Kyle Crichton
Appearances
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Curry vs. Klay, the Embiid Situation, Atlanta’s New Look and Cleveland’s Ascent With Dave Jacoby and Kirk Goldsberry
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
The 2025 NBA Trade Value List With Ryen Russillo
And he plays really well with Jokic.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The 2025 NBA Trade Value List With Ryen Russillo
I mean, would Ishby do that? Of course.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The 2025 NBA Trade Value List With Ryen Russillo
Hurts being on defense a little bit.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The 2025 NBA Trade Value List With Ryen Russillo
Would you have him above or below Anthony Edwards, who I have at number seven?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The 2025 NBA Trade Value List With Ryen Russillo
Okay, make the case. Tatum plays all the time. They're about the same age, right? No.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Already, it's already 700 names are in the portal when it opened yesterday. Oh, my God.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Yeah, it's it goes back to like, you know, Nick Nolte says that like the rules don't make sense, but I believe in the rules. And I do think like now more than ever, the rules really don't make sense. And the NCAA has no incentive to fix the rules because whatever they do, they get sued. If they try to fix it, they get sued for that. If they don't do anything, they get sued for that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
So they're basically just putting their hands up saying we'll pay out these payouts. We hope we can exist and keep this tournament going. But you guys, they're taking their ball and going home. at this point. And then the game itself, uh, to use a Celtic city reference, which I really liked, there was the Spartan era of college basketball.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I feel like we're in a, an Athenian area, area of college basketball. We're like, we're a thinking man's game of college basketball. Like there are really smart teams. There are really good teams, BYU, Alabama. Those are two future NBA coaches going head to head to offensive masterminds. So like college basketball, the game itself is awesome.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I think we still need quarters in the game to match with FIBA. And I think then we're really cooking, uh, But I think it's in a good spot. But then the rules and the transfer portal and the super conferences, all that sort of stuff, all gets kind of bundled together to say, hey, the death of college basketball. But in specific pockets, things are going well.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Yes, please.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
And because that's how a lot of the GMs are doing it now, Bill, even Lombardi. Right. He goes to Carolina football and he's like, these guys are signing two year deals, not one year deals.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
And you would have been smart and said, hey, why are we even doing mega conferences or super conferences? It's because of football. Why can't football exist in its own world?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Well, it was I do feel like we're all going to the conferences are going to take over and make decisions once the NCAA is paying out all their many reparations over the next few years and slowly become more and more defunct as an organization. And I think the conferences are all going to take over. And maybe there's a world where there is just one super conference. But I do think that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
everyone with the brain is going to look around and say, what are we doing here? If we're going to have to manage all of this as a conference, why don't we recede back to what we were? There's too many different, you know, we have to feed too many people. Look at the NCAA tournament. There's 14 SEC teams and they're all really good. And like, not everybody can eat.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
And eventually people, you know, they get hungry and they start complaining. And then, you know, I think it does kind of revert back to the old ways because we've gone too far and everybody knows.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Idiocracy is right in front of us, BS. I think you're right. I think you just said it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Well, I mean, obviously Duke is special in what they are and the hatred that's there. I mean, NC State has always been somewhat of a rival, but at the same time, I liked, you know, I had friends that were going to NC State. I liked some of their teams.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I didn't really hate him. In fact, there really was only Duke that I had really despised. Even Maryland, even though they would beat us, I kind of respected them. And I liked Juan Dixon. I liked Steve Blake. I liked Lonnie Baxter. I liked those teams. So it really was a Duke thing. And now, Bill, as you know,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Duke is not the Duke of old, and they're not as hateable, even though Cooper Flagg is showing some flashes of going full Duke, which I do appreciate. In general, they're just not a very hateable organization right now because they're just doing everything better than everybody else. So you can't really get that bad. But, you know.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I need an enemy. You know what I mean? Like, as I exist out here, sometimes you're like, I kind of miss just having that hovering, you know, in the background. And he still is there. B.S. You know, he's doing a radio show. He's making sure he's seen. So.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Yeah, Bobby was supposed to be that guy too, right? You know what I mean? It's kind of like Bob Knight had Steve Alford, right? Steve Alford was supposed to be his protege. It was him on the floor. Then obviously Coach K had Bobby Hurley. And you would assume that Bobby Hurley would have been the one that is the new Sith Lord as Danny Hurley is. So Danny kind of stole it from his brother.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
There is that brotherly competition rivalry that's kind of built in there. And then Coach K has kind of basically included himself in the Dan Hurley story. You know what I mean? He's done what... Classic Coach K. Well, he got Seth Curry, right? BS. And then he got Steph Curry by transitive property. This is something that he's done before.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He's a genius. I'm honestly impressed. I'm like, how did he?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
number one favorite thing and this is catered towards you and the nba fans because i want them to care the by utah jazz ryan smith is bankrolling byu basketball danny ange is monitoring the situation he is going to all the games he has gotten kevin young there who is going to be an nba coach at some point he has a really good squad richie saunders if you're a throwback college basketball fan you're gonna love richie saunders this guy just gets buckets he does whatever he needs to do to win energy
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He's an excellent player, gets everybody involved. And then if you're an NBA guy, Yegor Dimon, you know, playing point guard, but really he's like a wing. He's like a wing forward, kind of like in the same vein. He fell a little bit.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He's trending in the right direction, BS, at the right time. Because you know the NCAA tournament is powerful. All these scouts get together. They're in the same gym. Something happens. The lights are bright, and they say, hey, he's one of those guys. Derrick Queen, we just saw in Seattle. The red hourback test. Does he want to be good or great? Derrick Queen said, I want to be great.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
But back to BYU. I like the makeup of this group. I like that they're funneled and fund by an NBA team. I like that A.J. DeBantz, the future number one pick, will be there next year. They're laying the foundation.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Well, that makes BYU this year even more pertinent for them to make a run. Because if A.J. DeVance is not going to be the number one pick and they get that cachet, they need to do it now. They're a fun team. They know how to score. This is the highest over with Alabama and BYU. So the BYU-Utah Jazz, that's my first pick.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Right. With Danny Ainge, his alma mater, a guy who went to the Elite Eight back in the 80s, who wants to bring him back to prominence. I mean, there is a lot of layers to the BYUtah Jazz.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I like him as like a Kevin Love comp. I love the outlet pass. I love that he's a little chubby right now. And I love that he wears the long sleeves because he is a little bit chubby.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
That's true. He's getting in shape. And that's what Kevin Love did. And you mentioned it. I mean, maybe he is a good stats, bad team guy. That's what Kevin Love was. He went to Minnesota.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He just got to 20 and 13. And he was a lot of fun to watch. And then eventually a contender, LeBron James, in the heat said, hey, or the Cleveland Cavaliers at that point said, hey. Come join us here and play on a real team. So I think that that's kind of like best case scenario for Queen. But you talk about touch. You talk about like vision. You talk about just natural, innate feel for the game.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He has it all. And I like that he wanted the ball at the end of the game and he made that shot. I know a lot of people were talking about was it a travel or was it not a travel? In the NBA, it's not a travel. So if you're an NBA fan, you're very encouraged to see him want the ball and finish a game. So he's a lot of fun to watch.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
That's that feel, though.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Yeah, hyper specific roles. My next one, you love the 2000s Michigan State team that went to Flintstone. So I like the Flintstone kids, Jace Richardson, Jason Richardson's son. He is starring for Michigan State. Tom Izzo has the toughness with this group. He basically said last year he's going to die trying to get Michigan State another national championship. And I believe in Bill.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
And I think right now.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He's fighting for his life out there. And this team, while they're not all from Flint, Michigan, they do have the toughness, the mental makeup, and they have bench points galore. This team does not have a guy. They do it by committee. It's the team, the team, the team. RIP Gene Hackman. But that's what Michigan State is this year. And I do feel like...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
This group is on their way to making a special run, and it's very cool to cut to the crowd, see Mateen Cleaves, see Jason Richardson watching his son play. And every single time they need like a big bucket to kind of get them going, it does feel like it is Jason Richardson. So I like that connective tissue, and I like the storyline of the Flintstone kids. So I think that's a fun one to watch.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Yeah, tough draw. Tough draw. But Auburn, I mean, they're susceptible to a team that actually plays and sticks together as a team. And I feel like that would be the sell against Auburn if they get matched up with them in the Elite Eight.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I like a captain's pick, like what we do for the Ryder Cup. We do that for the NCAA. Yeah, we have a captain of the tournament. We select like a celebrity. This year, Condoleezza Rice is our captain. Condoleezza Rice, who does she want? She wants Rutgers. And Rutgers comes firing into the tournament.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I love that. I mean, look, Ace Bailey had a great game at Indiana this year. That was probably like his go-to tape. Yeah, Kyle Mann was in the building for that one at Assembly Hall. Dylan Harper, I mean, he showed flashes of why people thought he could be potentially a number one pick candidate. It does suck that they're not in the conversation. And I'm with you. Let's get a captain's pick.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Let's get him in.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Next one, I'm going to be fair because we talked bad about Coach K and Duke before, but I do think it's obvious and maybe it's ridiculous. We haven't even said it yet, but the flagship, the main character from Maine, Cooper Flagg is the story. Cooper Flagg is the headline. Cooper Flagg, New Balance said he was the intelligent choice, right?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
So that goes back to the Athenian kind of aspect of this team. He's a thinking man. He's got the best IQ on the floor, but also he's a Spartan. He wants to kill you and he and killing you and he enjoys watching it. You talk about a killer instinct. This guy is different. He loves Christian Laettner. His parents obviously have instilled him with the Laettner kind of mindset.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He went down with that ankle injury. Everybody was worried. I was not. This is the kind of guy that he is. He's tough. He doesn't really care about anything else other than winning. I think that Duke, this is like if you could build someone in the laboratory to go get you the title that you need this decade to Cooper Flagg is that guy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
And it's almost a disservice that he's not getting more coverage because he is that good and he's that much of a winner. So it's ridiculous he's been this far down our docket. But the flagship, Cooper Flagg.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He has four little brothers and they all have insane names that start with K. It's like Kager, like Knife. Like they're all like the most ridiculous.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Oh, yeah. She's got a plan.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
We're waiting for you. I can't wait till they tell Cooper Flagg about bird rights. And he's like, yeah, these are my bird rights.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I would have gone to Carolina and I would have tampered. And every recruit on campus, they would have had the best time they ever had. I promise you that. Andrew Wiggins would have been a Tar Heel.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I DM him on Twitter every once in a while, just like pictures of the Hornets. I'm like, this could be you hanging in the rafters.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I'm going back for the one season, the farewell tour for sure.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
And they're kind of do right. I mean, 2019 was Zion Reddish and RJ. That was a team that probably should have won the national championship. They lose the Michigan State 2022. They're on a collision course to win the championship on a wooden storyline for Coach K. They had to go up against Carolina. They lose with Bankaro. So it does feel like third time's the charm.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Like Cooper Flagg is kind of infallible as he goes on this run. Like Palo, there's a little bit of like, he's going to be the number one pick. Who cares? Zion, sort of the same deal. Plus there was the infighting of who gets the most shots, RJ or Zion. This team, they don't care who gets the shots and neither does Cooper and they win regardless.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
So I do feel like they're kind of the perfect version of a Duke team.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
He's playing better defense. He's coming in. They got him now as like buying in just kind of the defensive X factor.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Tate's older.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I appreciate that it's moving its way through the world. You know what I mean?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
How about we do Steph Curry and then I basically pitch him on the Hornets the entire round.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
I'm like an old assistant coach with like the National Letter of Intent. I'm just trying to get him to sign the paper. I'm like, hey, Steph, can you sign your scorecard?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Thank you. Thank you.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Talking NBA, March Madness, JuJu, MLB and 'The Bachelor' With Callie Curry, Tate Frazier, J. Kyle Mann, and Anthony Dabbundo
Thank you.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Yeah, I didn't.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
think that it would be this timing i thought it would all go down monday morning the the word i got on antonio pierce getting fired on a tuesday afternoon as opposed to monday was well that's that's mark davis he goes at his own timeline and goes to the beat of his own drum and you know they pierce does a presser and then all right that's a one o'clock monday presser it means nothing tuesday he's shown the door mayo was interesting um
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I go out of my way not to ever fire coaches unless I know they're getting fired. But there was a lot of reports over the weekend that Mayo was safe, barring some sort of calamity. And I'm like, well, I guess he didn't watch what happened the Saturday game against the Chargers where the entire crowd is chanting, fire Mayo, and they're going up to the box. And I think the comments by the linebacker,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
You know, on local radio, calling out the fans matters. I think a lot of things happened in that last two weeks and then specifically in those last 24 hours. But Ravel interfering with the Jets, don't minimize that. I think it might have rattled some cages. It could have lit some fires. But at the very least, you know, it all culminated in what you saw immediately after the game on Sunday.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I also think you're starting to see some of the stuff that was going on in Tennessee. You talk about instability. Tennessee fired in consecutive years, John Robinson, the GM, then Mike Vrabel, the head coach. Then they hired a new GM. And of course, they fired him this year.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
So three straight years, they've had a firing of either a GM or a head coach, which doesn't tell me that's the most stable franchise either.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Um, yeah, I, I, I also am not a Vrabel apologist in that you look at the record down the stretch those last two years and a lot of people who are Titans fans have reached out to me because I've been beating the drum for Vrabel also saying how outrageous it is. And they're like, they didn't win and everyone in the building was miserable under him at the end.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
So you take that too and you're like, all right, well, I'm not there every day. So... Look, he did his year in purgatory. He did his year with Cleveland, wisely got his contract to end the week before regular season ended, which was actually a brilliant move because he can interview in person.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Whereas the rest of these guys, even if you miss the playoffs, you cannot interview in person for a head coaching job if you are employed by a team.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Did he do that intentionally? I'm going to give him credit.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
He can meet in person. No other coach currently employed by an NFL team can meet in person until January 20th. And only... The one seed teams, the guys from the Lions and the Chiefs can even meet on Zoom this week to interview for head coaching jobs.
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So all these other guys, you know, the Liam Coens, who's the offensive coordinator in Tampa and the Cliff Kingsbury's and all these other guys who are playing this week who want to interview for jobs, they can. And even when they can, it'll be in the future and they have to do it by Zoom. Mike Vrabel can go on a traveling tour and meet with whoever. Now, the other guys who can do that,
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Pete Carroll, who we know is going to interview with the Chicago Bears this week, which is happening. And Adam Schefter was right all along on that. And we also know that Rex Ryan interviewed with the Jets today. I can give you updates on that.
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Ron Rivera interviewed last week. And I guess that would be... And then John Gruden, if someone... Ron Rivera.
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If someone wanted to interview Gruden, they can interview Gruden because he's not currently employed anywhere. I don't think there's been any slips in for Gruden yet. So other than that, Vrabel's like, shit, okay, you want to interview Ron Rivera and Rex Ryan? All right, and interview me in person?
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All right, and then go interview Aaron Glenn on Zoom on Wednesday when he's trying to figure out his whole playoffs and all that stuff. So Vrabel timed this thing perfectly. And Bill, I hear you on Ben Johnson.
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There's no other, who else is it? Ben Johnson would be the hot name. And the thing with Ben, That is appealing if you're the New England Patriots or if you're him is he's got North Carolina ties. He was at the University of North Carolina and you go to Drake May and you go to May's family and there's a real Carolina Chapel Hill thing.
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The irony, of course, is that Belichick's there now and has nothing to do with it. And that with Drake May and $130 million in cap space... There is a lot to like if you are Ben Johnson walking into that situation as well, especially if you have a certain fondness for May. But I think it's all but done. I would think Vrabel, I would be shocked if it's not Vrabel at the end of the day.
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It's not good optics. It's bad optics. And it's not a good way to do it. It's not the Patriots fault. That's the league rules. And they follow the rules. They interviewed two minority candidates. He told us we had to interview two minority candidates. We did it. And like, I know that sounds abrasive or whatever, but that's, that's the rule. And they did it.
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And I see a lot of people saying they sidestepped the rules and it's like, go tell Pep Hamilton and Byron Lefkowitz that they were, you know, that they shouldn't have interviewed. Like I, It's a shame, but they want Vrabel or Ben Johnson, and that's who their eyes are set on. And I'd be hard-pressed calling out the Crafts as bigots or anything. They just hired an African-American coach last year.
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It's a troublesome situation for the league with the minority candidates.
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And I was going to say. Ben Johnson or Rabel. And here's the thing. When are you finally going to say enough with the building and enough with the Belichick and Brady and let's really start anew? Because you bring Ben Johnson in, that's a guy who's been in Miami and that's a guy who has been in Detroit. And there is no real connection to that New England universe. And it's like, all right,
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I'm going to finally take a job after three years of being the hot candidate. I'm coming in. You're going to have to pay me X amount of dollars and I'm going to want to bring in my guys. And no offense to what Mike Vrabel and Bill Belichick did in the 2006 season or what Tom Brady accomplished in 2010s. I think it's time you guys needed a new coat of paint and I'm going to bring it in.
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And if you're hiring me, you're giving me the freedom to do that.
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No. Talk about it. I don't like your tone. Are we not? Okay. Vrabel obviously is in a different boat because I think it's actually interesting that Vrabel didn't choose to just go back to new England and work for Belichick. Yeah. He worked for Bill O'Brien and yeah, there's been connections, but he did it on his own. He went to Ohio state. He went to Houston.
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He went to Tennessee and like he went out of his, he was also traded unceremoniously by Bill to Kansas city. And that wasn't, you know, necessarily his choice. Big mistake. I don't. Yeah. Yeah.
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And it's also, you know, this year there just isn't a large pool of that. So in recent years, Jim Harbaugh always flirted with the NFL. We know there was considerations in Minnesota and there's considerations in Chicago. He's that guy. Harbaugh's a culture builder.
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Whether you like him or not, and Kyle Brandt said it on your podcast before the season started, wake out of bed, you're going to get 10 wins out of Jim Harbaugh the first year. And they got 11. And they got 11. And they went over and they're one of your 27 teams that you got right because you knew Harbaugh is a winner. It's what he does everywhere he goes.
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I know it's divisive on your pod when I go and rave about him all the time, but Sean Payton is a winner. You bring Sean Payton in, he's bringing in his guys, he's bringing in his systems. Divisive with who? Like bots on the internet?
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I said, they're going to the wildcard round. I'm like taking my victory lap. And everyone's like, we don't give a shit.
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To that, though, recent years, there have been those guys or there's been a college coach that's like, oh, like Urban Meyer. At the time, they were like Jacksonville's in a free fall. Urban Meyer, you know, he's been a college coach at a high level. Like Kirby Smart doesn't seem to be being mentioned right now. Deion Sanders, his name is not coming up right now.
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OK, well, that'll start coming. But then Nick Saban is not coming out of retirement, it sounds like. And then you start going down the list and it's like, All right. Well, Kingsbury coached, but it wasn't like Kingsbury was Bill Walsh over there. So he's not really in that conversation. And Matt Nagy coached, but he got fired. He's not like a culture guy. So it's Vrabel. That's the only name.
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And you could say Pete Carroll. But we're talking about ascending an exciting hire for the fans. Pete Carroll might be exciting for Bears fans. He's also in his 70s. And that's more like the Joe Gibbs era. Bring him out of retirement. He's too old.
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So like he's got the energy of a 40 year old or 50 year old. So like he'll run through. But I'm just saying this year, that pool of like leader of men, CEO, like, Unless you're talking to Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh, and I'm trying to think of, you know, Andy Reid's not going. Those are the guys because they're CEOs and they run a team and they once were coordinators.
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Tomlin, of course, on the defensive side.
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And here is your devil's advocate to that argument. So when Jeff Fisher got fired, they interviewed everybody. They had really liked a few people. I remember they really liked Matt Patricia. They liked Doug Marone. The Rams were in the market for a new coach and they had a lot of guys with a lot more experience. McVay was 30.
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And Stan Krohn keeps talking with Les Snead and Kevin Demoff, their president. And he's like, I just don't know. He's young. And the argument that was made in the room by Kevin, Les, and then eventually Stan got on board was, okay, so he's young now and we miss on him this year. And then next year he's hired by someone else. and he's 31, and he's doing it for somebody else.
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Mike Tomlin, when he was interviewing, he was a defensive backs coach from the Minnesota Vikings, comes in, meets with them. Everyone thought that job was going to be Bruce Arians, or at the time, Russ Grimm, I believe, was the other one who was interviewing, that it was going to be one of those guys. They hired Tomlin. You didn't know those guys were going to be leaders of men.
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They took a swing, and they did it at a young age, and it worked out. But there are so many other uh, that list is endless from Nathaniel Hackett to, to all the other one.
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He was a tight ends coach, never called plays and the lion.
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Well, they gave him the reins. He eventually grew into a really good head coach and then he also had player personnel decisions. So he ended up being that guy and then it all came tumbling down.
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Oh, not shocked at all. Not shocked at all. I mean, his kids spent 15 years living at... Remember, he was with New England forever.
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As you said, his kids went to high school there. Like there is a lot... And he didn't end on bad terms there. He took a job with the Raiders. He didn't leave. He didn't get like blown out the door. So yeah, I think McDaniels is a very good possibility.
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That sounds like a seven and a half, eight. I'm going through the head because no, I think, I mean, I've spoken to multiple people around the league and they're surprised that Gruden hasn't gotten head coaching interviews. And the only reason he wouldn't is because of the emails from 2012 that came out or 2014.
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I think 2012 is when they were, obviously they're horrendous emails, but that's the reason why everyone thinks Gruden is an elite play caller and can still be one of those leader of men culture guys. Um, and I actually think the barstool stuff that he's been doing where he's out there and he's on videos and a whole different generation is seeing him break down and tell stories and be human. Like,
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That stuff works. And it was what I think Belichick was trying to do this season too by doing the McAfee and the Manning cast. Like, let me show a different side of me that I'm not some grump. And I think it worked to a point that he got that North Carolina job as well.
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Who was he with?
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After John McCloud was the Knicks coach? Who was the Knicks coach before that?
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To me, I would have said Jacksonville if they blew out the GM because the owner doesn't meddle. The owner does it. But you're inheriting a GM who is a survivor, a classic office politics survivor. And I don't know Trent Balke. I've been in this a long time. And I know a lot of people say he's a fine guy like we've met.
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But he has a way with this owner and he's had a way with Jed York when he was in San Francisco that he outlasted everybody. So I don't know if you're a head coach, if you're a young guy like Ben Johnson who's been waiting for this opportunity and has turned down offers and has really been really thoughtful and deliberate with this.
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if you're going into a job where a GM has now is getting his third head coach. So the best job, I mean, I know it sounds like I'm kissing your ass or I'm being a you. The best job is the Pat's job.
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Do you think that year of misery and hearing Fire Mayo and having CBS cameras shoot to them after every bad play, showing the owners- And the Apple doc. And the Apple doc, do you think that spurs them to now open up the wallets? Remember that one year- I did. Belichick was able to go bonkers at free agency, and he did after that horrible in-between year after Brady.
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By the way, underrated free agency, looking back, Jonu Smith, Hunter Henry, Aguilar, all those guys.
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Judon, right? Judon, yeah.
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Not bad. Um, I would also say with the Patriots, you know, they're going to now be paying, they're paying for that mistake. Gerard Mayo is going to be paid out his full contract as an NFL head coach. So I know this is a league thing. It's also an owner thing. Like,
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I believe the number was something like hundreds of millions of dollars that is just dead money that owners are spending on fired coaches around the NFL right now.
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Who cares? But for a league that likes to maximize its money and pour things into international and pour things into flag football and pour things into women's flag football... For the owners to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on fired coaches so they can laugh and get paychecks and double dip with other teams, that's not a good look either.
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So for the Patriots, if you're telling me that they're notoriously not big spenders, to know all of that and still fire Mayo after one year and still pay him out his full contract tells you just how bad things were in that building.
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I think the Saints job is tough because the Saints job, you still got Derek Carr on the books. That's a franchise that still hasn't torn it all down. And you've still got Cam Jordan. You've still got Demario Davis. And it's a roster that's kind of in between. Now, Mickey Loomis is the GM. He's been there forever. He's got great success. And I think...
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There's a lot to like about working in that building. You kind of lay low. You're in your own little world. Peyton loved it there for years. And obviously, Mickey's going to do a good job with free agents in the draft. But it just feels like you're still in a purgatory there until they tear that whole thing down. And the quarterback position is Derek Carr for the near future. Counter.
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It's a different building, man. Like I know all the league, like there are 31 teams and there are the Raiders. Like there are people in that building who I really trust, good sources. And I'm like, so I guess AP is good. And they're like, dude, we don't know. Like they didn't know. No one knew.
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So last year, I was at the Senior Bowl. And obviously, I'm talking to Kingsbury. He took his year with USC. He was working with Caleb and he was working with Lincoln Riley. And he interviewed for several offensive coordinator jobs. He interviewed for the Philly job. Wasn't offered. Interviewed for the Chicago job. They gave it to Shane Waldron instead, even though he had the history with...
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with Caleb. And then he interviewed with the Raiders job and it was all set. It was done. And then at the end, there was a hiccup on the length of years on the contract. And there was a miscommunication. And Cliff was like, I don't like where this is going. I don't like where this is setting up to go. And he's like, I liked Antonio Pierce, but I didn't know what was going on.
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And there was a lot of people, I met with them twice in person. Then Dan Quinn called and was like, do you want to be our... offensive coordinator with the number two overall pick. And he's like, I'm in love with Jaden Daniels. Yeah, let's do that instead. Yeah. The irony is they have now fired Antonio Pierce. So you take his salary. They fired Luke Getze, the offensive coordinator.
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You take his salary. They fired several other offensive coaches. It's about $20 million mistake right there if you thought Cliff was the guy based on length of the contract for the offensive coordinator position. So there's just little things like that that people don't seem to like look big picture at. And it's like, oh, they fired their coach again.
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But it's every step along the way that gets you there.
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They have talent.
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Well, it's just a lot of cooks in the kitchen and they'll tell you that Ryan Poles, the GM, is the one at the switch, but he's got a president above him who's very active in Kevin Warren.
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And it's like, okay, well, if he's the one at the switch, well, who am I reporting to? Because am I reporting to him or the... Then you got the McCaskies and then there's other people in the building too. So those interviews, I'm curious to see who's at the table because there's so many... different voices and you like to think they're all on one page.
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Uh, I've been told, and I think there's two things here. One, Ben Johnson has this reputation that I think is actually wrong. I've gotten to know Ben a little bit over the last few years.
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And I think, you know, good offensive coach obviously does all this stuff, but like good dude, seems like his name was dragged through the mud last year for what happened in Washington, where he went down the road with Washington and Bob Myers and Josh Harris. And those guys thought he was going to be the head coach, or at least they were flying out to meet with him. And he pulled his name, uh,
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at the last second. And I think that rubbed a lot of people wrong. And then around the league, it became like this.
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He just decided not to take the job. And he told him, I'm not going for the, I don't want to interview again. He didn't even accept the job. We've seen Josh McDaniels accept job at Indianapolis and then bail. Like that's something that I'm like, yeah. But then Ben's name got absolutely trashed as some maniacal, mad genius. That's not him. That's not him.
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And it's going to be interesting to see how the narrative of him goes if he doesn't take one of these jobs and goes back to Detroit. Because Carolina was his a couple years ago if he wanted to go for that. I think David Tepper and those guys were very interested in him. Didn't interview. Stayed with Detroit. Washington was probably his if he wanted it last year. Didn't interview. Interviewed once.
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Didn't interview the second time. Stays with Detroit. And if he's not blown away by Chicago or wherever else he's interviewing, he doesn't need to take it.
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Guess what?
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And a lot of people are going to say, why aren't the Jets trying to interview him? I think the Jets got word that he's not looking to go there. And that's okay. And that's fine. So I think the Caleb Williams thing is exciting. First overall pick has crazy raw talent. And there is an allure to being the coach of the Chicago Bears. It's one of those prestige franchises. It's not the Jaguars.
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It's not the Saints. It's the Chicago Bears. And there is something to be said for when you win in that city, what a legend you can be.
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No, because that's the league and we've seen it year after year after year. I think I've told you on the podcast that there's only like a handful of games in my life covering the final week where like the bad team actually doesn't show up and loses. And one of them, you have to, you have to do what like, You have to physically go out of your way to put backups in and give them no preparation.
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And I called a game, and I wouldn't accuse them of doing this on record, but I would just say this. The Buccaneers were playing the Saints in the final week of the season, and Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota were the two top picks in the following draft. The Bucs had like two... And they played all backups. And I remember Sean Payton after the fact being like, for real?
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You guys played those guys? And of course, they secured the number one overall pick. And they would say, well, we didn't. We were just playing our guys. Gerard Mayo had no reason to abide by any rules he put in. He did not. That was part of the problem. So what would you have done? Would you have fired him on Saturday and said, you can't coach week 18?
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He wasn't going to save his job if he... At that point, the decision was made.
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Did you know Mike White was still in the league? No, I didn't know Mike White was still in the league. And they're punting the ball on the New England 35. And they're, you know... It's really hard to look at the coach in the face, look at the players in the face and be like, don't go out and win. Even if they're backups. So nothing surprised me.
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The fact the Giants lost, the fact the Giants beat the Colts is still one of the most insane things because they're in desperate need of a quarterback. And they won that game and they played themselves out of the first or second place.
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And I know you made the joke with Jack's shit, but it's like... If you were to tell me that we made this monster trade and the trade was just the first overall pick for the fourth overall pick, but we won that game and we fired the coach. It is truly insane on paper. And yet we see it year after year that this happens.
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The final team in the final week wins a meaningless game and the players celebrate on the sideline because they've got pride and then they cost themselves the first overall pick. It happens every year.
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Absolutely. And you know which owners have gained the trust. I'm going to find a tweet. So there's a guy, Jake Rosenberg, who used to work for the Eagles, and now he's a GM. He writes this, and it was a tweet, and I thought it was pretty spot on. Running a comprehensive search for a head coach is exhaustive and expensive, And generally a huge pain in the ass.
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At the end of the day, not all owners prioritize winning enough to justify the expense and the time burning. Sad but true. Most NFL GM hires are doomed from day one. And the reason is those who hire have a lack of clarity in what skills and experience actually determine success in the role, which is so true.
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So you have these owners who time and time again are the ones making the decisions and they're the ones at the table like, well, I like that guy. Okay, he's there. But we have no... We have no justification that they know what it takes week to week, day to day in the building to actually identify it.
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So it is a mild piece of insanity where the owner of the company is the one sitting at the table and he has the right to pick this year after year. But the people making the decisions don't necessarily know exactly what goes into being a great coach.
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The Broncos were such a bad place after Nathaniel Hackett and they had missed the play. They basically told Sean Payton, name your price, we'll pay you the highest amount of money. Just come in and just build this thing back. And like, they didn't look back. The owner, you know, they're Walmart folks and it's Greg Penner. And they're, from what Sean says, great owners.
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And they just let him do what he wants. Who do they care?
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So this year, instead of it being Woody, you know, they bring in Tannenbaum and Spielman who used to do the job but have been removed. And I'm not sure... They have casted a very wide net here and they're doing in-person interviews tomorrow. We're recording this on Tuesday. So they're interviewing two GM candidates tomorrow.
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Alec Kalabi, who is kind of the strategy and analytics and also does, he's assistant general manager in Philly under Howie right now. And then a guy, Mike Borgonzi, who's the number two to... Rhett Veach in Kansas City. Those are the right names. You should meet them. They're doing it.
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But the room is Spielman, Tannenbaum, and then it's Chris Johnson, Woody Johnson, and then it's Jaime, who's their president, and then maybe one or two other people. So you like to think that that's bringing in Tannenbaum and Spielman who have done this before and have hired helps, but I don't know. We'll see how it turns out, right?
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Go back to November. I reported on Fox NFL kickoff. It blew up on all the Notre Dame blogs.
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Yeah, because when they fired Eberflus, I said a name that's being talked about is Marcus Freeman in Chicago, which it was. And he has Big Ten connections with Kevin Warren. He was an Ohio State player, obviously went through the ranks. He was a hot name within that Bears organization. And then I was accused of being used as like leverage because they gave him a huge extension in Notre Dame.
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Pay him more. Break the contract. Marcus Freeman.
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It was real. I mean, that was real interest. What do you think of Deion as an NFL head coach? Does that do anything for you? Is there just too much that comes with that? It really doesn't.
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Cerruti, are you on this? That fourth down play where they threw the guys and they threw the punt team on and then they did the fake punt and they drew them off sides. That was the coolest play of the college football season.
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I'll give you the name that's been buzzed a little bit. Sark is a name because he has NFL experience and he's great on the offensive side of the ball. And he's kind of got this bravado around him that he can dominate a room. And he was great in Atlanta for that year with Dan Quinn. But go on through. I want your thoughts.
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If Lanning had won that game, I think there'd be a lot more buzz. Not that it cost him anything, but there were some people at NFL teams asking me if I'd heard anything on him.
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P.J. Fleck was a name for a while at Minnesota. Matt Campbell, Iowa State, was the hottest name for about five years. Matt Rule was a hot name. Obviously, he got one of those deals.
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Did Nebraska do anything this year? I know they had the kid that dresses like Mahomes and they played at that pinstripe bowl. Dom Riola's kid. Was he viewed as a good Nebraska great this year or no?
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If we're playing connect the dots, I would say if Rabel goes to New England, I would imagine Ben Johnson is Chicago. And he just needs to just bite the bullet and say, I don't know what I'm walking into, but I want that job. I want that quarterback. If he's going to leave, I would think Chicago. Jets, I would look at Aaron Glenn.
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I would look at him as a former Jet and a defensive coach, which might not be what everyone wants.
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So good. And he's a former Jet and he's all business and he's waited his turn and he's been with New Orleans and he's been with Detroit. The other name for the Jets, there's two other names that I would say, and obviously I've got sources there, but it's going to go down to the interviews. I don't have an idea how these guys do.
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Yeah. Joe Brady in Buffalo interviewed with the Jets back in 19, back in that same year where Todd Munkin and Matt Rule and all those guys interviewed and Adam Gase got the job. And Joe Brady was like 30 when he interviewed with them and was awesome in the interview. He was just too young and it wasn't time. He has since done the whole thing. He went to Carolina, then he went to Buffalo. Yeah.
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That could be an exciting hire. And then Arthur Smith is a name that will not get the fans excited. But he interviewed in 21 when they gave it to Sala and really did a good job with the Jets interview there and was the hottest name. And then he chose Atlanta. And then you've got to now build yourself up.
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Now, look, I don't know if Pittsburgh's offense is worthy of a head coach being hired, but Arthur Smith's an adult in the room and you know he's competent. It's just he's never had a quarterback in either Atlanta and I would argue in Pittsburgh either.
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Great spot.
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And Caleb might be too. So that's why I think he's a possibility. I think they know that. That's why Ryan Moreland is difficult. Jacksonville, the book is out on Trevor Lawrence. Like Jacksonville to me, you saw the list of names. Like that's like, you know, maybe Liam Cohen, who's the offensive coordinator in Tampa. He gets a shot. He worked with McVay and like he's very highly viewed.
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Maybe that's the Jacksonville guy. And it's like, all right, like, all right, it's his first year. He's a quarterback guy. He'll work with Trevor Lawrence. We'll see. But I don't know if anyone's banging down the doors
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Which I think there is a window because Shad Khan, I mean, Balky's on the Zoom and Shad Khan, they asked him about it and he's like, if the head coach comes in and says he wants me to reevaluate the GM, I will. So that's... That's why I thought it was such an appealing job from the go because the cons really do not meddle. They're one of these owners that are super wealthy.
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They've got a million different interests and they're like, we're hiring the coach to do what he does.
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I'll tell you, there's a job that is not currently vacant, but a couple coaches ago where every Monday morning, the owner would come in and the head coach had to justify three different play call decisions to the owner. That's hell. You don't want to go through that. That's not the cons. They don't do that. Josh Harris doesn't do that. Stan Kroenke doesn't do that.
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You have to figure that stuff out. But the GM being bulky there now, that would be a red flag just because I don't know the guy. And I've been very picky and very selective. The Jets' job is actually intriguing because it's a blank slate right now.
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So if you're one of those guys, you're like, all right, well, maybe I... I was saying with Vrabel, Vrabel can come in and be like, I want to bring in Ryan Cowden, my friend who works for the Giants, used to be at the Titans. I want him to be the GM with me. If you take both of us, then I'll consider it. I think Vrabel could do that.
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But it sounds like he's going to New England and it sounds like Elliot Wolfe is safe up there.
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I want to give you two more names because I know they're fooling around. For Jim? No, for head coach. Does Mike McCarthy as a free agent... He can't interview with anyone until at least January 14th, and they already denied his ability to interview with the Bears, but they can't do that after January 14th when his contract's up.
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Does Mike McCarthy, a CEO, leader of men, and 12 wins all these years, Super Bowl, but also Mike McCarthy, does that interest you at all, Bill, if you're a team looking for stability?
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Who has more leverage in that situation? If it's January 15th and they don't come to a deal, Jerry and the Cowboys or Mike McCarthy, who might have options to go elsewhere. Cause I think McCarthy, there's like seven jobs open.
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What about if you're the Jets who just went through this tumultuous thing? Mike McCarthy interviewed for the Jets back in 19, I believe. And he was just fired from Green Bay and no one in New York wanted him and it didn't happen. But like, I don't know.
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It sounds like it's over. You know, it sounds like it's over. I didn't speak to him. We have a relationship, but he wouldn't tell me. But like, it's just the way he's talking. And he gave those quotes the day before the game. And then, you know, the Pam Oliver said, like, I love you and gave her a big hug. Like, it felt like this is like my goodbyes. Like, they'd have to be a perfect situation.
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I don't know if it exists. What do you mean?
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He's got too much competitive spirit to end it that way.
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He can live in Vegas. Nice living. No taxes. It could be all right.
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Can I give you another name that Glazer mentioned on Sunday, but this has been bubbling a little bit. So Mike McDaniel got a big contract extension this year and he was hired the same year as Kevin O'Connell. The Vikings opted not to give Kevin O'Connell their extension before the season, meaning next year is the final year of his contract.
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So they can do it whenever, but there hasn't been an extension done. So Glazer threw out there. He's entering the final year of his contract. And I don't think the Vikings after this season, and he's going to be coach of the year, would be willing to do a trade for just a normal trade. Why would they ever get rid of Kevin O'Connell? I don't think they will.
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I think all that stuff that's out there, they're going to step up. They're going to pay him. But if you're a team, do you offer three first round picks? Do you offer, if you're the Jets, no? You don't even go down that road? You don't even entertain it? No.
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Because they wouldn't entertain a backer.
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It's a lot.
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I'll tell you, it happened today. It happened. So Rex flew down to Palm Beach and he and Woody and Tannenbaum have like a really strong bond. And Rex comes in there and he basically is like, guys, I don't know if you're going to give me this job. There is no person on this earth who wants to be the head coach of the New York Jets more than I do.
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There is no person that wants to turn this organization around more than I do. I have been involved with the game on ESPN. I watch it all. I want to be the New York Jets head coach. I don't want to be the Saints coach. I don't want to be the Dolphins coach. I want to be the Jets head coach.
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And I think it was refreshing for them to hear somebody not just come in and be like, all right, yeah, no, I want to be a head coach of an NFL team and here's my credentials. Rex went about it a totally different way. And you will not find someone more passionate in that interview. Will he get the job? No, I don't think he's going to get the job. But I do think...
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It was worthwhile for him to go down there. And I think they enjoyed the meeting at the very least because they can't meet with anyone else in person anyway. It wasn't a waste of their time. And Rex gave them a little bit of fire today.
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And I think they appreciated what Rex had to say because there's no one else who's going to come in there and say, and honestly meet it with the passion that Rex does. Like, I don't want to be the coach of the Patriots. I don't want to be the coach of the Lions. I want to be the coach of the Jets. And I want to work with you guys.
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That's it. When are we getting him on the pod, Bill? That has to be happening. Is it not?
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Well, I was going to say, if you saw like a live satellite image, I'm sure there were just like fires that just sort of lit up all across the map during that commercial break. Oh, God. I noted in my notes are pretty funny here. Well, at first I was just like, why is Zion repping the Pelicans? And then Chicago, when Dallas started to climb at like 10, I guess, I noted it. I was like, whoa.
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I was like, even then I was. And then as they just continued, you know, the Wizards obviously plummet, the Jazz plummet. it reminds what Nico has done here.
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It reminded me of his ability to, you know, navigate is the heavy, heaviest quotes imaginable, but for him to go from that to where we were tonight, it reminded me of my wife and I were on the interstate and like a torrential downpour one time in this minivan lost control and hydroplaned and somehow miraculously avoided hitting another car. And the minivan we watched go up ahead of us.
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And there happened to be a ramp for a tow truck on the side of the road and And the minivan came to a complete stop unharmed on the ramp on the side of the road. And we were like, how the fuck? It was like final destination. That's the equivalent of what Nico just did. Like he somehow did he survive?
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I think we've opened up a whole like there's a whole other slew of questions and options from here. But I mean, it's just it's I mean, I can't help but think of the fans that have survived. I don't know what is ethical. Rob tweeted out that there are no basketball gods and this is proof of it. And that's kind of how I'm feeling right now.
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I liked yours over text, Joe. I don't know if you're willing to say it, but yours was pretty good.
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Yeah. I thought we played the karma game pretty wisely. I mean, you know, we were conceding like probably not the first. Let's talk about some of the lower guys. But I just didn't conceive of this outcome, House. I'm sorry, man. Really sorry.
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Yeah. I mean, I don't bristle so much at that. Yeah. I'm just like, yeah, we, we have something for now and we have something in Cooper flag. Odds are he'll be ready to go sooner than later based on everything that we've seen, but you know, you can kind of bring him in.
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Yeah. The simplest way to put it is he's the most well-rounded prospect of my, I mean, other than he's on a short list, I would say him and LeBron, I'm saying, but LeBron had the shooting issues. He had a lot of things to figure out, even though the highs are higher with some of the guys, you know, but it's just Cooper is the most well-rounded prospect of my lifetime.
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I mean, I've had a lot of sports injuries, but I'm not going to pretend to know these kind of things. But the fact that we were arguing about ankle or not, I mean, the fact that he was neutral and there was the plant and then the reverse angle where you see the pressure and then you just kind of see his ankle just kind of wobble like the stability gave out, which made me worry.
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That's the simplest way to put it. And the other guys in this, he grew an inch. And he has offensive upside to max out in some different areas. And we just haven't seen a lot of guys like that. So the big question for the Mavs for me is just what's nailed down? I mean, are they going to just completely start over? You know, because it's like Kyrie's coming back.
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What is out of the realm of possibility for them in terms of what they could do to just springboard off of this?
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Yeah.
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He's actively open-minded, Bill. Have you never found yourself in that? He's open-minded about his future? Who the fuck is it?
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I think you could have asked Nico before the lottery and he would have said he was actively open-minded about getting the number one pick. It's just like, yeah, well, just...
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But you and I were saying that the pain part of it was the interesting reaction because to me, I've never torn that God, you know, God willing, I don't go, go there. But, uh, he, his reaction to it was what made me think because every basketball player fears that, right? I mean, it's, it's increasingly getting more, you know, doable and navigable, but with surgery and everything.
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The Aaron Fox could play. It'd be interesting to see if Kyrie's ever the same again, but I'm not ready to assume that at his age. I just think the Mavs, the Mavs, the more you think about the roster, they are going to have some, they have some dissonance in the Gafford.
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I know that it's kind of up in the air, the Gafford, Lively, AD, like flag thing, even if they did somehow get into the Giannis conversation. Giannis and AD is fun to think about, but Do we talk about the aging curve for Giannis enough, though? He's 31 years old. He's a heavily downhill player. Can't really shoot. I love him to death, but I just wonder how his game is going to age.
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And you just start to think about trading him. And what's the upside? How much time are you really going to get? I don't know.
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Yeah, let's go.
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What's your honest assessment, Kyle? Jacoby and I were texting about this because he noticed that the one thing, if you wanted to nitpick Cooper's defense, is that he does bend at his back a little bit in his posture. He doesn't sit as low as some... But he is also a generationally special help defender. So if you think about having...
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My God, if you just think about having AD and flag on the floor together, those are two of the best help. I mean, those are two of the best space covering disruptive defenders of the last ever. I mean, on the same. Another thing, too, is that flag is a really good lob thrower. So you're putting on the you're putting another guy on the floor that can throw to AD.
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So those two things are interesting in terms of like guarding the ball. I mean, he can guard threes and fours. I don't see any problem with that.
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But I think his reaction was he knew that's kind of my speculation. It was, he, he knew what it was and it was just that like, holy shit, why me kind of a thing, less than a writhing in pain type thing.
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Okay. Magic. The magic getting a penny was pretty crazy or getting Weber ultimately was pretty crazy percentage too. Wasn't it? Wasn't it down there in the 4% or something crazy like that? But I don't know, but that's like, I mean, that works against your argument, I guess. Right. Any, any freak sort of, you know, movement in the odds. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, I do. I thought a lot about it. And, you know, I think for them, if San Antonio does stay in the thinking that we were just talking about, where they are definitely, they could play this a number of ways. They could play this where they could potentially look at getting a bigger piece because we know Victor is,
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ready to roll i mean he's he's he's ready he has been ready sooner than we thought you know he's already on that defensive player of the year you know track they go and they get deer and fox to show their seriousness are they going to make one more move but i think taking harper if you look at it just in the right now basketball sense i wrote in our mock draft that just went up if you want to check that out we're going to talk about it more on the ringer nba draft show tomorrow but
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He can play with Fox. He can play. He can play with any. They can bring him along slowly because he has such great positional size. But I also think that he's if they do choose to make a move, I think he's the best asset available. So he kind of serves both purposes because Harper isn't quite the flag level.
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He's probably more on the Cade level of a number one pick type player if Flag wasn't there. But I think he's the most attractive asset for if there's a team out there that is heartbroken, that wants to make a move, that wants to start over, let's say hypothetically, just pulling the name out of the hat, Milwaukee. A great square one starting point, I think Harper serves that purpose.
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So I think they can do both there. I don't think I would go any other direction than Harper there.
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You're still going to be bad, I think, if those are true. I mean, the league, yeah, the bar is such that I think they're still going to be bad enough to pick. And, you know, yeah, go get the picks. But if I'm Milwaukee in this hypothetical scenario, yeah, I'm going to try to get Vassell. I'm trying to think. Johnson seems like he's going to be expendable to whatever they're doing here.
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If I'm San Antonio...
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I think he could be the second best. I mean, if you think the big thing for him is the dribble pull up shooting. If he can shoot the ball off the dribble because he shot it pretty well off the catch in a really abysmal Rutgers offense. Like I cannot emphasize enough how bad it was.
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I think there are a lot of factors at play. I think whenever you're a program that doesn't typically have those types of players, I just think they were top-heavy in what they could pay for. I think just the whole rest of the supporting cast just could not. Their bigs were awful. Their passing. And it hurt Bailey even more than it hurt Harper.
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But yeah, I think if he can improve the dribble pull-up shooting, he gets downhill. He can pass. Tom Crean on our show was talking about how he needs to pass with his right hand a little bit better. But Um, you know, those are, those are nitpicks. I think he's going to get there, but man, his, his, his footwork in the paint is really, really exceptional and really, really special, special.
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I mean, he, he shot something like 72% at the rim on like really, really high ball. Those that's like, you know, big guy numbers.
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I don't remember what I had in my... Oh, that was Danny's. We both allowed each other the liberty to make our picks, so he would have to explain his thinking on it. But I kind of... I mean, my one that I had in my notebook is... I said that he could thread a needle between Cade Cunningham and Jalen Brunson because his feet remind me of Jalen, but he's bigger. He's bigger. Yeah.
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I mean, he's not quite the natural passer that, that James is, but yeah, his downhill stuff is exceptional. Yeah. Would have been really good on the wizards. Sorry, House.
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Fox.
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Harper and Fox can play together. I think. Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. Good. Why not? I'm here for it.
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Somebody said that. I think Kirk said that. I remember it sounds like a Goldsberry.
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Yeah, I mean, this is one we can kind of... I think your points that you've made about him are valid based on what Maury has liked in the past. I think there's a couple ways to think about this.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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Well, I mean, if you're thinking about the Sixers, and I'll throw this to some of you, for you guys, for how you feel about what they're going to be thinking about. Are they going to make a serious run at rebooting this in the short term? I mean, you might as well. Well, the Embiid thing is a whole other conversation. But I'm thinking of...
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If you're going to run this back and try one more time, Bailey does fit with what they would be doing because their touches are spoken for with Embiid, with Paul George, with Maxie, with McCain when he comes back. Bailey is a guy who, for people who haven't watched him, the most similar guy in terms of his shot diet is Michael Porter Jr. and the fact that he makes a lot. He's a non...
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He's a tough shot maker, you know, and I think he's somebody and one of his his efficiencies were hurt by what we were talking about before. He can he loves to he's somebody that like at the end of the clock, he can just make something out of nothing. So he has that. But he's also a pretty good athlete. There was a lot of Zach and I were talking about his measurement coming in.
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There were people that thought he was six foot ten. I had heard that he was closer to six foot eight and a quarter. It turns out that's kind of closer to what he is. But he's somebody he's a supplementary kind of a guy, but he's long and explosive off of one step. So he can kind of block shots.
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But my thing that I was saying to you about Vijay, which is what you thought Vijay absolutely could fit the bill and what you're talking about in terms of he could he could turn it. He's somebody that's not going to be really role insistent early on. He's going to be able to play off the ball. He's a crazy athlete. He measured really well. I think it's six foot five. I need to get the exact number.
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Yeah.
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I was worried he was going to be like a Ben Gordon type where it's like, oh, he's a great athlete. It's like, ah, he's shitty. He's like six, two and a half with it. But no, he's he measured. Well, my thing was I kind of wondered about McCain, Maxie and Edgecombe together. I just the way that those guys play together. They're a little on the smaller side. All three of them are.
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And when you're moving forward. But, you know, I could honestly that one I could kind of go either way. But I thought Ace fit more into what they have right now. And he could improve a lot over time.
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Oh, you don't say that wasn't, but literally it was like, I'm out.
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I just feel the way they're going to go through the phase of mad at Nico for it working out for him. Like, I think we're going to go through that phase and then they'll slowly be softened into sort of a I don't know, a blissful nihilism or something. I don't know. It just seems like it seems like that's the reaction immediately. Right.
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It's called shock. Yeah.
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You said positive momentum. I'm like, the more we're talking about it, it's like, is it that positive?
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31, by the way. You said, oh, Charlotte's... Fourth pick, Charlotte. They just changed their name.
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I had him take an edge comb because I thought that he was a nice... He's a nice balance between if they really are going to lean in and keep the Brandon Miller-Lamello thing going. Those two are big wings who can handle and pass and dribble, pull up, shoot. I think they needed somebody to get downhill. They really need something to balance out that trio.
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And I think edge comb is a guy who is less... usage insistent compared to those two guys. I think he'll be happy to play the role that he'll play. And also, he's a lob threat too. I don't think people understand. I compared him to the way he jumps. He's incredibly fast off the floor. Have you gotten to even see Edgecombe yet? He is fucking Superman. You encouraged me to do so, but I saved it.
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I did the work too.
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Yeah, the Porzingis thing was really glaring. I mean, in every facet, he was slow to the ball on the glass. But what I noticed was, you know, on the season, it was a lot of Mikael Bridges, his strengths, his things that he's already pretty good at or just being, you know, exacerbated, I think amplified in this situation where he's really good at those dribble pull-up twos.
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Anything's possible.
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He's a little... He's a shade... They're roughly... They're a push in terms of their age. I just think that Harper is just so much more advanced than him in terms of like his on-ball creation and stuff like that. But the counter is, you know, Vijay... Vijay was a pretty good... If you watch him shoot the ball, he kind of looks like an athlete who has learned to shoot. It's not as natural.
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It's... But I'm not... He will get there. I mean, you see like OG has developed into a great shooter. But obviously, Apple and Orange is on that. But I mean, Vijay... I still feel like Harper is a solid number two. The Spurs, though, I mean, who knows? Yeah, they always seem to kind of have their own board. And you talk to some of these teams.
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I've talked to teams who'd be like, you know, we had so-and-so number two and just kind of are bowled back by that. You can get a little drunk and misled by the public thinking that the public discourse is the same as the behind-closed-doors discourse. And I think people would be a little shocked by how different it can be sometimes.
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You didn't tell me that. Did you know that from the beginning?
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Yeah, I mean, he's an awesome player, and I think he's going to do both. He has great size. They need passing, and they need shooting, and he is going to be a great fit in that sense. Are you in on him? Yeah.
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What do you got, Kyle? I was going to say, Knipple, I wanted to add this on there, 49% on spot-up looks this year and 39% on off-screen. Yeah, he's a dynamic shooter. How old is he?
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He's almost 20. It can vary a lot.
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That's amazing.
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And this is something that goes back to his Phoenix days that I remember in particular, But CP3 and he would kill Porzingis with that left to right where they would sort of go through the middle of the snake, through the middle of that pick and roll and get to that dribble pull up shot. I mean, he was just killing Porzingis with that because Porzingis wasn't moving laterally really well.
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Bill texted well before he got that. I did.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. House didn't seem to like this, but I was thinking, I think there could be some serious movement. I like the hypothetical of what they could add here because Sar is hypothetical. There's that word again. Take a drink. Stretch big. He obviously is not super comfortable around the basket yet playing with force. That's been an issue. Are you waiting for me to call on you?
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I think they have a chance here. Now that you've fallen, you can really lean into an identity of just being gigantic. I think that if you put Malawach next to Saar, next to Koulibaly, that already is a crazy young, huge frontcourt. But also at 6th, I could see like Atlanta really needs a guy like model watch. I could see them.
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I could see somebody reaching up if that, who needs an anchor, like they're, they're one example. I haven't heard a ton of buzz about that, but that's a, that's one just kind of hypothetical idea that, that I was thinking about for the, for the whiz lean into being huge.
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Horford wasn't either. But yeah, 48.1% on the season. I looked it up, dribble pull up too. So that's his strength. And man, he killed him with it.
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Start looking at those spreadsheets and talking to yourself.
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Out of all the possibilities, that would help soothe some of these wounds. He did suggest that we draw a butthole for the guide, though. I just think people should know that. I don't know, House.
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I don't want the reference image for that. So, you know, I don't know. Frank from White Lotus gets it. Frank gets it. Bill, is this a normal thing? Is angry how? He gets the graph of... of Joe being angry and his funniness, the lines just kind of go side by side.
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I mean, based on what's on the board, yeah. Yeah, I guess that Tatum's going to be down. Yeah, I just thought as far as brilliantly as Tatum played, though, he was living a tough life. I mean, nine isolations on the game, and a lot of it was working. They talked a lot about on the broadcast that Carl is really vulnerable in drop.
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He's really vulnerable side to side, but he is decent at kind of staying down, and he's long enough to contest. They were talking about how he bothered Durant. Tatum just kept working hard, and he wasn't really getting by him. And a lot of the shots that he was getting to, he was making them. But he was just kind of doing his thing where he steps backwards. I don't know.
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It seemed like he was burning a lot of calories to just take tough shots. Sometimes they go in, but that's just kind of the Jason Tatum experience. But, hey, if they all go in and he finishes that, yeah, I definitely think it's a notch in his legacy bullet point list. Yeah.
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It's amazing how it shifted, though, from what you're talking about, Bill, like the conversation that we were on this night. And if you're lucky, you get to have this conversation about your career and everything has to go right. And it just speaks to how difficult it is.
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But Tatum gets to this point in his mid to late 20s where we're starting to have this conversation about like, well, what are the levels are there left? And now it's like, do we get to have that conversation again? You know, now it's shifted to like, you just spelled it out. Can he, it shifts to, can he get back?
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And yeah, that's, I mean, that's a huge fucking bummer, man, because, um, and I was just thinking, I was talking to how about this before we got on that. Um, can you ever remember one night where there were more fan bases that were just absolutely depressed for a wide variety of reasons than tonight?
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2019.
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A lot of people had problems with the pyramid. It was meant to provoke discussion, but it felt like nobody had a problem with Reese's being number one, The problem that everybody had was, and I didn't realize, I was the only one that thought this, that plain M&Ms are better than peanut M&Ms. Turns out I was wrong. It wasn't one of those things like, well, that's just your opinion, Wilds.
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You're allowed to have it. Nope. Every single person said I was wrong. So I said, you know what? I'll fold my hand on that one. I was wrong about that. I would flip those if I did it again.
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I was the only person, so I folded my hand on that. Tune in next year to see where they rank.
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See, here's my, Here's my argument if I was to make it. If I want chocolate, I'll go with the Reese's. I already have that, the box checked on that. And if I want M&M's, I'll go with an M&M. The peanut M&M is living in the middle of that somewhere. So for me, it doesn't work. And a lot of people will say, well, what about the candy shell? I would just, I get that from the M&M.
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So I don't need the peanut M&M to even exist, but everyone's mad at me.
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You're saying just being named after a denomination of money is, isn't really getting it done for the hundred grand bar.
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No. Can I tell you something? A little ugly for a candy.
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It's kind of bumpy. It's not sure of itself. Versus when you take out, for example... Kiss. Aesthetically, the Hershey Kiss is just perfect. It's silver. It's got the little hat on it for the wrapper.
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Exactly. The 100-gram bar, you take it out. You're like, what's going on here? It's all over the place. It just feels like when you see an alien trying to be born out of something. It's kind of emerging. So I could see that being an issue. Nobody knows what it is. People get confused, like, what does that have, rice crisps in it? It's like, yeah, I think so.
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It's like, is there a peanut butter-based something in there? Like, I'm not 100% sure. I don't know even what's in the 100-gram bar versus, is it a Milky Way with rice crisps?
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They advertise aggressively. Reese's is out here getting it done with the orange wrappers. They're really making moves. They've gone into ice cream.
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Yeah, it's like $100,000. If I was to do, you know what? Remember when Tarantino got Travolta? I'd be like, you know what? This guy's great and everybody's forgotten about him. If I was to grab the $100,000 payday, Probably Baby Ruth. I'd give Crackle a shot. If I was a Tarantino-esque director, I'd give Crackle a run.
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He's far...
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No one likes Rolos. Rolo has a bad texture to it. Rolos are slippery. A Rolo, again, doesn't know what it wants to be. It's like... we're, uh, you know, a cylinder. Like, what? Like, get out of here, Rolo.
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Um, What is it? It's a candy. You pull it apart. It's a caramel. It's kind of bisected.
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No, I don't like those. No, those are bad. That's Caramello. You want Caramello versus Rolo head-to-head? That would be like Ravensville's. You think that they're both on the same level until you see them head-to-head. Caramello would wash Rolo.
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I don't know. That's the problem. What happened to Caramello?
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This is one of my best takes.
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I still like this one. Both a compliment and an insult. My Crackle take was one of my best takes. Look, every year, you get the Hershey's Fun Bag mix, and there's Crackle. You open it up, You have the Crackle, you think, this is great. There's no reason Crackle can't have the career that the Crunch Bar is having.
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And Crunch Bar is up here with a trophy case filled of most improved candy, most valuable candy, finals candy MVP.
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It's an ice cream. I've had Hershey Crunch. And there's Crackle out here, pop in a game, give you 25 one night, and then disappear for weeks on end. Crackle pop up, throw for 300 yards, win you a game, three touchdowns, and then just gone. So I don't know what to do with Crackle. Part of me thinks that Crackle I don't want to say this, but part of me thinks that Crackle doesn't have the heart.
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He's got all the tools, but just might not have the motor. Here's the other thing about Crackle, might not want it. He's afraid of the bright lights on Halloween. One of the ideas I had was like, Crackle, maybe you should bail on Halloween. Try to find another holiday like Peeps did. Peeps couldn't compete on Halloween. Peeps was like, we got to be out. We got to go to Easter.
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Candy Cane's saw the lineup in Halloween. They can't compete here. We need to go to Christmas and just try to dominate Christmas. Maybe Crackle looks around and says, hey, you know what? Thanksgiving. We can take after dinner mints. But right now, Crackle can't cut it on Halloween.
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Yeah. So you're saying, but Ryan Reynolds, I feel like, and I'm not a Ryan Reynolds expert, although I'm a fan, it feels like Deadpool pushed him beyond. He's like, you know what? I'm not going to try to be for everybody. I'm going to be a little more foul, and then that will allow my personality. So maybe, I don't know how that plays for Crackle.
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I'm going to, I'm, I mean, this is going to hurt if you work at crackle, but I don't think the leading characters in any film are going to love crack.
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Like a secondary character or some, you know, a supporting character. It's like, man, my weird friend loves Crackle.
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It's like, how did you get even 12 Crackle? You have to buy, there's only come three to a bag. Hershey's doesn't believe in Crackle either or Nestle. I don't even know who the parent company is, but they don't believe in Crackle. They don't think Crackle has it either. So if you're not getting support from management, all right, everyone's giving up on Crackle.
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Honestly, maybe this is Crackle's moment. Maybe you should just be the change you believe in and just start eating Crackles all the time. But again, probably not bad for the podcast, though, because of the stupid rice crisps.
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Can't go thinner. Thinner is the score bar. S-K-O-R. Get out of here. Nobody wants a score. You can't go thinner. Messing with the shapes... It comes across as desperate.
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But Kit Kat is operating from a position of strength. Kit Kat, that's like the lions running trick plays. We can do so much stuff. We're so good at the fundamentals. We're running other stuff. Crackle can't go out there doing the Philly special. You just got to work on blocking and tackling right now, Crackle.
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I think that is 100% marketing. I bet less than 1% of KitKats are shared. And You want the option to share it. But I think anyone's got it. No one's been, hey, do you want, hey, I got this Kit Kat. Do you want one? I think that rarely happens. You can share any candy. I can break a Twix in half too, but nobody does that.
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Great run. Great frozen. So who's on your Mount Rushmore? Kit Kat?
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It's Snickers on?
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Wow.
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I mean, the Mount Rushmore for me personally, or what I think should be the Mount Rushmore.
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You could go five, not four. It's not going to be well-received. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. You ready?
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York Peppermint Patties.
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It's getting worse. Necco wafers.
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I love a dry wafer. And then I'll probably go... I'll probably just go plain M&M's. I like... It's the York that is really... That is really off-putting to people. And the wafers.
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I don't know what to say to that.
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No. No, I never got. That's a little before my time. And then I don't think I've ever seen them for sale.
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Maybe. Oh, yeah. Celebrity endorsement. Come on, Ben.
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That would work. That would 100% work. That's the longest anyone's ever talked about crackle. And that includes inside the crackle building. Can we just move on to Mr. Goodbar?
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Good with flaws, I would say, is the best.
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Good with flaws. I think every marquee team, when they're good, with flaws makes it the most interesting. And not to be like too philosophical about it, but like a superhero, like a Superman thing, like a superhero with a kryptonite I think is the most interesting team. Um, that's why I think like, I know we were talking basketball, like that's why I think Tatum is interesting.
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Like, Oh, like I think superhero with flaws is fascinating, but a mediocre team that could get hot, interesting, but just a bad team, a marquee team that is bad. That's the worst. There's no, there's no takes that you can generate. That is, that is, uh, you're dry, arid land that no takes can grow from. Is that same for the Lakers? No, the Lakers, I think, are fascinating.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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But I always thought the Lakers puncher's chance for the last few years, and now that they're running interesting stuff, it's like, oh, two top 10 players? Like, maybe. Maybe they can make a little run. I think the Lakers are always interesting because LeBron... Two top 10 players?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Where are you putting AD?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah. Okay. All right. But every team with two top 15 players has a chance at the title except them for the last few years. But maybe JJ can work some magic and maybe it'll work.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah. I haven't watched enough this year yet. I've been so locked in on football. I haven't like switched over and we were, I was locked in on the world series. I got to switch over to basketball to get totally locked in.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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And for, I was trying to, maybe you'll be able to pull this off the top of your head, but for a five game series, super tight and compelling versus usually thought like great series, seven, six, like, Oh, it's like every game was good moments. Again, superstar with a flaw with Aaron judge. You're always pulling for him to pull out of it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Oh, Connie kind of battling back on a Willis Reedy, although he'd never had like the big moment, Freddie hitting a home run all the time. I thought it was just awesome. I thought it was just World Series baseball, just fantastic.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, there was we went to the regular season Yankees Dodgers game because it was on Fox and there was a ton of Dodgers fans. And I guess you can chalk some of it up to like, oh, my dad was a Brooklyn or my grandfather was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And that kind of like there is some of that still like rooted here. Like a mad dog is like a New York, old New York Giants fan.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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But there was tons of that. And there's a lot of Dodgers fans at the World Series games, too. So it was, and Yankees fans are obviously everywhere, but I thought it was, I just thought it was awesome. I loved it. And I know I'm supposed to be a Red Sox. Well, I am a Red Sox fan. I'm supposed to be a Yankee.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Okay. Do I love, I love sports.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I can't hate. I might as well like Aaron Judge. Oh, the Hobbes. Oh. Okay. All right. This is terrible.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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a great player. I'm going to be a fan of the great players. I'm not going to sit here and... Has anyone shed more blood and tears for Mac Jones than me? I'm out here. Get a little respite. A little breath of fresh air after watching Mac Jones. I'm still on Mac Jones Island by myself. Filtrating my own water. Volleyball all day. No one's here. Just me.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I'm still there.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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If the Chiefs go undefeated or if they lose one game, but Mahomes statistically counting stats are pretty bland. But I guess there's other stats that we pulled off where it's like, you know, sort of must have moments, need to get it moments. And he's great in those moments, clutch moments. But if his counting stats are bland, would you give him the MVP? If he's 16-1?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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How about 15-1 and they sit Week 18 and Carson Wentz loses the game, but he only lost one game. 15. I mean, the thing is, I'm going to keep walking you back. All right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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You don't care about head-to-head because I do. Like two MVPs going head-to-head, whoever won. So I put Mahomes over Lamar and I put Lamar over Josh.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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He's got to have a Hedger James and Harrison win. I'm sorry, does he play defense too? He's supposed to be Travis Hunter out there? It's nothing to do with it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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You know what? I realize it when I, this is going to be a, this is like the biggest compliment I can give to my homes. When other teams have the ball with a chance to win the game, I will either think a, they're not going to do it or B, this would be challenging to do it. But if it was my home, they're like, Oh, game's over.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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And everybody, you go to DraftKings or FanDuel or like, yeah, everybody thinks this game is over now and the Chiefs are behind. Right. But, you know what? I felt a little bit like that with Drake May. A little bit. I was like, oh, we're getting the ball back?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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You see what Drake did? Drake saw this and this is why he threw it. Love it. Love it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Yes. What do you think about this, Dick? I'm like, how do I feel about Drake May? Part of me feels like a little bit of a stretch. How my parents...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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view my kids they're like oh they're like so excited to what they see like grandparent energy yeah grandparent energy towards Drake May like I've already lived my adult life with Tom Brady so to speak and my kid life with like Tony Eason and Steve Grogan And then a big chunk of my life when I was really in it with Brady. But now I get to, I've already seen it all. I've seen how it all happens.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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And now like Drake is like, I've got grandparent energy. Like, look at this. This is great. Like, yeah, he lost. He fell down and scraped his knee. That's okay. He's learning. I can see it's going to be great. Like, oh, you're in for a great time. Grandparent energy towards Drake, man.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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But if you were a parent, like, Oh, would you be worried about the interception? He threw a game ending interception for, if you're a parent, like first kid parent, Oh, what am I doing? Oh, this and that. Like, it's not a big deal. Trust me, he'll learn to clap. We freaked out because Russell, we were like, this is a real conversation. Is he clapping on time? We read some stupid thing.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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You should be clapping at 12. Is he clapping on time? That's so stupid. And grandparents are like, no, don't worry about it. That's really good for him.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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We had a poop journal for our first baby. What time? We were writing down.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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No, he was just defense first. I think we're just trading down. We're going to have a great pick. We're going to trade down for multiple picks. Probably get, you know, bolster the offensive line. And then I don't know how we're getting a number one receiver.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I didn't go to a Chiefs game.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I went to the Chiefs parade multiple times. You did that too. Yeah. I did. I went back to heroin. Who are you? I went to Patriot. I took my kids to Foxborough to see Patrick Mahomes. What am I supposed to do? Modern day Brady.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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So I got a colonoscopy. with the idea, go out and get your colonoscopy if you need one. And everybody needs to get it checked out. The idea being, you might think you're fine, but you might be dying inside. That's the concept that will run through the storyline. Also, hard stop. Second part of the story. I know two families that recently got dogs. And they're like,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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They didn't want dogs for a long time. We're not dog people, this and that. Then they made the jump, got a dog. And then, of course, they say, I can't believe we were ever in this house without a dog. Thus, the half-baked idea is, I'm calling it the, I don't even know how to pronounce it, get an Aryan. Okay, it's like veterinary, get an Aryan.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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You have to go just like you have to go to a colonoscopy doctor every five years. Every five years, you need to go to a veterinarian. And it's kind of like a therapist. You sit and you talk or maybe they come to your house and you talk about whether or not you need a pet in your life. So even if you already have a dog, you should have to talk about getting another dog.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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So every, you can go, all right, maybe you get a dog, maybe you get a cat, maybe you get a snake, maybe you get something, but it's an outside consultant that you have to go to every, every American. It's going to be in federal law. Every American needs to go to a get an Aryan and they ask, figure out if you need a dog that will make your life better.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Oh, it could probably go the other way too. Like do not get a dog. You are more of a fish person.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, that's prime reptile right there. No, you don't. But if you need a dog, how many dogs do you have right now? Two?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Okay. I know you think that, but you should probably go to the getting area and be like, hey, man, we ran the numbers. You're actually a three-dog household. I'm not saying it's a guarantee, but you should get checked out.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Exactly. I was just going to say that, you know, you're going to get a huge dog.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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You got to get small, medium, large. Oh yeah. Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I've got one more that I think you're either going to love or really hate, which is the key sweet spot for half-baked ideas. I've got an appetite to consume more media than I have time to consume. Just like I have an appetite to consume all of the Sunday football games with but I can't watch everything, you know, live. So I have Red Zone.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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But shows that I've started, Gladiator I started, The Boys, Penguin, Yellowstone, those four shows, I've watched a bit of all of those shows. But I'm not going to, you know, I find myself, well, maybe I'll get the flu and I'll be laid out. That's no way to live, rooting for the flu so I can bang through all these shows.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Some sort of Scott Hanson, Hanson zone. I'm calling some sort of Scott Hanson red zone thing where he's up there, but all right, let's go to the penguin. Oh, the penguin just killed this guy. Oh my God. Boom. Quick shot. Boom. All right. We got to go back. Now we're going over to Yellowstone. Oh my goodness. There's some real estate deal coming back. All right. Let's go to the boys.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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We're on season one of what? And it's just for you. Maybe it's AI, but I'm bouncing around. I don't need to see every little, you know, piece of plot. I just need the big moment so I can be conversant. I get a little emotional about, oh my God, I can't believe, you know, Rip killed this guy on Yellowstone. Red zone for serialized television.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I don't even know that show. I've got to put that on the list, I guess. That's Hanson's job. That's the idea. I really need this in my life.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Thank you. And just like, you know how YouTube has, you can pick, they don't let you pick the multi-view. They're like, here are the four shows. That's what you go into. It's like, we're going to start season one of these four shows. Well, you're basically, it's talk soup. You're in there for an hour.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yep.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Exactly.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Yeah. Can you believe that? Like, yes, exactly right. Trip away a lot of the art of it. Like, ah, here's the penguin walking through Gotham in this beautiful scene. I get it. But also. that Hanson's taken out of the show for me. Boom, I'm out there red zone Hanson.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, there was an idea that I had for since the show that we, you know, is produced.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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First things first, obviously pretty, we can kind of know what we're saying and we have like notes and stats and full screen. And here's my point. And here's my thing. I've never said this before. Like I come over and like produce your Thanksgiving dinner. It's like, all right, Bill, what do you want to talk about?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Like, all right, I got to talk about, you know, the landscaping of my neighbor's house.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah. It's like, all right, what's your issue with the landscape and everything? Like these trees are too tall. I'm like, those trees are too tall. Like the average tree is this. I'm going to make you a full screen and say the average tree is this and this is blocking your view of whatever. Like what else? And this, and we've got lots, and I'm throwing stuff.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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And I'm in Bob's ear. I'm like, hey, Bob, don't forget. Don't forget Bill said this the other day. Stick it to him. Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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No. Don't do it. That's a no-go.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, they're going to move to New Jersey. But how many full-service gas stations are in California?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Oh God.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I don't know.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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It also revitalizes your superstar. Every superstar is like, Russ changes our team. Like Joker the other day, this is what he does for us.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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This will be the second Pulp Fiction reference, but kind of like, like the wolf, like West, like I'm here.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Oh yeah. Um, shows up there super fast. He's always dressed really well.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Okay. Oh, for your GPS. Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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All right, what do you got next? I actually like that one. I actually like that one a lot. This one is super, hold on. This one is super depressing. You want a depressing one or a stupid one? Give us both. I'll start with the depressing one. Okay. We're trying to go to Hawaii for our next vacation. I'll be probably after my birthday, so I'll be like 47. It's a long way from the East Coast.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Good luck. I know. We're going to pit stop and then we can go. Anyway, 47. Yeah. Prime funeral photo time for me. Not too young, like right on my casket, right there. What photo you got? It's that photo we took on vacation in Hawaii. I'm thinking about it. So right now, I don't know if there's photographers that specialize in this.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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So you get exposed to a professional photographer a few times in your life. You're born, you usually get like a nice photo. Then K through 12, a guy or a woman shows up every photo day. That's good. Then you're in a pretty much of a dry spell there until your wedding day, boom. And then you're pretty much on your own.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Like there's very few times that you're going to run into a perfect, maybe going down a roller coaster and that's probably a robot, but that's it. For all K through 12, your wedding, and if you're going down a water slide with a scary face, that's the only time you're getting professional photos. So when you die, your poor loved ones already have the stress of dealing with your departure.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Now they have another stress of going through How many pictures of me? 3,000 pictures on my iPhone? You got to go through 3,000 pictures and try to find the one?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Oh, it's a disaster.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Exactly. And a few things. One, got to be solo. You gotta be on the casket. You can't have two people. Like, hold on. What happened here? Was this some sort of accident?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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No, that's a no-go. Gotta be solo. It's gotta be sort of a candid photo. Like, oh, look at this. Which, you know, normal people have a hard time capturing. You can pose on a photo, sure. But just like a candid photo. And who am I laughing with? Like, that person's taking the picture. Gotta need a pro. Gotta be smiling, obviously. And I need a lived life to the fullest background.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Can't just have it, you know, just walking down the street at the coffee shop. I have to have, wow, oh, look at that. Remember he went to Hawaii? That's a great moment for him. And then part of me, and this is just an idea here. I have no proof of this. Part of me thinks that when you go to heaven or whatever you may believe in, and if you are a physical entity there,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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that you need to put a recommendation up into the management at heaven on how you would like to be perceived.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, because it's also confusing for everybody else. I was just thinking, I go to Benjamin Franklin, he's 20 years old. I'm like, who are you? He's like, Ben Franklin. I'm like, Ben Franklin? Bro, who are you? And he's playing basketball. I'm like, dude, no, you have to be... He's a stretch for... He's just like this young, like strapping dude. Like, no dude, wear your stocking.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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So anyways, it's, I called it,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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taken but since it's like the idea of the clock is ticking tick tock it's called no it's i called it either weight gram casket gram or tick tock but it's a photographer that only does funeral so you consult with the photographer and he's he's like great spot at the top of this mountain and kawaii um we'll get background there's like a volcano over your right shoulder it could do that oh wow
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Love it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Love it. I wouldn't do it honestly for that. If you were the photographer, I'd be like, let's do the bar because I think the clouds at the top, little too on the nose. So let's do the hotel bar. Um, good lighting and it'd be great. Like save it. And if you hear about my demise, let's, let's print that up.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Good. I'm glad. I thought that was going to be more depressing.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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All right. This is, this is stupider.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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NFL game. You're going to the game. What are you wearing? Jersey. NBA game, wearing a jersey. Soccer, wearing a jersey. Baseball game, hats and jerseys. Kentucky Derby, full suit. Kentucky Derby, either jockey jerseys, little checkerboard action with the hat and the pants, or dress like the horse. Outfits where it's like, oh, nice markings, with a shirt with a mane that goes down your spine.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Like, oh, sick, you dress like your favorite horse. You don't have to wear a dress or some like fancy suit. Dress like the jockey. Got a shirt with a number on. Some of those shirts look great. Green checkerboard with like the number.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yes.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Okay, horse, you might not want to dress as the horse, but certainly you can dress like the jockey. They look great. And part of this is born, I started riding, I bought a bike, so I'm riding a bike. And the first hurdle to get over after you buy the bike, it's like, all right, am I really going to buy the, you know.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Bill? I look fantastic.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Oh, my God. Bill, I look great.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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If you did, I would look great. It would be my funeral pic. They're like, that dude looks fantastic. And it's slimming. You're squeezed in there. You're looking aerodynamic. You're in bright colors. You just look like you're out here living life. I look fantastic in my biking outfit.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I'll post some stuff of me looking like... you look muscular in them. It's like, they're like Spanx in there. And once you start biking, you start to get, you know, cut off a little bit. It's great. Wow.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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But being a bike guy, it's been fantastic. The other part of this is, and this is a half big idea, subhead, lower body. For fanatics. It's really like got basketball sneakers. That's taken care of. Hats. So, you know, tip to toe. That's taken care of. The whole upper body is taken care of. Shorts occasionally. But the lower body is there for you if you want to wear a Yankees pinstripe pants.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Well, I'm just saying like the lower body is available for is an open piece of real estate for fanatics to jump on. I'd wear, personally, I'd wear those little jockey shorts. Jockey and high boots. I'd look great.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I read a study. It was about like loneliness is like, you know, epidemic. It was like, uh, 58% of men haven't made a friend in the last year, a new friend in the last year. I was like 58. I would, I would put that at 99.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I didn't realize like everyone's like getting these new friends, like a draft day of like, Hey, you know, draft is coming up and you just call a guy that, you know, your kids, you know, kids, you're, The friend's father that you've seen in like, Hey man, uh, I just want to let you know, uh, I took you in the second round of my friend draft.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Uh, we're going to let you, uh, happy to welcome you on board friends. You're going to invite it to, we're going to go out for a beer too. And like mandated, you got to get new friends.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Oh, geez, I'm stuck. I've just been rolling off.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
I've been rolling with the same friends for a while. I'm like just trying to think of a team that's just like, yeah, we're running it back again. Like, really? We all got a year older. I got to get some new blood. I'm thinking about, I met one of Billy's soccer friend's dads.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Might be a new friend. Might be a new friend.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
That's my only, you know, that's my only ground. I don't know. Like a guy on the street, like, Hey buddy, I did meet a random guy. Like, buddy, we should be friends. Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
All right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
You like doing that? Let the scroll to find stuff?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Okay. So that is not only a half-baked idea. I believe that is a full-baked idea. Oh, I broke the rule? I stayed at a hotel in the Catskills, and they had a little library there of VHSs, and then it was included in the thing.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
I think it was one unit. Oh, interesting.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Nobody has this idea. It's a great idea.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Okay, here we go.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Can I ask you a question? Because I do very few Zooms now that are, do you feel the need that Zoom replaced conference calls? Like, why are you just on a conference call? Why do you need to see everybody?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
But no one likes to be seen.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
We're in the, yeah, I guess so.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
We're in the office. And then with the Zoom that we have, everyone's camera's off. I'm like, we're actually just having a conference call. The poor conference call industry is just really falling off.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
I have two. Hold on. All right. I have this one from Hutchinson was injured and he went to the game. And I said, sports bar. And he looked very comfortable as he recovers. So Godspeed, Aiden Hutchinson. Sports bar, but the seating looks like you just had major surgery. It's more of like you're just kind of being pampered.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah, but it looks like you just had surgery. So you're really, it's really just, I mean, it's really short for It's a bar where you put your feet up and take your shoes off. I think that's where... That's kind of the underlying current.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
I don't like self-checkout. I'm not a huge fan of that. I hate it as well. I'm like, all right, I have to work here too now. Not a fan. However... You like cook my own food at your dining establishment. So all buffets. Love it. Element of fun. The movie theater for my own sodas. Fantastic. There's like a yogurt shop in town. You can make your own yogurts. Do that. That's great.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Those like little like hibachi place, a little teriyaki where you like have a little open flame. Fantastic. Is I don't have this is a quarter big. Is there another food that is ripe for that treatment? Where it's like, yeah, you you actually go and you just do it yourself. I'm like, what? They don't do it for you. Like, no, you have to do it. They give you all the tools, but you get to do it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Like, great. But I don't know what the food is.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
But that's just like the ninth inning. I'm not going to buy one.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
I wouldn't mind being the guy who threw the pizza.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
But I don't just like a lot of times make your own pizza just means throw some basil on her. I wouldn't mind. I don't know. I'm trying to find out the best thing. A very hot steak. I don't know, but I know I like pouring my own sodas and I know I like, cooking my own hibachis.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Oh, that's not a bad idea.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
That's what it is. It's a giant sports bar and it's almost set up like pop golf. And you go in there, it's like, here's your station. Here's your grill. Maybe you have like a huge smoker. Maybe you have a pig on a spit. And it's like, this is your little area. You got to do it. And you're making friends. And you're like, hey, buddy, want to be friends? Come over.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Yeah, it's high end. I got a big grill. I'm like, hey, buddy, because I'm grilling by myself. Making friends and grilling. You're like, you're competing. Other guys, more for high end grills. Did you get anything? Anybody have this? Good, we solved it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Yeah, you're always having a blast.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
This guy really lived.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Two-Week NBA Power Poll, Plus Drake Maye, Best Candy, and Half-Baked Ideas With Kevin Wildes
Good to see you.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan
Grant Hill, Kobe.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan
When is that? Allegedly. I don't know. Sounds great.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan
When did we say we're doing it? I said the weekend Saturday vibes are great. Will they have the games on? Yeah. Three TVs. Not the best, though.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
This weird injury, yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah, he's too crafty.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Jokic Fest, the Worry Scale, Rather Have, and Favorite Movie Girlfriends LIVE From Denver With Ryen Russillo
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Jokic Fest, the Worry Scale, Rather Have, and Favorite Movie Girlfriends LIVE From Denver With Ryen Russillo
LAUGHTER
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The Feel-Good Knicks, Award Movies, Week 18 Picks, and a Boston Sports Report With Sean Fennessey, Joe House, and Bill’s Dad
Mm-hmm.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Feel-Good Knicks, Award Movies, Week 18 Picks, and a Boston Sports Report With Sean Fennessey, Joe House, and Bill’s Dad
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Feel-Good Knicks, Award Movies, Week 18 Picks, and a Boston Sports Report With Sean Fennessey, Joe House, and Bill’s Dad
I know.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Luka Gets Traded to the Lakers… What??? | With Ryen Russillo and Rob Mahoney
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says renewing temporary protective status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans is, quote, contrary to the national interest. That comes as a blow to Venezuelans who came to the U.S. seeking refuge from the authoritarian Nicolas Maduro regime and now face possible deportation.
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Adelise Ferro with the Venezuelan American Caucus says her community is shocked and disappointed.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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TPS designations are generally 6 to 18 months, but repeated extensions are not uncommon. Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami.
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Yeah, that always helps.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Steph’s Last Ride, Philly’s Swoon and Bill’s ‘SNL 50’ GOAT Lists | with Rob Mahoney
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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On the way so I never said I don't have a few years with him On the way so I never said
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We'll see you next time.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
One thing with the Bengals. I think they're about 16-1 if you put those three possibilities together to make the playoffs.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Three.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Five?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Um, I called Tom, Tom means Tom Lee, by the way.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
It's good. I didn't mean to rest in peace. Um, Lions Vikings. It's in Detroit. I'm giving this the tic-tac, so.
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Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
The one and a half. Got to get it the right way. NFC South. On the line, not really. Falcons win. They get the fourth seed. They're playing the Panthers in Atlanta. I'm sorry. I screwed this up.
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Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Right? Yes.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Okay.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Broncos against the Chiefs. It's in Denver. Wow.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
It's a lot. I don't know.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
And they need a Denver loss. And two of them might not play. Stu Puntley was like passable today and people were excited about it. Yeah.
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Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
I love it. By the teammates. Yeah. Steelers-Bengals in Pittsburgh.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
What? What?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
No, don't bet the Steelers.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
I got to find this now. I had seven. Let's see where it is. I got to find it because they're all moving around. Five and a half.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Mm-hmm. Washington, I have minus three and a half over your Cowboys.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
What's the score? I don't know. One, two, three, four, two, three, six to four me. Yeah, you might still get this. I think you are going to get it. Bunch of garbage coming. We only have five games left. Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
Yeah, they felt... What was their rushing passing? So they did... They ran the ball 32 times.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
Matt Stafford, Drew Brees, Dan Marino, Aaron Rodgers. Wow.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
It doesn't matter.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
Yeah, they get everybody. Guess the lines. Chiefs, Eagles, and I'm going to say, it's in New Orleans, I'm going to say Chiefs by two and a half. Okay. I said, I've not seen it yet. Swear.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
What is it? 114 and a half. What? Yeah, you just read his stats. I can't give that free money. He's playing the Chiefs. I mean, Cook almost had that, right?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
What else do you want to see? James Cook had 85 yards. Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
That's my boy. That's good hard-nosed stuff. I like it. That's it. So I'm the jerk again. You know,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
I have a quick NBA thing for you.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
Yeah, well, we already have that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
I think LaMelo's in it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
Two guys who never want to play. What a great trade.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
I know. You're right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Ihr könnt uns jeden Sonntagabend, wenn ihr wollt, auf dem Bill Simmons-Channel anwenden. Hier geht's. Zuerst unsere Freunde von Pearl Jam. All right. It is Sunday. It is 8.35 p.m. Pacific Time. Just watched the Eagles absolutely kill the Rams. Sal, I did something unusual there. I wasn't going to bet on this game. And then I watched how bad the Patriots were against the Dolphins.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
So I like the way Tampa looked today. And Tampa's finally gotten their team back. Evans played today... Cornerbacks are back, so they can't be ruled out either.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
I was going to bet it with you, and then I remembered that we weren't allowed to bet on the NFC South in a positive way.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
You know what I'm noticing? As always, I'm reading your facial cues. First 10 minutes of the pod. How many bets did you have Washington in? Like all of them?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
How many tightest Friday and Saturday games?
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
You make fun of me for that. I know. Welcome to Who's Delivering, presented by Uber Eats, where we break down the NFL players who have delivered so far this season from household names to Two out of nowhere surprises. I think Saquon's the number one guy on this list.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Because it's not just that he improved their running back situation and just makes them more dangerous when you see all their playmakers now. But Die Abschlussfähigkeit von ihm, diese Mannschaft, die man immer fühlte, als würde sie gut anfangen, und dann würde man die Abschlussfähigkeit dieser Spiele verringern. Er hat nie 100% auf sie gefühlt.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Und jetzt fühlt es sich so an, als ob sie Leads auslösen können. Sie sind ein Spiel hinter Detroit. Die Lions sind so, wir haben neun Straight gewonnen. Wie können wir nicht einen größeren Lead haben als das? Also würde ich Barkley Nummer eins für mich sagen. Was hast du?
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
All those $30-$40 DJ Moore, Jalen Waddle-Types. The other thing is, he's made tough catches. He'll make touchdown catches in the corner with two guys on him, getting the feet in. Yeah, he's good. The other one I'd want to mention for this is... Jackson Smith und Jigba, die Seattleer Jungs, 336 Yards in den letzten drei Wochen.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Aber es fühlt sich so an, als ob sie jedes Mal einen ersten Down brauchen. Jedes Mal, wenn es 3-8, 3-11, 3-7 ist, ist er irgendwo offen, er macht einen Spiel und er ist der beste Receiver auf dieser Mannschaft. Das war Who's Delivering, präsentiert von Uber Eats, wo man die besten Teile auf Game Day Food alle Saison lang bekommen kann. Uber Eats, der offizielle Anwendungspartner der NFL-Order.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Jetzt nehmen wir eine Pause für den Podcast. So, speaking of JSN, Seahawks 16, Cardinals 6. This game killed me.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
I like the Cardinals a lot. The game came down to two terrible Kyler Murray plays. Das ist wirklich, ich meine, Gino hat einen Pick in der Endzone, aber du faktorierst das in, wenn du den Seahawks nimmst. Du weißt, er wird einen schrecklichen Pass haben. Right. Kyler hat ziemlich gut und ziemlich verantwortlich gespielt.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Das Spiel fliegt in der dritten Quartier in diesem vierten und einen, wo er rausrollt. And then he has the guy. He just has him for a little five-yard flick pass and sails it right over his head and it's a pick six. And they were on the Seattle side and it was at least a 10-point swing. That was one.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
And then the other one, he just missed McBride when they were driving in the fourth quarter where if they had scored, they would have been able to get the ball potentially back with four minutes left. But here's where I landed, Sal. I don't know if I have... Wer ist dein Karriereleiter? Und... Verdammt, warum habe ich überhaupt auf diesen Mann gebeten, Leute?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Weil ich denke, dass Kyler für mich Nummer eins ist. Er hat mich in neun verschiedenen Zeiten verletzt, wo er mir das getan hat. Und ich verliere es immer. Es ist wie... Es ist wie... Einer deiner Freunde, der nur einen schrecklichen Geschmack an Frauen hat und den gleichen Art von Frau über und über wieder verliebt. Und du bist so... Warum hast du... Ist das nicht eine Frau wie Jenny von vorher?
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Nein, nein, sie ist anders. Und es ist so, ah, du hast recht. Gleiches Ding, ja. Ich kann einfach nicht von Kyler Murray ausgehen, nur weil er mich in die Zähne gekriegt hat.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
16 Pressures on him during the game by Seattle. Five sacks. Their defense, Raheem was calling on this on the Ringer Sunday pregame show today. He was saying how he thought Seattle's defense was coming on. They did get some guys back in the middle. The thing that shocked me, one of the reasons I really liked Arizona was that I thought they'd be able to run up the middle and really run on them.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Especially with Connor, physical type of team that Seattle's had a lot of trouble with this season. Connor had eight yards. Aber sie haben ihn gelockt. Arizona hat nur sechs Punkte gespielt. Das ist ein bisschen verrückt. Das Team hat Talent.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
The only team I'm willing to cross off mentally, I wouldn't cross them off with pen, but maybe with pencil is, I think the Niners are just a wrap. Oh yeah. I don't see it. It's just, and we do this every year with at least one NFL team where we're just, we're past performance judging them and we don't want to see what we're watching now. They've lost too many guys. They're not the same team.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
And it wasn't even that they didn't have Purdy today. Their defense got annihilated. Die Packers, die Packers rannten, Jacobs war der beste Typ auf dem Feld. Sie konnten nicht, sie konnten ihre Defense auf dem Feld bekommen. Also, egal ob Purdy es gespielt hat oder nicht, ich glaube nicht, es würde den Resultat ändern.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
And I said to myself, Jesus, they should have beaten the Rams last week. That might mean the Rams are bad. And I bet on the Eagles. Yeah.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
So I had the Packers for million dollar picks. Then Purdy got hurt and the line went up. And I was like, this has all the makings of a stay away in real life. The line's up too high, Shannon. So I wasn't going to bet it. And then the Washington game happened. I'm like, hey, all right. Broncos with the Packers. Let's go. Just throwing teams together to try to win money back.
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Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
But I still like this Packers team. Und ich weiß, dass es heute nicht so gut war. Heute war er in Ordnung, aber er hat es verpasst. Er hat Watson gehabt. Was machen wir mit Watson? Ist er einfach so, als ob ich unsere Fantasie-Menschen, Danny, Danny und Craig, über das war. Ich war einfach so, wie ist dieser Kerl? Hat er mehr Fantasie-Teams und Saisonen getötet als irgendeiner?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Saquon’s Big Night, a Vegas Savior Idea, Wobbly Washington, Surging Seattle, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Er ist nicht so, als wäre er ein Markierer. Aber dieser Pass heute, er ist weit offen, er ist wie ein Gesell, er schießt zwei Jungs, es ist in seinen Händen und er schießt es, wie der Junge aus den Verwendungen. Aber anyway, das war Loves großer Touchdown, den er nicht bekommen hat. Aber ich dachte, sie sahen ziemlich gut aus.
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Denver was one of my favorites all week. We had them in million dollar picks teased with Washington and Casey. Two teams that almost lost. I should have just done the Broncos money line. I love the Broncos against the Raiders. So the Packers are somehow eight and three. Yeah. Doesn't feel like an 8-3 season, but it says that's their record. So they're going to be no worse than a 6-seed.
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And I think you want to be the 6-seed this year, because that means you're either playing the NFC South, Atlanta or Tampa, or you're playing Seattle, Arizona. Wait, wait, wait. The 7 plays the 2, the 6 plays the 3. The 6 plays the 3. 3 Seeds are going to be either NFC West or NFC South. Yeah, that's fine. So they're right where they need to be.
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But then, if you're the 6th Seed, you also... Oh, do they re-seed after the round 2? They do. Yeah, this is... They have to play Detroit in round 2. Yeah.
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Er hatte sieben am Ende der Regulierung. Ja, das ist richtig. Unsere Seeds sind jetzt 27 Philly, Washington, 36 Seattle, Green Bay, 4 oder 5 Atlanta, Minnesota. Richtig. Und ich denke, du hast recht. Ich denke, Minnesota ist ein 2,5-Punkt-Favorit. Wir wissen nicht, was in den nächsten 5-6 Wochen passieren wird. Seattle, Green Bay. Sie gehen durch Green Bay's Schedule den Rest des Weges.
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Zuerst einmal, dieses Miami-Spiel, das sie am Dienstagabend haben. Jetzt eigentlich, eine Woche vor, hätte ich nicht gesagt, dass das so lustig war. Jetzt bin ich ein bisschen gespannt darauf. Wie Tua heute aussieht, richtig? All of a sudden, das ist ein gutes Spiel. Und dann sind sie in Detroit, die nächste Woche. Dann sind sie in Seattle. So this could go from 8-3 to 8-6 in two and a half weeks.
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And then they play at Minnesota in week 17 too.
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And plus your team could potentially make it. Shut up. With Daniel Jones.
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I can't believe it. How did they do that? Speaking of the Seahawks, Wir haben einen wirklich guten Interzeptionstitel-Battel. Wir haben einen drei-Weg-Tie mit Gino, Mahomes und Love. Und dann dein Mann Sam Darnold, dein Pre-Saison-Pick, als wir unser Futures-Draft gemacht haben. Du hattest Sam Darnold, was war es, 10-1? Ich glaube so, ja. Er hat nur eine Rückmeldung. Er hat nur eine Rückmeldung.
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You know why I know that? Because I benched DJ Moore. The Seahawks, they're at the Jets amid could Aaron Rodgers be cut rumors. If Aaron Rodgers got cut before December, before the Netflix thing came out, What would the odds have been on that in August? Aaron Rodgers will be healthy, but cut before December. 100-1? 50-1? What would you have said?
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Well, it seems like things have tilted too far with the running back position. Where the contracts went down, everyone talked about how replaceable they were. And then it hit the point last summer or last spring when Derrick Henry and Saquon were both available. They were on bad teams. Their stock was down because of the quarterbacks, the coaching.
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It's probably gonna be this week against Seattle. It's a home Jets game, so that's Seattle's first game. Geno Smith, back at the old team. Then they're at Arizona, rematch. Home Green Bay, home Minnesota, at Chicago, at the Rams.
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So we had, I went back and looked at all the future bets I made and I think I had the most bets on Seattle, which I might have made a mistake and accidentally bet on their over twice. But I had them most on their over to make the playoffs and to win the division. I had the trifecta and I thought it was dead two weeks ago.
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Also unsere Sonntagnacht-NBC-Week-18-Game. Was haben sie? Seattle bei den Rams oder Arizona gegen San Francisco. So it could be Seattle at the Rams. That feels very... You gotta go with the quarterbacks.
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I think Seattle... If the Rams are a game back?
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So the Niners game. The Niners lose by 28. McCaffrey's 11 for 31. 37 yards receiving. and has had one of the most disappointing fantasy seasons in a while, considering he came back. But there was some, Green Bay, Dobbs got a concussion, probably no Alexander, and they're playing Thursday on Thanksgiving. So, we'll see what happens with that.
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Oh, it's going to be freezing. Yeah, I can't wait to talk about that. It's going to be a fun one. And then San Francisco is at Buffalo, which could be, they're 5 and 6, that could be it. Anyway, look at the rest of even beyond that week. It's really bad. You mentioned Vikings Bears. So they play, the Vikings play Detroit in Week 18 and they're only a game back.
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It's not inconceivable that that game would decide the win seed, but I watched these Vikings games and I felt this way for a month. I'm sure you have too. You're like, how are they doing this? Today, it looked like they blew the game because they didn't get the onside kick, but then Darnold was awesome in OT and that was why they won.
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All of a sudden, Darnold really hit it up and he's done this a couple times. I can't tell. Do you think he's sucking us in like Flacco did last year or this is more real?
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Coming up, Week 12 in the books. A lot happened.
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They just wasted on the teams that were on bad offensive lines. And then you grab those guys and put them on a different team and they look superhuman. And I wonder if going forward now we'll just know, like in fantasy, in futures and all this stuff, it's like, oh yeah, Derrick Henry was on a bad team last year. He should be in a really good situation this year.
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Die Montage von ihnen am Ende der Saison wäre ziemlich groß. Ja, also auf unserem Sonntag-Pregame-Show, dein weiser Wager, du bist jetzt 10-2. Du hattest die Bären 3,5. Es war 3,5 bei 7,57. Wir starten das Show um 8, Pacific Time. Und um 8,10 ging die Linie zu 3. Ich weiß nicht, ob du die Linie gewechselt hast oder was passiert ist.
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Hey, wenn du gesagt hättest, es wäre 3.5 Uhr um 7.57 Uhr... Danke. ... dann hättest du gerade angefangen. Ich habe nur gesagt, es ist eine ziemlich glückliche Pause. Das ist mein Betten von 7.57 Uhr. Das ist alles.
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Eine ziemlich glückliche Pause. Also, in Minnesota haben sie drei Spiele in der Reihe gespielt. In Jacksonville, in Tennessee, in Chicago. Ja. Und sie haben diese Spiele durch fünf, durch zehn und durch drei gewonnen. In der Woche neun haben sie die Colts 21-13 gewonnen. In Week 5, they beat the Jets 23-17. And in Week 4, they won at Green Bay 31-29.
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They have not had a blowout win since Week 3 when they beat Houston. Their next three games are at home. Arizona, Atlanta, Chicago on a Monday night. All super winnable. At Seattle, home Green Bay, at Detroit to finish it. I don't know what their final record is going to be. It could be like 14-3.
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Really? Yeah, because... Die Aaron Jones-Serie, sie haben zwei gute Receivers, Hawkinson kam endlich zurück. Ich fühle mich, dass sie den Ball bewegen können, wenn sie es eigentlich brauchen. Und Darnold, ich will es nicht glauben, aber er ist, du weißt, wir haben die Leute gesehen, die Gino Baker, es gibt ein Trek-Rekord für das jetzt. Worst case scenario, wahrscheinlich Case Keenum.
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Es gab einen Spiel in der zweiten Halbzeit. Er hatte einen 60-Jahr-Touchdown. Er hat sich auf die Linie gelegt und gespielt. Er wurde zurückgehalten. Ich glaube, das war sein großer Teil. Okay. Chiefs Panthers ist noch einer, den wir sprechen müssen. Okay. Chiefs 37, Panthers 27. This was the other sweated out part of the tease. 30-27.
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Actually hitting as the Washington game was. Right. So, I have two things on this one. One is that KC is just Milton Berling it every week now.
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I don't know why this was so hard to figure out so.
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They're barely pulling it out of the zipper in these games. And then it's like, oh, all right, you guys tied and got the two point. Okay, now Mahomes is like flying around. They're throwing to Kelsey. But it just feels like they're trying to get to January when you watch them. With that said, Hopkins got going a little today. Worthy. Apparently they have Hollywood Brown coming back.
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Kelsey, this gray, always seems to make one big catch. They can run the ball. Their offense looks like it's in way better shape than it was a year ago. Are you any concerned with them yet? Because I don't have any.
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Mahomes, wir haben eine der Zukunftsbetten, die wir gemacht haben, als wir unsere Zukunftsberatung gemacht haben, war Mahomes, um 4.000-Jahre-Passen zu bekommen.
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Ich denke, er kann es. Er hat eine Anzahl, wie... Er ist knapp... Er hat über 2.400 gerade. Also er hat eine Anzahl... Ich weiß nicht. Wie 2.60 ein Spiel den Rest des Weges. Aber ich kann nicht glauben, dass ich das auszudrücken habe. Mahomes wird jedes Spiel spielen. 17 Spiele und das Tor für 4.000 Yards.
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Ja. Das ist das eine. Das andere ist, ich dachte, Bryce Young war gut in diesem Spiel. Ja. Besonders in der zweiten Halbzeit. Ich dachte, es gab Spiele, wo sie, er war 11 für 13 auf Blitzes. Das war der Stat, den ich auf der Internetseite gesehen habe. Aber es gab Spiele, wo du nur wartet hast, um einen schrecklichen Bryce-Young-Pass oder einen Tippspiel zu machen. Aber er hatte eine Menge Poesie.
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Er hat auf ein paar dritten und Lungen geliefert. Ja, ein paar gutte dritte und dritte Konversion. Er hat sich umgekehrt, hat sich Zeit gekauft. I don't remember a situation like this. We've seen a guy lose his mojo on a team where it seemed like it was over and then he went to another team. But not in the same season with the same team is pretty unusual.
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He was bad. Tough matchup.
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Carolina. There we go. The weird thing about this, so, Dalton has the job, and they're playing okay with him, and it looks like he's, and they're talking about, can you trade for Bryce Young? Are they going to waive him after that? Like, what's Sie handeln ihn zu den Giants, bevor sie nach außen gehen. Don kriegt in einem Auto-Aufbruch. Und er ist mit seiner Frau und allen drei von seinen Kindern.
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Und sie fahren nach Hause aus dem Schulaufbruch und sie kriegen in einen Aufbruch. Und es ist so, dass sie aufgehängt werden, aber nichts zu schlecht. Sie wurden nicht in den Krankenhaus geflogen. Aber es war so schlecht, dass er diese Woche nicht gespielt hat. So Young, they were like, what else are we going to do? I guess we got to start Bryce Young, this guy whose confidence we just murdered.
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So the only reason he gets his job back is this bizarre, you know, fender bender with Andy Dalton leaving his kid school. And now he's going to have the job the rest of the way.
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No, it was just, I can't remember a weirder just saga than this. Es ist seltsam, aber... Und er hat es nicht. Er kriegt einen Fenderbender. Er ist wie wir, wir fahren nach Harrison.
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Mike, thank God we're on a seven-second delay. Thank God. best running back rankings are saquon and henry one and two yeah well i think if you're doing tandems or running back core detroit is probably awesome conversation right so saquon and henry it's the gibbs montgomery combo and then i don't even think we can make them out rushmore i think those have been the the
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Und jetzt hat er seinen Job nicht mehr. Nicht seit Tyrod Taylor von Team Doktor getötet wird, hat es einen weirderen Weg gegeben, einen Job zu verlieren.
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Wir nehmen noch einen Break für den Podcast. A couple more games I wanted to hit. Titans-Texans. Titans beat the Texans. Texans have, I think, locked down the shakiest game now. I don't think there's any stopping them. It's a wrap now. They're 7-5. Everybody in the AFC wants to play them in round one. They're really singularly unimpressive.
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Will Levis, even when he's playing well, still has to throw a pick six to the other team. He can't help himself and fumble. Somehow Tennessee wins anyway. You guys talked about this game a lot in the Sunday pregame. It had a whiff to it.
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Does it ever look like he has a ton of time? Yeah. When you watch, it always seems like he's backpedaling or he's under duress and just Titans bring it though.
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They missed the 28-yard field goal to tie the game. Right. And then they did have the ball back near the end and he pulled an Orlovsky and they ended up getting a safety. So, you know, they hung around, they gave up an 80-yard touchdown on the fucking tight end. When does that ever happen? It was a weird one, but a classic AFC South game. Dann die Broncos Raiders.
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Die Vegas hat jetzt sieben straight Losses. Und Bobby Bacala, Antonio Pierce, war mit seinen Tränen auf den Seiten wieder zu spielen, als sein Team versucht hat, sich zu bewegen. Und er hat es irgendwie nicht geschafft. Broncos minus 5,5. Raiders, der Typ wird auf der 1-Jahr-Linie getackt mit 12 Sekunden übrig.
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You can QB sneak. You're probably getting it. But the funnier thing was that they're just running like a non two minute drill downtown where everyone else usually kicks the field goal when it gets like the 30. So you have more time. They're taking their time going down, trying to make plays. It honestly looked like he was just trying to cover.
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Also sind es drei Quarterbacks, Minshew, O'Connell und der Riddler, Desmond Ritter. Die großen drei. 11 Touchdowns, 11 Picks. Können wir einen Verteidiger haben, der mehr Picks als Touchdowns in der Saison hat?
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Das ist das, mit dem wir aufgewachsen sind. Ja. Wir sind wie Richard Todd, wir hätten 16 Touchdowns und 27 Interceptions.
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I think they're more Frankie Williams. Frankie Williams?
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Also, Vegas hat sieben straight verloren. Das ist fast garantiert ein Top-3. Das war in der ESPN Summary of the Game. Es sagt, was wir heute über den QB gelernt haben. Das ist ein echter Paragraph.
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While Gardner Minshew threw a game-turning third quarter interception, his tenth, and Aiden O'Connell, broken right thumb, is now eligible to come off IR, a short week means Minshew probably still starts at Kansas City, unless his left shoulder injury is worse than expected. Desmond Ritter, anyone? He was strip-sacked upon entering the game, denying the Raiders their best attempt to tie the game.
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Kind of the best running back slash whatever. And then it's like a drop off to whoever you want to have next. Miami might have a chance to get there because it feels like those guys are getting going now. But I think that's the top three at least.
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This is a fucking shit show. It's one thing to have bad quarterbacks. Why can't these guys sign Daniel Jones? I guess they don't want to. They want to be bad, right?
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Kyle turned the TikTok camera. So Vegas is going to have a top three pick. I would assume their coach Bobby Bacala is not going to, he's going to go back to being Uncle Junior's driver after this season. They're going to need a coach. They need a quarterback. This has Shadur Sanders and Deion Sanders written all over it. Like all over it. And by the way, I'm here for it.
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Die Vegas Raiders mit Dion und seinem Sohn, ich bin da. Das wäre toll. Der Merch wäre der Nummer 1 Merch. Die Sanders, Hard Knocks, 10 Jahre Vertrag. Lass uns gehen. Was warten wir auf?
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Leute, Leute lieben Shador auch. Ja. Ja, sie sprechen über Tuff. Er ist athletisch und wie er ein Leiter ist, bringt ein paar Sachen zur Table. Broncos 7 und 5. Sean Payton Fistpumps am Ende des Spiels. They have Cleveland next week, bye week, Indy, at the Chargers, at Cincy. And then week 18, home KC, in a game where I assume KC will have the one seed locked up.
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And whoever their backup, who's their backup quarterback this year? The Chiefs? Whoever it is, he's playing in week 18. Yeah. Denver looks like a 10-win team. It's amazing. We talked about this in the Over-Under-Pod before the year. They had a lot of the Es gab viele mögliche Sneaky 7-Siege, aber die Defense sah so schlecht aus auf dem Papier, es macht keinen Sinn.
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And I feel like I've watched a lot of Broncos because we get these late games on the West Coast and there's only like three or four games. So I feel like I've seen a lot of their games. And first of all, Knicks has gotten... He's just night and day from that Jets game when he threw for 60 yards. It's like a different human being. But he's kind of a badass. He talks shit.
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They made a replay today and he's just screaming at the defense 11 of their team. Now, granted, he's like a 30-year-old rookie. He's like Scott Bakula, necessary roughness. But the way he carries himself, he doesn't carry himself like a rookie. He's gotten better Ich glaube, er hat wirkliche Chemie mit Cortland Sutton, die du vorhin erwähnt hast.
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Well, and he doesn't look good is the other issue, right?
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Ich weiß nicht, ich könnte sie in den Playoffs sehen. Wenn sie in den Playoffs wären, würde ich nicht sagen, oh, ich kann nicht warten, gegen Denver zu betten. Ich glaube, sie sind ziemlich frisch.
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It's Chargers, Ravens or Steelers.
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So that's going to be an interesting team.
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Wenn sie, ich, du weißt, ich stimme, weil es kalt ist, aber wenn sie irgendwie dieses Green Bay-Spiel auswählen können, dann wird es ziemlich, es wird ziemlich lustig für sie, weil sie die Jets zu Hause haben, was plötzlich ein viel einfacher Spiel ist, als es aussieht.
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Als wir das vor der Saison geschrieben hatten, als wir darüber gesprochen haben, dass sie über und unter sind, das sah wie ein Todesstrecke aus. Wir waren bei Green Bay, bei den Jets, bei Houston, bei San Francisco, bei Cleveland, bei den Jets. Es war wie, oh mein Gott, das ist brutal. Jetzt sind es beide diese Jets-Games.
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San Francisco, bei Cleveland, keine dieser Spiele sind hart, außer bei den Green Bay-Spielen. Also, all they have to do is get to 10 and 7.
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Ich liebe dieses Denver-Team. Wir werden sehen. Wenn sie dieses Green Bay-Spiel verlieren, wird es viel sein. Sie werden sich den Rest des Tages, glaube ich. Weil es 5-7 sein wird. Die gute Nachricht für sie ist, dass in der Pre-Game-Show für NBC heute Jason Garrett über Tua war, der heute wirklich gut war, und ihn mit Magic Johnson verglichen hat. The way he was spreading the ball around.
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And at that point, I don't know if NBC has this person on staff, but there probably should be like one of those giant things that cops use to tase suspects. That's where somebody should just run on the set and just tase Garrett. Ja, aber in seiner Verteidigung... Und er würde immer noch lachen, wenn er von Taser elektriktiert wäre. Er wäre so, ah, das ist großartig.
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I thought the Patriots were a live dog today, that the game would be close and that they'd be able to move the ball up and down the field. And Nephi Kyle watched the game with me and can attest, I was about as locked in as I've been in a while in a Pats game. Well, they did move the ball down the field. Maybe not up and down. It was down the field the other direction.
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Well, Henry and Barkley are 1-2 in rushing. Josh Jacobs is third. And Chuba Hubbard is fourth. Right. So, good luck on your fantasy teams, everybody.
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They had nine first half penalties. Right. But the really special thing is six of the nine were pre-snap. Which is basically like we don't practice. Du hast einen Pre-Snap. Das ist das, wenn du ein Highschool-Team bist und der 9. Grade-Left-Tacklein vergesst, dass es auf 2 statt auf 3 ist. Es sind sechs Pre-Snap-Penalties. May wurde viermal gesackt, aber er war halb das Spiel für sein Leben.
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Es gab zwei Turnovers. Einer war Mays Schuld, einer war nicht. Es wurde getippt. Mayo verliert eine Herausforderung. Did you see this? Yes. I know what you're going to say. They throw to Waddle for 19 for a first down. And there's also a pass interference on the play. So it's a first down either way for the Dolphins. But it looks like the ball hits the ground.
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Mayo sagt, fuck it, und challenges the catch to, I guess, save 14 yards. Right. And then they said, no, it was a catch. So we lost our challenge on a play that would have been a first down anyway. For Dolphins, you see stuff every week with this team that you just never see before. We had the same left tackle, had three pre-snap penalties in the first half.
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Was macht er denn? Dieses Team, es ist so frustrierend, weil ich wirklich denke, Drake ist gut. Und sie fangen jeden Dreh mit dem Rennen in die Mitte für einen. Oder es wird ein falscher Start sein. Jetzt ist es 1st und 15. Oder es ist ein Rennspiel, wo der Typ... tackled four yards back. I've never seen a team have more second and 14, second and nine, second and 15, second and 12.
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And just over and over again, they're behind the eight ball. And then when they actually make a play, if they're driving, Drake throws a really nice play, Ramadjer breaks the tackle, they get 20. Nope, that's coming back, holding penalty. Just this team that he's saddled on, with the worst coaches and the worst offensive line and wide receivers that can barely catch the ball.
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Part of me is wondering, I've now reverted back to, should we just sit him for the rest of the season so he doesn't get hurt? Because it's this bad. But then you watch him and he'll have these series, like he did with the Rams last week, where it's like, he might win this game by himself. So I don't know what to think.
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Dieses Spiel heute, auf beiden Seiten, Letzte Woche blitzten sie Stafford über und über wieder. Regel Nummer eins, nicht Stafford blitzen. Sie machen das ganze Spiel. Heute sehen sie sich komplett verblüfft von dem Diss-Jockey. Der Diss-Jockey hat heute wirklich die Töne gespielt. Er hat gesagt, okay, ja!
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Right.
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See, I don't think I just don't think Kraft's gonna pay for another coach. I think we're stuck with this guy next year. The thing I hate the most is he was such a tough player. Er ist ein Mittelfeldspieler, er ist ein Badass. Und dann als Trainer, er hat einfach, ich habe heute getweetet, ich war verrückt, dass sein Buch called Scared Football wäre. Er ist einfach das ganze Spiel erschrocken.
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And he's Sneaking into the MVP conversation, he won't win. Right. Because running backs aren't allowed to win and we'll talk ourselves out of that in two weeks. So we can start with Eagles, Lions, how this is a pretty amazing NFC. Or we could just do the gambling angle of how Washington... Absolutely murdered. A slew of three-team teases. Moneyline parlays. Just, oh, I'll throw Washington in.
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Es ist wie, oh, es ist Viertel zu eins, wir müssen punten. Und auch wenn sie es auf einen Spiel machen werden, es ist der wichtigste Spieljahr je, wenn sie irgendeine Art von Trickspiel spielen. Es ist der schlimmste Trickspiel, den du je gesehen hast. Es sieht so aus, als ob sie nicht trainieren. I said this a few weeks ago and I'm going to predict it again.
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I think it's going to be a really hard week for them in Boston because they were so poorly prepared and coached in the game today. I don't know how that's not the preeminent talking point of the week.
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Das Problem ist, sie werden ihn dieses Jahr nicht schießen. Und dann wird es nicht wirklich besser werden nächstes Jahr. Vielleicht können sie den Offensive Coordinator verändern. Sagen sie, sie bekommen Dayball. Let's say they sign T. Higgins. They just do those two things. Dayball's the OC. T. Higgins is the wide receiver one. They get a left tackle in the draft.
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They're just noticeably better in a couple ways. It's still not going to stop how unprepared the team looks. Und du kannst die Spieler nicht auf das blicken, wenn du nur Leute auf der Seite, links und rechts, springst. Sie hatten einen Spiel, ich glaube, es war Hooper oder Henry, einer der Tight Ends. Sie hatten zwei Penalties auf dem gleichen Spiel. Die Dolphins waren so, oh, wir können wählen.
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Aber einer von ihnen war, der Tight End war, er war nur ein Fuß, wie sein ganzer Fuß über der Linie des Scrimmages war. Er war quasi wie ein Dolphin. Das ist gut. Wie bist du so eingeladen? Ihr seid professionelle Fußballspieler. Miami hat zwei Stunden Penalität. Ich glaube, du bist falsch.
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Vrabel war ein wirklich guter Trainer, der echte Beziehungen zu den Pats hatte. Und jeder dachte immer, er würde Belichick folgen. Und er sitzt da gerade. Und ich denke, die Angst ist, dass du nicht Vrabel bekommst. Du machst noch ein Jahr mit Mayo. Es ist gleich so schlecht nächstes Jahr. Und jetzt wird Vrabel einen seiner anderen Jobs bekommen. Es wird acht Jobs offen sein.
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Und dann hast du dich auf diese Chance von Vrabel verpasst. Das Einzige, was ich hatte, bevor wir die Linien erwarten, ist Bucks Giants. When you mentioned Tampa trying to steal the NFC South, here's the thing against it. Atlanta beat Tampa twice already and they have a one-game lead. So, they're basically two ahead of Tampa.
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Tampa's at Carolina, home Vegas, at the Chargers, at Dallas, home Carolina, home New Orleans. That could be, they could get to 10 wins.
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Muss ich mich über mein NFC South betten? Die Division hat 18 Gewinne mit sechs Wochen übrig.
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Es gibt ein paar, wo sie einander spielen. Aber wir haben das. Wir hatten zwei. Einer der, die wir gemacht haben, war der NFC East gegen den NFC South. Der NFC East hat eine Drei-Game-Lead über sie. Aber die Giants werden wahrscheinlich wieder gewinnen. Right. And they play a couple of NFC South teams.
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Let's take a break for the pod. Week 13, guess the lines. I got sad today, because once it's Thanksgiving, it's like almost the end of the regular season and the playoffs. What are we, 60% done with the season now?
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12 out of 20. I guess 12 out of 21. Yeah, we're like 58% done with the season.
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Literally nobody on Dallas is playing. Backup QB. They're missing five of their best seven guys. They need the win. I'll just put them in there. And we haven't had one of those in a while, Sal. Es war ein massiver Mord. John Wayne Gacy-Style, in den Wohnraum zu gehen und sich zu dekapitieren. Brutal. Was es noch schlimmer gemacht hat, was you're like, oh, I can't believe I lost that game.
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Yeah. I think saying Thanksgiving is your favorite holiday is not a controversial opinion. Is Thanksgiving your favorite day? I think is a better conversation. So your single favorite day.
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Yeah.
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Well, you have... Cowboys-Giants is our second game. It's only the fourth time since the merger that these two teams have played on Thanksgiving where they both have losing records.
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So choke on your turkey during that stat.
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Sign Daniel Jones to help you with your picks. Thanksgiving. Lions Bears. Daniel Jones is my son. Go ahead. Lions Bears in Detroit. Und ich denke, hier ist mein Gedanke an das. Ich denke, sie mussten das öffnen, damit man die Lions nicht mit jemand anderem teilen konnte.
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Also, obwohl das wahrscheinlich Lions 7 1⁄2 sollte sein, denke ich, weil es Weihnachten ist und jeder liebt Turkey und jemanden zu teilen und Weihnachten zu teilen. Ich denke, es muss Lions bei 9 sein.
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Ich habe einen tollen Post-Game-Speech von Dan Campbell gesehen. Ich weiß nicht, warum das nicht nur ein Twitter-Feed ist, von all den Post-Game-Speechs und Lackern. Das ist alles. Es sind nur Game-Ball-Speechs. Er gab Game-Balls zu vier Leuten und sprach dann darüber, wie sie Road Warriors waren. Hast du das gesehen? Ja. Er sagte, als ich hier bin...
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Wir hatten 0, 11 und 1 in all unseren Rennspielen. Und seitdem sind wir 16 und 5. Und alle, die in diesem Lagerraum waren, hatten etwas damit zu tun. Er ist großartig. Er ist großartig im Postspiel. Wahrscheinlich der beste Postspiel-Sprecher der Zeit.
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Sie waren so, hey, du weißt, sechs Pre-Snap-Penalys in der ersten Hälfte. Wir müssen daran arbeiten. Das ist auf mich.
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Nein, nichts ist auf mich. Es ist definitiv auf mich. Ja. Also, Leute, wenn wir den Ball snapen, ist es entweder auf 1, oder es ist auf 2, oder es ist auf 3. Und du erinnerst dich einfach, wenn du einsteigst. Richtig. Es wird 2 sein, und dann steigst du, wenn es 2 ist.
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Unglaublich. Wir werden ihn für ein anderes Jahr haben. Cowboys Giants in Dallas. Ich kann nicht glauben, dass ich das mache, aber ich denke, es sind Cowboys bei sieben.
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They just put that in the Vegas zone, huh? I don't know if you read anything about the Giants game today, but apparently the Giants were like disconsolate after the game. They were all saying after they waved Daniel Jones, the guy's our best quarterback, why are we waving him? And then they're not even playing the second best quarterback, they're playing the third best quarterback.
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This is why you're not supposed to tank in the NFL, because this is a violent sport that guys have to commit to at a certain physicality level. Und wenn du dein Franchise-Base hast, ja, wir sind fertig. Wie erwartest du, dass das Team darauf reagiert? Der Trainer ist auf dem Weg raus, der GM ist auf dem Weg raus, der Quarterback wird nicht da sein.
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And then somehow Washington comes back with this insane McLaurin play that happens once a year. And they make it, and that fucking kicker is lining up. And I'm like, I should be more nervous right now. And then I'm like, I am nervous. And then, of course, terrible snap. You knew once you saw the snap. He was gonna hook it. Not only did he hook it, he missed it by, I would say, 10 yards. Awful.
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Ich verstehe nicht, warum würden die Giants Dallas in Dallas gewinnen?
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Although Cooper Rush wasn't bad today. Tom Brady announced in this game.
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Could this be the Tom Brady heel turn game? Could this be his Walter White breaking bad, getting pushed over the edge, shaving his head performance where the quarterback play is so bad and he's so mad that he's working on Thanksgiving. He finally becomes Tom Brady TV analyst and he's just ripping guys.
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And actually telling us like what they're doing wrong. Could it happen?
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I'll show you jiu-jitsu.
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Shave your head. Packers Dolphins is our third game. It's a great game. It's in Green Bay. And it's going to be freezing cold. And you're going to see over the next four days a lot of stats about how bad the Dolphins are when it's super cold, how bad Tua is when it's super cold. And I can't wait to bet on the Packers in this game, Sal. Just spoiler alert. I'm going to say Packers by four.
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Should we do this for Fando? I'll tweet this out. Go ahead, Fando. So we could do... You can make it simple. I mean, forget that.
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Okay. That's all we have to do.
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Oh, I'm all in on that tease. I feel like we have to grab that right now. I know I always say that, but that minus 120 is not going to be there much longer. Yeah, let's not screw it over on there's anything. That's it. And then Thanksgiving, so you get Packers Dolphins. And then when it hits midnight on the East Coast, you get to watch my Yacht Rock documentary.
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Yeah. That'd be fun. It's great. You'll love it.
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And we can't start over because we're live. No, I'm not going to change my guess. I forgot about the Black Friday game. And it's funny because they sent me a t-shirt of the studio crew with my face in the middle of it. I should have worn it. Really? It looks like I'm in the crew. It looks like I'm ready to have an argument with Sherman. I love it. Alright, so Kansas City home for the Raiders. Mhm.
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And they end up losing the tees anyway. Probably the, other than the Hail Mary, maybe the second biggest gambling moment of the year.
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Ich habe die Chiefs bei 11,5. Oh, du kennst es. Ich hatte 11.
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103. Yeah, but that's another Milton Berle situation for the Chiefs. It's Black Friday.
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But even if you do a 10-point... Oh, so you can do a 13-point tease?
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Das ist ziemlich gut. Oh, so viel College. Waren't the Chiefs gonna fuck us one of these next four weeks like they did that time with the Raiders a year ago? Yeah, but it's the Raiders. He fumbles, he throws a pick six, he gets hurt, he comes back in. They haven't had that game yet.
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Yeah, they do. The Raiders talk shit.
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Am Sonntag ist das Marquee-Spiel der Ravens und der Eagles in Baltimore. Es ist ein wundervolles Sport-Event. Die Ravens, wie wir wissen, können 7-5 in diesem Spiel führen. Richtig. Und sie haben einen Playoff-Spot. Ich denke persönlich, dass sie morgen gewinnen werden. Ich weiß nicht, wo du dich auf den Chargen stehst.
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Ravens, I have minus three against the Eagles. It is, you got it exactly. I said two and a half.
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Okay. It's a good game.
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Trades of the Year. Watchables, three of them. Bengals, Steelers in Cincinnati. Bengals now in we have to win every game territory. Steelers, Also ich war an der, wir haben eine Premiere für den Yacht Rock-Doc am Dienstagabend gemacht. Also ich hatte das Steeler-Spiel auf meinem Handy. Schön, oder? Und ich konnte es nicht, ich konnte es nicht mal, ich konnte es nicht mal sehen.
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Und ich wollte es auch wirklich sehen. Aber ich habe es ein paar Mal geschaut. Und es war 18.6. So schön. Und ich habe nicht 10, 12 Minuten geschaut. Ich habe mich zurückgeschaut, es war 1918, Steeler. Ich war so, oh. Es war die 24-19-Finale und ich dachte mir, ich kann nicht warten, um zu finden, was in diesem Spiel passiert ist. Das Spiel war vollkommen kaputt.
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Aber es ist ein lustiges James-Spiel.
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Ich kann nicht glauben, dass wir von all den schlechten Thursday-Night-Games, die wir sehen müssen, Das Spiel, du weißt, wie viel ich liebe. Ich weiß, dass jeder Schnee liebt, aber ich liebe Schnee wirklich. Ich bin ein 10 aus 10 für Loving Snow. Ich liebe es, es auf der TV zu sehen, die Flöten in Tomlins Haar zu stecken. Von all den Spielen.
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Warum musste es nicht der Spiel sein, als ich in einer Dokumentation und Premiere war?
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Ja. Ja. Steely Dan?
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I'm a 10 out of 10 for love and snow. Stupid. I have Bengals by one and a half against Steelers. I get this. I said two. It is two and a half. So when was the last time a four and seven team was favored by two and a half against an eight and three team that did not have any injuries?
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Und ich glaube, sie haben ein Thursday Night Game gespielt, vier Tage nach diesem emotionalen Wettbewerb in Baltimore. Es war wie ein Arschloch. Es war ein dummes Spiel, das viele dumme Momentum-Twistungen hatte. Und ich glaube, du nimmst es raus.
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Falcons Chargers. Es ist in Atlanta. Probably not betting on this game. I hit it exactly. Probably the Chargers and the Tees. But I'm going to say Falcons by one and a half.
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It's Chargers by one and a half.
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It's the Tic Tac Terrorists out there moving these lines. It's like how it's the Black Eye Conspiracy with celebrities. And celebrities only have... Black Eyes on their left eye. Some sort of Illuminati thing. So Leno fell down the hill and it's like left eye was black. Shit's going on. I don't know how they come up with this stuff. That's true. It's all true.
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I'm going to have a black eye on my left eye in two days. We'll show you. There was a Reddit person who broke down that Leno thing really well. Aber er ist fast immer die Wahrheit zu erzählen, oder? Ja, es scheint so zu sein, dass er die Wahrheit zu erzählen hat. Er spielt in einem seltsamen Club in Germanstown, Pennsylvania. Da war das Hotel. Jeder war so, warum stehst du da?
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Das Hotel ist ein Billionär. Aber es war das naheste Hotel, wo das Gig war.
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Er ist auch super teuer. Er spart all seine Geld auf Autos. Er versucht, zu einem Restaurant zu gehen, dass er versucht hat, einen Berg runter zu gehen, um die Distanz zu reduzieren, damit er nicht herumgehen musste. Und er ist 74. Und das ist das, was unsere Väter tun würden. Ich würde sagen, Sal, was ist mit deinem Vater? Er fiel. Es ist einfach so, was passiert, wenn man in den 70er-Jahren ist.
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Also, ich denke, es ändert sich. Aber ich mag die Verschwörung immer noch. Ich habe es genossen. Egal, die Ironie ist großartig, dass er kein Auto hatte.
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Ich meine, er machte 30 Millionen pro Jahr im Tonight Show für 20 Jahre. Ja. Und als er Stand-Up-Gigs machte und crazy Geld auf die machte, warum muss er in die Mitte von Pennsylvania gehen und Stand-Up machen?
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I'm at the Red Roof Inn on Big Bear Mountain on November 29th. It's like, it's the place 74. Why didn't you retire? Go sit on a beach. Vikings are home for the Cardinals. That's a good one. I'll never trust Kyler Murray again until about three weeks from now. I have Vikings minus three against the Cardinals. I had you out here. I had three and a half and that's what it is.
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Fairly watchables. Colts at the Pats. I just think the Richardson May makes this a fairly watchable and not a poop factor. Sure. Colts are going to be favored.
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I think I'm going to win that bet. Well, when did you make that bet? Before the year. That was like my lock of the year. I had the Pats under 4.5 wins. You could do it again. But I didn't know Drake May was going to be, I wouldn't have made that bet if I knew Drake was going to be good.
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What's Carolina? Just out of curiosity.
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Right.
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Was ist Miami? Miami, um die Playoffs zu machen, ist plus 240. Ich mag es nicht.
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Washington, um die Playoffs zu machen, ist... Oh, das ist Tampa. Tampa ist plus 114. Washington ist minus 188. Okay. Seahawks sind bei den Jets. Seahawks werden in diesem Spiel Favoriten sein. Ich weiß nicht, ob es noch viele Wochen gibt, um Geld gegen die Jets zu gewinnen, bevor die Linie schlägt. Es fühlt sich wie die letzte Woche an.
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Die Seahawks-Defense hat die letzten zwei Wochen legitimiert gut ausgesehen. Seahawks by one and a half is going to be my pick.
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With Tyrod Taylor, I don't think the line moves. Rodgers has been awful. Yeah. So Tyrod Taylor, does the Jets Seahawks line move with Tyrod Taylor? Like San Francisco moved three and a half points today when Purdy went out. I think it stays the same. Es wäre verrückt, wenn es sich um die andere Richtung gedreht hätte und die Jets mit Tyrod verabschiedet wären.
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Rodgers träumt sich aus wie der Chargers-Team-Doktor und versucht Tyrod mit der Nadel zu stürzen?
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Washington ist das Heim der Titans. So this was, I guess the lines before the day and I had watched them by seven. I'm going to knock that down to six. Watched them by six.
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Ich denke, Washington, also wir, ich erinnere mich an Washington für die Division an der Höhe des, wow, es sieht aus, als wäre Washington eigentlich eine wirklich gute Zeit in dieser Saison. Und wenn du, wenn du mit dem, wenn der Hail Mary nicht passiert, sind es 500 Teams. Und sie sind viel schlechter. Also 12 Spiele jetzt.
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Es sah so aus, als ob Edgar am Ende des Spiels geschlagen worden wäre. Er wird also nicht spielen. Und er hat schon ein paar Verletzungen gehabt. Brian Robinson, der heute während des Spiels verletzt wurde, und der McNichols-Mann. Aber ich dachte, er hätte Probleme, den Ball zu schießen. Und Daniel sieht noch nicht gesund aus.
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Wir werden nach dem Jahr herausfinden, dass er drei gebrochene Rippen hat, richtig?
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Rams at the Saints. And after what we saw from the Rams today, I think they're going to be favored, but I don't think it's going to be by much. I'm going to say Rams by one and a half at the Saints. Rams by, I said two, and it's two and a half. A lot of momentum for the Clogger. I don't know if you've been following this. Yeah, why not? People like the Clogger. The team's responding.
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A lot of salad. A lot of salad and hot water. Poopfecta, speaking of the clogger, we got two. We got Texas at Jacksonville. And I can't believe Doug Peterson's still the coach. It seemed impossible after the 52-6 game.
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I have Texans by three and a half at Jacksonville.
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No, I don't think Houston's very good. Und ich hatte das, ich hatte Zukunftsbetten an ihnen, ich war alle in an ihnen, ich habe gewartet, dass es sich umschließt, aber ich glaube nicht, dass sie blockieren können. Nein.
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Von dem, was ich sehe, von Woche zu Woche, es sieht nicht aus, als ob sie blockieren können und ihre Defense scheint, als ob du wirklich den Ball auf dem Feld aufnehmen musst, du kannst.
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And here's another one. Bucks at Panthers. So I have Bucks by four and a half in Carolina.
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Warte, was hast du gesagt? Du magst Carolina? Nein. Ich gebe dir Carolinas letzte paar Wochen. Woche 9, sie haben die Saints 1-1 gewonnen. Woche 10, sie haben die Giants 3-3 gewonnen. Woche 12, mit KC mit einer Minute übrig. And they had a bye week in there too. They haven't really had a bad game since week 7. They got killed by Washington. But even the Denver game, the 14-28 loss... Ja.
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Es war nicht so, dass sie nicht zerstört wurden. Also sind sie zumindest besser geworden, anders als mein Team.
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Sie sind viel schlechter als in der zweiten Saison, als sie in der ersten Saison waren. Fragen, ob sie überhaupt ein Playoff-Team sind an diesem Punkt. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie bis zu 10 sind. Ja, ich weiß es nicht. Hör auf, es war eine schreckliche Linie. Es gibt keine Frage. Die Linie war zu hoch. Es war der Preis für Maniacs wie uns, uns zweimal zu denken, bevor wir mit ihnen drei Teams hatten.
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Aber anstatt davon zu tun, könnte ich nur gegen Atlanta beten. Diese Woche, richtig? Richtig. Weil Tampa, bevor sie in der Division gewonnen haben, Atlanta hat gewonnen. Sunday Night Bills 49ers. A game that I'm sure they were thinking was going to be one of the best games of the year three months ago. Oh, Al, I just... I'm thinking about how great this game seemed to knock August.
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No, I just want to do a shot of whiskey or something, Al.
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I'll get excited about George Kittle if you want me to, Al, but I just... I think this goes over seven. I think this is bills by seven and a half. I said seven and it's six and a half. Just like a point off with all of this.
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So Purdy's probably playing.
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That's about all we got. If you're making the case for the Niners, it's backs to the wall. If they lose this game, their season's over. They have a losing record in their division. You can't lose this game and have a realistic chance. I guess maybe you could sneak into the playoffs, as we made the case with your team.
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He's got to do it. Monday night. Broncos home for the Browns. This is really the Sal Bowl. Your guy Bo Nix against your guy Jameis. So much fun. It's really everything you want.
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So I got Broncos minus 3.5 against Cleveland. You're gonna get that. I said 3, it's 4.5, but Zu wenig zu spät für dich, Simmons. Okay, 7-5-1. Du hast mich auf deine Lieblingswoche des Jahres gewonnen. Ich liebe es. Ich liebe es.
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Hör auf, sind die Cowboys alive oder sind sie nicht? Sie sind alive. Nein, wir haben sie ausgeschlossen. Wir haben das Gefühl. Aber sie sind alive. Was hast du für Parent Corner?
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Yeah, it's like eight days. She's been home since August 8th.
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But there was just no way I was going to be nervous with Dallas. I texted you after the game. The weird thing about this game was Dallas played well. You moved the ball. You ran the ball. Cooper Rush was pretty good. He was throwing completions. I was nervous in the second quarter. I didn't like how it was going. The defense was really active. Washington couldn't run the ball at all.
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How many times did she cry?
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Aber sie schlug nicht, als Archie sagte, dass er nur zwei Tage nach Hause gekommen sei?
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Do you think Gerard Mayo should try some of this motivational tactics with the Patriots? Maybe. We have six pre-snap penalties in the first half. You guys are all going to have to clean up the garbage outside of Gillette Stadium. Yeah.
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You're done. So, everyone enjoys your parent corners every week. Rarely did I get multiple people in my life asking the same question about last week's parent corner from you. With the match? Yeah. If your kid throws up during the match, why isn't that an automatic forfeit?
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So he somehow talked the ref out of the forfeit?
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But yeah, normally it is. It's amazing that it just isn't a rule anymore. Southern California Sports. Vomit, Wrestling, automatisch, Match over. Genau. Und dann hat meine Frau gefragt, ob es riecht. Es riecht wie Pukes. Es riecht nicht wie... Es riecht nicht wie...
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And you played well enough that I actually had to I had to redo the play-out. I had them as a cross-off. I don't know if you cross them off at this point.
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Aber dann dachte ich, vielleicht sollte das Jacks Ding sein. Er schießt während jedes Match. Das ist sein Signature-Move. Der andere Junge ist so überrascht, er will nur, dass er gepinnt wird.
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And I did the thing where you pull in illegally at the arrivals. Park the car. There are no cops. I think they know because it's Thanksgiving. And I got there. I was like four minutes before her. And I was watching... diese anderen Autos. Und es waren viele Kinder, die schon von der Schule zurückgekommen sind, am Freitag. Und es ist wie die emotionalsten Hüfte.
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Du bist wie in einem Auto geschockt, all diese Leute zu sehen, die ihre Kinder nicht gesehen haben. Und es sind diese riesigen, langen Hüfte. Und ich bin so, ist das der emotionalste Ort in Amerika jedes Jahr? Die Kinder, die nach Hause kommen für den Weihnachtsabend auf dem Flugzeug und ihre Familien sehen. Und dann dachte ich mir, wenn ich wie United wäre,
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Das wäre ein großartiges Konzert über Fly in the Friendly Sky oder was auch immer das Konzert ist. Es sollte nur diese Home-Movie-iPhone-Fotos von all diesen Leuten sein. Die Leute hüten sich einander und weinen. Sie waren so begeistert, dass sie einander sehen. Ich bin also emotional im Zuschauen. Und dann kommt meine Tochter mit der Tasche rein und sagt, hey, Vater.
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Ich habe sie ein paar Wochen zuvor gesehen. Ich war bereit, einen wirklich emotionalen Moment zu haben. Das ist nicht passiert.
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Ich brauche Gameball-Locker-Gespräche und emotionale Flughafen-Hugs. Ich würde gerne jemanden aus dem Spirit Airlines Flughafen fragen, warum hast du einen schwarzen Mann? Was ist passiert?
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No, it's not Michael Corleone in Godfather 3. It's Silvio as Michael Corleone. No, they're crossed the hell off. They got up for this game.
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Yeah, so anyway. And I was in a good mood the whole day. And then picked her up. We're talking in the car. We drive back. And we end up going for dinner that night. The four of us. It was like old times. Nice. And then within... Nicht mal 24 Stunden hat meine Frau und meine Tochter sich aneinander geschaut. Oh, schön. Am Sonntag ist meine Frau in der Küche.
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Hier ist das, was ich nicht verpasst habe. Das ist die Art, wie man die Küche behandelt. Und es ist so, als wären wir wieder da. Es ist so, oh, die Emotionen sind aus dem Fenster. Jetzt ist jeder wieder aneinander geschaut. Wir sind wirklich wieder da.
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Es gibt keinen Grund, dass du es nicht magst. Ich sage es dir einfach. Der Trailer ist bereits raus. Ich werde den Trailer auf meinem Instagram dieses Wochenende legen. I'm really proud of this one. You're gonna like it. I'm telling you. But anyway, we did Running Scared because that was the official end of Yacht Rock, the Sweet Freedom video, which we talked about on the podcast.
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Zwei Tage. Zwei und eine halbe. Wahrscheinlich einen Dienstag. Aber es ist schön, sie zu Hause zu haben. Der Hund, Murph hat sich absolut verloren. Er hat sie in drei und einem halben Monaten gesehen. Was denkst du, was Hunde denken, wenn Menschen verschwinden? They're not smart. I don't know if you've noticed, but not like smart animals.
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Or do they just have, it's almost like have dog Alzheimer's, where they're just like, they have no long-term memory. And it's like, hey, it's that person.
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What did your dog think of Washington somehow losing?
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Ich wollte nur nachdenken, was ist emotionaler als glücklich, nicht traurig, wie ein Geburtstag. Ich glaube, ein Geburtstag wäre glücklich, emotional. Ja. Am Flughafen, mein Kind kommt aus der Schule, es gibt keine Graduationen, vielleicht, es gibt nicht so viele pure, glückliche Momente.
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Even the people whose parents didn't greet them, like hugging the Uber driver, Ja, genau. Es gibt immer einen Haken. Aber ich war so. All right, das ist Pair Corner. Was hast du? Was hast du?
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You're playing the Giants next week on Christmas. You're going to be 5-7. You beat Cincy at home. And then you're at Carolina. You'll be 7-7 in three weeks. Don't tell me you didn't look at this.
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Oh, they did win. What's the matter with you? Yeah, they won. Yeah, so you hit all of those? We just did 40 minutes on it.
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You've been talking for an hour and a half. Yeah, for some reason I thought they covered it.
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How many sides of the Ice Cream Sunday pick did we get? I was the only one.
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What are you going to do? I have to plug Yacht Rock on HBO and Max on Friday. It's really good.
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I'm really glad that Michael McDonald finally gets his Just Do. But I think, put it this way.
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He has multiple moments where he just cooks in it. But it's really, I think, it's not what you think it is, this doc. That's what I will say. I don't want to spoil it. What the hell does that mean? It's way more about the music than the comedy of it and stuff like that. I think people are going to be surprised.
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Alright, next time. That's it. Cuz, good job by you.
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Alright, that's it for the podcast. Thanks to Cousin Sal. Thanks to Nephew Kyle, Steve Cerruti, Gahow, Everybody behind the scenes who helped with such a spectacular production. It wasn't that many people, but it was still fun. You can watch this podcast on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel. Don't forget, new Rewatchables coming Monday night. Running Scared.
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Don't forget about the Yacht Rock documentary coming Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, on Max and on HBO. And I will see you in this podcast on Tuesday.
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Du brauchst mehr als das. Du verpasst. Der Kerl verpasste zwei PATs. Ja, richtig. Er verpasste zwei Field Goals. Sie haben einen Pump blockiert. Wir verpassten zwei. Und sie gaben zwei Kick-Off Touchdowns in den letzten fünf Minuten des Spiels, was ein Rekord muss sein.
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Also, Tennessee 7 und 5. Ich meine, Washington 7 und 5. Sie haben Tennessee nächste Woche. Bei-Week. In New Orleans. Zuhause in Philly. Zuhause in Atlanta. In Dallas. Da ist ein 9 und 8 drin. Und ihr Jungs, ihr hättet in Philly in Week 17, was ein schreckliches Spiel scheint, aber sie könnten alles verschlossen haben. Sie könnten die 2-Siege verschlossen haben.
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Und das Spiel könnte nicht für sie zählen. Aber ihr spielt Washington in Week 18. Ja. Und es gibt ein Szenario, wo du ein Spiel zurückkommst von Washington, Woche 18. Alle NFC West-Teams haben sich alle getroffen. Sie sind alle neun und acht. Es gibt neun und acht, du weißt, Clusterfuck, die du stecken kannst. Ich weiß, dass du das tief unten denkst. Ich weiß, dass du das denkst.
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Ich gebe dir sechs Playoff-Teams jetzt. Lions, Philly, Seattle und Atlanta. Lass uns sagen, das sind unsere vier Gewinner. Minnesota ist in und Green Bay ist in. Also sind es sechs. Okay. Washington ist sieben und fünf. Arizona ist sechs und fünf. Du bist zwei hinter ihnen. Die Rams sind fünf und sechs. Du bist ein Spiel zurück von ihnen. Die Niners sind fünf und sechs.
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Und Tampa ist fünf und sechs. 98 könnte diese 7-Siege bekommen. Du kannst es nicht ausruhen. Du kannst es nicht. Wann könnte Dak zurückkommen?
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It's me and Chris Ryan, Monday night. Stay tuned. You'll also be able to watch it on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel. You can watch all the videos and clips from this podcast on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel. Und jetzt kommt Cousin Sal und ich. Wir haben das gedreht oder gedreht. Ich sage immer gedreht, weil ich alt bin. Wir haben dieses Episode live auf YouTube gedreht.
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Ich glaube nicht. Warum reden wir darüber?
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Ich hasse es. Ich hasse es, dass du mich in den Kopf gebracht hast. Du wirst 5 und 7 sein, nach Thanksgiving. Du spielst die Giants.
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Atlanta is going to win their division, because they still have Vegas and the Giants and Carolina left.
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You didn't bet... I don't know if we ever did. Tampa's 5-6. We did say that. But you play Tampa. You play Tampa in Week 16.
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First half, Cliff Kingsbury. Second half, he does this, right? That's his history. They can't run the ball. Be honest. You have to swear in your kids' life, all your Cowboys text threads you were on today, not one of them was like, hey, what's the path for us to make the playoffs? This wasn't discussed on the text thread.
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So Rudy says Dak is officially out for the season. Yeah, I think he's, yeah, the IR puts him out. What if you sign Daniel Jones tomorrow?
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You're crazy.
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Don't worry, I have plenty of spots for that. Do you think the missed PAT by Washington canceled out the Hail Mary? Now we're back to even? It's like a zero-sum game?
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I'm going to read you three David Chang texts all in succession. Let's hear it. Washington-Fan David Chang. I quit this team. Then McLaurin touchdown. I'm back, baby, I'm back. P.A.T. Fuck this game. Three in a row. Just like in the span of a minute. That was a rollercoaster ride of an awful loss. Especially because everyone there is probably like, oh my god. Hail Mary a couple weeks ago.
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Now this crazy McLaurin play. We're gonna win an OT. Here we go.
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I think they can miss the playoffs, because if you look at the five lost teams, they have five losses, so does Arizona, so does Seattle. You know? And there's one spot, well, Rams, Seattle, whatever, there's an NFC West Title Team, but then there's another spot for the wild card. So Washington had this, they were 7-2, now it's like, holy shit. Atlanta has 5 losses, Tampa 6 losses.
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12?
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And it's like, oh, oh, the finger. Oh my God, what's going on?
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Like five minutes later, Dallas has nothing to play for. They had nothing to play for. I don't even know why they care. Why are they dressed up? Get back on the bus.
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You're going red already? We got another game tomorrow. I'm like, I'm going red. Red discount?
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50?
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If he did it every week, you'd be like, dang, this kid's a hell of a lifeguard. What kind of life is he? Week after week. He's saving lives? I can't believe the shit he's doing. Oh, my God.
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What are you, eight years old? This is great. I'm so happy we have a quarterback again. It's fine.
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Val Venis?
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We're like, Ricky, come on, Ricky. One time, Ricky.
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I'm like... I'm literally doing a joke.
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I thought you were going to do that. This is the greatest game I've ever seen.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Six games left. Yeah.
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When we take our dog out, he has a leash on.
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With the Galaxy Watch 7 or the Galaxy Ring and the Samsung Health app.
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Right. So, that's a big one.
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Is it really? Yeah. I hadn't gone. Yeah.
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Right.
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We do.
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We have to do it.
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Right.
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Well, so six teams need a quarterback next year. Vegas, the Giants, Titans, Saints.
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Yes.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Uh, I don't. I don't think so.
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Oh, yeah.
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So you're getting... You're putting the Rams on every teaser. I know you are. Bengals tomorrow. Rams Thursday. Good.
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Yeah.
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By the way, there's seven good games this week. Yeah. Watchables. I have four. I have eight good games.
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I said two. It's two and a half. No, that's too low. That's stupid. I have some big, big misses coming up.
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No.
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Yeah.
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Steelers special. Let's do it. Dump the first half and win the game. The Steelers get no respect. It's bizarre.
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Chiefs. At Cleveland.
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It's six and a half. I don't know. I mean, I guess. I don't know.
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Washington by seven. So Carr's out. Not a lot of Spencer Rattler fans? No, I guess not.
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They put it in the Vegas zone. Ravens. So we have a lot.
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Oh, yeah.
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Let's go. That's a big mistake. This could be good because I picked one. There's two Monday night games. I picked one of them. Exactly.
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Wow. You're looking at a teaser. I know you are. Did anyone watch the Seahawks last couple weeks? I guess they'll have the rest advantage, right? Green Bay. Jordan Love in Seattle. Two Monday night games. Yep.
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I'll do it.
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What did you see?
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Obviously I had that coming later, but I'm happy to talk about it now. I, I really felt like there was a fields play in that game. That just to shake it up, try something different, just to throw the game out of whack a little, considering that Wilson wasn't doing much anyway.
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And Pickens, I don't know what's happened to that dude the last month, but it felt like, hey, just bring Fields in for one series and just show them this. Let's see what it looks like. And I don't know. It just seems like they've completely punted on Fields. And it's like Russ... This is it. But I felt like they really could have run the ball in Cincinnati and they just couldn't.
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They just chose not to.
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You'll be able to watch it on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel, where you can also find on YouTube, the Bill Simmons channel, which has all the videos and clips from this podcast. That's where we go live every Sunday night. Cousin Sal is going to join me in one second. Thank God I'm in a better mood than I was five hours ago, but we're going to get this rolling. First, our friends from Pearl Jam.
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Yeah, it felt like the first half of the season, they were way more experimental with that stuff. And then as the season went along, no. Yeah, Tomlin, sometimes you wonder like if he just, he's like the guy at work who once he hits his bonus, he just say, yeah, I'm not going to go in today. I already got my bonus. Like Tomlin's like, I got the 10 wins. I'm good.
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I don't mind it. I'd love to know what happened to Pickens because he was such a key part of everything that was working for them and to just lose him completely in your offense.
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The, uh, The other big thing that happened today was this NFC South battle, which I'm proud to say I had no dollars on. It just seemed like a complete stay away. And I was just living vicariously through the attacks of you and some others who had fallen into the... The friendly fire of those two games. And it ends up with the Bucs squeezing it out.
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There was like 14 points during both games where you thought the other team was going to win or something bad was going to happen. It was the best moment of Bryce Young's NFL career. He was super fun to watch. And it really seemed like New Orleans was going to beat Tampa Bay. And then Baker, who, Sal, I got to say, I think he's number three for me for MVP behind... Really? Josh Lamar.
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I'd put him over Burrow. His team won 10 games. He threw 41 touchdowns. He over and over again made plays with his legs. There was a whole month where he just had no weapons at all. He had a rookie running back. I don't really love his coaching staff. I just felt like he dragged that team to 10 wins and over and over again came through for them. So he was great and he did it again.
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it's not like it was week 14. It's like, you're trying to get to the playoffs. I'm all, I like Mike Evans. I like records, but that was, and it really seemed like they're clearly throwing it to him. Yeah. I don't know why new Orleans, like the moment the ball wasn't stepped. Why aren't you just running a straight line? Why don't you have two guys on Mike Evans?
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Like you actually have a chance to get the ball back.
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I played Madden with Ben this weekend and he was Miami and he just kept trying to throw to Tyreek Hill. So eventually I just brought another guy over and I was like, I know you're throwing to Tyreek Hill, but now I'm going to put this guy here. The Saints should have had four of those guys Just trying to, you know, maybe they get a tip or something. So they win.
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And at the same time, Atlanta is about to go into overtime with Carolina, but then realizes that the dream is dead and Carolina wins an OT, but it was a rollercoaster ride. You know who didn't deserve to be in the playoffs though? Atlanta. Yeah. Some of these teams that worked out, like Miami didn't make the playoffs. You know who should have made the playoffs? Miami.
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You know who deserved to make the playoffs? Cincinnati. So I feel like we landed in the right place with, I think you're right. Who's the worst playoff team for you? Well, right now, just the way they're playing, it's Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, yeah. Or Houston.
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Well, I don't understand how they picked the games yesterday. I don't understand how Baltimore-Cleveland was one of the games. Baltimore ended up where they were like a 21 point favorite. Yeah. Right. There was no world where I'm like my stupid team that we'll talk about later. There was no world in Cleveland is ever threatening to ever win that game for one second.
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So you have, you have these two Saturday games and the first game is just abysmal. You know, it's like Bailey's happy. What does he got going? Um, and I don't know, I would have put, I think I would have put Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Miami jets as the two Saturday games. And then both of those teams are still alive technically.
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And then you go into Sunday and then Denver has to take care of business either way. But I think that was the way to do it.
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So you think it's like, it's like a test tube situation or like, it's just mad at who had the game yesterday. It was ESPN. Yeah. He's like, you're putting Orlovsky and Riddick in this game? Oh, my God. I'm giving you Baltimore Cleveland.
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All right, well, it's a bad sign, Sal, that we're starting a podcast before a Sunday night game ends. I had so high hopes for Lions-Vikings. I know.
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Today, it seemed like the early games were going to be the least amount of fun possible. And then all of a sudden, complete chaos. And unfortunately, my team... One of the most devastating days in the history of the franchise. Come on. Come on. Maybe it wasn't.
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No, but it was when I think of like the dark, dumb days in the history of the team since I became a Patriots fan with Jim Plunkett and Mac Heron and everybody when I was like four years old. This has to be in the top eight or nine. It's just a complete organizational collapse, disgrace. It made no sense. It made no sense as it was happening. Every other team... The fucking Chiefs knew how to tank.
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Right? The Chiefs are like, here's Carson Wentz just handing the ball off and then we're going to bring in our third string quarterback. The...
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So I don't know. We had the first pick and now we have the fourth pick. We moved back three spots every single round. Right. And one of my friends texted me. It was like, we traded the first pick for the fourth pick and got nothing in the trade. Right. And we moved back three spots every round. And we gave up all these potential assets that came with the pick.
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And the thing that kills me is they fire the coach right after the game. They knew they were going to do that for at least a week. So you're letting this guy make the... Basically, he's trying to win and the offensive coordinator, they're trying to win because they don't know if they're going to be there. They're trying to coach for their jobs.
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You got to get rid of those guys if you know you're going to get rid of them after the game. Why not get rid of them before the game? Why not put this decision in the hands of people who care about the big long-term picture of the franchise instead of trying to win the game?
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What was it, two years ago?
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And he was just like, yeah, fuck it. And he ends up. And he was gone. Yeah. Yeah, and he was gone. And he left the team with a nice shining turd on the sidelines.
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Once Joe Milton looked good for a quarter, it's like, all right, you got to go. Joe Milton's your guy.
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Joe Milton was fantastic. I would have started both rookie receivers, the guys who have had no catches all year. Drake May, they at least figured that out, but that took five days for them to figure out. But here's how I would explain it to somebody who didn't know anything about this. If you owned a company, And you had, I don't know, hundreds of people that worked for the company.
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And you had the single biggest decision of the year for that company that had the most financial and business implications possible. And you gave it to, I don't know, let's say your friend Harry is the president. And you're like, I know I'm firing Harry next week. It's getting good.
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I know I'm going to fire him on Sunday night. And this decision is going to be Sunday morning. Should I just let Harry make this decision for the company right before I fire him? Or should I try to figure out with other people who are going to be here next year what the best decision is? You know what? I'll let Harry do it and then I'll fire him right after. It makes no sense.
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No normal business operates this way. You don't turn over the biggest decision of your year.
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Kyle was the most upset of anyone I was texting with during the game other than my dad.
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Yeah.
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They were in the catbird seat. They already have a franchise QB. They're going to have the number one pick. But within two hours, we're like, wow, the two QBs, nobody even likes them that much in this draft. Maybe we couldn't have gotten that much for them anyway. It just speaks to what this whole season was like, which was...
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So many things to get to.
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owners who don't know what they're doing, a front office that don't know what they're doing, and a coach who had no idea what he was doing and contradicted himself over and over again, starting in August when he was like, it's going to be a competition for this job. Then starts for set, even though May was better. And then four weeks in, he's like, well, May was playing better.
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Hey, we won, man.
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So he's got to start. It's like, well, wait, you, you actually said that wasn't what we were, but now we're like, and it was just contradictions left and right. And he deserved to be fired. Listen,
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I know we're like everybody else, but we had a chance to have a franchise could be in the number one pick in the draft. Mm hmm. It's three hours out of your life. We do this all the time in basketball. It's like, oh, these two weeks are going to suck, but it's all going to be worth it because we'll be in this spot after it's done. This was three hours.
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One seed. It's great.
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Well, and then hedged at least some of it with the Vikings.
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But you just laid out exactly what the problem was. You need to have the players, the coaching staff, and the front office. Well, the players are going to do whatever. They're always going to play.
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You need the coach, the front office, and the owners all to be on the same page. And when they're not on the same page, dumb shit like today happens because you have coaches who have different motivations for what's best for those three hours than the front office and the owners. And my...
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So some people were like, do you think he fired Mayo because they were supposed to lose that game and they didn't? I think they knew they were firing him the whole week. They had like this long statement ready, you know, an hour and a half after the game. But this is just, this is what the whole...
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That didn't work out too great. Yeah, always. So, big takeaway from this game. Do you want to go, we shouldn't have been sleeping on the Lions this whole time? Or do we want to go... Are we ready to write off the Vikings after that game as a real contender? Because I am not. I actually think they just had a bad game where a bunch of shit went wrong.
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Really, the whole year has been like dating back to the Apple doc, dating back to this process of hiring a coach that was never a coordinator before, not really hiring a GM, not spending money. And this was the worst team in the league that somehow doesn't have the worst pick. But take me through it.
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Trubisky is like actually pretty good. And they're like, all right, got to get the Bills wanted us to win. They bring in Mike White and they're just right in the ball up over the middle so they can give the ball back to us.
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Joe Milton was great. And by the way, kudos to Joe Milton. He was awesome. This was his one chance to shine. Yeah, he's your guy. And he was really good. But this is really why you need a fourth quarterback. This is where you need a Bailey Zappi.
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But this is when the offensive coordinator is not on the same page. And it's like, just can you just keep hitting the ball off and have guys run at the middle line? Can we just keep doing that for a while? Week 18 sucks.
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And every year I'm like, I'm never betting on this again. And then I bet on it. I had Buffalo. I also had Houston because I loved Houston. You lost your wise wager.
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Zappy and DTR. This is great. Schefter's reported there's a trade. The Pats have traded down from the first to the fourth pick and they've dropped three spots and every round after that in return for jack shit. Got nothing.
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Oh, man. One thing I was thinking, I mean, at least they realized that they don't have the coach and they got rid of poor Mayo who, you know, was put in an impossible spot. He didn't know how to be a head coach. But I was looking at the coaches who made the playoffs. Andy Reid,
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Kevin O'Connell, Tomlin, both Harbaugh's, Payton, McDermott, Dan Campbell, Matt LaFleur, D'Amico Ryans, and then Dan Quinn, Todd Bowles, and Sirianni as the last three. Those are probably the shakiest three out of all the playoff coaches. It's a pretty good batch. Just makes me think like coaches and QBs. If you could just figure out those two things, you're probably good.
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And I'm not ready to be like, nope, that's who they are. I just think it was one of those games. And if anything... I want to buy in on them in the playoffs now because now I think everybody's off now. It's like, oh, Sam Darnold, there he is. Oh, the Lions kicked their ass. Oh, you just have to rush them. And I've watched them all year. That was a really good team. I just think they suck tonight.
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So the Pats, I think Vrabel is probably the favorite because he was Patriots Hall of Famer. And I think he wants a job. And he has a relationship with Kraft and he's a fucking awesome coach. And I can't believe nobody, I can't believe he's available. I don't know why somebody has it already hired him, but you think he used the jets to nudge the Patriots to get that firing today?
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Yeah. Yeah, because five teams are going to want him. Flores would be interesting, too, because he has Patriots DNA. He was with the team. Really good coach. Coached somewhere else, so would it be his first job? Those would be my top two. But Vrabel, I just always thought Vrabel was a top seven, top eight coach.
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Once you have Jack Schitt, do you get Jack Schitt's college coach? It doesn't matter who coaches. Bring him on. So Denver edged out Miami and Cincinnati. That was another thing. Thanks partly to the Chiefs who wanted to make it clear from the first minute where you have no interest in competing in this game. I actually kind of like the Chiefs plus 11 and a half. I think I put them in a tease.
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Steelers-Bengals the day before and we all got to get excited about the Bengals one last time. I realized the Bengals just existed for content and that's about it. Fun to talk about, get a borough MVP conversation out of it. Talk about T Higgins. Is he going to be back? Could replay the montage of all the games. They almost won.
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You'd be like, you don't want to see them in the playoffs, but ultimately they had no chance because the chiefs had no real reason to compete in that Denver game. So we just got free content for a week for nothing.
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He almost lost the one yesterday, Saturday.
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Well, he definitely seemed like he got concussed during that Steelers game. They get really loosey-goosey about some of these. When a guy lands face down, there's a giant thing of turf. He stays down for a while, and then they show him on the sidelines after the commercial, and it looks like he thinks he's in Antarctica. Yeah.
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I'm pretty sure something happened that maybe the blue tent didn't accurately capture.
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Yeah, so big picture with the Bengals. They're going to be in the same spot some of these other teams are in. If they bring back T. Higgins, you're paying 40% of your salary cap for a QB and two receivers. We just watched Miami do this. I don't think it works. I don't think it's sustainable. Miami completely fell off a cliff this week.
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Now, they started to realize during that Jets game, I think that that ship had sailed for them. The Tyreek Hill stuff was super weird after the game and has been kind of weird all season. He's a little bit of the NFL's Jimmy Butler in some ways where it never seems like he's happy for more than two months. And there's weird press conferences and sometimes all of a sudden he's not playing.
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But then after the game, he just seems like he's out of there.
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Why are you torturing me? I don't understand how upset all the Pats fans are. A little bit. I thought, is Mike McDaniel, has he coached Jack shit or no? The Tyreek thing's weird because they gave him that extension, which makes him harder to trade. He's in his 30s now. I don't know if he's the easiest guy year to year. And I don't know what his market would be.
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And we've watched receivers over and over again. They hit this stage of their career. And it's like, whoa, Tyreek Hill's available. But it's like, okay, what does that mean? It's like, ah, Devontae Adams is available. Okay, cool.
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One of the best of the last 10 years.
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I think the difference with him was we left last year And I think he was the guy at receiver. And really for the last, for probably the last two or three years, like Lombardi always used to call him the tilt the field guy. He was like the number one tilt the field guy. I think that's gone now. And it's partly not his fault because of what happened with Tua and the QBs.
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But it feels like Chase kind of took that spot this year. And Chase's stats, I was looking at some of the league leader stuff. Chase was over 1700 yards. It's 17 TDs. Yeah. And you just felt him in every game, you know, and that that's where Tyreek was. The league leader stuff is interesting. Nobody threw for 5,000 yards, even though we had 17 game seasons. Burrow came the closest 49, 18.
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Saquon was the only 2000 yard rusher. Henry and Cook both had 16 rushing TDs. Chase had 17 passing. And then interceptions, we had a tie. What happens with the bets?
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So Cousins and Mayfield, ironically, my number three MVP, 16 interceptions for him. Boswell had 41 field goals. Wow. 40 plus field goals. That's nuts. It's like two and a half a game. And then Hendrickson led the league in sacks with 17 and a half. My Hutchinson bet died.
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Instead of seven straight pass plays.
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Do you think defenses started to figure him out a little bit better?
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Did you watch that one?
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I don't know. I think everyone was assaulting each other back then. So it's hard to say. Pretty physical. I remember it was definitely one of the first ones I saw. I'm trying to think the synergy with the two players that played for my team was Moss and Brady that one year. I've never seen anything like that.
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Only five teams were within a half game of their actual over-under. Usually I always feel like Vegas has like half of them nailed exactly. It wasn't that case this year. The biggest under-unders were Cleveland and San Francisco were both five and a half wins under their under. Jets and Jacksonville were four and a half and the Bears were three and a half.
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So whatever Vegas thought, three and a half worse. For the overs, Minnesota ended up six and a half wins over. Yeah. Washington five and a half, Denver four and a half, and Casey and Philly three and a half.
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Yeah, or the Pats beating the Bengals in week one.
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I think we have to make a mental note next year. First two weeks, just put a giant salt shaker on your shoulder. Don't overthink it too much.
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How is that possible? He's got some salt shakers on his shoulder. I made an end of the year rock bottom rankings for you. Rock franchise is rock bottom. Who's the deepest rock bottom right now? I think it's the Browns. Number one, they, uh, three and 14. They lost their last five. They lost eight more games than they lost last year.
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Well, we didn't know even this morning, I don't think officially, that Anzalone was coming back. Right. And he had a big impact. Some of the play calls had a big impact. Darnold just reverted into pre-Minnesota Darnold, which I think the Lions defense had a lot to do with.
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Their last three games, they scored 16 points. They have two more years of Deshaun Watson. Mm-hmm. And they have a top two pick, which they kind of stumbled into and didn't seem conceivable. But now they have the second pick in this draft that everybody's already like, I don't know about these quarterbacks. And yet they're going to have to take one. Right. Or you have to trade it.
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So how many teams would actually trade into this draft? And do you, like some of the stuff I was reading the last week as I was trying to figure out what the Pats could get for number one before we traded down to take Jack shit.
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Um, the, like Diana Rossini had a thing about the quarterback saying how, yeah, if Sanders and Cam Ward were in last year's draft, they would kind of been in that Penn X Drake may range. Yeah. So if that's the case, that makes me think they're probably not going one and two. Because usually we see teams reach for QBs, but not if the grade for them is like mid-first round, early second round.
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I'm so glad we have Todd McShay this year, plus our ringer draft guys. I'm sure this is going to be a huge topic. But we rarely see teams reach like that for quarterbacks that people aren't even positive are going to be above average starters.
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But the thing I love, we talked about this last week, the thing I liked about the Vikings and the Bengals was their ability to play pitch and catch with their receivers when they really needed to. Where was that tonight? They couldn't do it at all. Where was that on third and seven? Where was that around the end zone? Even Jefferson had some one characteristic drops.
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Yeah, sometimes there's this draft where you get the number one pick. Like we had at the year we took Ken Sims. It was like for the 1981 draft. We sucked the whole year and it just turned out to be a year where Ken Sims was the number one pick. Needless to say, not a lot of Ken Sims jerseys still around. Then you end up with another year like last year.
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Where he goes Daniels in May and Caleb Williams in the top three. And it's like, holy shit. And then you go through that. I mean, that's going to end up being an iconic draft. Sure. You look at the first round of that draft, there's like 15 potential all pros in it.
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So we both think Browns are one. I was thinking for a rock for true rock bottom, not having a coach or a quarterback, I think is that that's when you're really rock bottom me. So Tennessee, I think has to be second.
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Um, three and 14. I don't know what they saw from their coach this year, which makes me think he's the coach. Levis is so bad that they started him because they knew he would give them their best chance to lose. I wish we had had Levis today. Joe Milton's like a hundred times better than Levis. Um, so they're two, but at least they have the first pick in the draft.
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But as we said, it's a down draft. Um, giants, I would have three. They're in the same boat, except they're bringing back day ball. And then Shane. Would you put New England, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, and the Jets? Who would you put next?
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Yeah, so then, I mean, I honestly think Indianapolis would probably be fifth, and then you would have Jacksonville and New England right after that. Because Indianapolis, I don't think they have a quarterback.
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And I don't think they have a coach, but the season, would they finish like eight, nine or seven, eight, nine, I think seven and 10, there's somewhere in there, seven or eight wins, which fools you into thinking, Oh, maybe we're not that far away, but I actually think they are far away.
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Is there anybody you would throw anybody else you would throw in that? Um, for rock bottom. Cause like the bears have Caleb Williams, the paths have Drake May. Like there's at least things you can grab onto.
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They never got like the 30 yard pass interference. They never got the Addison just busting loose for 40 yard play. Acres was the only one that had like the monster play, but, um, I'm torn because one of my best friends, Jeff Gallo, huge Vikings fan, he's texted me in the second quarter. He's like, this is classic. Here we go. This is the Vikings that I've had in my life for 50 years.
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I don't know. They murdered our exact order pick.
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It was plus 150.
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A couple of my friends were asking because we were talking about how we did so well in the over-unders. Like, was there juice on those? When, um, when we picked them for the most part, they were always like minus one 50 minus one 20. If there was crazy juice, we probably mentioned on the podcast. Like, right. I remember Pittsburgh under had a lot of juice. The bears under had a lot of juice.
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It's the Cowboys under had a lot of juice going the other way. Cause they didn't want you to bet it. So there's probably like 10, but for the most part, they were around even.
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Yeah, and there was some cases where we probably went the other way.
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Speaking of the rock bottom rankings, Fantasy, who's been on fire all year with his Jets tweets, he tweeted during the Jets win today, an unlikable Jets team winning a pointless final game of the season, weakening draft position before a vast regime change while an arch rival prepares to hire the coveted coach they never had a chance at. A tale as old as time. Definitely.
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They might be bottom five.
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Where's the point of pride? Well, that was the worst possible ending for Jet's fans where they're basically dancing on Miami's grave. Miami checks out and Rodgers all of a sudden is like firing touchdowns and moving around and, you know, he's back.
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but against this team that had checked out and um i guess that's the highlight tape he would send this this spring he's trying to get hired hey did you see my week 18 game right right four touchdowns yeah let's add an episode of enigma that's going great we we we we beat miami they're trying to make the playoffs i threw four touchdowns on him he uh he does think that he does think like that i might throw the raiders did you mention the raiders
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Oh, did I not have the Raiders in there? Oh, my apologies. Oh, the Raiders are definitely top four.
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I thought I had the Raiders. I must have copy-pasted them and accidentally taken them out.
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Can he hold out now? Has anyone ever held out after year one? That'd be great. All right. So final rock bottom. Browns one. Tennessee two. Giants three. Raiders four.
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I don't care where anything else is. Yeah. All right. That's enough foreplay. Guess the lines. Round one. Saturday. What's the records, by the way? Are we tied?
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The Shakey's-Shob game. Saturday. Only two games on Saturday. The Chargers are traveling to Houston to play the Texans. I feel like there's probably some AFL version of this game. What was Houston? The Titans?
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What do you mean? No, somebody was the Titans.
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Turning it over on downs inside the five. They're going to play all the hits. And he was right. It was when they kicked it out of bounds right before the end of the first half. It's like, here we go. Classic Vikings. This is what we do. That was bad. but the thing is I didn't feel like this was a classic Vikings. This is what we do team. They were the opposite of that.
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Oh, the Jets were the Titans. Yeah, so Houston Oilers. And what were the, I guess they were the San Diego Chargers?
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They must have had some sort of AFL playoff game in the 60s, but that was some iconic game that the rest were born for.
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It was probably a piece of pizza that tastes now like it came from the 1960s. Right. I guess the Chargers minus two and a half in Houston. We both did.
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Oh, we got it exactly. Wonderful. Yep. So I'm trying to figure out who's the fuck job game out of these six games where everybody's just on one side. Chargers are a candidate.
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Who was the game last year?
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I'm trying to think how much of a home field advantage Houston would be. That's a crowd that's probably getting nervous pretty immediately. Yeah. No Tank Dell. No Stephon Diggs. I guess they could try to run on them. I like the Chargers team, though. I think they're pretty talented.
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Oh, my God. It's been since like September. Right?
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We didn't talk about the Cowboys. Jared Jones had a cameo in Landman in episode nine, the newest episode. I'm not caught up. He pops in and it's like one of the better three, four minute cameos I can ever remember. from a sports person on a TV movie thing. You're being serious. I'm being 100% dead serious. I didn't know that. Yeah.
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I texted you about it last night and I was like, I thought you were fucking around. I was not fucking around. He's really good. He gives a whole speech to one of the characters and it's fucking good. It's like shockingly good. I couldn't believe it. oh, I got to catch up now. No, it's great. Like, you're kind of like, whoa, are you an actual actor? No, he is.
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He's the best actor in sports if you add it all up, right? He added to, he's at least as good of an actor as like, he's in Pesci and De Niro and those guys. Like, he easily could have been the Irishman.
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I swear he gets choked up during it for real as he's given the speech. Yeah, it's crazy. He's really good.
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So I'm still, I'm not ready to sell on them yet. I think they just suck tonight.
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Sunday, three games. First one, Buffalo. No, it's Saturday night.
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We didn't do Saturday night. Saturday night, Amazon. You knew they'd get a good one. Ravens Steelers in Baltimore. Third time we've had this game. I sent you my guess and I think it's too low, but I'll stick with it just out of honor system. I had Ravens minus six and a half.
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I would have changed it to seven and a half. I don't know why I went low, but all right.
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So seven point teaser takes the Chargers to plus four and a half. The Ravens under three. And then we just need a third team and we're good to go. Yeah, sure.
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Listen, so you'd want a 10-point teaser, your money parlay.
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It feels like their defense has a good hour in it where they look like the Steelers from the first two months, but it doesn't seem like they can sustain it anymore, and I'm not really entirely sure what happened.
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I mean, we have been in this situation with Lamar as a big favorite. Yeah. And then about 40 minutes into the game, be like, Oh no, I feel like I've bet on this game before. Well, I just don't 12.
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Unless the Steelers have just been playing possum for a month. Hmm. That's the only thing I can think of that would make me think that they could hang in this game. Because it just doesn't seem like they can score more than 20 points anymore. So what you laid out with 18-16, that would have to be the game. It has to be 18-16, 16-13, 17-16. That's it.
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Yeah, or it's the other way where they blow them out 38-10. And I got to go through the playoff manifesto again and go through all the rules and try to figure out what might apply. But this has all the makings of Ravens blowout round one. All right. It's finally it. They've got it. And then round two, they scored 13 points. Right. Listen, we'll have them on a money line parlay, I'm sure.
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I'm not that stupid yet. I'll tell you this. If Lamar loses this game... He now enters Marty Schottenheimer territory for, I don't know if I can trust you anymore, laying points in the playoff game. Was he a bad quarterback, Marty Schottenheimer? The Marty Schottenheimer teams. Remember how many times, how many teases and parlays his teams blew over the years?
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For the Steelers, it just feels like Fryermuth over the middle for 12. Pickens no longer makes any plays for whatever reason. Najee Harris breaking seven tackles and getting 12 yards. Maybe Austin over the middle one time for like 22 yards, but the explosive plays are just gone. So they might have to go back to the flack OPI offense, just try to get past interference.
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This could be the other way to do it.
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Yeah, the move might be to stay away. I have a nice nest egg still for million-dollar picks. I'm just so afraid of Lamar in the playoffs. He's really got to win me back.
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Yeah, don't be so afraid. Sunday, three games. Bills-Broncos is the first game. And these guys have gotten here early, and they're going there, jumping through town. Yeah. Broncos, good, bad team for you? Or somebody that's a little lively for this game?
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Or rookie quarterback against the MVP of the league. Also, probably not a scenario I would love. Right. I guess Bills by 10 and a half over the Broncos.
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Eight and a half. I think it's low, huh? Yeah. Only because, I mean, that's like an easy tease. I'm going to tease that tonight.
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Just feels like any time they need to play, they get to play. Yeah. The Bills. Probably. They had that week four game. They got their asses kicked against Baltimore. They've had some shaky hour-long stretches. But for the most part, I like their offense at home in the playoffs. I just trust it. You trust their offense at home or the Ravens' offense at home?
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Well, that's the thing. If we get... If we can just kind of push everybody to round two, we could potentially have... Great week. Casey against the Chargers. Buffalo-Baltimore. Detroit-Minnesota rematch. And then Philly versus Washington or Tampa, two teams that love playing Philly. It's too good to be true. Tampa beat them. Those are four great games. I like all those games. Let's do it.
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And I can't imagine the Packers are psyched that it played out this way when they could have potentially not played the Eagles.
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Well, we forgot to talk about this at the top, which was my fault, but it seemed like Washington was just ready to lose that game 17 times. And once again, they have a cardiac kids win, but, um, but now they, now they get to play at Tampa anyways.
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He had a couple plays when he runs around and creates time where you can see it. And then he throws the ball and it's just two yards short of a guy or it's sailing over somebody's head. He's just not accurate. Perfect. That's it. Preseason week three quarterback. We'll keep him there. It's crazy how many picks and stuff the Niners gave up for him when... Yeah.
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I guess just on pure potential and how he looked in a couple... really nuts. They almost seems like they don't take enough shit for that. And they stumble into Purdy with the seventh round pick, but right. Wow. Eagles. I have minus four over the Packers.
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It's a nice spot for the Eagles.
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Yeah, they get to a two seed. They get to play this Green Bay team that feels like they peaked four weeks ago. If they win it... there's a, you know, a really good chance they could get the Bucs in round two, which is nuts. A team that we didn't even, weren't even sure was going to make the playoffs at 1255 p.m. today. So they could basically, I don't know.
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Go back. Can we get that grass back? Yeah. Next one. Washington against the Bucs in Tampa.
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I have watched it. It's funny. I had the Bucks favorite in this as when I was doing Guess the Lines, and then I just switched it. I was like, you know what? They're going to have Washington favorite. So Washington minus one and a half. Shouldn't have switched it. Shouldn't have switched it.
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Oh, my.
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Yeah, and the Minnesota fans for three, four hours are just going to be in funk and all the PTSD is going to come back. Eventually, they're going to look at this game and be like, probably was an intentional grounding in the end zone on Goff. We dropped a pick six.
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That's pretty rare for me for the playoffs. That's makes me want to bet the bucks. I think, I mean, that makes me want to bet.
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Yeah, but I would argue.
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So Tampa, they lost to your team. I guess their best win is the Chargers. Is that it? And they beat Philly in week four, Detroit in week two. So their best win since September is the Chargers. Those two wins in September were really good.
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Since the bye week, they beat the Giants, Carolina, Vegas, the Chargers, lost to Dallas, beat Carolina, beat the Saints. I don't know. I think it's a little steep. So you would want to lay points with Tampa?
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I don't mind taking the points with that. Biggest over-under, too, 49.5. I think being up by five points is some sort of sign. If I was seeing it that way, I should probably trust my gut. Monday night, Vikings at the Rams. And I had the Vikings by one and a half in LA. All right.
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You had Minnesota by four and a half?
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Yeah. Man. So we're tied now.
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Which one? The Minnesota? Yeah.
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Yeah. I don't know.
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We dropped multiple plays that would have either extended drives or Jefferson, uncharacteristically, it seemed like he should have had a touchdown. He dropped that. You just go through and it's like, actually, we were right there with those guys. And Goff... was putting the ball up for grabs just as many times as Darnold did in this game.
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Fandle has odds for the number one draft pick. Cam Ward is minus 125. Sanders is plus 105. Hunter is 10 to 1. And then everybody else is long shot.
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I don't see odds on Jack anywhere. What about that Abdul Carter at 60-1? If somebody just wanted to go defense.
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It's weird that everybody's so heavy. All right, anything else you want to hit? A little NBA?
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Am I doing this? This is such a traumatic day for me. I'm like a shell of myself today. So spend the whole year watching this fucking team and they somehow they're the worst team in the league and they don't get the worst pick.
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You think, would you take Joe Milton? How many teams would actually take Joe Milton over what they have right now? Where did he get?
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Would you rather him than anyone on Cleveland? Oh, at this point, I think so. What did you draft him? He's like a fifth, sixth rounder. What's weird is he sucked in the preseason, I thought, because he was one of those guys who was throwing everything 140 miles an hour. But he had like real touch today. He was good. He was moving around. He evaded some sacks. You hated it.
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Well, I was happy for him because everybody says he's a great guy. But at the same time, it was ripping my intestines out of my body. I just couldn't believe it.
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Well, we already traded it. We got jack shit. The Butler trade's going to happen this week. I was telling you with the NBA, I was telling you about... Houston, right? Yeah, and then Houston beat the Lakers tonight, although it was a good game.
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I said their January was about to get hard.
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Yeah. Because I was looking at... I really think there's a chance San Antonio can make the playoffs. And how I talked about on Thursday. So now they're plus three 50. So it's right around what we talked about. They don't have the odds for Houston today, but San Antonio would have to jump either the Lakers or Houston basically.
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And the thinking is when B is now a top seven guy and maybe they make a trade. And right. So we were looking at that for, well, don't we want to wait a little bit?
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They're at the Bulls. Yeah, we can win. I'm monitoring it. What do you got for Paracorner?
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At halftime, there was no scenario in my head that somebody was winning by 20-plus. I know.
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Know what I'm saying? Well, you made me think of how they talk about how inside the NBA is too critical about the NBA product, this theory. And that makes people more critical because they're just following the leader. So it's a similar type of thing. Yeah. Whereas in the NFL, everybody's like... praising everybody at all times on those studio shows.
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We're doing long interviews, but everything's positive and pushing the product. We have to be less Barkley and more... But how would you push the product of your own parents?
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And that's what I was telling my buddy. I was like, you're going to have the lead in the third quarter. It's fine. Then they start driving. Akers has that big run. They're down four. Is he still your buddy? Have you checked?
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I definitely did that in college. I remember my junior year, I just went back and stayed because we had an apartment. I was like, you know what? You know what's great? The apartment. Nobody's going to be there. It went back. So I see it. Kudos. What about now?
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Well, Zoe left. She left today. She went to go hang out with her boyfriend who lives in Florida. Does she have school tomorrow? No, she doesn't have school for another week. So we were kind of like, you're leaving now? And she's like, well, I've been here for two weeks. It's like, yeah.
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I don't know. Except for you complaining about your parents. So what do you think they're going to complain about with us? Well, that's the scary thing. 10, 15, 20 years from now?
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Yeah, right. All the playoff scenarios. What a fucking lunatic.
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I've been doing this with him for 40 years. Akers has got that. It seems like he's just going to score. They catch him. And then they have to, you know, it's just, they never got the lead. It felt like as soon as they got the lead, I wanted to see what that Lions did. The other thing that the, I mean, the positive stuff of the Lions, defense looked way better.
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My parent corner. So... We hooked up, my son has a PS5 and we hooked up a PS4 on a different TV so I could play Fortnite duos with them.
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Which led to me making a Madden comeback. Um, and playing some Madden with him and realizing how much worse I am now at video games than I used to be. Right. Um, especially Fortnite, which I was okay in Fortnite at the end of the 2010s when we were, when we were playing and I actually won a couple of times, but I was always like strategic and trying not to get into many gunfights.
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Now when I'm playing these video games, they're coming so fast. It's the number one thing I've done that's made me feel old in probably this whole decade. I'm doing plays at Madden and the clock's ticking down. I'm like, wait, I'm still trying to figure out what play I'm going to call in single back. There's like seven seconds left. So I realized I need to start playing video games.
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I need the speed of it. I want to get the hang of it. So I'm going to play more video games. But I was driving down. I had a good drive.
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No.
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And I was like, this is, I guess this is what it's going to have to be. I'm going to have to play some video games. So we'll hang out. But, um, but my son was like, you know, you're pretty good. You should, you should stream some of this. And I'm like, what do you mean? And he's like, should stream some of the games. Like, so people can see like, what you're playing.
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I'm like, I'm definitely not doing that. But it's just his generation now just wants to show everything at all times. Uh, I wouldn't do it mostly because I'd be so embarrassed. But, um, the reason I'm telling you this, cause Sam Darnold, when he was running around and he was under pressure the whole time and he was running to the right and chucking it up, that's basically my Madden offense now.
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And, um, you know what? I'm not gonna, I feel like I have another run in me. I think I can come back. Really? I just need some practice. Yeah. So I'm going to start, I'm going to play one game, one game at least every night. And anyway, I told this to my wife and she was really, really horrified. Oh, she's not happy with it. Not happy at all. Not happy at all. She's like, what?
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I thought you were just going to do that over the break to play with Ben. I was like, no, I might start playing a little more again. It's good for my brain. It's good for my reflexes. I'm older. And it was kind of one of those, oh, and I could tell this is like right going into the memo for the divorce lawyer. Yeah.
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You know, Bill's playing video games, but then I have some people my age, like my friend David Nyman plays Fortnite. I think he like a lot, like he plays like competitively. So there's some people that just, this is how they like unwind.
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The home field advantage there, it's just, you know, they were talking about it before the game, how... Tony Dungy. I think he says this every year, no matter where they are on location. He's like, guys, I've never heard a place louder than this in my entire career. I think he just does it every year, wherever they are. But that place was super loud. Now you have to go through there to win.
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I mean, as you know, once upon a time, I was one of the great video football game players ever. I mean, I don't want to brag, but that's what everyone was saying. It's okay. No, I want to get to the point where I can play my buddy Gus. Because Gusto plays all the time and we were playing in the, we were playing in television in the eighties. So I want to see if I can get my mojo back.
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But I got to say like so many plays now, we almost made these games too complicated. Like, do I need a 1200 play playbook?
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Maybe I'm, I feel like Gerard Mayo. Well, another reason I brought this up. So I started a franchise season and I had the Patriots and I immediately traded for T Higgins. Oh. Put him with Drake May. And then it's... When you're the owner, it gives you the option to fire your coach. So I'm going to fire Gerard Mayo at the end of the year. I want to get through the first season.
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And then I'm going to fire him and try to hire somebody else. That's good.
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This is another thing with Madden. They made... They made it way more complicated to be the owner. I've got to hire and fire scouts.
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And I got to decide about renovations for the stadium and all this shit. I'm like, can I just...
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Oh, you have a chance to upgrade the cover skills of your fifth cornerback.
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I know they definitely overthought this.
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I think this is harder than actual real life.
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The other thing with Fortnite, do you know anything about Fortnite? Not too much. I know the kids play it. Because you can build stuff and the better that people are, you can build like little stairs to climb up wherever. You could build a little house around yourself to protect yourself. So the people that got really good at it, Um, they're just maniacs.
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Like they're just building stuff and people like us that go in there just, we have no chance. So my son was like, you should play no build for an end. I'm like, what's that? It's like, well, nobody it's same game, but you can't build anything. So you can't do any of that stuff. And I was like, so it's kind of like the, it's like the G league. for Fortnite? He's like, yeah.
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I was like, put me in there. Put me in there with Brawny James. Oh, right there. You're the Brawny of Fortnite. That's great. So anyway, 2025. We'll see how long video games last, but I hope it gets... Do you have Jack Shit as your tailback? I'm going to create Jack Shit. Do it. If you're randomly playing me on Madden and you see a running back, that's Jack Shit. That's me.
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So we'll see if it brings me and my son closer together. I love it. We'll find out. I am taking him to Rotterdam. So we are father-son bonding.
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Okay. That'll be good.
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Their defense is getting better. Maybe they get Hutchinson back by round three. Um, the thing that I was the most surprised by was without Montgomery, um, I was worried, could they hold leads? Could they keep leads? Would they be able to get these third and three? Would they be able to just keep drives going? And I didn't feel like they missed them that much.
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No.
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We'll see. It doesn't matter. All right, that's it for Parent Corner. What do you got to plug?
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I'm not doing it. Raheem texted me asking if I had a burner guest room. I didn't know what that meant.
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I'm sad Miami's not in the playoffs, though. We're not going to have the J.J. Chuck. I know.
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All right, this was produced by Saruti and Gahal and Kyle. You can follow everything we do on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel. I'll be back on Tuesday with a pod of new rewatchables coming on Monday, and you can catch Sal at all the places he saw. We will be back next Sunday live. We'll see. How much fatter will it be next week?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You do like a 25-minute appearance on the Tuesday pod. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right, right. Oh, that's good. You know what? I just liked when it was three and three.
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Anyway, all right, Sal. Good job by you. Good job by you, buddy.
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I was going to actually look that up. So they're the favorites? Yeah.
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You know... Them and the Ravens, same situation, right? Where this season's so long, we have all these advanced metrics we can look at, and you just kind of talk yourself out of anybody's defense being able to do a turnaround. And both of those defenses are playing better. That's probably who I would pick at this point.
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As much as I hate going against KC, I think that Baltimore-Detroit would be the life-on-the-line pick, but the wise pick would be KC-Detroit, which was, I think, what our Super Bowl... That was the one we bet on, right? Or you bet on the seeds?
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But we did our futures draft. You won the futures draft single-handedly with just 26-1.
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The over-unders. Houston and Arizona both hit today. So 27-5. And all five were like giant losses. That's ridiculous. It was like I didn't come remotely close to the five. It was like Jacksonville, Minnesota. It was all like... But everything else I hit.
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The crazy thing is I really almost took Buffalo. It was a seesaw for me that whole summer. And... I just got sucked in with the Rodgers.
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All right, so here's what we got for playoffs. Well, first of all, We do this every year. And one of the things is I was trying to figure out the league before the year. And I was trying to figure out, well, we have to have six new playoff teams. That's just the rule. And I couldn't get there. And I think I only picked four or five. Well, there's six. No, there was, there's four new playoff teams.
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Yeah. So we lost Cleveland. We lost Miami. We lost San Francisco and we lost Dallas. Oh shit. We gained Denver, the chargers, Washington. Yeah.
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and minnesota and that's it so usually it's six sometimes seven there might be the occasion where there's five four is like a crazy non-turnover year four is fine yeah let's get the cowboys back in but then we'll stick to four uh the rest of the way there was some uh The fact that Pittsburgh made it back in and stuff like that. Some of the weaker teams somehow ran it back.
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They just, after their performance this last month... How do you go from 500 plus yards against Cincinnati... To not being able to get a first down four weeks later with all the same guys on your team. And all the same guys since then. I didn't get that. So our one seeds are KC and Detroit. We have Denver at Buffalo in the 2-7. Pittsburgh, Baltimore, 3-6. Chargers at Houston, 4-5.
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The Shakey's game. This was on Twitter. This is the eighth time Houston has been in the Shakey's game since 2011.
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The shaky Schaub Classic. Yeah, shaky Schaub. I like it. Yeah, shaky Schaub. And then Green Bay at Philly, Washington at Tampa, Minnesota at the Rams is the 4-5. And that's going to be... Is that a Sunday nighter or a Monday nighter?
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Amazon is the big winner because they get Pittsburgh-Baltimore on Saturday night, which is a great game. The two best games are Green Bay-Philly-
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They must have been able to protect it. I think CBS and Fox each get to protect one of them, right? So if you're, although it is interesting that CBS probably would have wanted Pittsburgh Baltimore, right? I can't, I guess Buffalo is the most public around one team because of Josh Allen and the fans and you get to go there and people are jumping through tables. So maybe, maybe they wanted that.
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I don't know.
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So the biggest surprises for me, just big picture today, other than that minutes, I really thought Minnesota was at least going to show up. I thought that was going to be a come down to the last five minutes game. Detroit was great. The Cubs was awesome. The biggest surprise for me today was that the Rams didn't care if they were the three seed or the four seed.
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And it was explained to me multiple ways. I get it. They haven't had a bye week since week six. They wanted a rest. They didn't really care where they played. They're going to play everyone anyway. Right. I just... I don't know. I just would much rather be in the three seed that now they have to play Minnesota next week versus playing Washington. It's no contest.
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I would much rather play Minnesota than Washington.
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Yeah. I thought if they had won, he would have looked like a genius and he was really involved in the sidelines. Oh yeah. McVay is like the number one, Does the, I'm doing a fist pump for people listening. He just, he's doing around. He's got the one move and he just goes through it. He's like, he's like a fist with like a, like a overbite face. Right. It's like the guy, what movie is that?
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Where the guy's like the one guy and the dance for his one move is the rolling the dice. Yeah. when he's on the dance floor and all he can do is the dice move. Oh, no, he's going to do the dice move. That's McVay's fist.
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Yeah, then he got married. He didn't need the get-back guy anymore. So, yeah, now they're playing Minnesota in the 4-5, which I think is just brutal because you could make a case that that game, we just knocked up. Cerruti says that's the dice move. Oh, yeah, yeah, right. Yeah. You could make the case the game that we just watched, those were the two best teams in the league.
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I don't know if you'd make it after watching Darnold for four quarters, but especially the first hour of that game, the hitting, how people flying around. It was like, Jesus, we've been watching shit football all day. And these guys are like, it looks like they're on the all Madden level watching this.
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Did you look at the lottery odds?
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Did you see the spacing stuff, man?
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myriad times where he will get in the middle of the floor he'll take a quick snapshot of what where the spacing is on the floor and he was really really good at making those kind of short roll like connective passes or come off a pin down what was really funny is that like Montverde used to run this Very Bird-esque pin down on the block for him.
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And they still are doing it at Duke a little bit because he's lethal in the middle of the floor right now. So I think if you look at the way that he's able to read the floor in that sense, and then you see him kind of fledgling and blossoming as a ball handler. Like I said, Tatum is ahead of him, but I think Cooper is way ahead of Tatum as a processor of the floor at the same age.
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Couldn't agree more. And if you look at the gap between those two things and you see where Tatum is and you see Cooper's brain, his skill set, and you say, okay, well, what's the difference there? And this is the argument I made in the piece. The difference, the distance there is just his handle. I really do believe that's all it is.
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And if you look at the way you're talking about his mom, you're talking about his basketball family. If you look at the way he has courted, uh, challenges in his career since the time we followed him, um, Every indication is that this guy is a maniac worker. He went to Duke a year early. He left Maine a year early after like two years there where he was just dominating.
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Actually, it might have just been a year. And he's just way ahead of schedule by design. And he's just an insane worker. So I expect him to bridge that gap and improve his handling.
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That'd be a crazy collection of, like, athletes, I would say, over the short amount of time. Like, if they picked up Koulibaly and then picked up Saar and then picked up – Yeah. Some players, when they come into the league, I look at them and I think there's a lot there, but the conditions and the context of where he goes is really, really going to affect how he develops.
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Cooper, I think, is a context. Some guys are. They're just culture setters. Tim Duncan, this is like Hallow gets struck by lightning type thing I'm going to say here, but You know, Steph, LeBron, those are the types of guys who just have winning habits. They demand the most of everybody.
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I had a funny conversation with a friend of mine, and he'll know that I'm talking about him when I say this, but he's a physician, and he does surgery, and he was telling me whenever...
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In his operating room, he said he sets the tone to the point at the level of excellence to the point where the stupid people and the lazy people don't want to be in the room with him because they know they're going to be accountable.
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And I just started laughing and I was just like, that's what great people do is like you kind of if you're going to be in the room with them, you know, you have to kind of.
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elevate your game and I think that Cooper is that type of guy but I think you're right man he like he he and I think he's willing to sort of fit into any kind of scenario wherever he goes and the shooting is going to come along like that that's that's the only other thing I would add to is if you go back and people should go watch this we've known Cooper for probably four years in the mainstream and
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You can go watch his games from when he was a freshman and a sophomore in high school. He was shooting like set shot in the driveway three pointers. The distance that he has come in the three or four years since we've known him is remarkable. Like he was just a run around deer block shots guy when he came on the scene. And he's become a full fledged handler in college in a tough conference.
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Well, the ACC sucks, but tough competition.
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I don't think so. I think I really don't even know what would have to he'd have to like just totally crap the bed or something. He's he there are certain prospects that get to the point where it is it is you're just like you're not having like positive generating, like diminishing returns is the word I'm trying to think of.
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It's watching him at this point is just not, there's not a lot of point to it because I've seen enough.
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I think that he is probably the most... You mentioned KG's active mind. I wasn't scouting back then. I was a kid. But I mean, he probably has the most driven personality other than I would say Wimby is the only other person that I can think of that when I watch them, I'm just like, there is singular focus in this person. And you can tell that they're bright. I just think...
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And this can transition into kind of some of the broader things about the league and the way it's going, I think. But he just has this curiosity about him that I would not bet against. And I don't want to overstate when we talk about his handle and things like that. It's not like he's a yakety-sacks disaster. It's just he has a couple different...
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areas where teams are trying to bait him into going. And he's getting smarter and smarter about not taking the bait. And there are some ways I pointed them out in the article that he can specifically, I think, set his man up to create kind of driving lanes for himself and create more advantageous situations. But you mentioned like which team he goes to. I just don't I wouldn't worry.
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Yeah, because you can go so many different directions with him.
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You're right about Luca. I'm trying to think of... I'm sure there are other ones. I mean, these are just kind of the high points.
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Yeah, the Luka one you pointed out is a good one, too. And I think that one should be in the group, too. And he has some similarities in terms of the way... I always try to watch guys who run away from stagnation in their development towards the NBA. Right.
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Luka, every single time, and the people around him played it really smartly, is that when he was at a certain age, the challenge... They were always ahead of the stagnation. They were like, all right, we see that he's going to stagnate here. And they just kept moving him up. And I think what happens in that situation is you just develop...
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The later you delay problem solving in your development, I think the worse off you are because problem solving and decision making are the most important thing to help you adapt to the speed of the NBA. And I just think you see some guys like Chris Paul came into the league and his size always was a stimulant, I think, for him as a problem solver.
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Whereas you look at somebody like these high school college guards who are big bullies on the playground who get to the NBA and suddenly they can't bully anymore. You just see them be like for the first time in their career, like, oh, shit, I got to think about this in some way. And you see them kind of get bowled back by it. I just think that Cooper is so ahead of it on that front.
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It's hard to, like, not hold it against guys, too, because you'll watch players who are 18 years old, like you said, and you're like, how competitive is he? I don't know. You start to feel a little wishy-washy about it.
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And I think to myself, I'm just thinking, well, thank goodness no one was judging my career when I was 18 years old because I was just a total shithead and had no clue what I was doing.
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Yeah, this all ties together to what we were talking about with Cooper. And I think it factors into player types and things like that. When you're looking at the way the two teams that I think before the season, your pick for the finals was OKC Boston, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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And I think if you look at the way and I think this will tie to Jimmy's fit with Golden State, too, which I know you want to talk about this spatial sense and flow. Like we know that in the past, really, since video and analytics became really, really ubiquitous and easy to access. I think that the league made a leap forward. I don't even think that's speculation.
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I think the flow of information just iterated really, really fast. Things were more... The scouting reports got more and more complicated from game to game and more detailed and things like that. So you've just kind of seen the flow of information take... A leap up.
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And I think if you look at the way I know you're keenly aware of this, but when you just kind of I noticed this in the finals, whenever the Celtics players, I remember I was like watching. There are a lot of people on Twitter who are we have people who are the former NBA people, the people who I think are actually qualified to analyze mid-series adjustments in details.
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There's not a ton of them, but we have some on Twitter. And you were watching the details, and you would go down through there, and they'd say, okay, there's this, this, this, this, and this rule for this, this, this defensive coverage.
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And I'm just looking at it, and your head starts spinning, and you just think, how in the world could someone on the court keep all that information in their head to the point where it's reactionary? And I think that is...
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Something that is setting OKC and Boston, aside from just being smart transactionally, something that is setting those two programs apart is I think that they are curating people just better than anybody else. I think you're getting good basketball players, but if you look at the types of guys and you're like, why is Peyton Pritchard popping? Why is Sam Houser popping? Why is Luke...
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Why are these guys working? What is what is it about Al Horford that's allowing him to, you know, why is it that Derek White is has found a home there? I just think that overall, if you look at organizations and how they are like evaluating people, I think that that is a huge advantage in the NBA today just because of what we were talking about in terms of the speed of the game.
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You could sustain like one or two of those guys, right?
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Yeah, sometimes you get lucky in a superstar like a Jokic. You just sit him in the middle of your planetary diorama and everything falls into place around him. And Jokic takes spare parts. If you handed a professional drummer a really crappy drum kit, he knows how to make it sound good. I feel like that's kind of Jokic.
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Jokic can repurpose things that maybe one man's trash is another man's treasure. But I think with these teams, these two teams specifically...
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When you think about the slugging percentage of how many decisions there are within a given NBA game, and you think about the difference, the margins between a small decision, and I think attacking and vacating space is an enormous thing that can tank whether or not a team is working. With the Celtics or with OKC, if a guy doesn't have an instinctual feel for
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all right, they're loading up on Shay in this situation. X player's head is turned. You know, I'm going to go here. And that takes an activeness of mind, I think. But then the other thing is just how... And vacating space is the other thing. Just getting the fuck out of the way, as we've seen, is, you know, knowing when to do that. But...
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i think in terms of guys getting better too i think it's gotten super detailed down to the point of they know what it takes for a person to like have like a permanence of a concept and they know how to sort of uh do that whenever they're working guys out and guys who aren't reflective people you're talking about like knowing who you are they're just not going to be as apt to grow as fast as other players so i think it's gotten really like psychologically detailed even in that point
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And I think you're absolutely right about it does kind of come down to knowing who you are. Like, it's amazing how many teams across the league don't really know who they are. I made a joke last year about the Bulls. I was like, the Bulls were like Bruce Willis in the sixth sense. They were dead and they had no idea.
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And you'll look at some teams, some teams who just are just sunk cause following these paths that are never going to end up being a masterpiece. And I think that's a really key part of it.
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I would say David West.
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Yeah, there's a sweet spot of distressed asset and talent that you could bet on in the right scenario. And you also just have to have the culture to sustain something like that. And the Warriors have proven over and over again that they can. But I think the big thing, I was looking at some of the stats through, I guess it was seven games. I mean, there are seven three-man lineups.
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that Jimmy is a part of that have a plus 20 net rating. And only one of them is like actually negative. He's in one lineup that's like negative 0.5 or something. So his impact on it has been immediate. And I think you hit it where talking about like Duran and the post, I think the big thing is that Steph has not had like a switch partner for a while.
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Like he hasn't had a guy on the floor where if you switch this, this is going to create an issue because you think about, you know, Wiggins had his little run there where he was doing some things and they've had these, they've had, you know, they've had scores here and there like pool. They could put him in an action for that season. And he was, he was making, making lemonade.
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But I think that he has, that is like the starting point really since like Iguodala or Durant. I don't think that they've had a guy that could punish a switch as, as consistently as Jimmy does.
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Yeah. Well, I was going to say a couple of things that the the Luca trade, I guess I haven't even got to talk to you about it at all. I was at the Calipari return game, which I thought was going to be the biggest story that night. Right. And we were sitting there in the postgame presser and somebody showed me their phone. I was I was like, what? Like,
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I didn't believe it, seriously, for the rest of the night. Anyway, everybody's beating that one to death. But on jaw, he definitely is the separator for them in that sense. I do think that he's suffered a little bit from defensive officiating shifting recently. And that speaks into what's... I think that's what has made Boston and OKC really effective, too, is the fact that they just have this...
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circular chain link that really doesn't have any obvious gap in it. Because even if you are bigger than them, they're so laterally mobile and strong that they can prevent players from playing as big as they are because they move so well. Because a lob threat, one of the ways to stop a lob threat is to physically get in front of them. Don't let them jump.
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And I think that's another big thing that has really made an impression on me in terms of how to view the league is a, I think strength is we had that time where the game spread way out and, you know, offensive players ruled the day. And I think getting, being skinny was something you could get away with.
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But I think the more that they've allowed defenses to sort of exist, the more I think players like the Celtics have like your drew holidays, your lower sort of secondary body kind of guys, I think are having an impact again. Yeah.
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Wasn't the West pretty devastated that year, too? Yeah, there was some bad luck. It all blurs together. I'm trying to think back.
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Well, the league sort of ebbed and flowed between the Helio thing spiked to the moon, obviously, for a while there. And we've talked about this a lot where I think that we've kind of shifted away from that model I don't think works as well anymore. And you've seen the shift with the way Cleveland is playing this year.
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They are a really good example of a team that was maybe probably miscalibrated a little bit in the way that they were so ball screen dominant with Donovan Mitchell and I would look at that team over the past couple of years and just be like, if they would just play through their big. Now, Evan Mobley had to get better. I think that's a key part of the equation.
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But, you know, allowing those guys to move around him, I think they're a good example of the way the league has shifted lately when you look at the way they've succeeded.
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Has anybody ever won most improved and six million of the year in the same year? Wow, the double dip? How much of an argument would he have for that, do you think? Did he improve or is it that he got into a context where he's properly seen? Because I think he's improved. He's obviously worked at his game. I don't think that's ever happened, has it?
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I'm trying to think of the double dipping on the major awards. We had a rookie of the year MVP before, right? Will did that.
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For most improved?
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I think it's spun forward in the way that we thought it would. It was a class. It was a draft class, a high school. It always is driven by the high school class because we they if they could draft them, they would. But they want to use the college buffer to get a good kick the tires and see what happens when they go up, level up in the competition. You saw some shift.
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You know, I mentioned like Isaiah Collier was a guy who was ranked really high in the class. Somebody out in L.A., I assume you got to see some. And sometimes you see shifts there that happen. Like Reed Shepard obviously ascended in that year and got drafted. But overall, we knew that that class lacked a generational, foundational type of superstar. So I'm not super surprised.
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I expected that to spin forward into Summer League, which it did. Summer League was just like, you know, there's some guys here that we like. So no, overall, not terribly surprised.
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Yeah, you can make the argument you'll hear people talk about You know, how much time do they have? Imei, obviously, it's a high bar for a rookie to play. For Imei, he wants to win. That's his mentality. And you look at them and what their goals are in the short term, Reid just doesn't really fit them right now. I think the big thing is he really needs to play.
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I was surprised they brought him out of the G League so fast. I've heard some people kind of talk about the quality of the G League right now, which is a riveting conversation. Quality being bad? Yeah, that it's down right now.
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Yeah, I've been shocked by the shooting. I mean, I didn't expect him to shoot so poorly, but I don't know. You would think that if he was doing the things that he does well, that he would get to play because you keep hearing people make that argument about that. But Dillingham, too, I thought would come on a little earlier, but I think we've seen some signs that he's going to be okay.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah. You know what I realized after we had finished the draft work last year? I was like, Nick Van Exel. I kept saying he just.
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Yeah. I said he was in the Nick Van Exel spiritual lineage. And I was like, that's perfect. He's the guy. Maybe you don't lean on him heavily because you could fall down and kill yourself. But, you know, here and there in spurts, he comes in and he's obviously really talented, him and Ant. I don't know if he's going to solve Minnesota's problems or anything like that. But I still believe in Rob.
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Oh, boy. Let me pull up my list here. I mean, of the... Let's see. Of the guys at the top.
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Yeah. Wow. The Durant... With Durant, the thing that always kills me is with people when they talk about him, the dribble shooting is the thing that set him apart at his size. And the difference is...
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you just don't you just don't see guys that can handle and shoot it like that but then you know later down the road we saw michael porter jr come along who obviously had a lot of i think he's more like mpj personally because mpj at the same age was very similar in that he had this gigantic mallet that was very useful in every single situation and for mpj it's continued to be useful but every single situation was a nail for him because he had this thing that
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He can just rise up over people and hit shots. And Ace has that. Now I have some, my comp that I've made is that I think that, I think that Ace is sort of like, he could be a Jane McDaniels type with the MPJ shot making. Ooh.
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he he's a weak side disruptor and i think that the defense could come a long way i think that he's still kind of learning the game like you talk about problem solving in the way we were earlier i think he's on a new frontier so it's going to be really interesting i would not lean on him to be a decision maker for me like going to the basket things like that there's not much proof that he's going to be somebody that can pass out of a situation where he gets loaded up against but you're right his shot making is crazy he's at a he's an extension pink slip guy
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On Dylan. Yeah. He fits more what we were talking about before, that sturdy lower body type. He's a big guard. He's a great finisher in the lane.
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Yeah, there's one guy that I would be fascinated for you to watch just because I want to hear your opinion on it because he has a lot of the traits you like.
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Well, Yegor Demin earlier in the year, I texted you. I was like, you got to watch this guy run ball screens. He still is fun to watch, but he slipped a little bit because of some of his scoring issues. But the other guy that I would say is Derek Queen from Maryland. I think you should watch because... He is a very, very... Has crazy hand-eye coordination for his size.
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He's a really smart, handsy defender. He can pass the ball. But he has this kind of slow-mo... I said he has some sort of... This is a dangerous one. I hesitate to say this, but he has some kind of DL kind of qualities to him where where he's a little he's a little laissez faire. And that every once in a while he'll he's 6'10".
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He'll just drive baseline and rifle a left handed pass through a tight window to somebody on the money. And he's he's somebody really fascinating that I'm curious to hear your take on when you get to watch him.
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They have a guy on their team that I think you would like named Seon James who is built like Drew. He's a big... And when they moved him into the starting lineup, they played Auburn, who has been sort of the favorite for the year. They played Auburn at home, and they moved him into the starting lineup, and their season just changed. He's a smart player. He can guard multiple positions.
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So he's somebody that I expect to be pretty instrumental to whether or not they win. LeBaron Filan is another one, too, that I would throw out that I really, really like a lot for... for Alabama. But, uh, yeah, I could, I'll, I'll, I'll wait until you circle around and we can, yeah, I'm just starting.
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Yeah. I remember when I was making that Indiana travel video last year, I think I was texting you about, I was going back and watching some of the Indiana state footage and I was just thinking bird absolutely would have translated to today. Yeah. No problem. Just because of the space, you can talk about spatial intelligence. Um, I mean, over the, over the decades, um,
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I think Ainge is a pretty fascinating player. When he was younger, just seeing the way that he was able to, just obviously a really smart player. Dennis Johnson, I'm a big fan of. I think in the era of ball pressure, he would have translated. I'm trying to think of this. How about McHale?
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I he's somebody that I think would probably this kind of reminds me of our conversation. We were like creating the all time fun team. He's somebody that I think would have probably been the fulcrum of a like big guy driven offense with movement around him.
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Yeah, because if you had the right guards around him, he was such a dominant one-on-one player. He would have been pretty... Shingun is an interesting... Where would you compare McHale and Shingun as passers, though, I think?
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Yeah, and they've gotten... Well, we knew this in the past few years was for the player type that Cade was and where he was in his growth, they tweaked some things to help him out. I kept calling it the crowded elevator. Cade was just like, there are just too many people on the elevator. Can you please get off? The other one I was going to...
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In making this documentary, did you feel any kind of burden? I'm not trying to interview you here, but did you feel any kind of burden to represent somebody that was maybe not properly represented in the younger generation? Because I think of like a Havlicek, if you look at his stat lines, so balanced throughout.
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Was there anybody that you felt like a burden to be like, we really should focus on this guy to bring out, you know, to shine a light on his legacy?
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Yeah, the context is just so infuriating whenever you hear people talk about the history of the league. Talking about Koozie, people just drive me nuts because they'll go back and use the lens of today and watch the way he's dribbling. The officiating of dribbling is one of the things that single-handedly changed the way the game is played. It just blew the walls down.
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You're talking about the carrying. Yeah, they they used to. It was so strict. Your hand had to be directly on the top of the ball. And, you know, I made a video at this one time. You just watched over the decades. The hand the hand went from the top to kind of on the side to totally on the side to under. Now it's. Yeah. And I think it's been a good thing.
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I think it promoted self-expression, which is what the league marketed itself on and exploded. But I just think.
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koozie is one that is funny to watch if you imagine a game where you had to dribble the way that he did it was pretty creative granted the league wasn't i don't know integrated or anything like that definitely was that well you had so you had you the dribbling thing you had the sneakers the fact that they're playing and you know just these rinky-dink converses and uh
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So I've heard old guys complain about that.
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Yeah, it's interesting. I was watching some games. I think I was trying to watch something for Jerry West one time, and I was just amazed at the way he and Oscar Robertson would... A, I was amazed at the pickup point. I think that is something that has really evolved now with the threat of the deep three-point shot. Teams just pick up way higher than they did in the past. Oh, yeah, you're right.
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You'd watch legitimate stars with the ball, like a Jerry West, who today, if Jerry West dribbled up the floor, he would be a threat from... I would say 28 and in, I mean, like, yeah, like legitimately would take those shots and you would watch him dribble literally to the, to the elbow before he gets contact and he'd pull up for that jumper.
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And I wonder if some of that is what you're talking about. Just the clogged lane so many times that that shot was just available. I mean, Oscar Robertson did that, did that a lot too, but I think the pickup point is something that has really, really changed over the decades.
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I think they're in they are on the path toward that young teams need to be on, which we've talked about in the past. Whenever you have a young team, you have a coach. You have sort of your startup CEO who comes in and is just trying to make everybody feel good. And then you're like, all right, we're going public. We need a real CEO. And you go get a person. And I think they did that.
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So I think we're in the phase of they're going to be entering the playoffs. And then you it's sort of like Orlando did. You get you into the playoffs. you get the data read back on that and you say, this is because the playoffs define everything. You, you always talk about fourth quarters in the playoffs and it's like those things come back and this is, this is what we saw. This is what happened.
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This is the map towards what we need to do. So that's kind of, that's where they are in the process right now for me. So we're going to see what, what kind of the way teams play them. And then that's going to inform the moves that they make. Yeah. So they're on the, they're on the path to Detroit fans. They seem to hate, think I hate Kate. I don't really understand that, but yeah. So, but yeah,
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They're on the right track.
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Yeah, they're in that position where they may not beat the Knicks, but they're in the position to really take a bite out of them as they enter the next round, which is, they're definitely not going to be a pushover. And I think you're right about, they had the guys that were athletic, you know, Asar and Jalen Duren. Durin is somebody that I was really high on.
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I couldn't believe the way he got stolen in that draft. He was somebody that very obviously fit the archetype of somebody that could switch, and he's just super athletic. So sort of a poor man's band type of archetype guy. And in the shooting, a lot of the times, that's the simplest answer. You got a downhill guy, just add some space around him.
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It seems like it's not rocket science, but Pistons finally did it. I mean...
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Likewise. Good to be here.
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That was what tipped the scales. You couldn't do it anymore.
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Well, first I was going to add, you were talking about Jim Boeheim. Whenever I watch broadcasts that he's on, he always kind of sounds to me like an uncle who just ate Thanksgiving dinner, and he's just kind of leaned back and making groggy comments about the game. He just makes me laugh throughout the games. I'm glad he's on there, though. He's good.
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Yeah, well, I mean, you're talking about your preferences and players and things. I mean, what you're describing is winning. I mean, who doesn't like to win? I know you like to win, Bill. I do. I do, too. You know, so and I think you talk about the difference between generational and unique. I think what sets Cooper apart is, you know, we have seen I'll say the buzz buzzword toolsy guys.
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We've seen guys who check a lot of boxes in our two way players. But I think Cooper, who does check those boxes, and we can talk about him more in detail, something that is unique about him is that I think that he has those things that you don't normally see in an 18-year-old. He's carrying one of the heaviest loads in college basketball. I had it pulled up here. His usage this year is 30.5%.
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Yeah, and his assist usage is 0.83, but he's also averaging almost 20 points per game. So you're just kind of like, how is that? So that just tells you that he's watering a lot of plants and he's watering his own plants. He's doing everything for them and still being really efficient at it. But the thing that sets him apart, I think, with that wide foundation is that
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And I wrote about this on The Ringer not long ago in a profile I did on him. I'm getting coopered out because I've talked about him so much pre and mid-college. But he has the potential to evolve, I think, into a heavy load carrying superstar at the next level. I think some things need to happen for that to pan out for him. But I think that's what makes him unique. And you're right.
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I think he could go on to any team and he could be like a... like a Scottie Pippen type to a superstar, which I think is the most likely scenario for him. But I totally wouldn't rule out him becoming somebody that does who you just depend on as your hub for everything. Cause he's, he's, he could evolve in so many different ways.
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I think he's six, eight. Yeah. Okay, maybe he grew.
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Yeah, it's really, I mean, it's really, really well-rounded. You mentioned, I mean, the bird thing is funny just because Cooper, I think, as you know, grew up with a heavy Boston connection. Well, that's the thing.
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Have you ever heard clips of his mom talk?
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Yeah, yeah, those old portable DVD players. It's funny because, yeah, he has this heavy kind of Boston connection, and I'm sure you would rather be good now than be bad and try to get flagged. It's probably a worthy trade. But, I mean, he... If you want to compare him to Tatum, I think they have body kind of differences that are really affecting the way that they play.
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Tatum came into the league, I think, as more of a guy who leaned towards being a shot creator. I think he has a lower center of gravity and he's a little bit more of a wiggly athlete. He has really big, broad shoulders and got downhill a lot and things like that. Cooper... Cooper, I think, is not quite the wiggly ball handler that Tatum was at the same age.
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But I think the thing that is so promising is when you watch him and you watched him at like Montverde and you watched him when he was growing up. A, he's like he played as a big guy who would kind of be in the middle of the floor and would make those decisions that you and I have talked about on this show before.
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We're good. Nobody thinks that, but nobody is really in full panic either. It's more like, no, no, it should come back. I'm not sure that defense is going to come back in the way that we really need it to come back unless Jalen can get back to where he was last year.
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And that's the guy I'm watching because I feel like Tatum actually made a slight step up from last year as a two-way guy, as a point forward, as a reliable guy night after night after night. With that said... Last night is a really good example of the difference between Jokic, Giannis, SGA, Luka when he's healthy, and then every other really good player in the league, including Tatum.
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Because last night was a night where it's like, you're playing all your role players and your scrubs. I'm going to have 43. I'm going to just ice this game myself. This is what SGA does over and over again. SGA had, what did he have, 55 against Utah? Over and over again, he's just like dusting teams.
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And Tatum, as good as he is night after night after night, and the best thing about him is how consistent he is as a two-way guy. He's just not a, I'm just going to dust the other team and just get on my back everybody guy. So it's the collective shit. that has to make this team special.
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And if Jalen's not quite where he was last year, if White's not quite where he was last year, if Holiday's a little older, if Horford's a little older, if you're moving Porzingis back in, the only guy who's gone up a level is Pritchard. And then on top of it, The league's better. The West is better. OKC is better. Cleveland's better. The Knicks are better. You know, it's just everybody's deeper.
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It's a lot harder. You don't have 11 teams tanking yet. And you have nights like you lose to Toronto because, you know, you fucked around. So when I think about like the trade deadline coming and also it's not just the trade deadline, but the team is being sold like the bids were in today to get through the first round. There's at least five bidders. Everyone's expecting this to go to 6 billion.
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There's some instability within the organization, which is understandable because they're about to change hands from this great ownership and this great infrastructure they've had for the last almost 20 plus years to the unknown. So you have an organization that's a little more unstable than it was. You have a team that's not quite as stable as it was.
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The team I saw tonight against the Lakers, this is the thing that concerns me the most. The camaraderie slash connection with the guys doesn't seem the same right now. And it might just be like, oh, they're like an older married couple that, you know, they've done this, they've been together, they don't need to do it.
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But there's a lot of plays where it's just five guys on the court, like when, you know, they're shooting foul shots. It's the five guys on the court who just seem like they're not connected in any way. There's plays where somebody makes a shot and gets fouled, and it's going to be a three-point play, and not all the guys come over and do the fist bump with them. It's little tiny stuff like that.
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It's the way the bench is reacting to certain things in the game. Not the same as last year. Last year, the bench standing up, going nuts, The personality of the team, you can just feel it. When you're in the building, when you're on TV, you don't feel it in the same way this year.
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In the Clipper game yesterday, Jaden Springer, because he, you know, out of nowhere and everybody likes him and he just had an awesome game. He was great. He swung the game for them. And it really kind of ignited the bench. The bench was into it. They were psyched for him. He made a big three in the corner when Harden was like talking shit to him as he shot it.
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And he made it and he ran off and they were all going nuts. And then tonight in this Laker game, it just felt like they all just wanted to go home. So I'm both concerned and not concerned because I still don't know if there's three teams better than them. I don't think there's three teams more talented than them. And I think they should...
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you know, there's, there's no real reason that I can see that they can't make the finals again, but the way this is going, they're not going to have the one seat in the East and they're not going to have, they're not going to have a home court advantage in the finals of OKC gets in and maybe even a couple other teams.
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Like now you're looking at a situation where maybe even Denver can finish with a better record than them. So this is a question and this is what makes trying to go back to back so great. And we've seen so many teams try to do it and not be able to do it. And there's always reasons for it.
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You always hit a point like this where you have to look in the mirror and decide, do we really want to defend our title or not? And what I'm seeing lately with the Celtics is, is a team that seems like a zombie version of itself that doesn't seem to have that same chip on its shoulder, that doesn't seem to be treating a back-to-back title as a life-or-death experience for them.
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There's too many games now where the other team's playing harder than them and too many games when they're not solving issues that are pretty obvious as you're watching, like tonight. Just take out Reeves. Just play hard defense on LeBron. Guard him full court. Just make sure you're not giving up open threes to people like Hachimura. That's another thing with the Celtics team.
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The open threes that they're giving up this year, like it makes you want to rip your hair out. So again, it's not even February yet. A million things can change. One thing I'm looking for the rest of the way, and this is what I'll leave you with, is they have to have a win streak at some point.
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You have to put together three, four weeks of winning basketball night after night after night where there seems like there's something special about your team. Even Dallas last year. And Dallas, you know, was an unexpected party crasher that made the finals. But Dallas had this stretch after the All-Star break where for 25 games, they just were kicking ass and playing really well.
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The Celtics have not had a real stretch like that since the start of the season. And as this regular season goes on, they're not going to do that. And this just becomes a night-to-night, I don't know what I'm getting from these guys situation. I don't think they're going to make the finals. So it's not urgent yet, but I'm flagging it. I didn't like what I saw the last two nights.
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One of those two games should have been good. Neither of them were. And honestly, they should have lost both games. So we'll see. This is a nice test for Joe Missoula. This is a nice test for the roster, whether they want to tinker around it, maybe get a little more athletic, especially on the wing. It feels like they're an athletic wing short.
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Um, and then Jalen Brown is the guy to watch going forward. What are, what are his numbers? What is his impact? Um, can he be the one B again? Because right now he's not, he's a two, he's not a one B. And if he's a two, the ceiling of the Celtics team has to drop a little bit. I like what I've seen from Porzingis. I think the pedigree of this team is going to be there when it actually matters.
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They're going to have a home court when it actually matters. There's going to be a good crowd for them. Um, But it's pretty alarming because the Lakers crushed them tonight. And I don't think the Lakers are good. So that was my takeaway was, uh-oh, this says way more about the Celtics than it does about the Lakers. Anyway, we're going to take a break and bring back Todd McShay.
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So, um, check out on my, my Twitter account. I will be tweeting out who I think is going to get that on Friday coming up the state of the Celtics. I saw them back to back nights, Clippers, Lakers. I have a lot of thoughts. That's at the top. Then Todd McShay. He comes on because... He's doing a show for us on The Ringer, The McShay Show. Very good podcast.
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All right, taping this early Thursday afternoon Pacific time. Todd McShay is here. I hope you've been listening to the McShay Show, which we've had on The Ringer for the last couple months during a very action-packed college football season. Lots to get to. First of all, welcome to The Ringer, belatedly. Great to have you on the pod.
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Well, I have a vested interest in this draft, which we'll get to later. Did the right team win the college football championship?
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Right. You know, you were one of the rare college and NFL guys. Russillo's like this, too. There's a few of them. Gun to your head, which one do you like more? If you could only be stuck with one for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?
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An essential listen during the college football season. So we're going to talk NFL playoffs, college football draft, a whole bunch of things. And then last but not least, diehard Washington Commanders fan, Joe House. He's going to do million dollar picks with me. He's out of his mind. It's colonoscopy, Juice House. That's who's on the pod today. We'll explain when he comes on. So that's it.
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Except for the one Flutie run. We had that little Flutie intersection and that was a bad hit for college football.
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Well, so last year we had these three quarterbacks and it was so much fun to talk about them. And everybody kind of agreed, ceiling-wise, Caleb has to be first. That was like what everybody came away with. This guy, he's Mahomes-ish. There's some leadership stuff, potentially. There's some immaturity stuff. But he's got to be the pick.
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And yet there were some other people who were like, ah, Jake Mays, little Josh Allen. And then Jaden Daniels was the other one. And the reason people seem to be down on Daniels was the frame. Could he be durable enough? Could he handle it? But then everybody was pointing to last year and saying, this guy was amazing last year.
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Like, if this guy can do in the pros what he did in college, this guy is going to be an amazing quarterback in durability. It's a question. Did this exceed what you even thought, like whatever you had as a ceiling for Daniels coming in? What's happened this year? Did you see any version of this happening?
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First, our friends from Pearl Jam. All right. So earlier in the week, I told myself Celtics Clippers Wednesday night, Celtics Lakers Thursday night, both in L.A. I'm going to go to both games and then I'm going to come home and I'm going to do a little monologue at the top of the Thursday podcast, no matter what happens.
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It's funny that we've, and you know, I'm in my mid fifties now and it still doesn't feel like we figured out evaluation of like the best basketball prospects, quarterbacks. Um, I think when we get to like, you know, like Abdul Carter, pass rushers, we have a pretty good sense of like, yeah, this guy's probably going to come in and be really good.
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But the quarterback thing, so much of it seems to depend on situation, what your college experience was. where are you going into who your coach is when you get there the first couple of years. And I think of like the situation Daniels was in versus what Drake may was in where he was like F minus offensive line, no receivers, uh, the worst coach is possible.
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And he's just running for his life for four quarters. And then Daniels who had kind of an overqualified offensive coordinator, a good head coach, a lot of veterans around him, a team that trusted him. He had five years in college, uh, And all that led to like something really good. But then he got hurt. What? Five weeks, six weeks in, he took a hit. Didn't seem like he was the same for fighting.
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That's like, well, this is why we were a little nervous. Could his body hold up? Now I'm thinking about picking them to beat the Eagles. And he, like, he looks that good compared to what we're watching. And I want to talk to you about what's going on with hurts too, but it does feel realistic that he could just win three straight playoff games in a row.
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And I, I don't like for a rookie quarterback to do that. Is that inconceivable to you?
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It was game manager Ben Roethlisberger.
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Brady wasn't close to Brady in 2001.
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I have this playoff manifesto with all these rules, and one of the rules is you really got to look at the quarterbacks. Look at both sides. Imagine betting on the game and just going down the four quarters with each guy. And I want to talk about Hertz in a second because the stuff that's going on with him is alarming. And there were some really good videos and pieces about it in the last week.
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The Daniels piece, you listed, we talked about this last week on my pod, just like the Brady 2001 and Mahomes, his first full year. And I think the Mahomes' first full year is the only real comparison that I can remember Honestly, with Marino, who is amazing, but in the mid-80s, He was probably on TV three times where we had football. I can't say I was like a Dan Marino expert.
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He would play the Pats or the Jets and you would get one of those games, maybe. But Mahomes, we were there for. And he was good enough to win the Super Bowl that year. And they got really lucky. Like the DeFords jumped off sides or Brady throws an interception. The Pats lose that game. Mahomes would have gone in the Super Bowl that year. Burroughs, another one that I think.
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Felt like he was arrived and ready to go and he was going to be in our lives for the next 15 years. And I just think Daniels hit that point even before the Detroit game. It was just clear he was going to be in our lives. The part that was amazing to me is that it felt like Detroit could have run for 10 yards a carry. I'm sure they're looking at the tape going, how did we lose that game?
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How did we ever not score a touchdown every time we had the ball? So now I look at Philly and it's like, all right, are they just going to rush for 300 yards? Maybe Hertz doesn't have to do anything. But I don't, I don't like trusting QBs who are playing like shit. And he's playing like shit.
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My worst case scenario is that the Celtics were going to be alarming in both games and that we're going to have real questions now about what's going on with this team. Because it's beyond a funk and it's beyond an on-off button issue. There's something a little bit deeper happening. And I was fortunate enough to sit pretty close to the court both games.
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How about the explosive plays he's missed in the two games?
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Where he's had A.J. open deep and just like either threw it out of bounds or was late on the throw. That safety he took... against the Rams in the second half was one of the worst quarterback plays of the year. It was unbelievable that that happened. That's what would happen if, you know, if it's like somebody who's replaced Deshaun Watson on the Browns, like that kind of level quarterback.
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It's like, this Jalen Hurts has been to a Super Bowl. Like the one thing, and the other time when he knocked him out of field goal range because he took a sack. Like this is like basic QB shit. Like don't, Don't make your situation worse. Like, just get out of it. He can't even seem to do that.
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So, and I think the Eagle fans are really aware of it, but also feel like they can rush for 330 yards on Sunday.
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Well, so if you're making the case for Washington and I think I'm going to make it when I do million dollar picks, you figure spread net game, by the way, it's up to six and a half.
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And it'll probably be seven. Who knows? But, um, You figure it'd be the same recipe at the day against Detroit, where each side's going to have seven possessions. We're going to take our time. We're going to move the ball down the field. Every fourth and two, fourth and three, we're going for it. We're going to complete 70% of our passes. The clock's going to be moving, moving, moving.
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We'll hang around. Maybe we're up 10-7 in the second quarter. Philly has a turnover. Now we have the ball again. Now it's 17-7, 13. Now Hertz has to start making plays. Right. And that's their scenario to win the game, which is very similar to the Detroit scenario. The Eagle scenario is just, we're up 10, nothing. We're running the ball. We're chewing up clock. Daniels comes out.
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We get like one stop. We rushed through the middle. We get, and now all of a sudden it's 13, nothing. And now we can just run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, play action. We're home. So I see the two sides. I just feel more comfortable with Daniel's side.
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Yeah, because it feels like either team can win the game. So if that's the case, I'd rather just take the six and a half.
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I was behind the Celtic bench for the Laker game, which was just embarrassing and really awful. And I think we're at the point now where we have to ask ourselves, is the Celtics team just different than it was last season? All right, well, what's different about it? Let's start with Jalen Brown. who isn't shooting as well as he did last year.
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Well, were you in Massachusetts during the Oh one Pat's run?
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Yeah. It felt like, and it was a little similar where it was an out of nowhere thing. It seemed improbable. They were big underdogs each. I mean, they were even bigger underdogs than Washington is. And the snow game was the one that officially flipped the narrative. It's like, wait, what's going on here? And then they went into Pittsburgh. They got, you know, a couple of special teams plays.
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There was some Pittsburgh turnovers and it was just chip on their shoulder. The only people that believe in us are in this locker room. And Washington definitely has some of that. I think the difference is Daniels is just way ahead of where Brady was. Brady game manager, really smart. Didn't turn the ball over.
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but wasn't, he wasn't really Brady until I think 2005, six range when they really started leaning on him. Yep. This Daniels thing to, to lean on a rookie where he's basically the offense is hinging on him. It's pretty unusual. I will say though, Eckhart being back, uh, and them having two running backs now. Huge difference. It just feels like they can run the ball a little bit.
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Yeah, no question.
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Right. Well, we were talking last week on the show and we were trying to figure out could Washington win this game. They had a really weird season where they looked really good the first few weeks. Then they had Daniels got hurt, had a couple injuries, the Hail Mary game was lucky. And they kind of like, they weren't stumbling through the middle of the season, but they looked...
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Like they were like a rabbit team, the team that looks good for the first two, two and a half months. But then like the last month of the season, they kind of went back to where they were in September and then it just kept going and going and going.
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So you could think that you could also think they easily could have lost the Tampa of Tampa just converts a second and one and makes three more plays and is up four with two minutes left. But I'm with you. Like sometimes with football, You get this momentum that's going. I guess the question for me in the other conferences, does Buffalo have that too?
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Where Buffalo has had, like the turnover stats with them are nuts. Where they've never had a game where they've had more turnovers than the other team the whole season. Everyone else has done that as well in the Super Bowl. The game last week, they just have a habit of the other team just shoots themselves in the foot as they're playing them.
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Um, so I wonder like maybe it could be a Buffalo Washington. Yeah. You should have seen this all along. This is, but this is what we've done all year. Why didn't you believe in us? Uh, the Josh Allen thing, like it's his time.
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I'm not going to do the thing where I just read you a bunch of stats. You can look up all these stats. He's not shooting as well. Three-pointers, two-pointers. He's clumsier with the ball. He's closer to where he was two years ago than where he was last year, where last year it felt by the end of the season Tatum was 1A and Jalen Brown was 1B. Tatum is clearly better than Brown this season.
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They beat him.
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the best of josh allen in this moment and the best of one of the most talented players to ever play the position has got to be good enough eventually right and this are there manning brady mid-2000s parallels for you with this when it seemed like manning couldn't get over the hump against the pats and then finally was able to do in the afc title game after had a regular season win but then he had to do in the playoffs then he finally did it absolutely okay yeah
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There is no, the 1A, 1B thing is out the window. And I don't really understand what's happening here. Studying it in person for the last two days, He seems jacked. He looks like he's filming Rambo First Blood Part II or Predator with Stallone in the 80s. He's really jacked to the point that I'm starting to wonder if it's made him a little more stiff.
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So I was thinking about, I should have said this on the pod we did Sunday night after the game. I blew it. There was 93 seconds left when they went for the two point. And if Andrews catches it, it's 27-27. And we left the game going, oh my God, he dropped it. He blew the game for them. Josh would add the ball with like enough time to go 40, 45 yards and set up some sort of field goal.
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And I almost wonder if that would have been a better outcome for the bills. As we think about the game going forward, like instead of how they want it, where the narrative after the game becomes, Oh my God, Baltimore Lamar, he didn't come through in the first half and Andrews fumble and drops the two. And it was like, Baltimore blew it. Baltimore blew it. Baltimore blew it.
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If Allen had just come down and gotten the game-winning field goal or whatever in those last 93 seconds, I feel like we'd be talking about this Chiefs game differently. And by the way, he probably would have. Yeah, but I think Buffalo almost wants it that way, right? Right. They do seem like they're a chip on the shoulder. Yeah. They were doing a lot of nobody believed in us.
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I think they knew what the line was. I thought Baltimore was the best team in the league, and I still kind of feel that way. Like, I don't regret picking them last week. They lost, but I just thought they were really good, and all the errors were self-inflicted. The punch out on the Andrews fumble, that was a great play by Buffalo.
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The two mistakes in the first half by Lamar were terrible plays by him.
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That's been the problem. That has been the problem. And for Allen, it's fun when a quarterback gets to this point. And we've seen it throughout the course of history where he kind of has to win this year. He has to win this game. This is like the season. This happens in basketball too. You have a season where a lot of stuff align. This is it. I just really like the Chiefs.
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I still think they're really good. I don't feel like with the team that they were in the first 12, 13 weeks, I think they've solved some of those issues. They're a little more explosive than they were in September, October, November. They can run the ball a little better. I still believe in them at home. I just think they're so hard to beat.
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Well, they keep him in the garage during the regular season now.
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They put the cover over him. They put him in the heated garage.
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There were some really weird Clipper moments on Wednesday night where they're playing against You know, the role players and the scrubs and the Clippers, because the Clippers rest everybody. They're furious with the league that the league rescheduled the fire game and it was six games in nine days. So they're like, we're throwing away the Celtic game.
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But they have some secondary issues this game. There's some guys who may or may not play and their secondary was already not incredible to begin with.
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No, they wanted three games from him. That was it. I think that was the deal before this season. Are you going to be ready for the three games at the end of the season?
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I just got a shoehorn just because you're here. I got a shoehorn three minutes of content. So I'm on a lot of Pat's text threads. We watched what happened in Washington this year.
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where very similar to the Pats right now, where they had, they drafted the franchise QB, they brought in a new coach, they brought in new leadership, they made a bunch of smart free agent signings, they did well in the draft, and they just basically patched together a playoff team that now has a legitimate chance to make the Super Bowl and it'll happen in a year. The Pats, they have May.
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So you think of last year's May season as like Daniels at OSU, basically. That kind of same thing. Now he's going to have his first real season, hopefully, on a real professional team. Easy schedule. They have a ton of cap space. The most in the league. I assume they're going to spend money. The Crafts really haven't spent money the last 10 years, but we'll see if they do it this year.
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And as soon as they did that, I was like, watch this. I bet they, but they hang around somehow with this Celtics. They were very well coached and they really exploited some of the Jalen stuff that's been going on this year. What was fascinating about the Clipper game.
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Fourth pick in the draft.
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I figure he'll do the lines, right? He'll be like, let's start with the lines and we'll build out from both sides of the line of scrimmage.
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Van Gundy, who's like the defensive coordinator on the Clippers, was just devising all these different ways to mess with the Celtics. They were trapping Jason Tatum 45 feet from the basket as he was trying to do his point forward stuff. They were trying to dive at Jalen's dribble, which a lot of smart teams do.
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Because right now it's a three-player draft. Unless Sanders can move up and get people excited and whet people's appetite and make it a four. Because it seems like Ward's higher than Sanders. And then Carter and Hunter. But right now, it's a three-player draft. Drop off. People start arguing who the fourth pick should be, which is bad for the Pats, I think.
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They said like... Now, who knows?
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And they will this weird phenomenon that happens. And then all of a sudden you've got two guys in the top four, even though there's been like the Trubisky year was a good example of when that happened.
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The more people stare at the list and the quarterbacks and think about how important the position is, all of a sudden you start looking at the strengths instead of the weaknesses of the guys and the guys climb up. So I would assume that might happen.
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Doesn't seem like a variable pick. It doesn't, right? They need a left tackle. They have to come out of the draft with a left tackle or a pass rusher and that's it. For the Pats. It has to be one of those two. They need people who can block for Drake May. He's the only asset they have.
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They're also trying to trap him at the end of games and just basically make him make dumb plays, which he was, for whatever reason, really happy to do in that Clipper game. And they were exploiting the fact that this year, unlike last year, you can go buy all the Celtic guys.
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That's going to be super fun if somebody decides to do that. I'm just glad that player exists because I remember, you know,
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after college or even during college when Deion Sanders when I was in college and Deion had that capability of just coming in and playing series on offense it was like the most exciting thing this is amazing I looked I looked it up like wasn't that many plays I think he had like 61 receptions his entire career Deion did yeah Deion and that was the most like champ Bailey had like
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seems like it was almost a unicorn draft like the way we're going to look back at it where there's just star players all throughout the first round there's all we and we ended up with five starting quarterbacks we ended up with potentially two you know maybe generational quarterbacks maybe three if caleb can get his shit going yep and then this year's draft we haven't seen anything from jj yet who's got right arguably the best oh yeah develop them yeah
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Um, and then this year's draft, like you look at Cam Ward, you look at Sanders, where did they go in last year's draft with the tape they have and like the grade they have for this season? Are they in that like Pennix Knicks level? Are they JJ level? Are they below Pennix? Like, where are they?
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You saw it in the Clipper game with guys like Derrick Jones and Kevin Porter was doing it until the Celtics brought in Jaden Springer. The Lakers tonight, how many times did Reeves go buy somebody? I mean, the Celtics, one of the things, the best things about them last year was the White Holiday combo and the fact that those guys could lock down basically everybody in the other team.
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So if Darnold had been really good down the stretch, and let's say they lost in round two, but he was good in that game and it wasn't his fault, and it... Turned into a situation, Minnesota should have re-signed him. They should actually bring him back and trade JJ. That's a smarter move.
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You think JJ has the kind of talent that you could have traded one of the four picks in the top four for JJ and that's a good trade compared to who's in the draft? Okay.
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Yeah, it was like a poor man's young versus Montana type of situation, right? It's like, what do we do? We have two guys.
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He's 27 years old or whatever he is.
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Yeah, now he's going to be like Giants, Tennessee, some sort of stopgap somewhere else.
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That was the most wrong I've been about anything all season. I completely believed by week 17 with the Vikings. I was like, I'm in on this team. I believe in Darnold. This team's going to beat Detroit.
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Tatum as a two-way player, Jalen Brown, whose defense, especially in the playoffs, was great. And this year, they don't lock anybody down. Anybody in the league can go by them and get to the rim, which goes back to, is this an on-off button issue or is just something different than last year? This is not an old team. These guys are all in their 20s.
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No one wants to talk about him. I was the same way. I saw that video of them carrying him, picking him up in the locker room. I was like, I'm all in. You've won me over. And then he just turned into a pumpkin. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable. So... Your mock draft has come in February 10th, your first one? I think so. That's what we're looking at, yeah. Not that far away. No.
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Is there... We can spoil one thing in the mock draft. Is there a surprise guy for you that you're higher on than everybody else that you feel like you're going to be right and people just don't see it yet? Do you have one of those guys yet?
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You act like I haven't studied these guys copiously, hoping the Pats are going to take a left tackle. Is Josh Connerly that high?
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Okay, good. We traded out of the McDuffie pick and then took him one pick in front of Karloftis. The rare double whammy Belichick down the stretch. So your dream scenario for the Pats would be somehow move out of that four pick, get into the 9-11 range and take Connerly. You think he goes that high?
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And the receiver class is a disaster this year compared to last year, which was like a pretty historic year.
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These guys are all in their prime or about to hit their prime. And it's sloppy stuff that you could blame the fact that they had a 100-game season last year, that Tatum played in the playoffs, that White, not in the playoffs, in the Olympics, that White and Holiday were in the Olympics, that Horford's older, that they didn't have Porzingis for the first two months.
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Like, even think, like, Bowers, who is probably going to be the best tight end of his generation if he doesn't get concussed 17 times because he tries to take on nine tacklers every time he catches the ball. But that guy is going to be the next guy, it feels like. Yeah, he is the next guy.
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And how about Ladd McConkie? Yeah, right. Pat's traded out of that pick. Pat's took the 10th wide receiver to 9 receiver draft. It was great. Although, don't you feel like, like I watched what Washington did where they basically, they got this coaching staff and they overpaid for their assistants, right? They got overqualified dudes at different and they coach guys up.
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Whereas the Pats went the other way and had a terrible coaching staff. But aren't some of these guys, like is Polk really like, he's just not going to ever be an NFL player. He's not salvageable at all. Can you lose your confidence to that degree? Because he was, he was good last year. Like nobody thought he was going to be a bust.
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I just don't, I don't understand the concept of can a coach and a coaching staff like bring, resuscitate a guy back to life? Is that even possible?
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Yeah. Yeah, the Daniels one, I mean, obviously that was a huge topic with the Pats fans. wondering what, cause it seemed like there was a stretch there where it seemed like Washington might take Drake May. And then it's like, okay, I'm going to talk myself into Daniels. And he's a little older and he's maybe not durable, but holy shit.
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And people in my life who love college football and like Van Lathan, who loves OSU was like, Daniels is incredible. Like if you guys got Daniels, it'd be a miracle. So you had that.
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So now if it's a redraft, is Caleb third on everyone's board or is he second?
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I do. And probably Daniels has to be first.
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Daniels has won this argument, at least for now. Now he's in this different argument of like, who would you want with the ball with five minutes left in a playoff game if it's not Mahomes? Is it Daniels second, third, or fourth?
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Would you rather have Herbert or Jay Danos? Like, yeah, he's already graduated.
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There's all these things you can blame. And I'm perfectly fine with doing that. But it doesn't explain why Jalen isn't as good as he was last year. I test over and over again, game after game, does not seem like the same guy as he was last year. Why isn't the defense as good as it was last year? Well, you can look at the advanced metrics And it seems fine.
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And you don't worry about him physically at all over the course of 15 years? Or is it like a Lamar thing?
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We were always worried about Lamar, but Lamar always seemed like he knew how to take a hit. Then some guys just know how to do it.
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You know who was bad at that initially was Brady. Brady took some smacks his first couple of years where he just got, and Drake May last year took like three or four horrible ones.
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Nobody can outbench Rosillo. What are you talking about?
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Have you seen him lately? He's fucking massive. Just ask him. Just ask him. Jesus. Do you think Brady screwed up everything for all these old quarterbacks going forward where we decided this was realistic because Tom Brady did it and now we're just going to have this generation of guys in this Rogers cousin stage in their late 30s where they just suck? And we're like, no, no, Tom Brady did it.
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I really feel like he fooled even me. I picked the Rogers to, you know, win the AFC East this year. Now it's like, oh yeah, it's really hard to play quarterback when you're 39 and your body's breaking down.
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And yet, right. Somebody will probably sign Rogers. I'm guessing. There'll be one more year, I feel like. He's going to be like one of those boxers that needs to get knocked out two more times before they finally hang it up.
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I'm not saying I would. I just feel like how many dumb teams do we have? We just watched the Jaguars. do two weeks of coach interviews and then fire their GM. This is like seven, eight, just horrifically managed franchises. Yeah. So yeah, I think Rogers could play somewhere.
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Yeah, that's the other piece. All right, Todd McShay. First mock draft, February 10th. You can listen to the McShay Show. We're heating up toward the draft. Can't wait for all your takes, all your thoughts. Good to see you. Thanks for coming on, finally.
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Even like the last 19 games, they're 10 and nine. If you look at their net rating on NBA.com for the last 20 games of the season, not counting today at Lakers, they're second in defensive rating. So there's all these advanced things you can look at and be like, no, no, they're fine. But I'm telling you, if you're watching them every night, if you're going to the games, they don't really look fine.
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There's this Washington stuff everywhere. You're getting a colonoscopy tomorrow. You're drinking the colonoscopy juice. There's been fireworks in the house house. This is the most action-packed million-dollar picks we've ever had. Your team might make the Super Bowl.
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We're too old to wear the visiting team's merchandise. We can't do it. Definitely not in Philly. You support the team silently and hope you don't get punched. Also, if you do get in a fight in the stands though, make sure it's, it's to somebody who's below you. This is the technique. The guy in the higher ground always wins in the, in the football things. Anyway, don't punch house.
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He's a great guy.
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Yeah, you're not playing conference championship.
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This turned out to be the Dan Snyder colonoscopy. You're releasing off the Dan Snyder. Feces and toxins out of your body.
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Well, the listeners slash viewers will never know. We'll just do a nice clean edit and you can come back with a nice, happy look on your face. As clean as my colon, hopefully. Uh, we didn't do well a million dollar picks last week. We lost $585,000, but we're still up 1.282 million dollars for the year. I'm okay with what happened last week. I would take Baltimore again.
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And your team, we kind of had to see it. I wish I took Washington. I didn't have the balls. I just did it. I didn't have the balls to take a rookie QB against a team that felt like they were going to run all over you, which they basically did, but it didn't matter because they turned the ball over five times. Yeah. Yeah. Turnovers are the story of this last round.
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There's so many, there might even be turnover in your pants. Um, There's so many stories this week about turnover battle, like the bills, 21 straight games where they haven't lost the turnover battle. Like hasn't happened since 1960. Um, that there's all these good metrics for, if you, if, if you look like this bills team, just with turnovers, you end up winning the super bowl chiefs.
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They don't lock teams down with defense the way they did. They're never up 20, 25. Last year, they felt like they were up 20 in 75 to 80% of the games. This year, it feels like they're down 15, down 10, down 12 in the first half of a lot of these games. And if you go back, you think they were 21 and 5, and now they're 31 and 14. So they're 10 and 9 in their last 19.
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Haven't turned the ball over in two months, this round, the last four teams, none of them have a turnover. And I just wish, I wish I wasn't saying it this way, but it's almost as reductive as at least with the chiefs bills game, whoever doesn't turn the ball over is probably going to win. I feel stupid saying it, but I think it's true.
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I'm a little annoyed. Let's go backwards because you haven't been on the pod since Washington wins this game. Top five sports moment of your life? Absolutely.
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Like a sports movie. They dumped their terrible owner who hated the fans, who almost like ruined football in an entire city that loved football. And then the new guy comes in, new coach, new GM, new QB, and they just go on a winning streak.
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I mean, there was a few of those stories this week.
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Marino is pretty great. Now, granted, we, you know, we only got to see him a couple of times. But yeah, with the Daniels, the playoff wins to it. Pretty nuts. There's a lot to cover with this game. The Washington piece, I can't shake. There's some 2001 Pats parallels. Oh, interesting. And watching your excitement with this. The Pats, they were like five and five after 10 games.
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And then they didn't lose again. And at some point, weird shit started happening. Leading to the snow game, which was like, that was when they finally pulled us in. And none of the Pats fans wanted to believe and say, no, no, believe. We had like weird Brady Bledsoe stuff. You know, Bledsoe got hurt. It was an up and down season. Uh, we had that with the defense and the coaching.
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You have it with your offense, but you guys are 14 and five. He hasn't won eight straight games. It's not like what they're like, Oh my God, what's Washington doing here? Like at some point Washington's just good. And I, I'm really leaning toward taking them in the game, not just with the points, but outright. I really think they can win and we'll get into the Philly stuff in a second, but
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Let's just get that out of the way. I don't think this is fluky. I think that Daniels has been that good. The coaching has been that good. The guys over and over again, you've had like these semi miraculous wins, these comeback wins, these fourth quarter wins. And there's a mojo that develops that I think devises magicians. I picked against Washington the last two rounds. Understandable.
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I'm tired of doing it. Like at some point you got to accept what's going on and something is going on.
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I watched all of the games they lost and I went to two of them or one went to one of them. The 10-9 thing starts with the Bulls. They lose because Levine is just the best guy on the floor. He's 36. He just beats them. He plays better than everybody in the Celtics. Fine. That's one game. They lose to the Magic, who were missing guys because they couldn't hit threes. They were 8-33 from threes.
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Yeah. You have, it's like the 30th defense DVO against the run. Your defense is basically what the Oh one Pat's offense was every week. We were like, how are we going to score points? Like we have Jermaine Wiggins as a tight end. We are only good offensive players. Troy brand. We have a rookie QB who they're terrified to have him really do anything.
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And it was, and each week we would just patch together points. And the same thing's happening with your defense. where it's like, how is this defense going to stop anybody? And you're just getting turnovers. But the thing is, it was like Detroit. Yeah. They had five turnovers. There was some bad plays. Washington also made some good plays.
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Like that guy, that guy jumping the post route on the TD and the end zone. That was a good fucking play.
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Yeah, he got to stay in your conference. Their conference. Well, you're the Washington conference. The Bears. Ben Johnson. Get to play him. The Washington piece of this, big picture. if they could actually win this game, where do the Eagles rank on most hated Washington opponents? They're not number one, but they're in the top three, right?
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Well, you've only played them once in the playoffs. It's like the weirdest rivalry that's not actually a rivalry. It felt like the last couple of years, it was more fun because you guys would have some good games. You beat them last year.
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Well, when you think they've been playing football for 80 years, one time seems low.
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Sure. Sure. And Daniels is the most popular Washington athlete since I've known you. It's either him or Mernupal. Yeah. It's either him or George Mears' son.
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And if you watch that game, the Magic just played really hard. They played harder than the Celtics did. And you go, huh, all right. Well, you know, on-off switch, fine. Sixers Christmas, same thing. Sixers wanted the game more. Chuck that one up. Well, the Sixers, they had all their guys. It was national TV. They have a losing record. They wanted the game where it was their super bowl.
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Finishing last, Andre Blatch. All right. To get to the point where I want to have the balls to take Washington. No N'Kobe Dean. That's good. Yes. Here's the big thing. do your thing about how you think hurts is hurt. Cause this is, this is the number one reason to take Washington is there is something wrong with Jalen hurts. The stats back it up.
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The eye test back it up and his knee got bent backwards during the game. And they've been tight lipped about it. I don't think they tell us if he was hurt, but do your thing.
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And he's taking sacks, which he didn't take before. There was a great Twitter thread of all the worst plays he had in that last game. And it was just video after video. And I was like, Jesus, he looks like freaking Dorian Thompson Robinson. Like, what's this dude doing?
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Um, you know, I really thought long and hard about the matchup because my instinct was take Washington and I didn't have a good week last week and I wanted to, I kept coming back to the total yardage, which I sent to you.
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There was a most rushing yards ever in the NFC championship game, the NFC championship game, the case for the Eagles, which I'm not against is that they're going to run the ball down Washington's throat. They're going to control the game. And they're just going to have the ball time. You're only going to get like six possessions. One bad thing. You won't get a fourth and two.
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Maybe there's a tip pass turnover and all of a sudden the Eagles are up 10 and they went. The thing that's interesting to me is how few times in the title game a team has just run the ball down somebody else's throat. And I sent this to you just in the last 40 plus years. Only one team in the NFC title game has gotten a 200 plus yards rushing. That was the Niners against the Packers in 2020.
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Chuck that one up. Just making excuses time after time with this Pacers. They win the first game against the Pacers by a million points. And you know, two days later, the way this works with these, where you played the team two times in three games, you just know the Pacers are going to do better in the second game, which of course they do. But the Celtics shoot 54 threes and they lose.
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Other than that, we're talking 81 Eagles, 71 Cowboys, 80 Rams, 73 Vikings, 97 Packers. And then you get into that 169 to 196 range. And there's some more modern teams there. The Lions last year. the Seahawks in January, 2015, the bears. And, but my point is it's unusual, like really, really historically unusual to rush for 200 plus in this second to last game of the season.
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So my question to you is how many yards are the Eagles going to have in this game? When you factor in Hertz is throwing for 130 to 150 yards a game that puts them in like the low three hundreds, which you get every week.
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But 200 would be the, that would be one of the two best performances of the last 45 years. How about like set it at 150?
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In the AFC title game, nobody ever, no team has ever rushed for 200-plus yards. The last team in the last, like, the 99 Broncos rushed for 178. It makes sense. The 2015 Pats ran for 177. So it's just... It's important to remember like, oh, Saquon's going to run all over them. Well, when we get to the final four, that's usually not happening in the way you think it's going to happen.
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And then if Hertz is going to look throwing the ball like he has the last few weeks and really like the whole season, I really liked watching him all season. And, you know, it seems like you look at the stats and the advanced stats for him the last three years. It's not that far off. But then like the bundle wrote a great piece for the ringer today about the Eagles passing game.
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And it's like, they basically just kind of punted on it. Yeah. And we, and maybe try to take two shots a game, but other than a couple of Dallas Goddard plays, but for the most part, they're just trying to run the ball and control the clock. The question for me though, if you can hang around,
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What we saw from the Eagles in that fourth quarter against the Rams, it just felt like the front four died. They started to get tired and the Rams are just moving the ball down the field on them. Their receivers are getting open. That's what Daniel, that's what he does. Well, and here's the thing.
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So you leave that game. You're like, eh, too many threes. They didn't go to the basket enough. So again, excuses. OKC was the first sign of like slight alarm because they played really well for three quarters. Um, they were going toe to toe with the team that, um, you know, they might be seen in the finals, assuming they have a chance to get there. And then, uh, Drew stunk.
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And four down offense too. Any fourth and two, fourth, three, they're going for it.
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I always watch for that with the, from a live bet standpoint, these teams that have these awesome pass rushes, the first two hours of the game in that fourth quarter, it gets a little different once the guys have been out there for three hours.
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So McShay and I talked earlier about how there's been three Washington seasons, basically. You had that first stretch in the beginning where it was like, oh my God, what's going on? Daniels got hurt. You had some injuries. Eckler got hurt. And then all of a sudden you had your full team again and it came on. But you go back to that. You lost to Philly in week 11.
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And from that point on, Dallas week 12, you put up 412 yards. Tennessee, 463. Saints, 326. Eagles in week 16, 368. Atlanta, week 17, 412. Week 18 against Dallas throughout, because that was... Mariota. It was a Mariota. Tampa, wildcard, 350. And then last week, Detroit, 481. So if you're taking a team on the road... I want to make sure they can move the ball.
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And everyone's like, this Eagles defense, it's really good. It's the best defense in the league. But I think Washington can move the ball on them because we've seen them do it. And then the question is, how special is Daniels? And that becomes the narrative out of this. Can he get there? There's a couple of playoff manifesto rules in play.
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Rule number three, beware of the nobody believes in us team, but don't try to talk yourself into one either. I'm not sure they qualify anymore because it seems like this week there's some good discourse about people believing in them. Last week, definitely nobody believed in them.
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Yeah, and I think the general consensus is the Eagles are going to run all over them. Their defense will shut them down. And this was a nice, congratulations, Washington, for making the NFC title game, but it's time to go home. Rule number six, never pick an underdog unless you genuinely believe that it has a chance to win. I believe.
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I think it's, I honestly think either, I think either team could win. So with the plus six and a half. I believe. I think they could win. I don't know if they're going to win. I think they're going to win. Rule number 14 was beware of any team that reminds you of the 2007 Giants. I'm going to add the 2001 Pats to this list. Okay. Go ahead.
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Because I think there's something that happens with teams that get thrown together over the course of a season when they can get hot like this and some funky stuff happens. But when you think about... You go backwards. You think about the four and a half months with Washington and the Hail Mary and some of these games you pulled out of your ass. At some point, you develop these...
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SGA was the best guy in the game. And in the fourth quarter in nut crunch time, which was really good for the Celtics down the stretch last season, especially in the playoffs. Okay. So you just outplayed them and stole the game from them. Slight sounds of alarm for that one. They have a home no-show against the Kings, who just changed their coach.
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Winning scars almost.
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If they're hanging around in the fourth quarter and they're down three, I'm just, I'm going to be mad if I bet on Philly. Yeah. Go ahead. Do you have any more manifesto things? Yeah. Rule number 16. Take one last look at the quarterbacks. And remember, there's plenty of time to bet against any QB or coach.
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So this would really apply to Hertz because if it's like, wait till next round to bet against Hertz, that would go. But I mean, not only is Daniels the best quarterback in this game, he has been out of control. I mean, he's 70% of his passes. Even if you look at like his last seven or eight, he's like 20 touchdowns, six picks. He'll have the one throw a game. Sure.
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But he completes 70% of his passes and every fourth down and two and every fourth down and three, you just feel like he's going to get it. And incredibly, he just doesn't take sacks.
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It's not unprecedented. The Pats, well, I guess the Pats played their first game at home in 01, but the Pats were 14-point underdogs against the Steelers and then 14 against the Rams. Yeah.
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I think you can win. There's two scenarios. There's the scenario we laid out earlier where the Eagles just run the ball down your throat. You don't get a fourth and two. There's one turnover. You're down 13. You kind of know by the third quarter. Great run, guys. Great run, guys. Then there's the other scenario where the Eagles can't throw the ball at all Washington is just loading up on Saquon.
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The fans are frustrated. You get one turnover, one strip sack, something. Maybe you get a special team, something. And you're just hanging around, hanging around. And it can get to the fourth quarter where it's either tied, you're up three, you're down three, but you're in the mix of exactly where the Eagles fans don't want to be with this Eagles team. And that's it.
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It's one of those two scenarios. And I got to say, I'm leaning toward, Washington plus six and a half. We'll take a break and then we'll talk KC Buffalo. This episode is brought to you by Pepsod Complete. We all know that one of the best parts of game day is the food. On Sundays, Nephew Kyle comes over. Sometimes we'll get healthy. We'll get some salads. Sometimes we'll get a little ambitious.
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Drew and Derek White just looked ancient in that game. Three for 12. Eh, coming back from a little road trip where they looked pretty good. Well, let that one slide. Again, excuses. They lose to Toronto, who's not good. And Toronto shoots 51%, and Jalen's off. It was four for 16. Another bad sign. They choke against the Atlanta Hawks. And this was Drew. This was one of the worst.
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Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash Simmons. Once again, linkedin.com slash Simmons to post your job for free. Terms and conditions apply. All right, coming back. House, the colonoscopy juice has not really kicked in, so that's a good sign for Washington, I think. I was thinking about the last 20 minutes we just did is gonna be hilarious if you lose like 45 to 10. Remember the hope?
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What was the demeanor of Washington after the game? Was it like they won the Super Bowl or it's like two more?
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If you could take your colonoscopy juice stained underwear and mail them to Dan Snyder without getting arrested, would you do it?
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Colonoscopy juice house. We've had drunk house, buzzed house. Sober house. Now we have cold. Ask me juice house. Uh, chiefs bills. I just don't have a lot of, it's stupid to even talk advanced numbers of this game. I don't really know what to say other than the chiefs just win these games all the time. They've lost three times in the playoffs with my homes. We went through the losses last week.
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Uh, the only one where they really got their ass kicked was the super bowl. They should have beaten the Patriots, and we lucked out. Even the Patriots fans would admit that. And the Bengals game where Mahomes clearly got concussed near the end of the first half, that was what it was. Otherwise, they just win these games. The line is disrespectful. Everyone's disrespected.
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This is probably the worst game he played against Boston. They screwed up the game. The game was going to be over. They screwed it up. They blow it. Not the kind of thing that was happening last year, though. Fine. And then we go to this LA trip in these two games where Clippers game, just take care of the game. They're playing all their scrubs and their role players. Just knock them out.
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The Bills are disrespectful from last week. They're trying to get the nobody believes in us. It's like, well, the Ravens were the best team in the league. There's a reason they ended up being favored.
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Opened at one and a half, stuck right there at one and a half. But that to me says the Bills aren't a nobody believes in this team. They're playing on the road against a team that's been to four of the last five AFC title games. So they're only plus one and a half.
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So there's a working case for a Buffalo pick and there's a working case for a Chiefs pick. The chief's case is partly what we laid out about the, this is just the infrastructure of what they do. This is the best mini dynasty we've had since the Pats. Combined with the fact that there's really two KCs now. trying to play this 20-game season where every year they're playing 19 or 20 games.
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And they're one way in the regular season, and they're barely scraping by. And then around late December, they start. And then in January, they become a different team. So that's why it's almost like you can't look at the numbers. But they're home. It's just a game they should win. They hate the Bills. So there's all of that. And I really like their team.
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I think this is the best they've looked the last couple weeks. The case for the Bills is just Josh Allen grabs the torch from most. And that's it. Because that's the only way they're winning. He could do it. He's got to fucking grab the torch. He could do it. Takes him, walks off a la Peyton Manning in 2006.
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Like, you know, if the tech was a weird one, though, because they had the long kick return. So they had like and then a three and out. But they scored three points. I don't know. Okay.
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Knock them out. And the last year's team would have won the game by 40. This year's team, it's a struggle the whole time. And somehow it goes to overtime. They put miles on Tatum. They put miles on Brown. They put miles on white when they're playing the Lakers the next night who are arrested in the TNT game.
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So I guess my question is, I really feel like Buffalo should have lost to Baltimore last week. And I know that pisses the Baltimore fans off. It used to piss me off as a Pats fan when we would beat somebody in the playoffs. Then people are, you shouldn't have won. You looked out. Blah, blah, blah. And it's like, yeah, well, we didn't fucking turn the ball over. And they did.
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And we forced turnovers. So fuck you. So I get it. It's a fair answer. I just think Buffalo this whole season has looked a little better than they actually are. And the Chiefs have looked a little worse than they actually are until recently. And one team I think has a little higher ceiling than the other team. Unless Josh Allen just says, watch this. He could. That's why the line's one and a half.
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That's why you get one and a half for being at home. It's a perfect matchup. I just like the Chiefs infrastructure. Like there was that moment in the Houston game last week When all of a sudden Spags dialed up all those funky blitzes, right? He's like waiting, waiting, waiting. He's like, bam. And he just went after Stroud and fucked up a whole Texans drive.
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There's some institutional knowledge of how to win these playoff games that I just don't want to bet against. And if Buffalo beats them, so be it. I totally agree.
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We talk about this. Well, we did it last year. We bet against... the Chiefs against the Ravens in the AFC title game. And it was a never again. Never again. Lesson learned. It was, for me, at least as long as Mahomes is... In his prime and as long as the Reed coaching infrastructure and they have a good enough team and they have Kelsey or somebody like him.
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So basically, they took so much effort to win that Clipper game that now they go into this Lakers game and they're a mess. So back to the Jalen Brown thing. Last year, Brown and Tatum just had a really good thing going where there was games. If Tatum didn't totally have it, Brown would be able to lift it. And they just had a nice yin-yang thing that they just...
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I just don't want... I didn't like the feeling of being like, why the fuck did I bet against the Chiefs? So they're going to have to lose before I stop doing it. It's a little bit of us staying at the blackjack table too long, but I also... Mahomes is in his late 20s.
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Playoff manifesto. Really nothing unless we want to create a manifesto world for the Chiefs. They might deserve their own rule. Rule number 17 is don't try to be a hero. Just try to win money. And that really applies to the Josh Allen thing. It's like the Josh Allen scenario. It's like, don't try to be a hero.
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What's going to, are you really ready when it's third quarter and it's 19 to 17 chiefs and they have the ball and they're driving or you'd be kicking yourself. Uh, there was a rule I proposed last year that I didn't really adopt, but maybe I should new rule. What does the NFL really, really, really want to happen?
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And it's been a big topic. Has it? They really love the chiefs. On the other hand, with, with like a Buffalo Washington Superbowl or Buffalo, like, I just feel like the one Superbowl matchup that everybody's going to be like, ah, what the fuck is Casey Philly? Right. That'll be the one we're like, ah, we already did this. Come on. Good though.
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Super fun though. Washington, Washington, Kansas city, Buffalo, Philly. Every version of that is fun. The KC Philly is both of them have won super bowls within the last 10 years. They've already played each other. I just can't get that excited about it. I still don't like watching Philly's offense. But as fun as Barkley is, it's really like a slog watching the 39 seconds of play.
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AJ Brown.
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Let's hear them. What do you have? I'll hear yours first, if you want. No, no, no. Go ahead. Daniels, no interceptions, minus 104. I don't love it. I wish the odds were better.
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Mahomes over four and a half carries minus 128, which is, it just feels like this line should be six and a half. Cause you know, he's going to scramble four times. There's the kneel down possibility. It's the same number as last week.
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So that juice on that, that's minus 120 on a fan. Fine, fine, fine. Josh Allen to score a touchdown is minus 115. I love the odds, but it just feels like if they're around the goal line, you could even see it last week against the Ravens. They were just doing the traditional QB draw play over and over again.
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haven't had in the same way this year. And Jalen's offense has been really rough to watch. I could give you a million stats. You can go look them up. But his two-point shooting's way down. His three-point shooting's way down. And he's added a couple things to his game that I just don't love. There's like this flat-footed fall away he has now at the foul line. I can't stand that one.
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And then... Kelsey... Hitting is over, which is 67 and a half. And Casey to win is plus 202. And I feel like those two are correlated.
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Correlated. Yes. I agree with this. So I marked that one down. Casey and Washington to be the Superbowl is plus 518. Here's my favorite one though. This is a five. This is a five. Member, same game parlay. Wow. Kelsey, 50 plus yards. Okay. 50 plus.
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Matt Collins, one catch. He's gotten a catch every, just one, just one catch from Matt Collins. He always gets a catch.
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Daniel's 250 plus passing rushing combined. That's kind of appetizing. He's way over that every game. He would basically have to get hurt not to get that.
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All right, so you're with me for those first four. Those four are on the target. So I will let you choose who is the fifth here. I have two options. Deami Brown, 40 plus yards, would make that five thing parlay plus 380. Or McLaurin, 70 plus yards. That's plus 437 if you throw that one in.
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It does. I needed one Washington receiver. Why? You don't want it to be a Washington receiver?
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There's an alternate Eckler rushing receiving where 25 plus is minus 470. He's going to get that receiving. 40 plus is minus 165. So you want to put that in instead of your receivers? Austin Eckler gets 40 plus rushing receiving yards.
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Does these weird drives to the basket where, you know, sometimes he'll try to elevate and dunk on guys. Other times he's doing like this flat-footed, kind of keeping low to the ground, like scoop into traffic thing that the Clippers were eating up last night. The alarming thing with Brown, back to the Van Gundy thing.
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All right. So we're going to do Ekor as the fifth and I'll give you the odds when we actually do a million dollar picks. Let me write that one down. What were your props that you liked?
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I really have enjoyed betting him over the last few years in the playoffs because when he's actually healthy, he gets the ball. And he gets the ball in big spots. And I always feel good about having him in there. What else do you have?
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House, good job. Thank you. Go take a dump and come back and we'll do a million dollar pick. No, I'm kidding. All right, so we have some good ones. Is there anything else? Is there any kicker stuff we want to do? Nothing.
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So the Celts are up like, you know, six points, four points, whatever, in the last minute of regulation. And they're trapping the Celtics. They're doing all these things to try to get the Celtics screw up. And they basically target Jalen Brown. And there's this one possession where Van Gundy's telling them, Because we could see it. We're watching. We're watching. Van Gundy's running a huddle.
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I always feel like I lose on those. You don't, do you like the unders in both of these games or is it just me?
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So that's 48 and a half, that over, and then the other one, Philly, Washington, is 47 and a half.
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I think both these games are going to be very similar with... these teams methodically going down and trying to keep the other teams offense could be off the field. All right, let's do it. Uh, last but not least, do you, do you like Washington plus six and a half with juice? It's minus one 20 and Fando or Washington plus five and a half even on. Oh, I much prefer six and a half to five and a half.
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The million-dollar picks. Conference championship weekend. Trying to rally. We lost some last week. We lost $585,000. Still up. This is why you build the nest egg during the season. Still up $1.282 million for this season. Joe House has been helping out a lot of the time. He's decked out in Washington. All his gear. We're going to take the Chiefs. Money line or minus one and a half?
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However you like. Could do both. Both are fine by me.
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Well, the money line is minus 126 and the minus one and a half is minus 112. And I would just rather take the... You want to lay the point. It's fine. And then they, they win 24, 23 and, and. Okay. I'm laying the money line.
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Chiefs minus one 26. We are not betting against the infrastructure. I did it last year. A million dollar picks in the AFC title game. And I just said, never again, never again, never again. At least while they have this iteration of them. Chiefs minus one 26 over the bills. 300 K. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Yeah. And then houses, Washington, he officially said it's okay to call them the commanders.
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I'm saying it.
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We are banking on a close game and we are grabbing Washington plus six and a half at minus 120. This feels to both of us. And House has been very respectful of not veering too hard pro-Washington. And even there was a couple weeks where I felt like you were intentionally not taking them because you were obeying jinx rules.
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I just feel like either team can win this game. There's cases for both. I wouldn't be surprised if the Eagles won by 28. Me either. I wouldn't be surprised if Washington won by 10. I'm prepared for anything. That means take the points. Putting 300K on that. We are going to do some 25K props, including Mahomes. Longest pass, 34.5 yards. 35-yard Mahomes pass, we win.
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It was kind of amazing to watch. And he's telling the guys something. So they come out and the Celtics swing the ball and they swing it. And the Clippers are trying to get them to swing it to Brown. And they do. They trap Brown. He throws it away. Clippers score. Clippers come off and they're all fired up and they're pointing at Van Gundy. It was like, you told us that was going to happen.
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Mahomes over 4.5 carries, minus 128. Josh Allen TD, minus 115. Love it. We're doing 25K on Kelsey, 68-plus yards, with Casey to win, plus 202. Great. And then the Mac daddy one, I'm putting 50 K on this one. It's a five or now let's put 33 K on this one. Actually. Great. Great. Just for good luck. Yeah. Shout out to the legend.
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Larry bird, Kelsey, 50 plus yards, Hollins, one catch Daniels, 250 pass rush combined. Dallas Goddard, your guy, 40 plus yards. Eckler, 40 plus yards, rushing, receiving combined. That is plus 522. Over five to one odds. Boom. And then just for the hell of it, I'm putting 25K on a KC Washington Super Bowl. Wow. Plus 518. Just because we built this nest egg all year. We're at the craps table.
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I'm just throwing shit all over the place. Why not? If you have a seat for House in a pro-Washington suite, which there's probably two of them in Philadelphia. Hit his Twitter.
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Week 21, conference championship. House, good luck. We're all rooting for you. Thank you, buddy. All right, that's it for the podcast. Thanks to McShay and House. Thanks to Saruti and Kyle and Gahal. As always, don't forget, you can watch videos and clips from this podcast on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel.
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And I'm sitting there going, this is a bad sign if Van Gundy is just reading us like he's like the defensive coordinator in a football game who knows our plays. Like he's steering us to the play that we don't want to happen. It just wasn't great. They were really, really outcoached in that Clipper game, which I did not love. But in general, he just, You know, he'll hit some threes.
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The stats are fine. He can fool you unless you're actually watching game after game. He just hasn't been as good as he was last year. Derek White's another one. Derek White, who the first six weeks of the season, it was like, this guy's going to make the all-star team. This guy is one of the best 30 assets in the league. And his three-point shooting has dropped by the month.
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47% first month, 40%, 35%, 30% this month. The game today, he was like the 19th best player in the game. Obviously, he's not. But he's just not impactful. And then Holiday, who kind of comes and goes and he's older and he's clearly saving himself for the playoffs. First half of the game, non-existent. Second half of the game, they come out, they're pissed against the Lakers.
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And they're now playing defense. And Holiday is guarding everybody and has this little five-minute stretch that reminded you, like, this is why this team's pretty special. When they can unleash drew is like this defensive weapon Tatum and Brown and poor Zingas with this height. Like there, this is it, this is the team we're used to seeing. And then, you know, missed a couple shots.
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The Celtics were just so awful that night. I don't know how many layups they missed, how many shots around the rim, but it felt like it was at least 20. They just couldn't buy a basket. Um, they were just a complete mess. So the brown things concerning the white things concerning how they is older. I'm going to chalk it up to that. The on-off switch thing, understandable.
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We've seen it happen a bunch of times with teams that won the title, but as we talked about before the season, the pods we've done, it could go one of two ways after you win the title. You either have the on-off switch where you have the chip on your shoulder because the bullseye is on you and everybody's coming after you and you can take that personally and be like, you know what?
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We're going to kick everybody's asses again. That is not this Celtics team, at least so far. They got outcoached in a few games, especially recently in the OKC game, the Clipper game last night, which they ended up winning, but definitely outcoached in that one. Lakers game tonight. I don't know what the lineups, but they're playing twin towers the whole day.
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It's like you're doing the Lakers a favor when you're playing size, where you want to, you want to use your athleticism. Last year, one of the reasons they blew them out was they were building everything around their wings. Tonight, they're, you know, they're playing Cornette. They're doing Horford and Porzingis together.
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They didn't play Jaden Springer at all, even though his defense was, was so impactful yesterday. And I didn't really understand anything they were doing. I wanted them to put Jaden Springer on LeBron or Reeves, try to take those guys out and try to win the game with defense. They did the opposite, and the Lakers made everything they took. There is... No real roster flexibility for trades.
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Their second apron team. They have a bunch of big contracts and a bunch of small contracts and nothing really in between Springer at 4 million Pritchard at 7 million. They don't, they don't. And I don't even know what the move is. Like the move is to hope that the light bulb goes off with these guys. Cause right now it's not going off.
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I mentioned holiday with the age 43% shooting from three last year, 35% from this year. They're just less special. And they have these funk games now that they just weren't having even in the first six weeks of the season. So as I look at the state of the Celtics conversations I have with my friends, with my dad, with everybody I know who likes the team, nobody is like, it's fine. It's okay.
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Aber ich sage dir, es sind nur ein paar Schläge aus der 10-Siege. Sie sind der letzte in der Eastern Conference, gerade als wir tapen. Aber nur ein paar Spiele weg. Und sie haben gerade die siebten besten Chancen, um die Playoffs zu machen. Es ist minus 215 für die Sixers, um die Playoffs zu machen. Oh, Scheiße.
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So CR.
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Much better odds to make than to miss.
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Way to go out on a limb.
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It's pretty fun. I haven't been, but I'm willing to jump in, especially with the profit boost.
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Will they give us Cam Thomas?
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I think what you're speaking to, and I think is a fair criticism of him, is his ability to rally. His ability to get guys on the same page with a common cause. Because the story about why Toronto fell apart had to do with a defensive scheme where they had a whole bunch of guys. They didn't have one tall guy on that team, on that roster. They all had to go
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baseline to baseline, side to side, full out, defensive pressure extended way out to the three-point line. And at some point, they all got effing tired of it. And they went to Coach Nick Nurse and said, God damn it, Coach Nick Nurse, this is exhausting. We can't expend all of this energy playing all this defense in this way. And it fell on deaf ears.
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And they were like, hey, guess what, Nick Nurse? Fuck you. Right.
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Sechs aus 92. Ich schaue mich an.
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Do they really dislike each other?
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I was going back and forth, but it wasn't encouraging. I still want to know warum Embiid spielt. Ich würde gerne wissen, warum er spielt. Ja, C.R., fang uns das an.
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I will take that L. It's literally why it's called gambling. But it was exactly what Chris Ryan just described. It was Paul George holding down the fort through the first 20 games. Paul George had Maxi in the east building a little something. A little something, but he showed up dead. He was hurt within days of us doing the over-under podcast. Maybe he's
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nicht, äh, äh, ich meine, nach der Verletzungserfahrung der letzten Nacht, vielleicht ist er, er ist noch nicht, du weißt, zurückgekehrt zur vollen Gesundheit.
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I like this. Me not watching the Sixers. For the new chapter. What are you going to do?
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No, isn't there a pathway where it'll be fun to root for 39 wins? Isn't that going to become the new, like, okay, we understand. We take, like, this is a big element of this is bad luck. Let's be honest.
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They're too good to bottom out.
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I don't know. Because we had a pretty good sample size for that last season. They only played 39 games and they were bad. They were bad in the games that they didn't play.
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Well, what I've seen is he shouldn't be on the basketball court. I would like him to take off. I think it would be good for him, for the team, for the franchise, for him to just drop out. Come back after the New Year. Get yourself right. Get yourself, give yourself the best chance. And you can, after the New Year, play the games at NBA speed, getting yourself back up into it.
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But really all of this dialogue is November dialogue. It doesn't matter... Right, just be ready in April. That's it, unless it so poisons where you might get to come April and you really, the bar is so low, you just have to get to the play-in. In the Eastern Conference.
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Aber um es ehrlich zu sein, wie konnten sie sich vorbereiten? They couldn't have Joel Embiid and Paul George healthy in preseason on the court at the same time.
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Ich kann keinen wählen. Ich meine, ehrlich gesagt, nein. Die Nationals, es hat sie ein bisschen gedauert. Aber sie haben die World Series 2019 gewonnen und es war eine neue Franchise hier in 2005. Oh, das Team mit Jason Wirth, das sollte der gewesen sein. Nicht wirklich. Der Ovi, der über die Penguins geht, der über Crosby geht, endlich. Das wird eine wirklich erstaunliche Karriere sein.
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Aber er hat ihn gewonnen. Und wir werden sehen, was die Geschichte mit diesem Niederschlag ist. Er kann noch nicht Gretzky's Goal bekommen. Es geht nahe. Ja, er ist sehr nahe.
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Das ist der, der sie öffnet. Man kann nicht sagen, dass Washington mit dem Basketballteam etwas zu tun hat, weil sie seit 1978 nicht mehr 50 Spiele gewonnen haben. Es gibt keinen erstaunlichsten, wenn man in dieser Art der Straße ist.
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CR, am I going to like Gladiator 2?
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Where is it? It's on Paramount Plus. I have to pay for that.
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I'm watching sports. I'm here for the ringer. Yeah, that's true.
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Ich liebe es mit den Ballen. Das ist fantastisch.
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Ich habe eine Frage, die ich fragen möchte, aber ich kann es nicht auf dem Pod fragen. Also warte ich.
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Während der Pause, ja, wenn wir zusammen sind. Ich habe eine Frage.
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Wir sehen uns, Chris Ryan.
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Das ist, was wichtig ist. Ja, holt es jetzt.
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Classic NFC North divisional rivalry.
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Oh, I like that. Yes, let's do that.
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Of course, of course, it is. This is, to me, the singular most baffling aspect of this entire deal. I thought that the Sixers, in terms of team building, had a pretty successful summer. They put all their chips in the middle.
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Nein, nein, du kannst es nicht.
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Das war ein Fehler. Das war ein Fehler.
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Let's save the parlay for last. Parlay is like dessert, right? It's like the nice Sunday at the end, because we're taking all these nice parts and putting them together.
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That the Packers don't look like a team to me that can take care of business. They are messing around, playing around, effing around with their food every week. And I think it is because... Jordan Love is not 100% healthy.
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We haven't had that real Jordan Love breakout game that became the hallmark of that Packers team the second half of last season that also coincided with Aaron Jones ripping off a bunch of honey yard. So they don't have, they have the back. It is Jacobs.
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Aber wir haben noch nicht gesehen, dass dieser zweifachige Monster, dass er mit Jordan Love vertikal wird, weil er die Zeit hat, die Receivers zu bekommen. Die Receivers, der Korb ist immer noch groß. Der Receiving Korb ist immer noch groß. Und Jacobs wird seine Räder manchmal in bestimmten Umständen bekommen. Aber wir haben noch nicht wirklich gesehen, dass der volle Reb.
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Remember that? I stand by it. It wasn't wrong in the context of the information that was available. It was a simple... I do think it was then desirable for them to try and finish among the top four teams in the East. Desirable. Understanding, of course, that you're not going to get a full season out of Embiid or a full season out of Paul George.
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Much worse than that.
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So the crazy thing is, the line was two and a half earlier this week, but I think that was a hedge because the reports of Purdy, Purdy was doing limited practice and he's got a sore shoulder. And there was, you know, some speculation about whether or not he was going to play in this game.
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The fact that it's moved down to one and a half seems like some money has come in on the Niners that suggests that Purdy is going to play. And if that's the case...
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Well, that makes me nervous. What do we think about Bosa? Juwan Jennings, Bosa a little compromised. Bosa, I mean, it seems like it might be a game-time decision, whether he plays or not.
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I'm going to let you do it. We're not going to have a disagreement.
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Yeah, because they have all that talent. We haven't seen McCaffrey yet.
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I think that's kind of fair. I'm worried about seeing him this week.
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It's a 50-50 game. We talked about this on East Coast Bias. Raheem Palmer and I were heads up. I preferred Arizona and the dream is on Seattle. My issue with Seattle is that is the least trustworthy offensive line in football. Each of the times that I've tried to come up with a basis for Seattle taking advantage of somebody, it's born out of the idea that they can establish the run and they
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You hope for most of a full season out of Maxi and that you can weather the storm enough to get around 50 wins and finish in the top four in the East because all things being equal, it would be better to have home court in the first round than not. But having said all that, the thing that's baffling to me still doesn't have an answer is what's with the drama, Mama? What are we talking about?
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Sometimes can and sometimes can't and most of the time can't. Part of the reason to prefer Seattle would be the return of DK Metcalf. And really, I mean, Smith & Jigba has been incredible. Beide aus einer Fantasie-Perspektive, aber vor allem aus einer Chemie-Perspektive mit Gino. Also die Frage für Arizona ist, können sie Druck auf Gino legen?
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Weil die Spitz sind verrückt mit Gino, wenn er Zeit hat. Und das war wirklich das Ding, das Seattle in der Strecke gegen die Niners beitragen konnte. No Bosa. Und Gino, du weißt, wurde wirklich komfortabel mit den Läden, die er runten konnte und die Läden, die er sehen konnte, um den Ball zu werfen. Und I don't really have a strong feel.
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I express a preference for Arizona, but I certainly could see Seattle. Dream said that in his model, these teams are dead even.
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Sure, sure.
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I...
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It's just a defense for Arizona. That's all right. They've been on the right side of like variants, a bunch of like games that they've won by one or two points.
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Das ist okay.
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I don't want to do this, because we had a conversation at the very beginning of the season. We were looking at teams after Week 1 and said, here's the list of teams. We were looking for some... There were some giant lines out there. We were like... Are the Ravens really going to go 0-2? Are the Ravens going to lose to the Raiders? Yeah. And they did it. They did it. Those sons of bitches.
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So I don't want that to be the rationale. Well, can I give you this?
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Blew it.
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It's what happens. That's what happens in those games.
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That's the thing to me. So I don't think the Chargers are a really good team. I think they are... Maybe I should have said a really good surprise team. Exactly. Perfect. Perfect way to put it. Because it is incredible. They tried their goddamnedest to charger the F out of that game. But hardball and then whatever's going on inside...
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Just shut up. You did a great job in the summer. You built the best team you could build. There is a closing window on Embiid. We all agree that Joel Embiid ain't going to be playing professional basketball for another mother-effing decade. So you go all in and something happens. Etwas, entweder nach den Olympischen Spielen, nach den Olympischen Spielen, etwas passiert.
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locker room with those guys they just did enough to not charger the outcome of that game but I thought that what we saw in the second half when Cincinnati I mean it really was a game where like whoever has the ball at the end of this game is going to win this epic game and they could not under any circumstances slow down that Cincinnati offense slow down Joe Burrow and I really think that which one's the younger which is
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I thought Jim was older. Jim's older, I think. And Jim is the Charger coach, right?
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No, I think John's older. That's why you're confusing me. I'm pretty sure John's older.
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I think it's John.
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Gute Frage. Ich versuche, mich zu verabschieden, weil ich nicht weiß, wer welcher ist. Big Brother, Little Brother, ich mag es. Es ist ein Rematch der Superbowl. Big Brother hat seinen Weg.
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Nicht nur das, aber ich würde mir eine Möglichkeit suchen, meine Knöpfe auf ihre Vorhaut zu legen.
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Ich kann dir versichern, dass sie vorhanden sind.
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Definitiv mit Delay.
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Ich liebe die Ravens. Ich meine, wir können den Chasen abschließen.
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Oh yeah, that's right. You're Justin Herbert. Remember? Like for a quarter and a half. Yeah, right. We know who you are, buddy.
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I actually like him. I think he's terrific. All the reports, like he's a golf guy. I'm into Justin Herbert.
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I'm into Herbert. Aber er wird für ein Quartier in einem Höhepunkt verschwinden.
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No way. No, can't do that. That's way too many points.
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Thank God.
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Oder vor den Olympischen Spielen. Oder vor, ja, also müssen wir sie aufhören. Okay, aufhören sie auf. Aufhören sie auf und aufhören sie auf. Das ist es. Es gibt nichts anderes zu sagen. Warum reden wir? Wer hat die verdammten täglichen Soap-Operen? Wer ist das für?
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I love it. That's a dessert parlay. Three nice ingredients pulled together to make beautiful harmony in our mouths. What are you doing for your dessert? Are you a pumpkin pie guy for Thanksgiving dessert?
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Oh, toll.
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Lass mich, lass mich empfehlen, dass du noch einen dazu nimmst, weil das ist, oh, hast du Süßpotato-Pie gehabt?
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Yeah. Forget it, man. We can do this in proper Thanksgiving style. That sounds great. I want to give out all of my thanks to those beautiful pies.
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And pecan pie.
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I want to F-bomb that one.
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That's a full pie parlay. That's what that is. We're getting the pies ready. Everybody's getting the ingredients. Everybody's going to the store this weekend to pull it together. We'll be going to the store this weekend with all the extra money in our pockets from that delicious pie parlay, baby.
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Oh mein Gott.
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Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Du kannst nicht wirklich nach Hause gehen, nachdem du das gesehen hast.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Mix it with the relish, Chrissy. It's outrageous. I'm gonna lose my foot. Before we go, before we move on, you don't have any interest in this Philadelphia L.A. Rams game. Because folks are, you know, I've seen some arguments on both sides that people are really arguing, you know, be careful. It's a be careful situation. And, you know, especially Jalen hurts these nuts.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
You know, you don't want to be insisting. To me,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Ich bin mit dir. Aber ich schaue nicht auf die Eagles. Das ist es. Besonders die... Jalen hurts these nuts has not been as accurate. He is running great. His legs look great. But here's the test and why I understand why people are advocating in favor of the Rams. They're home dogs. First of all, they're plus two and a half. So the case is...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Because the sixth seed is going to get either Buffalo or the Chiefs in the first round of the playoffs.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
I'm not making fun of you. I think it's funny. I think that line's crazy. I understand it, but man, I'm not betting against Drake May. Let me have Drake May in a touchdown. That's fine. Is it seven or seven and a half?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
I'll let you think about it. I know that I'll just play the side on the Pats. I'm not laying those points with the Dolphins. It's crazy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
No, no, I prefer the points.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Yeah, I prefer the plus 7. All right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
No, nothing rivals it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Everybody will understand. The house died. Was it Thanksgiving?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
I mean, it's not even getting revenge, it's just taking advantage of what's rightfully yours.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
It's your little brother, so exactly right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Yeah, Cardinals coming off the bye week. And if you look at the last 10 games of the Seahawks at home, their against the spread numbers are not very good at home. The 12th man might need to step it up a little bit. 12th man in trouble.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
You're on your own on this one. Yeah, I know.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Good. 200k on that? 200k on that. Yes, sir. It is the Pi Parlay after all.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
This is a Drake May Podcast. He doesn't need a player pod. This is it.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Good. Like the extra hook. That's a nice one.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Yeah. Roll them out. Maybe in the first half.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Das ist richtig. Gutes Niveau.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Drake Mays Vollfacial.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Can't wait.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Yeah, but the only thing that cuts against that is that it seemed like for the very first time in his career, it finally came out of his mouth that I think I should show up to the season in shape. I think this will be the season that I will choose. And Right. Usually there's a bump from that. Right, the Olympic bump was somehow lost because he did get that experience.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
He was with all of those bright minds and very successful players with their own successful regiments. And he did say afterwards, I am going to be the skinny guy. It's going to be skinny and beat.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Every other loss is a blowout. Yeah, their net differential is fourth worst in the NBA.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Das ist literally, warum ich sie in 50 Spielen gewonnen habe.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Sie haben es mitgebracht.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Oh, of course. Of course, really? What's the thesis for getting rid of Nick Nurse? How is that going to help?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: The 76ers Fell Apart, Embiid’s Next Five Years, and Week 12 NFL Picks With Chris Ryan and Joe House
Es ist nichts zu blamen. Es ist November. Die Saison, die wichtig ist, beginnt im März. Seine vorgeschriebene Winntotale ist jetzt 38,5. Ist das ein Fan-Duel? Ja, das ist es.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: Eagles/C-Words Reax, Drake Maye Fever, the RB Boom and Million Dollar Picks With Joe House and Nate Tice
Great. Let's do that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: Eagles/C-Words Reax, Drake Maye Fever, the RB Boom and Million Dollar Picks With Joe House and Nate Tice
Get this guy. This guy. I can't have this guy. He's a quitter.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: Eagles/C-Words Reax, Drake Maye Fever, the RB Boom and Million Dollar Picks With Joe House and Nate Tice
I can't have a quitter running my team, Shane. You got to get this guy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: Eagles/C-Words Reax, Drake Maye Fever, the RB Boom and Million Dollar Picks With Joe House and Nate Tice
Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 2: Eagles/C-Words Reax, Drake Maye Fever, the RB Boom and Million Dollar Picks With Joe House and Nate Tice
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Sold.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Why?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Aggro Lions, the Sleeper-ish Hawks, Million-Dollar Picks, and Jesse Ventura on His Surprise WWE Return
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Come on, man.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Is that surprising? Me liking Taylor Swift?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Yeah, I guess that's fair.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Yeah. So I already knows this, but Thursday I just got a really bad stomach bug and was just vomiting all day. Couldn't eat anything. Didn't eat anything Friday either. Saturday morning, woke up, felt pretty rough. Was like teetering between whether or not I was going to do it. Ended up doing it, but like the time was just not, not what I wanted. It was like 30 minutes longer than my training runs.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
So it was, it was a bit of a slog. Flu game.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
But now I got to do another one just to get a taste of that. So we're looking at like the vomit Cape Cod, I think, in October. Yeah, come do it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Yeah, I got sick Thursday, flew it out on Friday.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Exactly.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
I think her time was like 2.21. Yeah, she did great. She like zoomed past me as soon as we started. She was not in it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
She was like, if you don't want to do it, I'll still be proud of you. All that. I was like, no, I'm fucking doing it. Like, I won't be proud of you if I don't do it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
I think I would have beaten her. Okay.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
All right.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
The redemption tour. Yeah. Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Not really, really the last day I was sort of feeling back to myself, but the whole time it was like, I would order a meal and like sort of pick at it, you know?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Or are you still just nursing? Our terminal didn't have one. Oh. Real shame.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
It could have been a lot better. Could have been a lot better.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Right?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
I was going to say, we did come home last night, accidentally left the gas on apartment gas, had to leave. Yeah. Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Four days. That's correct. Goddamn. That's a lot of gas.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Yeah. I mean, we went out and got sushi, light a match, get rid of the smell, you know, now. You're a funny guy.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Didn't turn on the lights, opened the windows, went out for dinner.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
Maybe like everybody relax. Like I'm a calming presence. for many people. Yeah. Yeah. Not a virgin. But yeah, it feels about right. I think we're all waiting for Ryan now.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
Stay humble.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
I play an Xbox all day.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
I think Kyle's right. There are situations where if you're on a train or a plane ride for some reason and somebody's just blasting a podcast out loud because they forgot their headphones, I think everyone's within their right to say something and be like, hey, dude, figure it out. This isn't the place for this. You're going to have to just kind of raw dog this flight if you don't have headphones.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
But post offices, it's not the same amount of time. People are kind of moving around. Everyone's frustrated. Yeah. Yeah, Kyle's kind of right. You don't know what the blowback could be. The one thing that you probably do know is everybody else is kind of frustrated, so if you do say something, you're probably going to be a mini hero to some of those people.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
But again, are you going to ever see those people again? Does it really matter to you? I don't think the post office is a big enough spot to do this. There are other spots where I would, but not the post office.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
Oh, man. Uncle Sam, we can't pass this up. You guys heard of baseball cards?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
That's a good question, though. Wait, how many times in a calendar year do you think you actually go to the post office? Mine is under five for sure. Maybe two. I don't go very often at all.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
Are they yellow? Just the yellow ones?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
Love compliments. Keep them coming. Cast me up.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
The best part, if you're not watching this, like, Oregon just, he pops on the video and then he pops right off.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
lined up i think just the way that you approach that is probably going to determine how much freedom you'll have in the future if you want to go back so i think i think that's correct just say everything you want to say uh concisely i think everything you guys said is valid my only the only thing is the guy going to school like is it is it in his long-term future to stay at this company you know like if if you tell the guy hey i'm going does he know you're going to school right now maybe he didn't if he doesn't know that is that going to create like kind of a proposition because he's like hey dude what the hell
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
Like this is, you know, you're supposed to be, this is your priority. Um, and then the age, you know, he's yeah. But then even like, What is your plan to get your degree and stay there too? Because that's only going to help you. Like if you're looking to get your degree and then bounce from this place, you know, I don't know what you're like.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
I feel like your plan long term probably has to be somewhat aligned with the current employer just so they're on board with this. But if that's all, if that's all on the table for you and you want to do that and you're just trying to kind of get a one leg up in your career here by getting an additional degree, then yeah, I think this is a no brainer.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Super Bowl Deep Dive Preview With Tim Hasselbeck. Plus, Jim Harbaugh on Year One With the Chargers and What Makes Him a Great Coach.
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Super Bowl Deep Dive Preview With Tim Hasselbeck. Plus, Jim Harbaugh on Year One With the Chargers and What Makes Him a Great Coach.
So good.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Super Bowl Deep Dive Preview With Tim Hasselbeck. Plus, Jim Harbaugh on Year One With the Chargers and What Makes Him a Great Coach.
Don't worry about it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
A Super Bowl Deep Dive Preview With Tim Hasselbeck. Plus, Jim Harbaugh on Year One With the Chargers and What Makes Him a Great Coach.
A lot of people in Raleigh, yeah. Hmm.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
I don't think that ever happened. I think Cerruti hopped in when Kyle was out.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
Nice, nice.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
Like you're picking on him? Like the soft jabs between us early on? No, I kind of feel like I'm an adult. I can do something if I feel that way.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
I only kind of feel like I'm an adult, though. Not 100%. If it becomes...
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
We'll just hash it out on my device. Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
Literally nothing.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
Just the people on the e-bike suit. Hate them. Can't stand them. Okay. Take that shit somewhere else. Not having it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
Yeah, I think you've got to pull the cord on this one. It's done. You've both cheated on each other. Your adults sort of move on. Like you said, it's only going to get easier. Weird pattern, though, that you've gotten cheated on two times in a row. Maybe you've got to look inward on that one. I don't know.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
No. Thank God. That's my guy. Not that I know of.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
I think I'd go, man, you know, if I'm getting a massage, I want like the extra force.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
I got those big muscles. They got to get through them all, you know?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
It's like if you're paying for the service, you want the best job possible.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
We were in Puerto Rico, I guess. Dominican Republic. Just like shoulder massage, stuff on the face. I was so burnt. It hurt so bad. Bad decision. Like chemicals we're talking? No, like sun. Oh. Sunburn. You were burnt prior or the facial? I thought they were going to see the burn and be like a little gentler.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
I do love a good spa, though.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
NFL Draft Takeaways With Booger McFarland. Plus, Jimmy Butler’s Big Game 4 and ‘Warfare’ Codirector Ray Mendoza.
They were going to name me Michael Jordan. My dad was like, I don't think you can live up to it. So they named me Michael Jared.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I figured you're going to have to call a neighbor or something like, hey, listen, I'm Ryan. Just so you know. Can you please help me? Get some scissors out.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Am I going to choke to death by myself at a beach bar or something? It's like one of those things where you're like, did I just put myself in this situation?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I'm okay. Actually, you know, I had read a bunch of stuff from Johnny's Twitter, which has really stormed into my algorithm, which is nice for X. Yeah, it's been fun. But I hadn't heard anyone talk about it until you did, and you basically said all the nice things that I've been reading, but it was nice to hear somebody say it. And I really hadn't had a...
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
You know, like a real crushing sports loss in a while since the Patriots had been kind of out of it for a while. It's just been three, four years since it was like a real loss. It was like, man, that one stung. Like, I thought we had something there. So I guess it's cool to be back in the game just of sports relevancy.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Also, RJ Lewis, you guys need to stop being mean to our guy. He deleted his Instagram, and that's because of you degenerate gamblers, I think, so do better. He had a bad game. 3 for 17 is nuts, but still, nice guy.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I got to read this book. If it's going to keep coming up, I have to read the book. I watched the movie. I feel like you got a pretty good grasp on the movie, but if it's going to continue to come up, I think I got to get on it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Oh, I just, I just screwed it up.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
It's like I'll be thinking of a different color of gray for the outside.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I got a little vacation coming up. I think I'm going to grab the road.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Where the hell does it come from, though? Like, who is that?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Imagine if the foundational bricks out. That's not the top of the Jenga tower.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Does he know about my other, other burner?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Dude, I mean, this is one of those, like, I didn't know what you were capable of situations. You know what I mean? Depending on how far he went on that initial scroll and just watching the stories that had the kernel of truth spiral into something else. And you're thinking every time, like... What is the gain of this? And it's like one of those things like this is insane, right?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
There's nothing you can't show me the correlation to how this makes anything better for you. So if I was him, I might just like look into getting hypnotized to forget this shit. I don't I don't know how. I don't know how.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
you move past it knowing what you know it's like i had i had my struggles with reddit in like 2019 you know what i mean and just dudes weren't super nice and it's just like it's been that's 2025 and it's like you know i this is how i should kick cigarettes it's just like you learn to stay off it for a couple months and that's it by the way imagine when your wife is not liking kyle and like doesn't say that's definitely rebounded no dude it's it's an easier skill to pick up than you think i think but um i know but of all the people that have a heart like i get when people don't like me
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
But to just have a real life of that. I did. Yeah. It's been a long time and it's been great. And I love golf. But the like the fact that you have a Reddit in your house is weird. And it seems like you don't care what she says about you to the world.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Yeah. Yes. So I would try. I mean. Realistically, I try to forget this, see if there's some new technology they can zap the shit out of my brain. But I don't know how to confront her on this unless you're just going to go sit down like balls to the wall. This is insane. I think maybe you should see a therapist. We got to get you off this. I don't know what the gentle nudge thing is for this.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
It sounds like you're cool and maybe you can just forget about it. But outside of that, I don't know how to even start here. Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
There's no gain there. There's nothing tangible you can get from that.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
But she already has a fake one that she told him about, right? She told him about the mild Reddit that she has.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I think until she's found out, she's not going to admit that she's got the crazy Reddit. I feel like she's going to use the, she's going to use the mild Reddit. If you know, until this is like explicitly put out in front of her, she's just, this is going to be at my secrets forever until it's like on front street. I don't know.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I just, I think it's great. Like it's those like TLC, like hoarders, we're all problems. It's like, you're not going to be able to just like passively aggressively get the lady to stop eating poop. Who's addicted to eating her own poop. You know what I mean? Like there's not, there has to be something. It's so crazy that it's not just going to be like, you can't logic them out of it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Was that an episode? I don't know. I think so. There's one lady that like, yeah, yeah. I've seen clips.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
No, it's not your fault. Just my strange addiction episodes. You can't get to the bottom of it. Don't air that addiction.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Although... It's on TLC, man. I think everyone knows.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I don't know. What would you have done, Kyle? So I was thinking in this situation when he was telling me that Starbucks and, you know, early morning in Vegas, I was thinking like sizing these guys up, like, I don't know, strength in numbers. But I was realizing, like, I really don't have a lot of experience with concerts. And I didn't know how big of a deal talking through a concert was or wasn't.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Insane clown posse. Did we do this before? Why is this coming up again?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
No. No.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Juggalos, right? Juggalos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, never, never. And just because I know that don't doesn't mean anything. I've never been to that. I've been to like three concerts in my four concerts in my life, two of them being John Mayer concerts. Hell yeah. Yeah, I just assumed there's speakers everywhere.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I mean, I just didn't I didn't realize that people talking could get under your skin that much. But again, I've never been in the sphere and I don't think I've been to a like high ticket concert. So I really don't know what the deal with that. I saw Ludacris at the FanDuel thing where they sent me to Puerto Rico for the concert. the fantasy world championships in like 2017, 2018.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
And you could be talking the whole time. I wouldn't even have noticed. So I didn't really understand how big of a deal that was. I just said in the moments, like, you know, have you like, maybe you look around the section and sort of get like a strength of number sort of thing. So maybe you can convince someone else to do it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
And then everyone could just be like, yeah, man, this isn't how we, we do this. Cause if one guy tells you you're doing something wrong, I think you're probably thinking you got a 50, 50 chance of actually being right. But I think if more people told you that, then you might be like, all right, I'm going to back down here. But again, I really don't have great concert advice.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
He's doing the wind horse thing right now, did you know?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Is the Sphere, how much standing room is there at the Sphere? Because I just don't want, is it more of like a theater vibe or is it like? It's definitely more of a theater deal.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
My concert by choice sort of deal, right? How are you going to tell me?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Stafford, Rodgers, and Cousins Futures and Pre–NFL Combine Buzz With Albert Breer. Plus, Whether Teams Fear OKC and More With Anthony Slater.
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Stafford, Rodgers, and Cousins Futures and Pre–NFL Combine Buzz With Albert Breer. Plus, Whether Teams Fear OKC and More With Anthony Slater.
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
Hey, guys. I live in an apartment building, dude. I don't do anything. He's got a guy. Yeah. Yeah. just hope that my super takes care of everything.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
Right. Exactly. We don't even pay for power in my building, which is great.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
Marathons out of my league, I would never do a full. I'm like on death's doorstep after the half. And it's not like twice as hard. It's exponentially harder.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
No.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
You can't invite them after though.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
No, no. Me and Cerruti weren't close then.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
Someone said we didn't even know each other, so.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
So we had some friends who like tiered out all their people. Like these are my tier one friends. They're all getting invited. Tier two, probably getting invited. Like a draft board.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
They got the big board. We didn't really do that. We sort of did one and two got invited. Threes and fours. We'll talk to you later. I don't know. I would never ask. And I think this is like, I think you tell them like, sorry, you're not invited. I think you go right into like the uncomfortableness. That's like a punishment for them asking.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
If he hits you, you're in good shape if you don't fight back. That's a win.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
Are we sure he's not just going to show up and this guy's got like a custody agreement drafted out like Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it's my seat, Tuesday, Thursday, it's yours? We don't know that.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
We have this type of seating in the World Trade Center office, which is insane. But shouts to our coworker, Kat Spillane, who just wanted the same seat every day and she just started leaving stuff. Slowly and slowly, she just made it like her desk that nobody else can sit in.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
You're going to be fired, though.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
fake to crotch stomp it's my chair now you don't think that you don't like none of you guys like that huh how's this guy pulling tenure and then asking for two separate checks too like if you're this high or you got to be covering the bill because he's in his chair yeah that was just that that was a message taekwondo hip drops on who was this that sim was this that like what simsies you just like fighting over chairs what's going on
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Kawhi’s Reminder Game and Cade’s Arrival. Plus, NFL Draft Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios With Danny Kelly and Danny Heifetz.
They were going to name me Michael Jordan. My dad was like, I don't think you can live up to it. So they named me Michael Jared.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
The little plate on his helmet was busted up, too, after that first drive.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
So on that first drive, is that a matter of
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
And then I T I knew I need two, two point conversions against this fucking defense.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Is that, is that fair?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Your boy, O.D., came in third, but you're right. I mean, this page is incredible because it's...
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
How old's this guy again?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Must be 21 and older.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
We were at LSU together and we were working out and it was just whatever day it was, it was my rotation.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
How to Stop SGA and Brunson with Raja Bell. Plus, Conference Finals Preview.
Was there anybody?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
How to Stop SGA and Brunson with Raja Bell. Plus, Conference Finals Preview.
This is like we said with the numbers.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Yeah, it's all good.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Tough stretch here for Heat culture.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
No, I think it goes beyond him.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Feels like you got the shark there. Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
But I've seen it go on. Yeah. It truly is like the loudest guy wins the argument and fouls and pick up basketball, which does suck. Yeah, right.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Who needs Doge, am I right?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
We talked about this a couple weeks ago, but whenever, and I'm guilty of this, whenever it comes to driving, anything car-related, we just have no patience. I feel like I'm a pretty calm person overall, and I'm just not a calm person around a car. Just no limits when you're in that car. The parking thing, too, that would piss me off.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
I don't know that I would narc, but it would definitely bother me. but Kyle's right. You had an opportunity like to cold Turkey, just be like, this is not my life. I'm putting this behind me. Nobody knows me here. Yeah. And you just kept, you just kept riding along and you just can't quit it. I, I don't know. I, I,
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
I just I wouldn't tell anybody this like, you know, obviously nobody figures out who you are in the email because like nobody's going to like this person. You can't tell the story in public and everyone be like, yeah, dude, that's a great call. I wasn't like, dude, what the hell is wrong with you? Like, so I don't know. It's kind of like I don't think you're harming anyone by keeping to yourself.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
But if this becomes public, like you're going to have some serious issues with like people and just relationships and friends, because like this is a it's just kind of a loser move, unfortunately.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
So, yeah. Next thing you know, you buy a fake badge off Amazon. It's like, what do we, what do we, who do you think you are, buddy?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
I think the kids are doing that on YouTube these days too now. Rotation.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
She's got a rabbit hole of stuff.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Fire it up. Oh, man. Just loads up the Irishman at nine and nine thirty a.m.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Or he's just run out of content, man. He just...
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
That's all. I feel like if he's got somewhat of a brain on his shoulders, like he probably feels like ass and feels like shit.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Right. And if there isn't, then what do you, what you, there's no, you're just beating your head against the wall. There's no point in actually like trying to talk any sense into him. So I'm going to go ahead and assume that this guy doesn't feel great about himself. And, you know, I'm sure he doesn't want the current situation he's in. I am with Kyle.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
There's got to be some control for the TV if we're talking just like, you know, hours per week and you guys want to watch something in the evening. And he's been on, you know, on there since, you know, for six hours or so. Like, it feels like we could pass the remote around. But... I just don't think... I think he's got to figure it out himself.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
I just remember when I was out of the job after the ESPN gig and did the thing at Intercom. You feel like Dick kind of enjoying anything. So maybe he's just more crabby because he can't even feel like he can enjoy anything without you guys kind of judging him. So again, I'm not saying he's in the right or in the wrong, but if he's got any sort of...
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
iota of self-awareness he's he's probably not feeling awesome about himself right now so i i would even just try to lift him up i try to get him out of the house to do stuff could you like are there activities you could do that aren't tv related yeah job for 10 hours working yeah but like can you can you play pick up hoops after i don't just get him out of the house a little bit try to do something different
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
But until then, it does suck when people are on different timelines, man, because we had that in the friend group and it's just, you know, guys don't know exactly what they want to do. And, you know, other guys are being successful. Ryan, you've talked about this with your friend group like that to be the guy that's kind of the odd man out like that. It's not easy.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
That's how, that's how guys get to dark places.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
How about what if we judge the necessity of the actual curse word? Did you need to say that there? Because I think you're right. There are some where it's like, actually, that's appropriate. I'm glad you did that. And then there's one where you're like, you were reaching there. That sucks. And we could rate it on a scale of like one to five.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
I don't know. I swear in real life. You do? I do. That's awesome. Thanks, man. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, man.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
I don't think that one works.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
We're supposed to be taping a YouTube video at some point this week, TBD. Maybe we solicit some ideas from the listeners. We'll read them on that YouTube video.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
whatever he's not coming to hollywood either so just what if we go like a month a month period and whoever unnecessarily swears the most has to like do a live video on youtube at some point on like a topic of their choosing no but it has to be somebody else's choosing yeah all right fine within reason They have to like present an argument about something.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Yeah, I don't think it was ridiculous. I had somebody hit me up. Actually, Anthony DeBundo works at the Ringer. It was like when he went to Syracuse, Tommy DeVito was in the tanning salon all the time, which I don't think is terribly surprising, but Although he's a Jersey guy, so maybe that doesn't really help my story.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
What was the look? It's so over the top. Because I feel like it's either like Euro kind of looking guy or it's like board shorts and a puka shell necklace. No, dude. It was so New York. You could tell he was from downstate.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
You didn't tan though yourself. You just, I did not there. No, no. Did she try to get you to tan?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Yeah, you can't work out afterwards. Like, if you cry, just so, I mean, nobody knows why that would happen, but if you cry afterwards, like, you'll just be streaks. Like, you really can't do anything after you get the spray tan thing. He scared the shit out of me. I wasn't even the one in there.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Because I'm sure he's seen some horror stories of people coming in and being like, wow, I'm like, I look like, you know, a zebra here because of something that I did. You know, I took a shower afterwards. It's not good. So many instructions. And between every two instructions, he was just like, I can't stress this enough. And I was like, should we just back out of this right now?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Wait, how many days before the wedding was this? Because then he's probably just like, I can't.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Yeah, so he's like, you do not want to look terrible at your wedding. Shout out to him for looking out for it.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
No, I just said there were dudes. It was a lot of the Guido guys. You know, remember the spiky haircut thing? Like, you know, it was like the short look.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I was not one of those guys. I was friendly with some of those guys, but I was not one of those guys. Actually, the guy below me in my yearbook picture is a good guy. His name's Luigi. He funny enough. He had the big like, you know, blowout in our picture. He's right below me. And it looks like his like hair is like stabbing me in my in my senior photo, which is pretty great.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
But yeah, no, we had a lot of guido looking Italian dudes in, you know, the central Connecticut area. And a lot of them went tanning. And I didn't wasn't for me. I have done the the drop tanning thing where you add to your lotion and it just kind of gives you a little bit different of a shade. And I screwed up all the time.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
It's not quite bronze or it's just like there are these little drops you put in because I moisturize anyway. So you just throw them in and put it on your face, whatever. And it gives you a little bit of different shade because I was like super pale going to a wedding in Mexico. And I was like, I don't want to look like the whitest guy here. Probably not. So I did that.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
But I didn't know you're supposed to wash your hands afterwards. And so my hands were bright orange essentially at this wedding. It was not great. Not great. Didn't know that until afterwards. Tommy DeVito, Tanner. Got it. That checks out. Good for him.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Yeah, totally. Freaking out, man. Uh, I don't know. I kind of feel like... I think you're right, Kyle, but I also think you can... If he makes the joke about dudes, about, hey, this student stunk, kind of like when this guy's coming in school high, I'd be like, hey, dude. Really? Just kind of give him the eyes. I don't know. So you see how we react.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Right?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I do weed all the time. I'm a big drug guy. Yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Somebody noticed.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Yeah, thinking about starting an Instagram account.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Oh, man.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
No. Yeah. It's, it's kind of like, you know, throwing a party is like when you start a business, like you assume the, the liability, like of the loss, you know, like it's, it's when you're laughing, like that's part of throwing a party, man. Like if, if, if you have a guy who, I don't even know what a scenario would be where I would charge somebody who didn't come, you know, unless, unless like,
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I don't even know. Unless you were like buying stuff.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
And you bailed. Yeah. Maybe that's fair. So this to me is absolutely insane. It's also two people. If it was like a dozen people and you're like, man, I'm footing this bill like that. Yeah, that sucks more. It's two people. What's the dent on that? Is it like 20 bucks? Is it... 50 bucks?
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I mean, I'm not trying to like minimalize like everyone's money situations are different, but that's just, that's insanity. And it also sounds like, so there's no way that you can ask your buddy who legitimately sounds like he was sick and it was, and you agree it was the right thing for him not to go to be like, Hey dude, can you just Venmo me 15 bucks or so? That's, that's insane.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
You're going to get a new nickname out of this.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
It's terrible. But it kind of sounds like that only came up because you wanted to charge your wife's friend or the girl or whatever in the situation because her excuse was a little bit less... Hers was a little bit less awesome. I'm tired. I don't love that. But maybe she was also sick and just didn't want to say that. The point is you just can't do this. You got to EPL.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I hate that you and your wife are encouraging each other.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Or if you bail last minute, you probably have to pay for the room or wherever place you're staying.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Just because I can't get enough of this. The other thing, too, is this didn't imply that you bought the exact amount of food for however many people are there. I've tried to do the math. Six wings and two slices. You probably made out because you're getting the leftovers here, unless everyone's taking care of packages at home.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
There's a good chance you're getting an extra pizza to have at lunch the next day.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Maybe. That's insane because leftovers are the absolute best.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Yeah, you throw them in the air fryer? Are you kidding me? Oh, my God. But the idea that everyone is completely... This is what your cost was for this particular day down to the wing and slice of pizza. It's never going to be equal. It's never going to make sense. Somebody probably ate more slices and ate more wings and ate less. It never evens out, dude.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
And if you're hosting the party, again, this is... It's a joke, but it's not. You are assuming the responsibility. You are assuming the loss here and the risk. And that's just part of the deal, dude. So...
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I think... I'm hopeful that it got through. That's pretty harsh. I'm hopeful that it got through. It had to be, though. Sometimes there's some harsh realities that need to be had, you know? Yeah. No question. No question, Steve.
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The Annual Todd McShay–Daniel Jeremiah NFL Draft Fest!
You want details? Bye. I drive a Ferrari, 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid. So, now you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Yo, can we start with a little advice for me? Yeah. So remember I told you I was golfing with my father-in-law on Friday and I was worried about like being outnumbered or whatever. So it was a full five. There was two Koreans that basically just saw that there was a Korean group ahead of us and just left us to go with them. And they had a great time. Is that racist?
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
No, it's just a lot of Koreans go to that place, and I feel like they'd rather, like, pair up. And they were just, like, very nice. They're like, we're going to go with them. I was like, okay. I'm Kyle, by the way. Anyway, see you later. And then there was a cantankerous old man who normally in bar settings I love, not so great for the golf course.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
He was, like, giving me, putting me through drills on the tee box, like, giving my father-in-law lessons, who's just too nice to tell him no. Was he good? I mean, he was old. So, I mean, it didn't look good, but I mean, the ball was going straight and he was just like, let me ask you, are you interested in getting better? And I say, yes.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
And I didn't realize I opened up Pandora's box of fucking golf tips for the next three holes. But anyway, this is, we're on the eighth hole. You know, this guy was very like, I think I was like going in my bag while he was about to tee off. And he's like, I don't like anyone making noise, please. Oh, shit. He's yelling at people on other tee boxes to be quiet while he's going to hit.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Anyway, that's not really what the question is. Somebody hit into us on the eighth hole. We're on the green. A ball comes flying in, really nicely hit, lands on the green while we're on the green. And I just I go, oh, and I don't hear anything back. This guy just takes a tee out of his pocket and tees it up and honestly kind of blew me away.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Is that a thing that instead of people throwing the ball back at people or hitting it back or taking the ball, he just teed it up on the green. This girl was so confused. We're on the next tee box and she finds her ball and she's like, are you guys fucking with me? And he was like, no, you hit into us. All that's left is an apology. She didn't get it. He was still being cantankerous.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
But I never saw that move where if somebody hits into you, you just tee it up. That way it kind of gets in their head a little bit. Have you ever heard of this?
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
I did, but I just I kind of like the tee it up move. It's like you don't have to yell. You don't have to throw the ball back. I even Google it to see if this happens. A couple people had mentioned it, but a lot of dudes are like, oh, well, I would have just chucked it in the drink or I would have taken out my Sharpie and wrote screw you on it or something. But I just I like the the tee it up.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
It leaves people a little confused. And then you're kind of like, oh, no, did I hit into them? I don't know. I might use it in the future unless it's like a grave offense. I just kind of like it. The guy kind of redeemed himself after a day of sucking. I was like, wow, you really made me think about that one.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
harvey i'm glad you looked it up i mean because look no one is more prepared to tell you what you should have done in the person that wasn't there yeah right i know as we were leaving uh there were dudes teeing off and they saw this guy they're like oh you golfed with grumpy today so i guess he's like uh i guess he's known uh at roosevelt so uh anyway just wanted to ask
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
I'd rather be worse, sir. Yeah. I was thinking about saying some version of that to him after I didn't realize that it was going to open up a hole. I thought it was going to be a quick tip. He's got me doing drills. There's people behind us. And he's like, here, here, take one of my balls. I put your feet all the way together and hit it. And I'm like, dude, it's a backup here. We can't.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
He's like, he doesn't mind, do you?
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Yeah, just stay ready.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Everybody knows project along. Yeah, let's go.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
It's sort of like gaslighting.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
I think I could probably break it down.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
No, in that I don't really know exactly what the term is, but I think I can kind of get it.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
All right. Totally off on dropshipping then.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
I was totally off on dropshipping then. So you're just opening up packages? They're addressed to you? Or are they just to your address, Mike?
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Yeah, because it takes a lot of balls to open up a package with someone else's name on it with your address.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
I've certainly done it. You got to see what's inside. I mean, what if it's a bunch of money? I don't know. I don't know. What if it's a bomb, Kyle? Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say for Mike. He's getting several packages. Yeah.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Yeah, maybe you just have the rule with yourself. You don't have to tell them, be like, listen, I'm instituting a quarterly clean-out or something. It's like every two months, if there's anything, I'm going to put it in the garage, and then on the 15th of the second month, I'm throwing it all away. It's going to Goodwill, whatever.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
I mean, you don't have to tell them that if you don't feel like having an uncomfortable conversation, but I think you need to have some sort of boundaries within yourself that you don't feel like you're getting taken advantage of or whatever. Yeah. I think it would, I think it'd be best for you to have some sort of rule where you're just like, well, that's the rule.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
They missed the cutoff and I finally got rid of this thing and I wasn't hanging onto it forever. Um, just to make you feel like you've got some sort of stability here instead of just waiting for whatever the next time they click through that Amazon cart without checking. It happens.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
My wife sent Bill like a 10-pound bag of bird seed the other day, or I guess it was two weeks ago, and I was just like, I'm not going to go over there and get it. I think you just have to eat that cost. He's probably confused, but it happens. Wait.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Yeah. Because I had to send him like, um, a couple of those, like, uh, card reader dongles for when he was on the road. And for some reason, Amazon just had him as the last guy. And she's like, where is it? It said the birds he'd got delivered. I was like, Oh, He said it to my boss's house.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Think about what you're asking.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
You've showered at Jake's? I'm going to try it once. I'm saying I would. I'd be respectful. You know, if you're in your own shower, I certainly wouldn't pee in Jake's shower. But if you're a guy that if you're one of those guys, I know they're out there. Sometimes the timing's off and you really got no choice. But I'm just saying I would I would take extra respect in the shower.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
But I certainly think you have a shower.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
No.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Cause he'd probably be like, well, if it's up to me, I'd say, don't be naked in my bathroom. If you got your own, like if, if, if you're asking me, which would I prefer? I'd say, don't, don't get in my shower. Um, but you wouldn't tell a friend that though.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
If we all lived in the same, uh, you know, three awesome condo, it sounds like let's make it happen.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Bathrooms. Uh, and somebody was like, Hey, I just want to see what you got. I don't know. Where does it end? I want to see if your toilet feels different than mine does. I don't know. Where does it end? So if I was that guy, I might, I might be like, uh, no, I think it's weird. Um, so I wouldn't ask, but he's, he's that far away, dude. It's not like he's at the gym. You're trying to grab a shower.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Like he's, he's away. Do it.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
So Bob's wall raises property value. Do you have to pay more rent when he put the wall up and closed it off? Did you guys, we have to like, we have to adjust this. Now we have to get it. It's like making a deal, but all this stuff, you actually have the best room now.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Do you think they'll amend it for Zuby Ejiofor on Saturday? Probably not. 98, maybe? Honorable mention.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
We'll go to Europe. The distance with the, yeah, the distance with the, like, there's probably more misses if you just put your finger on a map in Australia than hits. So, I don't know. The distance combined with that.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
They love math. They have common interests. Yeah. Wait, so she found his work first or they hooked up and he did her homework for her? Not the second one. I don't think. Not the second one. Okay.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
She's been on a generational run since high school.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah. I think when the age gap and the hotness gap, you know, resemble each other, uh, in a, and they're large. I think everybody's pretty much abreast of the situation. So I don't know.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
And he looks happy, I bet. Right. He looks super stoked. The smile on his face should be illegal. Right. Okay. There you have your answer. Can't put a price on a smile like that.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah, I'll just say finally, I'm sorry you have to feel this way. Like, you know, there's some life advices we do that I feel like I can apply to my own life later on. It's like I told this guy what I would do in that situation. Maybe I'll try. It happens a lot. Helps me with like saying no to things and, you know, making like split second decisions and low stakes things.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
I hope I never have to figure out how to deal with this. So just sorry you're dealing with that. I'm sure it's a gross feeling.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah. Like Ryan said, are you trying to protect him or are you trying to protect your inheritance a little bit? And I think whichever way that is, maybe that's how you attack it from. He might respect where you're coming from more if you're a little bit more honest about what you want.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
That's not that bad. Come on. No, it's not that bad, but I don't know. Not what I would pick.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Let me think. Maybe I'm thinking late Ginobili.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah, we don't have to. We can just fast forward.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
I mean, I don't know. Maybe you think maybe that'll do something.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
um also it was my birthday thank you if you have a day in between that it like resets you know that's okay if it was if you guys were checking in later that day maybe i would think about lying about this but one day yeah i'll tell it you're in a panic people are gonna freak out they're gonna lie you know sure like you you have to cover your tracks uh
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Live in. Right.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Never heard a good story about it.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah, I think the bond is stronger. Live in, like you probably thought about it for a while, especially this day and age, right? People are moving a little slower. If you moved in, I think your skill points are up there. You've unlocked a new tier of the tree where you can share this sort of stuff.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
I mean, we moved in, my wife and I moved in during the pandemic in 2021 and it was the move-in day and we just got everything done. Nothing was unpacked. And I just, I was like, guess what just happened? Yeah. She was like, are you serious? Like, we don't have anything unpacked. It was like, not the first night you want. And, you know, we weren't married until like three years after that.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
But I mean, I just was like, we're living together now. And what a strange first day, huh? But I was, I was okay with it.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah, I was actually just like, do you know where the stuff is? Because we've got like... We don't even have a shower curtain up yet. What are we going to do here?
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Because I don't think we'll ever be on this topic again. It'll be the last time.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah, I know. But this is a good one that I don't think it will ever come up. So I was a camp counselor probably back in like 2010, 2011. And I was taking summer camp just a day one. No one was sleeping over anything. And this kid, he was like six years, seven years old. He crapped his pants. And I'm bringing him to the locker room. It was like a country club thing. Casper Kill shot out.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
And I was bringing him to the bathroom, and I'm like, all right, I guess we'll figure out what to do here. And as I opened the door to the locker room for him, I also crapped my pants, totally, like, had no idea it was coming. It wasn't like a race to the finish. It just happened. And I had to call my dad. It was like airborne.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
it was crazy dude it was just like what are the chances and i had to call my dad who was like five i don't know five minutes in the air we live we live really close and uh and so i'm so the kids all like fixed up and he's like all right we can go back i'm like hold on just wait up just wait a few minutes um and he's like the kid is confused and then my dad opens the locker room because it was like a it was a a shared locker room for like the people that were at the pool in the country and he just like hey hey kyle i got your new underwear and shorts for you because you crapped your pants he thought it was funny and i was just like dad there's like
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
a camper in here, but that's like, you know, dad humor. Anyway, I thought that was ironic and funny. Yeah, it's a tough one. I never forgot it. I certainly never forgot it. Oregon, you want to lay out here? Come on, you got something for us. Never again, dude. Come on.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
All right. Glad to come on. Good talk.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Come on. Especially Asian cuisine. I mean, if it says spicy on the menu on DoorDash, I'm just like, well, that's not for me. If they're saying it's spicy, you know, they'll say mild and it'll be more than I can handle. Just that the Asian spice, I think, scale is just... Not calibrated for me.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
The white tees are bad right now.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Check out the graphics.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
I'm in San Antone in an Airbnb with a little bit of an extended checkout. And I'm heading back to the West Coast. But a couple of Central Time kids right now.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Likely no. I think a lot of Airbnbs are doing cleaning after the Final Four because I've noticed a lot of dudes treat this like the Super Bowl where they, like, bounce before the actual game, but they spend, like, five good days having fun. And then, like, you go to the media section on the title day and you're like, what the hell happened? Anyway.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
You do you whenever you want. Oh, people disrespect hotel rooms. It's not just like, uh, you know, you're cleaning off a table at a diner or something like you got to check. You feel like, yeah, right.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Can I just say? Somebody gets it. Because I don't think we're going to get to it. I showed Wargon off air. A nice little gift from J. Kyle Mann as we ended the season yesterday. He handed me a signed Rick Pitino baseball card. I mean, he's throwing a baseball. Certainly a trading card. And I was over the moon. That's incredible.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
What, this weekend? Yeah. I ran into a lot of dudes this weekend.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
You're getting crushed. It's like a barrage of charges. Pilates.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And then the bill seems like it costs even more when you're like, is she even enjoying this? So that's a major green flag. I agree with you and him.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Her friend Jennifer's not going to be on your side, that's for sure. Yeah, right.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
It's totally true. And I was thinking like I have a point to make, but I was going to ask how much of the blame pie do you think that Hamilton took if they just went to another like just another restaurant? It was like a cool $300 night. You left a nice tip. You feel cool about yourself.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
but like you throw the Hamilton, even that, even at this far removed from the premiere, it's still, it's still quite a hit. And I just wonder how much, if he was just like, man, if we didn't do that, then you'd have, you know, three dates costs as much as your Hamilton tickets. It sounds like. So I was thinking about that, but the other thing is like, it's a good call. Like, was it Hamilton? Yeah.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Yes. Maybe it's like, you know, I'm not really into theater now. I just, I, I just, I realized, but, uh, you know, whatever. But I think, um, Think about how long ago this was totally traditional. Are we talking like three years? Like every dude would be like, of course I'm paying for everything. Like think about how that wasn't, we're not that far removed.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And that's why I think those men on the streets where there's like a guy who comes up to me like, do you think you should pay for everything? Like do you get so many of those reactions that those guys want? Because we're not that far away from when everyone thought this way. It's like, well, yeah, I'm the man. I pay for everything.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And so I think, I think that's not so crazy that she might be in that world. And I saw a tweet like yesterday, it was like hot girls in their twenties just think, wow, I just keep getting so lucky. It's just like, like they must just think to themselves, I'm just, I'm on a heater of luck right now.
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Uh, so I think you add all that together and, uh, you know, decide if this is the person that you want to be texting and excited about seeing or not. Um, I know maybe marry or get some of that family money and you won't worry about any of this for the long haul. But he has the money though.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Oh, that's right. Well, I don't know what you're getting. So it sounds like she's got a pretty good foundation. I think this is totally normal in your situation. And sometimes you get a girl that has that whole package and also is like, I don't want to owe you anything, but other girls don't look at it that way.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
So I guess my point is there was a point not so long ago that this was across the board how everything was done. So it's not so crazy. It does suck, though.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Yeah, it was more in the cabs days before Uber was in Poughkeepsie. You know, it was just like there was two cab companies and you wait too long to secure one. You wait till last call. Everyone's doing that phone call. And, you know, they're like 40 minutes and now everyone's gone. You call the cab company. It's like, hey, it's been 50 minutes. And they're like, well, we're not here yet.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And then you get upset because you had a few and they're like, well, call someone else. And they hang up. And I'm like, I think I'm done here. I don't know. Got to walk down the old Route 44 to get home or something. I don't know what to do. So I've had a couple of those asked out, just waited too long to secure the rides. But Uber's changed the game. Yeah.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
No, you're not crazy. You're not crazy. This is kind of like an endearing part of being out at a bar. You just get people from all walks of life. There you go. But definitely not normal. I was just at a Houston or San Antonio brewery, and there's a large bar, and there's people standing in line. I took a picture of it. I was so fascinated. And I was like, this is how they do it here?
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
I didn't wait in the line. Spoiler. I just stood next to the line and sat at a bar like normal. And I was like, hey, you mind if I close out? But that's just how some people do bars, I guess. So it's just to each their own. And I think a bar is a pretty cool place to just, you know, find out what other people are up to. Some people are standing for the end of Anthem.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
So I might've stood just to be like, well, it's not a big deal, but not out of principle, like to anti-standard. It's just, you know, bars are a little looser. Find a new experience.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
If someone asked you to.
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Okay.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
No words either? You're not saying anything. You're just like, you single me out and you want problems with me, I guess we'll talk about it.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
You're almost defiant about it. I don't know. I think at a bar you can get more people rowing in the same direction in a very short span of time. Like if somebody just started singing a song everybody knows in a bar, that's what used to happen, right?
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
He did 20 years in the Marines, 20 years for USPS. And he's got both on. And he goes, son, stand for the anthem. Are you going to argue with that guy? Does he have the hat? He's got the hat.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
He's got his years on it.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
We have it in post, man.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
if it's a test, I'm going to consider it like I did in high school, like the SAT. And I'm just going to take the ACT instead because I heard there was less math. So I think, I think as long as it's not important to you for, for this person or future people to know what the backstory is on this painting, never has to see the light of day.
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And, you know, if it was me, I'd probably think about what I would say if the time comes, but, you know, got it at a consignment shop, whatever you like it. I don't think you should not have to have it. I don't.
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Yeah, I do say I say life. It comes up. I think it just seems like, you know, I guess if I guess if enough time has passed and like the relationships going well, I was just thinking like, like you say, it's a test. Maybe she fails the test. And the last person that she was with cheated on her and she found out it was her.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
It was like this whole backstory thing where he had a ex-girlfriend that was coming around. It's so it just might be one of those things like why introduce the shit into your life, man. It's not actually a, you know, malicious or you're not doing anything wrong, but you like it where it is and it doesn't change what the thing means to you. You've like, it's life advice. You're anonymous.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
You could have totally said if you're like, yeah, sometimes I still think about her, but you never do. So at least that's what you tell us. So I would just, I take the ACT instead, dude. Yeah, or just put it in the hallway. Yeah, hallway's great. Put it in the hallway. Hallway, underrated spot for good paintings. Usually people put them in a living room or a bedroom.
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Yeah, maybe boost your hallway game a little bit.
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Everyday chain. Everyday chain and possibly one of two going in the future. I think I could be a two-chain guy. Yeah. Would you go shorter on the second chain or would you go longer on the second chain?
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I don't know which one to go with.
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Absolutely. I think he's maybe the funniest rapper we've ever had. He's hilarious. Funniest rapper. He's hilarious. Lil Wayne has had some funny stuff too, but I think just more often than not, T-Pain makes me laugh. Or T-Pain, 2 Chainz.
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That's not talking gas, though, right? You still got to top them up when you bring them back?
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Three days of boat races could totally –
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Yeah, I think you can't... A good rule of bachelor parties, I would imagine, is we're not doing the split-up thing. So I don't think one boat is an option. And I think you over-prepare, which means that you bought the boat for three days and you probably use it one day.
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I'm just thinking back to Ocean City, Maryland, where if we didn't have any structure, probably could have been at Secrets a little less. We had a great time, but it was just sort of like, you know, everyone was up for like two hours and we're like, hmm. Maybe we'll throw something on the grill, but I guess Secrets opens pretty soon. Should we just go back?
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And we basically spent three days at Secrets in Ocean City, Maryland, rather than anything else. So I think that's cool to have a little structure there. And I would vote for the boats. Two boats. Can't go one. You don't want to leave anybody on land for that.
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Oh, nice. A little Jordan Belfort there.
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Amazing opportunity just came across my desk.
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It's honestly the price of like a nice dinner where no one really spares any expense and you all split the checks like six ways. It's like 186 is sort of what you can be expecting. So it's like basically the cost of a nice dinner for three days of access to boats. So I say yes, I vote boats.
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I have no tips and I'll never be this guy, but I kind of envy you. You've never done it? No. I mean, my first wedding, you know, wasn't that long ago. It was like a year before mine. And like, you know, I was certainly not a single guy at a wedding. I just wonder what that's like. You're dressed up. Do you know I like to wear suits out for no reason sometimes.
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So just to be looking my best at a wedding and, you know, everyone's like friendly and people are asking questions. Who's this guy? I just feel like it'd be a great time. I don't have tips, but I have a little bit of envy.
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Sounds like he's friends with a bride. Yeah, I don't know.
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Yeah. Right. Yeah.
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Right, right.
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Wait till Cotton Eye Joe comes out at like 830 and do that one. I'm not a dancer, but at this last wedding, I mean, something came over me. I don't know what the hell. It was probably, probably. Your wedding? No, no. The wedding I just went to when I was back in Poughkeepsie. This wedding was actually in Brooklyn, but I don't know what the hell happened to me. I was just like towards the end there.
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And then I started giving the guy a couple requests. I noticed nobody was doing that, so I didn't know if it was okay or just people didn't have the stones to ask him. He played all my stuff.
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I mean, really, when you see the opportunity to ask for Ride With Me by Nelly and you know it's going to hit and the DJ's on board, I mean, I felt like the king of that Brooklyn warehouse wherever we were for a little time, a little short time.
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Yeah.
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Awesome, dude. Yeah. I have three groups of friends. Only one circle could I even have them get them on board to do something like this. Like this silly, but also actually pretty efficient. Like the two other groups would just be like, what are you, an idiot or something like that? And there's only really one. It's probably the L.A.
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guys that I can have this sort of fun when we're splitting something at Rave and Kane. So really awesome. Three groups of friends is a ton. Good for you. Well, you got, you know, it's like the regular Poughkeepsie guys, college guys and dudes from out here. I'm just I'm just thinking like if we were in this situation and I tried to broach this, they'd be like, the hell's wrong with you?
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They'd be making fun of me for it. But this is really cool when everyone buys it. I mean, there's only two of you guys, but still, I think that's really neat.
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Yeah, I'd say the best-looking guys in each group all linked up. Nice. And it was just like... So this is our, this is our superhero and that's yours. And yeah. And they like, you know, they got a little side text going on.
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I mean, it only, you only got to be out together for like 10 minutes. And it's like, you know, we're talking like, you know, we're talking about nines here. So, you know, the, you have to do the chemical lines. I think I got two nines. Yeah.
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One of them, the Philly one, but I don't know how much you saw of them.
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has an impact on you there at the end so isn't it isn't it kind of awesome when like you get the jealousy of somebody watching or reading something that you know is sick and you're like damn i like i wish i could watch like the lord of the rings trilogy again for the first time you know i mean it's still great now like the hundredth time but like it's like damn you the first time i remember like getting so giddy to like have my wife watch it and she certainly did not share the excitement with me but um it just that's like such a great feeling
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Yeah. It's like going out that week. Yeah. About as intimate as it gets. Yeah.
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He's handing out Blu-rays. What's going on?
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Yeah, no, I mean, I've been known to zag a little bit in life. Oh, my Christ. That's the worst zag ever. I'm not saying it's bad. I haven't seen it, so I don't have any thoughts on it.
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This is Grey Gardens. People already don't like me. This isn't going to help. Yeah, cut that. Come on, Mike. Do him a favor. No, I tried. And just the aspect ratio, it was just bad, man. I don't know. It's not even like I didn't grow up in an aspect ratio of four by three, but it just, I don't know. I think I probably tried it 10 years ago. Aspect ratio? I'm sorry. Yeah, I haven't seen it.
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Just check your email for iTunes from Ryan. Yeah, I guess I need to hook up. I'll save you the time. Don't hold your breath. I should have kept that one to myself.
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No, it's fine.
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I would mostly agree.
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I've never seen it.
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Chinatown Jack Nicholson like the beginning you know this this all-time movie considered like one of the greatest I don't think I would not watch it no I would I would watch but you would say hey this is stupid that that was fake that guy was fake I would just be like it you know it looks I don't know how it looks and maybe it isn't maybe it looks incredible maybe it holds up incredibly well but I think yeah like most things you're not like back to the future I actually do really like back to the future I love time travel stuff Michael J Fox it's the dated movie like it feels incredibly dated but it's still a good movie
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I don't know, man. You know my take on the 80s, too. I mean, this goes back a long time. I just think the 80s is a rough entertainment. Not even entertainment. Most things in the 80s were kind of rough. Movies, music, cars were kind of ugly. Architecture. Can't wait for emails. I'm just, yeah. When's the next Friday feedback? Here we go.
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Yeah. Yeah, but is that take worse or is Bill's interstellar take worse? Because that's a tough one. Deflecting. Maybe, but we all have our flaws. We all have our flaws.
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And then kind of like the dark night. Yeah.
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I will say, though, Bill's zag on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he played the long game, and it's certainly working out right now.
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Yeah. All right.
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It's kind of like a look at me. I don't know. That to me is just like an attention grab thing. And again, he's going through some shit. So I want to give him some grace. But, you know, it's like, really, you're going to like make it a scene over your car being dirty and then you go getting the car washed like that.
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Like we're never going to be friends, unfortunately, if that's kind of shit that you pull.
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um I would be I would do what this guy does I play it too nice I do this on Instagram with different people they'll send me a few things and I just kind of keep it going because I feel bad I don't and it's weird because it's like I could just stop responding but like you feel weird just kind of like ghosting someone that you don't even know so I don't know if you're cool playing it nice I think that's kind of how you do it maybe this guy kind of needs the back and forth a little bit maybe doesn't have a lot going on um
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I kind of subscribe to, like, you never know what anyone's going through at a certain time. And if you stop, like, if you're a dick to him, like, maybe that kind of puts him over the edge. And if that kind of gets on your conscience, like, you don't really want that there either.
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So if you are able to handle being the nice guy here and just kind of putting some of that weird shit aside, that's kind of what I would do just for your own conscience.
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You know, I just love that we've never been mortified a thing. It's like, yeah, I don't know. We've been we've definitely been mortified. It feels bad. That's why I do it.
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That's a slippery slope, though, man. I don't know.
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It would actually... It would actually be really funny, though, if he drove like an 03 Impala. He's like, yeah, man, I got to get it washed. I got to get it clean. It has rust on it. It's like, really? You do?
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Oh yeah. Yeah. I love that question specifically. Yeah. Yeah. Probably got to try the chocolate almonds.
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Well, that's not true.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah, man, my bus route. I so I live like on the outskirts of our town and I had it was like 45 minutes to an hour one way both times. It was I would fall asleep on the back of the bus guy. Where were you in the rankings? They'd wake me up because I would just fall asleep on the bus when I was like, you know, elementary school. We're trying to figure out how to throw shit out the windows.
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Back of the bus was a really great time.
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Yeah, like lean into being the shady, sort of like scary guy that nobody wants to talk to. That White Lotus guy?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it is going a little slow.
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So you know what's funny? I was going to... It's funny that that came up because I was going to zag and be like, yeah, man, I've been waiting to kind of zag on the White Lotus thing because nothing's happened so far. I've enjoyed the three episodes, but yeah, what's happened?
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Totally.
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The best part of the show is the three female front relationship, right? Because it's just so well written. I'm not going to spoil anything, but it is just so perfect how that is written. So...
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Part 2: Todd McShay on Shedeur and Cam's Landing Spots, WR and RB Debates, NFL Combine Takeaways, Plus Life Advice!
Can I just really quickly, for the people who are probably going to inevitably get mad on Reddit, I'm not anti-watching The Wire. Ten years ago when I tried to watch it, it just didn't hit for me. Maybe it will at another point. I'm not saying it's not great. It probably is. I've heard it's the top three show of all time. I just haven't seen it. But just want to get that out there.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Part 2: Todd McShay on Shedeur and Cam's Landing Spots, WR and RB Debates, NFL Combine Takeaways, Plus Life Advice!
Think of all the camaraderie you had in the back of the bus, though. You know, you never had that.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Maybe we'll have him on for anybody. Like this is not the time we're flying and stuff. It's like it's actually really safe about flying the last couple of months. I'm going to get back into flying.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
shirts off running it feels like you know it when you see it but maybe it's there's not a number you know i think it's a mindset really it's a lifestyle it's all confidence i saw a guy the other day no lie i was getting groceries driving home and i was like he looks good shirts off he had like a he was he was like in the car yeah i mean it was like whatever man it's fine
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
I was like, that guy, he was kind of hairy, but not too hairy where it was weird. It was a good look. I'm like, yeah, man. It's spring. It's almost 60 degrees outside. I wouldn't do it personally. I remember playing pickup hoops. I always hated being skins. Always hated it. Don't know why. I've always been kind of skinny. I don't know if it's a body thing or whatever, but I'm not a no-shirt guy.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Ryan, on the other hand, will answer the door without a shirt on, so maybe he's the guy to ask.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Why would you not have a shirt on, though? Like, what, are you just uncomfortable? Do shirts make you uncomfortable? No. You just want to be free?
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
He's here to do that at beach community. I feel like though, you know, yeah, you have an excuse at least do that. It's probably not great.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
It was probably like high fifties. Good running weather. I'd imagine it was sunny. One of the first few days were like, oh man, spring is like kind of here. So let me ask this. He was husky, right? No, he wasn't skinny. He was in good shape. Decent shape. He looked good. I don't think he was ripped or huge or out of shape. He was just like a normal looking dude. And I was like, yeah, cool.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
That's good for you, man. It didn't look weird at all. I couldn't do that.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
um you know if there's some guy it's just that's why i said it's just you know when you see it like i don't think there's a hot list scale but i don't think i've ever seen a guy though where i'm like you should put a shirt on no no i now that i think about it come on i don't know i've been to florida recently or i'm not saying they're all like ripped and shredded and hot but yeah i think teams are a little more lenient on that where it's like yeah good for you dude you know
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Yeah.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
It sounds like guys are, I don't think we're, there's a judgment free zone from the guys.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
They don't do a lot of things that doesn't seem like they have a lot of fun.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Yeah, probably not. You're right. I don't know. Yeah, just Google this. The Gen Z galaxy gas epidemic destroying lives.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
um well and you're like wow that's not actually really mature going to it well not to go into like too much of a deep dive but like derrick thompson who's great uh playing english pod he's i think he's had multiple people want to talk about just gen z being different and a lot of it is just like they don't they're they're just not as social they don't go out they don't talk to like guys just don't talk to girls the same way and so there's just not a lot of out you know there's not a lot of like partying that goes on social lubricant yeah you know they're just kind of staying home and
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
playing video games and watching porn, I guess. It doesn't seem like the best use of time. Did Derek say that? These are the facts. These are the studies. I'm just reading the studies.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Yeah.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
You're right. The amount of money is, it's not insignificant, but it's, it's, it's in, you know, if you said you're doing tens of millions of dollars right in sales, like it's, there's, the issue is, they're well within the rights to get the money back. And I don't know. I think I would, I think I would, I think I wouldn't spend it though.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
I think I would probably just keep it there and not spend it. Cause at some point, like you never know until you leave the company, like leaving the company maybe is when I would start spending the money. That's it. Cause I feel like whenever you're there, they're going to ask you to give you a bonus.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Yeah, but I don't know. Do you know that management goes through payroll, looks for things like this, or do you think it could actually slide through the cracks? Because I just did a quick Reddit kind of Google search or whatever about legal advice, quote unquote. And basically everyone was like, yeah, you need to pay the money back. And they can absolutely ask for it back at any time.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
And you have to give it to them because it's not your money. They can't defer. It doesn't seem like they could defer your payroll. So they still have to pay you. but you'd have to work out some sort of thing for them to pay it back. But it's like, do you think there's a way that this can really be overlooked?
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Like, do you know if your company goes through line by line in the future looking for stuff like this? And if not, then maybe just kind of sit tight, but I would not spend it soon. I would keep it in there and just, you know, if you get caught, you get caught. You can just play dumb. I mean, it may be getting caught.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
It just sucks that it's not like a lost wallet situation where it's like, hey, you know, thanks. Here's, you know, I had 200 bucks in my wallet. Here's 100 bucks for your good service. Like, that's just not going to happen in this situation. It doesn't seem like it's either all or nothing.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
which also speaks to like... How easy is it to get a new job? Could you get a new job in a similar field, leave, and then just hopefully they don't... Then you don't have to worry about it. You're out of the company. That's so funny.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Well, yeah. You just find another job. Then it's like, hey, man, I don't work there anymore. It's not my problem.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Feels like an insult. Nothing against, I mean, it's just like, you know, it's a little bit of like, hey, you seem like a Duke fan. It's like that time I told you that you seemed like a Rivian driver, which I do regret. Dude, that was awesome, by the way. Ryan did not like that. He did not like that.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Yeah. I think I met her a few years in, she was, uh, I mean, we would have never actually met in work. We met like through work people essentially, uh, Um, but yeah, three years, I feel like three years is a good, is a reasonable gap.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Yeah. I mean, I probably have two sets of parents who, who like to do this and you know, you could, as you said, Kyle, you could take the wallet out, but it's never really going to actually matter the way I feel like I, I get around it or not get around it, but like at least pay it back is, you know, do nice things for them.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Make sure, you know, you're keeping up with the FaceTimes and, you know, all the stuff with the kids and the stuff that's not super fun. But also it's like a pay it forward thing. Like you're probably going to want to do that later in your life too. Like you want to be in a position where you're spoiling, you know, your kids and giving them better lives. Yeah. So I don't know.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
It's just part of like the life cycle. Like you're going to end up probably paying this back when you're in your 60s and whatever and retired. And hopefully your financial situation is good where you could do that. Maybe though.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
It's really probably time, too. Spend money. Give back with your time. They're going to appreciate that, I think, more than whatever the gift is. At least that's how I know my parents look at it.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Nice.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
It's funny, though, because like those kind of shows, I feel like every friend group is like, dude, you know, if you just filmed us on our trip to Vegas, like we could we could do that. We're hilarious. And like, I'm sure I'm guilty of that. Probably.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Yeah, I think we've had buddies who, you know, you're like, hey, is this kind of the right path for our guy? And collectively as the other members of the friend group, you're like, what do we do? Do we say something? Like, you just got to let it play out. You know, don't let it play out too long.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
But a year, you know, if he wants to do this thing for a year and, you know, it's probably fair game then to talk back and be like, hey, dude, what are you doing? But. I don't know, because if you do it too early, then it's like, hey, do you not believe in me? Are you really my friend? And it creates all these issues. And I'm just kind of like, hey, let people make their mistakes kind of thing.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
I mean, if the guy really, really needs help and he's floundering in life and doesn't have any direction after several years, you're like, yeah, this is maybe the time to have an intervention and step in. But... you gotta let people fail. You gotta let people fall on their faces. And, you know, if he wants advice, if he opens up to you at ever, then like maybe go in for it and take that opening.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
But it's just, it's just a delicate thing. Cause then it's like, Hey, do you not believe in me? Like, you know, I don't know. I don't think you want to go down that road.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Figured they'd have to drop one, but just a couple of Big East champs hanging out in a Zoom call. Feels pretty good.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
There's a difference between like bad food and blowing a vein. It just sounds way worse than, you know, bad service at a restaurant. So I don't know. I think there's a line somewhere. I don't know where it is.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Well, it was, it was even, it was the time thing, but you're also like, could you just choose, choose your words a little more carefully? Maybe give us a lean, like without spilling the beans on exactly what's in the results, you know?
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Nothing alarming.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Well, if he said, but if he if he, you know, put that little, you know, all looks good. Just call call back at your earliest convenience. That's fine, right? OK, that's still kind of as soon as possible. But he threw in the don't worry, you can sleep tonight. Fine.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Is it bad to ask where? Speaking of purposely made, wow. Is it bad to ask in where?
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Geez, now we feel bad. Even worse if we already knew. Should we read an email? What do you think? Goddamn.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
It's a little alarming going across the top banner when I see it, but it's good. I reply.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Put a pin in it is fuck off, right? That's exactly what that is. Thanks for asking, but no.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
They played the Hawks the other night.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
But they do it in an impressive kind of way. You know what I mean? You could, if it comes, like you could, you're basically a mythical creature. You could make up any story about yourself. Not that you, you know, not that that's what's important to lie about your past and anything like that. But it's coming from like an impressive thing. They're like, holy shit, dude.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
I mean, that's that's better than being like, wow, your name's Josh Allen. Weird. I don't know. I think it's I think it's cooler outside of like planes. And, you know, would you want to be seven foot one dorm room? Seven foot one is way different than six, seven, though.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
No.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
No, there's a limit for everything. But I'm just saying six, seven. You know, a lot of guys are like, that's fucking cool. I think it's like it's coming from a place of wow and not a place of like weird.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Seven feet is ridiculous, man.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
And wait, do I have my basketball skills? Because then people are like, what a fucking waste.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
I like it. Six, five, six, two or six, three debatable. I'd say you're close. You're close. Yeah. Yeah, man. I'm two inches.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Um,
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
I don't remember that movie. That was Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Yeah.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Yeah, I think I'd pick one person, send it to the mouthpiece of the group. Just like, hey, I'm not here anymore. I've just been hearing a bunch of stuff. I just want to set the record straight. You don't want to put too much energy into this cold calling people and just be like, hey, you have time to talk about this? No, no.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
But maybe I would just tell the one guy who actually does get invited to go to drinks or whatever after you guys lose the championship again. And he'll... Maybe that's the one who gets the information. Well, he said they're like perennial runners up for like five years in a row. Just wanted to show that I retained some of that information.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
So, yeah, I think I would just tell the one guy who you could trust would get this out to the people who need to know it.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Side note, Asperger's, unfortunate name for a disease or syndrome. It's not great. Yeah. The first time I heard it, I was like, are you kidding me? I think I Googled Asperger's. Same. I was like, is that spelling? What's going on here? Just ASP, if anyone's new to the word. Well said.
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MLB Is Back! (Kind Of?) With Jeff Passan. Plus, How Much to Believe in the Cavs, Clippers, and Zion.
Oh, God. I'm not even going to. I laugh because I live it. Right.
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Julius Randle’s Playoff Turnaround. Plus, Mike Breen on Where Brunson Ranks as a Knick, His Favorite Broadcasting Moments, and Being the Voice of the NBA.
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Julius Randle’s Playoff Turnaround. Plus, Mike Breen on Where Brunson Ranks as a Knick, His Favorite Broadcasting Moments, and Being the Voice of the NBA.
1,000%.
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Julius Randle’s Playoff Turnaround. Plus, Mike Breen on Where Brunson Ranks as a Knick, His Favorite Broadcasting Moments, and Being the Voice of the NBA.
Holy crap.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
I think that has more to do with Boston being in the East necessarily than who FanDuel thinks Cleveland is as a team. When it was at plus 700, I actually bet it because I was like, that just doesn't seem right. That just seems like a massive amount of value. Even if you're just going to hear so many people just look at Boston and go, well, they won it last year. Cleveland's still sort of newish.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
They're picking up Jamal Murray full court. So it felt like Finch and the stats like, let's just wear him out because if Jokic just goes off, that's fine. But if there's no second scorer, this team isn't going to win.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
The alarming thing, and this kind of brings it full circle back to Boston as I finish here, but the default positions of teams that have won before and having the best player in the world in Jokic. I'm guilty of it. A, it's OKC, but then it's, hey, who's that second best team? Well, it's probably Denver. It's maybe because you don't know what's real with LA.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
Maybe you just don't like Memphis, which seems totally fair. You don't like Houston's offense, except for attacking Jabari Smith last night. I know the shooting numbers aren't great. Don't look at the box score. I love what I've seen from Jabari Smith lately. And by the way, remember when people were like, hey, Ryan Dunn can shoot? Anyway, the Denver issue...
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
that I don't know is solved with Aaron Gordon's return as important as he is to them. Having another night after we just watched the back-to-back against the Thunder where Christian Brown's primary defensive assignment is SGA. And then last night it's Ant. And like, look, he's a nice player. And I think in theory, like you'd hope that maybe Peyton Watson could be that.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
But I almost like Peyton Watson more as like a rim help guy as instead of just kind of some lockdown perimeter guy. There are not many options for them. And so if you're projecting out Denver, who gets the benefit of the doubt, which we all understand, and I'm admitting that I've done that.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
Are they really going to survive against these MVP caliber, number one offensive superstar options without something better there defensively for them? Because that was just a week of watching who they have against these top players. You're like, I don't like this. We're going to bring in Cerruti real quick for a little NBA game.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
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Peter's in that run where it feels like the entire basketball world rallies around this team they couldn't even name a couple weeks ago. We had NC State last season. That didn't carry over. Whether it's VCU, George Mason, or if you're of a certain age, Villanova is an eighth seed winning the entire thing against Georgetown. That's what the tournament is all about.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
This is something we're going to do and put it in the vault here. Because I guess we've done this before. So the concept is pretty simple. You've heard it before, but who would you rather have of these players? I think it's fun to kind of do it maybe twice a season. So we'd had this list, and now's the time to get to it. So there's no prep. I don't even know what these are, which is, I think...
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
Oklahoma City's younger. All the stuff that we've been talking about the last few weeks. But I kind of land on, I think Boston's the third best team in the NBA. Let's go through some of the game. There's score versus feel, which I talk about all the time. The score can be close, but how does the game feel?
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
the way to do it today. Yeah, that's the mood I'm in. So let's go for it.
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
We had an AD Embiid one, too. The part of this that's funny is that in the moment, you'd be like, oh, yeah, and then just looking back, which I think is important when you're thinking about different trades and stuff, like for real, how much of a swing there can be, at least perception-wise, of where a player is. Wait, so what was the Luka one? Did I pick Booker?
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
The way you said that, I was like, I know I'm the biggest Booker guy probably going nationally. And then I'm like, did I say that?
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‘Would You Rather’ NBA Player Debates, More Celtic Concerns and a Scoot Revival? Plus, Willie Colon!
Yeah, I think I, I think, well, the thing that's funny from my MB journey is if you go the full circle part of it. Now, granted, he didn't play the first couple of years because the hinky didn't want him to play. So I don't know that, but then he plays the 31 games. Like, so is this the start of a career for a guy that you already have to make an extension decision on?
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And I was, I had, you know, infamously said, I don't think I'd want to give him the extension. I think I'd want to trade him. And I've gotten murdered for years. That guy wins the MVP at his best. He was easily a top five player in the league. But then I think I was the first to just start going, why are we just assuming this guy's like a top five guy that doesn't play all the time?
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I don't think I'm allowed to do a full circle like, hey, I was right about that seven years ago, six and a half years ago when I said it about Embiid. But I'm less wrong. I'm not right. I don't think that's right when you get a guy who gets the MVP. But yeah, I don't know what it was. It was a couple possessions against the Knicks in the playoffs where I know what his stats say he did.
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It's 33-30 at the end of the first quarter, and it didn't feel like a three-point game at all. Boston took 22 threes in the first quarter. Paint scoring 18-zip. Oklahoma City. Boston took 36 threes at the half, most in any half in NBA history. 63 for the game, third highest total ever, 32%. And that shooting just completely fell apart for them.
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And then I think the Olympic foul hunting is when I finally was like,
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I understand. I was looking at MVP voting last night. I consistently, I think over three years, it's not like I've had a vote for a decade, but I think I consistently have Giannis higher than other people do. If you ask anybody else that, I don't know who else would say Giannis higher.
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No, not right now. I mean, I think peak Luka is better than peak SGA, but... There's just too much unknown of what will Luka look like. All that time off, the kind of up and down. I think the best version, again, I've already said it, so I don't need to repeat it.
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The best version of Luka to me is a better basketball player, but I would feel way more comfortable just signing up for whatever this SGA is going to be the next couple months.
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Wow. You know, the Donovan Mitchell conversation, like, he never gets brought up as MVP, right?
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So, like, the SGA will look at their record, look what they've done, because that's going to be the deciding factor against Jokic, but... Then I never hear Mitchell ever. So I don't, I don't know what, I mean, granted Mitchell's numbers aren't SGA. So maybe it's as simple as that, but I was thinking about it the other night when I was trying to figure out my vote.
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I was like, you know, let's dig into the Mitchell thing. Cause there's also like a minutes thing with him where he's just playing less because they've been beating teams the way that they have. And I probably should double check that stuff right now. So look, I, I like ant better. So I'm just going to say Ant, even if I can understand that right now is the worst time to say that.
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So we could get into the variance part of it, a three here, three there. Boston gets the win. Everybody feels a little bit different. Okay, maybe, but I really want to get back to feel. Other than the third quarter stretch where Tatum got it going and Boston was attacking, considering how far away that they start,
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Yeah, I'd rather have that size. I'd rather have that defense. Yeah. All right, this is a fun one. I mean, the SGA stuff, if we're bringing that one back to, I mean, the advanced stuff for where SGA and Mitchell are right now, it's the advanced part of it. It's like not even close. Again, what SGA is doing. at least on some people like free throw merchant.
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I hate that, but yeah, I look, I, he takes more free throws. He plays three more minutes a game and he's, he's still like, you feel like Cleveland still has to share it a little bit more. Um, but the, the Mitchell advance SGA, if you put that up blind resume, you'd be like, one's a one seat and the other is like a seven seat in the NCAA tournament. It's not even close.
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It feels like Tatum will have moments like, all right, we need to be more aggressive, meaning just kind of looking around at his team. But other than that, there's just everything from Boston starts so far away in a game like this against a Thunder defense that is among the best, if not the best, in the NBA. Statistically, it's the best.
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Yeah, Cat's been awesome this year. He's going to be second team All-NBA. I don't really think there's any doubt. We kind of did it in pencil with Bill and I on Sunday. I was just looking at him like, yeah, I think it's just going to be Cat's slot there for second team. But I don't see Mobley getting attacked. I don't see anybody going, this is how we want to close out this game.
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As great as Cat is offensively. His efficiency numbers are outrageous.
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No, I think a lot of people will think we're crazy for this one because at least Cat gets you buckets. He stretches everybody out. That pick and roll stuff, all of those numbers with he and Brunson when that's rolling. But Um, yeah, neither guys have won, you know, you can run your offense through cat.
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I don't, I still don't even think you really would run your offense through Mobley where a lot of this stuff is, is kind of off of something else, but yeah, I'd rather have Mobley.
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Seriously, ask it this way. Say that trade were on the table. Who would have, like, a quicker no, the front office? Like, if Leon Rose and his staff are talking about it versus Colby Alton and Cleveland, like, who was sitting in the room as they're going, like, we can do this right now. Which group is getting to no quicker?
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Yeah, maybe that's actually perfect.
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This guy is an, I think, truther.
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Oh, man, you're really messing with me. OK, but what are we talking about? Because you didn't really say five years out, but it seems like the future is part of it.
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Yeah, the efficiency stuff for Booker's taken a bit of a hit. And defensively, he's never really been a guy that you're like, You know, I think it's it's effort and competitiveness is the stuff that I always like about him. But if you look at some of the box score stuff, it's just not really there. Give me two years of Booker.
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This has been an unbelievable year for Cade, but Booker's played in the NBA finals.
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If the first action gets cut off, there's just a lot of ground to have to cover as the shot clock starts to check down. On the other side of Tatum is Jalen Brown, where I think whenever you look at some of the perimeter matchups defensively, like how many teams will have a couple perimeter guys that feel pretty good.
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Yeah, and he's been great with Chauncey Billups this year. He just saw it. He saw it in him.
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Yeah, just because... I mean, as much as we all love Mobley, and there's going to be... Again, the all-NBA thing, if you were going to use that in the cap part of it, Mobley's probably making a team, but... Getting me a bucket when everything's falling apart, that's probably still the most important thing. I mean, it is. I think it's the most important thing.
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If you don't have that, you have no chance in the playoffs.
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Also, some other nuggets that I have for you. We also do a little Saruti, who would you rather have? We taped this before we saw Cooper Flagg go down with a severe sprained ankle. So, that's the alert. NFL Free Agency. More on what's next for a bunch of different teams. And just talking football with Willie Colon. And life advice where we didn't really answer any questions.
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I think at his size and his playmaking, it was really, really fun in the beginning. And then... He just became somebody who couldn't hit a shot. Although the guy, he might be in the three-point contest next year if he keeps this up.
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my god yeah like we're not even talking about like the money or anything just like the dude honestly I think I'd rather have Randall I mean I watched a lot of last night's game Phoenix is such a fucking mess on defense and they look around and look there was a play where there was a clip of Beal like looking around and it wasn't Beal's fault on that one but
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There are times with him where he's just completely upright. Like, all right, the point guard is coming in. The screen is set up. You know what's about to happen. And you don't know necessarily like, hey, which side should I play or which side should I favor? But you know what's nice? Get into a fucking stance. Like, prepare. Pick a fucking side.
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And he'll just be completely upright with no interest whatsoever. Like, even if you guess wrong, at least you guessed. And I think that guy is so comfortable just cashing a check. Like, Randall's going to not get back on defense. He's going to hold onto the ball too. Like, we've already covered all the stuff with Randall that I don't necessarily like. But I think Randall still competes.
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When Cleveland plays Boston in the playoffs, which I expect would happen, Jalen's going to have a much easier time of it because there's going to be a priority of Tatum, which is always the priority, especially he initiates so much offense. Whereas against the Thunder, because at least they have some people you can throw at them. And look, you could switch into Case and Wallace if you want to.
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He cares.
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That would be mine. And I don't think Beal... Beal is probably one of the most talented, least competitive basketball players I've ever watched. Like hell Jordan pool competes.
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Yeah, I think what was in the four games that I've watched now with him, the part that's been most impressive is... He can play defense like he can hold up and switches. And he had a play. I forget. Yeah, it was a North Carolina game where ultimately North Carolina couldn't score against them down the stretch. And he actually kind of guessed wrong on something, but he was the low man.
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And there was this window where it looked like North Carolina was going to get this layup and his recovery to get over and block the shot. It's just one of those clips where you go, okay, this is special kind of shit. His aggressiveness is probably my favorite part of it. The fact that he can handle, he can bring it up in transition. He obviously can finish. The shooting has been good.
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It's not, you know... I don't know if it's like – I mean, look, the numbers are really good. The free throw part of it is good. So he's going to be a shooter in the NBA. But I love the passing, man, the passing for him. Like he got doubled and he found like the perfect skip pass. He's like swung it to the other side.
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Just kind of some of the stuff that you don't really expect to see from somebody this young. So I think there's just a lot going on there with him. So if Cooper is Franz, that's a disappointment. Yeah, I mean, I don't love the comp stuff, but the way I talked about Chet with the open, where it's like, man, this guy can kind of do a bunch of different things.
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And if you get switched on to a perimeter guy, you still like your chances. But he's not as big as Chet, but he's certainly sturdier. And 38% from three is a freshman playing in these high-level Duke games with a team that has a chance to win a national championship. So I shouldn't even really question any of this shooting stuff because it's only going to get better there.
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You can switch into SGA a little bit. Um, and Aaron Wiggins, as much as I love him as a role player, I think that there's some sturdiness issues where if you want to try to get into him a little bit, he's probably going to give up a little ground there, especially against somebody like physically, uh, with the body of a Jalen Brown. But in this case,
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I guess the passing, his playmaking, his vision, the fact that he's a willing teammate. That's actually some of the stuff that I fell in love with Paolo where he could just take every single shot. It would still probably be the best option here for Duke, but he doesn't want to play the game that way. That's why I'm just so excited about him as a basketball player.
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So it's not the same thing where I think you're going to be running Cooper flag and high picking roles and then being like, all right, dime dudes up all over the place. Because I think he's different than that. But yeah, there's a lot there for somebody his size with his athleticism. And I think he's got some motherfucker in him too.
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Only because of the injury part of it. But that might be, you know, that could be the one at the end of a playoff run where it's an absurd answer because Chet might be on the cusp of like putting together something really nice.
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I'm so glad you appreciated it last night.
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Could that be something where if you were to add, like, there's a segment that exists that I think we've talked about where you go, is this question answered? So you could get into Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker. Has that question been answered? Yes, I believe it has. I believe it has. Has the Chet Paolo question been answered?
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Yeah. I'm always going to have... just a bit more resistance than maybe other people would on dudes that I've already seen do it and do it at a high level that are really young. And I'm like, okay, I know.
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I think at this point I know exactly what I'm getting as opposed to that, that frightful unknown of, you know, what if Cooper can't quite like figure out where, but I think Cooper's the kind of guy even, even I, you know, it depends on the team and where he is in the hierarchy of the offensive options and that kind of stuff.
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There's other things that he already does so well that if he's not 20 and 10 as a rookie in the NBA, it could still be really impressive. And that's what I think is so exciting about him.
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contract not not involved yeah maybe you do i mean if there's a contract in there if there's a time to to just not even debate it would be now because people are just so down on scotty barnes okay where was he in the ringer top 100 we just had this up hold on he's still pretty high i think 43 he's high there's a lot of scotty barnes people at the ringer i'm not one of them i don't get a vote though so
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But Brown's numbers now against the Thunder, it feels like a real thing. Sean Grandy, who does the radio call for the Celtics, has been doing it a really long time. He's great. He posted something. We're over a 31-minute stretch coming off the first game at OKC up until I think it might have been halftime of the game last night. 31 minutes of basketball for Jaylen Brown against the Thunder.
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meaning you know because like what's the best i think a man is so special that maybe the ceiling part of it but i don't know i think we're all i think so many of us that love league pass have like fallen in love with that dude yeah um maybe too much but i'll say no which seems really fucking stupid i can do this forever so we don't have to name a thousand names but i just kind of want to get a baseline of where we were at yeah good right and then when
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Cooper's putting up like 27. Remember you wanted a man Thompson over him. Because of a couple months stretch on league pass. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but dude, there's not many players like Thompson who cannot score and feel like they're impacting the game more than anybody else that's out there. And that's, I love that kind of stuff. Maybe not as my number one scoring option, but I do appreciate it.
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Very excited to talk to our guy, Willie Colon of SNY and Breakfast Ball on Fox Sports. What's good, man? What's going on? Good seeing you, brother.
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I don't know. I mean, we've got a lot going on, but we didn't even really necessarily have a plan. I was like, let's just talk about a lot of this stuff and what's going on. So let's start in your backyard, one of your stops, the Jets. I talked about it on Tuesday a little bit with Sheil Kapadia, and that it kind of fascinates me how many people think Fields is still good, and you come from it.
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You played for the Jets. You also played for the Steelers, so I know you watch a lot of the Steelers stuff. What do you think went into this decision? And talk more about the anticipation in the city for what he's going to be next year.
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Minus 21, 0 of 11 from the floor, 0.0 rebounds. If you look at the two games Browns played against the Thunder, 39 minutes per game, he's averaging 15.5, 4.5, 2.5 on the standard stats. The shooting splits are 38% from the floor, 9% from three with two free throw attempts per game. Fouled out last night.
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Did you ever have to work with somebody that felt like this was their last chance at the position?
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Were you as equally, I would imagine, more happy because when we had asked you about Rodgers and now he's officially a free agent and you you'd already talked about this, like this isn't the breaking news part of it. It's just the transactional part of it that he's gone. Do you think he has anything left for the next team?
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If Mike Tomlin calls you up and says, we can bring back Russell Wilson or we can bring in Rodgers, what would you say?
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You know, my rule against Oklahoma City that I've talked about in different games or I've just been so impressed with them defensively is if you dick around with the basketball, you're going to pay a price. And Jalen does have a little bit of the dick around decisiveness where you're not going to just be able to sit there and work dudes in the paint and have extra time.
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It feels like those last couple games, I don't know if it's changed your mood on it, but God, you were so over it about Rodgers the last time we visited. And I don't know if that was just what you saw on film every week, or I didn't know if that had more to do with his personality. Like, look, he rolled in there, got everything he wanted.
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They kept trying to double down on giving him everything he wanted. It didn't work out if he still wants to play football. And if I were another team, like I go, all right, you know, where are we at? We kick the tires on this. You probably do worse than than bringing him in.
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So it seems like you have you softened on the tape because you like the tape better or have you softened on not having to talk about it every single week? And his personality, because it felt a little bit more personality driven than maybe it was filmed. So I don't I don't know. I'm asking.
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Is it fair to say that a lot of us completely overrate the personality of the quarterback and how much influence that has on a team? And let me back that up a little bit more. When I think about baseball and travel and the time you're with guys, if there are personalities that just aren't clicking and it's that...
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many dudes traveling for that many months gone that long like it's tough like these are almost roommates on the road even if you're not technically all in the same room basketball is a lesson version of that same thing as hockey but i think we lose sight of how nine to five the nfl is and you know now with the schedule with the extended game the last couple years so maybe it's nine road games okay you know you want to throw some of the preseason stuff okay fine like
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because their help instincts are incredible. So, you know, is it just two games where Jalen Brown wasn't good against the Thunder or is there something specific to this matchup? I believe it's the latter where you just have to be more decisive. And I think the only time you really saw that from Boston is when Tatum got to go in there in the third quarter. To be fair, he's also fasting.
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But ultimately, most of the week, you're waking up in your own bed and you're going into work and you're at the facility and then you go home. So... That negative personality when it's around you constantly in the day-to-day of the other sports, I can see how much of a negative impact that can have on a team.
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But I wonder if the quarterback, even if guys don't really like him or don't vibe with him, you're still not with them that much. Or am I dismissing that Sundays, that personality is still super important? I'm kind of going in a circle here on this, but I think it's at least worth pointing out the distance there are between personalities for an NFL team.
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Let's look at some of the other signings here. Some massive money for Milton Williams, a defensive tackle here. Philadelphia, third highest average annual salary for that position. That's including Chris Jones. As in Tuesday, I pointed out, like, Chris Jones is kind of all over the place. I don't even know if he necessarily counts.
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Do you look at it as, I can't believe Philly let this guy go, or do you look at it as the fact that he was available should be concerning? You've spent $100 million on somebody who's not household name.
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So I don't know if that played into last night because he was a little slow. He was losing people defensively. And then, you know, the sixth foul, they needed him big time in that spot. And it was kind of a late defensive reaction, more of a rotation thing. I didn't think necessarily it was a mistake. But at that point with five fouls, six minutes to go, just under six, you got to let that one go.
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So. The Chet stuff on the positive side of the story last night with the Thunder, I thought it was amazing. And it's not just a straight box score stuff, but just the different things that he can do. The options that he gives your offense because of his size and because of his skill set. You can run your offense through him, and he's great with a passing.
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Well, I don't know. I mean, I'm not trying to have you give away secrets, but...
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Were you surprised with the Chiefs' moves at offensive line?
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Well, the Tooney one, you know, the Tooney story is kind of funny, right? Because was it that Tooney was so good at tackle or they were so desperate to not play the other guys? And I don't even think Tooney was good at tackle.
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I'm putting you on the spot here again. I didn't mean to do this to you all day. No, it's fine. Drew Dahlman at center. Is that, hey, this is terrific? Or why was he available at 26 years old?
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Okay, the Kansas City thing, though, back to it, is just the Jalen Moore story that you're going to spend that much on a tackle that was a backup.
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Yeah, you're absolutely right. I think that might be the lesson in all of this is that it's not even the escalating cap space. Then when you start to factor in the, essentially like your cap space credits that you get that you can roll over, which I feel like no one ever talks about.
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So even if the cap is in the high 200 millions, there's teams north of $300 million as far as not cap space, but their cap number. And then it just turns into like, Hey, who's available out there at offensive line. And we've been talking about this for years and just that college football is not supplying the NFL, uh, with enough offensive linemen.
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When they run the double big, that means both of your bigs are like... get him an entry pass, run some stuff around him, and they're probably going to find you. You trust their passing. He's also somebody that you can't be late on his three-point attempts.
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I don't know if that just becomes a generational thing. Like you would even suggest that something like they're running into the Steelers guys, but like, Hey, it's different there. It's different there. Maybe it is specifically very different. So I'm not going to tell you, I'm not going to argue with you about the team you play for with guys that are still like in the mix.
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But I, I also think that there's a very like cyclical thing of, Once people are replaced and as things evolve, it's like, oh, man, it's not the way it used to be. It's not the way it used to be.
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But specific to offensive linemen, and I think you're right, when you look at some of these numbers on some of these guys and whether or not it's people you trust that are watching the film or looking at some of the grades on this stuff, it's like, I can't believe the Packers spent this much on this guy and all these different signings.
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So, right. That was a much lower deal. Um, but I, I remember him with Tampa and the thought he was a beast. I thought he was a dog too. Yeah. Like I, I remember him far more with them than I do Cincinnati, but, um, The guys that you talk to, is that divide happening?
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Is that position being diminished as far as NFL-ready guys in a way where receivers can line up, corners can just go, defensive ends just go? The skill that is needed, the development that is needed, is it so thin that that's why we're seeing what's happening with the market with that position?
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And I know it's simple to say we'll close out against anybody who's a decent shooter, but there was one play in particular where he was kind of coming up, not fast break, but the transition of possession. And I love those shots in there because the defense isn't really settled. People are kind of scrambling to their matchups.
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Is Penny Sewell your favorite offensive lineman right now?
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And, you know, Chet was trailing the play a little bit, and it just looked like Boston wasn't looking at him as, oh, you know, we've got to make sure we don't take our time getting to him because he's such a good shooter.
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The NBA loves tribute videos. Raul Neto got one from the Wizards, which I always like to try to keep track of the more surprising tribute videos.
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Well... It's less than 10 years, the frequency, which would lead to videos where you're like, that guy's getting one. What always shocked me was it might be a player that has some cachet, but he motherfucked everybody in the building, hated it, wanted his way out, and you're like, here's a tribute video. And so... I don't know if the PR people are just really nice.
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I don't know if it's a front office thing where they're like, everything's about positivity and appreciation. Because some of these NBA guys, specifically in the NBA, because if you're number one guy, it goes wrong. It's a nightmare. So there's teams that just straight up told me stuff like we just absolutely kiss this guy's ass.
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The point is, I think a lot of it is just even if we don't think we should give this guy a tribute video, let's make sure that we do it so that we can't be criticized for not doing it. It's just that I believe the standard has like nosedived of this guy's getting a video. Did you get a video when you went back to Pittsburgh?
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Size mismatch, it's not so much get it into the post on some kind of switch, but if he gets switched up on the perimeter, his handle is good enough, even his size, and it can still look a little clunky because he kind of bends down and backs you down and everything, but the shit works. And he gets to the hoop and he gets good looks. His touch is terrific. They ran a handoff with their 4-5.
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I'm looking it up now. You never played at Pittsburgh when you were with the Jets, were you?
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I played – no, the Steelers came to me, yeah. So that's why you didn't get the video. You didn't get to go to Heinz.
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It doesn't feel like a Steelers thing, and it doesn't really feel like an NFL thing, unless you're the quarterback, you know, or maybe you're going to be Randy Moss or something like that.
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I guess I think of the Penny Sewell pull as just a different level of pulling. And so like where you're able to, The amount of ground that he covers as quick as he's out. When you look at it and you're like, he's already outside. Are you kidding me? And so I think there's certain guys that they're just never going to ask.
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And I'm glad to know that you're one of the guys that was asked to do that, though. But you're saying at right tackle you were pulling, not at right guard.
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I miss Lawrence Timmons.
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So it was a two-man game with their center and power forward where Chet was like, throws into Hart. I keep saying Hart. Hartenstein. And then...
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He looked great in a uniform, man. He looked like somebody that should be back there patrolling stuff. You know, there's just so many Steelers over the years. You're like, that guy looks awesome. I mean, it just, it seems like a factory on that side.
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chet ran a cut where it was like a fake dribble handoff and then hartenstein turns around and like makes the layup you're going dude you're running this with your center and power forward that was in the first half of the game so he also can switch on the perimeter and he's long and athletic enough where you know there's times maybe you feel like tatum going downhill and getting into him is a matchup that you like because again tatum is so spectacular with this stuff but there's a lot of perimeter guys and chet just kind of
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We're going to start with a little Thursday Tales from the Couch. I'm not going to go through the entire schedule of last night because this is a really important game, a potential NBA final. So I don't know if it's Thursday Lobstervations, but we'll come up with some kind of title that I'll probably forget about weeks later and never say it again. So Oklahoma City wins at Boston last night.
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Yeah, I think the other part, too, is I loved him at Florida State, too, and he looked so nasty in that uniform. And you know what his middle name is, right? I don't know. Olajuwon. Was it? Yeah. Damn. How do you know that? I just looked it up. I was trying to figure out. I got stuck in this Trey Hendrickson thing, which was the whole point of what I wanted to close.
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L-O-T, baby.
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Yeah, somebody must have just been a huge, I imagine, I don't know, maybe it's like, yeah, my dad was a huge Rockets fan. Let's close on this. The Trey Hendrickson market has been described as lunacy, crazy, absurd, that teams want to pay Trey Hendrickson because I think he's outside of that top tier of the edge guys that we constantly talk about.
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but sometimes i wonder if that's the top tier yeah i don't know i think that's completely unfair though i think like micah at his best miles at his best i think there'd be more people that would go look i'd still rather have miles garrett over that but trey was so good this past year and it's not like he's lined up with a bunch of other all pros it feels like a lot of times he's doing it on his own although one of their tackles i like but sam hubbard did a good job i liked hubbard
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Yeah, you're right. He was good. It's not the Philly D-line, I think, is maybe the point that I was making. Now I've done a bad job of the point, but the whole thing is that, sure, teams would pay him, right? He's 30. He's a stud. It doesn't look like he's slowing down anytime soon. I'm just surprised.
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Maybe it's just the Cincinnati history and wanting to pay people, so I shouldn't be surprised by this, but... Okay, you've now shown him that he can make the money he wants to make somewhere else, but you clearly aren't interested in getting rid of somebody that's this good. I don't understand the strategy is the point.
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Venus fly traps you, you're not going to get by him. Even if you think, okay, I'm smaller and I'm quicker and it's the seven footer, I should be able to just dribble past him the entire time. And then depending on whether or not the Thunder want to go with the double big, you've got Hartenstein at least allow, like I've now said his name two different times again.
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Good stuff, Willie. It's always great to catch up. Enjoy the Biggies tournament this weekend. Yes. Let's go Johnnies. Let's go Johnnies, who as of taping this right now, we're up 18-3 on Butler. It's going to air later, but we'll keep people updated on the St. John scores throughout the rest of this podcast as that game is tipped. You're the best, buddy. Talk to you soon. Thank you, brother.
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Life advice, life advice, email address, lifeadvicerr at gmail.com. We told you we'd update the Johnnies throughout. Still up on Butler. Number one Johnnies fan, Kyle. Sorry, I tried as hard as I could to try to move this around. But it sounds like your day is doomed anyway.
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Selfless. Yeah. Seriously, yeah. I would like to not do the show today, so I could watch the Johnnies, but I think it's a little harder for me. That would have been great if I just said, hey, I don't ask for a ton of time off, but let's at least get Thursdays. I should just do that one day.
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Maybe not. How about I don't? How about I don't?
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What if it were the Big East final and it was just whatever my schedule was? It just, well, you know what I would do is I would go, hey, I'm not taping at five o'clock and tip off and
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we're just going to tape another time so i wouldn't ever miss a show but it would be funny if you just like getting older and just over it in life or all your money's all your money's secure and just go hey i'm taking thursday off they're like what's he doing imagine bill talking to saruti going what is he doing he'd be like ah i don't know it's a 9 a.m tip against butler it's the first big he's he's like he's missing a show because of that like i don't know he's getting real comfortable down in manhattan beach
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You've got him in kind of this floating thing where he can still be a little bit to the paint if you feel like you need him to come over and help. And I think that was also part of the thing that Oklahoma City was willing to give up last night is that even though Horford was six of 12 from three, that's 12 three-point attempts from Horford.
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Did you ever... I think I did it one time. During college football, every now and then I would get sick and I might... Maybe I'd use two sick days the entire time I was at ESPN. I think I remember specifically there was... There was a day I was legitimately sick. There was another time I got sick when I was in Louisiana, which no one believed. And I had to go and get like a shot at it.
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urgent care place i was just done it was the kind of thing i was eating dinner raffinos the night before we were supposed to do something and it was just an inhale and i immediately felt something in my throat where i went phrasing i just was like this is i go i am sick i am immediately sick that also happened to me on a flight to dublin once but i just inhaled and went oh i'm sick now and i know there was one day there's probably some stuff like some family stuff going on but
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I just woke up one day. I was like, I'm fucking over it right now today. Like, I'm not coming in. I think it's the only time I've ever done something like that. And it was the most incredible freeing feeling. Just it was power. No, and it wasn't like a tendency. So nobody was ever going to be like, what the hell happened? Like, I just woke up. I go, I need a fucking day. I went to the movies. Wow.
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Yeah. Middle.
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i don't know like 40 nice good for you it was that i felt guilty later that day i felt pretty guilty about it but i just it was just at a moment where i woke up i go i don't i don't want to talk about any of these fucking guys today An existential moment. You're like, what am I even doing? Yeah. Like, oh, this guy's good. This guy isn't.
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And we're going to be back tomorrow to talk whether or not this guy's good or this guy isn't.
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It felt like a lot of times Oklahoma City was like, you know, we might be okay giving up that shot, trying to stay solid defensively here. So the free throw disparity was massive. But I don't want to hear it, Celtics fans. When you take 63 threes, when you take 22, where are the fucking free throws supposed to come from? Sometimes you guys have to be honest.
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Um, but you know, it was, it had way more to do now that I'm remembering everything. It was like on the phone, you know, like everybody deals with stuff in their life and it was on the phone, you know, kind of a family thing. And then, I was like up all night and I just go like, you know, that was I was pretty tapped out. And then I woke up routine shower and then went, nope, not today, buddy.
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Wait, you saw a movie? Yeah. When you never do it. What did you go see? I don't know. Do you remember what movie you saw? I think it was the dumb and dumber. Oh, man.
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There was, yeah, I think they're all in the trailer. Right. Wait, so Dumb and Dumber was the fake sequel. So Dumb and Dumber 2, right? I was only aware of two of them, but maybe, am I missing one of them? Yeah, they misspelled two, and that came out in, yeah, so I nailed it. It was 2014. Hmm. Damn. So. Ray Neche may go back through my work log right now. Like, you weren't... Raise us to HR.
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You weren't sick that day. Yeah, I think when you don't do it all the time, it's a really powerful feeling. So we're giving you life advice before we even get started here. All right. Let's get to a couple emails that we will now read. We had some feedback on the Target shirts. People were very, very unhappy with giving Goodfellas a read.
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You were shit free on like last episode. Sup dudes, NBA comp, cooler than Reggie Miller, but way less cooler than Michael Jordan. Okay. Just want to apologize to Beachfront Rosillo for being such a broke boy and getting some of my clothes from Target. Don't hate, fellas. It's someone in their mid-30s who has a decent enough style.
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They got some affordable, nice-looking clothes for casual wear and work. Some of those regular folks go there for more than a pack of undershirts. Contacts. I'm a vice principal. My wife works in education. We do decent enough. Make about $175K a year. We just had our second kid.
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Surety, I would say prepare for the initial, holy shit, this is hard phase for about one to two months until you get in your groove. As a result, paying two daycares has tightened up the budget, so I'll often shop at Target if in need of some casualties, dress pants, or athletic wear.
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I can tell you it'd be a tough conversation with my wife if I grabbed a $50 Legend shirt and showed her Rosillo's modeling photo and said, but this podcaster has his own line. All right, this guy's right in the crosshairs. Anyway, it's all in good fun. I know you've worked your ass off to have a nice life, so no offense taken if you want to flex here and there.
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Just don't sleep on fashion by Target.
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That's what he recommended. He said Goodfellow's is great. Oh, mesh shorts.
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I'll tell you what, that just reminds me. I've given Cerruti next to zero Legends items. Have I ever done anything for you? Did I get you the Rosillo?
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Now, like any game, you can find a couple clips to try to post something and prove your point. SGA had the BS going a little bit there in the fourth quarter. You got one call that was a little nasty, but there was contact. There was another one where he tried to fall down that was gross. But what about all the other ones? So when you're that far away,
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You know what I can do is I can... Coupon? I'll get you guys some gear sent out to you because I think I realized as you were talking about it. Yeah, look, I deserve shit for that. I originally thought Euro Cerruti, though, it surprised me a little bit. Like, I feel like he might be a little bit more of a rag and bone Vince guy if you were grabbing shirts.
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I didn't realize that they were undershirts. But, you know... I don't think you're a Tommy Bahama guy. I'm not. Yeah. Yeah. Kyle. Kyle.
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Tommy D back in the cut. Love it. Um, so yeah, I, I thought it was more like a designer shirt thing and knowing you the way I did, it surprised me. The undershirt thing made a little more, but I, you know what, I deserve getting heat for that. You know, whether or not my assumptions were that Sir Rudy, you know, had a, had a floor, uh,
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and that's irrelevant in in the grander scheme of things that yeah i was i was wrong to say that to question you on that i thought it was going to be a decent enough joke and people were not happy about it yeah uh totally okay yeah you got to stay off target people i still think the the graphic tees are garbage at target though i would agree i think i mean no logo if you're going no logo it's totally passable but the you know
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All right, so I had to go to it. We're a little behind here, but I promise I'll try to stay on Kyle St. John's schedule. Can we get an update on that score, by the way? They cut the lead to 10, but 31-21. All right, so there's a men's Wicked official logo t-shirt that's on sale. It was regulated between $29.99 and $35.99. Now it's $18.99 to $19.99.
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Men's frog and toad fishing short sleeve light blue. Um, it's a couple of toads in a boat fishing. One is reading and it says today I will take life easy. So I don't know, Kyle, if they have a double X, let me double check. They do in stock. I bet they're, I bet they have all of those left. I could, I could have that shirt in six hours. It says, yeah, hell yeah.
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That's a target number. This Mickey Mouse hoodie actually looks kind of dope. This crew. I still can't ever get this guy. He just had this Mickey Mouse t-shirt. He looked like the coolest motherfucker in the world.
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And you're not really putting just a lot of pressure. There's not very much attacking other than that third quarter stretch that I pointed out. Where do you want the free throws to come from? So I don't have any sympathy for the free throw disparity argument on this one at all.
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If you could send something to the chat, I'd love to check that out right now because I'm just locked up. I'm adding stuff to my bag. I remember, I don't know, when the law was passed. Well, the law was passed that if you were a male wearing a button-down, you had to wear the white undershirt. It was the 90s into the early 2000s. And then I think Bush overturned it. I don't know. I forget.
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I don't want to get political. It was overturned. So now if you wear the white T-shirt underneath the dress shirt, it's like automatic asshole alert, I guess. So back in the day when the law was still in place, I was Mr. TJ Maxx. I mean, maybe I could afford Marshalls, but I loved grabbing three packs of – It always felt like it was Kenneth Cole. And he'd be like, hey, these are nice.
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These are really, I could just wear this. Stay flat collar. Yeah. Yeah. So a three pack of those. You know, this is going to look great underneath my Ike Bahars. Let's. All right. Nobody likes an Ike Bahar joke more than Van Pelt.
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love it out of rotation shirt Wednesday bring it back I know those things are so fucking out of rotation we couldn't give them away poor Smallman was trying to sell them for me on Poshmark and she was so excited she was so excited and I was like look I'm going to take care of you like your cut's going to be huge on this but this is amazing because I just don't want to donate all these and then we should have really just given them away to listeners as being worn in rotation like this is a Rosilla jeans that are like back in style now yeah
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That's what I should have done. Because it would have been really funny over the years to have dudes just post pictures and be like, I'm wearing a Rosillo 07. Like, this is Banana Republic monogram. Like, he must have fucking thought he was the man when he left the mall with this one. Burlington Mall after a Celtic shift. He's like, you know what? I'm going to treat myself.
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I'm not just getting a Banana Republic. I'm getting a fucking monogram. This is the worst life advice we've ever had. No, this is great. We haven't even read one yet. No. We should have small men on. By the way, you know what? We should just have small men on and do life advice with us. We can story time and then pretend we're going to read an email. How do we never think of that?
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There was also something I think Boston was trying to do where Peyton Pritchard was the primary defender on SGA in the fourth quarter. And you could look at it and say, why would you have all these perimeter guys and you would do that? My guess is that they felt like Pritchard at least could compete enough, but then also removing them wanting to switch, and then all of a sudden you're scrambling.
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That's actually insulting. We apologize. Yeah, but we apologize to her on behalf of not coming. She should just stop by.
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all right okay uh it's what i'm doing considered stealing i guess if you're getting shirts from target you are because they're awesome and they're low price uh fellas 510 230 player comp draymond green undersized big man that doesn't like to shoot tries to play make prides himself on the defensive end no gym stats to share since i don't max out more of a 3 times 12 guy all right cool
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My wife and I live in a big but walkable city. I go to a nice gym. It's a 10-minute walk from our house. Up until recently, I was able to go about four times a week right after work. However, this routine all changed since my wife and I welcomed our baby boy into the world a few months ago. Congratulations on behalf of all of us.
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Since having our son, the number of visits to the gym has dipped to a measly two times a week. Interjection here. You're still going. Look in the mirror. Be happy you're still going. I'm proud of you. I don't even know you. I just met you a couple of sentences ago. And since I try to maximize the time I get to spend with my son after work, I now only go later at night around 9 p.m.
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Once my son has gone to bed, I've also stopped walking and now solely drive to the gym since I want to save all my energy for my workouts. My gym validates parking $5 for three hours. And since I only go two times a week, I figure $10 a week shouldn't break the bank. Here lies the dilemma.
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Two weeks ago, as I was leaving the gym parking lot, the car in front of me clicked the ask for assistance button at the gate kiosk. This normally rings a couple of times before a gate agent answers on the kiosk speaker. But since this was late at night, after one minute of ringing, the gate just magically opened without the car in front of me having to pay.
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Being inquisitive myself, I immediately tried it as well. And after one minute of ringing, the same thing happened and I drove away without having to pay. Since the first instance, I've done this three additional times without paying. During today's gym session, I noticed that management has now put up a poster that says, failure of pay may result in prosecution.
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Sounds like they got a broken gate. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the sign should say, we're going to try to scare you, but our gate's broken. This scared me enough to pay this time around. Oh, fear worked here, especially since there are cameras near the exit. What would you recommend I do? Should I be honest and pay back the $20 I technically owe them?
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Do I just pay going forward and look fondly on those two and a half weeks of free parking? Do I continue to hack until they fix it and or send me to jail? Uh, there was an immediate no there, Kyle on the payback concept, the payback option, I should say.
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They actually ran something where they switched into Tatum, and then SGA's like, what the hell am I doing here? And then I think he kind of brought it back out and reset everything. And Pritchard actually isn't a bad defensive player at all. It's just a massive size disparity.
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The tribunal is telling you.
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Well, this is a very age related answer for me because there was a stage where there's nothing, there's no entity in the world. I hate more than anyone affiliated with parking, whether you ran a garage, worked at it, gave out tickets, the city, boots, towing, signs. I hated all of you. I fucking hated you because I lived in Boston and I bought an apartment that was supposedly
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had parking because it was like a non-starter it was a non-starter will not look at anything unless you're a live dude right right and then the realtor kind of fucked it up the guy who's the listing agent and the seller lied and then all of a sudden i was living on com app without parking and especially once i was commuting back and forth from espn like there's not a ton of spots at 4 a.m rolling in after this all-night shift so my war like it's
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a racist would be like, Oh, the Northern section of that country. Like I have nothing to do with them. That's how I felt about people with parking. So if I had access to this hack, you could write, you could mail me letters. You could sign. I'm not doing shit. I'm hitting that buzzer and I'm leaving for free.
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I don't care that because it was like an ethics thing with me that I was so down in the parking game financially that, over the years where you would just go, there's nothing I can do to even get back to even. But if I have access to something that balances the ledger a bit more in my favor, I would just keep hitting that button forever.
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And then when somebody caught me, I would just be like, what? I pushed the distance.
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I'm not riding a guy's bumper out of here. No, no. I brought it in before.
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I'd rather have size on SGA, but my guess is that they felt like if SGA were going to play it straight up, then they would know kind of how to help. as opposed to if it's a switch and then they start swinging the ball, they're scrambling a little bit. I don't know.
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The fact that he's even presenting, should I go back and pay? It tells me this guy's a very good guy, right? He might even be like on the line of like,
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I don't – you might be like annoyingly concerned with some things if you've even suggested us because I don't know that there's anybody that's going to be like, hey, you got to – like will there be an email from somebody like I actually manage a parking garage and considering our overhead, electricity and security and all these different things.
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Right. there's always one and it might be fake. So maybe I won't even read it now because I've given you the idea, but this is something where the there's, you know, as divided as we can be on certain topics. I have a hard time believing there's many people on the other side of like, do the right thing and get square with the parking garage because every one of us,
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Almost anybody who's lived in a somewhat dense area has all of these horror stories about the park stuff. And look, I'd say a lot of them are all of our faults, but the time when it isn't, you are just filled with this absolute supreme rage. Honestly, the Burlington stuff was even worse than Boston.
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Not because of the options, because the Boston options were worse for me, but Burlington was a fucking free-for-all. It was like the wild, wild west where these tow trucks were just allowed to just tow everybody, even if you weren't necessarily wrong.
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I'd like to throw a few things at SGA and try to trap them, but they ran a trap at them on one play in the first half and Oklahoma City dissected it immediately and scored again because they're just really smart. Yeah, the rebound rate thing that we've always looked at with Oklahoma City, how bad it was last year, it's 23rd on the season with Chet back. You know, they're 16th.
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Yeah, you just start towing people all over the place, and then they bring your car to some other town. You're like, how is this legal? How are you allowed to operate and do this kind of stuff? So anyway, don't pay it back. Sounds like you should probably pay the five bucks because you have a guilty level that maybe induces guilt. a little bit more, which might be a good thing.
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It might just be better than a lot of other people. Um, by the way, just checking real quick, St. John's 37, 26 halftime. That's the only one we're doing because the St. John's and because Kyle has to tape and look, we were going to do mail it in Thursday or mail it in Friday and tape it today, but that's why it's called mail. And then we're just doing it next week. St. John's pushing it back.
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No, we're doing it next week because everybody has all these taping things. So thank you. To Kyle. Thank you to Cerruti. Thanks to Wargon. Not great today. Jonathan Prius.
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I know. We were just on a heater. Once we started talking about small... Family-owned parking garages all over the country.
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A lot of you, I'm sure, you watched that. Thunder without Jalen Williams and the Celtics without Bucs. who last played on February 26th. He's played 32 games this year, obviously injuries, but this illness thing is very strange. So, you know, there's the kind of default whenever Boston loses.
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So I also think of the double big that they run out there. It's not so much the total number of rebounds. It's just, is rebounding more difficult? And I think it is. So look, man, you know, I know Przingis being out is part of the Boston argument with this, but if you're getting six of 12 from three from Horford and what he does defensively,
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You know, the Cornette minutes, I didn't feel like he was being attacked the way he was attacked against Cleveland, where in the Cleveland loss, you're like, okay, but those minutes where Hauser and Cornette are going to be attacked, is that what they'd be doing, especially in a fourth quarter against Cleveland? Probably not.
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But I didn't think Cornette was any kind of defensive target last night for Oklahoma City. So you've got all of that shooting, which is what you would pencil in for Przingis, which would be great, 6-12, and you'd expect to win that game, but that's just not the case. So yeah, like... This is two games against the Thunder. We're going back to the one in Oklahoma City.
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Thunder outscored Boston 29-12 than you have last night. I think the Thunder are better than them. I think Cleveland's better than them. I'm willing to change my mind. I'm open to change my mind on that. depending on how I feel going into the playoffs. But yeah, I know what the odds are.
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And I know kind of the default position of feeling good about Boston here because they're proven, but they feel like the third best team in the NBA right now. Let's cue the music for the NBA today. Oh, geez. Scoot. Boy, did we have fun last night. Scoot Henderson. 30 points against the Knicks. He got Portland back into this game, 20 points in the fourth quarter and overtime.
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He had some ridiculous layups, um, The attacking, the downhill stuff, the tough-to-stay-in-front-of version that I fell in love with before the draft. Eight points in the last 106. He had two free throws. I haven't wanted a second free throw that bad for somebody I don't know in a very long time. If you look at the last three months for Scooch, shooting splits from three, 44, 38, 38%.
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It was even down. He was 4-4 last night, so I was looking at it before the game going out. He's kind of dipped here again a month. but he was just so impressive that Chauncey Billups kept Simons, who had a tough shooting night, kept him on the bench from 630 to 116 in the fourth quarter, and then kind of shuffled him in and out.
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But Mikael Bridges, the hero of this one, the game winner in overtime, hit 33 for total point, we're phrasing. He had a late pull-up dribble, too, that reminded me, like I went to Nets Celtics after he had first been traded a couple years ago, and it was just this unleashed offensive version of Bridges that we just never got to see in Phoenix because there were so many other priorities.
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On that offense, he was the fourth option all the time, right? And then you start seeing this dribble where he's staying with the dribble longer, and then he's kind of working into this free throw pull-up thing, and he's doing it at this angle that's just kind of tough to even stay with him.
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He had 26 a game two years ago with the Nets after that trade, and then it went down to 18, and then everybody's worried about his shooting, and they're like, what's up with his form, and all that kind of stuff. I just liked it for Bridges, and I know he's had some – kind of up and down games this month as they figure out who they are with Brunson being out.
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Well, they don't have Przingis because Przingis changes who they are with the five out stuff they can do on offense and the rim protection. We've covered a lot of that stuff. Yeah. And when they're fully formed, Boston feels like the default favorite on FanDuel as of today. Boston's plus 185 for the title. Oklahoma City is now at plus 185. Cleveland's still at plus 500.
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We're a week away from an update on his ankle, but at least with Myles McBride, You're like, okay, you should still feel really good about this Knicks starting five. So I just liked it for Bridges because I think there were some kind of doubting moments and you could go, how are you giving up all these first rounders for this kind of guy when he hasn't made it all-star? I just really liked him.
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And I thought that net stretch two years ago proved that the ceiling for him offensively was at another level that he just didn't have the opportunity for. And maybe it doesn't always show itself at times with all the different players that you have in the Knicks that are really good. So, like I said, we're a week away from an update there.
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Mitchell Robinson, six games back, wanted to sort those defensive numbers for you. So back on February 28th, the Knicks are 5-3, so not six games back. He's played in six. The record is at five and three, right? They're third on defense. I don't know if it's small sample or what because we've been knocking the Knicks defense all the time.
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So are they figuring out something defensively with Mitchell being back here? Because offensively, they're actually 26th, which is really weird. So I think it's Brunson being out, then the next two games, not necessarily the greatest schedule after that Lakers thing. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that There's some numbers here that you could potentially be excited about.
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I'm just not sure how real they are right now. Minnesota was the game I thought I was going to be talking about a lot this morning with their game at Denver last night, and there just really wasn't much to break this down other than a very impressive win from the Timberwolves. This is six straight, their first six-game win streak since the end of 23.
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I think prior to last night's game in Denver, you could argue that it was schedule-related because it was Phoenix, it was Philly, it was Charlotte, it was Miami, San Antonio. But winning by 20 at Denver, and I know Aaron Gordon, but that's a really nice win for a Minnesota team where it's important to remember the way we talk about different teams.
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I have been incredibly disappointed with Minnesota because I have a – I would say going into this year, coming out of the summer, even without Towns, I had expectations of, can this team actually win the West? I mean, they're obviously looking at the standings last year. They were... right in the mix for a one seed and getting the Western Conference Finals.
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And even though it's been up and down, you know, defensively, they've been really good after the first couple weeks of the season. So that hasn't really been the issue. I think it's been, what do you expect from Randall? They're winning games, the reincorporation of him. DiVincenzo finally looks like he's in a bit more of a rhythm. They have...
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these rookies that they're playing that are just dogs defensively. Rudy was missing some of that time. Now he's at least back to give you the option to try to muck up some of the stuff defensively because even if, you know, Even if you hate him, there's value in him against certain matchups. Looking at the 6-7 stuff, they're chasing Golden State right now. The percentage point's behind.
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I don't know how that 5-6-7 is going to match up. By the way, Memphis is your two seed again. Four straight, a couple threes from Ja. There's not really much in this game. Denver couldn't really shoot it that well. Jokic was the only thing going offensively. Jamal got it going there a little bit, but there's something to look at here because there's Jamal hunting. That happens.
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Hey, who says no? Yeah.
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Westchester, New York?
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It's like sandwich and a bottle of wine in central park. Wow. Nice day. You are that type of guy. That's great. It's a good time. Just laying in Central Park. Get your gear over there.
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Yeah.
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I did talk to Melissa before I proposed and she was like, I don't really care if you do it at like a sporting event, I will break up with you. Right. So good to know. Don't do that. I did go all out on mine. We were in Stockholm. I made a fake Spotify magazine with like a crossword puzzle in the back. Oh, wow. And then we went to Nice afterwards. We were on the balcony and she did the puzzle.
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If you read like the circle letters backwards, it's spelled, will you marry me?
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Give that a second to sink in.
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She like started laughing and I thought that she did it. So I proposed. And then afterwards she was like, I don't get it. Oh man. Yeah. She liked it after though.
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What are we thinking? Go grab. Yeah. Apparently I'll plug in over here.
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Let me take it off the wall. Give me a second. He turned the work trip.
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So it's like the cover here. Here's the crossword. Dude, Melissa is like standing down the end of the hall, just like watching this happen.
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No, I haven't been. I've worked in studio a couple times. The guys always bring back apparel when we do that. But like, it's a sporting event. Wear whatever you want. You know, it's not like you're pretending to be a police officer or something.
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I just feel like if you're having these thoughts, it's not just because of the mom thing. Like, what do you, what do you see her once every two months, once every three months? Like, it's just not the issue that you're making it out to be. And there's gotta be some underlying things here every once in a while. Yeah. Right.
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Hey, guys.
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Well, new Pope just dropped. The white smoke is coming out, but we don't know who it is yet. So I'll monitor over the next 20 or so minutes and maybe we'll have some news.
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No, if I did, I would be going by like,
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country of origin and i don't know the uh the asian dude i was hoping he he got a couple looks you were hoping the asian guy got it okay well yeah keep us up to date on that one yeah you got war gone in the mix as well i think he starts these not knowing that he's now a part i think you just have to yeah the three bucks yeah i'll defer to you guys yeah honestly this is better my screen smaller i'll look at myself way less so i like it uh i like it when you're here buddy thanks all right good to see everyone
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There's a live feed right now. I'm pulling it up. You can just check in on secrets whenever you want.
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Secrets. Both. Did you monitor both? Yeah, I actually have two tabs up right now. I got Vatican News and I got the live secrets cam feed.
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Reggae stage. I don't know. I see there's a beach stage. There's a tiki stage. Can you pan the camera over to the reggae stage? Let us know what's going on. I don't, I don't see an option. I imagine it's the tiki stage or the beach stage. Maybe it's the beach stage.
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Yeah. When broadcast starts at 2 PM. Okay. So we have a little bit of time. Okay.
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I'm not really sure what I had. We were there a lot and I wasn't paid for a bunch of stuff. So I was, you know, it was similar to like turning 21 when people are just handing you stuff. So I'm sure I had that. There was, I know they have a serious push for frozen drinks.
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Although we went in like March, so it wasn't super hot, but we were still putting down the frozen drinks because I guess we were supposed to.
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My favorite bar is probably Darkroom, rest in peace. But I guess outside of my haunt and the Pickwick Pub in Poughkeepsie, but that's now a parking lot for Casa Latina supermarkets that no one even goes to. Not really sure why that needed to happen. But I'd say outside of my realm of my domains, Secrets might be up there.
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I really did like that Irish bar in Cleveland, kind of right by Quicken Loans there. That was a good one. But yeah, but secrets, there's just so many opportunities at secrets. So it's gotta be secrets.
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Well, when you spell it that way, I think it takes some of the sheen off of it.
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Well, there's like an old man there and sawdust on the floor. And I think it was probably like 11 a.m. And I was like one of the only guys in there just had, you know, nothing to do until the show. And I wanted to pop in. And there's just there's two beers. There's light and dark. And I was like, I don't know. What do you think? He goes, you're asking me that question. I'm like, Jesus Christ.
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I have a light and a dark. And then he gives me four mugs because for some reason they're small mugs.
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Yeah, and I have like four mugs, and I'm just like, all right, I'll just sit down at this table. I'm asking him questions. I'm like, what's up with these paintings? He's like, I don't know. Do I look like I own the place? I'm like, ah, McSorley's. That's a good one. Yeah. Doesn't beat out secrets, though.
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Silence. Fine. No, fine. You're right. You're right. Wow. Kyle. I'm just, I'm to the point where I'm still counting like, you know, wow. Only lost two balls through nine. Like this is a great day for me. Just played the best I ever did last week. Screwed up a legit birdie. Um, would have been my first one ever was ready to call my dad and all that stuff. Um,
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Just missed it with the nice Scotty Cameron driver that I have shot at the second swing. But I don't know. I feel like I've counted pars when the first one just went sailing and my second drive was good. But I guess I shouldn't be doing that. But that's just from an area of ignorance, I guess, because I'm just, you know. just out there with the dudes.
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So I don't, I don't really know all the etiquette cause I don't, I'm hoping I don't get to that super serious part yet because I think those guys are having less fun than me when they're off. Uh, so I don't know, but I guess you're right. We'll do it your way.
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Yes.
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The smirk and nice part from a friend hits way nicer than Ted. Yeah, exactly. Like if Warguy said it to me, I think I would just die laughing. But Ted, I don't know.
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i don't know i don't know what ted's doing why don't you look him up if you feel like you're doing better than him screw that guy i'm actually going to be outnumbered for the first time i'm golfing with my father-in-law tomorrow at like three o'clock and i couldn't get anyone else of my friends so it's going to be us and three others because roosevelt for some reason does five
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does like walking parties of five i don't know this is just like a money grab by uh la city i guess yeah nice yeah it was a good show um oh wait i'm thinking of party down i don't know um but it's the first time that like i'm not going to be able to dictate the vibes it's just going to be me and my father-in-law who's a little more buttoned up than me and i just i just don't know who these other three guys are going to be every time we golf we'll maybe add one guy and he kind of has to bend to our vibe so i don't know yeah i don't really know how this is going to go
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It's a great thing to worry about. You could be stuck with a Ted. Right. Or, or I'm like the opposite of Ted and they're all Ted's. You know what I mean? Yeah.
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I would never expect Free Drinks Mike to break a lease. I got to say, I would never expect you to leave any money on the table there.
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The boroughs. That's a problem. That's a problem. The Bronx. Yeah. Yeah, I think usually dudes doing most of the traveling in that case. For sure. In L.A., it's like if you're not in the same neighborhood. Yeah.
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How about you, Kyle? What do you got? I think I'm like, ideally, everything's slower in this in this journey towards marriage and whatever. I think like I think a year minimum, it's like a probationary period where we're circling each other.
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And then I think that's right, like figuring out if you're moving or if your buddy's moving out or however, like whoever's doing the moving, if you're both moving, I think, yeah, Mike's thing is perfect. He's like, I don't want to say this and then have to like fend her off for a year.
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So I like that you waited till you had like six months left to start talking about it, ramp up, and then the last two months are fun, right? Instead of like dragging on. But yeah, I'm certainly a proponent for moving slow because you have to just think like, It's not as crazy as committing to marriage where you're just like, wow, we could just be slashing everything in half.
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But it's sort of like, this could be a tough out for me. If we run into this, I think every time I've seen somebody move in with, at least in my circle, move in with somebody, move in with their girlfriend, within the first year. It's usually like, there's the last couple months of whatever this relationship is, is pretty terrible. And it's usually pretty soon.
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It's just like, yeah, I mean, I'm just going to leave the house because she's got people coming over. Like, it's like, it could be so bad. So I think that should be the deterrent. And really once you, you look at it through that lens and you're just like, I'm not worried about any of this shit happening. I think that's the right time. I'd say minimum a year.
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And then as soon as you feel like you've checked all the boxes and she stayed over a bunch or you stayed over a bunch and you realize how things go, you decide whether you're going to need a two-bathroom apartment or not. Two-bathroom? What are you, rich? I'm a two-bathroom right now. I'm a two-bed, two-bath over here. How about this guy, Oregon?
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got a bidet in one of those 640 square feet yeah can't afford much more than that couldn't be me dude i think i'm like 640 square feet i'm just kidding um yeah so i think minimum a year and then you know once you're ready after that pull the trigger everybody's different on this one man so um yeah i was with someone that was pretty serious and we were talking about like the next stuff and she had dropped the well i would never move in unless i had a ring i was like uh-oh
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That's not negotiable. That's I think that would be more of my point is like, make sure that's long enough. If you have a timeline on a ring, make sure you've scoped out probably another year of living together.
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I would ask college roommates loved it.
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But I think sometimes pressure can be put on the dude in the relationship when it is a roommate situation and those guys are close. And when you're going over to his house, Jake's around, you know, and Jake's not afraid to knock on the door and be like, dude, overtime. Yeah. Let's go. You got to come in the living room.
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So I think that could also be if you're like having a great roommate life, I think. And it's not an evil. It's just like it's just I think she might be like, damn, I'm really sharing this guy a lot, especially if like she comes over or or it's stopping you from going over there because you have a built in friend in your domicile.
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So I think that could also be like, you know, I'd ask what kind of situation you're in right now. Did he say he lived alone or he didn't mention that? I think it's just after college, so he's probably not living alone. Yeah, that's right. And if the roommate situation is sick, maybe it's like she might be dropping subtle incognito hints because she's sharing you more than she'd expect to, maybe.
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You want details? Bye. I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid. So, now you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required.
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Aspect ratio.
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Am I 6'2"?
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I'm 5'6".
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That's right.
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I've talked about this with my fiance already. We're in, like if someone dies in the house, like that's the one I want just because it makes it cheaper, makes it cheaper. And then if it turns out that it actually is haunted, I feel like you've 10 extra investment because someone's going to want that.
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If it turns out that it is haunted, you're going to be able to sell it to some weirdos for a lot more.
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Yeah, right.
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But you're not ruling it out.
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I keep hearing about this McShay thing, and I'm like, how much is Ryan Clute in? How much does he have a vote on?
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Accurate medical information? We'll do it in the sand. How about that? We'll do it in the sand.
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Even better than Brian could have imagined.
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Nice. Wow.
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Yeah.
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Come on. Yeah.
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And then it's like on month seven, you got to come up with a good origin story when they're like, so how'd you guys meet?
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Don't we read stuff for them?
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I remember what it was like, though. What does he got?
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Give me three feet, brother. I don't know. I think this is good because... you're not the only one, like if this ever gets back to him, you're not the only one who he remembers, you know, this happening to. Cause now there's five other people.
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This is all over town. Yeah. So it's like, if there is some sort of like a anonymous way that whether it's a sign or a memo or anything like this is not a direct, you know, line back to you. So if, if we, if you end up going that route, um, I wouldn't worry about your future being in jeopardy because it sounds like he's just putting up shots and he has no idea who's... You know what I mean?
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He doesn't care. Yeah. Doesn't care, doesn't know. It's not even a thought for him, which is a positive in this situation.
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I never know how buttoned up HR is. Like, are they, like, are they like the commissioner where it's like, actually like I'm here for the owners and it seems like I'm here to help everyone. Yes. No, no.
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I think the general public probably prefers that even though sort of like your stuff with like sports TV content, like, yeah, we like to complain about it, but I think overall you'd prefer it to the alternative. Right. All right.
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Just Dwight Schrute it, right? Yeah.
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I feel like he could.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I'd agree. I've never been in this situation before. And, um, I think you're 20 years older than you. 20? That's what he said? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I think you could probably ask her for money right afterwards. I don't know. I think this is totally fine. And the hard part's over, right?
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We've had ones earlier on when you're just like, dude, you think you're about to destroy her whole life, and maybe she might sound like that for 10 minutes when you say it, but the shittier thing is to lead them on because you feel like you're postponing this pain that you're going to get. This part's already done, right?
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You're just friends now, and you're like, I wonder if she'll think it's weird. This is so easy. This is just like, do it, see what happens, I think. Just try to be the most respectful way that you... That you can when you break the news. I don't even know if it's breaking news at this point. I don't really get it. Yeah, I don't quite get the email either.
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I'm just saying stuff because I think I'm supposed to. I don't know.
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Yeah. You don't even have like the, oh yeah, it was like a month ago. You know, I don't know. It's going to look bad if a month later, you know, I say this and she's like, oh, were you guys talking before? This is like, there's no, there's no date that you have in mind that you need to drop. So this is all good, man. Maybe that's what we're here for. Just to reassure you, this is totally fine.
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Yeah. We ended on a dud. Sometimes you do that, I guess.
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You did get one win, though, recently, right? In the last year or two?
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I felt like Shay said to Bill, like, 5-something.
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So anyway, it wasn't like a, like a let your hair down sort of thing. Yeah.
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By the way, audio book the road on my way back from New York. Pretty good. I didn't watch it last night. Book's certainly better. We can just put a cap on that. Did you cry at the end? Yeah, the audio book, for sure. That was a little weird. Did you cry at the end? It was a little weird on the plane. I was on the aisle because they upgraded me, so I couldn't face the window.
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I'll never forget.
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Audio book in it now.
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Ordered two boxes of balls. Just ready to lose them. What kind of balls are we rolling with? I'm still not buying cheap ones now. I think I got Titleist Super Soft. Got my initials on them. Nice. I was up late last night just putting my initials on all of them. Really excited for today.
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You know what's interesting?
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There we go. Do you have a department? Like I was I was I was the sport. I would say I was the heart of it because I was sporting goods. There's like a guy over in footwear and there's a nice old lady who, you know, put tags on the apparel. But, you know, I was the sporting goods was my domain.
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Did you get a nice little package?
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Hell yeah. Oh, I see. 99% off. Not free 99, but 99% off. I got it. Yeah. Smart, man. No tension, right? Between us? No, I don't think so.
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Is that American Airlines? United. United. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Dude. What a great gig, though. Shout out to them. Yeah. I still don't know what you're talking about, by the way. I barely do. Julia Lemon and Jacoby do a podcast about food news. So, yeah. And then they get to go places. What kind of plane seats are you getting there? We're business class. Business class? Yeah. So jealous.
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Very nice. Nice job by you. It's a good time.
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It just sounds like a bar conversation to me. It's like I can't believe it's getting so much traction. I feel like dudes have been having this conversation for years with various animals and whatever. So I'm just surprised it's caught on so well. It's like, you know, it's just a Wednesday afternoon at the Frolic, if you ask me. But I love that everyone's so into it.
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I'm getting texts from all over the place. I've just been being quiet.
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Yeah, I've only been to one bachelor party, which was my own. And I'm not sure how many I'm going to get to go to. A lot of dudes kind of skipped that whole part. We're on kid number two. I just don't know when he's going to fit in that bachelor party if they're married after a couple. I don't know. So I got hope for my guy, Tate. Hopefully that works out. But yeah, I don't know.
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I don't know how many times I'm going to be in this situation. What was the group's relationship? This five person group? We don't have that info. We don't know? Because the one thing I noticed at mine, it seemed like Dudes were like, both felt like they were the more important group. Like the one guys I knew for like 15 years, you know what I mean?
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The other guys are like, well, we were roommates for like three years straight and we probably know a lot more about him than you do in that point of view. And it was sort of like, uh, you had a real Kyle off. Yeah. Yeah. For real. And, and, and we didn't, like you said, we kind of woke up and dudes were like, should we go back to secrets? Like there was no plans, you know?
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Like, I think they open at eight. Should we, should we just go there and have like some orange juice and figure out what's next? Um, yeah. So it sort of reared its head in that thing where dudes were just like, you know, well, there's four of us that don't want to go there and there's whatever.
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So I wonder if it's like, I think continuing the side text and riling each other up probably is going to take away from the final product of the hang. And again, I didn't really have to pay for anything but my flight to get there. So I don't really know. how many extra fees came up and I didn't really hear dudes bitching about it.
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But, uh, afterwards, once the fun was had, I heard about all the extra fees that some dudes didn't want and, and all that stuff. But I think it could just get messy when you blend the groups, uh, as you talked about. And I think you just try to keep it all on the main, uh,
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the main chat you know or say nothing and just like you said it's it's a bachelor party expect to spend more than you want to so i think you could totally complicate it more if you guys five stew about this thing the extra pontoon boat or whatever i say just get on the boats dude
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You know what would be funny is if the second boat was the spillover for just them and all five guys that didn't want to be on the boats are just in their own pontoon boat and The Bachelor is over there with those guys. A 12-5 pontoon ratio? Yeah, you guys are like, I don't know. You're just stewing in the other boat. I hope that's not the case.
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So they were just like, what's going on with that guy? Like, I don't know. That's never fun to say. And you had to say it so many times in a row. Yeah.
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You got relegated. Yeah.
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Just tell him you like him already, dude. I'm just kidding. Has he told him this? Couldn't you just tell him that and then give him a glowing reference like you would a friend? Just tell him how you feel instead of trying to Michael Scott this whole thing with whatever these mental gymnastics you're doing. You could just tell him if you're the mentor, he probably values your opinion.
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And just say, yeah, I think for these three incredibly simple reasons, this is why I think this is not good. But, you know, I got your back, buddy. That sounds like everyone can sleep at night. I don't know.
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It sounds a little crazy when I said it and then you said it. It sounds crazier.
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Can you just read it? Can you forward him this email? Minus the, should I tank his future at this company thing?
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I feel like movers are sort of like mercenaries, you know, like those old timey, like old period piece movies when you got to bring in the mercenaries. Everyone's just like, we need them, but oh shit, they might start a fire or something. Like there's certainly a necessary evil if you're trying to like, you know, hyper on the empire. Yeah. But, uh, sometimes they'll poop in your toilet first.
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I think, uh, that's honestly on par. It's like par for the course, I think with, uh, with movers. You're certainly rolling the dice. I'm sure there's some absolute A-plus movers out there that are super professional and efficient when moving stuff, but I haven't seen them.
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Also, if we finish this one early enough, we got to get to the other one.
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Well, for your second house, maybe the day you get the keys, just so you can have it on the record. Yeah, when you tore it.
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Shark tank, here we come. We should have a Rosillo store just for niche signs and t-shirts. I know.
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47.
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100%.
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You want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari. 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid. So, now you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required.
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I almost texted to Rudy, but I was like, he's, I'd probably be like the hundredth guy that texted him. So I'll be like, I'll just let it breathe. I'll just lay out on this one.
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Well, there was, there was this during the show or after, was this at the banjo?
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I thought I was giving up time left and right. I was worried. Cause at the show, there was no spot for me to like, you know, sit and watch the recorder. Like the, the audio guy was just like, Hey buddy, it's pretty tight over here. And I'm like, you know what? I know what you're saying. I'll go find somewhere to be.
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So I was kind of by the bathrooms, just like with, with a timer on my phone, taking notes on the show. And one guy went to the bathroom and noticed me. And then I, he went back and then like suspiciously, like seven minutes later, all these dudes, they were serving beers, but they were just like, can we take photos? And I'm like, dude, this is, I feel like I'm gonna get in trouble somehow.
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so that's what i thought like i was i was like dodging dudes left and right but i thought i thought at the banjo i was i was like talking to everybody but maybe not
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I like it, dude. Would be a lot easier to have that, you know, conversation if it was just like something that's done other than like, I'm going to ask you the question. You think we should maybe do a prenup? Like, I like that. I like if it was just more, it was just more like.
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Terrible PR team for prenups.
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Should we turn this off right now and get to work? Yeah. It's already out. Someone else. It's his live. We couldn't even get that out.
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Even though you're always like, well, that's interesting. But like, you know, once you get the, once you get the broad strokes, you're like, yeah, I really don't need any more bullet points unless it's like something crazy, which it's never is. It's just like, yeah, this sucked too. And that sucked too. Not fun to listen to.
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yeah, this, this is your story, right? You're fucking Taylor Sheridan here. Like you can, you can decide what goes on now. I'm not saying you should make up a bunch of stuff, but I mean, let's be honest. You've probably lied to her about something and you probably will lie to her about something else. That's just what happens when you're in relationships.
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Even if it's not a big lie or a little lie, I think you could totally just like zoom out and just be like, we weren't ready. I certainly wasn't ready. And then I don't know who's going to argue with that. We'd like, well, what specifically do you mean? I, I don't really think that's one of those questions that you're going to get. If you just go vaguely like this, just, it wasn't a great match.
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It's certainly, I wasn't ready. I don't know how much digging into it. If you dig into that, you're like, really? Wouldn't you fucking weirdo? What do you mean? Didn't I just tell you? I think, I think you could totally go vague and you're not, you're not, you know, you're not shitting on her. You're not shitting on yourself because that's just kind of silly to do if you don't have to.
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So that's probably what I would have done.
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I think I flipped on tattoos like honestly if I see like a lawyer or a doctor with a tattoo It's almost just like that guy must be fucking awesome at his job I don't know why. I don't know. I don't know if it correlates, but like before, like I used to think they were for like bikers and, you know, and it's just like, you're, you're, you're just coloring outside the lines. All right, great.
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You're not going to, you know, you're not clocking in anywhere anymore. So you, you've decided that's your path. And now if I see like a, a real professional with like a serious tattoo, just like this guy must be awesome. So when he said, you know, when he said he was going, like graduating from law school, I'm like, that actually lines up right with what I think is kind of cool. Um, Yeah.
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But waiting on the urge is good. Like this one, this was payday and this was happy hour. That's what it was. I don't have the urge for anymore. Maybe, maybe it'll come one day, but as of right now, it's like, I don't, I don't have the bug or whatever they said, probably not the bug, but I don't have, I don't like, it's not in me and I need more. So I don't know.
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I think it's cool that you're, you're a real professional because in my mind, that stuff, that just takes you to another level for me.
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It was the first time I felt useful in this, you know, job I kind of like stepped in shit into. So that was, that was kind of why I did it.
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well it was like i don't know if the person who did it was like experimenting he was like what i remember when he got it he was like that's not what you want she does it for free because she's like you know practicing or whatever and it almost looked like airbrush colors like it's not real regular tattoo colors it's like it looks like those air pens that you used to see on like tv commercials that's what it looks like still uh so i think he's going to be doing something about that but
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I haven't seen other than like old army guys. I really haven't seen like an ancient person with like silly tattoos. Like I've seen some like, you know, dudes from the service. It's like, this one means that this one, I just haven't seen him in the, in many walks of life.
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And I thought the big tattoo craze started long enough ago that you'd see some olds with some, you know, no, it's not that old, but 20 years from now, there's gonna be people in nursing homes.
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And like the chest pieces. Yeah. The bad looking tattoo. That's an anchor from the guy in the service. I think that's cool. I just wonder what I love.
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Right. But when it's going to be like, you know, I, I, this was a fridge because, because, you know, whatever, just guys that have weird stuff now that like, you know, not even tough guys, just guys who are just inked up. I wonder what that's going to look like. And I can't wait to find out.
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I dreamed about barbed wire when I was young. I was like, that looks awesome. Those 25-year-old guys with barbed wire, I dreamed about it.
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I think it's additive though. When you, when you reach a certain type of career, like if you were like a CPA, I don't know, not really sure, but if we're talking lawyer, doctor, full sleeve lawyer.
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Yes! I knew it. I was going to say it.
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I should have. I fucking knew it. I knew it. Why would you assume? He's probably killed a guy, too. Honestly, he's got so much history that we just are barely scratching the surface.
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He's a smart guy. I don't know if I can pull that off. Hidden tattoos? No ear piercings? I will pay for an ear today if you want to do it.
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That's great.
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Really nice field test there. That's good. It all sounds good in theory until there's six of those dirty little guys around you and you don't know what to do. I'm glad that that worked.
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They're all in front of their buddies.
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One guy's been lying about it. She goes to a different school, right?
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What the hell is that?
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Get in those four doors and it's just you're a different guy. It's weird.
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Yeah. I mean, I've, I've caught my, I guess I'm not hopping out of the car, but I've, you know, like, wow, did I just yell that at that guy? What the hell was that? I would never, I would never do. I was like, all right, let's just focus back up, get where we're going. Um, but it's crazy. Like little inconveniences, like rage is the word.
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Talking about the slicer, dude. This might not be real. Will it fit in the kitchen? Cut that meat. Just made a roast last night, and I was cutting it by hand like a caveman.
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Yeah. Like a hot roast? No, I mean like, you know, I make my own roast beef now. That's one of the things that I do. And yeah, I just get a big roast and, you know, slice it as thin as I can. And, you know, got a knife sharpener because it's just not slicing it thin enough.
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Yeah, the snitch route here is way less work if you want something to be done, right? It's way less work. I think maybe what I would do if I was going to do anything would be like, maybe meet him in the locker room. Like, Hey, what's up? I'm John, whatever. Just talk to him. Don't, don't necessarily suggest that he should go do it. But like, you get to know him a little bit.
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And then maybe one day you see his parents. You're like, Hey, you know, I met John a while back and, I don't know how much you know, but it's a big iPad guy in the locker room. Just wanted you to know. I don't know if there's a training thing. You might get a pro bono session if you think about it or whatever. If you think he's coming here to bust his ass, it's just not true.
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He just might need a little push. I wouldn't do it without without meeting the guy first instead of just walking past him.
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Yeah.
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But there might be parents that are actually worried about him. Like, you know, he's turning into whatever version...
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of a person he's going to be as an adult and we want to get the weight thing under control you know maybe it's that and they're like they're really just hoping he's at least walking slowly while looking at the ipad and maybe maybe just that would you know if he's like hey can we just get you to walk walk while you're doing this playing you know ninja fruit ninja or whatever you're doing like maybe yeah you could do that on the treadmill that's a great call that is dial up some of these apps you just start slicing away and you know you get the treadmill at a two five two eight right
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Maybe just that because they could just be really concerned. They're like, we got to do something. I don't know how overweight he's talking, but, you know, could totally see that being a real. They're like, all right, at least he's got this. And it turns out he doesn't have this. So it might be worth just letting them know.
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I feel like we left there with actually something. There's so many we leave and I'm like, wow, that was 10 minutes of nothing, huh? Yeah.
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Actual stuff there. Yeah.
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Just find out I actually am related to Michael Crichton. How about that?
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Your daughter's getting hosed, first of all. She feels low. Check WAG, dude. It's going to be $40 a day. Come on. I think $10 is so low.
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Yeah, that's 90. That's 1999 money. We're talking for like a chore like that. Come on.
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They probably think they're doing her a favor by like, you know, they probably think very highly of the cats. I don't know. She's a CBA.
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Yeah. I mean, you could even if it's not about the money and you're just like, listen, a thousand dollars. That's impressive. You this is a cool, you know. Remember that summer you made $1,000, or however long it's been, like, cool. But you could just be like, hey, you know, my daughter's starting field hockey, or hey, she just got elected student government. Like, she's got other stuff going on.
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So I think, you know, I think... She's had a bankroll, her campaign, too. Yeah, like, I think we should start thinking about maybe alternatives. Just putting it out there, like, there's a thing coming up in her life that might make this a little bit more difficult. I just wanted to give you a heads up. You know, I don't think this is going to work so much anymore.
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So, you know, maybe on the weekends or something. But, you know, I think by and large, we're going to have to find a new schedule or or you've got to find a new way to do this. So you just I think it's not like it's hard. Got something coming up that's going to make this more difficult. And that's without that's not you digging. He might be like, all right, what about twenty five dollars?
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Or you might be like, OK, yeah, sure. I'll get on that.
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Yeah, but with dogs, it's a little different. Like, you know, we did it for rabbits and, you know, you just got to kind of get.
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Just because it sucks. It sucks. But. Yeah, I think it was like... Like a dog's fun. Yeah, like we didn't... You can ask them to come in and spend time. You can ask them to just come in and put new food in. And then we just kind of did the bare minimum, you know? You know, with rabbits, it's like taking your two-year-old to Disney World. They're not going to remember anyway.
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So just, yeah, put the water in and, you know, whatever. Make sure the window's open.
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She has an insane laminated instruction thing that she leaves outside so the person can read all the things. And it's just like, and this one is a little more nice than that one. And this one is a little shy. And it's like, no one gets... They're there to, you know, refill the water bowls. Come on. Survive. Literally, just survive.
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But yeah, if you're not asking them to spend time with them, like there's different kinds of experiences, I guess. And, you know, the bottom rung is, you know, it's just open the door, feed them, lock the door. That's like 30 bucks. And then, you know, you expect a tip like with any of these things. So it'd be like 40 bucks a day. And, you know, we have them come every other day.
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Maybe you should come every other day. I mean, do cats really even need somebody every day of the week? I don't think so.
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Just kidding. Listen to a lot of New York Times pods lately.
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Yeah. It's weird, right? Because coming in, he's absolutely the headline. And the more people you talk to in the league, it's like, Remember last year we had the conversation. It's like Caleb Williams is number one. Then who's two? Is it Drake May? Is it Jaden Daniels?
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And to that point this year, I'm not saying that people were like Jackson Dart is better than Shador Sanders or even Cam Ward or. But I'm saying the conversations in the league sometimes are different than the conversations you see in social media and in the media in general. And so I took time before the senior bowl and watched a couple more tapes of Jackson Dart.
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And I'll be totally honest, like early in his career, I thought maybe, you know, that I don't want to say that system, but the way they ran the football and And the fact that it was so run heavy and some of the throws were kind of lined up in vertical shots from Lane Kiffin and that offensive system.
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I didn't write him off, but I didn't know that he was ever going to progress to where he progressed this season. And so we'll get a lot more into Jackson Dart as we continue to get closer. But going into the senior bowl and starting to talk to people and then on the field and practice field and talking to different general managers and scouts and stuff, I think there's a –
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I think there's a healthy debate in terms of the quarterbacks this year. I think majority right now would say Cam Ward over Shador, but that doesn't mean – it's probably closer to a 60%, 65% majority, and the percentage of that would be Shador. I haven't talked to anyone who thinks Jackson Dart's QB won, but the conversations I was having is that there are some teams that think the conversation –
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Between Shador Sanders and Jackson Dart is a lot closer than people might think. So with that as the backdrop, you're coming in and it's like Jackson Dart and Jalen Milrow's there. And can Jalen have a big week? And we know how talented he is, but the accuracy issues and some of the struggles we saw this season, what are we going to see there?
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So while Jackson Dart clearly is the best and was the best quarterback throughout the week, It wasn't like he set the world on fire, and it wasn't anything that Jackson Dart did. It's just kind of a progressive week there, right? Like the first day is installs, and there's a lot of kind of figuring out who the receivers are and getting on the same page with them. There's throwing an NFL football.
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There's understanding the verbiage, getting everyone lined up. Like there's just so much swimming through all the quarterbacks' heads, and it's not as like – It's not as physical a practice and not as many like live game type reps. Second day is much more physical. Second day, you've kind of started to figure things out. And you saw Jackson Dart make a kind of a nice big step the second day.
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And the third day, I thought he was really good as well. But it was a lot of, you know, installs, red zone area, confined area throws. So it wasn't like during the week. You walked away and were like, holy shit, Jackson Dart blew me away, right? But it also wasn't set up that way, if that makes sense. I just think when you watch Dart, everything's good to really good.
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He doesn't have Josh Allen's arm, but he's got a really good arm. He doesn't have Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen's mobility, but he's really mobile. He doesn't have the elite accuracy, but it's really good. Then you couple that with his experience and his improvement and the things I'm seeing on tape in terms of setting protections, reading coverages, throwing on time.
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I like him a lot more than I thought I ever would like Jackson Dart. Let's just leave it at that right now. I thought he had a really good weekend. I'm excited to see him in the game. Then I'm excited to talk to people in the league about his process, where he is on the board. the interviews, and just kind of how teams are getting to know him more. I think he's got a chance to climb up.
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I'll be surprised if he's not at least the third quarterback taken. I think there's a really good chance Jackson Dart winds up in the first round.
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It absolutely could play a part in all this. There's no question. And as a personnel staff, you've got to guard against that, right? Because what happens is you live in this bubble and now, okay, what's the class? And you condense this class as you just detailed. And then from that point, you start comparing and contrasting.
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You put on one tape from Shador, you put on a tape from Cam, you put on a tape from Jackson, but you're not putting on a tape of... And a lot of good organizations will do this, but you're not putting on a tape of Jaden or Caleb at USC or Drake May. And so... I think everyone agrees in the league the jumping off point is at minimum four from last year's class.
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And most people, if you go back and evaluate, I think that J.J. McCarthy rated ahead of any of these guys. And some had Michael Penix rated higher and some had Bo Nix rated higher. So I think you're talking about like fourth or fifth quarterback when you get to where this year's top quarterback would have fallen into the ranks last year in 2024's draft class.
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Yeah, it will absolutely factor in, and it certainly will help Jackson Dart in terms of what number overall he's drafted. But at the end of the day, you've got to figure out, can this guy be our starting quarterback? And if the answer is we really believe he can be, he's going to be a first-round pick.
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I don't want to say I liked him more. Quite honestly, it's kind of what you expected, but you were hoping for better. He's just not there yet as a passer. Everything's a fastball. I think he was like seven or eight in a row he missed on the second day of practice, I want to say. Then missing by sizable margins.
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You're watching all these other quarterbacks, and he's making the easy throws look hard. He's just not naturally accurate at this point. He doesn't have that touch. The weird part, man, and I know not everyone's, but when he goes like this, when he's going to throw the vertical – He's got the best touch and trajectory and the smoothest like release and the way the ball drops in the bucket.
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It's beautiful. Okay. And then you get the mobility aspect of his game, which is sensational, but that gets the interesting part of the senior bowl, right? Is like, okay, mobility. We're going to kind of put that aside for three days. We're going to bring every scout and GM and coach in the league and sit them down in the stands or up in the press box and
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And now we're just going to focus on you as a pocket passer, essentially. Right? Decisions, timing, accuracy, all of it. And that's the weakness of his game. But it also was the weakness of Lamar's game. And Josh Allen was inaccurate. And Jalen Hurts was inaccurate. So...
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The league has changed, and for the better, in that quarterbacks with mobility can buy themselves time early in their career to answer some of the questions they're not ready to answer, to not need to make some of the throws that eventually they'll have to make, and that Lamar now makes and has been making for a few years, and that Josh, in a couple years, with great accuracy, started to make.
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And the same with Jalen Hurst, to a certain degree. So... I'm not, it's not like, oh, you had a terrible two days of practice. I'm writing off Jalen Milrow because the tape wasn't good and senior bowl sucked, right? I'm not doing that. But I think what we got to all see live, like on the field or in the stands, is that it's going to be a real project. It's not just like, yeah, it's close.
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And, oh, I saw some things that I didn't see on tape. It's going to be a real project. And, yeah, he threw with a little bit better touch. I thought he kind of settled down the third day of practice, and he did get better. And I think he's going to play well in the game because now the biggest asset that he brings the quarterback will be back in play in the game.
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So I think he'll have a really good Saturday in front of a home crowd there in Mobile, Alabama and all of those things. But I think it kind of cemented the fact that, yeah, the project is a big one. We saw it on tape and it absolutely is there.
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No. I mean, Tim Tebow, there was no way he was going to be a first-rounder. So it only takes one team. I know it's the cliche, but when you live it and you get burned by it or shocked by it, however you want to phrase it, several times in your career evaluating players, you come to understand that it's absolutely true.
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And so if one team sees it and is like, we're going to bet on it and we're going to develop it, we got a veteran, we got a year or two, maybe it could happen. But I have not talked to anyone in the league and I don't see first round. And I see a day two developmental project that you take a chance on.
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I think the question that a lot of people in the league outside of Tennessee and Cleveland are asking is, are they just going to take the best football player? Is it going to be a little bit more like 2022, was it, with Pickett and that group? Malik Willis, or are we going to see a team just, hey, we need it. He's the best here.
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And listen, I don't want to say – it's not like Cam Ward, Shador Sanders, Jackson. They all have starting potential. They're just not at the level of guys we've seen in kind of recent years and especially last year, right? But to answer your question, there's a lot of questions around the league You got Abdul Carter sitting there.
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And I know they came out and made the quote of, we're not going to pass on a generational talent.
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Yes, at number one with Tennessee. Just take the best player. And generational talent, I think everyone initially was like, well, Travis Hunter is a generational talent. We've never seen someone who legitimately could play both sides. It will have to be limited wide receiver comparatively if you were just drafting him as a wide receiver.
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But he's got a chance to be a significant playmaker on both sides of the ball. That's generational. Even Dion, for all the excitement, the punt returning, the offensive plays in certain situations, I think he only had like 60-something catches. Like, Champ Bailey didn't have – Charles Woodson. Like, those guys only had fewer than 10 catches their entire career. So that's a generational talent.
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But I also think it was, hey, come up and get it because we'd like to move back down and package picks because we've got a lot of work to do. So there was some gamemanship there. So the questions are – Almost the consensus question is, is Tennessee going to kind of do the right thing organizationally and take the best player?
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And you look at the organizations that have built, they build in the trenches and then they find their quarterback at the right spot and they go take them when they've built their roster. Or are they going to take the quarterback in Cam Ward at number one?
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I think there's a consensus around the league because of the urgency with the people making the decisions that if one of those top two quarterbacks is available at three, the New York Giants, they're taking. That's what I keep hearing. And I feel good about that. I'm not going to say anything more, but I feel good about that based on some conversations, okay? Yeah, I think that's kind of...
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That's where everything's kind of leading right now with the top three picks. Cleveland, again, if you're staring at Travis Hunter versus Cam Ward, I think Cleveland's more likely to take a quarterback than maybe Tennessee is because Tennessee's got a chance to either A, move out, or B, take an elite player in Abdul Carter at the second most important position on the field.
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Yep, I saw that.
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Here's the hardest part, bud. And I think you can relate. Actually, I don't know in the NBA that you can relate to this because it's a much more individualized, right? I think one of the hardest parts in all of this is being honest with yourself. Okay. Like truly being, cause you're a general manager. You're an owner. Cause owners don't like, don't fool yourself.
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This decision is absolutely depending on the place, but, but there's an element of ownership and ownership driven, especially when it comes to quarterback stuff. That's what I'm saying. Right. So, Do you have the people? Do you have the people? Do you have the power? Do you have the strength in your convictions? But most importantly, do you have the ability to be honest with yourself?
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Like, if I'm running, if I'm Tennessee ownership, if I'm running the organization, Do I have the right guy to develop him? Do I have the talent around him? Are we ready to do that? Can we do what Washington did this year? I know Cliff Kingsbury, there were question marks coming in.
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He didn't have great success in Arizona in the NFL in the first half of seasons, and then people would figure him out in the second half of seasons, all those things. Does it marry with what we have? You know what I mean? That's a hard thing to do because everyone's got the answers.
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And I'd like to think if I put together my staff and my personnel people and my coaching staff and had everything in place and believed in it, that I would believe that we could do it, right?
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Yeah, and there's not a lot of people in the league. Everyone's got the answers, right, in the league. Every personnel person you talk to in the league is like, oof, see the hard knocks. So it's like everyone's always throwing darts and daggers at other people. But back to our discussion, though, here's the other human element of it. Like, all right, I got a GM job. I'm here. I've arrived.
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I don't know the years on the contract, five, six years, whatever it is. Well, yeah. I mean, the first time guy, no way it's that long, right? Well, Joe Douglas was six years.
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I got to look at it. But my point is like even bigger picture, not just Tennessee, but any team sitting there, there's two things that are running through your head that's in addition to. In addition to your actual evaluation, they can skew the evaluation, right? The first thing is, all right, I'm the general manager. This is my first year as the GM, right?
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And the product on the field is going to be what if we don't draft Cam Ward? Will Levis, a retread veteran, you know what I mean? So that factors in. And then the second part that factors in is like, all right, yeah, I could go draft a great player in Abdul Carter, but we're going to suck again. What if I take a hack here and it works out?
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What if we hit strike gold and we got a Jaden situation or even like the promise of a Michael Penix or Bo Nix? You know what I mean? What if we have that in year one and we can start then building? And now I get four. It's like it's like that pot of gold, right? It's like now I get four years on this for more years after his rookie year.
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And now I feel good about him and there's momentum and I can and I've got his rookie contract. He's worth nothing against my cap. And I can plug free agents and go draft picks and all that stuff. And so it's like this enticing thing that can draw you away from what probably is the right decision, which is just draft the best player in the draft, who also happens to be a pass rusher, you know?
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Yeah. Yeah, for a couple – Hunter's going to be a playmaking, really, really good cornerback. I actually think he's a better wide receiver, but I think it's harder to find corners. And I think – I don't think if you're going to –
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if you're planning on and you absolutely need to plan on him being different than anyone we've ever seen before, you've got to find a plan, but you've got to do it as, as your, your folks would say with the load management. And that's going to be the trickiest part. It's good.
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It's going to be the trickiest part of this whole thing is everyone wants to see him play 140 snaps a game and both sides of the ball and all that stuff. Well, Now he's tackling NFL running backs and NFL tight ends and NFL receivers. Is he going to hold up with that frame? He's already nicked up his shoulder and been dinged up here. So you've got to figure out a way to keep him healthy.
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And I think... That's going to be the tricky part. He's going to be a really, really good corner and a difference maker. And he's also going to offer you something on the offensive side. You're hoping it's 20 or so snaps a game, maybe four or five targets or three or four touches a game, right? I think that's probably the realistic view.
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But with Abdul, you know what you've got, and you've got an absolute stud as a pass rusher and just like intangibles and everything that he brings. And it's hard to – not hard to find. It's not like it's a unicorn, but when you can get one, you get one. Okay.
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How many years in is that?
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So in a physical sport, I just think there's a lesson there too. How long can you do it?
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Talking to people, I don't get... I think... a lot of that old school stuff has been pushed out. The more I see, like we sat down with Nick Casario and really, we're going to do a whole GM series, right? Part of the McShay show mentioned. I sat down, we kind of started it out with Nick Casario and Eric DeCosta with the, the Texans and the Ravens, respectively, their general managers.
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And just talking to those guys and obviously having conversations with a bunch of other guys, you know, not interviewing them. I don't like, We went through this like old school, right? And like, you know, the movies are made even about baseball scouting and football scouting and all the conversations. We had this era of like these old crusty scouts.
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And then we started to get a little progressive. And then it went through this, I don't know, let's call it five, seven years of like the nerds versus the meatheads. You know, like the analytics versus the football. I studied football tape, right? And we went through that phase.
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And I think we've actually, in the last couple of years, man, like I'm here to announce, I truly think we've gotten to the sweet spot of personnel. I think coaches and scouts are more understanding. When Nick Saban talks about how he's completely, like, retrained his whole way of dealing with players and being understanding and – worrying about this and that.
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And you talk to scouts and general managers and you talk about like the analytics and the miles per hour, the zebra technology. And you talk about all the different things that are being implemented. And talking to Eric DeCoste and said, he has 124 data points that he puts into a cocktail and it spits out. And that doesn't decide where they're drafting him. But he was talking about how
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The grades matter, but then within that grade, that bucket of grade, that helps to sort them out. So I think we've gotten to an era in scouting and personnel where people are open to everything and are seeking more information, but how to utilize it properly. So with that all as a backdrop, I haven't had one conversation where it's like, Dion couldn't do it. Champ couldn't do it.
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I haven't had any of those conversations. There's trepidation. There's concern about just holding up physically. But everyone I've talked to has had a progressive mentality about
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It's going to be fascinating to see with all the technology we have now and the bands they play and the heart monitors and all the technology from every single movement on the practice field that everyone makes and the way they monitor these players, figuring out that sweet spot for Hunter, a player like that. How many plays can we play him on offense? How many plays on defense?
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How many reps does he get in practice in order to keep him fresh? How do we do that instead of a 12, 13 game season for a 17 game season in the end? So like there are people who are fascinated and intrigued about Travis Hunter is this like new experiment. And how could we do it? But with it comes concern that you don't do it the right way.
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And instead of just getting a great player on one side of the ball, you wind up messing the whole thing up.
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Running back is loaded. And so you don't need to get one early. If you want to get Ashton Gentry, he's phenomenal from Boise State. And I think he's different. So it's worth the pick somewhere in the top 20.
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I think could be, I don't want to say more complete, but like more of an every day. Like Gibbs ideally can get keep that rotation going to keep him healthy and all that. But we saw when he wasn't how dynamic and explosive he is. But yeah, I mean, he's going to be a top tier running back in the NFL if things go well. And there's just a little bit of a little bit of help in the offensive line.
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He's that type of player. Travion Henderson from Ohio State, man, talking to people in the league, he could easily be RB2 in this class. But the bigger point is the running back classes, I've never seen anything this deep at the running back class in 25 years. So you can get really good guys later in the draft. Coming off the senior bowl, I think two positions really jumped out to me.
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And it's in addition to all the other guys, right? But the tight ends were kind of a big hit. Let's just put it that way. The tight ends. Elijah Arroyo from Miami. My goodness, he looks the part. He's an F tight end. He's athletic. He can get down the field. He's smooth. You had Fannin from Bowling Green. Had an awesome week there. Harold Fannin, highly productive. Dude, I mean.
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Yes.
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I talked to a personnel director who was like, every time, like when you get a guy like that, a smaller school guy, not they've got to dominate the big games and all the great ones when you go back. And he went through a list of all these smaller school guys and like specifically the recall was awesome of like that game or two games against the big programs.
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And that's exactly what he pointed to as Penn State. But beyond that, like Terrence Ferguson is so consistent. The Oregon tight end catches everything, just gets open, makes it look easy. And Mason Taylor, I talked to two different personnel guys who were like, this is, he's just absolute dude.
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That's what everyone in the league thinks. Scouts are kind of glad that they didn't feature him that much because maybe we can get him in early second. But that's not even including my point on this, too. Warren is just phenomenal out of Penn State, right?
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Tyler Warren?
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And then Colson Loveland. So this tight end group has turned out to be really good. Then the defensive line, it was dude after dude after dude at the senior bowl, and that doesn't even include, we talked about Abdul Carter, Mikel Williams, right? John Walker from Georgia. Those guys weren't there. But I'm looking around, and it's like Mike Green from Marshall was frigging dominant.
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I mean, won almost every single rep against good offensive. He plowed. I don't know if you saw the clip against Connerly, who's going to be a first-round pick, the Oregon offensive tackle. just ran over him. And that was the highlight, but there were so many other plays. Shamar Stewart is quickly becoming one of my favorite players in the draft. He was there for the first two days from Texas A&M.
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Long, physical, tough, powerful. Then you got all three Ole Miss guys. starting with the defensive tackle, Walter Nolan, who's going to be a first-round pick, right? So you got all of those guys, and then other guys are stepping up, like Oladejo, right, from UCLA, number 99, a Mike linebacker for three years this year. He breaks out as an edge, comes to the senior bowl, he's outstanding.
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Donovan Azaraku from BC had an awesome week. This guy Darius Alexander from Toledo, 305, long, body beautiful, defensive tackle, can play all over the defensive front. I got fired up watching these guys. And that's not even including all the SEC guys that were there and just doing what they do throughout the week. Like Deion Walker from Kentucky and Tim Smith, Alabama's a big player.
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you know, powerful guy, Omar Norman, lot Savion Jones, Jared Ivy. Like it was wild to watch. This might've been the, one of the better defensive front groups I've ever seen at the scene.
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Interesting.
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You want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid. So, now you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required.
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2019.
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The Hockey Was Fun! But Are the NBA Comps Fair? Plus, Wemby’s Future and the Perfect NBA Starting Five With Kirk Goldsberry.
It's probably the right call.
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Wemba... is a much better spacing option than Giannis could ever be.
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He didn't make my list. No. Tell me, what's the take?
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So either go or don't like go.
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And I was around for it. You know? That was off a permanent vacation, which had just a run of bangers.
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Yeah.
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I don't know. I mean, who are you asking?
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But I watched what? Serbia, USA.
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Got any Austin Matthews opinions? Probably not. Look, I love hockey too.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
Nice. Good to hear. I don't know if I got lapped. I don't know if I got lapped. She beat me by like 20 minutes.
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He did say that. It wasn't a lapping.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Thanks, gang. That's one way to say it.
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Nothing. My friends did that to me when I was in like high school. Just like rode on my car. Like, you know, like the car rank that you're right with?
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And it was like, you cheated on me. Like you stole my girl, stuff like that. What? I just like cleaned off the windshield, like drove it home. Next morning, my dad was like, Nice. You stole someone's girl. Good job. It's like, dad, what the fuck?
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It's kind of similar. Yeah. Yeah. It's just your friend is trying to fuck with you.
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Yeah.
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Yep. Morgan Freeman. Not even joking. Sabrina Carpenter. Team Olivia. What? Team Olivia. Rodrigo. Is there beef? What's the problem? I don't know that there's beef. I don't know that there's beef. Well, maybe there is beef, but that driver's license song was about Sabrina Carpenter, I believe. I don't know what you're talking about. Those who know, know, you know. Sure. We can leave it there.
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Sabrina dated that guy that banged the grave, right? Yes. Barry, I don't, never know how to pronounce his last name. Kogan. Oh, Brave Banger. Yeah. Okay.
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I don't think I like that one. They're too long. Or it has to be two words, colon, and then something else. It can't just be a sentence for a title to a book.
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I just think like an artist rendition of Kyle outside the, that like candid photo of Kyle outside the frolic room. Like that has to be the cover, right? Kyle in the wild. Kyle in the wild actually is pretty good title. It's better than what I've heard so far.
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Everything is on these days, too. Just Kyle. Unchained. Unfiltered. Unkyled. Untethered. Unnephewed. Unnephewed, yeah.
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I don't know. I hope not. Oh, I know it. Okay. Oh. So we're not telling it, I guess is the... No, we can't tell this story. For a random Friday feedback, come on. What does it need to be? Like a live show at Times Square? This deserves its own book. Although it'd be short, but it's... Yeah, yeah. It doesn't feel right. Sorry.
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No, this is the house quick aside. Uh, and, and Bill did talk about this on his pod. So it's not like we're sharing anything that has been shared before, but the picture of house and band and page, the real roots laugh right there.
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Kyle's like, can we take three of the rabbits? That's probably it. That feels like a good number. Rank the rabbits quick.
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No, it's just like House posted that on his Instagram story. It's so funny. Like, out of nowhere, there's a picture of him and Paige Spironik. What do I have? I forgot how to pronounce her last name. Spironik, I think we're going with. And Van. No one knows. It's just so funny. It's just so House. Oh, man, I love House. Anyway.
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Did he post any other pictures from Radio Row other than that one? Let's see. No, I don't think so. That's it. That was his highlight.
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Oh, man. I might be the only one that finds that that funny. No, I know why you do.
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House is really funny, man. He's a very funny guy. And I just found that. That's a very House moment. I don't want you to stop laughing.
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Cerruti, the tone there is like, uh-oh. I always just assume somebody's got some problem, so let's hear it.
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People are just way off. I don't know who we are. Anyway, all good.
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Yeah. What's your, I mean, Are you pro sending multiple emails of the same topic? Or replying to a thread? You're out. Like, one and done. Even if it's a good email, though. You know?
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Brother, I'm confused. You want to talk about a miss? Yeah, what? Will is like... I'm really not afraid. I mean, I know there was a lot of feedback and whatever all over the place about the Will Kane thing. Although I do think it is really funny. We were talking about this. Just the difference between different social media platforms and whether or not they actually enjoyed him or not.
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So there you go. Quick aside, as somebody who likes history, why is the World War II Museum in New Orleans?
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Yeah. I guess that's true. Although that's one of those books I don't think I read that when it was assigned in high school, but then I read it afterwards because I'm like, I probably should read this book at some point in my life.
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YouTube, they loved it. It was great. Pretty much everywhere else was not a huge fan. Yeah. But Will's my guy, dude. I love Will. I don't agree with him politically. I think that's okay. We did a show together years ago, the Will Cain Show, which was very successful at ESPN Radio when everything else is kind of going down the drain. This is after Ryan left. I love the guy who's at my wedding.
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Relive that magical moment. Why is the. I looked it up. What is it? This just says primarily because the significant role played the city played in the war effort, particularly due to the production of Higgins boats, a crucial landing craft, which were built in New Orleans by Andrew Higgins and the city's status as a major embarkation point for troops. Nice info retention there, right?
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super mad i'm about six years away from reading books with a notepad and then they're like all right now he's totally lost his fucking mind he's done when you see that when you see that it's over see every once in a while i'm i'm with you like every once in a while if i need like a lord of the lord of the rings like refresher and i don't like i don't have time to watch the full movie but i want to figure out like why you know what was rivendell like that's what youtube's for you know if someone does a 10 minute thing of like here's everything you know about rivendell
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or something you missed about a book or like, you know, Hey, if I'm watching Dune, like if I want to read Dune 2, which I just read that book, like, let me, let me YouTube like, Oh, what's this? What's house house? What's the origin of house at tradies again? Like that's, that's, I feel like what YouTube is for. Brian's looking at the bookcase again. I don't know. Do we lose? Yeah, we lost.
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I talk to him a lot still about life. I always say that Will is probably in my top five people just to have a beer with and talk about life. He's probably one, to be honest with you, because I don't really mind the disagreement. He's just, I'm sorry. I talk to you way more, Ryan, but like Will is, I think you would agree with me. He's just like a good hang.
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Yeah. See, I get in there with the real shit. Yeah. Kish the Enoch.
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Let's finish on an actual, do we have one more that we could actually hit? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe people like that history. That was like history corner.
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Having Will Kane on? Could I say that? I don't know. I don't know. That's a tough one. I'd have to think about that. That's impressed me. The guests impressed me. Or that's been impressive to me about the show or a question you asked or something. I guess those are two different things. Yeah, something like that.
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That is good. Another good answer would be, I think you're really good. This is maybe not, I'm just a compliment. This isn't necessarily answering the email question, but that Luca pod on that Saturday night was like your... Was it the Magnum Opus? Whatever you're like... That was, like, peak Priscilla podcasting. You know, I think there's a couple things of, like, that's you.
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I mean, you waxed politically about him when we had him on. I think people were a little annoyed about that. I don't know. I get it. You don't like things. The country's kind of in a disaster area right now. I get why people were all on edge. I like the guy. He's a good dude. And so, yeah, you couldn't be more off about this. What was I going to say?
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There's the town rewatchables that everybody talks about. Like, there are, like, these... That's your Apex Mountain. Like, those are two of your Apex Mountains. I think... Like when you're in that setting where you're just like totally loose, sometimes you're like in the second or third chair and you just kind of like don't give a fuck.
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That I think sometimes is people's favorite Russillo and that sometimes is my favorite Russillo. So I'll just say that that Saturday night Luca pod was some of your best work. I think that cigarette line was basically uttered by like everyone on Twitter for like three days.
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I wasn't going to butt in the interview and be like, hey, dude. Hey, Will. Love you. Just glad to see you doing your thing.
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It was nice. I think we do. Is it a good one? Can we do one more? Let's do one more.
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Wow, 50 minutes. Jeez. 50 minutes. Flew by, huh? Flew by. I don't know if it was the longest 50 minutes or the shortest 50 minutes of my life, but it was fun.
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Yeah. Hey, Legs, real quick. The magic. Although I will do that sometimes. I do the magic stuff off the air, okay? I don't do that actually on the pod. I just be like, hey, what are we hearing?
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I feel like everybody is, maybe they are messing with us, but I feel like everyone is off the scent of
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Ooh, okay. Yikes. I haven't really noticed that a ton. Sometimes I think I interrupt Kyle too much, and I don't know. I don't know. And I'm like, man, I stopped. I think we could kind of all do it, but I haven't noticed. I don't know. Kyle, you're kind of the third party here. Does Ryan interrupt me a lot? I haven't noticed. Sorry.
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That's funny because my, I have a buddy who is kind of similar situation. Wife is out of town for a few weeks and he's like, you know, what's the, what video games should I play? And we were talking like, do you, do you pick up Civ again? You know, do you just get really into the NCAA 25 and just like create a school? So I don't know. Do you still, do you still have a PlayStation Xbox?
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It's just like now you're a... No, because there are times when, and Ryan, you're pretty good about this. You could see, I think we had one on Monday where I, what was it about? I forget. Maybe it was the tanning thing. I don't even remember. But I actually had a lot to say about something. And you can usually tell that I want to go and I'll go first.
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But it is kind of a blessing and a curse to go last because sometimes it's like, hey, here's the one thing you didn't think about. Or yeah, shit, you guys said all the things that I was going to say and now I basically just have to kind of repeat myself. Uh, but no, I think, I think we do.
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If I have, if I really am hot on something, I feel like I'll kind of jump and say, Hey, let me go first here really quick. And you guys always let me do that. So I don't, I don't know. I don't, the interruption thing. I don't know.
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this isn't a criticism, just something I've noticed. There are times when you will mix up who says, who makes a point. You'll be like, oh yeah, Cerruti said this and it was actually Kyle who said it. Like, oh, good point by Kyle and it's actually me. And there, I have noticed you kind of like mixing up who to give credit for. But hey man, there's a lot of people talking. It's okay.
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Yeah, I guess I can see why. There is kind of... That's so stupid. I liked it. I don't know why, but I really liked it. I feel like Oregon Trail would have worked better there, but that's okay. I get why you would think this, and maybe it did come off that weird, but I'm with Kyle. I think we're just genuinely... it's like you were giddy to find out new work on facts.
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I think is it a good thing or a bad thing that he's not here for this right now? I think it's probably a good thing. Right. I don't know.
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I don't think he'd care. I mean, you could argue that he is the guy of the four of us that's the most comfortable in his own skin, that just is who he is, and is not apologetic for it. The not cool thing is, yeah, you're right. I think, I don't know, maybe not you, Kyle, but I think Ron and I, I'm maybe too aware of our perceptions sometimes. I don't think Wargon cares.
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I think he is who he is, and I respect that. And he was laughing the entire time.
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Not yet. He could have sworn that guy was married. Not yet though. Yeah. You assume a lot of things about him. Yeah.