Latest / Sports Allegedly / Ep81 The NFC North Draft Needs, NBA NFL Playoffs, UFL and Other College Sports
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- 1:40Sean to my right as usual on this. Uh yeah, i'by Ibby,
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- 2:02Well, thanks for joining us. We've got us. We've got a ton
- 2:06to talk about UH today. Well, we're gonna we're gonna cover our local
- 2:12UH sports team O U and O issue. We had spring football today for
- 2:15the Sooners. Also mistered I was watching the battle Hawks. We'll also talk
- 2:23some n B A and definitely gonna get into our draft UH and UH draft
- 2:29picks, draft analysis. We'll be live next week on Thursday for the draft
- 2:34for the first round that evening, and then we'll do a recap on Are
- 2:38we back to Saturday still next weekend? Uh? No, We're doing Thursday.
- 2:42We go Thursday for the draft. Yeah, and then what's after that
- 2:45Monday, Monday, then recap Monday. So we'll do a recap Monday after
- 2:51the after the final weekend. So and then also obviously we're gonna cover the
- 2:55AF I'm sorry, NFC North free agents and their needs for the draft as
- 3:04we get ready to that. But I guess we can go ahead and start
- 3:07a little bit on some local flavor. We'll talk a little bit about OU
- 3:10football. They had their spring game today. It was bounced back a little
- 3:14bit because of weather, so they started a little later. They didn't do
- 3:16as much fan appreciation, they didn't do Patty's s statue like they had planned
- 3:22and but a few highlights obviously Burks from Purdue. The wide receiver transfer was
- 3:29the talk of that spring game. Five catches, one hundred and seventy four
- 3:34yards on hundred and seventy four yards, had two touchdowns, one for sixty
- 3:38four to one for fifty. So looks like he had a good game.
- 3:42Jackson Arnold ten to twenty little on the percentage, you'd like to see that
- 3:45little liar, but two hundred thirty three yards no picks now, obviously remember
- 3:51final score sixty five to fifty five. However they scored it red, red
- 3:53and white. Now Nick Anderson really yeah, Nick Anderson and Anthony didn't play
- 4:00in Thompson for the wide receivers. Yeah he played, but they didn't have
- 4:03no bowman, no Woody Washington, and no Gentry Williams on the defense.
- 4:06So you know the mixed opinions. I mean, I watched some highlights of
- 4:12it. I thought the offensive line, uh just practiced for the youngsters.
- 4:15I thought the offensive line played better than what I anticipated. I told you
- 4:20that one one to two series that's gonna be the but that's gonna be the
- 4:25weak point. I still think is the defensive line and the secondary has got
- 4:28to keep up, especially when they do this the when they play zone,
- 4:31they get the middle of the field open. But honestly, the spring games
- 4:34are for the fans and get the young kids out there and play them.
- 4:36That's essentially what it is. So we have that on the softball front.
- 4:45When I will stick with baseball. Oh you baseball today, has they swept
- 4:49the Cougars of the b y U still currently at its very odd number one,
- 4:56even in the top twenty four or not? Still not No, we're
- 4:59not on the top twenty. But hey, text we got in there once
- 5:01and then we hopped right back out as still in so you're not even looking.
- 5:05No, no, Texas is worse than us. Just sure we're still
- 5:08twelve team Oklhoma State for sure. Was well they're in there, explained this
- 5:15to me. But they're on it's not the number one team in the divisions.
- 5:19Well let's talk about let's talk about the Sorry I was going back,
- 5:29I found the site that actually their fifteenth the ranked fifteenth. Well they won't
- 5:32be next week, but anyway, oh you baseball sweep of the Cougar is
- 5:36currently fourteen and four in conference twenty four and fourteen in the Big Twelve,
- 5:42still leading by a game now over West Virginia. That's three game win streak
- 5:46currently for them. As far as O issue baseball, they're on a three
- 5:51game losing streak gloss to Kansas State yesterday five to six and two seven today.
- 5:57What's going on? And then they had lost to the pesky Dallas Baptist
- 6:00team seven to eight U the damn Babtists four. Now they play k State
- 6:10tomorrow for the fast for no OSU to finish up that series. They're twenty
- 6:15five was on twenty five and fourteen? Where was that? Of where was
- 6:19that? Out of twenty five and fourteen and then ten and seven in the
- 6:21conference there, so they actually have about the same record as though you,
- 6:26oh, you just got a better conference record, you know, I got
- 6:28to think it. They're fourteen and four. That means, oh you coming
- 6:30in out of conference play, it was ten and ten. That was a
- 6:33record going in. Because they're fourteen and four in conference, they're twenty four
- 6:36and fourteen overall. So I and I talked about at the beginning of the
- 6:41year that I thought, Oklumb's gonna be one of the more talented baseball teams.
- 6:45Uh now, they are still winning the Big twelve right now, so
- 6:47it's not like the trash, it's just some of the games they haven't won.
- 6:51They are scoring. I wish they're pitching was a little better because they
- 6:55definitely are giving up play runs as far as from the dime. All right,
- 6:59let's move on quick recap to softball. Let's talk about OSU softball.
- 7:03Currently thirty eight and eight. They're on a little bit of a win streak.
- 7:09Beat West I'm sorry, Wichita State earlier this week, and they beat
- 7:14Texas Tech yesterday eleven to three, thirteen to nothing. Today it was a
- 7:17run roll, and they'll play tomorrow at one. Now they've got just a
- 7:23few games left. They've got North Texas on the twenty fourth, then they'll
- 7:28have a three game series with Kansas at Stillwater twenty sixth seven, twenty eight.
- 7:31They have a really odd game with Arlington UT of Arlington on May one,
- 7:35and then they finish up with Oklahoma in Norman for the last three games
- 7:42of the year. So they've got eight games left. Oklahoma softball, on
- 7:46the other hand, they've only got six games left. Beat Tulsa earlier this
- 7:50week in Oklahoma City at Hall of Fame Stadium and then currently beat They beat
- 7:59Washington Arabs Houston yesterday and today, currently setting at forty and fourteen ranked number
- 8:03two, Texas is still number one in softball. Oklahoma has three I'm sorry
- 8:09six regular season games left UCF that'll be in Orlando for this next week and
- 8:16then they'll finish up with the issue at home. So OSU is still having
- 8:20a great softball year. OU obviously they are two, so we're looking at
- 8:28won't be long before we get into playoffs with them. So OHU gymnastics women
- 8:35fallout did not three peat this year. They'd won the past two national championships.
- 8:39They didn't make the final four and congratulations to the Louisiana State Tigers.
- 8:46That was their first Gymnastics World championship in school history. And on the men's
- 8:52side, OU men also made the the finals, they also lost. They
- 9:00finished third Stanford that will be their third in a row. Stanford men taking
- 9:05home the gymnastic crown, so that's your local flavor. And then Tulsa unfortunately
- 9:11to in a row. They've lost the series to Charlotte. Their twenty seven
- 9:13and eighteen two and nine in the AAC and then they lost the doubleheader.
- 9:20So yeah, not as good a year as what we've seen in the past.
- 9:24From TU speaking to TU athletic director Rick Dixon retired, so they'll be
- 9:30looking for an athletic director. Obviously he had retired from and then come back,
- 9:33so congratulations, congratulations on his retirement. A few other odds and ends
- 9:45notes about as far as college before we move on to the NBA to talk
- 9:52a little bit about basketball. Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin sign sign an interesting law
- 9:58into this week of a Neil law that now that the people in Virginia,
- 10:03the schools in Virginia, can pay athletes directly now not through the NIL or
- 10:11the collectives is what they would call it. I mean that they are now
- 10:13considered employees. Well no, not yet, but it's almost like a ten
- 10:20ninety nine. It is taxed. But also it also prohibited the NCAA from
- 10:26punishing them. So that's a state law. The NCAA continues to lose their
- 10:31ground over and over. It's another way of showing how weak the NCAA has
- 10:37continued to be. They put on a good basketball tournament in otherwise their garbage.
- 10:41So let's get rid of them. Let's just do our own thing.
- 10:45Obviously we've got our opinions on Neil and all that, but essentially what that
- 10:48is is it's just another way you no longer have to You can still pay
- 10:52a collective, and you can still use a collective, but the schools now
- 10:54have more say in that collective and and can just pay them directly if they
- 10:58wanted to. So if I donate to University A and not the collective,
- 11:01and I say donated to the football team, they can directly give it to
- 11:07those players. Unlike we're used to. There had to be that different differentiation
- 11:13of groups, so the collectives could only give to the players and the schools
- 11:18would have to stay out of it. Now in Virginia, that opens it
- 11:20up. So certain states are getting creative on things that they're doing for their
- 11:26schools. That's in there, and why not. I mean they're giving them
- 11:31the money. I mean, you know, the secondary education. I mean
- 11:35that's coming state funding, So why not make that easier for them to continue
- 11:41to be successful on the field, to bring people I mean, you know
- 11:45as well as I do. Is enrollment in certain schools when they do well
- 11:48in certain sports, it bumps whether it be Butler, the run that they
- 11:52had in basketball. Connecticut I'm sure is dealing with that too. So certain
- 11:58schools, whether it be basketball, baseball, any sport, when they make
- 12:03these runs. Women's basketball is and obviously good uh thing to talk about now
- 12:09because they're at an all time high viewership, so that that's going to be
- 12:13positive, uh for for them as we talk about that. All right,
- 12:20anything on that Sean No zoned out halfway through your I didn't know. I
- 12:28didn't, I didn't talk. I didn't. It doesn't make sense to be
- 12:31able to play pay your players in the NCAA and them not be considered employees
- 12:35or contract employees. Unions will be next well, especially in some states that
- 12:46are high Virginia did it before. California. California has been trying to do
- 12:48this, I don't know how many times, but they just keep trying to
- 12:52do it well and maybe they just didn't think about it. I mean,
- 12:54that's no. They've been, They've been trying to they have been. They
- 12:58were the ones that were the loudest about, you know, being able to
- 13:01do this, being able to pay players as as some kind of an employee
- 13:07or something to that effect. Well, it's been talked about. That's a
- 13:13fact. So that's what that's that's why it's surprising that Virginia was the first
- 13:18state to do that. You know, I don't know if they are.
- 13:22I just that was the one I picked up, and it sounds like the
- 13:26one it is. I mean, but I know there's been other laws just
- 13:28different. You know, it's just the wording is a bit different on some
- 13:31of these that are just using different things. That excuse me, that just
- 13:39doesn't working for other states. But then you throw in a couple of different
- 13:41words here or there, these people pass and it's like the NCAA continues to
- 13:46lose that power when it comes down to that. So anyway, I did
- 13:50have a one I wanted to talk about. One hockey note. Now,
- 13:54hockey playoffs is starting right now. Yeah, they're already in Bruin's the maple
- 14:00Leaves four to one or Ford to zero, or it was going on right
- 14:03now. Uh could still currently be come on, go away up end of
- 14:09the second and in the second Boston Bruins are up over the maple Leaves four
- 14:15to nothing. And that is in the first round. They started really quickly
- 14:18like basketball, at least give you you know, three or four days hockey
- 14:24was like, all right, we're done. It was what Thursday. Well,
- 14:28I think the playoff at the playing games is probably what has kind of
- 14:31past that. But hockey didn't not playing That's what I'm saying. That's why
- 14:35they started immediately. I think you're getting a little bit of a break.
- 14:37The Hurricanes. Hurricanes be the Islanders in their first series three to one.
- 14:41Yeah, the plan only happens in base in baseball and then basketball right now,
- 14:50so the planes only in basketball and baseball. I don't what movie.
- 14:54I don't know. I don't know the reasoning for this. I mean the
- 14:58hockey doesn't do it, doesn't do it with the play and you get one
- 15:03playing game for for everything, but baseball you've got two teams to do a
- 15:09play in. They still do that. No, I don't. Yeah,
- 15:15it's that one game there too, But no, what I real quick,
- 15:18I just wanted to talk about the Flyers. Penguins needed Penguins won last game
- 15:22of the year and then needed the Flyers to also win to get into the
- 15:26playoffs. Yeah, they didn't do. John Tortorella, the manager of the
- 15:31Flyers, because they're out of the playoffs, anyway, pulled the goalie when
- 15:33they were tying in the third quarter and allowed the other post. Well,
- 15:37he was trying to get man advantage. Whatever, he was trying to get
- 15:41man advantage, and it was a bad call. He should have let his
- 15:43guys play it out. Know what he did is he fucked the Penguins because
- 15:48it's a it's an interstate rival. That's exactly what happened there. He lost
- 15:52on purpose. Said there was nowhere. I mean, they were and that's
- 15:58fine. Getting the playoffs. I am all for that. Classic can eat
- 16:03ass. Let's fucking Crosby, can you know, go get his jaw broken
- 16:11again. I like the kids. Funny. Let's move on to Let's move
- 16:15on real quick to We'll talk a little more hockey next week. Let's move
- 16:18on a little bit to the NBA. Those playoffs have started today. My
- 16:25Bulls did not get the playing game. They decided to uh not, but
- 16:32their change they did. They decided to not win a second game in a
- 16:37row, as they've done pretty much all season. You know, I don't
- 16:41think that, you know, I look at the Bulls. I like the
- 16:44Kobe White kid, and they've got a good team. They don't there's nobody
- 16:47good really on that team. They're all offense. They don't play good,
- 16:51they don't play any defense. They're built wrong. They're just built all wrong.
- 16:56That Vivisiak he's over is I cannot pronounce his name via vince Chek or
- 17:02whatever is the Billisex Miilisex. He's good offensively, but he's not real good
- 17:07defensively either. And the white kid's not really good that good defensively either.
- 17:11I see the problems there with that team. They're fun to watch because they
- 17:15score, but you're just never gonna get anywhere as far as that. And
- 17:18they missed the playoffs, all right, So on the East side, Knicks
- 17:22or the two I'm sorry, let's start with the one seed. One seed
- 17:26Celtics. Heat survived playing game they've played the Celtics. I think this third
- 17:30year in a row that they've played the Celtics. I don't see the Heat
- 17:34coming out of this one, though, Celtics might sweep them. Second,
- 17:41the Knicks the second seed along with Philly Nicks one to night, so they're
- 17:45up a game. That's surprising me because I've got Philly picked in that I
- 17:48like him. Bibe in the middle, I think now Knicks have better scoring
- 17:52options, I'd say, but they'd have no They really have no defense as
- 17:57far as inbiide. If he gets going, you just can't into foul trouble
- 18:00got hurt tonight looked like he was playing a little what do you call it?
- 18:07He was laboring out there, I think is what might be the word,
- 18:10you know, laboring to play a little limpy. Uh. The Bucks
- 18:15three seed against the six seed Pacers. You know, funny thing about that
- 18:18we talked about that they fired their coach the Bucks did don't remember his name,
- 18:23and then and then turned around and hired Doc Doc Rivers. And then
- 18:26you go down do he's got a losing records with them? You have a
- 18:30really you have a really good stack team. And I said, the butt
- 18:33against Doc, it's just I don't I didn't get that. You get the
- 18:38firing though. I want to say that, you know, there it could
- 18:41have been Gainess, it could have been front office, and the coach could
- 18:45have been gains and the coach we know, Sean has his name problems.
- 18:52So I like Tyre's Haliburton. I don't think that. I don't think that,
- 18:56yeah, from the Pacers, I just don't think that. I don't
- 18:59think they have enough. I've got the I've got the Bucks winning that series,
- 19:03and then my sleeper team for the East, I did pick Boston to
- 19:08win the East and to win the championship. I think this failed, as
- 19:11I know, I know, but I really think this match with the Heat,
- 19:15I do have them getting past the Heat. I like the matchups in
- 19:19the East. They had by far the better record, and I think it's
- 19:22finally the one time that they will be able to potentially see this championship come
- 19:30to fruition. Now do I like. I'm not a big fan of their
- 19:34coach. I think coaching could be better. But you've got the two All
- 19:37Stars. But the secret team I really like is the Calves. I think
- 19:41Calves are talented enough. I do too, but I think and they're also
- 19:47up one nothing in their series right now. But for me, it was
- 19:51the Knicks. I got you like the Nicks the next going to the series
- 19:56to the finals. Really, I do the Knicks have become a very dangerous
- 20:03team. I know that they're playing the Sixers. Mitchman. Six Ers were
- 20:07the bane of their existence through the regular season. But Embid, you know,
- 20:11Embiid is Jennimen you know so uh yeah, I do see the Knicks
- 20:19once the next get past them. I've got the Knicks going, going as
- 20:25it goes, and I don't want the Knicks to go because well I New
- 20:30York. Yeah, but I think New York basketball is good for the league.
- 20:33I really do. But it is. But I'm not a Knicks fan.
- 20:37I'm a Celtics fan more after the Bulls. I'm a Celtics fan.
- 20:41But the Celtics have just failed failed me. They filled in the title.
- 20:48They they failed with the heat last season, and I'm not so sure that
- 20:52they won't fail with the heat this season. No, they won't. The
- 20:56Heat's just not the Heat were a number eight coming in last year. I
- 20:59know, oh, I know what a run they had to they might have
- 21:04been seven. But no, Jimmy Buckets is injured, so we don't know
- 21:08what's going on with that. I just I really yeah. I mean that's
- 21:14why that's another reason that that Butler did hurt his knee. He's out.
- 21:17I mean, there's that potentially could be a sweet and then we can go
- 21:19to the West and moving on to the West, the West and going against
- 21:25Denver, meeting Denver, and then Denver moving on. So so Thunder played
- 21:30the Thunder play the Pails one seed Thunder first time since twenty thirteen. I
- 21:34think. So they had the one seed. So and then you've got boys
- 21:38have got fat boy from the out what was his name, Zion's Zion did
- 21:44get his potential to come back as Game five of that series was May one.
- 21:49If it's still a series? Uh, And you know, and I
- 21:52by no means is the is the Thunder gonna sweep this? So I think
- 21:56there's a potential that he could come back, and it would have been a
- 22:00bad matchup. I mean, because that's the concern when you get to Denver,
- 22:03if that's who you're picking. If Denver makes the championship, I wouldn't
- 22:07I wouldn't pick the Thunder either. And I don't have the Thunder winning.
- 22:11I have the I have the Thunder also going to the championship. But I
- 22:17think I had the No, that wouldn't be. That couldn't work. What
- 22:23I'm trying to Yeah, could they can face Oklahoma City and the champions Could
- 22:30they Minnesota the three seed? Yeah, they'll meet up, thought they So
- 22:34that wouldn't work. Must have an upset the Bucks or in the East.
- 22:41Yes, they are yes, and they're the three seed, so could they
- 22:47could meet in the Westerns? Could they be in a two and a three
- 22:52seed? You got to have an upset, and I don't. I don't
- 22:56think Denver. I better pick Denver to beat Obviously. I didn't have Denver
- 23:00losing to Oh No, I did. I had Minnesota beating Denver. That's
- 23:07exactly right, because because they got the Legers and I saw I did that,
- 23:11that's how and I saw that. I saw that the Lakers had a
- 23:14five percent chance to go on. That's how they mean. And I was
- 23:17like, that's bull. Well, the Lakers are going to be an interesting
- 23:19to get past the Sun, which they will, and they're already at one
- 23:22name. But the Durant and that team for the Suns is just built too
- 23:26old. They're done. I mean I did have the Mavericks going past the
- 23:30Clippers. I think I did too, But that Dallas met Dallas, Dallas
- 23:36would go back and look because that was a tit one for it gave gave
- 23:41the Clippers, well, Dallas Mavericks gave Oklahoma City Hill. Well, Dallas
- 23:45was playing some of the best basketball leading up into the end of the year,
- 23:51so they're hitting it right, Minnesota. Minnesota beats Denver next round,
- 23:56and that's how they beat the thunder. I got, I got that.
- 23:59I got Denver beating Minnesota, got Denver beating Minnesota. Gotcha? All right,
- 24:03it's gonna be interesting. What's the score right now? Sean of the
- 24:07we should have will give an update right now? The Lakers is what's going
- 24:11on right now? All right? Nuggets currently leading by six points, three
- 24:18minutes forty four seconds left in the third. Any other NBA news over there?
- 24:26No, I do have John Tay John Johntay, John Tay porter from
- 24:30the John Toronto Raptors abandoned definitely for the gambling. What an idiot his own
- 24:40his own team to Yes, yes, stupid as people, I mean,
- 24:45and we didn't. Let's go back a little bit about hockey. Utah's got
- 24:49a hockey team. Now we didn't even mention that last week? Oh did
- 24:52we? Yeah? So the it finally got ratified and they have so.
- 24:57Uh. The whole thing about it is that dumb nuts in Arizona has five
- 25:03years to build a stadium because he can expand. He can have an expansion
- 25:11because I know that the I know they want to expand. Uh what the
- 25:14price of the expansion is versus what he got paid for this team. One
- 25:18billion is what they said, you need to have a one billion dollar for
- 25:21the expand. No, no, no, what I'm saying to the cost
- 25:22of the team, I don't know, you know what I mean, I
- 25:25don't. I don't know what operating cost, but I did know. I
- 25:27do know that they said you have to have a billion dollar at least a
- 25:32minimum a billion dollar stadium. You have to have a really good stadium.
- 25:36The problem is is that Arizona doesn't. It's just not a market for them.
- 25:41It's not it's not you've got You've got the Cardinals that they're barely holding
- 25:45on to. Phoenix is probably the only baseball or a baseball and in a
- 25:51basketball they're a baseball in a basketball. I mean, because you haven't heard
- 25:53anything about the Diamondbacks moving though. For they've won titles, but they have
- 26:00a fan base that they one was the title they've won last I mean,
- 26:03that's been they went last year, didn't they They went to the playoffs,
- 26:07but they they went playoffs. I think they might have win one series.
- 26:10I can't remember. They went deep though they were better last year. I
- 26:11agree with that I agree with that. But the Suns, the Suns are
- 26:15never moving, no, and and it's a basketball baseball, it's a summertime.
- 26:23That's their winner there, that's their winner and their summertime sports. They
- 26:26they kind of care about the Cardinals, but the Cardinals are on a very
- 26:33You're probably talking a lot more fair weather fans, right. Problem is though,
- 26:37I mean, the the market there is so long, even when the
- 26:41even when the Cardinals are good, it's with the fans. But but we
- 26:48always send the Bowl games, the National Championship. Of course, people travel
- 26:52from travel your locals aren't there. It's easy for people from Oklahoma to drive
- 26:56Arizona. I mean that's a ten hour drive California. They drive their all.
- 27:00The people from California go to like HAVISU and all that stuff all the
- 27:03time for vacation. But but it's got the people there in the money.
- 27:07That's why they continue to eat that up. But just they don't have the
- 27:11interest like it should, right, you know, right, So that's where
- 27:15you you you run into the wall. Well, we want to put these
- 27:18teams here, we need these teams here. You you guys have the viewership
- 27:22all, but you don't look at look at college. No, they've just
- 27:26gotten They've just got the right you have. You have the colleges don't excel
- 27:32there. You have the number of people you just don't have the want,
- 27:36well, the interest, and you've got it. Probably a lot think girls
- 27:40old timers there, you know that have moved there. In Arizona basketball,
- 27:45uh college, the women's softball and after that that. I don't really know
- 27:53the interest. Yeah, I don't know what. I know that there's a
- 27:56lot of Cardinals fans, but honestly, there's no Do you think there's a
- 28:00lot of I think do you think more of It's a transplant issue though too.
- 28:03You know, you moved from somewhere else. You don't automatically become a
- 28:07fan. You're bringing the other team. There's a lot of transplants in Denver.
- 28:11No, I'm not taking but Denver is not a destination for retirees.
- 28:17It is. No, it's not, it's not. It's not people people
- 28:21are moving out of that town. Actually it's one of the top people that
- 28:23are moving out. People are It's just it's small. But warm Weather you
- 28:29talk long. I'd love to go talk about warm Weather. You talk about
- 28:33Orlando basketball. Until this year elderly, they've been kind of down, I
- 28:37mean, but but they've excelled because they've gotten better. Now. Is that
- 28:41weird? Is it weird that Orlando has a very large market, huge,
- 28:45but only has a basketball team. Yeah, And I think that's part of
- 28:52the transplant part of it there too. And this is why the US and
- 28:56you know what, the us L, the USFL and the XFL and I
- 29:00think NFL Europe at one point kept trying to put a team in Orlando.
- 29:07But you got Jacksonville, Miami and Tilipa taken off. Well, Tampa is
- 29:11going to be huge, y is it Orlando taken off? Too many tourists,
- 29:18cheerisurists, Well, and you know, too many. You know,
- 29:21Central Florida's got one of the highest enrollments in the nation as far as people
- 29:26in the uh In College at University of Central Florida, they're one of the
- 29:32highest enrollments. Huge, they got the bounce, but but but they're also
- 29:34they're also kind of a commuter type school too. Not everybody lives there,
- 29:38but still, you know what I mean, it's the surrounding area, I
- 29:41know, but not big enough market. Don't you do there? But I
- 29:44don't think so see, I think I think they're they're tapped out. You've
- 29:47got Miami. Jacksonville was an odd one even there. You just and then
- 29:51you've got obviously the Dolphins said, you say that jack jackson looking where Jacksonville
- 29:56sets, Jacksonville, you're hoping to get some of the Georgia people. What
- 30:00you do you are getting because Georgia, because Jacksonville is pretty much South Georgia,
- 30:04and you've got the Panhandel people, m and you start getting the Alabama.
- 30:10Sure, No, I understand why. I understand it's all very close
- 30:14right there, So I understand why. So yeah, Jacksonville, Jacksonville.
- 30:18I hate to say it, but it didn't make sense. It makes sense
- 30:22location. It's just you know, how many years did they have blackouts and
- 30:26had to put tarps in their stadium. It's now they go across seas to
- 30:30play games. It's something that you know, small market teams used to be
- 30:34a thing for the fans to be proud of. Oklahoma City Thunder, that's
- 30:38one of them. They take pride in that small you know, that's the
- 30:41only thing they got. They're gonna do it. Uh so utah, Okay,
- 30:45So that's what I was getting. I was kind of leading into that
- 30:48as we talk about back, they've already they've already put in the implement implement
- 30:52implementations for the stadium, so that's already going through. It's a jazz owner,
- 31:02so you'll have just like in Chicago where you got to you've got the
- 31:04basketball owner that helps, so you know they you know they're going to be
- 31:10playing it, but you still got to sell tickets. You still have to
- 31:11be a good team for small markets. Okay, so so Salt Lake is
- 31:15also transplant city. They're growing. Yeah, but the money the only way
- 31:22I know this, but the money you pass around? How much money do
- 31:26you pass around? Now? Because basketball has forty one games, they're hockey
- 31:33about the same, So that's about eighty games combined that you're going to have
- 31:38to spend the money on to get those people there. I think one of
- 31:42there's a potential and I'm not saying it's going to happen, but there's a
- 31:45potential the basketball team could suffer because the hockey. It's like you take a
- 31:49family, if you've got two kids, where do you start going? So
- 31:53you go to Chicago, and you know Chicago has the circus that comes in
- 31:56for six days straight. And that is when the Blackhawks do that grueling,
- 32:04uh grueling road series where they just they just go play for it was a
- 32:09week or two weeks something like that where they're just on the road. And
- 32:14I think the Bulls do the same thing. And the Bulls start later so
- 32:17they don't have to get into it. But uh, but yeah, so
- 32:22you just you end up you end up going with that. You you go
- 32:24with the Uh. I understand that, Hey, you're getting three here,
- 32:28you're getting no, no, no, understand that. But I mean,
- 32:30but the Chicago's a bad reference because they're the third most populated city. No,
- 32:34no, no, I'm talking about how they operate between the Bulls and
- 32:37the black Hawks. I'm not talking about that. Yeah, no, I'm
- 32:40not talking about that. That's a lot, that's no. I'm just talking
- 32:43about you got eighty games for people to spend money at. Yeah, they
- 32:46got they got rich white money up there. You say that, But how
- 32:51much is that going to be, you know, correlated at sports? I
- 32:54don't know, white people they love sports. Oklahoma City is the fourth most
- 33:00fourteenth sorry fourth, when did we passed my fourteenth? Fourteenth most populated cities?
- 33:08It is Miami four in the US. Houston, No, that could
- 33:14be rut. Yeah, that's right, I cannot be rut. Chicago has
- 33:16more right there, Yeah, Chicago's number three. I said, it's going
- 33:22this one. Yeah, it's going sideways. So third most populated. But
- 33:24then you get down, I'm looking for Salt Lake. Have we missed it?
- 33:30Yeah, surely No, No, it's not up there Long Beach.
- 33:37Surely, no, it's not there. It's it's not it's it's not one
- 33:42of the larger cities. And I think that's kind of my point that concerns
- 33:47me, how that let's go look at how it's shut up. We're going
- 33:52to we're going to Google Map. No. Now, I understand that there's
- 33:57nothing around it. But if you know, what's the population in Utah,
- 34:02Utah? What was the emphasis? I don't know. Ten people, thirty
- 34:09eight fifty two point seventy million. Okay, yeah, okay, so let's
- 34:16go here. We're gonna go over here to Utah. All right, Now,
- 34:22here's the thing. Look at where Salt Lake City sits. Look at
- 34:27the fact that you've got Ogden, Layton, Provo, and park City.
- 34:34All right, there, these are all very popular. Understand these are all
- 34:36right, within each other. Sure, so this is where you're pulling.
- 34:39Well, that's the same to say that you look at more edmund Dell City
- 34:45around Oklahoma City, Norman, I've seen those people. No, I mean
- 34:51that population is astronomical compared to what they have there. My point is,
- 34:55now you're getting two pro teams and then you're talking about how you're going to
- 35:00be able to support them. I don't know. I mean, it's it's
- 35:02easy to say that because it's got the owner there that owns the same and
- 35:07you're right about that. That's perfect. But my concern is it's it's just
- 35:13not I would see some of them going somewhere that that uh hockey team uh
- 35:19would be better off. You know that I went into the Oaket today and
- 35:24the Okie Mark. The people that were in the Oakey Mart today were how
- 35:30do I describe this? You know, the beginning scenes of of scary Deep
- 35:37South horror movies or just the uh you know, the the crime horror move
- 35:45the crime the people that you see like the weird kid with a mullet and
- 35:50he's fiddling with something off on the side of the guys sitting in the truck
- 35:53and you're like, I don't know if this guy is gonna rape me or
- 35:58you know what he's That's what happened. That that's what I walked into Okemark
- 36:00So and I can see. I can see why you don't want to come
- 36:06to Oklahoma City because Elreno, Uka and Edmund, Now that's they're not those
- 36:12are the people that you're looking at, whereas in Utah it's just a bunch
- 36:15of Mormons looking to spend money. No, that's that's definitely no, that's
- 36:20definitely spend that money. I want to give you an example. Salt Lake
- 36:22City's population. They have less mullets there. They're about two hundred thousand people.
- 36:27There's like some town called West Center something is about one hundred and thirty
- 36:30six and the third probably and the third one is one hundred and sixteen thousand.
- 36:34They're all probably just grown fairly close. So it's about four hundred and
- 36:37fifty thousand. Oklahoma City alone has six hundred and eighty thousand. With Tulsa
- 36:42within what an hour and a half is it an hour? Of course is
- 36:45it two hours? It's always like two hours. So there's unless you take
- 36:49the turnpipe that it's there's there's over a million right there, and then Oklahoma
- 36:53City proper. You've got Norman at one hundred and thirty thousand, Edmund at
- 36:58almost one hundred chick that's my birth time and I was born where the Tiger
- 37:05King lived. So anyway, that that kind of tells you right there,
- 37:09there's a Tiger King people, there's a concern. But luckily and then you
- 37:13still have to figure in that football for college football is important there too,
- 37:20which runs to the end, and then basketball not so much. So it's
- 37:23just it was interesting that they picked U tak Now why they had they probably
- 37:28did is because well, they've got an owner that's got money. Period.
- 37:30Think about it. The Jazz has existed there, for basketball can't exist in
- 37:37small markets. Yeah, but it has existed there forty years? Is it
- 37:40when they moved. They moved in the late seventies, didn't they from from
- 37:44uh New Orleans? I don't remember when they moved. But you know what
- 37:47I'm saying is is you've got small market teams that you look at Columbus Blue
- 37:52Jackets, you've got uh, well that's hockey, I know, but that's
- 37:54a that's a small sports, small market that that's the only thing in that
- 37:59area. This is a huge thing, not the only thing in that area,
- 38:01in that town. No, they've got a huge MLS team. It's
- 38:06one that's won the title twice. Oh we're talking. Okay, soccer compares
- 38:10with nothing unless you're out of this border. Stop. But I'm telling you
- 38:15they do have m l as. We know they have. I'm sure they've
- 38:19got I mean, I'm sure they've got, but arena football and the goblem
- 38:23is the problem is with Columbus is it's I'll give you it's an Orlando issue.
- 38:30It is. It is an Orlando issue. The Cincinnati here, Cleveland's
- 38:36right there, but Cincinnati doesn't have a bad as and Pittsburgh is right there.
- 38:43But I mean Cincinnati doesn't have a they don't have a team. Yeah,
- 38:46so that's where you can put there. That's your Ohio flair. But
- 38:51that's but that's what I mean, that's you've got. And Indianapolis didn't have
- 38:54a hockey team either. Uh No, you go down to Tucky to watch
- 39:00that. I know. Is that Tennessee. It's Tennessee. You go to
- 39:05Pittsburgh, Chicago, Yeah, you get to hockey there. That's that's what
- 39:09I'm saying. They set that up there. Yeah, right there. Let's
- 39:15take the family on a whole state across to watch hockey games. It's the
- 39:17whole state. People do it. You can remember, that's a shorter distance
- 39:21than than from Tulsa to Oklahoma City. About to say, dude, it
- 39:29is six hours. You're talking about Columbus to Detroit's closer. You find out,
- 39:34Yeah, yeah, I know Cleveland, Detroit's closer. That was well,
- 39:38I hope, so take a boat. Take a boat. What we
- 39:42say Columbus to what Detroit Columbus because I know that to Okama City? Also
- 39:46going to move on, we need to get i know, three hours and
- 39:50ten minutes. So you're about to double what it takes to get there because
- 39:53that was a double Well, I think it's an hour more. Tulsa,
- 39:57Oklahoma City is only about a hundred miles, isn't it if you take the
- 40:00turnpike. Dude, we're just talking mileage. Who doesn't take the turnpike,
- 40:07poor people? One hundred and six So yeah, it's almost doublet's on the
- 40:14turnpike. You're also, well, just add another eleven miles. You can
- 40:19take all the state highways eleven more miles a time. Well, there's your
- 40:25geography Lessons Oklahoma City. No, damn it, I know, I knew
- 40:32that was right, was closed. Tulsa deserves a hockey team first, that's
- 40:36all, you know. I I agree that that's kind of what I was
- 40:39getting at. I think they could support one, Yeah, I really do
- 40:43do. They could support a baseball team too, and and you know what
- 40:46they would do. You know what it would do for Tulsa. It's almost
- 40:51you know, Tulsa Oklahoma City have always kind of had this weird competition with
- 40:53each other. So you've got the hockey team in Oklahoma City or the basketball
- 40:59team. You watch the hockey team be super even if they sucked, you'd
- 41:02have sellouts left and right. Yeah, that's how. That's how the Tulsa
- 41:07Oilers have stayed in Oklahoma City, the Hills. Their team baseball team was
- 41:13the RedHawks. Oh, they used to be the Barons but gone. Yeah
- 41:16they're gone. Yeah, they don't have a hockey team gone. And I
- 41:22haven't seen a I haven't not seen a commercial advertisement for Oklahoma City indoor football,
- 41:30whereas we know of the Tulsa Oilers for indoor football. Hold on the
- 41:36Barons, it's the Warriors, sorry, the Warriors. When did they come
- 41:39in. What is their team history like last five years? Let's see,
- 41:46because they were not the Warriors whenever they started, No, and I think
- 41:49it was the Barons though. So Sat knows all about that stuff, because
- 41:53I mean he's he knows the leagues and everything. He said that we should
- 41:58be looking for a eight. What's the other one? A h L h
- 42:02E L L one right below hockey, right below the big leagues, right
- 42:08below. Well that's there's a bunch. We've got an E c L or
- 42:12whatever it's called. Yeah, but there's That's what I'm saying. There's a
- 42:14bunch of the h L the O h L. I think they average.
- 42:17I know that Tulsa's Oilers average more fans this year than the Coyotes did in
- 42:23Phoenix. It's about seventy five hundred, about five thousand. So anyway,
- 42:32there's your just Rando talk Rando. Wait, this is which tel Falls Warriors,
- 42:42the Oklahoma Warriors or a Tier two Junior Ice Hockey League North American Hockey
- 42:46League. Okay, but junior. They're a junior. They're in the n
- 42:52A h L. That's way, that's it. No, you're right,
- 43:00Oh, they home the City Blazers that's what they are. The Blazers.
- 43:04Yes, yes, yes, the Barons many years ago I thought, but
- 43:07probably all right, let's move on, ready for some ready for the real
- 43:12creamy, the crop talk talk. Yeah, you will start with we'll start
- 43:15with We'll start with NC. No, well that's what we have to start.
- 43:20That's the last team. That is the last of it, the last
- 43:23well Sean Barons operated for five years, that's it. Apparently they're found in
- 43:30eighty four. I don't understand this, but operated for five years. AHL.
- 43:36Sorry, that was what I was trying to think of. I think
- 43:37the AHL is right below. Then. I don't understand the hl's after the
- 43:43NHL. Apparently there is a thing that if the NHL does not complete their
- 43:49season, all these other minor leagues can come in and claim the Stanley Cup.
- 43:58There's yeah, even the Canadian leagues, you can do it. Weird.
- 44:01Bob Funk used to own the Blazers. I wonder if he was related
- 44:05to Terry Funk. Wonder if they were brothers. Terry Funk's brother was Gordy
- 44:09Funk. Okay, maybe a first cousin. It could be. Yeah,
- 44:15well, I mean he's from they were from Texas, so all right,
- 44:20Uh, yeah, we're gonna go you picked the team attorney there, well,
- 44:23Segre gonna start with the Bears? Are we starting with the uh?
- 44:30Starting with the Oh my god, we already know what they're doing. They're
- 44:36taking one of the worst quarterbacks in the draft. He's not the worst.
- 44:38He is one of the worst. He's Spencer Rattler. No, he's not
- 44:44that. Let me you know extra you okay, So what he is?
- 44:47What is he? Explain to me what this majestic you know of a baker
- 44:54now painting cry baby? He's the He's got the potentialotential to be his upside
- 45:01is the greatest quarterback a lot a lot of people. I understand. I
- 45:07wouldn't pick him. I've already said this many, many, many times.
- 45:09Jade and Daniels would be my number one, Jade and Daniels and then the
- 45:14Big Poenix would be my second. And seeing i've seen some minodrafts, he's
- 45:19fallen into the second third round, I don't understand that. I don't either.
- 45:22I don't know what he's done to not sway the but uh, everything
- 45:29I've read Chicago has so obviously Chicago's ignoring the red flags. Everybody outside the
- 45:37USC organization. Everybody in the USC organization is giving him flying colors, high
- 45:43praises and protecting him. Everybody outside of the organization said, here are the
- 45:49red flags. You need to pay attention to these red flags. You know
- 45:52what, I give him five years, he's out. He Vince younged himself.
- 45:55We're done. We're getting a new quarterback. We're gonna end up with
- 46:00an arch Manning or a Jackson Arnold. I think he'd be lucky there for
- 46:05Jackson Arches. If he I think he's smarter than Vince Young, I do.
- 46:10No, he's more accurate than Vince Young as a passer too. Vince
- 46:15Young was more talented physically physically, yes, physically, I don't think he
- 46:22had the mentality for it. And I just don't think he was that big
- 46:23of a pastor. Look how many times he used his legs? Now we
- 46:27know that. Oh do you want to talk about how many? I know?
- 46:29We know, we know Kayleb Williams is gonna like to use his legs
- 46:34Susan, that just not gonna happen, right right right, because Kayleb Williams
- 46:37wants to run thirty yards backwards and then figure out how to get that's that's
- 46:39not gonna work. You can't do that in the NFL, exactly right.
- 46:44So before so we all know that they're going to draft him at number one.
- 46:47They also have the ninth pick from a trade. Well that's their actual
- 46:52pick is the ninth. They get the first pick from Carolina. But it's,
- 46:54uh, it's confusing as to whether they're going to take an offensive lineman
- 46:59or a defense you know, so I don't even have I have eaten neither
- 47:04one in my mock taking a wide receiver. I do. And the reason
- 47:07why I say this is I know that obviously they they traded for Keenan Allen.
- 47:12Well, hold on, look at the pages over there, because you
- 47:14can see how many they traded for Keenan Allen. This is one through wait,
- 47:20which which yeah? Which? Which? Hey that's great, okay,
- 47:25thank you, that's the one through. I want the position. Now,
- 47:30do I think that there's a possible now I have them trading Actually, if
- 47:35I really had to put money on what they're going to do with number nine,
- 47:37I think they trade down because I still think they can get a deep
- 47:40Uh you've seen have you seen the list of offensive linemen Jared vert Verse I
- 47:45think it's possible. Yes, it's a deep line in class, so trade
- 47:51down or just wait till the second round if they can get something for nine.
- 47:55And I think the guards that's why in my I've got trade next time.
- 48:01You can't find the offensive tackle. But the reason why I picked uh
- 48:07dose because I think he's one of the better wide receivers in the draft.
- 48:13I think some of the other ones are going to be gone by then.
- 48:15And I also know I also know that the pull out well, I also
- 48:22know that you're gonna see wide receivers before that go well. But yeah,
- 48:29because he now does DIABs. Do you guys need offensive line help? Yes,
- 48:34but I think not that early. There's nobody except the alt guy that
- 48:39Tennessee is gonna pick. There's nobody should be drafting that early in that round.
- 48:44The rest of them. You look at all the mixture of offensive line
- 48:46going anywhere from twelve to thirteen clear down to thirty two and then a bunch
- 48:52in the second round. So don't take an offensive lineman now. Now,
- 48:54if you're if you'd like the on the wide receivers as well, is it
- 48:59the but see, I don't think it is, because I think there's a
- 49:01huge drop off after you get past and I think he's gonna be the bottom
- 49:08one. You got neighbors obviously, Harrison Harrison is my nemb one pick in
- 49:13the draft. Now everybody's talking about that. They're talking about the Chargers taking
- 49:19Harrison Jr. But you got Malik, you got Indus, and then what
- 49:22do you got after that? You really don't have Well, Thomas Jr.
- 49:24I like Brian Thomas's speed. He's probably mid to late first round McConkey out
- 49:30of Georgia. See, I didn't even put him in my first but I
- 49:31think he's got You just don't listen. If you're wanting somebody that bad,
- 49:38you trade down. I'm not taking a Texas now now. If you need
- 49:42it, he's second round. That's what I'm saying. Don't use that ninth
- 49:47pick. I think you takeing Doos to get it. For sure, one
- 49:52of the best wide receivers in the draft. And honestly, then you could
- 49:57go down and you and you look at you. If you want an edge
- 50:00guy, if that's what you need, you got Dallas Turner. You got
- 50:02the Jared Verse. I mean that's gonna be your two guys there. Then
- 50:06he get into that slot receiving. I mean, that's gonna be in your
- 50:10defensive guys. So but no, I mean I thought, like I told
- 50:14you before, you know they re signed let me go back to my notes
- 50:19over here. They re signed Jalen Johnson safety. I mean they had to
- 50:22do that, sign him to a four year, seventy six million dollar.
- 50:24Lots of money, but it was probably what like I said before, they
- 50:28got Keenan Allen. He's a little long in the tooth, but had his
- 50:30best year last year, so that's impressive. He's a little older guy.
- 50:35That's why he was the only He was the only guy. That's why I
- 50:37think they needed That's why I think they need another receiver, just to have
- 50:42that third guy because they've got DJ Moore and then I really wanted that guy
- 50:45to go high. But I stormed up. But I thought DeAndre Swift I
- 50:50thought was a cheap hire. Max Is sign him to a three year,
- 50:53twenty four million dollar. But Max is two year eight you know, guaranteed
- 50:58sixteen million, good year behind a good line. I understand that with Philadelphia
- 51:02there's gonna be some talk about that, Oh is it really worth that?
- 51:06Look, we picked up Owens, we got mister Simone Biles from Green Bay
- 51:13and we got bared from I mean, granted they're a little older, but
- 51:16there's still good safeties. And I think we got them on the cheap too,
- 51:20didn't we. Yeah, most of your most of your pickups. Some
- 51:23debates realized most of your pickups were actually cheap. Yes, and and uh,
- 51:30like you know, I know we need a guard, but we needed
- 51:34we only needed like one to two people. Well, I think you made
- 51:37some changes on that offensive line. You did well, and I mean you
- 51:40got rid of white hair, which is not a big deal look at the
- 51:44age. But but also but also for for that offensive line last season,
- 51:50it was justin Fields and his r p O that caused that line to look
- 51:53horrible. But you could also turn around, like you said in the draft,
- 51:57and you could draft two, three, four rounds. They don't have
- 52:00a second round pick, I think, so you can draft three and four
- 52:01rounds. They can draft them down and and get those those players the offensive
- 52:09line. I mean to me, unless you've got an absolute studded offensive line,
- 52:14you can get those guys later or or as far as uh. I
- 52:17mean you look at the guys from Howard or the Ivy leagues or stuff like
- 52:22that. You see all them guys come in late. I've got obviously got
- 52:30them picking Kayleb Williams ever won and then number nine. Potential trade, but
- 52:34I like wide receiver there. I think you can't pass on and say they
- 52:38could. They could get away with the trade. But what you really should
- 52:42do is trade. You should know that somebody wants. It's all gonna be
- 52:45about where McCartney count somebody. Well, I'm gonna talk about you're gonna move
- 52:50to the Vikings. Yeah, okay, but somebody wants that two to three
- 52:54spot. Who is in the division with the Bears. I don't think two
- 52:59or three it's traded at all. I'm talking about the Bears trading this.
- 53:04Oh, they ain't trading. They're taking Caleb number I know you're still hoping
- 53:07that they ain't gonna take Caleb. Shut him out. They're taking care of
- 53:10you. Shut him out. Yeah, we did the Bears. The Bears
- 53:14did a lot of a lot of good. They got on the free agency
- 53:19they did really well. But after they scored, they scored very well,
- 53:22take up and re signing Johnson. But but there was other things that they
- 53:25picked up. There were small, small obviously I've talked about right, but
- 53:30there were small parts that they picked up at the safety. He's a little
- 53:32old, but they got him on. There were personally signed the backup tight
- 53:37end, which you know. I think. Another big part is you're not
- 53:42talking about as Shane Waldron come over his offensive coordinator from Seattle. He's coming
- 53:46over to uh I'm sorry, he was a quarterback guy coming over to UH.
- 53:52No, he was offensive coordinator because Pete Carroll's gone, so he come
- 53:54over to Chicago. You're gonna kind of see what you've seen from Tampa last
- 53:59year. When I know they're going for an edge late, I know that
- 54:02they're gonna get a mid round mid round well, and they might get them
- 54:06at number nine. I'm not disagreeing with that. I think Turner or no,
- 54:08no, no, no, no, I'm saying they're the third round,
- 54:12what is it? Yeah, Yeah, they're deep in edges right now.
- 54:16And like I said, the Houston guy that that played for Oklahoma went
- 54:21to Houston, you don't mind the slow and I said, we could be
- 54:23a sleeper. Yeah, because they don't pick till number seventy five in the
- 54:28third round. Yes, that's their next pick, isn't it two first rounds,
- 54:31no second, Well, they're not gonna do what we want him to
- 54:36do. And probably even with some of their fans. Now there is going
- 54:38to be some excitement. You mean take a decent quarterback. No, there's
- 54:40gonna be some excitement there because of the potential. And I promise you that.
- 54:45And he isn't the worst quarterback. So I know you're kind of negative
- 54:49on it is Okay, you're right, he's not. Spencer fucking It's not
- 54:52the worst quarterback. Sorry, he's not. I'm trying to find them.
- 54:57I guess we'll go to the second worst team when the league Green Bay Packers.
- 55:06Obviously Green Bay a huge surprise at the playoffs beat Dallas first round,
- 55:09could have won the second round game. Can't remember played. Oh it's forty
- 55:15nine ers, wasn't it? Young? I nailed it on love, Just
- 55:19letting y'all know you got you haven't nailed anything yet. He's good. He's
- 55:22good. He's good. He's good. What happens next, He's going to
- 55:27be better. That's my whole deal. They're one of the youngest teams.
- 55:29Bring back a j. Dillon. They signed Josh Jacobs, so that covers
- 55:31that run. That running back that they because he could stay healthy. Aaron
- 55:37Jones was well, they went yeah, they went a little younger too on
- 55:39that, but Aaron Jones was energy riddled, injury riddled for the last two
- 55:46seasons. I think it was I know last season, I thought that Xavier
- 55:52McKinny, I mean safety from the Giants. I mean they paid him well
- 55:57for your sixty seven million dollars. I mean it's mister, they went younger,
- 56:01but he's yeah, he's almost twenty five. He's gonna be twenty five
- 56:05when it starts. So he's a he's a Bama guy. He's Abama guy.
- 56:10Yeah. And that's what they're gonna be looking for, honestly in the
- 56:14draft, is that's gonna be one of the teams that is looking for offense,
- 56:17offensive line too. They do that. They had some weird receivers that
- 56:23did well but not superstar. But you know, and I had I've got
- 56:28the guy from Iowa, the Cooper Degene from cornerback. Yes, he's what,
- 56:34he's second best quarterback corner corner corner CB. Yeah, he's in there.
- 56:39Their defense is their past defense is something that did use the ledger that
- 56:44did that, did strugg that that did struggle, so that that did struggle.
- 56:49So I think that's where they're gonna go. But you also, because
- 56:51like you said before, guard and tackle and offensive line overall, they also
- 56:58signed they got that good tight end. They also they also signed A.
- 57:04J. Dillon again, so he's gonna he's gonna be the backup. So
- 57:07anyway, now I thought Green Bay they didn't do. They did sign the
- 57:10safety, which I thought was huge. They're gonna have to work on their
- 57:14line. Uh, and they swapped essentially running backs. I mean, I
- 57:16thought Aaron Jones is just as good as Jacob's and flashes for both. I
- 57:21mean, but but you got you got younger, I mean injury injury was
- 57:27I still like them probably second in that. All right, let's go to
- 57:30the uh what used to be the fighting Kirk Cousins, that's now the quarterback
- 57:37less Kirk Cousins or Minnesota Vikings. Uh. They got Donald so far is
- 57:43there is their main pick up? Yeah, signed him to me, they
- 57:49brought A J. Dillon not but Aaron Jones over. But yeah, well
- 57:52see I thought that was an underrated move. I liked the move for Aaron
- 57:55Jones. They got rid of Madison. They needed a run game pissed me
- 57:59on. So Aaron Jones is an upgrade at the run game. Now they
- 58:02did they did get rid of I'm sorry. They signed Jonathan Grenard. Uh,
- 58:07he's from Houston. He was twenty seven. But then turn around they
- 58:09lost Danelle Hunter who had eighteen sacks and he went to Houston. So they
- 58:14kind of swapped as far as is what is well, but they got younger
- 58:21and still their defense is still like they need secondary. Their secondary gave up
- 58:28how much last year? Like when they lost the games? They got the
- 58:30line was it? They got a linebacker from Houston, they got the they
- 58:34got another edge guy from gave it up? What gave it up? There?
- 58:37They I signed a quarterback. They need the quarterback played really well.
- 58:44I've got them taking a d lineman first. Yes, uh, Illinois got
- 58:50they got two No, no, no, and and no. That's the
- 58:52whole deal is is one of those quarterback? Okay, so that we talked
- 58:58about that, there's They are the ones that are talked most about trading,
- 59:01either with the Chargers or the the No, it's the other one Cardinals right
- 59:08below them. They're the most talked about trading because they traded down. They
- 59:13give up somebody I can't remember who, and they've got two first round picks.
- 59:15The Vikings need to be smart about this and listen. Vikings and I
- 59:20know they're not going to do it, but keep those first round picks and
- 59:22use them both you have. You don't need JJ McCartney. You don't need
- 59:28to give up those two plus next years. I mean, what are you
- 59:32doing? And who and whoever have a third round? But whoever takes that
- 59:37bet. If someone gives up the first round with a rookie quarterback, they
- 59:40should eat it up because Minnesota is not going to be good next year.
- 59:45It is what it is. But they don't have a third round. Oh
- 59:47it could have been a trade for whatsoever. But I've got the Vikings potentially
- 59:52trading here. But I think they need to check the Jared Verse guy that
- 59:55we talked about the year. Yeah, we talked about the the Bears maybe
- 1:00:01taking them at nine, let him drop to eleven, use him and then
- 1:00:06at your pick when you pick again. At the Vikings, I hadn't taken
- 1:00:10another Yeah, I had to taken another D line if the first one didn't
- 1:00:14work out well. Pinnicks Phoenix will potentially fall or bo Nicks those two are
- 1:00:21comparable to JJ McCartney. In my opinion, I think they're better than McCartney.
- 1:00:28But that's not what most people are saying. Well, most people are
- 1:00:30idiots. I mean they're moving up. Most people say that Caleb Williams is
- 1:00:36the godson McCarty. Everyone is falling in love with McCartney and he just keeps
- 1:00:39moving up. The moving up that trajectory is now else that's actually decent.
- 1:00:45They are. But you're a heavy run game. I mean, you have
- 1:00:47a couple of good drives here and there, but you depend on the run,
- 1:00:50You depend on the defense. What's it gonna be when you don't have
- 1:00:52the run game? It's the NFL. Everybody is fifty to fifty. Michigan
- 1:00:58was a stacked team this year year and you had the benefit of playing behind
- 1:01:01one of the most talented teams in college and they won the national championship for
- 1:01:06it. H And when you go and when you need to win the game,
- 1:01:09is that the guy that's got the talent to do that? I just
- 1:01:13don't think so. I think the system for him would be something good for
- 1:01:16a former Tennessee team like a Derrick Henry what they had, you know,
- 1:01:22Ryan Tannehill, Will Levis, Henry was there. You didn't have to win
- 1:01:25the game. You just don't screw it up. But you go to the
- 1:01:29Vikings. Now, I know they do have Aaron Jones, but you've got
- 1:01:31Justin Jefferson to keep up with and Jordan Addison and the tight end. I
- 1:01:36can't take off my head, but it's really good. Yes, so is
- 1:01:39he's gonna have the arm to throw that. But you still have Sam Donald.
- 1:01:45Yes, And I think that you either do one of two things.
- 1:01:50Build the talent. When the first round, see if Pinnix or somebody falls,
- 1:01:53and who says McCartney's not gonna fall. Who else is going to take
- 1:01:57a risk on him? The Giants maybe the No, I mean no,
- 1:02:04but I mean look no, I mean after that that pick at a level
- 1:02:07you know, the Patriots what, No, they pick it three sweet white
- 1:02:12quarterback. That's that's May. But I'm saying after that, who's gonna take
- 1:02:15a quarterback? The Rams maybe would be the only one in there that might
- 1:02:20take McCartney, and he could follow the twenty three Eagles, Dolphins, Steelers,
- 1:02:25Bengals, Jaguars. They're not gonna take Will Levis, So they're not
- 1:02:30taking one. So I'm saying is don't trade up. He'll fall right in
- 1:02:35your lap if you let it. No, I don't think that's a possibility
- 1:02:38too. But what about Pinnis Maybe the Raiders. I've got it going there,
- 1:02:44but that's only because I think they're desperate. Uh, take a year
- 1:02:46with Sam Darnold. If you suck, you suck. But if JJ McCartney's
- 1:02:52your quarterback next year and you traded next year's first round pick, you're also
- 1:02:54gonna suck. And that next year's first round pick is gonna go to it's
- 1:02:58gonna be top ten, and the gonna go to either the Cardinals or the
- 1:03:02Bears or the Chargers. Anyway that that that is what I have for the
- 1:03:08Vikings. But I thought they made some good moves. They got offensive line
- 1:03:14as well. No, I agree with that, but like I said,
- 1:03:15it's a deep line because it's because that line got older. It's a deep
- 1:03:20draft, but that but that line got a little older, and they had
- 1:03:23some free agents say they weeded be smart about what line you take. But
- 1:03:29I thought the greener for the Hunter trade off was was was okay. I
- 1:03:32didn't think that was a bad deal, But the Vikings they have two first
- 1:03:37round picks. Don't give them all up for J. J. McCartney.
- 1:03:38You regret it. Okay, now we're going to go to the unfortunate number
- 1:03:44one team of the NFC nor Detroit Lions. How many times did you ever
- 1:03:52think you would say that? And my and predicted to do it again again
- 1:03:55again. And you remember Jared Goff is a Super Bowl quarterback. He has
- 1:04:00played there, he has not granted he got thrown under the bus. So
- 1:04:08really, what are they looking for? A couple of I think they're looking
- 1:04:12for some more D line defense is where they need to go, A couple
- 1:04:15of D backs. Didn't they just lose one? No, they actually got
- 1:04:17Tampa. They got they got caught from Tampa. Yeah, but didn't they
- 1:04:21lose one to like gambling or racing or I think they picked they they they
- 1:04:28tried to get. You know, they got Davenport, which is not a
- 1:04:30big pick up Zeitler, he's old, but he just it was a one
- 1:04:34year deal. So you look at them also, Sean that still that was
- 1:04:40the one of their biggest issues. To get number two, to get number
- 1:04:43two wide receiver, no number three, I would say even the number three,
- 1:04:46well they re signed, and and they I guess they think, uh,
- 1:04:51that Reynolds is going to be that guy. I don't necessarily think so.
- 1:04:56Didn't they lose the receiver? I'm still there, obviously he's no,
- 1:05:00But didn't they lose a receiver also to something stupid? Like they had they
- 1:05:06they've they've had a couple of they've had issues with the players. I've got
- 1:05:10him. I've got him taking Chop Robinson. Reynolds, Okay, so sign
- 1:05:14they No, they lost you got people Jones there still, yes, but
- 1:05:19People Jones has been middle young. He's good, but it's been like he
- 1:05:24was really good. You know, he was really good when when when the
- 1:05:28Baker was thrown to him, And yes in Cleveland, that's correct, But
- 1:05:32you know he's become kind of middle of the road. So you just need
- 1:05:38you need a couple. You just need a couple of people like they're They
- 1:05:42can literally trade out in the first round and don't have to worry about anything.
- 1:05:45You're right, I've got him taking Chop Robinson. Though on that uh,
- 1:05:49that second end, he's gonna be defensive, the edge edge guy.
- 1:05:54Yes, gonna be an edge guy. That's what they're gonna be looking for
- 1:05:57to go with yes, so they're gonna look for like the defense one to
- 1:06:00two people. The defense is what they needed. I mean, you know,
- 1:06:03you know what, you can actually just be a hassle and uh uh
- 1:06:08draft a guy just to be a returner. You could just do that.
- 1:06:13You could you could do one of the speed guys and just be like,
- 1:06:15I just want you to catch balls and return them. No, I totally
- 1:06:18agree, and I think that you can find some of those guys later in
- 1:06:24the round. But Detroit does. Did they have a first Yes they can,
- 1:06:34and they can completely trade out of that, but they wouldn't have to.
- 1:06:38They'll take Chopp take a line. And you forgot about Jamison Williams.
- 1:06:43Come on a little bit at the end. You know he got in trouble
- 1:06:45for that gambling deal. No, no, no, he's fine. He
- 1:06:49just had to serve so he only got to start later in the years,
- 1:06:53didn't. He's good. He's good. There's nothing nothing wrong with I'm sure.
- 1:06:58What about the running backs that you wish? Oh, they have a
- 1:07:05number one he is. You're gonna see them get away from Montgomery and and
- 1:07:14move more. But no, I mean I think that I think that I
- 1:07:18think they're set up for the long haul. They need defense and that'll be
- 1:07:21crunched an interior defense. Look look at they're gonna play. They're gonna need
- 1:07:27to rush Love, They're gonna need to rush Party, They're gonna need to
- 1:07:30rush Dak. Those are the guys that's gonna be in that playoff scenario.
- 1:07:32Williams. Just keep rushing. No, I don't think they're gonna make the
- 1:07:35playoffs. But keep you to keep rushing and keep failing. But no,
- 1:07:40I thought that they did. They were quiet, obviously, but they didn't
- 1:07:43have a lot. But they didn't have a lot they needed to do for
- 1:07:45the Organs, like they can trade out a first and still get decent stuff.
- 1:07:51Uf L update. The San Antonio Brahmas have taken have taken one from
- 1:07:58the Michigan Panthers. The Brahmas are now three and one. They can't even
- 1:08:02show the records by him and I had to know the records. It's fun.
- 1:08:08BattleHawks are three and one them the show Boats are won in well Coucas.
- 1:08:14This was a really close game. I watched this. I watched this
- 1:08:16game. Uh Cocas got knocked out about halftime, and that's when the game
- 1:08:23switched into the BattleHawks favor and it was a league it was. It was
- 1:08:27a clean hit. It wasn't anything dirty. Birmingham seeming to uh seven thirty
- 1:08:32two, the only undefeated team left in the UFL, having a little trouble
- 1:08:39there with the with what I would say is the league's number one defense,
- 1:08:42the DC Defenders, even though statistically the Stallions are number one, the DC
- 1:08:47Defenders are are a really good defensive team. Plus they got that kicker.
- 1:08:53There's a head coach there. Oh, the flippo is in the showboats.
- 1:09:02It's god, I knew it the other day. What you I'll pull up
- 1:09:06the standings, dude, and we are at the USFL what do we call
- 1:09:18it now? The UFL standing so we can go to standings right there.
- 1:09:24Gotcha popped that up. We're gonna we're gonna do this. We're gonna do
- 1:09:30the other one. I like to renegade still one three, Oh, Bobby,
- 1:09:32they'll win tomorrow. Yeah, it's weird that they've got one game to
- 1:09:36They did three games today, so Reggie Barlow's head coach. But it's weird
- 1:09:43that they did one game today. They did three games today and one tomorrow.
- 1:09:50Both Birmingham loses tonight. That kind of tightens everything up in that too.
- 1:09:56What do they take top two in each division playoffs? I think it's
- 1:10:00be changed. Well, you look at you look at the UFL. The
- 1:10:03UFL is very tight. The XFL Conference USFL Conference. I guess they could
- 1:10:10have just called it the us Conference X Conference of us Conference. But all
- 1:10:17right, do we want to talk about predictions. Let's do in early predictions
- 1:10:21on the NFC North. We didn't do that for we moved on to that
- 1:10:25early predictions. Yeah, standings or finish finish, finish, just I mean,
- 1:10:30if you're thinking right now, it could change later, but you think
- 1:10:32of Detroit, Green Bay, Chicago Vikings, that's gonna be one of the
- 1:10:40more simple ones, even though that was one of the more competitive ones last
- 1:10:43year when you come down too, because I think the Vikings missed the playoffs.
- 1:10:48Yeah, but no, they missed. But you've got to think that
- 1:10:54in the NFC South, three teams were vying to make it into the playoffs.
- 1:11:00Yeah, but I'm not necessarily saying that was both competitive. I mean,
- 1:11:03obviously the very competitive Seahawks. The Seahawks were the one that slipped in
- 1:11:12and got that. That's possible. Yeah, got that. Yeah, all
- 1:11:15right, ready to talk to some draft, no quick quick draft preview before
- 1:11:31we get to because next Thursday we'll be live. What is the starting time,
- 1:11:38six o'clock, sixday, six o'clock. We need to start actually before
- 1:11:43the draft though, we need to start about thirty minutes before something prepped.
- 1:11:47But so so obviously we're gonna we'll we'll talk about our uh what would you
- 1:11:58call it our You know, I put my draft together and it's not what
- 1:12:01I We can do a prediction before the draft. We can do that,
- 1:12:05do that and we'll do it. And we're not gonna are we gonna talk
- 1:12:10about any other sports. We're just doing doing draft. And I would think
- 1:12:14you need to do yours too, your draft, And I would think,
- 1:12:17so you need to do right burglar down, you need to do It's almost
- 1:12:23like I wanted to do two mocks. I wanted to do what should be
- 1:12:27done and what's gonna happen because that's what everybody That's what everybody's gonna do.
- 1:12:31So is it six o'clock six eastern? I think is what it is?
- 1:12:38Oh, it is eight eastern, So it's seven o'clock. Okay, So
- 1:12:43we'll see you guys, we'll see six six, a couple of draft,
- 1:12:47a couple of mocky mocks. We'll see it six thirty, Yeah, six
- 1:12:53thirty. We'll do six thirty, six thirty, because he never knows when
- 1:12:57he's gonna get home. Six thirty, and we'll do we'll talk all night
- 1:13:03long. We'll do a preview, ood luck, a preview, and then
- 1:13:08we'll also do reaction to the draft. Look, I'm reacting a but it
- 1:13:15is, but it is. They really take that. But it is going
- 1:13:18to be one stoopoo monkey. But it is going to be one of the
- 1:13:20most interesting drafts because when I was telling you I did the top thirteen drafts,
- 1:13:25I am just wanting to know where the quarterbacks get. I said,
- 1:13:28I have quarterbacks and receivers that at the top. That's what I'm looking for.
- 1:13:30Quarterbacks. Top three thirteen picks. I put trade next to the ones
- 1:13:34that should be and I had eight of them out of thirteen that could consider
- 1:13:38or should consider it. Drison, well, not a gum trade. Trade
- 1:13:43trade Well what I mean? I think the Bears done really well last year
- 1:13:46up in twenty thirty with all the first round picks. That's what she would
- 1:13:51do. You would end up in twenty thirty with every first round pick and
- 1:13:55be like we but here's the every good player in basketball. You can't stretch
- 1:14:01like basketball where you can stretch it like the thunder half. In football,
- 1:14:05you can't because your livelihood of a GMS three years. And that's why Poles
- 1:14:10and we've talked about this. Your GM is taking Kayleb Williams. He can't
- 1:14:14trade that pick like I suggested to go down to three or four to take
- 1:14:17Harrison, the number one player in the draft in my opinion, who's going
- 1:14:20to be a Hall of Famer and then have but you've got you've got equal
- 1:14:25and and I think is actually better than Harrison. Not a chance. The
- 1:14:30guy is committed. The guy isn't work He's almost to me, he's almost
- 1:14:34a slot long guy, slot with speed. Marvin Harrison is a lineup number
- 1:14:41one wide. Harrison's coming in playing on pure talent. Marvin and he is
- 1:14:45Marvin Harrison is better than his dad and is a worker, and he's a
- 1:14:49workhorse. And that's the guy that you want. You want that guy that's
- 1:14:53gonna keep working. You want that on the field. Looks at the back
- 1:15:00up quarterback or the practice quarterback like, no, no, keep throwing to
- 1:15:02me. I want to keep practicing. I want to make I want to
- 1:15:05make this route correct. I want to do all this correct. And that's
- 1:15:10what has that's like. He is one of the best. He is one
- 1:15:14of the best route runners. But I think he's not the number one to
- 1:15:15be taken in the draft. I also think that he's going to be if
- 1:15:18he goes to the Bears. He's going to be that third guy that's going
- 1:15:23to play often with Keenan Allen, with DJ Moore, And I think that's
- 1:15:27what makes the most sense now taking an edge and I think him playing with
- 1:15:30Kim No Keenan Allen will teach him. I mean, hev me out.
- 1:15:33What do you think Keenan Allen's max years be that number one guy for two
- 1:15:38to three would be me? Yeah, two to three to be beoudfol So
- 1:15:43that's still under his Ricky contract. All Right, we'll preview that. We'll
- 1:15:45talk about why JJ McCartney shouldn't go as high as everyone's picking. Is everybody
- 1:15:51Lona? Why boy is Drake may that guy? Is he got the talent
- 1:15:56or is he just another North Carolina uh quarter back? You know you you
- 1:16:00know buyers are mores. He's the best one out of them all. And
- 1:16:03see that's the problem. We say that if we didn't have that information before,
- 1:16:10we wouldn't be so lear. Look at how long it took for an
- 1:16:13Ohio State quarterback to be good in the NFL, and he's only been in
- 1:16:15one year. One year, so we don't know what his sophomore year is
- 1:16:17gonna exactly exactly, all right, Well, I don't have anything else.
- 1:16:21It's gonna be a lot of we're gonna be talking about printed off. Yeah,
- 1:16:25we're gonna be talking about a lot of quarterbacks, a lot of wide
- 1:16:27receivers. I need to do way no, I worked out perfect. And
- 1:16:30we're gonna be talking about the offensive line and stuff when you in defensive line
- 1:16:34as you get towards end the draft. So it's gonna be fun. But
- 1:16:36the thing is is the most important thing about this draft. I think I
- 1:16:41think the middle of the draft is you're gonna see a lot of trades because
- 1:16:45well, you're gonna see a lot of trades because of the desperation. You're
- 1:16:47gonna see teams. Oh well, with Chicago not having a second round and
- 1:16:50I think they've got to first and the third fourth. That's why ninth could
- 1:16:57be traded like fourth. Fifth, I don't know, but could be tradable.
- 1:17:00That's that's kind of what I'm in Chicago, end up with a with
- 1:17:02a random we oh we have no fifth. We traded fifth to get or
- 1:17:14to get rid of somebody in the compensatory picks. I haven't really looked at
- 1:17:16anything, you know. That's that's a whole different world to me. I
- 1:17:20because I guess if you take that pick, you there's the bears right there.
- 1:17:25That's that's fourth. Hey, what go to that? What is the
- 1:17:28trade? Click on it? They got it. They've got it. Somehow
- 1:17:32I forgot what that was. It's not it didn't pop up. Used to
- 1:17:36it popped up? And say trade from Look at Frisco. Isn't there three?
- 1:17:44Probably? No? Didn't they lose? Would they lose for that clerical
- 1:17:50error? Jimmy Garoppolo? But who was the Are you settled yet? He
- 1:17:57hadn't been settled yet. Has he said possible trade material? No, they're
- 1:18:00not trading now. They're they're gonna they're trying to get him to stay.
- 1:18:04They pretty loves who's the other one that they lost? The green loss resign
- 1:18:13I'm gonna go. Look, No, he's still there. He's still there.
- 1:18:15Hold on, hold on, hold on. We're just the Niners lost
- 1:18:20somebody that they let Armstead arms, they little the little wide receiver go.
- 1:18:28Yes, they let Ray McLeod go. Yeah, I know, but they're
- 1:18:32true. But they're trying to keep they're trying to keep up to then and
- 1:18:36then of course I'm sorry it was Armstead so went to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 1:18:44Well, thank you all for joining us. We'll see you Thursday, please
- 1:18:46six thirty Central time for us. We'll get the Facebook stuff straightened out,
- 1:18:51and I hope and I hope it's straightened out. I don't know what that
- 1:18:54was going on. Get it done all right. Well, thanks, we'll
- 1:18:57have a lot to talk about. Actually we're just talking about the NFL.
- 1:19:00NFL on Thursday, all f L. We'll see you then. Thanks for
- 1:19:01joining us. Appreciate it. By H