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Ep. 41 Caitlin Clark Makes History, DeChambeau Open Controversy, Spain Wins World Cup, & ESPN Layoff · Brodie Pod

• Brodie Pod: What's going on everyone? Welcome back to episode 41 of the Brody Pod, the Dirk Nowinski episode. Be sure to like, subscribe on YouTube, turn on notifications, helps out a lot. If you want to follow us on Spotify, please rate the show. Five stars helps out a as well. If you want to stay up to date on the show, follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter slash X, and Facebook at Brody Pod at Brody Pod on everything. Also, shout out to the Apple Podcast listeners. I saw that number actually was upticked from last episode, so turns out. I guess they're giving the Apple Podcasts a little love too. So thank you everyone for over on the Apple Podcast. Welcome back, everyone. Welcome to the episode, the Dirk Delinsky episode, Matt. This is our goats episode. Yeah, I figured before we get into ⁓ kind of what happened our past weekend, we could kind of go through some Dirk Dowinsky stats that I looked up for the podcast. I do have a a Dirk jersey that is tucked away. I I got my Dirk Downsky shirt on. Figure we gotta represent the goat. I can't wait till we get to seventy seven. That will be the next GOAT episode, possibly. Maybe. We'll see. ⁓ yeah. So Dirk Nowinsky's stats. Let me start you off here. Matt, do you know Dirk Nowinsky holds the NBA record for the most seasons played with a single team with the Dallas Mavericks? Played twenty one seasons. ⁓ no no other player has played twenty one seasons with the same team. Now there have been players that have played twenty one seasons, but no one's ever done it with the same team. There's currently one Closest at the moment. Closest so far was Kobe Bryant, R.I.P. did 20 seasons with the Lakers, and then Eudonis Haslum did 20 seasons with the Heat, which that was surprising to me. Yeah. Followed by Tim Duncan, who did 19 with the Spurs. I was gonna say like Bill Russell. How long? Let's see. They just was retired his jersey number across the league. I just assume. He played a bunch with the Celtics, but Yeah, and let me add a little caveat to that. Dirk Nowinsky's last couple years with the Mavericks, you know, listen, he was doing us a favor with some of the pay cuts he was taking, but also it he was having to show up to the stadium like two hours before to warm up his body. You know, he was he was aging a lot, and ⁓ his knees that's part of the reason why he had to stop playing basketball was like his knees started giving out. So shout out to Dirk the GOAT. Could have been, you know, ⁓ I'm not gonna tie it into Luca. Luka could have. been here for twenty seasons as well, but Yeah, I mean it's just maybe if Lika was there like six years earlier. Yeah. I thought something together. Also for Dirk, Dirk Nowinsky is the only player in NBA history to finish with at least thirty one thousand plus points, eleven thousand plus rebounds, nineteen hundred plus three pointers, twelve hundred plus blocks, and eighty seven percent free throw shooting. Now listen, that's a little cherry picking 'cause you just you know you're picking the top things, but Statistically, Dirk Dewinsky is in the top for like almost every statistic just because of the longevity that he played. And not to mention, like I said, he did that with the Mavericks the entire time. Also it's it's just in you talk about the longevity of Dirk. Like even towards the end of his career, you could see like he was going out. Yeah. Yeah. He was on his he was on his last leg. Literally. Shout out his signature move. But it's just funny, like you look at LeBron. He's still like twenty seven, seven and seven every year. Yeah, still kicking it. Doesn't look like he's slowing down. So but I see we're still waiting on LeBron's decision. I saw that ⁓ who has it ⁓ Adam Silver was saying, like, yeah, I need LeBron to make a decision because I cannot let out the NBA schedule until we know what team LeBron's playing with next year. Yeah. I saw somebody saying hostage. I saw somebody say this is a LeBron's league. Let's relax. You said it isn't LeBron's league? I said there's a comment under that under some tweet that said what Adam Silver said, and it was like this is LeBron's league. He can take his time. I mean, he's the GOAT of the league right now, so Yeah. Gotta make sure they make the schedule. But giving back, giving our flowers to Dirk. I can't it can't be the Dirk Nowinsky episode unless we bring up the two thousand eleven playoff run that he had with the Mavericks. People say it's the heaviest ring in the history of the NBA. You know, he only got one ring, but it counts probably for two. The twenty eleven playoffs, Dirk went through Portland, which, you know, they had some good players. They were a playoff team, nothing crazy there. But then he took out the defending champion Lakers. He swept them. Took out the Young Thunder, which had Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden, you know, the young trio that everyone was expecting to take over the league. And they kind of have taken over the league, but they went all their separate directions. And then the Miami Big Three, which you want to talk about LeBron. He took out LeBron, Wade, and Bosch. Yeah. So, you know, don't talk about stardom, Dirk Mwinski had it and it was with the Mavericks for his entire career. Reminds me of somebody else who had a very heavy ring. That was his only ring. Who are you bringing up? ⁓ Drew Brees. I thought you were talking about ⁓ Jalen Brunson. If that's ⁓ also, I mean it's not as heavy as Derks might end up being just like it was a young LeBron, like a a young Heat team. This could be a young Spurs team that's gonna maybe get yeah, really as the Spurs get better, people are gonna be like, Damn, I can't believe Jalen Brunson did that and took out both took out, you know, the Spurs and then was able to ⁓ actually I heard he was having surgery on his wrist. Yeah. That came out, but we digress a little bit. Shout out Dirk Nowitzki, happy episode forty one. ⁓ getting into Matt, just a little bit of our weekend recap, kind of what was happening with us. Me and Matt did play a little golf this weekend. We had our own open championship. Good blade. Yeah. And ⁓ I will I gotta give credit to Matt. I know he's come on the podcast a couple times, talking about his golf game. Matt's actually decent at golf now. He was I've he was actually ripping some shots. And ⁓ I was actually worried for a little bit that he might beat me. I think I told you, Matt. I was like, I was worried through like ten holes. I was like, Matt's on I was like, Matt doesn't even realize how good he's playing right now. I think it was like you versus I mean, we did the the format, if you want to explain it. I can explain the format that we played. We did a ⁓ we did a basically it was like a scramble, but since we had like it was four of us, we just changed teams every six holes. So it was basically like three individual scrambles for six holes. ⁓ some of the other guys we played with, they weren't as, you know. They hadn't played as often as me and Matt do. So we made sure that everyone kinda got a good teammate on their team. And then at some point me and Matt were on the same team. We did six ⁓ so shout out. But it was a it was a fun format and you know, Matt did play pretty well. I played fairly well as well, so it was a great day out there golfing with the boys. I did want to say that I know my friends aren't gonna believe it, but I do have three witnesses that can confirm. And I played well. As someone that wants to dog your golf game, you were hitting some so like your second shots were very impressive. You were landing some shots on the green from probably two hundred yards out or something, and it was at one point, I think it was like three or four pars in a row that you had. I was like, This guy's on a burner right now. I don't know what it was. I mean, the course wasn't like crazy hard. It was pretty narrow. It was fairly narrow. Yeah, I I mean I a couple drivers. I hitting driver off the T, to be fair. I was hitting four hybrid, which I know I can keep in play most of the time. Yeah, you you were hitting that four hybrid is the best club in your bag. If I was hitting driver, we'd be having a completely different conversation. But honestly, you you didn't need a driver. You could hit the four hybrid and then just hit it again and you were landing them on the green with it. You were at the discussion with that club. Yeah, I mean that's kind of what I was thinking about earlier. Like I What's the point? I mean hitting it farther. Obviously you knew it farther than I do. And we were still like kind of toe to toe. Yeah, because I was like hitting it out of balance. I was ⁓ luckily I was taking drops like close to the green or whatever, but But you were still when he kept it in play off the T, it was like three forty. Yeah, there was one that we had I had the wind in my back. ⁓ it was probably a three hundred fifty yard drive. I just swung out of my shoes and luckily landed in the middle of the fairway. Ended up struggling for par on the hole because my second shot was horrible. I always talk about the second shot as the most important shot in golf. Matt had a very good like second shot game. I had a very poor second shot game. I was doing a lot of chipping and there was a couple blades that I had. Listen, I hadn't played in like a month, so I'm gonna chalk it up to just gotta get the fill back. But honestly, it was a great round. And ⁓ Matt, we need to play some more. Absolutely. But getting into some other news that's going on. The World Cup has finished up and so I put down on the notes. Now that football is done, real football can begin here in America. That was a fun little fever dream that we had with the World Cup, but now it's time to get to the nitty-gritty. ⁓ I just looked up like I got excited now that the World Cup was over. I was like, when's the first football game? Turns out, August sixth is the Hall of Fame game between the Carolina Panthers and the Arizona Cardinals. So that's coming up in a couple of weeks. Start getting the fantasy football. Matt, I did confirm we have everyone returning for a fantasy football league. ⁓ just we're we're looking we're getting ready for football season. I'm mock drafts. I haven't done a single one yet. Yep. And that kind of leads me into my show preview here. So we are gonna be doing Brodies of the Week. It it kind of was this kind of the big sports that we got to talk about, and there's probably gonna be some stuff that comes out in between this when we record and when this episode actually drops. But just kind of start off a show preview. We've got Brodies of the Week. We got the open championship recap. Then we're gonna do a little world World Cup recap between Argentina and Spain and some of the halftime performances. And we're gonna finish off with a game. We don't know what game that's gonna be. It could be twenty and ⁓ it could be ninety-two and ⁓ or I came up with a new game, possibly ⁓ old faces, new places in the NFL to get you ready for kind of start getting your mind ready on like possibly, you know, if you were thinking of a certain player and he's on a new team, you gotta be ready for that. You gotta be ready to make a pivot. Yeah, maybe they don't have the same role that they did last year. There are w there were some fairly surprises that I was looking at. I like, I can't believe this guy's on this team now, so Might be a couple of games depending on how long they can Babble on about these. We normally like to keep we like to keep these episodes. We say they're gonna be short. It's probably gonna be an hour thirty. But well with that, we I think that's enough of the intro. We can get into Brodi's a week, and Matt is gonna start us off. ⁓ first Brody will be the eleventh ranked guard in the WNBA. Mrs. Caitlin Clark. First five. I don't know if I could name ten before her. Exactly. I don't know if I can name anybody that I'd put up for her. I think that was a a player vote. They ranked her eleven. One of the faces one of the faces of the league. I mean This has gotta be the WNBA's thing where they just like are putting Keelan Clark through the ring. They're making her earn her stripes right now. I mean she could be the face. She probably is the face. Like everybody knows who she is. I don't know why they don't lean into it more. Also that I don't know when they don't protect her as much as they should on the court. So this past weekend the Fever played the Seattle Storm and Caitlin Clark dropped forty five points, ten assists, six stocks. Talked about this last week. Steals plus blocks. Four steals, two blocks, and a W over the storm. ⁓ I don't know if you were watching. Forty five seems like a lot for the WNBA. It's it's quite a lot. ⁓ personally I wasn't watching. I'm sure you weren't either. But I did see the what day did you say it was? It was Saturday? It was Friday. ⁓ no, Friday I was watching Obsession. Ooh. That was a good movie. I also watched that Saturday. Did you watch it? Yeah. We don't need to turn it into an obsession recap, but that movie was actually I see why people it came out on Peacock, so I was able to watch it. Yeah, I watched a lot of it, not all of it. ⁓ but ⁓ yeah, what the ending is really good. Yeah. ⁓ But yeah, so I mean they're they're kinda tied down to the wire, obviously. Thirty seconds left, they were tied. Caylan Clark hits a literal Steph Curry type three. From the logo? I mean, she's like, you know, dribbling around players behind the like behind the three point line, getting space, creating space. She finally does step back three. They go up three with about thirty seconds left. ⁓ and I mean they just they're fouling her for counting the rest of the game. And it's just one of those like Steph Curry type games where they just aren't gonna let her shoot the ball. They're just gonna if they're gonna lose it's gonna be by your free throws. And they did that. I feel like I always see highlights of Caitlin Clark just pulling up from the logo though. Like or or just like a Steph Curry type three. It seems like her whole highlight tape, that's it in that's That's what I'm saying. I don't know why anyone's shocked now. She's electric, man. Yeah. ⁓ but speaking on her achievement that she had in front of it, she now has four career games with at least thirty points and ten assists. And the rest of the WMBA and the history of the WBA combined, they also have the history of the W, they also have four. ⁓ this was she's already tight. She's already tight wait, I so that four that the WNBA has, that's not including Caitlin Clark. Correct. That's every other player combined. Damn she already is at half. I mean she's already LeBron type stuff. Yeah. In under thirty nine minutes. Twenty-nine minutes in WNBA slash NBA history. So she's already doing stuff. She's not even doing. She's not just making history in the W. She's making history in the NBA as well. I mean that's this just shows like how incredible she is, how like transcendent of a talent she is. Like this is legitimately like this is like LeBron, like Steph Curry. type I mean like last year the fever had to change what stadium that they were playing in. They had to get more seats because she was bringing in so many ticket sales. Like in any city that she goes to it's an automatic sell out crowd. I was gonna say like I've looked at with somebody's some tickets for the wings, the Dallas Wings, like whenever the fever coming down, you know Caitlyn Clark's will be going down. ⁓ I think the wings usually play at ET Arlington Their ⁓ basketball stadium. I was wondering what stadium I watched a game on in between the open and the World Cup starting, they had the Dallas Wings playing the I think it's Los Angeles Sparks. I was watching a little bit of that. Yeah, I couldn't tell the stadium looks nice. I just couldn't tell what stadium it was. So it's in Arlington. Yeah, I mean, so the college basketball stadium. But they have to make it. Yeah, they have to get more seats and Because the ticket sales are just insane. Presses were actually insane. I mean, we're this is like borderline NBA tight presses. Yeah, so I mean the WNBA should definitely be leaning into Caitlin Clark. And it not leaning in as like she's getting thrown down. I saw there was a clip of her the other night ⁓ where she got literally thrown to the ground by a girl and the ref just like let it happen. Yeah, it's it's that's probably not the only example. That's definitely not the only example of. No, I I it seems like I see that all the time. I'm like, why are they just not I mean, don't get me wrong, you don't want like it seems like the WNBA, it seems like all women's sports in general, there's not as much like they don't call the flopping as much. Like one of the reasons I like watching women's soccer in the World Cup is because the girls do not go to the ground like the guys do. The guys, there is a big flopping problem, and even in the NBA, there's a big flopping problem. I don't see that as much in like the WNBA or in the women's World Cup. Kind of, you know, the girls are tougher than the guys. Yeah, I would agree. Also, like, I think in in a lot of these instances, I don't think she's flopping. I think she's gonna No, she is getting thrown to the ground. I think she's getting like physically assaulted on the court. Yeah. She might she might need to take a legal action against some of the fouls that are in And shout out to her. Shout out to her teammate, Sophie Cunningham, because she's had her back on multiple occasions. Also, like Sophia Cunningham is a black belt and I think it's Can't remember exactly what martial art, but I do know she has like a martial art background. And that was part of the reason why not only she's a great WNBA player, but the fever brought her in because they needed someone to be the enforcer for Caitlin Clark. So shout out Sophie Cunningham being the enforcer. Well also it just seems like the rest of her teammates are being like enforcers now too. Yeah, as they should be. It's just like ⁓ I don't know. Do you remember the I think this is against the Clippers with when Luke was on the Mavs? ⁓ he got like fouled pretty hard and like PJ Washington got into it with some Clippers players. There's the infamous like ⁓ the stand on business. Yeah and looked at at the bench like the fucking I think that was that was in the playoffs. Yeah, it was what a moment. No, what a moment. Okay, cool. Shout out Caitlyn Clark. Matt, what is your next Brody of the week? Speaking of PJ Washington. I don't think we just accidentally we just accidentally segue all our listen, it's scripted or it's not Whatever it is, it works. Next Brody, Dallas Mavericks. ⁓ this came out yesterday. There's a three team trade involving the Mavericks, the Hawks, OKC. ⁓ so OKC acquires three second round picks from the Hawks. The Hawks acquire Lou Dort and Ryan Nimhard. Lou Dort from OKC, Ryan Nimhard from the Mavs. The Mavericks acquire Zachary Resachet from the Hawks. Which I believe shout out to Cole who just told me as we were playing basketball before the podcast. He asked if we were gonna talk about this trade. ⁓ Z is Zachary. What what's the last name? R Rissarcher? Risachet. Rissachet. Well, okay, it's Risachet. It's it is French, but I believe he was their number one overall pick a couple years ago, correct? I do have that down. Former twenty twenty four number one overall pick teams up with The twenty twenty five number overall pick. ⁓ you do have the flag. I didn't even see that. Yeah. Which this isn't this isn't the first time two number one overall picks in back to back drafts have teamed up on the Mavs as you know last year, you know. Are we talking about Kyrie and Luca? Kyrie and Anthony Davis. yeah, Luca wasn't Yeah. ⁓ Kyrie was twenty eleven, I believe. And then A D was twenty twelve. I don't even think I noticed that whenever they played together. I thought you were talking about Luca and Kyrie, but Luca was the third overall pick by the Hawks and then traded to the Mavericks. Okay. Correct. What do we do without you? I mean, now they have three now we're on overall picks. So what do we know about this Roshe guy? Risache. You're gonna to learn it. He's on the team now. You're gonna have to learn it. I mean he's been on the team what, two days now? Yeah. A day. Yeah. It's a hard name, but I mean it obviously former number one overall pick. A lot of potential there. We didn't give up much. Gave up a former second round pick. but I do have this this screenshot of five really good games from Risachet. Kind of just showcases his potential. ⁓ this is all from twenty twenty five. Thirty-eight points, six three pointers made, seventy-five percent from the field, thirty-three points, seven rebounds, again, six three pointers made. Twenty seven points, four steals, eighty five percent from the field, thirty six points, six rebounds, a steal, thirty points, a rebound, seventy nine percent from the field. So there's potential. Yeah, there's there's so much potential. I think already he's better than Brian Emhard, even though I think in his last game as a Maverick, Mart had like twenty three assists. ⁓ but I was about to talk about that as well. He just kinda got Edged out by in summer league by you know some of our first round picks and or just draft picks in general that we got. The Mavericks got like Sergio Day Sergio de la Reya in the Summer League averaged eight points, nine assists, five boards and under thirty minutes played. That's the guy that people are comparing to Luca, right? Very Luca esque. Well, if you can wear his number he wore more numbers fifty five. Two of the same numbers, fifty-five, seventy-seven. I played for Spain. ⁓ he's also like a huge point guard. I think he's like six eight. ⁓ he's had a couple of really standout games, two points, fourteen assists, nine rebounds, and twenty six minutes ⁓ last Friday. And then I think the night before that he had sixteen points and twelve assists. So it seems like the Mavericks are really loading up around Cooper Flag. They're doing a good job of kind of building around him, especially I think this is probably the f one of the first big moves that the new GM has coming and made. Yeah. I'm gonna be honest. If you take Cooper Flag off his team, insert Luca, this is probably the best team that Luca's ever played with. Okay. And you know, Cooper Flag still very good talent. Actually I saw something the other day that Cooper Flag has apparently grown. Yeah, I don't. During the summer? I saw that. Two inches? Okay, I saw he was up to like seven feet now. I saw a six nine two seven or Six nine to six eleven. Okay. I don't know if how true that is first of all, I guess, yeah, what was he? Nineteen last year? I guess you could still be growing. Like a second gross. ⁓ he was eighteen last year? We drafted. Yeah. So yeah, maybe he's like a late, late bloomer, like a second puberty almost coming through. He's he's just growing. We're gonna put him at center now? Technically, like yeah, he could grow. And he's obviously freaking nature. Like obviously he's done growing. Do we think seven f was six eleven or seven foot Is that where he's capping out at? I don't want him to get t ⁓ taller. Because that'll that'll mess up his his game, right? God I mean, yeah, but also he'd become like a wimby stopper. Two inches taller. That's gonna arms grow, your wingspan gets bigger, you're gonna have to change up your jump shot, maybe. I thought that was actually like a fake report coming out, and then people were like, No, yeah, apparently he's grown. I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna have to see this on T V or see a photo of him now compared to like last year, I guess. I mean it could be like a I Lori Marketan is like seven foot and he p he has played like the s small forward in the B the three. Maybe Cooper Flag is wearing like different shoes. Maybe he has like a new shoe that he's wearing that makes him seem taller. He had something to come out with new balance or something. We'll do we'll have to get our ⁓ our analytics department to do some research. We need to get boots on the ground. Boots on the ground. We need to go measure Cooper Flag ourselves. Walk around with a tape measure during the game. Yeah. We'll see, gay Coop. Come over here. We gotta measure you. We'll get on each other's shoulders so we can measure ⁓ Okay. OKC gets even more picks, which obviously they'll love. The Hawks get Ludor. Sure. Eventually we're just gonna have the OKC draft where they just unload all their picks and it's gonna be just like fifteen first round picks. I think they have eight second round picks next season. Maybe the second round's just gonna be OKC. Don't have to worry about draft strategy. They can just start drafting guys. Back to back to back to back to back, to back to back to back. This also did help with them shedding salary. So they get Yeah, because they're gonna have to start paying some of that. Yeah. Which that's an interesting thing we haven't really talked about, but like there should be I think I can't remember what N NBA player came out, but he's like, You shouldn't punish a team for drafting good and then now they gotta pay the guys. But it's also like you gotta pay Yeah. That would just create super teams. Yeah. I when you're that bad super team. Yeah, when you're that bad and you have that many high picks. I guess maybe Ludort wasn't a high pick, but ⁓ obviously AJ J Mitchell was a second round pick who's the L Some I have to pay. No. But shout out to the Mavericks. All right. We can get into my Brody's the week now. I always come with better Brody's than Matt. Just gonna get that out there right now. I was gonna say run the poll. Run the poll. Start off with my Brody's week. Josh Kerr. Ultra runner out of England. He breaks a 27 year record for the world's fastest mile. He ran at a pace, or I guess his time was three minutes, 42 seconds, and I guess 66 milliseconds. That's how down to the wire these miles are. That's crazy that they're measuring miles that much. But the previous record he beat by half a second, and that was from nineteen ninety nine. He did this at a Diamond League meet in London on Saturday, which is July 18th. If you listen to the podcast. But yeah, I mean I guess the Diamond League's like the it's kind of the world championship whenever the Olympics aren't going on. But so we got our I can't really say our stats department did it on this, but I did find some stats on it. So this comes from strong through full range. And basically they did the breakdown of how fast three minutes and forty two seconds is. So if someone runs a five second 40 yard dash, that's considered not that's not considered fast, but that's considerable like horrible. At sixteen point two two miles per hour, and plenty of NFL players, including Tom Brady, have never ran that. Well, running the mile at three forty two is like running a five second forty yard dash forty four times in a row. That's pretty crazy. It's a mind blowing stat. I was gonna say it depends on the weight. Right? I don't know how much of five but I mean five seconds forty four times in a row. Most Probably all all of the NFL athletes are probably not doing that. Nope. And ⁓ yeah, you know, Kerr, he's twenty eight. He beat the second place finisher by three seconds, which also is now in the top ten. The sec the guy that finished in seconds also in the top ten all time for the mile. ⁓ it was an American Yored Negus, I believe is his name. ⁓ three minutes and forty five seconds. So absolutely electric stuff. Also, as someone that's a runner, I think my mile time is like nine minutes 30 seconds whenever I'm running like extended mile. I don't know how fast I could run a mile. But I'm no I'm nowhere near. I know people used to think like four minutes wasn't even possible, and now guys are doing it like in high school. You probably did like five something. I'm I don't know how fast that is. I I think I would be to the point of exhaustion if I was like around a five minute mile. Like him beating that second place guy by three seconds. I'm like, that's at this level of running. Like that's pretty significant as well. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. I mean, it's just increasing just the just the the distance runners. And this should tell you that we're really in the true off season here. Getting into my getting into my next Brody of the week. It's kind of gonna lead into our next segment here. ⁓ but Ryan Fox is the twenty twenty six champion golfer of the year. He wins the one hundred and fifty fourth. Open championship at Royal Burkdale. He is 39 years old from New Zealand and he finished with a score of 10 under. He's also just a super fast golfer. And as someone that played golf this past Saturday, I love fast golf. I love guys that just get on the ball and just hit it immediately. And Ryan Fox maybe is too fast at golf. He was sitting on like the eighteenth tee and he had to wait for like three minutes and he already b had the ball teed up and he was just like, you could tell he was antsy, ready to He birdied 18th. He was down one, or he was tied for the lead at nine under with ⁓ Cam Young, who had finished like three hours before. He was tied going in. He had a burdy 18th, which was like, I believe, the second hardest eight or second hardest hole in the history of the open. ⁓ it was a very tough hole. Absolutely hits an electric T shot, threads the bunker, throws a second shot, I don't know, probably four or five feet from the great from the hole. ⁓ and then is able to finish it off with a once again, he was playing with Sam Byrne, Sam Byrne putts. He immediately gets over the putt, drains it. No not even like any dramatics. Even he just talks fast. He head out he ⁓ called his family after. ⁓ his kids were like, you know, when are you coming home? We're ready for you to come home. He's like, I just won the open. They're like, That's ⁓ we don't care about that. We want you to come home. And they're like, Is trophy they were asking like how big the trophy was. Also, I was surprised. I I think I just forget every year like the open championship trophy, it's not that big. Yeah. I was gonna expand on off C plays as well. I saw a a TikTok on it. It's just over nine seconds. For when he walks up walks up to the ball, stands over it and hits. It's a little over nine seconds. That's insane. Which like for TJ Sanders, that's incredibly fast. Yeah, who's the ⁓ I can't remember the guy that's really slow. Yeah I'm not gonna remember either. But I know who you're talking about. It's so slow. Probably thirty seconds. Patrick Cantley. Yes. Yes, Patrick. Super slow. Holy shit. It was just standing over the ball like is my screen frozen right now? Yeah. He's just yeah, he's super slow. I know there was that whole ordeal with the Masters, but shout out to Ryan Fox. It's his first major title and his twenty-ninth major start. So absolutely stuff. And I I mentioned he's thirty nine years old, going off the three oldest champions in the last ten major seasons. Phil Mickelson, 50 when he won the 2021 PGA Championship. Tiger Woods, 43 in the historic 2019 Masters. And then Ryan Fox, 39 in the 2026 Open. Also, just shout out Cam Young, runner up. Had an amazing round as well. Just seems like he just couldn't finally get over that hump. He was on electric start. He shot 64 in the fourth round. He was back a couple spots too and made a run up to the leaderboard. Like I he finished three hours. For Ryan Fox, so no one thought he was had a chance. ⁓ also, shout out to Sam Burns, who was in the final pairing, finished in third. It just seems like Sam Burns he had that chance at the ⁓ US Open and then now in the open championship. It seems like he's getting closer and closer to breaking through, and you know, eventually his time will come. But this was just Ryan Fox's moment. Also, Ryan Fox, his dad. Is like a historic rugby player in New Zealand. He won like the first rugby championship trophy in New Zeal in New Zealand. Or the first rugby world cup. Really? Yeah. So he comes from a tough family. Yeah, he comes from also, yeah. I mean, Ryan Fox, stocky guy. He is he's a big he's a big fella. He's a big guy. It's it's amazing how fast he plays. I was gonna say thirty nine seemed like super old. And I forgot about Phil Michelson, who just won a major not too long ago. Obviously old as well. Yeah, I Ryan Fox relatively old. Ryan Fox didn't even get into golf until after high school. And now he's making way. I don't think he's I think he's had multiple wins on the PJ tour, but this like his first major championship. It's like I don't get that. How do you get into golf? So he's only been playing like twenty years. Yeah, I guess yeah, he's thirty nine. But I mean, like, it's like when me and you met when we played. If it's like if we just played and like one of us was really good, like maybe I should try out for the tour or something. Maybe that's why his buddies were like, Hey man. We're tired of losing to you. You should go play with better competition. Yeah. I mean it yeah. Well he also he also in the third round, I saw I the first round he was two over. He was, you know, way back. I think he was like in sixtieth place or something. Second round he goes out and shoots sixty eight. The third round, he shot sixty two, which is like the fourth ever sixty two or something in a major championship. ⁓ I I think it's like the fifth. But also Sam Burns had a sixty two in round two. So it was the f it was like the first time since the US Open in twenty twenty one, the one that was in Los Angeles, that there was two sixty twos in the same tournament. Sam Burns also jumped up like a hundred something spots. What did he seen on the first day? He was seventy three, so he was three over. Actually there was another s ⁓ there was another sixty two as well. Jumped up like a hundred spots after that sixty two. Lucas Herbert of Australia also shot sixty two. So I mean, they were getting after on the course. It was actually like a pretty fun tournament to watch. I like the I like the open because it's just like it's it's over pretty early. You know, I think by like eleven or one the tournament was wrapped up. And you're on to the next thing. But Ryan Fox did win three point two million dollars for this tournament. Not a bad payday. Bad payday. ⁓ And I guess, Matt, that leads me to our next thing that we can get into here with the open championship. Probably the thing that everyone's talking about the most. Bryson DeChambeau. Penalized two strokes after Friday's round for trampling slash improving his lie on the fifth hole. He went from, I think, one spot down from first place. He was at seven under, went to five under after the penalty, and was like second to fifth ish. He was like tied for fifth. Initial reactions, man. I d I'm sure everyone's seen the video. I don't know if I need to explain it, but I will for the people that just didn't keep up with this. So he was he had a shot on the f in the fifth hole, was in out of the out of bounds territory. He walks in, he tramples the grass. People are saying that it improved his backswing. I don't really see that, but do we feel like this was an appropriate penalty for Bryson? I mean I don't think it was intentional. Right. Like he's he's he already he's two majors under his belt. He's got a big spotlight on him. If not for that, for like the YouTube career that he's in right now. You know, a lot of people, if this is probably the most famous he's been, right, in the golfing world. I don't I don't think he would intentionally do something like that. I mean, no, and it was some I mean, don't get me wrong, he made some pretty big steps, but it was just funny because after the round, he goes out there with like the rules official and they're just like staring at the spot where he hit from, and they're just like, Explaining it. It was the funniest thing 'cause NBC just like had it broadcasted. You couldn't really you couldn't hear anything of what they were saying. It was just like Bryson, you could tell, was visibly upset with them and was trying to like plead his case for the penal penalty, but it seemed like the other guy was I guess the rule officials R and A or something, the the Royal Golf official guy or whatever, was just like not having it. But at one point I was like, Is Bryson gonna like throw down with this guy. Like they were getting into a pretty heated argument out there. And I I just thought it was funny. That was like a five minute ordeal and they just kept like replaying the whole trample in the grass and everything. I saw there was some AI videos that came out of him like getting getting the lawnmower out and fixing the lie there. I like, dude, if you're gonna get penalized two strokes, I would bring out the whole weed eater lawnmower and I'm removing grass myself. That better be something an incredible difference from His original lie to whatever lie he did have when he hit the ball. And I guess the by letter of the law, he did get penalized for I guess you could say he improved his backswing by pushing down the grass. But also like he had to step back behind his ball to see where am I gonna try and hit this ball? But I guess you're not entitled to that when you're in the out of bounds area. So like you just gotta get up there and hit it. Also, I feel like even if that grass was in his backswing. It wouldn't affect the shot. I mean, at that at that level and how precise you have to be, like maybe. But like it wouldn't be two stroke penally worthy of improvement. Yeah, I was like, maybe it could be a stroke or something. But then that that leads me to my next question. Do you think Bryson was targeted because he is a live guy and it's a big tournament and he has a YouTube channel? Like apparently this happens fairly often in the PGA, but like because he's the quote unquote big name in the tournament. They have a camera following him 24 7. It did look suspicious when he whether it was intentional or not, it did look suspicious. But like, dude, if it was me back there, first of all, I'm probably pulling my ball out of that. I'm probably moving my ball out of that. 100%. But we're not playing for 3.2 million. So yeah, but I'm just yeah if I'm in if a normal guy was in that position, you're like, dude, I don't see anything wrong with what he did. I get it, it's a PGA. There's a there's a couple rules. ⁓ but I was like, even if there was a tree behind his ball and he couldn't get a swing, he would be able to get behind the tree and see the ball and see where he's gonna hit it. I guess it doesn't affect also like the grass that he did knock down, it did not improve the lie at all. If it if anything, it improved the backswing, but it did not improve the lie of golf ball. He still had to hit it out of the absolute junk and punch it up there. Yeah. So I'm saying it it's not like he's Going for the green in this specific scenario. Yeah. I I just think he's gonna play it smart. Yeah, I just think two stroke two penalty strokes is a lot for that. ⁓ I think maybe you could stroke him once. I guess maybe because he was right in second place. Yeah. I guess obviously it's a big conversation, big talking point right now. But if he was in like sixtieth and that happened, like At that like at that level, like two strokes. Who cares really? Yeah, I mean he did finish at four under for the tournament, tied for fourteenth. So it it luckily the two strokes didn't come into play that much, but it just was a funny thing that went down. I was wondering why they kept showing Bryson going back out there. I had to like rewind like why are they why are they doing this again? And they were breaking it down. It's cause he, you know, trampled the trampled the grass apparently. It was just funny. Did you see Rory's comments after the round? Yeah. Rory just took the he took this time to just take a shot at Bryson. He's like him, dude. Yeah, he was like, I g I can't believe, you know, I think it's all for theatrics. You know, Bryson's all for show. He just doesn't like him apparently. I think that goes back to what was it, Pinehurst when Bryson won and Rory missed that putt. Yeah. He shot out of the bunker. Yeah. But I think I think Rory it's rich coming from him talking about theatrics like I remember whenever he got upset he wouldn't go talk to the media after one of his losses. He just like s burned out of the parking lot in his car and left. Do you remember him taking some guys some fans' phone from them? ⁓ y dude, yeah. And he'll get people like kicked out of the tournament for talking. Yeah, you're talking about theatrics. That's theatrics, man. Taking somebody's phone even when they're like talking smack, heckle in you or whatever. You're Roy MacBook, who cares what they're saying to you? I don't know why Rory took it on himself to go and I guess he was like kick a man while he's down type mentality. But I thought it was ⁓ I thought it was nice. Scotty Scheffler, you know, just comparing comments here. Scotty Scheffler during the tournament was like, I'm not gonna talk about it. ⁓ I know what happened, but you know, I'm not gonna talk about it. And then after the tournament concluded, he was like, Yeah, I've known Bryson for a long time. I played a lot of junior golf with him, I played a lot of golf with him. ⁓ I don't think he's a cheater. He would never do anything like that intentional. ⁓ and so I like Scotty Scheffler, once again, just always a class hack. You know, we talked about maybe it hasn't been his year in the majors, and ⁓ maybe just not even on the tour. He just hasn't had that same ⁓ level of execution that he has in years prior. But like still to be like, you know, listen, it happens, it's golf. He also said like apparently this happens a lot with other golfers and he just feels like Bryson was kind of targeted just because he's Bryson Duchambeau. He's the big name. Also, I heard it was possibly a TV like tip that came in that someone was watching it and reported, like, hey, I think Bryson did something suspicious here. That'd be so lame. Yeah. Talk about a hall monitor. Like, I don't think they would target him specifically. But I mean, I guess they could. Yeah. And almost give Bryson some good PR because people kind of felt bad for him. They're like, I think I I saw a poll. It's like, did Bryson deserve the penalty? Seventy percent said no, thirty percent said yes. So Kind of, you know, pick what side of the fence you're on. But I think I'm I'm glad it didn't affect the tournament that much, but it's just funny 'cause it just seemed like something that in the grand scheme of things, we're gonna look back and just think that was a funny moment. Was he gonna let happen? Probably not. And not to mention, shout out to Bryson. He ended his major cut drought. True. Yeah, he was cut from all three majors before this. He didn't make the weekend and then I What would have funny is if like that two strokes would have kept him out of the way. I mean, yeah, that'd be it'd be huge right now. Yeah. Bryson did say like after I know when things are hot, you say some things that you don't mean. He said after the round, he's I don't think I'm gonna come back out here play. Or it's like up in the air if I'm gonna come back out. And he kinda held the tournament hostage because they couldn't send out the pairings until Bryson made his decision. ⁓ I So I think that's what I think that's what Rory was upset about. I mean And that's where it kind of turned back on Bryson with the PR. Yeah, I mean just play. But you still have a chance to win. And honestly, if you come back and win after getting that dumb two stroke penalty, like people will be like, all right, shout out Bryson. He really won this tournament by three strokes or whatever. Yeah. But yeah, I thought that was just funny. Kind of took away from a little bit of the tournament, but honestly, it golf needs a little drama. I can't wait. Maybe they'll be covering that on full swing. I can't wait for Bryson's breakdown on his YouTube channel. Right. I I can't wait till he sits in front of the camera with his, you know. He's got his live golf stuff on. He does a breakdown of like what was being said. Or I need John Boy to go and do a lip reading of it. Cause I mean it was very it was very animated. I need to know what was said in that like five to ten minutes that they were trying to explain what was happening. Yeah, he did get hated. It did get hated. But I think that was all we had for the open. ⁓ yeah, we did all the shout outs, everything. So with that, we will come back and do a little World Cup recap and some other sports news. All right, we're back. And starting off, we're gonna do little World Cup final recap. The summer of soccer is officially over here in the United States, but not before Spain was able to take down Argentina, beat them 1-0, Matthew. 1-0. What an exciting game that was. Not really. I wish it would have been some more scoring, but shout out to Spain, absolutely able to take it down. They scored an extra time after Argentina lost a player due to a red card. Questionable red card, but it did in fact change the kind of outcome of the game. ⁓ and also shout out to Spain. They were just a dominant defensive force in this World Cup. Matt, do you know how many goals Spain gave up in this World Cup? One. One is correct. The entire the entire World Cup they went six, ⁓ and one. It's gotta be insane. They did have a was it a loss? I believe it was to Capu Ve Capi Verde. Who have been the real champions of the tournament. Or I think they tied they didn't lose to him, yeah. Yeah, I think they went six ⁓ and one and the tie was to Cape Verde. Captain one goal. Because they didn't give up a goal to Spain or which other team they played? Brent? Cape Verde? Argentina. Yeah, it was they didn't give up a goal to Spain and one of the last four teams. You're talking about Spain's World Cup? I'm talking about Cape Verde. This World Cup. Yeah. They didn't give up a goal to Spain or another team that was very, very good, I forget. Might have been France. I think you're right. Yeah. Sounds right. And they lost to Argentina an extra time. So the real World Cup champions kept it very. But shout out to Spain. This is their second FIFA World Cup title, the first since two thousand and ten. And they have a thirty eight game unbeaten streak in all competitions, the longest ever by a men's national team. And they are just, I mean, like, give up one goal in this World Cup. They are a defensive team. They are a bow constrictor. Once they kind of score, they kind of go into a shell and they kind of protect the protect the goal. I think it was crazy. Argentina didn't even have a like a shot on net until extra time. They had zero shots on the goal. Meanwhile, Spain had like night nineteen or twenty one. Speaking of nineteen, shout out to Laminamal Lamin Yamal. Who is now what is he I think he's nineteen and he ⁓ he's only missing like one trophy and like the entire like soccer infinity gauntlet. Yeah. I was hoping that that picture of him as a baby and Messi. I hop was hoping Argentina would win so that would become like a become a good meme. A meme. But now they might photoshop like his baby face on ⁓ like Messi's face and be like it you know. And put Messi as a baby. Yeah yeah. No, and ⁓ I mean honestly, I don't know what else to say really about the World Cup. I do want to talk about the halftime show and the fever dream that that was. Matt, did you see the halftime show at all? I did not, no. Okay. They had Madonna start it off and then it went to ⁓ the Muppets. The Muppets were performing that one of the halftime show. They also then had BTS, I believe that's their band name or group name. ⁓ Then it went into Shakira, followed by Ted Lasso bringing out Justin Bieber. They kind of just threw everything at the wall. They were like, This is kind of a World Cup for everyone, I guess. World Cup halftime show. That's that's a lot of ⁓ entry. Variety. Yeah, a lot of variety. So ⁓ also shout out to Post Malone, who I thought he was performing in the halftime show. He did the entry show. I guess like the initial like they had like a show before the game started. ⁓ He came out and did his new his new song that he's dropping, Chrome Harm heart chrome heartbreaker. ⁓ but I did like post Malone's shirt that he had on. It said, I hope both teams have fun. And that's kinda how I felt this World Cup. I didn't really have a dog of the fight. ⁓ I kind of if I had, you know, if you were like you hadn't made a decision, I'm probably pulling for Argentina just 'cause I you know, I believe this is Messi's final World Cup. I believe he is done with World Cups after this. I think he'll still continue to play with inner Miami. ⁓ and still continue to play soccer for a couple of years. But I think as far as like World Cup wise, I think he had a very dominant showing in this World Cup. He was leading in the golden boot race for like the longest time. I think he had like six goals through six games or something like that. ⁓ absolutely s electric stuff at the age that he's doing it at. So probably the it for him. But Messi, I think this was the clear World Cup decider. He is the GOAT over Ronaldo. Yeah. I guess Mbappe probably won. Right. Yeah, I think Mbappe won the golden boot. Even though that probably shouldn't count, but well I wanna know I don't know if they counted it, but we watched the third place game after our golf round. Yeah, if you wanna talk about completely different side or completely different types of games. No incentive in that third place. I thought like, ⁓ maybe this is I was like, ⁓ maybe the World Cup, they'll take the third place game serious. Maybe this means a lot. It meant absolutely nothing. Maybe maybe it did Mbappe because he did play the third place game. ⁓ but England had like four goals in the start at half, and then we like left we were eating and we left the restaurant. We came ⁓ I came home, I saw the score it was six to four. Fran ⁓ France scored four goals and then England scored another two. They said it was like one of the highest score in the World Cup games of all time. Which is crazy because that's like a normal Saturday afternoon for Iowa and Nebraska, you know. That's funny. That's a good that's good that's good college football banter. Gotta get ready for it. Actually probably had more points in Iowa. Fair. I know there was more games, but they also meant there was more goals. So the FIFA World Cup this year produced three hundred and eight goals, a hundred and thirty six more than any of the previous tournaments. ⁓ or a hundred and thirty six more than the previous tournament. Even with forty extra matches, this tournament averaged two point nine six goals per game, and that is the highest rated since nineteen seventy. So they're just giving it up back then, huh? Apparently they didn't play a lot. ⁓ also I forgot to mention, shout out to Argentina's goalie. He had like ten, ten or eleven saves at the net. And that was like the highest ever in the World Cup. Definitely not absolutely not his fault. No, he was out there with a broken finger and then he took like a foot to the face and was still out there. I was like, This guy actually it means that third that third place game might have meant nothing, but it meant everything to him in the final. Yeah. And also just like a lot of the stars in this World Cup did show out. Like we talked about Mbappe, won the golden boot. Talked about Messi having a great World Cup showing. Erlin Holland showed up fantastic for Norway. ⁓ Jude Bellingham, which I didn't know he was much of a superstar, but I do know now. And then also, ⁓ what's the other Harry Kane also showed up for England. So I don't know if I will be keeping up with soccer. We'll keep up with a little bit of soccer here on the podcast, but I am ready for the real football season to start. And speaking of which, man, we got some season. Yeah, the NFL. That's crazy, man. Hey, listen, dude. I That's not real football to me. What's real football to you? Football. Did you even you didn't even watch the World Cup? I didn't watch the World Cup. Yeah, there we go. We know which one's real football to you. Okay, we can't believe that we can't say that. Yeah. ⁓ okay. But speaking of some news that's going on, Matt, do you want to lead us in the next story here? Yeah, just something that's kind of shocking, I guess, to whoever still watches ESP and stuff. ⁓ they're parting the ways with Ryan Clark. Earlier today he got let go. He was on the set of whatever show he's involved in. I don't think he's get up. ⁓ yeah, so I got it I got it here. He was part of Monday Night Countdown as well as appearing on get up first take in NFL live. So he appearances on Yeah, he he just okay, several. But let him go. There's gonna be more expected this week. I don't know if that means somebody as high up as Ryan Clark is gonna get let go. But he did, I think he'll be fine. I know has his own podcast that he does or his own show. It's not a part of ESVN. So he'll still be involved in the the sports media world. So the quick little overview that I saw of this, does this have something to do with ESPN acquiring the NFL network or something like that? Like they're working with the NFL network. ⁓ there was some acquisition there, and I believe that they just had a bunch of personalities and duplicate roles. Hmm. I think that is kind of why they're doing this. I'm not exactly. ⁓ I guess on there more so than like ⁓ actual like host or like reporter. I know it's kinda you you love it or hate it. You you love or hate Ryan Clark. I don't think there's anyone that's in between ⁓ LSU Legend. L S U Legend. Matt, did you like Ryan Clark? Not towards the end, no. No, okay. I thought there was a couple takes that you would send me like what is you should absolutely, absolutely. I think we did that. I think we there was something we covered on the podcast that you dropped. Probably always. I mean, there's a lot of people you could say that about. I think Ryan Clark, like you said, he's got the other podcasts, he's got the NFL money. I think he'll be more than more than okay after the layout. But it is crazy. It seems like there's always a couple of ESPN layoffs leading right into the football scene. It's like this is like their reset before everything gets going. Yeah, like ⁓ what's her name? Like Diana Rossini got let go for some some reason. I think we know why Diana Rossini let go but that was at the athletic. I don't really know. Yeah. That was a different thing. Sorry. I see, I see what you're doing there. But okay, so I guess that can lead us into our final segment here. Matt, do we want to do my new game? Let's do your game then. Okay. Leading into the NFL season, we're going to test Matt's ability to know some new, some old faces in new places, some players that have changed teams in the offseason. Starting off, Matt. Sure. We're going to go with the first one here. This one's pretty easy. Miles Garrett. Was on the Browns in 2025, but in 2026 he will be Los Angeles Rams. Los Angeles Ram. Pretty easy, pretty easy start. You know, I don't expect you not get these first couple. All right, Mike Evans. 2025 played with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This year he's going to play with Matt. The San Francisco 49ers. Okay. I mean, these were kind of gimmeys to start off with. The first couple are gimme's. Sneaky good quarterback right a suber duo. Well, maybe. We'll get to see Brock Purdy with Mike Evans this year. Also in a better system. Best receiver he's had. Next one here, Kyler Murray in twenty twenty five. He kind of played with the Cardinals. But this year, Matt, he's gonna play? With the Minnesota Vikings. All right. That's you're still correct so far. And now maybe it starts getting a little tougher. We'll see here. David Montgomery, Matt. In twenty twenty five he played with the Detroit Lions and this year he's playing Houston Texans. Houston Texans. Okay. I didn't know if I was really aware of that that there was a change. I knew that he left the Texans, but or left the Lions, but I don't know if he I ever heard that he signed with the Texans officially. Good addition. Okay. This one this one was a big trade that happened or I think it was a big trade or just a free agent signing. Jalen Waddell, twenty twenty five, was with the Miami Dolphins. This year, Matt, he is A Denver Bronco. Which that's gonna be I'm interested to see that kind of how that's gonna work with Bo Nicks. It was a trade. It was a trade, okay. That one happened like right at the end of season. Yeah. All right. This one kind of ties in with the first one. Matt Jared Verse was a Los Angeles Ram in twenty twenty five, and this year he will be. Unfortunately. We've talked about this, man. Although he has topped highly of the ⁓ the quarterbacks in Trinidad. All the c all the quarterbacks that the Browns have? Apparently. I mean he he wouldn't know what a good quarterback looks like. I hope the Browns make Shador the starter this year. Is is he just talking highly of his new teammates, or is he just talking? Yeah, I'd like to hear what he's saying Dylan Gabriel. He did take his number. That's true. Maybe we didn't think Dylan Gabriel's cool as long as he doesn't want his number back. We didn't think he was gonna keep that, right? Yeah, I think Dill Gabriel I well, Dil Gabriel like he didn't even ask, he just took it. Did he get cut? Dil Gabriel? Breaking news. Research. See, maybe we had to do new faces with quarterbacks that aren't. I'm looking at the roster now. Let's see. ⁓ it's still on the browns. Okay. He's giving a starter. Actually, let's just go through the depth chart. Okay. Starter Deshaun Watson, questionable. Second string Shador Sanders. Third string Dylan Gabriel. Fourth string Talon Green. Is that the Arizona or Arkansas perfect? Yeah. All right. Next one here, Matt. Probably close to your heart here. Travis Etienne. How A chain is is that how we're saying his name? Travis A Chane. Apparently that's how you say it. Twenty twenty five was a Jacksonville Jaguar. This year, Matt, he is a New Orleans Saint. Okay. Top 10 running back in the league. All right. Maybe, maybe now we're starting to get to where some of the casuals that don't keep up with the football. The NFL don't know. Trey Hendrickson, 2025. He was a Cincinnati Bengals. This year, Matt, he is. Baltimore Raven. Baltimore Raven also came to the same number 91. Probably wouldn't be if that Max Crosby trade didn't get rescinded, but. Yeah. I mean, it's just you start thinking about all these like trades that have happened. It's like I kind of forgot what it. What team all these guys are gonna be on. That was a long time ago. Yeah. And in football set in football terms, that's a long time ago. Yeah. All right. Next one here. Wide receiver DJ Moore, 2025. He was a Chicago Bear. This year, Matt, he will be. Catching passes from Josh Allen. Possibly a better quarterback that he's going to be playing with. I don't know if that's questionably. I think he is playing with a better quarterback. MVP? Yeah, he's going to the Buffalo Bills. Is this gonna be the best receiver he's had? This is probably the well Stephon Diggs? I'll say Stephon Diggs. Brandon Cooks. Nah, I I mean Brandon Cooks, yeah, but I mean he's kind of passed his time a little bit. Correct. That's kind of a joke. Also got the ball stripped from him in the playoff game. Stephon Diggs was very good as a bill. All right. This one I think we did break this one on the podcast. Dexter Lawrence in twenty twenty five was a giant And this year he was traded to Matt. Cincinnati Bengals. Was he traded or was it a free agent signing? He traded. He was traded. He was traded like right before re-signing. He was traded and signed. Yeah. Or signed and then traded. Either or. One of the two he went. He traded, I think it was like a thirteenth pick in the draft with actually Lawrence. Next one here, Matt, you've brought this up. It's funny that you've brought a lot of these up. Trim McDuffie. It's kind of like a like footballer. Trent McDuffie, 2025, was a Kansas City Chief. Matt, this year he is. Los Angeles Rams. Los Angeles Rams. The Rams are looking pretty good this year. I I would probably be easy favorites. NFC Championship losers to the Roman Saints. No. Right. His last couple might be a little tough here. I wasn't aware of these. David Njoku. In 2025, he was a Cleveland Brown. This year, Matt, he is. Dramatic pause. Why why am I thinking Denver Broncos? Where did he go? You're in the right division. That's just three other options, huh? I'm thinking of the Chiefs. Did not go to the Chiefs. So you're out of two options. Raiders. Is he a Charger? He is a Los Angeles Charger this year. Big weapon for the big Jay Herbell? Yeah, I mean, who's the other tight end they have that the a Gadskin? Yeah, Ronde Gatskin. Yeah. So it's gonna be a big tight end. Yeah. He needs a couple of decent receivers, so a couple of decent tight ends wouldn't hurt. Next one here, Matt. Isaiah Likely. Twenty twenty five was a Baltimore Raven. This year he is New York Giant. He is a New York Giant. I didn't even hear about that trade or signing that went down. John Harbaugh bringing in with him. All right. Next one here. Last one here. Final final old face, new place. Wandale Robinson, twenty twenty five was a giant and this year he is, Matt. And you see Titan. Boom. Matt, you are prepared for the NFL season. It's a little easy, I ain't gonna lie to you. These are a little easy. Maybe we'll next year maybe next week I'll do a one that's a little tougher for you. Should known the ⁓ Zinjuki one, but Yeah, well, I had I'm glad I stumped you on one because that was fairly, you know I'm surprised you got as many as you did. Well, not the first couple were pretty easy, but yeah. For anyone that's attacked out there. Well, it's kind have ⁓ fantasy implications as well. That's why I mean that's why you kinda gotta know where these guys are gonna be and what the dev charts looking like. So with that, I believe that's all we had for the episode. We can get into wrapping it up. I was gonna talk about some upcoming sports this week, but I believe it's really just only baseball. I know the the trade deadline for baseball is coming up. ⁓ July thirty first. I do know that's happening. Other than that, we're kind of getting ready. The NFL offseason's probably about to be heating up a lot more. We're gonna have to come become a little creative with ⁓ more with our segments. Maybe a little bit more creative than that. I think I think we I think we can get something. So Thank you everyone for listening. We're ⁓ be sure to like, subscribe on the YouTube, turn on the notifications, helps out a lot. 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