Nick Wright
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Long time.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Jesus Christ, man. You're not helping me. No, I'm not. What's Wright with Nick Wright with my son? Yeah, it's me and my son. Yeah, subscribe, follow on YouTube, Spotify, whatever.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
What's Right's what I called my radio show when it started at Syracuse and in Kansas City. So all my audio stuff's always been called What's Right. It should be the right stuff.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
You know what? We'll consider rebranding. Yeah.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
And then it's like, another way to look at it is that name's been taken and it's been used. And so this is new. Can I ask, because I know we're going to talk chiefs. Can I ask PFT a specific question first? Yes. I, sorry, I do. I'm a bad podcast guest. Cause I'm just used to hosting. So I, so I apologize. All right. So PFT, if I said in June of 2028,
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
An asteroid is going to hit Peru and cause damage the likes of which we haven't seen in centuries. And everyone's like, you're crazy. That would never happen. It's never happened in recorded human history. And then in June of 2028, an asteroid hit Uruguay. Am I more right than the people who said it would never happen, I was dead wrong? There's a reason I'm asking this, but just answer that.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Oh, you think it's not close? Because I would say I'm like 99% correct, 1% wrong.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Well, if in August, I say for the first time in NFL history, a rookie is going to be playing to go to the Super Bowl and make the Super Bowl. And that rookie is going to be a Heisman Trophy winner. And that rookie is going to be a top two pick. And that rookie is going to have a connection to Cliff Kingsbury. And then this all happens and everyone's like, oh, you're an idiot.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
You said Caleb Williams was going to make the Super Bowl. And I'm like, I basically called it. I was off by, as you put, 900 miles. But I'm more right than everyone else. Like, I am the most right about this.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
That's how good I thought they were. So in calling the NFC this year, most right, PFT, second most right, Nick Wright. That's how I feel.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
No, I'll stick with what's right. But on the Danny note, so he in the spring was in New York for a conference and came on the show for the first time ever. And this was way before it was even thought of between here. I like, wait, Fox might hire you full time to do a show. And on that show, we talked the Bears and Caleb because they had just drafted him.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
And I went over the top because I had already been a big Caleb guy with Caleb stuff. And then the second time on the show was the time when I said I might pick the Bears to make the Super Bowl.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
And our group of friends was like, that might be the scummiest thing you've ever done to a friend, Nick. Like, you are... elbowing Danny off the Caleb corner. And I said, you got it exactly right. I was like, I'm playing 4D chess, boys.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
I'm elevating the storyline and also making it so if Danny ends up being a full-time person here, no one can be like, oh, you're a Chicago homer because he will be taking a more conservative position than me.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
I'm the human shield. I'm the take shield. Nobody's like, oh, this homer from Chicago. Everyone's like, Nick's an idiot. That's exactly how I felt about it. Another thing I don't get enough credit for. Thank you. You were right.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
No, I'm not saying that at all, because I thought the Bears could make the Super Bowl. I thought they had all the things in place. And by evidence, by the fact that this Eagles team made it, it's pretty clear anybody could make the Super Bowl in the NFC. What I said was, oh, I'm sorry, is Max or Mays or Hank any of these? I don't know. Somebody's going to get mad at me, and they don't care.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
No, I thought, do I, to answer that, and then we can talk Chiefs. I never say anything I don't believe. I say things I believe more stridently and at a louder volume. But you guys know this. You do too much content to keep track of lies. If I had to, like, remember what I was supposed to believe, there's too many plates in the air. I'm not Red Panda. Can't do that.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Well, I mean, that's... That's such an outrageous accusation.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
I mean, I don't know. Why haven't I said Big Cat's 12 feet tall? Things that are obvious, you don't need to say. I just don't need to say it.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Hey, can we talk about the Chiefs and about how in your guys' wonderful post-game pod?
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Well, up until the dismount, I was thinking, wow, I'm on the screen for the greatest moment in part in my take history. Like, finally, some truth being told about LeBron on the show that you guys don't have to bring me on to do. I didn't love the end of it. But it is, listen, and that is actually, as I try to segue to the Chiefs, a first cousin of what's happening with the Chiefs.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
The Chiefs are so great. Mm-hmm. that it must be a conspiracy, it must be rigged, they have broken people's brains. In a way, those people who make those ridiculous, unfounded, without any evidence whatsoever, allegations about LeBron have broken people's brains. But speaking of the Chiefs, can I say one thing to you guys about your post-game talk? Yes, yes.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
First of all, I appreciate that you guys have, I look at the Chiefs commentary as that bell curve meme where the dumbest people and the smartest people, if you asked them any time about football, They're all like, I don't know. The team that always wins the Super Bowl is probably going to win it.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
And then the pretend smart people are like, well, the Ravens DVOA is top five all time and the Lions point differential. Dan Campbell's got it. It's like, no, it'll be the Chiefs. And I appreciated that you guys have not fallen into this referee fever dream.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Well, yeah, because it allows you to spend the next six months not thinking about back-to-back years. Josh Allen down three points, ball in his hands, and zero combined points. I know that's verboten on this show because he's a 12-time guest. And I know that it's Sean McDermott and it's everyone else. And Josh is—listen, Josh is excellent.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
I also would say Kyle Brand, who's as big of a fan of Josh Allen as you guys, tweeted right before the drive, Josh Allen— was put on this world for this drive, biggest moment of his career, whatever happens. What happened was he got 17 yards. But my only issue was you kept saying if they scored there, it's a two-score game. Because they were going for two. They were up one.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Oh, and that's the two they would have gotten? You killed them for going for two so much.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
They should.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
If you leave it a doubt, Mahomes will win. That's 100% right. The only other way to win the game, and you really have to thread this needle, but if somehow you can get the ball back down less than a touchdown with, call it, to pick a random number, three minutes and 33 seconds left, all timeouts, and actually have your superstar quarterback come through.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
That's the other way you could win the game. And they've now had two bites at that apple in back-to-back years, and they haven't been able to do it. Listen, I think he will win a Super Bowl eventually. But somebody is going to be left without a chair just in making the Super Bowl in the AFC. And certainly the problem that I would worry about for Josh is –
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Because he'll beat the Chiefs in the playoffs one time. He's too good, and the games are too close. is it going to be hard psychologically to then recalibrate and be like, that wasn't the Super Bowl?
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
That's why the NFC is just, that's why PFT is in such a great spot, is it's like maybe you make the Super Bowl in the one in four years the Chiefs aren't there, and if you do, it is you are at the top of the mountain winning one game. All the AFC teams, it's like we have to beat the end boss brutal.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
So Colin, our friend, Colin Cowherd, said yesterday to me that exact scenario. He's like, Josh would have more rings. That's too much. I wouldn't think that. Yeah. Right.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
What I would remind the audience of is what Josh has never had to deal with in Buffalo, and it's a testament to McDermott, is what Mahomes had to deal with his first three years in Kansas City, particularly the first two, horrific defense. So that is something we haven't seen Josh have to overcome. They're not saying he couldn't. But right now, it is five appearances, three rings to 0-0.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
If it were flipped, I think Josh would have been to 2-1-1, and I think Mahomes would have been to 4-1-2. So that's what I think would have been the scenario.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Okay, so I think there is no question that in 2022, that Bills team with Mahomes instead of Josh, the team that got rolled by Joe Burrow at home, which was weird, that team was awesome. I think 2021... it probably would have gone the way it went, but Josh's way in Kansas City last year with Tyreek.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
But I think the early Josh Allen-Bills teams, 2018 is a year, like to think about, both of their first year as a starter, that defense was good. They had just gone to the playoffs the year before with Tyrod Taylor. You drop Mahomes on there, it's to me a similar situation as when you dropped him on Kansas City. Yeah. And so, like, those are ones that come to mind right now. This year, for sure.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Like, so, but whatever.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Of course. Listen, everybody gets so mad at me. Lamar's Aaron Judge. And there's nothing wrong with it, but he's Aaron Judge. And everyone thinks... I used to say James Harden, but people have such a dislike of Harden's athletic character. And everyone loves Lamar... The person and how – so take that out of it.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Peyton Manning is the obvious comp, but if we want to switch to right now this moment, it's Aaron Judge, which is like on a day-in, day-out basis in the regular season, you're like, is this the best player in the sport or certainly in the top two or three? And then come the playoffs, it's like, man –
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Every time again, we don't have to relitigate this, but every regular season, it's Lamar's the best player in the league and every playoffs. It's like, you know why they lost? They put the ball in Lamar's hands too much. And that's a little you know, that's that's a little frustrating.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
No, I'm not. I was actually cleaning something. The keyboard's here. I was cleaning something there. Sorry. I had to... Because when Big Cat texted me and asked me to come on, first, I snap said yes. And then I was like, hey, promote the podcast, which he took so seriously, didn't know the name of. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Because I don't want to.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
So obviously, I'd love for some of your listeners to sample my stuff. So I was debating whether or not I want to alienate them. But, you know, my North Star is the truth. So what I would say to anyone who actually believes there is any type of comp between James Harden and Patrick Mahomes is you're the dumbest fucking sports fan I ever heard.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
And so, like, my pod's probably not for you because it'll confuse you. And so it just wouldn't be fun. And so that's what I would say to them.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Yes. And that's why I give you guys credit. You guys have said this all year. Yeah.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
So I already think he's the best player ever, but he's not the greatest quarterback of all time. I know that's more my style of argumentation than your guys'. I get that. But I think he's the best player we've ever seen. I do think resumes and accomplishments have to weigh a ton. And so Brady gets to be called the GOAT.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
I think that if they pull off the three-peat, and someone wants to say he's now the greatest of all time, it's at least an allowed opinion. Right now, it's not an allowed opinion, but that, to me, is a big enough accomplishment it would be.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
For me to say it as passionately and clearly and articulately and really brilliantly as I've said the LeBron's the greatest player of all time, I think if he does the three-peat, One more Super Bowl, and it's a wrap. Plus an MVP. One more great regular season, plus another Super Bowl, and it'd be him. If they don't do the three-peat, he probably has to get to six. Okay.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Or I think he probably has to get to six. So this is a lot. This is big. A lot on the table. This three-peat is big. This is huge. Yeah. No, this is, it is, after the, you know, you walked into Bucs, Chiefs, And listen, that game, it actually kind of gives me solace because it was such a blowout.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Because if that was a close game and I was sitting here thinking like, man, it would be 6-4 right now with Mahomes having the head-to-head victory with a chance for it. Like if they had won that game, it would be maybe already the opinion. And if not, certainly one game away, but they got rolled. So such is life.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
You want like a fire hose of them? Yeah, go ahead. Because there's so many to choose from. Yeah, give it to us. Thanks to that Bills game, Patrick Mahomes now has trailed In 53 fourth quarters in his career, which sounds like a lot, but that's every single loss. It's not going into the fourth. It's at any point. He has a winning record in those games. In games, he's trailed in the fourth quarter.
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He's 27-26. Nobody else has won more than 37% of their games. In the playoffs, you mentioned this Josh DuBose stat. He's trailed in the fourth quarter nine times. They've won six of those. He's six and three. And so he's played 20 career playoff games, 11 easy wins, nine times trailing in the fourth, six victories, one overtime loss where he never got the ball.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
but the NFL didn't change the rules because of it because we're not the Bills. Another overtime loss against the Bengals where he didn't come through, and then down 31-9, entering the fourth against the Bucs blowout. Mahomes, the – what was the – there was another – oh, you said it. He scored on 13 of 14 of those drives. Yep. Mahomes already –
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
has won more playoff games, four, when his defense allows more than 28 points than any player in league history. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning combined won four playoff games in their entire careers when their defense allowed more than 28 points. That's pretty crazy.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Well, luckily he doesn't anymore. I think that Mahomes, the one time he didn't come through was the second half against the Bengals. That game ended, or his last time touching the ball, was a perfectly thrown pass down. on third and long to Tyree Kill, but it was in double coverage. It was a risky ball, but it was perfectly thrown. Went off Tyree's hands, and then it was picked, and they lost.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Since then, in the playoffs, Mahomes has one turnover-worthy pass. Since he lost a playoff game throwing a risky pass, he has made zero – well, I shouldn't say zero because he threw the pick in the Super Bowl and he fumbled here. But those are the only two turnovers, and he's only thrown one ball really in jeopardy.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
And so I just – I think he is such a different caliber of clutch athlete that it is – we are like the – His ability to diagnose exactly the style of game, of play it would take to win a particular game and be able to play that exact style is unlike any quarterback I've ever seen other than late stage Tom Brady.
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And where Brady deserves all the credit in the world is he was at his, you know, kind of physical best late in his career and then also had all the institutional knowledge, which is why he was so dominant, you know, into his 40s.
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Before you go, PFT, can I give you one more stat that is not a Patrick Mahomes stat, but it is? George Karloftis has more playoff sacks than Lawrence Taylor, Aaron Donald, J.J. Watt, Derek Thomas, and that's a Patrick Mahomes stat. It's because George Karloftis has just spent his entire career in the playoffs, so now he's already in the top 30 all-time in postseason sacks.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
So here's the thing. The Rayola thing, because he has a relationship with Patrick, so Patrick's fine with it. I think a lot of people were more bothered by it or found it more cringeworthy maybe than Patrick did. But what I would say is this. Gotta play better, kid. Like, when it was like, this guy might win the Heisman, I was like, this is sick.
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But when he went in that slump, I'm like, nah, that's not cool. Like, you can't... I mean, I feel like if PFT commenter... if your career had really gone askew and you were like on InfoWars or whatever, then I feel like maybe Florio would have been like, change the branding, buddy. But because you became you, it ended up being great for everybody.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Yeah. So the only long form profile ever written of me was in Kansas City, there were a couple alt weeklies, like what the Village Voice was for New York or whatever, called Pitch and Ink. And one of them wrote, this guy spent a week with me when I was 26.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
and spent a week with me, my family, went out with us, all of us, and I thought it was going to be this glowing piece about how this kid from Kansas City who was on the second-rate radio station in town was trying to take down the Heritage Station in a quest to one day become America's biggest sports talk host. That was how I thought the article was going to be written.
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Instead, the cover of this paper is me with my pointy fingers, shaved head, my nose at the worst angle imaginable, pointing at the microphone, and the headline blazed, What's Wrong with Nick Wright? And it is 15,000 words about how this kid, whose radio show is in 17th place...
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is delusional and just saying i'm gonna beat this guy then beat that guy then get this job and the whole premise of the article is that there's a crazy person on the radio in kent city and it's called what's wrong with nick right oh my god that's great bulletin board material though that is i have it in my office i don't have it up here but i have it up where i watch football i have it framed in my office oh you got a football office i love that
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I've got a good TV setup. That's a big fight with the wife is how much real estate in the house goes to 20 Sundays a year of just a wall of televisions. But you guys know what I'm talking about. I have way too many TVs in my house.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
No, I've never... Okay, first of all, never maybe in that language, but you're the second person that's asked me that question. Like, do you ever send...
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lebron or mahomes clips of you talking about and answer the question and i think that's such an absurd idea like the evidently it's a thing it must be a thing people think might happen because you're the second person to ask me that but i just can't fathom like me being
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Me waxing poetic about Mahomes in the AFC championship game, then, you know, copy link, text Patrick, like, hey, did you see this today, buddy? No, I've never done that. Now, as far as, you know, us copying or, you know, each other, I will say this, before the football season, last year, obviously, got the never a doubt tattoo. Oh. And Patrick Mahomes, who rarely, if ever, tweets...
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45 minutes after winning the Super Bowl, sent out his first tweet of the playoffs, a picture of him holding both trophies with only a three word caption. Never a doubt. So if you're asking me, like, do I think my, you know, my show is regularly on in the facility? Well, why wouldn't it be if just a compliment fest?
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
I think that if there was a TV show that you had a reliable, good chance that if you turned it on, they were just going to be like, and here's reason 68 why PFT and Big Cat are the greatest that ever existed. You'd probably have it on in the background somewhat often.
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You know what? That's a good point. It should be more of a, you know, two-way street. And I've never really, you know, I've never thought of it that way. But I feel, listen, I'm just out here. They're like, oh, Nick, you're a Chiefs apologist. And first of all, it's nothing to fucking apologize for. They win every Super Bowl. Second of all, I'm not an apologist for anything. I'm a truth teller.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Like people used to call me a Bills hater. And then this year when everyone idiotically was like, oh, I like what the Jets are building or it's the Dolphins. I'm like, no, the Bills are going to be where the Bills always are looking awesome, tricking the media into thinking this is the year they beat the Chiefs and then losing in heartbreaking fashion, probably in the conference championship.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
Not a Bills hater. Say it again. Not a Bills hater.
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Jimmy Tatro In Studio, Nick Wright Talking Chiefs And Super Bowl, Birthday Episode And Fyre Fest Of The Week
No, I'm a truth teller. I'm a truth teller. The most honest people always remind themselves. As right as I've been about the Chiefs, I have been more right about the Bills the last five years. I called them overrated when they were. I called them underrated when they were. I've never missed on the Bills ever.
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I basically got every Eagles take wrong. Yeah, you were way wrong. I said... I said, hey, Howie, maybe draft kids other than Georgia kids and who the mock drafts want you to take. Turns out, maybe that's just what everyone should do. Just follow the mocks. I said, and I quote, Saquon Barkley won't be a difference maker. He then had maybe the greatest single season a running back's ever had.
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And I had... I had the Commanders finishing second in the NFC East, which sounds great, but it's not second to the Eagles. It was second to the Cowboys with the Eagles coming in third. No, I whiffed as big as someone can whiff on the Eagles, and I just have to own that. I thought that the collapse at the end of last season, they weren't going to be able to get over it.
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And I looked at both the big running back acquisitions, Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley, Man, those teams were awesome at running anyway. Like, why is that where you're spending your resources? And I was just as wrong as you could be. And so now we get, listen, nobody looks at it this way, but they denied a three-peat already.
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Because the Patriots won 16-18 and were in the Super Bowl in 17, lost to Nick Foles. It didn't feel like denying a three-peat because it wasn't at the end. So they have a chance to do it again. And if, listen, if Jalen Hurts in these next two weeks can learn to throw like Nick Foles, they might be able to win.
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Well, I mean, he's made some pretty good moves. Yeah, yeah. No, I got it wrong. And shout out to Max. Personal growth is important. You listen to my whole Eagles thing. You didn't have to take a mental health lap like you did with Big Cat a few weeks ago. So that's all good. Like, I think it's all. No, that's true. That's growth. It is growth. And I see that fathead of Jalen Hurts behind you.
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I assume that's moments before he scans the field, sees open receivers, and then decides to tuck and run.
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Can I ask a question? What do we make of the straitjacket comment? Why do the Eagles, when everything is going well, decide to meet with the media and just be like, let's create... Nobody was – six weeks ago, the only story around the Eagles was Vic Fangio transformed the defense. Saquon's going to break Eric Dickerson's record. And then A.J. Brown's like, passing sucks.
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We got to get better at it. And everyone freaks out. And then everything seemingly is fine. And they're winning a playoff game. And A.J. Brown's like, now's the time for me to break out this book. And I've got to listen to Eagles fans be like, he does it all the time. I'm like, well, it's literally never been caught on video on the sideline ever. And the Eagles are a lot of their games are on TV.
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And then this week, Jalen Hurts is like finally took the straight jacket off me, which, again, not to be too psychological handcuffs. are used to prevent you from harming others. Straightjacket is if their words are going to harm yourself. So the deep-seated psychology of it is my coach thinks that I'm going to hurt us, hurt our team, so he tries to prevent it. And so, listen, don't worry.
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I'm sure that despite all that, Nick Sirianni is going to outfox Andy Reid in these 10 days and get it all taken care of. Max? I'm not worried about that at all. Max?
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When he had 98 yards and 15 targets.
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I said video. Check the tape, my friend.
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Sorry, I didn't. The best game Jalen Hurts ever played is that Super Bowl game. And I would argue it is the single best game any player has ever played that also included them making the play that lost their team in the game.
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I think it's the, I think it is the, I think of all the games where one guy made a totally unforced catastrophic error that cost his team a championship, he played the best in that game. Wow.
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No, I actually, I'm being unfair. And I actually think that fumble was probably a little overrated. It was third and six anyway. If you just get stuffed, they're going to punt. Obviously, the Chiefs are going to score because they're the Chiefs.
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So, again, I feel I wish you guys had me on at some point if the Steelers somehow ever played in a game that mattered, because I'd much rather argue with that idiot Steeler fan who a couple of years ago sent a really, really. Oh, what's the word off color? I'll say tweet either about me and my wife or about me and someone. But it was it was me.
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It was the the what's the stupid Tom Green college movie? Freddie got fingered. Yeah. No, not that one. The good one. The road trip.
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Yeah, it was Road Trip. Yeah, Road Trip. Road Trip. You know the skinny, nerdy white guy that is in bed? He, for some reason, sent that picture out and said, live look at Get Nick Right. Oh, no, Jerry. And I'm like, I don't know if that's about me or about my wife, whatever it is, but I really actively dislike that person. Yeah. I don't know his name. I know he's an idiot.
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And I know you guys torture him and make him try to hit hole-in-ones and stupid bullshit.
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So the point I'm making is I have nothing against Max, and I actually think he's – oh, here it is. So I got it wrong. I got the story wrong. I'm going to text to you what he did. Okay. Here it is. I just found it.
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Oh, I'm sure, but regardless, it pissed me off because I never came for this idiot. Yeah, no, that's fair. That's totally fair. And so I sent out a picture of me and my wife out celebrating something, and he reposted it with the Malibu Most Wanted thing or whatever that was. I don't know what it was, but it made me mad. So, Max, this isn't for you.
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How's he going to deal when they trade TJ Watt for a first and a third?
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Okay, you know what? And I didn't know the trials and tribulations. Yeah.
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Well, yeah, I said I never, ever, ever cash out bets. Quick, very quick anecdote, and then I'll let you go, and I'll try to give you a final score. So Kevin Wilds, who is just the best person in the world to work with, he's not a gambler at all, but he bets like $1 or $2. And his first game of the... First...
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Day of the NFL season, he let his sons pick all of the Sunday straight winners a dollar and hit it. But he's also a big cash out guy. Like the moment it shows a 10% profit, he'll click cash out. So he and I have a deal now. Where I told him, anytime you want to cash out, screenshot, text me, I'll auto pay it. But if it wins, I get it. Like, because I want to be the house in that.
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Because cashing out is never the right option. Unless, of course, you have $100,000 that is predicated on the Chiefs losing a football game, in which case you should definitely cash out.
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Yeah. All right. So here's the thing. The producers of the TV show, because we're going to be down in New Orleans and we're trying to build stuff or whatever, asked me yesterday. They're like, hey, need a final score for the game because we're going to build something for a reveal. I was like, well, I don't have that yet. And he's like, what do you mean?
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And I'm like, you think I'm just going to willy-nilly come up? I got to deep dive. I got to review the all 22. Now, listen, I think I'm going to pick the Chiefs. I'm not even sure yet. I got to really review the information. But I'm leaning towards... 34-24. Okay. Leaning.
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That would be the over. But that's, you know, write that in pencil. No. Not in pen. I'm going to bet this.
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Believe it or not, I have not. I have not watched the Chiefsaholic.com a little bit.
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I love you guys. And in all seriousness, not only congrats, one moment of genuineness. I appreciate the direction you guys have...
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has gradually pushed some others in sports media of everything that it is supposed to be fun and it doesn't always have to be so life or death um and so i think you guys are great and i appreciate you having me on and we'll come i'll come on whenever i'll talk to you yeah okay this has been a lot of fun and uh good luck to your chiefs i'm not going to cash out you know i'm not going to cash out i can't
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No, you can't. And it wouldn't be fun watching the game. The only real way to make the cash out, and this is the only thing I'll say, for the cash out to be an option. You would have to cash out and snap put the full amount on the Chiefs. It has to be a 100K winner one way or another. But you can't just cash out and take it and not have big action on the Super Bowl, obviously.
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You'll be fine.
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This guy has no chance. This guy is inept. This guy can't win. This is going to be a rout. I lost. It's rigged. And that's what I heard all year with the Chiefs. Fraudulent team. Getting lucky. Too many one-score games. Can't score more than 30. Can't blow anyone out. Rigged. Okay. Fine. You're just wrong.
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Oh, well, I think that there was something that LeBron was working against as far as from the masses that neither Brady nor Jordan had to work against, which is. Two diehard fan bases who were deeply invested in him not being considered as great as he was. Because you had Jordan fans and Kobe fans who it was a part of their individual identity that needed LeBron to not be LeBron.
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I don't think there was that with I don't think bird and magic fans. I think they looked at it not like different eras, but like we had the 80s. This guy's having the 90s and it was to me so universally accepted.
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in the 90s i mean the guy one of the reasons i hate the count the ring stuff is jordan retired after three and they put on the statue the greatest there ever was the greatest there ever will be you know but if 30 years ago people were like i don't care that magic has two more rings and russell has eight more this guy and kareem's got three more this guy's better and they were able to do that
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Brady was able to be a juggernaut underdog, which is what made him so unique. And the other thing with Brady was that people have kind of... changed, like forgotten. Brady Manning was a legitimate and fair debate for 15 years. People say, oh my God, you know, Patrick's doing to Josh what Tom did to Peyton. That's not true. Tom Brady beat Peyton Manning in the playoffs twice ever.
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and then lost their final three matchups. Peyton Manning versus Tom Brady in the playoffs is 3-2 Peyton. So the way that story went was, man, this kid is clutch. The defense is amazing. What a winner.
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from 01 to 04, then a decade of not winning, of coming close but not winning, Peyton finally got over the hump, Peyton finally got to another Super Bowl, Peyton goes to Denver, clips the Patriots in the playoffs, it's like, oh my goodness, this is flipping again back towards Peyton, and then there is the second Patriots run, 14, 16, 18, and then the cementing moment Tom in 20 beating Patrick.
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And now he has seven. And now it's like, oh, he was always the greatest. So those were all those were very different stories than the one Patrick is having right now.
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Echo, echo, echo. Okay, I forgot to turn the light on. You could have told me beforehand first.
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Did the Notre Dame fans say she almost fell asleep? Yes. Hold on a second. Why? That was compelling.
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I can. Can I ignore Adam Schefter and everyone else in the mainstream media? I can't do that.
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All right. Jessica, I've always liked you from afar, but our relationship's now on the rocks. I always thought you were a really excellent addition to this team. I don't know why you're coming after me. I picked your stupid team to win the national championship, lost $2,600. What?
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
those frauds how about you don't have a 17 player underdogs why would you yeah i know listen big risk big reward i'm not i'm not in these small gains if i want small gains i'd buy nvidia i guess that's probably a bad one this week but in general i'm a gambler if you were like oh cash out hedge your bets i'm a god dog gambler man
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Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's a 90 minute podcast yesterday. And I didn't get to the Eagles game. Oh, boy. I mean, yeah. So you agree that we all believe you, by the way. Are you OK? I mean. I mean, yeah, I'm OK. Gosh darn it, man. I'll be honest. Yeah, I'm I was ready for a lot of like I know the room. I know this crew, obviously.
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I've always felt deep down and mean probably doesn't like me. That was a nice softball LeBron question. He threw me. I don't blame him for that. It's fine. You know, Cody knows that he's my second favorite member of the Cody family, and I kind of made fun of him to start. And Mike Ryan's not there to defend me.
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But Jessica off the top rope for no reason, while I'm out here dropping knowledge, seems unnecessary. Where's Juju? Where's my guy?
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Who's your AFC team, Jessica?
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We are so far. Oh, and that's another one. Steelers legacy. Hey, at least they have the greatest six-year stretch in football. for another 10 days about to clip that one too. We're coming for everyone's records. You brought up Jordan. This is really going to stick to Stugatz. Michael Jordan has been able to own. When you say three-peat, you think of Jordan. That's got 10 more days, buddy.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
That's not going to be his anymore. They're coming for everyone's records, everyone's hallowed ground. And you know what? I'm going to go even older school. Where's Greg Cody when you need him? Throw out the curse of the Bambino and the Babe Ruth trade. Nobody cares about this but me. Everyone's like, oh, poor Buffalo. Here's a pro tip, sports fans. Don't trade someone the greatest player ever.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
The Bills traded the Chiefs Mahomes and now Mahomes kills them every year and everyone cries for him. No one cried for the Red Sox in the 20s. Oh, Babe Ruth always beats us. You shouldn't have sold him so you could put on a play. That happened in football.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
The Bills had Tyrod Taylor and Nate Peterman, and they were like, let's run it back one more year, and they traded the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes, and now Mahomes sends them home every year. That's how sports are supposed to go. Fatal mistakes should be fatal. The right team is winning. And sorry, Bills fans, good people in Western New York, I get it, but you did this to yourselves.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
Yeah. Believe it or not, Stugatz, that was a fact that I had. I did know he did it twice. Quit in the middle. And is it really a three-peat if you get clipped in the middle by the magic? But that season doesn't count. But we don't want to talk about that. No, no, no, no, no.
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They're great fans.
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You have to do that. Great people of Western New York.
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No, he's right. We don't have a perfect season. Yeah, I mean, that's... He got your ass. We're going in order. We're speed running everything. And, you know, we've been on some side quests and we'll get the perfect season at some point. This year, they could have done it. And they said, you know what? If we beat Buffalo in the regular season, probably a little harder to beat them in the playoffs.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
So they sacrificed what would have obviously been a perfect regular season to have a better chance at the three-peat. But in a future year, when they're not going for a historic championship, they'll go for the perfect season. But that'll come. You know that'll come. So, yeah, I'm not worried about that. I don't know if you have more questions.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
What number are you? What number are you? Hold on. Hold on. Can I make this something very, very clear? That's number one. Yeah, no. So listen. Riggle and Rudd and Stonestreet, who I adore, again, good friends. Good Kansas Cityans. They're from the Kansas side. That's okay. Yeah. They are the number one Chiefs. If you say Chiefs fan, family feud style, and people are like, who gets the votes?
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Taylor wins. Number two is me.
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No, those guys are more famous than me, but they are not more associated with the Chiefs than me. Brad Pitt's a Chiefs fan. He's more famous than all of them. Again, some of those family feud answers would be, I don't know the guy's name. He's got a big nose and a punchable face. But that's me they're talking about. Like, so that's not deniable.
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No, if you're saying that I'm the Baghdad Bob of the Kansas City Chiefs, that's correct, except I'm on the right side of the war. Yeah, I mean, that's definitely true. Doesn't everyone think they're on the right side of the war, though? It's hard to put your life on the line. Why would you fight on the wrong side? Yeah, exactly right, knowingly.
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But luckily in sports, Billy, there's an official scorecard, and the people on the right side get to hoist a trophy at the end of it.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
Kaylin Clark, too. Listen, Billy, here's the thing. I listened six years ago when you gave a very off-the-cuff, eloquent Cuban history dissertation on sports radio. I know how erudite and learned you are, but don't come at me about being on the wrong side of this war, because I'm not. I'm not.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
I know what that means. Oh, because I said erudite. I was trying to compliment Billy Gill. Jessica, you know what? Dan knows this. I have a media rivals list. You're on it now. Oh, no. Oh, wow.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
She had never been eligible because she's so much younger than me. But I'm now elevating her because this is an outbreak. That's a compliment.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
That's true, but it'll just make her all the more fun to vanquish. There you go. Am I on it now? No, no. Listen, Stu Gantz, you are...
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
you are living like sometimes people live lives and you're like man i that's that path could have been mine and every time i watch you i'm like man if i just grew up in a different part of the country and suffered a minor head injury that would have been the life i'm living well thank you nick
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Nick, you've got to stay loyal to this show. This show first. Stu Gatz? Here's the thing. First of all, no one really, and Dan won't accept it, has any idea how much this show helped me because I've told this story and I will tell it again. When I was auditioning for FS1 eight years ago, my first time on the air, I made a Cam Newton point oddly about the officials.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
that dan then referenced and played when you guys were at the espn it was remarkable and i really think that helped me so no no this show has helped me immensely however what stugatz does not know because stugatz i assume was in a you know somewhat drunken stupor i did do this show first I did it during the game. During the game, I came on this show.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
I broke all of my rules of no tweeting, no media during Chiefs games. And I got to tell you, when... 90 minutes after doing the show, the Bills led for the first time all game. How'd that feel? I was furious. And I was on tilt, and I was blaming you guys. Yes. So I did your show. I apologize. I just wasn't here.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
Yeah, of course. Yeah. Here's here's a cool idea. Someone in that room, instead of rooting for a losing football teams, root for the team that wins every Super Bowl. No one's going to be like, oh, you were a diehard Dolphins fan. That doesn't exist. No one will blame you. So, yeah, feel free to jump on right now is the time because right now they're so hated right now.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
It's a cool pivot to be like, you know what? I like the Chiefs. I think everyone else is a bunch of whiny babies. We invite you. But that invitation expires 6 p.m. a week from Sunday. Because post-3P, bandwagon closed. Okay.
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That's not terrible.
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Good.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
Yeah, losers and whiners. Sorry, guys. I mean, and you said sad room. We're doing a renovation here, pal. I apologize. We're getting it all together. And I have to, you know, I'm trying to be ready for these media appearances, but I also, you know, work smarter, not harder. Do we want to fill up the wall when obviously in 10 days we're going to have more champs newspapers to hang?
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
So let's leave the space empty. Right. And so we can prepare for that. um so here's the deal uh everyone's been wrong i've been right and now they're whiny babies calling the manager saying it's unfair guys and they should be mortified and dan as someone who cares about the health of sports media you should carry this torch with me because we are all being led down this path once upon a time
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
We were the tastemakers. We dictated the conversation. Now disembodied fake people like Dov Kleiman and ML football dictate the conversation and lazy charlatans with seven figure jobs are like, well, the internet's talking about it. It must be the story. And it's
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
So instead of recognizing we are watching the greatest run by the greatest team in the greatest league in the history of professional football, we are talking about Cleet Blakeman. We are talking about, about Cleet. Will Anderson, we knew. Man, I'm old enough to remember crying about the refs after the game was loser behavior, not universally applauded. Someone finally said it.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
And here's the other thing, you know, brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. Gambling's legal now, America. If the games are rigged, I hope you've made a fortune because all the idiots... This is their Twitter timeline. It's rigged for ratings. I'll never watch again. It's rigged for the Chiefs. Can't wait till the Eagles beat them. Those seem like contradictory thoughts to me.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
I don't, I, I'm not a crusher. I am an elevator. My, you said for years, what was the thing I was known for? I didn't say somebody sucked. I said, somebody's the greatest. My, my, my hottest take ever that I was known for is, uh, this guy's awesome.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
the i i understand that there is some nostalgia and some sentimentality involved in michael jordan and it's never going to move i get it i don't even actually care to have that argument because that argument has been won and the cement is dry on it and people are going to look back and be like i can't believe that was a debate i don't that's not what i that's not even the point i was trying to make what i was trying to make is this
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
I do think sports media actually, Dan, has gotten, we have overcorrected, okay? So once upon a time, back in the day, before my time, before talk sports and stuff, it was just columnists. Some of that stuff was outright cruel, and guys were really eviscerated. They were either heroes or the worst villains. I don't need to give you a history lesson of all people.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
You know the history of sports media. And then my generation, the millennials, got a foothold. And it was, hey, let's add some nuance. Hey, quarterback wins. That's not really a thing. Let's be smarter. And that was all really good. And now we've gone too far. And now Justin Herbert can throw more interceptions in a playoff game than he did all season.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
And before any takes have been given, it is preemptive, premature defending of takes that haven't even happened. Whoa, let's not kill Justin Herbert. Lamar Jackson can win more MVPs than if Aaron Rodgers retires. Everyone else active in the NFL combined and he can have two turnovers in the first half and people will be like, guys.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
he came really close though he did he came close josh allen two years in a row can have the ball in his hands down three with with mahomes on the sideline nothing he can do and those two years come away with zero total points and the the first take topic is do you feel bad for him guys Here's the deal. Everyone's always understood it.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
Almost every little boy in America growing up wanted to be a pro athlete one day. You know why? Dope job. Super rich. Women or people love you. Fame. Fortune. Very few. A lot of time off. One of the downsides. One of the only downsides. You fail on the biggest stage, you're going to get criticized a bit more than the guy who's doing your taxes or working at UPS. Everyone understood it.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
Now the expectation is, can't we just appreciate they're all doing their best? Orlovsky is so comfortable criticizing people in his current profession, sports media, and would never dare criticize people in his previous profession, NFL quarterbacks. We've gone too far. So if I have to add some balance to the universe, so be it.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
I'm okay with it. Everyone likes Dan. I'm sure he's nice. But, hey, man, keep that same... Like, it's so amazing. There's so much courage to criticize... Folks who do what he currently does and such. It's said to Shannon on television. It's not my job to criticize a quarterback who is better than me. Huh? Really? Well, then I hope you have a lot of Will Levis topics coming because.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
And everyone that I know that I don't know him and everyone that I know that knows him adores him. He's a great dude, and the little snippets we get of his family life, he really seems like an awesome father and husband, great guy.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
I just, there is, there is to me a, if you're just going to be Mr. Positivity about everything, and I'm not saying that's Dan necessarily, so be it, but there is to me a hypocrisy of oh, there are some sacred cows here, but I will, but not, that'll stay away from. That's all, you know, as the kids say on Twitter, the noticers are noticing. And maybe I'm just noticing.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
Yeah. And so the listen, the thing you said on the front end, it is I'm I I could not be more blessed than to be a kid from Kansas City who I somebody asked me yesterday. Do I, you know, do I miss doing talk radio in Kansas City?
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
And I said in a kind of maybe more vulnerable than I should have been, I was like, well, I maybe have never been as happy as I was when I was doing talk radio in my hometown a dozen years ago or at this point, 15 years ago, I guess. But.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
The blessing of what the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes have given me personally is they have allowed essentially me to pursue my highest career ambitions while still just doing a local Kansas City talk show. Because I don't know if you watch a lot of First Things First, but there's a lot of Chiefs talk on it because they're the team.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
and so that is a huge blessing mike you know the fact that before last season i get the never a doubt tattoo and then patrick mahomes who almost never tweets 60 minutes after winning super bowl mvp sends his first tweet of the playoffs and it's three words never a doubt with him holding the trophies yeah that's one of the dopest things that could you could happen in a sports movie much less in real life
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
And so I should be happier about those things. I am frustrated because the only thing this compares to, in my opinion, as far as this level of dominance over a seven year stretch is the Bulls in the 90s. And not only were the Bulls in the 90s universally beloved, they are retroactively still a sacred beloved.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
They are, you mentioned it to Stigatz, and he gets, even though he's a Knicks fan, his eyes well up with emotion thinking about Bob Costas and John Tesh and the good old days.
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Hour 1: Nick Wright Speaks For Longer Than Any Guest In Show History
Right. And so and now we are getting it in a sport where it shouldn't be able to exist. Single elimination, salary cap, all of it. And during over the course of the year. It was a denial that was frustrating to me. And then the moment it became undeniable, it was a rigged game. And there are a lot, a lot of uncomfortable similarities to the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Das ist ein guter Wechsel.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
The do this is he's just helicoptering his right finger around. I think we all agree with that. He's arrived at a consensus opinion. Yeah, stop doing that. We don't need any of that anymore.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
I 100% agree. Who said it first though?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Okay, Rule change two. Wie viele sind da? Wie viele Regeln? Drei.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Das ist der Grund, warum Nick Wright der Media-Giant ist, weil er seine Argumente schon beurteilt hat. Er ist ein Dragonslayer, weil er seine Argumente beurteilt hat, um sicherzustellen, dass er seine Argumente schon beurteilt hat.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Ich habe dich unterstützt. Ich weiß, was du sagst. Weißt du was, Stugatz?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Danke. Die anderen Dinge, die ich mit dir sprechen wollte, bevor du hier rauskommst, sind die Natur deines Beefs mit Pablo Torre. Ich weiß nicht, was mit Pablo passiert ist. Er bekommt viele Wettbewerbsnominierungen, aber die Leute scheinen nicht sehr glücklich für ihn zu sein.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Ich bin so froh, dass du das gesagt hast.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
That's who Dan's looking for, though.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
No, I'll include you on the other conversation, which I am certain, by the way. I don't have to tell him what to tell me here. I am certain he will be on this great subject without any warning. We just had Yandel say that Conor McDavid is the greatest athlete in all of sports right now. Why is he right or why is he wrong?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Why wouldn't you want to work for free for Pablo's benefit?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
It's not illegal labor, but he's asking you to come and do two hours of his program so he can benefit.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Chris Cody hat sich nie mehr mit jemandem identifiziert. Alles, was Nick Wright gesagt hat über Texten, Chris Cody ist einfach so, das ist genau so, wie ich es mache. Wie du das Spiel spielst. Du bist ein Soulmate, wenn es um Texten geht.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Er spielt das mit mir. Nein, das ist das Spiel, das er mit mir spielt. Du kannst dir meine Frustration vorstellen, wenn er das mit mir spielt. Ja.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
And you've also buried Pablo yet again publicly. Your rivalry, you seem to be undefeated so far as it comes to this. Do you have any other media beefs going on right now at present? You didn't want any part of this. No, it's no media.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
It's on the way out right here.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Kind of sounds exciting, though. Regardless, so did you finish your point, though? That's it? Like, that's the end of the point?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
All right, so two minutes or less before we let you go. It's harder and harder for me to keep up with all of the sports and information that I need to, so my WNBA coverage tends to be pretty glancing and...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
No! This is why we don't get the coverage we need. You gotta cradle your neck back, by the way.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
That's the basketball point. That's just the basketball portion. I didn't really answer. I didn't ask a question. I didn't do much of anything there other than get out of the way. Nick, thank you for being on with us. Good seeing you and thank you for the kind words.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Is Jokic a better athlete?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Ich denke nur, dass die Schwierigkeit in dem, wie du das Argument präsentierst, ist, wenn du sagst, ich weiß nichts über Hockey, aber wo sind die Ringe?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Yandel just put him ahead of Shohei Ohtani.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Because again, Shohei Ohtani... What are you guys doing? I'm talking... I'm not talking... Shohei Ohtani has to be the best athlete. Has to be.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Ich werde sagen, es gab einen Punkt, an dem ich Alexander Karelin, den unverfehlten russischen Wrestler, als der größte Athlet auf der Welt, gemacht habe. Er hat das gemacht, Nick. Weil niemand ihn schießen konnte. Aber wenn ich über große Athleten denke, wenn du sprichst, ich kann die Argumentation für Russell Westbrook als physisch, nur physisch, machen.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Aber das ist ein Teil dessen, worüber wir reden, dass es möglich ist, Pitch und Hits auf diesem Niveau zu machen, um jemanden die Fähigkeit zu haben, Athletismus zu haben, den kein anderer Athlet hat.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Also das wertet deinem ganzen Argument am Ende, wenn du sagst, ich weiß nichts über Hockey.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
And now he's finding out he has none. He has zero, Nick.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
You were the bearer of bad news and you were the bearer of Tim Tebow information. Thank you for nothing there. Nick Wright. It's a wild Billy Wednesday. I understand. There are no rules. He's the best. There are a number of things that I want to talk to you about, but just on the television right now, we go to immediately OKC, a dynasty. Get to the finals. A couple of weeks, that's all we'll have.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Zwei Gespräche möchte ich mit Nick Wright betrachten, basierend auf dem Verrückten, was gerade passiert ist. Nick, hast du jemals jemanden im Inneren oder Außen des Sportes verraten und du kannst es einfach nicht erklären und hast keine introspektive Weise, warum du diesen Menschen verraten kannst?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Das sind die letzten sieben. Sind das nicht die letzten sieben?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Amin, I wanted to see if you and Nick had any agreement or disagreement on fixing the NBA's rule issues. What happened, Nick? I have them all fixed.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Denn Keith Yandel hat gerade gesagt, dass er Vijay Singh verraten hat und ich weiß nicht, ob ich jemals mehr erschrocken bin in meinem Leben.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
I like this. Let's see whether Amin has any... Look, Nick Wright, I don't know. He's had some public issues before with Amin, who's accused him of stealing some things from him. Public?
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Ich muss deinen Feud mit Pablo aufsetzen, weil du hier schon ein Verlust von Amin hast. Du hast sein Ding verloren, hast ihn gefreut und jetzt führst du weiter mit Pablo.
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Hour 2: 457 Unopened Text Messsages (feat. Nick Wright)
Er hat es nicht. Das ist der Punkt, den ich mache. Du solltest dir sicher sein, dass er es nicht weiß.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
No, so here's what I don't say anything I don't believe. Here's what I believe. I believe in that game, what played out, even though I don't think it's an on-paper mismatch, the mismatch between their offensive line and the Chiefs' defensive line was going to win Philadelphia the game. Patrick playing his worst game in a couple years is what led it to be a blowout.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
And when you're saying if Patrick can't handle it, no one can handle it, that's why I brought up the 07 Patriots. It's because every other team, every other team that has had the weight of a three-peat on their shoulders has crumbled. And every other one crumbled at a stage earlier than the Super Bowl.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
The closest a team ever came was the 99ers, who the third best player on their team on a very normal play, just fumbled the ball with minutes left and they lost. That's how they lost. So that like, I, I don't think it's an indictment on Patrick, but I do think it's the reality. And then every team that has gone for an undefeated season, except for Greg Cody's team, is 60 years ago.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
He's supposed to be different, Nick. Well, hold on. He can be different than every other active quarterback and different than basically every other all-time quarterback and still not immune to any of this. I felt Brady choked in 07.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
We don't want to talk about any other alleged GOATS children on this show. I know that, but my goodness gracious, how are you guys? I don't know what else to do with this basketball season.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
I think the moment got to the entire team. I do. But that's choking. Instead of saying you're wrong, you're saying your team choked. No, hold on. No, no, no. Hold on. I am definitively wrong. I thought they would win. I thought they would win by 10. I am not running from being wrong about this football game. What I am saying is I don't look at...
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
individual one one-off instances of shit the moment got to us as being an indictment of a player as a whole I the greatest athlete I've ever seen in my life but choked in 2011 It doesn't at all change how I view him. Maybe I view it differently than others. Repeated choking is a totally different thing. And that's why you push back and I push back.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
I don't view this like the 20... I thought Patrick played well in the 2020 Super Bowl and the stats don't back it up, the video does. That to me was not at all anything like this in any way, shape or form. But, yeah, I mean, it's not that I'm trying to slough blame onto them to save myself. I was the wrongest person in sports media about this game.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
I'm sorry for your loss. You've transitioned, huh?
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
No, and right, and this is where I'm telling you, like, I disagree with your analysis of my analysis. I do not think there is.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Yeah, I mean, I do. And I haven't said the word choked. You keep throwing out jokes.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
You know, oh, you want to talk about the Super Bowl? I mean, you guys are forward. This is new media. It's Thursday. We're in the 2025 football season. But I suppose we could look back. Dan... I should have known this might happen, and I'm going to show you why. I'm going to reach behind me and hold up the thing I've always wanted my entire life because I'm a child of the 80s.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Oh, I reject that as well. The moment got too big for them. That's choking. That is choking. That's the definition. Maybe.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Say it now. Just say it. You'll feel better. You'll feel better.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Just say it.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Jess, why don't you look that up? You're not doing anything right now.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Yeah, and subscribe to What's Driving the Great. And lastly, who should I apologize to, Tony or Jessica? I can't have them both against me. I'm good. You don't have to apologize to me. Okay, Jessica, I shouldn't have called you a doofus.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Whoa.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Rejected.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Rivals.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
I respect physical print media. Wow, a newspaper. And days before the Super Bowl. It's been a while. This was in the Washington Post. You see that glorious picture right there? And if my life were a movie, that would have been the culmination of the montage of endless winning.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
It's been twice now in Super Bowls where he's had a bad game. Nick was talking about other great quarterbacks having bad games. They weren't in Super Bowls.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
I think he is an all-time great. I don't think this impacts his legacy. It only impacts his legacy in terms of chasing Tom Brady. That's it. That's it.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
He's never going to catch Tom Brady. How? Tom Brady lost to Eli Manning twice. I understand that. And Nick Foles. Tom Brady's world killers. Tom Brady did not play that poorly. As poorly as Mahomes did in this past Super Bowl.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
In a Louis Vuitton jacket that I bought from a guy in Copenhagen a year ago to wear to the Chiefs parade about how... Listen, you guys can make fun of me all you want. I am an open book on this show. One of the reasons I come on this show, other than the fact that I love Dan, is I think it makes me more humanized.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Good analysis.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Now, do I occasionally imply to the audience I might have a little dispensable income to buy Louis Vuitton jackets from Europe? Or to gamble? Sure. But the audience gets it. I've deserved it. I've worked hard. Back to the story. So I've always wanted that. I've always wanted a newspaper article I can put in my office about me and the Times, the Post, something.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Well, he's saying he had a weak moment, maybe.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Thank you, Tony. It's so weird what we're doing. We're making excuses and trying to figure out why the Chiefs lost the game. They lost the game because the Eagles are better. Period.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
And the story was, the gist of it was, my career arc and a career theoretically taking off right alongside my hometown Chiefs team took off. It was almost too good to be true. And then it was. And now I have to deal with one of the worst Super Bowl performances of all time, which I can deal with.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
You had the best quarterback ever.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
It came from Mally.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
But what I am not as prepared to deal with as I shake in preemptive anger is folks that either just started watching football or total morons or just don't care about the truth acting like, well, if a quarterback's that good, does he ever have that bad of a playoff game? And the answer is yes, every single one of them always. So I'm doing okay.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Okay, yeah, I mean, listen, that's why Tony's on that side of the room, to not really pepper in those sports tips. I mean, the thing is, like, I like Tony, but I'm just telling you, yes, I agree that if you turned their wins into losses, their record would have been worse. That's all I'm saying.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
So here's the thing though, those discrepancies shouldn't have been that big of an edge. The Eagles in the Super Bowl two years ago had the most sacks of any team in 30 years.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
the or since the late 80s i should say uh so more than that the eagles this year were middle of the packing sacks and the chiefs while they had an issue at left tackle and so they slid their guard over to tackle it's not like they were the worst offensive line in football we didn't we went into the 2020 super bowl saying oh man you got four backups on the offensive line that could go poorly and it did so i i credit the eagles players
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
and game plan and execution but to answer your question it's why it went the way it did is a two-fold reason that we actually oddly have for both of the two reasons I'm about to give you an exact one-to-one corollary for it which was the first reason is a very very simple one that not that smart people will say to try to sound really smart which is you know
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
If you can get home with four, you really can hurt the great quarterbacks. Like, yeah, no shit, man. We understand the math of the game. The idea always, imagine if you could get home with one, you drop 10. Like the fewer you have to send and still create the pressure, the better it is. And the other reason is, for the first time all year, the moment got too big for him.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
And that, to me, and that includes Patrick. And people can say, oh, well, that's disqualifying. But here's the one-to-one example. Both of those exact two things, to the letter, happened in the only other football game of my life, not Greg Cody's life, because his team did it, of my life, where a team walked onto the field and knew, if we win today, we're the greatest team of all time.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
How did the 07 Patriots unstoppable team lose? The Giants got home with four, and Brady got shaky, and they only scored 14 points. They walked into that game knowing, we win today, we're the greatest team of all time. How did the 2024 Chiefs lose?
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Eagles got home with four and the moment of we walk off the field today with a win, we're not the greatest single season team of all time, but we're the greatest team of all time, this three-peat,
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
the moment got too big for him and so that is what it is it's you know it's heartbreaking that they played their worst game in the biggest moment but the eagles deserve credit and i'm glad you pointed out the thing about spags i i feel like the only chief and i'm sure he doesn't but person involved with the chiefs that could sleep easy was spagnolo
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
who did do a great job at what everyone, myself included, thought the key to the game would be, which is can you slow down Barkley? They didn't slow down Barkley. They shut down Barkley, and it didn't matter.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Nick, you said earlier that, you know, some of the great quarterbacks of all time have had a bad playoff game, and you're right for the most part. Mahomes has had two now, and he's done it in the Super Bowl. He was bad against Tampa. He was bad against Philadelphia twice now, Nick.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
He had a rating of 32.3 in the game.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Okay, hold on. Let me respond to both of these. Let me respond to both of these. Stugac, you care about his passer rating in this game because it wasn't that bad. Or are you going to say, no, I watched the game. I know he played terribly. Because that's what I would say. But the numbers, look at the numbers. So don't do that. Don't be like, for this game, the numbers don't matter.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
And for the Tampa game that we all saw, the numbers do matter. Because that would be ludicrous. However, let's talk about it. Because this, you're right. So let's just say the Tampa game was a terrible game. And you said most quarterbacks have had terrible playoff games. No, all quarterbacks have had terrible playoff games.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
And we do this weird thing, and this oddly does somehow end up coming down to what all sports conversations come down to, which is the lionization of Michael Jordan's career has polluted how everyone views sports.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Which is why when Tom Brady was going for the three-peat and he played terribly and threw a pick six to let the game get out of hand and lost to Jake Plummer, no one cares because it was in round two. And Joe Montana went in the smack dab middle of his career.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
three straight years in the playoffs three straight one and dones three straight playoff games with zero touchdowns total three straight playoff games where he back-to-back playoff games where his team scored three points three straight playoff games where they were outscored by a combined 102 to 40 we can all be like man joe cool never played poorly in the super bowl
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Well, maybe he would have if he hadn't played so terribly that they got whacked 49-3 in round one. And so what we're not going to do is act like if you play your worst game of the year to prevent you from getting to the Super Bowl, That's fine, but if you play really well to get there and then play poorly, that's different. That's ludicrous.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
That would mean it would have been better for Patrick this year had he choked against Josh Allen last round instead of outplayed him and beaten him for the fourth time in the playoffs. Intellectually, we all know that's true, that each round you win is better than losing in that round. Why don't we accept that? Well, that's actually a Michael Jordan story. Is Patrick Mahomes done?
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
So here's the thing. How wrong I was compared to my contemporaries is actually the exact same logical argument, question. Am I more wrong for picking the Chiefs to make and win the Super Bowl than the folks, not naming names, but Rex Ryan and others, who said they were going to go one and done?
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Was I more wrong for having the wrong winner in the Super Bowl when I had the right team in it than Draymond Green, who said, I've seen teams like this. They get beat in the first round. So again, I get it, the stage gets bigger, the audience gets larger, so people have more eyes on it. And I've got to eat this one. And if people watch First Things First, 3 to 5 p.m.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Eastern on FS1, you should check it out. I literally had confetti cannons shot in my face on national television. I had the runner-up of American Idol sing in my ear, Tom Brady is the GOAT, and I took it like a champ. because Monday is the day for me to have to eat it. Tuesday is the day for me to kind of have to eat it.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Wednesday and Thursday are the days for me to once again take on the heavy burden of the only sane person in sports media and pump the brakes on all the, this never would happen to Brady. Brady threw three picks in the wildcard round when he was 32 years old to lose to Joe Flacco. Three picks in the first quarter. 33-14.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
Mm-hmm. I'm sorry, you guys didn't have Jessica's mic on. You just had a total doofus talking for a minute there. I mean, the jig is up.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
We got to write a new script. So here's the thing on that. Oh, no. And now I'll just bring the mood of the room down. I actually think engaging in any of that is tangibly bad for our business. So I think the reason we all get these awesome jobs and platforms and opportunities is because people credibly believe in the sport.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
And the fact that the players, the owner, the commissioner were all asked about this nonsense leading to the Super Bowl, I think was one of the true sour points of this NFL season. And again, the iconic image of this football game is Patrick Mahomes getting two hands dead to the face from Jalen Carter. And it's on NFL.com right now as like, what a play.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
And so we all know there's missed calls in the NFL. It's a shame to me that the Dove Kleinmans of the world have created this as a legitimate talking point.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
You too. Well, you know, I was a little agitated, but only because I couldn't hear the content. So I don't know what you guys were talking about. And you and I, you know, I'm a bad texter, but I assume you brought me on. Talk about that Bronny James step back. Oh, is LeBron such a bad dad now? Oh, kid, young kid got his sea legs under him out here cooking.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
No, so here's the thing, and I don't mean to be harsh here, and I was joking the last time I was on about Jess being added to the rivals list, but maybe I shouldn't have been. I know you're kidding. I know you're like now patronizing me and like trying to act like I missed it. I know you're kidding. It's very rare a conversation goes on.
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The Big Suey: I Disagree With Your Analysis of My Analysis (feat. Nick Wright)
that i don't see everything that's happening in it um i am simply saying i think even the joking is tangibly bad for our industry so is jessica individually bad for the industry you did call her a doofus Name caller. Well, Doofus is, I think, the kindest of the insults. Okay. Throw that on the poll. All right.
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The Big Suey: The Process Off (feat. Nick Wright)
Guys, I want to talk to you about something that I don't think we think about enough on a daily basis. And that's comfort. Specifically when it comes to underwear. Because let's be real, when it's not right, you're gonna feel it all day. And that's why I want to tell all of you about Tommy John. Because the first time I put on a pair, I knew my underwear drawer would just simply never be the same.
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The Big Suey: The Process Off (feat. Nick Wright)
Tommy John hat gerade einige ihrer Produkte an uns in den Schiffskontainern gesendet. Und das ist mein erstes Mal, dass ich Tommy John Underwear trage. Ich war wirklich überrascht. Durch den Komfort, durch die Strecke, die im Design vorhanden war, durch die Textur. Es gibt eine echte Komfort.
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The Big Suey: The Process Off (feat. Nick Wright)
Und ich kann sagen, dass sie den Eindruck gelegt haben, um sicherzustellen, speziell in unserem Fall mit Männern, dass wir sich komfortabel fühlen würden. Ehrlich gesagt, Tommy John hat das Spiel für mich verändert. Ich weiß, es wird ein guter Tag sein, wenn ich aus der Tür gehe und Tommy John aufhören werde. No distractions, no adjusting, just all day confidence.
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The Big Suey: The Process Off (feat. Nick Wright)
If you haven't tried Tommy John yet, I personally think you're missing out. These are the MVP of your underwear drawer with up to four times more stretch than other brands. Something I definitely appreciate. Double down on comfort with Tommy John and get 25% off your first order right now at TommyJohn.com slash Dan with promo code Dan. Save 25% at TommyJohn.com slash Dan.
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The Big Suey: The Process Off (feat. Nick Wright)
Hey Freunde, es ist Jarabear hier und ich bin hier, um euch alles über Boost Mobile zu erzählen, was jetzt ein legit nationwidees 5G-Netzwerk ist. Also muss ich hier einen Moment von den Lachen nehmen und meine ernsthafte Stimme aufnehmen.
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The Big Suey: The Process Off (feat. Nick Wright)
Das wird zu intensiv. Ich denke nur an verpacktes Fleisch. Das ist alles, was ich mir vorstelle. Nick, was ist das erste, was du dir vorstellst, wenn ich sage verpacktes Fleisch? Was ist dein Lieblingsgericht? Oh, ich weiß es nicht.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
I have a feeling if Christopher, under any circumstances, interviewing me and I'm, you know, bottomless, he's going to say, Dad, put on some pants. Right. You know, like, is it that inconvenient to put on some pants? You're going to ask Mike Tyson in that spot to put on some pants? Hey, you know, the sun. Hey, Dad, please. Just, you know, a pair of pants. But I didn't feel cheated.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
Look, it was a totally lopsided fight. They had to have a split decision to create any impetus for a rematch, and it was not even close to a split decision. Rematch?
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
Like I just said, if you were listening, a split decision, and there would have been impetus for a rematch. When you have a unanimous decision... There's nothing. It just dies. But the reason I didn't feel cheated is that anybody who had Netflix was watching it for free. It's not like I paid 70 bucks for pay-per-view.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
The last Super Bowl drew 123 million viewers. For a cartoon freak show boxing match to draw half of that total was astounding.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
I thought it was an absolutely brilliant matchup. You had black versus white. You had young versus old. You had all of the animus against the self-promoter Jake Paul, the YouTuber turned self-made boxer. You had Mike Tyson, who for most of his career was the perfect villain. All of a sudden, he's the lovable grandpa that everybody's rooting for. And convicted rapist. Okay, we can say that.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
We should probably say that.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
I think for a lot of people, we're rooting for Mike Tyson.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
Too many. Most. Yeah, I mean, I think the exception is what's enjoyable, and I try to be the exception. I'm not giving sports opinions. I'm not texting people in the middle of a Monday night football game. I'm just not. Good for me.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
Christopher and I on my podcast out today.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
Wait, you knew the whole time? You're right. We discuss fighting each other, like Christopher and I in the ring, because our age difference is somewhat similar to the age difference between Tyson and Jake Paul.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
You know, not to get personal, Christopher's got to drop about 25 pounds to get down to my weight class. You tell him. I don't know how you measure our reach. You've got bad arms. Aren't you having a bad arm week? Well, I'm having a bad arm day, and I would fight him with a long-sleeved shirt. But I do think that my reach is as long as his. So if he drops 25 pounds, I've got that old man strength.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
But to your point, though, if he had lost to Mike Tyson, 58-year-old Mike Tyson, his boxing career might have ended.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
It's impossible. You're talking about the eighth-ranked heavyweight whose name I have no idea of would automatically be favored?
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
And the one-arm catch, if you can do that. I'd be curious what the analytics are on the fade pass to the corner of the end zone. I personally hate that play. It seems like there's so many ways for it not to be complete. It must be successful.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
Good. See, I didn't know that.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
Right, but the field is working against you. You're throwing literally to a little corner. It's a terrible play, in my opinion.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
They're terrible with Trevor Lawrence. Yeah.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
That was the highest point spread by a half a point, and part of it is the other team not having their starting quarterback. Most of it is Detroit's offense. They are awesome. Awesome. And I don't know if the betting odds say it right now as the most probable matchup, but I am so looking forward to Lions and Bills in the Super Bowl. One team never won a Super Bowl, once lost four in a row.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
The other franchise hasn't won an NFL title since 1957. That's going to be an ideal Super Bowl match. If we get to it. Yeah. Right. Right. Big if. But is there a better likely matchup right now than that?
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
I'd be curious. Look that up.
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The Big Suey: Boxing Is The Worst, Dude
I'm a grown-ass man who's not filthy rich. I can't afford a Lamborghini. Well, I probably can, but that's beside the point.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
And in a sense, you're suddenly the the other members of the cabinet of President Angela Bassett are Janet McTeer and Mark Gatiss and Henry Cherny and all of these
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
all of these sluggers and so you're you're quickly and um with great acumen working out these scenes together you know are we achieving the uh the highest possible octane to uh to make us worried about what's going to happen with tomcat do you have insecurity around this do you have any imposter syndrome do you have and i don't mean that you should i just never know like how small someone feels in surreal circumstances
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Um, it's definitely there, but I'm able to take care of it. Like, I know, you know, I've learned over the years that whatever clumsiness or fallibility I might bring to the table, that that's just human. And, you know, people, if I talk too slow, which I do, or if I don't make enough facial expressions, which I don't, That's why people have hired me. And so it is really fun.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
I mean, you've got to be nimble on your feet. Because they workshop the movie, you don't have your script for a long time. Like, you get your script, and you've got to learn it, and suddenly you're shooting it. And so you got to really keep your knees bent and be ready to play some defense. But it's a lot of fun because you can tell that you're all in it together. And again, it's supportive.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Nobody's going to yell at you. If you make a mistake, everyone's like, all right, let's go again. We got this. Come on, buddy.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Hardest to do is comedy. It's it's the same technique as drama, but the stakes are higher. That's what that's what makes it funny. Drama is, for me, as a taciturn Midwesterner, staying in touch with my emotions and allowing an emotional story to come out of this granite face can be challenging. And then action, you know, for me, I grew up an athlete, and so that has less to do...
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
You know, for me, it's harder to work out in the decathlon of my artistry. The emotional events are the hard ones and the pole vault and the shot put. I'm like, yeah, you train and you throw the damn thing.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Tell me more. As soon as I get hired to do stuff like he does, then I think the graph will change considerably.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Yeah, I do actually get to have some fun doing a little bit of stunt stuff. But I've done – I do also enjoy doing my own stunts, and I've – I always do. I don't tend to, like, jump motorcycles off of cliffs or hang off of biplanes. But I do enjoy stunt driving and, you know, beating the crap out of myself.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
I'm in a series right now where I'm playing a former pro wrestler, and I got to do a bunch of really fun, actual wrestling, off-the-top-rope kind of stuff.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
That's a hard left. Is this a euphemism?
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
I mean, my brand is, among other things, as someone who consumes a lot of bacon and meat. And so, I mean, when you say finger foods, my mind jumps to a pub in L.A. called the Red Lion, where you get pints of heiferweizen and what's called the sausage platter, which is just a bratwurst, a summer sausage, and a knockwurst cut up with three kinds of mustard. That's the best of the finger foods.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
All right, all right then, ribs.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
I mean, pass. You guys were right then. I'm not a finger finger.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
It occurs to me, I do have a favorite finger food, and that is the scotch egg. Oh, there you go. Hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage. Knew we'd get there.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
The reaction to The Last of Us, no. When I first read that script and when I first stepped on set for that episode, which was like a Sundance movie. It was like one beautiful...
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
little indie film everybody knew that this script was so exquisite that Craig Mazin had nailed it in a way that we were like okay if we just say these words in the right order let's not this up because this is a very precious story that we're gonna tell and And we apparently got the words in the right order because it had this incredible positive reaction.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
And I've never experienced anything like it. It was incredibly gratifying. I usually in my career don't get cast as like the romantic lead. I get cast as the guy who carries those beautiful people on and off stage. And so it was quite wonderful. And I'm glad I didn't screw it up.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
You've never hurt my feelings, and it's nice to see you on another great year for the Chicago Cubs.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
um no no good morning nice to see you and uh no i i don't remember the television show um i have no idea um how how i ended up on on the in the movie uh chris mccorry the director called me and said he wanted me to play the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and i said this truly is a wild and wonderful world it was an incredible adventure getting to work on that
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Well, I've never worked on a big budget sort of action franchise. And the astonishing thing is the way they actually workshop. every storyline in the movie. So we'll get up on our feet and we'll start shooting something, and Tom and the director, Chris McQuarrie, will scrutinize everything and say, I feel like this can be more intense, like the audience is not wetting themselves yet.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
And so they keep tweaking things and giving people different dialogue. So it was kind of fun seeing the final cut because we weren't sure which direction our storylines were going to go.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Well, yeah, I mean, I think it's just his jam. He's like a chef, you know? He needs to taste every dish before it goes out to the floor. But, I mean, it obviously works. That's why his action movies... I mean, and watching him do the stunts, like, nobody does that, you know? That's why he's the top action movie in history. Like...
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
No one remotely does the stuff that he does, and he really does it. There's never a stuntman.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
I mean, I was present for some stuff around the office, as it were, but they did a big presentation one day while we were shooting to show us all the biplane stuff that they had cut together. And I was standing next to him. It was actually on his 60th birthday. And he said, you know, This is my favorite thing in life. This is why we're all here.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
There's nowhere I'd rather be on my birthday than here making movies. And we watched this biplane stuff and we just shook our heads and said, if you weren't standing here, I wouldn't believe that you had survived this. It's just astonishing.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Well, I mean, yeah, my apparently he likes his father's day like he likes his birthday.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Yeah, I mean, from start to finish, you know, like shooting at all of our stuff around London all the way through the big like premiere in New York, I got to take my mom to the red carpet, which was incredibly fun. I just you know, I've been lucky to get work as an actor, but nothing on this scale. So sort of standing with the stars of this movie still feels really surreal to me.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
Well, I mean, the fun thing is I don't really have one one bailiwick or one or one niche. I've done TV and film and stage and tour as a humorist. So it's just sort of another box that I'm thrilled I got to check and.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
And it's really interesting, you know, they obviously pay more attention to what's going on in the underwater stunt sequences than perhaps with the nuances of, you know, the emotional things that like an indie movie would focus more in on the personal interactions because they can't afford two biplanes. Yeah.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
So I mean it's just another part of the sort of wonderful zoo that is this world of entertainment.
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Hour 2: The Scotch Egg (feat. Nick Offerman)
No, I mean, generally people aren't that brusque. If they're making successful entertainment, they're usually more respectful than that. But it's very collaborative. They get a bunch of – it's like – kind of like getting called up to the majors.
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
Two out of five. And if every time I'm wrong, I'm like, oh, what am I going to do now? Then that is, you are the ultimate trust the process guy. You are the ultimate... This is unfortunately true. And so, no, I don't go into every football season saying, well... We're going to be perfect. I go into every football season saying, I'm going to be better than all my rivals.
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
I appreciate that. All of our hair is looking pretty good. Pablo's got great hair. Wild's has great hair. My hair is fine. I'm in a room with two people objectively with better hair than me. My hair gets graded on a curve because... I used to have a shaved head and people thought that was by force than by choice. So people oddly think this is like fake hair.
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
And luckily, all of them, year after year, convince themselves the greatest team any of us have ever seen is probably not that good. So I start off way ahead. And I only need a few other things to fall to be the rightest one.
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
I said this a few months ago, and I believe it 100% to be true. He'll never be back.
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
You know why teams do weird shit when they're playing the Chiefs? Because staring across the sideline and seeing Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid terrifies them.
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
I think they appreciate it.
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
You really should get more love from your guys. Yeah, because my guys... Well, hold on. I rock with my guys hard. Matt Jones did start following you on Twitter. Yes.
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
No, what do you mean?
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Share & Atone & Tell with Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes
I've said three, Pablo. You haven't said one of yours.
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Yeah. That's Ben Simmons. That's such a terrible take. I'll stick with your analogy. If because the lack of brakes exist, you're afraid to drive the car fast, but it can go fast. You're afraid to take it on the freeway, but it can drive above traffic. Then it doesn't matter. It can do all those other things. The other guys in league history who have had a hole in their game, it didn't
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Rankings matter. You know what? Can I just say something? These people that think they're too goddamn good to like, oh, for lists and rankings and whatever. That's what life is. I'm not into people that think they're too good for what everyone enjoys.
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metastasize in a way that it undermined every other piece of their game. And that's what happened to this kid. And I don't know, I don't know the full psychology of it, but it's been, we've known it for five years.
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The number one Ben Simmons guy. Yeah, I'll do that. Pablo wants you to atone for a take. I have atoned for the record. You said I'm not playing along. What take am I atoning for? I atoned for Saquon not working with the Eagles, the Bears making the Super Bowl, Derrick Henry not making a difference for the Ravens. I'll throw in. And the Lakers beating the Nuggets. Yeah. In last year's playoffs.
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So there's four off the top.
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How about no one's beating the Nuggets in a seven-game series, and they won literally one seven-game series. And then blew a 20-point lead at home. That wasn't great.
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He said he has one he wants to give you.
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What do you mean? Nick's so bad at this game.
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Why would I be good at this game? I don't even understand the game.
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And we do another version of that, which is how scary are the Bengals?
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Well, yeah, it's to get... Wilds wants more emotion and less analytical responses.
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Typically, that creates the best show.
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Yeah, no, no, no. It has to be based in fact, but a feel to it.
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What? That was bad. That was interesting.
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Whose famous do you want? Is there any financial association to this? Yes. Or is it just the fame?
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No, no, no. That's not what I mean. What I mean is, do you get this person's fame and wealth or just their fame? I'm not saying you can then make money off that level of fame. What I'm saying is... Do you understand the question I'm asking? I do. I'm making a list. Because this is not who I would pick. I don't think Chris Bosh's fame is hyper, hyper...
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monetizable, but he's got a couple hundred million dollars already. So I'm asking you, in that scenario, if you were to pick Chris Bosh, do you take with you the couple hundred million dollars? It's probably more interesting if the answer is no, that you're just getting their fame. Right, right. It's celebrity.
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No. Remember, he was in the midst of it. People were... There was... If the Hanks movie's correct, he was really raked over the coals about, did you actually have to land in the Hudson? Yeah, I don't know who he's giving Sully.
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Hero's nice. But let me ask... Hero is pretty sick. Definitely sick, but let me ask a question. To me, that answer tells me you don't value at all, like, recognized on the street.
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Oh, come on. Don't put that on the air.
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I was just saying... So, it was just interesting that Wilds picked a guy who I think... Sean Stilato. Yeah. Only becomes recognized... upon introduction and never randomly. You understand what I mean? Like people hear the name and I think most people know it. If you have the stash.
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Okay, all right. If you want to do it.
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Even with the stash, I got to tell you right now, I don't know what he... If I close my eyes and think of that guy, I just think of Tom Hanks. Like I don't remember what the guy actually looks like. And if he was walking down the street, I wouldn't know him. What happened to us on the way in, that to me is... Awesome at that exact level.
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When we were walking in the building, somebody just walked by. I was like, hey, fellas, love the show. That's a great endorphin boost. Yes. I also think being truly famous would be exhausting, and I don't think that would be fun.
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No, I agree.
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I'm trying to think of the name of who this describes. Because my answer would be someone who, if they want to be recognized... is wildly famous, and like you said, can get in anywhere, no weight, but also with sunglasses and a baseball cap on. That's Mike Trout. That's the Mike Trout. That's why I drafted Mike Trout, Nick. But you're saying that Mike Trout can't just get in.
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Like I'm Avicii. No, I don't. People are like, oh my God. I'll be honest. I'm lying here. I'm lying. Whatever level of fame I have, I enjoy, and I would like more. So this, I don't want to be anonymous. I don't think, I think it would bum me out.
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Yeah, because I... I appreciate Nick's honesty. So here's why.
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But I've never, and you're going to laugh at me, but just follow me here. My entire adult life... I've had tiny, slightly increasing fame.
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Right. So Kansas City, right. And so at 23, once a week, someone will be like, yo, love the show. And it's just slightly... So not only am I... Has it never been weird for me? Because it's like watching your kid get taller. Like you don't actually recognize it because you see them every day. You know what I mean? Like it's just been... But also, I have no recollection of it not being there.
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So I think Wilds had a whole successful career... without any real fame associated with it. And now, in the last five years, has gotten increasing levels of fame. So Wilds has a standard to remember, like, oh, yeah, yeah, everything, like, I was an adult with a wife and kids and none of this.
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No, that's not what I, again, that's why I said you're gonna make fun of me.
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Yeah. So that, so, so I think my answer is like Daniel Day-Lewis. Yeah.
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Because I don't think he... All that dude tries to do is hide. But he's different than me. It's such a perfect answer. But I think that he... It's such a perfect answer. I think that Daniel Day-Lewis, if he wants to just go out and go to Walgreens, is able to do it. But I also think he's like, shit, man, I want to be Daniel Day-Lewis tonight. He obviously can be. That seems awesome.
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Yeah, so like... So I... Because I initially... So someone like... Mark Wahlberg, that seems exhausting. Like he just has to be Mark Wahlberg at all times. Yeah. And everywhere he goes, like anyone that feels like I have to, you know what? I have to have security. That seems exhausting. Right.
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Mispronunciations are fine because it means you learned it by reading it instead of hearing it.
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It's true.
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You're Jimmy, right? This is your house? Sure is. I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems.
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No, I understand. But it's the same type of thing where it's like you are anonymous to everyone except for the people who know who you are. And to those people, you're a big deal.
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I do not want drug kingpin fame at all. No, I was just trying to, maybe I should use a different analogy. Phil Ivey. It's a good level of fame. Where, once again, people who know, know. And to those people, you're a god. Visually conspicuous also. But also you're, you know what I mean? That's what mine is, but it's like I can wear a tuxedo. I'm big on if I can wear a tuxedo.
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That was a good question, Pablo. Do you have a list of questions that we should have let you ask instead we just said dumb stuff for 40 minutes?
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You can't tell if I'm acting?
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I'm not acting.
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Yeah, I know. That's the bit that I eat. Sean Stilato, you know why you recognized him? Because he was walking around begging people to recognize him and hoping someone said, please take a picture with me. Like, that's why. Wiles doesn't like me saying this because he thinks it's mean, and it is mean, but sometimes truths need to be spoken. Go ahead. You go on what you learned, and then I'll go.
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I learned I hurt Pablo's feelings at your Christmas party. I don't think you hurt his feelings. I don't think that was the takeaway.
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No, it's not.
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Really? You didn't have me pegged for that? For external validation?
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Yeah, no. So both things can be true. And it's just like the act in itself is fulfilling. A thousand percent that is true. What is also true is I have become... addicted to the occasional, what I call it, endorphin boost or ego boost or whatever of the stranger saying, you know, saying, like what you do.
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Or recognizing me or whatever. And I have become very, with something that I do not, is not a positive trait, but I recognize it. I've become very, Impatient on lines. Because, like, I still go out to clubs and stuff with my wife. And I used to, oh, there's a line. We'll just wait in it. And I just don't have the capability anymore. Can't do it. Can't do it. I can't.
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Great. Because I have no recollection.
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You think that's just getting older?
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No, so I, maybe, but it's.
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That part's true. I'm not waiting in a line. Yes, but it's also why I don't think human beings are wired for fame. And I just, I think it is unnatural. And it's prior to the last 20 years, very, very, very few people were actually had any fame. And everyone wondered, like, what's happening to society, whatever, that's too wide-ranging.
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But I truly believe millions of people now having an element of notoriety or fame via a social media following is the symptom of so much of... people losing their minds. People get more anchored to opinions they had because you used to be able to have a bad opinion anonymously and change it. Now it's like, eight years ago, I posted on Facebook that I believed this.
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And now people, I'm tied to that, like a bad sports take that people won't let go of. And I think that people have started manicuring and curating their own belief system to what they think they're following likes because people aren't wired to deal with fame. And so I think one of the other pieces of that is once you have an element of it, I think most people feel they need it.
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I called you second? I would have thought maybe third, but sure, yeah. Did I have myself first or Belmonte first? I never followed up until now.
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I'm not saying it's healthy, but I think it's more typical than you would think of people who've been in the public eye for a long time needing to keep some relevance.
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Thanks, Pablo. Accurate. Nicest thing you've said to me in two hours.
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Didn't walk away. No.
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Well, do I think I am the smartest guy in sports media? Obviously, I think that. I would. And I would think anyone that is in the lane I'm in, if they think there's someone smarter than them, I would lose respect for them. Is the lane you're in breathing person? No, I don't think I'm the smartest person in the world. That's ridiculous.
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I don't even think I'm one of the... No, but I'm in an industry where the barrier for entry of intelligence is not exactly high. How dare you? How dare you? And the lane I have is the... annoyingly accurate smart guy.
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I would just ask the audience, what else are we going to assign my success to? My look? No. I got a great voice? No. Connections? No. Athleticism? No. Likeability? Pretty clearly not. It's like, God damn it. That guy really irritates me. But... He's smart. I learned something, and he's right a lot. That's a great take. I mean, what do we assign Wilde's success to? He's incredibly handsome.
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He's one of the funniest people I've ever met. He's super likable. Yeah, well-dressed. If he had all of those things and was the smartest guy in the room, I don't think he'd be president.
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It's a real ice cream sandwich of a compliment. Not even great at all. But I also think it really says a profound amount about you that it stuck with you for 14 months because it means that you operate under the same assumption I do, that you're the smartest guy in the business. It's hard to debate that.
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Do you know what you signed up for now? See why this guy's my rival? Do you see? This rivals thing is more interesting. Do you get it?
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Kevin Wilds makes fun of me because he says that this is an insane way to look at my career. But I just assumed everyone looked at it this way, which is I have a rivals list. Everyone in the media that is within two years of me or younger than me, I must vanquish and I must be more successful than. I have to do it. They are all my rivals.
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And the reason I mention it is right now, rising to the top of the rivals list is Pablo Torre. And he will be vanquished. Pablo's younger than me. Pablo made fun of me a bit on the show the other day, which only solidified that he is my rival. And it doesn't matter that we're friendly. It doesn't matter that he's always been kind to me. It doesn't matter that I was at a Christmas party with him.
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I will vanquish Pablo Torre.
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I don't think that it is unique in any industry to look at the other high achievers that are around your age and measure yourself against them. So everyone that was around my age, even though we're not young anymore, they're all rivals.
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I didn't refuse to play along.
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No. Again. Do you want me to read into the court transcript when you text it? Please. And see if the audience thinks that I refused.
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Exactly. So as I stated before, I never said I wasn't in. I just said it's going to be hard. But I've got some things ready. But do you want to go first since you guys were the ones in first? You're saying that you have generated? Yeah, I've got some ones that didn't work. For sure. Is it this one? I'm ready to move from the flirtation stage to the commitment stage.
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And I am picking the Chicago Bears and Caleb Williams to win the NFC and to be a rookie quarterback representative in the Super Bowl. Yeah, I mean, that's the obvious one. Now, I am curious, if Jaden Daniels were to make the Super Bowl, that take becomes basically half right. Because most of the people's objection was a rookie quarterback's never made the Super Bowl.
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And it would have been like, if you say, hey, an asteroid's going to hit Earth in...
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Peru in 2028 and an asteroid hits Argentina in 2028 you weren't as wrong as the people who were like no way it's not coming you were definitely more right and so Jaden Daniels season kind of indicates the opinion a bit but obviously didn't go that way there's a whole another sliding doors thing of Tyreek Stevenson doesn't taunt the fans and the Bears get to five and two and Jaden loses that game what we're talking about but no that was a bad take the thing about
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sports predictions is their predictions. And the, you know, as, as try as I might can't flawlessly tell the future. Yeah. That would have been probably, I don't know if that would have been the number one draft pick for the wrongest take I've had, but it's up there.
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I don't like to come over the top on someone else's compliment. Yeah. And I also don't like to lie. So I was in a weird spot, you know, kind of a double way out. By the way, evidently my hair is getting screwed up by the headphones. I think it looks great.
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Yeah, obviously.
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Oh, if it was just one take, then it wouldn't have been Herculean. I thought we needed a long list. We do have this take also, just for the record on that. I don't believe in the Eagles. I don't believe in their coach, and I'm starting not to believe in their quarterback. Yeah, I mean, two-thirds of that applies. I don't believe in the quarterback, and I don't believe in the coach.
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Now, I was dead wrong on Saquon and his impact, and Brew nailed that. The thing that I was going to bring to the take exorcism was I did pick the Lakers to beat the Nuggets. Oh, yeah, I love that.
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Here's the other thing. I don't understand people being embarrassed by incorrect sports predictions. I think that old takes exposed guy existing has been one of the greatest things that ever happened in my career. Because I think there's a lot of people who are like, oh boy, I don't want to get old takes exposed. Let me water this one down. Do I care? Like, oh, no. Oh, no.
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This loser is going to retweet the thing that I said six months ago. I like that guy for the record.
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Because I take so much pride in being correct, I should... feel shame when I'm wrong.
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I fundamentally disagree. It is the life of a... in a different genre, professional gambler. I knew it, I knew it. Which is, I am going to, in a theoretical world, be the world's greatest sports bettor. And I'm gonna make millions of dollars a year betting sports. And my path to doing that is being correct 56% of the time. And part of that means I know going in, I am going to be wrong