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Chapter 1: What insights does Justin Mahoney share about First Business Bank?
Hi, Justin Mahoney here, president of First Business Bank's Kansas City region. With all the bank mergers lately, banking can feel uncertain. But rest assured, First Business Bank remains Kansas City's premier commercial bank. First Business Bank, member FDIC.
Our number three of the program begins with the two-minute drill. I'm your host, Jack Johnson, filling in for Seren Petro. He'll be back tomorrow. Kyle Collier is producing this thing. And we're going to kick off the drill heading to Philadelphia. Talking with Eitan Shander, Fox 29 and oddshopper.com. Well, first, let's start with the Phillies here, Eitan. You know, they fire Rob Thompson.
Don Mattingly takes over. I got to ask you this. Was that the change that needed to happen? It's why they are now above 500. Or is it more so just a team that was really good, had a bad start, and now they found their groove?
I think it's one of the same, to be honest with you, in that Rob Thompson wasn't losing baseball games, but he surely wasn't the reason why they would win here or there, or he had no plan to reverse course. And I think that was the biggest issue, is that he did not have a feel. And it was a day-to-day feel as far as handling pitchers.
pitch counts and taking guys out too early, leaving guys in too late, and just watching the bullpen do its work. But I also think that when you don't have guys hitting and you have to manufacture and you really have to create, that's where he struggled and that's where his team struggled. So if it wasn't Kyle Schwarber and three other guys mashing home runs, this team was dead in the water.
And that's changed significantly. I know they go up against the Dodgers. They lose two or three. It's tough, clearly, against one if not the best team in baseball. But where they were to where they are now, much better.
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Chapter 2: What changes did the Philadelphia Phillies make in their coaching staff?
They have a guy that they can at least believe in every day when they show up.
Switching over to the NFL, we know there was some big news about an hour ago with A.J. Brown being shipped to New England. It kind of felt like this was in the works for a long time, but what did you make of a deal like that with the reigning AFC champions and the New England Patriots?
I'm pretty surprised on the surface that this is all Howie Roseman got back. Rightly so. Harold is one of the smartest GMs in any room and has won trade after trade. Jalen Waddell went for more on the surface right now, and that's pretty surprising because while the world knew that A.J. Brown was tired of Philadelphia, I don't think necessarily the world knew why.
And I believe a big chunk of that is Nick Sirianni, is the head coach, is the lack of culture and control that Nick Sirianni has when something doesn't go right. We all have worked together. With someone, maybe we have someone like this in our family. Peyton Manning was the perfect example. It's why he failed. He talked to Rodney Harrison.
All these guys that played against him in the playoffs, the Steelers, they all laughed because all you had to do was knock him off his rhythm, his routine, and he didn't know what to do. And people are like that in life, too. And the culture disintegrated because there were a couple of rough stretches. There was a time two years ago, Jack, in which A.J.
Brown, for about nine or ten weeks, was the best player ever. in the National Football League. Things he's done we haven't seen since T.O. and probably won't since. And they had to get rid of him because the head coach couldn't make it work. With that said, I'm not surprised. And they at least got a first-round pick and a fourth as well.
But I'm pretty surprised they didn't get a third pick, at least a third or fifth at least in there.
On the NBA side of things, we know the Sixers were swept out of the playoffs by the Knicks, and we saw a lot of changes on the front for Philadelphia. Is there more coming, whether that be front office personnel or roster?
I don't think so at this point. I think they're kind of locked in. I don't believe they trade Joel Embiid. I mean, look, crazy things could happen here. You've got a new general manager from Cleveland, a new perspective with Daryl Morey being out now, and maybe that's the case.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of A.J. Brown's trade to the New England Patriots?
We're going to be aggressive, not reckless. And that's sort of how they're attacking the offense. Then you throw in the back end of the bullpen, which is maybe you can tell me San Diego's bullpen is better, but nobody's pitched better than the Atlanta Braves. They win close and late. Run differential is fantastic. It's through the roof. But I'm more of a close and late.
Tell me what you do in the seventh, eighth, and ninth inning, and I'll tell you how good a baseball team you are. This team is the best team in baseball in the seventh, eighth, and ninth inning.
Moving over to the NFL, the Falcons, with their overhauled coaching staff, are going to have a decision to make at quarterback, whether it be Tua Tungavaiola or Michael Penix. As of right now, I know we've got a ways to go here. How do you see that quarterback battle going in camp?
Yeah, can I have an option three? I mean, not to be negative on June 1st, but do I have an option? No, no, no, I'm asking. Can you give me an option three? Probably not. Because Michael Penix's health is always going to be a question. Tua's head shots are going to be a question. But unless Michael Penix is on the field really for the month of August, I think Tua has an advantage.
Now, you can rehab and you can do light drills and you can pull back and have the penny on, you know, with no contact and pull back from center. This staff seems a little bit more adult than the last two that have been here.
I think it feels really good in that department that when you hear players talk, it even seems they sound, I don't want to say more intelligent, but they sound more in line with what you want your football team to sound like. So I think the regime change, I think the top-to-bottom change was going to be a good thing no matter what.
I think a quarterback, they have no emotional investment in either one of these guys. They hardly have any financial investment. I think it's Tua's chance to maybe start August 1st, take hits, play a couple of preseason games, and maybe win the job. But if Michael Penix is as healthy as everybody keeps sort of indicating he is, and again, it's just shorts and t-shirt health.
Then maybe he becomes a battle. The problem is Michael Penix hasn't been a very good quarterback when he's been healthy. Two has had moments where he's been good, but he got benched. And the team that threw him out basically threw him out in a ton of money. So I don't have a ton of confidence in either. I kind of like some other things on the team.
But if you don't have a quarterback, you don't go. If you don't have a good offensive coordinator, and that was a disaster last year, the head coach was a problem last year, I at least feel like you're going to be more competitive. We did this thing called walk-through Wednesdays around here, and nobody even knew what the hell that was.
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Chapter 4: What challenges do the Philadelphia 76ers face after being swept by the Knicks?
We're going to Charlotte to talk with Travis Hancock of 92.7 WFNZ. First of all, Travis, let's start hockey. Carolina going to be facing Vegas right now for the Stanley Cup beginning tomorrow night. What's your expectation going into this showdown?
I think it's for the Canes to continue, maybe not the level of dominance per se they've had so far. This series will extend further. But this has kind of felt like the Canes' year from the start of the postseason. And it's not just starting this year. It's something they've been building, really, for the last eight seasons.
And when some of the paths cleared out of teams that have normally been in their way, whether it's Rangers' years, for the Panther years, Lightning years. Feels like there was always a speed bump in the way that messed with the Hurricanes' route to the end.
But right now, it really does feel like it's all things Kane, that they have been absolutely, utterly dominant through the first three series of the postseason. And that, outside of about 10 minutes against Montreal, it has been all Hurricanes in their game so far.
Jumping over to the NFL with the Panthers. They do have three primetime games this year after making the postseason last year. We know the NFC South can be up and down all the time, but is it their division to lose?
I mean, the NFC South, it's always hard to say in May and June. We know the division will be rather tight because it normally is. I don't expect the Panthers to take a step backwards. They're either going to maintain who they are or move forward.
I think the biggest threat, although New Orleans is certainly better at this point than we thought they would be, I still think Tampa Bay is the biggest threat there. They've got talent, but they've got their own questions, and that is Baker Mayfield stayed healthy. How did they replace Mike Evans? The pressure on Todd Bowles, did that become a problem?
So I do still think that the Panthers will win the division, albeit the schedule, because it is a first-place schedule, much harder than it was a year ago. So that could play a factor here as well here during the 2026 season.
In the NBA, the Hornets had a pretty big jump in wins this year, going from 19-63 to 44-38. Though, when you don't make it deep into the postseason, of course, some fans are going to say, well, what needs to change? How do you get over the hump? Some of these teams in San Antonio did get Victor Wimbinyama. They turned things around really quickly. So did OKC with a ton of draft picks.
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Chapter 5: How are the Atlanta Braves performing this season?
I don't know if these are the types of moves that will scare a team. You know, you line up OBJ and Smith-Schuster. Are other teams going to be game planning for these guys? I don't think so. They're shells, especially OBJ. He's a shell of what he used to be, and he's done nothing over the last couple years to kind of change that perception that there's nothing left in the gas tank.
Should there be any concern with Malik Nabors? Of course, these guys aren't coming in to replace him or to take any sort of snaps from him, but with the surgery, should Giants fans be a little bit worried?
I think any time you talk about leg injuries, the answer is yes. Most guys, and I say most, do recover and you don't know that they were injured. Sometimes guys are kind of robbed of that last bit of speed, that burst that they once had that kind of separated them from other people at their position, and they never regain that.
I'm not sure yet what we're going to get from neighbors because obviously he has not played a regular season game since being injured, but... You should always be concerned when it comes to injuries like that. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. A young guy obviously works very hard, great athlete, and he should be able to recover 100%.
But the caveat is not everybody is 100% after any sort of leg injury, and that's why you have to be a little bit nervous.
Last one on the Giants. I know Twitter is a place that we always like to read into stuff. It's vague more often than not. But are things all good on the front with Jackson Dart and Abdul Carter?
I think they were told to play nice, but politics are superheated these days in this country. I think I'm saying that lightly. And when it comes to Trump, he is a lightning rod for controversy. Whatever you think, if you're a supporter, you're not a supporter. There doesn't seem to be much of a middle ground, right? You either love him or you hate him. Dart obviously loves him.
Carter obviously hates him. So I don't know how that plays out in the locker room, but when you have, you know, A divide like that over a polarizing figure, I'm not sure just one or two days in the right statement actually changes people's minds. I think this could be divisive in the locker room. This could be a problem. Now, they have John Harbaugh, who obviously is a very strong head coach.
We can maybe nip this in the bud before it really amounts to much. But I'm not going to sit here and tell you all is great because Carter came out with a statement that seemed to say so. I think there's a lot more to it, and I think it's something definitely worth watching.
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