2:10:52
take it easy into the playoffs. It's kind of remarkable what
2:10:55
Maxi and Edgecomb really coming on have done, make you kind of
2:11:00
forget about MB to an extent with all this.
2:11:03
The fact that they're still playing pretty well and then
2:11:06
Steph Curry, that knee is not getting better.
2:11:08
This, this is kind of like a being kept quiet.
2:11:12
He's out at least another five games if his knee is not.
2:11:17
Not even like 80% that they got nothing at all.
2:11:20
I will say this, if I was a young athlete, I want to play
2:11:26
basketball because think about it, Joel Embiid, who barely even
2:11:30
plays, he's making $50 million a year and he doesn't even have to
2:11:33
step on a basketball court. Paul George can't stay healthy.
2:11:36
He's making what, 50 million, $50 million a year?
2:11:39
Doesn't even have to play on a basketball court and they play
2:11:40
for the same organization. Please.
2:11:43
As far as the Ed thing, we knew this was going to happen when he
2:11:46
came from Purdue. He played in the national
2:11:48
championship. He he was a guy that some people
2:11:51
question coming out of the draft.
2:11:53
Some people thought he was a second round talent.
2:11:55
I didn't. I thought he had a good game.
2:11:57
He has a good basketball game. He has good footwork for a big
2:12:00
man, but he's had bad feet. He has a lot of weight on his
2:12:04
feet. When he was coming into the NBA,
2:12:05
they said he needed to lose weight.
2:12:07
It was going to be a big problem if he didn't keep that weight
2:12:10
off him. And it's been a big problem
2:12:12
since he's come into the league. And as far as Steph Curry is
2:12:14
concerned, Steph Curry is older now.
2:12:17
He's not healing as fast. He's had ankle problems when he
2:12:20
came into the league and he was out for a significant amount of
2:12:23
time in his first three years. Maybe Steph Curry has better
2:12:26
numbers than he has if he actually played his first three
2:12:28
years healthy. So I'm not surprised.
2:12:32
Steph Curry's at the tail end. He's on a back 18.
2:12:34
We said this already. I don't know how much time Steph
2:12:37
Curry has left in the NBA and I think he'll be a very good
2:12:41
coach. I really do.
2:12:42
If he wants to coach in the NBA or he wants to do something as
2:12:45
an executive in the future like LeBron James, I think he'd be
2:12:48
very, very good. But I think I expect him to play
2:12:51
at least a year, maybe another I, I just don't know how healthy
2:12:56
he's going to be for those years so.
2:12:57
Now you're Steph Curry is somebody that you have to look
2:12:59
at with minor injuries. I think at this point you hope
2:13:02
it's nothing major and I think the Warriors done a good job at
2:13:04
making sure that doesn't happen. But with them beat, it's a
2:13:07
different case. He's had too many major injuries
2:13:08
that it's going to pile up eventually.
2:13:10
Think about this. You have 100 and like $15
2:13:14
million in these two players. Think about it and both guys are
2:13:18
not playing right now. One guy's suspended, Yep, and
2:13:21
the other guy can't stay healthy and he doesn't want to play
2:13:24
back-to-back games because he's a bitch.
2:13:26
Oh yeah, that. Oh, that wasn't that.
2:13:27
You're right. That was a fun story we had last
2:13:29
year, too. Joel Embiid being the softest
2:13:31
guy that's 7 foot in NBA history pretty much at this rate he's.
2:13:34
A cry. Baby, in addition to that, he's
2:13:36
a hypocrite and oh, I'm the most hated player in the NBA.
2:13:39
It's a whatever that story. Yeah, that was fun.
2:13:42
I think that's a crock. I mean, I mean, Brooks is a
2:13:45
hated player. Draymond Green's a hated good
2:13:47
player. I have never heard anybody in
2:13:50
the last three years say that Joel Embiid is the most hated
2:13:54
player in the. NBA.
2:13:54
No, no, this was his own. Claim.
2:13:56
I know, I'm just saying. I mean people don't like Joel
2:13:59
Embiid. If you ask anybody, they would
2:14:00
probably say I hate the guy. I mean, I know half the Knicks
2:14:03
hate him because of what he did in the playoffs.
2:14:05
Intentionally hurt Mitchell Robinson in the playoffs a
2:14:07
couple years ago. But whatever, screw that guy.
2:14:11
He's hurt. He's not even.
2:14:12
He's like an afterthought on his own team now because of the
2:14:15
youngsters really taking over. It's going to be weird how that
2:14:18
goes going forwards. One last story, this one was
2:14:21
really strange. I don't know if you've been
2:14:24
paying attention to it, but you know, Porzingis was traded to
2:14:29
the Warriors earlier this year and it hasn't gone well.
2:14:34
He isn't able to play, so he's going to miss his fourth
2:14:38
consecutive game with a general illness.
2:14:42
Now, it was thought that he had something called POTS, which is
2:14:46
postural orthostatic tachycardia, tachycardia
2:14:50
syndrome. Cardia means heart.
2:14:52
So it's scary whenever you know that.
2:14:54
I don't know anything about it, but apparently Kerr said
2:14:57
something. He had to walk it back.
2:14:59
He's like, it's actually not POTS.
2:15:01
They can't reveal what the condition is.
2:15:04
But I mean, I mean, Steph Curry, he's got runner's knee or Zingis
2:15:10
can't play with, you know, I mean some alien virus who even
2:15:15
knows what it is, you know, like something from.
2:15:19
Short Draymond Green didn't give these guys viruses.
2:15:22
He might have. But it just seems like Steve
2:15:26
Kerr maybe should have like packed it in before this.
2:15:29
Year I said that. You're from hell bro.
2:15:31
I've been saying that. I've been saying that he should
2:15:33
have just walked away. He had a chance to walk.
2:15:36
Look, the GM walked. Now he's running what?
2:15:39
How many Or he's running an organization.
2:15:41
He's running a football organization.
2:15:43
I think he's running the Washington, Washington
2:15:45
Commanders. He leaves ESPN to run a football
2:15:48
organization. I mean, Myers is is looking like
2:15:51
gold. He leaves at the perfect time
2:15:54
for the Golden State Warriors. Steve Kerr, all he had to do was
2:15:57
walk away after they won that championship against the
2:15:59
Celtics. He was done.
2:16:00
He did what he was supposed to do without Kevin Durant a second
2:16:04
time. And what did he do?
2:16:07
You know what? Yeah, I could play.
2:16:08
I could coach another couple of years.
2:16:10
I got Steph. I got Draymond.
2:16:12
These guys are washed up. The poor Zingis thing.
2:16:15
We knew this was going to happen.
2:16:17
He was a Nick. This guy could not stay healthy
2:16:20
with the Knicks. He couldn't stay healthy with
2:16:21
Dallas. He couldn't stay healthy with
2:16:23
the Celtics. And now he can't stay healthy
2:16:25
with, you know who, the Golden State Warriors.
2:16:28
This guy's career is pretty much over.
2:16:30
The Unicorn is uniless. So goodbye, Farewell.
2:16:34
And by the way, the Golden State Warriors look like a bunch of
2:16:36
jackasses. Yeah.
2:16:37
It's always the rest you have running for a training for a guy
2:16:40
like this. Obviously he was able to stay
2:16:41
healthy with the first year with the Celtics when they won the
2:16:43
championship. But think about the impact that
2:16:44
the Celtics had when they lost him last year.
2:16:46
Like the Knicks were able to expose him, dominating him
2:16:48
inside. And now Golden State, we they
2:16:50
traded for him because they had no inside presence.
2:16:51
I know Al Horford's gone over there and played well, but he's
2:16:53
42 years old. You're not going to expect him
2:16:55
to have to do. Everything.
2:16:55
I would love to hear what Kevin Durant is giving him a nickname
2:16:59
now of. I mean, seriously, he called him
2:17:01
the Unicorn. I would love to hear what Kevin
2:17:03
Durant has to say on his, what, 10 Twitter accounts?
2:17:06
Oh yeah. Please.
2:17:08
Maybe. Maybe he's more deserving of
2:17:10
that nickname than Travis Hunter tried to give himself that
2:17:13
nickname. But Unicorn?
2:17:15
Unicorn. Do you know what a Unicorn is?
2:17:17
By the way, my favorite animal, Travis Hunter, is no Unicorn.
2:17:20
He's a gremlin. OK, let's stop with this crap.
2:17:24
There's Unicorn crap. There's you want to call LeBron
2:17:27
James a Unicorn? LeBron James a Unicorn?
2:17:29
I mean, look what he's done at the at his position.
2:17:32
Michael Jordan was a Unicorn. Michael Jordan changed the
2:17:35
position. Magic Johnson's a Unicorn.
2:17:37
He changed the position. Stop with this, this poor
2:17:40
Zingis. What did he change?
2:17:42
Norton here's a Unicorn. Jokic, that's a Unicorn.
2:17:46
He changed the center position. You want to talk about a
2:17:49
Unicorn? That's a Unicorn.
2:17:52
Yeah, except he'll still reference it himself.
2:17:53
As for Zingis as his horses, he's.
2:17:55
Nothing, but he's nothing but a horse's ass.
2:17:57
Yes, that's that's a better analogy.
2:17:59
Nicole Jokic could just reference his horses as
2:18:01
unicorns, and he'll send some horses after Luge Dort along
2:18:04
with his brother in the mob. All right, well, that is the NBA
2:18:09
round table. We will probably get back to
2:18:11
some news in a couple of weeks as we head towards the playoffs.
2:18:15
You know what? I get a little bit thrown off
2:18:17
because I listen to James Harden and and Bead.
2:18:20
These are guys that I'm not big fans of.
2:18:22
I'm really not. And I knew you were going to
2:18:25
bring them up in this conversation because you know I
2:18:27
can't stand them. But thank God you didn't bring
2:18:30
up Draymond Green because this guy, and I will say this for all
2:18:35
the fans that don't follow Draymond Green on social media
2:18:39
and his stupid podcast, this guy just wants clicks.
2:18:43
He wants clicks and it goes out there.
2:18:46
He throws his teammates under the bus, he attacks the New
2:18:49
York. Like, like, do we want to hear
2:18:51
your take on the New York Knicks?
2:18:53
I could give a crap. And then he has an ex Nick on
2:18:56
his show all the time and I don't want to hear his take.
2:18:59
I really don't. And it's embarrassing because a
2:19:03
guy that really doesn't pay attention to anything but but
2:19:06
his team, the Golden State Warriors and probably the
2:19:08
Western Conference, he goes out and he says stuff and he brings
2:19:12
up teams that he doesn't like to, kind of like Charles
2:19:14
Barkley, who always has something to say about the New
2:19:17
York Knicks. And it just turns you off on any
2:19:19
of the content that he has to provide or puts out there that
2:19:22
you want to listen to. Draymond, do me a favor.
2:19:26
Don't talk about anything but your own garbage.
2:19:30
I could care less because to me, the any anytime you have
2:19:33
anything good to say, it's about the Golden State Warriors.
2:19:36
Why don't we talk about the problem that you had with Pool?
2:19:39
Why don't we talk about the problem you have with Klay
2:19:40
Thompson? Why don't we talk about you have
2:19:42
the problem with the Steve Kerr situation?
2:19:44
Everybody you have the problems with.
2:19:47
You don't have a problem with Steph Curry or do you?
2:19:49
Maybe there's something behind it.
2:19:50
Maybe that's why Steph Curry doesn't want to come back
2:19:52
because you don't want to play with Draymond Green.
2:19:54
And this could be Draymond Green's last year with the, the,
2:19:56
the Golden State Warriors Sayonara, as we all say.
2:19:59
So that's my take on the whole Draymond Green take.
2:20:02
That's it. I had to add that because I just
2:20:05
every time I pop on his stuff on YouTube and and for for some
2:20:09
reason YouTube is is for all the athletes.
2:20:12
If, if you're, if you're an athlete, you're, you're
2:20:15
probably, if you're a big known athlete, your channel is going
2:20:18
to do very, very well on YouTube because everybody's going to
2:20:20
follow you. Oh, it's Steve Smith or oh, it's
2:20:23
Travis Hunter or, or, oh, it's Draymond Green.
2:20:27
And I, I want to listen to what he has to say.
2:20:28
Why? Because he's an idiot.
2:20:30
He's a Jackass, LeBron James. So I, I could see why YouTube is
2:20:34
booming right now and you're in the algorithm because, you know,
2:20:38
Draymond Green has nothing good to say and everything bad to say
2:20:40
about everybody else. So that's my take.
2:20:42
All right, Tic tac toe. Tick, tick.
2:20:46
Morris right in the butt. We get the prizes cheap because
2:20:51
they're stolen. No.
2:20:55
No, no, no, no, no. Oh, and the speedster dancing
2:21:03
around in the background, as he always does.
2:21:05
I mean, it's one of the ugliest dances we'll ever see, ladies
2:21:08
and gentlemen. But you get to see my bareback
2:21:11
head. I mean my bareback head.
2:21:13
I like that. Does nothing have a bare
2:21:16
backdrop? I thought he did.
2:21:17
No, I think you have a big was I'm.
2:21:19
Pretty. Sure, either you were name
2:21:22
chroma chroma. Pass liquor I got to add, I got
2:21:24
to add that for you. I mean, that definitely fits the
2:21:27
the whole let's. Bring the interns in for this
2:21:30
one. Yes, let's get the guys in.
2:21:34
That should be fun. OK, let's go like that.
2:21:36
Speedy, we got Tic Tac. No, you were victorious last
2:21:40
time we played. It's time for us to get our
2:21:43
revenge. Yeah, we had that for us.
2:21:45
We had two shows in a row because we had to scratch King
2:21:48
of the Hill last week. You dominated the time before
2:21:51
that. We'll start with that UConn
2:21:52
women's basketball team that you mentioned.
2:21:55
They have been undefeated in the regular season a lot, 6 times in
2:21:58
that in this century. There's only been two other
2:22:01
women's basketball teams that have finished a regular season
2:22:03
undefeated this century. Name of those two teams?
2:22:05
You guys get multiple guesses. Baylor.
2:22:07
Baylor was one of them. Yes, that was correct.
2:22:10
Women's right. Women's basketball, yes.
2:22:12
Was the other one not South Carolina?
2:22:13
South Carolina. There we go, right there we go.
2:22:17
Ballard, South Carolina. There we go, all.
2:22:19
Right, you guys got that one very.
2:22:21
Sweet, that was, that was the little.
2:22:23
Easy. I was going to say it was kind
2:22:24
of easy there. Come on now.
2:22:25
I'm. Not all right, let's let's put
2:22:30
this one up and we'll put Tommy and Errol in the this just.
2:22:35
Put Tommy. You don't have to put us both,
2:22:37
just put Tommy. I could get less sharing is
2:22:41
caring Errol. That's not There you go.
2:22:44
That's not what somebody's mom told me the other night.
2:22:48
Bye, Speedy. Wow.
2:22:49
You're going to our interns are making well, no actually Zeus's
2:22:52
been on tic tac no, but I believe Zach is making his tic
2:22:54
tac no debut when you're going to talk about their moms like
2:22:56
that come on I'm. Talking about yours with a.
2:22:59
Sea creature Don't get any ideas of sleeping with sea creatures,
2:23:04
either interns or horseradish. Yes, Sir.
2:23:09
Speedy, you're ridiculous. Go on to the next.
2:23:11
One All right, so a sort that Yukon isn't as good at is
2:23:14
football normally, but they do have two players that had one of
2:23:19
the seven players that have had 44 / 40 inch verticals.
2:23:23
The Cowboys in 2015, their first round pick and a second round
2:23:26
pick for the Raiders in 2017. Name one of these players.
2:23:31
Freaking daily lives, a first round pick for the Raiders and
2:23:35
he said. No.
2:23:36
A second round pick for the Raiders.
2:23:37
A fourth round. What was the question?
2:23:39
Tate again. That came from UConn.
2:23:41
OK, They were had 40 / 40 inch at the at the combine.
2:23:45
One was a first round pick for the Cowboys in 2015.
2:23:47
The other one was a second round pick for the Raiders in 2017.
2:23:50
Named one of these two players. I'm lost.
2:23:54
You're telling us to say random UConn NFL draft picks?
2:23:59
Is that what you're saying? With the 40.
2:24:00
One of the two, one of the two was a good starting player for a
2:24:03
while. The other one, the other one was
2:24:06
a like a fringe safety but name one of the two players name.
2:24:11
Any of either of the players. Either one.
2:24:12
You don't even have a. Yeah, you don't need both of.
2:24:14
Those name one good UConn player in the last 10 years.
2:24:17
That's all you should have sold. I know a running back.
2:24:19
I know a running back from Indianapolis.
2:24:21
It's I can't even name a UConn player.
2:24:25
God football. I know who.
2:24:28
You're are they in the league? Are they in the league?
2:24:30
Not anymore. One of them.
2:24:32
One of them I think only just retired recently.
2:24:35
I'll give you a hint on that one.
2:24:36
He also played for Miami after he was with the Cowboys.
2:24:42
I, I don't know, Jesus. I mean, didn't Donald Brown play
2:24:53
for Yukon? That's the running back arrow
2:24:54
was mentioning, but that was the one that set a combine record.
2:24:57
I would I want to pull jobless. Consists so.
2:25:00
So did Matt Parrott, I believe. Yes.
2:25:03
He played for Yukon. But he also did not jump 40
2:25:06
inches. I'm a little lost on this
2:25:09
question. All right, the Cowboys player
2:25:11
was a corner. Cowboys player.
2:25:14
That's the last thing they'll get.
2:25:17
This is This is such an obscure question, Speedy, Zoot or Zach,
2:25:22
you got any guesses? You're not allowed to look up
2:25:24
anything on this. I got.
2:25:26
Enough because they don't have tongues.
2:25:28
Now these players all have tongues.
2:25:31
How much? How much cars drive in circles?
2:25:33
I'm not going to know this one. We have Cowboys corner corners.
2:25:39
We give up. Try to get my head out of his
2:25:41
crotch. Oh God, Fish said.
2:25:43
He has nothing. We all got all.
2:25:44
Right. So Ollie Milifano was the
2:25:46
safety, Byron Jones. Byron Jones was the Cowboys
2:25:50
corner. All right, I know Byron Jones.
2:25:53
All right. I didn't know we played for
2:25:54
UCOD. He actually had the Combine
2:25:57
record, the jump, a vertical jump record at the time before
2:26:00
it was broken. I think five other times since
2:26:02
then. All right, where are you going?
2:26:04
Let's go bottom left. Hopefully not up his ass.
2:26:07
No, I'm not right. Next question.
2:26:09
All right, let's go to. Daily wise.
2:26:11
Let's go to some hockey here. So the we talk about Matthew
2:26:15
Schaefer possibly being a Norris candidate, just 18 years old.
2:26:17
Fantastic. Bobby Orr obviously won Norris
2:26:21
multiple times, 21. He's the only one besides one
2:26:25
other player 21 years or younger that won the Norris Trophy.
2:26:27
So besides Bobby Orr, who is the only other one to do it?
2:26:30
Defenseman. A defenseman?
2:26:31
Yep. That was under 21.
2:26:35
Yep. 21 he was exactly 21, so 21 or younger, but he was this guy
2:26:39
who did it was exactly. 20 All right, So if anybody doesn't
2:26:42
want to answer, I'll answer all of them and I'll I'll see if I
2:26:44
can get this right. I'm going to immediately take.
2:26:47
All right, you want me to take yours, you can immediately take
2:26:49
mine. All right, so here's one of
2:26:51
them. Nicholas Lindstrom.
2:26:52
Nope. All right.
2:26:55
That was that was going to be my guess.
2:26:56
OK, so I got to think of another one.
2:26:58
You can take my guess too. I got nothing.
2:27:00
All right, defenseman. Hokey players, hockey players.
2:27:04
All right, so defenseman that were great young.
2:27:11
Speedy, give us a year, the years.
2:27:14
Could you give us a hand? I will give you a hand.
2:27:15
He is still in the league right now.
2:27:17
OK, Carlson, yes. It is Kyra Carlson Good.
2:27:20
Job. I mean, come on, dude, that was
2:27:23
easy. I mean, I could have told you it
2:27:25
was. I was.
2:27:25
Going to say Carlson. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, He was
2:27:28
going to say Carlson, you believe?
2:27:29
Me. You had to.
2:27:30
You had to ask for a hint to confirm my suspicions.
2:27:32
Your your suspicions is your thumb up your ass.
2:27:34
Why don't you go play with your flankies?
2:27:36
Whatever the hell it is my. Flankies, whatever that was at
2:27:42
23740, play with your flankies. I'm going to go what should be
2:27:50
tricky for Speedy to do deal with.
2:27:52
Let's go this way. All right.
2:27:57
Next question, Speedy? All right, let's go to the men's
2:27:59
college basketball sides. We talked about Duke being
2:28:01
number one in the AP poll now a record 149 times.
2:28:04
Again, who are the only other three other teams?
2:28:07
You have to get all three teams that have been on it 100 or more
2:28:10
times. North Carolina is north.
2:28:12
Carolina is 1. 100 times UNLV. Not UNLV.
2:28:22
All right, So you're out of guesses.
2:28:24
You got North Carolina. Kentucky.
2:28:30
Kentucky has one of them. Yep, one more.
2:28:35
I have one, I've got the other one that's in my head.
2:28:40
Anybody want me to help you? No, I'm.
2:28:43
Trying to think I'm going to see if I can't get it.
2:28:45
I'm a second guess for. 100 times yes, they're they're some
2:28:50
of the best. Just think of the best programs.
2:28:54
So we've already got Duke, North Carolina and Kentucky.
2:29:00
Kentucky, give me the Indiana. Indiana.
2:29:02
Not Indiana and not Florida. Nope, I was going to say Indiana
2:29:05
before I I'm telling you Villanova.
2:29:07
It's not Villanova. I get 2 right?
2:29:09
You said yes, you got my other one.
2:29:11
Here you got one more guess. Ariel can take my other one.
2:29:13
Kansas. Nope, really.
2:29:16
That is your guess though. So I believe Zoot, you got one
2:29:20
more guess. And Zach, I don't know if you
2:29:22
want to guess. I don't know how well you would
2:29:24
with college basketball, but you can guess as well.
2:29:28
Michigan State? Nope.
2:29:30
That's a good one. That's a good guess.
2:29:32
That's a good guess, that. Was a good.
2:29:33
Guess all right, Zach, you got 2 guesses.
2:29:35
Or you could sell them off to the highest bidder.
2:29:41
Man, like I just, I don't, I'll be honest, for the first half of
2:29:44
the question I totally thought we were saying college football
2:29:47
and I was so confused that y'all's answered this.
2:29:50
Is basketball I never heard of the skin?
2:29:52
No, I finally locked in. I'll dude, I'll I'll, I'll sell,
2:29:55
man. All right, all right, all.
2:29:57
Right, Errol, you take one, I'll take the other.
2:29:59
One, I'll let you go first. All right, give me, let's go to
2:30:12
the Big East maybe. Maybe Yukon?
2:30:20
Nope. Interesting.
2:30:22
One more guess. Villanova.
2:30:26
Someone said. Villanova, somebody said.
2:30:27
Villanova. OK, Arizona.
2:30:33
No, I wasn't a serious no. So you guys were thinking of
2:30:36
like really good modern programs.
2:30:39
You should have thought of one in the past, and that was UCLA.
2:30:42
That was the answer. Oh my goddamnit, that's.
2:30:46
I was thinking UCLA and USC, but I was going to see UC.
2:30:51
Errol, we were even talking about that earlier yesterday.
2:30:53
UCLA, we were all right. Speedy, where you going?
2:30:56
You get a. Bottom right, bottom right all.
2:30:59
Right. Next question.
2:31:01
All right, so we'll go to the NBA now, who is the Obviously we
2:31:04
talked about the LeBron to Cavs rumors last week in Lebron's
2:31:06
rookie season in O3O4. So obviously his first year with
2:31:09
the Cavs, who was the second leading scorer on that team
2:31:12
after. Larry Hughes?
2:31:12
Nope. Oh damn, I don't know that team.
2:31:17
Was it Zedrunis Ilgauskas? He was on the team, but he was
2:31:20
not the second leading scorer. Oh.
2:31:22
Hold on, hold on, hold on. I knew.
2:31:27
What's his name again? Oh my God, I think I know who
2:31:33
it's going to be. Daniel Gibson.
2:31:35
Boobie Gibson No. It's a good guess you.
2:31:39
Can see my guess. Again, I have no idea.
2:31:46
Is it a Gauskas? No, I said a Gauskas.
2:31:48
He said Algalskas. Algalskas was on the team.
2:31:51
He was not the second leading scorer.
2:31:52
He was .2 points per game behind this guy.
2:31:57
This game. I was pretty close to that
2:31:59
gauskas. I'm trying to think of the team
2:32:06
and remember that team. I'm trying to also, they were
2:32:11
bad, that's why they got LeBron. Yeah, even with.
2:32:17
His first name start with Eric. Nope.
2:32:19
OK, so it's not him. That team, yeah, that team had
2:32:22
one Eric on the team, Eric Williams.
2:32:24
But that is not the answer, OK? He was a.
2:32:29
Was this guy like a high draft pick who flamed out?
2:32:32
No. No, I think I know who he is.
2:32:35
He was a power forward, right? I know who it is and I.
2:32:39
Can't. I can't remember his name.
2:32:42
The big Brazilian with the hair God.
2:32:47
So Vera gel. No, so Tommy gave his guests
2:32:56
away. So Zoo, I believe you stole the
2:32:57
guests. I already said Boobie Gibson.
2:33:01
Oh, you said Gibson. That's right.
2:33:02
So, Zach? As a Zach as a Zach as a.
2:33:04
Guest. Come on, Zach, give it to us.
2:33:07
Let me name a single player on that.
2:33:11
O3O4 you said O3O four. Yes, LeBron a year.
2:33:14
I was a year old. That's funny.
2:33:22
Fighting. Action.
2:33:24
Who else could have been on that team?
2:33:26
All right, hold on. We got it.
2:33:30
We got to try because this he wins if we don't get.
2:33:33
This Oh, he does win. Yeah.
2:33:34
Yeah, I have that bottom row. It's a block block.
2:33:37
He also gives me give us a hint Speedy.
2:33:40
Who did he play with besides the Cavaliers?
2:33:43
All right, he played for Utah as well.
2:33:49
Played for Utah. Oh, I can't.
2:33:57
Be O Williams. No, no, it wasn't MO MO was
2:34:00
after. That's what I thought too.
2:34:04
All right, Speedy, looks like you're the winner tonight.
2:34:07
Goodbye Well. The big thing is you should have
2:34:10
realized we talked about his son last week and it is Carlos
2:34:13
Boozer. Oh my God, I can't believe
2:34:16
Carlos. I forgot about Carlos Boozer.
2:34:19
He was drafted by the Cavaliers before he went to Utah.
2:34:22
I can't believe I forgot that. Holy crap.
2:34:25
That was another year he was with the Cavs before he went to.
2:34:27
Utah. Oh, my God, How did I forget
2:34:29
that I was. I was speaking about that.
2:34:32
Like, was it with you? I was speaking with somebody.
2:34:35
I was on the treadmill and I was speaking about.
2:34:36
Yeah. I think it was with me.
2:34:37
I think it was last week. Yeah, I was on the treadmill.
2:34:40
I was talking about Carlos Boozer, and I was like, oh, the
2:34:42
Cavaliers draft. I can't believe.
2:34:44
I forgot that. Can't believe.
2:34:46
Makes me sick. Speedy, you got us this time,
2:34:50
man. We'll find.
2:34:53
A way? Just like you yeah, you guys are
2:34:58
great by the way. I want to I want to tell you
2:35:00
something for all the fans out there, Zoot and Zach and all the
2:35:04
interns that have been working with us, Dom, all of them,
2:35:07
they're all sensational. You guys have been sensational.
2:35:10
All the work you guys do. We really appreciate you guys on
2:35:12
the back end of everything. So we love when you guys join
2:35:16
the show. We love the what you've been
2:35:17
doing and I want to tell you guys, I I don't give a give
2:35:20
enough credit when credit is due.
2:35:22
Thank you for all the work that you guys have been doing.
2:35:24
So all right, there we are. Thanks.
2:35:27
For having us on. Absolutely, absolutely.
2:35:30
You guys are great Zoot. I, I know a little bit about you
2:35:33
through my, my friend Justin and, and his mom and your mom
2:35:37
and, and all that stuff that I know a little bit of back end
2:35:40
with you and, and Zach and, and Dom.
2:35:43
I, I've heard a lot about you, a lot of praise from our, our
2:35:48
executive producer up there, Coach Fish, who sometimes has
2:35:52
his thumb up his ass, but he, he at least knows what he's talking
2:35:55
about when it comes to talent and interns.
2:35:58
So thank you to the old fisherman himself.
2:36:01
All right, we call this call your shot.
2:36:04
I'm not an X's and O's guy, right?
2:36:06
I'm not a tactician. I'm a motivator in the classic
2:36:08
sense of the word. You know Lombardi, Charles
2:36:10
Lindbergh, that nun over in India, like those people?
2:36:14
Call your shot all. Right, ladies and gentlemen,
2:36:20
nobody needs to call something because you know, Fish is always
2:36:23
calling something and he's always wrong, ladies and
2:36:25
gentlemen. Oh well, we don't know if he's
2:36:26
wrong, but I'm going to say he's always wrong anyways.
2:36:30
Wasn't so wrong about JSN before the NFL season.
2:36:35
But I wasn't calling your shot anyways.
2:36:39
Thank you. All right.
2:36:41
What's What's the order? All right, so who do we have?
2:36:43
We have me, you and Speedy, right?
2:36:46
Yeah, as long as Speedy Speedy's really struggling with the
2:36:50
technology today. Yeah, now my green screen wasn't
2:36:52
loading so I'm trying to open another Chrome browser, so I'm
2:36:55
on audio for now. He's on audio.
2:36:57
All right, so we'll just use you on audio for now.
2:36:59
We still hear your ugly voice. All right, let's go.
2:37:02
Let's go, fish. Let's go, Speedy.
2:37:04
Let's go. Me.
2:37:05
Here we go. I, I got a real simple call your
2:37:08
shot. We're going to be diving real
2:37:10
deep into NCAA basketball over the next few weeks.
2:37:14
Obviously leading into the tournament, conference
2:37:16
tournaments. I've decided I know who's going
2:37:18
to win the NCAA championship already.
2:37:21
I've been watching it all season.
2:37:22
Go ahead. They're in action tonight
2:37:25
against Iowa State. I don't care if they don't win
2:37:27
this game. I expect them to win this game.
2:37:30
But Arizona is finally going to get it done.
2:37:35
They have such a deep roster at all the positions.
2:37:39
They have the bigs that can shoot.
2:37:41
They have the the phenom freshman in buries who's a
2:37:45
better than they thought he was going to be coming in.
2:37:48
They got the senior point guard. They've got everything and they
2:37:52
got the bench players as well. They got double double S off the
2:37:54
bench if they needed to from their forwards and centers.
2:37:58
I am all in on the Wildcats and listen, Errol, they're so good.
2:38:04
Bryce James had to red shirt this season.
2:38:08
He couldn't even make this roster.
2:38:10
Yes, Bronnie's little brother couldn't make this roster.
2:38:13
That's how you know this is a championship squad.
2:38:15
Oh. Yeah, yeah, all.
2:38:19
Right. Normally I've done college
2:38:20
basketball, but I'm actually the shift some hockey for this.
2:38:23
Week I couldn't take a. Shit fish, you brought it up in
2:38:25
the sports minute about the Kings firing their head coach
2:38:27
and. Jimmy the hot ladies.
2:38:29
And I don't, I don't remember who the interim coach is
2:38:32
offhand, but I do think they will make the playoffs, but I
2:38:34
think they'll be out in the first round.
2:38:35
So you know who they're going to hire as their next head coach
2:38:38
now that our Tammy Panarin's there, Kevin Fiala's, when he
2:38:41
comes back healthy, one of their best players.
2:38:43
Both of those guys, former coaches.
2:38:45
Peter Laviolette will be the LA Kings head coach next.
2:38:49
I have no sack. Wow, I could see it.
2:38:55
All right, I've been thinking about this.
2:38:59
You know what, I think it probably scares people away.
2:39:02
So I'm going to go with another hockey one.
2:39:05
I have to. And I, you know who the Norris
2:39:08
Trophy is going to be. You know, you know who the
2:39:10
Norris Trophy is going to right this year.
2:39:12
I'm going to tell you who it's going to.
2:39:13
It's going to go to Matthew Shaffer.
2:39:15
Matthew Schaefer is having having a sensational year since
2:39:19
the since I don't even call it the All Star break.
2:39:21
Since the Olympic break, he scored three goals.
2:39:24
He's been a big part of the Islander success.
2:39:27
They've won three games in a row.
2:39:28
They have been unbelievable and winning games at the tail end of
2:39:32
the games when they're down by one or down by two, coming back
2:39:35
and knocking off teams, he's been unbelievable.
2:39:38
He's been a big part of the leadership there and has changed
2:39:41
everything for this New York Island team.
2:39:43
He's Patrick Wok, who win Coach of the Year this year, and one
2:39:46
of the main reasons why is really just getting lucky with
2:39:49
Matthew Schaefer. Matthew Schaefer to me is going
2:39:53
to be the Norris Trophy winner. He might be the first, right?
2:39:56
He'd be the first person to win the Norris Trophy as a rookie,
2:40:00
as a defenseman, right? I think he is going to be the
2:40:02
first Norris rookie defenseman. To ever win that award.
2:40:08
So congratulations and I will say congratulations when it
2:40:11
happens. The Islanders have a good one.
2:40:13
This guy is a super, super superstar right in the making it
2:40:17
It's unbelievable. 18 years old. He has over 20 goals already.
2:40:20
There's so much hockey left to be played.
2:40:23
The kid could actually score 30 goals in his rookie season.
2:40:25
I wouldn't be surprised if he does.
2:40:27
I really, everybody keeps talking about Cal Macar and, and
2:40:30
what he's been doing and, and I, I'm I love Macar.
2:40:33
I think he's special. This kid is 18 years old, 18
2:40:37
years old. He probably doesn't even have
2:40:39
any, you know, hair on his, you know what?
2:40:41
And this guy is putting up the numbers right now.
2:40:45
That's just amazing people. And he's such a leader.
2:40:48
He's so fast. He's such a good kid.
2:40:50
He's very likable. It goes on different shows.
2:40:53
He doesn't really hold back. He talks about his family and
2:40:57
and everybody, all the teammates.
2:40:59
He doesn't really take credit for all the great things that
2:41:01
he's doing right now for the Islanders organization.
2:41:04
And they got a kid that's coming up right now.
2:41:06
And what is his name? HSN.
2:41:09
I mean, this kid special too. Look what he's doing in the OHL
2:41:12
right now. Could you imagine these two guys
2:41:14
as your future frontline defenseman?
2:41:17
HSN and Matthew Schaefer, Everybody's just two lefties.
2:41:21
Can't be on the same line. Why not?
2:41:23
Why not? I, I know, I know one guy hits
2:41:26
and and, and both of them can score goals.
2:41:28
HSN right now leads the he leads the OHL in goal scoring for
2:41:32
defense. Man, he he's had I think 14
2:41:35
points in the last past week, week and a half.
2:41:37
He's been unbelievable for the OHL.
2:41:39
This kid will be in the NHL in the next two years.
2:41:42
The Islanders have something special brewing.
2:41:44
I'm I'm loving it. I, I'm, I'm excited as an
2:41:46
Islander fan. Finally, I've got something to
2:41:48
be happy about. All right, there you go.
2:41:51
So Doors Trophy winner Matthew Shaffer when we come back,
2:41:55
ladies and gentlemen, we got the WCWBC preview.
2:41:59
Dial it up. A lot more to go, but first
2:42:02
another sports minute with the fisherman himself.
2:42:06
Breaking news, I'm putting you on a leash now.
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here with your sportsman. It got a couple of stories
2:42:20
before we get into the scores this evening.
2:42:23
In tragic news, early Sunday morning out of Boulder, Co, 30
2:42:26
year sophomore quarterback Dominique Ponder died in A1 car
2:42:30
accident, according to police. Who's 23 years old.
2:42:33
The entire CU Athletics family is devastated at the tragic
2:42:36
passing of Dominique Ponder, Colorado Athletic Director
2:42:39
Fernando Lobo said in a statement.
2:42:41
He epitomized the values of passion, enthusiasm, enthusiasm,
2:42:44
leadership, toughness and intelligence that were revered
2:42:47
by his teammates and coaches alike.
2:42:49
Our hearts go out to his family and all his teammates during
2:42:52
this difficult time. Ponder was pronounced dead at
2:42:54
the scene of the accident of his 2023 Tesla Model 3 that
2:42:58
apparently lost control of going around too fast and embankment,
2:43:01
hitting a guardrail and an electric football before his car
2:43:04
tragically caught fire. Ponder was a backup last season
2:43:08
after transferring from Bethune. Cookman sat out 2024 after the
2:43:12
move to Division One. Last year, he appeared in two
2:43:14
games with only two carries and one pass to his name.
2:43:17
Colorado coaches and players expressed their sympathies on
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social media, and this from head coach Deion Sanders.
2:43:23
Dom was one of my favorites. He was loved, respected and a
2:43:26
born leader. Let's pray for all that knew him
2:43:28
and had the opportunity to be in his presence.
2:43:30
Lord, you're receiving a good one.
2:43:33
Honda was from Florida and played high school ball in
2:43:35
Carroll City in Naples before going to Myrtle Beach Collegiate
2:43:38
Academy in South Carolina on his way to Bethune Cookman and then
2:43:42
Colorado. The Dallas Stars announced on
2:43:45
Friday that center Tyler Sagan what has a torn ACL and will
2:43:50
miss the rest of the season. Sagan's 34 was hurt on December
2:43:53
2nd all the way back then against the Rangers after
2:43:56
getting tangled up with Vladislav Gaverkov.
2:43:59
The Kings told the league Sagan status would be re evaluated
2:44:03
after the Olympic break which concluded last week with the new
2:44:07
expedited rules regarding the injury reserves salary, capital
2:44:11
relief that got added to the current CBA which is expiring
2:44:14
September. Teams can only use the prior
2:44:17
seasons league average salary of 3.8 million unless the players
2:44:21
ruled out for the season. Well, with the trade deadline
2:44:24
coming up this week, they have now pulled the trigger on Sagan.
2:44:28
They said his ACL has already been repaired.
2:44:31
Therefore, the Stars receive an extra $6 million in cap space by
2:44:36
making this roster move. Expect them to be actively
2:44:39
looking to add another center at the trade deadline on Friday to
2:44:42
replace Sagan on top of getting some cap relief to bolster their
2:44:46
blue line. ESPN's Greg Washinski says keep
2:44:48
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2:44:52
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2:47:11
which is probably scary. So, and I, I feel like I'm low
2:47:14
tonight. I, I got to figure out how to
2:47:15
elevate myself Speedy. Maybe I should stand on the
2:47:18
show. Maybe I should set up my camera
2:47:21
and just stand up the whole show.
2:47:23
What, what, what do people think about that?
2:47:25
Maybe we should have a vote on that.
2:47:26
You think I could stand for a whole show?
2:47:28
I think you could. I think I could too.
2:47:30
I think it'd be pretty. I I could do some push ups.
2:47:35
I could stretch a little bit. I mean, that would be pretty
2:47:38
cool. Yeah, sorry your your your push
2:47:40
up competition that Nathan claimed you, that Nathan tried
2:47:42
to challenge you during COVID. Bring that back, please.
2:47:47
Nathan thinks he can out push up me.
2:47:49
And in 2020, apparently, yeah. Well, he's out of his mind.
2:47:53
He's lost his mind. But hey, you know everybody,
2:47:56
everybody thinks they can do. Something Yeah, it was.
2:47:59
It was Nathan's second craziest moment of all time.
2:48:01
They besides the the illustrious first show in 2024 when he
2:48:05
claimed he put women on leashes. That's true.
2:48:08
My rear end is burning. Well, there's a lot of things
2:48:10
burning when it comes to Nathan's takes.
2:48:12
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to get into the World Baseball
2:48:14
Classic, the WBC, which starts on Wednesday.
2:48:18
The World Baseball Classic begins this Wednesday, and the
2:48:23
current betting lines have Team USA as betting favorites to win
2:48:28
this year's event. The US is favored at a minus yes
2:48:33
a -, 110, with Japan second at a + 350 and the Dominican Republic
2:48:40
at a + 425 and Valenzuela, Venezuela, I'm sorry, at +900.
2:48:47
Puerto Rico will still participate, but some of their
2:48:51
best players including Carlos Correa, Jose Barrios, and
2:48:56
Francisco Lindor will not participate due to ongoing
2:49:00
insurance issues with the MLB. The Dominican Republic had a few
2:49:05
players with similar issues that won't participate but none of
2:49:09
their star players so they are are still favored highly.
2:49:15
All the Dodger Japanese stars along with Cubs outfielder say
2:49:21
ya right, am I right say ya. Suzuki and recently signed Blue
2:49:26
Jays infielder Akamoto will make up a stardom of Japanese roster,
2:49:33
but reports say that the NLNVP share Otani will only hit, not
2:49:38
pitch. The Dominican Republic has a lot
2:49:41
of star power in their lives lineup with guys like Vladimir
2:49:44
Guerrero Junior, Fernando Tatis Junior and Kettle Barte Manny,
2:49:50
Manny Machado and who well, wants soda.
2:49:54
I almost I almost went off time off target on that, but not as
2:49:59
much not as much in their rotation after Phillies breakout
2:50:02
pitcher last season Christa for Sanchez.
2:50:05
Team USA, on the other hand, will have a ton of star power in
2:50:10
their rotation led by saw young winner Tarek schuble and Paul
2:50:15
skeens to go with Joe Ryan, Logan Webb and Mets rising star
2:50:21
Nolan McClain. Offensive Team USA lineup
2:50:24
features American League champion and captain Aaron Judge
2:50:29
and American League MVP runner up Cal Raleigh paired with other
2:50:34
young stars like Bobby Witt, Junior Roman, Anthony, Gunner,
2:50:38
Henderson with the Phillies vets, Bryce Harper, Kyle
2:50:42
Schwarber bringing some presents and power for the red, white and
2:50:47
blue. Team USA has just an
2:50:50
unbelievable, unbelievable roster.
2:50:52
This pitching staff is as good of a pitching staff is any
2:50:55
pitching staff Team USA has had in the WBAC.
2:50:59
But you know, what scares me about all these players is is
2:51:02
you're putting your bodies on the line.
2:51:04
You have a lot of money invested in these players.
2:51:06
If I was running an organization, if I was the
2:51:08
Yankees and I was the Mets or I was the Phillies or I,
2:51:12
especially with the older players that they have on this
2:51:14
team, Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber, you have a lot of a
2:51:17
lot of money invested in these guys.
2:51:19
And then Cal Riley, who's playing catching position,
2:51:22
you're, you play 162 games practically all season.
2:51:26
Last year you were the runner up in MVP and you're going to be a
2:51:29
starting catcher for Team USA. And there's a lot of pressure on
2:51:32
your knees when you have an MLB season right around the corner.
2:51:35
That would worry me if I was the Seattle, Seattle Mariners.
2:51:40
But you want to play for the I guess your red, white and blue
2:51:45
take on that one. Thank you fish the USA and and
2:51:50
again, this is not the Olympics. This is not now people are going
2:51:56
to take this and maybe be hurt by what I'm going to say about
2:51:59
this. I think this competition is
2:52:03
great. I do.
2:52:05
I think I think this competition is great.
2:52:07
I love seeing the best players play for their their teams,
2:52:10
their their countries, their flags.
2:52:13
It it's great. But this, this tournament means
2:52:17
nothing. It really means nothing if
2:52:21
United States wins this tournament.
2:52:22
Japan's won it for how many times?
2:52:25
I mean, this has been going on for what, over 20 years?
2:52:28
I was going to say I think Japan is the only multi time winner.
2:52:31
I mean they've won it like 3 times.
2:52:32
I think Cuba won it once. the United States don't win these
2:52:36
tournaments because nobody wants to play in it.
2:52:38
Now finally we got Tarek School and Paul Skins.
2:52:41
They want to compete. Joe Ryan, Logan Webb and and
2:52:44
obviously Nolan McClain. This is a great pitching staff,
2:52:46
probably the best pitching staff.
2:52:48
It it would be the best pitching staff in baseball.
2:52:50
I mean, it's a ridiculous pitching staff and you got guys
2:52:53
like Aaron George and Bobby Witt, who's one of the best
2:52:56
defensive shortstops in all the baseball and Cal Raleigh, who's
2:53:00
just putting up the numbers that he had last year, switch hitting
2:53:03
power hitter. It's great.
2:53:04
It's great for Team USA baseball.
2:53:06
You want to see the best players and you can't wait to see what
2:53:09
this roster can bring to this tournament.
2:53:11
I feel bad for these organizations, season teams.
2:53:15
We saw what happened to Edwin Diaz.
2:53:17
Does anybody remember what happened to Edwin Diaz?
2:53:19
Right after he got a big contract.
2:53:21
He plays for Team Puerto Rico, they win a game, he jumps up in
2:53:25
the air and he lands on his knee and tears his ACL Season ending
2:53:30
injury that quick. All it takes is 1 bad move, one
2:53:36
bad jerk. I don't know, you can have a
2:53:39
hurt flasik or whatever the hell it is when it comes to your
2:53:41
finger. I mean, I mean, you can break
2:53:44
your thumb in baseball. You break your thumb.
2:53:46
Good luck. You're probably going to be out
2:53:47
three months. This isn't basketball.
2:53:50
Baseball, you put a lot of torque on your fingers.
2:53:53
You know, you're swinging at a ball that's going 100 mph.
2:53:57
You're not going to be able to play with a broken finger.
2:53:59
You're not going to be able to do anything with a fractured
2:54:02
finger. So, and, and The thing is, is
2:54:05
with Japan, Japan's going to play the best place because
2:54:08
Japan loves these tournaments. They love whipping the hell out
2:54:11
of the Dominican Republic and Team USA because they want to
2:54:13
stand as the world power. They want to stand as we are the
2:54:17
best in the world when it comes to baseball.
2:54:19
We have dominated. Look at all our great players.
2:54:22
Look at Okamoto and look, look at the Suzuki's of the world.
2:54:26
And, and obviously the pitching staff, yes, the pitching staff
2:54:29
are the Dodgers. I, I just, to me, when you're
2:54:34
looking at tournaments like this, you want to see them play
2:54:36
for something like a gold medal, like something that stands for
2:54:40
something. And, and being that the
2:54:42
Olympics, the Summer Olympics go on during the summer when
2:54:45
baseball's going on, we're never going to see these players.
2:54:48
They play amateurs. So it doesn't really matter.
2:54:50
It has no really, it doesn't really matter to anybody now.
2:54:55
It's right now basketball is the only thing going on with
2:54:58
obviously hockey. I mean, I can't say that
2:55:00
hockey's not back. But, and if you're an Islander,
2:55:03
well, I hope not. You're not a Ranger fan right
2:55:05
now. There's really that bad and the
2:55:07
Devil's are up and down. I mean, I love that Jack Hughes
2:55:10
is back. So I think you have something to
2:55:12
watch with the Devil's. But when you watch baseball and
2:55:16
you're getting ready for this tournament, I mean, you're
2:55:19
looking at Team USA and, and, and the opportunity they have to
2:55:23
win this tournament for the first time in over 20 years.
2:55:26
And you have Aaron Judge, who's 34 years old.
2:55:30
As a Yankee fan, I'm worried. I'm worried because this guy's
2:55:36
had a toll problem over the last three years.
2:55:38
He already said he came out, he had toe surgery after he ran
2:55:42
into the wall in Dodger Stadium. He grew up.
2:55:46
I don't know if anybody knows this.
2:55:47
He grew up in San Francisco Giants fan, he's from San
2:55:51
Francisco area but he also rooted for the Dodgers.
2:55:55
So his family was at his whole family was at that Dodger game.
2:55:58
So he wanted show off and he ran into the wall and he hurt his
2:56:03
tongue. All it takes for a guy that 6
2:56:05
foot eight 280 lbs of muscle is torque his knee and he could be
2:56:12
out of significant amount of time.
2:56:13
Could you imagine season ending injury for Aaron Judge for this
2:56:18
WBC tournament and he's out for the rest of the baseball season.
2:56:21
The Yankees have nothing to look forward to.
2:56:23
I don't care if Garrico comes back.
2:56:25
I don't care if this pitching staff is elite without Aaron
2:56:28
Judge. They don't stay at a chance in
2:56:31
the in the American League. The Red Sox are better, the Blue
2:56:35
Jays are better. Even the Orioles are a better
2:56:38
because they had a Pete Alonso. It worries me.
2:56:41
I don't know what I I don't know what you Yankee fans are looking
2:56:44
forward to you get to see Aaron Judge where the USA you know,
2:56:48
logo on his chest. Maybe you should go on fanatic
2:56:50
and buy the jersey right now it's $400.00.
2:56:52
Go waste your money on that. It's just it it it worries me.
2:56:58
It should worry all of you guys and who cares what Vegas is
2:57:03
giving you the betting odds that don't mean crap.
2:57:06
The Dominican Republic, they got a a great great, great line up.
2:57:11
Look at the names. Guerrero junior, Tatis junior.
2:57:15
Marte Machado, Soto. Who cares?
2:57:20
Who cares? Fernando Tatis is an injury
2:57:23
prone player. Machado is an injury prone
2:57:26
player. Guerrero has been up and down
2:57:28
with injury over the years. Juan Soto, I mean, he stayed
2:57:33
healthy for most of his career, but you worry about him.
2:57:36
Soto came out and came and he pretty much challenged the
2:57:40
league, the National League, that he's going to win the MVP,
2:57:43
the National League MVP over Atani going into this season.
2:57:47
Could you imagine if he goes down for the New York Mets?
2:57:52
That's what I'm worried about here.
2:57:54
And when you have Cody Bellinger coming out, because I don't know
2:57:56
if anybody knows, the United States asked Cody Bellinger to
2:58:00
play for this team. And Cody said after he signed
2:58:04
his big contract with the Yankees, he says my allegiance
2:58:08
is to the New York Yankees and winning a World Series.
2:58:13
I am not playing in the World Baseball Classic.
2:58:16
I'm not doing it. I'm getting ready for the end of
2:58:18
the MLB season and I'm going to be ready to go for 162 games.
2:58:24
And when you hear your own teammate and Aaron Judge, I'm
2:58:28
sure heard that take, you kind of wonder now if you're a
2:58:32
baseball fan, if you're a Yankee fan or even a Mets fan here in
2:58:35
New York, could you, would you be scared if Nolan McLean throws
2:58:41
his shoulder out in a in a WBC game and he's out for the rest
2:58:46
of the season, out for next year too, because he needs shoulder
2:58:48
surgery or elbow surgery? Your young rookie.
2:58:52
Well, last year he was a rookie. He's second year player who
2:58:55
looked like a phenom and you're going into the year with Peralta
2:58:59
and him and you're going into a strike year next year.
2:59:01
And that would probably matter if he's out for the season next
2:59:04
year. If there's not going to be a
2:59:05
season, maybe that's why these players are playing in the WBC
2:59:09
because there might not be a baseball season the next year.
2:59:12
So they might as well use their body and and use their season to
2:59:16
their advantage. But to me, what are they winning
2:59:20
here? They're paying for their own
2:59:22
insurances and the MLB is not paying.
2:59:25
Teams are not paying for this. Aaron Judge is paying out of
2:59:28
pocket. Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber,
2:59:34
every one of these players. Tarek Scuba, who's expecting a
2:59:37
$500 million contract next year. Paul Skees, who wants to be
2:59:42
traded to the Yankees. These are all things that you
2:59:49
have to worry about if you're a baseball fan, and I'm sorry, I'm
2:59:55
looking forward to the baseball season.
2:59:57
I'm not looking forward to this. I'm really not.
3:00:00
I'm going to tell you this right now.
3:00:01
If Team USA wins the gold or wins the WBC, am I going to be
3:00:06
proud of the red, white and blue?
3:00:07
Yes, of course. I'm going to be more worried
3:00:11
about who's going to go down, who's going to get hurt and if
3:00:14
one of these players that are so important to their organizations
3:00:17
and their teams don't get the contracts they want the next
3:00:20
year when they become free agents.
3:00:24
So get ready guys, because I'm going to bet you they're just
3:00:29
going to be a major injury in this tournament.
3:00:32
And I don't know who it's going to be.
3:00:35
But don't be surprised if one of your superstars on your team and
3:00:39
your roster is going to go down on a terrible injury, a weird
3:00:43
injury, and could be at a significant amount of time or
3:00:45
maybe the whole baseball season. And that's why you see Japan
3:00:48
generally have a lot of these advantages in this types of
3:00:51
tournament because a lot of their guys we talk about with
3:00:53
some of our guests all the time too, that we're saying that they
3:00:55
don't pitch as often. Their pitchers go longer in
3:00:58
between starts. And obviously they some of them,
3:01:01
I mean, some of them throw hard, but a lot of them don't throw as
3:01:03
hard in general. And a lot of their pro seasons,
3:01:05
the way it's stretched out, I know obviously Yamamoto and
3:01:07
Sasaki and guys like that are and they'll be players, but
3:01:09
they're not all MLE players. So they're playing in that
3:01:11
Japanese league that is stretched out a lot more where
3:01:14
you can actually, you could actually stretch your your
3:01:17
pitchers out more. And I think they're more used to
3:01:19
it where a lot of these pitchers are going to be pitching hard
3:01:22
right away. School ball setting probably
3:01:23
only will pitch one start. And how hard is he going to go
3:01:26
in that star? You wonder if you showed the
3:01:28
highlight before he's throwing 103 towards the end of the game.
3:01:30
We always capable of it, but that doesn't mean that it's
3:01:32
going to work all the time and it's not going to keep him
3:01:34
healthy either. School.
3:01:35
He's been healthier now, but he had a lot of injury problems at
3:01:37
the beginning of his career. That's why he didn't develop as
3:01:39
quickly when he was a draft pick in 2020.
3:01:43
And now he's obviously turned in the best pitcher in baseball.
3:01:45
But you worry about that kind of thing.
3:01:46
I'm definitely worried about it. With McClain.
3:01:47
You got to be skiing. The Pirates are going to
3:01:50
probably not going to keep him anyway, but anyone would be
3:01:52
worried about training for that if he has any.
3:01:54
You're going to trade away your whole practically your whole
3:01:56
future for Paul skiing. And this guy is, is, is a
3:02:00
phenom. I mean, this guy is the best
3:02:02
young pitcher in baseball. He's 2223 years old.
3:02:06
He's dating one of the, the gymnasts of, of the year.
3:02:10
She's all over the place. She's social media queen and,
3:02:14
and she, he's all over the place because of her and, and, and
3:02:18
you, you're going to see this guy go and pitch for Team USA
3:02:21
and Goff a bit. He throws out his shoulder,
3:02:23
throws out his elbow, throws out his knee on the mound.
3:02:27
Are the Yankees going to really throw away all their prospects
3:02:29
or all their future to go after a pool of Skeens?
3:02:32
I don't know. I, I mean, it worries me.
3:02:35
This is a worrisome situation. Yeah, and it also worries some
3:02:38
when you look at the way that they handle this insurance, too,
3:02:40
because you're right, MLB, you would think would do more.
3:02:42
They're promoting it on their own website, MLB.com, but
3:02:45
they're not promoting it. They're not helping these
3:02:47
players out by giving those insurance.
3:02:49
Yeah. And again, they're doing it for
3:02:51
their own. Their the Yankee.
3:02:53
They did it for Garrett Cole when he was hurt in the MLB
3:02:55
season. No, he's not going to do it for
3:02:56
the WBC. And again, it's going to make,
3:02:59
it's going to water down the event because I'm not saying
3:03:01
Puerto Rico would have. You're not You're not worried
3:03:02
about Gunner Henderson, who can't stay healthy over there
3:03:05
with the Orioles. Yeah, Yeah, we could go.
3:03:07
You talk about the Phillies like we go on the laundry list of all
3:03:09
these guys that have been injury prone, Tatis, etcetera and Kyle.
3:03:12
Schwarber. Yeah, they're not.
3:03:13
You're not dealing with, you're dealing with a lot of cases of.
3:03:16
Yeah, maybe USA still has a strong team because because
3:03:19
obviously. They have the best roster.
3:03:20
And I know in a minute I know that I know talent wise, they
3:03:22
were able to accumulate a lot of it, which is which they should
3:03:25
do because it's their sport. Clayton Kershaw.
3:03:27
Playing on his team too, but he's retiring.
3:03:29
That's why he's on this roster. He's probably going to be a
3:03:32
bullpen pitcher. He he's a part of this roster
3:03:35
just because he's the great Clayton Kershaw and he wants to
3:03:38
play one more game and one more experience for Team USA
3:03:41
baseball. But I mean, this is so
3:03:45
worrisome. I, I don't know I anybody would
3:03:47
think this is a great tournament.
3:03:49
Yeah. Because you're going to get a
3:03:50
chance to see some of the great players play for their colors.
3:03:52
Yeah, I I'm worried. It's a very top heavy tournament
3:03:55
also because of that too, because I think even like we
3:03:57
were talking about the Dominican Republic, I think they even have
3:03:59
like Wandy Peralta's like the third option who has a pitch he
3:04:02
pitched with the Yankees like 3 years ago.
3:04:04
I think that was his last time in Major League Baseball.
3:04:05
Like that's how desperate they are because of these insurance,
3:04:08
this insurance issue. And that's why I get in Japan
3:04:10
bringing their pro players essentially there.
3:04:13
Seems like even though they may have thus raw talent as the US,
3:04:16
they still might be favored in the tournament just because of
3:04:19
that. I also think that you look at
3:04:22
the Dominican Republic and I think the Dominican Republic,
3:04:24
but the roster they have is still capable of winning the
3:04:27
whole thing. I mean, if two of these hitters
3:04:29
go get hot, Vladimir Guerrero to tease, these are great here.
3:04:33
Soto, these guys are some of the best hitters in baseball.
3:04:37
Now, they don't have their whole roster and they're not going to
3:04:39
be able to match up against Japan or even Team USA, but
3:04:43
they're still going to be up there.
3:04:44
And all it takes is 2 guys to get hot in this tournament.
3:04:47
What do they play? Each team is going to play
3:04:49
about. Five games, they play four games
3:04:50
in the group I believe, and then they'll play the knockout round.
3:04:53
And if and if the Dominic or Republic can get either like
3:04:56
Luis Severino or Brian Bello like one of the other second
3:04:58
tier pitchers to get hot, then yeah, they have definitely have
3:05:01
a shot with that offense. Yeah, and then and again, I'm
3:05:04
I'm also worried about the fact that is, is this going to sell
3:05:07
to the baseball fan? Sure.
3:05:09
Is this really going to sell if you're a baseball fan?
3:05:11
I know Zach's a baseball fan. I know Zoot's a baseball fan.
3:05:14
Tom, I'd like to hear it from the younger fans because these
3:05:19
guys, the youth, they can't wait for this tournament.
3:05:21
I've it's so funny because I was speaking to a kid off air.
3:05:26
I'm not going to mention his name, but he he's a big baseball
3:05:28
fan. He's in his 20s.
3:05:30
And he was telling me how I can't wait until the WBC.
3:05:32
This is going to be great for Team USA.
3:05:34
They got a chance to win it. And I said, OK, they're going to
3:05:37
win it. Maybe, maybe they do win it.
3:05:38
What's it going to do? What's it going to do?
3:05:40
Team USA won it one time. I think, if I'm not mistaken,
3:05:44
who is the pitcher? Who's the closing pitcher?
3:05:45
I think it was, yeah. Patrick Medford, representative.
3:05:48
You know what I'm talking about. Stroman That's right.
3:05:50
Yeah, Marcus Stroman, I remember he finished and he and he
3:05:53
pitched the final game for Team USA and he won.
3:05:55
They won the WBCI. Remember, that was the only time
3:05:58
they won the. Yankees and Mets legend Marcus
3:05:59
Stroman. Yeah, a Long Island native.
3:06:02
I know Patrick Medford. I went to school there, so I
3:06:05
know Marcus Stroman, but I, I just, you know, I speak to these
3:06:10
kids and they're, they're like excited about this.
3:06:14
What's so exciting about this? I, I, I, I mean, I'm a Yankee
3:06:18
fan and I'm worried. I'm definitely worry about Aaron
3:06:21
Judge. He's 34 years old.
3:06:23
I'm worried about McClain in the same way.
3:06:24
But McClain is like in his early. 20s, I know that, but
3:06:27
still, you don't want to. The Mets have had problems
3:06:29
keeping their young pitchers healthy.
3:06:30
Juan Soto is 27 years old. Aaron Judge is 34 years old.
3:06:36
He's the best player in baseball and he's going in this
3:06:38
tournament because he's never played for Team USA baseball.
3:06:41
He's never experienced this opportunity to be the captain of
3:06:44
this team. I mean, are you excited as a
3:06:46
Yankee fan because Aaron Judge is the captain of Team USA
3:06:50
Baseball? It's they're not winning
3:06:52
anything. They're not getting anything out
3:06:54
of this. Are they even making money on
3:06:56
this? I think some, but not not enough
3:06:59
where you would expect for like a global tournament.
3:07:01
That's, that's problem with a lot of these global tournaments
3:07:03
probably outside of the World Cup.
3:07:04
Like you have a lot of these tournaments that don't make as
3:07:07
much as they should and or international organizations we
3:07:10
talked about with the Olympics a few weeks ago that have been
3:07:12
corrupt in terms of like not paying their athletes enough as
3:07:15
much as they should for amount of the amount of training, the
3:07:17
amount of wear and tear that puts it, especially with
3:07:19
baseball, that is a long season. I think when I look at the game
3:07:21
of baseball and it's all about the youth, you want to bring in
3:07:24
some new fans if they're all driving to bat basketball
3:07:28
because of all the stars and football because it's the
3:07:31
biggest sport here in America and they're making it world
3:07:34
renown. I mean, think about it.
3:07:36
You have them in Europe, you have it in Germany, you have it
3:07:38
in Australia. They can have games in all
3:07:39
different places for for the next, you know, next 20 years.
3:07:44
I I mean the NFL just signed a big contract to have games all
3:07:48
over the world. Baseball is world renowned,
3:07:53
world renowned As far as world sports, baseball's the biggest.
3:07:58
Think about it, it's the biggest besides soccer, right?
3:08:02
Besides soccer, but that's not out of the the four major sports
3:08:06
here. The four major sports is
3:08:07
basketball, which is becoming world renowned, football that's
3:08:10
getting there. Hockey that's, you know, it's
3:08:13
world renowned, but not as big. Certain markets, yeah.
3:08:15
And baseball, baseball's the biggest.
3:08:18
It's the biggest in the whole world.
3:08:22
If you go to country to country, every one of them are playing
3:08:25
baseball. Every one of them soccer,
3:08:28
baseball, hockey's too expensive.
3:08:31
Basketball, if you you know they they do play basketball, but
3:08:34
it's not it's getting up there. I mean it.
3:08:37
There are basketball players all over the world now but and
3:08:40
football is is starting to grow world but.
3:08:44
It's in football's never going to catch up with the.
3:08:45
Others no, this is this is a sport that is trying to to catch
3:08:51
back up with basketball and football and I don't think this
3:08:55
is the tournament that's going to do it.
3:08:57
I I would worry fans, I would worry.
3:09:01
I wrote a story on the on the worldwide sports radio network.
3:09:03
Go check it out. I, I, I gave you my take into
3:09:07
it. I know everybody's excited and
3:09:09
I'm excited to see Aaron Judge, but USA colors.
3:09:12
And then what happens when he fouls a ball off the back of his
3:09:15
knee and creates A contusion that makes him sit out for five
3:09:19
weeks of the MLB season? What are the Yankees going to
3:09:23
do? What happens if he fouls a ball
3:09:26
off his finger or his toe and he breaks his toe and he could be
3:09:31
out two months? How does that help the Yankees?
3:09:37
That's why Bellinger and I, I agree with Bellinger.
3:09:39
I agree with some of these players that said, you know
3:09:41
what? I don't want to play in this
3:09:42
tournament. I don't want to put my body on
3:09:43
the line. I'm I'm about, you know, the
3:09:45
team. I'm about my, my, my family.
3:09:48
I'm about my contract. So.
3:09:52
Imagine, imagine if they like had the insurance like you still
3:09:55
have to worry about even with like somebody like Lindor
3:09:57
dropped out. Yeah.
3:09:58
See, when Team USA Hockey, I understand.
3:10:00
That's the Olympics. That's the Olympics, to win a
3:10:04
gold medal, something that a team has not done in 46 years
3:10:08
and Team Cantor's dominance. And that's why all the Canadian
3:10:10
players want to play in that tournament.
3:10:12
That's why everybody was looking forward to it, you know, because
3:10:16
they're they're playing for something, they're playing for a
3:10:18
gold medal. That's the first time NHL
3:10:20
players were back in the Olympics.
3:10:22
They're playing for something. This is this is not good.
3:10:28
So that's my take on the WBC preview.
3:10:31
I, I, I know everybody was expecting me to be excited about
3:10:34
this, but, and I know Fish put it together, but I think Fish
3:10:37
knew where I was going with this.
3:10:39
It doesn't make me happy as a, as a baseball fan.
3:10:42
I'm a huge baseball fan and to me, if I'm a Yankee fan, a Mets
3:10:47
fan or any fan, I would not want to see my favorite or my best
3:10:51
player playing this tournament knowing that they can get hurt
3:10:54
and could be out a significant amount of time.
3:10:57
So that's my take on it. I hope everything is OK.
3:11:00
I hope nobody gets hurt. Something tells me somebody
3:11:03
major is going to get hurt in this tournament, could be out a
3:11:06
significant amount of time. I'm not betting on it.
3:11:08
I don't want to. I hope it doesn't happen.
3:11:10
I just have a feeling it's going to happen.
3:11:13
All right, ladies and gentlemen, our final segment of the night
3:11:15
as we call this Dial it up. We interrupt this regularly
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scheduled hot mix to bring an important news.
3:11:20
We got a big. Broadcast to do here.
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We're about to dial it all. It up OK everybody welcome.
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Now to dial it up. Everyone's favorite segment.
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We got a great Mets story. Again, if you don't know this
3:11:45
segment, we have 5 different stories.
3:11:48
Errol doesn't know what we're about to talk about.
3:11:50
He's going to dial up a take. And here's the first one
3:11:53
tonight. Brandon Nimmo is reportedly numb
3:11:58
from the Mets trade way back a few months ago.
3:12:03
Again, we have heard all sorts of reasons why Nimmo was traded,
3:12:07
verging from political possible reasons to not getting along
3:12:12
with Francisco Lindor, which Lindor has denied.
3:12:17
Texas seems to be pretty happy they have a new leadoff hitter
3:12:22
and probably left fielder slash center fielder.
3:12:25
Errol, what do you make? Squeeze the tree.
3:12:30
Stearns treated someone who felt a family relationship with Steve
3:12:36
Cohen as well as the only franchise he ever knew.
3:12:41
When you dial it. Off Well, we saw what Chris
3:12:46
Drury did to Goudreau. We saw what he did.
3:12:49
He told Goudreau at the trade deadline, before the trade
3:12:53
deadline that he wasn't going to trade him, that he wanted to
3:12:55
make sure. Goudreau wanted to make sure
3:12:56
that him and his family were going to stay with in New York
3:12:59
for at least the rest of the season and then in the
3:13:01
offseason, if you wanted to move him.
3:13:02
And what did Chris Drury do? He screwed him and the same
3:13:05
thing. David Stearns doesn't care about
3:13:07
being faithful to players and players that were drafted from
3:13:11
the organization. He don't care.
3:13:13
All he cares about is building his team and his championship
3:13:16
organization. It didn't work in Milwaukee.
3:13:18
He's trying to do it in New York.
3:13:20
I feel bad for Brandon IMO. I think Brandon IMO would have
3:13:23
been their best outfielder on this roster no question.
3:13:26
They traded him for honestly a bag of bones.
3:13:28
I I'm sorry you're bringing a guy is a veteran.
3:13:31
Simians is a is an older guy. He's 3637 years old.
3:13:35
I say a bag of bones because all it takes is 1 broken bone and
3:13:38
he's done and he could be out for the rest of his career and
3:13:41
the rest of the season. I'm not trusting a 36 year old
3:13:44
to a guy that's what 30 years old and still in the prime of
3:13:47
his career. I, I understand the the back end
3:13:51
of it. Maybe he didn't get along with
3:13:52
Lindor or Soto or any of the Spanish players or politically
3:13:56
behind maybe Donald Trump. I, I don't know it to me it
3:14:00
shouldn't matter. It should matter about the
3:14:02
talent of the player and this guy by would be the best
3:14:05
outfielder you have on this roster.
3:14:07
It sickens me. If I'm a Mets fan, I shouldn't
3:14:09
and I wouldn't be happy about. It no, you'll never want to
3:14:12
mistreat your longest tenured player in Brandon Nemo, who
3:14:15
debuted in 2016. And obviously we talk about like
3:14:18
they don't have a lot of like home drafted players.
3:14:20
Not a guy. Yeah, and home drafted players
3:14:22
in the lineup anymore. Now again, I like Simeon, I like
3:14:24
him as a player, but I I don't like the way that they treat
3:14:27
these players. And I always said that with the
3:14:28
Mets team culture, like they're still trying to establish that
3:14:30
they're a money pit right now. They pay guys, but they still
3:14:33
operate a very conventionally and this is another example of
3:14:36
that too. Whatever the reason may be,
3:14:38
whether or political, whether I. See the last Manaya guy?
3:14:41
I think he is. I think Alonso was technically
3:14:44
drafted by them, but he didn't come up until 19.
3:14:46
So it is. Nimmo is the last Manaya guy.
3:14:49
So, yeah, a lot of those guys remaining, yeah, because they're
3:14:51
all from these other trays. So yeah, it just, again, a guy
3:14:54
that was a fan favorite. Yeah.
3:14:55
He did. He have an amazing year every
3:14:57
year. No, but he was pretty steadily.
3:14:58
Good hustle guy, good defensive guy at his peak.
3:15:01
Yeah, he had a big contract. Maybe it was going to be moved
3:15:03
on later, but again, doing it, that's surprising.
3:15:05
With fashion, I agree with you. It was a lot the same way.
3:15:07
And you saw when Wilbur Flores was crying on the field because
3:15:10
he got traded or almost traded by the Mets in 2015.
3:15:12
Like, you have a loyalty to this organization, and Nimmo had that
3:15:15
for almost a decade. All right, we're going to go
3:15:19
over to college basketball with this next.
3:15:22
Story. College basketball.
3:15:25
I don't know if you caught this, but the leading scorer of USC.
3:15:30
Is. Chad Baker, Mazzara, He has been
3:15:34
kicked off of the team, effectively ending his college
3:15:38
career. Errol, he's 26 years old.
3:15:42
If you remember, he was one of the guys on that Auburn team
3:15:46
last year that went to the Final Four, Almost won it all.
3:15:51
He's played for five different teams in six years.
3:15:54
He was thrown off of, I believe, San Diego State for academic
3:15:58
issues. He's been out of trouble.
3:16:00
Well, the story is they've lost. They're in the middle of losing
3:16:02
their fifth in a row, USC and he just, he got hurt.
3:16:08
He came back from being hurt instead of joining the team on
3:16:11
the bench, sat under the base of the the hoop in the baseline
3:16:16
with the fans. Apparently there's a lot more
3:16:19
going on behind the scenes. He is gone.
3:16:21
What a catastrophe for a Southern Cal.
3:16:28
Dial it up. Well, here's what I'm going to
3:16:32
say. USC has not been a good
3:16:35
basketball program for a while. They really haven't.
3:16:38
I remember somebody that was drafted as the number one picks.
3:16:41
But you know what I'm talking about Mobley.
3:16:43
No, there's a guy I'm not talking about Mobley.
3:16:47
This was actually, I was LSU. I'm I'm going to go off that
3:16:51
USC, it was Mobley. Mobley was the last guy that was
3:16:53
good coming out of USA. So you're right.
3:16:55
And he plays for the Cavaliers. I, I here's the thing.
3:16:59
USC basketball has not been very, very good.
3:17:01
Now, I haven't heard this story, but I'm not surprised that
3:17:04
something is going on behind the scenes.
3:17:06
And maybe it has something to do with the coaching staff.
3:17:08
Maybe you didn't like the coach or maybe there's something going
3:17:12
on or he he doesn't like the way they're coaching certain
3:17:15
players. I'm not surprised this is going
3:17:17
on. This is, listen, you're a
3:17:19
player, you're getting a scholarship.
3:17:21
You decided to go to USC. You decided to go into the
3:17:23
portal and pick USC. You don't like something, act
3:17:28
like a man. Go and talk to the coaching
3:17:30
staff. Go talk to the director of of
3:17:32
the sports or the education and of it.
3:17:35
Why are you going out there and throwing yourself under the bus
3:17:37
where you're going to get yourself thrown off the team?
3:17:39
This is absolutely a joke. It just shows you that the
3:17:42
leadership over there at USC has not been good since Pete
3:17:45
Carroll, a different sport. I'm just saying national
3:17:52
champion Pete Carroll twice back-to-back years.
3:17:55
Well, hang on, USC has had something recently though.
3:17:58
I mean, they had Ronnie James recently.
3:18:00
Oh yeah, the great Ronnie James on USC, all four points of them.
3:18:06
But not really. That's what it comes down to.
3:18:08
This program. This program has been a really
3:18:10
bit of a stink bomb recently. And to be honest with you, it's
3:18:13
not looking any better. I mean, really, I don't know the
3:18:15
whole situation with this kid or whatnot, but I mean, there's
3:18:18
definitely a way to handle it and to not handle it.
3:18:21
I mean, it's not even that it's it's, it looks necessarily
3:18:23
terrible to the team. It's terrible to the team.
3:18:25
It is terrible to the team that you got got yourself kicked off
3:18:28
on and who does to know whatever is going to happen following
3:18:31
whatever team you do transfer to or whatever team.
3:18:33
He's going to be like that guy that just finished ten years in
3:18:35
Miami. What is that guy's name?
3:18:37
The tight end? I don't know his name, but it's
3:18:40
not even from a memorable name. But anyways, it's it's going to
3:18:43
be a mess. Listen, listen to the the names
3:18:45
that have been on USC basketball, DeMar DeRozan.
3:18:49
All right, Paul Westfall, Gus Williams.
3:18:53
Hold on. Taj Gibson, Harold Meyer, Nick
3:18:56
Young, OJ Mayo. OJ.
3:19:01
Cliff Robertson, he would probably be, in my eyes, be the
3:19:04
best one. I mean, I don't know if anybody
3:19:06
remembers Clifford Robertson. He played, if I'm not mistaken,
3:19:09
he played for the Portland Trail Blazers.
3:19:11
I love the way he played at the time that he was at, I think it
3:19:15
was. I think he was on the Trail
3:19:16
Blazers. Yeah, I think the 70s Trail
3:19:19
Blazers seemed the only one that won a title, I believe in the
3:19:22
late 70s. I just want to mention.
3:19:23
DeMar Derozan's probably. The yes, yeah, I would say
3:19:25
Derozan's probably the best one. Let me just sub in a little
3:19:27
before you move on. I was going to mention like they
3:19:30
got rid of their their coach left in Andy Enfield, that USC
3:19:34
had their best season in a while.
3:19:35
That was with Mobley. They went to the elite as a six
3:19:37
year. They got smoked like Gonzaga.
3:19:39
Remember how good they were with OJ Mayo and everybody was
3:19:41
thinking that they were going to win a national championship.
3:19:43
Right. And that's why you would think
3:19:44
like you were talking about what Pete Carroll, you would think
3:19:46
that they would like rise their whole athletic program into
3:19:49
something like that. Didn't OJ Mayo had a problem
3:19:51
over there in USC and that's why he fell in the draft?
3:19:53
A little before my. Time, I think he had a problems.
3:19:56
I think he definitely. Definitely is possible.
3:19:58
And if it does step up from the athletic department, you wonder
3:20:01
if there's issues behind that too.
3:20:03
Because Baker Mazzara, like you were saying, Fish, he went to a
3:20:05
final four with San Diego State. He went to a Final four with
3:20:08
Auburn. Like this is an experienced guy.
3:20:09
This is a good player and it's something you would want with
3:20:12
leadership there with a new coach And Eric Musselpin, the
3:20:14
very well respected, a good coach in Arkansas for a while.
3:20:17
And now you're dragging the program around.
3:20:19
You have the whole Brian James Robin before that too.
3:20:21
And. Going to the big 10?
3:20:22
That's a gauntlet. Good luck trying to recreate
3:20:24
your image as a program. I mean, I haven't been around a
3:20:28
ton of like high end like high school basketball talent, but
3:20:32
the best 16 year old I ever saw play live was OJ.
3:20:35
Yeah, I was at the ABCD basketball camp one year and he
3:20:38
was there doing like the underclassmen game.
3:20:41
He was by far the best one there.
3:20:42
Underclassmen and and including the guys older than him.
3:20:45
It was like the year after LeBron was there, I got there
3:20:48
and it wasn't like the same level of talent, unfortunately.
3:20:51
But let's move on to the next story.
3:20:54
This one we're going to bring in our intern for because we're
3:20:58
going to get back to the track. Yes, Tyler Reddick, MJ 2311
3:21:07
Racing. He makes NASCAR history by
3:21:11
becoming the first person ever to win the first three races of
3:21:16
the NASCAR season. This was after a long drought.
3:21:19
Obviously. We talked about it when the
3:21:21
Daytona 500 happened. He wins the Daytona, which is
3:21:24
the opening race of the year. He then followed it up with the
3:21:28
Auto Trader 400 in Atlanta. He overcame a bunch of crash
3:21:32
damage to become the victor and that one kind of, I believe just
3:21:36
like the Daytona race. And in this third race, he
3:21:40
started from the pole and LED over half of the race.
3:21:44
Errol. There were pictures of MJ
3:21:47
holding up the three after his three peat alongside Tyler
3:21:51
Reddick and his three peat side by side all over the Internet.
3:21:56
How do you feel about the championship drive and com pet
3:22:00
in the competitive nature of MJ never going away and finding
3:22:04
this way all the way to NASCAR? Dial it up now listen, who the
3:22:10
hell is Tyler Renick? Who the hell is this guy?
3:22:14
This guy wins 3 back-to-back raises.
3:22:17
I'm like, this is like days of Thunder.
3:22:18
He comes out of nowhere and you got coal.
3:22:21
And maybe maybe they're making a new days of Thunder movie.
3:22:24
I think they are days of Thunder too.
3:22:26
I mean, Tom Cruise is going to be in and I I saw it coming
3:22:28
attraction. So maybe they have Tyler Reddick
3:22:31
the starring, you know, the the second bad guy on the show.
3:22:34
He doesn't look like a bad guy. I mean, it looks like a sweet,
3:22:37
kind guy. And and Michael Jordan comes out
3:22:40
and I saw, I saw a couple of videos, Michael Jordan talking
3:22:43
to all the the top racers and he's like, he's like, I'm trying
3:22:47
to catch you guys. I'm trying to catch you guys.
3:22:49
They're talking about me, but who the hell am I?
3:22:51
I'm I'm just a basketball player.
3:22:54
It's great to see Michael Jordan and has his hands dipped in
3:22:57
everything. It really is it.
3:22:58
It's great and Michael Jordan seems like everything he touches
3:23:02
turns to gold except a Charlotte Hornets.
3:23:05
He didn't turn the goal over there and and eventually he sold
3:23:07
the organization. But this guy is a multi
3:23:10
billionaire. The guy understands what it
3:23:13
takes to build organizations and maybe he found a diamond in a
3:23:18
rough and Tyler Reddick. I mean, I don't know how tall he
3:23:21
is. He looks like he's like 5 foot 8
3:23:23
and 5 foot. He's a small guy.
3:23:25
It looks like he's a small guy, but he he he looks, you know, he
3:23:29
looks like, you know, ginger gingerbread, you know,
3:23:32
gingerbread kid. I guess I don't know good for
3:23:35
him. I I'm I'm happy for him.
3:23:36
Hopefully he consistently plays. What does he have like 180?
3:23:40
I think it's like I'm looking at 186 points right now in three
3:23:43
races. He's three, You know, I mean
3:23:46
he's been racing. He think he's, he's polling at
3:23:49
#1 so good for him, good for him.
3:23:52
Yeah, so it was, it was super impressive.
3:23:55
It was a really impressive drive.
3:23:56
I think probably the only thing more impressive than winning the
3:24:02
Daytona 500, which is insanely difficult to win.
3:24:05
I mean, you really need more than skill.
3:24:07
It took the what is arguably the the greatest race car driver of
3:24:11
all time, Dale Earnhardt, 20 years just to win the Daytona
3:24:14
500. And and Reddick's pretty young.
3:24:18
I mean, he's only been in the sport just a few years.
3:24:21
And then winning the the Auto Trader race in Atlanta with with
3:24:27
damage. I mean, after getting caught up
3:24:29
in the big one, that is pretty much unheard of.
3:24:31
And then what I would say was super impressive from
3:24:35
yesterday's race was beating Shane van Gisbergen who is a
3:24:39
multi time champion in the Australian V8 Supercar series.
3:24:44
He's a New Zealander so he's he's been down there, he's
3:24:46
whooped everybody's ass in that series.
3:24:48
And so he decided he wanted to come to the States and come and
3:24:51
whoop our guys's ass on the road.
3:24:54
And he's got 5 consecutive race wins on road courses.
3:24:59
He won his first start which was on a road course.
3:25:05
And Denny Hamlin, the co-owner of 2311 Racing, said himself
3:25:10
that Reddick is a more complete driver than him.
3:25:13
And what I think he means by that is he can win on these
3:25:16
superspeedway races. He can win on these really
3:25:18
dynamic kind of pseudo superspeedway races that Echo
3:25:24
Park Speedway has become. And then these intermediate
3:25:27
cookie cutters and then kind of this this big terror inducing.
3:25:33
What was that? I think it's interesting.
3:25:35
I'm listening to you. I'm like, I haven't.
3:25:37
I haven't really been a race car fan since Dale Earnhardt.
3:25:40
He was my favorite race car drive.
3:25:42
I watched every big race he was in.
3:25:44
But I don't know anything about this kid.
3:25:46
All I know is Michael Jordan finds a diamond in a rough.
3:25:50
He brings this guy in and this guy is just unstoppable.
3:25:53
Unstoppable right now. It's unbelievable.
3:25:55
I think I didn't. I'm not so shocked that it
3:25:59
happened. You know, I think it was a
3:26:00
matter of time, which I'm kind of shocked it hasn't happened
3:26:03
before. The 1st 3 races in a season has
3:26:05
been, you know, won by the same driver.
3:26:07
I'm not shocked that it happened.
3:26:09
I think I'm shocked that it's this group, you know, 2311, they
3:26:13
started in 2021 after, you know, they got a charter that had been
3:26:19
sold to Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin.
3:26:22
They, I mean, it's 2026 like this, their fifth season on the
3:26:26
track. You don't get this kind of
3:26:30
outstanding performance from these new teams usually.
3:26:35
And so it's it's really impressive that it is this team
3:26:38
and it's this driver. I mean, Tyler Reddick has wins
3:26:42
and he's consistent. Like he's won a regular season
3:26:45
championship before with this organization, but it's pretty
3:26:49
insane that it's this driver because he just never really had
3:26:52
those, those big kind of sexy wins.
3:26:55
You know, that you get like these.
3:26:58
And when they turned back to the Chase format for the
3:27:02
championship this year, this is the best opportunity that Tyler
3:27:06
Reddick has ever had to win a championship.
3:27:10
And I mean, he's already 3 races in, has three wins.
3:27:16
And you really see in a championship, you get a driver
3:27:18
with about 5 or 6 or more wins. Is has been good for a
3:27:22
championship in the old format to this extent is, is insane.
3:27:28
I mean, it is really a testament to the team.
3:27:30
It's a testament to how Reddick has been doing in the offseason,
3:27:35
especially for a road course. I mean you don't just you don't
3:27:39
just get good at a road course overnight, which he has had this
3:27:43
skill before, but being able to beat SVG in a road course alone
3:27:48
is is outstanding work. Wow.
3:27:50
Listen to you, Zach. You.
3:27:51
You really know your race car drivers.
3:27:53
I like it. It is about all I know.
3:27:56
Real. I mean, you can see my little
3:27:58
flag up here. I got my.
3:27:59
I got my steering wheel. That's good, man.
3:28:01
I like it. I like.
3:28:02
It I feel like I need a a backdrop like y'all have.
3:28:05
It's like Daytona. I like it.
3:28:07
Y'all have, y'all have. He's definitely something.
3:28:10
I'll get you something. I'll get, I'll get everybody
3:28:12
something. Yeah, we'll get it figured out
3:28:14
in the next couple of weeks. Y'all have I like.
3:28:16
That was that was great. Let's move on, on to the next
3:28:19
story, Errol. You're going to really.
3:28:22
Really. Crack.
3:28:23
What is it Tennis now? Are we going to get into tennis?
3:28:27
No former Rick Pitino assistant calls him a cranky old bitch.
3:28:33
I thought you might appreciate this.
3:28:36
This is Kevin Willard, the head coach of the Villanova Wild.
3:28:40
We know Kevin. Kevin Willard is hilarious but
3:28:44
he got himself in trouble because people didn't understand
3:28:48
his sense of humor. So this is after they got
3:28:52
destroyed by Patino and St. John's.
3:28:56
I'm not BS ING you. I don't have hair because of
3:28:59
this guy. It's the most miserable
3:29:03
experience in life. You fear your life.
3:29:07
And as he's gotten older, he's probably become more of a cranky
3:29:11
old bitch. He kept going.
3:29:15
I'm having a little trouble loading it on here, but he then
3:29:18
had to clarify his statement saying he loves Pitino.
3:29:21
He was his guy that brought him along.
3:29:24
Coach Pitino gave me my first opportunity as a coach.
3:29:27
I fact I'm forever grateful for. Is it possible to calculate how
3:29:31
much I learned in every aspect of the game in my 10 years
3:29:34
working for him? Blah, blah blah blah blah blah
3:29:35
blah kiss ass Errol. I I've worked with a lot of guys
3:29:40
I've coach. We talk to each other in ways
3:29:44
that are not maybe this but similar in a way.
3:29:47
I think you would be surprised how like a lot not you, but I
3:29:53
was wondering if you have any stories of just how ridiculous
3:29:56
some of the coaches spoke to each other and some of the ways
3:30:00
that people have been around you in sports when you dial it.
3:30:04
Up first of all, I know Kevin. I think we we all know who Kevin
3:30:08
is. He's a great personality.
3:30:09
He's great for college basketball and I love Rick
3:30:12
Pitino. But the best championship
3:30:16
coaches are the biggest Dicks. That's a fact.
3:30:19
Guys, you go back, look at Bill Belichick, you think he's
3:30:22
likable. He's not.
3:30:24
He's a first ballot Hall of Famer.
3:30:25
He's not in the Hall of Fame. I mean, John Wooden, you, you
3:30:28
talk about him, Look at all the guys that we have seen, all the
3:30:32
greats. How about, I don't know, we
3:30:35
could go back in time. The Greenback Packers, you know
3:30:37
where I'm going with sweetie. You know what I'm talking about
3:30:40
Lombardi. Lombardi was a crazy maniac.
3:30:44
If you go back to all the championship great coaches,
3:30:47
they're all asses. They all are just a it's a fact.
3:30:52
And for Rick Pitino, for anybody to think Rick Pitino's a nice
3:30:56
guy, nice guys finish last. And that's what I like about
3:30:59
Rick Pitino. That's why I knew he was going
3:31:01
to bring back St. John's basketball because the
3:31:04
Red Storm hasn't had that guy in office.
3:31:07
They brought Chris Mullins, He's too nice of guy.
3:31:09
It never worked. So if you ask me, ask Neil
3:31:13
Smith, my Keenan, I mean, they didn't get along and you'll, you
3:31:18
see what happened. Mike Keenan was the nice guy.
3:31:21
I mean, I'm sorry, Mike Keenan was the bad guy and Neil Smith
3:31:25
was the nice guy. It did it work.
3:31:27
It worked. It worked for one year and then
3:31:29
they they had to, they had to split up.
3:31:31
It just sometimes you just got to deal with that personality,
3:31:36
that bad personality and sometimes it doesn't work and
3:31:39
sometimes that bad personality doesn't work.
3:31:42
It didn't. It hasn't worked for The Jets.
3:31:44
I mean, nice guys, you have all these nice guys, Rex Ryan, nice
3:31:47
guy Robert Solid, nice guy. Todd Bowles, everybody says he's
3:31:51
a nice guy. Eric Glenn looks like he's an
3:31:54
ass. We'll see how that works next
3:31:55
year. But I mean, nice guys finish
3:31:58
last. It's coaching.
3:32:00
You need a leader that's going to stick it.
3:32:02
And I think this is great. I I like Rick Pitino just
3:32:05
because of that. Look at Danny Hurley.
3:32:06
You think Danny Hurley is a nice guy?
3:32:08
He's a two time national champion.
3:32:10
He's a Dick. He's screaming across the across
3:32:14
the court against Purdue and Edie.
3:32:16
Remember that he was calling them names and, and, and people
3:32:20
were watching it and people were attacking him after the game.
3:32:23
And you know what? You know what he said?
3:32:25
He says who won the championship.
3:32:27
That's right, I did. So it doesn't matter.
3:32:30
It's all about championship. It's all about winning.
3:32:33
And I like it. So Kevin can complain.
3:32:35
And Kevin at the end of everything was kissing his ass
3:32:38
as well as he should because Rick Pitino gave you an
3:32:41
opportunity to be an assistant coach on his roster and now gave
3:32:45
you an opportunity to move up and and coach other teams and
3:32:48
make more money and an open up opportunity for your family.
3:32:51
So kiss his ass, get on his, get on your knees.
3:32:55
And just because that's what I'd be doing if Rick Pitino, if I
3:32:59
was his assistant coach and he was yelling at me and calling me
3:33:02
names, I'd be like, Rick, love you, but you know, you are Rick
3:33:06
Pitino. So that's, that's all I'm going
3:33:08
to say. Get me another coaching job.
3:33:10
I don't know. I, I, I think this is great for
3:33:13
basketball. Rick Pitino's an ass.
3:33:15
He always was. And, and that's why he is where
3:33:18
he is. That's all I'm going to say
3:33:19
about that. I totally agree.
3:33:21
The best college, just College in general, not just basketball,
3:33:25
but the best college coaches are Dicks.
3:33:28
Think about Nick Saban. You said Danny Hurley, like
3:33:31
these guys aren't nice people. You got to do what you got to do
3:33:35
to to motivate your guys to get them ready week in and week out.
3:33:39
And this doesn't surprise me at all.
3:33:41
I mean, Rick Pitino's not. He doesn't look like a nice guy.
3:33:44
He's not. I met Rick Pitino years ago,
3:33:47
dude, I met Rick Pitino years ago.
3:33:49
When he speaks to you, he's very nice.
3:33:51
To the fans and people, media, he's good.
3:33:54
He's a good person if you're nice to him.
3:33:56
If he remembers you and he don't like you, stay the hell away
3:34:01
from him. He will bite your freaking head
3:34:03
off. He's one of those guys that he
3:34:05
just. He could be nasty, but that's
3:34:08
what winnings all about. You can.
3:34:10
You have the right to be nasty if you're a winner.
3:34:12
Phil Jackson, Everybody says Phil Jackson was a nice guy.
3:34:15
Oh, he's the Zen master. He's the Zen master.
3:34:18
How many coaches said that he was a complete Dick?
3:34:21
How many Nick executives said Phil Jackson was a complete,
3:34:25
complete Dick? So I mean, nice guys finish last
3:34:30
period. Or Bill Belichick.
3:34:33
I don't think anybody. No Parcells.
3:34:36
The Patriots were a fun team to play for.
3:34:38
They were the the Darth Vader, the Empire of the league.
3:34:42
Everybody hated the Patriots, hated Belichick.
3:34:44
And yet they won every year, over and over again.
3:34:48
That's what it takes to win. I guess so.
3:34:51
There, there are there are managers that are, you know,
3:34:54
nice like Joe Torre holds the bat, fiddles around with the
3:34:57
bat. Yeah, I mean, he was one of the
3:35:00
lucky ones. But the great championship
3:35:03
teams, if you go back and look at the greatest coaches of all
3:35:07
time, and we've done this before on in like Flynn, I will tell
3:35:11
you, out of my top 10, even Coach K Coach K is a player's
3:35:16
coach. But if you ever seen him
3:35:18
practice, you see how mad he gets.
3:35:20
He is a Dick that's say whatever you want.
3:35:24
That's what he is. He expects perfection.
3:35:27
That's why he is a great coach. He expects greatness.
3:35:31
How about Bobby Knight? Remember him throwing his chairs
3:35:34
on the court, going crazy, yelling at the referees?
3:35:38
He's he's one of the greatest college coaches of all time.
3:35:41
You think he was a nice guy? He almost had a heart attack
3:35:44
every time he was on a basketball court.
3:35:46
So you have to, you have to have some kind of personality.
3:35:50
Bobby Knight certainly did, that's for sure.
3:35:52
We got one story left, and this is something I think we're going
3:35:55
to see a lot of this baseball season coming up.
3:35:58
Errol, this was something that I got a video for, and this is a
3:36:02
Red Sox outfielder who speedy, I think was rumored to be traded
3:36:06
to the Mets last year. This is Willier Abreu.
3:36:10
Willier Abreu, he shows up an umph in a way.
3:36:14
I have not seen anyone do this yet because this year we're
3:36:18
going to have the ABS challenge system.
3:36:22
So let me put this up here for you guys to watch.
3:36:25
And he's going to take this as a called third strike, but he's
3:36:29
just going to go look, take his shoes off.
3:36:31
He puts his hands up and just taps his head and keeps walking
3:36:36
to first base even though he was called out.
3:36:40
Doesn't turn around and just stands on first base.
3:36:44
It turns out he was right by .6 inches, which is not exactly
3:36:51
that. It's a pretty close call.
3:36:53
He just kind of like tough stared him on a challenge.
3:36:58
I mean I've I've seen a lot of ways to show up umpires.
3:37:02
This is certainly a new one. Dial it up.
3:37:06
What is going on with the MLB? Guy takes off his cleats and
3:37:12
walks to first base. How does he not get thrown out?
3:37:16
By that I mean, I throw him out of the game, I throw him out of
3:37:20
the game. You're calling me out, I'm your
3:37:22
umpire and you're taking off your cleats and walking to first
3:37:25
base and looking like a Jackass. I'm sorry.
3:37:29
This is just so disrespectful. And, and this is the problem
3:37:32
right now in professional sports.
3:37:33
They're changing rules, they're adding rules.
3:37:35
It doesn't benefit anybody when you see players like this.
3:37:39
And and I, I, I don't even know who this guy is.
3:37:41
I mean, if I was the umpire, I'm like, you're not OK.
3:37:44
You're not Pete Alonzo, you're not Juan Soto, you're not Aaron
3:37:48
Judge, you're not any of these guys.
3:37:50
And you're you're going to call me out, you're going to play me.
3:37:53
I was like, get out of here, get out.
3:37:54
You're out of here, get out of here.
3:37:56
It's just embarrassing. I, I, I hope this doesn't happen
3:38:00
in a regular regular main Major League game.
3:38:02
Is this is, this is really, really embarrassing.
3:38:04
I think baseball needs to make a statement on this, that this
3:38:07
cannot be going on moving forward when the season starts,
3:38:11
there's 162 games. I know everybody likes these new
3:38:15
rules and they like the new robotic crap, these boxes and
3:38:19
stuff like that. It might be better.
3:38:21
It might be good for the playoffs.
3:38:23
This is not good for the regular season and you're trying to
3:38:25
speed up the game. This is what they're doing.
3:38:27
They're trying to speed up the game.
3:38:28
How is this speeding up the game A baseball when you you can
3:38:31
challenge a call like this? Oh, you can count.
3:38:34
You can now challenge a strike and you can watch the strike in
3:38:38
the in the box. Give me a break.
3:38:40
Baseball needs to clean this up. Rob Manfred, you're an idiot.
3:38:43
You're a Jackass. This is stupid, dumb and stupid
3:38:46
ABS crap I mean. Give me a break.
3:38:49
Automatic balls and strikes. It's the new way of.
3:38:53
Sure it's not automatic breaks. Look, there's been millions of
3:38:57
ways to show up umpires over the years.
3:39:00
That's. Pathetic.
3:39:01
There's magic words that can't be said.
3:39:04
That's different. Take it off your cleats.
3:39:07
You know what I would have done if I'm going to really just call
3:39:10
him out? I would have just pulled my
3:39:11
pants down. I would open up my belt, pull my
3:39:13
pants down a walk to first base in my boxer.
3:39:16
Shorts didn't shirt. Didn't Scherzer do that that one
3:39:18
time? Dropped the first year of the of
3:39:22
the sticky substance challenge. He went to a whole other
3:39:25
extreme. Like obviously the the
3:39:27
situation, the way they handle it was bad and the Mets got
3:39:29
screwed in a couple other instances, but I I couldn't even
3:39:31
defend. That's why I love church.
3:39:33
I think you're going to see a lot more of this.
3:39:36
I'm curious to see where it goes.
3:39:38
He was right. He should have been walked.
3:39:40
If you can get it right, isn't that what's important?
3:39:43
I don't know. I think, I think we have some
3:39:45
takes from maybe our other intern in this one.
3:39:48
It's disrespectful. I don't know why you don't.
3:39:50
You just challenge it and if you're right, then you go to
3:39:53
first. You don't got to do all that.
3:39:55
Get the call right and then be at first.
3:39:57
Now if you just challenge it, it's right then go, we're going
3:40:01
to be doing this throughout the EBS system.
3:40:03
I mean you guys can do this now. So that's good.
3:40:06
I like it, but you don't going to show up in on fire like that.
3:40:09
You know what I want to say also?
3:40:11
I want to say. So I'm sorry to cut you off
3:40:14
also, Alex Kora, did you see his face?
3:40:16
Alex Kora thought it was funny. I mean, this is the same Alex
3:40:20
Kora that was part of that cheating scandal, was he not?
3:40:23
Did he think that was funny too, how he robbed the Yankees for
3:40:26
another World Series? Because I'm sorry, that was not
3:40:29
funny. And Alex, if, if you know how to
3:40:32
reprimand your players, I would have reprimanded him after the
3:40:35
game. Don't do that.
3:40:36
Don't show up anything. This is loyalty of the game.
3:40:39
And you don't do that, that that's embarrassing.
3:40:42
Alex Gore was laughing. He was smirking.
3:40:44
I know it's a preseason game. You don't do that in baseball
3:40:48
games. I'm sorry.
3:40:49
Sorry, Tom. Tom, you got anything else?
3:40:51
Because I, I thought it was pretty wild that, you know, I
3:40:56
don't know if you've done any umpiring like Little League or
3:40:58
anything like that. I, I've been a referee, I've
3:41:01
done things like that. There's nothing worse than when
3:41:03
someone like, shows you up and like, you feel like you have to
3:41:06
do something and cause a scene because you don't want to do
3:41:09
that. You just want to get through it.
3:41:10
You want to get paid, you want to get out of there.
3:41:12
I, I can't imagine just like the amount of like hate people are
3:41:16
going to get. So for for both the sides of
3:41:19
this thing. So you could shut the music off.
3:41:21
I will say this, I want to tell you guys a funny story.
3:41:24
I have a very, very funny story. So I was I was an umpire for ASA
3:41:30
and I I before the game, it was a very, very hot summer game,
3:41:35
Speedy, You know where I'm going with this.
3:41:37
And it was a double header. It was a girls softball game and
3:41:42
we were out of school and I was rushing.
3:41:44
So I stopped to 711. I got myself a Coca-Cola Slurpee
3:41:48
and a buttered roll. All right, I ate it before the
3:41:51
game because I was rushing. I didn't eat anything the whole
3:41:53
day. So I go to the game and I
3:41:56
started getting stomach aches. I got bad, bad stomach aches.
3:41:59
I really, really had to go to the bathroom.
3:42:00
So I called, I put a hold on the game and I ran up to the coach
3:42:05
as I said I need to go to the bathroom.
3:42:06
I got to I got to go up to the school and go to the bathroom.
3:42:09
They said don't worry about it, just try to get back as soon as
3:42:12
you can. So I run up to the school.
3:42:14
Funny story is I go up in the school and all the school, all
3:42:19
the doors are locked and I'm like oh God, what am I going to
3:42:22
do? So I'm knocking on the windows,
3:42:25
nobody open. So I go from every single window
3:42:28
until I find a window that's open.
3:42:29
I crawl through the window ass, you know, face first ass out.
3:42:34
It was, it was pretty funny. People were watching me do this
3:42:38
and it's dark. The whole building is dark so
3:42:40
you can't see nothing dark. I was in a classroom.
3:42:44
I get through the classroom door and I'm looking for the
3:42:46
bathroom. Finally find the bathroom guys.
3:42:49
There's no way to open up the the guys bathroom lights.
3:42:52
It was all off. I'm trying to find the toilet
3:42:55
bowl with my phone. OK, I go to the toilet and I
3:43:00
just, you know, I do my work. OK, So I after I'm done, I
3:43:04
realize there's a lock on the toilet paper.
3:43:07
All right? There's there's no toilet paper.
3:43:10
There's nothing. So I had to make a decision on
3:43:14
how I was going to wipe my ass. True story is I took my
3:43:18
underwear off and I started wiping my ass with my underwear.
3:43:23
I, I finally, everybody asked me what did I do in my underwear?
3:43:27
I couldn't find the garbage. I threw it to the side.
3:43:31
I, I pull up my pants. I, I pull up my pants.
3:43:34
I, I, I do it. I played.
3:43:36
I was calling two women 2 girls softball games bare ass.
3:43:41
OK, no. No underwear?
3:43:45
No. Underwear.
3:43:45
No, nothing. As a matter of fact, one of the
3:43:47
coaches came up to me and he said, where did you go to the
3:43:51
bathroom? I have to go to the bathroom,
3:43:53
you know, after the before the second game.
3:43:56
And I said, you don't want to know how I got into the the
3:43:58
bathroom. And he he started laughing.
3:44:01
I was like, what, what do I have to do?
3:44:02
I was like, you don't have to do anything because if I told you
3:44:04
what I do, it'd probably make you sick.
3:44:06
So the funny story is, is that every time I see that school
3:44:12
here in Long Island, it makes me laugh.
3:44:14
Every time I pass that school, I remember what I did.
3:44:18
True story on that as an umpire, Asai did it for two years.
3:44:22
It was fun. It was great.
3:44:24
Got a got a chance to see angry parents, people yelling at me,
3:44:28
telling me they're going to kill me, wait for me after the game
3:44:31
and threaten that I'm going to get murdered.
3:44:33
And and some of the father's getting in my face kicking dirt
3:44:36
at me and I'm looking at him. I'm like, this is a girls
3:44:38
softball game or and then I played.
3:44:41
I would do the men's softball games and they're even more
3:44:44
crazier. They get drunk wasted before the
3:44:47
game. And if I make a terrible strike
3:44:50
call because it's like slow pitch, you know, softball.
3:44:55
And I'm saying I'm like, dude, a little girl can hit this ball
3:44:58
and they're striking out and I call a strike because it's not
3:45:00
falling behind the plate. It's falling in front of the
3:45:03
plate and it looks like a strike to me.
3:45:04
They're going crazy. They want to kill me.
3:45:06
I, I told the guy, so a guy stole second base and I called
3:45:11
him safe when he was really out. I, I knew he was, I knew he was
3:45:15
out, but I called him safe because I couldn't stand the the
3:45:18
captain of the other team. He comes out in the middle of
3:45:21
the middle of the field and he could, he looks at me, grabs a
3:45:26
bat while he's walking out and I and before he got, he got to the
3:45:29
pitching mound. The pitcher steps off and I walk
3:45:32
right there. I say drop the F in bat or I'm
3:45:35
going to throw you and your team out of here and you're not going
3:45:37
to be playing in this league. He took the bat and he threw it
3:45:40
out in the outfield and he walked out to the dugout.
3:45:43
I threw him and three of the other players out of the game.
3:45:47
I told him they have to leave or I'm canceling the game.
3:45:49
They all left. I'll never forget it.
3:45:51
After the game, they waited for me out in the in the parking lot
3:45:55
and before I walked in the parking lot because I was ready
3:45:57
to fight. I took off my shirt.
3:45:59
I was ready to fight. I, the other umpire tells me, he
3:46:02
says you are staying right here until I settle or try to calm
3:46:06
this down before it becomes, you know, cops and everything like
3:46:09
that. I'll never forget it.
3:46:11
Dude, these people are nuts. They're nuts.
3:46:14
They they take things too seriously and and it's a it's a
3:46:18
softball game and it's a beer league, you know, so crazy,
3:46:22
crazy. But it's fun.
3:46:24
It's fun. There are times that I could say
3:46:26
I had a good time. I love watching Nick Goody
3:46:28
coach's son. I will say that Nick is great to
3:46:31
watch because he gets really into the game and he's
3:46:34
fantastic. And I want to give a shout out
3:46:36
to Nick. You know, I know Nick is, you
3:46:38
know, dealing with what he's dealing with and hopefully he
3:46:41
gets into where he wants to get into.
3:46:43
I love there he is. We love you, Nick and we miss
3:46:45
you dude. And hopefully we get him on
3:46:47
soon. And I want to give a shout out
3:46:49
to the, all the, all the great interns that we've had over the
3:46:52
years. But these three guys have been
3:46:53
great, sensational, happy to have them on board and continue
3:46:57
working with them. I, I, I give them all the, I
3:47:00
give all the guys the credit because that's a good one.
3:47:08
I do miss Nick. I miss his craziness.
3:47:11
I, I do, I, I, I, it's funny, I text him all the time and he's
3:47:15
telling me I got a ball game and he's telling me all about the
3:47:18
game. And he tells me it's freezing
3:47:20
out here. And I'm like, what, what, what's
3:47:22
the weather out here? It's like it's 50°.
3:47:24
I was like, that's freezing. Jesus.
3:47:26
I'm like, give me a break. Stop being a bitch.
3:47:28
You know, I'm like, you're such a girl.
3:47:33
But and he's, he's a great person And I, I enjoy people
3:47:38
that I get to meet over the years and, and everybody, all
3:47:40
the guys that I've worked with, even the guys that I can't stand
3:47:43
now that are in the industry and I can tell them to go after
3:47:45
themselves over and over and over again.
3:47:47
I respect all their work and their efforts in, in, in, in all
3:47:52
their growth, their growth in this industry.
3:47:55
So and, and I really appreciate everybody for all the work that
3:47:59
they put in on the back end of the show.
3:48:01
So thank you. And yeah, it's been a great one.
3:48:04
I want to give a shout out to Chris Child.
3:48:06
I hope everything's going well with his mom.
3:48:08
I know he he couldn't make the show tonight.
3:48:10
I know a lot of people were looking forward to him, him
3:48:12
joining us. He's a great interview.
3:48:14
He always is. He'll be on Thursday.
3:48:16
I promise you guys, Chris does not, you know, drop out at the
3:48:20
last minute like this unless there's something really wrong.
3:48:24
But Chris, I hope everything's going well with your family.
3:48:28
You know, we love you and, and hope everything's good.
3:48:30
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There's somebody tampering over there at Apple, so it doesn't
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