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NFL Free Agency Recap & Filling out a NCAA Bracket! Plus ranking the top 10 players in the NBA! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome, welcome, welcome, Welcome back to another episode, episode
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Speaker 1: number ninety eight of the so called sports analysts.
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Speaker 2: Josh, how you doing.
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, man. You know, NFL free agency has
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Speaker 3: been having us in a having us kind of in
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Speaker 3: a bin and seeing all these different moves. So since
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Speaker 3: the Spurs are basically are completely out of it, I've
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Speaker 3: just been enjoying some good basketball from other teams that
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Speaker 3: I've been watching. And it's March madness. This is this
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Speaker 3: is the first year that I've actually really sat down
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Speaker 3: and watched a lot of college basketball. I haven't watched
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Speaker 3: all like the random teams, but like definitely the top
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Speaker 3: teams in Texas Tech of course, because that's my favorite team.
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Speaker 2: M hm.
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Speaker 3: And I will say this, and this is gonna be
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Speaker 3: a really hot take. I enjoy college basketball more than
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Speaker 3: college football. Ooh ooh, like way more. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: this is kind of a bias take also because I
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Speaker 3: like basketball than football, but still like, I just can
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Speaker 3: enjoy watching some good basketball, especially like the conference tournaments too.
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Speaker 3: Like the conference tournaments are pretty entertaining as compared to
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Speaker 3: like the top two teams playing each other in football.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, that's just that's just me. Well,
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Speaker 3: they saw Texas kind of work their waists back into
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Speaker 3: March madness when they beat whould they beat I'm fretting
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Speaker 3: Sippy right now. No, they beat Texas beat to play.
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Speaker 3: They lost Tennessee the next game, and they went to
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Speaker 3: double overtime versus the team that they beat. I think
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Speaker 3: it was Texas A and m I want to say
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Speaker 3: it was Texas A and m No or Oklahoma. I'm
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Speaker 3: a tripping. I'm tripping, my bad, guys, But that game
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Speaker 3: was pretty entertaining. They went to double overtime. And then
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Speaker 3: the next game, I mean, they lost to Tennessee, but
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Speaker 3: it was still cool to see like a team work
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Speaker 3: their way back into the tournament.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And another thing, like you're saying, it's just there's there's
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Speaker 1: a lot that could go on. You never know at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, who could win. In college football,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot easier, Like I don't know much about
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Speaker 1: college basketball, but I just know that it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a team that nobody expects to win. But all right,
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Speaker 1: and use code TSCSA. But all right, like you're saying,
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Speaker 1: NFL free agency, so last week it started and you
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Speaker 1: said the Broncos.
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Speaker 2: I remember you saying this.
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Speaker 1: You said the Broncos were gonna be active buyers in
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Speaker 1: free agency, and you were.
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Speaker 2: Right about that one.
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Speaker 1: But was there any other team that you were surprised
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Speaker 1: by in free agency?
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Speaker 3: I'm not more surprised. I guess I forgot was gonna
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Speaker 3: be the New England Patriots. And we saw them make
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Speaker 3: a lot of them a lot of kind of big
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Speaker 3: moves that kind of put them in a uh, but
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Speaker 3: them not I'm not going to say into like big
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Speaker 3: position to make any serious moves this next season, but
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Speaker 3: definitely some needs that they need to fill out and
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Speaker 3: they're kind of rebuilding this defense. But their free agency,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's Mike. What's Mike? That's Mike Rabel's
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Speaker 3: plan is to re establish a great New England defense
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Speaker 3: that takes a lot of pressure off of the New
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Speaker 3: England offense. And then we've seen that in the history
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Speaker 3: of the New England Patriots football over the last twenty
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Speaker 3: to thirty years, they've they've done that and bringing in
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Speaker 3: Carlton Davis Milton Williams, who I am pretty surprised he
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Speaker 3: got that big of a contract, considering like last year
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Speaker 3: was his first real good year and then his performance
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Speaker 3: in the playoffs really set him to set him up
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Speaker 3: for this and now he's technically he's the highest paid
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Speaker 3: player in New England Patriots history four years, one hundred
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Speaker 3: four million dollars and that's even higher than a lot
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Speaker 3: of the greats that they've had there. Harold Landry was
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Speaker 3: a good pick up roberts splane from the Las Vegas Raiders.
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Speaker 3: I believe he gets overlooked quite a bit because, you know,
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Speaker 3: playing on the Raiders, not in good, meaningful games, but
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Speaker 3: in the games that I did watch him play when
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Speaker 3: he did play the Chiefs, he was a problem. He's
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Speaker 3: everywhere all over the field. He's that he's that great linebacker,
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Speaker 3: that's that's everybody he needs to be at the right times.
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Speaker 3: Morgan Moses, that's something to see. They signed him from
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Speaker 3: the from the New York Jets. He hasn't really panned
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Speaker 3: out completely to being a great right tackle in the NFL,
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Speaker 3: but who knows. Maybe scheme fit and different styles of
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Speaker 3: play can change a play, change how a player's trajectory is.
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Speaker 3: And uh, that's a good pickup for them. I am
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Speaker 3: kind of just they picked up a couple of other players,
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Speaker 3: you know, but I feel like one player, that one
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Speaker 3: position that I think they need to address a lot
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Speaker 3: more is wide receiver. I mean, Matt Collins, Mike Collins
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Speaker 3: have just one catch a game. Like I'm not I'm
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Speaker 3: not hating on him, but that's not the movie. You
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Speaker 3: need to make a wide receiver when you have glair,
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Speaker 3: a glaring need there, and they didn't. They didn't do
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Speaker 3: that in this free agency. Maybe in the draft they
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Speaker 3: target to or maybe one or two new wide receivers
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Speaker 3: that can kind of take some pressure off of Drake May.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, the newt Patriots made a lot of moves
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Speaker 3: and another team I think that made them pretty under
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Speaker 3: the radar moves is the New York Giants. I think
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Speaker 3: the New York Giants also made some pretty good moves,
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Speaker 3: and I'm not I don't think they're too far from
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Speaker 3: being a good foot a good team. I think they're
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Speaker 3: a quarterback away, a really good quarterback away. They have
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Speaker 3: their receiving weapons. We already saw that last year with
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Speaker 3: Malik Neighbors Wandell. And they even bring back Darius Slayton,
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Speaker 3: which is a controversial signing. Like, if we're being completely honest,
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Speaker 3: it's a pretty controversial signing because you could have had
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Speaker 3: Sake on three years, thirty eight million, but instead you
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Speaker 3: keep Darius slay in three years thirty six million. So
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Speaker 3: it's kind of like, really, bro, I get it. It's
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Speaker 3: safe from Bankley. But running backs are replaceable, and we
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Speaker 3: saw Tyron Tracy last ye kind of step up into
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Speaker 3: a really big rule for the New York Giants when
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Speaker 3: he was healthy and he played some great football. No
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Speaker 3: one can take that away from him, and he was
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Speaker 3: a productive running back. But yeah, so they bring back
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Speaker 3: Darius Slayton, They bring back the Italian stallion Tommy DeVito
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Speaker 3: on a one year contract. But that's not even the
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Speaker 3: more moves. They brought in Paulson Adebo, who was a
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Speaker 3: great main demand coverage press cornerback from the from the
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Speaker 3: New Orleans Saints. He he he's really grown into his
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Speaker 3: own and I think getting this big contract kind of
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Speaker 3: establishes that. And he goes to the New York Giants,
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Speaker 3: Javon Holland. They bring in the safety from the Miami Dolphins,
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Speaker 3: who I don't understand what they're trying to do. I
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Speaker 3: don't understand what they're trying to build on defense. They
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Speaker 3: let one of their top players go, Chauncey Golsten. They
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Speaker 3: brought him in. So they've made some pretty good moves
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Speaker 3: also the New York the New York Giants, but there's
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Speaker 3: a there's a lot of other teams that made a
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Speaker 3: lot of moves, but to me, those are the two
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Speaker 3: that really stand out on bringing in a lot of
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Speaker 3: new players.
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Speaker 1: Well, I want to just pick up where you were
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Speaker 1: said with the Giants right there picking up Paula Deebo
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Speaker 1: and then Javon Holland. Like we said, the front four
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Speaker 1: was never the problem for the Giants defense. It was
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Speaker 1: really the secondary. And now you're sharing that up and
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Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. I just think
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Speaker 1: that the Giants they need a quarterback right now. I
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Speaker 1: know there's a whole. Aaron Rodgers. We don't know if
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Speaker 1: he's gonna go to Pittsburgh or New York. But what
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Speaker 1: would you feel about that?
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Speaker 2: Personally?
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Speaker 1: Me, I don't think Aaron Rodgers is the same guy
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Speaker 1: that's gonna take the Giants over the next level. But
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Speaker 1: I do agree they have all the pieces, even their
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Speaker 1: offensive line now, they're decent, They're not bad. So what
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Speaker 1: do you think would happen if they get Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna count on Aaron Rodgers because it is
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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers, you know, but we never know what he
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Speaker 3: could actually do. But he might also be in his
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Speaker 3: Carmelo Anthony face, you know, where he's kind of just
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Speaker 3: trying to be a start in places but not really there.
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Speaker 3: But I'm not gonna say that either, because last I mean,
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Speaker 3: the Giants the Jets is a terrible situation. It's been
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Speaker 3: a terrible situation for years. I can't. I mean, he
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Speaker 3: did go in and bring in a lot of his
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Speaker 3: own players, but I still do think it comes down
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Speaker 3: to a culture fit. And honestly, I don't think the
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Speaker 3: New York Giants is the place for him to go either.
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Speaker 3: I I don't know if bian Dave Ball is gonna
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Speaker 3: let him have that much control over an offense. Because
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Speaker 3: Brian day Ball is a good offensive head coach. He
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Speaker 3: has had a good, good hands to deal with. If
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Speaker 3: we're really talking about like Daniel Jones and Tyla Taylor
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Speaker 3: and Tommy DeVito and I mean, my bad Tommy video
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Speaker 3: is to go. Everyone else is a problem except for
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Speaker 3: Tommy to Vito for Brian day Ball, but he hasn't
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Speaker 3: really been dealt a great quarterback, and I'm sure once
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Speaker 3: he gets once, he's not gonna let the entire offense
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Speaker 3: go into his hands. So I think if he's gonna
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Speaker 3: go to a team, it's gonna have th do the
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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers with an already established culter cuture good weapons
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Speaker 3: on the outside. I'm not saying great weapons, but good
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Speaker 3: weapons with George Pickens and DK Metcalf, an okay, okay
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Speaker 3: offensive line, a good offensive line who has potential. I
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Speaker 3: will say, a good defense who you can rely upon
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Speaker 3: when situations get tough. And then I'm pretty sure Pittsburgh's
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Speaker 3: gonna go target a new running back in the draft,
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Speaker 3: getting rid of Nause Harrison only having dude, why am
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Speaker 3: I going blank? Jayleen Warren, Yeah, Jalen Only having Jalen Warren,
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Speaker 3: who is not a three down back, they really need
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Speaker 3: to bring in someone that can handle that load. So
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Speaker 3: it's I think Kenneth Gainwell isn't the answer that. So
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Speaker 3: it's gonna They're definitely gonna target running back in the draft,
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Speaker 3: So I think that's where he needs to go, especially
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Speaker 3: they especially them just signing Darius Slick Malik Harrison. They
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Speaker 3: have all the weapons on defense, and that's that's And
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Speaker 3: the thing is, I heard I forgot who I said,
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Speaker 3: heard say it on sports on ESPN, but they were
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Speaker 3: saying the Jets became Aaron Rodgers team, but they're the
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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Sailors. Aren't gonna be Aaron Rodgers team. There, It's
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Speaker 3: already TJ. Watts team. It's already Minka Fitzpatrick's team. It's
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Speaker 3: already Cameron Hayward's team. It's like a bunch of guys
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Speaker 3: that are already established their it's their team. It's not
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Speaker 3: necessarily gonna be his team. And so I think that will.
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Speaker 3: And it's Mike Tomlin's team like no one it's Mike
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Speaker 3: Tomlin has full control of everything. So I think that's
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Speaker 3: probably the best situation for him to go to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no for sure.
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Speaker 1: And then okay, one team that I wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: about right here. I feel like that definitely went under
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Speaker 1: the radar and had a great offseason as a Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 1: So first and resigned Harrison Smith. Then their biggest problem
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Speaker 1: was a defensive line last year, and they definitely solved
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Speaker 1: that with Javon Hargrave. And they got Jonathan Allen and
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Speaker 1: then re signing Byron Murphy. You got Isaiah Rodgers and
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Speaker 1: then Aaron Jones you brought him back. Jordan Mason, you
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Speaker 1: got him back. Then you got a centner and Ryan Kelly.
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Speaker 1: I just think that JJ McCarthy he's set in a
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Speaker 1: position now, Okay, it sounds crazy, but he did it
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Speaker 1: with Sam Donald lat Year Kevin O'Connell where they won
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Speaker 1: fourteen games. I think that if JJ McCarthy is just
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Speaker 1: as good as Sam Donald, if not better, because he
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Speaker 1: was drafted tenth through eleventh, I think that they could
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Speaker 1: really go far because they really have no flaw.
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Speaker 2: Now it was their defense that as a problem.
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Speaker 1: They fixed that and they have the draft, so who knows,
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Speaker 1: if they get somebody in the draft, maybe Johnny Barron
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Speaker 1: somebody like that or secondary Malachi Starks. So I just
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Speaker 1: think that now JJ McCarthy, all the pressure is on him.
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Speaker 1: And I know you're not the biggest JJ McCarthy fan,
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Speaker 1: but I just think that I know it's a crowded
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Speaker 1: NF NFC what South, No, it's south, the South, North North. Ye,
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Speaker 1: I know this NFC North, it's crowded. But if I
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Speaker 1: feel like if JJ McCarthy doesn't make the playoffs this year,
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's gonna be really disappointing for the
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Speaker 1: team that they have.
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm no, I agree. I think, oh, are you
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Speaker 3: still going No?
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Speaker 2: No, no, go ahead.
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Speaker 3: I agree, like you show up this defense. I mean
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Speaker 3: you you've the front four is established Jonathan Allen, Javon Hargrave,
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Speaker 3: Dallas Turner. So those guys are set in stone right there.
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Speaker 3: You have guys that are gonna be able to get
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Speaker 3: to the quarterback. But I think the secondary moves are
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Speaker 3: gonna be a little under the radar. I think Isaiah
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Speaker 3: Rodgers has been a good quarterback in his career. He's
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Speaker 3: been he's been close to Pro Bowls standard with the
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Speaker 3: colt before. He's getting up there in age, but the
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Speaker 3: speed he's still able to keep with a lot of
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Speaker 3: a lot of faster wide receivers, and I think one move,
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Speaker 3: if he can stay healthy, it's gonna be Jeff Okudah.
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Speaker 3: I think Jeff Okudah when he does play, has great games,
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Speaker 3: but he's never playing. That's the problem. But we do
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Speaker 3: see players in their career kind of get over that injury.
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Speaker 3: But really so it's good. I don't I'm not putting
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Speaker 3: a lot on him, but it's gonna be like, Oh,
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Speaker 3: if he does pan out as who we think he is,
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Speaker 3: then it's gonna be a good pickup for the Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 3: And I do think retaining Byron Murphy, Anon Jones, Dale
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Speaker 3: Jackson and Harrison Smith you have a good solid safeties
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Speaker 3: and then Byron Murphy being the consistent good cornerback that
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Speaker 3: he is, you have that also a stablish established right there.
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Speaker 3: And I do think bringing in Jordan Mason shures up
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Speaker 3: the backfield because in the backfield you have Aaron Jones,
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Speaker 3: and if Aaron Jones does go down he's getting older,
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Speaker 3: you have another good running back right behind him, and
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Speaker 3: Jordan Mason who can take over, can take over a
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Speaker 3: role when he needs to and and really beat that
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Speaker 3: leadue back on which we saw him doing San Francisco.
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Speaker 3: So I do think these are all good moves for
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Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings to make.
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Speaker 1: So I just wanted to talk about one more team
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Speaker 1: and then in the NFC North here and I think
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Speaker 1: you know where I'm going. So last year they won
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Speaker 1: the offseason obviously with all the moves that they made
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Speaker 1: and then.
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Speaker 2: Plus getting a rookie quarterback.
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Speaker 1: But this year I feel like they took it up
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Speaker 1: another notch As far as the Chicago Bears right here,
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Speaker 1: they got Jonah Jackson, they got Joe Toney, then they
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Speaker 1: got a couple other pieces. I'm not gonna list off
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Speaker 1: all of them because it was like ten to twelve
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Speaker 1: moves that they made. But the biggest problem was the
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Speaker 1: offensive line last year wasn't even all the other parts
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Speaker 1: of the team. So do you think the Bears they
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Speaker 1: can make a real jump this year with the moves
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Speaker 1: that they made at offensive line?
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Speaker 3: I think they can make it. I think they can
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Speaker 3: make a good move. I think their defense started the
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Speaker 3: season off good. They were playing some good ball and
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Speaker 3: then eventually over time, once you're just in bad positions,
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Speaker 3: you're gonna look back no matter what I think bringing
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Speaker 3: in these type of players like Jonah Jackson, Joe Toney
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Speaker 3: and then what's his name the sinner Drew Dollman from
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Speaker 3: the Atlanta Falcons, you're bringing a good interior and run
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Speaker 3: behind you can get you can move the move the
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Speaker 3: sticks with while letting the ball Behind those three, I
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Speaker 3: think the tackles are gonna get the question. I know
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Speaker 3: the Induction Jones if they can pan out to be
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Speaker 3: the first round draft picks they were supposed to be,
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Speaker 3: or if not, you find new guys and you fill in.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's gonna be the problem for the
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Speaker 3: Chicago Bears on the outside if those guys don't pan out.
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Speaker 3: But if we look at the rest of them, we
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Speaker 3: see Grady Jett. I think that's a great pickup for
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Speaker 3: the interier with the with the line that has Montesdo
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Speaker 3: I don't know to say his last name, but having
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Speaker 3: another edge alongside of montest Threat, I think that's gonna
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Speaker 3: help them out quite a bit. And then they didn't
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Speaker 3: really make a lot of moves at the wide receiver.
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Speaker 3: I do expect Keenan Allen to kind of make a
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Speaker 3: decision coming up closer. I think it's either gonna be
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Speaker 3: I think he's more than likely going to go back
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Speaker 3: to Chicago or hopefully the Kansas City Chiefs. I would
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Speaker 3: like that, but definitely I could see him going back
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Speaker 3: to Chicago because he did have a lot of success
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Speaker 3: last year, even with Kaylee Williams that was under duress
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Speaker 3: pretty much the entire season, So it's I think there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of moves that could be made. I'm not
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Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and say that they have a saw
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Speaker 3: a chance because I do think the three other teams
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Speaker 3: in that division didn't get anywhere or any better, to
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Speaker 3: be like, they only got a little bit better. So
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Speaker 3: I think the lines disconnect is going to be coaching
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Speaker 3: rather than players. So it's gonna be something to see
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Speaker 3: for them. And we just talked about the Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 3: I think all of their relies on the of JJ mccausey,
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Speaker 3: if anything, of if they're going to go back to
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Speaker 3: being who they were and the pitch the Green Bay
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Speaker 3: Packers are always there no matter what, but it's just
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Speaker 3: can they get over that hump? And I do think
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Speaker 3: that's a wide receio away and I think that's the
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Speaker 3: real question for the Green Bay Packers. So I do
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Speaker 3: still do think it's a really close NFC North. I'm
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Speaker 3: not ready to say that they're ready to make that jump,
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Speaker 3: but they're definitely gonna be right there.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what I'm gonna say here, Dammit, I
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Speaker 1: think that the Bears. I know I said it last year.
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Speaker 1: I was kidding last year. This year, I'm for real
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Speaker 1: the Bears. They're making the playoffs this year. I'm putting
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Speaker 1: my stamp on it. Because another thing, I see what
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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson does as far as well Jared Goff, that's
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Speaker 1: been his only real quarterback that he's worked with as
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Speaker 1: far as being the head coach or not head coach,
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Speaker 1: call him plays is he wants them to step into
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Speaker 1: the pocket and quick throws. So now that he has
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Speaker 1: the interior, you could step up into your throws. And
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Speaker 1: if anything, if you wanted a weak spot on your
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Speaker 1: offensive line, you wanted to be your tackles where Caleb
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Speaker 1: Williams could go outside, where he could swing outside because
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Speaker 1: he has that mobility, not the interior.
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Speaker 2: So yep, and I think that.
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Speaker 1: I know there's a bunch of hype as far as
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Speaker 1: asking gen Z to the Bears, but I just have
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Speaker 1: a feeling that, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I would have lived on running back.
16:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a bunch of good prospects, and I think
17:02
Speaker 1: they should just go Will Campbell put him. I know
17:05
Speaker 1: he played, I know he played left tackle, but I
17:08
Speaker 1: think he'd probably go to right tackle. There's talks about
17:11
Speaker 1: him going to right tackle. So I think if you
17:14
Speaker 1: shure that up, it doesn't matter who you have outside,
17:17
Speaker 1: but you still have weapons, Like you were saying, Keenan
17:19
Speaker 1: Allen might come back, Roma Dunze, Dj Moore, so you have.
17:23
Speaker 3: I think that's what they're making on as the development
17:25
Speaker 3: of Remoduonsday and DJ Moore continuing to be DJ Moore.
17:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
17:30
Speaker 1: So I just think that DeAndre Swift is more than
17:33
Speaker 1: a capable enough running back. So I think just go
17:36
Speaker 1: in and just show up that offensive line. It'll go
17:38
Speaker 1: from one of the worst to one of the best.
17:40
Speaker 1: And one offseason. If those guys don't regress, the Jonah Jackson,
17:44
Speaker 1: the Drew Roler, the the Joe Toney, if those guys
17:47
Speaker 1: don't regress and they get a tackle, I think they'll
17:50
Speaker 1: be damn good. But all right, I want to talk
17:53
Speaker 1: about the team that you brought up last week that
17:55
Speaker 1: you said that was gonna make some moves, and they
17:57
Speaker 1: did the Denver Broncos here.
17:59
Speaker 2: They got Evan, they.
18:00
Speaker 1: Got Justin, Trent Shrfield, Drake green Law, tell n't know
18:04
Speaker 1: Whu Funga, and Matt Perk and DJ Jones, so they
18:08
Speaker 1: mostly bolstered up this defense right here. Yeah, So do
18:12
Speaker 1: you feel like this puts them one step closer to
18:15
Speaker 1: the Chiefs.
18:17
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna sit here and lie and say that
18:19
Speaker 3: it doesn't. I think it definitely does. I don't. They
18:21
Speaker 3: don't strike fear in me still. I mean, they're still
18:23
Speaker 3: they still give us problems, but I don't think they're
18:25
Speaker 3: that team. That's I don't think they're still I don't
18:26
Speaker 3: think they're ready enough yet to still make that jump
18:29
Speaker 3: into like conference championship play or anything like that. But
18:33
Speaker 3: I do think they're a playoff football team, and they
18:35
Speaker 3: were last year, and I think they only got better.
18:37
Speaker 3: I think Drake Greenlaw and telling the U Funga both
18:40
Speaker 3: guys that are been dealing with injuries. Both guys. But
18:43
Speaker 3: we know what they can be, we know who they
18:45
Speaker 3: are when they are fully healthy. And and we still
18:48
Speaker 3: haven't seen Drake green Law really play after his injury,
18:52
Speaker 3: because he did get hurt again but I think believe
18:54
Speaker 3: with the calf string and it set him out the
18:56
Speaker 3: rest of the season after that. But I think Drake
18:59
Speaker 3: Greenlaw pick up and showing up that middle next to
19:01
Speaker 3: Alex Singleton, that's gonna be a good linebacker dual do
19:05
Speaker 3: right there. And then we're gonna have Talanovu Funga in
19:07
Speaker 3: the back, in the back in the back two playing
19:10
Speaker 3: alongside Patrick's certain I think that's a good that's a
19:14
Speaker 3: good secondary, right, a great secondary, and their defense is
19:18
Speaker 3: for sure shirt up and I do I think the
19:21
Speaker 3: under the radar move that's gonna get looked over lies
19:22
Speaker 3: Evan Ingram. I think Evan Ingram is gonna add another
19:25
Speaker 3: weapon to this team, especially a guy that likes to
19:28
Speaker 3: target a lot of his tight ends. Especially in the
19:33
Speaker 3: Sean Payton offense, the Titans get used a bunch, and
19:37
Speaker 3: I think Evan Ingram is gonna be a weapon for
19:40
Speaker 3: Bonnicks in this offense. And I think they they do
19:42
Speaker 3: take that next step to not necessarily to the Chiefs level,
19:45
Speaker 3: but definitely to that to where the Chargers are gonna
19:50
Speaker 3: have their hands full, uh if they want to make
19:52
Speaker 3: the playoffs with the with the Denver Broncos.
19:54
Speaker 1: Well, like you're saying, I just want to bring up
19:56
Speaker 1: our teams here unless you have anything else to say
19:59
Speaker 1: after the fact.
20:00
Speaker 3: One team I want to talk about first, okay, and
20:02
Speaker 3: their move. They're two moves that may put them in
20:05
Speaker 3: a bind, and we're gonna we're gonna see how history
20:08
Speaker 3: plays out, if it's gonna be the same thing of
20:10
Speaker 3: last year as the Cincinnati Bengals. Cincinnati Bingals, they we
20:15
Speaker 3: knew Jamar Chase's contract was coming, No one had a
20:17
Speaker 3: question about that, No one doubted that they resigned bj
20:21
Speaker 3: Hill Mikeaseeki to bigger contracts. But the one contract that
20:25
Speaker 3: I think they could have let go because so much
20:27
Speaker 3: talent that's been coming through the draft is T Higgins.
20:29
Speaker 3: I don't think Higgins had to be at Cincinnati Bingle anymore.
20:32
Speaker 3: I think I understand what you're trying to do. You're
20:34
Speaker 3: trying to run it back, keep the keep the best
20:37
Speaker 3: duo whatever. Arguably still anymore because other guys have kind
20:42
Speaker 3: of came through. But having T Higgins four years, one
20:46
Speaker 3: hundred and fifteen million, you just put your team in
20:48
Speaker 3: a bind. And for no reason, I think you could
20:50
Speaker 3: have brought back Trey Hendrickson, who's been leading the NFL
20:54
Speaker 3: in sacks for last two years, could have brought him back,
20:57
Speaker 3: but instead you resign your wide receiver two to a
21:00
Speaker 3: wide receiver one contract basically, and I think it's gonna
21:05
Speaker 3: hurt this team in the long run. They have other
21:07
Speaker 3: glaring needs when it comes to offensive line, when it
21:09
Speaker 3: comes to defensive secondary, when it comes to those to
21:12
Speaker 3: the to the linebacking group, I do think they have
21:15
Speaker 3: a and Sam Hubbard retired and then Trey Hendrickson is
21:19
Speaker 3: now still waiting for their contract or waiting to get traded,
21:23
Speaker 3: so it's it's not looking really good for the Cincinnati Biggles.
21:27
Speaker 3: I think I think it's gonna be another setup of
21:29
Speaker 3: last year where they're in these big, high scoring games
21:31
Speaker 3: and come up short because their defense cannot stop nobody.
21:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with you one hundred percent.
21:37
Speaker 1: So twenty eight million for t Higgins, forty point twenty
21:43
Speaker 1: five something like that for Jamar Chase, and fifty five
21:45
Speaker 1: now for Joe Burrow.
21:46
Speaker 2: So nay, So what is that fifty five?
21:50
Speaker 1: That's over one hundred million dollars on three people right there,
21:54
Speaker 1: So like you're saying the cap space, what it's two
21:57
Speaker 1: eighty something like that, so three and then you have
22:01
Speaker 1: one sixty for the rest. That's not a recipe for success.
22:05
Speaker 1: I think that they're gonna have to ace this draft
22:07
Speaker 1: right here, just to be in contention.
22:09
Speaker 2: Like you're saying.
22:11
Speaker 1: I think that they could win some more games, because
22:14
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of close games that went the
22:16
Speaker 1: other way. But I just think that they're just not
22:20
Speaker 1: gonna be no real threat, like you're saying, because that
22:22
Speaker 1: defense is just so terrible. And I know they want
22:25
Speaker 1: to re sign Trey Hendrickson, so it might even be
22:28
Speaker 1: up to one hundred and fifty million for four guys,
22:30
Speaker 1: and like, not trying to be disrespectful to t Higgins
22:34
Speaker 1: or Trey Hendrickson, but they're not on the same level
22:38
Speaker 1: as some guys like in their same position, like t Higgins.
22:41
Speaker 1: He's not on Jamar Chase's level to be getting paid
22:44
Speaker 1: that much on this team. Trey Hendrickson, you could argue
22:48
Speaker 1: as far as sacks, but you'd want somebody else. You'd
22:52
Speaker 1: probably want a Mica TJ. Watt, Max Crosby, and Trey Hendrickson.
22:56
Speaker 1: He wants that kind of money right there, So it's
22:59
Speaker 1: gonna be up there. It could be one hundred and
23:01
Speaker 1: eighty million something we've never seen an NFL history before.
23:04
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
23:06
Speaker 1: I just think that there's just a bunch of guaranteed
23:10
Speaker 1: money right here. So maybe they could transfer, or they
23:13
Speaker 1: could restructure the contract where they could backload it. Maybe
23:16
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow his gets restructured. But even at that, free
23:20
Speaker 1: agency is over, so they're not gonna make any more
23:23
Speaker 1: moves in my opinion, because they got who do they
23:28
Speaker 1: get Joseph Osaiu, which they already had him already, but that's.
23:31
Speaker 3: Not They only resign a lot of players. The only
23:34
Speaker 3: two players that they signed was to Tod Slayton defensive
23:39
Speaker 3: Samajah Pete. They signed them sign them back to the
23:42
Speaker 3: Bengals after one year, yeah, so it was they after
23:45
Speaker 3: two years they brought him back to the Cincinnatia Bingles.
23:47
Speaker 3: So they didn't really make any moves. They only really
23:50
Speaker 3: signed one real player and Samadi Puran isn't going to
23:53
Speaker 3: play a ton but yeah, Chase front anymore.
23:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, they're gonna have to ace this draft
23:58
Speaker 1: right here. So but who knows you you brought them
24:01
Speaker 1: or you stuck them together like you said you were
24:03
Speaker 1: going to. But I don't know how much it's gonna
24:05
Speaker 1: pay off here, all right, But all right, let's talk
24:08
Speaker 1: about your Kansas City Chiefs here. So, okay, Christian Bolton
24:12
Speaker 1: two for twenty million, Elijah Mitchell got him, Jalen Moore
24:16
Speaker 1: from the Niners backup tackle, you brought back Markus Brown,
24:19
Speaker 1: Nick Bolton, and Trey Smith. So were you impressed by
24:23
Speaker 1: the Kansasity Chiefs moves.
24:27
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say I'm impressed, but we definitely filled
24:29
Speaker 3: some needs that we need at home. Let me get
24:30
Speaker 3: to them. This freaking thing is confusing me.
24:34
Speaker 2: No, you're good. What are you on Pro Football.
24:36
Speaker 3: Focus CBS Sports?
24:39
Speaker 2: Oh?
24:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one's it's broken down by team, that's why.
24:43
Speaker 3: So it's like and they don't have it like in division.
24:47
Speaker 3: They have it in alphabetical order.
24:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how PFF is, But it has it like
24:51
Speaker 1: at the very top where you could like click every team.
24:55
Speaker 3: Yeah. Mine doesn't have that yet to scroll every single time.
24:58
Speaker 3: That's why. Bad. But no, okay, So we franchise tag
25:01
Speaker 3: Trace Smiths, which I don't expect him to be their
25:03
Speaker 3: long term. I think this is a one. He really
25:05
Speaker 3: just signed this franchise Tag, So he's already there, so
25:08
Speaker 3: he's gonna be there for this year. I guarantee we're
25:11
Speaker 3: gonna draft somebody, see if another guy underneath some kind
25:15
Speaker 3: of steps up into a role. But I think this
25:17
Speaker 3: is definitely like a run it back year for the
25:18
Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs. Nick Bolin was a really surprised signing
25:21
Speaker 3: that I thought we made. I mean, I talked about
25:23
Speaker 3: that earlier. I thought I was surprised based at the
25:25
Speaker 3: depth that linebacker we actually do have. But I'm I'm
25:28
Speaker 3: happy to see him back. I'm happy to see that
25:30
Speaker 3: week show up our number of one linebacker for sure,
25:32
Speaker 3: and have that that climberstone presence showed up for another
25:36
Speaker 3: three years. I'm excited to bring Hollywood Brown back. I
25:39
Speaker 3: don't I think we saw flashes of what him and
25:41
Speaker 3: Mahomes could do together, but you know, missing all that
25:44
Speaker 3: time and having to kind of get back into the
25:48
Speaker 3: flow of things after being injured pretty much the entire
25:51
Speaker 3: season definitely took a toll. I think rolling into the playoffs,
25:55
Speaker 3: I think you do need those all those games to
25:57
Speaker 3: kind of be up to part with the rest of
25:59
Speaker 3: the offense. And I do think having Hollywood Brown we
26:01
Speaker 3: could finally see where Rice, Xavier Worthy, and Hollywood Brown
26:04
Speaker 3: all play together at this next season, which a lot
26:06
Speaker 3: of player people were excited for. I think me and
26:08
Speaker 3: you were excited to see what that could possibly be,
26:11
Speaker 3: and I think other other people were kind of excited
26:13
Speaker 3: to see. So we're gonna get that next season. I
26:17
Speaker 3: do like I do like a good backup quarterback, and
26:20
Speaker 3: I think Garner Minshew being being our backup is a
26:23
Speaker 3: is a good solid piece because there are some times
26:25
Speaker 3: when hey, we need to play that that last game
26:27
Speaker 3: of the season, Patch Mahome needs to set out or
26:29
Speaker 3: even than Patri Mahomes does go down what we've seen
26:31
Speaker 3: for like a week or two in the regular season.
26:33
Speaker 3: We have a guy that can kind of steer their
26:34
Speaker 3: reins and even come playoff time, a guy that can
26:36
Speaker 3: take over when needed. But the other signings, I think
26:40
Speaker 3: Christian Fulton, I do think we should another side of
26:44
Speaker 3: the that we need, which we talk about the cornerback
26:47
Speaker 3: position here in a minute, Especially one guy in Try McDuffie.
26:50
Speaker 3: Christian Fulton definitely adds step to this cornerback room, which
26:53
Speaker 3: is a good cornerback room. Jalen Watson did get hurt,
26:56
Speaker 3: so he kind of had to get back into the
26:58
Speaker 3: flow of things. So I do think happy him and
27:00
Speaker 3: Jalen Watson and uh as number twos and number three's
27:03
Speaker 3: is good for this Kansas City team. Jalen Moore and
27:05
Speaker 3: Jayalen Moore is a guy that I have question marks about.
27:08
Speaker 3: We've seen him start five games in his career, which
27:10
Speaker 3: were good games, but he plays more like a guard
27:13
Speaker 3: playing left tackle than a tackle playing left tackle because
27:16
Speaker 3: he doesn't have longer arms. He's he plays he plays pretty.
27:19
Speaker 3: He has to get his hands on the on the
27:21
Speaker 3: edge before the edge gets deep into his rush. So
27:26
Speaker 3: that's that's something to watch. And I know we have
27:28
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes who can move in the pocket, but if
27:31
Speaker 3: that's an added emphasis and that gets exposed, it's just
27:33
Speaker 3: gonna be another problem for another two years for the
27:35
Speaker 3: Kansas City tiems having Jalen Moore as a left tackle.
27:38
Speaker 3: As we've seen with Jawan Taylor, who is a good tackle,
27:40
Speaker 3: but when it comes to three snap things, he struggled
27:45
Speaker 3: quite a bit. So and I think the signing of
27:49
Speaker 3: Elijah Mitchell is going to be able to come under
27:51
Speaker 3: go under the radar and put back Kareem Hunt. So
27:53
Speaker 3: I believe that the running back, it's pretty good. I
27:56
Speaker 3: still do want to see us make another move in
27:58
Speaker 3: the draft for one of these top guys, you know,
28:00
Speaker 3: an All League Golden a Trebon Henderson and Ken Shawn Jenkins,
28:04
Speaker 3: like even a Taj Brooks. I want to see us
28:05
Speaker 3: make a move for a good, a good running back
28:08
Speaker 3: that's a higher pedigree than these other guys. So I
28:12
Speaker 3: want to see that move. But I will say one
28:16
Speaker 3: move we need to make before it gets even hotter
28:20
Speaker 3: than it already is. Right now when we see from
28:22
Speaker 3: Jason Horne and Derek Stingley junior, just we need to
28:25
Speaker 3: sign Trim McDuffie right now, like we need We cannot
28:28
Speaker 3: wait any longer because.
28:30
Speaker 1: What do you think is gonna gets He's been better
28:33
Speaker 1: than both of those guys, and that's not even a debate.
28:36
Speaker 3: I don't even think there's a debate on that. Trim
28:38
Speaker 3: McDuffie's first team All Pro, second team All Pro didn't
28:43
Speaker 3: allow a single touchdown, I believe, until the Super Bowl
28:47
Speaker 3: of his first of his rookie year. So it's definitely
28:51
Speaker 3: something that needs to happen sooner rather than later because
28:55
Speaker 3: that number is just gonna go up if he has
28:57
Speaker 3: another great season. If he makes another All Pro team,
28:59
Speaker 3: if he makes another Pro Bowl, if they win another
29:02
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, if they even make the Super Bowl. Tru
29:05
Speaker 3: Mcduffi's never not seen anything other than the Super Bowl
29:08
Speaker 3: and never seen anything other than top wide receiver play
29:11
Speaker 3: in front of him. So it's gonna be. It's gonna be.
29:15
Speaker 3: The price is gonna be high if he's not, if
29:17
Speaker 3: he's not, if he chooses to not take a pay
29:20
Speaker 3: cut or anything like that. So I think that that
29:23
Speaker 3: move needs to happen sooner rather than later to show
29:25
Speaker 3: up our second, our our secondary cornerstone in Teer McDuffie.
29:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, like you're first off, I want to talk
29:32
Speaker 1: about that jac Horn getting twenty five million a year.
29:36
Speaker 1: No disrespect to jac Horn, but I just don't think
29:39
Speaker 1: that he was worth highest paid cornerback money.
29:42
Speaker 2: I don't think, well, he.
29:43
Speaker 3: Has the talent. We know he has a talent, but
29:45
Speaker 3: it's like he's always on the field. This was his
29:48
Speaker 3: first year. On his first year, he had a good
29:51
Speaker 3: a good season. It wasn't a great season. Yeah, he
29:54
Speaker 3: had a good season where he's fully healthy, but still
29:59
Speaker 3: like that's not enough to warrant at the time highest
30:03
Speaker 3: paid cornerback until you know, Derek Stingley Junior shot that
30:05
Speaker 3: out the water.
30:06
Speaker 1: So I don't understand why the Texans that would go
30:09
Speaker 1: five million over you know what I mean? You could
30:12
Speaker 1: have went to twenty you could you could have started
30:14
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty seven million. I don't know the contract negotiations,
30:18
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure Derek Stingley would have been happy
30:21
Speaker 1: with twenty six million a year for three years, which would.
30:24
Speaker 2: Have brought him just over.
30:26
Speaker 1: So all I'm saying is that, Okay, So Doron Bland,
30:30
Speaker 1: he's gonna need to get paid this offseason too. Pat
30:32
Speaker 1: Surtain's gonna need to get paid this offseason too.
30:35
Speaker 3: So Special Tan's gonna get re upped.
30:38
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's gonna get re upped for sure. I
30:40
Speaker 1: think he's gonna want to be the highest paid cornerback
30:42
Speaker 1: for sure.
30:43
Speaker 3: But Trim mcbuffy, I don't know. He doesn't strike me
30:46
Speaker 3: as a guy that like needs like the highest paid player.
30:50
Speaker 3: I mean from interviews, from how he handles himself, from
30:53
Speaker 3: how he carries himself. But money talks to people like
30:56
Speaker 3: Tim is saying.
30:56
Speaker 2: He's still gonna get paid.
30:58
Speaker 3: So he's getting paid. It's definitely gonna be over twenty
31:01
Speaker 3: four million dollars if anything like, Oh.
31:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just think that now with Derek Stingley him
31:07
Speaker 1: bringing it up to thirty million, I think even if
31:10
Speaker 1: he takes a paycat, it'll maybe be twenty seven twenty
31:13
Speaker 1: eight million dollars something like that. But yeah, those are
31:16
Speaker 1: the two main guys I'm watching, Darron Blan and Trim
31:21
Speaker 1: McDuffie because both of those guys have had Obviously, Trim
31:24
Speaker 1: McDuffie he's had the more all pros, but Deron Bland
31:27
Speaker 1: he's had impressive season as far as back to back
31:31
Speaker 1: years interceptions over five. Then this year he got hurt,
31:34
Speaker 1: but whenever he came back, he was great.
31:37
Speaker 3: So those are two homes and Kelsey did three of
31:40
Speaker 3: fifty million dollars in cap space, so I don't know
31:43
Speaker 3: the moves are still to be made. I'm looking to
31:46
Speaker 3: like kind of carry my money backwards. I mean Chris
31:50
Speaker 3: Jones and Mahomes say Chris Johnson Mahomes, I think, Oh,
31:54
Speaker 3: I mean Chris Jones and Mahomes freed up fifty million
31:57
Speaker 3: dollars in cap space, So I don't know if those
31:59
Speaker 3: are deals looking to a sign like more receiver, more players,
32:03
Speaker 3: in for this year because they haven't really made any
32:05
Speaker 3: more since then. If it's for like this many backwards
32:11
Speaker 3: on the contract and we signed, and because Plaol Laftis
32:16
Speaker 3: needs to get paid too, And he's been nothing but
32:17
Speaker 3: a steady presence on that defensive line. So he's been
32:20
Speaker 3: consistent getting better every single year. And and in the
32:24
Speaker 3: playoffs this year, if that was a guy that bult
32:26
Speaker 3: out in the playoffs this past year, it was George
32:29
Speaker 3: Carl Laftis. So it's gonna be. It's gonna have to be.
32:34
Speaker 3: Those two guys have to get paid for the Ken
32:36
Speaker 3: City Chiefs. There's no questions about it.
32:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, for sure. And all right, well, is
32:41
Speaker 1: there anything else you want to talk about with the
32:43
Speaker 1: Chiefs here?
32:45
Speaker 3: No, I'm good on the Chiefs. You want to move
32:46
Speaker 3: to the Cowboys?
32:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's go and move to the Cowboys.
32:49
Speaker 3: All right, let me get your move to These moved,
32:52
Speaker 3: especially the worst move of them all, you know that
32:55
Speaker 3: cornerbacks that they altraated for.
32:57
Speaker 2: Well, all right, let's go ahead and bring it up.
32:59
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys they made some moves finally in the
33:02
Speaker 1: off season. This is actually the most active they've been
33:04
Speaker 1: in free agency in a while. So they traded for
33:07
Speaker 1: Kenneth Murray and Kyrie Elam, resigned Cavante Turpin, got Solomon
33:11
Speaker 1: Thomas on a two year, eight million dollar Robert Jones
33:13
Speaker 1: the guard from Miami, Javonte Williams, and re signed Osa
33:17
Speaker 1: Odiggi Zuwa.
33:18
Speaker 2: So before I go, Josh, what do you think of
33:21
Speaker 2: these moves right here from the Cowboys?
33:24
Speaker 3: The defensive line moves and definitely the linebacker moves. I
33:27
Speaker 3: enjoy quite a bit. I THINKLM and Thomas I forgot
33:30
Speaker 3: to me Thomas. I think all three of those guys
33:37
Speaker 3: had depth and more bodies at the defensive line, which
33:40
Speaker 3: is what's truth the Chiefs do. The Chiefs just have
33:42
Speaker 3: bodies to throw at you. The Philadelphia Eagles just have
33:45
Speaker 3: bodies to throw at you. Like, So they're gonna they're
33:48
Speaker 3: gonna free up a lot of like they're gonna be
33:52
Speaker 3: able to get to the quarterback at consistent rates rather
33:56
Speaker 3: than like one one, one great play every five place.
34:00
Speaker 3: It's going to be a multitude of defensive lineman that
34:03
Speaker 3: can get to the quarterback. And I think bringing into
34:06
Speaker 3: guys with potential like Paying Turner, who was a first
34:08
Speaker 3: round draft pick. He hasn't really lived up to what
34:10
Speaker 3: we thought he was going to be in New Orleans,
34:12
Speaker 3: but he definitely has that potential to be that type
34:15
Speaker 3: of player. And then Dante Fowler, you know, just a
34:17
Speaker 3: sure veteran presidence who's been good and consistent his entire career,
34:22
Speaker 3: who's been on the contal before, who knows the system,
34:25
Speaker 3: knows the cluture. I think that's another good player. You
34:27
Speaker 3: bring in Solomon Thomas who's been in New York for
34:30
Speaker 3: a while, who's been a good, steady presence on that
34:33
Speaker 3: defensive line and that good defense that they've had in
34:35
Speaker 3: New York. So I think that's another good presence to
34:37
Speaker 3: bring in, especially with Michael Parson's a player that can
34:39
Speaker 3: free up every single player on the defensive line. But
34:43
Speaker 3: I will say the move with Kenneth Murray, I think
34:47
Speaker 3: Kenneth Murray, that's a really good move. I'm not gonna
34:49
Speaker 3: say that he's going to be this all Pro standout player,
34:52
Speaker 3: but he has he has that first round potential, like
34:55
Speaker 3: we talked about with Paying Turner, who hasn't really lived
34:57
Speaker 3: up to that. But also it also comes down to
34:59
Speaker 3: scheme a lot of times, and the Cowboys will see
35:02
Speaker 3: what he can possibly do in that system, and if
35:04
Speaker 3: he can turn into a good player. The thing is
35:09
Speaker 3: the most terrible movie I could have made is Trained
35:11
Speaker 3: for kyer Elam, who is probably the worst cornerback in
35:14
Speaker 3: the entire NFL. And it's he's the guy that the
35:20
Speaker 3: that the Bills settle for when they couldn't get Trim mcduffy.
35:23
Speaker 3: That's that's the worst, the guy that they settle for.
35:25
Speaker 3: So and he has not lived up. He constantly gets
35:28
Speaker 3: burned by everybody, even sky Moore, and that's saying a lot.
35:32
Speaker 3: So I just think hyer Elam, who knows the the
35:39
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys turn bad cornerbacks into great cornerbacks, so into
35:43
Speaker 3: good cornerbacks. So who knows if that's if that's awaiting
35:47
Speaker 3: kyer Elam. But as of right now, I have no
35:50
Speaker 3: hope in that. In that signing by the Dallas Cowboys.
35:53
Speaker 1: Well I just think that one is a shot in
35:55
Speaker 1: the dark right there where we have a cornerback too
35:58
Speaker 1: that needs.
35:58
Speaker 2: To be filled in.
35:59
Speaker 1: Hey, it's might as well shoot for the stars. It
36:02
Speaker 1: wasn't Trust me. I didn't like that move either. But
36:06
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what Matt Eberflus, what he's doing with
36:09
Speaker 1: this defense right here, he's bringing in guys that fit
36:12
Speaker 1: his scheme. Like you were saying, but I think my
36:15
Speaker 1: favorite move, or I have two moves that are my favorite.
36:19
Speaker 2: Resigning olso DIGGI Zol.
36:20
Speaker 1: Maybe his stats don't pop out, but whenever watching the games,
36:24
Speaker 1: he was a monster.
36:25
Speaker 2: And then Jack Samborn.
36:27
Speaker 1: So those are guys that are there to stop the run.
36:29
Speaker 1: So the biggest concern Josh. It's funny we went from
36:35
Speaker 1: a team that wasn't able to stop the run and
36:37
Speaker 1: we were great against the past.
36:39
Speaker 2: Now it looks like it might be the other way around.
36:41
Speaker 1: But we did resign Yanye uh Yanye Thomas and then
36:46
Speaker 1: we re signed resigned Marquise Bell, so those guys are
36:48
Speaker 1: gonna get some more burn. So these guys have been
36:52
Speaker 1: in the system, so it's finally gonna be their chance
36:55
Speaker 1: to actually play some meaningful maybe starter or minutes. So
37:00
Speaker 1: I just think that that I like these moves right here,
37:04
Speaker 1: and it definitely gives us flexibility to wherever we're in
37:07
Speaker 1: the draft. At pick twelve, we could go defense, or
37:11
Speaker 1: we could go Ashton genif if he's there. At Terry
37:14
Speaker 1: O toa McMillan. It gives us just more flexibility compared
37:17
Speaker 1: to the past few years where we're trying to fill
37:21
Speaker 1: all these voids just in the draft instead of getting
37:23
Speaker 1: some guys in the offseason.
37:25
Speaker 2: But I just think that.
37:28
Speaker 1: I just think that this defense, I'm just worried about
37:31
Speaker 1: my cornerback too, because Trevon Diggs he's not gonna be
37:35
Speaker 1: back till mid season. So you have Darn Bland there.
37:38
Speaker 1: So you're gonna either have kay Er elam You're gonna
37:42
Speaker 1: have Kaylan Carson, maybe Isra Mukuamu. So those are the
37:47
Speaker 1: three guys you might Carson. It's just Kayln Carson. He
37:52
Speaker 1: had his good moments. Okay, he's a good as far
37:55
Speaker 1: as going up and tackling, but as far as down
37:58
Speaker 1: the field and covering short short routes, he's fine. But
38:02
Speaker 1: down the field that's where he gets burned.
38:05
Speaker 3: One move I have a problem with. Do you want
38:07
Speaker 3: to bring back Greco Daudle, but you bring in Javonto Williams.
38:11
Speaker 3: That's a move I don't like. Right there. I think
38:15
Speaker 3: is a bit running back right now than Javonte Williams,
38:18
Speaker 3: still living off of a three game stretch in his
38:21
Speaker 3: rookie year, like he has not been that guy ever since,
38:25
Speaker 3: ever since.
38:27
Speaker 1: And well, I'll say this, it's a one year, three
38:30
Speaker 1: million dollar deal, so it's just high upside, high upside
38:34
Speaker 1: and then low risk.
38:35
Speaker 2: We could cut him if we need to.
38:37
Speaker 1: Also, we got Miles Sanders, so I think this definitely
38:40
Speaker 1: shows that we're gonna draft a running back. We we
38:43
Speaker 1: just got a number two, potentially number three.
38:46
Speaker 3: So if Ashton Gentz is sitting there for y'all to
38:52
Speaker 3: him or do you want.
38:53
Speaker 2: To wait, I'll take Ashton Genty. I'll take Genty, okay
38:58
Speaker 2: for for.
38:59
Speaker 1: Sure, because I think that the only guys I can
39:03
Speaker 1: maybe see maybe maybe Will Campbell if he falls, because
39:07
Speaker 1: Terren still, I know it's his last year on his contract,
39:11
Speaker 1: so we might try to replace him and then have
39:13
Speaker 1: him be a swing tackle, or we could get So
39:17
Speaker 1: if it's Will Campbell, Terio to McMillan or Ashton gent
39:21
Speaker 1: if it's those three guys, and I wouldn't mind it,
39:24
Speaker 1: but say it running back.
39:25
Speaker 2: I just say it depends on how the draft is falling.
39:28
Speaker 3: Say I don't think McMillan's gonna fall.
39:32
Speaker 1: I'm not buying the McMillan falling. I'm not buying that.
39:36
Speaker 3: He just ran a four to four A at six
39:37
Speaker 3: foot four, Bro, he is not falling out the top five,
39:40
Speaker 3: out the top in.
39:43
Speaker 2: So what you think McMillan to the Patriots for sure?
39:45
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, bro, he's not ill Let's say trade backwards,
39:50
Speaker 3: like I think I can see the Patriots trading a
39:52
Speaker 3: little backwards, so or something like that.
39:57
Speaker 2: Las Vegas, I always say, Oakland, Las Vegas. We know
40:00
Speaker 2: where we met. Yeah.
40:01
Speaker 1: No, but all right, Josh, any last things before we
40:05
Speaker 1: get into the NBA right here.
40:07
Speaker 3: No, Bro, we talked a lot about football, more than
40:09
Speaker 3: I expected. I mean, there's more we can get into.
40:11
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, we're a whole nother pot.
40:13
Speaker 3: That's a whole other podcast.
40:14
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure.
40:15
Speaker 1: But all right, so let's talk about the NBA standards
40:19
Speaker 1: right here.
40:19
Speaker 2: Just a quick update.
40:20
Speaker 1: So again, I'm a list of top ten Eastern Conference.
40:23
Speaker 1: It's a Calves, Celtics, Knicks, Pacers, Bucks, Pistons, pretty much
40:28
Speaker 1: the same, but we're shaped up a little bit. From
40:30
Speaker 1: seven to ten is now it's the Hawks, Magic Bulls,
40:33
Speaker 1: and Heat. Then in the Western Atlanta, I know Atlanta
40:37
Speaker 1: keeps witting, but all right, the Western Conference where it
40:41
Speaker 1: changes up damn near every day. You have the Thunder
40:43
Speaker 1: as the one seed, which they're going to pretty much
40:45
Speaker 1: stay there. Then the two through five it's Rockets, Nuggets, Lakers, Grizzlies,
40:51
Speaker 1: and Warriors. And the seven through ten it's still the
40:53
Speaker 1: tim Wolves, Clippers, Kings, and Mavericks, with the Suns only
40:58
Speaker 1: being one game.
40:59
Speaker 2: Back of the Mavericks.
41:00
Speaker 1: So all right, first thing I want to say is
41:03
Speaker 1: that from two to five, there's only one game that
41:07
Speaker 1: separates them, the two through the five seed right there.
41:11
Speaker 2: In the Western Yeah, in the Western Conference.
41:13
Speaker 1: So I want to ask you this, how much do
41:15
Speaker 1: you think home court is gonna play advantage in the
41:18
Speaker 1: Western Conference.
41:21
Speaker 3: It's gonna it's gonna be very important. I think, who
41:25
Speaker 3: are we at? Okay, So I know this isn't NBA. Yeah,
41:29
Speaker 3: but Tennessee versus Texas. Tennessee was playing home for advantage
41:33
Speaker 3: in the entire SEC tournament when it came to basketball,
41:36
Speaker 3: and we saw the advantages they had against certain teams
41:39
Speaker 3: because it was in Nashville. So right here, I know
41:41
Speaker 3: it's not in I know it's not college basketball, but
41:44
Speaker 3: definitely in the NBA it matters. You know, you go
41:47
Speaker 3: play in Houston, it gets loud when they're in the playoffs.
41:51
Speaker 3: I mean Denver. You we really know the elevation standpoint
41:54
Speaker 3: of at all. You know, actually playing at home in Denver,
41:57
Speaker 3: it does a lot for them and then especially the
41:59
Speaker 3: fan I mean the lost lngs Lakers. We don't even
42:02
Speaker 3: talk about the Memphis. Okay, the Memphis Grizzlies with home
42:05
Speaker 3: court advantage. If they end up getting home court advantage,
42:08
Speaker 3: that's probably one of the scariest places to play if
42:11
Speaker 3: a team has home court advantage, because Memphis gets crazy.
42:14
Speaker 3: They they go, they go hard. I saw that firsthand
42:17
Speaker 3: growing up when I would saw see the good Spurs
42:19
Speaker 3: versus Memphis Grizzlies matchups in the playoffs, and I we're
42:22
Speaker 3: gonna talk about some good teams. Mike Conley, Marcasol, Zach Randolph,
42:27
Speaker 3: Tony Allen, Torren, Prince Dude, those were some good Memphis
42:32
Speaker 3: Grizzly basketball teams. I don't care what no one says,
42:34
Speaker 3: but as of right now, if Memphis Grizzlies get a
42:37
Speaker 3: home court advantage, that's gonna do a lot of wonders
42:40
Speaker 3: for them. And that what we expected the Lakers to
42:44
Speaker 3: fall with Lebron going out. I mean, we told Alfred,
42:48
Speaker 3: let's see what happens when Lebron doesn't play. Let's see
42:51
Speaker 3: what happens when Lebron doesn't play, and I think they've Yeah,
42:55
Speaker 3: they they've lost. Yeah, it wasn't very good. They they
42:58
Speaker 3: beat up on some pretty bad teams. They're like San
43:00
Speaker 3: Antonio Spaces who already done without He didn't have danon Fox,
43:04
Speaker 3: No Winby, it was just Stefan Castle will get the
43:08
Speaker 3: ball and show us what you can do pretty much
43:10
Speaker 3: the entire game. So every but if he comes back
43:16
Speaker 3: anytime soon, I can see them rising up this board
43:18
Speaker 3: quite a bit. Again.
43:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, but even at that though, there's only one
43:23
Speaker 1: game that separates them in the lost column, so they
43:26
Speaker 1: could make up games. And Lebron he's supposed to be
43:29
Speaker 1: back by the end of this week or sometime next week,
43:32
Speaker 1: so they'll be fine. And then plus they got Jackson
43:34
Speaker 1: Hayes back really should be back. But okay, so the Rockets,
43:41
Speaker 1: they're the two seed right now, so would okay, if
43:46
Speaker 1: you had to bets some money as far as where
43:49
Speaker 1: everything's gonna fall from two to six, how would you
43:52
Speaker 1: list it?
43:53
Speaker 3: Okay, So I think I'm gonna take the Denver Nuggets
43:56
Speaker 3: at number two. Then I will go the Houston the
44:02
Speaker 3: Los Angeles Lakers. If Lebron comes back at number three, Okay, no, no, no,
44:08
Speaker 3: because I still think there's some games in between it
44:10
Speaker 3: that's gonna hurt them. I'll go Rockets at three, Lakers
44:13
Speaker 3: still at four. I don't think they're gonna move from there.
44:15
Speaker 3: I'll keep the Grizzlies at five, and I'll keep the
44:17
Speaker 3: Warriors at six. So I think the only changes that
44:19
Speaker 3: I really see happening is the Rockets and the Nuggets.
44:22
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So what about what about the playing right here?
44:27
Speaker 1: So do you expect that to change up? Minnesota? They've
44:31
Speaker 1: been winning some games. They won eight in a row
44:33
Speaker 1: before they lost on the Pacers. I think it was
44:35
Speaker 1: yet no the night before. So do you think that
44:38
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves they may jump the Warriors right here?
44:42
Speaker 3: Well, for the standpoint of the Warriors and Timberwls, I
44:45
Speaker 3: don't think there's gonna be much change. They may flip
44:46
Speaker 3: flop positions for because you know, you never know if
44:49
Speaker 3: you drop a game. We just saw the Warriors lose
44:52
Speaker 3: to a non healthy Denver Nuggets team missing Jamal Murray
44:56
Speaker 3: and missing Nikola jokicch and Aaron Gordon went crazy in
45:01
Speaker 3: that game. By the way, guys, thirty seven points. I
45:03
Speaker 3: don't I just don't see them kind of. I can
45:09
Speaker 3: see the flips up between the Warriors and Timberwolves. The
45:12
Speaker 3: Clippers may move. They've been playing good, especially last night.
45:15
Speaker 3: The Clippers went crazy. I mean, we saw them and
45:21
Speaker 3: the Cavaliers a loss last night with ich Zubach going.
45:25
Speaker 3: I want to say, dude, how many rebounds did he
45:28
Speaker 3: go twenty eight for twenty yesterday or was it the
45:30
Speaker 3: other way around? I know, I each Zob went crazy
45:33
Speaker 3: last night. Yeah, and then and then we saw we
45:39
Speaker 3: saw Kawhi Leonard kind of go kind of drop a
45:42
Speaker 3: good thirty three piece with seven assists, like or seven
45:45
Speaker 3: rebounds and like five assists something like that. So the Clippers,
45:49
Speaker 3: if they remain healthy, they have the weapons to stem there.
45:51
Speaker 3: So I could see even them moving upwards among the
45:55
Speaker 3: Timberwolves and the Warriors, because we've seen the Timberwolves. They
45:57
Speaker 3: played good games, but some games they kind of not
45:59
Speaker 3: the same type of people because it's just not I
46:03
Speaker 3: just think that missing of Karl Anthony Towns has really
46:05
Speaker 3: hurt them in big game situations. And then so I
46:09
Speaker 3: can see all three of those teams moving around a
46:11
Speaker 3: little bit more once, but before the playoffs comes around.
46:14
Speaker 1: I know this is off topic, but man, I'm gonna
46:16
Speaker 1: have to move my room room around this Damn sun
46:18
Speaker 1: is just messing with him.
46:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna have to just move it another day.
46:22
Speaker 3: But no, no, But what I said when you walked away,
46:26
Speaker 3: do you think the Wings Huh?
46:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't hear you. Go ahead, you could.
46:30
Speaker 3: When the Wors. The reason why they made flip flop
46:33
Speaker 3: is that we've seen them play the Denver Nuggets without
46:36
Speaker 3: Nicola jokicch and without Jamal Murray, and we saw Aaron
46:38
Speaker 3: Gordon job thirty seven. So it's gonna be and that's
46:43
Speaker 3: gonna have to be something that we take into account.
46:46
Speaker 3: Like we understand that they can. They beat a lot
46:50
Speaker 3: of worse teams than them. They beat it jim when
46:55
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler came. But when Denver Nuggets, even without their
46:59
Speaker 3: top two best players, they were still able to get
47:02
Speaker 3: the job done behind Michael Porter Junior and behind Aaron Gordon,
47:05
Speaker 3: behind Christian Braun. So I do think that's I can't
47:09
Speaker 3: ignore that. So I do. I can see the Warriors
47:11
Speaker 3: maybe moving down to eight or even staying around that
47:14
Speaker 3: seven spot, but I don't think they'll hold on to
47:16
Speaker 3: the number six spot.
47:18
Speaker 1: Yeah no, Well, let's just be honest with the teams
47:20
Speaker 1: that they have they have faced, they've played, so the Sixers, Hornets,
47:26
Speaker 1: Knicks without Jalen brunt or that was without Cat, then
47:29
Speaker 1: the Nets, Pistons, Trailblazers, Kings, then the Knicks without Jalen
47:34
Speaker 1: Brunson or Cat. Then you lost with the Nuggets. You
47:37
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks yesterday, which was a good game without Steph.
47:39
Speaker 2: But let's just be real.
47:41
Speaker 1: They haven't played any of these top tier teams yet.
47:45
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna be playing these teams down the stretch,
47:48
Speaker 1: so we're gonna really see who they are. But also,
47:51
Speaker 1: you can only face the teams in front of you.
47:53
Speaker 1: Be'st thing about it. You can only face the teams
47:55
Speaker 1: in front of you. So okay, let's talk a little
47:59
Speaker 1: bit about the MVP race right here.
48:02
Speaker 3: So Shaye, Oh okay, okay 's still talking about the
48:06
Speaker 3: Western Conference right there is a whole another topic.
48:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, still the Western Conference. Yeah, okay, So Shae, what
48:13
Speaker 1: he's been doing. I'm not gonna point to any specific
48:16
Speaker 1: game in general, but but just in general, what he's
48:20
Speaker 1: been doing these past is damn near been a month
48:23
Speaker 1: at this point. I think he's averaging like thirty eight
48:25
Speaker 1: points this month. He's just on a different level right now.
48:30
Speaker 1: And I just think that if Shaye, I don't think
48:33
Speaker 1: he's gonna keep this up for sure, because they've been
48:35
Speaker 1: without j. Dubb and then games without Chat, so he's
48:38
Speaker 1: been having to score more. But I just think that
48:41
Speaker 1: this Thunder team, I just think I know there's the Lakers,
48:45
Speaker 1: I know there's the Nuggets, I know there's the Warriors.
48:48
Speaker 1: I think the Thunder they're somehow going underrated here, Josh, Like,
48:52
Speaker 1: in my opinion, I just think that, like everybody's all
48:56
Speaker 1: picking the upset right here or the Lakers, I just
48:58
Speaker 1: think that the Thunder maybe we're just overthinking.
49:01
Speaker 2: It at this point.
49:02
Speaker 1: We're just saying we're just trying to find a different team,
49:06
Speaker 1: so they could be in the like the Talk of Town,
49:09
Speaker 1: if that makes sense.
49:10
Speaker 2: I just think that the Thunder they're too good.
49:12
Speaker 1: They're twelve and a half games up of everybody else
49:15
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference, so they're on pace right now
49:18
Speaker 1: for sixty six sixty seven wins right now.
49:21
Speaker 2: So yeah, I just think that the Thunder they are
49:24
Speaker 2: too good.
49:24
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say yet, but I'm like
49:27
Speaker 1: ninety five percent sure the Thunder they're gonna make it
49:30
Speaker 1: out of the West.
49:33
Speaker 3: No, I can agree to that. I think maybe there's
49:36
Speaker 3: like that you want to see someone else take over.
49:38
Speaker 3: I do think the Lakers are gonna be a problem
49:40
Speaker 3: with a little difun I'm not going to say here
49:42
Speaker 3: and lie about it. I do think they have the
49:44
Speaker 3: weapons that kind of keep up shooting wise, with Oklahoma
49:47
Speaker 3: City Thunder and having brought them, it's been a cheat
49:49
Speaker 3: coat at the same time when they've both been playing,
49:51
Speaker 3: so I don't think any teams really prepared to stop
49:54
Speaker 3: both of them at the same time. Glama City Thunder
49:59
Speaker 3: when in the this podcast was Chet home Gren and Isaiahrenstein, Yeah,
50:03
Speaker 3: they're gonna be That's gonna be the main piece of
50:05
Speaker 3: it all. I think chet Holmegrin being healthy, Isaiah heart
50:08
Speaker 3: and Stein they're both able to do different things, but
50:10
Speaker 3: both really good at rebounding, really good at interior defense,
50:14
Speaker 3: and we've seen that against other teams they've pretty dominant,
50:17
Speaker 3: pretty much dominated them, and then we've seen them do
50:20
Speaker 3: to Denver Nuggets where the interior just kind of not shut,
50:25
Speaker 3: but definitely put their focus on every other player and
50:29
Speaker 3: kind of allow those to to work to work with
50:31
Speaker 3: him down there in the post, and it's really elevated
50:35
Speaker 3: them to I think the whole another one having those guys,
50:38
Speaker 3: because I I've even seen them as so it can
50:41
Speaker 3: be there for the second unit and have Chet Grin
50:43
Speaker 3: start the game or the other label. I know, we've
50:45
Speaker 3: start both of them at the same time depending on matchups.
50:47
Speaker 3: So they're able to throw everything at you and we've
50:51
Speaker 3: seen we've seen what they can do scheme wise, versus
50:53
Speaker 3: the Denver Nuggets kind of slowing down the team by
50:55
Speaker 3: having a permanent sub sitting on the side so where
50:58
Speaker 3: Nicolayokiz can't really push the ball down the court like
51:01
Speaker 3: he intends to do.
51:02
Speaker 2: So.
51:02
Speaker 3: I definitely Oklahoma City Thunder or the best team in
51:07
Speaker 3: the Western Conference, and I do think they will make
51:09
Speaker 3: it out. I do, I do wholeheartedly do. I do
51:11
Speaker 3: think whoever makes it to them, whether it be the Nuggets,
51:14
Speaker 3: whether it be the Lakers or even one of these
51:16
Speaker 3: other teams, it's gonna be a really good series in
51:18
Speaker 3: that Conference finals from whoever the Thunder plays. But I
51:21
Speaker 3: do think that Thunder will still end up on top
51:23
Speaker 3: at the end.
51:24
Speaker 2: So I'm just looking at it right now. Just if
51:26
Speaker 2: the playoffs started right now, it.
51:28
Speaker 1: Would be the Thunder and whoever they play, let's just
51:32
Speaker 1: say the Clippers. Then after that they would play either
51:35
Speaker 1: the Lakers or the Grizzlies.
51:37
Speaker 2: So so all if they could play the technically they
51:41
Speaker 2: would play at the lower seeds, so it could really be.
51:44
Speaker 3: I can see the Timbers getting it. I can see
51:46
Speaker 3: the beating the Nuggets. I don't really I can see
51:50
Speaker 3: maybe a series where I don't know, it's to predict,
51:54
Speaker 3: So I'll give me the Grizzlies. Let's just say that
51:57
Speaker 3: they play the Let's say will play the Warriors or Grizzlies. Yeah,
52:00
Speaker 3: from the standpoint, I think that.
52:03
Speaker 1: They would well, I would pick Lakers over Memphis right now.
52:09
Speaker 1: They will play the four or five then, But playing
52:13
Speaker 1: LA early, that's the biggest thing. If you play LA,
52:16
Speaker 1: I feel like in the Western Conference finals or just
52:19
Speaker 1: the NBA finals in general, I think maybe you'll see
52:22
Speaker 1: Lebron start slowing down a little bit just due to
52:24
Speaker 1: fatigue or stuff like that.
52:26
Speaker 2: But if you play LA early, that'll be scary right there.
52:29
Speaker 1: I think that'll go six seven games right there and
52:33
Speaker 1: all right, Eastern Conference right here. Okay, so the Knicks,
52:39
Speaker 1: they haven't been healthy as of late. They're still holding
52:41
Speaker 1: on to that three seed right there, Calves, they're not
52:44
Speaker 1: going to be caught by the Boston Celtics unless they
52:47
Speaker 1: go on just this massive losing streak here and well,
52:51
Speaker 1: nothing really has changed besides the playing the playing seven
52:55
Speaker 1: through ten. So is there anything from the Eastern Conference
52:57
Speaker 1: here that's changed for you a little bit?
53:01
Speaker 3: No, I still think that the viewpoints are the same.
53:04
Speaker 3: I do think the captain Stuffs are gonna be the
53:05
Speaker 3: two teams that come out. The New York Nates are
53:07
Speaker 3: gonna play good against the Pacers, Bucks or Pistons. Hawks.
53:11
Speaker 3: They're gonna play good against those type of teams. But
53:13
Speaker 3: when they play the top two teams, I do think
53:14
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a ron for them when it comes
53:16
Speaker 3: playoff time. The Hawks, I wish would keep losing, but
53:19
Speaker 3: I think that they're doing their thing right now with
53:21
Speaker 3: trade dung is leading the leading the charge. Especially Dyson
53:24
Speaker 3: Daniels on the defensive end. Oh my gosh, a damn
53:28
Speaker 3: good basketball player. So yeah, it's gonna they have exactly
53:33
Speaker 3: sure he's not.
53:34
Speaker 2: He's been playing lighting up the whole.
53:36
Speaker 3: He's definitely playing some good basketball. Yeah, Stephan, He's not
53:40
Speaker 3: as good as Stephan Castle, but you know, he's pretty good,
53:42
Speaker 3: so I'll give it to him. And I do think
53:46
Speaker 3: they were landing the Magic. They just haven't really like
53:49
Speaker 3: gone back to what they were just start the season
53:52
Speaker 3: on frauds and stuff like that. I wonder if a
53:54
Speaker 3: lot of it has to do with missing some pieces,
53:56
Speaker 3: you know, a jail wagner, you know, like I hope
53:59
Speaker 3: to those those deeper pieces are the ones that are
54:02
Speaker 3: kind of like holding them back from really reaching stytum.
54:05
Speaker 3: But I think that's also comes to not to missing
54:07
Speaker 3: that really dominant scorer on their team that's not able
54:12
Speaker 3: to kind of put them over the top. So I
54:14
Speaker 3: think that's like kind of like a Cleveland Cavaliers type
54:17
Speaker 3: of situation where you're just hoping like a Donovan Mitchell
54:19
Speaker 3: comes through, like some guy that can come through that
54:22
Speaker 3: can kind of elevate you to a whole another level.
54:24
Speaker 3: And I think that's what the Orlando Magic are missing
54:25
Speaker 3: right now. But the Chicago Bulls, we score some been
54:30
Speaker 3: kind of surprising to me. They've been playing some really
54:32
Speaker 3: good bass. I think we've seen it before when cover
54:35
Speaker 3: White does become the lead guy on the Chicago Bulls,
54:39
Speaker 3: that they actually do actually start winning some basketball games
54:43
Speaker 3: with kulbe White. And he stole my part late the
54:45
Speaker 3: other day two for chan from the three point line,
54:47
Speaker 3: but you know.
54:49
Speaker 2: Not too much on him, not too much just in the.
54:51
Speaker 3: Two and a half over above two and a half.
54:52
Speaker 3: You couldn't make one more. But you know, I don't
54:55
Speaker 3: think that they they they could give some problems when
54:58
Speaker 3: it comes to play in time. I don't know if you,
54:59
Speaker 3: as a those fans actually wants to see them keep winning,
55:03
Speaker 3: because I know you don't. You don't expect them to
55:05
Speaker 3: do anything in the playoffs. So but you know they're
55:10
Speaker 3: they're playing some good basketball right now in the Miami Heat.
55:12
Speaker 3: I think the Miami Heat are falling off. They've lost
55:15
Speaker 3: eight in a row right now. So I don't know
55:18
Speaker 3: what's to happen in Miami for them to get going
55:20
Speaker 3: again and kind of secure that playing spot. But I
55:24
Speaker 3: don't know. I do think the Rappers being five games
55:26
Speaker 3: behind helps them a lot. But I do think the
55:29
Speaker 3: rap they're not that much better than the Raptors for
55:31
Speaker 3: them to be losing like this.
55:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, okay, Well one more thing that you kind
55:35
Speaker 1: of you kind of mentioned where I have two things
55:37
Speaker 1: to bring up. So the first thing I want to
55:40
Speaker 1: say is as far as with that three to six matchup,
55:42
Speaker 1: as I know that both for the Pistons and the Pacers,
55:46
Speaker 1: the only thing that separates.
55:47
Speaker 2: Them as a game, so that could change. But the
55:50
Speaker 2: Knicks versus Pistons right now.
55:52
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I know, I forgot who it was.
55:56
Speaker 1: It was on ESPN before tip off. They said something
56:00
Speaker 1: like I think the Pistons could give the Knicks a
56:02
Speaker 1: run for their money. At first, it's like, man, it's
56:05
Speaker 1: that that's a crazy take right there. I don't know
56:07
Speaker 1: why you'd believe that. But when you actually start thinking
56:09
Speaker 1: about it, the Pistons, who are a great defensive team
56:14
Speaker 1: and Kate Cunningham, if you can control the game and
56:16
Speaker 1: there's three point shooters there, I'm telling you it doesn't
56:21
Speaker 1: sound too crazy no more. Just actually thinking about it.
56:23
Speaker 1: So I think that the Pistons, if they stay where
56:26
Speaker 1: they're at, I think that they I'm not gonna say
56:29
Speaker 1: they're gonna upset the Knicks, but I say that could
56:32
Speaker 1: easily be.
56:33
Speaker 2: A seven game series right there. I don't know how
56:35
Speaker 2: you feel about that.
56:38
Speaker 3: I think it could be a seven game series. I
56:41
Speaker 3: think we've seen what they all can do in their
56:44
Speaker 3: own standpoint, and what they all can do as the
56:47
Speaker 3: Pistons of Dean also Thompson, but bafinitely Kate Cunningham. Kate
56:52
Speaker 3: cunning Him is definitely turned into a superstar in the NBA.
56:55
Speaker 3: I'm not a star, he's a superstar. He is in
56:59
Speaker 3: the mold of being the best scoring efficiently and being
57:04
Speaker 3: able to play good defense because he's bigger than most
57:06
Speaker 3: point guards. So he's definitely the entire package when it
57:09
Speaker 3: comes to having your number one player on the on
57:12
Speaker 3: the NBA court, and I do think, I do think
57:17
Speaker 3: him kind of growing into that role is really helpless
57:21
Speaker 3: team tremendously. And I think having the established player because
57:24
Speaker 3: all these guys were high draft picks obviously is the
57:26
Speaker 3: Detroit Pistons. But yeah, kid Cunningham definitely taken over, has
57:31
Speaker 3: elevated this team to a whole other level. I do
57:33
Speaker 3: think that the Knicks, we know what we can get
57:37
Speaker 3: from Karl Anthony Towns, we know what we can get
57:39
Speaker 3: for Jillen Brunson. But it's not about those guys. I mean, Jen,
57:42
Speaker 3: it's about the Gnoby, It's about mckill there, it's about
57:46
Speaker 3: the Josh Carts. It's about those type of players. Can
57:49
Speaker 3: they step up when it matters the most. And we've
57:52
Speaker 3: seen Josh Harp do it time and time. But oj
57:55
Speaker 3: Andobi he's been playing good as of late, and so
57:59
Speaker 3: has Josh Cart. But I think mckel bridges we've seen
58:04
Speaker 3: We've seen some stories coming out about him and Tom
58:06
Speaker 3: Thibertau not seeing eye to eye, not getting along. And
58:09
Speaker 3: I know how many of the other players on the
58:10
Speaker 3: court are feeling the same way because five of them
58:13
Speaker 3: are in the top ten for minutes per game. Yeah,
58:16
Speaker 3: and five of them are not superstars in the NBA.
58:18
Speaker 3: So it's kind of like it's all five of them
58:22
Speaker 3: are not superstars in the NBA. So I don't know
58:25
Speaker 3: if it's just if this is kind of like a
58:28
Speaker 3: good thing for the Knicks going into the playoffs, because
58:30
Speaker 3: I know the Pistons are riding together right now and
58:33
Speaker 3: they're both playing, they're all playing good basketball and playing
58:35
Speaker 3: for one another. By the Knicks doing that right now,
58:37
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
58:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, for sure, that's that's one thing that Tom Thibodeau.
58:43
Speaker 1: I'll never forgive him for that. For play, you know, Okay,
58:47
Speaker 1: this explains Tom Thibodeaux perfectly. They were up in the
58:51
Speaker 1: series one to ozho against the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
58:54
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about. In
58:56
Speaker 1: twenty eleven. They were up twelve points with the minute left.
59:01
Speaker 1: So in perspective of nowadays what that is, that's like
59:04
Speaker 1: twenty five points up a minute and a half, and
59:08
Speaker 1: he kept in all of his starters and Dereck Rose
59:11
Speaker 1: got hurt in that towards ACL. So this guy, he
59:15
Speaker 1: just likes to play, like run these players into the ground,
59:19
Speaker 1: Like you were saying, five of the guys are the
59:21
Speaker 1: top ten in the minutes, and I think Jalen Brunson
59:23
Speaker 1: he's number three right now.
59:26
Speaker 2: At this point. So I think it's a bad thing honestly.
59:29
Speaker 1: Because you need to save your legs for the playoffs.
59:33
Speaker 1: Like obviously you try to win playoff games, but you
59:35
Speaker 1: don't have your guys out there playing thirty eight thirty
59:38
Speaker 1: nine minutes every single game.
59:41
Speaker 2: And I just think that could be a bench issue.
59:44
Speaker 1: But even at that, they have Duce McBride that could
59:47
Speaker 1: that's a guy that could relieve the pressure off of
59:49
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson.
59:49
Speaker 2: There.
59:50
Speaker 1: But all right, and to the other thing that I
59:52
Speaker 1: want to say, then we get into our top ten players. So,
59:56
Speaker 1: like you're saying with the bulls, one guy that has
59:59
Speaker 1: been doing damn great as of late is Josh Kady
1:00:03
Speaker 1: Josh Gatty' damn near averaging a triple dope.
1:00:05
Speaker 3: And Trade Jones.
1:00:06
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, So now now let me tell you this.
1:00:11
Speaker 1: There's been a couple guys in the in March over
1:00:15
Speaker 1: these past few years that have done great. And for example,
1:00:20
Speaker 1: Kobe White two years ago when he got the keys
1:00:22
Speaker 1: to the offense, he started averaging twenty points. Now two
1:00:25
Speaker 1: years later he's looked at as a perennial All Star.
1:00:28
Speaker 1: And then you have Jalen Green last year who was
1:00:31
Speaker 1: averaging damn near thirty points a game. So then this
1:00:35
Speaker 1: year it's kind of underwhelming. So it's either real or fake.
1:00:39
Speaker 1: So I have a couple guys I'm a list for you,
1:00:42
Speaker 1: and I want to ask you if they're real or fake.
1:00:46
Speaker 1: So the first one is Zachary resaw Shait.
1:00:50
Speaker 3: I want to say it's real. I think you have
1:00:52
Speaker 3: that that number one over the pick pedigree and this
1:00:55
Speaker 3: draft is definitely better than what everyone expected, which I
1:00:58
Speaker 3: don't understand the hate for this draft. I understand the
1:01:00
Speaker 3: top of the talent wasn't there, but definitely the depth
1:01:02
Speaker 3: was there in this draft. It was a lot better
1:01:04
Speaker 3: than the Anthony Bennett draft. I don't know it was
1:01:06
Speaker 3: getting comparisons to that. I didn't know where they got
1:01:09
Speaker 3: that from. But we've seen Alexandra sar thirty seven other night.
1:01:12
Speaker 3: We've seen Stefan Castle do what he does game in
1:01:15
Speaker 3: and game out. We saw Jared McCain, who I said
1:01:18
Speaker 3: was the most sure player in the draft before the
1:01:20
Speaker 3: season even started, and Zachary Richard sure. I mean, he
1:01:23
Speaker 3: definitely had the most potential when it comes to size,
1:01:26
Speaker 3: when it comes to defensive ability, and what he could
1:01:29
Speaker 3: possibly be given his physical attributes. But now we're definitely
1:01:34
Speaker 3: seeing that come into fold here this month. And we've
1:01:38
Speaker 3: seen it not even before, not even this month alone.
1:01:40
Speaker 3: We saw it in a couple of games again, like
1:01:42
Speaker 3: I want to see like an eight game stretch earlier
1:01:45
Speaker 3: in the season where he was averaging around like fifteen
1:01:47
Speaker 3: points per game and kind of playing some good ball.
1:01:50
Speaker 3: So I do think this is definitely I'm not saying
1:01:52
Speaker 3: he definitely is going to be a star, but he's
1:01:54
Speaker 3: definitely showing what he has the potential to be in
1:01:57
Speaker 3: this month right now.
1:01:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, for sure.
1:01:59
Speaker 1: All right, this one is kind of two players right here,
1:02:03
Speaker 1: Danny of Dia and Scoot Henderson.
1:02:06
Speaker 3: Dude, some Danny dudes, Danny A Dia bro some Danny
1:02:10
Speaker 3: Ada broth, I thought Alfred saying goode with him. Bro. No,
1:02:15
Speaker 3: let me tell you about some Danny Ado bro. Let
1:02:18
Speaker 3: me bro thirty four and what like eighteen the other
1:02:21
Speaker 3: night twenty inz No, this is legit. This he's been,
1:02:25
Speaker 3: He's dealt with injuries this year. Let's pull up some
1:02:27
Speaker 3: Danny of of DIA's stats real quick. Let's do that
1:02:30
Speaker 3: because I have him on my fantasy basketball team. Guys,
1:02:33
Speaker 3: I have some Danny Avdom. He's semi parlay the other
1:02:36
Speaker 3: night too. I'm not gonna forget about that. He went
1:02:38
Speaker 3: five for eleven, so we're gonna disregard that the last
1:02:41
Speaker 3: two games, I mean, he went came down to Earth
1:02:43
Speaker 3: fifteen and six, nineteen and six. But before this twenty
1:02:46
Speaker 3: seven points fifteen rebounds, thirty four points sixteen rebounds. We
1:02:49
Speaker 3: saw him versus Cleveland and a couple like a seven
1:02:54
Speaker 3: games ago thirty and twelve we saw, We've seen a
1:02:57
Speaker 3: twenty eight and four game from thirty and nine, twenty eight,
1:02:59
Speaker 3: twenty and twelve. These are some of his bigger games
1:03:01
Speaker 3: this year twenty six to six. But he's also dealt
1:03:03
Speaker 3: with some injury, not like consistently, but he's missed some games.
1:03:09
Speaker 3: I do think this can be him on a consistent basis.
1:03:11
Speaker 3: I do think we can see him as a twenty
1:03:13
Speaker 3: and twelve guy on a consistent basis, and I think
1:03:15
Speaker 3: that's definitely what he can be. He can do it all,
1:03:18
Speaker 3: he can shoot the three, he can get to the
1:03:19
Speaker 3: racking and create his own shot. I do think this
1:03:21
Speaker 3: is definitely potentially who he could possibly be in the NBA.
1:03:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, for sure.
1:03:26
Speaker 1: And then all right, one more guy right here. He's
1:03:29
Speaker 1: kind of been up and down so ever since March seventh,
1:03:34
Speaker 1: he's been up and down. So he went from twenty
1:03:36
Speaker 1: two points, fifteen points, twelve points, thirty points, five points
1:03:39
Speaker 1: up to eighteen points. So Scoot Henderson here, so last
1:03:43
Speaker 1: year number two overall pick. So do you think that
1:03:47
Speaker 1: he's this is him finally taking that jump or this
1:03:50
Speaker 1: is just this is just an anomaly of him having
1:03:54
Speaker 1: a good game here.
1:03:55
Speaker 3: So okay, I'm not going to give the same height
1:03:58
Speaker 3: that I gave to Denny, but Scoot Henderson, Scoot Henderson
1:04:03
Speaker 3: is definitely a good basketball player, a good basketball I mean,
1:04:05
Speaker 3: we saw that. I mean to me, I'm gonna be
1:04:08
Speaker 3: completely honest, and we didn't get Wimby. I was completely
1:04:10
Speaker 3: fine getting Scoot Henderson. I was completely fine getting Scoot Henderson,
1:04:13
Speaker 3: and I think a lot of people were. I think
1:04:15
Speaker 3: that was the notion around the draft that if wy
1:04:18
Speaker 3: and Women and Yamo didn't exist, Scoot Henderson was definitely,
1:04:21
Speaker 3: without a doubt, the best player in the draft and
1:04:25
Speaker 3: of last year. So I'm not surprised that he's doing this.
1:04:29
Speaker 3: I really do think that he can get better. He
1:04:33
Speaker 3: has the physical abilities, He's risk. He's Russell Westbrook. That
1:04:36
Speaker 3: was the that was the comparison. He's Russell Westbrook, and
1:04:40
Speaker 3: not to the degree of rus Westbrook, but he's He
1:04:42
Speaker 3: had that potential a lot of people believed. But also
1:04:46
Speaker 3: if he were to be able to develop a shot,
1:04:48
Speaker 3: it were gonna it was gonna elevate him. He had
1:04:50
Speaker 3: a rough rookie year, a rough rookie year. It was
1:04:52
Speaker 3: pretty bad, But I do think what he's doing right
1:04:55
Speaker 3: now is what he can do. And I know I'm
1:04:57
Speaker 3: saying that for these players, but that's where we're these
1:05:00
Speaker 3: players legit who they are, who they are playing right
1:05:03
Speaker 3: like right now, and if if all of them are true,
1:05:05
Speaker 3: then it's definitely Scoot Henderson who can definitely play to
1:05:07
Speaker 3: that level because we've seen it before he entered the
1:05:09
Speaker 3: NBA and we definitely know he had that. We definitely
1:05:12
Speaker 3: know he had that draft pedigree to be able to
1:05:14
Speaker 3: play in that top tier level.
1:05:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I think as of right now, he's
1:05:19
Speaker 1: been more emmanual moodier than Russell Westbrook. I think that's yeah,
1:05:23
Speaker 1: that's what he's more, more banned. But all right, two
1:05:25
Speaker 1: more players right here, Alexander Saw for the Washington Wizards.
1:05:31
Speaker 2: Real or fake, dude.
1:05:34
Speaker 3: I feel like we're just saying real for all these guys.
1:05:36
Speaker 3: I think it's real, Like these guys are good basketball players.
1:05:40
Speaker 3: Alexander Saar, who I thought was gonna be the number
1:05:42
Speaker 3: one draft pick in the entire in the entire force
1:05:45
Speaker 3: his way out of Atlanta, so yeah, he didn't want
1:05:48
Speaker 3: to play there.
1:05:48
Speaker 1: But but still, like against Denver bro he was giving
1:05:55
Speaker 1: a business bro.
1:05:57
Speaker 3: And he he's averaging I believe, around almost two blocks
1:06:00
Speaker 3: per game. I want to say, so he's playing good defensively.
1:06:03
Speaker 3: His rebounding is pretty good. But thirty seven a thirty
1:06:06
Speaker 3: seven against Nikola Jokic, that's that's standing out. And I
1:06:10
Speaker 3: do think the Washington Wizards are a key good team,
1:06:13
Speaker 3: Like I do think that they have the pieces that
1:06:15
Speaker 3: they're gonna be Alexandra Star. I know they have Jordan
1:06:20
Speaker 3: pull there, they have a couple other good players that
1:06:23
Speaker 3: they have broad in. Chris Middleton's playing there right now,
1:06:25
Speaker 3: which I don't think he's gonna stay there for long.
1:06:27
Speaker 3: But I do think a lot of these younger guys
1:06:29
Speaker 3: that they have there they can really build around. And
1:06:31
Speaker 3: I do think they're a piece of way, And I
1:06:33
Speaker 3: think one of those pieces that they're gonna have is
1:06:35
Speaker 3: Alexandra Star. Collect I do see him being having a
1:06:39
Speaker 3: lot of DeAndre eight in comparisons when it comes to
1:06:42
Speaker 3: actually playing on the basketball court. But I do think
1:06:44
Speaker 3: him being more athletic than DeAndre and is going to
1:06:47
Speaker 3: elevate him to almost a higher level than that.
1:06:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, And one thing that I really like is that
1:06:53
Speaker 1: over this past month or so, he's actually been a
1:06:55
Speaker 1: better passer. I don't know the exact stats, but the
1:06:58
Speaker 1: last like six seven games, he's been getting like five
1:07:01
Speaker 1: assists a game, so it's showing a different element to him.
1:07:04
Speaker 3: So all right, I will say. I will say I
1:07:06
Speaker 3: love me some some Stephan Castle. I love watching some
1:07:09
Speaker 3: Stephan Castle play basketball. But I was definitely hoping, hoping
1:07:14
Speaker 3: for that that French connection with Alexandre sar and Victor
1:07:17
Speaker 3: and Binyama both playing together before the draft started. But
1:07:20
Speaker 3: you know, I'm happier now. Yeah, what's that thing I
1:07:23
Speaker 3: would have been? Yeah, Stephan cast him well.
1:07:26
Speaker 1: This last, this last one. I saved it for last
1:07:29
Speaker 1: because it is my team right here, So I already
1:07:32
Speaker 1: know my Jones sadly, No, it's not Trey Jones, but
1:07:36
Speaker 1: it's mister.
1:07:37
Speaker 2: Josh Jones, Josh giddy. Is this real or is this fake?
1:07:47
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you from from what he's been doing lately. Bro.
1:07:53
Speaker 1: Oh dang, that's a trade Jones. Oh yo, that one's clean.
1:07:59
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. So okay, I'll just less you Josh
1:08:01
Speaker 1: Getty stats since like February twenty.
1:08:04
Speaker 3: If he's legit, you tell me he's.
1:08:06
Speaker 1: Twenty points, eight rebounds, almost seven assists, and he's been shooting.
1:08:11
Speaker 2: I'm not even joking to you. He's shooting fifty percent
1:08:14
Speaker 2: from three right now.
1:08:15
Speaker 1: So as much as I want to say it's real,
1:08:18
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be this.
1:08:21
Speaker 2: You know what, No, this is real. This is real.
1:08:23
Speaker 1: He's gonna be I know, I know we're going to
1:08:25
Speaker 1: resign him, but this is over a month and a
1:08:28
Speaker 1: half of what he's been doing. I just think that
1:08:31
Speaker 1: he's now able to shoot the three ball. That was
1:08:33
Speaker 1: his biggest struggle Defensively. We're not worried about him defensively,
1:08:37
Speaker 1: we get that fixed. Don't worry about that. But him
1:08:39
Speaker 1: and Kobe White, this connection right here, it's just been
1:08:44
Speaker 1: something where it's been one of the most as crazy
1:08:47
Speaker 1: as it sounds, the most unguardable offense like we've been.
1:08:51
Speaker 1: We've been top five in offense damn near the entire year.
1:08:55
Speaker 1: So our problem isn't scoring points. It's just defense here.
1:08:58
Speaker 1: But Josh Gatty, well he's been doing. Look watch, let
1:09:02
Speaker 1: me just list you his past you know what, I'll
1:09:05
Speaker 1: just go to the past four games, twenty four points,
1:09:07
Speaker 1: ten assists, eight rebounds, twenty five points, six assists, sixteen rebounds,
1:09:12
Speaker 1: twenty one points, twelve rebounds, eight assists, nineteen points, twelve assists,
1:09:17
Speaker 1: eight rebounds, and this against I know there's a couple
1:09:21
Speaker 1: bad teams in here, with the Sixers and Raptors, but
1:09:23
Speaker 1: against the Suns and Clippers here, these are real teams
1:09:27
Speaker 1: that he's putting up real stats against. So I'm saying
1:09:30
Speaker 1: this is real right here. And it's his contract here,
1:09:32
Speaker 1: So I guess this is why he's popping out. But
1:09:35
Speaker 1: all right, do you do you believe it's real? Let
1:09:37
Speaker 1: me ask you that, do you believe that Josh gitty
1:09:39
Speaker 1: hype is real?
1:09:44
Speaker 3: Mm? See, this is the one of the questions about
1:09:48
Speaker 3: this is the one that questions about because the thing
1:09:55
Speaker 3: is is it Josh Giddy or is it everyone else
1:09:59
Speaker 3: playing their roles right now?
1:10:03
Speaker 2: Both both?
1:10:05
Speaker 3: I'll say that.
1:10:06
Speaker 1: I'll say that it's both. I'll say that is both.
1:10:09
Speaker 1: It's just well, offense has never been the problem. It's
1:10:13
Speaker 1: just we never had somebody set up our offense.
1:10:16
Speaker 3: But are are y'all gonna are y'all gonna resign him?
1:10:19
Speaker 3: That's the question I have, Like, is he gonna walk
1:10:22
Speaker 3: because Kobe White what's his name? He went all crazy
1:10:26
Speaker 3: against his women's go watch him. What's his name?
1:10:29
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, you're thinking you're thinking of talent Horton Tucker.
1:10:33
Speaker 2: No, we're not.
1:10:34
Speaker 3: No, no, didn't have a triple double. I don't know
1:10:37
Speaker 3: how to say his name. Yeah. Are we gonna see him? Right,
1:10:44
Speaker 3: Josh Katy Jones. I think we're gonna see Trad Jones.
1:10:48
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna go to a contender next year.
1:10:51
Speaker 3: He's playing this year. Trade Jones going to a contender
1:10:55
Speaker 3: after this? Oh yeah, First, top three guys? Are you
1:10:58
Speaker 3: keeping all three of them on the same roster right now?
1:11:01
Speaker 2: Well, okay, so you have Lonzo, you have Kobe waoh true, and.
1:11:07
Speaker 1: So okay, I'll say this, those three guys are on
1:11:10
Speaker 1: cheaper contracts, so you could afford to pay Josh Giddy. Well, okay,
1:11:16
Speaker 1: the market I looked at it. The market for a
1:11:18
Speaker 1: point Guary right now that is averaging his numbers is
1:11:21
Speaker 1: like twenty five to thirty million.
1:11:24
Speaker 2: So that's a little shot. That's a little scary right there.
1:11:27
Speaker 2: But he also is twenty.
1:11:29
Speaker 1: Two years old, so he is a younger player here,
1:11:32
Speaker 1: and I think it'll definitely be the right direction for
1:11:36
Speaker 1: the team because this team is very young now after
1:11:38
Speaker 1: getting rid of Deebo, Zach Lavine, those guys. But I
1:11:44
Speaker 1: think we're going to have to resign them based off
1:11:46
Speaker 1: of this year and maybe a two to three year deal.
1:11:49
Speaker 2: But that's pretty much it. But all right, let's go
1:11:53
Speaker 2: ahead and get into this second.
1:11:55
Speaker 1: Last topic right here. We'll do it pretty quick. Top ten,
1:11:59
Speaker 1: top ten players in the NBA right now. So do
1:12:03
Speaker 1: you just want to list one through ten?
1:12:05
Speaker 3: Here? We can go back and forth, back and forth.
1:12:09
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, I think this one's pretty pretty consensus
1:12:14
Speaker 1: right here. Honestly, I think the first three might be consensus.
1:12:18
Speaker 1: So the first one I have is Nikola Jokic. That's
1:12:22
Speaker 1: who's my number one?
1:12:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree. I don't think we need to
1:12:26
Speaker 3: go into too much explanation. Averaging a triple double this year. Yeah,
1:12:31
Speaker 3: three time MVP, NBA champion, NBA Finals no, Jamal Murray no, yeah, Yeah,
1:12:38
Speaker 3: Jokich win NBA Finals, MVP. So I mean that's consensus
1:12:41
Speaker 3: right there. He's still in the top two in debate.
1:12:43
Speaker 3: If SGA wasn't going crazy, it'd be no debate. So
1:12:46
Speaker 3: Nikola Yokich is number one.
1:12:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, number two.
1:12:49
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and list number two, number three, I'm
1:12:51
Speaker 1: that confident we have it the Sameba and Yiannis.
1:12:56
Speaker 3: That's why I have no we do not have the same.
1:13:00
Speaker 3: We do not have the same. I have SGA, which
1:13:02
Speaker 3: we have the same. At number two, SGA, what he's
1:13:04
Speaker 3: doing this year, what he did last year. SGA definitely
1:13:07
Speaker 3: deserves a number two spot. But number three for me
1:13:09
Speaker 3: is Luka Doncicic, Luka don Chic, the don Chics. I
1:13:12
Speaker 3: think Luka Doncics. We know, consistent first team all NBA.
1:13:16
Speaker 3: He's gonna miss out this year because of injuries, so
1:13:19
Speaker 3: he's not gonna be able to be up there, but
1:13:20
Speaker 3: still in the games he has played, averaging twenty eight
1:13:23
Speaker 3: points per game, eight point three pounds, seven point assists.
1:13:25
Speaker 3: We've seen him drop some really big games with the
1:13:29
Speaker 3: Lakers so far this year. I don't think they're definitely
1:13:31
Speaker 3: losing because of him, but they're definitely in the games
1:13:34
Speaker 3: because of him right now without Lebron, And yeah, I
1:13:38
Speaker 3: do think Luca there's a reason why the trade was
1:13:40
Speaker 3: so drastic because he's arguably the best player in the world.
1:13:43
Speaker 3: If we're being over going, like basically skill for skill,
1:13:47
Speaker 3: there's not many players in the world, not if not
1:13:49
Speaker 3: any that are better than Luka Doncics. So I think
1:13:51
Speaker 3: Luka Doncics being number three for me is right where
1:13:53
Speaker 3: he needs to be with the chance to move to
1:13:55
Speaker 3: number two over SGA, because I still do think he's
1:13:57
Speaker 3: the better player than SGA. I don't don't think he's
1:14:00
Speaker 3: I think as of this year it's SGA. But as
1:14:03
Speaker 3: a whole, I think Luka Doncics is the better as
1:14:06
Speaker 3: the better basketball player.
1:14:07
Speaker 1: So the reason why I have Giannis three is just
1:14:10
Speaker 1: the year that he's averaging averaging thirty twelve and six,
1:14:13
Speaker 1: and he's dead for developed as a passer and as
1:14:17
Speaker 1: far as his mid range game.
1:14:18
Speaker 2: Wait what goohead see?
1:14:20
Speaker 3: I took into it, Hount. I took this year heavily.
1:14:23
Speaker 3: I took this year heavily, I will say, but I'm
1:14:25
Speaker 3: also taking complete body. I'm taking over the last couple
1:14:29
Speaker 3: of years as well. Like I'm putting it into that
1:14:31
Speaker 3: conversation a little bit.
1:14:33
Speaker 1: I guess mine's more going off of what I've seen
1:14:36
Speaker 1: this year, because I'll tell you this, So okay, well
1:14:40
Speaker 1: I'll go I'll go to Liz four and five. So
1:14:43
Speaker 1: I have Jason Tatum four and I have Luca five.
1:14:47
Speaker 2: That's mine. Okay, so good, good.
1:14:51
Speaker 3: So now I have Jason Tatum four, which I agree with,
1:14:53
Speaker 3: which is probably gonna be surprised in coming from my mouth. Guys,
1:14:56
Speaker 3: I know, I know Jason Tatum at number four. What
1:15:00
Speaker 3: but no, Jason Tatum. I watched enough Celtic basketball this year.
1:15:04
Speaker 3: I've watched enough Celtic basketball this year. I still don't
1:15:06
Speaker 3: like the guy. But he's a cool guy. He's a
1:15:08
Speaker 3: cool guy on the basketball court. He's mister, he's he's
1:15:11
Speaker 3: he does all the right things on the basketball court.
1:15:14
Speaker 3: He guards one through five. He that's one thing. John
1:15:17
Speaker 3: Wall broke it down pretty good the other day. John
1:15:19
Speaker 3: Wall broke it down on the on the defensive side
1:15:22
Speaker 3: of the ball, which we need to get more john
1:15:24
Speaker 3: Wall talking about basketball. Let's just get that. Let's just
1:15:26
Speaker 3: get that out the way. But Jason Tatum definitely what
1:15:31
Speaker 3: he does on the defensive end of the ball, He's
1:15:33
Speaker 3: able to guard one through five, and he does guard five,
1:15:35
Speaker 3: and he allows the other players to kind of guard
1:15:37
Speaker 3: and it allows when the pick and roll switches happen,
1:15:40
Speaker 3: a bigger guy gets on to the defender and he's
1:15:43
Speaker 3: able to guard the smaller guard, which is like to
1:15:46
Speaker 3: think about like so, yeah, so it's a cheat cut
1:15:49
Speaker 3: because he's he has the high he's around like six nine,
1:15:51
Speaker 3: six tens, so he can guard the bigger the bigger players,
1:15:54
Speaker 3: and then also when he needs he's fast and he's
1:15:57
Speaker 3: playing he's a guard basically playing in a full body,
1:16:00
Speaker 3: so he's able to guard the smaller players. So he's
1:16:03
Speaker 3: definitely allowing this team to kind of step up to
1:16:05
Speaker 3: a whole nother level defensive league well also being a
1:16:07
Speaker 3: consistent three point shooter averaging twenty seven points per game,
1:16:09
Speaker 3: eight point seven rebounds, and five point nine as sists,
1:16:11
Speaker 3: and on nights where he can average a double double.
1:16:13
Speaker 3: On nights he gets triple doubles. So he's he's that
1:16:16
Speaker 3: do it all player. He doesn't do nothing flashy on
1:16:18
Speaker 3: the basketball court, but he does his job. And that's
1:16:20
Speaker 3: why I have Jason Tatal number four. Yeah, all for me, yea,
1:16:24
Speaker 3: I have honest, Oh my bad, what we're saying, go ahead.
1:16:29
Speaker 3: You don't have Giannis at five for a lot of
1:16:31
Speaker 3: the same reasons why you've had him so high. Thirty
1:16:33
Speaker 3: point two points per game, twelve rebound, six assists, the
1:16:36
Speaker 3: defensive end of the ball. We don't know you talk
1:16:38
Speaker 3: about Yiannis too much on that side because he can
1:16:40
Speaker 3: guard anybody on the basketball court. I don't know. I
1:16:43
Speaker 3: just feel like, as of right now, I'll take a
1:16:46
Speaker 3: lot of these guys. I mean there's a guy that
1:16:49
Speaker 3: I'll take the above everybody in the NBA, I don't
1:16:50
Speaker 3: care who you are, which we all know I'll get
1:16:52
Speaker 3: to him in the minute. Well, definitely, Nikoli Okchsga, and
1:16:56
Speaker 3: Luca I will take above Yiannis right now. And Jason Tatum.
1:16:59
Speaker 3: I just based off of last year and based off
1:17:02
Speaker 3: of this year, I have him above Giannis at but
1:17:04
Speaker 3: Jannis went healthy, and Yannis this year definitely is a
1:17:07
Speaker 3: top five basketball player in the world, without question, without
1:17:10
Speaker 3: a doubt, and no one can tell me any different.
1:17:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's the reason.
1:17:15
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is since I took this
1:17:17
Speaker 1: year heavily into consideration, That's why I have Luca at five.
1:17:21
Speaker 1: So I just think Janni's just this year has been
1:17:23
Speaker 1: the most unstoppable in Luca as of late, he's been
1:17:27
Speaker 1: playing up to that top three level. But I just
1:17:28
Speaker 1: had to deduct him just a little bit. He's starting
1:17:31
Speaker 1: to get back slowly.
1:17:32
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna Yeah, he has the flow of
1:17:35
Speaker 3: I think like.
1:17:36
Speaker 1: Another two weeks or so then he's gonna be fully back.
1:17:39
Speaker 1: I think what's kind of speeding it up though, is
1:17:41
Speaker 1: Lebron being out. That's what I really think, that being out.
1:17:45
Speaker 1: So all right, So what's your one through five again?
1:17:50
Speaker 3: My one through five is Nikola Jokic, Sga Luca, Jason Tatum,
1:17:54
Speaker 3: and Giannis Okay.
1:17:56
Speaker 1: So the only difference so I have Joki, Shay, Yannis,
1:17:58
Speaker 1: JT Luca.
1:17:59
Speaker 2: Only different is three and five, all right, six through
1:18:02
Speaker 2: ten right here?
1:18:04
Speaker 1: So okay, I have a feeling it might be the
1:18:07
Speaker 1: same right here, but I have Braun here.
1:18:09
Speaker 2: Number six.
1:18:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, I completely agree. I think Broun is number six
1:18:13
Speaker 3: for me. At the age of forty one, is still
1:18:15
Speaker 3: crazy that he's the sixth best basketball player in the world.
1:18:19
Speaker 3: Twenty five points per game, a point two rebounds, eight
1:18:21
Speaker 3: point five assist, which isn't even the stats that we're
1:18:23
Speaker 3: looking at. I'm looking at like what he's doing over
1:18:24
Speaker 3: the last month, like I did, arguably the best basketball
1:18:30
Speaker 3: player in the league this month or two, like and
1:18:34
Speaker 3: when he was in flame, and he's he's really getting
1:18:38
Speaker 3: the Lakers over the hump. I know we can look
1:18:39
Speaker 3: at plus minus. We argue that you know, in a
1:18:43
Speaker 3: in a group check, but that doesn't even matter. If
1:18:45
Speaker 3: you watch the basketball games, you know they don't win
1:18:47
Speaker 3: without Lebron James. And we've seen that these last couple
1:18:50
Speaker 3: of games. So without Lebron James, and I think Lebron
1:18:53
Speaker 3: James playing guys at a at an arguably first team
1:18:58
Speaker 3: and being the level in his forty season, that's the
1:19:01
Speaker 3: sixth best basketa player in the world for me.
1:19:03
Speaker 1: And also one thing their defense without Lebron is night
1:19:08
Speaker 1: and day, damn near Lebron he's been. He's almost a
1:19:11
Speaker 1: glue damn near for the defense. I don't know who
1:19:14
Speaker 1: it was that.
1:19:15
Speaker 2: That said it.
1:19:16
Speaker 1: I think it might have been John Ball two that
1:19:18
Speaker 1: said Lebron he's turned into the Draymond Green for the
1:19:22
Speaker 1: Lakers defense as far as from when he does all
1:19:24
Speaker 1: off ball and as far as he could switch on
1:19:27
Speaker 1: to the bigger guys.
1:19:28
Speaker 2: And honestly, who.
1:19:30
Speaker 3: Knows everything that the defense that the offense is doing
1:19:32
Speaker 3: like So it's not even and.
1:19:36
Speaker 1: I'll say this if Lebron wasn't forty years old and
1:19:39
Speaker 1: putting up these stats whenever he was like twenty eight,
1:19:42
Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty nine years old, he'd be argue top three.
1:19:45
Speaker 2: The only reason why he's being deducted, honestly is because
1:19:48
Speaker 2: health's that's the only.
1:19:49
Speaker 3: The crazy thing is he was putting these stats about
1:19:51
Speaker 3: thirty one years old. That's the crazy part. He was
1:19:55
Speaker 3: that's a.
1:19:57
Speaker 1: I know, it's just Lebron is just different, man. I'm
1:19:59
Speaker 1: just tired of having that goat debate with dude.
1:20:02
Speaker 3: I'm tired of having that debate too. Bro. Just watch
1:20:04
Speaker 3: them basketball, Just watch them ball.
1:20:06
Speaker 2: Just watching the basketball.
1:20:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, number seven right here, This is where
1:20:10
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be the same
1:20:12
Speaker 1: right here, so I probably not.
1:20:14
Speaker 2: I have Steph number seven.
1:20:16
Speaker 3: Ye, Nope, it's not the same. It's not the same.
1:20:20
Speaker 3: Why do you Steph Curry?
1:20:22
Speaker 1: So Steph at the beginning of the season wasn't playing
1:20:26
Speaker 1: so hot. So his numbers they're a little bit down
1:20:28
Speaker 1: right now. But as far as over this past month
1:20:31
Speaker 1: or so, whenever they've had Jimmy Butler, he's been averaging
1:20:34
Speaker 1: thirty points a game, damn near seven assists and shooting
1:20:38
Speaker 1: over forty percent from three.
1:20:40
Speaker 2: I just felt like.
1:20:40
Speaker 1: He was holding something a little bit back before Jimmy
1:20:43
Speaker 1: Butler because he really didn't think he had a chance
1:20:45
Speaker 1: to win, But now he's looking like twenty twenty two
1:20:49
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. And we already know where we had twenty
1:20:51
Speaker 1: twenty two Steph Curry whenever he won that chip, that
1:20:54
Speaker 1: was easily a top three guy. And of course he's
1:20:57
Speaker 1: gonna hustle out there on defense. And I just think
1:20:59
Speaker 1: that now with Jimmy Butler there him having space, now
1:21:03
Speaker 1: we're really seeing the true superpower of Steph Curry and
1:21:06
Speaker 1: what he's able to do.
1:21:07
Speaker 2: So that's why he's seven.
1:21:09
Speaker 1: As far as this past month or so, I guess
1:21:12
Speaker 1: it's playing a big factor, especially Lebron and Steph, these
1:21:15
Speaker 1: older guys. But I just know, I just know that
1:21:20
Speaker 1: that that he's just turned it up a notch out
1:21:23
Speaker 1: of late.
1:21:26
Speaker 2: Now that's why I have him seven.
1:21:27
Speaker 3: Go ahead, okay, but at seven, the man, the myth,
1:21:33
Speaker 3: the alien, Victor Wiminyama at number seven, for me, I
1:21:36
Speaker 3: would argue number one if I could argue it, But
1:21:39
Speaker 3: you know number seven is Victor Wimbinyama. For me, twenty
1:21:41
Speaker 3: four points per game, you know, bound two points, seven assists.
1:21:44
Speaker 3: But I don't even think that tells the whole story.
1:21:46
Speaker 3: I think we've seen him be a wheeling passer in
1:21:48
Speaker 3: this league. We've seen him get five by five by
1:21:50
Speaker 3: five multiple times. The defensive end of the ball, yeah,
1:21:56
Speaker 3: I think the defensive end of the ball elevates you
1:21:58
Speaker 3: to a whole other level. If he was healthy still,
1:22:01
Speaker 3: I would put him higher on this list, if I'm
1:22:02
Speaker 3: being completely honest with everybody in this that's listening to this.
1:22:06
Speaker 3: If he was still healthy, he would be higher. But
1:22:09
Speaker 3: the defensive side of the ball, I think it does
1:22:11
Speaker 3: numbers a lot and it speaks. It elevates Victor Woman
1:22:14
Speaker 3: Yama's game that already is really good offensively, it elevates
1:22:17
Speaker 3: it to a whole other level. I think being the
1:22:20
Speaker 3: best shot brint protector in the entire NBA. People don't.
1:22:24
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the same arguments to make all the
1:22:25
Speaker 3: time for Victor Women Yam. I mean, how much more
1:22:27
Speaker 3: do I have to say? You know, almost averaging four
1:22:29
Speaker 3: blocks per game, he even got up to five block
1:22:32
Speaker 3: almost five blocks per game. Yeah, and I believe for
1:22:35
Speaker 3: for a two month stretch in this NBA leaves the
1:22:38
Speaker 3: league in stock, which is still well, actually, I don't know,
1:22:40
Speaker 3: because Dyson was crazy so, but definitely, when he's on
1:22:48
Speaker 3: the court, the Spurs have I believe, a top three
1:22:50
Speaker 3: defense in the entire NBA, and when he's off the court,
1:22:54
Speaker 3: they dropped dramatically to like the twenty sixth and allowed
1:22:56
Speaker 3: the most amount of points in the NBA and in
1:22:59
Speaker 3: inside in the interior. So his impact on basketball is
1:23:04
Speaker 3: Lebron like. If I'm being completely honest, the impact that
1:23:07
Speaker 3: when Victor wom Minyama has is Nikola Jokic like his
1:23:11
Speaker 3: SGA like. So he he definitely changes the entire game
1:23:14
Speaker 3: of basketball when he's playing the Victor Womanyama Offensively, there
1:23:19
Speaker 3: was a point in this in this in this season
1:23:22
Speaker 3: over a two month stretch where he was averaging almost
1:23:24
Speaker 3: twenty nine to thirty points per game, I believe fourteen
1:23:27
Speaker 3: rebounds and around five assists. If he's gonna do that
1:23:30
Speaker 3: in his prime a couple of years from now, that's
1:23:32
Speaker 3: the MVP of the of the entire league, especially what
1:23:35
Speaker 3: he can do defensively. And I think Victor wim Minyama
1:23:37
Speaker 3: definitely is the number seven best, the seventh best basketball
1:23:40
Speaker 3: player this year and even of last year in the
1:23:43
Speaker 3: entire NBA.
1:23:44
Speaker 1: So I just have him right there as eight for
1:23:46
Speaker 1: all the reasons you said I'm not going to really
1:23:48
Speaker 1: go into that, but to finish off my top ten.
1:23:50
Speaker 1: So I have winby eight and nine and I have
1:23:53
Speaker 1: Katie tim That's why I finish off. Mind, So what's
1:23:56
Speaker 1: yours to finish off?
1:23:58
Speaker 3: Okay, I have number eight Anthony Edwards. You know, we
1:24:03
Speaker 3: see what he can do. Offensively, we see him shoot
1:24:05
Speaker 3: the three really will, if not better than most of
1:24:09
Speaker 3: this season. I think there's just a consistency there that
1:24:12
Speaker 3: needs to be a little bit better, a little bit
1:24:13
Speaker 3: better by Anthony Edwards, and defensively he can guard one
1:24:16
Speaker 3: through three pretty well. At number nine, I have Stephan Curry.
1:24:21
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of the same reasons why you
1:24:23
Speaker 3: have had him at number seven. I believe a lot
1:24:25
Speaker 3: of the same reasons why for him there. You know,
1:24:27
Speaker 3: I do think that he was really working for that
1:24:29
Speaker 3: next player to come by, so it takes a lot
1:24:31
Speaker 3: of pressure off of him. He can really play off
1:24:33
Speaker 3: and get the fullness of Stephan Curry that there is.
1:24:36
Speaker 3: At number ten, I have a a a split. I
1:24:41
Speaker 3: think I have a split between two players and that's
1:24:42
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant, that's Donovan Mitchell. I think, yeah, I think
1:24:46
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant is definitely when you seen him, do. I mean,
1:24:50
Speaker 3: he did take some time off. He did take a
1:24:51
Speaker 3: little bit of like I think that's just due to
1:24:53
Speaker 3: the team starting to lose and him not wanting to
1:24:55
Speaker 3: be there anymore. But definitely what he's done the majority
1:24:58
Speaker 3: of the season is still averaging twenty six point per game,
1:25:01
Speaker 3: six point one rebounds, five point four point five assists.
1:25:04
Speaker 3: Definitely the premier scorer and one of the premier scorers
1:25:07
Speaker 3: in the entire NBA is still able to do his thing.
1:25:10
Speaker 3: I have him at ten along with Donavin Mitchell a
1:25:12
Speaker 3: lot for the same reasons. Being a premier scorer in
1:25:14
Speaker 3: the NBA gets you a long way. I know he's
1:25:15
Speaker 3: only averaging twenty four points per game, but honestly, I
1:25:18
Speaker 3: don't think that tells a story. I think all the
1:25:20
Speaker 3: players on that team that they have really takes, really
1:25:23
Speaker 3: takes a lot of a lot of the scoring help
1:25:25
Speaker 3: away from him. You know. So Evan Multley has been
1:25:27
Speaker 3: getting the scoring. Darius Gallan has really step up a
1:25:30
Speaker 3: lot this year when it comes to scoring. And I
1:25:32
Speaker 3: called him out, I said, we need him to get
1:25:34
Speaker 3: back to what he was a couple of years ago.
1:25:35
Speaker 3: Not this willing, not this He's a wheeling, he's a passer,
1:25:38
Speaker 3: he's a point guard who was a scorer, yeah first
1:25:41
Speaker 3: and foremost, and now he's going back to that, and
1:25:43
Speaker 3: that's taken a lot of a lot of the pressure
1:25:45
Speaker 3: off of Dona mitchell shoulders when it comes to scoring
1:25:48
Speaker 3: for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
1:25:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had Donovan Mitchell kind of as an honorable
1:25:54
Speaker 1: mention here, but yeah, I know, I'm gonna just have
1:25:57
Speaker 1: to go with Kadie just I've seen over a longer
1:25:59
Speaker 1: perier of time and just whenever they've flipped the switch.
1:26:03
Speaker 3: But all right, but I think I'm also taking into
1:26:05
Speaker 3: account what Donovan Mitchell did in a playoff last season,
1:26:08
Speaker 3: like the way he took over basketball games. I know
1:26:10
Speaker 3: he can do that.
1:26:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that is true, And I just think that
1:26:15
Speaker 1: he should be in the MVP conversation. Just but his
1:26:19
Speaker 1: stats aren't eye popping, you know what I mean. But
1:26:21
Speaker 1: he's been obviously or clearly the most valuable on the
1:26:24
Speaker 1: Cavs here. So all right, So my top ten was Joki,
1:26:29
Speaker 1: Shay Giannis, Jason Tatum, Luca Bron Steph Wemby and and
1:26:34
Speaker 1: then KD and then Donovan Mitchell as an honorable mention
1:26:37
Speaker 1: if I had to put one below, so your top
1:26:39
Speaker 1: tens would.
1:26:40
Speaker 3: Again Nikolai jokicch Sga, Luka, Doncics, Jason Tatum at further,
1:26:46
Speaker 3: Johnnas at five, Lebron at six, wimb at seven, Anthony
1:26:51
Speaker 3: Edwards at eight, Stephen Curry at nine, and then Kevin
1:26:54
Speaker 3: Durant or Donovan Mitchell at ten.
1:26:56
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, now this last one here, Okay,
1:27:01
Speaker 1: the bracket here, let me let me share my screen
1:27:04
Speaker 1: right here, so so let me just go to this
1:27:07
Speaker 1: bracket right here.
1:27:08
Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
1:27:10
Speaker 3: Actually, let me go on a rent real quick. Yeah,
1:27:11
Speaker 3: let me go on a rent really fast. Yeah, Luca Banchez,
1:27:15
Speaker 3: we got to talk about this really quick, because I
1:27:18
Speaker 3: I hate on the social media's aspect of it all.
1:27:21
Speaker 3: I got a lot of hate. But I said, at
1:27:24
Speaker 3: this point in their career, the best player that they
1:27:26
Speaker 3: have is Luka Daunchis, and I understand. I'll give you
1:27:29
Speaker 3: Kareem abdul Jabbar. I'll give you Kareem abdul Jabbar, which
1:27:33
Speaker 3: I said, if you didn't listen to the first ten
1:27:35
Speaker 3: seconds of the video, if you're ted listening, I said,
1:27:39
Speaker 3: outside of Lebron James, who is the best basketball player
1:27:41
Speaker 3: of all time. I'll give you Luc at number three
1:27:44
Speaker 3: or number two, and I'll stand by that. I'll give
1:27:48
Speaker 3: you Luk at number three or number two because you can.
1:27:51
Speaker 3: I'll take Shack. I'll take Shack above them. I'll take
1:27:54
Speaker 3: Kareem abdul Jabbar above them. So I'm not gonna argue those.
1:27:56
Speaker 3: But Luca was more dominant than Shaquille O'Neill as scaring
1:28:00
Speaker 3: the basketball, and that's that's statistically correct. Shaquille only averaged
1:28:05
Speaker 3: seven seven to seven twenty seven point per game over
1:28:09
Speaker 3: his first nine years. Luca Danchet is averaging twenty eight
1:28:12
Speaker 3: point six point games over his career, so stats don't lie.
1:28:14
Speaker 3: And he's able to score at all three facets of
1:28:17
Speaker 3: the basketball, not just in the interior, and he's able
1:28:19
Speaker 3: to shoot free throw. So who's more dominant? I think
1:28:21
Speaker 3: Luca Dongees. I mean, I give you the rebounds. For
1:28:24
Speaker 3: Shaquille O'Neil, I'll give you the rebounding because he is
1:28:26
Speaker 3: a big man. But Luka donci Is still coverages eight
1:28:28
Speaker 3: point seven rebounds per game. But look at assist eight
1:28:31
Speaker 3: point three assists per game, it's not even close. So
1:28:35
Speaker 3: Luka Doncics, But I'll still give you shack. I'll give
1:28:36
Speaker 3: you shack. The two guys I want to talk about
1:28:38
Speaker 3: Magic Johnson and I want to talk about We'll get
1:28:41
Speaker 3: to the bean in a minute. We'll get to the
1:28:43
Speaker 3: bean in a minute, because I I'll get to the
1:28:45
Speaker 3: bean in a minute. We'll get to the bean in
1:28:46
Speaker 3: a minute. But Magic Johnson. Okay, So this is this
1:28:49
Speaker 3: is Luca Donchi's statch over his first nine years of
1:28:51
Speaker 3: his career. Twenty one point two points per game. That's good.
1:28:55
Speaker 3: He's never scored below twenty in his entire NBA career
1:28:57
Speaker 3: and which probably get to the bean in a minute.
1:28:59
Speaker 3: So twenty one point two points per game. He was
1:29:02
Speaker 3: a year league MVP at the age of sixteen years old,
1:29:06
Speaker 3: so none of these point guys did that in the
1:29:08
Speaker 3: professional league. Didn't get an MVP at the age of
1:29:10
Speaker 3: sixteen years old. But twenty one point two points per game,
1:29:14
Speaker 3: twenty eight point eight twentis per game, twenty seven point
1:29:17
Speaker 3: seven points per game, thirty eight point twenty eight point
1:29:19
Speaker 3: four points per game, thirty two point four points per game,
1:29:23
Speaker 3: thirty three point nine, which I think both led the
1:29:25
Speaker 3: NBA both times he did that, thirty and then he
1:29:28
Speaker 3: has twenty eight point one points per game. Last year
1:29:30
Speaker 3: twenty six point two points per game. But that's also
1:29:32
Speaker 3: because they brought in Kyrie Irving, another guy that can
1:29:35
Speaker 3: take a lot of load off, a lot of pressure
1:29:36
Speaker 3: off of the scoring. He's been down with some injury,
1:29:39
Speaker 3: but I guarantee you this twenty seven point four points
1:29:41
Speaker 3: per game would be around thirty if he wasn't hurt
1:29:44
Speaker 3: most of this season. So let's go look at mister
1:29:47
Speaker 3: Magic Johnson in his points per game eighteen twenty one,
1:29:50
Speaker 3: eighteen sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, eighteen, eighteen, twenty thirty nineteen. Luca
1:29:55
Speaker 3: Doncis doesn't score low like that. Luka Doncis scores the
1:29:59
Speaker 3: ball at will, something Magic Johnson doesn't do compared to
1:30:02
Speaker 3: Luca don chets. Okay, so let's get that out the way.
1:30:05
Speaker 3: Let's look at the assists per game over nine years.
1:30:07
Speaker 3: Magic Johnson's average is seven point three. Well, Luca don
1:30:10
Speaker 3: Chons averages a whole assist more than Magic Johnson over
1:30:14
Speaker 3: a nine year stretch. And we want to talk about
1:30:16
Speaker 3: the showtime Lakers. Showtime is really Luka don Chics, all right,
1:30:20
Speaker 3: Luca don che gets everybody involved at a higher rate
1:30:23
Speaker 3: than mister Magic Johnson. And if you want to look
1:30:25
Speaker 3: at no, hold on, I got that wrong. Rebounding. This
1:30:27
Speaker 3: is rebound. He's better rebound than Magic Johnson. I'll give
1:30:30
Speaker 3: you an assist per game for Magic Johnson. Move it
1:30:33
Speaker 3: to you. Look is averaging around eight to nine assists
1:30:38
Speaker 3: per game in his career, but at a higher rate
1:30:41
Speaker 3: of scoring, at a higher rate of rebounding the ball.
1:30:43
Speaker 3: I'm taking Luca Dontics over Magic Johnson in his first
1:30:45
Speaker 3: nine years. I give Magic Johnson one MVP all that,
1:30:48
Speaker 3: But when you have James Worthy, Kareem abdul Jabbar, when
1:30:51
Speaker 3: you have Michael Thompson, when you have an array of
1:30:54
Speaker 3: players at your disposal, I can see why you're gonna
1:30:57
Speaker 3: do all of that. But Magic john and I'll even
1:31:01
Speaker 3: give you Magic Johnson. Luka Doncics. One guy that will
1:31:03
Speaker 3: not give you a Luka Doncis in his first nine
1:31:06
Speaker 3: years is a guy that averaged seven points six points
1:31:08
Speaker 3: per game in his first year. You know what, Luka
1:31:10
Speaker 3: Doncsa has never done average below twenty points per game
1:31:13
Speaker 3: in his entire NBA career. I don't even know what
1:31:16
Speaker 3: happened to my freaking Kobe Bryant stats. Oh, here it
1:31:18
Speaker 3: is in his first three years, Kobe Bryant seven point
1:31:22
Speaker 3: six points per game, one point three assists per game,
1:31:26
Speaker 3: one point nine rebounds per games. Luka Doncis was acting
1:31:30
Speaker 3: that at fourteen year olds in the euro League. Bro
1:31:32
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear about freaking seven point six
1:31:35
Speaker 3: points per game, fifteen point four points per game. Luka
1:31:38
Speaker 3: Doncis never scored fifteen point four points per game in
1:31:41
Speaker 3: his life. So that's fifteen points four per game, three
1:31:44
Speaker 3: point one rebound per game, two point five says that's
1:31:46
Speaker 3: improvement for the beam, that's improvement from year one to
1:31:48
Speaker 3: year two, almost double his point scoring, but nineteen point
1:31:51
Speaker 3: nine points per game in his third year. Luka Doncis
1:31:54
Speaker 3: has never scored below twenty points per game in his
1:31:56
Speaker 3: entire NBA career. I just want to put that out there.
1:31:59
Speaker 3: Luca Dodgers has never done that before. Oh and his
1:32:02
Speaker 3: highest points per game total in his in his first
1:32:05
Speaker 3: nine years was thirty Luca Donchas average thirty three and
1:32:08
Speaker 3: thirty four, but thirty two and thirty three two years
1:32:11
Speaker 3: in a row. And then what what? What did what
1:32:13
Speaker 3: did Kobe Bryant do after averaging thirty points per game,
1:32:15
Speaker 3: he dropped back down to twenty four points per game.
1:32:19
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know, there's a lot of
1:32:23
Speaker 3: love Kobe Bryant, and I'm taking the career of Kobe
1:32:25
Speaker 3: Bryant over Luca Dontic's the entirety of the career. But
1:32:28
Speaker 3: if you want to talk about first nine years, who
1:32:30
Speaker 3: the best player the Lakers have ever had, I'll give
1:32:32
Speaker 3: you Shack, I'll give you Kareem, But I'm gonna argue
1:32:34
Speaker 3: Luka Donchs over Magic Johnson and over Kobe Bryant. And
1:32:37
Speaker 3: that's just that's just the fact, that's just what the
1:32:39
Speaker 3: stats say, that's just what consistency says. At this point
1:32:42
Speaker 3: in his career, Luka Doncies has more first team All
1:32:44
Speaker 3: nbas than Kobe Bryant had in his first nine years.
1:32:46
Speaker 3: Luca Done has been top three in mvv voting, something
1:32:49
Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant didn't do for a majority of his first
1:32:52
Speaker 3: nine year crew. And then if you want to look
1:32:54
Speaker 3: at actually scoring the basketball and passing your teammates the basketball,
1:32:59
Speaker 3: and actually shooting the point show and actually rebounding the
1:33:01
Speaker 3: basketball and actually doing everything at the standpoint of basketball,
1:33:05
Speaker 3: who was better than their first nine years career, it's
1:33:06
Speaker 3: without a doubt Luca don Chic was closed. There we go.
1:33:17
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, all I'm saying is there are a lot
1:33:21
Speaker 2: of good points in there. There's a lot of good
1:33:23
Speaker 2: points in there. Okay, I'm a little bit more convinced now.
1:33:26
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit more convinced.
1:33:28
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that I'm a little bit more convinced now.
1:33:31
Speaker 3: But if people listen to the video, I said, career,
1:33:35
Speaker 3: I'm not arguing careers right now. I'm arguing right now,
1:33:40
Speaker 3: at this point in their career, Luka Doncic is better
1:33:44
Speaker 3: than at least Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson.
1:33:47
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but you know they're not gonna listen to
1:33:49
Speaker 1: the entire video. You're gonna hear just whatever they want
1:33:52
Speaker 1: to hear.
1:33:52
Speaker 3: But yeah, because Luca never averaged seven point six per game,
1:33:57
Speaker 3: just saying Luca got dracked the third overall, he didn't
1:33:59
Speaker 3: get your the thirteenth overall. And first of all, he
1:34:02
Speaker 3: didn't get traded for Vlade divatch on on his draft night.
1:34:05
Speaker 3: He got traded for for Trey Young. So I think
1:34:09
Speaker 3: I think the player watch all right, So let's just
1:34:13
Speaker 3: say who they're, what they're what their standpoints were at
1:34:16
Speaker 3: coming into the league. I'm just saying, and they were
1:34:18
Speaker 3: both eighteen, so I don't want to hear that argument.
1:34:20
Speaker 2: Oh okay, hey, hey, you're not wrong, get not wrong. Okay,
1:34:25
Speaker 2: all right, well let's go and fill out this bracket
1:34:29
Speaker 2: right here. So, Josh, I'm gonna be honest with you,
1:34:32
Speaker 2: I haven't watched a single college basketball game the entire year,
1:34:36
Speaker 2: or you know what the time I watched one when
1:34:38
Speaker 2: it was your birthday and we went to, Hey.
1:34:41
Speaker 3: This is Mark, Hey, this is March madness. Yeah, it
1:34:43
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what you know. It's a matter how who
1:34:46
Speaker 3: you picked. So that's all I'm saying. It's just that's all.
1:34:50
Speaker 3: There's nothing nothing about here. We may be wrong from
1:34:54
Speaker 3: the start, so it don't even matter.
1:34:56
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right, But I'm that's the only time
1:34:58
Speaker 1: I watched a college basketball game win. We're at me
1:35:00
Speaker 1: Piacis and it was Duke versus somebody it was. That
1:35:04
Speaker 1: was the only game I've watched the entire year. But
1:35:06
Speaker 1: all right, Auburn versus Alabama State here.
1:35:10
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna go with Auburn. Auburn was definitely the
1:35:14
Speaker 3: top school for most of the entire year, but they
1:35:16
Speaker 3: did drop a couple of games to end the season,
1:35:18
Speaker 3: they ended up winning the SEC Tournament. So I'm gonna
1:35:21
Speaker 3: stick with Auburn on this one. And yeah, I think
1:35:23
Speaker 3: Alabama State they just got in, but it's gonna be budget.
1:35:29
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw that. Yeah, so that
1:35:31
Speaker 3: was pretty insane, but it was like a hill Mary
1:35:34
Speaker 3: throwing into a shot. So we're still gonna go with
1:35:37
Speaker 3: Auburn easily, all right.
1:35:38
Speaker 2: Louisville versus Creighton, I feel like.
1:35:41
Speaker 3: See, I don't know much about these teams, but I
1:35:43
Speaker 3: know Creighton's usually good at basketball, and I feel like this,
1:35:47
Speaker 3: I must say Creighton right here. That's who I picked.
1:35:50
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go Craton all right.
1:35:52
Speaker 1: The infamous five versus twelve matchup. There's always a couple
1:35:56
Speaker 1: of five versus twelve matchups.
1:35:58
Speaker 2: Here. You see San Diego versus Michigan right here.
1:36:02
Speaker 3: Mm hmmmm see, I was gonna mean the upset, but
1:36:06
Speaker 3: I'm stick Michigan on this one.
1:36:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think this upset A and M versus
1:36:09
Speaker 2: Yell the four verse thirteen. I don't think in A
1:36:12
Speaker 2: and M or you think.
1:36:13
Speaker 3: I'm going and there in their in tier is really good. Uh,
1:36:16
Speaker 3: they're they're able to rebound the ball and kind of
1:36:18
Speaker 3: they haven't answered for pretty much everybody's like offensive game.
1:36:22
Speaker 3: They have a really good defensive squad. So I'm gonna
1:36:24
Speaker 3: go with A and M.
1:36:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Ole Miss versus U n C. Okay,
1:36:28
Speaker 1: I watched some of the UNC game yesterday. They Yeah,
1:36:33
Speaker 1: they look damn good right here. So I don't know they.
1:36:36
Speaker 3: Do they do? But Ole Miss is also pretty good. Bro,
1:36:41
Speaker 3: I have Ole Miss going to the final four or
1:36:42
Speaker 3: one of my brackets. I'm just saying. I'm just saying
1:36:46
Speaker 3: they they being They played some good against some teams.
1:36:48
Speaker 3: They play bad against some teams. But they beat Florida,
1:36:51
Speaker 3: which is the number one team early in the season. Yeah,
1:36:53
Speaker 3: so but we could what what this ision do you want?
1:36:57
Speaker 3: I'll let you pick this one right here. Which one
1:36:58
Speaker 3: do you think is gonna happen right here?
1:37:00
Speaker 2: Okay?
1:37:01
Speaker 1: Well, I do remember my dad telling me that U
1:37:03
Speaker 1: and C has opened up as a favorite in this one.
1:37:07
Speaker 1: They've opened up as a favorite right here. I don't know,
1:37:10
Speaker 1: it's not showing, but you know what you said, Oh Miss,
1:37:14
Speaker 1: they made it to your final four, so let's at
1:37:16
Speaker 1: least get them to the round of thirty.
1:37:18
Speaker 2: Two right here. So, oh, okay, Iowa State versus lips COO.
1:37:25
Speaker 2: I think that's how you say it.
1:37:26
Speaker 3: You know what we're going with Iowa State. Well, you're
1:37:29
Speaker 3: gonna go with lipscumb right here.
1:37:30
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, here's here's an upset right here.
1:37:32
Speaker 1: Don't don't ask me why it's because we already have
1:37:35
Speaker 1: the one, nine to five, four, and the six right here.
1:37:40
Speaker 3: So you think you think it's bound to happen right here.
1:37:42
Speaker 2: I think it's bound to happen. I think it's bound
1:37:45
Speaker 2: to happen. I have no reasoning why.
1:37:48
Speaker 3: Let's favor some Lipscomb right here.
1:37:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Marquette seven Marquet versus ten New Mexico.
1:37:55
Speaker 3: Okay, see, I think this is gonna be a very
1:37:58
Speaker 3: good game, a very underrated game. But I think Marquette
1:38:00
Speaker 3: they've had some they've played some good ball this year.
1:38:03
Speaker 3: I haven't really watched too much on your Mexico, so
1:38:04
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna stick with Marquette on this one.
1:38:06
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay. So number two Michigan State versus Bryant.
1:38:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Michigan State walks away with this one.
1:38:14
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:38:16
Speaker 1: Oh, so we we have some we don't really pick
1:38:18
Speaker 1: upsets right here, all right? In this bracket Duke versus Well,
1:38:23
Speaker 1: it's not official yet, so a M f R or
1:38:27
Speaker 1: ms M.
1:38:27
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means.
1:38:29
Speaker 3: That he's gonna win this basketball Yeah, for the tournament,
1:38:34
Speaker 3: I don't know. But I still not worried about that.
1:38:36
Speaker 3: They have two. They have three other first round draft
1:38:38
Speaker 3: picks on that team.
1:38:39
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, Baylor, Baylor versus Mississippi State, they
1:38:43
Speaker 1: eight versus nine.
1:38:45
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Baylor. I think Baylor is definitely
1:38:49
Speaker 3: gonna have the answers for Mississippi State in this one.
1:38:51
Speaker 2: Okay, Oregon versus Liberty.
1:38:54
Speaker 3: You know, I think this is gonna be an upset.
1:38:57
Speaker 3: I think Liberty is gonna walk away with this one.
1:39:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, I'm like, I don't know.
1:39:02
Speaker 1: There's just something about that. Arizona versus Acrid.
1:39:05
Speaker 3: I have some Arizona.
1:39:06
Speaker 1: I'll about say I have some bias towards Arizona. Just
1:39:09
Speaker 1: a little bit shout out kJ Lewis by the way,
1:39:12
Speaker 1: But that's all I'm gonna say. That's all I'm gonna say.
1:39:14
Speaker 1: All Right, b Yu versus VCU, the six versus eleven.
1:39:21
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna go with b Yu on this one.
1:39:25
Speaker 3: They played good in the Big twelve. I think they're
1:39:27
Speaker 3: gonna continue that run a little bit.
1:39:29
Speaker 1: Wisconsin versus Montana the three verses fourteen, I don't know what.
1:39:34
Speaker 1: Montana just has.
1:39:35
Speaker 3: A twin Montana seems intriguing right here, Brot.
1:39:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's go with Montana, all right. Seven versus ten.
1:39:45
Speaker 2: Saint Mary's versus Vanderbilt.
1:39:48
Speaker 3: See, I usually go if a basketball team has Saint
1:39:50
Speaker 3: in the front of them, I'm going with that team
1:39:52
Speaker 3: most of the time. So I'm gonna go with Saint
1:39:53
Speaker 3: Mary's in this one.
1:39:54
Speaker 2: All Right, Bama versus Robert Morris.
1:39:59
Speaker 3: I We'll go with Alabama.
1:40:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, I know Bama, they're good.
1:40:03
Speaker 2: All right.
1:40:03
Speaker 1: Florida versus Norfolk State one versus sixteen in the West Florida.
1:40:10
Speaker 3: Florida is way too good. They got a good interior
1:40:13
Speaker 3: their teams. They're the number one team and probably the
1:40:15
Speaker 3: college basketball for in college basketball for a reason.
1:40:18
Speaker 2: All right, Yukon versus Oklahoma. I know Oklahoma.
1:40:21
Speaker 1: The other day they almost came back against what was
1:40:23
Speaker 1: it Kentucky?
1:40:24
Speaker 3: So the defending champs versus Oklahoma. I had the Yukon.
1:40:28
Speaker 3: I had Yukon losing in the first round. Oh, I
1:40:30
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna go with Oklahoma.
1:40:32
Speaker 1: Dan Hurley loses after back to back Damn Memphis versus
1:40:36
Speaker 1: Colorado State five versus twelve.
1:40:38
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with Memphis in
1:40:40
Speaker 3: this one, all right.
1:40:42
Speaker 2: Ooh Maryland versus Grand Canyon. See, so there's just certain
1:40:48
Speaker 2: teams I just look at. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's
1:40:50
Speaker 2: an upset.
1:40:51
Speaker 3: That's the online prestigious school of Grand Canyon University. I
1:40:56
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna go with them. Right there.
1:40:57
Speaker 2: I was about to say Grand Canyon is something about that?
1:41:00
Speaker 2: All right. Number six Missouri versus eleven Drake.
1:41:05
Speaker 3: See, Drake usually has good basketball. They usually have some
1:41:09
Speaker 3: pretty good basketball teams. And I think when the.
1:41:12
Speaker 1: Yeah Drake, Drake did take a big l last year
1:41:15
Speaker 1: versus Kendrick, so I don't know, they bounced back.
1:41:19
Speaker 3: So I think I think Drake gets their redemption story
1:41:21
Speaker 3: in this one. I think they're gonna beat Missouri.
1:41:24
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, IoT to say here it was Tech versus
1:41:30
Speaker 2: youmans Willem, So yeah, we're gonna go Tech. Kansas versus
1:41:34
Speaker 2: Arkansas seven versus two.
1:41:36
Speaker 3: See, Damien had Arkansas all the way in the championship,
1:41:39
Speaker 3: and that's just stupid. So we're gonna go with Kansas
1:41:42
Speaker 3: in this one. You don't listen to anything damiens. So
1:41:43
Speaker 3: we're gonna go with Kansas in this one. That's good
1:41:45
Speaker 3: enough for me. That's good arguments for me.
1:41:48
Speaker 1: Really, he had the number ten arkansaship.
1:41:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.
1:41:55
Speaker 2: Saint John's versus Omaha.
1:41:58
Speaker 3: Strick Patino is really in the way saying John's played
1:42:00
Speaker 3: some good defense, some good rotational defense. We're going with
1:42:02
Speaker 3: Saint John's in this one, all right?
1:42:05
Speaker 2: All right? What we owe Houston versus I can't even
1:42:09
Speaker 2: see that right there? S I u E.
1:42:12
Speaker 3: We're going with Houston. I don't even know what the
1:42:14
Speaker 3: hell that stands for me.
1:42:16
Speaker 2: Gonzaga versus Georgia versus nine.
1:42:19
Speaker 3: I think this is gonna be a really good matchup,
1:42:21
Speaker 3: probably the matchup of the first round. But I'm gonna
1:42:23
Speaker 3: go with Gonzaga in this one. I think Gonzaga is
1:42:25
Speaker 3: constantly the better basketball school. Gonzaga is gonna move on
1:42:28
Speaker 3: to play Houston.
1:42:29
Speaker 1: All right, Now, we have the greatest matchup the five
1:42:32
Speaker 1: versus twelve, Clemson versus McNeese.
1:42:36
Speaker 3: See McNeese got the cool ass trainer that walks out
1:42:39
Speaker 3: with the boom box playst Mexican.
1:42:43
Speaker 2: I'll go with McNee here. I've seen him, did I
1:42:46
Speaker 2: see them?
1:42:47
Speaker 3: All right? All right, we'll go with McNeice in this one.
1:42:49
Speaker 1: They're gonna be hyped up before the game. They're gonna
1:42:52
Speaker 1: be ready, They're gonna be ready to go.
1:42:53
Speaker 2: It's gonna be popping, all right. Purdue versus High Point four.
1:42:57
Speaker 3: We're gonna be the highest point at High Point gets.
1:43:00
Speaker 3: So we're gonna go with Purdue, all right.
1:43:03
Speaker 1: Number six versus or number number six, Illinois versus eleven
1:43:08
Speaker 1: Texas or Xavier today.
1:43:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think we're gonna go with Texas. I
1:43:13
Speaker 3: think Texas is gonna win versus Xavier, and I think
1:43:15
Speaker 3: they come back and be Illinois in this first round.
1:43:17
Speaker 3: So that's what I'm gonna go with.
1:43:19
Speaker 2: Kentucky versus Troy three versus fourteen.
1:43:22
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Kentucky.
1:43:24
Speaker 1: Kentucky, all right. Ucla versus Utah State. I don't know,
1:43:28
Speaker 1: some Utah State looks interesting here.
1:43:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with Utah State in
1:43:32
Speaker 3: this first round right here.
1:43:33
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, all right. Number two Tennessee versus Wolford.
1:43:39
Speaker 3: We'll go with Tennessee.
1:43:40
Speaker 1: Keep it moving, so no, yeah, two over fifteen upsets
1:43:44
Speaker 1: we have nope, okay, okay, all right.
1:43:47
Speaker 2: Auburn versus creat.
1:43:51
Speaker 3: We're gonna go Auburn. I think Auburn continues their their
1:43:53
Speaker 3: run right here. Crane's a good basketball team, but I
1:43:55
Speaker 3: think Auburn. I just they've been consistently good throughout the
1:43:58
Speaker 3: entire season.
1:43:58
Speaker 2: Okay, okay. Duke versus Baylor Cooper.
1:44:02
Speaker 3: Flag is gonna get the job done in this one.
1:44:04
Speaker 1: Okay for FLA Okay, Michigan versus Texas A and M.
1:44:10
Speaker 3: I like A and M. I think the interior, the
1:44:12
Speaker 3: defense is really good. I think they have some scores
1:44:14
Speaker 3: when they need to some GOA, go to A and M.
1:44:16
Speaker 2: Liberty versus Arizona. Does the Cinderella story contend continue?
1:44:21
Speaker 3: I think, what do you think? I think we're going
1:44:24
Speaker 3: with Liberty right here. We're going Liberty, goode Arizona.
1:44:28
Speaker 2: I have some bias, but all right, Oh, Miss versus lipscumb.
1:44:34
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna go with Ole missing this one, Okay,
1:44:36
Speaker 3: gonna keep it moving with old Miss.
1:44:37
Speaker 2: Okay, b Yu versus Montana.
1:44:39
Speaker 3: You know what you think Montana is gonna I think
1:44:42
Speaker 3: Byu is gonna win.
1:44:43
Speaker 2: Bro Let's let's just play right, favorite sits for three?
1:44:48
Speaker 1: Ready, right, fine, already rock paper papers?
1:44:56
Speaker 3: What we think with scissors?
1:44:57
Speaker 2: All right? All right, ro paper scissors. Yeah, we could
1:45:04
Speaker 2: have just done that. We've got two for two, all right.
1:45:07
Speaker 3: Edgard tells tells. Edgard tells, Oh, he said it tells so, all.
1:45:12
Speaker 1: Right, mont reaches it, all right. Marquette versus Michigan State.
1:45:19
Speaker 3: Marquette, I think Marquette walks away with this win, gets
1:45:22
Speaker 3: the upset over Michigan State.
1:45:24
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, stank, there's another upsets. You gotta go with
1:45:29
Speaker 2: the You gotta go with the Saint, especially Saint Mary's
1:45:32
Speaker 2: all right. Florida versus Oklahoma.
1:45:37
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Florida in this one. I think
1:45:38
Speaker 3: they have too many, too many weapons on that team.
1:45:42
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay. Houston versus Good Zaga.
1:45:46
Speaker 3: See, I was conflicted. I was misusing my influence when
1:45:49
Speaker 3: I was when I was freaking making this making this pick.
1:45:54
Speaker 3: Gonzaga is consistently good basketball team. Houston is there, but
1:45:57
Speaker 3: I think Houston just has has what it takes this
1:46:00
Speaker 3: year to kind of get to that, kind of get
1:46:02
Speaker 3: deeper into this conference champion, into this into this March madness.
1:46:06
Speaker 3: So I think we're gonna go with Houston. I want
1:46:09
Speaker 3: to pick in Zaga, but I just think Houston is
1:46:11
Speaker 3: pretty good.
1:46:12
Speaker 2: All right. Memphis versus Grand Canyon.
1:46:19
Speaker 3: We're going with Memphis. I think Memphis will continue it out.
1:46:22
Speaker 3: We can't have too many upsets.
1:46:24
Speaker 1: McNeice versus Purdue, I think.
1:46:29
Speaker 3: No. I think that boombox boy, I think his his
1:46:32
Speaker 3: his powers don't work in this one. I think Purdue
1:46:34
Speaker 3: is gonna win.
1:46:35
Speaker 2: All right. I don't know why this next one, yep,
1:46:39
Speaker 2: all right, I already know. I already know. Saint John's
1:46:42
Speaker 2: versus Kansas.
1:46:44
Speaker 3: Saint John's give me some Saint John's right there, Rick Patino, all.
1:46:48
Speaker 2: Right, Texas versus Kentucky.
1:46:53
Speaker 3: We're gonna go with Texas. I think Texas cann continue
1:46:55
Speaker 3: behind one of the best scores in the country. And
1:46:57
Speaker 3: and Trey Johnson.
1:46:58
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, you toss State versus Tennessee.
1:47:03
Speaker 3: We'll go with Tennessee.
1:47:04
Speaker 2: Tennessee. All right, So how many upsets do we have?
1:47:07
Speaker 1: We have one, we have two, three, Yeah, we have
1:47:14
Speaker 1: three upsets going into the Sweet sixteen. All right, Auburn
1:47:17
Speaker 1: versus Texas A and.
1:47:18
Speaker 3: M oh take it taking him in Auburn. What are
1:47:27
Speaker 3: you asking? Yeah, I will go with give me an.
1:47:32
Speaker 3: I think we're continuing with Auburn in this.
1:47:34
Speaker 2: One, okay, Duke versus Liberty.
1:47:37
Speaker 3: Where it is the Duke's gonna win.
1:47:40
Speaker 1: All right, So we have both number ones, both number ones.
1:47:43
Speaker 1: All right, Ole miss and Marquette.
1:47:46
Speaker 3: Give me Ole Miss, Ole Miss, all right.
1:47:48
Speaker 2: All right. Montana versus Saint Mary's. The two upsets right here,
1:47:53
Speaker 2: one of them is reaching the final.
1:47:56
Speaker 3: Saint Mary's. I'm going with Saint Mary's.
1:47:58
Speaker 2: Bro all right, Sat Mary, all right? All right. Florida
1:48:03
Speaker 2: versus Memphis right here.
1:48:07
Speaker 3: I think is gonna put a good fire. But I
1:48:09
Speaker 3: think Florida walks away with this one.
1:48:11
Speaker 2: Florida. Houston versus Purdue. Dang, if we know what, if
1:48:18
Speaker 2: we put.
1:48:18
Speaker 1: Houston in here, it'll be all number ones making it
1:48:21
Speaker 1: to the final or to the elite eight.
1:48:24
Speaker 3: So that's that's why we're not We're gonna be Purdue
1:48:27
Speaker 3: right here.
1:48:27
Speaker 2: I'm like, because that's never happened before. All right, Saint
1:48:32
Speaker 2: John's versus Tech.
1:48:34
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Okay. I know I'm a fan. I
1:48:37
Speaker 3: know I'm a fan. But Saint John's is really good.
1:48:39
Speaker 3: But Texas Tech is also really good. No, give me
1:48:44
Speaker 3: Texas Tech.
1:48:44
Speaker 2: Okay, that helps it out right there. Texas versus Tennessee,
1:48:49
Speaker 2: I'm saying Texas.
1:48:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me Texas. I think they come out on
1:48:53
Speaker 3: top of this one. They lost to Tennessee in the
1:48:55
Speaker 3: big in the SEC Championship, in the SEG Championships tournament,
1:48:59
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna give Texas. They're running this one, all right.
1:49:02
Speaker 2: Auburn and Ole miss dam Auburn.
1:49:09
Speaker 3: Dammit. Yeah, we'll go with Auburn. We'll keep, we'll continue,
1:49:14
Speaker 3: we'll be smart swinning this one.
1:49:16
Speaker 2: Broo over Saint Mary's. Over over Saint Mary's.
1:49:22
Speaker 1: Florida versus Tech, oh man, oh man, give me Florida.
1:49:29
Speaker 3: Bro I think Florida's gonna knock us out right here.
1:49:32
Speaker 2: Damn. I know that hurts you. I know that hurts
1:49:34
Speaker 2: you right there.
1:49:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does hurt me, all right.
1:49:36
Speaker 2: Purdue versus Texas, Texas.
1:49:41
Speaker 3: Fuck Texas, my bad. I'm not trying to cuss anymore.
1:49:48
Speaker 3: You make that decision. I'm not making this decision, all right.
1:49:51
Speaker 1: I'll go Texas, I go Texas. Go from barely making
1:49:55
Speaker 1: it in boss, it's now in the final flour all right,
1:49:59
Speaker 1: Auburn vers This is Florida, a one versus one matchup
1:50:02
Speaker 1: in the final four.
1:50:06
Speaker 3: You know it. Give me Florida. Auburn dropped too many
1:50:08
Speaker 3: games late in the season. I think I'm gonna stick
1:50:09
Speaker 3: with Florida in this one.
1:50:11
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Duke versus Texas.
1:50:15
Speaker 3: I think Cooper Flag is gonna get the job done
1:50:17
Speaker 3: and take the boys over the hump and get to
1:50:19
Speaker 3: get back to the national championship.
1:50:21
Speaker 1: Okay, Now we have our championship game in San Antonio,
1:50:25
Speaker 1: April seventh, Number one Florida versus Number one Duke.
1:50:31
Speaker 3: I think this is where Cooper Flag established himtuff as
1:50:33
Speaker 3: maybe the greatest freshman to ever play basketball in the.
1:50:36
Speaker 2: History of college basketball.
1:50:37
Speaker 3: I think Duke's gonna win this one, all right?
1:50:40
Speaker 2: And how many total points? So okay, yeah, I'll let's
1:50:46
Speaker 2: say seventy a piece. One three.
1:50:48
Speaker 1: I am good with that. One three, all right, So
1:50:52
Speaker 1: it's official. We're submitting the bracket, all right. So all right,
1:50:58
Speaker 1: we have Duke in the championship right here. So all right, Josh,
1:51:02
Speaker 1: are you confident? Are you confident in this bracket right here?
1:51:05
Speaker 3: Hell no, because Tech's actually gonna win. But I am
1:51:08
Speaker 3: pretty confident in our expertise. We have no expertise, but
1:51:12
Speaker 3: we know that this is gonna happen because we know
1:51:14
Speaker 3: we know ball.
1:51:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly, all right, Josh, any last words before
1:51:19
Speaker 1: we get out of here.
1:51:21
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1:51:25
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