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Bomani Jones

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Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

And then the way that he handled those, he had those interviews as though he was the one making the decision, not the teams.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

And then the way that he handled those, he had those interviews as though he was the one making the decision, not the teams.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

And so the teams, you know, and that's what's going to happen, but it becomes necessary to say those things. The problem is some of the worst people in the world also felt the same way. Broken clock. A couple times a day, it gets something right. But I can't let those people, I never let those people determine what I'm going to say. Right.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

And so the teams, you know, and that's what's going to happen, but it becomes necessary to say those things. The problem is some of the worst people in the world also felt the same way. Broken clock. A couple times a day, it gets something right. But I can't let those people, I never let those people determine what I'm going to say. Right.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

And so the teams, you know, and that's what's going to happen, but it becomes necessary to say those things. The problem is some of the worst people in the world also felt the same way. Broken clock. A couple times a day, it gets something right. But I can't let those people, I never let those people determine what I'm going to say. Right.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

And I'm not. And it's one thing where I think that there's when I think there's healthy room for disagreement. Then, okay, you think he was a first-round pick, that's fine. The trick bag with something like Shador was, Shador was playing college football for a non-college football audience.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

And I'm not. And it's one thing where I think that there's when I think there's healthy room for disagreement. Then, okay, you think he was a first-round pick, that's fine. The trick bag with something like Shador was, Shador was playing college football for a non-college football audience.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

And I'm not. And it's one thing where I think that there's when I think there's healthy room for disagreement. Then, okay, you think he was a first-round pick, that's fine. The trick bag with something like Shador was, Shador was playing college football for a non-college football audience.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

So the people who were the most invested in that are the people who were probably the least informed and the least aware. And so I look up, and I see a buddy of mine, a writer, and he says something about, well, show me a time when a guy won the Johnny Unitas Award and had numbers like these and then fell all the way to whenever.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

So the people who were the most invested in that are the people who were probably the least informed and the least aware. And so I look up, and I see a buddy of mine, a writer, and he says something about, well, show me a time when a guy won the Johnny Unitas Award and had numbers like these and then fell all the way to whenever.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

So the people who were the most invested in that are the people who were probably the least informed and the least aware. And so I look up, and I see a buddy of mine, a writer, and he says something about, well, show me a time when a guy won the Johnny Unitas Award and had numbers like these and then fell all the way to whenever.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

I was like, Gardner Minshew, 2019, six-round pick with all these numbers that you said. Like... We got to- They probably didn't even know that, right?

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

I was like, Gardner Minshew, 2019, six-round pick with all these numbers that you said. Like... We got to- They probably didn't even know that, right?

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

I was like, Gardner Minshew, 2019, six-round pick with all these numbers that you said. Like... We got to- They probably didn't even know that, right?

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

No, he had no idea. He was operating on what, to be fair, is a somewhat reasonable proposition that these white folks is doing us wrong. There is an extended track record where if that is your default, I understand why you start there, but you can't just go there no matter what, right? Especially if you're trying to make the point in public.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

No, he had no idea. He was operating on what, to be fair, is a somewhat reasonable proposition that these white folks is doing us wrong. There is an extended track record where if that is your default, I understand why you start there, but you can't just go there no matter what, right? Especially if you're trying to make the point in public.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

No, he had no idea. He was operating on what, to be fair, is a somewhat reasonable proposition that these white folks is doing us wrong. There is an extended track record where if that is your default, I understand why you start there, but you can't just go there no matter what, right? Especially if you're trying to make the point in public.

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

Because you're already going uphill when you're trying to make that point to anybody at all. It's not worth it to make that point unless you're sure. Like to me, you can't just be guessing. You got to have a really, really strong case rather than just a correlation. And I thought with Shador, what a lot of that was simply was a correlation. And then the...

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

Because you're already going uphill when you're trying to make that point to anybody at all. It's not worth it to make that point unless you're sure. Like to me, you can't just be guessing. You got to have a really, really strong case rather than just a correlation. And I thought with Shador, what a lot of that was simply was a correlation. And then the...

Interrupted by Matt Jones
Episode 1 - Bomani Jones

Because you're already going uphill when you're trying to make that point to anybody at all. It's not worth it to make that point unless you're sure. Like to me, you can't just be guessing. You got to have a really, really strong case rather than just a correlation. And I thought with Shador, what a lot of that was simply was a correlation. And then the...